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Evening star., 1937-06-23
WORK DAY LIMIT
ALSO BILLS GOAL
Members of Labor Commit
tees Forecast Board to
Fix "Fair" Base Pay.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Members Of the Senate and House
Labor Committees predicted today q
maximum work day. as well as q
maximum work week, will be written
into the administrations labor stand
ards bill.
They forecast that 4 section set
ting up nine-man board to fix fair"
wages for individual industries-in
contrast to the "non-oppressive" min
imum to be set by law-would be
retained, despite some opposition from
both industry and labor
House and Senate members split
into separate groups after three weeks
Of joint hearings. Each committee
will draft its own bill
Most Of the discussion has centered
around establishing 40 cents an hour
as the minimum non-oppressive wage
and 80 to 40 hours As the maximum
non-oppress:ve work week.
A majority Of the Joint committee
favored fixing very low, or eliminating
entirely, any exemption OF small in
dustries from provisions OF the bill.
Donald Richberg, former N. r. A.
administrator, warned yesterday that
Federal price fixing would be the
necessary sequel to the Black -Connery
bill.
He urged sharp curtailment OF the
administrative powers proposed in the
bill. Testifying before the Joint Labor
Committee, he said Congress should
confine itself to outlawing Oppressive
wages and hours.
When We undertake by law to
f1x and enforce reasonable wages we
must assume responsibility also for
fixing, directly or indirectly, reasona-
bic prices" he said.
Evening star., 1937-06-23
16.|NCH GUNS Seen
FOR 2 NAVY SHIPS
Both Of New $4,000 Ton Men-of
War to Be Built in Govern.
ment Yards.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt has indicated
the Nays two new battleships will
carry 16-inch guns. A proposed inter-
national ban on guns larger than IA
inches fell through after Japan re-
fused to agree.
Japan Is understood to contend that
genuine naval reduction could be &C.
complished only through quantitative
limits and not by restricting the size
Of guns
The Navy decided yesterday to build
both Of the new 35,000-ton men-of-
war in Government shipyards. The
President said the difference between
the estimated cost Of building In navy
yards and in private yards was about
Slo,00o,o00. Originally, the Govern
ment intended to have = private con-
Germ build one Of the ships.
Evening star., 1937-06-23
DISTRICT STUDENT
GETS FELLOWSHIP
Robert J. Stevenson Given
Harvard Award for Study
in Europe.
By the Associated Preax.

-.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass June 23-rel.
loWship awards for European travel and
study, announced in connection with
class-day exercises at Harvard TODAY.
included Edward o. Miller, st. Louis.
MO, Leionel de Jersey Harvard stu
denshlp Emmanuel College, Cambridge
University, England.
The award entities Miller to a wear
OF study at Cambridge and occupation
OF the room in which John Harvard
lived as a student.
James A. Field, Chicago, NJ. the
Lieut.. Charles Henry F1ske, Sd, scholar
ship, for a year Of study at Trinity
College, Cambridge, England, and also
the Fiske fund for travel or study in
France.
Neil g. Melone, Minneapolis, Henry
Fellowship, for study at Oxford Univer-
sity during the coming academic wear.
Melone will 60 to Balliol College.
Howard F. Schooner, Oak Park, nj -.
Robert J. Stevenson, Washington. D.
C., Frederick Sheldon prize fellowships
fo' travel and study in Europe.
Evening star., 1937-06-23

Is the first ever done, 50 far as Miss
Burdette could determine. It was
painted from photograph. The ar
tist recalled the romance which led
to Miss Axson's becoming Mrs. Will
son:
"Mr. Wilson, on visit to Savannah,
was sitting in church one Sunday
when he saw young woman coming
down the aisle. dressed in mourning
and leading = small boy by the hand
He was disturbed because he thought
she was widow. But she was In
mourning for her mother. Learning
this. Mr.. Wilson fell deeply in love and
was ready to give up his studies and
marry her without delay, but she was
level-headed and induced him to
wait"
Miss Burdette has exhibited at the
Royal Miniature Society, London; in
Philadelphia and at the Corcoran
Gallery here. She painted the George
Washington in the Masonic Memorial
IN Alexandra, Va.
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to smash within the past 100000, 900

