Evening Star Newspaper, December 25, 1930, Page 13

| MULLEN 1S HELD ONDER 5100 BOND INSHOOTINGOF A Saw Detective’s Son Unfoad Guns Brought for Inspection. BALE’S FUNERAL RITES TO BE HELD TOMORROW Slain Man Survived by Young Wife and Mother—Musician Had Spoken of Weapons. \ While arrangements were being com- ted today for the burial of George R. le, the youth who shot him acci- dentally, Charles E. Mullen, jr., was at iberty under $1,000 bond following the decision of a coroner’s jury that he was “criminally negligent” in handling firearms. Final rites for Hale will be held to- morrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock from his residence, 456 Randolph street, and burial will be in Rock Creek Cemetery. ‘Women Declare Mullen “Joking.” Two young women were playing cards with Hale and Mullen in an apartment &t 2127 California street when the shooting occurred about 11:45 o'clock ‘Tuesday night. Both told a coroner’s Jury yesterday afternoon that Mullen ‘was “joking” when he pulled the trig- .!;(l‘l. John Rosseau, in whose apart- ment the accident occurred, said no one 5!9:«1 any objection or felt particular arm when Mullen pointec a revolver at various members of the card party and laughingly snapped the hammer. Miss Margaretta Scotson of 1753 Church street, the fourth member of the card party, said that on three separate occasions Mullen snapped a revolver which he had leveled at her Says He Was “Just Fooling.” “He was just fooling,” she said. “We didn't mind. No one asked him to stop. The four of us were sitting in the kitchenette, playing rummy on a breakfast table which folds into the wall “Mullen had two guns lying on the open door of the stove within his reach. As the cards were shuffied and played, he would pick up one or the other of them and snap the hammer. “I didn't see him pick up the gun before the explosion nor hear him say an; ‘When it came I saw Hale sink to the floor. Mullen said, My @od, have I shot you, Buddy?’ “Then he tried to pick him up and he said he was going to kill himself. put the gun to his head and pulled trigger, but the gun must have been empty that 3 “Mrs. Rosseau took the pistol away from him. She ran out and called the elevator boy and telephoried for an ambulance.” Three Saw Guns Unloaded. Both the young women and Mrs. Rosseaw’s husband, & musician in the eham Hotel Orchestra, testified they r:!u\nlen unload the guns when he came to the apartment earlier in the rening. Mul.lend and Hale were close nds, they said. Rosseau, who was playing with the orchestra when the shooting occurrs said he had expressed interest in Mul- len’s guns and that Mullen brought them to the apartment to exhibft them to_him. Mullen, the son of Detective Sergt. Charles Mullen, did not make a state- ment to the jury. The shooting oc- 15 minutes before his father went on duty as night chief of de- ves. Several homicide squad detectives were assigned to the investigation, and Sergt. Mullen went to the scene in his capacity as a father. The youth was hzrfl‘clt No. 12 precinct pending the inquest. Hale is survived by a young wife and by his mother, with whom he made his home. He was 25 years old and in the ice business. FIRST PROGRAM GIVEN ON LARGEST CARILLON Oarols Played on Chimes Given to New York City Church by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, December 25—The Iargest carilion in the world was played for the first time yelhrd:‘ in a pro- gram of Christmas carols. The Laura Spelman Rockefeller Me- morial of Riverside Church, 72 bells with a range of six chromatic octaves, ed forth in “Adeste PFidelis,” “Hark the Herald Angels Sing,” “Silent Night” and other numbers yesterday afternoon and repeated with a program last night. Kamiel Lefevereo, master carillon- neur, played. ‘The chimes, a gift from John D. Rockefeller, jr., in memory of his mother, weigh from 12 pounds to 40,926 pounds each. The large “C” bell gives 523 vibrations a minute. With the sounding of the carols in the tower, 400 feet above the street, the number of carillons in the United States was increased to 32. The rest of the world has fewer than 200, ancient and modern. R 2 CALIFORNIA COLD WAVE KILLS MAN, HURTS CROPS ZLaborer Found Dead Beside Rail- road Track—Smudging Saves Orchards in Two Valleys. By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, December 25.—A eold wave which has swept California during the past 24 hours, sending the mercury to new low levels for the Win- ter, claimed one life and caused damage to fruit and citrus crops. An autopsy performed on Nicholas Manger, 46, Port Costa laborer, whose body was found beside a railroad track, Tevealed he died from “exposure and intense cold.” Citrus and deciduous fruit growers : m umr_’sumu‘x]w ne;’-m’ and oaq! ‘al reported some damage to crops, but stated smudging had saved th. fruit in most orchards. —_— HELD IN LAUNDRY THEFT CHICAGO, December 25 (#).