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The Washington times., 1938-10-06

pulled over to the side of the
road and when one man ap-
preached with a gun in his
hand, Wedekind said, he
started to drive away.
The gunman fired, the bull
let piercing his stomach.
Wedekind lost control of the
car and it plunged over an
embankment overlooking the
Maumee River. The gunmen
then fled, he told officers.
Wedekind said it took him
more than two hours to crawl
to the top of the embank-
ment where a passing motor
list picked him up and took
him to st. Vincent Hospital
in Toledo.
The Washington times., 1938-10-06
Cop ReScIGeS
Man Locked In
Gas Room

Found unconscious in a gas
filled room, Samuel T. Woodbridge,
jr., "a, was saved from death by
Policeman w. F. Porter of No.
precinct today.
Woodbridge, who is married and
lives in the 6400 block of Brook
vile Road, Chevy Chase, was
found in a locked room of a house
in the 300 block of Third st. N.
w., by Walter Bleadsoe, who lives
nearby.
Bleadsoe discovered Woodbridge
unconscious and gas pouring from
a broken jet in the room. He sum-
moned Policeman Porter, who re-
vived Woodbridge before further
aid from the Fire Rescue Squad
arrived.
Woodbridge was removed to Gal
linger Hospital for observation.
The Washington times., 1938-10-06


The suit, filed by counsel for
Stockholders Edgar F. Stiner,
Hama w. Goldstein and Louis Sus-
man, charges that various execu-
tives and other individuals asso-
ciated with LoeW'S are receiving
through percentage payments and
stock options excessive compensa-
ton to the detriment of stock.
holders.
Some existing contracts. accord
ing to the complainants, "defraud
the corporation and the stockhold-
ers illegally dissipate the
profits and are Gin effect and
substance a spoilation, a gift, and
waste of the corporate assets and
property
Among the defendants are
Norma Shearer, widow of Producer
Irving Thalberg, executors and
trustees of his estate; Nicholas M.
Schenck, Arthur M. Loew, David
Bernstein, Louis B. Mayer, David
Warfield, Mervyn LIE Roy, and
Hunt Stromberg.
The Washington times., 1938-10-06
P|R|E FINED
500 and Costs for
Reckless Driving

Harry J. Pirie, SIS, Washington
monument dealer of Chevy Chase,
Md, was fined $100 and costs last
night by Justice of the Peace F.
M. Jennings of Bethesda.
Pirie was charged with reckless
driving and failure to stop after
his car fatally injured John
Keegan, 56, of Bethesda, Septem-
ber g. Keegan died at George
town Hospital nine days after the
accident. Manslaughter charges
placed against Pirie when Keegan
died were dismissed in Rockville
police court Tuesday by Judge
Harold C. Smith, on grounds of
insufficient evidence to prove
"willful intent" or gross negli-
gence."
The Washington times., 1938-10-06
Two TipsY Charges
Cost Man $75in Fines

It was $3.50 for william A.
Brown, 30, of the 1400 block
Columbia Rd. N. w. when he
appeared before Judge John P
Mcmahon in Police Court today,
charged with being drunk last
night.
But it was $50 or so days that
the judge imposed, in view Of the
fact that three days ago Brown
appeared before him on a similar
charge and was given $25 or Is
days. He paid the fine then.
Policeman C. N. Cooke, who
made the arrest, said he found
Brown wrapped around a no
parking sign"
The Washington times., 1938-10-06
Maryland Group
Plans Card Party

SILVER SPRING, Md, Oct. 6.
The Current Comment Club will
give a card party tomorrow eve
ming, 8 p. m, at the Woodside
School to raise funds for the clubs
welfare program.
Mrs. j. E. Benedict, jr., of Lin
den, has been appointed chairman
of the committee on arrange
The Washington times., 1938-10-06
Colby N. Chester
Gets DireCtorshiips

Colby M. Chester, of New York,
chairman of the board of General
Foods Corporation, yesterday was
authorized by the ICC to hold di-
rectorShips in the Lehigh Valley
and the New Jersey, Indiana and
Illinois railroads.
The Washington times., 1938-10-06
Offices Are Moved

Farm Security Administration
offices for the Washington area
have been moved to the Post OF.
flee Building, Silver Spring, Md,
it was announced yesterday.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-08
Laws Plans Tour to Study Courts
D. C.. Justice Will sit In at Detroit and Boston

