Evening Star Newspaper, January 19, 1924, Page 1

WEATHER. Rain tonight, possibly changing to snow tomorrow; temperature slightly above freexing tomight; colder -tomor- row. Temperature for 2¢ hours ended at 2 p.m. today—Highest, 46, at noon today; loweat, 33, at 6 am. today. Full report on page 4. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 20 Entered as seco! No. 29,117, TEXAS RAISES BAN ON MEXICAN ARMY:; . TOLET2.000ENTER Acting Governor Assumes 1'U. S. Will Take Responsi- " bility for' Damages. TROOPS TO GO INTO OWN L TERRITORY AT EL PASO fBichmond Steams to Rescue 268 | From Wrecked Tacoma, Ashore ] at Vera Cruz. @ the Associated Press. AUSTIN, Tex., January 19.—Acting §ov. T. W. Davidson today acquiesced $n the request of President Obregon Pt Mexico for permission to transport roops across Texas soil, reversing ®is decision of Friday, at the urgent wequest of Secretary of State Hughes. ¥n a telegram to Washington, Acting fiov. Davidson sald 2,000 Mexican ederal troops would be permitted to ¥nter Texas near El Paso, provided She American government assumed &Il responsibility for any damages Fesulting. Obregon modified his request by ®sking that his troops be permitted Yo enter the United States near EI Paso and go into Mexico at that point instead of at Laredo, as orig- inally proposed. Mexican General Held. NEW ORLEANS, January 19.—Gen. fCandido Aguflar, son-in-law of Ve- rustiano Carranza, late president of Dfexico and secretary of state in Car- Fanza's cabinet, last night was held 1n the house of detention here under oharges of violating the neutrality Jaws. He declined to deposit $10,000 bond for his release and refused to | permit others to make bond for him. The general was arrested aboard the sieamer Nicarao shortly before the vessel was to sail for Vera Cruz, at the request of federal authorities in San Antonio. TELEGRAM IS RECEIVED. post office Washington, D. matter C. nd-cla: Score With Titles Seek Dancing Hall Jobs at $20 Week By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 19.—An advertisement in local newspapers for “the services of several gentle- men possessing bona fide Euro- Dean titles” brought twenty ap- Dlications to the manager of a new dancing pavilion who decided he wanted noblemen for hosts and in- structors. . = Six sald they were Austrian counts, three olaimed British titles, three 'Russian and oné German sald he was a second cousin of the former kalser. All asserted they could prove their claims. Three said they were willing to work for $20 a week, while one asserted he would not leave his present job, which pald $23, for less than $26. COUZENS CALLS ON MELLON TO REVEAL OWN INVESTMENTS Challenges Secretary to Show How Much He Would Save by Surtax Cut. Secretary Mellon was challenged to- day by Senator Couzens, republican, Michigan, to inform the country how much he would benefit personally from the reduction of income sur- taxes which he has proposed in his tax-revision plan. “So long as you have entered into the record of my securities,” Senator | Couzens wgote, “Will you tell us what { vour sec:l ties are, how much you jown of edch and how much you will | benefit by the reduction of the sur- | taxes as proposed by you?” Letter Made Public. The Michigan senator's letter, which is & part of a long series of communi- cations he has exchanged with Mr. | Mellon, was made public while the ;)louse ways and means committee {was winding up a week of hearings Richimond Steams to Take Aboard {on the Mellon plan and was preparing Crew of Wrecked Tacoma. Acquiescence of Acting Gov. T. W. ' Davidson of Texas to the request of Secretary Hughes, that Mexican fed- 1 troops be permitted to traverse | Texas territory, was received at the State Department today. In his telegram to Secretary Hughes, Mr. Davidson said the Texas government would agree to permit Niexican troops to enter Texas by way | of El Paso, assuming the United | States government would require all | necessary precautions to safeguard American interests. Richmond to Rescue. In the meantime the cruiser R‘ch-* mond Is steaming to Vera Cruz to| take aboard 268 members of the crew of the wrecked Tacoma, Who are @shore in the rebel stronghold under protection of United States Consul Wood. Whether Capt. Sparrow and forty-eight men left aboard the |to begin its first