Evening Star Newspaper, December 31, 1931, Page 4

A4 =% DEMOCRATS SPEED | Alumni Head ACTION ON TAXES Tartiff Plans to Be Placed Before Committee in Few Days. By the Associated Press. Congressional Democrats are detef- mined to expedite legislative action on tariff and tax measures Senate and House leaders expect to bring up a tari bill before the Joint Policy Committee early next week. Approval of- the propoced measure by that group would virtually assure ex- pedit ctior Questior Speaker gaic tariff legislation “mign. come up for action before th At the same time, te of the House Ways and Means Com- mitee to begin h on the tax increase proposal probably next Thurs- day were ascertair Garner tax oiil tative plans Confer on Program. in Garnere . ntative Rai- tic leader, r of the Ways and Means Committee conferred with Mid- dleton Beeman, chief of the le ] H. Parker, expert ressior mmittee ternal Revenue ' Rainey, alth that it is planned to bring up the tariff bill for House action before the tax ram is completed by the Ways and | feans Commitiee. Although the na- ture of the measure has nui been di- vulged, it is understood it is somewhat similar to an amendment proposed for the Smoot-Hawley bill, but which failed of ‘adoption. The amendment would have author- 1zed the Tariff Commission to recom- mend to Congress changes in the tariff to meet dutles of foreign countries. It alsd would have given wider latitude for making reciprocal tariff changes. on In- | disclosed Information Gathered. In discussing the tax proposals, Garner said that, while the Treasury experts on taxes would undoubtedly be heard, the Democrats expected to form- ulate their own program without their sdvice. Garner said the purpose of the con- ferences that have been held during| the holidays was to “gather informa- tion” on the tax and tariff questions “before reaching a conclusion.” | Collier is expected to sponsor the | tariff bill. It probably will be intro-| duced early next weck and the com- mittee hopes to finish hearings before February 1. GEN. HINES EXPLAINS NEW APPROPRIATION Tells Inquiring Veterans Fund of $200,000,000 Is Not to Give Additional Benefits. Contradicting an erroneous belief that has caused the veteran's adminis- tration to be besieged with inquiries from veterans all over the country, ask- ing for new benefits, Gen. Frank T. Hines, director of veterans' affairs, is- sued a formal statement explaining that recent appropriation by Congress of $200,000,000, and $3,925,000 in two different funds was only to supplement appropriations previously made, and cannot be used to give the veterans ad- | ditional payments in the way of loans or otherwise. No additiondl payments whatever are provided by these appropriations, Gen. Hines said. He explained that the $200,000,000 is Yo supplement the appropriations pre- viously made for the adjusted service certificate fund which had proven in- sufficient to provide adequate cash for loans after the loan value of certificates had been raised to 50 per cent of the face value. It is expected that this ad- ditional appropriation will take care of the Government’s obligation to the end of the fiscal year, June 30, 1932, for loans and for the payment of certifi- cates which may mature on account of the death of veterans. The additional $3,925000 was re- quired to care for the large number of new claims which resulted from amend- | ed legislation extending the time in which claimants might apply for bene- f:': under the adjusted compensation act GEN. DARNALL TO RETIRE Army Medical Center Commander to End Duty Thursd Brig. Gen. Carl R. Darnall, in com- | mand of the Army Medical Center at Walter Reed General Hosp laced on the retired list next y_operation of law, on account of age. Born in Texas, December 25, 1867, Gen. Darnall was graduated from the Jeflerson Medical College, Pennsyl- vania, and enters Army Medical Depa ed the Distini services | in the made a| brigadier general and assistant sur- geon general in December, 1929, Liu](;(,'irlé Wander 8 Hours, Afraid to | Ask Strangers’ Aid Rose Marie, 11, and Chris-| tine, 2, Take Wrong Turn; y. Found by Policéman. Having turn home, by mother’s strangers eodore lish depar versity, Ww eight hours y man_ stopped U streets. Rose Marle, 11 years ald, and her little sister, Christine, just 2, left their home at 3214 Wisconsin avenue for what was to have been just a little walk before lunch. They took the however, and presently ves on a strange street ) although she was older, uch too shy to inquire directions of any of the strangers who hurried by as the two children walked along Jooking for their home. “I had told them,” Mrs. Maynard at it was all right to speak emen.” the children did not see any familiar blue uniforms and darkness was beginnirg to fall. They stopped in at & drug store and the proprietor 'H‘Tllkkd them to brimming glasses of m Somewhat cheered, but very weary, they were moving on by Fourteenth and U streets when the traffic officer on the corner noticed them, learned they were lost