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GITIZEN SOLDIERS 10 AID INAUGURAL Places in Parade Will Be Granted, but How Many Is Undecided. Citizen soldiers, sailors and marines of the District probably will be grant- ed places along with the regular mm: tary units in the inaugural parade| officials of the Inaugural Committee indicated today. Admiral Cary T. Grayson, chairman, expressed sympathy with the ides of including the District National Guard, the Marine Corps Reserve and the Naval Reserve, and said there had been no pre-conceived determination to exclude them. President Roosevelt had indicated his wish that the parade be of limited duration and of military character, but otherwise left details to the com- mittee. Admiral Grayson said the question of the Guard and Reserve units had not been subject to action since they had not applied for par- ticipation. To File Tomorrow. Col. John W. Oehmann, command- ing the Guard, said he would file an application with the committee tomor- row. This is expected to be referred to the Inaugural Parade Committee before final action is taken. There may be a question of whether the en- tire Guard could be allowed, or wheth- er there would be selected companies. Col. Oehmann said he would apply for inclusion of the full force of the Guard. This consists of 73 officers and 1,188 enlisted men in the 121st Engi- neers, the 260th Coast Artillery, the Military Police Company, the head- quarters and medical detachments. Admiral Grayson announced the following committee appointments made by Thomas E. Lodge, president of the Federation of Citizens’ Asso- ciations: Vice Chairmen. “Theodore S. Grape s. Lioyd W. Biddle M Biaine Boples Scen st Sofamer Witlams A, Mato . A-P. Scheer Jesse C. Suter Members. E. B. Lawless Adelbert W. Les Ashby L. Leeth Adam Arnold Edward C. Baltz rnard Robert_D. Lyons W. C. Mai George P. Mrs. Cleo M Claston C. Marsh arl W. Cooper John B Dickman. ir. Eiarei Lewis A. Payne Irwin S. Porter E Barrett Prettyman E. J. Reed Charles E. Rich Wil E. Richardson Charles Foster Robert M. Purniss Harry C. Grove John J. Hurley Walter Irey grIgy ER5 B85 a5 y N. Btull . E. M. Thompson . H. Urdahl apoleon Van Meers Trar i We Wil Tirnin wevs CH. W, Wiley am Mis 3. ¥, Worren Fila Werner Governors Accept. 23zt Washington Wayside Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. . ETHICS. B. HATFIELD is a taxi B driver who can tell you some interesting things about that ® on-the-go business. One of the things he told an opera- tive yesterday was that no hacker ever rides with another, as fare rather than fellow worker of course, without giving the latter a tip. “Never?” asked our man. “Never, at least, without first saying ‘Bud, I've got only 20 cents, but if you'd care to take me for that, here it is,’'* said Mr, Hatfleld, “What's more,” he added, “if you could get a more promising job, your fellow hacker would not mind being turned down as passenger under the circumstances.” o e . TOP HAT. And, speaking of taxi drivers, there’s the story of the one who picked up a sartorially perfect couple the other midnight at one of the swankiest of the town's night spots. The man wore top hat, white tie and tails and the girl was equivalently imposing. The driver was sure he had some- thing. He thought otherwise, however, when the male passenger gave him an address in one of the poorer sec- tions. Didn’t quite kwow what to make of it. indeed, until they had gone a few blocks when the elegant passenger leaned forward to ask in perfect hacker parlance: “How've things been out this way tonight, Bud?” .. NO CHARGE. A HAUGHTY member of society, making arrangements for a tea, called the nearest precinct police sta- tion to ask that an officer be detailed to handle the expected heavy traffic moving to and from the entrance to her home. The police captain in charge agreed to furnish the necessary guardian of the law whereupon the lady inquired the amount to be charged for the policeman’s services. “Oh, there’s no charge, madam,” re- plied the captaln. “You are entitled to an officer to assist in handling the traffic problem at your function.” = [l = ey oy “Well, captai “then may I have five officers?” *x ok ok Autograph. ’Tis reported about that a bit of a message which Rudy Vallee wrote n,” asked the dowager, | G _STAR, WASHINGTON, NEW DEVIES AD N PLANE SAFETY Improved Radio and De- Icing Equipment Now on Hand, Vidal Says. Improvements in aeronautical radio equipment which will eliminate much of the mechanical hazard of bad- weather flying, and which probably would have