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Evening star., 1934-10-20
Table Salt Turned Into Radiunn
By Discovery of Californian

physics at the University of Cali
fornia.
The transmutation changes ordi-
nary sodium with an atomic weight
of % into sodium with weight "a.
This heavy sodium disintegrates au-
tomatically just like radium.
In doing so 1t gives of gamma rays
of radium, or rays of invisible light,
of $500, 900 volts energy. Radium
as ordinarily used in hospitals gives
two and half million-volt gamma
rays,
These extra powerful rays from
salt. moreover, are pure or mono
chromatic. They are not mixed, as
in real radium, with rays of more
and also less strength. The salt, also
like radium. shoots off streams of
particles in the form of electrons.
Prof. Lawrence uses one and
three-quarters-million volt ray made
of deutons to lombard the sodium
and increase its weight.
Evening star., 1934-10-20
HAUPTMANN |SPUT
IN JERSEY PRISON
Loses Extradition Fight and
Must Face Murder Charge
in KIDNAPPING.
(Picture on Page A-4.)
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PENNINGTON, N. j., October 20.
Bruno Richard Hauptmann is a
prisoner of the State of New Jersey
today and within month he must
face trial for the murder of the Lind
bergh baby.
He is lodged in a solitary cell in
the Hunterdon County Jail. close by
the court house in which he will be
tried.
Hauptmann was brought to the Jail
by New Jersey authorities last night,
a few hours after he had lost his
fight to prevent his extradition from
New York. The appellate division
of the New York Supreme Court de-
MED his appeal, and his removal to
New Jersey was effected forthwith.
Trial Within Month.
Gaining at last custody of the man
they formally charged less than two
weeks ago with the hdnap-murder
the New Jersey authorities made
plans to bring the stolid German car
penter to trial within a month.
The first step will be Hauptmanns
arraignment. Attorney General David
| T. WilentZ, who accompanied Haupt-
mann here on quick trip from New
York, said it will be held at the con-
venience of Supreme Court Justice
Thomas w. Trenchard, probably in
three or four days.
The decision which ended Haupt-
mann's fight against extradition was
handed down last night by five JUS
tices of the appellate division, who
upheld Justice Ernest E. L. Hammer
of the Bronx in refusing to grant a
writ of habeas corpus after Gov. Leh-
man of New York had signed extradi-
ton papers.
Alibi Is Stressed.
Before the opinion was handed
down, James M. Fawcett, Haupt-
mann's counsel. had sought to intro
duce evidence to show that Haupt-
mann was in New York the day of the
kidnapping and succeeding days
This evidence was in the form OF
an affidavit by Joseph M. Furcht that
Hauptmann had worked for him at an
apartment hotel on March !, 1882, and
on succeeding days.
The court, however, held that this
contention is in direct conflict with
documentary evidence already in the
record"
After the decision was announced
Fawcett said he would appeal no fur
ther, and steps to take Hauptmann to
New Jersey were quickly taken. Attor-
ney General WilentZ and New Jersey
State troopers took the court order
to the Bronx County Jail and a few
minutes later Hauptmann was turned
over to them.
Crowd at Jail.
A crowd of more tran 1000 had
gathered outside the county Jail here
as news of Hauptmanns impending
arrival spread, but troopers opened a
path through the crowd and Haupt-
mann was rushed into the Jail.
The prisoner was taken Immediately
to cell where except for occasional
visits of his wife and counsel, Haupt-
mann will be alone, for the half dozen
cells in his tier are all unoccupied.
Evening star., 1934-10-20
WHOLESALE RUM PRICE
STERILIZATION SOUGHT

