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A—4 x» VIRGINIA SCIENTIST WINS §1.000 PRIZE br. C. C. Spiedel‘s’ Findings on Growth of Nerves Recognized. By the Associated Press NEW ORLEANS, Janusry 2—The | snnusl $1,000 prize for an outstanding discovery was awarded last night by the American Association for the Ad- vancement of Bcience to Dr. Carl Cas- key Spiedel of the University of Vir- ginia | He is the first sclentist to make a perve grow so that all its secrets are visible from its “birth” to maturity [Dr. Speidel, formerly a resident of Washington, was graduated from Cen- tral High School in 1910 and was a member of the base ball and track teams there. The school “annual” the | year he finished referred to him s “young in years, but sege in mental | eapacity.” e 15 8 son of George Speidel of Bradley Hills, Va. His wife, the former Margaret M. Knowles, is a daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Henry Knowles of Falls Church, Va Speldel is a graduate of La Fayette and Princeton Colleges.] ! Dr. Speidel cleared up the doubt about how a nerve grows. Some scien- tists had held that it developed like a “chain,” others that it grew from a single tiny cell. But no one had been able actually to see Proved to Be Cells. Dr. Speidel's “dark field” living nerves seen in the proved Under microscope, transparent tail of s tadpole o be cells instead of & chain This tiny “cell” is shaped like & cone and traveis along, spinning a tenuous thread behind it, like a spider This cone-shaped thing knows just | where to go. It moves without legs by “hunching” itself along. When it comes 1o an ohstruction in the tadpole’s tail, it hesltates, explores about, and finds a good pathway to go around the obstacle. The first “cone” is a pioneer. After 1t, come others, each following the first- laid track, and spinning their tiny threads around the first nerve fiber. They thus build up a full-sized nerve After the threads are spun together, & second cell comes along, the myelin sheath cells, which form the nerve cov- ering. These possess the power of mo- tion. If any part of the new nerve is hurt, they rush to that point to make repairs. Some of them were kept awsy from the nerve fibers for a whole month | and then relessed. Immediately they found their way to & nerve and went back to work. Show Marks of Intelligence. ‘These nerve elements also show evi- dences of intelligence when new flesh begins growing near them. They seem to know there is a new area needing nerves and speed up their progress in that direction. Dr. Speidel's microscope ma - dispose , of a long-held theory t.xr)\e.t newasp::e guided by some electrical attraction. Instead, a Jow but definite form of in- telligence may actuate them. Dr. 8. J. Holmes of the University of Californis told the associatfon if is now financially profitable for the whites to_encourage increase of the world’s colored races, for these races help pro- duoe the white man's wealth and buy his goods, he declared, but this policy may result in an intensified struggle for existence between the colored races’ and the whites. “The tendency of industrial develop- ment to cause dominant peoples to swamped out by the descendants of more primitive stocks who are utilized as laborers is one which eyery wisel: governed people should consider wit great eare,” Dr. Holmes continued. “Just as bad money drives out good money, 50 a low-standard population tends to drive out s high-standard populstion.” Sees Danger to Capitalism. Depression is a “profit disease,” Prof. Irving Fisher, economist of Yale Uni- versity, said. “I, myself, am not so cocksure about capitalism as I was in my youth,” he continued. “What I am fairly sure of is that if capitalism finds itself unable 10 clean the dirt of depression out of its very foundations, called profits, some form of socialism will devour capital- Much “distress selling” and resulting increase of indebtedness might have been headed off if deflation had been vigorously fought from its very symptom by such agencies as the Federal Re- serve System, Fisher declared. The system did act, he said, but it was timid and acted too late, after distress defla- tion had become an avalanche and frresistible. A form of special deafness to the finer shades of musical tones was blamed partly on modern noise by Dr, | Willima Braid White of Chicago, diréc- tor of the accoustical laboratory of the American Steel & Wire Co. “The noises of modern life are partly responsible,” he said. “Ears are becom- ing coarsened to the finer shades of tone. That is one reason why music is tending toward the boiler-shop variety, making use of dissonances and terrific crashes. It may account, in part, for the popularity of jazz music.” | POLICEMAN IS SLAIN TRYING TO CLEAR RECORD | Xilled by Bandits After Seeking Dangerous Jobs to Wipe Out Suspension Last Month. By the Asoclated Press DETROIT. January 2.