Evening Star Newspaper, December 26, 1935, Page 2

SE G FALSTORN ANTHL0BBY RULES Registered Holding Com- panies Are at Disad- vantage Under Act. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Within a week Congress will be assembling, and the law says there must be no lobbying by registered holding compaaies. The Securities and Exchange Com- mission is supposed to issue rules governing iobbyists, but it hasn't done sa. There are very few companies that have registered, so Congress may be relatively immune from the sup- posed intrigues of the lobbyists of those companies. As for the un- registered group, they are fighting the mct in the courts. But just why the rules governing lobbyists have not been proclaimed by the Securities and Exchange Commission is a good deal of a mystery. The public utility act of 1935 is rather specific in its mandate calling upca the commission to set up rules and regulations. There is no discre- tion in the matter—the commission {s supposed to issue the rules because, in the absence of rules, it might be assumed that nobody representing a registered holding company would dare to talk to a congressman or even visit the Securities and Exchange Commission itself. Provision Is Specific. Here is the paragraph in the law which evidently is not being admin- istered: “It shall be unlawful for any person employed or retained by any registered holding company, or any subsidiary company thereof, to present, advocate or oppose any matter affecting any registered holdimg company, or any subsidiary company thereof, before the Congress or any member or committee | thereof, or before the commission or Federal Power Commission, or any member, officer, or employe of either such commission, unless such person shall file with the commission in such form and detail and at such time as necessary or appropriate in the public interest or for the protection of in- veStars or consumers, a statement of the subject matter in respect of which such person is retained or employed, the nature and character of such re- tainer or employment and the amount of compensation received or to be re- ceived by such person, directly or indirectly, in connection therewith.” Registered Companies Hit. Now it is apparent that the regis- tered holding company which has con- formed to the S. E. C request for registration and has, therefore, really played ball with the New Deal is in & much worse position than the company which has resisted the act in the courts and has refused to register. For the registered holding company representative, literally speaking, can- not even confer with the Securities and Exchange Commission without really violating the law and certainly cannot approach a member of Con- gress on “any matter affecting any registered holding company,” whether 1t is taxation or labor relations or any- thing else. The unregistered holding companies, which are by far the more numerous group, can send represent- atives to Washington and lobby all they like. They can hardly be pun- ished, for the law applies only to reg- istered holding companies. Discrimination Minimized. This most unfortunate discrimina- tion against the friends of the New Deal is not likely to be maintained very long; in fact, the lobbying provision has probably become a dead letter for the time being because while the pub- lic utility holding company act is be- ing adjudicated in the courts it is not probable that any steps will be taken by Government agencies to enforce the statute as written. Those who have been solicitous for the welfare of the Congressmen, who are supposed to need protection against lobbyists, will be disappointed by the failure of the S. E. C. to come forth with rules and regulations governing Jobbyists. The rules might, of course, be written in the next few days, but it 15 beginning to look as if members of the House and Senate will simply have to get along without the lobbying rules and deal with the persuasive lobbyists In some other way—posibly by stuffing their ears. For it is incomprehensible that men elected to Congress need a law to protect them against the writ- ten or spoken words of American citi- gens who presumably have a right of petition under the Federal Constitu- tion, (Copyright, 1035.) P _MEi;LON UTILITY PLANS ADDITIONAL TAX FIGHT Pennsylvania Revenue Becretary Seeks Levy on $245,000,000 Loaned Subsidiaries. By the Assoctated Press. PITTSBURGH, December 26.