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Evening star., 1937-01-10

IN Indiana farmer was startled to see
a school bus zigzag crafty down the
road and wind up in ditch. When he
I arrived at the scene, the driver and
four children were unconscious; the five
others in the vehicle were in daze.
In New Jersey two old friends of my
family were found unconscious by neigh
bors alarmed at the A-hour silence of
the house. One of the women died after
an 11-day coma; her sister followed the
next week.
In my own home, two days after we
attended the funeral of this first victim,
my wife. her sister and I were all
knocked silly by the very same cause as
these other deaths - and was given six
days in bed to null over a truth had
no excuse for forgetting: that carbon
monoxide is deaths most stealthy angel.
In the first case the gas seeped into the
school bus from defective exhaust pipe
common fault. A road test in Connecticut
showed that some degree of carbon mon
oxide was found in half of the cars checked,
with the ratio dangerous in 7 per cent.
In the second case the gas was formed
by an imprudent closing of the furnace
drafts right after coal had been added.
In the third case the trouble was caused
by the oven of gas range whose fame
was obviously poorly adjusted.
The danger of this hazard from the
running of an automobile motor in a
closed garage is gradually being impressed
upon the public by the mounting fatalities
charged to this oversight. Since 1924 these
deaths exclusive of suicides) have tripled
while the registration of cars has increased
only41 per cent. Clearly. not enough people
know that an 80 horsepower engine can
produce enough co in five minutes in the
typical private garage to kill!
Yet four times as many people are
killed in their homes by carbon monoxide
as die in garages. Last year Ohio alone
reported 518 cases with 100 deaths. An
analysis showed that more than half of
the cases involved gas heaters and stoves
of various kinds; one-fifth involved escap-
ing gas and one-sixth came from coal or
coke stoves or furnaces.
Room and water heaters are the two
chief offenders in the field of gas appli-
ances. The simplest advice concerning
them is, first, use only the best and,
second, have even the best checked peri
odically by gas company expert.
The obvious cause of trouble with coal
stoves and furnaces is the tendency to
shut down the drafts too soon after bank
Evening star., 1937-01-10

of clear and lovely bell there were still the
remains of beauty on her face. She was erect.
Her lines were graceful. Her hands were al
most young. He knew and thanked God for
the knowledge that to him and to his near
ness she owed that light in her eyes. She had
had faith in him.
There are things that l must do." she
said Il shan't be long away"
Evening star., 1937-04-18
SOUTHWEST, T0fIC
OF LECTURE HERE
Kenneth B. Disher to Give Illus.
trated Talk on Wednesday
Nicht -
Night.

Kenneth B. Disher, associate mu-
scum expert of the National Park
Service, will give an illustrated public
lecture on "Trekking Through the
Evening star., 1937-04-18
STRIKE SHORT.LIVED
IN CINCINNATI HOTEL
Service Employees Return After
Two Hours as Executives
Take Their Places.
By the Assoclateo Press

BY tne ASSOClateC PIeSS.
CINCINNATI, April 17.-Service
employees of the Netherlands-Plaza,
Cincinnati's largest hotel, struck today
but returned two hours later to re-
lieve executives and office help who
abandoned their usual work to pinch
hit" as bellhops and elevator opera
tors.
Ben Lash. secretary of the Gin
cinnati local, Building Service Em-
ployes Union, said an agreement to
negotiate alleged points of dispute in
cluded employees of the Greenwood
Building, a downtown Office structure,
where elevator and maid service like
wise was temporarily abandoned.
Lash said the strikers demands
included union recognition and IS
per cent wage increase.
Fred H. RAISER, vice president of
the International Hotel Workers
Union, said the hotel had agreed to
recognize the organization and At
torney A. C. Fricke, in addressing q
strike meeting, said the hotel men
had admitted workers were UNDER
paid
Evening star., 1937-04-18
-Four of Hobson's Heroic Cre,u
Live to See 39th Anniversary

dolf Clausen, John Z. Murphy and
Francis Kelly. All are retired from
the Navy now and receive the pay of
a lieutenant, senior grade, amounting
to about $4,000 = year. Charette lives
in Lowell. Mass; Clausen in Brooklyn;
Murphy in San Diego, CALI, and
Kelly in Glasgow, Scotland.
The plan for the exploit is accredit-
ed to Admiral w. T. Samson, who
turned the Job over to young Hobson,
then %.
Hobson was chosen because Of his
knowledge Of naval construction.
Sampson said Hobson should be able
to sink ship faster than any one else
In the fleet.
The young lieutenant prepared the
Merrimac for the venture by attach
ing 10 torpedoes to 1t, to be exploded
electrically. His plan was to slip into
the harbor entrance, drop anchors,
and set off the torpedoes.
To aid in the venture, Hobson chose
| three members of the Merrimac'l Z
crew, Osborn Deignan, coxswain
George F.. Phillips, machinist, and
Evening star., 1937-04-18

