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Evening star., 1937-11-09
AIR CONDITIONING AID
TO HEALTH TO BE TOPIC

Recent progress in the treatment
of disease by air conditioning will
be discussed by Prof. c. p. Yaglou,
department of industrial hygiene,
Harvard School of Public Health, be-
fore the District Chapter Of the Amer
ican Society of Heating and Ventilat-
ing Engineers tomorrow evening in
Schneider's Restaurant.
Prof. Yaglou will report on research
into the effect of air conditioning
on comfort and health. He also will
deal with specific diseases affected
favorably. He is an authority on
the physiological aspects of air con-
ditioning.
Evening star., 1937-11-09

in the insurance business the asso-
citation must be licensed by the Dis
trict Insurance Department and must
comply with the rules for maintain
ing a capitalization and reserve
fund.
The position of the National Chiro-
practic Association was made known
through its executive director, DR..
E. M. Gustafson. In his application
for hearing he wrote the head of
the Federal board as follows:
I'VE feel that the elimination of
chiropractic and other legahzed sys-
TENS of drugless therapy from this
plan is equivalent to the establish
ment Of dictatorship in healing.
We do not question the principle of
socialized medicine, but most strenu-
ously object to the adoption of one
branch of the healing art as being
sufficiently conclusive for the needs
Of any mass health program.
Narrow Precedent Established.
This plan takes away from the in
dividual the constitutional right to
the doctor of his choice. 1t estab-
fishes narrow precedent, since II
overlooks the developments and bene-
fits of drugless methods. which are
preferred by approximately one-third
Of our population"
DR.. Gustafson, on behalf of his
association, petitioned Mr.. Fahey "for
an oportunity to present in detail the
facts supporting its position on this
vitality important question"
Meantime the G. H. A. clinic for
employees of the F. H. L. B. B. and
its affiliates went forward into the
second week of medical practice, TAX
ing care of its more than 1000 men,
bers
Evening star., 1937-11-09
TRAFFIC DEATHS
IN DISTRICT MOUNT
TO 50 DURING YEAR
Frank M. Crawford Latest
Victim as He Walks Into
Side of Auto.
TOTAL AT THIS TIME
FOR 1886 WAS IL
Another Dies of Injuries After
Being Struck by Car-0thers
Are Hurt.
picture on Page Az

Frank M. Crawford, 66-year-old in
mate OF the Little Sisters Of the Poor
home for the aged at 220 H street NE,
died in Casualty Hospital early today
of injuries received last night when
he walked into the side of an automo-
bile near Fifth and K streets NE.
His death was the eighty-ninth re-
District so far this year. The toll was
II at this time last year.
Albert Powell, 81, colored, Brent
wood, Md, also died in Casualty this
morning Of severe head injuries re-
ceived when knocked down by an
automobile as he was crossing Rhode
Island avenue near Henry street Sum-
day night. Prince Georges County
police said Herbert A. Davis, Hyatts-
Vile, Nd, driver Of the car, was held
on reckless driving charge.
Held on Technical Charge.
Police said Mr.. Crawford walked
from between two parked automobiles
into the rear fender of passing car
driven by John H. Mock, HOS Queen
street NE. He was taken to Casualty
at 6 pm. and died of head injuries at
ESQ am. today. MIR. Mock was held
on technical charge of colliding for
action by the coroner.
Mr.. Crawford, a former stone-cutter
and window-washer, had lived and
worked as general handyman at the
home operated by the Little Sisters of
the Poor for the last five years. His
wife, Mrs. Mary Todd Crawford, and
two daughters, who had gone on the
stage, were said to be living in Ingle-
wood, Calf.
The most seriously injured of other
accident victims during the last "a
hours was Otis Smothers, 28, of 705 D
street S. E., whose automobile plunged
down an embankment beside bridge
into Hunting Greek, just south of Alex
andria on U. s. highway No. i,
about 6 am. today. He was treated
at Alexandria Hospital for severe
cuts about the mouth and possible
head and internal injuries.
Found Unconscious.
Frank Kolarik of Baltimore was
said by police to have found Mr..
Smothers lying unconscious beside his
overturned automobile, with his legs
under water and his head on the creek
bank, as he walked along the highway.
The Alexandria Rescue Squad took
the injured man to the hospital.
James ]. Lewis, S, OF 211 S street
Sc, was bruised when struck by an
automobile near his home yesterday
afternoon. Lawrence w. vanarsdall,
II, a soldier stationed at Fort Myer,
received a fractured right leg, and
Antonio Leleaffero, IS, Of 308 street
NV, . fractured right wrist, in auto
mobile collisions.
Evening star., 1937-11-09
tenon Parents You May Have Meeting

