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Evening star., 1939-09-12
9. U. Alumni Visit
Fair in New York

Georgetown University was rep
resented yesterday at the New York
Worlds Fair by many alumni who
were commemorating the 150th an
niversary Of the founding of the in
Stitution.
The Very Rev. Arthur A. OLeary,
president Of the university, who
headed the delegates who left Sat-
urday, made q commemoration
speech concerning the university's
history which was broadcast yes
terday. The Georgetown nag was
raised in the Court Of Sports at
1880 am. and the university's ath.
letic greats" were honored.
Evening star., 1939-09-12
Condemnation Cases
Before Jury October 9

Justice Jennings Bailey signed
orders Yesterday in District Court
for empaneling and drawing juries
to consider the condemnation of
land for the widening and extension
of streets In Northeast, Northwest
and Southeast.
The jurist directed that on Oc-
tober 9 a jury be sworn to consider
damages each land owner may sus-
tain in conjunction with the acquisi-
ton of property by the District gov
ernment for widening of Sheridan
street NE. between Eastern avenue
and Sligo Mill road: extension of
Eastern avenue between Sheridan
street NE and Whittier street NV;
extension of Kansas avenue between
Nicholson street NV. and Eastern
avenue NE: extension Of Quack-
enbos street NV. between Blair
road and Kansas avenue: widening
of Blair road northerly from Sligo
Mill road NV. at North Capitol
and Nicholson streets and the Wild
ening of North Dakota avenue NV,
southerly from Peabody street.
In another order, Justice Bailey
directed that q jury be sworn on
October % to consider assessments
to be made for the condemnation
of land to complete the extension
of Eighteenth street between Fair
lawn avenue and Minnesota avenue
Sc. and P street between Eighteenth
street and Naylor road; for the ex-
tension Of @ street between Seven
teenth and Nineteenth streets; for
the widening and extension Of r
street between Seventeenth and
Nineteenth streets and S street be-
tween Sixteenth and Eighteenth
streets and for the widening of
Nineteenth street at P street and
Naylor road between Nineteenth and
P streets Sc.
Evening star., 1939-09-12
j. ). Workers Risk
Retirement System
Loss, Says Ramspeck
Foce Social Security
Scale Unless They Pay
More, A. F. 6. (. Told
BY J. A. FOX,
Star Stad Correspondent.

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., Sept. u.
Federal workers are running the
risk Of losing their own retirement
system and being covered instead
under the old-age insurance pro-
gram of the Social Security Act
unless they pay more for benefits,
Representative Ramspeck, Demo-
crat, OF Georgia, chairman of the
House Civil Service Committee, to-
day told the convention of the
American Federation of Govern
ment Employees.
Reviewing developments in the
last session of Congress, when the
principal features Of retirement
legislation he sponsored lost out be-
cause some employe groups baked
at raising from 3l2 to 5 per cent the
salary deduction made monthly for
the retirement fund, Mr.. Ramspeck
insisted that the increase was justi-
fed both by the added benefits that
would have been made possible and
because 1t would have meant pay
ment by employees in the lower
salary brackets Of more equitable
share of retirement costs.
Compares Costs.
Quoting Civil Service Commission
figures to show that for many years
the Government contribution OF
5000 annually will be about 80 per
cent of the annuity of low-paid
workers, Mr.. Ramspeck compared
this situation to the old-age insur-
ance system under which employees
in private industry bear so per cent
Of the cost Of their annuity.
Your cannot defend that differ
ence," he said.
Mr.. Ramspeck recalled that a bill
had been introduced in the last
Congress to put the retirement sys-
tenn under social security.
While rival employe organiza tions
have sought to shift the blame for
defeat of the legislation which would
have lowered optional retirement
ages, Mr.. Ramspeck reiterated that
failure of three American Federation
OF Labor groups to back the per
cent deduction proposed in his bill,
and standing for per cent contri-
button provided by a Senate bill,
caused the congressional deadlock.
The A. F. G. E. is an affiliate of the
A. F. of L.
The defeat Of his plan, Mr.. Ram
speck said, cost Federal employees
sl3 900 900 annually. In comparison,
he added, the difference between 1
and 5 per cent which would have
gone toward defraying this increased
benefit was only s375,00O.
Hopes to Expand Merit System.
Mr.. Ramspeck told the convention
that he was hopeful of getting action
in the next Congress on his bill to
bring 300 900 positions under civil
service, but he added that the war
situation might complicate mat
ters."
After hearing Mr. Ramspeck, the
convention resumed consideration Of
resolutions on which a flying start
was made when the sessions started
yesterday.
The large number of custodial en-
ployes in the Federation made a
strong bid for more voice in the Or
ganization yesterday, Offering
number of resolutions calling for
appointment of vice president
from their ranks. These were sent
to the Executive Council but a vote
was forced on one to give this group
a legislative representative of their
own. 1t met defeat, however.
Evening star., 1939-09-12
26 Pay for Parking
In Closed Street

