Evening Star Newspaper, April 10, 1932, Page 10

A—10 [TALY WILL HONOR GARIBALDI MEMORY Body of Wife Will Be Rein- terred at Campo Verano. By the Associated Press. ROME, April 9.—Italy will honor the memory of Gen. Giuseppe Garibaldi, “hero of two worlds,” and his Brazilian wife, Anita, in ceremonies beginning with the arrival of Anita's body here in May for final rest in the family tomb at_Campo Verano. Premier Mussolini, King Victor Em- | manuel and other personages will par- | ticipate in the ceremonies, which will | last until mid-June. A stone statue of Anita, 50 feet high, will be unveiled June 1, on_the top of | Janiculum Hill, overlooking Rome. The | Duce will deliver a eulogy on that occa- | sion. The statue shows Mme. Garibaldi fleeing on horseback with her baby in her arms and will be placed beside a statue of her husband. Anniversary June 2. ‘The fiftieth anniversary of the gen- eral’s death falls on June 2. His body rests at Caprera Island, off Sardinia, Where he spent his last’ days. Garibaldi, Italian patriot, known as the “Liberator,” was born at Nice in 1807. He became recognized as one of the greatest masters of revolutionary war in a long career, in which he tool rt in campaigns in Italy, Brazil and ruguay. Premier Mussolini will deliver an ad- dress on the anniversary of Garibaldi's death before a joint session of Parlia- thent, recalling the general's heroism in his campaigns in Italy and South Amer- ica and stressing the historical im- partance of His deeds in the two worlds. “ A few days later a pilgrimage will Be organized to the general’s tomb on Caprera Island. Special Funeral Train. A special funeral train will go to Genoa for Anita’s body, which recently was_brought there from Nice, where Garibaldl bpried it. Ezio Garibaldi, grandson of Anita and the general, will accompany his grandmcther’s body to Rome. The present generation of the Gari- baldis has its home here. Mrs. Erio Garibaldi is the former Hope Mc- Michael of Philadelphia. They have a baby named Anita. _ Anita Garibaldli occupied a tender &pot in the memory and traditions of Ttaly. For 10 yegrs she accompanied her husband in his campaigns here and in South America. Died When Only 28, She died of fever when only 28 years old, during Garibaldi's retreat from Rome to San Marino. A Garibaldi exhibit, in which docu- ents, pictures and other records of e general's life and campaigns will be on display will be shown from early may to mid-June. | The life story of Anita, as written | Hy her husband in his later years, is 0 | microns of the tip be published here at Mussolini’s re- quest. In his memoirs Garibaldi referred to her as the “most perfect human crea ture known to mankind.” SOCIAL AGENCIES ELECT TOMORROW @ouncil to Select Directors for 3- Year Terms and Members at Large. . The w-ahm{mn Council of Social Agencies will elect board members for three-year terms and elect members at to the council for the coming year at its annuel meeting tomorrow afternoon at 12:30 o'clock in the Y. W. C. A. Building, Seventeenth and K sireets. « Lieut. Col. U. 8. Grant, 3d, director of public Buildings and public parks, will speak on “An Ideal Plan of Recre- | ation for Washington.” Roy Wallace of the National Recreation Association will be guest. The Nominating Committee, consisting of Mrs. Wilson Compton, chairman; Mrs. Whitman Cross and Leonard W. le Gast, will submit the following for election to the Board of Directors for three years Mrs. Harry Bernton, Mrs. John Jay ©'Connor, Mrs. Owen J. Roberts, Dr. Arthur C. Christie and Charles W. Pimper. The following members at large will be presented for election to membership | for the coming year; Miss Grace Abbott, Dr. W. L. Darby, Rev. Francis J. Haas, Mrs. Archibald | Hopkins, John Ihlder, Robert T. Lans- dale, Miss Louise McGuire, Lewis Mer- jam, Dr. Frederick W. Perkins, Dr. D. W. Willerd and Mrs. Walter §. Ufford. Brief reports of the year's activities are to be given by the various committee chairmen. YOUTH ADMITS STEALING MUSIC FROM CHURCHES Arraigned on Charges of Entering Fifteen Buildings in Northwest Bection of City. An 18-year-old colored youth, who police said has stolen sheet music from 15 churches in the northwest sections