Evening Star Newspaper, November 21, 1928, Page 6

‘mmfi‘r AT R Y B E ‘% THE EVEN ING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C: WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 21" 1928, SCETISTS STUDY ! SIEOF DNVERSE Dr. Shapley Called-on to Re- port More Findings on Sartl’s Galaxy. By the Associated Press. SCHENECTADY, N. Y., November 21. —From o day devoted largely to con- sideration of electrons, the National Academy of Sciences today turned its wsttention to the stars. Dr. Harlow Shapley of Harvard, who announced Monday that he and his as- sociates were practically certain they had discovered the center of the earth's | particular galaxy of stars, in the milky way about 47,000 light years away in the direction of Sagittarius, was called upon to report more of his discoveries. Uses Brightness as Measure. Dr. Shapley, in S2eking the center of ghe earth’s galaxy and of the entire universe, which includes many other similar galaxies, has found in the fluc- tuating brightness of the cephiad vari- able stars a yardstick for measuring the dncredible distances he is considering. Knowing that these stars, which have regular periods of extreme brightness &nd dullness, all have approximately the same magnitude of light, he is able to compute their distances from the earth by comparing that candlepower with the amount which reaches his ob- |-servatory. Some of those he has ob- served have been traveling 100,000,000 years, and it takes only 200,000 years, he says, for a light ray to cross the en- tire galaxy of which the earth is a part. Studies Meteor’s Activity. ! On the same program, Dr. Henry H. | Russell of Princeton contributed an | analysis of the behavior of meteoric matter near the stars. Utilizing Dr. Shapley’s estimate that a billion | meteors strike the earth every day and other determinations showing that the i mverage mass of each meteorite cannot exceed two milligrams, he has calcu- lated that the total quantity of this | kind of matter falling into the sun is ot more than 60 tons a second. ‘The scientists were given a demon- #tration, before their dinner last night, of the new means which may overcome one | of the most difficult problems of modern ducation—the bringing of students in ) oloser contact with the great men of science. It was the showing of a pho- |stophone picture in which a lecture on oil films on water, by Dr. I Langmuir #of the General Electric Co. laboratories, Avas reproduced, with a number of dem- fonstrations. His words were recorded ;7111 the same film which showed his ac- ions. ANORKMAN 1S KILLED BY ELECTRIC SHOCK {#8nother Narrowly Escapes Death '_ When Steel Cable Connects With ;_' 4,000-Volt Feed Wire. ¥ Thomas King, colored, 32 years old, l f 475 L street southwest, was killed Ijpnd G. A. Steigleman, Baltimore, nar- |§Fowly escaped death when a steel cable nnected with a dirt scoop on which | ghey were working came into contact \fwith a 4,000-volt electric feed wire at ‘hirty-eighth street and Reservoir road ;tsterday afternoon. An inquest will | held tomorrow morning at the Dis- ‘drict morgue. |. The men were working on a sewer tJeonstruction job and were employed by the Adams & Mareno Construction Co. f Baltimore. |, Steigleman was operating the dirt ‘&oop and King was standing in wet mud guiding the scoop into position ver the sewer hole when the cable hit he wire. King was knocked into the {Aditch nearby. Apparently only slightly ;gnjured, he got up and walked to the H#side of the road and sat down. He died | efore fellow workmen could reach him. The electric charge traveled through | ¥he cable to the seat from which Stei- \#gleman was operating the . scoop. It | ked the man down, but did not f usly injure him. UFREEMAN AND PIERCE ' NAMED ON COMMITTEE E.Axe Appointed Members of General Group on Service Chaplains, B Right Rev. James E. Freeman, Bishop {f Washington, chairman of the Army {#and Navy Commission of the Protestant 4 iscopal Church and chaplain, O. R g,, with the grade of major, and Dr. n Noble Pierce, pastor of the First Congregational Church of Washington, {%have been appointed members of the rggeneral committee on Army and Navy |ichaplains, according to an announce- nt from the committiee’s headquar- L, rs at 937 Woodward Building. Iy i | I% Dr. Pierce, president of the Chaplains’ ociation of the Army and an active mber of the Chaplains’ Reserve, saw verseas duty during the war as senior i*phaplain of the 81st Division. BAN ON CATS AND DOGS. ALanding of Unlicensed Animals in Britain Forbidden. ., LONDON, November 21 (#).—Neither Jogs nor cats will be permitted to land h’l Britain from overseas after January unless authorized by license of the pistry of agriculture. The ministry urther decreed yesterday that any dog or cal imported under its license must sremain under control of a veterinary |7Burgeon at “a place of detention” for a ‘vrermm Jength of time. SEE our optometrist at the first sign of eye-strain. Delay is usually danger- ous. Bring your ocu- Yist's prescription here for accurate and prompt attention. 