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The Weather Forecast: Dcoilonal rain to night and Saturday; not mucb change In temperature. Highest yesterday 88 Lowest this morning ... 39 Precipitation last 24 ur. T. After Dinner The Classified Ad. Dept. will accept Advs. up to I p. m. Saturday. Drop in after dinner with jour ad. It Kill stsrt to work at Sunday a. m. breakfast tshlea. Tribune EDFORD .0 Thirtieth Year (Eighteen Pages Two Sections) MEDFORD. OREGON. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY ! fall United rreaa No. 278. M1 Lvl UM DImIES lfXid BODY OF HUSBAND J gjjBEj BROTHER CLAIMS .. Br PAUL MAI.LON (Copyright, 1936. by Paul Mallon) WASHINGTON. Feb. 14 The snap. ' pleat piece of legislative speeding exhibited In congress lately was per- "u pending Robln-son-Patman busl- n e s a regulation bill. It was a complete answer to everyone who has been com plaining about congressional red tape. Few senators had even heard of th bill, except by hearsay, until .m Minnw thew hfllf awoke a few days ago and found It pro posing something vaguely reminis cent of NRA. and ready for passage No one knew exactly how It gt up front nice that. Probably no one vrtll ever find out for sure, but enough can be discovered to indi cate the progress that has lately been made In lawmaking. Congress Is developing a tech nique for streamlining bills In con formity to the rest of the stream lined world. A bill generally like this one was propoMd last May by Democratic Floor Leader Robinson and Repre sentative Patman Jointly. It was framed to bit chain stores by letting the federal trade commission clamp down on their trade practices whicn cheapen prices. Exactly where the original draft came from la a matter of specula tion. But If you lay one finger on a certain group of wholesaler, who represent about 15 per cent of that industry; and the other on the federal trade commission, you win not be far wrong. That bill snoozed without hear Ings in the senate judiciary com mittee for eight month. It emerged February 3. with the whole or iglnal WU .Sken out and a completely new bill inserted. Then senators sat up . and took notice that It would regulate, not only chain stores, but spparently any person engaged In commerce in the united states, which would Include all business men and au who think they are business , men. The new draft had been composed In private by Senator Marvel Logan. Logan reported It was a sound meas ure and should not be delayed hear what others might think of Investigation of the same subject (but not of this bill) had been con ducted by the house. FTC and others. Doubtful senators reached for their congressional directories and noticed that Senator Logan's biog raphy Indicated his business expe rience had been gained as chair man of the board of trustees of Brownvllle, which, apparently, la town in Kentucky. Also he had been grand sire of the sovereign grand lodge of the Independent Order ot Odd Fellows, as well as a noted Kentucky Judge. If It had been a point of taw. the senate would have followed him bltndly. But, as all New Dealers con tend, even six members of the su preme court were recently wrong on AAA. so you have to be careful these days. Objecting Republican (Continued on Page Seven) SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Picture, of Hsrrv Olll and Oeorge Harrington, bachelors, somewhat out of place amid a display of Vic Mllnes and wife. Keith Denman and wife, and Ivan Harrington and wile, in a downtown showcase. Evident collusion: Jack Porter, ".umber desler. and But "Chlck"i lumb.r dealer, and Bud' ("Chick") Hayes. PWA. construction salesman, touring around In the former's car. Shorty Morrla 1 ntown to get two halters fined, and protesting volubly but good naturediy that the price of repairs was worth more than the two horee Involved. Jacques Matlaque. caught In the rain In shirtsleeves and vest, fleeing toward shelter ar.d mumbling lnrsn tatlona ac.tr.st the weather. Hary DeArrrnd. formerly of Grants Piss. hobbJluK about on crutches, renolved that the next tim he goes hunting he will aim higher. The last time he shot his foot, hence the crutch. Crowds gathered to watch an end leas stream of bubbles ascend In a r.ew clothing plgn down town, with pecu;i:itm rife as to what made It to. MBMlTfHifflrl, UfjBs Port Orchard, Wash., Pair Would Pin Crime on Each Other Officers Find Bone Fragments in Farm Pit BREMERTON, Feb. 14. (AP) Sheriff Rush. Blankenshlp announced today Lawson