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FIVE STATES PICK RIVAL DELEGATIONS G. 0. P. Faces Patronage Is- sue as Democrat Leaders Bring Split. By the Associated Press Rival delegations from five States and one Territory will contest for seats at the national conventions next month. “Lily-whiteism” and patronage reor- ganization in the South will be the issues faced by the Republicans and a Roosevelt-Smith clash is involved in one of the two Democratic controversies. Republicans have selected opposing delegations in Georgia, South Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana. Two delega- tions each to the Democratic gathering have been chosen in Minnesota and Porto Rico. Due to Patronage Issue. The Republican contests arise largely from President Hoover's decree, three weeks after his inauguration, reorganiz- ing the party machinery in Georgia, South Carolina and Mississippi as a re- sult of disclosures over the handling of Federal patronage in those States. New groups were set, up to recommend Gov- ernment appointments. In Louisiana, a colored faction will dispute for 12 seats against a predomi- nant white group headed by Ernest Lee Jahncke, Assistant Secretary of the Navy and national committeeman. The administration-recognized fac- tions in the four States expect to be seated, but not perhaps without a fight, from South Carolina and Missis- sippi, where the administration groups are bringing the contests with the hope of ousting National Committeemen Joseph W. Tolbert from South Caro- lina, and Perry Howard, colored, from Mississippi, long prominent figures in Bouthern Republicanism. Minnesota Party Split. James W. Arnold of Athens, named national committeeman from Georgia, after the Kansas City Convention de- Ben J. Davis, colored, Atlanta, will head an administration-recognized delegation. A delegation of 24 Democratic “regu- lars” from Minnesota, instructed for Franklin D. Roosevelt. will be con- tested by & group headed by Mrs. Ruth Haynes Carpenter of Minneapolis, who organized an uninstructed delegation favorable to Alfred E. Smith. Porto Rico's rival delegations both uninstructed. The first to selected favors ultimate statehood and Benjamin J. Horton, for the national committee. _The opposing _faction chose W. R. Bennet for committeeman and proposed & self-government plank GARDEN PARTY PLANNED are be Leik-Lindley Expedition Scientists Making Cos The expedition conducted by Harry J. Leik, superintendent of Mount McKinley Park, and Alfred D. Lind- ley succeeded in reaching the south peak of Mount McKinley on May 7 and climbed the north peak on May 9. thus being the first expedition in history to climb both peaks. On the descent the erpedition found that the Allen Carpe cosmic ray erpedi- tion had met with tragedy In the following story. Alfred D. Lindley tells of the ascent of Mount McKinley, which he led. BY ALFRED D. LINDLEY. CLEARWATER, Alaska, May 15 (by telephone to Fairbanks via Mount Mc- Kinley Park) —From the highest peak 17,000 feet high, we made a successful ascent of the south peak of Mount Me- Kinley on May 7 and the north peak on May 9. | We broke camp and started down at noon on May 10, but were delayed by snow and We were nightbound on Karstens Ridge. We arrived at the head of Muldrow Glacier at 5 am. on May 11 and found the camp of Allen Carpe and Theodcre Koven, who were engaged in making cosmic ray observa- tions and who later intended to climb the mountain, This camp had not been occupied for two days or more, but it was clear that it had not been abandoned. Their diarles indicate they had gone down Muldrow on Sunday, May 8, to meet friends who were to join them for the climb. We proceeded down the glacier with- out delay, and 2 miles down we found the body of Koven, who had died from injuries suffered in a fall in a crevasse and subsequent exposure, He had been dead at least two ‘days. Nearby we found signs which indi- cated that Carpe also had fallen into the crevasse and that only Koven had | been able to get out. We were unable to locate Carpe. We returned to the head of Muldrow | THE EVENING Scale Two McKinley Peaks Discloses Death of Two mic Ray Observatons. Ascent Described. Glacier for a sled with which to at- tempt to bring down Koven's body. We loaded the body on_ the sled and had traveled only a few hundred yards when Ranger Grant Pearson fell 40 feet to the bottom of the big crevasse. We extricated him with difficulty, and found he was painfully but not seriously injured. We thereupon decided that due to the extremely dangerous condition of | the glacter, the deep snow concealing crevasses, we must proceed without the bedy if we desired to return