Evening Star Newspaper, June 3, 1923, Page 2

2 * _ JLLINOIS HITS PLAN STATE DRY RE Hope to Break Down En- forcement of Act Generally, . Says Anti-Saloon Head: CHICAGO, June 2—Repeal of the Mullan-Gage prohibitign enforcement law in New York has definitely drawn the battle line between the Associa- tion Against the Prohibition Amend- ment and the Anti-Saloon League and the next combat will take place in Tilinols, F. Scott McBride, state super- intendena of the Anti-Saloon said today It is now the porters of the Assoc Prohibition Amendn; serted, to go into the tricts of Tllinois in April 8, 1424, and wi bers of the legisluture to Illinois prohibition act. “The chief purpose of this repeal, on the part of the wets, controlling as they do the legislature, and the gov- ernor being wet,” Mr. MeBride said, “is wet propaganda to carry out their am_of breaking down enforce- within the states OFFERS OHIO AGENTS. Ohto, June 2 —Stats At- Crabbe today sent deral Prohibition Commissioner Roy A. Haynes at Washington declaring that he was confident that state, county and mu- nicipal officers could enforce proh bition in Ohio and that if federal en- forcement officers now in the state were needed in New York they might be removed from Ohio. “Ohio is still against secession,” the telegram said, in speaking of the repealing by the legislature of the New York state enforcement act The attorney general said that he was appealing to the state and local officlals to be even more watchful than ever in the enforcement of the liquor laws. The telegram Haynes follows: “Ohio still is against secession. If you need the federal prohibition offi- cers now in Ohlo to help enforce the law in New York since Al Smith seeks to nullify the Constitution I am con- fident that our state, county and mu- nicipal officers will redouble their efforts and see that the law is en- forced in this state and make avail- able all federal officers for New or! MARCHING TO D. C. FROM NEW JERSEY Organized into the first provisional ordnance company. equipped to full war strength, enlisted students of the ordnance department who have been in training for the past year at the ordnance speclaiists’ school at the Raritan arsenal. Metuchen, N. J are marching to Washington fo par- ticipate in the military activities dur- ing the Shrine convention. The com- nany pitched tents last night at the Aberdeen proving grounds, and is scheduled to reach Hyattsville, Md., tonight. It will march into Was -ington tomorrow morning, comvlet- ing a three-day overland trip. The organization, manned with five officers and approximately 1(0 enlisted men, is equipped with niae- teen motor vehicles, ranging in size from the motor cycle to the gigantic Uberty, weighing eight tons when loaded” Upon its arrival in Wash- ington the company wii) establish quarters at 19th and B streets north west, where it will be inspected by J. Gen. C. C. Williams, chief of ordnance. While here the company, will par- ticipate in the military parade Thursday night. Damaged and un- serviceable firearms will be over- hauled, repaired and made fit for use, This work will be for the purpose of demonstrating the results of the years training. The maneuvers of the company will cover a period of two weeks, and marks *he closing exercises for the men who will be graduated the latter part of this month, The compan n Rim® A purpose of the sup- tion Against the nt, McBride a gislative dis the primary of enough mem- repeal the nt COLUMBUS torney General C. & telegram to to Commissioner command of Capt. Samuel R. ble, ordnance department, U. S. —_—_— FREIGHT RATE CUT POSSIBLE IN JULY (Continued from First Page.) railroads apparently are earning divi- dends at the present time materially in excess of the “fair return.” These roads are required to divide their excess earnings half and half with the government. Whether the gov- ernment will continue this condi- tion, holding back for the weaker roads, and recapture for the public treasury half of the excess earnings: or whether the commission will de- cide to give shippers the benefit of excess rallroad profits by reducing rates to the point where 5% per cent will not be exceeded, will come in for discussion. See Reglonal Reductions. Roads in the east and south are showing a remarkable return to prosperity while those of the West, hard hit by the farmer's lingering depression, are coming back some- what more slowly. Regional reduc- tlons may be the answér, if reduc- tions are decided on at all. The commisslon has indicated that it has given the farmer the benefit of re- ductions greater, perhaps, propor- tionately than reductions In other lines and a general decrease in rates on farm products is not anticipated. Most of the roads serving agricultural communities are today among the number earning less than the “fair Tetur: All factors relating to the transpor- tation situation, including the interest rate paid by raliroads borrowing to re- plenish their rolling stock and motive power, are understood to be under con- sideration in the preliminary survey. So also is the continued huge volume