Evening Star Newspaper, December 14, 1936, Page 5

‘ROAD HELD PERIL 10 YOUNG PUPLS Chfldren s Safety Alone Jus- tifies Improvements to Old Georgetown Route. By a Staft Correspondent of The Star. BETHESDA, Md., December 14— The safety of Montgomery County school children alone is sufficient to Warrant immediate widening and re- surfacing of hazardous Old George- town road, Dr. W. C. Killinger of the Rockville Pike Oitizens' Assoclation declared today. Dr. Killinger, who retired recently as president of that organization and “now serves as an Executive Commit- tee member, asserted that his organ- imation ‘“stands solidly behind the movement to improve the road” and will throw its full support behind the eampaign being staged by civic bodies and citizens in this area. “The road is too narrow to safely accommodate ordinary bus and auto- mobile travel and it is particularly dangerous for school children when the busses in which they travel to “and from the Alta Vista School pass trucks and regular traction busses which use the thoroughfare,” he said. ‘Will Demand Action. Dr. Killinger stated he would confer immediately with George H. Lamar, well-known Rockville attorney and eivic leader, who succeeded him as president, and make plans for a dele- gation to represent their association st the mass meeting to be held on | ‘Wednesday night at the Bethesda ‘Women's Club. ‘The Bethesda Chamber of Com- merce, Old Georgetown Road Citi- zens' Association, Bethesda Fire De- partment, Alta Vista School Parent- | ‘Teacher Association and scores of eitizens will attend the meeting and demand State and county officials act to correct the dangerous conditions existing along the highway, It was said by Dr. Killinger that the Rockville Pike Citizens’ Association passed & resolution deploring the hazardous state of Old Georgetown road more than a year ago, but it was never given favorable consideration by | officials. Also Urged New Road. He declared, too. that the associa- stion adopted a co-related measure urging officials to acquire the right- of-way used by the now defunct ‘Washington-Rockville electric line and build a new road between Alta | Vista and Halpine. “Br. Killinger stated the new thor- | oughfare would take a great deal of heavy traffic off both the Old George- town road and Rockville pike, and also would open a new section of the county to real estate development. He said construction of the pro- posed thoroughfare would result in the building of many new homes in the area lying between Rockville pike and Old Georgetown road, Alta Vista and Halpine. Members of the Board of Mont- gomery County Commissioners and the county’s representatives in the State Legislature will be asked to attend Wednesday's session to hear the view of citizens who were spurred Jinto action a week ago, when two men were killed in the bus-auto wreck on Old Georgetown road. The deaths of the two motorists climaxed a series of mishaps in which. one man was killed 14 months ago and a number of people injured. Many near-catastrophies also have occurred because of the narrow and treacherous conditions along the road. Show Education Films. Colombia has started its program of showing educational films in vllla\u and rural centers through the country. BY PHILIP H. LO HIS is the story of a 19-year- old girl who, unable to find a job after graduation from Roosevelt High School, solved her own particular unemployment problem—and, at the same time, made things considerably easier for her de- pression-ridden parents—by becoming a professional “looker-up” of family histories. Mary Kennedy, 1505 Lamont street, l{ounrl things ‘“pretty tough” when she began seeking work, back in 1935. Her father, George A. 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There’s no depression at my house any more— not so much of a one, myhow ol Buy Itllun lek. Germans are investing in Italian silk as a hedge against possible cur- rency devaluation at home. Roosevelt High School Graduate Paints (]F EARTH BI_AIMED Coats of Arms. Raindrops of Radiation From Luminous Clouds of Stars Held Proof. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. Pelting in earth’s face of raindrops of radiation from luminous clouds of stars in the ultimate vastnesses of Creation proves a third movement of the planet in addition to the daily ro- tation on its axis and the yearly jour- ney around the sun, it was revealed yesterday in an annual report of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. The ‘“raindrops” are cosmic rays, shot out from the depths of space with energies ranging from two billion to more than nineteen billion volts. Astronomers in the past have de- duced from stellar observations that the entire galaxy of 30,000,000,000-odd stars, of which the sun and its planets are one, was whirling like a cosmic wheel of fire around its center of gravity, in a 200,000,000-year rotation. In the past, however, there has been no physical proof of this which could be applied from the earth itself. ‘Various reasons have led physicists to the conclusion that the cosmic rays AY, DECEMBER shortest and most powerful eompon- ents of the radiation spectrum orig- inated from some point outside this galaxy, either in the space between the galaxies or in the millions of “island universes” millions of light years beyond the outermost bounds of the Milky Way system. Variation in Intensity. 8o reasoned Dr. Arthur H. Comp- ton of the University of Chicago, Car- negie associate and Nobel prize winner in physics, if the galaxy was moving and the cosmic raindrops were coming from outside it their greatest intensity would be in the direction of motion. 1t would be much like a person walk- ing in the rain. He would get wetter on the face than on the back. If the galaxy was rotating, earth must be rotating with it, at a speed which as- tronomers aiready had calculated. Dr. Compton and his collaborators in this experiment report finding & variation in cosmic ray intensity, changing with sidereal time, which is very close to what would have been expected from the data of the astron- omers. The measurements show that the movement of the earth in this great rotation is approximately 250 miles a second. The movement has been at least tentatively confirmed, according to Dr. Compton’s report to the Carnegie Institution, by three years of measure- ments in both the northern and southern hemispheres. 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This also is indicated, Dr. Compton says, by other experiments on variation with latitude. Evidence collected on the repeated voyages back and forth in the Pacific, Dr. Compton says, has made possible the construction of a rough cosmic Tay energy spectrum, comparable to that for visible light or for X-rays. At each latitude, he points out, there is a relatively sharp lower limit to the energy of the electrons which are able to get through the earth’s mag- netic fleld. This ranges between 2,- 000,000,000 and 19,000,000,000 electron affected by absorption in the earth's atmosphere. Between 9,000,000,000 and 19,000,000,000 volts, he reports, the spectrum obtained is a continuous one, Three very sensitive meters, Dr. Compton says, now are engaged in constant cosmic ray measurements to determine changes in intensity. One |is at Cheltenham, Md., near Wash- ington. The others are at Huancayo, | Peru, and Christchurch, New Zealand. 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