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REPORT DISCLOSES FURLOUGH LOSSES One Out of 24 Workers Fac- ing Average Slash of $208 Above Other Cut. The force with which the adminis- trative furlough provision of the econ- omy act is hitting the Government per- | sonnel was made known yesterday, when the Civil Service Commission made public a table showing that 1 out of 24 workers is facing an average pay reduction of $208 over and above the statutory 8!; per cent cut applied to_all through the legislative furlough. Designed to avert dismissals in those establishments whose appropriations for the current fiscal year were insufficient to maintain their forces on full time, the administrative furlough is finding application in 20 out of 43 agencies. In these, 20,015 workers stand to lose a total of $4,161,909.51. ¥ ‘This figure is based on the possibility that the President may not release funds impounded where vacancies have not been filled. If he does, the cost to the workers will be less. The figure, however, takes into account so far as the Department of Justice is concerned, only those administrative furloughs that have thus far been applied, and ! makes no allowance for enforced leave | of indeterminate length that may be- | come necessary later in the year. Sent to Committee. ‘The tabulation was made by the com- mission in response to a request from the Senate Economy Committee, and was sent to the committee yesterday when returns from the entire’ Govern- ment service were in hand. It shows that under terms of the economy act, coupled with decisions of the controller general, the administra- tive furloughs which were held out as embodying the “spread-work” principle, couid be applied to 485,141 employes in the executive civil service, but as a matter of fact are reaching but about 4 per cent of this total. The employes affected range from one in the Navy Department to 9,139 in the Department of Commerce. Elsewhere the furloughs are being applied as follows: To 29 employes of the White House; 732 of the War Department; 225 of the De- partment of Justice; 79 of the Depart- ment of the Interior: 121 of the De- ent of Agriculture; 3,562 of the partment of Labor; 2,248 of the In- terstate Commerce Commission; 522 of the Civil Service Commission; 49 of the Federal Trade Commission; 34 of the Shipping Board; 617 of the Panama Canal; 2,180 of the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks; 3 of the Commission of Fine Arts; 117 of the Board of Tax Appeals; 19 of the Board | of Mediation; 332 of the Federal Farm Board; 3 of the Natiinal Geographic Board and 3 of the International| Boundary: Commission (United States | and Mexico). Action Would Help. Seven of these groups will get some gelief if the President releases the im- unded funds, these being Civil Serv- e, Commerce, Federal Trade, Public Buildings and Public Parks, Board of *Tax Appeals, Board of Mediation and Farm Board. The table does not show geut to what extent this relief would possible. g Failure to get it, however, will be felt severely, the average loss of pay for the entire force of the Board of Mediation, which settles rail disputes, amounting to $1,333.69, and for the Federal Farm Board, $945.49, these being two outstanding examples. The furloughs are of varying length, in some instances amounting to dis- missal. The aggregate number of days of administrative furlough is placed at 698,15315. There are some agencies which show no administrative furlough, but which, it has been said in the past, evaded them only because workers vol- unterily took leave without pay. Admm!st{lnflve (ul’rl;Jel;l.h.‘i are t1'1(:!_}.\[!’)2!:-' essary in the State rtment, Treas- ury Department, Post Office Depart- ment, Government Printing Office, Smithsonian _Institution, Bureau of Efficiency, Office of the Alien Property Custodian, Tariff Commission, Em- ployes' Compensation Commission, Fed- eral Board for Vocational Education, Generzl Accounting Office, Veterans’ Administration, Railroad Administra- tion, War Finance Corporation, Na- tional Advisory Committee for Aero- nautics, Federal Reserve Board, Federal Power Coramission, Federzl Radio Com- mission, American Battle Monuments Commission, International Joint Com- missicn, International Boundary Com- mission (United States, Alaska and Canad2), Reconstruciion’ Finance Cor- poraticn and Interamerican High Com- mission (United States section). Higher Pay Cut Most. Carrying out the spirit of the econo- my law, the heaviest administrative furloughs sre being imposed on the| higher salaried employes. In the salary range of $1,500 and| under, out of 114,890 employes 6,302 are | administratively furloughed. 