davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1945-06-05
Discoverer of Penici|Iin Louds
Walter Reeds Use of Injection
Briton Is Visiting
Medical Centers
To ak on Druq

A shy, retiring British scientist
who has given the world one of its
wonder drugs, penicillin, told the
American press yesterday the story
of his discovery and, incidentally
praised Walter Reed Hospital for
the use 1t has made OF it.
Sir Alexander Fleming is in Amer
lea to talk with scientists about
penicillin's use. He plans to go from
here to New York, Buffalo, Chicago
and other medical centers.
He praised the scientists at Wal
ter Reed for their discovery of a
method of infusing penicillin with
peanut butter and beeswax for in
jections. He said this method Of
treatment has not been worked out
in England.
Warns Of Self Treatment.
Sir Alexander seemed surprised
to find that penicillin was on sale
in American drugstores. He said
that while there was plenty in
Great Britain for the treatment of
the armed forces, it was not gen.
orally available to civilians.
In this connection he warned the
public not to rely on self directed
treatments. 1t can't harm any one,
he said, but effective administra-
tions should be taken under a ply
sician's advice.
Sir Alexander discovered peni-
cillin (Which he pronounces with
the accent on the second syllable)
back in 1929 in connection with gen.
eral research work in bacteriology.
1t was not for decade, however,
that its potentialities were realized
and made available for the treat
ment of war wounds.
Cites Greatest Value.
After reporters had talked with
Sir Alexander for 80 minutes he
observed:
mo one has asked me about the
most important use OF penicillin. 1t
is most effective in the treatment
of certain social diseases"
He said that it was highly ef-
fective in the treatment OF local
psychological infections, such as
gonococcus, making it LESS impor-
tant than a cold in the head" but
that its efficacy against syphilis had
not been thoroughly tested because
there had not yet been time for a
long-term observation Of results.
Sir Alexander said the medical
world now was looking for what he
called effective treatment of ad-
ministering penicillin orally. He also
expressed the hope that it would
be manufactured more cheaply.
Evening star., 1945-06-05
Woman S Death by Gas
Attributed 10 Accident

Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald
today issued a certificate of acci-
dental death in the case of Mrs.
Lucille P. Turner, so, who died Sum-
day in Gallinger Hospital. She was
found unconscious last Wednesday
in her gas-filled room in the 900
block Of H street NV, according
to police.
A jet on the gas stove was open
and all doors and windows in the
room were closed, police said. DR.
Macdonald said a coffee pot was
on the stove but it could not be
determined whether the stove had
been lit and gone out, or whether
Mrs. Turner had turned the jet on
and neglected to light the gas. ~
She was found by another roomer
and was given first aid at Emer-
gency Hospital before being trans
ferred to Gallinger.
Evening star., 1945-06-05
Farben Official Testifies
For u. 5. in Patent Suit
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK; Jhhe'5.-An official
Of I. G. Farbenindustrie OF Germany
was a surprise Government witness
yesterday. In the Federal Court suit
Of Standard OH Co. Of New. jersey
to recover $500 patents seized by
the alien property custodian be-
cause Of alleged German interests.
The witness, DR.. August Won
Knieriem, said he had brought with
him from Germany records sal
vaged from bombed-out plants at
Ludswigshaven and Frankfurt.
Flown to this country in the Gus
tody of Allied intelligence service
after his arrest in Frankfurt, Won
Knieriem said he was a member OF
the board and general counsel of the
German firm.
He identified his signature on pa
pers covering the agreements under
which Standard Oil obtained patent
rights from his company.
Standard Oil claims that all Ger
man interest in the patents ended in
1929,
Evening star., 1945-06-05
Chicago Voters Back
Buying transit System
By the Associated Press,


CHICAGO, June Chicago
voters in referendum election
yesterday approved public owner
ship Of the city's privately owned
street car and elevated railway sys-
tenn. 1t was the third time since
1904 the proposal was sanctioned
by the voters.
The proposal to purchase and op-
crate the utilities, in receivership
and under court supervision for
several years, won by a margin of
6 to l. Also given approval by voters
by approximately the same ratio
were proposals for $50,0OO,O 900 bond
issues for postwar Improvements.
In the transportation question,
S71 ,021 votes were cast, 1927 per cent
Of the registered ballots. Favoring
adoption of the Metropolitan Tran
sit Authority were 285, 5,443 to 46,621
against. To grant the city rights
to operate the facilities, 272, ,062
favored to 1888 against. Less than
one-fifth Of the city's registered
voters balloted.
A city ordinance provides for
purchase Of the streetcar lines for
SIS 900 900 and the elevated lines
for $12,162,500 and they would be
operated by the authority under
60ryear franchise.
Public ownership of the systems
has been approved at referendums
twice previously, in 1904 and 1880,
but legal and financial complica-
tions halted fulf1llment. Once, in
1925, voters rejected the proposal.
Evening star., 1945-06-05

