davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1938-04-27
Scientists Told Odd Can,els
Once Populated Continent
ELepE,nntine and Rabbitlike Forms Are
Disclosed by Bones Preserved
Millions of Years.

up. The same behavior has been re-
corded before for dogs in physiological
laboratories whose brains have been
operated on so that they have lost
voluntary control Of movements. The
newborn child Is in much the same
condition because the brain centers
controlling and co-ordinating move
ment are not yet completely con-
nected.
The movement of the arms with
the head, DR.. Gessell said, is a true
reflex, as much beyond the control OF
the individual as the knee jerk used
to test the integrity Of the nervous
system. When baby is left alone
this tonic reflex always is taking
place, but very much more pronounced
on one side than on the other. 1t is
the infants response to almost any
stimulus which it follows with its
eyes.
May Reappear Later.
After a few weeks, the Yale child
expert said, the reflex begins to dis
appear. the child looks straight ahead
and both arms are used straight ahead
and together This indicates the
brain is coming into control of the
movements The reflex may reappear,
however, when anything happens to
the brains motor centerS or in an
emergency when a person returns to
an infantile level of behavior.
The beginning Of new geometry,
so-called skating rink geometry, was
described by DR.. Edward Kasner of
Columbia University. When carried
out, it will allow calculations of the
intricate figures cut by a skater on
the ice and also, it is likely, will have
considerable application to practical
mechanics.
First successful experimental pro-
duction of bone cancer, or sarcoma,
in rats, which can be successfully
transplanted into other animals-thus
opening up another avenue Of ap-
proach to the cancer problem, was
described by Dr. Robley D. Evans of
the Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology.
Radium Traced in Body.
DR.. Evans and DR.. Robert c. Harris
have been studying the effects of
radium in the animal body in an
effort to devise some treatment for
the victims of radium poisoning who
years afterwards are stricken with q
progressive and always fatal anemia
For this purpose he has devised an
instrument which will detect almost
infinitely minute amounts of a radio
active element in tissue.
AS adapted for use in the medical
clinic, however, it Is equipped with
what DR.. Evans designates as a me-
chanical brain which makes all the
necessary computations almost in
stantly. With this device he set out
to determine just what happened to
the poisonous element from the mo-
ment it entered the body until the
death Of the victim. He has been able
to determine, he said, the rate at which
it is excreted and retained by rats and
the amounts which result in inevitable
death because they are retained in
the bones
Evening star., 1938-04-27
WOMEN VOTERS
NAME OFFICERS
Mrs. Harris T. Baldwin of
Washington Nominated
Vice President.
BY he Associated Press.

