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Deaths Increase

ME mortality rate for 1884 shows an increase
i over 1888 but is still among the lowest the
nation has ever had, according to Dr. Robert A
Fraser chief medical director of the New York Life
Insurance Co.
Basing his conclusions on life insurance figures
Dr. Fraser reported to the Association of Life In
surance Presidents that the mortality rate for the
present year will be 1863 per 100 900 pocvholders
This is an increase of 376 per 100000 over 1888
In terms of totals, he said this means that there
will be about $4,000 more deaths in the United
States during 1894 than there were in 1888.
About 5000 of these $4,000 are to be accounted
for by the increase in population. he said while
another 5000 are attributed to the increase in auto
mobile fatalities
The record of deaths from automobiles is par
ticularly shocking, DR. Fraser points out because
they may be properly considered preventable ia
talities
One may very well ask what the point is in
be killed by careless automobile drivers who are
driving at rates of speed which make adequate
troll of their cars impossible.
Total deaths from automobiles in 1884 is $500.
There is no other cause of death in which pre-
Ventlon measures are so extensive DR.. Fraser says,
yet instead of making Roadway against it, are.
principally through sheer carelessness continually
back-Sliding."
FATALITIES from the group of diseases incud-
Il ing heart disease chronic kidney disease apo
plexy and arteriosclerosis far outweigh those from
any other source, DR.. Fraser reports The combined
fatalities from this group are 2797 per 100000
pOllcyhoderS.
Deaths from heart disease showed increase
of 96 per 100000 for 1884 over 1888 he continued.
Life insurance policyholders dying from cancer
in 1884 numbered 943 per 100000. This marked
increase over 1888 in which the rate was 1913.
=
ID BOARDING increases in heart disease and cam
IN Ger, DR.. Fraser points out that these diseases
most prevalent in middle and later life.
LAS we know, biologcaly the span Of life has
certain definite limitations" he says. Consequent
ly an increase in mortality from these diseases
need not be regarded indicating forced retreat
in our fight against disease and death but rather
as necessary result of the great saving in lives at
the younger ages"
Pneumonia also showed an increase in 1884 over
1888 the going Up from SIS per 100000 in 1888
TO 81 in 1884 However, there slight decrease
in the death rate from tuberculosis
The death rate from automobile accidents was
243 per 100000 policyholders. increase Of 35 per
100000 over 1888.
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NelU Problems Created

IF, however, the removal of the shrimps claws are
IL so timed that the claws each get an equal
dose of the hormone, then the result the develop
ment of two large claws On the other hand if
neither claw gets the harmone then two small claws
result. N1f 40
Now it can be stated that students of heredty
have probably thought that such great devel-
opmental changes could take place within a single
hereditary pattern Undoubtedly. the biologist
shown a shrimp with two large claws would have
termed it mutant, that is, creature with altered
heredity; for example in which some changes
had taken place in the chromosomes of the germ
cell
Many new problems therefore advanced by
DR. Darbys discovery. Since studying the swapping
shrimp, he has found the thing to be true of
the fiddler crab He also believes that further study
will show the same thing to be true of other
cruStaceans.
DR.. Darby believes that notions of growth
processes will have to be revised Instead Of being
steady and continuing processes he thinks that
many of them cyclcal depending upon the
presence of definite chemical stmulators at definite
times ANY interruption of these cycles are accom-
panied by wide variations, he believes.
In general, ne believes that studies such as his
will show that there is much greater variation the
development of hereditary patterns than biologists
have previously supposed.
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ONLY 20 minutes later, he was
" found dying in his automobile
of a gunshot wound in his head.
His car stood near the spot where
Gorrell had died.
Suicide" decided police, as
signing fear of being drawn into
the Kennamer- Gorrel affair as
motive.
Murder" said Sheriff Charles
Price and the boys relatives, who
cite his observation-disclosures" and
known good spirits that day.
Search for a mysterious man in
a black overcoat" reported seen
running from the scene failed.
So complicated has the case be-
come that a New York newspaper
man who covered the Hall-Mills
case says here that mystery was
childs play compared to the maze
of contradictions and the walls of
silence that surround this case.
So worried have TulSans be-
come over the implications of
strange goings-on among their
young folks that grand jury in
vestigation of all the circum-
stances has been asked, so that
anxious parents may either know
the worst or stop worryinging over
younger set" activities that may
overshadow even the two tragic
deaths.
All sorts of sensations have been
promised by both prosecution
and defense investigators at the
trial, which will be started in late
January.
But in the meanwhile sleep for
the families of Tulsa's upper
crust" will be troubled and dis
turbed.
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Playing One Against the Other

