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Evening star., 1938-11-20
Strike Makes Nuzi Ship
Hoist U. S. Flag in Port

By the Associated Press.
ALAMEDA, Calf, Nov. 19.-Be-
cause the German Lloyd passenger
freight ship Weser failed to hoist
the United States flag when she
docked here, 60 longshoremen walk
ed off the job of unloading in a
f1ve-minute protest strike today.
When the meaning of the sudden
lull in unloading was explained,
German ships officer hastily ordered
the Stars and Stripes unfurled. Ac-
cording to international custom, a
friendly ship" touching. a foreign
port raises the flag of that country.
The ships first officer explained
that the non-appearance Of the
American nag was an oversight.
Evening star., 1938-11-20
Star Writers Rated Champion
Political Prophets by Magazine

Star daily, were awarded first
honors for their April forecast
of the election results-8l House
seats and Z Senate seats.
The titles are announced in the
Periscope section of the maga-
zine. which reported:
ITO obtain an authentic fore
cast of the 1898 election trends,
Periscope questioned 48 outstand-
ing political writer's and 10 ex-
perienced politicians five from
each party, then resurveyed the
same group in early October"
Representative Joseph w. Mar
tin. jr., of Massachusetts,, chairman
of the Republican Congressional
Campaign Committee, won first
place among politicians in both
April and October.
Evening star., 1938-11-20
Junior Leoeuer's Death
Is Declared Suicide
By the Associated Press.

By the ASSoClAted fTess.
SPRINGFIELD Mass. Nov. 10
With the filing of medical exam
iners verdict that Elizabeth Dorr
23-year-old Junior Lacquer. was a
suicide by carbon monoxide gas
poisoning" Police Capt. Daniel F
Mccarthy tonight announced the
case was closed
While expressing surprise DR.
C. J. Downey. in making the verdict
said he was satisfied with State
toxicologist's report on the cause
of death.
Dressed in pajamas and a beach
robe. Miss Dorr was found dead
Thursday morning in the family
garage. Detectives said they were
puzzled. as the ignitions in two au-
tomobiles were shut off when they
arrived.
Evening star., 1938-11-20
La Guordiu Addresses
Pon-Americun PorIey
Bythe Associated Press.


HAVANA, Nov. 19.-Mayor F1o-
relic La Guardia tonight told dele
gates to the first Pan-American
Congress of Municipalities that IN
union of the Americas is the nope
of the world
He declared that in the same way
that uuarantines once were placed
on vessels coming from Europe FOR
reasons of health. now we must
put in quarantine Fascist, Nazi and
Communist ideas
La Guardia urged that children
of the Latin American nations be
sent to the United States for school,
ing rather than to Europe, where
many of them now 60.
In the United States they would
learn liberalism, while in Europe
they would learn totalitarianism, he
said.
ut is more useful to learn to say
Hail Mary than He'll Hitler de-
clared the Mayor. who has been an
outspoken foe of Naziism.
Evening star., 1938-11-20

The title Of champion political
prophets in the country among
newspapermen were awarded to
three writer's for The Star in the
current issue of NeWsWeek, ma
tional news magazine published
in New York.
G.. Gould Lincoln, The Stars
chief political writer, was given
first place for his October pre-
view of the recent election. The
Republicans gained 81 House
seats and 8 Senate seats: Mr..
Lincoln predicted gains of 96
House seats and 7 Senate seats.
Joseph Alsop and Robert Kint-
ner, political columnists for the
North American Newspaper AL
lance. whose feature, The Capt.
tol Parade" appeared in The
Evening star., 1938-11-20
BY HOWARD w. BLAKESLEE

