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Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-06

Today we forget anything undesirable
about Texas Guinan and remember only
that in her own way she tried to enter
tain the public.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-06

Niagara was almost dry yesterday, in
dicating the near approach of repeal did
prohibition could not do.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-06

pursuing reporters to .'please close
door -
Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-06

New York promises to stage a knock
down and drag out political fight tomor-
row.
Evening star., 1933-12-27
NEW ELECTION HELD.
Long Foes Fight for House Seat Won
BY Mrs. Kemp.

BATON ROUGE, La, December ~ tP)
The second election within the month
to select its congressional Representa-
tive today commanded attention of the
sixth district as independent voters cast
their ballots for j. Y. Sanders, jr., State
Senator, whose avowed intention Is to
wreck the political rule of Huey P. Long
In Louisiana.
Sanders, sole candidate of the in
dependents, will contest with Mrs
Bolivar E Kemp, ST., choice Of Long
and the State administration, for the
seat made vacant by the death OF Mrs
Kemp's husband.
In the final campaign rally here last
night for Sanders, anti-Long leaders
called on the voters to cast a larger
vote than the 5,l29 that Mrs. Kemp
received in her special election held
without a primary on December 5.
Election machinery today had been
set up by the independent citizens in
the IL parishes of the sixth district,
while In the election for Mrs. Kemp
and st. Helena, held no election under
an Injunction issued by District Judge
Nat Rycer and enforced by special
armed deputies.
Mrs Kemp was nominated at sud-
den meeting of the Sixth District Demo-
cratic Executive Committee held in New
Orleans and was declared elected TO
succeed her husband in a special cleo
ton set by Gov. Allen for eight days
later.
Up to today there had been no moves
to block the election Of Sanders, such
as were taken when Mrs. Kemps name
was before the voters. Ballots were
burned and Long, Allen and other ad-
ministration leaders were burned In
efigy during the short campaign.
Evening star., 1933-12-27

There is nothing particularly wrong
about that, except when you start
adding up your budget. The public
works is outside the regular budget,
while the departmental activities for
which the money was spent are really
budgetary items.
1t means money Congress refused to
spend in the regular budget has been
spent outside the budget.
That is not likely to increase con-
fidence in the budget.
The administration surely will hear
about it from Congress shortly.
F. C. A. in Credit jam.
The Farm Credit Administration ap-
pears to be in little credit jam which
over.
The whisper is that the original
S2O0,O00,00O appropriation for mortgage
relief has been entirely earmarked or
spent, SO there is none remaining free.
The farm credit crowd has not used
the two billions in bonds authorized by
Congress, and may not do so. Before
Henry Morgenthau went into the
Treasury, he had made up his mind to
attempt to float the issue in the open
market. The Treasury raised a howl
at that time and told Morgenthau he
would interfere with Government re-
financing
The truth. seems to be that the
bonds mould hare to be sold at q
sharp discount and Treasury er-
perts do not tUdnt that.
Morgenthau in his new job, is caught
between the two conflicting fires.
Mr. Roosevelt will ask Congress to do
something about it. The Farm Credit
Administration must have the money.
Copyright. 1887
Evening star., 1933-12-27
SIX DIE IN WRECK
CAUSED BY CATTLE
Locomotive and Is Cars Derailed
by Sleeping Herd-Tramps
Among Dead.

BY the Associated Press
CALVERT, Tex, December 27-At
least six men were killed at Black
Bridge Switch, 3lz miles west of here,
at midnight last night when a Missouri
Pacific freight tram struck a herd of
cattle and was derailed.
Three of those killed were members
of the train crew and the others were
itnerants riding the freight train from
Mart to Houston.
The crew members killed were Fred
Wallace, fireman; Otis Green, head
brakeman, and r. J. Delhomme, en-.
gineer, all of Mart
The bodies of the trainmen were
extricated from the wreckage, but those
OF the tramps still were pinned beneath
the cars
P. H Kendall, undertaken of Calvert,
said he could see the bodies of the three
men and that 1t was possible several
others still were under the twisted
freight cars.
There were supposed to be about
10 or 20 transients riding the freight,
which was a through train from Mart
to Houston" Kendall said.
"So far we can see only three bodies
AND what became of the others is not
known
Kendall said the locomotive ran into
a herd OF cattle sleeping on the right
of-way. The engine and 18 cars were
said to have gone into the ditch.
Evening star., 1933-12-27

