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B6 OF 2,577 FIRNS USING BILLBOARDS Many Progressive Organiza- tions in Capital Turn From Unsightly Advertising. In support of its contention that a megligible number of firms in Washing- ton are responsible for much of the out- door advertising which has aroused public protest against the disorderly and unsightly highway avporeaches to the ~National Capital, the American Civic. Association today made public the results of a survey of billboard users in 14 local industries. Out of 2,577 firms listed in these in- dustries, the survey revealed, only 66 are advertising their products on the landscape. “It will be seen by this compilation that less than 3 per cent of the firms in these 14 industries are using bill- boards,” the report stated. “The re- maining 97 per cent seem to exist very comfortably without them.” Rule Applies Elsewhere. ‘What is true about the billboard sit- uation in the Washington area is true on the approaches to most cities. “The same thing is true of national vertisers. Only a small percentage are on the board.” the report added. In Washington, as elsewhere, the Ameritan Civic Association pointed out, the great majority of business and com- mercial firms realize that outdoor ad- vertising signs, defacing the highways, is pfl)flngl to be a boomerang. Since the growth of national public resentment against advertising that defaces the landscape, the association said, industry 18 becoming more and more convinced that billboard advertising is detrimental to _their best interests. It is interesting to note that the ho- fels are the greatest offenders in the matter of billboard advertising. Out of 60 hotels in Washington, 32 resort to the boards. Of these, however, three hotels do more than 50 per.cent of such advertising. Principal Ones Withdraw. ‘Washington's principal hotels, the American Civic Association said, have withdrawn from roadside advertising, realizing that the erection of huge billboards along the highways ruins the very asset which leads tourist travel in their direction—the beauty of the oountry. Many of the hotels are aban- doning the large signs for the small tavern type, it was said, while the most progressive in many communities are flw up outdoor advertising entirely. 3 local automobile dealers out of ‘300 listed are resorting to billboard advertising, according to the survey. %d& firms are listed as numbering 115, only 6 use the boards. Other indus- tries making up the 14 are comparable. Out of 400 garages, billboards adver- tise only 4 of them. For in other lines of industry using billboards there are enumerated in the survey 2 clothiers out of 120, 1 jeweler out of 100, 1 lumber com- ny out of 55, 1 optician out of 35, paint dealers out of 75, 3 bakeries out of 120, lairies out 22, 2 movers out of 75, 1 insurance company out of 700 and 6 restaurants out of 400 Mrs. Lawton Makes Survey. The survey was made by Mrs. W. L. Lawton, chairman of the National Cauncil of Roadside Beauty, as & part of hg rfimt on roadside conditions in THE EVENING STAR, WAS HINGTO D. C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 1, GIRL, 16, ON of the University of Chicago in bagging Dr. Bigelow, Miss Bradley and Mr. and Alice Bradley, 16, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert E. Bradley of Chicago, began her third hunting and exploration expedition to Africa when she sailed recently from New York. She will assist her parents and Dr. Harry A. Bigelow THIRD AFRICAN TRIP TTHREE [}ARS [}RASH, Left to right: . P. Photo. gorillas and rare game. Mrs. Bradley. Journalist Knighted SIR WILLMOTT LEWIS. HINDENBURG GIVEN 8 g ‘will' be published soon by the American Nature Association and given wide circulation. Mrs. Lawton, melfl husband, -a retired engineer, @ compilation of all the bill- boards within an area of approximately 20 miles of Washington. As a = “of the local"v‘:lmg‘l'lgn : banish billboards from the wa. of the Wushington-area, thousands of stickers bearing the words, “I favor products not advertised on the land- mfl" are being used by housewives motorists. The American Civic Association i5 convinced that most of the users of billboards, who constitute & small minority, would abandon this form of outdoor advertising if they could be conviriced, as others have been convinced, that it is to their advantage | ! to do 80. The stickers merely serve notice that non-users of billboards are in a privileged class. DR. COOPER PRAISES ‘MACHINE’ CULTURE Eduoation Commission Warys Against Crushing Originality and Initiative, However. B the Associated Pre: “Machine Age"” cultural benefits were Ppraised yesterday by Dr. William John Cooper, commissioner of the Federal Office of Education, who added, how- ever, a plea that machines not be per- mitted to crush originality and initia- ve. Outlining his views upon what the New Year held in store for educational America, the commissioner expressed the hope that teachers might place their profession on a higher level. He frowned upon standardization as applied to education and appealed to boards of trustees to emphasize “more and more the individual difference in pupils.” ‘The benefits of the radio, the talk- ing picture and the phonograph were extolled, but his warning against ove doing mechanization of culture was as strong as the praise. DROUGHT IN KENTUCKY UNBROKEN AS 1930 ENDS No Snowstorm or Rain in Sight to! Relieve Water Shortage, Meteorologist Says. By the Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. January 1.