Evening Star Newspaper, December 25, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER. Unsettled, possibly ligh afternoon; cloudy and warmer tonight: tempe t rain this somewhat rature for twenty-two hours ended at noon to- day. "Highest (45) at 2:3 0 P ves- terday; lowest (29) at 6 a.m. tod: Full report on page 7. New York Stock Market Closed Today 29,092. post _offt D. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1923 —~THIRTY-TWO . PAGES. * REBELS REINFORGE T0 MEET OBREGON VERA CRUZATIAC Federal Troop Movement In- terpreted to Mean Gen- eral Offensive Impends. | REPORT TAMPICO FORCE OFFERS TO JOIN REVOLT Mexico City Makes Plans to Re- ceive Goods From U. §. With- out Usual Vise. By the Assovinted Press. VERA CRUZ, general attack b, December 25.—A federal troops on Vera Cruz is imminent, according to revolutionary headquarters. This be- lef, it is stated, is based upon ob- servatlon of troop movements ‘rom Apizaco to Huamantla, but no ad- vance has begun as vet. The rebels are accumulating reinforcements to resist an Obregonist attack, the statement adds. The war plan agreed revolutionary upon by the held recently In Tsperanza providing for combined ac of rebel f s at Vera Cru Puebla uerrero is al- ation, the communique couneil ion Onwaca, resay states, Report Heavy Fighting Reinforcements have entrained here | to support the attack on Santa Lu- retia, TIsthmus of Tehuantepec, where heavy fighting continues with the federal garrison still successfully resisting all attacks A revoit eral garrisons | ationed in mpico il fiv'.uL‘ reported here, and it stated that (dherents of Gen. S have of- fered to join the rebellion, but this has not been counfirmed. WAIVES VISE REGULATION. Mexico to Accept Goods at Border | Under Special Rule. DEL RIO, Tex., December til consular relations lished with St ts to M —Un- re-estab- Mo., goods fux"J xico from that point will be r ved at any border point| without the vise formerly required | from the St. Louis oft according to tnsiructions reccived from the Mex ico ity government by Consul Ly indro Pena. i Mayor Danicl Siller of Villa Acuna | left Sunday for Satillo to eonfer with | i overnment of Coahuila. The tional bridge between Del Rio illa Acuna was ordered closed Mexican authoritics at 8 o'clock Sunday night, instead of 11 o'clock, as herctofore. CROWD ATTACKS TROOPS. are Louis, shipme Slaying of Policeman Causes Riot| in Sonora Town. i DOUGLAS, Ariz H federal garrison at Pilares, So-| five south of | e, following | of « policeman by the | it at a dance Sunday night, | ording to news received in Agua | ot According to meager de tederal officer and the policem into an argument, during w commandant drew his revolver shot the other dead. During the -riot that ensued he managed to regain the barracks, while the residents hurried to their homes and, obtaining arms, menaced the garrison. eports received stated the town was December nora, seventy is in @ state of si ails, the n got h the and late qui vesterday | the | mads by D. C. SURPLUS REVENUES CLAIM JUST, SAYS PHIPPS !Bi]] to Use $4,500,000 For City Will Be trongly Backed. TAXES CREATED SUM U. Must Keep Faith On 50-50 Pledge, Say! Senator. the for the $4500,600 District now Congra s the v < the National surplus rev- in the fe i ont people of be the Phipps justice” District of Columbia, Senator of Colorado, said today The Colorado senator was chairman of the joint congressional committee which conducted a thorough inve: tigation of the surpius revenues and fiscal relations of the Capital and the federal government during the last Congress. His present bill merely carries into effect the recommen: tions made by the joint committee in its report to Congress. Hopes BllIl Will Pass. “There is no question in my mind,"” said Senator Phipps, “that this adjus| ment should be made. The time was too brief in the last session of Con- gress to get the case properly before enate and House for action, after doing POSTAL DELIVERIES GOMPLETE AT NOON After Busiest Season on Record. Bvery letter carrier in Washington ate Christmas dinner at home today, delivery of parcels and lette: ceasing at noon, after the greatest flood of gifts in the history of the postal ser: An absolutely ‘v trucks a ers duriug the forenoou, so that there was noth- ing left to deliver this afterncon even bhad there been no order from the Postmaster