1In this| group the estimated aggregate number | of days of administrative furloughs is| |Manifesto of Engiish Clergy THE SUNDAY Administrative Furlough Table furlough to w public yesterday warded to the pilation. to the statutory 815 ger its full force is borne by an average pay loss of $208. Employing Agency. 35 A ent Senal ervice Federal Trade . Shipping Board Panama Canal . i Public Bulldings Fine Arts Commission. Board of Tax Appeals Board of Mediation Farm Board Geographic Board Intl. Boundary Comm. (U. Civil Service Economy Committee, which requested the As the table brings out, this pay reduction, which is in addition cent cut, is necessitated in 20 agencies, where approximately 12 per cent of the personnel, with The appended table, which shows the amount of administrative ‘hich the Governmu establishment is subject, was made Commission after it had been for- com- Emploves on_ Est. Amt Withheld Adm. Furloush. from Employes. $479.79 89,451.57 9, 104,213.832 217.042.00 741.66 1,800.00% *Estimated. TIME SEEN AS RIPE FOR CHURCH UNION Regarded as Step Toward Return to Rome. BY ANTHONY LANE. By Cable to The Star. ROME, December 31 —Publication in the Osservatore Romano, official organ of the Vatican, of a manifesto signed by | 50 prominent Church of England clergy- men, urg'ng the return of the Anglican Church to Roman catholicism, brings once more to the fore the oft-discussed question of Christian unity. The 50 English church dignitaries take much the same line that J. H. New- man took 100 years ago. They object to the “liberalism” that has invaded the Church of England and demand a return to strict authority. It was in 1832 that Newman began to have doubts of the soundness of the Church of England doctrine as a “golden means” between Romanism and liberal Protestantism, although it was not until 13 years later that he definitely joined the Roman church. Several hundred members of the Church of England clergy followed him into the Roman Catholic Church. Conditions Seen Favorable. 1t is pointed out in Vatican circles that conditions today for a reconcilia- tion between the two churches are much more favorable than they were a cen- tury ago. For one thing, & tendency that had been noted in Newman's time has become more marked. That is the tendency for England, and consequently the established church, to be governed more and more by dissenters. Despite the so-called enabling act of 1919, Parliament retains the final right | of legislation in church matterz, and as Parliament today is composed in ma- | jority of non-members of the established church, there is constant friction. The | adoption two years ago of a new prayer- book, with important changes in church doctrine, caused much resentment among the conservative clergy. | Disestablishment has been urged in England as a remedy, but does not an- swer the objections of those who com- plain of the lack of authority and di cipline. The 50 signatories of the mani- festo published in the Osservatore proclaim their conviction that the only satisfactory mluti!(’m is a return to the authority of the Pope. It is ¥cvealcd here also that in the course of many negotiations bstween Vatican and Anglican representatives in recent years the question has arisen of the creation of 2 number of Engiish cardinals. At present there is only one| English cardinal, the Archbishop of | ‘Westminster. American Church Problem. Vatican spokesmen believe there | would be no difficulty on this score. | They point out that Newman was maae | a cardinal from simple priest. Should the Anglican and Roman churches re- unite, it is thought likely that the Col- | lege of Cardinals might be increased from 70 to 75 members, to make room | for five mew British cardinal=. There is. however, another problem that might not be so easiiy solved, namely, the question of the Episcopal | church in the United Etates. That | church, doctrinally, is identical with the | | Anglican church, but with fewer au- thoritarian traditions. In certain re-| gions of the United States, notably in the South, the feeling against Rome is| strong, and it appears certain that| whatever decision the Anglican church ! might reach, the American Episcopal 224,956'2; the estimated amount with- held from employes is $830,053.58, or an | average of $132 per employe. | In the calary group of $1,501 to $3,- 000 .2 year, out of 337,580 employes 10,-, 034 