him at Reno, New, July 18, 1914, and
a cash settlement estimated at near
ly 100000.
(The British Press Association
in a London dispatch reported
yesterday that Mr.. Dodge, heir to
a motor fortune, had married 1t.
Tinsley May 26.
(Mr. Dodge said from his home
at st. Leonards, Windsor:
CT am not denying it. I am
not confirming it. I would like
to know about it myself"
British Press Association said
Mr.. Dodge identified himself on
the marriage application as being
A years old, president of the
Dodge Car e. Plane Corp. and the
divorced husband OF Martha De-
vine.)
The brides sister said the couple
was married in Windsor, England
and that the marriage eliminated
q romance that blossomed in 1914
while Mr.. Dodge, then an Army
major, was patient at Billings
General Hospital at Indianapolis
Ind. He was placed on inactive
duty by an Army medical board
October 7, 1943.
A graduate of the Kentucky Bap-
list Hospital Nursing School, 1t
rinsley was commissioned in the
Army Nurse Corps in May, 1913.
After meeting Mr.. Dodge while on
duty at Billings General Hospital,
1t. T1nsley was transferred overseas
Evening star., 1945-06-05
Pro-AI|ied Charity
Closed by Argentina
By the Associated Press,

oy tHe ASe0CltteO fEesS.
MONTEVIDEO, June 5.-A report
from BuenoS Aires said yesterday
that Argentina has closed the pro-
Allied Junta de la Victoria which
has been collecting money, clothing
and food to aid war-stripped men,
bers Of the United Nations.
Once before-under the Ramirez
regime and before Argentina broke
relations with Axis nations-the
junta, headed by the group Of prom
inent women, was banned by the
government, which at that time
seized all its stocks being prepared
for shipment to the Allies.
Argentine exiles said the new
closure apparently was based on ar
assumption that some Of the junta &
activities had political connotations
BUENOS AIRES, June S R.-
Gen. Edelmiro Farrell said IN q
nationwide radio address last night
that he was approaching the last
days" Of his services as President, de-
termined to fulfill the military sov-
ernment's promise to restore con-
stitutional government through free
elections.
He set no date when he would step
out, however, indicating this would
occur when the country holds elec-
tions.
Evening star., 1945-06-05
Mrs. Myrtle Smith Heads
Christian Scientists

By the Associated Press.
BOSTON, June 5..-Mrs. Myrtle
Holm Smith Of Waban yesterday
was elected president Of the Mother
Church at the annual meeting of
the First Church of Christ Scien-
tist, succeeding Paul Stark Seeley.
Also elected were five new mem
bers of the Board of Lectureship:
1t. Col, Robert E. Key, c. S. B.,
London; Sim A. Kolliner, c. S. B.,
st Paul. MINI: James Harry Nc
Reynolds, c. S. B.. Dallas. Tex. !;
John S. Sammons, C. S., Chicago
and Clayton Bion Craig, c. S. B.
Cincinnati.
The board of directors reported
that membership In the Mother
Church is now four times greater
than 1t was IS years ago.
Evening star., 1945-06-05
Maj. Gushing, Who Saw
Soipun Under Jops, Dies

BY the Associated Press.
SAN DIEGO, Calf, June 5.-Maj
Francis c. Gushing, U. s. M. c., re-
tired, one Of the few white men to
visit Saipan from the time 1t was
inundated to Japan until Marines
landed there last year. died here
yesterday.
Born in st. Louis in 1873, he for
merly lived In Baltimore. He had
lived here since 1888,
Evening star., 1945-06-05
Advertising Competition
Open to Public Tonioht