in recent weeks, pleaded guilty in Police Court Friday to three charges of petty larceny. Judge Robert E. Mattingly had accepted Edward W. Worthington's plea of guilty to a charge of taking $15 worth of music from St. Andrew’s Church, New Hampshire ave- »ue and V street, where he was arrested sday, and continued the case until today when police flled two new counts #gainst him Judge Mattingly announced he would | sentence Worthington Wednesday e other charges accuse him of stealing music valued at $30 from the Church of Epiphany, on G street, near ‘birteenth, and the Mount Vernon lace Church. Besides entering 12 other churches, $olice sald Worthington had made other visits to the St. Andrew's music som. He was arrested by Policeman I, N. Strange, second precinet. . The officer said most of the music $as been recovered. WINTER WHEAT ESTIMATE .42 PER CENT BELOW 1931 Prospective Crop of 458,000,000 ! Bushels Seen on Basis of April 1 Conditions. the Associated Press. + A Winter wheat crop of 458,000,000 gmhela—fl per cent below the bumper '87,000,000-bushel 1931 crop—was fore- \chst yesterday by the culture De- rtment on the basis of April 1 con- tions. ! The prospective sharply reduced erop dor 1932 is 17 per cent less than the saverage of 551,000,000 bushels pro- «duced during the five-year period. 1924 sthrough 1928 i The condition of Winter wheat on April 1 was reported at 75.8 per cent of normal, compared with 88.8 per cent a year ago and a 10-year average of +809 per cent. The April 1 condition and preliminary reports to the demn-l ment indicate an average abandonment per_cent for the United Sals s T o 12 tes & 10-year average Arra ASSOCIATION A. Reilly, E. E. Downham, F. OMMITTEE chairmen who met at the Raleigh Hotel to arrange for the fifth district conference of the National Association of Credit Men. The conference will be held Friday at the Wardman Park Hotel. to right, are: D, E. Sessions, secretary; R. Jesse Chaney, A. E. Kostulski, Maurice H. Mazo, Mrs. E. J. Hess, Frank W. White, general chairman; C. W. Clayton, president; A. Eugene Beck, counsel; Miss F. E. Thompson, John THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, nging Credit Meeting TO HOLD FIFTH DISTRICT CONFERENCE FRIDAY. In the picture, left I. Williams and M. D. Esch. Do plants have brains? Something roughly analogous to an area of highly sensitive nervous tissue in animals is one of the complicating factors being taken into consideration in experiments with plant behavior now under way at the Smithsonian Institution. It appears to serve the purpose of a “brain,” or sensory end of a nervous| system, among lower animals, but it| functions by an entirely different sort | of mechanism, the exact nature of which remains uncertain. The Smithsonian experiments are | carried out with oat seedlings. The purpose is to study the curious phe-| nomenon of ‘“phototropism,” the tend- | ency of a plant to bend towards, or| away from, light. Much depends on the section of the plant upon which the illumination is allowed to fall. “There appears to exist in the plant,” says Dr. Earl 8. Johnston, Smithsonian plant physiologist. “a more or less localized region capable of receiving a stimulus. It has been shown that the most sensitive portion of & coleoptile, the leaf sheaf surrounding the bud of an ascending shoot, is the first 50 The first milli- meter is 160 times as sensitive as the second and 1.800 times as sensitive as the third millimeter zone.” Some Sort of Volition. Purthermore, Dr. Johnston explains, if only one side of the tip of the seed- ling is illuminated the stem will bend in the direction of the light, but the bending will take place toward the base. It is as if the tip received the stimulus and the excitation traveled downward to the “leg.,” the point of bending. It| sees with its “eyes.” Then its “legs” move toward what it sees. Super- fically it appears as if there were some sort of volition on the part of the plant. Explanations of this curious phenom- enon are highly theoretical, Dr. John- ston says, although it has excited inter- est in European laboratories and con- siderable experimental work has been done upon it. The most plausible ex- planation offered, he says, is