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The Washington times., 1936-09-22
Father Forbids Knife
as Mother Begs
For Her Child
By CHESTER YOULL

CHICAGO, Sept. % (I.N.S.).
Five-day-old Julian Tafel, jr.,
the zone baby in five thou
sand" malformed at birth as he
was, lay starving to death at
Danish-American Hospital to-
day.
His father stubbornly refuses
to allow the operation which is
his one hope for life.
His mother insists that medical
science do everything it can to
save the infant.
DOCTORS STUDY CASE
Six doctors officially are pom
dering over the case. Hundreds
more, many of them famous, are
following it with profound inter-
est.
DR.. Louis X. Eastman, physician
in charge, wants to operate. He
consulted lawyer this morning.
The lawyer advised that the doc
tor is legally bound to operate.
DR.. Eastman said today that
without the operation the baby
surely will die from slow starva-
ton.
The infant is being fed with
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D. c. Doctors Support
Mother; Say Ethics
Demand Action

Medical authorities in Wash.
ington today gave their approval
to the mother love" of a pretty
22-year-old Chicago mother who
wants her son to live-though
she may have to tend him like
a baby for the rest of his life.
The question is: Shall the
newborn baby. born with an in,
testinal malformation, be oper,
ated on to save his life, though
he may live to be an invalid?
The father, Julian Tafel, Chi
cago garage mechanic, says no,
The mother, Eva, says:
81 want him. / want him.
Oh, we can't let him die with
out trying to do something.
In Washington, DR.. William A.
White. superintendent of st,
Elizabeth'S Hospital, says:
Some of the greatest people
who have ever lived have been
invalidS all their lives. EN-
manuel Kant, among the great"
est philosophers, whose philOSO-
ply guided civilization for
years, was an invalid. There
have been plenty of such cases.
We can't look into the future.
eff there is an opportunity
to save this child, everything
should be done to do so. If
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RAIL AUDIT MEN
FIGHT COURT

. Every one of the half dozen Of
ficials of the Railway Audit and
Inspection Company indicted for
contempt yesterday by the Dis
trict Grand Judy will fight re-
moval to Washington, Leonard
Weinberg, their attorney, an
nounced today.
Bench warrants, issued yester-
day by Justice Peyton Gordon, and
calling for the presence in this
city of the six officials, were in
the mails today. Four of the de-
PENDANTS live in Pittsburgh, one
in New York city, and the other
in Philadelphia.
Meanwhile, the La Toilette sub
committee, investigating alleged
violation Of civil liberties, was re-
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WASHINGTON, Ind, Sept. %
G.N.S).-MrS. Ruth Bryan Owen
Rohde, daughter of the late Will
liam Jennings Bryan and former
Minister to Denmark, today is
in a local hospital with a knee
injury suffered late last night
at East Side Park here after a
campaign address in behalf of
the Democratic party.
Mrs. Rohde and her husband,
a captain in the Danish Army,
living in a trailer during their
campaign tour of the Middle
West, were preparing to retire
for the night when the trailer
equipment started rolling down a
hill. Mrs. Rohde's knee was
crushed.
Physicians today plan to take
X-ray pictures to see whether
any bones are broken. The mis-
hap, Mrs. Rohde pointed out,
will mean cancellation of her
campaign talks for the time
being.
VOTE AMERICAN
Storm Delays Sea Hop
NEW YORK, Sept. % G.N.s0.
Reports of a tropical storm TOO
miles east of Newfoundland today
caused Baroness Eva Won Blixen.
Finecke and Kirt Bjorkvall, both
of Sweden, to postpone their
planned transatlantic airplane hop
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Photos Cause
NeQr-RiOt at
Police Court

A near riot broke out in front
of the Police Court Building today
as a group of men attempted to
prevent newspaper photographers
from taking pictures of the three
women arrested yesterday for
picketing the auction of the belong
ings of Major Ramon Fransco, for
mer air attache of the Spanish
Embassy.
AS the three women left the
building, where their case was con-
tinued until next Friday, the men
jostled photographers. One seized
a plate holder and flashlight bulb
from a photographer. He hurled
the bulb to the pavement where it
exploded, shoWering broken glass.
The women, Mildred Egan, 27,
of the 500 block of F st. N. w;
Cecilia Rowe, 81, of the 400 block
of Hobart st. N. W., and Minnie
Weinstein. AZ, of the 14O0 block
Oak st. N. W., were arrested in
front of the washington Art Gal
leries on Thirteenth Street North
west, where they were parading
with signs urging people not to
attend the sale.
Today Mrs. Egan said they did
this because the funds derived
from the sale were to be used by
Major Franco to aid the inSlrgent
cause in Spain. One of the women
said the picketing was backed by
the American Civil Liberties
Union.
The women asked the continu-
ance when they we're arraigned
before Judge Robert E. Mattingly
today.
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B0by;s 'Nlercy De0th'' Debated

