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Evening star., 1936-02-12
GALL|NGER HELD
LACKING WORKERS
Physician Cites Need for
Nurses, TechniCians and
Social Workers.

A dangerous shortage of personnel
in three vital departments at Gallinger
Municipal Hospital was described yes
terday by members of the hospitals
visiting staff of doctors.
The lack of laboratory technicians,
nurses and social service workers has
become a bigger handicap than lack
of space at the public hospital, where
beds are lined end to end in corridors,
and crowded into ante-rooms and
cubby holes, doctors said.
Staff doctors who give their time in
treating charity cases invited reporters
to listen to the conditions under which
this work must be carried on in the big
municipal institution.
Personnel Held Need.
The immediate need" said spokes-
man for the doctors, "is one of per-
| sonnel, of maintenance. rather than
one representing a capital investment
in new buildings and equipment.
The laboratory, which conducted
100 900 examinations last year, is
stated by seven technicians and a
clerk. Three times this many tech
nicians are needed.
LAS it is. the staff is so pressed for
time it can conduct no research and
must disregard all but routine duty.
This is a vital service, upon which
depends the well-being and even the
lives Of thousands of patients each
year. The technicians are doing a
splendid job under tremendous han
dicap.
The number of nurses and student
nurses is far below standard. We have
/ graduate nurse to every 29 patients
and l student nurse to every pa
tients.
THE minimum accepted ratio is
graduate nurse to every 10 patients
and l student nurse to every pa
| tients.
Thus from 9 pm. to am. whole
surgical wards, containing more than
100 patients, must pass the night un-
der care of only two nurses"
Lack Social Service Funds.
Hospital authorities have been able
to build up a small volunteer social
service, but no money is provided for
this duty, one Of the most important
| In modern hospital work.
I'VE have no paid or trained social
service personnel, and this makes for
economic waste through patients who
must return to the hospital again and
again.
Crowded conditions make 1t neces-
sary to discharge convalescents before
they are well to make room for active
cases. The hospital has no social
service to provide proper home condi-
tions for convalescents, who often re-
turn again and again for hospitaliza-
ton.
"Gallinger is perhaps the only big
hospital in the country without a fund
to provide social service for its dis
charged patients"
The total staff at the hospital. which
averaged 9l5 patients, throughout
January, is 456, while the minimum
ratio of the American Hospital Asso-
citation is one attendant or hospital
employe for every patient.
The next need, it was said. is for
space. A $650,000 building to ac-
commodate 800 beds and a $3.50, ,000
structure for an obstetrical ward are
needed to care for the present emer-
gency and provide for the healthy
growth of the city over the next 10
| years.
Evening star., 1936-02-12
ENGINEERS TO MEET

Augusta Rosso, italian Ambassador,
and DR.. Daniel Webster Mead, presi-
dent of the American Society of Civil
Engineers, viii be guests of honor and
principal speakers at the annual din
ner Of the District section Of the So
ciety at the Hotel Washington at $50
pm. tomorrow.
DR.. Mead. q nationally known hy-
draulic. power and valuation engineer,
was elected national president Of the
society at its s3d@nnual meeting In
New York recently.
Evening star., 1936-02-12
Mercy Flyers Speeding Fine
For 4O-MiIe Errand Waived

After imposing the fine, Judge Wal
ter J. Casey pointed out that Brincker-
hoff was on an emergency errand and
doing a commendable, humanitarian
act. Consequently, he said, the sem
tence would be suspended.
Brinckerhof left the court room to
return to the airport to warm up his
plane for another flight to the island
If additional aid should be needed.
He assured the judge, however, that
he would not exceed the speed limit.
Evening star., 1936-02-12
BERRY OPPOSES TAX

Federal Levy on Cigarettes and
Tobacco Hit.
Maj. George L. Berry, Federal indus
trial co-ordinator, voiced opposition
today to the Federal tax on cigar
cites and tobacco and criticized his
home State of Tennessee for its A
cents-a-package cigarette tax.
Berry, mentioned as q possible
candidate for the Tennessee Demo-
cratic gubernatorial nomination next
Summer, said the Federal tax Of 6
cents a package on cigarettes borders
on confiscation."
There is no tax upon any other
product that even approaches such a
tax" Berry said, "and 1t ought to
be reduced"
Evening star., 1936-02-12
Speed Charges
Unite 2 Cousins
after Is Years
Frank, William Figart
Meet Side by Side.
Fined $40 Each.

