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New Britain herald., 1930-08-12
SCIENTISTS MEET,.
 DISCUSS BACTERIA
Chemists to Prepare Papers on Minute Lie

Cincinnati. Aug. 12 LP) The worlds smallest workmen - molds, ferments, enzymes and bacteria - will hold first place in scientific pa pers of the American Chemical so- ciety, meeting here beginning Sep tember 9.
 Putting these little microscopic bits of life into controlled and prof itable work for men is one of the new fields of science.
 All they demand is food, satisfac- tory living quarters, certain mois- turo. temperature, acidity and pro- lection from enemies.
 EnthuStasts among chemists even forecast them as substituting for gi- gantic masses of metal machinery.
 A few molds are among mans oldest friends, beginning with the ferments that made wine and alco- hol before writing was known. Only recently have chemists begun seri- ously to hunt for ferments to do all sorts of jobs.
 The World War brought out sev- eral, such as making butanol and acetone from corn, for use in air plane "dopes." Now this ferement- made butanol goes into many spray paints of automobiles.
 Glutonic acid costing Sl00 a pound two years ago now is made for 50 cents by a mold process dis covered by Dr. H. T. Herrick, molds expert of the color laboratory in the department of agriculture.
 He plans 8 national symposium on ferments in industry for the Cincin- natl meeting. Druggists now use glutonic acid as a, calcium salt.
 Mods make the citric acid used both for soft drinks and medicines They manufacture the acetlC acid of vinegar that goes to make synthetic silks and the non-eXplosive kind of motion picture films.
 Gallic acid which appears in most ink and many dyes is made from nut gals by the labors of few bil- lion moldS.
New Britain herald., 1930-08-12
TRY OUT EVOLUTION THEORY WITH RATS One Factor Is Not Carried
 Out in Test

Flagstaff, Ariz. lp) - One of the minor props of the evolution theory, called the Lamarckian factor, is con- siderably bent by experiments at Alc Museum of Northern Arizona.
 This Lamarckian factor holds in effect that man loses what he does rot use. It says: Tn every animal which has not exceeded it's term of development the more frequent and sustained use of any organ. develops and enlarges 1t and gives it strength proportional to the length of time of such use.
 Constant lack of use imperceptibly ueakens it, causing 1t to become re- duced and ends in it's disappear ance."
 To test this contention Harold S. Colton amputated the forelegs of very young albino rats and their des- cendants for six generations.
 In a report to the southwestern division of the American Association for the Advancement of Science h , says there was no demonstrahlC change in the lost bones of the last
New Britain herald., 1930-08-12
Pasteur's Nephew Breeds
 Better Rating Cats

Le Havre, Frange. Aug. 12 P>- Pussy is more efficient than science in rat catching.
 Dr. A. Loir, nephew of Pasteur, prefers cats to chemicals and gas in chasing rodents. He plans soon to establish a cat farm to develop breeds that will take "mousing' seriously and make it their life work.
 For four years Dr. Loir has been selecting breeds. His project is backed by scientific societies and warehouse and shipping interests, which have suffered heavy losses from rats.
New Britain herald., 1930-08-12
MARY PICKFORD RETURNS
 TO BROADWAY IN AUTUMN
Three Other Noted Stars of Silver Screen Will Appear On
 New York Stage.

New York, Aug. 1e UP)-Mary Pickford. for years the foremost screen actress, will return next fall to the New York stage where she last appeared in 1908 as a child ac- tress, it was announced today.
 Arch Selwyn, the producer under whose management she will appear, said play had not yet been select ed for her.
 Three other screen stars will be seen on the Broadway boards next season. Lya De Putt, Hungarian actress, who made her first screen success in "Variety." will be seen in a comedy entitled Made in France, , by Jack Larric.
 Rod La Rocque and Wilma Banky will star in How to Be Happy" a play adapted from the Hungarian by John Emerson and Anita Loos.
New Britain herald., 1930-08-12
Nuns, Fleeing kenchow,
 Report BishOp Remains

Peiping, China. Aug. 12 UP)- Eight American Catholic nuns who escaped from communist raiders in kenchow, Kiangsi arrived today at ShiuchoW and said that one foreign Bishop Oshea of Beep River, Conn.,, had refused to leave the threatened district.
 They said the governments eX- trcme measures against Chinese communists continued and that hun dreds of communist suspects had been executed at Changsha and Han kow and nearby cities in an effort to prevent troop mutinies.
New Britain herald., 1930-08-12
ARTHIR COOK DIES

