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The Boston Globei
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note the net ol March 242 Wuhincton at. tol cur ao BOSTON, MONDAY MORNING, JANUARY 1, 1931 FORTYt PAGES THE COPYRIGHT. 19S4. BY GLOBE NEWSPAPE OO. TWO CENTS (2) fo) lU CARDINAL PLEADS I MM Troubles of 1933 Booted Away as Merrymaking Tops All Records Since Pre-War vDays 1500 Police Untangle MM Traffic Snarls Hultman Bans Patrolmen From Parties 00 0 FOR END Calls on World to Turn to Reason Again in 1934 No Nation Has More Than Ours, He Says GLAD IT WAS ME, TOPS GREAT SAYINGS OF YEAR Lavish Spending Is Reported Throughout Ration Uith i Reservations at Premium Leaders See Continuance Of Economic Recovery in 1934, NO RECEPTION IN WHITE HOUSE Roosevelt Ends Custom Started by Washington Celebration in Nations Capital 1o Be Quiet With No Swank WASHINGTON, Dec 31 (A.

The high and low in the capitals official life watched the old year out and the new year in tonight, hopeful, like millions of fellow -Americans, of better things to come. Tomorrow they celebrate the first day of 1934 in a new way quietly and wkh no swank. Gone will be the White House New Years reception, dating clear back to George Washington. Gone also will.be the spectacular annual breakfast of the Secretary of the at homes Continued on the Third Page jt RAIN OR SNOW LIKELY TODAY! Weather Extremes Ha Unusual Year 33 Temperature Aggregates 473 Degrees Above Normal As the best the Weather Man could promise for New Year's Day wa slush and either rain or snow, terest centered last night on the yearly summary of weather of late 1933. Despite the recent cold spell, the year was 473 degrees warms er than normal.

The years highest Continued on the Sixteenth Page Will RogersDispatch Special to Boston Globa, Copjrrleht. IMS SANTA MONICA, Calif, Dee 31 A few hours from the- tints I am penning you these lines, the old year will bo going out. And it looks like she is going out witheut a aingle mourner. And, at that, it hasnt been bad old year (as years have been going lately). In fact, in years to conte when all these professors switch from economists to historians, thay are liable to label 1933 os the historicel year the year of the big awitch, from worse to to better.

So, so long '33, panics e. mo every 20 years, so we will bo seeing yeu in 53. Yours, WILL ROGERS. NO GLOBE SUBSCRIPTION SOLICITORS The Globe does riot employ subscription solicitors, and any bo representing themselves should be turned" over to the police. NOW OF HATE 'yim I S' I I fy TTWy sty' 6 WILLIAM CARDINAL OCONNELL TODAYS GLOBE CONTENTS Pa ge 1 Boston has greatest New Years Eve celebration in years.

Tributes continue to pour into Globe for its World War pictures series, which begin next Sunday. Cardinal gives New Year message by radio. Slush, with rain or snow, forecast today as year of abnormal weather ends. Pasadena Rose -Bowl flooded, but Columbia and Stanford football teams will play there today. No New Years reception at White House today.

Capt Thomas E. Bligh, chief of detectives of the State Police, is dead. Will Rogers dispatch. Page 2 Roosevelt to call party leaders today. All Chicago turns out to welcome Marion Talley in her first appearance since her retirement.

Brenau College head assails professors. Page 3 Law demanding sterilization of 400,000 defectives in Germany becomes effective today. i Page Freedom of the press is to be specifically reaffirmed in publishers code, N. R. A.

chief writes to Congressman. Watch night services. Dr Kinsolving reviews progress of 1933. American products hit by new French import quota. Bag 7, New Year program radioed to Byrd from Washington.

Page 8 Nineteen persons were killed by automobiles in Bay State last week. Half-cent is cut from Federal tax on gasoline; tax on dividends Peoples Lawyer. Page 9 Bostonians enjoy sports in New Hampshire. arm SSSSl TO THE NEW BABY, 1934 The New Year will be a test of our right reason, our true intelligence, our genuine and sincere faith. His Eminence, William Cardinal O'Connell said in a radio broadcast at 6:30 last night when he extended his annual New Years Eve greetings to the people of New England.

We have a country to preserve a Nation to save a good President who has faith in God a people conscious of its inheritance and at the core religious, he said. "What other people possesses more? In Gods name, then, open wide the door and let the New Year enter. Take up the spotless and unstained page it oilers and write in it Thy Kingdom come, Continued on the Fourth Page BOSE BOWL FLOODED, BUT GAME GOES ON Columbia to Play Stanford Despite Record Rain PASADENA, Calif, Dec 31 (A. Despite a flooded field and rain still falling, the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Committee decided tonight that the Columbia-Stanford football game in the Rose Bowl here win be played tomorrow. Postponement of the game had been seriously considered because water, was a foot deep on some parts of the field.