are affected. In this group the es- | timated aggregate number of davs of administrative furlough 349.256%, and the estimated amount withheld from the employes is $2.052,424.12. The average per employe is 5. i In the s:lary group from $3,001 up, out of a total of 32,671 employes 3,679 come . uncer the ~furloughs, In this| group the cstimated aggregate number | of days of administrative furloughs is 123940’ and the estimated amount | withheld from employes is $1,279,431.81, | for an average of $348 DINNER FOR HORSES TO BE JANUARY 5 Rescu: Police Co- operation in Round-up of Fecble League Given Animals. The = Washington League will Yuletide | dinner for horses J y The | ners enable the league to contact owr ers of ‘feeble horses and the animals | are often purchased if the owners c: not feed them The police are co-operating league in giving addresses where such | horses can bz found. Members of the Jeague then go to these places, taking a good meal for the horse, and, when the condition of the animal justifies its purchase and the owner is willing to sell, the horse is boug A special fund for this purpose is maintained by the league, which has its headquarters at 71 O street Animal ual Rescue vith the | ROOSEVELT FREES SEVEN Prisoners’ Sentences Commuted as Governor Leaves Office. ALBANY, N. Y.. December 31 (£ — - With the end of his term only a few * hours away, Gov, Franklin D. Roocsevelt, the President-elect, today tences to seven prisoners in State insti- tutions. One of the men, Carl Bedient, had served 3 years of a 10-year sentence for stealing chickens. e was convicted in Schuyler County of burglary in the fir:t degree. Another, William Panta. was serving "Miss Elizabeth Eastman from 4:30 to | Vesterday. 8 life sentence as a fourth offender in consequence of rtealing two small rugs from a New York City store while in- toxicated. presented | New Year gifts of commutation of sen-! church would not follow it to Rome. | Considerations of this sort, it is ad-| | mitted, may weigh heavily with Briiish churchmen. They might fear a les- sening of their influence in Amierica, which at present is great, if they re- turned to the Roman obedience. (Copyright. 1933.) HOUSE CONTEST BASED ON INFLUENCE OF VOLIVA Demccrat Alleges James Simpson, | Jr., Won Chiefly Through Re- ligious Leaders’ ‘Contract. the Associated Press. > Charles H. Weber, Democrat, yeste day notified the House clerk that he § ed to contest the election of James mpson, jr.. Republican and a director of Marshall Field & Co., as Represent- ative from the tenth Illinois district The count showed that Weber ran about 1,000 votes behind Simpson. In his notice, Weber blamed his ap- parent defeat principally’ on Wilbur | Glenn Volive, h2ad of a religious or- der, on Chicago's outskirts. ‘Weber id Voliva had a contract under which lace made by members of his order was sold to Marshall Field & Co., and | rged this was a factor in Voliva's | { B | ch { support of Simpson. Quoting _James Simpson, sr.. 8n cxecutive of Marshall Field, as having | said’ that he was going to elect “my | boy to Congress il it takes half my | fortune,” Weber asserted Voliva subse- quently had issued orders for his church members to vote a straight Republican | ticket and had distributed a sample ballot so that it might better be un- jdezstood. Weber said through this Simpson got 2,000 votes he should not have receive:. Y. W. C. A. TO ENTERTAIN, | Members Will Hold Open House Today at Main Building. The Young Women's Christian Asso- ciation will keep open house at its main building, Seventeenth and K streets, from 3:30 to 5 o'clock this afternoon.| Members of the Hospitality Committee, of which Mrs. Harlan Piske Stone is chairman, will act as hostesses, as- sisted by stafl members. | Mrs. Robert Lansing will preside at | the tea table until 4 o'clock; Mrs. Luke I Wilson from 4 to 4:30 o'clock, and ............... cenees 172,592 t | feet. 20,615 $4,161,909.51 +Furloughs actually granted; does not include possible additions. :Estimated on basis of no release of vacancy impounded funds. FARN A1 FIRS INHOUSE PLANS More Purchasing Power by! at Least $500.000,000 Goal of Sponsors. By the Associated Press, An emergency farm relief plan de-| signed to supply just the push needed to | start the country toward prosperity will| be the first important business of the House in the new year. More purchasing power for the farmer by upward of $500,000.000 is| the goal of its sponsors, who argue umt" this sum, going back into channels of | trade, will start the