Evening Star Newspaper, December 30, 1921, Page 1

I WEATHER. Closing New York Stocks, Page 23 Bomewhat warmer tonight, lowest temperature about 28 degrees; tomor- row cloudy and warmer. Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. today: Ilighest, 41, at 2 pm. yesterday; lowest, 19, at 7 am. today. Full report on page i he #£h No. 28,369. Entered s second-class matter post office. Washington. D. C. WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, DEC eni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION g Star. ‘Mcmber of the Associated Press | The Aseocisted Press is exclusively entitied to | the use for republication of all news dispatches I | | | credited fo it or ot othervise eredited in this | PaDer and £1% the local mews published hereia. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are aiso reserved. Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 87,103 B U, EMBER 1921 —-THIRTY-F UR PAGES. TWO CENTS. 10,000-TON LIMIT AGREED UPON FOR ALL CRAFT EXCEPT CAPITAL | SHIPS AND AIRPLANE CARRIERS Held Important Forward Step. Conference Acliont i | | 8-INCH GUN LIMIT ALSO DECIDED UPON Of Root Proposal on Submarine Warfare. the Associated Press. Alhert Sarrnut, head of the French arms conference delezne tion, at the wmeeting today of the eonfcrence naval committer, de- elared in substance that France was beginning to be regavded with muspicion by the other powers represented in the Waxhington mesting aud that this could not &0 on. M. Sarraut went on to say. in substance, according to reports re- ecived from members of other dei- ecations. that the position of France had become very uncom- fortable. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. All naval crait except capiial ships! ed d aireraft carriers will be lim 10 10.000 tons in size, under an a nt reached at a meeting of committes on limitation of ar ©f the Washington conference tod e United States, Great b Japan and Ital ve given their as- sent to this proposal, and the Fi delegution has done so also with the understanding that it must be ratificd their home government. Favor able action by the French, how. expected Eight-Inch Guu Limit. The limitation of the siz auxiliary craft, including cruis is regarded as a step of zreat im rertance. Tt will result largely in putting an end to naval building com- ave petition. The agreement carries with it also a limitation to eight-inch guns. Without these limita on to nage and size of g would be at liberty so-called auxiliary’ large size and strengih. The committee also its session this mornin iioot proposal regardi submarines in warfare, - This wouid. debar the use of submarines as com merce destroyers. It was not acted upon, since France, Italy and Japan| have requested instructions from their home governments, the United Staies #nd Great Britain being ready as sent. However, it id meeting that the delegations present were favorable to the idew and that it likely would be adopted. Horizon Clears. The air was cleared considerably, i was said, by the discussion of tae submarien question which tooi marc‘ today. ‘When the committee meets again ne | n.which th continuou of ds A, “d r having heey she hours minutes and he old in June, Lucien Boussoutrut and Jean cord was made in sht at Roosevel terday. and at were still in the air, signs of descendin Aero Club Officers Pleased. ficers of the Aero Club of America. e at the field as o © as they marking the establishment ne with stood. watches | new record. i M. Larsen. inventor of the said that machine might nis there the mono- ‘SUBMARINE RALES T HECK FRACE British and Americans Hope to Render These Crait Use- less for Offense. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Eriti { | i The and American Celeza- ermined eArenmvent posiiion on the building of rules for submarines in time of war as to render j.en of offensive powe { submarine warfare and their record jon the subject is so recent, that the Americans and British ianoiher tack in the conference and {are endeavpring to see whether the: { French, who obhored the submarine | when the Germans usti it. will now! { defend it as a humane and legitimate instrument of warfare. H Cannot Protect Lives. The rules of warfare being drawn are such as to make it impossible for a submarine to attack a merchant - offering such a sot of 1 em useless as a weap- . The French have protested so vio-| lently against the German methods of | have now taken at 3 o'clock this afternoon it is e t PLANE IN AIR 26 HOURS: ORLD RECORD BROKEN Flies Continuously Irom 8:58 A.M. Yesterday | Until 11:15 This Morning—Not Marred by ~ FEDERAL AND PRIVATE | Single Mishap—Ingine