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Evening star., 1937-02-05
SHIP STRIKE ENDS,
lob RUSH BEGUN
Owners of Vessels Vie to Be
First to Get Craft Under
Way-Bridges Grateful.
ny the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, February S.
The 9s-day Pacific Coast maritime
strike that cost an estimated $685.
100000, paralyzed commerce on the
sea and slowed industry on land, dis
solved today into q rush back to work
by the 10000 strikers who tied up 239
ships.
Disputes involving waterfront work.
ers remained unsettled at two ports,
but signing Of new contracts last night
by shipowners and the seven striking
marine unions closed the Nations
costlieSt maritime labor dispute.
Shipowners We'd with each other to
get the first vessels underway. Long
shoremen and seamen besieged hiring
headquarters for available jobs. Mer-
chants competed for service in OBJ
tanning strike-bound cargoes or book
ing space for shipments. One line in
voked seniority rule" to accommo-
date rush for passenger accommoda-
tions.
The end of the strike was announced
at 2:45 pm. yesterday by Henry
Schmidt, chairman of the strikers
Publicity Committee, who said the
men would return to work at 8 am.
today.
Bridges Is Grateful"
Forty thousand men are CRATE
full" commented Strike Leader Harry
Bridges. I'm only one of them"
Shipowners, in the scramble to get
commerce moving and regain lost
markets, deferred comment, but en-
gagged time on national radio net
work tonight to express their attitude
and qualification.
The strikers themselves ended the
Walkout by an overwhelming vote, ex-
cept in one instance, accepting nego-
tiated agreements. These generally
provide higher wages, union control
of hiring longshoremen and unlicensed
seamen, the 8-hour day or less and
adjusted working conditions. Licensed
officers and engineers got wage in
creases and union recognition.
Maritime firemen rejected an agree
ment which their negotiating COM
mittee did not recommend, but will
vote on a revised agreement. mean
while returning to work. The revi-
sions have to do with overtime wage
scales and several minor issues.
A strike of tugboat deckhands in
San Pedro and a stand of East Coast
seamen and truck drivers were irri-
tants in the Southern California
harbor. Walkouts here of several
unions affiliated with the Interna-
tional Longshoremen's Association re-
mained unsettled. The strikers prin-
cipally comprise workers in ship
building yards and repair centers.
The Eastern seamen declared they
would not permit work on East Coast
vessels tied up until operators meet
the terms awarded West Coast sea-
men.
The Union Truck Drivers local said
picket lines would be set up at coast
ports in an effort to unionize all
drivers handling water-borne cargo.
Several vessels, freight and passen-
ger, expected to sail from here before
the end of the week. and one, the
coastal lumber schooner Alvarado,
planned to clear for Portland, Greg,
this afternoon.
Evening star., 1937-02-05

Chevy Chase residents charged the
change would prove detrimental to
the neighborhood and Great a large
spot of commercial area in a resi-
Dental section.
Hits "Spot Zoning."
This would be a pure example Of
spot zoning," he declared. If the
commission wishes to create alternate
blocks of residential and commercial
areas along Connecticut avenue-and
I don't believe 1t does-thiS would be
a fine starter"
Hege insisted that the area from
Military road to Chevy Chase Cir
Gle already was amply served by stores
and declared Chevy Chase residents
do not wish a commercial develop
ment which might make them inde-
pendent of downtown Washington.
Business Restriction Fought.
Several property owners objected to
another petition, offered by the COM
mission, which was intended to place
more drastic restrictions on the types
of business which may be operated
in the area Immediately to the east Of
the municipal center site.
The proposal was to change from
second to first commercial the CLASH
fication of all the property bounded
by Third street, Constitution. Louisi-
ana and New Jersey avenues and D
street.
A spokesman for the Columbia
Specially Paper Box Co., 228 First
street, said he did not object to the
plan so long as the change would
not place the home Of the company
in a n-conforming status, which
would prevent its relacement by a
new building for second commercial
use. The proposed change would
create that status. Several other in
dividual property owners opposed the
change.
Evening star., 1937-02-05
GRANDS|RE ASKS
FILM STAR FOR AID
Robert TayIor's Kin, Pension
Withdrawn, Hopes Actor
Will Help Him.