K. Barton, retired navy machinist, had accused his sister. Mrs. Grace Sandelt, of the killing of her former husband near Port Orchard last May. Mrs. San dell had previously accused him of the deed. The sheriff said he had obtained a signed statement from Barton. A few hours earlier, he had announced the discovery of about 40 small fragments of bones In a pit, near their former small Port Orchard home, where Mrs. Sandell said the body had been burned and burled. Vlrtlm Shot In Bark. "She did It my sister did it. the sheriff quoted Barton as saying. "I helped her burn the body, but I didn't kill him. She shot him In the back." Barton had undergone an all night questioning by the sheriff and State Detective Joe E. McCautey. He was confronted with the frag ment of bones early today, the sheriff said. The victim was Adolph Alexander Sandell, 44, former San Francisco shipping clerk, reported to have come north last May. His employers In San Francisco said yesterday he had been missing from there since that time, the sheriff's office here said. Barton's brother, Joshua, at whose home near Stan wood the two were found, was broken up when told of his brother's statement, the sheriff said. He has also been held for ques tioning. "I don't know who to believe, or what to believe," the sheriff quoted him as saying. Woman In Custody. Mrs. Grace Sandell, who told of the slaying of her divorced husband (Continued on Page Thirteen) f- AGAIN AT FAMILY MOJAVE. Cal., reb. 14. (AP) Tragedy struck twice at the family of Roy E. Pitts In one day. His three children, Roy J., 0; Rita. 6, and Robert, 3, burned to death yes terday morning when fire destroyed their cabin at Chestvicw lodge, north of Bishop in the t high Sierras. Last night aa Pitts was driving to Los Angeles with Mrs. Pitts, his car developed mechanical trouble and he alighted on the highway north of here to fix It. A passing machine crashed into his car, fracturing his shoulder. Pitts and his wife were taken to to the Tehachapl hospital. Mrs, Pitts la suffering from burns from her at tempt to aave the children, and from shock. WILL SERVE OUT FINE FOR RECKLESS DRIVING Don J. Spencer, 2, Medford, start ed serving 25 daya in city Jail to day after deciding to serve out a fine og 150 meted out this morning by City Judge Allen D. Curry, after Spencer had pleaded guilty to a charge of reckless driving. He was ordered to surrender his operator' permit for 30 daya In addition to the fine. According to city police who ar rested him, he w found driving in a reckleea manner on West Main street, shortly before 3 o'clock this morning. MOTHER'S KISS CARRIED NARCOTIC INTO PRISON SACRAMENTO. Calif., Feb. 14 ( AP) An alert prison guard who wondered about an overly-affectlon-ste embrace between a mother and her convlct-aon upset the attempt of the prisoner to amvurale half an ounce or narcotic into Polsom prison. The convict. Andrew Mareck. 30, sfrving a life vntence for murder, confwed. aiJ Warden Court Smith, that hi mother. Un. Lena Mmrerk, Pan Francisco, parsed him the narco tic from her mouth while kiMlnj him good-bye after a visit Wednesday. Income Shares Maryland fund bid !!; asked I2fl 7S. Quarterly income shares bid 11.51: asked IN EVEN WEST HAS ITS FLOODS if, fSm dyf iff ; I "T "V- Tne Pacific Coast that Is, the San Francisco bay region, at least got a mild form of the winter rigors which has caused death, suffering and damage In other sections of the country when It experienced tha wo; :t rainstorm In many years. This picture shows the hub-deep flood of an Oakland, Calif., street after the near-cloudburst. But there was little damaae. (Associated Press Photo) BRISTOLS GUD TO F Mr. and Mrs. Fayette Bristol of Pro volt returned Thursday night from a 10,000-mile trip which they started the first of December. They spent the Chrlstmaa holidays In Detroit and Chicago and returned to Oregon by way of the Grand Canyon and Boul der dam. "We didn't see the earth from the time we got to Detroit on December 12. until we reached New Mexico the first week in February." the Bristol reported. "The midwest la having the severest winter they have had since weather stations were established. "The day we left St. Joseph, the thermometer was belov zero for the thirteenth consecutive day, and the city was buried in snow. The Mis souri river was frozen almoat solid so that the Intake plpee at the water works refused to function and water shortage became a real threat. Coal was at a premium and the condition