of traffic which has been rising continu- ously since the first of the year to levels unapproached heretofore by sea- sonal movements. The latest week for which there i3 a record shows car load- ings totaling almost 1,000,000 cars—a figure unthought of in any other May recorded. Increase of 20 Per Cent. From January 1 to May 12, inclusive, according to figues made public by the American Railway Association, the num- ber of cars loaded with freight on Class 1 roads increased by about 20 per cent over the number during the same period of the preceding year. The increase over the corresponding period in 1921 was al- most 30 per cent. Under the present rate schedule, ‘which is a reduotion of 10 per ‘cent from that in effect at this time last ear, the roads as a whole are earn- g & little more than the law allows. them. The Interstate Commerce Com- mission is represented bei sin- oerely desirous of having the League, { SHARPER DRY LAW TEETH TO BE ASKED (Continued from First land, and the acts of Congress for its execution should be obeyed and en- forced, and I think in a police meas- ure of this kind the state govern- ments should co-operute with the fed- eral government in the ald of law enforcement, and that when a state has passed prohibition laws a repeal of them is bad policy, as tending to | encourage disrespect for the federal {laws. I would not _be in favor of u | sweeping repeal of the prohibition laws of Tennessee.’ Senator Dial, democrat. South Caro- {lina, declared: “I am very sorry Gov. Smith signed the bill I think it the duty of all officials to support the Coustitution of the United States and all laws passed thereunder. We all |ought to co-operate. No good can {come from drinking liquor. | n attitude of waitilng was main- talned today by the federal govern- ment toward the New Y ork hibition enforcement situ ing from Gov. Smith's signature of {the New York enforccment law re- pealer. Commissioner Havnes and other of- ficlals remained silent, and it was in- dicated that determ!nation of a policy I\\uLlll await the outcome | cunterences in which President Hard- ing may have the deciding volce | A few pronibition agents form other ! parts of the country, it was indicated at prohibition headquarters, may be sent to New York, but officials privately con- ceded that these could not fill a hole in the enforcement work as deep as com- iplete withdrawal of New York police agencies would make. A complete with- |drawal was not expected, however, by government officlals, who belleve the | New York state authorities, will follow, {to some extent at least, Governor | Smith’s injunction that the Volstead act be regarded as continuing applicable to | enforceable in New York | Local courts and magistrates of { ! New York, Department of Justice | oflicials also pointed out, are required i by general law as well as the Vol- stead act to deal with prohibition { offenders brought before them, either by imposing fines or sentences or| | taking bail and bindiug over the | prisoners for action by the federal ! grand jury. Repecal of the Mullan- Gage law. according to officers of the department. does not relieve New York district and police court judies and mayors from this duty, imposed by section 1,014 of the revised | statutes. and 'also incorporated in | the Volstead act. It was conceded, ! however, that one result woull be to increase prohibition cases before federal grand juries and add to the present congestion of federal court There were Indications that the ad- ministration would move slowly toward announcement of its ultimate policy. How New York and especlally New York city “behave themselves” {under the new order of liquor affairs 11s expected to be an important factor in making the decision. If an orgy of | bootlegging and of open ‘speakeasies” should develop, government officlals are prepared to make a maximum ef- fort to sustain the federal constitu- tion and laws ! No More Agents. | With only about 2,300 prohibition agents employed by the government and between 200 and 250 already as- signed to the New York district, re- sponsible officials declare it s fmpos- sibl to transfer any considerable num- ber to augment the New York forces without serious neglect In enforcement work throughout the remainder of the country. Such a policy, it was said, might lead to a serious Increase of rum running and border smuggling in other states. Right here in Washington, prohl- bition agents have their hands full row in an effort to prevent whole- sale rumrunning into the capital for the Shriners conclave, which gets into full swing next week. An aug- mented force of prohibition agents is watching roads and waterways leading into the District of Columbia from Maryland and Virginia. Over fifty automobiles carrying liquor were seized on these roads last month. HITS SMITH CANDIDACY. Democratic Leader Says Dry Ac- tion Has Killed Chances. DALLAS, Tex., June 2.