Evening Star Newspaper, November 29, 1932, Page 17

TYPHUS RESEARCH | WORKER STRICKEN STUDYING DIGEASE Dr. Workman Third Member of Laboratory Staff to Contract Malady. TAKEN TO HOSPITAL IN SERIOUS CONDITION Health Service Aide Expected to Volunteer to Carry on Study of Virulent Fleas. Dr. Wililam G. Wcrkman, 401 Twenty-third street, was reported today serfously ill of typhus fever in Naval Hospital, as a result of his work with disease-carrying rat fleas at the Na- tional Institute of Health. Dr. Workman is the third of the laboratory staff to become a victim of this dreaded disease in the course of experiments which, during the last two years, have brought about some of the most noteworthy medical discoveries of this generation. He was the assistant to Dr. Rolla E. Dyer, assistant director of the institute, who last month was-at the point of death with the disease after being infected Wwith one of the especially virulent fleas with which he was working in an effort to produce a vaccine. Experiments Continued. After a few days in a semi-delirium Dr. Dyer'’s mind cleared amsl he recog- nized that his own misfortune might be fortuitous in clearing up one ob- scure point in the etiology of the dis- ease. He at once sent for Dr. Workman and ordered that some uninfected fleas § DR. WILLIAM G. WO §13,181 MORE GIVEN INCHEST CAMPAIGN Week End Contributions Bring Total to Date Up to $1,849,197. REKMAN. ‘Week end contributions to the Com- munity Chest have added more than $13,000 to the total today by Elwood Street, Chest director. Most of the money, it is reported, has come in through continued solicitation in the Gvernment service, the Federal employes’ contributions totaling $12,- 051.72, The exact amount reported was $13.181.98, which, added to the previ- ously reported $1.886,015.32, brought the Chest's total to date to $1,849,197.30. The remainder of the added subscrip- tions was made up of 73 donations re- ceived by workers for the Metropolitan Unit, bringing in $1,130.25. be placed on his body. After that Dr. ‘Workman visited his chief daily to ob- serve the progress of the experiment. Meanwhile he continued Dr. Dyer's ex- periments in the laboratory. during this period, it is believed, that he, himself, received the infection re- sulting in his present illness. The indications are, it was said at the Public Health Service today, that Dr. Workman's misfortune may 'make it possible to establish another link in the chain. The experiments with Dr. Dyer failed to establish anything and it ‘.‘:uproblbu that Workman will volun- The disease is the “endemic typhus,” which is confined to the United tes, and which differs slightly from the so- called “jail fever” of the Old World, which 15 known to be spread by human body lice. Whil: the Old World form is prevalent in crowded and insanitary environments, such as slums and army camps, the American form tended to occur in spotlessly homes, where _human lice weremout of the question. i i Carried by Rat Fleas. After a long-continued investigation, Dr. Dyer established two years ago that Campaign Continued. Chest President E. C. Graham today reiterated that the Chest campaign is ot ended and will not be ended until He said: “We are greatly pleased with the splendid showing made, especially by the government unit, over the week end. Somehow I canhot seem to con- sider the 1033 campaign of the Chest as_ended, and it looks to me as if this splendid group of citizens in the various Government departments have some- what the same idea. “I still feel as if Washington could and should fill the Chest up to its mini- mum needs for the care of 63 organiza- tions d the coming year. I know that if we could get every person who has not given or who has not given as much as he should to come with us to the reception rooms of the Associated Charities or the Catholic Charities or brew Relief Society, where they could | see the disastrous effect the recent cold snap has had on the poor of our city, that they would open their hearts and their pocketbooks, and the Chest would the endemic typhus was carried by rat |be filled. fleas. This was demonstrated by ex- periments on guinea pigs. The same effects were produced by the fleas as by inoculations from human patients. Dr. Dyer and Dr. Workman then went to work to produce a protective vaccine, ‘working on the same principle as had been followed successfully in preventing the somewhat similar Rocky Mountain spotted fever. This vaccine was to be | made from the ground-up bodies of in- fected fleas. Some success was achieved | with guinea pigs just before Dr. Dyer | became ill, but the vaccine still was far | from the stage where it could be us~d | with human beings. A weak link in the chain is the point as to whether a rat flea actually can acquire the disease by biting a human victim and then transmit it to another, or to an experimental animal. This was the point which Dr. Workman