part OF the regular educational sys-
tenn was made to q classroom
packed with mothers and teachers
representing the various local asso-
Citations, after Mrs. Joseph N.
Saunders, q discussion leader, had
pointed out that the real weak
ness of the parent-teacher move
ment Is that parents who need it
most do not cooperate.
The national president told of Q
case where compulsory attendance
Of parents at PIT. A. meetings was
enforced by threats Of dropping the
child from school If the parent did
not come.
: believe me, the attendance ct
those meetings was excellent" said
Evening star., 1937-11-09
BAND CONCERT

BY the Soldiers Home Band in Stan
ley Hall this evening at $50. John
3. M. Zimmerman, handmaster, An
ton Pointner, assistant.
Program.
March, "The Emperor's Body
I Guard" -Meinicke
Overture, "The Wedding Of Figaro"
Mozart
6olos for cello-(a) ave Maria"
(b) "Eventide" e"--Gruenwald
Musician Leon Saylor, soloist.
Excerpts from musical comedy, 1.-THE
County Of Luxembourg" -Lehar
Popular numbers
"Chili-Bom-Bom" Donaldson
"A Chinese Lullaby Bowers
Waltz song trequested), "By the
Old Ohio Shore Earle
Finale '"The Elks" (B. p. E.)--Lake
"The Star-Spangled Banner"
Evening star., 1937-11-09

male members of the family ut
the meetings by the simple expedi-
ent of threatening to penalise the
children whose fathers did not ap-
pear. The children did the rest.
Robert L. Haycock, assistant su-
perintendent Of schools, urged
selling" the schools to the parents
through the children and empha-
sized the importance Of the school
principal in parent-teacher reaa-
tions.
The conference, continuing this
afternoon and tomorrow, was greet
ed by Dean w. c. Reudiger, pro-
vost Of the university, and DR..
Frank w. Ballou, superintendent Of
schools.
Evening star., 1937-11-09

Mrs. Pettengill, "but, Of course, that
is not always possible"
It was suggested to the group
that a great many parents stayed
away because the meetings are 50
boring" and that the quality of
the sessions should be improved.
Mrs. Riley Elgen, president Of the
Mount Pleasant Citizens Associa-
ton, pointed out that poor attend
ance also may be due to the pecu-
liar situation In Washington where
q great many of the mothers are
employed.
The mothers also discussed means
Of Turing fathers to the meetings.
One principal, it was brought
out, had q huge attendance Of the
Evening star., 1937-11-09
SEVEN MEN FIGHT
GAMBL|NGCHARGE
Jury Quickly Selected to Try
NuckoIs-Case May
Take 2 Days.

