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Evening star., 1938-01-09
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR
ROUNDING
Week-Long Celebration Of
Commandery No. 2 to
Open Tonight.

A weeks celebration Of the 18th an
niversary of the Columbia Command
cry, No. 2, Knights Templar, will be-
gin tonight with services in the
Epiphany Church, led by the Rev. Ze
B. Phillips.
Columbia Commandery was found
ed January 10, 1863, and on Thursday
night, the anniversary date, q special
conclave will be held in the Masonic
Temple, Thirteenth street and New
York avenue NV, Roy A. Plympton,
commander Of Columbia Command
cry. announced yesterday.
On that occasion q representative
Of the grand master of Templars,
delegations from St. Johns and Mary
Communicates Of Philadelphia, the
Palestine Commandery of New York,
Monumental Commandery of Balti-
more and members of the Grand
Commandery and constituent COM
manderies of the District will be pres
ent to hear an address by Claude
KEEPER, grand recorder and past COM
mander Of Washington Commandery
No. /.
The observance will close with q
banquet at the Willard Hotel Fri
day night. with the principal address
delivered by Bishop James E. Freeman
Of Washington.
A special feature Of the observance
of the anniversary will be a history
compiled and edited by Charles E.
Baldwin, recorder. and printed under
the supervision of a committee COM
posed Of Mr.. Baldwin, James A. West
and Harry Phillips.
| The committee in charge of the
celebration includes Walter Karsner
chairman Mr.. Baldwin, Whiting
Estes, Raymond N. Babcock and Al
bert c. Shafer.
Evening star., 1938-01-09

hospital, was chosen president Of the
Sodality. Other omcers are Mrs.
Barry Case, vice president; Miss Mary
Price, treasurer. and Miss Katherine
Dickie, secretary. Quarterly business
meetings will be held.
Most Of the student activities at
the university are being postponed
until after the midyear examinations,
which begin in another week or so.
Before the second semester starts
February l. DR.. O'Lesry expects to
attend the annual meeting Of the
Board of Regents Of the university in
New York City. The date has not
been fxed.
Evening star., 1938-01-09
SOUTHEASTERN u. HOLDS
LUNCHEON THURSDAY
Open Forum on University's Needs
to Mark Second in Series
of MEETINGS.

southesstern University will hold its
second OF series OF luncheon meetings
OF this season at 1890 pm. next
thursday in the Washington Hotel.
A feature Of the luncheon will be a
lo-minute open forum. conducted by
DR.. James A. Bell. president of the
university. on The Universitv's
Needs" The luncheons are for the
university's alumni, students, faculty
and friends.
The final lectures of this semester in
the university's Schools of Law and
Accountancy will be delivered next
saturday. Final examinations for the
semester will be held during the week
beginning January II. The second
semester will begin January "A.
Evening star., 1938-01-09
VillanOva Head TO Sneak

The Rev. Edward v. Stanford, o. S,
A., president of Villanova College, will
be guest speaker at dinner of the
Vlilanova Club Of Washington at Z
pm. Tuesday at the Hay-Adams House,
Evening star., 1938-01-09

II and last until January %, Dean
Grace Hays Riley announced yester-
day. There win be no class sessions
during the two-week period.
Alpha Rho Chapter Of Sigma Delta
Kappa held the final initiatory cere-
mony' Of the fraternity at the Ken
nedy-Warren last evening. The stu.
dents admitted to membership In
cluded James M Allen. Enoch D.
Chase, Frederick M. Coughlin, Labre
r. Garcia, John w. Keogh, Wingate
H. Lucas, George w. Mexican. John
+. Seeley and Charles M. Sullivan.
Evening star., 1938-01-09
New Glass Organized.

