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...March Dr. Compton, declining a chance to be president of Princeton University, set out with a 250-lb. machine to watch cosmic rays on Pacific mountaintops in Panama, Peru, New Zealand, Hawaii, Alaska. His preliminary report last week flatly contradicted Dr. Millikan's findings. Dr. Compton found "definite differences in the intensity of the cosmic rays at different latitudes, with a minimum at or near the Equator and increasing intensity toward the North and South Poles." These differences made him suspect that cosmic rays were streams of electrons, particles of electrically charged matter. More upsetting to Dr. Millikan...
Died. Edwin Follett Carter, 22, Dartmouth graduate, son of Edwin Farnham Carter, vice president of American Telephone & Telegraph Co.; in Brookings, S. Dak. He was on his way to Alaska with Walter Sherman Gifford Jr., 14, son of A. T. & T.'s president. Young Gifford, just learning to drive, failed to note a turn in the road, drove the car into a ditch. Carter was thrown out, his neck broken. Young Gifford, his left arm crushed, was whisked to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn...
...last week, dated June 19, came the first regulation issue of the Chitina (Alaska) Weekly Herald to be published since its 13-year-old assistant editor & circulation manager William Alfred ("Billy") Moore drowned in the Copper River (TIME, June...
Were American Indians Polynesians? Ales Hrdlicka (Smithsonian anthropologist now in Alaska) is certain that Mongolian-like peoples traveled across Bering Strait and eventually became Amerinds. Helen H. Roberts (of Yale's Institute of Human Relations) last week argued that Amerinds were originally Polynesians transported by canoe from the Pacific Islands. The Polynesian and American aborigines seem to have made cultural contacts long before European ships joined the two primitive races. Mis Roberts bases her arguments on 60 remarkable similarities between Polynesian and Amerind customs. Both groups make flutes of human bones, blow them through their noses, have conches for trumpets...
...naval loss during the World War. Operating in peace time under the Treasury Department, the chief business of the 11,966 officers & men and 350 vessels of the Coast Guard is saving lives & property, not shooting 'leggers. They bring the only touch of civilization to remote corners of Alaska, succor Mississippi River flood victims, rescue bathers on the Great Lakes, conduct the international North Atlantic iceberg patrol which was instituted in 1914 after the Titanic disaster. Last week the Coast Guard got a new commandant...