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D. C. May Scrap
Plan to Lay In
Sfaples for Year
Secrecy Surrounds
Program for Large
Quantity Purchases
A temporarily approved plan
whereby the District government
would lay in a year s supply of staple
commodities, despite efforts of Fed
eral officials to halt frenzied buying
by individuals, may be abandoned,
It was indicated at the District
Building this afternoon.
A veil of secrecy as to the source
of the plan or anything about it
prevailed, with District officials
maintaining an airtight silence.
The unusual purchasing program.
In tentative form, was approved at
a meeting of the Board of Commis
sioners late yesterday and it - was
learned on good authority that the
suggestion was made by an official
of the Procurement Division in a
telephone conversation with one of
the District officials.
Capt. H. E. Collins, director of
procurement, said today,' however,
that he had never heard of such a
suggestion, and other Treasury offi
cials likewise denied knowledge of it.
Heads of municipal agencies,
meanwhile, were preparing order
lists should the plan go through.
The new plan called for large
quantity purchases of sugar, soap,
salt and other staple commodities.
Plan Is Delayed.
That drastic steps in carrying out
the program would be delayed until
next week was admitted in most
quarters and there was much indi
cation that after further consid
eration the plan would be dropped
altogether.
Assistant Engineer Commissioner
Patrick H. Tansey was the top of
ficial on duty at the District Build
ing today and said no comment
would be forthcoming until the
Commissioners are back at their
desks next week.
Despite denials of Treasury offi
cials that the suggestion for the
plan came from that quarter, one
District spokesman steadfastly
maintained that the District gov
ernment ‘‘did not act independently
nor upon its own initiative."
Some reports went even further
to indicate that other Federal
agencies had been given the same
suggestion. This, likewise, was de
nied vigorously at the Treasury De
partment.
A flurry of wholesale and retail
purchasing of foodstuffs since the
outbreak of hostilities in Europe has
caused a sharp upswung in com
modity prices. Federal officials, in
cluding President Roosevelt and
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace,
have reassured the buying public
that any alarm is unwarranted in
view of the surplus of food prod
ucts in the United States.
President Invites Nations
To Continue With Fair
President Roosevelt today issued
a proclamation inviting the foreign
nations participating in the New
York World's Fair to continue to
take part in the exposition in
1940, “or such part thereof as may
seem appropriate.”
In the preamble to the proclama
tion, the President stated:
“It has been made evident that
through the medium of the World’s
Fair at New York peaceful inter
course between nations is promoted,
and the exchange of ideas, experi
ence and technical knowledge, be
tween many parts of the earth has
been encouraged.
"Especially at the present time,
it is fitting and proper that the ideal
of peaceful intercourse be main
tained as offering the only ultimate
hope toward progress and peace.”
The President declared he was
acting in accordance with the con
gressional resolution providing for
the invitation to the foreign coun
tries.
Germans to Oust Nazis
Br the Associated Press.
The Social Democratic Federation,
U. S. A„ joined yesterday in an
appeal to the German people “to
overthrow the Nazi regime.”
Leo Meltzer. executive secretary,
said the federation had 10,000 mem
bers. He described it as “an off
shoot of the Norman Thomas
Socialist party” born of an intra
party dispute.
A cable signed by the national
chairman of the federation, Mayor
Jasper McLevy of Bridgeport, Conn.,
was sent to the German Social
Democratic Party in Exile at Paris.
It said:
“We welcome your manifesto
urging the German people to over
throw the Nazi regime and thus
restore peace and freedom. By
prompt response, they can save the
German nation from ruin and
strengthen democracy all over the
world.”
Pennsylvania Thief, 80,
Blames His Rearing
Br the Associated Press.
EPHRATA, Pa., Sept. 9.—Joe Buz
tard, 80-vear-old horse thief, is up
to his old tricks again.
By his own estimate he's spent
14 years in jail—"mostly for horse
stealing, it was.” State police ar
rested him in his Welsh mountain
cabin yesterday and hailed him
before a justice of the peace on a
horse-and-buggy theft charge.
"Aw, don’t bother with that,” Joe
said with a wave of a gnarled hand.
Tm guilty.”
