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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-04
MAN IN YELLOW FEVER TESTS
GETS u. S. PENSION AND MEDAL
Clyde |. West, Who Offered
Self for Experiments,
Recalls Days in Cuba.
Now Resident of RiverdaIe,
He Tells of Lying in Coma
Three or Four Days.

TFhirty-ons years after he faced death
in order that humanity might be saved
from the ravages of yellow fever, Clyde
l.. Vests sacrifice has been recognized
officially by his Government.
West has Just received from Secre-
tary of the Treasury Mellon a hand
some .gaid medal, valued at about $3.50,
together with a monthly lifetime pen
sion OF SIPS. awarded because he al
lowed himself to be bitten by fever
laden mosquitoes in the famous Walter
Reed yellow fever experiments in Cuba
in 1900.
The pension and medals were au.
thorized by Congress February %, 1929,
to be awarded to all survivors of the
tests and poSthumously to those who
died since or during the experiments.
Recalls PeriIous Test.
Now gray-haired middle-aged man,
West recalled yesterday how he became
infected with the deadly fever and lived
to tell the tale. He was only a kid
then. he said.
Soldiers were dying right and left
by the hundreds when our commanding
officer asked for volunteers to become
infected with the fever. / was a hos
pital corpSman and had been working
right with the fever, carrying out dead
bodies and tending the sick, but
stepped forward to. volunteer guess
did it without thinking.
After a few days. Dr. Roger Post
AmeS, commandant of the hospital, sent
for me. He said DR.. James Carroll.
who was working with DR.. Reed in the
experiments, wanted to see me in the
yellow fever ward. I went there-a
little shack isolated from the rest of
the hospital-and DR.. Carroll said he
wanted to inject the blood of a sick
patient into my veins.
incubation Fails.
There was a man lying on a cot I'M
conscious. Dr. Carroll took some blood
cut of his back and Squirted it into the
veins of my arm.
THE patient died that night, but I
never caught the fever-not that time,
at any rate
When they saw I was immune to
the blood infection they sent for me
again. Go to the mosquito house 1
was told There I met DR.. Carroll
again. There were a dozen different
varieties of mosquitoes in jars all along
the walls of the shack.
DIR. Carroll told me to roll up my
sleeve and put my arm down against
the gauZe covering the jars I did
and, believe me, those mosquitoes sure
did bite. They had been starved par
ticularly for the purpose of biting me.
DR.. Carroll held a microscope over
them, and I watched them suck the
blood right out of my arm until they
were so full they just fell over back
ward.
We'll. nothing happened for three or
four days. Then one day while was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-04
INSTITUTE PATRONS
LIST ANNOUNCED
Prominent D. C. Residents
Sponsor Fifth Season of
Community RecitaIS.

