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Evening star., 1938-10-27
RULE
SEEN POLICE AID
Lusk Says Control Would
Simplify City's Traffic
Problems as Well.

Belief that adoption Of pedestrian
control regulation would permit a
lesser number Of policemen to be as
signed to trafhc, by simplifying the
trafdc problem, was voiced today by
Rufus S. Lusk, president Of the Wash
ington Taxpayers Association, in a
letter to Commissioner Melvin c.
Hazen.
Referring to the announced plan Of
the commissioners to hold an extraor-
dinary public hearing, within the next
several weeks, to test out sentiment
on control Of the jaywalker, Mr.. Lusk
said "that's fine"
The statement OF Mr.. Lusk was
placed in writing because Mr.. Hazen
was kept at home with q cold The
date for the hearing has not yet been
set because OF Mr.. Hazens illness,
but Engineer Commissioner David
McCoach, jr.. who initiated the move
for the public hearing, has suggested
that it be held not earlier than after
two or three weeks so that all civic
minded groups might be prepared to
act on the proposal.
Corporation Counsel Elwood H. Seal
suggested today that the hearing be
held at night, possibly in the audi
torium at the Commerce Department
Building, 50 that q large attendance
would be possible.
Indorsing the idea Of pedestrian
control, Mr.. Lusk declared he believed
the result would be easier and
speedier" vehicular movement as well
as easier and safer" travel for pedes-
TRANS. He said, in part:
During the late summer visited
Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland
Seattle and Vancouver, and spent
enough time in each city to get some
insight into their methods of trafic
control.
THE first thing that impressed me
was that pedestrians are controlled
just 1 much as automobiles. No
one in these cities would any more
think Of walking through q red light
than driving through one. The result
Is that it is not only much easier
and speedier for motorists to drive
through light-controlled Intersections
no jaywalkers crowd the street
but it Is likewise easier and safer
for pedestrians to cross such inter-
sections"
Evening star., 1938-10-27
CITY OFFICIALS ANSWER
TAxICAB ASSOCIATION
FEDERAL Concern Seeks Injunction
Against Enforcement of 100
Member Regulation.

The District Commissioners yester-
DAY filed an answer in District Court
TO the suit Of the Federal Cab Asso-
cation. which seeks an Injunction
against enforcement of a regulation
providing that such groups must have
loo members, and the city heads ar
gued that the associations counsel
mad agreed to the limitation,
Further, through Corporation coun-
sci Elwood Seal, the Commissioners
asserted that the association members
signed an agreement to remove the
association name from the cabs if it
tailed to reach the minimum number
oy october 81. Arguing that the
regulation complained of is reason
able and necessary both for cab own
ers and the public, the Commission
ers said that formation and operation
OF a taxicab association is a privilege
and not vested right.
corporation Counsel Seal told the
court the order is q lawful exercise
OF power and that. the drivers can
stu operate their cabs without legal
damage. The association previously
informed the court that through no
1ault OF its own q strike at the taxi
cab manufacturers has delayed de-
livery OF the necessary cabs here.
Evening star., 1938-10-27
BAND CONCERT

BY the Soldiers Home Band in
Stanley Hall at $40 o'clock tonight.
John S. M. Zimmerman, bandmaster;
Anton Pointner, assistant.
Program.
March, "A Blaze of Glory Holzmann
Overture, Gear and Zimmermann,"
(The Car and the Carpenter),
Lortzing
For strings only:
() Angels Whisper" Sommerlatt
(b) Last Dream Of the Virgin"
Massenet
Scenes from the opera,
"Boccaccio" -------s>-- Won Suppe
Pop numbers:
by the Shalimer" Frost
"Bumpity-Bump" Lombardo
Waltz song, Carolina Sunshine"
Schmitt
Finale, Bonnie Blues"
Paris Chambers
'Ths Star Npans1sd 9annR."
Evening star., 1938-10-27
THUGS KNOCK DOWN,
ROB MAN OF $1,000
$500 in Cash and $1,000 Worth
of Race Track Tickets Stolen
From Pedestrian.

