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Evening star., 1931-12-31
RACE SUICIDE SEEN
CITY CONSEQUENCE
Yale Scientist Reaches That
Finding After Tests
With Mice.

The human race, especially in North
America and Europe, may unconsciously
be committing race suicide in its closed
automobiles and the "palatial artificial
heated cages of modern cities.
Such was the implication of expert
ments described before the American
Sociological Society today by Dr. Jerome
Davis of Yale University. He presented
evidence that lack Of contact with
ultra-viole radiation from the sun, due
to changed modes of living, may in
some mysterious way be partly respon-
sible for the declining birth rate of
the past century.
DR.. Davis worked with hairless mice
These have been reported occasionally
as abnormal types of the ordinary
mouse. Their bodies are entirely de-
void of hair. Usually they soon die
and the females are sterile The Yale
biologist found that if these mice were
subjected to a regulated amount of
ultra violet lamp radiation they be-
came approximately as fertile as ordi-
nary mice and, since hairlessneSs was
recessive hereditary factor, it was
possible to breed race all of whose
members had bare skins Too much
radiation made them sterile again.
Hairless females, kept at an optimum
temperature and fed exactly the same
way, with plenty of cod liver oil to
supply the essential vitamin D which
Is supplied by sun radiation, but with
out the ultra violet light, had very few
young.
Much Like Human Beings.
DR.. Davis pointed out the mouse Is
very much like the human being, and
the hairless mouse is closer than the
others because man also is one of the
few hairless varieties of mammals. It
was found that these mice shared with
man, and probably with no other ami
mails, the faculty of tanning and re-
ceiving SunburnS. 1t was this which
originally attracted the attention of the
biologists to them.
Up to few generations ago, DR..
Davis pointed out, man largely was
creature of the open country. The
majority of the population was agri-
cultural laboring day after day in the
fields with the sun beating upon 1t.
The cities were not closely built and
walking or riding in open carriages
was the accepted mode of transporta-
ton. Now, he pointed out, few work
in the fields, walking is the exception,
men and women are shielded in closed
cars, and even on the city streets little
sunlight gets through. There has been
coincidental decline in the birthrate.
Evening star., 1931-12-31
NEW BOMB FOUND
IN OHIO ST|RS FEAR
Of EXTENSIVE PLOT
Death Package Addressed
to italian Consul Is
Stopped.
PENNSYLVANIA TRAGEDY
SPURS POSTAL PROBE
Explosion That Killed Two at Eas-
ton Believed Planned in Gotham.
Third Victim May Die.
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, December 31.-Evi-
dence of the existence of a widespread
pomb plot was seen by police and Fed
eral officers here today when a power
ful bomb was received at the Italian
consulate in this city.
The bomb package, shipped by ex-
press from New York, was addressed to
Count Cesare Buzzi- -Gradenigo, the Ital-
ian consul in Cleveland. 1t was turned
over to detectives who took it to a
rife range on the outskirts of the city
and exploded it there harmlessly by
rife fire.
Discovered by Secretary.
This was the second bomb plot un-
covered within "a hours. The first one
was at Easton, Pa, where three bombs
exploded in the post office yesterday,
causing the death of two clerks and the
injury of other persons.
In both instances the bombs were ad-
dressed to prominent Italians. AL
though the addresses on the EastOn
bombs were misspelled, investigators be-
lieved one package was intended for
GeneroSo Pope, owner of an Italian
newspaper and friend of Mayor Walker
of New York; another for the editor
of Popes paper, and another was mark
ed for Emanuele Frazzy, Italian consul
general in New York.
One of the bombs which exploded
was addressed to the Italian consulate
in Pittsburgh and another was to the
Argentine consulate in Baltimore.
The bomb plot here was discovered by
Capt. Amelio Ardito secretary to the
count Noticing that the package was
unusually heavy, Capt. Ardito became
suspicious Of it. He telephoned William
TrOmbetta, New York, publisher of a
Fascist newspaper who was given on
the package as the sender
Trombetta, a friend of Count Buzzi-
Gradenigo. told the captain he had sent
no package to Cleveland.
Capt Ardito called police and gave
the package to them, advising them it
probably was bomb.
Package ExpIodes.
Four detectives and David CoWles,
police ballistic expert, took the package
to a rife range and from a distance
OF about $50 yards fired rife shot
to explode it.
The package bore the American Ex-
press Service, No. H-56978, and was
dated December 90
Inspector Cody said he believed the
bomb contained nitrogylcerin and a
clock-work timing device. He based
his opinion on the appearance of the
package and Of the explosion,
Evening star., 1931-12-31
SEABURYS REMOVAL
AS COUNSEL ASKED
Minority Member Charges He Act
ed as Citizen in Farley
Case.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December 31.-Removal
of Samuel Seabury as counsel to the
Legislative Committee investigating
New York City affairs has been de-
manded by one of his own committee.
Assemblyman Louis Cuvillier. minority
member Of the investigating body,
specifically charged Seabury last night
with taking lone hand in the case
of Sheriff Thomas M. Farley, whose
removal Seabury has demanded of Gov,
Roosevelt.
Seaburys appeal to the Governor to
remove Farley from Office because his
bank accounts appeared far in excess
of his apparent income did not have
the authorization of the committee,
Cuvillier declared.
Informed that Seabury had acted as
a private citizen and not as a commit
tee member in the Farley case, Cuvilher
labeled the move as a "subterfuge to
evade his responsibility to tSe com-
pfitsee."
Evening star., 1931-12-31
Strauss Copyright
On Famed Music
Expires Tonight