Benjamin Franklin School of Ac-
countancy is organizing a freshman
class beginning January 81 for those
wishing to start their training at this
time. Both day and evening sections
are planned.
Registration is now being taken at
the new school building. HOO Six.
teenth street NV.
Evening star., 1938-01-09
STENOTYPE
THE MACHINE WAY IN SHORTHAND

$50 to $50 Words Per Minute
Business English included. Call, write or
phone for details about training. Dicta-
tion all speeds by certified instructor.
THE STENOTYPE COMPANY
6Oi Albee Bids. Phone National $500
Evening star., 1938-01-09
BEATTY TO TALK
Junior High School Teachers to
Hear Education Official

Willard w. Beatty of the United
States Office Of Education will ad-
oress meeting Of the Junior High
school Teachers Association at the
mcfarland Junior High School Tues
day at 3:45 pm.
Mr.. Beatty will talk on Equalization
OF Extra-Curricular Activities in the
Junior High School," which will be
followed by a panel discussion led
by Miss Louise veihmeyer, assemblies !:
Miss Helen Hodges and John zauner.
clubs: Franklin ]. jackson, orchestra :
Miss Elizabeth Jameson, school paper
and Miss Catherine Crook, student
council.
Evening star., 1938-08-23
Neuritis Keeps Mrs. Moody
Out of Forest Hills Tennis
By the Associated Press,


NEW YORK, Aug. 23.-Because of
the effects OF "a severe attack of neu-
ritis.' which has kept her out of COM
petition since returning from her VIM
bledon triumph, Helen Wills Moody
today notified the United States Lawn
Tennis Association she would not play
in the forthcoming national women's
singles championships at Forest Hills.
Mrs. Moody disclosed her decision
in a letter to Edward B. Moss, execu-
tive secretary of the u. s. L. T. A.
She explained she had failed to re-
spond to treatment since coming back
to this country and did not feel that
she would be able. without sufficient
practice, ito play in such competition
as offered by Forest Hills"
The longtime queen of the tennis
courts, who undertook a comeback
campaign this year with the idea of
seeking to regain the American singles
crown as well as honors at Wimbledon,
accompanied her notice Of withdrawal
with refund of her entire expenses,
amounting to $1,309.45, for her trip
to England with the Wightman Cup
team.
She expressed the hope the U. s.
L. T. A. would accept the refund, in
view of her inability to fulfill her
promise to compete in the national
tournament.
While making no definite commit
ment as to her plans otherwise, the
tone Of Mrs. Moody's letter was inter
Evening star., 1938-08-23
First Synt1'esis of Substance
Similar to Cortin Is Reported
Life-Preserring Wonder-Work g
ormoneNearly Duplicated, British
Scientific Body Is Told.

stein, Swiss chemist, reported here
today, that there is no single sub
stance accountable for all the wonder
working properties of cortin. Actually,
more than Is chemically pure ma
terials have been separated from cat
tle-gland extracts. All are of the
family of the so-called "sterols," which
occur in many forms in the animal
body. but which cannot be completely
synthesized. Only four of the is show
any biological activity whatsoever,
the most potent being a material
known as corticosterone. This will
preserve life in animals from whom
the adrenals have been removed. but
only in much larger quantities than
the undifferentiated extract obtained
from cattle glands.
\
Efforts to synthesize this corti-
costerone, he said. failed, but in the
course OF the work a new material
approaching very close to it. deoxv-
cortlcosterone, was produced by chem
lcal treatment of a cholesterol and
biological tests have shown that this
substance is considerably more potent
Tran corticosterone itself. 1t has an
(see HENRY, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1938-08-23
MONOPOLY PROBERS
PREPARE FOR QUIZ
First Subpoena for Records to Be
Issued Shortly, Executive
Secretary Says.
By the Associated Press

by ihc Associated PreSS.
Leon Henderson, executive secre-
tary of the Government Monopoly In
vestigating Committee, said today first
committee subpoenas for records of
business firms would be issued shortly.
The subpoenas, similar to those is
sued by the Securities Commission,
will require production of records,
books, correspondence and other in
formation sought by field investigators
OF the six Government departments
represented on the committee.
Insurance, steel and oil companies
are expected to be named in the first
subpoenas, some of which may be is
sued within the next 10 days, COM
mittee members said. Personal sub
poenas for witnesses will be DELAYED
until the committee meets shortly
after Labor Day to Ak the dates for
open hearings.
Committee members said issuance of
the subpoenas would be "formality,"
contending that no difficulty had vet
been encountered by committee inves-
tigators in obtaining records from any
business firm.
Evening star., 1938-08-23
W.P.A. CASH BEAT
HIM, SAYS BERRY
Senator Claims S125.OOO
Raised by Assessments
and Collections.
By the Associated Press.