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, october 20.-Wholesale
liquor dealers were asked to establish
a minimum markup to retailers of
IS per cent in a resolution adopted by
the National Price Sterilization Con-
ference, which concluded its delibera-
tions here yesterday.
Delegates to the conference also
recommended that liquor prices be
made f. o. b. at the point of manu-
facture to prevent discrimination on
the part of the manufacturers.
The resolution calling for the IS
per cent minimum markup was
adopted unanimously, although in the
preliminary debate some wholesalers
contended that the minimum should
be set at 25 per cent in order to assure
a liyable return.
Evening star., 1934-10-20
DEMOCRATS HOLD
MISSOURI IN LINE
Kansas, However, Is Doubt.
full, as Landon's Re-eIec-
ti0n Seems Assured.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN,
STAFF Correspondent of The Star.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, October 90
Missouri, and particularly Kansas
City, bristles with Democrats this
year, ready, in Republican eyes, to sell
their souls to the New Deal
Across the Missouri River lies Kan
sas, perhaps the brightest star in the
whole great territory west of the Mis-
sisSippi. Kansas is preparing to re-
elect a Republican Governor. The
G. o. P. also is preparing to make a
gain of one or perhaps two members
in the House delegation. Even in
1882 Kansas elected a Republican
Governor and four out of the seven
members of the House. although the
State went against Herbert Hoover in
the presidential race by $4,000 votes.
Despite the fact that Missouri is
strongly Democratic at the present
time, there are signs of revolt among
the business men, as there are in
other parts of the country. They are
worried over conditions, not so much
for the day as for the tomorrow. And
they do not like restrictions placed
upon them by the N. R. A., particu-
larly the smaller business men. This
goes for Democratic business men as
well as for the Republican.
Patterson Faces Defeat.
There seems no doubt, however. that
the Democrats will garner in the
coming election Missouri Senate seat
now held by the Republican Senator
Patterson. Patterson is doing his
best with a campaign denouncing the
New Deal from bow to stern. But he
faces a tremendously strong Demo-
cratic organization in Kansas City,
which will roll up big majority for
the Democratic candidate, Harry S.
Truman, the particular pet of 1T. j.
Tom Pendergast. the Democratic boss
of the State. He faces, too, Demo-
cratic opposition in the usually
strongly Republican city of st. Louis.
The Democrats hold the City Hall, and
they are counting on keeping the
Republican majority in st. Louis down
to a minimum. In the big agricul-
tural districts of the State the Demo-
Gratis clearly seem to have the advan-
tage.
Notwithstanding the Democratic
trend in Missouri, the Republicans are
likely to pick up two and perhaps three
seats in the House delegation.
The explanation for this is simple
In the present Congress the entire
Missouri delegation was elected in
1882 lat large" The Roosevelt land
slide which gave President Roosevelt a
lead of 100000 over his Republican
opponent made it an easy job to send
13 Representatives of the Democratic
faith to the House. Since then the
State has been redistricted. The elec-
ton is this year by districts. In the
eleventh and twelfth districts, both in
st. Louis, the Republicans are given
the edge. They will return to the
House two former Republican mem
| bers. Leonidas C. Dwyer and Cleveland
A Newton. Dewey Short, also for
mer Republican member, is expected
to win in the seventh district, and
there is an outside chance-though
very outside-that Fred Victor, the Re-
publican nominee in the eighth dis
trict, may outdistance his Democratic
opponent, Representative Frank H.
Lee. The chances for these Repub-
licans have been enhanced by the fact
! Continued on Page 2, Column So
Evening star., 1934-10-20

LET me point out at once that there
is no restriction as to signing any petit
ton for or against, provided the per-
son signs as an individual and not as
a Government employe. Any civil
servant. is perfectly free TO sign such
petitions in his own name or to ex-
press himself as an American citizen
for or against such payment. provided
he does not undertake to make himself
or permit himself to be made leader
in the movement"
There appears to be a misappre-
hension as to what is included in
the term politics. as used in civil
service rules. Apparently, many re-
gard the word as referring only to
contests between party organizations
for control of the Government. Web
ster's Dictionary defines politics as
of or pertaining to polity or politics
or the conduct Of Government refer
ring in the widest application to the
judicial, executive and legislative
branches - of or pertaining to the
exercise of the rights and privileges
or the influence by which the indi-
viduals of a State seek to determine
or control its public policy
even in the narrow sense, the
question referred to is clearly polit-
ical. In many congressional districts
Continued on Page 8, Column s.}
Evening star., 1934-10-20
Mrs. John Dickinson Sherman,
Club Leader, Critically Hurt
Honorary President OF
Federation Struck
by Bus.