the c. o. P. was not entirely permanent
nor had they decided to cast all old
moorings aside and join the Demo-
cratic party, A few of the Republican
progreSsives are becoming sensitive over
the progress being made in their States
by the Democrats, who are building up
their party organizations in places
where Democratic organizations have
been conspicuous by their absence for
many years. 1t Is this kind of thing,
particularly when these Republicans
have to be reelected soon, that may
which in some quarters is considered on
the way to the political junk heap.
An editorial appearing in the current
issue Of the Saturday Evening Post,
declaring I'VE can see no future for the
Republican party as it is now consti-
tuted and as it has operated" created
comment in political circles.
The editorial, however, takes Presi-
dent Roosevelt to task because he is
permitting the Democratic party to
swing too far to the left" declaring he
has missed an opportunity to stand for
clean cut, sensible liberalism" Dis
cussing further the two old parties, the
editorial says:
Ihe DemOcrat1c party has been
swinging steadily to the left, and the
time is here or coming soon, when un-
less the Republican party cleans house,
and uses a vacuum cleaner for the Job
instead Of lick and a promise, there
must be a political realgnnent and the
formation Of a new party which does
not want q government by the ex.
treme right or the extreme left
From such a conservative source, the
demand for a new political party would
be more striking if, in making the
demand, 1t did not call for a kind Of
middle ground party, admirable
in concept to be sure, but neither fish,
flesh nor good red herring. Neverthe-
less, the mere suggestion Of a third
or new party from this source is con-
sidered indicative of the political un-
Evening star., 1933-12-27
FRANCE LIFTS TAX
ON BRITISH GOODS
"StabIe Money" Leads to
Removal of IS Per Cent
Exchange Levy.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, December 27-France, under
threat of reprisals by England, took of
the Is per cent exchange surtax on
British goods today. The official reason
given was that English money can be
considered stable"
1t thereby became certain such a
tax would not be imposed on American
goods. as seemed probable several
months ago. when a decree to that
effect was prepared but never signed.
Removal Of the tax, ii was asserted
by the opposition in the Chamber of
Deputies months ago, was the price
France paid for borrowing $4,000, 900
in England last May when the French
treasury was all but empty and the
government feared to try a loan at
home. Minister of Finance Georges
Bonnet denied there had been any bar
gain but the charge was repeated
The tax, imposed two years ago, soon
after England went of the gold stand
ard, was protested by England as also
was another surtax on imports. of 2,
and 6 per cent which applies to all
countries. England and the United
States formally protested against those
taxes as being discriminatory because
Belgium and other countries were given
special treatment in their application.
The British threat of reprisals which
preceded the lifting of the Is per cent
exchange surtax was made in the House
of Commons recently. 1t was announced
tax of 81 per cent on certain French
goods would be imposed if France did
not cancel the tax. This was inter
preted in France as a threat to force
also removal of the 2, and 6 per cent
import taxes. At that moment there
was pending in Parliament a bill to
enable the government to remove those
taxes by decree.
A slash of three-fourths in French
import quotas, giving the Government
bargaining weapon in reciprocal
trade negotiations for the withheld
portion. was expected January l.
1mminence of the cut, which was
announced more than three months
ago, was hastened. it was understood,
by the visit of Paul Hymans, Belgian
minister of foreign affairs, to Paris to
negotiate for partial exemption of Bel
GUM In the sharp reduction of quotas.
The slash was particularly aimed at
Germany. although it is reported ap-
plicab BILE to all countries.
Evening star., 1933-12-27
FIRST LADY DENIES
EQUALITY PACT PART
Had Nothing to Do With Action
at Montevideo, but Has High
Praise for Treaty.