—Erwin Frazee, 31, made the mistake of :olnz into the laundry business too suddenly ‘With nion he stole a laundry filled with bundles Church Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. A peaceful Hebrew family of Bethlehem, alarmed at the arrival of Roman soldiers sent by Herod to kill the children. Thomas, Helen Helgeson and Marjorie Thomas. Those standing are Ruth Shoe- maker and Ruth Chindblom. The play will be given at Luther Place Memorial @he Foening Star WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 25 1930. SCENE FROM “THE OTHER WISE MAN” The players, seated, are: Nadine —Star Staff Photo. SMOKE FILLS HOME, GOUPLE RESCUED George Washington Univer- sity Fire Causes Triple Alarm to Be Sounded. ‘W. W. Ludlow, 74 years old, who is ill, and his wife were rescued by police- | men yesterday afternoon from their rooms on the second floor of the build- ing at 2020 G street, when smoke from a fire in the George Washington Uni- versity School of Education Building, next door, filled their home with smoke. Officer G. H. Chrisman of No. 7 precinct, stationed on reserve duty, and Officer P. K. Clark of No. 1 pre- cinct rushed to the aid of Mr. and Mrs. Ludlow when they learned he was sick and in danger. Ludlow were able to walk down the steps, assisted by the policemen. Others in the building at 2020 G street also were guided down the steps to the street by the police officers in the dense smoke, The fire, which started from an over- heated furnace, damaged the School of Education Building, located at 2022 G street, to the extent of approximately $2,200, Acting Pire Marshal Lanahan estimated today. ‘The education building is used for both class rooms and as a meeting place for a number of sororities, but had not been used for either since Sat- urday, according to George Washing- ed, | ton University officials. The furnace, however, had been kept going. ‘The fire was discovered by a passer- by. Firemen first arriving on the scene sounded additional alarms, making three alarms in all, when they noticed the huge volumes of smoke, which had been kept in the building because of all windows and doors having been closed. The flames ate their way along a pipe line in the wall as far as the third floor, and firemen were forced to cut through the flooring of the second floor and into the wall to get to the blaze. ‘The flames were soon under control. A large crowd quickly gathered in the vicinity of the building. Dean W. C. Ruediger of the School of Education and Dr. John Donaldson, dean of the Columbian College of the university, arrived on the scene and furnished the firemen information about the building. Mr. Ludlow felt no ill effects from &ed-lmoke this morning, Mrs. Ludlow WIDOW IS IGNORED BY WILL OF T. F. PIERCE Ruth M. Gates of New York Will Receive Entire Estate of $300,000. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, December 25.—Ignoring his window, Theron F. Pierce of New York, who died in Reno, Nev., on No- vember 14, left his entire estate of about $300,000 to Rutht M. Gates of New York. His will was filed for probate yesterday. Pierce was one of two sons of the late Henry Clay Plerce of the Pierce-Waters Oil Co. His widow is the former Louise Falconer of Tuexdo, N. Y., a sister of Lady Torphicher of Scotland and well known in society. The will said Plerce’s address for the last two vears before his death had been Prides Crossing, Mass., and his wife's address Tuxedo, N. Y. The for- mer Miss Falconer was Pierce's second wife. He was married to her in 1920, after the death of his first wife, the former May Deering of New York. Plerce was the last of four children of Henry Clay Plerce and shared in a million-dollar estate. Fire Destroys Block. BRUNSWICK, Ga., December 25 (#). —A business block was destroyed by fire in Brunswick last night that for a time threatened the entire business section. An early estimate placed the loss at $300,000. Both Mr. and Mrs.| | the men about 1:30 o’clock this morning | Joint Distribution Committee and BANDITS GET GASH IN'TWO HOLD-UPS, Pedestrian “Stuck-up” Early Christmas Day—Pair Take Taxi and Money. Staging a pair of hold-ups eatly to. day, bandits robbed & taxicab driver and a pedestrian of nearly $50, according to Teports made to police of the seventh and fourteenth precinct stations. Stick-up Men Operate. Wilfred E. Pickering of 3314 Mount| Pleasant street, was walking along/| Klingle road near the Rock Creek| Bridge shortly after 6 o’clock this morn- when two white men leaped from behind a tree and ordered him to “stick ‘em up.” One of the bandits went through his clothing and stole his money, Pickering said, while the other held the pistol. Both men fled without a backward glance at their