Evening Star Newspaper, December 23, 1923, Page 1

: WEATHER. Rain and colder today: tomorrow and Tuesday fair; moderate shifting winds, becoming northwest. Tem- peratyre for twenty-two hours end- ed at 10 o'clock last night: Highest, 58, at midnight Friday; lowest, 49, at 10_p.m. yesterday. Full report on page 11, — No. 978.—No. 29,090. POINGARE RUSHES NEW REPARATIONS DEAL WITH BERLIN Revision, Based on Recent| Exchanges, to Be Finished - Within Week. FEAR OF BRITISH MOVE SPURS FRENCH PREMIER Entered as second-class matter post office Washington, D. C. By the Associated Press. COOPERS MILLS, Me., December Six llves were sacrificed today to | the murderous frenzy of John Snow, & { young man who came from Poland a | tew years ago and married a Maine woman, according to the definite asser- tions of county officials. The authori ties said they had unquestionable proof that after shooting his wife, three other Ludendorff-Hitler Outbreak Again Looms in Bavaria—Von Kahr Guarded. T Cabie to The Con: r and New York Tribune. ight. 19: P'ARIS, December —Foreign office experts today vised French reparation plan, ‘the snajor motive. based on the exchanges that have already taken place be- tween Paris and Berlin, being to ¥ring the two countries nearer to rome kind of an agreement. Premler Toincare ordered his experts yester- day te begin work on this plan, and in another week. Meantime German proposals #re expected here Monday. Official | cireles are informed that the reich is | Biressing its insistence on main- | of the status quo in the| nd, and is asking France. | now that the republican movement fs | virtually extinct there, not to en-| courage even the idea of an au onomous Rhineland state. Tt is un- derstood that Premier Poincare is wllling to accede to this request. On the other hand, it is reported, the reich is willing to offer its great- est efforts toward re-establishment of inter-allied military control in Ger- many—which the present govern- ment deems necessary new tenance ne | | i Fear British Polics. i The French plan is also based on | the possibility, strongly feared here, of | 2 radical policy emerging from Britain under Ramsay Macdonald, and there- fore leans more than ever toward a direct Franco-German agreement without regard to England in the event that Mr. Macdonald's program challenges French rights under the treaty. Mr. Macdonald’s succession to the premiershinp in Britaln, Paris understands, is virtually certain. As Premier Poincare announced in the chamber yesterday, France ls also preparing instructions for her experts on the reparation’s commit- 1ees. It was frankly stated here to- night, however, that If a labor gov- ernment in England reverses the Baldwin policy of co-operation, the tasks of both these committees will be not only useless, but undesirable from the French point of view. MUNICH COUP FEARED. Ludendorff-Hitler Forces Restive, Indicating New Outbreak. N New York Tribune. | + By Cable to n&g;:f.;ad “; o BERLIN, December §2.—Increasing | evidence that a new ‘outbreak of Ludenderff-Hitler forces is brewing &t Munich is accumulating daily and it is belleved that the Pan-German | fascistl concentrated in Bavaria may soon make another attempt to seize | power there and use this power as u springboard for another assault on the reich government. In fear of his own life, Dr. von Kahr, the “dictator,” has surrounded himself with a small army of armed guards, who watch over him day and night. The “dictator” hardly ever leaves his officlal residence and never ventures on the street unless surs younded by an iron wall of heavily- wrmed detectives. Ludendorft and Hitler, however, #re themselves in no better position. Ludendorft'’s home near Munich, where he is kept under arrest, “on his own recognizance,” is watched by a huge complemert of secret service men, while the prison guard watching over Hitler has been or- | dered doubled by von Kahr, follow- | ing_rep: (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) POINCARE IS GIVEN CONFIDENCE VOTE Deputies' Reject High Cost of Liv- ing Allowance Bill, 392 to 169. B the Associated Press. PARIS, December 22 —Premier oincare won the first stage of a hard fight in tonight's session of the chamber of deputies, when that body, by a vote of 392 to 169 rejected an amendment of the high cost of living allowarice bill. The premier had made rejection of the amendment a question of confidence In the govern- ment. The amendment, Introduced by the government's opponents, would give the state functionaries the right to wiect delegates to a commission which would declde what functionarles would benefit by the bill. The premier aiready has announced that he -will meke passage