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■Progress that has recently been
made in the fight against infantile
paralysis is discussed here by the
■national chairman of the Presi
dent’s Birthday Ball Commission
ior Infantile Paralysis Research.
BY COL. HENRY L. DOHERTY.
NEW YORK. August 21 (N.A.N.A.).
—The frightful spectre of infantile
paralysis, which has haunted human
ity since the world was young, appears
to he giving ground at last before the
determined attacks of scientists.
, Research workers are casting hope
ful eyes upon the gratifying results
attained with newly developed nose
sjjrays when used on monkeys in
poliomyelitis laboratories, and the
ifa'w York Acad
emy of Medicine
went so far re
cently as to issue
a^Jptatement rec
ommending the
use of the sprays
oh human beings
wherever infan
tile paralysis
breaks out.
Medical scien
tists say that the
sprays have
proven an effec
tive preventive in
the case of mon- c#, DoK„,y.
keys, and that
there seems to be reason to hope they
will act in the same way in the case
of children and others susceptible to
the crippling disease.
Nevertheless, before the medical
profession places its final cachet of
approval on them, exhaustive records
on their use must be carefully com
piled and analyzed. That is the way
of science the world over.
It is significant, though, that
already in many parts of the country
the physicians, most cautious of men.
axe beginning to advocate the use of
the sprays where infantile paralysis
cases appear in any appreciable
number.
Sprays’ Ingredients Harmless.
One admirable thing about the
sprays is that they are harmless in
themselves. The spray, which has
come most into favor with medical
men, consists of a 1 per cent zinc
sulphate solution. Zinc sulphate has
been used for years as an eyewash,
as well as in the treatment of diseases
of the nose.
Danger lies in another direction,
however. The spray solutions are so
easy to procure, and apparently *o
easy to administer that parents in
affected areas have taken it upon
themselves from time to time to treat
their children without bothering about
advice from their doctors.
Experiments have shown that the
solution must be sprayed by physicians
instructed in the handling of special
atomizers. Otherwi" there can be
no predicting the results, as far as
the prevention of Infantile paralysis
is concerned.
The use of these sprays is what Is
known as a chemical blockade method
of disease prevention. It Is designed
to prevent the polio germs from enter
ing the system, rather than make
any one permanently Immune from
the disease.
Science discovered that infantile
paralysis germs attack the insides of
nerves and nerve cells. Reasoning
suggested that the virus, as a result,
must enter the system by way of the
nose, since the nose Is the only place
In the human body where nerves are
exposed.
Nose Gateway to Polio.
Experimentation substantiated this
theory of the nose as a gateway to
polio, and there followed the develop
ment of nose sprays to blockade the
germs from access to the nerves of
smell, through which they can travel
to the central nervous system to do
their terrible work.
Easily understood, though this new
weapon against Infantile paralysis
Happens to be, even to the lay mind.
It was brought to light only after
years of heart-breaking research work
in the laboratories of this country and
Europe.
Poliomyelitis is probably as old as
mankind. Definite historical evidence
exists showing the disease was ravag
ing various parts of the world as far
back as the eighteenth Egyptian dy
nasty. more than 3.000 years ago. Re
search into the nature of the disease,
Its cause and its possible prevention
and cure did not start until the middle
of the nineteenth century, however.
Viewed In this light, the progress that
has been made is little short of re
markable.
The new nose spray treatments are
belie developed and studied on many
fronts. Among those who have been
experimenting with them, for in
stahc'e, are Dr. Charles Armstrong of
United States Public Health Serv
let, Dr. David Kramer of the Hoagland
»B(earch Laboratory of the Long Is
land College of Medicine; Dr. Max
Belt of the UniversityNof Michigan;
Peter K. Oiltsky and Dr. H. R.
■ of the Rockefeller Institute for
HMJical Research, and Prof. E. W.
Schultz and L. P. Gebhardt of Stan
iata University.
'Last year, I am happy to say, a
portion of the funds raised through
flhe 1936 birthday ball for the Presi
dent was used to further this research
work in finding a method of control
for infantile paralysis, grants being
made to 14 groups of researchists.
The birthday ball movement, for
which I have had the honor of serv
ing as national chairman since its in
ception, has raised more than *4,000,
000 for the war against poliomyelitis
during the four years these celebra
tions have been held.
Recalls Warm Springs Visit.
My own interest in the fight against
the disease grew out of a visit to the
Warm Springs, Ga.. foundation in
1932 and a subsequent visit with Presi
dent Roosevelt, whose warm hearted
and enthusiastic sponsorship of the
cause of infantile paralysis sufferers
has been an inspiration to all the
people of this nation.
