Evening Star Newspaper, December 30, 1928, Page 2

BULLETING ALLAY ALARM OVER KING Slow Improvement Contin- ues—Wales Exhibits Opti- mism by Following Hounds. By the Associated Prest. LONDON, December 29.—Favorable ts of the condition of King George were issued today and confirmed by to- night's medical bulletin. The laiter announced that the monarch had passed a restful day and it indicated that he had resumed the tediously slow rate of improvement. Its text was: “The King has had a quiet day. The slow improvement noted this morning oontinues. No bulletin will be issued until tomorrow evening.” The reassurance thus given fo the watchful public was strengthened by the absence from the palace tonight of the Prince of Wales and Princess Mary. The heir to the throne exhibited his optimistic attitude by following the hounds at Melton Mowbray. On re- ceiving ‘cheerful information from the royal sickroom, he canceled his plan to return to London tonight and re- mained in the midlands. Princess Rejoins Husband. Princess Mary, who has been at the palace almost constantly since early in the King's illness, left the royal resi- dence tonight to rejoin her husband, Viscount Lascelles. He and their two sons, George and Gerald, have been spending the holidays with the Viscount's parents at Leeds. “The flurry which arose today over the question of a possible blood transfusion appears to be without any real con- nection with the treatment of the King, but it caused much inconvenience at the palace by the overwhelmin; number of volunteers offering their blood and with hundreds of inquiries. It is understood that the measures for augmenting the strength of the patient relate to a new course of medicine. His majesty is not yet in condition for possible use to be made of the Dakin’s solution sent from Pittsburgh, Pa. Bulletins Allay Alarm. Today's bulletins have done much to e renewed alarm occasioned by the disquieting bulletin of Thurs- day, but it is well 1ecognized that anxiety still continues and that the t duration of the sickness places & vy burden on the forces working for Tecovery. Th:rfinke and Duchess of York dined at the palace with Queen Mary tonight, having returned today from Naseby Hall in Northamptonshire. Six physicians were at the palace Besides the usual three, Dr. n Hodgson, radiologist, has called | him. and Drs. Howitt and Woods were in attendance to administer the ultra- violet ray treatment. Lord Dawson of Penn was the last to go, leaving the | PeOl palace at 9:15. —e. PRESIDENT SEIZED WITH “BUCK FEVER,” FAILS TO SHOOT DEER (Continued From First Page.) es. About a dozen or so mative boys and men were taken along the deer into the clearing about Deer Stops in Clearing. The members of the shooting party had been stationed at vantage points behind trees the clearing. Pinally the deer came on, the first one of the little animals to arrive out of the clearing within full view of every- thténed animal was running fast, but a8 it came within range of the Presi- gun, he s suddenly. @ quick gl about him his gaze fell upon the President, who was ‘wm‘ through the motions of "his shotgun. There was silence, . Like a statue the buck , continuing looking in the direction of Mr. Coolidge. lat- ter was still aiming his gun. Time it seemed like hours, it probably minute, but there tly the : buck His opportunity arrived shortly afterwards. It was another buck, and he was dashing across the clearing before the President at a terrific clip, but the President ‘wasn't going to buck-fevered out of his fine fellow, and bang went the gun, and on rushed the buck. Then came a doe, a lovely little creature scarcely heavier t! 70 pounds. The Presi- dent was awaiting her. His aim was again wide, and the doe ran to safety 4n the woodland. Four other deer crossed the clearing supposedly within range of the guns of the members of the shooting y, and, with the ex- , Latrobe, the other gun- Despite his il luck Mr. Coolidge en- | Joyed his first deer hunt, and he lost no time informing his host afterwards that he wants to go after deer again. He was represented as saying that he must bring down a deer before leaving for Washington. He has been promised more of this kind of sport Monday morning on the 60,000-acre game pre- serve of Mr. Coffin on the mainland about 40 miles south of here. It was definitely announced today that Mr. Coolidge has thus far bagged three pheasants, two wild turkeys and one %u‘u The newspaper correspond- ents have not been permitted to come near while he is hunting, all of which has resulted in conflicting accounts of the President's prowess as a gunner bemfdaent out to the newspapers. The President’s daily score has been fur- nished by members of his shooting parties. The reports given out by these spokesmen have not always tallied, and have at times been a little exaggerated. It was announced by these spokesmen that Mrs. Coolidge had bagged six pheasants yesterday afternoon. This re- was officially corrected today with statement that while Mrs. Coolidge ¢@id go gunning she bagged nothing. “Rodeo” Is Held. ‘To add to the entertainment of his guests yesterday, Mr. Coffin staged a Sea Island rodeo, This consisted of col- ored boys riding steers and cows, steer races, bareback races with farm horses and races between oxen hitched to light wagons. During the rodeo, half a hun- dred colored girls sang numerous spirit- uals, which greatly interested Mrs. Coolidge. Instead of shaking hands with sev- eral thousand people in the White House on New Year day the President is planning to give a greeting to the people ‘of America