tried to clear up last month. with indifferent success, with Dr. Dyer, on his sickbed, volunteering to be bitten. Another point to be cleared up was whether this disease might not also be transmitted by the body flea, like its old world relative. A thorough search wWas made by Pub- lice Health Service officers through the flop houses of Baltimore and Philadel- phia in an effort to find spme human fleas to place on Dr. Dyer's body. At this season nonc were to be found. ‘Workman, it is likely, will undergo the | £ame process with his chief changing places with him as the conductor of the experiment. Able to Visit Laboratory. Dr. Dyer is sufficiently recovered to visit his laboratory for a short time every day, but still is very weak. His iliness established in the minds of Pub- lic Health Service officers the convic- tion that endemic typhus is a much more serious condition than had been thought. Although extreme precautions are used in handling the virus-carrying fleas, three experimenters have been in- fected within a year. The first was Dr. W. E. Cedar, who contracted the dis- ease last Winter and now is thorou; recovered. Dr. Workman came to the National Institute of Health in 1931 after a period of Public Health Service train- ing at the Marine Hospital in Balti- ghly | “A Very Real Menace.” “This cold snap, which is merely a ‘spell of bracing weather’ to those of us with homes and warm clothing and plenty of food, is a very real.menace to our destitute fellow citizens who have only the limited amount of food, shelter and fuel that the charitable organiza- tions can provide. I shudder to think what would be happening in Washing- ton right now if it were not for the Community Chest. That is why I wish those who have not given or have not given enough, could stand by the re- ception desks of these agencies and join me in shuddering at the picture these throngs present. “T repeat again that the Chest needs every possible dollar it can obtain and that if any person willing to give has, by any chance, been overlooked, that person can still make a gift by calling at the nearest bank or by telephoning the Community Chest, which will send for his gift.” The Government unit contributions were divided as follows: Department of Commerce, 282 pledges amounting to $2,764.70; Department of the Interior, 331 pledges amounting to $1,333.75; Department of Justice, 8 pledges amounting to $410.86; Navy Department. 178 pledges amounting to $2,326.68; State Department, 8 pledges amounting to $164.43; Treasury De- partment, 116 pledges amounting to $1,109.15; War Department, 141 pledges amounting to $1,06145; Government Printing Office, 337 pledges amounting to $1,538.71; Veterans Administration, 34 pledges amounting to $307; United States Supreme Court, 4 pledges amounting to $35. Reporting that Chest contribution by the various branches of the District of Columbia were more than 61 per cent below their quota, Daniel J. Donovan, divisional chairman of the Chest cam- palgn organization in the municipal government, today issued an appeal for contributions. With a total of 9,297 employes, fig- ures issued today by Maj. Donovan, who also is District auditor, showed that only 6714 pledges had been made. Of the quota of $112,869, the report re- vealed that only $69,004.29 was pledged. Last year the District government em- ploves contributed $122,001.94 through more. He is a native of Beallville, Ohio, and is a graduate of Wooster College and the Ohio State Medical College. He 1s married and has one child. GALLERIES OF HOUSE WILL BE RESERVED Veteran Doorkeeper Discusses Plans 7or Ovening of Coming Ses- sion Monday. For the first time since Woodrow Wilson delivered his last message in person. to Congress, seats in the gal- leries of the House of Representatives will be reserved on the opening day of a short session of Congress, it was an- nounced today by Joe Sinnott, veteran Goorkeeper of the House, in discussing plans for the opening of the coming session on Monday. Admission to the galleries will be carefully safeguarded to prevent threat- ened demonstrations. it was cxplain=d All 594 available gallery seats will be reserved. “No ticl no admission.” Sinnott said today. “We don't usually reserve the seats on the opening day of the short sessions, but because of the in- terest mn the prohibition repeal propo- sition and the threatened invasion of Reds, we are not going to take any chances.” Each meber of Congress will be en- tled to one seat in galleries and one only, Sinnott said. Maj. Donovan &s divisional chairmen. Maj. Donovan pointed out that only 15 of the 55 departments or branches of the District government pledged their quotas and of this numbszer, he added. “eight are institutions under the Board of Public Welfare having emrluyea re- celving compensation in the lower sal- ary brackets.” Some of the reports were characterized as “extremely dis- appointing.” WASHINGTONIANS