T IS bounded on the north by Italian Eritrea on
the east by British Somailand and Italian
Somaliland, Kenya the south, and the Soudan
on the west. 1t is thus cut off from the sea-
Of water power it has enough to light up Africa
like Broadway. This is largely going to waste
railroad. 4S7 miles long. built by the French con-
meets the capital with the French-owned port of
Jbuti, its outlet on the Red Sea
In 1925 the Italians and British agreed to sup
port anOthers projects in Abyssinia Britain
had an eye the water power Italy wanted to
build railroad. But little, trouble, has come
of this
Lake TSana source of the Blue Nile, magnif1-
body of turquoise water is 5000 feet high. 1t
is 30 miles wide by 40 long The Blue Nile is real
river even where it pOurs frcn the lake. About 20
miles downstream it drops 80 feet into narrow
gorge and in the next 30 miles it falls 1000 feet in
a series of roaring cataracts Another chute of
1900 feet occurs the Soudan frontier.
But for these waters and those of the White
Nile coming up out of the Soudan Egypt would
be Just part of the great Sahara. 1t is for irri-
CATION purposes. therefore, rather than electric
power that Britain wishes to conserve this vital
flood
Ordinarily a rich country like AbySSinia could
hardly survive II months the pOSseSsive envy of the
great powers Save for Liberia tottering Negro re-
public on the west coast is the only wholly indie
pendent country in Africa So there would seem to
be some truth in the claim that the wisdom OF Kings
David and Solomon trickled down to Ras Tafarl
For he plays one great power against another to
save his freedom and his throne.
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knew of the affair. "A police guard
stood at divers home. Bath had
left town.
Richard Bard, who had been
with Gorrell earlier on the eve
ming of his death, left A. and M
College at Saltwater, and Miss
Bette Watson, coed at the Uni
versity of Oklahoma, was threat
ened, apparently because of her
story of threats by Kennamer
against Gorrell.
Homer Wilcox Jr., son of the oil
magnate mentioned by Kennamer
as object of extortion plans, was
fined $75, and a companion, Will
liam Paden, was also fined for
destroying public property" by
shooting out two street lights at
a place which was only a few
hours later to become the death
scene of Gorrell.
Thus, by a coincidence, the
street was dark when the shots
were fired that killed Gorrell.
Sidney Born Jr., president of
the High Hat Club" and the son
of an oil engineer, had driven
Kennamer to a Tulsa hospital to
meet Gorrell the night of the lat
ter'S death.
Born and Kennamer had spent
the night before Thanksgiving to-
gether at a hotel. On Dec. 9 at
lis in the afternoon, young Born
tried to call Kennamer at the Jail
from a drug store pay phone. He
was unable to speak with Kenna-
mer Muttering his disappoint-
ment, he left the store.
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GrOUS NeU CIdUs

