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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-18

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-18
For Rent Real Estate
2 Apartments & Tenements

EASTON AVE- large rooms, also Rose St-5 rooms. All improve ments. Reasonable. Tel 3-5465 after 6 D. m.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-18
Business Seruice
Insurance
Pressing and Tailoring

CLEANING, Pressing and Repairing
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-18

VICTORIA BLDG-East Main St, 3 or room apartment, modernly equipped. Inquire Bergin's Funeral Home.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-18
For Rent Real Estate

BEACON ST-5 large rooms, ho. water heat. Also rooms, 3rd floor, garage. Tel 3-5465 after p. m.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-18

WOLCOTT ST, 1o1-5 nice, sunny rooms, all improvements. Rent $22 Inquire 1st floor.
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Merchandise
Farm and Dairy Products

GRAPES-5oc and up a basket. Good quality. Top Wall St Heights. 3Sl Berkeley Ave. Tel 3-6730.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-18
Real Estate For Sale
Houses For Sale

10 ROOM HOUSE-Suitable as rooming house, hardwood floors. Ideally located at 66 Willow St. Phone 4-3704.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-18

GLENWOOD-Gasr range, gas water heater, parlor suite, daybed, chairs, tables, dressers, rockers, etc. Tel 4-2373.
 SILENT GLOW-On range burner. Sales and service. 10 months to pay Super-Service, Inc. 39S West Main St. Dial 3-3406.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-25
Plant Is Anesthetized
Sensitive Mimosa Pudica Reacts to Drugs Which Pro-
duce Insanity in Humans by Reversible
CoaglIation of Proteins.

sodium thiocyanate and ether, Dr. Ban
croft SPRAYED a plant with the former
chemical. so that the leaves coaild not
be made to close. Then ether was
poured on the soil. Only after six min
yates did the ether begin to have the
slightest effect, in contrast to the con-
troll plant which had folded up COM
pletely in four minutes. The leaves OF
the second plant did not fold up at all.
Only the stems of the leaves dropped
slightly, but II minutes later they were
all erect again.
Then another plant was given the
same ether treatment. The leaves
closed and their stems fell in two and
one-naf minutes. Then this plant was
sprayed with sodium thiocyanate ana
in 8 minutes was recovering rapidly
from its anesthesia.
Confirms Old Theory.
Prof. Bancroft found one striking diff
ference between plants and animals IN
that the former are much more SEN
sitive to either ether or chloroform than
to sodium amytaI, which has little an
eSthetizing effect on them. He found,
as in animals, that plants pass through
a preliminary stage of excitatlon before
becoming insensitiye.
The experiments. Prof. Bancroft says,
provide still further proof of a theory
advanced by the French Psychologist,
Claude Bernard, more than so years
ago that anesthesia depends upon re-
versible coagulation of the proteins.
Other experimenters have shown that
plants are sensitive to alcohol and to
extremes Of temperature which produce
coagulation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-25
TWO PRIESTS ARRESTED

GUADALAJARA, Mexico, August IS
P).-Two Catholic priests were de-
tanned here today after police and fire.
men dispersed a mob which formed in
front of Pillar Church and attempted
to stage religious demonstration.
Firsmen turned their hose on the
crowd and the priests, fathers Jose Fig
ueroa Luna and Jose Maria Uribe, were
held pending an Investigation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-25
STEAMER BLOWN ASHORE
NaushOns Grew Takes % Pssssu

Naushon's Crew Takes % Passen-
gers to Safety in Lifeboats.
VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass, August as
(P.-The passenger steamer Naushon.
carrying 20 passengers from New Bed
ford, was blown ashore In squat in
the harbor last night Is she was about
TO dock. She went ashore hroadside,
carrying with her two-masted
schooner, a 60-foot power yacht and
half dozen smaller craft.
The crew launched lifeboats in which
all the passengers we're brought safely
ashore.
No one was aboard the schooner. the
Alice Wentworth, coaster, or the power
boat.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-25

which can be detected BY chemical
analysis. The amount of helium fur
nishes q basis for estimating the age Of
the meteOrite.
The Oldest known meteorite, that
found In Nelson County. KY, thus Is
found to be approximately roc, O0O, coo
years old-which is about the age of the
came from some place coeval with the
earth-that is, from somewhere in the
solar system. T. r. H.
Copyright, 193i)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-25
Science
Age Of Meteorites Is Found
To Be Same as EGrth's.

