Evening Star Newspaper, August 12, 1935, Page 15

- T2DISTRICT BILLS APPEAR DOOMED BY ADJOURNNIENT . House Tribute to Represen- tative Truax Will Pre- vent Consideration. EIGHT OF MEASURES ARE HELD NOT URGENT | Chairman Norton Had Planned to | Hold Four Controversial Bills Until Next Session. House action on the 12 District bills on its calendar at the current session of Congress appeared doomed today as a result of an unexpected early ad- | Journment out of respect to the mem- | ory of the late Representative Truax, Democrat, of Ohio. Arrangements had been made to | consider 8 of the 12 measures today under the unanimous consent rule, « but the last-minute change in the program because of the death of Truax postponed all House business. Speaker Byrns told Chairman Nor- ton of the District Committee the House would be unable to consider any of the 12 bills until what would be the next regular District day. August 26. By that time, however, it is ex- pected Congress will have adjourned. Bills Not Held Urgent. Mrs. Norton said she did not re- gard any of the eight bills she plan- ned to call up under the unanimous consent rule so urgent as to require House acton at this session. She pointed out ‘“at all legislation re- quested by ~missioners had been passed The eight “intended to - « Mrs. Norton ¢ all regarded &s non-contro . The principal measures are twc .. ¥n up as a re- sult of the recommendations of the Special Crime Investigating Subcom- mittee. One would set up a habitual criminal law, making it mandatory that second offerders serve 10-year sentences and third offenders 15 years ‘The other would establish a bribery law with respect to the acceptance of bribes by District officials, police and court attaches. Four Bills Controversial. Among the other bills are three to license out-of-town physicians to practive the healing arts; one to per- mith the Decatur Corp. to lay and maintain pipe lines near the South- west waterfront and another author- izing the exchange of certain park lands. Four of the principal measures- on the calendar, which Mrs. Norton had BY JOHN JAY DALY. ITTLE JOHNNY PULEO, a ‘Washington boy and one of the three greatest harmonica play- ers in the world, is back home organizing the North Capitol Street Harmonica Band. If Johnny can stay here long enough before going to Hollywood to | make a new musical picture with Eddie Cantor and Borrah Minnevitch, he hopes to borrow the floating stage | of the National Symphony Orchestra, down at the Watergate, and stage a concert—with 12 North Capitol street boys as featured artists. Known to all theaterdom as “the Rascal” in Borrah Minnevitch’'s Har- | monica Band, little Johnny Puleo | started cut 20 years ago, come this Christmas, playing a common mouth | organ on the corner of North Capitol | and P streets. He was born in that | neighborhood October 7, 1907. From | the street corner gang, Johnny grad- | | uated to professional troupes, As a | soloist, playing the chromatic har- | monica, he has appeared before such | world celebrities as the King of Eng- | land, Premier Laval of France, Hitler, | Mussolini and most of the kings and | queens of Europe. | | First Rest in Nine Years. | Back to visit the old folks—his father and mother are Mr. and Mrs. Carmelo Puleo of 1525 North Capitol street—Johnny is having his first rest | in nine strenuous years of touring | America and the Continent. He hopes | to launch the North Capitol Street | Harmonica Band on its musical | career before he leaves town, the first concert to be at the Watergate. Two | of Johnny's star players, incidentally, | happen to be Star newspaper boys. They are brothers. . One of them, Thomas Hier, is a carrier boy. The other, Harry, is his brother’s helper. His teacher believes Thomas. Hier has the making of a champion harmonica player. Thomas plays the accordion and the guitar—and he bends some stylish brasses on the harmonica. In his eulogy of Washirgton’s latest boys’ band, Johnny Puleo got to talk- ing about the old-fashioned mouth organ. He took up this instrument when scme of present-day Washing- ton’s leading business men and he were boys together —all playing mouth organs on the corners o’ nights. No Longer Mouth Organ. Only it isn't called a mouth organ any more. No sir-ee! A chromatic harmonica. The harmonica has en- | tered