—The it drought of 1930 remained un- ken at the end of the year. J. L. Kendall, Government meteorologist, said today there was not a snowstorm or a rain in sight to relieve water ehortages in the State. He said the 1930 rainfall in the Louisville area was only 23.88 inches, as compared to 41.05 inches in 1929 and a normal annual fall of 4360 for this section of Y,hel State. Last month’s rainfall was less than|the peak, a crystal clear sky bore a | Peiping. half of normal. TEAGUE TO WITHDRAW FROM FEDERAL BOARD| #Puit Industry Representative on Farm Body to Devote Himself to Private Business. By the Assoclated Press. SANTA PAULA, Calif.. January 1.— C. C. Trl'fitv fruit industry represent- ative on Federal Farm Board, says he has decided to withdraw from the board next June to give more attention to his private business. He is presi- dent of the California Fruit Growers' | organization. ENVOYS' GREETING Papal Nuncio Is Spokesman| for Diplomats in Paying Tribute to Germany. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, January 1.—President von Hindenburg, erect and dignified, today | received the congratulations of 40 na- tions in a New Year reception at which | he nuncio, Mgr. Cesare Orse- | nigo, acted as spokesman for the dip- lomatic corps. Speaking in French, the dean of the corps paid tribute to “the firm purpose | and generous efforts” with which Ger- many faces its economic crisis, adding | that without the sincere co-operation of all nations no real solution to the world's economic problems is possible Wears Unique Decoration. | mander of the Order of the British Em- WILLMOTT LEWIS KNIGHTED BY KING Capital Correspondent of London Times Has Had Va- ried Journalistic Career. Willmott Lewis, Washington corre- | spondent of the Londen Times and a veteran of international journalism in many lands, was made a knight com- pire by King George in his traditional New Year honors which were made public late yesterday. Besides the award, which makes Mr. Lewis officially Sir Willmott, the list of the British government’s honcrs includ- ed four new peers, five baronets and 53 knights. Came Here During Arms Parley. Sir Willmott came to the National Capital during the arms conference and he has remained here ever since as the correspondent for the London Times. His present deep understanding of the United States, its people and its affairs, however, was augmented through 1 ier journalistic activities in this coun- try.” He came to the United States first in 1905 and for several years he worked on varicus American newspapers. Even prior to his connectior with those pa- pers here, Mr. Lewis corresponded for them abroad. He reported the Russo-Japanese War for the New York Herald. During the Boxer rebellion in China he correspond- ed for the London papers and the North China Review. He also worked in Japan and subsequently was editor of the Manila Times. During the World ‘War, Mr. Lewis was in the British In- telligence Service. He remained in the Par East until the United States en- tered the war and then went to France, where he was chief assistant to James Kearny, head of the United States Bu- reau of Public Information. Prior to and during a part of the peace con- ference he was correspondent in Paris for the New York Tribune. In 1919 he joined the London Times' staff as edi- ! torial writer and he shortly afterward was made that newspaper’s correspond- ent in_Washington. Sir Wilmott's wife is the former ! Ethel S. Noyes, daughter of Mr. and | Mrs. Frank B. Noyes of Washington They make their home at 1605 New Hampshire avenue. Order Instituted in 1917, The Order cf the British Empire, in which Sir Willmott now is a Knight, | was instituted in 1917. It was designed | primarily as a means of recognizing | services by civilians in the World War, It ranks next to the Royal Victorian Order and is open to men and women With old-fashioned grace, the Presi- dent, who wore the Bleucher star, of which he is the only holder, responded briefly in his familiar deep, firm voice. Germany has done her best, he said, to insure the foundations of her exi: ence, “but our hopes for real improve- ments depend upon circumstances over | which we have no control.” “The German R:ople." he said, “an- ticipate that in the coming year inter- national co-operation will prove suffi- ciently effective to save their country from further painful disappointments.” Outlives Task of Peace. | Reconciliation among all peoples of the world is needed if th: obstacles im pending human progress are to b> over- | come, he said. “This is the great task of peace in which Germany is deter- mined to play her part.” | | The President chatted informally for | awhile with each of the diplomats and | then withdrew. Later he received members of hit cabinet, representa- tives of the Reichstag. the Pru: sian government and other govern- mental bureaus. For a few moments he appeared on a balcony and waved a re- sponse to the cheers of the crowd gathered in the Wilhelmstrasse. PIKES PEAK CLIMBERS | GREET ’31 WITH ROCKET Adaman Club Members Release Huge Parachute Flare as Tribute to Roald Amundsen. By the Assoclated Press COLORADO SPRINGS, January 1.