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ailj Jmman VOL. 92. CITY OP KINGSTON, TUESDAY EVENING) FEBRUARY 4, 1930. PRICE FOUR CENTS. mual Report of Kingston Hospital 1 For Hospital Service Increases Steadily --Facilities Often Taxed to Capacity During Year--Financial and Statistical Reports Submitted at Annual Meeting.

tho Members of the City ot Kingston Hospital Association: As required by the by-laws, i respectfully submit the annual report for year ended December 31, 1929. The demand for hospital service seems steadily to increase. Notwlth- the recent additions made to the hospital, its facilities, during the year, often have been taxed to capacity. Tiie income account for the year, tho balance sheet of December 31, i29, compared with tbe preceding year and the statistical report follow: l.XCOME ACCOTJXT. jospital revenue: Board and attendance: Private rooms Semi-private rooms Wards J52.02fr.50 36.068.00 38,527.50 J'ces: Operating room $13,981.20 Delivery room 1,180.00 X-ray laboratory 17,264.00 Pathological laboratory 5,061.25 Electro-cardiograph and basal metabolism.

184.00 Hrufs 1,761.85 Dressings, bandages, etc 2,892.20 19.00 Board: Spi-cial nurses $13,189.00 Cuests 427.00 Telephone receipts Uross Revenue $183,010.28 ipeuses: Salaries 553,238.36 Food, ice and water 41,028.36 Fuel, light and power 9,717.58 Medical and surgical supplies 17,082.75 Household supplies 6,700.54 Hepalrs and maintenance 2,437.11 I-ray department 9,919.08 General house and property expense 7,659.49 Income from operations $35,257.01 Deductions from income: Free service rendered 13,616.00 464.78 Murderer Barricaded In Home Near New Paltz Following Fatal Shooting John Wager Defies Officers and Troopers After Charles Ronk--Send Tear Gas Bombs--Attentions To Wager's Daughter Probable Motive. Charles Ronk, 30, of Forest Glen, near New Paltz, lies dead on the ground floor of the John Wager home there, while "Wager, a man of 60 years, who him this morning with a shot gun, is barricaded in the second story of tho louse, shielding himself from a sheriff's posse and State Troopers. Tear gas bombs will he used to rout Wager, who has been sealed up his place of hiding since 7:30 this morning. Tho tear gas ire being brought to the scene of the munier by Captain Fox and his fly- ng squadron detail of State Troopers from Troop at Sidney, N. Y.

No Honk sumption has iVager labored motive for the shooting of has been given, but the' as- been advanced that under the delusion hat Ronk had been paying too much 17.604.D2 I Xet income from operations Other income: Income earned on endowment, fund meiit Donations invest- 1 -V 2,712.31 57,589.52 272.35 00,574.28 Gross Income Other charges: Interest N'et Income SHEET. ssets: 1529 Laud, buildings and $717,033.48 Endowment fund 59,818.98 Cash in bank arid on hand 6,502.83 Warrants unmatured I 573.95 Accounts receivable 14,900.04 $78,226.37 13,485.45 attention io his Wager, aged 15. this morning which adjoins daughter, Helen Ronk and Helen were together in the living room, the kitchen, in the Wager home. Consider French A i i Plans Carefully Delegations of Xaral Conference Meet ns Committee. of tho Whole.

and Tnko Up 1'roiwsals ranignijih by Paragraph. London, Feb. 4 French and British plans for limiting naval tonnage wore put under a microscope at a two hour session today of the national delegations of the five power naval conference as a committee of the whole at St. James's Palace. The general session took up the proposals of the two nations paragraph by paragraph, spokes- Ronk was putting on nliul for eilch nation contributing 'to his shoes.

Wager walked from the the discussions. Examination of the Hughes Named Chief Justice of United States Succeeds Chief Justice Taft, Who Resigned Because of 111 Health--All Washington Surprised To Learn of His Appointment-Greatest Opportunity For Service, Says Hughes. kitchen with his shot gun, which ho proposals will be continued at a later kept behind the door, and shot Ronk in the side of the head, the charse tearing one- side of his face to shreds, i FIrst Ltml ot thc Admiralty Helen, who was standing near Ronk, Alexander in the chair, the coufer- was not injured. ence took thc French proposal as a Several neighbors, awaiting tho bas 3 fol discussion. Alexander then Troopers, entered the Wager home and heard footsteps upstairs.

