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Evening star., 1937-12-23

By he Associated Press.
BOSTON. Dec. 23-Army planes
and police boats searched Boston
Harbor today for the body of United
States Army Corpl Harold J. Kramer
35, of Winthrop, whose parachute
descent as flying Santa Claus turned
to tragedy last night over Bostons
oceanside airport when a freshening
wind blew him into the water.
Veteran of more than 100 success
full jumps within eight years, Corpl.
Kramer plunged to his death while his
young wife and their l8-month-old
son looked on in the midst Of a group
of Army wives and children, to whose
Christmas party ne was making his
annual contribution.
Investigations were launched by the
Federal Bureau of Air Commerce, air
port officials, the Army and Boston
police
Corpl. Kramer bailed out over the
airport administration building at
1900 feet from a plane piloted by
Capt. Richard E. Cobb. Carried sea-
ward by the wind. Corpl. Kramer
sideslipped his chute desperately, but
only a few spectators realized he was
in danger.
Releases Flares.
The Christmas party's gayety
changed to horror when Capt. Cobb
suddenly released flares, first indica-
ton the jumper had landed not at
the airport's edge beyond its flood
lights, but in the water.
Two enlisted men of the airport
detachment, Richard Miller and Earl
Jordan, commandeered a skiff at the
waters edge, but in their feverish
haste the craft capsized and they were
almost drowned before a Coast Guard
crew pulled them from the water. e
Physicians at Fort Banks Army
Hospital at Winthrop said both would
recover, though Jordan suffered two
broken ribs and possible punctured
lung.
Meanwhile, a police cruiser dashing
across the airfleld with flares and
hood1ights for the search collided
almost head-on with an Army plane
taxing to landing.
Policeman Is Hurt.
The planes propeller sliced through
the car roof, gashed the face of Sergt.
Edward J. Seiboldt. police ballistics
expert, fractured his jaw and knocked
out three teeth. His driver, Patrolman
John Clorin, was only scratched.
Three Army planes, a Coast Guard
cutter and police boat joined the
search, but when they reached the
scene their flares showed only black
water
Evening star., 1937-12-23
STATE LABOR BODY
FIGHTS GREEN EDICT
Declares Purge Would Strip
Pennsylvania Federation of
Most of Members.
Ey the Associated Press.

l44c HooOSAalCl 400
HARRISBURG, Pa, Dec. 23.-The
Pennsylvania Federation of Labor to-
day attempted to smooth over a
threatened rift in its ranks caused
by William Green's demand that all
Committee for Industrial Organization
units be "dissociated from member
ship"
John A. Phillips, president of the
State body, forwarded letters to the
1855 member unions urging each to
ask the president of the American
Federation of Labor to reconsider his
order.
Mr.. Phillips and Lester Thomas,
secretary of the State federation, es-
timated that Mr.. Green's demand. if
carried out, would strip the fedora
ton of three-fourths of its member
ship. That number, they said, are
c. I. o. affliates.
January l. the union leaders said,
was set by Mr.. Green as the date that
the purge" must be effective
Mr.. Phillips letter to the unions
asked that they write at once" to Mr..
Green in Washington, urging that the
A. F. of L. refrain from action until
"the matter can be brought before the
next regular convention of the Penn
sylvania Federation of Labor"
That convention will assemble in
Allentown, Pa. May 10, 1898.
The State federation's 1887 conven-
ton adopted ''hands-off'' policy in
the A. F. of L. and c. l. o. con-
troversV
Evening star., 1937-12-23
COOLIDGE SCHOOL
PLANS ARE PUSHED
Should Be Ready for Opening Of
Bids by April Is, Declares
Architect Wyeth.

