Evening Star Newspaper, December 9, 1928, Page 23

MALTA FEVER HITS 41N LABORATORY Three Aides of Dr. Francis Suffer Disease—Miss Evans Wins Praise. Malta fever, from which Dr. Ed- 4ward Francis, surgeon of the Public| Health Service, is suffering in Naval Hospital, has also afflicted three other | persons here who worked in the same ! Jaboratory, it was learned last night. One of them is Miss Alice C. Evans, | bacteriologist, one of the ploneers in | scientific investigation of th‘dlseasc.i This developed in connection with the annual report of Surgeon General Hugh - S. Cumming, of the Public| Health - Service, who -praised Miss Evans .highly for her work. He de-| seribed Miss Evans in his report as| one whose work . “has established "the | importance of this disease in the United | States, and who was responsibie for | the work in preceding years.” The dis- RACTS FEVER THE SUNDAY LABORATORY WOR STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. DECEMBER 9, ISECRETARY OF WAR WILL LAY By the Associated Press. Secretary -of War Davis will lay ‘the corner stone for the National Memorial to be erected at Kill Devil Hill, near | Kitty Hawk, N. C. Deceinber 17, to commemorate-the first flight in an air- plane by Orville and Wilbur Wright. The corner stone will be laid at the celebration in honor of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the first successful flight, at which Orville, the surviving brother, will be the honor guest. Many notables will attend the event, including delegates to the international Civie Aeronautics Conference, prabably a eongressional committee: and famous aviators and air enthusiasts, including Col. Charles A. Lindbergh. Two sets of exercises are 'scheduled, Representative Warren, Democrat, North Carolina, in whose district the historic spot is located, announced yesterday for - KILL DEVIL HILL CORNER STONE Davis to* Attend Exercises at Wright : }Memorial, Nea,r Kitty Hawk, N. Ci;. on December 17. the Kill Devil Hills Memorial Associa- tion, under whose auspices the event was arranged. 5 The first, exercises . will. open in the morning on the top of Kill Devil:Hill, with Assistant, Secretary.of War F. Trubee Davison for Aeronautids,” in charge.:. Gov. Angus-W. McLean - of North Carolina will welcome the visitars, and Representative Warren will, deliver ag address .about the Wrights: ncmevmgntxb"' : e retary vis, will lay the. eorner shg! for a towgrl. oné of three ux’m;.n of the memorial, which will include a new Coast Guard station at Kitty Hawk, and a bronze tablet. S The second exercises wili.bé held in the exact spot from which the first ajr- plane flight was launched, these to be under the supervision of the National Acronautical Association. W. O. Saun- 1928—PART 1. ders of Elizabeth City, N. C., president of the Kill Devil Hills’ Memorial Asso- ciation, will delivér an address of ‘wel- me, and Capt. ‘W.}J. Tate of “the st Guard, in whose yard the Wrights- assembled their aircraft for the first flight, will relate the story of the flight. Senator Bingham, Republican, Con- necticut, will deliver an address at the unvelling of the bronze tablet! on a boulder. ¥ The House rules committee yesterday decided to 'give, a.Yesolution authoriz- ing the aftendance of ‘a congressional committee privilege tomorrow and War- ren said he expected it to pass both houses in sufficient time for three Sen- ators and six Representatives to attend the ceremony. Cost of the memorial will amount to $150,000, of . which - $25,000 has. been made available, Warren said. Will Be Buried in ‘West Virginia. Special Dispatch to The Star. MARTINSBURG, W. Va., Dee¢ember 8.