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Latest Racing Results at Jefferson, Houston and Charles Town Jhfl HLA, THE WEATHER By li. WEATHEB BIKCAI! FAIR TONIOHT AMD TOMORROW; COLDE TONIGHT Temperature. It 41 Tear (partly claudr) a Ifean averaaa 10 yeara, eaaaa date 35 BEOOKLYN EAGLE RACING EXTRA Stock and Curb Closing Prica it it it it it WE DO OUR PAR 93d YEAR No. 352 ENTERED AT THB BROOKLYN POST-OFPICS A8 2D CLASS MAIL MATTER NEW YORK CITY, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1933 32 PAGES I THREE CENTS Rum Licenses Being Peddled In New Racket VET PAID $7,000 FOR NEWSSTAND Lehrenkrauss Called Dense On the Stand Replies That Strain of Depression Could Put Man Out of His Mind Immunizing Serum May Conquer Dread Infantile Paralysis Monkeys Made Immune by Inoculation Hope Is Felt Treatment Can Now Be Successfully Employed on Human Beings Hope that the dreaded disease of infantile paralysis may be conquered by an immunizing vaccine existed today with the pronouncement by Dr. Sidney David Kramer of 141 Henry St.

that recent experiments with serum on monkeys have proved innocuiatlon to be of Crime Witness 'Home Is Wrecked by Blast 1 a ills Test i fie lie (lave 11. Kalian Cash for Broadway Site (ierajihly Kevoketl Hi l.ieense Stranger Had Asked $2,000 More DUE FOR CITY JOll f( 1 ss concrete value. Dr. Kramer's findings, reached after more than six years of extensive pursuit of the infantile paralysis virus, were contained in a paper read last night before members of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine at the Academy of Medicine. 75 P.C.

of Monkeys Immunized The experiments with monkeys, Dr. Kramer related, had shown that the serum which It is being sought to perfect had proved effective in immunizing three-fourths of the animals lnnoculated. This ratio is given as fully as high as that of standard vaccines for diphtheria and other diseases. Experiments Over Six-Year Period Dr. Kramer's experiments have been conducted over the last six years in the laboratories of the Long Island College Hospital, of whose staff is a member, and of the Jewish Hospital in this borough and the Hartford, isolation 1 i AIMEE SUES TOO Los Aiijielfs, Dec.

21 i.4'i In an unexpected cross-rompiaint to the divorce suit of her night club husband. Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson Hutton seeks a divorce and elimination of "Hutton" from her name. Her declaration takes particular exception to rotund David Hutton's association with "scantily dressed show whom he permitted to caress t.nd kiss This, she said, disclosed 'a marked attitude of indifference toward her ideals, wishes and desires." France Traces Wide Spy Plot To Nazi Berlin U. S. Probes Arrest of American Couple Held With 8 Others in Jail Paris.

Dec. 21 W) Shadows of Germany's reputedly mas tar spy system were seen by police today behind the operations of a mysterious band of 40 spies in whose alleged network two Americans were caught. Meanwhile, through its consul general here, the United States Government began an inquiry into the case of the Americans involved. With 10 persons under arrest and the Investigation broadening outside the borders of Fiance, fears were expressed by authorities that highly valuable documents containing French military secrets already had left the country. Trail Leads to Berlin Threads of evidence leading Berlin were declared to have been indicated in the huge mass of confiscated documents studied by the Investigating magistrate.

Discovery of communist documents among the many papers and books seized caused police to believe at first that Soviet espionage was Involved chiefly, but as the Investigation sped forward today officials conjectured It might have been part of the plan to allow such documents to be found. With these developments, police Continued on Page 1 Wife of Broker Plunges to Death Mrs. Elizabeth Billings, wife of Jason E. Billings, member of the Stock Exchange firm of Billings. Olcott was killed this morning when she fell or Jumped from a window of her third-floor apartment to the rear courtyard of 4 E.

95th Manhattan. Mrs. Billings, who was 29, was said to have been suffering from a nervous ailment. General O'Duffy Released by Court Dublin, Irish Free State, Dec. 21 Gen.