WIN MEDALS IN NICARAGUA Two Navy Enlisted Men From Na- tional Capital Given Awards of, Merit by Republic. ians_were included among three naval enlisted men Who have been on duty with the United States Marines in Nicaragua and have been awarded the Medal of Merit by that Republic Chief Pharmacist’s Mate Boyce Oren Salley, now on duty at the Naval Hos- pital, Parris Island, §. C., whose home address is 3033 Sixtesnth_ street. and Chief Pharmacist's Mate John Quincy Williams, now serving at the Naval Op- ereting Bace, Hampton Roads, Va. | whose local acdress is 437 Twelfth street southeast, were the Washington- ians honored In addition, Chief Pharmacist’s Mate Lee Franklin Curtis, now on duty at the San Diego, Calif., Naval Hospital, is the third naval enlisted man to receive the medal. Certificates granting the Medal of Merit have been signed President Moncada of Ni home is in Sen Diego, ‘Two Washingt 1, it was announced | t0 the Salvation Army or the United He- |Et icaragua. Curtis’ consin The WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, RAYSON T0 CALL |ADMITS ACCUSED ON ROOSEVELT TO | PAIR DID NOT FIRE PLAN INAGURATION| SHOT AT TEA HOUSE Tentative Program Unan- nounced Pending Approval of President-elect. CHAIRMAN WILL LEAVE FOR GEORGIA TOMORROW Democratic Advisory Committee Consider Festivities at Special Meeting Here Today. Plans for festivities attending the in- auguration of President-elect Roose- velt, on March 4, were being laid at a meeting this afternoon of the Demo- cratic Advisory Committee, at the Uni- versity Club. Meanwhile, Admiral Cary T. Grayson, chairman of the Inaugural Committee, was preparing to depart tomorrow for Warm Springs, Ga., where Gov. Roose- velt is resting after his arduous cam- paign, to confer with the President- elect on plans for the inaugural. Chairman Grayson today said there have been no definite plans set for the inaugural, and the final set-up of the affair is to rest largely upon the wishes of President-elect Roosevelt as voiced him in the forthcoming conference. Awaits Roosevelt Approval. Admiral Grayson said he has been studying former inaugurations and has chosen tentatively some of the features of previous affairs, but he is working out, for the most part, an original plan of procedure. The rought plans, which will be submitted to the President-elect for his approval, will not be divulged, he said, until the next President’s ap- proval is stamped upon them. Shortly after Admiral Grayson's re- turn from the South he will ‘set about establishing inaugural headquarters, probably in some downtown hotel, com- Plete the organization of his committee and get the plans in motion. Conway W. Cooke last night was named chairman of a new Democratic 1 l I | organization in the District, the Demo- | cratic Auxiliary Committee, which will aid in the in 1 set-up and take over many political activities hereto- fore taken before the Democratic Cen- tral Committee. Other Committee Officers. The committee will be charged with expansion of the list of absentee voters in the District and to handle all re- quests for aid in getting positions with e Government under the new admin- istration. Mrs. Lester J. Pollock has been named vice chairman and Miles V. Engelbach secretary-treasurer. e the Executive Committee are Nathan B. Williamson, chairman; Miss Taggart, C. C. Lowe, Ralph Cusick, Willilam " J. Crane, Mrs.’ Helen Griffin, Thomas E. Ott, Maurice E. Wentzell, Dr. Lewis Cassidy, Allen G. Thurman, 3d, and the officers. John T. Bramhall {5 chairman of the Advisory Commit- D. C. HEADS AGREE TO TAX INCREASES Commissioners Stand Pat, However, for Maintenance of Realty Impost Rate. While standing pat for maintenance of the $1.70 per $100 realty tax rate, the District Commissioners are receptive to the proposed increase in taxes on gaso- line and motor vehicles and the substi- tution of an income tax for the present intangible personal property tax. This has been indicated by Dr. Lu- ther Reichelderfer, chairman of the Board of Commissioners, who, with his two associatese, admits the necessity of somehow increasing the District’s rey- enue. ““The District must get additional rev- enue either from a larger Federal con- tribution or an increase in certain taxes and *he prospects are none too good for the former,” Dr. Reichelderfer told newspaper men. Continuing, Dr. Reichelderfer de- clared that neithei he nor Maj. John C. Gotwals, Engineer Commissioner, nor Maj. Gen. Herbert Crosby, his as- sociates on the Board of Commissioners, had given any thought to an increase in the real estate tax. This, the three District heads hold, is an adequate share of the city’s municipal expense for property owners to carry. He indi- cated, however, that a revision of the motor tax schedule with an assessment based on the weight and horsepower of the vehicles would be acceptable. Such a system would result in increased in- come