Evening Star Newspaper, March 30, 1925, Page 4

MAY REVISE RULES GOVERNING TAYS Maj. Covell Starts Inquiry as to Advisability of Limit- ing Number. Tnauiry has been started by Mai W. B R. Covell, Assistant Engineer tlere should be # gulations governing taxicab opera- ns in Washing T question whether ahould be a 1 n e number of cabs permitted to operate in the nointed out. there ; Three e, 1 present s division of thority ove District companies Aar Utilities Com because they operate f pub! that seek bus controlled by ness ¢ Maj. ssed the belief t day that t 1d one offi the city g ment in charg 21l taxicab matte Maj. Coveil now looking into the situation at t direction of the City Co id will find out how other nearby axicab bu ssioners pervise the Representative Davix P ugo the Fed The Utilities Commission sived a letter from Representative ¢ orizgin of pellagra FEdwin L. Davi messee. in which o expressed the ief that there e hat it was caused | are more taxica Washington than are neces t the mand, “with the resu't he parl ng and cruising of ta rially increases the con Representative Davis taxicab rates should be reduced in the D He pr the amount cabs Utilities Commission fixes rate only for cabs operat from Union Station and hotels ther taxi- cabs are governed 1 T 1l of the Utilities Commis- said today infc ¥ reached him that the nu cabs is to be materially in within the next or 10 days. SCIENTIST SPEAKS AT LENTEN SERVICE Dr. Edwin E. Slosson Discusses Practical Religion at Mid- day Rites at Keith's. ested especiall arged for The religion was emg the differ- ent cl with regard t religic ere is the materia istic cl nd another class which trys to get away from the world for hose 1t which & Religion should not be a means from escape from this world, but should help one to iive in he said The speaicer pointed out that the greatest delivered from the pulpit. but in everyday life while indiyiduals are dealing with their fellow:-me Dr. Slosson said that Christ did ne have a recular church to preach in hut that he went about preaching. denouncing wrong and doing good wherever he coulc itualize the sermons are not His a daily life.” he sald. conducted Rev urray S. Ken . and Dr, T. A Giroover t ayman A vocal s was rendered Helen Howison. Rev. Dr. Jason Nol Plerce will be the aker tomorrow CONSPIRACY. ADMITTED. Luis I. Oberg and John F. Man- ning Confess in Bribery Case. Luis I. Oberg of the local bar, and John F. Man- . a clerk in the Internal Revenue au. pleaded guilty today Justice McCoy, in Criminal Di- to an indictment for con- The men are said to have a third nerson to ac- pt 2 bribe of $100 to in- nce Manning in his decision relat- to a tax matter before the bureau for determination Chief Justice McCo en to serve two vears each in the enitentiary, and placed them on pro bation. Oberg has been disbarred from practice and Manning has lost Attorneys W. E. Leahy Laws appeared for the sentenced the his position and Bolitha J recused RITZMAN FACEé PRISON. World War Officer, Convicted of Fraud, Brought From Texas. Capt. Charles A. Ritzman, formerly nected with Motor ‘Trans “orps during the World War and the only man convicted in the District Supreme Court under war fraud in- dictments, has been apprehended in allas x.. and was brought here by a deputy United States marshal to- day The bond of $2.000 given by Ritz- man for his appearance was recently forfeited by the court zman will have to serve 18 months in the peni- ntiary and has to pay a fine of $150 He was convicted of accepting a bribe of $800 from the Stanley Skid Chain ymmend purchases from the impany for war equipment DAVIS TO SPEAK AT WCAP. Will Give Talk on Washington Opera Company Program. talk “on the mir” ton voted to the work of ‘Washington Co. Mr. Davis’ subject wili b Value of Music in the Commuynity, and he will talk betwee 45 and 8:05 p.m. Charles Trowbridge Tittmann, who won laurels in his interpretation of the role of Ramfis in the company's per- formance of *Aid: will sing two selec- L'Heure Exquise,” by Hahn, and Asleep in the Deep,” by Petrie. The Monday evening talks are given through the courtesy of WCAP. Davis will the first of nz talks de- Wheeler Leaves Capital. Kenator Burton K fRay fc Montana, where he will face trial at Great Falls on April 16 a charge of practicing illegally before the Interier Department in a land caze. Wheeler left to- = - L . Real estate worth $60,000,000 is owned by negroes in the Harlem sec- tion of New Yook City. rvevision of the | major | | aximum spirityal.