and turned them over to another policeman, who took them home. Meanwhile, the only information which their anxious parents were able ten the right remembering their not to speak to nall daughters of Prof. bead of the Ei rgetown U iand in hand for before & police- 'm at Fourt and sald, - to_pol But L. V. LAMPSON. SCHOOL REUNION WILL HONOR FOUR Public Service of Former Central High Students to Be Recognized. Four former students cf Central High School, each of wilom has been distin« guished in some particular fleld of ren- dering public service to the community, will be honored at the 22d annual re- union of the Central High School Alumni Association at the school to- morrow afternoon. The schedule of events will begin at 2 o'clock with a basket ball game be- tween the alumni and the high school team and conclude with dancing apd entertainment from 4 to 6 o'clock. ‘L. V. Lampson, president of the alumni, said the four honor members of the association will be announced at 4 o'ciock, their names being withheld for the present. Rifie Matches Scheduled. Other events include a rifle match between alumnae and the school’s girls' team at 2 o'clock; a swimming meet, | alsd> between the alumnae and girls’ | team, at 2:30 o'clock, and another rifle match at 3:15 o'clock, this time between | the men and the school's boys' rifle | team. The business meeting of the Alumn! Association itself will take place from 3:15 to 3:45 o'clock, annual election of officers. This will be held in the Miss M. E. Morgan memo- rial room. At 3:50 o'clock Dr. Harvey A. Smith, principal of Central, wiil make a speech of welcome in the library. Troubadours to Give Play. The George Washington University Troubadours will present their musical play, “Happy Landings,” as a part of the entertainment program that follows. Refreshments will be served in the lunch room. Albert Conradis and George M. Norris charge of the program. Mr. Lampson, the other officers of the alumni are Mrs. C. E. Phillips, secre- tary, and G. W. Hodgekins, treasurer. The admission charge to the enter- tainment is 50 cents. AUTO DEATH HELD DUE TO ACCIDENT Victim Identified by Fingerprints in Police Files as Inquest Gets Under Way. A verdict of accidental death was re- turned today by a coroner’s jury which investigated the death of Louis Francis | Shea, 68, who was struck by an auto- mobife at Pennsylvania avenue and John Marshall place Tuesday night. His identity was not made known until the inquest began While it was still in progress, De- tective Sergt. John Dalglish announced Shea had been identified through finger prints on file at police headquarters. His last known address, according to not lived there for some time. Efforts are being made to locate relatives. Bhea died en route to Emergency Hospital after being hit by a car driven by Jay D. Nelson, 28, of the 300 block B street southeast. Some witnesses testi- fied Nelson stopped his machine imme- diat while others asserted Shea's body was dragged about 80 or 90 feet. The body is being kept at the morgue pending efforts to locate relatives. wy” COMMITTEE NAMED Nettleship Appointed to Receive Guests at New Year Party. Fred M. Nettleship has been appointed chairman of a special committee of Y. A. members to act as a reception Men's and Young Women's Christian Associations New Year day celebration at the central “Y” building, it was an- nounced today by Leonard W. de Gast, general secretaty of the association. The group will conduct visitors through the various departments of the association headquarters. Members of the boards of the two associations will be hosts at an informal reception. A program of games, athletic contests, exhibitions, music and other entertain- ment has been arranged for the occa- | sion, concluding with the showing of a |talking movie picture, “The King of Kinj » in the evening at the Y. W. C. eadquarters, Seventeenth and K street EVENING 8 | i THE CHEST COMMITTEE HITS U, S. PAY CUT { Attention Called to Generos- ity in Giving $1,055,000 to Charities. Opposition to any reduction in the! salaries of Government employes, espe- cially in view of their three days’' pay glits to the Community Chest, was voted yesterday at a meeting of the Chest Campaign Committee. The committee adopted resolutions declaring the generosity of Federal workers should be the best possible ar- <ument against any action by Congress woward slashing pay. The committee said the exceptional showing of the Government workers would encourage other Washington residents to ald the | Chest. The resolution said, in part; “The generosity of the Government employes |in the National Capitel in subscribing 181,055,000 for the charities of Washing- | ton and nearby Maryland and Virginia, incivding approximately $970,000 for the | charities of the District of Columbia |alone, or an increase of $420,000 over | the amount subscribed by the same group for the charities of the District of Columbia federated in the Community Chest last year, marks one of the great- | est_outpourings of generosity, good