victim after taking the money, police were told. Taxi and Cash Taken. ‘The cab driver, Louis J. Lamp of 145 Twelfth street southeast, was held-up by two colored passengers at Norman Stone and Rock Creek drives and re- lieved of $14.25. The men escaped in :.ihe 'alxl, which later was found aban- cned. Lamp told detectives he was hailed by while cruising around downtown and in- structed to drive to Twenty-sixth and Woodland drive. Before reaching their destination, however, the men shoved a gun into Lamp’s side and commanded him to halt and turn over his money. STRIKE AID PLANNED BY CHURCH LEADERS Danville, Va., Suffering to Be Re- lieved by Committee Announced in New York. By the Aszociated Press. NEW YORK, December 25.—Forma- tion of the Church Emergency Com- mittee for the relief of approximately 4,000 textile strikers and their families at Danville, Va, was announced yes- terday. A ttee was appointed, of which Rev. Alva W. Taylor of New York was made chairman. An appeal for funds by the inter- denominational body of church lead- ers accompanied the announcement. A statement described great suffering of the strikers. Others on the committee include Rev. Robert B. Nelson, Winchester, Vi ev. Robert Donald Tamblyn, Greensboro, N. C.; Rev. John M. Walker, Charleston, N. C.; Bishop M. F. Reese, Savannah; Mrs. Lincoln Terry, Roanoke, Va.; Miss Louise Young Nashville, Tenn, and Prof. Jerome Davis of Yale University. NEW JEWISH CAMPAIGNS FOR 1931 ARE ANNOUNCED American Palestine Drives Will Be Launched. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, December 25.—Two new Jewish campaigns, one for the Joint Distribution Committee and another for the American Palestine campaign for the Jewish agency for Palestine—early in 1931, were announced last night by | s Felix M. Warburg and Dr. Cyrus Adler. The allied Jewish campaign has been terminated as of December 31. A natlonal conference to inaugurate the American Palestine campaign in New York will be held on January 25 and the Joint Distribution Committee will start its campaign in January to continue its program of reconstruction, health and sanitation, child care, credit and industrial aid in Eastern Europe. CHEERLESS CHRISTMAS GREETS PITTS AS HE AWAKENS IN D. C. JAIL| Former Smith Company Head and Two Companions Eat Yule Dinners With Prisoners. This was a cheerless Christmas for G. Bryan Pitts, former chief of the P. &“:-m“; Co., l‘! Ilel sat kdo:: to a y dinner of roast pork a: 1n the’ District Jaii 0 ey Pitts and his associates, C. Elbert Anadale and John H. Edwards, jr., will eat their Christmas meal with the other prisoners. In addition to the roast pork and gravy, they will be served | mashed potatoes, sauce, apples, bread and bu After meal they will be taken to their respective cells, Pitts and back Ana- conspirators, will leave tomorrow for ;Ae).r:n to serve a sentence of three Pitts was sentenced to serve 14 years and Anadale to nine. They filed ap- peals, however, and must stay in jail untii their cases can be reached by the higher court. All three men were charged with and found guilty of a conspiracy to embezzle $5,000, from the Smith company and to records in an effort to cover up the alleged thefts. ‘They were prosecuted Assistant Attorney General Nugent rl Assistant United States Attorney Nefl Burkinshaw, IP[]ll[}E DISTRIBUTE CHRISTMAS CHEER 105,000 CHILDREN Annual Fifth Precinct Cam- paign Brings Ample Dona- tions for Listed Needy. CANVASS DETERMINES WORTH OF RECIPIENTS Navy Band Plays Music, as Does Private Jazz Band, Authorized to Help Without Charge. ‘While glad young hearts in most of the city’s homes this morning were reaping cheer from the busy task of delving into Christmas stockings and gift bundles left by Santa Claus, & scene less cheerful, perhaps, but more happy than might have been, was being enact- ed at the fifth precinct station house of the Metropolitan Police Department in_Southeast Washin, ., From the early hours of this morning, before the sun .had been aloft long enough to temper the raw, cold air, until well into the day, many thousands of children, white and colored, filed through the station house to receive packages of toys and clothing made possible by the sympathetic response of & generous public to a campaign an- nually conducted by the fifth precinct. Canvass Assured Recipients Worthy. Last night, distribution of baskets of foodstuffs to homes of needy through- out the National Capital was conducted by police officers. That the recipients were deserving was assured beforehand by a canvass of the city carried on through the various precincts. To the more than 6,000 children who thronged the block of the fifth precinct this morning there had been given a card by some officer on the “beat,” and the presentation of this card at the station house insured