Two first cousins who had not seen
each other In more than is years met
In Washington the other day when
both were registered at the second
police precinct on charges of speeding.
Yesterday in TRAFFIC Court they were
fined $40 each and then went their
separate ways again.
Frank Figart was being booked at
the precinct on speeding charge
when another man standing next to
him gave his name as William B.
Figart. Each gave his address as
Altoona, Pa.
In comparing notes. the two found
that their fathers are brothers. Both
have been living here for several
years, hut never had met before in
Washington, and neither k&w where
the other was.
Evening star., 1936-02-12

Then he discovered he needed addi-
tional medical supplies.
He jumped in his car and started to
Emergency Hospital. but was arrested
by Ofiicer w. B. Hopkins on Rhode
Island avenue. Brinckerhof explained
that he had TO hurry or land on the
treacherous Ice aftWF dark. but was
arrested nevertheless
Evening star., 1936-02-12
BANKHEAD IN HOSPITAL

Mrs. John H. Bankhead disclosed
yesterday that Senator Bankhead,
Democrat, Of Alabama had been in the
Naval Hospital for two days because of
a slight temperature"
She said he had a slight touch Of
the fiu," but would be in his office in a
few days.
Evening star., 1936-02-12

an hour TO get
medical supplies
for his sixth air
plane flight to
ice-bound Tangier
Island.
Brin ckerhod, ,
IS, Of 80 T street
n orth e q S t, Is
manager of the
College Park Air.
port. He had
made i've flights
to aid the suffer-
ing islanders and
had loaded his
plane Saturday
for the sixth trip.
Evening star., 1936-02-12

A $40 speeding fine was suspended
in Police Court today in the case OF
George c. Brinckerhoh, who was ar
rested Saturday while driving 40 miles
Evening star., 1936-02-12
SNOW OR RAIN DUE
IND. c. TOMORROW
Slow Temperature Rise Is
ExpeCted-TWo Hurt
While Coasting.

Still buried beneath the remains Of
last weeks heavy snow, Washington
faces the prospect of fresh white
blanket by tomorrow.
Although the forecast for the next
"a hours is probably snow" the pre-
cipitation is expected to change into
rain as the temperature slowly rises.
Today, the Weather Bureau pre-
dicted, will bring increasing cloudiness,
with the temperature staying well be-
low the freezing mark. The maximum
probably will be about Is. Tonight it
is scheduled to drop to l8.
Ice-coated streets were packed
tighter this morning when the mercury
plunged to degrees at O'Clock. The
low reading was reached after an IL
degree drop in five hours, the record
ing at midnight being 16. Yesterdays
maximum was rs at 3:45 pm.
Three persons were shaken and
bruised when the Capital Transit
Co. bus on which they we're pas
Sengers skidded into a telephone pole
at Benning and Anacostia roads
northeast today. James and Ruth
Sullivan, of Ill Anacostia road south
east, were taken to Casualty Hospital
and treated for minor bruises Mamie
Gray, colored, of the same address,
was admitted to the hospital to re-
ceive treatment for a possible frac-
tured jaw.
Evening star., 1936-02-12
HOSPITAL PATIENT DIES
OF BITE BY WOMAN, 80
st. Elizabeth's Female Inmate, 80,
Dead of Bload Poisoning as
Result of Dispute,

Complications from bite inflicted
by a 90-year-old fellow patient at st.
Elizabeth's Hospital proved fatal yes
terday to Annie E. Stoner, 80. Cor
oner A. Magruder Macdonald issued
a certificate Of death from blood poi
soning.
The corones was told that dispute
arose when Mary Curran, 80. objected
to the other patient taking covers
from the bed ipf which she lay. The
biting followed
Evening star., 1936-02-12
Two Hurt While Coasting.

