Evening Star Newspaper, January 4, 1933, Page 10

DEMOCRATS SPENT - 163817 IN 1932 Gampaign Report Filed With Congress Shows Net Deficit of $769,055. By the Associated Press. The Democratic National Committee told Congress today it had spent $1,- 638,177 last year. The report of the Democrats, filed with Bouth Trimble, cler!€ of the House, showed receipts for the same period totaled $1,708,507, leaving a balance of $70,330. However, the report also listed un- paid obligations of $839,385, so deduct- ing the balance from these, the net deficit appeared to be $769,055. The Republican report has yet to be made. After 1928 the Democrats reported receipts of $5,444,958 and expenditures of $5,342,348. The veport today showed the Demo- eratic Victory Campaign Committee for 1932 had collected $581,513 and paid out $576,878. The balance was given to the Democratic National Campaign Committee. Cash contributions to the Victory Campaign Committee were reported as totalling $555,696, not including s re- duction of $100,000 made by John J. Raskob in the debt owed to him. Unpaild Obligations. In addition to a large number of small bills, the unpaid obligations of the Na- tional Committee included loans of $80,000 from the County Trust Co. $90,250 from John J. Rascob, $50,000 from Joseph P. Kennedy of New York, $5,000 from Wayne Johnson of New York, $10,000 from Henry Morgenthau of New York, $25,000 from R. W. Mor- rison of San Antonio, Tex.; $5,000 from Delancy Kountze of New ‘&w%' $10,000 from Breckenridge Lang rashing- ton, $15,000 from M. L. , Pitts- burgh, and $1¢,000 from Anton J._Cermack of . Reports today showed Bernard M. Baruch was the heaviest contributor, having donated $53,000. Other large donors were: William Randolph Hearst, $25,0f Plerre S. du Pont, New York, $14,50 James W. Gerard, New York, $17,52: Morton L. Shwartz, New York, $2 000,; Peter Gerry, Providence, R. $22,000; Vincent Astor, New York, $35,- 000; John J. Raskob, $25,000; M. L. Benedum, Pittsi h, $22,700; James M. Curley, Mayor of Boston, $15,000 and .‘!owph P. Kennedy of New York, 15,000. Senatorial Committee Report. A report also was filed showing the Republican Senatorial Campaign Com- mittee in the year received $61,492 and spent $61,394. the contribu- tors were William , w York, $5,000; I. E. White, Hot a. Charles Hayden, , $5000; E. T. Stotesbury, delphia, $2,500; Thomas A. O’Hara, York, $3,000; Myron C. Taylor, ko,m"S,m; D. D. Senator mey from the blican Com- ,000. Senator Oddie of Nevada 20%_$2,000. ‘The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee re to Congress today that it had spent $33,487 from June 15 to the end of last year to help elect Senators. with from M. L. Schwarts, $5, 5 gpruch and $9,500 from the Democratic lational Committee. senatorial candidates who got Among money from the committee were: Mil- % Tydings, Maryland, $3,000; Dr. Hentucky, $2,000, and Willlam G. Mq Adoo, California, $1,500. NEW RESCUE SQUAD SOUGHT BY CITIZENS Forth Cleveland Park Association ‘Wants Unit on Connecticut or Wisconsin Avenue. ‘The need for a fire department res- cue squad on Connecticut or Wisconsin avenue was emphasized last night by the North Cleveland Park Citizens' As- sociation at a meeting in the Phoebe Hearst School. District authorities were urged to seek necessary funds for estab- lishment of the squad. The citizens pointed out that Wiscon- sin avenue is main artery of traffic entering Washington from the north- West and many accidents occur on this thoroughfare. Injured persons could receive first aid much more promptly and reach hospitals sooner if an emer- gency rescue organization were located nearby and did not have to make the long run from the center of the city, it was declared. It now often is necessary to impress the Bethesda, Md., rescue squad into service, the citizens said. The prevalence of burglaries in the North Cleveland Park section was laid pertially to inadequate alley lighting, nnfd the association voted to request the District Government to remedy this condition. MOUNTAIN STATES FACE BIG PROBLEMS | Legislatures Are Struggling With Issue of Reducing Expenditures and Finding New Revenue. By the Associated Press. DENVER, January 4.—Squeezing the taxpayers’ dollar to make it smaller as it goes into the public treasury and giv- ing it magic treatment to make it do more after it gets there is the task facing the Legislatures of the four States of the Rocky Mountain region. Colorado also has to wrestle with the matter of providing a new set of liquor laws to replace a bone dry code which was Tepealed by the voters at the No- vember election. New Mexico is expected to consider adoption of a direct primary law, that State having adhered so far to the con- vention sysiem of choosing candidates. Wyoming legislators will have to grap- ple with the problem of reducing ex- penditures and with finding new springs of revenue. A State income tax, sales tax and tax on chain stores have been suggested. ACTOR SUES FOR $50,000 LOS ANGELES, January 4 ().