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Chicago Theological Semi
nary President Is First
Speaker at Meeting.
Howard University’s eighteenth an
nual convocation of its School of Re
ligion began today with the opening
address by President Albert W. Palmer
of the Chicago Theological Seminary, i
His subject was "Danger Zones in
the Social Order.’’
Other speakers scheduled for today
were Rabbi Edward L. Israel of the
Har Sinai Congregation, Baltimore,
Md ; Rev. Howard Thurman and Rev.
William C. Gordon.
Tomorrow morning Dr. Julius
| Hecker, lecturer on Anglo-American
civilization in the University of Mos
cow, will discuss the philosophy of
communism and its operation.
During the afternoon Dr. Ralph
Bunch, head of the department of
political science at Howard Univer
sity. will Speak on the "Philosophy of j
the New Deal,” and John P. Davis, ex- !
ecutive secretary of the Joint Com- j
mittee on National Recovery, will dis- \
cuss "Actual Operation of the New j
Deal.”
There will be a banquet tomorrow
evening, with Dr. Mordecai W. John
son, president of Howard, scheduled
to discuss Mahatma Gandhi.
Speakers to appear Thursday include
Dr. William Lloyd Imes of St. James'
Presbyterian Church, New York City; 1
Dr. J. A. Martin, general secretary of
the General Board of Religious Edu
cation of the Colored Methodist Epis- i
copal Church, and Rev. Marshall Shep
herd of the Mount Olivet Baptist
* Church, West Philadelphia, Pa.
STERILIZATION LAW
SCORED BY SAVANTS
Results Not Great Enough to Sup
port Compulsory Legislation,
Says Fishbein.
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, November 6—Savants
representing religion, medicine and
biology yesterday approved voluntary
* sterilization as a curb on procreation
of the mentally unfit, but frowned
on sterilizations made compulsory by
law.
i Rabbi Louis L. Mann, Dr. Morris
* Fishbein. editor of the American
Medical Journal, and Prof A. J. Carl
son, University of Chicago physiolo
gist. took part in the symposium.
Defectives certain to transmit their
handicaps to progeny should be ster
ilized. but such operations should be
compulsory only "when there is no
other way to safeguard society,” Dr.
Mann said.
"At present the compulsory policy
is difficult to justify,” Dr. Fishbein
remarked.
"The true scientists observe the
evidence and are willing to continue
a policy of watchful waiting, while
Germany and other Fascist nations
use their scientists for the promotion
of political experiments on a psuedo
scientific basis."
Figures on Germany's compulsory
sterilization program show. Prof.
Carlson said, that "it will take four
generations of compulsory steriliza
tion to reduce insanity only half of 1
per cent.”
MARYLAND JUDGE JOINS
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Jospeh H. Uhlman Gets Leave
of Absence to Become Mem
ber of Board.
, Judge Joseph H. Uhlman of the
Baltimore Supreme bench, has ob
tained leave of absence to become a
^ member of the National Industrial
■ Relations Board for the next month.
Judge Uhlman will serve as the
chairman of a subcommittee mak
ing a study of prison labor condi
tions. His group has been instructed
to investigate and report on the "ef
fects of competition between the prod
ucts of prison labor and sheltered
• workshops on the one hand, and of
the cotton garment industry on the
other.”
He will assume his duties at once
and has obtained leave of absence
from his court duties until Decem
ber 3.
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THREAT CASE CLOSED
Youth Put on Probation in Gif
ford Extortion Attempt.
SPRINGFIELD. HI.. November 6
* (£>).—Francis M. Goodrich. 19. of Clin
ton. 111., who recently entered a plea
of guilty to a charge of sending
threatening letters through the mails
to W. S. Gifford, president of the
American Telephone A: Telegraph Co.,
yesterday was placed on probation for
three years by United States District
Judge Charles G. Briggle.
The youth had demanded $25,000
from Gifford.
Home Plant Source of Rubber
Experiments of Chemist Show
Poinsettia Could Supply
60 Per Cent of Needs
of America.
100,000 Acres of Land
in Florida to Be Planted
Next February.
Enough rubber to supply 60 per
cent of America's need can be raised
from a common house plant for less
than the price now asked for im
ported crude, if the formula and plans
of an obscure chemist and rubber en
gineer can be realized.