saved at least one of the recently lost airliners, are already at hand, and there are definite hopes for other improvements which will eliminate other sources of danger, ac- cording to Eugene L. Vidal, director of air commerce, Commerce Depart- ment. Interviewed on his return to Wash- ington from a five-day flight during which airways radio aids were studied with the aid of the new Bureau of Alr Commerce “flying Ilaboratory,” Vidal said great radio progress has been made during recent months and that weather-proof aircraft radio now is available. One major airline already has in- stalled the new radio and de-icing equipment and has gone through the recent bad weather without mechani- cal difficuity although other lines not so equipped¢ have suffered, in some cases tragically, it was pointed out. New Aircraft Antenna. Most important of the new equip- ment is a new type of alrcraft an- tenna which remains free of snow and rain static. At least one of the recent crashes has been blamed upon loss of radio receiving due to such static. Second is radio direction- finder equipment, which permits the exact location of storm-blinded air- craft. Of almost as great importance are the de-icing devices which keep ice out of carburetors, off propellers, the leading edges of wings and con- trol surfaces. Asked to explain the recent air- plane crashes which have shocked the Nation, Vidal said that it obviously is impossible for him to discuss them in detail while they are under in- vestigation by the Bureau of Alr: Commerce, of which he is head. “I can tell you, however,” he said, “that no two of them are alike. There is no one cause behind them.” This would indicate that the fault has not been with ground aids to air navigation, but that in most of the cases the fault was within the airplane. In one case it was the icing of a radio antenna, creating static which pre- vented the receipt of radio range sig- nals, it was indicated. Commerce De- partment officials are inclined to be- lieve that at least two of the recent major crashes were due to piiot errors. The belief of air commerce officials that part of the responsibility of providing “weather-proof” equipment is on the shoulders of the airlines rather than on the Federal Gov- ernment is expressed both by Vidal and by Col. John M. Johnson, As- sistant Secretary of Commerce. Co-Operation Promised. Col. Johnson, just before Vidal's re- | turn to Washington, promised the utmost co-operation of the Bureau of Air Commerce in eliminating the causes of the recent airline crashes. At the same time he notified the Na- | & Co. This Is How New York Welcomed the New Year This was the scene at Times Square at midnig] during the celebration. D. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 1. 1937. o s ht as New York’s millions welcomed the advent of 1937 . Traffic was jammed —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. | J. W, LYONS DIES; PRESS EYMAN, 48 Navy Department Com- munications Room. John W. Lyons, 48, war-time chief of the Navy Department communica- tions room and a press telegrapher who handled “copy” for many Wash- ington correspondents, died yesterday at Mount Alto Hospital. ‘Widely known among the newspaper fraternity, Mr. Lyons had served at times as s member of the White House communications staff. His last employment was with the Washington bureau of the New York Journal of Commerce and with W. B. Hibbs Funeral services will be held at 2 pm. Monday in the chapel of Gawler's funeral home, 1756 Pennsyl- vania avenue. Burial will be in Ar- lington National Cemetery. Services there are being planned by Lebanon Lodge, F. A. A. M,, of which Mr. Lyons was a member. Plant and Animal Kingdoms Further Linked by Scientist Essentially Same Thing Enabling Mem- \Was War-Time Chiet of ber of Latter Family to See, Bends Other Toward Light, He Shows. BY THOMAS R. HENRY, Btaff Correspondent of The Star. ATLANTIC CITY, January 1.