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163 1 -Near New Recant COLD SPOTS O.N ROOSEVELT NOT SATISFIED WITH WORKS PLAN MORE THAN 100 DIE AS RESULT OF BIG STORM COLD WAVE BREAKS RECORDS, HEAVY SNOW DRIFTS TIE UP MANY NEW ENGLAND ROADS Bora Bs BOOM AS CUBAN LEADERS DISCUSS PEACE Martial Law To Be Lifted and From Havana Streets From Havana Streets itt. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 28 LW-- Theodore Roosevelt, former Governor of the Philippines. attacked the Public Works Program today as costly and wasteful, and said that direct cash aid tor The unemployed Cold Wave Hits South After Bringing Distress to Other Sections Minnesota towns-47 below. Bolsters Mills.

below. North Haverh. N. below. North Conway.

N. Woodsville, N. below. Montpelier, below. Canadian towns-30 to 1 50 below.

Pelham. N. Franklin, N. below. Bartlett, N.

below. Upton-28 below. Dover. N. below.

Keene, N. below. Concord. N. below.

Manchester. N. below. Stockbr1dge-20 below. St.

Paul. below. Great Barrington-14 below. Dalton-14 below. AndoverI3 below.

Albany. N. below. Plainfield. N.

below. Boston-4 aboNe. New York-9 above. Three Shipping Vessels Nlissing Three Boats Reach PortSnow 17 Inches Deep in New I lampshire FORM GROUP TO CONSTRUCT CUP DEFENSE YACHT Deep Drift's- Still Hamper Travel in Parts of Three Eastern States 4 .04 .....000) N-- 10,.., t. Y- 1.

1 1 i I .4 '1 i i 1,01) 1 1 1 I f- 1 lt ,14 r.i., I 4., i 4. VI ig: i 1 tl tAt 1 ..,..,4 1 '''4-' 1 ki 4 Bolster Oxford County, Maine, Apparently Coldest Place in New England, With 42 Below Zero Two FAMILIES FORCED OUT BY RESTAURANT FIRE NEW YORK. Dec, 33 telN.The first formal step toward the defense of 'the Ameriat's Cu' against T. O. NI Sopwith's British challenger.

the Endeavor, has been completed with the announcement thst a syndicate has been formed to build a new yacht. Harold S. Vanderbilt, ho sailed the Enterprite to victory over Sir Thomas LiplOrCil last challenger. Shamrock V. ts the leader of the new venture and announced yesterday that work on the boat was tinder way at the Herreshoff Yards In Bristol.

R. Associated with Vanderbilt are J. P. Morgan. Gerard B.

Lambert. Frederick W. Vanderbilt. Gore F. Baker, E.

H. Harknem and W. K. Vanderbilt. 11.1.ro1d Vanderbilt will be the skipper- with W.

Starlin; Burgess. John Parkinson and C. Sherman Hoyt members of the afterguard. Vanderbilt said he hopes to have the yacht under sail by the first, of May. (By The Associated Press) The fury of winters onslaught had subsided considerably today over much of the United States but intense cold still prevailed in many sections.

More than 100 persons have died. according to unofficial estimates as a result of blizzards. ice. snow and cold. In New York City.

34.000 men worked in biting cold today to'complete the task of removing a 10.7- inch snowfall from the streets. Many homeless took refuge In municipal lodging houses last night. The cold wave swept into the South yesterday after bringing death and distress to many other sections. Chicago alone counted 19 dead as the mercury fell to 10 be- Continued on Second Page would cost only half as much. 1 His remarks were contained an a Ispecch prepared for delivery today before a luncheon Meeting of the alanufacturers and Bankers Club All Officers' Flgurmg In of Let us meet the Matter square- Hotel th Few ly on a basis of direct cash aid for i the unemployed," he said.

"It will Exceptions, To Be Freed i cost only one-half as much to States and nation as we pay in the Public Works Program. It will also give to those unavoidably unem- ployed a sense of security tn lack tow, whert they can which look forward only to spasmodic employernment ment on specific public projects." chief point of his speech was a plea for a balanced budget. "If aa-e do not balance the budg et soon," he said, inflation 3311 be inevitable and our credit all of necessity be destroyed." "To sum. up," he 'concluded, "I feel that to meet our present situ-plan, -ation the country must(a) in-morning crease taxes where practical. bear-Ramon ing in mind the danger involved; (1a) economize in gov ent opa erations, and (c) discard cur hap-Lon.

hatard method of dealing vith out unemployment as a non- ecurring phenomenon and face it square-that 13, by; "1. The work camps. 2. Full use of the Federal emerSuch gency relief act under the condi-, tions I have outlined for cash reing lief. "3.

