Evening Star Newspaper, May 18, 1924, Page 13

METHODISTS READY TO NAME 4 BISHOPS Will Ballot Tomorrow on Succes- sors to Men Retired for Age or Iliness. RECEIVE PLEA FROM DAVIS Wants Religion Brought to Work- ers of Country. By the Associated Press, SPRINGFIELD, Forecasts that the delegates to the Methodist opal General Confer- ence would move to reconsider their ac- tion yesterday against a decrease in the number of bishops came to nothing to- day. Instead, the conference accepted a committee report formally retiring four bishops for old age or illness, and laid plans for balloting next Monday for Sheir successors. A fifth bishop, George H. Bickley. of Bingapore, was relieved of his episcopal duties for the coming quadrennium on #ccount of illness, but the previous com- bination of the St Loujs and Wichita, ¥an, areas into one centering at Kansas City, Mo., equalized the loss and kept the number of new bishops needed at four. With a mass of business completed éuring the week, the delegates for the Wost part centered their thoughts and talk today upon the coming elections. No nominations are made at the gen- eral conferences, the delegates filling in ®ames at their pleasure until the re- @uired number of ncw bishops have re- €cived two-thirds of the votes of the ®ody. Mass May 17 Want Child Labor Law. | The conference voted today to ask | Congress for a constitutional amend- ment giving Congress the power to legis- late to control child labor. By a coinci- dience a letter from Secretary of Labor James J. Davis had just been read, re- questing the conference to aid the De- partment of Labor in bringing “old- fashioned religion” and the Christian 8pirit of justice to the toiling men and women of the country. i A number of recommendations of committees as to finances and the legal interpretation of church laws were ap- proved, as was a resolution for the dis- continuance of the European central conference. The committee of educa- tion's recommendation providing more adequate support for theological schools ‘was accepted. Indorsement of the action of the ouncil of boards of benevolence in es- tablishing a national Methodist tubercu- | osis sanitarium at Colorado Springs, | Colo., was asked by the committee on | homes and hospitals. The resolution was recommitted for specification as to | the board to control the nitarfum. POLICE EXPERT HELD | IN BOOTLEG KILLING New York Fingerprint Man Taken ‘When Rum-Runners Shoot Special Officer. By the Associated Press. RIVERHEAD, N. Y., May 17.—Pat- rick Ryan, fingerprint expert for the New York city police department, and Frank Redfield were reported by au. thorities tonight to have confessed they shot and killed Special Police- man Ferdinand Downs during a run- ning automoblle battle between rum runners and prohibition agents early today. While posses were searching the eountryside for Downs' slayers, Ryan and Redfield were arrested when they drove out of the front driveway of Ryan’s home in Astoria just as a truckload of whisky departed via the rear. They told authorities they had en- saged in a pistol battle with “hi- Jackers” who had attempted to hold up a load of liquor they were running toward New York. Find Blood-Smeared Whisks. The arresting officers reported that | Ryan, who was driving the automo. bile, had both hands wrapped in rags which concealed pistol bullet wounds, and that the truckload of whisky, which [ was seized, held many cases that were smeared with blood. Both men were arraigned for first degree murder and neld without bail to await hearing next Tuesday. Public feeling ran high in this section of Long Island tonight, for the Kkilling of Downs comes as & cli- max to a dispute between rival po- litical factions in which he had been the central figure. The slain man recently had been removed as special policeman at Southampton, then rein- stated, largely through efforts of clergymen who alleged Downs had fallen from official grace because of his activities against rum runners. Oficer Killed Instantly. Last night he joined prohibition agents in an automobile Scouting trip on a tip that a big convoy of iiguor was to be landed at Montauk and run into New York. They sighted a sedan, lights out and speed- ing, overtook it and ordered its occu- pants to halt. Instead the speeders opened fire with a volley of bullets, ohe of Which penetrated Downs' head, iiling him instantly. {The agents' car was splintered by the bullets, but all except Downs epcaped injury. The fugitive car es- cgped. . Near the scene a truckload of liqudr was found today. Ryan and Redfield are believed to have & ggcorting this truck to the city. Th e alleged to have admitted abandoned a truckload at that point when the “hijackers” attacked them. . $INGS WITH FALSE NOSE. i Swedish Prima Donna Uses Unique Make-Up for Salome. tie Associated Press. N, Ma TONDON, 17.