will /and philanthropic organizing ability | which the country has ever seen. | “Such a demonstration that the Gov- | ernment employes of Washington re- | gard themselves as in the fullest sense ‘mombm\ of the community, willing to | bear the community's responsibilities ‘and obligations with the rest of the citizens and to share their modest in- comes with those who have nothing, should be the best possible argument | against any action by Congress toward cutidng of salaries of Federal employes. | The Compaign Committee of the Com- munity Chest wishes to go on record as ‘Z'ilgomusly opposat to any such reduc- jon. | | i “Fine Spirit” Commended. | “The Campaign Committee com- |mends the fine spirit which Govern- ment employes of all ranks showed in this solicitation, despite some com- | plaints at so-called coercion which were based on either misunderstanding of the actual activities of keymen in the Gov- ernment offices or upon misunderstand- ing by keymen, overly enthusiastic, of the fundamental purpose of the cam- | paign, which was that all gifts should | be based upon good will. The Campaign Committee reiterates the offer previ- ously made by Elwood Street, director of the Community Chest, to cancel any gifts not freely made and to refund any payments unwillingly paid. “The Campaign Committee is espe- cially pleased that the plan of giving three days' pay has worked out so well. | where they were married shortly after featured by the | are chairmen of the joint committee in | In addition to | Dalglish, was 3300 M street, but he had | | The original proposal as presented by ertain representatives of the Govern- ment was that four days’ pay should be the basis of contribution, 50 as to make sure that the full amount should be given. ‘The Campaign Committee believes that the same average gift, which has worked 80 successfully in the govern- mental group will be willingly adopted by the rest of Washington as the basis for giving in the general campaign, which will be held January 24 to Febru- ary 1, inclusive. An average gift of | three days’ pay will be the basis of the scale of giving which will be pre- | sented to prospective contributors. Greater Task Ahead. “Great as has been the achieve- ment of the governmental unit in i own campaign, the rest of the cam- paign organization faces a still greater task in its drive to reach the remain- ing part of the total goal of $2,601,000 in the period January 24 to February 1. On the average, one-third more than was subscribed last year will be neces- | sary for reaching this goal. If the gov- | ernmental group reaches its full goal | | of $1,000,000 for the charities of Wash- { ington through the Community Chest. lor about $30,000 mc than has now | been raised, that will . 1l leave $1,601,- | 000 to be subscribed by the rest of ‘Washington. “The units other than the govern- mental unit in last year's campaign subscribed about $1.400,000 or $200,006 |less than the amount which must be | secured through these units for 1932. |On the other hand, many people who | last year gave through the other units of the campaign this year have given through the governmental units. Because also of increased unemployment, losses by death, removal from the city, firms going out of business and reduction of income, this group really represents about $1,200,000 in last year's gifts, so | that $400,000 more than last year ac- tually will have to be raised by this group—an increase of 33 per cent.” DR. WHITE TO SPEAK ON “MENTAL HEALTH” St. Elizabeth's Superintendent on Program of Columbian Women Tuesday. “Mental Health” will be discussed by Dr. William Alanson White, superin- tendent of St. Elizabeth's Hospital, in | a talk Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 be- fore the Columbia Women, in Fellow- ship Hall of the Western Presbyterian Church. Dr. White is executive officer of the Department _of Psychiatry, George Washington University. He has been a member of the university's medical faculty since 1904. He is a member of the board of directors of the Na- tional Committee for Mental Hygiene and of the Institute for Child Guid- ance He was president of the Na- tional Congress on Mental Hygiene in 1930. The speaker has been prominently | identified with development of modern psychiatry. As writer, editor and speaker he has created a better gen- eral understanding of normal and ab- normal psychology, and has led the way in pointing out the application of | such knowledge to the promotion of | mental hygiene and social welfare. | Mrs. Willlam J. Mallory, Columbian | president, will introduce Dr. White. By the Associated Press. NEW ORLEANS, December 31.