—Thomas B. Love, national democratic commit- teeman from Texas, expressing op- position to the possible candidacy of Gov. Smith of New York as demo- pro- OF NEW CONGRESS| jon result- | of future | {cratio presldential candidate in 1924, said here today that by sinning the repeal of the Mullan-Gage bill, Mr. Smith has aligned himself with those who would repeal the national pro- hibition amendment by ‘“indirect { meana.” “This action mone precludes Gov. Smith from recelving the surport of Texas, southern, western or mid- western delegates,”” he sald. “Gov. Smith or any other wet candidate could not hope to carry much terri- tory outside the city of New York, New Jersey and, perhaps, Rhode Island.” STATEMENTS BITTER. Wet and Dry Leaders Eloquent on Smith’s Action. At awords points with each other over the wet and dry issues, the two great hostile organizations with headquarters here representing their respective wet and dry constituenc: throughout the nation, put fort sharp statements yesterday over Gov. Smith's signature of the New York dry law repealer, volcing in brief, and somewhat bitter form, the na- tional warfare which has broken over the attempted come-back of John Barleycorn. The Assoclation Against the Prohi- bitlon Amendment, through its found- er, Capt. W. H. Btayton, exults in no uncertain terms in the wet vlctory, delivering a thrust at Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel of the Anti- Saloon League. Mr. Wheeler, in turn, attacks the wets as having nullified the federal law and criticises Gov. Smith as hav- ing “paid in full his debt to the liquor crowd.” Hits Anto-Saloon League. Pointing_with glow of success to the New York blow at prohibition, the association against the prohibi- tion amendment flays the Anti- Saloon League, in scornful vein, de- claring: efeated in Maryland in its recent attempt to put through the harsh en- forcement legislation it had there es- poused, effecting an empty victory in Pennsylvania through the refusal of the legislature of that state to furnish ap- propriations for prohibition enforce- ment, checkmated in Massachusetts, and now repudiated in New York, the Anti- Saloon League is approaching the end of its rope. The reign of the organized minority is over.” Sees Great Victory. The New York repeal said Capt. Stayton, “constitutes a distinct triumph for the people and the rule of the ma- fority, &3 opposed to the long relgn of the Anti-Saloon League, whose lease of power is fast running out. No longer can it dominate the legisiatures of the oy SBertithay \caen . Sm as clearly disposed of the persiatent efforta of the. taformers to place the Volstead act and the elgh- teenth amendment in the same cate- gory. The repeated charges of the Anti- Saloon League, through its general counsel, Wayne B. Wheeler, that repu- diation 'of any state legislation designed to_enforce Volsteadism constitutes ‘nul- lification’ is torn ehreds. The declaration that ‘concurrent rights' as to enforce- ment by the states, as expressed in the elghteenth amendment, constitutes an option, and not & command or duty, meets all the false contentions of th drys, and is in thorough keeping with the Tecognized powers of the federal roads ) government, as well as with those of the yemain prosperous and at the same |Sovereign states, in their reciprocal re- time give the shippers the benefit of rates as low as compatible with a 5% per cent return. The reduced rates will have been in effeot & year on July 1 next and it would not be surprising if some- thing further with respect to rates ‘were fortheoming on or about that anniversary. 1ations. “Gov. Smith, in his statement, points the way to a ‘proper and reasonable’ amendment of the Volstead act. If this is done by Congress, it will end the scandals, bribery and corruption wing out of the present system, k down the growing power of the bootlegger, who recognizes the Vol- stead 208and-the Anti-Saloon League, a good three hours ahend of Abou as his best friends, and restore at one time the respect for the law and the rule of the people.” Wheeler Hits Smith. Wayne B. Wheeler of the Anti-Sa- loon League is eloguent in his attack upon the New York repeal and Gov. Smith's attitude, as follows: “Gov. Smith’s loyalty and fealty are proven by his memorandum on ap- proval of the ‘repealer.’ He has paid in full bis debt to the liguor crowd, who supported him; he has shown that his ancient loyalty to the liquor interests is undiminished. As one having authority, he speaks of the hypocrisy “which has marked -dfscus- sion of the prohibition question, and | re Is himself a master of that art. sserting that . ‘the Eighteenth amendment is the law of the land, and no one suggests,-least of all my- self or the legislature of this state that it should be violated,’ he then malkes practically tmpossibie the pun- ishment of viglators, Basing his objections to the Mul- lan-Gage law on its parallel’to the Volstead act, he urges the right of the state to determine by laws what shall constitute intoxicating liquor. That the Supreme Court has ruled that no state can make legal what the federal statute forblds or vice versa is barred from the argument entirely. Raps Duplicity, “‘Its repeal will not make legal a single act which was illegal under the period of the