Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 55, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 July 1933 — Page 4

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—Dietz on Science — TUNGSTEN MAY SOLVE RIDDLE OF COSMIC RAY Substance to Be Used in Chicago Flight to r 1 Stratosphere. > BY DAVID DIETZ, Hfripp* Howard Srienre Fditor A little block of solid tungsten, obtained by Dr. Arthur H. Compton, the cosmic ray expert, on a visit last week to the Nela Park laboratories of the General Electric Company in Cleveland, may solve the riddle of the cosmic rays and end the controversy over their nature. Dr. Compton came in from Chicago to get the tungsten block for one of the instruments now under use in the balloon ascent to the stratosphere which Dr. Jean Piccard and Lieutenant Commander T. G. W. Settle are scheduled to make from Soldiers' Field, Chicago, before the end of the month. The tungsten block is a few inches long and a couple of inches thick. The particular piece of apparatus In W’hich it will be used will erasure how many cosmic rays are absorbed by it. Given Previous Tests A similar instrument was used not long ago by two German experimenters, Kohlhorster and Bothe. Kohlhorster, it is interesting to note, was one of the pioneer students of cosmic rays, beginning his studies about twenty-five years ago. The two Germans used a block of solid gold in their apparatus. Dr. Compton, however, decided that gold was a little too expensive, and so decided on tungsten instead. The reason for using some very heavy material like gold or platinum or tungsten is that the cosmic rays penetrate the light metals with too great ease. The instrument is a modification of what is known as a coincidence counter.” The coincidence counter consists of tw'o small tubes of steel containing air or argon gas at high pressure. The two tubes, which are placed onp above the other, are enclosed in a heavy lead shield which only cosmic rays penetrate. Direction Is Determined When a cosmic ray enters either tube, it ionizes or electrifies the gas wuthin it. This fact is registered upon delicate electric recording devices known as electrometers, which are connected with the tubes. The apparatus is used chiefly to observe the number of rays which penetrate both tubes. These coincidences are caused by rays coming from the direction in which the apparatus is pointed, since these are the only ones which can pass through both tubes. The apparatus, therefore, can be used to explore the direction from which the rays are coming. The two German experimenters, after measuring the average number of rays coming from a given diction, then placed their block of gold between the two tubes. If now’ a smaller number of rays are detected in the second tube, it means that those which fail to reach the tube have been absorbed by the block of gold. A process for sealing and coating red cedar lumber with paraffin to retain the cedar aroma, especially adaptable to cedar closets, has been developed by a government scientist. •

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Mcridan street, was treated at St. Vincent's hospital Thursday for a lacerated right ankle. A horse w hich he was leading along DcLong road in the 5700 block stepped on his ankle, he told police. St. Johns Homecoming Set A homecoming festival to which all former members of the parish are invited will be held Saturday afternoon and night by St. John's church in the school yard at Capitol avenue and Georgia street. A dance and card party will be held and a lunch served.

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PASTOR TO BE SPEAKER Address Will Be Made at Session of Probation Group. Members of the State Probation Officers’ Association will hear the Rev. Carl H. Barnett, pastor of Central Christian church of Lebanon at a meeting at 10 Saturday in the Severin. Mr. Barnett was executive secretary of the committee on delinquency of the social service commission of the Federal Council of

the Churches of Christ in America from 1923 to 1925, and for the last four years has been probation officer of Boone county. Five Bathing Suits Stolen Two boys. 15 and 10, stole five bathing suits from the store owned by Mrs. Meyer. 1805 South East street. Thursday while she was in the back part of the store. The suits w-ere valued at $7. Canned baked apples add another ready-to-serve food to the rapidly growing list offered to customers.

HEAD WEST IN WAGON "Prairie Schooner” Carries Family of Five Toward Arkansas. Hff Tirnro S/n rial PERU, Ind.. July 14.—Adopting a mode of travel popular in Indiana more than half a century ago, an unemployed Peru family was en route to Arkansas in a covered wagon today. The father. W. A. Squires, plans o make application for a land claim in the south and find work cutting

timber. He was accompanied by his wife and three children. •‘Until we find anew home and work we'll have no rent or taxes to bother us,” Squires explained before he left. Sherman Marcher Is Dead NOBLESVILLE. Ind.. July 14 S. F. Noble. 89. another Union veteran who marched with Sherman to the sea, died here Thursday night at the home of his daughter. Mrs. Charles Devaney. Out of 2.145 Hamilton county men who entered the Civil war, only fifteen still are living.

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PROGRAM IS PLANNED Recreation Department. Leisure Hour Clubs to Co-operate. The recreation department of th° city and Leisure Hour clubs will cooperate tonight in a program at Hie open-air theater of Garfield park. Included in the entertainment w il be specialty numbers by the Devore sisters; Ace Bailey and his Rhythm. Aces; Bonnie Eyiand, blues singer; Old Doc Sunshine; Jessie Hill, whistler; the Nightingales, instrumental quartet, and the YVKBF barn dance string band.