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The Washington times., 1932-12-29
EDGE To AVERT
DEBT MEX-UP

PARIS, Dec. 20 G.N.S).-What
promised to become a serious
diplomatic mix-up appeared
averted today following an Of
ficial decision that Ambassador
Edge will acknowledge Premier
Paul-Boncour'S recent visit for
discussion of war debts by shak-
ing the French minister's hand.
The handshake will occur
Saturday, when President Lebrun
holds a New Year reception for
the diplomatic corps.
The compromise was reached
after fears were expressed that a
customary return call by the
ambassador might involve Wash
lngton in a renewal of negotia-
tlons on the French default of
the December Is instalment.
1t was previously agreed that
such negotiations, during the life
OF the Hoover administration,
would prove useless.
The Washington times., 1932-12-29
MARY -P|CKFORD
E.. HAS ACCIDENT

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 20 QN.SO.
Mary Pickford was recovering to-
day from injuries suffered on
a film studio set when a huge
lamp fell and knocked her un-
conscious. Her head and an arm
were badly bruised.
Miss Pickford was resting in
a canvas chair between scenes
when the accident occurred. She
was thrown backward and pinned
to the floor beneath the weight
OF the lamp.
Douglas Fairbanks picked up
the shattered lamp and hurled it
several feet, then carried Miss
Pickford to a dressing room,
where a physician had been sum-
moned.
Miss Pickford regained con-
sciouSness within five minutes,
The Washington times., 1932-12-29
LICENSE
/ FEE STUDIED

Washington's beer bill probably
will be introduced today in the
House by Representative Loring
Black CD of New York, the
question of taxes having been
jroned out.
Rufus S. Lusk, executive officer
of the Crusaders, who is assisting
in the preparation of the bill,
conferred yesterday with william
P. Richards, District assessor,
and Assistant Corporation Coun-
sci Vernon E. West regarding the
tax and license fee to be as
sessed.
Richards suggested that the
tax be levied on the wholesaler
at the rate of $2.50 per barrel
in addition to the Federal tax,
and it was understood this fea-
ture would be incorporated in the
bill. The license fee for selling
beer, however, was still in the
air. but was expected to be set
tied early today.
The Washington times., 1932-12-29
FIELD MAY GET'|NSURANCE co,
REYNOLDS JOB SUED ON DEATH

CHICAGO, Dec. 20 GN.S),
Stanley Field, financier, civic
leader and one of the heirs of the
Marshall Field estate, may be Sc
1ected as the successor of George
M. Reynolds, chairman of the
board of the Continental Illinois
National Bank & Trust Company.
Reynolds resigned yesterday.
Reports today connected Field,
now chairman of the banks execu-
tive committee, with the vacant
post in the country's largest bank
west Of New York city.
The sudden illness of his wife
precipitated the decision of Reyn-
olds to retire from active duties
''just to play" for the rest of his
life.
Approaching his Sixty-eighth
birthday anniversary, Reynolds
brought his 52-year banking ca
reer to a close when he resigned.
The Washington times., 1932-12-29
PRINCE JAILED;
WHAT NEXT?

NEW YORK, Dec. 90 T.N.SO.
Prince Michael Romanoff, per-
ennial problem of the immigra-
ton authorities, today main
tained his reputation untarnished.
True, the immigration boys had
Mike in custody at Ellis Island.
Equally true, they have been try
ing to land him there for the
past week, since Mike was re-
ported to have hoped ashore
from the liner Europa after a
hasty and somewhat informal trip
from France.
But the immigration people
were not entirely happy.
They still must decide what to
do with the prince.
Mike, also known as Harry Ger
guSon and various more uncom-
plimentary names, is supposed
to have returned from France
after being given "a hours to
leave that country. He had done
a slight stretch" in a Paris Jail
for entering France without re-
membering to have PASSPORT.
And, before entering France,
Mike had been shipped off by
his Ellis Island hosts for doing
just that thing over here.
The prince slipped into the
tolls again yesterday when an
eagle-eyed clerk in a Fifth Ave
nue. tobacconist shop recognized
the royal vagabond, more or less
in disguise as a north woods
guide, as he purchased a pipe
and a tin of expensive tobacco.
The Washington times., 1932-12-29