—Of- ficials of the Mellon-controlled Gulf Oil.-Corporation plan a court cam- Paigh to combat a threatened $2,250,- 000 additional State tax assessment for 1933-34-35. Secretary of Revenue Harry E. Ka- Jodner said a State survey of the oil concern's books caused him to decide it should pay a 5-mill personal prop- erty tax on $245,000,000 “loaned” to 13 subsidiaries, Kalodner claimed a settlement made with the Commonwealth on Decem- ber 21, 1934, in which Gulf paid $48,000, was based upon “incorrect information.” He asks $705,000 addi- tional for 1933 and $750,000 or more ]ar the past two years. Quake ¥ . (Continued From First Page.) e fivers and formed lakes in other places. The upper Yangtze River suddenly dropped 5 feet when its tributary, the Kinsha River, was cut off abruptly. 100 Missionaries in Area, ‘The Rev. Dr. James Endicott, gen- eral secretary of the United Church of Canda, said more than 100 mis- slonaries from his branch of the church in the dominion were working iy Szechuan Province, some in the n experiencing the earthquake. 2The fertile interior province fis ted densely, with an average of nearly 300 persons to the square mile. = # Cow Gift to Milk Fund. 4DODGE CITY, Kans. (#).—An &nthusiastic girl tried to sell a farmer tigkets to a foot ball game New day, explaining 1t was for & e fitmg'-u the farmer, “I'll L e What’s What Behind News In Capital Borah Counts on 179 Delegates—Personal Hopes Growing. BY PAUL MALLON. ISE Senator Borah did a lit- tle delegate counting under \/‘ v his breath before he took his leap into the presiden- tial swim, He hatched his advance prospects, and he rehatched them. In the end, he counted up privately to ex- actly 179 delegates. This inside figure represented the force he thought he could reasonably expect to accumulate for the Republican nominating con- vention in Cleveland June 9. It is roughly onme-third of the delegates who will be there, not enough to nmominate, but probably more than any one else would have if the delegates were assembld to- day. ‘The way Borah and his counselors arrived at their figure is simple. They counted up the 12 States in which delegates are to be selected by public primaries instead of private party con- vention. They dropped one or two of these, and added a couple of States where he has a convention chance. Prestol Change-o!—179 delegates, If Borah can win anywhere near that many primaries, he will, of course, be the people’s choice. The number of his pledged delegations will not count | up to as much as the manner in which he won them. The strong men of the party will then be compelled to take one of two evils: (a) Mr. Borah or (b) @ candidate who will not be the peo- ple’s choice, whose chances of elec= tion therefore may be diminished. This is the plain unadvertised strategy behind the Borah candidacy. It has enlivened his personal hopes. Strategy May Be Altered. The game will probably not work out that way. Since leaping, Mr. Borah has received several unsympathetic Republican friends who might not have called except that they saw his | serawl upon the wall. | 1t is possible they may be able to | do business with him on compromise terms. Failing in that, the whole Re- publican strategy may have to be altered. Up to nou the party thinkers have been trying to avoid fights. They are encouraging can- didacies of favorite sons and step- sons in various States, also uork- ing for unpledged delegates in others. They want to wait until convention time to do their nomi- nating. That may now prove to be too late. They cannot beat some one with no one, They will have ta face Mr. Borah in person now, or in the primaries, with a real candidate. At least, that is what Mr., Borah hopes. Silence, Borah Policy. Senator Borah is inherently a silver man, but he has apparently reached the unannounced conclusion that si- lence, at least, is golden. His earlier planned tactics of going out and mak- ing speeches everywhere are being quietly abandoned. He will make one big speech, in Cleveland, next month, but no others. Root of antagonism to Mr. Borah among the wise men is that they have marked him off as an in- flationlst. They like his line on the Constitution. They know he would probably make as good a campaign on that issue as any one else. At least, he knows that subject better than any one else. But he has made some inflationary speeches and cast some inflationary votes in the Senate. As between the Constitution and sound money