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Evening star., 1937-12-29
lnt0xicati0n Link to Pneumonia
Explained to Bacteriol0gists
University of Michigan Experiments
Sho'o Why Mnlady Follo,cs Opera.
tions and Exposure to Cold.

TO act as reservoir for these germs
SO long - they stay there they can
do no damage and generally they
appear perfectly satisfied with this
home. None of the persons from whom
these tonsils We're removed ever has
shown signs Of any form Of anctino-
mycosis.
A new form Of the dreaded spinal
meningitis discovered in a patient at
Galllnger Hospital here was reported
by Drs. Sarah E. Branham, Reinalo
H. Mitchell and William Brainin Of
the National Institute =. Health.
Ordinarily this fatal disease is caused
by 4 germ known Is the meningo-
coccus, which attacks the membranous
envelope OF the spinal cord and brain.
1t is a close relative of the pneumo-
coccus which causes pneumonia, the
streptococcus and the gonococcus,
which is responsible for very prev
alent form OF venereal disease. Ordin.
arlly these cocci are particular and
act specifically on different parts of
the system
In this case. DR.. Branham found,
the gonococcus had invaded the spinal
nuid and was responsible for the
meningitis symptoms. This is the
third time within = few months, she
reported, that she has isolated germs
OF this family from the spinal fluid
This form Of meningitis, she said,
propably is much more common than
Is generally supposed. The case re-
covered under form Of sulfonalamide
treatment.
Evening star., 1937-12-29
BUILDING STONE THEFT
BRINGS MAN $40 FINE
Defendant Tells Court He Moved
Them as Act of Kindness
for Trucker,

The theft last July Of three build
ing stones. which he was caught carry
ing away in the rear Of a small coupe,
brought $40 fine to Ernest Hender-
son, So, colored, 1852 Columbia road
NV, from Judge John P. McMahon
in Police Court today.
The stones were taken from the
premises Of Jacob Biron, builder living
at 1926 Sixteenth street NV. Mr..
Bron told the court that, although
the defendant was seen with only three
OF the stones. actually three tons had
been stolen from beside his garage.
Henderson told the court he moved
the stones as an act Of kindness for
some unknown man who claimed they
were his and his truck had broken
down. Mrs. Biron took his tag number
and he was arrested yesterday.
Evening star., 1937-12-29
PRESIDENT WRITING
annual MESSAGE
Conferences Also Held to
Finish Drafting of BUDGET
Estimates.

President Roosevelt devoted most Of
his time today to writing his annual
message to be delivered To Congress
next Monday and to putting finishing
touches on the budget estimates to be
submitted to Congress some time next
week.
To assist him in his budget calcu.
lations the President had with him
Tor more than an hour Secretary of
the Treasury Morgenthau and Daniel
w. Bell, acting director of the budget
Mr.. Roosevelt believes only one more
such conference will be necessary be-
lore the estimates will be ready for
transmission to the Capitol, possibly
next Tuesday or Wednesday.
After receiving a few callers in the
forenoon and having luncheon talk
with Gov. Alfred of Texas the Pres1.
dent planned to retire to his study,
on the second floor of the White House,
10 work on his annual message.
Among the White House callers were
M. w. Thatcher, legislative repre-
sentative of the National Grain Co.
operatives, who said later he informed
the President of an agreement between
his organization and Labor's Nom
partisan League to join forces in sup
port OF the administration farm bill
and the wage and hour bill William
Chadbourne, an old New York friend
OF the President, who is interested in
humanitarian work in China; William
Francklyn Paris of New York and
Charles A. Davila, Rumanian Minister
TO this country, who said goodby to
the President preparatory TO re.
linquishing his post here.
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BLACK MENTIONED
FOR POSTAL POST
Will Become Third Assistant
Postmaster General, Is
Report.

