Evening Star Newspaper, February 17, 1935, Page 6

NEDAL OF HONE GVENCONDR CAR Secrecy Veiled Award for Saving Three Men in Explosion. Announcement of the selection of ! Lieut. Comdr. Robert W. Cary, now gunnery officer aboard the battleship | Arizona, for promotion to commander | yesterday brought the fact to light' that he was recently awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for saving the lives of three men in an explosion aboard the San Diego 20 years ago. Last May, said the authorities, President Roosevelt presented the | Congressional Medal of Honor to| Lieut. Comdr. Cary. The deed for | which he was honored occurred Janu- ary 21, 1915, on the San Diego, when he was an ensign and observer on duty in the fire rooms. ] | Holds Doors Open. Ensign Cary was about to step through a door into an adjacent fire | room when the boilers exploded. En- sign Cary stopped and held open the doors, which were being closed elec- trically from the bridge and yelled to the men in the affected fire room to escape through these doors. Three‘ of them did. | “Ensign Cary's action most prob-‘ ably saved the lives of these men,” says the citation, made public today. “He held the doors probably a min- ute, with the escaping steam from the ruptured boilers around him. His example of coolness did much to keep the men in the fire room at their posts hauling fires, although five boilers in their immediate vicinity had exploded and boilers Nos. 1 and 3 4n No. 1 fire room, at which they were stationed, apparently had no water in them and were likely to explode at any instant.” Holder of Navy Cross. Lieut. Comdr. Cary’s World War service brought him the Navy Cross for additional heroism. On Novem- ber 7, 1918, the depth charges on the stern of the warship Sampson broke adrift in a heavy gale. They were thrown about so as to be a menace to the safety of the warship. An explosion threatened should the safety tork of one of the charges work loose. The lieutenant commander was executive officer of the vessel. Ac- companied by several enlisted men, he secured the depth charges, “working on the fantail when heavy seas were breaking over it. adding the danger of being washed overboard to that conected with the possible explosion of the depth charges,” the citation says. Lieut. Comdr. Cary is a native of Kansas City, Mo., where he was born on August 18, 1890. He came into the service in May, 1910, and recently commanded the destroyer U. S. S. Jacob Jones. LEWIS BACKS NEW DEAL Taxes on Property Will Not “Beg- | gar Anybody,” He Says. NEW YORK, February 16 (P)— United States Senator J. Hamilton | Lewis of Illinois declared today that | the present administration will im- | pose no taxes to “beggar anybody” ! and that “honest property will be hon- | estly protected.” | At a luncheon .of the National Democratic Club, the Senator in- dorsed the Senate's stand in disap- proval of United States participation in the League of Nations and the World Court, charging they are in- strumentalities of “hereditary rivals” among the nations of Europe. Lewis praised Postmaster General Farley and said Congress holds him In “highest esteem.” Hugged Out of $616. CHICAGO. February 16 (P).— Marion Farley, cashier of a Loop res- taurant. was hugged by a young man today and it cost her exactly $616.83. The young man accosted her as she left & Loop bank with the week’s pay roll, threw an arm around her and seized the money. He fled when Miss Farley screamed, but kept the money. EISEMAN'S | SEVENTH AND F iyl e - - - ! O’COATS " NOTHING DOWN — Pay $7.50 INMARCH E T _“!‘C In Hospital Case Apove: Miss Blannie Bennett, pharmacist, held yesterday for the accidental death by poison of Mrs. Ruth Loomis, hospital patient, photographed as she left the Dis- trict morgue. Below: Mrs. Cecilia Hollander, another victim of the alleged mis- take in labeling bottles, who is recovering. PHARMACIST HELD IN POISONING CASE: JURY TO BE CALLED (Continued From First Page.) had been given some injections, but was not told that it was formalde- hyde Under close questioning by Coroner MacDonald, Dr. Choisser said he heard that some irritant had been used, but that he was not told its nature. “Did Dr. Kane say anything to you about notifying the coroner and that things should be left for his ex- | amination?” asked Dr. MasDonald. “No. I don’t think so,” Dr. Choisser said, in answer to questioning by the coroner, that tissues from the body were taken to the fourth floor of the hospital and put in a solution of formaldehyde and water to preserve them. He said this was done after the request of Dr. Kane that they be kept in the operating room. Coroner MacDonald questioned the witness minutely as to the reason for placing the tissues in a formaldehyde solution, when there was a history of formaldehyde in the case. Dr. Chois- ser said he did not krow of that history when he put them there. He said such a method is in keeping with the hospital policy. Corrosive Condition Found. Dr. Choisser said he found a cor- rosive injury condition indicating colitis. He