Sandridge's crop this year will in
clude also sweet Spanish onions weigh
ing from to 21a pounds each and said
to be SO delicate in flavor that they are
not anti-social; Ebenezer Japanese
onions. Australian brown onions; pur-
pie corn, presented by student at the
Miller Boys School in Albemarle Coun-
ty, Va; Jerusalem squashes, whose
seeds are the gift of school teacher
in Ontario, Canada; giant straight
necked squashes; golden red banana
and acorn squashes; white tomatoes,
climbing tomatoes and cherry toma-
toes; New Guinea butter vine, light
ming express cabbages, Danish cab
bages, lemon cucumbers and Persian
spaghetti.
Sandridge recently purchased five
acre tract in Montgomery County.
where he intends to build home and
have his garden eventually. To him
his hobby takes the place of golf,
travel, theater and physician. Before
he started gardening, his health had
been Door for wears.
Evening star., 1937-04-18

Puerto Ricans know little, II any
thing. about the English language.
In his opinion, the time has come.
principally for their own personal
benefit, for the citizens OF this
insular possession to master the
English language.
With this object In view. the
President desires the Puerto Ricans
to become bilingual. However, he
contends that bilingualism will be
achieved by the forthcoming genera
tions Of Puerto Ricans only II the
teaching Of English throughout the
insular educational system is started
At once with vigor, purposefulness
and devotion, and with the UNDER
standing that English is the oticial
language Of the United States.
In his, Mr.. Roosevelt's, opinion,
Puerto Rican Americans will acquire
better understanding OF American
ideals and principals through knowl-
edge Of the English language and,
moreover. 1t will be only through
familiarity with English that they
will be able to take full advantage Of
the economic opportunities offered to
them as American citizens.
Evening star., 1937-04-18
TUBERCULOSIS DEATHS
INCLUDE 1O4 CHILDREN

New Figures Made Public by
Mrs. Grant, D. c. Associa-
tion Managing Director.
Urging that every facility for the
care and cure Of tuberculosis in the
District be made available, Mrs. Err
nest r. Grant, managing director Of
the D. c. tuberculosis Association,
speaking Is chairman OF the health
education section Of the Junior High
Evening star., 1937-04-18
MEAT THIEF CAUGHT
IN WILD PURSUIT
Bullet Pierces Hat, Policeman's
Skull Fractured, Cars Hit.
He's Surprised at Arrest.

~ the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 17.-Joe Greece
just wanted to get some meat"
There was $40o worth of it in a
Brooklyn provision company truck
parked today in front Of a BROOKLYN
lunch room.
Greece jumped into the drivers
seat and sped away. An officer COM
mantteered motor car and the chase
was on. 1t lasted for 3 long miles
through the congested section C Flat
bush. with citizens running for cover
as the meat wagon raced along, dis
respectful Of traf11c lights and every-
thing else. From time to time the
truck slashed tenders Of cars it passed,
Omcer James Kissane, observing the
eommotion, joined the chase. but
smashed into another car and had to
be taken to the hospital with a frac-
tured skull.
The original policeman continued
the pursuit, firing and coming 50 close
that bullet pierced the fugitive
drivers hat. The meat wagon was
finally forced to the curb and Greco
subdued in hand-to-hand combat.
He WAS charged with grand larceny.
This surprised him, for, he said, II
Just wanted a little meat"
Evening star., 1937-04-18

THE power of the press reached
to the roots of the vegetable
world when Norman Sandridge
of Washington, whose hobby is
srowing freak vegetables, was featured
IN story in The Star last Summer.
Since then Sandridge has engaged
In correspondence with amateur gar
deners of is States, Hawaii, Canada,
Germany, England and South Africa.
His experiences with freak vegetables
were described in a science magazine
following The Stars account OF his
activities.
Today Sandridge is engaged In
Spring planting at a plot on the Car
lyle estate in Montgomery County, Md,
working Saturday afternoons and after
work on week days.
He has received three assortments of
semi-tropical seeds from Alfred Stevens
OF Coronado. Calf, and will expert
ment with them under glass. Stevens
writes that he walked IS miles into
the desert to locate one variety for
Sandrldge.
Evening star., 1937-04-18

