Evening Star Newspaper, January 8, 1937, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Rain beginning late ight or tomor- row morning; lowest temperature tonight about 52 degrees; colder late tomorrow and Sunday. Temperatures—Highest, 51, at 10:30 a.m. today; lowest, 45, at 10 p.m. yesterday. Full report on page A-4. * Closing New York Mar 85th YEAR. No. 33,855. kets, Page 20 Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. ¢ WASHINGTON, WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D. C, FRIDAY, JANUARY The only evening 1 ; ' paper in Washington wit! the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. ¢ Foening Star (= 8, 1937T—FORTY-SIX PAGES, :*¥*¥ Yesterday’s Circulation, 141,002 (Some returns not yet received.) TWO CENTS. » /P Means Associated Press. FISCAL REPORT SCRAPS U. 8. LUMP SUM ROOSEVELT CALLS INDUSTRY TO HIRE MORE T0 PRESERVE BALANCED BUI]GET‘ Hopeful Picture of Finance| Painted by President in Message—Large Sums Still Needed for Relief. AID APPROPRIATION ESTIMATE DELAYED Full Provision Expected to Be Made for Debt Retirement in 1939—No New Tax Demands Made—Continuance of “Nui- sance” Levies Is Recommended. Full text of President's budget | | message on Page A-15. | | BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. 1 In his budget message to Congress today President Roosevelt painted, in cold figures, a hopeful picture of Government finances. “Although we must continue to spend substantial sums to provide work for those whom industry has not yet absorbed, the 1938 budget (for the fiscal year 'JRinning July 1, 1937, and ending June 30, 1938) is in balance,” the President said. “And except for debt reduction of $401,515,000, it will remain in bal- ance,” he continued, “even if later on | there are included additional expendi- | tures of as much as $1,537,123,000 for | recovery and relief.” The President did not include in his budget submitted today estimates for recovery and relief appropriations for the next fiscal year except in the | sum of $316,030,913. It is his hope ! that the total additional amount re- | quired for these purposes will not ex- | ceed the $1537,123,000 ‘already men- tioned. This would bring the total amount for relief for 1938 up to ap- proximately $1,853,154,000, or $963,- 003,000 less than the amount esti~ mated for the fiscal year 1937. The President frankly warned in- dustrial employers that they must do | thejr share if the budget is to remain in balance. Only by the absorption into private employment of many men and women now on the relief rolls will 1t be possible to keep the expenditures Tor relief within the bounds he visual- 1zes, he said. He declared that the Government would not “allow any American fam- {lies to starve,” whether it meant un- | balancing the budget or not. Industry, therefore, must give em- | ployment to enough men and women on relief to make possible a cut of | about 33%; per cent of the relief appro- priations during the last year. 1939 Budget Outlook. It improvement in economic condi- tions continues at the present rate, | the President said, “we axpect to be able to attain in 1939 a completely | balanced budget, with full provision for meeting the statutory requirements for debt retirement.” Here are the estimates of Govern- ment receipts and expenditures for the fiscal year 1938 on which the | Pres.dent bases his hope for a bal- | anced budget: | Receipts, $7,262,982,529; expendi- tures, $6,157,999,254 (including $316,- | 030,913 for recovery and relief); sur- | plus, $1,135607,943. It is to this| surplus he looks to meet other re- quirements for relief during the year 1938. Should the President’s estimates prove correct, and relief expenditures be not increased and Congress not make new and large appropriations, not now estimated for, the high water mark of the public debt, estimated at | $35,026,543,494, will have been reached at the close of the present fiscal year, June 30 next. From that point on it ~(See U. 5. BUDGET, Page A-15) LOST CHILD FOUND IN DAYTON SEARCH Little Girl Is Located Unharmed After All-Night Hunt Through City. By the Associated Press. DAYTON, Ohio, January 8.—Po- Nce headquarters reported today that 4'5-year-old Barbara Ruth Isble, ob- Ject of an all-night hunt, had been found unharmed. Details were not immediately avail- able at police headquarters, but offi- cers saild they understood a man had been taken into custody. Fifty policemen and squads of Boy Scouts and neighbors scoured streets ‘and open areas in the vicinity of Mc- Cook Fleld, wartime Army air base near where the chubby, dark-haired youngster disappeared early last night. She was in the company of an “elderly man” of medium build who wore & dark overcoat, Miss Grace Mc- Donald, who lives nearby, told police. _— RUSSIAN SHIP SEIZED Lloyds Reports Insurgents Escort Vessel to Ceuta. LONDON, January 8 (A.