Evening Star Newspaper, December 17, 1932, Page 2

FRENCH DEBT VOTE DECLARED BINDING Paul-Boncour Holds Future Payments Depend on Conference. (Continued From First Page.) be called after me should succeed in forming a cabinet without great Giffi- culty His statement to the President said, “Other political _personalities, _even among those belonging to the preced- ing ministry, were in a position to pos- sess more liberty than myself.” Sought Formula in Vain. Chautemps he strove hard to find “between the thesis of the Cham- ber ‘and that of the previous ministry” a formula that would permit Herriot to return as premier or as a_member of the government. He added he found an accord impossible Eresent and “‘re- solved not to de: e community of jde2s which united” him and Herriot, he decided to gite up the attempt. Newspapers thought the Sccialist or which Paul-Boncour formerly leading_member, would not pa: ticipate in a Paul-Boncour cabinet un- less he agreed to accept the Socialist | platform adopted when the Herriot min- | istry came into existence The platform demanded a big reduc- | tion of military expenses, so they would be pared to the level of 1928, and also interdiction of traffic in arms, state| ownership of arms and factories and the | balaneing of the budget otherwise than by reducing salaries of state employes or pensions of ex-soldiers and widows of those killed in the war. PRESIDENT MARKS TIME. Future Action Will Depend on Debt Moves. New By the Ascociated Press, President Hoover's immediate efforts to deal with the war debts question apparently depended today upon what action foreign governments take in pressing their pleas tor early reconsid- eration. : As his advisers watched develop- | ments abroad, particularly in France. the Chief Executive considered his per- | sona] course, conscious of congressionai opposition to a commission for re-ex- amination and the few weeks rematning of his term. In authoritative quarters the impre: sion, was given that while Mr. Hoover would act if an effective opportunity presented itself, the entire problem might be handed over almost entirely to the incoming Roosevelt administra- tion The belief was universal that debtor nations would lose no time in peti- tioning anew for relief before the $144.- 000,000 June payments fall due. At the same time Washington circles dis- cussed at length the probable status of defaulters who also are expected to ad- vance their cause assiduously. Door Not Entirely Closed. As official eyes turned to French ef- forts to form a new government. the view of the administration was that de- spite passing of pavment date, the door should not be entirely closed to default- ers, France or any other. And it was asserted that if France should pay later it certainly would receive the same offi- cial attention as those who paid Secretary of the Treasury Mills dis- closed last night that President Hoover was deferring decision on dispatching his promised special war debts message to Congress. While originally scheduled for delivery early next week, the Pres- ident has decided that unless debts de. velopments abroad warrant it, the com- munication will be held up. The Chief Executive, it was learned, has not receded from his desire for a review of the entire field of interna- ticnal financial obligations, and main- tains his stand in favor of the creation of a debt commission. President’s Position Interpreted. An authority in a position properly to interpret Mr. Hoover's views, how- ever, spoke of his position as follows: The President knows that the temper of Congress is against the creation of such a commission He feels that while he has power to name an agency for review, su move would be an empty gesture with- s: proval that with the t payments not dus until June 15, he could accomplish little in the two months of working days left to his administration. N the President has given ely to the debt situation conferring with Secrctaries Stimson and Mills until long after dark last night. Mean the unsettled sit- uation surrounding the Paris govern- ment, and the continued efforts to form a new cabinet, apparently have fore- stalled anv great outburst of war debt tion of not doing hi interfere with tesmen to win Par- liamentary for making the payment now defaulted. Senator Harri- son, Democrat, of Missicsippi, called off at the last minute his intended ad- | dress, which had been expected to set off a war debt bombardment in the Senate. Temperence Hoped For. Temperence in any discussion of the French war debt default is hoped for by administration