Harry Woodard, 40, of 1920 Sixteenth
street NV, was knocked down and
robbed of $500 in cash and $1,000
worth Of race track tickets by two
young white men who attacked him as
he walked along H street between Ver-
mont avenue and Sixteenth street NV.
last night, he reported to police.
Mr.. Woodard said the men accosted
him after getting out of an automobile
which, police said, had escaped a few
minutes earlier from a chase by q
squad car through Southeast Washing
ton. The tags on the bandit car
were said to have been stolen three
months ago.
After knocking him down the men
took his coat and wallet and fed again
in the hunted automobile, Mr.. Woodar6
said. His wallet contained five 500
bills and 10 $50 tickets on the winner
of the eighth race at Laurel yesterday,
which could be cashed for 81 900, he
told police.
A young white bandit with a small
black mustache last night held up
the Alban Towers Pharmacy at Mass
achusetts and Wisconsin avenues NV.
and escaped afoot with $3.50 loot
James T. Malone, assistant manager Of
the drug store. said the hold-up man
took $85 from one cash register, $40
from another and 365 from his pockets.
Policemen G. s. Eckles and c. W.
Kelley, investigating . burglar alarm.
caught two colored youths running
out of an alley in the rear Of . gro
Gerry store In the 1000 block OF Four
teenth street NV. The boys, "a and
Is years old, told the omcers they
had tried to break into the store to
steal some cigarettes. They were being
held for further investigation.
Evening star., 1938-10-27
Experiments Open Prospects
Of Radical Heat Treatments
Body Temperature of Dog Raised
to More Than III Degrees by
Packing Carotid Vein in Ice.

flicts children and which often ends
In serious heart involvement.
It is believed to be due to a mild
Inflammation Of the brain caused by
some unknown microscopic organism
or filterable virus The Inflammation
itself disappears in few weeks, leav-
ing the strange. uncomfortable twitch-
ing as an after effect. Up to date,
DR.. Neymann said, every one Of the
child victims he has treated have re-
covered, with no return of the disease.
On the other hand, he has found
that the treatment has no value what
soever in Huntingtons chorea, a some
what similar afiliction of adults, which
is due to a definite basal lesion in
the brain and which is believed to be
hereditary.
Phlebitis Treatment
Remarkable results from use OF arti-
flcial fever in treatment of phlebitis,
or Inflammation of blood vein, which
often follows an injury and which is
frequent complication after child
birth, were reported to the academy
by Drs. James NJ. Bazemore and Will
liam B. Snow Of the Columbia Univer-
sity-Presbyterian Medical Center.
They described series of IL cases
in which raising the temperature be-
tween l02 and l04 F. brought about
quick relief OF pain and swelling and
a progressive improvement in the NAL
ady itself. Some Of these cases had
not responded favorably to any other
treatment.
They we're induced to try this treat
ment by the apparent good results in
phlebitis cases which were treated
with typhoid vaccine. producing q low
fever. for other reasons. It was de-
termined that raise in temperature
to about l02, such as is caused by
typhoid vaccination. brings about an
increased blood bow through the veins
and also that at this point there is the
greatest leukecytosis in the blood.
Study Is Stressed.
Before trying the new treatment,
they stressed, the individual should be
studied. One of the great dangers of
increasing the blood flow in phlebitis
is that an embolus will be dislodged
which may strike the heart and prove
fatal. In all these cases, however,
there have been no complications
whatever.
The patient is kept in fever cham
Der for about five hours, the tenn
perature being allowed to fall slowly
to normal. The new treatment was
recommended in phlebitis cases which
have failed to respond to other treat
ment or where there is a constant
recurrence. It can be carried on, they
stressed, in combination with any
other means cf therapy ever proposed
for the malady. and might mean the
difference between success and COM
plete failure.
Evening star., 1938-10-27
DUAL AUDITORIUM
HOPES REVIVED
Plans Combining Hall and
Armory May Be Drawn,
Officials Indicate.