The 18th annual advertising
awards competition, staged by the
National Advertising Agency Net
work, will be open to the public
from to 9 O'Clock tonight at the
Sheraton Hotel, Fifteenth and L
streets NV.
The exhibit consists of 200 adver-
tising campaigns in various CLASH
f1cations and media and represents
the work of 81 agencies which are
members of the advertising organ
tsation. The entries are being
viewed today by prominent adver-
tising men and women designated
by Henry j: Kaufman & Associates
to act as judges.
Evening star., 1945-06-05
Army Air Forces Colonel
Kills Self With Gun
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
RIVERSIDE, Calf, June 5.-Col.
Henry w. Harms, 5S, veteran Army
air omcer, who was In charge of
West Coast air forces training at
Moffett Field in 1910 and who COM
manded American troops in New
foundland in 1941, died yesterday OF
q gunshot wound in the head.
Deputy Coroner Seymour Cash
said the wound was self inflicted.
Col. Harms, who had been i'll for
some time, was home on GONZALES
cent leave from Santa Ana Army
Airbase Hospital.
His body was found by his wife,
the former Mrs. Estella Hyer Ton
kin Of Riverside.
Col. Harms served as brigadier
general from October 2, 1910, to Sep
tember 20, 1941, when the temporary
promotion was vacated. A West
Point graduate, he was lieutenant
colonel in the World War.
Evening star., 1945-06-05
Tokyo Radio Tells People
How Raiders Are Detected

BY the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 5.-The
Tokyo home radio, in an obvious
effort to assure oft-bombed Japa-
nese that B-29 and other American
bombings we're not complete sur
prises to the military, told the popu-
lace last night something of the
operation of the Japanese equiva-
lent of radar.
The broadcast admitted some de-
fects In the radio wave alert unit" I"
but claimed that operators ARE able
to judge the nature Of the enemy
planes to a certain degree by rely
ing on their intuition.
Actually, however, 1t is very
hard to make decisions" as to wheth-
er the raiders are B-29s or smaller
aircraft, Tokyo acknowledged.
The broadcast asserted that the
alert unit could give direct mo-
ment-by-moment information on
the flight of enemy planes
the moment 1t corners them heading
north from the southern waters"
Evening star., 1945-06-05
Little Opposition Seen
To Breton Woods Plan
Before House Today
BY ]. A. O'LEARY.

The House today took up the
Breton Woods plan for world
monetary cooperation, with no
signs of serious opposition in its
path, but the related issue of
postwar foreign trade agree
ments still faced threats Of re-
vision in the Senate.
The House promptly adopted q
rule allowing two days of general
debate on the Breton Woods meas
ure. which probably will bring it to
passage Thursday.
Senator O'Mahoney, Democrat, of
Wyoming, opened his fight to require
congressional approval of all future
trade pacts by telling the Senate
Finance Committee that the delega-
ton Of tariff cutting power to the
State Department is reckless"
abandonment Of the principle OF
popular government"
Easy sailing for the Breton Woods
program in the House was fore
shadowed by the statement of Mi
nority Leader Martin that there
would be no party fight, and that
the bill would move to overWhelm-
ing passage. Several Republican
Representatives who opposed the
plan in committee will continue
their opposition, however.
s9,1O0,00O,O 900 Bank.
The Breton Woods agreement
would set up a s9,100, ,0O0, 900 world
bank for the reconstruction, and an
Sc, ,80o, 100000 fund to keep curren-
cies stabilized. The participating
nations would provide specified
shares of the capital.
The Breton Woods and trade
agreement bills are regarded by ad-
ministration leaders as the first
tests of this country's willingness to
cooperate with other nations in
preserving peace and stabilized econ
omic conditions after this war.
The House already has passed
three-year extension of the Trade
Agreement Act, which expires June
IL, but in the Senate it faces the
threat not only of the OMahoney
amendment, but an even stronger
move to eliminate additional tariff
cutting power.
Senate Foes Claim Votes.
With Senate hearings likely to
end tomorrow, opponents claim
enough votes in the Finance Com
mittee to strike out the House pro-
vision, allowing the President to
apply the so per cent cut in tariff
duties to the 1945 instead of the
1880 rate schedule. The House pro-
posal would mean that rates al
ready cut in half in past trade
agreements could be reduced by an
other SO per cent after the war.
Insisting that the Constitution
made tariff fixing a congressional
function, Senator O'Mahoney said
the surrender of this function to
the President comes at time when
the people want Congress to take
back the powers it has been dele
eating.
Consider the boiling cauldron of
oil in the Near East and Judge
whether Congress should permit the
State Department to bind the Gov
ernment and the people to trade re-
lations without publicity" said Sen
atOr O'Mahoney
Evening star., 1945-06-05
Mcclellan Sees Need
For u. 5. Supervision
Of Magazine Art

