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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-28
have salvaged all the metal We

have salvaged all the metal we
can"
Quarters for the all-night
Waterman is provided in the
form Of a salvage shack" that
is lifted from hull to hull as the
workers move along.
Having been burned almost to
the water line, the vast collection
of hulls beached at Whitewater pre-
sent a sight similar to that of the
ruins of some huge factory that
had burned to the ground.
Only a few of the hills beached
at this point have all-steel hulls
and it is one of these that the
Bowie workers are now engaged
in salvaging scrap metal from. Mr..
Bowie estimated that more than
100 tons of metal was still in that
one hull.
And while these workers are
busy salvaging iron from the ship
hulls, thousands of other scrap
metal dealers throughout the coun-
try have revived their work and
are doing a thriving business in
their efforts to meet the demands
for scrap metal.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-28

Virginia shores. This existing
danger to navigation in the
river, Mr.. Bowie continued, is to
be taken care of by the War De-
partment this summer. Plans of
the War Department. Mr.. Bowie
said he was told by a Federal
official who visited the scene fol-
lowing reports that one Of the
hulls had crossed the river, are
to mud" the hulls that form the
outer lines of the graveyard"
thus weighing them down suf-
ficiently to hold the others in
shore.
No Chance For Theft
Asked If outsiders attempted
to steal their pickings, Bowie
said:
1--WE don't give them .
chance. Once we have claimed
stake on any particular hull
we have it to ourselves until
we move on to another one.
When we have cleaned the
huIls out, removed all mud and
trash and pumped the water
out, then we keep . 24-hOuf
guard over our claim until we
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-28
DERELICT SHIP
SCRAP IRON
VALUED

Just as California had its IA
nous gold rush Of '49, Virginia
and Maryland are now having q
1887 version of scrap metal
rush"
With the hulls of hundreds of
wartime vessels beached and
abandoned in the Potomac and
James Rivers, and scrap metal
now bringing better prices than
it has in years-from $12 to SIS
per ton-scores Of idle fishermen
and farmers have turned to sal.
vaging this scrap metal for a live
libood.
One of the richest veins" Of
scrap metal near Washington
where anyone can stake claim"
and dig in for the metal is off
Whitewater, Va, on the Potomac
River several miles below the Ma.
rine Base at Quantico.
Graveyard of HullS
On the Maryland side Of the
river at this point more than 100
wartime freighters 300 feet long
have been beached and aban-
doned. A California salvaging
company that bought the vessels
from the Government shortly
after the war has long since re-
moved the "easy pickings" from
these hulls and abandoned what
was left as too difficult to justify
salvaging for the scrap metal mar
ket.
Covering some 20 to Is acres OF
water along the Maryland shore
lust off Charles county, this ship
graveyard" as it is referred to
by fishermen and navigators, pre-
sents a vivid picture of the great
cost Of an international war.
Nearly 100 workmen are now
digging and tearing into the
abandoned hulls of these ships to
salvage their metal parts. The
number of men turning to this
occupation vary as the scrap mar
ket metal rises and falls, it was
explained by one worker. At times
more than 300 workers have been
engaged in picking the frames OF
these nearly 200 hulls.
Some Well Equipped
While the greater portion Of
those salvaging the metal use
barges to freight their cargo to
Washington, where it is loaded IN
box cars in Georgetown, some Of
the salvaging is transported by
trucks to Baltimore. Those using
the trucks simply buy the metal
at the graveyard" at prices az
eraging IS cents per 100 pounds,
and haul it to Baltimore to resell
it there at a profit.
Some of the waterfront natives
on both sides Of the river, it was
explained, put in several hours
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-28
T1'7Iy ARD HOTEL
YOU'VE HAD
LONG ENOUGH