ME swapping shrimp has popularity which If
shares with many other crustaceans IF Il
caCcheS Its claw in something and can't oct loose
merely snakes the claw off and swms awav with
out it. ' away Will
The loss of the claw is only Temporary hard
snip Tor the swapping shrimp molts every 10 DAYS
Sheddlng his old shell. After Noting it grows
back claw e'
u DARBY found that time the chief element
ihVolVed and that whether the shrimp developed q
large or small claw depended upon when the crea
ture lost claw
He found that if he caused the shriump to lose
tne claw Immediately after melting and then 3615
hours later the large claw it grew back two large
claws IT, however, the Shrimp did not lose its claws
until four days after noting it grew back two
small claws.
BY careful timing DR.. Darby found it possible
to put one shrimp through many changes shifting
the large claw from right to left causing the crea-
ture to develop two large claws, or two small ones
at will Apparently, the process causes the shrimp
no particular inconvenience
AS yet Dr. Darby has not worked out complete
theory OF what happens. His present theory is that
there is a chemical substance in the blood of the
shrimp some sort of hormOne, which causes the de-
velopment of a big claw. His belief is that which
ever claw begins to grow the fastest, abSorbs all
of this stuff and the creature grows one big claw
and one small one. In nature, this is a haphazard
occurrence, hence so per cent of the shrimps have
the large claw on the right and the other so per
cent have it on the left
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Kolsky or Suriani?? Surely not
Baron Wrangel. And his guest
for what-breakfast, bridge or a
hockey match in the Bronx? The
phone rings, and it's Ted Baron.
A date for lunch.
The phone rings again. Hello,
Paul, this is Evelyn. You know
Evelyn Brdnshgjkldf. I think
you're too mean for not coming
to the party .. The party at the
Waldorf. Everybody was there,
just everybody. Who-well, 1
don't remember all of them of
course, but there we're a lot of
important people. Anyway I
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and jumped off at Claremore to
tell police Wilson" was aboard
and had eyed him menacingly.
Wilson" turned out to be Ken
manner. Miss Doris Rogers of
Pittsburg, Kan, who had been
Gorreu's flancee was able to
throw little light on the strange
affair.
Stories and rumorS began to fly.
There were wild tales of society
gang of thrill-mad youths" Tulsa
did not believe, does not yet be-
lieve, half of them. But the iden-
LITIGATION by one witness of Ken
manner as one of five youths who
had robbed MIN in Wagner, Okla,
the day before the GorreH shoot
ing lent color to the tales of an
amateur crime wave"
Others of Tulsa's younger set"
added to the stories. Ted Bath,
friend of both Kennamer and Cor
rell, told of being approached by
both to get him to join in black
mail schemes aimed at shaking
down" rich oil men by involving
their daughters in compromising
situations and photographing them
thus.
He refused, but certain negatives
now being held for the trial in a
police lock-box are believed to
lend some color to his story. Wade
Thomas, the proprietor of a beer
parlor frequented by Gorrells and
Kennamer's crowd, was locked up
for a week, but later released.
MEANWHILE, myst FERROUS
1V1 threats began to come to
those who had told what they
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headquarters in Indianapolis and
the branch office in Washington.
In the latter, John Thomas Tay-
lor, longtime legislative repre-
sentative, mas been retained, but
his authority has been rigidly
limited.
Henceforth, instead of speaking
for the Legion. the talking will be
done by a publicity man of Bel
grano'S own choosing.
THE brief, but bitter condem-
Il nation of lynching voiced by
President Roosevelt in his address
before the recent Crime Confer
ence was his own idea. In the ma
terial prepared for him for the
speech numerous crimes were list
ed. but no mention of lynching
was made. The President per-
Sonally inserted his cauStic Stric-
lures against this form Of mob
violence.
WHEN the President is on the
w point of making some con-
fiding remark to the press, Steve
Early's hand of caution frequently
falls upon his shoulder. Early was
absent from a recent press con-
ference. The President sid, No
news today, boys. Steve has gone
duck-hunting and he said
couldn't tell you anything!"
A suite of three rooms is provided
for each Associate Justice in the
new Supreme Court Building.
The rooms of the Chief Justice
are distinct from the others in
being equipped with a shower
bath. Comparable to the war
time newspaper, Stars and Stripes,
edited for men in the service, is
the sheet, Happy Days, written by
and for the younger wearers OF
khaki in the Civilian Conservation
Corps. There is no race segre-
CATION policy in the reading room
of the Library of Congress, but
Negroes habitually congregate at
the desks in the southwest seq
ment of the room. The death
of Is girls in the Triangle Shirt
waist factory fire IN New York SO
years ago Sharpened the resolu-
ton of two women witnesses who
are now in the Presidents official
family One is Secretary Frances
Perkins, the other Josephine
Roche, newly-appointed assistant
secretary of the treasury.
Many persons, writing TO the
President, are perplexed as to how
to address him. Solicitations on
letters he has received range all
the way from "Hullo Sir" TO Your
Majesty" Friends Of Mrs.
Roosevelt can not be sure that
Personal" on a letter will carry
it through to her. Scores of people
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LOSES HIS CLOTHING
AS DOMINOS GALLOP
Gerald Israel Puts Up Shirt" as
Security; Winner ForeclOses.

