Evening Star Newspaper, January 22, 1928, Page 3

LARGESTGLASS * LASTBY BUREAY Optical Lens Completed Here Establishes New Record for Perfection and Size. ce has passed another milestone | march of progress in physics and the physical sciences. | A three-year effort by the Bureau of | Siandards to create the largest perfect | Ticee of optical glass in the world was | crowned with success vesterday when of a rlass-casting furnace was trom a 70-inch. 3-ton disk of | after more than nine months of and annealing. and the glass| was found. on first examination. to be | et necessary drilling, polish- | ring the great disk of glass, ever cast in this country 2 second largest in the world, Wwill be installed in the reflecting tele- | scope of the Perkins Observatory at| Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, | Ohio. At the price of $6 a pound. | ed tl 'y by the Standards Bu- | for making optical glass, the huge | would be valued at $21.000. It will cost the university only in | the neighborhood of $5.000. according | to Director George K. Burgess of the | ureau, who entered into an agree- | t with the Ohic institution to ceiray the expense of the tedious ex- perim The oniy other piece ol optical glass comparable in size to the p completed ye h disc used in the ison, which was Goveriiment scientist ry imperfect and does perfection of the was revealed yesterday fo! e < Teau d Visitors Witness Opening. Suspense and the knowledge that a great s tific experiment was about to be consummated held breathless a distinguis| group of visitors to the | optical glass laboratory of the bureau | Yesterday hole in the concrete floor of the barn- Lie building and watched workmen manipulate the machinery which slow- Iy raised the lid from the great disc €nd revealed the great glass circle. A N. Finn. director of the optical glass | laboratory, and P. H Bates and Dt A Q Tool, many months before had | mixed together a thousand pounds of cullet (broken glass) ang of sand and chemicals. mass giow 10 a white heat under the excitation of a powerful electric cruci- bie. and had then poured it into the brick-lined kiln which was ready to | Téceive it. Caretully it was stirred by | hand for six hours. and from the iime the lid was clamped cown, on May 7 | 1927, it had never been seen until | yesierday. | During the weary months which | stretch back to that day last May,| careful hands tended the great disk. | and slowly dropped the temperature | from the original 2400 degrees Fahren- | heit through the annealing process at | 860 degrees to the attainment of room | temperature last Monday. ! days were aliowed to bring the disk | down 1o proper temperature for un- | covering. and vesterday. on one of the | coldest davs of the Winter. the lid was Temoved It looked like nothing more than a sheet of calm water. without a ripple. #s the grezt lid. itsel! weighing hun- dreds of pounds. was slowly lifted from the crucible wherein lay the hopes and ambitions of dozens of men and the cradle of a great s-fentific experiment. A broad smile overspread the face of | Mr Finn and his associates as the ‘id was <o raised and moved to one side to reveal what was apparently 3 flawiess piece of glass, with the fire brick on whirh it lay shining through | ckness. Then congratula- | oke forth .for Pinn and his en- workers on their care and exactness Concealed for Months. | During ali the months since the glass there was po way to ascertain | under the lid of the furnace, lightest bit of foreign matter glass or sudden change in tem- ture might split it into fragments Within a fwe days the bureau staff | 1l start on another and quite as ardu- | ©ous a job in connection with the final ess of preparing the big disc for ng the heavens closer to earth througn the eye of the telescope ‘ “The next siep necessary in preparation 5 1 drill a hole at the aptical axis of | 5l a hole at the optical axis of berause of the possibility of re of the glass. Then it will be #ent 1o an optician to be ground. pol- 4rhed and figured on one surface untl | 1t becomes parabolic. with the property of refiecting parallel rays of light to a focus Mounting of the great which the disk will go has been com- pleted out in Ohio by Warner and Bwazey of Cleveland, and with a disk remporanly obtained from Harvard 3 h work was begun at University. The need ger disk prompted university urge the bureau to a after several Amer- acturer. had refused mpletion of the work tempts were made d 4.600 pounds | . watched the telescope 1n they stood about a jagged | B | through The Star 29 TANUARY n. c, _1998 PARIN T TNOTSKY APPEALS 10 BE REINSTATED Exiled Companions Join in Formal Protest Against Banishment. By the Aseociated Press BERLIN January 21.