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-} WEATHER Rain tonight and tomorrow; risin, temperature; south winds. ended 2 p.m. today: p.m. yesterday; lowest, 3 Yesterday. Full report on page 5. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 22 9,094, Increasing southeast ana Temperature for 24 hours Highest, 46, at Entered as secon: post ofice Washington, D. C. a. matter .. C.DENIES T GAN'HATRED F " FIX RULES FOR CAR LINE DEPRECIATION + Lack of Jurisdiction Claimed in Opinion on W. R. & E. Case. LOCAL BODY NOW READY TO ADOPT REGULATIONS Allen Says Decision Ultimately Will Have Effect on Rate Question. In a far-reaching decision affecting mearly all of the public service cor- porations of the District, the Inter- state Commerce Commission today held that it does not have jurisdic- tion over the fixing of depreciation rules for the Washington Rallway and Electric Company. Although the case involved only the Washington Railway and Electric , ®ystem, it is all-inclusive in. effect, for the reason that the local Public Utilities Commission has delayed the fixing of depreciation regalations for all the companies awaiting this de- cision. Walter C. Allen, executive secre- tary to the local commission, pointed out today that the decision eventual- ly may-affect the rates charged by the street railway, gas and electric light companies, since the item of depreciation i¥ an important factor entering into rate-fixing. Up to thistime the commission has not been able to deal systematically with the question of depreclation in any of the rate cases, because it has not been' able to lay down definite rules pending settlement of the ques- tion of jurisdiction Must Promulgate Rules. ‘The first thing the commission must do now is to promulgate its rules, which were drafted tentatively fin 1921 and then laid aside until it could be definitely determined whether the Interstate Commerce Commission had Jurisdiction. ‘When rates conie up for revision in future the commission will be able to deal definitely with the gquestion of what is a proper allowance for de- breciation in arriving at a decisfon. Mr. Allen said the commission also will be in a position to take up the 0 \ much-disputed question of whether the amount In a company’s deprecla- rion reserve should be subtracted from the fair value of the property In fAxing rates. 1f such a subtrac- tion s made it would reduce the falr value for rate-making purposes. Offictals of the Washington Rallway and Electric Company, after a hasty reading of the Interstate Commerce Commission decision. Questioned \whether the decision removes the company entirely from the jurisdic- tion of the federal commission, or whether it merely affects the han- dling of depreciation. Effect of Separation. If the decision separates the com- pany from all control by the Inter- state > Commerce Commission, they said, it would mean there would be nobouy to regulate through commu- tation rates between Washington and Maryland towns, such as Rock- ville and Laurel. Tt was Intimated that the company would ask the Interstate Commerce Commission to make this point clear. After going carefully into the case, the Interstate Commerce Commission concluded with this paragraph: “Having concluded that the Wash- ington Railway and Electric Com- pany, together with its subsidiary slectric companies, is not a carrier subject to the act, we must hold that we have no jurisdiction over the de- preciation charges of these com- panies.” It was stated that no court appeal would be taken from the Interstate Commerce Commission verdict. Samuel R. Bowen, vice president snd counsel for the company, made a brief statement, in which he made it plain that the corporation did not 20 to the Interstate Commerce Com- mission because it objected to having its depreciation rules fixed by the local authorities, but merely to settle the principle of where the jurisdic- tion rested. Has Obeyed L C. C. Rules. It was pointed out that in the past, and even before the local com- mission was created, the Washington Railway and Electric has followed the rules of accounting laid down by the Interstate Commerce Commission, The Interstate Commerce Commis- sion pointed out that the Supreme Court, in 4 similar case in the matter of the Omaha Street Railway vs. the commission, held that street railways are not carriers by railroad within the meaning of the act, and reversed an order of the commission prescrib- ing passenger fares. “The hington Electric Compauy, together with its subsidiaries, operated a ‘local’ street (Conti on Page 