Evening Star Newspaper, November 13, 1924, Page 1

WEATHER. Increasing cloudiness tonight, prob- ably followed by rain in early morn- ing and tomorrow; not much change in temperature. Temperature for 24 hours ending at 2 p.m. today: Highest, 64, at 3 p.m. yesterday: lowest, 46, at 3:30 a.m. today. Full report on page b. “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 the papers are printed. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 30 b No. 20416, Entered as ssco na class matter post_office Washington, D. C. ¢ Fnening Star. WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1924 _FORTY-SIX PAGES. . BORAH URGES GALL OF SPECIAL SESSION FOR NEXT MARCH New Senate Foreign Rela- tions Head Sees Need to Convene Congress. WORLD COURT ACTION, ‘West in Saddle of Legislative Branch, Sounds Note of De- mands to Come. An cxtra session of the mew Con-| ss soon after next March 4 was| urged today by Senator Borah, Re-| publican of Idaho, who declared h(‘; thought farm and railroad measures | as well as the World Court proposal | and perhaps tax relief should be! taken up at that tim. | The ldaho Senator voiced his n[vin&fln‘ all on President Coolidge tion officials close to the| cated yesterday that he | no present plan for the calling | peeial session. | or Borah beleves | fu the way of general legl: tion will | Ve accomplished at the coming >¢-rt; session, which is to be devoted l}ll’)!(‘-‘ 1y to work on appropriations. He re- | gards a delay until the regular Illt‘n‘lr‘ ing of the new Congress in December of next vear as unv v and un- varranted. Borah comm n to rcommend e es would have ampie repert by next March 4 B ninistr ident ind that little essar farm relief su time to aid he believed the I New Senator WILLIAM M. BUTLEK. DEPACTISMADE BERLIN WEAPONTO ALTER DAWES PLAN Negotiation of Commercial Treaty With France Hits Snag as Move Result. By the Associated Press. BUTLER APPOINTED T0 SEAT IN SENATE, SUCCEEDING LODGE Gov. Cox of Massachusetts] Names G. 0. P. Manager Until Next Election. {MAY RETAIN NATIONAL PARTY CHAIRMANSHIP | Close Friend of President Seen as Probable Administration Spokes- man in Upper Body. By the Associated Press, BOSTON, November 13.—William | M. Butler, lawyer and manufacturer | and chairman of the Republican na- | tional committee, today was appoint- | ed by Gov. Cox to succeed the late Henry Cabot Lodge as United States | ator from Massachusetts. The | | =overnor, it was said, has assurances | | that Mr. Butler will accept. | The appointment is for approxi- | mately two years, as the seat cannot | | be filled by election until the next| | eneral election in 1926. This is in| accordance with a law enacted two ! ars ago giving the governor au- | hority to appoint a successor to fill | may develop be- | = t suchr vacancies as tween elections. Will Quality Soon. i Senator Lodge's term would have | expired in 1928 and the winner of the | | election two vears hence will serve| only until that time. H i | | i | | WOULDN({' So CHaosy \ IF SHE’D BE / JusT HAD BLUE RIDGE PARK SITE WINS EXPERTS MODERN DIOGENES, AFTER HONEST i * MACDONALD PLANNING TRIP TO UNITED STATES Former Premier Contemplating Holiday—Further Plans Undecided. By the Associated Press. LONDON, November 13.—Ramsay MacDonald is contemplating a visit to America on a holiday after his hard grind of nearly a year as Great Britain's first Labor premier, the Eve- ning Star today says it understands. Nothing definite had been decided as to the trip, but it is expected the announcement will be made shortly, according to the Star, which adds that, while the ex-premier has re- celved a number of tempting offers. he does not Intend to lecture or make public epeeches. ST WiLL PUSH BULDING NEASLRE Senator Optimistic Prospects for $50,000,000 Construction Bill. | Passage of the Smoot bill for a | comprehensive Government building | program in the District of Columbi | with an aggregate expenditure of { $50,000,000 in a perfod of five years, | | will be sought earnestly at the com- MOTORIST, ESCAPES WITH LIFE Right of Way Belongs to One Who Gets H—Speedt Laws Observed Only by Mule Driver and Cops, |ing session of Congress, Senator Smoot, chalrman of the Fublci Build- ings Commission, said today. The" Utah Senator, who returned today from Boston, said that he had | conferred with Senator Fernald of Maine, chairman of the Senate com- mittee on public bulldings and grounds, who had promised co-oper- ation in the effort to pass the. bill ~ Yesterday’ Over| s Circulation, 98,319 TWO CENTS. JURY ACQUITS HILL INCASE BROUGHTTO TESTVOLSTEAD ACT Homemade Wine and Cider Held Legal Unless “Intoxi- cating in Fact.” REPRESENTATIVE ASKS MODIFICATION OF LAW Will Introduce Bill for 2.75 Beer. Dry Unit Warns Prosecutions Are to Be Continued. | | | Special Dispaten to The Star. | BALTIMORE, Md., November 13. | Representative John Philip Hill was | acquitted by a jury in United States !4‘uurl this morning of violating the | Voistead act by manufacturing in- | toxicating wine and cider at his | home, No. 3 West Franklin street | The jury, under instructions from | Judge Soper, brought in a sealed ver- | dict reached during the night. | When the jury had not agreed at | 6 o'clock vesterday, after deliberat- | ing four hours, Judge Soper left the It-oun with instructions that the jury was to be released if it verdict during the night. The fifth and sixth counts of the ;mdk‘(m(-n(. charging maintaining of a | common nuisance at his home, were dismissed by Judge Soper. i Belleves Discrimination Shown. | Representative Hill was in court when the verdict was returned, and PARIS, November 13.—The Wants Action on Court. tions for a Franco-German a result of the death of Senator| cial treaty have encountereq a ser .odge, Mr. Borah is in line for chair-!ous hitch which, according to news of the foreign relations com- paper reports, due to the efforts h is charged with chiefl e’ yh. German delegates to obtain for action on the World |, aification of the accora reéached In E 5 London last Summer for putting the plan for such action, the question should be Dawes plan effect in exchange France negotis As a matter of fact, the bill already | cxpressed no surprise at the outcome x has been reported favorably to the| He sald am not surprised that Senate and is now on the Senate!the jury found me not guilty. I made calendar awaiting action. The report | the test purely to find out if Con- vas made, however, on May 3, just | gress. in passing the Volstead act about a month before the adfourn- | intended to make one law for the S T e o SR TR R e e e chance ction in view of the ce a some degree of authority. | legislative Jam. But it is expected | alcoholic content, and at the same One of the paramount rules of the | inat the Senate will be able to deal | time limit the city man to insipid road, he remembered having been told | \with the measure when Congress con- | beer of one-half of one per cent. The | Mr. Butler will qualify at Wash- commer- | ington in time to take his seat when Crmerest Comtenn o Diocwer | !Virginians Get Hint to Help Mr. Butler, whose politica ctiv- e ities had buen wusvended for sversi| Cause by Offering U. S. Aid in Buying Area. He Learns, Oh So Sadly! & An honest reporter, who belleved ) pillar. He was a car owner and in his fellow man, indignantly sallied forth vesterday to prove to a group | of vDessimists in his office the utter fallacy of their joint contention that | years, was ready to take the field this Fall for the Republican nomina- tion for United States Senator in op- | position to David I. Walsh, Democrat, | but President Coolidge’s wish that the Court proy had no s but thought broueht up into manufac: and disposed of one way | or another. i An opinion contrary to that of Mr. | Borah was expressed by Representa- tive Burton, Republican, Ohio, an-| other White House caller, who said he saw no necessity for an extra session and believed that in addition 10 the appropriation bills such farm measures are mecessary can be | passed at the short fon. Mr. | Burton discussed this question briefly Wwith the President. se: Observe Election Results. Senator Borah =aid he told Yresident he believed the Republican | yar hould “legisiate as close to the election returns as possible,” and for that reason, If it were possible, im mediate steps should be_taken, ewen | at tie short session of Congress, for | enactment of farm relief legislation, revision of transportation laws and the development of reclamation proj. ects. The President agreed with him, the Jdaho Senator said. that the report| of the ct-finding commission on | reclamation should be adopted. This commission was appointed by the In- terior Department and has suggested | appropriations for a number of de- velopments. Senator Borah held the farmers’ dif- ficulty was due to the excessive ta: ation, the low purchasing power of the dollar, the lack of a foreign mar- ket and transportation rates. He as- gerted