Evening Star Newspaper, November 4, 1928, Page 2

NICARAGUA ELECTS ~ PRESIDENT TODAY 150,523 Voters Are Regi: tered Under Supervision of Marines. S- By the Associated Press Ballots and not bullets are depended won to decide today's presidential elec- tion in Nicaragua, which promises to be the first bloodless contest to be held in that country in many years. On the eve of the election State Depart- ment officials view with satisfaction the completion of months of preparation for what is expected to be the largest and most orderly poll in Nicaragua's| history. i Registration and organization of the | electoral machinery have been camedl out under supervision of Brig. Gen.| Frank R. McCoy, who has reported to | the State Department the enroliment THE YO of fully 25 per cent more voters than the total 1924 registration. Supervhed} by United States officials, the electoral | organization in every part of the coun-/ try is reported to be prepared to handle ‘r s record vote. Heads Ticket. { Heading the Liberal party ticket is, Gen. Jose‘ Maria Mongada, leader of | the Sacasa revolution of 1926-7 His | running mate is Dr. Enoc Agaudo, can- | didate for vice president. ‘Adolfo Benard, wealthy sugar planter is the Conservative party candidate. He has taken no active part in past. national political activities. Julia Car- denal is the Conservative vice presi-| tial choice. i degf‘lc Department officials state that Gen. McCoy, seeking to avold hostile eriticism from either faction, has select- od a staff of 20 ensigns who were most proficient in Spanish in the last two classes graduated from the Naval Academy, to act as chairmen of the 29 electorial departments. A corps of 353 non-commissioned officers will act as precinct chairmen. e Charles G. Eberhardt, American Min- ister to Nica , has telegraphed the State Dspartment reporting highly satisfactory conditions for an orderly election. His report states in part: “The electoral machinery is func- tioning smoothly and the departmental boards almost without exception have conducted thelr work without irrita- tion between representatives of the two paries. The leaders of both par- ties have expressed themselves as satis- fled with the manner in. which the electoral supervision has been con- ducted.” Charges as to Registration. Following the recent publication of vegistration figures showing a total enrollment of 150,525, as against 120,545 for 1924, both parties claimed the ex- istence of multiple registrations. These sccusations are discounted by the American authorities es election propa- ganda and both parties have assured their followers that if frauds have been committed they will be of no avail be- cause of the practice to be followed of marking the hand of each voter to pre- vent repsating’ The disposition of American au- titude between Libergls and Conserva- tives and r:mmber“t‘;mt':he 'alllhmlfil evidencp partial WAl - “iduals ‘offond party will be magnined [ immediatély ‘by both sides as an evi- dence of.'bies. . . . The spirit of friendship and good will toward Nica- raguans is to be cultivated by all proper means, but in an exact equality with both parties.” e Sy CONFERENCE IS HELD ‘ON VILNA QUESTION Lithuania and Poland Agree to Appoint Subcommittes on Railroad. By the Associated Press. KOENIGSBERG, Germany, Novem- ber 3.—Another conference on the thorny ‘Vilna question between Lithu- ania and Poland took place here today. Once more Premier Waldemaras of Lithuania and Foreign Minister Zalesky of Poland headed their respective dele- gations, A discussion developed on railroad transportation between the two coun- tries, which, after eight years suspen- sion, - Poland wishes resumed directly by way of the disputed Vilna border region. Lithuania, on the other hand, a roundabout route by way of t Prussia or Latvia, because she | considers the direct route tantamount | to_renunciation of her claim to Vilna. The opposing sides agreed to appoint | & subcommission to consider the essen- tial factors of this important question. BRIDEGROOM FOUND DEAD Arrest of Wife Ordered After Dis- covery of Man's Body. AMBRIDGE, Pa., November 3 (#).— Married only yesterday, Mrs. Andrew Duda, formerly Miss Mary Baltimore, was tonight ordered arrested in consequence of the finding of the body of her husband in the cellar of his home today, suspended by a mre from a rafter. Duda was 56 years old. His stepchildren told the police their father appeared in high spirits after the wedd% . They said he left a note for the bride, the contents of which she refused to disclose. The body was found by Mrs. Duda. Coroner H. C. McGarber ordered her arrest pending an inquest Wednesday. WOMEN ATTACKED, THIRD MYSTERIOUSLY INJURED IN STREET . (Continued From First Page) the street, and the assailant fled, out- distancing his pursuer. ‘The man then brought Miss Downing into the Aloysius Club, and from there she was taken to Providence Hospital, where it was sald that she was in extremely nervous condition, and also was suffering from head wounds. Her pocketbook was taken by her assailant. Attacked After Theater. ‘While police were working on these cpses, Miss