—Col- lege co-eds get angry about four times a weeck and college men about six times, but the anger may last 1 minute to 48 hours, & scientist reported today. Co-eds get angry most often at people, men's feelings are ruffied more by events. Thwarting of self-assertion is the cause of 86 per cent of the anger of both college boys and girls. These were some of the conclusions reported to the American Association for the Advancement of Science by H. Meltzer, psychologist of Washington University, 8t. Louls. He had “anger diaries” kept of man and woman students at Oregon State College and by women at Columbia University, New Yark, in which anger fits were noted down, with their dura- to pick up was that two girls answering their description had been taken to & Jocal hospital Faw ) ~hildren left home at 10:30 o'c! lock ggnd were found after 6 gclock e e }lnns. causes, responses and after-ef- ec Co-eds, when angry, feel like crying, screaming, jumping or swearing, he found. Men more often have an im- mury w0 COLLEGE MEN BECOME ANGRY MORE OFTEN THAN FAIR SEX Study Shows Women Get "Mad” at People, While Escorts Are Ruffled More by Events. ) the per~| & hurry, |son who made them angry. Actually, | both sexes usually respond with a sharp | retort. | ‘Week ends in New York seem more ! likely to be irritating than week ends in | Oregon, the study showed, for Colum- | tia girls were angry most often on days | when classes did not meet, but Oregon | students were angry least often on those days, | When his girl refused to see him, & boy stayed angry 48 hours, but only 5- minute angers resulted from falling in the mud, being Interrupted while try- ing to study and dropping an ink spot on an important paper. One girl was angry 11 hours when somebody stole her candy. Girls were made angry by such things as slights from boy friends, unkind re- marks about girl friends, scoldings, sar- casm and the boring conversation of & dancing partner. Boys lost their tem- pers over oil leaking from a motor onto clothes, striking a toe against a board, dislocating a knee while playing foot ball and breaking a shoestr] when in |fer with Charles Moore, chairman of [lap, Jacksonville, Iil, treasurer; P. H. TAR, WASHINGTON Army Chaplain’s Daughter Elopes To Maryland Town Miss Dorothy N. Deibert| Marries Baltimore Man at Towson. After telephoning her father she in- tended spending the night with friends in Washington, Dorothy N. Deibert, daughter of Chaplain and Mrs. R. C. Deibert of Fort Myer, eloped last night to Towson, Md., with Joseph Paul Jones of Baltimore. Although Miss Deibert's engagement to Mr. Jones had been announced, according to Chaplain Deibgrt, the sud- denness of her marriage cafne as a sur- prise to her parents. Capt. Deibert said his daughter tele- phoned him yesterday afternoon, say- ing she was staying overnight with some friends in Washington. Instead, Miss Deibert went to Baltimore, met her fiance and eloped to Towson, midnight this morning, according to an Associated Press dispatch from Balti- more. The bride had not communicated with her parents up until noon today and the couple’s future plans, therefore, were not known. BRYAN MEMORIAL STUDIED BY GROUP Former Secretary Daniels Says Statue to Be Designed Like Webster’s. The Willlam Jennings Bryan Me- morial Association met here today to decide on an appropriate monument to the Commoner and to confer with the Fine Arts Commission on & sultable site. Josephus Daniels, North Carolina publisher and Secretary of the Navy in the Wilson cabinet, who is presi- dent of the association, said the me- morial probably would be patterned after that of Daniel Webster near Scott Circle. Figure Suggested. Mr. Danlels explained that bas- relief scenes would be placed around the base of the memorial if plans now under consideration are adopted. The group is considering having one panel show Bryan signing the peace -treaties with the nations of the world. he was Secretary of State, Mr. Daniels recalled, Bryan signed some 30 peace treaties on behalf of the United States Another panel would show Bryan de- livering his famous “Cross of Gold” address before the Democratic Na- tional Convention in 1896 when his party nominated him as its standard bearer. Yet another panel would de- pict the Commoner speaking in the House in 1892, when he first became nationally famous as an orator. Orator Is Design. The main statue is to represent Bryan in a typical attitude as an orator. Mr. Daniels said that it is expected to be completed in 1932. The location for the memorial will be decided upon by the Fine Arts Com- mission. Mr. Daniels arranged to con= ‘When that commission, to talk over prelimi- nary plans. Serving with Mr. Daniels on_the Memorial Association are: M. F. Dun- Callahan of Louisville, Ky., secretary, and representatives from every Stete in the Unipn. Washington members of the group incude Charles A. Douglas, Daniel C. Roper, Robert M. Harper, Bishop James E. Freeman, Rev. Dr. Joseph R. 8izoo and M. M. Wyvell. POLITICAL SCIENCE PRESIDENT CHOSEN William F. Willoughby Elected at Close of Association's Three- Day Session. William F. Willoughby, director of the Institute for Government Research at Brookings Institution, was elected president of the American Political Science Association for the coming year at the three-day session which closed here yesterday. Other officers chosen include Leonard D. White, University of Chicago, first vice president; Ellen D. Ellis, president of Mount Holyoke College, second vice president; P. O. Ray, University of California, third vice president. Those named as members of the council included Morris B. Landie, Uni- versity of Minnesota; Kirk Porter, University of Iowa: Frank Stewart, University of Texas; James Hart, Johns Hopkins University, and Mr. Barkley.