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There was a strange trial at Benton, Ill., last week. Three men- Charles Birger, Art Newman and Ray Hyland, gangsters all-were on trial for murder. The state claimed that they had paid Harry Thomasson, 19, and Elmo Thomasson, 17, $50 apiece to kill Mayor Joe Adams of West City, Ill., last winter (TIME, Feb. 21). The jury was chosen, the prosecution made its case, it was time for the defense to offer its testimony. But, one after the other, attorneys for Messrs. Birger, Newman and Hyland announced that their clients would not testify. Neither did they offer any other...
Died. Charles Fuller Baker, founder and dean of Los Banos Agricultural College* at the University of the Philippines, brother of Author Ray Stannard Baker ("David Grayson"); at Manila, P. I. For eight years he had lived in a village shack, sleeping on a broken bamboo bed, halving his salary with War-impoverished fellow-scientists in Europe. He furnished the Universities of Berlin, London, Madrid, Paris, Moscow, Vienna and the Philippines with extensive zoological collections; left a collection at Los Banos including 50,000 insect specimens...
...Institute opened with a greeting from President Coolidge, who said that he had heard of the Institute's work and believed that true friendship would result from mutual understanding issuing from frank discussion. Then Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur,* President of Stanford University and chairman of the Institute, predicted that the U. S. would realize that though people of other races are different they are not inferior, and predicted that the quota system of immigration would eventually be extended to peoples of Asiatic countries. Sessions of the conference were to continue until July 29. The Pacific Institute can discuss conditions...
...Rays. Several speeches set forth the new usefulness of X-rays in studying the crystal structures of pearls, limes, asbestos, butter, wax, etc. The X-ray studies of C. Norman Kemp in England on coal and coke cited, praised. X-raying of the structure of rubber, which is amorphous (noncrystalline) when unstretched and develops fibre-crystals when stretched at various tensions, was noted as a likely road to the discovery of how to make synthetic rubber...
...Ray H. Collins, Oklahoma oil operator who two months ago bravely set forth to persuade other case-hardened oil operators of his state to pinch down their oil production and thus conserve their underground pools for the future (TIME, May 23), last week gave up. He ceased arguing and appealed to the Oklahoma Corporation Commission to invent some sort of rule to restrain the present overabundant production. There does exist an old Oklahoma law that may apply to the situation. But lawyers doubt its constitutionality. Meanwhile, Shell Union Oil Co., after spending $100,000 to drill a well down...