—The body of John A. Livers, 84 years old, retired business man, who died at his home in Grottoes, Va., Friday. after a short illness, will be brought here for burial Monday, following 'furferal serv- ices in Harrisonburg, Va., it was an- nounced. He was a native of Gettysburg, Pa., but spent most of his life in Vir- ginla. Surviving are. the widow and four. children, Mrs. H..P. Thorn, :this city; Mrs. Fred S. Anderson, Winchester: Va.; John L. and ‘C. D.. Livers, Chat= lottesyille, Va. . |INQUIRY ON PATRONAGE | ‘TO'BE RESUMED TUESDAY Investigation Headed by . Brook- hart Is Directed Against Situa- tion in South Carolina. I8y 1hd Addochaled Bires 100 2 Distribution of Federal patronage in investigating patronage at the resump- tion of its hearings Tuesday. Chairman Brqokhart of the commit- | tee intenids to present ‘amdavit’ evidence’ at the hearing, which will be the first | gathering"of the cothmittee sinde’ the | national campaign. Reports from the Postmaster General ana from the, Civil Service Cominisfon also will' be' pre- | sented. | Senator Brookhart also will invite South Carolina members of Congress to appear at the meeting.- While particu- lar attention will be given to that State, the committee also, will receive further| réports of the investigations it under- | took in Georgia and:Tennessee. . ‘Weighing 282 ‘carats; and ‘almost as large ‘as a-hen's egg. diamond - re- cently- found by & native at the “Bad | Hope” diggings near Kimberly, . Africa, | has been sold for $22,500." * 23 " EQUALIZTAION FEE | Cannon Introduces Measure Con- taining Mflny-lgn_ngemm&n fot’ Agricultural Relief. **s - By the Associgfed Prese: sy o ¢ The twice veloed M ry-llauxm plan for farm relief with the equaliza- tion fee proposal so distasteful to Pres- gflgm Coolidge yesterday bnhhgdr up in ngress with the introduction ef s new bill by R"p!resemahve Chnnan, ooy crat, Missouri, proposing the same rem- kdies for -farm ‘troubles: as” embodied in tm(-; old measure 4 . . Cannon said . he headed -a* group o House ‘members 'who ledn tite fee pro- visions necessary to any farm relief measure proposed could teriff on farm products be made effectiie.~ . “We fcel that no major agflénl(urll legislation,” “he 'said,” “can, Be paNsedt dunng the presa’i short session, byt wh: intend to put this measure betore t incoming President as wi did’ the orig- inal McNary-Haugen Bili-‘before Mr. Coolidge. e “If Mr. Héover has & ‘better solution of thé farm rellef préblem; we'll con- sider it; but if it 15 not' as good-as-the original *cNary-Haugen bill" we #hall | urge the passage of this medsure ease is also known as undulant fever, | or_goat fever. ! The fever, Dr. Cumming said, had | come to be copsidered by some authori- ties as “one. of the. most important public health problems now under con- sideration.” Two Are Recevering. The others who have been made Il by the disease, which now has ‘been | found in 28 States and the District of | Columbia, include Benjamin T. Sock- | rider, a laboratory assistant at the Hy- glenic Laboratory, who has nearly re- i 3 2 covered; and Dr. G. C. Lake, surgeon Miss Alice C.-Evans, Public Health Service bacteriologist, who contracted of the Public Health Service, Wwho'|Malta fever in: the same laboratory where Dr. Edward Francis, patient at Naval has sufficiently recovered to be trans- | Hospital, worked. —Star-Stafl. Photo. ferred to duty at a Marine hospital at ; ——— Staten Island. Miss Evans, who was paid tribute by ! | . or: Cumming. s sroaty recoverms. | ¥ < M. C. A. to Promote Sport of Fencmg. With Special Classes 3 Times Weekly She has returned to work at the labora- | tozl, Twenty-fifth and E streets, where | the investigations have been carried forward, But she is only able to work hait o . Tt e Carh, Gay. Tetirning %o " he et ot /fencirg. as-4-sport. 15 o arranged for classes o be held Tuesday. recuperation. be promoted as a special activity for | ThUISAGY Janu: AT 3Y ;;O;‘“Tao 5 Miss Evans yesterday sald she was | membors of the local Y. M. C. A. It| g am =& 8 feeling much better noW, but was“not | yus announced Iast.night by E.. A.