Mrs Franklins D. Roosevelt has made
fiat denial that she had anything to
do with adoption of a women's rights
treaty at Montevideo, but refers to the
document as an outstanding accomp-
lishment in the long fight for equality
of women.
AS an authoress and a woman, she
said at her press conference yesterday,
she believes matters pertaining to wom-
ems rights should be decided individual
ly by each nation.
The Montevideo treaty, which was
signed by 20 nations, including the
United States, provides that children
born of parents of different nationality
may chose. upon becoming of age, the
country in which they will claim cit
izenship.
Mrs Roosevelt also discussed the
forthcoming construction of a home
stead community near Hightstown, N
j.. where 200 Hebrew families from New
York will settle. A fully equipped fac
tory is to be built with Government
loaned funds. and each family will be
given at least an acre of land to make
every one self supporting.
Evening star., 1933-12-27
Deficit Put at $4,000, 900, 900.

The inside figure on the actual deficit
for this fiscal year is 81 100000.
That figure never will be published
officially, but it is the one on which
Mr.. Roosevelt has been laying his
budget plans The official budget will
of course, show surplus of perhaps
relief expenditures were left out of it.
The only crow the experts want to
pick with Mr.. Roosevelt's budgetary
device is the manner in which public
works expenditures have been handled.
That fund is a grab bag. Any
time they need money for any
thing they call on Interior Sec
retdry Ickes for it, and he goes
doDn in his sock and produces it
from the public uorks fund.
When the final report from that
agency is in you will find that more
than half of it has gone to Govern
ment departments. some for legitimate
public works, but also substantial
amounts for national information
services and what not.
Congress Wishes Ignored.
IN one peculiar instance, Congress
declined to give the Coast and Geodetic
Survey money to carry on certain work.
1t cut the appropriation for that bureau
at the last session. After Congress
went home, Ickes furnished the money
desired by the bureau from the public
works fund.
The same thing has been done for
the Commerce, Interior and Agricul-
ture Departments. The idea behind it
is that the work furnishes employment
and should be done despite the atti-
tude Of Congress.
Evening star., 1933-12-27
MAN, MISSING WEEK,
REPORTED KIDNAPPED
28-Year-0ld Insurance Salesman
Unheard From Since Leaving
Office to Return Home.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
CHARLOTTE, N. c., December 81
The disappearance of Bruce D. White
head, 28-year-old insurance salesman,
has been reported to the Department of
Justice as case Of kidnapping.
week ago Whitehead left the Of
fees of the Continental Life Insurance
co. here and started home. That was
about 1920 pm Nothing more has
been heard from him and no reports
have come that he has been seen.
1T certainly looks like a case of kid
naping, since we have heard nothing"
Edgar Whitehead, an attorney of Lake
City, S. c., and brother of the missing
man, said today.
There have been cases of kidnapping
for apparently no reason and it now
looks that some one is holding my
brother somewhere against his will" he
continued.
Frank N. Littlejohn chief OF de-
tectives. reported the case to the Bu-
reau of Investigation, Department of
Justice, as a kidnapping.
Evening star., 1933-12-27
MRS. KEMP BEGINS
HOUSE SEAT FIGHT.
Quoted by Rainey as Denying
She Was Longs Candi-
date for Vacancy.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Mrs. Bolivar E Kemp Of Louisiana
arrived in Washington today and
started Immediately round Of confer
ences with House leaders In regard to
taking her seat as Representative from
the sixth district.
It has been indicated that a contest
against seating her will be instituted on
the contention that her election was
illegal.
Mrs. Kemp called on Speaker Rainey
and Representative Byrns of Tennessee,
the Democratic leader. Rainey quoted
her as saying she never has been and
rs not now" q candidate of Senator
Huey P. Long.
Second Election On.
Mrs. Kemp came here while another
election was being held in the sixth
Louisiana district.
The winner of the election Is expected
here to contest Mrs. Kemp for her seat
She was elected December 5, at a Spe-
cial election, to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of her husband. Senator
Long supported her. .,s
Mrs. Kemp has received her certln-
cate Of election signed BY the Gov
ernor, secretary of State and attorney
general Of Louisiana.
In similar contested electlons, IIie
matter Is referred to an Elections Com
mittse for an investigation.
After hearings, the committee re-
ports to the House with recommenda-
tions as to which Of the contestants Is
entitled to be seated.
Already on Payroll
Mrs. Kemp already is on the payroll.
In the event she Is not seated, the per-
son who takes the post will be given
hack paw from the date of the election.
Each will have $4,000 for the con-
test. ,,
Friends of Senator Long said yeSter-
day in New Orleans he would leave
there shortly and would appear in the
House when Congress convenes and ao-
yocate the seating of Mrs. Kemp.
The anti-Long faction in the sixth
district has commended that Mrs. Kemp
was the Long candidate. Her name
was the only one placed on the ballot
by the District Democratic Executive
Committee for the election which was
held there weeks ago.
Evening star., 1933-12-27
CHEMICAL s1ANCHOR' FOR GERMS
in BODY DISCOVERED BY DOCTOR