existence of the statute,’ is well sald by the go nor. All that the repeal will do will be to make such acts safe, so far as it is in the power of Gov. 1fred Smith. The governor says: “There will still rest upon the peace officers of the state the sacred responsibility of en- forcing the Volstead act.” This re- sponsibility, however, will be without power and authority, and qualified by hypocritical denunciations by the state’s chlef executive. “I shall expect the discharge of that duty In the fullest measure by every officer of the state,” says the governor, and then by one stroke of the pen he destroys the legal ma- chinery for accomplishing this. In other words, he asks that bricks be made without straw. “In place of double jeopardy, Go Smith has removed, so far as he waj able, ail jeopardy for the rum crime inal and substituted multiple jeopardy. for ‘every agency thut makes for decency, prosperity or law and order. No liquor outlaw shall be placed in double peril of the aforesald law, but the health, safety and happiness of men, women and children, the stas bility of government, the virtue of women, the peace of our communities and reverence for law will be in per- petual danger.” NEW CAVE-IN BLOCKS RESCUE OF 3 MINERS Crews Rush Work of Drilling Hole for Food and Air to En- tombed Men. BICKNELL, Ind, June 2.—Three miners entombed by a cave-in at a shaft near here this afternoon were hoisted almost to safety when a second cave-in blocked their rescue. Crews were at work tonight endeavoring to drill 2 hole through which air and food can be lowered until the shaft fs cleared. The men are Joseph Bernarves and Frank Barbetu and a brother-in- law of Barbetu. DANCE MISHAP FATAL. CHARLOTTE, N. C., June 2.—Joseph H. M. Shuping, twenty-two, of Mor- ganton, N. C, died today from In- jurfes sustained near here last night in an auto accident in which Thomas Parrish of Rock Hill, S. C., was se- verely injured and Rudolph Gardner of Mount Holly, N. C., was painfully hurt. The auto in which they were re- turning from a dance was overturned. Young Shuping had just been gradu- ated from North Carolina State Col- lege. Mr. Parrish was sald to have suffered. injuries to his head, which may prove to be a fracture. .| and Gov. delegation to the Shrine convention, arrived here shortly after the distinction of being Editorfal comment from representa- tive newspapers on Gov. Smith's signing of the dry enforcement law repealer is as follows: The Boston Herald—The Governor of New York had to deal with about as ugly a dilemma as has confront- ed a state executive In many years. He took almost the full period al- lowed for his consideration, held a long and stormy hearing. and now signs the bill. What wiil be the ef- fect of hig action upon the gover- nor's own future? Surely it dimin- ishes his chances of obtaining the democratic nomination for the presi- dency next year. He defers to Tammany. He makes himself solid with Broadway and he boys"” But next year he wiil have to deal with a south that long has been just as solld for prohibition as_for democracy. The Kansas City Star—New York can do without a state prohibition enforcement law if it wants to, but the eighteenth amendment will still be the supreme law of New York. The federal judges will be bound thereby and the federal government will enforce them. Call Action Anarchy. Nevertheless, the state legislature Smith have done gn anar- chistic. thing. The moral effect of their action must be to encourage lawbreaking. The arguments used by the wets at_the hearing before the governor indicate a remarkable lack of com- prehension of the nature of the American Constitution. Something may be pardoned them, perhaps, in view of their zeal and their excite- ment, but we should have expected that on an occasion so public Ame fcans assuming to speak in terms of law and policy would have hesi- tated to exhibit igmorance so stu- pendous. Indianapolis News—There can, of course, be no question of the right of the state to do what It has done. It is a great mistake, and here Gov. Smith 1s right, to hold that the fed- eral government, or the people of the country generally can act in such a way as to compel a state to pass certain legislation. The talk about “nullification” and “gecession” 1is nonsense. The only wonder is that the governor delayed so long In doing what, it is evident from his vehemence he intended to do from the first. Scoffs at Statement. Philadelphia Public Ledger—If half the things Gov. Smith says In his elaborate explanation of his approval of the repeal of the New York state prohibition _enforcement legislation were true, the whole performance of the last month would prove to have been little more than a gesture of disapproval of the severity of the restrictions imposed by the federal law and a demonstration of the de- sire of the assembly and of the majority of the people of New York to have those restrictions relaxed. And If this be admitted to be the true situation, which most of us will deny, all of the agitated storm that has raged around the head of the gov- ernor has been wholly