Twenty-six motorists paid So fines
and So towing charges after they
parked their cars during the week
end on Third street between Con-
stltution avenue and H street NV,
where pavement repair work is in
progress.
One layer Of asphalt had been put
down, and workmen found the cars
on the street when they returned
yesterday to add the second layer.
Police said the street section had
been posted with mo Parking" signs
for three days. although some of the
motorists protested they had not
seen them.
Evening star., 1939-09-12
Insurance Officers
Borrowed S4,217,628
OF firm-0wned Banks
Monopoly Group Told
Looms May Have Paid for
Stock Used as Collateral
Ry the Associated Presx

BY the Associated Press.
A Federal Monopoly Subcommit-
tee heard testimony yesterday that
So officers and directors of the Trav-
elerS Insurance Co. of Hartford,
Conn. borrowed s42l7.628 since 1918
from banks owned by the company
Among the borrowers were L.
Edmund zacher, president, and Will
bur S. Sherwood, cashier, both Of
whom were questioned by the sub
committee yesterday.
Mr.. Zacher. who said he borrowed
slightly more than $4,000, all of
which had been repaid, asserted the
loans were perfectly normal COM
mercial transactions.
Both he and Mr.. Sherwood testi-
fed their loans were secured largely
by Travellers Insurance Co. stock,
but when Mr.. Zacher was asked
whether his largest loan-$52, ,527--
was made to help him pay for the
stock put up as collateral. he said
he did not recall the details of the
transactions, which occurred 20
Or % years ago Mr.. Sherwood
conceded his loars, of which slightly
more than $4,000 still are outstand-
ing. might have been negotiated for
such a purpose.
Two banks, the Connecticut River
Banking Co. and the Travellers Bank
and Trust Co., made all loans in
question.
Mr. Zacher testified he was di-
rector of the Connecticut River
Banking Co. and a member of its
Finance Committee. In response to
questions. he conceded he was pres
ent at meetings of the committee
when some of his loans were con-
sidered, and said he probably voted
yes on the question of their ap-
proval.
Gerhard Gesell. committee coun-
sci. drew from Mr.. Zacher a state
ment that officers and employees of
the insurance company received
preferential treatment from the
banks as to interest rates, giving
loans for 5 or 51a per cent when out
siders were oeing charged per
cent.
Evening star., 1939-09-12
D. 6. Boys Aid in Work

Washington boys have been help
Ing to prevent the spread of blister
rust in Virginia, according to re-
port by Douglas D. Withers, in
charge of the Bear Trail Camp for
Boys in Madison County, near the
Shenandoah National Park.
Mr.. Withers said those engaged
IN the work included Joseph and
David Mast, Jack Vogel, Ernest
Harmon, Jack Pixton. Keith War
ner, Douglas Withers, jr., and James
Murray. jr.. all of Washington. The
group was led by Robert Johnston
and Fritz Esch.
Evening star., 1939-09-12