Meteorites which strike the earth
probably are cast-off fragments Of the
solar system, and not messengers from
far-distant space, because their age Is
very close to that Of the earth itself.
Such is the conclusion of DR.. Arthur
Holmes, British geologist. in report to
the National Research Council commit
tee ON thes age of the earth Some Of
the meteorites. Or. Holmes found, arrive
ON earth carrying their own watches
that is, elements which are disintegrat-
ing at a fixed rate by the breaking up
of their atoms. This results in small
amount of helium IN the meteoric rock,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-25

Plans for building in England next
Winter by the government cali for a
program that win give work to 100000
men.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-25
BY THOMAS =. HENRY.

Experiments with a crazy plant
which shed new light on the chemical
| basis of the behavior of living things,
have just been reported to the National
Academy of Sciences by Prof. Wilder d.
Bancroft of Cornell University.
! The experiments show that plants, as
we'll as animals, can be anesthetized
and that both major divisions of the
| living world are rendered insensitive by
various drugs for the same reasons and
behave in approximately the same way,
/ Dr. Bancroft and his assistant, John
e. Rutzler, jr., worked with the well
| known sensitive" plant MiKnesa pudica,
| kept as curiosity In many conserva-
/ tories, which has an almost animal-lik
sensitivity to touch. its leaves folding
up at the S ghteSt stimulation as If Ii
were pcsset ed of nervous system.
Changed Protein Sensitivty.
The experiments are a continuation
Of those reported by Prof. Bancroft last
Spring which tended to show that the
mechanism for rendering animals in
sensible as we'll as for such extreme
variations in human behavior as the
various insanities, is the thickening and
thinning of the protefns of the central
nervous system.
Either result can be brought about by
bring about one effect are antagonistic
to the other. the end Of both is insensi-
tivity, and in either case this is pre-
coded by 0 period of excitement cor
responding TO insanity. Thus a person
becomes very excited just before lapsing
into Inconsistencies from ether, which
thickens the brain colloids. On the
other hand, ether anesthesia is dificult
to produce If the drug sodium thiocya-
-. 4. 49, a.. -, -
administered at the same time.
Now while q plant has no brain" or
nervous system. its cells contain pro-
teins, chemically unknown, whose con-
dition, under this theory, must deter
mine its behavior. This the Milnosa
pudica, extremely alert, sensitive plant,
Prof. Bancroft concluded on the basis
Of its response to heat and cold, must
have its proteins in state Of maxi
mum coasulation to produce irritability.
1t was "craZy" plant. Normal plants
don't act like animals because their
proteins are not in the proper condi-
dose of ether to thicken its proteins
still more, or dose of sodium thiocy-
anate to thin them out, it would pass
over into insenSibility.
Plant Given Anesthetic.
First q potted plant was sprayed with
q sodium thiocyanate solution and then
this was poured over its roots Very
quickly 1t became relatively iasensittve
Even powerful blows failed 10 bring out
the fielding response 81 the leaves which
before was evoked by the slightest
touch Then q small amount Of ether
was poured ever the soil Of q ported
plant. Complete anesthesia resulted tn
four minutes, the leaves and petioles
being 50 affected that the plant was
completely folded up. Sensitivity began
to return after an hour.
70 show the antagonistic eject Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-25

Marking, China, is to launch an in.
dustrial development covering $50 acres
The Washington times., 1931-10-20
100000 to Solicit
Funds for JObLesS

