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The Washington times., 1923-12-05
D. Q SCIENTIST
MAKES SUGAR
ROM CORN
Dr. Gore EnnuIates Working 81
Stomach to Make High
Grade Product

BY imitating the processes Cf the
human stomach, scientist N
Washington III converting corn Into
sugar. He gets thirty three pounds
0E sugar from & Euslfel Of corn. He
converts aIl of the starch Ii the
corn into an equal number Of
pounds of sugar which ii what the
stomach does as the first step ~
digeeting starcly food. The Bcien
tist stops the digestive process ak
the point where the starch becomes
sugar.
The scientist il Dr. II. q. Gcre
of the Bureau OF Chemistry, United
States Department Of Agriculture
He Is too modest 70 claim credit
for the discovery. a French chem
isk, he says. announced the prin
ciple forty years ago but 4 would
body could find out why II WUuld
not work the theory being psfs
fectIy sound. Then Or, Gore
studied the human stomach 8 little
more. He took into conside deration
the fact that digestion stops * 1i5e
contents OF the stomach are too
acid or too alkaline.
Then he worked out the range Cf
acidity very narrow thin which
digestion proceeds normally. He
measures II by comparing the col
or Of his digesting starch with
row of little pieces of co1ored glass.
looking much like miniature
church window.
The starch Is extracted from
ground corn mainly BY washing It
III then dfgested with harley ulaft
which has the property not only
Of turning starch into sugar hut Of
converting the whole solid mass
into 8 liquid. This liquid II boiled
In d retort az shown iii the pic
ture. and condenees III the other
retort as q natural candy. without
any sort of treatment, II has been
used as centers FOR claocoIate
creams and makes q candy conapar-
able with the finest brands on the
market II It Is TO Be used .as
sugar rather than as candy, II IS
dried ana crystalllzed III the form
Of granulated sugar.
This process 81 making sugar
from corn is 50 simple that, when
II becomes public, d farmer can
make sugar Tor family use from
his own corn.
(Copyright, 1923. William Piclkekt Helm
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rective manner becomes less and
less, and the compass therefore
becomes more and more unreliable.
For the navigation Of an airpIane
in the Arctic only the sun, the sex.
tant and chronometer can be re-
lied upon. It has been suggested
that our course could be directed
by wireless from shore stations,
but this il impracticable due to
the limited reach OF our airplane
radio stations.
After accommodating, the three
planes viii load up to capacity with
gasoline, about 800 gallons each,
and proceed on a flight to the
North Pole. Landing will be made
at the closest possible proximity to
the pole and a base will be estab-
lished. From here Amundsen viii
effect that the expedition has
reached the Pole and our line of
communications viii be so well
established that the news should
reach New York while the planes
are still at the Pole. Before re-
turning to the mother ship, each
plane viii be able to deposit about
$50 gallons of gasoline in addition
TO other supplies at the North Pole
depot. In order to assist the navi-
gators In finding their way back to
he depot special signals easily de-.
tectable from the air will be dis
tributed on the ice alonr the route
between the depot and the base.
Pole On Solid Ice.
From Admiral Perry's report we
learn that the North Pole Is on
solid ice. We also learn that he
found new ice on the 87th degree
in the month of February. This
proves that even in this latitude
we must in the summer time ex-
pect to find leaks and large pools
Of water on top Of the ice. This is
In our favor as water landing
will always be easier and safer than
an ice landing. The flight from
the base to the Pole and back will
be repeated with additional sup
plies, until we have sufficient stores
at the Pole depot. Effort will then
be made to deposit caches In the
territory between the Pole and
Alaska. Conditions, however, may
make that impossible and in that
event the final 1900 mile trans
Polar flight from Spitzbergen to
Alaska would only make the one
stop at the North Pole depot where
the planes would fill up with suf-
ficient gasoline to carry them the
1900 mile flight to the Alaskan
coast where gasoline depots have
already been established.
The object OF the flight Is not to
get to the North Pole, but to ex-
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POLICEMAN HI I
BY AUTO IN
STREET
Knocked Down as He Steps
From Loading Platform.
Five Others Hurt.