—Teon Trotsky and his exiled companions have made a formal protest and appeal to the Communist International for reinstate- ment in the party. The appeal, which was not permit- ted publication in Russia, is published | In the Soclalist newspaper Vorwaerts her: The document lengthily sets forth Trotsky's view and complaint. It says: “We ol Bolshevist party workers have been sent to the utterntost parts of the Soviet Union by a gaypayou de- cree, without any charge brought against us and with the sole purpose of severing us from the sixth Commu- nist International Congress. “We submit to force and leave our party work for a purposeless exile, but we are confident that we shall reap- pear in the coming great battle.” | Trotsky and his companions assert | that the important principle now at stake is the dictatorship of the prole- | tariat all along the Communist Inter- national all along has been having accomplished facts placed before it without reasons being given for Upper, scene in the optical glass laborators of the Bureau of Stan- dards vesterday, when a huge casting for the fashioning of a 30-inch tele- scope lens was uncovered. The sciea- tists who withessed the first view of the completed casting are shown left to ight, R. Warner. great telescope maker of Cleveland. Ohio: S. W. Stratton, president of the Massachusetts Insti- tute of Technology: H. Bates. chief of the ceramic division of the Bureau of Standards: A. N. Finn, chief of the glass section. who had charge of the cast: G. W. Burgess, director of the center. pouring the molten below. when_the rted. also in May. HOME OWNERSHP ESSAY LISTS CLOSE Judges to Be Busy on Mass of Contributions Until Decision Tuesday. The home ownership-essay contest losed. With midnight set as the ““dead linc for entry in the competition. manu- scripts continued to reach The Star office by special delivery mail and per- sonal delivery until after 11 o'clock last night At the closing hour. when the mass of essays was bundled for presentation in a single group to the jury of judges, it was found that each of the four sec- tions of the District of Columbia and the neighboring counties of Maryland and Virginia were well represented The number of contestants from the two States was parucularly large, ex- ceeding by far the State entrafts in last year's contest, which. incidentally, was a resident of Lyon Judges for Contest. The judges, as announced Thursday by Joseph A. Herbert, jr. chairman of the own-your-own-hcme-day commit tee of the general committee in chaige of National Thrift week observance here. are Rudolph Jose president of the City Club. Ivan C. Weld, president of the Washington Chamber of Com merce; Edwin C. Graham, president of the Washington Board of Trade. Gen Anton S(?mn. president oi the Mer chants and Manufacturers’ Association and Mrs. J Garfield Riley president of the Women’s City Club. On their decision will depend the award of $100 which was made avail- able by the own-your-own-home-day committee, conductor of the contest The prize money will be divided into three awards—$50 { for the writer of the best essay on the rrescribed subject, “The Jalue of Home Ownership”: $30 for the writer of the second best essay and $20 for the third best effort Announcement Tuesday. As it has been announced previously. the winners will be made known in The Evening Star of Tuesday, at which time the three prize essays will be printed in full. o CORN PRICES AND RAIL RATES HELD UNRELATED pertect piece of glass | Carriers’ Agency Announces Study nder a new system discase has s at result that SPEAIAL NoTi ¥ THE WA GAR LIGHT | i L eonclusion that the transporta Over Period of Four Crop Years. A study of the four crop years ending with 1926-1927 has co.vinced the hu- reau of rallway economics, maintained in Washington by the carriers. that no definite relationship e between freight rates and fluctustions in the price paid W farmers for cory ‘The general stability of freight rates on corn,” a statement from the bureau sald, “is shown by the fact that ou. of 260 freigh. rates from various poInts 1o principal primary markets only 21 changes occurred during (e four years covered by the study. Of these changes, all of wWhich were in the nature of minor adjustments 16 were decrenses and only five were increases “During this same period. Lowey the prices of corn fluctuated from week U week, from month womonth wod from year W year “This marked contrast warrants (e Wi ol the cause of the ever-chnnging price situstion, Hut that other factor singly or I combination were respor sible. fiae sures taken by those Now in power. The appeal admits justification of repressive measures, but only as th are directed against the enemies of the | proletariat, and continues: “The depor- tation of us soldiers of the October rev- olution and brothers-in-arms of Lenin shows how far the process of class mu- | tation and the trend toward opportu- ism have gone.” M he demand is made on all Com- munist parties and the sixth congress to probe the whole situation to the bot- tom. |COURT QUASHES CHARGE AFTER SUICIDE'S DEATH Action Comes Too Late to Aid Ex- Banker, Who Killed Self, Wife and Two Sons. By the Asso rated Pie STEUBENVILLE, Ohio. January James Potter, once wealthy banker and coal operator whose losing fight against financial misfortune ended in Cleveland Wednesday night. with the poisoning of himself and the three other members of his family, went to his grave today treed of a criminal charge that he had made a last desperate effort to erase An indictment charging that he had ahampion Alley Cavtfl With Feli_{le Nobility at Chicago Show By th CH alle ICAGO, January 