— That breathless moment when the old | year died and the New Year was born | found 11 members of the Adaman Club | on the summit of Pikes Peak setting | off a brilliant pyrotechnic display for revelers. | Contrasting with arctic conditions, which have greeted the mountaineers many times on their annual climb to | moon high over the range last night. There was litle snow above the timber ne. At midnight a gigantic rocket carried aloft a huge parachute flare, the Ada- an Club's tribute to Roald Amundsen, who was an honorary member of the | ANTI-FASCIST KILLS SELF Ceva, Awaiting Trial in Rome, Commits Suicide on Christmas. | ROME, January 1 (#).—Official an- nouncement was made todsy thal Umberto Ceva, awaiting trial for par- ticipation in anti-Fascist political ac- tivities, had committed suicide in his | Exchange and the California Walnut wers' Association. At the time of his appointment he would remain on cell on Christmas day. | ‘The announcement intimated that | Ceva was connected with the group | with which Mrs. H. J. Bosis, & native of St. Louls, recently was tried for anti-Faggist agitation. alike. The badge of the order is a silver-gilt crcss with gray enamel, in! the center of which is a representation of Britannia scated. A crimson circle, containing the words, “For God and | the Empire.” frames the figure. The four peerages conferred honored ! Sir John Scott Hindley, commercial | adviser to the ministry of mines since 1918, for “public services’; Sir Ernest Hen'y Lamb for “public and political and Sir William Plender and Bir Ernest Rutherford for “public serv- 1c08 Baronetcies were conferred upon Sir John Rose Bradford, president of the | Royal College of Physicians; Sir Rich- ard Arman Gregory, professor emeritus | of astronomy at Queens College, and | George Roberts, financial writer under the pen name of “Audax.” Norman Angell, noted pacifist whose | scheduled lecture in Central High School two years ago was protested in! vain by representatives of several or- canizations here, was among the re- cipients of knighthood. AMY JOHNSTON OFF ON PEIPING FLIGHT Young British Aviatrix Leaves England for China Via Rer- lin and Moscow. By the Assoclated Press HENDON, England, January 1.—Miss Amy Johnston, 23-year-old British avia- trix, took off at 10:40 am. oday on the first lap of a projected flight to Peiping, China. Her start was delayed by fog. The first stop was to be Lympne, to clear the customs, and from there to Berlin. She planned to be at Moscow on the third day out, proceeding from there mi across Aslatic Russia and Mongolia to Miss Johnston, who is the only wom- an ever to have flown alone from Eng- land to Australia, has planned the trip about two months. Much of the route is uncharted and will offer many dan- gers. The plane will Le equipped with skis at Moscow. TRAIN KILLS 3 STUDENTS Auto Smashed as Trio Return From New Year Party. VAN WERT, Ohio, January 1 (P).— Three high school students were killed instantly near here early today when a Pennsylvi freight train demolished their automobile, ‘The dead were: Morris Kreischer, 17: | pened too quickly for him to say just INIURING EIGHT Two Machines Side-Swiped, Third Rams Into Them in Effort to Avoid Collision. Extricated from the wreckage of two of three cars that figured in a triple collision on the Lee Highway betwecen Cherrydale and Falls Church, Va., at 8:30 o'clock, this morning, eight persons were rushed to Washington hospitals, where it was sald that three of them are seriously injured. Three of the injured are at George- town University Hospital, two of them being in an unconscious condition when taken there early today. They are: Willlam W. Pickett, 27 years old, of | Fort Myer Heights, Va., suffering with an injury to the hsad and possible in- juries about the legs and body; Miss Fay Keeter, 20 years old, of Park Lane, Va., reported in a semi-conscious con- dition today and suffering from an in- jury to the head, and Robert Payne, 26 years old, 1451 Park road, suffering from an injury to the head and possible internal injuries. Payne, it was stated at the hospital, remained unconscious until late this morning. X-Rays to Be Taken. Further examinations of the injured | at Georgetown Hospital were to be! made today and X-rays taken to de-| termine the extent of the injuries. Due to two of the patients being uncon- | scious when brought in, it was diffi- | cult to make a complete record of, their | cases, it was pointed out. | At Emergency Hospital three others suffering from painful, but not serious injuries, it was reported there. ‘They are Jerome K. Oscar, 31, and Mrs. Ruth Oscar, 30, of East Falls| Church, each suffering from lacerations on the head, while Oscar also had a number of teeth knocked out. The other injured is Louis Redmond, 24, of 606 Twenty-second street, suffering from lacerations and possible fracture of the right leg. Sideswiped Another Car. Redmond and the three injured at Georgetown Hospital were in the car with Pickett, the driver. Two others also in the car with Pickett, he said, Mrs. Marjorie Payne, 22 years old, of 1451 Park road, and Mrs. Marie Payne, 28 years old, of Clarendon, Va. also were treated at Georgetown Hospital, but did not remain. Pickett gave a brief description of the accident at the hospital today. He sald he was going east along the Lee High- way when he sideswiped another auto- mobile and then crashed into the third one. He