Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 97, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 September 1933 — Page 10

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—Dietz on Science— MOON STILL IS ENVELOPED IN MYSTERY VEIL What Other Side of Luna Looks Like Is Riddle on Earth. BY DAVID DIETZ Hfrlpp-Hoirard Sftrne* F.ditor The moon, our closest neighbor in space, and our constant companion as the earth journeys around the sun, still is the hiding place of many mysteries. With the passing es years, astronomy has reached out to the far corners of space. The Mt. Wilson observers have succeeded in photographing spiral nebulae which are 150.000.000 light-years away. Theoretical astronomers are concerned with such questions as the diameter of the universe. * But there still are plenty of problems close at home and we have to go only a mere 240.000 miles—the distance to the moon—to find many of them. What's on Other Side? One of them, in all probability, never will be solved until man learns to navigate space by rockets. It is the question of what the other side of the moon looks like. The moon rotates upon its own axis in exactly the same time that it revolves about the earth. The result, is that it always keeps the same face turned toward the earth. We assume that the other side looks about like the side we do see. But w? don't know. Another important question, as yet unsolved, is what is the moon made of? More exactly, the problem resolves itself into what the surface of the moon consists of. since there seems little chance, at thus time, of penetrating the surface. Believed Covered With Ash One of the latest theories advanced is that put forward By Lvott of the Meudon Observatory near Paris. Lyot thinks that the surface of the moon is covered with a thick layer of volcanic ash. Lyot arrived at this theory by a study of moonlight. Moonlight, of course, is sunlight reflected from the surface of the moon. Lyot tried reflecting sunlight from various sub- j stances and analyzing the resulting light, to see how it compared with moonlight. He reflected sunlight from all sorts of rocks —granites, sandstones, chalks, etc. He also tried reflecting sunlight from different varieties of sands, clays, soils and the like. He found that moonlight was like none of these reflected lights, but that It. was almost exactly like the light which was obtained when sunlight was reflected from volcanic ash. Since the surface of the moon is covered with a vast profusion of craters which resemble extinct volcanoes and which have, in the past, , been assumed by many astronomers to be extinct volcanoes, Lyott's theory is not at all unreasonable. The theory also helps to explain other things about the moon. The moon is subjected to terrific changes in temperature because j there is no atmosphere on the moon. Consequently the moon gets the full force of the sun's rays in the daytime. And at night, there is no atmosphere to hold in the heat which was received during the day. Temperature of 194 Degrees Doctors Seth B. Nicholson and Edison Pettit of the Mt. Wilson observatory made temperature meas- j urements of the moon with a thermocouple. They found that the lighted surface of the moon had a temperature of 194 degrees Fahrenheit. But when the moon entered the earth's shadow and the sunlight was cut off from its surface, the temperature fell to 152 degrees below zero. Now such violent temperature changes ought to cause the rocks of the moon to expand and contract with resulting breaking and crumbling. Yet there does not seem to be much evidence for that sort of thing. BOARD OF AGRICULTURE TO BE DINNER GUESTS State Fair School Students to Act as Hostesses. Faculty members and students of the state fair girls school will be hostesses tonight at dinner in the Woman's building for members of the state board of agriculture and their wives, and Frank R. Elliott and T. R. Johnston, publicity directors, respectively of Indiana and Purdue universities. Marion county girls attending the school are Mildred Witte. Viola Brier. Gertrude Golder and Teckla Behrman. all of Indianapolis, and Irma Blank. Bridgeport. One of the first day features will be a dress show at 1:45 Saturday afternoon in the Woman's building, when dresses made by sixty 4-H Club county winners will be worn As in the past, free copies of the Daily Student. Indiana university school of journalism publication, will be distributed on the fairground. BRICK FLUNG INTO CAR City Man Suffers Gashed Eye In Accosting Negro. Struck bv a brick hurled by an unidentified Negro. Paul Salmon. 32. of 330 1 1 North Euclid avenue, was taken to city hospital late Thursday night for treatment of a deep gash over his right eye. Police were told that Salmon, with two passengers. Joseph Powers. 22. of 17 North Arsenal avenue, and Mosey Patrick. 36. of 1026 College avenue, were seated in his car in the 400 block West Wabash street. The man appeared from between two houses, and when the men in the car called to him, picked up the brick and flung it into the automobile. Piano Swapped for Milk Bp I m lb and friM HANFORD. Cal.. Sept. I.—Music for milk is a fair trade, welfare officials recounted today. A needy Hanford woman, unable to purchase the milk her little son needed, offered through the Red Cross to trade her piano for a cow. A rancher with four daughters agreed.

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Hazel Fisher Third annual Demagorian Alumni Society dinner will be held Friday night at 6 in Woodruff Place Baptist church. Following the dinner, a business session wall be held, in charge of Miss Mildred Beard, society president. Speakers on a program to follow the meeting will include Dr. L. C. Trent, pastor of the church: Dewitt S. Morgan, Technical high school principal; Miss Mabel God-

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Philip Ross dard, head of the school English department: Forrest Wiggins. Miss Elvina Stammel, and Charles R. Parks, public speaking instructor at the school. Appearing on a musical program will be Hazel Fisher, Jack Hvser, Evans Cochrane and Charles Gillespie. Cast for a sketch to be presented by the 1933 Demoagorian class will include Philip Ross. Anew camera can take 2.000 pictures a second and also record the timing.

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EXHIBITS READY FOR FIRST DAY OF STATE FAIR Ticket Sale Far Ahead of Other Years; Beer Will Be Dispensed. (Continued From Page One) children under 12 admitted free. Although this is designated as Children’s day, children under 12 also will be admitted free Saturday and Sunday. Farmers and former members of the agriculture board will have the stage Wednesday, while Governor Paul V. McNutt and members of the legislature will be honored Thursday. Friday, the closing day of the annual show, w'ill be known as Indianapolis day. One of the features of interest to many persons, in view of the government's wheat acreage plans, will be the exhibit in the Purdue university building explaining the plan in details. The Indianapolis fire prevention department wili wage its campaign to halt fires at the fair by presenting an exhibit of the 125 fire hazards found in homes.

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WEDDED 58 YEARS

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Mr. and Mrs. William H. Miller

Fifty-eighth wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Miller will be celebrated Sunday at their home in Bridgeport, where they have spent twentynine years of their married life.

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BARBER BOABB ! APPOINTEE OF M'NUTT RAPPED Publicity Man’s Suit Asserts Choice Out of Business Five Years. Legality of the appointment by Governor Paul V. McNutt of Frank E. McKamey. Indianapolis, as member of the state board of barber examiners, was attacked in a suit on file today in the Marion circuit court. Filed by Lester C. Nagley. publicity man. as a taxpayer, the defendants are members of the sta c j barbers board and Floyd Williamj son, state auditor, and William i Storen. state treasurer. The complaint alleges that Mcj Kamey is unqualified to serve on I the board because he has not followed the occupation of a bfirber for ! a period of five years, i It requests that the state auditor

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