BY the Associated Press.
VIENNA, December 31.-The
music of Johann Strauss, the
famous Austrian waltz composer,
will be anybody's property after
January l, because the Austrian
cabinet failed to extend the copy
right law from 80 to so years.
In 1929 the Strauss copyright
was extended for two years when
it was expected that Austria
would join other nations in adopt
ing the 50-year copyright pro-
posal at an international confer
ence in Rome.
At that time the widow of the
man who composed the Blue
Danube" was still living and de-
pendent on her husbands royal
ties. She has since died, and the
government saw no reason for
prolonging the protection.
Evening star., 1931-12-31
SOVIET PRESS SEES
WAR DANGER IN 1882
Moscow Paper Holds Plot on Jap
anese Enjoys Life Due TO
ImperialiSts.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MOSCOW. December 3l.-The gov
eminent newspaper Izvestia today
attributed the alleged plot against the
life Of the japanese Ambassador to
Moscow TO adventurous imperialistic
circles" seeking to provoke a war be-
tween the Soviet Republic and Japan.
Summing up the international situ-
alton at the end Of 1881, the newspaper
took the position that 1882 holds more
potential danger Of war for the world
than any year since 1914, adding that
the European press already has drawn
an analogy between the Moscow Incl
dent and the Sarajevo assassination.
Listing the military actions now under
way, the newspaper sounded the warn
ing that none but the professional
pacifstS from Geneva or such optimistS
as Hoover deny on the eve of 1882 that
the year begins under most ominous cir
cun1stances"
The fight against imperialist insti-
gators of war Is the most important
problem facing the worlds laboring
masses, the paper concluded.
Evening star., 1931-12-31
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, December 3l.- The
World Telegram said today that for
mer Attorney General Harry M.
Daugherty, in his book THE Inside
Story of the Harding Tragedy" accuses
Albert B. Fall, former Secretary of the
Interior, of securing his appointment
through a forged telegram.
The following quotation from the
book, which will be published in two
or three weeks, was printed
"A. B. Fall and I could never have
been chumS in any political enter
Evening star., 1931-12-31
MAN, 34, IS FREED FROM CAGE
IN PARENTS HOME AFTER 10 YEARS
Prisoner, Rescued From Cellar by Welfare Worker,
Committed to Hospital for Insane.

1t had no windows, she said, and
light entered the inclosure only when
members of the family brought meals
TO its occupant.
At the Probate Court hearing at which
the son was adjudged insane, Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Litchy, the parents, said
ne was in the State Hospital at Fergus
Falls three years before they locked him
n the basement.
case thew obectnd @ TT to nae nsying tSa sto
$40 a month for keeping him in the
hospital.
They decided to return him TO his
home, but found he was difficult to han
ole. He was removed early in 1922 from
the Fergus Falls Hospital to which the
Judge YESTERDAY committed him,
Evening star., 1931-12-31
BICENTENNIAL STAMP SERIES
GOES ON SALE HERE TOMORROW
Collectors Prepare for Rush Get Washington Issue
One Day Before Rest of Nation.

