Evening Star Newspaper, May 25, 1930, Page 19

“CHOSTPITURES | TAKENINDARKNESS Scientist Believes Gasses Ex- " plain Weird Photographs of Butterflies. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. Experiments with “ghost” pictures— photograhps of dead butterfiies taker in complete darkness by means of em- anations of some sort from the crea- tures themselves which affect the plate in much the same way as light—are being made by Dr. Austin H. Clark of the Smithsonian Institution. | The pressed butterfly, he explains, i=| laced on a flat surface and the plate laid upon it. The whole then is in- closed in a box from which all light is excluded. After from 24 hours to a week the plate is removed. and devel- oped. and prints taken from it show all the details of the wing markings. ‘The method succeeds even with but- terflies that have been dead for 30 years. With fresh specimens the process is much more rapid. The image is not | an imprint caused by pressure on the| plate, since it is brought out only when | the plate is developed, apparently does | not vary entirely in propartion to pres- | sure differences, and there is a fine, differentiation of values between dif-| ferent shades of wing color. Believes Gasses Responsible. This weird phenomenon, Clark says. probably is due to obscure gasses of some sort, chemical products of the wing composition, which continue to escape in minute quantities indefinitely after the insect is dead, the rate of emanation being affected by the pig- ment through which it must pass. ‘These gasses—there apparently are sev- eral, varying with species and pigment— in some way liberate the bromine of the sensitive silver salts of the emulsion with which the plate is covered. Thus they accomplish almost exactly the same result as light. The one other possibility, he believes, is that the wings may send out ex- tremely short, invisible ultra-violet light rays which effect the plate, but this is unlikely. Dr. Clark’s work is believed to be the first attempt to take actual “ghost” pictures of dead creatures in this coun- try, but similar experiments with charred paper were conducted several years ago at the Bureau of Standards photographic laboratory for the Post Office Department in an effort to devise s technique for obtaining the text of burned documents which had not been reduced to ashes, Papers which had been subjected to intense heat so that they were only black sheets of carbon from which traces of letters had dis- appeared were placed underneath pre- pared plates and kept in complete dark- ness. When the plates were developed the original writing appeared in white on a black background. The experi- menter, Raymond Davis, then advanced the explanation that the effect was due to the freeing of the bromide by the action of some obscure gas escaping from the paper. Ink in the texture of the paper apparently greatly reduced the rate at which this gas escaped, so that no impression was made of those rrts of the paper which had con- ined the pen strokes. Hence the latter appeared in white. Effect on Films Opposite. The effect on films, Davis found, was exactly the opposite. With the charred paper it required two months to secure a photograph and when the film was | developed the letters appeared black and the ound white. The same z‘n lv.;ru:d by Clark with l‘l;g butterflies, e pictures requiring a long exposure and coming out badly. Apparently, the pigment—either ink or the natural color of the wing—accelerates another kind of gas which aJects the chemical com- position of a £im, but not of a plate. In the wei inéss of the eff Clark points out, the bases are sug- gestive of some bit of life which has not, escaped with the death of the or- ganism, although this mystical con- clusion is not warranted in scientific consideration of the results, The photographic work Dr. Clark's son, Austin J. B. Clark, under his father’s direction. They worked with 23 varietles of butterfiies, finding different positive and negative effects varying the nature of the e T a great many pictures have been taken, Clark explained, enough may be learned of the behavior of these ‘ghost” gases for organic chemists to isolate them and determine their na- ture. Their evident extremely compli- cated nature, however, places this a long way in the future, he believes. Re- gardless of the significance of the phe- nomenon in the science of photography, he points out, it may open up a. new avenue in the study of the nature of organic matter. A number of tests of the same nature, he explained, have been made in German laboratories. MILLIONAIRE ESTATE BEQUEATHED BY WILL Property Left by Dr. John W. Dil- lard, Who Died in Lynchburg, Totals $1,066,376.32. Special Dispatch to The Star. LYNCHBURG, Va., May 24.