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THE BERGEN EVENING RECORD, TUESDAY. JANUARY 31. 1030. NEW JUSTICE OPPONENTS RAP Rabies Scare Overplayed, Albert Payson Terhune Says, But He Admits Quarantine's Good If Owners Enforce It CLAIMS HE CAN RID THE COUNTY OF RABID DOGS SCREEN ACTORS READY TO HELP RADIO ARTISTS i Not 1 Dos In 100 Called Rabid Has Disease, He Says, But He Urges Care Be Exercised By JANET SWEET Albert Payson Terhune of Pcmpton Lakes, celebrated throughout the country for his dog stories and Sunnybank collies, today urged Bergen County not to be alarmed by the current rabies scare. Discounting as ridiculous the appeal of Newark Health Officer Charles V.

Craster, who is urging all dog owners to discard their pets, the famous author asserted: "Not one dog in a hundred called rabid actually has the1 disease." vet L. -v, 'IV1 if mm (I i 111 But a mad dog will not chase a person. You might as well expect a typhoid patient to chase his nurse up an alley with an axe." Terhune said the idea of quarantine a good one, and called attention to Great Britain's eradication of rabies by the method, but expressed doubt Bergen can effect it. He urged pet owners to exercise common sense and keep their dogs at home while rabies is prevalent, as they would keep children home through an epidemic of infantile paralysis. "Quarantine always is good if it can be esablished and maintained," Terhune said.

"There is no rabies in Great Britain. They have entirely stamped it out by not allowing dogs to enter the country until they have been quarantined six months. QUARANTINE UNENFORCEABLE "Quarantine is very wise. I certainly would advocate not letting dogs in and out of the County but how are you going to do it. Great Britain has natural boundaries.

But there are no walls around Bergen County. And if I want to take my dog hunting in the next County I can put him in the back of the car and no one will discover him unless there is. examination of every car crossing the County lines. "I would make every dog owner responsible for keeping dogs at home and I would round up stray dogs and not necessarily kill them but keep them confined until the fear of epidemic was passed. I would fine people for letting dogs run lose.

A dog needs exercise but let him take it with his master. "The fact that a dog foams at the mouth must not be construed to mean he is Terhune warned. "It is no more a sign that a dog has Albert Tayson Terhune, famed dog expert, who calls dnjr quarantine a good thing if it can be enforced. But he warned against hysteria over rabies scare. Teaneck Refuses To Adopt Rabies Quarantine On Dogs LEHMAN'S IDEAS FOR NEWJAXES Three New Levies Asked To Balance Budget Of 412 Millions ITS LARGEST YET Albany.

Jan. 31 Proposal of Democratic Governor Lehman, suc ccssor to President Roosevelt, to balance the 1939-40 State budget ot $411,632,122, largest on record, by imposition of three new taxes, today, drew prompt fire from varied opponents, Leaders of Republican majorities in both Houses of the State Legislature were silenced by what informed sources said was a general agreement to await developments, but legislative criticism was not lacking. Soma Legislators privately confessed interest in a sales tax, hithertofore opposed by the Governor, and not mentioned In his budget message. State Senator Thomas C. Des mond, Ncwburgh Republican, declared there should be no further tax on real estate, as soon as hs learned ot the Governor's recom mendation for a direct tax of $1 on, each $1,000 valuation of real proper ty.

The Real Estate Taxpayers Fed eration, through Chairman Herbert Carpenter, said economy seems to have been over-looked in the drive for added taxes from the farmer to big business. Ray Hofford, executive vice- president ot the New York State Real Estate Association, termed the proposed realty levy economically unsound and predicted It would precipitate additional foreclosures, tax sales, and delinquencies which government has been seeking to reduce. Citing that "We cannot maintain a budget balance and a pay-as-you go policy for relief without additional tax Lehman last night advocated $85,000,000 for home relief and made the following oth er recommendations: The freezing of all existing so- called emergency levies, including a third and fourth cent a gallon of gasoline tax, into the State'! permanent tax plan, and the following additional levies: A two-tenths of 1 per cent levy on gross turnover of all business, including professional services, above $10,000 annually, estimated to yield $30,000,000. A direct State tax on real estate of $1 for each $1,000 of valuation, expected to bring $26,000,000. A 50 per cent Increase In the present $l-a-gallon tax on hard liquors, source of an anticipated $8,000,000.