The Association of Community
CHESTS and Councils announced
today that an army Of 100000
men and women will be engaged
IN solicitation Of funds for relief
IN 4O8 cities between now and
November Is. ~
This convaSs is a part Of Presi.
cent Hoover's program for pre-
venting suffering during the win
Ter. The association has eSti-
mated that $170,090,1 ,130 will be
needed for primary relief alone.
The Washington times., 1931-10-20
DispensGry Treats
24.OOO in O. Year

Twenty-four thousand persons
were treated last year through
the dispensary department of
Providence Hospital, DR.. j. Lawn
Thompson, medical supervisor,
said yesterday in a. radio ad-
dress during the Community
Chest hour on station WRC.
The emergency cases cared
for by the hospital in the same
period numbered 1889, DR..
Thompson added. He was intro
duced by Herbert L. Willett, jr.,
acting director of the Chest.
The Washington times., 1931-10-20
DIET RESTORES
= MRS. WOOD'S s
EYES|GHT
Eccentric Hoarder Of Riches
Made to Forego Rancid Meat,
Canned Milk for Chicken

NEW YORK, Oct. 20 ONIS0 .
A diet of tomatoes and chicken
Instead of evaporated milk and
rancid bacon has so improved the
health Of Mrs. Ida E. Wood, 93-
year-old recluSe who hid 81, 600, 900
in cash and jewels in her hotel
bedroom, that she is slowly re-
gaining her vision.
Half blind, her legs and feet
swollen, her arms spattered with
blue blotches caused by improper
nourishment, Mrs. Wood was in
o dangerously run down condi-
ton when her nephew, Otis F.
Wood, was appointed her legal
guardian.
With a fortune in currency
Sewed into her clothing, she had
persisted in ordering little cans
Of milk and cheap bacon to be
cooked on a tiny electric stove,
rather than pay for a regular
meal, according to Wood. He
placed her in the care of a ply
sician and two nurses. The di-
minutive old lady refused to eat
at first, but roast chicken sends
out delectable odorS and her sense
of smell was perfect. She finally
has asked for a new set Of false
teeth.
Her nephew said:
'"7he swelling in her legs has
gone down and her skin looks
clearer. When you consider
she hasn't seen the sun for 13
years, her improvement is re-
markable. With right care,
should say she will live to be at
least 1OO."
The Washington times., 1931-10-20
D. C. Pastor. Called
To Spokane Church

The Rev. Hubert A. Woolfall,
rector of st. Marks Episcopal
Church, Third and A Streets
southeast, has been extended q
cali to become dean Of the Ca
thedral Of st. John the Evange-
list, now under construction in
Spokane, Wash.
DR.. Woodfall declared last night
that he would announce his de-
cision Sunday.
The Washington times., 1931-10-20
Tabor Church Opens
Anniversary Service

The Rev. r. w. Brooks. pastor
of Lincoln Temple Congregational
Church. was the speaker last
night at the opening exercises of
the seventh anniversary celebra
ton of Tabor Presbyterian
Church. Second and s Streets
Northwest.
The choir Of the church sung
special arranged music. The Rev.
r. A. Farley Is the pastor of
Tabor Church.
The Washington times., 1931-10-20
FETE TONIGHT

Music judges for the Autumn
Lantern Festival to be held to-
night in the auditorium Of the
Central Community Center, Thir-
teenth and Clifton SITS. N. W.,
will be Mrs. Gertrude Lyons,
president of the ID. c. Federation
Of Music Clubs; Mrs. Lillian
Brousseau. of the Public School
music department, and Isaac
Cans.
Judges Of the costumes and
theatrical effects include Mrs.
The Washington times., 1931-10-20