actual consideration of the various changes in tax levies proposed. Senator Couzens denied that all of his capital is now in tax-exempt se- curities. He declared he had millions of dollars invested in bufldings, reul estate and Wuilding operation: demanded to know If this were not more productive than money invested in_“distillieries and breweries.” The Michigan senator also reiterat- ed his invigation for a public debate with Mr. Mellon on the whole sub- ject of tax reduction. He declared that the two fundamental principles used by the Treasury Secretary in (Continued oa Page 2, Column 2.) IPOINCARE SHAKEN, FACES TEST FEB. 5 Tacoma also would be picked up by the Richmond has not been made ! known. It is thought, however, that | Navy personnel will remain aboard | the Tacoma, pending salvaging oper- | &tions. i Particular attention is being paid | here to the proposed rebel blockade of | Tampico, and yesterday reports were | current that the Navy was preparing to dispatch a battleship to that port to insure protection of American inter- | ests, but a_ subsequent statement at the White House indicated that Presi- | dent Coolidge had received news as. suring him as to the freedom of Ame: ican commerce at Tampico. The n: ture of this news was not made known, The cabinet devoted practically all of | esterday’s session to study of the| lexican situation. Although Navy Department officials | felt certain that the Richmond had | arrived at Vera Cruz some time thisd morning, no report of her arrival had | Teached Washington. The department has been advised | that the Tacoma now is lying in a smors comfortable position. After the | ‘essel struck Blanqulllas reef she was | flung broadside on by the force of the norther then blowing on shore. By means of a stern anchor the ship has been swung back again, so that her bow ls pointing shoreward and there is less difficulty with the seas. Capt. Sparrow and forty-eight men still are aboard the Tacoma, and radio telephone communication with shore has been maintatied through the storage battery equipment of the cruiser, although her long-distance communicating apparatus was put out of commission by the flooding of fire and engine rooms at the time of ¥he wreck. COLUMBUS, N. M., OBJECTS. Town Villa Raided Would Bar Mexicans From U. S. @ Associated Prees. EL PASO, Tex., January 19.—Resi- @ents of Columbus, N. M., seventy- three miles west of El Paso, on the exican border, are bitterly opposed " (Continued oy Page 2, Column 7.) GRIFFIS IS RELEASED FROM SOLITARY CELL By the Associated Press. MOSBACH, Germany, January 19.— Efforts of friends to obtain his free- #iom are making prison hours lighter gor Lieut. Corliss H. Griffis of Hamil- fon, Ohfo, sentenced in December to eighteen months for conspiring to Xkidnap Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, the American draft-evader. Having been in solitary confine- ment since his arrest last August, Grifis now is permitted to associate with other prisoners, including Karl Sperber of Parls, sentenced at the game time as Griffis, to fifteen anonths for his part in_the plot. When informed of efforts to bring his release, Grifiis sald: “It is a great comfort to know ghat so many are working in my ‘ehalf, although I realize fully it is not for me personally, but, rather, the ideal that I just happen to rep- zesent now in ‘the hearts of the American people. The knowledge of ihese earnest efforts to obtain. my freedom helps - to make my prison rours somewhat lighter." A E Foes Gather for Assault on Interior Policy—Chamber Votes Confidence. BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. By Cable to The Star and the Chicago Daily . News, Copyright, 1924. ©ARIS, January 19.—The interior political situation in the Poincare government appears badly shaken as a result of Thursday's discussion of the government's new tax and econ- omy program. Premler Poincare's |numerous democratic enemtes have taken courage and appear to be gath- ering for the assault. Even some of his supporters reluctantly admit the présent cabinet is “worn out.” The question will be decided Feb- ruary 5. Political chieftains on both sides claim they will be victorious. But in such matters much may hap- pen quickly. Most observers agree that in any case the government will remain in a critical situation for the next fifteen days, but that if it suc- ceeds in maintaining itself this long it will stay in power at least until the elections in April or May. ably will be succeeded by a ministry led by Barthou and Loucheur, al- though another combination men- | tioned is Letroquer, present minister of public works, and Francoils Mar- sal, former minister of finance. CONFIDENCE IS VOTED. Chamber Sustains Poincare Foreign Policy, 415 to 151. By the Associated Press, PARIS, January 19.