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THE ENQUIRER, CINCINNATI, SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1941 NATION PAUSES Defense Effort To Pay Tribute To War Dead On Holiday. Total Of 101 Violent Deaths Are Reported -Most Due To Traffic Accidents. (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Americans throughout the country and in war-battered Europe, too, carried on the great Memorial Day tradition of special honors for the nation's war dead Friday. From the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on the green slope overlooking the broad Potomac, to village cemeteries far away, salutes were fired, graves were decorated and taps sounded. The holiday was SO widely observed that it brought with it a pause in much of the nation's intensive preparations for defense.

Many principal aircraft plants, which have been working 24 hours a day, closed down until Monday. Civilian employees at naval shipyards were. given a holiday. Government. offices in were mostly empty and quiet.

But at Greenfield, the holiday program included the dedication of a new munitions plant, one of seven for which the War Department awarded contracts last fall in an effort to double the country's production of fine gauges used in the inspection and manufacture of war implements. PRESIDENT AT HOME. President Roosevelt, having newly and emphatically stated the nation's policy in a world at war, was resting at his Hyde Park estate, after a. trip from Washington which he passed mostly in penciling footnotes for forthcoming additional volumes of his collected state papers. Services at Arlington National Cemetery were preceded by a parade in Washington, and capped with an address by Sergeant Alvin York, of the most-decorated heroes open World War.

He called for all-out help to England, including convoys if necessary. "By our victory in the last war," Sergeant York said, "we won a lease on liberty, not a deed to it. after 23 years, Adolf Hitler tells us that lease is and after the manner of we expirinses have the privilege of renewing it, or letting it go by default. I have no doubt that the American people choose to renew it, Senator Wheeler to the contrary At another point, York spoke of "Senator whose favorite bird must be the ostrich" and "a famous transAtlantic aviator," both of whom thee said, "feel differently than veterans do about this country's most pressing problems." ENSLAVED OR FREE. Paul V.

McNutt, the National Security Administrator, at Johnson City, saying, that confronted a "war will pen endless until the world is wholly slave or wholly free," the nation's task is "to mobilize our armed might to match force with force." The defense program, McNutt said, was "roaring far of its with every passing hour. He schedule and it is gaining, speed warned that no one should be "deceived by deliberate or misconceived rumors' to the contrary. Abroad there were Memorial Day exercises, too. More than a hundred Americans assembled in London at the Cenotaph, the memorial which stands in Whitehall as a tribute to Britons who died in the last war. London Post No.

1 of the American Legion laid a wreath at the monument. In near-by St. Margaret's Church, close to bomb-shattered Westminster Abbey, there were special services. German-occupied Paris, parts of the usual Memorial Day schedule were omitted, but the few Americans still in the city deposited wreaths at the Chapel of American War Heroes in Suresnes on the outskirts of the city. GRAVES IN HONG KONG.

American women residents, a consular representative, and a party from the gunboat Asheville decorated American graves in Hongkong. As thousands took the highways for holiday trips and crowds jammed recreation areas, 101 viodeaths were reported most caused by traffic crashes. City police and state patrols tightened their vigilance in the face of a warning from the National Safety Council in Chicago that the day might produce the largest Memorial Day traffic toll in history. The average traffic death toll for a Friday in May is 80; for Saturday, 120; for Sunday, 125. In Rockville, a two-yearold child died when a tire blowout sent her father's car smashing into another automobile.

Four persons were injured seriously when a Greyhound bus and an automobile collided head-on southeast of Indianapolis. Two persons drowned, one in Missouri and one in New York. A woman was killed by an elevated train in Illinois. HONORED IN LEXINGTON. William Howard Ames, a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, has been chosen President of Lamp and Cross, senior men's honorary society, it was announced last night.

Ames, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Ames, 2210 Victory Parkway, is also member of. Sigma Nu, social fraternity. COAL PEDDLER IS FAKE.

A fake coal peddler has been operating, days, in taking Cincinnati cash for the orders last for fuel at $3.00 a ton, Victor H- Nyborg, General Manager of the Better Business Bureau, announced yesterday. The professes to have a connection with a railroad company, but this is untrue, Nyborg said. The railroad announced that it does not nave an arrangement with coal peddlers. PLEASANT RIDGE SCHOOL BAND SAN BAND SHoO This band was organized at Pleasant Ridge three years ago under the direction Mrs. Marjorie Keller, who is now supervisor of instrumental music in Cincinnati schools.

