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"stampeded" by threats of State medi-
cine to abandon its recognized prin-
ciples of adhering to a high quality
OF medical care. Leading European
countries have subsidized health in
surance plans, he said, but they have
not been very successful in their oper-
alton.
To-day, under our system OF medical
care, the United States has the lowest
rates of death; for infant mortality
and for most of the infectious diseases
that prevail anywhere in the world"
he said.
ut has been said that this is
largely reflection of the superior
standard of living of our people. Per-
hapS it is. But the character and
the quality of our medical service
must be considered a part of those
living conditions"
The speaker said group health plans
are not new, but to date they haven't
worked and are doomed to failure.
Criticizes 430 of Fellows.
He sharply criticized the 430 physi-
clans who saw fit to indorse the pro-
posals emanating from the American
Foundation Studies in Government
and ridiculed the idea of this move
ment being heralded as revolt" in
the American Medical Association.
The declaration got as many sigma
lures as 1t did, he said. because we,
as nation. love to sign our names
to anything"
Turning to Group Health Associa-
ton, Inc, DR.. Fishbein said it was the
"brain-child" of the late E. A. Filene,
whose Twentieth Century Fund turned
its attention to promotion of co-opera-
tives for medical care among Govern
ment employees. Mr.. Filene later ad-
mitted "he wished he had pulled out
of it," DR.. Fishbein said.
The Washington cooperative move
ment for medical care, he said, was
'predicated upon a plan that cannot
possibly give good medical service -
The city of Washington is credited
with setting an example of this sort
OF medical care, he said, which is now
spreading throughout the country.
Predicts Breakdown.
Group Health Association, Inc. he
said, would break down in the face of
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an autopsy finding that the youth
died as the result Of an automobile
accident.
: Testimony before the jury was to
the effect that young Wade died at
Garfield Hospital Tuesday of an in
fection caused by defective teeth. The
youth was injured December 81 in
an automobile accident At Thirty
eighth street and Window place NV.
Driver Absolved.
The jury's verdict ahsolved the
driver OF the car of blame in the case.
He was Leo B. Curry, jr., ls, of 1918
Thirty-eighth street NV.
Norris Knight, 48. of Gas B street
Sc. struck last night by an auto
mobile at Bladensburg road and H
street NE, was treated at Casualty
Hospital and discharged as not seri-
ously injured. The driver of the car
police reported, was Homer Benja-
min, l8, of 612 l. street S.W.
Six-year-old Mamie E. Braxton
colored, Of 1881 Ninth street NV.
received broken right leg yesterday
afternoon when struck by a bicycle
while playing on the sidewalk in front
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F|SHBE|N ASSA|LS
STATE MEDICINE
Medical Journal Editor Pre-.
diets Breakdown of Group
Health Idea.

Declaring the American Medical
Association is engaging in Nation
wide study to adjust medical care to
the American economic system, DR..
Morris Fishbein of Chicago last night
assailed State medicine and Federally
subsidized health insurance plans in
an address before the Public Health
Forum of Georgetown University.
Under leadership of county and
State medical societies, he said, the
association already has established in
many parts of the country definite
provisions for adequate medical service
to indigents and to those partially able
to pay He had made known earlier
that the District of Columbia Medi-
cal Society. in conjunction with the
natlonal organization. is about to
institute a thorough survey of hos
pital and medical facilities in WASH
tngton.
DR.. Fishbein, editor of the Journal
OF the American Medical Association
and its official spokesman in oppos-
Ing the spread of State medicine, was
introduced to an audience that
packed Castor Hall, by DR.. Thomas
E. Neale. president of the District
Medical Society. Dr. John R. Cav
anagh, chairman of the forum, pre-
sided. Group Health Association, Inc,
which had refused to debate the issue
with DR.. Fishbein was represented
by many Sympathizers in the au-
dience of 1000 persons.
Will Be Clearing House.
Explaining the purpose of the ma
tional survey of medical needs and ad-
Justments, DR.. Fishbein said:
The American Medical Association
thereby will become a clearing house
In the initiative development and
functioning of what may well evolve
into comprehensive system of med
ical care for all the people in accord
ance with the American plan of
medical practice"
DR.. Flshbein asserted that if the
Government made it possible for every
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have suffered only a cut thigh and
shock. He entered Gallinger Hospital
a week later, however, and was found
to have broken pelvis. The autopsy
which followed his death earlier yes
terday showed that in addition to the
fractured pelvis he had received sew
eral broken ribs.
A coroner's jury yesterday held John
E. McHugh, 80, Of 1919 East Capitol
street FOR the grand jury as the driver
OF car alleged to have killed Matte
Blackwell. S. colored, of 1917 @ street
N. w. as she was standing In safety
zone on Fourteenth street near @
street INV. Tuesday.
Autopsy Finding Reversed.
Mr.. McHugh, who was defended by
Representative Healey of Massachu-
sets, was found Dy the jury to have
been guilty Of "willful and wanton
disregard Of the property and rights
Of Others"
At second inquest the jury de-
clared John Wade, jr., 18, of 1915
Chesapeake street NV, died as the
result of injuries received at an un-
known time and place. This reversed
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person to get the necessities of life,
such as food, fuel, coal. shelter and a
job, you would hear no shouting about
the cost of medical care"
He took few good-natured digs at
the Government for spending $780,
100000 to S2OO,OOO,0O0 annually on
health functions. without providing
for department of health. although
the latter has been agitated since
1875.
To-day We are no nearer that goal
than the pending bill to create a De-
partment of Welfare, which would
group together relief, education and
health he said. And health prob
ably would wind up with a third as
sistant secretaryship."
DR.. Fishbein declared the American
Medical Association would not be
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DEATH OF MAN, So,
DUE T0AUTOHURTS
Autopsy Shows Injuries in
Crash L ast Month-Traffic
To-! at IS.

