Evening Star Newspaper, April 22, 1940, Page 5

innesota Officials beeking Cause of ccident Fafal fo 11 Highway Left a Shambles By State’s Worst Mishap, | Crash ‘Like Cannon Shot’ SLAYTON, Minn., Aprit 22.—Min- esota's worst traffic accident in its istory, which brought death to 11 oung men and women near here arly yesterday, sent county and city ficials on a searching investigation pday in an effort to determine the ause of the tragedy which left the ighway near here a shambles. Two light sedans wer€ involved in fhe crash—a terrific head-on col- sion that scattered gears and other arts of the machines over the road, trewed some of the victims on the lacktop and crushed others in the jangled wreckage. Only 2 of 13 passengers in the two achines, ranging in age from 17 23, escaped death, and one was| o badly hurt that physicians expect e will die. The dead: Wayne Gamble, 17, Hadley; Irene pchwab, 17, and Rachel Fisher, 17, oth of Fulda; Harold and Lorens uynmans, brothers, 18 and 19, re- pectively, of near Slayton, and verett Johnson, 17, Slayton. All vere riding in one car. In the second machine, all of ackson, were George Larson, 20; arl A. Falk, 21; Gordon Meyers, | 3: Leo Egge, 18, and Hollis Luf,21. | Also in the second car were Cecil ensen, 17, Jackson, who suffered ve crushed vertebrae, and Elmer er, 18, Jackson, who received oken arm and severe shock. So terrific was the impact, de- ribed by nearby residents as “like cannon shot,” that one of the odies was hurled 60 feet from the yreckage. Seven of the victims pparently were killed almost out- ight and the others died in a hos- ital. Photographs of the scene were aid to indicate one of the ma- hines might have been on the rong side of the road. —S_fockholm (Continued From First Page.) ny border violations, fired warning | hots at two German planes which | ew over fortified islands off Gote- | org last night and shot down one | f the craft when it failed to veer | ff. The crew of four was rescued. | Several other planes passed over | pouthern ~ Sweden, which was lacked out during the night, and | [Wo German planes made forced | : bl 8 SLAYTON, MINN.—WHERE 11 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, APRIL 22, 1940, DIED IN CRASH—Wreckage of two cars carrying 13 young people which crashed head-on near here yesterday. Eleven died, most of them instantly. Another may die. All six in the machine in right foreground perished. Shoes ripped off in the terrific impact are assembled in the lower left corner. Arrested A. F. L. Chief| \Calls Dewey Charges Of Extortion Political’ Ex-Convict Scalise Used Union Like Burglar a Jimmy, Says Official By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 22.—George Scalise, 43, a stocky ex-convict, undertaker and powerful sub-chief- tain of the American Federation of Labor, today answered criminal charges that he had $100,000 in a labor extortion racket with a statement that he was a| “victim of political aspirations.” Detectives seized the $25,000-a- year president of the Building Serv- ice Employes’ International Union in a pre-dawn raid yesterday in a | $9-a-day room at a midtown hotel. They acted on instructions tele- phoned from San Francisco by Dis- trict Attorney Thomas E. Dewey, who is campaigning for the Repub- lican presidential nomination. The sleepy-eyed, silk-pajama-clad union leader of 70,000 scrubwomen, pndings on Gotland Island in the paltic Sea. They were burned by | eir crew members who were In- | erned, The Goteborg Posten, one of fweden’s largest newspape: e- | lared that the Germans have been | aking repeated and deliberate | fights over Swedish territory for | he purpose of photographing iorti-E cations. The paper called for | tronger aerial defense measures, poting that Adolf Hitler has re- arked that a country which fails | defend its neutrality is not neu- ral Sweden has been stepping up her | jneutrality defense” ever since lhef‘ utbreak of the Russian-Finnish ar last November 30. The actual umber of troops now under arms mains a military secret, but in- pbrmed sources said that “one may | v Sweden’s preparations to main- Bin her neutrality are virtually | lomplete.” Foreigners have been barred from pwedish military zones and travel is | trictly regulated throughout the | ountry. Hundreds of air raid helters have been constructed in jhe major cities, and close super- | ision is being maintained over food | nd industrial supphes. Emphasizing the united -front in weden was