Acis Perfectly. No Disposition Is Made/ Garden cirele over Mineola, and Hempstead, re man: ur ater ious eforis to e rd had been n foxvorabie s this | wes made with the mercury near the zer0 10 the accompaniment of streng and saow flurri A The hievements of America Acronautical Chamber of Com- i % | Col. Sherrill Tells Need Before | GENERAL CLEANP 0F . C, ROERTY URGEDINCONGRESS House Subcommittee on Appropriations. GROUNDS ARE AIMED AT Cenditicn of Smithsonian Grounds | and Space Before Union Station Especially Mentioned. The ability up of Rovs Al clean- Dist hoi ate e hear- < before ap strict apy subcommitt tire House today. Li er in churge of unds public building. crce hailed the flight s a fiui"g\ffll’e‘ |’|le commitiee. He told of tie climux to the achievements of Ame ‘“f“: or cleaning up th 000 yai Lican aviation in 1921, “ol‘ : Groundst easd of {ords were made by Yankee SsisneiationalSalivenm fiwhichifwas He ocher St | covered with debris following the AUEUSL 16—\ Leoning monoplane erection of temporary war buildings ving boat. rising to 19.500 feet wi He al 10ld of ¢ U N ur-passengers. exiablisked an effi- | o€ 210 19 0% D and er record for aibeiween Un and the Cap bassen, plane to a Dayton, Ohie. mark 800 feet ering of feet set by Maj. Ran- Novemler (Co Bert ENVOYS IN DRIVE Acost ol in mn 1) inued on Many Leaders Seek to Offset i Blow Dealt by French on : Submarine Issue. BY N. 0. MESS With clements of d ently bardening of the arms and far castern conie ence, the delegates who sincerely wish the undertaking well and hope that it may write a definite, even it {limited, 1ecord of achievement, are set- ting themselves in earnest to the i work of conciliation aud composition | of differences. The staggering blow given the hitherto promising prospect by France 1has unquestionably disconcertel the friends of the great movemeni. It has occasioned anxieiy on two scores. 1 first because it constitutes a vital GER. ension appar- in several quartei | weakening of the expectation of ade- i quate limitation of naval armament, {and secondly because of the appre- I hension that it may stiffen the r i sistance to efforts to harmonize dif- | ferences recognized as existing | otier quarters ‘the altitude | al FOR PAREY AMITY | €d responsibility for the care of su ol in prepa 1hé 2 Authority Questioned. ol Sherrill said that the u condition of ma Washington is be. sightly ous in divid- areas, Representative ans of > braska aised the qu wheth any federal or District have authority to compel private property owners to keep their property in sightiy condition. and if not. for t authoritics to do it and levy a in payment ol “Sherrill said that the District health office and the police have the broadest possible jurisdiction to com pel such improvements. on priviteis owned property the wround of ! sanitation. In reply to questions fro members of the commitic this would have a tendenc people 1o improve their rather than allow it to lie hily and insanitary condition. e s to 1o pro Argues for Park System. Col. Sherrill took the subeommit- tee on a map tour of the park =y tem. comprising 478 reservatio largest of which i Cres which contains 1,532 acres. arguing in snpport of -the imate totalling $45.000. as against 000 for the lagt four fiscal vears, for the @ of the park system. There are 190 that are not of funds, he e w, now . Meridian Park was described as “an offense eve-sore and to Davis and that for zbout has declined to uate sums for the proper ent of this park, which rman Davis and Col. ovds the b She ten vill on the years Con- im- both herrill said viewpoint anvwhere Surroundings Vital. The increased appropriation. Col. in | Sherrill explained. was asked to take esethetic | appropriate | pected that it wiil take up the pro- posal to limit th: tonnage air- eraft carriers. of It is understood t cur the | submarino discus re was ta of an arcticle peared in a ¥rench maritime publication which showed how the submarines could be ugad,*w destroy Great Britain's com lerce in the event of war. It is nderstood that the French delega- on today denied th s article xpressed the point of view of ihe French government. Would Be Guilty of Pirary. Another proposal by ir. Root with regara to ines, wiso peads is that the s ry powers, desirin 1o insure the rules regard yaarines, further dec person in_the service of powers adopting the p: all be med to h Jaws of war, and shail o and punisiiment as if for an act and may be brought to ore the vil or military of any such power within tNe jurisdiction of which he may be 1 all violate the rules. urces it was the submarine ques- to be referred to home governments