—A new bridge between the two main di- visions of life—the animal and the plant kingdoms—was described before the American Association for the Ad- vancement of Science here today by Dr. H. G. du Buy of the University of Maryland. Essentially the same thing which enables an animal to see is responsible for the bending of a plant towards the light, Dr. du Buy showed. In the plant the action is 1,000 times slower. In both cases the Maryland plant physiologist said. the responsible agent is a form of carotine, the red- dish-yellow pigment most familiar as the coloring matter in carrots and the reason why so many parents in- flict these vegetables on their children. An ample supply in the system may be an important element in normal eyesight. Evidence for & “tree of life” con- | cept of evolution from the scattered | bones of strange, hoofed, horse-like animals that roamed over the plains of Pategonia millions of years ago was presented to zoologists of the as- sociation today by Dr. George Gay- lord Simpson of the American Muse- um of Natural History. ‘These animals were the “notoungu- | lates,” a family long since extinct. After long study of their fossil bones and teeth, Dr. Simpson said, it be- comes clear that the parent stock gave rise to two divergent offshoots at different times, each of which be- | came a distinct type of animal. Modification of Teeth Form. One offshoot was in the form of great modificatian in the form of the | teeth, while the limb bones remained | the same as those of the original | stock. The other offshoot was in ex- actly the opposite direction. They | ceed Charles B. CLEVELAND NAMED A A. A. MANAGER Montgomery County Civic Leader Heads District Unit of Motor Club. Washington I. Cleveland of Ken- sington, Md., yesterday was announced | 28 the new manager of the District of Columbia division of the American Automobile Asso- ciation, to suc- Bishop, who has - assumed the ; managership of # the Atlanta Motor Club, an affilia- tion of the A. A. A. General Man- ager Russell E. Singer made pub- lic the appoint- ment. Cleveland has been prominent in local and Mont- gomery County, Md,, civie affairs for some years. He is & member of the advisory board of Cleveland. FORM OF ATOMS CONCEPT REVISED Harvard Physicist Pictures Basic Unit as Having Two “Perfect Fluids.” By 1 Staft Correspondent o1 The Star ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., January 1. —A new concept of the fundamental structure of creation was presented before the American Association for the Advancement of Science today by Dean G. D. Birkhoff of Harvard Uni- versity, folowing his election as presi- dent. Dr. Birkhoff pictured the atom hypothetically as consisting of two “perfect fluids,” through which any disturbance moves with the speed of light, intermixing with each other The fluids, as he conceives them, are positive and negative electricity. The Harvard mathematician ex- plained that he had carried on for the past 10 years various “mathematical experiments” to construct an atomic model which would explain the ex- perimentally determined behavior of atoms, but with a space-time matrix structure in accordance with the prin ciples of relativity. In order to do this it was necessary to introduce the concept of an as yet unisolated force, which he calls the “atomic potential,” to prevent his relativistic atoms from exploding with terrific forces. Since early in the present century, physicists generally accepted the physical model of the atom, funda- mental “brick” of creation, postulated by Nils Bohr, the Danish physici His picture was that of a minatu solar system, with & central nucleu: corresponding to the sun, made up particles of positive electricity, wit electrons, or units of negative elec- tricity, packed among them, and with other electrons revolving around . the planets. No Facts on Appearance. ‘There never was any positive evi- dence that this was what the atom looked like. That kind of arrangement, it was deduced, would act more nearly like an actual atom than would any other model which it was possible to construct. The Bohr atom was a Newtonian model, constructed on a concept of gravitational mechanics. It became essentially impossible with the general acceptance of ths theory of relativity. but physicists held on to it tenaciously for 10 years— altering it clumsily from time to time to meet new concepts. Then came tha introduction of wave mechanics, and the solar system atom disappeared entirely as a reality. For the past 10 years, it has been just a mathematical equation, with its symbols correspond= ing to nothing tangible to the human mind. He first worked out his “perfect fluid” atom, Dean Birkhoff explained yesterday, as long ago as 1926, and has determined that it accounts very well for the emission of radiation phenom- ena, which has been the great stum- | bling block of all atomic models, in so far as the hydrogen atom, simplest of all, is concerned. The two perfect fluids mixing with each other and kept in equilibrium in a space- time matrix by the unknown ¢ The Governors of 18 States yester- | 7 the face of a photograph while [ Eicars e o ope At il Sight of Animal. :r;'u like branches on two sides of a the