Evening Star Newspaper, October 17, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER. Falr tonight; tomorrow increasing cloudiness; little change in temper: ture; temperature for twenty-four hours ¢nded at 2 p.an. today: Highest, 06, at 4:30 ».m. yesterday; lowest, 45, at 7 am. today. Full report on page 4. Late N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 27 K £ 29,023. Entered as gecol No. post officc Washington, D. nd-class matter C. BERLIN RIOTS END. " UNEMPLOYED GIVEN FREEFOODANDFUEL Quiet Restored by Promise of City to Supply Needs of Idle Thousands. OLD SOVIET TRICK USED TO INFLUENCE POPULACE Communists’ Program, Should They Gain Control, Contains Drastic Measures. By the Assoclated Press. BERLIN, October 17.—Measures an- nounced by the municipality to aid the unemployed were followed today by quiet in the trouble centers of Greater Berlin, .where mobs, com- posed of thousands of idle workers, engaged in food rioting yesterday, resulting in the wounding of more than a score and at least one fatality. Today there was no sign of disorder in any of the districts where yester- day's disturbances occurred. Among the measures announced by the city authorities in the way of relief were the immediate opening of fourteen feeding kitchens for the dis- tribution of free meals and free al- lowances of wood and coal. L The Berlin police charge that a trick similar to methods they declare had heen used in Moscow and Petrograd 10 incite the crowds to vielence was tuccessfully worked in the rioting near the town hall yesterday. Man Stretcher bearers, followed by women | in nurses’ attire and carrying first-aid | satchels, accompanied the demonstra- tors, the police report. They contend that everything was comparatively until the trick- sters placed tly sound man upon the stretcher, covered him with 8 sheet and began parading through the crowds, proclaiming the man_to be a victim of poliice brutality. The trick worked like a charm. say the police, and soon afterward the rioting began. 12,000 Attack Hall. Mobs estimated to aggregate 12,000 | unemployed, accompanied by women | and youths, besieged the town hall in the heart of the eastern section of the capital. and the rioting which followed continued intermittently for four hours, and was quelled only after police reinforcements used | their bayonets and fired volleys to awe the crowds. | A bonus of ten billion marks for @ach of the unemployed, free fuel and Tres food were among the demands made by the demonstrators Many of the demonstrators today were wearing the soviet star in their | buttonholes and talking in broken German. Some groups when driven into the side streets began singing the “International They knocked Off the hats of people who refused to uncover. Many tram cars were held up and their occupants molested. Communist Plans Drastic. What the policy of the communists | would be should they ever gain pow- | er, says the correspondent, was re- vealed at a secret sitting of the cen- tral committee of the party, where it Wwas stated that with the advent of a c¢ommunist government the peasantry will be required to deliver grain and foodstuffs voluntarily, under penalty of confiscation by armed workers should they decline to do so. The entire non-communist press would be suppressed, and all non-communist leaders arrested, while all opposing | the communist government would be punished by death. One speaker at the meeting remarked “there is no object in filling the prisons; whoever lics in a cemetery is no longer a rebel.” In order to safeguard the supply of bread during the winter the govern- ment has issued a decree increasing the quantity of bread grain to be Jept in reserve from 1,000,000 to| 2.500,000 tons. Should the farmers | make trouble about delivering their share of grain the government will take forcible measurcs to secure sup- | plies. NEW SETTLEMENT HINTED. Berlin Envoy Closeted With Poin- care in Paris. | By the Associated Press, PARIS, October 17.