PHILADELPHIA. Pa, Nov. 19-
Primitive forms of life have beer
slowed down so that one minute
equals 10000 years in their rate Of
living by a method reported to the
American Philosophical Society to-
day
The method makes possible test
of scientific ideas that human male
seed may be preserved Indefinitely
A man now living might long
after death. become father
through artificial fertilization. This
means has been suggested for CIV
ing the talents of geniuses to pos
terity
The new. slow tempo of life was
developed in the low-temperature
laboratory of the California Insti-
tute of Technology by DR.. Alexan-
der Goetz. associate professor OF
physics. He confined himself today
to telling how it is done and to ad-
hitting, in an interview afterWard
that the posterity experiment may
be possible.
Transformed to Vitre0us State.
In the laboratory he plunged va
rious kinds of bacteria and yeast
cells into liquid hydrogen. which has
a temperature around 400 degrees
Fahrenheit below zero. The tiny
bits of living matter froze at the
equivalent of a drop of 1000 de-
orooc nor second
They did not. however. form or.
binary ice. which is a crystal sub
stance. They formed glass. or, ir
scientific words, were in the Wit.
reous state. When thawed out rap.
idlv. no matter how long they hac
been frozen, most of them were still
alive.
The yeast cells were the most
significant. They are about 30 pei
cent water and ordinarily the most
susceptible to death from cold
Usual freezing. DR.. Goetz said, kills
about 95 per cent of yeast cells. His
method reduced death to 2 or )
per cent.
These deaths, 1t appeared, were
not due directly to the CLASSY state
but to accidents during the freezing
process. The yeast cells which
reached the CLASSY form alive, never
died thereafter.
Can Calculate Life Span.
AS thousands of them were thus
frozen it was possible to calculate
with assurance. Their rate of liv-
ing, DR.. Goetz estimated, made one
minute equal to 10000 years. Some
were kept frozen a week.
This was equivalent, in the expert
ment. to about one hundred million
wears. DR.. Goetz said that ultimate
death for such frozen forms OF life
is probable, but that for practical
purposes they can be said never to
die.
He calls their state 'latent life
The lightning freeze is limited to
forms which are not more than
about one-thousandth Of an inch in
diameter.
The male seed is one form with
this extremely small size. DR.. Goetz
said spermatazoa frozen in his labo-
ratory lost their tails. The human
female seed, or ovum, is little more
than twice the size of the freezing
limit found in the California expert
ments.
DR.. Goetz said that his expert
ments indicate there are two forms
or phases, of death. He added that
although the male seed may not bt
subject to one of the two sorts OF
death, there is at present no way o1
knowing whether the second kind
would strike the seed" and make
the posterity experiment = failure.
The two forms Of death are ply
Evening star., 1938-11-20
Two Women Victimized
By Purse Snutchers

Two women reported to police
last night they were victimized by
purse snatchers.
Alice Devlin. Sc. of No. 2 Logan
Circle NV, reported her purse con-
tanning $23 was grabbed out of her
hand by a colored man as she was
walking near Scott Circle.
A colored man who Snatched q
purse from Thelma Miller, 4635
Brandywine street NV, as she was
walking in the 100 block of Co.
lumbia road NV, obtained only Is
cents, she said.
Evening star., 1938-11-20
Purse Thief SOUGHT

A thief who stole the purse OF
Viola Langley, 1910 c street NE.
which she had left on a table in a
church in the 700 block of Eleventh
street Sc, was being sought by
police today. The theft was re-
ported yesterday morning.
Evening star., 1938-11-20
Man Cuts Tuxi Driver

Joseph A. Carpenter, 80, of Ia
koma Park, Md. told police a COL
ored man about IS years old reached
in his taxicab and cut him on the
face when he stopped at Ninth and
o streets NV. last night. Mr.
Carpenter could give no reason for
the mans actions.
Evening star., 1938-11-20