| \ was to forme: a member | before | Public Health Men Suc- ceeded After Long ! Search. ! G Sty |Many Blind Trails Follow- | ed Before Eventual Victory. faseination of scientific re- search, with discovery ever lurking around the corner. surpasses in in- terest for the finitiated the lure of zzle for the average mortal. An illustration of its re- | wards“may be found in the recent | discovery by Dr. Joseph Goldberger and Dr. W. F. Tanner, both of the ited States Public Health Service, for pellagra in homely | brewers’ veas Pellagra is a disease indigenous to rural communities, displaying mptoms of emaciation, lassi- tude. eruption of the skin on certain portions of the body and, in severe cases, resulting in insanity and death. 1t is found mainly in Ttaly, Spain, Hur the Balkans, Egypt and the war it in the Turkish Armenian_refugees warved by a Spanish phy 1 d from that has been one ng mysteries of the vid. Dr. Goldberger, as- Tanner, has been study- of the disease for 3 gienic labor- {atory in Washington and in rural com- munities outh n of Disease. many curious mis- i the cross-word 1 iisease have ad- . such as the One Ttalian held that it a worm found in water. the main, the Italians have been ent in their contention that it cating spoiled corn. The theory, held for many years, that it was caused by error in diet is he one which has been followed out by Dr. Goldberger and his associates. A report of an Englishman named | Townsend in 1787 on cases of pel- agra observed ini Spain is interesting n the light of the recent discoveries: | The people among whom it origi-| nates eat little flsh in their food; they | | arink little wine. Their usual diet is| Indian eorn, with beans, peas, chest- | nuts, apples. pears. melons, eucum- bers: and even their bread, made of | Indian corn, has neither barm no leaven, but it is unfermented and in {a state of dough. Their drink is water.” Townsend, as well as many others, made significant observation but it was left for the American scientists to trace the right clue. | Wax Scientific Detective. | Dr. Goldberger's studies have been | rried on in th theastern part |of the United States in insane asy-| {lums and other institutions. His| | methods were those of a scientific de- | tective. He studied the diet and habits the symptoms of the disease, and the general treatments which had been blindly applied with varying success throughout the course of vears. In 1915 he proved {hat the disease was caused by a die- deficiency next problem fic factor. This | was caused by »f these people s | was to ixolate the s | has not yet been found, but a cure has been discovered in brewers’ yeast, which must therefore contain the im- portant facte i Dr. Goldberger sal of his studies “The research was done by a process of elimination. Elements or factors of excluded from possibili _" because they were included in large | measure in the diets of those who | |were suffering from the disease. | | diet were ctors of Diet. possibilities were n the components “Then the rowed down to certain factors t. The necessary tomponent is the unknown for which we are still searching. It may be some unknown component such as a vita- min, or it may be a perfectly well known chemical—let us call it €2, Hi | pecuuse there is no such chemical as | ¢, HO4—which is known to chemists { and is used, for instance, in the man- | facture of shoe polish. Nevertheless,| since we have not identified it in t { Sonnection, it is still an unknown. | e Getdberger says further: “The results of the general study of the | brevention of pellagra. begun in the arly fall of 1914, though clearly dem- onstrating the preventability of the disease by means of appropriate diet, did not show what foods or food fa tors were the essential ones. Th modified diet employed in that study, While satisfactorily serving its par- ticular purpose, was relatively ex- { pensive and, it was suspected, in ex- {cass of the minimal requirements. For these reasons it was improbab | that the prescribed diet would be | adopted by households and institu- [ tions of restricted incomes. It was extremely desirable, therefore, 1o at- tempt to devise a diet that was ade- quate to prevent pellagra and at the same time inexpensive. For this, fur- ther investigation was, of course, necessary.’ Value of Vegetables. Previous study of pellagra had siven evidence that vegetables of the bean family—iegumes—might be val- uable in the treatment of the disease. Accordingly a fixed amount of soy | beans was added to the diet of in- imates of the section for colored women of the Georgia State Sani- | tarium. Jailure of the soy bean to { produce the desired results seemed to { indicate that this legume lacked, or, { in the quantities and form in which it | was used, supplied too little of the | essential preventive factor or factors to serve as an adequate pellagra- | preventive supplement to diet. A | similar failure was uoted with the California pea | “The disappointing indications af- | forded by the study of the soy bean and the cow pea,” Dr. Goldberger ex- piains, “led us to turn to a study of | milk, another of the foods that had been included in the diet used in the successful test of pellagra prevention. The results showed that while milk (in the form of buttermilk) was capable of preventing pellagra, cer- tain of the component parts of milk, namely, fresh butter and the inor- ganic minerals, appeared to be de- void of this action. Since certain | other evidence. incidentally brought out, appeared to indicate that none of {the known vitamins were essential | factors the prevention of the dis- ease, there remained for copsidera- tion in attempting to explain the pellagra-preventive action of milk only the quality of its protein, some as yet unrecognized or unappreciated dietary factor, -or a combination of these.” 1t seemed to the experimenters that there was more probability of success with protein than in search- ing for the unknown factor. They administered casein, a protein found in milk and cheese, in large doses to' the inmates of the same institu- I'tion, with some beneficial resuts, but not the success they had anticipated. Similar experiments with dried skim milk seemed to- warrant the conclu- sien that this might have some pel- lagra-preventive action. Experiments With Dogs. Then, through experiments with dogs, which have a disease call black tongue, similar to pellagra in man, they tried brewers' veast on human patients and discovered that it “sup- plied an essential or the essential preventive factor or factors” in the |mind the end is not yet | the frantic THE EVENIN DISCOVERY OF PELLAGRA CURE FASCINATING SCIENCE ROMANCE Upper: DR. JOSEPH GOLGBERGER. Lower: DR. W. F. TANNER. prevention and cure of pellagra. By ruling out the various known vitamins, protein in quanity, and the mineral components of milk, the conclusion | was reached that “in the prevention of pellagra there is concerned a here- tofore unrecognized or unappreciated dietary factor that was contained| abundantly in dried yeast, slight!y| in dried milk, and inappreciably in casein For practical results the experi- ment is completed. Brewers' yeast | has been proved a cure for this But to the scientific reuched. Dr. Goldberger and his associates are now engaged in searching out the ex- act fdentity of the unknown factor con- tained in the brewers’ yeast BODY IS IDENTIFIED BY TAYLOR AS WIFE vecuilar disease. {population is 48 WASHINGTO CITY'S POPULATION NEAR HALF MILLION Directory Discloses Resi- dents Number 485,375. e of Washington's only 14,625 short The latest est of half a million The estimate was made today by the publishers of Boyd's City Direc- tory, the 1925 edition of which is now eing circulated. The approximation hed by multiplying the total of individual names in the ectory, 194,150, by two and one-half to account for the names of women and children that do not appear in the hook. The result is supposed to be very close to the actual number of persons in the District of Columbia {today The increase in population over the stimate of last year, arrived at similarly, is 3,155. At this rate the population will have gone over the 500,000 mark in the next five years Statintical Review. A statistical review included in the introduction gives the assessed valua- tion of real estate in the District of Columbia as $767.05 net bonded debt. June 30, 1924 041.89: per- lovy, $4.746,234.87; banks com capital, surplus, $20 000: de- ,899,000; loans, $212,517.000; 23, £1,082,100,000; value ilding operations exclusive of Federal construc- a decrease over 1924 buildings, 2,012, a new upartments ildings, & decrease sonal tax and _trust The fotal fire loss during the year was $1,021.431. a $1,052,665 over the preceding the total number of arrests made by during vear was 72,234 compared with 58 for the pre- ceding year. The grand total of 1i- censes collected was $519,094.52 from the following sources: Motor vehicle tags, operators’ permits, miscellane- ous licenses, engineer licenses, and duplicate tags: amount colle the preceding year was $612,855 the number of planted along the curbs in the streets at the close of vear; trees | the year was 104,294 Public School Enroliment. blic school enrollmer 75,67 711 being being colored. The sewerage t was white