District Court judges have Sc
lected their newest colleague. JUS
tice Bolitha j. Laws, to survey pre-
trial procedure in Detroit and Bos-
ton courts. preparatory to similar
application here.
Selected by the other nine mem
bers of the court, Justice Laws will
sit in on pre-trial cases in the
Michigan and Massachusetts, cities.
Late yesterday a group of out
standing local lawyers talked with
Judge Laws and drew up series
of suggestions for use in his sur
vey. Participating in the confer
ence were Godfrey L. Munter,
president of the District Bar AS
ISOLATION: WILDER L. Gray, secre-
tary of the bar association: George
P. Hoover, Charles W. Arth, H.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-08

women. A tall, thin boy took me out to dinner,
and he was so scared, and was so scared that
neither one of US said word.
That was my first glimpse of Ned Mclean and
my first sight of Street. Little did dream then
that would move into that house years later,
that my lovely daughter would be born there.
and that it would become real home, full of
children and dogs.
The interesting and delightful people who used
to come to I Street week after week, the serious
and important decisions made in this same house
by several Presidents, would make thrilling
history in itself.
Today could still see Lord Balfour and Lord
Leigh sitting in the ballroom enthralled by a
moving picture was showing-Lord Northciffe,
Lord Reading, my beloved Mrs. Richard Town
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-08
Southern States
Most Dangerous
Area in u. s.

malaria problem in the United
States.
He pointed to the picture Of
Anopheles quadrimaculatus, prin-
cipal carrier of malaria in the
United States, and then estimated
the cost of malaria in this country
as $500 100000 a year-in loss to
patients families from death and
sickness.
Il believe it would be econom-
ical to eXpend about 100000.
900 annually to make malaria
negligible factor in the sick
Continued on Page 80, Col. 81
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-08
Seek Substitute
For Quinine in
Malaria Fight
BY LUCIA GIDDENS

The filter of a mosquito in the
United States. The swoop OF
planes and the crash of shells in
the Orient. How could there pos
sibly be any connection between
them? Yet the relationship, as
remote as it may seem, has gener-
ated a possibility which lends
urgency to research which will be
undertaken by the National Insti-
tute Of Health.
If war in the Orient should
bristle with a blockade that would
cut off shipments of quinine from
the Dutch East Indies, how would
the United States cope with ma
laria?
NOW DEPENDENT
OF course, officials at the Insti-
tute are not alarmiStS about the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-08
Says B0ake Carter

States seem to believe an increased national
defense. backed up by sane foreign policy, are
necessary adjuncts to the neutrality act.
The world savers" brigade boys of the State
Department, and the organized minorities who
want America to be involved in war, cry that the
act is absurd, unworthy of an intelligent nation
The general trend among nations is to isolate
a nation from war. Examples: Switzerland
home of the League of Nations: Holland, home
of the World Court and peace conferences
galore; England, which made deal at Munich
to keep from being drawn into war on the
Continent.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-08
Living in New Era
Voice of New York By Louis SobQl

golf course Skating Ace Martin HarWay and
pinewood bonfire were at hand to give the
necessary inspiration and comfort Cantor had
Harway issued crisp Instructions Bend for
ward" he urged. Keep the hands moving
naturally. Keep your head down-but your eyes
straight ahead. Now-left foot out-now right
It's easy. Left foot noW-now right-swing arms
-there!"
IF HAD more room in this department,
should like the makeup man to set aside
huge COB of white space at this point to indi
cate lapse of time while we were on the ice.
There variations in the falls, though.
Mine might be classified under the following
labels: Spreadeagle, knee and palm, back-head
and spine-bottom, face and ear.
NEITHER WILL discuss the tobogganing, the
belly-whopping on the sleds, the SNOWFALL
duel during which it occurred to Magician Berns
to insert boulders into his ammunition. am
writing this piece for my papers-standing up.
There are sharp hot needles playing hopscotch
in my ankles. Flame is gnawing my left wrist
and there is steel mallet pounding at my
back in swing-rhythm One of my eyes is the
color of fading rosepetal and little black
widows are nipping the inside of my neck
Dear Leona. Take WIRE Ready? "Mr.
Steve flanagan colon please cancel Sun Valley
reservation stop can you arrange Miami Beach
accommodations stop love Sobol"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-08
SITES
FOR CRIPPLED
TO Be DELAYED
Board to Await Fixing
of l94l Budget