leaders, with the State Depariment discouraging precip- itate talk about instituting boycotts and hindering American travel in France In this connection, it was recalled that movements to boycott Japanese goods, because of the Japanese seizure of Mukden and bombardment Shan- ghai also were discouraged Secre- tary Stimson and President Hoover. THE WORLD'S SHORTEST DETECTIVE STORIES And You Will Be the Detective! Watc’: The Star fl.;r Further Details 2| work on the New York structure early THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C First Lady Shown Scout Work 'PARTY FOR MRS. HOOVER AT GIRL SCOUT LITTLE HOUSE. | Clothes made by Girl Scouts as part of their unemployment relief work | were displayed for the benefit of Mrs. Hoover at a Christmas party given her yesterday. Before the Christmas tree is Martha Akin, wearing Scout-made dress of material furnished by the Red Cross. At left is Louise Magee. Next to Mrs. Hoover is Mrs. G. L. Bowman, in charge of the Little House. —A. P. Photo. RS. HOOVER yesterday told | And the sopranos opened up their | Girl Scout carolers who sang e o Gt | {Toats and the altos came out strong in s at the Little House, where | The First Noel” From long scrolls a party was held in her honor, | backed by gay sprigs of holly they san, that she would spend her own yuletide | “What a pretty picture it makes!” | “off in a very lonely place.” said the President’s wife, “Those ar2 the first carols I have Then Mrs. Hoover wished them heard this year, and they may be the “Merry Christmas” and they said “same last,” Mrs. Hoover said, smiling up at | to you.” six little girls in gray-green uniforms | Thus, from the girls who were her in- on the staircase of the Little House.s terest even before she entered the White The President’s wife wore a gown of House, and whose Little House head- | rich brown velvet. and brown hat quarters has been her near neighbor | “I'm not going to be here at Christ- during the four years there, Mrs. Hoo- | | mas time,” she added. Then confided | Ver received her first “bon Voyage” for that. in this “lonely place” to which she 'a yuletide trip to quietude. | oing, there “wouldn't be any small It previously had been made known | singers to listen to at all.” trom the White House executive offices 'So won't you please sing one more?” that a presidential trip South virtually she asked. had been decided upon. BULDINGCELEBRITY BEER BILL BATTLE *STRICKEN FATALLY | - TO OPEN TUESDAY {John M. Parish, Directinnghree Groups, Including | structures Here, Reared | Southern Democrat, File Mi- nority Reports in Opposition. Some of Biggest. | John M. Parish, one of the country's| ___(Continued From First Rage.) outstanding structural engineers, Who | n4amental law of tie land and the | had supervised erection of some of the strongth of the people fc: its ooserve | world’s tallest and finest buildings, died | ance,” had attempted to avert opposi- tion to the bill by claiming that the | suddenly here today after a heart at- |y, . o0 prupnsed}were or i aaiont tack. He was in his fifty-seventh year | ing in'fact.: " He added that the com. | and had been in charge of the con- rx]mwcu hndn lncr;uedaxhe propos;d 1, e alcoholic coftent from 3.4 per cent by | struction of the Inters _“e, Cn:u‘v;:r;v RIMEY (o161 ek et AN eroairi 4 and Labor Buildings, now being built by | woyld increase the attractiveness of the James Stewart & Co. Inc.. on Consti- beverage and help its sale. | tution avenue, between Twelfth and Fourteenth streets. Saloon Ban Voted Down. | “The brewing- interests,” he said, Some of the greatest works credited | to Parish’s engineering g-nius are the “stated they had no desire for the re- | turn of the saloon and referred to thz| | Japanese General Electric Co. plants, | the Mitsui Bank, a $17,000.000 struc- planks in the party platform, but a| | motion to prevent the return of the | ture at Tokio, adjudged one of the fin- | est buildings of its kind in the Orient, salcon, by refusing to permit beer to b2 !sold in such places, was voted down in | and the Cities Service Building in New York City, one of the three tallest the committee.” | buildings in the world. He completed He said_he did not believe the Gov- | ernment should obtain revenue throug | violation of the Consti.ution. | “The public health under prohibition | has materially improved,” he seid, “and, | | accorcing to the information furnished, | | reached a remarkable degree in the last | this year and came to Washington to take charge of construction of the two | great Government buildings which are a part of the Federal building project. T Born in Chicago February 18, 1876, | fiscal year. Parish spent a part of his childhood in | “It seems to me.” the veteran Oregon | Chemnitz, Germany, where his father | Representative added, “that if we adopt | | was stationed as United States consul.