and 22,522 total cost of the system to was $16,432,29847 ‘and_ the sewage- dizposal systen, $6,015.232.96, making a total cost of th pmplete system, $22.4 1.43. There are street lights of all kinds in the trict, a net increase over 1925 of 567 lamps. The water works have a capacity of 70,000,000 gallons. mean daily con- sumption, 64,069,344 he publishers remind the public that a library of city and county di- rectories and State gazetteers is maintained by them in their offices, 911 G street, for the use of patrons and the public, and that in order to broadcast information concerning the city, its features and activities. copies of the District of Columbia Directory directory DROWNED ON NOV. 7 & S0 nitinea fnan o the turser (Continued from First Page) Rockville today ex- thanks and appreciation for the interest his friends, both known and unknown, had taken in the search “Al ¥ T would find somebody helping me,” he sald, nd whenever 1T would go up the river thers would be fresh footprints along the shore. I am glad Margy has veen faund, but 1 would never have given up. because she would never have given up for me.” Fell While Fishing. Mr. and Mrs. Tavior h to Great Falls November 7 for a day's fishing. They were seated on rocks just below the falls and abont 30 feet apart when Mr. Taylor heard an outery and a splash. Turning to the direction of his wife, he saw her struggling in the big eddy and he plunged in after her. Three des- perate attempts in all were made by man. endangering his own life, but he was unable to reach her. the time other fishermen had reached the scene the body had disappeared Then followed days of active search by police of the harbor pre- cinot and other persons, but without | success. Mr. Taylor offered rewards | and daily for weeks thereafter could | be seen about the river below the | d motored cities of th municipality MEXICAN NOTABLE DIES. Lawyer an_Mude ;cord as Per- petual Presidential Candidate. By Cable 0 The Star and Chicago Daily News MEXICO CITY. March 30.—Nicolas Zuniga Ye Mirand , a lawyer and a unique personality in the city of Mexico, died yesterday He was “Mexico's perpetual candidate for the presidency.” He held the distinction of having opposed the great Porfirio Diaz and every other presidential candidate since that time, including Calle; His candidacy was never taken seriously, his ideas being al- most utopian. (Coprright, 1923, by Chicage Daily News Co.) country, thus giving the wide publicity Arrested in Money Case. John Benjamin Neviaser, 24, 1758 Lanier place, was arrested this morn- ing by Detectives Thompson and Mansfield on a warrant allezing con- version of $500 after trust. It is alleged that he failed properly to ac- count for such a sum of money in- trusted to him by Adele Tregor, 4735 Eighth street. Neviaser denies the charge and is said to have asserted that the money is properly invested for its owner falls in a boat or on shore, search- |He furnished a bond of $500 for his ing. When the river froze over his|appearance in Police Court. visits were reduced to once a week and every Sunday would be spent in trying to find the body. In addition to his own efforts, he had emploved several persons up the river to aid him, both when he was able to there and while awa Mr. Taylor is assistant chief the service application division the Veterans' Bureau. He lives 1123 Euelid street. Woman voters as well as men will henceforth have to pay a poll tax in New Hampshire. Are You Satisfied With Your Present Position? We are looking for Salesmen to sell an article of merit to the Cafeterias and Lunch Room Trade. Good income from repeat business. Address Box 129—H, Star Office PAPERING & PAINTING fre very reasonable, and there's no dirt or i convenience while work is being done. CORNELL WALL PAPER CO. 714 13th St. N.W. Maln 6373-5374 Stores and Offices FOR RENT In the Vermont Building Vermont Avenue and L Street Now Ready for Occupancy Gardiner & Dent, Inc NEXT DOOR 1409 L Street N.W. Main 4884 more delicious than ever, made quick cooking by a Latest Estimates by Boyd’s| during the | decreased loss of | June 30, 1924 libraries | D. C., MONDAY Capital Declared Fairest of Cities By London Architect Especially Pleased at Con- stant Impression of Plenty of Room. There is no city in the world which can compare with the beauties of Wash- ington, Henry Tenner, London architect said today at the White House, where he came with Harry Wardman. Also in the party were Mr. and Mrs. Braswell Smith, the former a member of the London county council, and John Coutts capitalist, and a member of the West- minster county