Six were injured In street traffic
accidents yesterday in Washington
according to police reports.
Policeman Ovid II. Wells, Of. the
First precinct, stepped off a loading
platform at Twelfth street and
Pennsylvania avenue northwest. An
automobile operated by William H
Hershey, twenty-eight, 1875 Columbia
road northwest, laid him out. He
suffered hurts on the legs, forehead
and nose.
Michael Bernstein, fortyrfive, Is
Rock Creek Church road northwest,
sustained bodily injuries when the
car he was driving ran into an elec.
trio light post at Tenth and Monroe
street northeast.
Others injured are Harry e.
Moran, 1872 T street northwest.
cash on face; Ernest Jones. 125S
Ninth street northwest, decorations
on arm; Ellis G. Johnson, the Sher.
man apartments, minor bodily in.
juries, and William Kettle coiored
forty-seven, 101 Anacostia road
northeast, bruises on legs.
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PL Ans I D
CROSS IN
ONE DAY
Flight Headed by Amundsen
WIN Survey Great Unex-
pIored Area.

While fIving over Spitzbergen,
IN island 3U1slsed bv the Polar seas,
@1siag the s1Gnsnser of 1893, 9Ohesl
RGod AmWndset Vas expected to
hop off BIZ aisptnWs from WGsss-
evgickt, AEdskd, IN q flight dcYoss
tke North PoIe, H0ko1t 81. HGn1mser,
QeSociate Of the Norwegian e1-
pL0rer, conceived the idea Of q
nsors elaborate aerial conquest Of
tie frozen North.
A dsfective landing gear pre-
vented Ansssadsen's flight, so Ham
Nser, sOko sOGs to lend Gssistussce
20 Apssessdseas on The periI0us trip,
fetug1ted to ANserica.
Here aUus c0nceiUed the Polar
expedition, 10 aDkich the Usited
States nGVy sciU participate, one
of the planes TO be used in the
1874 expedition being in charge
If an Anses-ican 3sGUGJ officer.
AMnrsdsen spiH command the ez-
pedition and be iss the first plane.
Hammer sOiu be 81 charge Of q
third plane.
HeresC;th Is given for the first
Zine the plan of the Polar trip
sUksch Is expected 70 soeee The
e1rtk's last geographical prob
iemthe M1str1versed area mil
lion miles i1s e1test that lies about
The North Pole.
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So, 900 Bracelet Sought.

Pawnbrokers have been asked to
look out for platinum bracelet set
with thirty diamonds. valued at
SO. 900, which was lost by Mrs. Ouinby
McKeon, 2539 Massachusetts, avenue
northweste EestardaYs
The Washington times., 1923-12-05
MACHINES
OUSTED BY
Town
Boys Of HyattsviIIe play
Them Too Much, Off
ciaIs Charge.

EVANSVILLE, Nd, Dec. 5.-
The slot machine Is doomed In
Hyattsville IL the mayor and towr
council have their way. Chief OF
Police Charles Al. Hahn has given
owners five days to get rid Of the
machines.
The mayor and cd1nciI believe
that the situation has reached Z
stage where 1t is serious detri
ment to the morals Of the large
number Of boys who play the ma
chimes.
To administer the rite Of con.
firmation to q class Of candidates
the Rt. Rev. James e. Freeman
Protestant Episcopal bishop oi
washington, will visit Pinkney
Memorial Church here Sunday
morning. December 16, at il
o'clock.
School children of Prince Georges
county this year will receive q
somewhat longer Christmas vaca
tion than usual. The schools will
close with the end Of classes or
Friday, December 21. Studies Wit
be resumed Wednesday, january @
A literary society to meet each
Friday evening has been organized
by teachers and students OF Sur
rattsville High School. The
teachers have practically turned the
running Of the society over to the
students. Officers are Alan Penn
president; Bernicc Schultz, treas
urer; Virginia Nixon, secretary
and Alta Brady, historian.
Churches and all civic organiza
tions in the county are requested by
Mrs. Lula A. Biclford, of Berwyn.
Harding memorial chairman, to ar.
range for meetings during Harding
memorial week, December 9-16, to
give everyone q chance to take part
in the national tribute.
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MEDICAL SOCIETY HOLDS
REGULAR FALL MEETING

The fall meeting Of the Medical
Society of Virginia, Maryland and
the District of Columbia is in
progress today at the Arlington
Hotel.
Speakers during the professional
session In the forenoon are Dr.
Thomas M. Foley, DIR. Custis Lee
Hall, DIR. Edmund Horgan. DR.. j. A..
Cannon, DIR. J. Russell VoEbrycke,
DR.. James A. Cahill, jr., and DIR.
William B. Marbury.
Arrangements are made for a
dinner and entertainment in the
afternoon. closing the meeting.
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plore the ] 900 900 square miles Of
unknown territory between the
North Pole and Alaska, and thereby
solve the worlds last great geo.
graphical problem. The flight is
also being keenly watched by air
mail authorities throughout the
world, as in years to come the
trans-Polar route may become a
regular one for air mail. Through
an arrangement with the aeronaut-
ical digest the expedition win carry
q limited number of specially
stamped North Pole post cards.
To Find Continent.
In the foregoing have related
the unromantic cold facts of the
expedition. Outlining some OF the
problems confronting me and how
we propose to meet them. But
there are other sides of the expedi
ton which will more readily ap-
peal to the imagination Of the less
technically inclined. What viii we
find in there in the great unknown
spaces?
The Washington times., 1923-12-05
HILTON SCHOOL PUPILS IN
DANCER, SAYS DR.. FOWLER