local motoring organization, a |Aatomic potential must not be consid- day promptly accepted invitations to come here to participate in the eceremonies. Those who wired acceptances were Henry Horner of Xlinois, Louis O. Barrows, Maine; Harry W. Nice, Mary- land; Frank Murphy, Michigan; Elmer Benson, Minneso! Clyde R. Hoey, North Carolina; W. L. Langer, North Dakota; Martin L. Davey, Ohio; George H. Earle, Pennsylvania; Rob- ert E. Quinn, Rhode Island; Philip La Follette, Wisconsin; Richard C. Mc- Mullin, Delaware; George C. Peery, Virginia; Wilbur L. Cross, Connecti- cut; Herbert Lehman, New York; Olin D. Johnston, South Carolina; Richard W. Leche, Louisiana, and Hugh White, Mississippi. Farley to Speak at Dinner. Officers of the Electoral College, ‘who will meet here at the time of the inauguration, announced they will in- vite the Governors to attend a dinner to be given by members of the college anuary 19. James A. Farley, chair- man of the Democratic National Com- mittee, has been invited as guest of honor and principal speaker. Admiral Grayson made public the following names which have been add- ed to the Committee on Press Rela- tions and Communications for the in- augural, of which Charles Michelson is chairman: J. C. Brown, Robert Den- ton, Arthur De Titta, Albert Holland and James Lyon. COL. G. E. A. REINBURG FUNERAL ON MONDAY Full Military Honors to Be Given Retired Air Corps Officer “Who Died in China. Funeral services for Lieut. Col. George E. A. Reinburg, Army Air Corps, retired, who died in China De- cember 5, will be held Monday at 2 pm. with full military honors from the Fort Myer gate of Arlington Na- tional Cemetery. Chaplain Ralph C. Deibert will officiate. Interment will + be in section 6 of the cemetery. ‘The following Air Corps officers will serve as honorary pall bearers: Majs. R. C. W. Blessley, Edward W. Raley, James A. Mollison, Charles Y. Ban- fill and William B. Souza and Capt. Mervin E. Gross. Col. Reinburg was a native of the District of Columbia, where he was born September 25, 1888. He was re- tired April 30, 1932, because of dis- ability incurred in line of duty. OFFICER’S MOTHER DIES Mrs. Alma M. Morgan Succumbs at 80 in Nebraska. Mrs. Alma M. Morgan, 80, mother of Lieut. Comdr. Luman E. Morgan, U. S. N, retired, of this city, died December 21 at the home of her daughter, Mrs. C. R. Trimble, in Oma- ha, Nebr., according to word received here. She had been in poor health for four years. Mrs. Morgan also leaves another daughter, Miss Lydia H. Morgan of Omaha. Funeral services were held in Omaha December 24. RABBI METZ TO SPEAK Rabbi Solomon Metz will speak on “Whither the March of the Years” at s service at the Adas Israel Syna- gogue tonight at 8 o'clock. After the services Mrs. Henry Ox- enburg, past president of Washington Hadsssah, will lead an open forum talk on “Tradition in the Modern World.” Maxwell 4. Ostrow, chairman of the Adas Israel Board of Educa- tion, will preside. ? r in Washington recently gives the lie to allegation that he's @ snooty lad. The photograph was one show- ing Vallee standing alongside a ‘man who has the reputation jor be- ing one of the beiter-looking Army officers. A resemblance between the two—which did mot show up in the photograph—was the rea- son the picture was taken. “God help you if I do look like vou,” Rudy wrote, in autographing his copy. X k¥ NO. AIRPLANE pilots find themselves answering a great many questions for the anxious passengers they are about to take up, but a local pilot found himself up against a rather out- of-the-ordinary inquiry recently. It seems the airman was taking a passenger up to New York in s rather small plane and there had been a great deal of discussion between them as to just what they could safely take in the way of baggage. The cargo finally consisted of a great many small packages, a suitcase of normal size and a case of whisky. After the passenger had donned fiy- ing togs and parachute and was care- fully strapped in the plane he was sort. of wedged in with the two larger pieces of luggage. It was then that he thought to ask if in case he had to bail out would the parachute safely carry him down to earth with the case of Scotch in his arms. * % kX ¥ ‘THEN SILENCE. GBORGI CRAMPTON drives down to work every morning and it is usually a rather uneventful journey. But not so the other day. Proceeding along upper Connecticut avenue, as is his habit, George noted a metallic rattling somewhere in the rear regions of his barouche. “Must re- member to find out what that is” thought George. A little later, one big rattle, then no further disturbance. While negotiating Dupont Circle he heard loud and incessant honking. The other vehicle came abreast of him. “Say, pal” shouted the occupant, “I've been trying to catch you for 10 blocks. Here's your spare tire; you dropped it way back there.” \CHEMIST IS WOUNDED Dynamite Bomb Found in Vacant Office in Los Angeles Explodes. By the Associated Press. 