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Trade Program Debate
Seen in Next Session
Of Congress
Leaders of Industry and
Agriculture Disagree
On Pact Benefits
Bs the Associated Press.
Conflicting viewpoints expressed
on the new British and Canadian
trade agreements by businessmen
and political leaders foreshadowed
today a lively discussion in the new
Congress.
The comments ranged from bit
ter criticism to unstinted praise.
Those of Congress members, for the
most part, followed party lines,
Democrats praising the agreements
and Republican questioning their
value to the United States.
Any discussion in the next Con
gress will almost necessarily be in
the nature of an informal review,
because the Reciprocal Trade Act
gives the President and the Secre
tary of State authority to con
summate agreements without Senate
ratification.
Members of Congress who are dis
satisfied with the results, however,
may press for an amendment to the
lawf so as to give the legislative i
branch a veto power over future!
agreements.
Some members of both political!
parties expressed the opinion in the j
last Congress that all the agree- ;
ments should be subject to Senate
ratification. Others have proposed
that the effective date of trade
agreements be held up pending their
examination by Congress.
Hope Others Will Follow.
State Department officials were
hopeful that British and Canadian
acceptance of Secretary Hull’s
cherished policy of bargaining down
International trade barriers would
encourage Argentina, Australia, the
Union of South Africa and New Zea
land. among others, to negotiate
similar trade treaties with this Gov
ernment. Realization of their hopes
would bring to 23 the total number
of such pacts.
Exploratory discussions have been
carried on already with all four
countrief. Tire discussions with
Argentina have been apparently
dormant, however, since they en
countered difficulties over Argen
tina's foreign exchange policies.
The outlook for formal negotia
tions with Australia, which once was
placed with Germany on the United
States' economic blacklist because j
of alleged discrimination against
American goods, is believed to be
good.
Leaders Approve Program.
A group of leaders in banking, in- !
dustry and commerce expressed gen-;
eral approval of the new agreements
during a radio broadcast last night.,
They included Gerard Swope, presi- !
dent of the General Electric Co.: I
Winthrop W. Aldridge, chairman of
the Chase National Bank. George |
H. Davis, president of the United!
States Chamber of Commerce, and
Alfred P. Sloan, jr., chairman of
General Motors Corp.
On the other hand, Russell T.
Fisher, president of the National
Association of Cotton Manufac
turers. declared the administration !
had "traded away employment in i
textiles."
The National Association of Wool
Manufacturers told its members in
a statement that a “severe blow"
had been delivered to the industry.
Arvid L. Frank, chairman of the
Trade Agreements Committee of the
Automobile Manufacturers' Associa- ‘
tion, contended that every home in i
the Nation would be benefited di- 1
rectly or indirectly.
Henry A. Wallace. Secretary of
Agriculture, praised the trade agree- '
ments program, but said it could not
substantially relieve the problem of
cotton surpluses.
Farm Leaders Disagree.
Expressions from farm leaders
were somewhat at variance. Edward
A. O'Neal, president of the American
Farm Bureau Federation, contended
farmers would obtain distinct bene
fits. Louis J. Taber, master of the
National Grange, said he hoped the i
agreements would aid agriculture, j
but asserted that the reciprocal!
tariff program had not done so in j
the past.
R. H. Cabell, president of Armour
& Co., commented that the trade |
agreement "in some particulars" i
should result in “benefits to the meat
trade and to American livestock pro
ducers.”
At the Capitol Senator King, Dem
ocrat. of Utah saw the agreements as
a "boon to trade in general,” while
Senator Frazier, Republican, of
North Dakota contended they would
be of “no advantage to farmers.”
Senator Borah, Republican, of
Idaho remarked that a cursory ex
amination disclosed new benefits to
American trade, and several admin
istration supporters such as Senator
Logan, Democrat, of Kentucky and
Representative Mead, newly elected
Democratic Senator from New York,
expressed enthusiastic approval.
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Krueger Jury May
Hear Mrs. McDonald
B> the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES. Nov. 19.—Deputy .
District Attorney Charles Crail said
today when the prosecution opens >
rebuttal in the trial of Charles Mc
Donald, charged with attempted
murder, he will try to have Mrs.
McDonald deny on the witness stand
that she and Mrs. Karl Krueger had
an unnatural friendship.
McDonald, accused of wounding
Mrs. Krueger, August 19, wife of the
Kansas City Symphony Orchestra
leader, testified yesterday he believed
the relations of his wife and Mrs.
Krueger were "immoral."
"Mrs. McDonald may not be per
mitted to testify, since she is still
McDonald's wife, but the jury should
know she is ready to deny these
charges.” declared Mr. Crail.
The defendant, 29, testified:
"I believe Mrs. Krueger was the
direct cause of the wrecking of my
home."
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45 More Publications
Suppressed by Hungary
PS the Associated Press.
BUDAPEST. Nov. 19—The Hun
garian government suppressed 45
newspapers and magazines today,
bringing the total banned within a
fortnight to 90.
A new law requires every publica
tion to obtain a license from the
prime minister's office.