Nelda E. Langley, 21 years old, of 639 Morton place northeast, was taken to Emergency Hospital, wounded on the head, where she had been hif with a brick while returning from a motion picture show. Miss Langley was in front of 641 Aorton place, next door to her home, about 11 o'clock, when she was hit. Circumstances point to her assailant also being a robber. She screamed as she was knocked to the ground, and Thomas M. Hunter, 645 Morton place, | and the girl's father, Harry Langley, went to her rescue. The only descrip- tion she was able to give of her as- sailant wes that he was a “short, squatty fellow with a slouch hat,” and she was unable to tell whether he was white or colored. Neither Mr. Langley | near De Sabla, 20 miles northeast of THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €. NOVEMBER 4 1928—PART 1. 1 GIANT RAY TO POINT ELECTION TREND ! look over “Folly.” Pilot Wins Praise For Skill in Crash When 6 Were Hurt Passengers - Attribute , Es- | cape From Deaffi to Goldsmith’s Aétions. By the Associated Press. CHICO, Calif., November 3.—Six pas- sengers, injured when a West Coast Air Transport airplane was forced down here, last night, today attributed their escape from death to the skill with which Louis' G. Goldsmithi, pilot, landed the big craft. The plane, en route from Portland, Oreg, to San Francisco, crashed in rough country due to bad weather and poor visibility. Goldsmith manipulated the controls in such a way that his machine struck the earth with the least possible force, although it was demol- ished. Pilot's Nose Bruised. Goldsmith ‘escaped with a_brulsed nose. His relief pilot, Noel B. Evans of Portland, also suffered minor bruises. The six passengers, all of whom were injured, were Mildred Devitt, Los les, sprained ankle; Ben Silver, San ancisco, bruises; A. 8. Whitmore, Redwood City., Calif., face cuts, chest bruises and possible internal injuries; H. H. Putnam, Burlingame, Calif. broken leg: Malcolm Righy, Seattle Weather Bureau expert, cuts and bruises, and Frank B. Jeffrey, Seattle attorney, cuts and bruises. e The piane left Portland at 10:10 a.m. yesterday and was due in San Francisco Yasterday afiernoon. When it crashed the pilots, unmindful of their own in- jurles, immediately began aiding the passengers. Miss Devitt, possibly least seriously injured of the passengers, did her best to cheer up the others until help arrived. Girl Describes Crash. Miss Devitt told what happened, | while lying on a hospital cot here to- day. “It was the most terrible thing 1 ever experienced,” she said. “The first I knew of the crash was when a tree limb broke a window. I put my fur coat over my face and was the only one who was not cut about the face. Then the other window broke and we started falling. It seemed miles, but it was only as far as a tall tree. And then the crash. “The ground was wet and we moaned ail night. We thought we were lost in the mountains and worried about our people hearing about it before we could tell them. There was no food but a pot of coffee, salvaged from the wreckage. So we built a fire and drank coffee. Physicians said they expected all the injured to recover. They were to be Wife and $1,400 Missing, Husband Reports to Police Man With 62 Cents Left Says Money Disappear- ed From His Clothes. James E. Williams, 40-year-old iron worker of Bristol, Tenn,, spent all of last night walking back and forth along the concourse in Union Station look- ing for his wife, Mrs. Pauline Willlams, 32 years old, who, he told police, dis- appeared from their room at the Lee House Hotel about 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon. After she left, he told the police that more than $1,400 in cash was missing from his pookets, leaving him with but 62 cents. According to his story, he and bis wite arrived in this city Friday night and registered at the Lee House. They were on a pleasure trip and were to have left for Buffalo, N. Y., tomorrow morning. This is the first time either of them has been outside of Tennessee. He informed the police that they spent the morning yesterday sightseeing and after lunching returned to the hotel. After taking a bath vesterday afternoon he returned to their room and found his wife was gone. He imme- diately went to the wardrobe and dis- covered her hat and coat had been taken. Then a search disclosed the money was missing from his clothes. After explaining the state of affairs to the room clerk, he got in a taxicab and rushed to Union Station hoping, he said, to intercept his wife if she intended leaving the city. He then notified police who were requested to inquire at all hotels and hospitals for her and after- ward took up his vigil at Union Station. He could give no motive for his wife leaving him, he said. They had been married 11 years and had never had even the slightest disagreement. They have no children. KILLED ON WAY TO GAME. Three Foot Ball Fans Die in Ohio Crash—Fourth Hurt. NEWARK, Ohio, November 3 ().