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VOL. XXIX., NO. 4365. GREAT BRITAIN WILL MAINTAIN ADEQAUTE NAVY Premier Bruce Says Na\alj Force Onlv Be Used to Protect Civilization. WASHINGTON, Dec 1 Pre- mier Bruce, of Australia, told the American Naval Ofticers that Great Britain wiil continue to ma‘ntaip an adequate navy as long as naval power is a dominant factor in world peace Premier Bruce declared British Navy will never action except to protect ¢ zation and expressed the conviction that such a conflict would find Ameri- cans and British fighting side by side. HUGE SUM IS COLLECTED BY TAX MISTAKES Mellon Says Addlllonal Lev-! ies Overshadow Re- funds of Taxes. the into that 20 WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.—While the Treasury Department has refunded $175,000,600 in illegally collected tax- es for the last fiscal year, Secre- tary Mellon declared in the same period the Department had collected $400,000,000 in additional levies as flié “reRult of mistakes by taxpayers in computing returns, and for fail- ure to make returns Secretary Mellon stated the refunds vesulted takes by the government ing provisions of excess profits which were not in existence i i Neither Thornton Nor His Boat Are Found it bulk mis, pret tax the from inter SEATT Dec Guard announces find Roy Thornton nor Alice with which he reported to have left Ketchikan. He is wanted following indictments by toe Federal Grand Jury here. The authorities are now seeking Prosper L. Craignic, former operator for I'hornton ——.——— Searching for Bodies of Victims of Texas Slayer 1 The (oast tailed to his gashoat has WHITTIER, police are searching four persons whom the authorities believe were killed by George J Hassell, confessed slayer of his wife and eight stepchildren in Texas Hasseil murdered his first wife and three children and buried them be- neath a house in the outskirts of Whittier, 10 years ago. Fall Is ileéorted to Have Suflered Relapse Dec for 31 The bodies of EL PASO, Texas, Dec. 31.—For- mer Secretary of Interior A. B. Fall, ill here. with penuomnia, suffered a relapse last night Two physi- cians were called to his beside when he had,a violent attack of coughing > DESTROYERS FOR NICARAGUA WASHNGTON, Dec e destroyers Borie and John D. Ed- wards leave Hampton Roads next Tuesday to relieve the sister ships Barry and Brooks now on duty at Nicaragua. DAILY “KA. “ALL THE NEWS lfL THE TIME™ JUNI:AU T — i . — Here is Rebecca Bradley Rogers, twenty-two-year-old Austin, i Stock Exchange. ALASKA . FRIDA CURB MARKET REPORTS -HIGH RECORD YEAR Trading Activities Over shadow Price Fluctua- tions for Year. NEW YORK, Dee $1<=The broad- ening of trading activities in the New York Curb Market in 1926 over- shadowed the year's price fluctua | tions, which in general followed the trend of dealings on the New York Total stock sales for the lished a mew high record of ap- proximately 125:000.000 shares, com- pored whh, 113,00000 for 1925. Bond | sales also were the largest on rec . mounting to $350.000,000 against 000,000 last year. Securities of *moie than 600 com- panies were admitted to trading. The number of stoeks and bonds | listed at the end of the year was about 1 . compared ~with 1,100 at the end of 1925. The total par valuc of stoeks now dealt in is more than $14,000,000 in addition to 250,000,000 without pap value Impomant;. Step Adoption of a new censtitution con taining added provisioms in the in terest of the purchaser of curb se | curities was the must important step mkm by the exchange during the according to¥President David shores Tex., student and slum;,mpher. who was arrested on charg ~| of holding up and robbing a bank at Buda, Tex., of (International Newsreel). CLAIMS U. S. “WAS TREATING WITH RUSSIA UL L Recognilion Approaches e s Claimed by Soviets— PASSES AWAY that “tangible pal- approaches were to Served wnth stlmdlon Civil War Awarded from the United last Congressional Medal. 