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Tribune
Full Associated Press
Full United Press
Thirty-Third Year
MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20
No. 233.
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Parade
By Joseph Alsop
and
Robert Kintner
Copyright, 1937, by The
North American News
paper Alliance, Ino.
TREASURY HAS POWER TO
FIX FOREIGN LOAN POLICY
.
EXPECTED TO SEEK
CONGRESS APPROVAL
BREAK WITH ISOLATIONISM
SEEN IN NEW MOVES
WILL STRESS DEFENSE
OF AMERICAN IDEALS
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. Contrary
to the general impression, tho treas
ury believes that it now possesses
power enough to Initiate the new
policy of big governmental credits to
South American nations, ine process
of elbowing Germany out of the trade
of this hemisphere can begin tomor
row, apparently, if the president so
directs.
The issue was confused In two di
rections when Secretary of the Treas
ury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., disclosed
the new policy a existence. First, ne
said that it was only being "stu
died." Second, he remarked that
congressional approval would be
necessary before direct lntergovenv
mental loans could be made.
While doubts of the new policy's
wisdom may still exist at the State
departments the treasury has long
passed the "studying" stage. .. Treas
ury officials, led by the secretary,
ardently favor the policy. : At Mor-
genthau's direction, an administratis
set-up to glva the policy effect Is
being rapidly Improvised, and Assis
tant Secretary Wayne Chatfleld Tay
lor has already been chosen as' the
official primarily In charge. Always
excepting the possibility of a con
gressional uproar, the new policy 1.
In fact, here to stay.
As for the need of congressional
authorization, it's quite true that
le(..slatlon would be needed for the
type of loan of which the secretary
spoke. The truth la, however, that
the charter of the Export-Import
bank and the statute setting up the
stabilization fund now contain auth
orizations which would permit other
types of credit. The credits would
have to be extended In complex and
roundabout ways. There might be
some difficulty In permitting private
banks to participate, as Secretary
Morgenthau wisely desires to do. But
the Important thing Is that the treas-
(Contlnued on Page Eight.)
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WASHINGTON. TC. 30.-r ( AP)
Senator Barry (R Ore.) elected to
fill the unexpired term of Senator
Stelwer ID.. Ore.) who resigned,
reached the capital today.
He sld he felt there was little he
could accomplish In the short per
iod before his term expires on Jan
uary 8 but he Intended to visit gov
ernment officials and urge the con
struction of a naval base at Tongue
Point on the Columbia river.
Barry will be succeeded on Jan
uary 3 by Rufus C. Holman, elected
for a full six-year term.
A citizen who is abroad and de
sires to procure a passport must ap
ply to the nearest consular officer of
the United States.
SIDE GLANCES
by
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Chaplain CI it ton Pond unsuccess
fully trying to be Indignant with fel
low CCC officers Insisting he tell of
his recent flight across the conti
nent. he burs in g to tell all and in
great detail, deplt a desk-load of
work.
Chester. Fitch giving an lltumlnat
In discourse on gold fish, he being
inspired by the monster gold fish
on exhibit at the CofC.
Juanlta Yorton doing a beautiful
Job of decorating the CofC silver
ttpped Shasta fir Chr.stmsa tree, a
gift from the U. S. forest service.
Sam Houston pacing up and down
the bark room of the postofftce to
keep Yule mall moving at fast
clip.
Cspt. Rregje vitirrnt asking the
public to keep the Salvation Army
kettles bolting
U.S.GMV
SEES VIOLATION
T
American Medical Associa
tion and Others Cited As
Hampering Group Health
. Physicians in Service
CHICAGO. Dec. 30. (AP) Dr.
Morris Flshbeln. spokesman for the
American Medical association, when
Informed of the federal Indictments
returned In Washington today for
violation of the Sherman anti-trust
act, said:
"The house of delegates has au
thorized the board of directors of
the American Medical association to
defend the case to the limit."
WASHINGTON. Dec 30. AP 1
The American Medical association,
three local medical societies and 31
individual physicians were Indicted
today by a federal grand Jury for
violation of the Sherman anti-trust
act.
The societies named were the Med
ical Society of the District of Col
umbia, the Harris county (Tex.)