Conditions at the Hilton School,
Sixth and G streets northeast. are
a positive menace to pupils and
teachers and should be remedied at
once, DIR. William C. Fowler, Dis
trict Health Officer, declares in g
letter to DIR. Frank w. BaIlou,
superintendent of schools.
DIR. Fowler reports that carbon
nnonoxide has been found in the air
in the class rooms. He says that
the odor of gas is so strong some
times that it appears a gas jet
might be open.
The condition in the school is
attributed to an antiquated heating
unit. This heating plant has been
repaired, it is said, several times
since school opened but It has failed
to improve conditions.
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By HAKON II. HAMMER,
Member OF Amundsen PoIax FIighs-
Expedition.
(Copyright. 1929. BY Cosmopolitan
News SAfvfce1

Copyright. 1924. BY Cosmopolitan
News service.l
NEW YORK, Dec. S.. Raold
Amundsen's Polar-drift ship, the
Maud, which is today frozen in
the ice pack Of the Arctic ocean.
will require from four to six
years to drift across the North
Pole.
The seapIane contest of the
North, to start early in the sum-
mer of 1924 and to be led by
Amundsen himself, will traverse
the same territory the Maud viii
cover, but win accomplish the
task in twentyvfour to twenty
six hours actual time.
To Radio from Pole.
A base viii be established at the
North Pole, and while the party is
there, a radio message viii be sent.
20 New York should receive the
message while the planes are stilI
ct the pole.
Before proceeding with the story
OF the coming flight expedition from
spitzbergen to Alaska. / wish to
explain briefly why Amrndsen aban-
.doned his trans-Polar flight from
Alaska to Spitzbergen last June.
Many false stories have been circu-
lated, but the fact is that the land
q landing after the very first trial
flight at Wainwright, Alaska.
An examination disclosed that the
material was defective and that the
landing gear was beyond repair.
Amundsen was forced to abandon
the attempt. It was naturally a
bitter disappointment both to him
and his able pilot, Lieut.. o. Omdal.
but they later found consolation in
the fact that the Hammer-Junkers
expedition, which had gone to Spitz.
bergen with an airplane in order
70 be ready to render assistance.
had made several successful flights
and had proved that a trans-PoIar
flight was quite possible with
proper equipment.
Amundsen's experience in North.
ern Alaska, coupled with my. actual
flying experience in Spitzbergen,
convinced him that Spitzbergen.
which is far more accessible than
Alaska, would be the logical start.
ing point. So with his usual energy
and determination he set about to
organize his new attempt.
The coming expedition will have
an equipment of three-if finances
permit, four-f1ying boats. These
planes are now being constructed
at the Dornier works in Freidrechs
hafen, Germany.
They are all metal, built of dur
aluminium" and the huIls are 80
constructed that the planes will be
able to take off equally well from
The Washington times., 1923-12-05
AR[ [NVGTOVC CIVIC
Fedora ZION
MEETS
Dr. ]. w. Cox Gives Talk on
the schick Test ii County
Schools.