Weather Conditions Last 2i Hours.
The eastern disturbance is moving slowly
eastward over the Atlantic States and Nova
Scotia Florence. s. c., 29.7O inches. and
New York City. N. Y. 29.72 inches. An
other disturbance is moving rapidly east
ward over the Northern Lake resion. Port
Arthur. Ontario. 1850 inches, and minor
disturbance is centered over Western Mon
tana. Helena 2a9O inches, These disturb
ances have been attended bv rains in the
Atlantic and East Gulf States. the ONO
Valley. Tennessee. the Lower Lake res1on
perior region. Pressure remains low from
Northern Hudson Bay eastward to icelana:
Seydisfjord 2S.35 inches. and NottlnRnam
Island. Hudson Strait, 29.lS inches; ana
another disturbance is over extreme west
ern Alaska. 90. IA inches. Pressure Is high
from the Pacific States eastward 10 me
Ohio and Lover Mississippi Valleys E S and % ne ne
Houston Tex. 30.34 inches. and from the
vicinity of Bermuda eastward and north
eastward over the ocean. s. 8. PluVioSe.
3O.35 inches. and from Eastern Alaska
southeastward to Southern Manitoba. Daw-
SON. Yukon 304s inches; The weather has
the Hse0M Mississippi d River and in the western
Canadian Provinces. North Dakota. and
Eastern Montana. while the temperature
has riven from the Northern Lake region
southwestward to New Mexico and western
Texas.
Potomac and Shenandoah clear at Har-
pers Ferry late yesterday.
Evening star., 1938-11-20

olies and easing of antitrust laws.
The National Radio Forum is ar
ranged by The Star and broadcast
over q Nationwide network of the
National Broadcasting Co. It 10
heard locally over WMAL.
Evening star., 1938-11-20
| Readers Guide
| News Summary
The Sunday Star, Nov. 20, 1888.
PART ONE.
Main News.

Main News.
Foreign.
Goebbels hopes world will take
Reich's Jews. Page Al
200, 900 guerrillas on lower Yangtze,
say Japan. Page Al
2oo-3oO reported killed In Barcelona
fire. Page Al
Czech assembly o. KS Slovak. Ruth
enian autonomy. Page AS
National.
Eight killed as car plunges into mine
caye-in. Page Al
u. S. found squirting 7-point security
program. Page Al
One dead. eight hurt in mysterious
Harrisonburg blast. Page Al
Herring sees value in profit sharing
probe. Page Az
Work to start on three battle
ships. Page Az
Democratic House leader forecasts
Wagner Act changes. Page Az
Labor Department defers Bridges
deportation. Page Ala
A. A. A. approves toll roads in con-
pested areas. Page Ala
Washington and Nearby.
Chest workers spur themselves for
final drive to goal. Page Al
Police doubtful as mad sniper is par
TALLY identified. Page Al
New levies are urged to raise D. c..
revenue. Page Al
Traffic Advisory Council urges child
safety program. Page Al
President sees work start on GraVelly
Point Airport. Page Al
Plight of Jews discussed in White
House talks. Page As
East Capitol street development
urged before planners. Page B-1
Observances of Thanksgiving to start
here today. Page b-l
Observers to seek bribe details as
Warning trial resumes. Page B-1
Three embezzlement cases set for
trial in Montgomery. Page B-3
Sports.
Georgetown beats Maryland, IA to T..
in terrific struggle. Page BIO
Harvard. Army and Notre Dame cap
ture classic contests. Page B-7
Bucknell proves entirely too strong
for George Washington. Page BIS
Redskins are hoping for Packer win
over Giants today. Page B-9
Hogerty praises Terps for great stand
against Georgetown. Page BIO
Pro golfers hard hit as manufacture
ers put end to subsidies, Page Bill
Conquer and Honey Cloud in dead
heat in Bowie feature. Page BIZ
Evening star., 1938-11-20
Rodio in Puhono

A new radio station in Pahang
one of the Federated Malay States
will provide communication be-
tween ships and aircraft.
Evening star., 1938-11-20
Weather Report
District of Columbia

of Columba-Falr and colder To-Day ana senue
moderate fresh northwest ohshI
morning.
colder today
morrow preceded by this morning
WestV Vrgna-Fair colder tomorrow.
Evening star., 1938-11-20
Profit-Sharing Plans
To Be Told Hearings
Starting tomorrow
Senate Investigation Of
Industrial System Held
Most Constructive

