Evening Star Newspaper, December 18, 1922, Page 1

WEATHER. Fair and colder tonight, with low- est temperature about 22 degrees; to- morrow cloudy, probably snow. Temperature for twenty-four, houra ended at 2 p.m. Highest,' 40, at 6:30 p.m.” yester lowest, 35, at 2 pm. roday. Full repor: on page 7. ‘ Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 24 The No. 28,721 “TIGHTEN DRY LAW. DONT LODSENIT,", GOVERNORS ARGUE More Stringent Penalties for Violators Is Urged as Curb. PLEAD FOR AGENTS WHO FAVOR PROHIBITION Executives Lunch With President to Discuss Means of Enforcement. Any possibility that the conferince ©f governors called by President Jiarding might favor the reincarna- tion of a modified John Barleycorn «r~med to vanish today when a can- ~ass of the state governors who are Tiere showed those officials to be over- whelmingly bone dry. Out of the entire group of state cvecutives to come to Washington in yesponse to the President's call for a discussion of the liquor situation, not . voice could bo found to champion he return of even light wines and leer. Gov. Allen of Kansas apparent- spoke the sentiment ot the confer- #es when he announced as ltis slogan: “Tighten, Don't Loose: “Tighten up: don't loosen up.” The governors are having luncheon h President Harding this after- 1 It Is a round-table discussion «alling for a frank exchange if ideas «n a subject that the President h: fit to publicly denounce as ational scandal The . scen a President s let it be known that he ardently opes to see emerge from this con- rence definite policies for clase co- Entered as second-class matter post_office Washington, D. C. Consuls to Quit | Vladivostok on l Order of Soviet' By the Associated Press. VLADIVOSTOK, December 18.—The | soviet government of Vladivostok, which recently took over the adminis- tration of the city and surrounding territory, known as the Primoria, \n-' day ordered the consuls of France and ten other countries to close their consulates and leave the Primoria within a weel DENY REID'S SPELL | 1S DRUG COLLAPSE: Physicians Say Habit HasE Undermined His System, However. i | | 116 DECLARED “UNSAFE” List Compiled Year Ago Presages More Revelations of Nar- i cotic Habit. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, Calif., December 18. Wallace Reid, motion picture star, is on the verge of death and for sev- eral days has not been expected to| live, according to Mrs. Wallace Reld (Dorothy Davenport), in an interview today in the Los Angeles Examiner, given at a Hollywood sanatorfum last night. One of the physicians, according to the Examiner, corroborated Mrs. Reid's statements, saying: | . Reid has been near death for| the past five or six days. His tem-| perature has repeatedly reached 103! and his pulse 130. His heart action! is irregular and weak. He has faint- ed cn an average of three times daily Fhoeni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION q Star. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” .The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular cdition is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Saturday’s Net Circulation, . 1 Sunday’s Circulation, =il 94,835 WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1922—THIRTY-FOUR PAGES. GUARD SHOT DOWN, BANDITS FLEE WITH $200,000 AT MINT Thieves Attack Money Wadgon Guards in Front of Gov- ernment Building. TRIO ESCAPE IN AUTO AFTER DARING EXPLOIT Police, Armed With Riot Guns,| Take Up Trail of Highwaymen. By the Associated Press. DENVER, December 18.—Scarcely waiting for their snorting car to halt, two masked bandits jumped out in front of the United States mint here, poured forth a volley of builets at the guards around a wagon filled with currency destined for the local federal reserve bank and escaped with $200,000. Charles Linton, a guard, was shot. He probably will not recover. While the two were grabbing up the con- tents of the money wagon a third member of their band sat at the steer- ing wheel of their car, ready for the hurried escape. By the time the as- tounded mint employes realized what was happening and could get thelr rifles into action the car was tearing away. Bandits Work Quickly. So quickly did the bandits work that persons in the immediate vicinity were unaware of what had happened until guards from within the mint rushed to the windows and out of the main entrance, firing at the escaping highwaymen. Linton, who was assist- Norice ! | PeopLE Mus NoT BUY CoAL FROM - THREE )R FOUR DEALERS AT BRITISH PRESS NOT INFAVOR OF LOAN Big Dailies, However, Are { Optimistic Over “Fresh In- {Many Lives Lost as Lake Ships | Battle Ice to Transport Grain |Vessels Striving to Keep Navigation