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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-09-15
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Hospitals
Iron Lung

ANN ARBOR, Mich, Sept. is
G.N.SD with the only two iron
lungs at the University of Michi-
gan already in use, doctors today
closely watched a third case Of
infantile paralysis there.
The physicians said, however,
that it would be possible for two
of the victims to share one of the
lungs if necessary, that a third
iron lung could be brought here
from Detroit in an emergency.
The unique situation was Gre
ated when 2-year-old Eugene Paul
of Rogers City was admitted to
the hospital as an intantile
paralysis victim.
Already in the hospital were
Nancy Jane Hackbrath, 8 years
old, and Mrs. Marguerite House,
80, of Clinton, both paralysis vic.
tins.
Mrs. House has been in the lung
for three weeks, unable to breath
without it except for 20 minutes a
day.
Nancy Jane spends an hour a
day outside the lung she is occupy.
ing.
Little Eugene, while his condi'
ton is serious, does not yet need
the aid of the apparatus.
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CHICAGO ATTACK
CASE IS SOLVED
BY CONFESSION
Former D. C. Resident
Admits "Fiend" Case

CHICAGO. Sept. is (C.TP.S).
Police announced today they had
solved one of the most vicious Of
the recent series of attacks on
women in Chicago, the rape of
Miss Anna Brasy, 38, a choir
singer, in her bedroom last No
vember 81. A complete confes-
sion of the crime was made by
Robert Conroy, "a, father of two
young children.
Conroy was arrested Monday
after police received secret in
formation that connected him
with the crime.
TELLS OF CRIME
On the night of the crime, Con
roy said he climbed through a
window and saw Miss Brasy
asleep in a bedroom. He threat
ened her with a knife, forced hel
to give him $50 which she hao
hidden in the room, and then
raped her, the prisoner declared
Then, in a frenzy of sadistiC
madness, Conroy said he took 9
coat hanger and tortured the
woman until she was semi-con
scious from pain and fright.
Conroy said he went to his home
in a taxicab and went to sleep
Next day he told his wife that he
was in trouble and would have tc
skip out of town. She looked at
the newspaper of the day, which
emblazoned the story of the at
tack on Miss Brasy, and asked
him in horror:
"Was that yOu?"
Conroy said he admitted to her
he was guilty. Then he and his
wife and thtir two children, Rose
mary, 8, and Robert, jr., 2, went to
Washington, D. c., where they
stayed for four months. Several
months ago they returned to Chi.
cago, and a month ago, Conroy
said, his wife left him.
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Doctor Describes
Test of Pregnancy

Only four hours are required
for a new pregnancy test an
nounced by DR.. F. P. Veitch of
the biochemistry department of
Georgetown Medical School.
DR.. Veitch told several score
doctors and medical students in
a graduate clinic at Georgetown
that the key to the problem is
a hormone called pregnandiol,
found only when pregnancy ex-
lists. Experiments conducted over
a six months period, he said,
were uniformly successful. Sixty
women were accurately diagnosed,
according to DR.. Veitch.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-09-15
Business Blamed
For Labor Woes

NEW YORK, Sept. IS G.N.S)
Dean John T. Madden of the New
York University School of Com
merce hlames current labor prob
lens on big business:
IF those in high places had
recognized the justice and va
lidity of collective bargaining,
there would now be a group Of
trained leaders in our unions
and intelligent personnel direc-
tors in industry"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-09-15
Gold Coins Found;
Rush Anticipated

GREENVILLE, Ohio, Sept. IS
GN.SO.-A minor gold rush was
anticipated here today after a
workman cementing a floor in a
basement dug up $675 in gold
coins. The gold coins, all dated
prior to 1895, were turned over to
the owner of the property. who
rewarded the workman with a
check for 500, and his assistant
with $26.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-09-15
Mississippi Vets
Will March Here

The mississippi delegation to the
American Legion convention in
New York, engaged in the longest
parade in the world" will march
through Washington streets at
noon today. The MissisSipians are
visiting every State capital en-
route to the national convention.
Headed BY Gov. Bibb Graves, a
delegation of Alabama legion
naires arrived here Sunday, en-
route to the convention. They will
parade along Constitution Avenue.
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REBEL AIRPLANE
TRENCH TARGET