The President's Birthday Ball Com
mission for Infantile Paralysis Re
search was the outgrowth of the
birthday ball movement and functions
throughout the year. Those with
whom I have the honor of serving
on this commission as national chair
man are Jeremiah Milbank, vice
chairman; Dr. Paul de Kruif, sec
retary; Dr. Edward S. Harkness,
treasurer; Mrs. William J. Babbing
ton Macaulay, John 8. Burke, Edsel
B. Ford, Lessing J. Rosenwald and
Felix M. Warburg.
Bo widespread has interest become
In the fight against infantile paraly*
TT* TK*t more than 5,000 communities
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Readers' Guide
and
News Summary
llu Sanday Star, A of. tt, 1917.
PART ONE.
Main News Section.
FOREIGN.
Chinese repel big Japanese air fleet
near Nanking. Page A-l
| 15 Americana quit Chinese air Arm till
conflict ends. Page A-l
Manila houses Shanghai refugees de
spite quake damage. Page A-4
U. S. to maintain armed forces in
China. Page A-5
Hundreds of Russian peasants found
killed by error. Page A-7
NATIONAL.
Congress passes housing, deficiency
bills and adjourns. Page A-l
Guffey assailed by anti-court bill
Democrats. Page A-l
Accord clears way to reopening silk
mills. Page A-l
Student nurse's attacker still at large
in Chicago. Page A-2
Lewis accused of working through
Communist party. Page A-2
Scottsboro case believed headed for
new appeal. Page A-6
WASHINGTON AND VICINITY.
Commissioners extend District tax
deadline. Page A-l
Five killed in auto accidents in nearby
areas- Page A-l
150 D. C. passengers wait as sit-down
halts ship. Page A-l
Slaughter house conference may await
Ickes’ return. Page B-l
857,220 employes on Federal June pay
roll- Page B-l
Camp Springs airport bill left to next
session. Page B-l
Jobless army of over 700 camps quietly
beside Potomac. Page B-2
President may veto sugar quota
bill. Page B-S
Milk Commission to decide on Virginia
hearing soon. Page B-4
SPORTS.
D. C. Typos defeat New York twice to
gain title. Page B-6
Budge conquers Riggs to carry off
Newport honors. Page B-6
Broadway is not warming up to heavy
championship go. Page B-7
Duty keeps Robinson out of Federal
tennis tourney. Page B-8
Widely fought stymie is doomed at
golf clubs here. Page B-g
Fighting Fox, son of old turf cham
pion, scores in debut. Page B-9
Louis is declared to pack added T.N.T.
as crown defender. Page B-10
President's Cup swim draw's largest
list in its history. Page B-11
MISCELLANY.
Washington Wayside. Page A-2
Obituary. Page A-12
Shipping news. PageA-13
Vital statistics. Page A-1S
Educational. Page B-5
PART TWO.
Editorial Section.
Editorial articles. Pages 0-1-3
Editorials and comment. Page D-2
Stamps. Page D-<
Cross-word pustle. Page D-4
Military and veterans’
news. Page* D-4-5
Resorts. Page D-6
PART THREE.
Society Section.
Society news. Pages E-l-lg
Well-known folk. Page E-7
Barbara Bell pattern. Page E-9
PART FOUR.
Feature Section.
News features. Pages F-l-4 1
John Clagett Proctor. Page F-2
Dick Mansfield. Page F-3
Automobiles. Page F-3
Amusements. Page F-5
Children's page. Page F-S
Radio programs. Page F-7
PART FIVE.
Financial, Classified.
D. C. trade gains. Page G-l
Industry holds high level. Page G-l
Stocks improve. Page G-l
Stock table. Page G-2
Bond table. Page G-S
Curb table. Page G-4
Lost and found. Page G-5
Winning contract. Page G-5
Classified advertising. Pages G-5-15
TWO WOMEN INJURED
Gravely Hurt In Highway Miahap
in Ontario.
ST. THOMAS, Ontario, August 21
(Canadian Press).—Mrs. W. Haddley
of Syracuse, N. Y., and Miss Hazel
Ransom, Detroit nurse, were injured
critically today in an automobile col
lision 2 miles north of Talbotville.
The two women suffered internal
injuries and were unconscious when
brought here to the Memorial Hos
pital.
Police said the accident occurred
as J. R. Orendorff of London, Ontario,
was attempting to pass a bus and his
car collided with the one In which the
two women were riding.
The bus left the highway but none
of its occupants was injured.
Orendorff and his uncle, John
Orendorff, were injured slightly and
went to London Hospital for treat
ment.
Actress Files Property Suit.
