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SectionOne gesTto20 96 Pages Eight Sections TRICE FIVK CKNTS VOL. XIjI XO. 11 Entered I at Portland Ore-n PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING.. MARCH 13, 1933 MODERN GIRL BLAMED (AMERICAN DEMAND POLYGLOT PWfl UGHES DECLARES FARMER FOUND DEAD WITH GUN BY SIDE BS ARE USED I FOR 'PETTING PARTIES' IGNORED BY ALLIES HE DRAFTED PACT fN RAND FIGHTING MONEY 'TO BUY BRACES FOIi LAD GIVEN AT VANCOUVER. BREAST WOUND TAKES LIFE OF LINN COUNTY MAN. TO BE CALLED "SNUGGLE PUP PIES" IS WELCOMED! PRIORITY IN COLLECTING FOR RHINELAND ARMY DENIED. CHEMISTS CHANGE -ilATUHE OFMETAL BOM ON ORIENTAL L1NEH Final 4-Power Text Has Only Minor Changes. SENATE FIGHT SPECTACULAR Senator Underwood Bears Burden of Defense. ANY ALLIANCE IS DENIED Secretary of State Further Says There Is No Reason for Suspicion of Treaty. WASHINGTON, D. C. March, 11. The four-bower Pacific treaty. Its purposes and possibilities, and, the manner of it? negotiation, passed through another, spectacular combat of argument and oratory today on the floor of the senate. Throughout the battle of wits the burden of defense was carried by Senator Underwood of Alabama, the democratic floor leader, and a mem .her of the American delegation to the arms conference. Ringed by enemies of the treaty, largely of his own party, the minority leader stood for three hours in his place in the center of the chamber and replied in kind to the thrusts directed at him. Among the weapons of argument used by the Alabama senator was letter, written to him by Secretary Hughes, head of the American con ference plenipotentiaries, replying to charges that the treaty resulted from a British-Japanese plan to allay the embarressments of the Anglo-Japanese alliance. Draft Prepared by HuKbrn. Mr. Hughes asserted that he him self had prepared a draft of the treaty after consultation with the other delegates and that, with minor changes, it became the final text as signed and submitted to the senate fcr ratification. The secretary of state further de clared "there was not the slightest mystery about the treaty or basis of suspicion about it." He described it as "a straightfor ward document, which attains one of the most important objects the Amer ican government has had in view the maintenance of friendly relations in the far east upon a sound basis." "In view of this and in view of the relation of this treaty to the results of the conference," concluded Mr. Hughes, "its failure would be nothing short of a national calamity." Duel Lacta for Hour. The argumentative duel which fol lowed the reading of the secretary's letter and which interposed itself in the senator's prepared address, was fought for an hour between the speaker and Senator Robinson, demo crat, Arkansas, who originally had raised the question of the origin of the treaty and who declared that the secretary's letter bad not dispelled evidences that the four-power ar rangement was inspired from London and Tokio. Other democrats then joined in the questioning of their party leader, in cluding Senators Reed of Missouri, Glass of Virginia, Walsh of Montana .and Watson of Georgia. . From the republican side of the chamber their efforts were seconded by Senators Borah of Idaho and France of Mary land. Alliance Held -Not Contemplated. . Hia support of the treaty. Senator Underwood said, was actuated by the same . spirit that prompted him to vote for the treaty of Versailles with its league of nations. He declared no alliance was contemplated, but added that he could see no objection even to an alliance if it were based on ar bitration rather than force and ef iaced dangers that threatened Ameri can interests in the Pacific To re ject the pact because it does not bind the signatories to employ force, he asserted, would be to revert to the reactionary philosophy of the past. The democratic leader conceded (Concluded on Page 4. Column 1.) Leaves Work at His Home and Tragedy in Back Yard Fol lows Almost Immediately. LEBANON, Or., March 11. (Spe cial.) F. M. Sherman, a well-known farmer of Linn county, was found dead in his back yard here today with a shotgun by hi3 side and a wound in his breast. Mr. Sherman and a neighbor, Henry Meyers, had been engaged during the day blocking up the rear of the Sherman farm house. Mr. Meyers was under the house and Mr. Sher man got out and went into the rear room ' to see if the foundatli was solid. A few minutes later a shot was heard in the rear of the house. Mrs. Sherman and Mr. Meyers ran out and they found Mr. Sherman lying on his face in' the back yard with a large hole in the chest and the gun by his side with one empty shell and the other barrel loaded. He lrad died instantly. For many years Mr. Sherman had j been one of the most prominent small fruit growers in this