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n and turns over. Trying its legs
4 \ after a long slumber in lit
tie square pine box, it makes its cau-
tious way across the palm of SCI
entist's hand. It's back, rounded and
smooth, is indented with curious hol.
lows. 1t IS grayish blue in color, and
the flatter it gets because of lack OF
food, the grayer it becomes. When
newly fed it is deep blue.
A harmless enough looking bug, one
would say. But within its body, even
during periods of starvation, it nour-
ishes a slender, spiral germ, and seven
years from the day it was placed in its
pine wood retreat, without a drop Of
nourishment meanwhile, that blue tick
has infected its host with disease that
has come to be known as "relapsing
fever"
Dr. Edward Francis of the National
Institute of Health of the United States
Public Health Service, stood beside the
window of his laboratory, overlooking
the gray waters of the Potomac, and
held the malignant little blue tick on
the palm of his hand. On the table
beside him was veritable village Of
little square pine wood boxes, corked,
and standing in the middle of shallow
pans filled with sand that is saturated
with a disinfectant. In each one Of
those square pine boxes is imprisoned
a single blue tick, "ornithodorous tu-
ricata," and there they will remain for
many years to come.
Some of them are being used in he
course of experiments DR.. Francis Is
making in his fight against relapsing
fever in this country. Others will not
be disturbed nor allowed to feed. and
these latter have been placed in the
scientists will 50 that his scientific
colleagues who come after him may as
certain how long both tick and germ
are able to survive within an unfed
body, and just what chances man has,
should the period prove indefinite, to
combat so tenacious and hardy germ.
nR. FRANCIS, who in 1928 was the
recipient of the gold medal of the
American Medical Association for his
outstanding work with respect to
tularemia, is making q study of this
disease, rev to America, that because
of certain characteristics has been
termed relapsing fever. He has. with
the aid of other G-men Of science, been
Evening star., 1937-03-07

out in a laboratory. You can't even
nave ideas. They might be the wrong
ideas and set you on a wrong tack.
You've got to take anything for
granted, keep your mind clear of pre-
conceived notions about anything. You
Just got to keep on doing everything.
trying everything and keeping your
eyes open"
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Line. There are two yacht clubs there.
the Capitol and the Columbia, as well
as a number of yacht basins, privately
operated. Marine railways and facili-
ties for storing and repairing small
craft are found along the water front
as well. The engineers say that none
of these is in a good state of repair,
and they are for the most part un-
slightly. irregularly constructed and
inadequate.
The District government has extern
sive holdings along the Washington
Channel. for the fish market, the Oc-
coquan wharf. the Police and Fire De-
partments and the Morgue are repre-
sented there In addition, there is an
amory building, used by the District
of Columbia National Guard, but
whether this is Federal or District,
officials are at loss to explain, they
say.
At the recent public hearing, Comdr.
Frederick Allen Hunnewell, chief con-
structor of the Coast Guard, stated
that a possible future development at
Washington Channel is special
building for this organization, famed
for its saving of life and property at
sea. This would be on the east side
of Water street, with wharf across
the street for its river facilities. The
Coast Guard plays an important part
hereabouts, especially in conjunction
with the policing of the river fronts
when the Presidents Cup regatta is
held here.
ONE taking a stroll along the Wash
ington Channel water front or
viewing it from the channel side, is
impressed with the tumbledown con-
dition of the piers and the buildings,
generally. The place looks as if it
had been struck by an earthquake or
a hurricane and the results left so
that men might view the aftermath.
Rotting piers and ramshackled build
ings so impressed Congress that it
enacted into law a provision that the
situation should be cleared up and q
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That is the way DR.. Francis works.
Plodding, tireleSs, observing, he put
ters among his rabbit cages, his blue
ticks, his tubes and cultures, putting
two and two together and jotting
down the results when something
worthy of notation happens. No one
considers himself less of hero than
DR.. Francis, yet his name has made
medical history and he has fallen
Evening star., 1937-03-07

able to cast light upon its source, the
germ that causes it, and treatment and
as q result another ailment of the
human race has gone down before the
forces of indefatiguable research.
In the cluttered laboratory beside the
Potomac, where such incalculable good
has been wrought for humanity, DR..
Francis crosses to q cabinet that stands
against the wall. From a shelf he
draws number Of small glass bottles
and each is filed with powdery, dusty
brown earth. The earth had been gath
cred from the floors of caves in Texas
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The work represents the culmina-
tion of many years of effort. AS far
back as 1872, reports were made to
Congress on the job. Including the
report now being prepared, 10 re-
ports have been made on the develop
ment. These represent wealth of
basic data, which the engineers are
now finding mighty useful in whipping
the final plans into shape.
Evening star., 1937-03-07
By Lucy Salamanca.

