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R 4 L'ENFANT PARKWAY PLAR 1S APPROVED Architects Would Complete Capitol-to-Monument Boulevard by 1932. A little more than a century since} %e nnssed from the scene of his in- | & d endeavors, one of the most| cherished dreams of Maj. Pierre L'En- | * fant. the Frenchman known as “The Founder of Washington,” is befng urged Ifillment. ronor the memory of this gifted neer, who rests in Arling- ton, the American Institute of Archi- tects proposes that his plan of a mag- nificent parkway running from the west- | ern front of the Capitol to the foot of | the Washington Monument, be carried out in time for the 200th anniversary of the birth of George Washington. i Although L’Enfant’s plan for laying[ out the Capital City has been pro- nounced sound by experts time and again, the swelling stature of a grow- ing community seemed at times to threaten its existence and on at least one occasion his splendid vision of the Mall as it ultimately would be seemed doomed. Roosevelt Credited. This was when the Pennsylvania | Railroad Co. commenced to build a| huge viaduct system to bring its trains | into the very heart of the cit; | There are two stories as to how the Mall was saved from this architectu- | rally ruinous step. One is that Presi- | dent Ro t, swinging his traditional | “big stick,” got in touch with certain | railroad officials and convinced them | that they were. ravaging the city's| beauty and that the site where the | TUnion Station now stands was batter suited to their purposes anyhow. The other has it that Daniel H.| Burnham, a_prominent member of the | famous McMillan committee, got in | touch with President Cassatt of the Tailroad company and took him to the | western steps of the Capitol. From | this vantage spot he drew an oral pic- ture of the scenic loveliness which would be pessible if the disfiguring sta- tion were removed. Mr. Cassett, it is said, became “sold” on the idea and consented to the removal of the sta- tion. The plan_now under consideration for the Mall development is an out- growth of a movement for nation-wide memorial services each May 30, under the direction of the chapters of the In- stitute of Architects in honor of leaders in the architectural development of ‘he National Capital. wide Parkway Planned. Prominent among these are Maj. L'Enfant and Willlam Thornton, an | Englishman, who drew up the plans for | the Capitol Building. H The present plan calls for a wide parkway with open grass plots between two roadways, each carrying traffic in & single direction. The parkway would follow a direct course over a mile and & half intervening between the Capitol and the Monument. In addition to its natural beauty, the architects contend, it would furnish the reciprocity of vision so essential to the full beauty of any city laid out on L’Enfant’s plan. At this time all of the intervening ground is owned by the Government and bears only a few temporary Gov- ernment buildings at the extreme east end. These buildings house branches of the Department of Agriculture, the Prohibition Bureau and the Bureau of the Census, and could be easily moved. ‘The roadways would run just in front of the main building of the Smith- sonian Institution anfl considerably in the rear of the new National Museum, but would not encroach on either of these. This parkway was conceived by L'En- fant long before the Washington Monu- ment had been built. Although he had alrcady selected the site where the! Monument now stands for a memorial to Washington, he heped, at that time, that the memorial would take the form of a statue. The present Monument | was built after his death. Urknown to Public. L'Enfant is, architects say, prac-)| tically unknown to the mass of Amer- icans. Even to the better informed he is a figure of dim tradition. With the development of his plan of Wash- ington and the prospective expenditure of many millions of dollars by the United States Government, L'Enfant, friend and adviser of President Wash- ington, is emerging as an important in- fiuence of the early days of the Re- pubiic. o portrait of Maj. L'Enfant exists, but W. W. Corcoran of Washington, who knew him, left a description of him and an idealistic likeness of him has been created by Leon Chatelain, a young Frenchman of Washington, a medallion. Disappointed in his efforts to secure what he considered adequate com- pensation for his work from the Federal Government, L'Enfant died in 1825, a broken man. He was buried in an hurgble grave on the Prince Georges | County iarm of Dudley Diggs, with| whom he lived. i “Nearly a hundred years after