Most of its members have been studying music for only three years. are awarded to active members who earn a certain number of points during the In the picture, left to right, first row, are Joy Rapp, William Klausing, Wilbur Patricia Skelton, Joe Havlovic, Tom Evans, and Eleanor Heinz; second row, Tom Philip DeCamp, James DeCamp, Harry Schueschner, and Douglas Cherry; third Mickey Kyle, Carl Loewenstine, Donald Jones and George Biggar. Dykstra Demands Acceptance Of Mediation Board Formula To End Strike Of Loggers (BY UNITED PRESS) Clarence A. Dykstra, Chairman of the National Defense Mediation Board, Friday night took a stern position against 12.000 striking Congress of Industrial Organizations loggers in the Pacific Northwest, demanding that they submit to a settlement formula offered vote, the N. D.

M. B. Dykstra refused to accept a rejection of the settlement plan from the C. I. O.

Woodworkers Union, asserting that "'it does not appear from your reply that you have complied with the request made in the board's wire." Just a week ago the N. D. M. B. submitted a settlement formula in the three-week strike and it was accepted by 52 Puget Sound lumber mill operators.

Tne union membership was asked to vote on the peace proposal, but Dykstra declared Friday that apparently no vote had been taken. The board's formula contained wage gains and vacation concessions for logging camp workers. Dykstra's insistance that the N. D. M.

B. request be recognized opened a new channel in the realm of government tion of labor disputes. Dykstra's that the union "please inform this board by wire whether or not it is your intention to comply with this request" caused speculation in labor circles that presidential action under the emergency proclamation might be an alternative procedure. The government sought to restore work at the plants Monday, refurbishdepleted lumber supplies at defense projects. Government peace efforts in the $500,000,000 San Francisco shipbuilding strike also failed to show progress despite President Roosevelt's emergency appeal for termination of strikes at defense plants.

Five hundred C. I. O. machinists rejected a recommendation of the Senate Defense Investigating Committee for Federal arbitration of their dispute with six shipyards the meeting in which the wage, rejection ballot was taken an implicit assurance of "loyalty" was made by a representative of 1,200 A. F.

of L. machinists striking at five other shipbuilding plants. The A. F. of L.

strikers will vote on the plan next Wednesday. The machinists' strike entered its third week, defying a back-to-work movement by non-skilled union workmen and appeals from Navy, Labor Department, and Senate officials for a resumption of work on vital shipping orders. National A. F. of L.

officials have branded the strike "outlaw." Issue of the strike was the machinists' demand for $1.15 an hour and double rates for overtime. The companies have $1.12 an hour and time and a half overtime. At Spokane, 400 A. F. of L.

employees of the Western Pine Manufacturing Company struck to enforce a demand for a wage increase of 10 cents an hour, halting production on $300,000 worth of ammunition casing orders. In all, 22 strikes were in progress Friday at defense plants across the nation, Skidding Crashes Numerous, Because Of Morning Rains Showers yesterday morning were said to have been the cause of a number of automobile accidents involving skids. None of the crashes was serious. A fire department pumper was in one of the accidents. Two women were injured when an automobile, driven by Neal Wright, 15 years old, 1316 Morton Street, skidded in rounding a curve near the Hyde Park Country Club entrance at 3803 Erie Avenue Patrolmen Edward and Abraham Fiscus said the car driven by the boy skidded, against one operated by 50, salesman, 8321 Woodbine Avenue.

Sims's wife, Leva, 48, and her mother, Mrs. Hannah Redmon, 70, were bruised. They said they would see their own physician. Members of Engine Company 29 escaped injury when the pumper skidded against the parked car of Ralph Crespin, 955 Mansion Avenue, at Armory and Central. Avenues.

The damage was Cliff Blymyer was operating the apparatus, which was responding to alarm at 1543 Central Avenue. The fire, in an automobile, was out when the firemen arrived. Two men were injured early yesterday when their automobile rammed a pole on Beechmont Avenue, west of the Miami River Bridge. William Houston. 37, machinist, 460 Strafer Street, the driver, suffered a possible skull fracture and cuts on the nose and right knee.

