Evening Star Newspaper, February 3, 1935, Page 19

TANK 70 PRODUCE |57 STRANGEST X-RAY New Development, to Be Used in Cancer Study, Feady Soon. By the Associated Press. NEW YQRK, Fbruary 2—A seven- | ton tank to generate huge volumes of X-rays for a new experiment on cancer was announced tonight by Columbia University. The tank, a substitute for conven- tional X-ray tubes, will produce mil- lion-volt rays—enough to equal about three pounds, or $6,000,000 worth of radium. It will be used to explore a sort of | no-man’s land of X-rays, in which| the ordinary and fragile types of rayi tubes have not yet done much work. | The new tank will be mostly stainless | steel, lead lined and durable as a bat- tleship. Hospital Co-operating. Anouncement of the tank tube was made in the annual report of Dr. Francis Carter Wood, director of the | Crocker Institute of Cancer Research at Columbia. Co-operating is the Presbyterian Hospital of Columbia Medical Center, which has erected a ! separate building to house the tank. | The cancer institute supplies the tank, the hospital the building, and | after the institute finishes its ex-| ploration the hospital will use the| '.ank for cancer treatment This new kind of X-ray apparatus | was discovered by David H. Sloan of ! the University of California, where a similar tank already has been built. The Columbia tank is the second, and will be devoted only to cancer. The building is already completed. The tank will be ready in the Spring. Treats Six Patients. The tank is cylindrical, nearly 4 feet in height, a few inches more in breadth and about 4!2 feet long. It will hang from steel beams in the center of a room 25 feet long and 13 wide. Near its bottom are metal win- dows through which X-rays will pass sufficient to treat six patients simul- taneously. The entire interior of the tank is & vacuum. In it the X-rays are pro-| duced by the energy from an electric current of 6,000,000 cycles a second. The current fed into the machine will be comparatively low, 15,000 volts, alternating. A high-frequency generator inside the vacuum tank steps up this cur- Tent into the energies needed to pro- duce X-rays of anything from 500,- 000 up to 1,000,000 volts. Dr. Wood's report states that X-rays up to 550,000 volts have been found to possess no more lethal power on cancer and other living tissues than lower voltages. The high-power rays tested only penetrate deeper. Large Area Unstudied. “There remains unmvestigated.” the Wood report says, “the voltage re- gion lying bctv\een 550,000 and 1,- 000,000. * * “Theoretically the chief advantage of the higher voltage is the possibil- ity of obtaining greater depth dose. * * * That there will be any greater destructive effect on the cells of the tumor is very doubtful. “It is also important to find out what may be called the most com- mercially efficient voltage. The higher the voltage the more expensive | the apparatus—a point is rapidly reached where the patient cannot af- ford to pay for the cost of the treat- ment. “It may be found ihat at lower and less expensive voltages the results are Just as good as those at 800,000 or | 1,000,000 X-ray volts, or with radium. | If so, electrical engineers can de\otel their energies to designing the sim- plest possible type of apparatus—at | lowered production cost.” i | | | CHICAGO INTERESTED. City Has Tank Similar to One An-| nounced in New York. 1 CHICAGO, February 2 (#).—Dr. Henry Schmitz, sr., of the radio-ther- apy laboratory in Mercy Hnspnal} here, which houses the largest X-ray generator of its type, displayed great interest today in the new X-ray ma- chine proposed for Columbia Uni- versity Medical Center. “Our tube also will produe million- volt rays,” he said, “and, as I under- stand the announcement, the innova- tion in the Columbia University ma- chine will be its concentration. “At Mercy Hospital the tube is er feet long and about 2 feet in cir- cumference. It is fed by between 10 to 20 milliamperes. The current comes in one end of the tube, hits a target and is deflected to two filters, each of which can provide treatment for one patient. “In comparison with the new type tube already built in California by David H. Sloan, treatment there is said to require between 30 and 40 minutes, whereas our treatment, be- cause of the far greater number of milliamperes used, can be given in about 10 minutes.” ‘The