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° Haffner. A OMEN DESCRBE LOTTERY WINAGS One Tells Davis Jury How 3- Year-0ld Twin Won $5,000 in Moose Plan. —2 B%% By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 22—A dozen | witnesses filed across the witness stand | today at the trial of United States Sen- ator James J. Davis, who is charged | tteries alleged | by the Loyal | with participating in lo to have been conducted Order of Moose. The witnesses were called to support hiical aspects of the Government's ':xcse. to show that ftickets which the prosecution calls lottery tickets were | printed. that they were ordered by au- thorized agents of the Mocse, and that they were delivered to such agents. Two women testified to buying such tickets, winning cash prizes and going to Moose lodges to collect. The Government charged in the opening address to the jury, that Davis, a5 lifelong director general of the fra- ternal order, must know of all activities of the organization and the so-called lotteries could not have been conducted without his knowledge and approval. Court Reporter Quizzed, John 1. Levine, an attorney and court rTeporter, who was in charge of report- ing the minutes for annual conventions i of the Mcose, was the first witness. The Government sought to show through Levine that the reports of the conventions were accurate, planning later to introduce remarks by Senator Davis through which, the prosecution indicated, it hopes to show that Davis knew and approved of alleged lotteries conducted by the Moose in the guise of “charity balls.” The minutes, however, were gone over by Charles J. Margiotti of defense coun- sel with the witness and he was ques- tioned about the authenticity of several items. Levine said he did not person- ally take notes at the convention and the notes, in the ordinary course of events, were destroyed. Broening Report Cited. Margiotti paid close attention to a report to the Atlantic Ci'; convention in 1931, made by former Mayor Wil- liam F. Broening of Baltimore. He brought from the witness infor- mation that Broening may have added orally to his written report the fol-| lowing paragraph “During the past vear a charity ball| was conducted by nearly all the lodges | of our order and the reports received by the council from the various lo- calities indicate these affairs were a huge success in every way. In addition to the wide publicity received by the crder therefrom and in addition to the profits made by the local lodges, which amounted to approximately a half mil- Jion dollars, $150.000 was contributed as the result of the entertainment as a donation to Mooseheart. The council concurs in the plan developed for con- ducting these charity balls and recom- mends that the idea be continued this vear, and every effort be made to en- list the co-operation and enthusiastic support of all the lodges.” Miss Bess M. Elgar was called next She is a bookkeeper for a printing com- | pany in Philadelphia and identified ledger sheets containing accounts of the propagation department of the Moose. She was followed by Miss Gertrude Sobel, another employe of the company, who identified other accounts. | James W. Reed, a solicitor for the | FEureka Printing Co. of Scranton, Pa., | the next witness, identified alleged lot- | First Lady as ) Mrs. Herbert Hoover seated at a sewing machine in Red Cross headquarters | helping to make a dress. At her left is Mrs. J. H. Fishback. supervisor cf the work. OME little schoolgirl will wear the pink madras dress this Winter which Mrs. Herbert Hoover stitched yesterday, despite the handicap of a balky sewing machine. Visiting the Red Cross work rooms where 30 whirring machines and volun- teer operators were converting Federal cotton into dresses for needy girls and shirts for boys, Mrs. Hoover decided to lend a hand in the work. She sat down at one of the machines, all of which were donated for the work and are mostly antiquated models. THE EVE Dressmaker BALKY SEWING MACHINE FAILS TO DETER MRS. HOOVER. —Wide World Pholovi “Does any one know how to drop the foot of this machine?” she asked. None could discover the key to the puzzle. Mrs. Hoover found the gadget herself and dropped the foot. “Does it turn from you or toward you?” she said. | Opinion was divided on that question. Again she solved the problem. The ma- | chine spun smoothly, stitch-d a fine | seam in the pink dre:s. | “Ah-h!" said Mrs. Hoover, triumph- | antly. RAIL LABOR ASKS U. S. INTERVENTION IN WAGE CUT PLAN (Continued From First Page) | the railway service are producing prac- tically the same revenues as before. Unemployed labor is not being paid any unearned income. But unemployed property is demanding payment of un- | earned income out of reduced wages. | We again insist that it.is economically | unsound and socially uhjust to reduce | tery tickets printed by his firm in 1931. testified the tickets were ordered by Bernard C. McGuire in New York. | McGuire has been named. with Theo- | dore G. Miller, as one of the chief pro- | motors of the Moose charity balls. Miller refused to testify yesterday. | Reed said his firm printed 609.684 | books of tickets (it had been previously brought out that each book contained | 40 tickets to sell at 50 cents each). H Not all of the books printed by Reed’s | firm oontained 40 tickets, however. He ! said some of the books contained only 12 tickets. Valued at $13,105,230. Reed sald McGuire instructed him to send the printing bill to “Loyal Order of Moose, New York.” He couldn't re- call how the bill was paid, whether by check or cash. It was brought out,that the Eureka Printing Co. printed 151925 books of | 12 tickets each, in addition to the 609.