by any of the deleg: tions rarily laid a the Root rules might be ter ide and ihe question arriers taken up. In this event, it was said, a ratio of alreraft carrier tonnage would be pro- posed as follows: §-5-3- for the United States, Great Britain. Japan, ¥rance and Italy, respectively. The tonnage proposed by the United States | for aircraft carriers for America is £0.000 tons, and the same for Great Britain. Limit Size of Carriers. ‘The limitation of the size of aircraft carriers to 25,000 tons or 000 tons ulso would be discussed in this con- nection, it was said. Because of the necessity of arriving at decisions in the matter of rules governing submarines, the tonnage of aircraft carriers and of auxiliary craft generally, it was said today, no plenary session probably would be held by the conference for several days. It has now been made clear that talk of calling a new conference of the powers almost immediately to go further into the question of the limi- tation of the submarine ard other auxiliary tonnage has been prema- ture, to say the least. A spokesman for the American dele- gation now declares that in view of the attitude of some of the powers at- tending the conference, and it is well understood that France particularly is in mind, it would be futile to call a (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) —_— APPROVES LATER PARLEYS @nces as an outgrowth of the arm: ment conference today received the support of the general committee on the limitation of armament, organized under the auspices of the American Federation of Labor. The committee issued a statement which, in addition to indorsing the plan for further conferences, pledged Rupport to the American delegation in efforts of any kind to curb the use ©f submarines and other new weapons i i ship. for obviously the undersea c: i i { new rules provides that the merchant | cannot take care of the lives of either As long as conc and one of the i ruled the proceedings of crew or passengers, conference on and compromise | ship caunot be sunk unless that is done. I Of course, the submarine would still be useful in naval battle against an| invasion by a fleet, but then destroy- ers usnally accompany the larger ships. anyway. and destroyers mean sure death to a submarine. For the momeat the effort to make t jof su but it iz questionable whether the bmarines has been abandoned, sue has been permanently disposed of. The French are playving Washington gainst Cannes, which is only another vay of saying that when Prime Min- ster Lloyd George meets Premier Briand at the supreme council at Cannes some bargaining may take piace which will modify the French jatiitude at Washington. i Loo % retrospectively, Americans |are wondering whether it s such a wise thing, after all, to abandon the | topic of land armaments when Pre- {mier Briand made his speech. There 1 those who believe the French played ball” as the Brit- !ish are doing. if they had been kept on the anxious seat concerning land armament. Might Give Up Ideas. dispatches inspired by the h foreign office indicate that the ‘h_policy on_submarines is not necessarily inflexibie, and that if a world-wide conference were called they would give up their ideas of ex- tensive submarine tonnage. From this it s inferred here that the French are merely seeking a means of post- { poning the settlement of the question {until they obtain from other Kuro- I pean powers certain pledges which !affect them much more vitally than the future size of a navy. The French are attempting to pre- vent a German-British entente. They are irritated over the British policy in the near east. are displeased over the separate peace made by the French with the Turks. {In other words, the trouble is Euro- pean and not American. And_besides, | the head of the French delegation here, { 2. Sarraut. is the brother-in-law of the owner of one of the most influen- tial newspapers in France. which is said to control a large bloc of depu- ties. This means that Premier Briand cannot easily override M. Sarrauts views. (Copyright, 1921.) By the Associated Press. NEW TYORK, December 30.