10 smash within the past loo, 900 ,OOC
years.
This conclusion, based on an ex-
tremely delicate analysis Of the helium
in meteorites which strike the sur
face, was presented before the Amer
lean Association here today by Dr.
William D. Urry of the Massac achusetts
Institute of Technology.
DR.. Urry is working In cooperation
with the Committee on Geologic Time
Of the National Research Council in
Washington. He has studied especially
the iron meteorites, chunks of almost
pure iron hat drop from the skies
Such masses, he explained, contain
an extremely minute amount-about
one part in 1O,GO0,000-of uranium
This breaks down at q known rate into
lead and helium. Thus from the
amounts Of either 1t is possible to
calculate the age OF the object. Dr.
Urry compared it with a corn pepper
If one knows the rate at which corn
pops one can tell how long the process
has been going on by counting the
number Of grains which have burst,
or the number Of husks thrown OIL.
Studied rs Meteorites.
DR.. Urry analyzed IS meteorites
The youngest was about 100000, ,00C
years old; the oldest 5000, ,000,0 900
Most were more than 100000 600
years old This fixes their age, he said
well within the estimated age of the
solar system itself. The oldest rocks
in the crust Of the earth, found IN
Northern Russia, are about 2,0O0,0 ,000,-
900 years old.
This gives strong presumptive evil
dence, he said, that the meteorites
were formed at the same time and by
the same process Is the rest Of the
suns family. One school of astronomers
has held that they come. from outer
space. II this were true, DR.. Urry
said, at least few might be expected
to show different ages, instead Of agree
ing so well with the age OF the earth
itself.
He stressed, moreover, that the
atomic weights in the meteorites are
the same as those for the same ma
terials on earth. The vast majority Of
them fall in the afternoon, which
shows that they are travelling in ap-
proximately the same path As this
planet around the sun and that 1t u
humping into them.
The meteorites 50 far recovered, he
pointed out, seem to be divided into
two sorts-one with high content Of
radioactive material and one with .
low. This indicates that they came
from two sources. For the one with
high helium ratio 1t can be deduced
that it was in . molten state about
$500, ,000, 900 years agoabout the time
the earth Is supposed to have been In
the same condition.
THE NEW "VIRUs TOP"
Evening star., 1937-06-23
F0RBUSH PICKED
BY 10 AS ROBBER
Blackface Gangster Is Iden-
titled in Police Lineup by
Local Merchants.

Under the glare Of lights at a police
headquarters lineup, Walter Forbush,
"a, surviving member Of the "black-
face" bandit gang. last night was
identified by 10 Washington store
keepers as one Of the men who robbed
them in recent hold-ups.
Forbush faced the victims alone
because his confederate, Martin j.
Walsh, with whom he had escaped
April %, from Lorton Reformatory
was shot to death Sunday night by
Baltimore police. Forbush was cap
tured without struggle.
His air OF confidence, as he entered
the lineup, was soon replaced by
defiance as merchant after merchant
pointed him out as one OF the men
who had robbed them
When he was identified by Miss
Tessie Gurvich, proprietress OF q liquor
store In the 1900 block Of Fourteenth
street, police said, he snarled: II
never saw you before, and you never
saw me before. never robbed a
woman in my life"
Miss Gurvich, however. reiterated
the identification and said Forbush
was one Of the two men who held
her up and robbed her cash register
Two Of those who identified the
bandit were David Rundel, so, whose
taxicab was stolen Saturday night at
Fort Washington, Md, and Adam
Luber, proprietor Of a liquor store
at 1901 New Jersey avenue southeast,
who was held up and robbed Of $3.50
by two men short time after Rundel
was forced out Of his cab.
Back in his cell after the lineup
Forbush cried. Can you imagine ali
those people identifying me?"
Police estimated he and Walsh had
collected upward Of $1,000 in rob-
berries alleged to have been committed
since their escape from Lorton.
Evening star., 1937-06-23
WOMAN PLEADS GUILTY
ONE MORALS CHARGE
Accused Of Bringing Two Girls
Here From Toledo-Raid Mada
Two Months AEo.

