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FISCAL REPORT SCRAPS U. S. LUMP SUM
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ROOSEVELT CALLS
INDUSTRY TO HIRE
MORE TO PRESERVE
BALANCED BUDGET
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-1S.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.
In his budget message to Congress
today President Roosevelt painted, in
cold figures, a hopeful picture of
Government finances.
"Although we must continue to
apend substantial sums to provide
work for those whom industry has not
yet absorbed, the 1938 budget (for
the fiscal year 'ginning 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
/or 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 $1,537,123,000 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
their 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
it be possible to keep the expenditures
/or relief within the bounds he visual
ises. he said.
He declared that the Government
would not "allow any American fam
ilies 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 33y3 per cent of the relief appro
priations during the last year.
1939 Budget Outlook.
If Improvement In economic condi
tions continyes 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
Xor 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- I
aneed budget:
Receipts. $7,262,982,529; expendi
tures. $6,157,999,254 (including $316.-!
030,913 for recovery and relief); sur- j
plus. $1,135,607,943. 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. S. BUDGET, 1Page A-15J
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IN DAYTON SEARCH
Little Girl Is Located Unharmed
After All-Night Hunt
Through City.
■r the Associated Press.
DAYTON, Ohio, January 8—Po
lice headquarters reported today that
^Vi-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 said 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 Field, 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 a dark overcoat. Miss Grace Mc
Donald, who lives nearby, told police.
RUSSIAN SHIP SEIZED
Lloyds Reports Insurgents Escort
Vessel to Ceuta.
LONDON, January 8 OP).—An
armed Spanish insurgent trawler
seised an unidentified Russian steamer
bound westward in the straits of
Gibraltar and conducted her to Ceuta,
Spanish Morocco, Lloyd’s reported to
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Release Due
CHARLES MATTSON.
| _
HINTS RELEASE OF
Mattson Case “Break” Seen
as F. B. I. Agents Speed
Out of Tacoma.
B> 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
Tacoma.
This sudden action stirred rumors
a "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 towatd
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 befoie
the machines separated and sped on
their way.
Believe Boy Released.
Observers interpreted their activity
as meaning the kidnaped boy had
been released. All law enforcement
agencies had completely 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, j
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 i
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
miles south of Tacoma.
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.
While law enforcement agencies
(See MATTSON, PageXX)
UFOLLETTE CULLS
POLICE TO OFFICE
TO EJECT STUDENTS
1,000, Angry at Frank Re
moval, Break Up Press
Conference.
AIDE TO EXECUTIVE
BARRICADED IN ROOM
Officer* Finally Clear Suite at
Capitol—Governor Agrees to
Address Assembly.
BULLETIN.
MADISON. Wis.. January 8 i/Pl —
Gov. Philip F. La Follette, address
ing 1.000 striking students who in
vaded his offlces 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 politics had
motivated Frank's dismissal, but
Conant had declined.
B.» the Associated Press.
MADISON. Wis., January 8.—Police
were called today to eject University
of Wisconsin students, demonstrating
against the ouster of President Glenn
Frank, 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
1.000 by onlookers, marched from the
university campus to the Governor's
office after they had been harangued
by speakers, including a young woman,
a last year's graduate, who cried:
“Are you going to stand by 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
retary to the Governor, was barricaded
in his office to keep the students out.
Police Chief William McCormick1
arrived with 12 officers. With much
shouting and commotion they cleared 1
all of the demonstrators out of the !
ante-room and a 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 i
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. I
Only about 100. however, could get
into the main offices of the executive j
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, "We want
Prank."
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
offices and filled the anteroom off the
Governor's private suite.
Those close enough to peer into the
private office pounded on the doors.
uenys ires* 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
rooms appealing to other students to
join them.
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.
The students, still yelling, descended
(8ee FRANK, PagTA^f)
Two New Battleships Ordered
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 s record peacetime national
defense fund of nearly a billion dollars
for the 1938 fiscal*year.
