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The Washington times., 1929-10-24
Shore Shrine Club Holds
Annual Dinner at HurIOcIk

HURLOCK, Nd, Oct. 24.-The
annual banquet of the Eastern Shore
Shrine Club. held here last night,
was attended by about eighty.five
from BouIni Temple. Baltimore. and
the Hartford Cecil Shrine Club.
Among the speakers were Robert
Al. Sindall, potentate of the Boumi
Temple, and s. o. Neale, president
of tho Eastern Shore Club.
A committee to nominate officers
for the Eastern Shore organization
was appointed, with DR.. Eldridge
Wolf, O.. Cambridge, as chairman.
The Washington times., 1929-10-24
Rubber Tree Culture
Is Started In West

No recent plant importation has
had more publicity and public In.
terest than Euphorbia intisy, q rub
Der tree recently brought to the
United states from Madagascar by
Or. Charles r.. Swingle, United
States Department Of Agriculture.
4 1t is said that only a dozen tiny
trees survived the transfer, four
OF which are now growing In
Southern California, two at Torey
Pines and two at Bard. At both
stations additional plants VIII be
propagated from cuttings after the
parent plants have grown guffi-
cientiy.
The Washington times., 1929-10-24
POstoffice Day to Be
Observed In IVY City

Post Office Day win be held at
the Bethesda Baptist Church, Capitol
Avenue and Kendall Streets North
east. Ivy City, Sunday at : p. M,
It was announced today.
williams, Frank Hearns. Alexander
Taylor, J.. Vernon Stevenson, Harry
Derricote. jeremiah Davis and the
Trinidad Male Chorus.
The Washington times., 1929-10-24
Prof. Bernis 10 Address
ID. c. Library Association

Or. Samuel r. Bemis. professor
81 history at George washington
University, will be the speaker at
the meeting oe the District Of Column
bia Library Association this evening
at o'clock at the American Asso-
citation of University Women.
The Washington times., 1929-10-24
Elections to Be Held
Nv Mid CITY Citizens

The Mid-City Citizens Associa-
tion will meet Monday at s 3. m.
In the Thompson Public School,
Twelfth and u Streets, Northwest.
Officers win be elected and the
annual reports read.
The Washington times., 1929-10-24
Y. N. c. A. CAMPAIGN READY

a Today membership drive Of the
y. M. @. A. win start tomorrow
night in the organizations assembly
hall. Twenty.four teams viii COM
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n fvnI1nid fever

value of baptisia in typhoid fever.
He took solution containing nine
parts water and one part blood serum
| from rabbits and used this on a culture
of the typhoid fever organisms. This
he found, had no effect whatever on
the disease parasites. Then he fed bap-
tisia to the rabbits. The serum from
the rabbits. which had eaten the drug
Immediately caused the "clumping" of
the typhoid bacilli.
Under the microscope it was seen
that they came together and formed
punches, an indication that an anti
typhoid agent was present in the serum
In dilutions of one part of the serum
OF the drugged rabbit to 100 parts of
water the solution was effective In caus-
in the "clumping" of the bacilli. which
Is followed by their death.
Works Similarly to Vaccine.
No other agent except anti-typhoid
vaccine is known to have a similar eff
feet on the typhoid bacilli. The chem
istry of this action has not been
worked out, but the experiment has
raised the baptisia treatment from
backwoods lore to scientific medicine.
The results of the experiment have
been placed before musical societies
and the juice of the wild indigo root
is being given in Flower Hospital and
elsewhere to typhoid patients.
Thousands of rabbits and other
animals were used in researches on
other old home remedies and drugs
used by aboriginal peoples. Nineteen
out of 20 were found to be useless or
worse than useless. But another drug,
which is used by African natives for
dropsy and by the laity in other parts
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a marked effect on the respiratory APP