2, Column 3.j NAVY BILL MAY ASK '86,000 ENLISTMENT Maintaining of Present Strength Expected to Be Committee Recommendation. ! / Railway and ¢ The House subcommittee which is framing the annual naval appropria- tion bill is expected to recommend that the present enlisted strength of the Navy—86,000 men—be main. tained during the fiscal year begin- ning next July.1. Hearings are now i progress, and the subcommittee plans to have the bill ready in Jan. uary. Two years ago, iust after the - Washington arms conference, & bitter fight was conducted in the House to cut the Navy's enlisted personnel to 67,000, but the House, disregarding the recommendations of the, subcoms mittee in charge of the measure, fixed the maximum at 86,000—a figure that was retalned a year ago. At today's hearing Admiral Eberle, chief of operations, presented, at the subcommittee’s request, a detailed re- port of the Honda disaster. The in- s | { TR FLAMES IN CHN BOVCOTT LOOMING Student Agitators, Fanning Bitterness, Ask Expulsion of Foreign Citizens. |ALARMING SITUATION SEEN IN CANTON CUSTOMS ROW Serves to Allay Outburst of Resentment. BY JUNIUS B. WOOD. By Cable to The Star and the Chicsgo Dail; News. Copyright, 1628, o Lo CANTON, December 27.—Anti-Amer- fean feeling in South China, fanned by China’s tradition hatred for the distribution of Canton customg receipts. The American naval dem- onstration on the Pearl river has had tar-reaching effects and, even though the oriental resentment has not yet passed the demonstration stage, the situation s view with alarm by foreign observers. Efforts to arouse the Chinese anti- foreign resentment have thus far been centered against the United States, with feeling also running high against Great Britain. France, Japan. Portugal and Italy. Signs on telegraph poles and cotton streamers across the streets bear Chinese ideo- graphs urging the natives to crush the militarist movement and fight for the Canton customs surplus. Ori- entals are urged to boycott: American and British goods and, while the merchants have thus far remalned { unresponsive to the frantic efforts to fan the flames of an_ anti-American boycott, they foresee future troubles, unless heed is paid to the present clamor. Students Lead Movement. Students, a good proportion of whom have been educated in Amer- ica through the United States' gener- osity in devoting a share of these same customs receipts, are leading the anti-American move. Coolles are ready to fight. The powerful artisans’ guild has thus far avoided the general move- {ment because of financial embarrass- ment, while the seamen’s unlon is in- volved in an internal fight and hesi- tates to take action against the for- elgn powers. 7 There are indications that-Chine: ¢clgarette manufacturers are quiet! encouraging the boycott on “foreign &oods, and the various- proclamations of Dr. Sun Yat-Sen and Eugene Chen, {his chief secretary, while not men- tioning directly the proposed boycott, | |added countenance to the movement. Urge Forelgners’ Expulsion. Unbridled speakers at student and coolie mass mestings have urged the expulsion of all foreigners in China, the forcible seisure of the customs receipts and the destruction of Shameen British and: French conces- sfons. g Thus far the orientals have not at- tempted to destroy American-made merchandise while sacking stores carrylng foreign goods. However, Chinese merchants realize the possi- bility of such developments, and are refusing to purchase American and British goods for the time being. The anti-American feeling s due almost entirely to the previous set- tled conviction of Chinese officials and civilians that America would re- fuse to participate in the allied debt collecting demonstration. The State Department at Washington and the American legation at Peking main- tained the usual secrecy instead of frankly announcing what policy would be followed should an attempt be made to seize the customs surplus. ven the local consular and naval officlals, responsible for handling the situation, which i8 now rapidly ap- proaching a _crisis, have not taken thelr own governments {nto thelr con- fidence. Stlence Aroused Chinmese. Washington's silence lulled the Chinese officials into the belief that America as well as Japan would not participate in the forceful move to uphold the treaties. When both na- ined the movement the re- @b United States Naval Demonutntion: “foreign devils,” is spreading rapidly | as & result of the controversy over | . WASHINGTO 3 | ASKS GOOLIDGE AID IN GRUSHING KLAN Clarke, “Builder of K. K. K.,” cies