ISy me Associated Press.
ST. LOUIS, April 27.-Miss Mar
guerite M. Wells of Minneapolis was
nominated today for reelection as
president of the National League of
Women Voters, which is holding its
18th annual convention here.
Mrs. Harris T. Baldwin Of Washing
ton, D. c., the first vice president;
Mrs. Paul Eliel of Stanford Univer-
sity, Calf, the secretary, and Mrs. La
Rue Brown of Boston, a director,
also were presented to the convention
for reelection.
New officers proposed by the Nomi-
mating Committee were.
Mrs. Donald Hutchinson of New
York for second vice president to sue
ceed Miss Anna Lord Strauss, also of
New York.
Mrs. Walter Fisher Of Winnetka
Ill. for treasurer to succeed Mrs. Rob-
ert Taft of Cleveland.
Mrs. Ruric N. Smith, Tulsa, Okla. !;
Mrs. George Gellhorn, ST. Louis. and
Mrs. Elliott Corbett, Portland, Oreg.,
for directors. The retiring directors
are Mrs. O. Shepard Barnum, Pasa-
dena, Calf; Mrs. Florence Fifer
Bohrer, Bloomington, H., and Mrs.
Augustus M. Roam, Atlanta, Ga.
Need Broader Understanding.
Earlier. two leading political econ
omists told the league that the peo-
pie need broad understanding Of the
necessary functions of government
under modern economic conditions.
Alvin H. Hansen, professor OF po-
litical economy at the Graduate School
of Harvard University. declared rigid
opposition to every proposal for re-
form must be supplanted with an
earnest desire to find and execute
constructive programs of economic
adjustment"
This We have a right to expect
Of the active elements in the COM
munity-business and labor leaders,
members of the professions and the
women OF the Nation"
Prof. Hansen said recent shifts in
the balance of political power indi-
Gated growing influence Of agricul-
ture and labor, with a corresponding
decline in the influence of industrial
and financial leaders.
Study of Machinery Urged.
More careful public study Of the
administrative machinery in proposed
legislation was urged by Herbert En-
merich, associate director of the ad-
ministration clearing house.
The public and the elected legis-
latures are more interested in policy
and program than they are in ad.
ministration except when they are
irritated by excessive delay or blunder-
ing by an Official" Mr.. Emmerich as
serted They are not aware of the
administrative problem. Public inter-
est in new legislation is focused on
the objectives. not on the mechanics
by which it will be enforced or ad-
Mr.. Emmerich said another obstacle
which should be overcome was the
old tradition favoring amateur ad-
ministrators and professional poll
ticians."
we need more professional trained
persons in administrative branches Of
the Government and perhaps We need
to turn around the other tradition
also and have more amateurs par
ticipating in politics." he said.
Evening star., 1938-04-27
W.P.A. COERCION
AFF|DAWTSF|LED
Two Discharged for Failure
to Aid Wilson Ticket,
Kelly Charges.
By the Associated Press

8y the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, April 27-Fifty
Affidavits and the testimony of two
witnesses were submitted today to
w. P. A. representative conducting
Federal investigation into charges
that w. P A. workers in Pennsyl-
vania were being coerced for political
purposes.
John B. Kelly, city Democratic
leader, said he presented the affidavits
and witnesses to Francis r. Dryden,
assigned by w. P. A. Administrator
Harry L. Hopkins to investigate Mr..
Kelly's assertion that the coercing
was being done by Democratic forces
aligned with United States Senator
Joseph F. Guffey
Mr.. Kelly said the witnesses, John
NJ. Shuler. former Luzerne County w.
P. A. executive, and Mary A. Kelly,
Mr. Shuler's secretary, were dis
charged for failure to talk up" sup
port for the ticket headed by Mayor
S. Davis Wilson of Philadelphia for
United States Senator and 1t. Gov.
Thomas Kennedy for Governor.
The ticket is supported by Senator
Guffey and c. I. o. Chief John L.
Lewis.
Meanwhile, the Workers Alliance,
An organization Of W. P. A. and relief
workers, accused Mr.. Kelly Of coercing
workers into supporting the State
Democratic Committee Endorsed can
didates-Gov George H. Earle for
United States Senator and Charles
Alvin Jones, Pittsburgh attorney. for
Governor.
w. p. A. SHIFTS 10.
Evening star., 1938-04-27
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

