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Evening star., 1938-09-26

neck area whsgs the German Army,
should 1t come, easily could trap the
CSechoslovaks. 10 their abstention
from entering the area likely was for
technical reasons.
Censorship and delayed commune
cations cloaked the events in Prague.
Alvin J. steinkopf, Associated Press
correspondent in Prague. through N.
B. C. facilities, Sunday night re-
ported that the city was blacked out
completely in anti-air raid precau-
tions.
Streets were lighted with faint blue
glimmer. Blue lanterns stood at some
downtown street corners.
Despite the darkness many pedes-
trians groped through the streets.
Czech optimism was high, and citizens
OF Prague expected no war at once.
But the new Premier, Gen. Jan
Syrovy, and President Eduard Benes
insisted on the precautions. Under full
mobilization. hundreds of thousands of
men were under arms and Fastening
to or established at frontier posts.
An American refugee problem de-
veloped. A group Of a American
citizens, fearful of crossing the from
tier at Eyer into Germany, returned
to Prague.
Many Of them were Of Czech birth
or descent. They elected officers and
called themselves the American Refu-
gee Group. with Milton Shu1ro OF
Chicago, president.
Reporter Runs Mine Barrier,
A Reuters British news agency
correspondent ran a barbed wire en-
tanglement and mines to reach Hun
gary today with his story of the
Czechoslovak governments mobiliza.
ton.
Hungarian customs officials were
astounded at his arrival at Komors
Bridge, closed to trafiic since yester.
day morning.
Prague was full OF excitement,
said the correspondent. "All Friday
night there were demonstrations ir
the streets. Members of Sokols (ath.
letic clubs) have taken over most oi
the police duties, and hundreds ol
reservists are arriving with a kit Of
food for two days.
During the night there were two
blackouts for periods Of a quarter O.
an hour. Most Of the people who ap.
peared were carrying gas masks ane
small torches were fixed to street cor
ners to light the way.
Bomb Skaters Dug.
Trenches were dug in one or two
open spaces to serve as bomb shelter
and all underground cafes and bar
have notices, Gas Air Raid Shelters.
All along our route to Brunn W,
passed detachments Of reservists with
little bundles, and everywhere ther,
was great evidence Of military activity
The reservists were coming in larp,
numbers to all chief towns, and tn,
number Of horses requisitioned strucI
one as particularly large"
Evening star., 1938-09-26
De VALERA ASKS
4 FARLEY ON PEACE
Expresses Amusement Over
FataIistic Attitude of
Worlds Statesmen.
~ the Associated Press,

~ the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Sept. 2s.-Eamon de
Valera, president of the League Of
Nations Assembly and premier of Ire
land. yesterday urged general Euro
pean peace conference" As the solu-
tion to the Czechoslovakian crisis and
future similar situations.
mot always will We have some one to
DO what Mr.. Chamberlain British
prime minister) has DONE" he said in
3 radio broadcast from Geneva which
was transcribed by the Columbia
Broadcasting System.
Such conference, he said, "is over
due"
IT nations be called to make Ger
tain sacrifices at such conference,
these will be far less than the sac
rifices they will have to make in the
time OF war" De Valera asserted.
He said the minds of delegates to
the Assembly were far away"
They are discovered asking them
selves whether their home defenses
are as we'll organized as they should
be or whether some precautions that
should have been taken have been
omitted. -
Indeed, nothing but the risk of
giving an impression of panic has
kept some of the delegates from re-
turning home since the crisis began"
. Psychology Held "Amazing."
De Valera said the psychology Of
persons facing war possibility was
amazing" He was impressed, he
said. by "the sudden and complete
abandon which can seize even re-
sponsible men,"
"A fatalistic attitude of mind is de-
veloped. the will to make a further
effort is atrophied, the policy of drift
is accepted and events are allowed to
take command and determine the re-
suits" he said.
Appealing for league of nations
effective for Europe. he said 1T will
quickly become applicable to the
world
Until the soul of Europe is at
peace. there cannot be real peace or
cooperation anywhere else" he de-
clared.
Evening star., 1938-09-26