Ramsey S. Black, postmaster at
Harrisburg, Pa, is slated to become
Third Assistant Postmaster General,
it was reported here today. His name
will go forward to the Senate shortly
after Congress convenes, it was said.
Mr.. Black, former passenger con-
ductor on the Pennsylvania Railroad,
was named to the Harrisburg post
mastership on February 20, 1884.
Clinton B. Eilenberger, formerly
Third Assistant Postmaster General.
died several months ago and the post
has been filled since that time by
Roy NJ. North, deputy third assistant.
Mr.. Eilenberger also was q Pennsyl-
Vanian, coming from Stroudsburg
The office of third assistant deals
with the fiscal operations of the de-
partment.
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OF PROGRESS
CHECKS Distributed
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Dec. 2s.-Rufus G.
Dawes, in his last Official act today as
president Of A Century Of Progress Ex-
position in 1884,, hung up a world
record
He delivered certified checks for
$4,000 to seven organizations, the
first time in history that an interna-
tional exposition had closed its books
with q surplus.
The checks included one TO the
Smithsonian Institution in Washing
ton for $4.S00 and one for a like
amount to the Yerkes Observatory at
Williams Bay, Wis.
Checks for $4,000 each we're given
to the Chicago Park district and the
Museum, Of Science and Industry and
$32,o00 was given the Chicago Art In
stitute. One for $4,000 went to the
Adler Planetarium Trust.
Evening star., 1937-12-29
BIOLOGISTS ELECT
DR.. ARTHUR DAY
Dr.. Charles W. Gilmore Is
Chosen Head Of PaIeon.
biological Society.

The honor Of leading the Geolog-
ical Society Of America, each of
whose members Is an expert in his
line and many of whom provide the
brains behind United States policy as
regards protection and exploitation of
our stores Of natural resources, has
been given to DR.. Arthur L. Day, re-
Gently retired director of the Geo.
physical Laboratory Of the Carnegie
Institution Of Washington.
Announcement OF the election was
made yesterday at the fiftieth annual
meeting Of the society, now in ses-
sion at the Washington Hotel DR..
Day succeeds DR.. Charles Palache,
Harvard University's internationally
known mineralogist.
Vice presidents chosen are DR.. Way
land T. Vaughan. former director of
the Schipps Institute Of Oceanogra-
ply OF the University of California;
DR.. Warren J. Mead, Massachusetts,
Institute OF Technology; DR.. Joseph
Cuahman, director Of the Cuxhman
Laboratory for Research Of Sharon,
Mass. and Or. Norman l.. Bowen,
University Of Chicago.
DR.. Bsrksy Reelected.
DR.. Charles p. Berkey Of Columbia
University was reelected secretary
and DR.. Edward b. Mathews, Johns
Hopkins University professor and
Maryland State geologist, treasurer.
Another Wsshingtonian has assumed
the leadership Of the archaeological
Society Of America, meeting in con-
junction with the @. 8. A. He is DR..
Charles w. Gilmore, curator Of YER
tebrate paleontology at the National
Museum
The new heads of the Mineralogical
Society of America and the Society Of
Economic Geology, also in joint ses-
sion with the G. S. A., are DR.. Ellis
Thomson, University Of Toronto, and
DR.. Donald H. Mclaughlin, Harvard.
Speed Up Reading Of Papers.
With the meeting more than half
over. the TOO assembled biologists re-
doubled their efforts today to insure
reading all Of the more than $50
papers to be delivered before adjourn
ment tomorrow
Tonight at Z o'clock the society
holds its annual banquet, followed
with production by the Pick and
Hammer Club "Gridiron" group of
the G. 8. A. Of I'D Rather Be Right"
at Roosevelt High School Auditorium.
High-ups in the profession will be
satirized in the production.
Yesterday the more than 200 woman
biologists and geologists' wives hon
ored DR.. Florence Bascom, dean of
women in the science at a luncheon
At the University Women's Club. DR..
Bascom Is the first woman ever to
receive 4 degree from Johns Hopkins
University and the first woman to be
on the Geological Survey.
A forum discussion Of the needs of
geology by Ave Of the societys lead
ing scientists today was expected 10
hold the center OF interest At the
meeting.
Evening star., 1937-12-29
FLETCHER GETS DAYS
TO OPPOSE SENTENCE
Given Until Monday to File Bill
Of Exceptions-Sixty-Day
Term Imposed.