Allies Ship Losses
Near 100000. Tons
As Tanker Is Sunk
InverIiffey Torpedoed
By Sub Near Hovre;
Finnish Bark Hits Mine
3y the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Allied shipping losses approached
the 100000 mark in tonnage today
as the British Ministry of Informa-
ton, reporting on Germany's un-
abated submarine warfare. an
nounced the sinking of the British
tanker Inverliffey.
The ship, a 9,456-ton vessel built
in Hamburg last year and running
between the Gulf of Mexico and
England, was torpedoed near Havre,
France, yesterday. The crew was
rescued by the Standard Oil tanker
r. G. Stewart and later transferred
to the City of Joliet, bound from
New Orleans to Antwerp.
Finnish Bark Blown Up.
One other casualty was reported
today-the blowing up of the 2,795-
ton Finnish bark Olivebank about
los miles southwest of Esbjerg.
Southwestern Denmark. Fourteen of
the crew were killed and seven saved.
The survivors said their ship hit a
mine.
The British ministry of informa-
ton said four British merchant
ships had reported unsuccessful at
tacks by submarines.
Since the war started September
NaZi submarines have sunk II
allied ships with total tonnage OF
96,494 The Germans have lost five
ships totaling l2,725 tons and de-
stroyer sunk by accident. The loss
OF the Finnish bark brought the
total of neutral ships lost to four
Sixteen of the allied ships de-
stroyed were British, one French.
The allied death toll was 1856 to at
least seven known German dead
and an unknown number lost when
the Oresund, an old-type Nazi de-
stroyer, blew up yesterday after
striking a German laid mine IN the
Baltic Sea.
Steamer Witnessed Sinking.
A Swedish steamer, being plloted
through the mine field, witnessed
the accident. near Trelleborg,
Sweden. Reports from Copenhagen,
Denmark, said that "as far as could
be seen from the Swedish boat, 10
German sailors persisted"
The 464O-ton British steamer
Flrby was torpedoed off the Hebrides
Islands Yesterday following the sink
ing of the British freighter Garta-
Won, 300 miles of the coast of
Ushant, France
TWenty-four survivors of the Gar
tavon reached Horta, the Azores,
aboard the Swedish ship Castor,
which had rescued them.
All neutral casualties have been
caused by mines. They include a
Greek steamer, Dutch minesWeeper
and the Dutch steamer Mark, whose
22-man crew roWed 12O miles in
lifeboats to Vorupuer, Denmark.
Evening star., 1939-09-12
Spain to Intern Ships
Stoyinq Over ~ Hours

MADRID, Sept. u CP.-Spain. In
seeking to keep ships moving in line
with her neutrality policy. has Or
dered internment for all belligerent
vessels failing to leave port on "a
hours notice.
Eighty-three merchantmen have
taken refuge at Algeciras and nearly
so at Vigo, where 80 German yes
sells were interned after "a had
sailed. A score of ships were scat
tered through Northern Mediter-
ranean ports.
Helping to relieve harbor conges-
ton at Gibraltar. British destroyers
are conveying groups Of refugee
merchantmen, but 81 vessels re-
manned there.
Evening star., 1939-09-12

weather Conditions Last "a Hours.
The northeastern disturbance is CEN
tral this morning over the Gulf of St.
Lawrence. moving northeastward, Anticosti
Island. Quebec 1OOl4 millibars t29.57
inchesl. The western disturbance has in
creased In size. but has made little east,
ward progress, Willston. N. Oak. 800 3
millibars t29.51 inches). and Tonopah
Nev,. 1.o0l.0 millibars 1886 inches. An
4ssE. Noms aes s oys5 s4t
inehes). An area of high pressure that
extends from James Bay to the Carolinas
Is moving slowly eastward. and another
hish-pressure area Is moving southeastward
over the district Of Mackenzie and Al
berta Binghamton, N. Y. and Lnychburs
va. 1.0264 millibars t3O.31 inches). and
Simpson. district of Mackenzie. l,022. o
millibars l30.1S) inches). Showers have
occurred in the lake region. the Upper
MISSISSIPPI Valley and Southern Texas: and
at most stations west of the Rocky Noun
tains, The weather has become cooler in
the Atlantic States. the Plateau resion and
the Pacific States. while the temperature
has risen almost generally between the
Rocky and Appalachian Mountains.
Evening star., 1939-09-12
Mrs. Po9e BiddIe Weds
Richard Wo|Ioch, Jr.
Dy the Associated Press.

