Evening Star Newspaper, February 24, 1935, Page 20

WOMAN IS HELD INHIT-RUN DEATH Tears Follow Coroner’s Ver- dict in Case of F. K. Trued- ley, Educator, 81. . Mrs. Mary K. Meredith, 28, a wait- ress, of the 800 block of Varnum street, yesterday afternoon was held for grand jury action by a coroner’s jury before which she was identified as the alleged hit-and-run motorist whose automobile Wednesday night struck and fatally injured Frederick K. Truedley, 81-year-old educator of 820 Connecticut avenue. The accident was in the 1300 block of Pennsylvania avenue. Truedley died Thursday night in Emergency Hospital. Mrs. Meredith was arrested by Po- lceman M. B. Novotny, Traffic Bu- reau, at Fourteenth and G streets, where her automobile was pointed out to him by Alvin G. Williams, 24, a taxicab driver, who claimed to have followed the machine in his cab. Defendant in Tears, ‘The inquest was marked by sharp questioning of witnesses by attorneys for Mrs. Meredith. After the inquest | the latter broke into tears when pho- tographers tried to take her picture as she came from the inquest room to the waiting room. Coroner A. Ma- gruder MacDonald, upon request of attorneys, forbade photographers to take pictures in the inquest room while the hearing was in progress. Policeman John A. Burgess of No. 1 station testified Mrs. Meredith had told him she knew her car had struck the man, but became bewildered and drove up Fourteenth street. Pre- viously, it was said, she had denied that she knew her automobile had hit any one. John R. McArdle, assistant librarian &t the Senate, who was a passenger in Willlams' cab, told of the cab fol- | lowing the automobile up Fourteenth | street after the accident, but said he | did not see the automobile at the time it struck Truedley. Other Drivers Testify. Several taxicab drivers testified Truedley was on a crosswalk, near where E street intersects Pennsylvania | avenue, when he was struck. Mrs. Meredith was released under $500 bond on a charge of leaving the scene after colliding and later was re- arrested following Truedley’. death and released under another bond of $1,000 pending appearance at the inquest. Mr. Truedley formerly was a pro- fessor at the University of Ohio, GULESIAN SUSPECT SEIZED AT BOSTON Name, Address and Telephone Number of Missing Million- aire Are List®d. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, February 23.—The dis- appearance Tuesday night of Moses H. Gulesian, 71-year-old former mil- lionaire, remained e mystery tonight as police continued to detain a mid- dle-aged man in whose possession they found Gulesian’s name, address and telephone number, l Gulesian’s wife, the former Grace ‘Warner, concert pianist and composer, said she had received no word from her husband since he dropped from sight after attending a dinner at the University Club. A man giving his name as Louis Girard, 42, was questioned at length, police said, since his arrest yesterday. He said he came here from New York Tuesday. Police Lieut. John A. Dorsey quoted Girard as saying he copied Gulesian’s name and address from a newspaper but that he denied knowl- edge of the telephone number. RABBIT SCRATCH FATAL TO LABORATORY HELPER ‘Woman Victim of Experiment in Trying to Inoculate for Anti-Toxin. By the Associated Press. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn, February 23.—Lucretia Wilder, 23, a laboratory technician end research assistant at the University of Minnesota Hospital, was dead today because a rabbit scratched her during an experiment. | Seeking an anti-toxin for staphylo- | coccus germs, which cause such skin infection as boils and carbuncles, Miss Wilder attempted to inoculate a rab- bit. The animal scratched her and some of the toxin spilled into the scratch. Dr. H. L. Dunn, superintendent of the hospital, told of the accident to- day. The girl died late Friday night. He sald the germ is virtually harmless until introduced into the blood stream. —_— SURVIVES SHOT IN BRAIN LUFKIN, Tex., February 23 (#)— Extra Donnel, 22, didn't lose consci- ousness when a .38-caliber pistol slug tore through his head and physicians zald today he would recover, The bullet entered the youth’s head in front of the right ear and emerged three inches above the left ear. Physicians said the brain apparently was not affected. Donnel tossed his coat to the ground while chopping wood and the pistol in & pocket discharged. Family Traced Back to Adam and Eve, Says Woman By the Associated Press. COLUMBUS, Ohio, February 23.—Mrs. Christian Sells Jaeger announced today that she had succeeded in tracing her geneal- ogy back through 159 generations to Adam and Eve. - Mrs. Jaeger, who is historian of the Columbus Genealogical So- clety, went right back through the American Revolution, through all recorded history, and back through the Bible to reach the Garden of Eden. Among her forebears as she traced them by the aid of rec- ords in libraries here, in New York, Washington and Chicago, ‘were: THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, Fly 200 Miles to Dinner PITTSBURGH U. AERONAUTICS TEACHER GUEST OF SOVIETS. Instructor of Aeronautics Henry Pav . of the University of Pitts- burgh and Mrs. Pavian flew here last night from Pittsburgh on a regular scheduled airliner to attend a dinner at the Soviet Embassy. The couple dressed leisurely in evening clothes and left Pittsburgh at 9:30 pm, arriving here a little more than an hour later. Prof. Pavian had been invited because he shared an enthusiasm for aviation with attaches of the Soviet Embassy here. —Star Staff Photo. New Vaccine Tested at G. W. U. To Combat Infantile Paralysis BY THOMAS R. HENRY. A new method of vaccination against infantile paralysis is being investigated in experiments with monkeys at the George Washington University Medical School, it was announced at the an- nual post-graduate clinic yesterday by Dr. Earl B. McKinley, dean of the school. This vaccination is with a mixture of untreated, living