New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 26, 1928, Page 5

U5, STILL FEELS WORLD WAR GOST Billion and Quarter Dolars Aa- mlly I Natrs Bil Washington, Dec. 26 (UP)—More than ten years after the end of hos- tilities, the World War is atill cost- ing the United States about one bil. lion and a quarter dollars annually. In his annual report for -1927, Secretary of the Treasury Mellon estimated the total money cost of the way to the United States as $35,119,622,144. This estimate was revised in Mellon's report for the present year and the total now is placed at $36,360,232,063, an in- crease for the year of $1,240,609,- Continuing costs of the World War are the expenses of the Veter- ans’ Bureau, interest on that part of ih~ public debt of the United Statey created as a result of the war, and construction of hospitals for the care of veterans of the war, Mellon ex- | plained, Total money cost of the war to been ascertained. Obligations of foreign govern- ments to the United States, which | now total $11,853,406,768.55, are | eliminated from the costs because these debts are gradually being re- paid by most of the foreign govern- ments. Payments to be received from abroad have been discounted ir this cost estimate s0 as to show their present value under the var. fous funding agreements. The treasury estimates the “asset value™ of all funded foreign obligations at 60 per cent of their face Value. On this basis, the present value of |the foreign debts is estimated by the treasury at $7,470,000,000. The debts of Austria and Greece, though not | yet funded, have been included on a similar 60 per cent basis because | it is assumed that those countries will eventually fund their debts. The French debt:has been funded, but, neither France nor the United States | has yet ratified the agreement. | Detective Wounded | By Unknown Assailant Belgrade, Jugoslavia, Dec. 26 (P— | | Detective Grauer was seriously { wounded by a man who shot at him | {from a telephone booth in Cafe| | Korzo, in Zagreb, on Christmas Eve. | Grauer was sitting in the cafe| | when he was called to the telephone | |by an unidentified person. While this country is arrived at by deduct. | the detective was passing a curlainfi‘ ing the normal expenditures of the |°d side door four shots were fired. | government during the “war period” | TWO0 of the bullets hit Grauer who | from the total expenditures between | ¥a8 taken to a hospital. In the en-| the declaration of war on April 6, 1917, and the official end of slate of war with Germany on July 2, 1921, The “war period” did not «nd officially until three years after the armistice and after signing of the Versailles treaty. Treasary’s Analysis In 1927, the treasury made a de- tailed analysis of the total expendi- tures of the government for the four year period, and this has now been revised up to June 30, 1928, together with the continuing costs of the war. As a result of this analysis, Mel- lon said, it is believed that a con- servative estimate of the net cost of the war to the United States has the | |suing panic his assailant escaped. | Grauer had been warned to leave | | Zagreb because of his activities in | | spying on Croation politiclans. He once entered the service of the late | Stefan Raditch, the flery peasant| leader, as a valet while Raditch was | in London in 1924. He was thui able to keep the Belgrade govern- ment informed concerning all of | Raditch’s movements. | TUNNEY IN ITALY Brioni Island, Italy, Dec. 26 (®—| Gene Tunney, his wife and several | | friends arrived at Brioni for Christ- mas. It was understood they expect. ted to remain in this region uatil May. MARYLAND EXPECTS NEW RAGING BLL Miack Is Baing Diroctod hgainst Betting Baltimore, Md., Dec. 26 (P—A new attack on horse racing in Maryland is to be expected in the coming session of the general as- sembly, in the opinion of State Sena- tor Harry O, Levin. The legislative sessions will start January 3. More than one effort has been made to regulate the sport in this state, noted for its tracks and rich stakes, and most of them have died aborning. Only once did such a bill pass one of the houses and then it was altered so that it lost the effect at which it aimed. The coming attack, Levin believes, will be directed against betting, and as a business horse racing without betting simply doesn’t attract a| crowd. Other legislators say that such a measure would stand an even chance of passage. ‘The last attempt to regulate rac- ing in Maryland further was made in 1922, At that time what was known as the Hall anti-race-track- betting