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PARROT DISEASE IS BEING STUDIED Physicians Do Not Believe Tropical Ailment Will Become Epidemic By LEMUEL F. PASTON Princeton. N. Jan. 13.

Dr. Theobald Smith, one of the world's greatest pathologists, now with the Rockefeller institute here, and one of the few men in America who is informed on paittachosis, or "par net's disease." does not fear that the malady which has caused deaths and spread alarm in Germany and in Annapolis, will become epidemic. Parrots are not merely carriers, but are actually afflicted with the disease, according to Dr. Smith, and may transmit it to humans, but its transmission from one person to another is extremely doubtful Long Recognized It is related to the typhoid or parenterid bacillus," said Dr. Smith, "and the symptoms are similar to those of typhoid fever.

I do not know that the disease actually made its first appearance in Germany, but Eberth, discoverer of the typhoid bacillus, did much of the earlier research on it the eighties and nineties. It is a virulent micro organism, deriving its name from Psitacci, the order to which parrots belong. Obviously, if it ap pears that the disease is epidemic ymrtng parrots, all persons should be careful of contact wiun mem, out, according to what is now known of the disease, it does not spread from one human to another." Dr. Smith is head of the Department of Animal Physiology of the Princeton branch of the Rockefeller Institute. Other authorities expressed similar views, although there is a dearth of knowledge of the bacillus in this country and most information concerning it is locked up in the ponderous German theses of Eberth and other German scientists.

Dr. R. C. Cotter, of the laboratories of preventive, medicine of the United Fruit Company, in New York, pointed out that the infection was not to be classified as a tropical disease. Related to Typhoid "Related to typhoid, it afflicts parrots," he said, "and since parrots come from the tropics it is tropical only in that sense.

The appearance of the disease in Germany does not mean that it has persisted from earlier importations, but, unquestionably, that it has been again taken to Germany by parrots. The infection is especially menacing to elderly people, and may cause spet looemia. do not know just how thorough or complete researches into its transmission have been, but, so far as we know here, it Is not com municiple from one human to another. Of course, anyone having a parrot ought to take warning if the parrot fails sick." (Copyright, 1930, by Oenwlldited Press Association) in 01UaaTqAUTm.TcBuCa MM BETROTHALS ARE ANNOUNCED New Tear Brings News of Interesting Engagements i v1 Kew York Society Tetter. New York, Jan.

13. Many engage ments of Importance were announc ed In the first week of the New Year. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Small Moore, of 4 East Sixty sixth street, made known the engagement of their daughter, Miss Marion Moore, to John W.

Cross, of 132 East Seventy second street. Miss Moore is a granddaughter of Mrs. William H. Moore, of this city and Pride's Crossing, and the late Judge Moore, capitalist and sportsman. Paul Moore is her uncle.

She attended the Ethel Walker School at Simsbury, and studied for a year in Europe. She made her debut a year ago. Mr. Cross is the son of John Wal ter Cross, prominent architect, and the late Mrs. Lily Lee Page Cross, who was the daughter of Mrs.

How ard Page, of 150 East Seventy third street. Mr. Cross, like his father, attended Yale. He is a member of the Chi Psi fraternity. Mr.

Cross, was appointed by President Coolidge in 1928 one of the seven members of the Government's committee on fine arts. No date has been set for the wedding. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Curtis Middle brook, of 77 Comstock Place, South Orange, N.

have announced the engagement of their daughter, Miss Jane Middlebrook, to James Luther Black, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Luther Black, of Piqua, Ohio. Miss Middlebrook Is a graduate of Birmingham School, Birmingham, and attended Skidmore College. Mr.

Black was graduated from Hill School, Pottstown) and now is a senior at Yale University. No date has been set for the wedding. To Be Married January 25 Miss Elizabeth Detweiler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Detweiler.

of 580 Park avenue, will be married to Edward Dean Richmond, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Edward Gould Richmond, January 25, in St. Bartholomew's Church, by the rector, the Rev. Dr.