Accomplishment of this hope may
revolutionize the entire rubber indus
try in America and give to motorists
tires for a price below anything they
have spent in the past.
A species of poinsettia. sold each
year at Christmas time as a form of
holiday decoration, has led to the
source of a rubber that not only can
replace India's strips and nigger
heads, but can also be produced and
refined for a price that will make
ineffective the agreement that Britain
and its territories and the Netherlands
have made to raise the price of rubber
Engineer Watched Experiments.
Herman E. Pitman, for 15 years a
rubber engineer, became interested
long ago in the experiments of Thomas
A. Edison, Harvey Firestone. John
Burroughs and Henry Ford. He
watched them experiment with varie
ties of golden rod. milk weed, cactus
and palmettos and palms and sought
for himself a source cf plant sap that
might bear rubber.
Months ago, by using a poinsettia
that was given to him at his home in
St. Louis as a Christmas decoration,
he found in the sap or latex a small
percentage of rubber. At the same
time he found that this particular
rubber was too expensive for com
mercial production and that the
original source—sap—became rancid
within a few hours.
By the use of a common chemical
kept in most homes as a cleanser he
found that the souring and rancidity
of this rubber latex could be avoided.
While Pitman will not admit that this
particular experiment was an accident,
his friends have revealed that the be
ginning of his discovery was a house
hold accident.
Admits Experiments.
Pitman, a reticent sort of person,
who dislikes telling of his experiences,
admitted under questioning he had
spent considerable time experimenting
with the poinsettia after the acci
dental discovery of a means to fore
stall the souring of the poihsettia
latex.
Considerable expensive chemicals
were used. Finally another simple,
common and cheap chemical was
dropped in a vat of his "hopeless
weed sap" and he found, much to his
surprise, a latent rubber that had
evaded the chemists of Edison, Ford
and Firestone.
Pitman, after months, found an
other variety of the same plant that
responded quickly to his very simple
chemical treatment. His own sur
prise was surpassed by that of a
Washington analytical chemist—
Henry C. Fuller—who found that the
plant juice contained between 60 and
65 per cent crude rubber.
Pitman has nothing for sale. He
discouraged public announcement of
his discovery and invention. The in
vention involves the extraction of the
poinsettia latex and its chemical
treatment. A lawyer. Alva D. Adams,
was retained in Washington to make
a search and determine whether Pit
man had a process that could be
patented. Before Adams could com
plete the work asked by Pitman, he
found that he could get support to
complete his experiment by the prof
fer of 100.000 acres of muck-land in
the Everglades of Florida by a cor
poration that has been forced to re
tire its property under the Cuban
sugar treaty. This land is to be
planted In poinsettia beginning Feb
ruary 1, according to Pitman.
6,001.65 Pounds an Acre Yield.
In the series of experiments he
conducted, Pitman found that his
particular plant can produce under
ordinary cultivation 6,001.65 pounds
of crude rubber per acre in eight
months. In India and the Dutch
East Indies rubber plantations on
which ordinary para trees are planted
15 by 20 feet apart, only 1.300 pounds
can be harvested after 10 years
growth.
The plant can be raised in any
parts of North America within 30 de
grees of the equator, which means
[ that Florida, Texas, Southern Cali
1 fornia and small parts of Georgia,
Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana
are potential crop sources of the new
rubber plant.
Pitman has no hopes nor desire to
j exploit the product in these States,
but realizes admittedly that it has
potentialities if a war should involve
i the United States. That, he says, was
his ambition when he began his ex
• periments.
Adams, the attorney, says both me
chanical and chemical patents will be
necessary to protect Pitman. Pitman,
on the other hand, has made no pre
tention that he has found a possible
source of rubber to offset the importa
tions into this country to meet the
ordinary demand of the rubber and
tire industry.
There are potentialities that if Pit
: man's discovery is exploited approxi
mately 10.000 square miles could be
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utilized to grow his plant. Permits
for the importation of seeds, seedlings
and cuttings of this species of poin
settia have been granted by the De
partment of Agriculture to bring the
plant from its native Mexico.
Grow Six to Eight Feet.
