Evening Star Newspaper, September 8, 1929, Page 20

T0 ATTEND PARLEY Will- Represent Geographic Society at Meeting of Scien- . tists in Mexico City. The National Geographic Society has designated Dr.. William Bowie as its representative at the first meeting, in Mexico City this month, of the Pan- American Institute of Geography and History. Dr. Bowie of Washington, chief of the division of geodesy of the United Btates Coast and Geodetic Survey, is & geodesist of world note, and he will be one of three representatives from the United States to the institute’s organization meeting. ‘The institute's sessions, to be held from September 16 to 22, inclusive, will bring together the foremast scien- tists in geographic and allied flelds from all the American republics. Its meetings will be watched with keen interest both in North and South America because there, for the first time, will be planned the correlation of important projects for mapping and surveys of inernational importance. Service of Paramount Importance. “While the basis of the work to be done involves scientific and technical phases of charting, topographic and geodetic surveys, the results will be of paramount importance to industrial and commercial development,” explains a statement from the National Geo- | graphic Society. “Maps which give exact locations and co-ordinate such factors as lati- tudes and elevations, are the structural framework around which develop the possibilities for modern farming and forestry, for highway and railroad building, for telephone and telegraph line construction, for water power use and finally the placement of factories. “Precise topographic maps are os- sential preliminaries to charts of rain- fall and temperature, to accurate studies of botanical and animal life vones and the opportunities for further plant and stock introduction and. fnally for the adventageous location ! of factories. Savings on Highways Cited. “Savings of hundreéds of thousands of dollars literally now are effected through the placement of highways in relation to all these factors. And waste- ful consiruction which sometimes oc- curred in the past, both of railroads and highways, is avoilded when the potential value'and development of the region they will serve can be charted in detail. “Fcrest areas, with their wealth of timber, regions where soil fertility beckons the settler and the accessi- | bility of the producing areas to world markets no longer are left to chance experiments, but can:be determined in advance. “Such surveys become of obvious val- ue when the project involves hydro- electric development, with the conse- | quent need for railroads running in and power lines running out of the areas developed. And a new problem for the mapmaker is the information needed in plotting airplane routes which often cross regions which have not been ex- plored scientifically.” Bowie Long in Service. Dr. Bowle, who will represent the National Geographic Society at the in- stitute which will formulate the survey program, has been in the fleld service of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey since 1895. There he has taken part_in many of the surveys made in | the United States which the institute | hopes to correlate with similar projects hitherto undertaken individually by the various republics of Central and South America. Dr. Bowie's fleld work has carried him from the coasts of Prince Willlam Sound, in Alaska, to the Philippines. He carried the first arc of triangulation across Porto Rico after the United States acquired the island. He has been chief of the division of geodesy since 1909. Before the World War he ‘was a member of the Permanent Com- mission of the International Geodetic Association; since 1919 he has been the president of the section of geodesy of the International Geodetic and Geophysical Union, Direets Surveying and Mapping. He is chairman of the division of sur- veying and mapping of the American Society of Civil Engineers and for sev- eral years was chairman of the board of surveys and maps of the Federal Gov- ernment. For seven years he had charge of the practical astronomy and geodetic courses at the Columbia University's Summer school and now is lecturer on geodesy and isostasy at Lehigh Uni- versity. He is author of a book on “Isostasy” and has contributed many scientific pnptxs on geodesy, surveying and m-gf In addition to ‘being & member of the National Geographic Society he has membership in a number of scientific and engineering societies in this and other countries. DR. KLIPSTEIN DIES ON CALIFORNIA TRIP, Alexandria Physician, 74, Former President of Virginia Medioal So- ciety, Ill More Than Year. Special Dispatch to The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va,, September 7.