wheels of industry moving faster and boost employment. A domestic allotment plan has been | decided on to do the job. It has the united support of organized farm lead- ers and Chairman Jones announced yesterday his Agricultural Committee will report the bill to the House “not later than next Wednesday.” Purchasing Power Increase. “The bili is designed to increase the; purchasing power of the farmer and| thereby give buying power a start that | will help lift the country out of the' depression,” Jones said. Representatie Rainey, the Democratic | leader, said the bill will be given the right of way as soon as it comes from committee and predicted its approval| by_the House. But the plan, which would pay| producers a bounty on their share of domestic consumption, is not without| opposition. To raise the necessary funds a processing tax is provided, and | already it has been attacked as “a giant sales tax.” Four Commodities in Bill. The bill on which the Agriculture Committee expects to conclude work Tuesday, contains four commodities— wheat, cotton, tobacco and hogs. But committee members have not yet de- termined whether all shall go in the final draft and some effort will be made to_exclude hogs from its provisions. The allotment plan would be admin- istered by the Secretary of Agriculture. |In return for an agreement to reduce | his production, the farmer would be; | entitled to a bonus on that portion of | his crop that is consumed domestically. This bonus would come out of an adjustment fund, raised through a| charge on processing. The rate of the processing tax would be that amount necessary to give the commodity its, pre-war purchasing power in industrial commoditics. FUGITIVE IS KILLED BY GIRL'S BROTHERS Two Convicted Outlaws, Accompa-| nied by Guards, Gain Vengeance For Sister's Attack. By the Associated Pres: SEMINOLE, Okla, December 31.— George Noland, escaped convict accused of wounding Nellie Kimes, sister of two | notorious Oklahoma outlaws, was shot to death today in an encounter with her | brothers and two guards attending them on leave from prison. Otis Presson, county attorney, said he had received information the Kimes brothers, Matt and George, both under long-term sentences to the State Peni- tentiary at McAlester, did the shoot- |- ing. Riddled with lead from pistols and a sawed-off shotgun before the eyes of Nellie Kimes and her sister Jackie, 16, | Noland was killed in a two-room hide- out in West Seminole. The county attorney’s office ordered that the Kimes brothers and the guards be returned here for an inves- tigation. They left for McAlester soon after the shooting. - Nellie Kimes bore the scar of the bullet wound she received in the face, allegedly at the hands of Nolapd after he, escaped from prison last May 30 Noland, a former oil worker, was sent up for life from Osage County, January 3-" 1926, for the slaying of A. L. Mc- Taslin of Bartlesville, Okla., at a rural dance. . Officers said they had learned that Noland reached for his weapons when he saw the Kimes brothers approaching the house, bu¢ that he had little chance to fire. They said the young woman had stayed at the house for a time with him. SNAKE'S SEVERED HEAD RITES TWO BIRD DOGS Animals Bitten as They Rush in to “‘Retrieve" Reptile Shot by Hunter. By the Associated Press VALDOSTA, Ga., December 31.—Twe fine bird dogs were near death here tD? day. victims of a rattlesnake that struck after its body had been com- pletely severed by a charge from the | thotgun of the dogs' owner, Harry John- son. Johnson, hunting near here, found he sleeping snake almost under his He fired as soon as he discovered it and the dogs, rushing into the clump of grass to retrieve game they thought he had killed, were struck by the head as a severed portion of the threshed about. Soaes Killed in Accidental Fall. MONTREAL, December 31 (#).— From the scventh floor of the Bank of | Toronto Building here, Isidore Crepeau, 60, vice president of United Amusement Corporation and special agent for Atlas Assurance compahy, fell to his death He lost his balance while STAR, WASHINGTO " IRAILROADS SLASH (WOLL MAKES PLEA [PANUARY ONE OF YOUNGEST Abandonment of Unprofitable Trackage Is Highest for Any Normal Year. By the Associated Press. i CHICAGO, December 31.