A list of guarantors has been COM
pleted for the fifth season OF the Com
munity Institute of Washington. The
first event az Central Community Cen.
ter will be a joint recital October 20
by Katherine Homer, pianist, and
Louise Homer Stires, lyric soprano.
Among the guarantors will be Byron
S. Adams, Justice Jesse c. Adkins,
Henry P. Blair. Henry N. Brawfler, jr:
H. K. Bush-Brown, DR.. William Earl
Clark, William Knowles Cooper, Will
liam Lee Corbin. F. G. CottreH, J.
Harry Cunningham. Charles Demonet,
E. F. Droop g. Sons Co., John Joy
Edison, w. w. Everett, Robert v. Flem-
ing, Isaac Cans, julius Garfnckel,
Henry Gilligan, E. c. Graham, ]. Phil
lip Hermann, Frank r. Jelleff, DR..
Loren B. T. johnson, r. M Kauff-
mann, DR.. L. F. Kebler. Paul Lum,
John B. Larner, DR.. A. Barrett Learned,
M. A. Leese, Thomas P. Littlepage,
Gideon A. Lyon, Judge Walter F. Nc
Coy, DR.. Edward B. MeigS, Raymond
Morgan, Frank B. Moves, Theodore w.
Noyes, Julius Peyser, Samuel j. Pres
colt. George Kicker. Cuno H. Rudolph,
r. H. Sergeant. James Sharp. George
Otis Smith, DR.. Philip Sidney Smith. H.
B. Spencer, Gen. Anton Stephan, Sid
ney Strauss, Corcoran Thorn. Twentieth
Century Club, o. l.. Veerhoff, George
w. White. George M. Whitwell and
Donald Woodward.
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eating dinner-I believe it was on the
fourth day-a chill hit me like a pile
driver had struck me on the head.
Il knew then that I had yellow fever.
Boys, I've gotAt,' SAID.
MY temperature was 100. 1t kept
rising: at / o'clock it was 10l, going up
all the time. At 5 o'clock they put me
in, an ambulance and sent me to the
the same little shack where
was inoculated. After l got in ped !
don't remember any thing MORE
must have been unconscious for three,
perhaps four. days.
when I came to I wanted to eat.
DOC says to DR.. Pope, how about
some food?'
"'Well, we'll says the doc, you're
really hungry, are you?'
You bet I am replied.
How would you like something
solid-that would hit the spot, wouldn't
it?' says the doc o. X, I answered
"'Give West a hunk Of ice, DIR. Pope
ordered the nurse.
Stands and Keels Over.
We'll. it was just the same when I
was allowed to gSt out OF bed. DR.
Pope told me I cotSl get up and move
around l thought he meant to put
my clothes on and go for walk. I
sent for my uniform, put my clothes on
while sitting on the bed and when I
stood up fell fiat on my nose on the
floor"
West said that for going through
with the experiment he was paid 500
by the Cuban government and when he
recovered he received another 500.
Two Men Here HOnOred.
The idea that mosquitoes carried the
yellow fever germ, West said, origi-
mated with DR.. Carlos j. Finlay. who
was then president of the Superior
Board of Health of Cuba. DR.. Finlay's
theory was proved correct by Drs. Reed
and Carroll who conducted their ex-
periments at the request of Gen. Leon
ard Wood, Army surgeon. who at that
time was governor general of Cuba.
West lives at $50 Maryland avenue.
Riverdale, Md. and is one of two men
in Washington receiving the medal
The other is Thomas England. a captain
in the Office of the surgeon general of
the U. S. Army.
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DOCK MEN BATTLE
AT PIER |N,BOSTON
Colored Non-Union Workers
and Longshoremen Riot,
With Score Injured.
BY the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
BOSTON, October 3-One man was
wounded critically and a score more
were injured today in a bitterly fought
clash between striking union longshore-
men and colored non-union workers at
Commonwealth Pier. Firearms. knives.
bale hooks and clubs were used freely
in the conflict. 1t was the first serious
outbreak since so longshoremen en-
ployed by the Luckenbach Steamship
Line went on strike early in the week.
Charles j. Coles, so, a on-union COL
ored worker, suffered skull and arm
fractures. Several shots we're fired dur
ing the battle, but no one was reported
struck by bullets. Coles and others who
suffered stab wounds and less serious
injuries were taken to hospitals after
police, some of whom discharged their
pistols into the air, halted the fighting.
No arrests were made.
Stabbing Precipitates Riot.
The conflict was the climax of
series OF minor assaults and demonstra-
tons which have occurred since the
Luckenbach strikers were replaced by
colored non-union workers several days
ago. The flare-up came, police said,
when q group of colored workers on o
Luckenbach liner attacked a union
longshoreman employed on the Ameri-
can-Hawaiian liner Californian. The
unin man was stabbed in the struggle.
His fellow workers rushed to his res
cue. precipitating a general outbreak Of
fighting
Approximately 100 men participated
in the fighting. and many of them
we're knocked unconscious as impro-
Vlsed weapons were swung with
abandon and police welded their clubs.
A motor cycle officer, caught in the
enclosure where the fighting ragged,
drove his vehicle into groups of the
battlers. He succeeded in putting many
Of them out Of action temporarily.
Police Reserves Called Out.
Reserve officers from station IL,
South Boston. fastened to the pier and
assisted in quelling the outbreak. The
combatants were lined up for a search,
which brought forth specimen Of al
most every known type Of pocket
weapon.
When reports of the fighting reached
police headquarters officers off duty
were ordered to report TO their respec-
tive stations and plans were laid for
action in the event Of another out
break.
Work Resumed on Deadline.
Gov. Joseph B. Ely, when informed
of the clash, threaened to close the
pier, which is owned by the State, I'M
, less guarantee was given that there
would be no more fighting. Gov. Ely
has taken major part in attempts TO
settle wage and sling load weight dis
agreements which nave been respon-
sible for strikes at the Commonwealth
and other piers on the waterfront
The union workers did not resume
| their work on the Hawaiian American
vessels Californian and Iowan after
| the fighting, and officials Of that line
! demanded increased police protection
| for them. This was granted, and after
Dnoontime the union men went to work
| on the Hawaiian Line steamers while
police patrolled a deadline which had
| been established between them and
| the non-union colored workers working
/ on the Luckenbach vessels.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-04
BLONDES PREFERENCE
IN LONDON PASSES NOW
Hair Expert Says Platinum Ones
Acquire Blue-Black Locks
by Rush to Dye Tresses.

