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Evening star., 1939-03-26
Man Held by Police
After Hit-Run Call

Pvts. T. A. Brown and M. ]. Hall
OF the eighth precinct, answering a
call last night to investigate q hit
and-run accident, returned with an
alleged automobile thief.
Unable to find the victim or any
trace of the accident at Connecticut
avenue and Macomb street, where it
was supposed to have occurred. the
officers had their attention attracted
to a car which drove up with a
clatter. It had a fender dragging
on wheel and as the officers ques-
toned the driver, they noticed bits
Of blood on his coat.
The driver, a 29-year-old man,
was taken to the station for Ques-
tioning Ofncers said they learned
the automobile was stolen. ! They
continued their investigation to see
If he had been involved in q hit
and-run accident. The man claimed
he got the blood splattered on his
coat In . light.
Evening star., 1939-03-26
Liquor Advertising Ban
To Include Sky Offered

Liquor advertising in the form
OF "sky-Writing" or as circulars sent
through the mails by retailers or
through distribution of handbills
may be forbidden in the District
under new regulations proposed yes
erday by the Alcoholic Beverage
Control Board.
At the request of the board the
Commissioners forwarded the pro-
posals to Corporation Counsel Ell
wood H. Seal for a ruling as to
legal aspects of the suggested new
rules.
The major purpose in the pro-
posed regulations, it was said, is to
prevent forms of advertising which
hold particular attraction to chill
dren. officials said they had re-
ceived complaints against indiscrim-
mate distribution of advertising of
liquor as circulars through the mail
or as handbills.
Officials said they believed "sky-
writing advertising signs would be
stopped if the rules are found le-
gally proper and within the scope
OF District laws and are adopted,
since the name of the dealer, the
brand and quality of the product
would have to be included in an
approved form of advertising.
The rules are included in a set
OF proposed regulations dealing gen.
orally with restrictions on signs and
other forms of advertisements. The
board has announced it will hold a
public hearing on the suggestions
after they have been analyzed by the
corporation counsel.
Evening star., 1939-03-26
Guest at Party Admits
Poisoning Liquor Killing 7
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
KEENE. N. H., March 25.-County
Solicitor John R. Goodnow said to-
night Alfred Wojehick, 30, Brattle-
boro. VT, town employe, had con-
fessed poisoning the liquor which
took the lives of Mrs. Julia Whea-
ton, 30, and Edgar Smart, %, at
Ashuelot last night.
Goodnow said Woehick signed q
four-page confession and that war
rants charging him with the slay-
ings would be served tomorrow
Wojehick, meanwhile, was confined
in the Jail here. The county solic-
itor declined to reveal the contents
OF the confession. which he said he
would make public tomorrow. He
said he believed the liquor was in
tended for some one else.
Earlier, Sheriff Frank ]. Bennett
said he had been informed that
something" was thrown into a pond
near Smart's home after the couple
died last night. Omcers said they
were seeking the tumbler in which
the drink was served.
The victims collapsed within
three minutes" after drinking from
the same glass last night. Mrs.
Wheaton died en- route to a hos
pital, and Smart, a mill fireman,
succumbed shortly afterward.
Investigators said a day-long in
vestigation shed no light on the
motive for the killings or the type
of poison employed.
Evening star., 1939-03-26
1ars
Studied in Search
For Treatment
Substance Inhibiting
Growth Is Found
In Hydrocorbon
BY HOWARD w. BLAKEsLEE,