LOG ANGELES, August 21 (/P).—
Film Actress Barbara Stanwyck sued
her former husband. Prank Pay, to
day for division of property acquired
during their marriage. They were
divorced in December, 1935.
throughout the United states, as well
as Bermuda, the Virgin Islands,
Alaska and Nassau join in the cele
brations. The gigantic task of form
ing this great organiaztion is in
charge of Col. Carl Byoir as gen
eral director. Leaders of finance, in
dustry, society, the world of motion
pictures, radio and the theater all
join In making the parties success
ful.
Seventy per cent of all the funds
raised remains in the community
where it originated for treatment of
the more than 300,000 infantile pa
ralysis victims who have been crippled
by the disease, the remaining 30 per
cent going to the national fight
against polio.
With infantile paralysis claiming
many additional victims each year,
scientists are working feverishly to
bring the hoped for method of pro
tection with nose sprays to perfec
tion in order that the yearly toll that
poliomyelitis takes in twisted and
maimed bodies may be forever elimi
nated.
(CopTrltht, 1937, br ths North American
Newspaper AlUaass, Ine.)
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WEATHER BAERS
POLE FIVERS’ HUNT
Would-Be Rescuers Tune Up
Planes at Barrow, but
Stay on Ground.
BACKGROUND—
Pilot Sigismund Levaneffsky, "the
Russian Lindbergh," and his crew
o/ four vanished Friday, August.13,
just a/ter passing the North Pole
on a projected 4,000-rnile flight
from Moscow to Fairbanks.
By the Associated Press.
BARROW, Alaska, August 21.—
Clouds, fog and roughness of the Arc
tic ice pack combined today into a
solid front against flyers of three na
tions seeking Soviet Russia's lost
transpolar airmen.
In the face of almost impossible
flying conditions and zero prospects
for landings on the jagged ice, Jimmie
Mattern, Texas flyer; Bob Randall,
Canadian pilot, and the Russian air
man, Zadkofl, tuned up their planes
for another sweep of the subpolar
wastes while Soviet rescuers slowly
pounded their way northward through
the floes. Mattern and Randall said
they would take off the minute condi
tions permitted.
The caliber of the weather was
shown today when Mattern's trl
motored refueling plane, forced down
after being lost in dense clouds, over
turned in a meadow near Fairbanks
without injury to Pilot Garland Lin
coln or his two companions.
Crosson Flys Out.
After Pilot Bill Lavery of Fairbanks
sighted the ship along the Tanana
River, Pilot Joe Crosson of Fairbanks
flew a pontoon-equipped plane to the
place and returned with Lincoln, Co
pilot Frank Tomicl and Charles A.
Marshall, photographer.
The refueling plane, which left
Burwash Landing, Yukon Territory,
this morning en route to Fairbanks,
capsized on the tundra. The extent
of damage was not learned.
There was a growing belief that the
missing Russians, in charge of Pilot
Sigismund Levaneffsky, never would
be found alive if they attempted to
land on the ice pack.
Mattern discovered the hazardous
situation in the ice floes in his flight
yesterday from Fairbanks to Barrow,
during which he surveyed 400 miles of
the Arctic Ocean. He reported the ice
so rough that landing would be im
possible anywhere.
lee Breaker Gains Slowly.
Amid the floes, the Soviet ice break
er, Krassin. lay with three planes
aboard. She was working but made
little progress against a northeast
wind.
Sir George Hubert Wilkins. Arctic
explorer, and his party of four flew
from Fort Smith, N. W. T„ for Cop
permine, N. W. T.. earlier in the dav.
Coppermine lies east of Aklavlk, where
Wilkins and other searchers will be
based.
The Kraesin, famous rescue ship,
was expected to pierce the ice fields
as far north as possible and establish
a base somewhere along the 148th
Meridian—the line Levaneffsky fol
lowed from Moecorw toward Fairbanks.
Williams to Join Hunt.
NEW YORK, August 21 OP).—
Roger Q. Williams, veteran aviator,
announced tonight he would take off
early tomorrow for Fairbanks, Alaska,
to help search for the missing Rus
sian trans-polar flyers.
His co-pilot will be Charles (Slim)
West of Teterboro, N. J. They plan
to stop at Cleveland, Ohio; Edmonton,
Alberta and Skagway, Alaska.
They will fly a blue and orange
cabin biplane William said had been
bought by the White Pass and Yukon
Airways of Alaska for commercial serv
ice and rented to the Russian gov
ernment for the search.
—
10 HELD AS FORGERS
IN $81,000 COLLECTION
Were Alleged to Have Cashed All
Checks in Various Surete Banks
at Same Moment.
By tht Associated Press.
PARIS, August 31.—Detectives of
the Surete Nations le today arrested 10
suspected members of a forging gang
which collected 3,175,000 francs
(about $81,000), by cashing worthless
checks.