the big leagues of musical in- | struments. “It takes a good man to | play one, too,” Johnny says, recalling that he gave a lesson last week to former Representative Ned Goss of Connecticut. Goss, in his turn, is going to organize a harmonica band | made up of ex-members of Congress. From the ol ashioned mouth organ | to the harmonica is a big musical step, | | according to Johnny Puleo: “Those | old mouth organs used to cost a dime. | planned to skip over because of their | Now a chromatic harmonica costs as @he Zoening Sar WASHINGTON, Forms Harmonica Band Johnny Puleo Hopes to Borrow Floating Stage for Concert Here. Y PULEO, Champion harmonica player, visite ing the old folks at home. “Also,” Johnny says, “America has become harmor.ica conscious. Almost every other boy in America has taken to playing the harmonica. Recently, the Boy Scouts of America made the harmonica part of its equipment, mu- sically speaking. The New England Boy Scouts go. Borrah Minnevitch to teach them. There are about 150 Boy Scout harmorica bandg—and a Boy Scout on the West Coast. a lad named McDonald is now about the best play- er in the business.” Minneviteh Is King. Modestly eliminating himself, Johnny Puleo says that the outstanding har- monica player: are Borrah Minne- vitch, the king of them all; Larry Adler, a Baltimore boy, now playing in London town and Glenn Brooks, a New England champion. It was Johnny Puleo, though, who put Wash- ington on the map in harmonica circles. 'He entered a contest in Bos- ton 10 years agc and won first place among the chzmpions. Since then he has played in 22 countries, introduc- ing the harmcnica even in such a celcbrated musical center as Rome— and playing in a grand opera house. Johnny's immediate concern, how- ever, is this North Capital Street Band. “Give me time,” he says, “and controversial nature, include the El- lenbogen bill to revive the war-time rent commission. Ancther is designed to raise the standard of the legal profession. A third would amend the child labor act to permit juveniles to participate in professional concerts and dramatic prcductions. RETIRED WRITER, SHOT, NEAR DEATH Powell Thruston Manning Found in Apartment, Victim of Bullet. Powell Thruston Manning, 65, re- tired writer, was in Emergency Hos- | pital in a “serious” condition today, after having shot himself in the head, police say, at his home, 2700 Con- necticut avenue. ‘The shooting took place early this | morning, in the bed room of his| apartment. He was rushed to Emer- | gency Hospital in the hospital am- | bulance, and was stil living at noon. | His condition, however, was said to| be serious. Mrs. Manning, according to police, | was giving a piano lesson to a child « in her studio when her husband fired the shot in an adjoining room. Mr. Manning, according to friends, | had been despondent because of ill health, and had been under treat- ment of physicians for some time. Mrs. Manning was prostrated at her apartment. Mr. Manning, the author of several works, including novels, poems and short stories, sev- eral years ago had been in the employ of McKeever & Goss, a real cstatel firm. STATION FOUNTAIN CLOSED TO WADERS Health Office Says Water Is Un- safe for Use by Chil- dren. The Columbus Fountain in front of | Union Station, which serves young- sters of the area as a swimming and ‘wading pool during the Summer, was ordered closed today because of pol- luted water. Supt. C. Marshall Finnan of the Office of National Capital Parks issued the order, he said, at the request of the District Health Office. Dr. George H. Ruhland, the health officer, had the water examined and found the bacteria content made it unsafe for use. With prevalent Summer diseases the Health Office feared youngsters using the fountain would contact dis- ease and become carriers. The water used in the Columbus Fountain recirculates and for this rea- son has become polluted. The only fresh water added is to make up for evaporation. In the new recreational centers being developed, the superintendent said, ample facilities for wading are being provided, with constantly chang- ing water. 250 Families Homeless in Fire. W, W, August 12 (Jewish Tele- graphic Agency).—Fire destroyed yes- terday the township of Sczercew, a suburb of Warsaw, rendering homeless more than 250 families. A preliminary estimate places the dgmage at about $200, theyll make monkeys out of all the| other harmonica players in the world.’ EVICTION MOVE D.C. TRAFFIC TOLL . AWATTED INPARK FOR YEAR HITS 6 Deputy Tax Collector in January Crash Victim Ex-| much as $5." | man’s father Page Refuses to Leave pires—Many Arrested His Home. During Week End. ‘ Special Dispatch to The Star. Despite the fact that no fatalities | LURAY, Va., August 12.—All's quiet | occurred in Weshington's numerous | in this mountain section today as | traffic accidents over the week end, one | small land owners and squatters in ' ceath in Emergency Hospital this | the Shenandoah National Park area | morning brought the year's total to 66. | | settled down to await the next move | Twenty-four persons were injured in | from park officials, which, when it accidents Saturday and Sunday. | comes, will decide whether the moun- | Louis Johnson, 37, colored, of the taineers will be evicted from, in 200 block of Seaton court, died as a | many cases, their ancestral cubins. | result of injuries suffered when struck The crux of the uncertain situa- |py a coal truck January 24 in the 1100 tion lies in the open defy which |block of First street. He received a | Melanchton Cliser, deputy tax col- | fractured pelvis. This was the first | lector of Page County and owner death this month and the sixty-sixth | of a store and 46 acres in the park | this year. area, has hurled at officials when P0G, AFTER REBUFF BY HOSPITAL WORKER Found Shot in Car, Pistol in Hand, Engineer Later Dies in Hospital. “GO BACK TO WIFE,” “OTHER WOMAN" ASKS TMissive, of Despondent Tone, to Son Disposes of Car and Other Property. Norman L. Robinson, 46-year-old ualty Hospital from a bullet wound in | the head two hours after being found | in an automobile | parked at the |curb at Thir- | teenth and W streets southeast. | Coroner A. Ma- gruder MacDon- ald issued a cer- tificate of suicide in the death. The car was just a block and a half from the | home of “another woman.” a hos- | pital attendant, a disagreement with whom ap- parently had caused him to become despondent, according to police. Po- lice found several notes he had writ- ten and one from the woman. who had asked him to “go back to his wife and leave her alone.” One of the notes was to his son Lawrence, said to live at Capitol Heights, Md. Dated Wednesday, it ex- pressed the wish that his son have his car and certain other property and said he hoped that he, the father, could recover “all that is left of his | wrecked life.” Not one of the notes told of any direct intention to take his life, but all bore a despondent tone, according to police. In a diary the man re- counted telephone calls from a wom- an, and rebuffs. | In his possession was an automobile card bearing the name of the hospital attendant. The latter, in asking Rob- inson to leave her alone, told him that he had the car and said she was going to keep a watch to make up for a ring that had been lost. The body was identified at the Morgue by his son Lawrence, who said his father recently had been living at } Capitol Heights. | Police late this morning were try- | ing to unravel other details. In- formation was to the effect that the lives in Washington Norman L. Robinson. and is ill. The .38-caliber revolver with which the shooting was dcne was clutched in Robinson’s hand when police ar- rived after being summoned by two early morning passersby. More than $60 was found in his clothing when he was taken to the hospital. Robinson had woked at the West | End Laundry, in the 1700 block of Pennsylvania avenue, about three or four months, it was said. JAPANESE TO ARRIVE | Business Men Due Here Wednes- day on Tour of U. S. The Japanese business men’s party, traveling on a round-the-world cruise under auspices of the Japan Trade Promotion Association, plans to ar- rive here Wednesday for a one-day stop-over. They have made arrangements to stay at the Washington Hotel and will leave Thursday for Philadelphia. ROOSEVELT VETOES MONDAY, laundry engineer, died today in Cas- | AUGUST 12, 1935. COMMITS SUICIDE | [ Family Flivver Plane Lands Here With Bang ¥R ACCIDENT MARS COMING OF MIDGET CBAFT EXPECTED TO SELL FOR LESS THAN $1,000, FAMILY flivver plane dropped out of the sky at 30 miles an hour over Washington Air- port this morning, smashed part of its