- 684 books of 40, making the total num- ber of tickets 26,210460, with a total sales value of $13,105,230. | Botk: Miss Elgar and Miss Sobel were recalled by the /defense and asked if bills for printing were sent to the or- ganization department or the propaga- tion department of the Moose. They testified the bills went to the propaga- tion department. Davis is head of the Mocse's organrization department. A. E. Stecker of the shipping depart- ment of the Eureka Co. verified the shipping of alleged lottery tickets to New York. The tickets, he said, were sent to the “B. C. McGuire Merchan- dise Co., 136 West Fifty-second street, New York City.” One shipment was by parcel post, he testified. Louis M. Treadwell, Government prosecutor, introduced several trucking company receipts given to the Eureka Co. for the tickets. ‘Woman Winner Testifies. Wilfred Weiss of New York, a mem- ber of the Moase, testified he bought a book of charity ball tickets in 1931 and sold five tickets to Mrs. Catherine Mrs. Haffner, a comely woman of ®bout 25, dressed trimly in blue, testi- - fied she bought several tickets and won ‘Treadwell asked. - “At the Moose Club on Broadwa! she said. = She was the first witness through whom the Government attempted to show that the tickets were distributed to the public primarily as lottery tickets. - - She testified she did not attend the charity ball and did not even know when it was held. Shegwas told she had a chance to win money, she said. Tells of Twin Winning $5,000. Mrs. Mary Mychelin testified she bought two tickets for her twin 3-year- old daughters, and one of them won $5,000. She said she collected the money ot Astoria Lodge of the Moose. ?bwk d not remember-who signed the eck. William McLain, colored, a shipper for the Marcus Mayer Printing Co., tes- tified he delivered tickets to the Loyal Order of Moose at the Widener Build in Philadelphir. The receipt for the delivery, he said, was destroyed in the ordinary course of business. . An auburni-bajred girl, Miss Betty Danvers, followed McLain. She testi- fiad she was employed at a sub post office in Scranton, Pa., and she identi- 8 receipt she had signed for a fln:el post shipment, of the alleged iot- ry tickets, Henry A. Burdon, formerly employed at the same post office substation, iden- tified other receipts of the same kind. Paulo 8hotto, formerly a truck driver for a transportation company in Sc n, ident Teceipts signed by him Tor ‘tickets loaded on is pruck for ex: press shipment. 19 Drown in Amazon Wreck. RIO DE JANEIRO, September 22 (). —Word from Maranhao today said 19 persons were drowned in the wreck of a small steamer on the Amazon near there. [ —_— Panama Seeks Debt Adjustment. PANAMA CITY, September 22 (#).— Congress approved and sent to the President today a bill authorizing the Executive o negotiate adjustments on the national debt. g | Senator Brookhart, Republican, of Iowa, wages in order that labor may pay a | dole to idle capital.” | Suffered Several Years. The statement pointed cut that rail woerkers have suffered “to an extraordi- nary degree from increasing unemploy- ment for several years” It called to attention that when a 10 per cent wage reduction was effected early this | year to be effective till January 31, 1922, it was hoped to relieve the finan- | cial 'strain of the carriers and bring about more employment. It was re- called, however, that at that time labor had sald it did nct belleve wage re- ductions were “appropriate means to Testore prosperity or that they would aid_public welfare.” “We believe that the course of the depression has demonstrated the sound- ness of our positicn,” the statement said. The statement was read to President Hoover by A. F. Whitney, chairman of the labor association. The labor lead- | ers were introduced to the President by | Secretary of Labor Doak and were in conference with the President about 20 minutes. They would not say upon leaving what Mr. Hoover's reaction had been to their plea. The visit to the White House followed the labor leader’s rejection yesterday of overtures from the carriers for confer- ences to negotiate a 20 per cent cut to become effective February 1, when a 10 per cent cut negotiated in January of | this year expires. | The labor leaders’ program was be- lieved to be designed to head off the | 20 per cent wage cut, which the carriers now are seeking to put into effect throughout the ccuntry to relieve the pressure of falling revenues. Matter to Lie Dormant. At the same time it was said by a spokesman for the carriers that the wage-cut -agitation would lie dormant for & wnole, following the refusal of the labor leaders. | A _committee of executives headed by W. F. Thiehoff, made the first overtures | to the labor leaders Tuesday evening. | The flat rejection