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Evening star., 1932-12-28

This paper was presented by Allen E
Stearn of the University OF Missouri
For years scientists have used dyes
| to stain bacteria in order to make them
diStinguishable for experimental work
Often the germ could be recognized BY
the color to which 1t was sensitive
that is, 1t could not be stained with
any other dye color than its character
istic shade
Dyes also have been for years among
the important chemicals used in
medicines for bacterial diseases DR.
Stearn now shows that there is a con-
nection between the dye which will best
stain a germ and the sensitivity of that
same bacterium to the chemical effects
OF the dye. The dye which stains the
bug" also has potent effects on his
virulence. Both the staining and the
virulence effects are electrical and DR.
Stearn has found method Of measur-
ing them.
Something very like mob psychology
IN bacteria was explained in a report
by Otto Rain. Phi. D.. and Alice Jean
Ferguson of Cornell University.
Old bacteria when transferred to a
fresh Place do not Immediately grow
at their fastest rate But the larger
is transferred, the less IS their delay
in growing rapidly. Mere numbers seem
to excite them.
Queer Sort of Radiation
What really causes this increased
growth in large mob, DR.. Rain finds.
is a queer sort of radiation, which
probably comes from the bodies Of the
bacteria This radiation is named
Evening star., 1932-12-28
Elenor Fair Jilts
Movie Stunt Flyer
For Ex-Navy Pilot
Intended Husband Thinks
She ''Merely Made a
Little Mistake.o
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PresS.
HOLLYWOOD, Calf. December 28-
Frank Clark, movie stunt flyer, added
mystery today to the elopement and
marriage of Elinor Fair. motion pic
ture actress, and Thomas W. Daniel,
former naval flyer. The pair was
married in Yuma, Ariz., Yesterday after
a flight from Los Angeles.
Miss Fair and l were to have been
married" said Clark. "and still think
Miss Fair merely made little mis-
take I know why she did it. hold
her in the highest esteem and believe
this will be corrected"
Clark declined to amplify his state
ment
Miss Fair the former wife Of
William Boyd, film actor. and Daniel
announced they would go East to spend
their HONEYMOON and make their home
in New York
After Miss Fair and Daniel returned
from Yuma, the flyer was taken to a
police station to explain why his bank
refused payment Of check for S97. so
he gave to pay for the plane to the
Arizona town The bank said he had
insufficient funds. Daniel said he was
unaware his account was not large
enough and made q satisfactory ad-
1ustment.
Evening star., 1932-12-28
New York Sinking
In Atlantic, Science
Convention Is Told
City Will Be Mile Under
Water in Million Years,
Report Says.
By the Associated Press.

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., December
27.-T,1e Atlantic Coast is sagging in
the middle and rising at both ends.
and New York will be mile under
water in a million years. if this keeps
up, the American Association for the
Advancement of Science was told today
Measurements, reported by DR.. Will
lam Fitch Cheney, jr, Of Connecticut
Agricultural College, show Portland,
Me, and Charleston, S. c.. are rising
from to Is inches per century. but
Boston, New York, Atlantic City, Phila-
delphia and Baltimore are subsiding
from 3l2 to lll2 inches per hundred
years.
The only place where the land is
neither rising nor falling, at least among
the places measured, is Key West. Fla,
There may be cycles OF rising and
falling, DR.. Cheney said the drop at
Baltimore and the rise at Charleston
may be due to readjustment after the
Charleston earthquake of 1886, he said.
Evening star., 1932-12-28
COMET HIT EARTH
MILLION YEARS AGO
Scars Discovered in South
Carolina Cover Area 400
Miles in Diameter.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ATLANTIC CITY. N. j.. December
27.-There need no longer be doubt
what would happen If big come.
struck earth, for one actually seems to
have hit in South Carolina 100000
years or more ago.
Its scars. discovered by airplane, and
identified as those Of a comet with a
head about 400 miles in diameter, or
one-third larger than the great Haley 5
comet seen in 1910. were described to
the American Association for the ad-
vancement OF science today. The re-
port was made IN a joint paper by DR..
F. A. Melton and DR. William Schrieyer
OF the University of Oklahoma
According to what happened in South
Carolina. Millions might be killed, buS
the earth's civilization probably would
not be destroyed Instead the effects
would be confined mostly to the area
receiving the direct hit. In this case 1t
would have been as big as a dozen
Eastern States
$500 Scars Discovered.
The traces Of the South Carolina
comet. still only in their beginnings, are
more than l.500 scars. eliptical craters,
formed in the earth in that portion OF
South Carolina forming the coastal
plain bounded approximately bv the
Savannah River on the south and Cape
Lookout on the north
These craters average half a mile
long Some are two miles long. On
account OF their great size their nature
went unrecognized until an airplane
I a IcSri
them In a birds eve view
A comet according to present as
Economical ideas, IS loosely collected
ball of meteors The South Carolina
craters were made unmistakablv by
onlv a comets head could carry. All,
said the Oklahoma scieptists, seem to
have struck within one minutes time.
The evidence for this Is overlapping of
many cratcTs. Just as would happen by
dropping stones In sand.
Small Meteors Found
Furthermore. the elliptical shapes
show that this comet came from an
angle between horizon and zenith The
cllipses lie in parallel lines. indicating
that it came from the northwest The
evidence for this direction is strength
ened by the rims of the craters being
higher on the southeast sides the di-
rection in which the rocks tossed the
earth
The comets velocity on entering the
atmosphere was estimated at 25 miles
second and its speed at striking was
reduced to about six miles a second
by friction against the air
Some small meteors were found on
the ground in or near the craters No
giant meteors have been found. as dis
covering deeply buried meteors re-
quires usually wears Of work For ex-
ample. Meteor Crater in Arizona, nearly
a mile wide. was examined for nearly
40 wears before the giant meteor which
made 1t was located recently 1t was
found to be buried about 700 feet deep.
Evening star., 1932-12-28
|GERMS HAVE MANY
personal TRAITS"
New Devices to Show Disease
Sources at Session of
BacterioIogists.
BY the Associated Press.

