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Consolidated Press Association Exclusive -Associated Oakland Press. united Press Service Tribune CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY MARCH COAST LURES PLANTS OF NEW SCIENCE Conditions on. Pacific Held Ideal for Great Modern Manufacturing Industry Chemists Are Building BERKELEY; June 21-Artificial silk, nitrocellulose explosives and other synthetically manufactured materials are soon to be produced In large quantities on the Pacific coast. This was the forecast made today by Dr. H.

K. Benson, professor of chemical engineering at the University of Washington, before the American Chemical Society at the A. A. A. S.

convention here. "Because of its abundant cheap intelligent labor and raw materials, coast is soon to play an important part in chemical industries," Benson declared. "The United States has advanced during the last 25 years from a position of comparative Insignificance in chemical industry to world leadership with an annual production exceeding $4,275,000,000 and a domestic consumption of more than 90 per cent. This extraordinary growth has not yet, reached the Pacitic coast. for until recently the west has taken little part in this field of development.

"Nevertheless this section is not lacking in the potentialities of great industrice, and the time is coming when we will participate fully in them. Ours is the task of subjugating nature and converting great stores of natural resources Into commodities that shall flow Into the channels of trade and reach world markets." Missouri College Orator Wins $1500 LABOR ANGELES, Souter of June Trenton, 21. a junior in William Jewel College of Liberty, last night won first place in the finals of the national collegiate oratorical contest inaugurated and conducted by the America federation. Souter, who is 25 years old, was awarded a cash prize of $1500. Souter won the honor from seven other contestants who were the pick of 28,000 students from more than 500 colleges In every state in the Union.

The other six contestants were awarded prizes as follows: Second, Robert G. Goodwin, Wabash, College, Crawfordsville, representing the central zone, $1000; third, John Patrick MacEnery, Santa Clara University, representing the Pacific zone, $750; fourth, Milton H. Williams, Wesleyan. University, representing the New England zone, $550; fifth, Robert M. Smith, St.

James College, Brooklyn, representing the eastern zone, $460; sixth, Lee R. Mercer, North Caroline State College, representing the southern zone, $400; seventh, Benjamin Ungerman, Syracuse University; representing the northern $350. Firemen in Monterey Battle Grass Fires MONTEREY, June 21. Two grass widely separated parts of the city kept the Monterey fire department busy yesterday. as the firemen returned from extingufshing a blaze at 520 Bel'den street, New Monterey, they, were called to Sherman Lane, where the residence of Al Castro was threatened by a rapidly spreading fire in the adjoining lot.

No serious damage was caused in either instance Pittsburg Woman Buried in Palo Alto PALO ALTO, June Funeral services were held here today for the late Mrs. Elizabeth Wood Hull of Pittsburg, Contra Costa county, wife of Perry M. Hull of that place. Mrs. Hull died at the home of her mother, Mrs.

C. E. Wood, Wednesday after an illness of several weeks. surviving her are her parents, Casimer J. and Cora E.

Wood; her husband and one sister, Mrs. E. R. Martin. She is a graduate of Stanford with the class of 19.18.

COURT PLANNED. MARYSVILLE, June Work has been started here on a tennis. court to be built by Mr. and Mrs. W.

B. Swain as a memorial to their daughter, Margaret Beecher Swain, who died recently. 10- cated on ground adjoining' the municipal natatorium street, will be turned over to the city on completion. EVENING, JUNE 21, 1929 ON SCREEN BEFORE Oakland Advertising members and makeups Castlewood and California's of appeared before a huge audience in an outdoor playlet. AL ONIONS (upper left), one of Murietta's bandits, and MARIAN CHRISTENSEN, a Spanish maiden; MISS EILEEN PIGGOTT (uper right) as Laughing Eyes, and below, from left.

JOHN P. DAVIS as Don Luis Peralta; HAROLD PERRY as Joaquin Murietta, bandit chieftain, and HARRY STANTON, a prospector. -TRIBUNE photos. Banker Is Shot Twice After Society Party BIRMINGHAM, June 21 (P) -Society circles were agog here today over the revelation of Chief of Police. Fred H.

