Evening Star Newspaper, September 17, 1932, Page 4

T A4 »» THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1932. CONVERSION LOAN VOTED IN FRANCE Deputies Approve Move In- i volving $3,400,000,000 | Government Bonds. By the Associated Press. PARIS, September 17.—The largest Joan conversion plan ever undertaken, providing for converting about $3,400,- 000,000 worth of French government bonds. was approved by the Chamber of Deputies todayv. The vote on the measure, in the spe- cial session called for the purpose, was 540 to 48. Finance Minister Louis Bermain- Martin told the deputies that it was the first item in a plan which would include a consolidation loan to absorb the outstanding budgetary and railroad deficits, balancing of the budget in 1933 and a number of measures intended to stimulate home and foreign commerce. The new bonds will bé issued at 415 | per cent. Lucien Lamoureux, budget | Teporter, said reasonable success of the DIXON T0 Bt BURIEI]! L ATHOME IN INDIANA Tariff Commissioner, Who Died in Kentucky, Had Been Il for Some Time. By the Associated Press. LYNDON, Ky., September 17.—The body of Lincoln Dixon, 73, member of the Federal Tariff Commission since 1927, who died here yesterday, has been sent to Vernon, Ind., for burial. Funeral services had not been arranged early today. Dixon, who came here to recuperate| from an iliness, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Charles Richmond. His Wife, Mrs. Kate' Storty Dixon, was with him when he died. A native of Vernon. Dixon was ap- pointed to the Tariff Commission in 1927 by President Coolidge and was reappointed in 1930 by President Hoover. He was a prominent Democrat. Besides his widow and Mrs. Rich- mond, Dixon is survived by another cenversion plan would save the country about $52,000,000 a year and that more than half this saving would be applied | to_make up the heavy budget deficit. | The special session was called over | the week end in order not to disturb | the stock market. The bill will go to| the Senaje Sunday and its enactment | is expected to be completed before the | Stock Exchange opens Monday. | The issues affected are 5 per cent rentes of the years 1915, 1916, 1928: 6 per cent issues of 1920 and 1927, 6| per cent obligations of 1927 and the | 7 per cent treasury bonds of that year. | The new bonds will mature in 75| vears. All present bondholders are to be given six days to convert their hold- ings or accept reimbursement. Finance Minister Germain-Martin predicted the measure would result in a lower cost of living as a resulty of reduced interest rates. | | NOTED SUEGEON_DIES i Dr. Russell A. Hibbs Succumbs in | New York at Age of 63. NEW YORK, September 17 (#).—Dr. | Russell A. Hibbs, surgeon in chief at| the New York Orthopedic Hospital and | world-renowned for his research in| orthopedy, died yesterday at the age| of 63 | He was a native of Birdsville, Ky., & graduate of Vanderbii: University and The University of Louisville and a for- | mer practitioner in Texas. Coming tol New York in 1893, he became a leader | in the treatment of tuberculosis of the bones and in the surgery of diseased Joints. He was a member of the American Orthopedic Association, American Col- | lege of Surgeons end American Medical | Association. Surviving are the widow, | Madeline Cutting Hibbs, one brother | and three sisters. RITES FOR MRS. BISHOP | Funeral Services to Be Held at Home of Parents. Funeral services were to be held at 2 pm. today for Mrs. Helen Viola Bishop, wife of Paul Bishop and daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. James Kendall, 514 Lamont street, who died Thurs- day at Sibley Hospital. Burial was to be in Glenwood Cemetery following the rites at_her parents’ home. Mrs. Bishop was a native of Wash- | ington ghd attended the public schools here. 6he is survived by he husband | and parents: two brothers, Robert and | William Kendall, and two_ sisters, Mrs. | Elsie Bevan and Alice Kendall. | HOOVER PRAISES D. A. R. Commends Work in Finding Lost Names of French at Yorktown. President Hoover has commended the Daughters of the American Revolution | for “rescuing from oblivion the names | of heroic Prenchmen” who fought at| Yorktown. | Mr. Hoover stated in a letter made public yesterday by Mrs. Russell Wil- liam Magna, president general, that| the organization’s pilgrimage to Paris | in October, when a bronze tablet bear- | ing the names of the French heroes | will be dedicated on the 151st anni- versary of the battle, “is a splendid gesture, certain to promote an historic internationzl friendship and coming | with especial appropriateness from your great group of patriotic American women. | eratic campaign in the Western head- | to 1904 and in 1910 was appointed third daughter, Mrs. Palmer Kennedy of Takoma, Wash.: a son, Donald Dixon of Winnetka, IIl; a sister, Mrs. Hattie North of Dallas, Tex, and three grandchildren. Left Here in July. Word of the death of Mr. Dixon was received at the Tariff Commission late yesterday. He had been in ill health several months, and left here in July. His residence in Washington was at the Roosevelt Hotel. Mr. Dixon was born at Vernon on February 9, 1860, and after gradua- tion from Indiana University began the practice of law. After serving as prose- cuting attorney. he was elected to Con- gress in 1904, from the fourth Indiana district, retaining the seat until 1919. In 1924 he was in charge of the Demo- quarters, in Chicago. FORMER DIPLOMATIC OFFICIAL DIES AT 58 William W. Smith, Representative From Ohio From 1900 to 1904, Pneumonia Victim. By the Associated Press. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., September 17—William Walker Smith, who had held various diplomatic posts in Eu- rope, South America and the Caribbean from 1910 to 1924, died yesterday of pneumonia at the Haddon Hall, where he had been living in semi-retirement for the last year. He was 58 years old and a native of Covington, Ky. Smith had been in failing health for several months. A few days ago he was stricken with pneumonia. His wife, Mrs. Blanche Crawford Smith, was at the bedside when he died. The body will be shipped to Cincinnati, his for- mer home, for burial. He was a member of the House of Representatives from Ohio from 1900 secretary of the American embassy at | Constantinople (Istanbul). He served al as charge d'affaires at Bern, Copenhagen, Lima and San Domingo. | He left the diplomatic service in 1924 to return to his law practice. Besides his widow, he leaves his mother, Mrs, William Walker Smith, r.. of Cincinnati. Fussell Introduced i Ice Cream to the World LINCOLN DIXON. STAGE FASHION CLINIC Department Store Employes See New Fall-Winter Styles. Employes of the Hecht Co. attended the firm’s first “fashion clinic” at the Washington Hotel last night, with six comely girls, seletted from the store's personnel, acting as models. ‘The girls exhibited Fall and Winter fashions for women under the direction of Charles B. 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TOPEKA, Kans, September 17— Court proceedings seeking dissolution of and appointment of receivers for 10 Cities Service Co., subsidiary gas dis- tributing units operating in Kansas were promised today by Roland Boyn- ton, attorney general. Acting under the direction of Gov. ‘Woodring, who char; t the firms “have and are deliberately violating the corporation laws of Kansas,” the attorney general said he would “at the earliest possible date prepare these suits for submission to the proper courts. In a letter to Boynton, Gov. 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