stopping work at 12 o'clock All Records Broken. was neral Yesterday, as expected, broke all | records at the Washington city post office for the delivery of parcels, a total of 25,462 purcels being delivered by truck, as compared with 26.679 delivered December 23, 1922, the rec- ord for that season. onl bout twenty men are on duty at the maln city post office this afternoon. in order to keep first class mail moving. There was one collec- tion of mail throughout the city, be- ginning at $:30 am. Get Many Gifu. Letter carriers section were met at the front today by householders. who made the faithful servants of Uncle Sam many gifts, ranging all the way from $1.40. contributed by fourteen famil ies in one apartment, at the rate of 10 cents each, to munificent gifts | which left some carrlers several hun- dred dollars richer today. Officlals at the Post Office Depart- ment received reports late vester day indicating that Christmas gifts throughout the nation had heen mail- ed early this year, and that the total amount mailed ranged from 5 to more in ail parts of the door Mailmen Have Afternoon Off| i police officials was that the matter | turned over VENIZELOS HEEDS CALL TO RETURN AND RULE GREECE | Ex-Premier to Leave Paris at Once to Take Over Athens Government. WILL DEVOTE EFFORTS TO RESTORING NATION Tells’Mjssian He Does Not Want Presidency and Will Act Temporarily. By the Associated Press PARILS, December 25.—Former mier Venizelos has decided to return to Athens and is leaving Paris for NCE C. PHIPPS. | Greece forthwith. the committee report had been made.| His decision was taken after However, an amendment containing the | delegation which arrived from Ath recommendations of the joint commit- | ens last night had delivered to him tee was offered to the District appro- priation bill in the Senate, and the | Se e District committee favorably reported the amendment to the Senate. | The House District committee also was favorable to -the adjustment. separate bill carrying out the ndatl of the joint com- 4S. NOW n introduced, and I hope that it will be given early con- (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) DROP LIQUOR CASE INVOLVING NAMES Immunity of Polish Legation Official Held to Be Established. Pre- SENATOR LAWRE 270 members of the executive assem- bly elected last week urging him to resume charge of the government and ave the country. M. Venizelos was told that the elected representatives of nineteen electoral districts, who were away in | the provinces at the time the docu- j ment was drawn up, also favored the | request, which thus was supported by more than 300 out of the 396 con- tuting the assembly. Coul Not Refuse. Before the overwhelming sentiment of the country as thus expressed M. Venizelos informed Gen. Danglis head of the mission, that he could not refuse to lend his help to the but declared that his polit- action would only have a tem rary character. The former pre- { mier-added that he had no intention {of forming a cabinet under his presi {dency and ¢ his entire efforts ! would be bent toward bringing the country back to normale He will reach Athens be jassembly convenes early | re the ne in January. ASKS FOR FULL DATA. - Decision concerning to take no furthes the possession of | proximately $30,000 worth of liguor b Dr. V. Sokolowski, first secre tary of the Polish legation, was an nounced today ofl 11 by | Irey, chief of the intelligence uuit of internal burean, who complete charge of the investigation | of the alleged liquor gsyndicate of which twelve members have been placed under arrest on charges of | conspivacy to violate the Volstead act “We mentary action ap- Venizelos Wants Exact Status of | Greek Politics. Ex-Premier . Plastiras, committee, revenue is in head of the revolutionury to transmit to him immediately the following particulars relative to the political sftuation in Greece: First, the number and full names of the deputies claimed by the re- publicans, liberals and liberal repub- { Heans. % Second, the number recefved in each province number of people who voted Third, the number of registered voters 'in each province, and jmany of them are refugees. Fourth, the number of peopls vot ing in each province in the 1920 ele tions. “If all these details cannot be an- convinced docu- evidence," Mr. stated, “that a protest Jodged against the posgsessor of the liquor in the house for which a search warrant w ob- tained would be useless, inasmuch as the credentials of the man claim- ing diplomatic immunity are gen-| uine beyond the shadow of & doubt. This ends speculation x'.];u]rdun;‘ action as to the alleged warehouse, cor e Teniselon s TS of members of the alleged xyndicate, | Sgered, ut once’ Venlzelow' messug According to reports. agents had ) 1o, PRER ST S trailed the liquor in a manner suffi- ’ and the cient to justify ia\!mhl(’w of the | carch warrant for premises on Co- the \\'.grr)ltn(‘ i!