— Herr von Hoesch, the German charge d'affaires, | went to the foreign office for a con- ference with Premier Poincare, which in some quarters is believed to fore- cast an important step in regard to the reparation problem. The German official went to the Quay d'Orsay while a French military xuard of honor was drawn up on both sides of the entrance waiting to Bl-’ lute President Masaryk of Czechoslo- | vakia. Herr von Hoesch, in order to enter the building, had to pass be- tween the ranks of the guard. The German charge remained at the foreign office thirty-five minutes, Im- mediately afterward Premier Poin- care left for a luncheon with Presi- dent Masaryk at the Czechoslovak le- gation, without” informing his col- leagues what had taken place during the interview. May Mean New Offer. There is a feeling in some quarters | that owing to the German chancel- lor's greater freedom of action he may decide to present proposals of a more sweeping character, more def- inite and more tangible than hereto- fore, which may meet M. Poincare's demands. The German charge's first visit to the French premier, on October 10, thus far has had no effect in bringing the two countries into closer rela tions, although on that occasion Herr von Hoesch informed M. Polncare that he was instructed to open direct negotiations between the Berlin and Paris governments and to offer Ger- many’s co-operation toward the re- sumption of the normal economic life of the Ruhr. This offer, however, was taken under consideration by the French government. The more optimistic are of the opin- fon that the charge's visit to the pre- mier means that some important step will be taken with respect to the rep- | aration problem—that either von | Hoesch will present entirely new pro- | posals emanating from Berlin on the | question as a whole, or express the | reich government's willingness to ac- | cept the Belglan plan as a basis for discussion. The Belglan reparations plan was presented to the reparation commis- {the deflcit Rupprecht Believed BY WYTHE WILLIAMS, By Cable to The Star and Philadeiphia Public Ledger. Copyr.ght, 1923. ZURICH, October 17.—If any one anywhere outside of Germany has any lingering doubts concerning the utility of keeping the French army beyond the Rhine let him take a trip to Munich. For the last ten days I have been in the Bavarian capital, but now I consider the Swiss side of the Alps Ppresents a better opportunity for the unhampered study and portraval of the Bavarian situation in this dispatch. Swirling currents, turbulent edd and swift tides of emotions and opinion flow and ebb about Bavaria today. One needs the enchantment of distance, as well as the absence of the censor, in order even to be unbiased. It is true that the “great German crisis,” which has been heral past vears, seems again in abeyanc. despite the recent rumors of civll war and a march on Berlin, which followed von Kahr's assumptioa of the dictator’s role in Bavaria. Munich today is depressingly calm for a cor- respondent looking for big and Im- mediate news But haste never is the German way. The Germans are not like the UNCLE AW READY TORUN DWN SHPS Manager - Operator System Abolished for Direct Han- dling by Government. { | | | BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Government operation—more of it than before and probably for all times —has been embarked upon by the United States Shipping Board. After many weeks of maneuvering on the part of shipping interests to get possession at low prices of the fleet bullt during the war, and after the Chamber of Commerce of the United States had appealed to Presi- dent Coolidge to turn the ships over to private operators, the Shipping Board has gone ahcad with plans exactly in line with the announce- ment made by thé late President Harding when the ship subsidy bill fajled to come to & vdte In the last session of Congress. Will Operate Own S| The Shipping Board will operate its own vessels. The system of handling | them through managing operators who recelved a commission on gross business done, whether it was at a| profit or a loss, has been abolished. | Consolidation of lines is being worked out with the aid of executives who | are to receive salaries direct from the | United States government instead of through managing agents. The only commission arrangement which has been arranged is that which permits | “loading agents” to solicit freight| business for the government lines. but- the commission is paid only on freight obtained. é g Broadly speaking, this is direct government operation on a more ex- tensive scale than has been tried be- fore. The Shipping Board has heen prompted to make the experiment by the success achieved in handling the United States Lines, as the line is known which runs a passenger serv- ice to Europe, with such ships as the Leviathan and the George Wash- ington. The opinion of Attorney General Daugherty, which called illegal the plan to organize subsidi- ary corporations, also pointed out that it was questionable whether un- | der the law the Shipping Board could delegate its powers. This gave added force to the desire of the board tc do away with the managing-agent system and has brought abuut direct operation as the only way ol con- forming to the spirit and ihe letter of the Daugherty opinion. Can Still Sell