Chairman McKellar of the Senate
Post Once Committee today de-
clared the Post Ofdce Department,
or some tribunal, should have the
right to pass on the art work in mag
aztr1es and other publications, but
was not prepared to decide whether
further legislation is needed follow
ing the Court Of Appeals decision
yesterday denouncing the Post Of
flee Departments revocation of
Esquire's second-class mailing priv
ilege.
Il rarely see this particular mag
a1ne, and am not attempting to
pass on this case" the Senator said.
But the trend is for some mag
azines and newspapers to 60 too
far In the publication of lewd pic
lures. Some tribunal ought to pass
on them"
The Senator said a letter Post
master General Walker addressed
to him and to Chairman Burch of
the House Post Office and Post
Roads Committee last night has not
reached his desk, and until he
studies it he would not attempt to
say whether existing law on the sub
ject should be strengthened. Rep
resentative Burch was out of the
city today.
Commends Walker.
II think Mr.. Walker is to be
commended for raising the question
under any circumstances" the Ten
nessee Senator said.
In his letter to the Post Office
Committee chairman Mr.. Walker
has written:
THE court having decided that
the Postmaster General cannot and
should not revoke or deny second
class mailing privileges to publica-
tions such as this Esquire), it is
now for the Congress to decide what
legislative action, if any, should be
taken"
In an opinion on the long-con-
tested Esquire case, Justice Thur
man Arnold Of the Appeals Court re-
versed a District Court ruling in
favor Of Mr.. Walkers action in
banning the magazine from second
class mailing rates and observed:
The court hopes that this Is the
last time that Government agency
will attempt to compel the accept
ance of its literary or moral stand
ards relating to material admittedly
not obscene" Justice Arnold
couched his ruling in terms not
only applicable to Esquire but to
the American press as whole.
Esquire Officials Gratified.
In Chicago, the Associated Press
reported, officials of Esquire OBJ
served:
I'VE are gratified, first, that the
United States Circuit Court of Ap-
peals has held as unjustiied the ac-
tion Of the Postmaster General in
revoking second-class mailing privi-
leges of periodical publications on
the theory that he did not regard
them as contributing to the public
good.
Second, because it removes any
question as to the right of Esquire
to be carried through the
mails at second-class rates.
And, finally, because it is a sig
nifcant reafirmation OF the consti-
tutional guarantee Of freedom OF
the nress z4.-4-
Evening star., 1945-06-05
Cartridge and Bullet
Only Clues in Staying
OF Textile Executive
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, June 5.-With only
fragmentary clues in their posses.
sion, police frankly admitted today
they were baf1led in the mysterious
Staying Of wealthy textile executive
as he stood In the doorway of his
Park Avenue hotel apartment.
I.lice Capt. Vincent ]. Herman
said there were no suspects and that
he had no theory as to the motive
for the shooting last night of Albert
E. Langford, So, sales manager for
Conlin and Smith, a textile concern
Mr.. Langford was found by his
wife, Marion, slumped on the hall
way floor Of their six-room suite in
the Hotel Marguery, tenanted by
many prominent social and the
atrical figures. A bullet had entered
his right cheek and lodged in the
brain.
Tells Of Two Male Callers.
Mrs. Langford, described by police
as a twice-married drama patron
and one-time fiancee of Movie Actor
Carlyle Blackwell, told detectives
two men had appeared at the door
shortly before 9 o'clock last night
and that she had heard a scuffle
and thud. When she ran to the
door, it was open and the corridor
empty, she said.
The only clues to the Staying were
a spent .32-caliber cartridge and a
.38-caliber bullet.
Meanwhile. detectives questioned
friends and neighbors of the Lang
fords, including Lady Wilma Kemp
ton, who had been a guest at the
Langford home earlier in the eve
ming.
Every part of the hotel was
searched, but the death weapon was
not found. All hotel employees were
questioned.
Inquired About Singer.
Detectives said investigation had
shown that two men had been taken
upstairs in the hotel by elevator
and had inquired about Raphael
Diaz, Metropolitan Opera Co.
singer, who died two years ago and
repeatedly had been a protege of the
Langfords.
How the two men left the build
ing has not been determined.
Police quoted Mrs. Langford as
giving the following description of
events preceding the shooting:
Her husband arrived at the apart
ment while she was entertaining
Lady Kempton. who left shortly
thereafter. Mrs. Langford went to
her bedroom to change her clothes
Refused to See Men.
While dressing, Mr.. Langford told
her two men were at the door ask
ing to see her. She said she did not
know them and declined to speak to
them. Mr.. Langford went to de-
liver the message.
A few minutes later she heard
loud voices, a scuffle and a thud.
She ran out and found her husband
sprawled on the floor.
Mrs Langford, who before her
three years ago was Mrs.
Marion Grimes, is the daughter of
Joseph Mayer, described by authori-
ties as retired public utilities ex-
ecutiye.
Evening star., 1945-06-05
Maritime Board Got
112 New Vessels in Nav

