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Evening star., 1928-12-31
KINGS EXHAUSTION
WORRIES DOCTORS
British Ruler Passes Rest
less Night, but Maintains
General Condition.
nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, December 3l.-The ex-
hausted condition in which King
Georges prolonged serious illness has
left him is presenting difficult prob
lem to his physicians, which they
frankly acknowledge in this mornings S
official bulletin.
Five of the seven principal doctors
who have been attending his majesty
signed this mornings report which was
more detailed than recently and al
though it recorded rather disturbed
night it announced some improve
ment in the Kings appetite and that
he is holding his own as to general
condition.
Text of Bulletin.
The bulletin read:
1.-THE King has passed somewhat
restless night. His general condition is
maintained although as previously noted
the state of exhaustion still presents a
difficult problem. There IS little more
readiness to take nourishment and the
local condition is progressing"
All 1Ve QOcLOrS were III 6uCklugnaIl
Palace before 10 o'clock this morning,
but the bulletin was not issued until
after 1890 o'clock as long consulta-
ton followed the examination of his
majesty.
Today was one of the coldest and
most disagreeable of the Winter, but a
considerable crowd was outside the
palace anxious to learn the news from
the royal bedside.
Anxiety Continues.
There was general qualification among
the public that the King had no set
back and that the bulletin was not with
out satisfactory features, but public
anxiety is bound to continue while the
patient remains in the present state
of extreme weakness.
In palace circles it was indicated that
the bulletin was not regarded in too
satisfactory light. 1t was pointed out,
however, that there was no definite
setback and that the doctors are salts
fed with the way things are going ex-
cept for the patients weakness.
There was an expression of hopeful
ness that the increased readiness of
the King to take nourishment may
help to remedy this condition which is
felt to be the real crux of the whole
situation at the present time.
Evening star., 1928-12-31
GERMAN LEADERS
HOPE FOR PEACE
international Understanding
Is Deepest Wish Expressed
in New Year Messages.
BY EDGAR ANsEL MOWRER.