the ASSOCleted PfesS.
ANN ARBOR. Mich. December %
Many OF mans disease germs. which
until year or so ago doctors regarded
as simply poisonous bits of protoplasm
will be shown in a three-day meeting
Of the Society Of American Bacteriolo-
giSts, beginning here today, to possess
many-sided personalities.
The newest microscopes. stains and
electrical devices for tracing their life
histories show that these bacteria
lead fairly complicated lives. thus ex
planning better their elusiveneSs when
man attempts to kill them.
The days first paper brought out a
new phase OF the long known color
sensitivity of bacteria which may make
it easier for medical men to choose
the chemicals most lethal to germs
Evening star., 1932-12-28

scientifically the mitogenetic ray, and
appears to be a weak form of ultra
violet light. Most living things emit
such rays.
Dr. Rain induced more rapid growth
in small lots of old bacteria-in groups
too little to have any figurative mob
psychology-simpl by exposing them
to the mitogenetic rays Of yeast. This,
he sad, indicates that the rays affect
the rate Of growth of bacteria.
Evening star., 1932-12-28
FRENCH PLAN FIGHT
ON "ANTY PROPAGANDA
2O6 Deputies Favor Defense Ac-
tion, Claiming Injury Done in
U. S. and Elsewhere.

BY the Associated Press
PARIS. December 28.-Declaring
enti-French props ganda. notably in the
United States, has caused grave injury
to France, a resolution has been intro
duced in the Chamber Of Deputies by
Deputy Andre Fribourg asking the gov
ernlnent to organize a systematic ma
tional defense against the offensives of
foreign propaganda in order to make
known the true picture Of France"
The resolution is signed by 206 depu-
ties. It says France is fairly well known
in the Eastern United States. but not in
the Middle West and the West
The resolution also declares there is
anti-French propaganda in Germany,
Spain and Italy.
Evening star., 1932-12-28
CEMETERY IN GOLD CLAIM
British Columbia Mining Office
Site Also Staked.

VICTORIA, British Columbia. De-
cember % tP1.-A cemetery and thu
land upon which the Barkerville min
ing Office stands is staked out in a gold
rush reported today between Cotton
wood and Barkerville. in the Cariboo
district OF British Columbia. More
than $50 claims have been located In
three weeks
j. P. Snarlett, gold commissioner OF
Barkerville. messaged that his supply
Of recording papers had been depleted
and that he must have 500 more The
stakings have beer mostly quartz he
said
Evening star., 1932-12-28
MINT PROSPEROUS
Denver, Colo, Reports Busiest
Year Since 1928.

DENVER. December % lP,.-The
Denver Mint has had prosperous
year.
Completing its busiest year since 1928,
the Federal depository and mint has
handled deposits of gold and silver to
a total of Sl5,997,266, which Is $285 1913
more than last year, Frank E. Shepard,
mint superintendent said.
New gold and silver received in 1882
was about $500,00O more than a year
ago and about 100000 more than de-
positS In 1929.
Evening star., 1932-12-28
TOO MANY FINGERS
Man With Six Digits Puzzles Ok
lahoma Sheriff.