Ways and means of diDerting
more of the profits OF industry
into the pockets OF the American
,Torker haze receired increasing
consideration in the past fe1D
years as the Government sought
to cope Uith conditions gro,O-
ing out OF the slump. The tar
on undistribnted SurpluseS 1DdS
one srenue OF approach.
Evening star., 1938-12-18

but she said aloud: What can do? You can,
expect me to bawl him out"
mo, but you could see the right person in
G-BAT, Polly, and tell him about Rick, and
and ask him to write and offer Rick Job. You
could do that. couldn't you, Polly?'
Polly wanted to tell her there was no surer
way not to land on the G-BAT payroll; but she
took Alice in her arms and kissed her. "Illtry.
she promised. Honor bright. I'll try"
The rain ceased before dawn and they woke
to brilliant Nevada sunshine. The field would
dry quickly. Gleason said. but Polly could not
hope to take off before mid afternoon. In the
meantime, they would inspect the racer.
Gleason was boastfully enthusiastic as ne
demonstrated the various features of the
speedster 1--WE had troubles. he said, but
I've beat 'em all. lost half the tail learning
that there's point around 28O m.p.h. where
ships begin to take beating that you just
couldn't give them at lower speeds. beat that
-" a ten minute technical description fol
lowed - land then | was up against ailcron
hutter Got that cured just yesterday Every
hinge is balanced - CONFERENCE.-The forward -
and you couldn't make it futter if you tried"
Polly nodded. but with little conviction.
Long hours in the G-BAT shops, lectures by
Isaac kaln and other experts of the engineering
staff, enabled her to detect faults in Gleasons
arguments. True, actual flying could prove or
disprove engineers theories, but basic ques-
tons of design, of rigidity of parts and dynamic
balance. must be worked out upon the drafting
board and inthe testing laboratory. She couldn't
remind Gleason of such things, though. He was
the type that would patronizc girl pilot, and
he'd laugh and tell her that she'd seen this shin
fly There we're other things she couldn't tell
him; not even if he asked her for her opinion -.
she stepped from the box to which she had
Evening star., 1938-12-18

I'm Just sitting still waiting lor him to die"
The bed quivered with her sobs. Polly threw
her arm about the slim shoulders.
Alice. Try to be sensible Closed course fly
ing is tricky stuff. but plenty of men are doing
knows what he's doing
Does he? DO you? Let me tell you.
The story tumbed from her lips, the story
of Eric the Red who had tasted fame and found
ii sweet He was Red Gleason: he had been
a Bendix winner. three of his records were
still standing. he had been called General
and men had lcaped to obey him - it was in
conceivable that he should stand before some
airline executive and ask humby for JOB ana
he was determined that his name would once
more make the headlines.
He had bought the racer after it fo2ee o2eed Crashed
in Texas and killed an amateur sNportsman
pilot, and within the week had learned 6N a job
as caretaker of closed mine in Nevada. 4Ihc
plant included, his informant mentioned,
well-equipped machine shop. and Gleason had
taken the job. He had rebuilt the shattered
wreck. part by part, had designed and made
new WINGS and had 'souped up the powerful
motor uIllll IL ucllVcItu IO"cI Twenty-Five
percent above its normal rating.
Hes not a trained engineer" said Alice
Gleason mserably. HE has only a practical
knowledge of design, and when he makes part
his only way OF testing it is to fly it. He lost
nearly half of his tail-fin once and l watched
him fight the ship down to a landing. Flying isl
all right, Polly, but not the kind of flying ftlck
is doing I've tried to make him see it. but he
won't listen to me.
"Ill bet you've tried" Polly thought. She
felt rather sorry for Red Eric at that mo'1ient
Evening star., 1938-12-18
Illustrated by Covrtnsy Alien