by speaking from here over a nation-wide radio hook-up on New Year eve. ‘The presidential party tomorrow morning will go to church on St. Simons Island, after which they will visit sev- eral historic places on this island. From 8t. Simons the garty will cruise to Point Peter, about 5 miles further south. ‘The party will then be motored to St. Mary’s to view the ruins of the once famous Spanish mission at that place. From there the party will go to the preserve. The return trip to Sapelo will be started about noon Monday. —— Emend 5 Acont ghe a3, Gl The a 4-cent gas tax, Men, Women and Children Receive Tragic Sentence With Greatest Fortitude. MANY JOKE AT FUTURE| | Visitor Given Impression of | Brave Courage in Brief Talks With Sufferers. BY GRETCHEN SMITH. Just beyond the Cathedral on Wis- consin avenue stands a great brick building in plain view of passers-by. But the average person hardly looks at the place as he hastens about his business. If his glance should chance to fall in that direction, it is with an unconscious shudder that he looks the other way. It is not pleasant to think of unhappy things, and the great brick building tells of tragedies, suffering and heartaches unbelievable to the healthy, happy “rest of the world.” The Home for Incurables has gath- ered beneath its sheltering wings men, women and children who have received with fortitude and courage the cruelest and most tragic sentence that life can inflict—"incurable!” Children, crip- pled from birth; young men and women cut down in the prime of life by acci- dent or disease; old people waiting and suffering with superhuman patience while the shadows of life's closing days slowly falls upon them. A visitor came to Washington for the Christmas holidays. She had plenty of time, a tender heart and the memory of a dear one lost in the Great War. The memory created deep sympathy for affiicted young men and sorrowing mothers. She heard that in the Home for Incurables there lay a man, 22 years old, who for two years, had lain paralyzed with a broken back, the result of an automobile accident. Perhaps, she thought, she might be permitted to carry a little Christmas cheer to the youth, so patiently waiting for the last great call, which would mean a respite from his sufferings. Graclously the superintendent received her. She was led into a cheerful room where the young man has lain through- out weary months. She had expected %o find a person incapable of feeling cheer. The gray eyes of the young man lightened with appreciation of her friendly visit and he talked with in- terest of books, the radio and Christmas gifts which so many friends had sent ‘Woman in Bed 20 Years. “will you visit some of our other ple?” asked the superintendent. “I should like you to say good morning to a dear old woman who has lain in her bed for over 20 years. Never has a word of complaint left her lips.” As they were talking, the two women came to the room of the sufferer. A smile of greeting crossed her face. Not a word of her own suffering left her lips. “How are you?” she asked. “I am glad your cold is better.” Not a sigh, not a hint of “self” entered into the conversation of this woman 95 years old. Crossing the corridor, the superin- tendent led the way to a room whose open door showed another woman seated in a wheelchair reading a paper. How she could read was a marvel to the visitor. Her head was pulled over to one side, as though drawn by a cruel magnet. The hands which held the paper were knotted and contracted out of shapes the result of a relentless arthritis endured over a period of years with unbelievable gltience. “I have so much to be grateful for,” she sald. “My childfen are so good to me and everybody does so many kind things for me.” Again the woman from out-of-town made a note of this quality which char- acterized the ple living in this home, a vast, de eeling of appreciation for what was g done for them and an interest outside of themselves. ‘The next patient visited was a fine- THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O DECEMBER 30, 1928—PART % TRAGEDY. SUFFERING AND HEARTACHES HIDDEN BEHIND VEIL OF COURAGE AS INMATES OF HOME FOR INCURABLES FACE LIFE'S END WITH SMILE This little boy, handicapped as he is with two permanently crippled hands and crippled legs, made:$15 in Christmas money by painting Christmas cards at the Home for Incurables. He walks nine blocks to school each day. Flogging, Hanging And Exile Advised In Durant Replies HangViolators by Tongue On Plane and CarryThem Over U. S., One Urges. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, December 29.—Tortures varying from a dose of castor oil to exile on St. Helena and electrocution were recommended for liquor law vio- lators by contestants in the W. C. Du rant $25,000 dry enforcement competi- tion. In disclosing some of the cruel and unusual punishments suggested to curb the illicit sway of John Barleycorn, the Durant committee today guarded the names and in most cases the sex of the authors. One contestant urged that liquor law violators should be “hung by the tongue on an airplane and carried over the United States,” while a woman suggested Government distribution of poisoned liquor through bootleggers. “Only & few hundred thousand persons would die,” she wrote, “and it would be worth it to get prohibition enforced.” Other solutions for the prohibition enforcement problem were “a city-high wall about any man found drinking," and a “sea-sick” machine for drinkers and bootleggers, flogging, hanging and electrocution were frequently urged. One contestant, on the other