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Evening star., 1936-10-19
SWALLOWING One Steel Bead
4 Day Saues Life of Baby
Unique Treatment Ciren
to Keep Open Throat
Burned by Lye.
BY PHILIP H. LOVE.

Steel beads. swallowed at an aver
age rate of one a day for the last six
months. have saved the life of 20
month-old Robert Fowler in what Is
described by medical authorities as
the first course Of treatment Of its
kind on record in this country.
Bobby, whose esophagus was Sc
verely burned last April 20, when
he mistook a can of lye for some
thing more palatable, was near death
from starvation when an operation
by DR.. James A. Flynn made 1t pos.
sible for him to swallow the first bead.
DR.. Flynn, a nose and throat spe-
cialist, living at 1911 Rhode Island
avenue, learned the technique of the
strange treatments while studying at
the University of Bordeaux, in France,
about 10 years ago. The treatments
were originated by Prof. George Port
mann, the eminent French specialist,
recently called into consultation In
the case of Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hit
Ter. who is suffering from a severe
throat ailment.
Finds Hidden Can.
Bobby, son of TyruS Fowler, a P.
w. A. clerk. was playing in the kitchen
of his home at 235 G street, when he
came across the can of lye.
Il don't know how he ever found
it, his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Fowler,
said today. 1T was hidden in an
old, unused ice box. and how he man
aged to undo the catch I can't imag-
inc.
II was in the next room, cleaning
up. Suddenly I heard him scream.
I ran into the kitchen. and there he
was with lye all over his mouth, cry
ing as loud as he could"
Mrs. Fowler rushed the baby to a
hospital, where he was treated for
several days and then discharged, ap-
parently well. Back home. however,
he refused to eat, and his weight soon
dropped from 80 pounds to Is.
He cried nearly all the time" Mrs.
Fowler related. Il knew he was
hungry. but he wouldn't take any
thing but water and, sometimes, ice
cream. I guess he felt like he was
on fire inside, and the water and ice
cream were the only things that gave
him any relief. I took him to several
doctors, but none of them could figure
out what was the matter. And all
the time he kept crying more and
more, and eating and drinking less
and less.
Throat Closes Up.
Finally his throat closed up alto
gether-he couldn't swallow a thing,
not even drop Of water. I took him
to Providence Hospital and the people
In charge there called DR.. Flynn.
There was an operation, then another,
then-well. think there were one or
two more, but I've lost track of them,
I've been so upset"
Although DR.. Flynn declined to dis
cuss the case, it was learned that
scar tissue forming in the infants
burned esophagus had caused the
organ to contract to such an extent
that the walls had virtually healed
together.
DR.. Flynn's first task was to run
an Irish linen thread down the childs
Evening star., 1936-10-19
DESTROYER CLAYTON
! HERE FOR NAVY DAY
70 Be Open to Public Inspection
Coast Guard Vessels Also
to Be on Display.

The destroyer Claxton and possibly
several Coast Guard vessels will be at
the Washington Navy Yard for the
Navy day observance October 27, and
will be open to the public.
Coast Guard officials said they were
hopeful the new 2000-ton cutter Will
liam j. Duane, which is due to arrive
here Wednesday, will be able to stay
over for Navy day. The cutter Apache
is certain to be here, they added. The
vessels here will be dressed in multi
colored flags, in keeping with GUS
tom, as orders are out for full dress
ship"
At Baltimore, there will be the
destroyer Leary and the submarines
$50 and S-10. The destroyer Bab-
bitt will be at Annapolis, and the
minesweeper Cormorant will be at
Alexandria, Va.
Other naval vessels will be scattered
h ports all along the seaboard.
Evening star., 1936-10-19
PLEA Of GUILTY
ENTERED BY TEAR
Smoke Screen and Assault
Charges Garry 3 to Is
Year Sentences.