landing gear and was hailed by Secretary of Commerce Roper as the answer to the prayer of the small- salaried man who wants to fly. The accident was trivial, and Pilot John H. Geisse, chief of the develop- ment section of the Bureau of Air Commerce, who flew the tiny, tailless plane from Santa Monica, Calif., by | easy stages, expects it will be ready to go up again tomorrow. The gear was injured in the land- ing when a wheel rolled out of line and the left wing and gear buckled back. On hand to greet Geisse were Roper, Assistant Secretary of Commerce Johnson and Eugene L. Vidal, director of air commerce, for whom the plane was built. Declared to Fly Self. “How does it fly?" Geisse. “It flys itself,” answered Geisse, who had just completed his first trans- continental flight. | _ “Nothing to it,” he commented. *If I had been in a big plane and done that I'd hate to think what would have happencd. I'm walking away on my own power, and you know they say if you can do that you've made a good landing.” He reached the airport at 9 o'clock | after a 20-minute trip from Quan- ! tico, Va.. where he had spent the night. The plane was developed in California by an old-time test pilot, Waldo Deane Waterman. It is sup- posed to be able to stop in 30 feet and get 13': miles to the gallon of gasoline. The Commerce Department expects to tinker with it and test it | in every possible way until it is as mechanically perfect as possible. Ex- periments contemplate changing the wing construction and installing an automobile engine. This work prob- | ably will go forward at Bolling Field | Left West Coast August 2. | Geisse left Santa Monica August 2 and made stops at Tucson, El Paso, +{ Fort Worth, Shreveport, Atlanta, Win- ston-Salem and Quantico. | Cost to the purchaser should be less than $1,000. according to depart- Roper asked | | Above: The new family flivver plane shortly after arrival at Wash- ington Airport today. plane. Below: Secretary Roper (right) inspecting the —Star Staff Photos. Crowd Sees Nearly Nude Pair . Taunt Police From Tidal Basin Four practically nud> men went ment officials, who expect some day swimming in the Tidal Basin Sunday the sky will be black with the baby afternoon. to the amusement of Sab- .- (nearly an hour. The swan boat, manned by park police. swan song. | cers with dares to come after them. Charles W. Newman, a chauffeur, and lating the regulation asainst swim- | | In Police Court today Judge Robert Robert K. Hayden Asks Po- ' "\attingly took personal bond for lice Not to Punish Mate | ‘Vshorl.s jumped in the water at the | 2:30 p.m. yesterday. Police scout cars arrived and two of the aquatic quarry made from a Providence Hospita! bed, | q Iy losing battle for his life, earned MIS.| crjeq to Newman and Daley. who by Annie Hayden, 30, her freedom S0 then were in midstream, or rather The husband, Robert K. Hayden, pack. “Were not that Gumb.” 32, well-to-do oysterman, was shot| They dared police to catch them. ville Saturday night. His t:nnditian‘me fun. Encouraged by hundreds of | is critical and physicians hold little | spectators, the swimmers continued | cloud riders. | bath throngs and the dismay of police. ‘ = | Two of them splashed around for {DY' led to their Arrested finally. after taunting offi- X R Edward J. Daley, an clectrician, were taken to the fourth precinct for vio- | A ——— lmmg in the Tidal Basin | the pair. Four swimmers in their underwear in Shooting. food gate on Fourteentn street about A wounded husband's earnest pleas grabbed their clothes and fled. | where he is staging an apparently |° «C'mon out, you fellows,” officers she might return to her five Young | midbasin. children at Tompkinsville, Md. | “Nothin' doin",” the swimmers yelled three times during an argument with | pAutomobiles stopped along Fourteenth his wife at their home in Tompkins- | street and strollers paused to watch hope for his recovery. their antics while policemen looked Wife Released Without Bond. | on helpless, scratching their heads. ! the road. ordered to vacate his property. He said he would not move. Not Offered Value. Cliser claims that he has not been offered the value of his land and he has refused to accept the amount tendered or appeal to the court to obtain its fair value. He appears | to be sitting tight and waiting for de- i velopments. When officials visitec his home last week on an inspection trip he told them to “get out.” Developments, however, may come Mack Ferguson. 