hand, proposed that liquor be distributed free so that there would be “no lure left.” Another asserted the Government should dispense liquor, but “only in places that look like jails.” MEDICINAL WHISKY EASILY OBTAINABLE Prohibition Officials Say Liquor Can Be Gotten for Use in Epidemic. looking woman of middle age, who bustled about her room in a wheel chair as actively as though many years of a paralyzing arthritis had failed to con- quer her indomitable will. “This s Mrs. H—,” introduced the superintendent. “She is a model of goodness and emclznci,fiukma entire care of herself, doing own sewing and never asking assistance from any one.” “How do you get about as you do?” inquired the visitor, noticing the para- lyzed legs resting helplessly on the foot- board of the chair and the knofted, twisted hands which still accomplished so many useful l.hlnis “I could not get along without work,” she replied. “The more I have to do the happier it makes me.” Out in the corridor of the hospital, a delicate, slight woman stood shaking ukecnn ulgen lea(.]m ity “Creeping paralysis,” expl e superintendent in a whisper. Aloud to the patient, she said: “How are you this morning?” Jokes At Condition. “lshnk.lng like the‘fld‘::igm," wn‘; tx reply made with a umor, To th‘;e to joke, when life has dealt the card of “creeping paralysis”! Greater ourage than that no man could know, thought the visitor as she passed down the corridors. ‘At the switchboard of the home sat & middle-aged man in & wheel chair, who turned a pdruut courageous blue eyes in friendly greeting. “I should like to introduce you to one person this home could not get along without,” said the su tendent. “For 20 years Mr. C—— operated the switchboard. He has been here with us for 30 years, ever since he left the Children’s Hospital.” “Are there others besides yourself who have occupations around the hos- pital?” the visitor asked “Yes, many of them,” replied the crippled man, “but I should like spe- ¢ially to mention Bill, who came here about the same time I did and who re- canes and repairs all the chairs in the home. He also recanes chairs for peo- ple outside and is always glad to get work, as it brings in a little money, which helps a lot.” “Then there is little Jimmie” he continued. “Jimmie is only 9 years old, and has but one finger on one hand and three fingers webbed together on the other hand. One of our ladies here, also cum%lecely crippled with arthritis, has taught Jimmie to paint with his one hand. Jimmie made $15 at Christ- mastime, painting and decorating Christmas cards.” L After bidding good-bye to the switch- board operator the superintendent told how Mr. C—— contributed to his own upkeep by collecting tin foil and later selling it. “They are all very wonderful” the superintendent said as she led her visitor to the door. much to lmn{dpelce and comfort into thelr 1lives. ost of them bear the physical pains and mental anguish of cancer, sleeping-sickness, paralysis, arthritis and other incurable diseases with a patience and cheerfulness that would seem impossible. Here they come to the last and only refuge of its kind in the District, to pass their last days of suffering removed from home ties and loved ones. There are over 100 of these poor sufferers with us now, and it has made us very unhappy that we are not able to give shelter to all those who knock at our doors. We have had “We oannot do too | tit ‘Whatever the increase in the preva- lence of influenza, Federal prohibition officials in Washington feel present laws | Spen are sufficlently elastic to cover the need for medicinal whisky. Reports reached Washington yesterday that from all parts of the country the Department is being bom- with demands for a relaxation | barded of the regulations governing medicinal whisky supplies during the influenza idemic. % bombardment was denied ep! 5 by the prohibition division, although it was admitted tbat there were some ests, “but not many.” r. James M. Doran, prohibition commissioner, said he knew of only request. “I had a letter from a fellow in Florida who said that he couldn’t get any liquor on a prescription,” Dr. Doran said. “But that isn’t our fault, There is a State law in Florida which pro- hibits the sale of whisky even with a prescription. “Several States aave the same kinds of laws that Florida has, and there’s nothing that can be don? about it. However, in other States there are plenty of Federal facilities to take care of the demands for medicinal liquor.” INFLUENZA PA ARLEY INVITATIONS OUT, 46 OFFICIALS ACCEPT (Continued From First Page.) ‘When the health conference is cone vened, public health officers will sub- mit to it plans for a Nation-wide sur- vey of conditions to be executed on a house-to-house canvass basis and in- volving intensive laboratory studies. Similar to 1918 Study. The field study under contemplation is similar to the one made by the Public Health Service in 1918, it was sald. This involved gathering information at first hand in 12 large cities in repre- sentative sections of the country. Cities selected would be divided into areas and lay employes working under public | health officers would cover these, gete ting directly from families infected a dependable record of prevalent symp- toms and data on how the disease ha spread. Coupled with this field work the Public Health Service plans to carry on laboratory studies. Even though the influenza germ or germs were not isolated at this time, it was explained, investigation would develop knowledge helpful both in this and future epidemics. Officials said another purpose of the conference is to get together the “men from the battlefield” in order that they m:z exchange suggestions and informa- | The State officials, moreover, will be asked to co-operate with public health officials in conducting the field studies. DRINKERS TO GO FREE. Chicago Police Will Not Harass New Year Celebrants. CHICAGO, December 29 (#).