the farmers were loaded down with a billion-dollar increased tax- ation and farm exports had fallen, | notwithstanding reports that they | were greater in value than in 1913, | Ithough they may have been greater | in bulk The question of deflation, he asserted, wa one for executive influence on the Federal Reserve Board. Defends La Follette Supporters. Senator Borah placed himself on | record as against efforts to “read out | of the party” Republicans who had @ssociated themselves with the La| Follette movement in the recent elee- tion, “The main question is whether La Follette wants to come into the| party. He may not wish to come in, he declared. the | i | WEST IN THE SADDLE. | | Big Committee Heads From States | With Small Electoral Vote. | BY ROBERT T. SMALL. | Now that Senator William E. Borah ‘ of Idaho is to become chairman of ‘lhl" Senate committee on foreign re- lations the ascendan of the West in the august upper branch of the Con. gress is almost complete. And some of the smallest ot e ‘Western States have come to wield | the greatest influence in the affairs | ©of the Nation and indirectly in the | affairs of the world. . | “New England rule,” so far as | Senate of the United States is (‘l[v::(j cerned, is a thing of the past. The “elder statesmen” from that little, but | powerful sectjon of the country. one | by one have passed bevond, and the | ke@ping its worthy men stead. | 1ly in office, has come forward to gain the biz committee posts, Senator Borah hails from a S Which casts but four electoral votes | ——nmext to the smallest unit of any | State in the Natlon. Not only iy Senator Borah to head foreign rela. tions, but his position of rank and | seniority in the Senate would en-! title him to head the committee on the judiclary and the committee on | education and Iabor. The latter two committess will have to g0 to others, for naturally the gentleman from ldaho cannot be a congressional Fooh-Bah and his desire is to be the guiding genius of foreign rela- tlons so far as these relations may ®e shaped by the ratifying branch of Tongress. Westerners in Authority. Senator Francis E. Warren of vyoming, a State which casts but three electoral votes, because of its exceedingly sparse population, is the head of the powerful Senate com, mittee on appropriations. Second to nim on that committee Is Senator Reed Smoot of Utah, a State which casts four votes. Senator Smoot also is chairman of 1he finance committee, which shapes the tariff and is regarded by many #s the most important committee on " the entire Senate list. ldaho, Utah and Wyoming, lying| ptop and beyond the Rocky Moun- talns, casting a total of 11 electoral votes, less than one-fourth the vote “““(Continued on Page 4, Column 5.) tate | compensation for the volunta | between | before the Illinois Manufacturers’ As- | LAuto Plunges in Main Irrigation for the commercial advantage is seeking. It Is understood Herriot flatly refused to consent mix up the commercial with the reparation question The Germans are represented wanting, first of all, the abolition of the 26 per cent reparations wecovery tax, and in addition certain modifica- tions of the Dawes pian applied Premier to as { under the London agreement. Premier | h, the Herriot reminded Dr. von Ho German Ambassador, that the German delegates In London had promised France commercial advantages in y ofter of the French to hasten the military acuation of parts of the occupied erritory. Asks Berlin Change View. The French premier pointed out that his government had more than | kept its promises and that it was now | for the German government to show a disposition to reciprocate. It is understood the German gov rnment is considering now what its next step shall be in the face of | France's refusal to consider modifica- | tion of the reparation details. Premier Herriot yesterday had a long conference on the subject with Dr. Trendelenburg, and the German Ambassador, Leopold von Hoesch. The Germans, Le Matin pear inclined to ys, did not ap- make the conces- sions necessary to complete the negotiations and the question, now out of the hands of the experts, Is the subject of exchanges of views the two governments. Another hitch has delayed ratifica- tion of the Franco-Belgian economic agreement. It is stated that the day the agreement was initialed the Bel- gian government gazetted important modifications in its tariff, mostly con- cerning articles such as woolens which were not discussed in