|the policy contained in this bill, the| | His only work had been in the con- | return of the saloon is inevitable.” | | struction industry, in which he had an| (Note—The full text of the majority | | unusual and varied carcer. He is sur- land minority reports on the revised | vived by his widow, Mrs. Miidred N.|Collier beer will will be carried in The | | Parich, and one sister and four broth- | Sunday Star.) 3 o ning st his Washington home, at S CHRtfi.fi 3 YEARS IN PRISON: | 2737 Devonshire place Funeral services will be held Monday Former President of Bank of | at Hearthstone Farm, his country home | at Bridgewater, Conn., where he will | be buried. RECORD SNOWFALL 1S EXPEGTED HERE Weather Bureau Declares Storm Will Continue Well Into Night. (Continued From First Page) ordered his inspection staff to pay par- ticular attention to roof tops, while the fire marshal's office in the Di trict Building clirected its inspectors to keep fire exits and fire escapes cn large build- ings and apartments clear of snow. ‘Throughout nearby Maryland and Virginia road crews worked essiduously to keep the highways opsn. The State Roads Commission in Maryland ordered out the Montg-mery County forces early to clear first such main arteries as Connecticut, Georgia and Wisconsin avenues. Later the snow.remova concentrated on other busy high: the county. Fourteen snow plows from the Hyatts- ville office of the Maryland Road Com- mission struggled to clear the roads in upper Prince Georges County. Six of the trucks concentrated on the Wash- ington-Baltimore Boulevard. Electric Feeder Damaged. “Toy Matinee” at Earle Theater Seventeen additional plows operated ove: the roads in Boutgern Maryland and crews of laborers stood ready to dig out drifts on curves and around culverts. Miles of drift fences erccted along the main highways, however, proved their usefulness in reducing drifts on roads. Over in Arlington County, Va, 11 snow scrapers staried early in the : morning to keep the main highways | avenue about 8 o'clock this morning open. gnnz of these were operated by | and was severely injured. She was the county and the other two by the | taken to Casualty Hospital and treated | State. for injuries to her left leg and poseible | The only damage done to the clectric | fracture of the pelvis. Her condition | system involved a feeder of the Potomac | Was reported undetermined. | Electric Power Co. at Thirteenth and D | _Martha Holman, colored, 47, of 1330 | streets northeast, but this was repaired | W strect. slipped on the sidewalk at | immediately and prevented any inter- | Fourteenth and U streets and broke her ruption to service. ankle this morning. ‘The car companies, however, pointed | Despite dangerously thick flying oon- out that motorists driving on the tracks | ditions, all night airmail on lines serv Were contributing to the de'ay in the [iug the Washington area moved on clos car service. Machines pack the ice |to schedul> time. senger trips, how around the underground slot, it was|ever, were canceled all along the At- said, causing the cars to pull & plow. l"{,{‘,‘“f‘j‘"‘, o ey . jamieson, flying the last ni t Bonus Marchers Employed. southbound mafl on the Eastern Alr The Washington Railway & Electric | Transport run, left Atlanta at 2 o'clock Co. took on 65 extra men for this work. |and completed his run to Newark at 5, | Another large group was employed to|stopping at the Washington-Hoover | clear the snow from the walks in the Airport en route. He reported snow vir- | Capitol grounds. Among them were a |tually all of the way number of World War veterans, who| Pennsylvania Airlines, operating be- came to Washington to appeal to Con- | tween Washington énd Cleveland. oper- 1.C.C. WILLREOPEN | FREIGHT RATE CASE| New Hearing on 15 Per Cent In- crease Last Year Ordered in Cap- ital December 28. By the Associated Press. Reopening of the 15 per cent freight rate increase case decided last year was ordered today by the Interstate Commerce Commission, for the pur- | pose of considering whether surcharges | now in effzct should be continued be- yond March 31, 1933. The railroads in a petition last week acked that the surcharges be continued, and that the commission's order rve- quiring pooling of money derived from | the increases be modified 50 the