Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 December 1940 — Page 21

MILLION-VOLT XRAY QUTR 1S DEDICATED

Unit Industry’s Largest; Shown by G. E. on Its Research Birthday.

By Science Service SCHENECTADY, N. Y., Dec. 18— Taking a picture through four inches of steel in less than two minutes, a job formerly requiring ‘an hour exposure, is possible with the new million-volt X-ray outfit in

the General Electric Research Lab-

pratory. - This equipment made its debut before a group of scientists, journalists and industrialists who came to help celebrate the completion of 40 . years of General Electric research. Although three similar millionvolt X-ray units are in use in hos-

pitals; this is the largest to have an|

industrial application. Just as the physician or surgeon is able by X-rays to look inside the body of his patient, so engineers can look into the casting from which, for example, a -huge turbine will be made. Defects which might cause failure of the machine, possibly with fatal results, are detected before there is trouble.

Has ‘Own’ Home The giant unit is housed in a special building. Unique construction features are employed to make it the safest possible building for the operation of high-voltage X-ray equipment. For example, the walls of the structure are of. solid concrete, 14 inches thick, plus 12 inches of brick on the interior, making a total thickness of nearly three feet or the equivalent of approximately four inches of lead. At one: end of the building—a structure 100 feet long by 35 feet wide— is a door built of solid concrete 18 inches thick encased in one-inch steel plating. The door is opened and closed with a motor hoist and it effectually bars stray rays from th- outside world.

Operates on Crane In the roof is a hatchway 15 feet by 13 feet through which can be lowered, from a 30-ton outside gantry crane, castings of practically any present design of commercial turbines. The X-ray equipment, tube and all the necessary operating devices, is contained in a large cylindrical tank. It is suspended from the rails of a crane which travels the length of the building and rests in a specially designed chain cradle. It may be moved horizontally or vertically and also rotated so as to place it in the best possible position to make the X-ray exposure. When the tube is in operation, all persons connected with the work leave the room. The operation is through remote control behind the 36-inch concrete wall. A periscope at the controlling switchboard enables the operator to make visual inspection of the job as it progresses. ;

BEAR TOO BRAZEN

BURLINGTO N, Me.,Dec. 18 (U.P). —Jack Williams didn’t mind when a bear ate two blueberry pies but he became annoyed when it attempted to get into bed with him. Williams turned on lights and the

DEC. 18, 1940

bear fled. ;

Starlet Elopes

my Mary Healy . . . her honeymoon 2 delayed.

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 18 (U. P.). —Mary Healy, 22-year-old movie starlet, reported back for work today after her elopement to Yuma, Ariz, with Peter Lind Hayes, actor and entertainer. Pressure of work at the studio sets forced the couple to delay a honeymoon.

MURRAY GIVES REPLY OF C. 1. 0,

Denies fo Roosevelt That Labor Is to Blame for

Lag in Defense.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (U. PJ). —President Philip Murray of the Congress of Industrial .Organizations today presents ~~ President Roosevelt the C. I. O.s reply to charges by “irresponsible legislators” that labor is to blame for the lag in the defense program. The reply will contain plans for “greater labor participation” in the defense program and criticism of industry for its “failure to co-oper-ate,” Mr. Murray said. C. I.-O. vice presidents meeting her e authorized the action yesterday. The report also will be presented to members of the Cabinet and to the National Defense Advisory Commission. Mr. Murray contended that out of 10,000 plants capable of producing defense materials, government contracts have gone to only 30 per cent of the larger companies. “This unwarranted, unjustified and disproportional dislocation,” Mr. Murray said yesterday, “has created the bottlenecks in industry resulting in the lag in production.” : He denied that organized labor had impeded’ the defense program, contending that it has aided it by stabilizing industry through collective bargaining agreements. «gtrikes,” he said, “are not acts of God but are due to the failure of industry to meet labor as an equal. There is ‘ample room for greater labor participation in the defense program and labor is eager and wiiling to co-operate.”

RATION RULE RELAXED

BERLIN, Dec. 18 (U. P.)—The Ministry of Agriculture yesterday announced relaxation of food regulations to enable Germans to eat meat on Christmas and New Year eves. which otherwise would have been meatless days.

~% AYRES’ CAR

ICKES THRUSTS AT APPEASERS

| There Are Too Many Poten-

tial Lavals in This Country, He Declares.

NEW YORK, Dec. 18 (U, P.). — Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes . charged last night that a «group of appeasers in the making” were ready to come to terms with Hitler “to gain immunity for themselves and protection for their fortunes.” : He said they were isolationists, Nazi sympathizers, “soft sentimentalists,” and profit-seeking businessmen whose activities were as harmful as “the attack on the United States by foreign powers that is now going on and has been going on for a long time.” Ickes spoke before 1000 members of the Columbia Institute of Arts and Sciences.

‘They Are Native Born’

“Moreover, they are difficult to deal with , . .” he continued. “They are native born—often of old lineage; they have wealth and position and many bear honored names; they confuse the sincere patriot by a caustic expostulation of their devotion to American institutions; their subtle arguments and their pretended willingness to sacrifice themselves for the common good are, calculated to bring about divided councilis until the harm they do is irreparable. ; ! “The damage that an adroit and determined appeaser may do to America may be determined from the damage done to France by Laval. I say with sadness that there are all too many potential Lavals in this country.”

Scores Lindbergh

He described Col. Charles A. Lindbergh as a “perpipatetic appeaser who would abjectly surrender his sword even before it is demanded.” Ickes said the fifth column was divided into four classes: Native Fascist groups and individuals, the German-American Bund, 200,000 Italian Fascists and Communists and Fellow Travelers. Father Coughlin, Lindbergh, Merwin K. Hart, president of the New York State Economic Council, and Charles Dennis, author, are “native Fascists,” he said. :

ALIMONY DEMAND OF MRS. LOWE STUDIED

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 18 (U. P.).— Superior Judge Walter S. Gates today studied the finances of actor Edmund Lowe fo determine if his

estranged wife, Rita Kaufman Lowe, is justified in asking $2000 a month alimony. Mrs. Lowe, a fashion designer, told Judge Gates that she had given up $1400 a month alimony from a former husband, producer Albert Kaufman, to marry Mr. Lowe. She said she needs $2000 to maintain the family mansion in Beverly Hills. An audit disclosed that the actor had earned more than $1,000,000 since his marriage, in April, 1936, and has an estimated net rating of $400,000.

OLLERS Will Sing

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Judge Agrees, ~ Frees Driver

SPOKANE, Wash, Dec. 18 | (U. P).—Because the judge had

experienced similar trouble, John Green, 18, escaped conviction in police court. He appeared to answer charges

.of speeding and failing to stop at an arterial highway.

Green said he thought his father’s car had developed serious trouble an was running to a garage to save his father a tow bill.

“That same thing happened to

me,” said Judge Frank Yuse. “I drove from Pasco to Walla Walla not knowing what was wrong. Not guilty on both charges.”

LOVELY FOR

RUMANIA LINITS EXPORTS OF FOOD

UCHAREST, Ri Dec. 18 (U. P.).—Gen. Ion Antonescu, Premier, prohibited the export of 20 important food products today. The newspaper Curuntul said today that the cost of living has risen so rapidly the Government! faced a serious problem. } : The newspaper Universul said that

not an egg could be found for sale}

in the Lucharest market yesterday. Today’s embargo includes flour made from any cereal, any form of sugar, honey, potatoes, onions and all other vegetables, olives, rice, tea, chocolate, pepper nuts ‘and distilled alcohol.

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