David Wilson, 49, 971 Martin Street, received fractures of the right ankle, and left leg and cuts on the eye and left leg. Safety Patrolmen James Decker and Thomas Murray said the pole was moved six inches. The autowas wrecked. A reckless driving charge was placed against Houston. The injured were taken to Hospital.

officers Bethesda, the men went for a ride after returning from a visit to relatives in Williamsburg, Ohio. Earl Poynter, 32, 3501 Williams Avenue, Lockland, was charged with driving when under the influence of liquor early yesterday after his automobile hit the parked machine of Rocco Menzie, Mansfield, Avenue, in front of 7304 Fairpark Avenue. a Patrolman Fred Ott sent Poynter to General Hospital for treatment of a cut lip. Clarence Johnson, 6, Negro, 940 West Court Street, suffered a possible skull fracture and a left SOLDIERS DUE In Cincinnati Sunday For Game With Listermanns Fort Knox Squad To Stay At Fort Thomas Saturday. Twenty strong, Fort Knox, soldier boys will motor into Cincinnati Sunday for their baseball game at 2:30 o'clock with Listermann Gardens, Class A Municipal Association champion, at Crosley Field.

The game will be the, highlight of annual Amateur Day. The soldiers will motor Saturday to Fort Thomas, which will be their one-night stand. The boys will be guests Sunday morning of Eppa Rixey, L. Harrison, and Judge Fred 'L. Hoffman, members of the Municipal Advisory Council, on a tour of Cincinnati.

W. O. "Doc" Rakestraw will provide them with a dinner at 12:15 o'clock at the L. B. Harrison Club.

The soldier team, composed of stars from all parts of the United States, is expected to test the tradition that Cincinnati sandlot ball is tops. Fort Thomas soldiers will be on hand, rooting for their buddies under the supervision of Major Earl Klinck, morale officer. The soldiers from both camps will head back to their posts immediately after the game. Only one officer will be in the starting lineup for the post team. Sergeant R.

S. McCreaty of the Air Corps, Green Springs, Ohio, in left field. The visitors' battery will be composed of two Southern lads. Private A. M.

Mocks, Lewisville, N. will pitch, and Private H. E. Stephens, Shrewsberry, will catch. TRANSPORT Sunk South Of Sicily, But Most Of Troops Are Saved, Rome Reports--Revenge Raid Is Aimed At Malta.

Rome, May 30-(INS)-Italy tonight admitted the loss of a large troop-laden Italian liner in the Mediterranean. The high command said the liner Conte Rosso had been torpedoed and sunk south of Syracuse, Sicily, when transporting troops, presumably to Libya. Most of the troops aboard the nineteenyear-old liner were said to have been rescued, as were also 229 members of the crew, including 26 seriously wounded. The Conte Rosso, known on the New York waterfront where she touched several times, was a veteran troopship. Built in 1922 as a passenger ship for the Lloyd- Triestino Line, she was on TriesteShanghai run in 1932 when she was recalled and converted into a transport.

Three years later she carried Italian troops to Africa for the Abyssinian campaign. Italy entered the present conflict, she had been busy carrying troops and equipment to African fronts. To make up for the sinking of the Italian liner, Italian bombers, besides blasting the destroyer Hereward to her doom, also were stated to have sunk two British "naval vessels" of unspecified classification and one steamer in a heavy raid on the Port of Valetta, Malta. A gasoline dump at Valetta, the communique said, was destroyed. The British-held and Axis-besieged Libyan Port of Tobruk also was hammered by Italian bombers which were declared to have scored damaging hits on ammunition.

dumps. A MEN and MATTERS Directors To Meet-A meeting of the Northside Kiwanis Club Board of Directors will be held at noon Monday at Garfield School. Plans for sending delegates to the International Kiwanis convention in Atlanta, will be completed, John Varelman, Secretary, announced. Hirsch To Address Cluh Max Hirsch, Chairman of the Public Recreation Commission, will discuss the functions of his department at the Civic Club meeting at noon Tuesday in Shillito's tearoom, Ray T. Congleton, Secretary, announced yesterday.