measure proposed to abol- | ish legalized betting at Maryland tracks—Laurel, Bowie, Pimlico. Havre-de-Grace and a number of half-mile ovals, ‘That bill passed the house and went to the senate. There it was 50 changed that its sponsors in the | house failed to recognize it when it | returned, and it was defeated as amended. ANTI-JAPANESE BOYCOTT Peking, Dec. 26 (UP)—Chinese merchants who sell Japanese goods are to be paraded through the streets of Peking in wooden cages, while the people mock at them, according to an order issued by the | have visiting shops to inspect the goods PREPARE T0 SAVE TOURISTS IN ALPS Planes Used Successhully in Rescue of Lost Persons Chamonix, France, Dec. 36 (UP) —While European soclety is busily | gathering together its winter sports gear in readineas for the *season” in the Alps, due to begin in & few weeks, the French and Swis au- thorities are combining to try and find means of decreasing the num- ber of tragedies which occur each year. The toll of deaths has grown steadily as winter sports have in- creased in popularity. Foolhardi- ness on the part of climbers in tak- ing risks is very often the cause of disaster, but as often again even the most experienced guldes are caught unawares and whirled down to death, as was shown In the Voralberg disaster two yeara ago when & party of 18 climbers, mostly British, were engulfed in enowslide, although led by veter- ans of the Alps. More than fifty deaths were re- ported last season in various parts formidable Jungfrau peak, G.Fox & Co.lnc. FREE TELEPHONE SERVICE FROM NEW BRITAIN — CALL 8500 IT BEGAN TODAY— NNUAL The AFTER-CHRISTMAS oals (Third Floor) CLEARANCE of Women’s (Third Dresses (Third Floor) Fur Coats Floor) Sports Apparel (Third Floor) Misses’ and Girls’ Apparel (Misses’ Shop—Fifth Floor) AT_SHARP REDUCTIONS Furs (Third Floor) Millinery (Fourth Floor) bec. She seized a fire extinguisher and attempted to put out the flames and was fatally burned. three weeks. Airplanes were brought into use in searching for numerous missing| In the meantime other nuns had climbers during last season and they | warned the nurses on different proved 80 successful that it is like- | floors and the patients were carried ly the service will be extended, the | out. French and Wiss governments each Mrs. Joseph Lorento, 21, of Hull, providing machines. The most re- | carried her two days old baby ana markable air rescue was that per. a four year old boy down three formed by the French airman, Lieu. | flights of a fire escap¢ to safety. tenant Thoret, who succored a miss- | _Elric St. Louls and Ferdinand ing Alpinist who had been lost for | Gingras, who made many trips into days. The airman, on a reconnais- | the flaming building to assist in sance trip, flew over the climber, | carrying patients to safety, had a but was unable to land. The pilot | narrow escape when the stairs col- returned to his base, chalked a mes- | lapsed leaving them stranded on the sage of instruction on the underpart | second floor. Stripping the bed- of the plane's wings, and flew again | clothing from a number of beds, the to the spot where the climber had men knotted it together, tied one | end of been sighted and was able to com- | municate in this manner the in- | telligence which enabled the missing | man to take a route to safety. | | NUN LOSES LIFE | IN QUEBEC FIRE Makes Futile Attempt to Halt Flames in Hospital | | the improvised bedpost and slid to safety. Most of the patlents were taken rope to a to the Water Street hospital in Ot- | tawa. The damage to the fire swept | building was estimated at 5,006, ANOTHER RECRUIT Chicago, Dec. 26 (A—The stage has drawn another recruit from Chicago society in Miss Jean Affeld { Lehmann, daughter of the Otto Leh- | manns, Miss Lehmann is a member of the ballet of a musical play at a loop theater. Otto Lehmann formerly was one of the owners of the Fair | Department Store. His horses have | taken many blue ribbons at society | Full, Qeushen, Dec. 28 (Mg | 0T Sheve. futile attempt to halt the spread of | flames which threatened the lives | A HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS of 37 patients in the central build- i of the Alps, malnly about the; around | which about a dozen climbers form- | ing various parties were lost and ing of the Sacred Heart )mxplm! Christmas Day cost a nun, Sister | Cecile, 22, her life, The patients, many of whom were mothers with children, were carrled to safety. ‘The fire was discovered in a laun- dry chute by Sister Cecile, who was Mias M. 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