Land for two schools for Grip
pied children, described as lone of
the most pressing needs in the
school system today" will not be
bought until the budget for the
1941 fiscal year is prepared.
DR.. Frank w. Ballou, schools
superintendent, reported on the
need of schools for physically
handicapped children at the
Board of Education meeting yes
terday and the board placed the
matter in the hands of its finan-
cha! committee.
LOCATION SUGGESTED
Action was delayed despite the
pressing" Characterization made
by DR.. Ballou. The sites, the board
was told, should be in the vicinity
of Children's and Freedmen's hos
pitfalls.
DR.. Robert A. Mauer, board mem
Der, roundly criticized the board
for taking official action in coming
matters, such as applications for
gasoline filling stations, when
school property was not directly
affected.
The board decided to continue
opposition against hard" liquor
license for Leo j. Rossiter's res
ltaurant, located on Georgia Ave
nue. near Upshur Street Northwest,
in the vicinity of Mcfarland Jun
ior High School.
SAFETY MOVE
DR.. BaIlou reported as an after
math of the falling of ceiling plas-
ter in the Cardozo High School
the Commissioners will appoint a
building inspector for safety in
spections of school structures.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-08
Drug Base
Near japan

Nearly 100000 persons
annually stricken with
malaria in the United
States are almost COM
pletely dependent on the
far-off, poorly defended
Dutch East Indies for the
drug which gives them re-
lief.
This startling fact, re-
vealed today by the
United States Public
Health Service, means that
in case of war in the
Pacific the sufferers from
the dread, enervating dis
ease might be cut off from
the principal remedy.
The malaria cure is qui-
nine, taken from the Gin
chona tree. And 81 per
cent of the worlds quinine
comes from the few Dutch
islands close to Japan.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-08

matter, so one of them merely
said in the quiet tones of a scien-
tist:
1--WE are now dependent on
shipments of quinine. 1t would
seem desirable if we could find
something to make us independ-
ent."
And so synthetic quinine deriva-
tives, to be made in this country,
will be sought in the chemother-
apy laboratory to be set up here
soon at the National Institute.
About January l, work in the lab
oratory will begin on efforts to
find opium-like derivatives. So the
United States will not be depend
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-08

greater latitude without re-
Straints or checks from Con-
gress, is under way.
What a small coterie of
"world savers" in the State
Department desire now-as
well as minority organizations
which believe American citi-
zens should police the world
in the euphonious name of
international morality" o.
Is to change the neutrality act
so that it may be applied to
the war in China; also lift
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-08
; Fur Coats Stolen
From Parked Truck

Cold blasts won't bother the
girl friend of one thief this win
ter. A truck parked at Seventh
and K Streets Northwest, was
robbed of fox collar coat valued
at $50, a Hudson seal coat worth
$3.50 and mink coat retailing at
5000, the driver, Percy Roach, of
the 800 block of Twenty-third St.,
told police.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-08

longings out of the old I Street
house.
I remember so well the first
time I ever went inside of that
house. It was a four-story red
brick building in those days,
very narrow and tall.
The night I walked in there
to my first dinner party I was
q fat, ugly little girl, with my
hair in pigtails down my back
and, believe me, I was a scared
little girl when I looked around
and saw all the beautiful
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-08
FEAST
1000 to Eat Turkey
At Parish Hall

More than 1000 persons late
this afternoon and tonight will
gather around tables loaded with
roast turkey and all the trimmings
at Sacred Heart Parish Hall, Six
tenth Street and Park Road
Northwest.
Last night approximately $500
dined on the same fare. To serve
the thousands of dinners $50 per-
sons joined in ladling, carving and
waiting table. Proceeds go to the
church fund.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-08

ent on the Orient for pain-killing
drugs. The quinine quest will have
to wait for further funds.
From the desk where DR.. L. L..
Williams ,jr., of the United States
Public Health Service, has
charge of malaria investigation,
he drew pictures, charts and sta
tiSticS to show the scope of the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-08

the alleged peace of the
mountain heights and among
us were Comedian Eddie Can
tor and Col. Nicholas Blair,
Comdr. William Hardy and
DR.. Leo Michel, Prestidigitator
Charles Sutherland Berns and
Concert Pianist Wasserman.
The retreat is operated by
an energetic young woman
known as Jennie Grossinger.
Mr.. Eddie Cantor had come
fully equipped for the rigors
of mountain winter. Com
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-08
Congress Retains PouUer