1009 Satisfaction Registered Optometrist in Attendance o .oHalin Ine. Optometrists Opticians 935 F Street 86 Years at the Same Address. CHEMIST TELLS HOW HUMAN FOOD CAN BE MADE FROM WOOD German Informs Conference Product’s Use for Man Is Feasible After Successful Trial With Cattle. By the Assotiated Press. PITTSBURGH, November 21.—The human food that can now be made from wood may not appeal to persons desir- ing to reduce, but it is otherwise one 3§ tthe widely used elements in table et What elements will constitute this food from wood were disclosed by Dr. Friedrich Bergius at the international conference on bituminous coal at the Carnegie Institute of Technology. He is the German chemist who has con- verted wood waste into an animal fod- der. It is selling in competition in Germany with natural fodder. Dr. Bergius said that the human food product that can be made from wood is a white substance that may be de- scribed as between starch and sugar. He termed it a pure,, flavorless product rich in edible carbohydrates. Made From Waste. “It may be made,” he sald, “from the waste cellulose that occurs in great quantities in wood waste and such plants as cornstalks and cotton stalks and in the hulls and shells of nuts. “To produce this as human food it is only mnecessary to remove the chlorides and impurities from the cel- lulose food now made for animal fodder.” He said that it has been possible in Germany to demonstrate the value of the fodder to improve the weight of pigs. He thought that this fodder may replace corn in Germany, but that whatever advances are made in its use are likely to be slow. How coal can make two stalks of wheat sprout in place of one in the Northwest, keep the grass green in the Mississippl Valley and help the cotton beat the boll weevil in the South was explained by C. H. McDowell, president of the Armour Fertilizer Co., Chicago, who explained fertilizers of ammonia and nitrogen, which are derived from coal. He said their growth would be slow, but that it would be important to both farmers and coal men. First Made at Gas Plants. ‘The beginning, McDowell said, was years ago, when, in order to remove the odor from illuminating gas, coal men extracted the ammnia. Now, he said, quantities of both ammonia and nitro- gen are available as by-products. The liquefaction process, the speaker asserted, has made feasible concentrated fertilizers, which, if used at the proper period in early Spring on Winter wheat, would bring extra stalks; would enable grass to remain green longer during drought, and have already helped speed cotton growth by three weeks, giving the plant an advantage over the boll weevil, Prediction that low grades of coal, which is plentiful in the Northwest, some day will compete with bituminous coal and may result in building up new regions of industry in various parts of the world, was made by Dr. F. P, Kerchsbaum, German technician, America’s stores of lignite are prac- tically untouched, and he gave as the reason the fact that bituminous coal in this country is cheaper than in any other. Dr. Edwin E. Slosson, director of Science Service, Washington, added a new kingdom to the familiar animal, vegetable and mineral realms, calling it the “synthetic kingdom,” which is the ?cwly opened field of industrial chemis- ry. gl b Auto Spill Kills One. Spectal Dispatch to The Star. GRANTSVILLE, Md, November 21. —Arthur Lehman, 20 years old, of Ber- lin, Md., was killed yesterday when an automobile in which he and three others were riding swerved into a ditch and overturned near Somerset. Emil Frenke, 25, driver; Harry, S. Wearman, 26, and Glenn Fisher, all of Berlin, are in the Community Hospital at Somerset. UPHOLSTERING DRAPERIES— LIVING ROOM FURNITURE Made to Order STANDARD UPHOLSTERY CO. 403 11th St. N.W. 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Remember this, mothers, when handling baby’s food. LISTERINE THE SAFE ANTISEPTIC RUBBER FROM COAL SEENFOR FUTURE German Makes Product, but Cost of Method Is Still Prohibitive. By the Assoclated Press. PITTSBURGH, November 21.—Faith that coal will some time become an im- portant source in the world’s rubber supply was expressed before the second International Conference on Bituminous Coal, at the Carnegie Institute of Tech- nology today. The speaker was Dr. Fritz Hofmann of Berlin, Germany, who said that he and his associates began 22 years ago to attempt making synthetic rubber. He succeeded, but at a prohibitive cost. Once rubber is cheaply extracted from coal, Hofmann said, there is no danger that a shortage at the source will occur, even if “10,000 tons or even hundreds of thousands of tons of coal are used for manufacture.” ‘The use of pulverized coal to operate the steamship Mercer was described in a joint paper by C. J. 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