McDuff that H. E. "Hek" Wakefield, banker and 1925 All- -American football selection, was twice at 2 o'clock Monday morning in front of the residence of Junius Walthall, brother of Henry B. Walthall, the actor, in Mountain Brook Estates, exclusive residential section, here. The official report said Wakefield wa's shot in the left thigh and right hand with a small calibre pistol.

Wakefield was "resting comfortably" at St. Vincent's hospital today. The shooting was understood to have taken place after a gathering of friends at Walthall's residence. None would discuss details. VOLCANO'S ASH BURIES BIG AREA TOKYO, June 21.

(P) Although the eruption of volcano Komagatake, north of Hakodate, resulted in only a few casualties, 33,000 acres of field and forest and 3350 acres of arable land were laid waste. Photographs of the stricken districts arriving here revealed a scene of utter desolation. The entire country sido was buried under a mantle of stones and ashes. SALINAS. June Two large new neon electric signs on the roof of the Hotel Franciscan were illuminated last night for the first time.

The signs stand 40 feet above the roof of the three-story building, with block letters four feet and two feet high. Last night being clear, the signs were visible from a distance of 20 miles. A fourstory concrete addition to the hotel, construction in the rear, will be ready for occupancy it was announced by the proprietor, D. Franci. Salinas Lights New Signs for First Time Cripples Are Brought Health By Rotarians MONTEREY, June -Fifteen crippled children have been rehabIlitated by the Monterey Rotary club, Edward Simpson, chairman of the committee in charge of the club's child welfare work, reported at yesterday's meeting in Hotel Del Monte.

These fifteen children underwent operations without cost to their parents, it was said. All were cared for In first class, hospitals, where they were given the beat of medical care and then- returned to their homes Tribune is delivered to your home day in the year. for Charge FOR ONLY $192 A MONTH Edition VOL. CX- ARMIES OAKLAND, MOLECULES ATOM GROUPS, MAGNIIFED MILLION TIMES, STAGE REVEALS FOR CHEMIST 'Antics of Particles, Invisible Even Under Microscope, Are Explained by Wizard of Laboratory BERKELEY, June tiny springs that rebound going over a bumpy Alcoholic molecules more intoxicating when Atoms, molecules 21--Jelly "shivers" because it is full of to the touch like an automobile spring road. have peculiar habits which made a drink sipped from the top.

and colloidal particles, the sticks and stones of scientific housebuilding, form into definite patterns in the construction of all matter, as materials are built into buildings These discoveries were last according to specified plangia night. by. Dr. James W. McBain, professor, of chemistry at Stanford University, in an address on In Amorphous and Colloidal Matter." in Wheeler auditorium, University of California, before the Pacific division, Amertcan Association for the Advancement of Science.

MOLECULES PHOTOGRAPHED. Diagrams of particles of matter 80 small. as to be invisible under the most powerful microscope, magnified 1,000,000 times by the X-ray and other remarkable scientific. artifices, were thrown in a screen by Dr. McBain to illustrate, his address.

There was the picture of an infinitesmal section of Jelly- just' ordinary jelly like mother makes with its strings or chains -colloidal particles, each containing 1000 molecules, These chains- are curved, and Dr. Bain explained how their curya: ture, one against the other, caused the whole mass to act like springs. "This. accounts for the enormous elastic properties even of flowing said the Stanford slowly flowing solution of ordinary: chemist. "For instance, here is a water glass which, upon being thrown down, bounces like a rub- her ball." LIQUID 'WOUND' LIKE SPRING Whereupon he took a small ball of water glass--the stuff housewives use for preserving eggsin a sticky state somewhat like that of a soft gum, and bounced floor to show his distinguished.

audience of fellow scientists what he meant. McBain's next prize from his scientific bag of tricks was a liquid which he "would up" by rotation in a glass decanter. The liquid, ammonium oleate, a soapy fluid only slightly thicker than water, stopped and "unwound itself" when he stopped the rotation. His planation was that the "fibrils" or chains of colloid particles, similar to those in jelly, were stretched or straightened by the motion, but curved again and thus became shorter when it stopped. Their shortening caused liquid to move the other way in the decanter.