the announcement last pight that the Social Democratic party, largest in Parliament, had ac- epted a proposal by the Liberal and onservative parties to use May 1 s the occasion for a neutrality lemonstration instead of the tradi- ional Leftist celebration, Seven Main Sectors. The Norwegian Legation here said hat Norwegian troops, co-operating 0 the fullest with their French- Pritish allies, were putting up strong esistance in seven main sectors be- 'ween Oslo and the Arctic port of | arvik. | The intervening fronts are at Le- | panger, between Namsos and Trond- eim; Trondheim itself; Hegra ortress, 20 miles east of Trondheim, Bergen and Stavanger. The Oslo front, the Legation said, xtends from a point northwest of onefoss, which is 25 miles north- west the capital, eastward to| jovik, Hamar and Elverum and | hence in a straight line to the| Bwedish frontier. The Germans apparently have firiven a salient into this line be- ween Gjovik and Hamar with the point at Lillehammer. Rock-ribbed Hegra fortress was eported fighting off German attacks rom two sides, but military au- horities said that because of the avorable surrounding terrain and he experience of its commander, aj. Holterman, it might be able o hold out for a long time. Red Cross fo Present erfificates fo 400 Four hundred volunteers of the [District Chapter, American Red will receive certificates of frow in the Interior Department Au- ditorium. Miss Mabel T. Boardman, director of valunteers, will present the cer- ificates in recognition of courses successfully completed during the past 12 months. Gen. Frank R. Keefer, chairman of the District Chapter, will intro- duce the principal speaker, Bishop [James E. Freeman. Sidney R. Gould, an instructor in first aid, will receive a certificate | lof appreciation for 300 hours of volunteer work in the past three years. A similar award will go to Elmer R, Hipsley, physical director of the United States Secret Service, who instructs in first aid and life- saving. Singing Contest Tonight Representative choirs and choruses from the District and surrounding States will vie in a group singing contest at 8:15 o'clock tonight at the Asbury M. E. Church, Eleventh chambermails, elevator porters and window cleaners was permitted to dress. He was then hustled to a police station and| booked on charges of extorting $100,000 in the last three years from 20 New York hotels and 11 window cleaning firms. “I've Been Peglerized.” As he was being led off to Tombs Prison, pending payment of bail; Scalise remarked: “I have been Peglerized.” He referred to a recent series of syndicated articles written by West- brook Pegler and assailing him for alleged labor recketeering. Informed of this comment, Mr. Pegler declared at his country home in New Canaan, Conn.: “I had no knowledge of the offi- cial proceedings against Scalise. I only sprinted in my columns facts about his conduct of the union. I don't give a damn what they do with him.” As a second offender Scalise faces | & mandatory sentence of 15 to 30 years if convicted of a felony. Convicted for White Slavery. Scalise, who served tour and one- half years in Atlanta Federal Prison for white slavery in 1913 and since has been turned down twice in at- tempts to obtain a presidential par- don and restoration of civil rights, was fingerprinted and arraigned in General Sessions Court before Judge Jacob Gould Schurman, jr. He was released in $40,000 bail posted by his union after spending the day in Tombs Prison. His sec- retary, Ann Kay, arrested Saturday as a material witness, was freed in $20,000 bail the union put up for her. Assistant District Attorney Mur- ray I. Gurfein said Scalise extorted money from hotels by threatening them with strikes, excessive wage increase demands and sabotage. “The union is for Scalise what a Jimmy is for a burglar,” Mr. Gurfein told Judge Schurman. “He ruled by fear and force.” Unionization Threat. The complain said that in “an- other type of extortion” demands were made upon window cleaning contractors whose men were not organized. “A threat to unionize would be made,” it continued. “The union would then start a drive, after which a demand for money to stop the organizing would be made. If the demand was refused, picket lines would be formed and the demands continued.” Mr. Gurfein named as co-conspir- ators with Scalise two other union officials—Izzy Schwartz, Eastern representative of the Building Serv- ice Union, and his brether, Louis