Two weeks ago. after serving 19
months of a two-year sentence, he
was released from the New Castle
County, Del., workhouse. He had
been convicted of stealing a sales
man's suitcase full of shoes for the
left foot.
“It’s the way you are brought up,”
Buzzard quipped as he went back
to Jail.
Yiddish Actor Dies
NEW YORK, Sept. 9 t/Pi.—Nachum
Zemach. 52, prominent Yiddish
actor and director, and former as
sociate of the Moscow Art Theater,
died yesterday.
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OFF FOR FAIR — Five-year-old Austin
Wharton, son of Mr. and Mrs. John A.
Wharton, 6519 Eighth street N.W., leaves
for District day at New York World’s
Fair.
Among the hundreds of Washington residents departing from the Union Station
this morning to help make District of Columbia day one of the big days of the
World’s Fair were (left to right) Edgar Morris, chairman of the District Day Ticket
Committee; Capt. H. C. Whitehurst, District highway director; Miss Elizabeth Amole,
Mrs. Edgar Morris, Engineer Commissioner David McCoach, Jr.; Thomas P. Morgan,
Jr., general chairman of District day, and Arthur Sundlum, vice chairman.
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Food Price Increase
May Bring Plea for
Congress' Action
Murphy Reiterates
Present Laws Are
Not Adequate
With charges of “food profiteer
ing" still coming In horn individuals
and organizations throughout the
country, national observers specu
lated today as to whether Congress
would be asked to bolster existing
anti-profiteering laws in the event >
prices on staple commodities rose to
an unjustifiable level.
Attorney General Murphy reiter- ;
ated yesterday that present laws are j
“inadequate to do a real job.” but
would not state whether the admin
istration would seek to have Con
gress put more teeth in them. ,
Mr. Murphy added he had about
completed a study of the laws, un
dertaken after the Government re
ceived complaints against food cost
increases since the war started in
i Europe. j
legislation uuf to wan.
It was believed that anti-profiteer
ing legislation would not come up for
consideration in Congress until the
regular session in January as neu
trality law revision will occupy vir
tually its entire jtime in the event
the expected extra session is called.
President Roosevelt told reporters
yesterday there were sufficient food
supplies to meet any demand. He
intimated there should be no hoard-;
ing and said Americans had no need
to fear any shortages.
The President said some food
prices might go up a little, but that
they were not going through the
roof as they did in World War days. I
Most food prices, he said, were still
below the parity figures sought by
the farm program. One of the ob
jectives of that program is to ele
vate the purchasing power of farm
products to the 1909-1914 level.
In a broadcast address last night
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace ex
■ pressed confidence that farmers,
processors, wholesalers, grocerymen
and labor would not seek undue
' profits.
Abundance of Supplies.
"They are going to stand for
abundance and a fair relationship
between prices and services of differ
ent sorts,” he said.
Mr. Wallace added there was an
abundance of food supplies and that
the Government's ever-normal gran
ary system would insure a continu
ance of that abundance.
He said some persons had been
j frightened by events in Europe and
1 some housewives had been conduct
ing "runs” on grocery stores.
In New York City, increases in
some food prices caused angry
housewives to cry "profiteering,” but
Markets Commissioner William Fel
lowes Morgan, jr„ warned them
against getting "panicky” and
“hoarding food.”
A shortage of sugar in some gro
ceries there was attributed in part
to labor difficulties in a large New
Jersey refinery.
The National Association of Food
Chains made public a letter to Mr.
Wallace pledging its co-operation to
preserve reasonable prices.
Band Concert
By the United States Soldiers
Home Band this evening at 6 o'clock
in the Soldiers Home bandstand.
John S. M. Zimmermann, bandmas
ter; Anton Pointner, assistant.
Program.
March Mexicana, ‘'Zacatecas”
Codina
Overture, “Fierrabras”_Shubert
Transcription, “Way Down Upon the
Swanee River”_.Roberts
(As it is played in eight different
foreign countries.)
Excerpts from musical comedy, “Lit
tle Boy Blue”__Bereney
Popular numbers, “Punch and Judy
Show” _ Black
“There’s a Gold Mine in the Sky,”
Kenny
Waltz song, “Collettfc” ..Simson
Finale, “The Wallabies” (Australia)
Lithgow
“The Star Spangled Banner.”
