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...Long Beach, Calif, last week. More & more waited in cheerful queues at the Municipal Building to get building permits. No epidemic had erupted. Two minor shocks did not retard inspection of the city's gas mains, some of which were sprung by the earthquake two weeks before. Compton's main street and six blocks in Long Beach were still roped off, but elsewhere in those towns and throughout the stricken area refugees were returning to their homes as fast as the gas was turned...
...lawyer, was grateful for Mrs. Walker's tactful charge of desertion, not adultery. Worried about cash, Mr. Walker was lazily writing magazine articles with Writer Frank Scully and hobnobbing with Banker Otto Hermann Kahn. He had given up writing an autobiography. He said his friend Betty Compton, with whom he is living, had finished her autobiography which "ought to be a swell book because she sure is one swell woman." Of his wife, who once in vaudeville sang his song, "Will You Love Me in December as You Do in May?" and wept in Miami recently when a cabaret...
From the latitude effect on cosmic rays, Dr. Compton deduces that they are magnetically attractable corpuscles of electricity (electrons or protons) and not, as Dr. Millikan has theorized, intractable corpuscles of light (photons...
Another fact on which both savants agree is that there is more than one kind of cosmic ray. Some rays pierce the earth's atmosphere more easily than others. If they are all electrons, those which reach sea level-reasons Dr. Compton-must have as much as thirty billion volts behind them. Dr. Compton's estimate is untenable, argues Dr. Millikan. Photons at five hundred million volts make just as big a splash in an electroscope as might electrons many times stronger...
Caltech's Dr. Paul Sophus Epstein, mathematical physicist, patted the proud heads of both great scholars last week, much as his whimsical friend Dr. Albert Einstein, who still was in Pasadena, might have done. Nobel Laureates Millikan & Compton are both correct in their theories, testified Dr. Epstein. Of cosmic rays which reach earth's atmosphere. 30% are Compton electrons (or protons) and tend to congregate around the magnetic poles. The remaining 70% are Millikan photons, darting right through the air to land...