ELPHIA, Dec. 20
G.N.S0 The Federal court today
had before it the problem of
deciding whether the death in
France of Fred G. Nixon-Nird-
linger, Philadelphia theatrical
magnate, was accidental. ~
In a suit filed here, executors
of the estate seek to collect an
additional $4,000 from the
Equitable Life Insurance Com
pany under a double indemnity
clause in Observation-Disclosures
policies on the grounds his death
was accidental.
NiXon-Nirdlinger was shot and
killed by his beauty contest win
ner wife, the former Charlotte
Nash, of st. Louis, in their apart
ment in Nice, France, on March
II, 1881. The former Miss st.
Louis" was acquitted by a French
court
The Washington times., 1932-12-29
TAX RISE,
ROOSEVELT'S
PURPOSE
Drastic RetrenChment Held
First Step Needed to
Balance Budget

ALBANY, N. Y, Dec. 20 QN.S).
President-elect Roosevelt was hope
full today that the Federal budget
can be balanced with a minimum
of increased taxes.
While he indorses the view that
the Federal budget must be bal
anced, he believes the emphasis
should be placed on cutting ex-
penditureS rather than imposing
new burdens on the taxpayers.
Federal retrenchmentS of the
most drastic kind will be the first
major problem the President-elect
will take up after he leaves his
gubernatorial office Saturday
night.
Mr.. Roosevelt will spend several
days in New York city next week.
He intends to confer with num-
ber of Democratic Congressional
leaders and will discuss with them
the state of the Federal Treasury
and ways of effecting economies
with the least hampering of essen
tial Federal activities.
Warm to Free Hand
The President-elect had no COM
ment today on the suggestion that
he be given virtually a free hand
by Congress to bring about con-
Solidations of Governmental
agencies, but it is believed the
general idea meets with his ap-
proval.
Mr.. Roosevelt did not hesitate
to use his new national influence
on the questions of international
debts and disarmament, but he
has studiouSly refrained from
committing himself to any definite
budget balancing program until
he can acquaint himself with
the exact condition of the Fed
eral Treasury.
The President-elect pointed out
that reports from Washington on
the national deficit are at great
variance, ranging all the way
from $400, 100000 to $1,OO0,OO0,-
600. 1t is obvious, he con-
tends no accurate program of
economies or taxation can be
drawn up until the problem to
be solved is outlined fully.
State Problems Up
The President-elect hopes a spe-
cial session of Congress can be
avoided, but he has no delusions
about the difficulty of steering
clear of one, unless the budget
deficit should prove small enough
to be wiped out at the present
session by retrenchment and pos
sibly a beer tax.
Before plunging into the field
of Federal finances, the Governor
is devoting his last few hours at
Albany to conferences with Gov
Lehman on the States
financial problem.
The Washington times., 1932-12-29
Harrisburg Cleric
In CapitUL Pulpit

The Rev. Dr. Philip Bookstaber,
OF Harrisburg, Pa, will occupy the
pulpit of the Washington Hebrew
Congregation tomorrow night.
speaking on Youth and Life"
DR.. Simon will deliver a New
Year greeting Sunday morning
over WMAL.
The Washington times., 1932-12-29
By HARLOW w. sHAPLEY
OF Harvard College Observatory
CAS- read at the mid7winter meeting of
the American Association for the
AIlX..a nf Sninnna