— Dr. George Taylor Klipstein, 74 years old, for 45 years a member of the Alex- andria Hospital staff, died at Los Angeles, Calif, yesterday, where he had gone more tian & year ago in an at- tempt to recain his health. ‘The body will be brought here Wed- nesday to the home of his sister, Miss R. T. Klipstein, 520 Prince street, (or' funeral services and interment. Dr. Klipstein was a native of this city and received his early education at the St. John's Academy. He was award- ed the B. A. degree at the Columbia College in Washington and in 1877 took up the study of medicine at Jeffer- son College in Philadelphia, graduating from that institutiion in 1881. Dr. Klipstein then came to this city, where he was engaged in active praectice for 47 years. He was president of the Alex- andria Medical Society for a number of years and also was a former pmldem of the Virginia Medical Society. DR. WILLIAM BOWIE. THOMPSON DEATH CHARGE BORNE OUT IN HOSPITAL PROBE (Continued From Seventeenth Page.) after we put her on a stretcher,” she said. Chairman Millan directed questions to bring out the fact that it was the usual case in pubiic hospitals for one nurse to be in attendance over 20 patients. Miss Wright agreed that “one was enough” under ordinary cir- cumstances. In_this connection, the committee called Miss Catharine Moran, superintendent of nurses at Gallinger, who said a patient easily could elude a nurse at any hospital. She saw no reason ordinarily to have more than one nurse in charge, explaining that extreme cases were entrusted to the care of special nurses. Two special nurses had been in at- tendance off and on upon Mrs, Thomp- son, it was brought out at the hearing. ‘They were Miss Smith and Miss St. Peter. At the time the patient escaped from her rom, it was said her condition was not thought advisable for a special nurse, Mrs. Mary L. Garrison, & the Thompsons, substantiated the testi- mony given by the patient's mother relative to her “dread” of undergoing an operation. She also testified that staff members of the Board of Public Welfare had sought to have Mrs. Thomupssgn undergo a mental examina- tion . Mrs. Garrison related that Mrs. Thompson's dread of an operation con- tinued after her arrival at the hospital and had told her that s woman in the next bed warned her: *“Don't get operated on here. The next day they gave me beans and bolcgna. Are Told of Her Death. Mrs. Garrison testified she had heard Mr. Wright tell the nurse that Mrs. Thompson shouldn't be compelled to carry trays about. “He said that Mrs. ‘Thompson had gone to the hospital for rest and treatment and if it was neces- sary for her to be operated upon, he would have sent her to another hos- pital.” According to testimony by Mrs. Wright and Mrs. Garrison, the family was informed late in the afternoon after the operation by & policeman who called at the house that Mrs. Thompson was very ill. They hurried to the hos- pital in a taxi and were informed at (he door that Mrs. Thompson had died. ‘The operation was performed at o'clock _in the afternoon. Dr. Costello was one of the most im- portant witnesses. - He is a professor at tke Georgetown University Medical School and is one of the Georgetown members of the Gallinger staff, this being his first year at the hospital. Dr. Costello bore out testimony given at a previous hearing that Mrs. Thomp- son had been given the benefit of every goulhle diagnosis and consultation and er blood pressure was normal. He was questioned closely about whether the patient had consented to the operation. The surgeon said that Dr. Higgins, his consultant and himself had told Mrs. Thompson after the examination that an operation would benefit her and make her self-supporting. “She didn’t seem to have any ob- jection to the operation at all” he testified. “I told her that we would take her the middle of the iy other tests proved successful.” Mrs. Thompson was not bed-fast at the time of her admission, he explained, and was given the privileges of the ward. “I am not in a position to say whether patients are forced to do work at the hospital,” he testified in reply to queries about the complaint made by the patient. Suffered From Shock. After the operation, Dr. Costello said, the patient appeared to be suffering from shock. She was given anti-shock treatment and rallied. “We t! it her condition was favorable and that she would be all right.” he added. He told also of the reaction and necessary blood transfusion. The next- morning when he tele- phoned to the hospital about her, Dr. Costello said, the purse informed him the patient had gotten out of her bed. He hestened to the hospital, he said, and did what he could for the woman, but_treatment “did her no good.” “What do you think killed her?” Chairman Millan asked him. Dr. Costello hesitated. “I do mot know—it would .be hard to say,” he replied.” “I have seen patients under mflhr conditions get out of bed and uvz. Others have done so and died. In Mrs. Thompson's case, her getting out of bed after the hemorrhage and blood transfusion did not help her any. 1t undoubtedly lowered her resistance.” Asked