Evening Star Newspaper, December 13, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER. ain and colder and much tor colder, ing ours end st, 58 ut 3 p.m, yester- 46 at 11 p.m. yesterday. n page 7. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 28 T tomorrow emperatures Cemperature ed at 2 p.m. No. 29,080. Tntered as s-cond-clacs matter post office Washington, D, C. "FIGHT FOR CAPITAL OF MEXICO LOOMS INVERACRUZAREA ¢ Obregon and Sanchez Forces Concentrate Near Scene of Carranza’s Defeat. MEDIATION IS REFUSED BY FEDERAL EXECUTIVE Accession of Sinaloa Governor to President’s Side Held Important Gain by Loyalists. the Assoclated Pross, SAN ANTONIO, Tex., 13.—By horseback, airplane, auto- mobile, and some by rail through the United Statew, the majority of the Mexican nationnl congress is leaving Mexico City for Vera Cruz o ene for the purposxe of deposing President Alvaro Obregon nx president, according Rubin \izearra, president of the chamber of deputies, who arrived here lnst night en route to Vera Cruz. ccember rec MEXICO CITY Eenerally felt Tattle between and the troops loyal to President Obregon will be fought on the Vera ruz front near where Carranza was defeated by Sanchez in 1919 The government continues to con- centrate soldiers in that district to ©ppose the advance of the reb resident Obregon has rejected the fon of Gen. Angel Flores, gov- ernor of Sinaloa, asserting that the question. between the government and the insurgents has become mili- tary rather than political, inasmuch as the rebel leaders are army men who have failed in their military duties. December that Sane 13.—T1t decisive forces is here the N DECISIVE BATTLE NEAR. By the Associnted Press VERA CRUZ, December 13.—News- paper sondents mpanying the rebel armies in their advance on Mexico City telegraphed early this morning that the situation in the state of Puebla was unchanged but that & battle apparently was fmm e corre: ac e main boy of the Insurgent troups has joined the advance guard e the rebels are now entrenched in & llne that runs from Esperanza northwest to Orlental, thirty-five miles. and thence west to Apizaco, a stretch of thirty miles. The Obregon forces are centered at San Andres, thirty miles south of Oriental where ¢ Topete and Al- #un have about 1,000 men. At huacan, thirty-five miles south of Isperanzi, Gens. uka have a similar number of troops nd at San Marcos, forty miles west of San Andres, the loyalists have an other hody of troops. 1t is evidently the aim of the Obregon forces to pre vent the Esperanza and Orlental rebel columns from meeting at San Marco where the Mexican and Inter-oceanic T distance of | Barbesa and Lec- ! I ch U. S. Reveals Full Details WASHINGTON | | | Of Reparations Parley Entry | In the interim while the appoint- | ment of Americans on the two expert }rumml(lrt‘c of the reparation com- {mission which will inquire into Ger- many's finaneial situation was belng wwaited here, the State Department {wade public today correspondence ex- {changed between Louis Barthou, the “French delegate the reparation | commission, and Col. James A. Logan, | American observer with the commis- sion, well as a communication from the German ambassador. i The correspondence had to do with [xm committees of experts to be es- | tablished by the commission and pre- ared the way for American action {under the plan. Steps looking to the { #ppointment of Americans on the com- i mitte are looked for in Paris, as ?llli‘ Washington government, if it has knowledge of any selections, has not State Dey the correspondence “PARIS, D ‘My Dear Mr. Lo “l have just had a conversation with our colleague, Monsieur de la | Croix, upon the observations which {You have exchanged. In order t glve you more definite information jand to clear up points which might SENATORS CONFER ONBURBAU DUSTER | Reinstatement of Engraving Workers Seen Nearer After Talk With Mellon. on rtment made public as follows: { | | i Belief that the employes of the bu- reau of engraving and printing, dis- sed by executive order of March, would be restored to their old po- | sitions, was strengthened today follow- | worth of New York and Senator Sterl- ing of South Dakots with Secretary Mellon, at the Treasury Department 1t is known that a strong feeling exists among some of the republican { senators that an injustice was done the employes dismissed, and that they should have their places back. No reflection on the late President Harding, who fs- wued. tho order, Is intended. The bellet is growing that he was misinformed and that the executive order was issued on_an_incorrect understanding of the | situation