33, colored, of 74 Logan place was arrested at the time ior the accident in which Johnson was | injured and subsequently sentenced to serve 90 days on 2 charge of oper- | ating without a permit. He was re- | arested this morning and held for ac’ion of the coroner. Dennis J. Mc- | Namara of 21 K street northeast, | ovner of the truck. said at the time | that Ferguson took it out without au- | thority. George A. Gossett, 59, of 3372 Broth- ers place southeast, suffered a frac- quick, as Wilbur C. Hall, chairman | tured skull and other injuries when of the State Conservation and De- | Stfuck by a hit-and-run driver at velopment Commission, on returning‘M”ymnd.avenue and Fourth street from a trip to park area, reiterated | tis morning. He was taken to Emer- | his insistence~ that the land owners | €ency Hospital, where his condition Declares Investigation of Stock- bridge and Munsee Tribe Would Be of No Gain. By the Associated Press | President Roosevelt today vetoed a' | bill directing the Secretary of the Interior to investigate claims of mem- | bers of the Stockbridge and Munsee | Tribe of Indians Wisconsin. | “The only claims which have been brought forward,” said the President in his message to Congress, “are those of persons who claimed to be mem- bers of the Stockbridge and Munsee INDIAN MEASURE| and squatters be evicted. | 300 Families Affeeted. There are some 300 families in the park area, embracing parts of Madi- son, Page, Rappahannock, Greene, Warren and Rockingham Counties, mits granted to them to remain in the area temporarily. Chairman Hall said that the sheriffs of the various counties will be in- structed to take the necessary action to evict them upon the authority vested in the State. The sheriffs, however, so far appear to be loath to drive these families away from the homes. Hall did not specify when the evic- | tions would be ordered. | LOBBY COST $1,750,000 The Senate Lobby Investigating Committee reported today it already has figures showing $1,750,000 was spent in fighting the utility holding | company bill. Chairman Black (Democrat, of Ala- bama), predicted last week in a radio talk that opposition to holding com- pany abolition ultimately would oe disclosed as & “$5,000,000 lobby.” INJURIES PROVE FATAL William Sayre, 54, of 103 R street, died in Casualty Hospital early today from injuries received August 5 when | he fell in a restaurant after becoming ill. Sayre was under treatment of a | doctor at the time. His head was #ojured in the fall. a who are said to have violated per-} The police arrested 338 persons on | | was said to be critical. The accident is being investigated by the Traffic | Bureau. i 49 Accidents Recorded. | the week end. In these, 24 persons | were injured, six of them children. | various traffic charges. Of this num- ber 65 were for speeding, 1 for driv- ing while drunk, 11 for reckless driv- ing, 9 for passing red lights and 252 on various other charges. In Traffic Court this morning 98 | persons were tried on traffic violation | charges, 11 of them being locked up | at time of arrest. Collateral was for- feited by 191 others. Of the most seriously injured Miss Ann McKenney,“ 15, of Brentwood, Md., suffered a possible fracture of the skull when an automobile in which she was riding overturned at the in- tersection of Riggs road and Uni- versity drive last night. She was treated at the Washin; Sanitarium in Takoma Park, Md. Also injured in the accident were Robert Burton, 18, of Brentwood, who received a broken wrist, and Thelma Zier, 18, also of Brentwood, who escaped with minor cuts. Ashby Wood, 23, of River- dale, escaped unhurt. Elizabeth Stanback, 46, colored, of River road, Bethesda, was seriously injured when struck by an automobile said to have been driven by Mrs. Katherine M. McHugh, 1631 - Euclid street, early this morning. She was taken to Georgetown Hospital. Mrs McHugh was not held. Hit by Street Car. Struck and knock:d down by & street car on New York avenue near Fourteenth strest last night.e Viola Police recorded 49 accidents over | | Tribe of Indians, but those claims were disallowed when the rolls of the tribe were prepared. “It would ‘require great expense to investigate