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THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, ANUARY 10, 1933 LA GUARDIA TO FILE " ELECTION CONTEST “New Yorker Caims He Lost| ;fiouse Seat Through Fraud : and Coercion. y the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January lD,ALmlmrd‘ J. Obermeier, sr., counsel for Fiorella H. La Guardia, said last night the | Republican Representative from the | twentieth New York district would con- test Jast November's general election in which he lost his seat to James J. Lanzetta, Democrat, on the face of iweturns at that time. This announcement came at the same time subpoenas were issued from the Federal grand jury for the records of | lection in this district as part of United | States Attorney George Medalie's probe | of alleged frauds and intimidations of | Fvoters. ‘Will File Contest. ¢ 1 “Mr. La Guardia,” said Obermeier, “I Do” in Double Air Ceremony WASHINCGYON GIRL ONE OF BRIDES IN FLYING WEDDING. ‘will file notice of his intention to con- st the election within 24 hours.” | The attorney said the Representative’s | ontest will be based on the charge that | his vote, as recorded on voting machines, Wwas incorrectly counted, that voters | gwere intimidated and coerced into jvoting for his opponent and that there vas ‘‘repeating.” Medalie, who has said his inquiry ifwould not take into consideration who was elected Representative in the ( twentieth district, but weud hinge solely on a probe of the fraud charges, ported several days ago he had direct vidence of fraud and intimidation in e of the assembly districts comprising he La Guardia constituency. Acted Independently. | Obermeier said he and La Guardia | ad acted independently of the district fattorney’s office and had not been in | ouch with Medalie. | La Guardia was defeated by slightly ore than 1,000 votes according to the | ount on file in the office of the Board | f Elections. ! . OTE ASSAILS PERUVIANS | olombia Tells League Seizure Was Inexcusable. GENEVA, Switzerland, January 10 [#) —In an informative note submitted %10 the League of Nations yesterday the | lgovernment of Colombia charged the eizure several weeks ago of the Leticia | territory by Peruvian civilians was a| A" ‘violent occupation for which there was 0 justification or excuse.” | The note traced the history of the | eticia dispute, asserted that Colombia desires to maintain friendly relations | 'with Peru, but stated that it had been | ecessary to send an expeditionary force | o Leticia. Leticia | | SPECIAL NOTICES. s 'ANTED—LOAD OF HOUSEHOLD P'URN!-‘ ure from Trenton. N. J.. Jan. 10. PFrom | ew York City, Jan. 1 ‘om Durham, . C.. ‘and vicinity, Jan. 10th or 1lth. | 'S TRAN: ISFER & STORAGE CO., 1313 | HE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE STOCK- | olders of the Closgard Wardrobe Company, ncorporated. will be held at 2600 Woodles | lace Northwest, Washington, District of olumbia, on Saturday, January =1st. 1933, t 8 pm. o'clock. A. D. HAWLEY. 2 & __ Secretary. ORROW'S BALE AT WESCHLER'S AUC- fon, 915 E St. N.W., includes new and used | ugs, plano. dining. living room and daven- Tt suites, desirabie odd pieces; also ladies’ | esse: ete. NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY tracted by any one other than | JOHN F. MATTIMORE, 1286 5ih POR _RENT. LE | ARTIES. banquets. weddings and per day each: new chai -LB. CAN. PURE, 90¢ DELIVER- iks who can't eat sugar. Ph T. West 0654, | 1 1L BE RESPONSIBLE FOR lebts or obligations contracted by any one | ther than myself. 1. G. LEVASSEUR. 10° | GIVEN THAT I WILL | ny person other than myself. ZEL, 3228 13th st. n.w. 12 'ANNUAL MEETING OF THE STOCK- | olders of the National Savings and Trust CHARLES v pr e offi northeast corner of 15 York Avenue N.W.. on Mon- 16th day of January, 1 t k p.m. WILLIAM D_HOOVER. President. | ____E._PERCIVAL WILSON. Secretary HE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE STOCK- | olders of the Fidelity Building and Loan ssociation. for the election of trustees and irectors and the transaction of such other usiness as may properly come before the meeting, will be held at the main office of #the association. No. 610 Thirteenth St. N.W., Washington, D. C., Monday, January 16, 933, at 1% o'clock noon MARCUS BORCHARDT, ML g il _Secretary OTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE nnual meeting of the stockholders of The apital Traction Company, for the election { & board cf directors for the ensuing vear nd the transaction of such other bus m brought before the meeting, at the office of t jthe company. treet and New . the 1 iness | 11 Streets NW. v PP, ¢ on January’ 1%, at 10:45 | am | The polls will be open from 11 o'clock | #.m. uniil 12 o'clock noon | ___H."D. CRAMPTON. Secretar: ANNUAL MEFTING OF THE STOCK- | holders of the Home Building Assoc or the election of oficers and directors ar uch other business as may broperly come | efore the stockh held on_Tuesday ) 3 offce of the treasurer, ylvania Avenue N.W. Books O% open for subscription to the stock of he B5th se i ES M. WOODWARD. Secretary. JAM] 0 THE STOCKHOLDERS OF THE NA- onal Capital Insurance C | | i’ RINCIPALS in a double wedding ceremony over Haiti recently. pictured beside their plane after landing at Port- au-Prince. Left to right: Charles Elmer Patterson and bride, the former Jeannette Burrel, both of Philadelphi: Rey. A. F. Parkinson Turnbull of Port-au-Prince, the former Miss Elma Margaret Ellsworth, daughter of Capt. and Mrs. Harry D. Ellsworth of Washington, D. C,, and bridegroom, Eugene D. Pawley of Port-au-Prince, Hall INUTE P COLOMBIAN FORCES AT AGAINST PERU Hostilities Expected at Le-| ticia as Commanders Exchange Notes. REPEAL MENACED BY DEMOCRAT RIFT {House and Senate Clash May Destroy Chances in Short Session. YSTE Y Dr. Fordney is professor of criminology at a famous university. ~His advice is often sought by the police of many cities when confronted with particularly baffling cases This problem has been taken from his case- book covering hundreds of criminal investi- gations, | Try vour wits on it! It takes but ONE fact and every | BOGOTA, Colombia, January 10.—A | MINUTE o ' read! Every note from the Peruvian eastern military | fiory Jiseit and there 1o onis one answer, commander was made public here today | HOW §00d a detective are you? in which he was quoted as saying “pro- gress of a Colombian expedition toward Leticia means the initiation of hostil- it | By the Associated Press. By the Associated Press. A wide breach between Senate and | | House Democrats on the form a pro- hibtion repeal resolution should take, | today threatened to kill off any chances | of congressional approval this session. | Speaker Garner, who holds the whip | hand, was outspoken in his criticism | of the proposal reported to the Senate | vesterday which provides protection for | dry States, gives Congress power to ban | Death Ends Blighted Romance. BY H. A. RIPLEY. Matua's death in the “WHAT a romantic gesture!” morning paper. (Rio de Janeiro dispatches said three Colombian ships arrived yesterday | at Manaos, Brazil, at the confluence of | ing the account of Juan LAVAL INSISTS 0., MADE DEBT PLEDGE Says Hoover, Unwittingly or Otherwise; Included Repa- rations in Agreement. (Continued From First Page) in another explosive debate, with war debts touching off the powder. Biting words, caustic denials and ignored formalities characterized the exchange between the two foes. The core of it was an assertion by Johnson that the Idahoan had withheld perti- nent information from his colleagues when the Hoover moratorium was be- fore the Senate. Borah first took the floor to repeat statements he made a week ago, that the administration had reached an understanding with Premier Laval of France in 1931 on some form of debts reconsideration. Answered Cabinet Letters. Borah's reiteration of his assertions followed the placing into the Senate record of letters from Secretaries Stim- son and Mills, in which they denied that any cancellation or revision com- mitments were made at that time. Then the Californian arose and took Borah to task for not revealing to the Senate what information he had when the moratorium proposal was pending. ‘To that Borah replied that he as- sumed Johnson “kept himself informed,” but in the future he would “start a kindergarten.” “All right,” the stocky California Sen- sufi‘ retorted. “I trust the Senator will.! ‘He will have the Senator from Cali- fornia for the first student,” Borah re- turned. “He will have a kindergarten which the Senator from Idaho has not ob- served in this discussion,” sald John- “It will