of the latter was | embodied yesterday in a letter from | Mr. Whitney, chairman of the labor group. After its receipt, the executives, who | had come here to meet the employes’ representatives, broke up their session. It was said then that there was still | sufficient time for negotiation before the present wage agreement expires, but that if no move was made in this direc- | tion the carriers were prepared to take | “definite” action. This means they will | file formal notice that the cut is de- | sired, through the Board of Mediation, | thus bringing into play the Federal ma- chinery set up to handle issues between carriers and employes. Approves Three Candidates. ‘The labor group. which has been meeting since Tuesday, branched into the political field yesterday afternoon and put their seal of approval on three candidates for the Senate, at the same time announcing they would indorse | who was defeated for renomination, if he runs as an independent. The other three are Democrats, Rep- resentative Dieterich of Illinols, to op- | pose Senator Glenpn; Crompton White, | Idaho, to run against Senator John Thordas, and Fred H. Brown, New Hampshire, to oppose Senator Moses. DAVIS SAILS SATURDAY | American to Prepare for Monetary and Economic Parley. Norman H. Davis will sail for Europe | Saturday as one of the two American members of the Organization Commit- tee for the Monetary and Economic Con- ference and also to resume work as a | delegate to the Disarmament Confer- | ence. Italy Honors Ford. DETROIT, September 22 (#)—The | Royal Order of the Iron Crown of Italy was conferred on Henry Ford yesterday by Count Ugo Berni-Canani, Italian vl%en ‘eomu!. representing Premier Mus- solint. 5 The brief ceremony was held in the offices of. F Ford Motor Co. A GANDHI 15 NEARING. |a mango tree Gandhi talked for two S’ | few swallows of water, which he poured i DEATH FAST' CRISIS Committee Works Feverishly, for Compromise, Fearing Ratal Result. . By the Associated Press. POONA, India, Septembor 22— Mahatma Gandhi, already weakening | after the first two days of his “death fast,” faced the crisis of his struggle with the British Government today. | “It is today or mever!” said G. D.| Birla of the Hindu Emergency Com- | mittee, which has been trying to bring about & compromise over the problem of the electoral rights of th: depressed | Classes. the cause for which the Mahat- ma entered upon his starvation fast Tuesday. In the “condemned” cell of Yeroda | Jail, to which Gandhi was moved yes- terday because it offered more com- modious quarters for the many visitors who came to see him, the spare and emaceated leader of India's millions, continued to squat crosslegged on a' webbed cot. but " 's voice was growing weaker when the last of his callers left him last night. Quick Action Necessary. The committee was putting forth every effort today to bring about ol compromise agreement which would ; satisfy Gandhi. The members were | spurred by the belief that whatever is done must be done quickly if the Mzahatma's life is to be saved. This evening the entire Special Com- mittee of Caste Hindus and representa- tives of the depressed classes met in another part of the prison for what | might be the final conference on the issue of separate electorates. The hour was late, however, and | since therz were still many points to be settled before the plan is submitted to Gandhi, it was possible that an ad- journment’ might be necessary. Whatever agreement is reached must , then be submitted to Prime Minister | MacDonald for the approval of the gov- | ernment. Gandhi’s friends fear that in his present condition he will not last long if his fast is continued. | Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambekdar and | other leaders of the 60,000,000 un- touchables visited the Mahatma again today. Reclining at ease on his cot beneath hours to them. Occasionally he paused to drink a from a bottle on a stand beside his cot, adding & pinch of soda. As the day| grew warmer he increased the fre- quency of his drinks. Wife Can Visit Him, Among the concessions for the un- touchables for which Dr. Ambekdar was | holding out were appointments in me, government service, provision of funds ! for educational facilities, and the right | of appeal to the viceroy for protection | of their interests. | Mrs. Gandhi, wife of the mahatma, was transferred here today from Sabar- mati Jail at Ahmedabad. She will be given an opportunity to see her MNus- band. The government informed the ma- hatma he might have his own medical attendant in the jail if he wishes, as a further measure of comfort and indi- | cated it may limit his future visitors because of his growing weakness. | As a direct result of Gandhi's appeal two Hindu temples were opened to un- | touchables here today. JOIN IN HUNGER STRIKE. About 100 Hindu Merchants in Panama | Sympathize With Gandhi. PANAMA CITY, September 22 (#)— NG _STAR, | saying it wis an economic, moral ana | | solve farm prcblems. in an address to | WASHINGTON, FARMERS PROTES PARADE SUNMONED Call Is Issued for Gathering at Hoover Address in Des Moines Oct. 4. By the Associated Press. DES MOINES, Iowa, Seplember 22.