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Evening star., 1938-09-12
BANK BUILDINGS
SALE CONFIRMED
Plea to Delay Deal for Old
Federal American Home
Is Refused.

Justice Joseph w. Cox in District
Court today declined to delay the sale
of the old Federal-American Bank
Building at Fourteenth and G streets
NV. by the receiver to the Hamilton
National Bank
The jurist signed an order confirm
ing the sale and authorizing Cary A..
Hardee, receiver Of the Federal-Amer-
ican Bank &, Trus. Co., 1896 New
York avenue NV. to draw up the
necessary papers and take steps to
consummate the sale for s765, 900.
Herman Cohen and Ben Cohen,
trading as Cohen Bros. tried to delay
the sale. showing the court they are
the owners and holders of receiver
certificates aggregating $57.285. .96.
They contended the Hamilton Banks
offer was far below the real value Of
the property. which. they said, had
been appraised in 1885 by w. L. Beale
and H. L. Rust, ST.. for 1880, 900.
Further, they contended that the pres
ent appraisement fxed the values OF
the properties at at least $4,000.
appeared before Justice Cox and made
his argument today The receiver was
represented by Attorney Herbert S.
Ward, while the Hamilton National
Bank was represented by Attorney
Roger j.. Whiteford
Justice Cox, who confirmed a tenn
porary order on August %, looking to
the f1nal sale, said he was not disposed
to halt 1t In the absence Of a better
offer, and that the structure can
properly be used only for a bank
building.
For five years, the court was in
formed on behalf of the receiver, the
controller of the currency of the
Treasury Department and the re-
ceiver for the Federal-American Bank
& Trust Co. sought purchaser. but
apart from the Hamilton National
Bank, there has been none forthcom-
ing.
Mr.. Whiteford told Justice Cox the
Hamilton National Bank cannot 20 on
paying the present rent on the build
ing; that it had = five.year lease which
expired September l.; that 1t wants q
permanent home and that the Hamil-
ton Bank is the only customer in the
District for this bank building, as
every other bank is adequately housed
and no new bank is to be chartered
| here.
Evening star., 1938-09-12
SMALL CLAIMS
COURT EFFECTIVE
Cation Completes 5 Months
As Judge - Total of
9,138 Cases Filed.

In completing his five-month term
as first judge Of the new Small Claims
and Cancellation Branch Of Municipal
Court, Judge Nathan Cation said yes
terday in letter to Attorney General
Cummings that summary of the first
five months work in the court tells
a remarkable story of new type Of
judicial service which has eliminated
those procedural and actual barriers
which had hitherto made the courts
inaccessible, for all practical purposes,
to a large group Of our citizens"
Judge Cation wrote that he was
proud Of the privilege of helping ad-
minister law dedicated by Congress
to the high social objective Of bringing
the court closer to all the people, pro.
yiding assistance to needy litigants q.
. matter OF right and not Of grace
arranging the hearing of small claims
on humane basis and Kidding Judi.
cial procedure of forbiddins expense
and exhaustive delays"
The report stated that 9l38 case.
have been filed thus far, involvine
claims Of $239.595. The Judge ef.
fectively conciliated more than Isl
cases, and the clerk prepared l,10s
claims for individual suitors, a servic,
not available to corporations. tn,
clerk also interviewed 2,672 persons
rendering them AN entirely new kline
OF public service in the courts.
Twenty-one night sessions were helc
for the benefit Of litigants who woulc
have found it too dificult and expen.
sive to attend court in the day time.
Judge Cation was to serve the five.
month term only to get the court
started in operation, and from now or
the other Municipal Court judges viii
take monthly turns.
Evening star., 1938-09-12