Meriden. Aug. 12-Arthur E. Cook superintendent of police and fire signal services Of the city of Meriden, died last night after a weeks illness of crysipe1as, con- tracted from Q boil on the neck which had become infected. He was connected with the signal depart ment of the city since 1913.
New Britain herald., 1930-08-12

generation over those of the first.
 Therefore" he says. this expert ment contributes no evidence SUD- porting the Lamarcllian factor in evolution
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-01-20
DIXIE CHAMPS BANK ON SOPHS
 IN CAGE DRIVE

RALEIGH, N. C., Jan. 20.-Gus Tbeell, the football and basketball professor from Wisconsin who is shooting at his second straight Southern conference cage title at North Carolina State, hopes his Sophomores are as hot as they were as freshmen.
 ! They'll have to be hot, he req sons, because sophomores will make or break the Wolfpack title hopes. Last year they were good enough to snatch the state freshman cham pionship from an array of promis- ing contenders.
 The Wolves will miss Frank Goodwin, high scoring ace of last season, and two other stars who finished their college caging when State breezed through the confer ence tournament, spanking Duke in the final tilt.
 So the sophs and three veterans will do the snarling for the Pack The vets are Captain Maurice John son. 6 senior who plays either guard or forward; Gus Wright, a husky guard; and Larry Haar, a for ward.
 The most promising sophomores are Jimmy Brown, ace of the cham pionship freshmen last wint CT; "Hunky" Waring, a foot inch center who is being groomed for Goodwin's place; Bill Woodward and Gaylor, forwards; and Joe FL lington and Bill Morgan, centers.
 Other promising court folders include Cannon, Brake and Pat terson, holdover reserves.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-01-20
MANDELL AND 'LARNIN IN
 BOUT FEB. 4

CHICAGO, Jan. 20.-Jimmy Me Larnin, heavy-hitting welterweight contender, and Sammy Mandell worlds lightweight boxing cham pion, will meet in a return engage ment at the Chicago Stadium Tues day, February 4, it has been an- nounced by Matchmaker Nate Lewis
 McLarnin and his manager Pop Foster, stopped off here en route from New York to Vancouver, B. C., and agreed to terms for the match Lewis announced.
 Mandell, who lost the decision in their previous encounter, has al- ready agreed to terms, according to Lewis.
 They will battle over the ten round route and the weight will probably be IA pounds, although it has not yet been definitely agreed upon.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-01-20
REVISED RULES TO AID
 CUPBOARD RAGING SPORT

SARASOTA, Fla, Jan. 20.-Sev- eral changes in outboard speedboat racing rules promise to open new era for the sport by separating amateur and professional partici- pants.
 Amateurs have found the going tough because they have been fore ed to compete with drivers backed by manufacturers.
 The new rules, effective this win ter, include weight restrictions on racing hulls, revised regulations for motors, elimination of free-for- all contests, and establishment of a class for family runabout" boats.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-01-20
S100,000 IN PRIZES
 WAIT SAILFISHERMEN

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla, Jan 20.-Anglers here this winter to flirt with the gamey sailfish and other South Atlantic fish, will have a chance to compete for trophies valued at more than S100,000, say officials of the Palm Beach Anglers and Sports club
 Prizes this year have been in sured for S15o,OO0 by the club which has just opened its ninth annual sport fishing contest.
 Outstanding among IS trophies received from abroad is a solid gold reproduction of the famous Cup of Vaphio.v It was placed in com petition by Admiral Koundouriotis, president of Greece.
 The fishing contest will end about March Is and trophies will then be awarded
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-01-20
Sport S1afltS ALAN J.6oulD

