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DR. MORGAN ADVOCATES BEER AS CURB ON “HARD LIQUOR”
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MRS. ANTHONY CARUSO AND BABY
HER CHILD weighed 18 pounds at birth, belying the
rumor that babies born during the economic upset are
below average weight. The boy was voted the heftiest
child ever born in Newark. N. J.
SMITH' PUZZLES
DEMOCRATS
The Democrats’ big pre-conven
tion conclave broke up over the
week-end and the leaders scat
tered to their homes expressing
satisfaction with the 1932 out
look.
The gathering here did not re
sult in as much clarification of
the candidate situation, however,
as some had hoped. The great
enigma was and still is Alfred
E. Smith.
The 1928 standard bearer min
gled for foilr days with party
leaders, held innumerable confer
ences and made a 30-minute
speech without disclosing where
he stands with regard to candi
dates.
But supporters of other candi
dates assume that “Al is out,” and
Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt has
a fight on his hands.
MASSIE ATTACK
BRUTAL CRIME
HONOLULU, Jan. 11—The
shameful attack upon Mrs. Thalia
Fortescue Massie made it neces
sary for her to have an opera
tion to avoid the birth of a child.
The young matron, wife of
Lieut. Thomas H. Massie, was
walking alone along a lonely
street of the Waikiki district on
Saturday night, September 12,
when she was set upon by five
hoodlums.
They were led, she charged, by
Joe Kahahawai. the native whose
murder is charged to Mrs. Gran
ville Fortescue, Lieut. T. H. Mas
sie and E. J. Lord.
Another, she said, was Horace
Ida, the Japanese who recently
was kidnaped and nearly beaten
to death.
Each of the men criminally at
tacked her, Mrs. Massie said. She
lost consciousness several times
during the ordeal When she
feebly fought off her attackers,
they beat her into submission,
breaking both her Jaws, blacking
an eye, bruising her nose and
otherwise injuring her.
RADIO SINGERS
IRK CARDINAL
BOSTON, Mass., Jan. 11 (U.S.).
Radio crooners, slushy movies
and pagan plays came in for
unrestrained denunciation yester
day at the hands of Cardinal
O’Connell, dean of the American
Hierarchy, in an address to a
union service of 3.000 men of the
Holy Name Society.
The crooners fared worst. The
Cardinal called crooning a degen
erate form of singing, and its
practitioners “whiners and bleat
ers. defiling the air.”
The Cardinal said the theater
at large has gone pagan. He
added:
“Where once we found clean
and cultural amusement, now
we find low down, disreputable
misrepresentation of the human
race.”
Chest Speakers Unit
Will Meet on Jan. 19
The s ’ - s un’t of the Com
munity Ches.t of which Joseph
D Kaufman is chairman, will
meet January 19 in the Raleigh
Hotel at a luncheon when in
spirational talks will be made by
chest leaders. •
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to write a Sloiran yet it may mean the
nlacinK ot on additional hundred dol
lars in vour poeket see complete
details of Sloirnn Contest offerinc SO
CASH PRIZES announced todav in the
ciMsified Section of this newspaper.
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GRAPE PRODUCT
SALE SCANNED
Through information obtained
in prosecution of a number of
criminal actions against distribu
tors of grape concentrate products,
Col. Amos W. W. Woodcock, pro
hibition director, hopes to develop
a basis for new regulations gov
erning sale of these commodities.
Woodcock said today that for
the present the Prohibition Bu
reau is handling each individual
case on its own merits.
Within 10 days. Woodcock may
be able to reach a decision as to
whether more stringent regula
tions will be issued to curb the
sale of concentrates.
One point to be decided is
whether the sale of non-alcoholic
concentrates which, through the
process of nature, become intoxi
cating wines is a prima facie case
of law’ violation.
NIP WTARIFF,
G. 0. P. AIM
Republican Senators faced a
new test today as the Democratic
tariff bill, passed by the House
Saturday night, confronted the
Senate.
The bill, which transfers large
tariff-making powers from the
President and Congress to the
Tariff Commission, was sent to
the Finance Committee, of which
Senator Smoot (R.) of Utah, co
author of the Hawley-Smoot bill,
is chairman.
