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I DEAD. U HURT, TRAFFIC'S TOLL FOR WEEK-END Negro Pedestrian Injured Fatally: 3 Autoists Are Arrested. A pedestrian was killed. fourteen person, were hurt and *hrpe a moists were arrester in a ser.es of accidents :n Indianapolis and vicinity over the week-end The dead man is John Walker,

68 Negro. 858 West T<-nth street, intured fatally Saturday night when struck by a taxi n the 700 block West Tenth street. Walker's

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death raised the county traffic toll to sixty-six for the year. The cab was Iriven by John Lamont 20. of 830 North Capitol avenue Lamont was not hein. Severe injuries were incurred Saturday night by Max Bock, 2729 Brill avenue, when the car In which he was riding collided with another at Meridian street and Plea ant Run boulevard Bock incurred a skull fracture, internal injuries and lost two fingers He was a passenger in 'he car of Clarence Weaver, 25. of 17 West Troy avenue, who was arrested on reckless driving ana vagrancy charges. Weaver is alleged to have been driving more than fifty miles an hour when he struck the car of Edward Vach, 27, Columbus at the intersection. Hit and run driver who struck *nd injured seriously Marvin Wert, ?0. of 2179 North Gale street, early today at Meridian and South streets, is sought. Wert was taken from his home to city hospital by >olire. Three persons were injured Sunday when the car in which they were riding crashed into a stalled truck trailer on state road 35, near Bargersville. Miss Hazel Feusther, 20, of 6012 Madison avenue, incurred a broken right arm and leg; Roma me Salladay. 22. of 5059 Madison avenue, broken nose, and Thomas Dwyer, 22. of 604 North Keystone avenue, face cuts. Others hurt in accidents were; Mrs. Barbara McQuart, 75. cuts and broken nose, and Malcolm McQuart, 54. both of Southport, internal injuries; Mrs. Grace Tcllas, 23. of 21H South Holmes avenue, cuts. Lawrence Koester. 929 North Keystone avenue, cuts; Mrs. Mattie Williams. Negro, 19. of 111 East St. Clair street, right arm broken Alva Walters. 49. of 50 North Keystone avenue, cuts and bruises; Howard Mussel man 53, of 3420 North Meridian street, cuts and bruises. Mrs, Bertha Prince, of Ottcrbelli, and Mrs. Ada Perry, 209 North Tacoma avenue, cuts and bruises. Those arrested and charges are: ; Dale King. Linden, vagrancv; Henry DeVries, 49. of 510 North DoQuincy | street, reckless driving and driving j while d r unk; and Raymond Bridges. 22. of 1725 North Meridian street, driving while drunk and failure to stop after an accident.

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Tbit it the fearth of William Enrlr’a n orio of dramatir ronnurtli in Ihe realm of nrarflral irnrr BY WILLIAM ENGLE Timet Special Writer THE l:m- is near." said Pierre Janssen. “Now we are about to see what has not been seen before " But not he or any of the other fussing savants who huddled there on the mountain top m India to peer at the sun's eclipse for the first time through a spectroscope so much a s dreamed that they would see in it a prophecy of a multitude of the world's ways made over. So when that prophecy appeared—an augury that rare and then undiscovered gases sometime would carry balloons around the planet and at night light all its Broadways—they w r ere wise men nonpluss-*d.

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The eclipse of 1868 became total. The sun’s corona flared. In it with the spectroscope the astronomers discerned a mysterious yellow line, a thread of luminance that had not been before in th spectrum they had known. But they, including their Parisian chief, Janssen, had not antinpated this. They could not attribute: the strange hue to anything terrestrial. Thcv said it must come from an unknown substance in the sun. So from the Greek “hellos.” or "the sun,” they named it helium. That the substance was not only in the sun's flaring blanket, but also in the very air they were breathing on the quiet height above the ancient Indian city of Guntoor—that it was in the air everywhere—they did not even guess. Janssen, the star-gazer, went on chasing eclipses—in Algeria, Europe. Japan and Siam. The world’s wise men went on unmindful that within their small orb's encompassing atmosphere there were invisible and theretofore undetectable potentialities for altering the ways of shaping their fellowmen's ideas. B B B THE possibility of extracting that strange sun-substance, the possibility of drawing any unknown substances from the air, went to the laboratory, stayed there a quarter century; and there two Englishmen. Lord Raleigh and William Ramsey, got at the secret. They were experimenting in 1594 with nitrogen, and discovered in it an unknown intruder. They put it through complex purifying processes. The odd visitor still was there. They called it anew gas. "inactive" or "idle." because chemically it was without action, called it argon.” They saw then that air might be something besides hydrogen and oxygen. They were bringing on the day of rare gases. Ramsey kept on playing with the atmosphere. Submitting it to intense cooling, vast compression, getting it. therefore, into a liquid. Maybe, he thought, there were other rare gases to be found. Presently, as he was heating a little-known mineral known as cleviete. out came a volume of gas he supposed at first was nitrogen But when he turned the spectroscope on it—as Janssen had turned it on the eclipsed sun—its yellow color line in the spectrum was so luminous it outshone everything else along the rainbow of hues the eye can detect. B B B THERE in his little laboratory, he came on helium—the substance. the gas. that eclipsechasing Janssen had said existed only in a star, only in the earth's nearest star, the sun. Other scientists left rare gases right there, in Ramsey's little room. There were no more, they said. They added that now that these argon and helium had beer, found, in the air. there was nothing to be done about it. Ramsey accepted the Hodgkins prize and the grand prize of the Smithsonian Institution, and he said the others might be wrong