Recent negotiations between Federal
and District oficials have revived hopes
for an appropriation by Congress for
construction Of a building to serve both
as a home for the District National
Guard and as a National Capital audi
torium. interested onacials indicated
today.
Reports were current that plans for
such a project are to be drafted by
architects Of the procurement division
of the Treasury and that some respon-
sible agency may petition Congress for
necessary funds, ranging from $3,00o,-
900 to s6,00o,000.
Roosevelt Comment Cited.
In connection with plans for a grand
scale development of the area near the
end of East Capitol street, suggestions
have been considered for an armory
and an auditorium there Interested
officials have called attention to state
ments by President Roosevelt. indi-
eating his interest in the construction
OF large auditorium.
The suggestion is advanced that this
project might be combined easily with
large hall providing adequate &C.
commodations for the Guard, which
is to be dispossessed of its present
makeshift home in the National Hotel
when the whole Of the Municipal Cen
ter site area is developed.
Many Reported interested.
Among those interested In the plan
are said to be officials of the National
Capital Park and Planning Commits
sion, representatives of the District
government, the Interior Department
and the National Guard.
Oficials of the P. w. A. announced
recently that plans for construction
OF National Guard armory as a part
OF the Districts P. w. A. program
were rejected. The Commissioners have
indicated they will not find it possible
10 include an appropriation for a new
armory in the 1910 District estimates
Evening star., 1938-10-27

,E1ns mn pts with dogs, in which
the bod temperature was raised to
more than Ill degrees Fahrenheit
without inju.ing the animals, by
packing the carotid vein in the neck
in dry ice were reported before the
Academy of Physical Medicine here
yesterday afternoon by Dr. Clarence A.
Neymann Of Northwestern University.
These experiments open up pros
poets Of far more radical heat
treatment Of human beings than any,
body yet has dared to try and which,
observations indicate, may prove of
value in treating certain inoperable
forms Of cancer
1t is through the carotid vein that
the brain gets Its blood supply. If
the superheated blood is cooled to
normal body temperature just be-
fore entering the brain, DR.. Neymann
explained. the dreaded and often
fatal heat shock can be avoided while
at the same time the rest of the
body gets the effects OF the very
high temperatures The fact that the
technique works with dogs. he said,
gives promise of its eventual success
In human beings, since Z dog Is much
more sensitive to heat than a man.
Fevers Of liz on Record.
While persons vary greatly in their
fever tolerance, he said, it is generally
accepted that anything above 1895
is above the limit of endurance and
everybody will enter q state of shock
which will probably be fatal There
are isolated instances, however, where
physicians have recorded fevers of as
high as 112 and the victims have
lived.
There are a few observations, he
said, OF malignant growths of the
type known as sarcomas disappearing
or tending to regress when the cancer
victim undergoes severe fever. Tests
have also shown that sarcoma cells,
and probably other types of neoplasm
cells. are killed by heat more quickly
than normal cells. Heat treatments,
however, would require that the body
temperature be raised well above
ITO F.
Any application Of these findings,
DR.. Neymann stressed, must await
much more animal experimentation
and can only be considered at pres
ent as q distant possibility.
St. vitus' Dance Conquered.
DR.. Neymann was world pioneer
in the development of fever therapy.
His latest results tested over a con-
siderable period, he said, show that
one disease may be considered as
almost completely conquered by rela-
lively mild fever applications. This
is sydenham's chorea, known popu-
larly as st. Vitus' dance, which af-
Evening star., 1938-10-27
STAMP SALEIS $685.
l6-Cent Lincoln Issue First Day
Sales Are 1O5,324.