Menace Government. Edward Young Clarke, formerly high in the councils of the Ku Klux Klan, wrote President Coolidge to- Executive in ending activities of “an element” which is convertng the Klan Into an organization vastly dif- ferent from that planned by its founders. Clarke also announced his inten- tion of issulng a proclamation to Klansmen “calling the better ele- ment” either to take hold. and ‘remedy the exsting evils” or to dis- band the organization. Attacks Kiam Course. In his letter Mr. Clarke said: “As the man most largely respon- sible for the building of the Knights of the Ku Klux Kian and having recently been confronted with in- disputable information and evidence ahowing the prostitution of the ideals and principles and purposes of the Klan and also facts related to the steady withdrawal of the better ele- ment either from the Klan itself or rticipation in the active af- organization since I _voluntarliy severed active officfal connection with the Klan, now more than one year ago, I take the liberty of addressing this communication to you, the su- preme head of our government, to fender you any assistance in my power to_end the activities of an Slement of our citizenship which has crept Into the organization and Is apparently in control thereof and making the Klan as now operated & real menace to law and order, in- divhual rights and liberties 'and demoeratiq_political government. “I have Yecelved from widely scat- tered sections of the country direct and authoritative information that the Klan is rapidly developing na- tionally as a cheap political machine, a regulatory law and order leagus and, in sections where it is strongest, brazenly and openly superseding the authority of the courts, and through character assassination, intimidation and actual physical violence, depriv- ing American citizens of their con- stitutional rights without due process of law or trial before a jury of their Dpeers. “The positive and Indisputable in- formation which has come to me as to the gradual degradation and des- poilation of the Knights of the Ku ge 2, Column 8.) Wood’s Case Is The stock market operations of Lieut. Osborne C. Wood served today to bring out a general statement of the attitude taken by Secretary ! Weeks toward the investments of Army officers. Mr. Weeks holds that officers should be enjoined to avold speculative enterprises on a scale that would mark the transactions as “imprudent” in view of the means of the officers concerned. It was in Rne with that policy that the sug- gestion was conveyed to Lieut. Wood four months ago that his speculative ventures in Wall street should be terminated. Lieut. Wood's operations practically ceased at that time, it was 2ald today at the War Department, his subse- quent transactions being in connec- tion with the closing out of the oper- ations in which he already was en- EAEe agressional Investigation into Lieut. Wood's operations probably will be asked for by Representative Frear, republican, Wisconsin, who has a resolution pending for a gen- eral inquiry into the administration of Gov. Gen. Wood in the Philippines. Representative Frear sald today he considered that. his resolution, It fa- vorably acted upon, would permit the investigating committee to go Into such cases az that of the lieutenant, STUDY WOOD’S METHODS. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 27.—Market speculators who have grown gray at the takk of trying to gréw wealthy ation had been requested for use | in Wall street, today studied the sys- Y f:rfiu printed recordegt the subcom- | tem reputed to have m"{v,, the tortun: mittee's hearings, so that it could be | of Lieut. Osborne C. o:d. son ol vailable to members of the House, - Govs Gen. Leonard Wopd of the P, - ! . (Continued on Page 2, Column Made Basis Of Warning to Army Officers ippines, who_is reported to have ac- cumulated between $700,000 _and $800,000 by cable speculation from anila to the street. MCms:menunz on the declaration of a financial “tipster” service head that Wood had acted on nightly cable- grams sent to him and for which he was said to have paid $1,000 a month, including cable tolls, speculators said the young officer had demonstrated the truth. of “he theary that long- range shots are the best.” Ezefl’ day, it was declared by the “tipster,” a cablegram analyzing the state of the stock market was sent to young Wood. In addition, special advice to buy or sell and answers to requests for information were sent, all in plain English and not in Tolls ranged from a few dol- lars to $80 a day. The