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RUN-OFF INDICATED | “INTEXAS PRIMARY “Ma” Ferguson Is Leading by 73,000 Votes—Wets Far Ahead of Drys. By the Associated Press. DALLAS, Tex., July 25.—Mrs. Miriam A. “Ma” Ferguson, once Governor of Texas, again basked in the limelight today as she led Gov. R. S. Sterling by 73,000 votes on returns from Saturday’s | Democratic primary. ‘The Democratic nomination in Texas is equivalent to election, but the votes polled by six other candidates were ex- pected to necessitate a_run-off between Mrs. Ferguson and Sterling at the August 27 primary. They were the leading candidates two years ago, Sterling winning at the second primary. “Ma” and her husband, James E. Ferguson, also a former Governor, who was impeached after election to a sec- ond term in 1916, had nothing to say “at this time.” A Newspaper Campaign. Ma's campaign largely was con- ducted in the columns of the “Fergu- son Forum,” a weekly newspaper. It was featured by attacks on reputed ex- gnvlgance of the Sterling administra-®| jon. A proposal that Congress be peti- tioned to submit repeal or retention of national prohibition to the States car- ried 2 to 1, but less than half the Dem- ocrats had expressed themselves on the ue. Prohibition leaders claimed that the majority abstaining from the vote were of the prohibition faith. United States Senator Morris Sheppard, co-author of the eighteenth amendment, withheld comment on the significance of the Teferendum. Tom F. Hunter, independent oil oper- ator of Wichita Falls, was a strong third in the Governor's race. The lat- est returns gave him 139,944 votes; Sterling, 191,428, and Mrs. Ferguson, 264,594. In the race for Congress at large, place 1, a run-off was indicated be- tween George B. Terrell of Alto, former commissioner of agriculture and State Senator Pink Parrish of Lubbock. Bailey Leads Race. Joseph Weldon Bailey of Dallas, son of the late United States Senator of that name, led the contest for the sec- ond place. J. R. (Cyclone) Davis of Sulphur Springs, veteran dry, and Oscar Holcombe, former mayor of Houston, ‘were almost in a tie for second position and an opportunity in the run-off. Bailey favors repeal of the eighteenth amendment. Sterling P. Strong of Dallas, a pro- hibitionist, led the race for the third seat. It appeared that his run-off op- ponent would be Douglas W. McGregor of Houston. Speaker John Nance Garner, Demo- cratic vice presidential nominee, was renominated without opposition in the fifteenth Texas district. All other Representatives seeking new terms appeard sure of victory with the possible exception of Thomas L. Blan- ton of Abilenc in the seventeenth dis- trict. Last returns gave him 19,998 votes to 18,703 for his opponent, Joe H. Jones. DEATH CALI.:ED SUICIDE Certificate Issued by MacDonald in Perry Case. A certificate of suicide was issued by Deputy Coroner A. der MacDonald in the death last night in Gallinger Hospital of Mrs. Ethel H. Perry, 21, who swallowed poison on July 19. Mrs. Perry was said to have swallowed the poison while in her home in the first block of R street northeast. She was removed to Siblev Hospital and from there taken to Gallinger. ITALIAN GROUP ARRIVES Business and Professional Men Will Tour America. NEW YORK, July 25 (#).—A party of 45 prominent business and profes- sional men of Italy arrived on the liner Conte Grande today to tour the United States and attend the Olympic games in California. Among the group was Fernando Pozzani, Ifalian wheat im- porter and member of the Chicago Board of Trade. The party will go to Philadelphia tomorrow. SPECIAL NOTICES. NOTICE_1S HEREBY Potacnts 1atel the undersigned, Ju!e;‘.”n' e ok P. 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Photo, *|Has Appearance of Abun- That of Marie Ce CREWLESS SHIP FOUND SAILING .OFF SPAIN FURNISHES MYSTERY Seamen Recall Othér Instanc‘es. Notably leste, Which Has Never Been Solved. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 25.—When thel steamer Luis I entered the port of Al- | meria, Spain, towing the fishing smack | San Antonio, which had been found with all sails set, but without a crew, 5 miles off the coast, similarity was| noted to the greatest of 21l sea mysteries —that of the Marie Celeste. Spanish _port _authorities explainer that the San Antonio “probably” had been swept from its moorings during a storm iast week, but as in most sea | mysteries, the obvious ordinarily gets little attention when in competition with the fantastic. Ever since men have gone down to | the sea in ships there have been ocean | mysteries, but none so weird as the tale | of the Marle Celeste. For 60 years this phantom ship has kept her secret. | Ship