of the bill a matter of seonfidence in the” government. A final vote is mot expected before the early hours of the morning. As it now stands the bill would ,Eive slight Increases in the high cost ‘of lving allowances to government employes_ in those cities where the conditions are severest. To fulfill its tprovisions would ‘cost about 290,000,- {900 francs a year, a8 compared with about 1,000,000,000 francs under the wplan favored by the opposition. $ began drafting a re- | 1t is expected it will be finished with- | | prestdential inipo_Tribe, women and a fifteen-year-old boy Snow | turned the revolver on himself, inflicting |a fatal wound. The dead | John Snow Tda Snow, his wife Mrs, Ruth Brann Mrs. Snow’s mother. Mrs. Iiva Eaton, Mrs Mrs. Frank Jewett, Sherift Jewett Kenneth Jewett, the deputy Mrs. Jewett and her son were kil eighty vears of a Snow's | i wite of | d in their home at Whitefleld, seven miles | from here, while Deputy Jewett and other members of the household were - DEPUTES CHARGE OBREGON CAUSED NEACAN REVOLT Manifesto by Chamber Claim- ed to Be Opinion of Majority. By the Associated Press. SAN ANTONIO, Tex.. December —A manifesto issued by twenty-three members of the Mexican national chamber of deputies and made public | tonight by Ruben Vizcarra, president | of the chamber of deputies and rep- resentative in San Antonio of Adolfo de 1a Huerta. lays the onus of caus- ing the revolutionary break-up on President Alvaro Obregon. The mani- festo claims to embody the sentiments of a majority of the chamber of depu- ties. It declares that the president for many months has failed to respect the freedom of municipalities. “In ousting constitutional boards of aldermen, by direction of unscrupu- lous governors supported by the president, flagrant violations of sov- ! erelgnty of the states occurred.” The manifesto claims that, foresse- ing the danger of armed conflict, the majority of the chamber of deputies appealed to all constitutional re- | sources and protested time and again, but without avail. Obregon, it is charged, was more interested in forwarding the cause of Gen. Plutarco Ellas Calles as a candidate than In' the functions of government for perform- ance of which he had been elected. The manifesto charges that Gen. Arnulfo R. Gomez, with the protec- tion of the president, prepared to as- sassinate in mass the members of the co-operationista bloc in the house of representatives. Obregon also is charged with con- senting to and ordering the arrest of federal legislators and constitutional governors. These acts, the manifesto asserts, “have forged an opprobrious chain which the Mexican people will break even at the cost of its blood.” The manifesto concludes with a resolution expressing accord with the proclamation of Adolfo de !a Huerta, subscribed {n the port of Vera Cruz December 7, and recognizes de la Huerta as supreme chiet of the revo- lution. FOUR DIE IN FIGHT. Federal Soldiers Rout Insurrection- ists at Pedernales. By the Assoclated Press. JUAREZ, Mexico, Four insurrectionists were killed when federal soldiers of the 22d Cavalry, commanded by Capt. Satur- overtook revolutionists, headed by Gen. Manuel Chao, at Pe- dernales, Chihuahua, according to travelers who arrived in Juarez to- day from Chihuahua City. Gen. Chao and twenty-four follow- ers held up and looted a Parral and Durango raflway train at Sierra Del Astillero several days ago. A- representative of Gen. Ignaslo Enriquez, who obtalned a leave of absence as governor of Chihuahua to take charge of military Gperations in this sf is reported in El Paso purchasing guns. Two airplanes that have been used by the customs serv- ice In Juarez for several months have been sent to Irapuato for use in the campaign against revolutionists in Jalisco. Foreign aviators are offering their services to both revolutionfsts and Yederals. Eight hundred loyal Yaqui soldiers, commanded by Gen. Joaquin Amard, have been moved from . Irapuato to Puebla. They had been mobilized at Irapuato for use'in the Jallsco cam- paign. 'ROME TO HAVE SUBWAY. Will Run From Tourist Center to Eastern Limit of City. ROME, December 22.