again the same question at varjous times, Dr. Costello admitted each time that he could say that the ‘woman’s experience was “a contributing cause of her death.” Later, when questioned again about the operation, Dr. Costello said: “Mrs. Thompson gave her own consent me, to Dr. Bloedorn (the chief of staff) and Dr. Higgins, She was told about the operation two days before it was performed.” Dr. Costello could not say whether Mrs, Thompson had told her family about it. Didn’t Hold Operation Unwise. The incident about Mrs. Thompson't escape from bed, the physician tumd was known to the whole resident staff rted at the next staff week the woman’s condition to make belleve an operation was unwise. “Do you think now that the deceased was & \.r’el’trymln of s:“rnul: is Church for many. y¢ and fl’ffi‘l“&é‘m ‘:lt‘hct; duhth ‘was the senior ‘warden urc! He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Naomi Simmons Kl and two sis- ters, Miss and G. Harryman, 4-H TEAM HONORED. Misses Carr and Harrison of Fair- fax Will Go to State Fair ize-winning 4-H club 4em- ocx?:txr‘:yt.h'mmm. ‘Word has been re- ceived by Miss Sara Thomas, home that hh;l‘u been performed?” he was asked. Dr. co-t.eua replled “No e Keissling, the interne dufiy uu nllht Mrs. 'I'homplnu also uld f.he had given bet Pisher replied. Before '?he committee closed the hear- ing Dr. wfllhm ’E Hemler, femer Peara, soulm ad was. given the He Board of Public Welfare iction work |- little Army discipl friend of | “HICK MARSHAL" WINNING PRAISE Maj. John L. Miles of Kansas City Brings Discipline to Police Force. By Consolidated Press. KANSAS CITY, Mo., 1— Belittled by his ecrities “hick marshal,” Maj. John L. mlu mlud line s rural i training to give this city o( 450,000 | taste of law enforcement that is ‘talk of police officers from coast to coast, Defore Maj. Miles took office as chief 12 had been sheriff of Jackson County zid generally had been “cmall town™ officer. 1ndependence, Mo., & small community 15 miles out in the country. Appointed Last March. Miles was named chief last March | thal when the old pelice board went out and Gov. Henry 8. Caulfield, new Governor of Missouri, named new commissioners for Kansas City. The governor selected Berst 8. Kimbrell and Russell Pield as commissioners and suggested they for- get politics. The selection of the com- missioners was against the wishes of the Republican machine of Kansas City, as was the subsequent selection of Miles as chief. When Miles took office there must have been at least 300 saloons doing business, for five months after he had been in command one near beer dis- tributing company complained it had lost 300 customers. Actual police fig- ures show 196 speakeasies cloud their doors on orders of the chief. The other 104 are said to have folded up in the fact of strict enforcement of the dry law by the police department. But the enforcement of the dry law has been a secondary task with )l-j. Miles. First of all, hn has instilled cipline in the department enmplnbh to that of the 129th Field Artillery of the 35th Division in the World War. Maj. Miles served that Missouri outfit Armistice. Pre: with old Battery C of the Missouri Na- tional Guard and had seen service on jthe border when Pershing wert after Villa, A Stern Taskmaster. Maj. Miles came out of the World War with the reputation of being a | stern taskmaster, but one who would hold out to the limit in behalf of his That attitude was summed up by Wallace Cameron, who was secre- tary to Miles as'sheriff and now is his chief aide. “The mljur can blwl you out like the worst of them,” said Cameron, “but no other officer in France ever got away with saying a harsh word to a trooper under Miles' command.” In his _demand for Army-like dis- cipline, Chief Miles has dismissed pa- trolmen and captains alike for lny violations of the police sheriff he once testified before & :nnd jury against two of his own deputies Wwho had been arrested in' an extortion plot against bootleggers. “If the men know their job and un- derstand they must do it,” asserts Chief Miles, “they will do it and do it " veral departmental shake-ups have convinced the 800 police in Kansas City that the chief means business and apparently he is to retain a free hand in_combating erime. When Miles took office it was agreed ‘by both political factions in the eity tthat law enforcement was at a low state of efficiency. The most open llun men. 1/of law violation was the speak-easy and it was the first to go. But with the bar and its spiked beer have gone the gambling houses and all varieties of vice. Just now the bookmakers are fighting & losing battle to keep open in afternoo! One of Chief Miles’ first steps was to meet the challenge of the bank bandit. Numerous hold-ups had placed Kansas City burglary and hold-up insurance at the top of the scale. To combat this situation Miles installed branch offices throughout the downtown district where headquarters could dlmteh trolmen on & secon: .unumnmcuymnuuan since major hold-up One element has com) that the Miles administration making the city unpopular as a convention .center and even driving people out of town. Miles’ reply always has been: “I be- lieve the people want the law enforced.” (Copyright, 1929.) CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Red Triangle Club members will meet this afternoon at 2:15 o'clock at the Rosslyn, Va.