the merits of any and all claims which might be asserted by an individual Indian, but little pros- pect of any benefit to be derived.” Willison, 20 colored, of the 1400 block of Q street, was treated at Emergency Hospital for injuries to her hip. Five persons were injured early this merning when cars driven by Elden E. Channel, 19, a Mariae stationed at Quantico, Va., and Robert Gray, 21, colored, of 823 Thirteenth street north- east collided at the intersection of Mount Vernon boulevard and route 1. Both drivers were hurt as also were Violet Taylor, 20, of 1222 B street northeast; Dorothy Gray 20, of the 300 block of Thirteenth street, and Hortense Taylor, 25, of the B street address, all colored. The last three are in Emergency Hospital. Meanwhile, two victims of Satur- day’s accidents were fighting for their lives in Washington hospitals. At ‘Walter Reed lay 6-year-old Charles Prichard of the 609 block of Familton street, who was struck by & truck while he played in the street in front of his home Saturday afternoon. He has failed to regain consciousness and is reported to be suffering with a fractured skull. Crescenta Tilghman, 9, of 652 Acker street northeast, is suffering with a fractured skull and possible internal injuries at Casualty Hospital. He re- ceived his injuries when hit by & truck at Fourth and F streets north- east Saturday. e Sheriff Russell Howard of Charles County drove Mrs. Hayden to her children after Hayden, questioned not to arrest his wife. She was re- leased without bond pending the out- come of Hayden's wounds. Mrs. Hayden is said to have told fifth precinct police that she seized a .22-caliber rifle and fired three bullets into her husband's chest when he came home drunk and abused her Saturday night. She had baked a cake for a church festival at Issue, near La Plata, Md., | and was preparing to leave with her | home intoxicated and refused to go | as they had planned, police explained. Tells of Abuse. He became abusive, she said, and when she could no longer endure it she picked up the rifle and fired three times. A neighbor drove Hayden and his wife to the local hospital and precinct by local police. Before being transferred to the | Women’s Bureau, where she stayed | until released yesterday by Sheriff Howard, she is said to have told Lieut. John Flaherty that her husband had been drinking heavily for the past three years and was extremely abusive to her. & SPEEDBOAT CRASHES INTO POTOMAC SEAWALL | Russell Rowe Injured When Rud- der Jams in Attempt to Turn Craft. Russell Rowe, 32, road, Bladensburg, Md. and bruised yesterday afternoon when his speedboat crashed intd the seawall at Hains Point. Joseph Woods, employed at the floodgate boat house, was piloting the craft when the rudder jammed as he attempted to turn the boat. It sank within & few minutes, but both Rowe and Woods were able to step from the craft to the seawall. Rowe received severe cuts and bruises about the head and face whea he was hurled against the windshield. He was treated at Emergency Hospital. of husband when the latter returned | Mrs. Hayden was taken to the fifth | | A fourth precinct officer found the shirt, trousers and shoes of one of | the swimmers and held them up as a concerning the shooting, begged him'\ warning that the fugitives would not | always have the upper hand. Mean- | while other police surrounded the | | Basin, waiting for the swimmers to | | tire and come in. 1 “We'll be waiting for you,” officers | | shouted. | The swimmers thumbed their noses, | police said. Finally Sergt. W. F. Shelton and Pvt. Oren Spears of the park police com- | | mandeered the swan becat and putt- | putted out to their quarry. The swim- | | mers knew when they were beaten | and swam to shore, where they were promptly arrested by other officers. | A fine of $5 was assessed against Milton Kirk, 19, of 1509 North Caro- lind avenue northeast, in Police Court this morning on a charge of indecent | exposure. Kirk, with several other men, was swimming unclad in a large hole at the Hudson Brick Yard, be- tween Mount Olivet Cemetery and Bladensburg road. vesterday, when a police radio patrol car drove up. All the others fled, but Kirk calmly lit a cigarette and sat down by the side of He was locked up. NEARBY HIJACKING GANG IS SMASHED Six Youths Sentenced for Rob- bery on