Evening Star Newspaper, July 1, 1931, Page 32

SURGEUNS DISCUSS - LEADING DISEASES American Association Told of Advances in Combating Heart and Cancer Ailments. By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, July 1.—Members of the American Surgical Association met today in the concluding sessions of their annual convention to hear lectures on a wide variety of subjects Papers of & highly technical nature were prepared on the surgery of the spleen, the actlon of salt oh the intes- tinal tract, tuberculosis of the esophagus and one giving a comparison of surgical and medical treatment on 300 patients with gall bladder disease. Mayo Discusses X-Ray. Into the bankruptcy record of Swart- zell, Rheem & Henséy Co, yesterday was written the tragic st of a Syrian ped- dler who threw in his lot with Edmuni D. Rheem and rose from obscure pov- erty to fabulous paper fiches, only to lose it all when the real estate market crashed. A. Joseph Howar came to this coun- try from Syria at the time of the St. Louis Fair. He was penniless and with- out education or friends. After the fair he came to Washing- ton and got his first job—digging ditches along Pennsylvania avenue for $2 a day. He went from there into a restaurant as a dish washer and finally emerged as a peddler of old laces and household THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY, JULY I 19:h SYRIAN PEDDLER WINS FORTUNE, BUT REALTY CRASH BRINGS RUIN Earnings Left With Rheem as Huge Profits Rolled In, Howar Tells at Bank- ruptey Hearing. out the city and built up a wide ac- quaintanceship. After sever: a peddler, hz o ot % street and live above it. Tried Bigger Things. Howar saved his money and.in 1921 decided to try his hand at bigger things. With an architect named Frank White, he went to the office of Swart- zell, Rheem & Hensey Co.. where he had his first meeting with Rheem. He built and sold three buildings, netting a profit of $69,000. This he deposited with the company in an open account. From that timeé he pluriged hard, alone in & room ed & shop on F|to dpartments and office bufldings. . g uncomfortably under the legally credi htased of counsel for ), Hmmly disclaimed IIK knowledgé of finance and stid he 161t all such matters in Rheem's hands. “T trusted with é had in thé wo{ .” he said; “ houre him Almoét as I did God.” Hovar ‘Whet the midrket began to weakén, $4ld, it was to Rheem he.turned s Rélp and advice, He told of one réfinancing g::ject in 'hm 275,000 trust wid rél and s X trust substituted. Trusted Rheem's Judgment. “Where did you think the money was coming from to take care of the note- holders under the larger trust?” At- riéy Géorge Sulllvan asked. “I didn't know,” Howar answered. “I £ on the nothing. owned it.” e PALAIS ROYAL suj sed Mr. Rheem L] n(p?“h- would take care He told of another instance whe Rheem traded for him $60,000 in Iecé ond -trust notes for-a plece nf propérty on Rhode Island avenue northeast! After ascértaining that there was property, Sullivan aske WhetHer he recelved any rent from “:u.' ¥re latter replied, “I received “There was an old preacher th e o $he' Tt e e live in the housé free as long as Howar was called as a witness be- cause of his business dealings through Rheem and because the trustees lly“fw new owes the company ahout $182,000. All efforts to discover any assets of his however, which might be taken as prop- éfty of the bankrupt wére futile. OFFICERS ARE RETIRED [Guard. in which he held the rank of 't the hearing Howar told a re- major in the 3rd Infantry for seve he lost everyt! hé bad wh . hing' 14 bad when| BECAYSE OF DISABILITY |IoTiamsof 1 iia war he derved 3 "’"'1" hued.l S en Any can tell you, " he #dded, Infantry in the National Army. Sin that'T wish.I'd stuck*td peddiing.” then he has served in the anu{nr 5,,5! E ice in various parts of thé country and et il Oalway Votes for. Boyeott. les | recently was stationed at Houston &# instructor of it G . - ctor of the Texas National Guard. Th boycott against B | Notthern Ireland, #6088 Sheuld bé re- = imposed in the South of Treiand, as & | Okia’ MAKE YOUR HOME reprisal ces ent (st A e., A pt. Winfred| COOL . . . ATTRACTIVE paseéd on republicans reesnily in the | Houghton, O t Port Bliss, Tex., North, was voted unanimous y by the | have been (canstérred t uu’ii'fi'n} Tt WITH OUR AWNINGS k. oy | iy i3 Tour awhies s og the a Maj. McCathran is & native of the | it ' the imprisonment «of Liam K h | Capital i S o ek thg . m‘;‘mfi pital and before his appointment to | color effects in ines. the A as 4 ! Infy Sticeney and Thomas MeGrath fof pos. | July. 1950, was promincatiy idencined | CORNELL WALL PAPER CO. g republican literature. 