Predicting a deficit of $33,147,273 at the end of the present fiscal year, June 30, attributable to the unemployment relief burden and revenue shrinkages in the wake of the 1937-38 business recession, the Governor said: "I insist upon a balanced budget by 1940." END LONGEST CASE Labor Board Examiner Hears S. O. C. Charge Against Weirton 1 (Br Aoclted Pr Pittsburgh, Jan. 31 Nearly 40, 000 pages of testimony and several thousand exhibits of the Weirton Steel Company case, longest In the history of the National Labor Relations Board, were being prepared today for shipment to Washington.

The hearing that started nearly, 18 months ago in New Cumberland, W. Va and progressed In Ohio, Pennsylvania, and the District of Columbia, ended here late yesterday. Trial Examiner James C. Batten adjourned the hearing as counsel for the Steel Workers Organizing Commute waived closing arguments. The S.

W. O. one of the largest units of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, charged the Company with fostering independent unions and conspiring to discourage Its organization activities. The Company denied the charges. The 3-man Labor Board at Washington will review the testimony before announcing a decision.

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31 Directors of the powerful Screen Actors' Guild early today pledged 100 per cent support to the nation's radio artists if they strike in their wage dispute with advertising agencies. The pledge was announced by Guild President Ralph Morgan after Eddie Cantor, president of the American Federation of Radio Ar-tlsks, received a telephone call from New York describing the A. F. R. A.

and the agencies as still far apart in their negotiations. Cantor sought the barking of the Screen Guild because of the number of star radio programs produced here with film personalities. He said the A. F. R.

A. also had been promised the support of Hollywood agents. The pop-eyed comedian was closeted several hours with Guild directors, evolving a plan of strategy to cope with a possible crisis. Key units of the A. F.

R. A. including Hollywood, San Francisco, Chicago and New York, already are empowered to st rike and only awn it a call from their leaders. The artists' union is seeking a basic wage of $15 for actors and announcers on 15-minutc programs, $25 for half-hour programs and $35 for one-hour programs, with rehearsal pay at the rate of $6 per hour. The scale for singers is broken into 16 categories.

Advertising agencies the link between commercial sponsors and broadcasting stations have countered with wage offers below the A. F. R. demanded minimum. Income Taxes Tips On How To File Returns, Exemptions, And Legal Deductions.

No. 2 FORMS FOR MAKING RETURNS Forms for filing returns of Income for 1938 have been sent to persons who filed returns last year. Failure to receive a form, however, does not relieve a taxpayer of his obligation to file his return and pay the tax on time on or before March 15 if the return is marie on the calendar year basis, as is the case with most individuals. Forms may be obtained upon re quest, written or personal, from the offices of collectors of internal rev enue and deputy collectors. A person whose net Income for 1938 was de rived chiefly from salary or wages and was not in excess of $5,000 should make his return on Form 1040A.

A person whose net Income was in excess of $5,000, or regardless of amount, was derived from a business, profession, rents, or sale of property, is required to use Form 1040. Failure to use the proper forms present difficulties to both the taxpayer and the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Therefore, it is emphasized that a taxpayer who is liable for a return and is engaged in a business or profession from which he derived a net income of less than $5,000 Is required to use Form 1040. The return must be filed with the collector of Internal revenue for the district in which the taxpayer has his legal residence or principal place of business on or before midnight of March 15. 1939.

The tax may be paid in full at the time of filing the return or In four equal installments, due on or before March 15, June 15, September 15. and December 15. MASARYK TO TALK Former Czechoslovak Diplomat To Address Rutgers Students iSpecul to the Bergen Evening Record) New Brunswick. Jan. 31 Dr.

Jan O. Masaryk, son of the founder of the Czechoslovakian Republic and former minister of his nation to Great Britain, will address the Rutgers University student body in the gymnasium Friday morning at 11:30. His topic will be "Democracy at the Crossroads." The announcement was made today by Dr. Robert C. Clothier, president, who also announced that similar meetings of the student body will be held occasionally throughout the year when outstanding speakers will be presented.

