Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 December 1940 — Page 5

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fay: Yield of U-235 Increased 10%, Purdue Doctor : ert: Science Meeting Told Sun’s Temperature 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. 3 Speaking before the American Physical Society, which ..Jds meeting in affiliation with the physics section of ‘the American Association for the Advancement of Science, he stated that itis theoretically possible for the nucleus of the uraniym- atom to divide into three parts as well as two. Such

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cording to his. calculations, Resources Planning Board

By Science Service Obeilin Gotlege advocated a foderas many to further her own economic | theoretical plan for making an énd neth P. Landon of Earlham College, . 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 racies urgently need a counter-plan| geographically connected, such as| “Whereas the Nazis are going| “If this atttiude should continie,| historians. for bringing order out-of chaos in| Danubian, Balkan, and Baltic fed-(on,” he added, “to establish the|they must be regarded as conserva-| Thai people, who formerly smaller Bations o Supe, if they Sralions der protection of strong| new economic structure with blood | tive, nay, ‘reactionary forces :p-|scorned commercial careers for are to checkmate e azi inten emocratic powers. ; { to enslave a great part of the-con-| The only other prospect for Eu- and iron, with playing off one na-| posed to the Nazi revolution.” | | their sons, are now given the ideal tinent. ~ | rope’s minority problems, economic tionality group against the other, it| Modern Thailand (Siam) is at-|of the business man to admire. If Presenting this crucial problem | worries, and educational future will| is appalling:to see that the leading tempting an economic and sotial|the nationalistic program is suc- | 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. Thal tion' today, Prof. Oscar Jaszi of'economic system imposed by Ger-|gle were ‘unable tp ‘offer even alin thertroubled 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 te 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.

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ing at 180 m. p. h. No one kicked about that, because even though the real| cruising speeds were about 15 saa 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

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experimentally. early in 1940 when minute samples of U-235 were isolated. Such fission, it has been found, can be instigated either by bombardment with slow neutrons (which are atomic fragments without electrical charge) or by gamma rays. When fission occurs, energy is re‘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. The: energy. given off might be utilized: as a ‘source of power, so that U-235- would be millions of times more; effective than coal.

Sun’ s Temperature

The temperature in the heart of the sun ig 25,700,000 degrees Centigrade. (slightly less than 50 million degrees in the Fahrenheit scale), ac-

Member Says Disunion Could Hamper Army.

CHICAGO, Dec. 27 (U. P.)— Imagine a blitzkrieg smashing at vital power plants in the Tennessee Vailey. The U. S. Army immediately rushes truckloads of reserves from Chicago, and the state of Kentucky refuses to let the trucks pass because they are oversized— or Kentucky violates its own laws. Ridiculous? Not at all, John H. Cover, member of the National Resources Planning Board, told the 36th annual meeting of the American Political Science Association’ today. The situation, he said, would be similar to one that occurred not long ago, a result of “trade barriers” states have set up in discriminating against each other's products. ; “Such disunion of our states,” he| said, “may prove to be the bottle-

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things they tell other men they do,

‘land the unearned increment always

applied by writers of advertising copy. Landing speed is another welsh-

rarebit soiree of mad slide-ruling:| Low landing speeds are really desirable. tiful. the telling.

So they tell us they are plenBut airspeed indicators belie

And| About Horsepower Horsepower. Mystic word. A whole

bag of iron and aluminum whirling around within itself and making considerable racket becomes “talking horsepower.” muscles and belching forth its noisy

challenge, engine somehow gets into the category reserved for engines that will be built some day and delivering 1200 horsepower.

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cording 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.

Standing Still

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,

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Cover said, the 10,000 inhabitants of Old Hickory, Tenn. were left without light, water, and health and fire protection when lightning disabled A motor carrier ‘with a transformer was dispatched from Chicago, and the driver was provided with a letter explaining the emergency na-

“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

get it — without burning up your engine. And now for military planes. If we ever get the planes built that we claim go 400 and 500 miles an hour, pilots will be running out of atmosphere and explaining that they flew around the world by a short cut from Chicago to New York. There may be an excuse for exaggeration in this field, however, since more than you got is always a good theme

isong if you want to scare an enemy. The Chinese used firecrackers and noise to scare off an enemy,

" That Was-Downbhill r On the level, straightaway flight|

we simply can’t check up on the 400, 500 and 600-mile-an-hour warplanes we are going to build (no

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permitted completion of the errand one says. anything yet about flying of mercy 24 hours later.” 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 esti- | mating the rest. That's where we got our first paper airplane that was jclaimed 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 to make a rule that a mile is still 5280 feet, that a gallon of gas is still four quarts, and that miles per hour

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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 gle- + Vice, two flat faces were ground on § the pall. “Then it was spun to more 4 than 100,000 revolutions per second ! without bursting. An important use of rapid rota- § tion is in the possible separation i from ordinary uranium of the power-producing U-235. The dif- | ferent forms of the elements, or isotopes, can be separated with a spinning device called an ultra-centri- # fuge, which works fundamentally like the cream separators used on farms. ” By incorporating a small amount ‘of a chemical containing | uranium, which gives off rays like | + those of radium, into the ename] , coated on metal objects, it is pos- | . sible to. get a very accurate measure of the thickness. of the finished . NOTED ACTOR DEAD coating. E. P. Miller and A. V.| BALOGNA, Italy, Dec. 27 (U. P). . Cohee. of Purdue University, told —Riccardo Caimmi, actor, who had the physicists of a new method they toured the principal stages of the - had worked out, one which may world with the late Eleanora Duse, have valuable applications in in- died yesterday. He was 70. While "dustry, since the coatings may ‘be in the United States with Duse, measured before they are baked or Caimmi left the stage to open an | dried, to the same accuracy as with | elocution school, which he conducta micrometer gage. ed for some years.

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PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 27 (U. P.).—Popcorn popped in an ultrascientific 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. What 5 more, the corn will be poppe 5 | right inside the sacks in which it [Must be miles per hour. | will be delivered to the scientists. The beams of an infra-red lamp, which imitates the sun in its

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By Science Service PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 27. Americ ca’s venerated site of Jamestown, Va., heretofore belonging to his- | torians fo 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 {cans a tower stood to show Ameri-

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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 railroad freight 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” another train there which returned him to Moundsville.

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