Evening Star Newspaper, December 20, 1932, Page 5

BEER AND REPEAL ' HARD T0 SEPARATE Each Seen as Impeding the Dther When Not Considered Together. . BY MARK SULLIVAN. it is universally acfepted that the Collier beer bill will have a majority in the vote which is due to come soon in the House. That is about as far as certainly goes. It ma yor may not have & majority in the vote which will come in holidays. In neither branch of Con- gress is there the two-thirds necessary 1o pass the legalization over President Hoover’s veto—if he should veto it. If for any reacon beer fails at the present session, which lasts until March 4, it will_ then' come up in the special séssion of the new Congress which, it is now_universally assumed, President- elect Roosevelt must call soon after March 4. In that special session beer apparently should have no difficulty. ‘The new House will be very strongly Democratic and very strongly wet. The new Senate will be fairly strongly Democratic and at least strongly enouch wet to provide a majority for beer. Finally, the new President will of course, favor beer, in accordance with his party platform. The sum of all is that if beer is not legalized in the present | Congress before March 4, it scems fairly certain to be legalized in the new Con- gress, probably as early as June at the outside. Nevertheless, neither beer nor the complete repeal of the eighteenth amendment are making as zapid prog- ress as was expected after the Novem- ber election. The slowing up is due in part to the relation of the two to each other, It turns out to be more difficult to separate them in practice and in legislation than was assumed when the Democratic platform prom- ised the legalizing of beer immediately and the complete repeal of the eight- eenth amendment ultimately. Reasons for Opposition. A clue to the whole situation can be found in the different reasons why different groups will vote against or tacitly work against beer in the House this week or in the Senate after the holdays. One group, dry, holds sin- cerely that beer having 4 per cent alco- hel by volume, the figure specified in the bill as it now stands, is in fact an “intoxicating liquor,” that beer is there- fore forbidden by the prohibition amendment, and that it can only be legalized by repeal of the amendment. The present legalizing of beer is also opposed, openly or tacitly, by some small groups of wets who have various veasons, One small group of wets thinks that if beer is legalized now & good many wet voters and wet drinkers may be satisfied by that, and therefore the prospect of getting complete repeal of the prohibition amendment may be reduced. To the same effect, ‘though by a different source of thinking. an- other group fears that if beer is legal- ized the conditions attending the sale and consumption of it may stiffen up the drys and therefore reduce the chances of later achieving complete re- peal of the prohibition amendment. A small group of wets coming from districts interested in wine have a com- mercial jealousy of beer and hence have no enthusiasm for a step which would legalize beer but continue to pro- hibit wine. Some Wets and some com- mercial interests related to hard liquors fear that if beer is legalized now and everything else required to wait several vears for complete repeal of the pro- hibition amendment, the result may be | that the brewers will achieve such mo- mentum and such control of the dis- tribution of all beverages that pro- ducers of other liquors would be at a permanent disadvantage. A quite considerable group of thoughtful wets are troubled about the notion of legalizing beer in a rather | headlong manner, Wwithout making | plans for the whole of whatever is to be the next status of liquor. Arguing contrary to the Democratic platform, they think that legalizing of beer and complete rcpeal of the eighteenth amendment are indissolubly connected and should be considered and acted upon at the same time. They feel that the thoughtful wets should confer with the moderate drys, and with those who are neither wet -nor dry, with a view to laying out a complete program | for the next status of liquor. | Brewers Blamed Most. Such a program arrived at by con- ference would reduce the temptation | and opportunity of the extreme drys to take a recalcitrant stand in thirteen States and thereby prevent repeal of the prohibition amendment. Simply to legalize beer would be, as respects that | beverage, to go all the way back to| what was the status before the pro-| hibition amendment was adopted in | 1920. That this status must have been | atended by evils is clear because other- | wise the Nation-wide impulse which | resulted in the eighteenth amendment could hardly have arisen. In the evils which attended liquor as a whole before 1920, the brewers were charged with mcre blame than any other manufacturers of liquor. The brewers were in many cities the owners of the saloons which were the principal mechanism_for the sale or liquors of all kinds. Many conscientious wets