Evening Star Newspaper, December 11, 1931, Page 28

THE EVENING WOODCOCK'S RETORTS TO WET _ | CRUSADERS WIN THEIR PLAUDITS {Wit and Tolerance of Dry! Enforcement Head Meets { STAR, WASHINGTON, PRESIDENT ZAMORA OF SPAIN SWORN IN 0 S S Al ER 11 TROUBLE OVER MINE| CONVICTION FEARED 1931 INVISBLE DEATH PHOTOS RECORDED House & Herrmann Christmas Shoppers’ News Algai Killed by Violet Rays Form White Pattern on Negatives. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. Tnvisible Death takes its own photo- | graph on 8 living plate This strange phenomenon was thown | for the first time yesterday at the an- nual meeting of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution ! An ordinary glass plate is covered with live algae, extremely minute water plants, so they form a complete film over the glass. Then different wave | lengths of the invisible ultra-violet light are allowed to fall on this plate ¢4 they fell on a regular photographic late they wouyld be recorded by black ines which would become white on a print. On this plate covered with liv- ing organisms they are recorded by | ‘white lines. Death Photographed. These lines are the dead algae, killed | by the lethal invisible rays. They | change color when they die. Not only | does this living plate represent a | weird sort of photography, but it illus- | trates vividly upon what a elender mar- | #in of safety life on earth depends. It | might not require much of a change | in conditions of the upper | for the surface of the e o become just such & photographic plate with the whitening bones of men and animals making the white lines The ultra-violet lines that kill the algae come from a mercury lamp Plenty of them are sent out by the| sun, but they never reach the surface of the earth where they can do damage. | Far up in the sky they are stopped by | 8 blanket of ozone. This shuts out the ultra-violet just at the point where it becomes lethal. If there were a little less ozone, 80 that these rays could get | through, life as it exists on earth prob- ably would be impossible. If there| were more of it, so that the longer | ultra-violet rays also were stopped. the health of plants and animals would be seriously affected The Smithsonian regents also saw | for the first time & new kind of “brass brain,” designed for a specific sort of | extremely laborious and complex mathe- matical computations. The machine is | the invention of Dr. Charles G. Abbot, | secretary of the Smithsonian, and is designed especially to discover and evaluate periodicities in a long series y | thusiastically when | larger Militant Challenge. Speaker Tells Audience. Jazz Spirit Scored. Prohibition Director Woodcock won | the applause of militant wets at the Carlton Hotel last night for the wit and | tolerance of his answer to their chal- lenge to free debate. He replied for more than an hour to questions directed at him from the floor of a meeting called by the Cru- saders, whose goal is repeal of the dry law While the audience opposed him in principle, Col. Woodcok was applauded from time to time for his statements as the lond defender of the eighteenth amendment. Agents More “Gentlemanly.” In particular he was cheered en- he declared that Federal dry agents are enforcing the law in a “more gentlemanly” manner today than ever before Col. Woodcock acknowledged to the Crusaders that their efforts were mak- ing his task more difficult, but de- clared “I would rather have our gask much harder than to deprive you of your right to question and to urge what you think is most wise " The speaker reasserted that the aim of Federal enforcement is to curb “the commercial violator, particularly of the type.” The normal individual, he said, although a potential offender | through illegal possession of liquor, can only be reached by temperance educa- t Problems Outlined. In & prepared address which Col Woodcock delivered prior to answering extemporaneous questions he told some- thing of problems confronting the Fed- eral enforcement agency. He characterized “the real problem" of enforcement as temperance educa- tion leading toward “thet much mis- used word, culture.” | While conceding there is increased drinking now among “a certain class who prefer & jazz jig to & Chopin waltz” Col. Woodcock quoted ancient | and modern philosophies in support of a healthier, more normal pleasure than that induced by alcohol. | |Agents More “Gentlemanly,": PROHIBITION DIRECTO! WOODCOCK. they fail at everything else, train them to "be intelligent investigators an secure their loyalty to the