— Milo Reno, national president of the Farmers’ Holiday Association, which is conducting a “strike” for higher prices, has asked Iowa farmers to assemble here for a “protest” parade October 4, when President Hoover is scheduled to deliver a campaign address. He sald he hoped 20,000 farmers would take part. “We have a right to hold President Hoover responsible for existing condi- tions,” Reno told members of the Iowa Farmers’ Union last nighv. “It is time,” he said, “that we educate those responsible for this condition of agriculture. We have a right to por- tray the real conditions that exist in this country.” Brookhart Delivers Attack. Meanwhile, Senator 8mith W. Brook- hart was delivering an attack on the administration, Wall Street and the banking system at a farm gathering at Moville, Iowa, atiended by agriculturists ; from Northwest Iowa and nearby com- | munities in Minnesota and South Da- kota The Senator declared for Federal pur- chase of surplus farm products. He sald Congress should appropriate $5 000,000,000 for handling the expo: le surplus and urged the holding of a spe- cial session of Congress to deal with the farm problem, The farmers present adopted a legis- lative program in which they urged a special session of Congress, an immedi- ate moratorium on farm chattel mort- gages, an increase in the amount of; currency, refinancing of _agricultural loans with the control of the refinanc- ing agencies resting with the farmers, a public construction program, repeal of “nuisance” taxes and prices for farm products “at least equal to the cost of productior Farmers’ Unlon Head Speaks. John A. Simpscn, national president of the Farmers' Union, spoke at the Des Moines meecting with Reno. “If the system under which we are ruled,” he said, “will not provide food, cloth- ing and sheiter, go take them.” Reno defended the holiday movement, | | CkLristian endeavor, and would continue. Farm strike activities, meanwhile, were quiet, little activity was noted lti Worthington, Minn,, scene of picketing | early this week. and at Montevideo. | Minn., where 200 firmers established picket stations yesterday, only one minor clash was reported. | ADVOCATES U. S. CONTROL. Also Urges Revision Money Standard. MOVILLE, Towa. September 22 (#) — Outlinging measures he believes will | Brookhart of | farm holiday sympathizers last night, ! Senator Smith W. Brookhart advocated | governmental control of surplus crops, | revision of the money standard and fs- | suance of Treasury notes for veterans' relief and public works. More than 2,000 farmers huddled in a wind-swept lumber yard shed. where, driven by the cold and rain, they heard the Iowan berate newspapers, Wall Street and certain administrative offi- cials as adding to agricultural hard- ships. Afterward the farm strikers drew up seven recolutions designed to aid the non-selling movement and settle farm difficulties. Demand Special Session. The resolutions demand a special ses- sion of Congress to consider relief meas- ney, refinancing of agricultural loans with the refinancing agencles in the hands of farmers, a public construction pro- gram, repeal of nuisance taxes, and that farmers be given prices equal to the cost of production for their com- modities. The last is the objective of the farm holiday movement Alter outlining his own financial dif- ficulties Brookhart launched into dis- cussion of the ways to limit surplus commodities. He criticized President Hoover’s farm bills and attacked Becretaries Hyde, Ogden Mills and Mellon in connection with them. He recommenced that Congress appropriate five milllons for handling the exportable surplus, with farmers paying the equalization fee. Referring to the national debt in re- lation to the national income the Sen- ator declared this unfavorable ratio would mean bankruptcy. He recom- mended issuing Treasury notes to fike care of the surplus, to pay for public works and the bonus and to insure price increases to normal levels. Concerted Move Begins. ‘The meeting fell on the day in which a concerted movement began in Min- nesota, the Dakotas, Nebraska, Iowa and Oklahoma to withhold non-perish- able products for 30 days. Two million farmers were asked by the National Farmers' Holiday Asso- ciation to join in the program, a peace- ful drive that does not include picket- ing and violence which characterized early stages of the farm strike. Farmers in Ohio, Wisconsin, Kansas and Illinois have shown interest in the movement and were expected to join. A move is under way here to place Senator Brookhart in the Iowa sena- torial race as a third party candidate. He was defeated for the Republican nomination last June by Henry Pield of Shenandoah. The third party will meet at Washington, Iowa, Brookhart’s home town, September 26, at which | D. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1932. Huge Far West Crowd Hears Roosevelt DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT TELLS OF POSITION ON SILVER. ‘The crowd at the county court house at Butte, Mont., which heard Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Democratic candi. date for President, pledge that he would call a world conference on the silver question “immediately after his inaugura- | tion as President of the United States.” WOMAN PILOT ASKS FQUALITY FOR SEX Mrs. Amelia Earhart Putnam Seeks Hoover’s Aid in Legislation. Mrs. Amelia Earhart Putnam, who recently received frem President Hoover a medal in recognition of her flight across the Atlantic, today appeared be- fore the Executive to ask for equal rights for women and men throughout the United States. The noted woman aviator was one of a group of representatives of the National Woman's Party who called at the White House to urge the President to support legislation which would bring about equal rights throughout the land. Four Accompany Her. With Mrs. Putnam were Mrs. Harvey W. Wiley, national chairman of the Woman'’s Party; Miss Anita Pollitzer, national vice chairman; Mrs. Burnita Shelton Matthews, chairman of the Committee on Jurisprudence of the ational Association of Woman Law- rs, and Miss Ruth Taunten of California. Mrs. Wiley presented the members of the committee to the President and | stated the achievements of Mrs. Put- nam had inspired the women of the country to press their claim for equal recognition Mrs. Putnam, in her appeal to the President. urged him, on her own ex- perience in aviation. to lend his influ- ence to the extension of equal rights in all fields. Knows of Discrimination. “Mr. President. I know from practi- cal experience of the discriminations which confront women when they en- ter an occupation where men have priority i opportunity, advancement and promotion,” Mrs. Putnam said. “In aviation, the Department of Com- merce recognizes no legal difference be- tween men and women licensed to fly. I feel that similar equality should be carried into all fields of endeavor. so that men and women may achieve, | without handicap because of sex. “As far as our own country is con- cerned. in every State of the Union to- day there are discriminations against women in the law.” DEFICIT CUT LIKELY AS REVENUE SOARS UNDER NEW TAXES (Continued From First Page.) tires and tubes, $1.587.732 and $96.05 lubricating ofls, $822,775 and $60.395. Brewers’ wort, malt and goods, $439,784 and $68,860; furs, $248.- 812 and $12,131; jewelry, $81.692 and $19,231; telegraph, telephone and radio messages, $105425 and $13512; pipe lines, $252,178 and $41843: safe de- posit boxes, $180.464 and $45.848; ad- missions, $1,322,695 and $197.072. Stock and bond issues paid $1,509,445. an increase of $16,000 over July, and | stock transfers. $2,021,795. a $688.000 increase. For the first two months of the fiscal year, July and August. totai tax collections aggregated $141,626.778, as compared with $142,563,398 in the same 1931 period. No comparison of actual and esti- mated yields from the new miscella- neous taxes for the first two months of the fiscal year can be consistently made. and none has been attempted, it was stated today at the Financial and Economic Research Section of the time he is expected to make known his decision. Virtually all picketing activity had ceased today. Around Worthington, Minn., latest focal point of the road blockades, a few members of the Nob'es County Holiday Association took to the highways as “observers.” . The new strike program will permit the movement of perishable farm prod- ucts, such as eggs, butter and cream. Lol s PHOTO SOCIETY ELECTS Election of officers of the newly or- | collections, and any generalization on | microscope, but was known to be living ' ganized Washington Photographic So- | the figures for either or both months, | because it would pass through a por- ciety was announced today. They are: | multiplied by 12 to get an average for | celain filter and muitiply itself indefl- be full of errors | which would give an unfair basis of J. A. Hultquist, president: M. W. Wick- ersham, vice president; L. N. Willman, secretary-treasurer; P. M. tographs. The soclety's next meeting will be tomorrow evening in the Young Men’s Christian - Building. Approximately 100 Hindu merchants | ¢on here began s 24-hcur hunger strike to- day in sympathy with the strike of Mahatma Gandhi. S, TS RESUME WAGE TALKS | NEW YORK, 8eptember 22 (#).—A | decision was apparently not yet in sight | as anthracite miners prepared to re- sume their negotiations today with operatars, who seek u wage cut. A statement after yesterday's session BAND CONCERT. By the United States Soldiers’ Home Band this evening at the bandstand st 5:30 o'clock. John §. M. Zimmermann, bandmaster; Anton Polntner, assistant , “The American Bandmasters' Association” ........Goldman Overture, “Knight Errant”.,...O'Neill Entr'Acte, “An Arabian Dance “A Chinese Dance”.... said the following subjects were dis-|An Am cussed: Competition in solid, liquid and gaseous fuels; sales policies and price tion factors, and suto- smaller sizes of un'.hndu‘; Pog;l_!fr waltz song, “Wi Finale, “Dunedin” . Alford “The Star Spangled Banner.” \ Treasury Department. W. R. Stark of that office said a number of factors make it obviously un- fair at this time to attempt a con- clusive comparison of estimated and actual returns Among these factors were listed the large stocks of tax-free goods stored up | in anticipation of the new taxes, and which are still being disposed of in large quantities. Another, Mr. Stark says, is the fact at the two months for which figures are available are not months which would show the