CLARENDON, Va. Dec. B-At
the regular monthly meeting of the
Arlington County Civic Federation
held at the county court house last
night, J. CIoyd Byars, vice presi-
dent, presiding, appointed = special
committee composed Of J. Thomas
Manning, Hugh r. Reid and Frank
Campbell to cali on the new board
Of supervisors Of Arlington county,
who win take office IN january
and assure them Of the loyal sup
port OF the civic federation.
Discussion was opened On the
question by several members to the
Strengthening Of Wilson boulevard,
at Pickett's hin. and following the
motion of T. b. Gilbert Of TT Myer
Heights, a committee consisting Of
T.. e. Gilbert, ]. Thomas Manning
and r. e. Plymale. were appointed
with instructions to act ON the mat
ter.
DIR. J. W. Coz, health officer Of
Arlington county, spoke before the
federation on the Schick test. and
what the health department was
doing for the school children Of Ar
lington county.
DIR. Cox stated of the 500 children
who have received the test be-
tween 40 and so per cent showed
positive; he said about ninety hours
after receiving the test it would
show either positive or negative.
DIR. Cox says there are still about
1900 to receive the test, and on Sat-
urday, December Is, the clinics in
Ballston. Cherrydale, Potomac. and
the courthouse will be opened.
The subject Of sewers for Airing
ton county was brought up by
Hugh r. Reid. Reid brought out
the point that the legislature would
meet in about sixty days and IL any
changes were necessary in the Sani-
tary bill, action would have to be
taken at once. It was decided that
the sanitary and legal commit
tees get together and discuss the
Sanitary bill and confer with
Charles T. Jesse, delegate from
Arlington county, to the House
of Delegates, in the interest Of hav-
ing what amendments made to
the Sanitary bill necessary passed
at this session.
Those on the Sanitary committee
are C. r. Taylor. chairman: Charles
e. Daley, H. c. Roberts and Henry
Thompson; members Of the legal
committee are Hugh e. Reid, Frank
Stone and Charles w. Smith.
The Parent Teachers Association
Of Clarendon School will hold it's
regular meeting in the school to-
morrow night at 8 o'clock. w. G.
Hastings. former Commissioner Of
Forestry in Vermont. will address
the meeting.
Announcement is made by VIII
liam l.. Bragg. chairman OF the
Arlington County Democratic Com
nittee that an important meeting
of the committee will be held at
the court house tonight.
The ladies of the Ballston Chris
tian Church will serve a luncheon
at the home of Mrs. q. j. Plarr,
School street, Ballston, between the
hours of ~ and o'clock, Thurs
day. December 6. The proceeds viii
go toward the building fund OF the
church now under construction.
Tho regular meeting Of Clarendon
Lodge Loyal Order of Moose. No.
1915 win be held tomorrow night at
8. O'Clock in the Clarendon. Com
nlunity Hall, when q large class OF
candidates will KeOetHe tha qegreess
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from the inside Of cattle ears.
The very filth washed from
sheep pelts is processed for
shOddy and ointments.
Artificial teeth. pipe stems,
and teething rings, cutlery
handles, combs, and buttons be-
gin as shin bones, hoOfs, and
horns. Skull and peIyis pro-
vide charcoal for sugar refin-
ing and paint and pigments.
The big butchers shipped your
druggist marrow preparations
for aenemia.
Ball bearing plants and rifle
factories harden and blue their
manufactures at the rib heap.
Sinews are the source Of gela-
tine and ice cream stiffeners.
Heart stimulants and astring-:
ents, wholesaling at $40O an.
ounce, are nothing but concen-
trated gland essences.
Dyspeptics digest their food
with pepsin from hog stomachs,
and we depend upon sweet
breads for the correction and
cure Of diabetes.
Pandora's chest wears four
legs and q hide. GoIconda is
q sawdust pile; and Ell Dorado's
treasures lIIrk in the fuel bin.
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water, ice or snow. DR.. Dornier,
who Is giving the construction his
personal attention, is not overlook
ing the fact that the planes, when
making landings near the North
Pole are liable to find very rough
spots even on an apparently smooth
landing surface, and the huIIs win
be especially reinforced to stand
the strain.
Experiments are furthermore now
being made with reversible pro-
peIIOr which will be used. II found
reliable. This reversible propeller
will enable the plane to stop quick
ly after the first contact with the
landing surface, q feature which is
of the greatest Importance under
Arctic.
All to Have Wireless.
Each of the planes win be
equipped with wireless receiving
and sending sets with an estimated
reach OF from 400 to 500 miles.
During the next few months the
planes will be thoroughly tested on
the Swiss. lakes and on ice and
snow in Swft&erland. Lieutenant
Ralph DayfgOI4 Of the United States
navy will Join the expedition here
and take part in the tests. In
April the planes will be shipped to
Hamburg and there placed On board
q steamer bound for Green I4arbOr,
Spitzbergen. In the meantime the
expeditiOn,s mother ship WIN have
been made ready in TromesO, Nor.
way. She is q 500 tons wooden
steamer built to Withstand the
pressure of the ice. At Green Har.
Dor. Spitzbergen, the two units VIII
assemble and the entire expedition
win proceed north on the mother
ship. With scientists, mechanics,
wireless operators, photographers,
etc, the expedition will have IN
all about thirty members out Of
which only six win make the trans
Polar flight.
The mother ship win be our per-
manent base and will take station
along the ice border as far nortl
as possible. Here the planes VIII
be launched and, taking OH" from
water. win Immediately make
flights over the Pole TO recon
noiter for landing places.
Landing Great Problem.
AS previously stated the landing
and take Off from the ice will
be our chief problems. Fog is also
a serious problem, especially in
these regions where II comes up
quite suddenly. Every aviator
knows that fog is his worst en-
emy.
When it is thick All around him
he quickly loses his sense Of loca-
tion and of balance. He IL in
doubt whether or not he flies up,
side down, and with his compass
out Of order he has not the slight
est idea Of direction. The expe-
dition will carry special contrtv-
ances from which the pilot at all
times can establish both balance
and direction. A captive balloon
and smoke signals win also be
used to guide the planes back To
the base should they have been
caught In the fog.
The atmospheric conditions in the
Arctic are otherwise perfect for
flying and the temperature during
the daylight period, June, July and
August ranges from SO to 40 de-
grees above zero, with the same
temperature at 1000 feet attitude
as on the surface.
Navigation Difficult.
The navigation Of an airplane in
Polar regions is, however, extreme.
~ olIficult as in high ATTITUDES that
component Of the earth's force
which acts on a compass in q d.
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Why Should Infants HaUe
Beards?