Open : \ Long After Usual Closing Time. * |4 Senators Absent! Votes for Butler The nomination of Pierce Butler of Minnesota, to be an associate Justice of the Supreme Court, was | ordered reported to the Senate to- day by the judiclary committee. Chairman Nelson announced he would make the report on the nom- ination at the first executive ses- ‘ sion of the nate and call it up at the first opportunity. Senators La Follette of Wisconsin and Norris, Nebraska, republicans, have indi- cated they will fight confirmation. While the committee anounce- ment said the vote on reporting the nomination favorably was unanimous, it later developed that four members of the committee— Senators Borah, Norris, Shields and Reed of Missouri—were not pres- cnt when the vote was taken. D.C. SCHOOL NEEDS SET FORTH IN PLEA FOR BIGER BUDGET :Commissioners and Other ! i City Officials Appear Be- fore House Committee. Imperative need for increased ap- | propriations for the schools, for street { improvements and for salaries for Dis- | |trict employes, which are notoriously {low and muych under those paid in any ! other branch of the federal service, was | imipressed upon the subcommittee of the ouse appropriations committee, when arings were started today on the Dis- | trict budgst for the fiscal year 1924. | Representative Louis Cramton of Michigan took charge of the hearings at the request of Chairman Madden of When Committee TWO CENTS. LINGOLN MEMORIAL - SELECTED AS SITE " FOR NEW BRIDGE {President and Others Make | Personal Inspection Be- fore Giving Decision. STRUCTURE WILL RUN TO ARLINGTON CEMETERY {Plan to Extend New York Avenue Abandoned—Span Will Have Draw. Following a personal inspection of the two proposed sites for the Arling- ton Memorial bridge, headed by Fwsi- {dent Harding today, chairman at \he | bridge commission, the commagdn {decided that the plans will be Are- pared for the construction of the low level bridge from the Lincoln } Memorial across the river to a point on Columbia Island, from which spot | three roadwsys will carry the traffic to points in three directions. { It was after personally viewing I this proposed site\for the bridge and ithe proposed continuation of New Yory avenue that the commission reached the conclusion that the bridge from the Lincoln Memorial, although it will require the construction of & draw-bridge, was by far the more preferable. H Memorinl Roadways. | In reaching this conclusion the commission directed the enginedrs who will make the plans for this i bridge to provide for a handsome ahd {artistic terminus on Columbia 1& Jand which will be somewhat in tRe form of a large memorial arch, which will incidentally- serve as a road- point for the commencement of the {threa separate memorial roadways. ' one of which will lead directly to tne !{Lee Mansion in Arlingion cemetery. { the appropriations committee, OWINg 10 | oue leading to the territory north and ine continued absence on account of |West of the cemetery, and the other ng to the south and east of the peration between the state and fed- 1 _authorities in the enforcement the Volstead law. ing in guarding the currency, fell at and has lost seventy pounds in ! the first shot from the bandits’ guns. weight. Laboratory findings at the . Already Have Paid Heavy Toll. terest Taken by U. S.” e 2 M St PR . i By the Associated Press. ¥ fear as to the possibility that + state executives would not share t hope with the President was sipated by their livening Star toda; As a unit they strongly against modifying the Volstead act and denied that the re- «ont crime wave might be laid to the woor of prohibition. A referendum ‘morrow, they said, would show the timent of America to be dry— deas of Governors, nbined and condensed, the {deas governors for more eflcfent reement of prohibition proved to More stringent federal and state forcement laws. carrying heavy w8 for first offenders and substan- j sentences for all second of- regardless of their position . Prohibition enforcement officialy Wwho are honestly in favor of prohi- realization of the fact that prohi- tion enforcement is as much of an «‘onomic question as a moral question. arger appropriations for the en- ment of the law, . s the Governor of Kansas, which atements to The | present time indicate he is suffering| either from a condition of complete exhaustion or from influenza. Flu May Bring End. i “A reinfection of influenza is pos-| sible at any time and could cause his death. This is not anticipated by at- | tending physicians, but might be and is being considered. i “He though he would die the oth(ri night.” said Mrs. Reid. “He was so) brave about it, pvor boy. For three nights