service b; fair and just leadership and by guar- anteeing “them promotion on their merit. ~Our emphasis is always upon character, conduct and intelligence “‘We do not claim to b2 perfect, but gentlemen, we do claim to be im- proving!” D. . WORKERS LEAD N CHEST GIFTS 51,619 Government Em- ployes Contribute $703,- 675.38—30,000 to Report. Government employes have subscribed $703,675.38 toward the million-doliar relief fund being raised in connection with the Community Chest, it was an- nounced this morning This represented the contributions of 51,619 workers under the plan by which | three days pay is pledged, and leaves Scores Modern Society. He declared that materialistic ideals of observations—such as those of solar |are making enforcement extremely dif- radiation or of weather { ficult. “Was there ever a time,” he | asked, “when the printed page which Solar Radiations Specialty. | reaches the people was so lacking in | Dr. Abbot's special field has been | those enduring qualities of truth and the study of soler radiation, upon which | beauty? Was there ever a time when the life’ of the world depends. The| the plays and the music which people emount of heat radiated by the sun|hear were so utterly trivial and un. varies slightly from day to day. Dr.| worthy? | Abbot in the past has designed ex- | “Running through the whole miser- | about 30,00 men and women yet to be heard from. The District government leads in gifts, w.th 8.381 employes having contributed | A; $109,997.59. Next in order comes the Treasury, where 6,045 gave $76,945.82; naval establishment, 5952 giving $75,- | 359.52, and Agriculture, 4,110 donating $50,716.41 The others are as follows: th Amt. sub, No.of " scribed employes through legal and the company was in prospect as First Constitutional Head | and “Father” of Republic Takes Oath of Office. | i | By the Associated Press. MADRID, December 11—Niceto Al- cala Zamora, white-haired “father of the Spanish republi=" took the cath of |office today as the country's first con- | stitutional " President | _The ceremony took place in the As- | sembly Chamber, the new President standing on the spot where FHI used to stand when he appeared before kis legislators Madrid Celebrates. The entire diplematic corps, all the members of the National Assembly | ranking army and navy officers and as many plain citizens as could crowd in witnessed the inauguration Outside the streets were lined with eering crowds, bands were playing and airplanes flew back and forth Flags hung from windows and the tri- color was wound about street lamps and draped across the windows of stores, closed for the day. The planes dropped thousands of copies of the new constitution in tiny volumes stamped with the shield of the republic After administration of the oath the new President went to the former royal palace to review the troops. Few Abstain From Voting. Zamora received 362 votes of. of & possible 466. Some deputies ca blank ballots, a few divided their votce among five other leaders and the rest abstained from voting The President-elect remained away from the chamber during the voting, in which his eleoian was virtually a fore- gone conclusion. He was informed of the result at his home, where he was besieged by a hundred friends, reporters and photographers. | Won't Be Dictator. ‘There the first to congratulate him were his wife and his two grown daugh- ters, who clung to his neck and wept with joy. “I'll try not to be a dictator during my tenure,” said the President-elect, a farmer's son in an unpressed suit, who will head the country ruled not so long ago as a monarchy by King Alphonso XIII May Outlaw Phone Concession. A bill which would abolish the gov- ernment concession to the National Telephone Co. of Spain was introduced in the Assembly last night. The telephone company represents an merican investment of $70,000,000. A battle between the government he result of the cancellation measure. Abrogation of the concession, which was granted under the dictatorship of the asked on the ground that the govern- | ment did not believe the company will- late Gen. Primo de Rivera, was Alfonso | COL. RAYMOND ROBINS. SLATEDTO PRESIE AT DRY MEETAGS |Woodcock and Co-Author of Eighteenth Amendment Accept Places. The author and the enforcer of na- tional prohibition will preside at two of the rallies to be held here Sunday, Monday and Tuesday under auspices of the Allied Forces for Prohibition. First Session Sunday. At the opening meeting at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon in the Cavalry