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Evening star., 1937-09-28
IS READY TO TAKE
TESTSFOR POISON
Volunteers Take Health De-
partment by Surprise-De.
cision by Officials Awaited.

Taking officials Of the Health De-
partment obviously off guard, 10 men
and three women came forward to-
day to accept the call for volunteers
to be human guinea pigs" and to eat
samples of the. chocolate eclairs which
last week made approximately 500
persons violently ILL.,
Dr. Melvin Price Isaminger, the
departments new publicity director,
who had issued the call for volunteers,
hesitated when asked If the expert
ments on human beings would be car
ried through, and then referred ques-
tioners to Bacteriologist John E..
Noble.
Noble, busy with experiments he is
making on guinea pigs. paused long
enough to say that DR.. 1saminger was
handling the question of making use
of volunteers.
Decision Is Delayed.
DR.. Isaminger said the plan was
under consideration" but it might
be two or three days before a decision
was reached. If the volunteers are
accepted, DR.. Isaminger said, the ex-
periments would be conducted under
close supervision, probably at a
hospital. Meanwhile the Health De-
partment was holding the identities
of the volunteers confidential" at
their request.
The departments scientists have
identified the eclair-germ marauder
as a neutrality-suspicious." a
very pernicious parasite on which the
American Medical Association de-
clared war year ago.
Final Report Due.
A final report on the laboratory
experiments conducted with cultures
from some Of the spoiled eclairs de-
livered in Washington homes last
week has not been made to Health
Officer George c. Ruhland. Tele-
phone calls are still being received
from residents complaining of stomach
pains.
Having traced the organism that
has caused so much disturbance, the
Health Department yesterday cir
cularized bakeries and housewives sug-
costing two methods of attack-heat
and cold.
Bakeries were warned that refris-
Grafton is not complete protection
against contamination. A simple
method, the health offiials said, is to
reheat the cream puffs and eclairs
for time at temperature sufficient
to kill the staphylococci. This can be
done without impairing the flavor or
appearance of the product.
Housewives were warned also by
Food Inspector R. r. Ashworth not
to keep custard-filled products in a
warm kitchen after delivery but to
place them in the refrigerator.
Unless they are refrigerated after
purchase by the housewife" he said,
incubation for few hours at room
temperature is sufficient time for the
organisms to multiply and elaborate
their toxin"
Evening star., 1937-09-28
WAGE BOARD ASKS
DATA FROM FIRMS.
1000 Employers Figures
Sought at Hearings
Are Resumed.

Members Of the District Minimum
Wage Board today called upon some
1000 Washington employers in re-
tail trades to supply figures on actual
wages now being paid their women
and minor workers.
Questionnaires covering this sur
vey were mailed out by the board as
it prepared to resume tonight the
series of conferences leading to the
fixing of the lowest wages that may
be paid to retail employees.
Oficials of the board indicated that
the new data on wages would be for
future use rather than for the pres
ent, since the board members already
have agreed that there is a SUD-
stantial" number Of the workers who
are being paid less than the minimum
rate of $3.50 per week, established
nearly 20 years ago.
Board Meets Tonight.
The board tonight will meet with
the nine conference members to con-
tinue discussion of the minimum
budget requirements for the women
and minors necessary to protect their
health and morals.
Employe representatives on the con-
ference group last week insisted that
the present-day minimum budget
would be s21.5l per week, for an un-
attached woman worker. not living
with family or friends. Employer rep
resentati8es declared budget Of
$1457 a week would cover the legal
requirements. This is nearly 81 lower
than the 20-year-old minimum.
Nature Of Questionnaire.
The questionnaires going out today
ask names, occupation and wages Of
all women and minor employees for the
week ending September rs, or for the
half month ending September 80.
This involves q statement of full and
part days worked, whether paid by
time or piecework, any bonuses or
commissions and whether the rate Of
pay took in any other incidentals.
The returns must be certified before
Z notary public and filed with the
board not later than october 6.
Evening star., 1937-09-28
PLAN NEW ACTION
0N0UTS|DE PUPILS
Commissioners and School
Heads to Seek Ban or
Higher Tuition.

