Evening Star Newspaper, February 12, 1932, Page 11

| tion ballot. MEDGAL OURNA T0ASSAL BEVAN Current Issue Criticizes His Senate Charges on Rum Prescriptions. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, February 12—The jou: nal of the American Medical Assoc tion in its current issue to be distr uted tomorrow will criticize Dr. Arthur Dean Bevan, former president of the association, for his recent testimony on prohibition before a Senate subcom- e ¢ editorial will say that Dr. Bevan an extraordinary lack of con- in his professional brethren” when he testified that 90 per cent of liquor prescriptions written by physi- cians were for bootleg purposes. “If Dr. Bevan has actual evidence,” the article will say, “that any physician is selling his prescriptions en masse in order to permit druggists and bootleg- gers to dispose of whisky in case lots, he, and all of those who possess the in- formation, are equally guilty with those who are violating the law in permitting the violation. If he has not the evi- dence he is certainly without warrant in making such a statement. His state- ment reflects great discredit on a pro- fession whose ideals are certainly as Thigh as those of any other professional oup.” F* T he Ethics Committee of the Chicago Medical Society has begun considera- tion of charges of unethical conduct made against Dr. Bevan by an un- named member of the society, who pro- tested against Dr. Bevan's subcommit- tee testimony. THE WEATHER District of Columbia—Partly cloudy and colder tonight; minimum tem- perature about 39 degrees; tomorrow cloudy and slightly colder; moderate west and northwest winds. Maryland—Partly cloudy and colder tonight and tomorrow; fresh to strong west and northwest wir Virginia—Cloudy and and tomorrow;: fresh northwest Report for Last 24 Hours. ‘Temperature. Barometer. Degre Inches. sider tonight winds| Yesterday— vaw 20.83 . 4:30 pm._Year ago. 53 56. 12 noon. Year ago, 30. Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.) Today. ‘Tomorrow. High 25 a.m. Sun, today 42 57p.m. s to be lighted one- Rainfall. Monthly rainfall in 2l (current 1932 Record. 4.82 2 7.09 '8 684 8.34 9.13 10.69 10.94 10.63 1441 1081 8.57 69 7.56 Cities. Statlons. . Cloudy Cloudy Rain . Cloudy Rain Cloudy Abilene, Tex... 01 Pt.cloudy Bt.cloudy ear Clear .2l Cloudy . Glear Clear Pittsburg! Portland, Me. Portland, Gloudy Pt.cloudy Clear : Clear Clear Cloudy . Cloudy . Clear ;. Clear 0.08 Rain today.) i R time, today.) zores.... 58 Part cloudy (Current observations.) - g9 Part cloudy 7 lear Colon, Canal Zone. 2 PETITION SEEKS REPEAL SALEM, Ore, February 12 (#).—An iniative petition demanding repeal of the Oregon dry law act was filed with the Secretary of State yesterday by Harry B. Critchlow of Portland. It bears 18,808 names. The measure will appear on the November general elec- House Wiring The kind of dependable service you have been look- ing for, at the price you wa to pay. 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With an assertion that “Volsteadism has brought about unemployment, drunkenness, dissipation, loss of rev- enues, crime of the most violent kind and lack of respect for human rights,” Labor’s Natlonal Committee for Mod- ification of the Volstead Act today pe- titioned Congress to amend the dry law to permit the manufacturing and sale of beer of 2.75 per cent alcoholic | content. This demand upon Congress came at the close of a two-c'ay conference of 150 | representatives of mpational, State and scal organizations effiliated with the Naticnal Committee, which functions by authorization of the Executive Coun- cil of the American Federation of La- bor. The council is now holding its Midwinter session here. The petition sets four grounds for modification: It will bring about the immediate employment of hundreds of thousands of workers now unemployed and re- store useful life to an industry recog- nized as legal throughout the world; it will provide enormous revenues, Federal, State and municipal: it will remove the cause of gangsterism and will_strike a blow at intolerance. “By modification of the Volstead act,” the petition further sets out, “the | ground can be cut from under the { whole hideous structure of racketeer- | ing and gangsterism, a menace that is | even eating at the very heart of our trade union structure in its lust for power, | | corruption and graft.” During its two-day session the con- ference was addressed by Matthew Woll, president of the organization; Senators Bingham of Connecticut and | Bulkley of Okio and R(‘pr(‘scnlau\'es‘ Connery., Mead and Tierney. | All trade unions throughout the| | country had representatives at the ses- | sions, according to registration officials. BAL BOHEME SALE OPENS Decorations and Pageant Proper- ties to Be Disposed Of. A salvage sale of the decorations and pageant properties used at the recent Bal Boheme opened today at the Arts | Club. | | The unique and brilliantly colored fish, which formed the main feature of | | decoration in the ball room and the | hand-colored lamp shades are among | the articles to be sold to increase the | amount raised for the unemployment |fund. The sale will continue for three days. CAMPUS ATHEISM DENIED Texas College Head Fails to Find Basis for Pastor’s Charges. LUBBOCK, Tex., February 12 (#), Dr. Paul W. Horn, president of Texas Technological College, said yesterday he had been unable to find evidence atheism was taught in the school The statement was made after con- ferences with the Rev. R. C. Campbell, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Lubbock, who had asserted in a sermon certain professors were teaching athe- ism. The charges created a furor on the campus. 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Chairman Metcalf said he had invited McBride to testify at the last hearing in summation of the case against the bill, but that McBride had sent thve league’s lawyer instead. At Bingham's request, he said he would ask McBride again to appear. The beer bill was favored before the committee today by Stanley Shirk of New York, research director of the Moderation League. He said arrests for drunkenness “started upward very abruptly” after prohibition went into effect. Sena Bingham asked Shirk’s before the committee by witnessts against the bill that statistics for drunk- enness arrests are meaningless because the police before prohibition were not as vigilant as they are now. Matter of Opinion. Shirk replied that was a matter of opinion and that it might be true in some places and untrue in others. Samuel M. Shultz, national secretary of the Constitutional Rights Association of America, also favored the bill. He undertook to refute testimony given pre- viously by Louis J, Taber, master of the National Grange, who, he said, is a member of “professional prohibition propaganda_organizations.” Shultz challenged particularly the statement that legalization of 4 per cent | beer would be nullification of the eight- | eenth amendment. OHIO GOVERNOR HERE | FOR ADDRESS TONIGHT George White Will Be Speaker at Dinner Given by Women's Democratic Club. Gov. George White of Ohio will dis- cuss current issues in the Democratic party as guest speaker at a dinner to be given tonight at 7:30 by the Wom- an’s National Democratic Club at the club house, 1526 New Hampshire ave- nue. Mrs, Samucl Herrick will preside at the dinner, which is one of a series sponsored by the club with Democratic State Governors as guest speakers. Previously Govs. Albert Ritchie of Maryland, Harry Woodring of Kansas and Willlam H. Murray of Oklahoma have addressed these meetings. Mrs. Wilbur W. 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