he had expected to die. He isn't E afraid.to dic, but he wants so much ! to live for Billy and Betty and me,” re- | ferring to their son and adopted daugh- ter. The hpysicians, describing the actor’s 1llness, according to the examiner, said: *His present iliness has no connection with overindulgence in alcohol or nar- cotlcs, although such indulgences un- doubtedly have undermined his stréngth and system in months gone b; ‘Wife Tells Story. Mrs. Reld, in describing his condition just before the present “breakdown, said The robbers described by guards at| the mint who saw them, were ap-- parently about twenty-elght years of | i age. Linton had been emploved by the Federal Reserve Bank for many years as a guard. Every policeman in Denver has been armed with riot guns, and an inte; sive search of the hospitals of Denver and suburbs now is under way in an effort to locate the bandit, who is be- lieved to have been shot as he was entering the waiting automobile to make his escape. All roads out of Denver are being guarded. and word of the hold-up has been zent to all outside counties. The car bore & Colo- rado license No. 81001. ‘The money was the property of the federal reserve bank, and was being transferred from the mint to the main bank office here for distribution to Denver, Colorado and Wyoming banks, according to R. J. Grant, di- rector of the mint. The funds of the reserve bank are held in vaults at the mint for the bank because of the lack of secure bank vaults in the headquarters bank. It is released to the bank on instructions from the Secretary of the Treasury. The time for the transfer for the money is very ir regular, accordiug to Director Grant ctimes three and four releases SOME ACTION EXPECTED \French Press Bitterly Attacks Loan to Germans as Direct Blow to France. - { By the Associated Press. LONDON, December 18 — Those newspapers to which the British pub- lic looky for solid and comservative guidance completely reject the idea that an®American loan to Germany is probable, or. in present conditions, possible. These journals base their skepticism on long reports from their correspondents in the United States. who appear to have probed important sources of information over the week end. The possibility of American inter- vention in Burope's troubles still en- grosses attention here. Two or three { of the morning newspapers reiterate, | CHICAGO, December 1s. JLootityifootithronstiitowerlne jscas down to the sea in ships are fighting an epochal battle across the icy and bring down the lakes the cargo of the vear. Yhas been aucrountea for—or given up for lost—that toll may be greater, | Nearl iwhen a Canadian steamer was dashed {to pieces within a stone’s throw of safety at the mouth of the Portage lake ship canal. Saturday night twenty-seven more were added to the probable death roll when survivors of the tug Reliance. 1sland, reached Sault Ste almost incredible hardships. Keep Open for Conl. Navigation on the upper usually closes December 1. it was decided to keep lakes the water- the coal and rail strikes had cut down |delaved the eastern movement of severe iliness of Representative Charles|leadi Battling | grain. cem waves of Lake Superior to keep navi- | Bufralo #ation open far beyond its usual time ! lake, p. last | other b been | guron. | 2 dozen died a few days ago- ?_i‘lll:khmc Island and Mani: As a result nine big freighters load- ed with grain—$25,000.000 worth ot and freezing spray. the men who g0 xhips and cargo—are flehting their| way down Lake Superior toward that graveyard of gallant vessels, White- fish bay, trying to win through to for winter storage. In Mud rt of the St. Mary's river, an- & fleet is icebound, walting fo al of the mine which left lliam, Ontario, three days ago the a Fort W | Already the fight has claimed jts | before trying, with the assistance of | i toll of lives and before the last ship|ice-breaking tugs, to win past De- tour to the open waters of Lake Grand Marais, Aipena, que 3 radio operators are keeping 2 tireless vigll, guiding the freizhter: through the night with rédio compass signals. and waiting for the calls for At harbor, point, Detour, Eagle Whitefish | wrecked last Wednesday on Lizardip - jor P o ecliance, owned by the Superior F Marie after | o "Compan: | 1 This vear | of fourte ways open until December 15 because , 0 | help which nray come. Tug Reliance Wrecked. The story of the fate of the tu of Sault Ste. Marie, was told Saturday when seven survivors reached the Soo. Five dayvs ago the tug with a erew and twenty-two passen- dashed to pieces on the Lizard Island. sev- north of Point Aux gers was cks of Lonely five mile snt. R. Davis of Minnesota. . i i Commissiomers Te: | The three District Commlsslaners.