said that was about all he knew of the accident, explaining that it happened so quickly and that a short time afterward he was being taken to the hospital. An investigation of the accident by Policeman Raymond Crack of the Ar- lington County force, Deputy Sheriff Paul Herman of Fairfax County and Town Sergt. Walter Mitchell of Falls Church, resulted in information to the effect that the original collision was between cars operated by Pickett and Oscar, the third car, operated by Mrs. B. W. Rust of Falls Church, coming to grief when it swerved to avoid the other two machines. Both Are Overturned. In the car with Pickett were Mrs. Keeter, Redmond, Payne and the two young women whose injuries were said to be slight. This car, police were told, was proceeding toward Washington from the Chimney Villa dance hall on the Lee Highway between Falls Church .and Merrifieid when it collided with the automobile of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar, driven by the former, which was pro- | ceeding toward Falls Church. The force of the collision was of suf- ficient violence to overturn both ma- chines. Mrs. Rust's car, it was said, was also proceeding toward Washing- ton and when the driver observed the collision she swerved to the side of the road, sideswiping the other machines. Police were told that none of the occupants of this car was injured but during the excitement incident to get- ting the injured to the hospital the un- injured were given transportation with- out the aythorities learning their identity until this morning when Mrs. Rust called at the jail to claim her car. The accident occurred in front of the home of Willam W. Rucker, from whence came the first call for assist- ance. Mitchell was the first to reach the scene. He took Pickett, Mrs, Keeter and Payne to Georgetown Hos- pital and the Falls Church Volunteer Fire Department furnished transporta- ut‘;:, to Emergency Hospital for the! others. No Arrests Contemplated. When Crack arrived on the scene he took cherge, having the machines of Pickett and Oscar removed from the road and the automobile of Mrs. Rust towed to the Arlington County jail, where it was held to await the claim of the owner. No arrests had been made today nor were any contemplated by lice be- cause of the difficulty of r:cmg re- sponsibility for the crash. It would be possible, Crack said, for Oscar to swear out a warrant for Pickett or Pickett for Oscar, but because of the condition of the participants he was unable to learn their versions of the crash. Oscar, the only one with whom Crack talked, is sald to have told Crack that it looked to him like all three cars came together at the same time and that it hap- there are| who was to blame, Two Motorists Held. . Out of the maze of New Year eve traffic that crowded the streets of Wash- ington until far into the early hours police today were taking stock of many accidents in which 10 pecple were in- Jjured, one sericusly, and the arrests of two motorists for major violations. One of those being held, George Brown, colored, 24 years old, of 458 N street, led police & chase, during which his car was said to have struck & | dozen or more machines before he was finally apprehended in Cieorgetown and booked for leaving after colliding and reckless driving. Frank Wedge, 23 years old, of Arling- ton, Va. was arrested a short time later by Motor Cycle Policeman J. C. Bailey of the Traffic Bureau on a charge of driving while drunk. Wedge posted $500 for his appearance in court. Police said he was the ouly motorist arrested for this violation last night. Man Hurt by Patrol. The most seriously injured in the ishaps was Charles Thompson, col- ored, 45 years old, of 124 Browns court southwesi, who, according to a police report, walked into the side of a patrol car driven by Pvt. Oswald A. Salmons of the fourth precinct, in the 600 block of Pirst street southwest. Thompson is in Gallinger Hospital. An Interior Department attorney, Turin B. Boone, 51 years old, of 3901 Connecticut avenue received injuries when his automobile was reported in collision with a Capital Traction Co. street car at Nineteenth and E streets. Boone is in Emergency Hospital. His wife, Mrs. Clara Boone, 40 years old, received bruises, but refused medical attention. The street car was in charge KIDNAPER SEIZES BUSCH'S GRANDSON Boy, 13, Is Abducted in Ex- clusive St. Louis Section by Colored Man. By the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, January 1.—A wide- spread search was under way today for Adolphus Busch Orthwein, 13-year-old grandson of August A. Busch, presi- dent of Anheuser-Busch, Inc., and great-grandson of the late Adolphus Busch, millionaire brewer, who was kidnaped last night by an armed col- ored man. St. Louls city and county officials de- clined to say what progress they had made on the case. The boy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Percy J. Orthwein, was kidnaped f:om the grounds of the Orthwein home in ex- clusive Huntleigh Village about 7:30 p.m. yesterday as the family chauffeur, Roy Yowell, was taking him to a New Year eve party at the home of August A. Busch at Grant’s Farm. Huatleigh Village is in 8t. Louls County. “I left the house with Adolphus be- side me in the car,” Yowell said. “I drove down the private drive tows.rd Lindbergh Boulevard, then slowed down for a turn. Chauffeur Ordered to