\\‘-—\LIx ulrur‘:;\» .’m'xlnd liquor in the barement of house | eiton, bt i oo v DESTROYED BY POLICE eki claime diplomat immunity | for it. { Action in Suspenve | Officers Force Way Through 2,000 Persons at County Building in Detroit. stopped things for the next announcement That and awhile from Wwas to be presented the State| Department for action. Police later all records in the case | By ie Associated Press. to the special intelligence unit and| DETROIT, Mich., December 25.—Po. Commissioner Oyster announced yes- | lice, using thelr weapons as clubs, forced | their way through a crowd of more to this morning & document signed by | of votes they | how i | | MODERNIST STAND ~ CALLED DISHONEST {Priest Who Denies Virgin | Birth Breaks Vows, Declares | Rev. V. 0. Anderson. | el i of the strongest local | mentalist” sermons upon the “funda- and ‘modernist” conutro- | versy in the Episcopal Church, - | V. 0. Anderson of St. Agnes' Church | today declared that Is not possible for any honest priest of the church to deny the rgin birth while still vrofessing faithfuluess to his ordina- tion vows. Dr. Anderson, who came the local church last October from the Church of the Advent, Boston, spoke | of the divine birth of our Lord, “the | | sublime miracle of the incarnation,” and said: rector | | Belief lllogical. Upfortunately, t has e unhappy controversy during the past few days in regard to this es- entlal part of the creed, but as far jas I can learn there has been much | misunderstanding, for in alm jevery case there has been a denial of the statements attributed to the person# who have been quoted. Tt is | not possible for any honest priest of the church to deny thesvirgin birth while still professing faithfulness to his ordination vows. ‘or honest dis- Lelief ¢ must " ma lowances, {but for any priest to say Sunday |after Sunday the words of the creed— | ‘T believe in one Lord Jesus Christ, I who for us men and for salvation | came down from leaven, and was incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary. and was made man | and then in"the next breath deny this statement, only to reafirm this belief next service—such a course be absolutely dishonest. No | cleverly constructed theory of expe- ¢ diency, no mental reservation or cun- | ningly’ devised e n. nothing can | possibly jusgify any such duplicity. {One who would attempt to uphold such hypocrisy must be regarded as | a past master pf deceit and an adept been st | | i Led Clifford *. a pati L. Tatwe of Greensboro, it of the Veteran's Bur « au Md., encased guarded by uty, ¢ it stopped morning, gate, said vpolicemen the stre Jacket jacket made his i a strait-jacket a Union out at the station this walked through the s0d morning” to several d meeting a sailor on 1 him the stralt- Throwing the strait- parked automobile, he the home of his brother, J. N. Tate, 13111 M street northwest, and went to hed. In the meantime the train bearing cut off. into a way to {en route from Atlanta to Perryville, | and | hurried back te Veterans' Bureau dep- | the wi y left his sleeping car when | € ! minus | another train headed him for “From P The Star’ every city bl Yesterday’s ress to Home Within the Hour” s carrier system covers lock and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Net Circulation, 86,176. . Flees Train in Strait-Jacket, ' Sailor Frees Him; Found in Bed Tate's guard, who was out of Tnion station. guard woke up and found his charge missing, he stopped the train and Washington and set District police forcs look- the man in the strait He was aided in his hunt ard at Union Station, who at he noticed & man in a acket, leaving the train d. The police put two and two ether, telephoned Tate's home In and got the address of ther here. They went to his home and found the missing Tate the strait