of the poor waa really acute. Even when a household had coal, It waa practically Impossible to keep warm. "At Wichita for three days, the street were a solid sheet of ice and children were actually ice-skating to school. Fifteen automobile, accidents were reported in 45 minutes the first evening the ice waa down. At Den- . (Continued on Page Three.) Mark Anniversary Oregon Statehood PORTLAND, Ore.. Feb. 14. iAPI The 77th anniversary of Oregon's statehood will be observed tonight at a reception and dinner at Hotel Port land here. State officials, Including Oovernor Charles Martin, will attend. Mary Drain Albro, president of the Sons and Daughters of Oregon Pioneers, Is to preside and State Treasurer Rufus Holman la to act as toast master. 'CARTER THE GREAT,' MAGICIAN, SUCCUMBS SAN FrtANCISCO. Feb. 14. fAP) In the castle-lixe mansion built "by magic" overlooklm? the Oo.den Oate. Mrs. Charles J. Carter waa making arrangements today for burial of her magician husbsnd. "Carter the Great", who died two daya ago in Bombay, India. The misTlclan, born 61 years' ago In Newcastle, Pa., waa on tour at the time or his deatb. fulfilling hla de termination never to retire if he could help it. FORMER KING ALFONSO BECOMES GRANDFATHER ROME. Feb. 14. (API The Infan ta Beatris gave birth today to a girl, the first granchlld of former King Alfonso of Bpatn. A spokesman for the form or mon arch said mother and daughter were doing well. Prlnj-e Aleseanrlro Torlonia. the In fanta's husband, was at tut hospital. FUNDS FOR BONUS HELD AVAILABLE NEW TAX WASHINGTON. Feb. 14. (API Senator Byrnes (D.. 8. C.) Intro duced an amendment to. the Inde pendent offices appropriation bill today to provide II, 746.000,000 to cash the bonus, and at the same time forecast It would not require new taxes. The smendment was prepared by Byrnes after consultation with the executive department under Instruc tions from, the appropriations com mittee. He will ask for Ita approval next week when the Independent or flces bill comes before the senate. Th South Carolina senator at the same time gave . out a statement that the only sddltlonal cost to the treasury would be the Interest on the money, and added: "It la not necessary to levy additional taxes for the amount of the Interest on such obligations." CLIPPER TURNS BACK IN TEETH OF STORM ALAMEDA, Calif.. Feb. 14. (AP) Swept eastward by a 40-mlle un wind, the China Clipper alighted at the airport here at 1:12 p.m., to day, after abandoning her attempted flight to the Philippines. The ship waa 1000 miles at sea when the dwindling fuel supply, used up .as the ship fought head winds, caused Captain Edwin Mustek to lifrht about. It made the return trip In 71; hours. "Pension Racket" Probe Advocated in Congress WASHINOTON, Feb. 14. (AP) A congressional Investigation of "so called pension rackets" waa urged be fore the house rules committee today by Rep. Bell (D-Mo.) Bell directed his remarks chiefly to the Townsend old age pension move ment In aupport of his resolution for sppotntment of a seven-man board to Investigate the Townsend and similar old age pension pians. Representative Ferguson ID-Okls ) also appeared In support of the Bell resolution. Representative Smith (D-Wash.) told Chairman O'Connor (D-NY.) of the rules committee he wanted to appear In opposition to the investi gation. He was denied an opportuni ty to ask Bell or Ferguson a question. O'Connor said Smith would be given an opportunity to be heard when the committee resumes hear ings Monday. (The Townsend plan proposes a 200 a mcr.th subsidy to all oyer 90 with the requirement the money b spent In the month). SALES GROWING AT RAPID RATE $10,422,468 Taken in Since Repeal Business Dou bled Since Last Year Cash, Stock Losses Small SALEM, Ore., 1-eb. 14. (AP) Sale of liquor In Oregon during the past year doubled that of the first year of repeal, and during the two years of li censed alcoholic business the Oregon state liquor control commission has taken In the aum of 110,423.468. Arthur K. McMahan, chairman of the state liquor control commission since February, 1935, reported In an exclusive Interview to the Associated Press that not only had the business doubled during the past year but the Inventory losses had been reduced by spproslmately 70 per cent over ths previous 13 months. Losses Small The' merchandise losses and short ages, McMshan stated, were .0388 per cent of the gross sales, or 13.391.82. McMahan, with the liquor control administrator and his