LONDON, IN. A. N. A. october. g.
Whatever Anita Loos may say, gentle
men no longer prefer blondes-accord-
ing to Mr. Mark; and he should know,
for - once wrestled with the locks of
Hollywood film stars and is now in
charge of the hairdressing establishment
of a celebrated west end hotel.
Perhaps it is the longer skirts which
favor the more serious grace associated
with dark-haired beauties or it may be
that dolls" have palled in their at
traction.
Blondes are finished" said Mr. Mark
seriously. In the past fortnight have
had 80 platinum blondes here to be
dyed blue black There was the
obvious reaction. There were too many
blondes. The fashion now is to be
blue black in the. Spanish style. and the
women are f1ocking to be tinted In
that way. AS for the complexion, the
olive sunburn that goes with blue black
is the newest mode"
Copyright. 1881. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Incl
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-04
WEST POINTERS WANT
TO WAKE UP EARLIER
Ask That Reveille Be Sounded at
$50 SO They Can Get in
More Studying.
enec,al Dispstch to The Star,

Special Dispatch to The Star.
WEST POINT. N. Y, October Sat
the formal request of the cadet student
body itself first call for reveille at the
United States Military Academy here
has been advanced from $40 am. to
$50 am.
Last Spring, at the close of the aca-
demic year, Maj. Gen. William r.
Smith. commandant of the Point" re-
tarded reveille half an hour. giving the
cadets eight and one-half hours of
slumber instead of the usual eight
hours His move at the time was hailed
by the student army officers
Now that formal studies are again
under way after the Summer vacation,
the cadets have found that the addi-
tional half hour in the morning is
needed more for study than for sleep.
1t is recalled that 100 years ago
reveille at West Point sounded at 4:30
am. and the cadets drilled from $50
until $50 am. before a 7 o'clock break
fast
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-04
Actress Gets Divorce

LOS ANGELES, October 8 LP).-Ann
Brown. motion picture actress, today
was granted divorce from Jack Shutta,
cafe entertainer. on the ground that be
was OBJECTIONABLE Jealous
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-04
ST|MSON TO OPEN |
FARLEY ON TRADE !.
Pan-AmeriCan Meeting Set
for 10 O'Clock, With 500
Delegates Attending.

