Evening Star Newspaper, November 22, 1935, Page 4

POISON SODALAD TOCLERK S ERROR Mixed Lethal Substance - With Baking Powders, Official Discovers. By the Assoclated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, November 22.— A full barrel of deadly was reported today by Dr. J. C. Geiger, city health director, to have been mixed with baking soda sold at bargain prices to hundreds of San Francisco housewives. A department store employe’s care- lessness, Dr. Geiger said, may have been responsible for introduction of the poison into the soda. At least three deaths have been attributed to the mixture. ‘The health director said the discov- ery was made whea the store owner turned over to the health department one of three empty barrels “baking soda” the store had sold in bulk form during the past month. Warning on Barrel. He explained that an employe had informed him that two display barrels were refilled, as their contents were sold, from this barrel. Dr. Geiger said a few pounds of powdered substance in the bottom of the barrel was virtually pure poison— the less active of the two found in the contaminated baking soda. On the outside of the barrel the crude admonition, “Do Not Totch or ‘Take,” had been lettered three inches high with black crayon. The barrel also bore another legend, “Scouring Powder.” The employe, questioned by eity health officers, said the barrel was one of six purchased from a San Francisco salvage firm as “baking soda.” Dr. Geiger said when the employe was asked how he could identify it he replied that he remembered the inscriptions on the side of the barrel. Other Poison Not Traced. ‘When asked why, despite the warn- ing on the barrel, he had opened it and then emptied its contents into the other barrels, the employe, Dr. Geiger asserted, did not answer. While health authorities believed they had accounted for the presence of one poison in the soda, they still were at 8 loss to explain how the second, and more lethal of the two, was introduced Eight hundred pounds of the soda was sold in bulk form by the store. Besides the 3 deaths attributed to its use, 21 persons have reported they became violently ill after partaking of it. In addition, the death of George Purnaras, a dishwasher, who died three hours after taking bicarbonate of soda, was being investigated. Dep- uty Coroner Anthony Trabucco said Purnaras’ death “looked suspiciously like” a case of poisoned soda. —_— Insurance Club Elects. Charles F. Roberts was elected presi- dent of the Insurance Clud of Wash- ington at a meeting Wednesday night at the Racquet Club. Other officers elected were W. D. Ellett, vice presi- dent; J. H. Pumphrey, treasurer; How- ard Eales, setretary, and Edward 8. Brashears, general counsel. Trustees are Albert J. Phillips, W. Maurice Hoffman, R. B. Cummings, H. R. Quinter and L. A. Payne. Junior Bar Luncheon Set. The Junior Bar Section of the Women’s Bar Association will hold & luncheon meeting at the Women's City Club tomorrow at 1 pm. Miss Mary Agnes Brown, chairman of the organization, will preside. Miss Zelda Dove is in charge of arrangements, CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Bingo party, Nativity Episcopal Chapel Basket Ball Club, Nativity Parish Hall, Fourteenth and A streets southeast, 8 p.m. Card party, Parent-Teacher Associa- tion, Peabody-Hilton-Carberry Schools, Peabody School, Fifth and C streets northeast, 8 p.m. . Meeting, District Department, A. ¥. G. E., Musicians’ Hall, 1105 Sixteenth street, 8 p.m. Bingo party, Eagle Tent, No. 2, In- dependent Order of Rechabites, Naval Lodge Hall, Fourth street and Penn- sylvania avenue southeast, 8 p.m. Card party, Constitution . Chapter, D. A. R, Raleigh Hotel, 8 pm. Meeting War Mothers, Raleigh Hotel, 8 pm. Dance, Beta Pau Alpha Sorority, Raleigh Hotel, 8 pm. Banquet Metropolitan Life Insur- ance Co., Mayflower Hotel, 7 p.m. Supper meeting, Georgetown Uni- versity Alumni, Mayflower Hotel, 8 pm. Dinner, Congress Lodge, No. 37, Mayflower Hotel, 7:30 pm. Dance, Chevy Chase Community Center, Ben W. Murch School, Thirty- sixth and Ellicott streets, 8:30 p.m. Dance, Langley Community Center, First and T strets northeast, 8:30 pm. . Dance, Park View Community Cen- ter, Warder and Newton streets, 8:30 pm. Card party, St. Francis de Sales Church, Twentieth street and Rhode Island avenue northeast, 8:30 pm. Dinner meeting, Delta Chi Omega Borority, Hamilton Hotel, 7 pm. TOMORROW. Breakfast, Metropolitan Life surance Co., Mayflower Hotel, 7 a.m. Meeting, Metropolitan Life Insur- ance Co., Mayflower Hotel, 10 a.m. Luncheon, Washington Classical Club, Raleigh Hotel, 1 pm. Dance, East Washington Com- munity Center, Eastern High School Armory, Eighteenth and East Capitol streets, 8:30 pm. Dinner, Phi Delta Delta Sorority, Mayflower Hotel, 7 pm. Dinner Dance, Washington Club, Printing House Craftsmen, Mayflower Hotel, 7 pm. Dinner, Society of Podiatric, May- flower Hotel, 7:30 p.m. Dance, Ohio Girls’ Club, Wesley Hall, 1703 K street, 10 p.m, Bingo Party, Gen. J. E. B. Btewart Post, Daughters of the Confederacy, Confederate Memerial Hall, 1332 Ver- mont avenue, 8 pm. P 1=y THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1935, peak at Y.M.C.A. Anniversary, ‘The Rallroad Branch of the Y. M. C. A. celebrated its sixtieth anni- versary with a dinner in New York Wednesday night. Seated at banquet table, left to right: The Right Rev. James E. Freeman, Bishop of Wash- ington; Harcld S. Vanderbilt, toastmaster; E. G. Buckland, chairman of & railroad (New Haven) board of directors, and (standing) Richard W. Law- rence, president New York City Y. M. C, A, all of whom spoke. GENERAL LEGTRI FADS AID PLAN Swope Says Security Bill Brings Scrapping of Dollar Matching. By the Assoclated Press. SCHENECTADY, N. Y., November 22.