Eton O'Dufly, leader of the United Ireland party, was released from prison today under a Justice's decision at a habeas corpus hearing. Charles Town Keulls FIRST RACK Five furlong; aTody West 110 iLauchi, IlO.ftO. S3 80 20. tint: Nancy Khan 110 (Jfllvi. tJ2, $39 80.

arc- "nd: Bat cnum no iRoaericm. fio i line, iiauieiii mdii Dlnpcr. Merrie Marie. In Clover. LodoniR.

(lolden Diana, Mint Bud and Ragtown Belle also ran. a O. F. Cook entry. SECOND FACE Five lurlong.v Nora's Orace 104 iSaael SB.

40. (4.40. S4, nrsl: Gvola 106 fPalumbol, S4, $3.60 ecoul: Clear Kniaht 112 I Roderick', 14 60 third. Time. 1:10 1-3.

Dutiful, The Dream. First Act, Chloedalr, Flvma Vote, Gertie R. ran. THIRD RACE-Flve turlonjj; Benlsh Wav. 107 iSURei.

$4.20. 1.80, 20, flrsl Emmv Fish, log fpalumlioi, tt.iO. CI .80. second: Happy Lope, 106 IR. Merruti.

J6 third. Time. 1:10. Uina. Round Ben.

Ada Wan. Welsh Betty, Fair Claik aBrllllant Olrl. aMaybur abo ran aworthlnaton Cunning: entrv. FOURTH RACE- Six and one-half furlongs. The Bard 112 (Jelly I.

$7. J3.40. $2.40. flrsl: Waler Lad 115 (Wlllardl, 14, $2.80. second: Black Dreams US iLauchl.

S2.20. third. Time, 1:34 3-5. Sambo O. Terianova, McKim also ran.

FIFTH RACK Gravbatk, first: Forceful, second: Monastic, third. Epsom Downs Results FIRST RACK Sit furlongs. Easrnllal 111 l.lacobsl, $16. $6 20, $4.20. flr.sl; Ocean Flight 106 IWrlghtl, $4, $2.

SO: Brown Bank 111 (Srhutlel. B. Time. 1:13 Deemster, xMt. Washington.

Prn.se and Prtelrv. xGertnwfe Upon. Hell Diver, Run Worshln. Prellv Monk. iWest park aho ran.

xFleld. SECOND RACE Brnokhaltan, first; Last Play, acond; BlokL third, SHE DENIES IT Gertrude Lawtence (abovei, English actress, now acting lu London, terms rumors of her engagement to Douglas Fairbanks Jr. as "too stupid." However, young Doug In Hollywood says; "I never would have left Miss Lawrence and England had it not been for the rich role in the picture which I am now making." As to an he refuses to affirm or deny it. Greene Loses Trusteeship Wingate Ousts Lawyer Who Handled $50,000 Fund for Mrs. McCartv Surrogate Wingate today granted a motion to remove Everett Greene, well-known Brooklyn lawyer, as trustee of a $50,000 trustt fund created for the benefit of Mrs.

Margaret McCarty of Goshen, N. widow of State Senator John McCarty, who was a lieutenant of Hugh McLaughlin. The trust fund was set up by tlie late Sara Ann McCarty, spinster sister of Senator McCarty. and Greene and the late Joseph F. McLean were named as trustees, w''h the additional provision that on the death of Mrs.

McCarty they should share the principal. Recently Mrs. McCarty, who is in her 80s, asked for an accounting of the trust from Greene, who is also in his 80s. Greene failed to make the accounting and Mrs, McCarty then asked for his removal and the appointment of a substi tute trustee. Greene did not appear today In his own defense.

No substitute trustee has yet been appointed. Jury Gives $18,500 For Fall on Stairs Mrs. Rose Rubin of 108 E. 18th Manhattan, who fell down a flight of stairs when seeking an exit in the dim light within the Jefferson Theater, Manhattan, was today awarded a verdict of $18,500 by a jury before Justice Fawcett in Brooklyn Supreme Court. The accident, the jury was told, caused an enlargement oi the heart.

During the trial Rubin fainted several times and when she heard the verdict she "ainted again. The verdict is against Ihe B. F. Keith Corporation. Mulrooney Is Told That Shoestring Firms Are Auctioning Permits V.

