‘GRUMPY’
WM. DE MILLE’S PICTURE
“GRUMPY," IS THRILLING
Every scenario writer strives for
one big thing in every picture—sus
pense. Without it a picture is an ab
solute failure in-so-far as interest is
concerned. Clara Beranger has suc
ceeded. In “Grumpy,” William de
Mille’s photo play featuring Theodore
Roberts, May McAvoy and Conrad
Nagel, which comes to the Liberty
Theatre tonight, she has begun the
suspense with the first scene and it
ends only when the final scene is
shown.
The central situation of “Grumpy”
is the mysterious disappearance of a
diamond valued at §500,000 which is
stolen from Ernest Heron (Conrad
Nagel) and recovered by “Grumpy,”
a lovable, though irascible, old char
acter played by Mr. Roberts. The sus
pense starts with the opening scene,
when the crooks are plotting to steal
the jewel. It builds up bigger and
bigger to the climax and does not fin
ally end until the last scene when
the crook is brought to justice, the
sole clue to his identity being a gar
denia with a woman’s hair wrapped
around the stem.
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medical treatment.
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TETRA ETHYL LEAD POISONING
CAUSED BY GASOLINE MIXTURE
By Les Conklin
NEW YORK, Dec. 8.—Picture your
yourself being slowly poisoned by a
gas so deadly that physicians cannot
combat it—and faced with the fact
that you will gradually be driven in
sane, until at last seized with a rav
ing madness from which the only re
lief is suicide.
Then you will realize the awful
fate which waits for victims of tetra
ethyl lead gas poisoning, contracted
by workers who handle the dread
chemical compound in the manufact
ure of a type of gasoline that pre
vents “knocking” of engines.
Scientists and manufacturers have
known for some time of the danger
in handling the compound, but public
attention was first attracted to the
subject when 35 workers were strick
en last month in the plant of the
Standard Oil company at Bayway, N.
J. Five were driven insane and died
within a short time.
The others are under observation
at the Reconstruction hospital here.
They have seen the victims die one
i
by one, and with terror clutching at
their hearts they lie on tneir cots
waiting, waiting, waiting,—never
knowing when they will become mad
men and have to be placed in the
insane ward until death ends their
sufferings.
New Treatment Brings Hope
The victim’s only hope of recovery
lies in Dr. Maxim Touart, who has
discovered t\ form of treatment which
he believes will save them. By giv
ing them sodium bromide as a laxa
tive with injections of hyposulphite of
soda, to dissolve the lead in their
systems, he hopes to prevent further
deaths.
Tetra-ethyl lead was invented to
take the knock ou tof gasoline. Nor
mally gasoline tends to explode too
violently in a cylinder. Mixing the
chemical compound with the gasoline
makes the explosion less violent and
applies the force to the piston more
evenly. It is used wherever gasoline
is manufactured and wherever it is
exploded in an engine.
For a time it was feared that gar
age mechanics and motorists who
handle gasoline might be poisoned,
but scientists disapprove the idea.
The compound was dangerous only
when handled in concentrated form.
Gets Into Nervous System
When tetra-ethyl lead is absorbed
into the nervous system it passes rap
idly into the nervous tissues and is
taken up by the cells of the nerve
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centers. Insanity is a form of dis
order of the nervous system in which
the cells involved are those used in
thought and reasoning. Thus a vic
tim is driven slowly insane as the
lead poisoning gains headway.
The poisoning is hard to combat,
because it cannot be discovered un
til the danger point has been reached.
Thomas Midgely, Jr., inventor of
ethyl gas, said the compound had
caused two deaths in the plant of
the General Motors Chemical Com
pany at Dayton, Ohio. He said forty
others were stricken there and that
workmen in the Du Pont plants had
been poisoned to a lesser degree from
handling the compound.
Scientists believe, however, that
no fatalities will result if the gas is
handled carefully. They urge that
the greatest precautions be taken
wherever it is used.
BRIBE TO FRUSTRATE
ELECTION OF COLVIN
DISCLOSED SPIRIT CITY
SEATTLE, Wn., Dec. 6.—Ten thou
sand dollars in cash was placed in
the hands of Commissioner Tom Dob
son, the night of November 27, in an
effort to frustrate the election of
Captain Ewing D. Colvin as prose
cuting attorney. It is alleged that
half was to go to Dobson and the
other half was intended for William
Gaines, chairman of the board of
county commissioners. Such was the
report as laid bare to the late prose
cuting attorney, Malcolm Douglas,
by Dobson.
SECRETARY HOOVER SAYS
WILL REMAIN !N CABINET
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 8.—
Secreatry Hoover stated today that
he had definitely decided to remain
in the cabinet, despite various efforts
by commercial organizations to se
cure his services. The secretary
made his decision after President
Coolidge had earnestly requested that
he remain in the services of the gov
ernment.
ATTEMPT MADE TO START
REVOLUTION IN ATHENS
LONDON, Dec. 8.—An attempt was
made yesterday to start a revolution
in Athens, according to a dispatch
to the Daily Mail from that city; the
prompt arrest of General Loufas and
other officials preventing the move
ment from spreading. The situation
is now reported calmer.
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