re- call seriously the promises made dur- ing the past few years by conspicuous leaders of the wet movement that they had no intention of bringing back the saloon. Some of those wets fear now that if beer were legalized the saloon ‘would immediately rearise. According to this apprehension, the | galoon must be set up as a means for the retail distribution of beer. After and if the eighteenth amendment is repealed, other liquors would be added, and the saloon would be back in the | same form as before 1920. The busi- ness of selling liquor would be estab- lished on a commercial basis, making difficult the achievement of some kind of State or other non-profit method of sale in which many wets believe. All these are considerations which trouble the minds of many in Con- gress both wet and dry. The sum of them accounts not for a forthright hostility to legalizing beer, but rather for a hesitancy to do it precipitately. (Copyright, 1 » NEW BOOK OFFERS CURE FOR CLOTHING WOHRIES; Tells Men With Inferiority Com- plexes Just What to Wear on Any Occasion. 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If the suit is blue, socks should be black or blue; shirt either blue or white, or with blue as the pre- dominating color; tie plain maroon or wine red or some shade of blue; shoes dark brown or black, and hat of hard e}t or gray soft felt. . 1932. b North American News- L Oonyriant. s Khianeer fhey" = MRS. GARNER MAY (Copyright, 1932, by Associated Press.) RS. JOHN N. GARNER is giv- ing careful thought to a ques- tion that others have been in- terestingly discussing — what she will do socially as the Vice President’s wife. Some time ago~the Garners an- nounced that, in keeping with their custom of simple living, they will accept only “official” invitations. But today Mrs. Garner told for the first time just how she feels on the subject. She does not minimize the value of sociability in official life. On the contrary, she is deeply determined to uphold the dignity of the vice presi- dential position. But she, thinks in- dividuality should be expressed by each hostess—and if she so chooses, she might even introduce some sccial in- the Senate some time after the | novations! “Alice Longworth, as Speaker's wife, by not holding the traditional ‘at homes’ to the House membership, made it perfectly clear that it is not neces- sary for every hostess to do what others have done before them,” said Mrs. Garner. “Now, T would really enjoy receiving the House membership, and may work it out yet, before Mr, Garner's temg as Speaker closes. “The point is that it isn't necessary for people to follow each other like sheep in social events.” Mrs. Garner looks at soclability from the practical viewpoint of a career Wwoman, and is putting to her tentative program the test question: “What Is really worth while?” - There's the question of holding “at homes” and of making formal calls. The Vice President’s hostess traditiol ally starts off the cabinet “at homes, and Mrs. Garner hasn't turned thumbs down on that, although she wouldn't want 1t carried to the old extremes. “Mrs. Joseph M. Dixon of Montana and I used to go calling together,” Mrs. Garner said, and genuine reminiscent pleasure lighted her eyes as she turned back to the slow-swinging, pre-auto social regime. “We used to say we ‘peddled card- board’ We'd call, and call and call. and those we were calling on would call. and call, and call, and we'd prob- ably never meet the whole season. “A group of us who lived at the same | hotel would have ‘at homes’ together, THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTOX Weighs Society Problem TRY INNOVATIONS. MRS. JOHN N. GARNER. and 2,000 would come! When I think back to the times I have stood for hours in line, shaking hands with a thousand, or two thousand, I can't believe that form of ‘at home’ is worth while, though I might enjoy a smaller one.” One social post Mrs. Garner does deem eminently worth while is that of presiding officer of the Ladies of the Red Cross work. It is always vested in the wife of the Vice President. Asked if she would accept it, Mrs. Garner said: “There is no question of me not doing it, for it is simply an Thonor accorded to the wife of the Vice President. And I have known so many of the Senators' wives, for so many years, I shall feel T am among friends.” DENIES DRY REPEAL WOULD END CRIME Mitchell Declares Change Would Have Little Effect on Racketeers. By the Associated Press. ST. PAUL, Minn,, December 20.