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Astronomy Notes
By OLAF HALVERSON
There are possibilities of life on
| some of our planets. Probably
I there is life on Venus, possibly on
I Mars, with Mercury very doubt
! ful and more probably lifeless.
The moon will not be considered
for it is believed that it is dead
long ago even if it ever had any
form of life upon it.
It may be that some world of
our solar system has ceased to
bear life and it has been suggested
that possibly Mars is such a
world. It is probable that some of
the planets are not in a life-bear
ing condition and can be cam
pared to a tree in the orchard
which has not obtained maturity
yet.
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and
Neptune are considered worlds of
the future because their low den
sity and other considerations re
veal they are not now suitable for
life. We do not know for certain
ty if there is life on any other
planet.
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Police Seize Salesman
$1,500,000 in Debt
PHOENIX, Ariz., —A roly- !
poly salesman admitted to police
today he is Harry Lester, 42-year
old premium broker wanted in
Buffalo, N.Y. for $1,500,000 worth
of debt.
Police and FBI agents said Les
ser, whose real name is Hyman
Trugman, left Buffalo in Novem
ber 1954 owing that amount.
Known in the east as “Mr. Five
by Five,” Lester stands about 5
l'eet, 5 inches, and weighs about
• 250 pounds.
MISSION A SUCCESS
SYDNEY, Australia, UP)—Four
American Pacific Fleet destroyers
left Sydney yesterday in a welter
of lipstick, tears and farewell
kisses.
More than 200 girls were at the
wharf to bid farewell to 1,000
sailors manning the Porterfield,
Marshall, Gregory and Halsey
Powell.
The destroyers had been in
Sydney five days on a goodwill
j visit.
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Strange Animals
Brought Back
From Ice Island
LOS ANGELES, Iff) — Marine
animals that look like twigs and
sponges which have the texture
of glass are among the strange
specimens brought back by a
scientist from the ice island which
floats in a vast circle 100 miles
from the North Pole.
Charles Horvath, a researcher
and graduate student at the Uni
versity of Southern California,
has spent more than a year on
the U.S. Air Force floating base
known as Fletcher’s Ice Island.
This great block of ice, 9 miles
long and 4Yi miles wide, drifts
at the rate of a mile a day from
Ellesmere Island down the coast
of northern Alaska and back to
a point near the Pole. It has be
come a scientific center for ocean
bottom studies — a substitute for
ships which are unable to sail
within 100 miles of the pole.
While dredging the ocean
around the 180-foot-thick ice is
land, Horvath and his party pull
ed up the twig-like animals, a
species of barnacle. They also
found the unusual sponges, Hor
vath said, in an interview.
These, said Horvath, are re
lated to the softer sponges found
in coral reefs off the Florida coast,
but the Arctic sponges contain
silica. They are far too scratchy
for bathtub use, he observed.
Study , of the “living twigs,”
Horvath said, indicates that the
temperature of the water 2,000
years ago was much warmer than
it is now. The twigs were brought
up from a depth of 2,250 feet.
"As for ‘tasting cold,’ when you
open your mouth in 60 - degree
below-zero weather it is like
having someone stuff down your
throat a rag soaked with alum,”
Horvath related. “The expression
‘bitter’ cold really is descriptive,”
he said.
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