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Evening star., 1937-06-17
June ". 1897

G. Hazen at the District Building
yesterday. The young patrolmen told
the Commissioner they were awarded
the trip because no child has been in
jured going to or from school in their
city in the past five years and no child
has been killed in any traf1lc accident
since February, 1895,
Evening star., 1937-06-17
DRIVER. SENTENCED

Gets IS Days After Jury Convic-
tion in Hit-Run Case.
Frank McGreer, %, colored, 49e L
street southwest, was sentenced to
serve IS days in jail yesterday for
The Washington times., 1937-12-27
d. G. Pen Women
Plan Reception

ALI new members admitted
into the District Of Columbia
Branch of the National League
Of American Pen Women dur.
ing 1897 will be the guests OF
honor at New Year Day re-
ception, Saturday, from 4 to 6
o'clock in the league studio in
the Grafton Hotel.
The party will be given by the
president of the league and the
executive board and will be an
"open house, for all members
and friends.
New members are DR.. Flor
ence Everhart, artist; Mrs. Nell
V. Smith, writer; Mrs. Octavia
Sykes Stevenson, writer; Mrs.
Leslie Dykstra, poet; Mrs. ISa-
belle Crowell Smell, writer; Mrs.
Eliza s. Tilton, writer; Mrs. Ella
LomaS Bockoven, writer; Mrs.
Agnes Mccall Parker, poet and
writer; Mrs. Thora Seaton,
poee; Miss Roberta Wakefield,
writer; Mrs. H. T. Dean, writer;
Mrs. Theresa Dansdill MCGEE,
writer; Miss Dora E. Baker,
poet, and Mrs. Royal s. Cope
land, writer.
Receiving the new members
will be Miss Marguerite Mari.
gold, president of the District
Of Columbia League; Mrs. Inez
Sheldon Tyler, first vice pneSi.
dent; Miss Phronsie Irene
Marsh, second vice president;
Miss Clara Manderschied. re-
cording secretary; Mrs. Mary
Meek AtkeSor Moore, CORE
spending secretary; Mrs. Nellie
Walker Irish, treasurer; Miss
Ruby NeVins, historian; Mrs.
Helen Orr Watson, registrar;
Miss Katharine Hinton Woot-
ten, librarian; Miss Agnes Shir-
ley Winn, auditor; Mrs. Edna
Knight GaSch, parliamentarian;
Mrs. Helen Sherry Rhoades,
legal advisor; Mrs. Beth Heath
OlmStead, chairman OF the COM
mittee on committees; Mrs.
Hattie Meyers Junkin, member
ship chairman; Miss Margaret
Jean Bailey. publicity chair
man; Mrs. Claudia Rice Scott,
reception chairman; Mrs. Irma
Nabors johnson, vice chairman
of reception.
Mrs. Agnes Giles Newman,
who is the state vice president
for the District of Columbia in
the board of the National
League, will also be in the receiv.
ing line.
At the tea tables will be the
chairmen of the group activities:
Miss Florence Hammond, Miss
Myrta Ethel Cawood, Miss Ann
CeleStine Singleton, Miss Susan
Baker, Miss Ida Hoyt Chamber.
lain, Miss Alice Hutchins Drake
Miss Marie Medora, Mrs. Rose
Robson Cohen, Mrs. Leona Pat
The Washington times., 1937-12-27
NelUS and Notes
About the Clubs

Members Of the Washington
Council Of Tau Phi Sorority will
gather for their annual Christ
mas dance tonight at the Con-
gressional Country Club. Ar
rangementS for the affair have
been in the hands of Miss Mary
Brinsfield, Of Pi Chapter, chair.
man; Marie Brown, of Alpha
Chapter: Marguerite Culver, of
Beta; Elizabeth Hunter, Delta:
Grace Hall, Zeta; Christine
Mullenberg, Tau, and Courtney
Shreve, Mu. Mrs. Louise Carl
Bousman is the council preSi-
dent.
The Kenilworth Ladies Guild
will hold a Christmas party
Wednesday night at the home
Of Mrs, Joseph Brashears, 1908
KenilWorth Ave. N. E. There
will be a midnight dinner.
Mrs. C. o. Appleman, chair
man of the public health de-
partment Of the Maryland Fed
Grafton of Women's Clubs, is in
charge of a campaign to raise
a fund for cancer control work.
She announces that January 81
will be observed by the clubs in
the Maryland federation as
Cancer Control Day. LuncheonS
The Washington times., 1937-12-27
TOday's Club Program