Senator Berry, Democrat, of Ten
nessee, wrote the Senate Campaign
Expenditures Committee today that
two w. P. A. officials in Tennessee
were in fact. but not in name. the
campaign directors OF the coalition
ticket" which defeated him in Ten
nessee's August Democratic primary.
Senator Berry reported "it has been
said" that these officials, who he did
not name, raised a campaign lund of
$125,00 by assessments and collec-
tions from w. P. A. personnel and
relief workers, and that this can be
sustained" by questioning officials of
the State w. p A. administration
under OATH"
In addition to w. P. A. activity in
the campaign, Senator Berry charged
county Democratic primary boards
appointed in a partisan and un-
democratic scheme" were given in
structions to disfranchise voters of the
State of Tennessee who sought entry
into the Democratic primary"
ITO make it perfectly clear and free
fro many ambiguous declarations, :"
Senator Berry wrote, thousands Of
men and women who heretofore had
not voted in the Democratic primary
presented themselves in the primary
booths, prepared to give oath to sup
port the nominees as required under
the law, but they we're denied this
privilege"
The Senator wrote that upon the
Committee of Eight to select men,
bers of the county primary boards
were Federal appointees who are be-
ing compensated from the Federal
Treasury, and who acted in unison
with other partisans upon the COM
mittee in the selection of primary
boards committed in advance to can
didates known as the coalition ticket.
Chairman Sheppard, Democrat, of
Texas, of the Senate Campaign Ex-
pendltures Committee, said Senator
Berry's charges would be referred i'm
mediately to committee investigators
now in Tennessee. A preliminary re-
port Of these Investigators findings
Will be asked for presentation at the
committees next regular meeting
about September l, Senator shep-
pard said.
Evening star., 1938-08-23
XII KLUX CHARGE
DENIED BY NJ 'ADO0
Campaign Foes Claim Is
Wanton|y False Says
Senator.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Peirson M Hall, until recentlv
United States attorney at Los An
getes, jailed to ,Cin redppointment.
he later announced he Would op-
pose on the ballot Senator NC
Adoo, Democrat, OF California,
'ohose term empires this year. Hon.
euer. Mr. Hall Withdrew from the
race to support Sheridan Downey.
~ the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, Aug. ga cam
paign statement charging that Senator
William G. McAdoo was a member OF
the Ku klux Klan in 1924, when he
sought the Democratic nomination for
President, was denied as "Wantonly
false" by the California Senator today
Peirson M. Hall, former United
States attorney now campaigning for
Sheridan Downey in the Democratic
senatorial primary. displayed before
AAAo nAa4CAASC dI al EsdSL IOS A0ReleS
meeting last night what he said was
a klan imperial passport" made out
to William G. McAdoo," and signed
by N. w. Evans, imperial wizard and
imperial cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan.''
Senator McAdoo replied: ANY state
ment directly or indirectly linking my
name with the Ku Klux Klan is wan
tony false and any paper connecting
my name with that organization also
is wantonly false"
No McAdoo Signature.
Senator McAdoo's signature could
not be discerned on the card, Mr.. Hall
said, "and more than likely he never
signed it-as the signature was only
for identification, and McAdoo did not
need that.
Perhaps that card explains the rea-
son why, after voting to confirm Su-
preme Court Justice Hugo Black. and
(See McADOO, Page A-3J
Evening star., 1938-08-23
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.
Star Staff Correspondent.

