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Notes Of The Passing Day

Ship In Distress
A message was received here
this morning by the Porter Dock
Company stating that steamship
Ansaldo S. Geergie, II, was in dis
tress with its rudder out of COM
mission 35 miles northeast of Hills
borough, Fla, The message stated
that the vessel needed immediate
ass stance. The tug Willett was
dispatched to the scene.
To Give Dance
Dance fans are eagerly anti
cipating the brilliant serpentine
dance to be given at the Coral Isle
Casino on Thursday evening of
! this week. Joseph Mondul, a mem
Der of the committee on arrange
lments, says this dance is going to
be one of the "best ever" and the
music will be ais fine as was ever
heard in the Island City. Tickets
ARE going fast" he said.
Guests Of Archers
Mr.. and Mrs, William Archer,
parents Of w. p Archer of this
, city, accompanied by their daugh-
tiers, Mrs. Harry Ware and Mrs.
f. B. McLain, are the guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. Archer at their home
here on Fleming street. The Wis
TORS are now residents of st.
! Petersburg, this being Mr.. and
| Mrs. Areher's first visit 10 Key
/ West in long number of years.
Return From Trip
Mrs. and Mrs. Larry Gardner
returned last night from a motor
"trip to North Carolina points of
two or three weeks duration. They
shipped their car to Marco, from
which point they made the trip
up the west coast. through Geor-
gis. South Carolina and into the
nfrthern Carolina. The trip from
Sanford to Waynesville was made
! in Two and one-half days. The
return trip was made via the east
coast. Mrs. Eugene Sands and
son accompanied the Gardeners on
the trip.
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Arrives For Visit
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Miss Rose Albury, after spend
ing several weeks visit in Key
West. returned to her home in
Miami yesterday over the East
Coast.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-07-27

Miss Sarah Wayne of Dudley,
Eng, was awarded 500 damages
against barber who shipped off
a slice Of her ear while shingling
her hair.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-07-27

Cornelius A. Roberts, who had
been spending several weeks visit
ing in Tampa and other points on
the west coast, returned to the
city yesterday on the steamship
Governor Cobb.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-07-27

f. w. Sands, who is employed
At Miami by the Florida East
Coast Railway Company, was an
arrival on the morning train, and
yin spend several days business
visit in the Island City.
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RADIO CALL FOR BLOOD

LEEDS, Eng. An appeal for
volunteers for blood TRANSMISSION
broadcast by radio brought 16
men to local hospital. ,.at,
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-07-27

Miss Irma Russell was included
in the passengers leaving Sunday
over the East Coast for Miami
where she will visit with relatives
during the next several weeks.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-07-27
NOTICE. CARPENTERS,

All members of the Carpenters
& Joiners .of America, with their
wives, are requested to be at the
hall, corner Of Caroline and Eliza
beth streets, Wednesday night
July %, at 8 o'clock.
PAUL F. ROBERTS,
july24-4t Secretary
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Personal Mention
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Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Cook, who
have been making an extensive
tour Of many points over the
country, have returned to the
city.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-07-27

Miss Blanche Russell, who. had
been spending several weeks visit
ing in Key West with relatives and
friends, returned to her home in
Miami yesterday over the East
Coast.
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$4,000 MILES OF AIR LINES

PARIS Air lines now in oper-
alton in Europe total $4,000 miles.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-07-27

Mrs. Frank Weech and daugh-
ter, Elizabeth, who had been
several weeks visiting in
Miami and other points In that
vicinity. have returned to The city.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-07-27

S. A. Crawford, connected with
the i. a. N. Railroad, who had
been spending several days bust
ness visit in Key West, was in
cluded in the passengers leaving
last evening over the East Coast.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-07-27

