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Predicts Army Race to Fortify Planet of MarsWASHINGTON (Associated Press): Major James R. Randolph, writing in the United Slates Army Ordnance Association JoumaF, hat* preti.cted a race among the powers of the world to establish military outposts on the planet of Mars — using rockets with a velocity of 26,000 miles an hour to span the 40,000,000 miles from earth.Rockets capable uf going ti) Mars may come more quicaly than we now think possib.e Aim wnen they come, there will be a race tlt; get there first with an adqeuatt expedition.” he said 111 the pui lira lion of the Ordnance Association, a civilian organisation pledged tu a policy of prepare.i-ti ess.Citin.u American occupation oi World War II bases in remott parts of the earth, such as the Aleutian Islands and the lonely teaches of the Pacific, Randolph declared:“In World War III, we cannot limit such occupation to the earih alone. We must extend it out into space as far as rockets can go to our neighbor worlds in space.*’An attack from Mars, lie said would afford vastiy greater op-pcrtunities lor secrecj and sur-^ilse than a sudden assault from tarih against an enemy country.Money and lives will bp saved and victory made more certain by all that we do in peacetime to prepare for such occupation-studying these other worlds, sending expeditions to Them, and devising equipment to meet their special needs.”He also noted the prospect ol sending: “satellite ships’* to cruist in the vast unknown outside the earth s air belt and circle “round 1 and round the earth like little man-made moons.SPACE NAVIGATION.The whole problem of space navigation, he said, depends on the development of a multiple-unit rocket composed of standardsized rockets, each acting independently and capable of tyeing stacked together'' t«» mtfke a rocket of any desired size and speed. As the propulsion power oi each section is exhausted, it would be cast off. finally leaving only the “pay load” section to reach its destination.The ordnance toumal, describing Randolph as a noted mathematician and engineer, .said his views may appear at first glance” to be an outline to a Jules Verne story.“But in this day of atomic energy, jet propulsion and man-made satellites.'• the magazine said in an editorial note, “the possibility of inter-planetary travel comes ever nearer.”Randolph said the moon would “look even better than Mars as a b^se train which to attack the earin,” except that the moon is an airless, waterless, lifeless world. _“All materials and supplies, even oxygen, would have to be sent there from the earth.” he Haiti, “and every ton delivered would require more rocket power than would be needed to send it to Mars.”Moreover, all resistance could be used as a brake in landing on Mars, while reverse rocket action would be required in landing on the Jiirless moon.Randolph, declaring therp is reason to believe that Mars is inhabited by “intelligent life comparable tp human life.” envisaged j the martians as living in an old.) settled and very stable world iniwhich al] people dressed and thought am; acted very mucn ui.’ke.”big chests neededIf human beings lived on Mars, he said, eventuuJiy uiay woulc otcome enormous-chested crea-ti res in order to breathe with the lew air pressure.‘ Their arms ard legs would be very slender because of the lessen-id gravitation.” he wrote. *anc a man who weighs 250 pounds litie would weigh 57 pounds on Mars.He* would be correspondingly rr.ore active and could move vastly greater loads with less effort. •Mars is a world somewhat like Oi’.r own. but smaller. It has air, water and vegetation It ulmost certainly has mineral resources: c. :nparable to those of earth, so hat a human colony, one© established there, could in time b'lllr up an earth type civilisation and become capable of sending rockets back.”War department officials said they had little information on Randolph except that he had written a number of “speculative pieces on rockets.1IAS DOUBTS.However, in the same issue of the Ordnance journal. Lieutenant uo.onel Harvey Rivkins, chief oi lie Office of Technical Information. Army Ordnance Department, cast doubt on the possibility of sending a rocket even to t lie comparatively nearby moon, 138.857 miles from the earth.-Rocket to the moon? Rivkins took up the question. “Lieutenant Colonel James G Bain. Chief of the Guided Missiles Branch, points cut that it would take billions of collars and years of research to perfect one.The tremendous effort in time and money would, at. first, result in putting a piece of metal the size of your fist on the moon.A moon rocket would start off as a monster whose size would make it almost Impossible lo handle/’Rivkins pointed out that a roc-Vet's range depends on Its speed. The German v-2 rocket, he said, travels around 3.500 miles an hour. It burns nine tons of liquid orygeti and alcohol. with the burning process lasting about 60 seconds, and generates 2.500 de-a gree,*; centigrade of heat in the tail exhaust nozzle.PACE NECESSARY.’ A rocket would have to travel over seven times as fast as the V-2. or 25.000 mile* an hour, iust to i»et out of the earth's gravitational field,” he said. “There are ii} rockets to-day that will travel at that speed ”Rivkins said that the Germans had preliminary designs for a transatlantic rocket with a one-ton p,\ luad and a range of 3.000 miles. . ,.But. lie said, that rocket would, have weighed IB'' bans of Hun # -1 ins ana attained a velocity ol 11.000 feet a second or approximately 7 *00 miles an hour—com: pared' with the 25.000 m p.h. \e-ccity needed to escape | earths pull of gravity.DISNEY NOW USING LIVE CHARACTERSt'Bv How .mi C llryn HOLLYWOOD t.VIVi: When Walt Disney Ix’jpui to combine live action with cartoon animation tui film, some observers in Hollywood grew fe.irful that his engaging cartoon creations. Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, would ultimately disappear from thf* screen, along with the other sketched and animated animals which Disnev mai'p popular throughout the world.The cos* of mukuig shor « iu -toon films has been mcrcasim: steadily, while revenue from distributors remains virtually 'he same. Disney hurrelf esiimnt*\1 that the cost of each completed foot of cartoon illm has doubled since before the war Othei cartoon producers concurred, crediting higher labor outlays for mo?.: jf tiie increase When Disney placed under contract two Juveni»e play* is. Lti:m» Patten 7* and Bobby D:islt; oil • 10*. another rlood of rumors i • dieted Tlv end of the cartoon. But Disney has now declared emphUtcallv, that he will not abandon this field.The two children were used m 1 I ve uction .sequences oi * .Slt;mg ».»I The South. a feature length film ! combining real people and animated drawings Tins picture, re I entlv released in the United 1 Suites, is about 60 per cent livt ictiou and 40 per cent cartoon U is based on the Uncle Remus tales, classic of American southern folklore written by Joel Chandler Harris. and as well-known to children in this country as Hans Christian Andersens fairy tale.-, in Denmark.C LASSICS FOR SCREEN.Disney says he will use anima- • tion in even wider variations than ever oetore. and that living players will enable him to bring 10 the screen main classic tales and dramas which could not be filmed.1 adequately m animation alone. In i otner words, real actors vv.il supplement. rather than replace the Disney cartoon style.Already in preparation, as allcartoon features, are Pi ter Pan,’* and Cinderella.” a Disney spokesman reported. ‘ Alice in Wonderland. under current plans, will bn largely cartoon animation. although Alice herself! will be portrayed by a. living actress. ‘ Fun and Fancy Free, depicting the adventures of i Mickey Mouse with the mythical | beanstalk that grew to the top of the sky. will be preponderant-1( lv cartoon, as will the escapade of Bongo, a circus bear winch returns to its natural habitatThe producer says live action can be used in cartoon films tor subjects whose animation would require more labor than they justify. He also sees in the combination of the two mediums an opportunity for expanding the emotional appeal of dramatic situations.Tin I Will) DAILY. SAllltDAY. \rillL ID. 1DI*. PAGE H'LBluenobia Cattle Ergot AffectedThis Yeei... 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Murwillumbah Tweed Daily
Murwillumbah, New South Wales, AU
Sat, Apr 19, 1947
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