Agreement either to seek legislation
barring nonresident pupils from the
District public schools or to require
that they pay a reasonably high"
tuition fee was reached today at
conference between the Commissioners
and school officials.
DR.. Frank w. Ballou, superintendent
Of schools, notified the Commissioners
that nonresident pupils now are cost
ing the District approximately $780,
900 annually. He was asked by the
Commissioners to supply specific data
on the cost Children of parents who
do not reside in the District now are
admitted to the public schools because
OF q decision in District Court on
point raised by an employe of the Fed
eral Government, John Kemp, in be-
half OF his daughter. Lois, now a
pupil Of Gordon Junior High School
The Board of Education submitted
10 the Commissioners budget for the
fiscal year 1889 totaling $4,000 900,
an increase Of more than S6,000,000
over the current appropriation. This
budget must be "cut to the bone" in
view of the decision of the Commits
sioners to restrict their budget for
next year to some $50,0O0000.
The understanding was that if there
Is to be any increase in the school
budget next year the additional funds
would 60 toward an increase in per-
sonnel, rather than for new capital
outlays. However, the schools next
year will receive about $1,700,0O0 for
construction purposes to continue
projects to be started this fiscal year.
II the Commissioners find their
finances will permit.
Evening star., 1937-09-28

Good Earth" and other novels OF
China.
Lin Yutang is widely known as an
interpreter of Chinese life and thought.
He has written a lumber Of books and
has contributed frequently to Ameri-
can magazines. He was educated at
Harvard and at the University OF
Leipzig. He taught English and phil
ology at various Chinese universities,
including National University at
Peiping. He founded the publication
Analects Fortnightly and the Human
World. For years he has been re-
garded as q spokesman for Chinese
culture
Evening star., 1937-09-28
TAX DEADLINE FRIDAY,
ON BUSINESS RECEIPTS

The District tax assessors office
warned again today that Friday is
the deadline for filing returns on
the gross business receipts tax under
the new law. After that date 10
per cent penalty will be imposed.
Up to late yesterday only 5000 re-
turns had been filed by business
firms. It was estimated that approx
mately $4,000 firms and professional
persons ars affected By ths' 3ex.
Evening star., 1937-09-28

list the entire brotherhood Of soma
5000 churches and 1900, 900 members.
The theme Of the program il
Strengthen the Church to Advance
the Kingdom Of God"
The leaders Of the churches from q
wide area will participate with this
church in the program. The sessions
OF the general conference will begin
at 10 am. and close at 4:30 pm. Tho
day will be spent in discussing means
OF building an effective church. In
the evening conference of the entire
officiary of the entertaining church
will be held to consider making thu
f1ve-year program OF advance effec.
tive in the local church.
Evening star., 1937-09-28
Keneipp Seeks Divorce.

Raymond Douglas Keneipp, $40
Rock Creek Church road, yesterday
filed suit for divorce in Reno. New, ac-
cording to an Associated Press dis
patch. He charged Mrs. Sara Martha
McGeary Keneipp with desertion on
April /, 1886, In Baltimore. the report
said. They were married here On June
Al. 1880. y
Evening star., 1937-09-28
PASTOR AND WIFE HURT.
Thrown Through Windshield as Car
Skids, Hits Another.

CHARLES TOWN, w. Va, Septem-
Der % Especially Rev. and Mrs. E. H.
Allen of New London. Conn, wers
seriously hurt late Monday afternoon
when their automobile skidded at Hall
town, between here and Harpers Ferry,
and collided with car from Martins
burg, w. Va.
Both were thrown through the wind
shield. Mrs. Allen sustained broken
leg and head injuries, while the pastor
sustained severe head injuries.
Raymond c"Tooney'D Edmonds of
Martinsburg. q well-known amateur
base ball player. was the most seriously
hurt in the group Of seven in the other
automobile. Edmonds suffered chest
and head tujurte.
Evening star., 1937-09-28
NEARBY ACCIDENT
TOLL INCREASES
One More Killed and Several
Injured in Virginia and
MARYLAND.

