Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-07-18 | Page 4 | Freaks and Oddities

F FREAKS R EA K Sand and o ODDITIES D DI T IE S S1 1 IN N S SCIENCE C I E NeE NEW NEWS NEWS- SHeres SHere's S- S Heres Here's another reason why it Is useless to dodge to-dodge dodge when lightning seems to be striking from storm clouds the clouds the flash may jump at you Ou from the ground Scientific proof of ot this LIGHTNING is announced by J J. J C. C Jensen of STRIKES UP Nebraska Wesleyan university AS WELL Negative lightning as well as AS DOWN positive branches both up and down and that the negative flash Is the more deadly The general scientific belief bellef has been that the branching seen in in- ina a a- lightning flash goes from positive to negative clouds clouds' or earth The Nebraska physicist laid a lightning nerve in the soil an soil an arrangement of wires showing whether the ground was positive or negative He lie set setup up automatic cameras to photograph lightning He obtained pictures pictures' o of flashes lashes and along alone with each an automatic record from the ground nerve showing whether the soil soU was was was' positive or negative Sometimes It was one sometimes the other othe Eight of the pictures showed lightning branching branchIng branch branch- ing upward Four of ot these upward came from positive ground and four from nega- nega both tive-both both kinds of ot lightning striking up More Important scientifically Jensen showed negative lightning branching downward but with the the- outstanding difference that the negative strokes branched less frequently than the positive Negative flashes were inclined to be one solid soUd pure stream of ot lire fire lightning apparently concen concen- This offers an explanation of r recent cent discoveries dis dis- dis engineers that when the thoUghts lights go out during thunder storms the cause Is likely to be a flash froma troma negative cloud The negative strokes are much more severe than H 71 Exploring a a. ruined city in the e Jungles S of Vera VeraCruz U Cruz Enrique Enrique- Juan PalacIos Mexican gOvernment government government govern gOvern- ment archeologist has discovered new clues to prehistoric events In Mexico The most Important discovery reported is 18 that the Mayan system of hieroglyphic writing was known to the Indians who lived In this southeast region of Mexico