—Rome is to have a subway to relieve the present congested condition of the street car systems. The subway will radiate from the tourist center in the Piazza di Spagna. The first line will run to Porta Aphia, at the eastern limits of the city, December 22. » he WASHINGTON, D. Kills Wife, Three Other W omen, Youth and Self in Mad Rage Maine Farmer’s Motive for Sensational Crime Defies Police; Deputy’s Wife First Victim. doing some Christmas shopping in Gardiner. The others were shot in the little cot- tage which they occupied about a mile from the center of Coopers Mills, which |is in the town of Jefferson. Mrs | Haton's five-weeks-old baby was found | unhurt in a crib in the cottage when the murder was aton's seven-year-old eon, Terrifled at the sight of been playing in the yard women lying dead and Snow Loy ran the home of Others living nearby their first thought t0 Deputy Sherift Jewett. A was dispatched to Whitefieid | reached the deputy’s ho there was 10 response to his ring at the door bell be entered the house. There he found | Mrs. Jewett and her son dead on the floor. Meanwhile Deputy Jew (Continued on Page discovered by Mrs. who had the three dying, the to a were notified and t had bee 2, Column 2 fRussian Actress Gets 3 Years for . “Insult”’ to Soviet Br the Associated Press. KHARKOV. Russia, 22.—Mme. Aksarina, an actress, has been condemned three vears' imprisonment at hard labor for “insulting” a workmen's dem- | ©onstration during the celcbrating | ©of the anniversary of the bol- | shevik revolution. Mme. Aksarina and her husband, a well known actor and producer, were standing on a balcony while the demonstra- tors were passing when, according to witnesses, she was heard to say: “What a rabble! When will it be over?" Besides the sentence passed upon Mme. Aksarina her husband was dismissed from the Kharkov thea- [ 21 WAR PRISONERS ' STEPTO FREEDOM December | | | | | | 1 iOnly Three Included in Am- nesty Are Held for Deportation. By the Associated Press. LEAVENWORTH, Kan. December 22.—Twenty-seven men convicted of war-time offenses and sentenced to the federal penitentiary here were re- leased tonight. They were among the thirty violators of war-time laws re- cently pardoned by President Cool- idge. Three of those who received par- dons were left behind—held for de- portation. Before the men left the prison 48,331 was paid to them. This money came from friends on the outside, but included $5 given by the government. The men received various amounts, ranging from $100 to $450. The released prisoners departed for Kansas City. The men released were convicted at Chicago, Sacramento, Callf., and Kan- sas City. James Rowan was under the heavlest sentence. His term of twenty years would not have expired until 1940, RUMANIA WELCOMES GREEK ROYAL COUPLE Cheers Given at Bucharest When They Are Escorted From Station by Ferdinand and Marie. | | | By the Associated Press. BUCHAREST, December 22.—King George and Queen Elizabeth of Greece arrived hers at 3 o'clock this afternoon from Athens. They reached the port of Constanta this morning and journeyed to Bucharest, a distance of about sixty- five miles by rail. At Constanta the king and queen were welcomed by the Crown Prince and Princess of Rumania, and Prince Paul and Princess Irene of Greece. King Ferdinand and Queen Marle, members of the Rumanian govern- ment, representatives of the army and navy, and members of the Greek colony met them on thelir arrival in Bucharest. The party was cheered as it left the rallway station. King George and Queen Elizabeth will reside at the royal palace at Controceni. ATHENS, December 22. —The Rumanian minister to Greece, M. Djouvara, has suddenly been sum- moned back to Bucharest. Reports that Jugoslavia would adopt & course similar to that of Rumania Wwere contradicted by statements in to- night's newspapers, in which the Jugo- slavian representative declared that his country had no intention of interfering in the affairs of a friendly and allied nation. v SECRETARY WEEKS ILL. Secretary Weeks is confined to his residence, 16th and V streets, with an attack of tonsilitis and has been abliged to cancel engagements to spend the Christmas holidays in Mas- sachusetts, send for | messenger | When he | 1 \ neighbor. | i | | | ! | counsel declared he had been denied | WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION: C, SUNDAY MORN DAD'S WALTON APPEALS (10 SUPREME COURT Former Governor Claims Kian Controlled His Trial in Oklahoma. Formal application to review the impeachment of former Gov of Okinhoma was made yesterday to the Supreme Court by his attorneys, F. E | Riddle and Henry B. Martin. The petition alleged prejudice by | the Oklahoma senate, which tried the governor and removed him from office, and by the house of representatives which preferred the impeachment charges. Because of membership in the Ku Klux Klan, it was charged. members of the legislature were pledged in & conspiracy in advance to conviet the governor. Cane In Precedent. Never before has the Supreme Court been asked to review the impeach- ment of a state officer. The grounds upon which yesterday's action was based was the “due procesg” provision of the Constitution. Gov. Walton's due process of law by being tried by prejudiced