Evening Star Newspaper, December 29, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER. Falr tonight; lowest temperature near freezing. Tomorrow unsettled and slightly warmer; probably rain. Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. today—Hlighest, 66, at 3 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 37, at 8 a.m. today. Full repor{ on page 2. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 16 “From Press to Home Within the Hour” ‘The Star's carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered toWashington homes as fast as the papers are prinfed. Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 93,839 99 (96, Entered as gecond-class matter A A VERA CRUZ BIEGT OF DRVE ONBROAD FRONT BY OBREGON Repair of RBailways and Bridge Near Ocotlan Pro- ceeds Feverishly. By REBELS IN GUADALAJARA BESIEGED ON THREE SIDES Fall of Jalisco Capital to Pound- ing of Federals Expeoted Momentarily. By thie Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, December 29.—A general advance upon Vera Cruz, ex- tending from Tehuacan to Apizaco, lias been ordered to begin today under command of Gen. Eugenio Martinez, according to Puebla specials. This follows receipt of a report from Gen. Juan Andrew Almazan to the effect 1hat the rebels have evacuated Tehua- can and are retiring in the diréction of Oaxaca. President Obregon has moved his headquarters from Irapuato to Yure- «cuaro, following the evacuation of that town and La Barca by the Estradistas (rebels). Meanwhile, work of repair- ng railways torn up by the rebels and rebuilding the bridge over the Lerma river near Ocotlan is being rushed fev- erishjy Federal soldiers distinguishing rcbels, are w the slogan: for the purpose of themselves from the ring hatbands bearing “Death to Traitors.” GUADALAJARA BESIEGED. Federals Hammer Rebel Strong- hold on Three Sides. e Associated Press. JUAREZ, Mexico, December 29. Federal forces early today are hem- ming in from three sides the revolu- tionary stronghold at capital of Jalisco. After having captured the towns of Zacoalco, Yuracuaro and Ciudad Guzman, as reported by Minister of War Francisco Serrano, the fall of the eity is expected momentarily. Reports that the revolutionists had captured Gen. Gardenas and 300 men af Irapuato were contradicted in ad- vices received here by the .consul general, he said, adding that Cardenas is commanding a division on one side of Guadalajara. BANCHERS FACE LOSSES. s Mexico Decrees Annulment of Title to Lands. By the Associsted Press. SAN ANTONIO, Tex, December 29. meri ranchers in northern Mexico facé confiscation of their lands under a recent decree publish- ed by the Mexican government, ac- cording to a message received by the San Antonio Express from Louis J. Magenls of Del Rio, Tex. Hundreds of thousands of acres are said to be involved. The decree, said to have been pub- hed in the officlal organ of the state of Coahuila December 5, Is signed by R. P. de Negri, minister of agriculture for Mexico. It stated that the concession of June 23, 1881, for the measuring and bounding of idle lands was given under condition that these lands should be colonized, and that this condition has not been complied with. Therefore, the titles to these lands are declared to be an- nulled and the Jands raturned to the dominion of the nation. WILL RECEIVE ENVOYS. Obregon to Return to Capital for New Year Greetings’ By the Associated Press. SAN ANTONIO, Tex., December 29, r—President Obregon, who is direct- ing the campaign against Gen. Es- trads, rebel, is expected to return to Mexico City within the next day or two where he will receive the cus- tomary ‘New Year greetings from members of the diplomatic body, ac- cording to a dispatch received here from the Mexican capital. The Mexican ministry of finance has rejected a petition, filled by the oil refineries of Mexico, requesting that 2 tax should be imposed on gasoline imported into the republic, according to @& story printed in La Prensa, Spanish language newspaper published here. SENATE FAILS TO MEET. Short of Quorum When Huertistas | to have crossed Guadalajara, | » DOSt office Washington, D. C.. Japanese Cabinet Tries Twice to Surrender Reins By the Associated Press. TOKIO, December 29.