Already under sentence for from
four months to two years imprison-
ment for conspiracy to violate the
internal revenue laws. George F.
Teddy Tear, "a, pleaded guilty be-
fore Justice Peyton Gordon in Dis
trict Court today to operating car
with smoke screen and assault with
a dangerous weapon.
He had been scheduled for trial,
but Unexpectedly changed previous
plea of not guilty to one of guilty.
The smoke screen and assault charges
carry possible sentences of from to
Is years. Tear was remanded to Jail
by Justice Gordon pending sentence.
Both crimes we're committed while
Tear was at liberty under bail pend
ing the disposition of his appeal in
the conspiracy case.
Pursued and Captured.
The assault indictment followed an
alleged effort by Tear on the morning
of April to wreck pursuing police
car Policemen William Thompson and
Irving Lubore, first precinct. reported
that they sighted two speeding auto
mobiles at Third street and Indiana
avenue and gave chase. Apparently
determined to prevent the officers from
catching the leading car. Tear. in the
second machine. allegedly made re-
peated efforts to force the police ma
chine into electric light poles and
trees along Constitution avenue. He
finally was captured at Fifteenth
street and Constitution avenue.
Captured After Release.
Following his arrest in this case,
he again was released on bond and
on August % was captured by Inter-
nal Revenue agents after allegedly op-
Grating smoke screen during high
speed chase through downtown Wash
ington.
Tear also is under a charge of as
sault with intent to kill in the shoot
ing several months ago of Joseph
O'Brien during reputed bootleggers'
war. That case has not been acted
on by the grand jury.
The conspiracy trial last March in
which Tear was convicted was the
largest. in number of defendants, in
the recent history of the local courts.
Tear and 16 others were found guilty
Of operating huge liquor ring here
which disposed of hundreds of thou
sands of gallons of illicit spirits. That
case was taken to the Court of Ap-
peals on the question of the legality
Of the trial jury, which included sew
eral Government employees, subse-
quently held by the appellate court
to be ineligible for such service.
Evening star., 1936-10-19
ILLNESS OF DELANO
MAY PREVENT SPEECH
Uncle Of President Had Been
Scheduled to Address Demo-
cratic Rally.

Illness may prevent Frederic A. Del
ano, President Roosevelts uncle, who
resides in Washington, from making
his maiden political speech, which was
scheduled to be delivered at rally of
local Democrats tonight at 1900 Rhode
Island avenue.
DeIano. who is chairman of the Ma
tional Capital Park and Planning
Commission. has been confined to his
bed more than a week. 1t was said
at his Office today that there is little
likelihood he will be well enough to
leave the house for several days.
Mr.. Delano has never taken any
active part in politics. The rally was
arranged by the Democratic Women's
National Council, of which Mrs.
Arthur Condit is president.
Evening star., 1936-10-19
EXHIBIT PLANNED

The Capital Homecraft Club will
meet tomorrow night at tire home of
George v. Gadde, 4535 Forty-third
place.
The club Is planning an exhibit Of
the work Of its members during the
week beginning October 81. The dis
play will be In the windows Of the
Postal Telegraph Co., NewfYork ave-
nlIe and Fifteenth street.
Evening star., 1936-10-19

throat, through the esophagus and
stomach and out of a rubber tube
inserted in the wall of the abdomen.
Since then, 26 beads, each slightly
larger than the preceding one, have
been placed on the string, the ends OF
which are tied together to form a loop.
Starting with a bead about one
fortieth of an inch in length, DR.
Flynn used one bead at a time, chang
ing every week or 10 days, depending
upon the condition Of the esophagus.
and gradually working up to Ia
inch bead.
Dangerous Cure.
BY swallowing each bead about once
a day, medical authorities explained,
Bobby has gradually enlarged his
esophagus to something approaching
a normal condition. The treatments
probably will have to be continued
for another six months or so, however,
before the baby can be pronounced
we'll
"I was so worried when Bobby swal-
lowed the first bead" Mrs. Fowler
said, that 1 didn't know what to do.
knew that If the bead made the
slightest tear in the esophagus 1t
meant death. But that risk was bet
ter than letting him starve to death.
But now I've had him home since
July and he's gained back all the
weight he lost and he can eat and
drink nearly everything he wants,
and-well. think those beads are
wonderful!
Evening star., 1936-10-19
PUBLIC HEARINGS
BEGIN FRIDAY ON
FISCAL RELATIONS
Jacobs Announces Scene in
Commercial National
Bank Building.
MAY BE RESUMED
SATURDAY AFTERNOON
Civic and Business Representatives
to Give Views Exhaustively
on Federal Sum.