Such additional aid as may come from a Public Works Pro-salon gram based on paying' investments and necessities, the organized indi vidual actions of various companies on 'emergency unemploying funds. old age pensions, am, and 'stimulus for the capiannounced tal industries." "The American nation must- face facts or fall." Frances Harrell, above; Richey, below. 'BOSTON. Dec. 2S irThe coldest scat her or the day in many years gripped various parts cf Nor ty and while the temperature dropped enly ta degrees above zero in this city it was 21 bdow iero in Ci.Inc-)rd.

N. IL, where it broke a record of CA years. Bolsters Mills. in Oxford Me, apparently sal the colde3t a a place in New England alth a tern- PATROLMAN AND perature of 42 bt, In Maine zero and sub-zero s51uGGLER DEAD peratures were plentiful snd In Mancherer. N.

IL the mercury IN BORDER CLASII got down to 21 below. at Keene the tante state a ef rA50. Texas. Dee. 28 25 telow made it than any of betatken December 28 in 13 years On Feb.

s.az,s 1. 1920, it was 21 below. At Mont- moccan Peller Vt, it wax 39 be- Souzh El Ea.00nesr the low. Two Ilampslre corn- Granbro.ht destri to Patrolmumties. Eelliam and re- min 25 below made it than any of between the same' State a temperature of EL PASO.

Texas, Dee. December 28 in 13 years. On Feb. s.az,s b.n.rdel.;xlz..nenar4 13'20. It was 21 be10 At Mont- in the et peller.

Vt, it wax 39 detzPts be-1! Souzh the low. Two Ilampshre corn- destri to an Bert and az.n1.-4- mumtles. and re- G. a BOSTON. Dec.

28 M.The Stellar Restaurantone of the most widely known of the North End's Italian eating placeswas swept by fire early today and two families who lived on upper floors of the building were driven out. Police said the first started in the kitchen of the restaurant after ft had closed for the night. ,.6.1. BITTER COLD FOLLOWS IN WAKE OF SEASON'S SEVEREST SNOW STORM HAVANA, Dec. 28, half dozen bombs boomed a discoidant' note in Havana early today as government leaders talked new plans for political- peace in Cuba.

The detonations es oun through scattered sections of the capital. No casualties were re, ported. Benjamin Fernandez de Medina, Uruguayan Minister to Cuba and author of a political conciliation plan, conferred until the early morning houi with President, Ramon Grau San Martin. The 1 Ministerdeclined to comment upon' the nature of their, 'long A governmen t. spokesman, however, Eald there was a possibility that conciliatory negotiations bt-- tween Cuba's warring political- factions would be reopened.

Such negotiations would be based, he said, "upon Grau remaining in the Presidency with a coalition. Cabinet." Medina said he saw several salon leaders while in Miami in the last few days And that they were "all anxious to return to Cuba they all desire -peace Dr. Antonio Guiteras, Secretary of the Interior, War and the Navy. announced that martial-law will be lifted Jan. 5 and soldiers withdrawn, from Havana's streets.

He also said that all of the officers Who tIgured- in the National hotel battle, with the exception of a few leaders, will be released early next Dr. Joe Gonmlez, Rublera. former Havana University professor. prepared today to assume the post of Secretary of Public Instruction. following Griu a-Announcement of an expected Cabinet change.

Cos- tales now holds the office. BABE GIVEN LONG PLANE RIDE To BE OPERATED ON HAVANA. Dec. 28, dozen bombs boomed a discoidant' note in Havana early today as gov- leaders talked new plans for political- peace in Cuba. The detonations resound ed through scattered section of the capital.

No casualties were re- ported. Benjamin' Fernandez de Medina, Uruguayan Minister to Cuba and author of a political conciliation conferred until the early houi with President Grau San Martin. The Ministerdeclined to comment upon the nature of their, 'long A government. spokesman, how, ever, said there was a possibility conciliatory negotiations be- tween Cuba's warring political- fag- tiona would be reopened. negotiations would be said, "upon Grau remain- in the Presidency with a el- Calm.

Cabinet." Medina said he saw several oPP0- leaders while in Miami with- in the last few days And that they were "all anxious to return to Cuba they all desire -peace Dr. Antonio Guiteras, Secretary of the Interior, War and the Navy, that martial-law will be lifted Jan. 5 and soldiers with- drawn, from Havana's streets. MCADOO RESUMES FLIGHT TO ILL DAUGHTER ported 28 by al Practlo-ILY everYlalere I-17e dAYI 1 Jafe of readIngs represented tne i ps-ohnan. Louis A.