Mrs. John Dickinson Sherman,
parliamentary law authority and
honorary president of the General
Federation of Women's Clubs, was in
an extremely critical condition at
Emergency Hospital today, the result
of having been struck by a Capital
Transit Co. bus yesterday afternoon
at Seventeenth and K streets.
Mrs. Sherman still was unconscious
"a hours after the accident, of which
police knew nothing until this morn
ing. She is suffering from a severe
conclusion of the brain and may have
skull fracture.
Officials of the Capital Transit Co.
said they had been told by the driver.
Walter C. Smith, "a Seaton place, that
Mrs. Sherman had walked into the
side of the bus.
Witnesses Sought.
Intimate friends of the noted club
woman refused to credit this report
and advertised in The Star today
seeking witnesses to the accident.
They maintained Mrs. Sherman was
a cautious pedestrian and it was in
conceivable she could have stepped
Evening star., 1934-10-20
KINGSF0RD- SMITH PLANE
lis GROOMED FOR U. S. HOP
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BRISBANE, Australia, October 90
Sir Charles Kingsford- Smith passed
the day making last-minute adjust
ments on his Lockheed plane for his
projected traps-Pacif1c flight to San
Francisco.
A definite time for the take-off had
not yet been set, but there were indi-
cations he might not start for Suva,
Fiji Islands, until Monday. He plan
ned to make an overnight stop at
Suva and then start for Honolulu.
Newspapers here reported today
that Kingsford-Smith, who had in
tended to participate in the England
to-Australia air race, said he was
going to the United States to sell his
plane so he might repay sponsors of
his entry in the London Melbourne
competition.
Evening star., 1934-10-20
TUNG OIL PROMOTED
Ford will Experiment on Georgia
Plantation.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. october 20
in tung oil pro-
duction will be carried on at the
Henry Ford plantation at Ways, Ga,
near Savannah, Ga, 1t was disclosed
here by Harry W. Bennett of Gaines
vile, one of Florida's leading horti-
culturists.
Bennett said he had been given an
order to supply tung tree seed for
planting of 200 acres of Ford's 10000
acre plantation. The paintings are
to be made early in January. he said.
Tung oil is Q raw material extern
sively used in the manufacture of
paints. varnishes and lacquers.
Evening star., 1934-10-20
CONTROL
OF MILK FAVORED
Allen for Scheme in Broad
Way, but Exact Plan
Is Undecided.

Commissioner Allen disclosed today
he is considering getting behind a
move to make milk public utility.
He turned his attention to the pos
sibility of seeking this means of regu-
lating the dairy industry in Wash
ington as a result of the success of
his campaign to obtain cheaper milk
for the 1000 families on District re-
lief rolls.
Allen is not yet committed, how
ever. as to whether he favors having
the Public Utilities Commission take
control or having a new agency ere
ated for this specific purpose.
First Proposal Opposed.
Assistant Corporation Counsel e.
wood H. Seal, in letter transmitting
his report on the Senate milk investi-
CATION last year, recommended that
milk be placed under public utility
regulation. However, Chairman King
of the District Committee, said at the
time that he opposed such action.
Commissioner Allen, in revealing
his plans, said:
Il am inclined toward regulation of
the milk industry as q public utility
so as to get the most reasonable price
for all consumers while granting a
reasonable profit to the dairies and
the farmers.
Investigation of the milk industry
here, conducted by a Senate COM
mittee. appears to have indicated
that the price is too high. There
were reports showing that some of
the dairies were making profits in
considerable amounts.
"On one hand, we have the show
ing that farmers are throwing milk
away or feeding it to hogs because
of the limit on the amount of con-
sumption, and on the other we have
the fact that Washington consumers
are having to pay IS cents a quart
When conditions such as these exist
it seems to me that there is some
thing wrong somewhere"
Utilities Plan Discussed.
The possibility of asking Congress
to pass a special act to treat the
milk industry here as a public utility
has been discussed Informally over a
period of weeks between Allen and
Seal. it was revealed.
Allen indicated that the matter
would be given much serious thought
before he took any steps to ask Con-
gress to pass such a measure.
This development came today as
Allen prepared to place into effect
early next week, possibly Monday, the
list at IL cents quart, offered by the
Embassy Dairy, an Independent dis
tributor, and yesterday by Chestnut
Continued on Page 2, Column -
Evening star., 1934-10-20
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BOSTON, October 2o.-A discovery
that will make radium out of COM
mon table salt, the first practical
transmutation of elements that man
may use in daily life, was announced
today in the Physical Review.
This salt radium remains common
table salt except that it gives of rays
even more powerful than those ordi-
narily used by physicians from pure
radium.
The salt radium rays last for sew
eral days, then automatically stop.
As salt is harmless anywhere in the
human body, the discovery offers
medicine a new tool for experiment.
ing with cancer and biologists new
type of fgurative scalpel.
Table salt Is a combination of
sodium and chlorine. The TRANSMIT
tation is made on the sodium alone.
by Or. e. O. Lawrence, professor Of
Evening star., 1934-10-20
BISHOPS APPROVE
CONTROL Of BIRTHS
Episcopal PreIates Would
Permit Doctors, Clinics
to Advise Patients.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., October
20.-The House of Bishops of the
Protestant Episcopal Church today
adopted resolution advocating
passage of laws TO permit dissemina-
ton of birth control information by
hospitals, reputable physicians and
clinics.
The vote, after lengthy debate. was
A to 3s.
The question. which arose with the
introduction of the resolution by
Bishop Arthur Huston of Olympia,
Wash. was considered one of the
major issues at the present 5lst trien-
nial general convention Of the church
Rt. Rev. Paul Matthews, Bishop OF
New Jersey, and Rt. Rev. Thomas
Jenkins, Bishop of Nevada, opposed
the liberalizing move from the floor
while Bishop Benjamin Brewster OF
Maine spoke for it.
Corruption Feared.
when the people Of our parishes
believe that the moral leadership OF
the church has gone so far astray as
to endorse a measure which will cor
rupt youth and promote promiscuity
they may look elsewhere for marol
guidance" Bishop Matthews said.
Bishop Brewster said that physi-
clans. who because of State laws were
not permitted to give out birth con-
troll information in hospitals and
clinics. speak privately in their own
offices as freely as they please to
those patients who can afford to pay
the fee"
Bishop Brewster said the hesitantcy
of physicians at giving such informa-
ton in the hospitals and clinics was
due to the fear that they would en-
danger the charters of the institu-
tions they were associated with.
In Nevada" Bishop jenkins said
there is no vice which does not -four
ish and most of these with the sane
Continued on Page 2, Column 81
Evening star., 1934-10-20
MELONS BROTHER
DIES AT PITTSBURGH
James R. Mellon, S8 Years Old,
Was III for Long
Time.
Ry the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, October 20.-James
Ross Mellon, elder brother of Andrew
w. Mellon, former Secretary OF the
Treasury. died at his home early to-
day. He was SO years old.
Mellon, a noted banker, philan-
thropiSt and induStrialiSt, had been
critically Ill for several months.
He rose to eminence from a clerk
ship in a law office in 1867, later
went into the coal business, and
established a building supply and real
estate business with his brother,
Thomas Alexander Mellon. The
brothers completed in 1877 one of
the country's early railroads, the
Ligonier Valley. in Western Penn
sylvania. In 1898 he entered bank
ing, a profession in which he has
been an important figure many years.
At the time of his death Mellon
was president of the City Deposit
Bank & Trust Co. of Pittsburgh.
Evening star., 1934-10-20
Milk 5 Cents a Quart.