MUSKOGEE. Okla, December % Up.
The sheriff at Eufaula telephoned the
Muskogee police station yesterday.
Il need a fingerprint expert" he said.
What have you got, big robbery"
queried John Albright, the expert.
mo, we've got a man here with six
fingers. and l don't know how to cata-
logue him. There's only five spaces on
the cards and / want some advice.
Evening star., 1932-12-28
Leaves Teeth in Other Pants.

LOS ANGELES, December % P).-
"I,ve swallowed my false teeth" gasped
A. B. Ferguson as he ran into police
hospital Nurses rushed him to the
operating ROOM Then the telephone
rang. I'm Mrs. Ferguson" said a
voice. Don't cut. just found his false
teeth in his other pants"
Evening star., 1932-12-28
OLD FRIGATE IN BALBOA
q. S. S. Constitution Docks After
Voyage From Washington.

BALBOA. Canal Zone, December 28
(R-The famous old U. S. S. Constitu-
ton docked here yesterday after having
been brought through the canal with
the greatest care in nine hours
The ancient vessel which started from
Washington December in tow OF a
mine sweeper. is on the way to Pacihc
ports. where she will be exhibited.
Evening star., 1932-12-28
FUGITIVE SURRENDERS
Charles r. White Had Escaped
From Nebraska Jail.

IVcUI dShd JdII.
CINCINNATI. December % LR-
Charles R. White. alias Charles Adams,
80, Of Louisville, KY. whom Federal Off
GERS said escaped from the McCook,
Nebr., Jail in September, 1880, surren-
dered at Department of Justice head
quarters here yesterday.
White. a machinist. had been ar
rested on a charge of taking stolen
automobile from Chico, Calit., to Nc
Cook. He was taken before United
States commissioner yesterday and held
in $4,000 bond for return.
Evening star., 1932-12-28

Transoceanic telephone rates from
Argentina are being reduced.
Evening star., 1932-12-28

ming. Explaining this. he said
Another factor which calls for very
serious attention is that we have de-
veloped very highly integrated social
mechanism, one In which more delicate
adjustments are called for and for
which more scientifically designed con-
troll equipments are demanded.
Control Devices Necessary.
"The whole basis OF control Of the
business machine should be examined
with respect to the adequacy Of design
OF its equipments. The modern power
station is possibility because the
many pieces of apparatus to be operated
in combination to generate current at
varying loads are integrated and con-
trolled by properly designed control de-
vices. The social mechanism presents
the same picture to the technologist.
In human terms these controls
should be. he went on, "cne, the pur-
pose Of the enterprise: two, the pro-
purpose: three, the personnel to whom
the supervision Of specific duties and
functions is assigned; and. four, the
property or material means available
to the group for its sustenance and
growth.
THE progress Of civilization for any
continental area will be determined by
the extent to which the above four
cardinal points or organized procedure
are correctly handled.
Purpose should represent the COM
mon denominator of the group and
should be on high plane.
THE property values Of material re-
sources with which the organized group
deals are important to its life, but not
life itself Therefore the order Of i'm
portance Of these elements Of organ
ization, we believe, are as given above" ;"
Personnel, Prof. Rautenstrauch rated
as the most vital Of the problems faced,
because lit is personnel which deter
mines whether or no the purpose shall
be high and a program be executed"
The enterprise OF echnocracy Is
Evening star., 1932-08-08
SERVICES ARE HELD
ON CONSTITUTION
Bibles Presented at First Religious
Rites Conducted on Frigate
Since 1881.