—Mme. Gota 1fiungberg, beautiful flaxen-haired deandinayian prima donna, donned & big falbe nose for singing “Salome” ;Q Covent Garden the other, night ¢or the reason that her own tiny thrned-up nose is not suitable for (‘... of Herod's daughter. “But doesn't your singing ever ow wyour false nose off,” asked an ifhaginative reporter. The prima na looked horrified. Not yet,” she said, knocking wood, dput sometimes I have _terrible dreams of such a catastrophe over- taking me.” A dark wig and a disgulse for her blue eves are also alds in hiding Ljunberg’s Scandinavian beauty when he becomes Salome. WARN OF SMALLPOX. Maryland Officials Advise Vaccina- tion to Halt Spread. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, Md., May 17.—Pre- valent of Smallpox in many parts of the country caused the health department fo issue another warning against the disease and to urge all persons not pro- tected to be vaccinated at once. In Mary- | castle, land, since the first of the year, thirty- flve cases have been reported, fourteen of them having been found 'in Balti- ore. While the local outbreak, accord- ing to the department, is ‘not serious, oo makes i advisable 1o, adopt sp. to spe- cal precautions to guard against an epidemic here. Photograph fifteen-day cruises of the District Left to right—Lieut. (Junior grade) W. E. Lieut. (Junior.grade) Nelxon Thomax, Commander John Balch Blood, commanding officer; Knsign ter C. ckhart, chief engineer, and C MEXICO SUGGESTS NEW PACT WITH U. S. Negotiations Would Not Proceed on Basis of Previously Op- posed Treaty. By the Associated Press MEXICO CITY, May 17.—The ad- visability of negotiating a new treaty of amity and commerce between Mexico and the United States has been broached by the Mexican gov- ernment. The American Ambassador, Charles B. Warren, said today that he brought up with the foreign office the subject of the status of the treaty of 1831, which was revised in 1848. It is understood that, should nego- tiations be inaugurated, they would not proceed upon the basis of the treaty which the United States sug- gested prior to the recognition of Mexico last year and which aroused Mexican opposition, nor {nfringe the special claims conventions ratified last summer after the resumption of diplomatic relations. gotiations are underway with the object, of having the Mexican government adopt measures for the protection of livestock similar to those pervailing both in the United States and Canada, according to the ambassador, for the purpose of se- curing international _co-operation. Mexico is already enforcing a quar- antine against California cattle along the lines of the protective measures taken by the state bordering on Cal- ifornia. Conferences between the depart- ment of industry and commerce and a Texas commission headed by J. E. Boog-Scott, chairman of the 1live stock sanifary commission of Texas, are being carried on for the purpose of securing international co-operation and preventing the entrance 'of the foot-and-mouth_disease into Texas by COAST GUARD SEEKS MEN FOR RUM WAR Recruits Being Enrolled Through Baltimore Employment Bureau, Report States. Special Dispateh to The Star. BALTIMORE, May 17.