| Clyde L. King was re-elected secre- tary-treasurer. { - JUDGESiFOR B.AL BOHEME POSTER CONTEST NAMED | ® Winner of First Prize for Best Entry Will Be Selected January 17. Membership of a committee to judge posters submitted in a contest being conducted by the 1932 Bal Boheme was announced yesterday. The group in- cludes Mrs. Louise Rochon Hoover, Miss Elizabeth Langenbeck, Frances Benja- min Johnston, Miss Jessie Baker, Miss Eleanor Parke Curtls, Eugene Weiss and Garnet Jex. “The Ball of the Seven Seas’” the name of the 1932 ball, is the theme for the pictorial matter, and the posters, 15 by 20 inches in size, are each to contain the letfering rts Club Bal Boheme, the Willard, February 8." Posters must be delivered to the Arts Club between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. January 16, and they will be judged on Sunday, January 17. A prize of $100 will he awarded for the winning poster. The posters will be on exhibition at the Arts Club, 2017 I street, the week of Janu- ary 18. PROBE OF JUDGE PARKER BY HOUSE PETITIONED Corporation Files Protest Against| Federal Jurist’s Conduct, Ask- ing Tmpeachment. ‘The House Judiciary Committee yes- terday received & petition for an inves- tigation into the conduct of Federal Judge John J. Parker of North Caro- lina to see whether he should be im- peached. < Once nominated by President Hoover for the Supreme Court, Parker failed to obtain Senate approval after a lengthy debate of some of his decisions in labor cases. He is. judge of the fourth circuit. ‘The petition was filed with the House by the Speers 8and & Clay Works, Inc. Chairman Sumners of the Judiciary Committee declined to comment on the petition or to permit it to be read by newspaper men, Nor had he anything 10 say about the.conduct of the judge. D.. U5 THURSDAY, | the University of North Carolina. IMMIGRATION DROP' 10 HIT BIRTH RATE Native American Population to Decline, Sociological Society Is Told. While the birthrate of the native American population has remained fair- ly constant during the present century it probably will decline in the future because, with immigration restricted, the population will consist less largely of natives of forelgn parentage, Dr. Joseph J. Spengler of the University of Arizona told the American Soclological Society here today. Dr. Spengler based his conclusions on an intensive study of the birthrates of Providence, R. 1. During 75 years, he sald, the records show that the birthrate among the 10 leading nation- alities making up the city's population has declined more than half. This has been most notable among the English, Irish and Germans, while there has been & less marked decline among the Italians, Russians, Poles and Portugese. Migration to America apparently has increased the fertility of some groups more than others. Among the foreign born, he found, fertility has declined more in the lower than upper age groups. Durlgg Lhegnegt decade the American Negro, late in shifting from the farm to the city, will be more of & city dweller than the native white, Dr. Frank A. Ross of Columbia University told the society. Up to the present, he said, the Negro has moved mostly into Northern and Western cities, but, with the great migration under way, the probabilities are that there will be a great increase in the colored fiopula- tions of Southern cities during the next 10 years. Moving to the city is becom- ing necessary for the Negro, he said, because of the declining need for man- ual labor in cotton culture. Chinese Concentration Ending. Concentrations in “Chinatowns” of Chinese in the United States is begin- ning to give way, said Charles R. Rey- nolds of Stanford University. ‘The percentage of native born is slowly ris- ing,” he sald, “in_spite of non-immi- grant newcomers. There is a small gain in the female percentage of the popu- lation and a slight shift toward nor- mal age distribution. A smaller per- centage of the older Chinese are re- turning to China and more young men are finding brides among the American- born Chinese girls. Pohibition since 1920 has brought about a notable increase in the num- ber of persons who become through use of alcohol, Frederick W. Brown, director of statistics for the National Committee for Mental Hy- giene, told the American Btatistical Association last night. He based this statement on Census Bureau data, the figures of the New York State Department of Mental Hy- giene and correspondence with super- intendents of mental hospitals. “During the years immediately pre- ceding adoption of the eighteenth amendment,” Brown said, “the intem- perate use of alcohol decreased, bring- ing a downward trend