Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 March 1947 — Page 3
for «e 18¢ set
for ++2.00 set
ash weave Joo 1.98 set
AY AND +s. 15¢ sot
d-embroid-ve.25¢ 0a.
veo 19¢ 0a. ++.50¢ fa.
«+ 1.00 ea. ve 9.75 sot
cloth and +. 2.50 set
ored stripe ++.50c ea.
Jf price; +395 pr.
ally ..625 ea.
«+345 set
Originally voaale yd
Originally «oo 19¢ yd.
. Originally cee4.25,00
Originally reer2:5.95
OMESPUN +. 4.95 pr.
Originally ceses+5.95
D COVER. tees+.598
DE SOFA cess. 1695
ADE SLIP sess. 15.95
y 1.25.75¢
nally reves + 256
LEY. Oria-
. Originally reseased9e
RS, extends 0 Seen +35¢
riginally cesses 59
Originally vereens98e
. Originally teesses98e
5.98..2.98 398..1.98
CURTAIN. creed TS
y 3.45.1.95
y 395.249
O iled. Origseeseasl9ec
, Originally. teers 1.49
. Originally ooo 149 ea.
. Originally veveve 980
. Originally tesssecl9e
JAR. OrigrE 1.39
iginally resene 39
95....9.98 5.....3.95 vee. 10.00 1++3.95 pr.
Originally and 3.95 pr.
@ CT RES T¥ Tr , i ys am , ' N $ . : ~ LT ia __
: THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1017 ha RL LE CS vie isso Crs ; Mars Invasion 7 UAT Not a Dream, Officer’ Says
Would Be Useful To Any Power
By Science Service WASHINGTON, March 27-An invasion of Mars, rather than the invasion from Mars of Wellsian fantasy, is seen as a sober and not necessarily very distant possibility by James R: Randolph, reserve officer of the army ordnance corps. He sets forth his views in the new issue of the technical journal, Army prdnance. published here. He be- | Jeves that an outpost on the-planet | dedicated by the Romans to the warrior god might be useful to any power able to gain a foothold there. This would be by means of a rocket- | borne invasion in the event of a third world war. | The giant rockets necessary to carry men, munitions and supplies on a voyage of interplanetary invasion would not be built in single- | stage units, as Maj. Randolph en- | visions them, They would be built in detachable sections. Each would be dropped oft as its supply of fuel and oxygen became exhausted and its usefulness came at an end.
Problems to Solve
Formidable problems remain to be solved. One is in lightening the deadweight parts of a space rocket. | The other would be in providing | some -substance capable of with-| standing the immense heat of igni- | tion, before such a rogketecould be launched. However, Maj. Randolph has at least calculated the orders of magni- | tude of the engineering achieve- l ments necessary. And he has tossed | them out for a challenge to |
+
STRAUSS * SAYS:
UP HERE — in this space — we ‘merely wish to point out — that Dobbs honored through decades as America’s topmost hat— is for 1947— Yicher — feltiey finer — than you have known for years. A new perience awaits you — even in the fleld of VALUE! Dobbs Hat .are 7.50 — $10 — 12.50 and up. First Floor. on
ordnance men, Maj. Randolph assumes that | human life could be sustained on | Mars—and even that the Planet! could be colonized. Admittedly, it would be rather chilly. | Temperatures over 70 degrees Falirenheit are rare. Temperatures | below freezing appear to be normal |
at night, even on the equator. |
Colonists Might Multiply | In such a country, colonists from. | the earth might multiply, he thinks. They eventually would be able to, send rocket ships back to earth, | There is one consoling thought: Due to- the smaller mass of Mars| and its consquent smaller .gravita- | tional pull, the Mars-to-earth rocket would not need to be as big as the | earth-to-Mars craft. : Many astronomers do not take quite as optimistic a view of the possibility of life on our possible “colonial” planet. For example, Dr. Fred L. Whipple, of Harvard college | observatory, has this to say, at the | conclusion of his chapter on Mars: | “The reader may form his own | opinion. If he believes that... in- | telligent beings may have once de- | veloped on Mars, he has only to| imagine that they persisted for | countless generations in a rare at-| mosphere which is nearly devoid of | oxygen and water, and on a planet | where the nights are much colder than our arctic winters.” | Perhaps the veterans of Adm. | Byrd's expeditions might be the log- | ical candidates for the first colonizing trip to Mars. i
Find Abnormalities In A-Bomb Victims
By WILLIAM F. MeMENAMIN United Press Staff Correspondent { WASHINGTON, March 27.—Mem- | bers of the atomic bomb casualty | commission said today it may take | many years to determine the full extent of abnormalities among descendants of Japanese Who were | exposed to the atom bombings of | Hiroshima and Nagasaki. | He said there was some reason to expect malignancies of “one form or another,” including cancer among some Of the direct victims. But they scoffed at reports that atom bombs might cause entire races to decline. Members of the casualty commis- | sion met with reporters here to tell | of thelr recent study of bomb vic- | tims in the two Japanese cities. Have Some Evidence
Dr. Austin M. Brues of Argonne National Laboratories, Chicago and Dr. Paul S.-Henshaw of the Clinton laboratory at Oak Ridge, Tenn, sald there already was some evidence of abnormalities among children of the victims. Japanese midwives reported these abnormalities largely among stillborn children. The scientists said mbst of the malformed infants probably would be stillborn. But they cautioned that there ‘was not enough conelusive scientific evidence to lead to any definite conclusion. The fact that radiation | affects sex cells had been estab- | lished previously. Change .of Structure The scientists pointed out that | it may take generations for reces-! sive traits of mutation to show up in the descendants of atom bomb victims. A mutation is a change in the fundamental structure of bodily | parts. . They sald mutations that had | occurred already might not be re«| garded as too surprising when the | full evidence is in. |
Butter 25¢ a Pound— | But Long Ago | MILFORD, Del., March 27 (U. P,). | —Milford residents who examined a pre-civil war ledger of the Wm. Hill| & Co. general store, on display here, sighed with envy. | They noted butter at 25 cents a pound and chickens two for a quarter. Whisky was 50 cents. a’ gallon! “i Other prices quoted” were propor- | ‘tionately low. Coffee went at 13%" cents, muslin 10 cents a ‘yard, shoes $1.34 a pair and ham at 13% cents| a pound. ; Te :
{
L