Next he gave girls an idea of what they might see if they could look at a speck of platinum from their engagement rings in solution under the ray. The speck, known aS an unstable colloid particle, appeared in the diagram he threw on the screen as a block of 20 platinum atoms. set in four even rows of five each. This block was surrounded by' a complex platinum compound similar to water, known 88 hexahy-droxyplatinic acid. It consisted of platinum atoms, each covered with six little stabilizing agents merging Into water: COMPOSITION EXPLAINED.

"The motto of the colloids, like that of the house painter, is 'Save the surface and you save all' Dr. McBain pointed out. "The essential feature of our particle is the acid which covers the surface. The part which is contact with the water is like water -so much so that the water never knows the particle is floating around in it. The protective covering, or stabilizing agent, is responsible for the particle's stability and behavior." Next was a diagram of alcohol in solution, the effect, for drinking purposes, being the same as that of whisky, gin or any other liquor, Dr.

McBain explained. Clear across the top of the water stood the alcohol molecules, crowding Into every available bit of space and standing erect as soldiers. Below this "layer" other molecules depended In strings into the lower water, with here and OLD CHART OF SKY YET GOOD OF BERKELEY. June an astronomer's prophecy is more accurate than even the prophet himself believes. This was.

the deduction drawn from a report made, yesterday by A. 0. Leuschner, director of the University of Californta students' observatory, and Maud W. Makemson, research assistant. in astronomy, before the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.

meeting in conjunction with the American Association for the Advancement of Science convention. In. 1901 Dr. Leuschner and Professor F. T.

Crawford and Astronomer F. E. Ross, now of Yerkes observatory, computed orbits of minor planets under the disturbing influence of Jupiter, the report stated. The scientists then believed their work would hold true until 1930, and would then have to he refigured on the basis of motion nctually observed in these planteir computations were it is so now accurate, however, that believed the original figures probably will bold good for many years to come, the report sets forth. U.

of C. Agronomist Traces Barley to Asia BERKELEY, June -Barley. like man, appears to have originated in central Asia, W. W. Mackle, associate agronomist at the University of California, declared at the American Association for.

the Advancement of Science convention today. there a loose bit of alcohol floating about unattached. "Thus the alcohol is seen to be thickest at the top, consequently the top of them drink is strongest," the chemist declared in -technical explanation in conjunction with his lecture. diagrams shown included chaing of soap atoms forming molecules looked like bristles of two scrubbing' brushes stuck together; a thin film of oil on water, with long molecules forming the layer like little parallel chains; a microscopic particle of rubber latex something similar in shape to a tadpole, with a "skin" which has to be torn -open to get at a honey-like substance in its center, and squads of molecules lined up in ranks and performing flanking evolutions. like drill teams in a certain kind of cocoanut oll soap.

The last diagram was of plain. waters molecules which, though somewhat jumbled in pattern, still demonstrated Dr. Mc Bain's contention that the building materials of matter tend to arrange themselves in fixed A designs, mostly parallel. TODAY'S PROGRAM. Today's sessions.

included reading of scientific papers before. societies meeting in conjunction with the general convention and an excursion- to the Lick Observatory, Mount Hamilton, starting at 2:30 p. m. Psychologists were to gather at a banquet at 6:30 o'clock tonight in Stephens Union. The convention will close Its with.

formal an sessions address at. in 8 of he auditorium by Dr. S. F. Light of the University of California Zoology I department on the topic "Termites of the Pacific Coast and the Biological Problems They Present." Final events of the convention will a meeting of the American Physical Society at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning in Conte hall, and excursions of delegates to the Berkeley hills, Mt.

Diablo, Mt. Tamalpals and Yosemite Valley. Dollar Sign of U.S. Born In Indies, Says Historian BERKELEY, June The American dollar sign may be symbol of wealth the world over, but the West Indies, not the United States, may claim to have originated it. So says Dr.

Florian Cajori, professor of the history of mathematics, who traced the evolution of the dollar sign In a paper delivered yesterday before the Omerican Mathematical Society, participating in the A. A. A. S. convention here.