passed down through intermarriages In
restricted neighborhood His own
researches, DR.. Lang said. show that
hereditary factor is very slight and
the function Of iodine remains some
what questionable.
Even where there is no evidence Of
pathological thyroid involvement, DR..
Lang pointed out, a region Of high
radium emanation would tend TO be
a place of stolid, slow-moving and
slow-living people because Of the
marked effect on basal metabolism.
The affected thyroid no longer pushes
mind and body so hard.
Radium in Soil.
Radium, it was explained, is present
in the soil and rocks over most of the
earth, but in such minute quantities
that only the most rigid chemical tests
reveal its presence. Hitherto there
has been no evidence whatsoever that
the amount Of radium bullets present
ordinarily in the atmosphere could
have any effect on human beings, but
large amounts are known to produce
q decay of the bones as revealed re-
Gently in factories where luminous
watch faces are made. There also has
been an hypothesis that the remark
able jump from ape to man in evo-
luton may have resulted when some
group of anthropoids, strayed into q
region with an enormous amount Of
such radiation in the atmosphere 50
that the genes, units Of inheritance,
were effected.
DR.. Lang, however, found no evi-
dence of an hereditary effect in the
amounts of emanation needed for the
production of goiter. The effect. he
believes, is renewed in each genera
ton. Radium emanation is one Of
the by-products Of the long breakdown
Of uranium into lead. A twin element
of uranium is thorium, also present in
extremely minute amounts in the soil
everywhere, which breaks down into
lead in the same way. The rate At
which the bullets" are shot out, how
ever, is different. and DR.. Lang found
that the incidence Of goiter and cretin-
ism actually decreased with the in
crease in the amount Of thorium ema-
nation in the air.
The thyroid gland, he pointed out,
appears to be made up of tissue ex-
tremely sensitive to q critical amount
Of radium emanation and which Is
not very sensitive to amounts below or
above this critical range.
The three-day international confer
ence, with thyroid experts present
from all over the world, opened at
the Mayhower this morning with q
message Of greeting from Secretary Of
State Hull. DR.. Frank H. Leahy o1
Boston acted - chairman.
Evening star., 1938-09-12
D. c. MAN IS CHOSEN
Board Of Trade Head to Crown
Queen Nicotana v.

LA PLATA. Nd. Sept. II (spe-
ciaD Leonard williams, president Of
the Washington Board of Trade, has
been selected to crown Queen Nicotina
v at the Charles County Fair on Sep
tember is, H. 8. Swami, president Of
the fair association, announced today.
The maids Of honor who will serve
Miss Louise Jameson, the queen, are
Mary Louise McDonough of the La
Plata Women's Club, Juanita Harding
of the Hughesville Women's Club, Julia
Boyer, the Marbury Women's Club;
Dena Hayden. Bel Alton Women's
Club; Mary Julia Ryan. Waldorf Wom-
ems Club; Jane Hurlbert, Pomonkey
Womens Club, and Ruth Virginia
Hivksg. Patuzsnt ,Womsn's Club.
Evening star., 1938-09-12
Virginia Sisters
Are Reunited
after 81 Years
Epeciai Dispa tch to The Star,

Epecfai Dispatch to The Star.
HARRISONBURG. Va. Sept IA
After . separation Of 81 years, during
which neither knew II the other were
living. two sisters, Ms. John @. Fries
Of Harrisonburg and Mrs. Minnie
Chapman Of Winchester, were re-
united yesterday at Mrs. Fries home.
The sisters were born in Ray County,
Mo-, the only children of Samuel and
Susan Cook, who immigrated from
the Shenandoah Valley, but returned
to Kernstown when Mrs. Fries was 4
and Mrs. Chapman 2. Their mother
died and Mrs. Fries was taken BY
Mr.. and Mrs. James stearn Of Lacey
Spring. Va. The younger child wa
taken West by her father.
Recently Mrs. Fries daughter, Mrs.
Eldridse, Lemley Of Stephens City. at
tended / picnic in Winchester. Mrs.
Lamley noticed . nurse who reminded
her Of her mother. Later Mrs. Lemley
approached the nurse and asked her
name. She learned the nurse Va hef
mothers sister.
Evening star., 1938-09-12
c. U. ALUMNI TO Dine
More Than 500 Expected t.
Attend Affair in New York.

