Evening Star Newspaper, December 28, 1924, Page 10

FHINELANOER BRDE GETSSABALIMONY Counsel Fees of $3,000 Also Pending Trial of Annul- ment Suit. Dispaich to The Star. YORK, December st bioed in the annulment suit of Leonard Kip Rhinelander against Alice Jones Rhinelander, on charges of alleged fraud, as drawn by the latter today when Supreme Court Justicew Tomp- kins in Nyack. Y., granted Mr Rhinelander $300 monthly alimony and | £3,000 counsel fees pendins trial of the action. The Rh old order, which now allows Mrs. | lander funds to make a search of birth records abroad to establish her father's race, was mailed to the clerk of the court in White Plains, where it will arrive Monday. Will Finance Inquiry. Although considerably less than the sums asked for by counsel at the open- ing trial skirmishes, the award is re- garded as sufficient for the carrying on of the investigation in England and the West T into the parentage of the bride’s father. who knows of his own father only that he ative of one of the British colonies. In the petition submitted I, Swinburne, attorney for lander, $1,000 monthly alimony and £10. 000 connsel fees was asked. But du ing argument on the petition Friday Mr. Swinburne reduced this sum to $350 to 5400 % month for his client and to from £4,000 to $5.000 for counsel f amount he thought would be * Leon acobs, Rhinelander's counsel, placed what he called a fair figure at $200 monthly and $2,000 for counsel by Samuel Mrs. Rhine- Might Be Increased. Tompkins' ward was therefore in the nature of a compro- mise, but left the road open to fur- ther possible payments when the court said, allow $£300 month ali- mony and § 00 counsel fees pending trial of the action with leave to the defendant to move for additional counsel fees if there are any unusual disbursements.” The justice’s decision was brief be- fore the announcement of alimony award, merely tating that: “The Statement of the defendant in her affidavit that ter the commence- ment of the annulment action she received a letter from the plaintiff telling her to hire a competent ad- to contest the action is not de- ed in the plaintiff’s afidavit.” 256.302 IN MARYLAND SCHOOLS LAST YEAR Counties Near Washington Shown Crowded for Room in Super- + intendent’s Report. Special Dispatch to The BALTIMOR December 27, ment in tl publie secondary schools i the vear ended June, 1 w 36.302, rding to Albert Cook, {uperintendent of schools. Of number, the counties enrolled and Baltimore City 104,764 Seven hundr the city preceding Cook The average da 1924 was were on Justice Enroll- elementary and Maryland during State 1924 than ording the Mr. in in z to vear, Iy membership for of whom 138,102 the county school rolls and in the ci Average lance in the county schools and the city sehools 86,540. All counties show increases in at- tendance except Calvert and Carroll. Prince Georges, Washington, Mont- mery. Anne Arundel and Allegan: Wwith total increases since 1920 rang- ng from 1.400 to 2150, have been ard pressed for accommodations. The inc . county high school attendance 1920 was 6.000, and in colored elementary schools, DIVORCE FE\.IER GROWS. Hurried Weddings in Vienna After War Come to Grief. spondence of The Star and New York World VIEN December 1 riage fever of the post-w been followed by a divorce fever. Many married rashly and inconsid- erately, without having apartments of | their own, the husband and wife having to live separately with their respective families. There were also too many boy-and-girl marriages. The fact is that in the course of this il October 31, about 2,750 divore ses have kept the courts ex- ceptionally busy. In these years some husbands have changed their wives even three times. hose in —The mar- r period has couples MAY BE MINOR PLANET. Astronomical Stranger Has Been Discovered by German Astronomer. From a Science Service Bulletin. An unknown object has been sight- ed in the heavens, What may be a new comet or a new minor planet or asteroid has been discovered by Astronomer Baade at the Hamburg observatory in Ber- dorf, Germany, according to a blegram received at the Harvard Collego observatory. It is a comparatively faint object and visible only in large telescopes. The discovery was made October 23 when the astronomical constants of the newly discovered object were re- follows: Right ascensidn, 5 minutes and 16 seconds: declination north. 15 degrees 2§ minutes; magnitude, 10. The astronomical newcomer probably soon be located by Amer- ican telescopes near the constella- tions of Cygnus, the Northern Cross, and Aquila, now visible in the north- western part of the evening sky. The object is reported to be moving at a fairly rapid rate. will HAIR MADE TO RING BELL. Strand Stret;d Between Two Sup- ports Operates Electric Striker. From the Detroit News. Tho fact that human hair stretches under moisture has been applied by the United States Lighthouse Service in the operation of the newest form of electric fog bell, which is made to ring automatically when the atmos- phere reaches a certain degree of dampness. A strand of several hundred hairs is stretched between two supports, and on the strand is a link. As the air gets moist, as in a fog, the hair stretches, the link is lowered and makes an electrical contact which starts @ half-horsepower motor. This operates the fog-bell striker. As the fog disappears the strand of hair tightens, the link is raised and the fog bell stops. Just a Fair Question. From the Pitt Panther. “I played mah-jong last night with a solid ivory set.” “Who were they?" iTacture of essential fertilizers © pupils enrolled in | g THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C.,v DECEMBER 28, 