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PAGE SIX
KEEP A CLOSE WATCH
NEW YORK TIMES’ RADIO STA¬
TION SENDS ( ALL OVER
ITS STATION
Responding to a request from Paul
J. Varner, local flight committee
chairman, the New York Times’ radio
station, 2-UO, early this morning sent
out a general appeal to all ships to
report the “Port of Brunswick.” The
message sent by the Times’ station
was picked up by the Associated
Press’ station on Glynn Isle three
times early this morning. The call
had been sent out six times altogeth¬
er, three each at the opening and clos¬
ing of the station. It was at the close
when the Glynn Isle station picked
up the message, which read as fol¬
lows :
“The monoplane ‘Port of Brunswick’
took off from ‘Brunswick, Ga., at 12:46
p. m„ today, destination, Brazil. Ships
sighting this plane will please report
immediately, position and time to Paul
J. Varner, Brunswick, Ga.
Late yesterday afternoon Mr. Varn
er wired the Times’ station, request- broad-1 I
ing that such a n message mMMW be he brand
cast by the paper’s radio. It is be-1
lieved that the message was picked
up generally and may result in some
vessel reporting the monoplane.
Every agency was at work today in
an effort to get a report from the local i
aviator. The Associated Press has ;
made a request of all of its stations j
to request information from pass-J
ing ships, all radio corporations were i
listening for a report, and it is be-,
lieved that some report may be re- j
eeived during the day.
EVIDENCE VI,L TAKEN
Judge Land of the Georgia Indus¬
trial Commission, heard all the evi¬
dence late yesterday afternoon in the
case of Joe Robinson vs. the Hercules
Powder Company. The plaintiff in
the case was making 50 cents per
hour for nine hours’ work ami asks
nay under the Georgia compensation
law. The case is really not against
the powder company but against the
insurance company in which employes
of the Hercules are insured.
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you better
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
HRSTWIIH NEWS;
REDFERN S TAKE-OFF FLASHED
OVER RADIO STATIONED AT
GLYNN ISLE
As usual the Associated Press was
the first yesterday to flash to the
world the news that Paul Redfern had
taken off from Glynn Isle beach in
his monoplane, “Port of Brunswick”
for Brazil.
Keen competition existed between
the several press associations repre¬
sented at the flight and the object of
the friendly little contest was the first
flash of the take-off. Two radio out¬
fits were stationed on the island. Soon
after the news had been wired to all
sections of the country it was learned
that the Associated Press was first
with the flash.
With no telegraph or telephone lines
from Brunswick to Glynn Isle, where
the Port of Brunswick took off from a
beach runway, -wireless was called on
to span the 14 miles .intervening and
give K'vo to to the me world wo instantaneous news
of °t the hop * 10 P off. °‘ t
.Two 1 , WO young yOUllg amateur » operators were
P R ' ktid thl ; J ob >
Kla.. and Bert Mart- Fox, operator of
station 40-K, Atlanta. How well they
overcame natural difficulties attending
transmission . . best . told by
daylight 00 seconds is alter
the fact that less than
Redfern took the air at 12:46 p. m.,
eastern standard time, a “flash had
been delivered to the Associated Press
telegraph wire in Brunswick and in
turn transmitted to its member news
papers throughout North and South
America.
Fox, working the Glynn Isle end of
the two-way, low wave length radio
set, did the sending from the veranda
of the beach pavilion. O. S. Morton,
Associated Press staff man, in charge
of reporting the “story,” stood beside
him and watched Redfern’s plane
gather speed down the runway. As it
took the >air, he spoke three pre-ar¬
ranged code words to Fox, who ticked
them off on his key.
Young Lee, sitting at the receiving
(Continued on Page 5.)
THE BRUNSWICK NEWS
REDFERN’S FATHER WRITES
OF NATURAL AND PHYSICAL
ELEMENTS OF AIR AND SEA
(By I)r. Frederick C. Redfernn, Father of Paul Redfern.)
The flight of Paul R. Redfern in a
monoplane from Brunswick to Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil, is one of the most dar¬
ing, venturesome, and hazardous jour¬
neys ever attempted or accomplished
by man. The natural and physical
conditions of air, sea, and land present
many perils and dire obstacles. Dur¬
ing August the equator heat is in¬
tense; the winds, including the north
and south trades, are all counterwise,
contrary, and liable to severe storms;
and the doldrums or greater belt of
calms have their greatest increase in
percentage of calms.