They were alleged to have cashed
the checks in branches of the Societe
Oenerale Bank in 29 cities at the
same hour on the same day.
The Surete Nationale was hunting
for at least 36 other suspects.
Managers of the branch banks re
ceived letters purporting to be from
the bank's oentral office at Lyon,
authorizing payment of 75.000 francs
(about $2,812) against the check of
one “Charles Rocca.”
Promptly at 10 a m. yesterday, indi
viduals claiming to be “Rocca” ap
peared at each of 46 banks and tried
to cash checks. These checks were
honored at 29 branches, while 17 oth
ers withheld payment when cashiers’
suspicions were aroused.
Detectives recovered 330,000 francs
(about $8,625) from the 10 suspects
arrested.
CONGRESS APPROVED
ONE OF EACH 18 BILLS
More Than 18,000 Introduced at
. Session—620 Haws Been
Signed by President.
Br the Associated Press.
The Congress session just closed
approved one of each 18 bills and
resolutions introduced.
More than 12,000 were Introduced—
over 9,000 in the House and 3,000 in
the Senate.
Of this total only 629 have been
signed into law, although many still
are on President Roosevelt’s desk.
The last Congress enacted at its
first session. 840 of 13,970 bills and
resolutions submitted to it.
DAIRY CONGRESS
Tasting of Butter Completed at
Berlin Exposition.
BERLIN, August 21 (IP).—Judges at
the World Milk Products Exposition
today finished tasting the last of 340
tubs of the world’s choicest butter.
Their listing of the 10 best butter
producers is expected to be published
tomorrow, when the World Dairy Con
gress opens with 1,600 delegates repre
senting the countries of the world.
Entries in the butter competition
Included tubs from Oregon, Iowa, Wis
consin and 10 other States as well as
exhibits from South America. Pirty
three countries in all participated in
the expodtlaa.
A
Scene of Attack-Murder
Up this fire escape early yesterday climbed an unidentified
man who assaulted and murdered Anna Kuchta. 19 (inset),
student nurse, as she rested in her room between duty calls.
The attacker entered and escaped from the Chicago hospital
through the window indicated by arrow.
—Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto•
Small Shop Operators Sign
Contract With C. I. O.’s
Textile Division.
By lb* Associated Press.
PATERSON. N. J„ August 21—The
organized small shop operators signed
a contract with the C. I. O.'s textile
division today and cleared the way
for resumption of near-normal oper
ations in the Passaic Valley's silk mills
Monday.
With the collective agreement cov
ering more than 2.000 employes, offi
cials of the Textile Workers Organ
izing Committee, C. X. O. affiliate, said
only a half dozen mills employing
about 500 men and women remained
on the "unsigned ’ list. Approxi
mately 6,000 in this area went, on
strike August 9 in conjunction with
a general walkout in the Eastern tex
tile district.
Abraham Brenman, counsel for the
Paterson Silk Commission Manufac
turers' Association, said no opposition
was voiced when the contract was
ratified at a special meeting of the
small shop owners today.
An earlier settlement had been pre
vented by a deadlock over the union's
wage demands of weekly minimums
of $15 for helpers and $18 for weavers.
The agreement signed calls for a
double wage scale for weavers—a $15
minimum for those on four looms,
$18 for those on six looms.
"We are happy that the union
finally has managed to see the situa
tion as it exists in X*aterson,” said
Brenman, "and I am happy to an
nounce we have been able to come
to an agreement on that basis.
"We are going to be sincere in our
effort to co-operate with the union in
our mutual aim of stabilization.”
ITALIANS SWEEP
3,600-MILE RACE
Mussolini's Son Ii Third to Finiih
in Istres-Damascus-Paris
Hop.
Br the Associated Presi.
LE BOURGET, France, August 21.—
A one-two-three sweep of the 3.600
mile Istress-Damascus-Paris air race
hoisted the Italian flag over this great
airport today and gave six Fascist
pilots three million francs.
One of the fliers—he finished third
—was Bruno Mussolini, son of Italy's
Duce.
First place went to Samuel Cupini
and Amadeo Paradisi; second, to
Umberto Fiori and Viovanni Lucchinl,
and third to Bruno and Col. Attileo
Biseo.
Cupini and Paradisi. with an elapsed
time of 17:32.S1*, won a million and
a half francs (about $56,000). Fiori
and Lucchinl, with elapsed time of
17:57.1%, won a million francs (about
$37,300).
Mussolini and Biseo had an elapsed
time of 18:3.35V)i which gave them the
third prize of 500,000 francs (about
$18,700).
The average speed of the winners
was 352.735 kilometers (about 220
miles) an hour.