While the District today entered its
sixteenth day without traffic fatality.
accidents on nearby Virginia and
Maryland highways left one man dead
and several persons seriously injured.
Early Spencer, 80, of near Alexan-
driA was killed yesterday afternoon
when an automobile he was driving
crashed into a tree near Fort Royal,
Va, and burst into flames.
Body Burned.
Spencer, who was alone in the car,
was badly burned State Policeman
Scott Henshaw said he believed Spen-
Ger died when his car hit the tree.
Tire marks, Henshaw said, showed the
car went into a ditch at one side Of
the road, then bounced across the
highway and struck the tree. Spen-
Ger, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Seaton
Spencer Of Lovingston, Va, was en-
ployed by the Evergreen Supply Co.,
in Arlington County.
Mrs. Elsie Redmond, 50, of Colmar
Manor. Md, was seriously injured on
the Washington-Bal Boulevard
last night when she was struck by an
automobile driven, police said, by
Fred Kelly, 1928 Myrtle street north
east. She was taken to Casualty Hos
pital. Kelly was charged in Hyatts-
Vile with driving while under the in
fluence Of intoxicants and reckless
driving
William G. Atkinson, 80, of Lam
ham, Nd, suffered a possible skull
fracture and severe scalp lacerations
today when, according to police. he
walked into the side of an automobile
driven by Fitzhugh McCandlish, 80
| Of 40 I street, at North Capitol and G
streets. He was treated at Casualty
Hospital
Washingtonians in Accident.
Two Washingtonians escaped serious
injury yesterday afternoon when theil
car skidded on Conduit road anc
plunged over a 60-foot embankmeni
near Glen Echo. Md.
John L. Carpenter, 81, Of 1915 Dor.
sey place, suffered fractured collar.
bone and cuts on the hand. G. C
Nivens, 80, of Sill Cathedral avenue
passenger in the car, escaped with
minor cuts and bruises.
Edward Murphy. so, of 25 Girard
street. northeast, suffered injuries tc
his right leg and back bruises today
when he was struck crossing North
Capitol street near his home by q
car police said was driven by S. B
Hall, colored, 40, of 523 Twenty-third
place northeast. Murphy was taken
to Sibley Hospital where his condition
was said to be good.
Marian Stevenson, 9, of Brandy
wine, Md, suffered fractured leg anc
cuts when struck near her home by
an automobile driven. police said. by
George r. Cooksey of Brandywine.
James L. Donohue, 81, of 1929 c
street. was struck at Fourteenth street
and Rhode Island avenue last night by
hit-and-run automobile. He was
treated at Garfield Hospital for cut.
on the head.
The condition OF Mrs. Mary L
Revercomb, 70, of the Home for In
curables, who was critically injured
by an automobile yesterday. was re.
ported improved at Georgetown Hos.
pital.
| PASTOR AND WIFE HURT.
Evening star., 1937-09-28

L II e lecturer
will be introduced
by DR.. C. T.
Wang, the Chi
nese Ambassador.
The group Of
American a n d
Chinese patrons
and patronesses
is headed by Miss
Leoh E. Wang,
daughter of the
Ambassador. Of
fcials and prom
inent guests in
vited include Mrs.
Pearl Buck, au-
thor of "The
Evening star., 1937-09-28
He Stayed Away.

INDIANAPOLIS, September % CR.
Members of the Delta Delta Delta
sorority at Butler University couldn't
understand why JOY Lively failed to
respond to their invitations to attend
rush week" functions
They finally investigated and found
that Joy was . boy-frnterutty timber
tastAnd
Evening star., 1937-09-28
Two Die in Air Crash.