An autopsy disclosed late yesterday
that the death Of James Price, SO, of
lat Tennessee avenue S. E., was due
to injuries suffered January when
an automobile in which he was a pas
senger was in collision with street
car at Seventh street and Pennsyl-
vania avenue NV. The death brought
Washingtons 1888 traffic toll to IS.
An inquest will be held, the time to
be set later.
Mr.. Price at first was thought to
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OF her home. She was treated at
Children's Hospital.
An Abundance of Snow.

MINERAL, Calf. R-Like the
hockey players whose game was post
poned because Of cold, California
skiers are fretting because Of too much
snow.
The State championship meet was
postponed when heavy SHOWS made
the course inaccessible.
Evening star., 1938-02-11

Antonio Stradivari. the violin maker,
also made many guitars, but the only
one known to bear his signature is
that in the museum of of the Paris
Conservatory of Music.
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HobOeS usually "ride the
rails" but here is one "gentle-
man" OF that traternal or
gdnisatiOn Who rides the
1UaUes. DaDiS, Who reigns
ODer the idle 1U0rkmen," is
1Uauing a fareUeH as he sailed
on the S. S. Queen Mary for
England, 7Uhere he 1UiH pre-
side at a conference OF the
hObOeS from all ODer the
1Corld. Wide World Photo.
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High Society's 'Outcast
Dies So All N. Y. May See
Throngs Watch Him Pace on Ledge
For II Hours, Then Leap to Street

NEW YORK, July q (I.N.S.).-John W. Warde, 26year
old neuroc who played about the fnges Of Southampton
O. l. society today New Yors most specacuar suicide
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Eyewitness Story of Death Leap

fell face down, without turning,
missing the ledge on the sixth
floor that extends a considerable
distance from the building.
My eyes were following the de-
scent Of the body. My ears heard
q kind Of sigh 60 through the vast
crowd and tremendous shout:
There he comeS!"
The body struck the marquee
OF the hotel with q thunderous
crash. There was q second sound
|ot crashing glass. The marquee
moved and swayed under the i'm
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Arab Princes STAY
Worries japanese