District Federation Of
Women's Clubs-M e ng,
10:30 a. M, morning and
afternoon sessions, Roosevelt
Hotel.
Washington Branch, Amer
ican Association Of University
Women-Tea, 4 p. M; dinner
dance by the junior group, 8
p. m., clubhouse, 1884 I st.
N. w.
Art and Archaeology League
Meeting, 8 p. m, Holton
Arms Studio, 2115 S st. N. w.
Dupont Chapter of the Y.
w. C. A.-Meeting and elec-
tion of officers, 2:30 p. M, at
"Y" headquarters, Seven
teenth and K Streets North
west.
Mt. Pleasant Chapter of the
Y. w. C. Affecting, 2 p. m,
home Of Mrs. John B. Morrey,
1901 Connecticut Ave. N. w.
Burnside Woman'S Relief
Corps Auxiliary, Grand Army
of the Republic-Meeting and
election of officers, 7:30 p. m,
Thomas Circle Club. ..
Washington Council, Tau
Phi Sorority-Dance, Con-
gresSional Country Club.
Ladies Auxiliary of the
District Fire Department
Christmas party, 8 p. M,
home of Mrs. Charles G.. Ray
mond, 4433 Alabama Ave. Sc.
The Washington times., 1937-12-27
ties Among District WOmen's Clubs

will be served on that day and
the proceeds will go to the fund.
From 2:3O to o'clock, a
cancer program will be broad
cast from the Agriculture Build
ing at the University of Mary
land, over Station WJSV.
Mrs. T. P. Ahrens, Of the Amer
ican Association of University
Women, will lecture before a
meeting of the Art and Archeol-
ogy League, tonight, at the Hol-
ton Arms Studio, 2115 S st.
N. w.
Inca Lands, Past and Pres
ent," is the subject of Mrs.
Ahrens' talk, which will be illus
trated with motion pictures.
The Washington times., 1937-12-27

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The Washington times., 1937-12-27

the District chapters.
Homes of three women will
be the setting for this joint
party being held in celebration
of the beginning of the biggest
project of the District D. A. r.
for the year, the recording of
the names of the signers of the
Constitution in the "stateSmen'S
. transept" Of the National Ca
thedral.
Mrs. Lee R. Pennington, state
historian, IL Taylor ST., Chevy
Chase, Md; Mrs. w. G. Carter,
16 Taylor St., and Mrs. Donaly
Earll, 5045 Reno Rd. N. W., will
be the hosteSSes.
MRS. BIER CHAIRMAN
The card party will hold
forth throughout the afternoon
and evening. Reservations at
any of the homes may be made
for either 2 p. m. or 8 p. m.
Mrs. Robert A. Bier, $500
Harrison st. N. W., is general
chairman.
The party is for the benefit
Of the transept project. It is
expected that the architects
plan will be ready and the act
ual work of carving the names
into the stone near the en-
trance will be started immed1-
ately after the first Of the
year.
MARCH DEDICATION
The original plan called for a
bronze plaque, to be placed in
the crypt, but at the suggestion
Of Bishop James E. Freeman
and the Cathedral trustees that
the Importance of the memorial
warranted a more prominent
place, it was decided to have the
names put into the stone Of the
Cathedral.
Dedication of the tablet will
take place during the State D. A.
r. conference in March. Mrs.
william A. Becker, president
general, has accepted the invita-
ton Of the state regent, Mrs.
Charles Carroll Haig, to attend
the ceremonies.
The Washington times., 1937-12-27

