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VOLTS STORED IN BLOOD CELLS, SCIENCE FINDS

Electric Charge -in Man!

Could Light 25-Watt Bulb, Is Finding. _ (Copyright, 1996, ” Science Service)

ROCHESTER, N. Y.,, June 22.— The red blood cells of man and ani-

mals as carriers of electricity are} . being studied at the Biological Lab-

oratory, Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y.,

it was revealéd here today before

the American Physical Society. Dr. 8. Moyer and Dr. Harold A. Abramson reported that red blood ‘cells of man, among the animals - studied, have the highest

. effective electrical charge at their

surface, equivalent to 15,000,000 electrons. Electrons are the unit

charges of electricity.

‘ Studies of the amount of electricity

~ carried by the blood cells have im-

portant relationship to such basic

* human problems as the coagulation

properties of the blood and problems conected with the anemias. For example, it has been found that in

+. certain cases of anemia in human

beings, the abnormal cells apparently possess a mechanism which is

: . capable of preserving the normal

surface charge of the cell in spite

. of wide. variations in the surface

area ‘during the course of the disease. A good idea of the size of this surface charge may be obtained from the estimation that if the charges from blood of a full-grown man could be collected and made to pass through a 25-watt electric bulb it ‘would burn for at least five minutes. i Of all the animals studied in the tests Drs. Moyer and Abramson found that the rabbit had the lowest electric charge density—only 1890 electrostatic units.” Man and the rhesus monkey (used in experimental studies of infantile paralysis) had about the same charge density, 4500 units. The dog had the highest charge density, 5600 electrostatic: units.

Electric Sprays Discharged

Sprays of electrified particles shoot out, now and then, from all kinds of matter. Rocks, metals, even our own bodies, are subject to this effect which physicists say is due to the unceasing cosmic-ray bombardment. Disruption of atomic nuclei by the highly energetic cosmic-ray particles has been regarded as a likely explanation. The particles making up the spray were thought of as the flying debris from a shattered atom, But it now seems more likely that the atoms remain intact during the collision and that the cosmic rays suffer the major damage. According to Dr. and Mrs. Carol G. Montgomery of the Bartol Research Foundation of the Franklin Institute the spray particles are pairs of positive and negative electrons created in that intense electric field which surrounds the nucleus of every atom, The raw material for the process. is the energy of th cosmic-ray: photons. - : Experiments Are. Described Speaking before ‘a “meeting of the American. Physical Society here, Dr. Montgomery described experiments which -he and his wife performed with a device called an “ionization chamber.” Different kinds of material—lead, tin, iron, magnesium--were. piled - about the chamber and their electrical effects recorded on yards and yards. of photographic film. ; The heavier the material surrounding their chamber, the larger was the number of particles shot out in every spray. Heavier atoms have stronger electric fields about them; have greater power to rip cosmic-ray photons apart, as it were, and convert the pieces into pairs of electrons. The reason for- favoring this interpretation over that of atomic disintegration Jay in the mathematical relation between the number of particles per spray and the weight (atomic number) of the ma-

. terial from which the sprays came.

The law which Dr, and Mrs. Montgomery found to govern cosmic-ray sprays was the same as that which others have found for the case of conversion into electrons of the gamma rays (also photons) from

‘radioactive substances.

AIRPORT BOND ISSUE APPROVAL DELAYED

fore Tax Board Acts. Times Special

SOUTH BEND, Ind., June 22.—|

The bond issue approved here by the County Council for the purchase

- of the Bendix-Municipal Airport,

is not to be approved at this time by the State Board of Tax Commissioners, according to Gaylord S. Morton, board member. The County Council must pass an appropriation measure before the state board will act, he said.

Rotary Speaker Named ~ Guy A. Wainwright, Diamond Chain and Manufacturing Co., president, is to speak “In Defense of at a Rotary Club luncheon in

ing toward her. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY.

CHAPTER FOUR 8 casually as though he had said good night a few hours before, Bob greeted Marcia, met Camilla and Phil, joined them, and talked of the crowded boat train,

the smooth crossing. As naturally |

as though he had been expected, he accepted an invitation to join the party for the evening. Marcia, watching curiously, realized that she wasn’t surprised. Somehow she had been expecting him. This should have been their first night in Paris together. They were in Paris—that was all.

When Phil and Camilla left them alone for a little while, Bob smiled quietly. He seemed older, or maybe he was merely tired. “Why did you do it, Marcia, honey?” he usked.