A MEXICAN citizens should understand fully
IA that Congress did not legislate neutrality for
the nation-despite the attempts to smear" it
on false charge of so doing. The Congress
still retains its constitutional power to declare
war and still may commit America to one side
or another
The legislation which the propagandists want
to change now is designed solely to keep private
citizens neutral so long as the nation wishes to
remain neutral
Congress insisted that the act should apply
equally to all belligerents in given war.
But Congress also understood that no matter
what measures we took, or how equally we
applied them, actual operation would not neces-
sarily be equal to all belligerentS.
Those inequalities are due to matters entirely
beyond our contrcl-a fact the world savers"
never try to explain
Copyright Ledger Syndcate)
(BoGke Carriers opinions are his o1Dr and not
necessarily those of The Washington TtmesJ
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-08
How Mdldrid Starts

"MalariOuS areas in the
United States are usually man.
made" declares DR.. L. L.
VILLA S, jr. LAUNDERING,
transportation and water
power interests have created
most of the serious breeding
places of the transmitting mos
quito.
However, water-pOwer pro-
ducerS have recognized that
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-08

On his return, Justice Laws will
report to Justices Daniel O'Don-
oghue and Oscar r. Luhring, who
make up the courts committee
which has been inquiring into pre-
trial procedure.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-08

poser Jimmy McHugh, father Of his son-ln-IaW,
had donated pair of sneakers and wind
breaker-and in addition two of his ace script
writer's were at hand to provide soaring quips.
The rest of u.s. city effetes, sledded down to
the little hamlet of Liberty and there, in an
Army and Navy store, purchased galoshes, cor
duroy breeches plaid shirts and sheepskin
coats and other sundries of comfort. My own
individual touch was neat hunting cap in plaid
with ear laps. There is photograph of myself
in costume-and I am trying desperately to buy
back the negative.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-08

malaria control is economical
and they practice it; highway
builders are following suit. 1t
is unecOnOmical to impOund
water without providing for
control of the malaria-trans-
hitting mosquito. Malaria con-
troll must include not only the
removal of existing hazards,
but the prevention of new
ones"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-08
Restaurant Delegates
End 3-Day Session

The Southeastern Regional Res
taurant Convention, which opened
here Monday at the Mayflower,
closed last night with a banquet
in the grand ballroom.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-08

THE AIRS CHILL stabbed ears and cheeks and
a. underfoot were ice and snow. A score Of us
had fled Manhattan's boisterous weekend for
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-08
JUSTICE LAWS
Going on Study Tour

Mason WEIGH, Frank F. Nesbit.
Edmund L. Jones, Alvin L. New
myer, H. Winship Wheatley, Henry
I. Quinn and Percy H. Marshall.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-08
My Say

WHAT character and real personality house
" that has once been a real home acquires
through the years! realized this so fully today
when I went down to get the last personal be-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-08
11But''

GAN FRANCIsCO.-Thep propaganda campaign
~ to sell the United States public that it needs
new neutrality act which will give the President
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-08

the Spanish arms embargo. They camouflage
their intentions with sanctimonious bunk about
how the proposed changes would make the nation
really neutral.
With sophistry, State Department world
savers declare that the public does not want to
risk getting into war by playing world policeman.
but that world events have proved the folly of
tying the Presidents hands by mandatory
neutrality
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-08

Notices on Ice Skates
TT WAS COLONEL BLAIR's suggestion that we
take to ice on the duck pond, which lies
directly in the path of the fourth tee of the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-08


crossed the Great Divide.
Happy and Busy Life
IVES, the old house on Street has had happy
me so strongly when I went upstairs, to thank
the nice man who is in charge of it now, and
express my appreciation that such good care was
taken of it. He looked at me and said: Mrs.
Mclean. there is such an atmosphere in this
house we could not do anything but take care of
it. We all feel it and there must have been lot
of joy and happiness here"
This about finished me and made dive for
the front door.
Driving back to Friendship, suddenly realized
there is much more in life than just big house.
They are nice to entertain your friends in and
my many years in I Street were a real joy to me,
but honestly don't think could go back and
live there today.
When I think of the unemployed, the poor
hungry souls who need food and help, it doesn't
seem right for any one person to spend money
keeping up house the size of that one
Living in New Era
TT is new era We are living in now and it is
a very good thing. We are all trying to take
better care of our feowmen. We realize their
wants and their needs. Humanity is doing more
each year to adjust and make living conditions
more equal for the many instead of the few.
I loved the Street house. I will always love
the thought of it, but life has taught me there
are so very many more worth while things than
beautiful palace to live in.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-08
Object of Neutrality Act