Accused Of Transporting two strls
from Toledo, Ohio, to Washington for
immoral purposes, Mrs. Mae Walsh,
so, pleaded guilty to one Of the &C.
cusatsons today before Justice peyton
Gordon Of District Court.
An establishment said to have been
conducted by Mrs. Walsh In the 200C
block Of Eighteenth street was raided
several months ago by Federal Bureau
Of Investigation agents, who later ar
rested the two girls named In the
indictment in \ downtown hotel. Al
that time. the Federal agents said Mrs
Walsh had accumulated 4 small for.
tune from the business.
1t Is expected that the second charge
against the woman will be dropped.
Evening star., 1937-06-23

ElOll llSV ago.
fections and the nature OF the dark
borderland between the living and
the dead. These advances, he said,
were made possible by the perfection
Of the ultracentrifuge, which, whirl-
Ing at about $4,000 rotations q min
ute, acts as a super cream separator
In splitting up organic compounds.
Once Thought Tiniest Of Life.
The viruses in the past have been
considered the tiniest of living things.
They are far too SMALL to be seen
even under the most powerful micro
scopes. They have been obtained by
straining diseased tissue preparations
or blood through stone-a sieve with
such tiny holes that only the most
minute particles were not held back.
They seem to have the remarkable
property, which supposedly belongs
exclusively to living organisms, OF
multiplying their kind. A strain can
be kept going indefinitely in a cul-
ture which provides the supposed Or
ganisms with something to eat. When
a very tiny amount of virus culture
Is injected into an animal the whole
body soon Is overrun with the invisible
"bugs," compared with which the tin
lest bacteria are as elephants to f1eas,
But, DR.. Wyckod said, his expert
ments, conducted in cooperation with
DR.. w. M. Stanley, who was awarded
the American Association prize three
years ago for obtaining in crystalline
form the virus Of tobacco mosaic dis
ease, constitute proof that these are
not living organisms at all, but pure
"chemicals" Their multiplication in
culture, or in an animal or plant body,
may be explained, he SAID, by the as
sumption that they possess some mys-
ter1ous faculty Of transforming into
their own likeness the tissue of liv-
Ing cell into which they penetrate.
That is, they cause specific trans
formations in which they themselves
do not take part, thus acting like
like engines In the body. They may
be In fact, he pointed out, closely
linked TO the engines, the large num-
ber Of chemical activators which are
essential to life processes. Among
them, for example. are the digestive
engines in the intestines, which break
up food into the various amino acids
which can be made use Of by the body.
Molecules Separated.
The ultracentrifuge, DR.. Wyckod
said, throws of the molecules Of .
complex liquid in order, according to
their weights. Thus all Of the same
weight are concentrated together. In
both the potato mosaic and the rab-
bit papilloma cases the heaviest ma
terial appears to be essentially che
pure virus, every molecule being OF
the same size and mass. These are
among the heaviest known molecules.
They apparently come from the ultra
centrifuge much more nearly in the
condition in which they exist in the
body than when-as in the case OF
DR.. stanley's isolation Of the tobacco
mosaic virus-they are obtained by
q purely chemical process
The virus molecules, DR.. Wyckof1
said, apparently stretch in an un-
broken series from far below the lin
its OF human vision to relatively giant
structures which may come barely
within the limits Of the microscope.
''Stan" Found Planet Fragments.
The millions Of shooting stars that
lombard Earth every day are frag-
msnG Of two sister planets which went
Evening star., 1937-06-23
COMMODORE BITLER DIES
Retired Naval Officer Expires At
Home of DAUGHTER,

PHILADELPHIA, June % (P.-
Commodore Reuben Oscar Bitler, 7s,
United States Navy, retired, died yes
terday at the home Of his daughter,
Mrs. John Zabilsky.
Born in Reading, Pa, Commodore
Bitler entered the service in 1875 at Is
and served in the Spanish American
War. He retired in 1912, but was
recalled for 1S months service in the
World War. Burial will be in Airing
ton National Cemetery.
Evening star., 1937-06-23
Girls Get Makeup Free