Get Out. “As I turned south on Lindbergh, a colored man, standing at the left of the road, tried to wave me down, but I didn't stop. He then climbed .n a pointed a revolver at me; I could see through the rear window. As I halted the machine he climbed down from the ordered me to get out. I did so. “He said, ‘Give me what you got.' I handed over to him about $5, and then he motioned me out of the wi Bub (the chauffeur's nickname for the boy) made no outery. I said, ‘Come along, Bub’ as I saw the man was going to take the car, but he refused to let the boy get out. “He then fumped into the driver's seat, took the wheel and drove rapldly away. I hurried back to the Orthwein home to give the alarm. The man made no remark that would indicate he knew the identity of the boy he was kidnaping.” Five blocks from the Orthwein home & man and a boy were seen by bystand- ers to get out of the limousine and get into a smaller car. The Orthwein lim- ousine was found deserted at that point. Ransom Believed Motive. Friends of the family said they could offer no possible motive for the abduc: tion other than ransom. They said th Orthweins had not employed any col- ored people for some time. The Orthwein boy is a skilled horse- man for his age. He has won several prizes at shows. He attended the Coun- try Day School, where he was “an aver- age boy in every respect,”’ according to Principal Robert H. B. Thompson. His father 1s vice president of an ad- vertising agency, a member of the Ex- clusive Racquet Club and a graduate of Yale. His Mother was Clara Busch. Mr. and Mrs. Orthwein were prepar- ing to receive guests when they learned of the kidnaping. Mrs. Orthwein be- came hysterical, and today was under the care of a physician. August A. Busch, after a brief visit to the Orth- wein home, went to police headquarters here, where he conferred with Chief of Police Gerk and Chief of Detectives Kaiser. . 80 KILLED IN WRECK Train Derailed and Pillaged by Bandits in China. SHANGHAI, China, January 1 (®). —Eighty persons were killed and forty injured Saturday in the derailment of a train by bandits on a branch line of the Peiping-Mukden Railway in Southwest Manchuria. The bandits removed fishplates on the ties. The bursting of a locomotive boiler started a fire which was fed by gasoline in one of the cars and several coaches were destroyed, burning many passengers to death. The bandits pillaged the train and removed 20 passengers whom they are holding for ransom. The derailment of the train was re- ported briefly yesterday, but at that time it was thought only one or two passen- gers had been killed. "THREAT OF FROST ENDS IN CALIFORNIA Smudge Pots Burn 12 Nights in Orange Belt—Some Fruit Ruined. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, January 1—The new year opened in California with the retreat of Jack Frost, who closed 1930 with the longest Wintry siege citrus growers have experienced in a decade. For 12 nights smudge pots burned in nearly every section of the orange belt, but a warm drizzle from the Pacific yesterday bolstered tempera- tures and today virtually the whole area was free from the threat of frost. During the cold snap temperatures fell low in the 20s, first in one area, then in another, with below freezing recordings_general. The weather was spotted. The mercury dropped dizzily in the early morning hours in some i orchards, while in others nearby it re- mained at or above the danger line. ‘The most severe damage was reported from Anaheim, center of the Valencia district, where early this week frost nipped one-third of the oranges in some groves. At Redlands, the navel orange center, many growers lost the fruit on the out- side rows of their groves. Here and there, fruit in isolated, un- protected groves was ruined. D. F. DAVIS WON'T QuUIT “Same 0ld Rumor,” Says Governor General of Philippines. By the Associated Press. MANILA, January 1.—Governor- General Dwight F. Davis today denied reports from Washington that he would resign as chief executive of the Philippines. ernor-General said. “There is abso- lutely nothing to it. When I get ready to move, I'll announce it myself.” He is spending the holidays at the mansion house at Bagulo, Summer cap- ital of the Philippines. SEVEN IN FAMILY DIE Pneumonia Takes Toll in 4 Days. Four Others Critically Ill. HAWKINSVILLE, Ga. January 1 () —Seven members of the family of J. H. Evans, a farmer, have died of pneumonia within four days and four others Monday remained critically ill of Conductor Oscar Adams, police said. Two in Roadster Hurt. Two occupants of a roadster, James M. McGee, 30, of Fort Humphreys, Vi and Grace Dunn, 30, of R. F. D, No. 1, Dill Burley, 17, and Ward McDaniels, 17, all of Ccnvoy, Ohlo. | Authorities said the boys were re- turning _one of their ni r to his home after & New Year y at the Alexandria, Va., were injured slightly last night when McGee's car was struck by a hit-and-run machine at Sixth and C streets. The hit-and-run car carried Mary. land license plates, police were told. of the same disease. Mrs. Hattie L. Borum, a_daughter, her infant, and Harry Lee Evans, 16, died Christmas day. The following day Andrew Evans, 10, and Dewey Evans, sons, died. Sunday Mrs. Dewcy Evans and Ruby Borum, seven-year-old daughter of Mrs. Hattie Borum, died. ‘The four critically ill are Mrs. J. H. Evans and three children, Rebeccs, Milton and Tb‘dm Evans, trunk on the back of the limousine and \ trunk, got on the running board and | “It's the same old rumor,” the Gov- \ 1931. COMING TO U. S. TO MAKE TALKIES eight years ago and became a star. | States in Januar: After a failure on the American stage, Tullulah Bankhead went to England She Is scheduled to return to the United to fill an engagement in talking moving pictures. She is the | daughter of William B. Bankhead, United States Representative from Alabama. -A. P. Photo. of Science Told BY THOMAS R. HENRY. Special Dispateh to The Star. CLEVELAND, January 1.