whole range of seasonal upturns and downturns of business and the entire year, would computation. A third, he sald. is the fact that dur- ing the first month of collections of the | new taxes, there was considerable con- fusion among taxpayers as to the pro- | visions of the new tax law and a con- uent fallibility in the tax figures for July for comparison purposes. The gasoline tax and many of the others gaining: reflected, Treasury of- ficials said, the steady exhaustion of tax free stocks, accumulated before the new law went into effect. Besides, slow collsctiop on some of the taxeés has re- tarded early receipts and officials be- lieve many have not yet reached their normal volume. While the new taxes moved upward inccme taxes continued down. bring- ing in $15,083.057. This was a drop of $1,600.000 for the month end of $10,150,000 from August. taxes increased $1.100,000 to $35501.- kI red with it grape con- | dit centrates, $356,217 and $221.359; toilet | ‘Tobacco | Pr —Wide World Photo. 'MRS. BORAH LOSING GROUND l IN ATTACK OF PSITTACOSIS Malady Is Traced to Death, ‘ of Parrakeet—Epidemic i in 1930 Recalled. |Serum Is Prepared Here for ;‘ Shipment West by | Airmail. By the Associated Press. BOISE, Idaho, September 22.—The condition of Mrs. Willam E. Borah wife of the senior Senator from Idaho, grew worse today under an attack of psittacosis or parrot fever. Her physiclan, Dr. Ralph Falk, said she had not held the improvement she exhibited yesterday. Her condition was more toxic, he said, and her tempera- ture wes up again. Three physicians. were called into consultation on the case, which yes- terday was diagnosed by Dr. Felk as psittacosis afier he was advised of the death of a “love bird.” a small parra- | keet which Mrs. Borah purchased three weeks ago from a local dealer. The| | ailment, which caused her to be taken to the hospital a week ago, was diag- | nosed first as influenza | Discovery of the death of the bird, | her physicien said. led to an investi- | gation _which disclosed it had come from California, where cases of the | disease were known to have occurred. | When the nature of the illness was' learned. it was recalled here that the | owner of the store, William McGuffin, | died several da: ago. His aillment was not diagnosed as psittacosis. | SERUM IS PREPARED. Blood of Dr. Charles Anderson Is Used for Preparation. In response to a telegram from Dr. Ralph Falk of Boise, Idaho, attending the wife of Senator Borah, the Public Health Service today prepared a psitta- cosis convalescent serum for her treat- ment. to be sent by airmail. Material for this serum was obtained from the blood of Dr. Charles Arm- strong, the Public Health physician who first investigated cases of psittacosis {and who recovered from the disease after a severe attack during the out- | break in the Winter of 1929 and 1930. Blood Serum Is Best. The most satisfactory treatment thus | far found for the disease is a blood serum from- a person. who, like Dr. Armstrong, has 1ecovered from the di | ease. This is injected into the patient. | During the Public Health investiga- tion in 1929 and 1930 11 persons work- !ing in the National Institute of Health | inbgrnwries contracted the disease. One ed. The probability of an endemic focus of psittacosis, cr parrot fever on the Pacific Coast is being consid- ered by the United States Public Health | Service as the 1esult of an investiga- | tion just conducted by Dr. H. E. Has- | seltine of the National Institute of | | Health staff. | | This focus centers among the para- keets or love birds widely distributed in homes and pet stores throughout the area. It is from such a pet that Mrs. Borah is believed to have contracted | the disease. There have been sporadic cases throughout the country, especially | in the west, for the past year, although | | nothing approaching the number in ‘Washington and Maryland during the Winter of 1930, when the scientific lab- oratory of the Public Health Service was closed temporarily because so many of its personnel were in hospitals be: cause of the disease. Transmitted by Birds. This serious malady—somewhat re- sembling typhoid fever—is transmitted to humans from birds. There is rea- son to suspect, although there is no positive evidence, that it may be trans- | mitted from one person to another. | | Intensive investigation following the | | 1930 outbreak, the most serious yet | known, established the fact that it be- ‘lon(ed among the numerous filterable | virus diseases. It was caused by an | organism so small that it could not | be detected under the most powerful nitely. The filterable virus is perhaps the smallest of living things, but re- cent investigations here have shown it may be one stage in the life cycle of fome larger organism of the bacteria family which may be n adult stage. Victims are greatly benefited, it was shown in the 1930 outbreak, by the administration of convalescent serum made from the blood of patients, who have passed through the serious stages of the disease. This is about the only known beneficial treatment, however, and was arrived at by analogy with other filterable virus diseases. | Study Is at Standstill | At present, the scientific study of psittacosis, so far as the