in the rates of alcoholic mental disease. During 1919 and 1920 the sale of liquor was re- stricted to a degree that brought about a marked reduction in such cases. Since 1920 the general trends have been upward, although the percentages of alcoholics among admissions to mental hospitals are at present below those of pre-prohibition days.” New Type Observed. A new type of case is being observed by superintendents of mental hospitals, he said, “in which the alcoholic state is accompanted by a toxicity or poisoning, often with destruction of nervous and organic tissue. The extreme cases of lh?s type suffer from violent mental disturbances and dle in a short time without regaining a normal state. “More young patients are admitted than formerly. One hospital reports during the past year an unusually large group of patients who are of high school ege. There are fewer cases of prolonged or chronic hallucinations, but the cases of hallucinosis are more frequently acute, with violent mental outbreak and profound amnesia, in contrast to the prolonged cases of former years, in which hallucinations lasted over a pe- riod of weeks or months, with a more accurate and detailed memory of them upon restoration to normal mental ac- tivity. “Add to these conclusions the fact of the increasing number of alcoholics without psychosis and the increasing number of deaths from alcoholism in the general population, and the result is a conviction that the year 1920 is the point at which the recent history of alcoholic mental disease and other alcoholic excesses may be divided into two periods, before and after prohibi- tion.” Society must_adjust itself to the age of machines, Dr. William F. Ogburn of the University of Chicago told the sociologists last night. He foresaw the possibility of eliminating the college professor and the decentralization of colleges through such mechanical de- vices as the long-running phonograph. Soclal trends were discussed at the meeting last night by Dr. Emory S. Bogardus of the University of Southern California, and Howard W. Odum of insane MARMADUKE FUNERAL TO BE HELD TOMORROW War Department Clerk Who Died While at Work to Be Buried at Cedar Hill Funeral services for Miss Hallie B. Marmaduke, War Department elerk, who died suddenly while at work in the munitions bullding yesterday, will be held at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at the funeral parlors of James T. Ryan, 317 Pennsylvania avenue. Burial will be in Cedar Hill Cemetery. Miss Marmaduke, who was 63 years old, was stricken with a heart attack in her office, and died immediately. A na- tive of Potomac Mills, Va., she was the | daughter of the late William C. and Ruth B. Marmaduke, She came to| Washington to enter the Government service in the War Department in 1917 In 1918 she was made & clerk in the Quartermaster Corps and a short time later she transferred to the position she held at the time of her death. She lived here at 3337 Raleigh street southeast. D. C. Building Closes at 3. District employes will be excused from work at 3 o'clock this afternoon, except for those whose special duties require them to remain longer, the Commissioners ordered today. ~ The District Building will be closed at 3 o'clock. EGSCRAFERCO -A Happy New Year! 4100 Georgia Ave. AD.0145 USE YICK PLAN DECEMBER 31, Vicks Nose &Throat DRrOPS 1931. INFANTILE PARALYSIS GERMS « CAPTURED, SCIENTIST BELIEVES Tiny Organisms Inj ected Into Monkeys. Human Splecn May Revcal Kcy to Cancer Control. By the Associated Press. NEW ORLEANS, December 31.—Cap- ture of a germ believed to cause infan- tile paralysis and discovery that the human spleen may hold one key to control of eancer were reported today to the American Association for the Advancement of Sclence. John A. Abel of Johns Hopkins Uni- versity was elected president of the assoclation. Syracuse, N. Y., was chosen for the Summer meeting June 20-25, and Atlantic City was selected for the Winter meeting, December 26-Jan- uary 1. Germs that cause all the typical symptoms of infantile paralysis in monkeys have been isolated and grown in test tubes through many generations, sald Dr. Frederick Eberson of the Uni- versity of California Medical School. He was assisted in his research by Wil- llam G. Mossman. The germs at one stage are so small they cannot be seen under a microscope. A single-file parade of 500,000 of the germs would be only 1 inch long. Dr. Eberson said he had fed the germs on sheep brain and veal broth until they grew large enough to be seen with a microscope. At this stage they were injected into monkeys and pro- duced a disease that he feels sure is infantile paralysis. “In order to prove that the visible germ or organism was possibly related to the disease in question, it was neces- sary to show that this germ was found in poliomelitis (infantile paralysis) and not in other diseases. This has been demonstrated,” Dr. Eberson said. “The typical disease as it is recog- nized and known was successfully pro- duced in a fairly large series of monkeys and