PERPIGNAN, France, Sept. Is
G.N.SO. - French anti-aircraft
batteries at Collioure in the east
ern Pyrenees opened fire today
when a Spanish insurgent seaplane
flew over a French cargo boat
within French territorial waters.
The seaplane apparently in
tended to attack the vessel after
bombing Port Bou and Culera.
Four Spanish government air
planes arrived shortly afterward
and chased the raider out to sea.
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Burglar Catcher
Burglars Victim

NEW HAVEN, Conn, Sept. Is
G.N.SO.-Can't blame Edward H
Levy If his cheeks are a bit red
today.
Burglars jimmied a window OF
his home, turned the house in
side out and got away with a small
sum of money. Mr.. Levy is an
official of the Connecticut Pro
tective System-a burglar alarm
agency.
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BY ELSIE ROBINSON
Copyright, 1887, by International
News Service)

SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. Is
U.N.S). - Shall an American
court brand an unborn child with
shame, refuse an unwedded
mother a husbands name and pro
lection, and deny an unmarried
fathers right to amend a wrong?
Today, San Francisco is rent by
this question. Parents, educators,
clubwomen, business men and
clergymen lay aside all other is.
sues to debate the problem.
Cecilia Ramirez and Manuel del
Llano were school mates. Morn
ings they'd meet, laughing-he
carrying her books. Nights, they'd
meet again.
Then one afternoon she called
him from football practice. and
suddenly began to sob.
why, then we will marry!"
It had seemed as easy as that.
What if they we're only Is? The
old ones had married even earlier
than that.
And so they had gone home to
meet what they knew they must
meet. Weeping and wailing turned
to laughter and embracing, and
the glad news spread.
But it was not to be so easy. 1t
was not to be at all. For Manuel
had helped steal automobiles. He
had done other things. And now,
although he made a vow these
things could not be forgotten.
Not even for the baby can they
forget, say the judge, the juvenile
court and sociologists. Let the
baby come-but there must be no
wedding. Manuel and Cecilia can
not be husband and wife. Instead
they must be outlaws, wards of the
juvenile court. And the baby must
be born without a name.
So today San Francisco is rent
in dispute over the fate of these
three-unmarried father, unwed.
ed mother and the little one to
come.
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Four Injured When
Legion Plane Falls

UTICA, N. Y, Sept. Is Q.N.SO
Four persons we're slightly injured
today when new cabin plane en-
route to New York City for the
American Legion convention
crashed near here.
Those hurt included the pilot,
H. L. johnson, and Ray Hyland,
of Rochester.
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Union Seeks More
Utility Members

Encouraged by their recent sue
cess in organizing workers Of the
Washington Gas Light Company,
Local No. 12064 is planning to en-
roll new members. A regular
meeting of the union, which is
affiliated with District No. so Of
the United Mine Workers of
America, will be held at 8 p. m.
Thursday at Jonadabs Hall, 623
Indiana Ave. N. w. C. I. O..
speakers will address the meeting,
to which all employees of the COM
pany are invited.
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FEARED OBESITY

She also looked unusually wan.
She was a friend of Mrs. Eddie"
Duchin, the former Marjorie Oei-
richs, who died tragically several
weeks ago after giving birth to a
son. Brown" was reciting the
sad details of Mrs. Duchin'S death
at the time.
Miss Warburton was to have
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-09-15
Convict, 26, Back
AS Freedom Fails

MARQUETTE, Mich, Sept IS
I1N,sO-Fred Ross, 26, who at IA,
killed q man in a Detroit robbery,
was back in Marquette peniten-
tiary today, this time for burglary.
He had served seven years of a TO-
to,2O-year tenn for the killing, and
was released. His last sentence
was seven-and-one-half to IS years,
imposed for stealing copper cable
from O warehouse at Negaunee.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-09-15
Thief LOOts Home
AS SOcialite Sleeps

LOS ANGELES, Sept. IS GIN.
SJ.-Operating stealthily while
the wealthy social leader slept, 3
burglar looted her home of jewerly
and fine apparel valued at SIS, 900,
Mrs. Ray Mccarthy told police
today. The thief also took II
bottles of choice Scotch whiskey.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-09-15
Chicago Cases
RepOrted on WGne