The noted French flyer, Paul Codos.
trailed a British plane into the field
following the Italian winners.
The race was singularly free of
mishaps.
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STILL AT URGE
Four High Ranking Chicago
Police Officials Take
Up Search.
Br ihe Associated Press.
CHICAGO. August 21.—Four high
ranking police official* took charge to
night of the hunt for a man who
crushed a pretty young nurse's skull
with a brick and attacked her in a
hospital room—the fourth such slay
ing here in two years.
While two policemen were reporting
at the Chicago hospital, the slayer of
19-year-old Anna Kuchta slipped out
of her room on the second floor early
today.
He fled as Mis* Kuchta's roommate
entered to awaken her. Instead the
roommate. Miss Florence Palmowski,
found her scarred and blood-stained
body on the floor.
The corpse was nude except for
shoes and stockings. Her crumpled
uniform lay nearby.
The two policemen at the hospital.
Robert J. Hayes and George W. Bain
bridge, were making a regular inspec
tion of the hospital area, part of their
duties since a colored man was re
ported lurking about the premises
tw-o weeks ago trying to break into
Miss Kuchta's room.
On the window sill of the room, the
officers found the blood-stained brick.
What police described as a "perfect”
fingerprint was taken from the pedes
tal of a floor lamp. The room had
been ransacked and a radio taken.
The slain girl's roommate said the
man who leaped from the window sill
to the Are escape and ran down to
an alley below was about 5 feet 8
inches tall, weighed about 150 pounds
and was w'earing a white shirt, dark
trousers and a light cap.
Miss Kuchta had been in training
for nine months at the hospital, where
only last May the night supervisor.
Miss Marcella Miles, was slashed by
a dope-crazed colored man whom she
refused narcotics.
The student nurse's mother, Chris
tina, crying hysterically, rushed to the
hospital on learning of the crime.
The tragedy reunited the 46-year
old mother and her husband, John,
a rag baler. Both Russian immigrants,
they had separated three years ago
because, Kuchta said, of arguments
over "money trouble.”
FUNDS FOR HELP SHORT,
COTTON GROWER SUICIDE
Son Tells Coroner’s Jury How
Georgian Counted Money,
Then Left to Die.
Br the Associated Press.
MOULTRIE. Ga., August 2!.—John
Langley, 40, checked available caah
for wages and transportation of hi*
cotton pickers. Some $40 was on
hand.
They had gathered eight bales on
his tenant farm and more cotton was
in the field, awaiting picking and sale.
His 18-year-old son, Edward, helped
with the figures.
Edward told a coroner's jury about
it today.
"He said, ‘I’m a few dollars short,’ ”
the son related. "He got up and walked
outside the house and we heard a
shot.”
Langley was found dead, a shotgun
beside him.
Coroner F. A. White said the wound
i was self-inflicted.
Pittman Is Forum Speaker
NEUTRALITY PROBLEM IN EASTERN CRISIS SENATOR’S TOPIC.
THE problem of neutrality in the
present Far-Eastern conflict
will be explained to a Nation
wide radio audience by Senator
Key Pittman of Nevada, chairman of
the Foreign Relations Committee,
speaking in the National Radio Forum
at 9:30 tomorrow night. The Forum
program is arranged by The Washing
ton Star and broadcast on a coast-to
ooast network of the National Broad
casting Co.
Senator Pittman brings to this most
pressing question of the day an inti
mate knowledge gained from his po
sition as head of the Foreign Rela
tions Committee. In that capacity
he had an important part in the re
vision and re-enactment of American
neutrality legislation early in the pres
ent session.
His long service on the committee
dealing with international issues also
has given him a broad understanding
of the question ha will discuss in this
week s Forum program.
SENATOR PITT MAN. •
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.EWIS ASSAILED
BY UNION CHIEF
Head of Longshoremen
Charges He Operates
Through Communists
Br the AUocliM Prtii.
NEW YORK, August 21.—Joseph
P. Ryan, president of the Interna
tional Longshoremen's Association, ac
cused John L. Lewis today of 6peratlng
through the National Maritime Union
and the Communist party to "take
over the shipping industry.”
While the N. M. U. maintained a
partial strike against coastwise ship
ping in protest against I. L. A. ef
forts to organize seamen, Ryan left
for Washington to confer with Presi
dent William Green of the American
Federation of Labor on consolidation
of the I. L. A. and International Sea
men's Union in the fight against the
N. M. U.
A consolidation plan which he said
"will be eminently satisfactory to all
American seamen who do not wish
to follow the communistic leadership”
will be presented to the a. F. of L. Ex
ecutive Board Monday, Ryan stated.