council. The party did not see the President Mr. Tenner is in America studying hotels. with a view to carrying some of the ideas back to London. The Ameri- can hotels, he said, are generally very good The public buildings of the Capital City are very from an architectural standpoint, he sald. One coming to the American Capital does not feel that he is cramped, because the streets are so wide and there is 8o much room. fe said he liked Washington very much London builders have much to learn from the American skyscrapers, he said but he did not believe that London would see such tall buildings. At the present time high buildings there are re- stricted to 80 feet, but efforts are being made to have this restriction removed. MACMILLAN TELLS U5 NEEDS AT POLE | Explorer Urges Coolidge to | Send Airships to Claim Territory There. President Coolidge was told today by Donald MacMillan, the Arctic ex- | plorer. that the American Government | should make every effort to claim ad- ditional territory 1 the North Pole | Denmark has a foothold in Greenland | | thet might prove embarrassing to the | United States, said Mr. MacMillan, it landing zones for airehips and air- planes are needed in the North. He urged that either the airship Los Angeles or the Shenandoah be sent linto the Arctic regions to make ex- plorations with a view to claimin land as vet undiscovered e Mr. MacMillan also told the Pres dent that he would et out in June on | another Arctic expedition with a view to planting the American flag on Jand he believes he will discover near the Pole Capt. Donald MacMian, noted Arc- tic explorer, who radioed his expert €nces in the far North to The Star last year, yesterday added a new ad- venture to his long chain by fiving through a severe wind and snow storm between Norfolk and Wash- { ington. Capt. MacMillan, who is on a lec- ture tour. flew to Norfolk terday in 1 hour and 5 minutes with Lieut. Al Williams of the Naval Air Station. He delivered his lecture and on the return trip the De Haviland plane ran into the snow and wind near Dahlgren As the explorer stepped from the ship he beamed with ¢njoyment over | the performance of the piane and its ability to scoff at the elements. The return journey was made in 1 hour and 27 minutes. The visiting cards of the Chinese JARCH 30 TIGE 1925 D. A. MILLRICK DIES IN AN FRANGISCO Land Office Reviewer, 56, to Be Buricd There—Native of Capital. Daniel A. Millrick, 56 years old, re- visor and reviewer in the fleld serv- ice of the board of law and review of the General Land Office, and who in his official capacity acted as an ad- visor to the Walsh investigating committee in the Teapot Dome case, died in the Marine Hospital, San Francisco, last night, according to word received here today. Mr. Millrick was a native Washing- | tonian, was educated in the public| schools here, and was later graduated | from Georgetown University Law School, later taking a post-graduate course there. He had been a member of the board of law and review since 1909, being appointed a member three years after he first became an em- ploye in the Interior Department, which he entered as a clerk in 1906 Was on Official Mission. Mr. Millrick, who had recently been making his home in Clarendon, Va.. left on an official mission to the West for the General Land Office last August. He was to superintend the sale of Flat Head villa sites in Mon- tana and also the sale of other lots bordering on the Yellowstone Park While in the West he received a minor injury to his knee and had to hospital last September. While in the hospital other complica- tions developed, which resulted in his death. He was suffering from a chronic form of kidney trouble. I‘uneral services are to be held in san Fr with interment in Cypress Lawn Cemetery there go to the PROFESSOR' ENDS LIFE. | Hugh Morson Writes Own Epitaph Before Cutting Throa RALEIGH, N. C, March 30.—After writing his own epitaph in the Latin words “Quem Deus Vult Perdere Prius Dementat,” translated, “Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad,’ Prof. Hugh Morson, 75, yesterday com- mitted suicide by slashing his throat at the State Hospital for the Insane. Fe rly a half century Mr. Morson was connected Wwith the Raleigh public school system, and was confined 10 daye ago in the hospital because of recurring GINGER ALE! NONE BETTER A. G. HERRMANN 750 Tenth St. S.E. Relieve STUFFY COLDS with healing, antisepti THE SCARLET-COLORED BEAST are v large, and usually of a | bright red color. | As EBONTTE “Srngs" fo Stic, Around the ears MR. 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