By Radio to The Star and Chicago Daily
News. Copyright. 1923.
BERLIN, December 31.-Peace and
international understanding seem to be
the deepest wish for 1929 of the lea ders
of the new Germany.
In answer TO request for a New
Year wish to the world, seven rcDre-
sentative Germans have given the COR
Chicago Daily News the following state
merits:
Chancellor Hermann Mueller-"May
the will to an international understand
ing which found expression IN the past
year in the signing of the Kellogg pact
be completely successful in the coming
year.
Eric Koch, minister of justice--"Ten
years of peace have taught us that it
is not words that shape the world, but
the spirit they embody"
Rudolph Wissell, minister of labor
Our task Is to finish with war and
thought of war once and for all in order
to get on with world reconstruction.
Albert EinStein, one of the worlds
greatest ScientiSts-"I wish that this
new year may bring the broadest pos
sible international agreements concern
AiS QISdIHLdHleIlt OH 1dlQ ana sea, &n0
that a solution of international war
debts will be found"
Emil Ludwig, internationally famous
author-"Our existence or non-ex.
istence depends on European peace. A
new war would not be matter Of fate.
but the result of stupidity of European
statesmen"
Bruno Walter, orchestra condu-
the Berlin Municipal Opera Ho,'~
The common cause unsettled questiS-l
and heaviest problems are p-ecc
treaties. The idea solution would b,
their revision in the sense of Woodrow
Wilson's IA points"
Albert BasSermans. present holder of
the 1ffiand ring, the temporary property
OF Germany's greatest living actor
Every single human being would II
he had the chance vote for external
peace and international cooperation.
The representatives of the people as a
whole, namely, the governments. ars
apparently too clumsy to realize thiS
wish OF every sensible person-which /.
also my New Year wish for the world
Evening star., 1928-12-31
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December 3f.-The
wealth which America cleaned from its
steel mills, its oil wells, its manifold in
dustries, was poured into philanthropy's
Golfers in 1928 with a generosity which
surpassed that of last year.
Charitable gifts for 1923 will total
approximately $2,33O,6Oo, 900, according
to the estimate of the John Price Jones
Corporation of New York, fund raising
consultants, while those of the previous
year amounted to $2,219, 100000.
The greatest amount of the contribu-
tions this year, as in the past went to
religious denominations, but large gifts
were made to organized charity relief
for "the other half" for education pur-
poses and for the advancement of
health. The year was further note
worthy for the amounts which we're
contributed to the Identification of
national tracts and the preservation of
historical places.
Payne Whitney Gave S45,OOO,O0O.
The late Payne Whitney's bequest
of more than 45,000,000 to hospitals,
libraries and universities of the coun-
try heads the list. Although Mr.
Whitney died in 1927, the filing of the
estates appraisal did not take place
until 1928 and his bequests are, there
fore, listed with the philanthropies of
the year just ended.
His largest bequeSt to an institution
was an endowment for $18,623,176 for
the New York Hospital, which with
Cornell University Medical School is
planning a new medical center here.
The Cornell Medical School was be-
queathed $2,823,157. Yale University,
Mr. Whitney's Alma Mater, where he
was prominent In athletics, received a
similar amount, while the New York
Public Library, which like Yale had
been remembered with many gifts dur
ing the financier's lifetime, was be-
queathed $6,210,725.
The beQuests also embraced a trust
fund Of nearly $26,O00,000 the trustees
of which were authorized to use prin-
cipal or income as they saw fit for
charitable and educational uses and
scientific investigation.
The Rockefeller benevolences, as in
other years, figure large in the years
total and were among those which
reached beyond Americas boundary
lines. Twelve millions were given by the
Rockefeller Foundation to the China
Medical Board, Inc, which holds funds
for the Peking Union Medical College,
to aid in establishing its modern medical
center. The Foundation also gave
S1,400,000 to the medical school of the
University of Brussels and contributed
like amount to the work of stamping
out Inr{n
worm disease throughout the world.
Rockefeller funds also were expended
in the preservation of national land
tracts and places of historical interest.
The Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial
gave $5,000000 to the great Smoky
Mountain National Park in Tennessee
and North Carolina, and John D. Rocke-
feller, jr., contributed a like amount to
the restoration of the historical town
Evening star., 1928-12-31
GANGSTERS KILL
TWO, WOUND FIVE
Machine Gun Takes Revenge
as Occupants of Two Cars
Are Attacked.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CAMDEN, N. j., December 81
Police of this city and Philadelphia to-
day searched underworld haunts for a
trio of gunmen who, armed with a ma
chine gun and pump gun, shot two
men to death and wounded five other
persons, two Of them women.
The slayers, believed to be Phila-
delphia gangsters seeking revenge,
poured more than one hundred shots
into two automobiles loaded with
merry-makers on the Black Horse Pike
near here early yesterday morning and
then sped away in a yellow roadster.
The gangsters killed Joseph Cusano,
21, and Nicholas Celebre. 20, both OF
Philadelphia. Samuel Orlando, 10, was
shot through the head and body.
Eleanor McDevitt, 19, in the rear seat
of the car ahead, peered through the
curtains as the gunner approached
and screamed a warning. Daniel Del
giornor, 90, alias Danny Day, the
driver, was shot through. the eye; the
McDevitt girls hand was broken by
another bullet and the two other oc-
cupants, Miss Phyllis Piazzollo, 20, and
Peter Zecco. "a. were shot in the back
and side, one bullet in the back paraIyz-
ing the girls legs.
Police learned that the men and girls
had met in Philadelphia dance hall
and later had gone to a roadhouse at
Chews Landing, several miles from
Camden. The party was returning to
Philadelphia when the attack occurred.
Three men, arrested at the roadhouse
for questioning, disclaimed any knowl-
edge of the shootings.
Evening star., 1928-12-31
PARTY MARKS END
OF SMITHS TERM
,s-
Governor Celebrates Birthday
Before Bidding Farewell to
Executive Mansion.
BY the Associated Press.