As "first proof” of his assertion that
Lewis intends taking over the shipping
Industry through the N. M. U. and
Communists, Ryan cited the arrest
today of four men identified by Joe
Murphy, I. L. A. organizer, as those
who seised union records at the point
of a gun In his hotel room last week.
Police said the men identified by
Murphy were Ashton Marie, 37, and
Frank Holmes, 24, arrested for pos
session of firearms; Andrew Shea.
21, and Thomas Donahue, 38, charged
with possession of dangerous weapons.
The latter two were arrested, along
with two women, at Earle's apart
ment.
After releasing three’of the four
steamship lines on which its seamen
sat down yesterday, the National
Maritime Union today held the Shaw
nee of the Clyde Mallory Line in port
here with 350 passengers long after
It was scheduled to sail at noon for
Jacksonville and Miami, Fla.
The N. M. U. announced that
Clyde Mallory ships also were strike
bound in New Orleans, Galveston
and Tampa. The union claimed the
line had refused N. M. U. delegates
the right to board its ships.
Strike Is Ended.
NEW ORLEANS, August 2! (/P).—A
sit-down strike aboard one vessel here
ended today whiie two other ships re
mained tied up.
Officers of the 8 8 Atlantic, of the
American-South African line, who
had been on strike since July 31, were
ordered off the vessel by its master.
Capt. G. Holgren. and a new set of
officers was placed aboard under police
guard.
The 8. 8. Atlantic planned to sail
tomorrow for South African ports.
Two other ship* were idle as a result
of the strike against granting of
passes to organizers of the Interns
tional Longshoremen's Association
(A. F. of L.) to visit the ships snd
converse with seamen.
CLASHES IN POLAND
KILL 17 PEASANTS
Farmers Battle Police and Soldiers
as Besnlt of Nation-Wide
Strike.
By tht Associated Press.
WARSAW. Poland. August 21.—
Seventeen peasants were known to
have been killed today in various parts
of Poland in clashes with police and
soldiers growing out of the nation
wide farmers' strike.
It was estimated that complete re
ports might make the death toll more
than a score. Eleven peasants were
killed and 16 injured in the village of
Manino alone.
Six were killed and 20 wounded
when troops fired on a mob attempt
ing to raid military ammunition stores
at Jaroslaw. Five thousand members
of the group were campaing tonight
in a forest between Jaroslaw and
Timanow after the fight in which they
used clubs, hoes and spades.
Twenty persons were arrested in
other sections of Poland during at
tempts by farmers to prevent the de
livery of milk, fruit and vegetables.
Warsaw prices have doubled since the
beginning of the strike.
The threat of a further spread of
strike violence was seen In a declara
tion by Socialist workers at Lod* of
solidarity with the peasants.
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YOUTH, 17, FACES
DEATH IN SLAYING
Delbert Lord Convicted in West
for Murder of Robert
Aubuchon.
By the Associated Press.
LAS CRUCES. N. Mex., August
21.—The electric chair cast it« somber
shadow tonight over 17-year-old Del
bert Lord of Peck, Mich., convicted
of first-degree murder of elderly Rob
ert Aubuchon of Demlr.g March 11.
Lord's brother George and Walter
Smith, the latter of Salem. 111., were
convicted of second-degree murder.
Emmett Powell, 2*, of Colfax, 111., was
acquitted.
Delbert, accused by the other three
as the trigger man, declared in a con
fession offered by the State that he
shot Aubuchon, "because he made me
mad.” as the exhausted and beaten
victim admitted his claim to hidden
wealth was a myth.
Attorneys for the three convicted
said appeals were uncertain until sen
tence is passed early in September.
Delbert's sullen expression changed
little as he heard the verdict, which
carries a mandatory death sentence.
The three convicted will be taken
to the State Penitentiary at Santa Fe.
Powell denied the slaying, declar
ing he had been afraid for his life
after Aubuchon was kidnaped at
Deming.
WED AFTER OPERATION
Appendectomy Pails to Stop Mar
riage Plans.
BATH, N. Y„ Affguat 21 <4>).—An
appendectomy failed to stop Frank
William Aulls* weddlnefod w.
Scheduled to be married 11 am.,
Aulls, Bath business man, underwent
an emergency operation for acute ap
pendicitis last night.
, At 5 p.m.. Miss Frances Estelle
Griswold stood at Auils’ hcapita^ bed
side and became his bride. He had re
quested the ceremony “as soon as pos
sible after Z come out of the ether."
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Tales
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
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RETRIEVER.
ON THIS fine Sunday mom It
no {loubt will be fitting to
contemplate the ways of fate
In bringing hobbies to life.
We have heard of a chap who’s think
ing of taking up golf, Just because of
fate.
