Evening Star Newspaper, February 2, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER. Rain tonight and tomorrow; colder tomorrow afternoon, much coider to- morrow night and Sunday. Temperature for twenty: ended at 2 p.m. toda; 3;1 ull report on page -four hours Highest, 47, at m. today; lowest, 37, at 6 a.m. today, Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 2 No. 28,767. post office Was! ¢ Foening Star. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION as the papers “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edition is delivered to Washington homes as fast are printed. | Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 95,383 Entered as second-class matter hington, D. C. WASHINGTON, D C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, = * BLOGKADE OF RUAR CONPLETELY UTS OFF CERMANCOAL French 75s Ready to Fire on Trains Trying to Run Gantlet. ATTACK BY MOB BRINGS NEW FRENCH WARNING Stinnes on Mission to Learn Na-j ture of Poincare Demands to Recall Troops. Br the Associated Press While the grip of Franco-Belgian industrial control of the Ruhr is be- ing felt in unoccupied Germany, coal and coke shipments to which have been completely cut off, the pinch of hunger is beginning to threaten the Ruhr itself, according to German authorities. Food supplies are getting low in many towns and consultations of government food officials on the sit- uation are in progress in Berlin. The authorities of occupation have indicated their intention not to in- terfere with food shipments, but the Germans contend the congestion of rolling stock at the frontiers is in- evitably causing such interference. Resumption of partial train service is reported from the occupied areas. While there is nothing definite to show the railroad strike settlement reported Thursday night has been made effective throughout the Ruhr, the :trikers appear to have gome back to a large extent in the Bologne area, as forecast, and on many of the in the Ruhr the German employes are re- ported again at work:. Some trains began operating in and out of Dues-eldorf. where the station was reopened after being closed a week. The appeul of German labor to the American Congress, asking_Ameri- can help to “save Europe and the world from inevitable disacter.” is declared in Berlin messages to have been made in entire independence of German official ciccles. An _appeal sent by the archbishop and bishops of Sweden to President Harding points to the serious con- ditions in central Europe, and asks American assistance for obtaining « straightforward agreement be- tween the powers to relieve the ten- sion. | interior railroad lines v the Asso DULSS blockade within inted Tress, SLDORF, of “ebrhiary 2.—The Rubr valley from was absollitely complete to- Not a single ton of coal or coks entered Germany from the Ruhr the last thirty-six hours, the French authorities announce, adding that the measures they put into force at midnight Wednesday are totally effective, The Germans show no disposition to contradict the French as to the gen- eral effectiveness of the blockade, but they relate how one train of forty-six loaded coal cars, disregarding all sig- nals, ran the blockade at Horde near Dortmund, yvesterday afternoon, and escaped into interior Germany. the in ! Guns Command Lines. French line i The every have commanding | to Germany and the di- | rectors of the rallroads have been | aformed that any locomotive at- TempLing to escape will be fired upon. Inquiries addressed to the French authorities as to why they have not resorted to the simpler way of tearing up a few hundreds yards of track along the occupied frontier of the iuhr elicited the reply that they did not wish to interfere with other traffic for the present than exports +f coal and coke and were desirous of siving the railwaymen f6ll oppor- tunity to work. As a matter of fact, the striking rallway workers were showing an in- clination today to resume their du- many of the interior lines in o occupied area of the Ruhr. The ench are occupying militarily only the lines surrounding the region, and the interior roads now are being par- tially operated by Germans. The strike at Cologne also seems to be petering out. Only Few Trains Running. The Duesseldorf station was open- ed today for the first time since Jan- uary 25, but only a small percentage of the scheduled trains were run- ning. Gen. Payot, the French quartermas- ter general, said that the French army service supplies were operating effi- clently. He said he had seven days' supplies of food ahead, while the,poilu s assured fifty days’ rations of his red wine, the “pinard,” which is just as essentlal to the morale of French armies as food. Tobacco dealers and manufacturers in the valley have been instructed by e French authorities they must pay (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) GEN. ALLEN DIRECTED TO DROP RHINE POST Ordered. to Discontinue Unofficial Relations With Rhineland Commission. | By the Associated Press. 