—The chamber of deputies yesterday gave Premier Poincare another strong vote of con- fidence on his government's foreign policy. The vote was 415 to 151. M. Polncaré previously had made exhaustive review of his foreign policy_durlng the past two years. M. Poincare took the chamber by surprise when he mounted the tri- bune and made the announcement that he purposed to discuss France foreign relations and make them question of confidence. In his ad- dress he 1ald speclal stress upon the importance of the work of the com- mittee of experts, presided over by Brig. Gen. Dawes, the American un- official representative, which is en- deavoring to stralghten out the financial and economic situation in Ger..any. He expressed the hope that the committee’'s work would be successful and_that it would find a solution for the reparation problem upon which, he declared, hinged settlement of the interallied debts which are welghing heavily on France's credit. The premier announced that the French government did not oppor an international loan to Germany, provided the bulk of the. proceeds from it was applied to the payment of reparations. He added that he would welcome Interallied control in all the occupled territories in Ger- many. What was characterized as the consistent neutral attitude of t United States on the Ruhr situation was lauded. . < @he If Premier Poincare falls he prob-w 1 WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ening Star. WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1924_TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES. ‘ALL’ A HOAX, GIRL DECLARES OF TALE OF ROOMMATE’S DEATH PROBEOF COLLEGE HOT IS ORDERED President, Who Brought Dis- order by Expelling Co-Ed, Cannot Be Located. By the Associated Press ALBION, Mich., January 19.—While trustees, faculty members and stu- dents of Alblon College today mus- tered their forces for Monday's meet- ing of the board in Detroit to in- vestigate disordefs at chapel yester-| day, when 530 students booed and| hissed President John W. Laird from ! the room, newspaper men sought vainly to locate Laird, against whom student charges of ‘gross incompe- tency” have been made. Since late yesterday afternoonm, Dr. Laird, one of the youngest college ' executives in the country, has mnot been sean. The campus today buzzed with ru- mors and speculations. The charges made n the student resolutions pre- Sented at the chapel exerclses— charges of Incompetenoy, fallure to co-operate with other faculty mem- bers, attacking Dr. Samuel Dickie. president emeritus of the college, and acting “in an unchristlan manner,” became secondary in interest to the actlon of President Laird in expell- Ing a co-ed for unbecoming conduct. Dr. Laird yesterday said the chapel riot. in which hymn books were thrown and general disorder prevail- ed until he left the room, pre- cipitated by his expulsion of “a cer- tain young woman" who, he sald, had confessed to smoking cigarettes and goirt\g on an automobile drinking party. Blames Girl's Friends. “A few dissatisfied students” Dr. { Laird said, “brought on the chapel { uproar, because of friendship for the girl” Countering this statement, student leaders sald the girl had been ex- pelled without proper action by the disciplinary committee. They said the girl had filed a statement at Pe- trolt with Theodore Henderson, Bishop of the Michigan area of the Methodist Episcopal Church, which supports Alblon College, in which she charged President Laird had put his arms around her and attempted to kiss her. To this Dr. Laird replied yesterday. admitting the filing of the girl's statement. but saying that Bishop Henderson had exonerated him and upheld his action in expel- Uing her. —_— TWO KILLED WHEN AUTO SMASHES MOTOR CYCLE Head-On Collision Near Cumber- land—Motorists Escape With- out Any Injuries. Bpecial Dispateh to The Star. CUMBERLAND, Md., January 19.