section and had made many exhibits at the state fair, where he had won prizes for his ex hibits. He also had conducted the Linn county exhibits at the fair and had charge of the community exhibit of Lebanon at the Linn county fair last fall, which won the first prizes. He is survived by his widow and two stepchildren. He was about 60 years old. HOSPITAL BILL REPORTED $17,000,000 for Additional Facil ities Provided. WASHINGTON. D. C, March 11. An appropriation of 117,000.000 for additional hospital facilities for dis abled war veterans is recommended in a bill favorably reported todaay by the house public buildings com mittee. As originally introduced by Chair man Langley, the measure authorized $16,000,000 appropriation, but. the amount was increased by the com mittee to take care of several addi tional projects. The bill as reported does not stipu late where and how the money is to be expended, this being left entirely to the director of the veterans' bu reau, who, under provisions . of the measure, .would control all construe-: tion work artd architectural plans in stead of the architect of the treasury department. EIGHTv MILLIONS ADDED Senate Increases and Passes Defi ciency Appropriation Bill. WASHINGTON, D. C, March 1L--The senate late today passed the de ficiency appropriation bill, carrying total of $136,895,000, or $3,358,000 more than was appropriated by the measure as passed by the house. The principal amendment added by the senate was an appropriation of $27,- 468.000 for use in repayment of il- cgally collected taxes. .The bill supplies an - additional $73,740,000 for tne use of the veterans' bureau in vocational rehabilitation of former service men. The measure, which now goes to conference with the house, went through the senate in ittle more than one hour. Chairman Warren of ihe appropriations com mittee having urged speed because of the need by the veterans' bureau for the appropriation for soldier re lief. MISSING PILOT REPORTS Aviator Scott Spends Night Lost In Blizzard, Then Walks to Town. RENO, Nev.;' March 11. Pilot Scott walked into Delle, Utah, at 1:50 this afternoon, after spending the night lost in a blizzard, according to a wire less dispatch' received at the Reno air mail field. He was forced to land yesterday afternoon when he ran into a storm and in walking to Delle was lost in the blizzard. He was uninjured and his plane was not damaged. SALT LAKE CITY, March 11. On foot and horseback, searching parties from Cobar. . Cobre and Wendover have been scouring the eastern Ne vada desert for trace of Paul P. Scott, mail airplane pilot, who left Elko for Salt Lake City at 4:22 P. M yesterday. Casualties Are Placed at About 600. 80 BELIEVED. TO BE DEAD Troubles in South Africa Con tinue Serious. ' CROWDED HALL WRECKED More Strikers Clash With Police, of Whom 19 Are Reported to Have Been Slain. (By the Associated Press.) JOHANNESBURG, March 11. The Rand Daily Mail today placed Fri day's casualties throughout the Rand at 600, or whom 80 were believed to have been killed. The casualties among the strikers were not known A Scottish detachment was am bushed at Benoni today by , strikers hidden in a plantation, who sudden ly poured a heavy fire into the sol diers, killing IS of them and wound ing 25. Most of the detachment were ex-service men. The trades union hall at Benoni. near here, crowded with South Afri can gold mine strikers, was bombed by. an aviator today. The majority of those assembled were killed and the building was destroyed. 19 Policemen Are Killed. Casualties in the-fighting between the striking miners and police had reached 32 killed and 57 wounded by 9 o'clock Friday night, when the fir ing was continuing. Of the 32 killed, 19 were policemen. By 11 o'clock, however, the streets had become de serted and the town was uncannily quiet. The public was forbidden use of the streets. . The heaviest casualties In the dis trict were believed to have been suf fered in the extreme eastern section' of the Rand. General Beeves,' commanding the Witwaters Rand, has ordered the pub lic to remain . indoors from 7 P. M. until 6 A. M. - Moat of Striken Armed. Jeppe, a suburb adjoining Johan nesburg, was seething with strikers this afternoon. Most of the men were armed and some carried bombs. They are credited with planning to hold up the police in that area so as to pre vent them from reinforcing other points, particularly Fordsburg, where intermittent firing was continuing today. At Brakpan and Denoi the strikers apparently had obtained the upper hand, at least temporarily, and numbers of dead and wounded were lying in the streets. Vast crowds were still, in the streets (presumably after martial law had been declared, -as recounted in a previous message) and firing was heard every few minutes. It was" reported from Benoni that