Evening Star Newspaper, December 21, 1932, Page 12

A—12 CONVENTION T0 SEE SCIENCE EXHIBITS Nearly 150 Washingtonians to Take Part in Meeting at Atlantic City. Equal amounts of pure water, chem- ically indistinguishable, may vary con- siderably in weight. is is shown in an exhibit being arranged by the Bureau of Standards for the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in which nearly 150 Washing- ton scientists will participate next week at Atlantic City. The difference is due to the fact. as discovered in recent Bureau of Stand- ards experiments, that there are two kinds of atoms of hydrogen—one of the two chemical constituents of water. One is slightly heavier than the other, having an extra election. The chemist cannot discern the difference. The difference in weight shows up when the new kind of hydrogen is con- tained in water at the rate of about 180 parts in a million. The bureau exhibit will show a dish of ordinary water on one side of an extremely deiicate scale, overbalanced by the specially prepared water on the other. “Mercury Soap Bubbles.” The bureau also will exhibit for the first time “mercury £oap bubbles,” pro- duced because of some minute impuri- ties in a preparation of mercury. The Smithsonian Institution is pre- paring an exhibit showing the profound effects of minute changes in Jight and carbon dioxide content of the air on the phenomenon of photosynthesis in plants, one of the most fundamental processes in life. The Department of Agriculture is | preparing an exhibit showing the use | §f blow-fly maggots in the treatment | of wounds and the methods used in | razring these maggots for the use of | surgeons. The Bureau of Fisheries will present an exhibit of its work in" find- | ing vitamins in various fisheries products. Another Washington exhibit will be a hitherto unknown map of prehistoric | Indian earthworks near the confluence of the Muskigim and Ohio rivers in | Ohio, which recently has come into the | custody of Miss Leila G. Forbes, li- brarian of the Natjonal Museum. Scientists on Program. Among the Washington scientists who will present papers at the Atlantic City meeting are: Department of Agriculture—R. E. Snodgrass, William Robinson, F. A.| Bishop, E. N. Corey, Alan Stone, H. L. Dozier, J. M. Aldrich, S. B. Fracker, R. A. Sheals, F. C. Meier, Curtis P. Clausen, N. E. McIndoo, L. P. Ditmar, C. E. Burnside, George E. Marvin, F. L. Campbell, J. A. Hyslop, S. A. Weigel, Floyd F. Smith, Henry H. Richardson, R. H. Carter, E. J. Newcomer, R. C. Roark, Maurice C. Hall, Mary S. Skin- ker, E. W. Price, B. G. Chitwood, Everett E. Wehr, G. F. White, Allan MclIntosh, Benjamin Swartz, Joseph E. Alicata, Paul E. Underwood, Willard H. | Wright, L. H. Flint, Caroline T. Rum- bold. Ruth F. Allen, C. F. Andrews, L. L. Harter, Angie M. Beckwith, Ken- neth B. Papen, Charles Thom, J. A. Faris, V. F. Tapke, H. A. Rodenhauser, Charlotte Elliott, A. G. Johnson, Elmer V. Shear, J. S. Cooley, C. O. Brakley, A. J. Riker, G, W. Keith, C. M. Hilde- brand, R. B. Wilcox, Ivan C. Jagger, Norman Chandler, Alice M. Anderson, W. T. Swingle, K. A. Ryerson, J H Crenshaw, Howard W. Johnson, J. Stevenson, Vera K. Charles, E. B Lambert, C. D. Neal, R. E. Webster, K. C. Gunn, Cornelius L. Shear, Carl Hartley, L. W. R. Jackson, O. N. Lining, ‘W. J. Zaumeyer, E. S. Schultz, U. P. Raleigh, Arnold S. Dahne, J. J. Skin- ner, J. H. Weinberger, L. A. Fletcher, W. W. Aldrich, G. M. Darrow, F. G. Waldo, William Peacock, R. C. Wright, B. E. Brown, T. M. Whiteman, F. R. Reid, C. E. Steinbaur, David Griffiths, D. V. Lumsden, E. S. Degman, J. R.| Furr, J. R. Magness, Roy McGruder, V. R. Bosnell S. L. Jodigi, L. O. Regeinbal, C. F. Swingle, M. H. Haller, | P. L. Harding, D. H. Rose, J. M. Lutz, J. S. Caldwell, H. H. Moon, B. C. Brown, C. F. Clark and F. J. Stevenson. Bureau of Standards—R. B. Ken- nard, F. L. Mohler; Geological Survey, C. Wythe Cook; Coast and Geodetic Survey, H. H. Marmer; National Insti- | tute of Health, H. W. Chalkley and George E. Damel.s Weather Bureau, | W. J. Humphreys, Leroy T. Samuels and R. H. Weightman; Naval Ob- | servatory, H. R. Morgan, F. B. Littell | and William Browne; Bureau of Fish- eries, H. F. Prytherch and P. A. Galts- off: "University of Marsland, N. W. Stewart, J. W. Heuberger, J. Norton, Mark W. Woods, F. B. ancoln W. A. Frazier, J. H. Beaumont, R. P. Thomas_and E. D. Mathews; Smith- sonian Institution, F. H. H. Roberts, F. M. Setzler, W. D. Strong, Ales Hrdlicka, T. D. Stewart, J. T. Russell, F. S. Brackett, E. S. Johnson, Jason R. Swallen and Y. L. Kleng; George Washington _University, Robert - F. Qriggs, Paul W. Bowman and Earl B. McKinley; American University, G. F. | played across his weather-beaten face. |a river or canal Ice-Covered Barges | Bring 40,000 Eels To Yuletide Tables Craft Battle Fierce North- ern Gales to Land | Slithery Cargo. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 21.