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A—6 sympathy to President| “I am deeply by the report | thanktul to know that it falled. xm|m4 Senora Rublo and my Tead: am | to express my warm sympathy for you |CANADIAN BELITTLES 3 K hope,toe WET1DATA SHOWENSURANCE FOR. VETERANS 25000 LIVES SAVED e Report on Alcoholism Mortal- ity Since Prohibition Cov- ers 45 States. By the Associated Press. EVANSTON, Ill, February 6.—The Woman's Christian Temperanice Union today issued a report on alcoholism mortality in 45 States to substantiate its ¢laim that prohibition “has saved at least 25,000 lives that would have been lost. had pre-prohibition alcoholism death rates continued.” - The report said its findings Were based on data furnished by the United States Bureau of Census, covering the period from 1910 to -1928. Marylang -is listed in the report as e only State in which “alcoholism has mounted higher under prohibition than in the saloon era. 'New York fur- nishes a fifth of all the alcoholism in the country and yet has never reached By the Associated Press. The Government has expended ap- | the first four $1,200,000,000 UP TO DATE proximately $1,200,000,000 to date in | 1930, he miums. g These figures were cited by Director | of Hines of the Veterans' Bureau before of the added. making providing term insurance for members | monthly rate of the naval and military forces en- gaged in the World War, .«,Yal?;mbgoo e more than has been collected e- 3 To meet the ever-increasing demands veterans for medical and - hospital treatment, the bill ~arries $196,000.000, bureau show that ' al a{ the lppllclthng n‘:-?rr-nufl- Cites Data to Show Need of $11,250,000 Increase in Supply Bill, | tions for compensation were filed in months of the fiscal year an average of about 2514. Records t 30 per the House appropriations subcommittee | an increase of $3,9,0,000 over last year. in justification for .the $11.250,000 in- | ; | crease provided for the bureau in the | independent_offices supply bill for th fiscal year 1931. provides $511,225. which sno.o& A The bill as reported 000 for the bureau. of | 0 would be expended | for this insurance, $4,750,000 more than | last_year. Liability to Be Met. In addition to past expenditures for this purpose, Director Hines said. the Government faces a future liab about $1,330,000,000, which m met. by “appropriations in vears to| come. of be 'BANKER IS CONVICTED OF DIVERTING FUNDS Florida Man Files Motion for New Trial—Said Money Was Due Him. By the Aesoclated Press. BARTOW, Pla, February 6.—John Fouts, former president of the now RESULTS OF BYRD WORK | Dellares Antarctic Exploration Is| Undertaking of Commercial, ! Not Scientific, Worth. | By the Associated Press. OTTAWA, Ontario, February 6— ! Capt. J. E. Bernier, veteran Arctic ex- plorer, yesterday expressed the opinion the Antarctic expedition of Rear Ad- miral Richard E. Byrd \would not be of immense scientific benefit to the world, but is almost solely an under- taking of great commercial value to | the United States. | Turning to a discussion of , Arctic exploration, Capt. Bernier said: | “Our neighbor has her eye on po- tentially prosperous areas in the Arctic, some of which, although claimed by her, are really the property of the Canadian government. | MORROW SENDS MESSAGE.| Tells Ortiz Rubio He Is Shocked | by Attempt on Li‘e. | LONDON, February 6 (#). — Dwight | W. Moriow, American Ampassador to Mexico, who is now serving on the American naval delegation, today sent N shocked of an attempt upon your life and WE HAVE The New ATWATER KENT SCREEN-GRID A Small Down Payment Will Deliver CONVENIENT TERMS GUARANTEED SERVICE £S5 HARRIS o 2900 14th St. N'W. - At Harvard St. S o100 Open Till 10 P.M. H Unless . . § ' \ your quick and. complete your Radio can reproduce every sound, every tone the ear can detect, it is nof giving you what you are entitled to hear. RADIO H. W. HIGHAM 105 B St. S.E. Linc, 0647 its record for the saloon days.” Continuing, the report said: “Alcohol- ism killed 4,627 people in the United States iast year. That death rate was four per hundred thousand. Had alco- holism killed at the rate of 6.6 per hun- dred thousand which flourished in 1916, the height of the saloon era, there would have been 7,986 deaths. ~Credit 3.359 to prohibition. “In the saloon era, the census data shows the alcoholism death rate nearly | double the average rate for the prohibi- | jndicated that by June 30, 1930, there 11 for hearing on the motion. tion era. would " a total of 274,188 active| Fouts admitted he had diverted the “Thirty-one States and the District | awards of «d'sability compensation, with | funds, but said he did so because the of Columbia were below the national | an average monthly payment of $46.98 | bank owed him more than the amount average death rate of four per hundred | per award.- More than 10,000 applica- | involved. thousands for 1929: and only 13 States | — - were above the average. Montana is probably_high, but data is incomplete. “The States with higher than average alcoholism are Arizona, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Wyoming. Their average alcoholism death rate is six per hundred thousand. || The average for the 31 other States listed and the District of Columbia is 2.5 per hundred thousand.” WITNESS SAYS OIL MAN TRIED “TO RAISE DEAD” | Ceremonies Are Described in Trial of Cult Leader on Charges of Fraud. BY the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, February 6.—Claude || Steffin, a defense witness in the trial || of Mrs. May Otis Blackburn, eult lead- m charges of defrauding Clifford ey, oil operator, testified yester: that Dabney participated in to “raise the dead.” Dabney claimed he was induced to give Mrs. Blackburn nearly $50,000 on representations that she was writing book on the location of mineral wealth, information on which was being sup- plied by the Archangel Gabriel. During the meeting of Mrs. Black- burn’s cult to mourn the death of a member Steffin said Dabney “suddenly, after sitting with his hands over his eyes in deep meditation, leaped from his chair, ran over to the body, stood over it and snapping his fingers thi times shouted hey, hey. Nothing occurred, however, = Steffin added. At the trial another cult member, Mrs. Martha Rhoades, testified she kept secret the death of her daughter lla from authorities for several months and preserved the remains on | advice from Mrs. Blackburn that a resurrection would come. defunct Bartow State Bank, was con- victed in Polk County Criminal Court here yesterday of diverting bank funds to his own use. Through his attor- neys, Fouts, Who also was head of a number of Central Florida banks that | closed last year, filed motion for a new | trial. Judge W. M. Murphy set February ‘The upward trend of military and haval compensation awards for vet- erans of. the last war accounted for another large increase in the bureau’s appropriation for 1931, $196.000.000 being carried for this purpose, as com- pared with $191,450,000 for the cur- Tent year. 274,188 Active Awards Soon. The present rate of compensation applications, Hines told the committee. 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