Paul R. Redfern on leaving Bruns¬
wick, flies approximately 2,400 miles
over sea before reaching the Copper
ame river on the northern coast of
Dutch Guiana, South America, He
crosses the north prevailing westerlies
and the north horse latitudes in pass¬
ing over Great Abaco, San Salvador,
Mariguana, and Turks Islands. With
Santo Domingo on his light as he ap
proaches Port Guanica, Porto Rico, he
will cross ihe Caribbean sea at night
and with the opening of day approach
St. George, Grenada Island, or Ta
bago Island, encountering the north
trade winds, blowing southeast, all the
way. While flying ‘ 50 miles east of
Trinidad m - ' 1 1 - Isle 1 and „ j n. Georgetown, British
Guiana, to Point St. Andrews, and well
beyond Dutch Guiana, he passes
through the Greater Belt of Calms,
where severe thunderstorms, cyclones
and hurricanes occur almost daily.
Then for twelve degrees the south
trade winds, blowing northwest, must
be encountered.
From point St. Andrews, South Am¬
erica, Redfern crosses the highland oi
Guiana, much of which is unexplored
and has an average elevation of 3,200
feet with the Pacaraima range ris¬
ing the Roraima peak to 8,600 feet.
He then crosses the Great Continental
Plain with its swamps in prolific and
sinister jungles, drained by the mighty
Amazon river on which he will endeav¬
or to locate either the city of Gur
upa or Macapa. Near one of these
cities the remainder of gasoline will
be measured and its quantity will de¬
termine either the journey to Pernam¬
buco or the greater objective, Rio de
Janeiro, the capital of Brazil. From
the Amazon jungles and swamps the
airplane rises to the highland of
Brazil, which is 4,000 feet high. This
great plateau is broken by the Parana
the San Francisco rivers and their
The Serra de Mar is the
most important of the three mountain
and it forms the southeastern
of the plateau. In this system,
little west of Rio de Janeiro, the
of Itatiaia rises about 10,000
and is the highest mountain peak
in Brazil.
During August the equator heat belt
all north of the Amazon river. The
of the heat equator is as far
as Key West, Fla., and no part
its center touches South America.
of the Amazon river the iso¬
of equal heat is 80 degrees and
beyond Rio de Janeiro. The
is nearly all within the torrid
Brunswick is about 31 degrees
minutes north latitude and 81%
longitude, Greenwich meridian.
is 7 2-3 degrees, about 531 miles,
of the Tropic of Cancer. Rio de
is 22 degrees 54 minutes south
and its longitude is 43 de¬
10 minutes west meridian. It is
36 minutes or 41 miles, of the
of Capricorn, north of that line.
de Janeiro is close to 3,783 miles
south of Brunswick, and fig¬
along the equator line about
miles east of it. Redfern does
follow the hypotenuse of this an¬
but travels over the great circle,
distance much farther which has
frequently given as 4,600 miles
the non-stop flight.
Pressure differences are due princi¬
pally to temperature. Air, like wa¬
ter or other fluids, if unrestrained,
from a region of higher pressure
to one of lower pressure. This fact,
by the rotation of the earth
and local influences, causes the period¬
ical winds and the cyclonic storms.
The earth is surrounded by air ex¬
tending for the most part 10 miles be¬
yond its surface. This air partakes
of the movements of the earth and is
governed by the same laws. It is in¬
fluenced so as to cause atmospheric
tides which are shown in the double
diurnal movement of the barometer.