They will be in addition U) the 2 convocations held for the past few years, the assembly in September beginning the new term and the spring assembly marking the dose of the year. The additional gatherings will not be held on any specific dates. Invitations to attend Friday have been extended to the University's board of trustees, the State Board of Regents, officials of the City of New Brunswick, and other friends of the University. The meeting also will be open to the public. CHIEFS IN CLASH Almost Collide But Small Pulls To Curb And Hits Parked Car Police Chief and former Police Chief met In an accident yesterday on Grand Avenue, Palisades Park.

Chief Herbert H. Small of 1R4 Leonla Avenue, Lennia, was riming south on Grand Avenue when he pulled to the side of the road to avoid a rnllLslnn with a car driven by E. O. Bunce of 533 Russell Avenue, Ridgeflclri, former Itidgcficld Police Chief, who wb.s making a left turn Into Grand Avenue at Brlnkerhoff Terrace. In pulling to the side of the road Small struck a parked coach driving It, against a pole and causing considerable damage.

No one was Injured and no complaints were made, The parked cur is owned bv the Palisade Motors, at 221 Grand Avenue, Palisades Park. Asks All License Fees, Salary, Then Promises To Show Action QUARANTINE WEAK Walter Ely of Teaneck, former president of Bergen County S. P. C. A.

and active in the work for 35 years, today challenged Bergen County to let him rid the territory of rabies. "If municipalities in this County will turn over to the Board of Freeholders the total of all licenses collected and the Board of Freeholders will employ me at $18 dollars per week," Ely proposed, "a mad dog in ihis County will be a curiosity. Ely explained that he would hire a fleet of trucks to canvass the County until every stray dog had been picked up. Control of the situation is easy, Ely asserted, but it cannot be effected by the proposed quarantine no matter how drastic. In the years the S.

P. C. A. had charge of the dog situation in six towns, not a single child was bitten by a rabid dog in the area controlled, Ely said. The condition can be made general throughout the County he asserted.

The letter Ely made public today follows: CITES EXPERIENCE "Based upon my experience of over 35 years as head of Bergen County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals the manner of controlling this situation is both easy and simple but nothing can or will be accomplished in this direction by followng the methods now employed by a few municipalities in our County and we cannot expect a great deal in the solution of the problem by any quarantine such as is now proposed no matter how drastic such quarantine may be. "During the few years the Society had charge of the dog situation in Hackensack, Little Ferry, Moon-achie, Hasbrouck Heights, Wood-Ridge, and River Edge, not one child had been bitten by a rabid dog and the condition can be made general throughout the County. "A few municipalities in the County employ the services of the Hu-mane Society of Bergen County un der a small contract figure and the amount thus paid fc just so much money thrown away; this is substantiated by the fact that in spite of such service rabid dogs if reports are true are increasif in an alarming manner. "It has often been said that the life of a child is "worth more than that of all dogs; this may be true but if so the authorities have taken no effective means or steps to safe guard the life of the child nor have they in any convincing way proven that assertion. WORSE THAN MOSQUTO? "Bergen County has appropriated many years a sum approximating $40,000 annually for mosquito ex termination which in my humble opinion is wasted.

What amount does the County appropriate for the prevention of rabies? None. How many dollars are collected annually by the various municipalities in the wav of dog licenses? A large sum How many of those dollars are spent for the protection of the pedestrian and for the care of the homeless dog? Very few. Of the two evils which is the worse, the sting of a mosauito or the bite of a rabid dog? The answer is obvious the solution is clear and simple. "If the municipalities in this County will turn over to the Board of Freeholders the total ol all 11 censes collected and the Board of Freeholders will employ me at $18 per a mad dog in this County will be curiosity. "I will now await developments from which we will be able to de termine whether the authorities place the protection of the child first or whether dollars will con tinue to govern the situation.

"I have a dog which is one of my highest prized posessinns and it is bnth unfair and unjust to make the innocent dog the target of attack find thus permit the guilty to escape their share of criticism. The Kennel Club of Northern New Jersey awaited the decision of Dr. Barne't S. Book.staver, head of Teaneck Board of Health, promised to be given tomorrow morning after inferring with the Teaneck Council, as to whether the Club will be permitted to hold its annual big fhow at the Teaneck Armory April 22. Plans have been under way for the event for the past year.