ALBANY, N. Y, December 81
Gov. Smith last night celebrated his
fifty-fifth birthday and bade farewell
to be executive mansion. A dinner
party, attended by the governors
family and more than a score of friends
from New York, marked the celebration.
After the guests left, the executive and
Mrs. Smith prepared to go to nearby
hotel, where they intend to remain
until after the Inauguration Of Gov
elect Roosevelt.
Scores Of letters and kilograms bear
ing birthday greetings were received
by the governor during the day.
Among other gifts the governor re-
ceived a green and gold barrel organ
During the dinner party William H.
Todd, New York shipbuilder, entered
the dining room with the organ on his
shoulder and leading the governors pet
monkey, Jerry.
Evening star., 1928-12-31
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
CHICAGO, December 81. The
worlds greatest copy boy is dead.
James Aloysius Durkin. who emerged
from the waits mission in 1895 to
become copy boy for the Chicago
Tribune, died early yesterday morning.
Death was due to heart disease.
Durkin, 40, had personal friendships
with many renowned persons, and it
was said that he knew every street
and alley in Chicago. He was mine
of information on almost everything
affecting the routine Of the newsroom
and his memory for fire alarm signals
was startling. He was sent to London
with a note to Lord Northcliffe by the
Tribune years ago and there met the
Prince of Wales, later King Edward
VII, whom he later described as "hiS
nibs"
Durkin was employed by the Tribune
for SO years. Funeral services will
be conducted Wednesday. Surviving
is his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth zuchsworth
Durkin, whom he married in 1924 after
his first wife died.
Jimmy Durkin got his first newspaper
Job quite by accident. He had the
task of answering the telephone in the
waits home when business men called
for Office boys. One day the Chicago
Times called and asked for steady
boy to be employed as copy boy.
what does it pay?" asked the astute
Jimmy.
"Six dollars q week."
"Ill send boy right over" was the
reply, and Jimmy clapped on his hat
and rushed to the newspaper Office.
Jimmy continued to live at the
waits home and q few years later he
happened to be standing near the tele-
phone when it rang. The Tribune was
asking for a copy boy.
"Ill send you the worlds greatest
copy boy,'' Jimmy replied He went
over and took the job.
Dunkin called all of his acquaintances,
even his superiors in the oface. by their
Evening star., 1928-12-31
POISON LIQUOR LACK
PLEASING TO DORIAN
New Formula Used as Denaturant
and Education of Public
Cited as Cause.
BY the Associated Press.


Prohibition Commissioner Doran took
a look at the immediate past and future
of enforcement today and found en-
couragement in his report to Assistant
Secretary Lowman of the Treasury
that no deaths due to poisoned alco-
hol had been reported to him during
the Christmas holidays.
Summing up the year end situation,
Mr.. Doran said a great advance had
been made over previous years in re-
lation to fatalities caused by wood al
cohol or liquor containing other poisons
He added, however, that a few deaths
from acute alcoholism had been re-
ported
The commissioner attributed the lack
of death reports this year to the edu-
cation Of the public and to the new
formula used by the Prohibition Bu-
reau to render alcohol unfit for bev-
erage purposes. The old formula. which
included the use of lyridine, was dis
carded about year ago and aldehol
was substituted.
In his report Doran also discussed
the recent decision of Federal Judge
Kirkpatrick in Philadelphia, who held
that a buyer of liquor was guilty of
violating the law If transportation en-
tered into the sale.
Doran held that the courts decision,
If sustained by higher courts. would ap-
ply to all sales of bootleg liquor except
that purchased over bar.
Evening star., 1928-12-31
AMERICANS GAVE $3.50, 100000
TO VARIOUS CAUSES THIS YEAR
Religious Organizations Benefited Most
Largely From 1923 Gifts, Which
Exceeded Last Years.
of Williamsburg, Va, to its pre-Revolu-