Associated Press Science Editor
PHILADELPHIA, March 25.-Tars
that cause cancer are to be tried
as remedy for cancer.
This treatment one of the most
unexpected discoveries in the history
of cancer, was announced today by
the international Cancer Founda-
ton. in reporting studies it has
financed in "a institutions all over
the world.
Tar, and its relatives such as SCOT,
have been known for many years as
the cause of occasional human skin
cancer. This fact led to search for
the fraction in tar responsible for
the disease. A hydrocarbon was
isolated which seemed to be the
answer
This hydrocarbon has been made
synthetically, that is, in test tubes,
In many forms. Nearly all Of these
forms caused skin cancer when
rubbed on animals. But some were
much more virulent than others.
Growth Inhibitor Found.
There was no thought of using
these apparently dangerous chemi-
Gals to treat cancer. The hope was
that one of these artificial tars would
reveal the missing link in the great
mystery, which is why the wild
growth starts.
The new slant came from a dis
covery by DR.. A. Haddow of the
Royal Cancer Hospital London,
England. He found that all of these
cancer hydrocarbons also contain a
substance which inhibits growth.
This inhibition means slowing the
speed of growth of the cells which
form living tissues. Wild. rapid
growth of such cells is the main
feature of cancer.
''Inhibitors" of growth have been
found in cancer cells themselves and
extracted at the Roosevelt Institute
for Medical Research. Growth in
hibitors and growth promoters have
also been detected in some forms of
sulfur. But to date none have been
reported as useful in treating cancer.
Therapeutic Possibilities.
DR.. Haddow's discovery is the first
OF an inhibitor existing in chemi-
cal that definitely causes cancer.
This revealed that apparently all
the hydrocarbons which cause the
disease possess the inhibitor.
AS rule, the greater the power
of the chemical to cause wild
growth, the greater the strength of
the inhibitor. The two properties
balance each other so evenly that
at first there seemed no way to use
the inhibitors. But DR.. Haddow says
he has found few of the cancer
tars which are stronger inhibitors
than they are cancer-p producers.
This observation" his report
states, has therapeutic possibilities,
and experiments are now in progress
on the synthesis of compounds which
might be sufficiently strong inhibi-
tors and yet sufficiently weak carci-
nogenically to be used in treatment
of cancer"
Evening star., 1939-03-26
New Device Shows
Other Side Of Hill
To Motorist
Astronomical Mirror Is
Expected to Decrease
Traffic Accidents
BY the Associated PreFs.

BY the Associated PreEs.
NEW YORK, March 25.-Science
has made an astronomical looking
glass to prevent automobile collisions
at the crests of hills. In the glass
a motorist can see the other side
of the hill.
Going up, he has a visibility Of
1000 feet down the opposite side. In
effect, to him the hill looks like
fiat plain.
The device was described today by
the Greater New York Safety Coun-
Gil. which begins a three-day meet
ing here tomorrow. Six years ex-
perimenting is back of it.
The glass, 13 feet wide ancs 4 high,
big enough for half life-s view
of the other side of the hill set
above the middle of the ROAD DIT the
hilltop. 1t is on bridge, like those
used to carry railway signals.
1t is made of II triangular bars
of glass, laid parallel across the face.
Each bar is actually a prism, the
device used by astronomers to bend
light into the spectrum in studying
stars.
These prism bars in the highway
glass are slightly staggered. They
bend the light rays coming up one
side of the Hill to go downward on
the other side and in such a way
that the motorist sees normal shapes
Of cars, pedestrians, children and
roadside scenes on the opposite side.
The effect is like looking into a
mirror, although in this case the
things seen are behind the glass.
For this reason the prisms make a
"tWo-way mirror" The same prisms
give motorists on both sides, simul-
taneously, view of the other side.
The glass is under a canopy to
protect it against obscuring rain
and snow. 1t is said to be as ef-
fective at night as in the day.
The first test setup was erected
six years ago near Minneapolis. Har-
vey Ladew Williams of Greenwich,
Conn, representative of the Mime
apolis manufacturers, said develop
ment has been carried on in con-
sultation with the Washington Office
OF the Bureau Of Public Roads.
The council also described today
talking "cop," radio box planned
to hang ON highway telephone
pole. This box can give road in
formation as we'll as warnings to
stop or go at crossings.
Plans include sending messages
which can be picked up miles
downroad on the radios of approach
ing cars.
Evening star., 1939-03-26
Roilb;rds Gather as Underposs
Work Reaches Seeing Stage
Excavation on $53o,ooo Thomas Circle
Project Now Well Under WAY

