MILLIONS OF METEORS
STRIKE THE EARTH’S
ATMOSPHERE DAILY
IOWA CITY, la., April 3, (/Pi
Eight hundred million meteors a
day striking earth’s atmosphere
is the latest estimate.
It is given in a report to the
American Association for the Ad
vancement of Science by Prof.
Charles C. Wylie of the Univer
sity of Iowa.
These include the meteors too
small to be observed without
telescopes. The “naked eye” me
teors Prof. Wylie estimates at
about 24,000,000 daily, very close
to the figure given by Sir Isaac
Newton.
About 3300 meteors a year get
through the atmosphere and ac
tually hit the United States, ac
cording to Wylie’s estimates,
based on figures that probably
one meteor a year strikes for
each 10,000 square miles. Few
are seen, because they are most
ly small.
ROM BUILDERS IN
■ STATE FINO
TRICES OF ICE IK
IOWA CITY, la., April 3, (£>)—
Iowa’s 1930 road building pro
gram has brought to light evi
dence on which George F. Kay,
state geologist, has been able for
the first time to estimate the
duration of the "ice age” in
Iowa.
These traces of the glaciers
were found as new roads were
cut through the hills. They in
dicate several ice ages scattered
through a minimum of 700,000
years.
Of this time, Iowa was cover
ed by the great ice sheets for at
least 25,000 years, Kay thinks,
the remainder* of the period con
stituting the "inter-glacial” in
tervals.
ITALY AIR LINES SUSPENDED
ROME, April 3. (A5)—Lack of
patronage has resulted in the sus
pension of three Italian air serv
ices, the Rome-Marseilles, Milan
Trent, and Milan-Bolzano routes.
Previously the Rome-Mil an service
was discontinued.
Dance
Tonite
ODD FELLOWS HALL
Music by
Jolly Three
ADMISSION $1.00
LADIES FREE
GIVES NICKEL LEGACIES
SAN PIERO IN BAGNIO, Ittkly,
April 3, (£>)—One lire, a bit more
than a nickel, was willed as a leg
acy to each man, woman and child
in this township by Fernando Bac
cini, a retired farmer. Everybody
in the attended funeralcmfwyp
in the village attended his funeral.
CHINESE PATROL RIVER
NANKING, April 3, (/P) — In ad
dition to 25 foreign gunboats on
patrol duty along the Yangtse ri
ver, the Chinese government has
put on ten armed vessels to escort
Chinese merchant steamers. 1
KLONDIKE PUCED
HIS HI OUTPUT
OF YELLOW MEM
DAWSON, April 3, </P) — The
The old Klondike camp, which
electrified the world and inau
gurated the invasion of Yukon
and Alaska’s various mining
camps, is still going strong. The
Klondike has produced to date
some $250,000,000 in gold, and has
an estimated life of 25 years for
the fleet of dredges now working
there under the direction of the
Yukon Consolidated Gold Cor
poration Ltd., which practically
controls all the creeks of- the
famous old camp, say the Den
ver Mining Record.
This company is more gener
ally known as the Treadgold com
pany, and has taken over the
former equipment and holdings
of the Guggenheim, and has some
100 miles of good dredging ground
on Dominion, Sulphur, Quartz
and other creeks and along the
Klondike valley. It is estimated
this company should be able to
produce a million dollars in gold
annually from those creeks for
the next quarter century.
ns DIV IN HISTDHT
1818—U. S. flag adopted by Con
gress.
1861—First pony express left Cal
ifornia for St. Joseph, Mo.
1893—Bering Sea court of arbi
tration opened in Paris.
1931—First Swede killed in Sew
ard over battle for Copenhagen.
EAT BLUE MUSHROOMS
LONDON, April 3. (/P) — Blue
mushrooms are appearing in the
smart restaurants here. The fungi
are grown in soil which has been
treated with a special powder.
Sunshine Mellows
Heat Purifies
The advice of your
physician is:Keep out
of doors, in the open
air, breathe deeply;
take plenty of exercise
in the mellow sun
shine, and have a
periodic check-up on
the health of your
body.
LUCKIES are always
kind to your threat
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