1 COBLENZ, February 2.—Maj. Gen. Henry T. Allen, who commanded the American forces in occupied Ger- many, recently withdrawn, has been directed by the Etate Department in Wi R to discontinue imme- diately unofficial relationn R R 110 have presented to the comm: Public Debt Cut Quarter Billion In Past Month Reduction of the public debt of the United States by more than 250,000,000; in the past month was revealed in a statement made pub- lic today at the Treasury. The gross debt on January 31, stood at § 1.162,374.66, as com- pared with $22,986,315,018.09 on December 31, The total interest bearing debt now stands at $22.354,059,703.55, Wwith the debt on which inteyssts has ceased, including 4% per cent victory motes, called for redemp- tion, December 15 and war sav- ings certificates maturing January 1, is $118,558,115.04. The non-in- terest bearing debt is $258.544 - 556.07. \DECISION ON DEBT FUND PLAN TODAY BELIEVED CERTAIN President May Lay Settle- ment Before Congress Next Week. Agreement on the last detaile of the plan for funding Great Britain's wartime debt to the United States was regarded by officials as virtually certain to be reached today when the American debt commission meets again with Sir Auckland Geddes, the British ambassador, acting for his government in the concluding nego- tiations. With a virtual agreement said to have been reached yerterday after Ambassador Geddes was understood interpretative of the settlement was hoped tye commission would be in a position after today’s meeting to submit to President Harding’ to- morrow its recommendations for action by Congress. The President thus would be able to place the scttlement before Con- gress for ratification probably early nest week. Definite decision as what procedure would be followed in asking approval by Congress, ap- parently had not been reached, but indications strongly favored action on the British ““terms specifically and without attempted changes in the debt-funding act itself. Tn considering the form of submis- slon offering the best prospect of speedy action by Congress, the debt commission and the President are un- derstood to be giving close attention to the situation in each house. where indications are growing that the pro- posed ratification will not have clear sailing. On the House side, soldier bonus advocates are discussing an attempt to attach a bonus amendment to the settlement bill or resolution, and are said to have gone $o far as to ascertain just what strength they might count on to override a ruling holding such an amendment to be out of order. First Skirmish in Senate, The first skirmish of the prospec- tive fight in the Senate over the debt settlement developed during a bitter debate of nearly two hours yesterday, started by Senator McKellar, demo- crat, Tennessee. Declaring the terms of the settlement were a violation of the debt funding act and amounted to the grant by the United States of a “bonus or subsidy” to the British government, Senator McKellar pre- dicted it would be “some time before Congress agrees to any such propo- sitlon.”” Senator Glass, democrat, Vir- ginia, taking the lead in replying to Senator McKeller during thé debate, in which about tep senators took part, declared the “subsidy to Great Britain” asserted by the Tennessee senator was 2 “figment of his imag- ination.” MEMORIAL DAY SET. Services to Be Held Feb. 25 for D. C. Votes Advocate. The House today set aside Sunday, February 25, for memorial services for the late Representative Sherman E. Burroughs of New Hampshire, author of a bill for a constitutional amendment granting voting represen- tation in Congress and in presiden- tial elections to the people of the National Capital. This actlon was taken by the House on motion of Representative Watson of New Hamp- shire. NEGRO MURDERER EXECUTED COLUMBIA, S. C., February 2.— Thomas Johnson, a young negro, who last month was taken from the Olar jail by & crowd of men and later was turned over to the sheriff and brought to Columbia for safekeeping, was electrocuted at the state penitentiary here today for the murder of a white woman near Govan, Bamberg county. Johnson, while seated in the death chair, denled that he had an accom- plice In the crime. : “understand- provisions, Beg President Harding, Poincare, Law and Clergy to Calm Europe By the Associated Press. STOCKHOLM, February 2.