1924—PART 1. Progress of Science During Year Puts World Many Stages Ahead Boundaries of Knowledge of Naiure Pushed Into Unknown and Way Paved for Miracles to Come. (Continued from Fourth Page.) for the actual cute of tuberculosts by a Danish doctor. A high percentage of cures has been reported, and the inventor claims that he can save all but the most extreme cases. He ex pects to denionstrate in the United States soon. 1t is generally admitted in Europe ¢hat & German physician has devised an effective cure for the drcaded Af- rican sleeping sickness, which now renders the Tropics of that continent practically uninhabitable for white men. This cure has been kept a se- cret In chemistry one of the most essen- tial advances during the year has been In improving the catacyst for fixation of nitrogen from the air, made at the Fixed Nitrogen Labora- tory of the Department of Agricul- ture here. This will muke the manu- much cheaper. | Next comes the clear fuzed quartz, which will replace | glass in many cases. The fuzed quartz does not react to heat or cold as does glass. With optical instru ments made of this material a scicn- tist could study the inside of a fery | furnace at close hand, while with glass instruments, which would melt and twist under intense heat, .he could do nothing. Fuzed quartz also admits ultra-violet rays from the sun, which are shut out Ly glass. Thus| it becomes of great importance to| medicine. It is known that babies suffering from rickets can be cured LY exposure to these ra Progress In Dyes. American chemists are succeeding at last in developing dyes which will more than compete with those of Germany. he' perfection of \permalioy daring the year has placed the trans-oceanic cable on & new plane, enabling it to carry three messages at once. Thus it is in a position to compete with radio. An important development has been the substitution of butyl acitate for amyl ulose la finish on that with development of | quers, the basis for the automobiles. This means a material has been developed viscosity Tt makes the finish of automo biles practically resistant to dust grease and weather. Oils treated with ultra-violet light have developed vitamins, making them valuable n the diets of babies Prof. Baly of the University of Liver- Pool has accomplished the synthesis of simple sugar from formaldahydc with ultra-violet light. X Bios. has been isolated at Columbia University. This particular vitamin is not of par- ticular §mportance, but the work has opened up the field so that there are g00d prospects of isolating other vitamins—those essential food ac sories. The isolation of the others | would bring about a revolution in ny lines. For instance, it would ke possible the turning back of m milk into full milk by the ad- dition of certain fats. For Treating Marine Structures. The Army chemical warfare service has discovered methods of treating marine structures with poisonous compounds so that the marine borer, a parasite which does damage run- ning Into the millions yearly, is ef- fectually thwarted. At the Bureau of Standards Dr. Frederick Bates has produced granu- ar levulose sugar out of the roots of Jerusalem artichokes. Further de- velopment of this may revolutionize | the sugar industry. Levulose is much sweeter and cheaper than beet or cane sugar. Its great fault is that it absorbs moisture from the air. so that a bowlful, left uncoveed, might be syrup by the time the housewlfe) was ready to prepare the next meal Work in Physics. Some of the most important work in physics has been performed at the Bureau of Standards, where special studies are made of the construction of atomes. The arc and spark spectra of the atoms of about a dozen elements have been photographed. One new ph law has been formulated. The atom is perhaps the most fascinating fleld of scientific research. 'All matter—the | air, human bodies, rocks, clouds—is built up of atoms. These in them- selves are miniature solar universes, outer electrons or planets whirling around massed prodons, which con- stitute a central sun. These little universes are so small that it would reqquire at least 400,- 000,000 of them, placed side by side, to make a line an inch long. There are millions of them in a head of a pin. Fet the distance of the outer electrons form each other and from the central sup is comparatively as great as the distance of the earth from the other planets and from the sun. Through these spaces they whirl at tremendous speed. Each element has a different number of outer electrons which revolve in different orbits. The work at the Bureau of Stand- ards has been to explore the in- teriors of these universes. This is done with the spectroscope, one of the most marvelous inventions ever conceived by man. Photographs of the spectra show that each element radiates a different scheme of wave lengths, producing a different color scheme. May Revolutionize Chemical Analys The value of this work is difficult to overestimate, Bureau of Standards | physicists claim. It may revolution- ize chemical analysis. The spectro- scope can accomplish in a few min- utes what might require weeks with chemical balances. It would discover instantly, for instance, a thousandth part of copper in gold. This could be done by the chemist if he had suf- ficlent gold to work with. The spectra photographer could obtain his re- sults from a bare pinch of gold. The real sensation of the year, say Washington psysicists, is likely to come this week when papers are read telling of experiments at the Univer- sity of California by which spark spectra were taken of atoms with four, five, six and seven electrons re- moved, each, of course, showing a different line