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The Washington times., 1937-03-04

LOW FARES TO FLORIDA via the Double
Track Sea-Level Route. Afternoon, eve
ming, night trains. Atlantic Coast Line,
735 18th St. N. W. NAT 7S36-Advt.
The Washington times., 1937-03-04
AUTO PLANT
STRIKE IS
SETTLED
Si't-DoWners Win in
8 Hours; IA, 500 Go
Back to Work
International News Service

While John L. Lewis committee
for industrial organization pro-
gram moved on to new fronts to-
day in it's unionization drive a sit
down strike that closed the Briggs
manufacturing Company plant in
Detroit was settled.
Concessions were reported made
to the 1,500 Briggs workers who
seized the plant, protesting against
what was termed speeding up" of
auto body production. The plant
was shutdown last night, throwing
14,500 employees out of work. Sit
down strikes in Detroit total about
20, with more than 10000 workers
idle.
Other Strikes Settled
Meanwhile 1000 striking work
men in Detroit went back to work
after settlement agreements were
reached. Other developments on
the nations industrial front were:
Union labor's jubilation over
cracking" the steel industry was
tempered by Carnegie Illinois dec
larstioa il win continue 10 deal
with It's ernploye representatives
(cOntinued on Page 4, Col. u
The Washington times., 1937-03-04
40 Seek Police Court
Post Here, But None
Is Chosen-As Yei

'FOrty candidates for the post
Of Police Court judge-and none
picked today"
That's the situation concerning
the fact that the term of Judge
John P. Mcmahon, Of the District
Police Court, expires today, and
the term of his colleague on the
bench, Judge Isaac R. Hit, ex-
pires March II.
Local Democrats have been
pushing various candidates for the
job. Observation seems to give
some credence to the possibility
that Judge McMahon may be re-
appointed. Democratic politicians
are opposed to the reappointment
Of Judge Hit. Many favor the
appointment of George Mcneil or
the reappointment of Judge Nc
Mahon; others favor the appoint
ment of Karl Kindleberger, at
present Assistant District Attor-
ney.
The appointment probably will
be given to the President by the
Attorney General before he leaves
for Warm Springs early next
week. ..
The Washington times., 1937-03-04
u. 5. SYSTEM
URGED FOR
FIDELITY
HomeL Loan Bank Board
Suggests Change
Affecting 1900

Reorganization of the Fidelity
Building and Loan Association as
q Federal savings and loan asso-
citation was recommended to the
Comptroller of the Currency today
by the board of directors Of the
Federal Home Loan Bank. The
recommendation followed a two
weeks study of reports by bank ex-
aminers, who have been probing
the status of the association since
it was closed last July.
Gibbs Lyons, Deputy Comptroller
of the Currency, will forward the
recommendations to j. F. T. O'Con-
nor, Comptroller Of the Currency,
now vacationing on a yacht off
Miami. If the recommendations
are approved, they will be brought
to the vote of about $4,000 de-
positors in the closed institution.
Capitalized at $4,500,000, re-
sources of the Fidelity are under
stood to have been depleted by
losses placed in some quarters at
$500,00o.
In the event reorganization Is
conSummated. depositOrS viii be
credited with their deposits, minus
CONTINUED ON Page 2, Col. p
The Washington times., 1937-03-04
ATTACK DEATH
H0LDSW0MAN

NEW YORK, March 4 U.N.S0.
The sister of Howard MagnusSen,
26, accused fiend-killer of 4-year-
old Joan Morvan, today faced pos
Sible indictment as an accessory
in Long Islands revolving Tobacco
Road" murder.
While the woman languished in
jail under 100000 bail on a felo-
NOUS assault count, Huntington
q. - police questioned several
new witnesses in an effort to link
her more closely with the Staying.
It was indicated the new move
was based on discovery of stained
clothing in the MagnusSen home
at Huntington, where Howard al
legedly assaulted the tiny girl.
Worn BY Victim
That clothing is believed to have
been worn by Joan when she went
to the MagnusSen home with her
father, George Morvan, and How
CONTINUED on Page 6, Col. II
The Washington times., 1937-03-04