—Railroad economies to offset decreased freight and passenger traffic brought American carriers to two new stations in 1932. One on the graph of new construc- tion, Samuel O. Dunn, editor of Rail- way Age, sald today, was the point representing the lowest total for any year since the Civil War. The other on the chart of trackage abandoned placed the total for the steel lines at the highest figure for any ordinary railroad year. “In 1921," saild Dunn, “the rcads. just returned to their owners from the control of the Federal Railroad Admin- istration, began as quickly and com- pletely as possible to get rid of un- productive lines. This policy resulted in the abandonment that year of 1,626.38 miles of track, the all-time record.” Built Only 163 Miles. In 1932, under more normal operating conditios, so far as Government operation was concerned, the Nation’s roads abandoned 1,452.07 miles of track and constructed but 163. ce 1018, mecording to Dunn, the r can railroads have been more or less accustomed to track abandon- i ess of construction, but in no year—with the exception of 1921— has the ratio between the two been so far out of line as in 1932. The figures for tracks abandoned and new mileage constructed since 1917 follow: Lines abandoned—1917, 942; 1918, 958.51; 1919, 636.92: 1920, 535.52; 1921, 1,626.38; 1922, 676.77; 1923, 512.95; 1924, 692.61; 1925, 606.37; 1926, 457: 1927, 281.97; 1928, 512.36; 1929, 475.38; 1930, 694.17; 1931, 794.68; 1932, 1,452.07. Total, 11,855.66. New lines constructed—1917, 979; 1918, 721; 1919, 686; 1920, 314; 1921, 4 324, 1923, 427; 1924, 579; 1 1926, 1,005, 1927, 779; 1928, 1929, 666; 1930, 513; 1931, 748; 2, 163. Total,.10,048. Competition Is Cited. A survey of Dunn's publication dis- closed three leading causes for the high total of trackage abandoned in 1932 First was placed competition from bus, trucks and other transport services; 1, 193 | second, decline of industries served, and, third, the fact that some of the lines abandoned represented ‘“‘weak sisters” in the railroad family. These latter, Dunn said—many of them “farmer built’—were roads never too profitable in prosperous times which could not weather any decided drop in business. Tracks to logging and mining camps. Dunn said. figured largely in abandoned list for 1932. Several companies found the mines ard lumber camps they had served no longer active. Obsolescence was_responsible for tearing up other trackage. Replacement even at the lower figures now prevailing for rail- road supplies being deemed unprofitable. Three railroads abandoned their entire trackage. They were small com- panies—the Minneapolis and Rainy River in the Minnesota lake country, 63 miles; the Washington and Lincolnton Railroad in Georgia, 20 miles, and the Marion and Rye Valley, 25 miles, in Western Virginia. Competition was given as the reason for abandoning a total of 80 miles of tracks by the New York Central and Michigan Central in Michigan. One Major Project. Much of the new construction of 1932 was in the nature of small connecting tracks, but contracts for one important Grande Western. That was the so- called “Dotsero cut off” to save time between Denver, Colo., and Salt Lake City, Utah. The construction includes 2bout 39 miles of track between Dotsero and Orestod, both in Colorado. With general railroad construction at the most marked decrease for any year since 1902, the $175,000,000 pro- gram of the Pennsylvania Railroad stood out in decided contrast. The Baltimore improvements of this program which will cost $30.000,000 are just being started. The New York Central despite adverse conditions of 1932 main- tained an approximate schedule on its $175,000,000 West Side New York City grade separation, and improvement program startzd four years ago. It is expected the New York Central con- struction will require about two years to_complete. Despit> the showing of these two strong Eastern roads, the country’s lines will carry over into 1933 a drasti- caily reduced schedule of general con- struction from previous years, the magazine's surv:y indicated. DANCER BADLY HURT IN MYSTERIOUS FALL Taken to Hospital When Found on Long Island Estate in Dazed Condition. By the Associated Press. MINEOLA, N. Y., December 31— Theima Atterbury, who changed her name to Feon Vanmar when she ieft ¢ home at Terre Haute, Ind, and nt on the stage, lay seriously injured in Nassau County Hospital tonight as a result of what police believed was an | early morning fall. The 28-year-old dancer was found dazed on the grounds of the Long Is- |land estate of George E. Kent, retired lawyer. Police said she may have fallen ‘frnm a second-story porch. At the | hospital, where her condition was termed | “serious, not critical,” she was found to have suffered a fractured jaw and other injuries. | " George