714 13th St. Natl. 6708-6709 Hiving been found cally dis- A ure, rmaster fps, at Marte, Tex Ms{, Wallach n Medathe an, '\ H H. Harvey, Infantr: 5d_Ca a uq‘!{ with' the District of Columbia National At 8 AM G STREET AT ELEVENTH TELEPHONE DISTRICT 4400 - Great Pre-Holiday Sale! 300 Men’s and Young Men’s New Summer Suits Sale Starts Dr. Willlam J. Mayo, Rochester, Minn., addressing the group yesterday, paid tribute to the part X-rays and other forms of endoscopic examinations | N play in the better knowledge of disease in the early stages. He said the most significant fact in the 41 years of work he reviewed was the change from sur- gery controlled by “gross pathology” to surgery based on physiology. Dr. William D. Haggard, Nashville, Tenn., former president of the Ameri- can Medical Association, said that the medical world's combat against thé three greatest ailments of man, heart| disease, pneumonia and cancer, 18| either successful or showing satisfac- | tory results. Surgery Leads Cancer Cures. Surgery remains the only hope for| conqtiering cancer, he said, with X-ray | and radium playing an auxiliary part. | Among those to give lectures today | were Drs. John Pemberton, Rochester, | Minn.; Frank K. Boland, Atlanta; J. Tate Mason, Seattle; Thomas G. O, | Kansas City; John Staige Davis, Bal- timore; Frank Torek, New York: Francis A. C. Scringer, Montreal, and | John J. Morton, Rochester, N. Y. i DRY AGENT KILLS MAN DURING ARREST Suspected Bootlegger Opens Hre! on Officers—One Returns Shots. goods borrowing many hundreds of tho In this ;u ¢ more apacity he traveled through- 'of dollars and bullding a score 6r more FIRST ANNUAL CLEARANCE SALE of TRADED CARS The month of June has been the largest in our history. ‘Washingtonians have bought so many new Free-Wheel- ing 8tudebakers that we have more guaranteed traded cars on hand than we want. Therefore, in order to immediately clear our stock to take care of future business, we have drastically priced every traded car far below its actual value. Auburns — Buicks — Fords — Chevrolets — Nashes — Packards — Pierce-Arrows — Studebakers—almost every make at BARGAIN PRICES Last ‘Friday in The Star we described 24 cars in detail, every one of them guaranteed and a most unusual value. Many of these and other guaranteed traded cars are awaiting your inspection. Remember, this sale will be over Friday, July 3d, when they will again be marked up to their former prices. Until Friday both show rooms, 2155 Champlain street (above V near 18th) and 1132 Connecticut ave. (opposite the Mayflower), are being devoted to this clear-away sale. Over 50 Cars from §$50 to $2,450 - Now is the time to get a good guaran- téed Traded Car for the Fourth of July trip and for the summer that's still ahead. Enjoy the great outdoors for the lowest investmeént in good trans- portation—now ! By the Associated Press WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. July 1. —A suspected bootlegger was fatally wounded here in a pistol fight with | a Federal prohibition agent in dis- guise who engaged two cases of liquor from him and then tried to arrest him after its delivery. The agent, Neil Evans of Jacksonville, and another officer, L. J. Jenkins, also of Jacksonville, said they bargained | with W. E. Griffin for the liquor and he delivered it in an untnmoblle.d 5 When they disclosed their identity. they said, Griffin_drew a revolver and CAR PLEDGE started shooting. Evans fired four shots 1. Evers Traded Car is con- in return. One bullet penetrated Grif- shicdously marked with its fin's head. Jenkins did not fire. | Ll N i Evans was placed under technical ar- rest and placed in custody of T. M.| Enright, chief of the prohibition office There Coroner T. M. Richards said an in- quest will be held Friday. 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