Evening Star Newspaper, June 29, 1923, Page 5

—_— ‘SALOONFOES VAR NI POLEY League Members Differ as to Attitude Toward Political Parties in Campaign. BY the Assoctated Press. WESTERYVILLE, Ohlo, June 28.— Declnlon as to the attitude the Anti- Saloon League of Amerlca shall take in regard to prohibition platform declarations by the two major peliti- cal partles In the 1924 campaign was one of a number of subjects under dlscussfon Ly the executive commit- tee of the organization her Yo 4 Btate auperintendents of the league from forty-four states. at the con- cluding wesslon of a ‘hree-day con ference yesterday, devated the ques- ton DLut left the ‘dectsion tu the ex- ecutive committee, Fight Deemed Possible, Possibility of a fight on the subject Was apparent today as the commit-| tée Went Into ses Two factions are maid to have developed. one led by Dr, P, A Baker and Wayne B. Wheel- | or, who believe inasmuch as the wets ! have forced the issue of enforcement political conventions should be re- auested to include an enforcement | plank In their platforms. The other faction, headed by Dr. Er- | neat H. Cherrington and Dr. Howard | H. Ruasell. argue that it is the duty of the government to enforce laws 2nd thercfore no lssue i3 involved; further, they stated, it would be a| departure from the league's program | of thirty years, which has been to let | vlatforms alone and quiz candidates. | See Embarrassment Ahead. This faction > set forth that should one party adopt an enforce- ment plank and the other should not, it might prove embarrassing to the league. | Other work of the committee, lead- | ers sald, would include final approval | of plans for the 1924 campaign, which calls for the collection and expendi- ture of $2,500.000 JIDGE ORDERS .S TORETURN LIQUOR: Stock Worth $5,000 Seized lllegally From Shaw, in Raid, Court Rules. An order has been signed by Judge Robert E. Mattingly the prohibi- tion unit of the United tes revenue service for return of $5.000 worth of | whiskies and other Intoxicating bev- orages, the prop ¥y of nk Sh;n\‘.l taken by the prohibition ofMcers \xlwni | on Shaw's place at New York ave- nue northwest ralded last fall. The stock consists of 575 quarts of cholce pre-Volstead stock. Shaw was charged with selling and possession in vidlation of the national prohibition law. He was tried some time ago by a jury before Judge Robert Hardison and acquitted of the | charge of selling. The charge of illegal possession has not been tried, Following the acquittal Attorney Willlam E. Leahy began proceedings for the recovery of the confiscated stock. Mr. Leahy submitted copious authorities upholding hi that the Shaw premi: unlawfully raided on rant that was void ol Y that it did not comply with the re- quirement of the law governing the issuance of a search warrant b spe- aifically and particularly describing the premises to be searched and the things to be seized. Judge Mattingly held that the con- tention s well taken. The case was hel in chambers. There was no point raised that the government must prove illegal sesalon, as the Volstead act ay the burden of proof of legal pos: with the def ant. Mr. pntends that he w in lckul’ possession of the stock taken from him for the reason that he purchased the whiskies before the Volstead act went into effect. MAY NOT APPEAL | CASE OF POTHEER Government Said to Hold De- | cision Affecting Cronkhite Murder Susoect Is Correct. was Department of Justice officials in- dlcated today that the government probably would not take an appeal from the recent decision in the Rhode Island federal court dismissing the indlctment against Roland R. Pothier, involved in the Cronkhite murder case at Camp Lewis, Washington. The Rhode Island court held that there was no jurisdiction by the federal courts on the ground that the alleged place of the murder was not government territory and the al- leged crime was punishable by the state of Washington. While the question of an appeal has not been definitely determined, the government having ninety days to declde its course, Department of Jus- tice officials were represented as be- ing satisfied that the Rhode Islund court had determined the law cor- rectly and it would not be wise to take an appeal to the Supreme Court with little chance of securing a re- versal of the lower court decision. WARDS LOSE COURT TILT. Judge Orders Cablegrams Be Shown in Slaying Inquiry. WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., June 29.