TOKYO, July q UN.SO.
Prince Self ell Islam ell Hussien,
third son Of the King Of Yemen
in southwestern Arabia, still lin
gers in Tokyo, although he was
scheduled to return to his noun.
tain kingdom two weeks ago,
shortly after assisting in the dedi.
cation Of a Mohammedan mosque
here.
Common folks are welcome to
stay in Japan as long as they wish,
as long as they behave, but visiting
royalty is likely to become O nui'
sance. So the Foreign Office tact
fully inquired Of Prince HuSSetn
about his departure.
IT like it here" he replied.
when I shall leave, I don't
know yet"
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police and firemen while q police
sergeant sat by u fielc telephone
ready to give the final signal to
raising one end Of the net sud
denly to the eighteenth floor,
covering the ledge upon which
Warde was standing, smoking q
cigarette.
On the eighteenth floor, Fire.
man George McKenna and Patrol
man Albert Miller waited to be
lowered to the ledge at the same
time that one side Of the net was
raised. If Warde jumped, the net
would catch him. If he didn't,
they would be able to seize him.
While McKenna and Miller
were being lowered slowly, one Of
their feet Scraped on the upper
cornice. Warde heard the sound
His eyes darted UP and he saw
McKenna's foot. He glanced up
to his right, and saw Miller being
lowered toward him. The. feet Of
I11C GWO 4ACL4 WOIS Au11OSI ICVGA
with his shoulders when Warde
Tipped away the cigarette.
LIKE INEXPERT DIVER
He placed his hands above his
head in the awkward gesture Of
an inexperienced diver and hurled
himself slightly to the right. His
body cleared the edge of the net.
He plunged downward, spread
eagled, and struck the solid mar
quee with such force that 1t
Swayed.
The last words Of the frustrated
Dlayboy were spoken, half an hour
before he leaped, to Patrolman
Charles GLASGOW in whom, Of all
people who tried to persuade him
to abandon his plan, Warde
seemed to place the most trust.
He said:
IT have made UP my mind.
Nothing can stop me"
And nothing did.
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Before the hypnotiZed gaze Of
thousands massed along Fifth
Avenue, Warde, who twice before
had tried to end his life, plunged
from the seventeenth floor ledge
of the sedate Hotel Gotham or
which he had loitered nearly II
! hours.
Just as he was about to be
trapped like a wild animal in 8
net cunningly devised by police
and firemen, Warde plummeted
head-first onto the glass and Stee,
marquee on the hotel and ther
dropped to the street.
SUCCESS AT NOTHING
Warde was described by hi
acquaintance as a young mar
who was accepted by the society
set Of Southampton-yet was no
part Of it. He was a frustrated
Iplayboy who never in his bushes.
or social life could ever feel hi
had succeeded in anything.
To Southampton'S social fam
lilies he was known as a pleasant
and nice" young man who was
welcome in their homes when they
were not entertaining formally.
They considered him cratic at
times. He always felt himself an
outcaSt.
A murmur that rose to a roar
and then to a tremendous shout
Of there he comes!" swept
through the 5000 spectators who
stood tranSfixed as the body of
Warde followed the glowing arc
Of a cigarette he had Tipped
away an instant before.
SPECTATORS SCREAM
The shout changed to a high
pitched scream as the body struck
the top Of the marquee with such
force as to Shatter parts Of the
ornamental steel scrollwork. For
a grotesque instant it hung half
over the edge Of the marquee,
under the spotlight Of street lamps
and the weird flicker of the
flares of newsreel men.
Then it toppled to the street.
The carnival Of death was over.
Women screamed and tainted.
The body was claimed by
Warde'S sister, Mrs. Katherine
Bull, who tainted twice yesterday
under the strain of pleading with
her brother to abandon his mad
refuge on the hotel ledge.
Warde, who had been q patient
in a State hospital for the insane
until November of last year, at
tempted suicide only nine days
ago. He tried to jump from a
bridge at Hampton Bays, near
Southampton, but was restrained.
He sought death by slashing his
throat ON July II, 1887, at his
home, and was committed to the
Central ISlip Hospital for the In
sane. He had been employed as
& teller in 8 Southampton bank.
RESCUERS TOO LATE
A few seconds more on the ledge
and Warde would have met with
another failure in his quest for
self-destruction.
A cargo salvage net, IS feet by
40 feet, was obtained from the
Coast Guard. It was hauled
stealthily from the street to the
sixteenth floor of the hotel by
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Friend Of Berg
Also Ends Life

NEW YORK, July ~ (C.T.P.S0
Three hours after leaving home
humming a tune, Meyer NARROW,
friend of Self.Slain State Senator
julius Berg, committed suicide yes
terday in his law office in the same
midtown office building where
Berg similarly killed himself last
week. Once a successful bank
ruptcy lawyer, NARROW shot him
self after apparent disappoint-
ment over rejection as adminiStra-
tor of the Dress Manufacturers
Association, a post he was hopeful
of filling.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-07-27
Bay State Salmon
May Lead AGAIN