Mrs. David A. Pinder, accom-
panied by her children, who had
been spending several weeks visit
In Key West with relatives, were
passengers leaving over the East
Coast yesterday afternoon en-
route to their home in West Palm
Beach.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-31

teristic emotional reactions, it was
reported by DR.. Leslie Marston of the
Iowa Child Welfare Research Station
The mind of a person is organized
and important mental attitudes de-
termined before birth, DIR. Stewart
Patton of Princeton University de-
clared.
First mental tests of a gorilla made
by DIR. Robert NJ Yerkes of Yale
University revealed high intelligence.
The Yale psycho-clinic started on 3
program of studying the mental de-
velopment Of normal children, in
which the mental growth of Individual
children is to be followed for a num-
Der of years, through pre-school ages
and later childhood. 4.
A close systematic study Of the de-
velopment of six normal children in a
normal home environment was start
ed by three scientists in New York
City.
Children whose characters become
warped SO that they steal and commit
sex offenSeS as a result of sleeping
sickness may be re-educated by train
ing In good habits. according to re-
suits obtained by Halvi Haahti, Fin
nish psychiatrist at the Institute of
Juvenile Research Of Illinois.
Colored moving pictures now being
developed cause much less strain on
the eyes than black and white pic
lures, according to experiments made
by DIR. Leonard Troland, psychologist
of Harvard University.
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AERONAUTICS

Construction of two rigid airships OF
approximately 100000 cubic feet
capacity at cost not over SIS, ZOO 900 for
both authorized by Congress but no
funds appropriated.
Italian airship Norge demonstrated
by North Pole flight technical excel
lence of semi-rigid type.
Large Army semi-rigid airship RS-1
erected in United States.
Great Britain began construction of
two rigid airships of not less than
5000, 000 cubic feet capacity, one to
he made of duralumin, the other Of
stainless steel.
Germany began construction of new
rigid airship of 3.50O00 cubic feet
capacity for transatlantic use.
Construction of first metal-clad air
ship begun by Aircraft Development
Corporation, Detroit. for u. S Navy.
Airship mooring masts erected at
Detroit, Mich; Scott Field. Ill.,; Is
MALTA, Egypt; karachi, India.
Air commerce act passed by Con-
gress to promote commercial aviation
Exhaustion of Petrolia, Tex, gas
field endangers future supply of
helium needed in airship operation.
Rubber lumber, made of hard
sponge rubber, replaced wood and sup
plemented metal as aircraft construc-
ton material.
Amphibian airplanes developed for
use of Navy. Army and Coast Guard.
Research determined pressure dis
tribution over airship Los Angeles.
data that Will aid greatly in design of
future airships.
Brakes on landing wheels of air
planes were perfected.
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SEISMOLOCY AND
VOLCANOLOCY

Ten severe earthquakes in or near
North America were reported by seim-
biological stations cooperating with
Science Service, the United States
Coast and Geological Survey and the
Jesuit chronological Association.
Plans were completed by tho Sells.
mological Society of America, in CO
operation with the Carnegie Institu.
ton of Washington, for the establish
ment OF chain of seismograph sta
tons around San Francisco Bay. to
detect microscopic earth treInors and
SO to more adequately warn of future
Quakes.
Earthquake on west coast Of Su-
matra cost 400 lives.
Earthquakes devastated portions of
Armenia
Volcanic eruption in Tokachi,
Japan, cost 900 lives.
Three hitherto unknown volcanoes
were discovered in Alaska by r. II.
Sargent of the United States Geologi-
cal Survey. The largest is six and
quarter miles in diameter.
An eastern section of the Seismic
logical Society of America was es-
tablished for the particular study of
earthqua phenomena. In the eastern
part Of the United States.
Copyright. 1926.)
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ASTRONOMY

