Coffey & Humber Refused

Drs. Walter Bernard Coffey and John Davis Humber of California may operate a cancer research laboratory at Huntington, L. I., but they may treat no patients there with their adrenal cortex extract (TIME, May 25 et ante). So decreed the New York Board of Social Welfare last week. The Californians consider themselves only temporarily frustrated. They may take their application to New York courts for judicial review, with all protagonists under oath. Mrs. Grace Isabell Hammond Conners, who gave them her Long Island estate, was fretting last week for an appeal to Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who was sailing home from France after visiting his sick mother. Herbert Livingston Satterlee, Coffey-Humber eastern attorney and most temperate of all contestants in the great California-New York cancer treatment quarrel, decided he would not go to court at once, would rather ask the Welfare Board for a rehearing.

Cincinnati's chief knight, Col. William Cooper Procter, last week witnessed the dedication of his Children's Hospital Pediatric Research Clinic. It is a five-story, thoroughly equipped institution whose purpose is, in Knight Procter's words, "to provide for and carry on investigation, research and development, both medical and scientific, for the benefit of children, including investigation and research with reference to children's diseases, problems of children's nursing and children's social welfare." To accomplish all that and, further, to make Cincinnati the world's pediatric centre, he created a $3,800,000 endowment. Director in charge of the whole is Professor Albert Graeme Mitchell, 42, University of Cincinnati pediatrician. Professor Mitchell has an able staff.

Col. Procter gave the money for this research clinic three years ago. Hence to his fellow Cincinnatians, who perhaps because of their community's nickname ("Queen City") like to dub their chief citizens "Knights," he became a knight hospitaler. Another knight hospitaler is Col. Procter's father's and grandfather's partner in the Procter & Gamble candle and soap business, James Norris Gamble, 95, who still lives in Cincinnati and who has given $1,500,000 to Cincinnati's Christ Hospital (TIME, Jan. 16 & 30, 1928).

Last January Col. Procter, a devout Episcopalian, added $240,000 to a previous gift of $60,000 to the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Ohio. Income from that augmented fund is to increase the salary of Henry Wise Hobson, the diocese's new bishop coadjutor whom Col. Procter and his co-religionists brought from All Saints' Church at Worcester, Mass. (TIME, May 12, 1930). Bishop Hobson presided at the children's research clinic dedication last week.*

*John Davison Rockefeller was elected "Knight of the Kingdom of God" for his "distinguished service to humanity," by Euclid Ave. Baptist Church, Cleveland, on the 100th anniversary of the Cleveland Baptist Association fortnight ago.

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