Medical society, and the Washington
(D. C.) Academy of Surgery,
Among the 21 physicians Indicted
were Dr. Olln West, secretary of the
American Medical association; Dr.
Morris Plshbeln, editor of the Amer
ican Medical association's Journal;
Dr. Arthur C. Christie, prominent
Washington radiologist and Dr.
Prentiss Wlllson, who recently coop
erated In filing a suit against the
Washington Group Health associa
tion, charging group health physic
ians had Injured his practice In fur
nishing medical service through the
association.
Blackball U-crd
Others indicted are officials of the
American Medical Association, or Its
affiliated societies.
The department of Justice Insti
tuted proceedings against the Amer
ican Medical association Inst October,
charging It was acting In restraint
of trade, In violation of the anti
trust act.
Specifically It charged the associa
tion, some local societies and Individ
ual physicians were preventing other
physicians and cooperative medical
organizations from supplying medical
service by refusing membership In
medical societies to Individual phy
sicians who Joined such groups.
Particularly Involved were the af
fairs of Group Health association.
Inc. This cooperative agency was
established more than a year a so,
offering medical care and hospitaliza
tion to some 2.600 government em
ployes for $2.20 each per month. It
put lta naff of doctors on a salary
basis.
The District Society, an affiliate
of the A.M.A., promptly attacked the
plan as leading toward the compul
sory Insurance systems In vogue In
Germany and elsewhere In Europe.
The society denounced such systems
as undermining high standards or
medical practice and likely to break
down the close relationship of the
physician and his patient.
Restraint Claimed
The association accused the society
of hampering Its activities by threat
ening exclusion of Its doctors from
hospitals and thus restraining their
efforts to earn & living.
Group Health contended Its pur
poses were beneficial to the public
and the profession, particularly that
tt might reduce illness by Insuring
ready access to "preventive" medi
cine.
In summing up the reasons for
the Indictments the grand Jury de
clared the American Medical associ
ation and the Individual physicians
(Continued on Page Nine.)
'There noes Mama'
MILWAUKEE. Wis. (AP) A wo
man got her divorce decree after she
testified that her husband used to
blow up balloons and tell their two-
year-old son. "there goes mama."
Paresis Will Keep Capone
In Pen When Time Expires
CHICAOO, Dec. 20. (UP) Al
(Scarf ace) Capone Is violently and
dangerously Insane one week out of
every four and cannot be released
from custody of a federal Institution
for at least a year or until some pro
gress In a cure Is indicated, U. S.
District Attorney William J, Camp
bell said last night.
The former overlord of Chicago
gangdom Is a victim of paresis which
gradually Is destroying his brain.
Campbell returned recently from
Washington where he conferred with
James V. Bennett, director of fed
eral prisons. He said a conference
probably would be held in Los Atv
eles. In which members of the C
pone family might participate, with
in the next month to determine the
prlwnrr's disposition.
The government prefirs to keep
Capon at AJca.tr because the most
Santa Claus Hires
Extra Helpers For
Yule Mail Torrent
SANTA CLAUS. Ind., Dec. 30.
;UP) Santa Claus had to hire ex
tra helpers today.
Mall sent by persons wishing
the Santa Claus cancellation on
their Christmas greetings reached
a season's peak of an estimated
50,000 pieces today and Postmaster
Oscar Phillips and his daughter.
Odessa, had to have help.
Nearly a dozen persona. Instead
of the two required at other tlmee
of the year arc necessary to han
dle the mall which annually
floods this 25 by 15 foot-postof flee
at Christmas time.
TWO TRUCK LOADS
OP REBUILT TOYS
READY FOR KIDS
Toyland was moved from fire head
quarters this morning to a vacant
part or the Pantorium at 36 North
Holly street.
Two large vans were needed to
transfer the shiny new toys that had
been mode by city firemen from old
and discarded playthings. There were
2,436 separate playthings. These in
cluded 250 old dolls that had been
mended and newly dressed and 165
new dolls bought by the Lady Lions
club and 26 dolls made especially for
Toyland by Mrs. Tom Bunnell of
Jacksonville. The Lady Lions club
works Jointly each year with the
firemen on the project of converting
old playthings Into new Christmas
gifts for poor children.