Gerald Israel Puts Up Shirt" as
Security; Winner ForeclOses.
Two men were under arrest today
as a result of what police say was
Christmas Day craps game.
Complaining that some one had
deprived him of cash, clothing and
jewelry, Gerald Israel, 20, of 2003
Singleton-st, finally admitted to
police he was a victim of the gallop-
ing dominos, police declare.
Patrolmen Charles Viles and
Frank Funk accompanied Israel to
the home of Nate Perkins, Negro,
9O9 Charles-st, and heard another
version of the Christmas calamity.
Perkins said he had lent Israel a
small sum of money and the latter's
clothing was assigned as security. In
true banker spirit, he had been
compelled to foreclose on a loan
past due, he said.
Police, unable to locate the lost
jewelry, returned Israels garments
and then charged both men with
| vagranCy.
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she does not know are writing to
her, using these phrases: Con
fidential," Personal" Not to be
opened by any one except Mrs.
Roosevelt"
nNE Of the few foreign ambas-
~ sailors who has consistently
gone to bat for payment of war
debts to the United States is
aStute Andre Laboulaye, envoy of
France. He has argued with his
government that the time may
come again when France will
need American military support,
at which time war debts will rise
up as a bitter memory. .
During the Government-inSpired
Town Hall Forum, Norman,
Thomas made sighting remarks
about the patronage politics of
Jim Farley.
Afterwards Atty. Gen. Cum
mings stepped up and defended
his Cabinet colleague. He told
Thomas that he owed Farley an
apology. Thomas fatty refused.
Ham Fish is worried about
what to do with the gorgeous
Order of CespedeS presented to
him by the Cuban Government.
He went all the way to Havana
tc have the decoration hung
around his neck, now finds that
he can not legally accept it. He
is thinking of having a special act
passed by Congress okaying his
acceptance.
Copyright. 1884. by United Feature
Syndicate Inc
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tain young society man had been
boasting about drug stores and
beer parlors that he had killed
Gorrell.
Then Floyd j. Huff of Kansas
City, an aviator, came forward
and told that this same young
man had shown him a .,urported
ransom note" one night and con-
fided that he intended to kill
Gorren.
Suddenly Philip Kennamer, 49,
year-old son of Judge Franklin E.
Kennamer, gave himself up to po-
lice and confessed the killing of
Gorrell. Tulsa sat back with
shock which has been renewed
every few days since.
Kennamer claimed self-defense.
He said Gorrell had been planning
to eXtort money from the family
of Homer Wilcox, wealthy oil man,
by threats against their daughter
Virginia.
henIlamer, VINO processes an al
lection Call unknown to herr for
Miss Wilcox, said he was trying to
head off Gorrell's extortion scheme
so as to make himself a hero in
her eyes.
LIE quarreled with Gorrell, who
Il Il drew a pistol. In the fight
over the gun, Gorrell was shot,
Kennamer said.
Richard Oliver, Gorrell's room
mate at the Kansas City College,
however, told authorities that Cor
rell had been afraid of one Bob
Wilson" When Oliver was on his
way to Tulsa to tell his story, he
recognized Wilson" on the train,
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HANGOVERS PLENTIFUL
IN RESTAURANT LOOT
Whisky. Beer and Wine Are Stolen
During Christmas Holiday.

The boys ARE having a few drinks
on the house" today, if the police
reports of their activities can be re-
lied upon.
Some one broke into the Eva
Truemper Restaurant last night and
stole two cases Of beer. Is quarts Of
whisky and 4.6O in cash; total value,
$500.
Ted's Restaurant, 925 N. Illinois,
st, reported the theft of $1,000 in
cash. and Philip Kraft. 1920 Union
st, reported the theft of several
Christmas presents in liquid form,
consisting of wines and WHISTLES
valued at 500. They were stolen
from a parked car.
Christmas presents of total value
of s24 were taken from the parked
car of Robert v. Davidson, 1910
Park-av, he reported to police. They
consisted of clothing.
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ivory ebony and frankncense. OF that visit seems
a son was born. And down through the ages the
torch has been passed on until today it is held aloft
by the hand Of Ras Taffari, Of Ethiopia.
Abyssinia-or Ethiopia-is regarded as probably
the greatest unexpected region left in the world
1t Is supposed to contain many precious metals
Some Of King Solomon's gold probably came from
there, and some of the rare woods which went into
his temple 1t is about the size of New England
New York and all the rest Of the Atlantic sea-
board down to and including Florida. Its climate
ranges from near boiling down in the deep valleys
to temperate in the highlands. Anything will grow
there
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THE DEATH MENACE OF TULSA
ByNEA Service