given the President. i No Treasury Probe Yet. | Treasury officials today said there had been no Treasury renewal of in- | vestigation of the matter, and had had ‘Ihmr attention recalled to it again by members of Congress. | The conference between Secretary ! Mellon and Senators Wadsworth and {Sterling today at the Treasury was { { | ling a conference of Senator Wads-| | | ized Correspondencg Exchanged Betweeui Logan, Barthou, Hughes and Wied- feldt Is Made Public. | leave doubts in your mind, we desire to furnish vou with more precise de- | tails, i “The first committee of experts| will endeavor to find: (a) The means | of balancing the budget, (b) the | measures to be taken to stabilize the currency. Concerning the stabjli- | zation of the currency, the experts| would be invited, first of all, to de- termine the conditions to be real-| in order that a currency could be stabilized and then the measures to be progressively taken so as to realize all of these conditions. “As the stabilization the cur- rency necessitates budget equilibrium the experts would similarly be Invit- ed to study in detail the receipts and the expenditures of the reich as well as of the different states. “The reparation commission would ask the experts to give it in all sin- cerity their professional opinion on th guestions submitted to them. “M. de la Croix and T hope that it iy _lead your government to ac- Quiesce in the acceptance of invita- tions by American experts to partlci- Date in the labors of the committee (Continued on Page of lumn 4.) Chief Old Eagle Seeks League Aid For U. S. Indians By the Assoclated Press. PARIS, December 13.—A dele- gation of sixteen Arapaho Indians from Wyoming, clad in full regalia, arrived in Paris yester- day. Their appearance caused such a commotion in the northern raliroad terminus that traffic was held up for some time Chief Old Fagle told inter- viewers that the deputation in- tended to ask the league of na- tions to intervens with the United States government so that Indians might have the same rights and privileges as other Americans. BERLIN, BANKRUPT, TOASK NATIONS' AID | | i | | Appeal May Take Form of Request to League to Control Finances. By the Associated Press. PARIS, December 13.—The Ger- man government today officially announced itx intention to initinte direct negotiations with the {ing of the nation | Donald himself to WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D. C LABOR DEMANDS BALDWIN POLICY Party Votes Confidence MacDonald as Possible Premier. in By the Associated Press LONDON, December 13.—The Bald- win government was called upon in a resolution passed by the labor party today to make an immediate public announcement of its plans for dealing | with the unemployment problem The party also passed a resolution expressing confidence in Ram MacDonald, the party leader, and voi ing belief that should he “be called upon to assume high office he will in all his nsider the well b ing to apply the principles of the labor movement.” The probability that & labor cabinet— it the accession of the labor-socialist party is the outcome of the present po- litical tangle—will have at least one woman member is foreshadowed by the Daily Herald, which says: “There cer- tainly 18 one woman who would be wel- come as a member, while another one or two might well be given similar PO he newspaper also insists that it would be desirable for Ramsay M hold the foreign flice with the premiership. actions co n see ¢ Foening AT LEAST 1T'LL BE AN MPROVEMENT OVER TH1S SFWVAR: RELICS! 'Boy of 13, After |Jumping in River, Saved by Negro Leaving a note at his home, 410 Tth street southwest, that he had had trouble in school and his body would be found in the river, thirteen-year-old Samuel Carroll jumped off the wall inth the Arfacostia y. He w rescued by Edgar J. Brooks, a col- ored man. who jumped in after him and pulled him ashore. He was rushed to Emergency Hospital in a passing automobile. The ¢ told police he had heen watching an alrplane, when he lipped and fell off the sea wall Detective Harry Evans, however, nvestigating the ca: found the note left for his parents, which they had not discovered. Surgeons at Emergency Loy will recover. 