Evening Star Newspaper, September 24, 1930, Page 28

BUBONG PLAGE * THREATENSCH Systematic Fighting of Dis-| ease Eliminates Chance of Spreading. By the Associated Press. Summoned by Chinese authorities to combat beginnings of bubonic plague epidemic in Shansi and Shensi prov- inces, Missionary Dr. Percy T. Watson need not fear the relentless spread ‘which made a whole world panicky in past plagues. For bubonic plague, still the most| fmportant disease foe from an inter- national standpoint, has felt the strong eurbing power of the public health serv- dces of all nations. | Surgeon Gen. Hugh S. Cumming of the Public Health Service today said | the bubonic plague pandemic of some 40 years ago, in which about 25,000,000 people died, was not likely to be re-| peated because cf preventive measures | ‘Wwhich' have been taken. Rat Is Control Center. ANl maritime quarantines, he pointed ouf, are directed primarily against bu- bonic plague, still so prevalent that the infection was reported present during the‘;lst year in all the great divisions of the world but Australia. Plague control methods, he said, cen- ter on the rat that transmits the dis- ease, chiefly the large Norway rat, a | University of Kansas, the actor made | teaveler. Inspections of cargo and| crews, periodic' fumigation of vessels from plague-infested parts of the world and unceasing vigilance in rat destruc- tion are among the maritime quarantine measures to prevent introduction of the ease. Campaign Against Disease. ‘Warnings of outbreaks likely to spread | are furnished all nations through the | International Office of Public Hygiene, | with headquarters in Paris. Organized | early this century, when the pandemic | was still a vivid memory, this office headed an offensive-defensive alliance against contagious disease. In 1926 it was reorganized in a post war pact which pledged signatory countries to report occurrence of quarantinable dis- eases—plague, smallpox, yellow fever and cholera. In event of any open outbreak, United States public health officers are called in to take charge of the city in which 1t occurs, ferret out it sources and check 1ts spread. 5 Dr. Cumming estimated 10,000,000 human beings have died of plague in the last 25 or 30 years. In 1990 the disease appeared for the first time in the United States, in San Francisco, Oalif., he saic. RS S0 D. J. SULLY, COTTON KING, IS BURIED IN CALIFORNIA Man Who Cornered Market in 1903 Died of Heart Disease at Soviet to Abandon Fiscal Year Dated From Revolution By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, September 24.—The Central _Executive Committee Sunday decreed that the Soviet fiscal year shall begin on January 1, instead of October 1, the date of the revolution. Since the Soviet obtained con- trol all dates have been based on the revolutionary day—this, for example, is the 13th year of Lenin. The change apparently was ordered to bring conformity in the Soviet's international fiscal relations. The third year of the five-year industrialization plan and "the adoption of the new state budget have accordingly been shifted to January 1. BUDDY ROGERS PLANS TRIP THROUGH EUROPE Current Screen Star Made First Voyage Six Years Ago, Acting as Valet for Mules. By the Assoclated Press. OLATHE, Kans., September 24 —His | elevation to the rank of star among moving picture actors having changed ! the situation considerably, Charles (Buddy) Rogers, is planning a second trip to Europe. Mrs. Bert Rogers, who now lives with her actor son in Hollywood, bui who formerly lived in Olathe, made the an- nouncement here yesterday. She said Rogers would take her on a three- month's tour, beginning October 10. Six years ago, while a student in the his first European visit. He earned his passags across the Atlantic by serving as a valet for a boatload of mules. ——— MAY QUIT COUNTRY PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, September 24 (.—Leo Scharf, New York candy manufacturer, who was recently arrested here on charges of insulting the Czecho- slovak state and assaulting & man in the srteet, was tried Monday and, follow- ing favorable evidence, was permitted to_leave the country. The criminal case was converted into a civil one and the Czechoslovak plain- {iff, who claimed 30,000 kronen from the blow he received, was told to take civil action. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, |62 D. C. SINGERS LISTED IN RADIO COMPETITION | Will Meet at WRC Studio Tomor- row to Represent Washington in Fourth National Audition. Sixty-two young singers of the Dis- | trict_of Columbia will meet in compe- | titlon at_the studio of WRC at 2:30 ck tomorrow afternoon and Friday | preliminary tests, to determine | which young man and which young | woman shall represent the National | Capits]l in the fourth National Radio | Audition. Chairman Albert W. Harned of the Disirict committee in charge of the | with the co-operation of Kenneth W. Berkeley, manager of WRC, the com- mittee arranged and announced the dates of the preliminaries. In the group of 62 young singers, all of them being | between the ages of 18 and 25 years, | there are 29 sopranos, 11 contraltos and |22 tenors, baritones and bases. From | this group the board of judges will se- |lect four or five young men and four or five young women to compete in | finals, the date of which will be later | announced. | 'The two singers, one young man and |one young woman, selected from the | finalists_will represent Washington in the Northeastern district competitions to be held in New York City in Novem- ber, when champions from the North- eastern States will compete for repre- sentation among the 10 national final- |ists. “All of the national finalists will share in the $25,000 cash awards and | the 10 musical scholarships offered by | the Atwater Kent Foundation. The Susquehanna 1430 W Street N.W. 3 Rooms, Kitchen and Bath, $40 || Telephone National | 5000 For immediate delivery of The Ster to your home every evening and Sunday morning. The Route Agent will collect at the | end of each month, at the rate [ of 115 cents per day and 5 cents Sunday. many of the every- day drudgeries of running the home . . . freedom from | competitions laid before his associates ! | the applications of the 62 who will try | | for piacement as District champion and | D. C, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1930. LANSBURGH & BRO 7th, 8th and E Sts.--FAMOUS FOR QUALITY SINCE 1860—National 9800 We’re Dressed To Go Places Big brother and sister have gone back to school—and maybe you don't think Mother is relieved! She dressed us all up and said she was going to take us places! [do hope she takes us to see the doc- tor, he’s a baby specialist and such a funny man. But Grandmother says it's experience that counts with all good babies, so I guess we'll have to go to that pesky baby show Mrs. So-and-So is giv- ing for charity sake. 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