Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 166, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 November 1933 — Page 5

NOV. 21, 1933-

DR. LEONARD TO BE NAMED CITY MEDICS' LEADER Placed on Two Slates for Election on Dec. 5; Others Nominated. Election of Dr. Henry Leonard, Dec. 5. as Indianapolis Medical Society president, was assured today with announcement that he heads two slates of candidates, the Council and president committee tickets. Other council nominees are: Dr. Robert Masters, first vice-president; Dr. Roy V. Myers, second vice-presi-dent; Dr. James S. Mcßride, secretary: Dr. Edgar Kiser. Dr Walter P Morton and Mr. Matthew Winters, council members; Dr. Walter Kelly, Dr C. J. Clark, Dr. E. O Asher. Dr. Max Bahr. Dr O. W. Sicks, Dr. Herman G. Morgan and Dr. William Gabe. for delegates, and Dr. E. Vernon Hahn, library committee. President committee nominees are: Dr. Kenneth L Craft, first vice-president; Dr. Walter P Moenning, second vice-president; Dr. Mcßride, secretary; Dr. Euclid T. Gaddy. Dr. Louis D. Belden and Dr. C. J Mclntyre, council members; Dr. Ralph J. Lochry, Dr. Harry F. Foreman, Dr. Elmer Funkhouser, Dr Harry J. Weil, Dr. John M. Whitehead, Dr. Harry K. Langdon and Dr. Leon G. Zerfas, delegates, and Dr. Hahn, library committee. •FUR’ SAMMONS LOSES VENUE CHANGE PLEA Court Refuses to Grant Moving of Criminal’s Trial. B’l Timex Special GARY. Nov. 21.—Change of venue petition of James <Fur) Sammons, Chicago public enemy, was denied here yesterday by Criminal Judge William Murray. The court ruled Sammons could receive as fair a trial here as anywhere. He will be tried, probably Monday, on charges of attemting to bribe an officer and. if convicted, will be tried on habitaual criminal charges in an attempt to send him to prison for life. FOUR-STORY PLUNGE KILLS UPSTATE MAN Patient at Ft. Wayne Hospital Succumbs to Injuries. P>! Timex Special FT. WAYNE, Nov. 21.—Injuries sustained when he jumped from the ! fourth floor of Lutheran hospital j here four days before proved fatal yesterday to James Taylor. 42.! Taylor, a patient at the hospital, was j held by a nurse as he struggled to | leap from a window, the nurse being forced to release her grip on him to prevent being pulled out the window herself. I.aporte Man Slashes Throat By Timex Special LAPORTE, Nov. 21. Charles I Shok. 45, is expected to recover | after having slashed his throat three times in attempting suicide.

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THE NUMBER of creatures living in any square mile of the ocean naturally would vary with the depth of the water, but William Scoresby, the English explorer, once made a long and careful investigation of the subject, and concluded that it would take 40,000 persons, working from the time of creation, to count the creatures in that amount of water. NEXT—Do sunken ships go directly to the bottom of the ocean?

Mental Hygiene Society to Meet Here on Dec. 4

Annual Session Will Be Held at Claypool, Is Announcement. The eighteenth annual meeting of the Indiana Society for Mental Hygiene will be held in the assembly room of the Claypool Dec. 4, Donald DuShane, superintendent of schools of Columbus and president of the organization, announced yesterday. Education and prevention of crime will be discussed in the morning. afternoon and evening sessions. Speakers will include Dr. Oga Hoffman, assistant physician at the state hospital at Madison; D. L. PHarshman, assistant superintendent of the Ft. Wayne state school for the feeble minded; Dr. Spafford Acke r 1 y, associate professor of psychiatry, Louisville university; Mrs. Ruth Heavenridge, director of special education, Indianapolis; Edward E. Dißella, director of the transient bureau, Governor’s commission on unemployment relief, In-

I dianapolis. and Paul H. Moore, di- | rector of the Central Housing Foundation, Indianapolis. WOMAN IS SLUGGED BY FOOTPAD: LOOT IS sl4 North Side Resident Is Victim of Purse Snatcher. A footpad who slugged Mrs. Helen Gilliland, 36. of 5632 Winthrop avenue, last night as she walked near College and Northview avenues, robbed her of her purse containing sl4, she reported to police. SCREAMS OF WOMAN ROUT TWO BURGLARS Thieves Flee From Kitchen in Dismay: Nothing Stolen. Screams of Mrs. Ben Richardson, 1927 Oliver avenue, routed two burglars, who displayed pistols when she discovered them in the home of her kitchen last night, police were I notified. Nothing was reported stolen.