unnecessary. Meanwhile, it would be profoundly unfortunate were other states to fol- low New York's example in ignoring the moral obligation which rests upon them to offer a vast deal more than a passive acceptance to federal laws. Cleveland Plain Dealer: After much show of hesitation Gov. Alfred E. Adhem Temple, which was expected to have hi \Press Divided in Approval Of Smith’s Dry Law Repeal Admits Legal Right to Deny State Aid in Enforcement, But Generally Regret Governor’s Policy. Smith signed the prohibition repeal bill, exactly as his wet following ex- pected. His letter of explanation, manifestedly an effort to propitiate the drys, need not have been written. The simple fact is that the governor approves the wet Culliver act be- cause he Is himself wet and is backed by a wet majority in the state would have been an odd reversal political logic had he vetoed it In our opinion, New York is clearly privileged to take the action it has thus chosen to take. vertheles adyocates of prohibition everywhe will regret the action of the New of York legislature and its approval by | the governor. Providence Journal: Gov. Smith of New York has approved the repeal of the Mullen-Gage prohibition en- forcement law, and in so doing has ranged himself definitely on the side of the wets. His long and elaborate argument in signing the repeal bill disclaims any desire to see a return of the saloon, which he declares 1 permanently defunct, and he {insi: that state police officers still have a duty to perform in helping to en- force the Volstead act, but the prac- tical result of his action, 1s, of course, to put a heavier burden on the fed- eral authorities and to invite a new regime of bootlegging lawlessness. ASSOCIATED PRESS REPLIES TO SMITH Did Not Break Faith in Release of News of Signing Dry Enforce- ment Repeal. By the Ansociated Press. NEW YORK. June 2 —Gov. Smith at Albany today issued a statement accusing the Associated Press of hav- ing violated his confidence in an- nouncing at 6:10 o'clock last night that he had signed the Mullan-Gage repeal bill. The governor had in- tended that morning papers should first have this news, which, because of the difference in time, was re- celved by some afternoon papers .n time for publication. When the state- ment was shown to the general man- ager of the Assoclated Press, he said that he regretted the governor had been disappointed, but that there had been no breach of fai:h, since no pledge had been given. In his statement the governcr safd: “According to the practice in the executive chamber, my action and the memorandum accompanying it on the signature of the repeal of the Mullan- Gage law was given to all of the newspaper correspondents in the ex- ecutive chamber at 6 o'clock Friday evening, June 1. “The memorandum carried a cap- tion that the news was for release for morning papers of June 2. I further had an understandinz with the correspondents that my action on the bill was also for release on Sat- urday morning. All of the corre- spondents and news - distributing agencles, with but one exception, did release the news on the following morning. The Assoclated Press, how- ever, released the news of my action immediately following vay announce- ment, and it was published by suine evening papers taking its servics.” Preas Service Reply. ‘The general manager of the Asso- ciated Press said: “I am very sorry, indeed, that Gov. First. Visitors to Register at Tourists Camp and Mrs. J. C. MeN; dh‘."ml.rl...ndtldrtwlflll‘n-.flnfl-‘lm%i\'.hm laki Temple, v It on_yesterday, the first to reach Mec Smith has received the impression that the Associated Press violated his | confidence. Handling executlve doc- | uments is almost a daily rcutine with us and never before have we been nc- cused of had faith, 1 am surc tha" Gov. 8mith has bean misinformed In the matter of the governor's &c- tion we made no pledge, as obviously we could not pledge ourselves to withhold from our afterncon members important spontaneous news develop- ing within their hours of publica~ tion. Had we been asked to make such & pledge, we certainly would have refused. Subsequently, wo were given governor's memorandum, which bore the caption ‘released for morning pa- | pers.’ * This was accepted with the understanding that it would not be fublished until the following morn- ng. and it was not delivered by us the to any afternoon member anywhere. WHIRLWIND RAIDS | HELP DRY CITY ON EVE OF CONVENTION (Continued from First Page.) | and lliegal possession. Ten gailons | of red and corn liquor selzed. | Robert Green Price, colored, thirty- | four years old. and Beatrice Perry, colored, twenty-five vears old, 70 De | Frees street, charged with the same as above. Two gallons of corn whisky selzed. Anthony A. De Genere, twenty- three years old, of 23 H street north- east, charged with illagal possession of liquor: John Petrell, twenty-tw> vears oM, of 22 H street northeastf charged with transporting and ille- gal possession of liquor; Frank E. Dladen, twenty-six years old, 20 Todd place northeast, charged with transporting and illegal