Republican leaders prepared not
only to make a fight to kill the
bill in committee, but to resist it
stubbornly if it reaches the floor.
Democratic leaders felt certain it
would be accepted by the Senate.
HOSTESS TO GIRLS
Miss Frances Sweeney, of Bowie,
Md., will be hostess to the Girls
Friendly Society of that commu
nity on January 15.
To Settle Dispute
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DR. ALFRED ZIMMERMAN
FORMER MAYOR of Rot
terdam and reparations com
missioner of the League of
Nations, who will act as arbi
trator in a controversy in
Mexico. He is shown as he
arrived in New York on the
S. S. New York en route to
Mexico.
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
10 Cents on Dollar Sure on South American Bonds
AAORGAN URGES
BEER AS SUHS
| ON LIQUOR
Brew Is Tonic Rich in Vita
mins, Says Medical Asso
ciation President
The inestimable benefits of
good beer as a health restora
tive were expounded today by
Dr. William Gerry Morgan, of
this city, president of the
American Medical Association.
Appearing before the Metcalf
Senate Committee, which is con
ciderin; the Bingham bill for
legalization of 4 per cent beer,
Dr. Morgan said beer not only
would act as a health restorative
but stem the steadily increasing
hard drinking by American youth.
He said:
“Beer has no deleterious ef
fect. I look upon it in the na
ture of food, particularly in
those individuals who on ac
count of illness v ould not be
able to take sufficient amounts
of ordinary food.
Acts As a Tonic
“It contains many vitamins
and acts as a tonic for loss of
appetite.”
Dr. .an said a normal man
or woman could drink two quarts
of beer eve-y 16 hours without
any bad effects.
He said he had visited almost
every city in the Union during
the past two years and found
everywhere an increase in the
use of intoxicating liquor, adding:
“At almost every banquet I
attended flasks were produced
by young men and young
women, too.”
Bishop James Cannon, jr., of
the M. E. Church, South, listened
to the testimony.
Woman Presents Plea
Five million voters throughout
the country have signed a peti
tion asking Congress to restore
beer and wine, Mrs. Catlin
Brower, vice president of Congres
sional Districts Modification
League, told the committee.
Senator Brookhart (R.) of
lowa, who declared the Modifica
tion League figures represented
only 5 per cent of the nation’s
voters, charged that one of tire
press associations had started a
“racketeer game against the Anti-
Saloon League.”
He refused to disclose the name
of the press association.
Representative Horr (R.) of
Washington testified that the
State of Washington was fed up
with the prohibition law.”
ALIENISTS TEST
XMAS SLAYER
RICHMOND, Va., Jan. 11.—The
case of Randolph Shields, charged
with the murder of Arthur Com
mers, his brother-in-law, of Wash
ington, D. C„ will go to the Pitt
sylvania county grand jury Janu
ary 18. Alienists will then report
on his sanity.
The killing took place at the
Shields home at Spring Garden
before a number of relatives gath
ered for a Christmas reunion.
Shields insists he is sane and
has retained counsel.
POLITICAL TEST
FACES LONG
NEW ORLEANS, La.. Jan. 11
(US.).—Under attack at the
polls, in court and in the United
States Senate, Huey P. Long,
Louisiana’s meteoric governor, is
facing a crisis
His personally selected slate of
candidates for State officers, in
cluding his own successor, faces
the issue at the polls January 19.
This ticket is under a furious
barrage from two independent
factions, led by George Seth
Guyon and Dudley Leblanc, the
latter a former ally.
A ruling is expected from the
Louisiana Supreme Court shortly
on the ouster suit brought by Dr.
Paul N Cyr. elected lieutenant
governor who claims that Long
is now Senator and cannot be
governor.
Negro Democrats
Set for Convention
F. O. Williston, chairman of
the National Democratic Negro
Voters’ League, has announced
that the colored voters of the Dis
trict of Columbia will be organ
ized soon to select delegates to
the Democratic national conven
tion in Chicago.