Public Health | Service is concerned, is y at| & standstill until another strain of the responsible virus can hebl‘nl obts‘l:aed. om! was made at s Srcatiturs, Iaesatories o | 1930, when the deadly virus turmed | upon its investigators in one of the most dramatic episodes in medical his- tory, and one after another in_ rapid succession the Public Health Service and their assistants were laid ! medical literature. | there, low. The virus seemed to be in the air of the National Institute of Health Buildings. The investigation was proved to be 30 dangerous that it was decided to transfer the werk to an isolated island in Chesapeake Bay, where there would be no threat to the heaith of the sur- rounding community. The work here came to a standstill when the virus strain, obtained from the blood of in- fected parrots, was lost. Once a filter- able virus is secured it can be retained only by eonstant passing through the blood of suitable animals—in this case birds—and when a stage is reached where it no longer “takes” it is neces- sary to start the work all over again with a new strain. Dr. Hasseltine. himself a victim of the 1930 outbreak and presumably par- tially immune to a second attack, is | now in charge of the investigation and’| plans to resume the work scon with a new strain. The problem of psittacosis remains cne of the most bafing facing the Government Health Service. When it first appeared near An- napolis, Md, in 1930, it was a prac- tically unknown disease, although there were & few cbscure references to it in e t But there was no tried medical procedure for the sud- den emergency and the responsibility for fighting it fell on the Public Health Service. The virus apparently gets its start among tropical birds. probably only among those closely related to the par- rot family. It passes from bird to bird and from bird to man—being spread by shipments of pets. Apparently it is rare | among birds. but a single shipment may be sufficient to spread the disease | over half the world. The original outbreak was traced to shioment received in New York and dis tributed widely over the East. The birds were tracked down ruthlessly and it is believed that this strain of the | virus has been eliminated from the United States. The Pacific Coast focus |1s from a new strain, supposedly intro- | duced independently in a shipment of love birds. | TERROR PICTURED IN LEVEE CAMPS BY PROBE WITNESS (Continued From First Page.) traded at the commissary or not. In addition, they were charged according to the whim of the commissary agent, for all sorts of necessities, such as 50 cents a week for drinking water, $1 a week for tent rent which was supposed to be free, 81 a week for cock’s fee, 25 cents for 15-cent cigarettes and other prices in proportion. “One man told me he got $1.50 for three weeks' work. Brutality Pictured. “Brutality in the camps is the rule. In one place the contractor, a man of particularly violent temper, was report- ed as having picked up a club and knocked a worker down simply because l}:‘e did not like the way he looked at im. “I saw a group of men who had noth- ing to eat waiting for a job. The smell of food came to them at mealtime. The pressure of hunger made them willing to put up with anything. “Three shifts of eight hours each would have taken care of all of those men. “The workers would talk ohly if no | white pecpe other then myself were in sight. and then only if they were intro- duced by some one whom they knew.” Miss Boardman, in blaming the con- tract system used by the War Depart- ment for the worst abuses, said that at one Government camp conditions were much better, both as to living and wages, and there was no commissary Ithough the men there, too, were worked 12 hours a day. The hearing was accorded by the War Department at the request of the Na- tlonal Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Senatcr Wagner, Democrat, of New York has promised the association to introduce a resolution for a senatorial investigaticn of the con- citions alleged. Terror Pictured. Miss Boardman is a graduate of Grin- ! nell College (Jowa) and New York Uni- versity and served several social agencies in addition to the Red Cross. At Red Cross rters here, it was said, she had worked for the na- tional organization. serving only during disasters, d 926 and 1927. She has not been with the Red Cross since 1927, it -, said, ENEVA'S QUTWARD CALM BELIES FEAR League and Arms Parley Both Under Cloud Caused by Tokio and Berlin. (Continued Prom First Page.) R. Wilson, Minister to Switzerland. was whether or not its labors should be murm&m pending the effort to persusde Germany to resume its col- laboration. It was decided to continue as_if nothing had happened. But when it come to actual debate the bureau found itself turning in cir- cles and getting nowhere. This process is being continued today, with the ap- parent object of gaining time. The second question, though ! was never publicly mentioned, was how best to deal with the Germam crisi-. Here opinions diffc:, Support German Claim. Italy, Russia and a large number of international disarmament fans, in- cluding, apparently, Arthur Henderson of Great Britain, president of the con- ference, say that the German claim to equal rights should be granted im- mediately and drastic reductions at once be undertaken, so thus Germany would be satisfied. France and Great Britain say that Germany's demands are inopportune, its methods objectionable, its claims have no juridical basis and can only be granted following the general dis- armament negotiation ending in a gen- eral treaty. The United States disclaims interest in the juridical aspects of the German | claim, but wants Germany to come back and negotiate and is opposed to any sort of rearmament Thus matters now s:and. (Copyright, 1932.) MAY PUT OFF LYTTON ACTION. Many Problems on Agenda of Meeting ‘ to Open Tomorrow. GENEVA, September 22 (#).