last message from Wood was said tohave been sent December 19, and, it was believed, it was on that day that Secretary of War Weeks di- rected that the young officer’s opera- tions should cease. Mr. Weeks sald yesterday in New- ton, Mass., that he had issued the order because he thought the “amounts involved appeared to be beyond the probable financlal respon- sibilities” of Wood; he added that he did not think the subject warranted departmental action. —_— START LONG FLIGHT. Three Planes Leave Canal Zone for Costa Rica. PANAMA, December 27. — Three Army airplanes are scheduled to leave the Canal Zone this morning for San :‘V:’ lglrz-dl;ukun from . ey ", aquadron, ] Declares Present Tenden- day offering to co-operate with the | D. GET AWAY WITH A PROTECTION AND Injustice of Auto Facts and figures to show that the addition of the personal property tax to the gasoline tax for the District of Columbia would work grave injus- tices on many thousands of local motorists have been submitted to |Senator L. Heisler Ball, chairman of the Senate District committee, by the | American Automobile Assoclation. Signed by Morris Eldridge, execu- | tive chairman of the assoclation’s local division, the letter points out that the imposition of the personal property tax would exact from Washington motorists approximate- Iy 50 per cent more than at the present time. Passage of the bill (DESERT EXPLORED FOR DIXMUDE CREW |Planes and Camels Scour { Sahara for Traces of Airship Survivors. | 1 By the Associated Press. ALGIERS, December 27.—Airplanes are methodically patrolling twenty- kilometer lanes from the north to the south, traveling from the sea- port to the interfor of the desert and return in eearch of the missing dirigible Dixmude, Camel cavairy is scouring the val- leys and guiches of the southern Tunis protectorate and the province of Constantine between the foot of the Atlas range and the Algerian frontier. These activities are evi- }aence that the authorities have not | yet given up all hope, if not of sav- ing the dirigible, at least of rescuing the crew or its survivors. Acting under instructions from the ministry of marine in Paris, three squadrons of four airplanes each took off from Alglers for Biskra and Touggourt at daybreak this morning. The twelve planes, covering a north- and-south trip of 250 kilometers on each trip, will have looked over a tervitory 1,000 kilometers wide by 209 or 300 deep by sundown. HOPE STILL HELD OUT. By the Associated Press. PARIS, December 27.—The loss of the dirigible Dixmude is now reluctantly admitted, although hope for the safe- ty of her crew of fifty officers and men has not yet been relinquished. Officigls, who feel thatsthe great air- ship's personnel is still alive, recall that nothing was heard of the crew of the Goliath, which broke down in August, 1919, until a week after the accident, and all hope had been given up. It is considered certain that the Dixmude fell on the desert some- Where between Biskra and Toggourt, southern Algeria, during the gale (hat prevented her from crossing the Gulf of Gabes and returning to France. The ship, says Le Matin, was not warned of this gale by the weather bureau; in fact, adds the newspaper, no one told the bureau of her voyage. Inasmuch 25 no message whatso- ever has been received from the Dix- mude since early on the morning. of December 21, it Is inferred here that her, fall must have been violent, wrecking her wireless apparatus. Even assuming such a crash, it does not necessarily follow that the ship's crew perished, for the Dixmude was well provided with parachutes, and some of her men, it is pointed out, must havéiescaped. These could have obtained food and water from the wreckage. Search for the dirigible off the coast of Tunis, Tripoli and Malta has proved fruitless, but the navy is con- tinuing its efforts. The ministry of marine announced today that the Dixmude had not been heard from or seen since 8 p.m., De- cember 21. She gave her position as approximately sixty miles north of Toggourt, or about ninety miles south of Biskra, heading for Algiers, on the Mediterranean, by way of Bu Saada and Aumale, on the north side | of the Atlas mountains. Her speed Jose, Costa Rica, on the longest flight | was given as seventy kilometers an the isthmus. | hour, and she asked for a weather report in-the vicinity of the Atlas A o C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, ¢ Foening [ ifhiti ix \!H, Property Tax Cited in Protest to Senator Ball D. C. Motorists Would Pay 50 Per Cent | More Than at Present if Plan Is Adopted, Says