In some places, notably the
farthest western section, it would
cut into Czechoslovakia as much
as IS miles.
From Dub it undulates IS miles
eastward to Spicak. leaving = 10
mile frontier gap-one Of the eight
areas in which Hitler demands 4
plebiscite giving the citizens their
choice of CzechoslovAk or German
nationality.
1t startssagain at Dobrosov, going
almost due south to A point near
Policka, then travels 100 miles east
to Pribor, and curves another 50
miles to end at Bohumin, near
the Polish frontier.
A bulge in the new frontier"
below Brunn and another bulge
coming from the north would
squeeze Central Czechoslovakia to
narrow corridor, scarcely 80 miles
wide, choking movements from
west to east In Czechoslovakia. =
Includes City Of Brunn.
OF eight proposed plebiscite areas,
the one just north Of Bratislava,
includes the important city Of
Brunn. A second Is in the south
west corner Of Bohemia. just south
Of Pilsen. A third Is In Northeast
Bohemia, between Dub and Spicak.
A nth hangs on the new FROM
tier" from a point east Of Policka
to a point west of Bohumin, taking
In the flourishing city Of Ostrava.
There also are three island"
areas, where Hitler would hold
plebiscites. one large region sur
rounding Jihlava and two smaller
ones south and east of Vykson,
blocking the "Moravian bottle
neck" Hitler wants to create. almost
cutting Czechoslovakia in two.
These areas cut through vital
railway lifelines, take in the nations
coal and iron deposits and, it Is
understood. part of the great Skoda
Munitions Works.
Evening star., 1938-09-26

for 4 settlement was conveyed to tho
foreign office by Minister Jan Masaryk
last night and the cabinet undoubtedly
received the document during the
morning meeting. which adjourned at
l:lo pm. 0:lo am. Z. g. t.
Omcial sources declined to say
whether Wilson was taking the Csecho-
slovak reply with him, but there were
strong indications that he was do
ing 20.
As to what else he was taking, there
was only speculation.
Generally, however, close observers
believed he was charged with deliver
ing not only 4 British French refusal
to support Hitler's new ultimat,lm for
German military occupation OF large,
stragetic areas Of Czechoslovakia, but
also some new proposals.
Omcials declined comment on Pres
ident Roosevelt's appeal because Of its
personal nature. However, their grati-
tude was evident.
IN aooltfOn to gas mask nttinHs and
other air raid precautions, crowds Of
quiet people standing in the rain in
Whitehall saw big trucks carrying
oranse-colored gas cylinders and other
equipment for the balloon bArrage-
the network Of balloons and cables
designed to protect London from
bombs.
Presumably the equipment was being
moved to strategic depots.
Gen. Gamelins intensive consulta-
tions with the British ministers and
defense chiefs were carried out &C.
cording to plans made April 20, when
Britain and France frightened their
military accord.
Although these defense arrange
ments naturally were secret, it was
widely reported they tnvisased British
command OF the combined naval forces
and French command Of both the
armies and air forces, with French
bases being used for. Britain's new,
long-range bombers and swift fighting
planes. n
Evening star., 1938-09-26
RIVER SHIPMENTS UP
An Index Of Business, They Show
Biggest Jump in Year.

PITTSBURGH. Sept. rs lP.-River
shipments, usually an index of busi-
ness conditions. are on the upgrade
with the most decided advance in
more than q year.
Shipments from this port down
the Ohio last month totaled ss5. $50
tons, an increase Of l3O,9 $50 tons over
July. The figure for August also
was an increase Of l0.45O tons over
March. the previous banner month
Of 1898.
Shipments on the Allegheny dur
Ing August totaled 263, 800 tons and
on the Monongahela 1,279,470, both
increases.
Evening star., 1938-09-26
Poatman Was All at Sea.

ASTORIA, Greg. tP.-Lost in fog
of the mouth of the Columbia River,
Fisherman Alfred Berthelson. alert for
the lightship whistle, followed close in
a ships wake once he picked up q
signal.
When the fog lifted, he discovered
he had followed freighter far out
into the Pacific.
His gasoline and food supplies were
exhausted. A tuna clipper took him
in tow.
Evening star., 1938-09-26
LEAGUE WON'T ACCEPT
AUSTRIA'S WITHDRAWAL
Legal Committee of Assembly
Refuses Recognition Of
Union With Reich.

Ey the Associated Press.
GENEVA, Sept. 26.-The Assembly 5
Legal Committee refused today to rec
ognise Austria's withdrawal" from the
League Of Nations, but left the problem
still unsolved on where Austria's dues
would come from.
A communique said Germany's no
tice to the League March 18 that Aus
tria had vanished. by absorption into
Germany, was not q legal notification.
Austria paid about $69, 900 yearly in
League dues.
Evening star., 1938-09-26

measures-how they will move men,
varships and airplanes to the fighting
lines if they are drawn into war.
Evening star., 1938-09-26
Cxechs Mobilize Women.

