Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-16
TWO AMERICANS WIN
Share in Red Cross Prizes
From Empress Fund.
LESAGE GETS LARGE AWARD
Partisan Invents Portable X.Ray
Laboratory for Autos.
CHANGES ARE PROPOSED
Russian Delegates Suggest Altera-
ton in Rules Governing Use
of Royal Gift.
ARE PROPOSED

Inc jury having IN charge the award
ing Of prizes from the fund Of the EN-
press Marie Feodorovns for inventions
designed to lessen the suffering of sick
and wounded soldierr at this mornings
session Of the ninth International Red
Cross conference announced the. list Of
winners. Two Americans, Capt. Henry
L. Brown and Maj. p. 8. Halloran. both
OF the Army Medical Corps, Capt Brown
being stationed at Fort Slocum, N. Y,
and Maj. Halloran at the Walter Reed
Hospital, this city, are among the prize
winners. The list follows:
First prize. 5000 ruables about 5000.
DR.. Louis Lesage of Paris, chief Of the
laboratory Of electrotherapy and radio
therapy of the Necker Hospital. for a
portable X-ray laboratory for use in con-
nection with an automobile.
Two second prizes. of 5000 rubles each
one to G. Steindorf, Golzow, Germany, for
a bicycle stretcher: the other to Maj.
Riggenbach. of Casernes Bale. Switzer-
land, for folding wheeled stretcher.
Win the Third Prizes.
Six third prizes Of 1000 rubles each
Capt. Henry L. Brown. Army Medical
Corps. Fort Slocum, N. Y, portable wash
stand. adapted for pack mule Transports
ton; Col. Pick. Vienna, Austria, sanitary
equipment for mountain columns: DR..
Glinsky, st. Petersburg, Russia, portable
folding stretcher; Maj. p. s. Halloran,
Walter Reed Hospital. same; Capt. Fran
cesco Roselli, Lieut.. Col Taschetti and
Col Abbamondi. Medical Corps. Rome,
same: J. Lnxweiler, Kissingen. Germany,
arrangements for elastic suspension Of
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system OF storing with fixing at ceiling
OF the car.
A cablegram announcing the result of
the prize competition was sent to the
Empress Marie Feodorovna who is visit
ing at Marlborough House, England.
TOday's proceedings included the read
ing Of papers on number OF Red Cross
activities both in this country and abroad
Mira Ali Kuh Khan. Persian charge
d'anaires in Washington, presented q
paper on help and assistance rendered in
Persia In ancient and modern times.
Changes Are Proposed.
number Of changes were proposed for
the statutes governing the Empress Eco
dorovna International fund, members Of
the Russian Red Cross making the sug-
gestions. Miss Boardman. Of the Amer
lean Red Cross. suggested. in connection
with discussion Of measures for increas-
Ing the Augusta fund and extending its
use. that the international committee
would do we'll to establish travelling schol-
arships. the expenses to be paid from the
income OF this fund, and those selected to
travel under such scholarships to inves-
tigate and report on various phases Of
Red Cross work in the different countries
Miss Boardman also read a paper pre-
pared by Huntington Wilson. assistant
secretary of state. on international as
sistance rendered by the American Red
Cross in time Of disaster.
Other matters discussed at todays ses-
mission having In charge the Nightingale
foundation. q fund being raised by the
International Red Cross, to be used in
the establishment OF some permanent
memorial in honor OF Florence Nightingale:
q paper by Maj. F. F. Russell Of the
Army Medical Corps on the results Of
typhoid vaccination in the United States:
q report on the work OF the Greek Red
Cross, by DR.. Theodore P. Ion, delegate
from the Greek Red Cross Society. and a
paper by Prof. Wreden OF the Russian
Red Cross on the usefulness of cards In
aiding the Identification Of wounded men
transferred from war ships after action.
Today's activities will conclude with the
banquet at the New Willard this even
ing, the banquet being rendered by the
American National Red Cross to the visit
Ing foreign delegates.
Take Trip to Mount Vernon.
Despite the showers yesterday after
noon. a large number OF the delegates to
the conference made the trip to Mount
Vernon. going down on the electric cars
and returning on board the yacht May
flower. M. Gustav Ador. president Of
the international Red Cross committee,
acting for the delegates. placed q superb
white lilies. on the tomb Of Washington,
the wreath being the tribute OF the Red
Cross delegates to the memory Of the