rail- roads collecting the charges may retain them. The order today said the commission vould ccasider whether present sur- charges should be continued “by filing | upon short notice tariffs similar in character to those by which they were | originally made effective,” and “if such surcharges are continued, during whet period shall they be permitted to re- ma’n in effect,” and “shall permission to continue such surcharges, if granted, be without condition as to disposition of the revenue accruing therefrom.” ‘The commission ordered a hearing to be held here on December 28. The hear- ing. the notice said, is for the purpose of hearing evidence of the carriers and other parties ngpenrin; in support of the petition. Those who may oppose it may, file their statements on their views on or before January 15. JUDGES FACE PAY CUTS NEW YORK, December -17 (#).—The salaries of New York judges are going to be cut. Acting Mayor Jcseph V. McKee disclosed last night that they would be reduced next year on a sched- ule proportionate with slashes planned | for teachers, firemen and policemen. He did not give details of the sched- ule, but it was expected, the Times said, that the slash would be about ,000 on a $25,000 salary, Supreme | strong plea for probation for Schreiner, Brightwood Sentenced in Embezzlement. (Prom the 5:30 Edition of Yesterday's Star.) | Raymond L. Schreiner, 34, former | president of the Bank of Brightwood, which went into the hands of receivers last Spring, was sentenced today by | District Supreme Court Justice Daniel | W. O'Donoghue to serve three years in | the nitentiary. Schreiner had pleaded guilty to an indictment charging the embezziement of about $13,500 of the bank's funds, but admitted his defalcations would reach about $60,000. Attorney Harvey L. Cobb_made a saying he did not think the former bank president profited in any way from the funds which he is charged with stealing. The attorney said the banker had taken over more than $20.- 000 worth of notes which he had ap- proved and was attempting to pay them to save loss to the bank. His client, he said, is married and has two chil- dren and if placed on probation would be willing to have a stipulation added that he make restitution. In denying the application for pro- bation, Justice O'Donoghues pointed out that Schreiner had oscupied a posi- tion of trust, had been trusted by a number of people and had violated that trust. No mention was made in court of a etition said to have been sent to the fudz: by & number of former depusiters of the bank opposing the probation of Schreiner. $6,240,000 GOLD CARGO LEAVES FRANCE FOR U. S. 2,200 Cases of Precious Metal Be- ing Shipped to America by Three Banks. | By the Associated Press. CHERBOURG, France, December 17. —Two hundred and twenty cases of gold, representing 160, francs (about $6,240,000), were leaving late to- day on the steamship Europa for the United States. It was understcod that three banks gress for immediate payment of the | bonus. | Falling at the rate of nearly an inch an hour, the snow is expected to reach | a depth of more than 12 inches by nightfall, which would be the heaviest fall since January 27, 28 and 29, 1922.| In that period snow fell continuously, | 1eaching a depth of 28 Inches, con- stituting a record for a single storm in_Washington Since 1922, other heavy falls were 6.5 inches in March. 1923:" 75 inches in January, 1925; 9.3 inches in February. 1926, and 105 inches in January, 1928. Heavy snow falls in December. ho ever. are unusual in Washington, ac- | cording to the Weather Burcau. The | heaviest December fall in recent years started on the last day in 1924, when | a total of 8 inches was recorded All evailable regulation snow-removal equipment and most of the 700 to| 800 reguler employes of the city refuse | | sewer, highway and water departments were put into action by 9 o'clock under the general supervision of Morris Hacker. supervisor of the city refuse department ‘Within another hour calls were issued for unemployed men to join the army of snow removers and Mr. Hacker was prepared to put to work “all the men we can get." Appeals for more manpower were broadcast over all four Washington radio | stations shortly after noon. J. B. Gordon, director of the department of sanitary engineering, appealed for all regularly employed municipal laborers and par- ticularlv all municipal truck drivers, to report for work. Mr. Gordon announced that the army of workmen would be kept busy in shifts throughout today and all night tonight. 