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HERALD AND NEWS. Klamath Falls. Ore. Frirlav. Aucust 14. 1959 PAGE 9 A Bands Of WASHINGTON (NEA) Scores : of criminals are discovering each year that a prison sentence in stead of a pot of gold lies at the end of the rainbow. FBI agents have learned how to use the multi colored band of light to track them down. This conversion of one of na ture's scenic wonders into a crime detection device is accomplished by two amazing contraptions in the FBI's Washington. DC, lab oratory. They are the spectro . graph and the spectrophotometer. They are standard instruments in most physical and chemical laboratories, but their application . to criminal detection is not gener ' ally known. One of their uses at the FBI ; Is to identify tiny unknown bits ' of evidence found at crime scenes . Another is to compare tell-tale ' clues, such as threads, slivers of . metal and spots of paint with sim ilar material found on a suspect They are phenomenally accurate. The spectrograph is used to loenuiy me metallic elements in substances like paint, glass and - metal alloys. Here's how it works: The substance is placed between two electrodes and set on fire with ! an electric arc. Light from the burning object is funneled through a small slit to strike a prism. When it passes through the prism . it is separated into its compon ent colors. Each color has a different light frequency or wave length which is registered on a photographic plate as a black line called a spec trum line. Each natural element nas us own cnaracteristic spec trum line. Thus, by checking the lines on the chart, an agent can determine the exact chemical make-up of the evidence. v One famous case, which the spectrograph helped solve, in volved a Jacksonville, 111., butcher who was gunned down in a rob bery. As the robber fired, the victim took a swing at him with a meat cleaver. The cleaver only struck the gunman s overcoat Sleeve. When police located a suspect, they sent his overcoat and the meat cleaver to the FBI lab. Agents found a brown -rabbit hair on the instrument. Several brown rabbit hairs were also found in the cloth of the coat. A spectrographic comparison was made. It showed that the hair on the cleaver had been colored with the same metallic dye used to color the rabbit hairs on the coat. The suspect confessed. Spectrophotometers are u s e d to identify and compare "non metallic substances. There are four types of these instruments vis ible, infrared, ultraviolet and X-ray. . The visual spectrophotometer is often used to compare different samples of paint or dye to deter mine if they could have come from the same object. The device contains an incandescent light which is focused on the face of a prism. As in the spectrograph, the prism breaks the light down into the colors of the rainbow The sample of evidence, which has been prepared in the form of a transparent solution, is then placed under each color of light. Another instrument records the percentage of wave lengths from each color that are' absorbed by the sample. Each element will ab sorb a different amount of the var ious light rays. . , The results are automatically tabulated on a graph. Thus, sanv pies that produce identical graphs were colored with the same aye. This is often a strong indication that they came from the same object. During one Ohio burglary in vestigation, police found that a bot tle of red ink had been spilled at the scene of the crime. A suspect was arrested and red stains found on his clothes. The stained cloth and a sample from the ink bot tle were sent to the FBI lab. They were compared under the spectro photometer. The lest showed that they contained the same dye. The infrared ray and ultra vio let ray spectrophotometers are used to identify and compare sub stances like rubber, plastics and drugs. Like the visible spectropho tometer, they identify substances by recording how much of the rays the samples absorb. JThe X-ray spectrophotometer is used to identify crystals. It reveals the identity of an unknown crys talline compound bj recording how the rays bend when striking the sample. Aid FBI Light TECHNICIAN PREPARES a minute specimen of paint for analysis on the FBI laboratory's spectograph. i""r 11,1 " 1 i , I Advent Of Atomic Plane Speeded DR. G. E. MEYER pours the new radiation-resistant rubber at room temperature. Next to tho beaker Is a piece of the rubberized shielding. Meyer heads the group that developed the material at Goodyear Tire and Rubber. .rums of mrmmeoiATe rano? BMUSnCMISSIlfS BASfS 11 tUOOPE ON HAND TAoNODDtR J7 NFGOT IAT1ANS POSSWLF RUSSIAN j jj JSfcT ' ' - " pnaoasra strrs FRANCE wa By RAY CROMLEY WASHINGTON IN E A) - A strange new kind of rubber just developed may revolutionize atom ic travel and atomic defense. It promises to make feasible an atom-powered airplane within the next three to four years. It eventually will make possi ble atom-powered tanks, trains, and conceivably even an atom powered automobile. It may speed man's space trav el by years. It will make it practical tor the first time to make key buildings in major cilirs virtually radiation proof, thus save millions of lives in the event of a Soviet nuclear attack on the U.S. The new rubber, developed by Goodyear Tire and Rubber, is light in weight but absorbs ra diation and withstands very low and very high temperatures. Its major value is its lightness. The groat barrier today in build ing an atomic plane is weight. It now takes a great deal of very heavy Irad shielding to protect the crew. These lead shields wo u 1 d make an atomic plane so heavy it couldn t go very fast, nor carry much. This weight handicap, likewise. would make atomic tanks, atomic space ships, trains, or small atom ic submarines impractical. The great amount of shielding neces sary today would make the radia tion-proofing of large numbers of buildings so expensive as to be ri diculous. The new rubber contains a large amount of hydrogen o slow down the neutrons, and a sizeable amount of powdered metal, to stop the neutrons dead once the hydro gen has slowed them. Only a thin layer of lead behind the rubber is necessary to slop the gamma rays, the X-ray type. Alpha and beta rays are no wor ry- It's the hard-hitting neutrons that are today's major problem. It takes a very thick lead shield to stop them. They do a man a lot of damage. Gamma rays are dev astating to man, too, but behind this rubber shield, a thin lead lay er is enough. The rubber is light, inexpensive. Desertion Case Mulled SEATTLE (API - William A. Snell. 