Pressures, unequally distributed due
to the differences in amount and dis¬
tribution of land, causes a continual
motion of the surface air away from
the right of high pressure toward the
equator and constitute a portion of the
trade winds. The pressure of air is
greater at low levels and is deter¬
mined by its weight. At sea level it
is about 15 pounds to the square inch
of surfaced where the normal height
of the barometer is 30 inches. A small
area of moderately low pressure 29.90
inches generally appears in August
west of Gape Werde, and continues
relatively low over the southern part
of the Caribbean sea. The winds from
the ocean cause rainfall and force the
air to rise over the highlands where it
expands and cools. The air that rises
in the belt of calms also gives up va¬
por to form rain. Hence when air
vises rain results as it expands and
cools. Atmosphere as a gas may be
at rest, in gentle motion, or in tumul
utous storm. The center of high pres¬
sures when brought close together
rush across and create a high velocity
which often produces a gale of 50
miles an hour. The inward flow of
air, converted by the rotation of the
earth into an atmospheric whirl turn¬
ing to the left, or counter clockwise,
generates cyclones. Tropical cyclones
originate in the doldrums or belt of
calms, a region characterized by sul¬
try air, and light and baffling breezes,
interrupted by frequent rains, thun¬
derstorms and squalls.
On leaving Brunswick, Redfern
faced mild but variable wind3 blowing
towards the coast. He then enters
the horse latitudes or calms, thus call¬
ed because sailing crafts carrying
horses from New England to the West
Indies r i • obliged ii* l, to throw the
were
horses overboard when the supply of
water was exhausted. The heavy load
of gasoline must be carried through
ihese calms by the intrepid airman
with little support from air currents
where heavy rains may be encounter¬
ed. Then the northeast trade winds
must be crossed with the course blow¬
ing steadily towards Central America
rnd the northwestern part of South
America. They will strike the air
plane on the left hand side and tend
to drive it towards the Yucatan pen
nsula or the great gulf. These trade
winds are tropical and equatorial.
They exist between the tenth and 28th
parallels of north latitude over the
western half of the Atlantic ocean.
They are the typical trades of the
Caribbean sea. They are usually clear
md move with a velocity between 10
uid 30 miles an hour.
After the trade winds a great re¬
gion of calms is entered where the
moist warm air of the trades rise and
s chilled which phenomenon produces
m abundance of rain almost daily.
Baffling winds prevail in these dol
lrums. They give up great quantities
rf moisture, in equatorial South Am¬
erica, from the mouth of the Amazon
river to the eastern slopes of the An¬
tes. Many thunderstorms occur in all
.■aim belts but especially in those near
the equator. In these the warm air
moving westerly is chilled in rising
and causes the great tropical thunder¬
storms which at times develop into
tornadoes and tropical hurricanes.
They occur frequently in August.
They originate west of the 50th merid¬
ian between the 10th and the 20th
parallels of latitude. Their direction
is west by north. From 1900 to 1921
all the important August hurricanes
which traversed the Caribbean sea
continued into the Gulf of Mexico.
Many of these hurricanes recurve
north and northeast and pass south
of the Florida peninsula over the Indies
and the ocean. Hurricanes often have
a diameter of 300 miles. If the winds
blow spirally they become very violent
and reach a velocity of 70 miles an
hour. In the center of the spiral
movement is an area of calms where
the sky is clear for 20 miles across it.
This is called the eye of the storm.
The clouds about it are very dense
and cause thick darkness and torren¬
tial rains throughout the hurricane
haunted seas and land.
Over the highland of Brazil the av¬
iator will force his way diagonally
through the south trade winds, blow¬
ing northwest. The airplane will con¬
sume much gas so that wisdom re¬
quires that the supply be known, long
before the highlands are crossed reached,! and
the lofty coastal ranges are
although the airplane may have che | 1
advantage of reduced weight. With ’
Sierra de Mar crossed the the destina¬
tion and greater objective of Paul R.
Redfern’s flight will lie full orbed be¬
fore him on the great land-locked bay
and in the exceedingly picturesque lo
•ation of the Brazilian capital, Rio de
Janeiro. May the venture be realized
and thereby the Americas be welded
into commercial and industrial rela¬
tions with a friendship and esteem
that cannot be severed.
NEW LAKE BUILT
AT GLYNN HAVEN
The manager of the Glynn Haven
estates on St. Simon’s announced to¬
day that the artificial lake on this
property has been completed and is
now full of water. The lake is sup¬
plied by two flowing artesian wells
and the water is strongly sulphuric.
A field office is now under construc¬
tion. The officers are M. M. Monroe,
president; L. W. Elliston, first vice
president; Jack Lott, second vice pres¬
ident; R. M. Porter, secretary and
treasurer; J. P. Colgan, sales mana¬
ger, all of Waycross.