a marked effect ON the respiratory APP
paratus.
Fools parsley was failure. This has
reputation in country districts in New
York State and in other parts of the
country for it's supposed power to Keep
the baby quiet. It is considered SOY
ereign remedy in stomach complaints
and other troubles of infants. DIR. Boyd
made endless experiments with fools
parsley but could not discover that 1t
had any effect whatever.
Other scientists, following on the
trail of illiterate natives, have found
recent years. The medical profession
now thanks the Chinese coolie for a
valuable treatment for asthma. This
Is a drug obtained from a plant called
ephedra vulgaris, which has been in
use among the Chinese for several
thousand years. 1t received no scien-
tif1c recognition, however, until DR..
Chen and DIR. Schmidt investigated it
at Pekin College from 1923 to 1926.
They found it powerful agent in rails
ing the blood pressure and useful in
asthma and in certain conditions of the
circulation.
The drug myrtillin, introduced re-
Gently into the United States by Dr..
Frederick NJ Allen of the Morristown
Institute, for use in certain cases of
diabetes, came from peasants in the
Alp regions, who used BURBERRY leaves
for diabetes. An Austrian professor
became interested, and his studies con-
vinced him that Alpine peasants had a
valuable drug. Though less sensational
than insulin in its effects, this remedy
Is now widely used for diabetes. The
treatment Of paresis by inoculating the
sufferer with malaria, which has been
introduced into many hospitals with
favorable reports, Is also due to an
Austrian professor, who made a scien-
q legend Of the laity.
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SEGRAVE REACHES
u. S. FOR SPEED TRY
British Racer viii Drive Car
Built Like AirpIane in
Quest of Record.
By the Associated Press.

6S tue AoSOIidLeu t'T6SS.
NEW YORK. February Deter
mined to regain for England the
world speed record for automobiles
MAJ. Fl o. D. Segrave has arrived in
this country with car patterned after
racing airplane.
He was the first man ever to drive
an automobile faster than 200 miles an
hour, but his record was. broken last
April by Ray Keech, an American, who
drove machine at 207.55 miles an
hour
Although Maj. Segrave has never
tried out his new machine, named the
Golden Arrow, he is confident he will
be able to make at least 230 miles an
hour. The race against time will take
place in March on the sand at Day
tona, Fla, where the other races were
held
The Golden Arrow was designed by
Capt. j. S. Irving, who also designed
the Sunbeam, the car in which Maj
Segrave made an official speed of 203T9
miles an hour. The Golden Arrow is
built on the lines of the British plano
SIS, which won for Great Britain the
last Schneider Cup races with speed
of 1854 miles an hour.
A driving sight enables the car to be
aimed as a large gun is sighted. A
black line is drawn along the hood to
where the radiator cap ordinarily
would be. Here is sight through
which Maj. Segrave will watch
bright light at the end of the run.
The machine is 36 inches high. 1t
has three gear shifts forward, with
theoretical speeds of 80, 166 and 245
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HOME REMEDY TYPHOID CURE
WINS SCIENTISTS APPROVAL
Some Treatments Used by Country Folks
and Primitive Races Are Found
to Have Merit.
Special Dispatch to The sta

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, February Treat
ments for typhoid fever, pneumonia
and rheumatism, widely used by coun-
try folk, native races and unlicensed
medicine men, but regarded as value
less by most of the medical profession,
have been established on a scientific
basis, according to the report of an ex-
tensive investigation made public by
Flower Hospital.
The old wives remedies have quail
tiles of merit, it is revealed, along with
native African and Chinese physicians
and the sages of remote rural districts
in this country and Europe.
The most striking hit scored by I'M
scientific medicine was in the case of
an extract of wild indigo This is used
by natives in many parts of the world
as a remedy for typhoid fever and other
feverS. It was used to some extent by
the medical profession. but generally
fell into disfavor, except with some
homeopathists.
DR.. Linn j. Boyd, professor of medi-
cine at the New York Homeopathic
Medical College, who has for three years
been carrying on this research in the
field of unscientific medicine at Flower
Hospital used rabbits in a test of the
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Of the world for pneumonia, was tested
with surprisingly good results. This was
bryonia, an extract from a wild hop
plant. The medical profession had tried
1t, but found it wanting. and it had
been dropped from the pharmacopoeia.
,, The germs causing pneumonia cannot
be dumped" like the typhoid bacilli,
and some other technique had to be
used
Pneumonia was induced in scores of
rabbits by injecting the germs into
their lungs. The dose given killed four
out of five of the rabbits which did not
receive the bryonia treatment. But, of
the rabbits which were treated with
bryonia. only two out of five died.
THAT cannot be interpreted as mean
ing that bryonia will have similar
percentage of successes in saving hui
man beings suffering from pneumonia. !"
said DR.. Boyd, "but it seems to indicate
that the lay people and the compare
lively few physicians who used this
remedy had some justification.
Found Many Valuable Drugs.
"The basis for our investigation is
the fact that among primitive peoples
everybody is more or less of physi-
clan. It is an instinct to fight dis
ease. They tried this, that and the
other thing. When you shoot with
scattergun a few bullets will hit the
target. The primitive people hit on
many valuable drugs. most of which
have been taken over by standard medi-
cine. They also patronize magic and
all kinds of useless remedies. But where
we find native tribes in different parts
of the world or the country people of
various different nations all using the
same herb or treatment for the same
disease it is pretty fair chance that
they have hit on something valuable"
The bee-sting remedy for rheumatism,
or arthritis, has also been indicated in
the course of these researches. The
poison sacs were removed from some
bees and their contents analysed. 1t
was strongly indicated that formic acid
was the substance which makes the
bees singer sting. Instead, there
fore. of keeping bees on hand and in
ducing them to attack arthritic pa
Another home remedy, now under
study, is the 'pleurisy root" otherwise
known as the butterfly weed and as the
asclepias tuberosa. The check-up on
the "pleurisy root" has not been COM
pleted, but 1t has been found to have
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-07
Vergil City Discovered