infantile paralysis viruses of low virulence with a small amount of smallpox vaccine—the lat- ter acting as & road breaker for the former into the interiors of cells which they must reach to be of any protec- tive value. This procedure is not being consid- ered as a combined smallpox-polio vaccination, the smallpox vaccine not being used in sufficient quantity to confer immunity itself. Paralysis Is Nervous Disease. .Infantile paralysis is a nervous dis- ease, scientifically known as polio- myelitis, which tends to break out in epidemics in various parts of the country during the Summer months, which has a high death rate and which usually leaves those victims who survive in a disabled condttion. It is due, like smallpox and like most of the “children’s diseases,” to one of the so-called “filterable viruses'— supposedly lving organisms which are too small to be seen even under the most powerful microscope and which act in strikingly different ways than bacteria, Althougth the virus of poliomyelitis has been known for 25 years it is only within the past few months that suc- cessful vaccinationghas been estab- lished by means vaccine treated with various chemicals to render it less virulent when it tends to build up a protective substance in the body. Great quantities of one of these types of vaccine have been used in Los Angeles this ye2r, due to an epidemic there. Dr. McKinley and his associates are proceeding on the theory that what actually happens when the vi- ruses are treated with chemical is that the numbers are reduced rather than that the individual virus is ren- dered less virulent. Unlike bacteria, the virus does its damage inside the cell. Bacteria work between the cells. They also belleve this virus, like the virus of smallpox, undergoes some biological change when it passes through the body of an animal. Thus the virus from s smallpox patient, passed through the blood of & cow, undergoes some change so that, when reintroduced into the body of a hu- man being, it acts as a protective sub- stance. Nobody knows what this change is and the protective action of the vaccine was empirically discov- ered. In the George Washington labor- atory are some monkeys through which a strain of poliomyletis virus about 15 years old has been taken. Dr. McKinley said this virus prob- ably could be introduced into a hu- man being without the slightest dam- Nobody had tried it, however, It is upon this principle that the new smallpox-polio vaccine is being be done before the application of the method to immunize human beings will be considered. Question of Immunity, human cancer in an animal by means of injection—indicating that some one of the ultramicroscopic viruses may be the responsible agent in cancer—also was described by Dr. McKinley. A preparation from & human breast cancer was injected into the breast of two female mon- keys. These breasts remained normal for several months when suspicious growths began to appear. One of the monkeys died in 11 months. Inten- sive study of the growth showed, how- that up to that stage it was malignant tumor and not & The other money is still liv- and, said Dr. McKinley, the growth is becoming more and more cancer-like. In any event, there appeared to be some infective agent in the human breast cancer that caused the new growth in the monkey breast, even if it is not malignant. If the second monkey should prove actually to have a cancer it might be a far-reaching step in the better understanding of malignant growths. lgsother words, said Dr. McKtnley: “cancer may fall into the virus field.” at there is probably a virus in- volved in some forms of animal can- cers already has been demonstrated, but thus far it has been impossible to verify this in the case of malig- nant human neo-plasms. Other speakers at the clinic yester- day afternoon were Dr. Charles Stan- ley White, Dr. Willlam J. Mallory, Dr. Edward B. Veder, Dr. Jacob Kotz and Dr. Vincent du Vigneaud. The clinic was followed by the annual banquet of the George Wash- ington University Medical Soclety at the Mayflower last night. The guest speaker was Dr. Ev A. Graham, professor of surgery at Washington University, St. Louis. Dr. Graham is one of the coun- try's foremost authorities on thoracic surgery, which includes surgery of the lungs and heart. A few years ago to say that a per- son had been wounded in the heart was equivalent to saying he had been killed. But, Dr. Graham said, through the surgical developments of the past few years approximately 50 per cent of all heart wounds are not fatal if the surgeon can get hold of them enough, that is, in an hour or so. Thes ‘wounds its connections. Newest Branch of Surgery. Thoracic surgery, Dr. Graham ex- plained to the Washington physicians, is the newest branch of surgery and one in which some of the greatest progress has been made in the past few years. One operation which now is perfectly feasible is the removal of &n entire lung. The St. Louls sur- geon himself was the first to perform this operation two years ago and since then there have been 12 repeti- tions. The operation is valuable for some cancers and for certain degen- COLLECTOR BEATS BANDIT 2 MINUTES Iaundry Cash Register Prac- tically Emptied Before In- vasion—Hold-Up Second. A ocollection man beat s bandit by about two minutes last night to save the bulk of the day's proceeds at the Palace Laundry Branch at 1835 K street. In fact, the door had hardly closed behind the receipts collector before a colored man walked into the lsundry and, after a few preliminaries, started to rob the cash register. After stalling for a minute ing the manager, Mrs. Di ask- Jones, FEBRUARY 24, 1935—PART ONE. Community Chest Dollars in Action The Community Chest reports nizations aid, Jourth of the entire population of Washington during the year. This 1is one of & series of stories to ap- pear in The Star each Sunday, showing typical ezamples of the fctitious. 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