AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 April 1926, Page 2

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.]

NEW YORK-PARIS FLIGHT.

NEW YORK, April 28.

Captain Rene Foiick, the French acc, who has announced that he will attempt n New York-Paris non-stop flight for a £2,500 prize during the summer, arrived here o n Tuesday night. He will use a Sikorsky biplane, which will be completed soon. He makes test flights in June.

ECHO OF CATIICART HOLD-UP

WASHINGTON, April 28

“ Moral turpitude ” is to Ik’ removed from the U.S.A. Immigrant Act as far as deportation is concerned, under the terms of a new bill reported by the House Committees on Immigration. The bill substitutes for moral turpi- ; tude as a ground for deportation a gaol sentence. NOTABLE DISCOVERY. SAN FRANCISCO, April 27. Captain Thornes See, Navy Mathematician and Government Astronomer at More Iskind, announces that he has discovered the cause of the variation of latitude, or tlie periodic “wobble ” of the earth’s axis. Captain See said that he had demonstrated mathematically that the phenomena of Polar motion, or the shift of the earth’s axis in the globe, which has interested scientists for years, is due to tho tides in the Pacific Ocean. His discovery was the result of forty years of study, and the findings under his hypothesis agree exactly with the astronomical observations made in many countries over a period of thirty-five years. Captain See says that this discovery is one of the most notable triumphs in the physics of the earth.