2,000 Unemployed Hired. He estimated that the highest num- ber of men at work during the storm | would be between 3,000 and 4.000. Of | this total, he said, more than 2,000 would be recruited from the ranks of the unemployed. The equipment which was brought into action included 32 snow plows mcunted on big motor trucks, two snow Icaders, five snow hoists and, by 11 am. an undertermined number of District trucks from virtually cvery municipal department which operates such ve- hicles. | Mr. Hacker's department attacked | first the streets carrying strest car tracks. ‘Work of clearing such thoroughfares, it was planned, would be carried on | straight through to the District lines | in all directions. The strategy of con- | centrating major efforts on street car | streets was adopted in order to asssure | transportation to the greatest number of persons. The car company sweepers which traversed the tracks at frequent intervales were successful in clearing | the tracks only momentarily, the city | refuse department announced, because in the wake of cach sweeper & stream of automobiles followed and rolled back onto the tracks hard-packed layers of snow, The man power was taken first from the District’s rolls when ash collectors, garbage collectors and trash collectors, together with scores of laborers from the Sewer, Water and Highway De- partments, were mustered in with the regular street-cleaning forces. Where to Report. The calls made to various agencies in contact with large groups of unem- ployed men asked that these prospective workmen be directed to municipal ga- rages in the blocks bounded by E, G and_ Fourteenth streets southeast, and by Ninth, Tenth, N and O streets in | the Northwest section. “We will put to work every man who can be mu:tered.” the call from Mr. Hacker's office said. Funds with which to pay the aug- mented army of workmen, it was ex- plained, would be sought as a deficiency in a congressional appropriation. The regular appropriaticn act for the City Refuse Department is 50 phrased that such a procedure is allowable. _The plan which is being followed in ridding the streets of snow cails for the dumping of as much snow as possible down sewers through regular traps and manholes. If the amcunts challenge the capacity of sewers, then the snow will have to be haled away. The plows are being used to sweep the snow out of the center of roadways toward curb lines, and the main handicap to this work, Mr. Hacker's office declared, is the number cf automobiles parked at curbs. Such vehicles were faced with imprisonment by mounting snow banks. Many Off On Saturday. The snow hoists and snow loading machines, bullt to transfer piles of snow from the street to waiting trucks, were in action at various street inter- sections where immediate removal of snow was in greatest demand. No g:iv-uly owned commercial trucks had sought at noon. The fact that the snowfall came on & Saturday added to the difficulties which had. to_be handled by municipal authorities. The laborers of the de- partments which were called upon for assistance are per diem men ‘work on a five-day week schedule. Hence, the District Building was confronted with the absence of a staff at the be- ginning of the day. ‘Two Hurt in Falls. Mrs. Emma Russell, 47, of 607 New were making the shi) t, namely, the th e i 8 Court justices get $25,000. Guaranty Trust (in ), Lazare and Jersey avenue, slipped and fell on the sidewalk in front of 429 New' Jersey ated all-night schedules, the last p.ane arriving in Washirgton at 5:20 am. after running into the first snow out- side of Washington. Driven to shelter by the snow, hun- dreds of scantily clad men and boys crowded the mission houses early this morning. At the Central Union Mis sion, Sivation Ar and Gospel N sion unusual demands were made for service More Clothing Needed. John S. Bennett, supert the Central Union Missio is impossible to colleci su ing for all the needs. especially coats. Despite the large number of overcoats already received the stock hes been depleted. Some of the men, Mr. Bennett said, also are badly in need ot shoes #nd underclothing. If the snow cor . as predicted by the Weather Bureau, the expceted all records to be brol dinner time. The eme:gency Beard of Public W 2id of the needy by aut clients, who are suffering cold to procure fuel at any Grocery Store in the District on pre sentation of the regular food order. Coal is being suoplied these clients as rapidly as poscble, but attaches of the relief division feared that those who had not yet boen reached might suffer from lack of fuel and made arrange- ments with the chain