FOLLOWING are the statements of the prin-
cIpaLs in the uniformed baby case at Dan
ish-Anerican Hospital in Chicago.
MRS. EVA TAFEL, THE MOTHER:
I am the mother of the baby and want him
to live. He must not be allowed to die. That
would not be right. Medical science is progress
ing yearly and in time my boy could b. made
completely normal. I'm sure of that.
JULIAN TAFEL, THE FATHER:
am the father of the baby and think it
would be unfair to let him live. He would be
hopeless invalid, and some day he would hate us
his mother and father .... for giving him that
horrible chance.
DIR. LEWIS X EASTMAN, THE DOCTOR:
am the doctor in charge of the case and I
think the baby should be kept alive. That is my
personal as well as professional feeling. But
cannot operate unless both the mother and
father consent.
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SON; 6, SEES
EX-0FFICER
ATTEMPT
DEATHS
Fling, Cited as Hero.
Dying in Hospital;
Boy Is Missing

While their small son, aghase
with terror, looked on. a one-tims
Metropolitan policeman today
shot his estranged wife and then
fired a bullet through his own
temple.
The 41-year-old husband, James
H. Fling, who was once cited for
bravery for rescuing a child from
a burning building and who few
years later was dismissed from the
police force for conduct preju-
dicial to the good order of the
force" is dying in Georgetown
Hospital, while his wife, Ada, 80,
is also in the hospital in a seri-
Gus condition.
In the meantime, their six
year-old son, James, Is missing.
AS two shots felled both his
mother and father in front of his
mothers house at 1881 Thirtieth
st. N. W., the child ran down
the street, screaming:
II haven't got any parents
any more"
The police have broadcast o
lookout for him.
Parents Separated
According to roomers at the
Thirtieth Street address, where
Mrs. Fling has been living since
she separated from her husband
about month ago, the couple be-
gan to quarrel when the husband.
with the boy, came to visit his
wife this morning.
The boy has been living with his
father in the 500 block of Sixth
st. N. E. Another son, Eugene, II.
lives with his grandfather, Eugene
Fling, in Chevy Chase, Md.
Fling, who was dismissed from
the police force April %, 1880.
on a charge of failing to pay a
debt, was out on $500 bond on
a charge of assaulting his wife.
He appeared in Police Court ON
August II, pleaded not guilty.
and was released on bond pend.
ing a, jury trial.
Police found letters Fling had
written to his wife in which he
asked her to come back to him
and take care of the child.
The shooting occurred at the
climax of a quarrel as to whether
they should send the boy to
school. with Fling standing on
the street in front of the Thir.
tieth Street address and firing
the shot at his wife, who was
standing in the doorway of the
house. He then fired the bullet
which felled him.
Sought Her Child
Neighbors said that Mrs. Fling
this morning phoned her attorney
in an attempt to find out how she
could recover her child.
Fling was awarded the police
merit bar for 1925 for rescuing o
4-year-old colored child from q
burning house in the TOO block of
Twelfth st. N. E. AS the result
of the rescue, he was overcome by
smoke.
He was born in Maryland in
1895 and joined the police force
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F | F N | n 6
HITS j. ). IN
BANKING
Says Emergency Is
Past, Urges Lending
Units to Withdraw

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. %
G.N.SO.-Robert V. Fleming, OF
Washington, D. c., president OF
the American Bankers Association,
today declared that American
bankers should strongly oppose
legislation which would change
the character and form of our gov.
eminent"
Fleming. president of Riggs Ma
tional Bank, told the American
Bankers Associations Sixty-second
annual convention:
eve mus: all recognize that
unsOund proposals for banking
legislation are introduced In the
various legislatures and in the
Federal Congress to q great ex-
tent due to a lack of knowledge
and understanding of the true
function of banks"
HITS POSTAL SAVINGS
He urged that where legislation
can be made workable and con,
structive," the bankers should help
to shape it. But, he added:
"On the other hand, if it is
the type of legislation which
would change the character and
form of our Government and is
contrary to fundamental Ameri-
can principles, then / think it
should be strongly opposed"
Fleming reported that results OF
a QUESTIONABLE sent to more than
5000 banks has fortified Ameri
can bankers with factual basis for
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RELIEF ROLL
PURGEALS0
PLEDGED
COP. Nominee Heard
In Speech on Way
To Des Moines
BY WILLIAM X. HUTCHINSON