Bap- tist Church, Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas, co-author of the eighteenth amendment, will be in the chair, while Amos W. W. Woodcock, director of the Prohibition Bureau, is scheduled as chairman of the meeting Tuesday eve- ning in the same church At the Sunday afternoon meeting Col. Raymond Robins and Robert C. Ropp, members of the speakers’ bureau of the allied forces, will make addresses Dr. Daniel A. Poling, chairman of the allied forces, and Dr. Oliver W. Stewart, vice chairman, are to be the speakers at the Tuesday meeting, when Mr. Woodcock will preside. Brookhart to Speak. Senator Smith W. Brookhart of Iowa, Republican Progressive and one of the most outspoken drys in the Senate, will speak briefly at a mass meeting in the | 3 Guard Called Against For- bidden Mass Meeting in Kentucky. By the Associated Press. PINEVILLE, Ky., December 11.—The conviction on a murder charge of Wil- |lam B. Jones, Harlan County mins | union leader, probably will have reper- | cussions here Sunday at a mass meeting | of the National Miners' Union. It was | predicted by authorities here today the | meeting will be surned into a forum of protest against the verdict. | Jones was convicted at Mount Ster- ling yesterday of the murder of Deputy Sheriff James Daniels in a gun bagtle at Evarts last May, in which four men were killed. The convicted man, secre- tary of the Evarts local of the United | Mine Workers of America, was sen- tenced to life imprisonment. Meeting Forbidden. The Pineville City Counctl, having no authority to forbid the assemblage, has asked National Miners' Union officials not to conduct the mass meeting here Sunday. Union leaders have not replied to the request, so Bell County authori- | ties are planning to have an adequate force of peace officers on duty lest any trouble develop. | _Bell County, which adjoins Harlan County, has had no labor disorders to compare with those in Harlan, where several men have been slain. It was a Bell County grand jury, however, which | indicted Theodore Dreiser, novelist, and | others, who conducted a meeting of the | National Miners' Union at Straight | Creek last month. Union Head to Be Tried. | . The next trial at Mount Sterling, start- | Ing December 28, will be that of Wil- | iam Hightower, president of the union of which Jones was secretary. High- tower, like Jones, had three murder in- dictments returned against him after | the battle of Evarts. Defense motions for a new trial for Jones will be heard at Mount Sterling on December 28 also. More than a score of defendants un- der murder indictments in Harlan County are yet to be tried. ALTAR GUILD ELECTS Accokeek Christ Church Group Names Mrs. A. Davis President. Special Dispatch to The Star. ACCOKEEK, Md., December 11.— Officers were elected at a meeting of | Christ Church Altar Guild at the home | of Mrs.” Archie Davis, as follows: Miss Rosalie Underwood, president; Miss Maud Manning, secretary, and Mrs. Henry Bealle, treasurer. | ~Mrs. Henry Medley donated linens for the altar. The guild decided to give a | card party January 23 at the parish hall, - Suggestions you will find it most advantageous to follow— because they will receive a hearty welcome wherever bestowed —and you can feel you are getting your full money’s worth. “Furniture of Merit”—you know what that means, Our “Costless Credit” Is at Your Service General Electric Cleaner Martha Washington Sewing Cabinet An ever popular and appro- priate gift. Solid mahogany or walnut, nicely finished. Magazine Rack The latest and the best of all the electric cleaners. A $2.95 genuine “G. E” product. Willard Hotel at 8 o'clock Sunday night. | A committee composed of Mrs, R. F. tremely delicate instruments for detect- (able mess of sensation and jazz there | . Department Dec. 10 |ing to adjust itself to the labor laws ing the amounts of this variation. There | is believed to be a close but extremely intricate relationship between this vari- | abjlity and the world’s weather. The daily observations taken at the Smithsonian's three solar observatories in different parts of the world are aver- aged each month, and the monthly averages are plotted. The result, over | & perlod of years, is an irregular curve | which rises and falls on the plotting | paper like the relief map of a moun- tainous country. The problem hes been to find whether there is any sequence | of variations. Does the heat of the sun, | for example, vary from high to low in eight-month intervals? The curve shows | clearly that it does. The eight-month cycles are