—The police will not try to enforce prohibi= ton laws on New Year eve any more than at any other time, Willlam F. Rus- to turn away 20 persons bacause there was no way to accommodate them. We hope in the near future, with the co- operation of the public, to add & new wing to care for those who come to us for shelter. We need so much help, as many of those we care for lack the imeans to providgfor themselves,” - sell, commissioner of Ellice, said today. New Year, he said, is a time for cele- bration and as long as local and State laws are not violated the peo’gle will be allowed to eni’oy themselves. The police, he will Jeave to the Federal ts id, the"e‘nfnmmenz' of the fl laws but will Tender assistance & on'$h do 59, | Honduras; —=8Star Staff Photo. HUNGARIANS PLAN DRIVE T0 GET KING Legitimists to Open - Cam- paign in June to Put Arch- duke Otto on Throne. By the Associated Press. BUDAPEST, Hungary, December 29. —The Legitimist party of Hungary will begin active campaigning next June for the return of the former prince, Archduke Otto, and his election to the vacant throne of St. Stephen, it was revealed here today. ‘The 16-year-old archduke already has the coronation robe, sent to him by the Legitimist party, which also recently dispatched a court photographer to the tiny fishing village of Legueitio, Spain, where Otto is living with his mother, former Empress Zita, and the rest of the family, in humble circumstances, To Take 100 Pictures. ‘The photographer will take 100 pic- tures of the archduke in state robes and many other poses, representing the youth as a fleld marshal, as an officer of the Imperial Hussars Regiment and as sitting at a desk studying Hungarian history. Other pictures will show him at conference with his mother, wear~ ing an august and austere expression, such as is suitable for a monareh. The camera, studies will be used in an album which the Legitimists intend to circulate throughout Hungary. The Legitimi maintain that Otto automatically became King of Hungary under an ancient hereditary rule when he reached his sixteenth year. There- fore all members of the party address him as “Your Majesty.” Life Spent Abroad. Although the youth has lived abroad most of 1ife, his whole training has been shaped with the Hungarian throne in the ckground, Count Apponyi, Hungary's veteran statesman and leader of the Legitimists, who recently t & month with Otto at Lequeitio, told the Associated Press that Otto had developed into a remarkably bright and precocious youth, with a great knowledge of history, .politics, civics, philosophy, science, statecraft and international aw. “Since he became King of Hungary on his sixteenth birthday he is keenly alive to the approaching duties of his exalted office and carries himself like'a veteran ruler,” the count said. Another faction of the country has been ing that the throne be given to Archduke Albrecht, a distant cousin of Otto. NIGHT WATCHMAN, 74, STRUCK BY ASSAILANT Guard Knocked Down When He Refuses Demand to Sur- render Money. George Simpson, 74-year-old night watchman, living at 2414 F street, was struck down by an unidentified assail- ant last night, after he had refused to turn over his money which the man demanded. Simpson told third precinct police that while he was on duty at a build- ing under construction on Twenty-first street between L and M streets, a man approached him and demanded his money. The watchman could give no description of the marauder. He was taken to Emergency Hospital in a passing taxicab, and treated by Dr. Leon Gordon for lacerations to his forehead, which appear to have been caused by a sharp instrument. EXTEND AIR SERVICE. Mail Route to Canal Zone Will Open January 11. NEW YORK, December 29 (#).—Pan- American Alrways, Incorporated, an- nounced today that air mail service from the United States to the Panama Canal Zone would begin January 11. ‘The company, which now operates 4| trom Miami, Fla., to Havana, Cuba, will extend its service to Panama City, Davis and Cristobal, in the Canal Zonme, via Belize, British Honduras; Tela, Corinto and Managua, Nicaragua, and Puerto Arenas and San Jose, Costa Rica. District Building Operations Increase 37 Per Cent in 1928 A remarkable gain in the vol- ume of private building opera- tions in the District over 1927 was recorded during the past year, when the total cost of projects was computed to be $49,994,355. The amount for the last week in December was estimated. The increase over the total of $36,321,450 recorded in 1927 thus amounted to approximately 37 per cent. Through a confusion of figures in an unofficial com- putation the percentage of in- crease was reported yesterday in The Star to be 27 per cent. The increase, however, was well above a third of the 1927 total, the amount of the increase being $13,672,006. PORTES GIL T0 TRY 10 DRY UP MEXICO Thinks Enforcement Now Im- possible—It Must Be Gradual, He Says. By Cable to The Star. MEXICO CITY, December 29.