— Three persons going to the Ohio State- Princeton foot ball gave at Columbus this afternoon were killed shortly before noon and a fourth is in a serious con- dition at the hospital here as a result of their automobile striking a truck on a curve and going into a ditch. Two unidentified men were burned to death when the machine which had inned them down caught fire and urned. A third, F. A. Sherrer, of Sherods- ville, died soon after being receivhd at the hospital. The other injured man sent to San Francisco possibly tonight or tomorrow. in the hospital is Frank Bowers, resi- dence unknown. By the Associated Press. President Coolidgs issued a proclama- tion today calling upon the American people to observe November 11, the tenth anniversary of the end of the World War, with “appropriate cere- monies” in schools, churches and other suitable {:uces to ,give “expression to our gratitude for peace and the hope and desire that our friendly relations with other peoples may continue.” The text of the proclamation reads: “Whereas, The eleventh of November, 1918, marked the cessation of the most destructive, sanguinary and far-reach- ing war in human annals, and “Whereas, It is fitting that the recur- ring anniversary of this day should be commemorated with thanksgiving and prayer, and by exercises designed to further the cause of permanent peace through the maintenance of good will and friendly relations between nations; and “Whereas, By concurrent resolution nor Mr. Hunter saw her assailant flee- ing. but they believe he fled down a nearlgy alley. of the Senatggand the House of Repre- ! sentatives 1[?’%’.!6, the President was Tequested to Tssue a proclamation for President Coolidge Calls onVchublic To Observe Anniversary of War's End the observance of Armistice day: “Now, therefore, I, Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States of America, in pursuance of the said con- current resolution, do hereby order that the flag of the United States be dis- vlayed on all Government buildings on people of the United States to observe the day in schools and churches, and other suitable places, with appropriate ceremonies, giving expression to our gratitude for peace and the hope and desire that our friendly relations with other peoples may continue. “In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the Great Seal of the United States. “Done at the City of Washington this third day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight, and of the inde- | mendence of the United States of Amer- ica, the one hundred and fi‘tv-third “CALVIN COOLIDGE.” | By the President: & | FRANK B. KELLOGG, ] Becretary of State, UNGER SET AT THE WARDMAN PARK HORSE SHOW Above: Some of the youngsters resting nfter their turn In the ring. Left to right: Loulse Myers, Polly Faraker, Molly Howe, November 11, 1928, and do invite the, Edith Carlisle, Connie Rogers. Ann Kruger and Emily Evans —Star Staff Photos. Belo SADDLE CLUB SHOW RIDER 15 INJURED Miss Margaret Bates Hurt When Thrown From Mount at Nursery Benefit. Miss Margaret Bates, daughter of Col. and Mrs. W, T. Bates of Chevy Chase, suffered a broken collarbone when she was thrown from a horse which fell in atempting to take a jump at the Ward- man Park Saddle Club Horse Show yesterday afternoon, She was taken to Walter Reed Hospital. The horse, named Upstart, had been successfully jumped by Miss Bates over a three-and-a-half-foot jump, but in attempting to take a four-foot hurdle, his forefoot struck the top pole and he fell, throwing his rider. There was a large attendance at the horse show, which was held on the {rnundx of the club under the Connec- icut Avenue Bridge. The show was for the benefit of the Garfield Nursery Guild. The summary of the events follows: First class, saddle ponies up to 12 hands, ridden by children—First, Fred J. Hughes, jr., on Nellie; second, Robert. Palmer, on Beauty; third, Fred J. Hughes, jr., an Dynamite. Second class, hack and hunter—First, Charles 'H. Carrico, on Mobo; second, Miss Margo Couzens, on Dixle Child; third, Miss Margaret Bates, on Upstart. Third ¢lass, opefi saddle class—First, Miss Ruth Matthews, on Sporty Mc- Cann; second, E. 8. Newman, on My Dear; third, Miss Grace Raezer, on Apache. Fourth class, open jumping class— First, Mrs. Charles H. Carrico, on Lin- gayen; second, Charles H. Carrico, on Moho; third, Miss Margo Couzens, on Dixie Child. Fifth class, ‘horses or ponies over 12% hands, ridden by children—First, Nancy Weller, on Beauty; second, Marsye Stokes, on Bonny; third, Lil- lian Shuman, on My Dear; fourth, Emily Davies, on Sporty McCann. Sixth class, green hunters—FPirst, Ray Norton, on High Compression; second, Miss Margo Souzens, on Dixie's Child; third, Dr, A. Y. P. Garnett, on Dover, Seventh class, saddle class, owners riding—First, Miss Grace Raezer, on Apache; second, Mrs. Hubbert R. Quin- ter, on Smarty; third, Norman Clark, on_Prince. Eighth class, horses suitable to be- come hunters (first section for heavy horses)—First, George Plumber, on Irish Lad; second, Ray Norton, on High Compression; third, Dr. Garnett, on Dover. (Second section for light horses)—First, Charles H. Carrico. on econd, Dr. Horgan, on Inez; ladies’ saddle class— Pirst, Miss Ruth Matthews, on Sporty McCann; second, Mrs. Hubbert R. Quin- ter, on