new understanding may come in
methods Of stopping some kinds OF bac-
terial diseases at the skin when they
do not enter the blood directly.
The immunizing substances found at
work in these new locations are the
same as have been known in the blood.
They are known as precipitins, the
chemicals which cause precipitation;
agglutins, which cause bacteria and
other substances to "clump together"
and antigens, somewhat mysterious
array of chemicals which the body pro-
duces to combat diseases Of all sorts.
Wall Germs About.
All these immunizers anchor" germs
by walling them about or tying them
down with chemical bonds. DR.. Kahn
said that these protective substances
can be found in the skin long after they
have disappeared from the blood serum.
In making the tests he used serum
from both horses and humans. Dead
typhoid germs and diphtheria toxin
were among the substances tried out.
1.-THE findings reported in this article"
DR.. Kahn's report stated apply to the
rabbit, but it is believed that in a
measure they apply to man also. Both
the rabbit and man produce local skin
reactions to antigens and show a ten
dency for ready anti-body production
as a result Of inmunization, and both
are not as susceptible to anaphylactic
shock To the same extent, aS, for ex.
ample, the guinea pig.
Tn all probability. therefore: in man
as in the rabbit the primary iumuno-
logic response is unitarian in nature,
and consists Of newly acquired Ca
pacity Of all the tissues to combine
with antigen, also that the capacity Of
the cutaneous and peritoneal tissues Is
many times greater than that of the
skeletal muscle, brain and in Wvo
plasma (blood plasma in a living animal
c. person.
Evening star., 1933-12-27
Key to Deficit
Explanation Shows How Va
rious Funds Are Affected
by Treasury Statement.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Todays Treasury statement showed
that on December ~ the Federal def
icit stood at $l,024, ,12l ,667.
"The deficit" Is the term commonly
applied to the difference between cur
rent receipts and current expenditures.
slate, with any excess Of receipts or ex-
cess of expenditures reflected in the
public debt. On December ~ last year
the deficit for the fiscal year stood at
$1.593, ,694.753.
The public debt at the beginning of
this fiscal year last July was $22, $685.
672. $50 and stood on December % at
$23, ,806, ,673, lab, representing an increase
Of 1,268, ,000, ,587.
The difference between the excess Of
current expenditures during the fiscal
year and the amount of increase during
the same period in the public debt is
due to adjustments made by sinking
fund operations and differences in the
cash balance on hand.
While expenditures have exceeded re-
ceipts by $1,024,l2l, ,667, approximately
Sic, 900 900 Of these expenditures have
the purpose Of retiring that much Of the
public debt. On the same date last
year the sinking fund stood at $751;
688,450.
Deducting sinking fund allotments
and trust and contributed funds from
the current excess of expenditures leaves
1886, ,336,238.
Since last July 1, the cash balance
has been increased $278, ,664 ,351. Adding
these two amounts gives total in
crease in the public debt since last
July / of 81 1858 000, ,587.
The cash balance of the Treasury
stood today at 81, LAC, ,869,572.
Evening star., 1933-12-27
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass, December H.
Discovery of the body's first line of
defense in immunity to disease, a
chemical mechanism which anchors"
bacteria so they cannot circulate, was
announced to the American Association
for the Advancement of Science today.
The discovery widens the possibility
of immunity to include the entire body
instead of being confined mostly to the
protective powers Of the blood, as has
hitherto been the general idea of
immunologists and medical men. 1t
was described by Reuben L. Kahn NJ D.,
director of the clinical laboratories Of
the University of Michigan.
The first line" for immunity under
these findings is the skin, formerly con-
sidered only a neutral bystander" to
which the blood rushed first aid. The
skin is 10 times better able to combine
with immunizing substances and so
anchor" infection than the other parts
of the body.
Next in efficiency comes the peri
toneum, the inner lining of the alb
dominal cavity. After that come the
muscles, the brain and finally the blood
and its serum.
Skin Reaction Immediate.
The medical symptoms which u,isled
lrmunologiSts In the past were the
supersensitivity shown by the skin It's
sues to infections after immunity had
been established in the blood. DR.. Kahn
showed that this quick reddening Of the
skin, instead of being sign that it
cannot immunize, is the visible evidence
of the quick fight it puts up to throw
of infection.
He found that the skin would 60 to
work toward immunizing a body even
before there was any sign of activity in
tie blood. Cne possible b2neGt Of this
Evening star., 1933-12-27
n. R. A. TO TEST OLD.
WAGE AGREEMENTS.
Coal Labor Board Is Asked
to Set Aside Present
Contracts.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HARRISBURG, Ill, December 27-
Whether the Blue Eagle can release
workers from ''old deaF' agreements
recognized since the start as one of the
most explosive questions in the N. r. A.
is due for a test in Illinois.
A dispute over wages in two Harris
burg mines will raise the issue before
the Coal Labor Board of Division 2.
which has scheduled a hearing on the
question for Friday here.
The miners-members Of the Labor
Board said complaints had come from
both the Progressive Miners of America
and the United Mine Workers of Amer
ica-will ask the board to set aside con-
tracts under which they are now en-
ployed. The contracts were made be-
fore the N. r. A.
The contracts, made with operators Of
the Sahara and WATSON Mines, provide
a wage payment of $3.50 day. Under
the soft coal code, drafted later, the
wage minimum is SIS day
The hearing. said Dr. John A. Lapp
of Chicago. board chairman, will be-
very significant" both as setting a
and as paving the way for a court test.
Conflicting theories Of law will be
argued before the hearing
For the employers, it will be con-
tended that the OLD contract can not be
touched, since the constitution prohibits
the impairment Of contracts.
The miners, on the other hand will
argue that the old contract is void las
against public policy" They will con-
tend that the recovery act sets new
standards and indicates a new national
policy. and that the present agreement
being in discord. has lost its force
In their complaint to the board the
miners assert that unless the old con-
tract is removed the employers will OBJ
tain most of the benefits of the recovery
act and the employers few.
Evening star., 1933-12-27
CLOCK TURNED BACK
AT MEETINGS IN D. C.
Archaeological, Pathological and
Linguistic Societies Gather in
Capital for Sessions.