for the District. Likewise, Dr. Reichelderfer said that an addition of 1 cent per gallon on the present gasoline tax would result in an additional $700,000 revenue. e IMPROVED EMPLOYMENT AND BUSINESS REPORTED TU. 8. Review Points Out Expansion in Coal Mining and Textile Mill Operations. Improved business and employment conditions in several major industries were reported today in the monthly review of the United State Employ- ment Service. It pointed to expan- sion in coal mining and a decided up- ward trend in textile mill operations as among the encouraging factors. “A digest of the industrial employ- ment reports of the various States re- cefved by the United States Employ- ment Service for October,” said the announcement, “reveals that the im- provement in’ employment which ob- tained during the preceding three months was well maintained. An en- couraging feature was the further in- crease to forces that occurred in sev- eral of the major industries. “Federal ald and State and county highway construction continued as the means of employment for large forces of men. The volume of private and commercial building decreased some- what as compared with the September level.” TELEPHONE ‘OPEN HOUSE’ ! Featured Tonight at Bradley-Wis- consin Central Office. A telephone “open house” will be held wnum.e nlnd tomorrow night at the by | Bradley-Wisconsin Central Offices, Wis- avenue and Standford street, from 7 to 10 p.m. i Foening Star WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Special Prosecutor, However, Says State Expects to Prove They Plotted Hold-up. WITNESSES NOT PRESENT DURING TALK TO JURY Questioning of Talesmen Indicates Death Penalty Will Be Asked. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. LA PLATA, Md., November 29.—Neith- er John Wallace nor James Zalenski who went on trial in the Charles County Circuit Court here today for first de- gree murder in the Old Colonial Tea House shooting of more than a year ago, fired the shot that killed Grover Amick, Washington filling station at- tendant, Special Prosecutor Frank M. Hall admitted in his opening statement to the jury. The State expects to prove, however, Hall declared, that both Wallace and Zalenski also known as “Jimmy Buns,” plotted the hold-up that resulted in the killing. Under the Maryland law, the special prosecutor pointed out, any slaying committed in connection with a felony constitutes first degree murder, whether the killing itself is premedi- tated or not, Jury Is Selected. Hall began the opening address for the prosecution immediately after se- lection of 2 jury., which required more than an hour. The jury follows: Francis E. Wheatley, foreman: Frank V. Cooksey, Thomas R. Norris, John R. Marshall, J. Thomas Bowling, Willlam R. Nalley, Leon Bailey, Jefferson D. Robertson, Wallace S. Barnes, Austin Simms, Ernest W. Wedding and Gus- tave Owen. Before Hall began his opening state- ment, John Mudd, one of the four defense attorneys, made a motion for exclusion of all witnesses until after completion of the opening remarks. Judge William M. Loker, presiding with Judge Joseph C. Mattingly, ordered the State witnesses to retire to the law library and the defense witnesses to the grand jury room. Hall told the jury the State expects to prove that Wallace, a few weeks be- fore the shooting, in which five persons were wounded, took two young women from Philadelphia to the tea house, which he described as a disreputable resort. On November 23, 1931, the night of the shooting, the special prosecutor sald, Wallace, Zalenski and four Phila- delphia gangsters went to Bladensburg for the express purpose of holding up Charles (Doggie) Leavitt, proprietor. ‘The opening address for the State was made by J. Wilson Ryon, who told the jury that he would prove that neither Wallace nor Zalenski had any connection with the shooting. Judge Questions Jurors. Indication that the prosecution under the direction of State's Attorney Alan Bowie of Prince Georges County would seek the death penalty was given when Judge Loker questioned all prospective jurors as to their views on capital Ppunishment. ‘Thomas Simone, wounded in the gun battle in which' Amick was killed in the Bladensburg resort on No- vember 23, 1931, was expected to be one of the first witnesses called. As the trial opened it was rumored that Simone, also under indictment in the slaying, would appear as a State wit- ness. Officlals declined to confirm this report, however. Simone bas never been arraigned and has no-attorney of record. ‘Wallace and Zalenski were scheduled to be tried in the Prince Georges County Circuit Court last November 3, but the case was removed to La Plata on a change of venue obtained by their at- torneys, Paul Mules and J. Wilson Ryon. The defense has since been aug- mented by Attorneys John Mudd and State Senator Walter J. Mitchell. Bowie is being assisted in the prosecution by Hall and Edward