The Club was to have given a benefit (or the crinDled children's fund of the B. P. O. Elks. 50TH STATE UNIT INSURES SAVINGS Lonr Rranrh B.

And L. Subscribes Makes The 50th In Jersey Washington, Jan. 31 Citizens of Nrw Jcrsev now may invest their Mvlnes in anv one of 50 thrift and home-financing institutions in the State with the knowledge that ire insured by an instrumentality of the Feedral Savings and Loan Insurance Cornoration, announced hfre todav. The anonuncement was made on the occasion of the insuring of the Shadow Lawn Building and Loan Awociatinn of Lone Branch. With the admission of the Long "ranch association to the group of Npw Jersev insured institutions 'hrse select thrift and home-financ ItiK businesses now number 50.

have fets totaling $34.214 377 and pro-vifie places of Investment for approximately 20.000 persons. Mr. Krenta stated. SHOE TONGl'E SPEAKS iBv Associated T'ressi Dallas, Jan. 31 When Lonnie Dorsey's shoes turned up missing he went down on Kim Street to look fnr them.

After two hours he saw thrm go by on a stranger. The ninn told police he bought them. All f'sht. said Lnnnlr. see if there isn't "HI on the tongue of the left shoe.

THrrr was. Lnnnl" got his shoes. The man went to Jail. rabies that it is sign you have hydrophobia you perspire. "There are 2 things that arc very easy for a dog to do.

They will vomit and froth at the mouth. Any excitement will make a dog foam. Rabies is a very rare disease. 'I don't know' is all I can say about inoculation. I have no opinion to give on inoculation.

But I will say that if you are a veterinarian who is pretty hard up. and I am another who is pretty hard up too, and we get together and try to put such a quarantine would be unnecessary. "All that is necessary to prevent spread of rabies is strict enforcement by local authorities of the State and local dog statutes. Absolute quarantine is ineffective because of the proximity to New York City and environs. It is impossible to control visiting dogs or prevent their entrance Into our towas.

"I feel enforcement of our own regulations is ample to take care of the situation. If and when a quarantine is needed. Teaneck will enforce it immediately," Bookstaver said. He added that the legality of the proposed County quarantine Is doubtful. Commenting on anti-rabies injections for dogs.

Bookstaver pointed out these have never been proven effective, and that there are many instances on record where these injections resulted in giving the dog pneumonia and distemper. FACES 2 TRIALS Fried Kidnappers Must Fare Court In Farber, Miller Cases iRv Associated Press) New York, Jan. 31 The two convicted kidnappers of Arthur Fried must stand trial for two other abductions before they die in the electric chair. Demetrius Gula and Joseph S. Sa-coda, both 27-year-old ex-convicts, are under sentence to be executed March 6 for the kidnapping of Fried, whose body the prosecution accused him of burning in the furnace of an east side lodge hall.

However, trial of the two condemned men in the kidnapping of Benjamin Farber. Brooklyn coal dealer, and Norman Miller, 19, Brooklyn College student, opens February 20. Co-defendants with Gula and Sa-coda next month are William Jark-nis, 27, former playground instructor, and John Virga. 34. Farber paid $1,900 ransom and Miller's family $13,000.

Both Farber and Miller were abducted and released last July after being held prisoner in the same lodge hall where the State charged Fried, 32-year-olri White Plains businessman, was cremated several months earlier. e. It's Mr. Justice Frankfurter now. Felix Franfurter is shown on his way to U.

S. Supreme Court session in Washington, D. where he was sworn in as a memher of that Judicial body. CHURCH TO NOTE ITS ANNIVERSARY Hall To Mark Christ Church's 25th Year Many residents of West Engle- wood and Teaneck are co-operating in elaborate plans to celebrate the passing of the twenty-fifth anniversary of Christ Episcopal Church at a ball Thursday night, February 16. Starting with the grand march, events of the evening will depict In chronological order, music, costumes, and dances of the past quarter century dating from 1914 to the "World of from the tango and waltz to the Lambeth Walk, Jitterbug acrobatic novelties and jam session finale.