they prefer sound money. Old-timers tell of a prominent po- litico whose double chin was giving his managers something to worry about in a campaign a few years a They told him the double chin was not go- ing over well with the masses, that he would have to get rid of it. There was not time to diet or to operate so they worked out a substitute scheme. A special stiff collar was ordered in | a design which would partly conceal | the fatal political deformity. An ar- rangement of radio microphones was made for each speaking occasion, so the audience could not detect the collar concealment, It worked all right until, at the height of the campaign, the candidate in the exuberance of speaking, turned sideways. A photographer with & flashlight got a profile view. Angle on Lindbergh Trip. A Government official who knows the Lindbergh family says unofficially the air king, queen and Jon wanted mainly to be out of the country at the time Hauptmann is electrocuted, One prominent gentleman of the ticker tape has a mnovel idea of election betting. He has computed what it would be worth to him to see President Roosevelt licked. The amount 1is, say $10,000. Half of this he is giving to the Republicans and the other half he is betling on Mr. Roosevelt. Thus he figures to break even. C. Bascom Slemp, once secretary to Mr. Coolidge, was kept cooling his heels in the presidential ante-room for half an hour on a recent visit to Mr. Roosevelt. He complained to Appoint- ment Secretary MacIntyre, saying such delays were unknown in the Coolidge administration. Incidentally, Slemp has guessed the last six Republican presidential nomi- nees correctly before the nominations were made. He is not ready to risk his record by guessing the next one yet. (Copyright. 1935.) 01d Southern Custom. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1935 _ KELLOGG: PACT HIT AS AID'TO BRITAIN Tinkham Charges Roosevelt Is Using Treaty to Back Mediterranean Rule. By the Associated Press. The Kellogg-Briand pact renounc- ing war as “an instrument of national policy” received criticism and implied praise today in discussions of America’s future neutrality policy. Representative Tinkham, Repub- lican, of Massachusetts announced he would introduce a resolution to sbro- gate the treaty, signed during the Coolidge adm’a- istration by 63 nations. He sharged President Roosevelt is “us- ing this pact to support English imperialism and to maintain Eng- lish ccatrol of the Mediterranean” in the Italo-Ethi- opian affair. At New York, a committee of the National Peace Conference, rep- resenting 30 % peace groups, proposed & neutrality measure based in part on the pact. Headed by Prof. James T. Shotwell of Columbia University, the committee would, among other things, permit the President, with the conseat of Con- gress, to lift an embargo on exports to a warring nation, if a majority of signatories to the pact found the na- tion had been attacked in contraven- tion to the treaty. Tinkham, a member of the House Foreiga Affairs Committee, said: “This pact was intended to destroy the neutrality of the .United States and is doing so. At the time of its adoption, it was openly stated by Prime Minister Briand of France, its coauthor, that its purpose was to en- list the aid of the United States in enforcing the covenant of the League of Natiouas. “It is now being used for precisely this purpose by President Roosevelt and Secretary Hull.” Tinkham said there were so many reservations and exemptions to the treaty that it “did not outlaw war; on the contrary, it gave the most solemn sanction of specific wars that has ever been given to the world.” # Tinkham, called a ‘peace pact,’ a pact ‘to out- law war,'” Tinkham said, “is now be- ing used to involve the United States in European quarrels and in European war. It means war for the United States, not peace, and it should be abrogated at once. * * * “Alien minds conceived this pact, and it was adopted by propaganda paid out of alien funds.” Attacking Henry L. Stimson, Secre- tary of State in the Hoover admin- istration, Tinkham said that on the Briand-Kellogg pact he had based his “unwarranted action” in intervening bringing this country “to the brink of war with Japan.” He added that if the pact were continued it could “lead pnly to uni- versal hatred of the United States.” ' ANDREWS .RAISED T0 MAJOR GENERAL by Dern in Reorganizing Top Army Positions. By the Associated Press. Secretary Dern