Evening Star Newspaper, December 4, 1930, Page 35

" LIGHT PRESERVED BY BEING FROZEN Amazing Exmblt Includes Corn Popping Between Two Jars of Ice Water.. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 4—A beau- #iful form of light, preserved by freez- ing it at 312 degrees below zero, was ‘exhibited to the New York Merchants' Association today. Almost equally amazing was the sight of corn popping between two jars of ice water, its bursting due to radio waves une heated the hearts of the kernels while the air about them was The light was frozenat sehenechdy, l Y., yesterday; brought here in nm.- tle of liquid air at 312 degrees bel pero and thawed out for exhibition by L A. Hawkins, executive engineer, a; !mx.mmnnm. physicist, of the Gen- e At Schenectady the light was pro- duced first by exposing a screen made of various ordinary minerals to the powe! emanantions of the recently perfected cathode ray tube. After such exposure the minerals on the screen glow for some time as i Ted-hot. although they romain stone- cold. They sparkle i all colors. The explanation is that the cathode ema- nations, when they strike the extremely minute particles of the minerals, excite them into extra-rabid vibration. This movement is visible as light and lasf until the extra 8o greatly that the light is et the frozen particles retain t!mr energy and when warmed back into the rapid o = ymes light again. ‘Thé jars of water beside the popplfi corn contained, in addition to cubes , & solution which made them elec- electrodes for short radio waves pass- m them and through '.he 'rhe popping suggests interesting pm‘ sibilities for control of cooking. Mr. mvm points out that not a_charred m;zgun in such corn, although hot. The popping re- qnh'u about two minutes. The corn apparatus is an adaptation of the radio fever tube which the Gen- eral Electric Co. announced less than a mlfl This tube produces artificial uman beings and animals, and & number of tubes have been placed in medical research institutions for “The artificial fever treatment,” said Mr. Hawkins, “has been used with strik- MELVILLE CURRAN, JR.; = FUNERAL HELD TODAY Youth Who Died as Result of Auto | " Accident in New York Rests in Cedar Hill Cemetery. £ Funeral services for W. Melville Cur- ran, jr, 15 years old, of 23 Second street southeast, who died at Provi- dence Hospital Monday night of in- juries received in an automobile acei- dent on &mmber 1, near Middletown, N. held this. morning at St Peeerl chureh Interment was i Oedar_ Hill Cemetery. Mrs, Curran, who was secretary to bmer Representative Kincheloe while he was a member of the House from Rentucky. and another child, Betty, were hurt in the same accident. ‘The youth was a member of the cadet corps of McKinley High School, where he was a thl.rd-yenr nudent.. TURKISH. ROMANCE SAVED Sailor's Wife Advised fo Return Home by Judge Given. A romance which began. when ch.le! Machinist Mate Prank S. Harvell - nd | the Naval Observatory m)unuuflm nn :hure leue in oonlunfimpk. seven When E 'mrkhh 'tl ngt. brought hhn ce Gourt, for assault. Ra.n:h Given decided that Mrs. !(nrve was too jealous of her husband and that what she re| d to be a se- vere blow was just a light shove for f | pretection, so he dismissed .the case. He advised the women to leave the | world, Y. W. C. A, where she has resided since the trouble with her hucband, Novem- ber 22, and return to Harvell at 1327 I Harvard street. It was testified that after from a foot ball game in Annl card game was all and the rushed from the house, secured & liceman and bad her husband Optician—Optometrist 922 14th St. N.W., Just Think of It— . ‘The Star delivered to at ‘Telephone National 5000 and de- livery will start at once. -1}l pimples, which caused her much S5 nlrudy eonddenhly advanced, because FORD HALTS BUILDING ™ Lepers Discharged as Cured. U.S. PLANS BATTLE Togatiog n':mwp-‘.n“:t Leprosy in the Philippines is still a ON HEART DISEASE |Revorted as Objecting to Site of the buking was complied before Mr. miw- problem, as one-third of the in- Eig Rotterdam P Ford's recent tour of Europe. sular appropriation of the health service NDO: De: b:‘ o renchod Rotterdam he. notioed that the |t lepers A % 4 cember 4 (F)—A d m he po ve $10,000 Provided foraInitial Attack Mmail dispateh from The(gll’lla s:ny':ibuumng was a mile from the nearest were re ~ that Henry Ford recently halted the suitable place for loading and unloading on Causes of Most American | building of a new plant at Rotterdam, | of ships. Deaths During Past Year. By the Associated Press. In searching the human heart to learn why its failing is the prime cause of death the Government will spend $10,000 next fiscal year. ‘The fund was provided in the annual supply bill reported to th House yesurdny after health officials heart diseases have l’fl)lnced unner “as the major cause of death,” and that as the infant mortality prob- lem is eased the adult death rate creasingly is brought to scientists’ tention. ‘The House commit'ee set asi‘e $11,- mooo for the Public Health Service's f guarding the Nation's ohysical -oumn. for the year., Big items in the account were rural sanitation, epi- demic prevention work, laboratory and fleld investigation and narcotic farms. “None of us adults who have passed our fortieth year have any reason to heluvo we wm live ‘any longer at all than our ancestors,” Assistant Surgeon General R. L. Thompson told the House committee. “In fact, probably we are l‘::t nlhx to live as long, if w: get down STETSON SHOE QUALITY NOW COSTS YOU LESS MONEY! 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