—As- sault and battery Zze; m: tr}m;:u :ldupuu X it es- Ty B eotge K. Arthur, motion jcture comedian, against le, business man. T of “cutting in” a e in trafic and then Two Fall 400 Feet Over Sheer Cliff; Are Recovering Coincidental Proximity of Other Mountain Climb- ers Saves Lives. By the Associated Press. NORTH CONWAY, N. H, January 4. —A 400-foot fall down a boulder-stud- ded shoulder of Huntington ravine on Mount Washington nearly ended disas- trously for a Yale graduate student and the daughter of a Harvard professor, ‘who today were recovering from serious injuries in Conway Hospital. Miss Jessle Whitehead, daughter of Prof. Alfred Whitehead, and Walter K. Sturges, a Harvard graduate and a student at the Yale Graduate School, were brought down the mountainside last night on stretchers made of poles, clothing and odd bits of rope. The ex- tent of their injuries was not imme- diately determined, but both were dazed and in great pain. They fell down & sheer, snow-cap) shoulder of the ravine late yesterday, and but for a series of fortunate coinci- dences, both would probably have per- ished in a few hours. Miss Whitehead was rendered uncon- sclous by the fall. Sturges staggered a quarter-mile down the trail for help before collapsing. The couple were climbing Mount ‘Washington's most dangerous , along the left side of Huntington ravine, when they lost their footing. ther climbers ectimated they fell veftically 300 feet, then bumped over another 100- fcot slope, which was studded with ice- sheeted bculders. finally in a thick growth of bushe:. The fortunate circumstances that were probab.y responsible for their being saved included the proximity of another climbing party and the arrival, shortly after their fall, of four members of the Harvard Mountaineering Club. The rescuers carried the couple on improvised stretchers 3 miles from the bushes in which they fell to Pinkham Notch Camp of the Appalachian Moun- tain Club. Fourteen persons helped in the rescue work. A rmainstorm that turned to sleet made the mountain trails almost im- passable during the week end and the rescue party took five and a half hours to carry the couple to the mountain base. .From the base they were taken 19 miles to North Conway by am- bulance. gt RECEIVERS APPOINTED FOR UTILITIES COMPANY Northeastern Public Service Cor- poration Admits Inability to Meet $300,000 Interest Payment. By the Associated Press. WILMINGTON, Del, January 4— Walter G. Mortland of New York and Clarence A. Soulherl:nrxc:‘;fl Wfl‘n\l‘n‘m’ esterday were appo receivers_for {he Northeastern Public_Service Cor- poration by Chancellor J. O. Wolcott. The corporation admitted insolvency in that it is unable to meet approxi~ ‘mately $300,000 in interest payments on general lien bonds, which were due yes- terday and agreed to the appointment of receivers, The complainant is Leopold Samuels of Nassau County, N. Y. The defend- ry corporati electric light and power, gas and water service to other companies in approxi- mately 80 cities and towns in 12 States. FAMOUS HOME SOLD CHICAGO, January 4 (#).—The Pot- ter Palmer residence in Lake Shore known as “The Castle,” has changed hands again. It was sold yesterday to a small syn- dicate of Chicagoans, who purchased it for speculative purposes from Vin- cent» Bendix, wealthy head of an avia- tion company bearing his name. The price was not announced. Mr. Bendix bought the world-known residence in 1918 from Potter Palmer, jr., for $3,000,000. Yesterday's sale contract gives Mr. Palmer permission to remove at any time from the home all of the famous paintings by Gabriel Fer- rier and others which adorn the walis as murals. HAND pigskin leather. lining. fittings. Top-grain cowhide. They were caught and many ING STAR, W RATS OWNFARM, | SCIENTIST FINDS Mammalogist of California| Gives Report to Ameri- can Society Here. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. Giant rats that “own” farms are de- scribed in a report to the American Soclety of Mammalogists here by Dr. oseph Grinnell of the University of ‘alifornia. The report is on a study just made of these little known mammals, the giant kangaroo rats, which are con- fined to a very narrow range along the southwestern side of the San Joaquin Valley in California, where, as Grin- nell says, “it ‘owns’ whole square miles to the practital exclusion of other! seed-eating mammals.” He tried to de- termine why so large and powerful an animal, which could go wherever it pleased, willingly should restrict itself to such a narrow habitat. The land “ownership,” Grinnell found, extends to individual ‘rats. Bach has its own system of burrows and its exclusive strip of land covered with rich vegetation and separated from the neighboring “farms” by almost barren strips. The population, he found, averages about 20 individuals to the acre. Each Rat Has “Green.” “Each rat's precinct,” he says, “was | marked by a conspicuous green from | two to four yards across and widely separated from the neighboring “greens.” Pacing showed these greens | to be 20 to 30 