an airplane was shot down, the pilot being killed. MOVE HELD REVOLUTIONARY. Strike Issue Reported Eclipsed by Threat Against State. LONDON, March 11. The general strike called by the miners' leaders at Johannesburg is in reality a revolu tionary movement, according to the I Capetown correspondent of the Daily Telegraph. The strike issue has been eclipsed by the threat against the state, he said. 1 There was some speculation over Premier Smuts' delay in proclaiming martial law, but it was understood he was actuated by fear that such a step would precipitate a conflict in which the strikers, who were mainly Dutch, might be reinforced from the veldt. The Johannesburg correspondent of the same newspaper reported that numbers of Ditch farmers in' the Boksburg and Benoni districts- had joined the strikers and formed mount ed commandos which attacked Benoni. The Times' Johannesburg corre spondent, ontheotlierhajicascribed (Concluded on Page 2, Column 2.) Chicago Parents Hold Indignation Meetings Over Dangers That Sons Encounter. BY MARGARET DALE. CHICAGO, March 11. (Special.) Parents of the male flapper are hold ing indignation . metings throughout Chicago to protest against "vamp ing" of their poor defenseless sons by sweet young things still in their 'teens. How to euro "petting parties," the popular pastime of the younger gen eration everywhere, it seems, occu pied most of the discussion at the convention of social hygiene associa tions, at which were' represented the Chicago woman's club, the woman 9 city club, the parent-teachers' club, and other prominent women's organi zations. The girls are to blame for all the petting" or snuggle-pupping that is going on, it was decided. Dr. Rachaelle Yarros, chairman of the convention, voiced the sentiment of the gathering when she said: "It is always the girl who leads the way, either for good or for ill. If she does not maintain the stan dard, how can one expect the boy to do so? She holds the situation in her hand. It is she who started flap perism and it is she who must end it." . To Miss Lillian Collier, young and pretty proprietor of the Wind Blew Inn. credit is due for coining "snuggle-pupping" as a new word for fu ture dictionaries.. Since she used it in court recently after the raiding of the center of Bohemian activity in Chicago, it has been generally ac cepted here as a synonym for "pet ting." "There is no snuggle-pupping at the Wind Blew Inn," she announced so emphatically that she was allowed to keep her place open until it was (Concluded on Page IB, Column 1.) INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 43 degrees; minimum, 64 degrees. TODAY'S Occasional' rain southwesterly winds. Departments. Editorial. Section 3. page 8.. Dramatic. Section 4, page 6. ' . Moving picture news. Section 4, page 1. ' Real estate and building news. Section 4, page 10- Churches. Section 5. page 2, Book. Section 5, page 3. Schools. Section 6. page 6. Automobiles. Section 6. t .. Music. Section. 4, page 5. Flowers for home and garden. Section 4, page 9. Women's Iture. Society. Section 8, page 1. Women's activities. Section 3. page 10. Auction bridge. Section 3, page 6. lillss Tingle's column. Section 5. page 4. Fashions, Section 3, page 4. Madam Richet's column. Section 5, page B Child welfare column. Section 5, page 7. Special Features. One chance in ten for elopers. Magazine section, page 1. Quarrel about beauty and clothes. Maga- zine section, page 2, Millionaire waits for "The Pink Lady. Magazine, section, page 3. News of world as seen, by camera. Maga- zine section, page 4. Oregon Romance four centuries old. Maga- zine sectiom, page o. Rent for one flat $55,000. Magazine sec tion, page 6. 'The Man Killer." fiction feature. Maga zine section, page 4- Hill's cartoons, "Among Us Mortals." Mag azine section, page 8. Color schemes affect health. Section 3, page 11. Famous tapestries pawned. . Section 3, page 4. The Heart of Little Shikara." Section 4, page 8. Darinas cartoons on topics of the day. Section 5, page 7. .Foreign. Bombs used in fighting in Rand. Section 1, page 1. - Ousted secretary raps Lloyd George. Sec tion 1, page 6. English poke fun at American films: Sec tion 1. page 15. Ex-cabinet official defends Indian policy. Section 1, page 6. Returning of bodies of American war heroes nearly completed. Section 1, page 5 Polyglot party on Oriental liner Lamp man. Section 1, page 1. American demand disregarded by writes allies. Section 1, pape 1. National. Naturalization law change is proposed. Sec tion 2, page 3. Wm. Hughes honored by newspaper men. Section 2, page 2. Washington capital enjoys variety. Section 1. page 15. Fate of arms conference work lies in dis position of four-power treaty. Section 1. page 4. Hughes declares he drafted four-power treaty. Section " 1, page 1. Harbors bill soon