115 PATROL BORDER AS RUM FLOWS IN Thin Blockade on 300-Mile Canadian Front Fails to Show Results. b [ river to s | say the By the Associated Pross. Star. , THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1923 —FIFTY-TWO PAGES. The Star’s carrier every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” system covers Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 96,349 TWO CENTS. MOVE MAY ASSURE IPROMPT ATTENTION T0D.C. LEGISLATION Moore Introduces Resolution to Prevent Bills Be- ing Shunted. CRISP MEASURE INSISTS UPON ACTION IN 30 DAYS Any Member Can Call Up Bill if Chairman Fails to Act in Five NAVY YARD WAGE 10 REMAIN SAME Schedudes to Be Issued Af- fecting 40.000 Here and Elsewhere. Schedules of wages for about 40,000 employes of navy yards and stations, jfor the next calendar year, will be issued by the Navy Department to- |morrow or Saturday. There is authority for the statement that there are to be no material changes in the existing wage scale at the Washing- ton navy yard or at any of the other vards. The Navy wage board, which has just coneluded an investigation of the |Eeneral subject. has reported that here is nothing in existing industrial conditons that calls for any impor- tant ehanges in the prevalling wage rites af the various yards and sta- tions. Secretary Denby and Assistant Secretary Roosevelt have Indicated agreement with the conclusions of the {board, but have not vet actually ap- proved the report as a whole. Rates Here to Continue. Respecting the Washington yard it is sald that the geniral wage board has practically accepted the rates recommended by the local wage board and that there will be no material changes in the rates which have been in effect since July 1 last, when a | | Days, Is Provision. A resolution providing trict legislation receive tention in the House that Dis- proper at- and is not | shunted and thus delayed until it is too late to session of today by get action Wuring any Congress was introduced presentative R. Walton { Moore of Virginia, who, with Repre- sentative Crisp of Georgla, and with | the approval of the minority leader, hay been fathering legislation from the democratic side for liberalization of the rules which was the bone of contention between the House ‘reg- ular republicans” and the “progres- sive republicans,” which deadlocked the election of Speaker for several days. Representative Moora today intro- duced a resolution which has refer- ence to the better prevention of the s of the District of Columbin -t aside on the days appointed for that purpose and like protect of the consideration of the private calendar on the days appointed for that purpose. Would Force Reports. Representative Crisp already has in- troduced a rule providing for the dis- charge of a committee that fails report within thirty days. Representative Moore previously has introduced three rules as follows: One to require the committe rules to make prompt reports of resolutions which it may adopt, 50 they may not be held in the personal possession of the chairman of the committee: to prevent, except by a twao-thirds vote, consideration of any such resolution on the same day it is reported to the House: and again. any member of the committee a right to call up such resolution for con- sideration in the event the fails to do so within five days Second. A rule to require ihe sp on_each Saturday before on er notice of the will be trans to post a 1 probably acted day b; a8 he ls able to determine, wnd further, i to print in the record of ement of the busincss that probably will be considered the next day, as far as he is able to ascertain. Would Restore Amendment Third. A provision to strike out that section of the rules, which prevents members from proposing amendments to_revenue bills. Representative Moore also suggests an amendment to the rules which will make certain that revenue bills ac- tually are read and the opportunity given for members to offer ments thereto. Representative Hastings of Okl homa will propose an amendment de- hairman | when the House is expected to be in ses- | i business | that day during that week, as accurately | | i | | | week | pre | amend- | the | provea. HOUSE TOTACKLE LAST ORGANIZATION OBSTACLES TODAY Approval of Full Committee Slates to Enable Body to Begin Work. SMALL ROWS FORECAST: DEADLOCK IS DOUBTED Rules Committee Fight Ends in G. 0. P. Victory—Sessions Set for Monday. Organization of the House probal will be compMted this afternoon a ecaucus of the republican eutbe immediately following the ment of the House. The democratic assignments committees were presented late terday by the democratic members of the ways and means committee conference of the democratic bers of the House and approved The republican slate of committ signments had not pres ously been acted upon by the repub lican committee on committees, u drafted by a subcommittee, was pre sented to and approved by the mittee on committees thix morning This_slate will be presented to tin republican caucus this afternoo. with every prospect of