the holder of a package of some kind, either of toys or clothes. The campaign for donations to the annual Christmas morning party >f the precinct had been conducted with such effect that enough presents were secured to go around, and none was disappointed. Musicians Volunteer Services. ‘While the gifts were being distributed to the seemingly endless line that ex- tended both ways from the station house door, under the direction of Capt. John M. Walsh, commander oi the precinct, who this year is ca g on the annual party initiated several years ago by Capt. William S. Sanford, music was furnished by the Navy Band and by a private jazz band authorized to volunteer its services for the occa- sion by the American Federation of Musicians. CIRCUS KING SPENDS HOLIDAY HONEYMOON | Al @. Barnes Weds Widow of Colo- rado Mining Man—His Third Marital Experience. By the Associated Press. PHOENIX, Ariz, December 25.—Al G. Barnes Stonehouse, more familiarly known as just Al G. Barnes, head of the Al G. Barnes Circus, was honey- moonlnf here today. ‘The famous show man married Mrs. Margaret Goldsborough of Denver and Edgewater, Colo., here last night. Barnes and the Colorado woman were married by the Rev. Victor A. Rule in the Presbyterian Church, with Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Cusack of Denver acting as witnesses. The bride is the mother of Mrs. Cusack. Mrs. Goldsborough is the widow of a pioneer cattle raiser and mining man of Leadville, Colo. She met Stonehouse in_Denver three years ago. Born in Ontario, Canada, in 1862 Stonehouse entered the show business 40 years ago with a traveling wagon train and in 1900 married Dollle Bar- low, operator of a small circus. The two shows combined, to grow into one of the largest in the United States. In 1921 Stonehouse divorced his first wife and the next day married Jane Harti- gan, whom he divorced two years later, charging she horsewhipped him. Both divorces and the second wedding occur- red In Las Vegas, Nev. 5,883 JEWS ENTERED PALESTINE IN LAST YEAR Report Is For Period Ended Sep- tember 30—Hygienic Work Undertaken. By the Associated Press. LONDON, December 25.—The Jewish Telegraphic Agency learns that a total of 5883 Jews entered Palestine during the Jewish year 5690 (October 1, 1929, to_September 30, 1930). The executive of the Jewish agency announced the figures and also said that during the year it undertook an extensive program of hyglenic improve- ment in the housing conditions of workers in the colonies. The sum of $47,500 was allocated for building resi- ear a sum of $27,750 has been set zslde for the same purpose. . PARK ROBBERY STAGED Chance Friends Beat Man and Take Money. Two men whose acquaintance he made while enjoying & midnight repast at a downtown restaurant attacked Burton Winchell of 1869 California street in Franklin Park early this morning and robbed him of a billfold containing $28. Winchell told police of the first pre- cinct that the men offered to take him home after their meal, but instead drove to the park at Fourteenth and I streets, where they beat him with their fists and took his wallet. C. H. Montgomery to Be Buried. Puneral services will be held at 2 p.m. tomorrow_at his home, 6512 Summit avenue, Chevy Chase, Md., for Charles H. Montgomery, who dled Wednesday morning at the age of 52. Burial will be in Congressional Cemete:y. Newspaper Man Wins Annuity. Dmog' mcti.xllh" 25 (P —L H , ax, ., ne man, Sefton, WSpaper ) e sty of b1 '.ér ‘the cap- 8 life anm 'y in sponsored #m%m | Upper: their turns to receive a gift package. POLICEMEN HOSTS TO NEEDY CHILDREN Scene at the fifth precinct station house in Southeast Washington this morning, when Christmas gift pack- ages were distributed to thousands of needy children. In the picture are shown at the left, Capt. William S. Sanford, former commander of the fifth precinct, who initiated the annual drive for the pcor, and Capt. John M. Walsh, com- mander of the fifth precinct, who is carrying on this work. Lower: A portion of the throng of children that lined the streets im the vicinity of the precinct house, awaiting —Star Staff Photos. CVIGEROPSPUSH STADIM FOR 17 IAllied Architects and Trade' Board Would Prepare | for Bicentennial. Further conferences will be held by the Board of Trade and the Allied Architects of Washington, Inc., with| the Fine Arts Commission and the Na-| tional Capital Park and Planning Com- | mission, in an effort to push the pro- | gram of a great stadium on the banks of the Anacostia River, at East Capitol | street, without delay. Sponsors of the | | improvement of East Capitol street are | anxious to have the central portion of the stadium ready for the 1932 George Washington Bicentennial celebrations. Plans have been developed and de- tailed estimates of cost for construc- tior. of the