Plans for the new Calvin Coolidge
Senior High School, to be built at
Fifth and Sheridan streets NV. at
a cost of $3.50 900, should be ready
for the opening of bids not later than
April 25, Municipal Architect Nathan
c. Wyeth said today
Mr.. Wyeth said plans for exterior
OF the building have been approved
by the Fine Arts Commission, but
plans for interior are still being con-
sidered by the Board of Education.
Protests have been filed before the
board by citizen groups of communities
to be served by the new building, con-
demning the proposed plans which
they say will result in factory type"
school and urging a building similar
to Roosevelt High School.
The inside heating plant proposed
for the new building is the feature
which has drawn particular fire from
the citizens.
There may be an explosion only
once in so years. but that once, is
enough" declared W. C. Magathan,
president of the Takoma Citizens AS
sociation. in protest presented Tues
day before the Board Committee on
Buildings, Grounds and Equipment.
Evening star., 1937-12-23
Machine Guns
OfArmy'Cra,cr
ByMOtOr Power
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
A machine that cravis along the
ground, carrying two men and a ma
chine gun on its back, is the Army's
latest contribution to the sciences
Of war.
Officials disclosed yesterday that the
machine is operated by one of the
crew lying fat on his stomach.
1t is a four-wheeled, motor-driven
vehicle 7 inches of the ground. The
controls consist of pedals at the rear
and a gearhift in front.
In front is removable tripod car
rylng 30-caliber machine gun.
The machine was designed bv
Brig. Gen. Walter C. Short while he
was assistant commandant at the In
fantry School. 1t was built BY Can't.
Robert G.. Howie, instructor in the
Tank Corps.
They have given it a speed of %
miles an hour, weight of LOIS
pounds and length of 10 feet. 1t has
broad tractor tires.
Its designers say it is the eouiva-
lent of the doughboy machine gun
crew. the members painfully dragging
themselves forward on their stomachs
Evening star., 1937-12-23
TIMBER COMMISSAR
is OUSTEDIN RUSSIA
Called Leader of "Rightist Spy
Organization IA Others
Sentenced to Die.
B> the Associated Press

Bt the Associated Press
MOSCOW, Dec. 23.-The removal
of V. I. Ivanoff, commissar of the
timber industry. became known today
through testimony in the trial Of
alleged "anti-Soviet wreckers" in the
timber industry at Archangel, where
he was called the leader of "Rightist
spy organization.
Fourteen death sentences-nine i'm
posed in the Archangel trials-were
revealed today. The others were in
connection with grain storage in
Georgia.
The chief of the Dvina timber trust,
who was sentenced to death with the
others, was said to have confessed
"counter-revolutionary wrecking &C
tivities under direct instructions from
leaders of the Rightist spy organiza-
ton" He said this organization in
cluded Ivanoff.
1vanoff, former secretary of the
Communist party in the Northern
province, of which Archangel is
capital, was mentioned as former
commissar" He had been criticized
in the government organ, Pravda, for
conditions in the timber industry, a
highly important branch of Soviet
economy.
Evening star., 1937-12-23
Sing a Song of Yuletide Verse,
Murals Are Fun, Jingles Worse

The unsuccessful efforts of Health
Omcer George c. Rutland to have
the Mother Goose" murals blotted
from the walls of the Children's
tuberculosis Sanatorium at Glenn
Dale. Md, and the more successful
efforts Of DR.. Reid r. Ashworth to
eradicate bacteria from restaurants.
were lampooned today in jingles read
at a Health Department Christmas
party.
DR.. Rutland had on prominent dis
play in his of1ice large placard bear
ing extravagant cartoons, bathing
beauties and other pictures clipped
from newspapers and magazines, COM
pletely filling its space.
The Christmas poetry" included
the following:
George, George, the medicine man,
Stole q mural al away he ran.
Evening star., 1937-12-23

He hid 1t from The Star
He hid it from the Post
But darn these murals,
They're everywhere, almost
The docs were in the laboratory
Counting out the bugs;
The typists were at their desks
Painting up their mugs;
The boss was in his ONCE
Bullying his stenog
When along came the ,murak
And set the town agog.
Sing song of service.
How the days do ny;
Four and twenty germs
The bacteria count was high.
But when the drive was opened
The restaurants began to clean
And not . single one Of them
Thinks DR.. Ashworth mean.
Evening star., 1937-12-23
SPANISH PLANE LOADED
WITH CURRENCY DOWNED
Craft Carrying 5000, 900 Pesetas
for Barcelona Government
Forced to Land.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
TOULOUSE, France, Dec. 23.-A
Spanish tri-motored plane CARRYING
100000 pesetas in new banknotes
for the Barcelona government made
forced landing last night near Mar
bonne in fog.
tThe Spanish peseta is valued at
about cents)
Two of the planes motors plowed
into the earth but the pilot and four
passengers escaped injury.
Gendarmes Immediately were placed
about the cases containing the cur
rency printed in London. The bank
notes had been flown to Paris from
London yesterday and were en- route
toward Spain.
The five Spaniards went to Mar
oonne to make new arrangements for
transporting the notes to Spain.
Evening star., 1937-12-23
Pension Advocate Dismissed.

