Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 215, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 January 1934 — Page 13

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It Seems to Me By Hey wood Broun MARK SULLIVAN suffers from insomnia. And when he drops off into fitful slumber by counting administration measures jumping over the Constitution he is tormented by bad dreams. The very milk wagons on Pennsylvania avenue become tumbrils calling at the homes of those who refuse to accept the new deal. In the old days things were very different. Mark slept. Mellon slept and the President slept very well indeed. In the morning everybody but Mr. Mellon

met on the White House lawn for exercise and when Mr. Sullivan threw the medicine ball at the President he was not called upon to aim at a moving target. Herbert Hoover, there he stood the same on Monday as on Wednesday. He was no football quarter back like Franklin D. Roosevelt. No indeed, he was one of the goal posts merely waiting stolidly for somebody to tear him down. I gather from the jeremiads of Mark Sullivan that most of the dirty work is done at night. It is then that Guy Tugwell sneaks out armed with chalk and writes Capitalism Must Be Destroyed” upon the sidew-alks of the town.

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Mr Sullivan is convinced that the revolution is not only here but almost consummated. And as I understand it he has two major complaints. He maintains that the upheaval is being carried on secretly and that it is practically painless. When he shakes hts head at night and finds that it doesn't roll on the floor you can bet that he is pretty sore about it. • * * Remedy for Hi* Insomnia “TS it unreasonable to ask.” inquires Mr. Sullivan, A that we have an opportunity to debate the new system and that the outcome of this debate determine whether we adopt the new?” And that reminds me that 1 should in all kindness suggest a remedy to Mark Sullivan for his insomnia. I think he ought to read himself to sleep. I fear that his wild words suggest an unfamiliarity with what is going on in the newspapers of America. No debate indeed! The careless Mr. Sullivan must have shaped endless columns of pros and cons within the last three or four months. It seems to me that every editorial page is filled with violent denunciation of Rexford Guy Tugwell signed "Intrepid Home Owner.” "Original Settler” or “Indignant Member of the Sixth Grade.” To be specific, might I ask the Republican Revere whether or not he has familiarized himself with the writing of Mark Sullivan upon this very theme? I think that with a glass of warm milk and two Sullivan columns the sufferer will soon find his lids nodding as in the days when Pippa passed and Hoover said, "I've got nothing either.” m an Enters a Xew Villain IN all fairness to the Herald Tribune's goblin editor I must admit that he has freshened his narrative from time to time. Only this w r eek he introduced a new villain into the plot. It now seems that Professor Tugwell is not playing a lone hand in his effort to Sovietize America while Sullivan sleeps. Some of the blame falls on the head of Felix Frankfurter. who has recommended several young men who have received appointments under the administration. "Nearly all of them are graduates of Harvard Law School.” adds Mark Sullivan ominously. It must be. I gather, that Roosevelt is a Red since he has allied himself with so many wearers of the Crimson.. "The country, I am sure," adds Mr. Sullivan, “would be instructed, and also. I suspect, amused by a joint debate staged with Professors Tugwell and Frankfurter on one side, and on the other, let me say. Senator Carter Glass, of Virginia, whose word for the new deal is insanity,’ and ex-Governor Alfred E. Smith, whose word for it is baloney.’ ” man And Also a Little Louder WELL. I won't promise to be amused unless they come a little funnier than that. I didn't even rock with merriment at Mark Sullivan’s own contribution to the debate, which was to call Felix Frankfurter “the happy hot dog.” The funeral baked meats of Herbert Hoover's administration did so coldly furnish forth the national weal that I'm afraid the gag may fall quite flat. And yet I'm all for the debate. The American Newspaper Guild will b“ glad to arrange a proper scene for the discussion. Professor Frankfurter must be carrying on his machinations rather slyly, since he has been an exchange professor at Oxford for several months, but I don't see why Tugwell and Smith alone should not be sufficient to fill any hall. But before the new deal is riddled as something lacking proper and sufficient clarity I would like to have some definition of "the familiar American philosophy” to which Mark Sullivan is so constantly referring. Who qualifies? Is it true that Marie Hanna and Theodore Roosevelt fit neatly into the same classification, or Woodrow- Wilson and Harry Daugherty? And what are we going to do about classifying Andy Mellon, who has always seemed to me the worst secretary- of the treasury since Alexander Hamilton? • Copyright. 1934. by The Times•

Your Health —BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN;