The toys and dolls will be pre
sented to tho children of about 200
families, tt was stated by .Mrs. Earl
M. Miller, chairman of the Lady
Lions. Cards have been distributed to
the families and presentations will
be made by ticket only, Mrs. Miller
emphasized.
The playthings will be distributed
by Lady Lions at the toy depot from
10 a. m. to 6 p. m. Thursday and
Friday. The distribution must be
completed on those two doys and
parents receiving cards are asked to
call for the playthtngs between the
specified hours Thursday or Friday.
The toys will be on display tomor
row so that the public may see them
through the Pantorium show win
dow. CHRISTMAS PARTY
Members of the Med ford Rotary
club and their wives, 110 In number,
filled the basement banquet hall of
the Hotel Medford at noon today for
the annual Rotary Christmas party.
The room was attractively decorated
in Yuletlde greens with tables light
ed by candles.
Rev. Ernest S. Bartlam. speaker for
the holiday meeting, brought to Ro-
tarlans and their ladles an Impres
sive Christmas message which was
enthusiastically received. Carl Jan
ouch, program chairman for the club,
arranged the details of the gathering
and President Mark Goldy presided
A splendid musical program fea
tured a trio comprising Mrs. Mar
garet Huson. yoprano; Mrs. .lean Mc
Allister, alto, and Mrs. Catherine
Wendt. soprano, In appropriate
Christmas numbers. Mrs. W-ndt was
piano accompanlest for some of the
selections. Mrs. Huson also led the
Rotarlans and their wives In a group
singing of "Hark the Haid Angels
Sing" and "Jingle Belli."
y
PORTLAND, Dec. 20. (AP) This
particular sneak thief was not only
mean but he also was audacious. He
took a firemen's milk fund bottle
containing $7 or 18 in pennies from
the counter In the criminal depart
ment of the sheriff's office.
modern methods of treating paresis
are avllable there, Campbell mid.
Federal prisons at Los Angeles and
3prln?fieM, Mo., also are being con
sidered. Capone was sentenced to 10 year
In a frdrral prison and to one year
In the Co:k county Jail on two
charges of income tax evasion by
Federal Judge James H. Wilkerson
in 1931. With time off for good be
havior he would be eligible for re
leae from Al.-ntrns January 10, 1030.
It had been believed be wsuld be re
turned to Chicago to serve out tht
final year.
Capone, besides his prison sen
tence, still has to pay fines totaling
approximately $56,000 assessed In
connection with his Income tux
evcEl-n. He can avoid payment of
the linos by declf.rln.-j nlrr"ll
pauper and serving 30 days addi
tional la Js4i
NAZI CONCESSION
LESSENS FRICTION
Germany Agrees to Permit
Full Transfer to Benefic
iaries in United States
Is Word to Government
WASHINGTON. Dec. 20. (AP)
Germany today notified the United
States- all inheritance credits due
Americans on the estates of persons
deceased in Germany' hereafter will
be transferred to the beneficiaries in
full.
The announcement brought to the
state department this morning by
ur. Hans Thomsen, German charge
d'affaires, clarifies one of the lesser
points of friction between the two
governments.
Americans, heretofore, have not
been able to collect their full In
heritances on German estates be
cause of exchange restrictions for
bidding money to leave Germany.
The matter was discussed by Sumner
Welles, acting secretary of state, with
Amb&s5uor Hans H. Dleckhoff
shortly before the letter's recent de
parture for Germany.
Welles said tt was unfair for Ger
many to Impose such restrictions
which were not applied by this coun
try on the transfer or estates to Ger
man heirs.
No figures were available her as
to how much money is Involved but
It was understood to be only about
half as much as the value of Amer
ican estates transferred to Germany
through inheritance which has aver
aged about $5,000,000 a year.
The German embassy hero had
been concerned over a possibility
some restrictions be placed on the
transfer of money Inheritances to
Germany after a court decision In
Philadelphia last week against per
mitting German heirs to receive
money bequeathed them In that city.
Before 1,1s conversation with Welles,
Thomsen mid he wos not prepared
to discuss Austrian debts or reas
surances of non-dlscrlmlnatory treat
ment towards Americans In Germany.
Thomsen's call wss the first at the
state department by any of the Ger
man embassy staff since Dleckhoff
bade officials farewell.