E. Kent, jr., son of the lawyer, |told police Miss Vanmar accompanied | him out of the estate last night and |that shortly after reaching there he lay down to doze. He did not learn of her injuries, he said, until he was awakened this morning by a butler. SN FRIENDS ALUMNI MEET 75 Association Members Gather at Luncheon. About 75 members of the Friends School Alumni Association attended luncheon at the school, 1809 I street, yesterday, given in hczor of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Sidwell, the principals. Maj. Archibald King, former president of the association, and Mr. spoke. Maj. King is chairman of the alumni committee in charge of the 50th anniversary celebration of founding of | the school in 1883, and Mr. Sidwell told lof the school's plans for the future. The senior class were the guests of the alumni at the luncheon. Miss Fanny Manning, president, presided. NAVY OFFICER SUED. Wife of Lieut. Comdr. Browning at Reno—Charges Cruelty. Lieut. Comdr. Miles Rutherford Brown- ing, U. 8. N, is being sued for divorce by Mrs. Marie Barbin Browning, accord- ing to a dispatch from Reno, Nev., yesterday. The couple were married at New Orleans on June 5, 1931, and they have one child. The complaint allezes cruelty. An agreement was reached 5 o'clock. A musical program will be | adjusting a flag device to the windew | outside court on custody and support. given by the Almas Club of the Mu | Phi Epsilon Sorority under direction of Miss Helen Lyon. of his office, whereby he could easily signal to his chauffeur stationed in a nearby square. Comdr. Browning is on duty in the Bureau of Aeronautics, Navy Depart. ment. . . project were let by the Denver & Rio | Sidwell | D. C., JANUARY 1, Warns Against “Dependence on Govérnment” in New Year Statement. By the Associated Press | Co-operation within industry during 1933 and a warning against “depend- | ence on Government” were coupled yes- | terday in & New Year statement by Matthew Woll, vice president of the American Federation of Labor. “We need co-operation within Amer- )ican industry during 1933 and we need | it without delay,” Woll said. “Our Na- tion as a whole is in trouble. It is not merely trouble for a single group or a few groups, but for all of us and there | must be co-operation on the part of all to beget recovery. * * * “Congress should make every honest effort to enact legislation which will provide honest employment for Amer- ica’s unemployed. The passage of the pending beer bill will promote employ- ment, will promote true temperance, will eliminate racketeering and gang- sterism and will help eliminate our growing national deficit. “Then, too, we need to undertake | a concentration upon national prob- lems, American problems. Interna- tionalism may be an idealistic pro- fession, but it can likewise be a mis- taken one. The world is not helped by professing internationalism, while | America goes to pleces. * * * “We enter 1933 facing a change in Government. Many find hope in that fact. I should like to give warning against too much dependence upon Government. Government can, and we hope will, be helpful. But Govern- ment cannot and should not do all things. We shall pay dearly for every step toward paternalism and .bureau- cracy. * ¢ * “The greatest safeguard against too | much dependence upon Government is | co-operation between voluntary groups | within industry. We have no condi- | tion that cannot be remedied with the! instruments at our command. We have | no need for despair if we bt use the | tools that are at our command. * * *” BIG REINDEER HERD SIGHTED IN ARCTIC| i | | Missing Shipment Sent by Canada ! te Help Eskimos and Indians Still Totals 2,300, | By the Associated Press. OTTAWA, Ontario, December 31.— | The large redineer herd the Canadian |government sent from Aleska to the MacKenzie River Delta three years ago as an aid to Eskimos and Indians has been found after having been lost in the Arctic wilderness for many months. The minister of interior, Thomas G. Murphy, was told last night that the herd, originally numbering 3,000 head but now 2,300, was sighted at Icy Reef, near the Alaska-Yukon boundary. “Barring an unlorseen difficulty, the herd will be delivered at the native vil- lege of Kittangazuit, at the mouth of the MacKenzie on the Arctic Ocean, next Spring,” Mr. Murphy said. “Head- quarters have been provided in the Kit- tangazuit area, which promises well for the development of the reindeer.” It is expected that the arrival of the herd, valued &t $200,000, will mean se- | curity for thousands of Eskimo and In- dian wards of the Dominion govern- ment. Blizzard after blizzard was encoun- tered by the herd in its 1,600-mile trek through icy mountain passes within 1,000 miles of the North Pole, even though careful precautions were take) SOUTH DAKOTA ATTACKS BORER WITH QUARANTINE Many Plants From 13 Eastern States Banned by State's Farm Official. By the Associated Press. PIERRE, S. Dak, December 31.