3 LOS ANGELES, January 1.—An infernal machine made of dynamite and a .22-calier pistol exploded yes- terday, seriously injuring Raymond Walsh, 26, a chemist. ‘Walsh told police he and H. H. Eckert, a carpenter, found the de- vice in & vacant office in a central manufacturing district building. The machine was made from a 20- foot length of pipe, with the pistol screwed into a reducing coupling and lead weights at the ends. ‘Walsh, curious, started to carry it to his laboratory when the Bblast oc- curred. from ives Walsh's legs and arms, said they had no clues. R4 BY INFERNAL MACHINE| had not already done so should make constant efforts to improve their own radio equipment, both ground and plane; expedite installation of ap- proved de-icing equipment, take im- mediate steps to give all pilots and co-pilots a thorough course on the Link trainer and increase the facili- ties for instrument training. The | Link trainer is a miniature airplane mounted on s fixed base in which all types of instrument “flying” may be performed under the eyes of in- | structors. The Bureau of Air Commerce will seek from Congress at once an addi- tional $10,000,000 with which to in- crease and modernize aids to air navi- gation along the Federal airways. It also will confer before January 15 with airline representatives, the Army, Navy, Coast Guard and National Ad- visory Committee for Aeronautics in & study of all recent airline accidents with a view to improvement of exist- ing conditions and prevention of ac- cidents due to the same causes in the Ousting (Contintiea From Wirst Page.) in the city political faction opposed to the Armstrong administration. Richards has been on the State pay roll as an assistant inspector for the Racing Commission. He is a decorator and recently was given a contract to decorate buildings and stands at Tal- lahassee for the inauguration of Fred P. Cone of Lake City, Gov. Sholtz's successor. Jerome A. Burgman, a commercial printer, was the only member of the commission who was not removed. He Was known as an anti-Armstrong member of the board. Armstrong resigned December 10. As his successor Mrs. Armstrong an- nounced she would continue all his administration policies. Mrs. Robinson and Mrs. Armstrong both made it clear they expected no particular concessions to their sex at municipal meetings —smoking and shirtsleeves were perfectly all right with them. SIX OUSTED BY SHOLTZ | future, Incompeténcy Among Charges Daytens Beach. TALLAHASSEE, Fla., January 1 (). —Gov. Dave Sholtz removed Daytons Beach’'s woman Mayor-commissioner, Mrs, Irene Armstrong, and five other city officials today on s charge of excessive expenditure of municipal funds. He charged them with malfeasance and misfeasance in office, neglect of duty and incompetency. He Also said they lacked the “sound judgment and ability required.” Sheriff 8, E. Stone and Adjt. Gen. Vivian B. Collins of the National Guard were directed to represent him at the Daytona Beach City Hall and preserve order at the installation of new officials this morning. Sholts acted on the eve of expiration of his term next Tuesday. © Mrs. succeeded fo office at he did so because he believed Gov. Sholtz intended to remove him. At that time the Governor said, “I don’t know what they’re talking about. Those fellows must bave gullty con- sciences.” Thief Stops for Pie. | |36-Year-01d College President De-; 'D. C. ALUMNI HONOR Mr. Lyons leaves his wife, Helen Carr Lyons, and four sons by a former marriage, John W. Lyons, jr.; S. Burton Lyons, George Keith Lyons and Gordon Kenneth Lyons. Their mother is Mrs. Mary Harrell Lyons. Mr. Lyons also is survived by three sisters, Mrs. Gertrude Freeman, Mrs. George W. Hartley and Mrs. Allen Campbell, and two brothers, George W. Lyons and Roy J. Lyons. Mr. Lyons, who came to Washington about 25 years ago, was born at Crozet, Va. His late residence was 1202 North Dinwiddie street, Arlington County, | Va. He began his telegraphic service with the Postal Telegraph Co., sending Washington dispatches for the Hearst News Service (International News Service). Later he served at the Capitol, handling news copy for many writers, including the late Col. Louis