president of the board Of direc-
tors of Friendship House, wore a
brown crepe dress with brown
velvet scarf and black tricorn
hat. Mrs. Jones wore blue
crepe and dubonnet hat. Miss
Edith Shipley was in black crepe
with gold rings decorating the
neckline and belt.
The new members entertained
were: Miss Mary Clifford, Mrs.
willard W. Beatty, Mrs. A. s.
Lynne, Miss Verda A. Layton
and Mrs. Albert S. Maddox.
Among those present were:
Miss Gladys B. MiddlemiSs, Miss
Mary Gott, Mrs. william Lee
Corbin, former president; Mrs.
Campbell Craig, Miss Emma Ar.
nall, Miss Ethel johnson, Mrs.
Albert Dodge and Miss Bertha
Butts. who had as her guests her
mother and sister, Mrs. Frank
L. Butts and Miss Dorothy Butts,
from Sodus, N. Y, Mrs. Mar
garet Hill, DR.. Ada Wahlen and
Mrs. Joseph Harris.
The Washington times., 1937-12-27
Children Enjoy
Christmas Fete

Children of Friendship House
were featured on the entertain
ment program at. the annual
Christmas party Of the Woman's
City Club yesterday afternoon
in the clubhouse, 736 jackson
Pl. N. W. The occasion was also
In honor of new members.
Under the direction Of Miss,
Jessie OIin, director of music at
Friendship, the children offered
a varied selection of Christmas
carols. Charles Mitchell, nephew
of Lydia Burklin, founder and
director of Frienship, opened the
program by playing 20, Little
Town of Bethlehem" on the
trumpet. Muriel Abbott, pianist,
was also featured on the musical
program. Her rendition was ION
Wings of Song Four short
Christmas stories were told the
children by Miss Th m a
Schmitt, City Club member.
The younger children wore
elfin dresses of green, with pom.
pons of red WOO land peaked
caps decorated with red pom.
pons.. The older girls wore Old
English costume, with full
gathered skirt and peach bodice
that sported a narrow peplum.
Pouring at the tea table, which
was beautifully decorated with
holly and lighted red candles in
single silver candlesticks, was
Mrs. Joseph Danziger. She
looked particularly charming in
q blue one-piece dress with tur.
quoise satin bodice and black
bellboy hat.
Mrs. Ralph F. Couch, chair
man of the music committee,
was complimented on her smart
outfit, selected by her husband,
who topped his Christmas gift
with a luxurious silver fox. Her
dress, of Sage-green crepe, cut
in severe, simple lines, was
adorned by steel beads. Her black
velvet hat, a Princess Eugenie
style, bore pastel-colored plumeS.
One Of the Smartest dresses
worn at the party yesterday was
that Of Mrs. C. N. Baldwin, new
member. Her black frock. with
Russian collar, was embroidered
with fine gold threads in a small
leaf pattern. A high-crowned
black velvet hat completed her
costume.
Mrs. Thomas Sherman, who
had as her guests Mrs. Warren
L. Jones and daughter, Dorothy,
from Jacksonville, Fla, was
dressed in a blue matelaSse crepe,
boasting a wide sash with gay
colored fringe. Mrs. Jones is the
house guest Of Mrs. Sherman for
the holidays.
Mrs. william L. Corbin, vice
'SNH0OI,S ANN CnT TEGES
The Washington times., 1937-12-27
DIR. J. C.. Mcdowell.
To Retire Friday

DR.. j. C. Mcdowell, chief Of the
Division of Dairy Herd Improve
ments, Department Of Agriculture,
today announced that he will te-
tire next Friday, having reached
his seventieth birthday. He has
served nearly 80 years in the De,
pavtment of Agriculture.
Graduating from the University
of Wisconsin, DR. Mcdowell served
as professor of agronomy for five
years at the North Dakota Agricul-
tural College before entering the
government service. He began rs
an agriculturiSt in farm manage.
ment in 1908 and joined the Dairy
Division of the Bureau Of Animal
Industry several years later.
The Washington times., 1937-12-27
Sorority to Hold
Dance TOMORROW