|. Norton: Barnhirt wasclected. presi- NEL oL e et oanacied fhe | ice. | dent of the Fencing Club at a Teceht fever, accordi: 0 reports at the lab- ! Drumm,:associate director of servic organization meeting, and Robert Me- Jratoly &% iy as October, 1922, had |* ANl members of ‘the “Y" are eligibl* | Miilan” was named secretary-treasurer. Theursent aftacks, and was hospltalized | 45 membership in a fencing club, whic | J. C. Redmond will be the conch. at various times at the Public Health | pas just been formed, and free instruc- | *°Among members of the club sigried tion and use of quarters at'the Y. M. up to date are W. R. Dorsey, jr.; Nel- C. A .are to be available for practics | son Batnhart, Lawrence Quimby, Percy | and exhibition matches to be staged | Strauss, Viadimir Grinioff, James Hoff- at the main building of the institu- | man and J. B. Wyatt. VERVEVEVEREDELEYEAT THE WRIGHT CO. @%@W%@%; EAL ECON o i Christmas ‘Shoppers Those who appreciate the finer things of life will welcome gifts of furniture. Just look at the suggestions shown heré and know that everything we féature measures up to our high standard of quality, regardless of the low price. Four-pe. Bedroom Suites : In a Pre-Holiday Sale y ' e Al S A R Rl S SRS S SRS AL A S AL AT A S AT AL ATET AT L AT L ML AU AT SRS AT AT AT AT AT I AT-D AT AL AT T AT 2 AT 5 Solid Mahoémy Lounge Chairs $39.50 Beautiful 'Lounge ot" O A 7 casional Chairs - that awill: make the home nmbre com forfable and. attractive.” Up holstered in‘tapestry of gaod: farvice Hospital at Norfolk, Va., and at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore. Mr. Sockrider, the laboratory assist- ant, said yesterday he believed he’ w: virtually well from the peculiar ail- ment, which afflicted him' acutely, he said, for about three months. As a veteran, he was hospitalized at’ Mount Allo. Dr. Lake Visits City. Dr. Lake, the: fourth sufferer. from the disease here, had. a:case similar to that of Mr. Sockrider,. it -was said, but feels that he has virtually recovered. He was.in ‘Washington for a few days last week. ¢ Surgeon Gen. Cumming emphasized the new developmeiits in the disease ba- fore the House subcommittee on ap- provriations when he declared: .. “Work previously carried out by the service has established the impartance | ‘of undulant fever in the United States. ‘This disease has been reported from 28 States and the District of Columbia, It 15.being so widely recognized and seems 10 be so preva'ent that it appears likely that it soon will be regarded generally Secretary Bookcases T A most attractive as well as useful gift for any mem- ber of the family. - Brown mahogany " in combination with other woods. Three- drawer base and plenty of book shelves. | % g | ! | tion, 1736 G street. : Reconising that fenting as a spoit is coming into vogue at numerous. edu- | cational institutjons, “Y” leaders have | SOLDIERS FACE CHARGE OF STEALING MOTOR CAR Two Released From Marlboro Jail After Sétving One of 120,Day Term to Be Tried Here. Afer serving ons day of a 120-day sentence in the Marlboro - jail follow- ing.-a collision of the automobile in which they were riding on the Marlboro pike with a wrecking car that was en- gaged in salvaging another automobile, Corp. Abraham G. Rauch, 27 years old, and Pvt. John F. Burns, 20 years s one of the diagnoses that need to be |old, both- of Fort Myer, Va. were oonsidered whenever prolonged fever, | brought to Washington - yesterday - by | not assignable to some other cause, is Headquarters Detective Henry Jett to| ented as a part of a clinical pic- | face a charge of grand larceny in con- e. nettion with the alleged theft of the One State official, Dr. Cumming said | automobile on Novemger 30. in his annual report considered undu- They - are alleged- to have ‘stolen a lant. fever “of great importance in his | car belenging 'to+Gilbert: S Goshorn -of | ’S‘M:;p:;‘so:dfle‘cflng :l;edplll:lic healgl t}klm‘r‘; 1347 Parkwood place which was parked | ever e paratyphoid { at Thirteenth, street. and P ylvania fevers combined. Although this disease have. driven 4 avenue, ahd to have driven toward may be contracted through contact with | Marlboro. On ‘the way they collided infected cattle or hogs, another com- with the wrecking car and the machine mon mode of transmission.is by the |they were @giving was vadly damaged. consumption of raw milk. Tt is thought | No one w: jured and the wreeking that the work of the service relating to | car was not 3 ‘.' the sanitary control of milk may be of 1. Both»Bu and Rauch told Jett-that value in limiting the spréad of undu- (they were inf ated tmat they ‘do tul:d fever.” Pasteurization _of milk t happened. They were ‘ming t kn the dissase organism, Dr. Cum- ggnvmg: o d, sald, © after serving|one day to face the charge ularaemia Widespread. against them here, skt dflen: tgl‘ oompmuv‘ely i ot e o frece; velopment raemia, obits, sppears 1o be muich mor:| CONFERENCE FAVORED. Pan-American gress Commends Hoover Tour. ;from rabbits, to be much more ‘widespread than was at first thought,” NEW YORK, December 8 (£).