—The Archbishop and the bishops of Sweden have sent telegrams to President Harding, Premier Bonar Law, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Cardinal Dubols and Premier Poincare appeal- ing to them, and especially to Presi- dent Harding, to take action to re- lieve “with all possible speed, and by a straightforward agreement between the representative powers, the ten- sion which daily is growing unbear- {able” Disunity Grows Worse. ! “No one can count the aumbers of | those in all parts of the world who are moved in their. innermost being by the present events,” say the prelates in their message.” “We had hoped for the blessings of peace after the howrs of war, but the disunity, sion | to| MEDIATION BY U.S. IN RUHR INVASION ASKED BY GOMPERS Declares Appeal of German Workers to Congress Should Be Heeded. t MORAL RESPONSIBILITY SAID TO REST ON AMERICA | !A. F. of L. Head Denounces Com- | pulsory Labor and Says Days Are Over. | of Slavery The United States government should extend its good offices asmedi- ator in the present Ruhr muddle, Sam- uel Gompers, president of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor, sald today in a formal statement containing comment on the appeal of 12,000,000 members of German labor organiza- tions sent to the American Congress. He gave his heartiest support to the appeal, and said that it deserves se- ! rious and sympathetic consideration ! by the government, pointing out that | !there is a certain moral obligation | resting on this government to help, despite the fact that it did not ratify the Versailles treaty, Text of Statement. ; Mr. Gompers' statement follows: i The appeal of the representatives | {of the organized labor movement of | Germany has my heartiest support. It deserves serious and sympathetic con- | sideration by the government of the United States. “The era has passed when compul- sory labor can be imposed upon work- ers. The trend toward the abolition | iof slavery began three-quatters of a century ago. “The heart of the people of France throbs with generosity and is o posed to the imposition” of compuisory work upon the people or any por- tion of the people of Germany “The German people must understand | that they cannot entirely escape from reasonable payment for the ravages and devastation which the kaiser in | their name so ruthlessly carried on. | Sees Moral Responsibility. “Though the Senate of the United |States has refused to ratity the| Versailles treaty, and therefore the CUnited States is not legally bound by its terms, we cannot escape the | moral responsibility which devolves ! upon us of recognizing that it was| that treaty swhich ended the war and that the armistice was merely a stoppage of actual military con- fiict. In formulating the conditions |of the armistice the United States was a party. Do what We may re- ding our refusal to ratify that | | treaty,” & moral obligation in all | honor Tequires that our country shall do_its share in bringing about an arrangement between France and |Germany, 8o that an honorable set- tlement of the awful situation aris- ing out of the dispute between these two countries may be accomplished. Could Have Averted Crists. “I repeat and emphasize the state- | ment I recently made in commenting | upon the Ruhr situation, that had our | country ratified the treaty, or if we and Great Britain had guaranteed to | France the protection which she 5o | naturally and logically needs—that | is, against future aggressions of Ger- many—no such situation as that which now exists in the Ruhr would have arisen “Now, 1 believe that our government should tender its good offices as media- tor. We have no selfish designs upon either of their countries or upon any ! country, and the offer to act as medla- tor should, in my judgment, be made in good faith to France and to Ger- many, and offered without regard to whether either or both nations will be pleased or displeased.” PLEA SENT TO U. S. By the Associated Press, BERLIN, February 2.—The ‘tra-| ditional American honor and appre- | ciation of fair play” are appealed 10 in & message forwarded by leading trade union executives to the Senate and House of Representatives in Washington. The appeal, which gives expres- sion to Vthe feeling of alarm” with which 12,000,000 German workers view the Ruhr, voices the confidence that the United States did not enter the war “for the purpose of anni- halitating the German people,” and ldeclares that “American honor as- qserted at this time can save Europe and the world from inevitable dis- aste: The chairmen of the executive boards of the four union federations, who signed the message, say that the step has been taken without the knowledge of official circles. The Ruhr occupation and the Ver- sallles treaty, the message asserts, have made inevitable a condition of servitude repugnant to the German (Continued on Page 2, Column b.) | worse. Starvation, the poison of bit- terness in outraged souls, physical contamination and degradation. are ravaging