Catholic University alumni will hold
its annual banquet November 13 in
the Pennsylvania Hotel, New York
City, the National Committee decided
at a meeting here yesterday in the
study Of Msgr. Joseph Corrigan, rector
Of the university.
More than 500 are expected to at
tend. The Rev. 1gnatius Smith, o. p,
dean Of the school Of philosophy, will
be POSTMASTER, and the chief speaker
is expected to be Grover Whalen, head
Of the New York World Fair Commis-
sion. Thomas A. McMahon of New
York City Is general chairman Of the
Banquet Committee.
James J. Bowe, secretary-treasurer
of the association, presided at the
meeting, which was attended by IS
delegates from Eastern cities. Prior
to the banquet, officers for the next
year will be elected. Frank A. Field,
Baltimore, is retiring president. Charles
P. Maloney Of Washington is a candi-
date for the ofdce
Evening star., 1938-09-12

Testifying for Mrs. Blesi, a man and
woman said they had seen her on sew
eral afternoons since August 81 when
the case was first brought, before
Judge Cayton, and both said that her
hair had not had a single wave in it.
Judge Cayton, in announcing his
decision for the plaintiff, said the
merits of the Christy wave were not
involved in the case, but in view of the
fact that the wave had not produced
results for Mrs. Blesi. he would order
the $40 she paid for the Job refunded.
Evening star., 1938-09-12
Rodium in Air Helps in Setting
Pace of Liuing, Scientist Says
Earth Is Spotted With Places Where
Humans Are Reduced to SIO,Uer
Speeds, COiter PnrIey Hears.

Evidence that the thyroid gland, the
pace maker Of the body, is affected
markedly by emanations OF radium in
the air and that the earth Is spotted
with areas where human beings are
reduced to a slower rate of living be-
cause of this, was presented before
the Third International Goiter Con-
ference. meeting at the Mayflower
today, by DR.. Theodore Lang of the
kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Psy-
chiatric Research at Munich.
Surveys through Germany and Aus
tria, DR.. Lang said, show that the
amounts of endemic goiter, due to
thyroid enlargement, and Of cretinism,
the curious form of feeble -mindedness
supposedly due to insufficient thyroid
secretions, increase in proportion to
the number of radium bullets present
in the atmosphere up to figure of
approximately $4,000 per cubic cent?
meter per second. Also, he found, the
basal metabolism Of the population in
general decreased in about the same
proportions.
The radium regions. he found, are
those whose soil is made up largely Of
the debris of calciferous rocks. The
goiter and cretinism increase, he said,
starts at a figure of about 5000 ra-
dium bullets per cubic centimeter per
second. Beyond $4,000, he found, ex-
actly the opposite effect takes place
50 that in regions Of radium mining
or in factories using radium products,
where the amount of radiation In the
atmosphere may be from hundred
to several thousand times as great,
goiter is practically non-existent. The
areas richest in radium, he found, do
not show the greatest physiological
effects because the understanding ele-
ment is shut up in solid rocks and
the infinitely minute projectiles are
stopped before they reach the atmos-
phere.
Regions in America.
DR.. Lang hopes to continue his re-
searches in the United States. where
there are notable endemic goiter re-
gions tn Wisconsin and in the Pacific
Northwest. He found notable areas
in Bavaria, in the Austrian Alps, in
the Joachimsthal Of Czechoslovakia
and in the Bad Gastein region Of
Austria. In these areas some degree
Of thyroid distinction affects from
20 to 40 per cent Of the population.
It declines almost to zero In North
Germany.
The fact that goiter and cretinism
are massed in certain areas long has
been known and has been supposed in
the past to depend on two factors
lack Of iodine In the drinking water
and . possible hereditary tendency
Evening star., 1938-09-12
Orchestra Aide to Talk.