The Washington Post Once COL
lected $ls,S51.84 from the FIRST day
sale of the 16-oent Lincoln stamp Of
the new regular series on October 20,
the Post Once Department announced
yesterday.
A total Of 105,324 of the new stamps
were sold, and 59,S66 first-day covers,
including 7,0s5 bearing blocks of four,
were Cancelled.
The department also announced the
- stamp Of the current regular series
was withdrawn from sale ut the Phila-
teltc Agency on October a.
Evening star., 1938-10-27
MUM EXHIBIT
TO OPEN SUNDAY
$500 Pots Will Be Shown
at Botanic Garden
During Season.
BY WILL p. KENNEDY.

The Botanic Garden will have its
mum show ready by Sunday when
there will be on display 1900 pots,
with three plants to pot, including
48 varieties Of the hardy pompom,
with all colors and color combina-
tions, including a variety of bronze,
red, shell pink, yellow, cerise, golden,
lemon and orange tints.
The petal formations are of as wide
variation as the colors, and the TO-
liage is an added attraction for stu
dents of botany The plants will be
on exhibition daily, including Sun
days. from 8 am. until 4 pm. in both
wings of the main conservatory be-
tween Maryland and Independence
avenues. Several night shows will be
arranged later.
The purpose Of the show is to in
terest the public in a wide range OF
attractive blooms which can be grown
in yards by persons with little or NO
experience. 1t is the hope Of David
Lynn. architect Of the Capitol, who
is delegated by Congress to take
charge Of the Botanic Garden, and OF
William A. Frederick, botanist and
horticulturist In direct charge, to ado
many more varieties of chrysanthe-
NUNS during the coming year for edu-
cational features.
Background Of Palms.
The plants now are being placed
with giant palm backgrounds at the
rate of 500 day in the east and wes,
wings of the large exhibition con.
servatory. Heretofore the Botanic
Garden made only a slight effort tt
display chrysanthemums of the pom.
pom variety. This year a special eff
fort was made to have the show in.
clude types Of interest to all flower
lovers and particularly the home gar.
den growers. The plants on display
were all grown by Botanic Garder
specialists. The stock was acquired
in the fall of 1887 and has beer
developed in the hothouses at tn,
Poplar Point nursery in Anacostia.
The pompom chrysanthemums re-
quire but little care when grown out
doors in the home garden" Mr.
Frederick explained, "and are Z
source Of much joy and beauty afte
the flowers and foliage of other plant
have gone into winter condition"
Wide Diversity of Shapes.
There is wide diversity Of shape.
in the blooms on display-some ia.
vor the shape and form of the cactu.
dahlia. others are of the button o.
daisy types.
The mum" show will inaugurate
the fall and winter program of sue.
cessive showings of various species o.
plants and flowers in the large exhi.
bition conservatory of the Botanic
Garden. Following will be the dis.
play of favorite Christmas season
blooms-the cyclamen and poinsettias
These are now developing, in excel
lent condition, in the Botanic Gar.
den greenhouses. Mr.. Fredericl
promises "a wonderful spectacle fol
the Christmas holidays"
Evening star., 1938-10-27
MRS. COULTER RITES
Services Planned TODAY
Columbia Heights Church

Funeral services for Mrs. Emma J.
coulter, 50. will be held at 2 pm. TO-
day at the Columbia Heights Christian
church, l435 Park road NV. The
Rev. A. P. Wilson will officiate.
Mrs. Coulter, who died Tuesday at
the home of a daughter, Mrs. Esther
Wolfe, 918 Longfellow street NV. was
resident of Washington for 26 years.
She was native of Loudoun County
Va. and lived with her daughters fol-
lowing the death of her husband. in
1922.
She is survived by two daughters,
Mrs. Wolfe and Mrs Alma Rue; one
son, William T. Coulter, all of WASH
ington, and four grandchildren. Burial
will be in Cedar Hill Cemetery.
Evening star., 1938-10-27
SLUM-CLEARANCE
ACTION WEIGHED
FOR ALEXANDRIA
Council Meeting Slated After
Sraus Brands Conditions
Worst in U. S.
AID AND COUNSEL
OF U. S. H. A. OFFERED
City Fathers Convene Tomorrow
to Consider Creation Of
Housing Authority.
Creation Of housing authority for