Blindness Society Meeting
The Board of Directors of the Dis
trict of Columbia Society for the
Prevention of Blindness will meet
at the Y. W. C. A.. Seventeenth and
K streets N.W., Tuesday afternoon
to map out plans for work this fall
and winter, it was anounced yester
day. (
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Autopsy Ordered
In Death of Man
Working Under Truck
Foot Crushed by
Another Vehicle
Only Visible Injury
An autopsy was ordered today In
the death of George Hammett. 35.
of 1241 B street S.E., who died in
Garfield Hospital last night. He
was brought to the hospital Wed
nesday night for treatment of in
juries received in a freak automo
bile accident.
Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald
ordered the autopsy to determine
whether Mr. Hammett died of traf
fic injuries.
The hospital was informed that
the man was working under a truck ,
at the P. C. Bowie Co.. 1137 Seven- I
teenth street N.W. when another |
truck passed by, running over his
foot.
An X-ray was ordered following
his admission to the hospital and
revealed a fractured ankle. The
hospital was unable to state the
cause of death and turned the case
over to the coroner.
Two persons were hurt early today
when the automobile they were
riding left the Baltimore Boulevard
near Muirkirk, Md.
Robert Clark, 19, of 18 Berryman
avenue, Capitol Heights, Md.. and
John Heneck, 25, 1108 Oak avenue.
Silver Spring. Md., were victims of
tho oooi/fant Thor nroro romnraH
to Casualty Hospital by the Bla
densburg Rescut Squad and were in
undetermined condition.
William S. Burley, 50, of 1154
Nineteenth street N.W., a truck
driver, was exonerated by a coro
ner’s jury yesterday in the death of
3-yeftr-old Joseph L. Carter, 2483
Phillips court N.W. The child was
run over in front of his house Tues
day by an ice truck driven by Mr.
Burley.
An inquest into the death of
George R. Stuart, 64, 4025 Twentieth
street N.E., killed in a crash last
week at Eighteenth street and Bun
ker Hill road N.E., was continued
yesterday until some time next
week.
Herring Says 'Madman'
Must Be Stopped
By thy Associated Press.
DES MOINES, Iowa. Sept. 9 —
Senator Clyde L. Herring, Demo
crat, of Iowa, yesterday told a cham
ber of commerce meeting that he
felt “the madman of Europe must
be stopped.”
"That may not be neutral but
that’s the way I feel,” he said.
Congress soon will be called into
special session, he added, “to de
clare neutral a country which really
isn’t neutral.” '
D. C. Caravan, 3,000 Strong,
Takes Over World's Fair
Special-Train Travelers Are Welcomed
By Mayor La Guardia and Whalen
By JOHN H. CASSADY, Jr,
Stall Correspondent of The Star.
NEW YORK. Sept. 9—Residents
of the Nation's Capital streamed
into the Pennsylvania Station at
the New York World’s Fair by the
hundreds and immediately prepared
to assume virtual command of the
"world of tomorrow" for the day.
Headed by the Commissioners and
other District and Federal officials,
a cheering crowd of some 3,000 Gov
ernment workers, business leaders,
members of civic organizations and
just plain Washingtonians arrived |
aboard a caravan of special trains i
to celebrate District of Columbia !
Day at the fair.
Because of the illness of his wife, I
Commissioner Melvin C. Haaen was
unable to make the trip.
New York City's Mayor Fiorello
La Guardia and Grover Whalen,
dapper $100.000-a-year chief of the
fair, were scheduled to greet the
visitors at noon at the Court of
Peace, formed by the imposing pa
vilions of a dozen nations.
McCoach for Response.
A response to the greeting will be
made by Commissioner David J. Mc
Coach, jr., the Engineer Commis
sioner. Immediately after the for
mal salutations the visitors will be
free to visit the fair as they please, j
As the last of three special Penn- ;
sylvania trains pulled into the Long
Island station the procession to the
Court of Peace got under way, with
a contingent of District National
Guardsmen and Marine Corps Re
serves, the newly organized Metro
politan Police Drill Team and the
Police Boys’ Club Band serving as
honorary escort.
