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Page Four LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, LA GRANDE, ORE. Wednesday, Januai'yl, 1030 SCIENCE LISTS MANY TRIUMPHS t ? Year of 1929 One of Ac complishment, Hundreds Of Advances Made. liy Jfmvnnl W. lJlakcslec Hcience KM it or (Associated Press Feature. Service) NEW YORK (AP Krom Mynl and Wllkins aloft In planed over Antarctica und JJndberKh over tliu Mayan JuiikIch to such non-spec-tueular achievements us that of two young Oernmn chemlwts who N)Ut hitherto Indivisible hydrogen, earth's simplest element, science niad0 hundreds of udvuneea in 1929. Most of them ate considered routine by scientists with Die time Htlll years awuy when their Im portance may he evaluated. In evolution Dr. Austin If. Clark ot Washington udvunced data to show that new species can com inio exisicnco quicKiy, winie ui Curneg I u Institution, HI. Louis Unl- i versity, the University of California and many other places, radium und X-ruy emanations were shown to ho an influence in producing changes in species. Among very practical develop ments were finding of better mine k'oa protection by the U. H. bureau of mines, an Improved egg preser vation method at Cornell, a means of keeping fish fresh for a year In Canada, a non-cxploslvo film mude of cloth at Pittsburgh, a caterpillar tractor two-boat on tho Tennessee river, the Hporry rall-1'lssuro de tector ' traveling over tho major American railways, and a tele phone dial that speaks numbers. Health research provided many advances. At Yale, a method of treating pneumonia by carbon diox ide was announced. At Harvard, Michigan, Kentucky Agricultural experiment station and other places better or cheaper remedies for por nlclous anemia were fouhd. '; Europe and America developed numerous advanced cancer treat ments, without finding a remedy, ' and in tho United Hlnten the path ologists of itockofeller Institute re- ported ovidence that they are a llttlo closer to tho extermination of tuberculosis In a cooperative re search carried on by 17 American scientific institutions. Dr. KiHeher In Oermuny made Uifl red blood corpuscles syntheti cally for the first time. New meth ods wore reported of extracting hormones useful for delaying the ravagos of ago in men, and prom Islng relief for some feminine Ills. Kludy of light produced a sun light picture screen In Kngland and apparatus by Halrd to materialize before tho eye, things hidden by , darkness or behind fog. The use of ultra-violet ray spread so widely ; that medical authorities warned i tho public not to overdo. Tho Eastman Kodak company took motion pictures willi tho aid i of invisible intra-red rays, the IT. H. bureau of standards developed ! artificial daylight us "real" as that1 of a Juno day, and (be General 1'Jleclrlc company produced light that changes Us colors with flue. ; tuntlons in the electrical current. I At tho University of Iowa and j numerous oiln-r places voice vlh rations traced In light were used to train musicians. Ktmilar trans- latlons of sound into tight were experimented with for helping the j deaf to see what they cannot hear. Yale established an Instilutu of i human relaliuim to tie In all i branches of science with human u I fairs and Cornell launched an undertaking of the same order. A few of JUL'tt'H developments to indicate the range of scientific ex- , ploratlon are smokeless tobacco, , nou-tnflaiiimablo papi-r. gasoline J made electrically at the Unlversily ! i of Minnesota, gasoline made from ! fir trees, bromine made from sea Ml water, a silver water filter, weigh ing of eatheu dams at Massachu setts Institute of Technology, soud to make heart beat and sound hi reveal chemical composition ol liquids. The IT. S. naval observatory has a new imthod of determining lime, Kinsti'ln said that gravllallou and electricity are related, u Canadian underwater listening device heard icebergs six utiles distant, and the Roosovclts brought a new bear from AhIii., KNOW Tllllllt AI TOS MADRID (Al' Alfonso an. I 3'rtmo know llii-ii- nntontulillt'ti. In iltffurcnl i:ui-h IiIiik ami im-inti'i- bc cumo cntuiiKli'il In irufrir. 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