By NE4 Service
TULSA, Okla, Dec. 26.-Par-
u ents look anxiously across
the dinner tables here at their
boys and girls home from college
for the holidays. There are 81
lences in the conversation, which
swings inevitably around to the
only thing Tulsans can talk about
these days.
Of course each parent is sure
his boy or girl wouldn't know
anything about the mysterious
deaths of two well-connected
young TulSans. or about the mesh
of amateur crime and wild carry
ings-on that are limited as the
investigation spreads.
And yet-Judge Kenn m r
never suspected that his son
Philip was mixed up in such
things. And DR.. Gorrell and
Professor Born, whose boys are
dead, never suspected. either.
Seldom has a city been so
shocked and startled, so ridden
by rumors of youthful amateur
crime, talk of gambling, drinking,
the possibility of narcotic use,
"shakedown schemes" possession
of knives and guns, and general
talk of wild escapades among the
cOllege-age set.
AS new theories rise and new
clews are run down in the mys-
FERROUS deaths by shooting of
John Gorrell and Sidney Born
Jr., rumors fly about the town,
and families which have young
sters in the younger social set
can think of nothing but Who
will be involved neXt?"
THERE is a pronounced damp
Il er on social activities. The
Quaker Drug Store, often fire.
quented by the dead youths and
their set, sees them no more.
Some are actually in hiding.
= The High Hat Club, of which
young Born has been president,
and to which belonged many of
the sons Of wealthy and promi-
nent citizens, has been disbanded
until February. For late in Janu-
airy, Philip Kennamer, son of a
Federal judge known throughout
the Southwest for his stern adj
ministration Of justice, will go on
trial for the murder of John
Gorrell.
Gorrell. son of a well-known
physician, was a student at
Kansas City Dental College. He
came home to spend the Thanks
giving holidays with his parents.
About midnight of Thanksgiv-
ing Day, the Stepson of one of
the city'S leading real estate
men was on his way home. and
noticed a car by the roadside in
the exclusive Forest Hills section,
with one wheel up on the curb.
LIE stopped, found the body of
IL Gorrell before the wheel, shot
twice through the head with his
own pistol, which was found neatly
replaced in its holster. A rain had
obliterated all marks outside the
car, and there we're no finger
prints on the pistol.
Almost Immediately rumors fill
tered through to police that a GER
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IN OLD NEW YORK
By Paul Harrison

NEW YORK, Dec 26.Here random how to
~ day
mail desk which per
collection scrubbed previous
MIR Dez says Which
the showwrter? turns out to be
thing
Baron wants YOU to be guest Wednesday" Baron who
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associate Of the Carnegie Institu-
ton, Washington, may prove to
be the biggest biological news of
1884. 1t is entirety probable that
they will mark the beginning of
revlsions in some of the most fun
damental theories of biology.
Under normal conditions. the
swapping shrimp, like his big cousin.
the lobster, has one large claw and
one small claw. AS with the lobster.
either the right or left claw NAV
be the large one. If you examine
1000 shrimpS, you find 500 of each.
Mr.. Darby found that he can
take shrimp with large right
claw and little left one and turn
him into on with a large left claw
and a little right one. More than
that, he can turn him into a shrimp
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OF K'-g Solomon. For just as the
imperial house Of Nippon traces its
line back to the Sun Goddess of
prehistoric times. the Abyssinian
emperor claims direct descent from
King Solomon and the Queen of
Sheba. Which would mean that
the blood of King David, shepherd,
warrior, monarch of Israel, psalm
list and sweetest singer known to
Biblical lore, also courses through
his veins.
About 5000 years ago Balkis,
Queen of Sheba. hearing of the
glories Of Solomon, paid state
visit to that ruler of Jerusalem.
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/MKwMeMzM
BY
WIN. PHILIP SIMMS

WTASHINGTON, Dec. 26-Once again, in this
w season Of peace on earth and good will to man.
the tabled land Of Abyssinia is in the news. The
eyes Of the world are upon il. Italy's Benito Mus
soini is pressing for apologies and indemnities from
Abysnnia's Ras Taffar King Of Kings and Con-
quering Lion of JUda for firing his ebony troops
Isaiah, more than 700 years before Christ called
Abyssnia the land shadowing with wings which is
beyond the rivers OF Ethiopia"
Today. MussOhni is "shadOwing with wings this
same area Of the Dark Continent. For II Duce's
bombers the border-"wings" such the
Prophet Isaiah never dreamed Of To get out of his
SifHcutes Ras Taffari will need all his wisdom, in
,erited. II is said. from his forbear Menek.