The Commissioners. Brig. Gen.
Albert L. Cox, commander of the
District National Guard and chair
man of the District Day Transporta
tion Committee, and Thomas P.
Morgan, jr., chairman of arrange
ments for the celebration, headed
the procession, followed by subcom
mittee chairmen and guests of
honor.
Whalen Gives Luncheon.
Only three other events were on
the official District Day calendar,
and these involved only the Com
missioners, guests and other mem
bers of the official party. A lunch
eon with Mr. Whalen was to be
held in the Perylon Hall immedi
ately after the formal welcoming
ceremony. Later the official party
will be feted at the Ford Building
and have dinner at the Federal
Building. Gov. Herbert H. Lehman
and United States Fair Commis
sioner Edward J. Flynn are expect
ed to attend the dinner.
Representatives of virtually every
Federal and District Government
department or agency, as well as
scores of civic and business or
ganizations, were Included in the
Washington delegation, which left
Union Station at 7 am.
In fact,' so great was the last
minute rush for excursion tickets
that a third section had to be added
to the District Day train caravan.
Originally the railroad had planned
to use only two sections.
An advance guard of some 500
excursionists who are planning to
spend the week end at the fair left
Washington yesterday afternoon
and arrived here last night. It
was too late to go to the fair
grounds. so most of these early ar
rivals passed the remainder of the
evening wandering along Broad
way and visiting some of the night
spots.
Each of the three sections which
arrived today had 10 coaches. One
coach of the official section was
occupied by Commissioner Hazen,
his fellow Commissioners, Col. Da
vid McCoach. jr„ and George E.
Allen, committee chairmen, guests
of honor and their wives.
Others in the official party, in
addition to the Commissioners. Mr.
Morgan and Gen. Cox, included
Lawrence E. Williams, president of
the Board of Trade: Arthur J.
Sundlun. president of the Mer
chants and Manufacturers Associa
tion; Edgar Morris, chairman of the
Ticket Committee: Minor Hudson,
president of the Junior Board of
Commerce; District Auditor Daniel
J. Donovan, Corporation Counsel
Elwood H. Seal, Richard B. Keech,
vice chairman of the Public Utili
ties Commission; Assistant Cor
poration Counsel Glenn Simon, J.
Austin Latimer, executive assistant
to the Postmaster General; Police
Supt. Ernest W. Brown, Dr. H. C.
Byrd, president of the University
of Maryland; Mrs. Cary T. Gray
son. Frederic A. Delano, chairman
of the National Capital Park and
Planning Commission: Curtis
Hodges of the Greater National
Capital Committee and Highway
Director H. C. Whitehurst.
Miss Overton Joins Party.
Miss Ruth Overton, daughter of
Senator Overton of Louisiana and
queen of the 1939 President s Cup
Regatta, also came along as a guest
of the official party.
Numerous other coaches of the
excursion trains were occupied by
different organizations making the
trip in a body. Members of the
District Guard and Marine Corps
Reserve needed two coaches, em
ployes of the District Inspection
Department had another, and three
cars were filled with the police drill
team and other policemen and their
wives.
Just to show it is broad minded
about this World's Fair business,
the California State Society char
tered a coach to enable its members
to visit the Eastern rival.
Why Must They Die? No. 58
_One of a Series of Factual Analyses of D. C. Traffic Fatalities_
The place: -Intersection of Ninth
and S streets N.W.
The accident: Crossing Ninth
street at a point about 25 feet south
of the pedestrian crosswalk, a 61
year-old colored woman received fa
tal injuries when struck by the left
fender of a northbound automobile.
Witnesses testified she paused in the
middle of the street when the car’s
driver sounded his horn, then sud
denly attempted to run the rest of
the way. The driver said he tried
to stop, but the woman was hit and
was flung along the pavement, roll
ing over several times, according to
witnesses. Bystanders assisted her
into the driver's car and she was
taken to Garfield Hospital, where
she died September 2 from com
pound fracture of her left leg, shock
and pneumonia caused by post
operative condition.
The time: About 11:30 pm., Au
gust 26.
Weather conditions: Clear. Light
ing of street good.
The street: Dry and level; more
than 76 feet wide.