LOS ANGELES, Dec. % CPl.-Su-
perior Judge Charles w. Fricke dis
missed yesterday charge of attempted
extortion against Robert Noble, advo-
cate Of 1925 every Monday morning"
pensions. He was accused Of demand
ing free radio time from Radio Sta
ton KMTR on threat of running the
stations business.
Evening star., 1937-12-23
Sound Mind
Giren Worker
For Christmas
EY the Associated Press.

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VINITA. Okla, Dec. ga 29-
year-old oil field worker went home
from the State Hospital today with a
priceless Christmas gift-a clear,
sound mind.
Doctors said he had been rescued
from insanity by shocks" of insulin
DR.. Felix NJ Adams, superintendent
explained the patient, an inmate for
five years, was the second dementia
praecox cure out of ar original group
of eight started on the insulin treat
ment by .the hospital last August.
1T is grand the way they react, u
he said. They all improve physically
at first.
Two others, one a college gradu-
ate who majored in mathema tics, the
other farm boy. could not answer
questions coherently few weeks ago.
Now they organize their thoughts and
express them lucidly. They're going
home for while Though not quite
normal, they may not have to come
back
Evening star., 1937-12-23
Racing Results
n 1ronicnl Park

By the Associated Press.
FIRST RACE-Purse, 500; claiming;
3-year -olds and mp; furienEs.
EuryaIus tSarno) 1880 $50 800
Johnnycake MAY $40 3.S0
Many Moons tRyan) 2.4O
Time, I:12M.
Also ran-Thursland, SabIin, Beaver
Lake, Capt. Jerry, Osirande, Imperial
Polly, Robert 8. and Lernana.
SECOND RACE-Purse, 500; claiming;
3-year-olds and up.
Chance Queen tMora) 2I.1O 9.30 600
Musical Jack Dean) $50 4.30
Kitty'S Rival (Schlenker) 1880
Time, l:12.
Also ran-JezreeI Gold Buckle. Ne
mont. Dorothy Hicks. Count Rae, Arthur
b. and Flying Victory.
DAILY Double maid &IA25O)
Evening star., 1937-12-23
THE WEATHER REPORT

District of Coumba-Occasiona
temperature rain moderate tn fr
winds mostly ~ -
Mayand-coudy; beginning tomorrow mixed
with In
Wgna-Ran probably tonight
east and central
what colder in
Evening star., 1937-12-23
19 KILLED AS CASTLE
WALL FALLS ON HOMES
Three Houses Crushed as Stone
Foundation Topples Down on
Italian Village.

By the Associated Press.
FORLI, Italy, Dec. 23-Nineteen
were killed and two injured yesterday
as stone precipice, foundation for
the medieval castle Of Fusercoli, COL
lapsed on three modest homes in the
village of Civittella di Romagna.
The greater part of the castle (on
cliff above the homes) remained
standing, but its fall was feared i'm
minent because of the lost foundations.
One squad of workmen threw sup
ports against the structure while
others extricated bodies from the ruins
below.
The castle was the unoccupied prop
erty OF Marquis Giuseppe di Bagno-
Guldi, senator who lives in Rome.
Evening star., 1937-12-23
Ravel Is Operated On.

PARIS, Dec. % (P).-Maurice Ravel,
81, the famous composer, was resting
comfortably today after undergoing
an emergency operation yesterday
physicians described the operation as
apparently successful but did not
disclose its nature.
Evening star., 1937-12-23
EXAMS ANNOUNCED
Application Dead]ines January II
and 20 for Four Tests.

and 20 for Four Tests,
The Civil Service Commission Is
announcing four examinations, for
which applications will be received
until JANUARY II and 20. the latter
date applying to those coming from
Colorado and points westward.
They are inspector of railway sig
mailing and train control. Interstate
Commerce Commission $4,000 annu-
ally; statistical analysts. Soil Con-
servation Service. $4,000 to $4,000,
and business machine operators,
81 1,440.
Details are available at the COM
mission, Seventh and F streets NV.
Evening star., 1937-12-23