posrsession; F. Fei.y, twenty-nine vears cld, of 643 7th street southwest, charged with transporting liquor and break- ing glass on the street: Phillip Me- Cullehigh, twenty-seven years oid, of 2634 12th street northeast, chorged with transporting and illexai posses- sion: F. C. Corridan, nineteen vears old, of 860 North Capitol strect, trans- porting and illegal possession. Regarding the above arrests on transporting charges, the official po- lice statement declared: “These men were out on & wild joy ride; after & chase of several blocks they were overtaken and placed under arrest; during the chase they threw several halt gallons of whisky and beer from the automobile in the street.” “The Castle,” an alleged rendevous of parched throats at 1133 New Hampshire avenue, fell into the hands of raiders shortly before 1 o'clock, while guests were being entertained with what rev- enue men claimed to be “beer with a kick,” imported from Pennsylvania. Seventy bottles of beer, ice cold, were confiscated. Six pints of Hquor were found and two half-gallon jars of corn whisky were taken. Tee Water Cools Bottles. When Sergt. McQuade and Agent Hertzig galned entrance they were greeted by the sight of a tub of ice water from which were being taken bot- tles, alleged to contain beer. Three ar- rests were made. Miss Catherine Sav- age, twenty-five, was charged with sale and fllegal possession. Her brother Fugene and Claude Bradfield, were charged with fllegal possession. More than ten raids had been con- ducted up to 2 o'clock this morning. Among those arrested were: Isaac Greenberg, forty-eight years old, of 1400 18t street northwest, charged with sale and illegal possession. Five gallons of liquor were conflscated at his grocery at that address. Bertha Smith, colored, thirty years old, of 416 3d street southwest, charged With sale and illegal possession; a small amount of liquor was confiscated. Mor- ris_Gottlieb of 701 Delaware avenue southwest, charged with sale and legal possession. Small amount liquor eized. Coloring Extract Taken. Robert Thomas Dorsey, colored, 1008 13th street northwest, was charged with sale and illegal pos- session, a small amount of liquor #nd coloring extract being seized. Walter L. Lee, thirty years old, col- ored, of 236 Brooks court, charged with sale and illegal possession. Eight gallons of liquor seized. As usual, news of ralds brought bondsmen flocking to the second pre- icinct station last night. They waited on the street outside for the arrivals and were ready to offer assistance covering the usual $1,600 bond at the recognized rate. RETALIATE IF CANADA CUTS OFF PULP WOOD Paper Mill Men Would Place Ex- port Duties on Coal and Other U. 8. Commodities, By the Associsted Press. SPRINGFIELD, Mass., June 2.—If Canada cuts off the exportation to this country of pulp wood, Congress will be asked by the American Pulp and Paper Mill Superintendents’ As- sociation to retaliate by placing ex- port duties on coal and other com- modities obtained by Canada from the United States. sccording to resolu- tions adopted at the international ssoclation today. Nelson R. Davis of Cumberland Mills, Me, was elected president, succeeding John O'Connell of Harris- ville, Pa. Vice presidents elected in- clude Edward T. Coughlin of Kala- masoo, Mich. B, T MeBain of Port Edwards, and Herbert W. Server of West Carrolton, Ohib. Peter J. Massey of Chicago was elected secre- tary and treasurer, convention_of the 1 CLARA PUT BEHIND SAN QUENTIN BARS Enters Prison With Dry Eyes After Long Journey From Honduras. By the Associated Pre; SAN QUENTIN, Calif, Juna 2.— Mrs. Clara Phillips, convicted of kill- ing Mrs. Alberta Tremaine Meadows with & hammer near Los Angeles Jul 12, 1922, was incarcerated in San Quentin state prison today after hav- ing escaped from the Los Angeles county jail and fled to Tegucigalpa, Honduras, where she was captured. Mrs. Phillips, who entered the pris- on without a tear although displaying the great nervous strain she was un- der, relaxed when she reached the woman's ward. She went to bed im- mediately after going through formalities of reglistration. Mrs. Phillips will be allowed to rest for a few: days and her prison tasks then will be assigned her HAD DIVINE POWER, SAID MORO, SLAIN Killing of 53 Religious Fana- tics in Pata Isle Due to Obsession. By the Associated Press MANILA, June 2.