Moved Curiously. [ It was on December 5, 1872, that the British barque Dei Gratia came upon the brigantine Marie Celeste headed for | the Strait of Gibraltar under full sail. The curious movements of the ship led | to the belief that no one was in charge, so Capt. Boyce of the Dei Gratia | boarded her. | The ship was deserted. The cargo | was intact, the boat was sound, there | was no water in the hold, and the spars, ropes and sails were aloft and undam- aged. No small boats were missing. The mystery deepened when the boarding party entered the cabin. On | the table was a half-eaten meal, at| which four, including a child, evidently | had sat not long since. The ehild had | almost finished a plate of porridge. By the captamn’s plate lay two halves of a | hard-boiled egg, both in the shell. Close by was an upright and uncorked bottle of cough medicine, indicating the weather had not been heavy emough to topple it over. Under the needle of a sewing ma- chine was a child's pinafore. Whoever had been using the machine had stop- ped stitching in the middle of a sleeve. ‘The captain’s cabin was shipshape and the cash box was untouched. Explanations of the mystery have offered yearly since, but none holds ene ring of truth, Another - weird sea mystery is pre- sented by-the British steamer Waratah, vhich put to sea from Durban, Natal, South Africa, on July 26, 1909, bound for Cape Town: with 92 passengers. At 6 am. on the 27 she was sighted by the Clan MacIntyte. The two boats ex- changed the usual signaled pleasantries and the Waratah passed on into the unknown. She was never heard of egain. French Ship Mystery. A similar tale is told more than a century earlier of two Prench frigates, the Boussole and the Astrolabe, which were dispatched in 1785 on an expe- dition of discovery in the South Seas. The schips had many adventures and eventually salled into the blue from Botany Bay, Australia, in 1788. Many years later supposed relics of the ex- | pedition were found on an island. On April 6, 1901, the ship Commodore put into Tebo Yacht Basin, in Brook- Iyn, under sail, but without a crew. The chip's registry was never traced. Two years ago a note was found in a bottle off Florida reading “Send help at once. Our ship, the Commodore, was wrecked two weeks ago.” It was assumed to refer to the same boat. A Greek steamer which stopped at Galveston last May told of sighting a sailing vessel, the John and Mary, off Bermuda, her sails furled, but without a soul on board. ) The greatest ocean mystery of legend is the Flying Dutchman, doomed to sail the seas endlessly. Some mariners say the Flying Dutchman is not all ‘mythology. Girl Asleep Months Gains 22 Pounds to| Doctors’ Surprise dant Health and Now May Recover. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, . July 25—Unconscious | for nearly six months, Miss Patricia Maguire. 27, Chicago's contribution to medical paradoxes, is apparently in better physical condition in some re- spects than when she was stricken. Physicians attending her announced she has gained 22 pounds since last February when sleeping sickness at- tacked her, that her hair has grown luxuriantly, and that her complexion | would indicate abundant health. | Fed only on liquid diet during her coma, doctors said her tendency to in- | crease in weight is as strange a viola- tion of medical experience as her 162- day period of unconsciousness. Her | malady, they pointed out, gradually and inexorably wesites away the victim's The physicians predicted she prob- ably would recoves DOUMER ASSASSIN GOES ON TRIAL FOR LIFE Russian Who Killed French Pres- ident Loses Much Flesh in Prison« By the Ac-ociated Press. " PARIS, July 25.—Paul Gordulofl, the Russian, who assassinated President Doumer last May, went on trial for | his life today in the Court of Assizes. | Two months in the Sante Prison had left their mark on him, for he seemed a shadow of the powerful man who fought off half a dozen persons after | he had killed the aged President. As| he entered the court room he carried | under his arm a volume of the memoirs | he had written in his cell. Henrl Geraud, his counsel, asked for ‘West of England Blue Serse. Remember this quality which is now $67.50 for a few days only. Pormerly sold for §135.00. Tatlored in our best manner, G. WARFIELD SIMPSON 17th and Eye Sts. N.W, another medical examination. On sev- eral occasions alienists have pro- nounced Gorguloff sane. Bomb Kills Police Captain. HAVANA, Cuba, July 25 (#).—A po- lice cnm.fl:’ was killed and three other policemen were seriously injured in the explosion of an infernal machine in residence they were searching last night, They had been called by the owner, had been placed in his home. MAJ. GAWNE TO WED Marine Officer and Mrs. Irene En- right Jones Obtain License. Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, N. Y, July 25.—Maj. Chester Leverett Gawne, 45, U. S. M. C., Marine Barracks, Quantico, and Mrs. Irene Enright Jones, 32, of 333 East Forty-third street, this city, obtained a marriage license in New York this morning. They said the ceremony would be performed later today in the Church cf the Covenant, this city, by Rev. Dr. J. and Elizabeth Miller Gawne. It will in Fredonia, N. Y., the son of Leverett J. and Elizabeth Miller Gawn. It will be his second marriage. He and his first wife, Mrs. Mildred Fortson Gawne, ;we;e divorced in Reno, Nev., July 21 ast. Mrs. Jones is a native of Leaven- worth, Kans, and the daughter of James H. and Ida Dawson Enright. She end her first husband, William Forest Jones, were divorced in Los Angeles, Calif., July 21, 1931. ol SHIN BONE OF BABY CHICK USED TO HELP SCIENCE Vitamin D Content of Cod Liver Oils Ascertained Through Unusual Experiment. ST. PAUL (#).—Shin bones of baby chicks have been added to the list of alds to science at the University of Minnesota Farm School. The vitamin D content of cod liver oils now can be ascertained, say H. A. Halvorson and L. L. Lachat, chemists, through examination of the chicks’ shini’ bones, or tibiae. Groups of day-old chicks are fed mixed diets, including the cod liver oil in varying amounts, for five days. birds then are killed and the lower left leg bone of each is removed, dried, and crushed. After being treated with alcohol and ether, the crushed bone is “ashed” in an electric furnace. The percentage of ash in the bone indicates the amount of calcium or lime deposited. Vitamin D assists in the depositing of this sub- stance. A large percentage of ash indicates a strong shin bone and an ofl rich in vitamin D content. BOAT T0O EXPENSIVE New Jersey Returns Craft to Navy, Though One Is Needed. The W. Parker Runyon, New Jersey State craft donated by the Ped?rfl eG“)'- ernment, has been returned to the Navy America has given the fancy salad to the world. Py tion. ST VINCENTGROLP CELEBRATES FEAST Charity Society Holds Ses- sion Yesterday, With 23 Churches Represented. ‘Twenty-three parish churches were represented at a general meeting of the St. Vincent de Paul Soclety of Wash- ington, held yesterday morning at St. Patrick's Church, in honor of the feast of St. Vincent de Paul, te patron saint of organized charity. About 150 mem- bers of the society received holy com- munion, Rev. Dr. Maurice Sheehy. assistant to the rector of Catholic University, who preached the sermon, called attention to a recent survey of non-sectarian insti- tutions which disclosed the fact that American youth is receiving little or no instruction in religion. The business meeting which followed was presided over by George F. Cleary, who is pres- ident of the Particular C: ncil of the society. Reports from t' > 23 parish conferences indicated thai during the past quarter more than $11,500 was ex- pended by the soclety in relieving more than 800 persons in distress. John G. Bowen of Georgetown Uni- versity, reported for the Special Works Committee and showed that several hundred ‘confessions had been heard at the penal institutions visited by the committee. He also pointed out that the Special Works Commitee offers a means for tHe layman to do the bid- | ding of Christ, who urged men to “yisit the prisoner.” As the guest speaker, Col. Claude Jones, superintendent of the National ‘Training School for Boys, urged the of the society to continue their mures?‘m this institution. The moral value of wirk done by organizations like the St. Vincent de Paul Society, he sald, was of great assistance in making good citizens out of the deficient boys he receives at the school. Rev. Ralph M. Burke, O. P., prior of St. Dominic’s Church, who discussed so- cial conditions, said his parish is over- loaded with relief cases due to_the pressure of high rents. Dr. John O'Grady, director of the Catholic Char- ities of the District, predicted that the next few years would mark the St. Vin- cent de Paul Soclety as a strong arm in | restoring social and economic tran- quillity. FARM BOARD IS HIT AT BUSINESS PROBE Competes With Private Enterprise in Vast Speculative Ventures, Theis Holds. By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, July 25.