BY WILLIAM X. HUTCHINSON
ABOARD MOON SUN
FLOWER SPECIAL, Sept. %
0.N.S0 The American farmer
his wife and his children must be
restored to their rightful place OF
economic equality in our national
life" before there can be any perm
anent national prosperity, Cover
nor Alfred M. Landon declared to
day in a rear porch" talk at Ex'
celsior Springs, Mo.
Speaking to an enthusiastic
crowd, while en- route to Des
Moines to reveal his farm relief
program, L.andon said:
eft Is my belief that the pros
perity Of agriculture is absolutely
essential to the prosperity Of
America
PEOPLE INTERESTED
The Republican nominee said
he had found the people of every
section of the country vitality in
terested in the relief and lInem-
ployment problems. He added
the people were determined to
eliminate all political exploiters'
from the administration of relief.
He added:
"Our people want the needy
unemployed among our citizens
to have the helping hand of
government extended to them
until they can get real work
again at the best of good wages.
But they want the adminiStra-
ton of relief to be made honest
and effective.
''They want IL purged of
waste, incompetence, and alb
surdity.
"And they demand that the
political explOiters who are at
tempting to buy political sup
port by swapping relief for votes
shall themselves be removed
from the public payroll. And
If / know the American people,
that's one of the things they are
going to attend to next NOvem-
ber."
Landon praised the interest be
ing taken this year by citizens
generally in the issues of the cam,
paign. He said:
"Our people seem to be tax.
ing the business Of government
mighty seriously this year. They
seem to be alive to the fact that
this is no ordinary campaign,
no mere partisan contest. More
and more they are coming to
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MnTE AMERlnAM-
The Washington times., 1936-09-22
Fifth Man Is Dead
In Cuba BombinC

HAVANA, Sept. % G.N.S0.
Bringing to five the number of
men killed in Sundays bombing
of the newspaper Ell Pals, a po-
liceman, Nazario Sotolongo, sue
cumbed to wounds today. One
of the 80 others injured remains
in a critical condition.
Blaming radicals, police are
continuing their widespread in
vestigation, and a large number
of suspects are in Jail.
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JAP MARINES
LAND IN CHINA

CANTON, Sept. % 0N.s).
With the guns of nine japanese
warships trained menacingly upon
the shore, Japanese marines to-
day landed and escorted to PAX
hoi a mixed commission to in
vestigate the recent murder of a
Japanese druggist.
The murder was one of series
bringing the Sino-Japanese ten
sion in China to a high pitch.
Two Chinese warships also
were in the harbor as the commits
sion was put ashore.
The Nineteenth Route Army
(Chinese) withdrew from Pakhoi
and Kwangtung Japanese Con-
tinental, troops took possession.
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SECURITY BLDG.
NEEDED HERE

HYDE PARK, N. Y, Sept. %
1.N.SO President Roosevelt to-
day decided the Government
would have to erect building
in Washington covering a city
block and containing 100000
square feet of floor space to
house the Social Security Board.
Chairman John G. Winant
and Frank Dayne, board mem
Der, made a special trip to Hyde
Park to lay the SSB's housing
problem before the Executive.
Winant pointed out to the
President that an index system
containing a card for virtually
every person in the United States
was going to be assembled. to-
gether with sorting machines to
handle them.
AS soon as the records start
coming in, Winant reported,
100000 square feet of space
would be required. The President
directed him to rent two or three
buildings temporarily, but agreed
in the end it would be cheaper
for the Government to build.
VOTE AMERICAN
Bomb Kills 3 Arabs
JERUSALEM, Sept. % G.N.SO.
In one Of the worst outrages in
a long period of rebellious terror
ism, three Arabs were killed and
four wounded when a bomb ex-
ploded in the center of Jerusalem
today.
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Hindenburg Over Sea
0n.Return TO Reich

LAKEHURST, N. J., Sept. %.
Q.N.S0 The German dirigible
Hindenburg, carrying SO paSsen-
gers, was out over the ocean to-
day on the return leg of its eighth
round trip between Germany and
the United States The big Yep
pelin took off from the Naval Air
Station here at 11:05 o'clock last
night,
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an eye dropper. But because
of the retarded development of
the child's intestines, which pre-
vents normal elimination of the
body's waste matter, a highly toxic
condition is becoming prevalent.
The Washington times., 1936-09-22
Madrid Threatened; Reds
Call All to Arms
BIZ THOMAS A. LOAYZA