that the light acts on the growing uglw produce some chemical substance which acts as a growth regulator. This substance may either promote or inhibit growth, according to the theory one holds as to the nature of the phototrophic effect. Dr. Johnston cited work in one Euro- pean laboratory, in which the heads of several coleoptiles were cut off after they had been exposed to light. They were placed on a thin sheet of gelatin. ‘This then was cut into small blocks and placed on the sides of the coleoptile stumps growing in the dark, three hours these stumps showed nega- tive phototropic bending. Apparently some of the mysterious substance pro- duced by light in the tips had been ab- RESEARCH INDICATES PLANTS /[ ¢ VQI[THC I HAVE SOMETHING LIKE "BRAINS" US. YOUTHS INVITED Tendency to Bend Toward or Away From |0 V|3”LUSTRAUAJ Light Is Studied in Smith- sonian Experiments. | Bid by Prime Minister Ex- tended in Response to " . sorbed by the gelatin. From the gelatin ‘ Boys” Reception. blocks it was transferred to the stumps, | so0 that the effect was similar to what might have been produced by the tips themselves. When tiny blocks of pure | tion to a group of 160 Australian boys gelatin instead of the impregnated |Who toured the United States three blocks were used there was no such|years ago under the auspices of the bending effect. | Young Australia League, an invitation Light Has Two-fold Action. | SERCLIEY % (he Dremiers of all Ause say TS, ¥pe of bending.” Dr. Johnston | tralian states has been extended to & Senaity of o ianjuenced by the in- | group of 100 selected American boys of y of the light. the coleoptile | high school age to visit Australia, New is mumm“f,fi fm‘:n one sxdf by ahdxm Zealand and the South Seas { g will show positive photo- | ™ john Buchan of Victoria, Australia, is {,’,",{’“mm?"‘i""“ toward the light.|in Washington for the purpose of stimu- e ntensity of the light is |jating interest in the forthcoming trip, gradually increased a point of indiffer- | which will begin June 3 from San' ence is reached at which no bending | prancisco. It is expected that six boys occurs. Still further increase in light | from the District of Columbia may be Intensity results in a negative curva- | selected and efforts are being made by z“":' !fifordms to Prof. Went of Hol- | g group of civic leaders here to have two and, light apparently has a two-fold | of these officially represent the Capital | action. ~First, it effects the formation |on ‘the tour of growth regulators in the tip. Sec- : ondly, it changes the rate at which | these ' growth regulators are trans- | | ported. Responding to this country's recep- Age Limit 14 to 18. | The invitation is extended to Ameri- | P Pro:, Priestly of England has re- | €21 boys between 14 and 18 vears of cently been studying these fascinating age and organization work is under au- plant traits ‘and hes dome much ol | Spices of & newly formed organization, ward giving this peculiar phenomenon | the Young America League. of which o Tational explanation. | Exienaing | Gov. James Rolph, Jr., of California, is through the plant steme are tiny tubes | President. While selection of the boys | through which water and solutions of [ Will be on a non-sectarian and non- Tood Cmaterial pace " Tu orderSnop | political basis, Mr. Buchan explained D. C, | these materials, so essential to growth, reach the cells located at a distance | from the main trunk line it is neces- sary for them to pass through the walls of intervening cells. The more per- meable these walls are, the better the | chances for rapid transportation of water and food. The entire system is delicately balanced. Cutting Tip Retards Growth. “By cutting off the tip of the coleop- yesterday, physical and moral require- | ments wiil be rigidly regarded. At a meeting in the Willard Hotel Friday night, attended by members of the Rotary, Kiwanis and Cosmopolitan Clubs, and local trade organizations, plans were laid to make the selection (lll representative youths from Washing- on | The young visitors, whose passage is | expected to be financed to a certain ex- tent by the parents of the boys, will tile, water is freely lost and growth | be away from the United States for