All the Old East can do about it's football is to read the figures and weep.
 I. was bad enough year ago when the Pacific Coast trio of Stanford, Southern California and Oregon State decisively whipped Army, Notre Dame and New York University, rolling up an aggregate 73 points to 27 for the Eastern C,e1s. IL is worse now.
 T1e same three Far Western out f'ts have cleaned up again and if yCu care for the total count it was 95 to 34, with Stanford riding rough-shod over Army again, Ore gon State turning in the scalp of Detroit, and Southern California cleaning up the hitherto undefeat ed Pitt Panthers. In addition California contributed an early sea- son victory over Pennsylvania to make it a gala season for the Big Three of the Golden State.
 Whats the answer? That the Pacific Coast plays superior foot ball to the rest of the country? Not if you happen to live in the locali- ty generally described as the Mid dle West" The Southern Cali fornia whirlwind that smothered Carnegie and Pittsburgh, two strong teams, was just an occasional blast against Notre Dame at Chicago, where the Irish had bigger &C., tlal margin than their one-point victory indicated.
 The Eastern" All-stars whip ped the Far Western outfit, but most of the 'East's" aces were from Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota and other Adid-Western points. On the same day, another group of Midwest ern boys took an All-Southwest aggregation over the jumps at Dal- las and the Iowa-Dakota combina tion representing the North Gen. tral Conference trimmed the Rocky Mountain climbers in the rarefied atmosphere of Denver.
 Tn other words, neither the eli mate nor the altitude seemed to bother the talent from the Middle Western plains, which enjoys the distinction of winding up with the only brace of major unbeaten out fits in the country-Purdue and Notre Dame from the poetic con- fines of Indiana.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-01-20
GOLF COURSE ADDED
 TO HORSE RACE TRACK

COLLINSVILLE, H., Jan. 3O- Flying golf balls, as well as flying hoofs of horses will be seen at the Fairmount Jockey club in it's 1930 spring meet.
 A golf course is to be laid out adjoining the club house. Buildings are to be equipped for the use of golfing race fans and perhaps rac- ing golf fans. The infield of the race course will become part of a fairway with the links extending along the back stretch.
 Mixing the two sports is calcu- lated to keep the club open the year around instead of merely during spring and fall racing meets.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-01-20
FOUR SOONER SPORT
 CAPTAINS ARE MARRIED

NORMAN, Okla, Jan. 20.-Mar- ried men almost monopolize the roster of sport captains at the University of Oklahoma. Four leaders in major sports are mar ried
 They are Parker Shelby, track captain, who won the high jump in last years intercollegiate compe- tition; Tom Churchill, all-confer- ence and Olympic athlete who leads Sooner basketeers; Lawrence Mantooth. wrestling captain, and Frank Crider, full-back captain of the Oklahoma football team.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-01-20
END AVERAGES 46 YARDS
 ON BALL LUGGING JAUNTS

DAVIDSON, N. C., Jan. 20.-Foot- ball bookkeepers at Davidson col- lege have this to offer on Thad Brock, captain and end:
 He averaged 46 1-3 yards a trip in his ball toting, reeling off 139 yards in three yourneys.
 He made 71-yard punt and a 1G2-yard run in the same game, against Duke.
 He kicked ten out of IA tries for points after touchdowns, enabling Davidson to win two extra point decisions, to and 13 to 12.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-01-20
CORSET REBELLION
 GRIPS FLORIDA GALS

PALM BEACH, Jan. 20.- This season will be remem- bered by Palm Beach as the year of the great corset war the conflict of the stays.
 With the long skirt and the raised waist line, styl- ists have ruled corsets in- dispensable but some society leaders have rebelled.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-01-20
DANCE
DANCE

DANCE DANCE DANCE
 Elks Hall, Saturday night. Seren- aders Music. -adv.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-01-20
WIMBLEDON SEATS
 WILL COST MORE

WIMBLEDON, England, Jan. 20.-Center seats at Wimbledon will cost 50 per cent more next year.
 The All England club, which joins with the Lawn Tennis association in staging the annual net champion ships, has announced that 12 seats for the 12 days of the tournament will cost those privileged to buy them, six guineas, instead of four guineas ($2oD as formerly.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-01-20
NO LEGION SMOKER
 UNTIL NEXT MONTH

The smoker of the American Le- zion originally scheduled for next Saturday night in the A. B. Hall has been postponed until sometime next month, it was announced this morning.
 It was necessary to set the date ahead due to Matchmaker A. l.. King being unable to lineup a card of bouts.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-01-20
BAsKETEER A LINDY DOUBLE

UNIVERSITY. Ala, Jan. 2O.- James Marcus Hood, Alabama cen ter, got his nickname while run ming away from mob" In New Orleans he was mistaken for Lind bergh and was chased for some blocks. Since then he's been Lin d,y u
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-01-20