so conspicuous that they ob- scuge any other periodicities that may | be_present. | Dr. Abbot suspected, however. that | this eight-month period was not the| only one. He worked it out by an ex- | tremely laborious mathematical process and discovered four other periods of regular variation—intervals, respective- 1y, of 64, 45, 25 and 11 months. It was while engaged on this work that the idea of the machine came to the Emith- sonlan secretary. So he devised the! “brass brafin” “which would do the same thing. As finally realized, the de- vice 15 quite simple in comparison with most mathematical machines. It can be operated by & person without train- ing in mathematics Machine Errorless. It is not a rapid calculator. Dr. Ab- bot said today he is not sure that it will be possible to work out the peri- odicities any faster with this mechan- ism than with pencil and paper. The machine, however, is not subject to human errors, and in work of such ex- actness a slight mistake might throw the investigator far off Measurements of solar radiation was shown by another exhibit, have reached such an extreme acquracy that, in the face of varying conditions in the stmosphere, there is a difference of only bout one-tenth of 1 per cent in the curves based on observations in the Southwest, in Chile and in South Africa What is perhaps the world's most measured stalk of wheat was shown the regents. It is a healthy stalk grown in s glass tube without any soil, its roots being immersed in a liquid chemical so- lution the constituents of which are exactly known. Every bit of light, heat and humidity the stalk has experienced from the first has been exactly meas- ured. Every bit of carbon dioxide it ab- sorbs is measurcd automatically. In this way it is hoped to learn the exact {Jitions under” which wheat. grows it An interesting historical exhibit was the original model of the sewing ma- chine made by Elias Howe, jr., in 1845, 8 year before he obtained his patent It has beer deposited with the Smith- sorian by his niece, Mrs. Jennic Teel Among the exhibits was a prehistoric eradle obtained from a Texas cave con- taining artifacts of a hitherto unknov cultyre by P. M. Setzler of the Smith- ian staff e following members of the Board of* Regents attended the meeting yes- tefday: Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, Senators Reed Smoot. Joseph T Robinson and Claude A. Swanson ;x-wnumrx Albert Johnson and Tt Luce, R. Walton Moore, Fred- eriek A. Delano and Dr. J. C. Merriam PROPOSAL FOR SENATE RADIO WIRING REVIVED Bepator Dill Is Preparing Resolu- tion—Tests Are Made “ in Chamber. i | The proposal to have the Senate clipmber wired and equipped for broad- cqting purposes so radio audiences can in on the proceedings on special osgasions, will be revived at this sesion. it iwas made known today by Senator Dill, Democrat, of Washington “As & preliminary step io the considor- affon of the question, radio engineers arp making technical tests in the Sen- ¢hamber today. The Senate ad- yesterday over the week end the radio experts on apportunity make preliminary experiments. phbnes were placed in the gal- , connected with another room in Capitol to see how the voices would “Benator Dill said his resolution on the sfibject is not ‘yet ready to be intro- duced. When it # offered it probably g0 to the Ruléé Committee for con- tion. The fests being made are to determine what en{tnm would be involved if it lhom o is one idea—that getting money is the | test of human success. When you set up rules of human conduct based solely upon what is practical and not upor | what is right, the situation is a hard | one for the enforcing of any law.” | Asked if he could cite from history a single exsmple of “another law” en- | forezd over the protest and against the principles of “millions of normal citizens,” Col. Woodcock replied Believes Law Enforceable. You want me to say that prohibition cannot be enforced!" burst of good-natured greeted this remsrk, and several heck- lers from the audience urged Col. Woodcock to do just that. This, how- ever, he refused to concede. The meeting was presided over by John F. Dryden, executive commander | of the Washington Battalion of Crusa- ders, who put several prepared questions | to Col. Woodcock. “Do you consider State co-operation essential to the effective enforcement | of the national prohibition law?" Dry- | den asked phatic “yes” from the speaker. Defines “Violator.” Asked to define “a commercial vio- lator,” Col. Woodcock said such a vio- lator was any person who manufactures or