BOSTON, July ~ U.N.S.)-Sal.
mon, once one Of the leading food
fish found in Massachusetts wa
tiers, once again win take their
place among important natural
foods Of the State if efforts Of the
Massachusetts, department Of con.
|servation are successful.
The gift Of the fisheries division
Of the Province of New Brunswick,
some 100000 eggs at the State fish
hatchery at East Sandwich pro
duced approximately $4,000 finger
INngS,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-07-27
100 Cleveland Boys,
Girls Go To Europe

CLEVELAND, July ~ Q.N.S).
Approximately 100 Cleveland boys
and girls will travel to Europe
this summer under the sponsor.
ship Of Cleveland Student Elk.
change, Inc, to be guests In Eng.
land and German homes.
Fifth Of the students will 60 to
Germany and the others will go to
England. The students going to
England will visit Glasgow, Scot.
land; Cobb and Dublin, Ireland;
the English lakes district, Shake.
Speare'S country, Oxford Univer.
Sity and will live two weeks in
London. They will return to New
York August 81.
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Binoculars HdWked
AS 5000 AWdit Leap

cient to control the spectators, esti.
mated at more than 5000.
Here are q few Of the things
that happened:
A Brooklyn man was taken away
to night court when he ignored 20
lice orders to keep moving.
A woman received leg injuries
when trampled by . polceman's
horse.
A small boy lodged police to
retrieve, as a souvenir, a cigarette
that Warde had tossed to the
street.
Enterprising hawkerS sold binoc.
ulars and did a hustling business.
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pact, and for an awful second
that I will never forget, I saw
the body hanging half on the
marquee.
The street lights fell upon It and
the lights from the flares Of the
newSreel men gave 1t q weird colo
ration.
Then the body toppled off into
the street, falling face first, with
the arms outstretcned and the
feet pointing toward the hotel
entrance.
It looked--well I turned away.
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NEW YORK, July ~ U.N.S0.
Authorities looked at the records
today and decided that morbid
fascination has no limits.
Thousands went without meals,
defied police orders, stayed in near
by offices overtime, and even
bought binoculars to see John
Warde stand on the seventeenth
story lecge Of a midtown hotel and
threaten suicide.
They asked for 1t, but when he
leaped to the pavement and death
they were shocked. Many tainted.
The concerted efforts Of 800 po-
lice and firemen were not Suffi-
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SURVEYS LEAP
Leg Dangling, Warde
Looks BelOGO
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CONTINUED from Page u
I could spot the glowing end Of
his cigarette and the white smudge
Of his shirt.
Suddenly the cigarette described
an arc over the edge Of the ledge,
clearing the net that was being
Sneaked up to capture him.
It seemed to me he had Tipped
1t far out over the street in q final
gesture Of braVado. ~
Then I saw the figure dive out
and to his right,
His body was spread-eagled. He
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-07-27
Lions Club Hears
OF Boys Club Work

ALEXANDRIA, Va. July 81.
A talk on the activities OF the
Alexandria Boys Club by Roger
c. Sullivan, city treasurer and
organizer Of the club, was to fea.
ture the meeting of the Alex
andria Lions Club this afternoon
In the George Mason Hotel.
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Pictorial proof that an elephant
never fOFEetS. The old belief Il borne
taken in the grounds Of the London
Zoo. Sec these pictures and read the
article In The American Weekly, the
magazine distributed with next e1n.
days Herald. Times.
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Voice OfNeW York By Louis Sobo1