Buthrotum the mysterious city men
toned by Vergil, has finally been found
in Northern Albania by Italian schol-
ars. Relics that date back to the bronze
age have been unearthed on the site,
together with baths, statues and other
evidences of Greek and Roman times.
Elaborate mosaics indicate that the citi-
zens of Buthrotum were worshipers OF
Neptune.
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miles an hour. respectively. It will
consume 10 gallons of special fuel per
hour. The driver will be strapped in
his seat. which is inclosed with a
quarter-inch steel plate to protect him
from wind. The car is 27.8 feet long
and feet wide The tires are of cord,
covered only by one-sixteenth of an
inch of rubber, and cost $4,000.
The Alaska fisherman., 1929-04-15

ldCG G1ldG GllG brlU1Sn COluIlO1d Government is warning on these animals, equipping patrol boats with machine guns and battling the animals at their very rock cries, killing many and driving others to our waters where the United States government pro- tectS them. It seems to us re- prehenSible that this condition could exist, destroying as it does hundreds of thousands of pounds of king salmon without getting even protest from the Bureau of Fisheries. There is no closed fishing season for these thou sands of animals during Janu- ary, February and March. And yet, consider how many salmon these seals must have each day to maintain their tonnage. We could go on.
 We are appealing to you for tair play because you are cur government. Our government has no right to hurt us needless ly. In good faith, we have cri- ticiSed yorr closing order call ing your attention to the fact trolling year even now consists of only 167 eight hour days, and to the further fact that the fish ing in April would wipe out whatever advantage you might gain the first three months; we have proposed a substitute, end now advise you of the menace of the sea-lions which destroy more salmon than are caught by our entire fleet.
 Respectfully,
 President
 Alaska TrOllerS' Association
 Eric K. Johnson,
 ALASKA JUNEAU'S PROFIT
 Against a deficit of $151 ,788 in 1927, the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company's 1928 state
The Alaska fisherman., 1929-04-15
Rearing Adult Fish


 Ontario hatcheries was 714,128,- 200 fry and fngerlings for the year 1927. The output from other hatcheries of the Domini- on (including Quebec for 1927 was 1O,O0O,00O) was 305,283,7 If these fry and fngerlings all grew to maturity, there would be roughly speaking 238 adult fish for each man, woman and child in Ontario, and about 43 adults for each man, woman and child in the rest of the Dominion.
 The difficulty, however, is to know how many of these fry and fingerlings grow to maturity. "Gratifying reports" the Domin- ion Fisheries Department says, regarding the results that are apparent from the distribution of hatchery products continued to come in from all districts where fish cuA yural operations are carried on in a systematic way"
 Similar reports have been coming in to the Department of Fisheries in Ottawa for over if ty years, but when investigated there is little or no evidence to support them. They usually originate from hatchery en- loyeeS who are anxious to make the public believe that the SUD- ply of fish depends mainly upon the hatcheries, when it probab- ly depends almost entirely upon the natural breeding of native fish. But at any rate whether the supply depends upon hatch cries or upon unaided natural propagation the Fisheries De- partment at Ottawa and Toronto have shown no disposition to submit the question to the test of experiment or to investigate it by competent committee.
 Hatcheries Not Keeping Up
 Supply on Fraser River
The Alaska fisherman., 1929-04-15
Are HatCherieS Worth
 xWhile?