Rallbirds have made their appear
ance at the Thomas Circle under
pass. a $3.50 900 undertaking, as work
on the project reached the seeing"
stage.
We've come to the surface" said
William j. Meyer, construction SUI
perintendent He explained that in
the three months since the project
was started most of the work had
been relocating underground elec-
trio lines, gas and water mains and
sewers.
Now excavation is we'll under way
on the actual subway" The work
is carried on before group of on
lockers -railbirds-whod droop them
selves over a temporary fence around
the circle. Without formal recog-
milton which their kindred souls, the
sidewalk superintendents. have re-
ceived, they are, nevertheless, quick
to appreciate a deft manipulation
of the steam shovel. They are also
as free with their advice as that
other species of railbird-the sports
fan.
The preliminary work has in
volved much more than moving the
l89-ton statue of Gen. Thomas, spec
tacular as this seemed, and other
activities which have met the eye
of the casual passer-by. All utility
lines passing through the circle have
been relocated q detailed and tedi-
Gus task.
North-South Sewer Lowered.
Most tedious of all, it appears, has
been the north-south sewer line.
The problem has been to lower the
line so it will go beneath the under
pass. The sewer at the north end
of the Circle. where the new link
will be connected. is IL to Is feet
underground. From that level. the
new line will be dropped sharply to
a depth of % feet, go beneath the
underpass and then, in order to
maintain gravity flow of wastage,
level off for about 300 feet on Four
teenth street south of the Circle. 1t
is joined to the present link at Four
teenth and L streets. Where the
two links are connected. the sewer
runs about 20 feet underground.
AS an egineering problem, the
changes have been rather simple.
The difficulty has been in carrying
on the work without closing the
street or interrupting service to
buildings in the neighborhood. and
II, u.ootl,or MT oyoctlv fo ovorohlo Of
times for outside work. AS it is. this
phase of the work Jagged a little.
Night shifts were abandoned when
apartment residents complained of
the noise.
However, Mr.. Meyer said, the work
as whole is progressing satisfac-
torily, as several phases of the prof.
ect are ahead of the schedule.
Work Done in Stages.
At present, the sewer line is being
completed through the Circle proper.
The sewer, S feet wide by 4 feet 8
inches deep, will have a l5-inch base,
12-inch sides, and an l1-inch top,
all reinforced steel.
Inc new line replaces d CoIlCieIc
sewer, built Is years ago, which in
turn replaced a 6O-year-old brick
sewer. incidentally, the brick sewer
has been useful in the present un-
dertaking. 1t was never torn out
while the new line has been under
construction, outlets have been di-
verted into it.
Meanwhile, work is progressing on
the approaches to the underpaSS
Evening star., 1939-03-26
Chemical Society Makes
Two $1,000 Awards

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 25.-Award-
ing of two $1,000 prizes for research
was announced today by the Amer
ican Chemical Society.
An award in biological chemistry,
sponsored by Eli Lilly &, Co., went to
DR.. George Wald, instructor in BIZ
ology in Harvard University, for
fundamental work in the field of
biological chemistry and particularly
for his researches on the relation
Of vitamin A to the human eye.
Another award went to D. L. S.
Palmer, professor of agricultural bio
chemistry at the University of Min
nesota, for achievement in research
in the chemistry of milk" sponsored
by the Borden Co.
The prizes will be presented at
the opening session of the societys
9th meeting at Baltimore April 3.
Evening star., 1939-03-26
Nova Scotiun Students
Burn Hitler in Effioy

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, March Is
canadian ess).-University stu
dents burned an efflgy of Adolf Hit
Ter today as they paraded through
downtown streets in an anti-Nazi
demonstration. More than $50 stu
dents OF Dalhouse University and
other colleges took part.
The students, about so of them
girls, marched behind a goose-step-
ping uniformed youth made up to
represent the German chancellor.
Banners and placards urged Hang
the Paper Hanger" and Baycott
German Goods" Marchers chanted
"Gnats to Nazis."
Evening star., 1939-03-26
Fireman Overcome,
Photographer Hurt
In Warehouse Fire
$l50,000 Worth Of Goods
In United Food Stores
Base Is Endangered

A 23-year-old newspaper photog-
rapher sprained both ankles and a
fireman was overcome by smoke
last night when two-alarm fire
swept through the United Food
Stores warehouse at Twelfth and E
streets S.W.
More than $l50,OOO worth of
canned and packaged foods, await
ing distribution to 10 local stores,
was endangered by the blaze. AL
though Samuel Goldstein, ware
house manager, could give no i'm
mediate estimate of the damage, he
said he thought the packaged cere-
ais suffered most from the fire and
water.
The photographer, Andrew Knight,
was injured when he slipped to the
ground from his position atops a
nearby freight car where he had
been taking pictures of the scene.
He was removed to Emergency Hos
pital in the Fire Department ambu-
lance and later sent to Casualty,
where 1t was thought he might also
have suffered fractured heels. He
had landed on his heels when he
made the l2-foot drop.
The fireman, John Earl Palsgrave
OF No. 3 Engine Company, stumbled
from the smoking building and COL
lapsed. He was revived at the scene
and protested vigorously when the
Fire RESCUE Squad ambulance took
him away.
Six engines and two truck COM
panies and the Fire Rescue Squad
responded to the alarms. Two boxes
had been pulled by Pennsylvania
Railroad employees from the nearby
yard before the engines arrived and
a second alarm was turned in.
Thought to have started from the
lighted cigarette of a boy attempt
Ing to steal baskets under the wooden
loading platform, the fire reached
the second-floor roof of the wood
and brick building. The roof of
the platform was ablaze when the
fireman arrived.
Within few minutes, the firemen
had confined the flames to the base
ment and loading platform.
Evening star., 1939-03-26
Murphy Is Forum Speaker

