UP IN A BALLOON
ATTEMPT AT RECORD. (United PrPss Association —By Eleetru Telegraph—Copyright! (Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) LONDON. May 27.
An Augsbery message says the. sun had not risen when Professor Picard, the Belgian scientist, accompanied by his assistant Krappe ascended in a .balloon which was soon a .specie.' jour,neyed ten miles up to penetrate ano examine the stratum of the sphere. He wa s confident to establish a os tahlish a height record but had no idea when and where he would descend. .
A later message states it is estimated that Picard is now 38 thousand feet up. ‘ Picard in the middle of hot September, made' an attempt to ascend in a- balloon "in order to’measure the cosmic radiation . and 'irbnisatinn of the air. The attempt was a fiasco, there not being enough gas in the balloon to enable it to rise,
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 May 1931, Page 6
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