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Nevertheless photons are electrically neutral, are not swerved by magnetic fields. If the cosmic rays were Millikan photons, they should not tend to cluster about Earth's strongly magnetic poles, to avoid the weakly magnetic Equator. Yet a Dutchman named Clay, traveling from Holland to Java, found a drop in cosmic ray intensity at the Equator. Kolhorster took this to mean that at least some of the rays were not photons of light, but electrically charged particles of matter...
...this point Arthur Holly Compton, already a crowned king of terrestrial radiation, leaped into the cosmic quest. He had an impatient desire to collect a mass of far-flung recordings with the greatest possible speed. Eight cooperating expeditions were to measure the rays in Greenland, Denmark, India, Ceylon, Java, Tibet, South Africa, Eritrea, Spitsbergen, Switzerland. One man was to make records from Peru around the Cape of Good Hope to the U. S. Two Compton men were killed trying to scale Mt. McKinley in Alaska. Dr. Compton himself, with his wife and elder son, set out on a cosmic search...
...East of Java (Universal). An ex-gangster named Red Bowers (Charles Bickford) becomes a leader of men when cast ashore on an island off East Africa together with the crew, passengers and cargo, mostly lions, of the tramp steamer Sea Dragon. East of Java was adapted from Gouverneur Morris' Tiger Island by able Screenwriter James Creelman, and regardless of its minor sins against credulity it has a reckless tempo and a tendency for killing off its cast, unusual and charming as a contrast to the current prissy mode of photographing people who sit around on sofas talking imitation Philip...
...Germany by announcing, "The Rhine- that is where our frontier lies!" (TIME, Aug. 13, 1934), which at face value would mean that between The Netherlands and Germany stands British Air Power. It was Mr. Baldwin's good friend Field Marshal Viscount Allenby who made a mysterious reconnaissance of Java in December 1933 which raised Japanese suspicions to the boiling point. This was followed by a British welcome to the Netherlands Indies fleet at Singapore, with Dutch and British admirals fraternizing, Japanese barred...
...Java Head (Basil Dean) is a conscientious transcription of Joseph Hergesheimer's novel about a New England sea captain and the Manchu Princess he married and brought back from China to early 19th Century Salem. That it is much less exciting on the screen than it was between book covers is due partly to the fact that its English producers fell down badly in the matter of sound recording and partly to the mistake of its U. S. director, J. Walter Ruben, in his apparent supposition that lethargic pace was the proper cinema equivalent of Author Hergesheimer...