—Akbara, the Moro fanatic leader, who fell in the Pata battle, in which 53 religious fanatics were killed, was regarded as a man of Toore than ordinary intelligence. He for- merly had been a trader in Sulu and Visayan. When business slumped he re- turned to his native Island of Pata. Recently he foisted himself on the people of the district, who are princi- pally Mohammedans, as a prophet with divine instructions to drive the Ameri- cans and other Christians into the sea, and established in Sulu a government that would be responsible “only to Heaven." Akbara and a few followers built & temple on a hill and on its roof, Akbara declared, he daily communed with Allah. The authorities at- tempted to quash the fanatical move- ment without bloodshed, but Akbara's pretensions struck a popular note and his followers steadily grew in strength Adherents Told of Charm The so-called prophet told his ad- herents he could charm them so that they would not suffer from thirst and hunger and would be bullet proof. Akbara reserved for himself a higher charm that enabled him, he asserted. to cause hostile air- vianes to fall ieut. Angeles, with forty troopers of the Philippine constabulary, was sent to the district and camped two miles from Akbara’s stronghold. Angeles summoned Akbara to a par- ley on neutral ground. The chief- tain accepted the offer but sent some of his leading men instead. Angeles went to the conference un- armed and accompanied only by an orderly. His troppers declare that their Tlieutenant's ready nerve and cool front, were the only things that brought him back alive. Gave Massacre Orders. On May 19 Akbara gave orders to wipe out Angeles and his detach- ment. Four hundred fanatics left their stronghold to attack the two- score soldiers. The Moros worked themselves up to battle pitch by murdering several friendly natives and burning their homes. Then they attacked the troopers from four sides behind screens of women and children, As the first Moro column charged the little schoolhouse, where the constabulary were entrenched, the latter fired @ volley over their heads. The entire detail of fanatics fed— men, women and children. The sec- ond band of the enemy then attack- ed the troopers' rear and a third closed in from another direction. Angeles ordered his men to shoot to kill, but to pick out the men. The volleys rang out and thirty fanatics lay dead or wounded before the remainder discovered that Ak- bara’s bullet-prapfing charm had failed to work. en they fled. After this brief engagement an offi- clal proclamation was issued giving the Moros until May 28 to surrender and undertake to become law-abiding citizens. Excluded from this offer were nine of the fanatics' leaders, in- cluding Akbara and those who took part in the murder of friendly natives prior to the battle. The Moros, however, failed to take advantage of the offer and Akbara continued to gather strength until the engagement reported today from Pata, in which he and fifty-two of his followers were killed. TRAVELERS ADJOURN. Greenville, S. C.. Chosen for 1924 and Gov. Trinkle Speaks. GREENSBORO, N. C.. June 2 Greenville, S. C., was selected as the 1924 meeting place by the United Commercial Travelers, which closed here today its annual convention. George W. Price of Spartanburg, S. C., was elected grand sentinel, and other officers were advanced in rank in ac- cordance with the usual custom of the organization. H. L. Craig of Greenville, S. C., becomes grand coun- sellor, succeeding G. Simms McDowell of Charleston, S. C. becomes past grand counsellor. Gov. E. Lee Trinkle of Virginia de livered the outstanding address of the day. He deplored the tendency to disobey the laws of the country, urging his hearers to support the au- thorities in their efforts to uphold law and order. 3 JUNK MEN CONVICTED. SAN FRANCISCO, June 2.—Joseph. Samuel and Martin C. Levin, wholesale junk dealers, were found guilty in fed- eral court here today on charges of perjury and falsification of their 1920 income tax returns. The trio still face trial on the charge of attempting to bribe Raymond M. Wambsley, internal revenue agent. The government offered in evidence $5,000 which Wambsley says was given him Dy the Levins in the form of a bribe. The tax return of the Levins for 1920, acoording to evidence, was for $9,335 Whereas the government states it should have been for $96,000. PIGGLY PLANT CLOSED. The JACKSON. | Tenn. June 2—Th 1y Wiggly factory hepe which P actures the fixtures for the Piggly Wiggly Stores, Incorporated, was closed down today by order of Clarence Saunders of Memphis. presi- dent of the corporation, according to Joe Gest, manager of the plant. Mr. Baunders directed an indefinite sus- pension of manufacture, Gest said. The suspension order, the manager explained, was due to the fact that Sumcient supplies of the store fix- tures were on hand to meet present demands. Not many new Piggly Wiggly stores were opened during the recent campaign for sale of the company’s stock, Gest declared. The factory here is the only one of its kind. <Ninety men are employed. with & dagy payrol of §500. the | who automatically | - INEW YORK POLICE CONTINUE RAIDS Repeal of Enforcement: Causes No Apparent Change in Liguor Situation. | Special Dispateh to The Star. \ NEW YORK, June 2.