11.11 coldest weather of the present sea- son. who fled after' late In the searth 147, In the country. 14 be- 1...7. low was recorded at Da: ton and i iast ofr.c,:s 16 at Great i Veit y-1 At It ,1 e0' to at urea other Melt of them Twenty Below Recorded at Stockbridge To Make Record for CountyPittsfield's Official Temperature Was 8 Below, With Lower Points Being Reached in Out. lying SectionsC.

C. C. Boys Remain at Grange 28 in 39 Years Still smarting from the punishing I blasts of an Arctic-like gale the 1 1 A A Few Cold AGED RESIDENT AND WIFE LOSE LIVES IN. FIRE ATLANTA. Dec.

28 67'h-1-lying to the bedside of his daughter. in Nes' York with pneumonia. Senator William G. McAdoo of California took of! from Candler Field here at 7.15 A. M.

today. Clear weather was reported ahead as the plane lett the field. with Washington the first scheduled stop. The Senator was adviaed upon his arrival here yesterday for an overnight atop that. there was some improvement in the condition of his daughter.

Mrs. Edward S. Cowles. but that tthe remained in a condition. FLYING UNTIL6 P.

TODAY WILL BRING NEW RECORD MIAMI. Fla, Dec. 28 VP). Frances-Ilarsalis and Helen Richey battled new foes todayraw nerves and trouble fraught imaginationsas the minutes tnat separated them from a new women's refueling endurance record were clipped Off by -their whirling propeller. Their "flying boudoir," if all went well.

was to cross the old mark of 8 days, four hours and Ilve- minutes 5:08 P. today and a- new record was to be officially established one hour later. Meanwhile, with cheering notes ground officials sought to soothe the time-whipped nerves of the women. Members of the refueling crew and other pilots who visited with the womenby hand cignals from planes drawn alongside the en1 durance plane-found them plainly Ishowing the extreme mental stress, they said. Mrs.

Marsalis and Miss Richey have expressed in notes dropped from the plane their desire to continue the flight past the mark the motor falls but ground officials were doubtful that even without motor or plane- trouble they would fly more than 48 hours beyond the record. They, expressed the belief tnat over-wrought nerves -would bring them down by that time. PORT GREVILLE, N. Dec. 28 (iLJaries Leary, aged Fox River resident, was burned to death with his wife in a-, fire that rdestroyed their home early today.

Neighbors found the building In ruins. They.believed thee old couple had been trapped in sleep. of Cord Spots anundoct. srreAed ir Greater Bon bad of elderly msn ol the house spots even.though the tem. oilere the threw were perature to the clty The shoottn; brc out hen no records.

wa.tha,:: ar.1 acco.mhsh.ed Over much of the Northern by patro'snar, droe toll CM roiracd st a street Continued on Second rase hear the tr.terraorst benindary The smItzrers in the akA, orened at clzmie, WOMAN SHOTAND pred cr re ranee. rr rkrtan.e THEN STABBED BYri PURSE SNATCHEK 1 as body the ider.t.nard HOLLYWOOD. Dee. 23 of man Estracta, Glona Cra.g, :3. s-tte of John Cra3 ..1 ass sbaut 3S al' ars ":4 producer of derp-sca and travel; and had otene t3 Daso from motion arta shot and Ara- two SC).

bed last by a v.at, clow and Her condttn is vrtcus. ltce she SS n. Two QUESTIOliE A bullet 'her chest. the Cauz attempted to her rf DEAT Trrs :flr.Zer of rtr zs an she resIsted. 114.r arm, Her screams The TAT A TT A 1 rtr WASILINGToN.

DV. 28 Senator William p. McAdoo of California arrived in Washington at noon today and received word that his daughter, ill in New York. was decidedly better. He said he not Cy to New York today.

Spots Noted In Berkshire In the county. readings went as low as 20 below zero. Some of the low marks reported fol. powerhouse. 14 below.

Great Barrington. near Courier office, 18 below. Hinsdale. near Postoffice, 12 below. Stockbridge, 20 below.

Beremont. 12 below. Alford. 12 below. Housatonic, 11.

below. New Marlboro. 12 below. Monterey. 8 below.

Mount Washington, zero. Pittsfield. 8 below. The temperature began to rise perceptibly after 530. snow-girded Berkshires were rocked last night by a sub-zero wave that sent mercuries-tumbling to new lows.