Licenses were denied on the
grounds that the publications were
excessively liberal and anti-govern
ment.
PARIS.—GRYNSZPAN TO HAVE RENOWNED LAWYER—This new picture of Herschel Grynszpan,
the 17-year-old Polish Jew, whose slaying of a German Embassy secretary, Ernst vom Rath, loosed
Nazi vengeance on German Jews, shows him just after the assassination as he was taken by police
to Police Court. Yesterday Vencent de Moro-Giafferi, renowned criminal lawyer, announced he had
accepted an American request to defend the youth. —A. P. Wirephoto.
Permanent C. 1.0.
Begins With Peace
A Main Objective
Bringing All Unorganized
Workers Into Industrial
Unions Is the Other
BACKGROUND:
The C. I. O.'s decision to hold
a convention to set itself up as a
permanent labor organization
was generally felt to be putting
ait obstacle in the path of labor
peace. Some officials of C. /. O.
have felt the opposite to be true,
that as a permanent body, bar
gaining might be more effective.
Ev the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH. Nov. 19.—The new .
Congress of Industrial Organiza- [
tions, molded from the old C. I. O..
equipped with a constitution and
set of policies, and led by the veteran
labor champion. John L. Lewis,
moved into the main stream of
labor history today committed to
two objectives:
Organization of the unorganized
workers of America on an industrial
basis i one big union for one in
dustry).
Peace and unity in the labor move
ment, with recognition of the prin
ciple of industrial unionism.
On these terms the new C. I. O.
left open the door to peace with
the American Federation of Labor
yesterday after closing its first con
1 stitutional convention in the same
city where the rival craft unionists
began their organization 57 years
ago.
The noisy, highly demonstrative
convention, working under the gavel
pounding of the C. I. O. high com
mand, elevated Mr. Lewis to the
first presidency by acclamation, filled
lesser offices and the seats around
a 38-man executive board and
passed reams of resolutions.
Peace Most Important.
The record of the five-day assem
bly disclosed that the question of
labor peace was considered the most
important matter before the con
vention, but no one professed to
know how or when labor peace would
be achieved.
The round of debate on the peace
issue filled the convention hall with
the same demands heard at the
A. F. of L. convention in Houston
last month—“We want an honor
able peace."
A convention committee report
adopted by the delegates contained
the following “declaration of policy
of the C. I. O. in regard to the
problem of a unified labor move
ment”:
“The C. I. O. states with finality
that there can be no compromise
with its fundamental purpose and
aim of organizing workers into
powerful industrial unions, nor with
its obligation to fully protect the
rights and interests of all its mem
bers and affiliated organizations.
“The C. I. O. accepts the goal of
unity in the labor movement and
declares that any program for the
attainment of such goal must em
brace as an essential prelude
these fundamental purposes and
principles.”
“Opens Door to Unity.”
Philip Murray, one of C. I. O.'s
ranking officers and field general of
the 1937 “little steel strike,” said
the declared policy “opens wide the
door of opportunity for attainment
of that goal of unity which most
of us seek."
C. I. O.’s report on the futile peace
negotiations with A. F. L. in Novem
ber and December, 1937, blamed the
A. F. L. executive council for the
breakdown of the conferences. The
A. F. L. Convention report on the
same subject blamed Mr. Lewis for
the collapse of the negotiations and
declared there could be no solution
for the labor peace problem “until
the adherents of that man deprive
him of his authority or he volun
tarily steps aside.”
The A. F. L. recommended that
its executive council "carry on the
battle and at the same time stand
ready to respond to any genuine ap
peal for peace • •
Broun Apologizes.
At the closing session of the con
vention Heywood Broun, president
of the American Newspaper Guild,
apologized to newsmen who “cov
ered" the proceedings for a resolu
tion charging the “press generally”
with unfair reporting of the sessions.
Mr. Broun told delegates the resolu
tion, adopted by a rising vote, “could
be misinterpreted as reflecting on
their (working newspapermen) own
personal integrity and ability.” He
asserted:
“I say to the working newspaper
men here that neither the resolutioh
or my speech meant any newspaper
men working here, but the apology
does not apply to any single pub
lisher.”
Martin to Secede, la Report.
DETROIT, Nov. 19 (A*).—'The De
troit Free Press quoted sources close
to the United Automobile Workers’
jf
international headquarters as say
ing last night that President Homer
Martin soon will "round up his fol
lowers and sever connections with
the Committee for Industrial Or
ganizations.”
The paper said that apparently
cordial relations between Mr. Mar
tin and the C. I. O. high command
at its Pittsburgh convention were
a pretense and that factionalism in
the union may come out in the open
again when the U. A. W. Executive
Board meets here next Friday.
The Free Prgss quoted a "well-in
formed source” as saying Mr. Mar
tin might take approximately half
of the U. A. W. membership with
him and that he would remain in
dependent of both the C. I. O. and
the American Federation of Labor,
at least until the two groups settle
their differences.
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Earle and Secretary
Ready to Testify
Bi the Associated Press.