the| Franco-Belgian negotiations. | The Belgians are understood to| have declared that readjustment of | their tariff was not aimed at France | but was made with a view to future | negotiations with other powers, Rati- | fication of the agreement, however, | has been postponed pending further negotiations. PRESIDENT TO LEAVE FOR CHICAGO ON DEC. 3, Discusses Details of Coming Visit| With Representative Madden. Will Make No Speeches. Plans for his approaching trip to Chicago were discussed today by President Coolidge with Representa- tive Madden of Illinois, and Mr. Cool- idge indicated he intended to devote all of his time to attendance at the national live stock exposition. The presidential party will leave here December 3, but the length of the visit has not been fully determined, nor has Mr. Coolidge made up his| mind on the question of speaking at that time. Representative Madden presented to the President an invitation to speak sociation, but Mr. Coolidge indicated that he would make no speeches dur- ing the trip. THREE DEAD IN CANAL. Ditch at Yuma, Ariz. YUMA, Ariz, November 13.—Three persons lost their lives in the waters of the main canal of the Yuma irri- gation project here last night when their automobile plunged over an em- bankment into the stream. Three others riding in the machine nar- rowly escaped death. MECCA OFFENSIVE ON. Hashimites Reported Advancing. ‘Wahabis on Defensive. JERUSALEM, November 13.—A re- port from Amman says definite news has been received there from Hedjaz that King All has taken the offensive and that the Hashimite army is ad- vancing on Mecca. The Wahabis, now on the defensive, are evacuating the position they occupled between Jed- dah and Mecca, negotiations | | of several cases of Canadian urer undertake direction of Republican national mpaign im into the larger field as| of the nal committee The success of the Repub- | lican campaign was followed by a va- | cation intended to last two or three wecks, but Senator Lodge's grave ill- { mess cut it short Flrst Siated for Cabinet. 1 It had been unrderstood that Mr. | Butler would have a place in the new cabinet of President Coolidge and that contfnued assoclation with the} President in this connection was de- | sired by him, but the Senator's death | | changed the plans. | | the The Senator designate, who prac- j ticed law at New Bedford for years | iand was elected to the House and | Senate, serving ‘as president of tie latter body, over a period of six years | | before he came to this city in 189, | s been active principally as head | cotton manufacturing interests | that time. His interests also ) (Continued on Page 4, of ince TWOMEET DEATH | | | | | Brothers-in-Law Shot Down, ‘ Police Arrest Alleged Part- | ner in Liquor Deals. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, Ohio, November 13.— A bootleggers' war, culminating in an ambush early today, police de- clare, brought death to Louls Rosen, of Cleveland, and his brother-in- law, Adolph Adelson, 28, of Philadel- phia, college graduate. Both were murdered in the doorway of Rosen's garage at the rear of his home in a fashionable residential district. Adelson and his wife came here two days ago to visit the Rosens and to attend a wedding. Arrest Alleged Partner. With the information that Rosen, a brother and three other men were sought in connection with the seizure liquor that Federal authorities say had been in their possession in 1920, and re- ports that Louis Rosen was mixed up in a bootleg ring, police arrested a former proprietor of a confectionery, who, they claim, was a partner of | Rosen in his liquor activities. Meanwhile, investigators are seek- ing three mien in a muddy gray-cur- tained touring car, who were seen to | drive away shortly after the sound of shots from the rear of the Rosen home attracted neighbors to the scene. Hended Audit Company. PHILADELPHIA, November 13.— Adolph Adelson, slain in Cleveland, was the head of the Fidelity Audit Company of this city. He is survived by a widow, his mother and father, three sisters and two brothers. Ac- cording to one sister, Mrs. Sarah Koplin, Adelson had been successful in business. Adelson was a public accountant and a graduate of the Wharton School of Finance of the University of Pennsylvania. He was held in high esteem by his neighbors here. Adelson took his wife to Cleveland for a visit of six weeks because of her health, intending to return him- self next Sunday. SINGER ASKS $250,000. Zerola Says He Was as Good as Caruso, But “Held Down.” NEW YORK, November 13.