By tie Associated Press.
HOLMESVILLE, Nebr, February 5.
Film Star Robert Taylor's grand
father, Jacob A. Brugh, living on SIG
q month State old-age pension plus
81 month rent he gets for two rooms
in his home, told yesterday how his
grandson aided him last Fall, and
expressed the belief Taylor will again
come to his aid.
Grandfather Brugh. who bears the
family name which was Taylor's be-
fore he discarded Arlington Brugh to
enter the movies, said. Arlington is
SO like my son Spangler. CDR. Spangler
Brugh, father Of Taylor.)
IF little Spang were alive now he
wouldn't let me be in want. I think
If Arlington only knew how badly I
need it. he would help me out" he
said.
Last Fall Taylor gave him $40 and
arranged grocery credit.
At Hollywood. Taylor's mother said
she had contributed to Grandfather
Brugh's support since the death of DR..
Brugh and would continue to do So
Taylor added, Mother and I have al
Evening star., 1937-02-05
DENIES MURDER CHARGE
BY COURTROOM 'TALKIES'
B, the Associated Press

B, the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, February S.
Through the medium Of "talkies" .
defendant in q murder trial told .
jury here yesterday he did not kill
the victim.
Motion pictures, with sound, showed
Robert Hayes, charged with murder
OF David Monroe, being questioned bv
two detectives. The jury heard Hayes
deny he killed Monroe.
The State charges he murdered
Monroe when accused TO stealing a
chicken.
1t was the first time sound pictures
have been used in court here.
Evening star., 1937-02-05
Magic Beast Shielded.

Terrorized by a man-eating leopard
for several days. the inhabitants of
Bhainsa. near Hyderbad. India. re-
fused TO slay 1t even after 1t had
killed a number of them. They be-
lieved it was a villager which had
been changed into leopard by magic.
Evening star., 1937-02-05

ways been glad to help grandfather in
every way possible"
County Assistance Director Saunders
at Beatrice, Nebr., near Holmesville,
said Taylor contacted him Wednesday
night to inquire about Brugh's case
County records show Brugh was grant,
ed an old-age pension April 81, 1886,
but his name was removed from the
rolls August /, the County Board hold
ing Taylor was legally RESP onsible for
his grandfather's support.
Evening star., 1937-04-25

morning. We get pint day and
give the babes as much as they will
take, often having to force to make
them swallow itp
Now follows a more hopeful entry:
June 5.-Jaundice is improved a
great deal. All babes gained in weight
this am. DR.. William Dafoe (Dr.
Allan Dafoe's brother, from Toronto)
came today to have a look at the
babes. He advises oxygen to help
them breathe and We'll have some
sent to us. He thinks that everything
possible is being done and is quite
satisfied with the nursing care. Pres
ents are still pouring in by the box
full"
l didn't have time to pote much
in my diary about the world wide
public interest that had centered upon
these little mites, but we certainly got
plenty OF evidence of it. On May 81
Photographer Fred Davis arrived from
Toronto and began taking that series
OF pictures which are still attracting
world attention.
June 6.-The funniest thing hap
pened today. Yvonne and Annette
had a fight. Anyway, Annette got
her hands out Of the coat she wears
and in stretching hit Yvonne on the
chm. Y made quite face.
The oxygen tanks arrived TODAY.
They are a wonderful thing. The
babes revive almost at once when we
use oxygen on them. It comes in 30
pound tanks, has rubber tubing with
funnel at one end, and when in use
we open valve which lets the oxygen
out very gently. We hold the funnel
over the babes mouth and nose Each
babe gets it about 10 to Is minutes.
In few seconds we notice them
licking at their lips and they gradually
breathe, look and seem and feel better
UNE 7.-Yvonne looks like a very
big baby when placed beside
Marie. They are beginning to look
forward to feeding tlme. They lick
their lips and let out small ANNOYED
cries. JaundiCe is gone.
June g. Yvonne is very languid to-
day. She is blush and very much un-
concerned about her meals Put her
in small incubator and gave her extra
Evening star., 1937-04-25