completed reorgani- zation of top positions in the Army Air Corps today, with temporary pro- motion of Brig. Gen. Frank M. An- ters Air Force, to the rank of major general, Dern announced two days ago the designation of Brig. Gen. Oscar D. Westover as chief of the Air Corps, with the Westover had been serving as acting chief, succeeding Maj. Gen. Benjamin D. Foulois. Andrews was named head of the “G. H. Q" force at the time of its organization, but without change in title. The War Department statement said the promotion was in line with Dern's desire to give the Army air force greater rank in the tactical scheme of the land force, and place it in its “proper relative position with the other combat organizations which are now commanded by major generals.” $170,550 FOR UNIVERSITY CHICAGO, December 26 (#).—Re- ceipt of new gifts totaling $170,550 was announced yesterday by the Uni- versity of Chicago. Officials said gifts received by the school during Decem- ber total more than $250.000. Of the latest donations, $156,000 was given by persons who preferred to re- main anonymous. “This pact, falsely and mendaciously | a in the Sino-Japanese dispute and | Temporary Promotion Announced | drews, chief of the Gt 1 H 3 i 0 rnessl HeAdiuA | Atlanta to aid in checking-up to pre- rank of major general. | QUIZ MAY REVEAL ROMANGE:SECRET e Todd Probe Turns to Two Hollywood Men' Who Had Star’s Confidence.. By the Assoclated Press. LOS ANGELES, December 26.—Ro- mantic and financial secrets in the life of Thelma Todd were investigated today in & searchx for new evidence concerning her death. Deputy District Attorney U. U. Bla- lock said detectives will question two Hollywood men, unmentioned before in the case, but reputed to have en- joyed the golden-haired comedienne's confidence. The interrogation will center on what information they may have re- | garding the identity of a “San Fran- cisco business man,” with whom the actress assertedly disclosed she was having a “marvelous romance.” The district attorney’s office has re- ceived a written statement by Roland ‘West, close friend of Miss Todd, on the arrangements for the operation and ownership of the sidewalk cafe which bore her name, attaches said. Verbal Agreement Reported. The statement reportedly disclosed the pair had a verbal agreement oy which she was to be given the cafe if he died before she did. Tt denied Miss Todd had invested her own money in the enterprise. “The grand jury, meeting again to- morrow, wants to find out all about this deal, which apparently was some- what unusual,” Blalock declared. A report that a throat laceration was noted when the autopsy was be- ing performed, was denied by County Autopsy Surgeon A. F. Wagner. He said the only mark was a slight injury about her lips, apparently suffered when her head struck the steering wheel of her automobile. The actress was found dead in the machine in a garage behind her cafe a week ago Monday. Monoxide Theory Backed. Police said today their theory of ac- cidental death from carbon monoxide poisoning, which also was expressed mn the inquest verdict, has received substantiation from a report by City Chemist Ray Pinkert. Pinkert determined that carbon monoxide was present in blood scraped from the door and running board of the Todd automobile. This shows con- clusively, police said, that the actress was not injured before she entered the garage. They reasoned that Miss Todd, re- turning from a Hollywoed party early Sunday morning, found herself locked out of the cafe, went to the garage to keep warm and started the motor of | her automobile. ———e MACON GAS SUPPLY CUT BY EXPLOSION Thousands of Housewives Unable to Cook Yule Dinners Due to Break. By the Associated Press. MACON, Ga., December 26.—Thou- sands of Macon housewives were un- able to cook their Christmas dinners yesterday, as the gas supply failed, due to & broken main. The break located, the Macon Gas Co. sought to warn every gas consumer in the city to cut off unlighted jets. The Macon Evening News furnished the gas company a tip as to the lo- cation of the broken main during an investigation of a reported explosion in the vicinity of Wesleyan College, nine miles north of here, The blowout in the main did not occur near a dwelling and no one was injured. Robert Ingle, manager of the gas company, called 200 men here from vent seepage of gas after the supply is turned on again. The Evening News, which uses gas as a fuel in its composing room and stereotyping department, was crippled by failure of the gas supply, being forced to discontinue publication after its first edition, JAIL FARE PLEASING CHICAGO (#)—Alimony troub with his wife forced John Fardy, 4 to spend Christmas in the Cook County Jail, but he figured he got even with this pronouncement: “The chicken dinner we had today was a sight better than the wife could dish out.” —_— Retired Railway Man Dead. NEW_YORK, December 26 (#).