—A | quarantine affecting the shipments of many plants into South Dakota from 13 Eastern States has been ordered by Loy- son G. Troth, secretary of agriculture, in an effort to keep the European corn borer out of the State. ‘The order, effective January 1, is aimed at the States of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, West Virginia and New Jersey, Where, Troth said, the corn borer is prevalent. The quarantine prohibits importation, directly or indirectly, of corn and broomcorn, all sorghum and sudan grass, celery, green beans in the pod. beets with tops, spinach, rhubarb, ocat and rye straw, as such or when used as packing, cut flowers or entire plants of chrysanthemum, aster, cosmos, zinnig, | holiyhock and glaciola and dahlia ex- | copt the bulbs. | ONE MAN IS KILLED IN BATTLE AT GARAGE| Police Believe Amateur Hijackers | and Rum Runners Battled in ‘Empty Building. By the Associated Press | Romulus, one of the legendary twin | the prcblem to the dictator’s satisfac- | the first day of January of the 708th | | to whose care the month was dedicated | Genovier, | first New York-to-London 1933—PART ON UT MOST IMPORTANT MONTHS NEW CONSTRUCTION| FOR CO-OPERATION . e we ated With February to'liegulate'Ra.man Calendar With Suq—Many'Greag January, the first month, according’( to the present and the later Roman reckoning, is among the youngest of the conventional subdivisions of the year.| The carly Romans knew it not. Their year consisted of but 10 months and, ac- cording to’ tradition tracing back to founders of the city, began with March. However, by 251 B.C. both January and February had appearsd in the Roman civil calendar. They lon( were supposed to have been introduc'd by Numa Pompilius, second K*ng of Rome, who had for his advisers Pythagoras and the Camena Egeria, but the credit probably belongs to one of his suc- cessors. ‘When Julius Caesar came:to power he found that the civil equinox dif%ered from the astronomical by three months, and that consequently the Winter months were carried back into Autumn and the autumnal months into Sum- mer, He requisitioned the assistance of the Greek or Egyptian astronomer* Sosigenes, in an endeavor to regulate the state calendar entirely by the sun. Sosigenes, skilled in mathematicw, solved tion. The mean length of the year was decreed to be 365'; days, and for prac- tical purposes every fourth year was ordered to have 366 days., the others 365. The first Julian year began with | year from the foundation of the city, the 46th before the birth. of Christ. Changes in Months, In the distribution of the days through the severil months, Caesar commanded that the first, third, fifth, seventh, ninth and eleventh—January, March, May, July, September and No- vember—should have 31 days, the other months 30, excepting February, which, he ruled, should have only 29 in com- | mon years and 30 every fourth year. The arrangement so determjned re- mained in effect until the time of Augustus Caesar, when, to gratify im- perial vanity, the month named for him was given as many days as July, the month designated to honor his illustrious uncle, the first Caesar. To make this adiustment February was robbed of a day, and, in order that three months of 31 days might not come together, September and Novem- ber were cut to 30 days and October end December each were given a day. Tre additional day which occurred every fourth year was allotted to Feb- ruary, and this intercalary day was known as “bis-sexio calendas.” The Julian calendar supposed the year too long by 11 minutes and 14 seconds, implying the loss of one day in every 128 years. Pope Gregory XIII, | in an effort to correct the mistake, or- dered that 10 days be suppressed in the calendar. But the reformed Romen scheme ini- jated by Julius Caesar and edited by Augustus and by Gregory XIII meant nothing in Northern Europe until com- paratively recent times. In England the year began at Christmas until the Nerman Conquest, when it was changed to January 1. In other countries, in line with the ancient Jewish system, March 25 was the beginning of the year. It