Mercy Hospital X-ray machine is housed in a building 60 feet long by 30 feet wide, which contains 50 tons of lead. Because of the size of the machine, 1 two pumps are necessary to maintain | & constant vacuum. Dr. Schmitz ex- plained that the pumps are used to extract the gases generated within | the tube. Three transformers, built | In series, are necessary for its opera- tion. PLAY CONTEST CURTAIN WILL RISE ON TUESDAY | Roosevelt High Will Be Scene B of Preliminary—Finals Set for February 16. The first prleiminary contest the play tournament will be held in Roosevelt High School Tuesday at 8 pm., with other preliminary contests to follow Thursday, and then on the following Tuesday and Thursday. The L5 finals will be staged at the school on the night of February 16, with® the dramatic critics of five Washing- ton newspapers as judges to select the winner. The tournament is ur- der auspices of the Community Cen- ter Department. Judges for the preliminary contests include: Phot W. D. Boutwell, editor in chief in | Fitts the office of education, Department of the Interior; Dr. William Lee Cor- bin, librarian of the Smithsonian In- stitution; McFall Kerbey of the Na- tional Geographic Magazine; Elsie Kernan, drama director at Trin- ity College, and Mrs. Maud Howell ' Son Smith of the Arts Club of Wash- inggon. 0. in | Ba Miss | 33 Old-A e Pension Come From Slot Machines Many Bills to Raise Funds Are Now Before State Legislatures. By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, February 2—Old-age pensions and other public welfare funds will come tumbling out of slot machines if numerous bills, pending or planned, are approved by State Legislatures. At least 21 State-governing bodies are working on legislation calculated to get a share—or a bigger slice—of the money tossed into almost every form of gambling from horse racing to those marble game nickel-catchers. Most of the proposed legislation deals with pari-mutuels and slot machines. The Illinois General Assembly has under consideration a bill to tax slot machines. Oregon may consider a similar plan. Missouri may tax slot machines, but does not intend to le-: galize gambling with them, while the | Texas Legislature has before it a| proposal to levy heavy taxes on slot ; ! machines. Minnesota and Nebraska have bills | which would legalize and tax coin machines. Gov. J. M. Futrell of Ar-| kansas, wants them either legalized and taxed, or banned altogether. Pennsylvania and Maine legislators see possibilities in slot machine taxation. South Carolina, Iowa and Indiana are seeking measures to get rid of the { machines. {2 Pari-mutuel bills, in connection with horse racing, or proposals to alter laws already in effect, are before thel | Legislatures of New York, New Jer- Minnesota, Missouri, ! sey, Nebraska, Pennsylvania Oklahoma, Arkansas, and New Hampshu-e MRS. MARY FORSYTH, LONG ILL, EXPIRES S. Chamber of Commerce Worker for 20 Years Was Widely Known. Mrs. Mary Davis Forsyth, an as- sistant for 20 years in the Commercial Organization Service of the United States Chamber of Commerce, died yesterday at her residence, 1882 Co- lumbia road, after an illness of sev- eral months. Mrs. Forsyth was born in Rock- ingham County, Va., but had spent most of her life in Washington. Her activities in the Chamber of Com- merce made her widely known throughout the country. She is survived by a son, Lewis C. Forsyth, and a daughter, Mrs. H. P, Bell, both of Washington, and three sisters, Mrs. William F. Davidson and Mrs. Leon Crickenberger, both of Washington, and Mrs. Courtney Cal- vert, Woodstock, Va. Funeral services will be held Tues- day afternoon at the Gawler under- taking parlor. The hour will be an- nounced later. Burial will be in Rock Creek Cemetery. THE WEATHER District of Columbia—Partly cloudy today; tomorrow fair, cooler at night; moderate to frash southwest shifting to west winds. Maryland—Partly cloudy today and tomorrow; colder tomorrow afternoon or night. Virginia—Fair today and tomorrow: colder in rorth portion tomorrow aft- ernoon or night. West Virginia—Fair today, tomor- | row partly cloudy, colder at night. Report Until 10 P.M. Saturday. To'am. LT Record Until 10 P.M. Saturday. Highest, 45, 3 p.m. yesterday. Year ago, 35. Lowest, 16, 3 a.m. yesterday. Year ago, 22. Record Temperatures This Year. Highest, 59, on January 2. Lowest, —2, on January 28. Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.) Today Tomorrow 7:31am. 8:24am. 2:05am. 2:54am. | High 8:03pm. 8:54pm. Low . 2:16pm. 3:09pm. The Sun and Moon. Rises. Sets. Sun, today . 1:14 5:30 Sun, tomorro 7:13 5:32 Moon, today .. 7:07am. 5:46 pm. Automobile lights must be turned on one-half hour after sunset. Precipitation. Monthly precipitation in inches in the Capital (current month to date): Month, 1935. Average. Record. January . 527 355 17.09 February 327 6.84 March 375 8.84 327 913 3.70 10.69 413 1094 10.63 14.41 1745 857 November 8.69 December .. 156 Weather in Various cma. ecipl- Temperature~ tation. Yox am. D.m. Sa nrdly nichl Bn‘il. !n u‘ High Low Chicago. NL“ Cln:mnux & enne Wyo, Cloveland, Ohig Denver. Colo. 's Moines. I Deiruu, Wien. Los Angeles_Cal Louisville Ky. Marquette Mich| Jemohis, Tenn. BPOUANND IR 2313 NI n SRSARERSIRSRZLEILRTR2TAT THE "SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., Whiteman Niece Elopes Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. Nineteen-year-old Dorothy Atkinson, a singer with the band of her uncle, Paul Whiteman, shown with her new husband, Dr. Gerald B. Harrigan, with whom she eloped to Harrison, N. J. MONTEVIDEO. Uruguay, February | (#)—Lincoln Ellsworth and mem- | | ELLSWORTH |N URUGUAY ‘ tion Island. Among those abroad was | Sir George Wilkins, polar explorer. Ellsworth presumably failed to bers of his expedition arrived today | achieve one of his.objectives, a flight on their supply ship, the Wyatt Earp, | across Antarctica. He had hoped to after explorations in Antarctic re- \fly the 2,300 miles from Deception ions. Island to the Bay of Whales, where The vessel came here from Decep- | the Byrd Expedition is encamped. Sidivs Lanshungh FURNITURE COMPANY SPEEDY REMEDIAL GOLD ACT PLANNED | Congress Leaders Ready to Rush Bill if Present Law Is Voided. By the Associated Press. Congressional leaders surveyed the situation last night and decided they could rush a remedial bill through the House—if that were necessary— | within a few hours after the Supreme Court makes its delayed ruling on old. g At the same time, Senate Demo- cratic leaders agreed that a bill, if any, would have to originate in the | House. They were ready, though, to | speed through any essential legisla- | tion. Byrns Explains Procedure, Speaker Byrns, predicting that the court’s decision would uphold the suspension of gold payments, ex- plained possible procedure in this way: “A bill could be introduced when the court makes its decision. Hear- ings could be held before a commit- tee immediately and the Rules Com- mittee could bring in a rule making consideration of the bill in order. “If worse came to worst, we could, | by a two-thirds majority, take the bill up on the floor the same day it | was introduced and pass it before ad- | journment.” He took the position that “the im- portance of the decision has been greatly exaggerated,” and said he saw no signficance in the delay. Before the court disclosed its in- | tention to postpone the decision be- FEBRUARY 3, 1935—PART ONE. yond tomorrow, there had been some | discussion of the advisability of tak- ing advantage of a circumstance which would have permitted a House vote on a bill within an hour after the court acted. Calendar Offers Speed. The House calendar offers the pos- sibility of unusual speed on the first and third Mondays of each month. Under House rules, it is in order then for the Speaker to recognize any mem- ber for 3 motion to sispend the rules and pass & bill. Under that procedure, it is mot even necessary for the measure to have been considered by a House com- mittee. No amendments are pos- sible on a measure brought up that way, and debate is limited to 40 minutes. To be successful, such a motion must be carried by a two- thirds majority. The Speaker reiterated that he be- lieved the Supreme Court would up- hold the administration’s abrogation of the gold payment clause. He added that passing a gold bill under suspen- sion of the rules would create “a bad precedent that we never could live down.” gy Lamonts Sail for Pacific. NEW YORK, February 2 (#).— Thomas W. Lamont, senior partner of J. P. Morgan & Co., and Mrs. La- mont sailed today in the Santa Rosa for a vacation in California. s B3 BULLITT IN HOSPITAL PHILADELPHIA, February 2 (#).— Willlam C. 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