alive our- selves. We then started again, all four on skiis and roped together, and in an all-night descent safely came through. The ability of Erling Strom, who led the entire way, to remember the loca- tion of concealed crevasses, undoubtedly saved us. Find Rest of Party. We arrived at McGonagall Pass at 3 am. on May 12 and found the rest of the Carpe party, E. P. Beckwith and Percy T. Olton, jr.. camped there. We informed them of the tragedy above and they thereupon decided to abandon the expedition. They asked that an air- plane be sent for them and asked us to_arrange it. We proceeded on to the base of the camp on Clearwater, arriving safely at 5 am. the same day, after 40 hours of continuous descent of 17,000 feet. We found the thermometers left by the Carpe Expedition at 15,000 feet, with arrow recorders pointing to tempera- tures lower than 95 degrees below zero, Fahrenheit. The Parker-Brown ther- mometers were not found, nor was any trace found of the legendary “sour- dough” flag pole on the mount near the summit of the north peak. We left a camera tripod in the snow on the top of the south peak and a sealed tube containing our names and a brief of our climb on the largest rock on the highest group of the south peak about 500 feet below the summit. (Copyright, 1932, by North American News- paper Alliance, Inc. and the New York imes ) TYDINGS OPPOSES CUTS IN NIGHT PAY Amendment Offered to Ex- empt Printers and Engravers | From Reductions. : Gorgulov Blames “Hypnotic Sleep” For Causing Murder Doumer Assassin Says He Fought Against Obses- sion to Kill. By the Associated Press. PARIS, May 17.—Dr. Paul Gorgulov, STAR., WASHINGTON, D. (., TUESDAY, IMISSING SCIENTIST SOUGHT IN ALASKA |Survivor of Mount McKinley Expedition Reaches Fair- banks in Rescue Plane. By the Associated Press FAIRBANKS, Alaska, May 17.—High on the snowy slopes of Mount McKinley { today rested the bodies of two members of the Allen Carpe Scientific Expedi- tion, another man was feared lost in the neighborhcod forests and still an- other was in a hospital here. Flown back here late yesterday by a rescuing plane, E. P. Beckwith of New York related how members of the Lelk-Lindley party reached his Mul- drow Glacier camp, telling of disaster which had overtaken Carpe, 36, of New York, and Theodore Koven, 28, of Jersey City. They had both fallen into crevasses. Beckwith, {ll himself with a high fever, was brought here by Pilot Jerry Jones, who flew to the mountain on orders to rescue the surviving members of the expedition. On the way there and on the flight back, search was made from the air for Nicholas Spadevecckia of New York, who left the Muldrow. Glacier camp, nine days ago to return here for a plane to fly Beckwith out to civilization. Beck- with’s condition is not considered serious. The four members of the Leik-Lindley Expedition, who hac successfully reach- ed both summits of the 20.300-foot mountain, the highest on the continent {came upon Koven's body on the upper Muldrow Glacier. He had apparently fallen into a crevasse, but had pulled himself out, only to die of injuries and exposure, An attempt was made to bring his body down the mountain, but injuries to one of the members of the party prevented it. Carpe’s body was not seen, but the party was convinced he too had fallen into a crevasse, probably about May 8. The fifth member of the Carpe Ex- pedition, Percy T. Olton, jr. of New York, remaining with Mount McKinley Park rangers who will search for Spade- vecckia, Beckwith said. BROKE LAW 14 TIMES IN POLICE CHASE, CHARGE Policemen Accuse Truck Driver of Having No Permit, Speeding, No Lights and More, Too. Walter M. Gant, colored, broke the law 14 times while they were chasing him Sunday night, according to police. J MAY 17, 1932. A—3 Where Disaster Overtook Scientists TWO DEAD AND ANOTHER LOST ON MOUNT McKINLEY. Glacier, Mount McKinley, Alaska, dore Koven, sclentists, who went late in April. to the mountain to study cosmic rays. OE CROSSON (left), veteran Alaskan aviator, standing in front of one of the planes which landed on Muldrow The man standing with Crosson is either Allen Carpe or Theo- Dispatches received here yesterday said Koven's body was found slong with evidence that Carpe also dled. A third member of the expedition is missing. —A. P. Photo. GREAT PLAINS' “POISON SPOTS™ CAUSE ANIMALS' DEFORMATION DISPLAY OF STAMPS Three Bureaus of Agriculture Department Unite to Find Cause of Condition, Laid to Min BY THOMAS R. HENRY. | Three bureaus of the Department of Agriculture have joined hands to solve the mystery of “polson spots” in the northern Great Plains region. Somewhere in the heart of this coun- | tryside is an area covering approxi- mately two counties where, on certain fields, horses, cattle and pigs develop a strange physiological condition, which in extreme cases ends in paralysis and death. It leads to an enormous en- largement of the hoofs of cows and horses and an elongation of the “toes” of swine. Pigs have been shown with the two sides of the hoof grown out | into talon-like appendages nearly a foot long. Besides there are internal changes, especially in the bones, and the general physiology of the animal is badly disturbed. Held Due to Mineral. eral in Soil. develop on sofl rich in salt. so that t growth of vegetation is affected. 