Evening Star Newspaper, May 9, 1933, Page 20

JIME MICROSCOPE |15 DESCRIBED HERE New Device Expected to Rev- { olutionize Timing of Watches. f A “time microscope” was described pesterday at the annual meeting of the American Horological Institute at the National Research Council building. Y. W. MEMBERSHIP DRIVE THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, MAY 9, 1933. $369 THEFT CHARGED TEAMS MEET TOMORROW Three Colored Men and Colored Plans for Annual Enrollmefft to Be Laid by Csptains and Workers. A meeting of team captains and workers will be held tomorrow to map plans for the annual Y. W. C. A. mem- bership enroliment. Presiding at this gathering will be Mrs. Harold E. Doyle, general chair- man. Mrs. Robert Lansing will be hos- tess at tea preceding the meeting. Cap- tains of these teams will attend: 1 Membership, Mzgs. John _Collier; chapter council, MrS. J. Craig Peacock; education department, Miss Ann War- ner; health education, Mrs. Stanley C. Woman Held for Grand Jury. Three colored men and a colored woman, said to have been involved in the theft of $369 from the Arcade Mar- ket May 4, were held for the grand jury following their arraignment yes- terday before Police Court Judge Gus A. Schuldt. Joseph O. Gibbs, colored, 22. of the 1300 block of R street, and Freeman Jackson, colored, 29, of the 1000 block Columbia road, are charged with grand larceny in connection with the case. Their bond was set at $5,000. John T. Smith, 19, colored, 700 block Park road, and Ruth L. Jackson, 29, colored, of the 400 block Third street southwest, were held under $2,500 bond on & charge of recelving $191 of the ‘Y’ STAFF EVALUATION CONFERENCE OPENS All Activities of Washington Asso- ciation Reported on at Tea House Near Mt. Vernon. i ‘The annual “staff evaluation confer- | ence” of the Washington Young Men's Christian Association is being held to- Mount Vernon. ciation, and there will be a discussion of plans for future progress. at 9:30 o'clock and will continue until after 4 o'clock this afternoon. Leonard | W. DeGast, general secretary of the Y. |M. C. A, is the presiding officer. CHILDREN IN PROGRAM Drama and Dancing at Langdon Community Center. TWO ROBBERIES CHARGED Colored Man Accused by Dairy Driver Held for Grand Jury. John A. Jones, 1200 block of Owen | Hampshire avenue, also e place northeast, a driver for the morrthxn.hun.notumwm- dairy, who was held up by |son was struck over the head pson two colored men April 26. $8) was obtained in the robbery. by & More than | blunt instrument during the hold-up. Peterson pleaded not H ot guilty to both ‘Tony Nelson, colored, 800 block New ' counts. Children of Langdon = Community Zoney Peterson, 27, colored, 2600 day at the Collingwood tea house, near | UDervising the event, with Mrs. Mar- Reports will be made by staff mem- = bers on all activities of the local 88s0- | Sus pumbers T o eC 8 the varh The conference began this morning | block of I street, was held for the grand jury on $5000 bond in each of two robbery cases when arraigned yester- day before Judge Gus A. Schuldt in Police Court. Peterson is accused of participating in the armed robbery of | Higlfi!lnodiP;s;;rei e reduced, by Center, Twentieth and Evarts streets northeast, will present an entertain- ment of dramg and dancing at the cen- ter this afternoon. Mrs. D. E. Middle- ton, Community Center sccretary, is garet Reed King Mrs. ‘Taggart,”Mrs. Laurette Marks Hullings cannon, Donna A play, “Dream of Cinderella,” will comprise the dramatic portion of the program. LIQUOR RULES RELAXED —in per t u v FREE SAMPLE Phone National 1721and as free information on lowest fares all parts of U. S. REAT EASTERN 1119 “H” STREET, N. BET. 1iTH & 12TH IN ANNAPOTIS HOTEL for Mr. White for e NEW YORK ST RUNNING TIME -NO CHANGES - RoundTrp Round Trp Invented practically simultaneously | Sears; K street house, Mrs, Charles D. | stolen money. by engineers of the Hamilton Watch Drayton: music department, Mrs. Rus- Regulations under the medicinal | better type drivers and Co. and the Bell Telephone Co., the|Sell J. Clinchy; industrial department, new instrument promises to revolution- ize the business of watch timing. It accomplishes in a few minutes what now requires several days and '“‘bl“ldepnnmem, Miss Ann Paul, Miss Lois 8 horologist to toll at once just what $5 causing the trouble. Hastens Regulation. ‘The “time microscope” makes use nt! the so-called stroboscopic effect. In the | stroboscope, a rapidly-moving body is| made to appear stationary by momen- tarily illuminating it each time if reaches a certain portion of its path.