be a kindergarten of dis- closure and of good faith.” In the exchange, which was one of the sharpest in recent Senate history, Borah asserted all his information could have been obtained from public records and the press and that during the Sen- ate consideration of the moratorium he had expressed his views to newspaper men. “Not so, sir,” Johnson countered, and later said: “Of course he (Borah) possessed a wealth of information upon this subject that the rest of us do not possess and he locks it in his own heart during the debate upon the mora- torium.” “That is absolutely without founda- tion in fact,” the Idahoan heatedly replied. As one of the final thrusts, Johnson told the Senate: “I grant him anything he desires in the unlimited wisdom. he attributes to himself. I accord that readily and he has it. But for the love of Heaven if women sighed after read- X0 the Rio Negro and Amazon RIYeTS. | y5ic wife found him on the floor of the saloon and calls for ratification by | we get another moratorium or another Upon arrival of a fourth ship, the fleet | | was to proceed to Leticia, the upper | Amazon port over which Colombia and Peru have been in dispute.) Moves Against Expedition. ‘The message of Gen. Vicente Ramos, Peruvian commander, was quoted by Colombian authorities as follows: “As progress of a Cglombian expedl- tion toward Leticia melns initiation of hostilities, I have ordered all measures of a military character to prevent the | arrival of the expedition at Leticia, thus | ensuring - Peruvian security.” Alfredo Vasquez Cobo, the comman- der of a Colombian expedition, was re- ported replying from Manaos, Brazil, as follows: “I fulfill my obligation in answering your telegram, ignoring if you represent the Lima government or the Putumayo Tebels, taking the opportunity to let you and Putumayo inhabitents know my mission is peaceful, aimed only at re-establishment and order in territories which always belonged to us.” Negotiations Denied. Concerning news from Lima, Peru, stating the Colombian government had accepted the office of a third nation to maintain the status quo at Leticia for 90 days in order to discuss modifi- cation of the 1922 boundary treaty, the foreign ministry announced “such news was absolutely unfounded The Colombia goverment's viewpoint, the ministry announced, was “‘unmodi- fied since the beginning * * * it must have unconditional re-establishment of our authorities.” SHAKESPEARE “W. H.” STILL MYSTERY MA Dr. Joseph Quincy Adams Doubts ‘Whether Identity Ever Will Be Known. The person to whom William Shake- speare addressed a cycle of 125 sonnets, e “Mr. " about whom scholars have been curious for ly 300 years, is unknown and is so~to remain, in the opinion of Dr. Joseph Quincy Adams, research di- S | rector of the Folger Shakespeare Li- ction Chapter XVIII 33, at e ‘Company. moutheast, Washington, D. $of amending the cn?7 er of ‘::o YA, 1 £an: of Congress approved M: entitled “An_ Act to B kea 5 | vyote for & resolution authorizing such ymendment. 1 CLARENCE ¥. DONOHOR. ! HERBERT; JR.. | he_Board of Trustees. | CO—THE__ANNUAL | for the election npany will be held | and | THE AMERICAN pany of the DI trustee under a deed ry 15 Club o Cols h the sinking fund, d | T, at the office of the tr V3, bered by Y, hd’ deed of l‘ ‘The bo: | ated herain are called for the purpos Sinking fund, and the interest on said pomag will cease on’ the 15th day of Februar T ay of February, A.D. AMERICAN SECURITY & TRUST COMPANY, By HOWARD MORAN. | Vice President. DDoNs, et | Attest FREDERICK P. H. SID Becretary DESIRING TO BUILD IN WASHINGTON in the near future. 1 wish jnf | %0 wae costs in the BULDING SnboSERY: | CARPENTERS | BRICKLAYERS PLASTERERS ASKED TO APPLY, > and sddress. Mot Box 76-C, Star brary . Dr. Adams, ‘addressing the Washing- ton Shakespeare Society at the Cor- coran Art Gallery auditorium last night, said: “From the frequent puns on the word ‘Will’ we may suppose that the person | of whom Shakespeare was writing w like himself, called ‘William. We may , therefore, that that person was a ir. Willilam H.' But beyond that all is conjecture, and nothing but con- | jecture.” The poems might never have been written at all, Dr. Adams suggested had it not been for the plague which swept over London in 1593-1594. closing the playhouses