Ships. But the merchant marine act also says that the ships must be cperated so as ultimately to make it possible to dispose of them to private cwners. The subsidlary corporation plan was designed to demonstrate how at- tractive the ship organizations cre- ated by the government could be made to prospective purchasers. Membeks of the Shipping Board in- sist that what they now are doing will not interfere with the sale of the ehips to any one who wants to buy them. But thus far no offers which the board thinks worth while have been made. And the probabili- tles are that the deeper the govern- ment gets Into direct operation the less attractive will any offers be- come. 1t begins to look as if private ship- ping interests lost their best chance when the ship subsidy bill failed, and that as alternative plans are worked out the government will constantly reduce its losses or adopt the atti- tude which it does with respect to in the postal service, namely, that the loss to the govern- ment 1s relatively small compared to the insurance it glves the American producer of an American merchant marine, with freight rates that are not under the control of foreign countries. (Copyright, 1823.) The subjects discussed b; crisis that may come fro sion today by M. Delacroix, the Bel~ gian member. The commission will meet again next week to consider it in detail, < and contends that extre WASHINGTON, D. C, Germans Plot Revenge War; Bavaria Plans to Lead Way to Be Biding Time When His Kingdom, Rather Than . Prussia, Will Head the Empire. Russians, Germany, and Munich. in particular, prepares for a crisis Jjust |as she prepared for war—slowly, | methodically, scientifically and even ponderousl biding her l\ml‘.' Since the war, for which she planned near- {1y half a century and then lost. Gor- many has, by the complete abawe- ment of her currency, now quite suc- ceeded .in manipulating the & swindle in the world's histor {at a loss to nearly every one ! herself. | Today Germany prepares her come- back to world power and her revenge. |So I again recall the sentence which {begins this dispatch and saxgexts | that the well-wishers of peace should Ibe gratetul for that French army i- ;yond the Rhine. but Even when considering that French larmy the wise observers in Munich |are “nearly all pessimists Without that army they all agree that a con- flict likely would begin at once, and do not calculate on too long a period | before there is a clash of arms, which will be translated as the “next war.” Munich today, despite its outward zalm, has taken the place of Berlin in the planning, scheming and engi- neering for the Germany that is to be reborn. Whether in the same manner that Moscow took the place of Petrograd the Bavarian capital {will_ eventually replace the metropo- {1is_of Prussia_and | ""(Continued on P j‘Hunger Strikes Begun by 13,000 Irish Prisoners By the Assoclated Press, BELFAST, Ireland, October 17.— Tragic results, or else a notable victory, may be the outgrowth of the hunger strike begun by the soldler prisoners in Mountjoy jail, in Dublin, a few days ago, accord- ing to a republican manifesto put into circulation from Dublin There are approximately 13,000 prisoners in the jails, says the manifesto, which continues: “When the hunger strike spreads to the other camps and prisons the people may be prepared to be shaken from their apathy by a tragedy or a victory unparalleled in _the history of the natio The manifesto states that all the Mountjoy prisoners have taken this oath: T pledge myself in the name of the living republic that I will not take food or drink anything but water until 1 a; Tater un m unconditionally (LEGION POLITICAL PARTY IS FORESEEN Vetergns Dissatisfied at Treatment by Democrats and Republicans. BY L. C. OWE! Special Dispatch to The Star. SAN FRANCISCO, October 17.— Every day in every way from now ful part in country, particularly in Washington. The organization, ' whose voting somewhere in the millions members, wives, relatives, sweet- hearts and others in sympathy with their cause are considered, is far from satisfied with the way its mem- bers have been treated since the armistice has been signed. That fact was evident here today as the national convention started the third day of its fifth annual ses- sion. Exteriorly, there is laughter and merrymaking and that variety of goodfellowship which marks the gathering of former comrades in arms. But beneath the surface there is serious and grim determination. Division on Bonus. The resentment is not particularly against failure to get a bonus. There is strong division of opinion on that question, and the minority is by no means