One thing is certain. On the PacilIc Coast in 1922, the British Columbia Fisheries Commission could find no evidence amongst the Fraser River fishermen that the hatcheries were keeping up the supply of sockeye salmon. Nor did the Commission see any evidence that the hatchery staffs or fishery overseers possessed any adequate knowledge of science by which they might be aided in rearing fry and finger lingS to adults. No man knows how many fry and flngerlings grow to maturity from known number of hatchery fry. There have been guesses but few reli- able counts.
 Perhaps the best evidence as to the failure of hatcheries is furnished by the biological Board of Canada in the following reso- lutiOn: The Board finds that there is at the present time in- sufficient to enable it to state that the present fish cultural work of the Department is or is not justified by economic re- suits" Passed Dec. 30, 1924.
 This is the unanimous conclu- sion of a body of twelve business and university men who repre- sent today the highest authority on fish culture in Canada.
 As previously stated the out put of the Ontario hatcheries for 1927 was 714,128,2OO; the output of the Dominion hatcheries was 305, ,283,782; a grand total of 1,- 019, 1882. The hatchery staffs who have turned out this inn immense number of fry and fin gerings can certainly not be ac- cUsed of failure. Failure there has been in the rearing of fry and fngerlings into adult fish; but the failure occurred after the fry and fngerlings had left the hands of the hatchery staffs
The Alaska fisherman., 1929-04-15
ALASKA JUNEAU'S PROFIT

Against a deficit of S151,788 in 1927, the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company's 1928 state ment showed net profit of $781, 1OG.
The Alaska fisherman., 1929-04-15

A little eXaggeratiOn in praise or kind words is no lie.-Alva Adams.
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which had been adopted by the Home
and School Association. The opponents
generally expressed the belief that the
relief sought through incorporation
could be provided by the county COM
missioners more cheaply
During the course of the presentation
of arguments it developed that one of
the principal needs was the construc-
ton of streets, and under the law in
Prince Georges County the towns re-
ceive a portion of their taxes for the
purpose of building and maintaining
streets.
Portions of letter from Burton E.
Ford, who represents College Park in
the Legislature, but who has been kept
away from the present session much on
account of business, were read, which
said that he was opposed to the in
corporation.
Generally, the proposed corporate line
would have the Washington Baltimore
boulevard as a western boundary, then
east and south along the south line of
the University of Maryland, the Paint
Branch, to Charles avenue, and then
west along Arundel avenue.
The principal argument Of the pro-
pponents was presented by Prof. s. S.
Steinberg. He said that the area had
now reached the point where 1t should
have regularly constituted authorities
to carry out the normal duties of town
government Such duty up to the pres
ent, he said, had been performed by
the Home and School Association, with
the pecuniary support of few citizens
These few now bear the expense of pub
lie improvements, which should be born
in part by every resident, he told the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-22
Women Heirs to $50 100000 Live in Palace
Without Telephone, Electricity or Radio

So closely did the Misses Georgiana
and Ella keep to their house that the
death OF Georgiana a month ago In q
sanitarium was not made known until
yesterday when petition was filed for
letters of administration of her estate.
Mrs. Swope was the only one Of the
sisters ever to have attended the theater
or opera, so far as known.
In the Fifth avenue mansion there Is
no electricity, telephone, photograph or
radio, the newspapers have said.
The fortune was founded by John G.
Wendell, the grandfather of the women,
who was contemporary of John Jacob
Aston in the fur business. He invested
heavily in land and laid down the die
tufn followed by his heirs, Buy, but
never sell, real estate" ID
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committee. He said that the citizens
had paid for the establishment of =
street lighting system, and we're pay
ing $500 year for its maintenance
Many of the citizens give of their time
in keeping a ditch cleared, so that the
area can be properly drained, and q
fire department has been organized to
which some of the residents contribute
from IS to $40 year. He add that
under the Incorporation, the taxes on
the average house assessed at $4,000
would be only $40 year.
Particular fault was found by Sen
ator SaSScer with q provision in the
proposed bill which would give the town
commissioners authority to issue and
revoke licenses. He said that 1t gave
them too much power. Sasscer said
that he would not even vote such
power to the county commissioners.
While most towns are given authority
to license for the purpose Of obtaining
revenue, he said, he knew of no place
where such broad authority was given.
DR.. F. B. Bomberger pointed out that
the weight Of carrying out the COM
munity expenses were on the shoulders
Of few.
DR.. Sam Buckley said that If there
was incorporation 1t should include
other subdivisions adjacent to those
proposed He believed, he said, that the
area now proposed was SO small that
the citizens would not get the benefit
of reduction In cost of upkeep which
they were seeking, and to make the
matter pay the others should be In
cluded.
The matter was taken under advise
ment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-22
ROCKVILLE BANK
CANCELS CONTRACT
Clause in Charter Causes Ac-
ton Heartening Court
House Plan Backers.
Special Dispatch to The Star.