‘ Cuno H. Rudolph, James F. Oyster ! and Engineer Commissioner Keller, | were reinforced by Maj. Daniel Dono- | van, District auditor: Daniel Garges, | secretary to the board of Commis- | sioners; Capt. Wood, assistant engi- | I neer commissioner: Maj. Raymond | Wheeler, assistant engineer commis- | ! sioner, and Maj. F. S. Besson, sistant engineer Commissioner. ‘ommissioners went over with the; subcommittee in a general way the| budget for the District as.recom- | | mended by President Harding | in| transmitting the recommendations of | the budet bureau. Maj. White was {called into the conference because he ! has supervision over the school build- inics and Maj. Besson was called in beca he has jurisdiction over ! streets and bridges. ubcommittee, under Mr. Cram- ¢ < chgirman, made it clear to the | oners that increases in salaries would not Le considersd | {except in particular cases where a| very specal reason could b2 given. | beautified b ithat after takin roads will be y where roads will lead from them as arteries into the cemctery grounds. Draw Bridge Objectionable. It was while standing on a high mound just north af Arlington ceme- tery from which the view afforded a4 wide perspective. and fregm which a clear idea could be obtained of the two imaginary proposed bridges, that President Harding made the sideration that if thix commission w out to furnish the city of Washingtor with a bridge ta, afford its citize and tourists a means of transporta- tion between the two shrines—the Lincoln Memorial and the Arlington cemetery—he believed the _one ax proposed from the Lincolu Memorial directly across the river was the more preferable. However, there were certain ohjsc- tionable features even in this site that presented themselves in the Dres dent’s mind. the most notable Wwhich being the necessity for & draw in the bridge and the fact that considerable excavation nd dredg- ing work would be necessary on ¢ lumbia 1sland. In fact, he consid the latter the more ob, nabi the two. According to the preliminary plans that he wept and, said: being made in a week, and then|itn more or less striking embellish- e ContinicAzon o the northwest and age This is the course of procedure, he | (AT IR S0 the approaches to been dry for forty-two years, e Soatishipped ’, «iov. Allen spoke with no little knowledge of the effect dry restric- tions have upon the people. He de- «lared that the failure of the federal zovernment to enforce the dry stat- utes more efficlently need occasion no apprehension: it took Kansas twen- 1¥-five years to educate the people up 10 the benefits of prohibition, he said. Better Enforcement. “*Today Kansas enjoys a better de- £res of temperance enforcement than Yier neighbors,” he said, “because we are in the second generation of men who have never seen the saloon. Fed- prohibition will become a na- tional success when the business man tealizes that the total abstainer makes the best workman, and refuses hire any person who takes a drink. >rohibition has proved its worth already. We hear a lot of talk about Jnore persons drinking than ever and the drug traffic increasing as intox- jeants become more scarce. The boot- Jeggers deny the first assertion, be- cause they are striving might and nain to wipe the Volstead law off of he statute books in erder to make it e le to distill and sell more Intox- nts. The second assertion is abso- “How did 1 happen to let myself g0? Why couldn't T have stopped long ago? T though I was so strong: I thought T knew myself so well; I can't understand it." " Indignant denials of published reports of “orgies” in the Reid home were made by Mrs. Alice Davenport, mother-in-law { of the actor, to whom those reports had been credited. . Deerled Dope Parties. “I Xhow there are ‘dope parties in Hollywood—every one knows that,” she said. “And I suppose Wally has at- tended some of them; I don't know. I do know that I have talked with him after he returned from parties at the homes of Some of the people in Holly- wood and I have seen him sadly shake his head and say: “Mother, T don't like it. That isn't the way to have pleasure. 