Sentenced to go days in Jail in
Police Court yesterday on a charge Of
unlawful entry, Edmond c. Fletcher
one-time assistant to the Attorney
General, was given until next Monday
to present a bill Of exceptions to the
ruling.
Fletcher, who was assistant to the
Attorneys General in both the Hard
ing and Coolidge administrations was
released on 5000 bond pending the
action of the United States Court Of
Appeals on 4 petition for a writ of
error which his attorney, E. 3, Frev
said he would file.
Fletcher was found guilty by a po.
lice Court jury October l Of unlaw-
fully entering 4 house ut 4l32 Mill
tary road NV, the day before fore.
closure proceedings were to be insti.
tuted by the Home Owners Loan
Corp.
Since that time Fletcher f,,.d .
motion for 4 new trial and another
for an arrest Of judgment. Both wore
overruled about two weeks ago.
Evening star., 1937-12-29

thence to Atlanta. Ga. where he was
sent by his paper and where he met
Joel Chandler Harris. who was edit
ing the Uncle Remus Magazine. Mr..
Marquis became Mr.. Harris assist.
ant editor, but New York soon
called him and he joined the New
York Sun at about the same time
Irwin 8. Cobb started 4 similar rise to
fame as q "Sun-man"
In short order, Mr.. Marquis had
made himself columnist, under the
heading The Sun Dial" and New
York began to chuckle at the vagrant
Wit of this young Midlander. He
stayed with the Sun for nearly II
years, dashing OF such columnar It'd
bits as this:
Hell is full of nddlers,
Dogs are full OF feas,
And I'm full OF notions
AS the grip Is full Of sneeze-
Here's a column of them;
You can read EN- if you please;
Maybe some are caviar,
Maybe some are cheese"
His first play, and his greatest hit,
was The Old Soak tear-soak ked
comedy based on characters he had
made popular In his column In the
Sun, The role was recently played BY
Wallace Beery In . talking movie
version Of the play, which hrst ap-
peared in 1891.
Play Melted Him Sls5,ooO.
One of the biggest postwar stage
hits. netting the author sls6,0oo in
two years. the play concerned the
blbulous inventive genius of clem
Hawley, the "Old Soak" whose dis
courses on the benefits Of John Bar
leycorn were classics of their time,
and "Al." the bootlegger, whose advent
on the scene was always greeted with
the cry by the Old Soaks daughter:
oh, Pa. AIS here!"Swhich became
almost 4 byword in New York.
THE Old Soak" was Mr.. MARQUIS
only successful venture into the field
OF playwriting. A born humorist, he
had an idea that the star Of his
muse would reach the zenith in
tragedy. He tried it out in two plays
"Out of the Sea" and "The Dark
Hours" the latter \ play based on the
closing hours in the life of Jesus
Christ. Both were failures.
Besides the Old Soak and Archy
the Cockroach, who wrote on 4 type
writer Ut night when Mr.. Marquis
was away, entirely In lower case letters
because he couldn't use the shift
key, Mr.. Marquis characters also in
cluded Mehitabel, the Alley Cat, who
was frankly disreputable; Capt. Peter
Fitsurse. the Unconquered Raconteur;
Fothergill Finch of the Beautiful
Gesture. and the Fair Hermione and
her Little Group Of Serious Thinkers.
Went to the Tribune.
leaving the Sun, Mr.. Marquis went
to the New York Tribune to conduct
. column called THE Lantern" for
two years until 1922, when he retired
from active Newspaper work to be-
come . playwright. Z contributor to
magazines and 4 writer Of books.
In recent years, he contributed to
the editorial pages of newspapers and
to smart magazines. He suffered q
stroke in 1896 and was partly par
alyzed for 4 while. To the end, his
sense of humor never failed.
Evening star., 1937-12-29

in the mining district st Goodnevs
Bay, Alaska.
Production In 1886 amounted to
more than $500 ounces valued At
$4,000. DR.. Mertis said today 1887
figures will be substantially higher and
that 1898 production will be much
greater, due to the installation Of .
huge dredgs.
The deposits were discovered II
years ago and represent one Of the
few substantial deposits Of the metal
on Unitnf States soil. Most Of the
worlds platinum comes from Canada,
Russia and South Africa.
Evening star., 1937-12-29
Racing Results
Tropical Pork