For their Christmas party this
year, members Of Alpha Province
Of Lambda Chi National Sorority
viii hold a dance tomorrow night
at the Wardman Park Hotel.
Success of this Yuletide cele-
bration will be due to the efforts
Of the committee in charge Of
arrangements: Miss Jane Gibbs,
vice chairman of Alpha Province.
chairman; Mrs. Evelyn Heath,
national president, and Miss
Judy RawlS, publicity editor.
For members and their escorts
only, the nine chapters compriS-
ing the Alpha Province will
gather for the dance.
The Washington times., 1937-12-27

tern Tiller and Mrs. Helen F.
Collision.
Assisting will be the vice chair.
men Of group activities: Mrs.
Bertha Shanks CLANCY, Mrs.
Minnie Frost RandS, Mrs. Angus
tus o. Thomas, Miss Margretta
Campbell, Miss Ivy Lindsey,
Mrs. Donna Crabtree, Miss
Grace Rebecca Sahm, Mrs. Ger
trude w. l. eLach heur, Mrs.
Blanche Nelson Parker, Mrs.
Mary Pickens Opie, Miss Gladys
Garraway Smith, Mrs. Marion
Everett Hayn and Mrs. Dorothy
Stewart Schott.
The Washington times., 1937-12-27
"Three-Ring" Card Party Planned
for Jan. 5 by D. A. r. Chapters
BY MARY PADGETT

The most outstanding event the January calendar OF the
District of Columbia Daughters of the American Revolution
will be threerng card party the afternoon and evening
The Washington times., 1937-12-27
National University
Law School
Winter. Term Begins

January 3, 1888, at $3.50 p. M.
Standard three-year course lead
ing to degrees of LIB. and id.
Graduate courses leading to de-
grees Of LIN, M.P.L., and SID.
All classes held at hours con.
Venient for employed students.
The Washington times., 1937-12-27
School of Economies
and Government

College courses offered in Political
Science, Government. Economics,
Psychology, History, Finance,
Accounting, Business and Lam
guageS.
Address Secretary
National 6617 s18 18th st. N.W.I
Evening star., 1937-12-18
BALTIMORE LINE
PLEA CONSIDERED
Maritime Commission to Do
Everything Possible" for
Mail Steamship Firm.

bS tile ASSOCIATED fTeSS.
Baltimore and Norfolk port interests
and shippers were assured yesterday
by the Maritime Commission that
everything possible under the Mar
chant Marine A t would be done to
protect the interests now served by
the Baltimore Mail Steamship Line.
The commission recently ruled that
the service provided by the line was
non essential service, and that the
operating differential subsidy pay
ment would be discontinued after De-
cember 81.
Holding this would result in dis
continuance of the line, approximately
100 representatives Of the two ports
and inland shippers urged the Mari
time Commission yesterday TO recon-
slider the matter.
They contended that the service,
operating between Hampton Roads
and Baltimore and European ports was
essential; that the lines business was
steadily increasing and If allowed to
continue would soon permit substan-
tlal reduction in the subsidy pay
ments; that the service is economically
indispensable to inland exporters and
constitutes vital part of the busi-
ness life OF the ports of Hampton
Roads and Baltimore.
Acting Chairma- Land and Com
mlssloners Wiley, Woodward and
Moran heard the presentation. Later
Mr.. Land said the commission "ap-
preciates the seriousness of the prob
lem," and promised to give it every
attention, so that all that can be
done under the law will be done"
Evening star., 1937-12-18
NONSTOP RECORD
SET BY SEVERSKY
Flight From Havana to D. c.
Negotiated in 4 Hours so
Minutes SO Seconds.

Col. Alexander de seversky, air.
craft designer and manufacturer. es.
tablished an international course nom
stop record yesterday when he landed
his P-a5 pursuit plane at Washing.
ton Airport hours 80 minutes and
SO seconds after he took of from
Havana.
The former Russian war ace main.
tanned an average speed Of slightly
more than 255 miles per hour durina
the estimated 1880 miles. His record
is subject to confirmation by the Ma
tional Aeronautic Association.
Col Seversky said he could have
made better time on a clear day, bu,
explained he wanted to make thu
flight on the thirty-fourth anniversary
OF the first flight Of Orville and Wilbu,
Wright.
His flight was the second Longest
nonstop hop in a P-35 craft, the
latest type OF pursuit plane which III
Is building for the Army. The Longest
flight took place when the colonel es.
tablished New York to- Havana rec.
ord Of five hours and two minutes re.
Gently.
He attended the Aero Clubs com.
memoration banquet last night at tn,
Shoreham Hotel and plans to stay IL
Washington several days.
Evening star., 1937-12-18
One Major Bill
Out of Passed
Bv Fifth Week
BY the Associated Press