school Conference at the Langley
school, yesterday made public hitherto
unknown statistics on the disease.
"Of the 662 reported deaths here In
1885, lO4 were Of children" Mrs.
Grant said. If We can find these
children IN the early stages Of infec-
ton we can save their lives. It is
costing the Nation $4,000 900 In hos
pitalization alone, because 80 per cent
are not hospitalized until in advanced
stages"
With the hope that the District
would make examination and hospital
ization compulsory, she added that
the District law on tuberculosis has
not been revised since 1903"
Evening star., 1937-04-18
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
Four Of the seven men who went
with Lieut.. Richmond P. Hobson on
his dark and dangerous effort to bottle
up the Spanish fleet in Santiago Har-
Dor are still alive.
The last death among the group was
that Of the leader, grown to be an
admiral in the 80 years since he and
his crew sailed the naval collier Mer-
rilnac into the narrow entrance to the
harbor and tried to sink 1t there.
The collier got past the entrance
before they sank 1t and the feat failed
Of its purpose, but It's very audacity
captured the imagination of the Ma
ton and made heroes of Hobson and
his men.
Next Wednesday will be the thirty
ninth anniversary Of the war declara-
ton which made their feat possible
1t was on the night of June 2, 1898
when the eight picked men from the
American Fleet went out to their peril
ouS task.
The four alive to see the anniversary
this year are George Charette, Ran.
Evening star., 1937-04-18
ROOSEVELT PLANS
FOR PUERTO RICO
Takes Steps to Teach
Natives English, Letter
OiScIoSeS.

Expressing regret that many
Puerto Ricans neither understand
nor speak English, President Roose-
welt has taken steps to change this
condition.
The Presidents policy in this con-
nection was outlined in = letter ad-
dressed to DR.. Jose M. Gallardo,
newly appointed Commissioner OF
Education of Puerto Rico, and made
public yesterday at the White House.
In his letter the President pointed
out that irrespective Of the fact that
Puerto Rico came under the Ameri-
can nag 80 years ago and has had
American citizenship for nearly 20
years, hundreds Of thousands OF
Evening star., 1937-04-18

Ski runs are now included in the
training at Tula Naval School, Russia.
Evening star., 1937-04-18
CIVlTAN CLUB TO HONOR
8 HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS
Group Best Fostering Qualities Of
Leadership and Citizenship
to Receive KaYx.

Eight senior high school students
best fostering qualities OF leadership
Ind good citizenship" will be honored
BY the Civitan Club at dinner Tues
day night at pm. in the Mayflower
Hotel Each student will receive a
Civitan honor key.
Prize winners include: Francis
Tetreault, Central; Bent Loving,
Roosevelt; Victor Orsinger, st. Johns;
Edward P. Zimmerman, Western;
Harold A. Davis, Eastern; Joseph H.
Oehmann, Mckinley; George E.
Flather, jr, Woodrow Wilson, and
Charles w. Riley, Gonzaga.
Evening star., 1937-04-18

Kelly, water tender; from the q. 8. s.
New York, sampson's flagship, he took
Daniel Montague, machinist; Charette,
gunner's mate, and Clausen. coxswain.
Murphy was coxswain Of the U. s. 8.
Iowa.
Hobson afterward reported: 1T may
be said broadly that the bulk Of the
neet was anxious to co.
Both Montague, ~, and Murphy, 10,
were Irish born; Clausen. e, Z Dane.
Kelly, %, and Phillips, "a, were from
Boston, and Charette, 20, from Lowell,
Mass. Deignan, 81, and youngest OF
the crew, was an Iowa farm boy. Hob
son himself was an Alabaman.
Evening star., 1937-04-18
DINNER PLANS MADE

The Welfare Liaison COMMITTEES,
composed Of the welfare representa-
tives Of the posts and units Of the
American Legion, will hold its sec
ond annual dinner tomorrow at $50
pm. at ShoI's Cafe, 1919 G street.
Guest speakers will be Frank M.
Gray, budget secretary Of the Com
munity Chest, and Lieut.. Col. julius
Peyser, attorney. Plans will be made
for welfare activities Of the commit
tee at meeting following the din
Evening star., 1937-04-18

spent much time in Arizona and
New Mexico on several exploration
trips Of the Museum of Northern Ari-
zona and the Peabody Museum Of
Harvard. Before taking over his pres
ent position with the National Park
Service, he was associated with the
Wayside Museum Of Archaeology at
Grand Canyon National Park.
Evening star., 1937-04-18

Southwest" i n
the Departmental
Auditorium at 8
p. m. Wednesday.
Disher will tell
of he m a n y
wonders of Mesa
Verde andsGrand
Canyon National
Park, Tumacacori,
Aztec and Can
yon de Chelly
National Monu-
ments and the
Hopi and Navajo
Indian reServa-
tions.
rr l.
Evening star., 1937-04-18
RABBI GOLD TO SPEAK
Will Address Mass Meeting al
Adas Israel Synagogue.