— Supreme Court Justice Wagner to- day announced his decision that the contested cablegrams that passed be- tween George S. Ward, president of the Ward Baking Company, and his son Ralph, relative to the blackmail plot which Walter §. Warl asserts caused his slaying, in self-defense. of Clarence Peters, should be presented before the extraordinary grand jury investigating the slaying. The Wards have made strenuous 1egal efforts to keep the cablegrams out of the case. AUTO THIEVES ESCAPE. Police of this city and Baltimore and Maryland state police today par- ticipated in efforts to apprehend oc- cupants of an automobile reported stolen in Charlottesville, Va., and seen in_this city early this morning. Occupants of the car, two men and a‘'woman, were pursued by the local yolice, but they escaped over, the Washington-Baltimore boulevard. | with a capaclty !a block and tackle for erecting the i was arrested. {things are becoming too warm for BASE AT SINGAPORE 225.GALLON MOONSHINE PLANT FROM s MARYLAND e . D. C, 'FRIDAY, JUNE 29. 1923. SEIZED WITH TRUCK ON MT. VERNON BOULEVARD StillsPassUnnoticed 1 Through Streets of Was‘hington. 2 Prisoners Taken With Quitfit by Ar- lington Officers. After traveling from T. B., Md., and through the lighted streets of Wash- fngton, one of the largest stills and moonshine outfity ever captured in Arlingten county was taken on the Mount Vernon boulevard near Colum- bia pike by Arlington county officers early today. The outfit was loaded on a small truck marked vExpress for hire,” and consisted ‘of two stills, one of 150 gallons, the other of about seventy-five gallons; a 300-pound pressure steam boller and still. A biack handbag containing about half a gallon of whisky also was selzed. Aute Light Spots Still. A party of county officers, consist- Ing of Deputy Sheriff Z O. Kines, Traffic Officer O, W. Welch, Deputy Sheriff J. D. East and Special Officer Willlam Thompson, were looking over the ground for a prospective rald when the headiights of Welch's car, In which they were riding, fell full glare on the migatory still and the occupants of the truck. Running alongside the truck, the officers saw two white men and a colored man. Two occupants of the truck jumped | and ran, leaving the driver at the wheel. Deputy Sheriff East jumped from the automobile to the truck and Drought it to a standstill. The driver, L E. Wood, twenty-two, who clai Washington as his residence, w arrested and a search begun for the escsped men. The colored member of the party, Walter Key, twenty-two, who lfves in Maryland, was found hiding under a honeysuckle bush and Driven Out of Maryland. Arlington county officials think the capture was the result of an exodus of moonshiners from Maryland, where them. The truck was going in the direc- tion of Alexandria when caught and 1t is asserted that an advance party, ing of an automobile loaded with men, was guiding the way. URGED BY BEATTY Admiral of British Fleet Sees Port Vitally Important in Future Wars. BY HAL O'FLAHERTY. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Dally News. Copyright, 1023, LONDON, June 29.—In an address before sixty members of the house of | commons Friday Earl Beatty, ad- miral of the fleet, urged with all his exceptional ability the supreme im- portance of building a great dry dock at Singapore, using for that purpose public funds totaling more than $30,- 000.000. His argument is deseribed by one who heard him as a most brilllant exposition of defensive strategy. He explained why Singapore had been chosen, its advantages from the point of view of protecting the eastern por- tion of the British empire, and gave a description of the fleet in eastern waters. Naval Men Urge Project. Since the first proposal to build great defensive naval works at Singa- pore great opposition has developed which is being gradually overcome by continued work on the part of high British naval men, who main- tain that the future holds grave pos- sibilities of war In far eastern waters which Great Britaln must prepare to meet by strengthening the position of Australia. Vice Admiral Cuthert Hunter in a recent interview declared that -noth- ing was more certain than frictlon between Australia and Japan. He said that Japan's rapidly increasing population made her demand for new territory imperative and the logical route would be southward, first to the Philippines and then to Australia. There was, he asserted, a more re- mote possibility of China becoming warlike for similar reasons, but ow- ing to the disrupted political situn- tion there the danger was not nearly so urgent as of Japan beginning a move toward territorial aggrandise- ment. When Japanese immigration to Australia becomes too large Great Britain must prepare to ald the com- monwealth in resisting, and he con- sidered the naval base at