Q. G. Cappell, manager of the Ma
tional Symphony Orchestra, will ad-
dress a banquet meeting tonight Of
: workers in the campaign for funds for
the Symphony Orchestra Association in
youngstown, Ohio. He will return to
washington tomorrow,
Evening star., 1938-09-12
DRIVE ON VICE URGED
Rector Says Christian Forces of
City Should Unite,


THE Christian forces of WASH
ington should unite to clean up the
resorts, bars and gambling dens here, y
the Rev. DR.. William r. Moody, rec
tor of st. Marks Episcopal Church,
Third and A streets Sc, told the
congregation yesterday. These places
are the moral plague-spots In the
CITY," he said.
DR.. Moody called upon the COM
munity to provide better Fairgrounds
for children and less harmful leisure
time activities for adults. Harmful
amusement can be wiped out" he de-
clared; look what an honest and
fearless grand jury has done IN New
York"
Evening star., 1938-09-12
FUGITIVE SURRENDERS
EN- brey, Last Of Five Who Broke
From Warrenton Jail, Back.

WARRENTON, Va, Sept. IL R.-
Police said yesterday James Embrey,
26. the last Of five prisoners who fied
from the Fauquier County Jail last
Monday, returned to the jail volun-
tarily Saturday and gave himself up.
Two Of the prisoners were captured
at Alexandria and returned here, a
third was caught at Culpeper and the
fourth at Baltimore.
The prisoners ned after ASSAULT
ing their 81-year-old jailer, J. w.
Shirley.
Evening star., 1938-09-12
CONTEST TO END
Anacostia Popularity Finals to Be
Staged Wednesday,

oLASeu " eoueeoay.
The Anacostia Lions Club is sponsor
ing its final popularity contest Of the
girls In the community. The winner
who will be chosen from the is
finalists will become . member of the
queens court Of the Presidents Cup
Regatta and In addition will be
awarded $50.
Second prize will be $25 and third
prize SO. The contest will close at S
pm. Wednesday and the announce
ment Of the winners will be made at
. midnight show At the Congress
Theater. Nichols avenue and Portland
street MI
Evening star., 1938-09-12
D. c. MAN is ROBBED
Iuray Police Are Told He Was
Beaten and Abandoned.

Beaten and Abandoned.
IURAY, Va, Sept. IL F.-Frank
Rose Of 922 Tenth street NE. WASH
ington, reported to police he was
robbed and badly beaten during a
visit here Saturday night by men
who offered him q ride.
Nine dollars was reported taken
from him before he was left in q Sc
cluded spot.
Authorities said they took three
men into custody at Rileyville yes
terday for investigation,
The Washington times., 1938-01-22
APAN IGNORES
... ~
AMERICAN FLAG

HONGKONG, jan % Q.N.SO
Fifteen separate instances Of dis
regard for the American flag by
Japanese troops in Nanking since
January / were outlined today in
reports reaching here from Gen
eralissimo Chicng Kai+Shek's s
abandoned capital.
Most of these incidents oc
CURED, the reports said, when
American missions were force
fully entered by the Nipponese.
German property at Marking
however, was reported to have suf
fered most from Japanese burn
ing and looting activities, while
the damages sustained by British
property were described as "ex
traordinarily slight"
If these reports, which ema.
mated from apparently trustworthy
British sources, are officially con.
firmed, they may lead to a new
diplomatic incident" between
Washington and Tokyo
(Other details on Page y
The Washington times., 1938-01-22
Lunch Fund
Promised

Washington's undernourished
and hungry school children will be
fed!
Following a long-distance tele-
phone conversation with Commis-
sioner George E. Allen, who is in
New York in connection with the
Presidents Birthday Ball, Commis-
sioner Melvin C. Hazen today an
nounced that the Budget Bureau
will be asked to approve a defici-
ency appropriation OF $4,000 to
supply hot lunches and milk to the
needy children for the balance of
the year.
Mrs. John Boyle, jr., president
of the Citizens Permanent Com
mittee in charge of the lunch work,
pointed out that there are funds
on hand to provide lunches
through next Wednesday only.
The Washington times., 1938-01-22
Army Probing
Fatal Air Crash

