Evening Star Newspaper, March 10, 1927, Page 5

COLORADO STORY " MARDONS TRANS . Blizzard Gives Rise to Fears | of New Slides, Blocking ! . Traffic Avenues. By the Associated Press. DENVER, Colo., March 10. yard In southern Colorado today de layed trains, blocked highways and bigsted hopes of San Juan Valley ufning communities to re-establish transportation lines severed a month ®go by snowslides. Passengers on a Denver & Rio Grande Western train, en route from Durango to Denver, were marooned Wt Chama, N. Mex., while another train was stalled by drifts between Telluride and Durango. Fear New Slides. While the precipitation was light in the lowlands, a heavy snowfall was reported in the mountain dis- where crews had attempted cessfully to clear passes for e Rail officlals feared the storm would cause new slides, adding to the hazards of ciearing the tracks, in which work several men have been killed this Winter. Silverton, where 1,200 persons have been isolated for weeks, and Eureka, “with a population of 150, reported ample food on hand, and announced all available men would be thrown into the work of clearing rallroad tracks. Both towns have depended on mushers for medical supplies and other n ties until Tuesday, when rplane succeeded in reaching Traffic Restoration. Rallroad officials predicted traffic would be restored late today and re- ported all the passengers well cared tor. Although the storm extended north into Wyoming today, most points re- . ported wet snow or rain, with mild temperatures. YOUTH, KEPT ALIVE BY HIS COMRADES FOR 98 HOURS, IMPROVES (Continued from First Page.) pital for a possible call for their wervices in the relay work of enforcing artificlal respiration. Frick's legs always have retained some sense of feeling, although he has been unable to move them. They * wre straight as he lies in bed, but his sensation is ‘that they are in a cramped position. The valiant sufferer was considered still to have a chance for life, although the odds against recovery were almost + prohibitive, He had four teaspoonfuls of coffee st 7 ami “We are hopeful that the paralysis will disappear. in the reverse to which it grew on the patient,” said Dr. T. E. Conley, who, with Dr. H. H. Conley and Dr. Charles F. Read, a neurolo- gist, is in constant attendance upon the 22-year-old patient. “The tongue was the last to become yzed. It was the first to regain strength. We are in hopes that diaphragm will be next.’” The doctors pointed out that the ralysis began with the bladder, t‘l: legs, the diaphragm and Fricks mte chance for recov- ery seemed to depend chiefly upon his ability to endure the treatment, ac- Bording to the doctors. “If he”is constitutionally able to withstand the rigors of artificial res- . piration until he regains the use of the diaphragm he will live,” said Dr. T. E. Conley. Diagnosed as Landry’s Disease. A few instances of recovery from lysis in cases where the condition n:aboen diagnosed as Landry’s dis- ease have been reported, said Dr. Mor- ris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association. *“Landry's paralysis usually occurs in men between 20 and 30 years of . Bge,” he said. “Some cases of infan- * tile paralysis occur which closely re- semble Landry's paralysis. The dis- ease usually follows specific fevers or agute infections, but the exact cause s unknown and has not yet been de- termined even approximately. Most jents die within one or two Wweeks, ut a case has been reported in which the patient was kept alive for 41 days by the use of artificial respiration. The necessity for carrying on arti- ficlal respiration by hand rather than by mechanical devices is related to the facts of length of time, importance of the patient receiving sufficient food and that respiration by mechanical devices cannot be regulated over a long period to avoid injury to the tissues.” Frick's two comrades who left his yoom at 11 o'clock after their 15 minute period of supplying life said that he was talking more and that as & result the motions of pumping air 4nto his lungs had to be faster. % Utters One Word at Time. Frick is able to utter only one word @t a time, wi‘h the downstroke of his buddies’ hands as they expel the air from his lungs. He said that his shoulders hurt from the hours of being forced against the bed and asked that his position be _changed Once, said the men relieved at 11 o'clock, Jenneth Reeling and Lewis Thayer, a nurse, walked into the room and asked for “Dr. Fisher.” Frick heard her and breaths replied: “No — you've — got—the—wrong— number.” The continual interfered with even mom Frick's bed was changed given an alcohol bath. His friends said that the lights weemed to make him restless and that during the night all save one at the side of the room were turned off. They described an eerie picture of the shadows dancing rhythmically on the wall as they forced air from the paralytic’s lungs to let in the new life-giving air. Grim Battle During Night. "The spark of life flickered feebly today as three-score workers y against death. Through the long watches they tolled, two by two, compressing and velaxing, compressing and relaxing the lungs that became numb Sunday morning, fighting to stay the end physicians feared was near. Except for brief administration of oxygen, there were no breaks in the rhythmic process; but th were fur- ther signs of exhaustion in Frick's stricken ody nd a bluish color spreading over the features of the 22-year-old patient told of a tide of baftle against a straining heart, Paralysis Advance Indicated. Doctors said this Indicated faulty eirculation and marked additional ad- vance for the creeping paralysis that brought Frick to death’s door Sunday morning when it reached the spinal cord and the nerve contact with the diaphragm, causing lower chest muscles to cease functioning. An_oxygen tank was brought into use shortly before midnight, after the eighty-sixth_hour of artificial respira- (, tion, when Frick’s respiration showed ' between pumping was not entarily as id he was | JUSTICE STONE. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1927. D. C. 2D DIVISION MEN PICK DR. PIERCE Pastor of President’s Church Elect- ed to Succeed MacNider as Branch’s Head. Rev. Dr. Jason Noble Pierce, war- time chaplain of the 2d Division, was unanimously elected president of the Washington branch of the division’s association, to succeed Col. Hanford MacNider, Assistant Secretary of War, at the annual meeting amd banquet In the Lafayette Hotel last night. Other officers chosen for the ensuing year were: Maj. R. S. Keyser, U M. C. vice president, and Se Arthur Counihan, secretary-treasurer. Dr. Plerce is pastor of the First Con- gregational Church, which President Coolidge attends. ; Plans to make the division reunion in this city, June 4 to 6, anniversary of the Second’s fighting along_the Marne were divulged by Col, Mac- Nider, the retiring president, who pre- dicted that more than 7,000 veterans of the association would come here for the event. Col. MacNider has signed and sent out 35,000 circular letters to veterans and reported that favorable replies are being received at the rate of 100 a day. 5,000 Paid-Up Members. Reporting a paid-up membership of 5,000 in thgmoclnflon. Col. MacNider declared that by June 1 there would be at least 10,000 active members, making the 2d Division Association the largest of any A. E. F. body. Brig. Gen. James Crow Rhea, U.S. A, reported that a large delegation from the New England States would be here for the reunion. ‘Work on the history of the division, which was the only one in the A. E. F. composed of soldiers, Marines and sailors, the latter being in the Hos- pital Corps, is progressing under the direction of Capt. John W. Thomason of the Marine Corps. A volume of brigade orders has just been published. ‘While the principal purpose of the meeting was to arrange details for the reunion, there were addresses by Dr. Plerce, Maj. Gen.John A. Lejeune, commandant of the Marine Corps, who commanded the 2d Division during most of its engagements in France; Maj. Gen. Hanson E. Ely, president of the War College, who commanded the 3d Brigade, and Frederic William Wile, honorary member of the asso- clation. The program committee for the reunion was announced as fol- lows: Dr. Plerce, chairman; Col. E. Col. E. R. Whitley, U. Thomason, 8. ‘Woodworth, U. S. Thompson. Committee Chairmen Named. Chairmen of other committees ap- pointed were Gen. Lejeune, executive committee; Maj. R. 8. Keyser, reunion committee; Capt. C. O. Mattfelat, U. S. A., receiving and information; Col. Hugh Matthews, U. S. M. C., trans- portation; Comdr. Joel T. Boone, U. S. N., reception; Col. Irving E. Ca U. 8. A. housing; Col. C. E. K bourne,”U. 8. A., finance, and Capt. Harry Caygill, U. 8. A, publicity. An- nouncement was made that the Army, Navy and Marine Bands had been re- served for the reunion events. At the banquet which followed Gen. Lejeune proposed a toast to the memory of the 4,500 men of the divi- sion who died in France and to those who have died since the war, the latest being Brig. Gen. Leroy S. Up- ton, U. 8. A, who commanded the 9th’ Infantry Regiment. Entertainment was provided by sev- eral acts furnished by John Chevalies assistant manager of Keith's Theater, and by the Star Radio Twins. . LOCAL Y. M. C. A. AHEAD. Twelfth Street Branch Leads Balti- more in Membership Drive. Twelfth Street Branch, Young Men's Christian Association, opened its an- nual membership contest yesterday with the Druid Hill branch association in Baltimore, the results of the first day’s merbership campaigning giving the local branch 53 members hips while the Baltimoreans were obtain- ing 38 new members. The campaign contest will last one week. Perry W. Howard is general chair- man of the contest and Capt. Campbell C. Johnson general secretary. Com- mittee heads include: J. Percy Bond, G. C. Wilkinson, Dr. Charles H. Mar- ‘W. Rutherford, Thomas H. ki George A. Robinson, J. A. Lankford. S. M. Dudley, Mortimer M. Harris, Charles A. Booker, W. Roscoe Wilkes and Dr. W. O. Claytor. SRR Registration Dates Special Dispatch to The Star. FROSTBURG, Md., March 10.