Arrangements for the public hear
lngs to be granted representatives of
civic and business organizations vitality
interested in solution of the trouble
some fiscal relations problem were an
nounced today by j. L. Jacobs, Chi
cago efficiency engineer and tax ex-
pert, appointed by President Roose-
welt to direct a comprehensive study
to determine an equitable basis Of
Federal participation in the expenses
Of the District.
The hearings will begin Friday at
10 am. in room 208 of the CONNER
cial National Bank Building, Four
teenth and G streets, where Jacobs
and his staff have quarters.
Testimony will be taken throughout
the day and into the night, If neces-
sary, and also Saturday afternoon
and night. No hearing will be held
Saturday morning, in order to give
Jacobs and the Advisory Committee
the President named to assist him
an opportunity to analyze testimony
introduced at the initial session.
All Witnesses to Be Heard.
The Saturday afternoon session.
scheduled to start at 1870 o'clock. will
continue until all witnesses have been
heard.
Jacobs pointed out that represent
atives of the civic and business or
ganizations would be allowed all the
time necessary to present their argu-
ments, but explained that steps had
been taken to expedite the hearings
by requesting that briefs be filed in
advance of the hearings. He said a
number of briefs already had been
filed and representatives. of the or
ganizations submitting them would be
urged to summarize the arguments In
these documents during the hearings.
Organizations to Be Heard.
Organizations expected to have rep
fesentatives at the hearings INCLUDE
the Citizens Joint Committee on
Fiscal Relations, Washington Board
of Trade, Federation of Citizens Asso-
cations. Washington Real Estate
Board and Washington Taxpayers
Protective League. Peoples Counsel
William A. Roberts also has been in
vited to explain his plan for solving
the fiscal relations problem.
Jacobs said he and the Advisory
Committee had made considerable
progress in its study and that in ad-
dition to the voluminous data gathered
In Washington relating to the sub
sect they had collected material in
other cities.
The Advisory Committee assisting
Jacobs is composed of Clarence A.
Dykstra, city manager of Cincinnati;
George McAneny, president of the
Guaranty Trust Co. of New York
City, and James w. Martin, chairman
OF the Kentucky State Tax Commis-
sion. The Advisory Committee will
sit with Jacobs during the hearings.
Evening star., 1936-10-19
POLICE HOLD TRIO
|N$1,4OO HOLD-UP
Confess Robbing Meat Mer'
chant Near Market, Of
ficers Say.

An 18-year-old white girl and two
colored men were to be questioned in
additional robberies today after they
confessed, police said, to the $l,40O
hold-up of an o Street Market mer-
chant Saturday night.
The girl is former employe OF the
robbery victim. Israel Orlove.
The girl, police said, admitted she
planned the robbery with the colored
men and drove to the scene with them
in a car. She insisted, however,
that she did not get any Of the loot.
Detectives who arrested the trio
said the girl was angry because she
believed she had been "double-crossed'
by the man described as the robber
who held a gun on Orlove.
The girl told police she worked as a
hostess in a restaurant at Eighteenth
street and Columbia road. where one
Of the colored men was employed. The
young woman, police said, admitted
she told the man that Orlove was
accustomed to bank his receipts late
Saturday night.
Harris was said to have taken in
another colored man as the gunman.
With the three when they drove to the
robbery scene, police said, was the
girls sister-in-law.
Police arrested the sister-in-law as
a witness, but said she was AN inno-
cent victim" and knew nothing Of the
robbery plot.
The colored hold-up man was said
to have asked Orlove for a match as
he left the shop. The robber then
stuck a gun against the merchants
body, taking a bag containing $l,4o0,
Orlove said.
The young woman and the two col
ored men denied they got any money
from Orlove. The case was solved by
Detective Sergts. Robert Barrett and
Elmer Davis and Detectives Tom
Sweeney and Curtis Trammell.
Evening star., 1936-10-19

The residence Of the pioneer Wash
ington family Of Pierce, for whom
the mill in Rock Creek Park Is named
today has a new occupant in C. Mar
shall Finnan, superintendent of the
National Capital Parks.
Constructed in the Dutch Colonial
style, the home henceforth-under
the policy of the National Park Serv-
ice-will be the official residence Of
the superintendents Of Washington's
parks. The superintendents of the
various other national parks, such as
Yellowstone and Yosemite, have homes
in the parks. furnished by the Gov
ernment.
Mr.. and Mrs. Finnan and their
three children have Just moved into
their new official hons1 But the
house is being renovated xnd is much
torn up, so that-for the present, at
Evening star., 1936-10-19
BISHOP TRANSFERS
. DR.. v. W.ANG|E SMITH
Mt. Vernon Place Pastor
Requested Change to
Birmingham, Ala.