It was believed his visit did not
Indicate Germany has replied to
either of two recent American notes
seeking satisfaction of Austrian
claims and assurances Americans In
the relch will not be discriminated
against because of race or creed.
The second note carried a broad
hint of retaliation should American
Jews in Germany find their rights
abrogated.
EUROPE'S COLD SNAP
TAKES HEAVY TOIL IN
DEATH AND SUFFERING
LONDON, Dec. 20. (AP) Winter
rolled up a heavy tall of lives In
many European countries today.
A ferry boat creeping through the
Icy Tagus river at Lisbon struck a
dredge and sank, with 25 of the 70
ferry passengers believed drowned.
More than 20 deaths were attrib
uted to the cold. 28 degrees above
zero In England. A violent northeast
wind rolled relief for three keepers
at Fastnet Rock lighthouse, off the
coast of County Cork, Ireland.
Paris and suburbs counted nine
desd. Hundreds of barges were caught
In frozen northern French canals.
Rn 11 road signals froze In Scandinavia,
delaying continental expresses. Nor
way had the lowest temperature yes
terday, 25 below zero; Sweden was
second with 20 below.
In Hungary the cold snapped s
rail and derailed a train. Injuring
six passengers. Several ships In the
Block sea radioed distress signals,
snd at least three sailors were be
lieved lost.
Weather forecasts were continued
cold.
In' Belgium IS deaths were at
tributed to the Intense cold. The
mercury fell to five degrees above
zero Fahrenheit, lowest in 50 years.
Rivers In the southern provinces were
frozen, outdoors Induitrles paralyzed
and railway and channel boat traf
fic greatly reduced.
TVo. Glamour Girl
Marries Tin Heir
PALM BEACH. Fla., Dec, 20. (UP)
Gloria Baker, the No. 1 "Glamour
Girl'' of 1037, today became the bride
of Henry J. Topping heir to a $0.
000 ooo tin-plate fortune, In a cere
mony that was "considerably less ex
pensive than her $50,000 "coming out
party" last year.
The wedding was ft simple affair,
attended by less than a dozen g .'ebts.
Topping 24, was divorced last week
by Jayne Shadduck, act few, on
ground! of extreme cruelty and habi
tual tntempersnoa.
SLUGGED
Mayor LaGuartlla
NEW YORK, Dec. 30. (API
Mayor F. H. LaGuardla was punched
and knocked down today, as he was
entering city hall, by a man Iden
tified by police as James Hagan, 48,
a former WPA superintendent In the
Pel ham Bay shops of the city pork
department.
Hagan, beaten and subdued by
spectators, was taken first into an
office in the city hall and later to
a police station, where he was
charged with simple assault.
Investigators obtained no coherent
story, but believed, they said, Hagan
held a grudge because of his layoff
from the park Job.
The mayor was unhurt, save for
a red welt under the right eye where
Hagan's first landed.
HEAVY DRINKER FED
FROM JUNEAU JAIL TO
JUNEAU, Atasks, Dec. 30. (AP)
A trapper-guldc released tram a olty
Jail drunkenness charge, because he
knew the perilous Cape Palrweather
country led 18 shipwreck survivors
toward Lltuya bay and ultimate res
cue today.
The Guide, Nels Ludwlneson had
served si days of a 10-day sentence
here when he was released so he
could accompany Pilot Sheldon Sim
mons to the scene of the shipwrecked
motorshlp Patterson.
The coast guard cutter Halda wire
lessed that she read, with difficulty.
nasniignt code signals stating Lud
wlngson and several of the weaker
of the marooned mariners were head
ing toward a pre-arranged spot on
the beach, four mllea toward Lltuya
bay, and the stronger members plan
ned to overtake them tonight and
proceed 13 miles toward Lltuya bay.
Thi Halda notified the party It
would be following along, outside
the line of breakers and Instructed
the party to build campflrea along
the beach so the Halda could trace
lta progress.
IS. BERRY ASKS
INVESTIGATION
OLYMPIA, Wash- Dee. 30. fUP)
Pretty Mrs. Elizabeth Berry, 37, one
of the principals Involved In the tor
ture kidnaping of Irving E. Baker, 87.
demanded today that Gov. Clarence
D. Martin order a legislative Investi
gation into the sensational case.