— Arthur H. Layman, twenty-two years old, and Burman Layman, jr., twenty- | five years old, ‘cousins, employed in| the Baltimore and Ohio shops here, were killed last midnight when their motor cycle with sidecar collided ! with an automobile driven by Sam- uel Rosenberg' of Lonaconing, who was returning home with a party of young women from a basket ball game at Cumberiand. According to Rosenberg, the Laymans were mov- ing at high speed, and their machine was without lights. The colllsion occurred head-on at the foot of the hill on the other side of Borden shaft. Rosenberg and mem- bers of his party escaped injury. Rosenberg was taken into custody pending an investigation by state police. Accqrding to officers who ins vestigated the accident a bottle of liguor was found in the motor cycle sidecar. PRESIDENT ON CRUISE. More Than Dozen Guests in May- flower Party Down River. President Coolidge crowded all his engagements into the forenoon today in order to take another afternoon and evening crulse down the Potomac on the Mayflower. More than a dozen Buests were invited to accompany the President and Mrs. Coelidge. The guests included Senator Oddle of Nevada and Mrs. Oddie, Senator Willis of Ohio and Mrs. Willis, Sen- ator Capper of Kansas and Mrs. Cap- per, Senator Ladd of North Dakots and Mrs. Ladd, S8enator Hale of Maine nd Mrs. Mae E. Nolan, representa- tive from California. | | ‘Brazil Ratifies REALLY I'N NoT A PRESIDENTML CANDIDATE Santiago Pacts To Insure Peace| | Unusual significance 1s attached | here to advices recelved today an- nouncing that Brazil has finally approved the entire series of con- ventions negotiated at the San- tlago conference last year includ- ing the treaty for a years inquiry into international disputes before hostilities are begun. Braz!l s the first nation to ratify the conference agreements, to which the United States and all tions represented in the San- tlago conference are parties. The action was announced in this cablegram from the Brazilian for- cign minister to the Pan-Ameri- ican Union. “The two Houses of the national Congress have approved and the President has given sanction to all conventions adopted at the San- tiago conference, as well as the treaty to prevent conflicts.” BROKER'S WIFE SUES IN CONSPIRACY CASE Charges Mother and Two Others Had Her Confined—Asks $1,000,000. | | | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January (8.—Mrs. Frank W. French, young wife of & Newark, N. J., broker, was in seclusion in New York today, after filing suit for $1,000,000 against three persons in- cluding her mother, Mra Helen F. Darling, in connection with charges that they had conspired to keep her in a eanitarium at Trenton Junctlon, N. J. W. W. Stevenson, an official of an, insurance company, and Dr. Joseph H. Cahoon of New York, named with Mrs. Darling in the sult, declined to comment on the charges. Mrs. Dar- 1in said her daughter had been kindly treatdd at the sanitarium. Mrs. French recently escaped from the institution by climbing from a window down an improvised rope of twisted bed clothing. Frank W. French said that he and | his wife had been living apart for | more than a year and that he djd not know of her having been con- fined in a sanitarium. STEFANSSON TO QUIT ARCTIC EXPLORING Aircraft Inventions Have Taken Joy Out of Work, He Says. Confident of Polar Flight. 1 By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, January 19.—Ex- ploring isn’t what it used to be, and | 80 Valhjalmur Stefansson will quit the business. The noted Arctic explorer, who is in San Francisco on a lecture tour, said today that development of the air plane and dirigible airship had taken & Iot of the joy out of the lives of ex- plorers. That, he said, was because discovery in itself was not the sole lure of the men who brave the dan- gers of far places. Modern inventions, bringing with them ease, safety, comfort and cer- tainty of attainment, have made ex- loration and discovery more or less umdrum pursuits, Mr. Stefansson sald. Mr. Stefansson expressed the-belief that the dirigible airship Shenandoah proved her worth by her recent accl dent and that she would negotia her proposed - polar flight - without ‘mishap and add the Arctics to the world’s map. SPANISH WAR VETERANS ARE INVITED TO HAVANA| i ‘President Zayas Suggests 1024 Convention Be Held With Cuban Veterans. By the Assoclated Press. HAVANA, January 19.