DR. GRITMAN LOSES CASE ON SUPREME COURT APPEAL
Boise, Ida.—The judgment by which W. J. and Mary M. Cochran, of Moscow, were awarded $6,000 damages for the failure of a surgeon to remove a gauze sponge after an operation for appendicitis, was affirmed tonight by the supreme court of this state, in an opinion written by Justice Lee and concurred in by his associates.
Charles L. Grittman, the defendant surgeon, appealed from the judgment of the district court, on the grounds that expert testimony on which the verdict was based was contrary to positive scientific knowledge, and should not have been given to the jury. The supreme court holds that the evidence justifies the findings and there is no reversible error.
HELD RESPONSIBLE IN CONNECTION THEATRE FIRE
Conn.— (A. P.)—City New Haven, Building Inspector Joseph C. Austin, Lawrence E. Carroll, manager of the Rialto theatre and Alfred S. Black, president of the Connecticut Theatres Corporation, which owned the theatre, were held criminally responsible for the deaths of nine persons in the Rialto theatre fire of November 27, in the finding by Coroner Eli Mix today.
Will Hear Germany's Story
Paris —(A. P.)—The reparations commission has decided to hold a special session Thursday afternoon, to hear Dr. Fischer, chairman of the German war debt commission, and other German officials who have come from Berlin for an oral discussion with the commission concerning Germany's reparations obligations.
JERSEYS  GRAHAM CANCER
VICTIM CHRISTMAS DAY
Mrs. Annal Graham, wife of T. W. 