jacket, calmly sleeping, and putting him Loard Perry- pulled en the for jacket by the & id t sh tog on ville Tate is alleged to be insane STORM ON PACIFIC 3 OPPORTUNITIES TAKESLIVESOF 4 NOW ARE CLOSED Tug Wreci(ed, Two Vesselszssociated Charities Receive Reported in Distress—Ships Rysh to Aid. By tie Associated Press B I'T, Wash In the sevond severe storm which has swept the ot of western Washing- ton within month four men lost their lives, a tug was wrecked and a steamer and a schooner ported in distresselast night T persons ill-futed tug vee, which sank off Pedder bay, four mileseofrom Williams Head, the Vie- toria quarantine station. were saved. but four others, including the captain, were drowned. The men rescued were a were re- ‘o on the Engineer Pike, owner of the vessel, | and Mate Warder. One of the vessels fighting the raging gale off the coast was the steamship Author, which was repori- in iwireless messages received $7.321 to Date for Worthy Causes. Oppertunities have the good assured of a home for the coming year These three have now |fully subscribed. Any sums by | designated for them will 1 llLi\\'.u'd closing one or remaining eleven. The office of the Associated ities was open this morning. opportunity mail for the office |received early—thanks to the tesy of the city postal officials, who had made special arrangements to this end. Many new contributors were added to the 474 who up to last |niglll had responded to this Chr |mas appeal. ! Total Receipts $7. one, three fortune and today five been after applied more of the Char- The was Jur- 2167, TWO CENTS, COOLIDRESLEADUS, INCHRISTMAS RITES: JOY RULES DISTRICT Executive Follows Time-Hon- ored Custom of Church, Tree and Family Reunion. UNION SERVICE IS HELD AT PRESIDENT’S CHURCH Several Denominations Join Ceremony—Many Prominent Folk in Attendance, in . President Coolidge and family led the nation in a time-honored Amer;- can Christmas today—about the glit- | tering Christmas tree, at church and {at the traditional family reunioy | dinner, - With their two sons, John and Cal- | vin, jr., home from school at Mercers- burg, Pa, for the holidays, Mr, and Mrs. Coolidge this morning enjoyed the fam custom of gathering about the beautifully decorated tree in the :Muu room at the White F they assemi se, where ed and unpacked ala Iy of gifts. Mr. and Mrs, F Stearns of B {day guests at tin the distril celebration The church service of the h servic mornin at the President's church, the Firet Congregational, was in the nature of _union service, participated in. by many pastors, President and Mrs. Coolidge were accompanied to churen hy Mrs. Stearns. Many leading fig ures in the life of the capital attend- 5':'.‘_ neluding Chief Justice and Mrs J‘.;;'ll - Wallace and famil S Sanford wnd diplo- Government business standstill, having ceased 1 o'clock, to provide Bovermment o i 5 with a half-day sh pping be {fore the holiday, while several memn bers of the cabinet were out of tow Day Dawns Clear. The day dawned cool With a beautiful rosy sunrise of prom ise, but by early morning a cloudy shadow had overcast the sun and Prospect was for warmer weather, Throughout Washington Ch was observed merrily in the g I fashioned way, with trees, gifts and o bile many families were |Jjiied in the joys of the holidays | Hundreds of little folks, aw. ké'?:m {the dawn, could hardly wait to ses what Santa had brought, while many | novi stood in awe and amazement |t the sight of their first Christms tree, scarcely able to believe their eyes. Judging from the heavy business Washington stores and the reco breaking figures at the post office coupled " With Teports of = prosperits generally, Washington evidently en tered today into one of the happiest Christmasés it hus seen since the world w. | .. Christmas observance by the White { House virtually began vesterday aft | #rnoon when the President switched jon electric lights on the national { Christmas tree, in the Ellipse. This s followed later in the evening by hristmas ols at the White House the President's tfrom ti choir rst Congregational Church President Visits Office. President | fice for and Mrs was at sterday and crisp Coolidge went fow to his tents this mornin before going forth for his customary morning walk: For about half an hour the President and a secret sery- fce man were out in the cool of the morning, returning