WE'LL probably learn some
w thing really significant,
provided we keep shopping in
the clouds and digging for
roots even how IT came to.
pass that a Hungarian infant
was recently born with q full
grown beard.
Examination Of his sebaceous
glands might furnish the clue
for a hair restorer. The idea
isn't bit more fantastic than
Burbank's verified propositions
or Edison's conviction that the
tiniest scrap Of tissue is a con-
scious entity, inheriting its inn
pulses from ancestor cells.
Plenty to ponder over-be-
sides speakership fights, tax re-
ductions, volcanic eruptions, and
foreign muddles. The plans Of
Providence aren't thwarted by
filibusters and earthquakes.
Society doesn't perish on bat
tlefields or through reparation
squabbles; but in the fatalistic
acceptance of precedent and
the obvious.
We're bound in the other
direction.
(Copyright, 1898. King Features Syn.
dicate, Inc., and Herbert Kaufman.)
The Washington times., 1923-12-05
K. of c. Band Concert.

A concert by the knights Of Co
Iumbus Band will mark the closing
tomorrow of the sale Of Christmas
gifts at Carroll Hall, Tenth and @
streets northwest. The sale will
start at 4:8O and viii end at 1890.
ThA public - invited - attand.
The Washington times., 1923-12-05
HOME IS FOUND
STR|PPEDOF
FyR|NT TURE
Man jailed at Rockville on
Suspicion Of Theft From
Vacant House.

ROCKVILLE, Nd, Dec. 5.--When
"a Warrington real estate auenf
visited q dwelling at Chevy Chase.
q few days ago to show it to 4, pros
pective tenant, he was very much
surprised to find Il stripped 81 ali
furniture excepting q chiffonier ana
q couple Of chairs, as he had been
informed by the owner, Mrs.
Huffman, now IN the West, that ii
was fully furnished He reported
the matter 70 Sheriff Alvie Al. Mox-
ley and Deputy Sheriff Stanley
Gingeil was detailed to make an
stl6ation. After working on the
case several days, Deputy Ginge1l
ana Motor Cycle Policeman Leroy
Rodgers vent to the home oG Burr
nett Frnney, colOred. about 200
yards from the Huffman house
where they claim to have found the
furniture. Although he insisted
that he had removed the furniture
to his own home 90 that he could
take care Of Il for its owner.
Franey WIS arrested and II now ia
Jail here.
Thomas Ecitloff, Of Silver Spring,
was fined 945 and costs BY Judge
Samuel Riggs in the police court
hare following conviction on d
charge Of speeding. He was
arrested by Deputy Sheriff u. ".
CaywoOd and Policeman Guy Jones,
who told Judge Riggs that they
timed his machine going at the rate
Of fortyfive miles an hour. Judge
Riggs fixed dollar An hour as
the penalty.
Herbert M Bruno, II. of cam.
bridge, Mass, and Miss Elaine j..
MilbOurne. Of Baltimore obtained q
marriage license here yesterday
afternoon. Donald T.. YIinker, 81
Walter Reed Hospital, and Miss
Agnes W. ROseman, or Baltimore
were denied q license. The girl was
under eighteen and did not bavo
with her the written consent Of her
parents.
John q. West, Henry !. Hunt
and r. Hicks Ray, elected last
month judges Of the orphans court
for this county, subscribed 70 the
oath OF office here yesterday and
Immediately took their places on the
bench. Judge West succeeds him
self as chief Judge and Judges Hunt
and Ray take the places Of Alfred
g. TOIson and Winfield s. Magruder
fhey viii serve three years.
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