Maud N. smith. Gideon A. Lyon
and Robert Cottrell, Of the Wash
ington Board Of Trade. Two sill
yer CUPS, donated by the Homer
L. Kilt Company and the Isadore
Kahn Company, will be awarded
to the winners of each group.
SHOOTS OFF 3 FOES .
PARSONS, w. Va, Oct. 20.
Albert Swearingen of Hambleton,
accidentally shot off three Of his
toes while hunting. ....
The Washington times., 1931-10-20

Constructed
photographed
Table Enclosed
upholstered
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bill WOOD MAIDS
keep DRIVES HOT
Win 8 of Last 9 Games in
District League and Hang
Up Record.
.HE Bnl wood pinettes are PROVING

TIME Bill Wood pinettes are proving
the surprise Of the Ladies' Dis
trict League. They have won
eight of their last nine games,
are anchored in second place and are
causing the John Blick girls no little
worry.
Smashing the all-time high set mark
for the circuit with 1897, the Woods
won two games from the Blicks and
now trail 'em by only i've games. In
their sensational team set, Margaret
Miltner was the star performer, shoot
ing games of 103, 1913 and 119 for Q $50
total. Virginia Yarnell and Capt. Elaine
Palmer each counted 324 and Marie
whalen and Sarah Updike shot 318
and 281 respectively.
Of maple splitting Is the Boulevard Quint,
which wrecked Lucky Strikes hopes by
winning three games. Jennie Malcolm
shot 345 with lao as the big splash,
while Reva Banks and BesS Ackman
rolled 316 and 304 respectively to help
the team pound out 1852 total.
Mary Cox starred for Queen Pin In
its two-game win over Meyer DAVIS,
getting $40 set and two single counts
of 1876 and 113.
With Lucy Owen shooting 341 and
| Elsie Fischer, 1872, the Blick pinettes
came back and won twice over King
/ Pin. Recreation whitewashed Conven-
ton Hall, the high spots being Pauline
Bradburn's 327; Rena Levy'S $40 and
Catherine Quigley's 30S.
With Marjorie Smith hitting for $40
and Margaret Miltner, 3l6, Bill Woods
cleaned up the set with Queen Pin.
Pauline Shugre's 314 was high for the
losers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-02
BIG TEN THREATENING
INDOOR TRACK MARKS
Pace Set by Stars This Winter
Indicates Records May Go
in Meet Saturday.

CHICAGO, March 2-Several indoor
track records may be splintered when
the annual Western Conference meet is
held over the fast runways Of the new
Wisconsin University Field House, Satur-
day night.
The Big Ten track stars seem to be
Just warming up to their tasks and re-
suits in several dual meets Of last week
indicate the conference will have some
worthy standard-bearers when the out
door season gets under way.
Verne McDermont Of Illinois, scared
IS feet, 8as inches from a dirt runway
to break the old indoor pole vault mark
set by Tommy Warne OF Northwestern.
Bill Henke, the Wisconsin captain, SET
up a new American indoor record for the
440-yard dash when he sped around the
Iowa University track in 48.9, or seven
tenths of second faster than the time
made by KoppiSh in 1928. Eddie Tolan
of Michigan flashed his old speed In
winning the dashes against Chicago
and there is little possibility OF any one
heading him in the Big Ten combat.
One of the surprises of the Big Ten
indoor season occurred when Jack Kel-
lar, the Ohio State sophomore, defeated
Lee Seminar of Illinois in both the 75-
yard high and low hurdles. Seminar
easily was the best hurdler in the Big
Ten last year, but the Buckeye young
ster has a good chance to defeat him
both indoors and outdoors, this season.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-02
Skinkers Struggle Tomorrow
For Independent Loop Title