scheme. It is exceed- ingly difficult to knock off more than one electron. Besides its value in chemical anal- ysis, the spectrosope exploration will be valuable in isolating other ele- ments. Four, known to exist in na- ture, have not been found, either on the earth or in the sun. Coronihm, an element which has been discovered with the spectroscope in the sun, has not yet been located on earth and it was stated at the Bureau of Stand- ards that experiments with spark spectra with more than one electron removed, may show that this is not a separate element at all, but that it is some other element without all its clectrons. One new element has been isolated during the vear, it was an- nounced at the annual meeting of acitate as a solvent for nitro- | | enough to be sprayed | == the car and thick enough to give color perience with helium. This gas was first discovered by _spectroscopic studies of the sun. Years later it was found on earth and now promises to make lighter-than-air travel safe and practicable. During the year a German psysicist Overstuffed Karpen Chairs $59.75 Karpen Overstuffed Arm Chairs in assorted cover- ings—comfortable and very good-looking. Only one of a kind in some instances. mohair with reversible tapestry; $150 L physicists at the University of Mich- igan. This is one of the rarer earths and has, so far as is known, no-prac- tical value. The importance of iso- lating clements is shown by the ex- Pillow -arm Karpen Sofa, very comfortable and good-looking; reversible cushions. announced that he had. been ably to transmute mercury into gold, although at an.enormous cost. The possibility of transmuting = metals— that is, changing one element into another—has long been the dream of physicists as it was the dream of the alchem; But when the intensely complicated atomic structure of bath gold and mercury is considered, Bu- reau of Standards experts claim, the actual accomplishment at this stage is nonsense. They point out that the alleged discoverer is now trying to qualify his statement. What probably happened, : it is claimed, fs that the mercury was not pure In the first place, but contained some gold. The only actual accom- plishment in the line of elemental transmutation thus far has been to secure hydrogen from helium. Both of these gases are of very simple atomic - structure, hydrogen having one outer electron and helium two. This transmutation was m: t the Cavandish laboratories in England by Sir Ernest Rutherford. Dr. H. L. Curtis, who was long associated with Rutherford, now is at the Bureau: of Standards. Gold From Sea Water. An important development of the year has been the success of Fritz Haber, perhaps the most celebrated living chemist, and the man respon- sible for some of the most deadly gases used by the Germans during the war, in extracting gold from sea water. Whether Haber's process means & new, cheap source of gold still is in doubt. He himself says that the work is expensive. Some ‘Washington chemists believe that the most sensational announcements are to come—that Haber actually can get gold out of some parts of the sea at a reasonable cost. It is hard to esti- mate the results of such a discovery— 0000 possibly it might disrupt the gold standard of the world, upon which commerce and industry depends. Any great cheapening of gold certainly would render it much less adaptable as a standard of value. The practical stde of science during the year has been'demonstrated by a number of revolutionary inventions, which still are in the experimental stage. One of these is the mercury team boiler, where mercury is vapor- ized instead of water. It is claimed that this will prove a tremendous ad- vance in power plants, due not only to the great expansion powers of mercury vapor, but also to the fact that all the vapor used can be recov- ered and used over again, thus cheap- ening the process. If it were not for this the engine would be worthless for practical purposes, due to the fact that mercury costs a great deal more than water. The most startling invention has been that of methods of sending pic- tures both by telephone and radio. These still are In their infancy. Sci- entists here claim that it is not nec- essarily a wild stretch of the imagi- nation to see families of the future, perhaps of the comparatively near fu- ture, sitting in their own parlors and seeing every detail of a prize fight a thousand miles away as cleariy as they now hear the volcs of the radio announcer, the cheers of the crowd, the impact of gloved fist and flesh. Almost as sensational {s the appli- cation of the long known Magnus principle of wind action to a sail boat without salls, pushed along by the action of the air against two ro- tating towers, by a German scientist. If Flettner's invention proves practi- cal for larger ships, it will mean a great reduction in the cost of navi- gation, & great saving in .coal and, consequently, cheaper rates. In agriculture e year has seen notable advances in the system of increasing or regulating the growt: of plants by time exposure to dir- ferent kinds of light. The principles behind this are not yet very clear but it means a possible revolution iy agriculture {n the future. Archeology and anthropolo, gained considerable impetus during the year. Perhaps the most notable excava- tions have been those of the Carnegic institution in unearthing the buried civilization -of the Maya people. The Near East, with the conclusion of the war, has been opened up to ex cavators, with the tremendous po: bilities of new discoveries on the sites where human civilization first devel- oped and where Christianity was born. 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