—Nicolo Zerola, singer, has filed suit for $25Q,000 against the Metropolitan Opera Company. The complaint alleges that he was “held down” at a perifod when he “enjoyed the same fame and reputa- tion as Bnrico Caruso and it was a moot question who was the greatest singer.” He says he had a contract for opera and was forced to sing in concert, his reputation being dam- aged thereby: | the i BY H. K. PHILIPS, Staff Correspondent of The Star. HARRISONBURG, Va, November 13.—Dropping down from the land of the sky last night for a few brief hours of relaxation amid civilized luxuries, the Government committee- men who are touring the Blue Ridge Mountains in search of a possible site for the proposed Southern Appalach- n national park were entertained here last night by the most repre- sentative gathering of business men and public officials ever gathered to- gether in the Shenandoah Valley. The occaslon was a banquet tender- ed the national park commissioners under the auspices of the Shenandoah Valléy, Ineotporated, and during the three hours of good fellowship that ensued the men who are working hardest to bring the East's first great 1ational park to Virginia, at the very threshold of the National Capital, heard some frank statements from | the men in whose hands the declsion rests. Praises Site for Park. .Dr. Henry W. Temple, Representa- tive from Pennsylvania and chairman of the committee on selection, re- minding the diners carefully that he spoke purely from a personal point of view, and not, for the time, as a member of the committee, frankly admitted that in the five days during which he had been touring the Stony Man Mountain section of the Blue Ridge that he has “seen an area that is quite suitable for a national park.” “But,” the speaker added, with a trace of a smile, “thls is not the only area in the East that is suitable for a national park. Our embarrassment comes in selecting the best one. A rational park must be a great out- door museum, where a characteristic sample of the country in which it is |1ocated may be faithfully preserved. | We have found several such areas in East. “I have enjoyed seeing what I did not believe existed in the Eastern United States. I no longer doubt but that in the course of time there will be at least one, and perhaps more, national parks in the Eastern United | States and in the Southern Appala- | chian Mountains. It will be a great, wonderful playground for the people | of the East.” i Col. Glenn S. Smith, acting chief topographic engineer of the United States Geological Survey and secretary of the committee, who has been with Dr. Temple on the tour, referred to (Continued on Page 4, Column 4.) ARGUMENTS STARTING IN NAVY OIL LEASE SUIT Roberts Will Open for Government Today in Action” Against Doheny. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, November 13— Owen J. Roberts, speclal prosecutor appointed by President Coolidge, had the privilege of opening argu- ments today In the Government's sult against the Pan-American Pe- troleum and Transport Co. Presen- tation of testimony in the naval oil reserve lease cancellation case was completed yesterday. After Roberts' argument, Frank J. Hogan, Walter K. Tuller and Fred- erick K. Kellogg intended to argue for the defense, while former Senator Atlee Pomerene planned to close for the Government. $600,000 MAIL LOOT HIBING PLACE IS TOLD Officials Intimate Last of Rondout Proceeds Will Be Re- coveretl. By the Associated Press, CHICAGO, November 13.—Brent Wood Glasscock, who confessed that he directed the $2,000,000 mail train hold-up at Rondout, Ill, last June, was reported today to have told Gov- ernment officials where $600,000 worth of the loot was hidden. Officials intimated that accounted for all unrecovered loot. Rumors that Willlam Fahy, former postal inspector, accused of being the inside man in the robbery, would change his plea to guilty were denied by his attorney. | | sible for the sins of a few. among Washington's 100.000 motor ists he could not find one honest man —one who would respect to the let- ter the rights of pedestrians, of other motorists and of the general publie. This pessimistic assertion, he told himself, was a base calumny on the upright character of the average car owner. True, there were drivers who deliberately disobey and disregard the laws and regulations prescribed for the use of the streets, but the whole class of drivers, he mumbled to himself, should not be held respon- The only way to nail this calumnyy, at Its source was to prove to the world that most of Washington's ro- torists are gansclentious, Jaw-abiding, considerate individuals, whose frames would shudder to know a tire had squashed so much as a juicy cater- LAXITY IN MORALS INCOLLEGES CITED Survey Reveals Conditions in Boston Bad, Due to Lackl of Supervision. | | | By the Associated Press. BOSTON, November 13.