Mrs. Arthur Hirose is director of the Anniversary Ball Committee, Roger Phelps is scheduled to serve as master of ceremonies. Mr. and Mrs. Howard J.

Cox are in charge of the program committee; Mr. and Mrs. Harold Blarkburn, tickets. Mr. and Mrs.

W. W. Rlndlaub, publicity, assisted by Mr. and Mrs. Louis A.

Lupton. Decorations are in charge of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie F. Tilling- hast.

assisted by Mr. and Mrs. Er nest H. Benzlng, Mr. and Mrs.

William Ayre and Mrs, William K. Russell. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur P.

Miller head the music committee, being assisted by Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm A. Stone, and Mr. and Mrs.

Harold M. Parkyn. It is now 25 years since Christ Church was built, although it had its beginning in the private homes of the community, when West En-glewood Park consisted of a small group of about 20 houses on one finished street. It was in 1913, under the leadership of the Rev. Flemming James, then rector of St.

Paul's Episcopal Church in Engle-wood, that services were made possible. The first service wa3 held at the home of Mrs. Fairchild N. Ferry and later were rotated in homes of active members. In May, 1914, Christ Church was officially organized under authority of the Episcopal Diocese of Newark, with 19 charter members.

Before the first year ended, Christ Church had purchased a large plot at the corner of Rugby Road and Rutland Avenue, and a house of worship was erected the following year, being opened and dedicated in October, 1915. Six years later additional land at the corner of Rugby Road and Maitland Avenue was presented to the church as a memorial to Dr. Melancthon S. Aycrs, by his son, Nelson M. Aycrs.

In 1927, Mr. and Mrs. Nelson M. Aycrs had a rectory built on the site and presented it as a gift to the church. It was In 1927 also, during the construction of the rectory, that the parish authorities, realizing the need of more space to accommodate fast growing church and faunoay School membership, erected a large community house adjoining the church.

With the completion of this structure, the church building then occupied the entire block on Rugby Road. It Is in the spacious Community House, which accommodates large gatherings, that the gala Anniversary Ball will be staged on February 16, to celebrate this twenty-fifth milestone of church history. COYOTES INVADE TOWN Tuha. Jan. 31 Coyotes, driven in from the Osage Hills by hunger, are giving Tulsa trouble.

They're, competing with dogs for the contents of garbage palls on the edge of the City. MAD DOGS VERY SICK "Chances are 2.000 to 1 that if a person is bitten by a dog that dog was not mad," Terhune also declared. "A rabid dog is a very sick dog. He is a dying dog. He stag gers when he tries to run and he snaps at imaginary flies.

Man Is Bitten By Rabid Dog; Cops Hunt Him iBy Associated Press! Philadelphia, Jan. 31 Pennsylva nia State Police were engaged today in a race against time in an attempt to save from death an unidentmea man who apparently is unaware that dog which bit him a week ago as infected with rabies. The man drove away from a road side grill at nearby Exton, Chester County, last Tuesday, presumably unconcerned about a wound which the dog inflicted on his hand. The same dog bit the daughter of the grill's owner, Larry Polite. But it was not until yesterday, when eports on a laboratory test were re ceived, that the dog was known to be infected.

For Polite's daughter, the discovery came in time for effective treatment. In most cases, physicians say, the Pasteur treatment is effective only if taken within 10 days after the in fection. Police, realizing that they had but 3 days left to warn the stranger, launched a widespread hunt for him. SHE FLAYS IDEA OF KILLING DOGS Asks Thomas Aid To Cut Epidemic Hysteria Mrs. Turner F.

Currens, Allen dale Poundmaster and president of the Animal Protective League of Allendale, today appealed to Representative J. Parnell Thomas to issue a timely comment to halt a hvsteria she feels has been started following recent rabies cases in Bergen and Passaic Counties. She sent night-letter telegrams last night to Thomas, and to Health Officer Charles V. Craster of New ark, branding as primitive his suggestion that owners voluntarily have their pets destroyed to combat threatening spread of the disease. She said co-operation by owners with the quarantine regulations of local Boards of Health will be suf ficient to bring the present situation under control and she asked for careful thinking on the part of all persons to stop a wave of fear that has set itself up so strongly that she has had many calls from owners who want their pets disposed of.