Smarty; third, Miss Grace Raezer, on Apache. Tenth class, Corinthian class—First, Charles H. Carrico, on Lingayen; sec- ond, Mrs, Carrico, on Mobo; third, Fred J..Hughes, on Rob Roy. LOFFLER GIVEN. DINNER BY FIRM’S EMPLOYES ‘Washington Man Leaves for New York to Be Vice President of Gobel Co. A farewell dinner was given.by the employes of the Keane-Loffler Provision Co. last night at the Willard Hotel to Andrew D. Loffier, former president of the Loffler Co., who was leaving for New York to assume the duties of vice president of the Adolph Gobel Co., whiéh‘ has absorbed Keane and Loffer concerns here, * He will be suc- ceeded by his son, Andrew D. Loffler, jr., who has been appointed Washing- ton manager of the unit of the Gobel Co., formed by the merger of the two local concerns. About 70 persons attended the dinner and Frank M. Firor, president of the Gobel "Co., was the principal speaker. A gold ring set with a ruby was pre- sented to Mr. Loffler by his former em- ployes. He had been in business in Washington for the past 40 years. HOP OFF FROM COAST. Yankee l)ao:'ll« VPll;.tl Trying for West-to-East Record. MINES FIELD; LOS ANGELES, No- vember 3 (#).—The Lockheed mono- plane Yankee Doodle, piloted by Capt. C. B. D. Collyer and carrying its owner, Harry Tucker, as & nger, hoppet off at 3:29 o'clock this afternoon in an attempt to break its own west-to-east transcontinental non-stop record. Collyer and Tucker expected to land the famous white monoplane at Roose- velt Pleld, Long Island, in less than 19 hours. TS EX-PRESIDENT IN JAIL. | Pangalos of Greece Is Held on Manslaughter Charge. ATHENS, Greece, November 3 (A).— Former President Pangalos, .whose re- lease from prison was one of the first acts of Premier Venizelos on the latter's recent reappearance in the political arena, Is again in prison. The general was charged with man- slaughter and- the court remanded him to prison. It is thought likely bail eventually will be granted Pangalos, VSN IS CAEMGAL, PROFESOR HOLDS Theory Applies to Animals as Well as Humans, Says Dr. Hecht. | A novel theory of the chemical and | | physical processes of vision, which a parently act in the same way tHrough- |out the animal kingdom and may even | extend to plants, was expounded last night by Dr. Selig Hecht of Columbia | University at a joint meeting of the | | American Optical Society and the Bio- | logical Society of Washington at the Cosmos Club. When light falls on the eye, Dr. Hecht sald, it strikes a known chemical sub- | stance, visual purple, which has been | isolated from the rods of the eye and subjected to extensive tests. The light | apparently has a chemical effect on this purple, splitting it into two sub- stances now known as P and A. These | have not been isolated. Process of Vision. At low intensities of light only minute amounts of these two substances are I created and they recombine immediately tinto visual purple. In these cases the light stimulus is below the threshold of it stances are created in such amounts that they do not recombine as fast as they are made, but either one or the other of them combines with a second substance in the eye which has not been localized and is now purely hypothetical. This second combination sets up an im- nerve fibers to the brain and the result is vision. Dr. Hecht told of a long series of experiments with lower animals, notably clams, which showed in every respect the same visual mechanism as the higher animals and humans. Tests Made on.Clams. He found in clams the same sensitiv- ity to very weak light that is sown by human eyes when a light is turned on in a dark room, although daylight, which does not have such a powerful stimulating effect once the eye has been adjusted to it, is 10,000 times more in- tense. This he explained by the as- sumption that the visual purple be- comes reconcentrated in the dark. Throughout the animal kingdom, he sald, light is not seen until some time after it is turned on, and continues to be seen for some time after it is turned off—the principle upon which both the motion picture and television is based. Also a minimum threshold intensity is required in all creatures before there is sensitivity to light. (Carbon Reduces Pressure, Big doses of carbon arc or irradiation of the body tend to lower blood pres- sure and may become a recognized treatment for some high-blood pressure conditions, Dr. Henry Laurens of Tulane University told the American O)nlenl Soclety meeting at the Bureau of Standards yesterday. Decreases of {rom 8 to 10 per cent for several months have been reported, he said, with a cor- responding increase in the pulse beat, which may result from fest rather than light treatment. The blood pressure of a dog subjected to light doses of from 85 to 125 gram calories per square centimeter of body surface, continued for several days, has been depressed from 15 to 20 per cent and has stayed down three or four weeks after the final treatmept, ey There Is'*3till much' ‘cohfusion, Dr. Laurens said, abput the action :of lght on the blood composition and .ifs use in cases of anemip. Persons Jin ‘poorly lighted rooms grow pale, but are not