HARRISBURG. Pa.. Nov. 19 —'
Gov. George H. Earle, his secretary
and a member of his cabinet held
themselves in readiness today to
take the witness stand when the
legislative committee investigating
campaign charges resumes hearings
Monday.
Secretary of Labor and Industry ,
Ralph M. Bashore first will follow !
up his denials of allegations of |
coercion of State employes, ••kick
backs” of State architects' fees, un
lawful award of contracts and “sale”
of legislation. He testified yester
day.
The Governor will follow his sec
retary, Edward W. Prendergast, to
i the stand.
All three, and 11 others, were
named in Dauphin County District j
Attorney Carl B. Shelley’s petition
for a grand jury inquiry into what ,
the prosecutor alleged was a “sys
tem of crime” on Capitol Hill.
Start of the grand jury proceed
ings still awaits Judge Paul N.
Schaeffer’s orders. Granting Shel- .
ley’s right to conduct the investiga- |
tion. the jurist is allowing a "rea- 1
sonable” time for Attorney General
Guy K. Bard to appeal.
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Artificial Larynx
Operation Described
B> the Associated Press.
SPOKANE. Wash.. Nov. 19—How
science substituted an artificial
larynx for one removed because of
cancer was described today before
the Pacific Northwest Surgical So
ciety.
Dr. A. A. Matthews, society presi
dent, told of the procedure, which he
said was "not sensationally new to
science.” The patient demonstrated
his artificial larynx.
Removal of the natural larynx
left the patient without facilities
for further breath or speech. Dr.
Matthews said, since the passageway !
between the lungs and mouth was
closed.
The breathing problem was solved
through the insertion of an inch
square trap door low in the neck.
An artificial larynx was attached
to the trap door. When the patient
talked a rubber tube carried the
sound to the mouth, where it was
rounded and pushed out by the
tongue and palate, as in ordinary
speech.
Vote Frauds Charged
In 5 Indiana Counties
B> the Associ»ted Press.
INDIANAPOLIS. Nov. 19.—Peti
tions charging fraud and error in
the November 8 election sought vote
recounts in five Indiana counties to
day for Raymond E. Willis of An
gola, beaten for Senator, and 11
other Republicans who ran unsuc
cessfully for State offices.
The candidates filed the petitions,
contesting election of Democrats,
yesterday. Recounts will begin for
Vanderburgh County in Evansville
December 6 and for Lake County in
Gary two days later. The other
counties are Marion (Indianapolis),
Vigo (Terre Haute) and Franklin.
Only James M. Tucker of Paoli,
for secretary of State, won elec
tion on the G. O. P. State ticket on
the basis of unofficial returns. Mr.
Willis lost to Senator Frederick Van
Nuys of Indianapolis.
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Actress and Attorney
Win and Lose in Court
Bs the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 19.—Film
Actress Merle Oberon won and lost
in a court decision yesterday—and
so did her former lawyer, Lyle
Rucker.
The lawyer sued Miss Oberon for
$5,480 additional legal fees. In a
cross-complaint she asked return of
$5,000 of the $6,000 she already had
paid Mr. Rucker. Superior Judge
Edward Brand denied both petitions.
Mr. Rucker testified Miss Oberon
congratulated him on the manner
In which he had handled a $125,000
damage suit for her. Miss Oberqn
denied this, stating she told the at
torney he was not entitled to the
additional $5,480 for which he sued.
Trial of Dr. Berry
In Kidnap-Assault
Case Is Speeded
Defendant, in Tears,
Declares Mind
Became Blank
Ey the Associated Press.
OLYMPIA, Wash., Nov 19 —A new
prosecution attack was in store to
day for the testimony of Dr. Kent
W. Berry that he could not remem
ber torturing a former Coast Guard
officer whom he accused of attacking
Mrs. Berry.
A Saturday session was decided
upon in the interest of speeding of
the kidnap-assault trial of the 50
year-old physician.
Dr. Berry sobbed yesterday as he
reiterated, under severe questioning
by special Assistant Prosecutor J. W.
Graham, that he could remember
no details of an hour of torture he
is charged with administering to
Irving Baker, former Coast Guard
lieutenant commander, last August
19 with the aid of three other men.
now his co-defendants.
Mind Becomes Blank.
Previously Baker, last State's wit
j ness, had emphatically denied, in
response to a question, that he had
forced intimacies on the physician's
young wife at a Fourth of July
picnic.
Dr. Berry testified:
"I was so overcome with emotion
when I saw the man who assaulted
i mv wife that my mind became
blank. I can't remember anything
' that I did after that—not a thing.”
He broke into tears when he re
, marked that he guessed he “had
put on a terrible show” and his
| young ■wife broke down at the same
time making it necessary for Su
perior Judge John M. Wilson to call
a short recess.
Failed to Get Warrant.
! Berry insisted under cross
examination he had never ques
tioned his wife's virtue, and said he
organized the abduction and as
sault only after he had failed in
repeated attempts to obtain a war
rant for Baker's arrest.