his| death has remains were removeed from | the Diggs 1arm (o Arlington,” writes Glenn srown, former secretary of the institute. “His monument was given a aignified site overlooking the city he designed, with his plan carved on the commemorating marble slab. Upon -ihis occasion none was 100 greac to | Bonor him.” Jackson Is Blamed. ——-Many prominent public men are re- ~upponsioie ior the damage done to L'En- lani’s original plan, Mr. Brown charges, @xpiaining: | “Andrew Jackson placed the Treasury to intercept the view between the Capi- tol and th> White House. DLowning ¥ pianted aroind the White House, cut- tng off the views from New York and Pennsyivamia avenues. He did furuner damage in planting the Smithsonian % grounas, des.roying the open parkway i d obliterating reci ity of sight be- § twean the Capitol the Wasnington § Mopument. ‘ihe essional Library has. destroyed the of the Capitol from Pennsylvama Z¥ihue east. “One reason for locatng the White . House on its present site was a charm- ing view down the Potomac. 'This view has been destroyed by the steel high- way and railway bridges and the plant- ing along the railway embankment. An open parkway from the Capitol to the § Washington Monument would be the highest tribn we could pay to the memory of L'Enfant. As Washingion participated m the plan, nothing would . better show our appreciation of his © two hundredth anumiversary than to § develop the open vista bordered by * formal avenues of trees from the Capi- tol to the Washington Monument in e for the two hundredth anniversary 2lcbration of George Washington's birth.” Dr. Willlam Thornton, collaborator of L'Enfant, was born in 1761 in the West Indies of English parentage, and was »ducated at the University of Edin- burgh, Scotland, where he graduated in 1784. One hundred and twenty-six years ago at the age of 31 he designed the Capitol of the United States. He was one of the Board of Commissioners of the Federal City appointed by Piesi- dent Washington in 1793 and was par- ticularly interested in the city plan with which the commission had much to do. In 1828, ‘Thornton W Dr. » by just 100 yoars ag s folluwed to his gr Senator’s Favorite Soup Recipe Lost, Found by Luck Secretary Misplaces Hand- bag on Train—Phone Call Brings It Back. Miss Olive Boynton, secretary to Senator Gould of Maine, is one of the happiest young women in Washington today, bacause she has at last recovered, after an arduous search and much mental anguish, the most valuable thing which she brought with her from far away Arrostook County, Me., early this week—and then lost. When she got off the Federal ex- press here Tuesday morning,eshe dis- covered that her handbag was missing. But it wasn't the handbag that she valued so much, nor any money which it contained. The handbag contained three things—a Bible, a bottle opener, and last, but not least, Senator Gould's favorite recipe for pea soup. It is no ordinary pea soup. It has been made for Senator Gould by his French-Canadian cook for 28 years and those who have tasted it smack their lips every time they think of it. Miss Boynton had wheedled it away from the cook and was bringing it to Washington with many visions of pleasant meals for Senator Gould. In great perturbation she hastened to officials of the Washington Terminal Co. and explained her loss. She was conducted to the lost and found divi- sion of the Pennsylvania Railroad. When the railroad men learned that there was no money nor jewels in the bandbag, they were somewhat bewil- dered by Miss Boynton's evident dis- tress. But she tried to make them understand that the little slip of paper on which was written the recipe was absolutely priceless. “T could have bought another Bible,” said Miss Boynton, “and the world is full of bottle openers, but there is only one pea soup, and I don’t think I could ever get another copy of that recipe from Senator Gould’s cook. Wel! the soup—beg pardon, the plot—thickened. Yesterday word was received by a young lady friend of Miss Boynton that a handbag probably be- longing to the former had been turned in by a Pullman porter. Query—How did it happen that the friend was notified when she did not know anything about the loss? Easy enough, when it is explained. Some amateur Sherlock Holmes of the railroad company found a letter in ihe Bible, in the handbag, and it contained the friend's name and address. That led to the recovery of the bag and the Bible and the bottle opener—and the recipe for pea soup. The recipe? Well, that is a secret between Senator Gould’s French-Ca- nadian cook and Miss Boynton. Contributors to ! Storm Relief Contributions received by cashier, The Evening Star: Acknowledged $3,977.25 E. M. 5.00 Jas. C. Hoyle. Park View Red Cross Club. | A. E. Riddle . | H. E. Anderson W. H. Loving. Capt. P. B. Harm James G. Brownley Thomas Gaynor . Students of Maryland ~Park High School H. B Miller. International Reform Assn. Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Broner. FPMI Dr. Henry A. Polkinhorn. Total received by The Star to date $4,309.25 Contributions received by V. B. Dey- ber, chairman of District of Columbia relief fund: Mrs. Guy Doepard Goft th» President of the Uniied £ , the members af Congress. Cash THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. SEPTEMBER 23, 1998— PART -1° PARKWAY PLANNED AS L’ENFANT TRIBUTE Upper: Sketch of a parkway pro- posed between the Capitol and Wash- ington Mounument by the American Institute of Architects in honor of the French engineer who laid out this city. Lower: The present layout of the land, and a likeness of Pierre L’Enfant, taken from a medallion conceived by Leon Chatelain. Anonymous Cash ... Maj. Gen. T. S. . Keith's Theater (collection).. Columbia Theater (collection) Palace Theater (collection)... Metropolitan Theater (collec- Anonymous P. A. Schmid Alice M. Gaver. .. Henry P. Blair. John W. Gaver Sallie F. Newton Dr. Wilbur R. Brandenburg. . Mrs. William A. Morgan.... Annonymous . L. E. Sinclair. S. B. and E. M. Mrs. Stephen B. Elkins Money order. . James M. Shear. D. K. Parrott C. H. Weiss. Blanche Huck. . George H. Evans. Arthur Peter.... Marjorie_O. Dale. Harriet F. Kimball. Charles Richard. J. T. Myers. Irene Jones. H. D. Tolson Clara P. 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Wade . «Cash .. | Collections, : Bank: A. M. Nevius Mr. and Gruber ... n R. M. Taylor . Riggs National Stanislaw . 10.00 10.00 78.15 Total received by Chair- Charles Hoffmen. man Deyber ............$12,455.76 g 0 | C. R. Normandy | Total SO FUND IS SPEDED Red Cross Plans Increased Efforts to Aid Hurricane Sufferers. With the latest reports from their headquarters at West Palm Beach dis- closing that the situation in some | Florida cities is steadily growing more serious by the influx of refugees, and the rising of water in the Florida ever- glades cutting off several towns in the hurricane disaster district, the American Red Cross last night announced that increased efforts will be made this week to speed up contributions: to its $5,000,- 000 hurricane relief fund. Preliminary and incomplete reports showed that only $879,357 has been received, but all chapters have been asked to report tomorrow so that a comprehensive statement, which it i3 | believed will be much more impressive can be made within the next few da; Meanwhile tabulations of Washing- ton's contributions revealed the Na- tional Capital was fast approaching the half-way mark in its effort to quickly collect its quota of $50,000. Contribu- tions received by the local Red Cross yesterday brought the total up to $12,456.76, which is exclusive of $4,309.25 collected through The Star. The students of the Maryland Park High School at Seat Pleasant, Md., yes- terday sent a check for $26 to be used in the storm relief work, that amount having been collected in the various classes after a “hurricane relief day” rally in the assembly hall. Donations Sent by Freight. In addition to the financial contribu- tions several donations of material and clothing in large lots have been made to the Red Cross. These include a car- | load of asbestos roofing from a Phila- delphia company and 10,000 fect of roofing from another concern.. Both have been shipped by fast freight to | West Palm Beach where roofing is badly needed in order to get the people under shelter. A New York firm has con- tributed $10,000 worth of women’s cloth- ing for the Porto Rico sufferers. A.-L. Schafer, directing disaster re- lief operations in Florida, wired the Red Cross headquarters here last night that six towns at the southeast end of Lake Okeechobee had been cut off | from all motor communication by the rising Everglade waters, necessitating the establishment of boat transport of food, clothing, medical supplies and relief workers. An airplane is now being employed to assist in locating possible survivors and bodies of the victims in the lower lake section, Director Schafer wired. Several flights have already been made for this purpose, although the work is regarded as highly dangerous because of the necessity of low flying. Aside from this task of recovering and disposing of the untold number of bodies, the health situation, outside the lower Everglades section, is now re- gardet as favorable, Red Cross medical