and barring the poet | | from his customary employment as an actor and dramatist. They were not intended for publication, and were printed in 1609 only as the fruit of a theft. | Miss M. E. J. Czarnomska, former professor of English at Smith College, | also addressed the Shakespeare Society. | discussing the evolution of the sonnet as a poetical form. Following the lec- tures, a group of eight woman members | of the society recited a séquence of 16 of Shakespeare's sonnets. Those taking part were: Mrs. W. E. Bryant, Miss Rosemary Arnold. Miss Patricia Hunt, Miss Ada Townsend. Miss Esther Town- | send, Miss Esther Marshman. Mrs Esther Waldron, Mrs. Eva Hanson Waudby and Mrs. Alice Robinson Griffith. PARK VIEW ASSOCIATION | NAMES COMMITTEES Certificates for Sixth-Grade Pupils and New Trafic Hazard Con- sidered by Citizens. Committees to investigate the possi- bility of awarding certificates to gradu- ates of the sixth grade public schoo! and to report on a traffic hazard said to be created by motorists’ use of an alley at Hobart street and Columbia road were appointed last night by the Park View Citizens' Association at its regular meeting in the Park View| School, Warder and Newton streets. Fred S. Walker and Jokn S. Cole, secretary of the tion, dis- ed vocational educa in the President F. V, Hale presided. her bedroom. Clasped in his right hand was one of the yellow roses he had sent her earlier in the day. To her | friends, vellow roses and Maria Matua wWere Synonymous. Because of their social position, ru- mors of marital discord had been published in news- papers throughout the country. Many believed Matua's suicide was caused by the recent avowed intention of his wife to di- vorce him. ‘The police found Maria seated on the floor holding Juan’s head in her lap, blood from the wound in his right temple, which had been instantly fatal, staining her yel- low satin nc:ligee. Dry eyed and star- | words of a note lying near the re- volver at his feet. “You, alone, know why I have done thi: As Prof. Fordney prepared his notes on the case, Jean, his secretary, in- | quired, “Has Mrs. Matua offered any explanation of the note you found?” “Not yet. ther questioning until tomorrow. Mean- ‘wl’ule Inspector Kelley is investigating some rather puzzling angles of the | case. Although it was a bitterly cold | day, neither Matua's hat nor overcoat | have been found. Then no one seems to know exactly how he came to be in the house. He’s been living at the Ath- | | letic Club for three months No doubt the public will be sur- prised to learn he was murdered?” con- cluded the professor. . ARE YOU? (See Page A-T7 for solution.) COOLIDGE WILL TO BE PROBATED ON JAN. 17 Value of Estate Not Revealed, but Estimates Place Its Worth at Near $500,000. { | By the Associated Press. NORTHAMPTON, Mass., January 10. —The value of Calvin Coolidge's estate, which he left to his widow, Grace Coolidge, and the text of his will, will not be revealed until January 17, when the document will be filed for probate. Ralph W. Hemenway, Mr. Coolidge’s former law partner, found the will yes- terday among papers at the Coolidge estate. Hemenway described “simple and brief.” It was drawn up during Mr. Coolidge’s occupation of the White House. The actual date, however, was not disclosed. ‘The witnesses were Edward T. Clark and Everett Sanders, then secretaries to Mr. Coolidge, and his stenographer, Erwin C. Geisser. Mrs. Coolidge was xecutrix There was no official estimate of the neighbors in Northampton would be at least $500,000. Coolidge’s only known real estate holdings were his home here, the Beeches, and the Coolidge homestead at Plymouth, Vt. He was known to have had stock holdings. PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY FUNCTIONS DISCUSSED Dr. P-~bert Olson Speaks to Council the will as | of Social Agenhcies—Warns of [ Taking Undue Credit. The function of the volunteer public | health agency in a community welfare program was discussed by Dr. Robert |Olson, senior surgeon of the United States Public Health Service, at a luncheon meeting yesterday of the Council of Social Agencies. The pro- |gram was under the direction of the | council’s Health Committee. Dr. Olson warned against taking ‘credit for health improvements which may not be the result of public health work. He