9. Senator Royal S. Copeland today again warned that with the completion of repeal and the end of the bootleg liquor profits will come a wave of kidnaping that will strike not only the wealthy but everywhere in American family life. The Senator poke at a luncheon of the New York University Finance Club at the Bankers Club. The trafficker in permits to import foreign liquors today entered the post-repeal picture further to complicate the already mixed-up liquor situatic.L The Federal Alcohol Control Administration in Washington and the State Alcohol Control Board in New York received complaints that permits were being peddled around by "shoestring" skeleton concerns that had been recently organized, with no intention of actually dealing in Imported liquors but merely to obtain the permits.

Legitimate Dealers Limited These, according to the complaints, have been obtained in such large numbers by the organizations that legitimate importers have been limited, under quotas, to small amounts of wines and liquors, or they have actually been unablo to obtain permits. They have then bee napproached by the shoestringers with offers to go into partnership with them their contribution to the business to be only the permits, or they have offered to sell out for exorbitant prices. Reason fo High Prices That, according to the complainants, has been one reason for the high prices of Imported liquors. New York being the chief city, most of the permits were said to be "peddled around' here. Edward P.

Mulrooney, chairman of the State Liquor Board, could not be reached this afternoon for comment, Faked Picture Holds Lip License Earlier in the day it was learned that a picture had resulted in holding up of a restaurant liquor license, and Chairman Mulrooney declared that scores of restaurants in the city were without licenses for the related reason that signs advertising specific brands of beer hung on the applicants' premises. Such signs, according to the board's rulings, must be removed before a license is granted, and photographs showing that that had been done must bt submitted. Can't Paint Out Signs In the case of the restaurant involved today, it was learned, the owner sought to save time by painting out the sign on the picture, expecting to remove it later. Commissioner Mulrooney, however, happened to pass the restaurant and saw the sign still there. The application was returned.

Meanwhile officials of the Federal Alcohol Control Administration in Washington announced that liquor and wine Imports had been moving so fast that the quotas of two large Continued on Page Police Dependents Get Their Checks Widows and dependent parents nd children on the police pension fund have received their November checks, totaling $160,000, it was announced at Police Headquarters today. The checks, which should have been mailed at the end of November but were held up by a deficit in the pension system, were sent out yesterday. Hard Coal Miners Case Still Unsolved Washington, Dec. 21 (P) Admittedly "not in a position to reach any conclusion" from its investigation of labor unrest among Pennsylvania's hard-coal miners, a factfinding commission appointed by the National Labor Board wants Its work carried on by an anthracite commission. THE EAGLE INDEX Itrids Clal.lflea Al Death Netlees IS Br.

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Apathetically and vaguely Julius Lehrenkrauss, head of the mortgage and other businesses bearing his name, answered a succession of questions at the Brooklyn Federal Court investigation of the House of Lehrenkrauss before Special Commissioner touls R. Bick today. Finally, Archibald Palmer, creditors' attorney, faid: "The last couple of days you've assumed an attitude of denseness, so that some people are saying you must be out of your mind. Now I know that's not the case. Will you Shows Asperity The witness interrupted with his first show of asperity.

He said: "If you'd gone through what I did the last couple of years raising $2,000,000 each year to meet interest charges this terrible depressionyou'd conceive that a man could be out of his mind." "Forget that." directed Palmer, and then asked concerning the payment by the Lehrenkrauss firm of fees for realty appraisals. Knew Nothing of Fees The witness said he knew nothing about that procedure and gave the same response to the succeeding question, which concerned a phase of office routine. "The only thing I had to do was Continued on Page 1 Find Executive Dead in Auto F. M. Campbell Liste.l a SuiciMe Examiner Sees Natural Death Nc Rochelle, Dec.

21 vary ing theories surrounded the deat i today of Frederick M. Campbell, 33, wealthy executive of the Coca-Cola Company Fully clothed, he was found In his car in the basement garage of the Cuinpbell home. The doors of the garage were closed and the motor was running. Police said the death was suicide. Medical Examiner Amos O.

Squire, however, said an examination indicated Campbell might have been accidentally killed, or that it wa'. possible he had died from natural causes. He pointed out that Campbell might have suffered a heart attack superinduced by overwrought emotions. Miss Olive Spence, nurse in the Campbell menage, told police that Campbell and his wife had quarreled last night. Mrs.