—The prince regent this morning re- turned the resignations of the members of the cabinet, presented Thursday, -refusing to sccept them. \ Premier Yamamoto tendered the' resignations again this afternoon, indicating that the ¢abinet mem- bers do not desire to remain” In office. RUSH U. 5. WARSHIP T0 HONDURAN PORT Cruiser to Remain Till Re- volts . in Honduras - and Southern Mexico End. The armored’ cruiser -Rochester, flagship of the United States special service squadron in Central and South American waters, has been sent to Port of Amapala, Honduras, and will remajn in. that vicinity until the present disturbances in Honduras and southern Mexico have quieted. The step is explained as a precau- tlonary measure against any harm to American life or property in either of the two countries now torn by inter- nal warfare, The Rochester s in command of Rear Admiral Dayton, who also is commander of the south- ern cruiser squadran. She has aboard a small complement of marines, but it is understood none of the ship's personnel will he landed except In case of emergency threatening Amer- | fean interests. From the Honduran, port to which she has been ordered the crulser will be within easy reach of southern Mexi- can ports, where the de la Huerta rev- olution {s reported to have gained headway. The exact situation in Honduras is not known here, but such dispatches as have come through the censorship in-| dicate a serious crisis. Armed disturb- ances ‘accompanied - the recent presi- ! dential campaign in that country, and | a band of Honduran troops are said into Nicaragua and | committed: depredations. The-Ameri- can minister at the . Honduran. capital has been instructed to express the dis- pleasure of the American government at.these developments.. .. - VENZELOSLEVES FORGREEK PO Friends Skeptical of Success of Political Moves—Failune Is Predicted. By the Associkted Press. il PARIS, December 29.—Eliptherios Venizelos, former Greek premier, 1eft Paris for Athéns last evenin| He evaded the newspaper men by an- nouncing that his departure had been postponed. . The caution with ‘which the de- parture of M. Venizelos was.surround- ed is explained by his friends as due to the fact.that bitter gnimosities aroused by the interfor - pofitical troubles 'at Greece ‘have not yet been appeased.” Venizelos feels thers.is a formidable minority, i not an actual majority, against him in Greece at the present moment. His friends are skeptical 2s to the success of any political action he may undertake in Athens. It is pointed out that if he advocates maintenance of the royalist regime, which he is known to favor, he will antagonize the most violedt elements of the country. - . On_the other hand, there is much doubt, in the opinion of these ob- servers, as to whether the result of the recent elections should be taken as @ fair exprassion of public opin- fon in favor.of a republic. DAWES AND YOUNG WILL SAIL TODA Robinson, Third U. §. Representa- tive, to Join Them in Europe. Bolt Chamber. By'the Associated Press, MEXICO CITY, December 29.—The Mexican senate yvesterda§ did mot re- sume discussion of the general claims convention between the United States and Mexico on account of the lack of a. Quorum. This wds because the.de la Huerta supporters refused to attend. @as they claimed the edministration had withheld consent to alteration of certaln articles. The chamber of deputies voted to summon _supplementary deputies to 1ill the places of thirteen legislators whio ‘have foliowed de la Huerta to Vera Cruz, general headquarters of the rebellious faction. CARDEZ ISSUES DECREE. Leader of Rebels Orders Freedom' of Contract in Yucatan. VERA CRUZ, December 29.—A mesago from Yucatan says ihat Gen. Cardez/ chief of the rebel movement there, has issued a decres - teeing freedom of contract, “He has also_abolished the so-called “leagues of resistance” and has ordered that both workers and _employers have liverty of sotion jn making agrees ments. TWO PERISH IN FIRE. Third fnmate of Home llupq But Is Fatally Burned. SCRANTON, Pa., December 20.—Mr Dorothy Buchanan, seventy-four, an her brother, Grant Brown, seventy. 'ezrop.bllrnnsd“to dfiflt; in t? home at Deep Hollow, N. Y., yester- day. - Wallace Buchanan, seyenty, brother-in-law of Mrs. Bi an, ol hediy birasd aad matbed ank Sraw *two milss snow. NEW YORK, December 29.—Brig. WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1923 _TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. DIXMUDE WRECKED | BY BLAST: FELL IN SEA, NEW THEORY. Sicilians Report Balls of Fire Seen to Fall on Morning of December 26. OFFICER’S WATCH LENDS STRENGTH TO SUGGESTION No Trace of Craft or Bodies Found. Father of Officer Takes News Stoically. By the Associated Press. PARIS, December 29.