DR.. w. Angie Smith, pastor of the
Mount Vernon Place M. E. Church
South, the national representative
church of the denomination, was
transferred to the First M. E. Church
South at Birmingham, Ala, last night
by Bishop Edwin D. Mouzon, in max
ing changes in pastoral appointments
in the Virginia Conference at Rich
mond, according to the Associated
Press. DR.. j. w. Rustin OF Ghent
Church, Norfolk, will succeed DR..
Smith here.
The local minister succeeds DR..
Clovis Chappell, at one time pastor Of
the Mount Vernon Place Church. Dr.
Smiths change, he stated today, was
made at his request because OF the
illness of his Oldest son. The Bir-
mingham church is the second largest
in the denomination, having a men,
bership of more than 4,500.
Bishop Mouzon's changes, affecting
375 ministers, 2e3 pastoral charges
and 811 churches, were read In Rich
mond last night.
Appointments that have been the
subject of considerable speculation
in Methodist circles involved changes
in the pastorates of some of the largest
churches in the conference and In
the adjoining Baltimore and west
Virginia conferences. It was because
of the vacancies in these churches
at the "top Of the list" that such
sweeping changes were necessitated, a
leading churchman explained.
To fill the pastorate of the prominent
Centenary Church, Lynchburg, Rev. j.
w. Pearson, D. D., was brought from
the First Church of Charleston in
the West Virginia Conference. The
pastorate of this church had been
vacant since the appointment last
Spring of Rev. H. P. Myers, D. D., to
the position of secretary Of education
and promotion on the General Board
of Missions, Nashville.
Rev. w. c. Gum, pastor of Monu-
mental Church, Portsmouth, was ap.
pointed to DR.. Rustin's pulpit at
Ghent, Norfolk. To succeed him at
Monumental in Portsmouth, Bishop
Mouzon assigned the Rev. H. Bernard
Lipscombe, jr., of Richmond.
Rev. c. o. Tuttle, D. D., pastor of
Ginter Park Church, Richmond, for
the past four years, was transferred
to Rocky Mount and was succeeded by
the Rev. c. Fred Williams Of Fort Hill
Lynchburg, who was, in turn, sue
ceeded by the Rev. H. P. Riddick OF
South Hill.
Rev. George E. Booker, d. D., pastor
| of the strong First Church Of Char
lottesville for the last three years, was
superannuated at this conference ant
Rev. D. D. Holt, student pastor, who
had filled his pulpit since his retire.
ment from active service because
I i'll health, was appointed pastor OF TIM
church.
Evening star., 1936-10-19
Pioneer Pierce Mill Residence,
Renouated. Fi,,nan's NeU Home

least. they are not "at home" to
their friends.
The residence is known as the
Joshua Pierce House, and Is located
in Rock Creek Park, OF Klingle road.
Old Isaac Pierce purchased the site
of Pierce Mil about December, l7s4,
and by 1901 the wheel OF the mill was
grinding out meal for washington
ians. His son, Joshua Pierce, who
later became known as horticultur-
;st of wide renown, constructed the
house and the garden attracted Wis
itors from near and far.
Joshua Pierce is credited with CIV
ing hundreds Of trees and plants to
the city and supervising their plant
ing. Some of the elms, jumpers and
other trees in Lafayette Park are said
vision.
Evening star., 1936-10-19
BAND CONCERT.

By the Army Band in the auditorium
at 6 pm. today. Capt. Thomas F.
Darcy conducting:
Turkish March" -MouSsorgsky
Funeral March of q Marionette,"
Gounod
Solo for cornet, Carnival of Venice"
Clarke
Ralph Ostrom, soloist.
Serenade from "Cockney Suite"
Ketelbey
Fox trot, Love, What Are You
Doing to My Hearth" -Barczi
Waltz, "Amaryllis" -Vacsey
March, saint Julien" Hughes
Evening star., 1936-10-19

Lochner was returned to his home
on Massachusetts, avenue. but last night
seemed to suffer q relapse, and a
physician ordered him to Sibley Hos
pital. He was reported recuperating
there today.
Young Rinnier remained in bed to-
day, his mother said. suffering from
slight case of exposure.
OF Rinnier, Lochner said:
IF it hadn't been for that boy,
wouldn't be here today!"
Evening star., 1936-10-19
DR.. HRDLICKA TO TALK
Will Discuss Results Of Work in
Aleutian Islands.

DR.. Ales Hrdlicka, curator Of physi-
cal anthropology of the Smithsonian
Institution, will lecture under joint
auspices Of the institution and the
Anthropological Society Of Washing
ton in the auditorium of the new Ma
tional Museum at S:l5 pm. tomorrow
on the results of his Summer field
work in the Aleutian Islands.
There will also be an exhibition in
the museum foyer of skeletal material
and artifacts collected by DR.. Hrdlicka
One Of the mos. notable of his finds
was the larges, human skull yet
known from the new world.
Evening star., 1936-10-19

Rinnier, strong swimmer, reached
Lochner's side as the latter sank the
second time. He dived beneath the
surface and grasped the man by the
hair.
Rinnier was able to support Lochner
until the boat came alongside and took
them aboard.
Lochner was semi-conscious, and his
lungs partially filled with water. The
men pumped the water from his chest
and gave him artificial respiration.
Evening star., 1936-10-19
Bar Members to Dine.