Seven men, including the WELL
known Carroll Peyton (Nupby) Muck
OILS. battled for their freedom in Dis
trict Court today as the Government
sought to prove them professional
gamblers
They were the first to face a jury
of the 12< indicted last July in the
most sweeping blow yet struck at
horse race betting in the Capital.
Their trial began late yesterday
before Justice Jesse C.. Adkins. A
jury of 10 men and women was
selected without single challenge
from either the prosecution or the
defense Assistant United States
Attorney Samuel F. Beach estimated
the trial would take about two days.
Besides Nuckols, those on trial are
Moe Morgapstein, Robert A. Murray,
Anthony T. Costello, Lawrence F.
Pisani, Harry c. Adams and George
w. Godfrey.
Calvin M. Green, a rookie police
man, whose first assignment was the
gambling investigation, was the only
witness up to noon today.
He testified of a third visit to the
alleged gambling establishment said
to have been run by the seven de-
PENDANTS at 1880 Fourteenth street
NV. He said he saw Morganstein
for the first time on that occasion.
Morganstein took two bets from him,
he declared.
Yesterday afternoon he told the
jury he had seen Nuckols, Murray,
Costello, Pisani and Adams in the sec
ond-foor room, which, he said, was
used to take horse race bets and dis
seminate racing information. God
frey alone Of the seven was not placed
in the room.
Two Fail to Appear.
Adams and Godfrey failed to ap-
pear when the case was called for
trial yesterday morning, and Justice
Adkins authorized Bondsman William
P. Ryan to go out and seize them.
Ryan produced them In court when
the afternoon session was convened,
and Justice Adkins later agreed to
allow them liberty on $4,000 bail
each.
The defendants were represented
by Attorneys Harry T. Whelan, Will
liam B. O'Connell and William A. Gal
lagher.
The. charge against them arose out
of raid March IN ~, 102n Ho,,r
teenth street NV, where Inspector
William E. Helmes and his men said
they found an elaborate gambling es-
tablishment in full swing.
The rail was one OF the sensa-
tional series of IS made by special
police squadrons last spring. Thirty
five indictments resulted, involving
124 persons, Of whom were police
men.
Evening star., 1937-11-09
GARNER TO BE LATE

Vice President Garner and Speaker
Bankhead are setting an example for
Senate and House members who are
waiting until the last minute before
returning for the special session.
Congress will convene next Monday,
but Garner is not expected before
the end Of this week. Speaker Bank
head probably win arrive Thursday.
Evening star., 1937-11-09
WORKMAN IS INJURED
BY Refrigerator BLAST
Unit Explodes as He Makes Re-
pairs, Exposing Eyes to Sui
q =
phur Dioxide Gas.

Explosion Of refrigerator unit on
which he was working today resulted
In severe burns for Charles Knudsen,
%, of 1908 o street NV, whose eyes
were exposed to sulphur dioxide gas.
An employe at shop at TIC H street
NV, Mr.. Knudsen was working on the
evaporator unit when the accident oc-
CURED. A piece of flying metal struck
him on the forehead and his face was
:enveloped by the fumes.
Evening star., 1937-11-09
Mule Rider Forfeits SO.

James William Peters, 50, KenSing-
ton, Md, arrested on tentative charge
Of reckless driving Saturday night
when he rode his mule in circles at
Nebraska avenue and Military road
NV, today forfeited $40 collateral he
posted when his charge was changed
to intoxication.
Evening star., 1937-11-09
Actress Takes Vacation.

PALM SPRINGS, Calf, Nov. . up.
ON Miriam Hopkins
latest movie Is marking time while
she and her husband, Anatol Litvak,
and her adopted son Dion are on va
cation here.
Miss Hopkins had to stop work a
women Have . Way" to take rest.
Evening star., 1937-11-09

~ ARENTS some day may have
l. to attend Parent Teacher
meetings as part Of the city
i system Of education under
the Board Of Education.
This suggestion was made and
predicted as . possibility today by
Mrs. J. K. Pettengill, president Of
the National Congress Of Parents
and Teachers. at the opening ses-
sion Of . two-day parent-teach
institute sponsored jointly by the
District Congress Of Parents and
Teachers and the George WASH
ington University at the Uni
verAty.
Mrs. Pettengill's suggestion that
parent education ahould be made
Evening star., 1937-11-09
SIS AND COST OF PLATES
KEEP TAGS FROM 5000
Traffic Director Reveals Warrants
Requiring Collateral Outstand-
ing Against That Number.