— Jesse F. Patterson, retired general manager of the Pennsylvania Railroad in the New York zone, died yesterday at the age of 64. Patterson retired from the railroad a year ago, after 50 years of service. He was born at Alliance, Ohio, on January 8, 1871, and started his rail- road career on the Pennsylvania line October 1, 1884, Snowy Night Confuses Boy, 6; Lost, He Solves Case by Tears Passerby, Attracted by Weeping, Helps Him to Police. It was Christmas night and 6-year- old Guy Rosen, 1210 Oates street northeast stood on the corner of Fourth and H streets northeast and concluded he was lost. Fine snow which filled the air and covered the streets and houses made a pretty picture, but Guy found it be- wildering. He had left home in mid- afternoon to attend a movie. When he came out, it was dark and snow President Roosevelt is shown with his mother, wife and daugliter-in-law arriving at Foundry Methodist Episcopal Church yesterday to attend the annual Christmas service of the Washington Federation of Churches. Left to right: Mrs. James Roosevelt, Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the President, CITY IN ROUTINE AFTER GAY YULE None Overlooked by Santa From White House Family to Humblest. Awakening to biting cold of a truly | Northern Christmas season, Washing- tonians returned to the daily routine today, warmed by what for most of them was one of the gayest Christ- | mas days in many years. Police and relief organizations were able to re- | edge, went hungry and there were few, if any, youngsters who did not receive | some gifv, Washington children today had ample opportunity to “break in" new found under Christmas trees yester- | day. Motorists who received such | gifts as tire chains, car heaters, lap- robes and gadgets for “‘de-icing” | windshields also were able to put them into service at once. In the White House, as well as in | the homes of a majority of the rank |and file, it was an old-fashioned Christmas. The White House day be- gan early, when 4-year-old Sara | of her grandfather, the President, to ,pull down her Christmas stocking from above his fireplace. Roosevelts Hear Sermon. Seven Roosevelts went out Sixteenth street to Foundry Methodist Episcopal | Church to near a young Congrega- | tionalist minister, Rev. Russell J. | Clincy of Mount Pleasant Congrega- tional Church, preach a “fear not” ice of the Washington Federation of Churches. The President and his family filled | ® pew near the front as Dr. Clinchy developed the theme, “The World God Made Was Made for Heroes to Seek the Perfect.” : “This world is no nursery,” the min- ister declared. “It's not set for a holi- day of fishing and sleeping, not made | for playboys—it was made to give | heroes a place to stand on. No coward | ever looked at life and found this | world was made for him. “Men who can face everything na- ture can throw against them and still have determination to clumb her high mountains are the heroic souls.” After benediction the congregation waited for the presidential family to leave and then hurried to the doors to call “Merry Christmas.” From the front seat, beside the chauffeur, Mr. Roosevelt waved and smiled as long as he could be seen. With the Presi- dent were his mother, Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt; his wife, his daugh- ter-in-law, Mrs. James Roosevelt, and three of his sons, James, John and Franklin, jr. After the services the Roosevelts re- turned to the White House for lunch- eon and the opening of packages. Dinner was served in the evening in the state dining room. Returns to Duties. The President returned to his desk today. Tomorrow he expects his other grandchildren, Curtis and Eleanor Dall, to arrive at the White House, after being prevented by colds from joining him for Christmas. Saturday afternoon the three grandchildren of the President will have a number of their little friends at the White House as guests at a party. ‘Washington policemen, under lead- ership of