Schwartz, president of Local 32-J. The Schwartz brothers, indicted February 28 on charges of conspir- acy to commit extortion, are free in $6,000 bail each. In San Francisco, Mr. Dewey said he had directed arrest of Scalise “after I was informed by telephone that he was getting ready to flee to Chicago.” Had Ticket to Chicago. Scalise, who was driven to the hatel in a station wagon by & chauf- feur from his recently purchased 27-room country home at Ridgefield, Conn,, had two suitcases and a ticket for Chicago at the time of his arrest. His attorney, John Kadel, said, however, that his client was going to Chicago on a routine business trip to discuss with the Executive Committee plans for the union’s international convention at Atlantic City in May. “This is good campaign material,” Mr. Kadel added. “This prosecution is rampant with politics. Scalise has been pilloried by Dewey and the press.” In defending Scalise, Mr. Kadel told Judge Schurman that his client was only 17 years old when he was convicted under the Mann Act and '-hlnlt he had since rehabilitated him- self. Was Twice Refused Pardon. Scalise, who is married and has & daughter, 18, told reporters he had quit school at 7 and worked as & mechanic for the and K streets N.W. Ford Motor Co. before his business career 2 collected | operators, | GEORGE SCALISE. —A. P. Wirephoto. | 8 an undertaker. He still owns a funeral parlor across the street from his home in Brooklyn. President Harding rejected his petition for an Executive pardon in 1923 and the Department of Justice last year balked his second attempt by refusing the pass on it favorably. The union leader, who had ap- | peared unperturbed in court, later told reporters heatedly that he was | “a victim of political aspirations” and was being used as “a political football.” In a new campaign against the workers, ditch, with complete faith in American deceny and justice,” he said in a statement. Berlin (Continued From First Page.) Oslo via Kristiansand to Stavanger has been established. “German troops advancing in the Oslo region northward and north- westward encountered Norwegian troops and overwhelmed them. | the course of the fights our troops took Gjovik and Lillehammer as well | as elevated terrain at Lundhadge. The opponent suffered heavy losses. “Larger fighting plane units suc- cessfully attacked British attempts at landing troops near Namsos and Andalsnes and destroyed places oc- cupied by British troops as well as railways. “One British destroyer was struck and two enemy merchant ships sunk. Despite bad weather German fighting planes co-operated in break- ing enemy resistance north of Hamar and destroyed the enemy’s rear rail connections. “An arsenal of the Oslo garrison, filldd with large quantities of muni- tions and supplies, was discovered at Hevedoeya and seized. Two enemy submarines were destroyed in the course of a submarine hunt in the Skagerrak and Kattegat. “Work was resumed on the Nor- weeian naval wharf at Horten. “The airforce continued recon- of the North Sea. British airplanes attacked the airport at Aalborg (Denmark) causing neither person- nel nor material damage. In the course of the attack three British planes were shot down. Another was shot down during the night over the German coastal region. “In the west no special develop- ment. German planes, in the course of reconnaissance over France, flew of the day several air fights devel- oped, in which two British and two French planes were shot down. Three German planes failed to re- turn. One German plane was forced to land in Swiss territory owing to lack of fuel.” Kingston, Jamaica, has a slum clearance program. o “I know this is the opening gun | standards of the building service | I will fight it to the last | In| naissance of the sea region around Narvik, along the Norwegian west ' coast and over the northern part | as far as Bordeaux. In the course ! By THOMAS R. HENRY. Water jet surgery, an hitherto un- suspected way of getting through the | skin without breaking it, was de- | scribed for the first time to the Na- tional Academy of Sciences meeting here today. Extremely fine needles of water propelled with a force of 15,000 pounds per square inch will go through the interstices of the sup- | posedly watertight human skin and | penetrate the underlying tissues, n! was announced by Drs. G. Failla and T. B, Folsom of Memorial Hos- pital. New York. This newly dis- covered phenomenon, they explained, may prove of