A s. bill, in addition to the cost of
the tags, stands between nearly 5000
washington motorists and their 1898
license plates, Trafnc Director VIII
liam A. Van Duzer revealed yesterday
IN pointing out warrants requiring that
much collateral are outstanding against
that many drivers.
Hundreds of other motorists who
nave not notified police of q change
IN their address also will not receive
applications for the new tags until
they report where they now live.
Mr.. Van Duzer said more than 10O.-
600 tag applications already have been
mailed out, with the remainder sched-
uled to be sent out this week.
Evening star., 1937-11-09
Wage-Hour Bill Assailed,

The National Cooperative Council
denounced the administrations wage
and hour bill yesterday, contending it
would cause = large increase in
farmers production and distribution
costs. ~ =
Evening star., 1937-11-09
"A. A. u. w. LECTURE

Mrs. Ahrens to illustrate Talk
on South America.
"A Visit to the Coast of South
America" will be the subject of an
illustrated lecture to be given by Mrs.
T. P. Ahrens tonight at 8:15 O'Clock
in the lounge Of the American Asso-
citation Of Women's clubhouse.
: The lecture Is sponsored by the
travel group of the association.
Evening star., 1937-10-19

wants most-balance the budget"
About the same time another official
of equally high ability, and having
much the same kind of relation to
the administration, Mr.. Jesse II Jones,
chairman of the Reconstruction FL
nance Corporation, said in speech at
Houston, Tex-I quote newspaper
account-that he knows beyond ques-
ton of doubt that the President is
determined to balance the budget"
One wonders if there is any signifi-
canoe in the indirectness Of these two
assurances that Mr.. Roosevelt really
means to balance the budget. One
feels like adapting Priscilla's question
to John Alden: why don't you speak
for yourself, Franklin; if you really
intend to balance the budget, why
don't you say so yourself?"
Mind Reading Frees President.
Saying it indirectly gives rise to
questioning doubt. A Skeptical news
paper remarks that 'it is going rather
far when Government official under
take to tell the people what they
think the President has on his mind
This kind of mind reading, of course
leaves the President gloriously free to
change his mind, or simply to point
out that his spokeSmen were in error. d
AS to that, we can be sure of one
thing; Mr.. Kennedy and Mr.. Jones
are fortnight men with exact minds
and absolute intellectual integrity
When they say they think that Mr.
Roosevelt intends to balance the budg-
ct, they believe that to be the case
| Otherwise they wouldn't say it.
Maybe Mr.. Roosevelt recalls the
five previous occasions when he said
it himself, but it didn't come true
Recalling that, maybe Mr.. Roosevelt
thi'.ks that, as respects balancing the
budget, assurances given by others
might be more convincing than as
surances given by himself. Some
yearas ago in a Nebraska court room
a farmer was being croSs-questioned
about the repute Of a neighbor farm
er. What" asked the hostile lawyer
lis this farmers reputation for keep
ing his promises?" Well" said the
witness, II know this-when he wants
to get his hogs to come in from
the field to supper he has to gel
his hired man to call EN-"
But Mr.. Roosevelt's annual state
ments about the budget for the past
| five years were not really promises
If the public mistakenly thought they
were that is because Mr.. Roosevelt
in his tone and manner has an ex-
panSive persuasiveness which cause!
the public to think he has said more
| than he actually has. In a phrase
once used by Mr.. Arthur Krock Of
| the New York Times-one of the mos
illuminating remarks ever made abou
Mr.. Roosevelt-"Mr. Roosevelt has {
way of creating an impression with
out making a commitment"
You listen to Mr. Roosevelt over thu
radio, and you think to yourself
Evening star., 1937-10-19