its being ap Several “scrapa” however are threatened, particularly regard: cne appointment to the steering ¢ mittes, but it is not expected ti this will seriously endanger fave able action the caucus on t slate of committee assignments adjour which as Ready to Start Work. So that morrow when the House mee and g through the fc mality of approving the make-up o the committees organized and the committee then be ready to start active co eration on the flood of bills and res lutions which have already beer the House will b, { introduced. While several chairmen have bee urged to call committee mertings fo Saturday morning, including the Dis trict committee, it probable that -ommittee meetings will not start be fore Monday. but that on Monda practically cvery committee, excep those where conflieting membership nt, will be in session A deadlock in the Hou existing in the verteq vesterday when { Representative Moove of Virginis to displace, by full party vote, two of the eight republicans selected fo membership on the puwerful Hous tules committee and substitute democrat and Representative Nelson o Wisconsin, the insurgent leader, failed after several hours' debate at the dem- ocratic caucus. The democrats now in the opinfon of leaders, are under obligation to ratify the rules commit tee slates of both the republica: and democrats Republicans Named. While the caucus was in sessi republican committee on comm tees completed its task of designat ing republicans for membership o nmittees, preliminary to the parts . similar Senate, wa the attempt Rt e Mextedn and In French concerning the Rhineland and R according to a Havax dispatch from Berlin. The solution of the existing erisis | | has gone over until January with the | government's decision to meet parlia- | ment when it reassembles. The oniy development today was that the labor MALO N. Y. December 13—A hin line of 116 men, including en- | forcement agente, customs inspectors and constabulary men, stood on guard signed to protect bills on the unani- mous calendar from being passed by | on_the objection of a single member. While these modifications are | very comprehensive for liberalizing {the first conference for a long time | I between Treasury officials and mem- | bers of Congress over the matter. 1t was revealed in this connection, the | howaver, for _the first time, that Rep- light increase was made. The Navy wage board is composed imiral J. K. Robison, F. S. | Curtis. chief clerk, Navy Department, and A. J. Berres. secretary of the Scene of Big B % committee assignments n. % Battle once approved by the party confer ences, must be ratified by a vote of the House except those to the repub It is between these points, surely wires one correspondent, *'that deciding battle for the possession of Mesteo City will be fought.” The Insurgents at Oriental out an exploration train which, yroceeding about twenty-five amcters, encountered a similar 3nanned by Obregon troops. ter withdrew and when the rebe pursued they found that the tracks Tiad been torn up for a distance of Tour kilometers The chamber of commerce at Vera ruz has received word that this city xican counsel n decided up mal situation OBREGON'S CAUSE AIDED. the Ass JUARY: sent after train The lat- without the visa of the This privilege ha n because of the ab- cinted Press, Mexico, December 13 Mexican authorities here declare t| the announcement that Gen.. Angel Flores, constitutional governor of Sinaloa has temporaril his presidential campaign charge of state affairs and gruphed President Obregon will remain loyal to the ce ernment, is the most important news that come from the west coa. Mexico since the beginning of the Hiion aquin anas. consui at Noga confirmed that report and rcd thal the entire west coast, in- «lndin Tepic, Nayarit, is quiet and Unat Tepic had not been cautured by rehels, horted to resume has tele- that he tral gov- roh J A «l r ax Strong Support, The importance of Gen. Flores' sup- port to Obregon lies in’ the fact that ©s a presidential candidate he had wirtually the soljd support of the miates of Sonora. Sinaloa and Nayarit, officials here say The execution at Guaymas of Gen. 3 ruitoso Mendez, Yaqui Indian chief- . charged with leading 2 plot to weite an uprising among the Yaquis in Sinaloa and Sonora, and of an un- named rebel leader at Tepic by fed eral forces, was reported in advie received at’ Nogales, Other reports were that Gen. Zilla- cubn was killed Sunday in an upris- 5 of half of the Tepic garrison; that Firman Maytorena, prominent ness man of the west coast, ha slain by rebels, and that t at Mazatlan had divided, the 27th