BREWTON, Ala, September 20 up.
Joe Strickland, Atlanta flyer. and
his student, T. F. May, jr., son Of
local wholesale merchant, lost their
lives yesterday in plane crash near
the municipal airport.
A witness said the plane sputtered
when about 200 feet above the ground
and went into nose dtvek
Evening star., 1937-09-28
Howard Head to Speak.

DR.. Mordecai w. Johnson, president
Of Howard University, will speak at
the homecoming celebration at st.
Luke's Episcopal Church, Fifteenth
and Church streets. tomorrow at Z
pm. Miss Virginia williams and Mr..
James B. Cobb will sing.
Evening star., 1937-09-28

ham, pastor OF
t he S ev e n I h
Street Christian
c h u r C h, Rich
mond, Va, and
c. M. Yocum, ex-
ecutive secretary
Of the division Of
foreign missions
of the United
Christian Mis-
sionary Society
OF the Disciples
Of Christ.
This meeting
Is in connection
with . Nation
Evening star., 1937-09-28
CHRIST DISCIPLES
SET 5.YEAR PROGRAM
Meeting Tomorrow to Devise
Means of Building an Effective
Church Over Nation.

A f1ve-year program Of advance will
be launched In this city tomorrow by
the Disciples Of Christ at meeting
at the National City Christian Church.
1t will be led by Rev. F. w. Burn
Evening star., 1937-09-28
CHINESE AUTHOR
TO SPEAK FRIDAY
Lin Yutang to Lecture at First
Baptist Church to Aid
War Refugees.

For the benent of Chinese war
refugees, Lin Yutang, noted Chinese
author and critic, will lecture at the
First Baptist Church at pm. Friday.
Evening star., 1937-09-28
Sorority Meets Tonight.

Beta Sigma Omicron National So
rority will hold its monthly meeting
at o'clock tonight at the home of
Mrs. Robert Mason De Shazo, 20l7
Nineteenth street.
Evening star., 1937-09-28

Anything but cds play the job OF stone settlers such
these pictured feet up the Aper Building bly
,Uorkng Atom block. One slip and it's death beov
Quarng and cutting these stones endanges the Ues OF
of breathing dust
tance respiratory diseases Compensation insurance these
frequently amounts to their salaries.
Evening star., 1937-09-28

Risks being beneath flying train heels crushed
beteen the hazards faced BY rainen
Though w Riley B. O. empoye made it look simple tor
this picture swinging noUing freight the right
timing foot hand holds leg left
the track When asked about rates. empoye
commented Il took out policy the other day and from the
cost of the thng Uoud hdUe thought Al Cdpone
Evening star., 1937-10-10

on the running board. pulled a pistol
and fired-twice But the shots went
wild.
"My Mission Is Ended"
The next day the police received
the letter they expected. It said 3-X's
secret international society" had OBJ
tanned the documents" it wanted,
and my mission is ended. 3-X IS
no more"
For seven years Six was forgotten
and then on the night Of October 2,
1887, Louis Weiss and his girl friend.
Frances Hajek, were sitting in Weiss
automobile in the same wooded Sec
ton of Queens where 3-X had ap-
peared. Just what happened no one
knows, for both the boy and the girl
were killed, but it was apparent that:
Some one asked for Weiss auto
license The card was lying face up
in Weiss wallet, in his lap when his
body was found. And Weiss was
shot-twice-in the head.
Evening star., 1937-10-10

lain Howard E. Snyder will ofiiciate.
The honorary pallbearers will be
Mai. Gen. Claude E. Brigham, Brig.
Gems. =. M. shinkle, R. H. Jordan,
George r. Spalding and Beverly F.
Browne, retired; Coils. William P. En-
mis-. H. B. Jordan, Guy Kent and
Walter H. Smith, retired, and Lieut..
Col. Eugene r. West, retired.
Col. Barnes received the Distin-
guished Service Cross for his World
! War service in France, where he rose
to the post of adjutant general Of the
1st' Army. He served for two years
after the war as chief of staff of the
American forces in China.
Evening star., 1937-10-10
Lung Power Plus.