officers agree. The first comprehensive statement of conditions in the Virgin Islands was received here last night from Henry M. Baker, national director of disaster re- lief, and revealed that the principal need there is for building materials. Orders for 125,000 square feet of gal- vanized corrugated iron sheets and 200,000 feet of lumber and other items were placed immediately through the Navy supply department. Confirming earlier reports, the statement from Baker indicated that St. Croix had suf- | bends,’ fered the greatest loss in the Virgin group. A donation of $2,000 was sent the governor of the Leeward Island§ yes- terday after offers of assistance to the sufferers on all the foreign islands of the West Indies by the Red Cross re- sulted in replies that no relief from the American organization was needed in any other locality. The offers were made through the French and British embassies here. San Juan Meeting Today. A meeting of committees from each municipality in Porto Rico will be held in San Juan today to perfect plans for feeding and clothing the 60,000 fam- ilies, estimated to comprise between 360,000 and 420,000 persons, suffering from the disaster on the Island. It was stated at headquarters here last night that 350 tons cf foodstuffs were yesterday shipped over the island by auto truck and boat. ‘“Considering conditions, the situation is well in hand there,” it was announced. The Red Cross, through the British embassy, yesterday received cables from the British governors of the Bahamas and of Jamaica, thanking it for its generous offer of assistance for victims in those islands of the West Indies hurricane. “Please thank American Red Cross for most generous offer, which is much appreciated,” cabled the acting gover- nor of the Bahamas. “So far there is no need for help, but if reports from our islands show help is required, I shall telegraph to you.” Although ~the French island of Guadaloupe was most seriously dam- aged in the hurricane, the French Red Cross, through its head, Gen. Pau, in- formed the American organization that “all necessary measures” for its relief had been taken. Baron Erik Stjernstedt, secretary general of the Swedish Red Cross, ob- served the Red Cross’ operations at the national headquarters yesterday and expressed admiration for the efficlency of its relief work. Checks mailed to D. C. Chapter: Florence E. Wilcox . ceees T. E. Wileox . J. A. Scherrer Jessie E. Pope Joy E. Morgan . Mrs. George O. Shal W. C. T. Union W. D. Goresheck M. C. Latta . H. P. Mulford . H. Zirkin .. Viola A. Lelge £88uot 83838888 Katherine E. Grant Harry G. . Grace Defour Brown . Jean M. Clifford .. Dr. Frank Thone . R. T. Hanson .. J. H. Brickenstein . Ethel A. McNeir J. S. Coombs . Constance Kershmer . Miss Dolan .. Ruth Sedgwick . Anonymous .. C. E. Lambrecht . Frank R. Jellefl, Inc. John M. Adams .. Edward F. Morgan . Anonymous ... Miss H. Z. Fowler . Mr. and Mrs. L. Z. Mrs. E. C. Houston Mary P. Godding .. Lieut. Col. and Mrs. Bull .. E. Campbell . Dr. R. L. Spire . Anonymous . Rosa P. Chiles Rudolph Forster N. P. Webster W. T. Marshall Albert F. Fox .. . Florence O. Bergstrom . Mrs. Mason W. Gray Miriam_Birdseye James I Ring .. Miss V. A. Marshall .. “Ed\\‘nrd K. Campbell . received by D. C. chapter 9 H T $776.00 | control cases in treatments given with “[RON DOCTOR." AIR CYLINDER USED BY NAVY | TO CURE “"BENDS."” MAY REMEDY OTHER ILLS Physicians Expect Startling Results From New Invention. HAS SAVED MANY DIVERS| Patient Is Put Inside Tube,| Then Pressure Is Increased. BY A. W. GILLIAM. Down at the Navy Yard theres a| 24-ton steel cylinder they've dubbed “the iron doctor” because of its appar- | ent ability to cure a wide variety of | ailments. Doctors see in this mammoth ma-| chine which feeds its patients only air, | and plenty of it, the door to a field of | practice in respiratory and circulatory | illnesses that is almost unbounded. With it, they say, they can force through the body at great pressures, quantities of disease-purging, germ- killing oxygen without harming the living, healthy tissues, and from re- search work already under way they expect results startling to the medical world. Cure for “The Bends.” | “The fron doctor” is the apparatus | used by the Navy Yard in decompres- | sion of men who have been making | diving tests. When a diver is seized with the affiiction, “the bends,” or com- | pressed air illness, he s rushed into | “the iron doctor.” His body is filled | ith air up to the pressure at which the bends” was contracted, then the blood is allowed slowly to pass off thel air bubbles in the tissues. They walk out of “the