The hawk eye of Ed wineapple, rookie
hurler, who tried out with the Nationals
last year, stopped the Eagles yesterday.
Wineapple dropped in 9 double deckers
and foul goals for 20 points.
It took an extra period, however, for
the Miami tossers to win, and the
Eagles, with two subs in the lineup,
feel they made bang-up showing.
DILL FLEsTER, manager of the
- French A. c., which yesterday won,
81 to 49, over Richmond Rotary,
has booked the Cleveland Favorite Knit
cagerS for a game tomorrow night at
$50 o'clock in the Alexandria Armory.
The Clevelanders, winners over the
Skinker Eagles recently, have one of
the best court aggregations to visit
Washington this season. The Trenches,
counting yesterdays victory, have won
20 out of 81 games this year.
Census-Northerns waited until the
fourth quarter before cutting loose, and
then, with Tommy Peck and Pete Nee
shining, reduced the Kensington How
tiers to mere sputter, 81 to 81.
Kensington led through the first, Sec
ond and third periods.
Scores of yesterdays basket ball
battles:
Boys Club Yorkes, 27; Fort Hum
phrey's, 26.
J. c. c. Arrows, As: Nye House. 10.
J. G. G. Big Five, SO; Montrose, Is.
Battery d, AZ; Peerless, 30.
K. OF G. Boys, 80; St. Stephens, 90.
Palace-D. G.. S., So; K. of c., is.
Palace-D. G. S., SIS; Mt. Rainier, A.
st. Martins League.
Comets, %: Seminoles. 7.
st. Martins, So; Adelphites, SO.
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hole to square. At the end he had .
3-foot uphill putt for the hole, and he
took plenty of time. The ball ran up
to the lip of the cup, hesitated a mo-
ment and then dropped in, while Dickey
heaved a deep sight Of relief. The
amount involved was small, but Dickey
claims that honor and glory go with
not losing such contests"
VISITORS to Rock Greek Park, who
v have not seen the improvements
being made, will find a consider
able change in the trapping of the
layout. The biggest thing that has been
done, from the standpoint of conven-
fence of play, is the cleaning out OF the
underbrush on the fairway OF the last
nine, so that balls may be found and
played from the woods. On the first
hole, an easy par affair, bunker has
been built all around the green. On
the fourth hole trap has been added
and traps also have been added on the
seventh and eighth holes.
All this Improvement together with q
trap at the seventeenth hole, did not
stop two golfers from securing aces on
the seventeenth last Monday. Mrs.
A. M. Gulich was the first lucky player.
She knocked an iron shot into the hole
at the seventeenth for the first ace.
P. Ralph, who knocked in a mashie
shot for another ace. SO the season for
aces now is off1cially opened.
Members Of the Bannockburn Golf
Club are to hold meeting at the club
house on March 9 to consider improve
ments on the course. The District Golf
Racquet Club, and Bannockburn will
he rpDreSentPd
EDDIE CONLIN, who used to do
a. considerable tennis umpiring before
he got in a Squabble with the
United States National Lawn Tennis
Association, will be the major domo at
dinner to be given by a rubber COM
pany to golf pros of Washington and
vicinity at the Burlington Hotel Tues
day night. Eddie has shifted his ac-
pire'S chair to selling golf balls. The
dinner will start at $50 o'clock.
Samuel We'll, a member of the Wood
mont Country Club, today possesses q
handsome piece Of silver, won few
days ago in a tourney held at the Cava-
lier Country Club at Virginia Beach,
28-76 to win the second flight. Well
went to Virginia Beach with Albert E.
Steinem, Fulton Brylawski, Morris
Simon and Leopold Freudberg.
Steinem, who is chairman Of the
Wocdmont Golf Committee this year,
announces the personnel of his COM
mittee for 1881 as follows: william q.
Illch, Max Weyl, Leopold Freudberg
and DR.. S. Dewey Gottleib. A meeting
of the committee is to be held shortly
to draw up a schedule and golf events
to determine club handicapS probably
will start in April.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-02
CENTRAL MAY FIND
ST. JOHNS A TARTAR
Kaydet Quint Has Improved Vastly
Since Losing to Mount Pleasant
School-Meet Tomorrow.