judges, a majority of whom, it was alleged, were members of the Klan. The petition was presented to the full court, in chambers. Associate Justice Van Devanter recently was asked to grant a writ in the case individually, but he deferred action. Yesterday's plea cannot be acted on by the court until the present holiday recess ends, Jan- uary 2 Charges Against Kian. The Klan was charged in Gov Wal- ton's brief with having secured control of the Oklahoma government, and, by the impeachment of Gov. Walton, of having denied the people of Oklahoma protection. Varlous alleged cases of mob violence, floggings and imprison- ment of citizens by Klan members were alleged. The governor, during the trial, pre- sented facts, the brief declared, “clear- 1y showing a conspiracy between a m: Jority of the members of the court and 2n agreement in advance to convict and remove” the executive. It was declared that Gov. Walton was entitled to a judicial trial and “an opportunity to be tried by judges unprejudiced and quali- fled to sit in judgment. “The facts averred,” the brief con- tinued, ““must be accepted on their face as true. Then the petitioner had no trfal. It was no more nor less than a party having his case prejudged by conspirators under an agreement to unlawfully remove him from the high office to which he had been elevated by the people of the state.” Grounds for Review. Supreme Court review of the im- peachment was asked on the ground that Gov. Walton “may not be de- graded from his high office, with all the attendant dishonor, disgrace and financial injury, by supergovernment, prejudgment or conspiracy; that the will of the people of a sovereign state shall not be stricken down by the secret influences of any ‘empire,’ visible or| invisible.” The impeachment, the brief de- clared, Injured Gov. Walton's name and reputation and {t was added that “the people of Oklahoma are thereby exposed to anarchy, insurrection. and their attendant evils and subjected.to the government and domination of the aforesaid secret society known as ‘the Knights of the Ku Kiux Kian' and ‘the Invisible Empire,’ and that the will of the people of the state of Oklahoma, regularly ascer- tained and declared at their' elec- tion, has been set at naught, stricken down, nullified and overcome. ALBANIAN RULE TOTTERS. ROME, December 22.—Dispatches from Albania state that the govern- ment has suffered an adverse vote ot confidence, and that Premier Ahmed Zagoll will resign. Protessor Guracucel of Scutari is expected ‘to be called upon to form a new ministry, 2 Walton | v om wea’ J8te hour last night. ING, DECEMBER 23, BEFORE | TODAY’S STAR CHRISTMAS ASSIG PART ONE—24 Pages. t General News—Local, National, Foreign. | National Political Burvey—Page 4. | Radio News and Gossip—Pages 18 and 19. Financial News—Pages 20 and 21. PART TW0—20 Pages. Editorials and Editorial Features. Washington and Other Soclety. Tales of Well Known Folk—Page 9. | At the Community Centers—Page 12. | News of the Clubs—Page 13, D. A. R. Activities—Page 13. Parent.-Teacher Activities—Page 13. Schools and Colleges—Page 14. Army and Navy News—Page 15. The Civillan Army—Page 15. Around the City—Page 15. Classified Advertisements—Pages 16 to T, } Art Notes—Page 20. | Veterans of the Great War—Page 20. | ! ' | | | PART THREE—12 Pages. | musemgnts—Theaters and the Photo- play. Music in Washington—Page. 5. Serial, “Above Suspicion”—Page 5. Motors and Metoring—Pages 6 to 9. Fraternities—Pages 9 and 10. D. C. National Guard—Page 9. Spanish War Veterans—Page 9. i Reviews of New Books—Page 10. Young Folks' Page—11. Boy Scouts—Page T1. Girls and Their Affairs—Page 11. Girl Scouts—Page 11. |a PART FOUR—4 Pages. Pink Sports Section. PART FIVE—8 Pages. { Magazine Section—Features and Fiction. GRAPHIC SECTION—8 Pages. World Events in Pictur COMIC SECTION—4 Pages. Mutt and Jeff; Reg'lar Fellers; Betty; | Mr. and Mrs. POLICEMAN KILLS MAN IN GUN FIGHT| Fired at Thrice, Officer Gains Pis- tol and Fells Adversary With One Shot. A trafic argument last night at 5th and P streets northwest led to a fight fhat resulted in Robert Jack- son, colored, being shot to death by Policeman W. N. Settle of the eighth precinct station after the latter had been severely beaten. One shot pass- ed through Jackson's stomach, kill- ing him instantly. Jackson was driving an automo- bile for the A to Z Business Bureau, 1340 G street northwest, east on P street. Settle, accompanied by a young woman, was driving his ma- chine directly behind. After the col- ored man, it 1s said by the police, had obstructed Settle's passage, the latter drew up alongside at Gth street and called upon him to stop. Settle was in civilian clothing and off duty