1y the Associated Pres.
FIRST RACE-Purse,s 500: elaimins;
3-year-olds and mp; fufl0ngs.
Earl Porter (Steut) 01,3O $3.50 1000
Naughty (DetteP) 04O $50
Sun Antioch (SehmidD $40
Time, 1:12.
sversus. TPinchfsa, HiGh Image, Velocitef.
Monument and Bonseir
SECOND RACE-Purss, 800; claiming;
2-year -eids; 9. furlsngs.
Texes Tony tMeCombs) 1880 $3.50 11.s0
&stlav t3syl AGO $50
Dark May tSnyder) 3.10
1:::';; ;.,MH; ;;!s.t "a; s....e; s....,,n., n.
Count Valiant, MiS Collins. Balance U,
S Dan, H. .BBs Bs~SIsH SIHiS isSsit iesss ssss.as n. a.,
Evening star., 1937-12-29
REUNION OF DEATH

STOCKTON, Calf. Dec % R,-
Police disclosed today that three for
mer Japanese soldiers held a reunion
here to end their lives. The bodies Of
Tamakishi Shino, 50, in whose house
the reunion was held Monday night:
Ida Tomoto, IS. and Ichiro Morata,
-, were found In carbon monoxids.
hlled room, windows Of which were
tightly closed.
Evening star., 1937-12-29

the illness of
Mr.. Heard, Town
Hall officials said
today.
Senator Tydings,
Democrat, of
M Arylan d will
speak in their
place, it was an
nounced. HIS
topic will be How
Can the United
States Keep Out
Of War;" Mem
bers Of the panel
will be q announced
later.
Tho r,,lerd
Evening star., 1937-12-29
TOWN HALL DELAYS
DEBATE ON PEACE
Senator Tydings to Speak in Place
Of Huxley and Heard.
Latter Is Ill.

A joint discussion by Aldous Huxley,
the novelist, and Gerald Heard, phil
osophic and scientific writer, on The
Roads to Peace" scheduled as the
feature of next Sundays Town Hall
session, has been postponed. due to
Evening star., 1937-12-29
WAR VOTE ADVOCATE
DENIES PANAY LINK

wa 49, ~ VI CdSS AOVC"Su
Contends Plan Would Not
Hamper Diplomatic Relations.
Col. J. z. Myers, head of the Ameri-
can Peace Movement, Inc. newly
formed organization supporting the
war referendum bill introduced by
Senator capper. Republican. of Kan
saA said today the movement has
no direct relation to the Penay Incl
dent nor any other foreign problem"
Col. Myers explained that the
movement should not be interpreted
as "hampering or hindering" either
the President or the State Depart
nent In its diplomatic relations.
Replying to arguments that a ref
erendum would delay governmental
action, Col. Myers pointed out that
!t took only very few days for the
Government to get a poll Of the un-
employed, and the same machinery
could be used to obtain a war ref
erendum"
Evening star., 1937-12-29
THE WEATHER REPORT

coumbaPary cloudy with lowest about
much changa
gentle shftng winds becoming moderate southeast
possibly occasional
portion and
in much temperature
tonight probably light
slightly n tomorrow.
Evening star., 1937-12-29
Weather Conditions Last ai Hours.