BUCHAREST, Rumania, Sept 76 lA).
The Cxechoslovakx government has
decreed immediate auxiliary war serv-
ice for. men and women between II and
90, said . dispatch, from the olncial
.osechasiovak nsvs agency Noday.
The Washington times., 1938-08-01
Group Health Halls Monopoly Quiz

Perry R. Taylor, business mana
ger of G. H. A., said:
Glad to hear Of Mr.. Arnold's
action. I think the situation
needs investigation. hope to
see the day soon when our
members will be on an equal
footing at hospitals with other
patients"
The Justice Departments deciS-
ion to ask for a grand jury fol-
lowed a preliminary investigation
caused by numerous complaints"
made to the agency by proponents
of Group Health.
If indictments of A. M. A, off,
GERS result from the Grand Jury
investigation, it will be the first
time in history the Federal Gov.
ernment has moved for criminal
proceedings against a national
professional society.
Announcement of the depart.
ment's intention was the second
body blow in less than a week to
be delivered to the District Medi
cal Soclety-and, by extension, tc
the A. M. Ain their struggle
against "Socialized medicine" Last
Wednesday, Justice Jennings
Bailey, in the United States Dis
trict Court, decided that CHA was
neither guilty of practicing medi
cine illegally nor of engaging ir
the insurance business without 9
license.
The Washington times., 1938-08-01

support. Although the older or
ganiZations among Government
employees held apart from Group
Health officially, because of its
controversial nature, the CLOS
United Federal Workers of Amer.
lea threw its full strength into the
move.
BY January of this year Group
Health had achieved a total mem
bership of approximately $500
paying members, scattered through
all of the major Government Of
fices.
This figure has remained fairly
stationary since then because of
court action taken against Group
Health by U. S. Attorney David
A. Pine to determine whether the
movement had a legal right to
exist. This uncertainty was
cleared last Tuesday, when Justice
Jennings Bailey ruled in District
Court that Group Health was
neither a corporation practicing
medicine nor engaged in the in
Surance business in violation of
law
The Washington times., 1938-08-01
MORE ROBUST NOW:
A STORMY INFANCY
SURVIVED BY CHA
Battle
Waged for Right
To LiUe

Group Health Associates Inc,
today an apparent victor in its
battle for life with older forms of
organized medicine, has withstood
more than a year of stormy ex-
istence.
The movement began early in
1887 within the Home Owners
Loan Corporation as an effort by
that agency to provide low-cost
medicine for its own employees. 1t
quickly gained nationwide atten-
ton and within a few months had
spread to almost every Federal
Office.
Meanwhile, however, the con-
troversy over its radical" fea-
lures caused a Senate investiga-
ton and precipitated fight be-
tween the Acting Comptroller
General and HOLC over $40,0
which the Hole appropriated
from its own funds to inaugurate
the movement. Concurrently a
running duel ensued between
Group Health on one side and the
American Association and D. c.
Medical Society on the other.
SENATE QUIZ ASKED
BY August of 1887, Group
Health had progressed sufficiently
to announce plans for opening its
clinic on downtown Eye Street,
and within two weeks a Senate in.
vestigation of so-called "socialized
medicine" was demanded by Sen
ator Pat McCarran CD of Ne
vada, who challenged the right of
Hole to be the angel" for such
an enterprise.
Mid-December saw McCarran's
stand backed by Richard N. Ell,
liott, Acting Comptroller General,
who issued an opinion to him
that the Hole gift" to Group
Health was illegal. AS the gen.
eral accounting office does not
have jurisdiction over HOLC,
spending, however Elliott's opin-
ion had no effect in obstructing
the movement and Congress
eventually approved the HOLC
gesture.
Meanwhile, it's clinic having
been in operation since Novem-
ber of 1887, Group Health at the
end of the year opened a drive
for members throughout the Gov
ernment service.
RESPONSE is QUICK
Response was almost immediate.
Committees for cooperation were
formed in other departments for
the purpose of enrolling additional
The Washington times., 1938-08-01

This beetle, the bulletin pointed
out, feeds on approximately 200
different kinds of plants, although
there is a considerable list of
types not appreciably affected.
Those listed include gingho, ar
borvitae, cedar, fir, hemlock,
larch, pine, spruce, bald cypress,
holly, beech, ash, black gum, sweet
gum, magnolia, the tulip tree and
dogWood.
Also the red, white, black and
scarlet oaks, except the Norway
and Japanese types.
The Washington times., 1938-08-01
AVA|N HUNT
Police Cannot Locate
Freed Pound Dogs