115 Persons Dead From Poison Liquor on Couast- Dec 31 115 persons in Pacific Coast Francisco each, o SAN Poison the FRANCISCO, liquor killed larger cities of the this San deaths nto 14 vear 1 section and Seattie | Angeles 14, Portland pokane acram coma | s, and each, San official declared | pable” { Russia summer The States attitude privately, tion terms. and made States on. U um-«h its | ready discnuss not officially, recogni-| Then suddenly sorie- thing happened. Conversations term- inated abrutly. Whether is was thej American cotion elections s or quarrels within Communist | Party, do not know but thel American Department aga:n| climbed on a high horse and refused to treat with respecting official said definitely recog “The abandoned to had and if in was | | crisis, Col Bt United at his WILMINGTON, Del 31 Henry A. DuPont States Senator, died home nearby here . Dec former today we State P % : as.” United States Senator who Delaware in the Senate was born in New ware July 30, Former represented from 1905 to 1917, castle county, De 1838, He was a grandson Ele there Irenee du Pont de Nemours gunpowder manufacturer, and great grandson of Pierre Samuel du Pont de Memours, a famous KFrench economist and statesman who died in the United States in 1817 West Point Graduate Graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point on May 6, 1861 at the head of his clas: young du Pont was commissioned a lieute: t in the Union army and served with distinction throughout the Civil War, being brevetted a lieutenant colonel for valorous serv- ices at the battle of Cedar Creek, Va. Subsequently he was awarded a Congressional medal of honor “for gallantry and voluntary exposure to NOTHING TO IT ! WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 The State Department today denied that]| the United States had approachcd| Russian Soviet officials in the past; year on the subject of recogniiton.| —_——a———— 4,000 HOMELESS on of NASHVILLE, Tenn., Dec. 31.—Pro- perty damage is estimated $200,- 000 as the Cumberland ran over 200 blocks in Nashville's greatest flood The manufacturing district was vered with water. Four thousand per- sons are homeless and 1,400 are without work S ee— co- (Continaed ca Fuge Three) Like Tastes Are Found To Attract in Marriage LY LEXINGTON, Ky, Dec. 31. — In marriage, similarity of tastes at- tracts contrary to popular belief that persons of opposite tastes attract each other. This is what Prof. J. E. Adams of the University of Kentucky finds from two sets of questionniares, re- plies to which were received from 109 young men and 159 girl stu- dents. The concensus of the young men's opinions: Eight Hundred Die in New York from Liquor 311t toll in- New is in NEW dicated YORK, Dec. that the death A wife 65 inches in height, 125 pounds in weight, brown eyes and hair, light complexion, slender build, two years younger than the bride- groom, interested in music and lit rature and with a teaching educa- tion. What Husband Since Christmas there 4 deaths from liquor. exceed 800, have been Veterans’ Hospital Bill Ready Vforwl.ower House the girls prefer: 70 inches tall, 165 pounds in weight, brown eyes and hair, light complexion, slender build, two years WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.—The Vet- erans Hospital Construction program carrying $16,000,000 appropriation fs to be placed before the House. The Leler IN FLOOD CITY York City from liquor this year will| !l' Page. Listing mgginal and mem- bership requirements © were made | more stringent. Mamy issues of un | known intrinsic vélue were striken | from the trading 1jst. | A tremendous increase |trading made it necessary to allot {larger quarters to. that section of the market, and record-breaking anc e»‘ .lg manded _enlayge-, toof the house facilities Ticket Servlce Eleven cities in the United States | and Canada were receiving the Curly ticket service at the end of the y i Buffalo and Toronto added [the chain in 1926 and plans under consideration for extending | the Montreal well large cities in in bond I men ar | were to| service to several other o States The membership remained near changing hand high price December EIELSON WITH WILKINS . NEXT as [ list of the Curb | ith sqveral seas ound the record | established in ARGTI . FLIGHT Fairbanks Man Will Be Com- panion of Wilkins— Fly in March. DETROI Detroit ond attempt Mich., Dec. 31.