You've itched and scratched and
suffered, but you haven't used
Poslam. Use it tonight and get
your first real relief from the itch.
ing and burning of eczema. Poslam
works faster because it penetrates
the outer layers of the skin. It
soothes first, and with the irrita-
ton stopped, the skin soon begins
to improve. Why wait any longer
for skin comfort? Get PoSlam to-
day at any drug store, SOC.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-28

a tug boat, two barges, an acety-
lene torch for cutting steel girders,
graphing hooks and other wreck
ing tools.
Crew Of Six Men
Mr.. Bowie explained that he
worked an average of about six
men and salvaged some 100 tons
per month. He said:
"Scrap metal prices are pretty
good now, but don't give any
body the impression that this
work is all gravy for it costs
real money to remove metal
from these hulls now that The
easier parts have been taken.
BY the time we get one Of these
barges loaded with 100 tons Of
metal and deliver and load it
at Georgetown, much of the
price paid us for the metal has
gone"
During the recent flood, Mr..
Bowie explained, one of the hullS
broke loose from its grounded
area and washed clear across the
channel, approximately two
miles, and beached itself on the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-28
Fairfax Education
Association Elects

FAIRFAX, Va, May 2s.-The
Fairfax County Education Associ.
alton, composed of public school
teachers of the county, today an
nounced election of the following
officers for the 1878 school year:
Miss Frances hewitt, Oakton
School, president; Miss Ethel
Simms, Bailey's Cross Roads, vice
president; Miss Adele Mansfield,
Fairfax High School, secretary,
and Frank WhitS, Vienna School,
treasurer. Miss hewitt, who sue
ceeds j. E. Bauserman as head Of
the teachers group, is vice presi-
dent Of the State organization Of
elementary school principals.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-28
BEAR THIS IN MIND

Today, good friends, HE trends 10 b4en
And bear in mind thot much depend.
On perfect blending, so toke core
To" coII for coIvort~ everywhere.
Evening star., 1937-09-14
CATHOLIC u. CLAIM
IN LAND CASE DENIED
Damage Was Sought in Proceed
ings for Michigan Avenue
Crossing Elimination,

Damage claims by Catholic Univer-
6ty and the Order of Minor Con-
ventuals growing out of condemnation
Of land for the Michigan avenue grade
crossing elimination were denied by the
United States Court OF Appeals yes
terday
The university and the order, which
own property sbutting the western ap-
proach to the viaduct over the tracks.
contended their title ran TO the center
Of Michigan avenue and that they
should be reimbursed for the roadbed
Itself. In an opinion written by Chief
Justice George e. Martin, who recently
announced his retirement, the court
held that the roadbed was subject TO
. public right-of-way regardless Of the
title and that improvement of the
fieht-of- did not give rise to
damages.
The court also affirmed District
Court verdict awarding Robert A.
Ralph. owner OF gas station abutting
The viaduct, slo,64449 for property
taken in condemnation proceedings
Ralph contended the sum was made
euate since 1t did not compensate him
for loss of business resulting from the
removal of the roadway from his gas
station. The court said this additional
damage gave him no claim against the
District and would have to be borne.
The District Commissioners, de-
eendants IN the proceedings, were rep
resented by Corporation Counsel FL
wood Seal and his assistant, Walter l.
Fowler.
Evening star., 1937-09-14

Committee strike which began May 2e
and once affected %. 500 mill hands in
this area still continues against Re-
public Steel.
Strike truces sent $4,000 Inland
Steel Co. employees back to work July
] and 1000 Youngstown Sheet and
Tube Co. workers July 13.
But pickets. handful one day. A
larger group the next. still trudge per-
sistently back and forth before the
Republic Steel main gate. They are
in three shifts, picketing "a hours a
day.
The mill remained open on a cur
tailed production basis throughout the
strike and company spokesman said
today it was operating virtually at
normal. Strike leaders claimed only
half its normal force of $500 was at
work.
Meantime, the National Labor Re-
lations Board hearing on an S. w. O.
c. complaint that Inland Steel vio-
lated the Wagner act by refusing to
sign contract continues. 1t began
June 28.
Evening star., 1937-09-14
|63 CASES SLATED
| IN STRIKE R|OT|NC
Continuance of Charges ir
Fatal Chicago Clashes to
Be Asked Today.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, September 14-Sixty-
three cases on the calendar in felony
court today reminded Chicago of its
industrial nightmare, the Memorial
day steel strike riot in which 10 men
died.
The defendants were arrested and
charged with conspiracy to commit
an illegal act after the tragic, bloody
battle between 200 policemen and
1900 strikers and sympathizers in a
field near the Republic Steel Corp.
plant in South Chicago.
Action was postponed while the COR
oner and the Senate Civil Liberties
Committee in Washington investigated
The Senate Committee condemned
the Chicago police for brutality
while the coroners jury decided the
killings constituted "justiflable homi-
cide.'
The cases were scheduled for trial
today, but defense counsel said a con-
tinuance would be requested.
The Steel Workers Organizing
Evening star., 1937-09-14
D. c. BAR TO MEET
Association to Discuss Annual
Convention at Kansas City.