Robert Norwood. A reception will take place at Sherry's: The wedding of Miss Agnita Marie Shanley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Joseph Shanley, of 252 West Seventy flrst street, to Earnest Woerz Doelger, son of Charles Peter Doelger, of this city and Rumson, N. which was to have taken place Thursday at the Church of the Blessed Sacrament at noon, with a reception following at the Plaza, has been postponed to Tuesday, January 21.

The change of date is necessary because Miss Shanley and Mr. Dod ger were seriously injured in an automobile accident near New Ro Mr. Doelger is in St. vm cent's Hospital. Miss Shanley was taken, home.

It. was. said last night that both will have recovered sui flciently by January 21 for the wedding to take place. The reception also will be held as previously arranged. Mr.

and Mrs. Louis Annin Ames, HARRISBURG t2 TELEGRAPH MONDAY EVENING JANUARY 13, 1930 IIEVS BRIEFS By Associated Press Colnmbns, Ohio Hoover in letter to Dr. W. O. Thompson, of Ohio State University, likens opposing partisans to mud pie makers; tells of his mental hair shirts.

Washington Bishop Cannon is sues church legislative program calling for tightening up of prohibition enforcement Boston Cardinal OXSonnel in sermon refers to cruel punishment for offenses against a doubtful human ordinance. Washington Britten says greatest enemy of prohibition is its control by "fanatics, lntolerants and simple minded followers." San Francisco About 1300 motorists snowbound in Sierras; snow falls on orange groves. Phoenix. Ariz. Two motorists found frozen to death on highway.

Amarillo, Texas Emmett Myers, pilot, and L. P. Wheeler, plane salesman, killed in plane crash dur ing exhibition. Findlay, Ohio Six persons Durnea to death in sleep when residence burns. niiirion.

Kv. Two coal miners sealed in blazing mine when shaft is closed to extinguish names. BaHhnnM PaTTrvt. fpVer believed isolated by state bacteriolo gist Freeoort Mrs. William smews, 51, dies of parrot fever.

London British reply to French note upholds Kellogg pact as basis fnr limitation in contrast to French advocacy of League of Na tions. rmi waxhinrton Ameri can delegates to naval conference encounter bitter North Atlantic MILLIONS GIVEN TO YALE FUND New Haven, Jan. 13. (P) Yale's residential house plan was a step nearer realization to day through gifts by Edward Stephen Harkness of New York City. President James Rowland Angell, in making the announcement of the gifts did not make public the amount, but the New Haven Journal Courier said to day that it had learned on reliable authority it was between $15,000,000 and $25,000,000.

Five new quadrangles will be built and three existing groups reconditioned with the funds. Under the house plan from 200 to 250 students will live together under the leadership of a member of the faculty, is believed the new system will be inaugurated In the fall of 1933. The Harkness gift, it is understood, also provides for an endowment fund to be used as salaries for residential heads and for the establishment of the tutorial system of teaching. The latter method Is novel in American colleges, and amounts to group discussions on academic subjects. The sites chosen for immediate development, President Angell announced, are close to the present center of the university The new halls will serve to meet three housing requirements of undergraduates besides freshmen.

The latter, when the system is started, may be ac commodated in other1 university dor mitories. 1 a magician its Dsck Agsin 46 McCLELLAN SWARTZ Spring Grove, Jan. 13. McClellan Sv.artz has served in public office in this borough for the past 26 years. He retired as chief burgess several days ago and became a councilman.

Mr. Swartz served in council continuously for 22 years, Deglnning in 1896. Four years ago his term as councilman expires and he was elected chief burgess. Now he becomes councilman again, of New. York and Essex Falls, N.

have sent out invitations for the wedding of their eldest daughter, Miss Edith Ames, to Cameron Randolph Beard, son of Mrs. S. R. Campbell, Nashville, Term. ThA ceremony, which will take place at the Church of the Divine r.

am i. A AA Paternity on January as P. will be performed by the Rev. Dr. Frank Oliver Hall.

