Evening Star Newspaper, September 12, 1926, Page 22

' 22 SCIENTIST FINDS MISSING RADIUM Georgia Professor Has Used Electroscope to Locate $20,- 000 Lost at Hospitals. i Sphcial Dispatch to The Star: ATLANTA, September 11.—Prof. J. B! Edwards, head of the department of physics at Georgia School of Tech notogy, has won the title of radium detective by recovering over $20.000 | wogth of lost radium from ashes, dump heaps and trash piles, where tiny necdles of the precious stuff had been thrown by mistake after being used in the treatment of patfents suf. fering from cancer. sful hunts for als_in various parts of the South, Prof. F guided by the gold leaf of an electro- scope. Running up and down the center of | the glass box which comprises the greater part of the electroscope is an | amber rod Attached to this rod is ® gold leaf knob at the top of the rod is rubhed briskly and in that way charged with electricity, the gold leaf stands out from the up- right piece of amb After_ this is done, if_the electroscope is brought | within 15 feet of radium, even though that strange material is shut within @ steel safc, the gold leaf will begin to drop down again to its original posi- tion. The effect of the radium, penetrat- ing through steel, rock, concrete or any other known substance, is (o break down the electrical curre - { When the James R. Sheffield, Ambassador to Mexico, has been conferring with on the Mexican oil and land law question, and the religious controversy Attorney General Sargent, who has been 'visi Sheflield. WASHINGTON,; D. 0, SEPTEMBER 12, 1926—PART 1 THE SUNDAY STAR, s 3 ing the President at porting the leaf of gold and cause it} to sink back to its place alongside | the amber rod Guided by such movements of the gold leaf, Prof. Edwards has re covered lost radium in Atlanta, Macon, ricus, Rome, Thomas ville, Ga.; Spartanburg, S.C.,and New | Orleans. In several Instances the radium covered had been thrown b {nto the incinerator and had lain there | for hours in a blazing fire, but came | out unhurt, for such a thing as fi cannot harm this substance, which | throws off radiations continually, and probably will be effective 30,000 v or more. : Prof. Edwards has just returned | from New Orleans, where he pursued his seventh successful search for lost radium. experience there typica conducted 'during the last few years in_various parts of the South. | Radium contained in tiny needles | had been bandaged to the face of | A patient suffering from cancer. | There were five of these needles in | all. When a check-up was made at | the end of the day it was found that | one was missing. As later develop- | ments proved, it had been throu into the incinerator with the band- ages. Being aware that Prof. Edwards was becoming nationally known as| the radlum detective, the hospital wired him, and he went at once from | Atlanta to New Orleans. A review ! of all the facts convinced him that| the furnace room was the likely place | to begin his search. He charged his | electroscope, placed it on the fur- | nace floor close to a heap of ashes | and the gold leaf dropped. By the rapidity with which the leaf moved he estimated the distance of the lost radium from the electroscope, picked up a handful of ashes and there was the missing needle, worth sev- eral thousand dollars. (Copyright. 1926.) | tight NOON IN WALL STREET REVEALS HUMAN SIDE OF MONEY KINGS Scenes of Quiet Sociability Quite at Variance With Hurly-Burly of Exchanges, Which Make Mil- lion Dollars Only Small Change. . Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 11—Money is king in Wall street, but the people there are far from being the pawns in the continual game which popular conjecture p ther. very human rently more $o in their hour axation than members of other business groups. Noon is akin to the proverbial Sat- urday night in a_small town, with only the slight differences caused by custom and environment. Sunshine and Quiet. streets are only canons between of memory, but then the sun- shines straight down into the voids and its brightness is reflected on the crowds. There are bu tling shoppers here, no persons rusl fng to appointments, or the hurly- burly of business hours. Noon is a time to rels All traffic except that essential to the district is diverted at that hour and bstone boundaries are forgot- ten. Then the s The walls tue of Washington looks down on Nassau street, one of the few wide ones, where girls in fours, groups of youths. or here and thero a lad and the rl friend,” promenade. Lunch is brief and they saunter about in the middle of the street until the clock strikes one. It is the same on Wall street itself They are | more than a narrow reet, which a wide truck would fill from curb to curb. Community Friendliness. ere is a soclability about it all, | tion for a new build- i sufficient attraction for as | many persons as can crowd around { the guard rail. | Patrolling the streets during this |time are the hawkers, who reap their fortunes in nickels and dimes—news paper combs, novelties—anything that strikes ely at variance with the activity of the street which makes a million dollars only small change. Money is a commodity 1 realize the futility of display, except fc the standard “prosperous clothes which e affected both mink presidents week clerks. t and clerk side by ae lunch rooms, partic- e you