Illinois News Index

Highland Park Press, 26 Jun 1930, p. 21

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WEATHER SERVICE FOR OCEAN PLANES Thursday. June Aviators Now Planning Flights from Europe Westward to Be Benefitted The non-stop planes now lining up again in Europe to try the hitherto almost certain death westward flittht semis the north Atlantic have a new aide, says Howard W. Blakeslee, Aa- sociated Press science editor, writing from New York. no Though from locality to locality its always into the teeth of the west- llnund plane, with a range from 10 miles an hour up to raging males. It fiows like the Gulf stream centering nimve the stream, through immensely wider, and subject. to swings of nearly 1,000 miles. The lines that mark the course of the Winds trace a vast, shape. that leaks like a devil fish filling the moan from Newfoundland to Ireland. Its eyes are two whirling cyclones SP! one-third the distance out from each shore. Its tentacles swine southward to the Azores and north nearly to Greenland. On it the thing which swallowed tho westbound fliers without trace, from the French ace Nungesser to Princess Lowenstein - Wertheim and the Hon. Elsie Mackay, is apparent, It is a steady rush of air toward Eur- Winds Reduce Speed Westbound planes bucking even thc mildest of these currents were out down JO miles and hour, and often far more. These figures must be mul- tiplied by two to obtain the actual disadvantage. npp The new ocean forecasting can avarn' of tempests that. sometimes de- wlop from nothing even during the few hours a crossing plane takes. The resulting charts are made by Dr. Jarhes Kimball of the New York weather bureau. For 15 years_ he has wurked voluntary emu: hours on ocean weather as u hobby. E. B. Calvert, chief of the fore- cast division " Washington, nude two trips to Europe in getting the work surted. The effect gives the westbound flier a far wider ocean to cross, IR if the American coastline were pushed back nearly to Chicago. ToL 354 120 N. Green Bay Rd. Hematitching - Covered Buttons - Quick Serviee Two Whirling Cyclones MRS. ZABNLE 26 1930 Plating Pinking Radio Sets in Canada Rapidly Increasing Lest year the number of radio re- ceiving sets in Canada was increased at the rate of 295 a day, according to E. A. Weir, director of radio for the PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY Reduced Rate f or p I: s: ll n llt Note bow " . "a. 'lk' 'a",ag'.'As"t1',',tt"1' RESIDENTIAL ELECTRIC SERVICE J. W. Kehoe, District Manager Evanston, Illinois H. C. Reynolds, District' i'g'gi",1tlt'tt 51 South St. Johns Ave. Highland ark 2900 THE PRESS OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS ELECTRIC ELECTRIC ELECTRIC REFRIGERATOR aut of It cent ELECTRIC IRON 3,t TOASTER CLEANER Cnnndinn Sutionnl rnilwnys. q Up to the end of Febrpnry, there were 405,117 licensed receiving let! in the Dominion, nn'increue of 108,- 000 ever the preceding 12 months. The (Ianldiln Nation-l railways system, which began wireless experi- perm cents of 0 can? cents hour pol hour hour par “Iowan-hour after " kilowatt-hours per room have bean and ouch month. enables you to use the many conven- iences electricity brings to the home for only _ (Ejection Aw I) yt ELECTRIC FAN the, h: ck: ' - this tet',xt1'rtteet M4 1 menu nearly 330 punci principul talus u soon u I into promitte-ttaitttains of " station: with “CNN tors. covering Clnldl to Neitte. of a cent pot how receiving year: In And in apparatu- 'ndio an“ Atlantic

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