some value in the| treatment of cancer, although as yet | it is in a highly experimental stage. A recently proposed technique is | to introduce water into a malignant | tumor before bombarding it with X-rays. The water molecules act like planted bombs in the tissue. Struck by the X-rays they send out | fragments to hit and kill nearby | | cells. The technique up to the| ! present has been to introduce water | | into the malignant growth by means | of an extremely small needle. During the past two or three years | hundreds of “artificial radiums’ | have been produced by bombard- ment of atoms. Some of these can be obtained in the form of liquid | | solutions or suspensions. Best effects | are produced if they can actually | be put inside a cancer. The new | water jet surgery offers the best | method of getting them there. | The technique first occurred to them, the New York doctors said, from observation of a curious in]uryK to oil workers working with oil under | high pressure. The particles of oil were found in tissues at some dis-| tances under the skin. The men had not been aware that this had happened. The penetration had gone on without any discomfort. Experimenting with water jets, Dr. Failla said, they have found that a stream two-thousands of an inch in diameter will go through the “ skin to a depth of nearly an inch, | | depending on the nature of the tis- | sue underneath. Such a jet willl | penetrate nearly 3 inches through the skin and into the flesh of a raw potato. . They have not yet determined, however, the optimum pressure or jet diameter. Also, they stressed, there is one serious objection to this hydrosurgery—the amount of air which will be carried into the tissue with the water unless special safe- guards are taken. Up to the present, they said, they have been upable to find any very decided advantage for their new method over putting water into tumois by fine needles. Race Vanished Without Trace. The long search for the red man’s Eden may have ended in the cold, desolate depths of Siberia, Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, curator of physical ane thropology of the Smithsonian In- stitution, told the academy. In the country watered by the Angara River a race vanished with- out a trace between 2,000 and 3,000 years ago. They were men of the new stone age. They constitute a missing link between the cave man of the East European ice age and the copper-skinned aboriginals found in the New World by the earliest white explorers, Dr. Hrdlicka said. Many of their skulls and other bones have been preserved, Dr. Hrdlicka said. He made an inten- sive study of them this summer, in co-operation with Russian anthro- pologists. They not only correspond closely to the bones of the American Indian in general, he said, but to FIRE ESCAPES FRED S. GICHNER IRON WORKS, INC. RE. 2420 Spend a Glorious Vacation in Historic Tidewater Virginia Sunshine and brac- ing salt air are Na- ture’s best Spring Tonic. Rest, relax, save 200 miles over- night. Forget busi- ness and social duties. Take your car. Only a few miles over mod- ern roads to ancient Williamsburg, James- town, Yorktown and other historic shrines. AUTOS, $1.00 NORFOLK-WASHINGTON LINE CITY TICKET OFFICE - 1427 ST.N.W.- NA (520 - DI —A. P. Wirephoto. Water Jet Surgery Announced; May Help in Cancer Treatment those of two specific Indian groups. One of these is the Algonkin-Sho- shonean family. The Algonkins oc- cupied most of the Atlantic Sea- board of North America as far south as North Carolina in the 17th and early 18th centuries. The Shosho- neans, split into many subgroups, were the people of California. Al- though speaking entirely distinct languages, these peoples had various physical characteristics in common. The second major group is the Piman-Aztec, of the same family as the highly advanced Indians con- quered by Cortez in Mexico. Similarities Apparent. If the Angara bones were mixed with the bones of these two Indian races, Dr. Hrdlicka said, an experi- enced anthropologist could not sort them. But when the Siberian bones are studied apart, he explained, the similarities to the men of the late ice age in Europe and Asia be- come apparent. The Angarans lived several thousand years after the re- treat of the ice. Although no physical types cor- responding to the Indians are found in this region today, Dr. Hrdlicka said, he found many individuals, both men and women, who could hardly be distinguished from In-| dians