Dy the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA. Sept. 12-Mrs.
Page Biddle, former wife Of Living
ston L. Biddle, I'd, and Richard
Wallach, jr.. Of Warrenton. Va, are
married, friends here learned yes
terday.
Mrs. Wallach was Miss Kate r.
Page, niece Of the late Walter Hines
Page, former American Ambassador
to Great Britain. She and Mr.. Bid
die, brother of Anthony J. Drexel
Biddle, jr.. Ambassador to Poland
were divorced two years ago.
Evening star., 1939-09-12
New Medical Magic
To Correct Upsets in
Middle Life Reported
Bodily Glands Found to
Be Source Of Trouble,
Modified by Hormones
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, Sept. IA new
kind of medical magic, which cor
rects seemingly hopeless cases Of
insanity. was reported today to the
American Congress of Obstetrics
and Gynecology.
The insanity comes at the time
Of life when the secretions Of the
body's glands suddenly 'go hay
wire" and refuse to function in their
normal relationship. The result in
both men and women is a terrific
psychological upset with severe
headaches, melancholy feelings ex-
citability and depression in quick
succession, sudden crying spells and
frequent attempts at suicide.
Hormones Restore Normalcy.
DR.. August A. Werner of the st.
Louis University School of Medicine
told the 5000 physicians. nurses and
public health workers attending the
congress that the injection of hor-
nones will in great many cases
restore these patients to normal ac-
uvity.
He administers theelin, one of the
female sex hormones, to women to
restore their normal glandular ac-
tivity, and testosterone, a male sex
hormone, to men.
DR.. Warner selected 81 women
suffering from insanity, due to the
change Of life to which they could
not readjust themselves, and admin
lstered theelin in small doses. He
said the result was astounding. The
body and mind seemed to return
to balanced state and the patients
returned to their ordinary routine
of life.
group Of psychopathic young
women who had their gonad glands
removed because of disease condi-
tions.
Treatment for men brought almost
equally good results.
Glands Unbalance in Series.
He hkened treatment to watch ad-
1ustment, declaring the glands are
usually in delicate balance and when
one goes out of order all of the
others become unbalanced imme-
diately.
The sex glands have direct
effect on the pituitary gland at the
base of the brain, the master gland
which controls all the Others" the
Missourian explained.
When they no longer secrete their
normal supply of hormones the
pituitary responds by throwing the
thyroid gland and the adrenals out
Of their normal relationship.
The result is that a person de-
velops heart symptoms, alternate
hot and cold reactions, indigestion,
mental upsets, depression, violent
headaches and extreme excitability.
The hormones restore this balance.
Abortions Cause Many Deaths.
Approximately Is per cent of all
deaths of mothers in the United
States were declared today to be due
to criminal and other abortions.
DR.. Elizabeth c. Tandy, statistician
of the Children's Bureau of the
Department of Labor, declared in an
interview that 10000 mothers died
In childbirth or from complications
Associated with 1t during the past
year.
Evening star., 1939-09-12
Weather Report
FURNISHED BY the


District of ColumbiaMoly cloudy
morrow gentle moderate southerly
MarylandMost cloudy
light showers north portion tonight.
rgnaFa in south and mostly cloudy in north portion tonight
and tomorrow and
West Vgna-Mostly tonight
with light portion
Evening star., 1939-09-12
Report for Last RI Hours.

Record Tor Last "a Hours.
From noon yesterday to noon today)
Highest. 70. $50 pm. yesterday. Year
ago. 16
Lowest. So, $50 am today. Year
ago, SO.
Record Temperature This Year.
Highest 100. on September 8.
Lowest, II, on February 23.
Humidity for Last ~ Heurs.
From noon yesterday to noon today.)
Hishest 06 per cent at 4:3O In today.
Lowest 43 per cent, at 8 Pm. yesterday.
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clear
Ut Harpers Ferry muddy at Great Falls
today.
Tide Tables.
Furnished by Omitted States Coast and
Evening star., 1939-09-12

The best safety device Is on your
shoulders. Use it.
Evening star., 1939-09-12
Precipitation.