—The Fed- eral Farm Board was the obiect of an attack by the grain trade today before the House committee investigating Gov- ernment competition with private busi- ness. More than 20 accusations of unfair competition were contained in a_brief read by Frank A. Theis, former presi- dent of the Kansas City Board of Trade and first witnéss in the three days allotted to the testimony of grain men. “The United States Government for several years has been engaged in busi- ness cn a gigantic scale in direct com- petition with its citizens and taxpayers through the agricultural marketing act and the Federal Farm Board,” Mr. Thels said. He charged the Government was competing with private individuals and corporations in every branch of the grain business. He claimed it had bought and sold grain in large volume and had supplied its subsidiaries with Treasury funds at lower than commer- cial rates. “A grcup of corperations was created which the Government falsely calls co- operatives, but which are neither farm- er-owned nor farmer-controlled,” he sald. The witness described these groups as mere subterfuges, through which the Farm Board conducts its tremedous speculative ventures. “The Federal Farm Board,” he de- clared, “has wasted vast sums of public meney in futile and ill-advised stabili- zation and other ccstly®and socalistic schemes.” SAY RETURNING BRIDES Akron Women Who Married San Blas Tribesmen Glad to Be Back From Isolation. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 25.—Two women of Akron, Ohio, mother and daughter, who married San Blas Indians in the hope that they would reside in Central American palaces, returned today on the steamer Ancon, destitute, disillu- sioned and determined to “go back— never.” The women, Mrs. Charles Williams, 65, and Mrs. Gladys White Eagle, 30, were rescued from the isolated jungle on the San Blas reservation, 300 miles from the Canal Zone, by a Red Cross plane. Their fare on the steamer was paid by public subscription in Cristobal. The San Blas Indians, husbands of the women, appeared in & circus in Akron some months ago. They said they were nobles of a civilized tribe and they spoke of palaces. Instead the women found a jungle that was not so kind to them. STARSLUSE RGHT T0 PO STORES |Producers Point Out Impor-' tance of Public Touch Actors Do Not Have. By the Associated Press. HOLLYWOOD, July 25.—In the fu- ture, stars contracted by the cumbl.ned‘ Warner-First National Studios will have no hand in the selection of stories or screen roles. | .. Jack L. Warner, in charge of produc- | tion, and his associate, Darryl Zanuck, asserted in a statement yesterday they | consider the producer, who invests a | large amount of money in each picture | he ‘makes, should be allowed to select | his own 'stories, unhampered by the | likes or dislikes of his stars. | In the future no contracts will give | stars the right to select stories or roles, ‘Warner and Zanuck sald. | "They said the popular stars of today | have been made by the careful selection ‘ of stories by their producers, and ‘polnted out that the producer has fa- cilities that aid him in keeping in touch | with the public that the star does not | have. F Rule Effective August 1. “We have decided that with the start of our new year proauction August 1 | we will not permit stars or players to | have any hand in the selection of their future stories, regardless of whether this privilege has been accorced them in the past.” the statement said. “We believe that in this day of de- pression the producer, who must make . the investment in the picture, should | have 100 per cent selection of the story material that is to be used in the forth- | coming photoplay. | “Also, we belicve that in this time! | of depression, we must cater to the | wants of the public at large, and not | cater to the likes and dislikes of ke individual player. Guided by Public in Success. “Almost without exception, the suc- cessful, artistic and box office successes that we have produced in the past have been those pictures in the choice of which we were guided solely by the demands of the general public.” Stars under contract to Warner First National include George Ar Barbara Stanwyck, Richard Barthe mess, Ruth Chatterton, William Powell, | Kay Francis, Constance Bennett, Chic | Sale, Paul Muni, Edward G. Robinson, | Douglas Fairbanks, jr.. Joe E. Brown, | Warren William, Loretta Young, Joan Blondell and George Brent. Several of these, notably Arliss, Miss Stanwyck, Bartheimess, Miss Chatter- ten and Miss Bennett, have the final voice in choosing their stories. It was said, unofficially, that this right will continue as long as their present contracts are in force. SOVIETS TO SOW CROPS BY PLANE | Great Saving in Time Spurs Stud- ies—Experts Confident System Can Be Perfected. | | = | Moscow, July 21 (N.AN.AY—The |airplane and the dirigible are being | advocated as the agricultural machines of the future. The tractor and the | harvesting combine are outworn. Speed in sowing Is everything