wait on your vn bill. This action of the bauker, however, may be construed as refulness, as even small sums now are guarded closely. This practice was evolved only recently after a series of hold- ups. The here, and excessive same boyish-looking messen- v White Pine Camp; President Coolidge at Paul Smiths, N. Y., in that country. In the photo, left to right: ir. Coolidge, and Ambassador gers still carry the little black bags, but the bags are fastened to wrists by handeuffs and chains, making it virtually impossible for them to be snatched away. The kidnapping of the messenger is precluded by .the presence of two or three armed guards walking behind him with weapons in hand in coat pockets, while the guards try to look as little like detectives as possible. ¢ This quiet protection marks the street, for about the only visible po- licemen are traffic officers. For the rest, there is an abundance of plain clothes men and private guards in every establishment. Pepper’s Partner, Philadelphia Financier, Stricken on Ship. SAN FRANCISCO, September 11 (#).—Bayard Henry, Philadelphia financier and law partner of United States Senator Geerge Wharton Pep- per, remains critically ill after having been taken from the steamer on which he was stricken upon its arrival here from Honolulu last Tuesd: Plans to move him to Philadelphia on a special train have been aban- doned. Barbers Used Razors on Hogs. BERLIN, September 11 (P).— Among the 1,000,000 unenforcible po- lice ordinances which the Prussian ministry of the interior has ordered wiped off the books is one which was decreed nearly two centuries ago, when barbers frequently were the town butchers. The ordinance pro- hibited barbers from shaving cus- tomers with the same razors with which' they slaughtered hogs. preparation of lead that gave the best results was so unstable that its cura- :ll“ properties would only last a short me. A limited number of physicians who wish to take up this work will be trained by Prof. Bell In the technique of administering colloidal lead, so that this new treatment will now become available to greater numbers of suffer- plete disappearance of the tumor |ers. In spite of its improvement, how- mass,” Dr. Howitt in a report of [ever, on account of the poisonous his !res::l?: 2orthe sclentific journal, |character of all lead compounds, only ;o nder treat. | cases on which all usual methods are s::.‘:"a r‘e’:lu%;’l‘:r‘;“i: t::eusue of the | powerless will be accepted for treat growih has been noted. In every case | ment. the progress of the disease has been arrested and the life of the patient prolonged beyond that of the Drog- nosls given before the treatment com- menced. “No radical claims are advanced for this treatment, but the results obtain- ed clinically have warranted a more extensive investigation, which 1s now being carrled out at the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, EXTRACT OF LIVER USED FOR CANCER New Treatment Discovered by Canadian Brings En- couraging Results. bryos into cancerous mice. The results were so encouraging that liver ex- tracts, this time from beef, were tried on hopeless cases of human cancer too far gone for operation. “In one patient there was a com- P T TR T Polish Aviator Forced Down. TOKIO, September 11 (#).—The Polish aviator Orlinsky, who hopped off today for a flight to Warsaw via Korea and Siberfa, was forced to land at Osaka owing to the unfavor- able weather. He hopes to fly again tomorrow By_Science Service. 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The work with liver extract, which in the United States has been used with some success in treating high blood pressures, was initiated by Dr. John R. Howitt of the medical school at the University of Western Ontario. |lead treatment of Prof. Blair Bell of and the McGregor-Mowbray Clinic at Hamflton.” ¥ Though the advance is slow, the concentrated forces of scientific re- search are closing in on modern hu- | manity's most dreaded plague. The 'E WIRE HOUSES—Assuring You Com- fort, Cleanliness, Economy and Safety. Liverpool has likewise made consid- erable . progress in the last few months, it is announced. Sufficient fm- provement has been made in the form of lead used by Prof. Bell to warrant its being put on the market in both England and the United States in the | near future, according to latest re- ports from his laboratory at the Unk- versity of Liverpool. Formerly the He based his theory on the fact that since the liver is disproportionately large during embryonic life, when it does not secrete bile, it must have some other function. Its relatively large size suggested that it might ex- ercise some influence on the extraor- dinary growth that the human body un;lle\;goqa during the er}lhr}'onit‘ period. As cancer is a manifestation v . o - he method was of abnormal cellular growth, Dr. [great drawback of the meCi Lo Howitt decided that the effect of t! due to the fact t YOUR SATISFACTION IS OUR SUCCESS If you must wear ARTIFICIAL TEETH, have them made where fit and satisfaction are guaranteed. » All plates made in our laboratory are fully guaranteed. WE SPECIALIZE IN PLATE AND BRIDGE WORK. T COME TO DR. FREIOT AND STAFF OF EXPERT, CAREFUL AND SKILLED DENTISTS. Handmade plates our specialty. Other plates in zold, aluminum, silver and all-porcelain. 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