CENSOR CUT THIS OUT ONCE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23024, 15 August 1949, Page 6

CENSOR CUT THIS OUT ONCE

NEW YORK, During the war, when an attempt was made to cable a message like this to other countries, the censor said a little breathlessly: “You can't send this. We are stopping it.” A wartime expedition was up in the Rocky Mountains on cosmic ray research. Only when the first atomic bomb exploded in New Mexico was the censor’s excitement explained. Recently a peacetime cosmic ray expedition was announced. The U.S. National Geographic Society is sending it to Canada's Churchill, well up towards the North Pole, the wartime jumping-off place for Britain-bound aircraft ferries. There they will . send balloons 20 miles into the air with geiger counters, the machines which register atomicradiations. By counting the rays they will test the'theory that the rays are more intense near the Poles than at the Equator. Whatever may be their interest in the density of the rays, the fact is that tlie U.S. Air Force and Canada’s National Defence Board support the expedition.