Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 December 1940 — Page 4

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By Science Service 1 Oberlin coleges advocated a federa-] many to further her own economic|theoretical plan for making an ind neth P. Landon of Earlham Collogs. NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—Democ-| tion of smaller units culturally and| goals, he pointed out.. to the Central European chaos. | |Richmond, Ind, reported to the races urgently need a counter-plan| geographically connected, such as| “Whereas the Nazis are going| “If this atttiude should continue, historians. for bringing. order out of chaos in| panubian, Balkan, and Baltic fed~ on,” he added, “to establish the|they must be regarded as conserva-| Thai people, who formerly smaller nations of Europe, if they, erations under protection of strong new economic structure with blood |tive, nay, ‘reactionary forces p-|scorned commercial careers for are to checkmate the Nazi intent| democratic powers. and iron, with playing off one na-| posed to the Nazi revolution.” | [their sons, are now given the ideal

1 t part of t - he spect for Eu18 gusiave 4 grest pert of sheep ropes miners praleme. economis| tionality group against the other, it| Modern ‘Thailand (Siam) is ‘at: of the business man to admire. 16 the nationalistic program is suc-

Presenting this crucial problem | worries, and educational future will| is appalling to see that the leading |tempting an economic and so:ial to- the American Historical Associa-|{be to become part of a planned|democracies in their death strug-| revolution to strengthen its position cessful, said Dr. Landon, the Thai tion' today, Prof. Oscar Jaszi of'economic system imposed by Ger-|gle were ‘unable to ‘offer even alin the troubled Far East, Dr. Ken- will become a business people.

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Those Great Rates Were Made ‘Downhill,’ Williams Adds.

By MAJ. AL WILLIAMS Times Aviation Editor Unaccustomed as I am to consider a mile shorter than 5280 feet, I am at a loss to account for the horsepower claimed for American aircraft engines and the speeds claimed for | airplanes. We were talking of cruising at 200 miles an hour before we could make 200 miles an hour wide open —full power. Slowly the speed ‘claims dropped down toestimates of ‘cruising at 180 m. p. h. No one kicked about that, because . even though the real cruising speeds | wers shou 15 sips miles an hour Ma). Williams, slower, we sort of settled for near truths. We can readily understand the gap existing between the things men do and the things they tell other men they do, and- the unearned increment always applied /by writers of advertising copy. Landing speed is another welshrarebit soiree of mad slide-ruling. || Low landing speeds are really desirable. So they tell us they are plentiful, But airspeed indicators belie the telling.

And About Horsepower Horsepower. Mystic word. A whole bag of iron and aluminum whirling around within itself and making

Is 27,000,000 Degrees.

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 27.—Possibly that the energy ‘yield from U-235, a form of uranium that may some day ‘be useful as a source of atomic power, may be greater than hitherto supposed, was suggested here yesterday by Dr. R. D. Present, of Purdue University. : Speaking: before the American Physical Society, which is meeting in - affiliation with the physics section of the| American Association for the Advancement of Science, he -stated that it is theoretically possible for the nucleus of -the uraniym atom to divide into three parts as: well as two. Such

yr eon wes STATE BARRIERS DEFENSE WORRY

cording to his ‘calculations, ‘than splitting into two parts, Resources Planning Board “Member Says Disunion

or binary fission. It ig the binary fission that has Could Hamper Army. CHICAGO, Dec. 27 (U. P).—

held the. spotlight in most of the recent discussions of atomic. power. It was forecast in 1939, and verified Imagine a blitzkrieg smashing at vital power plants in the Tennessee Valley. The U. S. Army imme-

experimentally early in 1940 when minute samples of U-235 were isodiately rushes truckloads of reserves from Chicago, and the state of

lated. Such fission, it has been found, can be instigated either by Kentucky refuses to let the trucks pass because they are oversized—

bombardment with slow neutrons (which are atomic fragments withor Kentucky violates its own laws. Ridiculous? Not at all, John H.

out electrical charge) or by gamma Cover, member of the National Re-

‘rays. When fission occurs, energy is reI I fe he considerable racket becomes “talking

leased, and - more neutrons are emitted. ‘Thus, it is believed, a chain reaction could be started, ‘since: these neutrons would cause fission of additional atom nuclei. I pen DT Tae i» on ican Political Science Association: horsepower.” Feeling its own U-235: would be millions of times] today. The situation, he said, muscles.and belching forth its noisy more. effec Ive than coal. would be similar to one that oc-|challenge, a thousand-horsepower curred not long ago, a result of engine somehow gets into the cate“trade barriers” states have set up|gory reserved for engines that will in discriminating against eachjbe built some day and delivering other’s products. 1200 horsepower. “Such disunion of our states,” he|" And low consumption of fuel per said, “may prove to be the bottle- hour at given horsepower? Try to neck of defense preparation.” get it — without burning up your In the actual example, Cover engine. said, the 10,000 inhabitants of Old| And now for military planes. If Hickory, Tenn. were left without|We ever get the planes built that we light, water, and health and fire|claim go 400 and 500 miles an hour, protection when lightning disabled [Pilots Will be running out of atmosthe municipal power plant. A phere and explaining that they flew motor carrier ‘with a transformer Srouny ihe world by a short cut was dispatched from Chicago, and |Fom Chicago to New York. There