"West Indian manufacturers anmistakably linked the dollar. sign and the Mexican symbol for pesos or plastres as early IN IN THIS SECTION FEATURE SECTION FINANCIAL NEWS 31 SCIENTISTS NO. 171 Earth and Sun Of Same Stuff, Says Astronomer BERKELEY, June look -The sun may much like mother earth, but it's made up of just about the same stuff as the globe we live on. So declared Astronomer Charles E. St.

John of Mt. Wilson Observatory in an address today at a joint meeting of the American Physical society and the nomical Society of the Pacific, meeting in conjunction herita the A. A. A. S.

convention "Fifty-eight of tHe 90 known elements on earth have already been found in the sun," he declared. those elements prominent in the sun's makeup, or most recently discovered, are magnesium, iron, silicon, sodium, potassium, calcium, atomic oxvgen. and sulphur." DEVICE WEIGHS HUMAN SKILL BERKELEY, June after measuring almost everything else in the universe, has now sought to apply its yardstick to human skill, Details of a measurin gdevice for this purpose were described by H. C. Gilhousen, teaching tellow in psychology at the University of California, before the Western Psychological association, meeting here together with the A.

A. A. S. convention. The machine, which, according to its inventor, will measure the accuracy of human reactions to colors appearing in succesBion in a changing order, consists of a movable rod somewhat like.

the gear shift of an automobile. The, person whose skill is being measured graps the end of the rod and shoves it in particular direction, when he sees a certain color. Four colors are shown, their order being changed rapidly. The other end the rod records his movements on. a paper scroll, showing the number of times he did 'a's he was told.

Cyclones Laid to Atmospheric 'Fault' BERKELEY, June' The cause of cyclones in the far. western states was revealed today in a report, presented 1 at a meeting of the American Meteorological society, by E. H. Bowle, meteorologist in charge of the United States department of agriculture weather bureau at San Francisco. An atmosphereic "fault," formerly unknown to the scientific world, is the "breeding" place of these cyclones, Bowie, explained to the society.

"'The fault, caused by fallure of two atmospheric strata to is notably defined during the warm summer months, and not infrequently advances eastward," the meteorologist said. "While. the fault, advances it produces within it many of our cyclones that are first observed in the summer season over the far western states. The two masses of air Involved in the formation of the fault are hot, dry air of the interior of the war west, and the cold humid air. of the waters off our western coast.

The faults are counterparts, in a sense, of geological faults." Rats Prove Mental Traits Inherited BERKELEY, June a rat is intelligent, his progeny are likely to inherit: his mental ability. This is the conclusion Dr. Robert C. Tryon, research fellow in chology at the University of Callfornia, expects to reach from his studies with a large group of the rodents, he declared today in an address before the Western Psychological association, meeting in conjunction with the A. A.

A. convention here. Dr. Tryon hopes to prove that mental ability can be inherited. a point over which psychologists have disputed for years.

He drives his rats through a maze, and holds a stop watch on them to see how long it takes them to their way out. The rats which learn the exit most quickly are of the smartest baby rats, he believes. Student Finds Error In Theory of Heredity BERKELEY, June of a theory concerning the female germ cells in mammals long held by science was accomplished today in report made by Dr. Hermert Mi. Evans, chairman of the University of California anatomy department and discoverer of two vitamins, and Olive Swezy.

The report; read at a meeting of the thirteenth annual convention of the Pacific division, American Association for the Advancement of Science, showed that the germ theory, by which it was beHeved hereditary. characteristics were handed down from one generation to another, is incorrect. Studies on men and animals have demonstrated, the report states, that. the germ cells, heretofore thought to remain unaltered throughout life; are in reality being constantly formed and destroyed from before birth until old age is reached. Weather Bureau's Aid To Farmer BERKELEY, June and the weather forecaster.

now save the farmers' dollars by accurately predicting spring frosts and thus enabling growers: to protect- their fruit, according to C. C. Allen of the San Francisco office, United States weather bureau. OAKLANDERS BID GOODBYE TO AD CLUBS Delegates Leave City for Home By Various Transportation, From Autos to Airplanes Or Railroads maidens. PAGEANT UNFOLDS.