A rain storm which threatened to break, records for the past 54 years halted air traffic, drove residents of the lowland areas from their homes and dampened the en- Continued Page Twenty-Nine I The Editions of The Evening Globe Will Be Omitted Today All the news of the holiday will be printed in the Morning and Evening Globe tomorrow. By ANNE OTHERS PRAISE WAR PICTURES Leaders From All Walks 0 Laud Globe Series Vivid Photos to Be Printed 'Tributes to the helpfulness and enterprise of the Globe in arranging to publish the great collection of 1 World War Pictures edited by-Laurence Stallings continue to come pouring in from leaders in all. walks of life who have been- privileged to see them in advance of their newspaper publication. This masterly collection, gathered from official archives of many nations and from private sources in all countries that participated in the war, depicts the great struggle as it actually was. The photographs show the color and the romance of the war but they show too, in stark, uncoated all "the horrors and the sadness of the war.

Publication begins next Sunday. will be an eight-page magazine section devoted exclusively to these pictures eight pages every Sunday. Nothing Like It Before Nothing like this collection photographs has ever been seen before. Many of them were taken in Continued on Page Thirty-Three TODAY'S GLOBE CONTENTS Page 9 Quincy folk walk on the bay. Page 10 Business leaders see 1934 brighter.

Chief Casey retires from Cambridge Fire Department. State bank commissioner has no hew burden by latest White House edict. Walter Prichard Eaton says eld theatre is dead. Page 11 Greater Boston boys conclude retreat at St Francis Priary, Brookline. State Recovery Board' hails progress of past nine months.

Page 12 Codes now regulate hours and pay of 20.000,000 workers. Young woman wounded with Underhill in capture of desperado dies. Boston C. L. U.

moves from Wells Memorial. Page 13 Woman ex-Alderman routs two robbers in Somerville. Two alleged Harvard students arrested, charged with striking women. Page 14 Dillinger outlaw band shoots two policemen in Chicago holdup. Diver searches for Mrs Coreys body.

Page 16 Corner stone of new St Johns Episcopal Church at Arlington is laid by Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill. Page 18 Seven of East Cambridge family overcome by fumes in home. Youth charged with plot to wreck Boston Three holdup men rob family of four in Roxbury shop. Page 19 New bank props effective today. Hope for peace during 1934 is expressed by world leaders.

Page 20 Mansfield to take oath this morning. Dr R. L. Kahn awarded $1000 prize byx American Association for Advancement of Science, Port of Boston news. Page 21 Colorado sheriff saves suspected slayer from mob.

bent on -lynching him. Page 22 Editorial Page. Page 23 Dr Charles L. Swan dies suddenly at -Stoughton. John Candler Cobb, retired realty operator, dies at Milton.

George W. Cram, secretary of Harvard faculty, is dead. Page 24 William T. Yetman discusses business and investment outlook; points out currency and employment problems. Page 25 Commodity markets during the past year.

'1 1 1 5 1 With hope in tiny hands, the baby comes, Adding its wailing to the horns and drums Of the New Year symbol of the birth Of joy to the bewildered questing earth. Perhaps the little baby year will bring To us the happiness of life beginning; The breath of Spring, the brown buds blossoming; A task to do, a new crown to be winning. Come in, dear baby, through the door of life. Bring balm for misery, and peace for strife. Bring laughter for our sorrow, joy for fear, And gifts of.

love to bless the dawning year! (Cop-risht, 1933) Called- by, some the most eventful peace year in the history of the United States, 1933 lacked no color in its sayings arid slogans. From the man -in the White House to the, man in. the street the Nation gave voice to its opinions. Congress and curbstone spoke often and sometimes well. i-Some'of the slogans-and sayings which caught public fancy, made headlines, and repeated around the continent, were ANTON CERMAK, at Miami of you." Continued on CAMPBELL TODAY'S GLOBE CONTENTS Page 30 King Georges New Year honors list elevates two Canadian jurists to knighthood.

Page 31 Four overcome by fumes in Brighton apartment house. Wallace calls college football a racket. 1 Page 32 Amateur show tonight only boxing in Boston this week. Harvard basket-ball team plays Penn at Philadelphia Saturday; Brown and Tech, B. U.

and Tufts play here on same day. Page 33 Gold as circulating medium must end says Dr Butler. F--C- A mortgage loans total $215,000,000. Page 34 President Roosevelt and his recovery program; 1933 highlights of the news by months; eminent dead of the past year, by William Alcott, Globe librarian. Page 35 Camera history of 1933.

rage 36 Household Department Dorothy Dix. Culbertson on contract Page 37 Household Department Men at Her Feet by Rob Eden. The Globes cross-word puzzle. Page 38 Comic Strips. Page 39 Austrians nab fugitive German Nazi prince trying to reenter castle.