SIX BITTEN BY DOGS. Cincinnati police received of five persons bitten by dogs yesterday. County police reported a sixth. The victims were Howard Mc-1 Mahon, 44 years old, 943 Paradrome Street; Tom Hill, 42, Negro, 841 Rockdale Avenue; Sanders, 35, 2642 Park Avenue: Margaret Hinkle, 24, 957 Chateau Street; Stanley Seale, 21, 920 Morris Street, and Paul Hammerle, 9, Conklin Road, Blue Ash. PATROLMAN'S HAND CUT.

Patrolman Frank Emmons was cut on the hand late yesterday when subduing a Negro who, Emmons and Sergeant Stanley Schrotel said, resisted arrest. Both Emmons and the Negro, Edward Murray, 50 years old, 713 West Seventh Street, were treated at General Hospital. Murray also was charged with disorderly conduct. SALES HEADS TO MEET. The program for the annual convention of the National Federation of Sales Executives, to be held June 12, 13, and 14 at the Hotel Netherland Plaza, has been completed, Ralph E.

Hess, General Chairman, announced yesterday. R. H. Grant, Vice President in charge of sales for General Motors, will speak at the opening session. A clinic for salesmen and sales managers will be held June 14.

Pictures Portray Activities Of Cincinnati Selectee No. 1 Ralph Davis, Cincinnati's No. takes part in a mock Mississippi Glen Thompson, Enquirer reporter, Carl Wellinger, Enquirer photographer, have returned from Camp Shelby at Hattiesburg, and Camp Forrest, Tullahoma, where they took pictures for The Enquirer exhibit at the Miami Valley Industry and Defense Exposition at Music Hall. In the article below Thompson tells of some of the things they saw and heard at the camps. BY GLENN THOMPSON.

Wiley Hasson, who used to push a Checker cab back in Cincinnati, pulled the command car off Mississippi road and back into the cut-over timber where we could see a squad of soldiers in blue denim fatigue clothes standing in the shade of a hickory tree. We hunted out a freckle-faced sergeant named Ross Crouch, who was in charge, explained that we were from The Cincinnati Enquirer, and that we wanted some pictures. "We are all from Cincinnati, too," he We said. had "Just known say what that you want." they members of the 147th Infantry, formerly Ohio National Guard, that approximately 1,250 of the 147th's officers and men are from Cincinnati. But, even so, to pick out an all-Cincinnati squad in the woods outside Camp Shelby in South Mississippi was luck, and more was coming.

"We are also looking for some selective who came down in the GEORGE MACKELFRESH. Retired Bank Official Is To Be Buried This Afternoon. Services "for George Mackelfresh, a Cincinnati banker for more than a half century, will be held this afternoon at Winton Place Methodist Episcopal Church, Burial will be in Spring Grove. Mr. Mackelfresh, who was 83 years old, died Thursday in Ashland, N.

where he had lived with a son, George F. Mackelfresh, since his retirement six years ago as manager of the foreign exchange department of the Fifth Third Union Trust Company. The son died a month Surviving Mr. Mackelfresh are a sister, Mrs. John A.

Gance, Cincinnati, two brothers, John W. MackelCincinnati, and Oscar Mackelfresh, Buelah, two grandsons, Robert H. and George F. Mackelfresh, both of Ashland. JOHN F.

BASKETTE. Manager Of Advertising Agency Was Native Of Tennessee. F. Baskette, Cincinnati manlager of the National Transitads, car card advertising agency, died yesterday at his home, 3551 Edwards Road, after a two illness. He was 61 years old.

Mr. Baskette, a native of Tennessee, had been in charge of agency's Cincinnati office in the had the company for 25 Carew for seven years. He Tower, years. Mr. Baskette, a.

thirty-second degree Mason, was a member of the Bloomburg, lodge. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Kosure B. Baskette. Services will be conducted Monday morning at Whiting funeral home, 3900 Montgomery Road.

AARON W. COLTER. Rites In Toledo For Former Mount Washington Packer. Services for Aaron Wilbur Colter, former operator of the Colter Packing Company, Mount Washington, will be held today in Toledo, Ohio, where he had lived last 45 years. Mr.

Colter. who was 81 years old, died Wednesday at the home of A daughter in Maumee, Ohio. He is survived by a son, Maurice, Cleveland, EXCESS STRESS On Super Acidity As Cause Of Cold, Is Physician's View. Cincinnatian Speaks To American Therapeutic Association In Cleveland. SPECIAL.

DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER, Cleveland, May by various agencies producing alkalis attempts to prove that hyperacidity is the common condition of most people and that perfect health can only be obtained by thorough alkalization," Dr. C. E. Wooding, member of the staff of the institutum Divi Thomae, Cincinnati, said tonight before the opening session of a two-day meeting of the American Therapeutic Association. Dr.

Wooding spoke on the "Importance of the Acid-Alakli Balance of the Blood." "The citrus fruit growers and their associations have preached the same doctrine, with the result that the public is thoroughly convinced that most people have become too acid. The medical profession as a whole has subscribed to the same of public Letters year. Lewis, Pinel, row, Winant Back With War Data From England New York, May 30 (AP)-Ambassador John G. Winant arrived from Lisbon today on the Yankee Clipper to report to President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull on the war situation in England, The Ambassador indicated he would see Secretary Hull first and then the President, but said he did not know when he would do so. (At Hyde Park, N.

where President Roosevelt is passing the Memorial Day week a tary said it was unlikely the Chief Executive would see the Ambassador until his return to Washington Tuesday unless an earlier conference seemed desirable.) Winant disclosed he had listened in London to the President's speech in which he declared an unlimited emergency. He termed it a "great speech," but said he was unable to give the English reaction to it because he left London for Lisbon shortly afterward, FINANCING of Homes In Ohio Totaled $39,263,000 In April, Loan Board Reports. Washington Bureau, 1387 Nat'l Press Bldg. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER. Washington, May 30-Home nancing in Ohio during April by all types of mortgage lenders amounted to $39,263,000, with a total of 12,804 mortgages on homes being recorded, it was reported today by economists of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board.

These figures compared with 10,488 home mortgages amounting to $31,111,000 in April, By types of lenders the number of home mortgages in April were as follows: Number. Amount. Savings, Loan 7,307 $22,525,000 Insurance 994 2,827,000 Banks, Trust Companies 2,416 7,837,000 Mutual Savings 151 519,000 Individuals 1,765 3,255,000 Others 171 2,300,000 Each month the board's Division of Research and Statistics compiles figures on all nonfarm mortgage recordings in each state up to $20,000 each in value. Cooperating in this survey are President Walter D. Schultz of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Cincinnati, savings and loan executives, American Title Association, and Mortgage the Bankers Association.

MERRILL DIRECTOR NAMED. At a recent meeting of the Board of Directors of the Wm. S. Merrell Company, the membership was increased from six to seven with the election of William J. Ransom, auditor and office manager.

Ransom joined the Merrell Company 11 years ago after a number of years with the Procter and Gamble Company in a similar capacity. The new director, a Cincinnatian, is married, of high school lifelong, age, and resides in Roselawn. CANTON TROTS. FIRST RACE--C -Classified pace: purse $200. George W.

Van, b. 8.1 by Protector (France) $17.20 $11.80 5.40 Arlene Adams. 8. by Calumet Adams McMillen) $8 .00 5.80 Mary Henley, b. by Petter Henly Hoiles) 3.40 Time- Also started -Queen Volo, Blackie McKinney, Jack Rose and Buddy Boy, SECOND RACE- For three and fouryear-old maiden pacers; purse $200.

Frisco McKay, b. by Hedgewood McKay (Harvey) $18.00 $16.60 8.20 Abbey Martin, ch. by Martinique (Plaxico) 7.40 4.00 Lee Schuyler, b. by Schuyler (Brooks) 7.60 Also started-Dickie Boy, Lusty Dillon, Victor Novonia, Hal Patchen, Roselyn Hedgewood and Henrietta McElwyn. THIRD RACE-Handicap; purse $200.

Mat Scott, bik. 6., by Scotland (Fitzpatrick) 8 5.40 3.20 3.00 Violine Harvester, b. by, Volo Peter (Hodge) 6.20 3.80 Highlawn Silko, b. by Rag Carpet (Havens) 2.80 Time Also started. -Exeter, Nancy O'Boy, Miss Columbine.

FOURTH RACE -Inaugural stake; 12 class pacers: purse $500. Win. b. by Me Win (Maher) $15.80 $13.20 6.80 Hector Volo. b.

by Volo Peter (Hunter) $12.80 6.40 Single Don. b. by Single G. (Plaxico) 4.60 Time 2:08 Also started- -Brooklyn, Symbol Prince, King Ellis, Josedale Tiger. idea," Dr.