McHenry Howe, secretary to President Roosevelt; the late Richard V. Oula- han of the New York Times, the late Charles Albert of the old New York World and many others. HEAD OF WELLESLEY nies She Plans Changes at Institution. Making her first appearance before an alumnae group of Wellesley Col- lege, Miss Mildred Helen McAfee, youthful new president who succeed- ed the late Ellen Fitz Pendleton, was entertained here yesterday as the honor guest of the Washington Wel- lesley Clubs annual Christmas Junch- eon held at the American Association of University Women club house. Miss McAfee, who is only 36 years old and who wears her dark curly hair in & bob, denled any plans for making innovations at the college she now heads. “Except,” she added, “there is one thing about Wellesley that will never change, and that is the fact that it is always changing. “I don't know why people are always under the impression that new presi- dents are anxious to turn over all the old apple carts and fill them with oranges.” She paid tribute to her predecessor, Miss Pendleton. Miss McAfee was introduced to ap- proximately 100 Wellesley alumnae and guests by Miss Belle Sherwin, a member of the board of trustees of the college. Mrs. Harry B. Caton, president of the Washington Club, presided. Pictures of the campus life at Wel- lesley were given in short talks by four students, representative of each class; Miss Sarah Kibbey of Mexico, Miss Edar Fleming of Washington, president of the junior class; Miss Wlisabeth Parkinson of Washitigion, and Miss Elisabeth Sue Young of Riverdale, Md. ‘Hostesses were Mrs. Arthur S. Fields, | carotine compound, showing that caro- Mrs. Samuel Herrick, Mrs. Lawrence Staples, Mrs. Dwight Goldwin Ho- werth and Miss Alice Richardson. Mrs. Harry Kramer, fllllfllll:.:f the Committee on Arrangements, pro- vided festive Ohristimas decorations. _— 1938 AUTO TOLL 35,708 Conferencé Estimates Fewer Deaths Than in 1035. The Governmenit’s Accident Preven- Conference estimated today the Previous experiments have shown, Dr. du Buy said, that an animal sees largely by the action of light on visual purple, a complex substance in the retina of the eye which is broken down by radiation. It is changed into a simpler substance, visual yellow, which rapidly builds up into visual purple again. One of the chief con- stituents of this visual yellow is a tine is & necessary constituent of the essential visual purple. It also has been shown that eertain plants bend towards the light—liké a sunflower, which keeps its face always turned to.the sun—because of the action of light on carotine in the growing tips. Smithsonian Institu- tion experiments have shown that the strength of the *“sun turning” varies enormously with the wave length of radiation used—certain bands of blue light being 30.000 times as effective as red light. The curve of the light | effect is almost precisely the same as the curve of light absorption by the two most common forms of caro- tine. Carotine apparently must ab- sorb light quanta before an animal can see or a plant bend. Presence of Carotine. Dr. du Buy demonstrated the pres- ehce of carotine by ahaiysis of &/ thousand or more tips of oat seedlings, which to the eye appear colorless and perfectly transparent to light. The gréat difficulty in placing animal vis- fon and plant bending on the same basis, he said, lay in a mistaken con- | clusion that the action of light on the growing end of a plant was con- | tinuous, & produet of duration times intensity of illumination. The plant ! never seemed to tire while & funda- | mential phenomenon of vision was | the continuous tearing down and | building up of the visual purple. A man staring at an intensely illumi- nated object doesn't see it all the time. There are interludes when it com- pletely disappears from his physical vision, aithough he may not notice the lapse because the imagé of the object is fixed in his mind. By new experiments, Dr. du Buy reported, hé has demonstrated that the plant also tires of reacting to light, but the process takes about 1,000 times longer. He observed un- der thé microscope the phenomenon of “protoplasmic streaming” in the cells of his oat seedlings. Normally the protoplasm in a plant cell is cir- cling around all the time, presum- ably carrying te differént parts of the cell the minute amounts of the chem- ical substances known as “auxins” or growth horimones, which enable the plant to grow. This streaming is in- hibited by light. Hence the tip of a plant on the illuminated side grows slower than on the dark