sells liquor. | Col. Woodcock had only a general reply to offer when asked “How many men and how much money, in your opinion, would be required to enforce prohibition?” Questioned as to the Prohibition Bu- Teau's policy toward the manufacture and sale of potential wine bottled as fruit juices, Col. Woodcock replied that manufacturers and dealers will be prose- cuted in cases where there is a reason- able certainty that intent to violate the | prohibition law can be proved He said that most beverages and grape bricks” of this nature “cannot be used for any other purpose” than the | ultimate production of illegal wine. Sees Better Enforcement. | The most prolonged applause of the evening came when Col. Woodcock, in reply to a question as to whether he thought the law was better enforced now than three years ago, replied that at least it was enforced in “a more gentlemanly manner.” He did not know, he admitted, if there is more or less liquor being con- sumed now. “Have you found it difficult,” Col Woodcock was asked finally, “to get agents of high enough moral caliber?"” “No,” he declared. “We have spent A great deal of time and thought upon better selection and training of agents. Probably the best thing that has been done is the lowerimg of the age limit to 35 years and the making of intelli- gence and character the only qualifi- cations “Our idea is 1o take the men before —_C78 15 10 lake the men before laughter SAPOLIN (ETTTY L1, L) Speed Enamel —An enamel which com- bines the characteristic “speed” dry of lacquers with exceptional ease of applica- tion. The finish resists water and will not become sticky. Third Floor. | Pederal Board of Vocat Query drew an em- % | Library of Congress contacted. 46 i The White House State Department Internat. Boundary Com {nternational Joint Com Mixed Claims Commission War Department (civilian) employes) 5 partment of Justice Post Office Departmeni and Postal Bervice in Wash- ington, D. C - 19,047.08 20100 255.00 469.38 44.251.99 16.890.16 33.367.22 . 44.08 Alien Property Custodian 15 Veterans' Administration 34.70 Education Tarifl Commission .. Bureau of the Budget Inland Waterways Corp Government Printing Office. Railroad Administration General Accounting Office Commission of Fine Arts Interstate Commerce Comm Board of Mediation Federal Power Commi Federal Trade Personnel Cla. Public Bldgs. Smithsonian Insts Panama Canal Recorder 5f Deeds Pan-American Union ¢ Emploves' Compensation Co. 1 21 a‘»b ™ 19.107.76 1 1 1 2, o 2 8 1 of Efficiencs Supreme Court of 1 Tational Adv Com Aeronautics & 514.09 mittee for #7768 7.004.06 Total 51,619 $703,675.38 Officials Go to Ric}:mond, By a Btafl Correspondent of The Star ARLINGTON COUNTY COURT HOUSE, Va., December 11.—Harry K Green, commissioner of reve ue, and his deputy, C. Benjamin Laycock, went to Richmond last night to attend the | annual meeting of the Commissioners of | James Wiley g Revenue Association of Virginia. Green matters are to be discussed. $1.823.80 | and because the concession was award- ed without other bids having been re- ceived Minister of Communications Martinez Barrios recently drew up a new labor contract calling for an increase in the company's pay roll of 16,000,000 pesetas (about $1,280,000) annually, to which the company objected The company was given 30 days from November 29 to meet the government demand. | L T. & T. “NOT WORRIED.” NEW YORK, Dacember 11 (F).— Officials of the International Telephone & Telegraph Co., which is the majority stockholder in the Compania Telefonica Nacional de Espana, were somewhat | mystified today upon the receipt of re [ ports that a bill had been introdiced |in the Cortes (assembly) at Madrid | which would cancel the company’s tele- | phone concession They pointed out that the I. T. & T. | holds a contract with the Spanish gov- ernment, signed in 1924, whereby the Compania de Espana was given the | telephone concession for a period of 3¢ years. Under the circumstances, it wa added, the I. T. & T. is “not worrying and expects the matter to be stra‘gh.- | ened out amicably following yesterday's national election in Spain. Berryville Man Dies. BERRYVILLE, Va, December 11 | (Spezial) —Benjamin 'Wagely Vorous 80, died at his home in Berryville to- | day following a month of lllness from | nephritis. He was a native of Jeffer- | son County, W. Va. One daughter, Miss | Virginia_Vorous, and one_sister, Mrs Crozet, Va., survive. will be held ‘Saturday Funeral service: | 1s vice president of the association. 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