| gingerly with forceps. 1t is potent stuff.
though it looks like ordinary table
salt. She peers at it daily behind the
protective ground glass OF the electro
scope. Emitting three kinds OF rays.
the equipment is set up only To test
the effective gamma rays. An un-
known preparation Of radium is thus
tested with a known standard. The
drift Of the gold leaf in the electro
scope. the speed with which It auto
matically unbalances. tells the story
of the strength of the preparation.
The Bureau Of Standards then puts its
stamp on the tested product, and the
radium goes on its healing way to the
hospitals Of the Nation.
1t requires no stretch Of the imagi-
nation TO envision the romance Of past
discovery behind all this utilitarlan
testing. The word "radium" conjures
| the name of Marie Curie, who dis
covered and named it in 1898. Against
superhuman odds, stunning the world
and its acclaim, she isolated tiny
quantity of radium salt from tons OF
pitchblend ore. From the Belgian
Congo it came and still comes. New
ores from the Great Bear Lake region
in Canada are bringing new supplies,
cutting the price a bit.
1t is still not exactly cheap. A
gram. that can be vizualized, so I am
told. as about the size of Is grains OF
wheat. now costs $4,000. Constance
Torrey tests from 10 to II grams a
year.
| There must be something IN the
very nature of radium that makes par
ticipators in its mystic rays flee from
publicity. Miss Torrey is print and
photograph shy. She calls her work
routine" SCOTS at possible danger.
though radium has the power to shake
diseased tissue as terrier would a rat.
1t can burn we'll tissue.
an my II years I have not been
put out of the laboratory for i'll
health" Miss Torrey said simply.
Taking life as it comes" is Miss Tor
rey's philosophy. She is kindly, filing
in the crevices of her leisure with acts
of unselfsh devotion, so her friends
say.
Her adult life has been spent at the
Bureau of Standards testing radium.
She was born in Williamstown. Mass,
graduated at Smith College in 1920.
Evening star., 1937-10-19

The of in
looking we'll
with the knowl
colleagues has
safe that the negotiations
the international
stage her delegation has all the ready for chapter two
before
who stands enough pretty good closeup
treaty
handle situation.
affair,
Russia, aren't Signatory to the treaty.
Anyhow, the SinoJapanese affair OF the
problem World peace.
nations
situation, participating
of Kennedys coming report which, pre-
dcted will the Merchant
particularly painful
Black.
former from still pride his
that
MIR. Kennedy.
OF course the the report secret
Kennedy something
1. The Writen ii
cludes the biggest shipping lines
ton in Government subsidy contracts
instance, limits
official shipping company gear
keep the great United Fruit Co out, II nothing else did
capital investment by the shippers
Evening star., 1937-10-19
u. S. DECLARES TRUCE
IN WAR OVER 2 CANNON
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
A truce was declared today in a
controversy over the proposed removal
of two historic cannon from the CEN
tury-old arsenal at Watevliet, N. Y,
to the battlefield at Yorktown, Va,
scene of CORVALLIS surrender.
A. E. Demaray, acting director of
the National Park Service, which is
restoring the BATTLEFIELD as a national
shrine, said authorities at Watervliet
would be given a reasonable time"
in which to establish ownership of
the cannon.
The two guns were included in a
group of 13 transferred recently by the
War Department to the Park Service
for removal to Yorktown, where they
figured in the siege a century and
a half ago.
Demaray said if the claim that
the Government did not own the
guns we're substantiated the Park
Service would abandon its plan to re-
move them to Yorktown.
Evening star., 1937-10-19
Budget Mind Readers
Statements by Kennedy and Jones Fail to Commit
President on Balancing.