—A sudden ex- ploslon was suggested today as'the cause of the disappearance of the dirigible Dixmude. Advices from Rome said that noth- ing had been found among the ef- fects of Lieut. Grenadan, commander of the dirigible, whose body was re- covered by fishermen off Sielly, to sFow that he felt the ship was in im- mediate danger. Tn. addition, Sicillans told of having seen flashes at sea at the time the lieutenant's watch stopped. - The watch stopped at 2:30 o'clock. The station master and other em- ployes at the Sciacca rallway-station say that at 2:30 on the morning of the 26th they saw a bright, transient gleam in the sky seaward, the origin of which they were ynable to ex- plain; however, they were certain it was not lightning. Other persons at Selacca report that two distinct flames resembling balls of fire disappeared into. the wayes. The liedtenant's body was wrapped in a heavy fur coat over his uniform. In his pockets were a number of un- developed photographic negatives made during the course of the trip, byt no log book or any documents likely to throw. light on the fate of the airigible. Gondola May Have Fallen. It is considered possible that the foremost car of the six gondolas at- tached to the Dixmude, which con- tained the captain's: cabin. and -the chart and navigating room became detached . from: the “airship .and ' fell into the ses: alone; lightening - the craft and causing it to rise higher and be carried along by the wind. o e o B R and printed prayer by St. Francis de titioning for protection and safeguard the &n naval Atts i “’gn‘ who was due ih Sclacca todi¥, woul find {n the pockets of Litut. Gren papers that would explain the dis. aster. : At present every one is convinced that the entire crew of fifty men per- ished and that the ship herself was destroyed. Nome of Pigeons Returm. One point which is puzzling marine department offitials s the fact thal none of the pigeohs which the Dix. mude carried has returned. The news of the discovery of thé body of Lieut. Grenadan off Sclacca s being withheld from his wife, who (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) PRESIDENT PLANS SHORT RIVER IAUNT Will Go on Mayflower as Far as Quantico and Back This Afternoon. 3 President Coolidge, with the mem- bers of his family and a party of friends, wilk take a short cruise on afternoon -and early tonight. = They will go only as far as Quantico and expect to dock at the Washington navy vard at 8:30 tonight. The experience of last week, when the presidential party was fogbound at the navy yard dock and had to re- main there and the promiss of the weather bureau of much colder weather tonight, did not deter the President from arranging today's 1it- tle river jaunt. The guests on the trip included the Secretary of the Navy and Mrs, Den- | depts, JOHNSON GAMPAIG 10 BE THUNDEROUS Forecasts Are That Race Will Be on Pitting “Masses” in West Against Capitalists. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Special Dispatch to The Star. CHICAGO, Ill, December 29.—One of Chicago's leading editors, who ranks as an independent in politics, declares that the duel between Calvin Coolidge and Hiram Johnson is pver as far as the decisive middle wegt §s concerned. He says that Johnson 18 a dead cock in the pit. He points out that in the i ve:la hich haye intervened be- eon “fime Senator Jotinson e’ @ounced his_candidacy for the. | 1s signif come out for'the Californlan.’ He ex- of - toyrse, Johmson's local backers, Albert D, Lasker and Wil- Ham B. Wrigley, jr., but outside of them, it is asserted Hiram is friend- less in the . substantial. opinion- molding midwestern .community of which Chicago is the ceénter and nofmal expression. . Nevertheless, the Johnson'national campaign, like the Coolldg palgn. idabout to be launched cago in the. belief that this Is “John- son country.” The senates Will pro- clalm his platform at Cleveland on January 3. As orator of the evenin at a banquet in his honor, he will huri a broadside at the Coolidge pl form, as represented by the Presi- dent’s message to Congress. According to Johnson's Chicago friends, he will “rake the President fore and aft. For every major issue raised by Cal vin Coolidge before Congress on De- cember § Johnson will take the other side. He will oppose American en try Into the world court. He will advocate the bonus. He will assall the Mellon tax program, because of