Peyton r. Evans, solicitor OF tne
Farm Credit Administration, VIII ad-
dress members of the Federal bar
Association after the annual Fan am
ner tomorrow night ut the Sensres,,
sional Country Club. Dancing Will
follow.
Evening star., 1936-10-19
LABOR BACKING CITED
"a State Federations Support
Roosevelt, Berry Reports.

George L. Berry, president of labor's
Non-Partisan League, said yesterday
that "a State Labor Federations had
indorsed up to now the reelection OF
President Roosevelt.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-11-20
East Spencer
Claim Denied

An answer from the county
boards of education and county
commissioners to the petition from
the town of East Spencer that the
county assume $4,000 bonds is
sued for schools years ago, has been
filed in the office of clerk of SUI
perior court.
The defendants deny any liza
bility and go into detail about the
school law, East Spencer's special
legislative measure in 1921 to en-
able the town to construct a new
school, and about the participation
of the town in a general county
wide levy, per capita debt and such
following rhe State school lawn
1888. The defendants deny that
the town is liable to ecover any,
thing. The statute of limitations
is also pleaded.
Trial of the case will likely come
in the early spring.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-11-20
Foresee Peak
In Population

Baltimore.-Two research work.
ers counted noses throughout the
world, figured trends and came to
the conclusion that the peak of
world population probably would
be reached in 21O0 with 1885,
SOC, 000.
Present population was placed
at 2,O73,30O,O0o, an increase of
nearly five-fold over the 49,
100000 in the world in 1880, the
earliest time of recorded estimate.
The present rate of growth is
approximately l per cent annual
ly, but the research workers do
not expect this rate to continue
long and believe that in shortly
more than a century and a half
the top will be reached.
The scientists who made the
county are DR.. Raymond Pearl
and Sophie A. Gould of the Johns
Hopkins University school OF hy-
giene and public health. Their
study, published in human biolo-
gy," cited the tremendous popula-
ton increase of the last 800 years
IS a possible basis of some Of the
unsolved complexities and problems
of the modern age. -.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-11-20
Applications
Are Mailed Out
By Postmaster
Must Be Bv
Saturday Night
Persons, With Ger
tain Exceptions, En-
ploying One Or More
Persons, Must Furnish
Information.

The vast task of putting into
operation the provisions of the
Social Security act passed by the
last Congress began here in earn
est Monday when Postmaster ]. III.
Mckenzie began the distribution
of employers applications for
Identification numbers. These ap-
plications will be mailed or deliv-
cred by postment to every indivi-
dual, firm. trust or estate, part
nership, corporation, association,
joint stock company, and insur-
ance company who has one or 0
persons less than IS years of age
actually in its employ On No
vember 16, 1886. Exceptions in
clude the following classifications
and groups: self-employment, rail-
road employees under pension
plan, agricultural labor, domestic
service in a private home, casual
labor, government and state en-
ployees, and employees of organi-
cations operated exclusively for
religious, charitable, scientific, lit
erary or educational purposes.
These applications must be filled
out by all employers and returned
to the local postmaster by Satur-
day night, November FL. The ap-
plication calls for only a small
amount of information, which in
cludes name, address, nature of
businesc, and products or service,
sold.
As soon as employers have been
given Identification numbers, all
employees will be asked to file
applications for numbers. This
work is expected to be started
within the near future.
The following information
about the Social Security act is in
cluded in the employers applica-
ton forms:
"The federal old-age benefits
system provides for retirement
payments from the federal govern
ment to qualified persons, begin
ming at the age of IS. 1t was es-
tablished by the Social Security
act and goes into effect on Janu-
airy 1, 1887. It's purpose is to
bring to those persons employed in
the broad fields Of commerce and
industry increased assurance of an
independent old age. The system
is administered by the Social Sc
curity board, Washington, D. c.
Benefits are based on the, wage
record of the individual and are
of three types: (1) Monthly bene-
fits at IS; ~ lump-sum pay
ments, and 81 death benefits.
"These benefits are based ON to-
tai wages for work done in this
country after December 81, 1886,
and before a worker becomes IS
years of age. This includes every
CONTINUED on page Four)
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-11-20
GAME WARDEN IS
MURDERED

Hendersonville. - Henderson
county's game warden, Joseph D.
Whitaker, 80, was shot to death
Sunday morning about ; o'clock
on the North Mills river road. His
assailant, an unknown man, fired
from an automobile when he was
approached by the warden, then
fled. Whitaker was accompanied
by his brother, David, and the two
had spent the night at a house on
the North Mills river road which
Warden Whitaker recently pur-
chased. At a late hour Sunday
night the killer or killers remained
at large or unknown.