"That's fine. He's going to do so
and So" And you reflect to yourself
that you have been unfair to the
President. He's really going to do the
right thing But the next morning
you read the address carefully as it
appears in the newspapers, and you
find Mr.. Roosevelt has not quite said
what you thought he said. News
paper print gives the bald words with
out the persuasive aura of Mr.. Roose-
velt's tone and manner.
Maybe that's one reason Mr.. Roose-
welt doesn't like the newspapers and
omitted them in his most recent fire.
side talk when he named the radio
and the motion picture" but not the
newspapers as the mediums of lin
formation" and the forums of "dls-
cussion and debate" Mr.. Roosevelt
dearly loves TO make an agreeable
impression-it gives him glow Of
pleasurable benevolence. And it makes
him indignant to have the agreeable
impression he has made subjected to
cold analysis BY persons or news
papers.
These five statements Of Mr.. Roose-
welt about balancing the budget were
not really promises. The first one. in
his campaign of 1892, was the climax
of fierce Democratic assault on Mr..
Hoover for not balancing the budget.
Perhaps the fierceness of those at
tacks on Mr.. Hoover for not balanc-
ing the budget at a time when we
were still in the depths of depression
was merely one of the brutalities of
politics. The implication that Mr..
Roosevelt would Immediately proceed
to balance the budget was largely an
impression growing out of the picture
Mr.. Roosevelt drew of MS horror OF
ar unbalanced budget.
Pledged to Economy.
Mr.. Roosevelt's second statement,
in 1888, was that he was pledged to
immediate economy" The third one,
in 1884, was that I'VE should plan to
have a definitely balanced budget for
the third year of recovery" His
fourth statement, in 1885. was that
he actually had balanced budget,
except for expenditures to give work
to the unemployed" His fifth, in
| 1886. was that "a balanced budget is
on the way"
Those were not definite promises
made; they we're merely impressions
conveyed But We should not carry
extenuation of Mr.. Roosevelt too far.
The number and importance Of state
ments he has made and courses he
has laid down but not followed is too
considerable to be passed over. 1t
| is a fact that Mr.. Roosevelt is a man
who, let us say, conspicuously lacks
| continuity of intention.
AS to the present occasion, all we
can know is that when Mr.. Roosevelt
told Messrs. Kennedy and Jones that
he was going to balance the budget
| be meant it, Otherwise they would
not have said what they did. Whether
| Mr.. Roosevelt continues TO mean it is
something we shall know after We
have seen what he does during the
coming session of Congress.
| Copyright. 1870
Evening star., 1937-10-19

production scarcity
basis control linked
prices as wen as
upheld the right the in
goods Roosevelt that these prices have been
brought but Likelihood OF an
abandonment system
Since an economic system regmnted
economy argue
that agriculture right down the line
then to the professors
retailers to the fdnAy pocHetoooE
that Mr. Wallace subject TO
protect the
respect to the
retraced The books OF
public their pottS
utilities should be reduced to fair service
words production foodstufs fb
subsidize
clothing than under present system OF home relief
If
electricity education there
At since organized food
considered from the welfare
individual be protected
worthy
and until
solutions of millions of
Not
ruthless political able avoid
No
designed the interests of the farming group
confront this than system of
proheerng the necessities
a minority great
farmers
national policy food pensveand still
Evening star., 1937-10-19

industry both production and prices
Henri naoue n he
automatically problems
he Of the uorld
political representatives
riH the
NTH the tariff lobbyists rightly crttcises
the
things
Evening star., 1937-10-19

the
will the
simple distinguished foreigner
the President
a revolutionary
Embassy
S
S in
to
he'd Ike
partruent then Whpe
probably.
Preside kno prince
North Amer Newspap nc)
Evening star., 1937-10-19

change Commits
sion. At the same
time Mr. Kenned.
Is relatively con-
sercative, COM
pared with other
persons who have
t h e Presidents
ear.
Mr.. Kennedy
one day last week,
after a talk with
t h e President,
emerged and said,
as quoted in the
n e " S p a p e r S :
THAT really is
/ he thing he
Evening star., 1937-10-19
What's Back of 1t All
World Conference, With u. S. at Head of Table,
Seen After Nine-Power Farley.
RY H. r BAUKHAGF

H
parley America
something much bigger behind It,
q wel-informed and dlneed quarter s
the this prediction:
world detectives
probably called
take well toward the head OF the table
improbable that such a has yet been specifically
Britain the United States
possibility but enough has
cohe the idea
substantial pous Dtsh.