—The will of Dr. John W. Dillard, who died here recently, disposing of an estate valued at $1,066,376.32, was probated-in the | Corporation Court Friday, the Lynch- | burg Trust & Savings Bank, William | White Dillard, a son, and 8. H. Wil- | liams, quallfyifig as executors given | bond 'in” penalty of $2,000,000. | Among_the small bequests are $2,500 | to John W. Dillard, a nephew; $1,000 to St. Paul's Episcopal Church; $500 to a great-nephew, John Williar Dillard | Harvey; $500 to each of the children of Jean Sanford, deceased, and $1,000 to each of his nephews and nieces. | Half of the residue was bequeathed to Dr. Dillard’s widow, the other half to be divided between three children, Mrs. Fannie Dillard McCown and W. W. Dil- Jard of Memphis, Tenn., and John Dil- lard of Lynchburg. The widow'’s half is to revert to the children at her death. | STUDENT IS SHOT. College Freshman Wounded After Car Is in Collision. LEXINGTON, Ky., May 24 (&) Bennet Stone, 19, freshman at the Uni- versity of Kentucky, and a son of James Bennet Stone, Pensacola, Fla., was shot four “times here tonight after an auto- mobile in which he was riding collided with & machine occupled by colored people. Young Stone was taken to & hospital, where it was said his condition is critical. Stone, who formerly attended the Uni- versity of Alabama, was riding in an automobile with Joe Musiano, Phila- delphia, another university student, at a street intersection, -where the col- lision took place. Stone stepped out of the machine and as he did so & man opened fire, The car then drove away and the occupants had not been apprehended late tonight. T. §. Road Engineer Killed. AUSTIN, Tex., May 24 (#).—P. H. Everett, 52, senior highway engineer of the United States Bureau of Public Roads, was killed in an automobile ac- cident near Round Rock, Tex., late to- THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. MAY 2. 1930—PART ONE. PLAN CASUALTY BENEFIT DAY ABOARD CONVICT SHIP Members cf the Casualty Hospital hospital's compaign for $50,000. Left committee which visited the convict ship to right: Col. Wade H. Cooper, Arthur William J. Brewer and Robert N. Harper. Success to arrange a benefit day for the Carr, Mrs. John Allan Dougherty, Mrs. —Star Staff Photo. Radicals Prove Humorists Roosevelt Recalls Amusing Conflict in Parade Sym- bols—Stalin Values U. S. as “Echo”—House Probe Promises Red Publicity. BY WILLIAM HARD. Young Theodore Roosevelt, back from Porto Rico, where he now is greatly en- joying being governor of the island, tells a charming story about the mixtures of emotions among our Porto Rican fellow citizens. Roosevelt went to watch a great procession which was marching in honor of something, and observed with the utmost intense interest three prominent objects which the procession One was a One was an’ Ameri- can flag. Thethird was a red flag of the world-wide emancipation of the All three objects secmed carried at its forefront. picture of himself. proletariat. to be regarded with loyal devotion. Stalin Uses U. S. for “Echo.” ‘The House of Representatives has de- cided to investigate the red flag and all Communism in the United States, and will doubtless proceed to give more pub: licity to the teachings of Communism in & short time thzn all the 10 or I thousand members of tI caught by the inquiring statesmen. Russia and the United States. of humor and of realism. He had jus returned from a trip to Russia when this writer asked him: “Does that big boss in Russia, Mr. Stalin, derive any political profit from the inlnitesimal Communist party in the United States? “Hs does indeed,” replied the patri- ect, DI. | otic Russian. “Whenever he wants to adopt any given policy in Russia, he American Communist party could give to them in all the rest of their lives. The true final point, however, about the Amer- ican Communist party will never l;e t was detailed the other day to this writer. by a visiting Russian, who for some 20 years has divided his time bzgt'ecf e is a non-political character with a sense conviction that President Machado of Cuba and his big friends have been growing rich while they have been growing poorer. Mr. Betancourt thinks that a fellow who is starving can know it from his stomach_ without the as- sistance of Moscow. Mr. Betancourt is an unimaginative soul. Concedes U. S. is “Tough Nut.” A Russian communist named Santeri Nuorteva, president of the Eastern Ka» relian Republic, up in the neighborhood of the Arctic Circle in European Russian territorv, was once talking to this writer about the United States and about com- munist agitation in it. He had lived in the United States a great deal. He spoke English without fault. He used, however, the ordinary communist or socialist sling about “the proletariat,” meaning people who live on wages or salaries, and about “the bourgeoisie,” meaning people who have saved a dollar and got some property. He was other- wise & person of great sophistication and wit and could see a brick wall if he ran his head into it. He saw a brick wall in the United States all right. He remarked to this writer laughingly and acidly: “Vlyhflt can we communists do in the United States? The United States is a country in which the bourgeoisie is con- tinually getting produced out of prole- tarian antecedents and in which the proletariat is continually inspired by bourgeoisie prospects.” No investigating committee will ever add anything to tha (Copyrish ) AIR-RAIL SYSTE 70 RIO IS PLANNED MacCracken Announces 10,000-Mile 2 it gives orders accordingly through the Third Internationale to all the little local Communist parties throughout the world. They then pass resolutions in earnest favor of the policy in question. Combination—Will Be Longest was done by | Then Mr. Stalin can stand up in Mos- cow and say: “‘Hear the voice of the proletariaf of Uruguay! proletariat of Java! Hear the voice of the proletariat of the United States!’ “It sounds big in Moscow. it represents millions. that Stalin cares about. from it back into Russia.” ' Alfred Betancourt Aggrieved. There will presently be a lot of dis- patches in the newspapers of the United States about, communism in Cuba. Mr. Alfred Betancourt, a large Cuban agri- cultural property owner, is in Washing. ton and confidently expects that much burned over enraged up- undoubtedly call them communists, They will per- haps burn down, in Mr. Betancoyrt's anticipations, a large part of all the Mr. Betancourt, of his property will soon be or otherwise destroyed b risers. The dispatches w&l lantations of Cuba. owever, would make a poor member of a red flag investigating committee. thinks that these p Marx and of Nik Hear the voice of the Stalin’s auditors there don't know that the Communist party in the United States represents a few thousands. They think It is not the Communist party in the United States It is the echo He spective destroyers of property in Cuba are actuated. not by a passion for the principles of Karl olai Lenin, but by a strong_distaste for working at a wage rate of 60 cents a day and by a strong By the Assoclated Press. “ NEW YORK, May 24—Formation of a 10,000-mile air-rail combination, the longest in ‘the world, which will cut down the traveling time between San Francisco and Rio de Janeiro from more than 30 days to less than 11, was announced today by William P. Mac- Cracken, jr., chairman of the board of the New York, Rio & Buenos Aires Line, Inc., of New York. The combination will operate by means of a tie-up with the transcon- tinental air transport and collabora- tion of the railroads. The hook-up will connect the Penn- sylvania Ralilroad’s T. A. T. airline with_the rail routes of the Seaboard Air Line running south from Wash- to Ml . Thence passengers will board the air Aires. t )4 liners for Buenos Danville S;ore in Receivership. DANVILLE, Va., May 24 (Special) — The local store of the F. E. McGuffin Corporation, which sells merchandise for from 5 cents to $1. has been closed and a local receiver has been appointed. The enterprise closed its doors after at- tachments had been served for back rent by R. B. Graham. The concern has stores in Virginia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and New York. f REVENUE BUREAU EMPLOYES TO MOVE | Workers of Statistical Sec- tion Will Take Quarters in New Building. The first employes of the Internal Revenue Bureau will move into their new building at Tenth and B streets to- morrow when the statistical section be- gins its transfer from Treasury Annex No. 1. They will be the girls who operate card punch machines. , Forty-four such machines are used in tabulating data from the income tax returns from all parts of the country. The machines will be the first apparatus moved into the new building, according to Edward White, chief of the statistical section. The girls will report for duty in their new offices at 1 o'clock tomor- row afternoon. Other parts of the statistical section will report for work as usual tomorrow morning in the old location Mr. White sald. Equipment, desks and other ma- chines will take about a day and & half to_move. The statistical section, the first Gov- ernment group to move into the Inter- nal Revenue Building, will inaugurate the movement of Government workers into the Mall triangle. |JAPAN IS PLEASED BY JOHNSON PROMISE Proposed Removal of -Exclusion Act Brings Hanihara Keen Pleasure. By the Associated Press. ‘TOKIO, May 24—Profound satisfac- tion was felt in Tokio today over the announcement in Washington yesterday by Chairman Albert Jol of the House immigration committee that he expected to propose an amendment to the immigration act that would give Japan & proportionate quota of immi- grants to the United States. Deep gratification and hope for an early removal of the thorny immigra- tion question was sensed easily in offi- clal quarters, It had been feared that the American reaction might be hostile to former Ambassador Hanihara's out- spoken dramatic speech yesterday, ex- pressing resentment because of United States’ exclusion of Japanese. Hanihara expressed keen pleasure at the prospect that the legislation which ended his diplomatic career might soon be amended. His letter, written in 1924, stating that “grave consequences” mi| follow the enactment of the immigra- tion law which barred entry of Japanese to the United States, caused Hanihara's retirement from his post as Japanese | Ambassador at Washington. —_——— ALUMNI PROGRAM JUNE 9 UNIVERSIITY, Va., May 24 (P).