—Isolation of five new hormones was reportéd to the American Association for the Ad- | vancement of Science, meeting here to- | day. These are specific chemical sub- stances poured into the blood stream by the ductless glands, extremely small mounts of which produce radical body hanges, to such an extent that the search for them has become one of the leading quests of medicine. | 'The mewly isolated hormones play & notable part in the phenomena of ma- turity and reproduction. Three of them were obtained from the female corpus | luteum, it was reported by F. L. Hisaw, H. L. Fevold and R. K. Meyer of the University of Wisconsin. Hitherto the widespread effects of secretion from this gland have been attributed to & single hormone, oestrin. ‘The first of the new substances is relaxin, injection of 35-1000s of a milli- am of which in a guinea pig follow- |4 an_injection of oestrin relaxes the inj pt{vk: ligaments to an extent seen in| nature only just before the birth of young. either relaxin nor oestrin alone can produce this effect, nor can oestrin unless followed by injection of the newly discovered hormone. One Still Unnamed. The second is corporin which also, the scientists reported, is closely tied up with oestrin, but has a specific ac- tion of its own which regulates the body behavior in preparation for the birth process. This also must be ad- : ministered after the injection of a measured dose of oestrin, but if the latter is present in large amount it has exactly the opposite effect and prevents the specific action of the corporin. The third new corpus luetum hor- mone has not been named and appears to have a specific but slight effect in egnancy. It has been very well iden- ffrm chemically, however, and pre- pared in a highly purified condition, which up to the present has been done |only in rare instances for endocrine secretions. ‘The ported the isolation of two powerfully i specific hormones from the anterior lobe of the minute pituitery gland at the base of the brain. The first sub- stance, which is soluble in water, regu- lates physiological maturity. When in- jected into immature rats, the experi- menters reported, these were brought to sexual maturity in three days. The second, which is not soluble in water, seems to act as a brake on the first. | All five of these substances, it was pointed out, may prove of extreme im- portance in medicine when their na- ture and behavior for various types of organisms is better understood. Mechanistic Explanation. Delving _into the sub-microscopic world on the dark frontier of life, Prof. A. A. Schaeffer of the University of | Kansas, presented to the association | evidence of peculiarities in the molec- ,ular organism of protoplasm which may go far toward resolving the mys- tery of animal and plant differences and behavior. Prof. Schaeffer, observing the move- ment of organisms from microscopic amoebae moving along a glass rod to | aviators spiralling out of the clouds, found a neral law underlying be- havior rooted in organic and physical chemistry—the composition of proto- plasm from two fundamental types of molecules, one of which is an aggrega- tion of atoms so assembled physically that it twists toward the right while the other twists toward the left. From this conclusion comes a radical mechanistic_explanation of living proc- esses, including the division of sex, of |plant and animal kingdoms, and of numerous finer distinctions of classes and individuals. Thus he has found that among those groups of plants and lower animals where the “left” mole- cules, properly placed, give a ‘left” spiral structure to the body division into male and female is lacking, while it appears in the “right” groups. “Sex,” he says, “seems to be asso- fundamentally with a molecule, more particularly with the right stereoisomeric molecule.” Among some lower organisms left can be change to right by the activation of the atoms | composing the protoplasm molecule b " clated Accompanied By Fields. “The organization of molecules at the forward end of the moving amoeba or in the developing embryo,” Dr. Schaef- fer sald, “is accompanied by the forma- tion of flelds which derive their char- acteristics from the nature of the mole- can be no spontaneous zation without an ac- 1d, and this field is the rganism. “It follows from this that the char- acteristics of the organism are due to, or rather correlated with, positional re- lationships of the molecules. This is true not only of the fundamental char- acteristics of the organism but with the more detalled characteristics with Scientintally indstonsile 3o, suppose en! lefensible suj that & mass of matter of whatever size, in s system such as s molecule or an organism, can give rise to particular same experimenters also re-| 'FIVE NEW HORMONES REPORTED ISOLATED BY THREE SCIENTISTS American Association for Advancement of Experiments With Discoveries. characteristics of that system. The characteristics of such systems as we | know about are due to number and po- sitional relations of the constituent introduction of the atomic | theory of chemistry into biology not only brlng& into one system a large number of hitherto unrelated observa- tions, but provides a hypothesis for the | direct investigation of such problems | as the periodicities in many plants and | animals associated with changes of light intensities, as well as the mech- | anism of light effects in general.” 