noble sections of the human tamily in central Europe. “The curse now being sown will bear fruit in new and more frighte ful wars. P Calls on U. S, President. *“We servants of. the church in Sweden urge our fellow Christians in France and in all ‘lands to implore Wwith us from God the vision and, power for whole-hearted action. The whole ‘problem of peace and neces- sary reparation must be lifted from the’ present level of reprisals and threats to the higher plane of mutual trust and good will. “We humbly appeal to the respon- sible statesmen and especially to you, the President of the United States, with all possible speed to relieve by tforward it be- :-..'n"‘&’;‘ representatives of the P W { and expensive patrol = N ( N NN THE MAN WHO DOES BELIEVE Consents to Opening Coffin In Hunt for Crown Jewels The Treasury Department has ac. quiesced in a request of War Depart- ment officers for the exhumation and examination of the coffin of James Jones. an American seaman buried in Cypress 1ill cemetery, Brooklyn. to determine definitely if smuggled Rus- sian crown jewels were buried with the body. It was indicated that the Treasury had no intention of taking action on the reports that the jewels were in the coffin until the War Department complained against the burdensome which it had been found necessary to maintain at the grave. It was determined then to have the casket segrched and either prove the story that the jewels were contained therein or set at rest couptless .re- ports of the smuggling. “Stories to the effect that the Ru sian crown jewels had been smug- gled into the United States, concealed with the body of Jones in a metal- NEW POLICE JUDGE ASKED BY QYSTER Letter to Senator Phipps Also Seeks Additional Po- licemen. Appointment of an additional Po- lice Court judge to handle traffic vio- lations exclysively and an appropria- urged by Commissioner Oyster in a letter to Senator Phipps, made public today. The letter contains statistics to show that arrests by the police for traffic violations have increased “by leaps and bounds,” and that the num- {ber of deaths from automobile and street car accidents have been de- creasing steadily since 1918. The Commissioner told Phipps that with only fifty-five motor cyle police and twenty-nine bicycyle men the department made 25,000 arrests for trafic violations during the last fiscal year. sented arrests for speeding and 16,662 for all other violations. High Death Mark im 1818, “This memorandum,” the Commis. sioner said, “shows that deaths in this District caused by vehicles and street cars reachéd the high mark of eighty- six deaths in 1918, and that each year since then such fatalities have de- creased, there being fifty such fatali- ties for the year 1922. «It is interesting to note also the great increase in the number of li- censed motor vehicles in the District of Columbia. Such vehicles have in- creased from 34,347 in 1918 to 79,646 in 1922. This number does not include the great number of persons domiciled in the District of Columbia who op- erate motor vehicles under the tags of the states of their legal residence, nor of the thousands of transients passing dally through the city. It is estimated by the inspector of police in charge of (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) The Last Look Around the World for the day is reported in Senator | Of that number, 8,851 repre-) lic casket, been brought to the attention o toms officlals for two 3 said As- sistant Secretary Clifford, Treasury Department, today. “The stories were that the casket was buried without | having been opened. and that thereby | the plan of the smugglers was de- feated. None of these storles, how- ever, could be substantiated and the sponsors failed to produce evidence which, in the opinion of offictals, would warrant exhumation of the casket and a search thereof 'he story. however, recently found Jts way into public print, and as a re- sult the United States Army section of the Cypress Hill cemetery, where James Jones is buried. has been the center for morbid curiosity seekers, both by day and by night. They have gone there in such numbers that the military authorities found it neces- sary to place a military patrol on dgty to guard the grave.” Mr. Clifford has sent to the special customs agent in charge at New York authority to be present as witnesses at the ex- humation. Actual jurisdiction over the work falls within the control of the Army. THEATER DISASTER SUITS ARE UPHELD District Supreme Court Holds | Knickerbocker Company ! Must Defend Itself. persistentiy the cus- The Knickerbocker Theater Com- | pany must defend the suits brought against it for the death of David Ly- |tion for more trafic policemen areman and Mary E. Forsyth and the in- jury sustained by Mary Young in the