— While President Emilio Portes Gil has plainly declared himself in favor of the enactment of a dry law for Mexico |similar to the eighteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States he does not believe that an attempt to enforce such a law in Mexico at pres- ent would be either practical or pos- sible, as much as he himself is an avowed dry and would like to see Mexico dry. Talking to foreign correspondents, the President said that an attempt to country into a dry one would be “a failure and ineffective.” He declared, however, that during his brief term he will do his utmost on behalf of pro- hibition and that he mapped out a sort of a training process aimed to divert the country’s attention from alcoholism. Portes Gil said that his program in- cluded the encouragement of cultural works, furnishing people with new and healthy means of entertainment such as greater interest in music and popular entertainments that would lead to the gradual abolition of the drink habit; especially to imbue Mexicans with a love for sports of all kinds, “to take people away from the centers of vice.” He added, “I am making a study of what measures can best be adapted to combat alcohol,” and pointed to his native state of Tamaulipas, where he, as governor, implanted prohibition in rural districts and some cities, while in others restrictive measures were adopt- 2d and confirmed the report that no new liquor licenses have been issued in Mexico City since his inaugration and that none would be issued, and that dur- ing his term in general an energetic campaign against Iiquor would be car- ried out by him personally and that recommendations to this effect would likewise be made to all state governors. As a part of his administration's gen- eral reconstruction program, it is learned officially, Portes Gil has desig- nated the sum of 15,000,000 pesos to be etelxpended I‘gurrlnug 1229 for further irriga- on works, following out the of ex-President Cnll%s. e Likewise he has authorized that 12,000,000 pesos be spent for building more roads, and that at least 1,000 addi- tional rural schools will be opened dur- ing the new year. (Copyr! PARAGUAY ACCEPTS PARLEY PROTOCOL; ASKS FEW CHANGES (Continued From First Page.) t, 1928.) inal resolution by which the Pan-Amer- ican Arbitration Conference on its opening day offered its good offices to Bolivia and Paraguay in their dispute, SURVEY OF DISPUTE ISSUED. Outline of League’s Peace Efforts Covers Sixteen Pages. GENEVA, December 29 (). —Sixi Ppages of printed documents were u-“u:a today by the League of Nations giving a historical survey of the Paraguayan- Bolivian dispute and the various steps taken to bring about a peaceful solu- n. The survey includes the texi aide memoire which Fore! * u-x ter Briand of Prance, as president o the Council of the League of Nations, handed to the charge d'affaires of Argentina_and the United States in 5&&5 &rz Deoe‘ mmber ‘uu ‘This said that lew days followin, 2. and Bolivia did not lcoe;t mz form or other such mediation as would afford the likelihood of a settlement by pacific methods—thereby excluding the possibility of further hostilities— the Council hardly could avoid holding an_extraordinary session. memoire says: “The Council will in such eventual- ity have to consider what measures should be taken either because war has broken out—or because it is on the point of breaking out—between two members of the League neither of which appears to recognize any com- mon contractual obligation not to re- sort to war other than that aris! under the League's covenant by whicl they are bound. The Council has rea- son to belleve that highly influential efforts are being made in two different quarters with a view to avoiding war and settling existing difficulties by pa- cific methods. This is the trend of action now being taken by the Argen- tine government and the Pan-Amer- ican Arbitration Conference now sit- ting at Washington under the presi- d;n;{‘ t:f the United States Secretary & ” No Official Information. After emphasizing that the Council had received mno ofiicial information from either Argentina or the Pan- American Conference, the memoire continues: “The Argentine government and the governments represented at the Pan-American Conference dre now fully informed of the action taken by the council and of the replies received from the governments of the two countries. ‘The Council thinks it essential in the interest of peace that the efforts of all those enflued in securing a settlement of the dispute by pacific means should be_completely co-ordinated.” ‘The memoire concluded with an ex- pression of opinion by M. Briand that it would be of the greatest importance to the maintenance of peace if the two governments would inform him what measures in their opinion would be | taken most advantageously by all work- ing to bring about & pacific settlement. Special Session Loomed. How near the South American crisis came to causing a convocation of a special session of the Council was re- vealed in a telegram which Sir Eric Drummond, secretary-general of the League, dispatched at Briand’s request to all members of the Council on De- cember 18, stating that it “was not un- likely M. Briand may summon an ex- traordinary session toward the end of this week.” The decision of Paraguay and Bo- livia to accept mediation of the Pan- American Conference rendered the ses~ sion unnecessary. The survey also included & number of congratulatory messages telegraphed to M. Briand for his efforts in behalf of peace. ————— CRASH KILLS 6, HURTS 1. Auto Containing Family of Seven Struck by Train at Crossing. OKMULGEE, Okla, December 29 (#).