—Spanish war veterans of the United States have been formally invited by President Zayas to hold their 1924 convention in Havana in conjunction with the Cuban veterans of that war, it be- came known today. A |Battle Against Dread Night {tle suftering among my men. |zero. | glittering mass of ice, thawing and MACMILLAN HEARD INARGTIC GLOOM Begun, Says First Radio in Weeks. Radio contact with the Mac! lan Arctice ezpedition at Etah, North Greenland, was re-established yes- terday, after a lapse of several weeks, by receipt at Station SDKB Minot, N. D., operated by Len H. Wereks, of the following 'message from Capt. Donald B. MacMillan. Although fragmentary dispatches from MacMillin have been inter- cepted from time to time, this is the first consecutive account to come through since December 25. This in- terruption of communication s ascrided to poor atmospheric condi- tions and also to the temporary ab- sence of Jack Barmaley, whose ata- tlon at Prince Rupert, B. C., fre- guently Ras been the sole point of contact. ON BOARD THE S. 8. BOWDOIN, Etan, North Greenland, January 18.— The dreaded Arctic night, so called by explorers of old, is well on its way and as yet has entailed but very Ift- Thelr hair is not turning gray or are they enfeebled in their sleep, as I have read in a book on polar exploration. Although we are farther north than | many expeditions which experlépce\ absolute darkness at midday, we flave always had a distinct twilight in the south. This is now lengthening | dally, as we are near the dawn of the long summer day. The effect has been nil upon the men with one ex- ception, of a tendency to sleep at any old time. * Find Plenty to Do. The more active bodily and mental- | 1y, find plenty to do and. in fact, find the days too short. We have an; abundance of good reading matter, scientific exploration and fiction, cards, checkers, chess and dominoes, which are played every evening. Our most difficult work is bringing the water from a lake, which nestles among the hills, some 400 feet above he Bowdoin, and this is especially | trying in the dark at thirty below A slip results in a “Jack and JiII' experience, a bad fall, a crash of the | one-hundred-pound _can from the! shoulders, loss of all the water and | a return to the lake. Just now we| o experiencing considerable trouble keeping the water hole open. The ice is between five and six feet thick ' na increasing daily. Ultimately we all_be compelled to resort to the use of ice entirely. Smow Wall Increased. We are increasing the thickness of the snow wall about the ship to withstand the assaults of old Jack | Frost, who in February will be here | with his 50 and 60 below zero. Were it not for this snow protection our living quarters would be one| dripping water during the day and freezing at night. Thus have we succeeded in avold- ing this condition. It was quite dif- | ferent on the Roosevelt, years ago, | when our blankets, mattresses and books froze to the well. (Copyright, 1924, by North American News- P aber Alliance.” ALl Fights rescrred.) FOUR DIE"IN FLAMES. Woman and Children Perish in Home, Husband Badly Injured. EMPORIUM, Pa., January 19.—Mrs. Jacob Smith and three children were burned to death when their farm- house, twenty-five miles from Em- porium, was destroyed by fire early today. Smith was taken to the hos- pital ‘at Ridgway, P: condition. COOLIDGE MAY TAKE TRIP Will Visit Boston in August, If Possible. ~ BOSTON, January 1. Coolidge would - find 1t and satisfaction” to visit Boston the guest of the state at the time of the convention of the G. A. R. next ‘has written to Gov. Cox in reply to the governor's invitatlo “It will be my eMort,” the Pre: dent wrote, “to adjust public engage- ments so that an acceptance of your invitation may be possible.” e e s THREE RIVERS CURE DIES. THREE RIVERS, P. Q, January 19, cotte; cure of Three Rivers Catholic Cathedral, died early today. in a critical Olga Cumberland Lays Plight to Answer to “Missing” Ad. Explains Mystery Long Puzzle to District Detectives. Despite the fact that Mr. and Mrs. George Johnson of t. Louis identified her photograpi: as that of their daugh- ter, Miss Olga Cumberland, twenty- four years