Mrs. Berry, whose husband, prom
inent Dr. Kent W. Berry, 54. facea
life imprisonment for the rime,
made the demand In a letter mailed
to the executive this morning. She
also asked on Investigation be un
dertaken Into reports Dr. Berry al
legedly handled narcotics Illegally.
It was Mrs. Berry's charge she was
raped by Baker that caused her hus
band to obtain the aid of three
men and abduct and mutilate the
former U. 8. coast guard officer. Dr.
Berry's confederates. James Reddlck,
28. Robert Smith. 33, and William
Macs loon. 50, were convicted with
him recently and also face life Im
prisonment. 1
Radio Highlights
By Associated Press
(Time Is Eastern Standard)
NEW YORK, Dec. 20. Mrs. Eleanor
Roosevelt, as a radio guest tonight,
will tell how the White House la
preparing for Christmas. She will
appear on Gabriel Heatter'a program
on W ABC -CBS at 11 o'clock, prsented
as "we the people."
Tonight: WABC-CB8--10:45 talk,
Wm. McChesney Martin, Jr., presi
dent New York stock exchange.
What to expect Wednesday: WEAF
NBC 1 :15 p.m., Christmas play,
"The Wooly Lamb; 0 Our American
Schools; fl:30 Siovan Ringing Society,
carols. W ABC-CBS 8 music hour;
5:30, "The Visit of fit. Nick"; 3 ora
torio "Te Deum" from tferlln, 4:30
Christmas Carols,
AID ON PLAN FOR
JEW El
American Director of inter
national Refugee Office
Invited to Visit Berlin-
Counter Plan Is Seen
By the Associated Press
The Involved question of getting
Jews out of Germany moved a step
forward today with Field Marshal
Hermann Wilhelm Goerlng's Invita
tion to George Rublee, American di
rector of the International refugee
office, to visit Berlin.
Informed quarters said Rublce
would present counter-proposals to
a Nazi plan, reported to embrace a
two-year scheme for trie emigration
of Germany's Jews.
Pan-American conference delegates
pondored mutual defense against
aggression today while In Spain ond
China wars pushed wearily on de
spite wintry weather.
IirH7.ll for Compromise
A resolution proposed at Lima ex
pressing the determination of Ameri
can nations to defend one another
against aggression was submitted to
tho various delegations with the like
lihood It would bo acted upon be
fore the week-end.
Drafted by Brazil's chief delegate,
the propose! represented a compro
mise between the United States' de
sire for a declaration for a united
front against any non-American ag
gressor and Argentine Insistence that
the declaration Include all aggressors
Adjournment of the conference by
Monday or Tuesday was In prospect.
In London Prime Minister Cham
berlain, meanwhile, studied com
plaints of alleged Incompetence in
British defense ministries. Throe ag
gressive young members of the gov
ernment were said to be demanding
a cabinet shake-up. War Minister
Leslie Hore-Bellsha and Sir Thomas
Insklp, minister for defense coordi
nation, we in among those under fire,
White Russians lilt.
In Paris Gen. Alexis Denlklne,
white Russian leader, who headed
the final military struggle against
the bolshevlst regime, made a sur
prising denunciation of White Rus
sians who aid Adolf Hitler In op
position to the Soviet Union.
He denounced by name some whit
Russian officers for ' taking money
from nasi agents to further Hit
ler's dream expansion In the soviet
Ukraine and said Japanese too had
been successful In getting white Rus
sian cooperation against the Russian
"fatherland."
Bitter weather kept a planned in
surgent offensive from developing
beyond heavy artillery fire, In the
Spanish civil war. In China Jap
anese army officers outlined ft five
year plan for pacifying north China
and cleaning up guerrilla resistance.
IN KLAMATH CABIN
KLAMATH FALLS, Dec. 20. (AP)
Chief of Police Frank Hamm last
night, out down the frozen body of
Carl Meyers, 60-year-old logger, which
apparently had been hanging from
the rafters of his Broad street cabin
since last Friday.
Neighbors said they had seen noth
ing of Meyers since Friday but that
ft light had been burning steadily In
his cabin since that time.
Hamm believed Meyers was a lut
ctde, although nothing wss found to
indicate ft motive for his act.