— America’s greatest prize of war, the giant ship Leviathan, which for more than two years has been tied up at the Hoboken pler, may soon resume her queenship of the seas. Bids for the reconditioning of the great liner were to be open- ed at the office of William F. Gibbs, construction engineer, here today, in the presence of Chairman Las- ker of the United Stdtes Shipping Board. Tt was expected five to eight ship repair firms would submit Dro- - A l 1 agree to build a small tonnage | Conversely the Brlklsh' linduced to its extension to many jbranches. By the same tokcn a resist- ing disposition, it is apprehended, will {breed further discord. i Envors Not Discouraged. | the recogaition that the administration and members of the conference who are in sympatay i before the world of some good resuits accomglished. at the moment is seen in the prospective arousing of opposition in the Senate to the treaties which are expected to be the outcome of tae agreements already cutered inte, and an outbreak of dome: 1 tic politics antagonistic to the ratifica- ition of the treaties. It is still uncerfain to wha idemocratic partisan opposition to the treaties will crystallize in the Senate. As long as things were going smooth- 1y in the conference and all indica- | tions pointed to a brilliantly success- | {ful outcome, partisan politics was {minimized and the party men held | their peace. This attitude was under- !standable on the ground that if the |conference did really big things for {the world no party or individual could !v\l'ell afford to stand in seeming oppo- sition. Democrats’ View Pursling. Now that the conference is among lthe breakers, though not on the rocks, | there are evidences of a disposition to |foresee the possibilities of creating I party capital out of a possible falling short of accomplishment of the great ideals of the work in hand. ‘There is still possibility that con- i servati thought among the demo- crats will bring a majority conclu- sion to refrain from seizing upon par- tial success of an undertaking ap- proved by the people of th!s country as an agency of partisan gloating. One point which is borne in mind by the politicians is that the govern- ment of the United States and the ad- ministration in power cannot be held to account for any diminution of suc- " (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) $5,000,000 WORK TO RESTORE LEVIATHAN AS QUEEN OF SEA ;Jol-lah for a‘;ork. Whitch might en- 2il expenditures of more than $5.000,000. Three classes of bids were asked: First, for machinery; second, for stewards’ supplies, including cook- ing utensils and equipment, and third, for general restoration of the interior, which would make the Leviathan one of the finest lin- er‘: ;flolL : 5 orce of engineers working un- der Mr. Gibbs recently put del‘lllld plans of the Leviathan on paper, after the Shipping Board had re- fused to pay her former German owners $1.000.000 for her construc- tion drawings, ! that spirit engendered good feeiing and | care of small reservations in various parts of the city and put them in a jereditable condition. By illustration he men- way of | tioned a sroup on Vermont Avenue { | But it is not to e understood from ' character of these obvious facts ments. with Its general aims have given up he finds th hope of being able to make a showing ' ket. rathe rear Frelinghuysen University. 1t is not the policy of his office. he said, to fix up nice parks in outlyving sec- tions out of all proportion to th of surrounding develop. Col. Sherrill told the committee that in buying up land for the Rock creek and Potomac parkway commission. t by buying in open mar. than resorting con- proceedings, to he can the property desired on an average of 15 per cent below the assessed valu- demnation A disturbing feature of the situation ation. HUGH S. GIBSGN TO WED GIRL HE MET IN WAR | t extent|Ceremony in Brussels With Mlle. Reyntiens Set for Feb- ruary 16. BRUSSELS, December 30.—The wed- ding of Hugh S. Gibson, American minister to Poland, to Mlle. Ynes Reyntiens, whose engagement was announced from Warsaw vesterday, will take place in this city February 16, it was announced today. Mlle. Reyntiens is the daughter of a former Belgian court official who was a friend of King Leopold 11. Mr. Gibson and Mlle. Reyntiens be- came acquainted during the war, when he was secretary of the American le- gation and she a war relief worker. Today’s News In Brief Airplane makes new non-stop flight record. Page 1 General clean-up of District property urged. Page 1 Poison_“bootleg” kills three more in New York. Page 1 Earl of Athlone, brother of Queen Mary, ‘may be governor general of Ireland. Page 2 British and French financiers open economic conference. Pige 2 L. P. Steuart new imperial potentate of Almas Temple. Page 2 Italian government assists bank which closes doors. Page 2 Root resolution wins support at arms conterence. Page 2 France points to nations outside par- ley which may use submarines. Page 3 Hughes and Balfour may be asked to settle Shantung issue for China and Jayan. Page 3 Root sharply reminds envoys of duty to curb submarines. Page 3 British press scores and defends