By the Associate ted Press.
Here Is the status of President
Roosevelt's legislative program at the
end of the fifth week of the special
congressional session:
Farm-Separate bills passed by
House and Senate; joint committee
must agree on compromise version.
Wage-Hour-House sent bill back to
Labor Committee, which some men,
Ders said virtually kills the program.
Housing-House begins debate to-
DAY; Senate may consider Monday.
Regional Planning-House commit
tee holding hearings; no action ex-
pected until 1898.
Government Reorganization and
Antitrust ReWsion-Defered until
1893 session.
Evening star., 1937-12-18
UNION TRUST EX.CLERK
is HELD UNDER BOND

Arraigned yesterday before United
States Commissioner Needham C..
Turnage on charges of violating the
National Bank Act, Edwin Joseph
Noyes, former senior clerk in the
Union Trust Co.. pleaded not guilty
and was held under sl,500 bond to
appear at a hearing before the COM
missioner Thursday.
]. Edgar Hoover director of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation. said
Noyes was arrested after he appeared
yesterday at the Justice Department
for questioning in connection with ir-
regularities in the banks accounts.
He was held on charges of being in
volved in irregularities totaling ap-
proximately $4,000.
Noyes was employed by the bank
from. May, 1928. until last November
20, when he was discharged.
Evening star., 1937-12-18
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

Discovery OF a hitherto unsuspected
winter-summer variation ir the viru-
lence OF certain epidemic diseases
which may open up an entirely new
chapter in medical research, was an
nounced today by the National Insti-
tute OF Health of the Public Health
Service.
Working with mice and guinea pigs
in the Washington laboratory, Drs R.
D. Lille, r. E. Dyer, Charles Arm
strong and j. g. Pasternack found
that incubation with the germs of
both endemic typhus fever and en-
cephalitis produced much more pro-
nounced results, as measured by LESSONS
In the brains Of the animals, in win
ter than in summer, and that the viru-
lence seemed to vary roughly with the
actual temperature.
The discovery came largely by acci-
dent. Experimenting with encepha-
litts reactions on mice, the doctors
found the animals were failing to re-
spond to inoculations of the virus with
coming of warm weather. They made
sure OF the strength of the dosage and
that the change was not due TO some
unsuspected variation in the diet.
Finally every possible cause was elimi-
mated except the temperature of the
laboratory, kept at about 70 in winter,
but rising markedly in the summer.
Confirm Suspicious.
Then they tried the effects Of the
same dosage on animals kept in incu-
bators and those kept without any ar
tifcial heat. The difference was ap-
parent. The incubated animals showed
themselves only about half as suscep-
tible In some cases as those kept in
the cold.
Encephalitis has a characteristic ef-
feet on the brain OF a mouse which
is very similar to its effect on a hu-
man being.
The experimenters then turned to
endemic typhus, a form OF the disease
prevalent in the United States which
Is carried by fieas. The same strang
Evening star., 1937-12-18
MRS. JOHNSON TELLS
OF SAFARI WORRIES
Members Of National Geographic
Society Shown Pictures of
Life in Jungles.