Washington-Balti- more Boulevard. By the Associated Press SAVAGE, Md. August sentencing of six youths here was be- lieved today to have smashed a hi- jacking gang operating on the Wash- ington-Baltimore boulevard. State police believed the group re- sponsible for robbery of many produce trucks on the highway ‘The method in which they oper- ated was-described by Corpl. C. W. Cubbage of the State police, who 1 ade | the arrests after investigation by the constabulary. Some would clamber onto tailboards of moving trucks and toss articles to others standing on the bumpers of an automobile trailing the vans. They, in turn, would ~-ss the articles to men inside the automobile. The' youths arrested and sentenced on char:es of larceny were James R. Sherman, 25, driver of the automobile, six months; Pete Knise- ley, 19, three months, and Harvey Merson, 18; Melvin Gray, 17; Elmer Gray, 19. and Lester Kniseley, 19, 30 days each. Chorus Plans Program. Special programs of gospel and spiritual songs will be given by the Young Men's Jubilee Chorus at the Friendship Baptist Church tonight and Wednesday night. Both pro- grams, under auspices of the Pastor’s Ald Club, will begin at 8:30 p.m. After all these years the ugly duckling of fishdom has come into its own. Mister, don’t gaff that toadfish! He's got an aglomerular kidney and Georgetown University's Medical School wants him right now. At present a series of experiments are being carried on under direction of Dr. Charles R. Linegar at George- town, to study the barbital secretions in urine. Normal kidneys have a glomeruli, a gland which functions in particular in this on. Cryptobranchus alleganiensis—in- timately known as toad-fish, hell- bender, mud-devil, water-dog, water- puppy, mud-puppy, ground-puppy, tweeg — ‘doesn’t ' have a glomeruli. Therefore, in the certain experiments under way, this type of system is necessary for their study of . kidney diseases. It's a rather rare type of kidney, but, fortunately for science, the Potomac is full of-toadfish. Irregularly splotched, dark-brownish gray in color, this fishermen’s curse is probably the ugliest creature Nature ever created. It ranges between 18 and :20.inches in length, has a flat "and body, and a tail flattened 3 Along the body sides from brostl jaws to talljruns a pair of Toadfish Useful _in Siudy | Of Kidney Disease at G. U.| FOR FISH MARKET convoluted folds of skin. Their four short legs end in thick feet. Their . heads are covered with warty tuber- cules. They are extremely voracious in their food habits, and snuggled in the mud at the bottom of a stream, will snatch at any baited hook that comes their way. Their bite is like a bull | 12.—The Society and General PAGE B—1 PARALYSIS SCARE MAY SEND CAPITAL EUARDTO CASCADE Movement Starts Saturday if Pennsylvania’s Order Is Not Rescinded. HARRISBURG TARGET OF PLEAS BY OFFICERS ;Only 11 Active Poliomelitis Cases | in. District at Present, Ruhland Reveals. | The District National Guard, barred from Pennsylvania by health authori- ties of that State, because of the in- fantile paralysis scare, will hold its encampment beginning Saturday at Cascade, Md., unless the Pennsylvania ban is lifted Meanwhile, District officials this morning sent strong protests to Penn- sylvania. Its health authorities Sat- urday notified both Virginia and the District that their National Guard contingents would not be permitted to enter the State because of infantile paralysis in this vicinity. Commissioner Melvin C. Hazen dis- patched a telegram to Gov. George H Earle of Pennsylvania, urging him to rescind the order, and at the same time District Health Officer George C. Ruhland assured Dr. Edith Mac- Bride-Dexter that there is “no ex- cessive prevalence” of the disease in the District. “In view of continuing normal movement of civilian and business traffic between Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia, we feel barring solely cur National Guardsmen must be based on erroneous information on health conditions here,” Commis- sioner Hazen wired Gov. Earle Strongly urge removal of ban as un- necessary and unfair to District of Columbia.” Dr. Ruhland informed Dr. Mac- Bride-Dexter that there have been 25 cases of poliomyelitis, as the disease is technically known, here since the be- ginning of the year, 6 of them non- resident. There