French attitude on submarines. Page 3 Charles F. Roberts heads Kiwanis Club. Page 10 First American Boys to hold mass meeting tomorrow. Page 12 Gov. Small freed on several charges hy defects in indictments. Page 20 Former patient defends r. Lo * getj BuLLETIN SCIENCE SOON WILL BE ABLE o PREDICT EARTHQUAKES i HERDIAN MANSON RENTCJT ORDERED |While Majority Are Revised Downward, Some Sena- ! tors to Pay More. The District Rent Comm ded down a d | | on today ment-kotel, will receive an annual re fturn of approsimately $280.000. In | their statements and testimony before i the commissjon during the long series of hearings held in the cage ihe ow ers brought out that the Structure cost about $1.500,000 to build. The basis of valuation on which the com- jon decided the new rentals was reductions made in to- total in the neighbor- or about $15.744 a of the mon i ! hood of 31 ear. The ses is toia bout §480, or v Rfty apa; unchanged by meat the schedule. Senators' Rents Increased. Separate determinations were hand- ed down in the cases filed by Ken- redy Bros. Inc. against Senaters { John B. Kendrick, Andrieus A. Jones. Thomas J. Walsh and Wiitiam J. Har- ris. and ex-Senator Charles S. Thomas. increases being granted, although not in the amount requested by the own- e k's rent was in- creased from $207.50 to $300 a month; Senator Jones'. from $200 to § month; Senator Walsh's, from $19: 1$120 a month: ex-Senator Thomas i 5 o $250 a month, and lMiam J. Harris', from $1 { $185 a month. These tenants rec | the heaviest increases in rent. Separate determinations also were made in the complaints filed against {the owners by Serator C. A. Culbar- {son and Chief Justice Constantine J. Senator Kend tive from October 1, 1920, District Commissioner = James F. Osster was among oflicials who had thefr rents reduced by the commis- sion. His spartment was reduced from $225 to $200 a month. Senator Henry W. Keve was reduced from $240 month. apartment to 3205 a Raised to $40 a Month. Representative A. T. Treadway re- ceived a reduction from $290 to $230 a month. Representative P. G. Ten Eyck's rent was cut from $S5 to $80 a month. Representative Bertrand H. Snell obtained a reduction from $335 to $275 & month. Representative C. S, Briggs’ rent was raised from $37.50 to $40 a month. Associate Justice J. H. CI. (Continued on Page 1. Clarke of the ,“Column 5.y PRESIDENT OPTIMISTIC IN MESSAGE TO OMAHA ON BUSINESS FOR 1922 OMAHA, .December 30.—Belief that the national business situa- tion is going to improve in 1922 was expressed by President Kard- ing in a message made public to- day by the Omaha Chamber of Commerce in connection with an entertainment in honor of travel- ing salesmen who work out of Omaha. President Harding said it was his earnest hope that traveling men “will continue in the coming year the splendid work for Ameri- can business and national confl- dence which they have always con- ducted in the past. It has long been a conviction with me that no group of men do more to spread the spirit and sentiment of opti- . mism than do these ambassadors of business, as I like to call them. I hope and firmly believe that the efforts which they and many oth- ers are putting forward are go- ta vast improve- st ermination declar-| | C 1 Advised i Smyth of the District Conrt of Ap- ‘y. s. Senator Culberson received a ccrease from $407.50 to $350 a montl. “hief Justice Smyth, whose leass | stipulated that in the event of the {Ball act being declared constitutional he world peal to the commission! for a lower rent. received a reduction from $260 to $220 a month. retroae- nators F. R. Gooding and R. P. Frnst received rental decremses of | $25 and $15 a month. resp.ctively. 'ESSAY CONTESTANTS SHOW KEEN INTEREST IN QUESTIONS The Star’s Prize Offer Leads to Careful Study of Arms Conference i Developments. Keen interest has besn manifested s relating to the con- Iimitation of arma- e quest rence on the ing the present schedule of rents in e isoment s e he Meridian Mansion, 2400 16th street stants in The o rthwest. unrcasonable and fixing a ntest on the w schedule of rates, the majority Conference and Its representing material decreases for The questions are ithe tenants. Man ns promi- | designed to aid the | nent in official life ted by the ' g their composi { decigion. 5 Under the new scheduls it is esti-| nird set of the scries of five imated that Kenuedy Bros, Ine. and;| questions foilows .