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He said he would hunt up some more new gases. He was one of those "pure" scientists. He wanted to know something that no one else had known before. He separated a huge supply of argon from the fog and soot that drifted over England, liquefied it and distilled it. It put another new color line in the spectrum. He saw evidence of something unidentified before in the earths atmosphere. It was a blazing red. And he had neon—to paint the Broadways and the Main Streets of the planet. What to do with it—and with krypton and xenon, the other gases he found—not he nor any one else could say. How to get them out of the air in any considerable quantity no one could tell. b a a THEY were so infinitesimal a pp. t rs the atmosphere. There was so little of them anywhere. Th n scnle. if they had had one, would have read, and does read now that rare gases found in the atmosphere are by volume: Argon, one part in 106 8. Helium, one part in 245.300. Neon, one part in 80.800. Xenon, one part in 70.000.000. • Krvton. one part in 20.000.000. Ramsey spoke a laboratory verity only when he pointed out. "It is interesting to know that there is much more gold in an average sample of sea water than there is xenon in the air." Xenon and its companion gases stayed in the laboratory. They were used to produce schoolroom phenomena. In little tubes they they glowed with a brilliant luminosity when an electric current was passed through them. But no one so much as thought of lighting a cubbyhole with them, let alone a skyline—until the great speculative mind of the Frenchman. Georges Claude, came along. He added his own name to neon—made Claude Neon lights known across the land—then turned aside to sink a fortune in an effort to capture electric power from the tropical oceans. But before his interest swerved to the tropics, he had the neon lighting on its way. The chief obstacle to commercial use of neon was the difficulty they found in purifying the gas. It did not react satli factorily unless it was uncontaminated by other elements. Claude Neon refined the process of isolating it. He got it pure and in commercial quantities. BBS THEN the glass blowers perfected tubes, the engineers made better electrodes for introduction of the electnc current, and the chemists learned new technique in combining neon with other gases. Clear neon, orange-red. wrote its way across the horizons of the country. It is more luminous than the incandescent bulb, because the color is confined to the most

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visible part of the spectrum—the green and yellow region, while the lamp transmits practically the entile spectrum visible to the eye. It is easy to operate, for a switch controls it. Turn the switch and the electricity bombards the molecules of gas. The molecules dance. The motion makes them glow. The light is steady, although actually it flicks on and off 120 times a second. With each electrical impulse the molecules dance a rigadoon. As the impulse ends they stop But, of course, the pause is invisible. As clear neon grew common in the last few years, study of the other gases and of other colors grew. Now other gases and other colors are commercially available. Here is how some are produced: Neon in soft red glass gives a deep red hue; in clear glass, red; in yellow glass, orange; in dark purple glass, red-lavendar. Helium in soft yellow glass gives a golden yellow; in bulb opal glass, white. Krypton and neon in clear glass give an orchid hue. But mast impressive, of course, is neon's red from clear glass. Tests disclose, oddly, that it penetrates 20 per cent farther in rainy weather than in a clear atmosphere. n n n THE glass container itself is an achievement attained only | after years of research—the contribution at last of the vacuum tube engineers. An Englishman. Hauksbee, started it all in 1705. when, puttering in his laboratory, he noticed that by agitating mercury in a barometer tube he produced a strange luminence. That set him to splashing mercury in an ‘‘exhausted vessel”— now it is called a vacuum tube—-

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and he got what he called ' mercurial phosphorus.”’ Then he tried rapidly rotating an "exhausted jar" containing mercury. electrified it by holding his hand against it, and made an eery glow within But he was born too soon: he had neither the gas nor the electric current to juggle its molecules. It was a hundred years before a German. Geissler. rigged up the tube which still'another hundred years later became the vacuum ; tube of modern times. He orig- j inated the discharge tube and used for the first time platinum •sealing-in wires for bringing out the electrical terminals of the j tube. Today the newest use of the rare gases is in glow lamps, the lowest wattage lamps ever made to operate directly on house current. some graded down to a tenth of a watt. They serve as pilot lights, exit lights, indicator i lights and for any other purpose not requiring bright x illumination. Now the problem and the promise of the industry is to make commercially a product that will illuminate as sunlight does, instead of merely glaring. Next: The magic of dry ice, WINS TRIP TO FAIR Leroy Reker, Jasper, One of Winners in National Contest. Leroy Reker, Jasper, has been named one of the 100 winners in the national voting contest conducted by Montgomery Ward and Company. Reker wins a free trip to the world's fair in Chicago with one of his parents. The winners arrive in Chicago Aug. 7 and will stay a week.