—An armed Spanish insurgent trawler Neized an unidentified Russian steamer ‘bound westward in the straits of Gibraltar and conducted her to Ceuta, Fnhh Moroceo, Lioyd's reported to- | ‘ Release Due | CHARLES MATTSON. AGTIVITY OF G-MEN HINTS. RELEASE OF KIDNAPED YOUTH Mattson Case “Break” Seen‘ as F. B. |. Agents Speed Out of Tacoma. By the Associated Press. TACOMA, Wash., January 8 —Three automobiles filled with men believed to be Federal Bureau of Investigation agents raced through Olympia. Wash.. | at 6:30 a.m. today and took the road to Aberdeen, 84 miles southwest of LS LA FOLLETTE CALLS POLICE T0 OFFICE TOEIECT STUDENTS 1,000, Angry at Frank Re- moval, Break Up Press Conference, AIDE TO EXECUTIVE BARRICADED IN ROOM Eomm Finally Clear Suite at| Capitol—Governor Agrees to Address Assembly. BULLETIN, MADISON, Wis., January 8 (F).— Gov. Philip F. La Follette, address ing 1,000 striking students who in- vaded his offices today, refused to promise consideration of their de- mands for reinstatement of Dr. Glenn Frank to the University of ‘Wisconsin presidency. The Governor told the student demonstrators he had invited Pres- ident John Conant of Harvard Uni- versity to come to Madison to determine whether polities, had motivated Frank’s dismissaf, but Conant had declined. By the Assoctated Press. & MADISON, Wis,, January 8.—Police were called today to eject University of Wisconsin students, demonstrating against _the ouster of President Glenn Prank, from Gov. Philip F. La Fol- | lette’s office. They had marched from | | the campus and broke up a press con- | ference he was holding. The students, estimated at nearly ‘Tacoma. | 1,000 by onlookers, marched from the This sudden action stirred rumors | university campus to the Governor's THERE'S NOTHING THE MATTER WITH You - YOUR NURSE S NoT 'ou PROPER. G@?&‘TMENT! | In Denying By the Associated Press. Seeks to Halt Flow of Foreign Men and| Arms to Spain—Germans Reported | President Asks States to Strengthening Forts. ACTION S URGED F rance Demands Powers;’ Ai(lr. ,[}H"_fl lAB[]R [Aw Morocco to Nazis Speed Ratification of | “Prance finds it mpossible to per- | Amendment. | miles south of Tacoma. | & “break” had come in the kidnaping of 10-year-old Charles Mattson. The three machines, traveling | rapidly, careened onto the branch of | the highway leading directly toward | Aberdeen and other harbor cities. At the same hour, two other auto- | mobiles, also traveling at high speed, ! were reported leaving Tacoma on the | mountain highway leading to the/ | southeast toward Mount Rainier, where | the drivers hurriedly conferred before | office after they had been harangued by speakers, including & young woman, 8 last year's graduate, who cried: “Are you going to stand oy like a group of moral cowards?” The students created so much dis- order in the executive chambers Gov. La Follette called upon the Madison Police Department for help. Barricades Office. Col. Charles Dow, white haired sec- PARIS, January 8 —French officials mit Germany to gain a foothold ! '3.POINT PLAN ADDS 10 MILLION TO D. C. TAX BILL “Net Amount” Due District Under New Formula Totals $2,533,357 for Next Year. REFERENDUM RECOMMENDED ON LOCAL SUFFRAGE QUESTION National Representation Requires Amendment—Commissioners Say New Taxes Would Still Leave Deficit. Full report on fiscal relations conclusions on Pages A-16-17. President Roosevelt laid before Congress today a $45,736,285 ‘District budget for the coming fiscal year, embodying a new three-point formula, the result of the fiscal relations study, for determining the amount of the Federal payment toward the city's . expenses. If applied by Congress, the formula would reduce the amount of the Federal payment in the next fiscal year, beginning July 1, from the present $5,000,000 to an estimated net of $2,533,357, the lowest in history. ‘The Federal payment as known in the past, however, is abol- ished altogether. The $2.533357 does not represent a National | payment from National revenues, part of its being anticipated proceeds from new charges for services by the District, either to citizens or to Government departments. Principles governing past | fiscal relationship, including the fixed ratic system, are scrapped. | Entirely new ones are subStituted. asserted today it was “impossible” for | Prance to permit a reported German incursion into Spanish Morocco, and said she would demand an immediate consultation of Europe's powers to halt the flow of foreign men and munitions into Spain. Taking immediate cognizance of a report by the French Moroccan