Regiment rebeling and disarming the 37th Regiment. Scouts Are Sent Out., Rosas, federal commander at oros, has sent troops towar ernando to reconnoiter the po: sition of Col. Guajardo. reported in command of about 200 irregulars #outh of Mztamoros, according to re poris from Brownsville, Tex. The regulaf troops protecting the port of Piedras Negras have been re- inforced by a trainload of federal sol- divrs, and Gen. Alberto Gujardo is re- siting two regiments under orders ¢ the central government. Although tiere has been no disturbance at Fiedras Negras, United States fmmi ration officials at Eagle I’ass, Tex., re reported to have asked for more \erican soldiers to protect residents the port. FIGHT 37 HOURS IN JALAPA. Jiy the Awsociated Press. SAN ANTONTO, Tex., December 13. Reports received here state that columns under orders of Gen. Villa Nueva Garza annihilated the federal (Continued on Page 5, Col. Matar San F A olumn 2.) kilo- | goods | hipped from American ports | = | resentative Moore of Virginia had {some time ago interested {the matter and had called upon | Treasury officials concerning Course Not Revealed. Whether the whole matter be gone into again from the ning by the Treasury now. Ithe pressure of a Senate resolution | of investigation, was uncertain Treasury officials were non-committal in the matter, which has caused them | more trouble, perhaps, than any other !difficulty in the present administra- would without The dismissed officials, headed by James L, Wilmeth, former dh:ewlar of the bureau, are mainly in Washing- — ! ton and vicinity, it is understood, al- have gone to other sections of the country and one to London. ‘There has never been any {concerted announcement on their part though seyeral abandoned | as to whether they would accept the | reassignment to their former posts if offered. ¥ight for Vindication. They have been fighting. however, i for vindi tion from what they claim is the slur which was cast upon them by the manner of their summary dis- missal without explanation at the time other than that it was “for the| good of the-service. Some of them have been restored to civil service status, by the Chief Ex- ecutive, but Mr. Wilmeth himself was not_accorded this recognition. Following months of examination |of records and books at the bureau, {it was announced from the White | House that the removals had been !made partly on account of duplication | in the numbering of securities at the plant. Louis A. Hill is now director of the | bureau. | {PORTUGUESE MINISTERS PASS IN PORTFOLIOS Members Find It Impossible to Govern in Face of Hostile i Majority. | By the Associated Press. ! LISBON, December 13.—The Portu- guese cabinet resigned today. It was reported vesterday that the | Portuguese cabinet had asked Presi- dent Gomez lon the ground that the hostile par- liamentary majority made it impossi- | ble to govern. ~The resignation of the | cabinet would indicate that the ex- ! ecutive had decided not to do so. The ( ministry was formed on November 15, with Antonio Machado as premier. iJ. M. MOREHEAD, FORMER | REPRESENTATIVE, DEAD CHARLOTTE, N. C., December 13.— {John M. Morehead, former representa- tive in Congress and at one time re- Ipuhllcnn national committeeman for i North Carolina, dled of pneumonia at | his home here today. He had been ill one week. He w of age. himself in | begin- | to dissolve parliament } { | cial difficulties is expected in many ! garded as inevitable on JENVOYS EXPLAIN SHIP itroops have reached BERLIN, December 13.—An appeal by the German government to foreign | countries to help it out of its finan- | quarters here within a short time. The appeal may take the form of a request to the leugue of nations to take control of Germany's finances, Action for financial help is re- the ground | that without such assistance the gov- | ernment will not be able to pay its officials and will have to announce its bankruptey. The forecast is that in | a last desperate effort to postpone | in the evil day, drastic taxation' measures will be instituted under the emergency powers law, necessitating the taxpayers disposing of some of their property to meet the new In addition the taxes due in Janu- ary for the Rnine-Ruhr relief are be- | ing collected now in advance, but the revenue accruing from them will be' sufficient for only a limited period. | It I8 not apparent what other re- | sources the government will have to | draw upon, as the Rentenbank is for- bidden by statute to furnish further | taxes. | | credits, as if it did so the renten- mark would follow in_depreciation and the Reichsbanl | would not be able to advance the government money on treasury bills. Apparently the gover: ers that no course i appeal abroad for what form such an the paper mark | nment consid- | s left to it but an | a larg.e loan, but | appeal would take | is undecided. The likellest course i | believed to be a move toward having the league of nations tak, i oy ke financial | CONCENTRATION IN CHINA! Vessels Gather at Canton to Safe- | guard Customs, Foreign Of- fice Is Informed. By the Associated Press. PEKING, December 13.