They submitted the British counter pro- immediately left anticipating that the posal. It was understood the dis- man might start 'shooting if bo ciisslon which followed was only on thought someone had come to arrest tho broadest terms and largely of uim. au explanatory nature. After an hour had elapsed Ser-1 Rene MassiKli, speaking for the Scant Lockhart and State Trooper French, laid emphasis on the pub- Uaker of Highland arrived. They llcity feature French scheme, Howard Taft, whose failing health questioned the girl and her mother, that is, the obligation to give notice forced him to retire from the chief a To Washington A Sick Man Dr.

Hagner Cays Chief tk-o Is Not Uellcvcd to be In Immediate Danger--Is Carried Into House--IMeaHcd at Appointment of Washington, Feb. 4 learning that Wager had gone transfer from one category of stairs with the gun In his possession. warship to another one year buforo Sergeant Cunningham, State construction. Trooper Weeks and Undersheriff Ambassador Hugh L. Gibson, voic- Fceter arrived, but were handicapped ing the American viewpoint, sug- in their efforts to extricate Wager gested that light cruisers and de- owing lo his situation in the upper stroyers should not bo lumped to- floor of thc house.

There Is but one gether as they would be under the entrance lo tbe home, Riving the man French plan. The Italian delegate, justiceship of tho United Stales, returned to the capital at 7:05 a. m. today from Aahovi ho the last three weeks in an effort to regain his strength. Dr.

Francis Ilagncr, personal physician to 'Mr. Tiift, said the for- a cbanco to cover intruders with his Sarianl, stated Ills country's post- uncr president was a sick man "hut I tion, favoring the general global Honk had been a boarder at the system of limiting tonnage as con- i i Wager home. i Makes Light Of Acciden Colon Lebec, 4 Cfiarles A. Lindbergh observed 28th birth anniversary today planning another Ilieht in the glid'. whlch he piloted yesterday ts'a'sa lauding near here after it had los an aileron in midair.

Whether would make the next night toda depended upou weather conditions. Laughiug like a school boy at th conclusion of a particularly success $64,740.92 Dec. 31, 1928 $700,000.00 58,905.20 1,640.3 Subscriptions to building receivable. Accrued.interest receivable Unexpired insurance 29,575.68 942.10 1,770.35 Total Liabilities: Mortgages payable payable Vouchers payable Deposits on keys Endowment reserve General reserve Total $809,546.18 ,5200,000.00 10,000.00 14,756.84 30.00 59,918.98 545,511.59 ful prank, the flying colonel, havin safely landed the fiail, crippled ciat in a mountain valley, was highl pleased rather than dismayed at th Incident which had brought tb hearts of his watchers -into thel throats. Lindbergh was launched Into th air a test fl 'E nt Preparatory to 270 46 al 'empt planned Han-ley Bowlllt 4,466.84 sailplane's builder, to establisi I18W lv sliding record, and had 887.81 Cached an altitude of 300 feet when 2,315.95 aileron on the left wing brok loose and fluttered to the ground.

The colonel's head jerked sharply to the side as the aileron, au essen tial part of the control apparatus free, aud hoarse shouts froo $830,217.41 STATISTICAL REPORT. Patients in January 1st 76 Patients admitted (less births) 2965 Births 232 Total patients treated for year 3273 Discharged during the year: Cured 2580 Improved 415 Unimproved 17 Transferred to other institutions 7 Died 172 discharged and died 3194 Newborn discharged to parents 215" Newborn died 9 Patients in December Slat: JIale (including newborn) 29 Female (Including newborn) 50 Total "79 Admissions (classified): I'aid patients 2842 Public charges 205 Total 3107 Days' treatment for year: Paid patients Public charges Free patients a Days'treatment (classified): Medical S913 Surgical 20165 Obstetrical 2935 Births. 2783 Eye, ear, nose and throat 1828 Total 36614 Average number of patients.for year Deaths moribund on admission 8S Death rate 2 6 2 Total operations for year. 8278 Additions and betterments to lands, buildings and equipment made dur- i the year amounted to $17,033.48, as follows: and buildings 19,960.06 Furnishings and equipment 7,073.42 The School ot Nursing admitted, during the year 1929, 28 students and 13c There were enrolled December 31, 1929, 45 students. The board gratefully acknowledges the following bequests and gifts' Hequest.ot Mary W.

Smith $50,000.00 Bequest of Ellen L. Bordcn 6,000.00 Emily Chadbourho 1,000.00 Donations through Dr. Snyder 525.00 (Continued on nage 5) 49,000.00 22.91C.62 ne llttle throng of mechanics, news 14.50 rapcrmcn and photographers wen. 59,905.20 not necessary to warn him of his, 477,709.96 ganger. 1 He attempted no immediate however, but sailed serenely, on dipping over the hilltops finally to disappear into a valley WTiether he had fallen, or lamlei safely, the anxious group of watch ers could not tell.