“Scatterings weren't - enough, Bob.” “I love you.” He smiled, and when he smiled his face was warm and bright, and Marcia felt her heart stir restlessly. She wanted to believe him again, and she mustn't want to. These three words were a sesame he had used many times to many girls, of course! He had said, “I love you and Marcia and half a dozen other girls.” She had put an ocean between them and he could not span it’ with three small words. ” s »

WAS a darned fool, Marcia,” Bob’s low, melodious ' voice pleaded. “Speaking that rot about a job. I don’t blame you a bit, Only you might have warned me. You were within "your rights to walk out when I made a jackass of myself.” « “Let's skip it,” his former fiancee answered. “We might pretend we aren't engaged and it's fun to be together. As for anything else, Bob—I don’t know!” But she wanted to say: “If you want me, prove your love, Bob! Prove it as the knights who gathered golden apples or climbed glass hills to get their princesses!” But this was the twentieth century when men talked of economic pressure and the short duration of both war and ecstacy. Love was sweet and light and brittle. So she

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but her slim hand ‘on Bob's arm

snd said, “I'll. see you at dinner a ” “I won’t rush you, Marcia. -Marry me when you get ready. But please get ready!” His smile was rueful and imploring. “Mind if I stick around, though? You seem to matter a lot.” : He did not mention the confusion that had followed the canceled wedding and Marcia was grateful that he didn’t.

# » » OW, half an hour latér, Marcia

was dressing with unusual care. Her evening frock: was of ‘blue fafs-

feta and large’ ‘white’ flowers: gave |

the impression ‘of :having been blown against it in a madcap wind. The epaulet shoulders and flaring skirt emphasized the slimness of the waist that was girded in dark blue velvet. Her slippers were of the same dark velvet and there was a little silver cape to match the dress. When three orchids arrived without a card, Marcia pinned them oh her shoulder, knowing that Bob had sent them. . : “See here, Marcia Cunningham,” she warned her ‘mirrored reflection. “You can’t go haywire! Maybe the man did miss you—so what? Maybe he hated to face the social. mob again without proving he had bagged his game. Oh, what's the use? He gets under your skin and you know it!” The evening was gay. It was late when they came to Zeni’s, the mecca for Americans who want to laugh and talk and dance the new day in. “There are gigolos and hostesses,”

Count Von Wormstedt explained. |

“The telephone on each table is a curious device. You can call any other table in the room. Ill get Rosita for us.” Rosita was slim and dark with black lacquered hair and red lacquered fingernails. When she danced her bright red skirts made a meny whirl and her silver-clad feet scarcely touched the floor.

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elsewhere, Pierre bent over, and

kissed her on the lips—long, hard, |

unyieldingly. She broke away with a little scream. £1 Nobody heard. The flashlight was doing its stunt and ihe sound was lost. She ran back to the table, her face white and her eves ‘blazing. She was glad that Pierre did not come back to her but she heard him asking for his francs fiom Bob a little later. Pierre left. her alone after that when they went to Zeni’s. Rosita came often to the table. Bob danced with her a few times, and Marcia resented the way that his dark head bent to her dark one. Bob would be chivalrous always. She wanted him to be. He-was quite as attentive,” maybe more: so, to Camilla. That was good. roe WE Ut Marcia did ‘not think often of Rosita and. Pierre.- It was late spring in Paris, a radiant spring with a painted’ blue sky, parks that were:clothed in verdant velvet, trees that hung their leaves, full and heavy, on the scented air. It was spring and there were flowers on the street-corners and music in the air. Together the four: of them joined occasionally by Jimmy, who was Count "Von =~ Wormstedt, went to. the haunts of Paris. . Seven moons slid down the sky. The trees in the Luxemburg Garden turned to an enchanted green. The group went to the Bois and watched the swans float on- the cool, black water. They visited the = shops along the Rue de la Paix. Sitting in the dining room of -the hotel -one night, her. bright hair radiant against the cool .green of her frock, Marcia : missed Phil.

“His chief’s in town and he’s hav-

ing dinner:with him,” Camilla explained.:: “Phil has-a new idea he has worked out.” “It’s strange without him,” she answered. “Not quite complete.” . Bob glanced at her, then glanced

away, but he studied the stem of

a tall goblet. A little sorry, Marcia slipped one hand into his and

he held it in strong fingers. The}:

orchestra was beginning in; -

“Shall we dance?” Bob held out

his arms. The melody was one to which they had danced often on the roofs of Manhattan, at hotels along the ocean and on crowded floors of night clubs where one went after the theater to talk in an atmosphere too noisy to even think, Memories of all these

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tomed to the darkness, Marcia dis‘tinguished faces. There was a profile of ‘a cameo clearnes—dark hair looped over the ears—a bright frock. ‘It was Rosita! The musicians were playing softly so she did not call Bob's atten< tion to. the girl. He would have smiled and let it go, she knew. Becausé she loved him again for that minute—because she did not know if the minute would last for 60 sec-

and. didn’t — she moved a little closer, and Bob put a strong hand around her hands as her lap.

walked to a’ little park, nearby, where the silhouette cf a new church was slim and black in the sky. Paris lay far below... Marcia leaned across a wooden railing, at one side of the park, and saw that steps led to Paris, far: below. =

held out her hand." : “Just” a minute.”

him. “I .promised to let you take

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still lost in the . music, not knowing what her answer would be. Suddenly, a girl’s laughter was very near. £1 : - “‘Slumming in Montmartre? Isn’t it a beautiful, beautiful night? I came: for a breath of fresh air.” Bob turned swiftly and-his brows

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