Wooding declared. SPECIALISTS ARE CITED. 1 selective service soldier, bayonet attack through the woods. first batch," we told the Sergeant. "Thought we'd take a whole bunch of pictures of him.

Got anybody?" Cincinnati's 1 selectee," 'He replied. "Hey, Davis." With that, Ralph Davis, lately of 247 Carrel Street, East End, grinning self-consciously, came out of the thicket. We had written about him never a had seen him. He had held No. 158, the number drawn out of the Washington fishbowl, in Hamilton County Selective in Hamilton County Selective Board No.

1. Twenty-two years old and unmarried, he had been called Cincinnati's probable No. 1 selectee. He had said he'd "be tickled to go." Here he was. Weighing 134 pounds now instead of the 119 he weighed when he was inducted in January, he looked handy also with the Browning automatic rifle and the bayonet it carried.

We took pictures of Davis waking up, eating, pressing a shirt, wielding his bayonet, and in a jam session with his tent buddies. Then one afternoon we got him aside for a brief talk. "You said you'd be tickled to go," I recalled. "How do you feel about it now?" "Same way," Ralph replied. all right.

Wasn't so good when we first came down. Nothing to do but sit around in a tent. Now it's better, and it's going to be better still." He indicated the foundation of Company A's "day tional recreation buildings to be constructed for each company in camp. "Yes," he said, "it's all right." Blitzkrieg In Romance! Telegram Brings Bride The modern army even goes after romance in blitzkrieg style. Last Friday, Private Dayton Legg, son of Mrs.

Lotta Legg, 4607 Glenshade Avenue, decided down at Camp Wolters, Texas, that army routine should not interfere with his planned marriage. To his fiancee, Miss Loraine Mellman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Emil Mellman, 6842 Merwin Avenue, he sent this telegram: "Come immediately. Tomorrow we wed." Miss Mellmann responded, and they were married Saturday at Mineral Wells, Texas.

Board Names Selectees For Induction June 18 Selective Service Board No. 31, Mariemont Recreation Building, yesterday announced the men selected for the board's quota in the eighteenth call. Scheduled for induction June 18, the men are: Ralph Edward Rubia, Lower Kennedy Avenue, Pleasant Ridge; Vess Howard, 88 Church Street, Newtown; Laurence Wiseman Pathe, 1248 Grace Avenue; Charles William Leming, 26 Plum Street, Newtown; John Jacob, Bell, Rural 13, Branch Mount Washington, and Gilbert Roth Symons, 6800 Miami Road, Mariemont. Rubia and Howard are volunteers. Draft Exemption Given To Move Former Regulars Hyde Park, N.

May 30-(INS) -President Roosevelt this afternoon signed a bill which exempts from the draft all men who have served three consecutive years in the regualr navy, marine corps or coast guard, or one year in any of those services and two years in the reserve. This measure was enacted to give these branches treatment similar to that already accorded the army. IN KENTUCKY ACCIDENT. Lexington, May 30 Harry C. Kahl, Cincinnati, received a cut over the right eye in an automobile collision seven miles from here on the Nicholasville Road today.

Five other persona escaped injury. The speaker referred to two specialists who declared: "To prevent colds and their serious consequences, maintain an alkaline, rather than acid condition in the system." Then again: "In the treatment of a cold, alkalis are most important in increasing and restoring immunity." "That some people are too acid is beyond question, but to feel that this is true of the majority is of necessity a false premise. Although it is the common belief of the medical profession that alkalinization is necessary for patients suffering from common colds, some recent observations tend to disprove such a theory," Dr. Wooding continued. He pointed to a recent declaration of a physician, who said: Acute colds are not best treated by taking large quantities of orange juice, soda, or alkaline drinks, as so frequently advocated and advertised on the radio.

The nasal and body secretions normally supply acid, thus offering the greatest resistance to bacterial growth. PRACTICE IS QUESTIONED. "It has become common among many, the practitioners urine to (concentration accept the of hydrogen ion) as the index of the acid-alkaline balance. That the pH of an excrement such as the urine should be accepted as this index of the body may be definitely questioned. Undoubtedly, the reason for stressing the pH of the urine rather than the pH of the blood is due to fact that until recent years pH determinations of the blood have been exceedingly difficult and very complicated, while similar determinations of the urine have been very simple.