FAYETTEVILLE, N. c., Jan. %
G.N.S).-Army officials today
launched an investigation into the
crash of an airplane yesterday
which killed its two occupants,
Lieut.. Lewis Elliott Countway and
Lieut.. Earl T. Macarthur. Both
of the victims were stationed at
Fort Bragg.
Countway, said to be about "a
years old, was a reserve officer,
but had been on active duty at
Fort Bragg since July. His home
was said to be Quincy, Mass.
Macarthur was a regular Army Of.
ficer, and is survived by a wife and
two children at Paris. Tex. He
was about 20.
The Washington times., 1938-01-22
Fog, Clouds Cheat Capital
Of Rare View of Aurora

Fog and low-hanging clouds this
morning cheated Washington Of
the sight of one of natures
most coIorful aerial displays-the
aurora borealis.
Skies over the city are believed
to have famed with the vivid
colors of the magnificent spectacle,
which seldom occurs in this latti-
tude, when a terrific magnetic
storm broke about 1880 q. m.
Albert K. Ludy, observer in
The Washington times., 1938-01-22
Treasury Fights
identical Bids

GN.S). The Treasury today
moved to halt identical collusive
bidding b. demanding a pledge
from prospective Government con-
tractors that they will not submit
bids which have been agreed upon
by other members of their indus
try. Advertising for bids to supply
the Government with $500. 900
worth of rubber tires, the Treas
ury for the first time inserted the
anti-identical bid clause in its
purchase notice.
The Washington times., 1938-01-22

MARENGO, Ill, Jan. % Q.N.S)
Horse stealing not being what it
was a quarter Of a century ago,
members of the Marengo anti.
Horse Thief Association decided to.
day they might as well disband.
They will hold q meeting in the
city hall Wednesday, decide on
disposition Of the associations
funds which have been accumulat-
ing as a result of 50 annual dues
The Washington times., 1938-01-22

Andrew Furuseth, "a, president
of the International Seamen's
Union of America, died today In
private nursing home here after
being i'll a year.
One of the most picturesque
figures in the American labor
movement, Furuseth came to the
United States from Norway as a
seaman in 1880 after sailing under
flags Of many nations.
In 1897 he became secretary of
the Pacific Coast Seamen's Union,
and in 1893 came here as legisla-
tive representative of organized
seamen.
With memories of being locked
below decks while vessels we're In
port, Mr.. Furuseth concentrated
on legisla ion to "set the sailor
free" His great ambition was
achieved in 1915 with passage of
the La Toilette act.
He lived simply and throughout
his life asked his union only to
pay him the salary Of an able
bodied seaman.
His body will lie in state in the
department auditorium tomorrow
from IL to p. m. Funeral serv.
ices will be held Monday at Lees
undertaking establishment.
The Washington times., 1938-01-22
CLIPPER
" is FORCED BACK

SAN PEDRO, Cal, Jan %
G.N.S0.-Forced by a gas line
break to return to the mainland
Pan-American. Airways China Clip
per, with 16 aboard, made sn
emergency landing in Los Angeles
Harbor today.
Because of a heavy. fog over her
home base at Alameda, from where
she took off late yesterday, the
big ship was ordered to land here
The clipper encountered trouble
600 miles out, according to Capt
]. H. Tilton, in command of the
ship, when a gasoline line to one
of the motors broke.
AT, an early hour this morning
Captain Tilton said the feed line
had been repaired and the ship
could have, continued on to Homo
lulu. .,.
The passengers, who expected
to wake up this morning far out
over the Pacific on their way tc
Honolulu, were surprised to learn
that the ship was headed back FOL
the mainland.
No one, however, was alarmed
Just before the plane landed
Steward P. Sarles calmly woke up
the sleeping passengers and N
formed them the clipper would
land at San Pedro.
The Washington times., 1938-01-22

charge Of the magnetic observa.
tory Of the Coast and Geodetic
Survey at Cheltenham, Md, re.
ported the storm was Of such mag.
nitude that short wave radio
transmission was disrupted and
the compass went awry.
Pilots who were depending sole
ly on their magnetic compasses at
the time might have wound up in
Chicago If they were heading to,
ward New York, experts said.
The Washington times., 1938-01-22
Horse Thief Or So Needed
To Give This Bunch a Job!