Pressure continues low over the Green
land Iceland area, Julianehaab. Greenland
29:4 inches while a disturbance is
moving eastward over the Canadian Mari
time Provinces. Grindstone Island, Quebec
29. .46 inches. Another disturbance is NOV
ING slowly northeastward over the east
Gulf States. Jackson, Miss. 80 80 inches
th wniie ,,ds. 25essprs ps is low and falling over
Plateau regions. Salt Lake City. Utah.
29.42 inches. Pressure is high south of
Bermuda. st. Georges. 1920 inches, while
q hlgh.presSure area is moving eastward
over the Lake region. Grand Rapids
Mich. 1924 inches. Pressure continues
,hI Valley, Nome Alaska, 2o;9e inches: During
precipitation over northern sections. rains
and SHOWS in portions of the Pacific States
and the northern Plateau region, and
nmoderately heavy rains in the southern
Ohio Valley Temperatures have risen
flong the Atlantic Coast, but much colder
weather has overspread the Lake region
the middle Mississippi Valley, and the
north portion of the Ohio Valley.
River Report.
Potomac River muddy and Shenandoah
clear at Harpers Ferry: clear at Great
Falls today.
Evening star., 1937-12-23
WHISKY BY TELEGRAPH
CONCERN WINS IN COURT
Gets Temporary Injunction Re-
straining New York A. B. c.
Board From Interfering.

Board From Interfering.
BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Dec 23.-An organ
ization which "telegraphs" whisky as
florists do flowers got a temporary
court order yesterday restraining the
State Alcoholic Beverage Control
Board from interfering with the busi-
ness.
The company, Gifts BY Wire, Inc,
was granted Supreme Court order
directing the board to show cause why
a temporary injunction against it
should not be issue
Max D. Steuer, of counsel to the
concern, told the court that the board
recently issued notice indicating 1t
would bar photographed" liquor, and
that his clients thus were anxious to
act at once to save business with
potentialities of taking in $4,000, 900
to $40 ,00o, 900 year.
Evening star., 1937-01-08

1000 between December 20 and Janu-
ary l.
A few rural school boards in South
Dakota asked to have schools closed
but authorities said there were not
many more influenza cases than the
average for this time of year.
In Milwaukee, DR.. John P. Koehler
city health commissioner. said there
had been % pneumonia and 20 infiu-
enza deaths in the last five days. He
reported: 1.-THE situation is the same
as we had in the epidemic Of 1925
and 1929"
Health authorities in Iowa termed
Evening star., 1937-01-08

situation farther East. which gener-
ally always moves West"
In San Francisco DIR. j. c. Geiger,
city health director, said there was no
"hu" epidemic, but doctors reported
IAN epidemic of upper respiratory in
fections."
Influenza was prevalent throughout
Minnesota, but mainly in mild forms
from which doctors said their patients
were recovering quickly.
The health department of Fargo,
N. OAK, said "flu' cases appeared to
be waning there. with only 100 cases
under treatment as compared with
Evening star., 1937-01-08
Of pearls and Q $45 brooch.

Of pearls and Q $45 brooch.
Another housebreaking victim was
Ruth Murphy, 1915 Tenth street,
whose apartment was "jimmied' and
clothing and . diamond ring. totaline
1924 in value, stolen.
Algernon 8. Gardiner, real estate
dealer, reported q platinum pin set
with diamonds, worth $500, was stolen
from his home at 37l9 Livingston
street during the last week.
Laurence Parks of Ballston, Va,
told police he was robbed of between
$35 and $40 by an armed colored
man who entered his car near Emer-
gency Hospital and forced him to
drive to Fifth street and Constitu-
ton avenue The bandit escaped in
a taxicab, Parks said.
Evening star., 1937-01-08
INFLUENZA CASES
ARE WIDESPREAD
New York and Chicago Are
Hard Hit as Epidemic
Misses South.

~ lie Associated Press.
A sweeping increase in influenza
and pneumonia cases over large Sec
tions Of the United States was re-
ported today by medical authorities.
Unseasonably warm weather was said
by many to be a contributing cause.
New York, hardest hit of any city,
suffered 598 deaths in the last week.
Health Department officials there pre-
dicted the number Of cases. now tabu-
lated jointly at 1914. would begin
showing decrease next week and
that the outbreak Of influenza would
have completed its course Of four or
five weeks before the end Of January.
The influenza and pneumonia death
rate in Chicago continued unabated,
with TO deaths in the 1887 cases re-
ported since December l.
One of the few sections untouched
Is the South. Atlanta reported only
eight "fiu" cases up until December
81, as against "a on the same date
last Winter. New Orleans reported
only six cases since January /, but
authorities were preparing for q
"flu" invasion which they said they
feared visitors might bring"
Miami said 1t had no influenza and
Jacksonville reported only few cases.
Little Rock had from 400 to SOC
cases and influenza was noted to be
on the increase throughout Arkansas
but DR.. w. B. Grayson, State health
officer. said: "It is nothing to get
alarmed over" However, in Monette,
Ark, with I'LL population, $50 cases
caused the closing of schools.
Except for a few mild cases in
Maine, Vermont and Connecticut. nc
abnormal conditions were reported In
New England.
The health commissioner OF
Spokane, Wash, reported an influenza
and pneumonia epidemic second to
1918. only in severity. Hospitals there
were taxed to the limit, with space
available only for emergency cases.
State health authorities in Oregon
said there were no unusual number OF
cases as yet. but I'VE expect them as
the result of the cold snap and the
Evening star., 1937-01-08