—At- torney General William D. Mitchell last night said abolition of prohibition would remove an “alibi for crime,” but would not eradicate the racketeer. The cabinet member made the dedi- catory address in the Municipal Audi- torium, where St. Paul's new City Hall and court house were formally pre- sented the city. The Attorney General said liquor traffic constituted but one phase of racketeering which presents to munici- palities a problem that cannot be solved bition. “Changes in our method of liquor control which seem impending,” he said, “will not remove the crime problem. “Whatever may have been the extent of the influence of the prohibition situ- ation on the development of lawless- ness, it is altogether evident that under present conditions the organized crimi- nal rackets and organized criminal ac- tivities in our large centers of popula- the abolition of illicit liquor traffic will make only a dent in the activities and revenue of organized crime.” A vital need of today, Mr. Mitchell asserted, is a popular realization that the cities c:nnot shift responsibility for solution of the crime problem to the Federal Government. Efforts to eliminate criminal organi- zations by punishing them for failure to Ty income taxes are futile, Mr. Mitchell asserted. WOMAN DRYS SEND QUERY TO CONGRESS National Committee for Education Against Alcohol Opposes Vote for Beer. ‘The Woman's National Committee for Education Against Alcohol has sent to members of Congress a “query” re- minding them that “no constituency has ever voted to ask its Congressman to violate his oath of office to support a soft drink.” The communication, announced last night by Mrs. William Tilton, chairman, added that 4 per cent beer thus desig- nated “can, therefore, be sold at any orocery store, roadside stand or soda fountain.” The query said Congressmen had not been asked by their constituencies “to increase bootlegging by setting up beer saloons which have always been under- cover places for hard liquor; to make the law of the land unenforceable.” “Are_you going to vote for any of these things?” it concluded. “We hope and believe you are not.” Kills Deer With Arrow. JUNCTION, Tex., December 20 (). —Using bow and arrow, J. S. Farmer brought down a 7-point buck deer from a distance of 45 yards on a hunt in Kimble County. The leading archer of this sectioh and an expert marksman with firearms, Farmer walted for years to slay a deer in the Indian fashion. He used a steel arTow head and a 75- pound pull bow. merely by waiting for repeal of prohi~ | tion have spread out to a point where | the Constitution to call 4 per cent beer | | | PARTIES WARNED AGAINST BEER BILL Political Death Threatens Supporters, Declares Re- form Federation. | | | | Passage by Congress of a beer bill would mean the end of the political party or parties which support it, Con- | gress was warned in a letter from Rev. | Dr. Willilam Sheafe Chase, superintend- ent of the International Reform Fed- eration. “If this collier bill is enacted by the | Democratic party, its term of rule will suddenly terminate,” the letter stated. “It will show that the Democratic party is the tool of the saloon system and | cannot serve the people. | “If this bill is enacted by the co- | | operation of the two parties, it means the birth of a new party, similar to the death of the Whig party and the re- tirement of the Democratic party when it became the tool of the slave business.” The arguments were presented that the 3.2 per cent beer proposed would be intoxicating in fact; that the revenue features of the bill are improper since the permission to manufacture the bev- erage is contrary to the Constitution; that it violates both party platforms by not providing against the return of the saloon; that it would be of no economic benefit, and that it is an attempt to tax the poor for the benefit of the rich. “If the Democratic party’s first act,” Dr. Chase declared, “is thus to nullify | the prohibition amendment it will bring | back the saloon and help the rich brew- | | ers once more to secure and increase their strangle hold over politics. It will | be like firing on Fort Sumter. | “The Democrats cannot more clearly | show that their friendship for the poor is mere pretense, than by the enact- ment of the 4 per cent beer bill. The Democratic party could not more cer- | tainly betray the poor, or make a greater political blunder, than by en-| | acting this beer bill at a time when peo- | ple are starving for bread and asking| | for employment. | “For any congressman, wet or dry, who wishes the name of statesman or | patriot, or long continuance in public office, to vote for the bill, in spite of the probable veto of President Hoover and+ certain action of the Supreme Court, is | suicidal.” | Denial that the Democratic victory | in the recent election was a mandate | for modification of the ,Volstead act| was made in the letter. | “The fact that Gov. Roosevelt carried every dry State in the country, except Maine,” the communication stated, “in- dicates that the major issue was bread not beer and the prohibitionists, having no effective way of voting against beer, voted for bread. No one can imagine that Kansas voted for Roosevelt because he was wet, but because they hoped he would help the farmer better than the Republicans had done.” Members of Congress are not bound by the actions of what were termed the “mob-ruled Chicago conventions,” Dr. Chase stated, and should vote accord- ing to their own conscience and the wishes of their constituents. Answering the argument that a tax on beer would balance the budget, Dr. Chase asserted: “The liquor tax will not do it. The most just taxes are upon inheritances and upon net incomes. Net income taxes have been largely evaded. These taxes with an increased. tax on gasoline and on tobacco will pro- vide the needed revenue. What is is an efficient and fearless ad- ministration of the Department of Justice, s0 that immensely wealthy persons shall not escape paying an :qunable proportion of the income axes.” By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 20.