RECOVERY CODE IN EFFECT AT MANY PLACES Euthusiastic Employers Do Not Wait to Get Pledge Forms. (Continued From Page One) j• largest stores here puts wage and hour agreement into effect immediately reducing working hours from sixty-six for men and fifty-four for women to forty for all. INDIANAPOLIS—Chamber of Commerce president says business leaders of the city will follow the program "cheerfully and wholeheartedly.” John J. Madden ?.lanufacturing Company hails blanket code as step to end cut-throat competition on Labor scales. rianLs Fall Into Step BIRMINGHAM—RetaiI dealers being organized into city-wide association to carry out re-employment plan. President of group pledges 100 per cent co-operation Chamber of Commerce president doesn't like all proposals in the plan, but agrees it must be carried out in full. District head of Federated Women's Clubs and head of Parent-Teacher Association promise united support. YOUNGSTOWN—PIants employing more than 30,000 preparing to fall into step with re-employment plan, i This will mean hiring additional employes in nearly all cases. Com- ‘ mittee of twenty-nine headed by chief counsel of Youngstown Sheet i and Tube company, mobilizing to increase buying power. CLEVELAND—RetaiI merchants board pledges full co-operation. Mayor organizes recovery committee and calls meeting for Wednesday to formulate plan of action. Ore mines raise employes 15 per cent and cut hours to eight a day. Chase Brass and Copper companyraises pay 8 to 10 per cent. Simplex Piston Ring Sales company announces 40 cent minimum wage and 40-hour week. Addressograph Multigraph corporation starts 40-hour week on same wage scale. Bartunek Bros., clothing manufacturers, raises pay 10 per cent. Samuel Halle, department store owner, says: “The ; old order of things is over, and we may as well subscribe to the new. This is a form of commercial social- ■ ism and it s up to every one to play ' the game, stop quibbling, inform themselves, and believe in it anyhow." Co-operation Is Urged EL PASO—Chamber of Commerce urges all to co-operate and its vicepresident leads the way by signing up for his dry- goods store, one of the largest employers here. Retailers pledge support though fearful of effect in early days. Editor of Labor Advocate believes government pressure in addition to buyers' boycott will be needed to enforce wage and . hour scales. BALTlMOßE—lndependent Gro- ‘ cers' Association pledges support to

plan. Retail Merchants’ Association meets Wednesday to vote on it. Several business men believe blanket code will assist in getting agreements on permanent codes. President of local advertising club prefers slow action on individual codes to immediate agreement. Local meat packer thinks the plan "rather extreme." Labor leaders, on the other hand, express disappointment that thirty-hour week is not required and say sls minimum wage is too low Admit, however, that President's plan may help." Enthusiastic Over Plan AKRON—Sii-berltng Rubber Company and General Tire and Rubber Company pledge themselves to sign President's agreement. Goodyear, Firestone and Goodrich not yet heard from. Merchants' association promises 'wholehearted support.” Local chain of 100 grocerystores puts code requirements into effect at once. Leading ciub women say they expect local women to guarantee effectives* by b lying only from N. R A. merchants. SAN DlEGO—lnstant immense enthusiasm over President's plan reflected in statements of business leaders. Local Chamber of Commerce wires President its support. Presidents of Tuna Packing firm and Onyx and Marble Company "ready to go." Reaction ''Highly Favorable” KNOXVILLE- Chamber of Commerce meeting today to form plans for co-operation. All textile mills including those not in cotton textile code go on eight-hour day. five-day-week. and sl2 minimum wage scale today. Largest department store calls directors to meet on shorter hours and increased pay. ALBUQUERQUE —Reaction here generally favorable with read'- promises to co-operate. Some apprehension expressed as to fate of white collar class which will see prices go up without resultant wage increase for those now getting above minimums.

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BOETTCHER IS NEW CHIEF OF i WORKS BOARD Former Head of County Council Is Elected to Succeed McKinney. City board of works todav elected Walter C Boettcher, former president of the Marion county council, as president of the board succeeding E Kirk McKinney, who now is Indiana manager of the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation Louis C Brandt was elected vicepresident and Ernest T Fnrk was re-elected secretary Charles O. Britten is the other member of the board. Wound Causes Heath Hu I nil'll I’m* FT WAYNE. Ind. July 24 -Tetanus poisoning, which resulted after he stepped on a nail, claimed the life of Henry Steinbauer. 58. here Sunday.

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