Berry’ admitted under cross
examination he had slapped his wife
when she returned from the Fourth
of July party and his suspicions had
been aroused that she had been as
| saulted. He said she w’ould not
idnetify the man in the case for
several days.
Co-defendants are William Mc
Aloon, James Reddick and Robert
H. Smith, accused by the State of
I aiding Berry to drive Baker to a
j lonely spot near Olympia where the
brutal beating was administered.
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Legion Asks Ouster
Of Alien Anarchists
B> the Associated Press.
INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 19.—The
Executive Committee of the Ameri
can Legion ended a three-day an
nual meeting here today and turned
over to the national headquarters
staff its renewed fight on Commun
ism, Fascism and anarchism.
Yesterday the committee adopted
resolutions asking a Federal law for
expulsion from the United States
of alien Communists or anarchists
and upholding the Dies Congres
sional Committee in its investiga
tion of un-American activities.
The committee urged exclusion or
deportation of “aliens who are mem
bers of anarchist, Communist and
all other groups who advocate the
overthrow of our Government by
force and violence.
Harry Bridges, West Coast director
for the Congress of Industrial Or
ganizations, it termed “a glaring
example of the indifference of the
Federal authorities to expel un
desirable aliens.”
President to Attend
Press Club Dinner
President Roosevelt and Secre
taries Hull, Morgenthau, Woodring
and Roper will be guests of honor
tonight at the annual members’ din
ner of the National Press Club.
Guests will be seated in the club’s
newly-decorated auditorium at 7
o'clock. The President has attended
six of the members’ dinners and has
belonged to the club since 1933.
Harold Brayman, president of the
club and Washington correspondent
for the Philadelphia Evening Public
Ledger, will preside. A musical pro
gram by the Navy Band Orchestra,
under direction of Lt. Charles Ben
ter, will be followed by “off the rec
ord” entertainment by distinguished
artists, it was announced.
Correction
In yesterday’s Star, the caption of
a picture of women chained to the
cherry trees, identified Mrs. Bessie
Goldberg as a member of the Park
View Woman’s Club. This is an
error. She is a member of the Park
View Parent-Teacher Association,
but not the Woman's Club.
A
Widespread Revolt
Against Czechs in
Ruthenia Reported
39 Gendarmes Declared
Killed in Battle in
Carpatho-Ukraine
By the Associated Press.
BUDAPEST. Nov. 19.—A delega
tion of Ruthenian leaders was
awaited today as reports circulated
that they were bringing petitions
with 50,000 signatures asking an
nexation to Hungary of their au
tonomous section of Czechoslovakia,
now named Carpatho-Ukraine.
Simultaneously the Budapest news
paper Uj Nemzedek reported 39 gen
darmes had been killed in a battle
at Iza Village in Carpatho-Ukraine,
the easternmost Czechoslovak prov
ince, as Ruthenians continued what
the paper termed a widespread re
volt against Czech authorities.
Details of the reported battle were
lacking, but other information pur
portedly coming from the remote
Carpathian Mountains from Hun
garian sources pictured "a state of
anarchy” there. Iza is near the Car
pathian provisional capital. Huszt.
Appeals for Intervention.
Already in Budapest, in constant
contact with the Hungarian govern
ment. was the Ruthenian leader
and former minister of justice, Ste
phen Fencik. Known as pro-Hun
garian, Fencik made an appeal for
armed Hungarian intervention.
Hungarian observers said the
Ruthenian demand for annexation
to Hungary was growing and that
the Czech military authority—pic
tured as weakened by lack of disci
pline—was powerless to halt the al
leged wave of secession sentiment.
Budapest also henrd that a Ru
thenian delegation was en route to
Warsaw, where—it was said here— j
the Polish government would be
urged to take energetic steps to ef
fect the realization of Polish-Hun
garian desires for a common fron- 1
tier, instead of being separated bv
a part of Czechoslovakia.
Rebels Nearly Ring Huszt.
The Budapest semi-official news
paper, Esti Ujsag, reported that
Huszt virtually was surrounded by
“rebels" and that soldiers of Czech
nationality were being withdrawn.
Prague was represented by the
paper as being disinterested in
Carpatho-Ukraine. but was main- j
taining military forces there to pro
tect several thousand Czech civil
servants until they could be removed
by the few and inadequate railways.
Other reports, not immediately
possible of verification, said the "re
volt" was spreading northward to
the Polish border and that to the
west the rebels were in control even
of some Slovak territory.
| Justice Brandeis Calls j
At White House
Justice Louis D. Brandeis. the
oldest member of the Supreme
Court, was an unexpected caller on
the President at the White House
this morning. He made the visit to
discuss the German-Jewish situa
tion. in which he is deeply ln
i tejested.
I The President, not going to the
j executive office today, received Jus
I tice Brandeis in the living quarters
in the White House. The justice,
who was 82 only a few days ago,
arrived at the White House at
11 a.m.
An earlier visitor was Roy M.
North, deputy Third Assistant Post
master General, who discussed new
stamp issues with Mr. Roosevelt. A
short consultation between Mr. j
Roosevelt and Daniel C. Bell, acting
director of the budget, followed Mr. 1
North's departure.