The church pennant flew above Old
Glory yesterday aboard the U. S. s.
Constitution, for the first time since
the veteran vessel went out of COM
mission in 1881. Church services were
held on the deck of the historic
frigate, as she lay at the Washington
Navy Yard. Bibles were presented to
Comdr. Louis J. GulliVer, U. S. N. COM
manding officer of the ship: to the
wardroom officers, to the crafts Ii
brary and to the forecastle, so that
the crew might have an appropriate
copy of the sacred book.
The Navy Band rendered music and
Lieut.. Stanton w. Salisbury, Chaplain
Corps, United States Navy, officiated
at the services. The sermon was de-
livered by Rev Edgar Cordell Powers,
chaplain of the Maryland National
Guard. The bibles were presented by
Rev. George William Brown. general
secretary of the American Bible Society.
The bibles were added to the other
religious relics the Constitution pre-
serves-a bible taken from the British
ship Java and a rosary presented by
Pope Plus TX, when the Pontiff
visited the vessel in company with
Ferdinand II, king of the Two Sicilies,
on August 2, 1849. at Gaetna. Italy.
This is said to be the only time pope
has set foot on American territory.
Evening star., 1932-08-08
Poor Families Win
independence Again
Returning to Soil
Charity Group S lv e 5
Own Problem With
Red Cross Aid.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the ASSOCIATED FTeSs.
GREENVILLE. S. c., August g.
Forty-two former charity families from
the textile district of Greenville have
proven a living can be wrested from
the soil, and after year on the
farms are independent
The movement began in late Spring
a year ago when the Greenville County
Ped Cross Chapter decided to expert
nent in rehabilitation work by sending
poyerty-Stricken families to farms and
supporting them until a crop could be
raised Most of those affected had
farmed at some time, but few never
had been on a farm.
A gift of $4,000 was secured from the
United States Department of Labor
and with this a farm colony of 10 fam
lies was set up on 1000 acres of land
in AbbeYille County.
In the Autumn of 1881 it was found
that there had been raised $3.50 bushels
Of corn. TOO bushels of sweet potatoes,
80 bushels of beans, SO bushels of fruit
had been dried, 1000 gallons of sirup
had been made, 10000 quarts of fruit
and vegetables had been canned with
a large amount of other produce, 400
bushels Of peas had been raised, as had
$50 bushels Of Irish potatoes.
Evening star., 1932-08-08
CONVICTED OF FRAUD
ON WOMAN TOURISTS
Briton Faces Five Year Term After
Taking Money and Victims
Daughter.
h the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
OXFORD, England, August 8.-Rob-
ert Arthur Cooper charged by two
American woman tourists with defraId-
ing them of sll, was sentenced today
10 FIVE years penal servitude on charge
Of obtaining money by false pretenses.
Mrs. Annie w. Fisher Of Lyndhurst,
n. j.. and her sister, Mrs. Elizabeth
Walsh, caused COoper's arrest last Tues
day. Besides obtaining their money
by misrepresentation, they said. Cooper
went away with Mrs. Fishers daughter,
Kathleen.
Mrs. Fisher said he had represented
himself as a well-to-do army officer
employed in the war Office and in view
Of what he said about his financial
condition, she had consented to an
engagement between Cooper and her
daughter.
Evening star., 1932-08-08
CHICAGO THEATERS :.
DARK FOR SUMMER.
City Is Without a Single Le-
ultimate Performance in
Any Play House.
Special Dispatch TO The Star.


