Evening star. [volume], December 05, 1937, Page A-7, Image 7

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Outstanding Discoveries of
Year to Be Displayed
for First Time.
Scientific discoveries of outstanding
Importance during the last year by
research workers of the Carnegie
Institution of Washington will be
shown for the first t)me at the annual
exhibition next Saturday, Sunday and
Monday.
Notable among the developments to
be shown because of its far-reaching
practical possibilities is the experi
mental “chromosome doubling’’ ac
complished by the institution's genetic
laboratory.
Chromosomes are the rod-like bodies
In every living cell which carry the
genes, or units of heredity. These
chromosomes are passed from parent
to offspring in both plants and ani
mals. They are responsible for race
and species. Ordinarily they are very
stable, passing from generation to
generation unchanged. When , there
Is a change a new species may come
in,to existence, although usually such
changes result in the death of the
Individual before it has an opportunity
to reproduce itself.
Favorable Change.
Many observations in the past have
shown that the doubling of the num
ber of chromosomes usually is a
favorable change. It appears to have
been one of the chief mechanisms of
evolution in nature. It is responsible
for the origin of a large proportion of
domestic fruits and flowers and for
their superiority over their wild an
cestors. It increases the size of the
ongans of the plant and is known to
* have changed a self-sterile to a self
fertile form, and an annual plant to
a perennial. It also has increased
winter hardiness.
Hitherto the production of a more
desirable new species by chromosome
doubling has been a matter of acci
dent. This year Carnegie research
workers found it can be induced in a
large number of cases by using a very
virulent poison, the alkaloid colchicine,
which is extracted from Seeds of the
autumn crocus.
Seeds may be soaked in a solution
of this poison before planting, or
drops may be applied to buds or a
aolution sprayed over the plant. It
may also be mixed with lanolin, the
basis of cold cream, and applied to
the bud as a salve.
ine nrst eneet is that of a virulent
poison. Growth of the plant is
checked. The stem becomes swollen
and the leaves roughened. Gradually
the plant recovers from this condi
tion. In a great number of cases the
cell chromosomes are somehow dou
bled in the process. More than half
the older plants of one variety pro
’ duced branches with double chromo
some flowers, and all the seedlings
from treated seeds showed the same
effect.
Evolution Elixir.
Cochicine seems, as far as plants
are concerned, a veritable “evolu
tion elixir.” How it can be applied
to animals is difficult to see at pres
ent. But one of the great difficul
ties in 'breeding desirable species of
plants in the past has been the failure
to get fertile hybrids. When two
varieties with Individual desirable
characters are crossed the good quali
ties of both parents may appear in
the immediate seedlings, but these
themselves will not produce fertile
seeds needed to carry on the line. Al
ready, it is announced, it has been
possible to produce a more vigorous
species of tobacco from two parent
species the crosses of which hitherto
have been sterile.
A notable development during the
year was the discovery of the oldest
known animal fossil. The story of
animal life, as told by imprints in the
rocks, hitherto has gone back about a
half billion years, to the so-called
early Cambrian geological epoch. In
rocks dating from that period are
found imprints of a variety of ani
mals. chiefly crustaceans roughly re
aembling crabs. These creatures stand
at the very frontier of known life.
Highly Specialized.
Earlier rocks have shown no indis
v putable trace of animal life. And
yet the ancient crabs themselves were
highly specialized creatures who must
have had a long line of evolution be
hind them. They were much further
•way from any possible beginning of
life than human beings are from crabs.
Only dubious remains of plants even
have been recovered from the pre
Cambrian rock formations.
Now, it is announced. Carnegie sci
entists have found far back in the
pre-Cambrian, in a Grand Canyon
Ready for Americanization School Bazaar
Attired in the costumes of their native lands, these young women are prepared to partici
pate in the ninth annual international bazaar of the Americanization School Association
tomorrow and Tuesday at the Webster Building, Tenth and H streets N.W. Proceeds from the
event will be used in the welfare work of the as sociation. The bazaar will be from 10 am. to
10 p.m. both days. Left to right: Evanthea Karazika of Greece, Esther Wotkomirski Slavin,
Russia; Ida Lozzi, Italy, and (sitting) Helen Karazika, Greece. —Star Staff Photo.
Waif His Daughter Fondled
Becomes McCormick Heiress
Py the Associated Press.
MIDDLETOWN, Conn., Dec. 4 —
Little Miss What's-Her-Name was
worth a fortune tonight.
No one knew when it happened.
No one knew why. But every one
knew she once was a penniless orphan,
and now, overnight, is an heiress.
She is the little blond girl at the
Muriel McCormick Hubbard estate, a
little blond girl too young to wonder
why it should happen to her when
there are thousands of orphans.
Still, she is the adopted great
granddaughter of the late John D.
Rockefeller and a probable heiress to
part of the McCormick reaper for
tune as well. She may be one of the
•richest girls in the world some day.
One of the richest girls in the world,
maybe, and why?
Because her hair is blond, perhaps,
or because her eyes are blue, or per
haps because a wealthy woman was
lonely and liked to give a little girl
a bath.