Students Of philately from all parts
Of the United States are converging on
the National Capital for an outstanding
event in the lives of stamp collectors
the first issue of the George Washing
ton Bicentennial series of postage
stamps, which will be made available
for the first time in Washington tomor-
row undey a special order from the
PostmastsR Generak Each stamp bears
Evening star., 1931-12-31
BOOK SAYS FALL
GOT JOB BY FORGED TELEGRAM
Charges Hughes Tried to Slip League of
Nations Endorsement in Harding
Message, but First Lady Saw It.

prise. 7 think at the last moment
President Harding began to feel the
unspoken antagonism between us and
hesitated to make the appointment
Fall met the crisis in his usual
bull-headed fashion. He sent Hard
ing an urgent telegram asking his i'm
mediate appointment, and signed my
name to it without phoning me, wiring
me or in any way limiting his purpose.
This message he boldly charged to A.
B. Fall.
THE appointment was made and
the mine laid for an explosion about
to shake the Nation"
Daugherty, who collaborated with
Continued on Page 2, Column 81
Evening star., 1931-12-31
SUGGESTS GANDHI DROP FIGHT.
Viceroy Says Authorities Determined TO
End Resistance.
Y the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PreSS.
CALCUTTA. India, December 81
In an address before the European AS
sociation Viceroy Lord Willingdon said
British authorities would invoke every
means within their power to resist
possible renewal of the civil disobedience
campaign by the Indian Nationals
Congress and expressed the hope that
Gandhi would call off its activities
even at this eleventh hour"
Il want to make it perfectly clear,
he said, that we are determined TO
go ahead as rapidly as possible with
the work of constitutional reform and
that cooperation will not be per-
mitted.
Every measure will be taken to
maintain order and to prevent any
party from paralyzing the administra-
ton, whether its activities take the form
of no rent campaigns, or boycott Of
British goods as political measure, or
Activities Are Revealed.
Outlining the efforts of the govern
ment to develop constitutional reforms
in India and pledging their contnu-
ance. he continued:
AT the same time we find that de-
termined efforts are being made by
some leaders Of the Nationalist Congress
party, the only active political organ
ization in the country, to destroy by
speech and action of the most seditious
character any possibility Of creating a
peaceful atmosphere and to renew the
campaign of incorporation and civil
disobedience, the disastrous results of
which are so fresh in our minds"
Appealing to the whole Of India to
put aside distrust and suspicion, he
said, Il venture to hope that even at
this eleventh hour Mr.. Gandhi will call
halt to his activities and will agree
to cooperate with us with his powerful
influence"
The Congress Working Committee in
Bombay was reported to have had a
stormy session as the result of the pres
ence of the former mayor of Calcutta
Subhas Chandra Bose, a militant Ma
tionalist He was understood to have
told the committee that with its CO.
operation or without he intended TO
launch a campaign in Bengal which
would boycott British goods. banks, in
surance companies and other organiza-
tiOnS.
Evening star., 1931-12-31
WARNING
TO GANDH| STARTS
WAR RUMBL|NGS
ViCeroy Wires Him Govern
ment Is Prepared 10 Meet
New Civil DisobedienCe.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BOMBAY, India, December 81
Viceroy Lord Willingdon telegraphed
Mahatma Gandhi today that If the
Indian Nationalists renew their civil
campaign the government
is prepared to meet it.
This means war" said one of Mr.
Gandhi's closest advisers.
The Mahatma took to his tent with
a solemn expression to write an answer
to the viceroy.
In the one or two days more Of
freedom" he said "let us say our
prayers in peace
1t was thought he meant he expected
to be arrested if the civil disobedience
campaign were renewed.
President Patel of the Indian Ma
tional Congress declared that the door
of peace had been locked and that
Gandhi would renew the struggle at
any moment unless the viceroy recon-
siders his stand. He said I'VE all ex-
pect arrest"
Evening star., 1931-12-31
BY the Associated Press.

HOLDINGFORD, MINI, December
3l.-After being locked in a cage in
his parents home the greater part Of
nearly 10 years, 34-year-old man
was removed from his parents custody
yesterday, a welfare worker revealed
today.
The man Ncx T:t~hv. ues oo"7'--' tnd
TO a State hospital for the insane by
Judge j. B. hlmsl III Probate Cou.,. NO
charges have been brought against tie
parents, but the county attorney said he
Mrs. Emma Moynihan, secretary Of
the Stearns County Welfare Board,
found the man IN cage constructed Of
boards running from thefbasement floor
to the ceiling. y
Evening star., 1931-12-31
WOMAN FLIES BALLOON

PARIS. December 81 CP.-Mme.
paulette Weber, French woman flyer,
took off alone in a balloon at 1870 last
night from the hills OF St. Cloud IN an
effort to establish straight line balloon
The record Is nov fixed by the Aero
Club at s21 kSometers. The balloon
drtssaS ,a in a akouthwesteray direction.
Evening star., 1931-12-31
MICHIGAN ARMY FLYERS
GIVE UP BOBBITT SEARCH
Hunt for Missing Pilot Left to
Planes and Corps at
Boiling Field.