First Woman Named Harpers Ferry, W. Va, Jan. 13. The first woman to be named a member of a banking board in this section of the State was elected yesterday when Mrs. Celeste B.

Newcomer was elected a director by the stockholders of the Bank of Harpers Ferry and subsequently was named secretary of the board. Colonel R. McMahon was elected a director at the same time. They filled two vacancies, the other directors being re elected. T.

J. Burleigh was named president of the bank. Vs Honor Lee, Jackson Charles Town, W. Jan. 13.

Celebration of the Lee and Jackson birthdays, an, annual event in Charles Town, yill occur this year In the new Ugh school building, January 20, just between the anniversaries of the two generals. The address will be by the Rev. John W. Feild, rector of Zion Episcopal Church, this city. Many Problems in.

Dry Enforcement (Continued) effectiveness Increased in these important particulars." As to observance, the Commission declared that "It is wholly Impossible to set off observance of the prohibition act from the large question of the views and habits of the American people with respect to private judgment as to statutes and regulations affecting their "We must not forget the many historical examples of large scale public disregard of laws in our past," the report said, adding that "we must bear in mind the Puritan's objection to administration, the Whig tradition of a 'right to revolution; the conception of natural rights, classical In our policy, the demo era tic tradition of individual par ticipation in sovereignty." Asserting that as to enforcement there were no reauable figures to show the size of the problem, the Commission said the reported arrests in the last fiscal year of upwards of eighty thousand persons from every part of continental United States "indicates a stagger ing number of what might be called! focal points of infection." SmnggUng Easy Attention was directed that there also were 18,700 miles of boundary and shore lines for the United States "at every point of which in fection is The number of smuggling roads from Canada is reported as at least 1000, it was added. "To deal with an enforcement problem of this size and spread," the report continued, "the Federal Government can draw only on a portion of the personnel of three Federal services, whose staffs aggregate about 23,000. "Approximately one tenth of this number is in the investigative section of the prohibition unit. Of the remaining 20,000, only a small proportion of the personnel is available for actual preventive and investigative work. The remainder is engaged in work far different from prohibition.

"These figures speak for themselves. "To adjust the machinery of Federal administration, as it has grown up for other purposes, to this huge problem of enforcement of prohibition is not easy, and will require much further study. Unification of responsibility, and means of ensuing co operation between Federal and state agencies, as things to which we must come, quite apart from, the exigencies of enforcement of prohibition, but which can not be achieved overnight." 1 Replying to those who have assailed if for a failure to hold public hearings on the prohibition question, the Commission' reported to President Hoover that it conceived it "to be more useful to make a careful study of the whole question, securing information from the re sponsibile officers of government and from printed reports, as well as from hearings before committees of Congress, before embarking upon public hearings." Summing up its four recommen dations for legislative enactments, the Commission said: "We think they could not in any wise interfere with any ultimate program which we may have to recommend, and would in the meantime advance observance of the law." Divided Responsibility The Commission dealt with each of its recommendations separately and with some oTthem at considerable length. In urging transfer of the prohibition unit from the Treasury to the Justice Department, the report said was an anomaly that the cases are investigated and prepared by agencies entirely disconnected with and not answerable to those who are to prosecute them. "If prosecution, the legal side of enforcement, is partitioned between two district agencies," the report said, "the diffused, ill defined, non located responsibility is sure in the long run to be an obstacle to efficiency." The Commission reported that there must be a study of how to separate the work which belongs In the Treasury of granting permits and administration of regulations as to the legitimate use of alcohol or liquors.