—Liquor raids by the police and the state constabu- lary continued seemingly unabated to- day despite the repeal of the Mullen- Gage law. At least nine prispners were arraigned before magistra: Manhattan or Brooklyn or WYefore Justices of the peace on Long Island About $5.000 worth of liquor was con- fiscated in the city In every case the prisoners and the evidence Were ordered turned over to) the federal authorities, focusing the attentlon of those alarmed by the re {peal upon the burdens placed on th | United States courts and prosecutors In view of today's arrests ir was thought police wiil co-operate in pro- hibition enforcement at least for the present and that the immediatg prob- lem is whether United |States courts can handle e cases. | Commissioner Enright said| there will be little change in the work of the city police. “I suppose,” He said. “that we will follow the samie lins Wwe took in the fousteen months be tween the passage of the Volstpad act and the enactment of the Mullen i | s in Calls Conferenee. right declared that before {making final announcement of policy {iie must wait for official notice of the epeal, and advice from the dorpora- tion counsel's office of the jdeparts ment's responsibility under the Vol stead act. Early next week he ex pects to call District Attorndy Ban- ton, United States Attorney Huyward Federal Prohibition Director Canfield and others, officially affected| by the repeal Into conference, as to ¢ffective means of co-operation betwpen the police and the federal authorities. Police co-operation probaply will not go so far as to continue the pres ent special service squads hssigned only to prohibition raids, it fvas said around headguarters, nor will it in- clude stationing patrolmen if restau- rants. The number of men [assigned to enforcement duty is undefstood to have been cut from 500 to 3{i0 in the past year, and this numper will almost certainly be reduced to the minimum. | Believers in the CorrigansCuvillier charges that the police support pro hibtion because it gives them un paralleled opportunities for _graft derided the idea that there will be any let-up in police. enforcament ac tivity. They pointed out at the same time that so few convictions have followed liquor law arrests that even complete cessation of state enforce ment activity would add little to the safety with which bootleggers aceus tomed to pay for protection operat The threatened cofigestion In the state courts today engaged the at tention of Banford N. Copen, the as. sistant prosecutor in charge of pro- hibition cases in Manhattan and the lower Hudson valley, and Ralph C. Greene, United States attorney for Long Island and Staten Island. " Both announced plans for simplified pro cedure to relieve the situation. Mr. Copen bases his hopes largely on increased use of the equity pro visions of the Volstead act, which/ eliminates jury trial for second of- fenders. Mr. Greene said he was drawing up an entire new system for handling liquor law cases, the chief feature of which will be elimination of hear- ings before the United States com- missioner except when demanded by the prisoner. He added that he would need at least one new assistant pros- ecutor and probably three new clerks to keep pace with the expected rush of cases turned over to him by the olice. P Charles J. Dodd and Joseph Moloy District attorneys, respectively, for Kings and Richmond counties, lined themselves up beside District Attor ney Banton of Manhattan today in announcing that the repeal will make no difference in thelr treatment of Mullen-Gage law prisoners arreste before & o'clock last night. when Cuvilller bill was signed. Prosecu tors all over the city admitted, how- ever, that they have little hope of obtaining a conviction in any of the w_pending. " Brookiyn . thirty-seven indict- ments are pending and in Richmond fifteen, in_addition to a far greater number of cases in which the e dence has still to be presented nd jury. g S mmouncement was made here as to whether the federal enforce- ment staft in this state will be augmented to meet the emergency. fhough rumors persisted that several hundred more agents are to be rushed here from Washington. ~Joseph S Greene, enforcement chief in Brook- lyn, accepted the situation calmly and echoed Commissioner Enright's |Qictum that New York is in no dan- ger of belng turned into a boot- rs paradise. Lo as | nthis work for a year be- fore the Mullan-Gage law was pass ed” he said, “and 1 remember dis- tinctly that the police co-operated whole-heartedly with us then In the { enforcement of the Volstead act | They will continue to do o now 1 cannot see that the situation is ma- ferially altered, except that all cases will go to federal courts. Palmer Canfleld, prohibition direc- tor, left for Washington to consult his’ chiefs. FRENCH PARTY IN MOSCOW. By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, June 2.—Jules Guesde, con of the late Jules Guesde, the Widely known French socialist ar- rived in Moscow today at the head of a delegation of Frenchmen. The official Investia calls the party he heads the “French commercial dele- gation to May Circulation - 92,509 District of Columbia, FLEMING' NEWBO! £ EVBENING and BUN T ranly ‘awear that the mctual Bumber of L fhe paper DAmed s0ld and distrivated i during the month of May, A. 1938, was s foliows 2 ; { & DAILY. Daye Less adjustments ..... Total daily net circulation...2407,733 Daily average net paid circu’ lation Daijly average copies for service, etc. .. Jaily average net circulation P SUNDAY. B Copies. Days [ .. onbaT 20. 1. W ST Less adjustments .. 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