Observable region Of space was
SHOWN by DIR. Edwin Hubble of Mount
" lISon Observatory to be a sphere of
tEo'V0oo00 light years radius, includ-
ing some ? 900, 200 nebulae. all of them
embryo or grown stellar systems.
Mars came closer to earth than II
VIII come again until 1899
The temperature of the moon was
round To be above boiling point when
the sun IS shining directly on it by Dr.
Donald II. Mcneil of the University
OF Iowa, as a result of observations at
the Lowell Observatory in Arizona.
New evidence that our sun is 81 va.
riable star was obtained by DR. Charles
q. Abbot of the Smithsonian Institu-
ton by means of a new system he
devised for measuring and recording
the changes in the energy reaching
the earth from the sun.
American astronomical expeditions
travelled to Sumatra to observe q total
eclipse Of the sun on January Ia.
Some $4,000 mile-long sunspots.
largest seen in years, were observed
by Prof. George IT. Peters at the
Naval Observatory in September.
An unusual display of sunspots, the
largest being $4,000 miles in diameter
and the largest group 10000 miles
Ions. were, observed In October. Some
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-31
CHEMISTRY

Hydrogen was transmitted into
helium by Prof. F. Paneth and DR..
Peters of Berlin University.
Gold was claimed to have been
Transmitted to mercury by DIR. A.
Gaschler Of the Berlin Technical High
School
Nitrogen is changed to fiuorine and
then to hydrogen and oxygen when
hit by the nucleus of an atom of
helium. DIR. William d. Harkins of
the University of Chicago told the
National Academy Of Sciences.
Prof. S. b. Hopkins OF the Univer-
sity OF Illinois discovered a new chem.
ical element, No. 81, in the periodic
table, and named it illinium.
Elements rs and 43, reported dis.
covered by Prof. Walter Noddaclx of
Berlin in 1925, have been RELOCATED
to the limbo of still undiscovered
metals by experiments at the Plati
mum Institute of the Russian Academy
of Sciences, which failed to substan-
tiate the German results.
A synthetic drug called plasmochin
more powerful than quinine, was made
in the Elberfelder Farbenfabriken.
Compounds analogous to chaul
moogra oil were made in the labora
tory by DR.. Roger Adams of the Uni
act as an effective germicide against
leprosy.
The valuable constituent OF insulin
was prepared in crystalline form by
DIR. John J. Abel Of Johns Hopkins
University.
An extract of the parathyroid gland
which controls the lime content Of the
blood, was prepared successfully from
animal glands by A. M Hort and
II. B. North, Detroit chemists.
Luminous flames radiate more heat
than non-luminous flames, according
to tests made by Prof. r. T. Haslanl
! and NJ. w. Boyer OF the Massa
chusetts Institute of Technology.
A new method of welding pieces oil
metal together was announced by DIR
Irving Langmuir of the General Elec
trio Co. by which hydrogen molecules
are broken into atoms and recombined
to give an intensely hot flame.
Methods for liquefying coal and OBJ
tanning motor fuel and other valuable
products from coal wsGs lSerfected hy
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ENGINEERING AND
INVENTION

High steam pressure boilers prom
Used to revolutionize future locomo-
tives.
Cellulose skins for sausages were
perfected at the Mellon Institute.
Refrigerators cooled by gas flame
and by steam were invented by Euro
pean engineers.
A machine for automatically cooling
cipher telegraphic messages was per.
fected.
Prof. Schwartz of the University of
Stellenbosch proposed a scheme for
checking the. gradual drying up of
South Africa by damming the Kuene
River.
Secrets Of the long-range German
cannon that bombarded Paris from q
distance of over 50 miles were re.
vealed following the death Of the in
ventor, DIR. Fritz Rausenberger Of the
Krupp firm.
Steel sections, formerly used only in
skyscrapers, were used in residences
and buildings of light construction
class.
Practically all of the important rail
road lines in the United States decided
to establish auxiliary motor lines as a
result of meeting of railroad officials
representing 81 lines.
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UNIFORM RISE i'm BONDS PERSISTS
DESPITE FLUCTUATION OF STOCKS