—Bix persons were killed outright and one injured possibly fatally when a motor car in which they were riding was struck at a grade crossing by a St. Louis and San Francisco passenger train 5 miles south of Okmulgee late today. Claude Crowe of Shawnee, Okla., his wife and four of their five children who were with them, were killed. The other child was ht to l ‘Ep_t& w‘.!n - s convert Mexico overnight from a wet |y CURTIS T0 RETAIN PRESENT POSITION Will Remain Senate Leader for Rest of Session—Many Seek Seat. (Continued From Pirst Page.) every way. A change in the Senate leadership and the absence of Senator Curtis, who has been able frequently to bring about adjustments of differences in the Senate when legislation appeared to be hopelessly tied up, might jeop- ardize whatever chance there is of ac- tion on the farm bill before March 4. President-elect Herbert Hoover is coming to Washington January 7. It is expected that he will confer both with President Coolidge and with Senator Curtis in d to the possibility of farm legislation now. If it is decided to go ahead and put through a farm bill now, Senator Curtis in his old position of leader of the Senate will be able to do much to smooth the passage of the il The decision uor L;’me kc‘um tnottt: resign now pu appo! of new Senator from Kansas after March 4 up to the governor-elect, Clyde Reed. Had Senator Curtis resigned prior to January 14 the present governor, Ben Paulen, would have the appointing of the new Senator. Reed does not belong to the Curtis group of Republi- cans in Kansas. Gov. Paulen does. Senator Curtis, by his decision to continue on in the Senate, has ap- parently washed his hapds of the matter of selecting his suctessor. Had he resigned now it would have been generally understood that he had picked his successor. He is relieved of that embarrassment by his present course, Several Are Mentioned. Among those who are prominently mentioned for tment to the Senate in Kansas are Representative Homer Hoch, former Governor Henry Allen, Joseph Mercer, State live stock commissioner; Clyde Miller, Seth Wells, State oil inspector; Charles F. Scott, newspaper publisher in Iola, and for- mer Representative Tincher. Henry Allen, who was director of publicity for the Republican national committee during the recent campaign, issued a statement sometime ago saying he was not a candidate for the Senate appointment. This statement has been somewhat modified since that time, however. Gov. Allen has been on the other side of the political fence in Kansas from Senator Curtis a number of times in the past. On the other hand, he is a friend of Gov.-elect Reed. David W. Mulvane, veteran national committeeman from Kansas and for- mer Assistant Secretary of Commerce under Mr, Hoover, is another who has been suggested as a possible appointee. | length, ‘Whoever is given the appointment must stand for election to the Senate, if he desires to succeed himself, in the Fall of 1930. Mr. Hoch is believed in some quar- ters to stand a good chance of being appointed to the Senate. He has been six times elected to the House from the fourth district and is widely known in the State. Jones’ Name Withdrawn. Discussion of a successor to Senator Curtis as Republican leader of the Sen- Christmas Money Sent to Treasury Is Valueless Junk A curious Christmas gift of German The in Confederate money, 95,000,000 German marks, one 50-cent and one 5-cent Mormon note. “As the banks won't accept this money and I have a great deal of it,” wrote the Detroit man, “I am sending this as a Christmas present to you.” SOUNDS PRODUCED IN-NEW MANNER Magnetic Tuning Fork Dis- covery May Aid Troubles Besetting Radio. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 29.—Sounds’ produced in a wholly new way were listened to at the American physical society section of the American Asso- ciation for the Advancement of Sci- ence today. First, in a perfectly normal way, magnetic tuning fork was caused to sound a note of high, clear pitch, pro- duced by 1,600 vibrations per second. But some distance away, in the same room, stood two other sound modula- tors, unattached through human, elec- trical or mechanical means with the tuning fork. No impulse of any sort was given these modulators. Yet when an amplifier was attached to them, two nctes rose clear and distinct, almost musical, to fill the room. They had SKULL OF MANKIND ISTRACEDTOFRSH | Shoulder Blades, Arms and Legs Called Atavisms of Animals by Educator. Spectal Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, December 29.—Prof. Willlam K. Gregory of the American Museum of Natural History, speaking before .the Anthropological section of the American Association for the Ad- vancement of Sclence at the American Museum today, gave a detailed state- ment of the indebtedness of the human race, indicating that the fundamental elements of the human skull were con- tributed by & Devonian air-breathing fish of about 100,000,000 years ago, while we thank a lower carboniferous amphib- ian for our shoulder blades, a primitive quadruped called Eryops for our arms and legs and an insect-eating tree shrew for our hands and feet. Bows to certain other fish, reptiles, lower mammals, monkeys and apes are also in order, according to Prof, Gregory, for other important features included in the an make-up. “Every bone of the skeleton of God- like, erect-walking man testifies,” said Prof. Gregory, “to his descent from a long line of quadrupedal pirates extend- ing at least down to the level of the mud-crawling reptiles of the coal swamps.” Prof. Gregory obtained his interest- ing gallery of ancestral portraits, he explained, from the examination of vast collections of fossils, eliminating all those which developed peculiarities which separated them from the stocks which stand in the line of human an- cestry. “After we have