For its girl employees q large store
in Budapest. Hungary, has set aside
q room where they may make them
selves up at the firms expense. The
general manager has discovered that
customers prefer to be served by
smart-looking salesgirIs.
Evening star., 1937-06-23
Church Lawn Fete Friday,

KENS1NGTON, Md. June % tSpe-
ciaD.-A lawn fete will be held Friday
At pm. on the grounds of the Warner
Memorial Presbyterian Church. In
case OF rain the affair will be held In
the Sunday school room.
Evening star., 1937-06-23
Virginia Bidder Gets Contract

A joint board of the Interstate
commerce Commission recommended
Yesterday Palmer D. Waugh, Orange.
Va. be authorized to operate as
contract motor carrier Of steel shelving
cases and trays from Orange, Va, to
Washington, D. c..
Evening star., 1937-06-23

n YEAR the spot where their ro-
N nance bloomed more than
" half q century ago, portraits
4 Of Woodrow Wilson and his
first wife, Ellen Arson Wilson, will
be hung in Savannah, Ga, tomorrow,
while the Washington artist who
painted the canvases, Hattie E. Bur-
dette, looks on.
Tomorrow is the fifty-second ami
versary of the wedding. which took
place few months after Wilson first
saw Ellen Arson walking down the
aisle Of Presbyterian church located
on the southeast corner Of Oglethorpe
avenue and Whitaker street, Savan-
nah.
The portraits will be the chief deco
rative features OF the woodrow Will
son memorial rooms Of the Sunday
school building, designed by Ralph
Adams Cram, Boston architect, which
stands today on that same southeast
corner of Oglethorpe and Whitaker.
The canvas Of Ellen Arson Wilson
Evening star., 1937-06-23
It's a Wonderful Wav
to Soothe Itching Skin

Soothing. cooling Zemo usually relieves
distress OF itching skin. For 80 years.
this clean. reliable skin lotion has been
the favorite with millions Excellent for
the itching OF minor skin irritations. Buy
soothing. dependable Zemo today-to
relieve the itching Of Simple Rashes.
Pimples Ringworm and Eczema Tested
and approved BY Good Housekeeping
Bureau. All druggists'. 35c. 6Os. 81.
Evening star., 1937-06-23
How 1t Works; Tuberculosis Vaccin
Is Also Reported.

Is Also Reported.
DENVER, June 23 R.-Discovery
at the Rockefeller Institute for Medi-
cal Research that viruses which cause
disease can be made to fall apart"
and become harmless waS made with
the new whirligig Of science, the
ultracentrifuge. which extracts into
plain view disease viruses which here
tofore couldn't be seen even with
microscopes.
The whirligig Is 4 steel TOP, ! or J
Evening star., 1937-06-23
Many Visit Mountain Memorial

HAGERSTOWN. June % Especially
There have been ll.095 visitors at
the Washington Monument on South
Mountain since the monument, first
erected In 1928, was restored April !.
Robert I. Palmer, forest warden, re-
ported.
Evening star., 1937-06-23