By the Associated Press.
Merchant shipyards delivered liz
vessels aggregating l,120,594 dead
weight tons in May, the Maritime
Commission reported today.
This brought deliveries since Jan
uary l to 586 ships aggregating s.
948, ,f35 deadweight tons. This is
almost half of the construction
schedule of 12,0o0, 900 tons for the
entire year.
Evening star., 1945-06-05
Lindemonn' Reported
Arrested by Danes
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
COPENHAGEN, June 5.-Col.
Gen. Georg Lindemann, former
commander Of German forces in
Denmark, was arrested yesterday by
a Danish police brigade in Aarhus
and turned over to British authori-
ties, the Danish news agency Rit-
cans reported.
He had been quoted previously
as saying he would follow his troops
into imprisonment after their evac-
uation from Denmark.
Evening star., 1945-06-05
Noted Russian Painter
Dies in England at 80

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, June 5.-The death Of
Prof. Leonid Pasternak, 80, noted
Russian painter and friend Of Leo
Tolstoy, was announced today in
Oxford, where he had been living.
Prof. Pasternak illustrated Tol-
stoy's Resurrection" Some Of his
work is In the British Museum.
Evening star., 1945-06-05
District Blood Donations
Appointments
yesterday 316 q

yesterday --- 316 persons
Appointments broken
yesterday ----- 81 persons
Appointments may be made
with the Blood Donor Center in
the Acacia Building, 81 Louisi-
ana avenue NV, by calling
District $500 between 9 am. and
$50 pm. weekdays, and 8 am.
to noon Saturdays.
Evening star., 1945-06-05

BLOUNTVJLLE, Tenn. R.-"I
give and bequeath to my wife all
my property" This 10-word. will
is the shortest and according to
Deputy Clerk Mettie L. Stone, the
clearest one on file at the Sullivan
County Court clerks once here.
Evening star., 1945-06-05

Lllc w u l LIE.
partnent.
A native of
Frederick Coun-
ty, 1t. Cl e m,
who was pro-,
NOTED to that
ra nix thre e
weeks before his
death, was en-
ployed as a me-
chanic b efore
e n t ng the
Army in Feb
ruary, 1943.
He attended
school at Green
wood. After en-
tering the Army
SooS in ncf0her
Evening star., 1945-06-05
Six of ELIAS Given Deoth

ATHENS, June 5 (P.-Six ELIAS
supporters were sentenced to death
and two others to life imprisonment
last night by the Athens Criminal
Court for killing Helen Papadakis,
leading actress Of the national the
ater of Greece, and 43 gendarmerie
officers and men. The condemned
men pleaded guilty.
Evening star., 1945-06-05

Louisville, h a S
b e e n received
here from Lon
don In a cable
gram from the
C o u pie, M SIS
Betty Tinsley, a
S l S t er of the
bride, said yes
terday.
Mr.. Dodge was
last m arrie d
t o M q r t n q
(M / c key De-
vine, former New
York show girl,
who obtained a
Evening star., 1945-06-05
Child's Prank Is Costly

RICHMOND, Calf. (P).-Mrs. Julie
Harnois, 20. asked police to help
look for a purse containing 5000 in
cash and the family's five ration
books. She said Kenneth, 10 months
old, had thrown it from the car
window on busy street.
Evening star., 1945-06-05
Winchester Officer Killed
In German Action in April

1t. Cecil r. Clem, 81. son of Mrs.
Mary r. Glenn, Winchester, Va, was
killed In action in Germany in April,
his mother has been informed .by
Evening star., 1945-06-05

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
GENERAL HONORED Brig.
Gen. Robert H. Soule (right)
of Washington. deputy COM
mander of the 38th Division,
is shown receiving the Silver
Star from Gen. Walter F.
Kruger, commander of the
9Th Army. The award was
made for gallantry in action
while serving with the 18th
Air borne Division on Luzon.
Army Signal Corps Photo.
Evening star., 1945-06-05
Army Nurse Reported
Wed 10 Horace Dodge
In British Ceremony
By the Associated Press,

LOUISVILLE, KY, June Sword
Of the marriage of Horace Dodge,
A, and Second 1t. Clara Mae Tins
ley, 27-year-old Army nurse from
Evening star., 1945-06-05
Wounded

Pfc. Joseph F. Goddard, 81, U. S.
M. c. R., son Of Mr.. and Mrs. JOS
eph E. Goddard of 4022 Foote street
NE, was wounded slightly while
fighting on Okinawa May 10, the
Navy Department has advised his
parents. He now is in hospital in
the Pacific area, his mother said.
Pvt. Goddard, who also fought In
the Cape Gloucester and Pelelieu