next transmitted indefinitely in re- peated sequence by pas animal to another.” QGrowth of cells in the human body seems to be controlled by a chemical substance, possibly a hormone, secreted in the spleen, it was reported by Donald C. A. Butts, Thomas E. Huff and Erwin C Manz of the Emery Laboratory of Cancer Research, Philadelphia. The | chemical is believed to be either a so- dium compound or one that can regu- late the body's use of sodium. Caneer cells essentially are ordinary cells that have “gone haywire,” multi- plying much faster than normal. There is some reason to believe, the report sald, that cells “go haywire” only when the spleen secretion is shut off from that part of the body leaving the cells “unchaperoned,” free to get out of control. The shutting off might result from a continued frritation such as causes cancer. Physical defects should always be sought for tn people with mental disor- ders as a possible cause of their ail- ment, saild Dr. M. L. Townsend of ‘Washington, D. C. He told of a dementia praecox case that was cured by removal of an in- fected tooth and tonsils. Polsons from these infected spots had reached some of the fleshy parts “of the brain. A waman was cured of another kind of insanity by healing of an abscess in her throat. Another physical cause of mental dis- ease is intracranial hemorrhage, or bleeding_inside the skull, in new-born bables, Dr. Leon 8. Gordon of George Washington University, Washington, D. C,, reported. The hemorrhages, he said, are commonest of all birth injuries. ‘The bleeding results in pressure in- side the skull, he explained, which pro- duces many candidates for homes for imbeciles, idiots, epileptics and neuro- logical institutions. age from one CHICAGO TAX LISTS ARE HELD INVALID City and County’s Financial Status Complicated Further by Test Case. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December 31.—The 1928 and 1929 assessment rolis of Cook County were held invalld today by County Judge Edmund K. Jarecki, plunging Chicago and Cook County into | more dangerous financial straits as more than $100,000,000 taxes for those years are yet unpald. ‘The validity of the 1930 tax rolls now due is similarly menaced. The decision was given in a test case brought by taxpayers with the backing of an association of real estate taxpay- ers. They challenged the validity of the assessments made by the county assessors and board of review on the grounds that a vaet amount of personal property had been fraudulently amitted from the rolls. As & result of the ruling, Chicago faces & possible receivership. No taxes can be collected under Judge Jarecki's decision until a new assessment can be made and upheld. Unpaid taxes giow total $140,000,000 for the years 1928 and 1929 and the decision Tenders these virtually uncol- lectable. Of the 1928 taxes 22.2 per cent or $51,748,209 have not been paid and for 1929 the unpaid percentage is 35.3 and the total $97,532,102. Bankers have declared the situation a virtual strike of taxpayers, with the court action instigated by an associa- tion of real estate owners in protest against what they claim is prejudicial taxation favoring the personal property owner. 14 FIRMS SUBMIT BIDS FOR TREE MOVING OB 313,806 Is Indicated Low Offer Made to Arlington Bridge Commission. The program of the Arlington Memo- rial Bride Commission for moving 183 elm trees and 15 white pines from the vicinity of the Washington bridgehead to locations around the Lincoln Memo- tri;l( has produced 14 bidders for the ask. The bids ranged from the indicated low of $13,896, submitted by Forman's Glebewood Gardens of Ballston, Va., to the prospective high bid of $57,000, given by the Outpost Nurseries of Ridgefield, Conn. Members of the Commission will be consulted on the award, and Lieut. Col. U. 8. Grant, 3d, the executive officer, will lay the project before President Hoover, who is chairman of the com- mission. The tree moving is necessary, officials say, because the trees, originally planted some 15 years ago, are now crowding out adjacent trees MRS, SABINCANGELS ORY LAW DEBATE 'Chairman of Reform Group Terms Challenger’s Tac- tics “Unfair.” | | Charging breach of good faith, Mrs. | Charles H. Sabin, national chairman of | | the Women's Organization for National | Prohibition Reform, yesterday withdrew | | from her agreement to debate with Mrs. Jesse Nicholson, president of the Na- tional Woman's Democratic Law En- forcement League, and declared that Mrs. Nicholson’s statements made any fair debate with her impossible. In a statement to the press Mrs. | Sabin made public her letter to Mrs. | Nicholson withdrawing from the de-} | | bate. The letter contains excerpts from the cotrespondence with Mrs. Nichol- son showing that Mrs. Sabin has been ready and willing at all times to debate | the question, “Resolved, That the eight- | eenth amendment should be repealed, which is the objective of her organiza- tion. Mrs. Sabin stated that despite | this correspondence Mrs. Nicholson has repeatedly accused her In