Evening Star Newspaper, June 4, 1937, Page 7

HE EVENING m EMP[UYES ETalent Scouts of Industry ‘ IHREMEN SIRIKE Swarm on Cqmpusesjrflllce More | Unit Charge Transit Firm STAR, WASHINGTON, D. (.. FRIDAY, INFANTS ATTACKED BY NEW DISEASE Brain and Spinal Infection! JUNE 4, 1937. * A—7 graduating college engineers since the World War,” Dean Herbert Evans of the University of Colorado Engineer- ing School said. More Scouts Than Seniors, Columbus University received three times the number of calls for seniors it had last year. Robert F. Mfmr?,‘ secretary of appointments, said: “The | average pay for bachelors of arts in | science is from $100 to $130 a month, | as compared with $80 to $100 last year, while engineers are starting at | have occurred In Brazil and Czecho- | the shock treatment is successful,” slovakia, both in young infants and | declared. both resulting in death. Whether these | Another warning against adminis- were identical with the New York | tering X-ray treatment for case has not been completely de- | tumors of the brain through an open- | ent suit and had been terminated by a termined, they added. | Ing in the skull was voiced by Dr. ! decree of consent The protozoa resembles very closely | Percival Balley of Chicago, | The Government attorneys asserted one which causes similar infections | e — iymtevdzv in their petition that all U. S. MOVES he| Judge R. M. Gibson granted the in- | Junction on May 14. The company contended that a suit filed in Pitta- some | burgh in 1912 was similar tothe pres- urvey of 50 Schools Shows Near Record | Demand for Graduates—Pay $5 to of the brains and spinsl cords of | the company's records were not kept rabbits and mice, Dr. Wolf declared, AGAINST i su in Pittsburgh and that the New York glving rise to a strong suspicion that | suit is not identical with the 1912 | the infection in human beings is con- | action. tracted from rabbits or mice. With Coercion, By the Associatea Press NEW YORK, June 4. —Six thousand employes of the Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Co., acting under the banner of the Committee for Industrial Organization, threatened today to call & strike on the company's subway and elevated lines in protest against “arbi- trary dismissals during the past week.” At the meeting last night under the auspices the Transport Workers’ Union, a C. I O. affiliate, the men adopted a resolution stating dismis- sals were “obviously carried out with the intent of intimidating and co- ercing employes not to join the Trans- port Workers' Union.” “The immediate reinstatement of these employes is requested,” said the resolution, “and unless this is done and they are indemnified for time off, the stoppage will be called.” The B. M. T, one of three subway and elevated systems serving New York City, is the principal transporta- tion line in Brooklyn. The T. W. U 8.000 of pany's 14,000 of claims the ca their | $30 a Month Higher Than °36. By the Associated Press. | CHICAGO, June 4.—Industrial tal- ent scouts are back on the American college campuses in boom-time num- bers, and most seniors are confident | of trading their caps and gowns for working clothes this month. Better pay at the start and a wider | choice of jobs, especially for engi- neers and others technically trained, have been offered 1937 graduates, a survey of 50 colleges showed today. Deans and placement officers gen- | {erally reported this year's prospects | the best since 1929, while some termed | them the best since the World War | and even the best in history. Salaries range from $5 to $30 a | month more than those offered grad- | uates of last year, the survey dis-| closed. All Will Get Jobs. | The office of John Studebaker, United States commissioner of edu- | cation, said, ‘“Large corporations again are going to college campuses to seek men. a practice which vir- tually disappeared in the depres- sion they have been | 1929 Miss Ruth Tracksell of the Stan- ford University employment service, said all of Stanford’s 1,000 graduates prepared for jobs would be on some- body's pay roll by Fall. At Northwestern University, Place- | ment Director Robert E. Day said | prospects weree approximately 25 per cent better than last year. 80 Per Cent Placed by Summer. “It is expected that 80 per cent | of this year's graduating class will be placed by early Summer and that ‘prarm‘allv all will be employed by Fall.,” Day said. Last year the average starting salary Was approximately $95, Day said. This year the majority range from $100 in any year since | to $125 a month “The demand for this year's grad- uales is even better than it was in | the boom time,” said Dean Edward | Steidle, School of Mineral Industries | at Pennsylvania State College. “We | could have placed scores more if we had been graduating them.” The Penn State Engineering School from $125 to $175 a month, against $110 to $150.” Marquette Universitv's dental and | medical graduates are 100 per cent placed, as are 66 per cent of the | Journalism seniors. The dean of the pharmacy depart- ment at North Dakota Agricultural College said the demand for grad- uates was “absolutely in excess of supply.” Dean Russell A. Stevenson of lhe} University of Minnesota School of | Business said there were more per- | sonnel men interviewing seniors than | there were seniors. The largest de- mand was for accountants and statis- ticians, Britain's Pedestrians’ Association | is warring on motorists | | tion. | Cowen of New York City announced From Tiny Prolozoa !s Found Fatal. Br the Assoclated Press. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., June 4 —A new disease, caused by a tiny protozoa. which results in acute infection of the brain and spinal cord and death in infants was reported today before the American Neurological Associa- Dr. Abner Wolf and Dr. David they had found the disease in a 3- week-old child and had traced its cause tothe tiny animal which had | apparently infected the infant by transmission from the mother before birth. Since discovering it two cases closely resembling the disease were found to | may, He said that in the cese studied the mother had eaten rabbit meat for some time before the child was born and mice had been present in | the home in large numbers. Other scientists attending the an- | | nual meeting of the association pointed out that if the diseas~ is traced di- | rectly to rabbits it will rank as the | twin of tularemia, the acute bacterial infection also transmitted from rab- bits to man. A warning of possible harmful ef- | fects on the brain from using the | new insulin shock treatment for the mental disease schizophrenia was sounded by Dr. Baldwin L. Keyes of Philadelphia. “Serious insulin shock and sometimes does, cause serious changes in the brain which may result in later ha even though | ALUMINUM COMPANY | Cummings Aides Seek to Lift In- | junction Barrier to i Prosecution. Ex the Associated Press PITTSBURGH, June 4—The Gov- ernment took another step yesterday in its prosecution of the Aluminum Co. of America Robert H. Jackson, Assistant Attor- ney General, and Walter L. Rice, spe- cial assistant to Attorney General Homer Cummings, requested the Fed- eral Court to dismiss a preliminary injunction granted the Aluminum Co. The injunction restrained the Gov- ernment from presecuting an anti- trust suit against the company in the uthern district of New Yor Ca DIST- 2775 Every senior in Colgate University can obtain a position if he wants it,” Director George H. Estabrooks of the school’s placement bureau said “Conditions are better this year than | employes. The union reached an agreement this week with the Inter- | borough Rapid Transit Co., the city's largest subway and elevated system Meanwhile the battle between the C. I O. and the American Federation of Labor in the New York area grew keener, moving full force into the confused maritime labor arena Thirteen A. F. of L. maritime unions and two other ‘nautical groups last night formed the American Marine Labor Council to4“fight communism on the waterfront.” Joseph Ryan, president of the International Long- shoremen's Association, who was elected president of the council denied the group was organized specifically to fight the C. I. O, but Issued A statement attacking specific- ally the leading C. 1. O. maritime unions, the National Maritime Union the American Rapid Telegraphists Association, and the Maritime En- gineers' Benevolent, Association Formation of the council was in- terpreted by C. 1. O. leaders as a move against them, and they scheduled & meeting for tonight to form a simi- lar council of their dean, R. L. 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