--The is to finance the sec of Capt. George H Wilkins to explore the Arctic re gions. Ber Eilson, Fairbanks aviator, is to accompany Wilkins on the hop-oft from Point Barrow In a Detroit built airplane. The hop-off will be sometime after March 1 The plane to attempt the flight| will be altercd only to increase the fuel capacity for an 1,800 mile flight. It is now Fairbanks. The same| type of engine as used last spring will be shipped to Fairbanks in time for installation for the flight over Brooks Range to Point Barrow, The Detroit Aviation Society has given Wilkins all stored supplies in Alaska. - >so passing of the rickshaw were 39,013 rickshaws in in 1897 ‘and in 1926 the was 8,343, ———.———— Aviator Is Marooned Three Days in Snow. The There Tokyo number ( SAN DIEGO, Cal,; Dec. 31.—W. J. rows airplane pilot, was rescred yesterday after being marooned for three days with his plane in ‘he snow on top of a mountain plateau 12 miles southeast of Mexicali. He subsisted on barreled beer he and one of three pilots were transport- ing from Mexicali to Tia Juana Barrows landed on 4,000 foot plateau to unload the beer. Be- ECEMBI I the older | cording to the grade | when v and ER 31, 1926, Three years ago Mary McCMntic, daughter of Representative James McClintic, of Oklahowmna, t-lopcd with Righard Liebert Washington' theatre organdst. Her father had the wedding annulled, because, he said, they were too young. Now they have eloped again, lhoy were married in Baltimore, -l (lut utional Newsicel) |"' | . Volcano in NEW CODE FOR AR TRAFFIC IN 2 EFFECT JAN. 1 . rupt pUTen | 11 d HAR Monnt 1 HUH Makusl poured out tive, | | A coincident t was ind am felt Regulations for Traffic in i Clouds Are Promulgated by Dept. Commerce. with the i >ro— EARM PELIEF FIGHT READY FOR CONGRESS WASHINGTON, Dec A dozen bills introduced for farm relief, Cong pared the the annual fight on Haugen measure with tion fee Tuled sue. Hearings in to start goon 1t for only (i pass the LID OFF FOR w the life SHINGTON. Dec airways, designed and traffic in the codes which sea and vehicies on the will take offect with the New Yes They were promulgated 1the Commerce Department retary Hoover's task drafting them called into cont rvepresentatives of all in the field of air 1. Rules to safegua :’ clond guide as do ves: hig Uniteq on the ways, St over the 1\ I today after assistants in | ot nee groups interested gation After New Year's day, every craft that flies the air must bear s license number, and if it is used for public conveyance of people or goods, its airworthiness and safety must be certified to by the Commerce Depart ment on the application of detailed tests that touch its power plant, fuselage and wings Pilots and mechanics alike, of their service must be picked men of proven com petence, who have survived the o deal of both physical and mental ex- aminations 1 With | in Congre ssmen are pre- | firey battle on| the MeNary-! the equaliza-| the main Senate for most sch as fs- | the are! Senators who previously voted | remain steadfast, | votes are needed 2% more votes m\ the measure siX more House needs measure, ac Set of Rules Once aflight, the ships duct themselves by set rules meetings and passing in the by lighting at night, and by carrying in struments which will demonstrate the functioning of all portions of their centr nees, As to airplanes tions recognize five chines, ranging from the 2500-pound plane to the big machine that lifts 3.000 pounds and more. Tests were laid out which each machine must meet before its air thiness can be certified, with the exception that manufactirer turns out an approved type of vehicle the fol lowing identical machines may be given a certificate based on the de- monstrated safety of the model. In spectors of the Commerce Depart- ment will see it that machines in service are kept up to standard, not