ATTENTION
 Painting, Paperhanging, Kalso- mining and Stippling. First class work. Telephone APT. --adv.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-01-20
INTERNATIONAL GAMES FOR '3C

DARMSTADT, Germany, Jan 20
 Foreign Minister pr. Curtius has accepted the honorary chairman ship for the fourth international students athletic championship con- tests here in August, 1880. From 400 to 500 foreign students, includ- ing many Americans will compete.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-01-20

It seems that even the high-brow sport of polo is not immune from the current activity of experts busy detecting the growth of profession alism. A writer in the magazine Polo, says:
 "The third class (of professionals) might be called dog-robbers. MT. Howard Jinks who made a million in the investment trust business wants to break into society. What better way than through sport And what sport offers better ap- proach than polo? Accordingly the investment trust king buys him. self a few mallets, ponies, stable, perhaps a field and all the acces- sories down to a 1880 Rolls lan- daulet.
 Obviously he cannot quite buy a team in the same way. But good amateur players are scarce, and perhaps good amateurs prefer to trade shots with friends rather than with investment kings So cut he goes and purchases players somewhat as MT. Connie Mack purchases players for the Philadel- phia Athletics and a good football coach purchases an eleven for the Alma Mater"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-01-20

In a ballot to decide the best col lege football team of the season, Pittsburgh received 442 votes and Southern California 21. And you can find out just how much each Pitt vote was worth on the after noon of January l. by figuring on the basis of Southern California's z7-14 victory in the Rose Bowl.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-06

tri3ation Is unjustifed and unfair. To
contemplate such an increase in ad-
vance of the fiscal inquiry by the
House this Winter, at which some eff
fort undoubtedly will be made to in
vestigate the merits of existing tax
alton, is illogical in the extreme.
The Budget Bureaus previous policy
in connection with the amount of the
Federal contribution has been merely
to include as the next years contri-
button the amount appropriated by the
preceding Congress. Whether the
Budget Bureau allows $4,000, 900 this
year as the Federal contribution re-
mains to be seen. AS a matter of
fact, its action in this respect is not
Of vital Importance to the taxpayers
of the District. Ten million dollars is
an obviously inadequate Federal con-
tribution. While the contribution
should, of course, be increased, the in
crease should exceed the 100000 put
down by the Commissioners for the
purpose Of balancing their budget es-
Inmates.
If pressing needs now confronting the
District cannot be cut down without
seriously handicapping Capital develop
ment the Commissioners and the Budget
Bureau should send forward a budget
based on revenue availability under ex-
listing tax rate and the Federal contri-
button. Accompanying this budget there
should be a supplementary list of ur-
gently needed items for which there are
no available funds until Congress dis
poses of the question of how they will
be raised. There should be no practical
difficulties preventing this form of
budget, as Budget Bureau officials are
already contemplating some method of
separating the District budget from the
budgets of the Government depart
ments. 1t would enable Congress to OBJ
tain a concise picture of the condition
of District finances. which is otherwise
lost in the mere compilation of list of
recommended expenditures.
The Federal departments are making
every effort to keep down expenditures
to prevent an increase in Federal tax
alton. The same efforts should apply in
the case of the unrepresented District
of Columbia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-06

playing on their home field, in more
familiar surroundings Was it be-
cause they were playing before friend
ly crowd instead of in an alien atmos-
phere? Was it because the playing
field in st. Louis is not SO conducive
to the making of home runs as Shibe
Park in Philadelphia? Or was it the
flaming of the spirit of determination to
conquer despite the handicap of sue
cessive defeats?
In the course of the years of the
supremacy of base ball as the national
sport in this country volumes have
been written about the causes of slumps
and of revivals, about batters who have
los their "eyes" and pitchers who have
lost their cunning suddenly coming
into their own, with safe hits and with
battling curves. The psychology of the
game is a profoundly interesting study.
Perhaps some day it will be possible to
define the law of behavior on the ball
field in terms that will be satisfactory.
Until then, and perhaps always, the
NiASSA 'oAiIAIo VI LLS SpOTG Will make II
one of the most fascinating forms of
athletic competition for both partici-
pant and beholder.
Today the teams are battling in st.
Louis for the fifth contest in the series.
However this game results. they must
move back to Philadelphia for sixth
game, which may be the last, or again
may be the penultimate, with the de-
Gliding game played on Wednesday. The
hope for a Cardinal victory entertained
in Washington despite the circumstance
that 1t is city of the other league, aris-
ing from the fact that the ST. Louis
manager is an old Washington player of
fame and affectionately remembered as
Walter Johnson's catcher, is now
strengthened by these two victories, and
should "Gabby" Street finally win
through his triumph will be cheered no
more heartily than in Washington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-06
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