-Great Falls station for meu-‘ weekly outing. Trip will '““fio"u‘fi: the it lunch, over! ver. g lunch, cup, about 4 Georn V-fl. leader. miles. FUTURE. Pirst regular meeting of the Manor Park Citizens’ Association for 1929-30 will be held at 7:45 vm. mnornw at the John Greenleaf ittier School, , | Pifth snd Sheridan m-m Nomination the principal business, of officers will be the Mecting of the Congress Heights Citi- zens’ Association will be held tomorrow night, 8 o'clock. An important meeting of the Loyal Knights of the d Table will be held at the University Club Tuesda round table is on the program. A 500 card party will be given for the benefit of St. Teresa’s School in Ana- costia on Tuesday eveni at 8:30 in the basement of the chi , Thirteenth and V streets southeast. Rear Admiral David S. Sellers, juc advocate general of the Navy, will ker at the meeting of Washing- dmiral ! Mmm Rear Admiral Joseph M. U. 8. N., member of the ‘who recently was oper- ation was unwise and should not have| 3 in France from April, 1918, until the!in ly _he had served | cell along with a eonlldenbla number CUBA'S DOMESTIC POLITICS MAY PLAY PART IN TARIFF FRAY Leaders of O;position Party Are Likely to Bring Protest Against Machado Before American Senate. BY WILLIAM HARD. Presently the political personality, ‘Washington is likely to have lhtofthemltcllb.n l Carlos Mendieta, the leader . ban opposition Mypnd'lthmlrflvnlhmnmllpreblblylun‘n-twmnmubh with our relations with with Palestine. ‘. Col. hufln'n‘ € | directed to alleged irregularities resolution finger at those ‘wholly tfl light. ol. Mendieta, it is learned, will charge in effect that President Machado Mwh.mmqwth-uplnbnoxhlm 1d by our ite Department, is an unmumuomfl and violent despot fln has de) % rfilhn ‘people odt “life, nrowrty an lndlvldull HW the United States Government guaranteed to the Cuban people in the treaty of 1903 which gave to Cuba its independence. | gp, cihoudlhfln Col. Mendleta his mm?dum that the present ad- ministration of President Machado in Cuba came into power through a wrongful nullification last year of the Cuban _constitution and maintained itself such methods as the arbitrary exiling of some four thousand Cuban citizens and the outright assassinating of 300. ‘The seriousness of such charges is runnd on Capitol Hill and a proving of them would seem many millions of dollars, against the Cuban government, and he asserts that “El Principe” he was cast into a of lunatics and lepers. further that some of the llm-ua ‘were Md“"ltg - homlddll mania and e was nn-md wmwut the leveling of any accusa him; and it is nmow -n-wm. and admitted on all hands that the only illegal act of any sort ever at any time charged SEDAN PRICES—F. O. B. FACTORY Cubs than we have been having lately with our relations to come here to testify on Capitol Hfllx'hen the irding Cuba are resumed. tmlybe Tega ruomuon will be replaced by nnother resolution more specifical in Cuban political and constitutional :xmdmmu For & qu time Senator King of Utah has been pointing conditions, and he seems ardently determined to a lean and accusing bring them against him was his fiul.lwm:e that & cer'.ntn lece of property belonged to not to & Cuban lady who chtmed that it belonged to her. This fault of his, however, was only sub- leqmntfl assel ‘The und! fact, which the State Department now pll.nm!ly before it, is that Mr. Bar- low was seized without charge or war- mtm&mmfinm “ garb and thrust company of deranged d diseased pennnl and released only llur strong remonstrances from Wash- Mr. Barlow is 78 years old and ington. and | his feelings at this time may rightfully be described as intense. Betancourt Takes a Hand, Mr, Barlow was brought back from Havana to Washington by Alfred Bet- B | ancourt, an American of Cuban extrac- tion, with large property interests in Cuba. Mr. Betancourt asserts that the present economic distress of Cuba has nothing to do with the tariff duty leveled against Cuban sugar by the United ma and that neither the rais- ing of that duty nox the lwmna of n will in any essential way change Cul economic fate. He asserts that the trouble with Cuba is governmental mismi ement, show- ing itself in excessive expenditure and unbearable taxation. He seems to be- lon.lnthel tariff matter, to the gmu Cuban thinkers repre- Conde Rivero, publisher and edn.or n! the olltltlndlnl Havana daily newspaper, Diario de la Marina. That newspaper 'has held that the threatened raising of the sugar tariff of the United States is no genuine menace to Cuba since the Unl!ed States will have to im- port Cuban sugar anyway to supply its 1¢ is seen here mow that the sena- torial debate on the sugar tariff will be inextricably intermingled with senato- nmns, Jectionable pictures, W spectively to mm md "To Mr, Betancourt and 1o emmelll. hlh mendrl‘ ;Mm“c.