CHARLOTTESVILLE Va, March 4.-The
story of how 18-year-old Cleo sprouse died in
a parked automobile life ended by an
overdose of chloroform as she was being pre-
pared for criminal operation-was told in
written statement today by 53-year old dem
tist civic leader who has admitted responsible.
ity for the pretty high school girls death Mon"
day night.
Dr. Richard G. Miller respected resident of this uni
versy town and the sprouse family dentist for 20 years.
was the man who calmly told the story of Ceos death.
He wrote the confession as he sat in the Richmond police
headquarters after he rushed there because Of
fears for his safety here He has expressed desire to
plead guilty to the charge murder which has been made
against him.
He said in his confession:
Il knew she dead but felt that could do nothing
but wait the roadside until dark After it got dark
drove to the patch woods between the University of Vr
gnia Cemetery and the golf put the body out
the ground But did not her underwear which
found against the stone wall surrounding the cemetery She
removed it herself in the She pregnant but had
Continued Page 3, Col. II
The Washington times., 1937-03-04
Two Women. Victims
OF Gas Are Identified

NEW YORK, March 4 I.N.S0. t..
Two women found dead Of gas in
a rented room were identified by a
former employer, according to po-
lice. Mrs. Josephine Overton, Of
Manhattan, said the women were
Mrs. Margaret Averill Ramsey, SIS,
and her daughter, Mrs. Alice Dean,
20.
Investigation revealed they came
to New York seeking Mrs. Ram
sey's eStranged husband. Last
week, down to So, they rented the
room in which their bodies were
found.
The Washington times., 1937-03-04
$4,000 Box Award
Given PhiIade|phian

PHILADELPHIA, March f..
Thirty years in welfare work
brought their reward last night to
George w. wilkins, business man
and philanthropist.
In his hands, at the Academy of
Music, was placed the sixteenth
annual Philadelphia award - a
medal, scroll and check for
$4,000.
In six years as head of the
Shelter for Homeless Men, Mr..
wilkins sheltered $4,000 from eX-
posure and possible starvation.
The Washington times., 1937-03-04
Jean V aljean'
Goes Home,
Free Man

COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 4
G.N.SO.-Terrence ]. Cannon, 38,
alias j. j. Mccain, Pittsburgh
Steel Company foreman, rode
home today, free man, with his
train fare loaned to him by the
chief executive of the State OF
Ohio-a State that 20 years ago
sent him to prison for robbery.
The escaped convict, whose
identity was discovered IT years
after he fled the London Prison
Farm, returned of his own volition
to Ohio to accept the consequences
of his flight and earlier crime.
Arriving here with Wray BevenS
from Pittsburgh, he strolled the
city streets from early morning
until evening when he was cloSeted
by appointment with Governor
Martin L. Davey. Shortly there
after he stepped from the execu-
tive offices with a full pardon for
the crime of robbery committed In
Akron two decades ago.
The governor, in a statement to
the press, which had hunted all
day Tuesday for the So-called
Jean Valjean," said he was con-
vinced Cannon has made good
to a degree far beyond the aver
age, infinitely more than any
prison could do.
The governor, recalling that
Cannon had no money for train
fare, handed him a $40 bill with
the comment that you can return
it later"
The Washington times., 1937-03-04
Earl Watkins Dies
After an Operation

ALEXANDRIA, Va, March 4.
Earl Watkins, "a, member of the
Alexandria police force since 1880,
died early this morning in Alex.
andria Hospital, following an op-
Grafton for appendicitis performed
February "a.
Besides his widow, Mrs. Ola
Watkins, he is survived by a son,
Earl Watkins, jr., II. The Wat.
kins' home is at $40 Prince st.
Funeral arrangements will be an
nounced later.
The Washington times., 1937-03-04
WASHINGTON FORECAST

Increasing cloudiness and slightly warmer
today, followed by occasional rain tomorrow;
colder tomorrow afternoon; gentle to mod
crate southerly winds; highest temperature
last "A hours, 81; lowest. 80.
The Washington times., 1937-03-04
Jail Numbers Chiefs.
Jud &c Demands