The fluid plunged from a maximum tbf eight, above in Pittsfield to tight below, and -in Stockbridge its dizzy tiescent reached 20 before being checked. The raw blasts in the wake of the worst December storm in more than 10 years failed to halt, the steady progress of transportation in its effort to regain normal schecillei, and this morning railroads and busses. local and interstate, were running with few exceptions on time." Vehicular traffic sustained Its second crushing blow in two days. and garages operating wrecking and tow cars again experienced almost phenomenal business. Side Streets Blocked.

While main highwa-Ys of State, county and city werp opeci yesterday Continued on Second Page BANDIT SLAIN Two ARRESTED AFTER MURDER IN ATLAS TACK LWOW. Poland. DfT. 2.8, Three gangsters. robbIng a grocery.

killed one bystander today and seriously wounded flve mhers. The pollee shot one of the bandlte and arrested the other two. COURT GIVES TWINS STATUS OF HALF-BROTHERS man fed DROPPED DEAD WHILE LEAVING WELFARE OFFICE nivrimorm Dec. 28 operation on Ittt le Sue Trammell, the five-months old sick baby, who was rushed by airplane from Houston, Texas. to Baltimore, was set today tentatively for tomorrow at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Declining to comment on the merit.

diagnosed as hydro-cephalus, or water on the brain. Dr. Walter E. Dandy, noted brain surgeon. said, "The operation, will not be performed before Friday." The baby, cooing in her 'crib at the hospital, was described by attendants as appearing bright and showing no indications of pain or suffering.

Another child of Mr. and Mrs. Wt W. Trammell, her par ents, died severalinontlis ago of the same ailment. Little Sue.

accompanied by her parents, nurse and other relatives, was brought to Baltimore Tuesday night by Jimmy Wedell, famed speed aviator, who flew the 1400- mile course in 11 hours. 700 Get 5 Per Cent Bonus NASHUA, N. Dec, 28 5 per cent bonus on their 1933 earnings will, be given to 700 employees of the Nashua Gummed St. Coated Paper Company, the company nounced today. All employees ex-.

eept salesmen working-on straight Commission will share in the bonus. CHECK ACCOUNT SERVICE CHARGES VOTEDBY BANKS To CONFORM WITH CODE May Run Second to World War-Congress In Spending Money WASHING'rONDec. 28 (iT'). The 73rd Congress starts next Wednesday 'laden with records and may make new ones. It is the first Congress since 1820 meeting in regular session at a time other than the first Monday in December.

The "Lame Duck" Amendment to the Constitution changed the date to an annual meeting on January 3 each year. This Congress will haVe only one regular session and has had one extraordinary session. It has a larger Democratic membership in each branch than ever before. The Senate membership stands: Democrats 60 Repub- beans 35 Farmer-Labor The House membership Ls: Democrats 312; Republicans 114; Farmer-Labor vacancies 4. With the extraordinary session, which began March 9 and ended 100-days later, it may appropriate more money than any other than the World War In the ten monthd of its existence more members have been separated from the Congress by death and resignation than in any similar time in the history of the National.

Assembly. There have been 13 deaths and 8 resignations. NEIN YORK, ne-r :11 si: rse-s sr a I Trf.1-E,... i 1 teb In 1 1r 1: 7.11;.( 1 of of 7.7.,e Ass-4', rt. A' 17 ti-frr-r: Orrese II 1', 7s 1 ilb C.417 Z.

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5.1117.s to a GERMANS ARREST 15 JEWS WHO HAD SAT IN ON RADIO Ms. todzly as was fare or 1th a sack of ut bren gtvett lie eb a alciovr and tvo Berkshire Clearing House Association Puts 'Minimum Charge of 50 Cents on Accounts Under $50FourCent Charge for Alt Checks Above FiveOne Free Check Allowed for Each $12 Above $50Other i ROTTAC11. Ger, Dec. 28 lice arrested 15 Jews. tee women.

as a protective measure todaY, on charges that thty in 'subversive" meetans. hstened In on radio broadcasts from and had stso spread of atrocities. They were taken in c-Jatody to Munich. YANKTON, S. Dec.

28 ('1). Biological questions concerning the paternity of the twin sons Of Mrs. Ewald Peddie, divorced by her husband, were not passed upon in granting the decree, Judge R. B. Tripp declared today in explaining his decision in the case.