The leaders of the league some
time ago expressed hope that ths
meeting would be held in Chicago.
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GOV. LAWRENCE JUDD
211. S. AID BILLS
ID BE MERGED
Drafting of a single bill incor
porating the Costigan and La
Follette measures to authorize di
rect Federal relief for the unem
ployed will commence this week,
Senator La Follette (R.), of Wis
consin, announced today.
The bill sponsored by Senator
Costigan (D.), of Colorado, pro
vides Federal appropriation of
$375,000,000 for direct Federal re
lief, while La Follette’s measure
would appropriate $250,000,000 for
the same purpose.
It is hoped to complete draft
ing of the bill within a week.
If favorably reported by the Sen
ate Committee on Manufactures,
the bill will be pushed before the
Senate for immediate action.
BUSINESS MEN MEET
The Columbia Heights Business
Men’s Association will meet to
morrow night at the New Amster
dam Hotel, Fourteenth and Fair
mont Streets Northwest.
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MRS. ANTONIE STRASSMANN
A PROMINENT figure in
German air circles, Mrs.
Antonie Strassmann is now in
America to make her home
here. She is shown as she
arrived in New York.
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“KOKO HEAD”
“KOKO HEAD,” the geyser, known to thousands of tourists who have visited
Hawaii, might have been the grave of Joe Kahahawai, murdered Hawaiian. Re
ports from Honolulu state that the body was found in an automobile which was
being driven toward “Koko Head.” Admiral Yates Stirling,, jr.,' is conferring with
Gov. Lawrence M. Judd of Hawaii on measures to prevent outbreaks as an after
math of the slaying. Governor Judd today reported that the tense situation in
Honolulu, caused by the outbreak of racial disorders, is under control.
HAfflll CLERGY
RAPS PRATT
HONOLULU, T. H., Jan. 11
(IN.S.) —Sharp criticism had been
heaped today on the head of Ad
miral William V. Pratt by Hono
lulu clergymen.
Admiral Pratt, in announcing
from Washington a boycott of
Honolulu during the fleet’s man
euvers, had said that American
men will not stand for the viola
tion of their women, and that
bloodshed might result if Navy
men were allowed to go ashore
in Honolulu.
Said the Rev. Galen Weaver,
pastor of the Church of the Cross
Roads:
“If Admiral Pratt has been
correctly quoted oh the Hono
lulu situation his words are a
crime against public order and
a direct incitement to further
violence.”
The Rev. Clyde Bower, Metho
dist, declared:
“I disagree with Admiral Pratt..
The Massie case is an excep
tion. It is unwise to take the
law into one’s hands as this
discourages respect for law.”
The Rev. Dr. Horace Leavitt, of
the Central Union Congregational
Church, said:
“The biggest need now is for
sane people who will determine
the needed reforms and then
fight to get them.”
O.S7EMPLOYES
PUSH DRIVE
Following the sessions of the
executive council here, the Na
tional Federation of Federal Em
loyes started out this week on
a campaign among members of
Congress in the interest of the
bills it favors and opposing salary
cut measures.
The 4J2 locals of the federa
tion. including 11 here, have
been asked by the council to
make an intensive effort to in
crease their membership, and to
make contact with their repre
sentatives in Congress about the
bills of interest to Government
workers.
A membership of 100.000 is
asked. The federation now has
a roster of 57,000.
Church Women Form
Society to Aid Needy
The ladies of the Pinkney Me
morial Church, Hyattsville, have
formed a Friendly Wednesday So
ciety to work for the benefit of
the town’s needy.
Mrs. F. Granville Munson, of
Riverdale, president, said the so
ciety would meet at Associated
Charities headquarter’s in Hyatts
ville every Wednesday to repair
old and make new clothes for
the poor.
MONDAY—JANUARY 11—1932
Women Show Trick orTwo,
Says Mrs. Culbertson ,
This is the first of a new series
of four articles about the recent
“Bridge Battle of the Century’’ by
Mrs. Josephine Culbertson, wife
of Ely Culbertson, and with him
originator of the approach-forcing
system of contract bridge.