‘‘I have a child with me now.” the
widowed Mrs. Hubbard told an ac
quaintance who visited her secluded
Lone Tree Farm estate in October.
"She's 4 years old. We like to take
care of her. I like to give her her
bath.”
The child may not have been the
blond 4-year-old whose adoption was
announced in Chicago two days ago
by Mrs. Hubbard's father, Harold
Fowler McCormick, the International
Harvester Co. executive. But the de
scription fitted her.
Whence the blond girl came was a
mystery. "Some place in the East,”
Mr. McCormick said. And where she
was tonight was a mystery.
Wherever she was, Miss What's
her-name was filling a vacant spot
in the life of Mrs. Hubbard, who had
no children and has lived alone since
her husband, Maj. Elisha Dyer Hub
bard, died last December.
Mrs. Hubbard claims four-sevenths
of the $30,000,000 trust fund the late
John D. Rockefeller gave his daughter,
Mrs. Hubbard’s mother, the late
rock, the unmistakable imprint of a
jelly fish. It will be exhibited. It
remains to date almost the sole ani
mal representative of perhaps a half
billion years in the history of life on
earth.
Other developments to be exhibited
deal with the latest researches on the
stars and the outer regions of space
by the astronomers of the Mount
Wilson Observatory. There will be
daily lectures by Carnegie scientists
interpreting the research results. The
exhibit will follow the annual meet
ing of the trustees on Friday.
— ■
Edith Rockefeller McCormick. And
although her mother divorced him,
Mrs. Hubbard is on friendly terms
with her father and can be expected
to share the fortune he built from
the harvesting machines his father
invented.
Despite her wealth and social posi
tion, Mrs. Hubbard personally oversees
the 35-acre farm on which she and
the child apparently will live. She
drives her own car. She shops at
the small town shops at Middletown.
And she likes to give a little girl a
bath.
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Disturbing Backfire.
ALBUQUERQUE, Okla. i/Pi.—Fire
men emerged from fighting flames in
the home of George Miller to find
their fire truck ablaze.
Chief Art Westerfeld said it back
fired into a puddle of gasoline. Both
fires were put out with little dam
age.
CHURCH GROUP TO GIVE
YULE PROGRAM DEC. 12
A group of 75 children will give
“The Christmas Story in Song and
Drama’’ at 4 p.m., December 12. in
the National Baptist Memorial
Church, Sixteenth street and Colum
bia road N.W.
The presentation will be under di
rection of Miss Esther Linkins, wide
ly known in Washington musical cir
cles, assisted by Miss Florence R.
Hinman. Maj. H, Mills Eroh of
the Volunteers of America will read
the prologue. A collection will be
taken for the Volunteers.
Two groups of violin solos will be
played by Jean Westbrook, and solo
parts will be sung by Rosalie Fahey,
John Meininger, Charles Burton,
Marjorie Reed. Katie Rutherfors, Elsie
Swan, Judy Conklin, Harry Gauzza,
Oliver Rogers and Betty Rogers.
Failure of Chest to Reach
Goal Creates Problem at
Children's Institution.
Faoed with the possibility of an
other failure on the part of Wash
ington citizens to contribute ade
quate funds to the Community Chest
for their hospitals’ support, the Board
of Directors of Children’s Hospital
has set tomorrow as the day for Its
annual meeting, Charles D. Drayton,
president, announced yesterday.
Last year the hospital was left
! $15,204.06 short In its annual share
of Chest support and was forced to
gain permission for an Individual
card appeal to public-spirited citizens.
Still in Debt.
The card appeal left the hospital
still In debt for the year, Mr. Drayton
said.
How to amortize this debt, together
with those accumulated in former
years, will be the outstanding subject
of tomorrow's meeting.
Other Important matters which the
directors plan to consider include the
effect on hospital expenses resulting
from the survey of Washington health
institutions to be made by Assistant
Surgeon General Robert Olesen for
the United States Public Health Serv
ice and need for a home for colored
convalescents.
Kept Longer Than Necessary.
Miss Mattie Gibson, superintendent
of the hospital, said yesterday that
more than half the colored children
treated at the hospital have to be
kept there after they no longer need
hospital care because they would not
receive proper attention at home and
there Is no other place to send them.
White childrln may be sent to the
Children’s Country Home and the
Christ Child Fresh Air Farm at Rock
ville, Md., she pointed out.
Dr. Joseph Wall, one of the physl
clans appointed by District Health
Officer George C. Ruhland from the
District Medical Society to investigate
conditions in Galllnger Hospital, will
give a brief talk at the meeting, it
was announced.
PLAN OYSTER ROAST
Southeast Business Ken to Gather
at Griffith Barms.
The annual oyster roast and picnie
of the Southeast Business Men's Asso
ciation will be held today at Griffith
Farms, starting at noon.
Arthur J. Shaffer, chairman of the
Entertainment Committee, said that if
the weather permits there will be a
softball game between the married and
single men and other athletic events
for both men and women. There will
be dancing this evening.
A radio report of the Redskin-Giants
football game in New York will be
heard during the afternoon.
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