1t's all So false, so artificial.” Will H, Hays, directing head of the organized motion picture industry, com- Tenting on the actor's iliness, said: “If Reid's condition is a result of in- duigence in narcotics, as has been re- porteil, it's a matter to be prayed over. The poor boy should be dealt with as a again no money being released over a perfod of two weeks. Thirty Shots Fired. As the car came to a stop the guards removed the padlock from the door of the grated wagon and proceeded into the mint, where- they secured the $200,000. The money had been trans- ferred from the custody of the mint to the federal reserve bank. a receipt for the consignment having been given by J. E. Olson, according to Di- regtor Grant. Emerging from the front entrance of the mint, the guards and men car- rying the money met with the mand to “Throw up your hand: the same time the command was given the two bandits who had left their car started firing. At the first shot Linton fell wound- ed. The bandits continued their. fir- ing at the windows in the second tory of the mint as though to keep ployes inside from rushing to the window and opening fire upon the robbers. More than thirty shots were fired by the bandits through the transom of the mint, immediately over the ment, last week's stories concerning an impending loan. The concensus of opinion, however. is that “there is something in the wind.” and that there is a distinct possibility that America, in some way. that has not been divulged, will take a hand in helping to solve the difficultjes Which hitherto have baffled European states. men. Eager for Intervention. The Times, while deprecating exag- gerated optimism, says that the ru- mors of American intervention doubt- less have a substratum of fact. The newspaper welcomes indications of “the fresh interest and understand- ing” the United States is showing in European conditions. The Morning Post, also welcoming the “obviously increasing Interest” of the United States, thinks America “1s beginning to recognize more clearly that sooner or later her own indus- trial prosperity must be affected by the political and economic conditions of Europe.” The Dally News, althouzh it does not regard American intervention for diseased person—not to be censured. | ain entrance of the building. and utely untrue: statistic: drink and_drugs are inseparable; \Where you find one you find the other. “Prohibition Is Salvation.” “Tighten up the con't loosen them. will realize that prohibition i al- nost their salvation. In the dle west T believe we have a better de- sree of enforcement, because it Is re truly American than the Atlan- scaboard. Here you have a greater umber of Europeans and the conti- nental influence. Why, out west we <till gaze in astonishment on a wo- ;nan who smokes a cigarette.” . Trinkle of Virginia proved to in_equally ardent champion of shibition. He particularly empha- zed the need heavier fines and \nger jail sentences for offenders of e dry laws. He declared he had -fused to pardon any man, regardless wf his prestige or position, who had Teen convicted of dispensing intoxi- nts for gain. “Take politics out of the prohibi- jon enforcement agencies,” Gov. Trinkle declared, “and we will have hetter -enforcemeént. What we need is enforcement agents and officials who are in favor of the law them- selves. I have found that prohibition i< benefiting the state of Virginia al- ready, and those benefits will grow with time.” Morgan Indorses View. Gov. Morgan of West Virginia prac- ily reiterated Gov. Trinkle's view Although he did not suggest making the nforcement laws more drastic, he, too, the enforcement division of the ) rohibition department should be sep- arated from politics. Should a refer- cndum be taken in West Virginia to- shorrow, the governor asserted, it would <how that state to be overwhelmingly ne dry.” “More money and more honorable was the program suggested by . Cox of Massachusetts. Since the, Volstead law is on the books, Gov. C .aid it should be enforced, *“however \isagreeable or however costly” the en- sorcement. He agreed with President ijarding that more strict enforcement \ras ghe only solution to the present sit- patidn, _indicating that, if the people “"(Continued on Page 2 Column 3.) i C prove that prohibition laws: | iMINER, LEFT TO TO ACCUSE DEATH MARCHERS Tne Zpeople soon | shunned. Rather, let us all sanely and By the Associated Press. MARION, Ill, December 18.—Shot | down and left to die on a lonely road- | | side, Dan O'Rourke returned today to accuse his assailants at the trial of { five men charged with murder in con- | nection with the Herrin riot. That | O'Rourke, who still bears the scars | {left by his injuries, had come back from the very shadow of the grave | to testify for the prosecution was an- nounced by counsel for the state at the opening of court this morning. I O'Rourke was one of the six men whb, other witnesses have testified were shot down before the Herrin city cemetery after they had been marched through the town by a sing- ing, jeering mob. [ Refused to Permit Drink. One witness had told of seeing the six dead and desperately wounded men in the road, three of them still