BACKACHE is said to be the second most common ailment of human beings, the first being some disturbance of the bowels, chiefly constipation. Probably both of these disorders result from civilization. The animal eats when it can and empties its bowels whenever it pleases. You eat at definite periods and must control your physiological functions in accordance with the customs under which you live. By your posture when sitting, standing, or walking. you throw strains particularly on your spine, and these strains are associated with pains that you may feel frequently. The knee, the elbow, and the shoulder represent single joints, but the spine has more than a score of joints, all held together in a series and adapted to motion in various directions. Because of the necessity for motion, there are cushions between various bones which act as shock absorbers. These bones represent about one-fourth of the movable pan of the spine. Even- time the trunk move*, they are involved. a a a VITHEN the specialist examines your back he ▼ V notices its alignment while you stand, sit. or he down. He notices how it moves when you change from one position to another. He studies any unusual bumps. He notices the position of your shoulders, hips, arms, abdomen and back in relation to the various curves of the spine. He finds out whether there are any pains or spasms along the spine, and again repeats these tests in the three different postures. Then he has to know about the condition of your body generally. Such diseases as tuberculosis, syphilis, typhoid fever or general infection of the body reflect themselves frequently in the back. Any inflammation of the joints is likely to be intensified in joints of the spine, and backache is the common symptom. a a a AM X-ray of the spine under such condition may show the inflammation of excess bone along the edges. It may show portions of the bone of the spine absorbed, and it may show the changes that are significant. Thus, the X-ray has come to be one of the chief faptors of dependence in making a suitable diagnosis.

Toll Leated Wlra Berries of the tailed Press Association

Tblm is the se-rnth of s series of articles about members of the editorial staff •f The Indianapolis Times, the men and women who make your newspaper. Today’s article is about one of the most colorful newspapermen In America. mama a a BY NORMAN E. ISAACS Times News Editor THE wrestler, caught in his opponent’s headlock, threshed about wildly. He gasped and groaned and pounded the mat with his free hand. His face contorted into what could mean nothing but agonizing pain, he gasped at the referee. "Stop it,” he choked hoarsely at the referee. “He’s choking me.” "Shut up!” roared the referee. “You do the rassling! I'll tell you when you're chokin'!” The crowd roared with glee. For the referee was none other than Heze 'The Irrepressible) Clark, veteran police reporter for The Indianapolis Times and one-time All-America football player for Indiana university. Mr. Clark is no stranger to Times readers. Accounts of his exploits in and out of the squared ring have made him well-known throughout the state. Mr. Clark has been a police reporter so many years that he has come to look more like a policeman than the policeman himself.

Short, squat and with the powerful shoulders that are reminiscent of the days when he crashed the line for Indiana, Heze

“Way Back When”

man to Heze over the telephone. “I've got all the details in the world on that accident. The only thing you forgot were the names of the horses.” "Oh, yeah,” said Mr. Clark, “the names of the horses were Mary and Alice.” The rewrite man fainted. nan MR. CLARK also is relentless in his passion for full coverage. If pictures are needed of some individual figuring in the police news, Heze will depart only to return presently with his automobile filled. He will have with him pictures taken from walls, from scrap books, and oftentimes he appears with that treasured volume of every household the family photograph album. How he gets them nobody knows. No, Heze’s full name is not Hezekiah. It's Hezlep Hezlep Williamson Clark. He was born in Port Austin. Mich., but he doesn't know anything about it for he became a Hoosier at the tender age of 4. When he was 9, his parents moved to Indianapolis. He remembers that, because that night he saw for the first time a “big city fire department in action.” Heze lived on the Circle in the same segment on w'hich English's now stands. In those days, the English hotel came only part way around. Heze went to old No. 3 schodf, situated where the federal building now stands. He went to Short-