The President was to have lunch
eon today with William Phillips, ’
United States Ambassador to Italy, :
who is in this country for a short
stay.
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Col. Edward N. Jones, Jr.,
Dies in San Diego
Col. Edward N. Jones, jr.. U. S. A.,
retired, who served two details of
service here in 1905 and 1913, died
yesterday in San Diego. Calif., the
War Department was notified today.
His first duty here was with the
Office of the Quartermaster Gen
eral. and the second was as a mem
ber of the General Staff Corps.
Born in Camden. Ala., in 1865. he
was graduated from West Point in
1886 and commissioned a second
lieutenant of infantry. He was
promoted to the rank of colonel in
1917 and two years later retired.
During his service he participated
in the Sioux campaign and was
stationed in Southern States during
the Spanish-American War and
saw duty in Cuba and the Philip
pines.
Col. Jones is survived by his
granddaughter, Miss Florence M.
Jones, San Diego; a stepson. Col.
Jesse D. Elliott, on duty here in the
Office of the Inspector General, and
a stepdaughter, Mrs. E. B. Gose.
widow of Col. Gose.
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I
Sailor Lost When Wind
Gibes Boom, Fells Him
James West. 60-year-old colored
sailor, was lost overboard last night
In the Potomac River near Quantico,
Va.. when a sudden gust of wind
gibed the boom of a fishing boat on
which he was employed, knocking
him into the water.
Capt. J. L. Wake, master of the
Stephen Lark, bound for a local
fish market, told harbor precinct
police of the mishap when his boat
docked late last night.
The drowned man, he said, was
evidently caught unawares. The
captain said he put about in an
effort to rescue West, but could find
no trace of the body. The drowned
man lived in Seringa, Middlesex
County, Va.
Chain Store Tax Bill
Held Discriminatory
The Patman bill to tax chain
stores was declared “discriminatory”
last night at a meeting of the Ta
koma Park Citizens’ Association, a
group composing residents of sub
urban Washington and nearby
Maryland.
The group also voiced disapproval
of a central library and asked for
an expansion of facilities through
branches. Resolutions favoring pe
destrian traffic control and stricter
enforcement of motorist laws also
were passed.
ADMITTED TO COURT—Luther M. Walter (center), one of the
foremost transportation lawyers in this country and a trustee
of the Chicago Great Western Railroad, with his daughter, Helen
Walter Munsert. and her husband, Kenneth W. Munsert, who
were admitted to practice in the Supreme Court yesterday on
Mr. Walter’s motion. —Star Staff Photo.
Home Awaits Girl and Father
Who Sought Niagara Death
B: the Associated Press.
ROCHESTER. N. Y.. Nov. 19 —A
home that is lonely for a little girl
to fill the place of one who died last
Christmas was waiting today for
Nora Brunnhilde Peterson, 6, and
her father, whom police prevented
last Saturday from jumping over
the brink of Niagara Falls with the
child in his arms.
Mrs. Daniel P. Crandall of Kendall,
N. Y„ in a plea to the Rochester
Democrat and Chronicle to find the
child whose picture accompanied the
story of the rescue, wrote:
“Our little six-year-old girl died
Radical and Conservative
Fears Told Mrs. Roosevelt
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, pre
siding at a joint conference of State
directors of W. P. A. education and
recreation programs at the Wash
ington Hotel yesterday, was told
that the fear that America might
become too radical seems to have
about equal weight with the fear
that it might become too conser
vative.
Questioning the W. P. A. leaders
closely as to whether they had seen
any evidence of a "wave of fear"
for democracy in their regions. Mrs.
Roosevelt was informed that at
tacks on democracy had brought
about a revival of enthusiasm for
it. The directors declared that
chief attacks had come entirely
from other countries and not from
groups in the United States.
During the round-table discussion
Mrs. Roosevelt was asked how W.
P. A. teachers might allay public
sentiment against inclusion of dis
cussion of fascism or communism
on W. P. A. educational programs.
She suggested that the critics be
asked to participate in the programs,
declaring that nothing teaches a
person so quickly as to what is be
ing done as the opportunity to par
ticipate in the doing of it.
She urged that the W. P. A. edu
cation and recreation programs be
come active powers behind the
teaching of democracy, rather than
teaching against any other form of
government.
The conference, which has brought
more than 200 State W. P. A,
leaders together, was to end this
morning after the two divisions re
ceived and discussed reports from
various committees.
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Electrical Stethoscope
To Be Demonstrated*
A portable electrical stethoscope
to amplify and reproduce heart
sounds at much higher volumes than
could be had from the ordinary
acoustical stethoscope will be dem
onstrated tonight before the George
Washington University Medical So
ciety, at the University Medical
School.
The device will be operated during
a scientific program concerning the
heart, over which Dr. Oscar B.
Hunter, president of the society, will
preside. Dr. Hunter is flying back
from Oklahoma City in order to be
present at the session tonight. He
has been attending the Southern
Medical Society meeting.
