Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 71, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 August 1927 — Page 5

AUG. 2, 1927

NEW WEATHER GENIUS CALLS SUMMER COLD Herbert Browne Insists His Long-Distance Forecasts Never Err. This is the first of six articles re- ' garding the long distance weather forecasts of Herbert Janvrin Browne, who predicted this would be a year without a summer. Is it? Nothing is the matter with the weather, says the weather bureau. BY RUTH FINNEY WASHINGTON, Aug. 2. How d'ya like the weather? The year without a summer, you know. This is it. Or, rather, as Herbert Janvrin Browne, long range forecaster, now says, this is the year that was to be like 1816, which was called “the year without a summer.” You get the distinction? Browne says the weather this year is all wrong. Didn’t he predict as far back as 1923 what it would be? The United States Weather Bureau says there’s nothing the metier with the weather. The bureau thinks long range forecasting has never been proved scientifically sound. Browne says he has pjoof that his prediction has been verified. Weather Bureau records show r that average temperatures this year been slightly below normal in parts of the country and slightly above in others. Story of Ark Browne replies that averages don’t mean a thing, and says: “I’ll have to tell a little story about Noah and the Ark. Nivram, the official weather observer of 'that time, resented the fact that Noah was building the Ark. He started out one day with a committee of remonstrance, but it began raining. The Ark sailed off on the flood. “After it had landed on Ararat, a somewhat bedraggled individual crawled out from the bilge of the Ark, hunted a piece of slate and charcoal, and began busily figuring. It was Nivram. “In about an hour he went up to Noah and said triumphantly: ‘I have been working this thing out. I have figured the rainfall clear back to the beginning of time, and it is barely a quarter of an inch above the average.” How It Happens The answer to this is, of course, that every year’s average figures are made up of extremes of hot and cold, and wet and dry spells. But they occur at different parts of this very large country each year, and impress only a few people at a time. When it comes to weather, it’s the usual that is unusual. It’s a safe assertion that if one were to study weather maps of the United States for every day during the past fifty years, most of them would show

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j 4 These three Boy Scouts, with only $lO and their camping equipment, have started a 3,000-mile hike from Youngstown, Ohio, to visit their chief, President Coolidge, in the Black Hills. Left to right they are Maryan Vaitekunas, 14; Charles Stricklin, 15, and Paul Beckman, 15.

“unusual weather” of some kind, some place in the country. All this discussion of 1927 weather started four years ago. Herbert Janvrin Browne, whose chosen title is ocean meteorologist, made the assertion at a meeting of the House Agriculture Committee in 1923 that unusual and dangerous weather was to be expected in the coming year, particularly 1926 and 1927. Sells His Service He has continued talking weather ever since, adding details, and has made it into a business. He now issues long range forecast bulletins to regular subscribers at SIOO a year. Farmers, manufacturers, railroad men, sports promoters and a variety of others are his clients. Some of his claims seem to have been borne out. Others do not. And when he says all his predictions could be proved true, one either believes him or one does not. Meanwhile, the weather being hot (or cold) it’s a good game checking up on just what has happened this year. Next: How Browne figures out his long range predictions. HUNTINGTON OPTIONAL ELECTRIC RATE FOUGHT Handbills Circulated Attacking Insull Interests and C. of C. That the optional electric rates offered by the Northern Indiana Power Company for consumers at Huntington, Ind., will meet with considerable opposition was indicated by a handbill received by the Public Service Commission yesterday with compliments of the author, M. H. Thomas, Huntington. The commission is to conduct a hearing in the case at the Huntington court house, Aug. 9. The handbill carries such headlines as “Chamber of Commerce Betrays City to Its Enemies” and “Insull Interests Subsidize The Press and Leave Citizens Defenseless.” It urges that 3,000 citizens attend hearing and demand a flat rate reduction. Under the optional plan the present flat rate still holds, but by a larger flat rate payment a step rate reduction may be secured over the minimum consumption. START FOR ANTARCTIC British Expedition Carries Tomb to Shackelton Grave. By United Press LONDON, Aug. 2.—The steamer Harpoon soon will leave for the Antarctic, stopping en route at South Georgia, where Sir Ernest Shackelton is buried, to unload the tomb provided by Lady Shackelton for the j explorer.

FIGHT STAGED BEFORE NEW ALBANY COURT x Free-for-AH Climaxes Day of Liquor Law Trials. By Times Special NEW ALBANY, Ind., Aug. 2. Several persons are suffering from bruises today received during a free-for-all fight in City Court here Monday. Trouble started during the trial of a liquor case, the eighth heard by the court during the day. Trully • Applegate, an undercover operative employed by Federal dry agents, charges the fight started when he was attacked by alleged dry law violators and their friends, naming James Heston, facing two charges; Heston’s son, Carl, and Clifford McCutcheon. TjIREE HURT IN CRASH One of Victims Still in Critical Condition at Hospital. Miss Alberta Kops, one of three persons injured in an auto crash at the Post and National Roads late Monday, remained in critical condition at the city hospital today. Her injuries were a fractured skull, body injuries and cuts. Mrs. C. McCreery, wife of Captain McCreery,. Ft. Benjamin Harrison, and their daughter, Virginia, 6, were cut and bruised. State Policeman George Johnson said that the auto driven by Mrs. J. J. Alpheer, Dayton, Ohio, in which Miss Kops was riding, hooked the rear end of the auto driven by Captain McCreery, as it crossed the National Road. The Alpheer auto skidded fifty feet and turned over on an interurban track.

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FORD TO BACK BYRmUOHT Commander Is Offered Use of Giant Plant. By United Press DETROIT, Aug. 2.—Assured of financial assistance from Henry and Edsel Ford, Commander Richard E. Byrd was en route today to Boston to resume preparations for his south pole flight. Byrd came yesterday and conferred with the Fords, who offered him the use of any of their great fleet of planes and the facilities of their giant metal plane in perfecting the craft he will use. Edsel Ford expressed great admiration for the explorer, saying “he is a gentleman and a scientist.” While here, Byrd inspected the “Josephine Ford,” tri-motored Fokker plane, in which he flew over the north pole last year. The Fo and airport Is the permanent home of the historic plane, which was named for Edsel Ford’s daughter. Ft. Wayne Girl Drowns By United Press / FT. WAYNE. Ind., Aug. 2. Bernice Johnson, 20, drowned at Lake James late Monday when she stepped into a deep hole while playing handball. Her mother and Miss Velma Spillner, 19, all of Ft. Wayne, were rescued by two men when, although unable to swim, they attempted to follow and rescue the girl.

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