— | Presentation of a bust of President Edwin A. Alderman of the University of Vir- ginia will be a feature this year of the annual Alumni Association meeting to be held Monday, June 9, during the university finals. ‘The alumnt-luncheon and reception of President and Mrs. Alderman will be held the same day. l GIRL SCOUTS GET AWARDS AT COURT OF HONOR Miss Dorothy Greene, director of the Washington Girl Scouts, is here shown presenting awards to the five honor Scouts at the Spring Court of Awards, held at Continental Memorial Hall yesterday. Hammerley, Clarissa Eowe, right, are: Virginia Dyer, Virginia Lauxman and Frances Crawf The :u‘nm from m‘fi ICONVICT SHIPS AID | SANITY TEST ASKED Casualty Benefit Day Plans Are Placed in Hands of Special Committee. Approval of plans for a benefit day for Casualty Hospital on the old con- vict ship Success was announced yester- day by Roscoe Fértich, chairman of the executive committee in charge of the hospital’s $50,000 building and equip- ment fund campaign. ‘The offer of the benefit was made by Capt. H. C. Wooten on behalf of Capt. D. H. Smith. The acceptance was an- nounced, following a conference aboard the ship between a special committee from the hospital and Capt. Wooten. Special Committee. Following receipt of the offer Mr. Fertich appointed a special committee consisting of Arthur Carr, chairman of the special gifts committee; Mrs. John Allap Dougherty, Mrs. William J. Brewer,” Robert N. Harper and Col. Wade H. Cooper to inspect the ship. This committee met with Cat. Wooten and decided that the offer of the con- vict ship owners to print 5,000 special tickets be accepted and that the pro- ceeds from the sale of these tickets, together with the gross gate receipts for the benefit day, be given to the campaign fund. In a leter to Mr. Fertich, Capt. ‘Wooten explained that Capt. Smith had become interested in the campaign be- ing conducted by Casualty and had directed the tender of a day's receipts to the drive. Date to Be Selected. Mr. Fertich, in his acceptance of the offer, stressed the appreciation of the committee for the thoughtfulness of the owners of the convict ship and stated that he had appointed a com- mittee to confer with Capt. Wooten re- garding the benefit. A date will be selected later. The hospital is conducting the cam- paign to maire money to retire a part of the indebtedness on the new $200,- 000 hospital building and for the pur- chase of additional hospital equipment. —_— WILL RECEIVE TROPHIES National Guardsmen at Hyattsville to Get Prizes. HYATTSVILLE, Md.,, May 24.—Cups and medals won in rifie shooting in the State matches last Summer at Camp Ritchie, the camp of the Maryland Na- tional Guard, will be formally presented at & smoker to be given by Company F, 1st Infantry, National Guard, in the armory here Tuesday night at 8:15 o'clock. Company F led all the companies in the State on the nng4 A cup also is to be presented the Brentwood Hawks basket ball team for having won the past season the championship of the Prince Georges County League, spon- sored by Company F. FORSLAYER OF TWO Brother Believes Albert T. Pumphrey Unable to Con- duct Defense. Application was made yesterday to the District Supreme Court for an in- quiry into the mental condition of Albert Thomas Pumphrey, 37-year-old | baker, who is in the District Jail await- | ing trial for the killlng of his two | bables, Doris, 5, and James, 4, Decem- | ber 3 last at the home of their grand- | mother, Mrs. Thomas Watts, 1207 B| street southeast. | Francis L. Pumphrey, a brother of the accused, through Attorney James F. Rellly, informs the court that Pumphrey has been examined by an alienist who reports him to be of unsound mind and the brother believes that he is incapable at this time of conducting his defense to the crimes charged against him. He asks that a jury be empaneled to hear the evidence and to decide the mental condition of the prisoner. Pumphrey had a divorce proceeding pending and had been advised that the court would give the custody of both of the children to his wife. He called the children into the parlor of their grandmother’s home and shot them to death. He is reported to have said that if he could not have them no one should. RIPON WAREHOUSES ARE SWEPT BY FIRE Spark From Horse’s Shoe Blamed for $200,000 Wisconsin Blaze. By the Associated Press. RIPON, Wis., May 24.