Evening Star Newspaper, April 26, 1925, Page 9

DR.E. A. GORMAN HELD IN DRUG CASE Alexandria Woman, Cured of Addiction, Accuses Wash- ington Physician. 1800 sted Dr. Edward Aloysius Gorman, K street, apartment 100, was ar by Detective Robert and Revenue Agent Samuel Rakusin of the narcotic s e yesterday on morphine “out e the course of professional prac- ice in violation of the Harrison anti otic law The arrest resulted’ from an affi- devit tendered the police by an Alexandria, Va., woman, alleging that she had been furnished with drugs at sundry times more than a year ago. recently was_discharged from a sanatarium at Laurel, Md., pro- 1 cured of the narcotic habit out the affidavit because, leged, the physician was largely ible for her plight. respon Physician Denies Charge. Dr. Gorman denjed that he had fur- nished any drugs outside the course of his professional practice Detective Sanders and Agent Raku however, stated that they have recgvered more than a dozen prescrip tions issuéd under pseudonyms to the woman who brought char It is alleged that some of these pr criptions were issued in a batch at one time with the space for the date I ank, to be filled in at the time aining the morphine. The ar resting officers allege in addition that the physician knew the woman, yet did not issue all the prescriptions to her in her own name Bond was fixed'in the case at §1,500 United States Commissioner Turn and Dr. Gorman was - released that bond, pending a prelimi hearing during the early patt week Gorman, who is 50 years old, to Washington from Alexan Va., same time ago and still tains an office in that city. DROP IN BR.EAD PRICE IS DUE HERE MONDAY Cut by Retailers Is Expected to Be One Cent Per Loaf. sin age under nary of the Dr. in the ind-and & Monday by D. J 1l Bak reduction on said that is making in the price allow the retailers reduction and still get a fair pr their product. The nd and-a-half loaf General Bakfdg Co. has been selling for 13 cents rtail. It is expected that in most storef, where this is sold the price will be 12 cents, beginning Mon day Grocers reported the bread of other bakers, n )y ing Co. and the Dorsch Bakin expected to be reduced in cordingly of the Bak Co., is price ac Demand this trade mark the reduction | to | lests recently conducted by the Navy have shown that radio signals on short wave lengths have a “jump- ing over effect”; that after traveling moderate distances they disappear and turn up at distant point Apparatus using a_wave length of has been placed hip of the United for experiments with ington, Australia and the Philip- and success has been had in re- cent trials. The MacMillan Arctic ex pedition this Summer also will be equipped with the short wave sets. A distance of 2,000 miles was worked with a short wave set in a Navy plane in flight during a recent test here, the signals having been heard in St. Paul and Tampa, although they could not be detected at stations much nearer. Reports indicate that after being picked up for a distance of 60 miles COURT IS WORLD’S GREAT PEACE HOPE, KELLOGG ASSERTS Page.) fleet, (Continued from First Holland's strict neutrality the World Wa W. Ander agent of the States on the Mixed Claims sion of the United States and struck what he termed “a | discordant note” on the program by | strongly denouncing international law as a means for securing peace. While I know my statements will not be popular here,” he said, “I am compelled to say that international law is utterly futile as a preventive for war. Only in the hearts of men can war be eradicated. Law is not strong enough to control men’s emo- tion ormer president of the societ the dinner as toastmaster. ducing the speakers he took occasion to hold forth international law as one of the most important educational de. modern times, and as- nee will grow fended during He) | United | Comr | Mexicc of State Hughes, presided at In intro. etary ner marked the closing of the nineteenth annual meeting of the society, whose sessions started Thurs- day. The executive council of the society | vesterday adopted a report of a spe- | cial committee accepting an invita- tion from the secretariat of the League | of Nation” 1 section to participate in the | ternational law The request from the League of Na- tions was f the Society to consider |and araw up a list of topics for con sideration by the committee of legal | experts at Geneva. he committee report stated that it consonant with the spirit of the society to co-operate with the league. ta least to the extent to which it had been asked, and proposed that a spe- cial committee be formed to Study the question and submit a_report to the executive council in September. 1f | favorably reported by the executive council. the report will be t ted to Geneva i e for tion the mee October Radio Signals Make Great Jumps On Short Wave Lengths, Navy Finds Disappear After Traveling Moderate Distances and Then Turn Up at Distant Points, Experiments From Ship Show. from Washington the signals jumped the intervening distances to St. Paul and Tampa. Used Only Two Tubes. “The light-weight transmitter in the plane used only two recefving tubes,” it was sald yesterday at the Navy De- partment, “and the reception of sig- nals from the set 2,000 miles away is believed to be a record for heavier- than-air-craft radio equipmeént. “Receiving in the plane while in flight using the 20-meter wave length was possible only up to 40 miles, due to the excessive interference experi- enced from the ignition system of the engine. This is due to the fact that each of the 24 spark plugs of the Liberty engine acted as transmitting stations, sending out strong signals in about the same wave length of the radio set. Attempts are now made to overcome this difficulty. Henri Fromageot, legal .adviser to the French government, was elected honorary member of the soclety at vesterday's business session. U. S. HELD VITAL TO PARLEY. Entrance Into League Session Em- phasized by Communique. GENEVA, April 25.—The impor- tance of the United States' participa- tion in the forthcoming international conference for the control of traffic in arms was emphasized in a League of Nations communique tonight. It says the attitude of Washington is one of the essential elements of the problem and remarks that the collapse of the St. Germain convention on the same subject was due to the American re- fusal to ratify. The communique expresses the belfef that the Geneva conference, to be held in May, will find the proposed rmain treaty an excellent basis MYSTERY HOUSE DEATHS DECLARED DUE TO GAS London Jury Makes No Decision on Whether Fatalities Were Accidental. inted Press. April 25—A coroner’s the Bloomsbur) today returned a T todification of in.| verdict that Granville Cooke and Sel- wyn Foster, whose lifeless bodies were found there about a month ago, died of asphyxiation caused by escaping gas. The jury expressed no opinion whether or not the deaths were acci dental. 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