280 Falls a Week — That’s a Job for You

BY taking 280 falls a week and by destroying twenty-eight straw hats. Roy Cummings, eccentric comedian now at the Lyric, is able to keep the big bad wolf away from his door. For nearly eighten years, Mr. Cummings has been riding scenenrv. falling with it to the stage, jumping and falling into the orchestra pit and sliding over the stage. Such comedy work leaves him black and blue after his day's work. These days with four shows a day. it is necessary for him to destroy four perfectly good hats a day. and as he takes a minimum of ten falls a performance, he stages forty of those in a day’s time. He also tears up one white shirt every performance, as well as a tie. “I buy my hats in dozen lots, generally buying as high as four dozen in every’ city I play,” Mr. Cummings said as anew supply arrived in his dressing room here. •'And I pay for them all.” he said. "My wardrobe has cost me a fortune since I have been doing this act.” With a sly wink, he added that liniment, both external and internal, has cost him a pretty penny. * a * MR. CUMMI..GS has been in several editions of "The Passing Show" and other big revues of the Shuberts and he always has had to ride the scenery, take his falls and destroy his vanirob*. “I just don't seem to be able to get away from doing those things," he said "The people expect. to do it. they laugh, and laughs are what we are all out to get. "When an audience stops laughing at a comedian, he is done, all washed up." It was the need of making people laugh that caused the comedian to introduce the fall for comedy relief. "The people just didn’t laugh at my clean jokes and in despair I told them they were killing me and I jumped into the orchestra pit," he said. "When I got back on the stage pretty much cut up the audience was screaming. "Then we trie dout and added other hits such a riding the scenery, going up in it and then

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WE MAKE YOUR NEWSPAPER’ Meet Heze Clark —Are There Any Details You Need?

ridge high school w-here he became —almost immediately, we might say—a football hero. In his last year he w-as captain. Football was a big improvement in those days. The "flying wedge” had been altered and the boys were permitted to use it only w-hen it started five yards back of the line of scrimmage. It was getting to be a tame game. Heze remembers the old days well. He recalls that one of the Shortridge teams was composed of Johnny Shaw, Carl Gibbs, Walter Spencer, Harry Wells, Ward and Doug Dean, Hassan Hall, Sandy Bosler and Dick Tolan. When Heze was captain, Shortridge claimed the championship of eight states. Only one team scored on the city boys, Louisville Male, and that score was 22 to 4, Shortridge. That team was composed of Charley Buser, Floyd Payne, Mose Aaronson, Walter Gipe, Bill Connor, Howard Shank, Chilton Johnson. Clarence McKinney, Dave Alderdice, and Ed Shane. a a a HEZE CLARK'S name still stands on the first silver cup Shortridge ever won—a cup for a relay race. His name also is on the first silver basketball cup Shortridge ever won. His high school days over, Heze w-ent to Indiana university. He played three years there and the New- York Sun named him allAmerica left half back in 1906. Back to Indianapolis came Mr. Clark. He went to Winona Tech, w-here Technical now- stands, to take a linotype course. He didn’t cotton to the idea and he took a job as coach of the Marion Club, which stood on the present site of the present Telephone Company building. He coached there nine months and then went to the Star as assistant sports editor. Three months of that and Heze went to Rose Poly as football coach. He worked on newspapers as a side line and belonged to old Battery A of the Indiana national guard. In 1910 he w-as athletic director at Rose Poly and at the close of the football season w-ent to West Remerton. Wash., w-here he promoted boxing matches. He sent to Terre Haute for his "girl friend” and they were married in Washington. “It’ll be twenty-three years on the 11th of April,” says Heze. And it might be the place right here to mention that James W. Clark, director of Red Cross life saving in Marion county and

Clark’s only sign of the relentless march of the years is a graying of the hair at his temples. And. too, he dons glasses when he scans closely written police notes. Heze Clark, the police reporter, has a vice—or an asset which makes him the sworn enemy of all rewrite men. For when Mr. Clark covers a story, he gets the details all of them. “Yes,” sweetly said the rewrite

The Theatrical World

BY WALTER D. HICKMAN

dropping to the stage with the drop. “I tore my tie quite by accident to keep from getting a bad fall and the people howled.” Year after Year, Roy Cummings has been taking his falls, getting blacker and bluer every season. And on top of it all, he is supremely happy because he still is able to make people laugh. a a a In City Theaters ZITHER theaters today offer: “Century of Progress Revue” on the stage and "Fugitive Lovers” on the screen at the Palace; “Let's Fall in Love” at the Circle; “Frontier Marshall” at the Apollo; “The House on 56th Street” at the Indiana, and. burlesque at the Mutual and Colonial.