Although the twins now have the status of half-brothers through the courts action in accepting the claim of Peddle, a farmer living near Freeman, that he was the father of but One of. them, Judge Tripp said that, he had made no official ruling on this point. Principals in a divorce action, Judie Tripp said, might agree on a settlement as to custody of children. Peddle presented such an agreement. The wife not appearing, the divorce decree was granted by default.

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28.II:v 5AINe lient :3 ter.tz,..702 voTE To from yesterday to at 1645 1 trAnes 46043 to the franc cm the lor, rictlarlie market today BE TAKEN JAN Yesterdays ftntal 11 LS I 1625 francs tS 13 eerlo i Ctrs III IN ri Pr 1 Lc 1.7f sr--; :.:777, TAKEN JAN. 23 IN BOSTON Against Biennial Sessions of r. wt- 14' en .1, A 1:1 e4 I Mil 4 Vouid Give at a ccl pan :1 Ce, 1 7-C iIuch Legislature; Belief It Governor's Party Too Death Sentence Given Reckless r' Driver In Moscow Dec. 28 M.Although Soviet; Russia's criminal codes provide a maximum sentence of 10 years' imprisonment-in such cases, the Moscow City Court today decreed death for Valentine Ivanov. a chauffeur convicted of reckless driving in an accident which resulted in four deaths.

-) Regulations Commercial banks of the Berk- i shire County Clearing- House Association, which met this morning in the directors room of the Agricultural Ntional Bank, approved and adopted the minimum service charges as set down in the national code of fair banking practices approved by Alexander NV. administrator of the Bankers Code who was appointed L'y President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Principal among the regulations are the following: A minimum charge of 50 cents a month shall be made on demand (checking) of less than $50 balances in commercial banks. This qtllows five free "items" per month.

There is also a minimum charge of tour cents for each additional item. 2. For each $12 above the $50 monthly balance. one free item will be allowed. These charges do not apply when there is no debit activity during the month (i.

when no checks are drawn there will be no charge). 'Item" Defined The term "item" is' defined under Rule 12 of the code which says: -An item is each of the following: Each cheek charged to the account. each deposit slip credited to the account. and each item appearing on a deposit slip with exception of currency." (This means that. on a $50 balatice.

a charge of four cents will be made for each check deposited in addition to the firrt. 3. Checking accounts of Over $50 will have no carrying charge. but the usual charge per item will be made each over the first fret five unless there is $12 in the account above $50 for each check. 4.

Checking a balance of $500 or less. having normal actitity shall be to a measured sertice charge as outlined above. Accounts of about $300 monthly or SCCOUTILS unusually active shall be subjected to a charge 'which is designed to make them carry themselves, 5. Ordinary checks can be supplied without a specific charge. The cost of specially imprinted or extra or special types of checks shall be Continued on Second rage Criminals and Malefactors Beyond Redemption Attitude Indicated by New German Laws i a resad 1:7.61 1 ex-4 pf koo .7 Committee Also Opposes Proposal That There Be Time Trti -h Limit of Sitting of General CourtWould Change II td3 System of Handling Legislative Bills To Expedite Work of Second Year's Session 1 7 Witt Rogers Serious Offenders, Considered "Public Menace," Not To Be Freed Even After Serving Sentences Sterilization for "Dangerous Sex Criminals" Greatest Roundup of Sick Human Beings in Medical History Under Way LAM NEWS BRIEFS (Herewith is presented the second in a series dealing with legal reforms- being instituted In I Germany under Chancellor Adolf Hitler.) From the AP Wire Congress and The People Behind Roosevelt Is Told Dee VI iss tod iD- Tex tzatt r.

so'4 con and 7.1-?O'fr. 4T Co! 1Zot ant adxtwa't ye enk: F.e4,erl 1.3 ir 4 to L-e is. ry The Se LA tzve de 7 ta tt I lute ocArs ltl-rs Is Cs rs rlact ry MI's L. Or.t trIxt -I t-se Am rOr LA, sr.1 r-11 fr71-7f7 stind by BOSTON. Dee.