Rabbi Wolf Gold, president of the
World Mizrachi Zionist Organization
and resident Of Palestine, will address
. mass meeting at the Adas Israel
Synagogue, Sixth and 1 streets, Tues
day, April 20. Rev. Louis Novick, vice
president OF the Mizrachi Organiza ton
Of America, will preside.
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however. that general program OF flood
control may be estimated to cost about
$4,000, 100000
Not all OF the projects. which aggregate
such total cost, are now economically
justified. Probably bout so per cent OF
these approach economic Justification at
this time or involve the lives and social
security OF the people and the general
welfare. Future consideration can be
given to additional works when she
growth of population. cities. towns and
industry and the need for more agricul-
tural land indicate them to be of eco
nomic and social value.
A general program Of this kind would
involve all the great rivers OF the coun-
try and many smaller ones. Among these
may be included rivers of the Northeast
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control program could only be handled
by ths Federal Government Floods ars
no respecters Of State sovereignty. and
State pacts and agreements would be
necessary to forward the efforts of the
Federal agency. With the establishment
OF whatever local cooperation may be
required by law, actual construction
could begin This would undoubtedly call
into play all methods of food control
which have proved themselves effective
and economical.
OF the four methods OF controlling
foods, the construction of levees Is the
most direct and surest method. The food
elevations TO bs protected against are
reasonably well known. the leyees neces-
sary TO afford the needed protection can
be designed and estimated for with rea-
sonable accuracy, and the remedy Is
applied whers the trouble occurs.
Reservoirs constructed at localities
distant from areas damaged by foods
are not SO deterrninate as to effects, and
the benefits of reservoirs become smaller
and smaller as distances from the reser-
voir sites increase. AS q consequence,
dollar spent for levee construction La more
likely to be q dollar well spent than o
dollar spent for other methods OF food
control.
On account OF the space necessary for
leyee construction, thickly populated
localities are likely to desire distant pro-
lection by reservoirs because of the ex-
pense Of levee rights s-of-way AZ well AZ
the Inconvenience Of levees or food
walls to business and other human ac-
tivities
However, both levees and reservoirs
afford protection to human lives as well
as protection to lands affording means
of livelihood Both of these methods, IS
well as channel enlargements and diver
sions, would have place In q comprehen-
sive food-control program
The effects OF reforestation and i'm
proved land use upon the control of
floods have not as yet been proved. Their
influence would come to bear gradually
over long period Of time. The benefits
Of such measures from the standpoint OF
conservation OF important natural re-
sources are unquestioned and any Incl
dental benefits they may effect In the
improvement Of flood conditions of the
Nations watersheds will be useful as an
additional factor OF safety. However,
such measures cannot take the place Of
direct control of food waters by engi-
neering structures.
The most important thing necessary
TO accomplish flood control is to have an
able executive agency in charge of the
works throughout the United States.
ANY distribution Of responsibility and
control among number OF commission
authorities will simply result In waste.
extravaganza and failure Of accomplish
ment
How much viii nation wide flood
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@fAH foods be preventedf Can the
~ great rivers Of the Nation, which an
nnally overflow their banks, bringing
waste and desolation to millions OF acres
of farmlands and thousands OF homes.
be brought within their nneandering
banks AMI made 10 stay there7
What will such program cost the
Nation7 How many rivers would be in
volved7 How long would 1t take to put
such program into effective operation2
What program shall he followed9 Re-
forestation2 Overflow basins' Who would
do 1t?
Congressm en-, State legislators Gov
ernors, Mayors OF cities and hundreds
of thousands OF homeless and suffering
people each year In the great river basins
OF the United States ask these questions.
They are seeking an answer TO them, for
the answer means security and pros
perity 10 all whose lives the rivers touch
+ TNITED STATES army engineers who.
~ since the foundation OF the Govern
ment, have nat the rivers on their own
raging grounds and fought 1t out with
them, hold the answer TO these questions.
Congress holds the purse strings to their
accomplishment
Taking these questions one by one, let
us outline the rivers that would need to
come under a permanent and successful
flood control program for the United
States; show what would need to be done
IN the way Of dams, leyees, spillways,
overflow basins TO harness these rivers
effectively. Let us examine the labor of
the problem from permanent basis
standpoint and the number OF men and
years to put the program into effective
operation.
Floods on tEs rivers OF the United
States In the sense OF recurring high
river stages cannot be prevented, but
the destructive effects of such high
waters may largely be eliminated
major food on great river system
is not the torrential rush Of water from
hillstdes and tributary valleys but is the
slowly rising, long continued outpour of
the drainage OF vast region.
With the occurrence OF certain me-
neurological conditions the river basins of
the United States from the Atlantic to
the Pacific and from the Gulf TO the
Great Lakes have received In the past
and will again receive great volumes Of
rainfall. The resulting volumes of water
must pass 70 the sea and the river sys-
TENS are their highways. Periods of high
water on our rivers may therefore be ex-
pected so long as the law OF gravity Is ir
force.
However, the destructive effects OF
these tremendous oyerfows. which nov
devastate large areas where suitable con-
troll works have not been provided. car
generally be prevented or greatly reducee
by the construction and operation o.
carefully designed food control
The execution Of nation wide flood.
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Flood Control in United States Is
Greatest Engineering Problem Ever
Tackled by Any Government -flow II