The District Bar Association will
meet At 4:30 pm. tomorrow in the
Mayfower Hotel TO make plans for
attendance OF its members at the
saxtteth annual convention Of the
American Bar Association in Kansas
City September 27-October 2.
The District group has sent the
third largest delegation to the last
three national conventions and this
year expects to improve or at least
maintain the record, Secretary Will
bur l. Gray said One hundred or
mofo oarristers from Washington are
expected to attend.
Evening star., 1937-09-14
Osteapathic Auxiliary to Meet.

The Osteopathic Womans National
Association Auxiliary will hold its
first Fall luncheon meeting at Collier
Inn Thursday. Dr. Lucy Maxfeld,
president of the association, will pre-
side.
Evening star., 1937-09-14

pocket and ran. Kayton's injuries
were minor, but his loss amounted to
$39. The robbery occurred near Kay
tons home.
Evening star., 1937-09-14

of an armed colored bandit to hand
over his wallet The bandit struck
Kayton on the nose with the butt of
his gun, ripped the wallet from his
Evening star., 1937-09-14
Eoxdus From America.

Since 1880 an average of $4,000
more persons have left the United
States annually than have entered it.
Evening star., 1937-09-14
Beginning of Expression.

The expression another county
heard from" originated during the
slow returns from the presidential
election of 1876.
Evening star., 1937-09-14
Lights Aid Egg Production.

Turkeys can be made to lay eggs
earlier than normally by use OF lighu
in their houses.
Evening star., 1937-03-07
Driver
Can You q
Ans,Uer This .
AAA TRAFFIQUIZ

I. Which form Of marker on rural
highways has made perhaps the great
est contribution to safety?
Check right space.
a } Stop signs at rail crossings.
Be White center line separating
flow of traffic.
&C } Signs warning Of curves.
d( } General caution signs.
g. On which day of the week are the
greatest number of people killed in
motor accidents?
a Wednesday.
b { } Saturday.
C } Sunday.
d { } Monday.
8. What are the light conditions
prevailing when more than so per cent
of motor accidents occur?
a Daylight.
b Dusk.
&C Dark.
4. What should the driver do when
a rear tire goes fiat?
a } Quickly apply foot brakes.
b( Apply hand brakes.
C } Let car reduce speed.
d { } Apply brakes and pull of
road
S. How should brakes be properly
applied with maximum effect?
} Quickly.
b } Intermittently.
C With steadily increasing
pressure.
Evening star., 1937-03-07

idea of this is to forestall any posi-
bility of the visor interfering with
vision. Because of its special color
ing, it is claimed that this visor greatly
lessons glare from sun, snow and the
light from oncoming cars. Some
thing extremely desirable is a special
voltage regulator for the generator.
This is intended to provide automatic
boosting of the generators output
when the cars radio is in operation
or during prolonged night driving, re-
ducing the output for daytime use.
In the tire field there are number
of important developments. The trend
is toward treads which have ribs run
ming radially around the tires. There
is no apparent agreement among the
tire makers as to just how these ribs
should be spaced, but the general prin-
ciple is that, when the car is deceler-
ated, the ribs spread out with suck
ing action and grip the road better
than do the average tires with normal
treads. Another feature of-these new
tires is that they provide silent oper-
alton.
ONE of these treads can be in
stalled directly over slightly used
tires, thus bringing the cars rubber
well within the accessory category.
Present tires can also be put through
a machine that cuts numerous grooves
for the purpose Of providing greatly
increased traction in slippery weather.
Closely resembling these developments
in tire trends is the new windshield
wiper blade which has a cross-section
like miniature balloon tire, with a
number of ribs that become wiping
blades.
The swinging tail light, seen last
year for the first time on two popular
makes, is also available for other cars.
Fog lights of various sorts are again
coming into the picture in big way,
while the spotlight has staged re-
markable comeback. This is partly
explained by a desire on the part of
buyers to try to make their cars just
a little different from the other thou
sands turned out by the same factory.
For safety's sake, this year many mo-
torists will install the safety switch
that automatically shuts off the ig-
milton when, and if, the car upsets.
Almost endless is the parade Of
the newest accessories. They give the
1887 car that "five-years-ahead" look,
Evening star., 1937-03-07
G-MEN OF SCIENCE