of Williamsburg, Va, to its -Revolu-
tionary setting.
Among Mr.. RockefelIer's private
philanthropies were the gifts of two
millions to the Cite University (the
quarter to house Students) in Paris, an
other million to Chicago University for
the endowment of its divinity school,
and $500,000 toward the fund being
raised in the United States for the de-
velopment of Jewish farm settlements
in Russia.
Education Gets Rich bowers.
Educational institutions received rich
dowers from the 1923 charity chest.
The $10,OOO,OoO residium of the estate
of the late Charles M. Hall, father
of aluminium" who died in 1914. is to
be distributed to higher educational in
stitutions of the Near East and the
Orient. his trustees recently announced.
Mr.. Hall left the decision as to the
manner of distribution to the trustees.
Selection of the beneficiaries was made
after long consultation with educational
leaders. Among the institutions to
benefit by the gift are the Kobe College
Corporation in Japan, the American
University of Beirut and the American
College for Girls at Constantinople
I1dl hlltSo vi NcW VI L.
gave $3,000,000 to Harvard University
to be used for experiment in reorgani-
cation of the university. He gave the
dormitories, dining halls and common
rooms, which will be operated as a
sperate educational and social unit
A. E. Fitkin Of New York, a former
school teacher and clergyman who
built up a $30,000,000 fortune through
public utility operations, donated a
$1,000000 to Yale to be used in the
study of child disease, while the late
Chauncey Depew requested like
amount to the same university, his
alama mater, without restrictions.
Myron Taylor's $1,500000 gift to
education went to Cornell University
for new building to house the law
school.
Others Who Contributed.
Others who helped to fill Americas s
charity Golfers during the year gave
their contributions for the benefit of
those in actual need. John Markle, re-
tired coal operator, donated half mil
lion to the Salvation Army for the erec-
ton of a working. girls hotel, which
would provide comfortable, light living
quarters Tor girls VINO could at1ord 10
pay only a low rent.
The late Milton McQuade, a bachelor,
who left no known living relations,
bequeathed $500,000 to the Home for
the Friendless, an orphanage in New
burgh, N. Y. Half Of the $4,000, 900
estate of the late Nathan Lamport, jew
ish philanthropist, went to the Ansl
Charity Foundation for the benefit of
various Jewish religious educational and
philanthropic societies. The name
'AnsP' signified Abraham Nehemia
Sarah Lamport
The late Mrs. John Innes Kane made
her contribution to the advancement of
health and medicine by leaving 81 1,O00,-
600 as scholarship fund for the Or
thopaedic Hospital in New York. The
eight scholarships, with an annual value
of $4,000 to $4,000. are to be given to
young surgeons of unusual ability who
desire to specialize in orthopaedics.
Evening star., 1928-12-31
Three Killed at Crossing.

DAYTON, Ohio. December 81 CP).-
Three persons were killed and two
others seriously injured when their au-
tomobile was struck by Baltimore and
Ohio passenger train at Miamsburg. 10
miles from here, last night. The dead
are: Mrs. Morah Burkett, As Crown
Point, Ohio; Charles Mccoy. 60, Crown
Point. and Mrs. Wade, whose first
name and address were not learned.
Mccoy was driving the car.
Mrs. Elizabeth Grice, 81, and Lucille
Sears. were taken to hospital, where
It was said they were dying.
Evening star., 1928-12-31
110 INFLUENZA CASES
HERE OVER WEEK END

Twenty-eight new cases of influenza
were reported to the District Health
Department today. No additional
deaths from the disease were recorded.
The number of cases reported showed
a sharp decline over the past few days.
The cases reported yesterday number
ed 81.
Statistics at the Health Department
showed that during 1928, total of GAG
cases of influenza was reported, all
except 80 of them occurring in Deem
Der. The greatest number of deaths
in any one week in December was 6.
There was one week in March in which
IL deaths were reported.
In all, 81 deaths from the disease
were reported during 1928, with 81 in
December.
Evening star., 1928-12-31
POLICEMAN LOSES
APPEAL FROM FINE
Sergt. Driscoll of Potomac, Fined
$40 in Attempted Arrest, to
Take Case Higher.
speo.al Dispatch to The Star.

ARLINGTON, Va, December 81
A jury in Circuit Court here today up
held Police Judge Harry Thomas in
fining Sergt. A. F. Driscoll of Potomac,
Va, SO for the alleged assault of Rev.
Antonio Geiammittorio, Baptist min
lister, october 26.
Driscoll forced the preacher into his
motor cycle sidecar, II was testified, in
attempting to arrest him on charge
of lettering Rev. Geiammittorio said
he draws a salary of $1,000 a year as
a preacher and was not lettering. He
said he had been granted a leave be-
cause of nervous breakdown and was
staying at the home Of his mother in
Potomac. Driscolls attorney noted an
appeal to the Virginia court of appeals.
Evening star., 1928-12-31
ST0WAWAY BRIDE HELD.