to be presented to house. Section 1, page 3. Bonus notes declared best of securities. Section 1, page 2. First Billion Gold Marks of Ger- ; man Indemnity Distributed by .Signed Agreement. PARIS, March 11. (By the Asso ciated Press.) The allied finance ministers signed an agreement this afternoon for the distribution of the first billion gold marks of German reparations. The agreement diregards the American claim of priority for its expenses in connection with occupa tion -of the. Rhlneland, so far as the actual sharing of this money is con cerned. It recognizes the claim, how ever, by a special clause which states that all the agreements on this ques tion : are subject to American rights as the various governments may es tablish them, the finance ministers contending that they do not have the power to decide this question. " The ministers decided after long discussion that the question was not for the repararations commission to decide, because that body was acting solely under the provisions of the treaty of Versailles, to which the United States was no longer a party. Consequently it was decided that the question was one for the various gov ernments concerned to settle. The finance ministers also con cluded that it was impossible for them In any case to reopen the" long and difficult deliberations which resulted In the present agreement, so they could only reserve the American right and leave the question for diplomacy to settle. , The agreement provides that the expenses of the armies of occupation-after May 1. 1921, shall be di vided as follows: One hundred and two million . Belgian francs to Bel gium; 2,000,000 to Great Britain and 460,000,000 French francs to France. The distribution of deliveries in kind by Germany in 1922 will be on the basis of 65 per cent to France and (Concluded on Page 16. Column 2.) National. Fourrpower pact believed in peril. Section .1, page 5. . - - " Domestic. Chemists change tungsten into helium and . - disprove old laws. - Section 1, page 1. Modern girl blamed for "petting parties." Section lt page L Mrs. Asquitn defies British dry element Section 1, page 6,- ; Egyptian prince visits New York. Section 3, page. 10. Pacific "rthwet. F. M.. Sherman, prominent farmer of Linn - county, Oregon, ssiaui at his home. Sec tion 1, page 1. Hood River Applef Growers association holds annual meeting. Section 2, page 10. State institutions of Washington to be made eelf-supporting. Section 1. page 6. Oniy two state Institutions face deficits. Section 1, page 7. Assignments made in highway patrol. Sec tion 1, page 8. Marion tax league asks drastic economy. Section 1, page 16. Ku Klux Klan members perform errand of mercy. Section 1, page 1. Young man runs for auditor in Idaho. Sec tion 1, page 7. - Sports. Gibbons-Greb fight to raw big crowd. . Section 2, page 2. V Babe Ruth is pride of two Monels. Sec tion 2, page 4. V', Great lecord set by UnLyei y oL Tiv,t basketball team.' Section ag Oregon ball coach to' cut u --va c;u Suction 2, page 3. Portland boy elected capw r- r i soccer team. Section 2, ' Cold rain keeps Beavers in page 1. California holds interclasi tion 2, page 3. Open title again in goif page 4. University of Oregon athletic neids. Sect! . .; Pacific coast ring and ..,. pete in Portland. S t! Free try for goal on 'i.'i! tion 2, page 1. Commercial' -. Coffee prices are atf -i supply available. ' :u u. Chicago wheat ralii? r m Section 1, page 1 Bend market aver .-. r j hp.h Section 1, page , .. . New direct service T .-u month. Seotlon . t if 1 tt.Ta . .mted ,Bi- IS. 'sslon. week. i f '.irt this d orient r. i, page it. -.or. High i . . oce. bec- Wheat shipment about equally ' Wall street feelf dividend-pa v! : tion l,page 1 Port! Police up in a. tion 1, pagi Con-tractors ef i president. , -Six republican tion 1, pag ' Grand opera r-.: page 12. Tax com mi? - u 4U1 L o; idea. Sec . ney. Seattle, ; 13. i rnorship. Sec- jh. Section 1. astern Oregon. tour Section 1. ;8f it Basis of Nev Vr nHone cut Identical to Oregon d cun i, page 13. I. L. Patterson .naunties platform for governor.- ijecticn 1. page 9. Land-clearingiemonstration attracts Poet land men and farmers. Section 2, page 6. p Lampman Writes of Voy age on Taiyo Maru. THREE-MILE LIMIT FOND LURE Ere Thirst Is Slacked Sea's ' Billows Upset Desire. SCHLADANG IS NEW BEAST Animal More Prodigious Than Jumbo Held Out as Bait to Hunting Instincts of Tourists. BT BEX HUR LAMPMAN. OX BOARD S. S. TAIYO MARL', Feb. 28. (By Mail.) Tn watch the Golden Gate dwindle against the skyline and merge at last with ocean is to feel a friendship for the white gulls that follow. There are birds of the same clan, of a feather, on the green fields at home. Here their brethren convoy us far out at sea, wheeling above our wake in the prosiac pursuit of scraps. Masefield it was who called