Secretary of State Stimson, chair
man of the Board Of Governors Of the
Pan-American Union, will open the
fourth Pan-American Commercial Con-
ference in the Pan-American Building
at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning when
500 men, active in the business life
of the Americas, convene to consider
important international trade problems.
Speakers at the opening session of
the eight-day conference will include
Secretary Of. Commerce Lamont, Silas
H. Strawn, president of the Chamber of
Commerce of the United States; Henry
p. Fletcher, chairman of the United
States Tariff Commission, and Luis o.
Abelli, minister from Bolivia to the
United States.
According to DR. Leo s. Rowe. director
general of the Pan-American Union.
sponsor Of the conference, the sessions
are timely because of the problems now
facing business in the United States
and 20 other American republics.
The timeliness with which the con-
ference Is being held" Dr. Rowe de-
clared in a statement last night, lis in
dicated clearly by the widespread re-
Spouse to the invitations to participate
The governments, as we'll as the numer-
Gus chambers OF commerce, trade groups
and schools Of business administration,
which will be represented at the gather
ing evidently consider that the present
offers most timely opportunity to give
carefully studied thought to trade and
allied problems"
The main purpose of the conference.
nT cd {e 10 ia -
benefit inter-American trade and COM
merce through the removal of obstacles
which now stand in the way of progress
and the measures that may be adopted
to promote that trade" Topics on the
conference program, he said, cover
every vital phase of American
commerce.
These topics include inter-American
commercial relations, production and
distribution. financial and economic
problems of the American republics, all
OF which will be considered in the
plenary sessions The group meetings
will consider trade barriers. trade pro-
motions, transportation and commune
cation. consular procedure, customs reg
ulation, finance and judicial questions.
The delegates will be entertained at
luncheon tomorrow by Secretary of the
Treasury Mellon, at the Pan American
Union Building. other items on the
official entertainment program include
reception by the Pan American
Union; a garden party at Secretary
Stimson's home, a visit to Mount YER
non. and luncheons to be given by Sec
rotary Lamont. the United States
Chamber Of Commerce and the Car
negie Endowment for international
Peace. DR.. Julius Klein, Assistant Sec
rotary of Commerce, will be host to
the delegates on a trip down the Po-
tomac River aboard the S. S. Oceanog-
rapher. oficial vessel Of the Department
Of Commerce in survey work.
At the close of the conference. the
visiting delegates from the Latin
| American countries will tour the lead
ing industrial centers of the Eastern
Seaboard. Cities which will be visited
are Philadelphia, Baltimore. Harrisburg
| Pittsburgh, Akron, Detroit, Buffalo
Rochester, Schenectady, Boston. Hart
ford. New Haven and New York.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-04

WORKOUT business men, not for
Methodist preachers He urged a
group of young clergymen not to give
the public the impression they had
nothing to do but play.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-04
FERRY'S S 0 S BRINGS
AID TO QUELL BATTLE
Driver Takes on Trio on Boat, but
Officer Refuses Offer and
Arrests Him.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, October (N.AN.A).-
To the young man who has regularly
been advertising in the agony column
of a morning paper, young man wants
exciting work" we have the suggestion
that he join the engine room force of
the Staten Island ferry or the harbor
police.
One of the ferries that plies between
the Battery and st. George sent out
this week the first S o S call on rec
ord caused by the fighting proves of
one man. It seems that Matthew Ma
varTa bumped another mans car as he
drove onto the ferry.
There came an alteration, which
Navarro won handily. The mate of the
boat protested and was Immediately
taken on. Meanwhile, the boat was
churning toward the Battery. A hasty
conference on the bridge brought up a
husky oiler from the engine room, and
when he seemed to be weakening the
S o S was blared from the siren. The
harbor was in an uproar.
A patrolman boarded the ship, de-
clined Navarra's sparring offer and ar
rested him on three charges.
Copyright. 1881. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Incl
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-04