Frank Murphy, who brought along
a reputation for broad sympathies"
when he was appointed Attorney
General not many weeks ago, will
discuss civil Liberties" in the Ma
tional r. dio Forum at 1920 pm.
tomorrow
The NJ 'onal Radio Forum is ar
ranged by The Star and is broadcast
over a Nationwide network of the
National Broadcasting Co. 1t is
heard locally over Station WMAL.
Installed in the cabinet hardly
long enough to become completely
oriented, Mr.. Murphy nevertheless
feels-as he has felt for years-that
In time of social unrest those
charged with protection of con-
stitutional rights should be unfailing
in their duty.
A close personal friend of Presi-
dent Roosevelt, Mr.. Murphy took
over his cabinet post January 2
and lost little time swinging into
action.
One of the first things he did was
to issue an order designed to speed
up criminal and civil cases and
clear dockets in the Federal courts
throughout the country. THE effort
to bring criminal cases up to date"
he said then, ought to be ener-
gized."
And there is no doubling the fact
that Mr.. Murphy himself is ener-
getic-his record clearly shows that,
AS Mayor of Detroit he laid him.
self open to criticism by sanctioning
public Communist demonstrations.
but it marked the end of clashes
that had resulted in bloody scalps
and black eyes.
AS Governor General of the Philip
pines he maintained the traditional
hands-of policy in regards to FIJI.
pino treedom-and was liked for It,
Evening star., 1939-03-26
Labor Board Orders
Western Union
Election
Vote on Bargaining
Unit Set for Next
Wednesday

An election to determine the
proper collective bargaining unit for
Western Union employees in this city
has been ordered by the regional
office of the National Labor Rela-
tions Board for next Wednesday.
Balloting will be conducted from
Z am. to 8 pm. in room 608 Of the
Commercial Building, 1405 G street
NV, when voters may choose be-
tween the Association of Western
Union Employees, the Commercial
Telegraphers' Union or indicate a
desire for neither
The c. T. U. is an affiliate of the
American Federation of Labor, while
the Association of Western Union
Employees is unaffiliated with any
national labor organization.
Pending before the Labor Board
at this time is complaint that the
association is company dominated
union. A trial examiner for the
BOARD found that such was the case
and has recommended to the board
that 1t issue an order for disestab-
llshment OF the association. The
board has not yet ruled.
1t was explained today, however,
1t was explained yesterday, how
ever, that the election and the ulti-
mate decision of the board on the
pending complaint do not conflict at
this point. If the board finally should
concur with its trial examiner in
his opinion that the association is
company dominated, it's disestab-
lishment may be ordered regardless
OF whether or not it prevails in the
local election.
Meanwhile, both the C. T. U. and
the association are soliciting men,
bers. On Thursday, the association
sent out letters claiming their rec
ord of achievements for the en-
ployes has been unsurpassed" by any
rival group.
Friday night the c. T. U. held a
mass meeting at the knights of Co.
Iumbus Hall on Tenth street. Litera-
ture also has been distributed.
Eligible to vote in the coming elec-
ton are about 700 employees of the
traffic, commercial, messenger and
plant divisions.
Evening star., 1939-03-26
Knudson, so, Says Job
Is Like Umpirinq
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
DETROIT, Mich, March as
William S. Knudsen, observing his
Goth birthday today. talked of his
job as president of General Motors
Corp.
I'VE have five motor divisions and
q accessory divisions, and every one
is on his own" he said 1T is like a
game, and I am the umpire and you
know what happens to umpires."
Evening star., 1939-03-26

m Massachusetts, avenue. On the
west side of the circle a retaining
wall has been completed. On the
east side one OF the granite walls
has been completed. All the work
is being done in stages. so that it
will not be necessary to close the
streets converging at the circle to
the heavy traffic they carry.
Progressing at its present sched-
ule. Mr.. Meyer said, the project will
be completed in october. However,
Mr.. Meyer, native of Washington
and construction superintendent for
James Stewart & Co.. the contract
ing firm, probably will not be here
for the completion. He has been
transferred to Hartford, Conn, to
direct a ST 500 900 construction prof.
ect. He will be succeeded on the
Thomas Circle project by Joseph
Cunningham Of Baltimore.
Evening star., 1939-03-26