Campbell, the former Audrey Barrow, duuhter of Ed Ba row. secretary of the New York American League Baseball Club, told authorities her husband had worked hsrd at his New York office recently and that he had appeared tired and distraught because of his exertions. Dr. Squire said he would perform an autopsy on the body to deters mine the exact cause of Campbell's death. Children Threatened The children, Patty, 5, and John, 4, narrowly escaped being asphyxiated as they slept in their bedroom two stories above the garage.

The gas, seeping up through the house. entered their room. One of the children chanced to awake and cry. The nurse rushed into the room and parried them to safety. She then aroused Mrs.

Campbell and they went looking for Campbell, Falling to find him in his bed. they finally went to the garage. He was sitting fully clothed in the car and was pronounced dead when a medical examiner arrived. Undertaker Recovers' From Attack by 2 Daniel Di Paola, 27, Canarsie undertaker, who was beaten with blackjacks by two strange men who called at his home at 8902 Glenwood Road, was able today to sit up in his cot at the Unity Hospital. Physicians said that he probably would go home today.

He received severe head lacerations but his skull was not fractured. Detective John Martin of the Canarsie precinct questioned the undertaker but he maintained that he did not know the men who assaulted him nor did he know any reason why they should have. Police Car Hijacked With Load of Rum Norfolk, Dec. 21 lP) A Norfolk Police patrol auto bringing 240 gallons of bootleg liquor to headquarters, was "hijacked" by liquor runners ths afternoon. They escaped with the auto and liquor.

Police Probe Possible Link Between Explosion and Notice to Testify Against Man Police this afternoon learned that Mrs. Marian Puma, whose home at 50 Sapphire St. was demolished last night by a mystery blast, had been served with a notice yesterday morning to appear before the Kings County Grand Jury to testify against a man charged with grand larceny. Possible connection between the two facts "will be vigorously inves tigated" detectives of the Miller Ave. station declared in revealing details of this angle but withhold ing the name of the man under suspicion except by declaring "he is an Italian." Gave 'Lead' la Police A month ago Mrs.

Puma gave information to Detective Dagger u'hipH lofpr lrt tn thu orrpst nf "thla man" and a charge of grand larceny after about $260 worth of bar ber supplies and a cash register which had been taken in a burglary of a shop at 274 Forbell Ave. had been found in her home. When this man was arraigned In Pennsylvania Ave. Court before Magistrate Jeannette Brill, Mrs. Puma changed her testimony from that which she had given the police claiming that two men she did not know left the articles in her home Magistrate Brill promptly ordered her arrested on a charge of perjury, Continued on Page 3 Post Presents Housing Plan Slum Clearance Discussed With PWA Also-Calls at While House Washington, Dec.

21 The New York City Fusion administration's plan for slum clearance and low-cost housing was placed before the Public Works Administration today by Langdon W. Post, Mayor-elect LaGuardla's newly appointed Tene ment House Commissioner. Post outlined his program tentatively in a conference with Robert D. Cohn. director of housing In the Public Works After the conference, Post said he and Director Cohn merely talked the program over tentatively and in a general way.

As Mupch As We Can Get' "How much money will you need?" Post was asked. "As much as we can get," the appointee replied with a smile. Post said he planned to return to Washington next week or even later this week for other conferences. The Tenement House Commissioner said he wished to go ovet with Cohn, when he had more time, some of the other low-cost housing and slum-clearance plans from other cities. Both Post and Prof.

A. A. Berle. newly appointed financial daviser to LaGuardla's administration and a member of President Roosevelt's original "brain trust," called at the White House this morning. The New York lub-clearance mil housin plan is contingent upon the creation of a housing authority by the Legislature which nieets next mouth.

The Federal Government may advance cash to such an air ihority for removing tenement districts and replacing the old eye-sodes with modern dwellings, to be rented at low cost. White House Office 1)1 ISlilZe kjOOIl UUt Washington, Dec. 21 (Pj-A fire started in the waste-paper room in the White House executive office today, but was quickly extinguished without any damage. It is an inside room, without light, in the cellar of the executive offices, which were gutted by flames several years ago at Christmas time. A fire detector system started today's alarm and a White House policeman put out the blaze without the necessity of calling fire apparatus.