ad- ministrator to the effect Germany was ! conducting & large-scale military and the machines separated and sped on : retary to the Governor, was barricaded | commercial invasion in the adjacent their way. Believe Boy Released. | Observers interpreted their activity ! as meaning the kidnaped boy had | been released. All law enforcement | agencies had complefely withdrawn from activity earlier in the week at the request of the boy's father. The | general understanding was that they | would make no moves until Charles | was released. The latest communication from the Mattson family to the kidnaper, pub- lished in the Seattle Times yester- day, indicated that important de- velopments could be expected shortly. Neither Harold Nathan, in charge | of the Government operatives in Ta- coma, or Inspector Earl J. Connelly | could be reached in their hotel rooms after the Federal machines left the | garage. The hurried and unexplained trips of the supposed G-men, coupled with the fact members of the Mattson fam- ily were wide awake at an unusually early hour, stirred speculation Charles | might have been released from his 12-day captivity. Tacoma Police Inactive. ‘Tacoma police remained at their headquarters, professing to know no- thing of the Federal agents’ move- ments. The sudden activity of F. B. I agents came at the end of a night filled with vague rumors. One of | these suddenly centered interest on an island in American Lake, about 12| Another rumor indicated the ac- tual payment of the $28,000 demanded for Charles’ release might have been made late Thursday by Dr. W. W. Mattson, his father, or an inter- mediary. Such rumors have been inter- mingled with a cloud of “clues” ever since the boy was stolen from his home December 27. Cold Worries Father. The new “break” in the hunt came on one of the Winter's coldest nights here—a night which might seriously have harmed slender Charles’ health if he should have been released to walk along some freezing country road during the early hours. The intense cold so worried Dr. Mattson that he made arrangements to have his son taken to a hospital immediately after his release by kid- napers. ” Police Chief William McCormick arrived with 12 officers. With much shouting and commotion they cleared all of the demonstrators out of the ante-room and & committee of two was admitted to see the Governor. The Chief Executive agreed after talking to the committee to address the students in the State assembly chamber. Quiet was restored promptly after this assurance and the students moved to the assembly room. Capitol police and leaders of the demonstration estimated there were close to 1,000 youths in the procession | when it reached the State house. Only about 100, however, could get | into the main offices of the executive | suite. Others milled around the build- ing. The demonstration started at the university between the 8 and 9 o'clock university classes with a shout from a group of sorority girls, Frank.” In a few minutes 250 students pa- raded through Bascom Hall, which houses the university administrative offices. They visited Music Hall and the law building, gathering recruits for the march as they went along. They swarmed into the executive Governor’s private suite. Those close enough to peer into the private office pounded on the doors. Delays Press Conference. Gov. La Follette told the newspaper men with whom he had been talking to wait inside his office while he con- ferred with a secretary on whether he should address the students. Earlier, students invaded class When 9 o'clock arrived the only ones walking up the long, sleet-cov- ered hill to the hall were youths carrying books. Fifteen minutes later, however, pandemonium broke loose. Students Inside and others who rushed through the doors broke out in a series of yells and dances. Invade Class Rooms. Some went into class rooms and attempted to drag fellow students into the corridors. While law enforcement agencies ‘The students, still yelling, Gescended (See MATTSON, Page A-4) Two New Battleships Ordered (See FRANK, Page A-3) By Roosevelt as Replacements By the Associated Press. President Roosevelt ordered the Navy today to begin construction of two new battleships to replace over- age vessels in the fleet. He included funds to start work on the vessels—made necessary, he said, by the shipbuilding activity of other naval powers—in his request to Con- gress for a record peacetime national defense fund of nearly a billion dollars for the 1938 fiscalyear. Increased expenditures for airplanes, ordnance equipment and expanded personnel for both Army snd Navy also ‘were proposed in the President’s budget message. % The total appropriation recommend- ed to Congress