Two coaSting casualties were re-
ported last night, one resulting in seri-
GUS injury to a 17-year-old youth. Its
victim was George Mundell, % K street
northeast, who received compound
fracture of the leg and injuries to his
head and face Police said the driver
of an automobile which struck the boy
on Central avenue, Cottage City, Md,
carried him to a nearby porch and fed.
The boy had been visiting friends at
Cottage City.
william Madison, 13, colored, 3205
Fifteenth place southeast, was slightly
injured when a car backed into his
sled at Alabama avenue and Stanton
road southeast.
Traffic accidents we're few as drivers
continued to exercise caution.
Mrs. C. A. Coddington, 40, Of 808
Portland street southeast, was bruised
when struck by a street car as she
stepped from loading platform at
Ninth and F streets. She was treated
at Emergency Hospital.
Evelyn Parsons, Z9, OF l1lo Elgnt-
eenth street, was slightly injured when
struck at Eighteenth and r streets,
She also was taken to Emergency.
Found lying on Auburn avenue, East
Riverdale, Luther Rice, 81, a carpenter
of Lanham, Md, was removed to
Providence Hospital early today and
treated for frozen feet.
Ice skating, spoiled at its peak by
the heavy snowfall, was resumed yes
terday after $50 Civilian Conservation
Corps members cleared the surfaces
Of the Lincoln Memorial Rejecting
Pool and the basin of the old Sixteenth
street reservoir. The rejecting pool
will be illuminated by bonfires and
hoodlights at night.
Evening star., 1936-12-27
GUARD INCREASE
IS EXPECTED HERE
Added Personnel May Call
for Naming Command
inQ General.

Another increase in the number Of
troops allocated to the District Guard
is expected to be provided shortly. It
is believed tine local organization will
be allocated some OF the increase pro-
vided by Congress for the militia
throughout the country. In addition
to the regular troops assigned here,
Washington has been allocated some
Of the divisional organization, as the
majority of its troops are q part Of
the 29th National Guard Division.
the other States included in this area
being Maryland and Virginia.
When the new organizations are
authorized here and the recruiting Is
perfected, 1t will increase the inn
portance Of the local Guard to such
an extent. 1t was said, that the War
Department may feel 1t necessary to
comply with the organic act and ap-
point commanding general for the
local militia. There has been q va
cancy in this position for more than
two years, or since the death Of Maj.
Gen. Anton Stephan.
Since the death of the command
ing general. the affairs of the local
Guard have been handled by the next
senior officer in rank. Col. John w.
Oehmann. who, in addition to the
heavy duties Of the brigade command,
has had to carry out the important
duties incident to the command Of the
121st Regiment of Engineers.
There are several officers who are
candidates for the generalship. Col.
Oehmann, by virtue Of seniority. Is
next in line However. the law does
not require that the generaliship go to
the senior officer. II the President
so desired, he could take any civilian,
without any military training what
soever, and make him commanding
general However, in the past this has
never been done
While the President of the United
States is directed by law to make the
appointment. it was pointed out OBJ
viously that oficial does not give de-
tailed consideration to the matter.
Such a recommendation for appoint
ment originates with the War Depart
ment, which is in close touch with
local military affairs. The various
names have been before officials of the
~ k1,,t OF he
considered shortly after the death Of
Gen. Stephan it was contended that
there was no need Of general officer
here, since there was no brigade as
such.
Evening star., 1936-12-27
CAROLS TO BE SUNG
IN Y. w. c. A. LOBBY
Blue Triangle Club Members to
Give Yule Numbers This
Afternoon.