parasites should manage to break out
of their prisons and crawl away they
could not go beyond the sandy moat,
to work havoc in the laboratory among
the workers.
''Some did get way" says Dr. Francis
a little sadly, while We were trans
fering them from bottles to boxes, and
they got stepped on. It was too bad
Luckily though enough were left for
all necessary experiments. And" he
concludes proudly, "12 of those fellows
are still on starvation diet"
From one of the first lots of ticks
that arrived he selected number and
put one apiece on several rhesus
monkeys, allowing them to feed to
engagement. Six days after being
tick-bitten every one of those monkeys
was down with high fever. The fever
lasted for day or two, then subsidized
and was followed by period of normal
temperature for four or five days. At
the end of that time the attack was
renewed. This was repeated six times,
the relapses occurring in the animals
with regularity that identified the
disease beyond question.
DR.. Francis extracted drops of blood
from these infected monkeys, at various
stages of the disease. He made dark
field" examinations; he took stained
smears. In those drops of blood that
were drawn during the course Of the
fever he found, in every instance,
slender, spiral germs-true spirochetes.
These spirochetes were Identical with
germs found to exist in the blood of
human beings who were suffering from
the relapsing fever disease. 1t was
apparent that the spirochete must find
harbor in the body of the tick. DR..
Evening star., 1937-03-07
ANSWERS TO TRAFFIQUIz.
! (b); (c): 8 (a); 4 (c); S (c).

Francis set about finding out, and
ascertaining, at the same time, just
how hardy the pernicious germ was.
He figured out that if he could keep a
tick alive for an indefinite time with
out food, then test its ability to infect
an animal after a long starvation
period, he could be pretty sure of the
longevity and hardihood of the
spirochetic germ it harbored.
HENCE, the second colony Of ticks
was started. That was over six
years ago. Not a smell Of food were
they permitted in all that time, but
remained shut up in their pine box
houses unmolested. After five years
had elapsed-for these G-men Of
science know how to wait with infinite
patience for the results they are seek
ing-Dr. Francis removed one of these
hunger-striking ticks. He waS-in the
words of the eminent scientist-"fiat-
tern a filter" But his energy, 1t
appeared, was not impaired.
II took him out on my hand" re-
lates DR.. Francis, land soon as he got
to smelling a good warm meal he got
his legs untangled and turned over
and started in action. I didn't let him
bite me, though. Soon as he got to
pinching around put him on nice
warm monkey and let him have good
meal"
What happened? Just what DR..
Francis had suspected would happen
and was making an effort to ascertain.
After five years in that starved body of
the tick Ornithodorous turicata, the
spirochetic germ, innoculated into the
blood stream of the monkey by the
ticks bite, set to work at its deadly
task of infection. Five days later
after the tick bite the monkey was
down with relapsing fever.
This experiment had been conducted
in the last days of October, 1896. On
the last day of December. 1886, the
monkey was dead of relapsing fever.
DR.. Francis believes that the germ and
ticks can survive indefinitely without
food, and this conclusion has con-
vinced him that some means other
than extinction of the host of the
germ or extinction of the germ itself
within the host must be sought in an
effort to wipe out the resultant disease.
That is why he has put his ticks in
his will for those who survive him to
study Meanwhile he has turned his
own attention to other means of fight
ing the menace.
In an effort to ascertain il the
spirochetes can be transmitted through
heredity. DR.. Francis made study
Of the life cycle of the tick. He care
fully collected eggs that had been
deposited by the ticks after they had
fed on the first set of monkeys, and
with all the solicitude of the interested
scientist h. watched over them until
they had developed into the larvae
of the specie.
These larvae he then injected into
the blood of white mice, and short
time later took tests of the mice's
blood. In every instance he could
discern the slender floating bodies of
the spirochetic germ in the blood Of
the animals. These white mice DR..
Evening star., 1937-03-07
NEWEST MOTOR ACCESSORIES MATCH ADVANCES IN CARS
Animals Friends Hope
To Danish Steel Traps