TNASMUCH as one of the most determined
4 efforts since the beginning of the World War
in 1914 is being made in the United States today
to involve this country in the affairs of both
Europe and Asia. let us examine the neutrality
act as it stands today.
The object of the act is to aid the United
States in keeping out of future wars by eliminat-
ing some of the factors that pulled us into wars
Of the past.
With this act. many people in the United
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-08
THURSDAY, DEC. 8, 1888
By EUalw Walsh Mclean

send and so many, many others, who have
crossed the Great Divide.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-08

(BoaEe Carriers opinions are his o1Dn and not
necessarily those of The Washington TtmeSJ
Evening star., 1938-04-21
POWELL ROGERS
SUCCUMBS At 81
Department Store Official
Had Been III Nearly
Two Months.

Powell Rogers, 81, of l4l2 Newton
street NV. a floor manager at Wood
ward & Lothrop department store,
died last night in Georgetown Hos
pital after an illness of nearly two
months
Mr.. Rogers had been employed at
the store for the last 35 years Pre-
viously he had been with Lord g.
Taylor in New York
A member of prominent old Vir-
ginia family, Mr. Rogers was a great
grandson of Col Levin Powell, mem
ber of the Continental Congress and
founder of Middleburg. Va. which he
named after giving so acres of land
for it's establishment.
Formerly of Middleburg, Mr.. Rogers
was the son of the late Mr.. and Mrs.
Rogers of "Old Clifton" Middleburg.
His mother formerly was Miss Rosalie
Dalrymple Powell. Mr. Rogers was a
grandson of Hamilton Rogers.
Active in the Masonic fraternity.
Mr.. Rogers was a member of Lafay-
cite Lodge, No. 10, F. A. A. M. He is
survived by q brother, Robert Lee
Rogers, this city, and several first
cousins.
Funeral services Will be held Satur-
day at Hines funeral home, 290l Four
teenth street NV, at 10 am. Burial
will be in the family burial plot at
Mlddleburg, Va, at pm.
Evening star., 1938-04-21
HIT mrnturtun1.

NORRIS, SUSAN AND CHARLES n.
nns oe G SUSAN Gs Y hs SoRRs vha b, stt
Ias5 and our dear father rea" cHARLEs H.
NORRIS. who left us six years ago. April
a. 1882.
Deep in our hearts is picture
OF our dear parents. CONS to rest:
In memory frame we shall keen it.
For YOU both were Of the best.
We miss your kind and CHEEKY ways,
We miss YOU when ue need friend
For on you dear parents, We could always
LOVING CHILDREN. CHARLES ELDR1DGE
NoRRI5 AND MARY NORRIS Lam
sHFRBERT. MAURICE CHLbs. In
MAUFcE cH1Lbs SGa sHERBERf fna p'r who he'nHr De-.
21 1887.
One year has passed since that sad day
But in our hearts ne Will ever live.
A heart as pure IS soid;
His memory will never grow old.
Al home in the beautiful hills of God
In the valley of rest so fair.
Some, time. somewhere, when our work is
u1y Wth nrvoryS 10y ys Nil nee, u, BIN there
SMITH. KATIE. tribute of love in
memory Of my beloved mother. KATIE
SMITH; who entered eternal rest one year
HER DEVOTED DAUGHTER. BERTHA
INGRAM
TURNER. BETSY AND JAMES H. De-
parted this life April ~ 1889 and Feb
rllary 3, 1892. respectively. BETSY TUR-
NER and JAMES H. TURNER
Dear mother and cad No one but God
knows how lonely the years have been In
lfe I loved you dearly. in death I do the
same
YOUR LONELY DAUGHTER. MARGIELEE
Young. ISABEL s. Sacred to the mem
ory of our dear mother. ISABEL S.
YOUNG. who left US one wear ago TODAY
April 81 1887. THE CHILDREN .