Monthly precipitation IN inches In the
Capital tcurrent month TO date)
Evening star., 1939-09-12

Furnished by United States Coast
0eodetic Survey
The Washington times., 1939-01-12
Club InStduS
Tonight

newly elected officers OF the
Bradbury Heights Garden Club
will be installed tonight at 8
o'clock at the home OF Mrs.
Charles Baumback, HOO block
Forty-fourth Pl. S. E. Mrs. Cyril
Albrecht will assist the hostess.
Officers are Mrs. Jack Sm'Sh,
president; Mrs. Andrew F. Gran
ford, vice president; Mrs. Henry
Austin, secretary; Mrs. George
Lange, treasurer: Mrs. Charles
Baumback, chaplain.
Chairmen of the standing
committees include: Mrs. Ethel
Gardner, social; Mrs. Martha
Albrecht, ways and means; Mrs.
Cyril Albrec t, membership;
Mrs. Paul Macdonald, publicity,
and Mrs. Frank Nicklas. civic.
The Washington times., 1939-01-12
Eastern Stars to
Meet Tonight
At Willard

Representatives of the As local
chapters of the Order Of the
Eastern Star will gather in the
ballroom of the Willard Hotel,
tonight. tomorrow and Saturday
nights for the annual session
of the grand chapter.
Mrs. Helen Robbins, grand
matron and Harry Schmidt,
grand patron, will preside at the
sessions.
Officers will be elected tomor-
row night. Mrs. Ruth s..
Cromeiin is expected to be the
next grand matron and Richard
e. Titlow the new grand patron.
Most interest is in the election
of the new grand association
conductress, because eventually
she will step into the position
of grand matron.
Installation will take place
Saturday night, followed by a
reception in honor of the Of
ficerS,
The Washington times., 1939-01-12
Today's Club
Calendar

D. A. R.-Thomas Marshall
chapter, 1880 p. M, Hotel
2400 Sixteenth st. N. w.
Y. w. C. A.-Blue Triangle
Club supper, 6 p. m; Current
Fiction and Non-fiction, 8
p. M, headquarters, Seven
teenth and K SITS. N. w.
League of Republican
Women of the District of Co.
lumbia-Buffet luncheon, l
p. M, clubhouse. 1900 block
Seventeenth st. N. w.
Takoma Park Women's
Club-Art department will
meet with Homemaker's de-
partment, / p. M, Takoma
Park, Md, Library.
Alpha Gamma Delta Alum
nae-Buffet supper, home of
Mrs. C. M. Jansky. jr., 5000
block Tilden st. N. w.
PIT. A.-Blai ir-H a S, 2
p. M; Kingsman-Pierce, bun
die day; Burroughs, 1870
p. m; Gran t-Weightman,
3:15 p. m.
o. E. S.-Grand chapter,
meeting, 7 p. m, Willard
Hotel.
Arts Club of Washington
Club dinner, 7 p. m, head
quarters, 1000 I st. N. w.
Daughters of '98 of the
United Spanish War Vet
Grams - Installation of Off
GERS, $3.50 p. m, Wardman
Park Hotel.
Bradbury Heights Garden
Club-Meeting. 8 p. m. home
of Mrs. Charles Baumback,
5 HOO block Forty-fourth st.
} S. E. ~-.-
The Washington times., 1939-01-12
Relief Groups Will
Hold Induction
Tonight
By MARY PADGETT