J. Edelen, Charles County State's attorney. UNIDENTIFIED MAN SAVES BABY FROM PORCH FIRE | Child Carried to Safety by Passer- by, Who Turns In Alarm and Goes on His Way. An unidentified man, who happened to be passing the home of Joseph Amato, 915 Decatur street, yesterday afternoon, saw flames sweeping acrogs the front porch toward a baby carriage and rushed to the scene just in time to carry a 7-week-old child to safety. The girl's mother, Mrs. Helen Amato. was upstairs in the house when alcohol cleaning fluid with which George Young, colored, was working on the porch exploded and caught fire. Young was treated at Freedmen's Hospital for burns of the hands and arms. The unknown rescuer, after he had carried the baby to safety, ran to turn in the fire alarm. Considerable dam- age was done to the house by the flames. NOVEMBER 29, live while Mr. Garner is Vice President. ICE PESIDENT - ELECT AND ‘ ) MRS. GARNER have just moved into a luxurious suite, with larg: drawing room and private dining room, two baths and telephone extensions galore, espe- clally remodeled for them during the Summer recess, at the Washington Hotel. All through the last session the simple-living Garners were quite con- tent with a smaller suite with no din- ing room. Often they took their meals, by preference, in the hotel’s coffee shop. When they went to a reception at the ‘White House, just across the Treasury grounds, they rode in a taxicab and walked back, for Speaker Garner re- fused an official car. 1932. The Vice President-Elect’s New Home GARNERS MOVE INTO LUXURIOUS HOTEL SUITE. The living room in the luxurious new suite in the Washingtcn Hotel where Speaker Garner and Mrs. Garner will —Star Staff Photo. But furniture done in old ivory, green brocade and ca: | the tread have taken their place in the | busy days of the Garners, indications of the social prestige which goes with the vice presidency. Their seventh-floor windows look out upon Sherman Park and the Mall be- yond, the Treasury facade and Fif- teenth street, along which the inaugural parade will pass. In the new suite of this same hotel the Garners expect to spend his entire tenure in the vice presidency. “We're home lovers,” said Mrs. Gar- ner, “and we like to stay in the place where we know everybody from the bell | hops to the manager.” Upon the piano she placed framed photographs of her son Tully and his pretty wife, and her granddaughter rpets soft to| Genevieve. Mrs. Garner's famous coffee perco- lator, the handsome one given her by Representative Kleberg, which bubbled in her Capitol office all last session, has disappeared. For several days after arriving from Texas, Mrs. Garner was too busy to make her customary coffee. And when today's brisk weather brought tantalizing thought of hot cof- PAGE B—1 UNITY ON FUTURE [OF AIRPORT SOUGHT BY PLANNING BOARD Bill Authorizing Lease Chief Subject Listed at Afternoon Meeting. Is HOUSE MEMBER TO ASK FOR EARLY HEARING Probability of Developing Gravelly Point Is Among Questions to Be Taken Up. The future of the Washington Airport formed the subject cf a conference being held this afternoon at the head- quarters of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission. The kernel of the discussion was the bill introduced in the last session of Congress by Representative McMillan, Democrat, of Scuth Carolina, to author- ize the Department of Commerce to lease the Washington-Hoover Airport with the option of purchasing and op- eration by the department’s aeronautics branch. The agenda for this afternoon’s pro- gram called for a thorough discussion of the whole situation and what can be done about it—embracing the future of the Department of Agriculture's ex- perimental farm at Arlington, Va., the Dproblem of eliminating Military road, Wwhich now separates the two existing airports; the probability of developing Gravelly Point as an airport, and other related questions. Two o'clock was set as the hour for assembling. fee, Mrs. Garner hunted high and low, but no percolator could she find. Gone, too, was the pendulum on the clock, and the electric cord from the pressing_iron. Mrs. Garner suspects souvenir hunt- ers were at work during the Summer. LOCAL LEGISLATION NEARS CONSIDERING District Program Likely to Take Shape With Cap- per’s Return, With the return to Washington this evening of Chairman Capper of the ! Senate District Commillee.“}h;e prngn:‘ngz f local legislation likely consid- ?\‘Bd duflng“:’he short session will begin to_take shape. The committee still has before it a number of House measures including the Mapes bills which seek to put sev- eral new forms of taxation on District residents with a view to holding down the Pederal share in the expenses of the National Capital. The final report of the Bureau of Efficiency on one of these bills, dealing with the basic sub- ject of fiscal relations, is due to be re- celved by the committee some time next week. Chairman Capper will arrive in time to take part in the resumption of hear- | ings on the rent situation in Wash- ington before a Senate subcommittee at 10:30 am. tomorrow. WIFE SEEKS DIVORCE Brentwood Woman Files Suit in Upper Marlboro Court. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md., November 29.—Claiming her husband used $150 of her money to buy a diamond ring and never told her about it, Mrs. Mar- tha W. Lambath of Brentwood yester- day filed suit in Circuit Court for a limited divorce from Elmer Lambath of the 800 block of Thirteenth street, Washington. The wife also alleges “indifferent and cruel conduct” and desertion in her bill of complaint filed through _Attorney Robert W. McCullough. The Lambaths were married in Washington, March 5, | 1930, by Rev. Clarence True Wilson! | They have no children. Mrs. Lambath also requests permission to resume her maiden name. TWO THEFTS REPORTED Apartment Dweller Loses 8$12. Naval Officer Robbed. Thomas Alias, occupant of an apart- ment on the third floor of a house in the 1000 block of I street, reported to the police today that he was grabbed | by two men in the hallway on the sec- ond floor of the I street house nbout‘ 1:30 o'clock this morning and robbed of $12. Lieut. Charles M. Huntington, U. S.| N., Naval Afr Station, reported loss of a | bag containing clothing, pistol, aviator’s license and other property from his car at Tenth and C streets. PAINTED WARRIORS HOLD GROUND AS EXHIBITORS ENGAGE IN BATTLE Police Intervene as Owner Attempts to Repossess Pantheon de la Guerre. Heroes of the World War are still| standing their ground in mute triumph in the Pantheon de la Guerre today after a realistic battle to dislodge them from the local sector that began right in sight of the trenches last evening and was continuing today in a lawyer's A raid on the Pantheon's outposts was partially successful, however, the outer works being taken by delivery truckmen from New York before rein- forcements from the Police Department and United States attorney’s office ar- rived on the scene with a howl of sirens and screeching brakes. It all began when Alexandre Pincus of Paris, France, who says he is owner of the huge World War panoramic pamnting on display in the Panorama Building, New Jersey avenue and D street, stormed the art exhibit with a corps of lawyers and other assistants in an unheralded effort to take pos- session of it for alleged “breach of contract.” K~ SO P » b to prevent of the exposi- tion and then called Harry Crandall, who placed the Pantheon on exhibi- | tion here. Crandall called his attorney. | Alvin Neumyer, and Neumyer called police and prosecutors. Most of this group converged on the building at the same time. Assistant United States Attorney Michael Keogh and Police Inspector James Beckett aided in bringing about an armistice between the opposing fac- tions, who agreed to meet today in Neumyer’s office and mediate their dif- ferences. , Inspector Beckett said the matter ap- peared to be one for legal adjustment by arbitration or civil litigation. He was toid, he said, that a moving van carried away 386 valuable paintings from the reception lobby before police arrived. He said Pincus charged that Crandall had to purchase the exhibit but was tWo months in arrears |Loon Caught in Net On Reflecting Pool Here, Is Only One of Kind in Park. ‘The National Zoological Park today acquired a loon, rescued yesterday afternoon from the ice in the reflecting pool of the Lincoln Memorial. It is now the only loon in the Zoo, ‘The bird, which naturalists said is | seldom seen in this section of the % try, was captured jwith a net by N. Hoffman, naturalist of the parks di- vision of the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks. Several persons called headquartersof the United States Park Police and the parks division, complaining that the loon was eating fish in the reflecting pool. ‘The loon is & young one, measuring three feet from tip to tail, and is in good health. Only the fact that the bird requires lo: stretches of open water to take off in flight—and was prevented by the frozen cections of the pool—enabled Mr. Hoffman to capture it. He explained that the loon was an able diver and for a time eluded his | efforts. PHONE REVENUES SHOW DROP HERE Report -to Utilities: Commis- sion Reveals $64,096 Decline in Net. The Chesapeake & Potomac Tele- phone Co.'s net operating revenue for | October was $64,096 less than October, 1931, the report of operations filed with the Public Utilities Commission today showed. The net operating revenue for October, the report showed, totaled $222,639, while last year for the same month it was $286,735. The net operating revenues for the first 10 months of the year now stand nlt {%fi.us less than the first 10 months of . The number of telephone calls made in October of this year represents a decrease of 20,000 over last year, with 19,357,000 calls made