Pressure is low southeast of Greenland
AnRmagsaHk 1856 inches. while pressure
continues relatively low over Hudson Strait,
Nottinsham Island, ao.o4 inches. dis
turbance of slight intensity is moving
northeastward over the Gulf of St: Law
renee. Anticosti Island, Que: 30;oE inches
with q trough extending southwark toward
Bermuda; Pressure continues low ALIENS stl
"0.12 inches while 4 disturbance of slight
intensity is moving rapidly eastward over
aooS inches Nv, Pressure is hish south s3dth,
Harding. 3O.56 inches. while an extensive
area Of high pressure Is moving eastward
lantic and North Atlantic States. Parry
Sound. Ont 3O.6S inches. Pressure con-
tinues high over much of the Mackenzie
valley. Norman District Of Mackenzie;
3O.S3 inches. and in the Plateau and
middle Rocky Mountain regions, Grand
junction, Colo. aosS inches; Durin' tn. the
northeastern sections in .,,s the west Gsif
Temperatures have fallen considerably over
the Province Of Quebec and much a. the
Lake region, while they have risen over
the northern Plains.
Evening star., 1937-12-29
EDWARD BRUCE GIVEN
FR|EDSAM ART MEDAL
Head Of Treasury Painting Sec
tion Honored for "Promotinr
Arts in United States"

Edward Bruce. head Of the Painting
and Sculpture Section Procurement
Division. Treasury Department, has
been awarded the Friedsam Medal
Tor "outstanding Achievement in pro-
noting the hne and decorative arts In
the United States"
The medal is awarded by the Archi-
tectural League of New York
Mr.. Bruce last year received the
medal of excellency Of Columbia Uni
versity. both as painter and as a
judge Of paintings.
Evening star., 1937-12-29
Cars Skid on Insects.

Millions Of grasshoppers have caused
cars to skid and vegetation to dis
appear in an area covering $4,000
square miles in New South Wales.
Evening star., 1937-12-29

Prof. w. B. "Geology BH' Scott (rtohD OF Princeton Uni
Dersy OF the three founders of science OF vertebrate
galeontolooy In America ana past president Geological
Society OF America chatting Nth Dr. Buddnoon chair
man OF the Princeton Depaytment of Geology,
G. S. A. meeting wv
Prof. Scott ,oith the late Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn and
the late Dr. francis Spe all Princeton
first expedition Western North America to collect fossil
dinosaurs, m1mnl0ths etc. Star Stan Photo
Evening star., 1937-12-29
Foreign Goods Banned.

Colombia recently stopped for seven
days the issuing Of licenses for the
purchase of foreign goods.
Evening star., 1937-12-29

Record for Last "a Hours.
From noon yesterday to noon today0
Hishekt, 4b. 5 pm. yesterday.
Lowest. -, B am. today.
REGARD Temperatures This Year,
Fighsst. 81 on August 20,
Lowest. II, on December IL.
Humidity for Last "a HouYs.
tFrom noon yesterday to noon today
Highest, S6 per cent, at 8 Pm. ysSter-
day.
towsst, ~ per cent, at noon.
Tide Tables.
FURNISHED By the United States Coast
and Geodet!c Survey.l
To-day Tomorrow.
Hish - 5;2s am. s.lsam
Low ---- 1902 am. 1852 m,
High ------- $3.50 pm. $40 m.
Low ----- 1915 Pm. l:04 pm.
Evening star., 1937-12-29

Senator will speak At the Rialto Thea
ter Sunday, beginning at SIS p.m,
Evening star., 1937-12-29
Precipitation.

Monthly precipitation in inches in the |
Capital (current month to date): J
Evening star., 1937-12-29