. : . _|may be an excuse for exaggeration the driver was provided with a let in this field, however, since more

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Sun's Temperature

The temperature in the heart of the sun is 25,700,000 degrees Centigrade (slightly less than 50 million degrees in the Fahrenheit scale), according to new calculations presented tothe meeting by a four-man research ‘team. The density in the solar core is calculated to_be about four pounds to the cubic inch, which is 10 times the value’ for Tead.

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4 from ordinary uranium of

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coating. . Cohee. of Purdue University, told |

had worked out, have valuable applications in in-| "dustry, since the coatings may be |

The propeller of a pursuit airplane, spinning at 2500 revolutions per minute, is practically standing still compared with a tiny steel ball used in experiments described by L. E. MacHattie of the University of Virginia. He told the meeting that by magnetically suspending a steel ball 3-32 inch in diameter in a vacuum, so that friction was nearly eliminated, he was able to spin it 110,000 times per second, about 2600 times as rapidly as the. propeller.In some researches, a rapidly rotating mirror is needed. To test the feasibility of such a use of the device, two flat faces were ground on the hall. “Then it was spun to more

An important use of rapid rotation is in the possible separation the

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ter explaining the emergency nature of the trip.

“Kentucky border officials refused | transit,” Mr. Cover said,

“because the carrier was 12 inches longer than the state law permitted. An urgent telegram from the Governor of Tennessee did not disturb the equanimity of the sovereign state of Kentucky. But $100, telegraphed from Tennessee, paid the fine and permitted completion of the errand of mercy 24 hours later.”

Science Now Pops Popcorn in Sack

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 27 (U. P.).—Popcorn popped in an ultra-

scientific way will be provided :

delegates to the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, opening here tonight. The popcorn will be made with invisible infra-red rays. more, the corn will be popped right fhside the sacks in which it will be delivered to the scientists. The beams of an “infra-red lamp, which imitates the sun in its ability to project radiant heat through space, are directed at it.

NOTED ACTOR DEAD

BALOGNA, Italy, Dec. 27 (U. P). —Riccardo Caimmi, actor, who had toured the principal stages of the world with the late Eleanoras Duse, died yesterday. He was 70. While lin the -United States with Duse, !Caimmi left the stage to open an elocution school, which he conduct-

ed for some years.

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we simply can’t check up on the

400, 500 and 600-mile-an-hour war-

planes we are going to build (no

one says: anything yet about flying

them). But for fear of being caught

redhanded with. the supercharged slide rules, the boys took to running the warplanes downhill, reading the airspeed indicators as long as the hand pointed at numbers, and estimating the rest. That's where we sot our first paper airplane that was claimed to be good for 575 miles an hout. : Adjectives, and this applies also to numbers that don’t mean what they say, have taken the places of these yardsticks. I, therefore, plead with the Federal Trade Commission t0 make a rule that a mile is still

What i§715280 feet, that a gallon of gas is still

four quarts, and that miles per hour must be _miles per hour.

SECRETS OF FIRST COLONY ARE BARED

By Science Service PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 27.—America’s venerated site of Jamestown, Va., ‘heretofore belonging to historians to explain, has been taken: over by archeologists, and the result is a unique. piece of scientific research, the American Anthropological Association was told at its opening. session here today.

Where once only the ruined brick church tower stood to show Ameri|cans a glimpse of the first permanent English settlement in the United States, now remains of about, 18 major buildings have been brought to light by excavation, J. C. Harrington, National Park Service archeologist, reported. ; Quantities of clay pipes, glass bottles, kitchen and dining ware and other actual objects used by men, women, and children in old James"town — including doubtless some handled by Capt. John Smith, himself—are accumulating from the careful digging. These show what archeologists call the “degree of cultural Affamment of the period.”

HOPS WRONG TRAIN, FUGITIVE NABBED

MOUNDSVILLE, W. Va., Dec. 27 (U. P.).—Henry McDaniel, 25, who escaped from a prison farm here Dec. 19, was back in the. toils of the law today because he wasn’t familiar with raiiroad routing. McDaniel, suffering frozen feet, was found in a hospital and was removed to the infirmary of the prison, where he was serving a one-to-10-year sentence for breaking and entering. He said he had ridden a freight train to Cumberland, Md. following his escape. Inadvertently, he said, he “hopped” there which returned him to Moundsville.

. DESTROYER LOST LONDON, Dec. 27 (U, P.).—The Admiralty reported last night the loss of the destroyer Acheron, ‘built in 1937 and carrying a normal complement of 138 officers and men.

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