By JOSEPHINE CULBERTSON
World’s Greatest Woman Bridge Player
(Copyright, 1932, by International
News Service)
NEW YORK. Jan. 11 (1.N.5.).
Now that the smoke of the
“Bridge Battle of the Century,” to
test the respective merits of the
approach-forcing and so-called of
ficial systems, has cleared away,
I shall attempt to draw a few
lessons from it.
The most remarkable feature of
this match is that a somewhat
complex intellectual game like
contract bridge should capture
the imagination of millions
throughout the world to such an
extent that 2,000,000 words were
printed in newspapers and for
more than a month a mere bridge
game successfully competed in
public interest with important
events of world-wide significance.
The problem of relaxation can
never be divorced from the prob
lem of work, and the harder one
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TWO DAYS after he had performed an operation for hernia on himself, Dr. Evan
O’Neil Kane (denoted by arrow) had recovered sufficiently to return to the hospital
at Kane, Pa., to perform a major operation on a patient. This unusual photo shows
Dr. Kane with his assisting surgeon and nurses, performing the operation.
works, the more necessary it is to
relax, to forget and to re-establish
the emotional equilibrium rudely
upset by the real fears and wor
ries of the every-day struggle for
existence.
Bridge offers a soothing escape
from the harder realities of life.
Women are largely responsible
for the tremendous popularity of
this match. Women have at last
found a competitive diversion in
which they feel on a footing of
equality with man.
Woman’s interest in outdoor
sports is the reflected secondary
interest of her husband. In bridge,
she finds herself on a common
intellectual plane, where she may
exchange inference for inference,
bid for bid, and play for play. She
can in many cases even teach a
trick or two to her august male.
Firemen's Women
Meet Tomorrow
The Women’s Auxiliary of the
Arlington County Volunteer Fire
Department will hold its monthly
meeting tomorrow night at the
home of Mrs. J. Hammond
Brewer, sr., on Columbia Pike.
PERFORMING OPERATION
SENATORS TOLD
MARKET IS
‘RIGGED'
Former Diplomat Says He Was
Ordered to Send Only
“Optimistic” Reports
The great bulk of defaulted
Latin-American bond issues
will be settled on an average
of 10 cents on a dollar after
a few years, Lawrence Dennis,
former State Department
Latin-American diplomat, pre
dicted today to the Senate
finance committee.
A total of $815,000,000 of these
securities are now in default and,
according to previous witnesses be
fore the committee, an equal
amount will be defaulted in the
next six months.
‘•Rigged the Market"
Dennis declared that on “some
of the weaker Latin-American is
sues, the New York bankers rigged
the market” in order to promote
the sale of the securities. He said
the bankers would push up the
price of Latin-American bonds so
as to give a favorable impression
of the market.
This process of “market rig
ging,” Dennis said, is done by
buying old bonds at a price slightly
above the current quotation thus
boosting their quotation. By this
method, Dennis asserted, the price
of new issues were raised. He said
it was used on several of the Peru
vian issues.
Was “Reprimanded”
The Department of Commerce
“severely reprimanded” him for
making an unfavorable report
concerning Peru’s unsound finan
cial condition in 1927 and ordered
him to make “optimistic state
ments,” Oliver C. Townsend, for
mer commercial attache in Lima,
told the committee. He testfied:
“I was told that optimistic
reports were needed.”
He declared he had advised
both the State Department and
the Commerce Department that
Peru was heavily over-borrowing
and warned against further loans.
BANDMAN SLAIN,
WIFE FEARS
Missing since last Monday,
Sergt. Fred L. Smith, for many
years a member of the United
States Army Band, stationed at
the War College, has been slain or
has suffered a physical collapse,
his wife feared today.
Smith kissed his wife “good-by”
last Monday morning and walked
out, presumably to go to his
office. Several hours later his
chief, Capt. K. J. Fielder phoned
Mrs. Smith asking if the sergeant
was ill.
The sergeant is 45 years old.
He has been in the service 12
years. His mother, Mrs. Ida
Mclntyre, lives in Kansas City.
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