its capitalistic character.” He will at- tack the President because of .his conservatism and his failure to hold out any promise of progressivism at Washington. ‘Will Assail Tax Proposal. On the subject of the Mellon tax proposals, if Senator Johnson's Chi- cago supporters speak by the book, he will be particularly forceful and specific. They will foreshadow that Johnson will charge that, while «|the presidential yacht Mayflower this| throwing tax-reduction sops to per- sons qf moderate or small incomes the Mellon scheme is in rgulty a igantic conspiracy to cut the tixes §tthe ver¥ Fich. -Johnsbn's talents as a special N?dlhfihh ruthless- ness in attack, his sklit in’giving-a controversal question the twist best calculated to appeal to the mass ‘mind—will be "invoked, his friends say, to the full when he uniimbeérs his guns on the Mellon: project. Before hl‘h s hrugh i ‘Johnson enthus! n . the country will realize that t Mel- lon program will actually raise, not reduce, taxes He' is expected to dwell devastatin upon the en- usiaém with which the program Gen. Charleg G. Dawes, former direc- |by, First Assistant. Postmaster -Gen- |jns been greetéd by the ‘“capitalist tor of the United States budget bu- reau, and Owen D. Young, chairman of the board of the Gemeral Electric Company and ‘of the Radio Corpora- tion of America, two of the three Americans who have been invited by the inter-allied reparations commis- sion to sit as membérs of its commit- tee to consider means of balancing the German budgét, .sall today on the America for Europe. They wil be present when the com. mittes meets uaty 14, In' Pas ‘where they be " unofficlal rep- resentatives of ‘the United States, but will act in an official capacity on tie committee. Henry M. Robinson. Los Angeles banker, the third American delegate;, will join them abroad. Mr, Young. yesterday. sent by. wire- lese his acoeptance of the commis- sfon’s formal.invitation to. servi ¢ e HAMMER AND CHISEL ;" USED:TO KILL SELF| Suicide Stands Before Mirror and " Drives Steel Into Head, . Police-Believe. By the Associated Press. WINTHROP, Mass., December 28.— “A péculiar case of sdicide,” was the police characterization today of the eral and Mrs. Bartlett, former. Sena- tor McCumber of North, Dakotd, Rep- resentative and Mrs. Kahn of Califor- nfa, Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Lord and Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Stearns. It has been announced at the White House that the President has.not the slightest intention of leaving Wash- ington, either for a vacation or to at- tend a meeting or banquet of any kind, during the next several months. After that time his plans are indefi- nite. This announcement was made in answer to.the great increase I invitations being. receiyed at = the White House for the President to| visit_this or that winter' resort and from individuals and organizations to attend some elaborate ceremony plans ned by them. 3 To do business. with President Cool- idge the approach must be made di- rect and not through the medium of -the public press. Much omm;s 1aid upon this policy of the t by & kesman for him when as] hat-thePresidents course would ter Young Clarke, past im- periil wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, in ‘which he contendéd that that organi- Fzation 18 making an effort to control tional politics:>- % made unmistakably clear that Mr. Coolldge will very likely ig- o letely those who are merely seeking P! y “are not deeply intorested in fon by the Prost: dent. The lent was represented as being very- methods of some publ famil! with the | \cits. smelsors. 1¢ of th], nu.(oa nls:id ‘t: ik the "plain people” to- decide for them- selves whether a scheme which selves .whether & scueme WI (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) FIVE DAYS’ GRACE GIVEN TO AUTOISTS Commissioners Order Honoring of 1923 Tags Until January 5. Rush Arfticipated. . The Commissioners today Issued an order making 1923 automobile tags good until January 5. § A At the same time they announced that the license office will not:be open nntil noon on’ New_ Year day, as'pre- viously advertised. i Up to ‘closing: time! ymr&u tl:: ice. had so0ld less’than 40,0 sy A5t Desame. apparent:to the. Fho o i 0 e l.:lg:u u#md:’:f last-minute ap- ‘plicants between now =snd nodbn on Tuesday. v Accordingly, they directed Maj. Sul. iivan ABdey o Hustract his mén to death of William J. Downes, postal|Was explained that he obtained his|recognize old tags untll Saturday clerk, whose body was found in his home last t with.a chisel driven into the head and a hammer lying: nearby. % B h e P first insight into this: practice .while mayor of Northampton, and later as governor of the state. It was poiated out, however, that the Presi- dent 1 not fail to.aet if a com-! ‘night, January 0. S Sl R porary’ reciprooity agreement with' jand. - will not 5 "you. % through with it e be ’thl. to | the e lanuary | aused 'l!)