old, today told a reporter from The Star that as far as she was concerned, “it was all a hoax, and I've never seen, known, burled or lived with Miss Johnson, who may be happy with her grandmother in Florida now, for all T know.” And then she proceeded to unravel a story that adds a further development | to a strange case the police are work- Ing on. On January 7 Miss Cumber- jland -was arrested on a charge of false pretenses on an allegation that she had purchased about $80 worth of goods on | another woman'’s store account. Police searched her rooms, and in rummaging about uncovered a batch BANK FAILS AS AID 1S DISCUSSED HERE Federal Agencies Seek to Re- lieve Strain Due to Farm Situation. Federal agencles, in the midst of an effort to relleve the credit strain among the banks in the northwest were advised today that the Grand Island National Bank at Grand Is- land, Neb,, had closed its doors. Controller Dawes received a tele- gram from Chief Examiner Robert- | son of the tenth federal reserve dis- trict saying the institution had been closed, but giving no details. Officials of the reserve board re- iterated today their bellef that suf- ficlent credit could be made available to tide over such banks as are suf- fering from the unavailability of cash on northwestern agricultural loans. It was sald definitely that banks {n Chicago, the twin cities and Kansas City were ready to offer any assistance within their power. United States Loans Approved. Approval foreextending the assis- | tance of federal reserve banks cud the War Finance Corporation to northwestern banks in the wheat- growing district, which have closed or are in danger of closing, was given yesterday by President Coolidge and his cabinet. No details were made publio toda; turther than the statement that o ple credit would be given. “Started by Two Failures.” It was said that the failure of two banks In Sioux Falls, S. D., had pre- cipitated the difficulties in which many of the small Institutions now find themselves. The War Finance Corporation is understood to have been planning to ald in the recovery of the banks | through absorption of additional farm paper. No indication as to the limits to which the corporation would go, | however, has been given. The larger financial institutions in Chicago, the Twin Cities and Omaha will be called upon to lend a helping hand in setting the small banks on { their feet. BOTH HOUSES PASS PHILIPPINE BUDGET Cut Out Money for Wood's Mili- tary Aides and Private Yacht. Governor Silent. By the Associated Press. MANILA, January 19.—Both the house and senate of the Philippine leg- tslature yesterday adopted the annual appropriation bill as submitted by the conference committee. The measure now goes to Governor General Wood for action. The bill contains as passed ivirtually the recommendations sub- imitted by Gen. Wood in his budget message, except that it cuts down the appropriation for the governor general's office and also eliminates all provisions for the operation of the executive's vacht, the Apo. The measure omits $5,000 for per aiem expenses for Wood's military aides. Gen. Wood declined to say what action he would take. oth houses have adopted concur. rently a resolution urging Congre: to approve the Cooper resolution au- thorizing the Philippines to hold & constitutional convention to establish an independent government. Gen. Wood, referring to the reso- lution _introduced in Congress by Senator Ladd of North Dakota, pro- posing -a_sweeping investigation of the administration of the Philippines, ."-x‘welcom- the fullest investigatiop, of the entire situation. S HEAD OF REICHSBANK IN PARIS FOR INQUIRY Dr. Schacht Invited to Appear Be- fore Dawes Commission—Will Be Heard Monday. By the Associated Press. PARIS, January 19.—Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, head' of the Relichsbank and German currenoy commissioner, in- vited by the expert committee which Gen, Charles G. Dawes heads to come to Paris in connection with the com- mittee’s examination into Germany's finances, arrived here today. He will be heard by the committee Monday. L) “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as t he papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 99,719 * TWO CENTS. of letters addressed to “Hazel John- son,” care of Miss Cumberland. Learning the address of Mr. and Mrs. George Johneon, Inspector Grant for- warded a photograph to them for identification, and it came back in- dorsed: “Identified by Mr. and Mrs. George Johnson as their daughter. Meanwhile, the girl had been released LS OF DRYLAW Gen. Sherwood, With Empty ! Bottle, Blames Prohibition for llls of Society. Flourishing an empty flask and as- |salling the activities of the Anti- !Saloon League and Representative |Upshaw, democrat, of Georgia, Rep- |resentative Sherwood, democrat, Ohio, |eignty-eight-year-old veteran of the {House of Representatives, told his colleagues today that “up to 1924 jt iJs generally conceded that prohibi- | {tion enforcement officers have failed {to enforce the law,” and also charged |that the use of narcotics had In- creased enormously since enactment of the dry laws. Declaring that when he was only twelve years old he had signed a for no law which tolerates intoxicat- ing liquor as a bevérage,” he in- sisted that prohibition has failed to prohibit although it had cost the tax- payers “over a thousand million dol lars in revenue in the last two years Says Fallure Conceded. “Attorney General Daugherty con- {cedes the fallure,” he sald. “The |President concedes the fallure to en- !force the law when he asks for an {appropriation of $20,000.000 by Con- igTess to build a fleet of vessels to enforce i law on the Auantic Coast only.” “Since the passuge by Congress of Ithe Volstead act,” said Mr. Sherwood, booze drinking among and young girls. It h menace to orderly society. Young |men who never indulged in liquor be- {fore are now carrying flasks and !young girls are induced to drink the {vile stuff in dance halls and auto. young men It is a moral menace now growing worse.” When the elghteenth amendment was proposed, he asserted, the Anti ‘Saloon Leazue promised that |would reduce crime to the minimum, would rgely reduce the divorce evil,” ould abolish drunkenness, would “make for business prosperity by inducing the earnings of the in- dustrial classes to go in homes in- stead of into intoxicants” and would “empty our jails and penitentiaries.” Increase of Crime. “After four years of experience,” he sald, “we find that not one single promise made by the proponents of prohibition has been kept. Crime has increased 40 per cent, divorces in some fifty cities have increased 35 per cent and murders have increased 40 per cent. And worse than all the calamities that have happened since the Volstead act, is the fearful record of the dope fiends, or narcotic addic! now numbering nearly a million vi tims, as reported by the highest med ical experts.” Charging Representative Upshaw with “sky rocket oratory,” Mr. Sher- wood sald his Georgla colleague had “failed to point out a single benefit to elther an {ndividual or the state” because of prohibition. “1f the Anti-Saloon League should induce this Congress to amend the Volstead act by adding the amendments suggested by the gen- tleman from Georgia,” he added, “it would be the end of personal liberty in the United States.” FORD'S SHOALS BID STANDS, KAHNTOLD Insists on Madden Amend- " ments to Replace Gorgas Steam Plant. - and it is | By the Associated Press, Henry Ford today notifled Chairman Kahn of the House military commit- tee that his offer for Muscle Shoals “still stands.” The McKenzie bill, which would au- thorize acceptance of his bid, was sald by the Detroit manufacturer to be satisfactory if the Madden amend- ment which provides for replacement of Gorgas eteampower plant Is adopted. He suggested several other amend- ments and was assured by Mr. Kahn that they would be given “every con- sideration” when the military commit- tee resumes consideration of the Muscle Shoals problem next Tuesday. $25,000 JEWELRY IN HAUL. NEWARK, N. J.” January 19.