A. A. A. with the amendment attached would produce twice as much money as was appropriated for the repair of all streets, avenues, alleys and suburban roads for 1924, according to Mr. Eldridge, who points out the unreasonableness of such action. Text of Letter. The letter follows: o “On behalf of the District of Co- lumbia division of the American Au- tomoblle Association there are pre- sented herewith some facts and fig- ures relating to the District of Co- lumbla-Maryland reciprocity bill now before the Senat NEW PEACE MOVE INMEXICAN REVOLT Sinaloa Government Said to Be Mediating on Eve of Big Obregon Offensive. By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, December (via Laredo Junction).—Upon the eve of federal offensives against the rebel- lious forces commanded by Gens. En- rique Estrada and Manuel Dieguez in the state of Jalisco and Gens. Fortu- nato Maycotte and Castro in the state of Oaxaca. reports are again in cir- culation of a peace move. The reports say the author of the new effort toward peace is Gen. Angel Flores, Governor of iSnaloa, a presi- dential candidate. According to unconfirmed reports which are given prominence in Excel- slor, Judge Manuel Telles, heading a commission from Sinaloa, has ar- rived In Mexico City with the Flores peace proposal. In Touch With Huerta. After conferring with Gen. Estrada at Guadalajara, Judge Tellez is re- ported to have been in wireless com- munication with Gen. Maycotte and with de la Huerta, leader of the re- volt at Vera Cruz Details of the re- ported peace proposal could not be learned. Lack of quorum prevented the sen- ate from holding its regular meeting yesterday. Opposition senators show a willingness to ratify the special convention, recently arranged be- tween the United States and Mexi- co, relative to claims for damages during Mexican revolutions. ‘They refuse, however, ratification of the general convention unless some (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) Claims German "Defeat Sure by U. S. Gas Reserve By the Associated Press. BERLIN, December 27.—If the 400,000 American gas bombs which were on their way to Europe at the timé the armistice was signed had been directed against the German forces, the eftect on the kaiser's troops would have been more than they possibly could have endured, in the. opinfon of Dr. R. Hansllan, gas officer of the German forces, who contributes to Militaerische ‘Wochenblatt an article on chemical weapons used during the war. He says the chemical weapon was easily the most effective o ployed throughout the conflict and that the American troops suffered more than did the German forces, as the range of the German gas shell was 1,200 meters greater than that of the guns used by the Americans. Dr. Hanslian calis at- tention to the fact that not a single gas shell of American manus facture was used against the Ger- mans, but says American, factories were in a position’ to manufacture hundreds of tons a day and wers prepa: naugurate a gas war _which would have _been crushing $a°she Germans,. J - Star. 1923 —THIRTY-FOUR PAGES. . |ASSASSIN'S SHOT MISSES JAPANESE PRINCE REGENT Hirohito’s Life Is Saved By Bad Aim of Youth Seized by Police FIRED ON IN HIS AUTO Bullet Shatters Glass as Regent Goes to Diet. Tokio Aroused. By the Associated Press. TOKIO, December —A vouth dressed as a laborer was arrested by Dolice today shortly after he had fired at Prince Regent Hirohito, in an at- tempted assassination. The youth is twenty years old. Police believe he is insane. The prince's assailant was badly mauled. by the crowd, shich caught him before the police reached the spot. The crowd turned him over to the officers. Another youth, who was with the {assailant of the prince regent this (morning, was arrested later. 9 | Under Heavy Guard. | Following the attack it was learned { that the prince regent has been under heavy guard recently, owing to ru- mors which have been in circulation 17 BURN TO DEATH, FIRE RAZES INSANE ASYLUM IN CHICAGO Maniacs Escape in Chaos Following Burst of Flame in “Death House.” CHICAGO, December — Seven- teen persons were killed last night when a swiftly spreading fire of un- ascertained origin destroyed an oldY|day with wooden pavilion known as the “death house” at the State Hospital for the Insane at Dunning, at the northwest- ern edge of Chicago. Fourteen of the dead are known to have been pa- tlents in various stages of insanity. Thrge others were E.J. Caraker and his wife, attendants, and Lowell, their eight-year-old son. Only one patient has been identi- fled. The