ROUTINE BUSINESS ON
CITY COUNCIL'S TABLE
Only routine business Is on the
formal agenda to come before the
city council at Its regular semi
monthly meeting tonight. The meet
ing will be convened si usual at 7:80
In council chambers of the top floor
of city hall.
Electric Lights or None
For Roosevelt Yule Tree
WASHINGTON, Dec, 30. (UP)
Tlft secret service, which often haa
Irked presidents while guarding their
lives, won Its second successive klr
mlsh with Mr. Roosevelt today when
It ruled that the White House Christ
mas tree muat be Illuminated with
electric light, or not at all.
The service rebelled last year
against the Roosevelt fsmtly tradi
tion of using wai candlea to light
their Christmas trees, and tt has
Issued similar edict for the oorn-
Ing holiday.
Except for thLs bit of Interference,
the precedent-brenklr first family
will become tlx ttvHUw-lftt.lPi
Little Girl Dies
Under Bus Wheels
On Shopping Trip
LOS ANGEIJS. Dec. 30. (AP)
A bus run over 10-year old
Maria Carlllo as she hurried to a
neighborhood store, clutching a
few carefully saved pennies with
which to buy her mother'! Christ
mas gift.
At a hospital, Mrs. Dolores Car
lllo Identified her daughter's body.
"I didn't want a present,
honey," she cried, "I only wanted
you."
E
THAN YEAR AGO
Incoming and outgoing Christmas
mall volume Is heavier than It was st
the same time s-yenr ago. Postmaster
Frank -DeSouza said today.
To accommodate the public the
pos toff Ice will tematn open until 0
p.m. again Saturday Instead of clos
ing at the usual Saturday hour of 12
noon. Mr. DeSouza stated. There will
also be two complete city mall de
liveries Saturday. The same extra
service was provided last Saturday.
Carriers will work late Into the
night Saturday In an effort to deliver
all Christmas parcel mall on hand.
Mr. DeSouza stated. It will greatly
facilitate delivery of packages If fam
ilies will remain at home Saturday
night and leave their porch lights on
so that house numbers may be seen
plainly, he emphasized. A personal
delivery of Insured, registered or spe
cial delivery mall must be made, he
pointed out.
Delivery of Christmas parcels arriv
ing by train Sunday morning will be
made' the same day, the poetmaster
said.
Twelve extra employes and two
large and three small extra trucks
were in service today as incoming
mall neared the holiday peek. The
stafr was efficiently organized by O.
m. Houston, superintendent, and, un
der his direct supervision, the mall
was being sorted and routed as quick
ly as It arrived.
Four more employes and another
large truck will be added to the ser
vice tomorrow, Mr. DeSouza said.
Mr. Houston and assistants will be
at the postofflce early Monday morn
ing to make a final clean-uo of any
vnriaimaa mall arriving late,
PASSES SUDDENLY
Orlando Boy Canine, 88, a resi
dent of Medford for the put 14
years, died of a, sudden heart attack
last night at 10:30 In his home at
822 West Tenth street. Funeral serv-
loes, In charge of the Perl funeral
home, will be announced tomorrow.
Mr. Canine was born January 14.
1880. In Waterlond, Ind. with hla
parents, he came to Oregon City In
iuj ana later moved to Eureka, Cal.
There he waa married to Blsle E.
Hogue on May 18. 1009, and from
the union were born two daughtera
and one aon. He came to Medford
with hla family 14 years ago. and
since had been employed aa a aaw-
Iller by the Medford Corporation.
He la survived by hla wife. Blsle:
two daughtera. Mrs. Alice Crow and
Mrs. John Wood, both yt Medford:
one aan, Clarence Canine or Klam
ath Palls; three sisters, Mrs. Sebas
tian Appolo of Medford, Mrs. Henry
Voea of Ashland and Mrs. Cy Miner
of Berkeley, Cal., and two grand
daughters, Betty and Patricia Crow.
COPENHAVER FUNERAL
WEDNESDAY AT 2 P. M.
Funeral services will be held In the
Perl chapel at 2 p.m. Wednesday for
Luther Copen haver, World War vet
eran who died In Seattle, Wash., De
cember 14. Medford post of the Am
erican Legion will conduct the rites.
Roosevelta at Christmas time this
year.