cited several cases where im- provements were due to entirely differ- ent and uncontrolled causes. Public health work is the basis and foundation of all other welfare work, he declared. State Legislatures. He asserted it did not conform to| J8hC upon the debts and he knows | ing, she repeated over and over the | Her physician forbids fur- | the Democratic platform and told news- | paper men he would not allow it to be taken up in the House under suspen- sion of rules, as was done the first day of Congress when an outright repeal resolution was beaten by six votes. Senate Passage Foreseen. Senate Democrats, on the other, hand, apparently have decided to accept the resolution approved yesterday' by the Judiciary Committee and not press for for. The chief opponehts of prohibi- tion in both parties plan to seek elimi- | nation of the saloon clause, but most of them also have indicated that if they fail they will vote for the measure as drafted. Its passage in the Senate has been forecast by many. Representative Rainey of Illinois, Democratic floor leader, joined Garner in opposition to the Senate resolution in 1ts present form. At the same time Jouett Shouse, president of the Asso- iation Against the Prohibition Amend- ment, issued a statement saying it would be better to let the present amendment stand rather than pass the Senate proposal. Garner and Rainey said it was agreed in conference with President-elect Roosevelt last week that an effort would be made to make the resolution con- form to the party platform. But Sen- ate Democrats disputed this, saying no agreement was reached. Due on Anniyersary. _ With both Democratic and Repub- lican leaders promising quick action on the repeal question in the Senate, there Was a probability that branch would celebrate the thirteenth anniversary of prohibition next Monday by debating it. Senator Sheppard, sponsor of eighteenth amendment in the Senate. announced he would disclose his atti- tude toward the repeal proposal in his usual anniversary day speech. Pending that he withheld comment, but a number of other Senators classed as equally ardent defenders of the pro- hibition laws have said they will vote for the resolution. FATHER ISSUES PLEA FOR GIBBS T0 RETURN Says Family Is Heartbroken Over Disappearance of University of Pennsylvania Student. | outright repeal as their platform calls | the | anything about them, let him tell his | colleagues and tell the American peo- | Not Defending French. Borah emphasized that he was not | defending France's default of her De- | cember obligations and Johnson as- | serted that the Stimson and Mills let- | ters did not impress him as cate- gorical or any other denial” of a debts | understanding with the PFrench. Further on, Johnson pressed his question whether Borah had spoken during the moratorium fight. “I uttered it (my views) to the pub- | lic_press,” the Idahoan said. | Johnson returned the “utterly with- | out foundation” statement when Borah |said he knew nothing about the debt situation at the time that Johnson did | not know, if the latter desired to read | the public press and documents. “It is not in keeping with the Sen- | ator from Idaho to sit mute and silent | during the discussion of such a question as_the moratorium,” Johnson said. The Stimson and Mills letters were | placed in the record earlier in the day | by Senator Moses, Republican, of New | | Hampshire, on behalf of Senator Reed, | Republican of Pennsylvania, who last| week took issue with Borah on the | Hoover-Laval conference results. | Stimson’s letter said “no cancellation | or revision of either debts or reparations was proposed” by President Hoover or Premier Laval,” he added: “No assurances or commitments on such subject was either asked for or given. The communique given out at the close of these discussions was an | accurate statement of the discussion |in all these respects. In like vein, Mills’ communication said there was “no justification for any assertion or belief that during the course of those conversations any assur- ance, direct or indirect, was given that there would be a revision of French | debt obligations to the United States | in consideration of a revision of Ger- | man reparations such as subsequently | took place at Lausanne. 