side, and this upsei of the growth balance is responsible for the bending. Dr. du Buy found that there are interruptions in this process strictly comparable to the break-down of vis- usl purple in vision. But, whereas the former is & matier of & half hour, the Jatter is a matter of seconds, com- parable to the relative speeds of ani- mal and plant life processes. Dr. du Buy Explains Work. “A plant,” sald Dr. du Buy in ex- plaining his work, “seems 10 be just 4n animal stretched out in time.” The , he said, suggest a mmm ancestor to both vision and plant bending in the mys- terious “red spot” found on certain ane-celled organisms which are sen- In each case, he found, the change was relatively sudden and rapid, after which the branches set- | tled down to relative stability. Under the evolutionary bypothesis | developed by Dr, Simpson from the notoungulate bones new species are not formed by the addition of some character not possessed by the an- cestral stock, but by the extreme de- | velopment of something which was present but not particularly stressed. Study of vast ant apartment house | cities in Maryland was reperted lo | consin and George Washington Uni- | entomologists attending the conven- tion of the American Association for the Advancement of Science here to- member of the Washington Board of | Trade, of the American Legion, the | Interfederation Conference and presi- | dent of both the Montgomery County | Civic Federation and the Kensington | Chamber of Commerce. | Prior to his affiliation with the | ered, he stressed, as actual realities, but 2s the best he can do to give the wave mechanics equations a physical form. He is now at work, he said, on other “mathematical experiments™ de- signed to provide a structure of reality for the equations of more complex A. A. A he was connected with the audit division of the General Ac- counting Offices. He assumed his new duties today. Educated at the University of Wis- versity, Cleveland later became a member of the Distriet of Columbi bar. Praternities of which he is a atoms than hydrogen. These experi~ | ments may, he said, make it necessary to abandon the concept built up to exe | Plain the hydrogen behavior. | “Proto-Nordics” Traced. Finding of remains of a race of | “proto-Nordics”—lost first cousins of the long-headed blonds who colonized | Northern Europe before the dawn of day by Ernest N. Cory and Elizabeth | member include Phi Sigma Kappa, Phi | history—in a mound in Northern Per- E. Haviland of the University of Maryland. | Near Fairland, in Montgomery | County, a few miles from Washington, they estimated a population of ap- Delta Sigma Phi. During the last year 33 per cent more new members have joined the club than in 1935, marking the great- | Alpha Kappa, Delta Sigma Rho and | sia whose lowest layer dated from | 3,000 years before Christ—was re- | ported today by Dr. W. M. Krogman of Western Reserve University. | This mound, covering the remains of proximately 12,000,000 ants in a 10- | est forward stride of the club since three successive human occupations acre field, which contained 63 mounds, or aproximately 27 insects to the square foot. | Cutting into the mounds, they found | them honeycombed with passages ar- | ranged in stories and with underground passageways running & road or more into the woods. In cold weather, however, the insects retire to the un- derground chambers reaching as much A4 27 ifiches below the soil level, where | they huddle together in dense, indis- | criminate masses. The population estimate was based | on exact counts of samples from two | nests. WIFE OF OFFICER DIES | Mrs. Caroline Ryan Nash: Will Be Buried Here. Mrs. Caroline Ryan Nash, wife of Capt. Prancis 8. Nash, Medical Corps, U. 8. N, retired, died in New York City on Tuesday. Priénds here sald she was formerly well known in Wash- ington. The captain is said to be in France at present. | ‘The Navy Department announced yesterday that funeral services will be held for Mrs. Nash at the Fort Myer, Va., chapel at 11:30 o'clock on Monday, followed by interment in Arlington National Cemetery. Rev. Dr. Ze Barney T. Phillips of Epiphany Church will officiate at the funeral. A daughter, Carolyn Nash of New York, | survives. FUNERAL MOND“AY Lieut. Comdr. Buried in Arlington. Lieut. Comdr. Haiden Trigg Dickin- son, U. 8. N, retired, who died yes- Dickinson to Be| terday at Norfolk, Va.., will be buried with full military honors on Monday morning at 10 o'clock in Arlington National Cemetery. He was 45 years old and was retired in 1933 due to physical disabiiity. Lieut. Comdr. J. H. Brooks of the Navy's Chaplain Corps will officiate at the funeral services. Born. in Gilasgow, Ky, October 20, 1891, Lieut. Comdr. Dickinson was named to the Naval Academy from the third district of Kentucky. School Patrol Formed. LEONARDTOWN, Md., January 1 (8pecial).