bodies of the others were burned beyond recognition. About thirty-five of the patients. including several of & violent type, broke away in the excitement of tho danger sone. Several were taken back to the institution after hard struggles with the police. A dozen supposedly dangerous pa- tients were reported still at large early today. It was the worst institutional fire in Tlinois’ history. The building, witnesses said, seemed to go up in one great burst of flame. It was glven the name “death house” when it was the property of Cook county because of its filmsy construction, it is said. It was 800 feet long and 1400 feet wide, one story high at one lend ‘and rose to two stories at the other. It houses approximately 600 atients suffertng with the milder forms of insanity. A number of the patients were eplleptics, usually in full control of their faculties, and they aided in rescuing the helpless after one of their number had given the alarm. Houses 3,500 Patients. The institution houses approxi- mately 3,500, patients, and the shriek of the fire alarm siren threw them into a frenzy., Attendants battled to drive them back from doors and win- dows and to quiet them, while the flames consumed the wood structure. The cries of the charges led past the buildings housing the more danger- ous patients, excited them all the more, and for an hour the scene was truly one of bedlam. More than a dozen Chicago fire de- partment companies responded to a flette 1 than 500 inmates from | herding more i {stock deals. Yesterday’s PRINCE REGENT HIROHITO. hers that the Koreans were conspir- ing to assassinate him. Owing to the almost unprecedented feeling, which Is running high here, “(Continued on Paj Tumn FALL SAYS MLEAN LENT HIM §100.000 FOR RANCH DEALS Sinclair Again Refuses to Give Data on Naval 0il Lease in Wyoming. A detailed statement on the real estate and cattle investments of for- mer Secretary Albert B. Fall, filed to- the Senate public lands cominittee, declared that a $100,000 loan advanced to Mr. Fall by E. B. Me- Lean enabled him to purchase ad- ditional ranch holdings in recent years in New Mexico, For 2 second time Harry F. Sinclair flatly refused today to tell a Senate committee the inside story of the complicated financial transactions fn- volved in floating the Mammoth _Oil Company, organized to develop the Sin- clair lease of Teapot Dome, Maintains Former Position. Taking the same position he m tained last March, when the La Fol- oil i igating committee sought unsuecessfuily ts compét him to answer certain questions about oil Mr. Sinck told the Senate public land; tee that he was within “the right of busi privacy,” when he declined to reply. The public lands committee voted to “compel” him to answer, but there was no very clear indication 28 to how the order was to be put into effect. ~ An indefinite adjourn- ment was taken, with Mr. Sinclairs attorneys declaring there was not sufficient authority in the committes to place any witness under such com- pulsion. The committee divided 4 to 3 on the motion to compel the witness to reply, Senators Lenroot, Wisconsin; Smoot, Utah, and Cameron, Arizona, repub cans, voting in the negative,'and Sen- ators Walsh, Montana; Kendrick, Wyoming, and Adams, Colorado, democrats, and Ladd, republican North Dakota, voling In the afirma: tive. Proteat Renewed. Renewing his protest against “pro- duction in a public inquiry of those business relationships and those deli- cate and complicated operations which constitute so_large a part of any business,” Mr. Sinclair persisted in his refusal to say what consider: tion was given by the Hyva Corpor: tion for its large holdings of Mam- moth Oil Company stock, or what consideration was given for their stock by various members of the Mammoth Syndicate, waich super- vised the efforts of Jesse L. Live more to “make a market” for Mam. moth Oil. Much of the information asked for (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) Vigilant Coast Loaded with holiday. cheer for the great illegitimate American thirst, the rum fleet off New Jersey today rides the wintry waves of the At- lantic to the number of eighteen stout vessels. This was officially reported to head- quarters of the coast guard by its doughty rum chasers which patrol the fleet. The amount of liquor which these elghteen vessels may have on board was not even esti- mated. Nor was there any report on how much may have slipped by the watchful eyes of Uncle Sam's speedy cutters. A great red hydronlane, fancy speed boats and motor boats which throw their liquor overboard during fran- tic fiight, from the government sea- sleuths all figure Iin the romantic ‘war off Barnegat. The names of these elghteen ves- sels of the rum fleet are in_the hands of this government. They hive been carefully checked by the coast guard cutters who circle the wet armada by day snd by night. Gevernment Winning. ring the holiday on the cut- Qar‘?