CHICAGO, August 8.-Almost for the
first time in the memory Of present
critics, Chicago today is without a sin
gle legitimate theater performance in
any of the numerous local playhouses.
This unique situation has revived dier
forebodings of decay for the stage
Chicagoans, and visitors, who nor
mally support number Of legitimate
plays even during the dog days of Sum-
mer, must content themselves now with
visits to the movies. If dissatisfied
with that form of entertainment they
have f1ve-ring circus and four or five
burlesque and vaudeville shows at hand
to provide the lighter form of amuse-
ment.
There seems general agreement that
high prices proved the undoing Of the
once booming theater business so far as
Chicago is concerned. Patrons who
parted readily with $4.40 or $3.50 for a
single show seat in the old days, sud-
denly baked And producers, either un-
able or unwilling to offer drastic cuts in
price, found their audience gone.
Katherine Cornell Draws.
One event earlier in the year proved,
however, that the public still yearns for
stage productions Then Katherine Cor
nell put on a performance of THE Bar
rettS of Wimpole Street" at the Civic
Opera House, with single price Of 81
a seat. So great was the crush that
10000 people were turned away after
1886 seats had been sold. Little more
was needed to show the latent demand
for good entertainment at price.
AS it turns out, this has been year
of decline for the stage, SO far as the
Middle Vests metropolis goes. Opera
at Ravinia, the beautiful open-air thea
ter on Chicago's North Shore, was dis
continued. Here normally the worlds
most renowned voices were heard on
Summer nights. Patrons, however,
found themselves unable this season to
shoulder the heavy financial burden in
volved in the productions.
Likewise, there will be no Winter
opera season in the city's new 10000
600 opera house, because guarantors do
not feel free TO assume the $500, 900
deficit almost to provide sufficient reve-
nue. ultimately to endow a musical
foundation, is likely to stand idle, eX-
cept for the Office space on the 40 up
per floors. Only the symphony Or
chestra remains of those musical In
stitutions that did much to aid to the
cultural background Of this city and its
environs.
Plan Stock Opera.
Plans are under way for a number
OF stock company" opera productions,
with some talk Of opera performed on
the basis of gate receipts, stars taking
a percentage of the intake rather than
a large definite salary.
On October IS, an opening produc-
ton of opera will take place in the
Chicago Stadium, where 10000 seats
will be on sale-yoices to be carried by
loud speakers Prices for this enter
tainment will range from so cents to 50.
Carmen" Aida" Samson and
Delilah" and La Juive" are TO be
produced
The dozen Chicago theaters now dark
may be expected to brighten up during
the Winter, but there seldom has been
a greater dearth of so-called good shows
proved in New York to be successful
than the run promised for the coming
season.
(Copyright, 1922
Evening star., 1932-08-08
CHEWING OF MATCHES
TRAPS MURDERER
Man Said to Have Confessed
Through Trick in Staying
of Retired Farmer.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PLATTSBURGH, N. Y, August g.
Chewed-off match ends yesterday
served State troopers as clue and
led to the arrest of Elmer Rabideau,
10, as the slayer of Samuel Bradley.
70-year- old retired farmer of Cannon's
Corners. 20 miles from here.
The match ends were found beside
the victims body. Evidently some one
had been chewing matches nervously
while looking for Bradley's valuables
after shooting him through the head.
The troopers took young Rabideau,
a neighbor. into custody. They denied
him cigarettes but didn't take his
matches from him. He produced one
after another and chewed away the
ends. When they produced similar
ones they found beside Bradley's bodv.
the troopers said. Rabideau confessed.
State troopers said they would ar
raign Rabideau on charge Of murder
in the first degree.
Bradley had 5000 in a bureau drawer
in his house, but it had not been dis
turbed.
Evening star., 1932-08-08
PLAIN TALK HELD
ARMS SLASH HOPE.
Senator Swanson Also Sees
Necessity for Political
Improvement.
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
Some plain talk" and improved
political conditions in Europe will be
necessary. Senator Swanson said today,
to bring fulf1llment of the promises Of
arms reduction made at the recent
Geneva conference.
Swanson, a member of the American
delegation and ranking Democrat Of the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is
hopeful about the outlook. He believes
the recent Lausanne agreement virtually
abolishing German reparations will go
a long way in helping the European
political situation.
Although declining to discuss war
debts revision, the Virginia Senator
agreed with Senate Ira of Idaho
that the world is in need of an economic
conference but he looked upon lower
tariffs as the main method of inspiring
resumption of international trade.
Alarmed by Germans.
IN his first extended discussion of
the Geneva parley and the tnterna-
tional situation, Senator Swanson ex-
pressed some alarm over recent leanings
in Germany toward an increased army
and said If carried out this would de-
stroy hopes of disarmament success.
He dismissed as inconseQuential the
amount OF dissatisfaction in Europe over
territorial assignments after the World
War provided by the Versailles treaty,
contending that less than 10000 900 Of
the 45O, 900 900 people in Europe were
displeased on this score.
Il think conditions in Germany are
more favorable than many people be-
lieye," he said. The agreement on
reparations and GermanyS adherence
to the Franco British agreement Of con-
sultation indicates the disposition on the
part of Germany to cooperate with
Europe. This lessons great deal the
declarations made by the Hitler and
National Socialist parties think Ger
many has settled finally the reparations
problem and this removes one of the
most troublesome questions, politically
and financially, in Germany.
Effects Big Reduction.
"If the pledges and promises Of the
Geneva Conference are fulfilled there
will be very large reduction in arma-
ments. The extent to which these
promises will be fulfilled, of course, DC
pends largely on political influences in
Europe when the conference reassembleS
and the vigor with Which the effort is
pushed. I think it will take strong ef-
forts and real plain talk to gain sub
stantial achievement"
Swanson was pessimistic over the
prospect of the proposed world agree
ment for further naval limitations,
blaming the attitude of Japan in this
respect.
In addition to tariff revision through
out the world. Swanson saw as an i'm
mediate need the establishment of q
more stable international exchange and
an improvement of the price Of silver.
Evening star., 1932-08-08
KING RETURNS TO LONDON
British Monarchs End Holiday at
Yacht Racing Center.

LONDON, August LF9.-King George
and Queen Mary returned 10 London
today after fOrtnights holiday at
Cowes for the races.
Last week was one of the most sue
cessful the King has ever had the
water, for his yacht, Brittania, won
four out of six races. Their majestieS
will remain here only few days, then
will spend two weeks at Sandringham
and will go from there to Balnoral,
their Scottish residence.