negligible. Neither is there dissatisfaction with the administra- tion of National Commander Alvin M. Owsley. Praise for Owsley can be heard on every hand among the vet- arans here. The big issue is the government's alleged failure to properly care for and render practical aid to those who suffered most grievously from the great conflict. It is a grievance of long standing. It also is a hu- manitarian issue on which there is no_discord, no lack of unanimity of opinion. On one hand are 76,000 disabled world war veterans who must yet be rehabilitated and returned to em- ployment. On the other are 25,000 world war orphans. pitiful human backwash of the battleflelds. They are all chil- dren of fathers who died on Flanders field or of wounded, shell shocked, (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) As a Union Man Sees It A serics of important articles by James M. Lynch, former president of the International Typographical Union and former New York state industrial commi next Sunday and continue weekly in the Editorial Section of The Sunday joner, will begin Star y Mr. Lynch are of vital interest to labot, to the employers of labor and to the relatively few citizens who are in neither class. He points out clearly the m indifference to labor problems, me conservatism is just as dan- gerous as extreme radicalism. even with that army on xuara they | on the American Legion purposes to ] take a more important and self-help- | political affairs of the | strength only can be conjectured at when | WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION OFFICERS BAFFLED AS ALL CLUES FAL INDOUBLE MURDER {Son Establishes Innocence in Parents’ Slaying on Maryland Farm. NEGRO AND FOREIGNER SUSPECTS STILL FREE County Detective Thinks Italian Who Vowed Vengeance May Have Kept Pledge. Spectul Dispateh to The Stai HAGERSTOWN, Md., October 17.— Blocked at every turn in their at- tempt to solve the murder of John Cline. aged seventy, and his wife Rebecca, sixty-three, at thelr home, near Hagerstown, the authoritles to- day admitted that they have nothing on Harry, the seventeen-year-old son of the slain couple, who is being held in jail here as a material wit- ness. “The boy's story tallies in every way with his demeanor when he gave the alarm after finding the bodies of his parents, and there is| every indication that he is innocent,” | declared State’s Attorney D. Angle Wolfinger. “If that boy committed the crime he is a super-criminal,” | concluden the state’s attorney. No Motive Established. The police have made no headway in solving the crime since the mo- ment they picked up the heavy “dog | iron” spattered with blood, with | which the Mennonite trucker and his | wife were slain. | There has been no motive estab-, lished. First belleving that there had | been trouble between the father and | son, the police have been forced to| | abandon this theory because of the| [ulalement of neighbors that *“no par- lents ever had a better son than Harry.” They were forced also to give up the robbery theory when $91 in a roll of billy was found in a bu- reau drawer which easily could have been found had a search of the house | been made. Later nearly $400 more in bills of small denomination was discovered secreted in other parts of the house. Hold Two Theories. But two theories remain, according to County Detective William Thurs- ton, working on the case. Thurston has unraveled several mysteries in | past years, and has taken full charge of the investigation. on. these assumptions: “A negro was caught in the cellar stealing wine by Mrs. Cline and killed the aged woman when she made an outery, and then was forced to mur- der the husband when he was caught | leaving the death chamber; or an Italian did the killing, the same one who threatened the trucke: three years ago when ordered to leave the farm, where he had trespassed while When Cline ordered the om his land, the ltalian a threat, “I will get you i | | | ! He 18 working | | hunting. foreigner hurled b | some da: { On the chest of the slain .woman { were plainly visible the bloody. fin- | ger prints of the murderer, by whicn he easily can be identified if appre- ! hended. COSTLY OKLAHOMA FLOODS RECEDING {Thousand Homeless, Two Dead, Property Damage Estimated $2,500,000. By the Associated Press, OKLAHOMA CITY. Okla.. Octoher 17.