are 11 active cases in the District at present, he stated in the telegram. The decision to send the District National Guard to Cascade, Md.. if | the barrier against their entrance into Pennsylvania is not removed was made by Col. John W. Oehmann, com- mander of the 121st Engineers and senior officer in the District. He said Maj. Gen. Milton A. Reckford, 29th Division commander and adjutant general for Maryland, offered the use »f Camp Albert C. Ritchie, located at Cascade. Meanwhile no official announce- ment concerning the change of plans was forthcoming from either Gen. Reckord or 3d Corps Area headquar- ters in Baltimore. The possibility that Virginia Guards- men, who were to have encamped with the District troops at Mount Gretna, Pa, In connection with the 1st Army meaneuvers which will be held throughout Pennsylvania, New York and Massachusetts, also might 20 to Cascade was discussed here. Gen. Reckord was quoted as saying he would have no objection to the use of the camp by Virginia troops but that final decision must be made | by Adjt. Gen. F. Gardner Waller of Virginia, who today was in Harris- burg. Pa., conferring with Pennsyl- vania authorities. National Guard officials said the “war games” could proceed even though Virginia and District troops are not encamped with the remainder of the 3d Corps. If the District troops go to Camp Ritchie they will begin moving Satur- | day morning. Col. Ochman stated. A< | many men and as much baggage as | possible will be moved by truck that day, and the rest will complete the movement Sunday morning. For th- first time, trucks will be used instead of trains. Little Routine Change Expected. For several years the Summer en campment of the local Guardsmen ha been held at Cascade, so that train ing schedules will have to be revise | but slightly as a result of the change To minimize the infantile paralysis danger Dr. Ruhland called attention to both tuberculosis and spinal men- ingitis as grounds for considerable more concern in the District than it. He emphatically declared, however, that there is no meningitis epidemic | and no sudden increase in tubercu- losis. “There are simply more cases here than we like to see and we are taking steps to control them,” he said. Since January 1 there have been 186 cases of spinal meningitis, of which 69 resulted fatally. Emergency relief patients afford particularly dan- gerous conditions for the spread of _ | this disease, he said. | —e 'W.P. A. FUNDS ASKED Roberts Will Urge Money Be | Spent to Improve Municipal Structures. Extensive repairing of the Munic- ipal Fish Market will be urged as a | works progress project, George M. dog’s, and if they haven't chewed Roberts. superintendent of weights, off both bait and hook by the time| measures “and markets, announced the line is drawn to the surface. the | today. sportsman usually hacks them off one | He expects to submit his proposal way or another- after a few choice | Wwithin 10 days to Works Progress Ad- cuss words. | ministrator George E. Allen. The Their tenacity of life is remarkable, | work will include extensions and re- and this quality makes them also pairs to sewerage, extension of the especially desirable for Georgemwn's‘ city water supply so the wharves and experiments. William- Frear, an au- | paved space in rear of the market may thority on fish,gives one story which | be flushed, repair and replacement of admirably illustrates this point. | window frames where needed, repaint- “Desiring to note a few points on|ing inside and out and numerous the structure of the Menopoma (toad | other minor jobs. fish),” he says, “I found one which| The repair department of the munic- had been lying on the shore in the | ipal architect's office now is preparing sun for 48 hours. I brought it to my | cost estimates and working out other laboratory, where it lay another 24| details. The Fish Market. which has hotirs before I placed it in alcohol. | been doing a rushing business during After another day in an alcohol jarjthe past few years, is not in a good I removed it and placed it on my table. | state of repair, Mr. Roberts declared, There it began tq open its big mouth.{ emphasizing that the expenditure of sway its tail and give other un- Works Progress Administration funds doubtable evidenc®of life.” there would be flly justified.,