When observers reached him after running frantically to the spot his landing, the colonel was standing beside thc undamaged craft on a little knoll, laughing heartily. The Colonel said he had "a little difficulty in landing" and that "it an uncomfortable feeling when I saw it fall." Be added that he was not alarmed because he had, confidence in the construction of the craft. ATTOBSEY BROOKS ILL; SHOUT CASE IS ADJOURNED Matthew Short of Pine Hill, charged with assault against a young girl on March 17, 1929, who was brought lo trial in County Court before Judge Joseph M. Monday afternoon, will hot be 'tried be- 'ore Monday afternoon next week, because his attorney, Frank W. Brooks, sent word this morning that he would be unable to continue the case'because of illness.

The case was opened Monday afternoon and eight jurors accepted by Mr. Brooks and District Attorney Frederick G. 'Travel-. The jurors will be retained, when the case is brought to trial next week, when the defense attorney recovers from his Illness. County Court will convene again afternoon, and thc district attorney is expected to have several cases ready for trial.

High School Team on Strike. Elmlra, N. Feb. 4 Elmira. Heights High School basketball team, a member of the Southern Tier Conference, announced today that it would not play any more-games aud would remain on strike until the return of Wlnton Lutes, its star forward.

Lutes was dismissed from the team last Friday by Coach Roland H. Wor'ster for Indifference during practice. Despite Worster's decision to reinstate Lutes, the player refused to return to play and his teammates say not play, without htm, Edward J. Cullen Dies of Pneumonia Taken With Severe Cold on trusted with limitation by categories, which is favored by America, Great Britain and Japan. Admiral Takarabc, Japanese admiralty head, was au attentive listener as the experts dealt with the various points but ho had no suggestions of his own to offer.

The following official statement was Issued after the meeting: "Tho Wednesday of Last Week i commjttee (the conference as ployed for 20 Years as Clerk In i st 8 0 New York City Law Department. Edward J. Cullen, one of' tile best known young men of Kingston, died llllli U1U I at the Benedictine -Hospital at 5 Fre'uch transactlonal proposal and addition to statements made as far as we can tell ho Is In no immediate danger." Taft's car was sidetracked In tho Union station so that ho could remain lu his berth as long as he desired. It was planned then to take him to his home. The former chief justice was accompanied by Mrs.

Taft, Dr. Hagner and a nurse. Ho spout a fairly restful night. Before the train reached Washington, Dr. Ilagner went I tho drawing room occupied by Mr.

Tatl and was greeted by a cheerful smile from Dr. Hagnnr said the eminent i clock tjils morning of pleuro pneu- series of draft resolutions eager to return home. When the monla, after an illness lasting only since last Wednesday. Ho was for 20 years employed as clerk in Hie Now York.city law department to the commissioners of appraisal in condemnation proceed- lined under five heads and the compromise proposed by the United Kingdom's delegation. "As arranged at the previous meeting the discussion opened on the basis of thc French transacllon.il proposal.

After discussion In which former chief justice Ural reached Asheville, seemed to his physician said, improve but latoly Admiral Slrlana, for Italy, A i a I3oru committee decided to years detail." it In ago, the son of the late Thomas TM i British spokesman described ife iif '''a entire the morning's discussions as frank lie in tuib atj. He was graduated and hopeful, cludicatlons of various vnn I 1 4 1 ilUU 110001111, Cll rom Ulster Academy and later took points being of "TM ourses Ho was an "Per' He 1 declared dli teuographcr. He was married to Miss Helen 'arsell of this city, who survives Ira, together with a daughter Kati'- een, his mother, two sisters helpful- nature, td difficulties which were encountered wero not so great as might have appeared on the surface. condition had become worse, it was fell, he added, that ho would have better chance for Improvement at borne a elsewhere. Whether he will ho removed late to a hospital will be determined Ills condition.

Dr. Ilagner said Mr. T.ift had ex pressed great pleasure on hearing appointment yesterday of Charle Evans Hughes to succeed him a chief justice. "Tliat lino." ills physician quote bis as saying on being Informed Mr. Hughes had been named.