CAS- read at the midTwinter meeting of
the American Association for the
Advancement of Science)
ATLANTIC CITY, Dec. %
G.N.SD.-The inadequacy of the
standard theories of the origin of
the various Sidereal bodies-the
moon, planets, stars, the galaxy
has come to light in recent years
and suggests the value of discrimi-
mating between facts and fancies
in cosmology.
No Theory on Stars
If, as seems likely, the tidal
theories fail to account satisfac-
torily for the origin of moon and
planets, I propose that we con-
slider the possibility that the
moon, the planets, and sun are all
of the same age and that they
have arisen in secondary swirl
or eddy of the parental spiral
nebulae out of which the local
galaxy may be supposed to have
generated.
The Washington times., 1932-12-29
DOCTORS FIGHT "FLU"

With 1000 cases of la grippe
and influenza reported in Alex
andria. physicians of the city are
working overtime to stay the raw
ages of the disease. No deaths
due to la. grippe or "flu" have
been reported, although two per-
sons have died of pneumonia.
The Washington times., 1932-12-29
WOMAN
TAKES POISON

After drinking powerful anti
septic. Miss Atrill Colan, 25, who
lives in a seventh-floor apartment
in the 1900 block of I st. N. W.,
is in Gallniger Hospital, where
her condition is said to be not
serious.
A friend found her suffering
from effects of the poison and
summoned aid.
The Washington times., 1932-12-29
MOTTOW Daughter
Plans HOneunaOOn

ENGLEWOOD, N. j., Dec. 20
u.N.So.-Secluded on an estate
adjoining that of her mother,
MRS. Aubrey Mel Morgan, who
was Elizabeth Reeve Morrow
until her marriage yesterday, and
ner husband today prepared for
Cnelr honeymoon voyage to
southern France. The couple,
married in the Morrow home
mere, were reported to be at the
old home of Thomas w. Lamont,
business partner of the brides
late father.
The Washington times., 1932-12-29
JGps Deny Inviting
HOOUer as Advisor

TOKYO, Dec. 30 G.N.SJ.-The
Japanese National onomic 9
Council today vigorously denied
reports it had invited President
Hoover or any other American
to advise Japan on economic mat.
ters. German experts are being
considered for the advisory role,
1t was stated.
The Washington times., 1932-12-29

A home Is your castle your
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The Washington times., 1932-12-29

MINE BLAST KILLS 13
NAGYMNAK. Hungary, Dec.
20 GN.S0 Thirteen persons were
instantly killed by a gas explo-
sion in a coal mine here today.
Evening star., 1932-12-28
A. A. u. HAS NO CALL
TO PASS ON NURMI
Paavo's Reinstatement Asked by
Fellow Finn, but U. S. Body's
Hands Are Tied.

By the Associated Press.
BOSTON, December 28.-Karl A.
- Hill, prominent in Finnish sport
ing circles, says he has asked the
American Amateur Athletic Union ofi-
cials to call a special meeting to act
on the reinstatement Of Paavo Nurmi
Finnish running star.
Hill has written to Avery Brund-
age, president Of the American organi-
zation, asking for action and quoted
Nurmi as having told him that mo
money is so great as to makesme turn
professional"
NEW YORK, December % R.-Amer-
ican athletic authorities have nothing
to do with the existing suspension of
Paavo Nurmi from amateur competi-
ton. except as they may voice their
views through the International ANA
teur Athletic Federation, it has been
pointed out at the on1ces Of the anna
teur athletic union.
Nurmi is under suspension Of the I.
A. A. F. on charges Of professionalism.
growing out of transforming tour of
Germany in 1891. His entry was re-
1uSSQ ioI tue O1yMPAS sdAieo a. Loo
Angeles on the same grounds. The
A. A. u, however. has not had oc-
casion to pass on Nurmi's status now
and could not do so, unless he came
to this country to compete, in which
case the I. A. A. F. first would have
to pass on the matter.
Nurmis case rests where 1t was at
the close Of the Olympics-a bitter
issue between Finland and the inter-
national federation.
Evening star., 1932-12-28
GRACE, BUGS, SETS
FIELDING RECORDS
Tops National League Catch
ers With 1898, Official
Averages Show.