necessarily anemic and mnf' have. a ood ratio of red blood cells. - Light, owever, may increase the red blood cells. Soon after the irradiation tr ent, Dr. Laurens said, there is actual decerase in all the formed ele- ments of the blood—the white and red blood cells and the flagellae—and an increase in volume of the blood plasma. Manufactures Vitamins. An important effect of ultra-violet radiation, he pointed out, was the manufacture in. the body of the mys- terious vitamin D, of extreme impor- tance in the building process of the bones and teeth, and absence of which causes rickets and other diseases of children. It is essential, however, to have this vitamin in the diet in such forms as cod liver oil, and irradiation of the body will not make up for a dietary deficiency. Some food sub- stances, he pointed out, can be endowed with vitamin D by irradiation. Thus the irradiation of a nursing mother has a good effect on the milk. The func- tion of this vitamin, he said, apparently was to keep up the calclum-phosphorus balance in the body. Thus the ab- tion of calcium necessary for bone nds on the proper acidity , and a vitamin D deficiency tends to increase the blood akalinity. There is some question, Dr. Laurens said, as to what part of the spectrum is most effective. Some experiments now tend to show that the normal growth and mineral metabolism of chickens depends upon the whole spec- trum rather than the ultra-violet. Dr. Laurens warned against the popular use of violet ray llmgl unless such treat- ment is prescribed by a physician who understands light therapy. He said that 'such treatment is likely to have dan- geroul effects on the eyes, is extremely ad for fever patients, and is likely to do a great deal of damage to cases of low blood pressure and rsons with skins which are easily burhed. ‘Workers at the Bureau of Standards described conditions due to carelessness in experimenting with ultra-violet rays in which the person is . kened by excruciating pain in the eyes in the middle of the night, finds the eyes gluea together and experiences intense pain when he tries to open them; next day the eyes are greatly inflamed and it is extremely painful to accommodate them to reading or any similar occupation. In a few days the condition clears up. .'No Permanent Damage. It 1s unlikely that any permanent damage is done, Br. Laurens said, since the retina s not injured. Cataracts have been attributed, it was pointed out, to both ultra-violet and infra-red illumination—particularly to the infra- red just below the visible spectrum. Recent experiments showing the be- | havior of plants under diverse light ex- | posures were described by Dr. John M. Arthur of the Boyce Thompson Insti- tute of Yonkers, N. Y. Plants grown in open sunlight were kept as controls over plants grown in five greenhouses, each covered with a glass filter which admit, ted only certain parts of the solai d | spectrum. No marked difference in time and amount of flowering was observed in plants grown under ordinary window glass or under glass which admitted a greater percentage of ultra-violet, those grown under blue light were normal ex- cept for being very much dwarfed, while the red end of the spectrum -caused them to grow tall and spindly. ‘The tomato plant, he showed, can- not stand constant 24-hour illumina- tion and does its best with 12 hours of light edch day. Over the 12-hour limit the plants die very rapidly. It was first thought, Dr. Arthur sald, that this was a case of diabetes in plants, caused by light of high intensity, producing more sugar and starches in the plant system, but no great change was found when the intensity of the light was lowered. Buckwheat, he showed, flowers with wivere from 8 to 24 hours’ illumination a day. Plants exposed directly to ultra-yiolet Jight, he demonetrated, are quickly In- Jured, the extent.of the injury depend- vision and there is no consclousness nl’l ‘At higher intensities the two sub-| pulse, possibly electrical, along the visual | ~ | ! i | Through the courtesy of the United States Army, this 60-inch anti-aircraft searchlight has been loaned to The Star for use on election night. Stationed on the driveway north of the Washington Monument, its great white beam will sig- nalize for miles around Washington the trend of the voting or its definite results. | If the beam sweeps east and west three times, it will mean that important returns indicate Hoover gains, If the beam sweeps north and south three times, it will mean that important returns indicate gains for Smith. At the conclusion of these sweeps, the beam will remain pointing straight into the air. When the final re- sults are known, the beam will flash nos case may be, for a period of 10 minutes. rth and south, or east and west, as the | ing on the intensity of the radiation. | In some cases the injury results in 30| seconds. The ultra-violet, he said, evi- dntly prevents the production of carbo. hydrates and eventually will kill the | plant. The injury decreases rapidly as | the radiation is brought down within the limits of sunlight. | Influence of light on the behavior of | animals was described by Prof. W. J.