to the arid regions of Southeastern Russla and | Russian Central Asia, where the rain- fall is low and a hectare can be sown from the air in less than uoe minute. In the case of flax, it is thought that ‘llrplane sowing may open he pos- sibility of gathering twc vests in the same year. Af preseut there is some difficulty in distributing seed from the air with adequate evenness, but this difficuity does not daunt the Soviet Agricultural Academy. It is planned, by the Spring.of 1933, to organize a system under which fleets of airplanes will be operating over the Russian fields, starting with the southernmost regions of the Soviet Union in the early Spring and working northward. | A figure of more than a million | hectares has been set for sowings next Spring. (A hectare is approximately 2.5 acres.) Most of the experimental sowing from the air has up to the present been practiced in the rice flelds of the North Caucasus. (Copyright. 1932. by North American News- paber Alliance. nc. 5 Ancient Ruins With Fine Mosaics to Be Excavated. JERUSALEM, (P).—An ancient syn- agogue paved with fine mosaics has been uncovered at El Hamma, where the frontiers of Palestine, Syria and Trans-Jordania_convere. In the central nave are two mosaic panels inscribed with Hebrew charac- ters in the Judaea-Aramic language. They commemorate benefactors who contributed to the erection of the build- ing. The Hebrew University at Jeru- salem has been granted a license to! excavate the ruin. Its archeolqgist, Dr. E. L. Sukenik, is an authority on ancient synagogues. Police Get Bequest. Miss Adelaide Henderson of Edin- burgh bequeathed $10,000 to the pelice of the county of Caithness, Scotland. MANAGER .OF 10, FINDS WAY Rodent Researches Lead Her to Theory That Scientific Mating Would Stamp Out Disease By the Associated Press. [CAGO, July 25.—The health of mg:i:nd men, like their best-laid plans, The | often fails—and in the same manner. Dr. Maude Slye, cancer research worker st the University of Chicago, discovered this common fraility 23 years ago. Upon it she has based experi- mentation which has won her recog- nition as one of America’s foremost au- thorities on cancer, and enthroned her as magistrate over a metropolis of 10,000 mice. To most Women, an uneasy throne this—to Dr. Slye, a retreat and haven as well as workshop. Today, she look- ed back over her achievements, dis- cussed her work and plans, and per- formed her 111,001th sutopsy. Dr. Slye’s observations have been generally accepted as indicating that gulcefltlbflily to cancer is inherited, and that if persons from cancerous families were mated to offspring of cancer-im- mune families, the disease could be the | rodentially speaking. 000 MICE TO END CANCER A District’s Heroes " in the World War Compiled by Sergt. L. E. Jaeckel. § recorded in the official citation, J. W. Oman, captain, United States Navy, was awarded the Navy Distinguished Service Medal for exceptionally merito- rious and distinguished services in a position of great responsibility in the line of Lis profes- sion, as the com- manding officer of the S. S. Levia- than, charged with importan, exact- ing and hazardous duty of tramsport- ing troops and supplies through waters infested with enemy sub- marines and mines, contrituting grea 1y towarc the suc- eess of the United States’ operations against the enemy, Germany and her allis, by unremit- tingly prosecuting a relentless and aggressive offensive and defensive program against all forms of enemy naval operations. This offi- cer has demonstrated a kesn tactical ability, and has inspired the men under him to a high standard of morale end | efficiency. Residence, 1401 Sixteenth street, ‘Washington, D. C. (Copyright, 1932.) ESTATE RECOGNIZES WENDEL CLAIMANTS Makes Concession to Eight Rela- tives of New York City Recluse. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 25.—The estate of Ella Von E. Wendel, late Fifth avenue recluse, today gave formal recognition as relatives to eight more of the 1,622 claimants of a right to contest Miss | Wendel's will disposing of an estimated $30,000,000. The only previously recog- nized relative was Mrs. Rosa Dew Stansbury of Vicksburg, Miss. ‘The cencession as to the eight others was announced at the opening of a hearing before Surrogate James A. Foley to determing justification for claims of 29 persons who allege their relationship to Miss Wendel was in the i tl\.