stadium and an accom- panying building with landscaping work and the division and extension of East Capitol street, show that the total cost of the entire project is placed at $5,- 000,000. About $3,000,000 is suggested as the cost of the stadium building; some $1,000,000 would build the con- crete section and the wings, and about $1,000,000 for the extension of East Capitol street, development of the pro- posed plaza and landscaping plans. $1,000,000 Would Suffice Now. Construction of the stadium proper, placed at $1,000,000, with seats, wings, terraces and field, could go forward at once, if Congress gives the word, in the opinion of boosters of this project. The rest of the development, they say, could follow in leisurely fashion, as funds be- come available. ‘Tentative plans for the project, placed before the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, show that provision would be made for a subway terminal, under the proposed plaza, with the construction of ade- quate parking areas, flanking the sta- dium, the street car lines being de- pressed as they approach the stadium area. Civic leaders, interested in this pro- gram, say the project did not originate with the Board of Trade or the Allied Architects, but has been developed by these groups. Horace W. Peaslee, vice president of the American Institute of Architects, said today that there is yet ample time to get the Anacostia Park Stadium fin- ished in time for the 1932 celebrations if Congress will give the subject early consideration and allow a fair amount of time for the preparation of detailed lans, K As Mr. Peaslee and his associates see it, East Capitol street would lead into a plaza, running north and south, de- signed to be twice the size of the Place de la Concorde in Paris. One traveling east on East Capitol street would see the facade of a great building, three blocks long, built under the stadium seats, appearing as the back of the amphitheater. ‘Water Pageantry in Mind. ‘The arms of the horseshoe, forming the stadium, would be toward the river, well beyond the Eastern High School. There would be & 30-acre field, with Ltfifl-med h‘tfln beyond for water pageantry, an e seating arrange- ment overlooking either land or water events. East Capitol street would split at the stadium, traversing the Anacostia River to an island being constructed by the United States Engineer Office as part of the park system. The seating capacity of the stadium is estimated at 200,000 persons. On the west side of the stadium, as the support for the seats, would be a great building, some 250 feet long and 125 feet wide, with galleries, having a combined capacity of 15,000. Board of Trade Active. ‘The Washington Board of Trade has been actively at work on this Claude W. Owen, chairman of mittee of the National Coliseum Ocm-J of the Woodcock QOutlines Character Ideals For Dry Officers; In a Christmas letter to prohi- bition agents Col. Amos W. W. Woodcock, director of prohibi- tion, today sent his personal message to his force, and _ex- plained his ideals for their char- acter. “I ask you to remember,” Col. Woodcock said, “that our offensive is against the traffic in intoxi- cating liquor; that you are to work intelligently and lawfully; that you are to seek the help of other officials; and that you are to win the respect of the com- munity in which you live.” ‘The prohibition director said ‘“the records since July 1 have been satigfactory,” but added that the future “is our main con- cern.” Board of Trade, in the report of his group recently submitted, said: “<his committee fecls that Washing- ton City will be put in a most unfavor- | able light in the eyes of the hundreds of thousands of people who will visit this city in 1932 when they find that the Capital City of the Nation, made pos- sible by the life, character and achieve- ments of George Washington, has no suitable place wherein to pr:rfly cele- brate the 200th anniversary of his birth. “Realizing the need of such & coliseum as I have described, this committee ob- tained the voluntary services of a pub- lic-spirited group of architects, known as the Allied Architects, who agreed to submit a series of drawings and plans of such a coliseum to be submitted to the Roosevelt Memorial Commission. “Twenty-two of these studies were submitted by these architects. A com- mittee from the Allied Architects and others in authority, by a process. of elimination, decided upon two studies from which to develop the final plan. This final plan has been prepared and is now in the office of Col. Grant.” THIEVES GET CHRISTMAS GIFTS FROM AUTOMOBILE Two clarinets valued at $300 were stolen from an automobile parked on E street between Thirteenth and Four- teenth streets, Karl E. Schaefer, a mem- ber of the Marine Band, reported to po- lice today. ‘Walking