'ANOTHER WEEK GIVEN Collections Will Remain on Exhi- bition at Library Through May 28. Announcement was made at the Pub- lic Library today that the exhibition of stamp collections by junior collectors STONEWALL JACKSON SHRINE IS PROJECTED Alumni Discuss Plans to Remove Remains to Grounds of Vir- ginia Military Institute. Plans for the removal of the remains of Stonewall Jackson from the cemetery at Lexington, Va., to the grounds of the Virginia Military Institute for the pur- | pose of making a snrine similar to the Robert E. Lee shrine on the campus of Washington end Lee University. were formulated by the Washington Chapter of the V. M. 1. Alumni Association, which met last night for a New Market gybnbsen'lncc at the Army and Navy ub. The discussion so to honor the dis- tinguished general. an instructor of the V. M. I prior to the Civil War, was led by Col. Phillip Peyton and was fol- lowed by the approval of several other speakers. Action of the chapter was de- ferred until a later meeting. Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson was the guest of honor and the principal speaker. He told of the interest in Gen. Jackson and the V. M. I. displayed by Lloyd George when the then pre- mier of England visited this country. Other speakers who told of the valor portrayed by the cadets in the battle of | New Market 68 years ago, included |Capt Adolphus Stayten, U. S 3 |David Meade Lea, Rev. H. T. Cocke, | Archie Roberts, jr.; Robert Yates and E. H Russell. Col. Sidney Willlamson presided. James F. Greene was elected presi- dent and J. Carroll Noell vice presi- dent, and Humphrey Danié] secretary- treasurer. Stuart B. Marshall was chairman of the Arrangements Committee, which in- | cluded Humphrey Daniel and G. Adams Howard. icg Is Amputated. Phyllis Thornton, 5-year-old colored girl of the 100 block of H street south- east, was in a serious condition in Providence Hospital today, following | amputation of a leg crushed, when she | fell beneath the wheels of a moving | freight car yesterday afternoon in the This ©Of the public schools, now being shown | yards at New Jersey avenue and I is an alkali region. The sufferecs from at the central building of the Public | Street southeast. stock paralysis carried over the “alkali” Library, will be continued another week | — explanation. Chemist Clears Ergot. Later investigations attributed the condition to the fungus ergot which was found growing on the wheat. accepted until a chemist in the local experiment station attacked the prob- lem. He succeeded in clearing the ergot of responsibility. Experiments showed that the grain would produce the same results when fed at a distance. It was at ihis point that the Department of Agriculture was called in because of the apparentl unique sclentific nature of the phenome: non. The further the study has p: gressed the more curious it has aj peared, Agriculture Department sicen- tists say. | through May 28. The stamps are being displayed as a part of the Festival of Youth under | the chairmanship of Miss Sibyl Baker, director of playgrounds, and under the This was | auspices of the District of Columbia | | Bicentennial Commission. | The collections have been judged by | the following philatelists:. Horacio F. | Alfaro, Minister of Panafi&; David D. Caldwell, Department of Justice, and Lieut. Col. Charles S. Hamilton, U. S. A. Twelve of the 17 awards were made to pupils of the John Quincy Adams School. The awards follow: Specialized George Washington ex- hibit — (a) Elementary schools, first, Jan Rus; second, Nancy Malloy. (b) Junior high schools, first, Russell C. | Baughman: second, Royal Joslin. (c) | 28 years of service has brought to me a large percentage of pal referred by hundreds of satisfied people. Dentistry In All Branches During he many years of my dental prac- tice 1 have de- TO AID HOUSE OF MERCY |the man who assassinated President |AS & result, he drew $70 in fines on the Perhaps the nearest approach to this veloped a suc- Senior high school, first, Robert A. Board of Managers to