/" ARL GRACE, catcher of the
* Pittsburgh Pirates, set two new
fielding records during the 1882
session, according to the official
National League averages just released.
In topping the backstops with an
average Of 1898, Grace displaced the
former fielding mark in the league for
that position, which Frank Hogan Of
the Giants set in 1881 when he COM
piled an average Of 1856.
Grace also set league record by ac-
cepting 444 chances without an error
This streak ran from August %, 1881,
until September 8 Of this year.
a MOTHER fielding mark was tied
"A when Walter Berger OF the Boston
Braves topped the outfleiders with
a mark OF 1893 equalirg the league
record set by Pat Duncan of the Reds
in 1923.
Frank DOM Hurst of the Phulies
topped the first basemen with 1913.
while Walter Maranville, despite his 40
years and % campaigns in the ma ,ors.
was the leading second baseman, with
S75.
Bill Jurges of the Cubs led the short
stops with 964 and the best average
for third basemen was compiled by
Pinkey Whitney Of the Phils, whose
mark was $50.
TWENTY-ONE pitchers felded for
i 1000. the leadership going TO Fred
Heimach, veteran southpaw of the
Dodgers. who handled 81 chances with
out IN error. This marked the second
year Mn a row that Heimach flelded
perfectly.
Team honors were carried off by the
Braves with an average Of .976. while
the champion Cubs placed second
with .973.
Evening star., 1932-12-28
EAST'S TEAM SHOWS
CLASS WITH PASSES
Scores Five Touchdowns in Thirty
Minutes Against Nevers'
Pick-ups.
BY the Associated Pres.

BY the Associated Pres.
GAN FRANCISCO, December 28.-A
- pickup foot ball team led by Ernie
Nevers, former Stanford University
star and now coach there. Jared bad
1y in a practice game with college grid
iron stars from the East, training here
for the annual East-West charity game
January 2.
In 80 minutes yesterday the boys
from beyond the Mississippi put over
five touchdowns. making most of their
gains with passes. Gil Berry, Illinois,
halfback, and Harry Newman, Michi-
gan, quarterback. tossed the ball alter
nately to connect with the outstretched
arms Of Paul Moss of Purdue, Joe
Zapastas Of Fordham, Jose Martinez
Gorilla Of Cornell or Dick Fencl OF
Northwestern.
The Western squad went through two
fast sessions of fundamental foot ball
under the direction of Coaches Dana
x. Bible Of Nebraska and Grin Holling-
berry OF Washington State. They used
straight driving plays and simple for
nation with no shift. Two backfield
combinations were used. One was COM
posed of Schaldach, California; Bro
velli, ST. Mary's; Caddel, Stanford, and
Krause. Gonzaga. The other placed as
running mates: Sander. Washington
State: Christensen, Utah, and Stafford
and Koy Texas.
Evening star., 1932-12-28
HOGAN HAS GREAT
RECORD AS KICKER
Has Averaged SO Yards Over
SeaSon-Star Tackle May
Be Lost to Panthers.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
I OS ANGELES, December 28.-
/ Southern California will be
- given some Of its own medi-
cine in the form of the
quick kick when the Trojans
clash with Pittsburgh at the Pasa-
dena Rose Bowl January 2.
Statistics give Pitt a good edge in
the punting department of the game.
With Bob Hogan the leading toe ar
tist. Coach Jock Sutherland's squad
has averaged SO yards on kicks in its
10 games of the regular season.
Southern California, with Homer
Griffith the standout, has averaged 35.5
yards. Particularly in the Notre Dame
game, the quick kick was effective,
keeping the Ramblers in their own ter
ritory a good share Of the contest. One
Of the features of the Trojan kicking
game has been the ability of the for
wards to cover the receiver. In the
nine gar=es played. opponents have
averaged 81 yards on returns Of punts.
TOACH HOWARD JONES safety
~ men, especially Irvine Warburton.
many long hoots with sparkling run
backs. The average is 76 yards
Griffith has shown steady improve
ment in his punts. In practice this
week he has been getting off some kicks
well over 60 yards with plenty Of ele-
vations for the ends to get down the
field
Coach Howard Jones proposed an
other hard dummy scrimmage for to-
for Thursday and will be the last
tough drill before the game.
TUCSON Ariz.. December 28 P)-
i The University Of Pittsburgh Pan
thers and their coach. Dr. Jock
Sutherland. were more pessimistic than
ever today regarding their chances
against Southern California in the
Pasadena Rose Bowl foot ball game
next Monday.
The reason was Paul Cuba, star left
tackle. Cuba injured his leg in yes
terday afternoons heavy scrinlmage
and team physicians said it was doubt
full if he would be able to play.
The T-ojans have too much for us
but we will at least let them know
they have had a fight on their hands
said Sutherland
d ISKING the possibility Of further
N injury to his players, the coach
continued to drive his men
through heavy scrimmage behind locked
gates Information given by assistant
coaches indicated the Pitt lineup in
the Rose Bowl may be different from
anv that has started for the Eastern
school this season.
Sutherland has been pa.ing much
attention to the second and third
stringers with a view, perhaps. of sub
stituting a few Of them for the regu-
lars who have not responded to the
heavy drilling.
Evening star., 1932-12-28
u. S. RACKETERS AHEAD
Lead Australians, to 8, With Day
of Play Remaining.