Canels bigger than elephants, camels
with heads like dogs, camels with
necks like giraffes, camels with claws
that climbed trees, camels that lived
submerged in water like hippopotami
and pigmy camels the size of small
rabbits were among the weird men,
agerie of ancient North American
animals. described by DR.. William B.
Scott of Princeton University before
the National Academy Of Sciences yes
terday afternoon.
This continent. where no camels
exist today. DR.. Scott said, was the
native land Of the animals about 49,
100000 years ago in the latter part
of the dawn-age Of present day forms
of life. Some of them persisted here
almost into historic times, he said,
although most became extinct except
for two branches of the family, one
Of which migrated to Asia and the
other, represented by the llamas, to
South America.
Skeletons Tell Story.
The Princeton paleontologist has
been making an intensive study of the
strange Towering into diverse forms
of the camel family before man ap-
peared on earth, as 1t can be recon-
structed from skeletons gathered over
North America. There was one crea-
ture which stood more than 10 feet
high, far taller than any present day
elephant, which could have looked
over the roofs of low houses A unique
type was the giraffe camel with long
forelegs and very long neck which
browsed from the tops of trees. There
was a very large group almost indis-
tinguishable from gazelles with ex-
tremely slender limbs. They probably
were among the fastest runners the
earth has known. These fleet crea-
lures were about the size of sheep.
One branch of the family became
extremely deer-like. These ranged
in size from the bigger deer of the
present to jack rabbits. Weirdest of
all in appearance were the four
horned camels. They were a sub
division Of the camel family
which developed grotesque outgrowths
on the skull, horn-like in shape, but
probably not carrying horns. Reasons
for extinction Of the race are unknown.
The academy also was told that
man is born a side-wise creature,
comes only gradually to look the
world in the face, and always tends to
squeeze out of bad situation side
wise.
A hitherto unknown phenomenon
Of infant behavior, relic from mans
tree-climbing ancestors, was described
by DR.. Arnold Gessell, director of
Yale University's Clinic of Child Be-
havior. This phenomenon, the tonic
neck reflex. appears to be one Of
the fundamental building blocks of
human behavior as it develops in
later life.
When a newborn babys head is
turned either to the right or the left,
DR.. Gessell said, observations at the
Yale clinic show that the arm on the
same side automatically is stretched
out and the opposite arm is doubled
Evening star., 1938-04-27
HOUSE VOTES S. 900, 900
FOR PARKWAY PROJECTS
Blue Ridge In Virginia and
Natchez Trace in Mississippi
Are Pushed.

By the Associated Press.
The House completed congressional
action yesterday on an appropriation
to continue work on the Blue Ridge
and Natchez Trace Parkways during
the 1889 fiscal year.
It agreed to a conference commit
tees recommendation that $4,000
be appropriated, $3.500,000 for the
Blue Ridge in North Carolina and
Virginia and 81 100000 for the Natchez
Trace in Mississippi, Alabama and
Tennessee.
The report already had been adopt
ed by the Senate.
Evening star., 1938-04-27
CZECH ENVOY HERE
WARNS GERMANY
Force to Be Met With Force,
He Says in Nationwide
Broadcast.

Dy the Associated Press.
Vladimir s. Hurban, Czechoslovak
minister, warned Germany last night
in q nationwide (MutuaD Broadcast
that Czechoslovakia would meet force
with force.
While q crisis between Czechoslo-
vakia and Germany threatened over
the demands Of the German minority
In Czechoslovakia, the minister de-
clared.
I'VE are fully prepared to meet the
realities which are forced upon us
with realities Of which we are in COM
mand."
Evening star., 1938-04-27
WILSON ASKS PROBE.
Demands Ickes Look Into All Work
Done by McCloskey.

By the Associated FreSS.
CANONSBURG, Pa, April 81
Mayor S. Davis Wilson of Philadelphia
in campaign address here last night
demanded that Secretary of the In
terror Harold L. Ickes make a thor
ough-going inquiry into every piece
OF work done by McCloskey g. Co.
philadelphia contractors) since May,
1887"
At the same time he asked Gov.
George H. Earle "if he didn't write to
Deputy Public Works Administrator
Hackett in Washington designating
Matthew H) McCloskey as the rep
resentative of Pennsylvania in the
procuring of P. w. A. funds for the
Pennsylvania State Authority prof.
ects?"
Evening star., 1938-04-27
Taxi Drivers to Meet,

District taxicab drivers will meet
tomorrow at 8 pm. to formulate
plans for a new union to operate
under the American Federation of
Labor, acol ding to an announcement
yesterday. The meeting will be held
on the second floor of Typographical
Temple, 425 G. street NV.
Evening star., 1938-04-27
Transfers and DemotiOns Ordered for
Political Activity

BY thl Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH. Pa April 27-Ten
former w. P. A. supervisors began new
jobs today after their transfer or de-
motion from the supervisory positions
because they were actively engaged
in campaigning for the Jones-for-
Governor ticket" w. P. A. Director
James r. Kesner announced here.
The w. P. A. will continue to
transfer and fire men if We catch
them engaged in political activity
and that goes for both Sides said
Mr.. KeSner.
He added that he did not consider
wearing campaign button political
activity but said that when a super
intendent or supervisor talks to work.
ers on the job and urges them to sup
port this or that ticket, then I do
consider it political activity"
vvJJ CON ASRS pPnpE
Evening star., 1938-04-27
BEEFSTEAK ROUNDUP
Congress Members to Provide
Press Club Entertainment.