Actual cases of heart murmurs
will be demonstrated by electrical
amplification over a loud speaker,
during a discussion by Dr. Frank S.
Horvath of the subject. “Criteria for
the Diagnosis of Mitral and Aortic
Valvular Diseases.”
Other speakers on the heart pro
gram will include Dr. Lewis N. Hurx
thal of Boston, Mass., who will pre
sent motion pictures: Lt.Col. Charles
K. Berle, cardiologist of Walter Reed
Hospital, and Dr. James Alexander
Lyon.
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Co-operative Medicine
To Be Discussed
Growth of co-operative medicine
will be discussed by Dr. Kingsley
Roberts of New York, director of the
Bureau of Co-operative Medicine at
8:15 p.m. tomorrow at the opening
meeting of the Modern Forum at
the Washington Hotel.
Members of a panel who will di
rect a question forum will include
Irving J. Levy, of the Wage-Hour
Administration; Robert H. Shields.
Department of Agriculture, and
member of the Group Health As
sociation Advisory Committee, and
Ross Garrett of the Health Security
Administration.
Deportation of German
Fought by Wife
Secretary of Labor Perkins was
expected today to receive a personal
appeal from Mrs. Jennie List of
Rochester, N. Y„ to stay deporta
tion of her husband, Paul List, 37,
a German. Mr. List was ordered
deported to France, where he faces
a prison sentence as a stowaway,
and friends fear that he will be ex
pelled to Germany, where he might
incur punishment for having fought
with the government forces in Spain.
The case is being handled by the
American Committee for the Pro
tection of the Foreign Bom. Mr.
List is due to be sent out of this
country Monday, according to the
Associated Press.
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last Christmas time and we are
very anxious to get a little girl to
stay with us. Also my husband ivants
to hire a man to help him here on
the farm. Could you tell me how
I could get in touch with Mr. Edwin
Peterson so as to find out if he
and the little girl would like to come
and try it here?”
Police were assisting last night in
efforts to reach the child's father at
j the home of a brother-in-law in
Brooklyn. Peterson, a former Eng
lish sailor, was reported by Niagara
Falls police to have said he pre
ferred death to separation from his
child.
Christmas Seal Drive
Details Are Outlined
Details of the Tuberculosis Asso
ciation's annual Christmas Seal
drive were outlined at a meeting yes
terday at the Admiral Club attended
by volunteer workers who will con
duct sales booths in Washington
stores and banks.
Mrs. Frank W. Persons, a director
of the Tuberculosis Association and
chairman of the Christmas Seals
Committee, presided at the meeting,
which was followed by refreshments.
Hostesses included Mrs. James G.
Townsend, wife of the president of
the Tuberculosis Association: Mrs.
Walter B. Fry, president of the Dis
trict of Columbia Congress of Par
ents and Teachers; Mrs. Andrew
Stewart, a director of the associa
tion: Mrs. Martin Mendelsohn, presi
dent of the Jewish Consumptive Re
lief Society, and Mrs. Lloyd W. Bid
dle. former president of the Federa
tion of Women's Clubs.
Others present at the meeting in
cluded Mrs, Joseph A. Murphy. Mrs
Ethel B. Chichester. Mrs. J. A.
Stumpenhorst. Miss Esther Behrend,
Mrs. Chauncev Y. Dodds. Mrs. F. J.
Hobbs. Mrs. Martin Baum. Mrs. Wil
liam E. Wise, Mrs. J. Luther Frantz.
Mrs. M. D. Heron, Mrs. Richard
Alexander, Mrs. Irene Levine, Mrs.
Julia Long. Mrs. Elizabeth New
burgh. Mrs. Abraham Claude,
Mrs. Gertrude Shenker. Mrs. Thomas
Mattingly. Miss Nora Stewart, Mrs.
Charles Williams. Mrs. Frank Gor
don. Mrs. Olive E. Madding and Mrs.
F. R. Smith.
Kastner Wins Award
Alfred Kastner. local architect
and secretary of the Washington
Chapter of the American Institute
of Architects, was announced today
as winner for the second year of
the prize awarded by the Pittsburgh
Glass Institute for the distinctive
use of glass in modern building.
The structure for which he re
ceived the award is a community
and school building project at
| Hightstown. N. J.
Roosevelt to Leave
For Warm Springs
Tomorrow
Conferences on New
Legislation Planned
At Georgia Resort
By the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt worked today
to clear his desk of a mass of busi
ness before transferlng the center
of governmental activity to the
Southland for the next two weeks.
He will leave late tomorrow for
Warm Springs, Ga., where, between
swims in the health resort's outdoor
pool, he expects to hold conferences
on the new legislative program.
There Is a posibility, too, that Am
bassador Hugh R. Wilson will go
there when he returns from Berlin
to give Mr. Roosevelt a first-hand
account of the happenings in Ger
many.
In his white cottage atop Pine
Mountain, the President also may
sign several important appoint
ments, including some for the 20
Federal judgeships vacancies, unless
these are attended to before he
leaves. Most of these places are
newly created. The President dis
cussed nominees for the post yes
terday with Attorney General Cum
mings.