breathing and all bound together by a rope about their necks. Au.ther told of trying to bring a drink of water to two of the sufferers and of being ordered away with a curse by one of the defendants. According to attorneys for the pros. ecution, one of these men was O’'Rourke and the other was Howard Hoftman, who died two days later in the Herrin Hospital. O'Rourke was in Marion today under heavy guard, and it was expected he would be called to the stand as soon as possi- ble. Defense Hopes for Albi. The witness called last week by the state told of the taking of thirty or forty non-unipn workers from the “strip” mine by a group of several y which McDowell had ,been led,” several shots went through windows ! on the second floor. DIE, RETURNS hundred persons, many of whom car- ried guns, and of the later finding of fourteen dead and wounded men in a woods about two miles away, four others in a clump of trees nearby and the six had been marched through Herrin and out another road a distance of sev- eral miles. The attorneys for the defense have | asked comparatively few questions of the state's witnesses in cross-exam- ination, expressing confidence In their ! ability to prove an alibi for every one of the defendants as announced in their opening statement to the Jury. Farmer’'s Wife Testifies. Mrs. George Nelson, wife of a farmer lIving near the “strip” mine where the riot started, was the first witness at the morning session and told of seeing a crowd of possibly 500 armed men with about ten prisoners. The witness said she recognized C. K. McDowell, superintendent of the mine, among the prisoners. McDowell, who was a cripple, 1imped along on & wooden leg, the witness declared, blood running down his face from a wound on his forehead. “What did they do to McDowell?” she was asked. % “A man punched him In the back and two men led him away from the | crowd down the road,’ “What did you hear? “I heard shots from the direction in id Mrs. Nelson. Mrs. Nelson sald that she had recog- nized Mrs. Otis Clark, wife of one of the defendants, in the crowd about McDowell and that she heard Mrs. flark say: “They've got old ‘Peg- George Nelson followed his wife on the stand. He sald that among the crowd of 400 or 500 persons about 25 or 30 had gans. He quoted one of the crowd as saying: “We're bringing out the scabs.” ,she answered. near the cemetery after they! the present as more than a possibil- ity, says: “It is highly probable that such intervention would change the whole course of events in Europe.” In all the comment there is a clear eagerness to see intervention, and there are many indications that this desire is based on a confident belief in the high American ideals. FRANCE OPPOSES LOAN. Newspapers See Only Aid for Ger- many in Latest Proposals. By the Associated Press. PARIS, December 18.—The reported plans of the United States for the rehabilitation of Europe “seem con- ceived exclusively in the interest of | Germany,” says the Temps, in an ed- itorial today that reflects the view- point of a majority of the French newspapers. _Skepticism ‘and resent- (Continued on Page 4, Column 2.) —_— OCEAN LINER AGROUND ON BALTIC SEA ISLAND Vessel Was En Route From- New York With Passengers and Cargo. By the Assoclated Press. COPENHAGEN, December 18.—The Danish steamship Lituania, which left New York December 6 for Danzig 2nd Libau with cargo and passengers, is. reported aground on Bornholm Is- land in the Baitic sea. NEW YORK, December 18.—Officials of the Baltic-American line, which operates the Lituania, declared today they had received no word from the ship, reported ashore in the Baltic sea since yesterday, when she was report- ed at her dock at' Copenhagen at 3 p.m. {ornholm Island, on which the eamer is said to have gone ashore, is & rocky.island out twenty-five miles off the coast bf Sweden, and on the direct route from Copenhagen to D-l:m:. the Lituania’s next point of call. | Decision, if Sustained, Wil i Cost Central High Foot Ball Championship. Holding thaj William Vincent Plumpton, Central® High School foot ball plaver, is technically ineligible letics, the board of high school prin- cipals today recommended to Super- intendent of Schools Ballou that no high school gridiron championship be !awarded this year. If the recom- mendation :s approved, Central's title as the high school foot ball cham- pion of 1922 will be withdrawn. The recommendations were drawn up by the board of principals after a series of hearings at which the charges of S. Duncan Bradley, presi- dent of the Home and School Associa- tion of Western High School, that Plumpton Is a professional. were thoroughly investigated. Bradley charged that Plumpton, an enlisted 'man in the Navy, had engaged in pro- fessional prize fights before entering Central. 