HEBREW GROUP WILL WOLD STATE SESSION Union Congregations to Discuss Problems Here Sunday. First state meeting of Union Hebrew congregations in Indiana will be held Sunday in the Indianapolis Hebrew’ Congregation, Tenth and j Delaware streets. Problems facing officers of each j congregation will be discussed at the ! sessions . which will start, at 10. Hosts for the meeting will be the Temple Sisterhood and Brotherhood. The Union of American Hebrew Congregations is sponsor. Invitations for the convention were extended by Louis J. Borinstein, Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation president, and Rabbi Morris M. Feuerlicht. Rabbi Philip W. Jaffa, Cincinnati, union regional director, is arranging the meeting, assisted by G. A. Efroymson and Isidore Feibleman, who will be chairman of the sessions. Arrested After Car Crash After he is alleged to have smashed into a car parked in front of 3160 North Illinois street last night, Gilbert Moffitt, 55, New Palestine, special delivery mail messenger, was arrested on charges of drunkenees and operating a motor vehicle un- i der the influence of liquor, j

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1934

coach of the Y. M. C. A. swimming team, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Heze Clark, 2005 North Delaware street. nan \ FTER nine months in Washington, the Clarks headed back to Terre Haute where Heze became sports editor of the Terre Haute Star and coach of football at Rose Poly. Homesick, he came back to Indianapolis to take a job as federal building reporter for the Indianapolis Sun, predecessor of The Times. Heee saw the start of the McNamara “dynamiting” trials and then went to the courthouse, where Joseph Markey then was judge of the criminal court. When the chief police reporter for the Sun became city editor, Heze went to the police station and until 1923 held that position. In those days, police reporters covered the news of the town on bicycles, it was a little habit of police reporters to steal the police blotter, and Heze claims he learned the trick of taking all the pictures in a house from Ed Tutt, then reporter for the Star and now a city detective. It seems that Mr. Tutt started the practice of taking all the pictures to prevent his opposition from getting any of them. Mr. Clark was a faithful disciple. The big story of those early days revolved around a giant Negro—the “Barefoot Burglar.” The "Barefoot Burglar" operated every r ight and one night robbed twen-ty-eight houses. He was accused of attacking several women, knocking down children, and of various and sundry associated crimes. tt u tt FOR months the “Barefoot Burglar” operated in the city. Police, who then covered the city

DENIES WEDDING GARBO Director Spikes Rumors That He Eloped With Star. By United Pres* HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 17.—Greta Garbo and Rouben Mamoulian returned to their homes early today, ending a chase through the southwest where pursuers wanted to question them about rumors they were eloping. “You can say definitely we were not married,” the film director said after he and Miss Garbo arrived at their respective homes. Miss Garbo and Mr. Mamoulian long have been fast friends and frequently are seen dining together.

“YOU DON’T REALLY NEED PEOPLE IF YOU HAVE OTHER INTERESTS,’'

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Here’s Heze Clark, Times police reporter, climbing into a squad car. Wherever he's go.ng, Mr. Clark will come back with details—armloads of ’em.

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

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on bicycles, were desperate. Finally, in 1913, the police department commandeered the services and automobiles of the city's wealthiest citizens. They huddled in police headquarters waiting for the report. The report came. The "Barefoot Burglar” had struck his first blow of the night. Out of police headquarters rolled an odd posse—probably the queerest posse this state ever saw. The city’s most prominent men sat grimly at the.wheels of their automobiles. In the cars were crowded policemen. On the running boards hung other citizens, large stars pinned on’ the lapels of their coats. Down to the railroad yards rushed the posse. The “Barefoot Burglar” was trapped. Seeing the cars coming, he turned and fled, only to run into the arms of two policemen on bicycles. The “Barefoot Burglar” never Confessed. He was convicted and given twenty years on each of three counts ... a sixty-year term. His name was Smith. Heze pestered Smith's attorney for an interview. The attorney talked to his client. “It’s all over,” he told the man, “you might as well talk to this newspaper man. He’s all right.” Smith consented. Smith looked at Heze with narrowed eyes. “I’ve seen you-all before,” he said. “No,” protested Heze. “You’ve never seen me.” “Sure have,” said the giant Negro. “Remember that house the other night put in Irvington?”' Heze nodded. “Remember that bunch of bushes at the right side of that house. About half past three in the morn-