CHICAGO, Sept. IS Q.N.S0.
A sharp drop in the number Of
cases reported today raised hopes
that the infantile paralysis wave
here was on the wane.
The board of health announced
only three cases were registered
in the last "a hours, the lowest
number in the last seven weeks.
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ACID THROWERS
in STORE RAIDS
NO CLUES
Source of Fluid Hurled
On Windows Sought

With a heavy police detail on
duty in the downtown business
section, there we're no further
depredations during the night by
vandals who yesterday caused
damage that may amount to
$4,000 by spraying acid on the
show windows of some so stores.
Three special police squads and
a number of scout cars we're on
duty all night watching for the
sabateurs who used the deadly
hydrofluoric acid to ruin the plate
glass windows.
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Woman Is Found
Slain in Home

DETROIT, Sept. IS Q.N.SO.
Pauline Regal, 80. dispatcher for
a taxicab company, today was
found murdered in her bed in her
home here.
Deputy Coroner Foster Knob
loch said Miss Regal had been
bludgeoned to death with a long
piece of metal.
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Law BIDS GIRL,
15,SPURN FATHER
OF UNBORN BABE
San Francisco Rent By
Sociological Issue

Editors Note-The romance
OF Cecilia Ramirez, IS, pur-
ported erpectGnt mother, and
Samuel Del Ll1no, also IS,
fDhich San Francisco 1uthori-
ties haze refused to dllotO to
be conSummated By marriage,
has attracted nationwide inter.
est. Elsie Robinson, colun1niSt,
discusses the unusual case in
the following exclusive GrttcleO
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gone tomorrow to White Sulphur
Springs, where she had planned
to take her annual reducing
cure" She weighed 100 pounds,
had a statuesque frame, but she
was not conSpicuously stout. She
lived, however, in fear of becom-
ing fat.
After her stay at White Sulphur
Springs, Miss Warburton had ar
ranged to go to Palm Beach and
occupy her house, which her par
ents gave her last winter, the
building and decoration of which
she had personally superintendent.
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LEAVES NO CLUE

Inspector Bernard, w. Thomp-
son, chief of detectives, and Capt.
Ira Keck. assistant chief, who are
personally handling the case, ad-
mitted they are without a single
clue in the case.
Detectives are searching the rec
ords of wholesale drug and chem
ical companies in an effort to de-
termine where the acid came from.
This acid, the fumes Of which
may cause death while a single
drop will cause a frightful burn,
is used in etching glass. 1t is so
caustic that it must be kept in
platinum containers.
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USED 2 QUARTS

Experts estimated that at least
two quarts of the acid had been
used on the windows Of the stores
attacked.
Detectives working on the case
believe the acid attacks were
caused by labor troubles or a
gang Of racketeers making their
first step toward moving in" on
local merchants.
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Autopsy Holds Up
Funeral Of HeireSS
WGrburtOn Report
DispLeGses Police

NEW YORK, Sept. Is QN.S0.
Dissatisfied with a physicians ex-
PLANTATION that over-strenuous diet
ing caused the sudden death yes
terday of Mary Brown Warburton,
a granddaughter of the late John
L. Wanamaker, merchant prince,
police ordered an autopsy today.
Family funeral plans were de-
layed when officials peremptorily
removed the body to Bellevue
Morgue to await findings OF the
medical examiner. Police also were
unable to understand why they
were not called until three hours
after the popular society bachelor
girl died in her fashionable apart
ment.
DR.. John H. Morrissey, who
treated the heireSs with an inhala-
tor for an hour and half before
she died, said a heart attack
brought on by strenuous reducing
efforts caused her death. Cap
sules believed to contain thyroid
extract used for reducing were
found in her apartment.
FOUND BY MAID
A maid found her lying uncon-
scious on the floor of her bath
room at about 9 o'clock. DR..
Morrisey and Miss Warburton's
parents, Maj. and Mrs. Barclay
Warburton, who returned from Eu-
rope Monday on the Normandie,
were Immediately summoned.
During a welcome home" din
ner which she gave for her par
ents, Monday night in her apart
ment, Brown" as she was famil-
iarly known to hundreds OF friends
in this city, Palm Beach and Phila-
delphia, complained of a pain in
her bosom.
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TREASURY CONDITION