3 Despite the two letters, Borah argued “it was perfectly plain that the ques- | tion of debts was discussed at length between Hoover and Laval.” Can't Justify Default. “It is plain,” he added, “that there was an understanding there would be a reconsideration of debts in some form. As to a definite agreement, I do not know.” ‘Does the Senator think enough was | said betwen the President and the | premier to justify France in default- ing?” asked Senator Watson, of Indiana, | the Republican leader. | “No,” Borah replie ‘The T do not. | sound’ position was taken by Premier An appeal to Henry Huntington Herriot. He contended there had been | Gibbs, 20-year-old Washington boy who :ufh T,"-‘gol‘l;:x‘l"’:’;l d“’h gusmyl dfls‘utnx an ’ sl xtension, but s would not sup- | disappeared from his University of | o Gefautt ® resardicss of Wit tane Pennsylvania dormitory Friday leaving | place in the past. | notes indicating he would end his life,| “He was overriden by tne chamber ; : speaking the popular will of France. Honment,out today by the bov's fathel: | Tt was this popular sentiment of France who has been aiding in the search for | {0 Which T referred last week. These Tha iy negotiations had created the opinion The plea Teads: “Altention, Henry |&MONE the people of France that if Huntington Gibbs. former University of |(her Was a readjustment of repara- Pennsylvania student. Your family i T = coomaideration eartbroken. If this comes to your no- |Of debts, / | tice. piease ‘come ome o g6t 1o Louch oy BUL It Was not justification for thelr | with us as soon as possible. e ol M. Gibbe, ‘an- employe.of the De- | fication, for France to ask for reconsid- > J A | eration.” | partment of Aerlculture sald no clu| “Borah then quoted from the Hooyer- |Laval communique, which sai e Wwhereabouts after he mailed letters to | recognize prior to the expiration of the his family and university officials Frl- | 5 over” (moratorium) year some agree- day night. The notes said “my body | Bever Wil be' found " A" report ook | IR, ey, be, neceseary Tcovering the youth was seen in Baltimore yesterday |*“uno " what effect would that have proved unfounded, his father said. | o, ‘the ‘French people?” he inquired. Johnson said there was “no excuse” for foreign nations to claim a misunder- standing, in view of the amendment |attached to the moratorium resolution | by Congress opposing any reconsidera- AT CITIZENS’ MEETING tion of debts. Ref tly i A resolution condemning maruthon*“m? e R RalDn ety ta Besak i | dancing and urging the Commission- | {ers to prohibit such forms of amuse- | ment was passed last night by the Piney Branch _Citizens’ Association, | meeting in the Hamline M. E. Church, | Sixteenth and Allison streets. | | The citizens’ association declared this | | form of endurance contest serves no | | “useful end to the public or to the | ;}:filcxmnu, either socially or phys- |cally.” | | A petition from residents of Dela- | | fleld street, between Fourteenth street | and Piney Branch road, requesting the backing of the association in their ef- forts to get the paved was indorsed by the group. Due to the illness of the president, s.dz; G. L. Shorey, F. C. Merritt pre- Brazil has to aid “The very gentleman who pleaded that France would have to honor her | signature had been talking to his peo- | ple during the campaign taking to task America and telling the French prac- tically they were under no obligation to America to pay the debts at all.” LIQUOR BILL READY ALBANY, N. Y., January 10 (#).—A bill calling for the creation of a com- mission to study machinery for beer and liquor control, in the event that Con- changes street curbed and | Sress MORMON THRIFT TRADITION 'DIMINISHES Many Famil EXTREME WANT ies Follow Pioneer Custom of | Storing Large Amounts of Food—Care of Needy Is Cardinal Principle of Church. By the Associated Press. SALT LAKE CITY, January 10.