—The for- eign diplomatic corps, replying to an inquiry by the Chinese forelgn of- fice, says that war vessels are con- centrated oft Fuard the mariime "comtoms oo diplomats add that,no naval have been' landed. ' Notthern arces the outskirts of Szechuen province, and ines have been landed ct the forelgn residents. BONUS BILL IN HOUSE. Reintroduced by McKenzie With Only Minor Changes. The soldier bonus bill, which passed Congress last year and was vetoed Chung King, Japanese mar there to protes { i i by President Harding, was reintro- duced today by Representative Mc- Kenzle, republican, Illinois, at the 1equest of republican veterans in the House. It carries only minor changes from the original bill. BRYAN SEES COOLIDGE. William Jennings Bryan had a ten- minute talk today with President fifty-seven years Coolidge. He said he called merely o pay his respects. | tions. | by the government's decision to meet v the official announcements of B executives placed on e ord its readiness to take office when- ever called upon. Delay Welcomed. That the present government no real hope of being able to retain office for any length of time is seen | in its decision to do nothing either to replace or to find seats for the seven ministers defeated in the recent elec- The breathing space afforded the parliament is probably welcome to all three parties as §c portunity for consideration and to take bearings without the necessity of committing themselves to imme- diate action. Though the leaders of all the pa ties repudiate an intention to see any alllance or coalition, there doubt- less will be attempts by the ministe- rialists to attain in the interim a sort of benevolent neutrality on the part of the liberals toward the conserv- ative administration. and, eince liberals are almost a r‘-,’llflcx'\nllves to keep the iaborites out of office, it would not be surpri ing to see some unofficial understand ing of this kind arranged, especially since there is a gencral desire to ! Avoid another general election in the near future In the m party is tal Instructed its electoral organization to prepare for any emergency at any moment. WILL GIVE PRESIDENT FARM RELIEF PLAN Experts on Way Here to Explain Loan Scheme for Wheat Farmers. ntime, however, the labor By the Associated Press. MINNEAPOLIS, 13.—Dr. December | John Lee Coulter. president of the North Dakota Agricultural College, and F. E. Murphy, publisher of the Minneapolis Tribune, are en route to Washington today to lay before Pres- jdent Coolidge and members of Con- he Coulter plan for relief of B eing wheat farmers in the north- west. _ lan, which calls for a $35, 000,060 Fovolving fund from the fed- eral treasury to provide stock loans o farmers, is understood to have the indorsement of congressional groups representing several wheat produc- ing states. NOTICE All Classified Ads for tamorrow's insue of The Star must be in The Star office by 11 o'clock tonight. All ads received in morning mail will be placed -under heading “Too Late to Classify.” the | anxious as the | king no chances and has today to stop. if possible, the ever- increasing flow of Canadian con band liquor through the great open spaces of a frontier of nearly 300 | miles, comprising the four upper tier counties of mnortheastern New York The rum consigned to the big cities down state for the Christmas holiday trade has been poured over the i al border in such hea recently as to cause seri- rn to the law enforcement uthorities, federal and state, tely maintained a_policy of not only as to their plans, to the success or faflure of their efforts to stem the tide. secret is made, however, of the fact that. despite their efforts, there is no diminution in the flow. Reports that the enforcement officers have sought reinforcements could not be con- firmed This Franklin _county \twelve miles from the border. is the |nerve center of the efforts to bring the smugglers in the clutches of the law, for here are located the head quarters of Troop B, of state troopers and federal authorities. Malone it- self was dry before the enactment of the eighteenth amendment. The forty saloons in town had been