Golf for Preachers Deplored.
COLUMBIA, KY. Golf, thinks
Bishop w. F. McMurray of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church South, is for
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for-President Club, and later changed
to next week, will not be held until
october 10. the day before the Governor
heads North for the Yorktown battle
celebration and Albany.
DR.. r. B. Gilbert, president of the
club. announced the change in dates.
He said all so or more Roosevelt-fo
President Clubs in Georgia were in
vited The Governor asked that poll
tics be left out of the homecoming
Next Wednesday group of Georgia
educators will lunch with Mr.. Roosevelt
for discussion of the Warm Springs
Foundation movement. The group will
be made up of DR. Spright Dowell,
president Mercer University. Macon.
Ga: DR.. Harvey Cox, president Emory
University, Atlanta: DR.. j. r. Mccain.
president Agnes Scott College, Decatur.
Ga. and DR.. NJ. l.. Britain. president
Georgia Tech.
Mrs. Roosevelt Leaves.
Mrs Roosevelt left for New York to-
day. cutting short her vacation because
of the opening of Todd Hunter School.
Of which she is vice principal. She
also wanted to be at home when her
two sons leave for school, one for Har-
ward and the other for Groton.
Clark Howell. editor of the Atlanta
Constitution, his son and his daughter
in-law. were luncheon guests of Mr.
and Mrs Roosevelt today Mr.. Howell
formerly was Georgia's Democratic
national committeeman.
Bernarr McFadden, publisher, who
has been visiting Roosevelt, left today
for Lebanon Tenn. Mr. McFadden.
travelling by plane, few from Newark
to Fort Benning. Ga, in hours and
Is minutes on the trip down. He was
here to look over the Warm Springs
Foundation.
A sportsman in Scotland Is reported
to have shot a salmon with his rife,
after which the bullet ricochetted and
brought down a stag on the bank.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-04
Russians Plan Arctic Trip.

| 1.ENINGRAD.-The Soviet Russian
Arctic Institute is preparing to send
an unnamed scientific expedition into
the Arctic. A small boat, now under
construction, will be equipped with
automatic meteorological instruments
and set adrift. The institute figures
the craft will move eastward from
Boring Straits and will be gone about
Q year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-04
Theft Victim Wears Khan Robe.

CHICAGO.-Jack Hannah lost his
raiment to robbers and then was
hauled into court to explain. The
police rummaged around and found a
garment which had been seized in a
raid several years ago That was why
Hannah went before the judge in the
white robe of Ku Klux Klansman.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-04

A sportsman in Scotland is reported
to have shot a salmon with his rife,
after which the bullet ricochetted and
brought down stag on the bank.
Evening star., 1931-04-09
G. u. NINE ANXIOUS
TO GET SOME Toll
Making Seventh Attempt to Open
Home Season-G. w. Golfers
in Match Tomorrow.

~EORGE'rOWN was to make
its seventh attempt to open
its home base ball season
today with Princeton as It's
opponent.
The game was carded for o'clock
on the Georgetown Prep School dia-
mond at Garrett Park, on the Rock
vile road about Z miles from the Dis
trict line.
Georgetown got in a fairly good drill
for the tilt in an hours workout yes
terday at the Hilltop.
George Washington will make its
debut in golf tomorrow with Boston Col
lege as its rival in a match over the
course of the Indian Spring Club.
John Shorey, John Thacker, Charlie
Cole and Tom Elliott comprise the
Colonial quartet.
Maryland will open its home base ball
season tomorrow with a double -header
with North Carolina on the College
Park diamond. Play will start at 2:3o
o'clock, with the second game being
limited to seven innings.
In a recent Southern trip Maryland
won two of four games and had three
prevented by rain. A clash listed with
Penn State at College Park also was
rained out.
G. Brown Miller, a Washingtonian,
is member of the golf team at the
University Of Virginia.
Evening star., 1931-04-09
MARYLAND" BEATEN
IN FOOT BALL GAME
Fleck and Dawson Cross Goal for
Penn in Opener Of Navy's
Practice Series.