SISTER OF LOCAL
MAN DIES TODAY
AT CHICAGO HOME
A
A telegram was received in the.city
this afternoon by A. Rothschild, a^c
nouncing the death of his,sister, 'Mi's.
Jacob Adams, who passed away‘in
Chicago this morning.
Before her marriage Mrs. Adams
was Miss Hanah Rothschild, and for
many years resided in Darien. She
was a frequent visitor to Mir and Mrs.
Rothschild here and has a large circle
of friends learn in the of Ifcer fcity w|lo will be
grieved to depth.
HIGHWAY TOLLS REACH
GOOD TOTAL YESTERDAY
The Brunswick-St. S'jr.ion’s highway
did a good business yesterday, many
going over to Glynn Is(le to see Paul
Redfern in his automobile's hop-off t o Brazil. The
number of that passed
over the bridge was 63jJ ’/Tolls and collected in these
were 1,303 persons.
ran to $430.00. )
jority While of it the is true thijA a large carrying ma¬
cars j were
Brunswick citizens ,, others came in
machines from the/occupants a Wide section near
here. Some of remain¬
ed Simon’s. over to spend/a few days on St
LEGION MEETS TONIGHT
The regular mfonthly meeting of the
local will be post held of at tjhe the Riflemen’s American armory Legion
at 8 asked o’clock to toiiight b£ and all members number
are of matters of ejfn present as nature a will
before the jfx-soldier important organization.
be
TOLD OF PROGRESS
INTERESTING, RESUME YEAR DEVEL¬
OPMENTS FOR PAST
TOLD OF AT MEETING
The Y’oung Men’s Club heard a very
j interesting resume of the develon
m merits onto in in tn this city during the period of
the past twelve months, which was
even startling to the members of the
club. The paper was prepared by
Fred G. Warde, secretary of the
Brunswick Board of Trade, and at the
request of Chairman M. L. McKinnon
of the program committee, was read
by Judge E. C. Butts, who stressed
the importance of the present growth
in a very striking fashion.
The document consists of fifty-six
separate and distinct items of better¬
ment and expansion, dealing with ev
ery phase of the situation, including
manufacturing, merchandising, agri¬
cultural, building, etc.. It proved enjoyed to be
a revelation and was greatly
by those present.
J. C. Ligeour made a suggestion,
which was later followed by a motion
that, tiie water ways in Glynn county,
especially those traversed by the St.
Simon’s highway, be marked and that
the Glynn county commissioners be
petitioned to have this done. The idea
struck the club as being a appointed fine one
Chairman S. Hadley Brown
J. C. Ligeour as chairman of a com¬
mittee to appear before the county
commissioners on the subject.
A motion, introduced by F. E. Twit
ty, was unanimously adopted, provid¬
ing for approval of the Glynn county
board of education in its movement to
establish a first class gymnasium in (
the city schools.
W. T. McCormick, for years a resi¬
dent of Brunswick and St. Simon’s,
who first had the vision to sec the
possibility of the Brunswick-St. Si¬
mon’s highway, now a resident of
Tampa, was a guest of the club and
complimented the city on the present
happy situation, concluding by say¬
ing that his heart had always been in
Brunswick and would continue so to
be for the rest of his life.
Telegrams were read' from Linton,
Fred and George Allen, old Bruns
wickians, now of Orlando, Fla., com¬
plimenting the city on its spirit of
progress in the Redfern flight.
Before adjournment the club offered
a silent prayer for the success of the
Redfern flight in which the entire
company joined.
John Gvondahl was a guest and was
cordially received.
FLIGHT PLAYED
UP OVER COUNTRY
BY NEWSPAPERS
Not only did southern newspapers
play up the take-off of Paul Redfern
yesterday, but telegrams received in
the city today from all sections of the
country indicated that in almost e
ery paper yesterday ' r “ oW ' , “ w big headlines
were given the flight.
From way out in Los Ange’es came
tire following telegram from John P.
Twomey, an old Brunswickian: “Suc¬
cess to Redfern. Pacific coast papers
carried flight in big headlines.”
Brunswickians in other cities, inter¬
ested in the flight, wired The New:'
this morning for any information ob¬
tainable on the aviator’s progress.
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