The vehicle: Passenger sedan,
with good brakes, police said. Driver
said he was going 20 or 21 miles per
hours; one witness said “at least 30
miles per hour."
The driver: A 41-year-old col
ored man, with six months’ driving
experience.
Coroner’s verdict: Accidental
ieath.
i
Analysis of the 9th, 29th and 32d traffic fatailties have not been
published, pending completion of official investigations. The first two
mentioned were hit-run cases.
Diagram shows how a 64-year-old colored woman, running
east across Ninth street below the crosswalk, was struck by the
left fender and headlight of northbound car. The small encir
cled X shows where the fatally Injured woman was thrown, and
the automobile shown in outline represents position of the
striking vehicle when it was able to halt.
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9TJ1 STREET
S STREET
N.W.
Others boarding trains for the fair included (front row, left
to right) Misses Frances and Cheshire Cox, daughters of Brig.
Gen. Albert L. Cox, chairman of the Transportation Committee,
and (back row. left to right) Gen. Cox and Maj. Horace Smith,
White House aide. —Star Staff Photos.
Use of Submarines
To Map Ocean Floor
Urged on Scientists
Dr. Field of Princeton
Sees Forecast of
Earthquakes Resulting
By JOHN S. DALY.
Instead of submarines sinking
merchant marine ships and sending
their cargoes and crews to Davy
Jones locker, the International
Union of Geodesy and Geophysics,
meeting here in the laboratories of
George Washington University,
would put these instruments of war
to useful scientific work.
A constructive use for submarines,
it was developed at last night's
meeting of the union, would be to
complete the underseas map of the
world.
Scientists from 20 foreign coun
tries were told by Dr. R. M. Field
of Princeton University, who is also
president of the American Geo
graphical Union, that "science needs
more facts” about the structure of
the earth. He stated that most of
these facts can be obtained only
through the active use of subma
rines in an intensive study of the
ocean’s bottom.
Would Predict Earthquakes.
Earthquakes and their origins
were uppermost in Dr. Field's mind,
for he added that "only by delicate
measurements of the pull of gravity
near the ocean floor can the nature
of the underlying rock be deter- i
mined, and the possibility of earth
quakes be predicted.”
Experiments already have been
conducted by means of the sub
marine and the scientists have
learned many facts hitherto un
known to mankind. For instance,
if a pendulum, like the pendulum of
a clock, runs slower or faster in
one area than in another it indi
cates that the sub-strata is either
light or heavy. That is, rock or
sand.
The scientists are mucn inter
ested in what happens beneath the
earth's crust. They cite the fact
that heavy rock, lying near lighter
rocks, may shift sideways and thus
cause a disruption on the earth's
surface. This means an earth
quake. Just how to get the advance
notice on an earthquake is some
thing that concerns the scientists
—and they believe, according to Dr.
Field, that the submarines that
now ply their way beneath the
water's surface can help tell the
story.
Would Probe Ridge.
About half way between the
United States and Europe, under
the surface, there is a tract known
as the Middle Atlantic Ridge. This
is a portion of the earth which
stands up, erect, like a mountain
top, from the floor of the ocean.
Of this Dr. Field said. "We would
like to know—along with other de
tails—if there are any submerged
river valleys in the Middle Atlantic
Ridge. And we would like, also, to
measure the contours of the area
which may fce the fabled 'Lost At
lantis’. It may also have been the
breaking point of the Continental
Drift between the eastern and
western hemispheres which some
scientists believe to have occurred
millions of years ago.”
"Here is an extremely important
region for submarine surveys which
may provide fundamental data on
major geologic problems,” said Dr.
Field.
In the course of the present con
vention, attended by scientists from
many of the major countries of the
world, intensive study will be given
to a report compiled—after three
years’ labor—by the United States
Navy, in co-operation with the
navies of the Netherlands and
Great Britain. Ships from these
various navies have carried record
ing Instruments into the far-flung
waters of the world.
Pepper 39 Yesterday
Senator Claude Pepper. Democrat,
of Florida observed his 39th birth
day quietly yesterday in Walter
Reed Hospital. The Senator, who
has been confined to the hospital
for several weeks, t is expected to
leave next week.