grocery firm to accept the food order for bags of coal U. S. WORKERS TO FIGHT DOUBTS ON EFFICIENCY Calls Group to Challenge Charges About Value of Work. Jchn Arthur Shaw, president of the American Federation of Government Employes, last night urged Government workers to refuse to let pass unchal- lenged charges that they are incom- petent or unworthy of the salaries they receive. The address was made at ceremonies at the Lee House incident to the presentation of a charter to the Wash- ington office, Panama Canal Lodge. Shaw handed the charter to C. M. Mears, lodge president. E. Claude Babcock, Civil Service Commission sec- retary, and Michael D. Schaefer, presi- dent of the federation’s District depart- | ment, also spoke. of lief division of the 1fare came to the Federation President on Flappers Go Snake Hunting. BRISBANE, Australia, December 17 ) —Snake-hunting hikes are popular with Queensiand flappers, who sell for | as high 8s $4 those skins that they don't need for making their own shoes. | | mons, ident; Dudu‘x’:m light kid. t today, and Richard W. Westwood. DAY, DECEMBER 17, 1932 Maxine Doyle receiving gifts at the Earle Theater, where one of The Evening Star-Warner Bros. Christmas parties | “Tects on experimental anin was held today. Left to right: Anita Fominaya, Antonio Pominaya and Eloy Fominaya. FINDS SIZE LIMIT OF ULTRA-VIRUSES Carnegie Research Reveals Particles Beyond Range of Finest Microscopes. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. Determination of the size limit ultra-virus particles—perhaps the smally est living things in nature and the mos{ deadly enemies of human life—~is an- nounced by the Carnegie Institution of Washington. At least 8,000,000 of them could find room along a line an inch long, or more than 60,000.000.000.000 could be crowded into a square inch, it has been deter= | mined experimentally by Mrs. M. R, Lewis and her co-workers, according tQ the Carnegie report of the work. Thus it is shown that these particles are well beyond the range of the finest microscope now in existence and Whether they belong over the border of the kingdom of life or are some strange form of non-living matter cannot be de termined. The ultra-viruses are known to be the causative agents of ma: of the most dreaded human, animal and plant dis- s, including such maladies as ine | fantile paralysis. Each of these dis- | eases is caused by a distinct var | virus. " The v ! clearly from cne eas i I All —Star Staff Photo. | the diseases due {0 these minute par- MRS. LEWIS’ JEWEL LOSS IS UNSOLVED BY POLICE SEARCH ___(Continued From First Page.) ring set with diamonds, six bracelets set in platinum and containng dia- monds, sapphires and rubies, a yellow canary cdiamond and brown diamond ctain bracelet; a pair of diamond ear rings, g ball pendant ear rings, sev- eral large Oriental pearls, a black silk cord with barrel diamond ‘and pendant, and several Prench decoration badges. Alos included in the articles lost was some $180 in cash and $1,000 in Ameri- an Express Co. checks, pearl necklace and a pearl stickpin, which beionged to assigned two detectives and members oi the Deiective Bureau jewelry squad | to the case, but they haa been unable L find any trace of the jewels today. Other ies Notified. Police of all cities have been furnished u | description of the bag and and have been requested to awn shops and other places = they might be offered for sale Mrs. Lewis announced that a reward woull be pa.d ior their return. 1 the bag in which I i & had reached n " Mrs. Lewis “Then I turned to the boy with luggage and cried: ‘My bag, my bag here 15 it? He didn't have it and we rushed madly downstairs in a special elevator, bul the bag was not at the desk. No ad seen it. I either left it on the while registering or in the taxicab. Not more than five minutes could have elapsed irom the time I paid the cab driver until I missed the bag.” Mrs. Lewis said she ieft Union Station shortly after 5 o'clock in a Yellow taxi- cab. Officials of the company said they had ot vet been successful in locating the driver of the vehicle. They ex- plained that the task was difficult since no longer keep a record of their cabs as they leave the station. An effcrt was being made to find the porter who heiped Mrs. Lewis from the train to the cab. Possibly on Seat. She said she thought the bag was under her arm when she stepped from the cab at the hotel, but that it may have been left on the seat. She described it as a dark brown leather lady's shopping bag, about 12 inches long and 10 inches high, with two hand straps. It was lined with Inside was & pink cloth bag th the initial “L"” embroidered on it. | The jewels were in a dark green leather Jewxci bex inside this bag. The medals were decorations bestowed on her by the French government and worn with evening dress. One was the Raconnaisance Francaise and the other Des Eterdine, a war hospital medal. She said there were also a number of papers and other means of identifica- tion. Detective Sergts. R. J. Cox and B. H. Jones are assigned to the case. MELLON SAILS FOR HOME LONDON, December 17 (#).