Evening Star Newspaper, January 25, 1931, Page 5

* HIGH MASONS PLAN O ATTEND DANCE Knights Templar Annual Drill and Ball to Be Held on February 3. Some of the highest ranking Ma- sonic officials in the country will attend the annual indoor drill and ball of th'g Knights Templar, Washington juris- diction, on February 3 in Washington Auditorium, it was announced yester- day. Among these will be James H. Chick- ering, grand commander of the State of Pennsylvania; Fred P. Spillman, grand commander from West Virginia: Claude W. Fletcher, grand generalissimo of Virginia, and John H. S. Lane, grand captain general of Maryland. Local Men as Guests. Among the local men who will at- fend as guests are George L. Sherman, grand master of the Grand Council of the District; Elwood P. Morey, deputy of Scottish Rite, and John Q. Slye, grand tall cedar. ‘The judges of the competitive drill are as follows: Walter W. Webber, Denver Com- mandery, No. 2, Denver, Colo.; John H. 8. Lane of Maryland and J. Harry Ull- rich, grand junior warden of the State of Maryland. Grand Commandery Ball. Music for the grand review will be furnished by the newly organized band of the Grand Commandery. ‘The following were named members of two new committees yesterday: Hall—Jasper N. Baker, chairman; Wil liam H. Harrison, Charles W. Pimper, Amasa A. Ludwig, Ralph B. Morrow, Roland M. Brown, Hugh L. Murrell and Samuel B. Reeder. Reception—L. Whiting Estes, chairman; Gratz E. Dunkum, Lem Towers, jr.; John A. Moyer, William K. Reeve, Willlam L. Miller, James T. Gibbs, Mark F. Finley and Charles F. Roberts. ‘The drill this year will be the most extensive anl elaborate in the history of the Knights Templar. LEADERS OF BUSINESS | URGE DRY MODIFICATION | 1,208 Out of 2,000 Recommend Change as Aid to Return of Prosperity. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 24 —Prosperity | can best be brought back to the United | States, 1,208 business leaders cf the Na- | tlon_told the Sherman Corporation, by | 8 change in the Federal probibition WS, ‘Two thousand executives were sent questionnaires several weeks ago, in which they were asked to list opinions on breaking the deprestion. No effort was made to influence opinion, the cor- | poration_executives said, and no par- | “ticular classification was made of any fssue to make it outstanding. John F. Sherman, chairman of the of the business engineering or- ganization, who made known the result, said factors of needed Government action were listed. In addition to pro- hibition changes, the replies advocated the following: Reduction of taxes, 1, of public works, 1,117, amendment of anti-trust laws, 993; adjustment of tariff, 987; curtailment of production of raw commodities, 511, and adjustment of gold reserves, 373. mments on~ prolilbition included statements that 2,000,000 men would be given work by legalized manufacture of liquor, grain supplies would be con- | sumed and that revenue sources wouid | be_reopened. X‘; the announcement, Mr. Sherman said: “We made thé study at the request of many of our clients. We carried it on with only one objective, to get facts. ‘We listed modification of the prohibi- tion amendment in the questionnaire the issue is outstanding. We were surprised to learn that business men of the caliber to whom we went | seemed to rate prohibition as a major | economic issue.” ; stimulation Commissioned in Reserve. Commissions in the Reserve Corps of the Army have been issued by th> War Department to Elias M. Pryse, Indian | Bureau, Department of the Interior, ag | a captain of Engineers, and to Edwart M. Barron, Hyattsville, Md., as a first lleutenant of Infantry. Hundreds of $30—$45—$40 New New Topcoats & Overcoats i \\ \ W N Rayon Shirts Fancy Shorts Miss Katie C. Garth being presented with a purse of gold and a basket of | flowers by Surgeon General Hugh S. Cumming yesterday upon the completion of 38 years in the Government service. She has been connected with the Public | Health Service since 1914 and was connected with other Government departments before that. She retired yesterday. —Star Staff Photo. MICRO-MOVIE CAMERA FILMS FIRST BEATS OF BIRD'S HEART Embryologist at Western Reserve Medical | : School Hopes to Obtain Secret of Growth Inside Shell. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, January 4.—A bird’s heart, as it begins its first timid and hesitant beats in its career of inspira- tion for future song, has by the micro-movie camera here. The movie is taken of the embryo, which is dissected from the egg about one or two days after Incubation has started. The movie producer is Dr. Bradley M. Patten. professor of em- briology, Wesiern Reserve University's medical school. In the micro-movie the embryo is shown floating in the liquid of the egg The embryo, microscopic in size, ap- pears on the screen like a giant tad- pole or fish, about 5 to 6 feet long. ‘The heart—a simple, transparent, bulb- ous tube, occuples a large part of the plcture. At this staga nothing moves but the little bulb. The beating starts before the blood is ready for circulation. The tiny heart seems to be trying out its strength—it is timid and hesitant—its | beating is intermittent and irregular. Sometimes the pulsation s:ops for lorfg intervals, and then renews its inter- mittent action. Starts Flowing After Signal. All this time, the blood is being formed In the membranes of the egg that surround the embryo. After about 38 hours a signal goes out from some unknown source that _the hesrt is ready to begin its work, ai the blocd starts flowing. The corpuscles, which are transported in a fluid come to the heart in many branches of vessels and appear on the movie screen like grains of sand trav- eling down chutes. They all move in unison with the contraction and re- laxaticn, of the tiny heart bulb. In making the drama Prof. Patten dissects the embryo from the yclk, places it in salt solution maintained at body temperature to keep life from end- ing and focuses on it a microscope con- tained in an incubator. Af the eye- piece is placed a motion picture camera and the pictures are taken either by re- flected or transmitted light. In his work Prof. Patten hopes to discover how the bird grows inside the shell and how the contraction of the heart progresses through it as it beats. In the course of his work Prof. Patten takes slow motion pictures to analyze such motions as heart beat and rapid pictures to analyze growth, Device Probes Wren's Life. ‘The micro-movies are also in connec- tion with the researches of S. Prentiss Baldwin, Cleveland ~ ornithologist, who uses ingenious electrical and mechani- | cal devices for prying into the intimate | homelife of the wren and her husband. One of these devices is the electro- | ** Hitting on all Twelve!!!™ Wadio o3 Suits Buy 'Em on the Kaufman Budget Plan heart to beat between 200 and 800 times a second. Another device is the “wren- ograph,” which shows Mrs. Wren to be very restless, leaving her nest numerous times, day and night. 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Attorneys for Mrs. Thomasson moved to have the suit dismissed, but Rodgers opposed the motion saying “This is & | plain case “of kidnaping.,” and the erruled by the court. at my client wants to do.” y Rodgers. “He has been abducted by this woman. The 73-year-old real estate dealer, who forsook bachelorhood and a fancy for playing the violin last July to be- come fourth husband of Grace Caroline Allen Fish Putney Mahood was last seen in & hotel lobby at Carthage, Mo., Thursday night as a young woman and a colored chauffeur dragged him out of the place, after Carthage police said he had asked for their protection. 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