4.7 Per Cent Increase in City Living Costs Shown

Commodity Prices on Up Grade, According to U. S. Survey. Commodity prices, pushed up by re-employment and government schedules, raised the cost of living for December 4.7 per cent more than in June, 1933, in Indianapolis, it was revealed today by federal department of labor statistics. This

in’ that you fellows got there, wasn't it? Remember coming past those bushes? Well, sonny, there was a gun that far from you when you passed them bushes.” Heze stared at Smith’s fingers outstretched to denote about six inches. Heze mopped his brow. He still does when he thinks of the "Barefoot Burglar.” a a a WHEN the war broke out, Heze was sent to the Great Lakes naval training station, where he was Y. M. C. A. athletic director of the aviation regiment. He was kept there until three months after the armistice, returned home, and in 1923 went back to Rose Poly as athletic director. In 1928 he resigned and came back to his old job of police reporter for The Times. Heze Clark looks back on an interesting Indianapolis. He remembers the street car strike, the teamsters’ strike, and the flood of 1913. He was sitting in the lobby of the Claypool when word came that the Purdue train had been wrecked. Heze rode out on his bicycle. “I never rode faster in my life. Those bike-racers nowadays would have to go pretty fast to beat my time that day.” Now, as well ag collecting news for The Times, Heze makes news. He referees wrestling matches, boxing matches, football games, some basketball games, and he's always good for one story a month. “And,” says Heze, puffing out his chest, “I've broken in as many police reporters as any one man in Indianapolis.” You tell ’em. Heze. “You do the rasslin’. I’ll tell you when you're chokin’!” Next—Rejection slips.

figure is slightly below the national average increase of 5.2. However, startling trends in’the cost of living shown by the statistics, reveal that in December the cost of living was 38.6 per cent below that of June, 1920, and only an increase of 1.9 per cent more than December, 1932. The lowest point in the cost of living curve is charted for last spring, when commodities scraped the bottom. The movement upward commenced with the advent of the NRA and has ciii/nbed steadily in an effort to return to the 1926 average. Household furnishings, clothing, fuel and light jumped to 10 and 11 per cent more than in June, 1933, in December here. Fuel and light prices hiked 3.5 per cent above the national average increase, despite the fact that Indianapolis lagged slightly behind national costs on other items. Food, with a 7.3 per cent increase in Indianapolis, was 2 per cent below the national increase. Rent prices, slow to come do#n and sluggish in upward trends, show’ a 3 per cent decrease in comparison with June figures. Retail food prices continued to recede during the two-week period ending Dec. 19 and moved farther downward. Food prices surveyed Dec. 19 showed a 1.6 per cent drop over Dec. 5. although still 19.1 per cent above prices April 15. Those foods showing a definite decline during the two-week period are pork chops, hens, wheat cereal, potatoes, onions, cabbages, canned tomatoes, tea and bananas.

MISSION HEAD SPEAKER The Rev. Eberhardt to Talk at Northwood Christian Church. "Soap. Soup and Salvation” will be the subject of an address by the Rev. H. E. Eberhardt, Wheeler City Rescue Mission superintendent, at the Northwood Christian church fellowship dinner tomorrow night. The annual meeting of the church will follow the dinner. Reports will be made by C. H. Becker. C. E. Price. Wallace O. Lee. Dr. T. W. Grafton. Don Wilson, C. G. Dunphy, C. F. McDaniels, M. L. Sutton and Mrs. George Hargitt. sls in Cigarets Stolen Breaking the glass in a side window, thieves last night entered a store at 3350 West Sixteenth street, taking cigarets valued at sls.

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler THE voice with the squawk wins and there is no doubt that the honest hay-shaker is the champion squawker of them all. He squawked until the government bought up his surplus crops and put them in storage to remove them from the market so that the city people would have to pay higher prices for the food which remained in circulation. He continued to squawk until the government hired him to sit on his overalls and do nothing and guar-

anteed the interest on his speculative mortgages. He has squawked the government into purchasing his excess pigs and cattle and he will continue to squawk until the end of time because the squawk is the natural cry of the honest hay-shaker. Always in the honest hayshaker’s shrill, demanding squawk there is the note of a sinister threat. It is taken to imply that, unless the government gives him that which he asks for, he will quit hay shaking and that all the vast remainder of the race will starve to death. Governments always are afraid to take a sporting chance on the hunch that, just as the