—Oklahoma is emerging from its most disastrous flood as the North | Canadian river recedes to its ordi- narily narrow banks, leaving a thou- sand persons homeless, property dam- age estimated at $2,500,000, railroad and highway service paralyzed and public utility services demoralized. Oklahoma City bore the brunt of the debacle, but virtually the entire northwest, northeast and central parts of the state were ingulfed by streams {swollen by recent torrential rains. Two are known to be dead here, “md the receding waters have not | permltted searching partles to pene- trate into the hardest-hit portion of the city. Many persons are in hos- pitals suffering from exposure. The flood waters, which swirled and lashed through streets never be- fore considered in danger from the river, rapidly are receding, although the Capitol hill section and Packing- town, home of the meat packing in- dustry here, remain cut off from the remainder of the city, and likely will be closed to traffic for some time. Air mail service to Lawton and | other points isolated by the flood was inaugurated yesterday, OPERATORS SPURN PINCHOT’S DEMAND Anthracite Men Say Law Requires| Sales to Profiteering Dealers. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, October 17.—Some of the coal operators who recently con- ferred with Gov. Pinchot of Pennsyl- vania at Harrisburg declined his de- mand to stop selling.coal to profiteer- ing dealers, it was learned today in authoritative quarters. The governor, it was sald, had asked operators to discontinue selling to these dealers ! because they charged more than the executive stated was necessary to meet Increased wages. The operators, it is understood, told jthe governor that the coal companies could not act in concert in_ selling coal, as this would violate the law and’ also lay themselves open to charges of monopoly. They told the governor they had to mine and sell «coal within the law, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, | the LLOVDGEORGEL PROERAM REDUCED Still Hopes to Make Chief Speech of Trip in Chi- cago Tonight. By the Associated Press, CHICAGO. October 17.—David Lioyd George, former premler of Great Britain, has canceled all his engage- ments for today, but hopes to keep the speaking engagement tonight at International Amphitheater at the stockyards. Owing to the con- tinuance of a slight temperature, his doctors have ordered him to remain in bed and rest the greater part of the day. Lioyd George has: &' eold, aggre~ vated by fatigue, his secretary, Wil- lam Sutherland, said. He added that] with so much of the tour ahead of Liloyd George; and with the exampie of Presfdent Harding’s death and Foening Star. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to \Washington homes at 40 cents per monti Telephone Main 5000 and service wi ill start immediately. Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 92,449 1923 —FORTY-TWO PAGES You, GIFF, 2 BET I'p CLo§ THose 1300 PHILADELPHIA SALQONS BEFORE [ TALKED ABOUT] WASHINGTON § Seek Cradle of Scientists of Nationa To solve the riddle of the “lost tribes of China,” an unknown race | country, and from which are sup- | world’s present-day civilizations, in- cluding the American Indian, the Na- tional Geographic Society has ar- ranged to send a pretentious expedi- tion into Kweichow, one of the re- {motest provinces of China. it was formally announced today. A separate and distinct people from the modern Chinese, clinging tena- lelously to the aueer customs and superstitutions of ancient ages, the mysterious tribes of Kweichow offer a fleld for scietific study that has I never before been explored, it is said. | Selecting: the least fertile, least ac- that is believed to have founded the | posed to have originated many of the | TWO CENTS Civilization Among “Lost Tribes of China” 1 Geographic Society to Penetrate Unexplored Province of Kweichow-Close to Turkestan. | the world, | student: | and. heretofore, denied s the privilege of residence. | Sees Signs of Kinship, The scope of the contribution the | National Geographic Society’s re- | search will make to sclence cannot be | | determined, but noted anthropologists asserted that it may make Kweichow a vista of hitherto unrecorded human history. One of the few visitors among its strange tribes, who makes no | claims to being a student of anthropol- ogY, 8ald he saw types resembling the Gurkha, the South Sea Islander. the | American Indian, the East Indian and | the negro | Ethnologists at the National Museum {said the expedition undoubtedly would {open up o seience an entirely new {clapter in the history of human life. ‘The littie that is known of the tribes, | they declare, strongly indicates that they were the founders of the red race, and typlcal types of the American In- dian may 'still be found there. former President Wilson's breakdown | cessible and most backward part of | Stranger still, it is stated, evidences on tour, it was felt that the former | premier's heaith must