—A young po- licemsn who sought dangerous :és % wipe out & blot on his record, was shot to death Thursday night as he at- tempted to prevent a gasoline station holdup. The victim, Douglas W. Minton, was on duty at the station in the overalls of an attendant, to watch for robbers. Two young men who came to hold up the place, succeeded in disarming and | shooting him. They escaped in an auto- mobile, taking $70 from the cash reg- ister. Minton's wife, Edna, sald that he told her he hoped by his work in com- batting holdup men to offset an offense for which he was suspended from the | force November 24. Prior to that time he had been a motorcycle officer, and was disciplined for making out facti- tious arrest tickets in the belief he had to “keep up to a quota Minton fired two shots at the robbers before they shot him three times. They took his pistol after he fell. | George Neil, station attendant, then | handed over the money SOUTH TAKES TO AIR Atlanta Records Show in Use of Aviation. ATLANTA, Ga., January 2 (#).—The old South of traditional dignified leisure bhas found itself unexpectedly in & hurry and has taken to the alr An indication of the demand for speedy transportation showed in Atlanta ig Gains |in a fist fiight THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, JAN Toy Amusement Park Built in Home Elaborat: BY GRETCHEN SMITH. EACHING beneath the couch in her living room at 616 Fifth street northeast. Mrs. William T. Bell turned a hidden switch. Immediately, soft music floated from behind a Lilliputian mountain, and miniature trains started moving around the toy pleasure park built with infinite rcgard to detail at the foot of the mountain Childrea and grown-ups gathered in the smail 100m. stood fascinated be- fore the electrical achievement of Mr Bell, a metal worker, who four vears ago started work on the plaything which Fas nov grown to such p portions that it spreads over practically every part of the Bell's living room Nine switches operate the mechani- cal amusemen® park and village, which Teprocuctions of all the cers of Summer pleasure re- one end of the park, a “fiying sirplane” revolves merrily, turning its small carloads of dolls over and over, while a short distance away, a more “ponderous” ferris wheel turns slowly, as its chairs of doll passengers look down upon a merry-go-round below. Made in Spare Time. The ferris wheel has two landings, an upper one reached by a small ele- vator. Every section and part of the various amusements offered on the doll | amusement park has been made en- | tirely by Mr. Bell, who in odd hours at home has modeled the little cars, the ferris wheel, the merry-go-round and a hundred other small pieces in the basement of his house. About the only part of the repro- | duction which Mr. Bell did not make himself are the train cars, which run| \on an upper and a lower grade sur- | | rounding the village and park. He did | produce, however, the small trestles which support the tracks, as well as| the numerous lamp posts which light the tracks and different sections of the park So many small details have been carried out by Mr. Bell that at first view one becomes confused trying to follow each mechanical contrivance. As the trains pass around the park, over the mountain and through various tunnels, a waterfall splashes down a hillock into a fish pond, on the edge {of which an old flour miJl may be seen grinding imaginary flour. Mr. Bell has proven himself not only a clever electrician, but an accomplished | artist. | Friends Crowd Home. From various parts of the city, sc- quaintances, and friends of acquaint- | ances, are drawn to the Bell's modest home to enjoy the remarkable toy which ne has built for his children. - For four ! Christmases now the miniature pleas- HOLIDAY ACCIDENTS CLAIN 100 VICTINS Highways and Skyways Are Charged With Fatalities in Rising List of Dead. By the Associated Press. Heavy boliday traffic tallled 100 vic- tims and accidents associated with the Nation's New Year day observance ac- counted for a score more of lives Highways of nearly every State and skyways of the Midwest alike were charged with fatalities in the rising list of dead last night. Burns, falls, & freak cave-in, hunting and even a coasting accident swelled the totals. The Midwest appeared to be tre heaviest suffer in traffic tragedies In Tllinois nine persons, six of them children, drowned after their motor car fell 22 feet into the Calumet River, while they were en route to a holiday celebration Four