28 (.1, The spe-1 dal Committee on Pub- lic xtlienclitures. believing bienmal sessions Of the State Le ir.S:a turf would -place a tremendous poser MI the hands of the party to shich the I Governor belonza." today recommended that no changes be made In the present system. under shirts the General Court meets every Year. One member of the committee Representstive William B. Baker of Newtonassented from the report 1 "To those sho adsocate biennist I 1 sess1ons more as a measure of ficient makmg than as art economy measure and sho ho4 i that special sessions can be cElect.

and be to meet emergencies. there ts the that a spec1a1 sexston Is alsays ed for a specinc ptu-pose shtch Ls enurely sithin the cuacret iOn 0: the executive (Governor)." the report said. Tremendatia Foxier 'No other except Included In his (the Goyernoe's) mcszaire to the House and Senate can be taken up for consideration except by a four-firths vote of the two branches. This places a tremendOus poser tn matter that msv be much involved in pe.itics In the hands of the party to shich the executite bclonis." The iniesti-icint con-1 tended that a rharze to the ten-roil system greater per with the a Late ti1.4 ascii as mantes. cties, towns anl State departanents.

S4ch powers. it was would not be used LI the ailaantage of the taapsyera. 4 to the that biennial session4 Clown government erpensea, the romitltLee saki that aign a savtr.c I amount. to less than ore-half of one per rent of the iller7tZt etiLe. buctiet.

a which more than offset by ttop It enumerate, 1 tatty Deliberation Itarantut The committee also 072ce.ed the proposal that there be a ume L.Ltt on the of the if'nerill e'C'art St ring that Of Important probenas In the elvelrg r.ours ef a of knizth La harmful to the pAlil.c terets. The committee al rhanze the system of r.andl.xe to expecUte the soak of, utve steel-Ai year's 4.s.vX,1 :01 the I illation of ba tefrctrd at the f.rit 'year's eactpt Li tlAved 'stances where a second of the was Ceercel netes, a rr, cc.sLs,1, the Editor of THE EA SANTA MONICA, Ca 4 Dec 27. This is a iday an time when everybody. gives On I something they kno nothing about. So today I discnss opera, grand opera.

The Chicago Opera House opened for the first time in two years. It was never a succem because lt, was -constructed wrong. It was built so everybody could see the stage. but 'nobody could tee -each other. So now it's been remodeled so you can't see the stage but can see the price mark on every dress iri the house.

And, it's doing New York opened its season with an opera for the ftrst. time i in history. American music has always been considered by the operagoers as fit for nothing but the ear. It never looked good, through a lorgnette from a box. hari about all the opera news that's nt to print.

Yours, WILL ROGERS. I COM I. Mrs. ClatiOn and seised at dist in. stork and we have twoutlint once for aleaw efra.

A. P. Ciark. Rank Row. wwAdv.

re. Major Clash in Sight. SHANGHAI, Dec. 26.Ch1nese press reports said today that rebel troops In Fukien Province were advancing toward the border. presaging a major clash with Nationalist Government soldiera stationed along the Fukien-Chekiang line.

Leipzig Marinus Van Der Lubbe, young Dutch bricklayer. Ls the first man ever sentenced to death for arson in Germany. The law under which he was condemned last Saturday was passed just after the Reichstag Building fire, Feb. 27. It was declared retroactive, making Van Der Lubbe's confessed crime of starting the fire high treason.

More Rigorous Measures Beginning with the new year. more rigorous measureshailed as "genuine be inaugurated. Committees are at work "Hitlerizing" some 20 kinds of Justice, ranging all the from matrimonial to maritime. Compulsory sterilization laws go into effect Jan. 1, too, along with a new civil code.

That also is the date for the reinstallation of military courts. Continued on Second Page 4 Divorced After Three Months. LONDON.The Printeu Sara of Iraq has left England divorced from her conunober husband of three months, Atta Bey Amin. of the Iraq delegation in London. The princess' 2I-year-old nephew, the King of Iraq, Suits Against 20 NEW YORK, Dec.

(Th.The Federal Government has f1kx1 suit against the 20 banks of the New York Clearing House Association and individuals who served on the clearing house commAtee during the last, two years to Compel payment in lull to depositors of the closed Harriman National Bank and Trust Company. By WALTER BROCKMANN (Associated Press Foreign- Staff) BERLIN, Dec. 28 is too late for convicts in German tentiaries to to Make good this year. On Jan. 1, 1934, a new penal cede goes into effect.

It is described by some as perhaps the most drastic of modern times. Many of those now behind the bars face extended sentences as a result. Since the advent of power of -Chancellor Adolf Hitler, 50 persons have been executed under specially passed and still exiting laws tnterpreted partly to apply to political and criminal slayings. Awaiting execution in his cell at "Dinars at I14, starts Austrian Field Marshal Diet. VIENNA.

Dec. 2.8, Marshal Alexander Von Krobatin. Austria-llunasry's Istmister of War during the World War, died today at the age of 84.. 110 WA. the last surviving Austrian field marshal of the World War period.

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