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IWiSK TEX THE (XiDEXSr.EKd ADVANCE AXH ST. LAWBEXCE SrXDAY DEMOCRAT SlXhAV. DEC. 17. li».!: Cosmic Rays in Stratosphere ^upreme Court Rules Wife May Testify More Intense Than on Earth isary to the ascertainment of trui'- Uuouli! yield to the experience of a j succeeding: generation wheuev r For Husband, Reversing Age-Old Rule •** experience has dear* demon That Is Preliminary Discovery Reported by Professor Compton as Result of Study of • Settle-Fordney Data. I'ilirAiiO. IIt'i-. lti.—At the top jural scientific analysis of the beau- jf The atmosphere the cosmic rays | ties of the stratosphere. The bal- *re «ometinies more ilian 1*H» times'; l«x»nists used a standard color chart is inieuse as at sea level.\ Prof. | besides the speetroscoi>e. winch is Arthur II. Compton. natural scieii-, virtually an instrument for meas- ific director of the recent balloon j uriug color. 'Xpediiion of Lieut.-Toinmander T. j Eleven experiments were carried J. W. Svitle. reporied here I>ec. 7. ou. Two could not be completed \This is a considerably larger | bec-ause «* the unexpected rapid alio than we had anticipated.\ eon .rotation of the lialloon and the os- imw-.l the ei.smie ray authority at dilations of the gondola. The sum- h* rniversity ol Chicago. \How-j\** 1 * was prepared for publication -v.T. before we can know whatj*\ tlle Januaiy issue of the Pro- hat meai.s regarding the ray i t-^e>dii:^.s of the National Academy heo; v in- the particle theory of ; ^ Sciences at Washington. lie natuie «»f the cosmic ray we WASHINGTON. l>ec. 10.—The age-old legal rule that a wife may not testify at the trial of her hus- band was reversed today by the Su- preme Court, which held that the wife of a defendant in a criminal case in a Federal court is a com- petent witness in behalf of the husband. The case was that in which John S. Funk of Kockinghani. X. (\. was found guilty of conspiracy to violate the Federal Prohibition Law. Funk was twice tried and at j«ther circumstances. J each trial his wife was excluded! \The fundamental basis upon j from testifying in his behalf on the, which all rules of evidence must j ground of incompetency. j rest -if they are to rest upon rea The Supreme Court said: json—is their adaptation to the \The rules of the common law < successful development of the which disqualified as witnesses i truth.\ the decision continued. *'Ar.d persons having an interest long since experience is of all teachers since in the main have been abol- the most dependable, and since strated the fallacy or unwisdom i>t the old rule.\ The common law must be flex- ible and construed to meet chaii-4 ing conditions, the court said. Justice Sutherland delivered the opinion of the court. Justices 5K- Reyuolds and Butler, while not de- livering dissenting opinions, were would not»^corded as 0 f the opinion that the the danger j opinion of the lower court should the testimony of such persons al- together has come to be uniformly and more sensibly regarded as af- fecting the credit of the witness only. \Whatever was the danger that an interested witnes speak the truth and never was as great as claimed—its \ have been affIrmed effect has been minimised almost i to the vanishing point by the test; of cross-examination, the increased' intelligence of jurors, and perhaps • eii.-: go through a heor-Mical study. \The outcome depend of th< considerable) A fifth of the in China. liio^t on he r Nation of the strength of the ;av> *(• the height at which they •vere observed, and we have not .<*: correlated those data. It may ake months to complete the ( \nrk.' Processor Compion's initial an- 'loui: einent of specific results with, \he cosmic rav s accompanied a re- »>ri iii the natural scientific work: »f t:;- balloon, signed by 11 par-' icipaiits in the undertaking and ,ts experiments. Besides Com- nai-<i.-T Settle and Professor Comp- on. t'le list includes Dr. K. A. Mil- lkau. president of the California i.nstu-ue of Technology: Prof. Aug- isu Piccard of the University of Uruss^ls. and Maj. Chester L. Ford- ie>. who took most of the observa- nt:* m the fligtit. JT'ieir joint review of the results ixe> a point of great popular, if :iot of much scientific, interest— IOW liie sky looks in those loftiest regions which only a handful of :oen nave yet visited.** ]»:—« blue*' is the answer which •jiiysi.-al science gives to the world \iieiow. Not all. Imwever. for near ctte horizon there were different lues, but most all of the sky was -Hue. As the announcement gives :i. this is what the explorers saw: \Close to the horizon the sky • a.' white, due to the clouds. This Miaded into a s?<*el blue, and then ato a saffron scattered from dist- :*ni cirrus clouds and traversing a «#ng path through the atmosphere. ,4bove this highest layer of cloudy *#r ha>.y air. the color shaded rapid- ly through green to a deep blue. This blue showed no tinge of pur- :>4e or violet h«e. These observa- k>iis were cxmfirmed by the use of a hand sf>ectroscope.~ Ti;i appears to be the first nat-] worlds people live i is-lied both in England and in this j experience is also a continuous country, and what was once regard- j process, it follows that a rule of ed a sufficient ground for excluding evidence\at one time thought neces- Hagdft ' is far inland. miles east of Damascus. beincr «»«H) r New 50/ Size LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S TABLETS FOR WOMEN They relieve and prevent periodic pain and associated disorders. No narcotics. 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