Die in Air Crash. An airplane mishap brought death to four passengers at Springfield, Ohio. At Waterloo in the same State. men lost their lives, when a cave where a party was being held collapsed ichigan counted 10 dead, Detroit metropolitan “are alone, as a consequence of traffic accidents, which injured more than 100 persons Auto-train collisions edged into the holiday picture claiming four young people at a Philadelphia suburb. One automobilist was killed in Maryland. Coasting Accident Fatal. In the Midwest, two died of accidental falls while celebrating ‘one of infuries Two were injured by stray bullets A small boy was killed while coast- ing at Salt Lake City and Fort Worth, Tex., reported the shooting of a Mexi- can mother of four children by a drink- crazed man More than a dozen auto deaths were recorded in the South, five in Georgia alone. Holiday dispatches from that area also brought belated news of a tornado in Alabama that killed two col- ored persons . Rain swept traffic arterles discour- aged New Year day driving in the East and reld auto deaths there to less than a score. THREE HELD IN DEATH WAYNE, W. Va., January 2 (#)— A third member of the family of Maude Webb was locked up last night as the from poisoning Oscar Webb, 22, her brother, held as a material witness. 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FIAKO i New Brui N. J. Endorsed by Good Housekeeping N — e “ CHILDREN AND GROWN-UPS WATCH DOLLS RIDE MINIATURE FERRIS WHEEL AND TRAINS. ure park has been as important & part of the home decorations as has the Christmas tree which casts its branches above the electrical reproduction Nothing would induce Mr. Bell to part with his work, and as the years pass it is his plan to add to and improve the Christmas toy, until when his chil- dren are grown he will have a truly remarkable plaything to turn over to them for their own children. Mr. Bell's efforts are fullp appre- ciated by his children, Helen, 11 vears old; “Junior,” 9, and the 8-year-old twins, Doris and Dorothea, who never tire of the miniature pleasure park They share their fun with schoolmates and neighbors’ children, who throng the Bell living room until the toy is taken down and put away after the holidays. SHIP ABANDONED - AS CREW 15 SAVED I'Reiyoo Maru - Proceeds to: Japan After Effecting Res- cue in Heavy Seas. By the Associated Press SEATTLE, Wash, January 2—Up- word of two-score of the crew and offi- cers of the Japanese freighter Tamaho | Maru were safe on the North Pacific today after abandoning ship following a losing 60-hour fight with wintry seas. A brief message relayed to the Coast Guard here last night told of their rescue by the Relyoo Maru, which had | convoyed the Tamaho Maru for many I Forty-two men were taken off, | and the Reiyoo proceeded toward Japan. ‘The 6,786-ton freighter first sent out | distress messages three days ago, say- | ing its steering gear was disabled and an 80-mile-an-hour gale was blowing. | Later a message said it had arranged a temporary rig and was going ahead slowly. The message telling of the aban- doning ship was intercepted by the Hinchinbrook Naval Compass Station, near Seward, Alaska, late last night It said that the Hikawa Maru, a third ship, quoted another unnamed Japa-| | nese vessel as follows: “All 42 of the crew of the Tamaho Maru rescued by Reiyoo Maru at 4 p.m., now bound to Yokohama.” | The disabled ship was abandoned, it was said, at position 48:15 North, 179:55 East. This is between 100 and 150 miles southwest of the Andreanof Island group, in the western Aleutian chain. The Tamaho Maru sailed from Van- couver, British Columbia, for the Orient with & mixed cargo December 15. ‘BACKWARD’ PLANE FALL 9 1932. UARY " Dancers to Appear Here . WILL BE SEEN AT CENTRAL AUDITORIUM. 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CHICAGO, January 2.—Senator Pzt | in 1822 and Jouette TODAY O Executive Committee, will be speakers | for the rally of Illinois Democrats Jan- uary 14. The dinner, Robert F. Carr, Illinois campaign chairman, announced, will open the State's “victory ,campaign,” part of a national movement to formu- Ite platform principles. Carr explained that one of the pur- poses of the rally was to prepare for | the election of a Dzmocratic President The “victory campaign,” he said, would be extended to all cities HALF OF WITNESSES i TESTIFY ON SLAYING ‘Sute Due to Resume Questioning 1 in Trial of William Hightower | in Kentucky Court. | By the Associated Press. MOUNT STERLING, Ky, January |2—Half of the State's witnesses had | been heard in the murder conspiracy | trial of William Hightower when Mont- gomery Circuit Court opened today. 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