Increased expenditures for airplanes,
ordnance equipment and expanded
personnel for both Army aid Navy alao
were proposed in the President’s budget
message.
The total appropriation recommend
ed to Congress for the naval and mil
itary establishments was 3980,763,000,
an Increase of $93,882,000 over estimat
ed outlay for the current fiscal period
ending next June 30.
At his press conference today
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
follow their lead in building.
Both the Chief Executive and the
naval high command said it would
be some time before contracts for
construction could be let and the
actual keels laid.
The President set aside approxi
mately $28,000,000 in the 193$ budget
for early stages of the construction.
It is estimated the two veaaela com
pleted will cost about $30,000,000
each.
The 1937 national defense estimates
(See DEFENUTPage ,
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France Demands Poivers’ Aid
In Denying Morocco to Nazis
Seeks to Holt Flow of Foreign Men and
Arms to Spain—Germans Reported
Strengthening Forts.
B.» the Associated Pres*.
PARIS. January 8 —French officials
asserted today It was “impossible” lor
France 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 cognisance of a
report by the French Moroccan ad
ministrator to the effect Germany was j
conducting a large-scale military and
commercial invasion in the adjacent
Spanish tone, the French officials
said:
•‘France finds it impossible to per- j
mit Germany to gain a foothold
there.”
At the same time, authorities at the
Quai D'Oraay 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.
t Informed sources in London said
• See FRANCE, Page A-3.)
5JKD MORE G. M. C.
“Sit-Down” Reported at
Plant of Cadillac Motors
in Detroit.
BULLETIN.
DETROIT, January 8 UP).—
Gov. Frank Murphy of Michigan,
attempting 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
employed.. Reports said several hun
dred men were in the plant, a Gen
eral Motors unit.
At the General Motors offices it was
sad the divisions affected were the
palat, 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 Oldsmoblle divi
sions and truck-producing units will
be producing complete vehicle*. 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 Detroit
in an endeavor to smooth the way for
negotiations between U. A. W. A. and
corporation officials.
Frank Murphy, starting his second
tSas mm Fasij^t)
Resolution Banning Ship
ments to Spain Now
Becomes Law.
B> tht 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 hie 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 ahould:
“Export 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
<See NEUTRALITY, Page A-2') |
President Asks States to
Speed Ratification of
Amendment.
Bj the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt, unheeding the
dispute over curbing the Supreme
Court, today made a second brisk
move to achieve goals by seeking to
speed ratification of the child labor
amendment.
In letters to the Governors and
Oovernors-elect of 19 States where
Legislatures meet this Winter, he
asked favorable action on the pro
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 and
that a way should be found promptly
to crystallize in legal safeguards public
opinion in behalf of the elimination
of child labor.”
Congressional leaders considered the
action another indication of presi
dential militance on labor legislation.
Mllltance Is seen.
Meanwhile word reached Congress
that administration advisers were
draftings 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 a new agency
on two major points:
1. To enforce “fair trade practices”
as denned 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 ROOSEVELT, FageA^f)
Summary of Today’s Star
Page.
Amusements. c*8
Comics_B-1S
Editorial_A-9
Financial ...A-19
Lost & Found A-3
Obituary_A-19
Page.
Puzzles_B-15
Radio.A-14
Short Story.B-10
Society_B-3
Sports_C-l-Z
Woman's Pg.. C-3
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. S.
and D. C. asked. Page A-17
Public Library is granted small in
crease. Page A-17
$435,000 asked for starting two new
bridges. Page A-1S
Shift in Federal expenditures is
shown. Page A-l$
FOREIGN.
Roosevelt signs Spanish munitions
shipment resolution. Page A-l
France to demand powers’ help to
resist Naais. Page A-l
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-l
William and Mary demands refund
of U. a admission taxes. Page A-t
President urges States to ratify child
labor amendment Page A-l
La Pollette calls police to eject stu
dents from offices. Page A-l
Activity of G-men hints release of
kidnaped boy. Page A-l
Elimination of "Jim Crow ism” urged
at conference. Page A-5
Sweeping Increase in induenza cases
reported in U. a } Page A-3
WASHINGTON AND VICINITY.