‘mv‘- been on the job early and late. They, have used searchlights, and guns. They have fired upon the rum runners both with rifies, and with six-pounders. It is a great battle. For the most part, it is be- lieved the government is the winner. Some booze hl-: ',:":,Ml"“{:““ " great re roplane e e 'waa slutted with ose, like & huge ove: Ppelican, Sod Fatled to rise from the water She was first sighted by a coast guard boat within the past few days, lying close by one of the well known "T l‘lue'- from the rum vessel was o m the trying €6 put a light on the disabled “pird” 'hehflu government cutter Arsy = capiain, oL the-.pum | sighty” (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) Guard Cutters Foil 18 Boats Riding on Rum Row vessel was “called upen” by Uncle Sam’'s coast guards to explain. He told them that the hydroplane had been loaded full of liquor and had tried three times in heroic efforts to rise. On the third attempt she had turned turtle and pitched into the sea. There she was lying, partly waterlogged, with several cases of Scotch whisky aboard and some wedged deeply Into the cockpit. The unfortunate pilot had been picked up by a small fishing smack and taken to ‘“Jones inlet.” Plane Is Sunk. Hitehing onto the big red plane, the coast guard cutter started for shore. Sloshing thre:gh the seas, at even a snail's pace the big ungainly derelict grew worse and worse. By morning, she was beyond redemption. With great difficulty, she was cut apart, her wings were clipped, seven cases of Scotch were seized for evidence, and the red wreck turned over with swish and a gurgle and foundered in ten and a half fathoms. Three cases of Scotch impossible to reach went down with her. She wore u derneath her wings a big “B” and a hlf “T" outlined in electric bulbs. t was a-wild chase that a speedy little tug rum runner led the govern- ment cutter from a rum steamer forelgn name beginning with *S, The tug was first sighted near the rum steamer. Heading toward the Fire Island lightship, the tug made off at top speed, throwing whisky cases overboard in franctic flight. The government boat sounded a Wwhistle signal fer 1e tug to stop. She scurried on. The cutter fired a blank shot from a six-pound gun. The tug speeded on. Then a solld shot was Jald down right alongside the tug. She stopped. But there was “nary” a case of whisky aboard. The government cutter had raced through a string of floating whisky cases at least two miles long. A small boat was sent out immediately from the cutter to get some of the floating cases. They. had .all ;sunk out of R P - “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system coyers every city block 2nd the reguiar edi- tion is dclivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Net Circulation, 93,518 TWO CENTS. RUM LIST RECEIPT FOUND, SIGNED BY U.S. SPECIAL AGEN] Two Bombs Exploded Probe of Bootleg Syndi- cate in Capital. in DEFENSE DEMANDS COPY OF WARRANT FOR RAID Raiders Declare Report of 1,411 Names Was Made to “Kid" Reporters. Two more bombshells exploded the investigation of Washington's a leged liquor syndicate today. The first was discovery of doc mentary evidence that agents of the special intelligence unit of the Treas ury had confiscated a “list containi names” when the raid of the offl of the Morris-Scarborough-Lamson combination was made at room 404 Continental Trust building, on De- cember 20. The second was a charge in the fli- ing of a mandamus motion by Attor- ney James A. O'Shea for the defense in’ the case that the government agents were hampering preparatio 1 of the defense by failure to allow th | defense to s original of th L The prayer of Mr. OShe: the District Supreme Cour: tates Commissione is that demand United George H. onald produce the original of the warrant. Another development came whe Justice F. L. Siddons of the Distric Supreme Court this a an order on Unite Comm sloner George H. Macdonald and Spe clal Agent George E. Golding to ap- Dear in court on January 4, 1924, at ‘ternoon signed 10 am., to show cause why the pray ers of the mandamus petition should not be granted. Almost before the jink was dry, Attorney O'Shea had jfiled the papers officially with the {clerk of