Smoke fumes from the fire, however, spread throughout the executive oflice. President Roosevelt was not present at the titnt. I A disabled World War veteran who had been personally cited for bravery by Precedent WlLson today testified he had paid $7,000 to the late Henry Kahan, former State Assemblyman and close personal friend of former License Commissioner James T. Geraghty, for the privilege of operating a newsstand at 80 Broadway, Manhattan. The veteran was Irving Abrams of 88 Ludlow Manhattan, who was giving testimony at a neanng conducled by Ucen.se Commissioner sidnev S.

Levlne at Rcade St. into alleged racketeering and "shakedowns" in the Issuance of newsstand licences. Another witness, taints Brlller of 2180 Highland Ave 21, with failing eyesight. aKso declared lhat he had Pitid $3,300 for a newsstand a year and a half ago to one Jacob Spar, who now operates the stand Brlller formerly had at 80 Broadway. Manhattan.

This year Isvine Issued a license to Spar for the former Brlller stand without knowing of the Incident in J932. The Commissioner said after Bril er had finished testifying he would Immediately revoke Spar's license the testimony of the vouth was substantiated, and ordered Samuel Martin, chief investigator, to find and produce Spar at tomorrow's hearing. Abrams gave his testimony with great reluctance, at first drcllrvlng to give Kahan's name to the oin-nilssloner. After considerable questioning and the promise that he had nothing to fear, the witness named Kahan, who he first, rie-scribed as politician," Kahan was later Identified as the former Assemblyman who was cited by Samuel Seaburv to the Appellate Division for disbarment after 'the close of the investigation Into the city magistrate courts, for his activity In connection with two cases in Women's Court. Kahan Continued on Taje Greece Refuses InsuII Extension Athens, Dec.

21 opilhe Grprk Government decided fodav that Samuel Instill former Chicago operator, must Greece) Jan. 31. The Allen Department was serving him today with a written notice that the government will make no further extension of Insult's permit to remnln in this country from which the United States seeks to extradite him. Insull made no Bl'RNS TO DEATH IN BED William Preln, 43, of 95 Beach S. was asphyxiated today when his bed caught fire.

He was found unconscious in his blazing bed by Frank Walters, a fellow roomer. Police said they believed Preln had fallen asleep while smoking In bed. RAIN DARKENS LIGHTS The new traffic lights on 5th Manhattan, which wrre to have hud their first test today could not be operated because of the rain. It was hoped that thev could be used tomorrow. Oti he Inside This nun tlic new Police Commissioner Guv I lickok.

sees him; Pije IT. I nji.incing the hudct is jn obsolete term in Paul Mjllon s.ivs. It's i question of whether revenues in year of plenty will pnv off incurred in yctrs of wjnt; PaRe 17. I lolcn Worth unrests voting i couple consider their prospec tive 8. Mi ore nurruc; Dr.

Br.ulv jays everyone feels his age at this sejson; P.n;e 14, "hat docs nicjn? Answer man; Pane 1 4. nalvcd by IV truth Cad- Si hnol news; Pic 9. i.sson'.iled rresj Phola Austin If. MacCormli Correction Job Head Slated A. II.

MacCorniick Said to lie Man McColdrick as Cunningham Aide By CLINTON I. MOSIIrR Austin H. MacCtrmit'k. until recently 'first assistant to Sanford Bales as Federal Prison Administrator, is due to be named Commissioner of Correction in Mayor- elect LaGuardla's cabinet, The Eagle learned today. MacCorniick at present is superintendent of the Federal Reforma tory at Clilllicofhe.

Ohio. He is understood to have been recom mended to LaGuardla by Bates. La-Guardia tried unsuccessfully to have Bates quit his Federal Job for the municipal post. It was also learned that Controller-elect Cunningham will appoint two Brooklyn men as deputies this afternoon. They are William R.

Donaldson, an accountant and Independent Democrat, of 582 4th and Prof. Joseph D. McGoldrlck, a member of the teaching staff at Columbia University. MrOoldrick to He Named Dr. McGoldrlck lives at 5A6 Madison St.

