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THE lOBBMlflTOa ITE BALD, HERMISTON, OREGON.
YALE MEASURING
OLD EARTH’S AGE
Experiments to Compute
Mineral Life Are Put
Under Way.
New Haven, Conn.—Experiment, to
determine the age of the earth ure now
being conducted at the Sloane
Physics laboratory at Yale, a atate-
1 ment given out revealing the various
attacks on physical problems now be-
: lng nndertaken.
Prof. Alois F. Kovarlk, at the sug-
■ gestlon of a committee of the Na
tional Reseurch council engaged in
the discussion of methods for deter
mining the age of the earth and of
the materlnla which compose its crust,
has undertaken the chemical and ra
dioactive analysis of certain minerals
containing large quantities of uranium
and thorium. Thia experimental ma-
j terlal will serve to check Prof. Ko-
varlk’s new formula for computing the
! age of mineral from Its content of
radioactive elements and from the
I amount und atomic weight of Its lead.
Part of thia lead In all cases has a
; radioactive origin.
CONQUISTADORES TOUCHED
FIRST AT WOMEN'S ISLAND
There They Set Up Flret Cross In
New World on Ruins of
Maya Temple.
Mexico
City.—The
first
place
touched by the Spanish “conquista-
dorea" on their way to the American
mainland to explore the New world,
was an Island In the Caribbean off
Quintana Roo, the Inaccessible Jungle
territory of tropical Mexico.
This Island, called “lala Mujeres,"
nr “Women's Island,“ today la a sunny
strip of coconut palms along a beach HFRMISTON TO HAVE
of silver Rand. It Is a perfect aettlng
THEATRE WITH VITAPHONE
for a treasure Island, with Its many
natural caves.
In a deal completed tho firs t of
When the Spanish conquerors land
ed at lala Mujeres they found the re this week Vernon Seitz of La Grande
mains of a Maya temple where female owner of Columbia Theatre In Her
Idols were worshipped. Here they set
up the first cross In the New world,
upon the remains of the temple. These
ruins have been washed away for
years.
On Isla Mujeres there la an am
bitious little school, attended by about
eighty of the Island’s 350 Inhabitants.
The school has three teachera. bike
moat Mexican rural schools, this one
has a garden. In the garden pink,
white, yellow and blue sea shells are
used by the children to mark off the
patches of lettuce and beans.
The
school also maintains an outdoor the
ater, where children recite poems,
execute their native dances and sing.
The Inhabitants of Isla Mujeres
are cordial and hoapltnble to visitors.
Among the Island dwellers Is an old
man, who Is alwnys pleased to wel
come strangers, and Invariably finds
an opportunity to tell them proudly
about hit 43 children who live In Payo
Obispo, ucrosa the water on the main
land.
Once a month a ship touches the
Island, coming from Progreso, In
Yucatan. Recently thia ship left a
radio sending and receiving set in the
island, but ao far not much lias been
accomplished In the way of establish
ing communication with the outside
world. There Is no post office on the
Island, and no telegraph service.
Extensive Experiments.
An extensive aeries of experiments
■ on the mobility of gaseous Iona under
; carefully controlled conditions la be
, lng completed by Prof. John Zeleny.
The Interest in thia work In the scien
tific world Is great because of the
widely divergent opinions held by dif
ferent Investigators as to the nature
and history of the carriers of elec
tricity In gases at approximately at
mospheric pressure.
Prof. Zeleny’a
papers on strlne In the electrical dis-
- charge at low pressures will appear
shortly.
Prof. Lonla \V. McKeehan, director
of the laboratory, la preparing for
publication experimental material col
lected during the past few years In
regard to the changes of electrical
resistance which may be produced In
metnl wires by magnetic fields paral
lel to their length, by tension, or by
combination of these two agencies. The
results Indicate In some degree how
Taxless Town May Lose
the atoms In metals change In mutunl
aspect under externally uppllcd forces.
Incorporation Status
He la also continuing studies In the
Son Joaquin, Calif.—This municipal
elastic behnvlor of metals and alloys ity, the San Joaquin valley's only tax
and Its explanation on the basis of less city, finds that being free of taxa
atomic properties.
tion la not what It's cracked up to be
and may return to the status of an
Precise Measurement,.
F ro t Charlton D. Cooksey and his unincorporated town.
Sentiment to I but end has been In
brother, Donald Cooksey, who Is an
the process of crystallization for some
Honorary Fellow In Physics, have Just
time and now a definite move la un
completed a very precise measurement
der way sponsored by the chamber of
of the wavelengths of the principal
commerce.
characteristic X-rndlatlnn of silver.