Palestine Is exporting more fruit
than last season.
Evening star., 1937-06-23

inches In diameter, spinning on a
cushion of compressed air. It whirls
at speeds up to $4,000 revolutions per
minute.
Studied While in Top.
This speed, also supplied by COM
pressed air, subjects anything placed
inside the top to a force several
thousand times the pull Of gravity.
Since the pull Is greater for heavier
particles and less for the lighter ones,
the heavier ones are thrown out
farther, and each kind may be seen
separately.
A light that flashes each time
the top revolves-50,0O0 times a min
ute If the ultracentrifuge Is running
ut that speed-illuminates the sam
pie" in the top and makes It appear
to be standing still. Thus scientists
can examine the separated particles
while the top is in motion.
Tuberculosis Vaccine Reported.
DENVER, June % (P,.-A human
tuberculosis vaccine, which Is partly
successful IN the laboratory, and =
clue to the stumbling block in its
way, were reported to the American
Association for the Advancement OF
Science here today.
The vaccine was reported by H. ].
Corper, M. D.. Of the research depart
ment of the Jewish National Hospital,
Denver. He made the vaccine from
a special type of tuberculosis germs
so mild than 10,O00,0OO,000 Of them
won't give the disease to a guinea pig.
In contrast, he said, it takes only
about 1000 OF the ordinary, virulent
kind Of tuberculosis germs to give the
disease to the pigs
He said the Denver vaccine is SINH
lar to that developed in France by
Calmette. The French vaccine was
widely used In Europe to protect new
born babies. A medical controversy
developed over its safety.
A clue to the failure was suggested
today by DR.. Copper in experiments
with some germs which resemble
tuberculosis bacteria very closely.
These germs are acid-fast, that Is
take permanent dye stains, like tuber-
culosis bacilli. They are also "sapro-
phytic," that Is. live on dead matter
These saprophytic germs do not give
any immunity when used for vaccine
The reason is not known, but Is be-
lieved connected with their acid-stain-
Ing peculiar1ties.
Evening star., 1937-06-23
Science

lContinued From First Page.)
The Washington times., 1937-05-13

supplies moderate; demand light; mar
kst steady. Bushel hampers: south Caro-
lima, S1.25: poorer lower; North caro-.
lima $3.50; California, Telephones. 50.
car on track. Supplies moderate; de-
mand light; market steady. Florida,
wrapped, sxS and larger, s2,25@275;
Strawberries-A pr oximately 1000
crates North Carolina by truck arrived
supplies moderate; demand light; mar
ket weak. North Carolina, 2i-quart
81; fair condition, 13:2568, per crate.
Mixed VeEetables-No cariot arrivals;
Snap Beans-No carlot arrivals; /
stock light; demand light; market Gd
steady. Florida, bushel hampers, green,
flat type, mostly fair to ordinary con-
dition' $l,S5@ @1.75; poorer, $1@1.25; few
Lima Beans. Eggplant and Cucumbers
-ssuppEes suI insufficient to quote.
market n.rr nt. STEADY; nT ElOrda bushel ham
necks. 81: italian type, S2@225.
Peppers-Supplies light; demand light;
market steady. Florida, bushel hampers
Oranges-one California arrived; 2
broken and 1 unbroken cars on track
Florida. boxes. No. /, $3.2505; No. 2,
$500, as to size.
Grapefruit-one Florida arrived; Q
unbroken cars on track. Florida, boxes,
No. 1, $2.75@3; few special marks
higher: No. 2, S2.5O@275, as to size
Honey Dews-Chile, crates, S2.5O63.
GFapes-Argentina, lugs $2@S; South
Africa, 10-pound boxes, $2@240
Observation-Disclosures, boxes, SCOTS.
Pineapples-Crates: Cuba, $3@3.25;
Puerto Rico. $S.50@S.75.
Cherries-California, S-pound boxes,
$2.5O62.75.
MushrOOms-Maryland, S-pound bas-
kets fair condition, 25@ SOC.
Spinach-Virginia, bushel baskets 4Oc.
Turnips salad-Virginia, bushel bas-
kets 40c.
Hanover salad-virginia, bushel bas-
kets 40c.
Kale-Virginia, bushel baskets Csc.
Beets-Norfolk section Virginia, crates,
~ lunches, 32.50@2.75.
COrn-one Texas arrived; 1 unbroken
car on track.
Bananas-No carlot arrivals; 1 broken
car on track.
The Washington times., 1937-05-13
ELEVATOR MAINTENANCE

WHITING-HERRITY. INC.
SaleB--24-Hour Service.
Nights--CL. S640 co. 657S
Days-NA. 1884. 110s 9th St. n. ".
The Washington times., 1937-05-13
STOCKS BREAK
TO NEW LOWS
FOR YEAR