Press Club Entertainment.
Members of Congress will provide
entertainment for newspaper men and
other members of the Press Club at
"beefsteak roundup" tomorrow at
$50 pm. at the National Press Club
Building.
Senators Ashurst of Arizona and Lee
OF Oklahoma will tell a series of cow
boy yarns, and Senator Chavez Of
New Mexico will give a speciality num-
Der.
Music will be provided by Repre-
sentatives Woodrum of Virginia, Ra-
baut of Michigan. Kleberg OF Texas
and Doxey of Mississippi. The party
will start with the serving of steaks
at $50. and the entertainment will
begin at 8.
Evening star., 1938-04-27
BARNEY HOUSE TOURS
Three Social Welfare Groups Are
Taken on Trips,

Study tours of Barney Neighbor-
hood House, 407 N street SW., are
being made this week by three groups
interested in social welfare problems.
Those who are being taken through
the house and grounds to see the
activities are student nurses on tour
sponsored by the Instructive Visiting
Nurse Society, members of the sociol-
ogy class of Virginia Junior College,
Arlington. Va, and volunteer Com
munity Chest speakers.
Evening star., 1938-04-27
RITES WILL BE HELD
FOR FATHER MURPHY
Office for Dead to Be Said Today,
With Requiem Mass and
Burial Tomorrow

buflal tomorrow.
The Office Of the dead will be said at
S pm. today in Dahlgren Chapel,
Georgetown University, for the Rev.
Francis Fay Murphy, S. j.. member of
the faculty. whose death occurred
Sunday at West Palm Beach. Fla.
Tomorrow at 8 am. requiem mass
will be celebrated by the Rev. James T.
Sweeney, S. j., vice provincial of the
Maryland-New York province of the
Jesuit order. Burial will be in the col-
lege cemetery.
Members of Father Murphy's family,
including his father, Daniel K. Murphy
of Utica. N. Y. will attend the services.
A cousin, Sister M. Rosa of Providence
Hospital, resides in Washington.
Father Murphy was professor OF
economics and sociology and head of
that department in the Graduate
School.
Evening star., 1938-04-27

thy " peIOteuWt OU us fLuNuS QUu
no foreign markets in uhich to
dispose OF it, Japanese haUe been
reported on uarious occasions seek
ing to obtain MEXICAN oil, al
though labor in republic has con-
sistently fought dealing With non-
democratic countries.
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, April 27.-The British
government advocated today what
would be. in effect, a British boycott
of oil taken from wells appropriated
by Mexico from British companies,
until the question of those properties
is settled.
Richard A. Butler, undersecretary
for foreign affairs, disclosed this stand
in replying to a question in the House
Of Commons.
In briaf answer written to Laborite
Robert Gibson. who had asked for a
statement on the oil controversy, Mr.
Butler said:
In view of the recent notes ad-
dressed by his majestys government
to the Mexican government requesting
restoration of appropriated British oil
properties, the marketing of oil from
these properties by British subjects
or companies could in the present
circumstances be only a matter of
embarrassment to his majesty's gov
eminent"
Britain has sent two notes to Mex
leo demanding return of the prop
critics of the Mexican Eagle (Aguila)
Oil Co., largest of II American and
British companies appropriated by
President Lazaro Cardenas on
March 18.
Francis w. Rickett, British oil op-
orator, has been negotiating with the
Mexican government. presumably for
purchase of oil, some of which comes
from appropriated wells.
japanese Bidding for Mexican Oil.
MEXICO CITY, April 27 R.-Gov-
ernment sources said today Japan had
offered to pay cash for 100000
worth of gasoline
1t was said, however, that Gustavo
Espinosa Mireles general manager of
the National Petroleum Export Co..
was hesitant to close the deal for
fear of stirring up opposition from
Mexican and United States labor.
The Confederation of Mexican
Workers, with which the petroleum
workers are affiliated, announced
Saturday that two delegates returned
from the United States with promise
of support from John L. Lewis of the
c. I. o. after they had pledged that
oil would not be sold to Fascist
nations"
Replying to second British note
protesting appropriation, Mexico yes
terday again refused to return the
property Of Aguila (Royal Dutch
SHELLY
The Mexican answer asserted
shareholders in Aguila renounced dip
lomatic representations in their be-
half by reason Of statements stamped
on the company's share certificates.
Evening star., 1938-04-27