Her statement was primarily prompted by the Craster suggestion, which she has read in a metropol itan paper. She sent a copy of her Craster wire to Thomas and with it she added her suggestion that he make a statement. A copy of the wire was also sent to the Mayor of Newark. The wires: To Craster: "Your suggestion to owners to have their dogs destroyed to combat threatening epidemic of rabies we consider utterly stupid and lacking in the sense required of a qualified health officer. Would you.

to control a scarlet fever epl demic. massacre all scarlet fever pa tients? We are not sentimentalists and decidedly agree and uphold preventive precautions but do not consid er wholesale massacre solution to rabies problem. Thus is the enlight ened 20th century, not the fear-ridden and therefore cowardly dark, middle ages. "Strongly recommend a man for your post who has some belief in present day medicine and hygienic knowledge. Observance oi law 10 keep animals from roaming at large will stamp out rabies enecuveiy without leaving trail of brokenhearted owners and the awful guilty conscience of wholesale animal murder.

Why give the petty thief such a grand break? Do you know does are protectors as well as To Thomas: "Sent following explanatory night letter to Craster and copy to Newark Mayor. Hope your feelings on subject identical with ours and strongly urge some timely comment from you. It would carry tremendous weight. Public too prone to go haywire. Have enough of this type of work in ordinary times without hysterical fools adding to it.

Hope you agree." TRUCK ON FIRE Short Clrciit Causes Blaze In Wood-Ririge, Firemen ''ay Walter A. Murray. 30 Coolidge Road. Maplewood. expected trouble.

Last night when he smelled smoke in his truck he went to a nearby gas station at Route 2 and Moon-achle Avenue. Wood-Ridge to call his employer, the Hoffman Beverage Company of Newark. Suddenly the truck caught fire. Patrolman Anthony Spina saw it from the corner traffic booth and called head quarters. Before Murray returned, the firemen had extinguished the blaze and returned to headquarters, Murray scanned the damage and wasnt at all sorry he asked for help.

The truck was towed away. Police said a short circuit caused the blaze. this thing through the New Jer sey Legislature, it is going to mean a dollar in our pocket for every dog inoculated. But I repeat. don't Nobody on earth docs know.

Its all a guess." Terhune is spending several months at his Riverside Drive residence in New York as is his custom in the winter but has been following the reports on the prevalence of rabies in New Jersey closely. He said he had had many letters asking his advice and opinion. BARBOUR ALLAYS FEAR ON W. P. A.

Says Congress Will Vote Money If Necessary Bv Associated Press) Washington. Jan. 31 Senator Barbour N. said in a statement today there was no reason for apprehension on the part of any W. P.

A. workers because Congress cut the President's $875,000,000 relief emergency appropriation to $725,000,000. Barbour said Congress would take care of any deficiency if'one should develop before June 30 and added he would vote for such a bill. Barbour voted against the Senate amendment to increase the House relief figure from $725,000,000 to $875,000,000. "In effect." Barbour said, "Congress has given the President to finance current relief re quirements with the understanding that if more money should be needed, it will be provided.

The issue between the President and Congress was not whether Congress should provide adequately for those who need relief, but whether the job can be done for a smaller sum than the President asked. "Congress simply said to the President: 'See if you can't get along on $725,000,000, without causing anyone to suffer. If you can't, we will give you whatever additional amount is "That is all there is to the relief controversy. The smaller appropriation moreover wisely provided that no relief allowances need be cut at all during the winter months, and from statements made by relief officials since the was approved. I do not believe any worthy relief recipient will be dropped from the rolls now or later." REPORT MINOR Ql'AKE Bv Assortfltrd Press) San Diego.

aJn. 31 Fred Robinson, San Diego seismologist, reported that the minor temblors were recorded on his seismograph at 8:24 and 8:26 last night. He said the quake was evidently west of here. Residents of Esconido, 30 miles northwest reported feeling a slight shock about 8 20 P. M.