them the souls of departed mariners. A som ber and beautiful fancy. For the sake of the fantasy, as for their fluent grace, one must forget the errand they are on forget the crass- ness of the purpose that wings them. with such minimum of effort, in the lee of the liner. When they have fallen back toward the mainland, hundreds of miles away, the last bon voyage will drift with the wind. We are a polyglot company, com mitted to a diversity of ventures in distant ports. Japanese diplomats returning from the disarmament con ference; American tourists eager for the mystery of the orient; blase Britons bound for India or Australia; Tuskegee savant of many degrees intent upon the further improvement of travel; commercial emissaries who go again to banishment in lands where men sicken and die between dawn and dusk; a flaming blonde from Calcuta, known to every har bor of the east races and creeds and colors merged in one passenger list, and fraternizing at shuffle-board. Whim of EuHt Answered. To many of these the voyage is a casual one. They speak of Chinese cities, of fetid ports along the coast of Asia, with the off-hand familiarity of custom. Trade called them years dgo, pressed them into her service, and holds them in bond today. To visit the east is to sign, they say, an impalpable but potent pledge to an swer her whim again and again. They know the outposts of our commerce as a cigar salesman knows his ter ritory. The vastitude of the Pacific either plagues nor perplexes them it all. Long .since they accepted the doctrine of human sovereignty. The ocean is no more than a highway from city to city, a cosmopolitan thoroughfare. They have lost some what by this sophistication, for it cannot be well to forego that funda mental awe of the blue circle of horizon which drove the ancient Mariner to madness. Dressed in a little brief authority, braided and serged, men made a fic tion of their acquaintance with the sea, of the mastery of their ships. These crowded, so the phrase ran, the seven seas of the world. To the landsman arose a populous picture, a concept of white sails and trailing smoke, of elbow to elbow fraternity on the ocean. Yet their multiple commerce is lost in immensity as motes in a mill pond. This is a sea lane. Before, behind, at either hand, but ever beneath the horizon, are craft such as our own, chattering over the wireless as boys whistle in the dark. For four days of fair weather not one of them hailed the Taiyo Maru by so much as a distant glimpse in passage. The ocean is j the ocean, mysterious motner, whose breast is the resting place of conti nents. Doubtless she laughs boom ingly at that figment of the crowded seas, at our extravagance of phrase. Not so long ago, as ships reckon (Concluded on Page 10. Column 8.) Delegation Appears in Full Regalia and Deed of Charity Creates Great Sensation. VANCOUVER. Wash., March 11. (Special.) Three mclfibers of the Ku Klux Klan created the sensation of the season today by calling at the county courthouse on a mission of mercy this morning. The three members, masked and clad in full regalia, appeared at the courthouse and went into the office of the county sheriff and asked Frank Cornelius, deputy, to escort them to the office of Miss Janet Worden. county nurse. Arriving there, they gave Miss Worden $45 with a note stating this money was to be used for buying a set of braces for a poor crippled boy. By having the braces, the lad has a chance of overcoming the effects of infantile paralysis, doctors believe. Miss Worden had already collected 6 towards the braces and had a telephone call from a man stating he would donate the entire amount. Miss Worden will r.ow use the $6 for a pair of shoes to go with the braces and if the telephone caller makes good, the money will be used to help an other cripple in the county. .In less than a minute after the members , of the Ku Klux Klan ap peared in the courthouse, business was suspended and every clerk and official flowed into the hall to get a glimpse of them. Their mission fin ished, they ieft quietly and drove away in an automobile, leaving a big crowd gasping with wonder. INDIAN R0ME0 CAPTURED Louis Hawks Caught in Effort to See His Juliet and Locked Up. SOUTH BEND, Wash., March 11. (Special.) Louis Hawks, an Indian boy in Bay Center, a small town near here, will not try to play Romeo any more. Wednesday night he tried to see Ruby Wilson, a white girl, in Bay Center with whom he tried to run away some weeks ago. He made his call via a window. Just as he was crawling in, George Wilson, the fatrher of the girl, cov ered the dismayed Romeo with a shot gun and marched him to a nearby milk house and locked him up. The next day he was taken to the county jail, where a charge of burglary was placed against him. He later was released on bail. Mr. Wilson