| borrow In this country on such favor
able terms to the borrower. The bonds
| were offered at a discount Of over s
| points, but nevertheless the success OF
| the Offering, which was immediate
| represented the greatest advance
made along this line i'm years. Com
parison with the German government
international loan tloated as part OF
the Dawes plan brings out this point
strongly. The German government
bonds were marketed in 1924, almost
exactly two years before the Ham
burg issue. The German government
bonds carried per cent coupon and
the Offering price was at about the
same discount as the Hamburg 6s.
In other words, German credit has
bettered itself so much in these two
years that n division of the German
government could borrow money ex-
ternally L per cent cheaper than the
government itself had been able to do
at the beginning of the period.
Belgium Makes Big Strides.
Next to Germany the greatest
strides in regaining an investment DO
sition were made by Belgium. The Z
per cent sterilization loan is of so
comparatively recent date that It
does not need to be discussed in de-
tail here. 1t is an open secret. how.
ever. that the success of this par.
ticular bond offering was q surprise
even to the bankers. Offered I'm Oc-,
tober at "a, they had appreciated moro
than 6 points and We're selling above
par in less than two months.
The case of France rests on a. some
what different basis. For most of the
q IaaGf rnnfi6annn In.
finances was conspicuous by it's alb
sence, but toward the Close, OF the
year, with the frame rising and the
rest OF the foreign bond market adj
vancing, French bonds fell into nne.
Copyright. 1880
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-31

DR.. Friedrich Bergius and DIR. Franz
Fischer, both Germans, and Gen.
Georges Patart of Paris.
A process for making sugar from
wood was developed by Prof. Friedrich
Bergius of Heidelberg University.
Tests made by Government chemists
showed that a thin film of metallic
chromium electroplated upon printing
plates of finished steel or copper nickel
would make the plate wear long9r
than plates of hardest steel.
A world famine in rubber by 1880
was predicted by the United States De
partment of Commerce.
Commercial application Of carbon
dioxide ice for refrigeration purposes
has reached the practical stage.
The widespread supplanting of cot
ton by rayon and similar fabrics made
from wood began a revolution in
American agriculture.
A project was set on foot to produce
levulose sugar in large quantities
from the roots of dahlias.
A system of coming was evolved at
the International Conference on Oil
Pollution in an attempt to solve the
problems arising from the discharge
of waste oil by vessels at sea.
A set of world standards for gaso-
line and other liquid fuels was pro-
posed at the meeting of the Interna.
tional Union of Pure and Applied
Chemistry.
Prof. Richard Zsigmondy of the
University of Goetringen, Germany, re-
ceived the 1925 Nobel prize for chemis-
try. and Prof. Svedberg of the Univer-
stty of Upsala, Sweden, was awarded
The 1925 prize.
Poland elected as its president Prof
Ignatz Moscicki. well known scientist
in the field of chemical engineering.
The American Chemical Society Gel
ebrated the fiftieth anniversary of it's
foundation.
A meeting of the International
Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
was held at Washington September
1915.
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of the spots could be seen with the
naked eye.
Great increase in sunspot activity
was marked on earth by auroral dis
plays and magnetic storms. which
caused much disturbance in radio and
Geographic communication.
Eight comets, two of which were
new, were discovered during the year
one of the new ones was discovered
in January by an amateur astronomer
named Blathwayt, in South Africa
the second was discovered by DIR. j.
Soma-Sola of Fabra Observatory, at
Barcelona. Spain, in November
A new star was found in a spiral
nebula in the constellation Virgo by
Prof. Max Wolf of Heidelberg
A telescope with a 41-inch lens, to
be the largest refractor in the world,
was ordered by the Russian govern
ment from the Parsons firm in Eng
land.
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RADIO

Two-way radio communication was
established for considerable lengths Of
time between New York and London.
Directed beam" radio transmission
was begun on a large scale by sew
eral stations in the British Empire.
Radio broadcasting in the United
States has been under poor control
due to failure of Congress to enact
legislation.
New 80,O00-watt radio transmitter
was installed by United States Navy
at Chollas Heights, near San Diego.
Practical television was claimed by
several inventors in France and the
United States.
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GENERAL SCIENCE.