'YOUNG SCIENTISTS ‘MAKE’ CANCER CELL ‘Lnbontory Worker and Wife Be- lieved to Have Discovered Im- portant Step to Cure. By the Arsoclated Pres BALTIMORE, January 1.—A young | Johns Hopkins School of M-dicine have reached, scientists here beli-ve, the goal of numerous other research workers— th]e' artificial cultivation of the cancer cell. Experiments of more than a year, conducted by Mr. and Mrs. George O. Gey of Pittsburgh, have succeeded to such a degree that motion pictures have been taken of the cells growing and moving under glass. These are to be shown at & meeting next Wednesday at Washington of the newly organized National Institute of Health. Laboratory cultivation of the cell of the mysterious disease means, it was | pointed out, a long stride taken toward the possible discovery of the cause and cure of cancer. Under present condi- tions it is possible to study the actual nature of bafing malady only when the cells are growing in a human or animal body. The experiments were conducted under guidance of Dr. Warren H. Lewis, anatomist and cytologist, who has been studying the effects of cancer on ani- mals in the hop: of learning more of its nature. In advance of the official announce- ment, to be made at the Washington meeting, none of the Johns Hopkins officials would permit his name to be used, but privately gave assurance that the Geys apparently have suc- ceeded where scores of other scientists have failed. With characteristic scien- tific conservatism, however, they pointed out that the experiments have yet to pass the tests that only time can give. ‘Gey, a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, in the class of 1921, was a student at the Johns Hopkins Medi- cal School the following year. His wife, his active assistant, is a graduate nurse. The chief present means of attacking cancer is the X-ray and surgery. e Johns Hopkins scientists said to- day that the Gey experiments may pro- vide the basis for the development of a differential stain, long sought by pathologists, to show upon applica- tion whether a tumor is malignant. Such a stain is now a weapon in the treatment of tubercul . Progress in the development of a in, or dye, for cancer, recently was announced by Dr. Joseph Colt Bloodgood of Johns Hopkins. ——. SMART AND DUMB RATS MATED IN EXPERIMENT By the Associated Pr BERKELEY, Calif., January 1.—The University of California’s white rats have come to the parting of the ways. By mating the smart rats with smart rats and dumb rats with nit-wit rats Robert Choate Tyron, National Research Council fellow, has divided the rodents into two distinct groups. One group is getting smarter each generation and the other is getting dumber. In a few more generations they may not even understand each other. The purpose is to show how eugenics work, [STRIKE IS ORDERED FOR 150,000 MINERS OF SOUTH WALES (Continued From First Page.) ing time reduction. The unionists stood pat on their demand for the same pay they have been receiving. Paid on Daily Basis. The miners are paid on a daily basis, and the owners held out for a one-six- teenth reduction in the daily wage if the hours are reduced from eight to seven and ol %.day, as demanded by the mi k — The 150,000 miners thus, affected bring the total of unemployed miners in the South Wales area, whid duces som: 000,000 tons of co nually, o tely 230,000, laboratory worker and his wife at the| ICORONER'S GROUP SEES SETTLE BODY Inquest to Be Saturday—Po- lice Submit Evidence Link- ing Hit-Run Accident. Having completed the formality of viewing the body of Lieut. Bruce Settle, White House alde, whose mysterious death Monday is attributed to poison, & coroner’s jury will meet again at the Morgue Saturday to inquire into all circumstances of the tragedy. The body of the young naval officer left here by train late yesterday for ine terment at Double Springs, his native home, in Tennessee, Virulent Poison Blamed. Autopsies performed by District and naval officials have disclosed that Lieut. Settle died from the effect of a virulent poison of the type found in a metal polish used in the Navy for polishing officers’ equipment. Capt. W. N. Garton, medical officer at the Washington Navy Yard, where Settle's body was found lying beneath an indoor balcony Monday, expressed the opinion to local authorities that the officer took his own life. A Navy Board of Inquest, headed by Capt. P. W. Foote, is preparing a re- port for Capt. Claude C. Bloch, com- mandant of the Navy Yard, who will forward it to the Navy Department, probably early next week. District police officials were reported to have submitted to the board yester- day evidence they said they obtained concerning a hit-and-run automobile accident at Connecticue avenue and Tilden street Sunday