Capt. Joseph C. Morgas, fifth precinct commander, distributed more than 4,000 baskets of food yes- terday in a city-wide party for the needy. More than 700 men were fed at Central Union Mission, and at the Children’s Emergency Home nearly 200 mothers and children had dinners. Many homeless also gathered at the Salvation Army headquarters for din- ner. At the Gospel Mission more than 300 mothers and children were given Christmas bags. The Volunteers of America, in addition to delivering food in hundreds of homes, also fed 200. A Christmas festival will be given at Congress Heights Community Cen- ter at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow by the chil- dren’s department of this center, The program, to be given in the auditorium of the Congress Heights School, will include folk dances, selections by the glee club and tumbling acts and wrestling by’ members of the boys' section. QUARREL SLEPT OFF Child Locks Self in Bath Room and Firemen Are Surprised. port that to the best of their knowl- | none of the District’s needy | sleds, skates, skiis and mittens they | Roosevelt pattered into the bed room | | sermon in the annual Christmas serv- | Ted Healy, Jailed In Firing Neighbor Home, Doubts It |Film Comedian Says | Somebody “Took a Shot’’ at Him. By the Associated Press. | LOS ANGELES, December 26.— Wisecracks failed Ted Healy, film comedian, taday as he wondered what his “Christmas impulse” would cost him. He started celebrating the advent of the Yuletide, but went to jail, accused | of starting a fire in a neighbor’s resi- dence. Tomorrow the funmaker, charged with attempted arson, is scheduled to appear in court for hearing on a writ of habeas corpus by which he obtained his release under $1,000 bail. | Healy sald he didn’t remember set- ting any fire. | “Somebody started a row and the | next thing I knew somebody took a | shot at me,” he declared. The celebration apparently began in Healy’s hotel rcom. It ended in Santa Monica Canyon, where members of the arson squad took him into custody. During the interim, Miss Bonnie Oredell, dancer, told Investigator John | Mize, Healy smashed through the glass front door of her house, broke furniture and attempted to set fire to the place by piling debris on the kitchen stove. The comedian’s sister Marcia Healy, that her brother was just expressing a “Christmas impulse.” A A A RESTRICTED Surplus Products Held Not Purchaseable With Customs Funds. The Secretary of Agriculture cannot purchase surplus farm products for any purpose, under the agricultural adjustment act amendment creating a fund of $90,000,000 to $100,000,000 an- nually to increase export and domestic consumption and pay crop reduction benefits, Controller General McCarl ruled today. The significance of the ruling, ac- cording to A. A. A. officials, is that it prohibits the use of funds derived from custom receipts for purchase of commodities for distribution to persons on relief. Several programs for spe- cialty crops, such as apples and cab- bage, may have to be altered to con- form with the ruling, but officials are confident the act can be amended to give the A. A. A. the specific authority which McCarl denied it today. ‘To the contention of Secretary Wal- lace that his powers under the amend- ment were broad enough to go through with his program, which included sur- pluses for relief purposes, McCarl tartly said: “The ‘flexible discretionary powers’ which you state are invested in you by the statute are only those powers which are necessary in administering the statute involved and may not law- fully be extended beyond its specific provisions.” In turning down Wallace for the sec- ond time, McCarl referred to the fact that the relief act and relevant statutes provided a way to handle the pur- chases, Adrenal Gland In Developing Habits of Skill BY HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE, Associated Press Science Edito” ITHACA, N. Y, December 26.— A new effect in medicine to aid in developing habits of skill was reported today at Cornell University. The medicine is cortin, the hormone made by the adrenal glands. Its powers of making training in co-or- dination easier were discovered by try- ing this hitherto exclusively human medicine on some sheep. The sheep verified the known ef- fects of cortin on man and also re- vealed the new effect. The animals were under training to learn some difficult habits designed to test their nervous systems. At the sound of an electric buzzer they lift a foreleg with the same mo- declared the house belongs to her and | BYNCARLRULIG ~—Harris-Ewing Photo. ADVERTISERS PLAN DRIVES FAR AHEAD Survey Shows Campaigns Planned Further Than Since 1929, | By the Associated Press. | NEW YORK, December 26.