for the house I'll get you dry stockings and
slippers. Miss Meredith"
Wont you call me Polly? Your husband
does, you know. was stewardess when he
was a G-BAT pilot
Thank YOU My names Alice" She helped
Polly into the slicker as Gleason appeared with
square of canvas draped about him.
The new fittings worked Allie he re-
marked. Il held her at three hundred for
twenty miles and she was as steady as church.
Putting balances ahead of the hinges did the
trick"
Every muscle of the girls frail body tensed.
she said slowly, then added with an effort:
I'm glad"
Hours later, Polly lay in bed, staring at the
ceiling and trying to solve the mystery of Rick
Gleason. That there was mystery she was
certain. At the hangar she had thought that
Gleason i like some other pilots she had
known - had been so unfortunate as to marry
a woman with an unreasOning terror of the air
and of flying. But Alice had remarked later
that she had been stewardess for two years on
Atlantic Airways and had flown with Rick on
three continents.
1t could not be dismissed by saying that
Alice Gleason was jealous of the unlimited
guest. True, Rick was inclined to paw unneces-
sarily and had contracted somewhere the
Holywoodism of calling girl darling" or
Sweetheart" without excuse or warning, but
Polly thought she knew jealousy when she saw
it in one of her own sex, and Alice Gleason had
let the endearing terms pass unnotiCed.
Only when the conversation had turned to
the present had the chill fog of mystery seemed
to close down. Gleason had told of Chinese
student flyer who had landed hot on wet
field locked his brakes and skidded until he
had run out of the airport and through the wall
Evening star., 1938-12-18

of hangar and Polly reminded him of his own
three unsuccessful attempts to land the racer.
The laughter which had greeted the previous
anecdote had died in Alice Gleasons throat as
though hand had closed on her windppe.
Polly recalled although she could not tell why,
her fathers remark when he returned from his
first and last American Legion Convention.
''Never again. he had said grimly. There
we're too many dead men there trying to edge
in on the drinks and the hell-raising."
She could not sleep. Twice some fancied
noise in the old house had reused her from the
brink of slumber. but when the latch of the
door really clicked she lay still She knew even
before she heard the intruder's voice, who had
entered Alice Gleason perched on the edge of
the bed. She wasted no time in preliminaries:
Polly. could Rick get his job back with
G-BAT? I've got to know"
Il couldn't tell you. That S personal mat
ter you know. and -"
But do you think -"
Her voice was vibrant, passionate Polly tried
to choose her words carefully.
"All can tell you is that the lines expanding
all the time, and that they're hiring lot more
pilots than they ever fire. The fact that Red
had been with G-BAT before would be in his
favor He'd probably have to start as co-pilot,
of course, but -"
That would be all right
There's only one way for him to find out -
come over and apply"
"He won't It's his damned pride, Polly. He
was top notcher and he's never forgotten
that his name is on the Bendix Trophy. He
wants the line to come after him and he's going
to make them do it, he says, by winning the
Thompson Race A closed course. Polly. Ten
miles between pylons. Three hundred miles an
hour and not hundred feet off the ground at
any time He'll kill himself and love him and
Evening star., 1938-12-18