from the store of Aaron Kronstadt, 2808 Fourteenth street, while a clerk’s back was turned, an uniden- tified man last night made away with a $40 watch. He mingled with the Christ- mas eve crowd and escaped before police could be summoned. Christmas purchases worth $150 were stolen from the automobile of J. C. Burroughs, East Falls Church, Va., in Southwest Washington last night. POWER GROUP MEN *NAY BE ETURNED Senators Indicate Continued Fight on Commissioners Who Ousted Three. The Federal Power Commission em- | broglio, caused by removal of three em- | ployes as a “harmony” move, took a | new turn today with the report that two of the trio, Solicitor Charles A. Rus- | séll and Chief Engineer William V. | King, might be reinstated. | Despite this, however, some Senators | Who were angered by the dismiscal of : the men indicated that they would not be satisfied to drop their fight on those commissioners responsible for the oust- ers, contending, according to the Asso- clated Press, that the officials showed “the wrong mental attitude” in sum- marily removing the men. Chairman George Otis Smith, Mar- cel Garsaud and Claude L. Draper are the commissioners under fire and their critics have threatened to move for re- consideration of their confirmation to the commission. Administration leaders, however, are preparing to come to their assistance, contending the commis- sloners were within their rights in their action, which was described as having been taken because of internal dissen- sion in the staff which served under the old commission made up of the Sec- retaries of Interior, War and Agricul- ture. Dr. Smith and Garsaud called yes- terday on Chairman Couzens of the Senate Interstate Commerce Commit- tee, but there was no word forthcoming later from Senator Couzens as to what ‘was discussed. Dr. Smith told the Sen- ator, he said, that the three men had been dismissed on the same basis, Frank E. Bonner, executive secretary, the other man relieved of his duties, has sald that he ‘“resigned.” SMOKE SCREEN CAR HELD A car equipped with a smoke screen device and containing 30 cases of liquor was being held by police today w a search was instituted for its colored operator, who escaped from Motor Cycle Policeman G. M. Patton after being placed under arrest. The driver leaped from the car at Fourteenth street and Rhode Island avenue a few moments after Patton had halted him and discovered the whisky stored in the rear of the machine in case lots. CURTIS GIVEN AUTO TAG NO. 111, HELD SYMBOL OF 1928 VICTORY Tilson, Graduated From Yale in ’91, Gets Y91—Texas House Member Assigned 711. ‘The 1931 tags for the automobile of Vice President Curtis again will bear the number “111,” which is symbolic, the Vice President feels, of his victory in the election of 1928. When Mr. Cur- tis first took office, this number was se- cured for him by M. W. Pickering, who arranges for the license plates on con- gressional automobiles. Mrs. Dolly Gann, sister of the Vice President, will have the number “11” on her ma e. President Hoover, as usual, gets numbers from “100” up. Speaker Nicholas Longworth has been given the number “66,” and Mrs, Alice w’v‘n}! Longworth gets the num- House Leader Tilson wanted “Y-91" 91 from il e g ol assigned to him the lucky number “711.” ntative Hamilion Pish of New York, chairman of the committee assigne h G. Rodgers, House, ge No. 508, and M. W. Pickering, who ne- gotiated for more than 500 licemse plates for Members of Congress and employes at the Gapitol, 300k 555 for own. Senator Couens of Michigal t in the largest order numbers for fou! 3 of Colorado and PAGE B—-1 RESEARGH SEES T0 REDUGE HUGE: COST OF LNESS Findings Will Constitute Priceless Present for Americans in 1931. ANNUAL EXPENSE PUT ABOVE $5,000,000,000 Medioal Care Committee Headed by Wilbur Has Been Studying Ques- tion for Past Three Years. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Christmas, 1931—not this year’s Yule- tide—will find the American people in possession of a gift of truly vital im- port. It will concern the absolutely most important thing every man, woman and child in the Union have to think about—their health. It will take the form of a chapter-and-verse story of the fabulous expense of getting or keeping well and point the way to & reduction of that cost, now estimated to take more than $5,000,000,000 out of the Natlon’s pocket annually. The gift which will be ready for presenta- tion a year hence will be the results of research carried on since 1927 by “the Committee on t] r} Costs of Medical Care” The chairman of the commit- tee is Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, Secre- tary of the Interior, himself a physi- clan, who has been giving all the time he could spare from official duties to supervising research in collaboration with America’s most distinguished med- :ea:’ men, soclologists and business eaders. Cost of Il Health Great. The Committee on the Costs of Med- ical Care believes, although exact fig- ures are not easily to be estimated, that the bill footed every year for ill health in the United States exceeds $5,000,- 000,000 in direct expenditure. i the possibility of death and of perma- nent impairment be taken into ac- count, it may well reach three times that amount, or nearly what the United States’ public debt ($16,931,000,000) lq%u‘xm m.