—Christ- mas tree dealers learned a lesson in the law of supply and demand last year with the result that approximately 50 per cent fewer trees are being shipped to distribution points in the United States for the 1932 holiday. Frederick H. Vahlsing, the “Christ- mas tree king” of the metropolitan area, said today that 250 carloads of balsams, spruce, hemlocks and cedars have been ordered from Nova Scotia and the State of Washington for this district. Last year approximately 580 carloads were brought in, with the result that more than 100 were dumped after many thousands had been given away. There are 2,000 trees to a carload. Vahlsing estimated that 6,000,000 trees are on sale throughout the United States today, whereas the market con- sisted of 10,000,000 trees a year ago. YULE TREE DEALERS TAUGHT LESSON BY LAW OF DEMAND Carload Shipments This Year to Be 50 Per Cent Less | Than Heretofore. “It is difficult to gusge the demand for trees,” Vahlsing said. “It was s disastrous season last year for dealers here. This year dealers fear repetition and have tried to guard themselves against a similar experience.” Trees ere shipped in bundles of two to eight trees. Last year the price per bundle ranged from 75 cents to $1.50. This year it has increased to approxi- mately $1.75 to $2.50. He said the re- tail price would rise accordingly. Lengths vary from 2 to 35 feet. The latter are brought in on special order and usually are for outdoor display in communities. The popular sizes range from 6 to 8 feet, he said. | Balsams are favored among retail buyers, Vahising declared. “The symmetry of the balsams, plus their spicy odor account foi their pop- ularity,” he explained. “Their flat lacquered, dark green needles make them comparatively easy to decorate.” Senate, who meet for luncheons and do | this | ment,” Ratney said. ! taxes to bring in enough money, he | 12 *| differed over what constitutes intoxicat- HOUSE IN FURIOUS DEBATE ON BEER Vote on Proposal for 3.2 Per ' Cent Brew Is Expected Tomorrow. (Continued From Pirst Page.) the present Federal levies, along with the beer tax, will go far toward balanc- ing the budget,” he explained to re- Representative Rainey said: “It is use- less to bring the sales tax before this House, because this House is over- whelmingly against it.” Rainey and former Representative Crisp of Georgia, led the unsuccessful fight in the House last Spring for,a manufacturers’ sales tax. Garner Silent on Levy. Speaker Garner has declined to dis- cuss the possibility of bringing up & sales tax this session. A movement to seek to have the Sen- ate add the sales tax to the beer bill in the event it is passed by the House is being discussed in some quarters. Under the House rules, it is impos- sible to have the sales tax amended to the beer bill, but the Senate has no such retrictions. However, the House would have a subsequent opportunity to strike it off the beer measure in the event the Senate inserted the sales tax. At his press conference a few min- utes before the House met. Speaker Garner was asked if he believed the beer bill would pass. “I hope s0,” he said. “I have not canvassed the situation. I imagine the House will pass some kind of a beer bill. Wzkundoubt.edly will reach a vote week."” Mrs. Jesse W Nicholson of Chevy Chase, Md., president of the National Woman's Democratic Law Enforcement League, distributed an ‘“extra” edition of the Woman Voter among the mem- bers as they entered the chamber. She, with a group of women prohibitionists, then took & front row in the gallery. It was agreed by party leaders that the debate time of six hours would be equally divided between the wets and drys in both parties. Bankhead Presides. Representative Bankhead. Democrat, of Alabama, was made presiding officer by Speaker Garner. Debate was opened by Rainey, who explained the bill in detail. “Evidence before the Ways and Means Committee,” he sald, “shows that 3.2 per cent bere by weight or 4 per _cent by volume is non-intoxicating. “The bill will return much revenue.” About two-thirds of the members were 1 present and the public galleries were being crowded more and more, 50 guards had to limit admittance sharply. Rainey quoted Prof. Yandell Hender- | son of Yale as saying that 3.2 per cent | beer or 4 per cent by volume, alcoholic content, “is non-intoxicating.” Chairman Collier was granted control of time on the Democratic side for | those favoring the bill and Representa- tive Sanders, Democrat, of Texas, for those Democrats against it. Representative Hawley was put in charge of time for Republican debate against the bill and Representative | Bacharach, Republican, of New Jersey, for _those favoring it. Each had an hour and a half. Borah and McNary Listen. Constitution,” drys on the floor and some in the gal- leries applauded. eighteenth Husband and Wife Take Turns Serving Dry Law Sentences By the Associated Press. DENVER, December 20.