‘%'m ;fi.! Workers Denied HalfHolidayHere On New Year Eve There will be no half holiday for government employes on Monday —New Year eve. This would require an executive order on the part of the President, and at the time it was put up to him he expressed himself as being of the same view as President Harding, who declimed to issue an order proclaiming the day before New Year a half holiday because he did not look upon New Year with the same seny/ment as he did Christmas, and cofild see no good reason for letting the employes oft from work for the afternoon, in- asmuch as there were no shopping or other matters to require their attention. 10 GIRL INVIATES 100 Join in Disturbance at Ohio Industrial School. Police Restore Order. By the Associdted Press. DELAWARE, Ohio, December 28.— Search was belng made tdday for ten young woman- inmates of the Girls’ Industrial School, a state institution | near here, who escaped during dis- orders last night in which more than 100 girls participated. Those who took part in the upris- ing and dld not escape today were quiet and submissive aftér having danced themselves tired early this morning in the assembly hall of the Institution, where they were placed under, guard as they were rounded up by officials. After quite & num- ber had been segregated In the hall one of the officials, noticing the atti- tude. of many of the captives, or- dered the music to be started. The girls immediately started dancing. A recent order of the state wel- fare department that corporal pun- ishment be abolished at the Institu- tion, of which the girls learned only within the last few days, was said by attaches to have been the root of the trouble. Girls in cottage 5, in charge of a substitute matron, start- ed the trouble, it was sald by officlals. After trying in valn to control her charges, the matron = was brushed aside and the forty-five inmates of the cottage dashed into the open. Running about the grounds shou! ing for the other 500 inmates to joiy them, the group soon grew to mors than 100, as girls from .other cot- l‘f" bolted and became unmanage: able. A majority contented them: selves with roving about the grounds throwing stones through windows. screaming and causing a general commotion. Considerable furniture in several cottages was smashed and several of the' insurgents were cut by glass or injured, in-falling over objects in the darknese. Sheriff Fred Harter, Delaware county, & number of his deputies, and -Delaware police alded by officiais and nearby farmers, quelled ‘the "uprising shortly before midnight. Punishment to be meted out to the insurgents had not been decided upon this. morning, according to J. P. El- ton, husband‘of the matron of the school; who is 111 and confined to her bed. Mrs. Elton has been in charge of the institution only‘a few months following the removal of Mrs. Mas Stannard on. charges preferred , by Weltare Director Harper. The uprising was the worst in fit- teen years, according to employes. of the school. ELOPEMENT OF M]NORS CAUSES PROSECUTIONS Arrests Near :Macon, Ga., Charge Eidnaping {8 Wedding of Boy, 15, and "Girl,’ 17. By the Assocfated Presa.’ MACON, - Ga,, Decenbe 29.—Mies Ruby Millirons, former postmaster at | pii Ciumps Park.“in this county, was ar- rested last. night, with.a number of others, charged with kidnaping, in copnection With the -elopement of “Thomas Elbert Bloodworth, fifteen, and Ludie .Watson, seventeen-year- 'old daughter of a ' Jones county tdrmer. {5k Thy; groom was .a table boy_in a downtown drug, store at the time of ¥ ;ho.‘lom Sheriff's_deputies nee. u"‘.‘u’wm‘v o :u‘ul he. AIM T0 FORCE VOTE ONBONUSBY IAN.21 Republican War Veterans in House to Seek Action by Committee. 