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IMPULSE SLAYER' GETS SANITY TEST Michigan Judge Names Board in Case of Girl Who Shot Friend. B the Assoclated Press. EAST LANSING, Mich, December 9 —Judge Leland W. Carr of Ingram Circuit Court appointed & sanity com- mission today to examine 25-year-old Hope Morgan, East Lansing society girl charged with first degree murder in the “impulse to kill” slaying of her former college chum. The girl stood mute at her arraign- ment on & warrant charging she fired five shots at Miss Elizabeth Giltner, 25-year-old bride-elect and daughter of a Michigan State College dean, as they addressed wedding invitations in .the Giltner home yesterday. 5 Judge Carr directed a plea of not guilty, and appointed the sanity board. Blamed Upon Impulse. Lieut, Harold Mulbar, State police detective who signed the murder war- rant, said Miss Morgan told him, “I did it on impulse and can't explain why, but I couldn't help myself. I +felt like killing some one.” Miss Giltner was to have been mar- ried Saturday to Capt. David S. Bab- eock, instructor in the college’s Reserve Officers’ Training Corps unit. A member of the Giltner family said today the wedding would have left Miss Morgan as the last unmarried member of her social set, and said, “She may have felt intensely alone.” To Dr. Lemoyne M. Snyder, State police medical adviser, Miss Morgan told of having “a lust to kill since Oc- tober of last year,” and added that sometimes she would carry her father’s gun “all day, feeling sure I would commit murder before I returned home.” ‘Whirlwind Courtship. Miss Giltner was the daughter of Dr. Ward S. Giltner, dean of the veterinary science department at Mich- Jgan State College. She met Capt. “Babcock when he was assigned to the college R. O. T. C. last September ~and a whirlwind courtship followed. © Dean Giltner disclosed today that Miss Morgan, a brilliant student at the college until she quit to become a “social worker, became ill a week 8go Irom an overdose of sedative. Mrs. Mabel A. Giltner, the dead girl's mother, said the two young wom- en were addressing her daughter's wedding invitations when she went to wvisit & neighbor. Her 12-year-old son, David, returned from school about two hours later and found his sister's body crumpled on the floor. Dean and Mrs. Giltner said their daughter and Miss Morgan had been childhood playmates and remained close friends throughout high school and college The shooting occurred only a few hours before Miss Morgan and another friend, Mrs. Don H. Berles, were to have been hostesses at a bridal shower for the professor's daughter. Search for Miss Morgan. City, State and college police, as well as Mason County authorities, be- gan a search for Miss Morgan after learning she was the last person seen with Miss Giltner before her death. Found at the home of a friend, Miss Morgan was taken to the State police post for questioning and, Lieut. Mul- bar said, confessed readily. He said she told him she had felt “a lust to kill” for more than a year. The State police medical adviser, Dr. Lemoine Snyder, interviewed Miss Morgan and said that she showed no remorse and was “definitely insane.” Prosecutor Dan McCullough ordered her transferred to the jail at Mason, the county seat. He said he will pre- pare a murder charge against her and request appointment of a sanity com- mission at her arraignment, probably today. Dr. Snyder said Miss Morgan told him “I've had the lust to kill since October of last year.” Mystery to Herself. “I couldn’t understand myself,” the young woman's statement to the doctor continued. “I'd find myself looking at some of my friends, con- scious of a desire to kill them. “Often I went home and got my father's gun. Sometimes I would carry it around all day, feeling sure I would commit murder before I re- turned home. Something always hap- pened to prevent it—until today. “I had the gun when I went to Bessie's house, but I seemed to feel all right after I had been there a while. Then suddenly I looked up and stared at Bessie. I don’t know why. Then that feeling came over me. “My coat was hanging over the back of my chair, I reached down and pulled out the gun, stuck it right up against Bessie and started shooting. “Everything seems kind of hazy “ow, but I remember that I tried to +‘shoot myself. The gun wouldn't work. 4 “I watched Bessie stand up, she “gort of gasped. Then she fell. “I put my coat on and got into my ear and drove home. I put the gun -~away and got in my ecar. I drove to “Kalamazoo, to Battle Oreek and to ~Portland. From Portland I called & «friend of mine. He met me there, »8nd we came back to East Lansing.” ~ Lieut. Mulbar said Miss Morgan told him that Miss Giltner, alone of her friends, had offered to accom- «pany her to Ann Arbor for a mental amination after her wedding. # Friends of the young woman said she seemed to change after a series “of tragedies a few years ago. A “younger brother, Stuart, jr., died of ~& broken back after a fall from a siwindow. A year later her mother died. ® Dr. Snyder said that when he asked her a routine test question last night: “What would you like to do now?” the “young woman answered: = *“I don't know, unless it would be .$0 shoot you.” = PHYSIOLOGIST DIES ~Internationally Known Scientist Expires in Denmark. < OOPENHAGEN, December § () — “Prof. Valdemar Henriques, 72, inter- “nationally known physiologist, died - yesterday. Y Dr. Henriques, famed particularly wfor his researches concerning the lungs .and respiration, had been a professor ~at Copenhagen University since 1911 ~and co-director of the Carlsberg Fund's 7 Biological Institute, founded by the Rockefeller Foundation. : 6 6 SALVE for LIQUID-TABLETS coiDs A omors . 5¢,10¢,25¢ » Slaying Figures WOMAN CHARGED WITH SHOOTING FRIEND, HOPE MORGAN. ELIZABETH GILTNER. Prosecutor Dan McCullough of East Lansing, Mich., said last night he will charge Miss Morgan, 25, with murder in the shooting of her lifelong friend, Miss Giltner, 25, daughter of a Michigan State College dean. The shooting occurred while the two were addressing invitations to Miss Giltner’s wedding, scheduled Jor Saturday. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. JOHN T. HUMPHREYS, ENGINEER, RETIRED Began Work at Navy Yard in 1903—Twice Awarded U. S. Service Medals. John T. Humphreys, 69, decorated with United States service medals both by the Treasury and Navy Depart- ments, was retired today as an ord- nance engineer with the Wash- ington Navy yard, which position he has held since 1930. Born here in © 1867, Humphreys began work at the Navy yard in 1903 as an expert on guns, being transferred to the design section of the ordnance drafting room in 1912, Five years later he was transferred to the Bureau of Ordnance as supervising draftsman, and, due to his expert knowledge, was placed in charge of the design of depth charges and mines used in the World War. Fir this work the Navy Department award- ed him the United States Service Medal. During 1917 and 1918 Humphreys was grand master of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and was ap- pointed by the Secretary of the Treasury to the staff for fraternal activities in raising revenue funds through the sale of war stamps and liberty bonds to fraternal organiza- tions. For his services in this line he was presented the Treasury De- partment’s Service Medal. Humphreys was appointed super- visor of ammuntion projects in 1931, with offices in the Mine Building at the United States Naval Gun Fac- tory. In 1930 he took over duties at the Navy Yard here. Prior to entering the Government service, he was a foreman with the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, and be- came general master mechanic in charge of the Ivy City, Washington, D. C., shops in 1898. Humphreys, who lives at 1413 Shep- herd street, now plans a two-year trip through Western United States, Northwestern Canada and Alaska. Fellow employes yesterday presented ;xlm with a traveling bag and binocu- ars. John T. Humphreys Porters’ Packs Banned. ‘Turkey is extending its westerniza- tion campaign to include the age-old practice of porters carrying merchan- dise on their heads and backs. Ankara, the capital of the republic, has just placed a ban on the transportation of g0ods by human beings, and ruled that extensive loads can be moved only at night. . THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON HISTORY OF SEAS FOUNDONBOTTOM Mud and Ooze Contain Much More Radium Than Rest of Earth. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. Mud and ooze of the deep ocean bottoms contain vastly more radium than any other part of the earth's surface. They also record in their successive layers the histories of the great seas through most of geological time. . Such are two of the findings of Dr. Charles S. Piggot of the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institu- tion of Washington, who has just re- turned from a trip across the North Atlantic with a specially constructed deep-sea “gun,” which drives a tube 10 feet or more into the ocean’s bot- tom to collect stratified samples. Interpretation of Findings Open. His findings, the Carnegie Insti- tution announces, may have been epoch-making. They may have opened up a thrilling new chapter in the his- tory of man's knowledge of the earth. The interpretation to be placed upon them—especially the meaning of the relatively enormous concentration of radium at the bottom of the North Atlantic—remains open to much ques- tion. After experimental tests in the rel- | atively shallow waters along the At- lantic Coast, Dr. Piggot was given an opportunity to test his apparatus on a voyage of the cable repair ship of the Western Union Telegraph Co,, be- tween Newfoundland and Ireland. Samples of the sea bottoms fre- quently have been collected before, but they represent only the surface layer. For the first time, by means of the Washington scientist's deep-sea gun, it is possible to find out what is in the strata which have been built up by slowly sinking sediments over hun- dreds of millions of years. The ocean bottoms have been, on the whole, more stable than any other part of the earth's surface, and should present the story of evolving life with less distortion than is possible for any sedimentary remains on dry land. Story “Filed Away” on Bottom. Dr. Piggot characterizes these sedi- ments, lying layer upon layer at the sea bottom, as “the depository of the historical records of the ocean.” For millions of years the sediments drop- ping from above have been accumu- lating on the bottom below. Hence the story of what happened in the seas through eons of time is “filed away” in the mud, clay and ooze. Says the Carnegie scientist: “The rocks, pebbles, sand., clay and mud brought by rivers and ocean currents, and the skeletons of marine organisms which lived and died and evolved into various forms throughout the ages constitute this record. Some types of these organisms live only in cold water, others only in warm water. Some live in shallow lagoons, others in depths of the open sea. Some pre- fer fresh water, while other survive only in salty water. Some lived a long time ago, while others have evolved into their present forms comparatively recently. Besides these records of past life and its many changes there exists a chemical and physical record. Oxi- dation, reduction and the nature of the dissolved matter in the water have all left the record of their changes in the bottom, and the nature and size of the minerals and rock frag- ments bear evidence of the direction and strength of former ocean currents, the movements of ice, and the depths of the ocean in the past. “Far out from land, in the undis- turbed depths of the open ocean, the record has accumulated very slowly, 30 that a few feet of depth may repre- | sent a very long interval of time. Al- though this great historical record has long been known to exist, we have been unable to profit by it for we could read only the topmost page. Radium Is of Interest. “Some chemical and mineral con- stituents are of great significance, especially those found in extremely small concentrations, such as copper, tin, gold or radium. 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