, Man Far Outdone In Mathematics
By Devised Electrical Monster
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 23.-4.P The long dreamed of day of
the thinking machine may be nearer than you imagine.
Scientist have invented an electrical monster that can per
form any mathematical exercise and can memorize more than
500 numbers.
This giant brain, using wires
;"AJcoiiVin?!e?.d 1'"?! as the Eniac. It performed very
nac. It is the second electronic
brain created by J. Presper Eck
ert Jr.. 30, and John M. Mauchly,
42, former University of Pennsyl
vania physicists.
Details of the Binac were dis
closed Sunday for the first time.
Eckert and Mauchly put the ma
chine through a test run in which
it did 500,000 additions and 200,
000 multiplications in two hours.
A man working with an adding
machine would have taken years
to do the same computing.
Eckert said it isn't true that the
machine can think right now. But
In the future?
"We don't know that it's Im
possible for these machines to
think," said Eckert.
Binac's predecessor was known
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times bigger and can't operate
as fast. Eniac weighs 30 tons,
Binac less than on .
Eckert and Mauchly now are
at work on their third automatic
computer. That one will be called
the Univac and it will be far su
perior to either of the others.
Univac will be able to do al
most anything. The first two Uni
vacs produced will plav each oth
er a game of chess. Eckert said
they may even be able to write
music.
After Univac, what?
Eckert was asked whether the
day will come when each of us
has a mechanical man at his
beck and call to do his thinking
for him?
"That's a distinct possibility,"
the serious-minded young scien
tist asserted. "At the moment,
any problem that can be trans
lated into mathematical terms
can be solved by the machines."
Woman Operator Of
Elevator Heroine At Fire
PITTSBURGH. Aug. 23. (JP)
A woman elevator operator
braved a $15,000 fire Thursday to
carry scores of terrified persons
from the upper floors of a burn
ing office building.
Two persons were burned and
a third was treated for hysteria.
The flames were confined to a
Jewelry firm's office on the sec
ond floor of the six story Buhl
building in downtown Pittsburgh.
The elevator operator. Sally
Rahn, 32, made two trips until
heat forced her to take over an
other elevator. Then she made
two more trips with near-panicked
passengers until 'smoke and
heat caused her to abandon the
car.
Meanwhile, scores of other per
sons who were working or visit
ing offices in other parts of the
building raced down stairways to
, the street.
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$250 000 SNAPSHOT Actress Sonja Henle (left) has 1250.000 worth
of ne'r laDuioua jewel collection photographed tor the police record.
They were photographed In Los Angeles to halt valuable gem thefta
from Hollywood personalities and socialites whose losses thus far
this year exceed $1,700,000. John Sayler (right), Insurance gem ex
pert, said photographs are invaluable In retrieving stolen gems.
Quix Program Joke Costs Victim Texas-N. Y. Phone Call
Unfit Blood Offered By Vagrants ForilL!-23' "49-Th rWR.vi.w, R0bUr,, ore. s
Liquor Money Rapped By WCTU Head
ABILENE, Tex.. Aug. 23. (.T)
Mrs. Charles Lusk aidn't win
aib.wu. tnsieaa. sne is oui ine
cost of a telephone call to New
York.
Late Thursday. Mrs. Lusk an
swered her telephone and a call
er said he was the master of
ceremonies on a national quiz
radio program.
He played two records back
wards .asking Mrs. Lusk to iden
tify the singers on the first rec
ord and the melody of the sec
ond. She gave him some answers
and he shouted:
"Mrs. Lusk vou have Just won
yourself $16,000 in prizes." Then
he reeled off a dizzy list of
awards which included an auto
mobile, furniture and a three
months' paid vacation to Cuba.''
Mrs. Lusk spent a sleepless
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otherr in Abilene had not heard
her name called, she began to
have her doubts.
So she telephoned the quiz pro
gram in New York and learned
she had been the victim of a
practical Joke.
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PHILADELPHIA. Aug. 23 (.11
The president of the Women's
Christian Temperance union
Monday urged charitv blood
banks to stop accepting "obvious
ly unfit" blood from donors seen
ing money to buy liquor.
Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin told the
75th annual WCTU convention
that the practice of selling blood
for drinking funds has become
prevalent among vagrants who
term it "peddling the red."
Referring to an article by Wil
liam J. Slocum in Collier's mag
azine, the WCTU head said the
blood bank practices discussed
were Investigated by the temper
ance organization early this year
In Chicago.
"What our Investigators knew
to be true," Mrs. Colvin said,
"was met with general denials
by clinics and doctors.
"Nevertheless, most clinics us
ing it certainly know where the
blood comes from, and banks
take advantage of the donors by
paying them as little as $3 a pint,
sometimes up to $8, while the
price of most leadins hospitals
for good blood Is $25 to $50.
"Steps by health authorities
are certainly indicated if the
banks and clinics do not stop the
practice."
H. Cecil Heath, of London, gen
eral secretary of the United
Kingdom ttemperancel alliance,
told the convention last night that
drinking brought on a host of
"disasters and near-disasters to
the allied armies" in World War
Two.
"It is unnecessary to remind
an American audience," he said,
"of the part played hv drink in
the Pearl Harbor episode, nor to
enlarge on the fact that an Am
erican major general was reduc
ed to the rank of lieutenant col
onel and sent home from Europe
for disclosing the date of th:
(Normandy) invasion at a cock
tail party."
Sen. Hoey Plans
Bill To Wipe Out
"5 Pet." Racket
SHELBY, N. C, Aug. 23-t.B-Senator
Hoey (D NC) said Mon
day he would Introduce a bill to
regulate so-called "influence
men."
Under Hoey's plan "five per
centers" or management coun
sellors would be required to give
public notice that they were paid
by business clients. Hoey is
chairman of a special Senate sub
committee checking on whether
Improper Influence has affected
certain government transactions.
No one could get by under the
plan. Hoey said, with the decep
tion that he was merely trvlng
lo do a favor for friends seeking
government contracts. .
Every company seeking a con
tract would he required to regis
ter the names of all persons it
has hired to assist it in dealing
with government agencies. Ad
ditionally, any counselllor would
be required to register with the
covernment department he deals
with on any business matters.
Below-Cost Prices Move Pears Into Cold Storage
SEATTLE. Aug. 23. (.V Se
attle fruit shippers reported Mon
day eastern Washington Bartlett
pears are being moved Into cold
storage jerausc growers and can
neries are "miles apart" on prices.
A price of $30 a ton for num
ber one pears has been offered
by the canneries this year, com
pared with $110 in 19-48. Grow,
era say their production costs
amount to around $60 a ton.
Fruit shippers said although
some pears are moving into the
fresh-fruit market on the Cali
fornia price of $2.25 a box, the
bulk of the crop will be placed
in cold storage unless the price
structure changes.
Representatives of the Depart
ment of Agriculture and the pro
duction and marketing admin
istration are IChedlllpri In mrrix,
in Yakima today to establish a
guvt-iiunriu pear-Duying pro
gram. An unknown amount of
the rron will ha tMirs.hna.ul
federal institutions and schools.
When Sultan Sellm I of Turkey
conquered Persia in the 16th cen
tury he included in hii loot a
number of tile makers and took
them back to Turkey.
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