| Crozier of Harvard University. “This is not conscious but mechanical be- havior, and is not dependent on the will of the animal,” he said. He described experiments where one eye was removed from a water scor- plon and where the bug, illuminated from above, swam naturally in a cir- cular path. Another experiment was with newly born rats whose eyes had | not openmed, but whose eyelids were sensitive to light. One eye was re« moved under an anesthetic and the animal {lluminated from above. The re- sult was that it moved in a spiral course, the spiral tightening as the light stimulus was irfcreased. Thus there was a direct relation between the intensity of the light and the amplitude of the turning movement, due to the excita- tion of muscles on one side. Such tropisms, Dr. Crozier believes, do not stop with the lower animals, but may be traced in the behavior of men. The chemist and -the physicist to- gether face the gmblem of obtaining pure chlorphyll, the coloring matter in the leaves of plants, which because of its action .on sunlight is one of the!| most important elements in all life, Dr. F. M. Schertz of the Department of Agriculture told the society. The great difficulty, he said. lies in the fact that chlorphyll undergoes decomposition at every stage of its progress. Eventually, he said, some natural product from chlorphyll may be found in every living cell. The problem may be solved, he likely to reveal that every group of plants has a chemistry of its own. Pigment in Wheat Flour. Dr. H. J. McNicholas of the Bureau of Standards told of spectroscopic stud- ies of carotin and xanthophyll, two ob- scure yellow pigments in plant life the significance of which is not known. Carotin is the only pigment in wheat flour and must be bleached away to produce the commercial white flou Ultra-violet light in sunlight in Balti- more varles from 400 ergs per square centimeter a second in January to 4,000 ergs in_ August, Janet Howell Clark of Johns Hopkins University told the so- ciety. The maximum is not reached at the time of highest altitude of the sun in June, she said, probably because there is a maximum thickness of ozone in the upper atmosprere in the Spring and a minimum in the Fall, so that by August this natural guard against the extremely short light waves has greatly decreased. Biologically effective rays in Fsunlight almost entirely disappear by 3 pm. in_the Winter. she said. The behaviorist school of psychology by no means covers the whole fleld and its procedure belongs with ‘biology, said Prof. Leonard T. Troland of Harvard University; speaking-on_the relation of optics to psychology. He stressed the importance of the subjective or intro- spective school of psychology, which stresses what goes on in the mind rather than confines itself to the external stimuli. Phenomena Explanation. How do the behaviorists, he said, ex- lain the phenomena of color or of a)ne in_music? Color, he pointed out, to the physicist depends on certain wave lengths of light, yet the actual colors we see are mental rather than physical things. It is possible, he said, by electri- cal stimulation of the eye or the visual center of the brain, to make a“person see any wave lengths of purples or blues, because color exists inside the brain. If color was purely a matter of wave length, he said, it would be'pos- sible to see ultra-violet and infra-red as well as the visible spectrum. The same is true, he pointed out, of musi- cal tones. Thoughts, imagination, feel- ing and will, he insisted. cannot be identified with physical relationships, but depend upon operation within the central nervous system. No problem in chholnly, said Prof. Troland, is. moré important than a thorough understanding of the’ visual fleld of human experience, including an explanation of such: phenomena as luster and glow. Efforts to show the assembled physicists a “ghost” met with indifferent success yesterday afternoon. This phenomenon is a blue arc which appears at the sides of a shaft of red or yellow light on a screen in a dark- ened room when the person fixes his gaze on the proper spot. It is a com- plex optical phenomenon related to the well known “after-image” in psychology, which probably is responsible for some of the historical visions. When con- ditions are right the blue are always appears with more or less intensity to the majority of persons, but yesterday some saw 1t and some didn't, . An explanation was offered by Deane B. Judd of the Bureau of Standards to the effect that the phenomenon 1s| due to nerve activity which originates in the retinal rods of the eye. Bandits Get $3,000 in Theater. | RICHMOND, Va,, November 3 (#)— | Holding up the assistant manager and an usher of Loews Theater at the point of pistols here late tonight, two men escaped with $3,040 taken from the safe of the theater office. The men, it is believed, were in the theater audi- ence and edged their way to the office as crowds were leaving the theater, said, by a spectroscopic study, which is | b WOMAN SERIOUSLY INURED I CRASH Two Others Hurt When Auto| Hits Lamp Post—Ma- chine Burns Up. Following