He never played the game, never had
the Inclination. But he does have a
wire-hair he takes promenading down
around Hains Point, In the woods near
Burning Tree and so on. Never does
he make such a jaunt but the pup
uncovers at least two lost balls. .
Collection is getting so big now the
fellow is thinking seriously of invest
ing in a club or two.
* * * *
SERVICE.
Don’t remember seeing it report- I
ed before, but you ought to know
there is a restaurant on Pennsyl
vania avenue that has, printed on
the menus, this cheery legend:
"Special attention given to ladies
without escorts."
* * * *
NJJMBER, PLEASE?
J-JAL PENDERGAST finally has gone
x for a ride in the blimp—after
some difficulties.
First he wasn't sure the blimp was
for tarrying passengers. (Neither did
we. Thought it Just hung outside the
window all day long. Can’t look up
without seeing it.) Kal decided to call
the airport. Entered a hotel, found
the phone booths with an open direc
tory on a table near at hand.
Turning to the W's he began a search
for Washington Airport. No find.
Thought it might be listed under the
"Airport” heading, but no sale again.
Possibly it still was Hoover Field
officially, he thought, but couldn't
find it by that name, either.
In desperation he pleaded with the
operator to get him the airport, some
thing she arranged quickly and with
no fuss at all.
Curious, Hal decided to investigate
and find out why the airport kept it
self hidden from phone calls. In
vestigation led first to the cover of
the phone directory—and no farther.
The nafne of the city on the book was
not spelled W-a-s-h-i-n-g-t-o-n; it
was spelled P-h-i-l-a-d-e-l-p-h-i-a.
* * * *
POSIES.
It has just been called to our at
tention that Nebraska is nof a floral
paradise. When the famous twins
were born to Mr. and Mrs. Bob
Armstrong, jr. <she used to be the
Associated Press’ Bess Furman l,
Postmaster General Farley wired
125 worth of flowers.
Mrs. Armstrong at the time was
in a small town in Nebraska, and
the local florists were in a dither.
Weren’t that many posies in the
whole village. All the florists near
by had to rush in their best and
most beautiful blossoms to fill the
order.
* sir * *
AIR WARFARE.
J"X)MES now a tale to illustrate the
lengths to which mankind is
driven when soggy, steaming weather
gives ne’ /es too much of a beating.
Stopping k\. an Alexandria filling sta
tion on a recent 95-degree day. Claude
Mahoney, one of the town's well
known news sleuths, was roused from
his dreamy wait for gas by sounds of
battle from behind.
There were grunts and groans and
dull thuds as poorly aimed fists found
the wrong mark, feet scuffled on the
paving, and loud voices were raised
in raucous vituperation. Then a fist
connected and there was a loud shout
for the gendarmes.
Mr. Mahoney dismounted from his
charabanc in a hurry to see what
went on. Found a couple of fellows
on their way to town battling over
who should use the free air first.
* * * *
FAME.
JN ST. PETERSBURG, FLA., this
Spring, during the festival of
States scuffleboard tournament, which
the Washington team won, the
local lads finished a game and joined
the thousands in the grandstands to
watch some of the other teams play.
Said one of the spectators directly
in front of our heroes:
"Look at the scoreboard. Wonder
who that D. C. team is”
“That’s British Columbia.” *
"That's not a ‘B,’ it's a ’D’.”
"Its Dominion of Canada."
"No, there is the Canada team
playing down there.”
“Oh, well, it must be some place
we never heard of.”
BINGHAM DENIES CALL
No Special Significance in Trip
Home, He Says on Ship.
ABOARD S. S. EMPRESS OF
BRITAIN, August 21 C4»).—United
States Ambassador Robert W. Bing
ham, en route from his post in London
for a visit in America, said tonight
there was "no special significance in
my short visit home.”
The Ambassador quelled reports that
he had been summoned to Washing
ton to discuss international affairs
with President Roosevelt and Secretary
Hull.
“I am returning to my post in Lon
don after my short stay," he said.
Judge Fights Two Duels.
Following a fist fight in which
Judge M. Arthur Zubovlcs knocked M.
Fertile Balazs, a customs official,
through a window, the two fought a
doable duel in Budapest, Hungary.
The judge and the customs official
first used pirtols, and three shots were
fired without result. They then
fought a sabre duel, and in the fifth
round M. Balazs was severely wounded
A reconciliation has been effected.
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FLARESINA. F. L
Final Decision on Legisla
tion, However, Is Post
poned by Council.
BACKGROUND—
Divided sentiment in the Ameri
can Federation of Labor on wage
hour legislation led to considerable
confusion in the Senate several
weeks ago when William Green,
president, urged approval of the \
Black-Connery bill, while John P. 1
Frey, president of the A. F. of L. \
Metal Trades Department, and J.