—An economic conference for consideration Dr. Cumming said. Incomplete reports for the calemdar year 1927, he said, showed that it had been recognized in at least 42 States and ‘the District of Columbia. Fatalities numbering 24 have been recorded among the 654 re- ported cases. This pl the mortality | of commercial, industrial and agricul- | @t about 4 per cent. tural problems of Pan-American coun- ‘When discussing tularaemia before | tries and Canada was favored in a| the House committee Dr. Cumming was | resolution adopted today at the clos- | asked if there was any danger of con-{ing session of the Pan-American Com- | tracting tularaemia from the use of | mercial Congress. | rabbits for food. A Other resolutions favored €stablish- “If it is thoroughly cooked. the: in- | ment of branches in South America by fection would be destroyed,” Dr. Cum- | United States _financial institutions, ming said. commended- President-¢lect - Hoover's | Generally speaking the fiscal year | good-will tour and urged adoption of ending June 30, 1928, Dr. Cumming | governmenital farm relief measures in said was characterized “by a generally | Latin American countries. favorable death rate throughout the| The Congress voted to organize a world."” bureau at its New York headquarters “This statement.” he added, how- | to provide information to Central and ever, “ought to be gqualified in two ! - respects. One is that the 1927-28 death rate, when more complete rec- ords are available, will probably be found not to have been lower than the exceptionallv low rate for the pre- ceding year. The other qualification is that any generalization .as to the | mortality rate for the world must be | in relative terms, since the rate of mor- | tality varies so widely different countries. thus, for example, the death rate in India or China, or even cer- tain European cities, is several times as high as that in the Dnited States, or in most European countries, a fact | that in . itself constitutes impressive | evidence of the results of modern sani- ?t:mn and. public bealth administra- Inspection Protects Nation. Importation of any quarantinable dis- ease during the year, was prevented, the report said, as'a result of the Public Health ‘Service’s examination of pros- pective immigrants abroad, its inspec- tion of vessels, passengers and seamen, and its medical examination of alien passengers and seamen arriving . at domestic and insular ports, Yellow fever, plague, cholera and | other diseases were said to be more or | less prevalent in endemic localities throughout the world. Pointing to nearly 7,000 deaths from whooping cough in 42 States during | 1927, the surgeon general cautioned this Wwas not a harmless disease as many recorded it. Measles caused nearly 4,000 deaths in 41 States—little more than half the number from this disease dur- ing the preceding year, an increase in deaths from pellagra was reported in the lower Mississippi Valley reglon, consequent :upon unfavorable industrial lnddeccnomlc conditions following the lood. A meeting of members and appli~ cants for the club will bs held i the ‘8ir George Williams room at the “Y’ Wednesday evening at 7:45 o'clock. T South American - countries on - finance, engineering, bullding, shipping and sanitation. — 4 16 Strikers Released. MILWAUKEE, Wis., December 8 (#). —Sixteen’ Allen, A workers; last of the group of strikers sentenced to the house of correction for faflure to pay fines im- posed by the Federal Court, were re- leased today. 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