BETHESDA, Md, Aug. l..
Montgomery county police at the
Bethesda station today are still
looking for more than a dozen
dogs which escaped the pound
several nights ago.
Armed with four-foot nets,
three of the officers have been
searching the Bethesda Chevy
Chase area for two days in a vain
effort to recover the dogs. Late
last night, it was reported that
none had been found. It Is be-
lieved the dogs were released by
q boy whose pet had been picked
up for violation of the county
quarantine. All of the dogs were
to be destroyed.
The Washington times., 1938-08-01
Columbus Youths
Set Flight Mark

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Aug. / Il.
NS0.-A new worlds endurance
flying record for light planes was
set yesterday by two 20-year-old
Columbus boys, Bill Bullock and
Cliff Haney. The pair set their
four cylinder monoplane down at
Port Columbus after sc hours and
SO minutes in the air. The old
record was So hours and As min
utes. The plane was refueled four
times daily with gas pulled up into
the plane from the top of NOV
ing truck.
The Washington times., 1938-08-01

cooperation results in construc-
tive proposals going beyond the
elimination of illegal practices,
the department will adhere to
it's previously announced policy
of submitting such proposals to
the court as a basis for a
consent decree
This was believed to refer to the
expulsion of DR.. Mario Scandiffio
for affiliation with CHA. Rein
statement of DR.. Scandiffio and
dropping of illegal-practice charges
against DR.. Raymond E. Selders
medical directors of CHA might
it was believed, lead to a request
for consent decree.
SCANDIFFIO HOPEFUL
Commenting on the action taken
by the Justice Department DR.
Selders said:
This will advance the cause
of cooperative medicine. There
is no reason why any group of
American citizens can't hire
physicians on prepayment
basis, regardless of what the
American Medical Association
says about it,"
DR.. Scandiffio said he hoped
for reinstatement in the medical
society. He added, however:
"Of course am Sill with the
g. H. A."
The Washington times., 1938-08-01
To Escape Jap Beetle,
Plant Right Shrubs

COLLEGE PARK, Md, Aug. /
Property owners in nearby areas
where the Japanese beetles have
been playing havoc with shrub
berry were advised today as to the
varieties of plants that are less
apt to be seriously damaged by
the insects.
w. R. Ballard, horticulturist
in the extension service of the
University of Maryland, issued a
bulletin today listing varieties of
shrubbery advisable for use in
planning landscaping in this and
adjoining areas.
The Washington times., 1938-08-01
Work Starts at Once
On New Sewer Lines

ARLINGTON. Va, Aug. Con
struction of new sewer lines in the
East Falls Church and Pimmitt
Run areas will be started this
week under a $11,966.85 contract
awarded Saturday by the Arling-
ton county board.
The contract was given to David
A. Calabrese, of Arlington, who
submitted the lowest of eight bids.
The highest bid exceeded $25, 900.
Both truck and lateral sewer lines
are included in the project.
The Washington times., 1938-08-01
CONTINUED from Page One)

(COntlnue0 from rage OneJ
Thomas E. Neill, past president of
the society. said:
Let 'em go as far as they
like.
Let the courts fight it out.
I don't think any of the medical
society officials are going to
discuss Mr.. Johnson's action.
If there is any statement, it will
come from the society's commit
tee on public relations.
DR.. William j. Mallory, elected
to succeed DR.. Neill as presidents
last May, said:
There is absolutely nothing
for us to say. There is nothing
we can say. There is no regular
meeting of the medical society
until fall-and don't anticipate
calling any special session at the
present time"
LAWYERS CONSULTED
DR.. F. K. McGovern, chairman
of the Society'S executive commit.
tee, said:
THE whole matter has now
turned into a legal proposition.
Any statement from the society
will be issued only after we have
an opportunity to study Mr..
Arnold's statement and after
consultation with our attorneys"
Assistant Attorney General
Arnold, who announced the pro-
posed Grand Jury investigation in
connection with what he termed
monopoly practices" allegedly re-
sorted to by the two societies in
their fight against Group Health,
said this morning:
my statement was issued
merely as a decent warning.
When one group is preventing
the operation of free competi-
tive market, we cannot ignore
1t. The same action is going on
on the labor front. If one
group of men prevent another
group from working by unfair
methods, it is our duty to in
vestigate and find out why.
"DAte of the grand jury in
veStigation is problematical."
PEACE OFFER AINTED
Arnold held out what was con-
aidered q peace offer to the med.
zeal association when he said:
I'm the event that voluntary
The Washington times., 1938-08-01
COUNTY OBTAINS
$4,000 OPTION
TO BUY ESTATE.
Step Taken to Build
HyattSviIIe Structure