staff, was here the past few dya making a thorough study and analysis ot the 180 stete stores and agencies, and as a result Issued the following statement: "From the Inception of the Oregon liquor control commission to Decem ber 31, 1134, merchandise ahortagea In stores amounted to the aum of 13, 958.55. and during thla same period tha gross sales amounted to the aum of I3.t54.506.30. The percentage of (Continued on, Page Thirteen.) PROVES EFFECTIVE SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 14. (AP) A new vaccine which has proven effective In laboratory tests agslnst Influenza, waa reported here today by Dr. Thomaa Francis, Jr., of the Rockefeller Institute. He emphasised the study was still In experimental stages and the vac cine would not be available tor general use until Its exact worth has been definitely established. . Of 14 persons highly susceptible to Influents, the physlclsn reported. 13 were found to be completely Im mune after Innoculstlon. The 14th developed considerable resistance. Ex perimenters do not know how long the Immunisation will last. The work wsa done by Dr. Francis in collsboratlon with Dr. T. P. Maglll or the Rockefeller Institute, snd Drs. C. H. Andrews. P. P. Lald law and W. Smith of the National Institute for Medical Research, Eng land. DUCKS AND GEESE RAIN ON MERCED'S STREETS MERCED. Calif., Feb. 14. (API It rained ducks and geese here Wed nesday during the helghth of the storm that also brought more than an Inch of rain. At least six geese and four ducks were picked up In the city. Whether the b I r d a encountered electrical storms which sent them hurtling to earth or dropped In exhaustion stter battling frigid conditions and a stiff wind remained moot ques tions. Bell told the committee all funds collected go to the parent Townsend organisation of which there are three directors. The three he ssld, are Dr. F. C. Townsend, Dr. Townsend's bro ther and R. I. Clements, secretary treasurer or the organtratlon. The Mlssourtan said a 33-cent Init iation fee la collected, plus 10c each a month from each member. Bell ssld additional funds are col lected through other sources Includ ing the sale of Townsend buttons, photographs of Dr. Townsend, medal llins, automobile stickers and . the Townsend Weekly. "In some sections of the west." Bell said, "orgsnlrers go to storekeepers with photographs of Dr. Townsend which they off-r for sale. If the storekeeper buys a picture snd dis plays It In hts window, the Townsend supporters patronise the store. If the atorekeeper does not buy a pic ture he Is boycotted." The Mlssounan said he had Infor mation that groups have broken away from the Townsend organlrstlon In California." Minnesota. Texas, Colo rado and other states. FARM BILL NEARS BALLOT IN SENATE Republican Dickinson fears Government by Majority Periled Robinson in At tack On AAA Decision By X. Harold Oliver Aaaoclated Preaa Staff Writer. WASHINOTON, Feb. 14.-(AP) Amid aharp diapute over the wtadom of limiting supreme court powers, the new asoo .000.000 farm bill moved to day toward a final senate vote pre dicted late today or tomorrow. Senator Robinson, the demotlc leader, contended the court had "Ira peached" the value of lta AAA decis ion by holding agriculture was a local problem. From the opposite aide of tha chamber. Senator Dickinson (R Towa) declared the baals queatlon la "whether we are golrur to do away with the old system of government , by majority." ...... i It would be destroyed, Dickinson I aald. If a law were paaaed barring the ' court from declaring acta unconsti tutional by B to 4 decisions. Senator Norria (R-Neb.) stepped Into the argument to say any division In the court "creates a reasonable doubt." He urged anew that unani mous decisions should be required to invalidate acta of congress. The diapute arose after Comptrol ler General J. R. McCarl had been voted authority to audit payments to farmers and pass on questions of law in the proposed act. ' Robinson opened his attack cm the AAA decision with the argument that soil -erosion and agricultural1 problem in general Is a national problem, to be dealt with by national legislation. . "The court arbitrarily held that agriculture waa a mere local matter, In which the United States had no concern and over which It had no control," Robinson ahouted. He declared that In "nearly all court decisions the legislative find ing of fact Is regarded by courts as binding.". - t 4 A business census Is to be started Immediately .In Jackson county as a WPA project for the bureau of cen sus, U. ft. department of commerce. It was stated by Oren O. Davie, super visor for southern Oregon, before he left last night for hie headquarters In Eugene. Mr. Davis appointed D. L. Huff enumerator for that part of Medford south and east of Evergreen street and another enumerator Is to be named next week for the feat of the city, Alfred Segaworth was selected for the Ashland district. Several other enumerators are to be appoint ed next week, Mr.