in time for the church service, The Coolidge Christ- mas dinner is to be served tonight With only members of the immediate family present. Only about half of the binet are hington. homes mo members of pending Christmas Those remaining a . clude Secretaries Hughes, Hoover, Weeks and Denby. | here to be off Gravs Harbor, known . terday that Mr. Irey was in complete e worst Kkind sophistry. Y 3 With total receipts _ of i nerente over Joct y tha rey in comple | in the worst kind of sophistry. You | D General T | i | PLIEHT OF BLIVP REW DESPERATE Still Hovering Over Tunisian; Desert After Seven Days Aloft. B the Associated Press, PARIS, December dirigible Dixmuds hoverlng over the The glant airship. seven days aloft, w: farther {nland. As the food supplies must have been exhausted for some time the fifty officers and men aboard are in @ desperate plight. Although there is little probability of“the ship's blowing back over the sea, warships continue to cruise up and down the coast to guard against ®ny possible emergency. Gasoline First Aid. All that could be done should the dirigible descend over land would be *to give her sufficient gasoliné to get home to Cuers. As there is no han- gar in Africa capable of containing the ship heavy trucks with forces of men and supplies of gasoline are be- tng kept in readiness on all posts to dash to her assistance at the first wign of her coming down. The Tatahouine region, where she was light sighted, is rather mountain- ous, but farther east the ground is more offering chances for a fair landing, and it is believed the ommander is trying to guide his hip in this direction. HUT FIRE TAKES 3 LIVES. amp Explosion Blamed for Trag- edy at Superior, Wis. SUPERIOR, Wis, December iree men were burned to death here t night when fire destroyed a| k i which they were sleeping. 25.—The French today was still Tunislan desert. after more than s slowly moving than 50 per cent year. MACMILLAN GREETED BY SISTER OVER RADIO Two Nieces Also Speak to Explorer From Chicago Station. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December 25.—Donald MacMilllan, frozen in the ice fastncsses | however, loomed rather definitely in charge f the ifvestigation. Mr Irey's statement today, therefor: definitely disposes of the rumors concerning State Department action in_the case. Mr. Irey also announced that twelve or fourteen names had been obtained | from one of the persons arrested as | the names of clients of the concern As to the list of 1,400, he again d clared he knew that no such list w or ever had been in the possession of the intelligence unit operators. | Possibly for prosecuting the twelve or fourteen persons listed thus far, ! iew of the announcement of As- | sistant District Attorney A. N. Pres- | mont. Mr. Trey said that this, and 11 degrees from the north pole, early today received & Christmas greefing by radio from his sister, Mrs. Lillian Fogg of Freeport, Me, who came to Chicago 10 talk to the arctic explorer. Messages from MacMillan sent in telegraphic code to the broadcasting station acknowl- edged the greeting. Mrs. Fogg’s daugh- ters, Lillian and May, also greeted their uncle. After the personal messages, Christ- mas carols were sung for the exploring crew and a prayer service was said. SOLDIER KNIFE VICTIM. { Stabbed in Clash of Comrades With Newsboys. ATLANTA, Ga, December 25— Sergt. A. M. Less, Company H, 22nd Infantry, ¥Fort McPherson, yesterday was_stabbed in the region of the heart and is in a dying condition at 2 hospital here as the result of a fight between soldiers and a group of newsboys. Hospital authorities sald Less cannot survive his wounds. Fort McPherson officials say the soldfer's home address is Walker, lowa. A mnewsboy was reported seriously stabbed. Christmas Tree Bill of U. S. Runs Over 2 Millions The ten million Christmas trees de: lighting children throughout the Unit- ed States represent $2.500,000, which went to farmers and others who cut them, and as much more for the dis- tributors, according fo estimates today by the National Lumber Manufacturers’ Assoclation research bureau. The bureau estimates that if all the explosion of a kerosene lamp is leved to have started the blaze. dead are: ohn Delcor and John Deck of erfor and Oscar Wiockmag of Migne . Christmas trees were {rom regular tree crops_for the purposa it would require only 24,000 