public state- ments of refusing to debate with her. “‘Mrs. Nicholson seems unable to com prehend the difference between a chal- lenge and an attack, or to understand that it i possible to honestly disagree,” Mrs. Sabin said. “She has made it quite clear that she does not wish to debate the question of the repeal of the eight- eenth amendment.” BLIND WILL PROBATED ‘ e | Series of Holes in Paper to Decide Sightless Man's Estate. LOS ANGELES, December 31 (#)—A will, consisting of a series of punched holes in soft paper disposing of a $15,000 estate of a man Blind most of his life, | was admitted to probate by Superior Judge C. 8. Crail yesterday. Considered one of the strangest in- | struments ever presented in a Los An-| f}les court, the will was written by {iton E. McCallister in September, 1929, a few months before he died. | Attorneys contended the perforations were McCallister’s own handwriting. Eight persons were named in the will. . DANCER, 76, DROPé DEAD Fatal Heart Attack Comes as He Joins in Virginia Reel. LAKELAND, Fla, December 31 (#). | | —Beacher A. Northrop, 76, of North- ville, Mich,, was having lots of fun dancing the “Virginia reel” in a club house here Tuesday night. Suddenly he slumped to the floor and |lay still. A physician found he died of |a heart attack. s | board of directors | Drumm, F. B. Hoffman, William Otte, I SUXFFERERS B i SOLIETY PROTESTS COLLEGE OUSTING Removal of Professor by Dhio University Scored by Educators. The American Sociological Society at its closing meeting today expressed vig- | orous disapproval of the action of Ohio State University in refusing reappofnts ment this year to Dr. H. A. Miller, as- ciate professor of sociology, because of ged radical utterances, D all Miller, nominated from the floor v Dr. Jerome Davis of Yale Univer- sity after the Nominating Committee had reported, was elected member of | the Executive Committee of the so- | clety. The other member elected was | Dr. Stuart Rice of the University of }Pmnu)lvanla. who made an eloquent | speech defending Dr. Miller. | The soclety also went on record as | disapproving the action of the State il/nl_wrill\' and adopted a resolution ‘,:!rnlqnz the stand of Dr. J. C. Hagerty, another Ohio State professor, for “his courageous stand for academic free- om” in opposing the ous! l'ul"]r%(‘r colleague. # Sl 1e cause given for Miller's pract dismissal, 1t was explained, was an <a. dress made in India two Summers ago on the activities of Mahatma Gandhi | Which was judged a violation of strlct ® | neutrality. "Actually, it was explained, * | at least a strong contributing cause was | the professor's opposition to military ‘lmimna at the State institution. Miller read a paper yesterday before the society on recent’ social changes in India, at the end of which he was given an ovation by the members, many |of whom obviously considered him a martyr to the cause of academic free- dom Dr. L. L. Bernard of Washi | University, St. Louis, was em‘m“fi‘,‘éé’fl | dent of the soclety and E. J. Galpin | of the Department of Agricult: | vice prestdent. R NETTLESHIP RE-ELECTED | Y MEN'S CLUB HEAD Fred M. Nettleship was re-elected gx;esbldr;n (:Jf the Washington Y's Men's ub Tuesday afternoon at - ilton Hotel. e Other officers chosen included C. D, Kenney, first vice president; R. K. Shivers, second vice president; James T. Lewls, third vice president, and | Louis B. Nichols, secretary-treasurer, The following were elected to the Leo George, E. A. Elmer Huffer and Harry J. Miller, The club decided to care for sight underprivileged boys during the year. The boys will be given free member- ships in the boys' department of the Young Men's Christian Association and a short vacation at Camp Letts. RETIRED U. S. CLERK DIES Miss Jean Elizabeth Hastle, 65, re- tired employe of the Department of Interior, died yesterday at' Cheshire, Conn., where she resided with friends. Miss Hastle was one of the oldest women employes in point of service in the Secretary’s office. She was re- tired last Summer under the disability provisions of the retirement act, after serving 45 years. _ She is survived by a brother, who lives in New York City. Funeral serv- ices will be held tomorrow at Cheshir: Burial will be Greenwood Cemete: New York Cit; PG ARSI Dog Attack Kills Boy. SEWARD, Alaska, December 31 (P). —Attacked by two Malamute sled dogs; year-old Odman Kooley, jr. died Tuesday at his home at Kasilof, on Cook Inlet, four hours after the attack, Library Open Tomorrow. Announcement was made this after- noon that the Library of Congress will be_open from 2_to i0 p.m. tomorrow, Free Diagnosis . Results Guaranteed DR. J. L. BLISS BATES 1110 F Street N.W., 3rd floor, Sulte 30. tri OIL HEATERS Large Stock New Prices Easily managed, powerful heat. Just the thing for auxiliary heat. Wicks for All Types of Oil Heaters Priced from $4.95 to $59.50 Remember your heating trou- bles last Winter—let us correct them. Full Line H of Coal Ranges and eating Stoves W.S. 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