—When Prank Loranz gets out of jail, he will mind the children while his wife serves a jail term. Both leaded guilty yesterday to a Kquor charge, but asked clemency on the imprisonment would mean that their children, Alphonse, 10, and Agnes, 11, would have no one to care for them. Justice Sabin sent Loranz to jail for 30 days and permitted Mrs. Lorans to remain at liberty. She will serve her sentence at the expiration of her husband’s term. Crowther asserted, as ‘Walking up and down the well of the House, Crowther said, “Brewers use less than three-fourths of 1 per cent of the grain produced in this country.” “As 3 mortgage lifter,” he said, “this Dbill is going to be a keen disappoint- ment to the agricultural sections of this country. “It does not exclude the use of for- materials in the manufacture of elgn beer, either. Cites Saloon Danger. “It is being brought up presumably ! to balance the budget, but the revenue from it 18 to be keenly disappointing. “No very concrete proposition for the distribution of beer was submitted to the Ways and Means Committee. “I, for one, question the right of Con- gress to write into the law provisions for the distribution of liquor in the States. “If it is non-intoxicating, why can't it be handled just like any other drink? “The minute you begin to supervise and control this' traffic you are leading up to the door of the saloon. The kind of regulation that is proposed here means nothing but the saloon.” “In the years to come this will be considered “the very quintessence of lg\sl-uw stupidi ty,” Crowther con- ued. “If the resolution to repeal the amendment had been brought up under a rule which would have permitted an amendment like the Glass amendment in the Senate, I would have voted to submit it.” he said, “but the Speaker's mind was closed on this issue.” Speaker Garner had the Democratic platform prohibition repeal resolution brought to a vote on the first day of Congress and it was defeated by six votes. Representative Cullen, Democrat, of New York, sald “the ranks of the army of unemployed swell to alarming pro- portions,” and insisted the beer tax bill would “relieve the taxpayers of their heavy burden.” “The Poor Man's Drink.” . Cullen said the $5 a barrel tax was just, adding “if you put a higher tax on it you are going to stay the sale” of the new beer. “After all” Cullen asserted, “beer is not the rich man's drink; it's the poor man’s drink and if you raise this tax | you are going to make it cost the poor man more. “The country spoke its wishes in the last election and it is our duty to do what tke people asked.” Long & proponent of beer legalization, lrikprmnullve William E. Hull, Repub- can, O’Connor-Hull beer bill defeated in the of Illinois, co-author of the Senator Borah of Idaho, Republican | last session, said he believed “the rapid dry leader, and Senator McNary of Oregon, assistant Republican leader in the Senate, entered the chamber and listened to the debate. “Twenty million barrels of high-pow- i er beer containing 6 per cent of alcohol | are sold in this country each year with- | out giving any taxes to the Govern- |y “If that were taxed it would yleld | an enormous amount of revenue.” | Rainey then reviewed the history of beer taxes, showing how they ha fluctuated. Because of the condition of the Treasury and the failure of existing said, “we must consider new sources of revenue.” Representative Bankhead, in the | chair, had to interrupt Rainey to ad- monish members to step preserve order so Rainey could be heard. Rainey said the bill carried “protec- | L the States that choose to stay The occupation tax of $1,000 on brew- ers, he said, “will bring in consider- | able revenue,” and would “guarantee” that the new beverages would be pro- duced by capable brewers.” Representative Snell remarked that the Democratic leadership had been quoted as saying that other than the beer bill, it will grant no further oppor- tunity to raise taxes to balance the budget at this session.” I want to know | if the Democratic leadership was cor- | rectly quoted?” he asked. “Incorrectly Quoted.” “No, it was not,” Rainey said. He added, however, that with the revenue to be had from beer and economies to be effected the Democratic leadership hoped to bring the budget nearer to balance. ‘The first to speak against the bill. | growth of this within a short time consume annually 100.000,000 bushels of farm products. thy hjllh{ul. made entirely from the products of I3 health value and which are made en- tirely from products raised in_Cuba and other tropical countries. real, sure-enough rellef.” (beer) industry will By passing this measure