Japan plans to spend an additional
$30,000,000 in industrial development
in Manchuria.
Evening star., 1938-04-27
BRITISH PROPOSE
MEXICO BOYCOTT
ReprisaI for Oil Seizure Is
Hinted to House of
Commons.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
appropriation of foreign -opned
oil companies BY Merico last month
left government Nth large guam
tity OF petroleum on its hands and
no foreign markets in uhich to
dispose Of it. japanese haze been
reported on various occasions seek
ing to obtain Merican oil, al
though labor in republic has con-
sistently fought dealing with non-
democratic countries.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-07-28

State allotments for 1889 COM
pared with 1888 and 1928-'37 average
acreage of wheat land in the major
grain producing states include:
Pennsylvania, 772, $50 acres, COM
pared with 1908, 900 in 1928 and
1893, 076 for the 1928-'37 period; Ok
lahoma, 1888, 1854; 5,959,00O and
5,088, 684; Texas, 1854 1868; 5,315, 900
and 4,955, 426.
Illinois, 1873, 1872; 2,O74,OOO, and
2,4O6,116; Indiana, 1,481, $40; $685.
600 and 1892, TAT; Iowa, 389, TT; $685.
900 and 523, 1857; Michigan, 669, 1854;
GIT 1000 and 900, 1858; Minnesota, l.
418, 7O2; 1852, 900 and 1907, 1878; Mis-
souri,, 1,7O5,277; Att, 900 and $685.
266; Nebraska, 3,049, 1882; 5,041 900
and 4,1O1 ,634; Ohio, 1854, BAT; 2,415,-
600 and 2,225 ,448; South Dakota, g.
943, 821; 4,277 900 and 1888, 1857; Wis
consin, 80, 203; $4,000 and 121 ,306.
California, 626,306; $4,000 and
842, 260; Colorado, 1,314,022; 1885,
900 and 1,767, 104; Idaho, 895, $40; l.
253, 900 and 1,204,340; Kansas, H.
OCT ,349; 17,453, 900 and 1883 ,436;
Montana, 3,414,6 42; 4,91S, 900 and A.
592, 900; North Dakota, 6, 300, 488; TO-
$4,000 and II ,162 ,545; Oregon, 1884,
303; 1,013,000 and 1,033,218 Wash
ington, 1851, 159; 1926, 900 and $780,
1872.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-07-28
Sneak Flight Over Ocean
DOUGLAS P. CORRIGAN.

- young airplane motor expert
from California, couldn't get per-
mission from the air commerce bu-
reau to fly across the Atlantic, SO
he started off secretly from Floyd
Bennett field, New York, and land
ed at Baldonnel, Ireland, % hours
and Is minutes later.
The remarkable feature of the
fight was that it was made in a
rickety old single-rnotored Curtiss
Robin plane that was not equipped
with navigation instruments, radio
or the ordinary safety devices. Cor
rigan did not even carry a para
chute.
Having neither flight permit, land
ing papers nor passport, Corrigan
laughingly declared in Dublin that
he had intended to fly back to Cali
fornia but set his magnetic compass
wrong and flew in the opposite di-
rection. His was the sixth west-east
solo flight across the Atlantic. In
the opposite direction only Mollison
and Beryl Markham have been sue
cessful.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-07-28