ing up the players, pay most of their
attention to the face and the lassas
have to look after their figures
When she's signed to a studio con-
tract there will be a whole raft Of
experts about keeping the lassie's face
groomed like Hershey Pa But the
gains climbs to you) are her own
concern and she'd best be concerned
with them Only when the girl be-
gins TO lose the battle against the
scale does the watchful studio step
in and prescribe diets, exercises and
massage treatments.
There's fellow named Louis Hippo
out at Warner Bros, for instance,
who looks after all the younger play
ers, telling them how to keep fit.
Most of them, aiming for stardom,
pay attention.
Olivia de Havilland spends hours
riding bicycle. even though she
doesn't have to fear being overweight.
Her system for keeping in trim de-
pends good deal upon chance and
the weather. When it rains she
Ns%'Si W Iii1 III yI4C lOI d IONuIS Illd~
chine. Thus a proper proportion be-
tween rainy and sunny days per-
mits her to keep both arms and legs
properly developed
This is leaving things pretty well
up to fate, so Olivia has a prize
method Of weight control She sets
a maximum weight for herself, steps
on the scales every day, and at the
first ounce over the maximum she
skips a meal
Patricia Ellis got diet from Wini
Shaw that helps keep her weight
down. ShaW-Shaw is a pretty in
genious citizen. This diet calls for
fruit juice ane coffee for breakfast.
This leaves the dieter ravenous by
lunch time, SO she eats anything and
everything on the menu. Then she
goes back to work and all the food
Is used up in energy before it has
chance TO contribute to the weight.
Dinner is only green salad, and how
| that fruit juice must hit the bottom
in the morning!
Jane Bryan diets by religion. She
gives up candy and all deserts for
Lent and by Easter she's in shape.
Ann Sheridan keeps her figure BY
going on three-day liquid diet fou.
times a year. This is highly recon-
mended and is not to be confused with
going on three-day liquid diet four
times week, which will definitely
not keep you in good condition.
Evening star., 1937-04-25
Fame!

A R1T1sTIC recognition came at las.
today to Carl Andre one of Hol-
lyWood's veteran "stand-ins."
Never on the screen, Andre never
theless works constantly because he
is effective as the stand-in of Joel
McCrea, Walter Huston, Parkyakarkus,
Alan Hale and many other stars.
Currently he's "standing-i for John
Boles in the Samuel Goldwyn picture
"Stella Dallas"
On the same movie lot are the New
York models imported by Walter Wan
ger. Today, two of them determinedly
approached Andre in the studio COM
missary.
We" they chorused as they ex-
tended an autograph book, "love you
on the screen. Won't you sign this
for us. Mr. Wilcoxon?"
Andre is ringer for Henry Wilcoxon,
for whom, oddly, he has never STOOD
in."
Evening star., 1937-04-25

June % All the babes weigh over
2 pounds. Marie did it at last-if she
can only hold her own now and de-
eide to keep on!
June %. All babes are very hungry
They just gulp their milk down. At
least one could say gulping, but it is
the smallest gulp one has ever seen"
And then comes an entry which,
while very brief, meant a great deal
to all of us:
July IT. Quintuplet living record
broken today-and it looks as if they
can still hold their own"
In the last 500 years there have been
80 authentic cases of quintuplets re-
corded. No group of five lived longer
than an hour or so; the longest any
member of a group of five lived was so
days. So when these five little Dionnes
got past that 50-day mark, We had rea-
son to feel tremendously elated.
Evening star., 1937-04-25

doses OF oxygen-she fed fairly well
after that
June 9. Two more incubators ar
rived. We now have a Chicago one,
a large double one and two smaller
ones.
June TO- Mrs. Dionne has devel-
oped temperature and has a lump
on her right leg. Looks like phlebitis.
Has been told to stay in bed. .. Babes
are coming along we'll
June II. Babes arc very languid to-
day and hard to feed Coloring not so
good. Are using rum and oxygen.
Marie very ethargic-though she had
stopped breathing altogether. We
had to force milk into her.
June IL. Babes somewhat better
today, but still hard to feed.
June l6. Yvonne is feeding well.
Marie is doing fairly well, but is very
hard to feed.
Evening star., 1937-04-25
Anna Stem Returns.
WEIGHING 20 pounds less and wit

WEIGHING 70 pounds less and with
an entirely new personality.
Anna Sten, Russian star, is preparing
to resume her screen work in this
country. She has signed a contract
with Grand National Pictures to do
Gorgeous" soon to go into production
in Hollywood.
Miss sten. who, made three pictures
in America and then returned to Eu-
rope to fill engagements there, was
signed by Edward Alperson, president
of Grand National. The deal which
brings the lovely Ukranian actress
back to Hollywood also includes the
rights to release 1.-TWO. Who Dared. 4"
the Stem picture made in England fol-
lowing the expiration of her contract
with Samuel Goldwyn.
Evening star., 1937-04-25
By Harry MacArfhur.
* ~ LAMOUR, toujours CLAM