Pitman says the plants may be set
out 20 inches apart in each direc
tion, but that 40 inches is rec
ommended. The plants will attain a
height of from six to eight feet by
harvest time, after eight months, and
each will yield from 1 pound 2 ounces
to 1 pound 6 ounces of serum, of which
between 60 and 65 per cent is dry
rubber.
The rubber consumption of this
country during 1933 was 405,689 long
tons, or 98,743,360 pounds. Should
America cultivate sufficient of its own
crop to supply this demand, more than
10,000 acres of sandy soil will be re
quired.
Rubber is now quoted at close to
30 cents per pound f. o. b. New York,
and under the British agreement bids
to reach a maximum of $1 per pound.
The domestic rubber described by
Pitman, under which the treating
chemicals may be reclaimed, can be
sold to the manufacturer at a cost
not to exceed 7 cents per pound and
remain profitable to the grower of
rubber poinsettia.
Applications for patents to protect
Pitman's processes have been filed by
Adams. Adams also plans to file
similar patents In all of the subtropical
countries of the world.
DANCE PLANNED
West Virginia State Society Also
to Hold Reception.
A dance and reception will be held
by the West Virginia State Society in
their headquarters in the New Raleigh
Hotel, Twelfth street and Pennsyl
vania avenue, tomorrow' night at 8
o'clock. A varied program of enter
tainment has been arranged.
All West Virginians who have re
cently arrived in Washington are in
vited to join the group, Edward H.
Nunnally, president of the society,
announced. ,
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—Star Staff Photo.
CHARLES f. YAUCH
Tariff Commission Official in
U. S. Service 34 Years.
Funeral Tomorrow.
Charles F. Yauch, chief of the sun
dries division of the United States
Tariff Commission, died suddenly
yesterday morning at Garfield Hos
pital. Mr. Yauch was one of the
original members of the commission,
which was set up in September, 1917.
Before that time he had served for
17 years with the Census Bureau, the
Departments of Commerce and of the
Interior, and the Interstate Commerce
Commission.
While on the staff of the Tariff
Commission, Mr. Yauch was in charge
of many important Investigations, and
because of his expert qualifications
was intrusted with certain special
missions to Europe. When tariff legis
lation was under consideration in
Congress, he was an active adviser
of committees and of members on
the floor.
Mr. Yauch was a graduate of Ohio
Northern University, and was a
teacher prior to entering the Govern
ment service. In 1902 he received the
degree of LL. B. from George Wash
ington University. He was a Mason.
His widow. Mrs. Blanche D. Yauch;
a son. Charles D. Yauch; a daughter,
Miss Mary Louise Yauch, all of Wash
ington; his mother, Mrs. Mary Yauch,
and a sister. Miss Elizabeth Yauch,
of New Carlisle, Ohio, his early home,
survive.
Funeral services will be held to
morrow morning at S. H. Hines
chapel, Fourteenth and Harvard
streets. Burial will be In New Carlisle.
“FAT LADY,” ILL, GOES
HOME IN BAGGAGE CAR
Circus Freak, Stricken by Ty
phoid, Requires Braced Bed
for Trip to Florida.
Br the Associated Press.
SPRINGFIELD. Mo.. November « —
Ruth Pontlco. 600-pound circus "fat
lady,” Is golnr home to Florida in a
railroad baggage car.
Her husband. Joe, arrived here yes
terday and arranged for her removal
from a hospital, where she had been
treated for typhoid fever.
Aboard the baggage car will be the
husband and Miss Margaret Moore, a
nurse. They will alternate In attend
the patient, whose home is in
Sarasota, Fla.
There will be a specially braced bed
for Mrs. Pontlco. Physicians esti
mated she last lost 100 pounds, but
still weighs about 600 pounds.
Her condition has improved, but
she still is unable to wallc.
Telephone Firm Head Dies.
ROCHESTER. N. Y„ November 6
| OP).—W. Roy McCanne. 55. president
of Stromberg-Carlson Telephone Man
j ufacturlng Co., died last night follow
ing a cerebral hemorrhage Sunday.
He was born In St. Louis, Mo.
Larger Crops Expected. -
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to exceed last year’s yield.
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