at the time, and Jackson is 1a to have violently resented being called to account. BSuddenly the col- ored man was seen to leap from hi seat and swing on the policeman's neck, both rolling to the wet street in the struggle that followed. As Settle fell, with Jackson on top, his revolver dropped from its holster and the fight from that moment be- came one for possession of the weap- on. Over and over in the wet, mud- ay street the pair rolled. Finally Jackson is alleged to have obtained the pistol. He fired three times at Settle. In one last, desperate effort the policeman rushed upon his opponent and struck him so hard on ths chin that the policeman broke his own hand. Jackson then dropped the gun. Se tle picked it up, fired one shot through his opponent’s abdomen, and crumpled in the street, weak from the loss of blood and injuries he had suffered in the fight. None of the shots fired at him had taken effect. In the meantime, the young woman companton of Seftle had fainted. She, the police and Jackson were taken to Freedmen's Hospital. Jackson was dend before he reached the hospital. Settle and the woman were permitted t0-continue on their way. No charges had been placed against Settle at a i By the Associ |operated by “Al the Sheik.” | oft thirty men | runner Suntly Star, 1923. —EIGHTY PAGES. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to Washington homes at and service wi 60 cents per month. n Telephone Main 5000 ill start immediately. FIVE CENTS. NMENT. RUM RUNNERS DEFY, REVENUE CUTTERS Smugglers Grow Bolder as Christmas Nears and Fleet Watches Closer. ed Press ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS, N. J.. De- cember 22 —The coast guards mosquito fleet of speedy rum-chasers. tightening their blockade of the Jer- - coast as Christmas draws nigh and desperate bottle fishermen grow more bold, have had a busy time of it since last midnight. The aeroplane-motor-driven ecraft, was re ported captured when it attempted a quick @ashi'odt to the yum fleet. “AL" one of the best known bottle fisher- | men of this sector of rum row, was taken prisoner. charged with being in possession of one quart of Scotch whiskey. His boat was empty. Coast guards reported they broke {up a rum landing party and captured a small cargo of bottled contraband off Sandy Hook, when they frightened and bovs who ran {down to the beach to help a harassed | rum-runner unload his goods bsfore government men arrived Loser in Two Encounters. The mosquito fleet was the loser in two encounters with the runners, however. Coast guards reported they fired several one-pounders across the bows of a scudding bottle boat in a |chase that extended from near the tip of Sandy Hook to well beyond the 12- rgile limit. The last they saw of the he was hitting toward the horizon with motors wide open. Another craft of the government fleet reported a similar experience, its prey having led a rum-chaser a merry race down the coast, until the pursued was able to duck into a con- venient fog bank and disappear. The brush with the volunteer sal- vage corps of men and boys occurred off the stone breakwater at the southerly tip of Sandy Hook, the coast guard sailors related. A runner was tearing ashore from rum row, loaded to the gunwales with bottles in cases. A cutter got the scent and gave chase. The run- ner, his high speed motors handi- capped by their bulky load, realized lhe was being outdistanced, and made for the Hook, where he beached his craft with its 200 cases of liquor. As the runner hit the beach, ac- cording to the government men, men and boys from nearby cottages ran to the spot and were frantically tossing cases out of the boat on the sands when the coast guard men, having beached their craft out of sight, surprised the salvagers. They scattered, with the rum runners leaving the liquor in possession of the invaders. President to Greet MacMillan In Christmas By the Associated Press. HARTFORD, Conn., December 22.— President Coolldge is sending Christ- mas greetings to the north pole. ‘Winged north by amateur radio at speed of thousands of miles per sec- ond, a “Merry Christmas” from the White House will greet a tiny group of explorers in.their ice-bound cabin on the top of the world, only eleven degrees from the pole. A ‘short time after he had written Christmas greeting to the children of the United States, President Coolidge wrote a Christmas message for Capt. Dondld B. McMillan, who of all men, is nearest the home of Santa Claus and possibly the first to win the con- fidence of the old saint. Amateur radio men connected with the American Radio Relay League, the radio telegraphers’ organization that has maintained communication with the MacMillan expedition, will start the Coolidge messaage on its 4,000-mile journey ' from this city tonight. The text ¢f the greeting, contain- Mother Gets Cell Unless Dad Takes Children to Santa By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, Pa, December 22.