MADRID, Sept. % 0.N.S).
Alarmed by smashing insurgent
victories less than 40 miles south
west of the capital, including cap
ture of the key city of Maqueda,
Madrid's radical defenders today
issued an urgent rallying call sum-
moning AL men capable of bear
ing arms" to present themselves
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Burr
PRISONERS
|NCHURCH
New Spanish Outrages
Are Reported by
London Paper

MON VIDE o, Sept. 22
I.N.S.).-The Uruguayan gov
eminent severed diplomatic re-
latiOns with Spain today follow
ing news of the execution in
Madrid Of Dolores, COnsuelO and
Maria Aguirre, sisters of the
Uruguayan vice consul there.
LONDON, Sept. % QNS0.
More mass executions and other
outrages were charged against
Spanish reds by the Daily Mail
today, quoting several eye-wtt-
,neSSeS.
Five witnesses told the Nails
correspondent at Fuente de Cantos
that a group of prisoners was
placed in the parish church and at
q given signal firing broke out,
the church was set afire and gaSo-
line and gasoline-soaked cotton
were thrown in on the dead and
wounded.
At Talavera la Real, four wit,
nesSes said many rightists had
been imprisoned and % Of them
had been shot without justifica'
ton" The prisoners, they alleged
are ''flogged almost daily with
wire phips by strong men"
A 17-year-old girl at BadaioZ
according to the newspaper, was
abused by II men in the presence
of her mother, resulting in loss of
the girls reason. An officer in the
Portuguese army told the Mail that
he saw 40 women and girls driven
completely naked through the
streets of a small town.
The Washington times., 1936-09-22

A portion of the baby's des-
cending colon is absent, and
there is an abnormal bladder
condition. The doctors want to
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DOES YOUR HAIR LOOK
LIKE A THATCHED ROOF?

After exposure to summer sun and wind does your
drought dinqY. lusterIess and dull7 Then you'll be
interested in the stimulating treatment described by
page.
The Washington times., 1936-09-22
WASHINGTON FORECAST

Fair and continued warm tonight
Wednesday; light variable winds.
MEAN TEMPERATURES
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VOTE Am ERICA
Evening star., 1936-11-20
Double Standard Morality
Held Destroying Marriage

people in their efforts to adjust them
selves In modern life.
Other speakers In the symposium
included Miss Mabel Haller, Harry K.
Underwood, Miss Melba Goodman,
Robert Ferris. Irving j. Schuyler, Miss
Mary Alice johnson and D. A. Hey
ward.
Speakers Are Quizxed.
At the conclusion of their talks,
they were qulzzed by DR.. Homer p.
Rainey, director of the American
Youth Commission, who acted as
chairman of the meeting, and the
following panel members:
Dr. E. c. Higbie, president of Will
son Teachers College; John Lang, as
sistant director of c. c. c. Camp edu-
cation; Miss Francoise Black, director
of the National Youth Administra-
ton DIR. John T. Miller, professor of
the science of human engineering;
Barnet Mover. newspaper editor;
Richard Kruger. vice president of the
Evening star., 1936-11-20

The fashioned single standard
of morality is giving way to modern
double standard, J. B. Ross, South
eastern University law student, de-
clared last night in a symposium on
youth problems at the Y. M. G. A.
Both sexes now have the same
sense of fair play" Ross said, land as
the idea Of the double standard
grows, marriage is fading into the
background"
Largely because of present day
economic problems, he said, the aver
age young man shuns marriage. He
said the working wife is not the
answer to the problem, because her
employment is apt to destroy the ele-
ment Of femininity so essential to
home life,
Views on Problems.
The symposium elected the views
of nine young men and women, most
of whom are college students or Gov
ernment employees, on current prob
lens facing the youth of the nation.
One of the speakers, Miss Gudrun
Scheldrup, stenographer at the
Bureau of Internal Revenue, deplored
the increasing use of intoxicants as
one of the greatest problems of mod
ern youth.
"And yet" she said, 'in our social
life of today, the use of intoxicants
has become almost an essential" She
suggested a closer study of youth and
its problems as the best solution of
many difficulties confronting young
Evening star., 1936-11-20
C. j. HOMECOMING
PLANS ELABORATE
Three Events for z Days
Here Include Buffet Supper
and Smoker.