thus eliminated per- haps 95 per cent of all known families of vertebrates,” he said, “we have left a very small percentage of fishes, am- phibians, reptiles and mammals which may claim to lie relatively near to been caused by the tuning fork sound. | the The amazing fact was that these two notes were nct the same as the tone from the tuning fork. They were of lower pitch and each different from the other. One was of 2 pitch of 700’ vibra- tions and the other of 900. The explanation is that the high pitched tone sets up accom- panying tones which are separated from it by fixed regular intervals. The demonstration was for the ""m of opening to physicists a new met of investigating one of the great discov- eries of 1928, which is that certain light waves set up light of a different wave 15" ne" sk, exacty.analogous seems to what happens in the making of tly sound waves. This discovery own technically as the Raman effect. The demonstration was made M-L’:y R. V. L. Hartley of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, New York. ate arose even before the present ses- | frY sion of Congress opened. At one time it was expected that Senator Wesley L. Jones of Washington, Republican w and senior to Senator Watson in poin of service, would make a brisk contest for ‘the leadership against Senator ‘Watson, but Senator Jones not long ago withdrew his name from consideration. Senator Watson lfplrently has the field to himself. If there is to be an opposiny ward during the next two months. There is Dfl’palmon in some quarters to the selection of Senator Watson for leader, but whether it will undertake in the end to place a candidate in the fleld against the senior Senator from Indiana remains to be seen. Senator Curtis is keeping hands off so far as the Senate leadership is con- cerned. That he which the Senate itself must decide. He is to preside over the Senate after he is inaugurated Vice President March 4, and he is not undertaking to in- strucc that body what it do or whom it shall pick as its leader. HOLDS ALLEN REMOVED SELF. Governor-Elect Declares He Is Unde- cided on Appointee. TOPEKA, Kans,, December 29 (#).— Clyde M. Reed, Governor-elect of Kan- that he had Charles Curtis, who stick to his t in the Senate until he ice President. Senator Curtis’ decision, announced tonight in mflnm, left the appointment up to *I haven't the faintest idea,” Mr. Reed replied to a question as to the probable appointee. The governor-elect, who takes office January 14, succeeding Gov. Ben S. Paulen, said Henry J. Allen, former governor, “voluntarily took himself out of consideration” for the senatorship last June and that Allen since has reiterated this position on several occasions, Several Suggested. The three governors—past, present and future—are Republicans. The governor-elect indicated he might not make the appointment im- mediately after Curtis retires from the Senate unless there is urgent reason, such as a special session of Congress. A number of persons have been sug- gested or recommended to the gov- ernor-elect for the appointment. Among them, he said, were: Ralph Snyder, president of the Kan- sas State Farm Bureau; J. H. Mercer, State sanitary livestock commissioner; Seth G. Wells, State oil inspector and former Republican State chairman; Representative D. R. Anthony, jr.; Homer Hoch and James G. Strong, C. Q. Chandler, Wichita banker, and T. E. Wagstaff, Independence attorney. Others whose names have figured prominently heretofore in speculation as possible appointees, especially in the event the appointment had fallen to Gov. Paulen, included: Clyde Miller of Topeka, former sec- retary to Gov. Paulen; J. N. Tincher of Hutchinson and Charles F. Scott, Tola, former members of Congress; Al F. Williams, United States district at- torney, and W. Y. Morgan, Hutchinson, former lieutenant governor. Senator Curtis’ announcement that he would stick to his post until March 4, thereby permitting the governor-elect to make the appointment of his suc- cessor instead of its falling to Gov. Paulen, was not entirely unexpected in Kansas political circles. Immediately following Curtis’ election to the vice presidency it lonan.llgevu redicted that he would resign before retirement of Gov. Paulen, who is considered one of the Curtis faction, while Reed is not. In recent weeks, however, there have been persistent erports that Curtis had been requested by President -Coolidge to stay by his post until the end of the present short session. Peru Honors Composer. LIMA, Peru, December 20 (#)— President Leguia today ordered the transfer to the Pantheon of the illus- trious dead of the remains of Bernado Salcedo, composer of the Peruvian na- tional anthem, as a national tribute on the fiftieth anniversary of his death. A mass of requiem was sung in the cathedral and the National W of Music gave & memorial congerty ™ ‘The Raman candidate he must come for- | Projecting light “precincty > ‘The theory now is that these new rays come from vibration in the molecule. rds as a matter | PS! that for $100,000 equi t could be built that in a pe: of 20 years would gb definite and worth-while results om galvanometer and similar tests. “I am proj " he said, “a na- tional psychol boratory similar in functions to the United States Bu- reau of Standards, but not under Fed- eral control.” How does juice get into an orange, and why does it stay there during the s asked long hours—yes, days—on & p cart? These questions were and answered by Dr. Howard S. Reed of the Citrus Experiment Station, Riv- erside, Calif. He found that the juice travels through the peel, that