| Harry T. Rust, owners of the apart-| large a s rine fleet does der in's attitude What is Great | toward submar | What are the proposals of the | United States to limit forms of sub- | marine attack? H | What are the four principles re- | ferenc Where is Kiaochow? to Get Information. It is emphasized that answers to i the questions shouid not be submitted {to The Star. The contestants. however. FRENCH ADVANCE INTO RUHR SEEN Troop Concentration Along Border Considered Fore- runner. BY GEORGE WITTE. «By Cable to The Star and the ] S News. Copyright, BERLIN, Germany Reports from Mayence and other cities in the occupied area declare that the French are getting ready to advance into the Ruhr district if the indemnity two weeks. Troops are being con- centrated along the border line of the unoccupied zone and reinforcements are arriving in large numbers from France. In the industrial center of Duisburg, which is now the extreme outpost of the French in the Rhine- |1ard, ¥rench merchants and other civilians are said to be buying up |large supplies of foodstuffs, hard- ware and furniture and having them stored away Wwith the result that the natives are convinced thai a new oc- cupation is near at hand. According to information from a source near Director Havenstein of the Federal Reichsbank, Germany vi announce at the Paris repara- :‘it;l\’lls conference that the utmost she can pay by February 15, - without touching the Reichbank gold reserve, | will be 300,000,000 gold marks ¢ 400,000). If, however, she is forced to | touch_the 'gold reserve, she could even then raise only 1,600.000,000 gold marks, ($380,800,000) instead of “the 2,000,000,000 gold marks, ($476,000,- 000) demanded. Even so, half of this would have to be backed by bonds a foreign loan. °"1f Germany is deprived of her en- tire gold reserve it will be almost out of the question, it is claimed, for her to meet the reparations payments falling due after next year. ) December 30.— Saturda Jating to China adopted by the con- | are advised to secure all imformation !which will enable them to answer the {auestions intelligently belors wiiting their essays. | Contestants should not v ! ‘s until after the o of thn Christmas holidays, By me ail the simple rules of the conicst, !gether with the personne: of ihe board |of judges, have been announced. {Meantime the essavists are nrged to {read the conicrence proccedinis ichronicled in the press, in order to be @ome conversant with the ever-chang- {inz problems before it. | The attention of the teachers bupils already has been school authoriti {mary of the conference prs {printed daily in The Star, as valuab |in studying’ the epoch-makinyg event Prizes Offered by Classes. s previously announcel, eighty ght cash prizes, aggregating $1.000, iwil be awarded winners of the con- test. The prizes wilt be distributed | widely over two separate classes, into ich the contest probably will be ded. in order that all ccntestan:s bmitting essays of merit may re- ce awards, e the LW 1ai ce t0-1 IHEADS OF DISTRICT THRE RASOLINE TAX UNDER ADVISENENT EAutomobile Reciprocity Is Argued for Twe Hours With fAaryland Officials. SATISFACTORY OUTCOME NOW DECLARED LIKELY iCommissioncrs Will Study Facts | Iore Closcly and Act at | Meeting Soon. o P pron i i trict Commissioncrs today the Mar Lwe | wo carefy the pla to [ bring about automobile reciproc {between the two jurisdictions by the dual substitution of ie for the p The city heads « tax on gas- sent fe nferred for {Lwo hours with J. N. Mack land state roads Austin nearly commissioner, Baughman, Mars - utoinobile commissioner, who |came here to present the gasoline tax plan. ' The Mar {in det sented { | I to Congress d delegation explained il the Lill which 1o the Maryland nth providi s to be pre- lezislature gaso! X in that state, and asked tt ssioners to present a for the DI rict. ! Further Facts Sought. i |0 1 b The Commissioners were not r e the vi itors an answ that the Marylands h them with copies of the L1l tatisti as to th * Washingtonians pas Mary for automobile tags annnally. ! Mr. Mackball. upon leaving the ¢ | ference, expressed the belief that th asoline tax dr I basis for rec iland and the Dis quested amount of 1 an equi betw en Mury- trict. He said he b: |lieved that s b more © jections ying of twe separate tugs annually than they do 1 r use of the i ove ey drive, and saic that could be met b; iweuld be no upkeep of rQads soline tax. there Ity in br dithe fabout reciprocity. Considers Plan Fair. issioner Rudolph s meeting that the motorists get from the road gasoline consumed, le. plan s fair in prin- He added. how ever. that today ‘the first time he had considered the preposition, and was not prepared to form an opinion as to whether the District would be justified in inz to reciprocity on that hasi { Mr. JMackh that | subsia roposed Maryland law | would levy