—A fire, be- lieved started by a spark from the shoe of a_horse, today swept through the warehouse district of this city, which considers itself the birthplace of the h Republican party. Six men were burned, two of them seriously, in the conflagration, which spread from seven 15,000-gallon oil and gasoline tanks of the Wadhams Oil Co. Firemen subdued the flames after $200,- 000 damage had been done. The injured men are “Doc” Harris, 54, who was caught in flames when the last of the tanks blew up; Adolph Dorenbrook, Edward Amundsen, man- a of the oll station, and Firemen William Burroughs, Willlam = Lambert and John Boettcher. Harris is believed fatally burned. A wagon being driven through the oil station yard sideswiped a gasoline pump, breaking it. Authorities believe a spark Nail-Studded Club Presented by: Wife In Divorce Action By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, May _24.—Judge Charles Williams has heard many divorce cases and is not one to become unduly excited over marital tribulations. He knows, for example, that husbands occa- sionally revert to caveman tactics. Judge Williams actually shud- dered, however, when Mrs. Mary M Curtin, 40, appeared ir his court yesterday carrying a three- foot ciub as evidence against her husband, James 60. The club, an inch in diameter, was studied with seven long nails. Mrs. Cur~ tin declared her husband used the club to persuade her to, give spending money. “Not even cave men used nails in their clubs,” exclaimed the judge, as he signed an order re- straining the husband from using the club or otherwise molesting Mrs. Curtin. SEARCH INTENSIFIED FOR RELEASED MAN Police Hunt Miley, Wanted for Auto Thefts and Hold-Ups in Other Cities. ‘The police search for Charles Miley, 30. of 933 Ninth street, who was re- Jeased by police of No. 1 precinct Fri- day afternoon because they “had nothing on him,” was intensified Jast. night, when it was learned he is wanted in other cities for two hold-ups and thefts of two machines. A comparison of Miley's finger prints with those on file at the Department of Justice disclosed that he is wanted in Luray, Va., and Pittsburgh for auto- mobile thefts and in Cleveland and Buf- falo for hold-ups. pi Miley's release Friday preceded by a few minutes the arrival of Sheriff Lukes of Luray, Va., who came armed with papers to return Miley to Luray for investigation into an automobile ac- cident there recently. Miley was riding in a car said to have been stolen from Pittsburgh, according to Lukes. Miley was taken into custody Thurs- day night, upon calling at the Ninth and C_streets bus terminal, and re- Friday when police were unable to learn why he was being held. It later developed that a bus driver noti- fied local police that Miley was wanted in Luray, and the record showing cause for his arrest apparently was mislaid. Mildred Les 4-H Leader. BELTSVILLE, Md., May 24 (Spe- cial) —Mildred Lee has been elected president of a girls' 4-H Club or- ganized here under the auspices. of Miss Ethel M. Regan, Prince Georges County home demonstration agent. Other offi- cers chosen are: Thelma Marcus, vice president; Gladys Johns, secretary- treasurer, and Grace Hurley, publicity from the hoof .of a horse ignited gaso- line gushing from the broken pump. chairman. The club_has been named the Beltsville Willing Workers’ 4-H Club. # B3 TWO TANKERS RAM EACH OTHERINFOG One Vessel Settling in Sea_ Off New York as Second Steams on to Port. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 24—Two tankers groping in the fog collided today 13 miles south of Barnegat Lightship, and one of them, the W. W. Bruce (formerly the Sabine Sun), began to settle into the water. Her crew of 35 worked desperately with the pumps, but an hour after the’ crash her forward decks were awash ;:’\d she continued to go down by the w. a ‘The other ship, the British tanker Scottish Maiden, stood by. Her stem was damaged, but she was in no grave danger. The two vessels could not' see each other in the fog and had to rely on their radios for communication. ‘The National Broadcasting Co.'s op- erator here intercepted a message from the Scottish Maiden saying she was un-' able to raise the other ship. This was taken at first to indicate the W. W. Bruce had sunk, but another message a few minutes later said com- munication had been re-established. Shortly before 7:15 p.m. (E. 8. T.) little more than an hour after the col- lision, the W. W.-Bruce's operator told the Brooklyn Navy Yard that the ves- sel would proceed jo New York under her own power in two hours, and that she .was in no immediate danger of sinking. ‘The Coast Guard reported at 8:35 p.m. (E. S. T.) that the Scottish Maiden had radioed she was proceeding to New= port News for repairs to her damaged stem, while the W. W. Bruce, with her crew working at the pumps in the for- ward tanks, was traveling under her own power to New York. Radio broadcasting stations, which were ordered off the air at 6:13 .p.m. (E. 8. T.) three minutes after the 8 O S had been picked up and verified, were allowed by the Navy to resume activities at 7:48 p.m. (E. 8. T.). BIN FALLS; KILLS ONE Two Others Hurt When Container of 300 Tons of Material Collapses. 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