iron doctor” cured. Never, say Navy officials, has a man been carried feet-first from the medical lock of “the iron doctor” and in at least one instance, so badly had the patient been injured his heart had stopped for a minute and & half. That patient was put into “the iron doctor” unconscious and dying. A little over two hours later he walked, unassisted, out of the chamber and into a waiting ambulance. Regular medical treatment completed his recovery. Another man attributes the return of sight in an injured eye to the curative properties of “the iron doctor's” medicine. It is in other fields than decompres- sion to guard against “the bends” that doctors are interested in the study and development of “the iron doctor’s” use. Recognizing the possibilities of medi- cal treatments with recompression chambers in other ailments than “the ” Dr. Cecil K. Drinker, research physician at Harvard, has gone into the study of the apparatus on a large scale. The Navy has furnished him with all its available data on “the iron doctor.” In charge of the work with the Navy yard’s recompression chamber is Chief Gunner C. L. Tibbals, a warrant officer regarded by thc Navy as the world’s foremost authority on the care and cure of compressed air illness. He also is accredited with knowing more about the operation of recompression cham- bers than any other man in the Navy. Used for Tests. He has been using the chamber in tests of the use of helium instead of nitrogen as the neutralizing agent for oxygen for diving operations and de- compression of divers. The combina- tion of helium and oxygen has been found to diffuse from the body about twice as quickly as ordinary air—20 = cent oxygen and 80 per cent nitrogen. His discoveries that “the iron doctor” is effective in the treatment of other diseases than “the bends” have been purely incidental to his work. Men working about the Navy Yard suffering with rheumatism or neuritis, were allowed to “go under pressure” and found relief or complete disappear- ance, for the time being, at least, of their aflment. Mr. Tibbals does not believe it is en- tirely coincidence that no one can re- call an instance of a Navy diver con- tracting tuberculosis, or that out of the more than 200 persons engaging in the rescue operations on the scene of the S-4 sinking, practically all except the divers contratted bad colds. There was not a single case of cold among the 25 or 30 divers engaging in the rescue work, although they were exposed to low temperatures under conditions that were highly conducive to their con- tracting colds. Lieut. Comdr. Gilbert H. Mankin, a physician attached to the Naval Bureau of Medicine and Surgery here, and medical officer in attendance at the operations for rescue of the men en- trapped in the hulk of the sunken S-4 off Provinceton, R. I, last Winter, states his faith in “the iron doctor,” and in Mr. Tibbals’ work. The result of some of Mr. Tibbals’ experiments, Dr. Mankin admits, are hard to reconcile with established medical practice and theory. Others, he finds, point the way to the use of compressed air and oxy- gen under pressure in a wide field of treatment of respiratory and circulatory aflments of the human * Mankin, who has made a effects of compression upon the body, explains that the absence of parallel “the iron doctor” leaves much to be conjectured’ about. But the ability of doctors to drive through the body at varying pressures, quantities of oxygen with the use of the compressed air chamber forms a basis for the expecta- tion of great things in the future, he believes. He pointed out that the Journal of the American Medical Assoclation recently y exposed as quackery certain claims of physicians in the West that they could cure cancer and diabetes with the use of oxygen under compression. Given Various Pressures. “We have not gone nearly that far with the tests that must be made with compressed air chambers before we can formulate any laws of procedure,” he{ said. In the vitals of “the iron doctor” a patient is fed varying pressures of air.