2 The report subniitted to Supt. Bal- lou read as follows: Text of Report. “The principals of the five white high schools, after a thorough in- vestigation of the charges preferred against the eligibility of Willlam Vincent Plumpton to participate in interhigh school athletics, report as follows: “1. That Plumpton was regularly (Continued on age 2, Column 5.) i * GRAHAM TO APPEAL. Counsel Declares He Expects to File Motion for New Trial. Attorney Daniel - Thew Wright, counsel for Lieut. Lorimer C. Graham, today stated that he expected to file during the day a motion for a new trial of the $500,000 heart balm suit of the naval officer against A. L. Humes, wealthy lawyer of New York. A jury last Friday, after twenty-eight hours’ deliberation,, returned a ver- dict in favor of the defendant. _ The plaintiff will claim that the ver- dict is against the weight of the evi- dence, and that the court erred in re- fusing certain evidence offered on be- Ralf of Graham and in permitting cer- tain_testimony submitted by counsel for Humes. g Arguments on the motion #for the new trial will be deferrsd until after the Christmas recess of the courts. to participate in interhigh school ath-: i I PLUMPTON RULED | MANY D.C. STREETS OUT OF ATHLETICS FOUND IMPASSABL Money for Improvements in Northwest Section Is Conspicuous Need. TUrgent need of an increase in the street improvement allowance for the District of Columbia over and above the items contained in the budget this year may be seen by a tour of the city. With the heavy rains of the past few days and the freezes and | thaws, the streets in the newly-built- up sections are almost impassable in many instances, and the in the rear of their homes or the sidewalks. Many times, in order to get across the street, it is necessary to go out of one's way. Numerous streets, It was found by a reporter for The Star who (odayl made an inspection of the section out Georgia avenue and 16th street, are built up on both sides by beau- tiful, new homes. The only draw back was the condition of the streets —soft, red, sticky clay, any mode of travel. Authorities’ Plans Nullified. While the highway officials of the District sought to obtain relief for these sections, their efforts were nulli- fied when the bureau of the budget made its report and left only a few items, totaling $730,000, and these to be used in repaving the main high- ways to bring them up to a condition comparable to the Maryland highways with which they connect. Unless the House and Senate com- mittees look favorably on these urgent (Continued on rage 2, Column 2.) SHIP BILL WINSIN TILT. _ Effort to Substitute Norris Farm | Measure in Senate Fails. Proponents of the administration ship- ping’ bill won the first victory in the JockeyIng in the Senate today over the move of opponents to displace the bill with the Norris agriculture financing measure. ‘When the Senate met it had pending before it the motion to displace the one bill with the other, Which was made Saturday by Chairman Norris of the agriculture_committee. While support- ers of the Norris motion were attempt- ing to get the floor, Senator Ransdell of Loulsiana, a democratic snpporter of the ship measure, clalmed recognition. in accordance with a notice giverr last week, and launiched into & speech in beh: of the bill, " people | either have to rely on the alleyways| | explained. in hearings on ail depart- ment appropriation bills. May Revive Bonus. | The general policy of the appro- | priations committee s not to consider any salary increases at this time while Fwaiting for the reclassification bill to | be passed. | The Distriet Commissioners have | received aussurances that if the re- ! classification bill is not passed the i appropriations committee will report {out a special bill carrying what has | been known as the $240 bonus, tiding tover the interim until the reclass | cation legislation is enacted. | “After leaving the hearing the Dis- trict officials expressed themselves | well pleased with the way in which | their statements had bpen received Ly the subcommittee. 'WILL NOT DROP SEARCH FOR MISSING AVIATORS | Gen. Lewis of 8th Corps Area De- | | nies Rumor—No Relaxation of i Effort Considered. | _SAN ANTONIO, Tex., December 18.