—Ad- | vertising, promotion and sales plans are being made farther ahead than at any time since 1929, says l-lel'l:m'ti L. Stephen in an article appearing in today’s Printers’ Ink on the results of a survey. ~ About 25 per cent of those answer- !ing a questionnaire on national nd-‘ vertising are reported as saying they | are working on plans for six months | | in advance and another 7 per cent on | plans three months in advance. Increases of advertising appropri- ations for 1936 ranging from 5 to| | 25 per cent and averaging 14 per cent | were reported as planned by 53 per | eent of the national advertisers an- swering the queries. Another 20 per | cent expected to raise their appropri- | ations by an undetermined amount | | and 25 per cent expected to make no | | material change. Others said it was | | too early to answer the question or | else failed to answer. Stephen says the largest increases are indicated in the steel industry, with the motion picture industry also among those making material in- creases, The biggest increase among | package goods advertisers will be | shown by the liquor interests. Auto- mobile and accessory concerns indi- cated increases and grocery product budgets seemed likely to remain un- changed. Nearly 40 per cent of those answer- ing the queries indicated an intention to increase sales staffs and none planned to decrease its staff. The article does not state the num- ber of answers on which per centages are based. Letter (Continued Prom First Page.) your excellency the proceedings of the court martial on my trial, which I| must request you will do me the favor to lay before the Council and General Assembly. “I would wish to take from the | minds of those gentlemen every un- favorable impression which the un- precedented publication of the presi- dent of Council of Pennsylvania may have made and to convince them that my character has been most cruelly and unjustly aspersed,” Arnold. con- cludes. It was & few months later, records | show, when Arnold asked ,George | Washington for command of West Point to turn that strategic position over to the British. The letter is in excellent condition. HOME GUARDED IN PLOT Sweeps Winner of $149,000 Told to Pay $5,000 or Die. HULL, Quebec, December 26 (#).— Police disclosed today they had placed a guard about the home of an elderly sweepstake winner after he received an extortion letter threatening him with death. Authorities said Wilfrid Leblanc, 60, who won $149,000 in the Ammy and| Navy Veterans' Sweepstake on the 1930 running of the English Derby, had shown them s letter demanding payment of $5,000. It was signed “The Four Black Judges.” Extract Aids difficulties it likewise makes them more quickly adept at the leg-lifting habit. The experiments are reposted by Dr. H. 8. Liddell, Dr. C. D. Anderson, E. Kotyuka and Dr. F. A. Hartman in the archives of neurology and psy- chiatry. The study aims to develop in sheep a laboratory animal of use in establishing methods of treatment good for human nervous afflictions. “Experiments with sheep,” the re- port said, “bear out results obtained with humans, that normal suffering from nervous tension and from certain clinical conditions a companied by nervous and mental symptoms are improved by adminis- tration of the adrenal cortex. tion they would use at the touch of | sleep s live electric wire. This gives some of the sheep nervous breakdowns. Cortin restores their nerves much as it helps human beings with bad nerves. But it also smoothes out the leg-lifting troubles of the mnervous sheep. extract When given o sheep with no narve | ous system.” sistance to fatigue develops. As these effects are partly subjective in there might be some doubt as to factor of suggestion. The observa- tions on sheep, being entirely objec- tive, establish firmly the effects of of adrenal cortex on the nerv- YULE TRAGEDIES TAKE 150 LIVES 36 German Wreck Victims. Crime Toll Heavy—Fires Boost List. By the Associated Press. Disaster and death ma Christmas holiday at hc::ed .t,,h: abroad. The toll of lives, including 36 killed in a German train wreck, exceeded 150. Traffic accidents took the heaviest toll. Crime, fire