Raise Funds for Home Next Thursday * Afternoon. Arrangements for the garden party to be held in the Cathedral close Thursday afternoon by the board of managers of the House of Mercy are near completion, and it is expected the affair will be largely attended, it was| announced today. Money raised through the party will go toward support of the House of Mercy, a home for unmarried mothers and their children, located at Klingle road and Rosemont avenue. The party is to be held along the Wisconsin avenue side of the Cathedral close, between the National Cathedral School for Girls and St. Alban’s Church. In case of inclement weather it will be postponed until Friday afternoon. Mrs. Walter Tuckerman is chairman of the committee in charge and is being as- sisted by Mrs. Henry C. Morris, presi- dent of the board of managers. Heads Jewish Group. PHILADELPHIA, May 17 (#—Dr. 1. M. Rubinow of Cincinnati was elect- ed president of the National Confer- ence of Jewish Social Service yesterday. He succeeds Maurice J. Karpf of New York as conference head. Other officers elected included Kurt Peiser of Cincinnati and Walter Sond- heim of Baltimore, vice presidents, and Miss Violet Kittner of Cleveland, treasurer. SPECIAL NOTICE! THE ANNUAL STOCKHOLDERS' M] of the Jas. T. Biue Chemical Co., be held Wednesday night, May 25, at 8 p.m., at 1534 Oth st. n.w. for the election of officers and any other such business as may be necessary. E. I. McPHERSON, = o T Beerstaiy ¥ NEXT EXAMINATION IN OPTOME- held on Thursday, July 7, and 9, 1932, commencing at 7 k p.m., office of the secretary. All persons desiring to take this examing- tion will file their applications with the secretary on or before June 7. 1932. M. LUTHER DICUS, Secretary. 1319 F St. KW, o Washington. D.C. VACATIONISTS —THE DAVIDSON TRANS- PFER 8 .. long-distance mov- TORAG] ing specialists. ve Shore polnts Call_National 0960 WANT TO HAUL FULL OR PART LOAD TO or from New York, Richmond, Boston, Pitts- burgn and sl way points soecial rates NATIONAL DELIVERY ASSN. INC., 1317 N_Y. ave. Nat. 1460. Local moving also. WANTED — PART-LOAD SHIPMENTS FOR North Beach, Md., delivered Sundays. Met. s AUCTION SALE OF HOUSEHOLD GODOS for storage charges, Thursdsy. 10:30 &.m BMITH'S TRANSFER & STORAGE CO., 1313 Youst nw. o 5 EMPTY TRUCK TO CHARLOTTE, GREENS- o and Raleigh. Metropolitan 6171, 20% NAL COUNTRY CLUB MEM- Tahip for tale. 3225. 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Estimates free. EARLE JORDAN, Lin. 5765, " RUGS “DOMESTIC—6x12, $3.00 LUWIN Keep Your Name Before the Public tive printed matter bearing e AT Tt Gty From this Million_Dollar Plant ‘The National Capital Press PLA. AVE. 314 and N NE. Linc. 6080 Moth time Is here We have for years specialized in sterilization of MOTH-INFESTED for un- Nortn 9160_18° A The section of the general economy bill suspending for the next fiscal year all extra pay for overtime and night work would not apply to regular night | workers of the Government Printing | Office and the Bureau of Engraving and | Printing, if an amendment drafted by | Senator Tydings Democrat, of Mary- land, is adopted. Introduction of the Tydings amend- ment followed receipt by the Senate | Economy Committee yesterday of a | letter from Clyde M. Mills, president of Columbia Typographical Union, pro- testing against proposed pay cuts for Government printers and taking par- ticular exception to the ban on night work rates. The Senate economy group has de- ferred meetings for a few days, Reduction of salaries “all along the line” and elimination of unnecessary | Federal institutions were urged by | Senator Capper, Republican of Kansas, as part of the retrenchment program, | in a radio address oyer the Columbia Broadcasting System today. “I have told the Senate,” he said, “that we should begin this economy program by cutting the salaries of Sen- ators and Congressmen. If the country had belleved Congress was seriously at- tacking the job of reducing expenditures and getting the job done it would not haye been necessary for President Hoo- ver to send his recent biting messages g:fonxress. The messages were justi- “It seems to me today that Con- gress must realize that the country ex- pects it to do four things before ad- Journment in June.” He listed them as follows: “Cuts in| Government costs, all the way along the line; pass a tax bill which will allow business and all taxpayers to know just where they stand in the matter of taxes for the next year; enact some further emergency relief legislation, to take care of present distress and start the wheels of industry moving again, and pass the Goldsborough bill to stabilize the purchasing power of the dollar, SALE