‘ 5 recent years,” said Dr. Wilbur to this writer, “this great question of medical care and of its costs has be- come uppermost in the minds of thou- sands. It is a topic discussion at dinncr tables, in clubs, in offices, in our period- icals, in casual conversations, and, of course, in our homes. Scores of in- quiries have been made into various aspects of the problem, but the very variety of thes: inquiries has served in a degree to I They lessen their value. lx::o‘;f lp“und sync_}.\rhomnhfion and com- rpose. ey ve not been codified, so that much which has re- sulted from them cannot be put to effective use. Our comimittee seeks to bring these results together, to add to gxelm. l]o draw ‘L‘t‘:flé z'r;m their essen- ial values, so thal whole le may be served. — Group Working Three Years. “The committee has been at work systematically for the past three years. Its personnel and its purpos: alike are Nation-wide. Our membership comes from 19 citles in 16 States. Such wide- flung organizations as the American Medical Association, the United States Public Health Association, the American Dental Association and the Metropolitan Life Insurance Soclety are working in close co-operation with us. We enjoy the financial support of such great philanthropic institutions as the Car- negie Corporation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Milbank M:morial Fund, the Twentieth Century Fund, the Rosenwald Foundation, the” New York Foundation, the Macy Fund and the Russell Sage Foundation. When our five-year program has been - complet-d we shall have expended more than $1,000,000 and had the direct or in- direct services of thousands of people. We shall have given to the people of the United States, and, indeed, to the people of the civilized world, data that may well be termed priceless.” Dr. Wilbur was asked what it is exactly that his committee is trying to find out. To answer this question he said his colleagues have formulated the following specific flelds of inquiry: Committee’s Goals Cited. 1. How can the medical facilities of the country be so distributed as to bring adequate medical care within the reach of all population groups? 2. How can well trained physicians be assured of a reasonable amount of ‘work and the necessary scientific equip- ment? 3. How can waste of time and money in visiting several unassociated prac- titioners for a single ailment be reduced and the patient be assured of competent service? 4. How can the people be educated to avold the waste of money on in- ferior types of treatment and useless medi"clne and to seek modern scientific care? 5. How can the support of both prac- titioners and patients be secured’to the full utilization of the preventive - cedure made available by mflflr;I science? 6. How can the ordinary family pro- vide against the uncertain financial bur- den of sickness, which may be very large in proportion to the family budget and which is likely to be very uneven, e | month by month and year by year? Dr. Wilbur says it's a take for people to think that the family doctor or the consultant physiclan gets the lion’s share of the money spent on ill- ness. The committee finds that in many instances the doctor’s bill is consid- erably less than half the total cost. Hospital care, nursing, dentistry, lab- oratory examination and medicines in- volve heavy expense. The drug stores reap a very substantial share of it. In one Midwest county surveyed the cost * of medicine was over a third of the total medical expense and 20 per cent greater than the costs of 3 service. The committee will make no recommendations, but_hopes to stimu- late public opinion. It sure to be stimulated to some extent in the direc- tion of State health insurance. (Copyright, 1930.) N MORATORIUM DECREED LIMA, Peru, December 25 (#). — The government yesterday decreed a third moratorium for the Bank of Peru and which was permitted to sus- pend payments last October because of & heavy run. The new moratorium runs until January 31. issuanoe” was'the ‘ipending. study of ance was the impel 5 o the bank’s affairs in wnnecflbnd’wnh national finances by the American mis- sion headed by Dr. E. K. Kemmerer, Physician, 84, Dies. HENDERSON, N. C., December 25 ().—Dr. R, J. Gill, 84, belleved to have died at mhahfl‘m