—The Mayor and Council of Frostburg have fixed March 21, 22 and 28 as registra- tion days for the city election which occurs April 5. A mayor and three councilmen will be chosen ..M. C.; Capt. W. M. C., and Acors R. Set. signs of faltering. The patient was glven a drug and fell asleep for the first iengthy period in four days. Earlier in the night, as hour after hour was added to a record said to be without parallel in medical history, Frick attempted natural breathin, but the endeavor was brief. Sips Some Nourishment. He succeeded, however, in sipping nourishment, for the time permitting a halt in the injection of a glucose solution in his paralyzed legs. He also was able to talk, which he had been unable to do Sunday. Even during the relapse Frick re- mained conscious and spoke briefly to the 66 fellow employes who volun- teered for the wearisome battle con- tinuing to direct their efforts i endeavor to minimize the tiss exhausting effect of the artificial breath| . . Physicians did not abandon hope over the night’s relapses and, encours aged by the patient’s fitful sleep and the upper hand. JUSTICE BUTLER. JUSTICE SANFORD. HARRIS ¢ EWING JUSTICE VAN DEVANTER. For the fourth time in the history of] parts of the huge auditorium. Under the National Oratorical Contest the seven national finalists will have the honor of being judged by justices of the United States Supreme Court. The judges for the finals of 1927, which will be held on May 27, in the Wash- ington Auditorium, will be Justices Sanford, Sutherland, Van Devanter, Butler and Stone. The low-point-total system will be used, each judge rating each speaker, the composite rating of all of the speakers by all of the fudges deter- mining the national champion. There will be no consultation ameng the judges, who will be seated in different the low-point-total system a perfect score, with five judges, would be five. A speaker rated as the poorest by all five of the judges, with seven contest- ants being passed upon, would secure a total of 85. It is interesting to note that the fin- alists, coming as they de, from all parts of the United States, will be hardly more widely distributed geo- graphically than their five distinguish- ed judges, who were appointed to the most powerful judicial body in the world from the States of Tennessee, Utah, Wyoming, Minnesota and New York, respectively. Secretary of Late Clara Barton Asks Maryam:l SChOOl Be Named for Her | Special Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., March 10.—Urg- ing the Montgomery County Board of Education to name the school to be erected at Glen Echo or Cabin John Bridge in honor of Clara Barton, who lived for 23 years in Montgomery County, W. H. Sears, who was Miss Barton’s secretary and field agent, has ‘written the board giving a resume of Miss Barton's services for humanity: “When her poor body was being transferred across the city ‘n New York, from the Twenty-secamd street ferry to the Union Station, from Glen Echo, on its way to its last resting place at Oxford, Mass., the letters says in part, “the driver, an Irishman, asked: ‘Who is it ye got in that box?’ Dr, Underhill replied: ‘That is the body of Clara Barton.’ The driver dropped the lines and raising his hands said: ‘My Gbd! Clara Barton! ‘Why, my father was a Confederate. soldier and he was shot through the neck at the battlefield of Antietam, and Clara Barton found him and bound up his wound and saved his life, and now the likes of me haulin’ her poor body across the city” When they reached the station he took eff his hat and helped carry and place the casket in the baggage car. / *As weighed and measured by her achlevements Clara Barton was the greatest woman this country, if rot the whole world, has produced. She was a great school teacher and taught for 20 years. She founded the first public school at Bordentown, N. J., starting with 6 and ending with 600 pupils with five assistant teachers, all at her own expense. Recently the city of Bordentown rebuilt the school build- ing it erected for her, and dedicated it to her name with imposing cere- monies. “She was the first woman clerk in the Government service in Washing- ton, under Mason, Commissioner of Patents, was in, charge of caveats, and Mason said she was the most com- petent clerk he had. “She was on 20 battlefields of the Civil War, amid flying bullets and bursting shells, giving first aid to the wounded. And her relief work there ‘was real Red Cross work; for she took care of the Confederate wounded as well as the Federal, making no ols- tinction. She once told me this stor) “At the battle of Fredericksburg I found five Confederate soldiers badly wounded. It was just at daylight. U’LL BE GLAD YOU SAVED YOUR MONEY! When You Want to Buy a Home FEDERAL-AMERICAN H eadaéhés are usually caused by strain- ing the eyes. Best «onsult our optometrist at the first sign of trouble of this kind. Your health and happiness de- pend upon freedom from eye trouble. of Halhin Optometrists 935 F Street Years at the Same Address Jné& Opticians hix gameness, said he might yet gain They lay behind a deserted negro cabin. I tried to move them, but their uniforms were frozen in the mud; so I got an ax and chopped them loose and dragged them one at a time, into the cabin. There I built a fire in the fireplace, heated a lot of brick and placed them about their bodies; then I washied and dressed their wounds and made gruel over the fire in the fire- place and fed them.” e HENRY PRINZHORN DEAD. Succuinbs at Age of 70 After Long Iliness. Henry G. Prinzhorn, 70 years old, resident of this city for the past eight years, died at his residence, 4327 Iowa avenue, Tuesday after a Iéng iliness. He 1s survived by two brothers, Fred Prinzhorn of this city and Charles P. Prinzhorn of South Bend, Ind.,, and three sisters, Mrs. Louise Hartley of California, Miss Anna P. Prinzhorn and Mrs, Charles M. 