District's 1937 traffic toll four; one
death probed. Page B-l
D. C. committee members reported
chosen. Page B-l
Mead bill seeks better Civil Service
system. Page B-l
Senator McCarran confers on Federal
pay raise. Page B-l
Two "boots and spurs” robbery sus
pects plead guilty. Page B-l
EDITORIAL AND COMMENT.
This and That. Page A-8
Answers to Questions. Page A-8
Washington Observations. Page A-8
David Lawrence. Page A-9
Paul Mallon. Page A-9
Constantine Brown. Page A-9
Jay Franklin. Page A-9
Headline Folk. Page A-9
MISCELLANY.
Vital Statistics. Page A-6
Traffic Convictions. PageA-li
Young Washington. Page B-2
City News in Brief. Page B-5
Betsy Caswell. Page C-S
Dorothy Dix. Page C-S
Winning Contract. Page C-4
Bedtime Story. Page C-4
Nature’s Children. Page C-4
FINANCIAL.
Corporate bonds mixed (table).
Page A-19
Trade trends uneven. Page A-19
Stocks Irregular (table). Page A-2*
D. C. postal receipts soar. Page A-29
Losses offset curb gains (table).
Page A-21
Freight loadings rise. Page A-21
SPORTS.
Many of 10-year major veterans are
falling by wayside. Page C-l
Mack likes idea of talcing team to Mex
ico City to train. Page C-I
Harness racing expected to have one
of its best seasons. Page C-S
Parks declares oqUege background is
aid 4a §aM " Fata C-l
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.
9 —
Full report on fiscal relations conclusions on Pages A-16-17.
President Roosevelt laid before Congress today a $45,736,235
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 $2,533,357 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 ratio system, are scrapped.
Entirely new ones are substituted.
The budget and the new formula also confronted the Dis
trict with the necessity of raising nearly $10,000,000 in new taxes
\ 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,
an increase in the gasoline tax, graduation of the motor vehicle
tax upon commercial vehicles with reference to weight, and re
' examination of existing business taxes.
Justification of the increased taxes is based on the report’s
finding—to which special direction was called by the President—
that the "property tax and the total tax load in the District of
Columbia are lower” than in 17 cities comparable in size.
A definite recommendation 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: "Provision snould be made through con
gressional enactment for local suffrage upon favorable vote by the
New Tax Burden
Of $10,000,000 Faces
D. C. in y38 Budget
Although the 1938 District budget
of S45.736.285 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
$12,484,073 below the original esti
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 rian 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 j
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
this was rejected.
Health Recommendations Slashed.
Dr. George C. Ruhland, health offi
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 $250,000
for building of one next year, but the
bureau slashed this item to $150,000.
For all purposes, the health estimates
proposed 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 al
lowed, no provision was made for
added personnel for new buildings as
originally requeued by the Board of
~jfiw~XAX FafaTA-UJ
legal residents of the District at a
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 Fiscal Relations Committee he
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roosevelt ,1r7
ON WAY TO D. C.
Oat 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
a sinus infection and .streptococcic
throat, left for Washington today to
spend a few days at the White House
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 fiancee. Miss Ethel du Pont, would
join him at Wilmington, Del. He ex
pressed the hope that he would 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 coUege.
but was thinking seriously of law
school.
“LU” OF RADIO TEAM
DEAD OF PNEUMONIA
“Em’’ Is Also 111 and Under Cara
of Physician in Evan
ston, 111.
Bt the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, January 8 tfP).—Mrs.
Iso be 1 Carothers Berolzheimer, the
“Lu” of the radio team. "Clara. Lu
and Em.” died in an Evanston Hos
pital today.
In private life she was the wile 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—
er the care of a phy