—Declaring that “there is almost everything to help a student go wrong and almost nothing to hinder him or her from &0ing Wrong,” a report submitted to a meeting of the student intercolle- glate committee on student living conditions, composed of a faculty and an undergraduate representative of departments of six universities and colleges in Greater Bostor, was approved. The report charges: “It Is a well known fact among the student body of the present time that living condi- tions in the students’ area of Back Bay are far from what they shbuld be; that the living conditions are far from what the faculties of the schools and parents of the students would have them, and if they were aware of the conditions. * * * | “In some of the rooming houses young men and young women are, through force of circumstances, liv- ing with less protection from moral temptation than fs desirable. It is known that in some places where men and women students live in the same house there is very lax super- vision and that the frequenting of one another's rooms, both during day and night, is not at all unheard of. It is known that in some of the houses one sex brings In those of the opposite sex for immoral purposes | and get by with it. * * * Say Drinking General. “It is known that there are groups of girl students and groups of men students llving alone in apartments without any supervision whatsoever, and that parties, including women, lquor and gambling, go on frequent- ly. It is a fact that some of the ~ (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) EFFORT TO KILL PRINCE BRINGS DEATH VERDICT Man Who Fired at Japanese Regent Last Year Is Condemned. By the Assoriated Press. TOKIO, November 13.—Dalsuke Namba, charged with an attempt to assassinate Prince Regent Hirohito, while the latter was driving from the imperial palace to the Diet on December 17 last year, was today condemned to death. The trial took place in the supreme court, the public being excluded, Namba, armed with a pistol cane, rushed on the automobile in which ' was that right-of- over vehicles. he would first test Washington's con- science and integrity on this point. It was almost unnecessary, he argued, even to take the trouble to make a test, the outcome of which was so certain as he knew this to be. But he must show the others the con- crete proof that they were wrong in their estimation of drivers. Leaving his car parked for another hour, he betook himself toward F strect, that favorite haunt of pedes- trian and motorist alike, pared to satisfy himself that he was right. Halting at Twelfth and F to survey the scene—hurrying cars and scurrying. people—he shook off a slight feellng of misgtvimg. reassured ' himself that motorists were but hu-‘ man, willing to respect the preroga. (Continued on Page 4, Column 2.) LEADERS IN CITY HELD IN MURDER Politician, Editor and Pub- lisher, Accused by Gang- sters of Plotting Death. By the Associated Press. ROCK ISLAND, IIL, November 13— Thomas Haege, clothier and former chairman of the Republican county committee; John W. Potter, publish- er, and John M. Colligan, managing editor of the Rock Island Argus, and Jake Ramser, jeweler, were arrested here yesterday in connection with the death October 6, 1922, of John Conner Looney, son of John Looney, former owner of the Rock Island News, Warrants for them were issued af- | ter A. W. Billburg and George Hol- sapple, under sentence for the kill- ing, filed affidavits in circuit court charging Ramser with firing the shots that killed Looney and the oth- ers with conspiracy to murder. They were released on bail of $10,000 each and their preliminary hearing set for Monday. The afdavits charged four, with a number of oth nent business men apd cit: promised Billburg and Hol munity for their part in the attagk on the Looneys, who were set upon by a gang In a plstol fight. The fight, the affidavits sald, was the climax of a serles of meetings of those named in the sworn statements, who plan- ned to drive the elder Looney from the city. The ‘accused had decided the au- thorities were lax and that no prose. "~ (Continued on Page 4, Column 1 DAVIS AND WIFE PLAN EUBJPEAN VISIT SOON Will Sail Within Two Weeks for Cherbourg—Daughter to Ac- company Parents Abroad. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 13.—John W. Davis, defeated Democratic presi- dential nominee, will sail for Cher- bourg within the next two weeks in company with Mrs. Davis and his daughter, Mrs. Willlam MacMillan Adams, it was announced today. Mr. and Mrs. Davis had contem- plated a Winter cruise in the Medi- terranean, but they have not yet completed definite plans for thelr trip. Mrs. Adams came to this country from her home in Copenhagen soon after her father was nominated, and ‘was organizer of the Democratic first voters’ league. that th- er promi- y officials, sapple im- Polish Poet Wins Nobel Prize. By the Associated Press. STOCKHOLM, November 13.—The the prince regent was driving to the opening of the Diet, and fired a shot at him. The glass of the motor car was shattered, but no one was injured Swedish academy today awarded the 1924 Nobel prize in literature to the Polish author, Wiadislaw Reymont. The reciplent is one of the later school of Polish poets, SR a permit clerk many years ago, | pedestrians always have | All right, ! and pre- | venes in December, while it is await- ing appropriation bills from the House. i Backed by President. | President Coolidge, in | his annual message to Congress last year, de- in favor of an ade- jauate building program for the Gov- jernment in the Natlonal Capital, and mentioned $50,000.000 as the sum probably needed. The President, it is understood, is squarely behind the project. Senator Smoot said he did not be- lieve that any attempt to put through an omnibus public building bill would be made successfully at the coming session of Congress. “There is no other place in the oountry where the Government needs new buildings and more buildings as it does right here in the District of Columbia,” said Senator Smoot. The Utah Senator is convinced that great saving will accrue to the Government | a3 a result of carrying into effect the proposed building program here. Danger to Records. “No private business in the country | | clared himself ernment is taking today, |records in inflamable temporary | structures,” he continued. “These | temporary buildings should be pulled |down. Some of them are being held together merely by temporary re- pairs.” » The bidilding program proposed by the Public Buildings Commission and |included in the Smoot bill includes | new buildings for the Department of | Justice, the General Accounting Of- fice, a national archives building, the | completion of the Department of Ag- | riculture buiiding, the Department of Labor, the Interstate Commerce Com- mission and several other establish- ments. with its Terms of Bill. would take the risks which the Gov- | Under the terms of the bill, the | verdict has justified my contention, and I believe will go a long way to- { ward modifying the present Vol- | stead act | “As soon as Congress meets I in- | tend to introduce a bill legalizing | the manufacture and sale of wine and beer having an alcoholic content of 275 pew cent alcohol Judge Soper's ruling that home- j made wines and cider must be in- toxicating in fact will help in passing some of the 60 bills for 2.75 per cent | beer to be introduced when Congress convenes. We now have a ruling on what is intoxicating in fruit juices and cider, but beer remains in the arbi- trary one-half per cent class.” Seex “Local Option.” United States District _Attorney Amos W. W. Woodcock, who prose- cuted the Hill case, refused to com- ment on the verdict, but sald the ., as far as his office is concerned Shirley Carter, chief counsel for When asked what effect the ver- would have on future prosecu- i tions, said: | “It simply means that every case 1l be tried on its merits. Possibly {in communities where the sentiment {is strong for light wine, beer and will be difficult to secure convictions, unless it is affirmatively shown that the beverage actually | produces intoxication. In other com- munities, where dry sentiment pre valls, convictions may be obtained more 1y This may result in a sort of modifed local option, which eventually will lead to a modifica- tion of the Volstead law.” Representative Hill was tried on the Federal indictment of six counts, leging illegal manufacture and pos- session of wine, fllegal manufacture | and