Oakland figuratively stood on its tiptoes today and farewell to 1000 delegates of the Pacific Advertising Clubs association who, with their five-day convention now vivid memory, prepared to return to their homes. By automobile, steamer and airplane they left the city, convinced, according to the expressions of many, "that the convention was the best ever held in the 26 years of the organization." Every state, on the west coast will greet their return from the Canadian border to the Mexican line. Members of the organization said today that the convention was the busiest ever held and that the results attained were the most helpful. Perhaps the most important work of the meet lay in the adoption by the organization of a cooperative program of expansion, due to be inaugurated immediately and to continue for the next five years. FINAL FROLIC.

The final frolic of the association took place yesterday afternoon at the Castlewood Country Club when 700 members, with their wives, children' and were entertained with an historical pageant, under the direction of Van E. Britton of the Oakland Advertising club. The cast included Miss Margaret O'Dea, Harold Spaulding. Harold Perry, Edward Randall, Harry and Eileen Piggott, radio singers, and the following members of the Oakland club: Ted Schreiber, Al Onions, Harold Mills, Harry Stanton, Roy E. Wadsworth, R.

C. H. Martin, Mrs. Margaret Reynolds, Alice Zwillinger, John P. Davies, Ben Richards Ralph Walsh, William: Sweet, and a group of dancing girls who played the roles of Spanish SCIENCE WANTS TAX PRIVILEGES BERKELEY, June a move to keep the expense of scientific research as low as possible, scientists attending the Pacific division convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, adopted a resolution last night opposing any Increase on import duties on research apparatus.

Much delicate machinery used in laboratories can only be manufactured abroad, it was pointed out, and high import duties imposed by the United States would greatly increase the expense to which American scientists are put in conducting their research. Election of officers of the organization concerned only one man, Bernard Benfield, San Francisco consulting engineer, He was re-elected to the executive committee for a three-year term. The meeting closed with adoption of resolutions honoring the memory of Dr. Winthrop W. Sargeant, former officer of the Callfornia Academy of Sciences, and secretary of the science who died recently in.

France, and expressing the convention's appreclation to the University of. Callfornia. for its hospitality. Circulation of Sap In Trees Recorded BERKELEY, June moves in trees--and science now knows how to trace its course through tree trunks and branches, just as a plumber can figure how water flows through the pipes he lays. This statement was made yesterday by George J.

Peirce, professor of botany at Stanford University, before the Society for, Experimental Biology and Medicine, meeting in conjunction with the American association for the advancement of Science convention. "Water moving through a tree will draw finely ground starch through the tissues of a branch, leaf stalk or flower stalk," Peirce asserted. Long 'Lost' Planet Found Masquerading as Comet BERKELEY, June 21. Adel- alde 'has been found--at least Dr. Annie S.

Young, Mount Holyoke Observatory, thinks she hasafter a 25-year search. Adelaide, gentle reader, 1s not a girl but a minor planet, at least the astronomer who discovered her In 1904 and then lost her again almost immediately said she was. But' Dr. Young, who has been tracing Adelaide at the University of California here, told astronomers attending the conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science today that she belleves she has discovered Adelaide masquerading as a newly discovered comet and under the COLONEL DROPS DEAD AT S. SAN FRANCISCO, June 21.

Flags at the Presidio are at half staff today for Colonel Elijah B. Martindale, 54, commanding officer of the harbor defense at Fort Windfield Scott, who dropped dead of a heart attack at his headquarters yesterday. He was born in Indiana in 1876, and was graduated from the Culver. Military academy in 1895. He then enlisted as a private and was appointed colonel in February, 1921.

During the war he served as a Heutenant colonel with the 66th coast artillery. He succeeded Colonel William F. Hase at the fort last year when the latter was ordered to Berlin, to serve with the. American ambassador there. Surviving are his widow, and a daughter, wife of Lieutenant Robert P.