It Is declared that dissolution of
They are preparing n report upon the
method of measurement which Is con the municipal corporation will bring
ndded beneflta to the citizen« through
sidered unique, and upon the treat
ment of experimental data, the collec the county hoard of supervisors, while
a city that levies no taxes can do noth
tion of which has required several
ing for Its population.
years of Intensive work.
Dy Increasing the county tnx levy
Prof. William W. Watson, who Is
fractionally, police and fire protec
now In residence after a year’s work
In Gottingen, is, with the assistance of tion and street Improvements could
William Bender, an Instructor In the be made by the supervisors, where
as zuch advantages, when provided
physics laboratory, attacking several
by the city, would necessitate a sub
problems In the Zeeman effect, I. e.,
stnntlal levy of taxes, proponents of
the separation of spectral lines Into
the dissolution assert.
components of different frequency
when the source emitting the light Is
subject to the action of Ah Intense
magnetic field. The magnet they are ¿ ♦ ♦ ♦ « ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ g
using for thia work Is the large magnet
SCHOOL NEWS
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recently purchased with part of the >
Sloane fund.
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Human Sacrifice« in
Africa Are Charged
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The Hermiston grade school boya’
and girls’ baseball teams played Um a
Johannesburg.— Secret human aacrl tilla last Friday, the glrla w inning
flees to the evening star still take ind the boys losing.
place deep In the forests and moun
The basket social sponsored by the
tains of northern Rhoder-ls and I’ortu Sasubnll boya was hold last Friday.
gneae Eoat Afrlcn, according to Dr May 9, In tho auditorium w ith quite
I-eo Frohenlus, the eminent German a numbor of people present. Danc
archeologist, who has been engaged
ing and card playing was enjoyed
for some years In probing the mys
the first of the evening after which
te ry o f Zimbabwe ruins and the an
the baskets were auctioned off and
cient culture of southern Afrlcn.
" It Is a thing which no native com sold to tho highest bidder. About
missioner will ever admit," said the JS.00 was cleared.
Mias Im nia Thoeny,
who
la a
doctor, “but my Investigations have
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proved definitely that human aacrl
flees are carried out to thia very day
la the secret places. We are still In
vestlgatlng and hope soon to learn
the secrets of the sacrificial cere
mony.”
Slain Crocodile Had
Weakness for Women
London.—The British sportsman, K.
Guineas, has returned from a
banting trip on the Gambia river In
British West Africa with the skin of a
crocodile which had a “weakness for
women.’’ The following objects were
found In the animal’s stomach:
Eight long strings of beads, auch as
native women wear; a necklace of
smaller bends; an ornamental bred
such as native women wore more thnn
100 years ago; two silver enrrlng»;
the bottom of a Jam Jar, and the neck
of a bottle.
Lee
raduate of Oregon Norm al school
nd graduates from Oregon State col-
'legf In June, has beeu elected to
:leb
Itca
¡teach the fourth grade In the local
ach
hools the coming year.
She has
had four years of teaching expert
cnce, her last year being taught lr.
Silverton, Oregon.
A school board meeting for d is
tric t number 9 was held at tho office
of Superintendent Shaw Monday eve
ning where the regular routine of
business waa transacted.
Tuesday
evening In the sarpe office the school
board for district number 14 met for
a business meeting.
starting the 15th of May to L. A . ’*
Moore of Burna, Oregon who w ill *
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Mra. M. T. M atott was In Pendle
9 + and children Jane and Jimmy.
ton Monday.
uilaton leased the building for 5 years «• MTHTHEUATTA H EW S NOTES *
J. M . Thom Jr. was fishing at
Miss Georgia Thom la spending the
take the theatre over w ithin the next v
Celilo Sunday.
week at W allowa.
few weeks. A t this time the interior +
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Mra. M. E. Root and son M arvin
Miss Barbara Root spent the week
and exterior of the building w ill be
(B y G rice R o d da))
end v is itin g w ith friends In Board- returned home Sunday after a short
remodeled and redecorated and all
visit w ith relatives In Boardman.
Mr. and Mra. W . A. H lnellne in
man.
modern equipment w ill be installed ored to M ilton Sunday to visit Ml
Mra. Gladys Comstock, Pete Sheri
including a vitaphone machine. M r. H in elln e’s parents, M r. and Mrs
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dan and daughter M ary Jane, visited
Moore stated that he does not like F, W illiams. They were accompan- la Echo Sunday w 1th relatives.
H E R A L D W A N T ADS
to state definitely when work w ill] : ------— __ ___ !
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be started on the theatre but he did
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state th at it would be in the very
near future and that when things
did get going they would do them, ur
in a hurry and that the best pictures
available would be shown.
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