we can SkiE
~arORM clouds, streaked with lightning,
we're billowing over the ten-thousand foot
~ submits of the Sierras, and before their
menace Polly Meredith turned northward and
drove her B-3 Midwing at full throttle toward
the emergency port at Midvale 1t was then
that she saw the other plane, scarlet and
white thunderbolt thousand feet below her
level, which streaked past the swift Midwing
as a falcon passes crow. The girl forgot the
storm for the moment and gaped after the
mechanical meteor as though it we're the first
airplane she had ever seen.
The pilot nosed down and turned toward the
mountains. Polly saw wide area from which
the sagebrush had been cleared; then the white
banner of windsock. Three times the pilot
approached the field and each time decided
that a landing was impossible and zoomed
sharply to circle for another attempt Pollys
heart was in her mouth as she made mental
calculation of the terri landing speed of the
stubby racer In the thin air of the Nevada val
ley, nearly mile above the sea, that ship would
sit down at better than a hundred miles an
hour "hot" was scarcely the word for such
a landing.
The fourth trial was successful Polly's knees
trembled sympathetically as she circled and
dove for the field. The other beckoned from his
cockpit and TAXED toward a low hangar,
painted the color of soil and almost invisible
from the air There was no time for introduc
tions as they painted and tugged to get the two
ships under cover before the storm broke. The
rain was drumming on the roof as the man
pushed the creaking doors shut.
"I've got house yonder," the man said,
but we'd be wetter than drowned ducks before
we got there. Allie my wife - will bring
couple of slickers as soon as it lets up
Il didn't know there was field anywhere
around here" said Polly Il was trying to make
Midvale when saw you and followed you in
My names Meredith by the way. I'm with
Great Basin Air Transport"
The mans white teeth flashed.
yeah. recognized you, Polly Ann. You
were a stewardess when l left the line My
names Gleason, Frederic Gleason
Eric the Red read or heard somewhere
that you were in China.
Il was I'm here now"
He made no further explanation. and it was
apparent that he did not wish to discuss his
business in this lonely spot, the uncharted field.
or the speedy plane which stood behind them.
Polly recalled that the racer carried no identify
ing numbers and she felt a tinge of curiosity.
What was Rick Gleason, time winner of the
speed dash from Los Angeles to Cleveland for
the Bendix Trophy, doing as mystery pilot
with an unlicensed ship on an unknown field?
Here's Allie now" Gleason's voice cut into
Poy's musings A little figure ducked through
the doorway and wedge shaped face. pale and
lined. was raised to Pollys as Gleason intro
duced the C-BAT pilot.
Rick spoken of you many times. she said.
Were glad to have you here. The rains
sackening and We won't get very wet if We run
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-03-08
D0UCL s N E W s
SCHOOL ISSUES DOMINATE
 ATTENTION CITY COUNCIL

The texture of the stucco mix for the school and the kind of locks and stops on the doors of the build ing were the main topics of discus sion at the regular weekly session of the Douglas City Council last evening. It was brought out that the method being used for prepar- ing the stucco with hot lime IS con- trary to the recommendations of the Portland Cement Company, which advises cold pulverized lime to be used. A white color versus brown for painting the stucco was the preference voted by the Coun- cil. The trims of the school are to be light gray. The problem of the mix will likely be settled today and the proposition of the locks goes over to the next meeting.
 Among communications present. ed at the meeting was one from Standard Oil advising of the pro- posed taxing of fuel oil one cent per gallon by the present Congress, and urging protest to Delegate Di- mond be made. This the Council voted to do as did the Juneau city fathers. Another letter from Con- tractor Peterman offering certi- fled check for $250. to cover guar antee of the change to the full au- tomatic oil burner. Contract regu- lating the indemnity covered is to be drawn up for the city. A letter from Virginia Mason Hospital with bill for care of Bob Dupree amount ing to $426.34, was laid on the table until the doctors charges on the case are received. The amount of $500 was reported acceptable in settlement of their claim against the city in a communication from L. N. Troast and Associates. Payment was authorized by the Council. Of that amount the city will have to pay $165, Federal grant being avail able for the balance, it was reported
 Clerk Tuckett was delegated to | act as school tax collector for this year. A statement of money due for settlement of the contract between last years Council and Owen Swen- son for filling in under the approach to the wharf was read by the Clerk Voided at a recent meeting of the present Council, it was stated tha a total of 160 loads of rock were dumped by Swenson. the cost O which totaled $160. The sum O S9855 has been paid on the contract leaving balance due of $6145
 Requesting unemployment Fed. eral relief funds and outlining worl needed to be done in the town wa
 discussed at considerable length Projects will probably be worked Ill during the ensuing week.