collapse of the roof of the bullding January 28, 1922. Justice Hoehling of the District Su- preme Court so held today, when he overruled a demurrer filed by the cor- poration, which claimed the declara- tions did not set forth any specific acts of negligence on the part of the { company. The court finds it is a case for the application of the legal doctrine of res ipsa loquitur, which means that j the happening of the accident pre- | Sumes negligence, and it is not neces- sary for the plaintiff to point out just what caused the falling of the roof. | The eourt does not determine the ex- j act measure of the duty and responsi- bility of tne company as owner or proprietor of the place of amusement, and declares the company will not be deprived of its right of proper legal defense of the actions against it by reason of tne mere interposition and lication of the doctrine. Heasonable time will be allowed At- torneys Wilton J. Lambert and R. H. Yeatman for the company to apply c0 the Court of Appeals for a spectal ap- peal on this point of law. Justice Hoehl- ing points out that the matter is impor- tant because of the number of suits, and the total involved and that much_ ex- pense and time might be saved by hav- ing a ruling by the appellate tribunal in_advance of & jury trial on the merits. While not an, insurer of the safety of his_patrons and liscensees, the owner or proprietor of a place of amusement, the court decides, 1s charged with certain obligations to them, He is charged with an af- firmative positive obligation to know that the premises are safe for the public use. He impliedly warrants the premises to be reasonably safe for the purpose for whioh they are designed and used. 1 i | The Foening: S 5:30 Edition General news, Sports news, Financial news, Special news—down to the last minute—also the Court program as laid down for tomorrow. For sale by fiewsboys and newsdealers throughout the city 1923— FORTY IN GROUND HOG DAY to assign representatives | PAGES. | SENATE REBUKES HEFLIN FOR WORDS STARTING FIGHT iVotes That Alabama Member | Reflected Improperly on Wadsworth. Senator Heflin, democrat. Alabama, | was twice rebuked by the Senate to- | @ay for language he used in refer- | ences to Senators Wadsworth, repub- lican, New York, and Couzens, repub- | ean. Mjchigan. By a vote of 40 o 28 his remarks | regarding Senator Wadsworth were held to be improper, and then, with- out & reeord vote, the Senate expunged remarks regarding Senator (Couzens. | At the same time, in one of the stormiest sessions of recent years the [ Senate also expunged for its record | remarks made by Senator Couzens regarding Mr. Heflin, Wall Street Ties Charged. Senator Heflin's remarks regarding Senator Wadsworth were made ves- terday and were held to imply that Senator Wadsworth represented Wall street. Those relating to Senator Cougens, it was charged, implied that he represented big business inter- ests, The reply of Senator Couzens, also expunged, referred to Senator Heflin as playing to the galleries, and sug- gested that “in the nighttime” he had changed the record of his speech yes- terday in the clash with Senator Wadsworth. Violent Personal Clashes. The most violent personal clashes in many months took place during the debate. Motlons to expunge and charges of material alteration by Sen- ator Heflin of his remarks flew about the Senate for three hours, blocking all other business. Before the Senate acted Senator Heflin offered to withdraw his re- marks regarding Senator Couzens if the Michigan senator would recipro- cate. This Senator Couzens refused to do. The motion to expunge them was offered by Senator Underwood of Alabama, the democratic leader, who said he hoped Heflin would per- to act “as his friend in the Couzens Objects. Mr. Underwood at first asked unani- | mous consent for Mr. Heflin to with- draw the remarks under discussion, but Mr. Couzens objected. The demo- cratic leader said that both senators must recognize their responsibility to the people, and give their time to pub- lic affairs rather than to personal dif- ferences. Senator Lenroot joined the minority leader in the effort to stop tie con- troversy, but Mr. Couzens declared flatly he would not agree to the pro- posal,to strike out his statement. He | finally did acqulesce in the Underwood motion, however, and it was adopted without opposition. Appeal Tabled. An appeal by Senator Robinson, democrat, Arkansas, from the Vice President's ruling was tabled over solid democratic opposition and with six republicans—Sepators Brookhart, Towa; Capper, Kansas; Johnson, Cali- fornia; Ladd, North Dakota; La Fol- il TWO CENTS. POLICE SEIZE SCORES IN CITY-WIDE RAIDS ON LIQUOR SELLERS =Biggest Rou;l‘(l Up Siiice Prohibi- tion Act Went Into Effect Fills Precinct WAGONLOADS OF