‘ d;gn‘& Of the eight claimgnts newly recog- nized, seven agye inltgi‘:@ldull.s and m:‘l! an estate. All the individuals live in E:hls country, most of them on the West FRENCH SPAS SEEK FORMER POPULARITY Aix-Les-Bains Leads Way With Plans for Elaborate Improvements to Cost $5,000,000, AIX-LES-BAINS, France, July 21 (N.AN.A)—The French spas are making a great bid for the revival of their fermer prosperity, and Aix-Les- Bains certainly is in the van of this movement. The town has embarked, under the leadership of its'mew mayor, M. Mol- lard, upon improvement schemes tha Wwill cost about 85,000,000 and take some three years to complete. Thirty years ago, says M. Mollard, this spa ranked as the first in the world, now it takes seventh place but is deter- mined to recapture its old reputation. Work has been started on & new thermal establishment which, it is hoped, will be ready fer next Summer, M. Mollard has visited Germany and the United States and intends to im- prove on everything he saw in those countries and to make his own thermal establishment the finest and best equipped in the we-ld. A sandy bathin: beach 700 yards long is to be cons'iucted on the shores of the Lac Du iourget and endowed with new_hotels, dancing places and casinos. Efforts also are to be made for the building up of a Winter sports season, easier means for reaching Mont Revard being provided and a 10- mile bobsleigh ran prepared. (Copyrisht. 1932. by North American News- paver Aliance. 1ne) TAXI AND GAS STATION ROBBERIES INVESTIGATED Armed Bandit Duet Obtain $131.- 62 From Manager of Motor Company. Three reports of robberies of gasoline stations and taxi drivers over the week end were being investigated today by the police. - Judson R. Edwards, manager of.the Logan Motor Co,, 1800 block of E street, said he was bound and gagged last night by two armed bandits who stole $131%2 from the cash ragister in the filling sta- tion he aperates. At 5 o'clock yesterday morning two armed men forced Willilam Pratt into a rest room at his gasoline station, Massachusetts avenue and Second street northeast, bound and gagged him and escaped with $12. Robert M. Floodas of the 1600 block of R street, was robbed of 80 cents and i his taxicab by a lone bandit who en- gaged his cab at Sixteenth and S streets ! last night. The robbery occurred at Ninth and Perry streets, where the rob- ber bound Floodas hand and foot with a rope. MONDAYS NOT “BLUE” in Humans. “However,” she added, “romance among mice in a laboratory is more easily arranged than among humans.” Dr. Slye chose mice, she said, for two reasons—because she likes them and because she learned that cancer affects them and humans in nearly the same manner. One exception, which she is now studying, is that mest hu- man cancers occur in the intestinal FORTUNES SLUMP 10 AMAZING LOWS Many Huge Accumulations Decline Drastically Besides That of Mrs. McCormick. BY OWEN L. SCOTT. | Special Dispatch to The Star. y CHICAGO, July 25—Public revela- | tion of the heavy losses that have re- | moved Edith Rockefeller McCormick | daughter of John D. Rockefeller, from 1 the list of the Nation's richest women has focused attention om the disas- ter that has overtaken many great Middle Western fortunes, Inheritance taxes, levied on the basis of inflated stock values, the market cog:gu and business reverses have wi out some of the huge accumula- tions of capital, garnered during the past 30 years and more by Middle Western entrepreneurs, who grew up with Chicago during its period of rapid development, Among these fortunes obliterated are | the $100,000,000 hoard of Samuel J Insull, the $200.000,000 accumulation of the late J. Ogden Armour and the $20.- 007.000 fortunc of the late Reuben H. Donnelly. Among the fortunes which have been subjected to terrific_pressure ere those of the late Richard T. Crane of the Swifts, of Mrs. Rockefeller Mc- Cormick and of others whose plight has received less public attention, Definition of Millionaire, The situation is such that it-lends real color to the observation of Nicho- las Murray Butler that the modern millionaire’ is a man with a job and $500 in the bank Mrs. McCormick, who ventured too deeply into real estate ‘promotion and was crippled financially to an extent that caused her to remove from her Michigan Avenue mansion—a gift from her father —to take up residence in four hotel rooms, still is far from poor. She no longer lives in the regal style that long was her custom, but Edwin Krenn, her spokesman, calls attention ito the fact that Mrs. McCormick still | can meet all obligations and holds a huge block of Standard Oil Co. of In- diana stock. Besides, Mrs. McCormick has not sold her solid gold dinner service that once was the property of Napoleon Bona- parte, or the diamond and emerald necklace that formerly belonged to Catherine the Great of Russia and car- ries a million-dollar appraisal. It is different with the Insull for- tunes, those of Samuel and Martin In- sull, utility