Germans Build Powerful Experimental X-Ray Tube
Two German professors F Lange and A Brasch of the University of Berlin presented a three foot X-ray tube at the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Pasadena. Disregarding common laws of X-ray construction they used rubber paper aluminum and old oil to create a device more powerful than all radium and beyond prior K-ray tubes. Leading authorities including W D Coolidge M A Tuve and others witnessed the unveiling of a potentially landmark advancement in high voltage science.
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Walter B. Clausen
Pasadena
Cal
Benjamin Franklin
F. Lange
A. Brasch
University of Berlin
American Association For the Advancement of Science
W. D. Coolidge
General Electric Laboratory
M. A. Tuve
Carnegie Institution
Washington
D. C
Lautitsen
California Institute of Technology
Miss Universe crown goes to Netta Duchateau at Galveston pageant
Netta Duchateau, 17, with flashing dark eyes and long dark hair, is named Miss Universe by judges at the Galveston international beauty contest in Texas. She weeps in joy after defeating Anne Patterson, Miss United States, on the final ballot.
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Netta Duchateau
Galveston
Tex
Miss Duchateau
Anne Lee Patterson
United States
X ray tube progress and German innovations noted
Alexander Goetz of Pasadena read a paper on X-ray tube advances tied to Professor Lange and Brasch figures from Swiss Alps experiments. The report describes a 1,000,000 volt tube, German paper and rubber constructions, and claims 7,000,000 work tubes potential while pondering cosmic ray and cancer applications.
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Alexander Goetz
Pasadena
Lange
Brasch
Science
Swiss Alps
Franklin
Coolkdge
Tuve
Lauritsen
Five Day Working Week For Shopmen
H J Carr vice president of the International Association of Machinists said southern railroad shopmen voted to accept a five day working week to reduce expenses. Details to be worked out and a meeting to finalize arrangements would be held soon.
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Washington
H. J. Carr
International Association of Machinists
Southern Railroad
Carr
Pantages faces retrial as jury deadlocks in major case
Alexander Pantages and three co defendants faced a retrial date tentatively set for July 13 after a 24 hour deliberation produced nine acquittals and three convictions. The district attorney prepared to obtain Lydia Nitto birth records from Genoa Italy to verify her age amid testimony she was 17 but defense witnesses claimed she was 22. Pantages Shreve Olive Clary Day and William Jobelmann are accused of conspiracy and contributing to the delinquency of a minor by bringing Miss Nitto from Hollywood to a hotel in a Hollywood talent and labor dispute context.
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Alexander Pantages
Genoa
Italy
Lydia Nitto
Miss Nitto
Pantages
Jesse H. Shreve
Olive Clary Day
William Jobelmann
Hollywood
Buenos Aires opens four mile subway line
An October event references a trial that began on May 25. The article notes Buenos Aires inaugurated a four mile long subway. It mentions a Ferris wheel named after its inventor, George W. G. Ferris, an American engineer and steel bridge builder born in Galesburg, Illinois, in 1859.
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George W. G. Ferris
Galesburg, Jr
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