Irked because his docket is clut-
tered with minor violations of the
numbers law, Justice James M.
Proctor, in United States District
Court, today declared it is time
for the big men" to be brought
to justice.
The jurist'S diSpleasure was ex-
pressed in pointed language after
Hulon Jones, colored, pleaded
The Washington times., 1937-03-04
GREET
RUNAWAY
By FRANK BUCK" O'NEILL

PALATAKA, Fla, March 4.
Jimmy Brady. the Washington
school boy who ran away to see
the Griffmen prepare for the pen.
nant race, today was a willing
captive in the arms of his mother
at the home of Howard Rowtan.
James Brady, Sr., Mrs. Brady
and Anna, their 9-year-old daugh-
ter, arrived from Brunswick, Ca,
where they had spent the night.
The family was accompanied by
Continued on Page 30, Col. u
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Entered a. Second Glass Matter et
Post Office at Washington. D. C.
The Washington times., 1937-03-04

guilty to an indictment charging
him with accepting a 10-cent bet
on a numbers game. Nearly a
score of guilty pleas in cases of an
equally minor nature had been
taken before Justice Proctor in
the last week.
AS he ordered Jones' case re-
ferred to Probation Officer Joseph
Continued on Page 2, Col. 81
The Washington times., 1937-03-04
ExiIed to Siberia

MOSCOW, March 4.-Valdemar
Lintin, pampered son of a high
Soviet official, and his dream
friend" Victor ajSokolov, today
were sentenced to a labor camp
in Siberian wilds for the mur-
der of Lintin's mother-Soviet
RusSia'S "Loeb-Leopold case"
The Washington times., 1937-03-04
TELLS HOW GIRL
MET DEATH IN
PARKED CAR
DIR. MilIeH.'s Story:

COnfesstng the killing of Cleo SprOuse, DR..
Richard G. Miller, Charlottesville (Va.) dentist,
said:
'lknew she was dead, but l felt that could
do nothing but wait on the roadside until
dark. After it got dark, drove to the patch
ofwoods between the University Of Virginia
Cemetery and the golf course. put the
body out on the ground. But did not re-
move her underwear which was found
against the stone wall surrounding the
cemetery. She removed it herself in the car.
She was pregnant, but had nothing to do
with her condition. Iagreed to perform the
operation at her solicitation.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-07-02
centrates.
WOULD BE ANOTHER PARTY

This Walter Lippmann writes:
"The choice offered these men is either to fight
now or to confess their complete subserviency and
assent to the destruction of their influence and
reputation by compromising everything they be-
lieve in"
Among "these men" Mr.. Lippmann names "Vice
President Garner and Senators Robinson, Harrison
and Byrnes"
The presidents measures for which he is de-
mandng support, "are the substance of radical
transformation of the government and of the party
system and, once they are put into effect, the
powers of the New Dealers will be almost impossi-
bic to liquidate by ordinary democratic procedure.
With the courts and the commissions and the con-
gress and all large industry and great masses of
subsidized voters all under centralized control
there will exist power which no normal political
opposition can hope to check"
For 'these men" Walter Lippmann declares, "the
time Of decision has arrived"
They will make their own decisions
In South Carolina will be no tame submission to
"a radical transformation of the government" In
South Carolina would be political party opposing
the Roosevelt party at the polls in November. The
Roosevelt party, calling itself Democratic" and in
possession of the treasury, might for time, tri-
umph-but it would have another party to fight.
Mr. Farley has made the national Democratic
party negro party, and the negro question the
Democrats" have removed from white South Caro-
lnans' minds
The "racial transformation" in the labor bill, the
packing of the courts, the permanent relief" pol
icy and eentrsizing of government would ruin the
South. If congress shall enact it, another party will
take the field in South Caroina.-Charleston News
and Courier.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-07-02
FOR AT LEAST TWO MORE YEARS