OF BUDDY POPPIES BY MAIL IS PREPARED Thousands of Washingtonians to | Get Letters Urging Contribu- tions to V. F. W. Fund. A mail campaign to augment the street sale of buddy poppies May 26, 27 and 28 was announced today by the District Department, Veterans of Foreign Wars, which sponsors the sale and distributes | the fund to needy disabled veterans of the World War and their families. Letters will be sent to thousands of Washingtonians urging them to con- tribute. One cent from the sale of each poppy will be contributed to the mainte- nance and development of the V. F. W. National Home for Orphans at Eaton Rapids, Mich. Disabled veterans in Walter Reed and Naval Hospitals have made 120,000 paper popples for distri- bution in Washington. Last year the veterans raised $10,000 and distributed 12,000 garments. District’s Heroes in the World War Compiled by Sergt. L. E. Jaeckel. Paul Doumer, told an examining mag- istrate today that he was in 4 “kind of hypnotic sleep” when he committed the crime. “A mystic force armed my hand,” he sald. “I had no reason whatever to murder M. Doumer. I was in a kind of hypnotic sleep.” Gorgulov informed Magistrate Fou- gery that he drank a bottle of cognac before going to the war veterans' char- ét)‘ thlb(lion, where he shot the Presi- en “When the President entered the room,” he said, “I fired without hesi- taticn, not knowing what I was doing.” He sald he could tell nothing about the gun he used because he was too drunk to remember anything about it. ‘The prisoner asserted that while on his way from Monaco to Paris before the assassination he “tried to ward off the evil spirit which constantly urged me on to murder.” “On my arrival in Paris,” he con- tinued, “I went to Notre Dame Cathe- dral and prayed to God to rid me of e« the spirit. I fought to the last against this obsession.” WOMAN DRY SENDS CABINET WARNING Mrs. William Tilton Declares Par- ties Should Back Enforcement Until Wets Offer Plan. In a communication sent to members of President Hoover's cabinet, Mrs. ‘William Tilton, chairman of the Wom: en's National Committee Against Al- cohol, said “the wise party will call for enforcement until the wets present a carefully worked-out better plan.” Explaining her action, she said: “Party planks, forcing congressmen of vast dry districts to vote wet regard- less of sentiment back home, turns our country from representative to misrep- resentative Government—a very danger- ous precedent. Party planks are for matters that unite rather than divide parties. Both parties divide on re- peal, camouflaged as resubmission (which it is not) or referendum (which it 1s not). Both parties, however, agree on law enforcement. “Both parties by inserting a repeal plank invite wide defections. Wide de- fections invite stay-at-home voters or third-party candidates, and in time a six charges placed against him in Traf- fic Court yesterday. Folicemen Watson Salkeld and B. F. Spittle began chasing Gant's truck at First and M streets southeast. They “heard him coming three blocks away, they said, and pulled their car out in the street in an effort to stop him. However, Gant paid no attention, the officers said, and forced them to drive over to the curb to keep from being wrecked. After a 27-block chase at about 55 miles an hour, police succeeded in cor- nering the fugitive in an alley about two blocks from where they first saw him. He was accused of 14 infractions of the traffic rules, but only 6 of the more serious were pressed in court. Judge Isaac R. Hitt ordered fines of $25 for no permit and speeding and $5 each for failling to heed two stop sig- nals, no headlights and failing to give a hand signal. E. A. NORRIS WILL GET SERVICE CERTIFICATE Retired White House Engineer to Receive Honor Framed in Wood From Mansion. Framed with wood made from timbers of the White House, in which he worked for almost half a century, a certificate of service will be presented tomorrow morning to Edward A. Norris, retired engineer of the Executive mansion. Lieut. Col. U. §. Grant, 3d, director of Public Buildings and Public Parks, will make the presentation at § am. in his office. Mr. Norris was placed on the inactive list April 30. The certificate to be pre- sented to him has been especially framed with wood taken from the White House timbers, removed when the roof of the Executive mansion was re- paired. M. E. ANNUAL CONFERENCE TO MEET AT WINCHESTER Meeting Will Start October 5 and ‘Will Continue for Week. Spectal Dispatch to The Star. WINCHESTER, Va., May 17.