1 11:20 P. M. E. S. T.i.

ed the number of traffic fatalities, Except for 1932 and 1933, last year's accidental death rate of 73 for 100.000 population was the lowest since 1922. and only 6 years, the Council reported, had lower rates since nallonal records first became available in 1900. Those years were 1919, 1920, 1921, 1B22, 1932 and 1933, The rhlrf factor In the country's exceptional showing was a per rent reduction in traffic deaths, a saving of 7.B40 lives, nnri a drop from 3M43 in 1337 to 32,000 in 1338. (Continued from page 1) one in 1938. Those who were bitten by these dogs received necessary Pasteur treatment, and there were no serious results.

"Only 15 per cent of humans bitten by mad dogs get rabies if they neglect immediate medical attention to cauterize the wound. If everyone bitten had immediate cauterization of wounds, this percentage would be even lower. The nearer the bite is to the person's head, the more dangerous it is. "Only 20 to 30 per cent of dogs bitten by mad dogs contract rabies. These figures have been published by Professor D.

H. Udell, professor of veterinary medicine at New York State Veterinary College at Cornell. "Our department always stands ready to quarantine when necessary but in view of the fact we are abiding strictly by State statutes and local ordinances on dogs, I feel DEBT IS REPAID One Great Grandson Repays Another For Long Standing Debt By Associated Pressi Boonville, Jan. 31 In 1817 Joseph Stephens, founder of a prominent Central Missouri family, was leading a party of pioneers up the Missouri River in flatboats. They ran out of fresh meat and tied up at Boonville.

Samuel Cole met them. It was winter, but the young man was barefooted, hatless. and open-shirted. "We need meat." Stephens said. "Well, I don't have any, but Ml go out and shoot you some" Cole volunteered.

So he trudged through the woods and shot a deer, but refused payment from Stephens. Last week, Maurice Solomon, great grandson of Samuel Cole, went to Lawyer Tom Wallace, Stephens' great grandson, for legal advice. When the matter was settled, Wallace declined a fee. "I am grateful for what your great grandfather did for mine," he said. "I'm glad I can return the favor." SAVES SISTER, 3 Mother Pushed Infant Into Fire.

Then Shot Herself iBv Assorlaied Pressi Atmore, Jan. 31 A 3-year-old girl, although suffering severe burns, owed her life today to the quick action of an older sister who snatched the child from an open grate fire into which, Town Marshal Richard Purvis said, she was pushed by her mother. In the same hospital with the child, "Jerry" Bradford, was the mother, Mrs. Rosetta Bradford, 38, with part of her face torn away by a shotgun blast. Purvis said the woman discharged a gun against her alter shoving the little girl into the flames.

Juanita Bradford. 16. pulled her sister out of the fireplace, rolled her in a blanket and carried her to the hospital. Physicians said both Jerry and her mother had a fair chance of recovery. Marshal Purvis said he was informed Mrs.

Bradford suffered from a mental ailment. P. W. A. MEN LAl'DEI) iBjr Associated Press) New York, Jan.

31 Free beer and certificates of commendation re warded 450 P. W. A. worKers ior completing the renovation of President Grant's tomb two months ahead of schedule. Work began last June 27.

The certificates were presented during a ceremony yesterday In the tomb on Riverside Drive, Outslrlr. the men were given BOO bottles of beer, two apiece. Accidental Deaths Cut 10,000 In Record Safety Campaign Reduction to 93,000 Hrinjrs Nation's Disaster Dill Down 100 Million To $3,200,000,000 (By Associated Pressi Chicago, Jan. 31 The National Safety Council announced today the nation's accidental deaths were reduced by 10,200 in 1938, the greatest improvement ever recorded in a single year. Last year's fatalities totaled 05,000, the Council made known, the lowest agprcgate since 1933 and a 10 per cent de cline from the 1937 figure of 105.205.

The greatest previous decrease was in 1919, when the total was 9.G00 below the figure for 1918. zamxutis 23 ANNUAL FURNITURE 700,000 FEWER IN.U RED The safety experts disclosed further that 700.000 fewer persons were disabled by Injuries in 1938 than in 1937, and thai the economic lcs from accidental deaths and injuries was cut by $400,000,000. Last year's dlsabylng Injuries totaled 9.200.000, and the economic loss was The Council said the Improvement was general In every classification of accidents except, the domestic one. For the first time in 10 years, accidental deaths in the home excecd- 32-34 N. Dean Englewood.