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Scientists Follow The Cosmic Ray

EFFECT OF TOO MUCH HOMEWORK Building

ON SCHOOL-CHILDREN

Pasadena, Calif., July 20. The trail of the mysterious Cosmic ray, sub-atomic bullets: that pepper the earth and its inhabitants from some unknown' source' in the outer reaches space, has turned toward Panama examination classes have to spend up to 5 hours a night in study and their banks weighed from 15 to 18 lbs. Their working fours. In many instances, and the equatorial belt.

As the result of an enquiry among parents carried out by Dr. Martin. well known Sydney paychologist, the following facts were discovered; Girls between the ages of it and 14 studying for the Intermediate examination were required to do two and a half hours of work each nicht

of

and to carry books weighing from 9 to 12 lbs.

Those in the leaving

Che painted at to Austral News, totalled more than those of Geir fathers

Two young scientists-ray and elder brothers. hunters" for Dr. Robert A.

Millikan of the. California' In-

stitute of Technology-headed Doctors Say- southward with five tons of baggage, consisting chiefly of ponderous magnetic equipment in which to trap the little- -known sub-atomic particles.

TWENTIETH-CENTURY

DISEASES WILL DIE

a hundred

Dr. 31ikas announced the Intest expedition in search of the origin of

Chicago, Aug. 1. scarcely one person lu the billion-volt particles, which rain

Diseases die too, as well as escaped, swept over England in the down upon the earth's surface with charges 10,000 times greater than any previously known rays, in a talk betheir victims, and the day may reign of Henry VII Within 22 days "t come when man no longer will in 1529, 1,100 Inhabiįlans of Hanburg Institute tore

American

It is no linger known. the

plagued by tuberculosis, died of it. Elertient Engineree in sesion here.be

The Jourmi mentioned other diphtherin, typhoid and syphillis, 50,000 PHOTOGRAPHS

the Jer of the American! disewa now unknown, atdng them the Petechial fever of Italy and thes Med enl Association reports.

Tarantism of the Middle Ages, "b -- 1

Luxury Liners:

*No Fuss

ERMANY is quietly preparing to make a "come-back" in

the North Atlantic.

It is said that two linery. modelled on Britain's "Grand Old Lady," the Mauretania, are being built in a German yard.

They are designed to have an aver age speed of 33 knols, with reserve power to bring them up to 35 knots.

The two new ships are likely to make their appearance without fuss or ceremony, though it is he- Hoved. that they will present a days serlous threat to the four three hours fourteen minutes re- cord of the Normandie and to thr hopes of the Queen Mary,"

Meanwhile, the Queen Mary is

· The purpose of experiments on the equator, in which approximately 50,1 000 photographs of cosmic rays will,

For imists, the Journal hat through a sprelat device devetog by Dr. Millian and De points out that new disensesleyed by many to result from the about to be overhauled.

tate of a sides.“

A number of engineers from the Clydebank yard of John Brown hyd, [Co, Luh, the Quren Mary's builder", will arrive at Southampton at th

Carl D. And on, will be to determine doubtless will arise to replneni

in tarantiens the patient was seized the effect of th. blanket of magnetic them but recognition bý modern resistance and the earth in the science that now ills may have with."great diffeully of breathing, a region of it present intensify. a "life pan and gem be debears anguish of heart, a prerit of next week to take prosessors Last run the camrsome in-tected and guard a mainst in sadness, lifs veice is sorrowful and of this Jener after she has arrived

strument, which is merely a vape the beginning of their evolution : tube set within a powerfig! jongmetic field energized by portable genera may save future generations.

was Bauled up Pike's peak for Strange high altitude photographs, pictures were developed, one showing a shower of atomic particles blasted out of the parleus of an niom which measured by the head in the paths, were estimated carrying a charge of 20,000,000,0mm electronic valt,

POWERFUL RAYS Dr. Mallikun explained that this figure

with 2,600,000 compares electronic volts mensured in Gamma rays, of radium, the most powerful |

IN

querulous, his eyes disturbed.”

back from her third voyage, for a aine days overhaul and dry docking. The Journal cited the decline of Bubonic plague, leprosy, chlorosis,, Whga the necessary adjustmenis and ergotium in more recent times, have been math is expected dat Leprosy will probably never again the Queen Mary will be in a positiers to achieve the past. It said, and orgolium is almost; pverage site reached in her trials, terrify the world as it has it the to go all out zzz extint. Dut bubonic plague, the known only to half a dozen peuple. it develop the proportions of a young meine warned, "may yet show but generally believed to las in the adult and abundant vigour, Finally suficient life is invade civilized cum- neighbourhood of 33 knots. after varying periods of strength, tmunities once more in epidemie pro-

"The life history of a dirense often like that of a human being the Journal said. "Its weak or lusty infancy is at first greeted with mild speculation. As it gradually grows

cal age and dechu of a these my begin to ever, In some instances it finally disappears,"

SWEATING SICKNESS

portions,"

LESS FREQUENT

"In relatively recent years," the Journal continued, "there has been

Thus, the Journal recalled, the so- definite evidence of a decline to fre-j rays previously measured and appui, called sweating sickness, from which quency of a large group of other

૧૪!! | electronic mately 200,000 measured in the ordinary x-ray.