acres to meet the market demand, but that as it is, probably sev- eral hundred thousand acres are cut ‘#ack Joar, oftep in-g caveless <4 all other information in the case, will be turned over to the office of the District attorney as soon as the holi- day season is over. - Question of Publication. Another angle of the case cropping up today is the probability of this situation being made a bone of con- tention between the “wets” and the “drys.” First indication of this was glven today in a statement issued by i Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel for the Anti-Saloon League. It refers than 2,000 persons gathered at a Ku Klux Klan ceremony here just after midnight and extinguished a burning cross which had been set upon the steps of the Wayne county building. The police arrived at the conclusion of a ceremony held by men said to be‘leaders of the Ku Kiux Klan in Detroit. The crowd gathered on the steps of the building and across the street just before midnight. Promptly on the strpke of 12, a flery cross was lighted{on the top of the steps. After a brief ceremony, in which one of the participants was garbed as Santa Claus, one of the leaders told the crowd that they would “now all leave. As the crowd started to disperse, «ix policemen answering a riot call arrived. The crowd attempted to pre- vent officers from getting close to the blazing emblem. Police forced their way to the top of the steps, where they kicked the cross to the ground and extinguished the blaze, amid hoots and jeers from the crowd. After extinguishing the fire, police were forced again to use their weap- to the previous statement of Capt. W. H.fimyton. president of the as- sociatidn, against the prohibition amendment, asking that names of purchasers be published, Mr. Wheeler says: "To -publish but not punish those listed as violating the law by buying bootleg booaze as advocated by Mr. Stayton of the Association Agalnst the, Prohibition Amendment 'is one more nullification scheme of an or- ganization which would make the Constitution only a serap of paper. The falsity of the claim of that so® clety to stand for law and order, al- ways evidenced by its opposition to laws enforcing the eighteenth amend- ment, Is further shown by its un- :;:lxl’ltngou;eslsh to stand for the punish- 0se caught violatin plain letter of the law. ¢ o 55 B° Deal Means Conspirapy. “When two persons, the purchaser and the seller, agres to violate the law, . they are conspiring.” Judge Thompson, speaking for the United States circuit court of appeals for the thirg district, has said: “It is possible that the purchaser may be indicted Wwith the seller for a conspiracy to Violate the Volstead act” A fine of $5,000 and a penlitentiary sentence of two vears is possible on conviction for such conspiracy. Tt took several yéars to bring the federal courts to avail themselves of the injunction provisions of the law, padlocking premises where the law was violated. It took a longer period to bring about the use of the penalty provisions of the revenue act. When the American people realize that this lawless handful of ‘alcoholic addicts will not obey the law, then the courts will find it necessary to all the ‘weapons in their legal arsenal to ons to get through the crowd. —_— TWO KILLED, ONE INJURED WHEN TRAIN HITS TRUCK DETROIT, Mich., December Marland D. Stewart, forty-five, and his son James, eighteen, both of La- peer, Mich., were killed, and Leland Beard, fourteen, also of Lapeer, was so seriously injured that he may die, yesterday. when their truck was ls‘t'\;?xc'k by a Pere Marquette passen- ger train at a de crossing just outside the city limits. Slippery roads are blamed for the accident, the truck skidding directly into. the path of the train. Three Chickens, 15-Pound Turkey For Lone Prisoner By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, Mo, December 25.