Hopkins Denies Report.
Informed persons said appoint
ment of a successor to the late
Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo on the
Supreme Court was unlikely at this
time
Officials would not say whether
any more cabinet changes were in
the offing. Harry L. Hopkins, re
lief director, denied emphatically
yesterday a report that he was to
be transferred from W. P. A. to the
Commerce Secretaryship.
Senate and House Democratic
leaders will go to Warm Springs to
go over with Mr. Roosevelt a tenta
tive legislative slate for the new
Congress, meeting January 3.
Organization of the two Houses
and the related question of increas
ing the Republican ratio on com
mittees because of minority party
gains in the recent election also
may be covered.
President to Inspect Dam.
The President will go to the
Georgia resort by way of Chatta
nooga, Tenn. On Monday morning
he will inspect the Chickamauga
T. V. A. dam now under construc
tion on the Tennessee River and
visit several of the Civil War battle
fields in that vicinity.
He will spend four or five hours
around Chattanooga before return
ing to his train to continue his
journey to Warm Springs, where
he will arrive Monday night.
He may make a brief informal
talk at the dam, but the only set
speech of his trip is that before the
non-partisan forum of the Univer
sity of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, the evening of December 5, on
the return trip to Washington. That
morning he will have breakfast at
Columbia. S. C., at the home of
Gov. Olin D. Johnston.
O'Conor Sails
NEW YORK, Nov. 19 OP).—Gov -
elect and Mrs. Herbert R. O'Conor
of Maryland yesterday sailed on a
16-day cruise “to rest after a fa
tiguing campaign.”
Mr. O’Conor, who takes office
January 11, sailed aboard the Grace
liner Santa Rosa.
Also aboard was Brig. Gen. Cor
nelius Vanderbilt, recuperating from
an illness.
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Newman Club Formed
The Newman Club at George
Washington University will hold an
open forum discussion on “The Be
ginning of Things According to
Science and Religion” tomorrow at
5 p.m. at Immaculate Conception
School. Eighth and N streets N.W.
A buffet supper will follow. Dr.
John K. Cartwright, pastor of Im
maculate Conception, will preside.
Thomas McCarthy is president of
1 the club.
Weather Report
District of Columbia—Rain this afternoon and tonight; much colder
tonight: tomorrow fair and colder: lowest temperature tonight about 42
degrees; moderate southerly winds becoming fresh, northwest and dimin
ishing tonight.
Maryland and Virginia—Rain this afternoon and tonight: much
colder tonight; tomorrow generally fair; colder in east and central por
tions.
West Virginia—Mostly cloudy and colder, with rain in east portion
tonight; tomorrow generally fair and colder by Monday.
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Weekly Weather Outlook.
North and Middle Atlantic States—Gen
erally fair except rain middle of week and
possibly snow flurries from Northern New
York to Northern Maine Monday. Colder
Monday, warmer middle of week and cold
er Thursday nitht and Friday.
Ohio Valley and Tennessee—Generally
fair except rain about Wednesday and again
Saturday or Sunday. Colder Monday,
warmer Tuesday or Tuesday night, colder
Thursday and warmer at end of week.
The disturbance that was central over
Ohio Friday morning has moved rapidly
northeastward to the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
Anticosti Island. Quebec. 29.56 Inches, and
a broad trough extends thence southwest
ward to the eastern Gulf of Mexico. Knox
ville. Tenn.. 29.72 inches. Another dis
turbance Is moving rapidly east-southeast
ward over the Red River of the North Val
ley. Winnipeg. Manitoba. 29.62 inches.
These disturbances have been attended by
rain In the Ohio and lower Mississippi Val
leys. the lower Lake region, the Appala
chian region, the Atlantic and east Gulf
States, and northern Minnesota. Pressure
remains low over Hudson Strait and north
ern Hudson Bay. Resolution Island. Hudson
Strait. 29.2R Inches, and over southeastern
Alaska and northern British Columbia.
Juneau. Alaska, 29.84 Inches. Pressure is
high from the North Pacific States east
southeastward to the lower Mississippi Val
ley and the western Gluf of Mexico with an
extension from Missouri northeastward to
eastern Ontario. Delta. Utah. 30.46 inches,
and Del Rio. Tex.. 30.32 Inches. Pressure
remains high from the vicinity of Bermuda
eastward and northeastward over the
ocean. S. 8. Pluvlose. 30.36 inches. The
temperature has risen in the Atlantic States
and from the northern Rocky Mountain
region eastward to Nebraska and Minne
sota. while colder weather has overspread
the Lake region, the Great Central Valleys,
the southern Plains States and the middle
and west Gulf States.
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clear at.
Harpers Ferry: Potomac slightly muddy at
Great Falls today.
Tide Tables.
(Furnished by United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey.)
Today. Tomorrow.
High _ 5:44 a.m. 6:32 a.m.
Low_12:08 a.m. 12:59 a.m.
High_J_ 6:11p.m. 6:57p.m.
Low _12:24 p.m. 1:13 p.m.
The Sun and Moon.
Rises. Sets.