About half hour after bis car ha reached Hie station it was move from tho subway tracks used southern roads to the tracks northern and western roads whlc DIfllcultles, he said, undoubtedly are on the ground level. Tho weak would exist but the more they were discussed tho more amenable they of Kingston, and tended to become rather than au of Bergenfleld, I yielding. The reservations i to the platform where lie sat for ened man then was carried off. Seated In a chair, Mr. wa picked up by thrco.porters and an uncle, Prof.

p. H. Cullen, chool principal of Kingston, and everal cousins. He was a member of Kindlon had been made--and tho spokesman called attention that all countries had made certain reservations- were normal ouncll, K. of aud served" this I.would"bo expected 'linen as grand knight.

He was also tlons. reservations such as in such sltua- After the meeting of the heads of tho delegations in another section member of tbe Holy Name Society bt. Joseph's Church. For years he as interested in civic affairs and was of the palace ways found a valuable worker in which said good results in preparing rives and campaigns, during the the way for agreement were being erion, and later. He was one ot the obtained from private conversations rdent workers in the very successful among-the delegations.

It was said ampalgn for the raising of funds these private conversations will con- ith which to pay off the heavy debt the Benedictine Hospital. Mr. Cullen, apparently in robust ealth, was taken with a severe cold Wednesday of last week. He left law offices where he was employed 10 o'clock in the morning, going mediately to his home. His family hyslclan was summoned, and a diag- isls revealed that he was suffering th pneumonia.

His removal to the ispital followed on Thursday morn E. Everything possible was done him at the hospital, but the prog ss of the disease was not to be re rded. The funeral will be held from te home, 129 Green street, on Frl- morning. A Mass of requiem wll How at St. Joseph's Church.

The ur for the holding funera: not determined. 000 Deaths From Snrnllpo.x. Mexico City, Feb. 4 dls- tch to El Universal today from nacalepec, Morelos, reported 600 aths from smallpox there and nearly during the last fortnight. The dispatch said the epidemic had killed 200 of them children, in that region in the last ten days, while approximately 400 persons had died within two weeks in tho neighborhood district of.

Axochiapan. llccovcr Body of Miner. Jenny Llnd, Feb. tinue. CimiSTOPHEU OLD THEATRE FACES IXSOliVEXCT.

body of II. D. nedfern, 40, a "shot Brer" reported missing. last night, was taken from a coal mine here today by a rescue party which traveled feet tha mine slope. Tho searchers said he had succumbed to afterdamp which followed an explosion late yesterday.

He leaves oljjht children. Hoboken, N. Feb. 4 (If). The spectre of insolvency today stalked upon the stage of the old Rlalto Theatre where Christopher Morley conjured up ghosts of the gay nineties- with revivals of "The Black Crook" and "After Dark; or Neither Maid, Wife nor Widow." Aa in tho old melodramas which New Yorkers voyaged over the Hudson to "The Last Seacoast of Bohemia" play to view, the financial problem ot tho Hoboken Theatrical Company, has the fond parent appealing for help to save his child and the hero rushing to tho rescue.

Morley, cast in the role of tho parent, made, his appeal yesterday In Chancery Court In Trenton, N. in the form of a petition for an equity receivership. He hopes Hii- fus Besson, in the person ot the receiver appointed by the court, will save the old homo ot gas-lit drama. In his affidavit Morley said there are about 35 creditors with claims totaling (16,000. In hie petition Morley blames the condition of the company upon a former treasurer" but does not name him.

Ambulance Calls Here. On Monday the city ambulance removed Epenetua Newklrk from 83 Prospect street to the Kingston Hospital: Frank Smith from 77 Downs treet to tie Kingston Hospital; James Butler from tho Kingston Hospital to 35 0111 direct, and Mrs. Freer rom avenuo to the Bencdic- Ino Hospital. minute hefore'tho throe men.lowerei him down the steps. The forme chief justice reached out as he wa being carried down and seized til hand rails on -the- car and clung to them until Dr.

Hasner reached iu and took his hands and held them ii Ills own. When the porters had reached thc concrete of the station a i with Mr. Tatt, he was raised out his chair placed in a rolling chair. "That's rather a tight fit," Dr Hagner said to Mr. Tatt, "but i won't be for long." The chair then was rolled through the foyer.

A battery of flashlight guns greeted him as be came Into tho open. When they reached the automobile of Associate Justice Sutherland, two men entered the car and two stayed outside and thc quartet lifted Mr. Taft Into the automobile. Mrs. Taft got into the machine with him while Dr.