—Andrew | W. Mellon, United States Ambassador to Great Britain, caught an early boat train for Sout®ampton, where he sailed today cn the steamship Europa for home. He will spend Christmas with his family in Pittsburgh. After a brief stay in Washington he plans to return to London aboard the Majestic, sailing January 4. The Press Club Votes BALLOT MACHINES IN USE HERE. HE National Press Club, holding its annual election today, imported voting machines from New York. The election, however, was quite tame, as the only candidate for president was unopposed. Left to right: Bascom Tim- ; Raymond P. Brandt, vice president, 1‘: ‘will be elected tar Staff Photo. RS, REEVES BRACE ENDS LIFE N HOTEL Stepdaughter of Admiral A. L. Parsons Found Dead in New York. ticles have one character in common— the active agent which causes them is so fine that it will pass through the pores of extremely fine filters. Thategs about all that is known about the vie suses. Investigators have not been agree whether they ar able to i v kno { whe T they are inanimate an hap products of 1 | capable of producing sim: in other cells. | Pure Form Elusive. The great difficulty in deten their size has been the prev sibility of getting the ough the extremely fin h other organic mate; fats, carbohy By the Associated Press. s, salts and NEW YORK, December 17.—The s used a flter of collodion, & | strange end of Mrs. Reeves Brace, a material Pproduced in the f film when the ether e rear admiral's stepdaughter, who was flm when the cthe found hanging by a siik stocking in & | gonol . The® s ot hotel room, bore an aspect of mystery material could be c: today. Ists—ar; Near the body when it was found Mil last nigkt was a sealed note with the inscription: “This will explain ev r thing.” Authorities took charge of the Passage of the varic note and refused to divulge its contents, | #SPecially the p On a bureau was a photograph of the young woman. Across it was a saluta: tien in white ink, saying millimicrons. ¢ a milli- A millimeter is less than one o prevent the ic particles, £ e to produce tun in chickens, known to be caused by specific filterable virus. Thus the e York State Police, Woodstock, N. Y.:|ccllodion membrane. This is the uppe Dear Al, this is a happy landing. |limit of size. There is no way of de- Reeves.” | termining the lower limit She alo was able to produce a type Formerly Lived Here. of t or in rabbits, known to be due to Stuck in the frame was a winged in- | & fiterable virus, with a filtrate from signia of the Air Corps. which all protein material had been re- Mrs. Brace, socially well known, was | Moved chemically by the use of char- a stepdaughter of Rear Admiral A. L. | coal. It is not claimed that the mate- Parsons, chief of the Bureau of Yards ial was pure virus, but tha and Docks of the Navy. She formerly | tuted a long step forward t lived in Washingicn, but Admiral Par- | fication of this mysterious material sons said she had lived here and in!| Further experiments showed that both Woodstock much of the time since her | the chicken and rabbit tumor viruses marriage. Admiral Parsons came here | could be rendered inactive by the use of today from the Capital to take charge | various biological dves This might of the body. have had an important bearing on the , A noose fashioned from a silk stock- | CAncer problem but. unfortunately, the ing was knotted around her neck. The |GVes. to be eflective d to be eme other end was knotted over the top of | Ploved in much greater concentrations ai::?ssl do;\rv A?dc\;lrlun;)ed chair in- | than could be used in the living body. ted, police sald, that she had i on it while adjusting the nocse‘laoxomg Hay Fevey Experiments. then kicked it away. In other experiments in the same When Mrs. Brace registered at the | Carnegie laboratory, X Lewis and hotel she said she was tired out from a | Dr- A. R. Rich approached close to an long trip and did not wish to b= dis- | ¢Xplanation of the fundamental me- turbed. She declined to answer several | chanics of allergy. This is well known