The day book. [volume], December 27, 1916, LAST EDITION, Image 5

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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