Plans for the Vule observance vir
tually have been completed down to
the smallest detail, Including the
hour at which Mr, Roosevelt will
render hla eustomary reading of a
condensed version of Dlcken'a "Christ
mas Carol."
Mrs. Roosevelt disclosed that her
youngest aon John and his bride,
the former Ann Undsay Clark, will
bo unable to attend th White
House festivities at which most of
the Roosevelt family will be present.
She Mid that John will be too busy
at hla department store Job In Button
to com p Eatbjnf to.
HOPE TO SALVAGE
Four Brothers Collected Mil
lions in Commissions On
Fictitious Sales of Cruda
Drugs, Is Revelation -
NEW YORK, Deo. 30. (AP) Fed.
era! authorities, delving Into thai
fantastic story that Philip Mualca.
as F. Donald Coster, respected presi
dent of McKesson and Robbtns, Inc.,
tried to sell 3,000,000 rifles and 100,.
000.000 rounds of ammunition taj
some unidentified nation, turned
today to a report they might have
been destined for the Chinese geM
eral. Chiang Kai-8hek.
NEW YORK. Dec. 20. (AP) Fed.
eral Investigators said today thej
were hopeful of salvaging "consider
able cash" of the 810.000,000. to 820.
000,000 which the late Philip Muslca
la suspected of swindling horn the
McKesson 8c Robbtns Drug Corpora,
tlon.
The announcement followed .
statement by Dlst.-Atty. Thomas B.
Dewey that he already had uncovered!
evidence the four Muslca brothers
had oolleoted actual cash commis
sions of 83,003,103 through flctltloui
sales of crude drugs.
Dewey said hla Investigation, not
yet completed, Indicated the thefta
might go aa high as 818.258.378. Act
ing TJJ3. Atty. Gregory Noonan sale!
several days ago the lossec might
reach 830.000,000. '
, Books Complicated
An extremely complicated book,
keeping system used by Muslca, allaaj
"F, Donald Coster," who killed him.
self last Friday, haa .delayed official)
In reaching Immediately an accurst
estimate of the funds Involved. -
Dewey, who obtained grand Jury;
Indictment charging the three aur.
Tlvlng brothers with grand larceny
and forgery, said thoy "milked" the
corporation's crude druga department
through fictitious, sales to at least
five dummy companies.
The brothers, Dewey said, paid out
huge sums In oommtaslons to th
dummy companies for "sales" of
crude drugs which Coster listed aa
stored In corporation warehouses, Tha
district attorney said the money went
to the Musics, and the sales, the
drugs, and the warehouses all wen
non-existent.
The deception waa not detected, In.
vestlgators aald, because "Coster,"
president or the firm, told other com
pany officials he was using profits
from the crude drugs department t
expand It. He had forged bills of
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BOYSlLLTACE
HEARING FRIDAY
The group of youths, ranging tm
age from 14 to 18 years, alleged to
have engaged In a aeries of petty
thefts and misdemeanors the pat
three months, Is scheduled to appear
In Juvenile court next Friday.
According to Deputy Dlstrlct-At.
torney Oeorgs W. Nellson. all bava
admitted charges, and are at liberty.
The officials states the eas 1 on
of the most Involved and puxallng '
that haa come to hla attention I
some time. There was no leader, as
car cm can be determined, and th
youths were apparently actuated by
a "something for nothing" fever.
Most of those Involved have never
been In trouble before, and bear good
reputations In school and other ae
tlvltlea. Among the ofenses admitted, th
authorities say. Is tha puncturing of
tires on 18 autoa last Hallowe en '
with an Ice pick, robbing 5f parked
eara and stealing goods from local
stores.
0ALEM, Ore., Deo. 30. (UP) Oov.
Charles H. Martin today appointed
three men to the tut sanitary au
thority, created by Tot at the No
vember election. The appoint
are:
Albert Buroh, Medford, Ore., first
congressional district; Blaine Hat.
lock, Baker, Ore., second congres
sional dlstrlot; Dr. Richard B. Dtlle
hunt, Portland, third oongrelonl
district. The appointments are for
terms of four, three snd two year.
The state health officer, state en
gineer and th chairman of th
health commission are also member
of the authority. A sanitary engin
eer will be employed, and will t
t ItSnrMI to lb uthorlt.