When Central and st. Johns met on
the hardwood shortly after the turn OF
the year, the former was an easy win
ner, "a to IS, but judging from the
marked improvement shown since by
the Kaydets they not only likely will
give Central a much better fight when
the teams face tomorrow afternoon on
the st. Johns floor, but might down
Coggins' proteges. Play will start at
$3.50 o'clock.
That st. Johns has come along fast
since that early game with Central
is shown by its recent 1927 win over
Tech, a club which humbled the Kay
diets, 80 to IL, shortly after the sea-
son began.
Both Central and st. Johns played
st. Mary'S Academy toSsers Of Rich
mon here Friday and the results indi-
cate the District teams are well
matched, Central having downed the
virginians, so to 81, and st. Johns,
IS to 81.
Gonzaga's quint will face Landon In
the Epiphany Church gymnasium at
$3.50 o'clock in the only other school
boy match scheduled tomorrow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-02
BASKET BALL FLAG
AT STAKE TONIGHT
Griffith Consumers Gain County
Title Unless Upset by Last
Place Team.

HYATTSVILLE, Md, March 2.-Un-
less the last-place Mount Rainier quint
surprises by licking the pace-setting
Grifith-C Consumers tonight in their
Prince Georges County Basket Ball
League game on the National Guard
Armory floor here, the league race will
be over with Consumers the champions.
The game will start at 1880 o'clock.
Consumers increased their lead over
the second-place Richards Colonials to
q half game as the result Of getting a
forfeit from Company r yesterday. The
Soldiers were unable to muster five men.
Consumers now have won nine games
and lost two, while Colonials have nine
victories and three defeats.
Company F and Hyattsville Southern
Methodists are to take the floor follow
ing the Consumers-Mount Rainier en-
counter, in the last scheduled game Of
the league.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-02
SARAzEN IS WINNER
IN FLORIDA TOURNEY
Beats Cooper for First Money by
Seven Strokes in West
Coast Open.
BY the Associated Press.

BELLEAIR, Fla, March 2.-Gene
Sarazen, Lakeville, N. Y, professional
slipped over score e. 27S here yester-
day to win the Florida West Coast open
golf championship and $1,000.
1t was his second consecutive victory
in this event, and his score for the ~
holes came within two strokes Of equal
ing the record for the tournament made
in 1923 by Walter Hagen, who took a
296 this year. His scores were 81, r.
SO, 71-278.s
Harry Cooper Of Chicago came down
the stretch with a fast finish to win
second money of S700 with a count OF
285, while Henry Ciuci, Bridgeport
Conn, got a 287 and took third prize
of $500.
The rest Of the $4,000 In prize money
was taken by Johnny Farrell, Al Espi-
nosa and Denny Shute, with 5000 each
on scores of 288, while Witty Cox, Craig
Wood, Ralph Kingsrud and Joe Kirk
wood made 289 and got $50 apiece.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-02
MT. RAINIER VS.. PENNIES
Junior High Quint Will Finish It's
Season Tomorrow.

MOUNT RAINIER, Md, March a.
Mount Rainier Junior High Schools
basket ball team will end its first sea-
son tomorrow afternoon when it will
face Benjamin Franklin University
freshmen in the Mount Rainier gym
nasium at $3.50 o'clock. Mount Rainier
ing turned the trick, 26 to IA, last
Thursday.
Mount Rainier will play without both
of its centers, Myles Timko and Charles
Callow, both Of whom now are employed
after school. Harold Bennay will sub
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-02
Pointers on Golf
BY SOL METZGER.

Not only must the golf grip give
us control of the club, especially at
the top, where we most feel its
weight, but it must also permit our
muscles to be relieved of all strain
and tension. Otherwise well tighten
up and then find it impossible to
whip the clubhead through the ball,
Watch the thumb of the left hand
in gripping the club If strain is to
be avoided. Place it down the rear
of the shaft, that side of the shaft
opposite to the hole being played.
Then, when the top is reached this
thumb will not be under the shaft
and thus compelled to carry its