| This air, taken into the lungs, is in| turn taken up and shot through the entire body by the blood, the oxygen acting as a stimulating and health-giv- ing agent upon the living tissue and as a death-dealing agent to alien germs. Complete saturation of the body with air and oxygen has been effected hun= dreds of times in “the iron doctor” at the Navy Yard in the treatment of divers, and the air is under complete control at all times from within and without the chamber. In its circulatory system the blood. diffused with the compressed gases within the chamber shoots into every recess of the body, even into the bones. The introduction of other gases than oxygen. that might be found active against disease is a perfectly feasible idea although it has not been tried, Dr. Mankin said. In what manner the lung gases diffuse under pressure, with the blood is a moot question. That the gases take some liquid form is the accepted theory, for it is when bubbles form after they have been under pressure in their diving work that divers get “the bends” and it is through compression followed by decompression within the chamber that the blood is made to take up these bub- bles and pass them out through the system. As the pressure within the chamber rises, the volume of the gases taken into the lungs and diffused with the blood correspondingly increases, just as when the pressure is started on the ) dubbed Center: Diver tender, y divers as “the iron doctor.” iver John Linso. Interior view of the medical lock of ward Kalinoski receiving “treatment” for “the bends” from his lock | | | 7 TAEN IN RADS BY Y VCE S Policeman Is Alleged to Have Been Assaulted at One Place Visited by Raiders. Three young women and 19 men were arrested by Sergt. O. J. Letterman's vice squad last night in two raids exe- cuted simultaneously, and in the course of one of the raids an officer is alleged to have been assaulted by L. M. Thomas, who said he lives in Man- chester Apartments, 1426 M street. In a third raid shortly before mid- night the vice squad arrested another woman and seized 118 quarts of wine, 8 | quartsy of bacardi and 80 bottles of beer. The raid was in the 3400 block of Holmead place and the woman arrested gave her name as Miss Josephine Perini, 40 years old. She was charged with sale and possession of liquor. As the officers entered an apartment in the 2000 biock of Eleventh street, about 9:30 o'clock, they were con- fronted by Thomas, who, they say, an- nounced that he was a revenue agent and demanded their business. They informed him that they were policemen, but he is said to have pretended not to believe them, and to have assaulted Policeman James A. Mostyn, in his effort to compel them to leave the apartment. Various Occupations, According to Sergt. Letterman, Thomas, at different times, told them he was a naval officer, an_aviator, and finally a manager of a local electric company. ‘When artested and taken to the tenth where he was charged with assaulting an officer, he said that he had gone to the place to visit a girl. Four other persons were arrested and a small quantity of alleged liquor was seized They gave their names as Ruby Widen- house, 23 years old. charged with sale and possession of liquor; Jack Hunter, 23 years old, possession; William K. Hood, 26, possession, maintaining a disorderly house and a statutory offense and Louise Rothwell, charged with a statutory offense. ‘The officers making the raid were Sergt. Letterman, Mostyn and Detec- tive William F. Burke. Another Raid. At the same time the Eleventh strect raid was being executed, Detective Richard J. Cox of the vice squad and Lieut. J. M. Walsh and Detective Den- nis Murphy of the tenth preeinct, de- scended on an apartment in the 1400 block of Meridian street where 17 per- sons were arrested, 15 of whom were charged with disorderly conduct. Audrey Shumate, 23 years old, was booked for maintaing a disorderly house and illegal possession of liquor. William R. Anderson, 21 years old, was charged with sale and possession of liquor. Seventy-two bottles of alleged beer and a small quantity of alleged whisky were seized. CONFESSES KILLING BOY IN HONOLULU Nineteen-Year-0ld Japanese Ad- mits Murdering Kidnaped Bank- er's Son—Mob Violence Feared. By the Associated Press. HONOLULU, September 22.—A 19- year-old Japanese boy, Yutaka Fukuna- ga, sought as the slayer of Gill Jamie- r: Exterior view of divers' recompression chamber at the navy yard, he iron doctor,” with Navy Lower: Air lock for passage into medical lock of medical supplies to tender. At the tap on — ht is an air pressure gauge so sensitive that it will record the slig e massive steel sides of the chamber when air is being shet into the lock. htest rise or,fall of pressure might have serious §ffects. . So ch work has been done al- ready with “the iron doctor” in the treatment of divers that tables of a high degree of accuracy have been made to guard against overoxygen- izing the patient and causing oxygen poisoning. Largest in Service. The navy yard recompression cham- ber 15 the largest and newest in serv- ice at present. Others are under con- struction. It was built at the Norfolk Navy Yard in 1925. It-resembles a big boiler set in a