was not until the eighteenth century that the Gregorian calendar was universally adopted by the nations | of Europe, end even now there are slight differences still extant. January's Latin Name. The Latin name for Januery was Januarius, or Tanuarius. It was derived from the two-faced Roman god Janus, as looking both into the past and the future, and the deity who was patron of the beginnings of all enterprises. He was a primitive Italic solar divinity, regarded as the doorkeeper of heaven. The word January came to England from the old French Janvier. Pro- vencal forms were Januer, Januier, Genoyer. Spanish i Enero, and Portuguese Janeiro. Italian has both Gennajo and Gennaro; Dutch Januarij, and Swedish Janueri. The German and Danish form is Januar. January i5 not the mest important month of the year in historical conno- tations, but it nevertheless has a con- siderable list of famous events to its credit. Port Arthur was taken by the Japa- nese, January 2, 1902. Benjamin Franklin discovered electricity, January 3, 1746. The English Channel was crossed by balloon, January 7, 1785. The telephone call was made January 7, 1927. Presi- dent Wilson promulgated his celebrated 14 points, January 8, 1918. France oc- cupied the Ruhr, January 11, 1923. Hundreds lost their lives in Japanese earthquake, January 15, 1924. cighteenth amendment went into effect, January 16, 1920. The German Empire was established, January 18, 1871. Capt. Scott reached the South Pole, January 18, 1912. The Panama Canal was be- gun by the French, January 20, 1882. Gold was discovered in California, Jan- uary 23, 1.18. United States troops left” Cologne, January 24, 1923. Paris was taken by the Germans, January 28, 1871. Primo de Rivera resigned dictatorship of Spain, January 28, 1930. King Charles I was beheaded, January 30, 1649. The British corn laws were repealed, January 31, 1849. Rirthdays of Famous. January birthdays include those of Gustave Dore, artist, January 6, 1832; Edmund Burke, January 11, 1729; Alex- ander Hamilton, January 11, 1757; Marshal Joffre, January 12, 1852; Ben- jamin Franklin, January 17, 1706; David Lloyd George, January 17, 1863; Earl Betty, January 17, 1871; Robert E. Lee, January 19, 1807; Robert Burms, January 25, 1759; Lewis Carroll, Janu- HYANNIS, Mass., December.31.—One | man_was killed and another probably | | fatally wounded in what police de-| | scribed as a battle between amateur | hijackers and rum-runners in an| | empty garage off the m2in highway | near here last night. | Police said Franklin Bearse, 30, of | | Osterville, father of three ¢hildren. was | Killed by shotgun fire and Manuel Re- bello, 29, of Cotuit, probably would die | of shotgun wounds. | Rebello was taken to & hospital by a passing autoist. ‘When police reached the garage they found only two shotguns. 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We are not particularly considering wheat, but any primary product.” Oil Deal Unlikely. OTTAWA, Ontario, December 31 (#). —A government decision on a proposal to barter Canadian cattle for Russian oil appeared today to be unlikely for some time. Difficulties have arisen which were expected to delay an official statement on the plan calling for the exchange of about $7.000,000 worth of cattle for oil and petroleum products from Soviet Russia. It was rumored that one leading ofl distributor had declined to handle Rus- sian oil because of established agencies of supply in the United States and South America. Difficulty in paying the farmers for the cattle also was an- ticipated unless the government agreed to back a bond issue, since Russia was not to furnish cash. Banks Would Aid. Canadian banks would be prepared to discount the bonds up to a percentage of their face value if the Canadian gov- ernment guaranteed them, and the gov- e;lilsmentlsmdhbeunwflungtod The chief idea of the Western syndi- cate is to find & market for the surplus cattle of the Western plains. With ex- port to the United States shut off by a high tariff and with the British market unable to absorb Canadian cattle in appreciable volume, they turned to Rus- sia as the only country in the world to take large numbers of cattle. | the $20,215,000 VALUE PUT ON WRIGLEY ESTATE Inventory Includes Only Holdings in Illinois, Leaving Out Four Homes. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December 31.—Inventory ff the estate of the late William Wrig- jr., estimating assets to be worth : 215,000, was filed in Probate Court cday. 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