—The two children of Mr. and Mrs. George S. Low will visit Santa Claus in company with their fa- ther on next Monday, or their mother will go to jail. This was the ultimatum served on Mrs. Low today by Judge A. B Reld. The Lows have been sep- arated for some time. Low ob- tained a court order early this week requiring his wife to give him custody of the children three days, during which time he said he wanted them to visit Santa Claus and select their Christmas gifts. Mrs. Low, he complained, refused to permit him to have the children and he appealed to the court “I am warning you,” sald Judge Reid. “that unless you give your husband the littie girl and boy, I will have to adjudge you in con- tempt of court and put { jail | —_— | FORD SUPPORT PAID FOR, SAYS JOHNSON [ Muscle Shoals Trade in Auto| Magnate’s Coolidge Plea, Seen by Senator. ! | Ford's announcement sup- porting President Coolidge for thel republican nomination and election was the result of a trade whereby Ford to’ be given the right to purchase the Muscle Shoals power! project, Semator Hiram Johnson of | California, who himself sceking| the nomination, suggested in a for- mal statement, issued last night. | Senator Johnson also declared that Mr. Ford “was for Mr. Wilson when {Mr. Wiison was President, and was {for Mr. Harding when Mr. Harding was President. Mr. Ford is for Mr. Coolidge while Mr. Coolidge is Pres- ident Mr. Ford s a marvelous business man." Questions Ford's Sincerity. sald Senator | most interest- | Henry Ford merican politics, Johnson, “presents a ing psychological study has declared for Mr. Coolidge, be- cause, as he savs, Mr. Coolidge 1s safe. Immediately the part of the| press of the country representing special privilege, which has always | denounced and caricatured Mr. Ford, gives him a certificate of character; and, with open arms, welcomes him to its ranke. “Perhaps the time is propitious for Emma Goldman and Bill Haywood to return, declare for Mr. Coolidge and be acclaimed by the same spe- cial privilege press “But, in the light of Mr. Ford's pre- | vious utterances, just when did Mr. Coolidge, in Mr. Ford's opinfon, be- come safe? On the 13th day of October, after Mr. Coolidge had been in office for more than two months, and when Secretary Weeks had sold what Ford claimed to be a part of the Muscle Shoals project, Mr. Ford denounced in unmeasured terms the Secretary of War, and, inferentlally, the administration, as being under the control of private interests, inim- feal to the farmers, and the Secre-| (Continued on Page |SMOOT SAYS TAX cUT | NEEDS DEMOCRAT VOTES By the Associnted Press. NEW YORK, December 22.—The Mellon tax reduction plan cannot pass (the Senate without the aid of at least elght democratic votes, it was de- clared in a letter from Senator Smoot | of Utah, chairman of the Senate finance committee, made bublic today by W. W. Nichols, president of the American Manufacturers’ Export As- soclation. ‘I approve in large part the Mellon | plan and will gladly support tax re- ductions if we can pass it through the Senate,” he stated. “The repub- licans do not control the Senate. There are about ten so-called repub- licans who will not only oppose the Mellon plan, but will support radical amendments to the present revenue law, which, if adopted, would result In business stagnation. If we can get about elght conservative demo- crats to vote for a sensible revision and against all radical amendments to the revenue law, I think we can secure favorable action.” . Column 1.) Radio MessageI ing forty-three words of cheer from | President Coolidge to Capt. MacMil- | lan and his crew in the lonely Arctic solitude, will be sent from Hartford to Refuge Harbor, North Greenland, entirely by means 6f amateur trans- mitting ‘stations. The presidential “Merry Christ- mas” was flled with the Radio Cor- poration of America, reaching its New York office this morning. The message will be forwarded by an amateur radio route, which will take it to the Dakotas and diagonal- 1y across Canada to North Greenland. The complete text cannot be made | public, owing to the regulation | which provides that messages must | be held in striot confidence. Capt. MacMillan's schooner, Bowdoin, being equipped with an| amateur transmitting station, he is able to communicate only with ama- teur stations in the United Stdtes and Canada. It was for this reason that the Radio Corporation appealed to the league, asking