Creation Of housing authority for
Alexandria, Va will be considered by
the City Council tomorrow as a result
Of timely offer of Federal aid in
cleaning up local slum conditions de-
scribed by Nathan Straus, United
States housing administrator, as being
among "the worst to be found any
where in the country"
Mr.. Straus made the offer of a o. S.
H. A. loan yesterday afternoon after
City Manager Carl Budwesky had con-
Quoted him on an interesting inspec-
ton of the shabbieSt slum areas-one
of them stones throw from the beau
tiful George Washington Memorial
Parkway. This location in particular.
which he was quick to seize upon as
a possible housing site, prompted him
to urge Alexandrians to do something
about this slum problem" and to do
it quickly.
Votes Survey Aid.
Mr.. Straus was informed that the
City Council would meet tomorrow to
consider holding public hearings on the
question of coming in on the U. S. H.
A. program. 1t has already voted
s1.400 to help finance a proposed
$4,000 survey of housing conditions
In the city. The balance of the fund
Is being sought from the Works Prog.
ress Administration.
The Federal housing official was
promised he would see sights in Alex
andria he would long remember, and
the miserable shacks" he visited at
the district known as the Gross
CanaI' section convinced him of the
need OF a large rehousing program. He
later addressed the Women's Club at
a meeting in historic Gadsby's Tay-
ern, attended by many city officials,
and explained to them how to 90
ABOUT getting U. S. H. A. assistance.
Virginia was the last State east Of
the Mississippi River. he told the meet
ing, to pass an enabling act author.
lzlng the creation of local housing au-
tnorltles. Portsmouth and Bristol ara
tne only two cities that have done
so' ne said, in urging Alexandria to be
the next.
Worst He Has Seen.
1 have just returned from an
inspection tour of l8 cities" he re-.
marked, "and you can't find anv
worse slum conditions anywhere in
the country than those have seen
here"
MI Straus was met at the big circle
IN the Memorial Parkway near the en-
trance to the city proper by Mr..
BudWesky and Maurice Rosenberg,
VINO represents Alexandria in the Vir-
elnla House of Delegates. Mr. Rosen-
berg sponsored the States housing
legislation.
IN explaining the housing program
70 members OF the Women's Club.
Mr.. Straus reminded that for each
new mouse erected the city would be
o0llgated to demolish or repair a slum
dwelling. He suggested that rents
should be kept at a level of about
$3.50 per room per month 30 as to
reach those within the lowest income
groups.
MRS. Robert Masterton. vice chair
man OF the current events section of
the Women's Club, presided at the
meeting. Accompanying the housing
administrator to Alexandria were
Henry Schauffler. project planner for
virginia and other States in this area
ana Iyrell krum, chief of the Divi-
sion OF Information.
Evening star., 1938-10-27
Natives Are Vanishing.
By the Associe I'd Press.

6S CGe ASSOCF ID PreSS.
Descendants of the original Christo-
pher Columbus Reception Committee
are vanishing rapidly and may become
extinct. The Smithsonian Institution
said today that only about 400 swarthy,
dwarfish Caribs on a 3,OO0-acre reser-
vation on the West Indies Island Of
Dominica are left to trace their su-
cestry back to the Indians Columbus
saw when he reached this hemisphere.
Evening star., 1938-10-27
WATERWAY BODY LAUDED
President Praises Efforts for
Water Resources.