"Time does not permit discussing the many different methods used in determination of hydrogen ion concentration, but we can briefly state that all of the methods used heretofore are represented by two main types, the colorimetric method and the electrometric method. Of the colorimetric methods, the bicolor method is the most outstandig. In this phenol red is used in the preparation of standards and tubes. "Among the electrometric pH methods, the hydrogen electrode, the quinhydrone electrode, the cadmium cell, and a number of metal oxide combinations have been used. Their usefulness, however, is more or less limited by inaccuracies resulting from susceptibility to salt, and proteins." The physician said that not only was this equipment expensive but relatively difficult to operate by one not thoroughly trained in the field.

Dr. Wooding used charts and other technical methods to illustrate his talk. ankle fracture yesterday when he was knocked down by an automobile driven by Murphy Lemmar, 1538 Central Avenue, in front of 507 Armory Avenue. He was sent to St. Mary Hospital.

Witnesses said the boy ran into the street. Harriet Long, 22, both of R. Herbert Server, 28, and Miles Miamisburg, Ohio, were injured early yesterday when Server's car crashed against a loading platform at Twelfth Street and Reading Road. Server received a nose fracture and cuts on the knees. Miss Long was cut on the lips and left ankle.

They were taken to Bethesda Hospital. Two Hamilton, Ohio, residents, Leonard Durbin, 37, and Emery Phillips, 28, were injured early yeswhen a car driven by Phillips crashed against the rear of the automobile of John Perego, Huntington, W. at Central Parkway and Bader Street. Durbin's left hip was dislocated and his forehead cut. Phillips, who was charged with reckless driving, was cut on the lips.

They were taken to Good Samaritan Hospital. Harry Rouda, 44, mechanic, Dana Apartments, Dana Avenue, received a possible leg fracture yesterday when his wife, Ruth, 28, lost control of their automobile and it ran against the house of John Mueller, 3778 Grovedale Avenue, police said. Rouda was taken to Jewish Hospital. BUS AND AUTO CRASH. Mrs.

Ed Hillman, 38 years old, 411 Grove Avenue, Norwood, and Limbert, 17, 2316 Norwood Avenue, were treated for minor injuries suffered yesterday in an automobile-street railway bus crash at Montgomery Road and Mills They were passengers a car Avenue, Norwood, police, reported. driven by Mrs. Hillman's son, Edward, when he pulled out of a parking lot drive into the path of a bus operated by Joe Eibel, 4005 Gilmore Avenue, Cincinnati. AUTO HITS WALL. Mrs.

Francis Wilson, 42, 727 Street, Dayton, Ohio, was bruised yesterday afternoon when an automobile driven by her son, James, hit a stone wall at 1759 Hopkins Avenue, Norwood. She was taken to Good Samaritan Hospital. The son told Norwood police that the brakes on the car locked, throwing it out of control. Adventists To Qualify In Medical Air Corps Forty members of the Seventh Day Adventist Church who have chosen to serve their country in noncombatant posts, because of religious beliefs, will be graduated as members of the Twenty-second Medical Cadet Corps at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at the Ohio National Guard Armory on Freeman Avenue. Because of their faith, which states that they shall not kill other human beings, even wartime, these members of the Seventh Day Adventist Church enrolled in the Medical Corps training course last September.

According to Charles H. Daniels, Corps Secretary, they range in age from to 45 years. All members of the corps who are of draft age have registered. Members of the Medical Corps do not carry side arms, although they often work under fire in extremely hazardous positions, Daniels said. "We are not conscientious obWe are willing to risk jectors.

life and limb to serve our country, but we do not wish to kill," Daniels explained. James G. Stewart and Mayor officers from Fort Thomas will officiate at the graduation exercises. TWO QUIT RESERVES. of commissions in Resignations the Reserve Officers Corps by two Greater Cincinnatians were announced Fort Hayes, Columbus, Ohio, yesterday.

Frederic Arthur Auburn, 1581 Wittekind Terrace, resigned as a Second Lieutenant in the cavalry reserve, Carson Ross, 2017 Clenan Avenue, Norwood, 8.8 a First Lieutenant in the Coast Artillery Reserve..