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This sunspot may have something to do with the drought which the past fortnight has afflicted U. S. farmers, restricted the water supplies of many communities (TIME, Aug 12), made tinder for forest fires. Sunspots become active in regular 11-year cycles. Although the present cycle was at its top in 1928, its 1929 decline has been little, according to measurements at the special solar observatories in southern California, Chile, South Africa. But although the earth is now getting more sun heat than normal, that is probably not the whole cause of the 1929 drought. More direct causes were...
Cigaret Butts & Forest Fires. A government plane dropped lighted cigaret and cigar butts over areas subject to forest fires to learn whether the butts can start such fires. They can, for all the cigars and most of the cigarets were still burning when searchers found them on the ground. Hence, last week, a Government warning against flipping lighted butts from planes...
...club house. For $1, a golf non-clubmember can: borrow a set of clubs, play golf all day long on public links, have a good time. Last week the best of the public linksters had even a better time, played in the annual National Public Links championship at Forest Park Golf Club. St. Louis. Railway clerks, postal employes, butlers, competed against bank-runners, shoe salesmen, bellboys. There were some low scores. In the qualifying round, Brooklyn's Henry Fabrizio took a 70, three others had 75 or better. Many were...
Tennis is as tennis does. There was a certain amount of U. S. grumbling last week when the U. S. Wightman cup team permitted five English women, not including able Eileen Bennett,* to come within a few aces of keeping the trophy in the matches played at Forest Hills, L. I. But the fact of the matter was that England, strapped though she is for male players, is a major power on the women's courts...
Because Paul Bunyan knows no law, it was not surprising that the ceremonies should have been interrupted by one Gunnar Scheftstrom, ex-convict, who held up a Longview merchant, shot him, fled to the forest. Human, he could not escape with Bunyanesque speed. A posse smoked him out in full view of an audience...