ROCKVILLE, Md, February a.
Discovery that clause Of the charter
of the Farmers Banking a. Trust Co. OF
Rockville prohibits the expenditure oil
more than $4,000 for bank building
led the directors at meeting here yes
terday afternoon to cancel the contract
recently awarded to the Tighlman Moy-
er Co. of Allentown, Pa, for building
to cost approximately $4,000. H. c.
Buel, vice president of the construction
company, attended the meeting and
offered no opposition.
The action of the directors means that
before the new bank building can be
erected, the charter will have to be
amended and the stockholders will be
promptly asked to pass upon the ques-
ton of change.
Unless it should be made an emer-
gency measure, an amendment enacted
by the Legislature now in session would
not become effective until June, which
Of course, would mean that new con-
tract could not be let by the bank be-
fore that time.
The delay, it Is thought, may have
some bearing on the Rockville court
house project, inasmuch as it was real
lied that had the building of the new
bank building been proceeded with as
originally planned it would have pre-
cluded the acquisition of the entire
block to the west of Courthouse square
as site for the proposed new court
house. Those who favor the purchase
Of the entire block are understood to
feel that the deferring of building op-
erations by the bank people may make
1t possible to yet acquire the whole lot.
State Senator Eugene Jones, however,
who has opposed the acquisition of the
block, has not, he has made plain,
changed his mind, and insists that no
legislation looking to such an arrange
ment will pass the State Senate II he
can prevent 1t.
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MANHOLE ACCIDENT
] DELAYS NEWS FLOW
Associated Press Cable Burns Out,
Affecting $50 Wires Leading /
to All Parts Of Country.
b The Associated Press.-


NEW YORK, February 22.-The
burning out of cable in street man.
hole delayed for several hours today
the feeding Of news from the New York
bureau of the Associated Press to hum
dreds Of newspapers In the Eastern and
Central States.
The cable runs from Associated Press
headquarters at 383 Madison avenue,
near the Grand Central Terminal, to
the Western Union Building in Walker
street, more than two miles downtown,
where the $50 wires of the cable are di-
Tected throughout the Nation.
Melting snow presumably flooded a
manhole between the Grand Central
Terminal and Twenty-third street,
Western Union officials said, causing a
grounding or short circuit Of the cable.
The short circuit occurred shortly
after o'clock and although Western
Union workmen were put to work i'm
mediately, 1t was several hours before
the service was partially restored. Auto
matte printer service, a sort of tele-
graphic typewriter. was the only ia
cility affected, and the news organiza-
ton was able to maintain the relay of
some news over Morse wires.
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By GEORGE PORTER.

Desire 10 preserve the earthenworks
of an old Civil War fort on a site COM
manding q magnificent view OF Wash.
ington, Is believed to have been behind
the action of the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Capital Park and Planning Commission
in approving plans for the subdividing
of a tract Of land on the Washington,
Marlboro pike. a short distance beyond
the District line. exclusive Of about four
acres comprising the fort.
The area, included in the plans for
subdividing, submitted by r. F. Brad
bury, owner, but noticeably left out OF
the approval recorded by the park COM
mission at Its meeting Wednesday night,
is known as Fort Meigs.
1t Is located in the triangle formed
by the intersection of Benning road and
the Washington Marlboro pike. During
the Civil War 1t consisted OF several