in October, 1932, | and 19,337,000 in October 1931. On a 10-month_basis, the figures show the | company handled 191,370,000 calls from | January to October this year, while last | year it handled 181,664,000. Lower net earnings, together with a larger amount of plant in service, re- duced the annual rate of net earnings’ in relation to the average plant in service to 5.86 per cent for the first 10 months of 1932. For October alone this figure was 5.35. The report shows the total plant in service at the end of October amount- ed to $33,262,458, compared with $30,- 963,828 for the same date last year, rep- resenting an increase of $2,298,630. The increase, John A. Remon, general manager of the company, explained, re- flects a substantial program carried on during the past year to meet telephone service requirements adequately, . The total gross income for October of this year was $158,418, compared with $248,508 of a year ago. With de- | ductions totaling $32.943. the balance | before payment of dividends last month | stood at $125470. The deductions in- cluded $56,827 in taxes this October, hile & year ago the same item totaled $63,987. RED MEN IN SESSION Instructress' of Degree of Poco- hontas Visits Order Here. About 150 members of the Improved Order of Red Men and of the Degree of Pocahontas were meeting today at Pythian Temple, 1012 Ninth street, for the annual visitation of Mrs. Cleada E. Horne, great instructress of the Degree of P tas to Waneta Council of the organization. Among the out-of-town visitors are Worthington P. Wachter, Hagerstown, in_payments. Neumyer explained today that Cran-, t Incohonee of the Red F. Stetser, tional WYNNE STRESSES Preseted to oo (ST OF DISEASE Waterfowl, Seldom Seen | {New York Health Commis- sioner Cites Dangers to So- ciety From Tuberculosis. The dangers of permitting economic war on disease were emphasized last night by Dr. Shirley W. Wynne, com- missioner of health of New York City, who spoke at the annual meting of the Washington Tuberculosis Association in the United States Chamber of Commerce Building. Earlier in the evening Dr. Wynne lgg broadcast his address from Station " Points Out Cost. “It is cheaper,” he said, “for the community to spend $2.50 to detect a case of tuberculosis early when the disease can be cured in from six to nine months than to wait until it has progressed into its final stages. Then the patient has to be taken care of for several years, and, if he happens to be the breadwinner, his family also. Sometimes the disease is communicated to other members of the family, and they, too, must receive support from the community.” Other speakers included Surg. Gen. Hugh §. Cumming of the United States Public Health Service; George A. Hast- ings, director of the White House Con- ference on Child Health and Protection, and Otto Wadsted, Minister from Denmark. Mr. Hastings stressed the necessity of buying Christmas seals and the Dan- ish Minister told how the seal idea originated in his country. Directors Re-elected. The following five directors of the Tuberculosis Association were re-elected: Dr. William C. Fowler, health officer; Dr. John R. Mohler, chief Buseau of Animal Industry; Willard C. Smith, chief Bureau of Vital Statistics of the Census Bureau; Senator Arthur Capper, and George S. Wilson, director of Pub- lic Welfare. One new director was elected, Dr. C. Willard Camalier, presi- dent National Association of Dental Ex- aminers. Prior to the public meeting Dr. Wynne was entertained at dinner at the Hay- Adams by a small group of the associa- tion directors and friends. ALL-NIGHT TRAFFIC LIGHTS SOUGHT ANEW Trinidad Citizens Criticize Van Duzer for Disregarding As- sociation's Request. Traffic Director William A. Van Duzer was criticized by the Trinidad Citizens’ Association last night for fail- ing to heed the request of the associa- tion made last month to operate traffic lights in that section all night. The association again requested a survey by the Traffic Department. Sev- eral intersections pcinted out as par- ticularly dangerous are North Capitol and K streets, Eckington place and Florida avenue, Eighth and H streets and Twelfth and Florida avenue, all in the Northeast section of the city. It was pointed out by the association that if their request had been heeded many accidents might possibly have been avcided, one in which the son of & member of the association was killed, An inspection and tightening up of the traffic regulations at and near the intersection of Twentieth and Benning road northeast was asked. The association also voted its ap- proval of keeping street lights illum- inated later each morning than they now are. An extension of the paved sidewalk from Florida avenue and Sixth street northeast, west to the viaduct was re- by the association. conditions to interfere with society's, Representative McMillan's office said he proposes to ask the Commiitee on Public