BALBOA, Panama Canal Zone. De-
cember 81 P).-The stowaway honey
moon OF pretty Mrs. Francis Belden
OF New York was ended here yester-
DAY. when she was held at the quar-
antine station for return to New York
Her husband Is member Of the crew
OF the liner Mongolia. She said she
could not bear the idea CT separating
from him only a few days after their
wedding, but that she lacked funds TO
pay her passage.
The young woman slowed away be-
fore the Mongolia left New York, but
was discovered. soon after the vessel
put to sea. She Will be returned to
New York on the Panama-Pacifier Liner
Virginia.
Evening star., 1928-12-31
BAND CONCERT.

BY the United States Marine Band.
at the Marine Barracks, 4 o'clock to-
day.
Grand march. "Pomp and Circum-
stance" El0ar
Overture, "Orpheus in Hades."
Offenbach
Ballet suite. Excelsior. -. Marengo
Quartet for trombones. "The Heavens
ReSound' ........B .Baefhoven
ValSe Serenade, "A TOT" Czibulka
Romance" ... Rubinstein
Finale, Fourth Symphony"
Tschaikowsky
Marines hymn, "The Halls Of Monte
yuma"
Tbs Star Spangled Banner"
Evening star., 1928-12-31
Blast Wrecks Apartment.

NEW YORK. December 81 OP).-Ex-
plosion of boiler in 21-family apart
ment house at 537 West 156th street
yesterday afternoon routed the tenants
many of them Of advanced age, from
their rooms and led to injuries to the
8-year-old daughter Of the janitor.
Evening star., 1928-12-31
Hollywood Gets German Director.

LOS ANGELES, December 81 1P).-
Prof. Max Rheinhardt, German stage
director, arrived here yesterday to join
forces. as a director, with the film col
ony in Hollywood. With the director
appear in new picture soon, and a
party of friends. A brilliant array of
screen stars, led by Douglas Fairbanks,
welcomed the new director and Miss
Gish at the station.
Evening star., 1928-12-31
DRUG STORE DAMAGED.
Del Ray, Va, Fire Starts in Trash
Near Telephone, Report.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
POTOMAC, Va, December 31.-Fire
Of undetermined origin caused approx
mately 500 damage to the fixtures of
the Del Ray Drug Store, on Mount Ver-
non avenue, here last night shortly
after closing time The fire started in
a pile of trash between the telephone
booth and a partition.
The Potomac Fire Department re-
sponded and gained control Of the fire
before it could spread to other parts of
the store. The Fire Department was
called upon earlier in the night to ex-
tinguish chimney fire at the home Of
Wilson GLADDEN.. at l22 Raymond ave-
nue..
Evening star., 1928-12-31
POLICE QUIZ MOTHER.

@"IS' VuIIIH beIleVed TO Know
Whereabouts of Missing Girl.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
UPPER MARLBORO, Md, December
31.-Believing that Mrs. Florence
Quinn, 45 years DID, of Croome. knows
the whereabouts of her 16-year-old
daughter Viola, who disappeared De-
cemoer l8, after attending classes in the
nlgn school here, Prince Georges
county authorities planned today to
question her further.
Bernard Sellman, 35-year-old colored
tenant on the Quinn farm. now is being
held in the Upper Marlboro Jail for in
vestigat!on. it being thought by au-
thorities that he also knows where the
girl is.
Evening star., 1928-12-31
Garage Robbed of 5000.

Robert H. Featherstone, manager of
garage at lila Vermont avenue, re-
ported the robbery of 5000 from a safe
in the garage Saturday night. The safe
had been left unlocked or the combi-
nation worked.
Evening star., 1928-12-31
PRIEST Is KILLED.
Former Washington Monk Dies
From Automobile Injuries.

CLEVELAND, December 81 CP).-
While on his way to convent to con-
duct evening prayers, Father Leonard
Neukirchen, 10. was struck by an auto
mobile and killed here last night. A
native of Germany, Father Neukirchen
had been stationed at ST. Joseph's Mon
astery here for 25 years.
Before coming to Cleveland Father
Neukirchen, distinguished member of
the Franciscan Order of Monks, was
general commissary at Mount st. Sepul-
cher Monastery in Washington.
Evening star., 1928-12-31
MERGER SITUATION
is HELD UNCHANGED
BY FIRMS LETTER

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