Bun. today _ 6:55 4:53
Sun. tomorrow_ 6:56 4:52
Moon, today .. . . 4:29 a m. 3:25 p.m.
Automobile lights must be turned on
one-half hour after sunset.
Precipitation.
Monthlv precipitation in incheg In the
Capital (current month to date):
1938. Avg. Record.
January _ 2.64 3.55 7.83 '37
February_ 2.37 3.27 6.84 '84
March _ 2.23 3.75 8.84 ’91
Anril _ 1 67 3.27 9.13 ’89
Mav _ 3.51 3.70 10.69 ’89
June _ 2.26 4.13 10.94 ’((0
July _ 5.06 4.71 10.63 ’86
August _ 4.64 4.01 14.41 ’28
September - 4.27 3.24 17.45 '34
October _ 1.15 2.84 8.81 '37
November _ 1.07 2.37 8.69 ’89
December _ 3.32 7.50 ’01
Record Temperatures This Tear.
Highest. !»;. on Auaust 16.
Lowest. 18, on January 28.
Report for Loot 24 Boors.
Temperature. Bar’eter.
Yesterday— Degrees. Inches.
4 p m._ 78 29.7P
8 p.m. _ 72 29.80
Midnight _ 67 29.86
Today—
4 a m._ 6] 29.84
8 a m._ 60 29.78
Noon _ 63 29.75
Reeord far Last 24 Haora.
(From noon yesterday to noon today.)
Highest, 79. 3 p.m. yesterday. Year
ago. 43.
Lowest. 59. 7 a m. today. Year ago. 36.
Humidity far Last 24 Haora.
(From noon yesterday to noon today !
Hiahest. 95 per cent, at noon today,
lowest. 47 per cent, at 4 p.m. yesterday
Weather in Various Cities.
Temp. Rain
Barom.HIth Low. fall. Weather.
Abilene __ 30.28 56 34 Clear
Albany _. 29.84 80 48 0.22 Rain
Atlanta _ 29.78 78 62 0.74 Cloudy
Atl. City 29.80 62 58 Cloudy
Baltimore 29.82 78 60 0.06 Cloudy
Blrm'gham 29.90 80 48 1.22 Rain
Bismarck . 29.80 42 36 ... Clear
Boston __ 29 78 68 62 Cloudy
Buffalo . 29.96 54 40 1.46 Bain
Charleston 29.98 80 70 Clear
Chicago . 30.04 46 3R CTear
Cincinnati 29.92 60 42 1.16 Cloudy
Cleveland. 29.92 60 42 1 64 Rain
Columbia. 29.90 80 68 0.14 Rain
Denver __ 30.08 48 42 , Clear
Detroit 30.00 48 34 0.14 Cloudy
El Paso _ 30.32 58 32 ., Clear
Galveston 30.22 76 60 6.14 Clear
Helena __ 30.00 48 40 Clear
Huron - 29.84 48 34 gear
Indl spoils 29.98 58 40 0 32 Cloudy
Jaeks'nvllle 29.98 86 70 Clear
Kans. City 30.10 44 28 — Claw
L. Angeles 30.10 82 68 £}*»'
Louisville. 29.92 60 44 1.28 Cloudy
Miami 30.00 82 78 CTear
Mpla.-St P. 29.78 38 30 Cloudy
N. Orleans 30.06 80 64 0.86 Cloudy
New York. 29.84 66 60 Rain
Okla. City 30.20 60 32 0.02 Clear
Omaha 20.98 42 28 Sou2l
Phllad'phla 29.84 70 60 0.10 Cloudy
Phoenix . 30.18 72 38 Clear
Pittsburgh 29.82 70 44 0.38 Rain
Portl’nd. M. 29.78 68 46 0.02 Cloudy
Portl’nd. 0.30.34 44 38 Cloudy
Raleigh 29.88 78 68 0.18 Cloudy
ft. Louis 30.10 52 34 Clew
Lake C. 30 36 44 28 _ __ CTear
8. Antonio 30.30 66 40 Clear
Ban Diego 30.06 7R 52 Clear
8. Pr’clsco 30.16 72 64 ... Clear
Seattle 30.20 64 60 Cloudy
Spokane.. 30.18 48 40 Cloudy
Tampa. 30.00 86 68 Clear
WA8H..D.C .29.80 79 60 0.09 Cloudy
FOREIGN STATIONS.
(7 a.m.. Greenwich time, today)
Temperature. Weather.
London England_ 24 Cloudy
Paris. France _ 48 Rain
Vienna, Austria _ 37 Cloudy
Berlin. Germany _ 34 Cloudy
Brest. France _ 62 Cleat
Stockholm. Sweden_ 39 Cloudy
Gibraltar, Spain 59 Cloudy
(Noon. Greenwich time, today.)
Horta (Fayal) Azores 64 Cloudy
(Current observation!.)
St. Georges. Bermuda 70 CloudF
Ban Juan. Puerto Riea 7* Cloudy
Havana. Cuba _ 74 Cloudy
Colon. Canal Zone ... 79 Cloudy
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