or five hours away and I'll be home holidays and
I'll bring my roommate" and the Queen says,
Heavens, don't bring company the way the house
looks now" and Natalie says, why, mother, 1t
won't be for months and months" and the Queen
SAYS, in a broken voice, "T wish you had gone to
college in New York where I could look after
you," and Natalie says, Mother! Don't baby me-
I'm eighteen"
TUESDAY: The Queen is reading book which
L is titled Fifty Years Woman and she says:
II would like to meet Ishbel Ross because she
writes as would write if I could write am
so envious of women like her and Irene Kuhn
and Edna Ferber and Mrs Rinehart because
they can find escape in their writings and not
have to fret If husband scowls and growls at
them because he is so arrogant making the money
in the house If had my life to live over again
I would be a writer-and not take the abuse
have to take"
"WEDNESDAY: They have been to see picture
w called Boys Town and they remember when
they were in Hollywood they we're on the Metro
set and little Mickey Rooney was sitting all ex-
hausted on a chair watching Spencer Tracy, who
was before the camera. II never saw kid so
completely done in," he says. Remember him
telling us if they didn't give him vacation he'd
drop right on the set," and the Queen says,
What a talented child! I wish we had a son
like him." and he says, well, he's certainly no
Tyrone Power in looks" and she says, II think
he is beautiful and manly and love the way he
looks you right into the eyes when he shakes
hands with you. Spencer Tracy, too"
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Chin says: Il don't want any member of my
family to do it, that's ALL" and the Lady says:
Eyes, darling"
Later, when they come home, he is humming
and walking up and down in the silliest fashion
and gather from the conversation they have
been to the Versailles and the Queen and he got
caught in a whole bunch Of citizens doing the
Lambeth Walk so before they know it, the Queen
and he are doing it fancier than anyone else
"A man." says Thin. Brain, solemnly "owes it to
himself to relax. Let's try that step again. One
twothreefour-slap your knees"
Dear Diary, give up.
MONDAY:-There is a great deal of fuss here
AVA Midge, the Canary, is home and dropping
feathers all over the place in disgusting fashion
which they call moulting and Natalie is busy
packing. She is leaving for some sort of place
they call Smith College to be gone long time,
and between the Canary not singing and Natalie
going, the Queen is not like herself
"Oh, mother" says Natalie "you would think
were going to Alaska. Northampton's only four
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May Develop Tieup

A SITUATION is developing
"A within the committee, how
ever, which may delay the really
big economic developments-the
material which is to formulate
economic policy for the next 10
yeaES-until after the January
Congress conveneS.
The committee, as you know,
is divided 6 to 6 between Con-
gressmen and the downtown
socially minded. Now 6 and 6
ordinarily would make a tie,
but not when one of the Con-
gressmen is Mr.. Corcoran'S
friend, Ex-R epres senta tt We
Eicher, who is waiting around
until his congressional term ex-
pires in January so he can then
become a member of the SEC,
without losing any salary. Mr..
Eicher, in effect, is only a proxy
for Corcoran on SEC. That
makes it Z to S for the socially
minded.
The important future Of the
inquiry, therefor, may await
the appointment of Eicher's sue.
cessor by Speaker Bankhead. II
the successor should happen to
be one who is congressionally-
minded, the 6-6 situation may
not only develop a real tie, but
a tieup as well.
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when Paul was the leading sports writer on the
New York Evening journal under the name of
Fright Cross" Paul said:
"The sailor kept coming in like the surf"
That name Right Cross" by the way, dis
guished many a mighty pencil. It was first used
by Paul. then, when he quit the paper to write
"The Heir to the Hurrah" and "Salomy Jane"
and alias Jimmy Valentine" and "The Grey
hound" and other plays, it fell to Jack Nc.
Conaughy, one of the most brilliant sports
writer's that ever lived.
Jack was a great hand for depicting prize
fights as extremely brutal and bloody, and could
make you believe that what you had seen as a
dull pugilistic matter was, on the contrary, as
CORY spectacle was ever seen outside slaugh
terhouse. His editor Arthur Brisbane, who
thought prizefighting was pretty dreadful busi
ness, liked Jacks presentations very much
Financial ReUcrses
A FTER Jack as Right Cross" came one of the
authentic writing men of this country Will
liam o. Mcclellan, who was to set a new high in
literary merit in sports writing. They are all
dead-Armstrong McConaughy, and MCGEE
han-and the name Right Cross" has had no
successor. 1t was the sports writing style in their
days on the Journal to use nom de plume, but
nowadays sports writer's use their own handle
What brings Tom Sharkey to mind is little
item in one Of the public prints that the old
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wherefores Of our ills. They know that a
spiritual rebirth" is indeed. what we need
most desperately, but depend upon emotion to
put across their ideal and therein fail tragcally
WHERE, in the name of Christianity. do we
w have moral obligation" as nation to
"stand by our friends" as my South Dakota
clergyman correspondent contends, when cold
facts show that such action on our part would
be simply lending aid to preserve an "overlord-
ship" which has dislocated the world and made
its mystified and puzzled people unhappy and
distressed?
Do not argue the wisdom or the ethics Of