Buildings and Grounds, before which his measure is pending, for a hearing on the bill as soon as Conzress assembles. Bingham Measure Pending. A measure by Senator Bingham, Re- publican, of Connecticut is pending be- fore the District Committee, but,- while the District Commissioners expressed themselves as favorable to a municipal airport, they presented a letter from the Bureau of the Budget asserting that expenditure of funds for this purpose at this time would be contrary to the President’s fiscal policy. Charles W. ot, 2d, director of planning of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, was ready to tell this afternoon’s gatheéring that his organization has always been in favor of Gravelly Point as the location of Washington's airport, but that it has thought & combination of the Washing- ton-Hoover Airport might be a tempo- rary solution of the problem. In con- structing the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway the Bureau of Public Roads of the Department of Agriculture built g.undemss to give access to the pro- éd future airport at Gravelly Point. Figures for estimates on the construc- tion of Gravelly Point airport, as well as for improvement of the Washington- Hoover Airport. have been prepared by the United States Engineer Office. Maj, Joseph D. Arthur, jr, District engineer for the War Department for the Wash- ington area, wiy probably would aid in constructing Gravelly Point as an air- port by doing the hydraulic pipe-line . by pumping up sand and gravel from the adjacent bed of the Potomac River, to make the airport & reality, was prepared to attend this aft« ernoon’s session. E. A. Schmitt, engineer in Maj. Arthur’s office, will lay the estimates before the gathering and explain them, United Front Is Hoped. Out of this afterncon's discussion, in which a. variety of interest is partici- pating, the commission hopes to go be- fore Congress with a united front of ale lied interests and tell the National Legislators exactly what the component agencies desire for future civil air de= velopment in the metropolitan region. Invited to attend this afternoon’s session were A. Pendleton Taliaferro, jr., representing the aeronautics branch of the Department of Commerce; a repre- sentative of Bolling Field and of the Anacostia Naval Air Station, a repre- sentative of the general staff of the War Department, Maj. Arthur and Mr. Schmitt, representing the District En- gineer office; representatives of the Dis- trict government, Rear Admiral Wil- liam A. Moflett, chief of the Navy Bu~- reau of Acronautics: a representative of the Bureau of Flant Industry, De- partment of Agriculture, which super= vises the Arlington Experimental Farm; Tepresentatives of the Aviation Com< mittees of the Washington Board of Trade and Washington Chamber of Commerce, Roy S. Braden, Arlington County manager; Frank Russell, repre= sentative of Federal Aviation Corpora= tion, owners of Washington Airport; Licut. Col. U. 8. Grant, 3d, director of public buildings and public parks and executive officer of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission; Mr. Eliot and Capt. E. N. Chisolm, jr., the commission’s engineer. DRY LAW HELD FAILURE quested George J. Cleary, president of the group, presided at the meeting, held in the Wheatley Scheol, 1213 Montello avenue northeast. Benefit Drama Planned. i Miss Marjorie Webster will present her version of Channing Pollock’s t, | dramatization, “The Fool,” in the Wal- Memorial TUnited Iace Presbyterian Church at 8 Friday. She will be assisted by ceeds will go to charity, BY SPEAKER AT FAIRFAX Former Kentucky Governor Ade dresses Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform. Special Dispatch to The Star. FAIRFAX, Va, November 29— Terming the eighteenth amendment “the most miserable failure that ever characterized any law passed by any people at any time,” Edward P. Mor= row, former Governor of Kentucky, last night addressed 2 mass meeting in the court house called by the Fairfax Chapter, Virginia Branch, Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform. Mrs. George Sloan, State secretary, from Warrenton, after a review of the systems in force in other countries, made a plea for a return to States' rights, and law and order, and called on citizens to elect men to the next House of Delegates and State Senate who are pledged to vote for repeal. Mrs. Julian Keith of Warrenton, Stale president, deplored the effect of the law on the young people. EDDIE BURL ARRESTED Boxer and Manager Held on Re- quest of Baltimore Police. Eddie Burl, 23, boxer, and his man- | eger, Edward E. Cole, 36. both of Jack- sonville, Fla., were arrested this morn- ing for Baltimore police, who want them for leaving the city with board bills unpaid. Burl, who fought Benny Schwartz in the main bout at Portner's Arena, in Alexandria last night, is alleged to owe 824, They waived hearing und wers vo . were to