-diseases. Typhoid, tuberculosis, diphtheria and probably syphilis are frequent ог less generally between virtient than some one or two hun

Geldred years ago.

The tremendously powerful cosmic the curve of the band can be measured, less ray, "discovered" about five years ago, representing the resultant have tent selener on its most tan- the direction of the magnetic talising search since Young developed and the directing of the ray. the now out-moded "wave theory" off light 100 years nga.

By measuring

bend, the

the

"Part of this change must be assigned to sanitary measures and im- electronic voltage of the ray can be proved treatment, but part, especially for syphilis and probably diphtheriä, In the case of the single may be due to increased race realst- "We speculated about cosmic says, determined. and I was one of the worst specula-20,000,000,000 volt ras, a star fance and natural decline of virulence,

which might be expected tors," Dr. Millikan told the electrical more than 100 particles were blasted! engineering group. "We found we out of the nucleus, ranging from centuries" could not resolve the problem until 60,000,000 to 1,500,000,000 electronic we could measure the power of the volts in each particle. rays,

"RAY TRAP"

Dr. Anderson's "ray trap" is the answer. Dr. Millikan explained they had hoped to develop a magnet that would measure up to 1,000,000,000 electronic volts."

She Gave

Aviation

The Air

-FOR MATRIMONY

San Francisco, July 31, Katherine May, the first girl to fly a million miles as a worker after in

onc of women's most modern professions-an airliner New diseases mankind must fear stewardess-has placed her chic fura Psittacosis Rularcinia, or "Rabbit fever" and and opened her hope_chest to or "Parrot fever, uniform among her souvenirs Spiracliotal-jaundice...

take out the apron which will be the uniform of her new career- that of housewife.

Dr. Millikan said the Pike's Penk experiments showed rays, including rare "Cosmic ray showers," are for

"It is yet impossible," the Journal more powerful than at sea levels. These results will be compared with concluded, "to say whether these and photographs taken by Dr. Anderson like diseases will die in infancy or and Dr. Seth H. Neddermeyer, his attain full growth with wide invasion.

She formally deserted the By photographing the path of the assistant, at Panama, where the It is perhaps possible to say that, of

magnet and an

vapour tube will

be these, spirachetal jaundice is the most airways for the kitchen in an- atomic particle, lasted out of

to become widespread."-- atomic ulcus as the cosmic ray mounted at the U. S. Naval sub-likely

United Press. shoot.. through the vapour chamber, marine base-- United Press.

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nouncing her forthcoming mar- riage to Ted Johnson of Salt Lake City, Utah, airline dis- patcher who sent her ship into the sky numberless times.

"I know I'm going to miss my work, although it did become just riding" around," she said.

MODERN JOB

Petite, pink-cheeked Katherine,' to whom soaring between Salt Lake City and San Francisco several times a week since 130 became monoton- ous, had refused to abandon the air lines until she achieved one ambition,

"I met Text three years ago," she explained, and we finally decided to get married last January but 'I was 20 near to the million mile mark. that I couldn't bear to, quit Aying until I had passed H. I have kept a log book of my mileage since the first flight six year ago."

Miss May is the last of the original class of stewardesses to "graduate" from the work of feeding, soothing and generally · "mothering" airline passengers.

The profession was originated by Unlled Airlines In 1930. Eight regis- tered nurses were selected and assign- ed as crew members. The experi- ment proved no successful that the Job is standard on all major airlines and more than 5,000 girls have made. application for the few vacancies.

JUST LIKE THE FOLLIES

"I guess the stewardesses are just like Follies girls," one pilot sadly re- marked as he watched Miss May step Into a waiting cab, to be whiskeel from the airport.

"They're so damned benullful and they always get married and wo never see them again.”

Miss May was born near Birden, Illinois.

"I first wanted to fly, when I saw an old wartime plane ging over our farm," she said, "But there wasn't B placa In commercial uvla- tion for a girl when I started to work, So I turned to nursing and got my certificate. It proved to be the enter- ing wedge into the carder I wanted so much."Untled Press.

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