four retarded. Now, if half the stump is |months, and while on the Australian covered so that the cut vein in that | Continent will be guests of the govern- region is blocked, bending due to in- | ment of that country and various civic | creased rate of growth wili occur even |organizations. Trips to outstanding in darkness in such a manner that the sheep ranches and kangaroo and big blocked vein will be on the convex |game hunts are planned. Time alsb will side of the curved shoot. When small | be provided for study of the many Aus- blocks of gelatin are placed on half | tralian industries, and the party will of a cut stump, blocking becomes less efficient because of the water being absorbed by the gelatin and then evap- orated from this increased surface. The exposed half bleeds for a time and then blocks naturally as a result of drying. This results in a curvature, with the gelatin block on the concave side. “Naturally gelatin that has been im- and that coataining various chemical solutions will influence the rate of the loss of water from the gelatin it- self, thus resulting in different growth rates depending on prevailing condi- tions." explore gold fields and visit the Great | Barrier Reef, one of the natural won- ders of the world. Indorsed by Stimson. The tour, the prime purpose of which is to strengthen the ties of friendship between Australia and the United States, has the indorsement of Secretary of | pregnated with sap from coleoptile tips | State Stimson, Secretary of the Interior ‘Wilbur and Secretary of Commerce La- mont. The voyage across the Pacific After | water absorbed from a vein as well as | Will include stops at Hawail, Samoa, the Fiji Islands and New Zealand. Mr. Buchan has established head- quarters at the Willard Hotel here, | where he is receiving applications from — | candidates from this section. Cost to | NAMES DELEGATES Representatives to Capital and Detroit Conventions Are Selected. Delegates for the annual District of Columbia convention of the Federation of Women's Clubs and the national con- vention at Detroit of Florence Critten- ton Missions were selected at a meeting of the Board of Managers of the Wash- Florence Crittenton Home Pri- day morning. Mrs. W. J. Fowler, Mrs. Leander Obree and Mrs. A. H. Coster will rep- rescnt the home at the Women's Club session May 10 and 11. The president of the board, Mrs. Thomas E. Robertson, Jean Cole, superintendent of the home, and seven other delegates who expect to attend the Detroit meeting were indorsed as delegates. They were Mrs. Carl English, Mrs. J. H. Harwood, Mrs. Frederick Kerby, Mrs. Walter Brown, Mrs. F. G. Mitchell, Mrs. George Price and Mrs. John Boyle, jr. Regular reports of management com- mittees were heard, and Miss Cole and Mrs, Harwood were selected to attend the annual session of the Washington Council of Social Agencies April 11. DRIVER PLEADS GUILTY Gets 18 Months for Manslaughter in Auto Death. Sinclair Bowen Fowler, who pleaded guilty to a charge of manslaughter, was sentenced Friday by Justice James M. Proctor to serve 18 months in the penitentiary. Fowler was operating an automobile February 2 when it collided with a street car at the plow pit on Wiscon- sin avenue and P street and crushed John E. Saunders, an employe of the Washington Railway & Electric Co., who was changing the trolley. Thirty Days for Stealing Paper. Pleading guilty to taking a news- paper from an honor system rack yes- terday without peying for it, Charles Johnson, colored, 32, was sentenced to 30 days in jail by Judge Robert E. Mat- tingly in Police Court yesterday. John- son was arrested at Second and C streets by Detective J. precinct. E. Kane, first Subscribe Today It costs only about 1'; cents per day and 5 cents Sundays to have Washington's best newspa- per delivered to you. regularly every evening and Sunday morn- Telephone National 5000 and the delivery will start immediate- ly. The Route Mn!nt will collect CRITTENTON HOME |OPERATIONS CURTAILED each member of the party for the four- | month tour will be $875. | AT TWO NAVAL BASES/ Labor Leader Dies. —— WORCESTER. Mass., April 8 (P)— $40,000 Saving Effected by Key Charles A. 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