Blocked in their efforts to search
further for Lieut.. E. H. Bobbitt, jr~
lost Army pursuit pilot, by the con-
tinued bad weather which is thought
to have been responsible for his dis
appearance Christmas eve in the Allie
ghenv Mountains, six fellow pursuit
pilots from Selfridge Field, Mich, to-
dav reluctantly started home and left
further searching to the observation
and transport planes of Boiling Field.
Evening star., 1931-12-31
W. Cameron Forbes
Wants to Resign in
Two Months.
HERE IN SEPTEMBER
Ambassador Had Planned
to Retire Just Before
Present Crisis Arose.
HERE IN SEPTEMBER
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.

William Cameron Forbes, American
Ambassador to Japan since June, 1880,
has informed the State Department of
his intention of resigning from his pres
ent post as soon as the department can
dispense with his services. Ambassador
Forbes is willing to remain at his post
until the acute phase of the Man
churian crisis is over, but he does not
want to prolong his stay in Toxic for
more than two months. He is expected
to return to this country sometime in
March.
Evening star., 1931-12-31
u. S. NOTIFIES BLACKMER
OF ANSWER TO APPEAL
Teapot Dome Witness, in Paris, to
Make No Further Defense Pend
ing Final Step by Court.

BY the Associated Press
PARIS, December 31-The Paris
edition Of the New York Herald Tribune
said today that Harry S. Blackmer,
sought as witness during the Teapot
Dome oil Investigations, was notified
through his counsel that the United
States Government has filed an an
swer to his appeal against a fine for
contempt of court
Blackmer will make no further de-
fense, the paper said until the court
takes the case under consideration for
final Judgment.
Evening star., 1931-12-31
MORE BOMBS FEARED.
Postal Chiefs Issue Warnings After
Easton Tragedy.

EASTON, Pa, December 81 (P).-In-
veStigatorS had different theories today
on the plot behind the bombs which ex-
ploded in the Easton Post Office yes
terday, causing the death of two clerks
and the injury of other persons.
Some of the investigators stuck to
the theory that it was an anti-Fascisti
movement against certain individuals
One member of the bomb squad from
Continued on Page Q, Column g.
Evening star., 1931-12-31
GOTHAM GAMBLER SLAIN
Pistol in Pocket Is Similar to One
That Killed Rothstein.

That Killed Rothstein.
NEW YORK, December 81 (R.-
I olIis Levine. an East Side gambler, was
shot fiye times in the head and killed
TODAY in the club room Of the Pups,
Inc. a social organization, in West
Fifty-first street.
Police found no trace of the pistol
with which the gambler was shot, but
in the right hand pocket of mis- trousers
there was a loaded revolver, of the same
tvpe with which Arnold Rothstein
Broadway gambler, was slain.
About SO persons were playing cards
in the club when the shooting occurred
but when police broke into the place
all of them had left.
Evening star., 1931-12-31

a different likeness of George Wash
ington.
The Washington City Post Once,
which will be the only Office in the
United States retailing the stamps on
extraordinary rush of business from the
time it opens, at 7:30 am, until clos
Evening star., 1931-12-31

Radio Programs on Page AS
Evening star., 1931-12-31

eContinued On pass O. coasarnn. ~
Evening star., 1931-12-31
WEATHER.

90. s. weather Bureau Forecast)
Cloudy, followed by rain tonight and
tomorrow; not much change in tempera-
ture: fresh northeast andeast winds.
TemperatureS-High so, at pm.
yesterday; lowest, 81, at 7:30 am. today.
Full report on page 7.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-11
Volcano Predictions
Planned for Hawaii