And he lost none of his popularity
when he became high commissioner
of the islands.
More recent and better known
was his reign as Governor OF Michi-
gan. The highlight in this chapter
of his career was, of course, his
mediation role during the .automo-
bile labor difficulties.
AS in the case Of most public
figures, Mr.. Murphy came In for
some digs when he was named to
the cabinet, but he also was stamped
during pre-appointment discussion
Is VERY co,npetent-a man OF broad
sympathies."
Evening star., 1939-03-26
Gift Kitten Saves Woman

CHERRYVALE. Kans., March Is
P1.-A Persian kitten, given her a
week ago. saved the life of Mrs.
Sadie Hills, 81, today.
Persistent mewing of the kitten
awakened Mrs. Hills and she dis
covered her home in flames. Al
though a semi-invalid, Mrs. Hills es-
capped. The house was destroyed.
Evening star., 1939-03-26
Weather Report

District with occasional
afternoon
tomorrow.
Maryland and Vgna-Cloudy with scattered beginning
West Vrgna-Showers today and tomorrow
Evening star., 1939-03-26

NEW YORK.-O listed
JUDGE-City Magistrate Mark
A. Rudich, who was cited by
Special Assistant Attorney
General John H. Amen for al
legged malfeasance and mis-
feasance in Office, was removed
from the bench yesterday by
unanimous decision Of the ap-
pellate division.
"A. P. WirephOto.
Evening star., 1939-03-26
Readers Guide
News Summary
The Sunday Star. March PC 1920
PART ONE.
Main Ne1Us Section.
Foreign.
The Sunday Star, March 26, 1889.

ToIei9n.
Conciliatory speech expected today
from Mussolini Page Al
Poland reported massing army on
Danzig border. Page Al
Territory guarantee in Reich pact,
Rumanians declare. Page AS
Anti-German bloc of Britain waits
on Poland and Italy. Page "A
Madrid surrender of air force to
Franco reported. Page Ais
National.
Byrnes backs plan to delay boost in
social security taxes. Page Al
Man admits series of thefts' from
film stars. Page Al
Officers find hideout used by Wyo-
ming bad man. Page AS
Evening star., 1939-03-26
Weather Conditions Last "a Hours.

The disturbance which was central Friday
night OF the south coast of Labrador has
moved northward and is now centered over
Southern Greenland. Godthaab. 1925
inches. A trough of low pressure extends
Southwaro to Eastern Newfoundland and
thence southwestward to the New Jersey
Coast. Pressure Is relatively low in all sec
tions OF the United States except the South
east and Northern New ENGLAND. with CEN
ters located respectively at Minneapolis.
Mimi. 2a.4S inches: Wichita Falls, Tex.
~. 54 inches and Winnemucca. New. 29.T8
inches inches Pressure Pressure is hish over Alaska and
ssSIthpesstws5d southeast .eross Hudson Bay s8a
inches, ana St. Felicien. S aas: ouesec. 6o 3o.6os
inches. During the last "a hours showers
and thunderstorms have occurred over the
Western Gulf and Southern Plains States
In some localities rainfall amounts have
been large Light precipitation accompanied
by scattered thunderstorms has also oc-
CURED over the North Atlantic States and
the Upper Lake Region Mild temperatures
prevail in most sections of the United
States except New ENGLAND. North Dakota
and Northern Montana In the latter re-
g1on temperatures have fallen abruptly dur
ing the last l2 hours.
Record Until 10 PM Saturday.
Hishest. "a. at 3 pm. yesterday. Year
Lowest. 81. at 7 am. yesterday. Year
AGO. 43.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, 81. on March 25.
Lowest, II. on February 20.
Tide Tables
Evening star., 1939-03-26
Washington ond Nearby.

Serious Crimes here drop 34.3 per
cent, survey shows. Page Al
Spring is only swirl Of brush fires
for flremen. Page Al
Spring weather brings flowers and
one heat prostration. Page Al
10000 to march in Army Day parade
April 6. Page R-f
Bodies to ask funds for D. c. milk
investigation. Page B-1
New D. c. tax legislation to be writ
ten this week. Page b.
Heavy District calendar rp before
House tomorrow. Page B-1
Sports.
Krakky, giving lone hit, Monteagudo
blank Milwaukee. Page RS
kingsland captures heavyweight race
in Middleburg meet. Page b.
School mines to start play in two
groups on April 81. Page B-S
Trainer Brady is confident Ell Chico
Will take Derby. Page B-9
Evening star., 1939-03-26
River Report
Potomac and Shenandoah clear at Har.
pers Ferry late yesterday.
Reparf Intil 10 M Saturday
River Report.

Report Until 10 PM.