—Of- ficials of the Church of Latter-day Saints declare traditions of thrift im- planted in Utah’s Colonial days have almost. entirely forestalled want among members. Many rural families have followed the pioneer custom of storing sufficient food for long periods. This was a necessary precaution in the days when famine was an ever-present menace to Mor- mons living in scattered settlements and separated from the nearest source of supply by hundreds of miles of desert. One of the cardinal principles of the church is the care of its needy. Fast days are held one Sunday each month, the church members being asked to iimit their meals and contribute to the relief fund the value of the food they ordinarily would have consumed. Another source of funds to drive cold and hunger from the door is the in- come from proceeds of the final sale of the relief society grain fund. This fund | was inaugurated at the suggestion of Brigham Young. Into it was poured | | the proceeds of the sale of grain, field | | gleanings by girls and women. This! |fund also has aided Mississippi Valley | flood sufferers, the destitute of the San | Prancisco earthquake of 1907 and| lfflmlne victims of China. | There are also large quantities of canned fruit, vegetables, flour and other | provisions gathered into four ware- | houses in this city last Summer | and Fall. Unemployed men were | | sent into rural districts to harvest| | erops on shares. Their part was brought | to the church warehouses and in re- turn they were given orders for the needs of their own families. Women of the relief society banded together to can fruits and green vegetables. “There is practically no need among | the people of the church, even in the | more densely populated sections of Salt | Lake City,” said Sylvester Q. Cannon, | presiding bishop of the church and as s;cl:x the supervisor of its temporal | affairs. EIGHT DIEQF N SLEEPING SICKNESS Strange Form Strikes Sud- denly, Causing Death in 12 Hours, Doctor Says. By the Associated Press. CINCINNATT, January 10.—A strange form of sleeping sickness—possibly a ! type hitherto undiscovered—was blamed today for the death of eight persons here within the last several days. At least 11 others have been stricken, but have. totally or partly recovered. The diagnosis was embodied in a re- port.based on a study by Dr. Howard D. McIntyre, neurologist, at Cincin- nati General Hospital, and delivered before the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine. The disease causes inflammation of the brain, accompanied by hemorrhages, and strikes suddenly, sometimes caus- ing death within 12 hours. The latest victim was Thelma Johnston, 2, who became ill last Wednesday afternoon and died Thursday. It is a form of encephalitis, the re- port said, but so far has not been defi- nitely named. Sleeping sickness is lethargic encephalitis. Dr. McIntyre advised his audience not to worry about it, however. “You might just as well worry about being struck by lightning,” he said. ‘The neurologist, who studied 16 cases, said the fact the disease is not con- | fined to any race, age or sex leads him to believe it is caused by a germ rather :;“ln by a poison; is infectious, not xic. Symptoms, he said, are convulsions, seeing double, sleepiness and drowsi- ness, hemorrhage into the spinal fluid and paralytic signs. The disease has been successfully treated, he said, by spinal puncture, to relieve pressure of the spinal fluid, and injection of sugar into the veins to relieve the congestion of the brain. Of the 16 cases he studied, Dr. Mc- Intyre said five were fatal, seven pa- tients recovered completely and four made incomplete recoveries. L 002 Files Bankruptcy Petition. NEW_ YORK, January 10 (#).—Mrs. Alice Foote MacDougall, whose chain of coffee houses went into receivership last May and who recovered two Of them in October, filed a voluntary pe) sonal petition in bankruptcy yesterday. She listed liabilities of $608,268 and as- sets of $2,704. PARIS BUDGET ROW IMPERILS CABINET Secialist Backers Deserting Paul-Boncour Because of Tax Increases. By the Associated Pres: PARIS, January 10.—Premier Paul- | Boncour’s cabinet was in peril when the new parliamentary session opened today, as & result of reported hostility by its Socialist supporters toward the government’s financial measures, which | are expected to be stringent in an ef- fort to balance the budget. It was understood Finance Minister | Cheron had reported to the cabinet |that his committee of experts figures the 1933 budget deficit, which has been accumulating since July 17, at 10,541,- 000,000 francs ($421,640,000). He pland to offset the deficit by 5,326,000,000 francs in economies and 5,453,000,000 francs in fiscal changes, meaning new :l;u, allowing a surplus of 238,000,000 