Page 40 Douglas Sheridan, broker, found slain with hammer in New York apartment; maid accused. By ALEXANDER J. HAVILAND Hailed as a year of promise and high hopes, 1934 swept into existence at midnight on a tide of music, laughter and song, while rejoicing thousands, freed of the bugaboos of depression and prohi- bition, crowded the hotels, the restaurants and the churches of the city. A new confidence, a common hope, born of the spirit of the changing times, motivated alike the celebrator in silk topper greeting the New Year to the strains of jazz and the man kneeling in the crowded church in prayerful thanks for his first job in years. Not since 1919 has the city witnessed such open-handed and open-hearted celebration.

The of furtiveness which characterized many a New Year celebration of the prohibition era was conspicuous by its absence. The drinking was done from the topof the table in the presence of carefree companions to the music of the best orchestras in the city. Tumult at Midnight As midnight struck, the tumult of welcome to 1934 broke like a tidal wave over the city. Distant factory whistles set up a weird chorus. Tinhorns brayed.

The stream of cars, flowing in almost solid mass down Tremont st, found voice and the discordant noises of their horns added to the din. In the rising clamor as it swelled to thunderous proportions, Continued on the Seventh Page FIRST1934 BABY BORN AT 20 SECONDS AFTER 12 Just 20 seconds after midnight the first baby for 1934 arrived in Boston at the Boston Lying-In Hospital. He was a seven-pound baby boy, bom to Mrs Catherine Malamphy of 9 Concord av, Charlestown. DUMB-BELLS have IM UP THOSS FOOTBALL PICTURES, RADIO PROGRAMS PAGE 39 of From Globe Studio WEEI 8:05 AM News bulletins. 1 1 :05 News bulletins.

GEN HUGH Chiseler. JOHNSON Dead cat," Im glad it was me instead the Tenth Page CAPT Ti E. BLIGH DIES AT BELMONT Chief of State Detectives Had Been HI Two Weeks BELMONT, Dec 31 Capt Thomas E. Bligh, for almost a decade chief of the State Police detective force, died of heart disease this morning at his home, 27 Lewis st, after an illness of two weeks. He was born at Durham, Que, in 1864, and came to Holyoke with his family at the age of two.

He entered public service as a fireman in 1887, and eight years later was transferred to the Police Department. In 1897 he became a detective of thi Holyoke force, by appointment of Maor G. H. Smith, and served there until 1908. He then entered the State Police detective force, and for many years was a lieutenant in charge of the Pittsfield district.

His courage, force of personality and thoroughness brought him such success that news- Continued on Page Twenty-Three FIRST FIRE ALARM OF YEAR AT 12:06 A AND FALSE The first fire alarm of the year was sounded at 12:06 a for a box at Brown av and Rowe st. West Roxbury. The alarm was false. THE WEATHER 7 'orecast for Boston and Vicinity: Monday cloudy with occasional rain and slightly warmer, with moderate to fresh southwest winds; Tuesday partly cloudy and slightly, colder. Washington Forecast for Southern New England: Mon day occasional warmer; Tuesday rain and slightly partly cloudy and colder.

Temperature Yesterday at Thompsons Spa 3 a 16; 6 a 19; 9 a 21; 12 24; 3 29; 6 32; 9 38; 12 mid, 42. Average temperature yesterday, 26 7-24. THE WEATHER ELSEWHERE c-Temperatnreo-v Loweat Highest Weather Morn. 7 SO 10 ait as is Mo 4 Eastport 4 Jew Tor It to Waahinaion .........24 .1 ackannvUta 'S3 gliffli IXM ll Aft. S3 8 8 IT.

Cloud Cloud Ft Cloud SS AO 84 23 14 40 A4 73 VS Cloud Cl near Cloud id am riom Cloud riRap TODAYS GLOBE CONTENTS Page 25 The world at large has improved position, says Alfred P. Sloane Jr, president of General Motors Corporation. Steel mill operations hold up well; some code changes to be sought. Hopeful spirit marked year-end trading in bonds. To balance budget would remove inflation danger.

Psychology will be the ruling influence, points out Poors review. Page 26 -Recent events provide reason for conservative optimism in bond market in 1934.. New York listed bond range for 1933. Page 27 Prospects better than for several years past, says Frank J. Flynn, financial editor of the Globe.

New York stock range for 1933. Page 28 Bruins play three games this week, but only one on. Boston Gilbert A. Hunt Jr, Tech star, plays Frankie Parker for junior tennis crown today; Hunt and Rodman seek doubles title. New Haven defeats Boston, 2 to 0, in Canadian-American League hockey game.

Bowling standing. The Sportlight. Page 29 Horse news-by Frank G. Trott. Horse racing results.

East meets West on San Francisco gridiron today. Interest is hi gh here in Rose Bowl football game. Page SO New films of week reviewed. New Congress most momentous in history, Fr Coughlin says. Business office open tlie usual hours today for the convenience of Globe Readers and Advertisers.

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