—Con- sideration of the report of the League Commission of Inquiry on Japanese military operations in Manchuria, the dominating problem to come before the Council of the League when it meets here tomorrow, probably will bs post- poned until next December, it was in- dicated today. ‘The Council's session. which begins three days before the cpening of the thirteenth regular session of the League Assembly, will be presided over by Eamon de Valera, President of the Irish Free State and native of New York. The council will continue with occasicnal sittings during the Assembly sessions and after its adjournment. Lytton Report Problems. The immediate questions whch the Lytton report, forecast as unfavoraple to Japan, will raise are: 1. The problem of whether the Council or the Assembly will proce=d to | employ the concerted internationa! ac- tion described in the League ccveant for enforcing the League’s will 2. Whether Japan will withiraw from the League if the League takes a firm position against her military pclicy in Manchuria. At this session the Council alo will discuss preparatory work for the World Economic arnd Financial Conference. The question of the time and place for holding the conference will b2 taken up by the League Assembly with the Council's advice. Other subject matter on the Council’s long agenda include: Purther steps to bring Irak out of the status of man- dated territory to full statehood and League membership, reorganization of Liberia, Teport upon slavery conditions in the world, efforts for financial re- construction of states in Southesstern | Europe, protection_of German minori- { ties in Poland. Polish minorities in Germany and Hungarian minorities in Rumania. Arthur Henderson, chairman of the World Disarmament Conference Bureau, spiked a move by England and France today to prevent the bureau from dis- | cussing outstanding political questicns involved in disarmament. The bureau, a sort of steering com- mitte for the . general conference. is making preparations for resumption of the general meeting. Maxim Litv A the Russian representative. propos that the bureau take up the Rus: or American proposals for substantial reductions in arms.\ This brought immediate_ objcctions from Sir John Simon. the British cel- | egate, and Joseph Paul-Boncour of France, who declared thit the bureau was not competent to deal with these matters and would better leave them to_the general commission. Mr. Henderson. who was foreign secs retary in the last British Labor cabi- net, denied their contention vigorously | 1nd expressed the hope, as he adjourned {the meeting until Monday. that the proposals on these important questions would be ready for consideration on that day or the next. 'R. F. C. LOAN PLEAS i SHOW BIG DECLINE Has | | McCarthy Believes Crisis Passed—Pinchot Expected to Get Loan. | By the Associated Press. | The number of applications for bank, rallroad and insurance company loans | from the Reconstruction Finance Cor- poration has dropped off in the last nonth. Wilson McCarthy and Gardner | Cowles, sr., directors of the corporation, |sald today that the pressure on the corporation had greatly decreased. This indicated, McCarthy said, that the un- favorable condition which prevailed be- tween February 1 and July 15 had The Reconstruction Corporation is seeking to avoid controversy with any State official and hopes, it was stated, that matters may be put in shape soon to pass on th: application of Gov. Pinchot of Pennsylvania for an emer- gency relief loan. Cowles, who has charge af relief matters, said the board was seeking to act on the Pennsylvania loan as soon~ as possible and he expested during the day to confer with Fred C. Croxton, in direct charge of arranging relief loans. Mr. Cowles sald the board had been able to satisfy the Governars of all States which have applied except Penn- sylvania. He added he '« ynderstood Gov. Pinchot had supplied considerably more information than he did at first, but added that he understood all of the mmmuon asked had not yet been sup- Pplied. ‘The board announced that agricul- tural and live stock loans soon to be made will carry 7 per cent interest. This rate will include not only interest on the money, but all inspection charges. In an effort to get the agricultural credit corporations functioning with- out further delay managers of the 14 offices recently annuonced they will confer here tomorrow with Ford Hovey, in charge of agricultural activities. Last year woman students at the University of uxmmamm 821.00' of the student loan '