Evening Star Newspaper, September 23, 1924, Page 20

GEANTELQUOR PLOT IS CHARGED Dry Agents Seize Thousands of Cases in Louisiana. Two Men Arrested. By the Associated P NEW ORLE. . La.. September 23. erday seized thou- liquor at Mande- ville and Bayou La Combe, across Lake Pontchartrain, from New Or- leans. and unearthed, they said, a gi- gantic conspiracy to ship liquor by carloads to the large cities in the South and Middle West Tirnest Prieto, wealthy sportsman, prominent member of the St. Tam- many Parish Law and rder League and parish political leader, was ar- rested. Agents said they found thou- sands of bottles of wine in the store- room of his general store at Mande- ville. J. H. Hemmingway, said by the of- ficers to be the brains of the alleged conspiracy, was arrested as he at- tempted to leave Prieto’s yard in his #utomobile. He gave his address as Mandeville. Found Liquor in Barns. a farmer of La cght by the offi- at in two barns found about 1.000 cases of liquor. Agents said the con- traband had been brought from liquor ships in the Gulf of Mexico, through the Rigoiets intu Lake Pontchartrain and up B; Combe to within & few yards of Cousin's farm The raid was the culmination of several weeks of investigation, pro- hibition officials said. Cars loaded with liguor have been shipped from both Mandeville and La Combe la- beled from the La Combe mills as lumber. The conspiracy, it was stat- ed, involved also the movement of enormous quantities of liquor by au- tomobile and motor trucks to points in Arkansas, Tennessee and Ken- tucky. It was added that cars loaded with liquor were in two freight trains which left Mandeville Saturday night One shipment was bound to Oklahoma City and a second to St. Louis. Dry agents went along in an effort to identify the consignees and seize the liquor upon the arrival of the ship- Sixty New Styles in Sixty Stores BULGARIAN GOVERNMENT SAYS ORDER IS RESTORED Assassinations Recently Laid to Communist Plot, Allegedly Financed by Moscow. By the Associated Presa. BERLIN, September 23.—The Bul- garian government is in full control of the situation brought about by the recent assassinations there. says .a statement issued by the Bulgarian le- gation here. The plot for a revolt, which had been engineered for Sep- tember 15, was financed by Moscow, the legation's statement declared. The recent disturbances centered at Gorna Djumaja, about 30 miles south >t Sofla, where, it was declared, the Federalist and Communist Macedo- nians planned to establish a Moscow- controlled Soviet republic. The sup- pression of the Communist press since August was said to have brought about a'retaliation by the Communists, acting in unison with brigands, to carry on guerrilla war- fare. The statement alleges that the elements attacked and terrorized the population and shot a number of prominent citizens. ACQUIT GREEK GENERALS. Two Freed of Charges of Attempts Against Government. ATHENS, Greece, September 23.— Gen. Seroulis and Gen. Panayotopou- los. who were arrested here Septem- ber 11 charged with attempting to overthrow the government, were ac- quitted of the charge in court yes- terday. The court ruled that the two generals had been guilty only of a breach of diseipline. Accordingly they were released and placed at the disposal of the war ministry, which may inflict some penalty on them. At the time of the arrests of Gens. Seroulis and Panayotopoulos it was stated that they had endeavored to induce the 34th Regiment to enter into a conspiracy to establish a new government which would have die- tatorial .powers. —_— 3S. September 23.—Eva vaudeville actress, is quoted as saying that a cataract is impairing the vision of her right eye. “It's true,” she is reported to have said. “I'm going blind in that one eye. I don't know what I shall do. An operation is a risk.” THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESbAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1924, JAZZ PLAYER ENDS LIFE. |SCHOOL WATCHMAN WINS |WOMAN BECOMES MAYOR. Nothing Else to Do When Music Is Banned, He Writes. BERLIN, September 23.—“The days of jazz music are gone and as there is nothing else for me to do I have decided to. hang myself,” were the farewell words of Kurt Kransler, bass drummer in a Berlin jazz band. Kranzler was discharged because he persisted in dominating the band's performances by too lusty applica- tion of his drumsticks and cymbais. 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