Gated 1t merely was coincidence
that almost without exception those
marked for defeat also fought Mr..
Roosevelt's government reorganiza-
ton and Supreme court packing
bills.
Among the Democratic rules COM
mittee members marked for opposi-
ton were Rep. E. E. Cox of Geor-
gia, opponent of administration poll
cies in the house; Rep. Howard w.
Smith of Virginia, against whom
James Roosevelt and Thomas G..
(Tommy the Cork Corcoran have
put up young radical, William E.
Dodd Jr.; and Rep. Lawrence Lew
is Of Colorado, chairman of the
Democratic congressional campaign
committee.
Included in the Lewis blacklist
are Senators Tydings of Maryland,
Adams of Colorado and Lonergan
of Connecticut.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-07-28
British Monarehs in Paris

King GEORGE vi and Queen
II Elizabeth of England went to
Paris for a state visit of four days,
and this was regarded as vitality
important event politically. Appar-
emily it was undertaken to let the
dictator countries know that Great
Britain and France would continue
to stand firmly as allies.
Britain's foreign secretary, Wis
count Halifax; the French premier,
Edouard Daladier, and Foreign
Minister Georges Bonnet held po-
itical talks to discuss the world
situation during the visit.
To demonstrate the strength
France can lend the common cause
with Great Britain, the French pa
raded $4,000 men and their latest
war machines before George and
President Lebrun. This military
display outdid that put on in Rome
for Hitler, and it was significant that
places in the reviewing stand were
reserved for the German and Ital-
ian military attaches. After the re-
view the royal visitors were sump-
tuously entertained at the Palace of
Versailles.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-07-28
Find Many Farmers Earn
Income by Outside Labor

Observation-Disclosures a third of
the farmers of the United States
have outside industrial and business
income, it is indicated in survey
just released by the census bureau.
AS a result of a study of 5000
farms in selected counties in 40
states, according to William L. Aus
tin, director Of the census, many
''new and surprising facts" along
this line have been discovered.
Among those which have hitherto
not been called to the attention of
the public" he said, care the high
proportion of farmers who have out
side income, the relatively high av-
erage return for such farm oper-
ators-equal to about three-fourths
of the average income from the
farms themselves, and the difference
between the incomes of those MAX
ing farming their principle occupa-
ton and those whose principal occu-
patton is banking, keeping store, pro-
fessional service and the like
For the 975 farmers out of the
5000 in the sample survey who re-
ported non-farm income, Mr.. Aus
tin continued, a total of such in
come of $458, 522 was reported, or
an average of $573 per farm. About
one-fourth of such farmers were
found to receive less than 500 a
year of sucn non-farm income.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-07-28
Madden Is Accused

WARREN MADDEN, chairman
~ of the national labor relations
board, was charged with secretly
comforting in Washington last De-
cember with c. I. o. officials con-
corning the Weirton Steel company
hearing at Steubenville, Ohio. The
charges almost broke up a hearing
of the board.
The three members of the board
were considering the appeal of
Clyde A. Armstrong, chief counsel
for the steel company, who was
barred from the Weirton hearing
by Examiner Edward Grandson
Smith.
Attorney E. F. Reed, acting for
Armstrong, made these charges:
That c. I. O. Organizer Kenneth
Coe, active in the Weirton hearing,
went to Washington last December,
conferred secretly with Madden, and
then returned for another confer
ence with Lee FRESHMAN, chief coun-
sci of the c. I. O.
That another c. I. o. follower, an
armed constable, served subpoenas
for the labor board, while requests
by Weirton lawyers for subpoenas
were ignored for weeks.
That Donald Wakefield Smith, jun
ior member of the labor board, at
tended the Weirton hearing last No
vember 18 and made disparaging re-
marks about Counsel Armstrong
during the taking of evidence.