Stations. RUM TAKEN: “ASHMAN? AGENT GETS EVIDENCE \Sixty Warrants Sworn Out Last Night as Result of Information Quietly Collected. The greatest crusade against bootlegging and illicit liquor manufacturing in Washington since the advent of prohibition was launched on a gigantic scale this afternoon by revenue agents and the police. Raids are being made in virtually every section of the city, and will be continued throughout the day until every known land suspected peddler of liquor has been emeshed in the net which the prohibition enforcement forces have carefully and secretly spread over the District in the last several week: About 3 o’clock this afternoc peddlers and distillers of the illi intoxicants seized as evidence we police precincts in wagon-loads. For more than two weeks t! worked out the plans for the ca afternoon to clean up the city. last night and early today and a cincts. Vast Amount of Liquor Seized. Revenue agents and vi E members acted as a general staff, while the precincts furnished details of men as individual raiding parties No accurate estimate of the amount of liquor seized in the raids is yet obtainable. Wagon loads, howeve are being carried to the poli tions as evidence against the v ors of the eighteenth amendment As fast as those arrested are brought into the precinct stations and the charges placed against them, bondsmen appear and put up the requisite $1.500 cash demanded for their liherty. It is believed that $7 000 in bonds will be placed a- the va- rious precincts before 5 o'clock, The raids are being conducted with a view to the advantage of surprise. In some instances prisoners were ar- rested on the same block. In every raid of this type, all of the places were rajded at the same moment, si- multaneous assignments having been given the raiders, tokether with the “zero hour” for the attack. To J. L. Aeher, Washington's “Izzy Einstein,” goes the credit for much LOADED COAL CARS CHOKE RUHR LINES Correspondent Finds 20,000 Caught by Blockade With Nowhere to Go. By the Associated Press. AT THE FRANCO-BELGIUM CUS- TOMS BORDER, near Drachel, Febru- ary 2.—The great railroad arteries, fed from the industrial heart of Ger- many are feellng the first gruelling twists of the troop tourniquet applied by France and Belgium. Today the military cordon flung around the Ruhr appears to be check- ing effectively the flow to unoccupied Germany of coal, her “economic life blood.” But unlike the surgical opera- tion it resembles, this latest move of the allies is not aiding the life of the economic bedy on which it wal applied. Around the far-flung semi-circle of bayonets guarding the coal which the Franco-Belgium forces hope to take home on Germany’s deficient repara- tion deliveries long rows of loaded cars could be seen drawn up to a standstill just inside the edge of the area. Here the noses of the locomo- tives had poked abruptly into the guardsmen with machine guns who obstructed the right of way, ready for action in case a deflant engine driver chose to disregard the signals which the occupying authorities already had shifted to indicate blocked tracks. 20,000 Cars on H The Germans estimated officially that 20,000 loaded coal cars were Iying today about the Ruhr with no- where to go, as their exit to the Fatherland proper had been cut off. Many of the crews profited by the experience of their fellow-workers on trains which had come booming to- ward the border earlier in the day, and before reaching the frontier the later comers hustled their cargoes i (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) 35 Swim Beneath Burning Oil, (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) Escaping Death on Flaming Ship By the Associated Prese. NEW 'ORLEANS, February 2.—A tale of horror, recounting how ten sallors of the Algula Petroleum Com- pany’s tanker San Leonardo, plying between gulf ports, were cremated on the deck of the vessel in view of thousands of persons on the shore, or leaped to their death in a river of “The San Leonardo, carrying 30,000 barrels of mineral oil, had just ar- rived at a receiving station at the free poft section of the harbor and was discharging her cargo when fire broke out amidships. Within a few moments the steel vessel was an im- mense caldron with oil flames mount. ing 400 feet in the ai “Sweeping over a wharf the fire at- | tacked the walls of the free port | zone and destroved a large section the | pefore the city fire department could wing into effective action. flames, is contained in the detailed report received by Arturo M. Elias, consul general for Mexlco. of the| i s $1,000,000 oil fire in Tampico harbor SW.p¥, 'S0 Yeonardo is a total loss, ot the night of June 35. only the steel hull remaining, and is Thirty-five of the crew escaped by |not worth salvaging, say