Need of Unified Code Pointing out that there are twenty five statutes, many enacted before the Eighteenth Amendment, to which there is recourse in prohibition enforcement, the Commission asserted they were in form disconnected, unwieldy, and in mucn need of co ordination and adjustment to each other. Consequently it recommended that these statutes be "revised and digested," with a view to making them a unified whole in the form of a simple, better ordered and hence more workable code. On the question of padlock Injunctions, it was stated that the use of injunction proceedings as a means of enforcing prohibition was so important that the section of the Volstead act dealing with this subject should be so amended as to enable the courts to reach unknown claimants to property, non residents and "residents who conceal themselves to evade service of progress. "It contains nothing which is not already done in the states generally when private claims to property are concerned," the Commission added. Court Congestion Congestion In the Federal courts causing long delays In prosecutions and "bargain days" for accused was declared by the report to have done much to create a feeling in some localities that the law cannot be en "If it is possible to deal with this matter adequately with the existing machinery of the Federal System, it should be done," the report went on.

"We think such a solution entirely possible and in the right line of progress." Pointing out that the Jones law has expressly recognized a class of casual or slight violations," the Commission said a statute authorizing the district attorneys in such cases to prosecute by complaint or information would obviate the long unnecessary expense, and needless keeping in session of grand juries which are demanded by the present state of the law. In such cases, when so prosecuted, the penalty suggested would be a fine of not more than $500 and imprisonment in Jail without hard labor not to exceed six months, or both. Trial Without Jury "We think also that it would be expedient for Congress to define the term, 'casual or slight the Commission said. "Speedy convictions and certain impositions of penalties are important considerations and are more likely to be efficacious than threats of severe punishment rendered nugatory by congested dockets overpassing any possibilities of trial in the manner constitutionally appointed for crimes of such 'magnitude." Suggestion also was made that petty cases be heard before a United States commissioner and a report made to the courts which would pass Judgment on the case. Thore would be a safeguard that the accused if found guilty by a commissioner could demand trial by jury within three days.

PROFANITY BRINGS OUT NEW CHARGES By ROBERT MACK Washington, Jan. 13. The day of reckoning is nearing for W. K. Henderson, who "doggones" the world over his high powered radio station at Shreveport, and exceeds the bounds of" the King's English in doing It.

After several years of spineless observation of Henderson's tirades, emphasized by choice morsels of pro fanity, the commission is clearing the decks for action. Chairman Ira E. Robinson said so himself before the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee. But the news comes only after the Commission had been attacked by members of the Senate and House and by others for its laxity, if not Jts failure to carry out the law. Recommendations that action be taken, made by the Commission's legal division in the past, it is learned, have been ignored by that August body.

"Formal information" suddenly has come before the Commission upon which it may base its action. Chairman Robinson said so himself before the Senate Committee. Yet for more than two years thousands of complaints have been SKILL SUCH POPULARITY MUST BE DESERVED received from citizens asking that Station KWKH, which Henderson owns, be prevented using indecent or profane language. It is hardly likely that Mr. Henderson will be removed from the air.

But he has a good channel one of the best, which can be heard over a large area of the country, and he uses a lot of power; 10,000 watts. So we may find Mr. Henderson reduced to lower power and shifted to PHILADELPHIA The Latest Creations in Passenger Cars, Small Trucks, Accessories, Motor Boats, Motor Cycles State Highway Department Exhibit JAN. 11 TO 18 INCLUSIVE COMMERCIAL MUSEUM BUILDING 34TH STREET, BELOW SPRUCE 1 Open 10 A. M.

to 11 P. M. MUSIC DAILY BY GUS DANIEL AND HIS ORCHESTRA Admission SO Cents Direction Philadelphia Automobile Trade Association in a ciqarette TASTE It takes more than cleverness to make a good cigarette. Taste is either there or it isn't; deception plays no part. We put taste first, in making Chesterfield.

Tobaccos are chosen and blended for mildness, for aroma, for tobacco flavor; taste is always what counts. And Chesterfield's huge popularity seems to prove that the same thing counts with smokers as with us TASTE above everything a channel down in radio's gutter, where his words will not reach oat (Copyright, MSO, by Comollditod Association) "Mrs, Smith tells her friends that she appreciates the purity, sweetness and rich cream iness of our milk." says Billy Break ODay. TO. I MODERN DAIRY brook, PHONC 7Z06 its A I vet and yet THSy SATi 5 i MILD.