6 ~ LAMOUR, toujours CLAM
It's the old Hollywood
~ battle-cry. 1t conjures up
beautiful thoughts Of what could be
done to make pleasanter life in this
best Of all possible native lands in a
best of all possible worlds. II only
some one had imagination.
Conscription, that's what We need
In most of the countries of Europe
the male citizens have to serve their
time in the army, so consumption
isn't anything startling in its novelty.
But corscription over here is going
to be for the feminine population if
we can get somebody to help us
support the plan.
Every gangling girl in the land is
going to have to serve term in a
Hollywood studio, be sleeked up by the
glamour boys, and come out luscious
and lovely. Think what host of
delectable damSels We can have run
ming about the streets then.
Just few months in the hip
control and eyebrow yanking de-
partment Of any Of the fllm factories
will work wonders on any lass "a
short time, even, in Hollywood is apt
to do other things, too, so dependable
chaperons, Government supervised
and bonded by a reputable bonding
concern in Wichita, Kans.. will be in
charge Of each shipment OF girls sent
to the cinema artists for veneering)
But the expense OF the chaperons
will be repaid by the results. Look
what the glamour boys have done for
some specimens.
Evening star., 1937-04-25
COMPULSORY GLAMOUR ADVISED
Every American Girl Should Be Cocpted Serve Term With
Hollywood Charm Experts, Who Produce Beauties From
the Most Unlikely Material.

Garbo is an outstanding example
When MG-M signed her because they
wanted foreign director who would
not come to the United States unless
Garbo came too, that was about the
only reason they could have had
On the surface. But Garbo and the
glamour department got together and
did bit of resurfacing.
When she landed out there she was
a tall lass with mass of taWny hair
and about as much grace as a camel
on roller skates. (She was willing in
those days, too, to go down to the
beach with the publicity lads and pose
in swim suit in front of a camera,
or don leopard skins and help the
ballyhoo boys get space in the fan
mags by foot-racing with Leo, the
M-G-M lion-but that is another
story.
The moral of this tale is that the
world, or even four OF her intimate
friends, never would have known
Garbo was beautiful if the glamour
boys had not done a job on her and
brought the beauty out, and don't
anybody scream about us limiting that
credit for Garbo's beauty is due to
studio craftsmen because we still love
her more than you do
Jean Harlow is another. Remember
Wings? Miss Harlow had some
thing then, to be sure. What she had
was known land still Isl as sex. if that
isn't being too blunt about it all She
still has, but now she has something
more, too. She has sophistication.
she knows how to hold her head. how
to walk, and the lads and lassies in
the glamour department have done
things to her hair and face.
And Joan Blondell. You should
see one of the stills from Illicit" the
second picture in which she ever
appeared. 1t came out more than
six years ago Miss Blondell was
wearing knee-length white fur coat,
with not an inch of skirt showing
below it, and tight-fitting hat pulled
low over her ears. She was, to come
right out and say it in public. dumpy.
You might still say she is dumpy
ii Dick Powell is not around to hear
you, but she's lot longer than she
was then. Rather the studio crafts
men have fixed her up so she looks
longer and you look at her longer.
She has poise and she knows how to
wear clothes
The studios, in this business of sleek
Evening star., 1937-04-25
Meningitis Under Fire

protected by any given serum is the
measuring rod of its efficiency.
OF course some cultures are verv
much more virulent than others, and
1t is harder to protec. mice against
these. Meningococci will not kill mice
unless the cultures are virulent. When
allowed to stand these cultures lose
their vlrulence. Likewise, when car
rled on culture media the, lose their
Vlrulence. One Of our chief problems
Is how to maintain the virulence of the
disease culture
To do this we freeze the cultures
and dry them in a vacuum while they
are still frozen. Then they are sealed
and put away. They will live many
months like this in a properly ,regu-
lated ice box When we are ready
to use them we open the tube and re-
dissolve the culture and grow it out
again"
Before this process was discovered
1t was necessary continuously to
transfer these cultures onto new media
IN order to keep them alive. Dr.
Branham is assisted in this special
part of the laboratory work by Dr.
Margaret Pittman, Miss Carlin and
DR.. ForkiSh.
THE third problem they are study
ing at the institute with a view
to overcoming the scourge OF men
ingitis is the effect Of certain drugs
upon mice which have been infected
with meningococcus. Some of these
drugs. states Dr. Branham, seem
definitely to cure the infected mice.
and they can be given after the mouse
has been taken ILL., The drugs are
usually injected, although sometimes
they are fed to the animal This
latter is less satisfactory, as the mouse
will either refuse the food, spit it out,
or receive an insufficient quantity
into the system. BY injection the
drugs are found to be more completely
absorbed into the system. AS result
OF these experiments with actual
curative drugs it is hoped that much
good can be done for humanity in the
way of treatment once the disease has
been taken.
The institute is also making a study
OF the distribution of epidemic mem
ingitis in the United States. The
disease entity, states Dr. Branham,
was first differentiated in 1905 in
Geneva, Italy, by Vieusseau, French
Swiss. 1t has always been disease
OF soldiers and of children" mainly,
and can be traced to crowded condi-
tions of living, as it is spread by drop
let infection. Epidemic years have
been 1918, 1929 and 1885 in the United
States, lasting over an approximate
three-year period on each occasion.
Laboratory infections, Dr. Branham
tells us, do not occur very often, al
though tragedy marked experimental
work in the National Institute OF
Health last year.
1T was the saddest thing that ever
happened to u.s." Dr. Branham re-
lates, land the fact that we now wear
masks and eye goggles while handling
meningococci is based on sound rea-
soning, since that accident"
The victim of experimental work was
young laboratory assistant to DR..
Branham, Miss Anna Pabst. She was
inoculating a rabbit and an unexpected
hop Of the animal caused the syringe
to shoot a stream of the culture into
her eye. The eye was washed out
with antiSentics and everything DOS.
sible was done to guard against in
fection. but four days later the young
girl Was dead.
Evening star., 1937-04-25
Stage Star Signed.