1 A House vote on the soldier bonus by the end of January, regardless of the status of the administration’s tax revision program, is the demand of the group of republican representa- tives who are war veterans. Petitions are in circulation calling {for a conference of republican mem- bers of the House on the night of | January 10. Under the proposed call no business except the bonus would come up, and it fs the plan of those behind the movement to have the conference instruct the ways and means committee to report & bonus bill not later than January 21. The conference also would be asked to agree to immediate consideration of the measure by the House once it re- ceives committee approval, Meets With Plans. The plans of the former service men in a measure fit in with those of republican members of the ways and means committee, which has jurisdic- tion over both the tax and bonus bills. | The committes has been considering administrative pabvisions of the rev- enue bill, with the understanding that before any study of the proposed rate changes is begun a decision will be reached as to whether a bonus bill should be reported. Executive committee sessions on the tax bill have been suspended un- til Thursday, when the measure again will be taken up. Members, includ- ing Chairman Green, have predicted that a week or more will be needed to complete consideration of admin- istrative features, and there have been indications that some of the commit- tee members belleve it should post- pone action on the bonus until the republican party conference can pass on the question. Will Clear Way for Tax. With sentiment in the House over- whelmingly in favor of the passage of a bonus bill, even opponents of the legislation concede that the con- ference will instruct the ways and megns committee to report a bill and will be inclined to give the measure right of way in the House. Such action, it was generally agreed today, will clear the way for a showdown, in the ways and meai commiftée at least, on the tax que: tion. The text of the Treasury's tax bill. which Secretary Mellon has esti- mated would reduce, taxes $3323,000, 000 annually, was made public yes- terday by Chairman Green. The draft, a bulky volume cArrying hun- dreds of proposed amendments to the existing revenue law, many of them of a technical nature, follows close-. !ly the lines which Mr. Melion had | announced his department favored. BOMB IS HURLED AMONG DANCERS Two ‘Womien Killed, Fifty Injured in Attack on Jews in South- ern_Hungary. By fhe Associated Press. * BUDAPEST, December 29.—A bomb |was hurled yesterday among the Jerowded dancers at a Jewish women's charity ball in Chongrad, southern Hungary, killing two women and wounding fifty. The bombers, who tossed their missile through a win-|Some time Monday the breezes will | dow, 'are suspected of being mem- {bers of the anti-semitic “Awakening Magyars Assotiation.” After th losion ‘the crowd within® the: bullding rushed . to the door. In the pan that resuited many - were - trampled underfoot and injured.. The little town has.no hos-| tal” and'few doctors ‘and conse- Quently the condition of the wound- ed has _become precarious through lagk ‘ot “proper attention. 3 It s sible to seénd ald from the outsidé, ag the . rallroads are blocked with snow. —a SLIDES FREQUENT IN ALPS| _BERN, December 20.—Avalanches ré crashing down the passes of the Alps. with ‘more frequency than at any time within the last ten years, . bfid’l‘l have been destroy- gL.ERE g fore i o Ve - W . forests are suffering considerably. § FIGHT ON GAS TAX BILL IN NEW FORM MAY BE LAUNCHED Reciprocity, With House Amendment, Is Declared to Be Highly Undesirable. INDIGNATION OF DISTRICT MOTORISTS IS INTENSE Attitude of Maryland Roundly Scored in Report of ‘M. and M Secretary. Indignation over the amendment to the gas tax bill, providing for reciproc- ity with Maryland, is high among resi- dents of Washington. Affecting 100,000 motorists, and practically every citizen of Washington driectly or indirectly, it has been proposed to retain the per- sonal property tax on automobiles, de- spite the fact that the gas tax would bring in as much revenue as is at pres- ent collected. Feeling among District motorists is 50 high that many believe much wi be accomplished if the bill is Rilled. The fact that because of the amend- ment desirable legislation had been changed into an undesirable measure, and .that motorists will be taxed out of all proportion to necessity, leads local owners to regret that the propo- sition had ever been put up to Con- gress. The Merchants and Manufacture; Association, the National Motorists’ Association, and the Washington Bo of Trade and the American Automoblle Association