the court, and put the order | With a copy of the petition into the {hands of deputy United States mar { shals, who are expected to serve { Commissioner Macdonald_this_after- | noon. Golding being in New York, i is believed that the marshals w await his return to serve hi As to this list, which a been reported missing and mythic Star reporter today glimpsed duplicate of the original rant and in the handwriting of Agent George E. Golding of the special intelligen: unit of the Treasury Department sa this notation: December 20, 1923 Washington. D. “Scarched the premises describe the reverse side hereof and seized “Ona list containing names and se jeral bills pa. “(Slgned.) GEORGE E. GOLDING ¢ Special Agent Says Warrant at Treasury. ted States Commi Macdonald. who rant for the & the allese (nental T: that he di the warr: hands of Oy of the speci: Treasury Dep A visit to the offic intellizence operators, in the Treasu Departm however, revealed thar Golding is not in Washington, but that the warrans is. Agent Cox, Golding co-worker, said he had the warrant, but that he had not made a return of it, because it ¢ information in the shape of s with it, that would reveal s the government's case to the defense. According to law, the warrant must be returned “forthwith,” according to Attorney O'Shea in his petition for a mandamus. It was served on Decem- ber 20. It is now December ¢ “Forthwith,” according to O'Shes, meanh “immediate! It is explained that the course of procedure in the issuance and service of & warrant is to make a warrant out with a duplicate and tender it to the agent obtaining it. Then the agent or officer with the warrant serves it and tenders the du- plicate to the person in charge of the raided premises as a receipt for what has been taken. Then he is supp: to annotate what was taken on t original warrant and return it to th place of issuance, “forthwith.” Would Check Legality. O'Shea contends that his clients have every right to see on what basis the raid which resulted in the removal of papers from their offices was made. Ho maintains that he, as their counsel, has the right to see it to_ assure himself that all requirements of the law in the lssuance and service of the .warrant have been carried out. Agent Cox stated that agents of the inteliigence unit have a list of names after all. But he declares there are noth- ing like 1,411 names on this list. In fact, it is a small list with about a score of names on it, ho declares, but it forms a most important hinge for the swinging of one angle of the case Continuing, he said that he would refuse to answer questions as to whether the persons named on this list are suspected of being purchasers of the specia { or not, but he did admit that the next step of the agents will be to attempt the corralling of sufficient evidence for indictments of persons whose names were used as indorsements of new customers of the alleged syndi- cate. “We know that purchasers cannot be indicted for conspiracy against the government,” Cox declared, “but if we can prove that one man indorsed another man as a safe patron, we fe that conviction of the first man wouid be & simple matter. That s one of the angles of the case on which we will resume work as soon as Golding gets back from New York” When the case first “broke” agents of the special intelligence unit, in conversation with a representative of The Star, stated that a list of names was in their hands—seized during raids_on the offices. Later it was stated that these agents were joking when this was said—'kidding” was the exact word used. On still another occasion reference was made by one agent to the decoding of 1,411 names contained on the list. This state- ment stands out prominently today in the face of the discovery that Golding actually signed a receipt for a “list containing names.” Now, that list may_have contained 20 or' 2,000 names, but there is documentary proof existing that a list was taken. And the fact that the agents have not yet returned the original war- rant to the commissioner on the ground that data contained in it might be beneficial to the defense is annther angle of the case that will _robably receive a high light should the :ays of a congressional investigation be focused on the local liguor syndicate investigation. Since Washington's latest liquor scandal started Commissioner Oyster has received a number of anonymous letters, some commending him and others denouncing him. One letter, unsigned, but purporting to be from a friend, warned him to be on the lookout for possible per- harm, .