you legalize manufacture of a Wholesome, non-intoxicating beverage he American farm, which will take the place of so-called soft drinks of no This is Democratic leaders have made no ef- fort to whip their forces into line to support the beer bill, but they believe that when the final least 130 votes in their part; among the Republicans wil the majority. tally is made at and 90 provide Today's action was notable in that and to | it was the first time since the Volstead act became law that a bill to modify it has been sponsored by a standing committee and the first time since war days that the Ways and Means Com- mittee has proposed a tax on beer. ‘The Democrats look to beer legaliza- tion and taxation which they estimate will produce about $300,000,000 annual- ly in revenue as & means of balancing the budget. New York, Republican leader, said the | Collier bill is not a party matter and consequently the vote will not be along Representative Snell of party lines. GIRL CONFESSES FUGITIVE IN SLAYING WAS FRIEND Declares She Was With Earl Webb and S8aw Him Kill A. B. Floyd. Representative Crowther, Republican, of | By the Associated Press. New York, said the “presumption” is| that the purpose of the bill is to pro-| duce revenue. “How much it would bring is any- body’s guess,” he declared. ‘“Nobody knows how quickly the brewers of the country could get up to their average production.” He quoted a representative of the brewers as saying that about 15,000,000 barrels of liquor could be produced in the United States the first year. “Under this bill, at the rate of $5 a barrell, that would bring in only $75,- 000.000,” Crowther asserted. “There’s one thing of which we can be certain—if the balancing of the bud- get depends upon the revenue coming from this bill the budget is going to be out of balance a long time.” Crowther said witnesses before the House Ways and Means Commitee had %i%ing_far back on the Republican side of the chamber as debate warmed was Willlam D. Upshaw, the Prohibition party’s presidential candidute this year. Upshaw once was & Democratic Repre- sentative from Georgia. “I don’t think it's constitutional to put a beer bill into the law so long as the eighteenth amendment. is in_the SPECIAL! HOLIDAY ROUND-TRIP FARES Are one way, plus $1 (Round Trip) Philadelphia $4.50 Boston ....$10.50 Jacksonville $22.00 Raleigh . ... $8.30 New York.. $6.50 Thousands of Similar Savings Phone for Schedules and Rates CAPITAL BUS TERM. 633 F St. N.W. Opposite the Hecht Co. PHONE DISTRICT 4224 several times. Evansville last Wednesday, she said. EVANSVILLE, Ind., December 20.— Police said last night Elsie Wilson, 21, of Warrior, Ala., had confessed she was with Earl Webb, 27, last Tuesday morning when A. B. Floyd, 75, was beaten to death in his home at Union- town, Ky. Webb, also known as Cecil ‘Webb, has not been apprehended. The :on;sm said she did not know where e Police said Miss Wilson told them, Webb struck Floyd three times on the head with & hammer and then robbed him and placed the body in a clothes closet, where it was found. After the slaying, police said Miss ‘Wilson told them, she and Webb forged checks with Floyd's name and passed $60 worth of them in Uniontown. She said they spent the night at the Floyd home and looked at the victim’'s body The prisoner came to Mrs.McCarty's 60c Lb. Homemade CANDIES -~ NOw ds, nd other deli- clous centers. Made fresh daily right here i washington. Mrs. MCart's National Theater Candy Shop 1317 E St. N.W. D. C., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1932. RARE CHINESE ANIMALS SHOT INTWO-YEAR HUNT BY SCIENTIST New York Zoologist Tells of Bandit- Infested Country Covcred By the Assoctated Press. CHICAGO, December 20.—TWwo years in one of the most barbaric regions of China, the only white man within scores of miles, and consorting _wil clvilized ‘natives and bandit hordes— such was the story told today by Floyd T. Smith, . Smith, a New York zoologist, has re- turned from a journey on which he lived for weeks on corn meal and wild animal meat. dodged bandits and sav- ages and collected 7,000 specimens of Asiatic animals, reptiles, birds and fishes {gr the Field Museum of Natural His- Ty. Hesitant to speak of narrow escapes from bandits and other perils in the flood and war torn regions, Smith talked enthusiastically of the specimens he brought back. He admitted the prized specimens of the expedition, seven rare takins and two giant pandas, were shot by hired native hunters. He and curators of the museum were especially enthusiastic over the largest takin, a flerce member of the goat fam- ily, It was 5o large that only the skull, leg bones and hide could be brought out of the mountains where it was killed. The shooting of the largest panda, 250-pound animal resembling the Ame; can black bear, except for beautiful white markings, coincided with an at- ffifif on the expedition's camp by ban- in Trip. “My head hunter killed it at a place several dsys' journey from the camp, which only a boy and the carpenter were watching” Smith recounted. *I :‘.'