‘v':hl:m of 1 sition party” this 'flul' lut year, while in Havana at the sixth in- | ternational conference of American ' states, addressed the following question: nev‘:thp};p.:n Il"éhelll gt r { libeny generally d!medt;lud lnd by The answer, in effect thzn wu and n is thz policy of the United Sh'u.f as repeatedly shown, to send troops and :mmn: h;vv.: ‘cuhc '-m pu: down revolu- 3 re not permitted any lon, to have revolutions, and we do not wmf If, however, the United States' is not going to permit us to have revo- lutions, then the United States under- | takes a responsibility to help us to get our civil and pomlcll rights without revolutions, o | t message and that plea, | [3 mldgnblz little 'hon of cu&m headed by Col. Mendieta, may presently be testifying on Capitol Hill to a per- plexed Senate. Col. Mendieta is a re~ nowned veteran of the Cuban war of llbennt,load against 8, which was termmated by the in tion of ur;;tedus?m in 1898. i e is aided specially by Col. Mendes Penate, also a veteran of the war of liberation, and by Gen. Peraza, now 77 years of age, who is a surviving hero of the great unsuccessful Cuban it against Spain which lasted h bloody decade from 1868 to 1878. The personalities on both sides of this Cuban dispute are of the highest con- sequence and distinction, and the com- bat between them on the Washington xcenemlu likely to be one of the ap- proaching season's most thrillers, Shvin — WARDMAN IS INVITED. Special Dispatch to The Star. CHEVERLY, Md., September 7.— Harry Wardman of Washington, whose company recently acquired interests in Cheverly, has been invited to address a special meeting soon of the Cheverly Citizens’ Association, it was decided at a meeting Tuesday night. J. B. New= man ana W. R. Gaither were appointed a committee to e the vitation to Mr. Wardman. It was decided to indorse by letter the movement to do awsy with the periodical floods at Bladensburg. B F. Gast, chairman of the achool committee, reported chat the addition to the Cheverly-Tuxedo school likely will be built the coming Fall. MISS AMY VEERHOFF. KAMP KAHLERT TO CLOSE TONIGHT Pageant and Banquet to Mark End of Season at Y. W. C. A, Summer Retreat. Kamp Kahlert, the Y. W. C. A. Sum- mer camp on West River, will close for the season following a pageant at 4 o'clock this afternoon and a banquet tonight. ‘Today's pageant, depicting scenes in the history of Maryland, is the culmination of & week of enter- tainment at the camp, which has in- cluded a play, a Mardi Gras carnival with Miss Amy Veerhoff as queen; hikes, base ball games, Indian encamp- ments and a Colonial ball ‘The pageant today will be given in a natural amphitheater on the grounds, with the West River as a background. Every girl in camp, numbering about 100, will participate and invitations attend have been sent to every town in the vicinity. Relatives and friends of the campers are to make the trip to the camp this morning. to | the highway POTOMAG REGATTA President Signifies Intention of Being Spectator at Cup Race Next Month. Preside=t Hoover has signified his in- tention of being present as a smuwr at the Prelldent‘l Cup Regatta .G#ed Potomac purnm II 14 by lhe Chesapeake lnd Poto- | mac Power Boat Association, |to an announcenfent last nkhz by L. ‘gwden Leach, secretary of the associa- jon. 1 ‘There had been some doubt about the pruenee of lhetmdcnu‘t om to the isappearance from the ‘water hnrhon of the erstwhile )y-cht Mayflower. The | ever, will ‘see the power boat races for the cup he sponsors and others from the Coast Guard vessel Apache. Presi- dent atiended the two previ- ous regattas on the Mayflower. Regatta officials were highly elated at the decision of the Ptulden and hailed it as a mark of pletion of arrangements for the sale of reserved seats along the Potomac sea wall next to the Bpeedw-y. ‘These seats will go on sale tomorrow and will be sold on the basis of first come first served while they last. Application should be made to the offices of the Chesapeake and Potomac Power Boat Association in the Southern Building. ROAD CAMPAIGN WINS. Tuxedo Citizens See Success of Movement Started 2 Years Ago. Spectal Dispatch to The Star. TUXEDO, Md., September 7.—Fol- lowing two years of hard work the committee of Tuxedo citizens in charge of the drive for the permanent improve- ment of the Tuxedo road sees its work practically finished. The road is ap- proximately a mile and a half long and runs from the River road a thort dis- tance north of the Pennsylvania Rail- road Bridge to Cheverly, by way of Tuxedo. 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