telephone calls from Washington, but | from the common and closely analagous wrote and mailed several letters. condition. hay fever. Last_night her mother telephoned | When a foreign protein is introduced from Washington. inquiring after her | into the tissues of the animal b daughter. ~ Attendants went to the | tain changes take place th room end found the body. They also | 8reatly heightened sensit found a note. placed beneath the | same protein is in photograph, saying | hay fever this heightened “This may be for the best.” takes the form of spasmodic Mrs. Brace's husband was Ernest | tions of the bronchial and Brace, brother of a member of the firm | muscle fibers. In other cases it of Harcourt, Brace & Co.. publishers. | ifested by tissue damage and He was not himself connected with the | tion. Just what takes place in firm, but he was th> author of several | mechanism to bring about suct books publshed by that house. has remained a my: Pated Soserata ence. and this ignorance 5 the development of re Both Brace and his wife left Wood-| The two Carnegie bi | stock some time ago and there was a | the effect of the introduct reij report that they had separated. ulture of free cel y Mrs. Brace devoted herself chiefly to reported, they prov art, but also did some writing. She re- heightened sensi- cently completed a children's book, . tivity is & them- | which she illustrated herself. The | selves and has nothing 1o do with the | book, not yet published, is in the hands | medium in which they circulate | of Brewer, Warren & Putnam, In What apparently happens, the two which has withdrawn from the publish- | investigators report, is that t |ing field. Disposition of the manu- | of the foreign protein res | script has not vet been made. but the | immediate creation. by some | work will be published by another firm. | detailed for that w Rear Admiral and Mrs. A. L. Par- |Protect the c vascu is man- sons, stepfather and mother of Mrs Reeves Brace, reside at the Westchester bodies are ca | to different c | become attached to them. Th the same protein is introduced again the cells are provided with antibody guardians for an immediate defense re= action. They showed that the antie bedies themselves have nothing to do with the pathologica! effects unless they are attached to cells Apartments, on Cathedral avenue. NECK BROKEN IN FALL, STUDENT IN GRAVE STATE Father From Indianapolis Reaches Bedside of Havorford Sopho- BAND CONCERT. 2 By the United States Soldiers’ Home more by Airplane. Band this evening at Stanley Hall, at 5:30 o'clock. John S. Zimmermann, By the Associated Press. r BRYN MAWR, Pa. December 17— | pentostel, Anion, Fomminer, sssistant o The condition of Donald J. Miller, jr v far g 3 - I | Qverture, “Guy Mannering”. 19-year-old Haverford College £opho- | Grrin m e 8 Snite Espanol, “Huspanis more. whose neck was broken in a fall “Seguidil'a. La M {in the college gymnasium, remained | - unchanged and “extremely critical” to- | pycerpts from = BRI -2 s oo v Entr'acte, “The Tippler”. “Cherrytime" S Waltz suite, “Glittering Mo comic opera, “Maid ay. Arriving by airplane, the boy’s father, Dr. Donaid J. Miller, sr., Indianapolis physician, remained all night at his sopys bedside. : e young man recovered conscious- ness during the night, recognized his | rarent, and smiled feebly. He is al- most entirely paralyzed, doctors said. Hospital surgeons declared a delicate operzticn might save his life, but ds- cision as to whether he should undergo it is being withheld for a time. . ALEXANDRIA. | ALEXANDRIA. Va, December 17| (Special) —Dr. John T. Ashton was| elected chairman and Mrs. George T. Klipstein was chosen vice chairman at a meeting of the city School Board last night. Gilbert J. Cox, jr., present clerk, was re-elected. The board announced that public schools here will close Friday afternoon | at 1 o'clock for the Christmas holidays and will not reopen until January 3. All teachers of the schools were or- dered paid on December 22. The 1933 | city school budget was discussed in O harsed with murder. Warren Jones wi . : colored, of the 800 block of North Pat- rick street is being held by police in connection with the fatal shooting of George Christian, 41, also colored, at Christian’s home, Oronoco and Pitt streets, last night. Mrs, Nancy N. Garten. 57, wife of J. A. Garten, 909 Cameron street, died at her residence last night. In addi- tion to her husbend, she leaves four children. The body will be forwarded to Talcott, W. Va., for burial. inale, “You're Not the Same™ Star Spangled Banr Kalmar 6 ‘til Christmas