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POLICEMAN THINKS MINISTER A BANDITSHOOTS HIM St. Louis, Mo., Dec 27. Because he' failed to respond to a "hands up," command from a policeman, the Rev. Lot EL Doty, Baptist minister, was Shot down late yesterday and is in a' critical condition at the City hospital Witnesses said Patrolman Heener, chasing "gunmen," ran Into a mar ket where the minister had pur chased some feed. The minister was putting change into his pocket when Heener ordered his hands aloft. The witness said Dr. Doty evidently did not hear the command or misunderstood. JAPANESE STEAMER AGROUND 400 PASSENGERS PERILED Tokio, Dec. 27. The steamship Sankaku Maru is. aground off Che foo with crew and passengers total ing 400. The position of the vessel today was said to" be hopeless. Two Americans are aboard. Chefoo is a Chinese port in the province of Shantung, separated from Port Arthur by a neck of the Yellow ea. " , PLAY A FUNERAL MARCH If you are planning" a "morning after the night before" head on you when the New Year blows into town next Sunday night you'll have to do 'it all in an hour's time. The booze laws which hang over our city are going to be forced to a finish, say of ficials. And that all means that no drinks - can be served except between the hours of 12 midnight, Sunday, and 1 o'clock New Year's morning. Noth ing doing on Sunday liquor and the beverage bazaars must close shop at 1 o'clock. ' Hotel managers are not .greatly: pleased with the prospects of the quietest New Year's celebration in history, but wfcat'chu r gouY to do1 .;r. ' DOCTORS AGAINST LEGALIZING BIRTH CONTROL New York, Dec. 27. Physicians will not suggest a change in the state law, favoring birth control. That action was taken at a session of the Medical society of the eounty of New York by a vote of 210 to 72. The report adopted, signed by six physicians, disapproved of doctors aiding in the limitation of families except in cases where the mother's life or health is endangered. A mi nority report, favoring instruction of women by physicians, was signed by two. Acriminious debate preceded the voting) and the direct charge' was made that physicians were doing under cover -what they refused to fa vor in the open. "What is done secretly might as well be made legal," declared Dr. Ira S. Wile, one of the proponents of birth control. "This society contains members who perform illegal opera-tions--which are far worse than the giving of advice to regulate births and-yet retain their membership." At a meeting of the American Ge netic ass'n Dr. Robert J. Sprague de clared every married woman capable of bearing children must at an aver age bring three children to maturity if the population is to be kept up. Of the married graduates of women's colleges he said "the average number of children per graduate is less than one." Discussing the "constructive as pect of birth control," Dr. Sprague said that "for one great section of the population we need birth control, and for the other birth release." He deelare'd birth control was practiced extensively among the mid dle classes of native population. Ex cessive birth rate, "beyond the abil ity of parents to support, is one of the greatest evils people faces," he said. Greater New York has 831,965