now been formally given to the various
groups Of cabins. The largest one,
which Mr.. Hoover and the First Lady
use, is called THE Brown House" The
big cabin which serves as a general
assembly place at the camp is THE
Town Hall" series of cabins for
guests has been dubbed THE Slums. !"
A small hut, designed for a couple,
is henceforward to be known as 1.-THE
visit which Ramsay Macdonald and his
daughter Ishbel paid to the Rapidan
just a year ago this week. The newest
cabin at the camp, erected for the
use of Larry" Richey, the Presidents
personal Secretarial aide, and Capt.
Boone, White House M. D., has been
christened The Creel." Signs are now
up designating these various habitats.
X X X
Nothing more graphically illustrates
the Kaleidoscope uncertainties OF con-
gressional politics than the attempts OF
Peter c. Gerry and Thomas F. Bayard.
both Democrats, and, respectively, OF
Rhode Island and Delaware, to get
back to the Senate. Four years ago
Gerry was chairman and Bayard was
treasurer of the Democratic Senatorial
Campaign Committee. Through their
Joint efforts 1926 was a pretty fruitful
senatorial year for their party. Two
wears later, in 1928, both Gerry and
Bayard fell by the wayside when they
sought reelection. In 1880 the chair
man of the Democratic senatorial cam
paign is a man whom Gerry and
Bayard in 1925 helped to elect-Sena-
tor Willard E. Tydings of Maryland.
X X \ X
Some of Secretary Ray Lyman Will
bllr's Interior Department associates
commenting on the Kelley shale OIL
Exposures" say they're reminded OF the
deaf man who was listening to lee
ture on the country'S coal resources
cat the present eXtravagant rate OF con-
sumption" the speaker said, well have
no coal left in $4,000 900 years" The
deaf man, who was sitting in the front
row with a cooked ear, interrupted to
calculate: Whats that you said?'
The speaker repeated his statement
about coal exhaustion in 50,00C,00O
years. "Oh. that relieves me-" sighed
the man with bad hearing, Il thought
YOU said 100000" The point about
shale, Interior Department geologists
explain, is that as long as petroleum
wells, here and elsewhere, gush oil
at today's prodigious rate, there's nc
need worrying about oil extractablc from
siale at the expensive average OF bar
rel per ton of rock. And then. they
add, there's coal, on which the oil in=
dustry has long had its eye, as pos
sible source of petroliferous supply in
the dim and distant future.
(Copyright, 1900
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-06
A Miniature Idea.
From the Atlanta Journal.

FROM the Atlanta journal
Shrinking dimensions, as evidenced
in miniature golf courses. midget radios.
and dollar bills, can go no further, we
presume, than the proposal of Congress-
man Celler that the Post ONCE Depart
ment sell advertising space on postage
stamps. Such procedure, the advocate
points out, would produce money to
eliminate the postal deficit without rails
ing postage rates on first class mail.
Other nations, he says, sell marginal
space on stamp sheets to private con-
Germs, thereby benefiting national treas
uries. Bavaria and Italy are said to have
doubled the size of their stamps in order
to increase the available advertising
space
Yet we doubt whether the United
States Government will seriously con-
slider the proposal. There is limit to
the patience of people who are sup
posed to read and heed advertising mes
sages, as many indiscriminate bill
board advertisers have discovered. What
arresting tidings could be placed upon
postage stamp we do not know. Clever
engravers have recorded long passages
of Scripture or literature or poetry
upon the heads of pins, but postaEe
stamp advertisers would hardly expect
the recipients of letters to carry mag
nifying glass to decipher the stamps
appeal. The novelty OF the thing might
be mildly amusing for a time, but
stamps are so plentiful that they could
also become, very easily tiresome.
And what would the stamp collectors
do? They value their collections from a
pictorial standpoint. The images now
used on the stamps of almost every
nation possess dignity and significance
rooted in history and tradition. Inter-
est In collecting would lag considerably,
we fear. II Mr.. Celler's proposal were
adopted, and national pride also would
droop under so public a denonstraticrf
of our retreat from graceful custom