and exposure claimed other victims, Domestic disturbances accounted for several deaths. John Rogers, 56, Phil- adelphia, killed his wife, his mother- in-law, his three childref and him- self. Joseph McElroy, 17. was accused of shooting to death his stepmother, Mrs. Lillian McElroy, in another Phil- adelphia affray. ‘Two Die In Fight. At Butte, Mont., Frank Walsh, 24, and Policeman Tom O'Neill, 37, were killed and two other persons were wounded in a boarding-house disturb- ance. Police sought Harry Knight as the suspected slayer. Arthur Biake Maness killed his in- lll}t child, wounded his estranged wife and killed himself at Carthage, N. C. A woman was burned to death in a Hot Springs, Ark., theater fire, an- other woman and two children died in Oklahoma residence biazes; a father and his two children burned to death in New York; a woman was burned to death at Stockton, Calif. A freezing cold was blamed for deaths in Illinois, Montana, North Dakota, Indiana, Missouri, Iowa, Ari- zona, New Jersey and two in Wis- consin. Suicide Note on Tree. Suicides gave a Macabre twist to the Christmas celebrations. At Kansas City, Kans, Mrs, Alline Thompson found a farewell note on her Christ- mas tree, her husband dead of carbon monoxide poisoning in the basement. Ten died in Missouri traffic acci- dents; Texas counted 17 dead in auto crashes and 1 in the premature explo- sion of a cannon. Other traffic (fatalities included Illinois, 9; Oklahoma, 4; Georgia, 8; Washington, 3; Kansas, 3; Michigan 6; Los Angeles, 8; Florida, 2: Ohio. 6; Indiana, 5; Massachusetts, 3. THREE BODIES SOUGHT. Woman Dead and Five Injured in Arkansas Fire. HOT SPRINGS, Ark., December 26 (#).—Workmen razed the walls of a former theater today to permit search of the charred ruins of an adjoining transient hotel for trace of three per- sons missing after a fatal Christmas morning blaze. Mrs. J. K. Love of Jackson, Miss, perished in the flames, trapped by falling bricks and masonry. Her hus- band made his escape after an un- successful effort to save her. He was badly burned. Four others were in- jured. The missing are Mr. and Mrs. White Beam of Waldron, Ark., and J. L. Sangers, 31, of Tulsa, Okla, or Lex- ington, Ky. Firemen who penetrated a short way into the hotel ruins last night were called back because of dang:: from the weakened walls. QUINTUPLETS BORN T0 NICARAGUA PAIi Three Boys and Two Girls Re- ported in Perfect Health, but Medical Men Worry. By the Associated Press. MANAGUA, Nicaragua, December 26.—The birth of quintuplets to a Nicaraguan couple was reported in the Managua press today. The parents of the children are Senor and Senora Timoteo Laines, residents of the village of Sabana Grande, in the Department (State) of Matagalpa. The quintuplets consist of three boys and two girls, all in perfect health. Medical authorities here were in- terested in the report, but worried be- cause the infant death rate is high in Nicaragua, especially in the outlying districts such as Matagalpa, where communications are meager. EARLE NAMES AID CHIEF READING, Pa., December 26 (#)— Gov. George H. Earle announced last night he would recommend Karl De Schweinitz of Philadelphia as State emergency relief administrator at a ;neeunz of the Relief Board next Mon- ay. Robert L. Johnson leaves the post of State relief director on January 1 to make a survey of relief work in sev- eral countries in Europe. Irvin S. Cobb Says: Hen Which Laid Eggs With Initials Died All Too Soon. SANTA MONICA, Calif., December 26—Whatever became of the hen which from time to time hauled off and laid an egg with mysterious initialing onit? Inmydsys en a country newspaper, this gifted fowl was a regular journalis- ¥ tic feature. HerlF output might bef soft-shelled and shy a yolk, but always the cryp- tic writing was there Once she produced an egg bearing letters which many translated as prophesying “war” But ! somebody pointed out that if you read the message the other way it spelled “raw” which also seemed to cover the case pretty well. This barnyard phenomenon died too soon. How the New Deal boys could use s hen capable of turning out weird alphabetical combinations and then going off and forgetting them! Afterthought—among all the of- fice-seekers or office-holders who have been or may be mentioned for s ntial nomination next year—or even for Vice President—you will search in vain for the name of Gov, Hoffman of New Jersey. (Copy. e American \per )