MELBOURNE, Australia, December
% LP).-The United States tennis team,
playing an Australian team in match
series, yesterday won three of the four
contests to take a lead of to 3, with
one day of play remaining.
Ellsworth Vines, jr, who lost yester-
day to Harry Hopman, second ranking
Australian player. today defeated Aus
tralia's No. l. Jack Crawford. 6-3.
3-6, 6-3; John Van Ryn defeated
Vivian McGrath. the 16-year-old star,
ca, 60, and Vines and Keith Gled-
hill won from Cliff Sproule and Nc
Grath, 6-3, 81. GO.
The lone Australian victory was scored
by Crawford and Hopman, who upset
Van Ryn and Wilmer Allison, 3-6,
60, 11-9. 4-6, e3.
In Mondays matches Hopman de-
feated Vines, 6-4, Is, 8-6; Craw
ford beat Allison, 63, Ga; Gledhill
defeated Sproule, 6L3, 3-6, 6-3, and
Allison and Van Ryn won from Sproule
and McGrath. "a, 10. 6-3, 6-.
Evening star., 1932-12-28
Sinped Ball Urged BY Do Pitt Shades 7oan Boong Skill

voice they needed, otherwise, on the
basis of his own experience. Little
served this year as an advisor to the
Rules Committee. along with Howard
Jones of Southern California, Dan Nc
Gugin of Vanderbilt and DR.. Marvin A.
Stevens Of Yale, president Of the
Coaches Association
McGugin, first vice president this
year, was slated today to succeed
Stevens as president for 1888.
-s,ie remainder Of the slate Of officers
for next year follows:
First vice president, Dana Bible, Ne
braska
Second vice president, Bernie Bier
man, Minnesota.
Third vice president. to be filled by
the president-elect of the Pacific Coast
Coaches Association.
Trustees, Eddie Casey. Harvard: {:
Harry kipke. Michigan; Harry Stuhl-
dreher, Villanova, and one other to be
nominated today.
Secretarv-treasurer, William Cowell
Of New Hampshire. Cowell is serving
his third consecutive term in this
post.
Evening star., 1932-12-28