night. They said the evidence was sufficient to make them believe that Lieut. Settle may have been the driver of the car that struck and t:dund four persons. Sete tle’s automobile s now being held by police. It was found badly damaged Tuesday. The civil inquest at the o will begin Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock, ,,wuh Coroner J. Ramsay Nevitt presid- ng. Chemical Analysis Indicates Polson. ‘The viscera of Lieut. Settle was re- moved by naval medical authorities at the Naval Hospital and was not avail- able for examination when Dr. A. Maflgmder MacDonald, deputy coroner, and his cial consultant, Dr. J. M. Ladd. performed an autopsy late yes- terday at Tabler's undertaking estab- lishment, 928 M street. The District surgeons sent specimens to the Health Department for chemical analysis, but apart from this, they said, their exam- | ination showed that poison had caused the officer’s death. | Comprising the coroner's jury are: L. Ott of 1707 Columbia road, George H. Campbell of 3715 Windom place, J. E. Baker of 107 Second street, B. | Picher of 1200 Water street southwest, | David L. Mooney of 524 Third street mml‘! C. Hile of 1323 Kennedy RAIL HEADS’ PLAN OF 4-UNIT SYSTEM [ FACES OBSTACLES | (Continued Prom First Page.) | note that under the allocation of lines made by the commission in its consoli- | dation plan advanced a year ago, the Virginian was put in the New York Central set -up while the Western Mary~ land was placed with @ proposed Wa~ besh-Seaboard system, a unification, by the way, that has been eliminated in the line-up on which the Eastern ex- ecutives now are working, namely, B. & O., Pennsylvania, New York Central and Nickel Plate, which is the Van Sweringen grouping. ‘The commission at that time, en banc, proposed five major systems, as it the four now In one dis- sent opinion, o) ,offered a four-system plan, which, he put the Virginian with the New York Central, and the Western Maryland with the Van Sweringen lay- out; while Commissioner Eastman, also dissenting, offered a nine-system plan for the East, with the Western Mary- land going to a so-called “Reading system,” and disposition of the Vir- ginian left up in the air to a certain extent. Of it, he said: “As to what had best be done with this road, I am in doubt. At present, my best thought is to leave it alone, but give it a physical connection with the Kanawha & Michigan line of the New York Central. (The bridge now authors ized would do that.) Possibly, if such a connection were made, and the Chesapeake & Ohlo were converted into an independent system, the Virginian could be made part of the Chesapeake & Ohlo system without detriment to the public interest.” Commission Personnel Changed. There have been three changes n the commission personnel since the consolidation report was presented, and the consolidation views of the new memi are not known. However, eight members are hold-overs, includ- ing Porter and Eastman, as as Commissioner McManamy, who, in principle, agreed with Eastman. ‘The commissioners’ differences, of course, extended beyond the provisions for the set-up in the East, as the com= mission plan covered every road in the country, providing New England, East- ern, Southern and Western groupings. Since, however, nothing is being done in other parts of the country to put into effect the commission plan, it is the move in the East that now alone is engaging attention. Eastman and McManamy, the record shows, were critical of the whole sub- ject of consolidation, and for that rea: son opposed cutting down the group- ings over the country to a minimum. Eastman, while not desiring to min- imize possible benefits, said flatly that “such sentiment as appears to exist in favor of the consolidation of the raild roads into a very few great systems, is, I believe, largely artificial. * * * For the most part I think it emanates from financial circles which are likely to reap large profits from the mere process of putting the road together.” Again he said: “There are strong grounds for belief that the best results in operating efficiency and service are secured when a railroad system is small enough so that the executive can main« tain something like personal contact with the employes all down the line and also with the shippers in the territory served ” He argued against proceeding on a “grandiose scale,” and urged the com« mission to move slowly. McManamy also expressed disapproval of the general ‘dea of cutting the num- ber of systems down to & minimum, de- claring he did not believe that was the tent of Congress, that rather it was de- sired, in general, to effect a group! that would strengthen weak lines a; give the public whatever advantage mliht accrue (xfim single instead of multiple line hauls. At the opposite pole, so far as the East is concernec, was Porter, with his four-system idea,. which is much like the executives’ plan, but all went along with the majority on the five-system basis in the interest of harmony and to get a start in a matter that has been hanging fire 10 years. Of the three varying views of the commissioners, however, it is noticeable | that none provide: for the Virginian and Western Maryladd as now is sup- posed to be contempl . As to other differeages between the reported set-up, u;d 1! comn'u;:lnnm' eel is that m

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