possession of cider and two counts of maintaining a nuisance at his home, | No. 3 West Franklin street. PROSECUTION TO GO ON. i dlet | | wi | cider it Public Buildings Commission is au- | thorized to go ahead and put through | ; the program outlined. | Prohibition Unit Will Not Consider During the last session of Congress | the late Senator Lodge of Massachu- | setts, a regent of the Smithsonian In- | Decision as Precedent. stitution, offered an amendment to the deficiency appropriation bill, ap- propriating $25,000 for plans for a Na- | tional Gallery of Art building, to be erected on the site in the Mall al- | ready set aside by Congress for such a building. Senator Smoot indicated today that such a project would be given consideration, though it would | way with the building program now joutlined by the Public Buildings Com- mission. FASCISTS REPUDIATE FIRING ON VETERANS | Council Deplores Events of Novem- ber 4 and Denies Any Responsibility. By the Associated Press. ROME, November 13.—A report on the general political situation was laid before the grand Fascist Council last night by Premier Mussolini. A resolution was adopted stating that the Fascist party and the council deplored the occurrences of Novem- the party nor the government could be blamed. On November 4 the Italian-Austrian Armistice day disorders occurred in Rome between the Fascisti and mem- bers of the Italla Libera, an organi- zation of dissident Fascisti, in which soveral persons were wounded. The members of the Italia Libera claim- ed that unarmed ex-soldiers in their ranks were fired upon by Fascistl. —————— TEN HUNTING DEATHS. Fifteen Other Accidents Already in Michigan Season. LANSING, Mich., November 13— Twenty-five hunting accidents, ten of which were fatal and many seri- ous, have been reported to the Michi- gan conservation commission thus far, with the hunting season barely under way. Carelessness, according to conserva- tion officials, is responsible for most of the accidents, the list showing only one death due to a gun in the hands of another person. Radio Programs—Page 36. i not be permitted to interfere in any | ber 4, for which they claimed neither | i Although no appeal can be noted by the Government in the case of ! Representative John Philip Hill, who was acquitted today in Baltimore of eharges of violating the Volstead act, | warning was sounded by the prohi- bition unit that prosecutions will continue just as in the past, against persons who are found to be making cider and wine in their homes for intoxicating purposes. Judge James J. Britt, general coun- sel of the prohibition unit, when in- formed of the Hill verdict, declared emphatically that it would make *no { change of policy nor regulation” in the prohibition unit. At the Department of Justice, At- | torney General Stone sald the Hill case, under the law, could not be appealed, as the jury had freed the accused from all charges placed against him. Will Not Be | | Precedent. It was therefore evident from statements of officials today’ that the Government will not consider the Hill case a precedent of sufficient weight to prevent the prohibition unit from proceedfng against persons for the same kind of violations of law with which the Maryland representative was charged. It wae even stated- in ynmistakable terms by an official of .xe prohibition unit that it was his firm belief tnat one of the principal causes of the ver- dict in Baltimore today was the “strong _anti-prohibition sentiment” in Maryland. Had the same case been tried out before an Ohlo jury, it was freely predicted by dry officials that the result would have been reversed. On the other hand, the verdict for Representative Hill was hailed by the liberal elements as a great victory over the prohibition unit's interpre- tation of the law concerning home manufacture of wine and cider. Based on Ambiguity. That part of the Volstead act on which Representative John Philip Hill based his fight reads as follows: “The penalties provided in this act against the manufacture of llquor without a permit shall not apply to a person for manufacturing non-in- toxicating cider and fruit juices ex- clusively for use in his home, but such cider and fruit juices shall mot be sold or delivered except to persons having permits to manufacture vine- gar.” Officials of the prohibition unit contend that their interpretation of this law has been, and still is, cor- rect—that the basis of violation of “"(Continued on Page 2, Column LJ