Four of the most important scien-
tific gatherings OF the year were the
International Congress Of Plant Sci
ences, held at Cornell University
Ithaca, n. Y; the International Con
gress of Psychologists, held at Stock
holm: the First International Congress
on Sexual Research, at Berlin. and the
Pan-Paciflc Science Conference, at
Toxic.
Germany was admitted to the Inter
national Research Council.
The first volume of the Interna-
tional Critical Tables, comprising an
invaluable collection of statistical in
formation for the use of scientists
generally, was issued by the National
Research Council.
An institution for popularizing sci
cnce, rOfice Information Scienti-
flque ct Technique, similar to Science
Service. opened in Paris under the
patronage of the Due de Gramont.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-31

Arctic Circle. by Swedish engineers,
using electrical prospecting methods.
Prehistoric reptile footprints in sand
stone, 25.O00,00O years old, were
brought to the United States Ma
tional Museum by their discoverer,
Charles w. Gilmore.
a O,000, 000-year-old fossil fish,
found in Norway, was presented to
Princeton University
While the L. S. S. Maryland made
a trip to Australia a chart of the sea
bottom along the route was made by
the automatic depth sounder, which
kept a continuous record throughout
the long voyage.
Iceberg predictions We're under
taken by the International Ice Patrol.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-31

Lieut. Comdr r. f. Byrd. u. s. N.
reached the North Pole May by air.
plane from Spitzbergen, making first
fight to Pole.
Amundsen crossed the North Pole
May IL In the airship Norge, travers-
ing 2,700 miles in II hours.
Center of New Guinea, only place
where white man has not yet roamed,
penetrated by American-Dutch party.
An expedition to Greenland to locate
the seat of the North Atlantic storms
was headed by DIR. William III. Hobbs
Of the University of Michigan.
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PSYCHOLOGY

Intelligence tests given to 301 gen
fuses Of history by DR.. Catherine NJ
Cox of Stanford University gave John
Stuart Mill first place.
Intelligence tests given to $500 New
England school children of foreign pa.
rents were found by DIR. Nathaniel
Hirsch to show that there Is no con-
nection between high intelligence and
any one particular. racial type.
Tests made with 100 young children
showed that a two-year-old child that
can scarcely talk is already developed
into a personality type, with charac.
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MOMENTUM is STRONG.
Present Pace to Garry Business
Through Next Half Year.

The momentum which business at
tanned in 1926 will carry the Nations
business as q whole through the first
half Of 1927, as there are no visible
signs of any serious depression or re-
action, according to reports from bank
executives to the Kardex Institute.
The most optimistic statements
came from the bankers in the bitumi-
nous coal fields of West Virginia, Illi-
nois and Kentucky. While business
throughout the county in November
and early December was "spotty,"
there Is today a preponderant feeling
of confidence. While admitting that
the agricultural situation universally
is not healthy, only per cent of the
bankers who replied to the special
questionnaire were pessimistic about
1927. There was also q noticeable inn
provement tn conditions in many parts
Of the gouth. despite the low price of
cotton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-31

Berlin established a matrimonial
bureau, where candidates for mar
riage can receive medical and geneti
cal advice.
The first meeting Of the American
Health Congress was held at Atlantic
City.
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Science Scores Some Fine Aceenpen-0d M0gs FARTHER F
1926 WAS NOTABLE YEAR
FROM SCIENCE VIEWPOINT
Invention of Cathode Ray and Air
Voyages Over Pole But Two Of
Prominent Events.

tn HE year just closing was
marked by notable advances
in all fields of science and re-
Il search. Among the high lights
of the scientific events were
the following:
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progress are as
follows:
!. G. . n citation
between r L N Ce
and Germany by
the development
and extension of
the Locarno policy
and the admission
of Germany to the
League of Ma
tions.
2. T h @ finan-
Cial recovery of
the three Western
European nations.
France, Italy and
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GEOLOGY AND
GEOGRAPHY

Thick vast beds OF potash in Texas
and New Mexico were discovered, and
promise to free America from German
potash monopoly.
A gold ore deposit OF importance
was discovered at Boliden, near the
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BY WILLIAM BIRD

The year 1926 has seen greater
progress toward the consolidation of
peace in Europe than any year since
the war. Four principal facts in this