control program cost and how mang
rivers are involvedS
The army engineers have gor many
years been engaged In study Of the
food problem OF the rivers Of the United
States and. upon authorization by Con-
gress, have formulated dood-control
plans of ell Of the principal rivers In
conjunction with plans for their most
suitable development for navigation. the
development OF hydro electric power and
this needs of irrigation.
These comprehensive Investigations
cover more than 200 rivers. AS result
Of these studies 1t Is possible to prepare
basic plans and detailed projects looking
10 the preparation of comprehensive
nationwide fiood-control program.
The construction OF such program
would be a vast undertaking, and esti-
mates OF total cost must necessarily be
approximate and such program would
extend over considerable period Of time
with changing conditions. It Is believed.
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such as the Merrimack, Connecticut and
Susquehanna, and many others: with
rivers of the Southeastern slope such as
the Potomac. James, Roanoke, Tar. Cape
Fear Yadkin -Peedee, Savannah and Al
tan1aha. Such program would also in
clude the rivers which flow to the Cult
OF Mexico such "a the Apalachicola, the
Alabama system and the Trinity Brazos
and Colorado of Texas.
The present project on the Mississippi
would be pushed to completion as au-
thorized by law and q comprehensive sys-
tenn for the Ohio River Basin would be
prominent feature. The other great trib-
the Red, the Arkansas. the White, the
Yazoo. the st. Francis, the Illinois and
the Missouri would be included.
The numerous streams of the Pacific
slope, in many cases. have serious flood
problems. Among these are the Santa
Ana, Los Angeles and Sacramento
Joaquin In California and the Villa
mette, Columbia. Puyallup and Skagit OF
the Pacific Northwest.
The magnitude of nationwide food
control program Is indicated when it Is
considered that the building of the lev
ees. which now protect from overflow the
great Mississippi Valley. required more
than twice the amount of earth ex-
cayated from the Panama Canal. The
water which the Ohio River discharged
into the Mississippi in day at It's crest
during the recent flood would fill four
storage reservoirs each the size of the
District of Columbia to depth OF twenty
feet each.
INTHO would carry out nationwide
w fiood-control program? The army
engineer organization has developed
through more than century, In which
period it has principally been engaged in
the study and execution OF river and
harbor improvements, and the plans
which have formed the basis for all pro-
grams of watershed improvement here
tofore set up have largely been extracted
from the reports which the army engi
neers have made known as 1903 surveys. !"
This organization covers the entire
United States. The country has been
divided into ten engineer divisions,
which In turn are subdivided into forty
two engineer districts within the con-
tinental limits of the United States and
three territorial engineer districts.
These districts, distributed from Jack
sonville to Seattle and from Boston to
TnS Angeles ere f3acaf1traliZad snlf-c0y1-
tanned administrative units. all response
BILE through the division offices to single
administrative authority. the chief OF
engineers The sizes of the individual
districts are limited SO that excessive
overhead may be avoided and the maxi
mum efficiency may be obtained. The
districts themselves are divided into areas
In which the actual work is carried on.
During the years of the depression thu