are-among the organizations which view with | alarm the attempt to tax the District | motorists an additional $600,000 per year In motor taxation. The American Automobile Asso- ciation has gone deeply into the mat- ter and a detailed statement was is- sued and printed in The Star r cently. The Merchants and Manu- facturers’ Association, in a statement from Charles J. Columbus, secretar: issued today, says, that in its amen: ed form the bfll would not only con-| stitute an unwarranted financial hardship on local motorists, but would be & circumstance most hu- miliating to the District of Columbia. Columbus Makes Statement. “Pursuant to instructions of the board of governors of the Merchants and Manufsctursrs’ Assoclation meet~ ing December 4, I have made an in- vestigation of the proposed automo- | bile rediprocity law for the Distriot of Columbia and respectively submit the following report,” sald Mr. Co- lumbus. “The only community in America that the state of Maryland has im- posed upon is the District of Colum- bia through the persistent denial of the right to travel over Maryland highways to the people of the Dis- trict of Columbia. This privilege has been and is freely granted to the citizens of all states. “The discrimination is based on the fact that the District of Columbia county roadways do not measure up to the standard of Maryland or of | many other states. “That this is unfair discrimination of the first order is proved by the fact that the citizens of the District of Columbia are in no sense respons, ble for this lack of highway stand- ard, but that in this, as in all other matters, we are dependent upon the will of Congress. “The carrying of an extra tag on automobiles and the securing of an additional license and the charges in- cldent to the same have proved a hardship both mental and financial. It has likewlise hurt the pride of the people of the District of Columbia to realize that our fellow American citi- zens in Maryland have seen fit to set up barriers against the movement of our people In and through Maryland. “Despite this most uncomplimen- tary situation®s it affected the peo- ple of the District of Columbia, the desire to eliminate the discrimination was _so _great on the part of our (Continued on Page 2, Column 4) ICY BLAST AND SNOW HEAD FOR CAPITAL Mercury to Rise Tomorrow Pre- paratory to Sharp Fall Monday, Is Prediction. Fresh and frisky Alaskan gales are headed: this way, right from the upper Yukon basin, due to arrive some time Monday, to give the Dis trict a taste of real winter weather. Snow probably will fall later in the weelk. This was the long-range forecast of the weather bureau today, when it sent out cold-wave warnings to a large part of the eastern and middle western sections of the United States. The highest temperature in Alaska, where those breezes are coming from, was fifty-four Uegrees below zero today. The local forecaster, however, steadfastly refrained from making @ prediction as to just how Jow_the mari will behere Monday. “Quite snappy” was all he would say. omorrow will see rainy weather, with @ rise in the thermometer, as & sort of preiude to the cold speil. begin to swell in fromthe northwest, it is expected, turning mild winter into the real thing. ‘Wind to Shift Monday. A disturbance, with low barometer. i1s now central over Wyoming, and it is from this that tomorrow’s rain is expected: here. After the rain, the ‘| wind is to shift nothwest, the pres- sure will rise and the cold weather will be on. Snow is believed probable here after New Yean according to the weather outlook for the period December 31 to January &, issued by the weather bureau today. ‘For the north and mid- dle Atlantic utfl& In which latter group comes the District, the predic- tion follows: Much colder Monday or Monday night, continuing ecold for several days. snow over north portion Sunday night, followed by clearing Monday r Monday night. Fair thereafter un- gll h!hr.’ufl'ol week when snow is | Three thousand freight _\provable” - o TWO CENTS. GORDON PLEDEES FILL PROBE NTO ORY RAID SLANDAL Declares Presmont to Be Kept on Case—Will Prose- | cute Energetically. 