paces apart and pretty regularly spaced. “The precinct has a much jusher growth and different flora from the surrounding area. Within his precintt the rat digs a system of burrows averaging in length about 10 feet, with two or three entrances and occasional fairly large sul chambers. Apparently the inhabitants of one of these rat communities have learned respect the territorial claims of each other. That such a large animal should be satisfied with such a limited habitat, Grinnell found, is probably due to a peculiar combination of circumstances that assure it a good food supply and | safety. The kinds of seed-bearing plants | it likes grow there in abundance. There is little rainfall to flood its shallow burrows. It is a weak digger-and the soll is easy to excavate, yet of such consistency that it does not drift with _JOE HiGY "'OUR PLUMBER’ Every Cold is Dan- gerous—Begin taking Father John’s Medicine at once. Used in Institutions LUGGAGE Men’s Cladstone Bags Reduced from $20 Full cut 24-inch size. Mannish twill Genuine $'| 4.95 Women's Fitted Cases Reduced from $1§ Top-grain black or brown cow- hide leather; 12 smart Prystal O'Nite size. $1175 Men'’s Zipper Bags Reduced from $10 Guaranteed genuine elkhide leather; slide fastener. Limited quantity. Women's Wardrobe Cases Reduced from $12.50 Roomy, light weight, easy to pack. . Bar hanger. $7.50 $Q.95 many others the wind or absorb water easily. Prob- mfln rat could find just a comb nowhere else. Sight and Hearing Keen. It has also been able to adjust itself, Grinnell found, to two very serious enemies, the coyote and the horned owl. It s & remarkably fast runner and has exceptionally keen senses of sight and hearing. The burrows with their emergency entrances and exits are ad- mirably adapted to safety. Another report just made to the so- clety is of a very little known bat which lives under stones along the shores of the Gulf of California and subsists hy fishing at night. This is one of e strangest habitats ever chosen by a mammal and the animal can be found only by overturning the stones. It has very specialized claws which enable it to catch fish. When uncovered it does not attempt to fly away, although it has not lost the power of flight, but tries to dig itself deeper under the rocks. D. C, WEDNESDAY, SENATE ASKS LIST OF ALL PATRONAGE Jobs Not Under Civil Service Regulations to Be Reported Under Resolution. | The Senate moved yedterday to get a |line on all patronage jobs, adopting a | resolution by Senator McKellar, Demo- crat, of Tennessee, Ta: minority member of the Civil Service Committee, calling on the Civil Service Commission to furnish s list of aH positions in Fed- JANUARY 4, 1933 eral and already is com| this data, numerous req:t.s from ‘l’)u-fl'- ocratic sources having Been responsible | tion, for a questionnaire that went out to the various Governent tim: ago asking for the lon. ‘The resolution yesterday was adopted following a brief colloquy between Dem- mub}:‘ci ;X'ld Republican Senators on the E patronage. When the resolution was called up, Senator Vandenberg, Republican, of Michigan, inquired for what purpose the information was needed. “There is going to be a slight change in administration on the 4th day of March, and we would like to have the information asked for,” Senator Mc- Kellar replied. “Does the Senator mean that this should be official notice to all deserv- ing Democrats of what they may have a right to ask for?” Senator Bingham, Republican, of Connecticut, inquired. McKellar said it “may not be official | notice, but it will be information open tion was adopted in 1921, and he did not believe there would be any opposi- Senator Huey , Democrat, of Louisiana joined in with the comment, “We want whatever jobs are coming to us” and Senator McKellar added, “Whatever may have been left.” WALES SENDS GREETING | OTTAWA, Ontario, January 4 (A — | Greetings from the Prince of Wales, | honorary commandant of the Royal ceived Monday by the - commissioner, | Maj. Gen. J. H. MacBrien. “My sincere thanks to you and all members of the Royal Canadian Mount- ed Police for your good wishes which I heartily reciprocate,” the message reads. ‘The cable was in response to Christ- mas and New Year greetings sent to the prince. | Canadian Mounted Police, were re- | HONOLULU TO CONTINUE | MUSIC FOR VOYAGERS Board Supplies $44,000 to Main- tain Band That Has Been Feature 60 Years. By the Associated Press. HONOLULU, January 4—The eco- nomic storm has been circumvented and the musk farewell, which has been an imp: feature of 'fl‘nzr ar- | rivals and departures in Ha: for | 60 years, will be continued. 9 Heeding & storm of protest which went up last week when it was an- | nounced that for the sake of economy the band would be discontinuéd, Hono- | lulu's Board of Supervisors yesterday | approved a special appropriation of $44,000 to maintain it this year. Newspapers, civic bodles, officials and private individuals took up the battle to retain the band. 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