Evening Star Newspaper, January 4, 1929, Page 21

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 71929. OVSTER'S APPETITE 1S LIKE GOURMAND Private Life of Bifurcated Bivalve Exposed by Ichthyologists. The oyster is a gluttonous cater in warm water, but goes on a hunger strike s soon as the temperature sink 5 degrees centigrade, Dr. P. S, Fa the United States Bureau of told the biennial scientific con: of the bureau at the National Museum yesterday. By ingenious laboratory experiments he explained, it has been found th 25 degrees centigrade the oyster p: aoproximately four quarts of through its body in an hour, gra decreasing this amount as the temp lis. The lowest point at which the oyster would eat, he said, was at 7 degrees. This _discovery of the hibernation ‘habit of the oyster, it was explained, has a valuable practical application in de- termining the safety of marketing oys ters from intermediate beds which might be slightly contaminated. Private Life Exposed. The private life of the oyster grad- nally is yielding its_secrets to science, Dr. Galtsoff said. It has been found | ihat the female oyster sometimes will deposit eggs when the temperature o the water reaches 27 centigrade without the presence of male sperm in the | water, but when the latter is added soawning wili take place at a minimum of 20 degrees. A new water farming industry is be- ing made possible in the Middle West the researchcs on fresh water mu by Dr. M. M. Ellis of the Universi issouri, the confgrence was told. The Is of these mussels are used in mak- buttons, an $8,000,000 a year indus- n nature the mussels pass ‘part of their pre-adult life as parasites on fish and the only way to secure the shells in the past_has been to place these para- sites on fresh water fish, to be scattered over a wide area. Dr. Ellis has per- fected a chemical solution in which the mussel will grow without the need of a | fish host. This makes possible growing them in mall areas where they can easily be arvested. Already extensive mussel farms are being laid out. Food Fish Becoming Extinct. Some of the most valuable food fish of the Great Lakes are becoming ex- inct, due to lack of protective reguia- ions, the conference was told by Dr. John Van Oosten of the Great Lakes Laboratory. While some of the condi- tions leading to this extinction have been recognized for 50 years, he said, it has been impossible to secure uniform Jegislation by the American and Ca- madian States bordering on the lakes. Mackerel must keep moving at a cer- tain speed to keep alive, Dr. F. G. Hall ©of Duke University said yesterday after- noon. The respiratory system of the mackerel, he said, apparently functicns O “ORDINARY CITIZEN" SMITH FINDS ‘ PRIVACY RARE IN NEW YORK Former Governor Puts Responsibility for Speculation on ecial Dispatch to The Star. | NEW YORK, January 4.—Former Gov. Alfred E. Smith found it difficult Wednesday to returr to his home in the bac e ter six con- ‘When seen ying hard to id he most e ranks, but hadn't had a h the telephone started ring- Mr. Smith hung a card on or to indicate that he was not to be disturbed until 10 o'clock, and he | managed to sleep- until that hour, he said “I think I deserve a rest, just as a citizen, after six years sfraight in Al- ban; nd a presidential campaign,” he said T'd like to be Ordinary Citizen Smith for a while, but does this look as if I had a chance? Not a chance? About 00 persons have telephoned e morning, and with a bunch of newspaper men sitting around the ou'd hardly call it a private | home, would you?” Many of the former governor's sou- venirs—stuffed birds, animals’ hea which had been transferred from the Newspapers. . | Manhattan as the future home of the His Future on 1 execut: mansion at Albany, were attered about the room. He contin- ued to unpack bundles and boxes as | he talked. He was asked about hlfl‘ plans. Where he was going to live? Was he going to Europe? Was he going into banking or business? Was it lik {ly he would become Democratic candi |date for mayor next Fall? He didn't seem to relish an interview as in the | old days ‘ I don’t see why I should have to be interviewed twice a day as a private | citizen,” he said. “When I decide what I am going to do I'll let you know. But get this straight, I'm not going to deny all these stories. If the news- papers want to print dope stories about my touring the world, or taking this ‘]nb or that. they'll have to do it on their own responsibility. I'm not going | to keep a policeman at the telephone to | deny everything that has been printed.” Mr. Smith said he intended to rest for a while, and take a trip to Florida, | but he didn't know when. There was | nothing in the stories that he was | going to Cuba, or South America, or ravel all over the world,” he declared. It was learned that Mrs. Smith is still |looking for a suitable apartment in | Smith family. WILL APPOINT BOARD. v | Conservators for Stanley McCor- mick to Be Named January 11. CHICAGO, . January 4 (#)—A board of conservators for the huge estate of Stanley McCormick, millionaire, recent- affairs, will be appointed January 11. Probate Judge Henry Hornmer an- nounced yesterday on that date he also ould consider the question of the jur- isdiction of his court over @ hoard of conservators for the person of Mr. Mc- | Cormick. A board of conservation for both the | person and the estate of Mr. McCor- mick was asked in a petiiion presented by his wife. Several years ago the Cal- ifornia courts appointed a board of con- servation for the person. Mrs. McCormick argued, through her attorneys, that the California court had no jurisdiction. His residence is in Chi- cago, she said, although he was moved to California only when the fish is moving forward, regardless of the oxygen content of the water, and it soon bscomes asphyxiated when the forward movement ceases. Experiments with 50,000 marked sal- mon released in the Klamath River and its tributaries in California reveal that after migrating to sea and reaching ma- turity they invariably feturn to their na- tive river to spawn, said Dr. J. O. Snyder of Stanford Uni i 1y held incompetent to manage his own | [LINCOLN’S BIRTHDAY PROGRAM IS PLANNED District Hoover-Curtis Club Spon- sors Meeting to Be Held February 10. | The 115th anniversary of the birth of | Abraham Lincoln will be commemorated at a meeting under the auspices of the | Hoover and Curtis Club of the District at the Meiropolitan Memorial Methodist | Episcopal Chureh, John Marshall place | and C streets, at 8 o'clock Sunday, Feb- |ruary 10. Several men of national | prominence will be asked to speak. Observance of the anniversary of Lincoln’s birth was decided upon ot a meeting yesterday of the campalign com- mittee of the League of Republican | Organizations. The following commit tee to make arrangements for this a! fair was appointed: T. Lincoln Town- send, chairman; A. E. Chaffee, vice chairman; W. J. Dow, secrctary: John Lewis Smith, Edward F. Colladay, Mrs. Virginia White Speel, Edgar C. Sny- der, William Tyler Page, Mrs. E. A. Har- riman, Thomas P. Littlepage and Mrs. M. D. Lightfoot. eRARERT w1 S Some shoe stores in France have adopted all-steel fronts, and are de- scribed as appearing like a cross be- tween an aquarium and a safety de- sit vault. 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