Christmas carols will be sung in the
lobby of the Y. W. c. A. at Seventeenth
and K streets at $50 pm. today by
Marjory Allen. Marion Allen, Louise
Danforth and Catherine Richardson
of the Blue Triangle Club. There will
be no regular music hour. Thelma
Norton Of the xenos Club will be hos
tess for the at home from 4 to S.
Girls from Strong Residence will
sing Christmas carols in the lobby
Monday at pm
xenos Club of the business and
professional womens department is
having a Christmas dance Tuesday in
Barker Hall from to IL.
Kamp Kahlert Council will have a
Winter festival at Sudley, Md, De-
cember 80. M Florence Dunlap. camp
director. and Helen Miller. president
of the kamp kouncil, will have charge.
Camp Counsellors during the 1885
season will have their annual Winter
reunion at Kamp Kahlert January 2.
Senior High School Girl Reserves
will entertain their friends at a
Christmas dance Wednesday from 9
to IL in Barker Hall. Isabelle Grogan.
Martha Moss. Ellen Lauck and Helen
Sherwood are planning for feature
dances and refreshments.
Senior High School Girl Reserve
council are being entertained at
luncheon tomorrow at the home of
Frances Hill. council representative
from Woodrow Wilson High School.
The girls will meet at the Y. w. c. A.
at 1890.
woodrow Wilson Girl Reserve cabi-
net members will have a luncheon
meeting at the home of Mary Lesta
Wakeman, program adviser for the
Wilson Club. Tuesday at pm.
General education. music and
health education classes will resume
regular schedule January 4,
Evening star., 1936-12-27
B. P. O. ELKS

Plans have been completed for the
New Year eve party in the Elks' Club
Thursday. A buffet supper will be
served from 9 pm. to midnight and
dancing from $50 pm. until closing
time, under the direction Of Fred Ber-
ger. chairman of the Entertainment
Committee.
Edwin S. Fuller, chairman Of the
Selective Campaign Committee. is
conducting drive for a large class
of candidates to be inducted into the
order on January 13, when an initia-
ton ceremony will be held. The class
will be designated the New Year class.
The next regional meeting Of the
Maryland, Delaware and District OF
Columbia State Association will be
held at Towson. Md, January 10.
Evening star., 1936-12-27
Child Inventors Aided.

Russia Is seeing to it that child
mechanics are supplied with the ar
ticles needed in their inventive enter
prices. 1t maintains store in Moscow
for this purpose and has a consultation
service with specially trained force.
The government recently made a sur
vey Of the activities of the 100 1000
members Of the Moscow central chill
dren's station. Youngsters are build.
ing 56 children's railways, a dozen
river. lake or seaports and airplane
models with gasoline engines.
Evening star., 1936-12-27
BY JAMES WALDO FAWCETT.

President Roosevelt enjoyed . phil
atelic Christmas. One Of the men,
bers Of his cabinet presented him with
beautiful album Of United States
stamps In part-sheet form. From an
undisclosed source there came to the
White House frame of multi-colored
proofs Of all the postal issues from
1898 to date. attractively arranged and
mounted. A cover of unusual size
was addressed to the Chief Executive
in half-cent stamps neatly applied to
spell his name: other covers reached
him with no address except his pho
tograph.
Due to the holidays, the Post Once
Department Division Of Stamps was
quiescent during the last week. The
Evening star., 1936-12-27
Kills Cobra With Knife.

Nicko Van Beck of Hoopstad.
south Africa. had thrilling encounter
with cobra which had killed two of
his dogs and whose head he cut off
with pocket knife after a third dog
had grappled with the reptile.
Evening star., 1936-12-27
Fruit Preserved in Gas

BY the use of perfected system
Great Britain is preserving fresh fruit
in gas ard other forms of storage for
as long as six months, and expects to
be able to maintain an all-the-year.
round supply for the market.
Evening star., 1936-12-27

King George VI first Uas
represented In the philatelic
gallery OF portraits Uhen he
appeared as Prince Albert in
the Newfoundland &c stamp OF
1911. He tDds introduced again
as Duke of York in the Canada
&c issue of 1885. Meanwhile,
his daughter, the little Prin-
cess Elizabeth, tods shoDn on
the SC Newfoundland of 1881.
Her picture also adorned the
Canada 1c OF the King George
v Silver Jubilee set. The neW
Queen, as Duchess of York,
tpds portrayed on the &c Ddlue
OF the Newfoundland series OF
1882,
Evening star., 1936-12-27