W. Williams, president of the build
ing trades department, urged it be
killed for session by returning it to
committee.
After the Senate approved the
bill, Green obtained House Labor
Committee’s approval of a long list
of amendments and since then he
has urged its enactment.
Bjthe Associated Press.
ATLANTIC CITY. N. J.. August
II.—A fight over wage-and-hour leg
islation broke out in the American
Federation of Labor * Executive Coun
cil today, but a final decision was
postponed.
The council faction favoring Fed
eral regulation of minimum wages and
maximum hours proposed a resolution
assailing the House Rule* Committee
for blocking a vote on the Black-Con
nery bill.
The bill's opponents, however, suc
ceeded in having the resolution tabled
until the council receives a report
from William Green, A. F. of L. presi
dent, on the legislative situation.
Green remained in Washington today
to make a last-minute campaign for
the wage-and-hour bill's enactment. ;
The council is sharply divided on
the issue. The majority favors reg
ulation that would protect standards
fixed by collective bargaining, but a
strong and outspoken minority fears
Congress could and soon would fix
maximum wages and minimum hours
once it undertook regulation of mini
mum wages and maximum hours
Such regulation, opponents say, would
destroy workers' freedom.
Airing Due Next October.
Confident the Black-Connery bill is
dead for this session, these opponents
said the whole issue probably would
be threshed out at the federation's
Denver convention next October.
With Green absent, the council met
only three hours, deferring any dis
cussion of John L. Lewis' C. I. O , the
big issue of the meeting. During the
two-week session, members expect to
draft plans for the federation's Au
tumn campaign against the rival or
ganization.
The opinion prevailed, however, that
the council would continue the same
strategy adoped at the Cincinnati
meeting last May. This called for
open W'ar on all fronts without regard
for the original issue, craft versus in
dustrial unionism.
To Set Dp Own Craft Dniona.
Where the federation finds it can
best organize the workers by setting
up a single union for all the crafts
in a plant or industry, it proceeds
to do so.
Long before the federation adopted
that policy, Lewis had started to in
vade the territory claimed by local
craft unions with new craft uniona of
his own.
The council at the current meeting
also will draft its report to the Denver
convention and hold a number of
hearings on interunion disputes over
jurisdiction.
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“BULLIES” SOUGHT
IN FATAL BEATING
Attacks on Other Children in
Newark by Young ' Bosses'’
Are Probed.
Br the Associated Press.
NEWARK, N. J„ August 21.—At
tacks on other children In the area
were investigated by police tonight as
they pressed their search for two
"neighborhood bullies" in the connec
tion with the brutal beatings that
proved fatal to 7-year-old Leonard
Macali.
While detectives prepared to attend
tomorrow afternoon's funeral of
Leonard in the belief "Blondie" and
"Brownie" might attend the rites for
their victim, other police authorities
questioned boys who told stories of
boy warfare in which sticks and ropes
were used by the two "bosses" on
those who displeased them.
Richard. 9. brother of the slain child,
told police tonight of a second attack
by the two "boy terrors" a day before
Leonard died of injuries suffered a
week before. Richard said his brother
was beaten in a vacant lot by the
two older youths who held a grudgp
against him more than a year because
Leonard tipped over a wagon one of
them was pulling. Essex County Med
ical Examiner Harrison Martland said
the beating was "the most brutal I
have ever seen administered to a
child.” There were more than 150
bruises on the boy's body.
Detectives Daniel Perns and Thomas
Boland questioned the father. Michael
Macali. whom they quoted as describ
ing Leonard as an unusual boy who
"never complained.” The father said
that his son was susceptible to bruises,
the detectives added.
Meanwhile, Leonard's pet dog Rex
remained at home, forlorn and whin
ing for his master.
INCOME OF FARMERS
MAY HIT $9,000,000,000
Cash Revenue for Year la Expect
ed to Top 1030 Figure
.by fl.OOO.OOO.OOa
Br the Associated Press.
Government economists estimate
fanners' cash income for this year
will top last years total by more
than a billion dollars and double the
low figure of 1932.
The 1937 income will be $9,000,000,
000, the Bureau of Agricultural Eco
nomics calculated today. It was $10,
♦79.000,000 In 1929, $♦.328,000,000 In
1932 and $7,865,000,000 In 1936.
NAZIS IMPORT WOMEN
Czech and Austrian Farm Work
er* Sought for Harvest.
BERLIN, August 21 (A*) An acute
shortage of women for farm labor has
compelled the Nazi government to im
port help from Czechoslovakia and
Austria for the harvest. They will be
paid on the same basis es German
labor.
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