Tragedies, such as the destruction Of
Toxic by earthquake and fire seven
years ago, are preventable, declares DR..
Thomas A. Jaeger, noted volcanologist,
and accordingly he is urging the eStab-
lishment of an institution for "terres-
trial research" in Hawaii. For 20 years
DR.. Jaeger has been dev6ting his life to
volcano study, spending most of that
time literally on the edge of the vol
cano Of Kilauea, about 200 miles from
Honolulu. He strongly believes that
modern science can amaSS a body of
experience which will enable volcanolo-
gistS to predict earthquakes and erup-
tons at least in time TO warn the popu-
lace Of crowded cities or threatened
towns. Earthquakes, tidal waves and
volcanic eruption which take place in
inhabited lands all may be foreseen a
few hours by phenomena which scien-
tiflc instruments and scientists can
read, he says. He believes that Hawaii
offers the best place In the world for
such study. He hopes that such an
institution may be established and
maintained by private funds, feeling
that the Government would hardly un-
dertake such q study at the present
time. Afiliation with the International
Red Cross and q mechanism for the
prompt dispatch of scientific expedi-
tons to any part OF the globe where q
great terrestrial upheaval takes place
are among the features pc suggests.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-11

home which Wendy inhabits in the
Neverland, while the boles of the trees
in the garden the Barrie boy knew open
to make the paSSageways to the under
ground home for the Lost Boys. -.,y.-,
AS she sews In the dim little kitchen,
altering the worn clothes Of one child
to At. another, JAMES mother tells him
stories Of her youth. He will never for
get them. They sink into his mind
until they become more vivid than the
life that goes on about him; and, grown
up, he will use them for IS years as
the raw material for those first success
full books and plays which moved and
enchanted all the Anglo-Saxon world.
HumOr Born In Cottage.
Humor, make-believe, the power to
personify inanimate objects-he owes
these gifts to his mother. When he was
q youth and beginning to send articles
round to editors, she would say to his
manuscripts: "You poor cold little
critter, shut away In q drawer; are you
dead or just Sleeping?"
Her laugh was born fresh every morn
Ing. One day, however, her laugh
failed to get born. One of her sons
had died. James, the seven-year-old
anxious TO console her, stood on his
head In his bed, and, holding that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-11

He had other and less perceptible
assets. To get at them one needs to
retrace his steps through time and
space. Behold Kirriemuir 20 years ago.
A bleak little Scottish town in which
the most notable features of the land
scape are Free Church, a linen fac
tory and q cemetery on the hill. You
go down the Brechlin road to the tene-
ments. In one of those little four
roomed weaver'S cottages lives Margaret
Ogtlvie, the stone-maSon's daughter,
and her good man, David Barrie, the
weaver, who has educated himself and
begat 10 children. James-Now Sir
James, o. NJ, Ii. D., M. A.-was the
ninth.
Was Close 70 Mother.
An impish, lively, sad, indomitable
child, very close to his mother. There
being little room In the house-the
family live, eat and sleep in the two
top rooms, one Of the two downstairs
being q parlor and the other Barrie
seniors web" or loom room-the wee
James plays In the wash house. It
looks q poor enough little place, but
there Is magic In It. as In everything
that this strange small genius touches:
and the proof Of It is that 40 years later
that wash house becomes the treetcp
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-11

trenches In France and are moldering
there with some Of the youths who
climbed them. The woods are gone, and
the naked ground appeared to my eye
to be tortured with shame 1t seemed
to have forgotten US all in its own
misery.
Then there were the romantic wan
behring's by the shore, where every week
brought its new fairies thrown up from
the sea. The changeabIe is constant in
its changes. The sandbanks have been
blown up by the winds and washed by
the tides into new shapes, and the
shingle has come farther west. But
upon the beach are the familiar tins,
spars. uprooted trees and all the scraps
which are the playthings of the waves.
And the black bituminous shales which
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-11
Princes Paintings Win
Praise at Exposition

The paintings of Nicolas LeprincG ca
exhibition ct an art dealers In raris.
were Enthusiastically received by the
critics and puzzled every one by their
exceptional qualities. They show CUE
rious blend Of French technique ana OF
passion for 1ight and Oriental color re-
Vealing dual formation. In fact, their
author is no less than Prince Nicolas
and wanted to be Judged anonymously
before he revealed his true personality.
He can be seen now Mt the gallery,
greeting his many friends and admir-
ers and kissing beieweled hands With
princely grace.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-11

ing into the unknown seas bearing a
cargo Of gold and silk and spices than
we did when, mounting the first of the
Nineteen, we swung and jumped In
mid-air like squirrels from tree to tree
until we went the round of the Nineteen
for the first time. Then we were Mt
for any venture. We had accomplished
the grand achievement, and had passed
to a niche among the heroes.
returned and found the place Desc
late. The trees, like ourselves, had
grown old, and the AK had been laid
to their roots. They have passed on to
another life. Perhaps they bear the
scanty supper of the laDorer; perhaps
they are behind the veneer Of some
shoddy creation Of industry; perhaps
they kept up the muddy sides Of