Three main events were Scheuuied
for tonight on the eve of the Hoya-
Terps foot ball game at the College
Park Stadium for hundreds of out
of-town alumni who began returning
to Georgetown University today for
an eventfui home coming celebration.
New England New York. Pennsyl-
vania and New Jersey are sending
the largest alumni delegations, but
they will be swallowed up by the
thousands of local graduates and
supporters who will crowd the Hilltop
and downtown hotels at smokers and
dances during the two days of
festivities. A hope that the George
town Hoyas will turn the tables on a
Maryland team that last year spoiled
their home coming served as an ad-
ditional stimulus to the rousing
student-alumni pep rally last night
on the Hilltop campus.
Buffet Supper and Smoker.
About - 1000 law and college
alumni will gather at the Mayflower
Hotel tonight at o'clock for the
buffet supper and smoker sponsored
by the Georgetown Law School
Alumni Club Of Washington. Very
Rev Arthur A. OLeary, S. j.,
president of the university, who has
put new life into Georgetown
athletics, and Jack Hagerty. coach of
the most successful Georgetown team
in recent years, will be honor guests
of the alumni. There also will be a
number Of former gridiron stars. and
talks by Rev. John j. Kehoe, S. j..
faculty director of athletics, and Rev
Vincent S. McDonough, S. j., George
towns former grand old man" OF
athletics.
E. Barrett Prettyman. president OF
the law alumni, is in charge of the
smoker, and the newly organized
local group of college alumni also
will attend in a body.
Home Coming Dances.
Aside from the smoker, the home
coming dance from pm. to am.
at the Washington Hotel will attract
the general student body and many
of the alumni. 1t is being sponsored
by The Hoya, student publication
with John j. Cunningham and staff
In charge. There will be music by
the Collegians.
A third event tonight will be tht
Dental School rally at the Hilltop
arranged by DR.. Joseph F. Manley
president of the alumni association
and DR.. w. N Johannessen, chair
man of the smoker. Foot ball pic
tures will be shown.
Father OLeary will have the
university deans and a number o.
friends as his guests at tomorrow!
game. The university band also Il
practicing up on a new Georgetown
marching song.
Following the game, the District o.
Columbia students will give their owr
homecoming dance at the Washing
ton Hotel tomorrow night. JOSEPH
Dawson is president, and prominent
local alumni will be among the
guests.
Evening star., 1936-11-20
Horn Use Care Urged.

That motorists seriously impair the
effectiveness Of the horn as a warning
signal by overuse and misuse is the
contention of the safety division of the
Keystone Automobile Club. The clubs
safety officials urge greater care In
horn use. both in the interest of safety
as well as in behalf Of q quieter city.
Evening star., 1936-11-20

sea and boulders below. There was no
foothold for descent and no foot
prints led away from the spot. The
police concluded that the men had
committed suicide and decided to
withdraw and search the coast for the
bodies. A detective who had accom-
panied the search then protested the
decision and, calling attention to the
footprints, pointed out that the taller
man had taken shorter strides than
the short man, that the short man
bore heavily on his heels and the tall
man on his toes. He also said they
could not have walked backwards due
to the exactitude of the prints. He
also said the men were alive and in
the neighborhood and gave his ex-
planation. What was it?
Answer to Yesterdays.
The fsh was seventy-two inches
long.
(Copyright, 1850
Old Guard says-Win free gift
See Page D-4.-Advertisement.
Evening star., 1936-11-20
Brain Twizzfers
BY PROF. J, ID. FLINT.

TWO officials of bank in Scotland
embezzled a large sum of money.
Quick action was taken by the police
to prevent the men from leaving the
country. In short while some clues
were discovered-clues which led
the police to believe the men were
dead The fugitives had been traced
to a certain community near the bar
rem coast and Gordon of police was
drawn to prevent escape. Near stile
a pocketbook containing the name of
one of the men was found. From the
stile the footprints of the two men,
one of whom was large and the other
small. were found leading straight to
the edge of a cliff which formed
perpendicular and long drop to the
Evening star., 1936-11-20
Sodality to Give Party.

The Ladies' Sodality Of st. Anthony's
Church, Twelfth and Monroe streets
northeast, will give card and bingo
party at $50 tonight In the church
hall. A turkey will be given away.
Proceeds will be donated to the church.
Evening star., 1936-11-20

Youth Council Of the District, and
Louis B. Nichols. administrative as
sistant of the Federal Bureau of In
vestigation.
Evening star., 1936-11-20
Russia to Expand Films.

Russia is conducting q research OF
the moving picture industry with the
ultimate aim of making the country
independent Of foreign productions.