21 cat lanzuished in luxury today at C: “lub show and re- d disdainfully a curfous public. It was better 1o be a champion among al- ley cats than an “also ran” among Pe siun nob had overcome the stigma of a er in his escutcheon. His fa- vas a Persian of high birth, but be- mother was a frequenter of alleys, Tizer was born just plain cat Tiger's mother found asylum, howe in_the home of Mrs Beulah Coyle STEPHAN TO BE HOST AT GUARD BENEFIT Commander of District Unit in of Charge of Party at Theater. Maj. Gen. Anton Stephan, command- ing the District of Columbia Nationat Guard, will be host to & number of prominent offic als at the annual benefit party of the local Guard, which will be held on the evening of January 30 at Keith's Theater. Those who have Ma). Gen. Creed C. the Militia Bureau; been Invited Hammond, chief of Brig. Gen. Milton A Reckord, commanding general, Mary- | land National Guard and executive vice president of the National Rifle Assocl ation, Gol John W. Gulick, executiy officer, Militia Bureau, and the three District Commissioners, — Proctor Dougherty, Sidney F. Tallaferro and Wwilliam B. Ladue, ‘The wives of < oMcils were included In the in vitations The purpose of the benefit show I to sl funds for the varions units of the Guard All members and friends who desire (o attend are requested (o sccure their tickets from the adjutant peneral’s office, North Capitol and D Elreet Armory, or by phoning Lieut. Col Peyton G, Nevitt 'STINSON COMPLETES Hop COL. I. C. COPLEY BUYS 031 TIME F | A u'v Kk “l’ K PRINTING IN A’HURRY » n YOU IRONCIAD - MEANY nE | HOurinG I FROM CHICAGO TO TAMPA Makes 1,000-Mile Flight in Eight Hours—Accompanied by Two Passengers By e Assciaten ¥ TAMPA, Junuary 21 son, well known aviator Bnson-Detioier monopline the municipal sirport here completing & non-etop Bight Gom Gl cago The 100G -mie Might wis mad I eght hours, with Uik wid of stong ta)l wind, and wis uneventtul BUnwon said Arnold B Kirkeby. Chicags Tamps bond broker, and Berl, Way mechianic, secompanied BUnson on U Eddie B, Ul NG w lunded u late today. wip The trin will remadn here untl Mon - | Chiwago . Bome girls don 't taiken serio taken ve il ey wre pot w g we Uiy e TWO PAPERS IN WEST Ban Diego Union and Evening Tribune Pase to Hlinois Publisher, ! sted Press Aven BAN DIEGO, . Calif, January Anouncement of the p Ban Diego Union and the une by Col e € Copley of Aurora 1L, was made Lodny by the new owner snd William Clayton, representing the D & A B Bpreckles Ivestment Co former owners Both newopapers wre members of Assochisted Press T purchuse price. was not publie Cob Copley 1 also owner | publishier of the Aurora Bescon-N Figin Courter-News, Juliet Hevald-News and Hhnots Blate Journal of Bpring (fckd 1 When be ds absent from San I heigo, Caht, Col Coply 1, b will b vepresented here by Johin Callon OLoughhin, editor and publisher of Gy Avmy wnd Navy Juarnal i Washing don, D C. mnde | Chica 1d | are obtained $500 through fraud in a real estate deal with nolle prossed by Judge J. S. Paisley in Common Pleas Court <hortly before Potter, his wife and two sons were buried here Potter was to have faced arraignment today on the charge, and one of his last acts before his death was an attempt to have the bill set aside. | " Potter went to Cleveland last Novem- { ber with his family after a series of re- verses had virtually wiped out a for- tune buflt up in oil and coal develop- ment, estimated at $1.000.000 | FARM AID LEADERS | SHOW UNREST IN ‘ HOUSE COMMITTEE _(Continued from First Page.) | agriculture committee. agreed. and add- |ed. “the committee 15 working for the best legislation it can get that is prac- ticable.” Representative White said that he did not “understand why a revolving fund might not accomplish the same purposs as_an equalization fee.” The action of the five Kansas Rep- resentatives follows that of four Repub- “Irnns on the House agriculture commit- Seeking Honors tee—- Williams and Adkins of Illinots, Ketcham of Michigan and Thompson of Ohio—in scrapping the equalization fee. They took the position that with the Coolidge administration firmly op- posed to the provision. it would be impossible to obtain enactment of a farm relief bill containing it The equalization fee would be levied The pick of catdom’s 400 lolled In|On farm products with funds derived glided cages awaiting the verdict of the | i this manner going to market surplus ‘udges. leek, cinnamon-tipped sacred C€rops abroad Slamese and plush Persians. plump tab- | Representative Aswell of Louistana ties and lank black cats, maligned svm- | ranking Democrat on the committee, a arrayed in the | has introduced a proposal similar to latest niodes of cat ¢ | the McNary-Haugen bill except for the One haughty Persian, furnished with | equalization fee announcing he has done 1 tour-poster doll's bed softly padded | 50" With the deliberate purpose of hold- and with a toy mouse and parrot to|In® before the committee the sort of tease, slunk under the bed and away | bill that can become a law’ from the public gaze with an air of | boredom | The new champlous of the cat world will be crowned tomo:row 0. 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