a substance like “gel,” called pictin, which of late is sorbs the juices and into the cells which squirt upon vests and eyeglasses when eating . But the pictin doesn't reverse the process by letting out the juice, and, once in the orange cells, it stays be- cause nature hasn’t provided many ways except teeth to take it out. LINKS EARLE BANDIT WITH TAXI ROBBERY HERE ON AUGUST 27 (Continued From First Page.) ad and a dollar or two and they will get it in O. K. Do this as soon as you receive this. Use these words in a sentence: “‘Harry'—Money confiscated and in- e. quiries made. “‘Dick'—No inquiries. Everything 0. K. “‘Jack’—Inquiries made by police, gutxnomlng has come of it. Money In accordance with these directions Thomas Willlams says he inserted this message in a Washington newspaper: “Jack—get in touch with J. J.” Only the first word was. significant. ‘The police, however, have been unable to_locate the ad. Police have learned that for a week or to the robbery of the Earle Wil- ms d a room on the 1300 block of G street, near the theater, which he visited almost every day to become acquainted with the situation. This is believed to have been his usual procedure before every hold-up. He changed his lodgings after each crime. posts.’ One of the most important of the forefathers, in Prof. Gregory's album, is ictidopsis, a missing link between mammals and reptiles, the remains of which have been found in triassic rocks in South Africa. The scientists han- dled the bones of this half-snake and half-animal with reverence and filial piety because of its invention of a heat- regulating mechanism which changed the family from a cold-blooded one to & warm-blooded one. Telling some- thing of the humble origins and early struggles, Prof. Gregory continued: “At first the limbs sprawled widely at the side to prevent lateral upsetting. This clumsy mode of progression on land was all well enough for the slug- gish and cold-blooded early amphibians and reptiles. But in the series of mam- mal-like reptiles extending from the middle Permian to the upper Triassic of South Africa, we observe a marked approach toward the energetic and rest- less mammalian t! which was able to raise its body well above the ground. Sure-Footed Won Out. “The heavy penalties against clumsi- ness in the trees put high premium upon the production of such sure-footed. sure-handed, keen-eyed climbers and leapers as the monkeys. Much further progress produced those super- acrobats, the gibbons and the siamang. These, the lowest of the existing an- thropoid apes, still retain various souv= enirs of their monkey ancesters. But the gibbons have already effected s by literal revolution in the method of loco= e A e L in an uj position. Man derived all the basic patents to from humble predecessors, ac- cording to Prof. Gregory, but by le secondary im- Ended Truce of Year. Prof. Gregory's papers marked the end of a year of armed tfruce between the sclentists and fundamentalists. A the tion for the Advancement of Science met in Nashville, Tenn., where the Scopes trial at Dayton still left considerable irrita- tion. On that account the council of the association laid an embargo on all attacks on the fundamentalists and on addresses that might prove irritating to firm believers in the letter of the Old t tion. This associal committee to consider what course to adopt against the action of certain States in passing laws against the teach- ing of evolution. Resolutions on the subject are expected today. Another counter-attack on the fundamentalists forces was made yes- terday by Dr. Harry Elmer Barnes, pro- fessor of historical sociology of Smith College, who spoke on the topic, “Medi- cal Sclence Versus Religion as a Guide to Life,” at the meeting of the history of science section of the association. Traces First American. Reviewing the evidence which has been brought forward to show how long men have lived in the Western Hemis- phere, where they came from and how they got here, Dr. Frank Boaz of Co- lumbia University concluded that they were of Central Asiatic type, that they came by way of Alaska, and that they came some time after the Oentral Asiatic or Mongolid type of man devel- oped its chief characteristics. ~“The differentiation of the Mongolid race must have occurred before man came to America,” he sald. Just when this devel is an open question. If it is ible to judge by , we might place these events in the latter palacolithic period, temperaneous with the aj the Cromagnon type. It quite possible that the origin of this race may date farther back and that it may have appeared in Europe toward the end of the long palaeolithic perivd. The determination of the Driver of Car Gives Tip. ‘The tip which led to Williams’ iden- tification and capture was ob- tained from the driver of a private car him to meet place in the southwest sec- tion of the city at 10:30 o'clock that night. He explained that Willlams had gotten into some trouble and had to leave Washi) at once. The driver, whose name police refuse to reveal, while making the trip to Balti- more became suspicious.. His pas- senger seemed extremely nervous and continually peered out of the car win- dow behind him as if expecting pur- to this city, the driver d-up and communi- to a friend, Police- Konney of the - suit. heard of the cated his man James E. e in which the differentiation of the Negroid and Mongolid races occurred will give us the earliest date of the arrival of in America. man Positive evidence is still George special Federal pr hibition officer here.p:is shot from 2:: bush and wounded dan from his