Silver Shirts Head
Files Damage Suit
Against Dies Probers
Un-American Activities'
Investigator Named, Too,
In $3,150,000 Action
A $3,150,000 damage suit against
members of the House Committee
on Un-American Activities and one ,
of* their investigators was filed in
District Court today by William
Dudley Pelley. head of the Silver
Shirt Legion of America.
Mr. Pelley said members of the
Dies group had ‘'maliciously and
without foundation publicly charged
him with being a representative of
the German government, a rack
eteer. a violator of the criminal
statutes of the United States and a
public enemy.”
Actually. Mr. Pelley said, he is
engaged at Asheville. N. C.. in “pub
lishing and distributing various pub
lications devoted to the interests of !
Americanism and the suppressing
of Communism and other unpa
triotic and un-American organiza- '■
tions.”
Those Named Defendants.
warned aeiendants In the suit
were Chairman Martin Dies, J.
Parnell Thomas. Joe Starnes. John
J. Dempsey. Noah Mason and Jerry
Voorhis, all members of the Con
gressional Committee, and Robert
B. Parker, an investigator for the
group. The Congressmen were sued
for $500,000 each, while the damages
demanded of Mr. Parker were
$150,000.
The suit, filed through Attorneys
Ralph A. Potts and Floyd Hatfield,
stated Mr. Pelley's civil and personal |
rights had been violated.
Members of the committee were
accused in the suit of entering into
a conspiracy with Mr. Parker "hav
ing as their objective the destruc
tion of Pelley's business and his
personal ruin.”
Says Mail Copied.
The suit stated Investigator
Parker, “under direction of the co
defendants, caused himself to be
stationed or planted in the Ashe
ville Post Office and thereby gain
access to Pelley's mail, of which he
made copies and delivered same to
the co-defendants.”
Mr. Pelley said his private papers,
telegrams, money orders, checks,
books, records, income tax returns,
bank accounts and telephone con
versations were interfered and tam
pered with.
The defendants, the suit added,
“conspired, confedarated, schemed
and wickedly planned to injure,
harass, persecute and defame Pelley
by agreeing to make public state
ments reflecting on his character
and integrity with the objective of
subjecting him to public scorn,
hatred, ridicule and contempt.”
Charles Borden-Smith,
Rug Expert, Dies
Charles Borden-Smith, 72. rag ex
pert for W. <te J. Sloane, died yes
terday in Warrenton. Va.. of a heart
atack. He had gone to the Virginia
town for a vacation.
A native of Philadelphia. Pa., he
came to Washington as a young
man and joined the W. B. Moses
Co in the rag department. Later he
went to New York with the Sloane
firm. He was sent here from New
York to establish a local branch.
He was with the firm 41 years and j
made his home at 1435 Clifton
street N.W.
He was a member of the Associa
tion of Oldest Inhabitants, Rotary,
Board of Trade. Knights of Colum
bus and the Holy Name Society.
Besides his wife, Mrs. Terepa K.
Sfhith, he leaves four daughters.
Dorothy, Helen, Edna and Marion;
a brother, Francis J. Smith; a sister,
Adelaide Smith, all of this city, and
a son, Edward Borden-Smith; New
York City.
Funeral services will be held at
10 am. Tuesday in St. Paul’s Cath
■—■■■■ I ■■■ I i—.1 . —
Heat Wave Goes
After Causing
One Death
Eight Prostrated;
Showers Forecast
For Tomorrow
The mercury receded today from
the year’s high of 100 degrees which
contributed to the death of a car
penter and caused eight heat pros
trations in Washington yesterday.
The Weather Bureau predicted
this morning that today’s tempera
tures would not exceed 90 degrees.
Tomorrow will be even cooler, with
local showers.
Cloudy skies are in prospect for
the week end, with gentle winds from
the east and northeast, it was pre
dicted. Tonight will be cool.
The 100-degree high was reached
it 2:50 p.m. yesterday, after the
mercury had staged a steady march
from a low of 73 degrees at 1 a.m.
Day's Low Is 73.
The temperature was 83 at mid
night and dipped to a low for the
day of 73 degrees at 6 a.m. It began
to climb a short time later and
stood at 77 at 9 a.m.. with a rela
tive humidity of 60 per cent—which
the Weather Bureau declared was
not excessive.