a crash at Fifth and E streets last night, three persons were taken to Casualty Hospital, where one was found to be seriously injured. The | automobile in which they had been | riding burned up shortly after their removal. The more seriously injurea was Miss Elizabeth Glidden, 21 years old, 917 Evarts street northeast. She was found to have a fractured skull and internal injuries. The others, Mrs. Carrie Clo- key, 20 years old, 76 New York avenue, and the driver, John Willlam Barfield, 29 years old, 1735 Bay Street southeast, were treated for numerous cuts and bruises. The fourth occupant of'the car, Charles Kelly, 30 years old, 1735 | Bay street southeast, escaped injury. According to Policeman Willlam D. Haislip of the sixth precinct, who with two park policemen witnessed the acci- dent, the automobile was proceeding east on E street when the driver lost control and it crashed into a lamp post, turning over on the rebound. Haislip and other witnesses had scarcely gotten the occupants extracted from the wreckage when the machine t into flames and was destroyed before the arrival of fire apparatus. Barfleld was arrested and taken to the sixth precinct station house, to await the outcome of Miss Glidden's injuries. Haislip said that he thinks the steering gear suddenly became locked on the machine, COUNTRY LEADING CITY IN STUDENTS High School Average Greater in| Rural Districts, Sur- vey Show: | 3. | The country leads the city in the | number of high schools, the Bureau of | Education of the Interior Department annaunced yesterday, in declaring that more than three out of every four high schools are located in rurai area Of the Nation's 21,700 high schools, | those in the city are larger and their numerical total of attendance is great- er than in the country, the b o L Ty, ureau ex Reports have been received in the bureau’s compilation, from 17,711 high schools, of which 3,960 or 22.4 per cent are urban high schools, located in com- munities of 2,500 or more population and 13,751, or 77.6 per cent, are rural. In the' 13751 rural high schools, the | bureau said, there are only 1,079,086 children, or 28.8 per cent of the total | high school enrollment, while in the 3,960 urban high schools, there are | 2,662,364 children, or 71.2 per cent of | the total enrollment. “While 52.8 per cent, or more than | half of all the children between 15 and | 18 years of age live in rural territory.” the bureau declared, “only 25.7 per cent | of them are enrolled in the rural high | schools; whereas 71.1 per cent of the: children of this age group living in urban centers are enrolled in urban high schools. It is clear that rural high schools are either inaccessible or they do not offer opportunities sufficient to attract a high percent of rural children of high school age, ALICIA CALLES WEDS By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, November 3.—Alicia | Elias Calles, daughter of the President | and considered one of the most beauti- | ful girls in Mexico, was married late tonight to Jorge Almada Salcido, son of a prominent sugar planter of the State of Sinaloa. The civil ceremony took place in the home of her father with only members of the families and a few intimate friends preseat. The couple will start tomorrow for a honeymoon trip around the world by way of San Francisco and the Orfent. Salcido is 22 and his bride 18. Both have studied in the United States and speak English easily. The President's American son-in-law, lomas Arnold Robinson, and his wife, Ernestina Calles Robinson, were attendants at the wedding. Cobb's Son-in-Law Makes Debut. ROME, November 3 (#).—Frank Chapman, son-in-law of .the humorist, Irvin Cobb, tonight made his operatic debut in “II Trovatore” at the Adrian FLECTON SERVIGE OF STAR EXTENSVE Elaborate Plans to Distribute - Returns Tuesday Night Effected. WMAL to Broadcast Star’s Service on . National Election A distinctive radio election service will be furnished Tuesday night, by Station WMAL and The star. The Nation-wide refurns as reported by the Associated Press and The Star’s special corre- spondents will be broadcast direct from The Star office as soon as they are received. Thornton Fisher, who for the last two years has broadcast the play-by-play account of the away-from-home games ;of the Washington base ball team will be at the micro- phone. The election bulletins will be embellished with a clear and im~ partial discussion of national olitical problems by Frederic llllam Wile, veteran radio political analyist. A special musical program by a group of WMAL's regular artists will inter- sperse these features. The WMAL-Star election pro- gram will start at 6 o'clock and continue until the result of the election is definitely determined | The most comprehensive arrange- ments ever made by The Evening Star for the collection and dissemination | of election returns have just been com- pleted. Assembling* the returns by a larger and more complete system than - ev The Star has made plans for sprea ing election news next Tuesday night | to the eagerly waiting public through electric channels, which include even a high powered anti-aircraft