put in shape for use after accidents without renewed testing Operators of commercial vehicles, likewise, must make regular daily and detailed inspections, and keep a log of their findings, from which they shall make regular reports to the government Rights of Air-Road Machines in the air must refrain from appr hing within 300 feet must con for PITTSBURGH, Penn., Cabaret charges mounted nm, afternoon when it was learned that) neither the Prohibition agents nor| police will mere than ordinary interest New Year's celebration B i A chemist of Dunedin, lan, has discovered process for| cleaning badly stained by| branding. Hitherto such stains have been ineradicable Dec. 3 exercise in the the new regula-|'"¢ classes of ma New Zea- a wool a to NEW fabulous ORLEANS, Pec pirate’s gold of fitte, notorious buccaneer, treasure hunters to the southern Louisiana. 31.—The Jean L still lur marshes of A century has not diminished the search for Spanish doubloons and pieces of eight supposed to have been cached by the freebooter some- older than the bride, interested in music and literature and a teacher's education. appropriations includes 100 beds and $150,000 each for Walla Walla ani Camp Lewis, fore it could be placed on trucks, the snow piled so thick he was un- able to take off. wh along the great coastal stretch southwest of New Orleans. So avid have been the diggers on the plains of other ¢ t. They must pass to (Continuea on Fage Two.) TS A A SRS S T o | pric \\hnm CELEBRATION " lGHILAGfl FAGES ' MORE WARFARE; | VICTIM_FOUND Frozen Bod_v of Murdered Former Beer Runner Discovered by Boy | \ | | CHICAGO, [gangland's {today when Clements, former {found, two weeks |pleaded with the them have it hy | The body was frozen, {lets the skull | was hy ted Detective ing means in for another lings."” Clements weeks ago, that time he the first | Heinnie W {pact made. Dec. 31 warfare the body A renewal of predicted of Hillary beer ruuner. was after the tamily gangsters let Christmas Three bul- The body in de- was to were in discovered boys a ;‘ house | said: “This kill- reprisals and we are era of wholesale kil- Sege was killed about twe it believed, for at was missing. He was runner slain sinee ciss was chot and a peace heer LIQUOR_GRAFT NOW REVEALED INDICTMENTS Fed 0 o g Tk tais of e n- SEATT Dec. 21 convention moonshine in Northwest and allegations of im payments liquor law Snohomish County offi- tailed in v released in Court indictment named and mentioned styleq as bootleggers. The not indicted. They will be Al indicted persons have 1 bonds except former Police | Captain Craw, of KEverett, and Rex Hv. hotel owner. Craw and Hali dlv' now :ml to be residents of Van- couver (¢} The story of to fix the '. rs’ of ishungton munity 1 violators to \ by cials, indictment Distriet The persons e the 13 Evereit others it 27 e Dot ARMY FLIERS AT VERA CRUZ VERA Four of planes of hore late Tampico CRUZ 31 fight arrived from Mexico, Dee the Pan-American the U. S. Army yesterday afternoon MAKE ANOTHER HOP GALVESTON, Tex., Dec. 31 —The 1 fliers have arrived at Mexico, from Vera Cruz, five planes are reunited at Tampi Wayne Wheeler Talks About Pouonecl Liquor WASHINGTON, Whee ic Puerto, where the ter a deld ) Dec. 31.—Wayne . counsel for the Anti-Saloon ! Leagy said the “solution of the whole poison alecohol problem is more effective than law enforcement. It is a strange logic to insist that if a person buys hootleg poison alcohol and is killed by drinkig it that he is a martyr, but it he buys carbolic acid and drinks it, he is a suicide.” SEARCHERS STILL DIG FOR LAFITTE’S BODY ‘hnnl Barataria and Grand Terre to the Texas border that in several sec- tion plots of land resemble de- serted shellholed battlefields. On Pecan island, in Vermilion { parish. six miles from the Gult of | Mexico, trees have been uprooted and ‘lmnu pottery, arrowheads and other relics removed from the Indian | mound: there, but no treasure has | becn found. Excitement prevailed i Five.), | (Coatinued on P -

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