magnates, Both have lost everything, and Samuel Insull today is living in two rooms of a Paris hotel on an $18,000-a-year remittance from the three operating utilities he devel- oped here, Armour Misjudged Market. The J. Ogden Armour fortune, accu- mulated over two generations in the sensational development of the packing industry in Chicago, was lost in the commodity price collapse that occurred in 1921, Mr. Armour misjudged the European market for meats after the war, lost using and, , with dying of a broken heart. Three years ago the holdings of the late Julius Rosenwald were valued at well above $200,000,000 and he was one of the country’s . Today the size of the estate is open to conjecture and will probably depend on what Uncle Sam’s tax collectors do with it. At the time of Mr. - wald’s death, acc to estimates when the will was probated, the hold- ings of the mail ore pioneer were valued at $45,000,000. 789,238 shares of Sears-Roebuck stock, which had a value of $145,000,000 in 1929. At the time of death this stock 't | was worth $30 a share in the market, with the Pederal inheritance tax to be levied on that basis. Today the stock is worth around $12 a share. Definite bequests of $11,000,000 were B foeone oah; o408 8 cnce ul H., Donnelly, pub- lisher, once valued at $20,000,000. This valuation included 88,000 shares of Montgomery-Ward stock, which was valued at $11,000,000 when Mr., Donnel- ly died. The tax, on a 20 per cent basis, was in excess of $2,000,000. The value of the stock in the market has dropped to below $500,000, leaving a deficit of over $1,500,000 after taxes are paid. It is much the same with the estate of Richard T. Crane, which shrank from $19,000,000 on November 7, 1931, the day of his death, to $5,000,000 at present, The Government wants to collect a tax of over $3,000,000. After specific bequests, almost nothing re- mained for the family. ‘There are other fortunes here, built on banking, which have “virtually dis- appeared, so that Chicago’s one-time Gold Coest is inhabited with the pres- ent-day poor-rich. (Copyright, 1033.) THOMAS ASSAILS TWO MAJOR PARTIES Finds No “Adequate Program for Peace” in Either of Their Platforms. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, July 25.—Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for Presi- dent, last night assailed what he termed “the general absence of any adequate program for peace” in either the Republican or Democratic plat- forms. “At no point has President Hoover us worse,” he declared, “than by failing even to try to educate us and lead us in a program for peace. “So far as Roosevelt’s position is known it is worse. His repudiation of the League of Nations, which he sup- ported enthusiastically in 1920, was dictated not by consclence, but ambi- tion through the promptings BUT YELLOW IN SIAM Each. Day Represents Color and Natives Match Costumes for Occasion. BANGKOK, Siam (#).—Mondays in Siam are not “blue,” but yellow. ‘To the Siamese each day of the week stands for a different color and many of the people match their “panung,” the native costume, with the color of the day. ‘The native newspapers follow the custom to some extent, Monday's pa- pers in Bangkok being printed on yel- tract, while mice develop ‘skin tumors chiefly. This difference, she theorized, is due to human diet. She is experi- menting with diets for selected mice. She also is concentrating in an at- tempt to prove a common factor con- trols the various types of cancerous growths. Dr. Siye has fgund that cancer sus- ceptibility follows the Mendelian law of the inheritance of acquired charac- teristics—that the disease is transmit- ted according to a definite ratio. This discovery has meant segregation, selec- recording the medical genealogies of mice, whose Jow paper, Sunday’s on pink and ‘Thursday’s on green. White paper is used for the remainingdags - extend back to 1908—hundreds of years, During this period, her interest in mice as mice, Dr. Slye said, has per- sisted. To her, they are not mere sub- of Wi Randolph Heafst.” e Firemen Rescue Boy, 2. Firemen were called to the rescue yesterday afternoon when 2-year-old Arnold Zimmerman locked himself in the bathroom while visi in the home of his uncle, Hyman d, in the 500 block of Randolph street. Unable to open the door, relatives summoned the firemen who broke it open. GOING Prices of Marlow super- cite will advance August BIN NOW AND MAK A-3 - QUKKAS LIGHTNING! IT CAME So DPDENLY/ | LuckyY we / 70 of all ACUTE INDIGESTION strikes late at NIGHT (when stores are closed). Be safe—be ready Bellans. Siz Bell-ans, Hot water, Sure Relief. 25¢ and 75¢ all drug stores. 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