Clay, now stationed at Scofield barracks in Hawaii. San Jose Wins 1930 Fraternity Session SAN JOSE, June Jose was selected as the 1930 convention city of the Phi Alpha Omega fraternity, a national high school organization, according dispatches from Joplin, where the 1929 convention is closing today, Howard Hornbuckle, popular San Jose high school athlete, was elected national recorder at the Joplin convention. LIGHTS TURNED ON. June Manteca dedicated. its new street lighting system last night with a parade In which many local citizens joined.

a speech by Mayor J. M. Luck and music by the South San Joaquin band. The parade formed at the city hall at 8 o'clock and marched east on Yosemite avenue to Manin street and Yosemite avenue where the celebration was held. Grouped under spreading trees, the audience watched the pageant unfold a story of the coming of the white man to California.

Many noted characters of early California history were portrayed by the professional and amateur actors. Bret Harte and Mark Twain clasped hands with Joaquin Murletta. notorious California bandit, and General Fremont, at the conclusion of the play raised the stars and stripes over the land that the Union claimed for its own. Barbecued lunches were served at the conclusion of the entertainment and then the finals of the golf tournament were played. In the evening the convention was formally closed with a dinner and banquet at the Casino at Castlewood.

SAN RAFAEL, June -Benjamin Guffy, former San Quentin guard and local barber, has been held to answer before the superior court on a charge of grand theft and also of larceny. He was given his preliminary examination before Judge Herbert De La Montanya. Guffy was arrested at the Golden Eagle hotel Friday night after he had been found in a room in the hotel by Louis Bourgeois, the occupant. A fight followed, and Bourgeois was badly beaten. Guffy was only subdued after Officers William Kane, C.

L. Doose and Paul arrived. The sheriff's office also had 8 warrant for Guffy's arrest sworn to by J. D. Bonhag, localt hardware dealer, charging assault and battery.

He said he had sent his clerk to collect a bill from Guffy, and that he had struck the clerk, and knocked him down the steps. Former Guard Held On Theft Charges SAN FRANCISCO, June Attorney John Doran, secretary of the San Francisco bridge committee that went to: Washington, D. to plead permission to erect the transbay span, will receive $2400 for his services, it was announced yesterday by James B. McSheehy in making a deposition on before Attorney Andrew Burke, representing Doran. Doran sued the city for $2500 for his work.

He has already been paid $1400, according to MoSheehy. S. F. Bridge Aide To Receive $2400 Chemist Aids Husband in Maze of Atom Research 1760." Dr. Cajori declared.

The Mexican sign was "Ps." he said. the being placed above and to the right of the Trade relations between the West Indies and the American colonies quickly worked a change which caused the to be written over the with the evolution of the dollar sign, he stated: Another paper tracing the history of mathematicians' efforts to prove the absurdity of divisian by zero was also read by Dr. First definite proof: of this was made 100 years ago, he said. ponderous name of "SchwassmannWathmann 1919-A." "I have discovered that the orbits of Adelaide and of the new comet are identical and believe that the discoverer of Adelaide wrongly classified her as a minor planet and not a comet," Dr. Young declared: "This leads me to believe that Schwassmann-Wathmann 1929 A 16 none other than the long-missing Adelaide." Dr.

Young declares she will continue her search in the hope to definitely identify the new comet as Adelaide. She is being assisted In the search by Ueta, of Kyoto Observatory In Japan, BERKELEY, Jane -While James W. McBain, Stanford university professor of chemistry, was displaying and explaining remarkable diagrams of the structural foundation matter: in a lecture before renowned selentists attending the American Associatio for the Advancement of Science convention last night. his wife, herself a chemist. of note and collaborator in her husband's discoveries, listened to his address from a seat In the audlence.

Mrs. McBain, "known to the scientific world as E. Laing MeBain, painstakingly drew the diagrams which her husbund displayed. Part of the amazing tale of research. among the tiny particles of matter too small to he seen by microscope folded from the lecture was the result of her work.

An assistant professor of chem istry under her husband at- Stanford, Mrs. McBain's work in collolds has won international attention. So. meritorius bave her contributions to this phase of solence been considered that in 1924 she won the $1000 Ellen Richards International prize. This award has only been to st: sciontists.

Side by side husband and wife have tolled in the laboratories to work out their theories and last night the results of their won unstinted praise from fellow craftsmen. And when questioners crowded around. to technical portions of the Dr. MoBaln often drew aside Tor private before.