| In this device, the light is flashed on the balance wheel of the watch, the period of oscillation of which deter- | mines the time the watch will keep. The | comparison standard is the frequency | of an electric current which is accurate | to one part in ten million. | With amplifications of this device, it | 35 practical to determine the loss or | gain of the watch by seconds, rather | than to determine this over an extended | period. With an observation period of | wo or three minutes, the watch expert | knows as much as if he had watched | of the League of Nations was described | | vesterday before the Council of Social it for several days. ‘The time microscope was described by Dr. George P. Luckey, director of research of the Hamilton Watch Co. Dr. Paul O. Heyl, of the Bureau of| Standards, curate timing methods in progress there, especially the use of crystal vibrations 8s a time standard. Dr. W. G. Brom- | bacher described _research work on | cialists in the various fields, declaring watch ofls at the Bureau of Standards. | Plan Time Building. | tire ficld of child welfare work.” Mrs. York, owner of a collection of watches | valued at $200,000, told of plans for| speeding up the move to erect a “time | building” in Washington which will be | the headquarters of the Horological In- | stitute and serve as a national museum for time recording devices. This proj- ect has been before the institute for several vears but as yet little progress has been made towards its financial | Tealization. | The Horological Institute, with the co-operation of the Bureau of Stand- ards, registers watch experts all over the | United States who are able to meet its #tandards. SRS S S SRS RR SRR R SRR SRR HELD IN ROBBERY Man Accused by William Grogan to Face Grand Jury. Pete Rockelli, 32, of the 700 block of Third street, was held under $5,000 bond for the grand jury when arraigned | yesterday before Police Court Judge | Gus A. Schuldt on a charge of robbing | William Grogan, 53, of the 1400 block ©f Perry place. Grogan told police Rockelli and two | other men forced him to enter their | machine while he was waiting for a bus in the 3500 block of Sixteenth street May 2. They drove into Rock Creek | Park, he said, and after hitting him | with a tire iron robbed him of $40. POLICE SEARCH ASKED Parents of 12-Year-0ld John Smith | Witl‘wut Trace After Week. Police of the District and nearby | Maryland, as well as authorities of other | cities, have been asked to aid in the | secarch for 12-year-old John Smith, jr., who disappeared more than a week ago | from College Park, Md., where his par- ents had been residing temporarily. The parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Emith, who have been stopping at 215 Indiana avenue here during the search for the boy, were on their way through ‘Washington en route to Chicago when he wandered off. PLAN ENCAMPMENT . C. Veterans of Foreign Wars to Meet June 21, 22 and 23. The annual encampment of the Dis- frict department, Veterans of Foreign ‘Wars, will be held at Stuart Junior High School June 21, 22 and 23 under ‘gponsorship of the Northeast Business Men's Association. The association will %ressnt nine prizes for participating ands, drum and bugle corps, drill and Wnarching units. Rlans are being perfected for & pa- | gade to form in the Union Mnl’ketL fgrounds and proceed thrdugh the north- east section to the school as an open- | Anz feature of the encampment. | S S LS LI SCSURSRRRRRSRRRSR ARITERNRY G Street at Eleventh May - ZZAN | Mrs, Clifford J. 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