."m & valley, also some distance “The bandits swept down and burned the camp, stealing what they did not destroy. ‘The boy escaped over the mountains and warned the head hunter, who relayed the information to me. We _got_out of there quick.” The hunting was done with small dogs trained by the Lolo tribes and directed by natives armed with match- lock rifles which even an amateur rab- bit hunter in America would scorn. Aside from bandits and frequent wars, Smith said, the biggest problem was in circumventing native customs and o esiance.” e i nstance,” explained, “upon entering a new hunun‘? ground, the huntsmen insisted on a lengthy cere- mony of burning candles, sacrificing native money, and kowtowing pro- fusely to the blood of a chicken. “When hunting pandas, they insisted on burning the bones of a pig and then watching the spot for days. Our speci- mens, however, were killed miles away from any burned bones.” As an example of tive law, he told of a Chinese being fined the equi: alent of $300 for shooting to death an- other Chinese, either by intent or by accident. NURSE QUESTIONED IN BABY DEATHS Nora Georgia Paulson States Jam- med Door Prevented Full View to Medicine Closet. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, December 20.—Nora Georgia Paulson, 28, the nurse whose mistake in preparing & solution, au- thorities said, led to the death of three babies in New York Hospital-Cornell | Medical Center, was questioned yester- day by Assistant District Attorney Saul | Price. Price, who sald he planned to ques. tion Miss Paulson further on Wednes- | day, quoted her as saying that when | she went to the closet where solutions | were kept she found she could not open | the door completely and reached in and took a bottle, thinking it was the right one. Later it was discovered the bottle contained a boric acid solution instead of the saline solution which prescribed. The three babies became il after the | injection was administered on Thursday and Miss, Paulson summoned a cian, Price said, to attend them. Two of the babies died Saturday and | though there must be more than a few | the third died Sunday. Price said Miss Paulson told him she was born in Austin, Minn., and was graduated from St. Mary's School of have helped to make the prince one of | Nursing at Rochester, Minn., in 1928. governed by the inquiry he is conduct- —_—— Loudspeakers for calling policemen from their beats are to be placed in trol boxes in Motherwell, Scotland. Price said his future action would be| When he wants to dispose of an old! ing. | the York H | PHlLlP physi- | 18 Bottles of Beer Will Be Displayed In House Debate By the Associated Press. The House s going to see beer today while Jt is debating the Collier bill. Representative _Sirovich, New York Democrat, obtained permis- sion from Dr. James M. Doran, commissioner of industrial alco- hol, to display 18 bottles of the brew during his speech. A physician and an expert on poisons, he took a similar exhibit to the House floor two years ago in his fight against placing of polson in industrial alcohol. WALES’ OLD CLOTHES GIVEN AWAY CAREFULLY Special Dispatch to The Star. LONDON, December 3.—The question often has been asked, “What does the had been | Prince of Wales do with his cast-off | clothes?” H. R. H. never gives away clothing wholesale, and the recipients of his old suits seldom know that what they are wearing once belonged to him, down-and-outs in the East End who, unknowingly, are dresed in the suits or coats which, by their cut and style, the best-dressed men in England. suit, the prince either gives it to one of e stafl at ouse or, more fre- quently, includes it in a parcel to one of the several East End charities in | which he is interested. P2 | (Copyright. 1932. by North American NMews- paper Alliance, inc.) ¥ A5 BUDGET BALANCING - IS EXPECTED SOON Senate ~ Action Declared Likely in View of Mount- ing Deficit. BY DR. MAX WINKLER. Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, December 20.—While the budgetary deficit of the United States of more than $1,000,000,000 dur- ! ing the first five and one-half months ‘or the current fiscal year cannot be re- garded favorably, from a long range viewpoint it may be considered with a | degree of optimimm. Favorable action by the Senate some time this week on the Collier beer bill, designed to balance the budget or re- duce the deficit is within the range of | probability. At least, advocates of measures designed to bring about budgetary equilibrium during the short session of Congress anticipate such tion. They even hope that the Senate will add as an amendment to the bill the manufacturers’ excise tax, turned down in the Lower House as not being “germane” to a bill which has as its main purpose the legalization of a now unlawful bevc:age. Marketwise, nothing sensational is expected. Despite improvement which has already taken place quotations are likely to end the year above recent levels. 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