—One boy today will have all he can eat. He is Gus Smith, six- teen, in the detention home here for violation of parole. Plans for a big dinner at the detention home were made, & fifteen-pound turkey and three chickens were prepared, including the “fixings,” and Gus, it developed is the only inmate at the bomey 25— { understand that I have no argument | | with religious bodiés or persons who | {do not hold this article of belief, pro- vided they are honest. Tt is simply that a priest of the church cannot make such a denial and yet be honest. Gets Undue Notice. “The whole affair has been given an importance which it does not warrant. There is an unhappy trend in_scholarship and in science, the embryo student closed in by the! walls of his chosen subject, shut off | from the vision of things eternal, denying the supernatural and all which he cannot prove by the knowl- edge which is within fhe limited scope of his'mind. My seminary days are not so_far back in the dim past but that I can remember the pose which some of the students affected. (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) SAYS MANY LIVE-WIRE VICTIMS BURIED ALIVE Vienna Scientist Shocks Medical ‘World by Holding Electric- ity Not Fatal. By Cable to The Star and Philadelphia Publie Ledger. Copsright, 1923. VIENNA, December 25.—Prof. Jel- linek, head of the Vienna Electro- pathological Institute, has shocked the medical world with the assertion that the electric current does not kill, but merely drives its victims into a trance and that hundreds of persons have been buried alive in this condi- tion. { Prof. Jellinek claims to have proved by cxperimentation that victims can usually be revived by artificial res- piration, this being effective even after shocked individuals have lain apparently dead for an entire day. Efforts to resuscitate victims, he de- clared must never be abandoned un- til visible signs of decay appear. In the current number of the Vien- na Clinic Weekly, Prof. Jellinek claims that resorting to artjficial res- piration to revive persons shocked “to death” fails only when begun too late or discontinued too soon. He cites two cases in which he was able to revive individuals who had becn def- initely pronounced dead 'by capable physicians. An’eleven-yeat-old boy, apparently Killed by a live wire last October, who had lain a half hour without breathing or sign of pulse, was re- vived after houts of artificial respira- tion. A second and more startling case was that of an electrical worker, aged twenty-three, who_received a He was re- chary of 32,000 volts. Tived atiss Lhaes oADK RREky . to mariners’ as the “Giants Grave- yard” The Author's wireless was s be out of commission, were that she was “in with persons on the Harbor,” apparently by terns and rockets. The W. S. Porter, reported to be about ninety miles from the Author, sent a wireless message saving that he was rushing to her assistance. The Canadian Eovernment 'steamer Givenchy, sixty miles north, was also going to her aid. The Author car- ried a crew of about forty-five men and was bound for Vancouver. The schooner sending out frantic calls for aid last night was the Jacox, which was towing the schooner This- tle. She reported that her tow with the schooner had been parted in the terrifio gale and that the Thistle was drifting shoreward near Ship point. in the Strait Juan de Fuca. The coast guard cutter Snohomish sent a radlo dispatch to the Jacox saying that she was rushing to her assist- ance. The Thistle is of 1,462 net tonnage and had a cargo of lumber aboard. The number of her crew is not known, but it is thought to be small. The tug Tyee was a wood screw Vessel of 316 gross tonnage. ACCUSED AS KIDNAPER, CLAIMS 2 BOYS AS OWN Man Arrested in Waukegan, IlL, Holding Lads He Hired Out for Gain. By the Associated Press. WAUKEGAN., Ill, December 25.—A man giving the name William Kelly of Birghamton, N. Y., is under arrest Lere charged with kidnaping Arthur Clifford, sixteen-year-old son of Viola Clifford, 272 Main street, John- son City. Pa. and William Troy, fourteen-year-old-son of William. Troy, 8 Florence street, Binghamton. The boys are being detained in juvenile court. They claimed Kelly was their father, but later said, ac- cording to Edwin Ahlstrom, sheriff, that Kelly had Kidnaped them and silenced them through threats. Kelly, according to the sheriff, ad- mitted that he had been hiring out the boys, and that in several places he had obtained offifficial aid for them, presenting them as his sons. FREE STATE POPULATION. DUBLIN, December 25.