be given the best of care. Sir Willlam gave out this statement: “Mr. Lloyd George's doctors last night found that he had a tempera- ture, due to a cold, aggravated by fa- tigue, and ordered him to remain in bed. He is somewhat better this morning, but imperative orders have been given to restrict his public en- gagements.” If his condition permits, Lloyd George's chief message to America will be delivered tonight at & public meeting In the International Amphi- theater at the Chicago stockyards. It was to follow a dinner given in his honor by the audit bureau of cir- culations. The former premier will leave for Springfield tomorrow to visit the tomb of Abraham Lincoln and deliver an address. Wife Takes Place. Owing to $er husband's indisposi- tion, Dame Margaret Lloyd George took his place as speaker at a meet- ing of the Welsh-American societles of Chicago last night. She urged the women to ally themselves with a movement recently begun to unite all English-speaking women to work for international peace. Dame Margaret said she wi the American people would “kill my husband with their kindness. They wor't do_that, but he must take it casy Dame Margaret and her daughter, Miss Megan, tlan to spend today in shopping and sightseeing and this evening will be guests at a luncheon given by Mrs. J. Ogden Armour, who returned from Europe on the same ehip with the Lloyd Georges. The United States, and France will 'stand together against a wave of autocracy that sems to be sweeping over the world, Mr. Lloyd George declured in his only address here vesterday. De- mocracy, he said, is in peril. Sces Democracy Triumph. Democratic institutions alone can produce and train men that are able to appeal to nations, to rise to those heights of sacrifice’ which are the last citadely of freedom in all lands, he_said. “Here you have a land of demoe- racy,” he said. “Britain is a land of democracy and France, I believe, will stand by democracy; afraid Great Britain stand against this wave of autocracy which seems to be sweeping over the world.” The defeat of Germany, he said, was not attributable to lack of valor or skill in her traops, but in the lack of vision, courage and leadership of the rulers. Lloyd George cordially greeted Count Albert Apponyi, veteran Hun- garlan statesman, with whom he dif- fered at the peace treaty discussion at Versailles. They met at the spekers’ table at the luncheon tendered to the British statesman to welcome him to Chicago. A private dinner planned by Brig. Gen. Charles G. Dawes, former fed- eral director of the budget, for the| ex-premier was held last night with ja vacant chair marking the place of the absent honor guest, who was un- able to attend owing to his indisposi- tion. HYLAN HAS RELAPSE; MUST REST ABSOLUTELY By the Assoclated Press, NEW YORK, October 17.—Mayor John F. Hylan, after two weeks of steady improvement from his attack of pneumonia ‘in Saratoga Springs, suffered a relapse yesterday, due to nervous indigestion. As a result, he has been ordered by his physicians to remain absolutely guiet for at least two weeks and all visitors except member# of his immediate family will be barred from the sickroom. The physicians stated that Mr. Hylan’s relapse was largely the re- sult of his having seen too many vis- jtors and of his anxlety to get back to city hall. He will not be allowed to leave his bed for some time. and whatever | happens, these three great lands will] the country as their home. they have shut themselves off from the rest of FILIPINOS DEMAND ABSOLUTE LIBERTY Quezon Spurns All Compro- mise Plans, Insisting Upon Freedom. BY WALTER J. By the Associated Press. MANILA, October 17.—The Phil- ippine legislaturc today, after one of the stormiest sessions in its history, adopted Sergio Osme- na’s resolution approving the ac- tion of the independence commis- sion of last July in demanding the recall of Gov. Gen. Leonard Wood. ROBB. By Wireless o The. and Chicago Daily MANILA. October 17.