Ancient cities, ancient shrines and
ancient tongues will be brought to life
for brief interval at the meetings of
the Pathological and Linguistic Societies
OF America and the Archaeological In
stitute of America. which opened at the
Washington Hotel this afternoon.
The three societies held business
meetings this morning. with the tech
nical papers filling the afternoon and
evening The sessions will continue
through Saturday.
Wade H. Ellis, president of the Archie
ological Society of Washington, pre-
sided at meeting devoted to the dis
cussion of recent excavations in Greece
and Italy. Phases of religious feeling
III the later days of paganism will be
discussed in the presidential address of
Prof. Campbell Bonner of the University
OF Michigan. president of the American
Pathological Society, this evening.
Evening star., 1933-12-27
M'ADOO'S DAUGHTER
ILL OF PNEUMONIA
California Senator fastening to
Mrs. Edward S. Cowles' Bed
side by Plane.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December 27-Mrs. Ed
ward S. Cowles, daughter of Senator
William Gibbs McAdoo Of California.
was so critically i'll of pneumonia today
that her father was coming here from
Los Angeles by plane to be at her bed
side.
At the Office of her husband, DR.. Ed
ward S. Cowles, Park avenue neurol-
ogist and psychiatrist, it was said that
the time of Senator McAdoo's arrival
from the West Coast is uncertain be-
cause of stormy weather conditions en-
route.
Beyond saying that Mrs. Cowles was
'still critically Ill of pneumonia" the
doctors Office had no further informa-
tion to give.