Some OF the high lights and patient
Preparations back of every safari to
obtain pictures in the wilds were de-
scribed by Mrs. Martin johnson.
widow of the explorer, at a meeting
OF the National Geographic Society
last night in Constitution Hall.
Mrs. Johnson's remarks were made
during a showing of a series of motion
pictures, taken over a 27-year period.
OF wild animals in their native Jungle
homes In out-of-the-way corners of
the world
One of the films, taken during the
Johnsons earliest ventures in jungle
explorations, showed Solomon Is
lands head hunters drying human
heads over a smoking fire.
Another, taken in Africa in 1921
consisted of close-ups of Mrs. John
son standing before the camera as
lions and rhinoceros charged.
Evening star., 1937-12-18
RIVERS IN 2 STATES
IN FLOOD STAGES
Western Pennsylvania and North.
ern West Virginia Menaced
by Rain and Melted Snow.
y the Associated Press

by InS ASSOCIATED pfsSS.
PITTSBURGH. Dec. 1s.-Rivers
rose throughout Western PENNSYLVANIA
and Northern West Virginia today.
threatening inundation of low-lying
areas.
The United States Weather Bureau
saw no danger of a food OF such pro-
portions as swept Pittsburgh's Golden
Triangle in 1886.
Rain, falling for so hours, and melt
ing snow fed streams over the water
sheds Of the Allegheny and Mononga-
hela Rivers, bringing a prediction Of
27-foot crest at Pittsburgh, two
over food stage.
The level at The Point" where the
two rivers meet to form the Ohio, was
"a feet at IL am, and rising three
tenths Of a foot an hour.
At Wheeling. w. Va, the Ohio River
was rising at seven-tenths foot an
hour. Capt. J. r. Hill. lockmaster at
Warwood Dam, predicted a So to 80
foot level by tomorrow night. This
would send food water swirling
through low districts in Wheeling and
Wheeling Island.
Evening star., 1937-12-18
u. S. Far East Fleet
Adequate Now, Says
Admiral Leahy
b the Associated Press.

b the Associated Press.
The United States, SAYS Ad-
miral William D. Leahy, has all
the ships in the Far East for
which there is apparent need
at this time"
Admiral Leahy. chief of Naval
Operations. made the comment
after leaving the White House
late yesterday. He had been con-
ferring with President Roosevelt.
and described the japanese sit
uation as very tense"
Mr.. Roosevelt also discussed the
Panay bombing with his cabinet
during o two-hour session. None
would comment.
Earlier yesterday Secretary Hull
mad received Ambassador Hirosi
Saito OF Japan, who said he called
OF his own volition to transmit
certain information from his gov
ernment. He said he had been
given no indication as to when
Japan would reply to the Amer
ican demand for full satisfaction.
Evening star., 1937-12-18
Weather Found Central Factor
In E piden,ic Disease Virulence
Public Health Service Researchers Dis.
cOUer Summers Heat Reduces En-.
demic TyPIus and Encephalitis.

seasonal effect was found in the brains
OF guinea pigs, which are susceptible
to this malady.
Curiously enough, both encepi1a-
litis and endemic typhus are chiefly
summer diseases. This is easy TO ex-
plain in the case Of the latter maladv
it was pointed out, because the chief
season for feas Is in late summer and
early fall. Very few Of them are active
enough TO pass on the fever to q
human being In the cold months.
Automatic Control.
This, 1t was explained, seems to be
a nice adjustment in the balance of
nature, since if it was abroad in win
ter It's ravages might be expected to
be far more severe. Apparently the
same thing holds true for the slightly
different epidemic typhus of Europe
which is spread by lice. These also
are most active in summer, but carry
over into the cold months. European
physicians have observed before that
typhus victims in winter had con-
StN~A ocSy 100 AlldllSC W lCCONcl Illdll
in summer. European typhus has
been considered a more serious dis
ease than the American variety.
Encephalitis. or sleeping sickness,
also occurs mostly in the summer
months. The particular brand of virus
used in these experiments was OBJ
tanned during the great epidemic in
st. Louis five years ago 1t is be-
lever to be slightly different from that
ordinarily encountered. The means of
its transmission is not known. 1t ap-
parently is spread by something which
Is active in hot weather and quiescent
in cold weather 1t Is one Of the most
serious of all human diseases. If it
was abroad in winter it would be much
more serious.
Whatever application the discovery
may have to practical medicine, it was
stressed, is not known. 1t has ap-
parently been established, however,
that the germs of these two diseases.
and possibly many others of similar
type, thrive best in cold weather.