Congress ran true to form in voting extension OF
the nuisance" and other taxes for two-year pc
riOd. 1t is estimated that from this source some
$3.50, 100000 will be realized annually, and admin
istration leaders did not hesitate to tell their col
leagues who opposed the extension that Uncle Sam
stands sorey in need of It. II was during the Hoo
Yer administration that these nuisance" taxes
were voted, rs an emergency" measure and the
argument was advanced then, and has been reter-
ated earnestly since that they were only to be
effective for year or more. Yet each succeeding
congress keeps them in force.
In arguing against the life of these taxes for a
two-year period, Sen. Vandenburg of Michigan de-
fined them sales taxes, which they are-sales
taxes that fall upon the people of the United
States. This is the list of articles affected by this
legislation in common usage and service the
Michigan senator cited:
They are sales taxes upon gasoline.
They are sales taxes upon electrical energy.
They are sales taxes upon lubricating OIL
They are sales taxes upon telegraph, telephone
cable radio facilities, and leased wires.
They are sales taxes upon toilet preparations.
They are sales taxes upon the transportation of
oil by pipe lines
They are sales taxes upon mechanical refrgera-
tors
They are sales taxes upon matches.
They sales taxes upon sporting goods.
They are sales taxes upon radio SETS
They are sales taxes upon articles made of fur.
They are sales taxes upon firearms, shells, and
forth.
They are sales taxes upon brewers wort and
malt syrup.
They are sales taxes upon chewing gum.
They are sales taxes upon cameras and lenses.
They are sales taxes upon crude petroleum.
They are sales taxes on coal and coke.
They are sales taxes on copper and copper con-
centrates
They are sales taxes upon lumber.
They are sales taxes upon paraffin and other
petroleum wax products
They are stamp taxes on transfers of bonds and
upon deeds of conveyance.
They are further sales taxes upon automobiles
and motorcycles, upon tires and tubes upon auto
mobile accessories, and upon automobile trucks
Spartanburg Journal
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-07-02
GOVERNMENT BY UNION

Announcement that John L. Lewis will act to Or
ganize government workers into a branch union Of
the Clio Immediately suggests far-reaching posi-
bilities.
Suppose he succeeds in getting all federal en-
ployes at the national capital and elsewhere in his
ranks and subject to his orders. Suppose too that
what Mr.. Lewis wants and what regularly elected
representatives of the people want happen to
fliet, which is entirely possible and likely.
That will set the stage for a showdown to decide
if Lewis is bigger than those who do the voting in
these United States. Similar tests in some coun-
tries of Europe brought victory for dictators and
defeat for the people.
That is prospective situation that should be
pondered seriously before it has developed suffi-
GENTLY to become q crisis.-Anderson Mail.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-07-02
lho,AA AERolrlE
OeMH,rE CoLo1r

SEVERAL white settlers OF
y jamestown were taken pris.
,ner by the Indians and some
we're killed when Pocahontas
pretty young daughter of Chief
Powhatan, was enticed aboard
British ship, taken to Jamestown
and held as hostage for the return
Of the colonists. 1t was she who
legend insists, threw herself upon
the PROSTATE Capt. John Smith
as the AK was about to fall on his
neck. and saved his life. Now, as
prisoner among the coloniSts, she
became a Christian and married
John Rolfe.
In 1916. Rolfe took his bride to
England and presented her to
King James I. Dressed in her
queer court costume, she became
/ sensation, and was entertained
by the. nobility. She gave birth to
! son, Thomas, who was educated
IN England and later returned to
Virginia.
Before Pocahontas could return
10 America with her husband,
however, she died Of smallpox.
Her portrait, as she appeared be-
lore the king and queen Of Eng
land, is on the five-cent stamp Of
the three issued in 1907 on the
sercentenary Of the founding Of
Jamestown.
Copyright. 1887. NEA Service. 1nc.)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-07-02
NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
ONLY A PUNY MINORITY

There are said to be 100000 laborers in this
country. I'd.
Only about 4,000,o 900 of them are in unions.
The division of this 100000 who are unionized
between the American Federation of Labor and the
c. !. o. is relatively half and half.
Union labor under the flag of the American Fed
Grafton is bitterly hostile to the other wing, the
c. l. o. s..
It doesn't stomach the radical leadership OF John
L. Lewis neither does it find favor with the tactics
which his organization is using to gain its ends.
And it is uncomfortable that the 100000 other
laborers of America who are affiliated with neither
branch of organized unions subscribe to the pur-
poses or the methods being advanced by Lewis.
There is as much sound patriotism and good NOR
ais within the ranks of these masses of Americas
working people as is to be found among any other
sector of our society.
And those holding sound patriotic views and b,