ACROSS.
IA jot.
5 Proverb.
10 Unfastens.
IS Faithful: Scot.
10 A pointed arch.
20 Second planet from
the sun.
81 A chafflike bract.
% Glorify.
"a More unusual.
25 Be ready for.
26 Conform.
27 Sign of zodiac.
% Those who mulct.
30 Missiles.
80 Pertaining to Tunis.
"a To examine in
detail.
IS Networks Of nerves.
SO Entice.
81 Flavor.
SO Worthless leaving.
80 Bound to secrecy.
40 A Northern Euro
pean.
Al Exist.
AZ Written COM
position.
Is Speed contests.
46 A portion.
47A sign of the zodiac.
81 Anus partner.
So Shows displeasure.
SO Cease.
81 The blare of q
trumpet or horn.
SIS Tatter.
56 Seventh planet from
the sun.
81 Companion: colloq.
So Fourth planet from
the sun.
SO Strike lightly.
60 A prefix meaning
threefold.
81 Classics.
81 Make a misplay.
So Learning.
"a Gaelic.
IS Pagans: obs.
81 Sheltered side.
6s Flog.
Evening star., 1936-12-27

50 A sign of the zodiac.
10 Ripped.
II Method Of working.
IA Wine: Tag.
rs Masts.
n Gentle.
78 Delved.
70 Things which correspond
to other things.
80 Mountain lake.
SO Facile.
"a Male beings.
IS Masculine name.
81 Corded fabric.
SO High priest.
80 Temple.
80 Rocky crag.
81 A sign of the zodiac.
90 Short sleep.
SO Tending to evade.
95 Courts.
96 A sign Of the zodiac.
81 Throw.
SO A sign of the zodiac.
80 Avoid.
100 Twilled cotton cloths.
101 Untidy.
102 Like.
103 A short-necked river
duck.
104 Mediator.
los Establish.
106 The hut of q hermit.
109 Labor for breath.
ITO Anticipated.
Ill A character in the poem.
Jerusalem Delivered"
lis A sign Of the zodiac.
lit Long-nosed animal.
118 A sign Of the zodiac: var.
119 Combining form used to
indicate connection with.
110 Swift.
l22 Fierce quadruped.
124 Russian wolfhounds.
125 Tree of the genus Acer.
1875 Practical: rare.
127 Russian prison camp.
1913 Potato: dial.
129 Caustic alkaline solutions.
100 Marine mammals.
13l Reposes.
132 Historical periods.
Evening star., 1936-12-27
Paint Factory Is Fireproof.

A 100 per cent fireproof factory has
been opened at Birmingham, England.
for manufacture of enamels, varnishes
and lacquers.
Evening star., 1936-12-27
over station VOL tomorrow evening
n.fE

over station VOL tomorrow evening
at 9:15.
The Washington Collectors Club,
Branch s. Society Of Philatelic Amer
leans, will meet at the Thomson
school, Twelfth street, Tuesday eve.
ming at 8. Col. Karl Truesdale will
speak on The Stamps of China" and
will exhibit selected specimens from
his collection. Visitors welcome.
The Washington Philatelic Society
will meet at the Hotel Carlton, Six.
teenth street. Wednesday evening.
Louis j. Heath will discuss and ex.
hibit airmail stamps. Public invited.
Evening star., 1936-12-27
STAMPS.

STAMPS.
SCOTS 1897 SPECIALIZED q. s. CATA.
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AIRMAILS. 16 different, including Zeppelin,
or I'D cover with Naval cancellation.
EIher one. I0c to approval applicants.
HORACE RUSH. BenninE. d. C.
THE MOST HISTORIC ISSUE IN EXIST
ENCE. The Bosnian Assassination, the
spark That Set the World Afire" We
include this complete set, also q complete
Denmark Ancient-Ship set, g complete
Russian sets, 3 stamps over so years old,
and Italy's Mussolini stamp, oil for los
PEARSON BROTHERS. IS Nassau 81.
Dept. 16. New York.
NATIONAL STAMP MART
1877 r st NV. Rm. All. Dist. s2I7
WHITNEY'S STAMP MART
4oe 18th st. NV. Met. ssss
UYENO'S STAMP SHOP
1908 Penna. Ave NV. Met. 9o14.
STAMP ALBUMS
Stock Books: Cataiosues. New Sets. sinsis
me. ] also BUY Collections.
HARRY B. MASON, 9lS F NV.
KING EDWARD VIII STAMPS
CPL. SETS. 35e tMint)
Limit 1 Sc set & e euwstewer .wwr
~ q d. NV. seesnd Fssss
Evening star., 1936-12-27