SCHOLASTIC gridders who are pre-
> pairing for play with the all-District
scholastic team that will meet the
all-Baltimore schoolboy eleven Sunday
afternoon in charity game in the Bal
timore Stadium at o'clock, hope to get
in some valuable practice this after
noon in the Eastern High Stadium.
Rain prevented the boys from doing
much yesterday when they reported Tor
the first time. They'll get plenty OF
work today, though, rain or shine.
Orrel Mitchell, GonZaga coach. who,
assisted by Dick Turner, Dewitt mentor,
and Tubba Farrell, is drilling the Dis
trict contingent. divided the squad into
two teams yesterday in order to facili-
tate work. On one combination are
Clements, center; Pistolas and Gram
Ilch, guards; Campbell and Mather.
tackles; Meikeljohn and Nye, ends; Hill
leary, quarterback; Kiski and Mann,
halfbacks, and Gibbins, fullback. Max
ing up the other eleven are Lewis. CEN
ter; Gammage and Kocsis, guards; Ho-
gan and Buscher, tackles; Benjamin
and johnson, ends; Brinkman, quarter
back; Teehan and Via, halfbacks. and
Keegin, fullback.
Evening star., 1932-12-28
Varied Sports

Basket Ball.
c. c. N. Y, As; Baltimore u, 20.
Purdue IS; Wabash, Is.
Georgia, %; Tulane, 20
Wichita Henrys, 81; Albert Clean
ers. 27.
Davis and Elkins, 81; San Jose
State, 80.
Beloit (Wis.), 30; Chicago, "a.
PRO HOCKEY.
International League.
Detroit Olympics, 8; Buffalo, !.
National League.
Detroit, 8; New York. /.
Boston, /; Les Canadiens, 0.
Ottawa, 8; Montreal, 0.
0aEento. 4: Chicago, 3.
Evening star., 1932-12-28
THE SPORTLICHT
BY GRANTLAND RICE

to Gil Dobie OF Cornell who spoke ON
rules and rule changes. The usual argu-
ments followed. the chief criticism COM
ing in regard to stopping play when a
ball carriers knee or hands touch the
ground.
One former coach who is usually At
these meetings was missing. He IS Al
Wittmer, who led the Princeton forces
up to 1892 Wittmer is now In an in
firn1ary as the result OF a nervous
smash-up.
TN discussing the scoring rewards OF
the game a number Of the coaches
admitted that the big Autumn pag-
cant has. them badly stymied at times.
AS one well known coach outlined
the situation: Last Fall we won two
games which We really should have lost
on the play of the afternoon, and we
lost two games when we clearly out
played the other side
Il don't believe many people realize
how often this can happen-where just
one play. partly skill and partly luck,
can more than offset dozen gooo
plays.
This. Of course, means more excite
ment and greater uncertainty, as IL
gives the weaker team better chance
than weaker teams have in most other
games"
loot BALL isn't matter OF f,rst
i downs any more than base ball is
matter of base hits. But as some
bard once wrote:
stone walls do not prison make?
Bah-what tommy rot
They may not make the prison,
But they help an awful lot"
The team that drew the hardest
shock from this general idea was Notre
Dame. Against Pittsburgh and South
ern California. South Bends only de-
feats, Notre Dame ran up 80 first
downs to II by running and passing.
and vet wound up with combined
score of 25 to 0 against her.
In the same way Notre Danes
average play through the season was
nothing like 300 above the Army's
average play.
: All one can Judge from directly is
what may happen on certain day
But that days result may be at wide
variance from any level Of seasons
average; If there eve were ! no 7,+tIa luck I'm IN
eral interes. with cut and dried pro-
gram nearly always at hand.
THE great majority Of foot ball
i coaches favor retaining the 1882
rules just about as they are.
few want the rule changed concerning
spilled runner who may have the
chance to rise and run again.
But the general belief Is that while
this rule has worked hardsllips in a
few individual cases it also has pro-
tected more than few ball carriers
who were in the pathway of a speed
ing tackler, all set to dive headlons
at his prey.