—Immediate and absolute independence for Philippines with no desire for an American protectorate, is the goal sought by Manuel Quezon, president of the Senate and leader of the Fusion majority of the island legislature. which is opposed to Gov. Gen. Leonard Wood Declaration for complete autonomy for the Philippines was made by ator Quezon today just gefore he tended a joint caucus of Senat. and lower house leaders to determine whether opposition to the American chief executive can muster the neces- sary two-thirds majority to over-ride any veto which Gov. Wood may e cise on legislative measures. ‘Announcement that only complete independence would satisfy the Fil pino political factions which he heads, was_made in _answer to the question: “What kind of a compro- mise would be acceptable, providing Congress agrees with the late Presi- | dent Harding in his declaration that the time has not yet come for Philip- pine independence?” Refuses Compromise. “I' cannot answer regarding ‘any compromise,” declared Senator Que- zon. Our plans are for immediate and absolute independence. Our forces are moral forces, which we shall use to the utmost. We must rely upon assump- tion that promises made by Congress will_be carried out. “We are not intruding our question into American politics through any particular party. Statements contain- ed in news dispatches that we were arrayed with any certaln party or factions in Congress are untrue. Both republicans and democrats voted for the Jones bill. Congressmen from both parties now favor independence.” MAN CRUSHED IN MINE. BINGHAM, Utah, October 17.—One man was killed and five entombed by a cave-in in the Utah-Apex coal mine here late yesterday. Twenty men were in the mine at the time of the acoldent, but fourteen escaped. A rtescue party, after having been driven back repeatedly by additional rock falls, early today had gotten within sight of the body of Dan Eden, the fifty-vear-old mine foreman, but it was pinned down by tons of rock and dirt. The men entombed include Joseph Nerden, mine superintendent. 4 the | | of pure-white tribes have been discov- (Continued on Page 3, Column 7.) | -~ PLEASES OYSTER |Commissioner Elated ~at Showing by Department Re- flected in Chief’s Report. | i Asserting that the Washington police department “is exerting every | effort to enforce the prohibition law,” Commissioner James F. Oyster | today pointed out that the police, | in co-operation with the federal .aumunucs. have arrested 5,982 per- | sons and seized 34,354 gallons of in- | toxicating beverages of every de scription in the past eighteen months. { In addition, the raids netted 12,839 | |bottles of beer and extracts. These | figures were contained In a report compiled by Maj. Sullivan for the period from March, 1922, to October |21, 1923, “I am more than pleased with the |showing made during the last {eighteen months” said the Commis- [sioner. “and I believe it demonstrates that the local authorities are making |an honest effort to carry out the law." Belleves It In an Increase, Although the police department does not have a comparable record for the preceding eighteen-month period, Maj. Sullivan said it was his opinion that there has been an in crease. Commissioner Oyster's announce- ment was made while he was await- ing a report from Acting Corporation unsel Robert Williams as to what course should be followed in delving into the charges filed two days ago against four members of the police force by prohibition agents. it is understood the question is whether the charges, which are sup- ported by afdavits, should be laid directly before a police trial board without further investigation. Although the Commissioner has re- frained from disclosing the names of the policemen or the nature of the charges, It is known that he desires to take prompt action as soon as he is advised as to the proper course to_be pursued. The charges followed the filing of other complaints by members of the police vice squad against three pro- hibition agents. Other Concoctions Seized. In connection with the summary of the activities of raiding squads dur- ing the past elghteen months, it is {quantity seized 14,261 gallons was whisky. Other concoctions and the quantities taken follow: Alcohol, 611 gallons; gin, 416 gal- lons; cider, 3,080 gallons; wine, 4,832 gallons; brandy., 76 galions; home brew, 57 gallons; alcoholic beverages, for which the police were unable to find appropriate names, 1,391 gallons; tonics, 870 gallons; champagne, 4 gallons; ale, 7 gallons; rum, 3 gallons, and mash, 8,733 gallons. The police seized 162 automobiles, 82 stills, 1 boat, 1 wagon and 3§ bicycles. However, bootleggers, whiskey pos- (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) £ s POLICE DRY WORK | tures interesting to note that of the total | DISTRICT MAY GET MILLION INCREASE INBUDGET AMOUNT Gen. Lord Said to Be Con- vinced of Need for Increase in 1925 Funds. $26,000,000 EXPECTED TO BE ALLOTTED TO CITY Schools and Streets to Get First Call on Additions That May Be Granted. The District estimates for next year may be increased from the original limit of $25,144,852 to approximately §26,000.000 before they are transmitted to Congress, it was rellably reported today. This reported increase, it is under- stood. would be in addition to the $700,000 worth of improvements that are