horizontal position. its sides are a maze of gauges, valves and other paraphernelia. Tt is built in three compartments, the man lock, the medical lock and the air lock. At the entrance end is a lock about 4 feet long, with massive circular steel doors which lead outside and into the medical lock. This lock allows the attending physician or the lock tender to enter or leave the medical lock with- out disturbing the air pressure within. With a man in the medical lock under pressure, the tender or physician can enter the man lock, equalize the pres- sure of the smaller lock with that of the larger, and then open the door of the medical lock. : At the other end of the chamber is the air lock, used chiefly for passing into the medical lock medicines. This is a lock too small to permit the pas- sage of a man. It is about 2 feet in diameter and about 2 feet deep, and its workings are on exactly the same basis as the man lock. . Gauges so delicate that they will record even a light rap upon the sides of the massive steel tank while air is being shot into it, keep the attendants fully apprised of every phase of its physical workings. Reports on file with the Navy De- partment give some of the more re- markable results attributed by Mr. Tib- bals to compression alone. COne case is that of Chief Boatswain's Mate E. V. Evartson, who in 1922 had his sight in one eye restored during treatments in “The Iron Doctor,” under Mr. Tibbals. Evartson was injured while working aboard the Navy submarine rescue ship Falcon. A piece of flying steel cut across the bridge of his nose and ripped into his left eyeball, cutting out part of the ball at the pupil. At the hospital, the eye bled inwardly and clots formed on the optic nerves back of it and caused total blindness in the member. For a time it was feared by physicians that the eye would have to come out, to save the other eye, but this was avoided. Evartson, at his own request, was sent back to duty aboard the Falcon, of which Mr. Tibbals was commanding officer. He was put to work as a lock tender in the recompression chamber of the ship and in this work frequently was under pressure with divers. Experiment With Diver. Some short while after his return to duty Evartson was in the compression chamber with Tibbals and a diver un- der pressure, when he discovered that when he sneezed or blew his nose small particles of dried blood were com- ing out of his nose and mouth. While this was happening he discovered he had, very dimly, sight in his injured eye. He told Mr. Tibbals of it and to prove it told the time by Mr. Tibbals' watch, helding the uninjured eye tightly closed. Evartson immediately was sent to a physician, who charted the loca- uons of the clots behind the Injured downgrade the blood picks up the ex- cess gases and passes them off. Care has to be taken in the operation of the chamber's valves for too sudden eyeball. Then Tibbals gave Evartson a series of trcatments under pressure, with varying amounts of oxygen. He described the treatments as a “process of oxygen treatments under high pres- sure, which burst the blood clots, burned off the rough edges and dislodged them so that they passed out of the system through whatever channels they could.” Evartson now has his sight restored to about 25 per cent of normal in the eye that ‘was injured. The powers of “The Iron Doctor” are graphically illustrated in the case of Johannes C. Rassmussen, a diver, who was injured while working under water on_the Memorial Bridge here. Something had gone wrong with the air line to Rassmussen’s helmet and he was caught 40 feet under water with- out air. The equivalent of a weight of 10 tons crushed his body up into the helmet and breastplates of the diver's dress, and he was brought to the sur- face unconscious. ‘ He was rushed to Emergency Hos- pital, where the helmet had to be pried from his head. Tibbals' report of the treatment given Rassmussen after he had re- ceived an emergency call from the hos- pital to take the case says that the man was brought to the navy yard blind, helpless and in great pain. He was put into the recompression cham- ber immediately and pressure turned on. As the pressure mounted around 30 pounds to the square inch there was a halt of a minute and a half in the man’s heart and for nearly a minute he did not breathe. The pressure was dropped suddenly about 4 pounds, and the consequent contraction in the patient’s body, acting in much the same manner as artificial respiration, started the heart and lung action again. A few minutes later the man was sitting up and talking to those In the chamber with him. A little more than two