CAMBRIDGE, England, Aug. 23-
First synthesis of a substance ap-
preaching in potency the life-preserv-
ing and wonder working hormone
cortin, which normally is secreted by
the cortex of the adrenal gland in
living animals, was reported before
the British Association for the Ad-
vancement of Science here today.
1t was first discovered in the United
States in 1880 that an extract could
be prepared from adrenal gland tissue
which would save the lives of persons
suffering from the hitherto invariably
fatal Addison's disease, would prevent
fatigue and increase endurance in an
almost miraculous manner and pre-
serve the lives of animals from whom
the glands themselves had been re-
moved. Ever since there has been
constant effort in laboratories all
over the world to isolate the precise
material as first step toward syn
theslzing it. 1t is now extremely ex-
pensive. the adrenals of thousands of
cattle being required to make an ounce
OF impure material.
1t now is apparent, DR.. T. Reich
Evening star., 1938-08-23
Spain Feels Earth Shocks.

BARCELONA, Aug. % P.-Earth
tremors were added today to the trou-
bles of war-torn Spain.
The Barcelona Observatory at 2 m.
u pm. Monday, E. S. T) registered a
quake whose center was believed to be
on the Catalonian coast. Houses shook
at Corona, So miles northeast of here.
NO casualties or serious damage were
reported.
Evening star., 1938-08-23
$4,000 Return
To Work IN July,
Pay Up $50O,OOO
..3y the Associated Press.


Secretary of Labor Perkins said to-
day that approximately 10000 factory
workers were returned to employment
in July and weekly factory pay rolls
increased by nearly $500000.
She said the report marked a def
mite improvement in the employment
situation"
Gains of OF per cent in factory
employment and of o. per cent in pay
rolls were reported, although factory
employment normally declines by
about per cent and pay rolls by about
per cent in July" she said LAS COM
pared with last July. factory forces
were reduced by one-fourth and wage
earners' pay rolls were one-third
smaller.
Railroads took on $4,000 more men
in July and the seasonal curtailment
in retail stores was smaller than usual.
Reductions in working forces in mines
continued"
The Secretary said the principal in
creases in factory forces were in the
non-durable goods industries She
said that increases in cotton and
woolen mill employment were the chief
factor in gains reported by Massachu-
sets, North and South Carolina.
Maine and Rhode Island.
Wisconsin. Mississippi and Utah
were also among the 26 States report
ing more employment in private in
dustry in July.
Among the States reporting declines
were Michigan, Pennsylvania. Illinois,
Ohio, Indiana and Alabama. The Sec
retary blamed curtailed operations in
Goa! mines. metal mines, automobile
plants and machinery manufacturing
establishments for these reductions.
Evening star., 1938-08-23
MAY ASK ROME AID
ON SPANISH ISSUE
Franco Rejection Of Plan to
Recall Troops Discussed by
Non-1nterventionists.
By the associated Press.

By the associated Press.
LONDON, Aug. 23.-The Earl OF
Plymouth chairman of the Nom Inter-
vention Committee, discussed with
principal members of the committee
today Insurgent Generalissimo Fran
cisco Frances unfavorable reply to
the plan for withdrawing foreign fight
ers from Spain.
Among the callers was Ivan Maisky,
representative of Soviet Russia, who,
informed sources indicated, reiterated
to Plymouth his stand that Russia
could not agree to further modification
of the plan to suit Franco.
Government quarters continued to
take gloomy view of Frances reply,
which, in effect. was rejection of the
proposal. There was a suggestion,
however, that direct appeal might be
made to Premier Mussolini Of Italy to
give his aid.
Evening star., 1938-08-23
FRUIT CELLAR DEATH
MYSTERY is DEEPENED
State Chemist Found No Poison
in Organs of Mrs. Lamance,
Prosecutor Says.