prevented the marriage of his daughter to the Indian boy some weeks ago by chasing the couple to South Bend. MAH0NEY RING IS CHEAP Wedding Band of Slain Woman Valued at 15 Cents. SEATTLE. Wash.. March 11. Fif teen cents was the value of the wed ding ring James K. Mahoney placed, a little more than a year ago, on the finger of Mrs. Kate Mahoney, for whose murder he was convicted and sentenced to be hanged. This was re vealed today when appraisers of the dead woman's estate filed their final report and appraisement in superior court here. The total value of the estate, which had been previously estimated at as high as $200,000, was fixed at $24, 266.23. The Mahoneys were married In February, 1921. and In August Airs. Mahoney's body was found in a trunk at the bottom of Lake Union here. The state charged Mahoney killed her for her property. He is held in the county jail here, pending an appeal to the supreme court from his con viction. SWINDLERS OBTAIN SUIT Cleaning Shop Persuaded to Hand Over Clothes to Wrong Man. The College Cleaners, 194 Union avenue north, reported to Inspectors the loss of an expensive suit of clothes yesterday ' afternoon through the scheming of two "good looking for eigners." One of the men called for a suit, saying his name was Brennan. While in. the shop he obtained the name on a suit tag. A short time after he left another handsome foreigner called for the suit bearing the tag that had been examined by the first. He paid charges and took it with him. Thirty minutes later the real owner called. The police said the game has been worked in Portland a dozen times this winter. Alchemist's Dream Is Realized Partly. TUNGSTEN BECOMES HELIUM 50,000 Degrees, Hotter Than Sun, Is Heat Used. OLD LAWS PROVED FALSE Conditions Existing on Stars Are Reproduced and Melal Trans formed Into Another Phase. CHICAGO. March 11. Transmuta tion of metals, sought throughout the ages, has finally been accomplished, it was announced in a paper read to day at a meeting of the middle wct- ern sections of the American Chemi cal society at Northwestern univer sity. Tungsten, which Is used In the fila ments of electric light bulb, has been definitely and permanently changed into another element, helium, through treatment In temperatures of between 50,000 and 60,000 degrees, lt was de clared in a report on experiments con ducted by Dr. Gerald L. Wendt and C. E. Irion, working at the University of Chicago. Metals Cmm Be ( kaaaed. "It mean that the alchemists who tried to turn the baser metals into gold were right on one point that the nature of metals could be changed," aald Dr. Paul N. Leech of the Chicago section of the chemical society, in commenting upon the pa per. "But of course it has nothing to do with the assertions of scalawags that the baser metals can be trans mutated Into synthetic gold. "It does, however, blast the theory that the atoms of element, sup posed to be absolutely indestructible, cannot be broken up by men. lt opens a vast new field to science and may result in many far-reaching and important sclentiflo developments. We cannot yet foresee what these de velopments may be, of course. Up until 1895 It waa believed that no decomposition of elements was pos sible.. At that time, however, it was discovered that radium which is one of the about 90 known elements, nat urally decomposes into lead. Nature, however, performs that change and until Dr. Wendt and Mr. Irion com pleted their experiments, man has never been able to produce a similar result. Heat Hotter Thaa Son. "The heat developed to break down the tungsten atoms and change them into helium is the greatest ever known hotter than the nun or than the hottest star known to astrono mers. "The heat of molten steel Is about 2000 degrees; the temperature of the sun is about 9000 degrees and of some of the hottest stars is about 30.000 degrees. "But these scientists have, by means of 'artificial lighting,' aucti as r. Charles P. Steinmctz recently pro duced, developed the hottest known spot in the universe. "Astronomers have long known that while in general the materials which compose the sun and stars are the came as those known on earth, the list of substances and chemical elements becomes shorter and shorter when the hotter stars are examined. "On the brilliant rwhlte or bluish stars? which are masses of gases at about 30,000 degrees. only the simplest elements are present. They seem to consist entirely of the gases hydrogen and helium. The heavier metals, such as iron, are not present. Metals Become iases. "To determine whether this was due to decomposition by the great heat, Wendt and Irion' reproduced conditions such as are on the stars or actually succeeded in reaching a tem perature twice as high as that of the hottest star and found that ordinary (Concluded on Pa 2. Column a.)