Two boxes Of clothing, valued at
$l1s. were stolen from an express
truck owned by Charles E. Hopwood,
jr., Of Baltimore. The merchandise
Evening star., 1937-01-08

the situation mild epidemic" with
1900 cases of flu in Des Moines, "sev-
eral hundred" in Dubuque, 730 in
Sioux City. 1000 school children abb
sent from classes in Cedar Rapids, and
5 per cent of the school children
absent in Marshalltown.
Evening star., 1937-01-08

was removed from the truck when it
stopped for traffic light while en-
route to downtown department store
from the Pennsylvania freight sta.
ton here.
Evening star., 1937-01-08
HOME OF OFFICIAL
ROBBED OF 5000
Silverware and Jewelry Taken
From Residence of R. B.
McWhorter.

McWhorter.
Theft Of $500 worth of silverware
and jewelry valued at nearly $500 from
the home Of Roger B. McWhorter,
1924 Davis street. chief engineer of
the Federal Power Commission, was
among the robberies being investi-
gated by police today.
+ The jewelry. McWhorter told police,
included q $3.50 watch, q SIS string
Evening star., 1937-01-08

Iinseed Imports Gain.
Linseed oil imports are increasing
in Germany.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-15
UNC0M MON
AM E R|CANS
By Elmo g Western
Scott Watson Union
First Woman Painter

" QUILL look in vain for her name
in the average encyclopedia or
dictionary of American biography.
Common as is the name of John
son" in our national annals, Hen
rietta johnson is the least known OF
all of them.
In this era of the ''emancipated
woman" all fields of human en-
deavor are open to feminine invad-
ers. But it was very different zoo
years ago. In those days womans
place was very much Sin the home"
and she might not leave it, even
for excursions into the arts. But
it was in that field that Henrietta
johnson distinguished herself and
by doing so she placed posterity
everlastingly in her debt. For she
was Americas first woman painter.
We know her name but little else.
The date of her death is recorded
in the St. Philips church register
il Charleston, S. c., and that is the
only established date in her history.
BY the social code under which she
lived, "a lady's name should never
appear in public print but twice:
first to announce her marriage and
again to announce her death" Since
she never married that leaves us
only the date of her death-March
9,1728. When and where she was
born and whose daughter she was
is an unsolved mystery.
We know that she was a pastel
painter and in this medium she did
work that rivalled that of some OF
the famous French masters. We
know that she was painting these
pictures between 1907 and 172O,
since the few surviving examples
of her art were made during that
period. And that is a fact which
gives her work Importance. For
in her day the scheme of an heredi-
tary American aristocracy was be-
ing tried out in Carolina and the
people whose portraits she made
were colonial officers and repre-
sentatives of the landed gen.
try whose great plantations sur
founded Charleston.
One of the notables she painted
was Col. William Rhett, colonel OF
the provincial militia, receiver-gen-
eral of the Lords Proprietors and
the man who, in 1718, captured the
famous pirate, Steve Bonnet-a
feat which would make the name
of Rhett forever famous, even II
some of his descendants hadn't done
so in the more recent history OF
South Carolina.
Just how many portraits Henri
eta Johnson painted is not certain,
but the known examples of her work
that have survived for two CEN
turtles are so few that they command
prices which compare favorably
with those paid for the works of the
'old masters" of Europe. Quite
aside from their artistic and his
toric value, they possess high
''rarity value"-because they came
from the brush of Americas first
woman painter.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-15
Pattern 1900

Wonderfully dainty edgings, the
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The top edging Stimulates tatting
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Even beginner will find this pat
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