ry the Associated Press.
LACLEDE, Mo-, Aug. 23.-The fruit
cellar death mystery of pretty Mrs.
Ella Lamance, 20, was given another
battling angle today when Prosecutor
G. Derk Green announced State
chemists findings of no poison in
the internal organs.
DR.. William F. Lamance, the wom-
ans husband, who is held on a charge
OF numbering her, has contended his
wife committed suicide, and a private
chemist. employed by his attorneys,
reported Saturday the discovery of a
virulent poison in a portion of viscera.
The State chemist reported to me
that he examined liver, stomach, in
testines and brain for all types of
poison and none was found" Prose-
cutor Green said.
That means to me a complete
reputation of all theories of suicide
and strengthens my contention Mrs.
Lamance probably died from a blow
on the head. That blow caused the
blood clot, 2 inches wide and 3 inches
long, which doctors discovered,
Evening star., 1938-08-23
ROOSEVELT NOTE
HELD RED PRAISE
Dies Committee Told Head
of 'Alien-Directed' Body
Lauded for Work.
BY the Associated Press

A witness told the House Un-Ameri-
can Committee today the "Stalinist-
supported chairman" of the "alien-di-
rected" American Youth Congress had
received letter from President Roose-
velt in 1886 lauding the congress for
aiding democracy.
Prof. Edward I. Fenlon of the phi
losophy department of Brooklyn Col
lege added that another of the
Presidents family has gone out of the
way unwittingly to inspire the alien
spirit that undoubtedly controls this
congress" Prof Fcnlon did not name
the member Of the family Immediately
but later said it was Mrs. Franklin
D. Roosevelt.
The congress to which Prof. Fen
lon referred met in Milwaukee in
1896. He said 1.-The President also
sent letter of regard to the Ameri-
can Youth Congress at its last De-
cember meeting at Poughkeepsie.
Prof. Fenlon, bespectacled, middle
aged professor, who came to Brooklyn
College from st. Mary's College in
California eight years ago, said there
was a deliberate United Front pro-
gram to pull the wool over the eyes
Of the authorities and people"
Danger to Democracy.
The witness contended that the
World Youth Congress just adjourned
at Vassar College was radical-domi-
mated and q danger" to democracy
because it serves to spread the 'leaven"
of Communism
Previous witnesses before the COM
mittee had mentioned that Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt had addressed
this group last week and in so doing
had been exploited" by Communists.
Prof. Fenlon also told the commit
tee that Brooklyn College might quite
fairly be labeled a hotbed of propa-
ganda" and Communist activity. He
named the Young Communist League.
the Marxists, the American Student
Union and the League for Peace
and Democracy as the organizations
through which Communists work at
brooklyn college.
Prof. Fenlon said Mrs. Roosevelt
had contributed financially to the
World Youth group as we'll as ad-
dressing it,
j. B. Matthews. formerly allied with
many United Front groups. previously
had told the committee both the Amer
ican and World Youth Congresses were
part Of the Communist Front and un-
der orders from Moscow.
La Guardia Mentioned.
AS Prof. Fenlon completed his pre-
pared statement Chairman Dies asked
if Communism had gained a definite
and strong foothold in Brooklyn Col
lege among faculty members as well
as students.
Prof. Earl A. Martin, chairman of
(See UN-AMERICAN, Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1938-08-23
Three Flyers Drown.

CHERBOURG, France, Aug. % (P).
"A French navy seaplane, the Loire
Olivier, sank suddenly today after
alighting in Cherbourg harbor. Three
crew members were drowned. The
others were saved,
Evening star., 1938-08-23
TROPICAL STORM SEEN
Formation of Disturbance ]
Indicated Off Jamaica.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Aug. % Up,
The Weather Bureau reported today
there were indications of the forma-
ton of a tropical storm in the Carib-
bean Sea about $50 to 300 miles south
east of Jamaica.
The report, issued at 10 am, E. S.
T., said the storm center appeared to
be moving toward the west or west
northwest" Jamaica is south of Cuba,
Evening star., 1938-08-23
Superdreadnaught to Be Built for
French Navy.