HE star OF Shore Acres" and
Way Down East" melodramatic
stage classics of half of century ago,
today was engaged for role in Sam
uel Goldwyn's new film Stella Dal-
las" He is William j. Holmes, who
frst won dramatic notice in Boston
in 1889, and has a record of nearly 60
years Of acting.
Evening star., 1937-04-25
Continued From Second Page.)

greatly in severity. Deafness and
| blindness were a frequent result of
the illness.
During the prior period and this
scientists got busy with regard to
this particular germ, and spent much
| time and effort in classifying the
various strains" of the disease that
| showed up. They found that these
fell definitely under certain CLASH
fications. with the exception of that
curious germ that had turned up in
Chicago. They found, too, that the
| menlngococcuS was very unstable
little organism, and changed its type
pattern if maintained in cultures over
long period of time. This made it
very difficult for scientists in various
parts Of the country to classify and
compare their cultures. To avoid this
| confusion in the study of the disease
the National Institute of Health un-
dertook to prepare type strains, which
| they dried while in a frozen state.
and sealed in voccums for distribution
to laboratories that need or request
| them.
This work is going forward now at
the laboratories in Washington under
the supervision of DR.. Branham Not
| only are they trying to improve treat
ments for meningitis. They are trying,
as we'll, to find q better serum for those
who are suffering from the disease.
This involves many things.
"We are making three definite
studies in connection" says DR.. Bran
ham. I'VE are studying cultures of
meningococcus with view to deriving
less expensive serum. Horses are
used in the development Of the serums
by commercial manufacturers. 1t takes
at least eight months of the i'm
| muniZation process in a horse This
| Is very expensive. So by our studies
we hope to derive the best cultures
| those that best stimulate the produc-
| tion Of anti-bodies. Also we are trying
to be sure that in these commercial
serums all types of meningococci are
| represented. All of these organisms
| look and act alike, but they agglu-
tinate differently in serum. To be
effective a serum must be a specific
against definite type of meningitis.
Ascertaining that it is is part of our
work here"
THE second phase of this study that
is going on in our interest in the
National Institute Of Health Is con-
cerned with discovering just what it
is in q serum that makes 1t useful
against the disease. Samples of serums
are studied and their effects noted on
experimental animals.
I'VE can produce meningitis In
guinea pigs and rabbits" DR.. Bran
ham points out, ''but they cannot ne
protected by serum, and so they are
not suitable for testing. That is why
much Of our work is done with white
mice.
"The mice are lnoculated in the ab-
dominal cavity and the bacteria multi
ply there and gradually invade the
entire body Of the mouse. The mouse
dies of septicemia or blood poison
ing. 1t does not actually get menin-
gifts, as such, but a general infection
BY giving these mice serum in vary
ing amounts they are protected from
| infection. Protection depends upon
how good the serum is. Some serums
can be diluted . thousand times and
remain potent. Other seruns do not
prove to be quite 70 good. But the
| degree to which the infected mouse Il
Evening star., 1937-04-25
Jessie's Leading Man.

JESSIE MATTHEWS, Gaumont's
singing and dancing star, has
chosen Barry Mackay as her leading
man in "Gangway," the new musical
production now before the cameras at
the Pinewood Studios. Miss Matthews
was previously teamed with Mackay In
Evergreen" the international hit,
which introduced the brunette actress
to American audiences Is 4 star.