for the naval and mil- itary establishments was $980,763,000, an increase of $92,882,000 over estimat- ed outlay for the current fiscal period ending next June 30. At his press conference today el Roosevelt noted that Great Britain had begun the construction of two new battleships, France, three; Italy, two, and Germany, three. He expressed regret that the failure of the principal sea powers to agree last year on a continuation of fleet limitations provided in the Washing- ton and London naval treaties made it necessary for the United States to pleted will cost about $50,000,000 each. The 1937 national defense estimates (See DEFENSR. Page 4 kS “We want | offices and filled the anteroom off the rooms appealing to other students to | Join them. | in his office to keep the students out. Spanish gone, the French officials | sald: there.” | Quai D'Orsay insisted German and | Italian acceptance “in principle” of | a proposed ban on foreign volunteer | enlistments for Spain had opened the | way for a quick consultation of powers | represented on the International Neu- | trality Committee. They said Prance would press for such a consultation. __(Informed sources in London said | "(See FRANCE, Page A-3.) | 5 IOMOREG. .. 1 | - EMPLOYES STRIKE “Sit-Down” Reported at | Plant of Cadillac Motors in Detroit. BULLETIN, DETROIT, January 8 (#).— Gov. Frank Murphy of Michigan, sttempting to compose differ- ences between General Motors and its striking employes in the face of spreading shut-downs and new “sit-down™ strikes, said today he had been “in touch with the White House.” He added that he had not com- municated directly with President Roosevelt, who earlier in the week went over the automotive-labor sit- uation with Secretary Perkins. BY the Associated Press. DETROIT, January 8.— General Motors officials said a “sit-down” strike started today at the Cadillac Motor Car Co., where 5,000 men are dred men were in the plant, a Gen- eral Motors unit. the General Motors offices it was sailk the divisions affected were the paiit, stamping and final assembly of the Clark avenue plant. The union presented demands to the Cadillac management several days ago, fixing 4 p.m. yesterday as the “deadline.” Yesterday, however, union officials announced an indefi- nite extension of this time limit. “We can pull the men out on a mnute’s notice,” said Walter Reuther, president of the West Side United Au- tomobile Workers local. He said ac- tion had been deferred so that what- ever steps were taken could be “part of the national strategy of the union.” General Motors subsequently an- nounced the strike had caused the laying off of 4,800 men at the Cadil- lac plant and that operations in the La Salle division also were suspended. It was said at the corporation offices that if Buick and other units closed as expected at 4 o'clock this afternoon only the Pontiac and Oldsmobile divi- sions and truck-producing units will be producing complete vehicles. There was no assurance, it was added, that these latter divisions will be able to continue operations. Meanwhile increasing tension . in strike centers spurred State and Fed- eral conciliators in their attempts to’ settle the walkout of United Auto- mobile Workers in General Motors plants. While police at Flint, Mich., dis- persed a crowd of union members with threats of using tear gas, night- long conferences were held in Detroft in an endeavor to smooth the way for ‘negotiations between U. A. W. A. and corporation offieials. I (Ses w employed., Reports said several hun- | Prank Murphy, starting his nefll 8 RODSEVELT SIENS Resolution Banning Ship-' ments to Spain Now Becomes Law. By the Associated Press. A special resolution embargoing | munitions shipments to Spain be- | came law today with President Roose- | velt's signature. The measure was hurried to the White House and signed within a few minutes after Vice President Garner affixed his signature at the opening of the Senate’s session. The resolution provides a $10,000 | fine or five years’ imprisonment or | both for any one who should: “Expor{ arms, ammunition or im- plements of war from any place in the United States, or possessions of the United States, to Spain, or to any | By the Associated Press. | dispute over curbing the Supreme | Court, today made s second brisk move The budget and the new formula also confronted the Dis- | trict with the necessity of raising nearly $10,000,000 in new taxes At the same time, authorities at the | President Roosevelt, unheeding the E for the next fiscal year. The new taxes suggested in the fiscal re- lations report are a net income tax, an inheritance or estate tax, to achieve goals by seeking to | an increase in the gasoline tax, graduation