HYATTSVILLE, Md, Aug. IA
$25,000 option to purchase the
Rogers estate on Rhode Island
Avenue, HyattSville, for the pro-
posed new county building in the
metropolitan area of Prince
Georges county has been obtained
from the State Roads Commission,
T. Howard Duckett, of the Sub
urban Sanitary Commission, has
announced.
The roads commission pur-
chased the land ten years ago for
$4,000 at the time Of the widen
ing of Rhode Island Avenue at its
juncture with the Baltimore Boule-
ward. The option was granted on
the condition that the land be
used for public purposes only,
Duckett said.
S35O,OOO PROGRAM
The proposed new service build.
ing is a part of a $350,000 public
construction program now being
considered by the county commits
Sioners. The program will include
the construction of wings on the
present county court house at
Upper Marlboro at an estimated
cost of $150,000. The Hyattsville
building will also cost $150,000,
the remaining $4,000 to be used
as a differential fund.
Need for a county building in
Hyattsville has been stressed by
residents living in the northern
section of the county who object
to having to travel to Upper Marl-
boro for the transaction of county
business. Six years ago the county
leased the old National Bank
Building as a police sub-station
and county court room. but space
in that building has since become
inadequate.
S4OO MONTHLY RENT
Duckett has pointed out that
the $400 paid monthly in rent for
the old bank building would
amortize a debt incurred in the
erection of a new building.
County agencies now having Of
fices in Hyattsville are the police
department, county welfare board,
jail, Federal employment office,
court room, and building inspector.
The welfare board and the en-
ployment service have been forced
to obtain space in other buildings
because of cramped conditions in
the county building at Hyattsville.
The Washington times., 1938-08-01
DR.. FiShbei11
Won Talk

CHICAGO, Aug. l I.N.S.)
DIR. Morris Fishbein, editor
of the Journal of the Ameri-
can Medical Association and
a spokesman for the assOcia-
ton, today declined to COM
ment on charges of mOnOpO-
listic practices brought
against the association by
the Department of Justice.
DIR. FiShbein explained he
could say nothing until heads
of the medical association
discussed the proposed grand
jury investigation.
The Washington times., 1938-08-01
MUM IS " 0 R D
AT ALL BUT ONE
HOSPITAL HERE
Only BoCoCk Admits
Interest in War

With a single exception, direct.
ing heads of Washington hospitals
were silent today on the Depart.
ment of Justices proposed grand
jury investigation of the District
Medical Society and the American
Medical Association for violation
of antitrust laws.
DR.. Edgar A. Bocock, superin-
tendent of Gallinger Municipal
Hospital, said:
"Gallinger is not involved in
this controversy in any way.
Gallinger is a public institution
for the care of INDECENT citizens.
Members of the G. H. A.
qualify as private patients and
therefore are not eligible to
Gallinger, which is a free city
hospital.
However, we are following de.
velopments in the situation with
a great deal of interest"
BLANKET OF SILENCE
Col. Percy M. Ashburn, super
intendent of Columbia Hospital;
B. B. Sandidge, superintendent of
Emergency Hospital, and DR.. Ho-
bart, of Children's Hospital, said
they had partially read news
paper accounts, but refused to
comment. DR.. Lewis H. Taylor,
Sibley Hospital director, said he
was unfamiliar with Arnold's
statement, and added that he did
not have ANY opinion at all. :"
At Providence Hospital, queries
were met with the reply that 1--WE
do not make any statements" DR..
w. A. Bloedorn, director of
George Washington University
Hospital, was out of the city, and
other officials would not COM
ment. DR.. F.. j. Eisenman, di-
rector of Garfield Hospital, could
not be reached.
PHYSICIANS CHARY
Officials of the Episcopal Eye,
Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital
were also reluctant to discuss Mr..
Arnold's action. Henry P. Blair,
chairman of the executive COM
mittee of the institution, said he
had no comment to make at
present, but would possibly do so
after further study of the Depart
ment of Justice statement.
At Georgetown, it was said
there would be no comment, and
Fred Mckee, president of the
board of trustees of the National
Homeopathic Hospital, said he
might have something to say after
reading Mr.. Arnold's statement.
Private physicians also were
chary Of discussing the proposed
action by the Department of
Justice. Most of them said they
wanted time to analyze the state
ment, but all who were questioned
refused to be quoted or to allow
use of their names.
District Health Officer George C..
Ruhland could not be located.
At his office it was said he was
out, and attaches of his depart
ment refused to discuss the pro-
posed Grand Jury Investigation,
Evening star., 1938-09-29

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