47, of Roseburg. Ore., who pleaded guilty last month to de sertion in time of war. is being held here pending a review of his case, the Navy said Thursday. Snell, also known as Floyd El mer Butler, was arrested in Rose burg March 23 and brought to Sand Point Naval Air Station here lor court martial. He was charged with deserting l'.M4 from Camp Shoemaker, Calif. Snell pleaded guilty July 29 and a court martial board recom mended a dishonorable discharge. a sentence of six months at hard labor and a reduction in rating. He was a ship's clerk 3-C at Camp Shoemaker. The Navy said Rear Adm. Frank Watkins. commandant of the 13th Naval District, is review ing the sentence and can either approve it or recommend its low ering. The admiral's report would be sent to another board of review in San Francisco. It can be poured into place and made solid there. Goodyear men are toying with the idea of pouring it between the outer and inner walls of large buildings as contactors pump insulation into an old house. The rubber would be allowed to set. Thin lead shielding could be at tached without great difficulty. Thus, at relatively low cost, the men and women in a b u i 1 d i n t could be protected. Of course, anyone too close to an atomic explosion would still be killed by the blast. The new rubber likewise offers possibilities for protecting rescue workers in radioactive areas after an attack. Emergency automobiles and trucks could be covered with the new material. They'd be able to rush into a radioactive area quickly. Rescue workers could wear suits of the rubber with hood. With the lead lining, they'd be rather clumsy, but safe. There's even hope that some day a practical lighter-weight, radiation-proof suit can be developed for shock troops, combat soldiers who would push quickly into dangerously-radioactive areas. In Canton, China, more than 500,000 people live in river house boats, according to Encyclopedia Brilannica. LOOK! House Leveling and Concrete Foundations. No Down Payment. 60 months to pay. Phone TU 4-8866. Scuttling Of West Plans Aim Of Red's Khrushchev By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS With threats of retaliation, Ni kita Khrushchev is trying to scut tle plans of the West to ring Russia with missile 'launching sites. , A glance at a map" and" some quick calculations make it' clear why the Soviet premier is work ing so hard to convince mem bers of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) that they should refuse United States offers of intermediate range ballistic missiles (lRBMs), The range of the IRBM is 1,500 miles. Armed with nuclear war heads, they could' rain devastation on much of Russia from launch ing sites in Western Europe (see map). i The NATO missile plan has barely gotten started, however. Great Britain has four squadrons of Thor IRBMs, (each handling 15 missiles. But they are not ready to fire. Defense Secretary Neil McElroy said in late April it has taken longer "to prepare the bases and to install ground equipment than was originally anticipated." Italy, a greed last March to ac cent IRBMs. Two squadrons oi Jupiter missiles will be stationed in northern Italy near Milan, it will be some time before these are ready to fire. Negotiations are under way to locate IRBMs on Greek soil, but no agreement has been reached. NATO has proposed placing IRBM's in The Netherlands, France and Turkey. So Jar, only Turkey has announced its willing ness to accept them. When a nation accepts missiles,! it agrees that any decision to fire them will require the joint ap proval of its government and NATO's supreme headquarters. President Eisenhower told Con gress the program was undertak en because Russia "left no doubt that the most modern and de structive weapons of all times were being introduced into the Soviet armed forces." He also said, "The introduction of modern weapons into NATO forces should be no cause for con cern on the part of other na tions since NATO is a purely de fensive alliance." " . Khrushchev obviously doesn't agree. On May 26, while visiting Al bania, the Russian leader said: If the governments of Italy and Greece permit the Americans to set up rocket bases on their terri tory then it is possible that we will be forced to arrange with the government of , , ., Albania to set up something against them. And it you put medium range rockets in Albania, they will be able to cover all Italy." LONE RANGERETTES FEARED HOLLYWOOD (UPI) - The Lone Ranger expressed some fear today that the next generation's cowboys may all be girls. He hopes not, but, he said, they're leading two to one in a contest to find the child who can yell the loudest: "Hi Yo Silver!" village Short-circuited COLUMBUS, Ohio (UPI) - A court ruled Wednesday that one electric current may not be forced to check up . on the activities of another electric current. The vil lage of Minerva lost its fight to force the Ohio Edison Co. to sup ply power for one clock in the Minerva Municipal Light and Power Co. plant. The village said it wanted the outside - power fluctuations. Back in Moscow in early June, Khrushchev said: "I believe that the governments of Italy and Greece will be sensible and will not agree to subject their peo ples to danger." He also warned "To put rocket installations into motion means to start a world war, to ' plunge the peoples of peaceful countries into its abyss." Khrushchev proposed a "rocket free, non-atomic zone" in the Bal kans. A few days later, he pro posed a similar zone in the Bal tic Sea area, suggesting that Den mark and Norway withdraw from NATO. A year ago, Foreign Minister Adam Rapacki of Poland with Russia's backing proposed a nu clear-free zone in central Europe. Nothing came of that plan for the same reason nothing is likely to come of Khrushchev's: West ern doubts that Russia is sincere. While the Rapacki plan was be ing debated, Norwegian military officials said they had information that Russia already had built IRBM launching platforms in East Germany, Poland and Czech oslovakia. A short while later, West 'Germany charged that a So viet rocket fortress, armed with IRBMs and other nuclear wea pons, was being erected in East Prussia. 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