a tax of 1 cent per gallon {on gasoline for the first vear. At {the end of that time, he said, the amount of money raised by that tax would be deducted from the horse- power foe ¢ i for tags In the suceceding vears the horse- power fee would be gradually elimi- nated ax the gasoline tax was brought up to 2 point where it would raise the { same amount of money new collected on the hois power basi DEMAND FULL RECIPROCITY. POISON “BOOTLEE” | payments are not made in| IUI.I. R[ABHES NINEscmmm of District Division of A. A. A. Make Statements. Many Blinded and Seriously Ill'in New York—Source Is Sought. i By the Associated Press. NEW YORI {and prohibition officials today re- doubled their efforts to locate the source of poisonous bootleg liquor which has taken three more live bringing the total for the last six da to nine dead and as many oth- s blinded or seriously ill. Yesterday's victims included a gray-haired woman, Mrs. Carrie Volk. who had been reported missing from ker home for several days; Georze C. Henry, a mildle-aged salesman of Brookline. Mass.; Charles Williams. a negro, ard John Dool year-old boy. All e iscovered or died soon afterward. except the boy, who.was reported in }& critical condition at Bellevue Hos- 1 pital Several others, who drank wood al- cohol when they thought they were dcath at the same institution. Alarmed at the widespread ravages of the poisonous liquor, the Kin, county grand jury has taken stey to ask the co-operation of other grand juries to root out and suppress the traffic in bootleg liquor. CALLED OUT AND KILLED. Unknown Assailant Shoots Bank President in Front Yard. MUSTANG, Okla., December 30.—E. ‘W. Brindley, thirty-five years old, president of Mustang State Bank, was: called from his_house into the front yard late last night and shot and in- stantly killed by an unknown assail- ant. , December 31 and Monday, January 2 The Star Will Be Issued at One 0’Clock All advertisements intended for either of these issues must be in The Star office not later than 11 p.m. the day before. 2 -z December 30.—Police | a fourteen- | dead when | drinking gin, are at the point ofresenting the makers of | Nothing short of full reciprocity be- | tween the District of Columbia and | Maryland would be acceptable to the board of governors of the District division of the American Automobile Association, according to the opin- ion expressed by several of the gov- ernors today. William Ullman of ti ALATA today, regarding the as- sociation’s stana: “The affairs of the District of Co- lumbja division of the American Au- tomobile Association, which would bc chiefly interested in any automobile proposal from Maryland, are in thc hands of a board of DVErnors, con- sisting of Judge Martin A. { ehairman; John Oliv rad H. Svme, Robert ¥ | bert H. Grosvenor, Rudolp! William Ullman. Just as carly as w learn ofiicially of any proposal, T, the national organization's appoint head of the th D at the strict division Jud <napp rela- to calling a meeting of the ad- visory board to consider the Maryland proposal and to announce the organ- ization's attitude. “The American Automobile Asso tion, onal organization, commit highw cation between the states as a pri ciple, together with the National Au- tomobile Chamber of Commerce, rep- tive i commun:- automobiles: the National Automobile Dealers’ A: sociation, representing the automobile deale of the country, and the Motor nd Accessory Manufacturers’ Asso- jation, representing all of the acces- ¢ and parts makers. In all conversations between me and the individual members of tihe Doard of governors since it was learn- ed that Maryland would ha posal to male, it was indicated that { the sentiment of the Iocal board would | favor nothing short of full and con { plote reciprocity between the Distri of Columbia and Maryland.’ EX-CONGRESSMAN DIES. WINFIELD. Kans., December 36.-- i Rev. J. D. Bothin, former representa- {tive in Congress from this district died at his home *n Liberal, Kanx. | vesterday. i | Inspectors of Breath | To Sniff at Policemen Each Four Hours Daily By the Asscciated Press. YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Decem- ber 30—Notice of a “breath in- | spector” to be appointed for the police force, inserted in the poiice roil call here yesterday as a joke, was hailed as a good | idea by Mayor-elect George L. | i Oles, who said today that he would put it _into force when he assumes office January 1. ThLe mnoti sald that the “breath inspector” would sniff at all policemen every four hours, and that scents oi cloves wintergrcen or peppermint would put a black mark on the record of the uffending oMcer. ———— ] SA