Evening Star Newspaper, April 30, 1937, Page 38

B—18 *%x EARTH GORE HELD “SOLID SOLUTION" Earthquake Specialist Offers Explanation for Behavior of “Waves.” Farth's 2000-mile-thick core was | pictured as a “solid solution” before the American Geophysical Soclety | meeting here today by Rev. Joseph | Lynch, earthquake specialist of Ford- ham University | The material, he said, must be something like the rare metal pal- | ladium, which will absorb and hold in solution, like sugar in water, 900 times its own volume of hydrogen gas. The principle of the solid solution, he said, is well illustrated by trick cigar light- ers recently on the market. One | breathes on a piece of metal. The | gasses in the breath are absorbed and | the metal grows hot enough to light tobacco, but sends out no flame. Quake Waves Explanation. The “solid solution” hypothesis, Father Lynch said, seems to be essen- tial to explain the behavior of earth- | quake waves. There are two kinds of | these waves—those which depend for their properties on change of the vol- ume and those which depend on change in the shape of the medium | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, APRIL 30, GREENBELT CHARGES SLATED FOR MONDAY Resettlement Administration Receive Non-Union Workers’ Discrimination Complaint. By the Associated Press. Representatives of employes at the | discrimination, to project prepared today to lay charges of discrimination against non-union workmen before the Resettlement Ad- ministration. Dr. Mercer G. Evans, labor rela- tions director for the administration, set next Monday for a hearing on the charges. The administration has denied any declaring dismissals necessary because work on the project is nearly completed. - Take More Care in Rain. Be doubly alert on slippery streets going to and from school. When streets are wet, you may slip, or your umbrella may hide a vehicle from your view. Vehicles may skid—cannot stop as quickly. Rain and snow make it harder for the driver to see. through which they pass. The latter cannot pass through a liquid. It is| shapeless, hence its shape cannot | change. It can pass through almost | any kind of solid Tests have shown, Father Lynch eaid, that they actually do pass through the material forming the earth’s core. So the theory that the center of the planet must be a great ball of molten metal cannot be true. | But they do not pass through easily enough to justify the assumption that | it is a solid. i Thus, he said, it becomes necessary | to assume that it is a strange sort nfi liquid-solid. It is probably, he said, | some sort of nickel-iron compound | which will readily hold in solution vast amounts of the gaseous elements | which enter into the planet's make-up. | 2,000 Miles Below Surface. It is certain now., Father Lynch | €aid, that the core starts about 2,000 | miles below the surface. This is de- essentially the same | as those used to determine | the sea by sending sound | WAVES st the bottom and measur- ing the time taken for the echo to return. In this case, earthquake | waves take the place of sound waves They echo against the surface of the | core in the same way. | It is also certain that it is very | heavy. Gravity measurements show that the total density of the planet is | about five and a half times that of | water. The average of the rocks at | the surface is only two and seven- tenths that of water. To make up the difference, the core material must be &bout 11 times as dense as water. COMMUNICATION ACT BASIS OF ARREST Former Manager of Western TUnion to Face Charge of Evading Law. | The first arrest in this jurisdiction under the recent Federal communica- tions act prohibiting telegraph em- ployes from destroying records was made early today when Federal offi- cers took into custody Clarence N. Marshall, former night manager of the Western Union Co. Marshall, until recently in charge at night of the firm's main office at Fourteenth and G streets, was arrested at 1 am. at his home, 61 Rhode Island | avenue northeast, by a special agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and two deputy marshals, Thomas E. Ott and Clayton Gasque. The agent charged in the warrant, issued by United States Commis- sioner Needham C. Turnage, that Marshall failed to make proper record of nine telegrams and of money de- posited by the senders, in violation of section 220, title 47, of the act. Marshall was released under $2,000 | bond pending a hearing on May 4 when | arraigned before Commissioner Need- | ham C. Turnage. He pleaded not guilty. Under the communications law, it is a Federal crime to falsify or destroy records of any message sent by wire | or radio in the regular course of busi- | ness. The F. B. I. began an investi- | gation at the request of company offi- cials, who reported that apparent ir- regularities were indicated by a study | of the firm's records. l | | | MASCOT STILL MISSING The missing mascot of No. 1 pre- einct—a little yellow Kkitten named Hoodles—Iis still missing today, and | her blue-coated masters persist in their | theory of kidnaping. Hoodles was so well fed, they explain, that she couldn't have run away if she was in her right mind. “We think she was snatched,” they say. | *“We fed her milk every day and some- | times meat and sardines.” | Hoodles disappeared last Tuesday | efter two pleasant weeks at the sta- tion house. k ELECTION TO BE HELD The Florida State Society will hold {ts annual election of officers at 8 p.m. Monday in the Washington Hotel. Business policies of the society will be | discussed at the meeting. The offices of president, vice presi- dent, secretary and treasurer are to be | filled at the election. James W. 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