wood chuck must chuck wood and the bookkeeper must keep books because nature made them so. The honest hay-shaker, on his part, must shake hay. If it came to a test some time, under scientific conditions in some laboratory at the department of agriculture, it might be found that the farmer no more can resist the temptation of a hayfork and a mess of new-mown hay than a naturalborn spell-binder can resist the suggestion of a pinetable and a water pitcher. ana Farmer Is Very Fair Match NEVER, in any of the orations or seriousessays on the subject is any consideration given to the fact that, in the matter of cupidity or larceny the honest farmer is a very fair match, pound for pound, for the average man of the cities. Yet, only a few years ago, farmers were swapping land at inflated prices which they knew to be much higher than its agricultural earning powers, with precisely the same motive in mind which animated the urban citizens who were gambling on margin in the stock market. The important difference has been that when the honest hay-shaker found that his acres, having been bought at extravagant prices with the motive of easy money in mind, could not support themselves in crops, he squaw-ked to the government to buy up part of a bad bet. The city citizen, never having learned to squawk in unison, and lacking such compelling representation as the farmers enjoyed in the persons of certain celebrated senatorial hay-shakers, took his losses in comparative quiet. He kicked himself three times around the block for having been a damn fool and took it all out in being sore at the bankers, not the government. Not until the hay-shaker, by repeated grabs at the treasury, had put the idea into his head, did the citizens of the cities begin to entertain the idea that if the treasury was such a soft touch for the farmer, maybe he could chisel off a few shillings for himself. u an He's a Real Squawker BUT not even yet has he had the gall to suggest that the United States treasury, as a matter of common justice, ought to pay him an adjustment between the quoted price of Radio common when he bought it in the summer of 1929, which would be somewhere around SSOO a share, and the price of the same at this time, which is 6; s . And it still is somewhat beyond the range of hig nerve to set up a squawk that the government ought to condemn ans dismantle certain factories, whose operation created a deplorable surplus of manufactured goods, which would correspond to the pig and cattle condemnation and plowing-under programs. And so, of course, he hasn’t had the effrontery to ask that the former employes of these factories be paid government wages for not working in them. The farmer is paid for not farming, in order that surplus farm stuff may vanish and the city people shall have to pay higher prices for agricultural products. But if you were to propose that the factory hand should be paid to refrain from work in order thatthe honest hay-shaker should have to pay higher prices for hay forks and overalls, the farmer would emit a terrific squawk. In fact, the price of overalls did increase by a few cents a little while ago and he did emit a terrific squawk. All this is aside from the fact that the hayshaker' also was the one who insisted for thirteen years on the retention of prohibition in the Constitution at a loss of eight or ten billion dollars to the treasury. He was very fastidious about the sort of money which he received from the United States treasury. He wanted no part of the wages of sin. (Copyright, 1934, by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

Today's Science ===== BY DAVID DIETZ - .

THE chief problem facing theoretical and experimental physicists in 1934 is to fit the positron into the general picture of atomic structure and behavior. The positron was discovered in 1932 by Dr. Carl D. Anderson of the California Institute of Technology youthful assistant of Dr. R. A. Millikan, the American physicist who confirmed the existence of cosmic rays. It had been known for some time that when a cosmic ray collided with an atom, electrons were knocked out of the atom. Electrons are electrically negative and could be identified by their movements under a strong magnetic field in the apparatus used by Dr. Anderson. But in addition to the electrons, he discovered particles moving in exactly the opposite direction. These would have to ,be electrically positive. Further investigation proved them to be like electrons in everything, but their electric charge. At first Dr. Anderson called them position electrons, but later coined the name of positron. SUBSEQUENTLY, Dr. Anderson showed that positrons could also be obtained by bombarding the atoms of various elements with the gamma rays of radium. It was noticed that when a cosmic ray or a gamma ray collided with an atom under certain circumstances that both a positron and an electron were released. This gave rise to the suggestion on the part of Dr. Neils Bohr and others thgt the positron and electron were- created from the cosmic ray or gamma ray. As early as 1905, Professor Albert Einstein, in hi* famous paper on the “inertia of energy,” had suggested the possibility that matter might- be transferred into energy and vice versa. The idea that electrons might be considered as "bottled energy” was an appealing one and astronomers needing some mechanism to account for the production of heat and light in the stars, seized upon this idea. The experiments in the last few years of Davisson and Germer, showing that under certain conditions electrons behaved as waves rather than particles, added strength to this view. a a a AT the Boston meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in December, Professor J. R. Oppenheimer of the University of California presented a theory sought to explain mathematically what happened when a cosmic ray or a gamma ray changed into a positron and an electron. But at that same meeting Dr. Anderson himself repeated what Dr. Millikan had said the month previously at the Cambridge meeting of the National Academy of Sciences, namely that he and Millikan were not so sure that this sort of conversion took place. *

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