— | Rumors that the search for the lost i aviators, Col. Francis R. Marshall and i Lieut. Charles L. Webber, would be {abandoned, were denied by Maj. Gen. { 15. M. Lewis, 8th Carps Area commander., | through his adjutant, Col. Albert Sax- i tor Col. Saxton said possibly some of the | thirty airplanes now engaged in the | search would be recalled to their base in Texas or California for necessary | repairs, but that the 10th Cavalry, 2oth Infantry, Indian runners from the res- ervations and Arizona National Guard dangerous to | would still function in the search and | grounds; members of th. | that no relaxation would be considered ‘Iunlil the lost aviators had beén found. Today is the tenth day of the disappear- ance of the airplane en route from San | Diego to Fort Huachuca, Ariz. The search still centers near the lat- ter place, where the plane was last seen. —_— MRS. BRUNEN LOSES PLEA Must Face Trial, Says Judge, Re- fusing to Dismiss Charges. MOUNT HOLLY, N. J., December 18. —Justice :Kalisch today refused the jmotion of Mrs. Doris Brunen's attor- ney to dismiss the charges against her in connection with the killing of “Honest” John T. Brumen, circus owner. Justice Kalisch declared that, al- though “it may be that the testimony in this case be very meager as far as Mrs. Brunen’s connection may be concerned,” the Question . must be settled by the jury. ORDERS VESSEL SEIZED. Prohibition Bureau Hears Craft Has 5,000 Cases of Liquor. Commissioner Haynes of the pro- hibition bureau today instructed A. D. Stroup, divisional chief for Florida, to soize the Miguel Ferarrer, reported by Stroup to be anchored within the three-mile 1imit near Jacksonville, with 5,000 cases of liquor aboard. g {the bridge will be constructed at | point barely two hundred fect south- | west of the Lincoln Memorial, and th | bridge itself will not reach an al itude at_any time of more than fix feet. The draw probably will br placed at @ point nearer the Vir- ginia end of the bridge. i Thanked by President. | The party consumed more than an | hour and a half on the trip, and upon its arrival back at the executive offl the President personally t | each member of the Fine Arts Com- i mission for giving the members of the bridge commission the benefit of | their ideas and their assistance re- | garding the idea for the site. ‘Accompanied by the members of the on, the President went office, and after less hour's_discussion the e the decisfon in favor of the low-level bridge from the me- morial, Col. Sherrill, executive of- | ficer of the bridge commission, has at his disposal an appropriation of $25.- 000 to be used in preparing the plans for constructing a memorial bridgc, and he will at once direct the engi- Peer force of his office in preparing the preliminary plans and drawings for the approval of the commission. Meet In Executive Offices. The two commissions met in the offic> {of the President at 10:30 o'clock, and i after briefly, discussing the matier of the location of “the proposed memorial President Harding announced he pre- { ferred to vis the section the bridee | will traverse and to view the surround- hg country and every affecting element from close hand. : ! In the pariy, besides the executive, { were Vice President Speak- er Gillett, Senator Fer, ! Representative Langley iand Col. C. O. Sherrill. i e of public buildin i) « bridge o and Charles Moore, chair- Fraser of New Yorh ' ‘Ayres of New York. Henry Lo New York. architect of th: | Lincoln Memorial: H. Siddons Mow- { bray of Connecticut and H. I’. Caem- merer, secretary. all members of the Commission of Fine Arts. Leave White House. The party in White House automo- biles went direct’; to New York avenue. the continuation of which would lead %o the bridge, according to Col. Sherrill's proposal, and which wiil skirt the west boundary of the Arlington cemetery grounds. ‘The party alighted first .on their tour of inspection at the naval hospital_grounds. Col. Sherrill explained to the Presi- dent the proposed construction of the bridge as it would be if yun across the river from New York avenue extended From the hospital the President and | party proceeded to the Lincoln Mec- imorial. At this point, Mr. Moore. | chairman of the Commission” of Fi { Arts, explained to President Hardiny i the plan _as proposed by the Commis. sion of Fine Arts for the construction of the bridge_across the river from the memorial. Walks Across Bridge. Once more taking to the cars, Presi- dent Harding and the members of the two commissions swiftly crossed the Highway bridge, skirtipg Arlington cemetery. The entire party left the machines at two sites, at about the point through which the bridge would come, The President and others then pro- ceeded by automobiles to the south end of the Georgetogn bridge. The most striking incident of the whole _trip _came _when__President (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) !bridge comm! { directly to his { than half an commission ! mission. - | man; James . i 4 e e S B e e