to be added In licu of the stricken police and fire salary increases. The original estimates carried that amount for ralsing the pay of the uniformed forces, but the budget bureau decided it could not, under its rules, recommend any salary changes other than reclassification figures. Left More Leewny. This left the city heads room to insert other projects to the sum ot $700,000, and still remain within the $25,144,882 limitation. The belief was current today, how- ever, that, as a result of the convinec- ing showing made by the munizipal authorities at the budget hearings last week, as much as $1,000,000 might be added to the first limitation. These additional items, if approved, { would be taken from the supplemental | list of $7.000,000 worth of essential projects that had to be laid aside by the city authorities in reducing their preliminary estimates of $32,000,000 down to the figure fixed by the budget organization. It is practicaliy certain that in making the $700,000 addition to the estimates today the Commissioners will give primary consideration the school = building program, with street improvements also coming in for some increase. Not Opposed to Increase. It is known that officials of the budget bureau were not opposed to increasing the pay of policemen and firemen. realizing that these men will lose the $240 bonus next year without getting the benefits of re- classification. According to reports, they felt bound by their rules ot to put new legislation in the estimates. The Commissioners, however, will not lst the police and fire salar: question go by the boards. They already have taken steps to draft a separate salary increase bill for in- troduction in Congress in December. It is feared by the city heads that if the men of those two important departments lose §2¢ a month after next July it would be almost impos- sible to keep the ranks filled. Delegation Asks Increase. A delegation of megroes from the Barry Farm Citizens' Assoclation to- day called upon Director Lord of the bureau of the budget to grant sufficient appropriation for the improvement of drainage and sanitary conditions in their neighborhood. Headed by Eizie S. Hoffman, pre dent, and Henry Braxton, secretary of the assoclation, the delegation spent some time with Gen. Lord at his office at the Treasury, and presented pic- of conditions, especially of Stickfoot branch, which parallels Sheridan road. Stickfoot branch, it was said by the delegation, now amounts to nothing more than an open sewer, and wage and drainage were said to be sadly needed. In tie delegation also were Mathew M. Taylor, Rev. F. W. chneewis, Yocee Fanroff and Miss Clandine Taylor Trivers. SLAYERS OF ELWELL AND DOT KING KNOWN | Enright Says Police Await Legal Evidence Befere Making Arrests. | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 17.—The slay- ers of Joseph B. Elwell and of Do- | rothy King Keenan, victims in two of | New York's most notorious unsolved ! murder mysteries, are known to the { police, according to Police Commis- | sioner ‘Enright, but the evidence is lnsufficient to warrant arrests Elwell, sportsman and bridge ex- ipert, was slaln in his apartment one i night in May, 1920, after he had been i host at a roof garden party atop one {of this city’s most noted hotels. Dorothy Keenan, Broadway “butter- fly” was slain in her apartment oft {5th avenue last March. | Speaking over the radio last night {on “Police Problems,” Mr. Enright sald: | “In these unsolved cases our books {are nat closed until the last principal | involved is dead. About the Elwell jand Dot King mysteries—many of these cases are not mysteries to the police department. The murderers are known, but we have been unable to get ithe 1 per cent additional legal evi- idence to make arrests. _ “The department never sleeps, We | hope some day to get the other 1 per | cent of evidence. It is better to be sure of your shot than to miss. { SHIP HELPLESS IN GALE. By the Associated Press, PORTLAND, Ore.. October 17.—Drift- ing helplessly in an eighty-two-mile gale, dangerously near the rocks off North . Head, near the mouth of the Columbia_river, this morning. was the steam schooner Claremont, which re- ported her deck load washed overhoard, her small boats smashed, her steering gear out of commission, bollers leaking and engines disabled. Numerous efforts of rescue vessels were nullified by the high seas. Fhe Swedish steamer Roxen batfled with_the waves all night after part of her deck load began to shift. The Claremont is bound from ' Ray- mond, Wash., to San Pedro, Calif., and the Roxen from Puget sound to the Columbla river, both loaded with lum- ber. | { I 1 i |