PARIS, Aug. % R.-The navy
ministry announced today that Cesar
Campinchi, minister of the navy had
ordered construction of new $4,000
ton battleship.
The new superdreadnaught will be
named the Clemenceau, in honor of
Frances wartime Premier, Georges
Clemenceau.
It will be the third under construc-
ton in French shipyards. The bat
tleships Richelieu and Jean Bart, both
of $4,000 tons, are nearing compile
ton.
A fourth 35,000-ton fighting ship Is
to be laid down soon. government
circles reported.
Evening star., 1938-08-23

oests ".
BY the Associated Press.
BLED, Yugoslavia, Aug. 23.-The
Little Entente swept away the military
clauses of another World War treat,
today and gave Hungary the right te
rearm 'in the interest of peace"
The three nations-Czechoslav
Rumania and Yugoslavia-agreed tc
abrogate arms restrictions in the Tri-
anon treaty and grant military equal
ity to Hungary.
The action followed a similar move
by the Balkan Entente, which includes
Rumania and Yugoslavia, on July 80
wiping out military clauses of the
treaty Of Neuilly, which limited Bull
garia's rearmament.
DR.. Milan Stoyadinovitch, premier
and foreign minister of Yugoslavia
made the announcement at the close of
a three-day conference of little entente
foreign ministers in this little resort.
Bilateral Pacts Planned.
He said the principle of an under
standing had been reached with Hun
gary also on bilateral nonaggression
pacts and minority problem details
which would be negotiated between
Hungary and the three nations in
dividually. Conversations on Danubian
navigation, he said also would be held
in Belgrade lin the fall"
A formal communique expressed
satisfaction over Improvement of the
international situation in Europe, par
ticularly between the Little Entente
countries and their neighbors.
The conmunique contained refer
ences to the League of Nations which
observers considered slightly critical
but there was no indication the states
contemplated break with the League
Germans Are Disconnected.
(The news Of the Bled pact fab
beIgasted German press represent
atives, according to Chicago Daily
news dispatch from Praha. They
had felt any agreement at Bled i'm
possible because the consent of Ad-
miral Nicholas Horthy and his
aides was unobtainable. The lat
ter were in Germany on a state
visit.
ct was indeed only after hours
of frantic telephone calls that
Baron Bessenyei- finally
succeeded in reaching Foreign
Minister Koloman Kanya at Kiel.
Adolf Hitler's guests had been Wis
iting the German admiralty yacht
Grille, where it had been impos-
sible to get in touch with them,
and Nicholas Petrescu- Comnen,
Rumanian foreign minister and
president of the conference, had
already decided to prolong the con-
2ress to noon today.
In Czech quarters the agree
ment is considered evidence of
Hungary's confidence in the honest
intentions of Czechoslovakia in the
treatment of its Magyar minorities.
But the really sensational feature,
an agreement that contains a
pledge by Hungary to sign a nom
aggression pact with Czechoslo-
vakia, is that it was concluded
precisely at the time when the
Hungarian statesmen were con-
ferring with Hitler).
Germany Annoyed At Italy.
Yugoslav sources said Germany, now
trying to extend her influence into
Southeastern Europe, was annoyed at
Italy's alleged efforts to gain suprem-
Acv in the Dan1Ihe RaSjp
Petrescu-Comnen, Rumahia's for.
eign minister, was reported due in
(See CZECHS, Page A-5)
Evening star., 1938-08-23
Summary Of Today's Star

Page. Page.
Amusements Bis Radio Ria
comics h-lo-l7 Short Story b.
Editorials - AS Society R.3
financial ALB Sports A-10-12
Lost & Found BIB Woman's Pe. BIZ
Obituary - A-10
FOREIGN.
Battles rage on two fronts in
Spain. Page Al
NATIONAL.
Ramspeck hits political use of Federal
jobs in primaries. Page Al
Berry claims w. P. A. money defeated
him. Page Al
Nays new air battleship ready for
tests. Page Az
Social Security head condemns Cali
fornia pension plan. Page BIS
WASHINGTON AND NEARBY.
Hines promised raid protection, Vein
berg says on stand. Page Al
Yeggs rob safe in downtown bakery
of $40o. Page AS
Independent Democrats announce plat
form in Montgomery. Page B-1
Tydings hits New Deal as burden on
farmers. Page B-l
Flag for District to be selected to-
morrow Page B-l