-Davis said. The enumerators will make a rec ord of sales, operating expenses. In ventories, payrolls, commodities sold or services rendered and elmllar data all of which la to be held In strict confidence by the census bureau and not made available even to other departments of the federal and state governments, Mr. Davis said. FOR GRAZING CHANGE WASHINOTON. Mb. 14. (AP) The Interior department approved today a bill to place nearly all of the public domain under regulation of the Taylor graelng act. Representative Edward T.' Taylor, Colorado, aald the solicitor's' office of tne interior department -Informed him the bill, which would amend the original act by Increasing the 80,000, 000 acres regulated by the measure to 143.000.000 acres, had the approval also of the budget office nd the national resources committee. NAZARENE EVANGELIST IS HEARD BY THRONG Mrs. Bdlth Wilson Clark's message mas heard by a crovded house at the Nssarene church Isst nlfrht. Tonight Ersnirellst Clark speajes on "Bleeping Sickness. There will be no serrlce Saturday night. Sunday evening her topic la "What Will Ton Do With Jesus". Sunday morning Fred M. Weatherford. pastor-evangel-1st speaks on "Free Servants rrult." The public Is cordially Invited. Hen tAsiksihnns . . sfARSHriELO. Ore.. Feb. 14. (ATI The city council, after considerable haggling, passed an ordinance last night torbktdlng tralkathou contests mltnin city limits. impulse Obeyed By Autoist When Park Spot Taken LOS ANGELES. Feb. 14. (UP) Arthur Bernstein was "poised In front of a parking spare, all ready to back: In." he told Mu nicipal Judge Ola Faulconer to day, when Mrs. Rose Peal drove her car up behind him and slip ped Into the parking spot. T obeyed that Impulse." Arthur said. 'I backed In anyway." JlKlge Faulconer auspended aen tence on Bernstein for smashing sfrs. Peal's fenders. E LOS ANGELES, Feb. 14. (fp) To day, said the weather bureau. Is Just a lull between storms. Four days of wind and rain brought one death and property damage of $100,00 or more, and the forecast le rain tonight and Saturday. A storm enter from Hawaii la now 600 mtlea offshore and moving In land. In the Matlbu Beach film colony, a long pool of water that came out of Winter canyon, lapped at the door steps of homes owned by the starts, but there was no serious damage. PORTLAND, Feb. 14. (Jf) New storms will ca-use a break In Ore gon's cold spell tonight and tomor row, the weathef bureau predicted to day. Occasional rains in the west por tion and more anow In the east por tion of the state were forecast. J5BNVER. Feb. .H..-r- OP) EarUi quakes, a terrifying "black roller' dust storm, a bllrevard and a cold wave made a hodge-podge of weather In the Rockies today. The earthquakes brought addition al dlatresa to residents of western Montana, already In the Icy grip of the most prolonged cold spell of the winter. . The shocks were felt at Helena, Butte. Mlaaoula, Livingston, Kali spell and Great Falls. No serloua damage waa reported. 'CHICAGO. Feb. 14. (P A new cold wave crept across the United States to trouble a northern hemis phere already suffering from earth quakes, floods, fire and frigid weather. Hundreds died on the upper half of the world, - from California to China. The east waa covered with sleet and snow. . . . Blizzards swept across Europe and Asia Minor, causing 78 deaths In Tur key and raising the total there to 370, Property damage in Turkey waa es timated at $10,000,000. Shipping was delayed along the Spanish coast. NEW BISHOP'S PAY TO PORTLAND, Fob. 14. (P) The Right Rey. Benjamin O. Dagwell, con secrated this week aa bishop of the Oregon Episcopal diocese, was extend ed a new expression of confidence and esteem today with the announcement of the diocesan convention that hie salary had been Increased by M00 a year. At his election last October, the salary was fixed at $4,000. The young bishop, pastor at St. Jobns at Denver before he came here this month, spent today replying to hundreds of