The record temperature of yes
terday shattered the mark set in
1872 when the mercury reached 97.
It was the hottest day since July 10.
1936, when a temperature of 105
degrees was recorded.
Treasury Department workers who
toil in buildings that are not air
:onditioned were dismissed yester
day at 2:30 p.m. and other Gov
srnment departments followed suit.
The heat was prevalent in other
;ities in this section. Baltimore
sweltered with 100 degree tempera
te, Richmond reported a record
high of 97. Harrisonburg, Va„ re
ported 96 degrees, Cumberland, Md.,
99, and Frederick, Md., 99.
Fatal Fall Blamed on Heat.
The death of Eric Johanson. 40.
if 414 A street SE.. the carpenter,
was attributed indirectly to heat. He
was working in the new Juvenile
Court Building. Fourth and E streets
N.W.. when he paled, fainted and
tumbled 18 feet to a concrete floor.
He was working on wooden forms
for concrete at the time of the
iccident, according to his foreman.
Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald
said he would conduct an autopsy.
Charles Norris, 66. of Edmonston,
Md.. was treated at Emergency Hos
pital for heat exhaustion after being
pvercome in front of the State De
partment Building. Also treated at
Emergency was James Lowrie, 35,
of 637 Florida avenue N.W.. who col
lapsed at Third street and Indiana
avenue N.W.
Others Given Attention.
At Casualty Hospital Edward
Thompson, 35. of 605 O street N.W.,
who was overcome in Beltsville,
Md., and Arthur Morton. 40. colored,
of Arlington. Va.. were given treat
ment for heat exhaustion. The Cas
ualty Hospital ambulance responded
to three other calls to treat heat vic
tims.
Providence Hospital treated one
woman who came into the emer
gency room on the verge of col
lapse.
Adam Williams, 9. colored, of 909
Desmond court S.W., was pulled
from the Tidal Basin yesterday after
suffering a cramp while swimming.
Police credited James Daugherty,
107 D street N.W., with the rescue.
The boy was treated at Emergency
Hospital.
Women Warned of Treating
Moles in Beauty Shops
Dr. Alice E. Palmer, surgeon, of
Detroit. Mich., discussed the occur
rence of malignant pigmented moles
yesterday at the meeting of the
American Association for the Study
of Neoplastic Diseases at the May
flower Hotel.
In a general survey of the prob
lem. entered into by prominent phy
sicians and surgeons from all parts
of the Nation, who discussed vari
ous papers, a warning was sounded
for the benefit of American woman
hood who frequent beauty shops.
They were told, indirectly at this
meeting, that there is danger in
seeking temporary relief from ma
lignant moles in beauty parlors.
The removal of even so tiny a
thing as a mole was put in the
category of a surgical operation—
and it was pointed out by these au
thorities that persons with moles
should not permit even the re
moval of hairs from malignant
moles in beauty shop operations.
Capt. A. DeCoursey, Washington
specialist, spoke of the frequency of
the occurrence of these pigmented
tumors in the human eye. His sub
ject was "Melanotic Lesions of the
Eye." Other papers were read by
Dr. Julian L. Rawls of Norfolk.
Va.; Dr. Janvier W. Lindsay of this
city and Dr. Murray M. Copeland
of Baltimore.
Doctor's Car Kills Boy
He Once Treated
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Sept. 9—A year ago
Dr. Jerome Kaiser treated Arden
Leavitt, 5, for severe bruises and
a fracture. The boy recovered.
Yesterday a coroner's jury ab
solved Dr. Kaiser of blame for the
death of a boy who had been struck
and killed by the physician’s car.
The boy was Arden Leavitt.
Club to Open Season
The Early Birds Breakfast Club
will open a new season Tuesday at *
8 am. with breakfast in the Fairfax
room of the Willard Hotel, it haa
been announced.
Traffic Record
The traffic record, as revealed
at police headquarters for 24
hour period ending at S am.
today.
Fatalities, none.
Accidents, 30.
Motorists injured. 4.
Motorists arrested, 274.
Pedestrians injured. 3.
Pedestrians arrested for vio
lation of pedestrian control reg
ulations, 11.
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