said, in answer to a question by the coroner, that the corrosive con- dition could have been caused by formaldehyde injections. Coroner MacDonald said after the hearing that formaldehyde is never used internally and that it is a highly caustic irritant. Dr. P. J. Murphy, deputy District coroner, who also performed an THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C.,” FEBRUARY 17, 1935—PART ONE. ANNUAL'Y' REVIEW IS TUESDAY NIGHT Program-Planning Will Fea- ture Conference—Ivan B. Rhodes to Speak. The annual review and program- planning conference of the Washing- ton Young Men's Christian Associa- | | tion will be held Tuesday night at the Central Y. M. C. A, Eighteenth and G streets, according to an an- nouncement by Leonard W. De Gast, general secretary. Ivan B. Rhodes, regional secretary of the National Y. M. C. A. Council, will discuss “The Y. M. C. A. and Its Relation to New Social Planning.” | Members of the Board of Managers, committees and departments of the | Y. M. C. A. will attend. Dinner Opening Feature, The conference will open with din- ner at 5:30 p.m. with James P. Schick, president of the Y. M. C. A, presiding. The purpose of the con- ference will be outlined by John Poole, general chairman. Other members of the Conference Committec are John L. Vandegrift, Fred M. Nettle- | | ship, Page McK. Etchison, Ralph W Foster, James C. Ingram, Mr. Schick | and Mr. De Gast. | Department activities will be re- viewed and future programs proposed by the following: Hugh A. Thrift, chairman of the Foreign Work Com- | mittee; Chairman Vandegrift of the Membership Committee, John W. Hardell, chairman of the House and Dormitory Commitee; Merritt O. Chance, chairman of the Religious Work Committee; George A. Lewis, chairman of the Educational We! | Committee; Charles E. Krey, cbair- man of the Boys’ Work Committee; W. C. Hanson, chairman of the Phy- sical Education Committee, and Mr. Schick, chairman of the Business and Finance Committee. Year Shows Record. | A preliminary summary of activi- | ties of the association during 1934 indicates the year was one of record | development. Complete reports will | be presented at the conference. Plans for adjusting the program and policies of the association to meet changing | social and economic conditions will | be discussed at the meeting BANQUET PLANS MADE Two floor shows, door prizes nnd:} dancing will feature the annual ban- quet of the Columbia Heights Busi- ness Men's Association tomorrow night at the Shoreham Hotel. The enter- tainment will be preceded by a short talk by Charles Hillegeist. The Banquet Committee is headed by Dr. W. V. Connors. Among the guests of honor will be Commissioner and Mrs. Melvin C. Hazen, Capt. Ira | Sheetz of the tenth precinct and Burd | W. Payne of the Citizens' Forum. autopsy, said the body showed signs of a strong irritant i Mrs. Loomis’ body was taken to Charlotte, N. C*, for burial Friday. Assistant _United States Attorney | Samuel F. Beach said last night the | case would be brought to the atten- | | tion of the grand jury this week. |TjeAsH GOLD | Like watches—diamonds—gold teeth d old discarded jewelry For over 50 years we have been buyinz old gold and pasing SPOT CASH Licensed by the U. 8 Government tr buv old rold. | | i | [{ 813 F STREET N. .l Hurt in Fall CHILD'S SKULL FRACTURED IN 20-FOOT DROP. JANET HANKINS, 20-month-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Hankins, 2560 University place, who late last night was in a critical condition in Children's Hospital after she had fallen 20 feet from the second floor of her home to a concrete basement entrance yesterday aftere noon. CHURCH OPENS SERIES OF BIBLE CONFERENCES 75 Sessions Planned by Southern Methodist Heads With Aid of Emory U. By the Assoclated Press. NASHVILLE, Tenn., February 16.— The Southern Methodist Board of Christian Education, in co-operation with Emory University of Atlanta, plans to conduct 75 Bible conferences at strategic centers in the South dur- ing the next several weeks. Several conferences already have | been opened. The Rev. M. Leo Rippy of Nashville, one of the divisional di- rectors of the Board of Christian Edu- cation of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, is acting as supervisor. Emory University has released four professors for six weeks each of free | service in teaching and lecturing at ; the conferences. 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But I cannot sey whether she is involved.” There were varying reports that in the Reichswehr and two cther men | were also on trial. | Hitler and Pilsudski to Meet. Meanwhile, diplomatic circles here said they had reports that Hitler'and | Marshal Joseph Pilsudski, former pre- mier and present war minister' of | Poland, would meet soon for heart-to- conversations, analagous to| those between Hitler and Premier | Mussolini_June 14, 1934. | The Wilhelmstrasse professed to know nothing about the report, but the denial at the Polish Embassy was considerably less positive. 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