assessed against the members, and
then formally dissolve.
Twenty-Five years ago there
was plenty Of horse stealing in
this neighborhod, but 1t was
brought to a low ebb eventually
by organization of the group.
Then. with the widespread use of
automobiles, the Anti-Horse Thief
Association found it had prscti-
cally nothing to do.
The Washington times., 1938-01-22
Franc Rallies After
Vote of Confidence

NEW YORK, Jan. % QN.S0.
The French franc rallied moder,
ately today, following overnight
news of the vote of confidence
given the Chautemps cabinet by
the Chamber of Deputies. The
rally did not wipe out yesterdays
decline of over 21a points, but the
French unit was up 13s points
at the opening here and sold later
at 3.33 cents, gain of N points,
Little change occurred in other
currencieS, -..
The Washington times., 1938-01-22
Reed Hopes to Be
Like Brandeis

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Jan. %
Q.N.S0 Solicitor General Stan.
ley F. Reed, nominee to the Su
preme Court of the United States
highly praised Justice Brandeis
and the late Justice Holmes, and
said:
II hope that I might qualify
as the Justice Brandeis type of
liberal"
The Washington times., 1938-01-22
BraddOck to Give
Farr Return Fight

NEW YORK, Jan. % GN.S).
James j. Braddock announced to.
day he believes his next fight will
be a return engagement with
Tommy Farr, whom he defeated IN
a decision last night in Madison
Square Garden. No arrangements
have been made for the contest
yet.
IT understood Farr has asked
for it," Braddock said, "and I'll
give him a return bout"
"Details Of last nights fight on
Page III
The Washington times., 1938-01-22
.McNutt Ends Tour
Of China War Zone

SHANGHAI, Jan. % QN.S).-
Paul McNutt, United States Com
missioner to the Philippine Islands,
ended his tour Of Chinese war
zones today and departed for
Manila. He declined to make any
statement except to declare any
observations regarding his trip
would be made in Washington.
The Washington times., 1938-01-22
| Insane Women
Escape Hospital

DIXON, Ill, Jan. % G.N.S).
-Four women inmates Of Dixon
State Hospital for the feeble
minded were hunted today after
making their escape in a fog. The
four were marching from the din
ing hall to their quarters.
The Washington times., 1938-01-22
SOVIET SPURNS
u. S. DEMANDS
IN RUBENs CASE.
Refuses to Permit
Visit to Woman

G.N.S.) The United States
was informed by the Soviet Gov
ernment today that it would mot
be convenient at this time" for
an embassy official to visit Mrs.
Ruth Marie Rubens, American
citizen now held by the Russian
secret police.
The Soviet reply was made
after this Government had de.
manded that an embassy official
be permitted to see Mrs. Rubens,
who has been held by the Soviet
secret police, following arrest Of
her husband on suspicion of be-
ing a spy.
DENY INTERVIEW
The Soviet Foreign Office in.
formed Loy Henderson, charge
d'affaires for the United States
in Moscow, that Mrs. Rubens had
entered Russia under a faxed pass
port using the name Mrs. Ruth
Norma Robinson and that she
could not be interviewed by the
U. S. Embassy officials until the
Soviet police had concluded their
questioning OF her.
The foreign office said no >ex,
ception could be made in the case
Of Mrs. Rubeiis
SERIOUS "INClDENT"
Arrect of Mrs. Rubens has been
an incident threatening rela.
tions between the Soviet govern
ment and this country because OF
the agreement that the United
States must be informed and per-
mitted to see any American citi'
zen held by the Soviet police.
State Department officials
gave no indication as to what
their next move in the Ruben's-
Robinson case would be.
The Washington times., 1938-01-22
Seat in Senate
ages" Milton

JERSEY CITY, N. j., Jan. %
G.N.SJ.-Appointed to the United
States Senate to the seat vacated
by Governor. A. Harry Moore last
week, John Milton has aged
already. He was celebrating his
fifty-seventh birthday today.