DRAPER, Va. R.-P. G. Pratt, hog
summoner ce luxe, didn't know his
own strength. Pratt hollered nightly
at community fair hog calling contest
and won first prize hands down. Then
he walked two miles home.
There grouped at the fence, still
enthralled by their masters voice, his
entire passel Of pigs pressed. squealing
for their dinner.
Evening star., 1937-10-10

The only licensed ,Uoman pilot
in South America, fe1U a
rented plane into Washington
Airport yesterday afternoon.
She took part last night in the
celebration arranged by Ecua-
dorean Minister Alfaro in
commemoration OF the "Inde-
pendence OF GuaydQuip -
EcuddOr'S Fourth of July. Min
lister Atdro gaze a dinner at
the MdyfOUer Hotel. Senior
Br,oneS, 1Dho does not pilot
planes, accompanied Mrs.
Brtones to Washington.
Star Staff Photo.
Evening star., 1937-10-10

Meeting, Jefferson Davis Chapter,
United Daughters of the Confed-
eracy, Willard Hotel, pm.
Evening star., 1937-10-10
COL. .BROUGHER TO SPEAK
Will Address Infantry Chapter Of
Reserve Officer Group.

Lieut. Col. William E. Brougher will
be guest speaker at the first Fall
meeting of the Washington Infantry
Chapter of the Reserve Officers As
sociation, at 8 pm. Wednesday. in
the Hayloft Club, 1925 MASSACHUSETTS
avenue.
Capt. Raymond w. Short Of the
320th Infantry, president Of the
group, announced military credit will
be allowed chapter members who at
tend the meeting. Refreshments will
be served.
Evening star., 1937-10-10

Luncheon. Variety Club, Willard
Hotel, l pm.
Evening star., 1937-10-10

Meeting, Board Of Directors, Opti-
mist Club, Maynower Hotel, 8 pm.
Evening star., 1937-10-10

Meeting, Progressive Education AZ
sociation, Aayflower Hotel, 8 pm.
Evening star., 1937-10-10
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

Meeting, Bartenders' Union, Old
Local No. rs, 720 Fifth street. pm.
Evening star., 1937-10-10

In Chinese legend he old man who
presides over all marriages on earth
lives in the moon.
Evening star., 1937-10-10
COL. BARNES RITES
WILL. BE TOMORROW
Interment Will Be in Southern
Section-of Arlington After
Chapel Service.

Funeral services for Col. Joseph
F. Barnes, native Washingtonian, who
died In Walter Reed General Hospital
Friday, only week after he had
been retired from the Army, will be
held at 2 pm. tomorrow In Fort Myer
Chapel.
Interment, with full military honors,
will be in the southern section of
Arlington National Cemetery. Chap
Evening star., 1937-10-10
TOMORROW

Meeting, Ancient Order Of Hiber-
mans, Mayfiower Hotel, 8 p.m.'
Evening star., 1937-10-10

Japan Is exporting $1,000 cases Of
canned crab. 4 month.
Evening star., 1937-10-10

Meeting, Tau Beta Phi, Mayfiower
Hotel, 8 pm.
Evening star., 1937-10-10

Meeting, Washington Real Estate
Board, Mayfiower Hotel, 8 pm.
Evening star., 1937-10-10

Meeting, District Daughters OF the
American Revolution, Willard Hotel,
pm.
Evening star., 1937-10-10

Luncheon, Mathis Club, t2400 Six
teenth street, l pm.
Evening star., 1937-10-10
Congress, Lafayette Hotel, 1890 pm.