Singapore as one of the best safeguards. Mentions U. S. Position. Admiral Hunter insists that the ingapore base would be necessary even should the Japanese conter their efforts on the possessions ot the Unit- ed States in the far east. This he claims would make it more than ever necessary for Great Britaln to throw her strength with that of the United States. ‘Opponents of the Singapore base de- clare that by the time it is completed battleships will have been replaced by aircraft, but Admiral Hunter di counts this by proving that a base is a necessity for alrcraft carriers even though battleships become obsolete. Only occasional absurd hints are put forth that Great Britain's new naval construction in the far east may be used against the United States. STOCK SALESMAN HELD. “Beauty Clay” Promotion Said to Have Netted $100,000. DETROIT, June 29.—Joseph W. Boyd, said to have sold $100,000 worth of stock in twos companies organized to produce ‘“beauty clay” and wanted in Phoenix, Ariz., on a charge of using the mail to defraud, has been_ordered returned to Phoe- nix by Judge Arthur J. Tuttle in federal cour! . Boyd, arrested in Pont Huron, Mich., Wednesday, yesterday was held in $25,000 bond by Judge Tuttle. —_— SCHOOL BAN DENOUNCED. CLEVELAND, June 29.—Attempts to prohibit attendance at other than public schools were characterized us religious persecution by the Catho- lic Education Assoclation, In a decla- ration of principles ndog!ed vesterday at the final session of a three-day convention. The officers wors all Te- elected. . Next year's convention clity will be named by the executive committee, ppe: MANY RAIL WAGE HEARINGS RENEWED Board Remands Cases, Fol-‘ lowing Adjudications on Some of Roads. By the Assoclated Pres CHICAGO, June 29.—Further confer- | ences on cases Involving requests for in- creases in wages and a revision of work- | 1 ing agreements for maintenance of way men and rafiroad station employes on | several large and thirty small railroad | systeme were ordered yesterday by tne | United States Railroad Labor Board. Decision to remand these cases re- sulted after railroads representing mote that 60 per cent of the mileage of the country had announced the satisfactory adjudication of wages and working agreements with members of the broth- erhood of maintenance of way employes and the railroad station employes. The Pennsylvania system, which re- ceived its second public rebuke :rom the board yesterday for failing to deal with representatives of the clerk's or- ganization as officials of the brother- hood, is excepted from the order re- manding the cases. As this system has failed to deal with representatives of the mainte- nance of way organization, their case was referred to the judiciary commit- | tee of the board for the preparation | of a proposed recommendation in the | case. | Date of Agreements. 1 Any agreements arrived at will be | effective @s of June 1, 1923. Among | the roads involved in .the dispute be- tween the maintenance of way em- ployes are the Pennsylvania system Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville: | Cincinnati, Indianapolis and Western; | Loutsville and_Nashville; Louisville, Henderson and St. Louls; Midland Valley and Toledo and Peoria and| Western. i The railroads involved in the dis-| pute with the railroad station em- ployes are Boston and. Albany Rail- road Company, Boston and Maine Railroad Company, Boston Terminal Company. Maine Central raflroad and | the Portland Terminal railroad. | —_— { FIVE TO TAKE OATH. New Rent Commission in Office Tomorrow. The five newly appointed members of the District Rent Commission will be sworn in tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock before Chief Justice McCoy of the District of Columbia Supreme Court. They. will enter on their| dutles at once, it is understood. The personnel of the new commlis- ston follows: Willlam F. Gude, Mrs. Clara Sears Taylor, Thomas E. Peeney, Oliver Metzerott and Richard S. Whaley. The two first named were reap- pointed. Abe Martin Sayé: Don’t rock th’ boat or hugh th’ driver, an’ don’t cross th’ street unless it’s absolutely unavoid- able. Th’ feller that attempts sui-) cide with a razor an’ fails would fail at anything. : (Copyright National Newspaper Service.), red when weized. Lower—How Left to right—Deputy Sheriff James D. EX-CONVICT TELLS OF TALBERT BEATING Saw Whipping Boss, Standing on | Boy, Lash Him Ninety-Seven Times, Witness Testifies. 7 By tiie Associated Press LAKE CITY, Fla, June 20.