A widely known expert and speaker of muntcipiil affairs, he became attached to the LaGuardla movement before the Fusion campaign. There whs a strong movement on foot to make Dr. McGoldrlck the Fusion candidate for Controller. When that place went to 'Major Cunningham, the professor was slated for one of the deputy posts. LaGuardla late yesterday asked Dock Commissioner John McKenzie to retain his present position under the new administration.

The McKenzie appointment was as much a surprise as was his appointment originally by Mayor Walker a few years ago. Reporters spotted him yesterday in LaGuardla's office Continued on Page 3 Probe of .0112 Taxes Reopened Washington, Dec. 21 The Evening Star said today that the Federal Government has just re newed an Investigation Into Income taxes paid by Senator Huey Long and others affiliated with his Louisiana political machine Special agents of the Internal Revenue Bureau started such an Inquiry In 1932. but this was said bv the paper to have been suspended iveral months before the end of the Hoover Administration. A.

D. Burford. who directed the investigation, went to New Orleans about two weeks ago in charge of a force of agents who have orders to make a thorough probe of Long's finances and those of a of his political allies insofar ns Income taxes are con- cerned. The resumption of the Investigation, says the Star. Is understood to have received the approval of President Roosevelt.

COI.I.F.Or. HEAD LOSES SI IT i Chicago, Dec. 21 Mrs. Marie Sc lHtller. Chicago, today was awarded $5,000 damages against Dr.

Walter Dill Scott, president nf Northwestern University, by a (urv in Court, for Injuries suffered in an automobile accident. Hospital. The efforts to obtain an immunizing agency against the disease, which is held responsible for half of the nation's cripples, are under the direction of the recently founded Infantile Paralysis Commission of the Long Island College Hospital. First Tested in New England Dr. Kramer, asoclalcd with Dr.

William Lloyd Aycock of the Harvard Infantile Paralysis Commission ngan the research in rural i' istrlcta. The work ed to urban centers pinioned on Page 2 Court Clears Realty Path Rules Out Exceptions to Reorganization Hears Argu mf nts on Fees All exceptions to the proposed reorganization of Realty Associates Securities Corporation were ruled out today by Federal Judge Marcus B. Campbell after hearing lengthy arguments. Followed objections by various lawyers to fees asked by the others for their participation in the bankruptcy litigation of the firm. Archibald Palmer, a bondholders attorney who petitioned no allowance for himself, presented a legal decision he said was Justification for reduc ing by 85 percent the fee of some $65,000 expected by Referee Eugene F.

O'Connor and similarly the fees of $129,000 asked by the reecivers, Fred L. Gross and Frank Fox, the latter president of the company. Campbell to Fix Fees Additional to the fees of the referee and the receivers, a total of about $300,000 was asked. The referee, with whom the" applications for the $300,000 were initially filed, whittled them down some 50 percent, his "whittling" constituting "recommendations for the guidance of the court." It remains now for romnhpll hlmcf in Hatup. mine exactly what fees shall be paid.

The referees and receivers are paid a statutory proportion of the total paid creditors in a bankruptcy Continued on Page 3 Panama Jails Boxer For Faking Fight Panama, Dec. 21 (P) Rafael (Kid) Hurtado, Panamanian boxer, has been sentenced to 20 days in Jail for "laying down" in a fight Kid Herrera of Co on Sunday I night. The Mayor, who is a fight fan, ordered his purse forfeited. John Mill More Power I.1.R0 $2. fifl S.80 Joe Baker, Normahal, Star Play, 13 Fawn Leap 14 Snow Play 15 Just Mrs.

16 Ria Nara 17 Clasell 18 Lady Rockledge THIRD Jefferson Park Results First Race Gen. Campbell Prices $5.00 $3.20 $2.40 Scratched Wrench, Sweet One, Helen Green, Tryandagain. SECOND RACE 1 Miss Mascara 2 Garb 3 Sister Claire 4 Gracious Lady Fi Fannie Lou 6 Idle Along 7 Stimulaw 8 Flowery 9 Eva S. 10 Mint 11 Busy 12 Corinda Memories Marie SECOND F1RS1.