IN AN effort to eliminate the use
of the steel trap in connection
with fur-trapping and hunting Of
L animals, an organization founded
by the late Lieut.. Comdr. Edward
Breck of the United States Navy, is
working from its national headquar-
tiers in the District to bring about
State legislation to this effect.
Known as the Anti-Steel Trap
League, the national organization Is
headed by the widow of the founder,
Mrs. Edward Breck, who took up the
work directly after her husbands
death in 1929 and has visited the
Legislatures of many States since that
time in the interests of the league.
Adjustment of the steel trap, which
Is declared inhumane and the cause
of much unnecessary suffering and
mutilation of the animals caught, Is
sought by the league through legis-
lation, and in the counties of many
States members have been successful
in their efforts to enlist public opinion
to an extent that has brought about
passage of the desired legislation.
The league does not desire, Mrs.
Breck states, to interfere in any way
with the fur industry, nor with the
men who work to exterminate preda-
tory animals, but simply asks that
the animals be caught in some other
manner than that now employed.
CPEAKING of recent invention of
DR.. Vernon Bailey, erstwhile Of
fetal of the Biological Survey, Mrs.
Breck said: "Dr. Bailey has invented
a trap that consists of chain that
catches the animal high up on the
leg and is said to hold him without
undue suffering or injury, end ade-
quately. They are using this device
now in Canada and 1t is said to be
proving very effective and satisfactory
by members of the Game Commission
there. 1t has also been suggested for
use in England and We are interested
in acquiring it for use in the United
States, If it. indeed, proves as effective
as is reported"
While the league believes that fewer
fur-bearing animals would be caught
with the abolishment of the steel trap,
Evening star., 1937-03-07
Sweet POtatOUses.

THE sweet potato begins to assume
far more important position
than it held before Federal experts
of the Department of Agriculture be-
gan considering ways and means of
employing it for other than table
purposes.
When broken down, the sweet
potato is found to consist of 70 per
cent moisture. per cent pulp and %
per cent starch 1t is the starch
which holds the greatest possibilities.
The pulp can be and is manufactured
into cattle feed and is therefore an
important by-product of the starch
industry.
The starch plant is operated at
Laurel, Miss.
During 1884. the first year the
plant was in operation. it produced
100000 pounds of sweet potato starch;
the second year, 250,000 pounds, and
last year. 100000 pounds. Approx
;nately $4,000 bushels of sweet potatoes
were procesSed last year with an
average of 10 pounds of starch per
bushel But under better methods,
developed near the end of the season,
it is believed that bushel of potatoes
will produce between II and II pounds
of starch and about 4 pounds OF
potato pulp. about equal to sugar beet
pulp as live stock feed.
This new starch has been tried on a
commercial basis in cotton mills, adj
hesive factories. laundries and so on
and found to be satisfactory. Large
quantities of starch are used for
sizing yarns Big cotton mills use
it by tons. Dextrin made from sweet
potato starch is the only domestic
starch product that meets the Govern
ment specifications for adhesive for
postage stamps, labels and envelopes.
At present imported cassava starch is
used altogether for this.
The sweet potato starch plant is an
outgrowth of Federal emergency re-
lief project started in 1888. The plant
is now operated on a full commercial
basis by cooperative farm organiza-
ton, with the Bureau of Chemistry
and Soils continuing its research.