The Washington Stamp Club Of the
Air. Albert =. Kunze, leader, will neet
Matanuska Valley pioneer. (Palmer, Alaska) 1935-1936, 1936-10-26

steady income from products of the SOIL Will
they be willing to see all their profits go toward
the absolutely insane idea of forcing the five
thousand inhabitants of the rail belt put seventy
million dollar investment on paying basis? We
have it directly from the present management
that the rates will not come down until the road
is making money. Seventy million dollars worth
of railroad in the States will run through many
large cities any one of which will equal the
whole population of Alaska--somethng like sixty
thousand
Whea we said ALL the farmers profits, we
meant just that. A. A Shonbeck last year sold
hay to Seward dairyman. He paid $27.20 a
ton to ship it from Matanuska, and this, together
with the freight he had paid on the oil burned in
his dryer curing the hay took just about all he got
for it, leaving him nothing to pay for the cost of
production His profits plus part of the expense
of raising the hay went into railroad pockets.
An illustration of the difference in landed costs
lies in the fact that private merchants here can sell
some commodities for less than the corporation,
yet the corporation buys more cheaply by their
competitive bid system, and marks up only the
actual cost of handling. They ship over Alaska
Steamship and Alaska Railroad. Private mer-
chants use Heinie Bergers boat to Anchorage and
haul over the new road by truck, landing their
grocery stocks here for as low as $4,000 ton
from Seattle For boxed printing equipment from
Ketchikan we paid $500 ton, and this freight
did not require special handling such as storage
away from boilers and under cover from rain.
Matanuska Valley pioneer. (Palmer, Alaska) 1935-1936, 1936-10-26
WORKING FOR THE RAILROAD

Illustrations OF the manner in which the Alaska
Railroad is NOT being used to develop the country
come to us every day.
Not long ago mine operator from Peters
Creek told US that he can charter a special car to
bring friends from Seward to Takeetna for a
fishing or hunting trip for less money than he can
have carload of diesel oil delivered. Yet there
are casualty risks in hauling people, and there is
supposed to be a special rate for everything used
in mining development.
The Standard Oil Company produces diesel OIL
transports it couple of thousand miles to Seward
and sells it for less than it costs the Willow Creek
mines to have it hauled from Seward to WasiIla
distance of 159 miles. 1t costs $40 a ton to
transport powder the 46 miles from Anchorage
to Wasilla.
The mine operators have been suffering this
pain for years, but how about the farmers, now
that agriculture in this section of the country is
in the throes of savage birth?
Mining is of course, gamble. There is al
ways that chance of running into exceptionally
rich ore Not so with farmers. Their security
lies not in the hope of sudden riches but in a
Matanuska Valley pioneer. (Palmer, Alaska) 1935-1936, 1936-10-26
Matanuska And Economics

Ernest lessen, capable editor of the Seward
Gateway, gives us good thought in an editorial
which appeared recently in his paper Mr.
lessen says:
TO the average individual the Matanuska
colony means an expensive federal adventure
wherein outsiders are receiving aids which are the
heritage of odtime resident Alaskans.
To the student of economics it includes little of
the above myopc view. 1t means the opening
wedge of an industrial era
Here again the shortsighted shout: What are
the colonists going to do with their products?
The same shout went up back some hundred
years ago when the first manufacturing plant
was proposed to emancipate the Colonial United
States from dependence upon England. 1t was
shouted when far-sighted men sought to lay the
foundation for the present industrial west
This attitude has been in evidence throughout
American history. The man who would have
predicted that we would cease relying upon
Europe for our manufacturer and outstrip her in
this respect and that within century, would
have been put into the Stocks or straight
Jacket"