Q.N.S). Treasury balance as
of September 10: $3,015,73S, 465 .08.
Miscellaneous internal revenue, ST.
32,003.63. Customs receipts, $14,.
763,417O4.
Evening star., 1937-03-14

highly specialized and intellectual
forms Of materiality, an age that wor-
ships the Molochs of mechanism, speed
and crushing efficiency; an age in
which the pursuit of creature COM
forts subordinates all moral consdera-
tions to gain its ends. This is the
callous age that has made vicious
thrust at its nine highest exponents
OF law and law enforcement in this
country, ostensibly because these men
are old in point Of years, but actually
because their allegiance to principle
and their impartial judgment in ac-
cordance with law and not in accord
ance with human opinion offends the
Ulllful powers of the world
II every individual could have prin-
clple and law altered to suit his own
desires it might be convenient for him,
but it would certainly be conducive to
universal chaos. Fortunately, princi-
pie is as unchanging as God, and
also as mighty. Law is the application
ofs principle in human affairs, and
those who try to thwart that orderly
application inevitably suffer ultimate
defeat. Truth is a rock" the Scrip
ture says, but upon whomsoever 1t
shall fall it shall grind him to powder"
BE not deceived; God is not mocked."
To insinuate incapacity due to
length OF years is not only a cruel
injustice to the nine superior char
acters constituting our Supreme Court
but Is an insult to the Creator. AS II
intelligence were mess of matter
under skull bone! Again the Scrip
ture says, "If any of you lack wisdom,
let him ask of God" for The wisdom
Of the world is foolishness with God"
We read how Moses was directed by the
Lord to gather together seventy men
of the elders of Israel" and received
the promise: Il will take Of the spirit
which is upon thee and will put it
upon them, and they shall bear the
burden of the people with thee, that
thou bear it not thyself alone" In
ancient times older persons were Sc
lected for public ONCE out OF regard
Tor their superiority in knowledge and
experience, and the term elder" was
expressive Of respect and reverence in
general. But times have changed.
II our lawmakers can clear away
the tear gas OF propaganda and errone-
ou influence, they will be able to see
one fact clearly-a fact distinctly dis
cernible by any thinking per-
son-namely that the effort to de-
stroy the impartial Judgment Of the
Supreme Court and make it amenable
to personal opinions a mere puppet
of unstable political authority, is
only one phase Of the consistent and
persistent attempt, evident through
out the world today, and increasingly
evident in our country, to do away
will all law and order, discredit moral
and spiritual traditions and uphold
and encourage those forces which
stand for lawlessness.
Take heed now, for the Lord hath
chosen thee 10 build an house for the
sanctuary; be strong and do ia
sanctuary for the people of this coun-
try where their God-given covenants
OF liberty, individual rights and pro-
lection under law may ever be in
v1olable. VERA E. ADAMS,
Evening star., 1937-03-14

keep and hold all congressional acts
within the boundary Of the Consti-
tuition
Under that same Constitution-and
Supreme Court that is part Of the
Constltutlon-this great counry has
grown and prospered up to the year
1882. That same Constitution has
length and breadth sufficient for all
development whenever the Supreme
Court says they are constitutional.
President Roosevelt mentions Ohio
River floods and the dust of the West
ern dust bowl and doubts he could
get the money to prevent the flood
and dust-afraid the Supreme Court
would declare it unconstitutional. For
years Congress has appropriated money
for rivers and harbors with no ques-
ton as TO its legality because those
projects were general good to the
general public. Also. see the miles and
miles of leVeeS along the Mississippi
River, built at huge cost-but it was
built for the benefit OF the public.
President Roosevelt accuses the Su-
preme Court of running this country
into q mo Mans Land" Well. it Is
plain to be seen what he would run
1t into had he a Supreme Court, q
Congress and Senate that would lump
when he cracked his whip, but it would
not be a democracy-far, far from it.
Should such calamity come to pass
why have Supreme Court? Why
have Congress? Why have a Senate?
They would all be useless and need
less-hesides, some Of them might
later on disagree with the dictator.
No, send them all home. for democracy
Is dead. The halls of Congress are
deserted-all the rich furnishings are
gone-echo of footsteps rebounds from
the celling-nothing left but memory
Of old-time glory.
Why change the number OF justices
on our supreme bench? They are wise
old fellows, know what they are doing
and their work is up to date, so why
changer They know our Constitution
and all it implies.
AS the Constitution now stands, the
people are its masters-the people can
amend 1t at will, as has been done.
We are also subject to that same Con-
stitution and no citizen, no matter
what his station in life, has any right
to defy or deny our Constitution.
w. j. DERMOTT.
Evening star., 1937-03-14
Farmers, He Says, Against Change.