—The Baltimore Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South new alignment.” She added that “mere repeal means social chaos,” and that “a presidential candidate cannot be divorced from his plank. He makes the planks.” DIES AT SON'S HOME Mrs. W. B. Smith of Upperville, Va., Comes From 01d Family. Mrs. Willilam B. Smith of Upperville, Va., died last night at the home of her son, T. Blackwell Smith, 1345 Thirtieth street, after a long iliness. She was the widow of Willlam Benedict Smith, and was a_member of an old Virginia fam- {ly. Her son is connected with the Commercial National Bank hege. Funeral services will be held at her former home in Upperville at 8 o'clock tomorrow afternoon, with burial in the Virginia town. FOX FUNERAL ARRANGED 8 recorded in the official cita- tion, Harold E. Hartney, major, 27th Aero Squadron, Air Serv- ice, 1st Pursuit Group, Ameri- can Expeditionary Force, was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for extraordinary heroism in action with the enemy near Fismes, France, August 13, 1918. Maj. Hartney voluntarily accom- panied a recon- naissance patrol. Realizing the im- portance of the mission, he took command, and al- though five enemy planes repeatedly made attempts to drive them back, he continued in- to enemy territory, returning later to our lines with im- portant informa- tion. The cool judgment and de- termination dis- played by Maj. Hartney furnished an Z FURNITURE are sitive. Costs are modest, Results A28 one- for information. National 3621 ) BEDEL.I‘..’S FACTORY B 8. N.W, inspiration to all members of his command. Residence at appointment, District of Columbia. Retired U. 8. Employe Will Be Buried in Mount Olivet. Funeral services for Walter W. Fox of 2908 Thirteenth street, retired em- ploye of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, who died Sunday at Garfield Hospital after a short illness, will be held tomorrow morning at Sacred Heart Church, with burial in Mount Qlivet Cemetery. Surviving Mr. Fox, who retired three years ago after 40 years' service, are three sisters, Misses May D., Helen B, and Katharyn B. Fox. Mr. Fox ha wbm a life-long resident of Washing- n. _— E. G. BLISS TO SPEAK Edward Bliss, general com- pany, will be the night at _the regul of the Petworth Citizens' Association | In Petworth School, Eighth and Shep- | herd streets. Ma). Hartney now lives in Canada, (Copyright, 19329 E. C. Graham, newly elected of the Community dy'hut. has an invitation to was announcelh mercial manager of the telephone com- cipal speaker to- monthly meeting Ministers of all Petworth churches have been asked to make brief talks. president accepted atiend the meeting, 1t will be held in Braddock Street Church here for a Week beginning Wwith & pre- linuinary preaching service the evening of Wednesday, October 5, it was an- nounced today. An invitation to meet here went forward to conference au- thorities, and it wes said it would be accepted. No other church had ex- tended an investigation. Will Rogers It has been almost demonstrated that | the condition is due to a minera! in the soil which is taken up by plants, which appear to suffer no bad effects. | These plants are eaten by the animals and the strange malady results. One very rare mineral has been found, which produces serious results when fed to animals in comparatively small quantities. Preliminary experiments | indicate it can be taken up by plants scattered through this don, | and it appears to be absent in those | flelds the grain from which does not produce deleterious effects on the live stock. Tt is described as the most likely clue to date. Experimental feeding, | however, does not produce entirely identical results. The research is being pushed vigorously in the bureaus of Animal Husbandry, Chemistry and Soils and Plant Industry. Thus far it has not been possible to show any bad effects on human beings living in the area, although they eat the same grains as the animals and drink the local water, which some be- | lieve may contain some of the polsénous mineral. The preliminary researches | indicate that the condition is a cu- mulative one with the animals, al- though this point has not been entirely cleared up. The poison, whatever it is, appears to produce its worst effects on young animals. t has been shown that the poison exists in wheat, corn and hay grown on the “poison flelds” in the area. The unverified presumption is that the mineral is taken up by all vegetation. It is well known that certain mineral elements are taken by growing plants from the soil—including iron and copper. Parts of these minerals essential | for human diet are obtained from vege- table food. There is no reason to sup- pose that others may not be taken up in the same manner. Immunity Unexplained. The apperent immunity of human beings in the area