—Safe robbers obtained $25,000 worth of Jewelry when they blew open a fac- tory safe in Irvington, & suburb, the police reported today. WAVES FLASK. RAPS |temperance pledge and would “vote | i“there has been a large increase in | Lecome a | mobiles parked along lonesome roads. | twelve | VAST ARCTICAREA MUST BE CLAIMED BYUS, SAYS DENBY America Cannot Allow An- other Power to Seize Ad- jacent Territory, He Says. TERMS EXPLORATION THIS YEAR IMPERATIVE Shenandoah Able to Make Trip, He Tells House Naval Affairs Committee. The prime purpose of the Shen doah's proposed polar flight |tary Denby told the House naval cor mittee today, is explora in the |Artic regions with a view to annexing ng land in that area to the United s “The mere fact that there is an us explored area 1,000,000 squar miles adjacent to the United States. sald Mr. Denby, “constitutes a con- |stant challenge to the United States |We can't permit that vast territo to fall Into the hands of anoth {power. If we don’t make this flight jthis summer the entire Arctic reglor will be photographed and mapped by another power within a year | “We are not trying to discover the north pole. 't question the feat of Perry 4 want to explore ah is ad- mirably fitted for that task Mr. Denby said t tion would cost approxim 000. Al members of ah's crew, are for the adven- he said, would entad no | | committee" ay fight night. dirigible se over & in that Dt to pass Spitzbergen re favor- Spitzbergen, he England on her ited States and sht around the was told, durin of the Shen The Secre would follow northern Alaska to | region. but would not atte: |over” the north pol ss weather ¢ able. If she later may attempt a il world. r ‘Admiral Moffett, u of naval acr commit | | ! told the | doah prob- base at ng that the m henandoah could not be proved urn flights over both sea and land wero attempted, Lieut. Commander Robert A. Bartlett asked he committee what the } wae “going to do with our £ we don’t take a chance real flights. “I want to see the Stars and Stripes carricd through to the north pole on the Shenandoah,” he said. ‘We can €¢o in_ forty-two hours what others have been attempting to do for 400 years."” RULES FIGHT OVER, HOUSE GETS BUSY Interior Departmerit Appro- priation Bill Taken Up After Week’s Delay. some The House, having ended its battie over revision of its rules, was able today to resume work on thé first of the session’s big supply measures, the Interior Department appropriation bill The bill was laid aside a week ago {to make way for consideration of the Teport of the rules committee. a chance to discuss rules amendments having been pledged the republican insur- gents at the beginning of the session “h\' the organization repub s to gain their pport for re-election of | Speaker Gillett. |~ Chairman_Snell and other leaders, reganization republi r end of the ht decision ! yesterday, gave that_the | committee would consider other revi- | sion proposals for later action. | The resolution adopted vesterday pro- lvides for repeal of the Underwood rule restricting amendments from the floor to tariff and revenue bills, permits a vote on discharging committees from I consideration of legislation upon peti tion of 150 memhers, creates a new committee to handle legislation aff ing war veterans, 1 makes other changes in the regulations governing procedure in the chamber. The Underwood rule repeal was the only marked departurc from the recom- mendations of t rules committee ef- fected by the democrats and republican insurgents, who fought for a minimum of 100 signatures on committee dis- charge petitions. During consideration {to rules yesterday the House adopted {one proposed by Representative Moore, democrat, Virginia, provi & that rules reported by the rules committee cannot be put to a vote in the House within twenty-four hours, unless two-thirds of the House members voting so decide. This restriction, however, would not hoid during the last three days of a session. BRITISH HOPE TO AVERT STRIKE OF ENGINEERS of the committee feeling that the got the bet- of amendments By the Associated Pres LONDON, January 19.—The Press Association thi afternoon says it understands that if the railway man- agers agree to defer putting into op- eration the new scale of wages fixed by the railway wages board the strike of the locomotive men, ordered to become effective at midnight Sun- day will be postponed. The strike was called by the en- gineers because of the reduction in wages fixed by the board. The other classes of railway employes are not involved In the strike movement. Efforts to reach an agreement and avert the strike, which the prominent labor leaders desire to void, were in progress all day. Representatives of the enginemen and of the raiway managements con- ferred for several hours. When they adjourned until tomorrow the par- aid the position was “more