along the northern Yenisei River, one of the great streams of Siberia of which the Angara is a tributary. Studying skulls in museums scat- tered over Russia, Dr. Hrdlicka said, he found group after group from the native populations with strong resemblances to both the In- dians and the Eskimos, whom he believes to be closely related peoples. It now is generally admitted, Dr. Hrdlicka said, that the homeland of the Indian must have been in Siberia and that the original road by which the American continent was peopled was by way of Kam- chatka and Alaska. Present Siberian aboriginals have various physical and cultural resemblances to the Indians, but these are not close enough to constitute unbroken links. Wages-Hours Forum To Be Held Tomorrow Mrs. William Kittle, chairman of the Minimum Wage Board; Miss Louise Stitt, director of the Labor Department’s Division of Minimum Wages, and David Ziskind, senior attorney at the Labor Department, will be speakers in a “wages-hours forum” at 8:15 pm. tomorrow, at the Y. W. C. A, Seventeenth and K streets N.W. The program is sponsored by the District Women's Trade Union League in co-operation with the Hotel and Restaurant Employes’ Al- liance, the United Office and Pro- fessional Workers, the Domestic Workers’ Union and the Cleaning and Laundry Workers’ Union. ANNOUNCING THE GRAND DAIKER’S RESTAURANT 824 14th 100 PER GENT uilu EMPLOYEES [Eight-Day Celebration 0f Passover Stars in Jewish Homes Today Families Will Gather at Table at Sundown to Symbolize the Exodus Symbolizing the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt and their 40 years in the wilderness, Jewish homes today will start their eight- day celebration of Passover. Jewish families will gather around the table at sundown for the Seder, which tells the story of the Passover. Unleavened bread, or matsos, and bitter herbs will be eaten to symbol- ize the flight and the hard days of wandering. In orthodox synagogues, services will begin at sundown and will be held again tomorrow and Wednes- day mornings. A special service will be held in the Washington Hebrew Congregation Temple tomorrow at 10:45 a.m,, with Rabbi Norman Ger- stenfeld discussing “The Ideal of Freedom.” Young men’s and women'’s Hebrew associations throughout the United States will hold public Seder rites tonight and tomorrow night and the Hebrew Sheltering Society will cele- bate Passover both nights for tran- slents and those without family con- nections. £ Enlisted Jewish men in the Army, Navy, Coast Guard and C. C. C. will be granted furloughs for the holidays and the United States Vet- erans’ Administration will also grant leave to disabled Jewish veterans if their condition permits. Unleavened bread and prayerbooks will be dis- tributed by the Jewish Welfare Board to enlisted men of Jewish faith. At the beginning of the Seder service, the youngest member of the household traditionally asks his father four questions to find out “why is this night different from all other nights.” To answer him, the father tells the story of the hurried departure from Egypt, explaining that un- leavened bread is eaten because the Jews left with the dough that had been prepared for baking the fol- lowing day. Bitter herbs remind the Jews of the suffering of their fore- fathers in the wilderness. During the service, the door is left open to signify a welcome to hungry travelers and an empty chair is left at the table. Frank L. Weil, president of the National Jewish Welfare Board, New York, in a Passover message broad- cast yesterday over a Nation-wide hookup urged his radio audience to “leave nothing undone to assure the continuance of our great democracy | in the form in which it was con- ceived, fought for and dedicated by the Revolutionary fathers.” This is essential, he indicated, in these days of blackouts abroad, adding: “The torch of liberty must pe kept burning brightly in Amer- ica.” Mr. Weil and Rabbi Milton Stein- berg of the Park Avenue Synagogue, who also spoke, both stressed the significance of the Passover festival of liberation in the light of present- | day attacks upon human rights and | political freedom. ar gt RUG Beauty Our Duty | cLsaned and sY0 Call Mr.Pyle na.3257 SANITARY CARPET & RUG-CLEANING CO. 106 INDIANA AVE. YES, & Moustcis Valley Minerol Y Water, bacouse it . ., 1. Stimulates Kidney function 2. Soothes Bladder irritetipn 3. Helpy discharge poissesss wostes 4. 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