Hagner, the nurse and Mr. Taft's secretary entered another car for the drive to tho Taft home on Wyoming avenue. Tho former chief justice looked pale and worn. When the distinguished patient reached his residence he was taken to the side entrance, where he had installed an electric elevator several years ago, when he was first seriously afflicted with heart trouble. Dr.

Hagner again experienced difficulty In moving tbe feet of his patient so that he could the automobile, and he literally was carried Into the house at a. m. Our Growing Population. Thc following births have been reported to tho board ot health: Mr. and Mrs.

Alton C. Smith, 125 Wrentham street, a son, Charles Alton. Mr. and Mrs. Solomon J.

Wells, 146 Spring street, a daughter, Agnes Mildred. Mr. and Mrs. Lester A. Klersted, Hurley, a son, Lester Arthur, at Kingston Hospital.

Fire Destroys Still. Fire destroyed what it is said was a large still on tho Thomas Burgess farm back of Highland, In tho town of Lloyd on Monday night. Washington, Fob. 4 Evans Hughes, one of the foremost of the nation's jurists and statesmen, is to be the next chief justice of the United Status. He will succeed William llowaul Taft, who, broken in health by arduous years iu tbe public service, has been forced to resign and devote his entire a i 10 Ibo betterment of his physical condition.

In spito of Mr. Hughes's a edged talents, all Washington was surprised last i to learn of his appointment. Ills i a i was sent to the Senate by President Hoover just as dusk was falling. A few hours previously Mr. Taft's resignation had been announced and the interim had been filled with specula- lion as to ills successor in the courto of which Mr.

Hughes's a went i Hut in the meanwhile, the President had been busy with tlie loug distance telephone. He reached Mr. Hughes lu Now York, offered him the a i anil obtained i i a acceptance. With a radiant smile, appointee later told newspapermen that he would accept the post as the greatest i for service that ever had come his way. Thus has a mighty turn of events caught up these two distinguished Americans, whose names aro written arge in the history of their nation.

For It brought the end of a cnreer that led him the two oftiest cilices of iho Amerlran government. To the other bora tne beginning of a new and greater chapter ill a career already i i a While Mr. Taft Is only man -in' ilstory lo serve as President nhri chief justice, Hughes missed the former by an extremely narrow margin. Opposing Woodrow Wilson In tho lalsn of a i bo failed of election by 2.1 nlector.il votes. So close was the balloting i tbe outcome wns In doubt for days.

In their personal characteristics there is a wide divergence between Mr. Taft nml Mr. Hughes. Taft brought to the supremo bench his cheerful philosophies and Ills famous chuckle. Ills studious a and Industrious bidden behind habits were his Jovial manner, he relieved the tedium of protracted legal disputes with one of ills characteristic witticisms With Hughes, iho student of al- irs aud the austerity of Intellect' are predominant.

The public knows him as a stern, Industrious, gifted statesman and jurist, always Impeccably groomed, the "perfect picture of a His closo associates know this side of tho man too; but they know i as 'well as facts" a a ln nls da Cnrccr BcRim In York. HiiBhes's career began In New hr 'i llls logal abilities rough early prominence and an opportunity Ule nepubllcan i nomination HH906. This he declined. Two years later he became rovernor of tho state and In 1900 he Jegan a second term, but resigned in i to accept appointment as aa as- TMs at enro 0 Ta 1 f't eU Wn''VnM Ub Cr 1 natl on at Chicago nominated'him for -be presidency on June 10, 1316 and 10 resigned from the Supremo bench tho same day. A his defeat ills he Ipal American delegate to tbe naval conference, of 1921 and stounded the world with his de- nands for extensive reduction of sea orces Ho continued in the cabinet -fter Hardlng's death and withdrew tho 'beginning of President Cool- dge's second term in 1925.

His international prominence rought him appointment to tbe rbltration court of the-Hague bv CooIIdgo in 1926, and years ater election -by the council and ssembly of the League of Nations an associate justiceship on tho ermauent court ot international istlce. In addition, he served as lialrman of tho American delega- on to tho sixth-Pan-American con- erenco In Havana In 1928. Otherwise, the last few years have een spent In private k'gal practice, vhich-has brought him many times eforo the 'bar of the Supreme Court, here ho several times found bis 3gal talents pitted against those of nother defeated candidate for tho residency, John W. Davis, the emocratlc nominee In 1924. The Hughes nomination was re- erred -by the Senate to its commit- eo on the judiciary, which' Is ex- ected to take It up at its first meet- ig.

probably early next week. Chalr- an Norrlsaays no opposition to con- nuatlon is fu prospect. Charles Evans Hughes, plans i (Continued on 11).