that the ama- teur orsaniaetion forward the mes- sage. the | Announcement |Surprise After Elaborate D.C. | 1ast night. | Assistant | through | dicate membe of high officials | LIQUOR LIST DENIED BY IREY AS POLICE GIVE HIM EVIDENCE Comes. as Prosecution Plans Are Laid. UPSHAW TO ASK PROBE OF OFFICIALS’ DRINKING De Lane, Legion Represetnative, Says He Has No Connection With “Snydicate.” While Washingtonians were stil, speculating last night as to what names appeared on a list said to have been obtained by police and special intelligence agents engaged in round- ing up eleven alleged members of a rum “syndicate” here, Elmer Irev chief of the special intelligence unit of the internal revenue bureau, came out with a denlal that any such list was in the possession of his opera tiv Commissioner Oyster, who inftiated { the investigation resulting in the ar rests, stated yesterday that all police evidence had been turned over to the intelligence unit. Earller in the week he stated that investigators had come to him with the statement that a list had been uncovered in the inquiry on which appeared names of such prom- inence that ft was desired that he look them over before action was taken. He sald he refused to look at the list and told the men to go out and complete thefr case without fea or favor. Dental Is Surprise. Word from the Treasury that no such list existed came as a surprise On the strength of state- ments that the police had the list United States Attorne: Presmont had announced plans yes- terday for prosecution—if possible— of persons who could be connected the list as purchasers and co-conspirators with the alleged syn It was closely fol- y lowing prominent announcement had been made of these plans that the denial was made that such a list was in possession of the special In- telligence unit. Yesterday afternoon one agen: stated that 1,141 names were on the llsi, but last niglt, after Chief Irex had made the denlal, this agent ex- plained that he did not mean the 1i was in the possession of the intel- ligence agents, but that in an alleged confession by one of those arrested reference had been made to such a list The list became the keynote of interest vesterday following an- nouncement by Mr. Presmont that he would push the case and present the list to the grand jury. Wayne B Wheeler, of the Angi-Saloon League, in a statement, demanded that action be taken in prosecuting “every one of the alleged 1.500 liquor purchasers disclosed by the bootleggers’ books.' 1i TUpshaw Wants Inquiry. While all these things were hap- pening in the investigation set under- way already, Representative William aw of Georgia announced vesterday he Intends to introduce a resolution when the House reas- sembles on January 3. demanding in- vestigation by Congres: high officials of th of drinking government. 2 shocking revelations of law breaking and drinking on the part Representative Up- shaw said, Yy puts into italics my Christmas declaration of one year ago that f these prominent officials who swore to uphold the Constitution want to get anywhere in enforcing the prohibition law they must re- member the injunction of Sam Jones ‘If you want to reform the world begin on yourself and you'll have one grand rascal out of the way. Representative Upshaw already has been allowed forty-five minutes in which to address the House when it meets again. He promises that his speech will deal with the prohlbition situation down to date. “It will be red-hot fromg the start to finis Representative Upshaw said last night. He expects “to go after the flagrant abuse of diplo- matic immunity on the part of lega- (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) TAX OFFICER OUSTED AND HELD IN FRAUD Baltimore Deputy Collector Charged With Retaining Income Fines. Special Dispatel to The Star. BALTIMORE, Md., December 22 James D. Bozman, dismissed today from his position as a deputy collector of in- ternal revenue, was arraigned beforo United States Commissioner Supplee and held under $2,000 bail on charges of consplracy to defraud the United States and citizens of Income tax money. Bozman is alleged to have collected fines for non-payment of income taxes from forelgners in East Baltimore and to have failed to deliver the money to the internal revenue department. Galen 8. Tait, collector of internal revenue, today sald: “I have dismissed Mr. Bozman and 1| have secured the services of a member of the secret service of the internal revenue department in Washington to assist my chief field deputy, Mr. Rasin, in making an investigation. It is said that other arrests are im minent, and that persons not connectec with the internal revenue department may be questioned. -