—The state today continued presentation of evidence In the trial of Thomas W. Higginbotham, charged with murder in connection with the death, in Feb- ruary, 1922, of Martin Tabert of North Dakota, at & lumber camp near | state charges Ta-| Clara, Fla. The bert's death was the result of exces- sive whipping by Higginbotham, the convict whipping boss, at the convict lease camp, where the youth was serving a three-month sentence for stealing a ride on-a train, The state has announced it proba- bly would complete its case today. J. W. Tyson, a prisoner recently re- leased, was the first witness toda He testified he saw the whipping of Tabert and counted ninety-seven e Under cross-examination by defense counsel, Tyson sald Higginbotham applied the last—a seven-and-a-half- pound strap—while standing on Ta- bert. He declared he and several of the guards weighed the strap before the whipping. “AEDDEST” STVETS WL G0 ABR0AD Berlin Promised Karl Radek, “Fire Eater” of Peo- ple’s Commissars. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1923, BERLIN, June 29.—The soviet coun- | il of people’s commissars, the Ru: cided to get rid of some of its more radical members by giving them posts abroad, according to a report recelved here. Karl Radek, the most notorious fire-eater of them all, is to be made ambassador to Berlin; Max- im Litvinov is to be sent to London, and Leonid Krassin is to go to Rome, to take the post occupled by Vorovski, who was shot and killed in Lausanne. Whether Radek would be acceptable to the German government is a ques- tion which is being debated along Wilhelmstrasse. It will be recalled that Radek was locked up in Berlin for several months in 1919 for carry- ing on bolshevist propaganda in Ger- many. He has been here many times since Germany and Russta signed the treaty of Rapallo and frequent de- mands have been made ‘to have him expelled from Germany because he was up to his old tricks. Krassin has-just arrived in Berlin from London, where as the present Russlan ambassador Krestinski has been summoned to Moscow. VETERANS ASK POLICE HUNT FOR SALESMAN The local department of the Vet- erans of Forelgn Wars has written to Maj. Sullivan, superintendent of Télice, king him to assist in in- vestigating the activities of a man going about in uniform taking or- ders for hair tonic and rubber goods. The communication states that the man tells some customers the goods will be delivered from a school for the blind in Pennsylvania and tells alrlers he will bring the order him- self. ~ IRISH -TO- HONOR FINERTY. Reception to Be Given Tonight for Head of Organization. A reception will be tendered this evening to John F. Finerty by the members of the Kevin Barry Council, American Association for the Recog- nition of the Irish Republic, at 1006 E street northweat. Mr. Finerty, who is national president of the assocla- tion, will tell of his recent trip_to Ireland as counsel for Eamon de Va- lera and Stephen O'Mara, in connec- tion with the Irish bond litigation now pending in the New York courts. He will present to the council as a souvenir purt of the 1low’s from which . the boy- ‘was launched to death, would look n operation. The picture East, Deputy Sherift Z. O. HELD IN TWO MURDERS. | Man Arrested for Slayings Twelve Years Ago. ANDERSO! C., June 29.—Two murder mysteries that have baffled au- thorities for years are in a fair way to be cleared up, officials announced here today, with the arrest of Arch Kay. Kay was charged with the murder of P. M. Hutto and J. M. Burnette, both aged merchants. Hutto was Kkilled twelve years ago and Burnette was slain in 1921 Kay was arrested after two police- men had listened to him while, it was alleged, he told Sligh Hilliard, brother of a local policeman, that he had killed | the two merchants. He is alleged to have given details of the crimes. y. in jail today, however, denied part of his alieged conversation of last night and asserted that he was joking when he told Hilliard he had killed the two men. RUM SCHOONER SEIZED NEAR MURPHY’S HOME By the Assoclated Press RIVERHEAD, N. Y., June 29.—Suf- folk county authorities, aided by two federal prohibition enforzement agents from New York, today seized |a two-masted schooner, 400 cases of |liquor and several automobiles, at Hampton Bays, formerly Good Ground, Long Island. | _Charles F. Murphy, Tammany chieftain, has his summer home there. JOIN BOYCOTT ON SWISS. | MOSCOW, June 29.—It is announced | the Ukranian and Transcausian re- publics have joined Russia in a boy- cott against Switzerland, occasioned by the assassination at Lausanne of | Vaslav Vorovsky, the soviet emissary | to_the near east conference 'AUTO GLASS | 1= | FOR WINDSHIELDS OR_BODIES. Installed While You Wais. 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