—OfMcial sta- tistics_show the estimated popula- tion of the Free State as 3,165,000 persons. . Births, marriages and deaths for the last quarter all show Aeckeap, | id to but advices ‘ommunication means of lan- hore at Grays | | acknowledged |lacking $5,644 today, there to complete the bud- | gets in these Christmas families. The |lists will be kept open until New Year if necessary, in the hope that now that the Christmas “rush” is over, many additional contributors should be found desirous of adding just one more gift to their lst of remem- Lrances—a gift that will bring joy and gladness into that opportunity family throughout 1924, Contributions will .continue to be received at the office of The Star or may be sent directly to the treasurer of the fund, John Joy Edson, 1022 11th street northwest. Miss Janet . Richards, the well known Washington lecturer, in send- ing in a contribution for the oppo tunity fund, writes as follows: “My dear” Mr. Edson:—Here comes my somewhat belated check—because out of town a-lecturing to earn it—for the Christmas opportunity fund. Please divide it as you think best, as it is beyond me to decide between all the pressing and pathetic cases.” Opportunity No. 1, Amount asked for, $780. acknowledged, $580.5¢ ;AT S, $; F. W. K S. H. H, $2; M. B. L, $5; F. 8. A. ~ B A C, 36 ed on page Previous- A T, 8. 4, column 3.) MOTORISTS ADVISED TO GET TAGS EARLY Only Week Remains in Which to Take Out Licenses for Next Year. Take a word of advice from Wade H. Coombs, superintendent of Ii- censes, and get your 1924 automobile tags early this week. Only five working days of the old vear remain, and if you wait until the last day to get the number plates for your car you probably will find yourself standing In line with the customary throng of last-minute ap- plicants. Although only a small percentage of the car cwners of the city have obtained their tags thus far, Mr Coombs feels confident his force will be able to take care of the balance expeditiously, provided all of them do not wait until Saturday and Monday. The new {ags muat bg on cars Jan- HRrY X Attorney ugherty and Postmaster General New. Secretary Mellon is at his home in Pittsburgh Secretary Davis is with his father ut Sharon, Pa. retar; Work at Evanston, II with s daughter. while Secretary Wallaco is spending the day near Washington Bishop William F. McDowell of th Mothodist Church delivered the ser- mon at the services at the First Con- gregational Church. “Other clergymen taking part included: Dr. J. J. Muir, chaplain of the Senate, invocation Dr. William 8. Aberneth Calvary Baptist, responsive reading’ Dr, Clo vis J. Chappell, Mount Vernon Place M. E. Church South, scripture: Dr. Earle Wilfley, Vermont Avenue Chris- tian, prayer; Dr. Jason Noble Pierce. First Congregational, offertory pray- er; Dr. George M. Diffenderfer, pres dent ‘Washington Federation of Churches, announcements; Dr. James Shera Montgomery, chaplain House of Representatives, benediction. The musical prelude, by Louis A. Potter, was an improvization on Christmas carols, and the postlude was played by R. Deane Shure, di rector of music, Mount Vernon Place M. E. Church South; Christmus hymns by the choir iIncluded, “Sing, Heavens,” “0, Come, All Ye Faith and “Angels from the Realms Glory.” Comparison With Jesus, Bishop McDowell called upon his audience not to deceive itself into the belief “that because we are cheerful and gracious and full of good will today. we are therefore men and women of the tvpe that Is s as we think ‘of E ‘ompared with Him,” Biskop Mc- Dowell said, “the ‘blight of ordinari- ness' is upon us. Compared with Him, we are personally shallow and average.” The text of the Bishop's address was from John, 1.4, “In Him was life and the life was the light of men.” Opening his_address with a quo- tation from a widely read book, “One of the Aveaknesses of the church to- day is that Christians are not making enough of Jesus Christ)” the Bishop said: “This Christmas day finds us in danger of fighting about Him. or about our interpretations of Him, rather than ‘making enough of Him.'"” Sermon Text in Part. The text of the sermon in part fol- Tows “A few vears ago the author of a widely read book said these words ‘One of the wealknesses of the church today is—put bluntly—that Christians are mnot making enough of Jesus Christ.” And that sentence, oddly enough, is seized eagerly by two groups that do not agree with one another at all. The highly consery: tive group, always sure of its own or- thodoxy just because it is conserva. tive, heartily approves the statement with _many and loud afiirma " iContinucd pn page 4, column § O ful’ of