—General Electric Co.’s unemploy- ment compensation fund, adopted in 1930 as an emergency measure for workers, will be terminated on De- cember 31 because of the Federal so- cial security act, it was announced to- dey. More than $7,000,000 had been paid into the fund since 1930, the employes contributing 1 per cent of their earn- ings and the company matching pay- ments, dollar for dollar. The company’s decision to end the fund was explained by Gerard Swope, president, as follows: “In compliance with the social se- curity act of the Federal Government, the General Electric Co. must pay & tax on its entire pay roll, beginning with 1 per cent on Jaruary 1 and increasing to 3 per cent in 1938. “The Federal law puts no tax on employes, but it is permissive for the States to do so. In some States laws have already been passed calling for contributions by employes. It seems clear, therefore, that the General Elec- tric plan must be terminated, as neither the company nor the employes will desire to pay under the Federal and State plan and also under the company plan.” The fund now holds about $3,000,~ 000. Employes will be permitted to decide whether they are to have their portion returned to them or whether the funds shall be applied to relief and loan purposes under a new set-up, TWO INDIAN BOYS FACE DEATH TRIAL Conviction Means First Hanging in North Carolina in 25 Years. By the Associated Press. BRYSON OITY, N. C, November called on Monday to decide a fantastic murder case which has stirred the Cherokee Indian Reservation. The victim was Wesley Brider, 64- year-old Indian. His accused siayers are two "teen-age Indian boys, neither of whom speaks more than a few words of English, The old Indian was an artist with blowgun. Thiy EVANGELIST, 5, OPENS CAMPAIGN ON DEVIL Son of California Preacher Says He Doesn’t Like Dancing and Tobacco Is Sinful. By the Associated Press. KANSAS OCITY, November 23— Charles E. Jaynes, jr, B5-year-old evangelist, has opened a three-day offensive here against “the devil—that sly old fox!” Charles, a disciple of the Four- Square Gospel of Aimee Semple Mc- —A. P, Photo. U.S. DIGTATORSHIP HELD WPOSSBLE Dr. Stowell Tells Y. M. C. A. Forum America Holds Too Many Curbs. Dictators sometimes are necessary in the life of a nation, but as a gen- eral rule they contribute nothing to world progress, according to Dr. Ellery C. Stowell, professor of international law at American University. Speaking last night before the young men’s forum at the Central Y. M. C. A, Dr. Stowell said there was justification for dictatorial pow- ers granted to former President Wil- son during the World War and to President Roosevelt during the de- pression, but he deplored dictators abroad “who know no legal or moral curb to their authority.” Cites N. R. A. Shift as Example. America controls her dictators by constitutional limitations, interpreted by the Supreme Court and sustained by opinion of the people, he pointed out. He cited the “right-about-face resulting from the far-reaching N. R. A. decision” as “a magnificent example of the degree of development which constitutional government may reach amongst a people.” In the depression crisis, the pro- fessor said, President Roosevelt was glven “economic power so vast the like of it never before had been seen,” but certain limitations were impased. Such grants to dictators for “s definite pe- riod” make for progress, he explained. Sees Civil Wars Abroad. Referring to Hitler and Mussolini as dictators who are under no re- straint, he forecast “great danger of devastating civil war” when the time$ comes to find their successors. “I do not think any goal which has to be echieved by the slaughter of a whole class is worth while,” he de- clared. “I do not believe the objects sought by the suppression of the rights of l‘life and property are worth' the price paid.” He disagreed with those who contend that dictators, “with all these purges and the glut of blood and oppression, are means to a worthy national end.” The American people, he said, “see no reason to prefer that other type of dictator so prevalent across the sea.” BIBLE IN TAHITIAN NOW 100 YEARS OLD Churches to Celebrate Centenary of Completion of Translation by Missionary. By the Associated Press. PAPEETE, Tahiti.—The centenary of the completion of the trans- lation of the Bible into the Tahitian language will be celebrated in De- cember in all Protestant churches in the South Seas. The end of his 22 years of labor on the project was signalized by Henry Nott, one of the great -South Seas missionaries, in a letter to the London Missionary Society late in December, 1835, with the words: “You will be pleased to hear that on the 18th of December, last, at half past 1 o'clock, I finished the transiation of the Bible into the Tahitian language.” Nott made his translation not only from the English but also from He- brew and Greek sources. He arrived at Tahiti in 1797 aboard the Duff, first missionary ship sent out by the London Society, and remained at his esolated the island and drove the paramount chief, Pomare II, to tem- porary exile in Moorea, Nott of the missionaries remained at post. 100,000 SIGNATURES In- | California. 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