—Two ice-covered barges brought 160,000 pounds of squirming Christmas deli- | cacies into New York Harbor yesterday. The submerged holds of the craft held 40,000 slithery eels from the North. Eight husky French-Canadians had battled gale and srow and Ice-jammed waterways to get their wiggling cargo down here on time for the holidays. Between now and Saturday the live eels will find their way into thousands of home in the East, where, boiled or fried, they form the piece de resistance of traditional Christmas eve fish dinners, and are as big a part of the holiday ritual as evergreen trees or holly wreaths. Escape Cold Waters. Long before any one started counting the number of shopping days to Christ- mas the eels in the North began their annual wiggle into warmer waters. Often they swim 2,000 miles to get away from freezing temperatures. The four-month job of catching and shipping _the slippery _creatures is tinged with drama, for every move must | be perfectly timed and the eels must be kept alive. Beginning in Septembet, fishermen place nets in Canadian rivers. When the tide goes out the captives are load- ed onto barges. Some years the fisher- men get as much as 12 cents a pound. This year the 160,000 pounds will bring sbout $32.000 in the wholesale market here, while the ultimate consumer will pay $48,000 to $64,000 for them. The journey down from Quebec was | particularly slow and hazardous this vear, explained Joseph Bellerieve, skip- per of the first barge in port and one of the youngest men ever to bring down a “floating aquarium.” Battle Fierce Weather. “It took 24 days,” he said as a smile “Usually they do it in 18 or 20. The weather—it was fierce. Sometimes it locked as if we'd get ice-locked and that means— His eyebrows went up and he held out his hand in hopeless gesture. Sometimes they do get ice-locked in The result is that thousands of families go without their Christmas eels. Such a catastrophe also means a dire year for the French-Canadians who de- pend on the profit from the eel ship- ment for sustenance. That is why the two barges, as they crunched through icy waters, were rac- ing for something more than the honor of bringing the first eels into New York. And this year they both won. HUNTER IS KEPT BUSY Meets Bear While Packing Deer on Trail Homeward. Earl Morrison of Darby, Mont., shot a deer. He packed it down the trail some distance, then stopped to rest. Looking up, he saw a large black ar. Morrison thereupon shot the bear. Duncan: Catholic University. J. M Cooper: ' Brookings Institute, Max Sa- suly: Bureau of Standards, Wilmer Souder; Public Health Service, C. T. Messner, and National Park Service, H C. Bryant T PERPETUAL BUILDING ASSOCIATION PAYS 5% Assets Over $30,000,000 Surplus, $1,250,000 Cor. 11th and E Sts. NW. JAMES BERRY. President EDWARD C. BALTZ, Secretary AT HAL Norway P. Living Christmas Trees Not Much More Than What You Have to Pay for Cut Trees PLANTED IN STRONG F PRICE Spruce and Balsam Firs AINTED GREEN TUBS THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, COMMITTEE GUTS OKLAHOMA BUDGET Group State’s Scheduled Expenses byA $10,000,000. By the Associated Press. OKLAHOMA CITY, December 21.— An unofficial budget committee, ap- point by Gov. W. H. (Alfalfa Bill) Mur- ray with instructions to “make ends Reduces meet,” has pointed the way for a $10,- 000,000 reduction in expenses of Okl homsa government for the next bien- nium. Faced with s $10,000,000 Mdt and dwindling revenues, Gov. Murray named a committee of five members to investi- gate budget requests of each institution and department. The members were then to recommend a total reduction of 30 per cent compared with present appropriations. The committee's recommendations, to be placed before the legislature which convenes January 2, are accompanied by a warning. Gov. Murray asserted he would use his veto power, even to the extent of abolishing important de- partments of State, if any attempt is made to'increase appropriations over the recommendations. In working out its plan, the com- mittee called before it heads of every institution and department. Salary cuts ranging from 5 to 15 per cent were Divisions of some de lhers consolidated under the plan; sev- eral institutions would be abolished. The committee will also recommend fos Pt prtre g et s E aries of elected State oflmh are flxed I:by“l:!‘. and constitution, the -.wmpfllu only 85 mcent o.f e 67 MINE LIVES SAVED Rock Dust Credited in Colorado Blast—One Killed, Another Hurt, WALENBURG, Colo, December 21 (#)—Officials of Calumet No. 1 coal mine at Delcarbon today sald the plac- ing of rock dust in the mine as = safety measure saved the lives of 67 men in a mysterious explosion. The explosion yesterday killed one mlngr, Roy Mitchell, father of four n, and seriously injured Tom Somsky. Mine officials shid the rock dust conflned the explosion to a small area and neutralized it. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2?1, 1932. HOMESTEADER OUSTED UNDER WILBUR RULING Ingenious Claim to St. Paul Rail- road Yard Site Is Disallowed by U. 8. By the Assoclated Press. ST. PAUL; December 21.—St. Paul's most recent homesteader must move. The ingenious homesteader claim un- der which Carl P. Hirte put up and occupled a shack in the heart of St. Paul's busiest railroad yards, only & short_distance from the Union Depot, and attempted to claim ground there as public land, has failed. Hirte put up the shack last July on what was formerly “Island No. 7.” This island was homesteaded in. 1801, but the claim later was nullified by the Government. No formal title ever was State and Federal mine inspectors |granted since that time by the Federal are conducting an investigation. Government. Meanwhile the channel of the the n Cass Lake land office, where red to controvert his cmm% the clll.m Was to the Secre- terior. A decision received yesterday from the Secretary by counse] fer the Chicago, Milwaukee & Pacific , owner of the land, dluuowed Hirte's claim, e UTILITIES OFFICER DIES Alfred C. Anderson Is Victim of Plural Pneumonia. PULASKI, N. 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