the dis- diving into the Panuco river, which | patches. bl G conflagration was the most e A b g e Ry g shore, but ail were. Burned, Mexican oil port, 18 was statedy 1 more than fifty alleged liquor t liquor had been arrested, and re being carried into the several he revenue agents have quietls mpaign which they opened this Sixty warrants were sworn out pportioned to the different pre of the success movement to wipe and illegal manufactur the Di: widesprear bootleg, of liquo in he arrived here from Kentucky. attempts made to establish his identit newspapers, following repor the Blue rass state that h staged a number of moonshine in various disguises, All these attempts were fruitles In the meantim he was traveling over the city of Washington in de- scripticns of every type of citizer At one time he acted as an ash man to obtzin a line on and the confidence of a group of bootieggers. He helped them to carry whisky into various houses and hid it for them. He also located thelr sources of supply and then gave an accurate description to his fellow officers of how to loc the illicit goods. He is shooting around to various precincts of Washington today iden- tifying the various prisoners as those with whom he had bad dealings. Once Coal Heaver. He acted as a coal heaver in on instance and as an Irish insurance collector in another; he entered one den of bootleggers as a book agent and mingled in_evening crowds in Wasrington in the full-dress suit of a Kentucky lawver. The stories from New York of lzzy Einstein's work in disguised prohibition activities pales into commonplace, when compared to some of the exploits of this new man, Asher. Among the first of the alleged boot- laggers to fall into the hands of the dry raiders were six colored persons lo- cated within the bounds of the eighth precinct. Shortly before 2:30 o'clock Revenue Agents Hines and Rose, accompanied by Pollcemen Trammell and Stecle, arrested them and charged them with either illegal possession or the selling of liquor. Those arrested by these of ficers and the charges against them follow: Charles A. Lane, 1735 Seaton_pla selling and possession; Marie McCos 1713 Seaton place, illegal possession and selling: Wililam W. Simpson 2207 Sth street, selling and posse Annle Cole, 2124 Sth street, se and posse: n. Henry Snowden, colored, 1113 street, was arrested by Revenue Agent Elliott and Private Talley and Murphy shortly after noon today, on a charge of selling liquor. le was taken to precinct No. Booked at Eighth Precinct. reports gave the taken to the eighth nrecinct station, who were charged with sell- ing and fllegal possession of liquor as: William W. Simpson, 7 street northwest; Tamblin Wilsor 2148 H street northwest; Annie Cole, 2124 H street northwest, and Blllie Barnes, 610 S street northwest Those taken to the fourth precinct were: Michael Leahy, thirty-three years old, 49 K street northeast, who conducts 2 near-beer saloon near 7Tth and F streets southwest, charged with illegul possession of liquor. John Barry, thirty-cight years old, of 416 K street southwest, a bar- tender at Leahy's saloon. Max Axler, three vears old, 901 2d stree proprietor of a near-beer saloon. charged with il- legal possession and sale of liquo George Dore, thirty-four, colored, and Mary Lee, thirty, colored, both of 923 2d street’ southwest, selling a illegal possession of liquor. In the raiding party were P tion Agents Packard, Burrell; C L. E. Allan, Thomas_O'Donnel Rone and Precinct Detective Berry. names of Some in Police Net, The following are on the books at the second precinct station, charged with illegal possession and selling of liquors, unless stated otherwise, as result of the first batch of raid: Madge Townsend, twenty years old, colored; laundress, of 1 2 streef northwest; twelve and 4 half gallons of corn liquor seized. Joe Jones; forty-four years old, ored, 1220 6! street mnorthw chauffeu quarts of whi col- corn wo years old, reet, cight- a haif gallons of whisky , laborer, 1217 6 een and seized. Raymond Brown, twenty-nine vears old. colored, an actor, of 1220 6% street; arrested with Madge Town- send. Walter Newman, thirty-two years old, colored, barber, 1244 6l street northwest, one-hal pint of corn Wwhisky selzed. Othello Richardson, forty-one years old. colored, 1636 Marion street. James Edward Marshall, twenty-+ six years old, colored, a laborer; 2028 12th street. John Gaskins, thirty-eight years olored. laborer: 1721 th street liam Hall, thirty-eight years old. colored: fireman: 1239 4th street Blanche Clarke. thirty vears colored, of 10 Naylor's court. Felix Bunkley, twenty years old, colored, barber; 1718 7th street. Samuel Markowitz, forty years old. & Rumanian; near-beer shop proprie- tor, 1534 6th street; charged only with selling porn whiskw, old