NEW YORK, May 1S d.N.s0. d.
The stock market today broke to
new lows for the year in q sell
ing wave which sent the high
speed ticker 4 minutes behind.
Losses ran to I points in pivotal
issues.
Renewed labor unsettlement,
with strikes in General Motors
plants and In Jones and Laughlin
Steel, combined with further nqui-
dation Of utility shares, touched
OH the sudden wave of selling.
Prices melted rapidly, steels, rub
bers, motors, utilities and several
thin" specialties leading the way
downward. A long list Of issues,
including most in the power and
light section, slumped to new lows
for the year.
U. s. Steel tumbled 4 points to
95b before recovering slightly as
the market met support around
noon. Youngstown Sheet and Tube
dropped more than 8, while Beth.
lehem and Republic each lost more
than 2, .
The Washington times., 1937-05-13

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The Washington times., 1937-05-13
Business
Borometers

idea Of an unemployment CEN
sus, Squelched by President RooSe-
velt, Is still very much alive on
Capitol Hill. According to private
reports, Senator Ma1oney's census
bill will get serious consideration
and special hearings. He is re-
vising it to answer objections that
figures would be outdated as soon
as compiled by inserting the pro-
viSo that jobleSs must register
every three months at federal re-
employment stations.
He is depending on local politi-
clans, anxious to qualify for high
relief allotmentS, to round up all
unemployed at registration time.
Senate sentiment favors some sort
of census. If the Maloney bill
gets to its attention soon, it may
win precedence over forthcoming
White House proposals on wages
and hours.
s FOrerunner Of Fall
First breath Of autumn tinges
New York markets as travel coat
and suit styles are placed on dis
rlay In wholesale showrooms.
Colorful tweeds, imported plaids-
sometimes with contrasting skirts
and three.piece costume suits
are featured lines for late sum-
), mer and fall. Lynx, badger,
beaver, wolf, racoon and fox are
shown for trimmings.
,-~ Hardware Gains
Sales Of hardware retailers shot
is per cent over March, 1886, re-
turning to the rate Of gain set in
January after an unprecedented
increase of IS per cent in Febru-
ary. March sales of 800 retailers
who reported were half again as
much as those for the average
March of the five preceding years.
The Washington times., 1937-05-13
EXTERMINATOR

BEDBUGs. REACHES. RATS. MOTHS ex-
terminated; free estimate; guar. termits
control. PAP. Specialists, JAckson 10s4-J.
The Washington times., 1937-05-13
Cleveland Livestock

CLEVELAND, May 13 G.N.s.).-Hogs:
Receipts, 1900; market 15c higher with
good action.
and fairly active.
The Washington times., 1937-05-13
BIDS AND PROPOsALs

COMMISSIONERS. District Of Columbia.
posals will be received at Room 800. Dis
trict Building until 2 o'clock P. M. June
l. 1887. for furnishing Bank Counter for
furnishing Certain New or Rebuilt Laundry
Machinery for the District of Columbia
Penal Institutions. For specifications and
information apply to Room $50. District
The Washington times., 1937-05-13
PRoCUREMENT DIVISION, public Build.

ings Branch. Washington, D. C.. May T.
1937,-Sealed bids in duplicate. subject to
of the Federal Emergency Administration Of
Public. Works, will be publicly opened in
this office at 10 a. m. June g. 1887, for
o. s. Internal Revenue Building Extension
at Washington d. G. In awarding the
contract, consideration will be given only
to bidders who have previously executed
decorative painting comparable in all re-
spects with that for which the bid is
submitted, and who can show evidence that
they have performed such work in sat
ings not exceeding one set. may he OBJ
tanned at this office in the discretion Of
the Assistant Director o.. Procurement.
Public Buildings Branch. n. 2. Reynolds,
Assistant Director.
The Washington times., 1937-05-13

4Oh 81 Zenith Radio dr.. IS 33N t3X- Ia
9h 81 Zonits Products. 6h N 6A- II
ta) Optional stock cash. b) Extra in stock te) Liau.
dating dividend, () Of Accumuationa g) Paid
u 1875 Cl PAID or PAYABLE this year lIwl with war
FiEhtA Yearly dividend carried preferred Stoek
The Washington times., 1937-05-13

Electrical Contractors-Sigp Light Power
Installations All union shop.
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