—Men are be- ing recruited through the municipal employment bureau to man speed boats of the United States coast guard service that are to be used to check rum-running off the Atlantic coast, it was learned today. The numbers asked In a Jetter re- ceived by the city agency indicate that many fast boats of the subma- rine chaser type used in the war are to be added toSthe coast fleet. The work will be in the nature of a miniature naval war and only war veterans are to be employed. George B. McAllister, head of the bureau, said the requisition was be- ing handled in the regular way and that the men would be supplied with- out any question as to the nature of the service they were to perform. It is being treated as were previous requisitions for men received from federal dpartments, he added. One. Year Service Term. The term of the service is to be for one year and the hours of duty are described as irregular. This is believed due to the fact that most of the work of the rum chasers will be in the nature of swift ralds on ves- sels suspected of being rum-runners or long pursuits in which work ends only when the quarry is run down or_ihe chase abandoned. The recruiting for the rum chasers is being directed by the Curtis Bay station of the coast guard service. Men applying to the city agency are sent to the station with credentials of the bureau. In all 3,000 men are wanted for the work. Some 700 machinists are asked for work on the speed boats. In addi- tion men for other ratings for sea and shore duty are needed, ,according to the letter, besides many seamen 2nd firemen. Minor disabilities are waived if not cufficient to impair efficlent service. Up to noon the agency had received some inquiries from jobless men, but had not sent any recruits to the coast guard officials. e —— TO SHOW GIANT CANDIES. Twenty-Pound Caramel Among Na- tional Confectioners’ Exhibit. CHICAGO, May 17.—A twenty-pound caramel and other pleces of confec- tion of eimilar .proportions will be among the novel exhibits displayed here Monday when the National Confection- ers' Association opens its forty-first amnual convention. Candy making ma- chinery valued at a $1.000,000,000 is expected to be in operation until Fri- day, the closing day of the convention. Former Brewers Jailed. NEWCASTLE, Pa, May 17.—E. &. Haun, former secretary-treasury of the Standard Brewing Company of New- , and Henry Grotefend, former superintendent, each were sentenced to ten months in the Allegheny county workhouse upon a prohibition violation charge in criminal court today. They were found guilty of manufacturing beer containing more than the lofll al- ooholic content. A fine of $1,600 each 'was also imposed. Notice of appeal was fllled. shortly before start yesterday of the first of u series o executive officer: Lieut. hief Boatswain Carl A. With 1,500-Ft. Hose | And Power Pumps By the Amociated Press. MISSOULA, Mont., May 17.—For the first time, it is declared at forest service headquarters here, power pumps are being used to fight forest fires. Fifteen hundred feet of hose is employed to fight a fire at Olngy, In the Black Feet forest, with success. Water also is being forced on the Callahan Creek blaze in the Kootenai forest. The latter fire now is completely trenched but Is burning flercely over a 1,300 acre area. The situation is regarded as critical in both these forests. A total of twenty-eight fires are burning in the Kootenai forest, twenty-five being held in check by forestry crews. A road construc- tion camp near Troy had a narrow escape from one "of the three blazes still bevond control. Two hundred men are holding in check the fires in the Pend Oreille forest. RAIL EXPRESS RATE HEARINGS ARE ENDED Final Conference Held by I. C. C. and Committee From Association of Utilities Boards. Final hearings on proposed revi- sions of railroad express rates through- out the country were completed yes- terday in conference between the In- terstate Commerce Commission and a committee of the National Associa- tion of Railway and Utilities Com- missioners. The railway and utilities commis- sioners’ association is made up of members of the various state rail- way commissions. The commission’s final decision, to be made soon, will have the effect of reversing, modifying or sustaining its tentative decision lowering ex- press rates in all sections of the country except the east, where slight increases were recommended The tentative decision was made Decem- ber 3, 1923, and the express com- panies and carriers were given until March 1 to file briefs to show cause why it should not be made final. Under the transportation act the commission invited the various state railroad commissions to appoint a committee to sit with it in the hear- ings. The committee, compozed of Chairman W. C. Bliss of the Rhode Ysland commission, Chairman Frank Shealy of_ the South Carolina com- mission, Chairman H. G. Taylor of the Nebraska commission, Chairman A. A. Betts of the Arizona commis- sion and Chairman E. V. Kuykendahl of the Washington state commission, has sat with the federal commission throughout the hearings. The Interstate Commerce Commis- sion instituted its investigation into the reasonableness of express rates two years ago when express com- panies filed petitions asking for in- creases. SCARING, NOT KILLING, OF FORBES INTENDED Tailor Denies Saying Mortimer Plotted Death of Veterans’ Director. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, May 17.—Phila- delphia police today set about try- ing to find the motive of Caesar Tata, a Philadelphia tailor, in tell- ing Mrs. Elias H. Mortimer of this city that her husband had figured in an alleged scheme to do away with Col. Charles R. Forbes, former head of the Veterans Bureau. Tata was held in $2,500 bail today on technical charges of blackmail and disorderly conduct for a further hearing after the police investigate his recent movements. He had a hearing before a police magistrate at which Mrs. Mortimer, a detective and Tata testified. Scare, Not Death Intended. Tata denied that he told Mra Mpr- timer that the scheme submitted 'to him by a man named Codina had for its purpose the doing away with Col. Forbes. Tata said in his talk he bad with Codina_ and .Mortimer it was understood that the meén were wanted to scare Forbes and not kil him. Cordina, ascording to_Tata, said that Mortimer was having trouble with his wife and that an Army officer was mentioned. Mrs. Mortimer, who is suing her husband for divorce, testified that Tata told her.in her parents’ home yesterday that the alleged plot had for its purpose the killing of Col, Forbes. She went Into detalls of her conversation. Mrs. _Mortimer said that Tata mentioned that he had no money and no work. A deteotive, who was hidden in the e She conversation betstess hor rd ng the conversation her and Tata, corroborsted Mrs. Mortimers testimony. ; 1 four Locklin, gunnery officer: Boatswain W. B. Hableton, watch officer; (Junior grade) S, W, hn W. Young, watch arison, firxt licute: Stinemets, mnavigater; Lieut. ivision officers Lieut. Wal- an \Fight Forest Fires |U.S. SHIPS, ABSENT 2 YEARS, RETURNING Six Destroyers Maintained Selves Througohut in Near East. Six American destrovers whioh played an important part in the re- lief work at Smyrna during the Turkish-Greek hostilities, which cul- minated in the burning of Smyrna, will return to the United States some time in July, after having maintain- ed themselves for two years in Eu- ropean waters without assistance from shore yards or stations or dook- ing for other than painting and cleaning purposes. They are Purrett, Edsall Mc- Cormick, MacLeish, Bulmer and Simpson. They will be relieved in European waters by destroyer di- vision 26 of the scouting fleet, now in Atlantic waters. Men Are Praised. Reports from the returning de- stroyers show that they are In ex- cellent condition meohanically and have carried out the exercises and gunnery practice required of them to demonstrate their fitness, despite the fact that all repair work for the last two years has been done by the ships™ crews themselves. vy offi- cials say this record reflects great credit upon the personnel which did the work and whioh will return with the ships, to be added immediately to the scouting fleet in place of the division sent abroad. Hereafter the destroyer division on duty in European waters will be re- lieved annually about the 1st of July, giving officers and men of the de- stroyer force generally an oppor- tunity for brief European service. The step has been decided upon both to improve morale and also to insure the readiness of the ships for service with the fleet at all times. SWITCHMEN TO ELECT. Several Technical Resolutions to Be Considered Monday. DENVER, Colo.,, May 17.—Election of the international board of di- rectors composed of five men, and consideration of .a few technical resolutions at the session next Mon- day. will conclude the triennial con- vention of the Switchmen's Union of North America, which opened here Monday last, T. C. Cashen, interna- tional president, said tonight. The re-election of four interna- tional officers occupied the session today, which was adjourned at noon. Those re-elected were Leo V. Kahan of St Joseph, fifth vice president; Thomas Clohessy of Chicago, sixth vice president; Welch of Buffalo, N. Y. secretary and treas- urer, and W. H. Thompson, also of Buffalo, editor of the official publica- tion of the union. U. S. HYDROPLANE FALLS. Pilot and Mechanic Injured in Accident in Chile By the Asociated Press, VALPARAISO, Chile,™ May 17.