—A achool patrol has been formeéd at Margaret Brent High School : ity Committee are Wilbur A. Johnson, | the beginning of the depression, it also was announced. PICKETS ARE HINTED FOR JUSTICE UNIT Cummings Gets Letter in Fight of Dismissed Employes to Return to Pay Roll. Attorney General Cummings has re- | ceived from Gardner Jackson, head | of the local chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, a letter implying that the Justice Department will be picketed unless suitable action is taken in connection with the dismissal some time ago of several members of the former Justice Lodge, No. 21. The letter declared that, while the Civil Liberties Union “cannot under our constitution actively sponsor or- ganization of a picket line, we can advise the union of our opinion that they are justified in so doing.” The lodge members were dismissed last Summer from the fingerprint di- vision ef the Federal Bureau of In- vestigation for alleged inefficiency. Later the lodge was expelled from the American Federation of Government Employes because of its militant pro- tésts over the fingerprint division dis- missals. The Attorney General has indicated reluctance to reopen the case. He has not yet sent his reply to Jackson. ELECTRICAL UNION GIVES $50 TO NEEDY Donation to Charity Prompted by Star-Warner Bros.-N. B. C. Christmas Campaign. A New Year gift of $30 was present- ed to charity yesterday by the Fed- eral Electrical Workers, Local No. 121, 1. B. E. W., voted at the last meeting of the organization. ‘The donation was prompted by The Star-Warner Bros.-N, B. C. Christmas campaign on behalf of the needy, and was divided between the Parent- Teacher Association and the Metro- politan Police Department, to be used at the discretion of both organizations for clothing and shoes to keep chil- dren in school and to provide food and clothing for the destitute as cies arise. ‘The electrical workers on the Char- A. A. Ludwig and Culver R. de Shazo. | China Train Tun: éi‘ ‘Thé Nanking-Shanghaj fast express i which extended over 1,500 years, was | excavated in 1931 by a University of Pennsylvania expedition and the skel- | etal remains sent to the Western Re- | serve anatomists for examination. The population, Dr. Krogmar ‘(wnd. was of two contrasting types | One was large skulled, rugged, massive, | while the other was smaller-skulled, | smooth and gracile. The first, he | said, is quite obviously Nordic while | the other is closely related to the Mediterranean race. The time se- quence of the burials shows that the | latter were the first settlers on this site. They remained predominant in numbers for about 1,000 years, when the “Nordics” began to outnumber | them. The discovery gives a new validity to the recent belief that the ancestors | of the present inhabitants of Northern | Europe came from the Russian Steppes in the new Stone Age. One branch turned westward, resulting in the Nordics of today, while the other moved southward and apparently be- came engulfed in the populations which it invaded. The branch which turned into Northern Persia, however, were probably much closer to the an- cestral type than the Germans and | Scandinavians of today. OLDEST INHABITANTS | | Annual Address Features New Year Busi- ness Gathering. John Clagett Proctor, vice president of the Association of Oldest Inhabit- ants, delivered his annual report as “chronicler” of the organization today at the New Year meeting in the Old Union Engine House. For many years the association gathered to hear the chronicler und, following this business meeting, ad- journed to pay respects to the Presi- dent of the United States at the ‘White House. At the Executive Man- sion the oldest inhabitants were given & place of honor in the receiving line. Today, however, in the absence of a White House reception, the association carried on its regular New Year meet ing without greeting the Chief Ex- ecutive. Theodore W. Noyes, president, presided. - YALE PROFESSOR KILLED O’Brien-Moore Auto Strikes Pole in Connecticut. NEW HAVEN, Conn. January .1. (#).—Ainsworth O'Brien-Moore, 39, ‘of Hamden, associate professor of Laun at Yale, was killed and his wife, Peggy. was injured slightly early yesterday in China will cut the 200-mile run t6 when their automobile struck s tele- i a