'NEWTON AGAIN DEMANDS INFORMATION OF OYSTER Representative, for Second Time, Asks for “Missing List” Facts. Oyster Withholds Data. Whife-pblice and spectal intelligence | unit operatives were conferring to- day on the next steps in the investi- gation of Washington's alleged rum syndicate, the office of the district attorney announced that “every bit of evidencs avallable for prosecutlon is being sought o that a case complete fram all angles may be brought into court. Maj. Peyton Gordon also announced that Assistant Attorney A. N. Pres- mont las not been removed from the case. “There has been and there will be no let-up in the prosetution of this case,” Maj. Gordon stated, adding however, that the evidence had mot yet been turned over to him. “Every bit of evidence available for prose- cution will be made use of.” ‘Mr." Presmont has not been re- moved and will not be removed from the case, but will take part in throughout. We are working on tl case with all our energy sand are exercising every effort to get all possible evidence into shape.” Newton Repeats Demand. The case was further featured to- day by another letter from Repre- entative Newton of Minnesota 1o | Commissioner Oyster, in which he | reiterated his demand to be | whether or not any list as referred to in news reports had been found y the pol 3 | _c entally with Representative i Newton's letter, Commissioner Oys- ter’s reply to the representati first letter was made publ Comissioner Oyster in his Jetter stated thatall evi- denceé collected b the police was {now in the hands of the District At- |torney's office, and that office must | make public what it sees fit. Representative Newton's letter fol- | lows: | "“F regret that you have mnot seer fit to give me the information that I requested. In brief, your reason are that you cannot make public ey idence in your hands excepting upc the instructions from the. district | torney. toid Citex Oyster Statement. “0f course, I have no desire what eer to hamper further work by the police, or by the District Attorney Ill never occurred to ne to request any information of this particular character. At the time of writing the letter to you, I had in mind y own interview in the local pre wherein vou purself are quoted us ying that such list of was found 1 naturally came to the that yo would not this fac known and given it to the pub- lic through the papers if it was iu any way to hamper the prosecution I did not req the list or it: publication. 1 3 whether such a list had been The papers quoted you as saying there was su a list, “which, they said, contain the names of & number of promine and influential men. Surely, if ¥ could then give this matter out to the press without fear of hampering prosecution, you now should be at Itberty to at least give the facts to a member of Congre “The papers report that this list mysteriously disappeared I merels asked wheth this was true. I did not ask for the contents of the list Surely the ‘disappearance’ of a list of patrons, containing the names of alleged prominent and influential men, Is a matter of grave public'con { cern. The papers published the fact | of the disappearance of this list They certainly must have received this_information from yvour off Do you think It consistent to deny to a member of Congress information that has been given to the prees from your office? Repeats His Demand. “If the statement was made to the press that this list has disappeared this case involves something far more | serious than the charge of ‘bootleg- | ging’ It goes to the integrity of the law enforcement officers of the Dis trict. Evidence involving alleged prominent and influential men is lost |Nebody know hing b |7 (Continued on Page 2, ‘31 MOROS ARE SLAIN IN MINDANAO CLASH Constabulary Successful in Battle for Abandoned Cottage. names uest Column 7.) By the Associated Press. MANILA, December 28.—Thirty-one Moros were killed in a clash ‘with sixty soldiers of the Philippine con- stabulary at Malundu, in Lanao prov- ince, Island of Mindanao, on Pecem- ber 16, according to a, dispatch -re- ceived here from Maj. Fletcher, com- mander of Philippine Scouts at Zam- boanga. - y There were hio casualties among the members of the constabulary force. At least twenty-five Moros are bellev- ed to have escaped during the fight- ing. The Moros were accused of cutting telephone wires maintained by the constabulary. The clash occurred at lan abandoned cottage, where tne Moros had encamped. They were un- der the leadership of Dato (chief) Pata. 0 SNOWS SWEEP AUSTRIA. VIENNA, December 29.—Severe Rain over sopth apd rain or |blizzards continue throughout Aus- tria, hampering communications. Food supplies {n Vienna are dimin- ishing and prices are rising rapidly. cars are snowed In at Arlberg: &