—A hydroplane from the American cruiser Cincinnati, on a trial flight early today, fell near Vina del Mar. Lieut. Tex Morley, who was piloting the plane, was seriously injured on the face, and his mechanic, J. Bryan, mfler‘bqrn broken arm. It was stated, however, that both men probably would recover. The accident happened when the plane tried to take off from a sandy beach. The propeller raised a cloud of sand which blinded Lieut. Morley, who lost control of his machine. The Cincinnati arrived yesterday from Punta Arenas and will leave tomor- row for Antofagasta. Gets “Cable From Sun Yat Sen.” PARIS, May 17.— Marius Moutet, Socialist deputy from the Rhone, to- day received a cable from Canton, China, saying: “Dr. Sun Yat Sen is not dead. On the contrary he is living and very well. He sends con- gratulations over the victory of the Socialist party in the French elec- tions.” —eee PIANO \VORCHS Mo G - - BEST.1879 RUMANIA PREPARED FOR RUSSIAN ATTACK Surprise Descent on Bessarabia Frontier Doomed to Fail, Bucharest Feels. FRENCH AID IS SOUGHT Believed Vital to Repulse Soviet in Long Fight. v By the Associatad Prees. BUCHAREST, May 17.—Any sur- prise attack the Soviet army might make on the Bessarablan frontier is doomed to failure, according to state- ments made in Rumanian official circles. Although there has been no movement of troops recently toward the Dniester, there are adequate forces in Bossarabia to prevent any Russlan attempt to reconquer the province by force of arms, it is de- clared. In any event it is co i questionabls here that Tmmaris almost to the last man, would fight for the retention of Bessarabia. Aside from the economic aspect of the connection, Bessarabla means to Rumania very much what Alsace and Lorraine meant to France, and, with_or without military allfances, the Rumanians seem satisfled that countries like Great Britain France will never stand for an un- provoked attack on the part Russia. Has Few Mlsgivings. Rumania’s principal concern, it is explained, s centered upon the future time when Russia shall have regained internal stability. The Rumanians volce the feeling that the recent war )t.-nu of Trotzky and other Soviet eaders were more or less orato: and no misgivings are feit regarding the immediate future. The best in- formed Rumania opinion is that Rus- sia has her hands full at present Wwith her internal affairs and will hardly care to concern herself seri- ously ' about Bessarabla. Rumania realizes, however, that she can ex- pect little support from her Little entente partners if trouble should come, and this accounts for the efforts now being made to get France tied down to a definite military un- derstanding, or at least get a promise from the French to supply armament in substantial quantities, particularly airplanes. There is no excitement whatever along the Bessarabian frontier, and reports in the forelgn press of con- flicts along the Dniester are officially denied here. 600 NEW YORK RESORTS TO BE PADLOCKED BY U.S. Federal Attorney, Pushing Dry Prosecutions, Declares “Land- slide” Has Started. By the Amsociated Press. NEW YORK, May 17.—"We have started a landsiide,” Assistant Fed- eral Attorney Lyman Ward sald to- day, in announcing the beginning of proceedings to padiock 600 New York cabarets, restaurants, saloons and drug stores charged with violating the prohibition laws. “These padiock proceedings will be pressed with all possible speed.” he asserted. “Our efforts have been ham- pered by the insufficiency of federal judges in this district. We hope, how- ever, to get a judge by June 1, when we shall present our cases." Prohibition officials today raided the Chicago Restaurant, on Lexing- ton avenue, where seven employes were arrested and gin and whisky seized. — TU. §. Sailor Killed on Ship. SAN PEDRO, Calif., May 17.—With news of his death withheld by naval officials for more than a week, the body of Ralph B. Shenk, aged twenty- one, a second-class seamon of the U. 8. S. Maryland, was today sent to his home at Palmyra, Pa., under full military guard. 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