hours after he was brought into the chamber, unassisted Rass- ! British diplomacy can equal for sterility mussen got up and walked out and into the waiting ambulance. R ARMS CONFERENCE WAITS U. S. REPLY TO NAVAL TREATY| (Continued from First Page.) not prepared the ground for that con- ference by diplomatic exchanges b(‘-‘ forehand. Now, they said, that at- tempts to do this very thing through the naval accord had led to equally sharp criticisms. ‘The Evening Standard today said that “nothing in the long record of | of its conception and ineptitude of its handling, this sorry business of the Anglo-French naval agreement.” The Sunday Times reflected that there “is much to be said for the formula, but little for its method of handling.” And the Observer echoed this thought by calling “antiquated and even ridiculous the point of punctilio which forbade official publication.” The foreign office told the Associated Press today that the publication was deferred simply because it seemed de- sirable to give the United States and the other governments concerned time to consider the proposals. The British officials said that Japan had agreed to the accord in principle and that Italy was sympathetic toward it. Only comment or suggestions from the United States were awaited, but son, banker’s son, after the latter was kidnaped from school, was arrested to- night and confessed, police said. “I have been a bad zoy. i wuut to tell it to my mother,” the arrested Jap- anese boy said when first arrested. Later he was quoted as saying: “What does it matter? Let the crowd get me, I don't care.” Sheriff Patrick Gleason has called upon Territorial Adjutant General Per- ry M. Smoot to assign National Guards- men to duty around the jail and police station. Gleason, fearful of mob ac= tion, took no chances with his prisoner as a large crowd gathered after the ar- rest was made. The attitude of the quickly gathered crowd was declared to have been threatening. The prisoner remained calm whiie being led through the streets. Detectives said Pukunaga was traced through his room and the passing of several $5 bills which had been paid by Frederick W. Jamieson, Honolulu banker, Tuesday night in an effort to save his son. ‘The Aloho tower siren blew steadily for five minutes, announcing the capture of the slayer. National Guardsmen ar- rived at the city jail and a cordon of police was thrown around the structure. The crowds around the police station filled the streets, blocking traffic in all directions. Before Fukunaga made his confession detectives announced he was a drug ad- dict. A drug outfit was found near the body of Gill Jamieson. {LIQUOR CONSUMPTION DECLINES IN ENGLAND By the Associated Press. LONDON, September 22.—The Sun- day Express proclaims in streamer headlines on its front page that “Bri- tain is rapidly going dry.” The consumption of liquor in England during the last fiscal year was less than a third of that consumed at the begin- ning of the century. According to figures just issued. The 1900 consump- tion of spirits in England was 32,239,522 gallons as compared with 10,412,921 gal- lons last year. Before the war there were 2,000,000 total abstainers where now there are 10,000,000. The annual per capita drink bill has dropped to $33 from $50. “These figures reveal the radical im- provement in our social habits,” says the Express. “Drunkenness is now a rare spectacie in towns and villages. American visitors say that they seldom see a drunken man. This great social revolution is due partly to education, partly to the motor car, partly to sports and partly to the increase in healthy amusement: COLOMBIAN BAH ON OIL HEARING PROTESTED BY U. S. (Continue: company, in its memorial, declared operations had been made impossible by conditions which prevented the intro- duction of machinery and materials in the concession area. ‘Then last August 3, President Abadia signed a decree confirming the previous cancellation and dissolving the con- tract on grounds that the company had failed to carry out its terms. Company officials asked Minister Piles to present a new memorial on their behalf wherein they proposed to re- fute charges of the new decree. When the American minister made the peti- tion in the company’s name he was informed by Colombian officials that the matter was one of a purely do- mestic nature and one that concerned only the Colombian government and a private corporation. He was told further the foreign office had no official inti- mation as to when Washington's re- sponse, if any, would be received. that the Colombian government would %r‘l‘nrlt no diplomatic interference in th>