The Atlantic Deeper Waterways As
sociation today was commended by
President Roosevelt for the part it
has played In promoting the develop
ment of the water resources Of the
Atlantic Coast region IN the past 30
years
In a letter to ]. Hampton Moore,
president Of the group, Mr.. Roosevelt
said he would be unable to attend
the association's 3lst annual eonven-
ton. to be held hsr4 November 1919.
Evening star., 1938-10-27
Fraternity to Hold Dance.

Final plans have been completed
for Halloween dance to be held by
Delta Sigma Fraternity Monday at
10 pm. at the Women's Country Club
of Bethesda, John O'Neill, Entertain
ment Committee chairman, announced
today.
Evening star., 1938-10-27
Explosives Industry Booms.

The explosives industry had boom
last year, figuratively speaking. The
biennial census Of manufactures showed
today that explosives produced in 1887
ware valued at 5S,1S1 ,337. an increase
Of l3.l per cent over 1885. y
Evening star., 1938-10-27
Boats to Circle Alcatraz.

Excursion boats from Treasure
Island will circle the site Of the Cali
fornia Worlds Fair and AlcatraS
Island; famed Federal pris1h.
Evening star., 1938-10-27
GEN. GULICK RETIRES
Officer at Fort Monroe Nearly an
Years in Service.

BY the Associated Press,
Brig. Gen. John w. Gulick, stationed
at Fort Monroe, Va, retired from the
Army yesterday after nearly 40 years
of service.
Gen. Gulick, whose retirement was
announced by the War Department.
served in the Volunteers in the Philip
pines as q first lieutenant in 1901.
= During the World War he was chief
Of stan, 40th Division. He was award
ed the Distinguished Service Medal for
meritorious service in France.
Evening star., 1938-10-27
C0LLADAY TO. BE- FETED
Board Of Trade Heads to Give
Testimonial Tonight.

Municipal omcials and business,
civic and educational leaders will at
tend . testimonial dinner honoring
Edward +. Colladay, former president
OF the Board Of Trade, at the May
flower Hotel tonight ut 7 O'Clock.
This Is an annual affair staged by
the Board Of Directors Of the trade
organization In honor Of the I'm
mediate past pessidaat.
The Washington times., 1938-11-17
CABINET FACES
five SHIFTS. BY
FIRST OF YEAR
Woodring Post May Go
To Louis Johnson

U.N.SO. Several other shifts
in the Roosevelt cabinet may bO
expected between now and jan
uary, when, as already announced,
Attorney General Homer s. Cum
mingS will retire to private life.
These shifts, according to well.
founded reports in Administration
quarters, will involve Secretary Of
War Woodring, Secretary of Com.
merce Roper, Secretary Of the
Navy Swanson and perhaps Post
master General James A. Farley.
JOHNSON SLATED
The retirement of Secretary
Woodring has long been rumored
and the expectation has been that
when it takes place he will be sue
ceeded by Col. Louis M. johnson,
assistant secretary.
At American Legion heGdQuGr-
tiers In Indianapolis, Ind, today,
high Legion officials 10ere conf
dent that Colonel johnson, q
LegionnGire, 1Uiu receiue the Cab
met post at an early date.
Some SubStantiation of these
rumorS has been seen in the fact
that Colonel johnson has been
placed at the head of the War
Departments machinery for car.
rying out the projected new arma-
ment program. He, recently an
nounced the huge power-defense
plan calling for an expenditure
Of about $4,000, 100000 during the
next two years.
ATTENDED FARLEYS
Colonel johnson has partici-
pated in all of President Roose-
velt's conferences on the defense
program, while Woodring has at
tended few of them.
If and when Woodring does re-
tire, it has been reported he will
go to the Philippines as governor.
general, succeeding Paul V. Nc.
Mutt, who is returning to the
United States shortly with no in
tention of returning.
The desire of Postmaster Cen
eral Farley to get out of the Cab
met has long been known to his
intimates. He has frankly said
he cannot afford, for financial
reasons, to remain much longer.