SAN FRANCISCO, october 20 N).
Milk prices dropped to S and cents
a quart here yesterday as stores and
home delivery companies contested for
competitive advantage.
Evening star., 1934-10-20
20 PLANES TAKE AIR.
Mollisons First to Leave on Hon 10
Australia.

Australia.
MILDENHALL AIRDROME, Eng
land, october 20 R.-Into a grey and
gold dawn 20 pilots in a span of is
minutes roared away today on the
England-to-AuS air derby.
Led by the flying Mollisons and fol-
lowed by the others in rapid success
sion, the air procession began its trek
over sea, mountain and desert with
Baghdad as the first required stop.
Col. Roscoe Turner and Clyde Pang-
born were the first Americans to get
away. ...
From the hopoffs the racers quickly
steered different routes. The speeds
tiers, including the two Americans, hit
for the nearest English coastal point
near Harwich, in the. Baghdad bee
line
The handicap contestants headed
South, crossing the Thames between
London and the Estuary.
The first permissible stop is Mar
seille, France.
Fitzmaurice Withdraws.
The most forlorn sight in the de-
serted hangers was the green machine
of Col. James C. Fitzmaurice of Ire
land. He withdrew his machine be-
cause he did not want to make changes
required of him which would reduce
his flying range.
Evening star., 1934-10-20
CONSULTANT RENAMED
National Resources Board Ap-
points Samuel Wilson in Kansas.

points Samuel Wilson in Kansas.
TOPEKA, October 20 R.-Reap-
pointment of Samuel Wilson as con-
sultant to the Kansas State Planning
Board by the National Resources
Board at Washington was announced
yesterday.
The board recently submitted its
first six-month report. together with
numerous recommendations for State
planning, to Gov. ALI M Landon, and
has begun a second half-year survey.
Evening star., 1934-10-20
CAROLINA PRISON BURNS
Flames Placed Under Control
Within Several Hours.