closed by | vote under Jocal optional law. But nearly everybody talks of contraband liquor. The bootlegger has become commonplace Bootleggers Bold. The northern New York bootlegger is bold and not ashamed of his iden- tity. One recently brought over twenty gallons of liquor, parked his car within a stone's throw of the cus- tomshouse and started to peddle h wares. Another walked into the cu tomshouse, sought out an enforce- ment agent and blandly asked for a permit to bring liquor over the bor~ der. The customshouse cellar is piled high with seized liquor: much of it is polsonous, the authorities say Many of the men who drive the liquor across the line in cars get no share of the profits. One Rochester man, who malkes two tripy a week. passing through this section, said he was paid $50 a week and expenses. Occaslon- ally he is sccompanied by a woma: 22 RUM SHIPS WAIT. villaze, I i Big Fleet Seeks Chance to Unload Christmas Cargo. By the Associated Pross NEW YORK, December 13.—The rum fleet off New York harbor wait- ing to land its stock of Christmas liquor was increased vesterday with the arrival of three more vessels—to twenty-two—with a joint carg» es mated at $5,000,000, customhouse offi- cials announced tonight. These officials declared that, al- though the rum fleet all -dispiayed lights, their number constituted a menace to navigation, particularly in fog. Fhe customhouse officials confirmed dispatches from New. Jersey points stating that the fleet now was lying well outside the proposed twelve-mile limit. Coast guard cutters are continuing their daily patrol, reinforced nearer shore by harbor police boats. The customs authorities made public the names of the twenty-two vessels now-in the fleet. Many registries ‘were represented, but most of the craft were British, Metal Workers' Union. {CONVICT GERMAN POLICE IN JEWISH SMUGGLING Six Sent to Prison With Thirteen Other Persons for Traffic in Tens of Thousands. | i By the Associated Press, ! . Silesia, December 13— | six police officials and thirteen other persons were sentenced in the crim- inal court here today to terms of from one vear to three and one-half years in the penitentiary for conspir- | ing to facilitate the clandestine im- | migration into Germany of Polish Jews unable to obtain passports. The trial reveals an elaborate organiza- tion, with headquarters in Warsaw, whence the intending emigrants were smuggled across the Upper esian border in small parties with the con- inivance of bribed frontier officlals, The prosecution stated that during year tens of thousands of Jews had thus heen smuggled into Germany for a cash consideration The smuggling business went on at an inereasing rate until July, when the holding up of one party led to the disclosure of the organization’s activities Tribal dances and ceremonies came In for considerable discussion today t the conference of the advisory committee on Indian affairs. A ma- jority of the speakers urged that the committes go on record as upholding | the stand of the Indian bureau in discouraging only those dances among Indians that are found to be detri- mental to their moral welfare. “The position of the Indian bureau and of other friends of the Indian who have opposed the present Indian dances has been much misunderstood,” said G. E. E. Lindquist, director of re- ligious education of Haskell Institute. “Those of us who oppose the Indian dances are neither bigots nor fanatics, nor do we want to abolish for all time all Indian dances.” in the records of the bureau there are affidavits, said Mr. Lindquist, con- cerning certain “se(‘re‘l" dances that “should certainly & In addition, he added, there are “inoffensiv dances with features that “doubtless work economic harm to the Indian and militate against his progress.” He referred to the “give-away” dance practiced among certain tribes as a ceremony at which Indians “are apt to get excited and give away all they possess,” including at times a wife or daughter. Mr. Lindquist said he could not see “the faintest objection to an Indlan tribe giving a genuine Indian dance, the first six months of the present! the rules of procedure in the House, it is probable that other propositions will also be offere ployes on That Date for Holiday Shopping. probably will take its Christmas recess from December 20 to January 3. This was indicated in a dialogue on the floor this afternoon between House Leader Longworth and Minority Leader C ‘While the House was |. olution to permit Hou be paid off on December 20, th might have their money for Christ- mas shopping. Representative Gar- rett asked Mr. Longworth if it was the