Dinner, Washington section, Insti-
tpts Of Radio Engineers, Epstein's
Restaurant. All Eleventh street. $50
pm.
Evening star., 1937-10-10

the District, D. A. r., Mayfiower Ho-
tel, 3 pm.
Evening star., 1937-10-10

Meeting. Chapter Regents Club Of
Evening star., 1937-10-10

Luncheon, Warrington Building
Evening star., 1937-10-10

Modern Scientifically Designed Equipment!
Lee Butler offers sound unbiased heating counsel conjunction with the
This line includes COAL oil and designed to the demands
pocketbook Herman Nelson emOe
Burners
Furnaces Split System Air Condons and Room Cooling Units
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-02

which is purely spontaneous, and springs from
an immediate reaction to happy event-almost
any happy event! One classical example is the
business man who has msjudged another in
little matter of unpaid BILL He is convinced
that George just doesn't intend to mail that
payment. He sorts through his mail grumpily,
expecting nothing good, certainly no check from
George But on opening the last letter good news
leaps out at him with the first sentence: En-
closed find check" The skeptic can't help giving
a great shout of laughter-even if it is at him
self!
Even workers engaged in arduous, routine
duties may find renewed zest by ndulging in
whole-hearted gale of laughter Among Office
employees those best situated for this relaxation
are telephone operators who hour after hour
take and send calls and occasionally by accident
or design overhear an intimate family quarrel
between the vice-president and his wife who,
everyone knows, are always fighting over trifes.
"So-the Smiths are at it again!" she chuckles,
and scientists would approve, perhaps not her
listening in," but of the mental and physical
stimulus
A large number of recent books have been
written about laughter and its true cause but
all theories agree that it is not yet fully under
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-02

stood. What makes people laugh? Scientists
conclude that although it is natural for man to
laugh, his surroundings have much to do with it.
People who have been brought up in homes
where there is little humor are apt to be serious,
reserved, and selfconscious. On the reverse side,
children who have lived in happy, laughter
loving homes will laugh readily. In short laugh
ter is habit
A MOTHER discovery is that men laugh more
~ than women, a condition supposedly due
to long centuries of training when women were
brought up with the commandment "Be re-
served-no lady laughs loudly!" And as a con-
sequence the men of the family may burst into
roars of laughter in which the women join with
only mild enthusiasm.
Neurotics who are afflicted by countless trivial
doubts and fears and sometimes show all the
symptoms Of a threatening disease have been
persuaded by psychiatrists to take themselves
less seriously, turn their minds to something
else than their troubles-and to laugh And in
a great number of cases. once the patient can
laugh, he is cured!
No one recognizes more fully than an expert
enced surgeon the value of a cheerful mental at
ttude of patient preparing for an operation and
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-02


which the best expression is laughter Particu-
larly is this important when conditions that fol-
low an operation have become normal; then
laughter is again a healthy function to be en-
couraged. DR.. Monderille, surgeon at the Uni
versity of Paris, gave rule approved by all:
Let the surgeon take care to regulate the
whole regimen of the patients life for joy and
happiness by promising that he will soon be
WELL"
The medical world uses laughter as definite
stimulant, to increase the function of several
organs help the flow of blood to the ductless
glands, and generally to raise the patients re-
sistance against microbes. One prominent sci
enlist believes that laughter aids the blood to
circulate more freely and is almost equivalent
to introducing fresh supply of blood into the
veins causing an effect distantly resembling
a blood TRANSMISSION
Medical men of today are daily demonstrating
that age is not so much matter of years as of
mental attitude-and that thousands of men
beyond the Biblical span of four score years and
ten have enjoyed increased health, and greatly
prolonged useful lives by we'll developed sense
of humor and faculty of hearty laughter.
A sense of humor has never prevented death
and probably never will-yet it has been known
to influence the manner in which a man dies as
when Sir Thomas More, sent to the scaffold for
his expressed opinions, said to the headsman.
Help me up these steps-as for my coming
down, you can let me shift for myself"
PAGE THREE.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-02

consider that their mistakes were mostly due
to taking themselves over seriously
Certain kinds of mirth may result in dismay
for others, as with Druggist who mixes
common household prescription for youngsters
and imagine how their little faces will screw up
in disdain when a spoonful of liquid is poured
down unwilling throats-but his own laugh does
him good. Probably his mind has been concerned
with serious and puzzling matters of everyday
business and this moments relaxation is a
valuable tonic.
The most beneficial laugh Of all 10 the one