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There was a steady stream of vis- itors all day at the Fourteenth Annual Amaryllls Show of the Department of Agriculture, which opened this morn- ing at 9 o'clock in the conservatory of the department, Fourteenth and B streets. There are more than 1,100 plants on exhibition, of the widest va- riety of formation and coloring. Large parties organized by members | of the diplomatic corps representing South American countries, where the amaryllls, or “knight’s star lily,” has its native habitat, were conspicuous at the show today. More than 5,000 invita- tions have beén fssued by these dipfo- mats, asking friends to join their parties, because they are anxious to co-operate with the department offi-| cials in popularizing knowledge of this peculiar plant and its more general cultivation. Botany Classes Plan Visit. Classes in botany from more than a dozen colleges and academies in the District, Maryland and Virginia_are to visit the show in the next few days, and already more than a score of ar- tists have asked permission to set up their easels in the department green- houses and paint the riotous spread of vivid coloring. Mrs. William M. Jardine, wife of the Secretary of Agriculture, is enter- taining parties of her friends at the exhibition. Amateur and professional growers are taking a deep interest in the half dozen white blooms which the experts of the department have produced from seedlings. Attracts Wide Attention. This is something absolutely unique in an amaryllis and has attracted wide attention. The original white amaryllis is to be reproduced in wax andl pre- served in the National Museum. Dr. Willlam A. Taylor, chief of the Bureau of Plant Industry, under whose administration the show is held, today extended an invitation to all the people of Washington and sur- rounding country to visit the green- house. Special parking space has been re- served for show visitors on B street between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets. Demands for $12 a day and a five- day week have been presented by the organized plumbers of Boston. American Mountain Settlements Yield . Long-Forgotten English Folk Songs| By the Associated Press. LONDON, ‘March 10.—Hundreds of old English folk songs, long forgot- ten in the land of their origin, have been recovered from the settlements of mouritaineers in the eastern part of the United States and have been add- ed to the collection now being restored to popularity by the English Folk Dance Society The late the last 25 Cecil Sharp, who spent ars of his life collecting | folk songs and dances, discovered that a huge mass of that lore had been car- ried into the backwoods of the Ameri- can mountain districts by early Eng- | lish pioneers, to survive there where little of the outside world penetrates and where knowledge is handed down from generation to generation by word of mouth. From the eastern mountains of America and from the lanes and vil- lages of England, Dr. Sharp gathered 5,000 of the old songs and dances. He founded the English folk dance so | clety in 1911. The society, which now has a mem bership of 6,000 is planning to estab- this year and has ralsed $5 $125,000 fund for this purpose. ENGLAND ACCEPTS U. S. INVITATION TO 3-POWER PARLEY (Continued from First Page.) and Italian governments will have representatives present as ‘“‘unofficial observers.” They 4vill want the information about the discussion first hand, for it concerns them both. And this will afford an_opportunity for sounding out the French and Italian govern- ments on their attitude toward pro- posals before they are adopted France and Italy will be able to keep their naval strength within the limit of their purse strings or to force themselves to pay larger annual sums for naval armament in order to keep up with the other naval powers. The President is anxious to econo- mize, but he will not be able to pre- vent' Congress from building the most powerful navy in the world, if the Geneva conference breaks up in dis- agreement. (Copyright JAPANESE PRESS FAVORABLE. 1927.) Vernacular Papers Unanimous Welcoming Parley. TOKIO, March 10 (P).—The leading vernacular newspapers are virtually unanimous in welcoming the proposed three-power conference of the United States, Great Britain and Japan for the limitation of naval armaments not included in the Washington agree- ment. A Toklo dispatch yesterday sald the Japanese government intended to ac- cept the conference proposal made by the United States. BRITISH ESTIMATE CUT. in 1927 Naval Program Provides £38,- 000,000 Expenditure. LONDON, March 10 (#).—Great Britain's navy estimates for 1927, an- nounced today, call for an expendi- Announcing another of a series of talks by Edmund J. Flynn Authority on Co-operative Apartments to be given at Hilltop Manor 3500 Fourteenth Street N.W. at 3 P.M., Sunday, March 13 Subject : “How Co-operative Apartments Save Half Your Rent” Any questions concerning Co-operative Apartments will be answered following the talk by Mr. Flynn. 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