Installation of the 1889 Off
GERS of the Washington Junior
Auxiliary of the Jewish Con-
sumptives' Relief Society Of Den
yer will take place at meeting
tonight at the Jewish Commu-
nifty Center, at which the new
members will act as the host
eSses.
Miss Tillie Norwood is the
new president, succeeding Miss
Irene Salomon, who has been
made the honorary president.
Other officers are Selma Wei
ner, vice president; Rose Jew
eler, treasurer; Hilda Rapport,
recording secre tary; Cynthia
Gray, corresponding secretary;
Pearl Teichman, financial secre-
tary: Anne Minovitz, Rose Pra-
ger, Helen Bennett, Jerry Coen'
Esther Jeweler, Lee Kraft, Char
lotte Topoloff, Ethel Thompson,
and Helen Sacks, board OF dl-
rector members.
Newly-appointed chairmen will
be announced, as follows: Mir
lam Zeltzer, art; Adele Siver-
berg, sports; Edith Levin, cheer;
sadie Klivitzky, Mitzvak; Sarah
HoroWitz, telephone; Jane
Kirsch, Glendale visits; Bernlce
Iittrnan. entertainment; Bernlce
Kleehlatt, friendShip-brldge;
Shulamith Novick, religious;
Bertha Goldenhorn, member
ship; Becky and Dotty Gamer
man, dance, and Sonia Kaplan'
publicity.
Mrs, Hirsh D. LaVieg, of the
senior auxiliary, will act as the
installing officer.
Miss Helen Hyatt will open
the meeting with a prayer
which will be dedicated to DR..
Abram Simon, who died re-
Gently.
A series of Sunday teas are
being held at the homes OF
the various members, which will
culminate in the "member-brlng-
a-member" dance on February
S at the home of Miss Edith
CHASER, 200 block Elm ST.,
Chevy Chase, Md.
A delightful and CHEEKY bur
fet supper was held last night
for members of the WomenS
National Press Club and the
Newspaper Women's Club OF
Washington and for others in
the field of writing and radio
at the headquarters of the
General Federation of Women's
Clubs, with Mrs. Sadie Orr
Dunbar, of Portland, Ore, presi-
dent of the General Federation,
and Miss Vella Winner, editor
of The Clubwoman, as hostesses.
Some of the guests were Mrs.
Hope Ridings Miller, president
Of the Women's National Press
Club; Mrs. Grace Porter Hop
kins, who writes Washington
at Work and Play" for her
syndicate of newspapers; Miss
Grace McGerr, correspondent
for the Nebraska State Journal;
her mother, Mrs. P. T. McGerr,
a clubwoman of Lincoln, Neb.,
visiting here; Miss Katharine
McKiever, Of the N. c. w. c.
News Service; Mrs. Frances
Dean, of the National Parks
Service. Mrs. Lily Sykes Shep-
ard, publicity secretary of the
Central Union Mission; Mrs.
Vylla Poe Wilson, club editor OF
The Washington Herald; Miss
The Washington times., 1939-01-12

$50 guests at one time . She's
had this 12-room beach home for
about 20 years. She also is
very fond of travel. She has
been to Europe, to California by
boat, the West Indies and to
Canada many times. She makes
frequent auto trips on which
she does the driving. Incident
ally, she's an expert motoriSt
and has taught both of her sons
to drive. Although not Cath
olic, she had an audience with
the Pope, and when she attended
the international meeting of
the Soroptimist Club in London,
she was invited by Lady Astor
to serve tea with her for mem
bers of the club. .Gardenias
are her favorite flowers, and she
loves to wear evening clothes
All her clothes are we'll
chosen and attractive. She
has a pretty face, with blue eyes
and naturally curly brown hair.
The Washington times., 1939-01-12
Officers Elected
Garden Club

Mrs. T. F. Law is the new
president of the Washington
Garden Club. Her staff includes
Mrs. F. B. Olcott, first vice presi-
dent; Mrs. j. A. Boston, second
vice president; Mrs. Ernest Bald
win, recording secretary; Mrs.
Thomas Powell, corresponding
secretary; Mrs. Lee Sandford,
treasurer, and Mrs. H. A. Latane,
chairman of the program COM
mittee.
The annual election took place
at the home of Mrs. Latane, in
alexandria. Va, Tuesday after
noon. Mrs. R. M. Baldwin, the
outgoing president, conducted
the session. The group also
celebrated it's sixth anniversary
on the occasion.