COLUMBIA, S. c., October 40 Up.
Fire broke out early today at the
State penitentiary here and was still
burning several hours later, although
reported under control.
First reports, although meager, said
there had been no fatalities.
Evening star., 1934-10-20
Netherlands Pair Pass Over
Athens 734 Hours After
Leaving England.
MISS COCHRAN QUITS
DERBY AT BUCHAREST
Col. Turner and Mollisons Unre.
ported-Col. Fitzmaurice
Withdraws Plane.
BULLETIN.

ATHENS. October 20 (P1-Col.
Roscoe Turner and Clyde Pang-
born landed here at ABS pm. to-
day. after being unreported since
their take-of from Mildenhall Air
drome at $50 am.
Evening star., 1934-10-20

off the curb directly into the side
Of bus.
Mrs. Sherman had been talking
with a friend, Miss Bertha Nienburg,
only moment before the accident.
Miss Nienburg said she had walked
Continued on Page 2, Column -
Evening star., 1934-10-20
K|DNAPER ESCAPES
NET ASSTOLL CASE
IS TAKEN TO Jury
Government to Rely on Tes-
timony of Woman's
Maid.
DEATH PENALTY SEEN
IF INJURY is PROVED
Robinson's Wife to Depend on
Sackett to Clear Her of
Completely Charge.
BULLETIN.

BULLETIN.
LOUISVILLE KY, October 20
P.-Thomas H. Robinson, jr., his
father and his wife we're indicted
in Federal Court here today in
connection with kidnapping Mrs.
Alice Speed Stoll.
Evening star., 1934-10-20
WEATHER.

~. s. Weather Bureau Forecast1
Fair, slightly warmer tonight; tomor-
row partly cloudy and warmer, possibly
followed by rain at night; gentle winds
tonight. emperatures-Highest. 81. at
pm. yesterday; lowest. So, at am.
today. Fill report on page A-12.
The Omaha guide., 1934-03-31

campaign director, left here las
night on a swing to Pacific coast
points and the Southeast which vii
not end until the annual conference
of the association in Oklahoma City
Okla, the latter part Of June.
Her first stop will be a brief one
in Chicago, then two days March 25
and 26 in Omaha, followed by March
1929 in Salt Lake City Utah. She
will visit Las Vegas, New. land
Boulder Dam, arriving in Los Angeles
March 81. One month will be spent
with the Los Angeles and surround
ing branches. May 1-6 Mrs. Lampkin
will be in San Diego and from then
until May 80 in the San Francisco
area. She will come back by the
southern route into Oklahoma, work
ing in the southwest until the con-
ference.
The Omaha guide., 1934-03-31
Martin Thomas
In Charge OF
Events

The Mid City Community Cente,
will sponsor a track meet Saturday
March 81, at 22nd Paul Street, unde,
the able direction Of Marty Thomas.
The following plan has laid out:
There will be three division those
weighing one hundred pounds, those
weighing $50 pounds, and those
weighing 100 pounds or over. The
first being call lightweight, the 9
ond, middleweight, and the third,
heavyweight.
The events to be u are the so
yard dash rs yard dash, 100 yard
dash and 220 yard DASH. There will
be in the field events, standing broad
jump, running broad jump, the back
ward jump. Three relays will be run.
the six man relays with each man
running 40 yards, the 440 yard relay,
each man runs 40 yards and the $50
yard relay. each man running 220
yards.
The events of the day will close
with the Community singing at the
center at S o'clock.
The Omaha guide., 1934-03-31
Mo CITY PING
PONG TEAM
Is winner

The Mid City ping pong team
turned back the Benson paddle push
er at the Mid City gymnasium Fri
day night z to 1.
The scores:
Singles-Foxx (Mid City, defeated
R. Leedom (Benson) 21-7, 21-3; Swo-
boda (Benson) defeated Mckinney
(Nid City, 1921, 21-16, 21-17; Ep-
stein mid City, defeated Wichert
(Benson) Pip, 21-15; Garacuso
(Mid City, defeated Coffield (Ben-
SOM 21-8, 21-9; Taylor Mid City,
defeated D. Leedom (Benson) 1924,
21-15, 21-9; Folfe mid City, defeat
ed Ghrig (Benson) 21-16, 21-14.
Doubles-Foxx Epstein mid City,
defeated Wichert-B. Leedom ben
sony 21-13, 21-17; Wofe-Taylor (Mid
City, defeated Swoboda-G ehrig (Ben
sony 21-18, 21-8.