telegrams and letters from well-wishers. In his formal address the unmarried bishop said, "I have no family ties, and I expect thst to be a permanent pari of my annual report." JAP MILITARISTS MOSCOW. Feb. 14 (AP) Coinci dent with publication of reports of a Japaneae-Manchoukuoan Invasion of Sovlet-advlsed outer Mongolia, the authoritative Soviet writer, Karl Ra dek, declared In Izvestla today that the Japanese militarists "hsve lost th.ir minds," snd wsrned them not to try the Soviet's nervrs. "They will lesrn our nerves are In complete order, and. If necessary, our hsnds, too," Rad'k asserted. Numerous clashes hsve occurred re cently along the Manchoukuoa-outer Mongolia border, the most serious clshhes between Jsptnese Manchouku oan troops and outer Mongolian forces Wednesdsy In which Soviet dlspstchaa said ten Jspsnese-Msn-choukuoans were killed after Invad ing outer Mongolia. ITER SERVICES ES Increase of 50 Users in Year Recorded Revenue Listed at $129,632.07 $26,000 in Bonds Retired A total of SMI active water con nections tannin? the nt b,.. springe was on the books of the Med- " o or water commissioners December 31. It Is shown w . 10. report Issued today by Robert A. uuu, superintendent. This comnares with a set -. connectlona at the end nr 1044 Increase during the year of SO aerr- vr 1. per cent. A UnlQUe Circiimstanee 1. tVi.f actly the same number of residential urcra is mown at tne end of 1835 as at the end of 1934, namely. 3,748, Commercial Tapa lip Commercial users lnrresuwi ha ing 193S. a caln of H a ru, that category, there being 497 listed uecemoer si, 1U3S, aa agslnst 463 at the end of 1934. Rural residential users increased from 380 at the end of 1934 to 398 at the end of 193S. an Increase of 18 or 8.4 per cent, for that classification. The tnfat M.p.n..M gain Is reduced because there waa no increase in tne residential services which form the bulk ot the total. Total Water mna.lmn.lM lull. I side and outside the city limits In iwao waa i .ns.eaa.ras; gallons. Of this total 1.585.730,938 gallons were con sumed within the city and 39,714.890 gauons outside tne city, Mr. Duff's report shows. Average monthly use per serrlce during 1938 was 41.114 gallons Inside and 8,731 gallons outside the city. Population 12.028 The water department estimated there waa an average of 13.038 per sons residing within the city during 1938. On this basis the average water consumption per day per person was caloulated at 360 gallons, August was the high month of the year with a consumption of 877 gallons each day for each person. ThS 10.18 m.Ytmilm V-t-V Mmntmn. tton wss reached at 7 p. m. on August is wnen tne peek losd usage wss at (Continued on Psge Four.) MINNIE BUTCH, 62, TO FINAL REWARD Minnie Biltch, widow of the late Charles Biltch of Jacksonville, passed away In a local hospital Thursday evening following a brief Illness. She waa born at Stelnenberg, Ger many, February o, 1874. and waa 03 years of age last Sunday. Leaving Oermany at the age of aa, she landed In Brooklyn, N, Y., whore aha waa mar ried four years later to Chas. Biltch, then a soldier In the U. S. army and stationed at Port Hamilton. N. T. For 30 years tlnsy resided at various army poata including the Panama Ca nal Zone, and upon the retirement of her husband from the service they came to Jacksonville, Ore., In May, 1930, to make their permanent home. One eon, Charles P. Biltch of Jack sonville, la the only known relative surviving. Puneral services will be held at the Conger e ha pel at 3:30 Sunday with Rev. D. E. Millard officiating. The body will later be accompanied to Portland by the son for cremation. IS FOR ROGUE VALLEY The Rogue ralley'a early spring weather waa ahort-llved. ' After one day of balmy eunahlne the sky be came overcast and today occasional rains were predicted by the weather bureau for tonight and tomorrow, with not much change In tempera ture. Today's minimum temperature waa 39, one degree undiir yesterday's low est mark or 40. This afternoon the mercury stood at 48 as agalnat SS for the same hour yesterday. Swanson Improved Is Hospital Word WASHIrfOTOrl, Feb. 14. (AP) The condition of Secretary ewanson, gravely 111 of pleurisy at naval hospi tal, was reported at his home early today to be "much Improved." "Ha la getting along fins, apokesmsn said. CaptAln Oeorge 0. Thomas, com manding officer of tha hospital, told newsmen a short time later that the 74 year old navy chief had spent a very good night nd wis resting comfortably.