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—Dietz on Science — KNOWLEDGE OF UNIVERSE TOLD WITHHGURES Smithsonian Tables Give Smallest and Largest Measurements. BY DAVID DIETZ Scripps-Howrd Science Editor The dimensions of things, from the largest in the world to the smallest, will be found in the eighth edition of the Smithsonian Physical Tables prepared for the Smithsonian Institution by Frederick E. Fowle. The tables constitute an invoice of man's knowledge of the universe, from the tiny electrons which make up the atoms of matter to the star clouds and galaxies of the heavens. Spiral nebulae are at one end of the scale. They have an average mass of five billion times that of the sun. The mass of the sun in pounds is expressed by the figure 436 followed by twenty-eight ciphers. You can multiply it out for yourself, if you want to. At the other end of the scale is the tiny electron with a density of only about ninety octillionths of a gram. An octillionth is a trillionth of a trillionth. Preparation of the tables necessitated the employment of units of linear measure which are unfamiliar to the layman but necessary to the scientists to obviate the use of such unwieldy figures as those given above. The smallest unit of length used in the micro-angstrom. It is ten quadrillionths of a meter. A meter is apaproximately a yard, more exactly, 39.37 inches. Light Year Is Basis The longest unit of linear measure used in the tables is the parsec. A parsec is 3.258 light years. A lightyear, as most readers of these j articles know, is the distance a beam of light travels in a year and is approximately six trillion miles. A question which the layman might logically ask is why the parsec? It isn't much larger than the light and it looks like a more complicated unit. There is a reason, however, why astronomers find the parsec handy. The distance of a star is determined by measuring its apparent shift against the background of very distant stars as the earth goes around its orbit. This angular shift is known as the star's parallax. a star which is just one parsec from the earth will show a parallax of one second of arc. Consequently, by the use of parsecs, it is easy to translate parallax into distance. Large Figures Used The largest dstance given in the tables is the radius of the universe. This, of course, is on the assumption that space is curved and the universe finite, as set forth in Einstein’s work of recent years. The radius of the universe, as given by Dr. Edwin P. Hubble of Mt. Wilson, is 30 billion parsecs. If you must know what that is in miles, it is about 600 septillion miles, that is, the figure 6 followed by twentythree ciphers. Another big number In the book is the total number of electrons and protons in the universe. This figure, calculated by Sir Arthur Eddington, the famous British astronomer, is 10 followed by seventyeight ciphers. That’s 10 million times a trillion times a trillion times a trillion times a trillion times a trillion. Perhaps you would like some smaller figures for a change. Sir Arthur gives us some of those, too Here, for example, is one dealing with the density of interstellar space. It is now known that space between stars, strictly speaking, is not empty. There are a few atoms and electrons to the cubic yard. Intense Cold Measured The density of interstellar space, Eddington tells us, is 10 septillions of a gram per cubic centimeter. He also tells us that the temperature > I of interstellar space is approximate- i ly three degrees above absolute zero Absolute zero is 459 degrees below zero Fahrenheit. It is the lowest possible temperature since all mole- ; cular vibration would cease at it. j The Smithsonian physical tables ! have been published at irregular in- * | tervals since 1896, The present edition is the first in fourteen years | The cosmic ray, the positron* and the neutron, therefore, make their 11 first appearance in the present ed<- 11 tion. j Advances of the last fourteeen I years have necessitated much revi- ! | sion and many additions in the ta- i | bles dealing with the structure and energy levels of the atom. The | tables devoted to radio-activity have | also required many additions. Among the subjects covered by the tables are specific heats, latent heats, spectrum wavelengths, indioes 1 of refraction, photometric data, j magnetic properties, and so on. The layman won't find the tables interesting reading but scientists will find daily use for them. NAMESAKE OF HOOVER MAY LOSE ONE EYE Explosion of Dynamite Cap Results in Severe Injun-. Herbert Hoover, 12. of 6572 Bellefontaine street, namesake of! the former President, may lose the sight of one eye as result of injuries Incurred last night when several dynamite caps fell from his pocket and exploded. He told police he and another boy found the caps in a tin box at Seventy-first street and Williams creek Sunday. NEW OFFICES OPENED Bogue Institute for Stammerers Announces Move. Consultation and registration offices of the Bogue Institute for Stammerers have been established at 715 Circle Tower building, in connection with its business offices, it was announced yesterday. The dormitory and speech studios are located at 1145-1147 North Illinois street. Entertain Bowling Winners Winners in the Hoosier Pete Rowling League were entertained by the losers of that league with a dinner at Tice's tavern on Sunday I night.. George H. Lilly is president I of the league. ,

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