search- light, to sweep the heavens with its spectacular beams. Telegraph, radio, address system, stereopticon, motion picture camera, motion picture the- aters and the giant searchlight will all be employed in an effort to reach the greatest number of persons and perform the most satisfactory service to the public as swiftly as possible. The traditional stereopticon screen in front of The Evening Star Building, which has always drawn thousands to- gether for a group reception of re- turns, will be augmented by a motion Flcture camera to pravide varied en- ertainment along with the reports from the Nation's polls. A public address system will greatly amplify the voice announcing returns from the building, so that thousands may hear for great dl.sAuncesl. n elabgrate .expanded telephoné service ha# been installed to IEISWPI %‘;:emog l:m those who wish to call ening Star through central, using the phone Main 5003,' Program Comprehensive. The Star will go on the air through Statlon WMAL and broadcast to t?xe amazingly increased throng of potential listeners-in a program of results which :lv:l‘}ecn.rry d11rect to the homes over a rea in nea: p Dl%:lcl. rby States and th e radio program will include nc only figures on the returns hutul:\ xl‘n- teresting musical program. and exper. i;g;ry&;allruou v% the Teturns by Fred- lam e, well know: i lfl;‘g’f‘- well known politica; 'S program will begin at 6 o'cl on Tuesday evening and will comch::rx until the decision is determined. Th election returns themselves will be pu on the air by Thornton Pisher, an nouncer of sports for The Evening Star from a special studio in the news de- ruzlacl;t]m;m of Tl;l:msur, while the mu- rogram su'ugo 7 y come through th e heavens will be filled not only with the radio results of the election, but will be pierced by brilliant beams of the gigantic searchlight, in order to flash to thousands in Washington, in nearby Maryland and Virginia, the trend of the returns and the final re- sult. Beams of the great beacon will swing east and west gr Hoover and north and south for Smith. Swinging of the beams three times only in either of these directions will indicate the trend of the returns, and at the conclusion of these “trend” s\\;irnd(s the light will point directly up- telephone, public When the final and conclusive is known the beam will flash norfl:e::]d' south for Smith, or east and west for Hoover, as the case may be, con- lln%xgunly fo;'1 I{:hmlnules. e searc) t, one of the lar; the United States, is a flo-lnchn::!l‘lr: aircraft, high intensity, 150-ampere unit. It has a 60-inch parabolic mir- ror, and is the most modern type, de- veloped and purchased by the Board of Engineer Equipment of the Corps of Emh;‘e:;: '(iu;n t]hetcolst Artillery. It als fro; M m the Monument Tnez prleaiden! of ti neer Equipment {s Maj. of Fort, Humphreys va© - O Jones The Star also is prepared to furnish to several theaters in Washington the latest returns, which will be relayed to the thousands in the audiences. The theaters to be served are as fol- lows: National, Strand, Columbia, Little Theater, Circle, Elite, Hippodrome, Leader, Liberty, Princess, Takoma, Truxton, Park, Cameo, Jewel, Rosalia. Howard, Lincoln, Republic, M Street. Blue Mouse, Broadway, Dunbar, Mid- City, Happyland, Smoking Palace, Car olina, Seco, Ashton and American. A. P. System Thorough. The backbone of the election return system for The Star will be the grea Assoclated Press. This organization. he Board of Engi- | with its years of experience, and ex cellent record in such news emergencin= as election night, has set up a carefull planned system of its own, which wil' be ready to swing into full speed th: moment returns are available. In addition to the Associated Pres reports The Star also will be served or election night by the Western Unior and Postal Telegraph election figures In nearby States and in_all pivota States The Star also has its own scorc of special correspondents. With these sources of news pourin into The Star from all points of th compass, and political experts of The Star and of the Assoclated Press inter- preting the trend of returns, extra edi- tions will be issued during the evening as_the news received justifies. The entertainment program to be of- fered in the radio program over WMAL will be presented by Stanley William Bell, baritone, collaborating with Les- ter E. Colvin, pianist; Phil Hayden and Helen Kenny, g_opular radio entertain- ers; Sophocles T. Papas, tenor banjoist Evelyn Monico Papas, concert - pianist Dorothy Sherman Plerson, sopranc; “Bob” Carbaugh and his “uke," d Brown, concert planist; Grace Shanran, planist; Hawailan Melody Bevs and others. FIANCE KILLS PRINCESS. VIENNA, November 3 (#).—Princess Monad Asha of Turkey was shot and killed this evening in the smoking roem of a Vienna concert hall by her Aus- trian flance, Felix Gaertner. The shoot- ing occurred during a concert by the Theater. He was cool and unpert, although héghad only two “",ee'i'."'fo learn his rol# of Conte di Luna, famous Czechoslovakian artist, Vasa Prihoda. Gaertner sald that he had feared the princess was tiring of him, .