of the motor vehicle speed ratification of the child labor | tax upon commercial vehicles with reference to weight, and re- amendment. In letters to the Governors and | Governors-elect of 19 States where | Legislatures meet this Winter, he posal pending since 1924. Only 12 more States need to act to make it the twenty-second amendment, inas- much as 24 States have ratified. “It is clearly indicated that child labor, especially in low-paid, un- standardized types of work, is increas- ing.,” Mr. Roosevelt wrote. “I am convinced that Nation-wide minimum standards are necessary an opinion in behalf of the elimination of child labor.” Congressional leaders considered the action another indication of presi- | dential militance on labor leg\slman.’ Militance Is Seen. Meanwhile word reached Congress that administration advisers were | drafting a comprehensive business reg- ulation statute in the spirit of N. R. A. Mr. Roosevelt still had to decide on a specific plan, an informed source said, but one suggestion receiving official study would empower the Federal Trade Commission or & new agency on two major points: 1. To enforce “fair trade practices” as defined by Congress. Payment of “starvation wages” or working labor unconscionably long hours would be banned. 2. To approve voluntary agreements on wages, hours, price-posting and similar matters, having the force of law for the industry involved. This (See NEUTRALITY, Page A-2) | Summary of Amusements_ c-i Comics - Financial .__A-19 Lost & Found A-3 Obituary .._A-10 BUDGET. President’s message on budget given Congress,, Page A-15 $34,176,727 increase is asked in Navy funds. Page A-15 Text of new formula for fiscal rela- tions. Page A-16 $1,465,000 is requested for jobless in District. Page A-17 School building program is blocked by report. Page A-17 New laws to end free services of U. 8. and D. C. asked. Page A-17 Public Library is granted small in- crease. Page A-17 $425,000 asked for starting two new bridges. Page A-18 Shift in Federal expenditures is shown. Page A-18 FOREIGN. Roosevelt signs Spanish munitions shipment resolution. Page A-1 France to demand powers’ help to resist Nasis. Page A-1 Pope's doctors relaxing watch as im- provement is noted. Page A-3 NATIONAL. Growing tension spurs mediation in G. M. C. walkouts. Page A-1 ‘Woman's Pg.. C-3 President urges States to ratify child lsbor amendment. Page A-1 La Pollette calls police to eject stu- (See ROOSEVELT, Page A-2.) Today’s Star .| WASHINGTON AND VICINITY. District's 1937 traffic toll four; one death probed. Page B-1 D. C. committee members reported chosen. Page B-1 Mead bill seeks better Civil Service system. Page B-1 Senator McCarran confers on Federal pay raise. Page B-1 Two “boots and spurs” robbery sus- pects plead guilty. Page B-1 EDITORIAL AND COMMENT. ‘This and That. Page Answers to Questions. Page ‘Washington Observations. Page David Lawrence. Page Paul Mallon. Page Constantine Brown. Page Jay Franklin. Page Headline Folk. Page MISCELLANY. Vital Statistics. Traffic Convictions. Young Washington. City News in Brief. Betsy Caswell. A-8 A-8 A-8 A-9 A-9 A9 A-9 A-9 Page A-6 Page A-11 Page B-2 Page Page Page Page Page Page B-5 C-3 c-3 Cc-4 2 C-4 Nature’s Children. C-4 FINANCIAL. Corporate bonds mixed (table). Page A-19 Trade trends uneven. Page A-19 Stocks irregular (table). Page A-20 D. C. postal receipts soar. Page A-20 Losses offset curb gains (table). Page A-21 Page A-21 Many of 10-year major veterans are falling by wayside. Page C-1 Mack Itkes ides of taking team to Mex- ico City to train. Page C-1 urged | Harness racing expected to have one of its best seasons. Page C-2 Parks declares oid gail 3 | examination of existing business | | Columbia are lower” than in 17 A definite recommendation taxes. Justification of the increased taxes is based on the report's { finding—to which special direction was called by the President— | asked favorable action on the pro- | that the “property tax and the total tax load in the District of cities comparable in size. is made in the fiscal relations report that District residents be granted the right of local suf- frage if they want it. National representation, it was pointed out, would require a constitutional amendment. Suffrage Referendum. The report said: ew Tax Burden | Of $10,000,000 Faces D. C. in ’38 Budget Although the 1938 District budget of $45.736,285 leaves local residents facing the threat of a new $10,000,000 tax burden, they stand to gain com- paratively few major improvements in return. The supply bill total would exceed that of the current year by only slightly more than $2,000,000 and of the sum recommended for all purposes permanent improvements would not exceed $6,850,600. Even