To the Editor OF The Star:
The strongest speech that Secretary
Wallace can make for the defense Of
the Presidents stand on the Supreme
Court question is to the effect that
the Farm Bureau Federation organiza-
tions are behind the President in the
move.
In Texas less than one-tenth of I
per cent Of its farmers belong to the
Farm Bureau Federation, and only
one-fifteenth Of per cent Of the culti-
waited acres are represented in that
conclave. May it be reminded that
Texas is close third in Farm Bureau
strength among the States. While
two other States, Arkansas and Ala
bama, lead Texas by slight margin,
these two States have one-fifth to one
sixth OF per cent of their respective
farming population in the Farm Bu-
reau organization.
Now the Grange organization in the
State of Texas is five times stronger
in membership than that of the Farm
Bureau Federation. The Texas Grange
has SO times as many cultivated acres
as that represented by the Texas Farm
Bureau Federation. The leadership Of
the Grange organization is much more
Christian and fairer in every way in
that they believe in Government for
the people, by the people, and Of the
people. Now, Wallace stated to the
press that the Grange u squarely
Evening star., 1937-03-14
The "UnorkAniIed Middle Class"

To the Editor OF The Star:
The great unorganized middle class
contributed more in votes, more in
money to the reelection of Roose-
welt than Lewis highly organized
group of sit-downers. 1t has nothing
in common with the sit-downers, who
respect neither property nor the
rights OF their fellow workers.
1t is not yet fully aroused but
should be. When it speaks, the Presi-
dent and Congress will listen.
In the last election the great mid
die class followed the President be-
cause Of his brilliant handling Of
the banking situation, his promotion
of peace by trade agreements his
vast expenditures for relief. 1t gave
only lip service to the N. R. A and
breathed a sigh of relief when the
Supreme Court buried the N. R. A.,
already dead from public disapproval.
1t wasn't enthusiastic over the A. A.
A. and recognizes the soil conserva-
ton program as more in keeping with
sound economics and American life
than crop destruction and regimenta-
ton.
The Supreme Court has protected
| property and liberty 1t has sus-
tained the Governments gold relief
measures and the only phase Of the
T. V. A. that has come before it. 1t
has not prevented vast expenditures
for relief, flood control and soil con-
Servation. 1t has not struck down
anything as unconstitutional which
either the great middle class or the
citizens generally want. 1t has held
| that the Constitution does not give
the Federal Government control gen.
orally over wages and hours. No one
supposed it did.
Not even labor leaders wanted such
broad powers OF control exercised by
| the Federal Government until re-
Gently, when they have come to be-
lieve that Government control will in
fact be domination by their fact -. of
organized labor. Does the great middle
class want such domination by either
the sit-doWn faction or the Green
faction? Does either faction want
domination by the other? If not, Go
not tAmper with the Supreme Court
or the Constitution.
HENRY E. COTTON.
| Nashville, Tenn.
Evening star., 1937-03-14
Five Suggested Reforms.

TO the Editor Of The Star:
The Federal judiciary system no
doubt needs revision. This can be
accomplished with more lasting effect
by = calm, deliberative study and
action on the matter concerned by
the congressional members.
Permit me to offer the following
reforms for your consideration:
l. That the tenure Of Office for a
Supreme Court justice be limited to
IL years, with right to re-appoint-
ment.
2. That the present membership Of
the Supreme Court be increased to IL
members.
8. That the 12-year terms Of the
Supreme Court justices be put on a
staggered scale. whereby the President
could appoint four justices every four
years.
4. That only two-thirds Of all the
Supreme Court justices be allowed to
declare a congressional measure un-
constitutional.
S. That the Attorney General be
empowered to bring about an expedi-
tious judicial review of case involv-
ing some constitutional Interpretation
that has been contested in a lower
court.
These, believe will accomplish the
necessary reforms for which many are
now clamoring.
Yours very truly,
L. J. ESUNAS.