is unexplained. They must be getting some of the mineral into their systems, as well as the live stock. Possibly, due to their smaller and more varied diet, they get much less of it—an amount well below the limit of physiological tolerance. Pos-| sibly the mineral has a chemical affi- nity for some part of the plant which | ordinarily is not eaten by man but| which is devoured by animals. Possibly there are bad—or even good effects— which can be uncovered only by an in- tensive study. For this purpose efforts are being made to enlist the co-opera- | tion of the Public Health Service. The‘ physiological effect of this particular element on humans has been little in- vestigated and there are some indica- tions that an intensive study will un- cover relationships of interest to| medicine. ‘The condition has been known locally for almost a century. The first troop of cavalry to enter the region during the period of the Indian wars found an un- explainable condition of lameness de- veloping among its horses. The same condition was noted by the earliest settlers. Nevertheless, it was pointed out, farmers have been able to make a living in the country through the years. De- spite occasional rather serious stock losses the condition has remained prac- BEVERLY HILLS, Calif—The Senate slept on the tax bill over the week-end. But the birds that are going to have to pay it didnt sleep any. Some Sen- ators say that no man should be allowed to earn over §75- 000 a year. They forget that a man that earns that much or more works for a different kind of an em- ployer from the one Senators work for. Suppose you got $100,000 & year for working for a firm, and you spent two hundred billion of their money that you didn't have, and didn't inow where you was go- ing to get it, how long would you be working for that firm? S lefi-iners tically unknown outside the region it- self. ‘The farmers simply called it “alkali disease.” This is a general name for all those abnormal situations which folding chairs FOR RENT OR SALE UNITED % STATES STORAGE CO. 418 10th_Street Metropolitan 1843 Home Sites Rock Creek Hills Fronting 16th St. or Rock Creek Park R.E.Latimer GULDENS 1601 Jonquil Street Georgia 1271 condition was found in a section of the | cessful tech- Traux. South where vegetation grew very sparsely although the land was rich. Cattle who fed on the vegetation which sprang up developed a curious anemia. This was finally explained by the almost complete absence of copper in the soil. Animals receive their copper supply through plants. Here the probl of the deficiency, but of the presence of something. NEW STRATEGY AIRED lem seems to be one no; IN TUBERCULOSIS FIGHT | Viola Russell Anderson Ad- dresses Graduate Nurses’ Association. The new strategy of the fight against tuberculosis and the work expected of public health nurses was stressed be- fore the annual meeting of the Gradu- | ate Nurses’ Assoclation yesterday aft- | ernoon at the District Red Cross head- quarters in the address of Dr. Viola Russell Anderson, executive secretary of the Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis. Dr. Anderson said control of the car- rier of infection is the keynote of the new strategy, and that it is the duty of the nurse to use her initiative in helping to discover the source of in- fectlon whenever a case of tuberculosis comes to her attention. —— AIR MYSTERY SOLVED SOUTHAMPTON, England, May 17 (#)—A mall plane catapulted from the German liner Europa several hundred miles at sea arrived here yesterday on scheduled time. [ ‘This information apparently solved | the mystery of a_seaplane sighted 150 miles off Lands End by two American steamers. At first it was thought the plane might have been a transatlantic | Dr. | United States Exhibit—(a) Elemen- | tary schools, first, Katherine Gill; sec- | ond, Jan Rus; third, Frances Story. | (b) Junior high schools, first, Russell C Baughman; second, Jane Kirsh. (c) %nlor high schools, first, Robert A. aux. | Miscellaneous Exhibit—(a) Elemen- tary schools, first, Lucile Kirsch, Nancy | Malloy: second, Jan Rus. (b) Junior ‘ high schools, first, Wilbert Jefferys; sec- ond, Willlam Malloy; third, Luis Rivera. Tried for Using Ford’s Name. | LOS ANGELES, May 17 (®.—E. J. | Liebold, private secretary to Henry | Ford, testified here yesterday the mo- tor car manufacturer knew nothing of the Inyo County nitrate lands, pie- tured as holding a $350,000,000 profit for investors. Liebold came from Detroit as prosecution witness against Isaac F. Hodge, retired pastor, and Edeson J. | Young, retired banker, accused of us- ing Ford's name to lure investors. 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