this figure does not represent that amount of new improvements because it includes $1.300,000 of reimbursement to the Federal Government for projects already started. As it goes to Congress the budget is mates of the municipal department heads who recommended a total of $58,220,358. The Commissioners early in the Fall cut these requests to a total of $48,090,475, or by more than $10,000,000. The Budget Bureau in turn has made a further slash of $2,354,190. School Plan Wrecked. Hopes of school authorities for the starting of a five-year $30,000,000 school expansion program are wrecked despite the suggested new tax burden the District would have to bear if the findings of the Fiscal Relations Com- mittee are sustained. While the budget allows for three new school buildings and three addi- tions and less than $500,000 for school sites, the sum of these would be but $1,500,000, whereas the five-year pro- gram would have required $5,492,000. Whereas school officials asked for 185 more teachers immediately, they were allowed but 93. Police, fire and health estimates of the Commissioners also felt Budget Bureau pruning knife. The District heads had asked for 50 additional policemen, but the bureau provided none, except that it proposed six civ- ilian aides who would relieve officers from having to drive police cars. Thirty additional firemen had been asked to enable the department to grant the increased annual leave, but cer, proposed a budget of $1,117,492, more than double the current appro- priation, and the most of the in- crease was for construction of the first two of a series of health centers. The Commissioners asked $230,000 for building of one next year, but the bureau slashed this item to $150,000. For all purposes, the health estimates by the Commissioners to- taled $751,930, which would have been $243,960 over current appropria- tions. The bureau recommended but $647,930, an increase of $139,960 over the current appropriation of $507,970. Although a net increase of $8,000 for the Free Public Library was lowed, no provision was made for added personnel for new bulldings as of “legal residents of the District at & $12,484,073 below the original esti-| | “Provision should be made through con- gressional enactment for local suffrage upon favorable vote by the i d M”NIII | that a way should be found promptly | to crystallize in legal safeguards public | J, referendum upon the question.” Application of the new formula, however. is not made dependent upon the grant of local suffrage. The drastic nature of the budget report is strikingly illustrated by the statement of District officials that even if all of the new forms of taxation suggested in recent years—substan- tially those recommended by the com- mittee—should be adopted, together with a boost in the real estate tax from $1.50 to $1.70, the total new rev- enue produced would not exceed $6.- 500,000. There still would be a deficit of nearly $3,500,000 to finance the | budget. The President’s recommendation for adoption of the three-point formula was contained in his budget message to Congress, the text of which is pub- lished elsewhere in The Star today. It was based on the findings of the special Piscal Relations Committee he (Continued on Page A-18.) ROOSEVELT, JR., ON WAY T0 D. C. |Out of Hospital, He Hopes to Graduate in June—May Go to Law School. | By the Associated Press. BOSTON, January 8.—Franklin D. Roosevelt, jr., reported recovered from & sinus infection and . streptococcic throat, left for Washington today to spend a few days at the White Houss before going to Florida. The President’s son, a patient at Massachusetts General Hospital since November 25, said as he boarded a train for the Capital that he hoped his flancee, Miss Ethel du Pont, would join him at Wilmington, Del. He ex- pressed the hope that he woyld be able to graduate from Harvard College in June, the month also set for his wedding, but he feared his illness might interfere with his ambition to graduate cum laude. Franklin said he was uncertain about his career after leaving college, but was thinking zeriously of law school. “LU” OF RADIO TEAM DEAD OF PNEUMONIA “Em"” Is Also Ill and Under Care of Physician in Evan- ston, Ill. By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, January 8 (#).—Mrs. Isobel Carothers Berolzheimer, the “Lu” of the radio team, “Clara, Lu and Em,” died in an Evanston Hos- piizl today. In private life she was the wife of Prof. Howard Berolzheimer of the Northwestern _ University School of Speech. She had been ill several days of pneumonia and a streptococcic in- fection. “Em” of the radio trio—in private life, Mrs. John Mitchell of Evanston— ‘was ill and the care of & phy- sician todag. '