ANNAPOLIS, April 9.-The Uni
versity Of Pennsylvania defeated Mary
land in the first Of the series Of foot
ball games at the Naval Academy, which
mark the closing weeks Of the Spring
practice.
The teams of Midshipmen, as equally
balanced as possible. are named after
the Navy's chief opponents for the COM
ing season, and it fell to the lot Of
Pennsylvania and Maryland to be the
first exponents of Navy foot ball played
according to the Notre Dame system
taught by Rip Miller and his aids.
For Pennsylvania, Fleck and Dawson
scored touchdowns, while Maryland
blocked q kick and scored a safety.
Fleck ran SO yards on a true Notre
Dame of tackle play, and Dawson, who
played center, recovered tumble and
ran a like distance for a touchdown.
On Saturday, Notre Dame and Prince
ton, likewise composed of Navy players,
will meet. The preliminary games con-
sist of two 15-minute periods, but the
final game, for the intfamural cham
pionship, will be full time and in every
particular like match game.
The foot ball yesterday attracted
considerable gallery and aroused much
interest.
Evening star., 1931-04-09
WEST, SOUTH, EAST
IN SHUTTLE EVENT
480-Yard Hurdle Relay in
Penn Games Already Has
Half Dozen Entries.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, April O.
Three sections of the country will fight
1t out for championship honors in the
48O-yard shuttle hurdle relay cham
pionship at the University of Penn
sylvania relay carnival on Franklin
Field April "a and rs.
With more than q week remaining
before the close Of team and individual
entries for the two-day carnival, H.
Jamison Swarts, manager of the relays,
hss received entries from six colleges
for the hurdle race.
Washington and Lee, from the South,
Ohio State and Michigan State from
the West, and Yale, Army and New
York University from the East have
entered teams This is the best entry
since the event was added to the pro-
gram in 1926.
More Expected.
Before the entries close, Manager
Swarts expects to have at least 10
and perhaps IL colleges in the event.
The Army quartet of 1929 holds the
record for the event of ! minute 33s
seconds Last year Yale, in winning,
was timed in / minute 4 $40 seconds.
The Ellis will rule the favorites for
the event because of the presence Of
three members Of last years quartet
on the team. A. G. De Voc, H. Brereton
and j. s. Tritle, were members of the
winning team in 1880. @. s. Lockwood
has been nominated as the fourth
member of the combiation.
Two members of the Yale team nm
ished among the first five in the 10
yard high hurdle race in the indoor
intercollegiate, De Voc finishing Sec
ond to Record of Harvard and Brere-
ton coming fourth.
Evening star., 1931-04-09
HANGS UP 14TH RECORD

CHICAGO, April 9 (P).-Heigh no!
Helene Madison, 17-year-old Seattle,
Wash, swimmer, has lowered another
record
Resuming her campaign to gather up
all women's records, the Seattle star
last night trimmed one and three
tenths seconds from the 75-yard free
style mark of 0:45.1, established in 1925
by Ethel Lackie
The accomplishment gave her pos
session of IA out of 16 records.
Evening star., 1931-04-09
BASKET OFFICIALS
HAVE HELPED GAME
Beckett Has Been President Of As
sociation Since It Was Formed
Decade Ago.

One of the best influences In the
growth of basket ball here has been the
Approved Basket Ball Oficials Associa-
ton.
bers, it now has around 80. The OBJ
ject Of the association is to provide eff
cient officials at reasonable charge.
Prof. c. Edward Beckett, physical di-
rector at the Central Y. NJ C. A., was
the first president of the organization
and has continuously held the post.
George F. Green was the first vice presi-
dent and Bryan Morse secretary-treas-
uFer.
Other charter members were K. B.
Fitzgerald, E. B. Fuller. w. N. Apple,
George F. Harbin, c. c. Dunn, F. C.
Schlosser, J. Y. Hughes and Edwin
Bratburd.