N~OA AeAAsSS AAANS idNV SoUlC VI lQl6 CCIIe
tinent via North Atlantic Ice foes.
Bears Ancestor Described.
Rsmaiha OF giant creodont-primi-
tive camivorous animal--of 4 group
thought to foreshadow the modern
bears were described by Or. Loris Rus
sell, expert on fossil mammals, before
the vertebrate section of the Paleonto-
logical Society.
The beast, which DR.. Russell stated
was about the same size a. Z Kodiak
bear-now the worlds largest carni-
vore--vas formerly known from Z
lower jaw. two teeth and two thigh
bones. Recently, however, an in
complete skull was located In Western
Canada. where the f,rst bones were
found. showing the face of the huge
msat-eater was short and broad In
comparison with the Uranium, indi.
eating 1t was that of q bear, DR.. Rus
sell said. ~-,..,-
The creodont, "Hemipsalodon gran
dis" by name. Il supposed to have
lived over 20,o0o.ooo. years aso.
Platinum Rush Under Way.
Americans have heard time and
again Of the famous gold rush to the
Klondike Of Alaska but only few
scientists and mining men know Of
the rising success Of Uncle Sans
newest mining rush to Alaska-this
time for platinum.
A paper presented today by J. D.
Mertie, jr., Of the Alaska Branch Of
the Unitsd States Geological Survey,
before the Society Of Economic Gsolo-
gists. also npstins ct the Warrington
Hot4l, rsv lsd an svsr-inersastng
yield OF the precious metal u inevitable
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-18
Legion Reaffirms
 Court Resolution
National Committee Prepares to Resist Attack on Supreme Tribunal Finer Reports to State Dept.

tional convention adopted the fol- lowing resolution: Whereas certain men in public life are agitating leg islation which would deprive the Supreme Court of the United States of authority bestowed upon it by the Constitution and which would grant to Congress the final voice in pass ing judgment upon the legality ot acts of its own creation; and
 Whereas, Congress is a political body liable to be sWayed by parti- sanship, expediency and the preJu- dices and passions of the hour, be It
 Resolved, by the American Leg ion national convention assem- bled, that we regard such proposed legislation as threatening the basic fundamentals of our government as supplanting our cherished doctrine of justice for all with an appeal to the spirit of the mob and threaten ing destruction of the rights Of minority under the heels of a tenn porary, ruthless majority.
 And be it further resolved, that we condemn any effort to grant congress judicial powers and au- thority now vested in the Supreme Court.
 Paris Convention
 The next instance was in 1927, when the national convention held in Paris and New York City adopt ed a resolution which was much broader than that of the New Or leans convention. This second reso- lution read as follows:
 Whereas, the uneXampled free- dom, prosperity and development ot our country are due primarily 10 the Federal Constitution and this matchless document must be kept inviolate, and
 Whereas, this Constitution pro- vides that the judicial power Of the United States shall be vested ln one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress from time to time shall ordain and establish, and
 Whereas, our Supreme Court IS one of the coordinate branches ot our National Government and IS almost as sacred as the ConStitu- tion itself, and should, ever he kept free and untrammeled as either the executive or legislative branches ot the government; be it therefore
 Resolved, that the American Le- zion in ninth annual convention assembled condemn any move ment that has for its object an at tack upon the one Supreme Court of our country or any interference with its independence, and we de- nounce and condemn any effort, dl- rect or indirect, which seeks oy other than constitutional means to weaken, change or subvert the Con- stitution of the United States or any part thereof"
 Cleveland
 The Cleveland national conven- ton held last year also adopted resolution which has distinct bear ing on this question which puts the Legion on record continuing -n froce these resolutions which any change by Congress powers or au- thority vested in the Supreme Court, or to interfere with its inde- pendence and any attempt, direct or indirect, which seeks to weaken, change or subvert the Constitution or any part thereof by other tam constitutional means.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-18
No! SalUationists Do
 Not Liue h1 Barracks

legacy to those coming after. After many years some of these articles of furniture acquire a disagreeable mo- toriety; others are looked upon with real affection-almos with ven- eration.
 Officers serving in hospitals, ma ternity homes, and other Army in stitutions, live in the institution. Often an Army hall will be built with accommodation above for the officers in charge, but as rule, the average Salvation Army hall and rooms connected with it, are used solely for the conducting of religious services and other uses called forth by the nature of the work.
 The larger buildings, known as headquarters" are the executive centers for a territory or district. Here all official business is carried on.
 Plain, simple, usually very humble are the homes of Salvationists, but they are happy homes-homes where each member of the family is united in common bonds of love and sacri- flee and the compelling desire to serve others.