intention for the House to recess th. ngworth replied that after conference with some of the promi- nent members of the House he was of the opinion that a recess from the 20th until the Thursday after New Year would be the best arrangement. He asked Mr. Garrett to confer with him on the subject. o action was taken today The House Indians, in Excitement of Dance, Give AwayWives; U.S. Ban Asked discouraging or suppressing Indian ceremonies and dances, ceremonies that may be proved clear- 1y immoral or contrary to statute, after a thorough, fair and competent inyestigation.” The resolution described orders of the bureau on the subject as ambiguous and while *couched in language that it regarded as mildly admonitory, the orders as they were transmitted to certain tribes left many bands under the - impression that the bureau would take arbitrary action if necessary.” The conference recessed to pay a visit early in the afternoon to the White House, Mrs. Rinehart Spenks. Present situation of the Indians is not what it should be because the Indian office is underfinanced and Congress expects too much from in- adequate _appropriations, Mrs. Mary Roberts Rinehart told the committee yesterday. She urged the committee to go on record as strongly condemn- ing the attitude of Congress in its treatment of the Indians and the In- dian bureau, and that the people be informed of the state of affairs. The conference adopted a resolu- tion indorsing the measure sponsored by Secretary Work providing that all royalties from oil and other mineral leases on Indian reservations be turn- ed over to the Indians. Under the general leasing law these earnings are turned over to the reclamation service, the states embracing the reservations and the Treasury. Another resolution was offered by Willlam Jennings Bryan. It com- provided its features’are inoftensive.’ A regolution was introduced and referred to a committee requesting the buresu of Indian affairs to “avold 3 mended the attitude of the govern- ment in encouraging efforts of all religious denominations to bring re- ligion into the lives of the Indlans. HOUSE LIKELY TO RECESS| FOR CHRISTMAS DEC. 20| —_— | with the Resolution Passed to Pay Off Em-| except such | various | members lican steering committee, which wil be made up of Representatives Dar- row, Pennsyl derson, Minne sota. and Sanders, Indiana. wh served on the committee in the las: Congress, i Representatives Mage. New York; Tincher, Kansas; Grahan 1llinois, and Sinnott. Oregon, nev members. This co togethe rules committee, determines the House legislative program Having determined that the de: era hould have four of the twelve on the rules committee the same ratio prevafled during the Sixty-seventh Congress—the re publican’ committee on committees named as the republican members Representative Snell, New York. who will be chairman: Representativ: Johnson. South Dakota, and Sch: Minnesota, old members, and Tilsos Connecticut; Scott, Michigan; Bur ton. Ohio; Moore, 1llinois, and Bixler Pennsylvania Representatives lina. and Garrett, democratic leade Pou, North Carc Tennessec, the w reassigned umn 7.) (Continued on Page 2, Co COMMITTEE OND.C. T0 MEET SATURDAY House Body May Take Action on Bill to Provide Auto Reciprocity. The first meeting of the House D trict committee will be held Saturda morning, Chairman Reed announccd today. While this first meeting will be i the nature of a “get-acquainted” ses sion for the eight new members whi have just been appointed, Chairman Reed expressed the lope that action will be taken on the question of automobile reciprocity with Mary - land. tepresentative Frederick N. Zih man of Maryland, a member of the House District committee, who has been an intermediary between the District authorities, the Governor o Maryland. the aufomobile commis- sioner of Maryland and leaders in Congress. has urged upon Chairmay Reed the imperative necessity for this legislation being favorably re- ported from committee on the first day possible. Representative Zihlman will en deavor, if there is a quorum of the committee present on Saturday, to have a favorable report ordered on the gasoline tax bill as prepared by the District Commissioners which meets with the approval of the Mary land officials and which has the sup- port of President Coolidge, as intro- duced by Chairman Reed. If there is any slip-up on Saturday and the committee fails to take ac tion on this measure which is pre- requisite to securing automobile re- some a clprocity with Maryland, the commit tec will be called together on Monday when this measure wili be made the gpecial order of business.