rancs. The Socialist group in the chamber, 118 strong, which met and discussed the | government scheme, was reported to be opposed to the new taxes, and also some - ECONOMY LEAGUE SUPPORT IS ASKED Dupont Circle Citizens Told of Plang for Large and Active Unit Here. Plans for development of a large and active unit of the National Economy League in the District were outlined to the Dupont Cirele Citizens’ Association last evening at the Mayflower Hotel by Edward H. Hart, a leader of the Dis- trict chapter “of the organization. A nucleus of members already has been formed here and when the membership has been increased a fighting campaign will be waged, he said. “We do not have a vote here,” he said, “but we do have the right of pe- tition.” The National Economy League, or- ganized last May, now has units active in 32 States, with others being organ- ized, Mr, Hart reported. This is due, he said, to crystallize -in the public mind of the necessity of reducing the tax burden of the country which now amounts annually to about $15,000,000,- 000, or about one-fourth of phe na- tional income. ‘The league, Mr. Hart declared, plans to deal with all tax expenditures, but at the start of its activities has em. phasized the matter of the “wasafu expenditures on war veterans who were not disabled in conflict, or during their period of service. He pointed out that approximately 24 per cent of the Fed- eral budget now goes for the $928,000, 000 annual expenditures of the Vet- erans’ Administration. He urged citizens of Washington to join in the movement. Elimination of the starling nuisance was the aim of a resolution adopted by the association, asking that Congress amend the bird sanctuary provision of the District laws. Officers of the body were directed to appeal to the Senate and House Dis- trict Committees to amend the law so that District authorities might direct police to rope off affected aseas and to dispose of the starlings. Police using shotguns, it was declared, could clear the city of the birds. CITIZENS HEAR LECTURE ON “DUDE” RANCH LIFE An illustrated lecture on “dude” ranch life in Montana, by Edward C. Potter, vice president of the Forest Hills Citizens Association, marked a meeting of the civic group last night in the Ben W. Murch School, Thirty- sixth and Davenport streets, Mr. Potter, who owns a ranch of this type in Montana, presented three reels of motion pictures taken recently at his place in the Mountain State region. The association took action to for- mally notify the Federation of Citizens’ Associations of its meeting place, after being notified the federation had er- other points, planning to offer a counter il | roneously listed it as meeting at the Methodist Home, Thirty-sixth and El- Since the Socialists form the main | bloc of M. Paul-Bopcour's present ma- jority, any defection probably would mean the fall of the cabinet. It will be several days, however, before the question reaches a critical stage in the | chamber of deputies. A DAVISON HEADS MUSEUM ! Assistant War Secretary Succeeds Henry Fairfield Osborn. | NEW YORK, January 10 (#)—F. | Trube Davison, Assistant Secretary of War for Aeronautics, was elected presi- | dent of the American Museum of Nat- | ural History yesterday, succeeding Henry Fairfield Osborn, who has retired after ?flnln to devote his time to scientific | | tings. Mr. Davison, who is 37 years old, | expects to give full time to his duties as president upon his retirement from the | Government, service -t the close of the | Hoover a tion. He will be the fifth president of the museum since its establi ent in 1869. He has been a trustee of the museum since 1923, when | he was elected to succeed his father, Henry P. Davison. | licott streets. John Otto Johnson, president of the association, presided over the meeting, which was postponed from the regular meeting day last Monday, due to the New Year holiday. A Call to Praver Union Prayer Service TUESDAY, JAN. 10th, 8 P.M. United Brethren Cj N d R Cheese sprea Cream 12 cup cheese with 2 thsp. GULDENS A\Mustard g3 A Semi-Annual Clearance Sale Feature! *45 WORUMBO & $34% fg *45 Kuppenheimer O’Coats A GROSNER of /325 F STREET 75 We're just taking a day off and closing our eyes to the real value of these O’Coats. 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