Evening Star Newspaper, January 21, 1925, Page 1

) WEATHER. “From Press to Home (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) oy » Fair tonight and tomorrow; rising W:l’un the Hour minimum temperature The Star’s carrier system covers \ R oo g SR D every city block and the regular edi- moderate southwest winds ghest, NeCT S S 42, at 9 pom. yesterday: lowest, 29, tion is delivered to Washington homes at 8 am. today. Full report on page 5. 1 as fast as the papers are printed. Closing N. Y. Sluciu and Bonds, Page 26 ¢h WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Star. Yesterday’s Circulation, 102,160 Entered as second class matter - post office, Washington, D. C. No. 2948: WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, s JANUARY 21, 1925-THI RTY-EIGHT PAGES. TWO CENTS. Resigns Federal Berth ENATE REQUESTS LL DATA ON DEBI PACT FROM HUGHES Johnson Resolution Calling for Full Information on Parley Adopted. STATEMENT ON KELLOGG’S REPORTED MOVE ASKED Measure Designed to Lay Whole| Proceedings of Parley Be- fore Senators. H.H.VOTAW QUITS LESSERBILLSPUT AHEAD OF SURPLUS ONNEXTD.C. DAY Committee’s Action Due to Absence of Opposition to | Two Measures. | BLANTON TO FILIBUSTER TO LIMIT AGAINST FUND| All Other Members Say He Is Set-| ting Up Own Will as Bar to Con- | structive Policy. Bent v ng full orma With the $4.500,000 District surplus tion reg, agreement signed bil] pending as unfinished business on | by Ambassadors Kellogg and Herrick District day. next Monday, the House &na Col. Loman relating to the Daw District committes today shoved two lan and the payment of reparations | othe asurcs ahead of the surplus | by Germany, the Senate today adopt- U. S. PR'SUNS PUST bill because it was shown that there ed the Johnaon resolution requesting the of State to furnish a copy of the agreement together with fnformation affecting the negotiation Bnd execution of the agreement The resolution was reported favor- &bly to the Senate from the foreign relations committee by Senator Hiram Johnson of California without debate cretary Brother-in-Law of Late Pres- ident Harding Ill in Capital. end without opposition and was wdopted. Heber H. Votaw Resolution Amended. prisons, and brother- of the late At a meeting of the forelgn rela- | President Hard has resigned from ®lons committe resolution was for full information The text to the the Go Mr. Votaw was General Daugherty Lpresent he is this rning the ded So as to ask ppointed by Attornes April, 1921, At local sanatorium, solution as adopt- in a was no opposition whatever to them These are the compulsory school at- tendance bill and the Zihlman bill for | extension of Bancroft place between Phelps place and Twenty-third street northwest. * Later the committee decided to hold special meeting Saturday morning | 10:30 o’clock to report out several | the important major \.»m..m!w‘ { at of prope consideration, which have been under order that there ttions trong program of much-needed for which there Is strong pub- nd for action be & bills, lie ready Blanton to Filibuster. ed follows: “Resolve at the S e ARt - Representative Thomas L. Blanton, | Tetary of State be. amd is hereby re. | Where he underwent an operation for yarvad motice that) quested, if not compatible with | appendlcitis. to the limit under| public interest, to transmit to the| Department Justice officials de- House against thel Senate coy ement signed | clined today to di s the re surplus bill. Several mem By Nasave Herrick and | but indicated that Attorney the committee, including Rep- | Logan during the past week at the | Stone might make Ralph Gilbert, Democrat, | conference of the allied and associ- | thoday ky, and Chairman Reed, en ated powers in the World War relat-| wign 'the withdrawal of Mr. Votaw |deavored to show Mr. Blanton that ing 1 the Pay- |from official life, and the indicated re- [by such action he was thwarting the nY. t0- | tirement soon of Prohibition Commis- |will of the majority of the committee | nformatlon re- | sioner Haynes, the circle of the intimate |and the majority in the House and | nces surrounding | friends of President Harding, breught | pre ting consideration of a con- ions and execution of the [ ¢, Washington by him at the beginning | structive program of legislation for @s may be relevant to a|of pis administration, w s |the National Capital. He was ac- nding of its terms. disappeared cused of setting up his judgment! amendment is designed to ob-| " parore became superintendent of | stubbornly against that of 20 other for the Senate a statement re-|;riong Mr. Votaw was a minister of | members he House District com- | the published ort ”“’“1 the His office came er fire | mittee and against that of a joint| Kellogg had sought tolg Daugherty investigation committee of Congress, which had| e oamerican representativel (he Senate, and recentiy he has had a {made a special investigation of the| the agroement with a Xaserva-|y,yce payt tn. n of the te: i 50 thons Thiis GGt The et il S, VoL the Attorney|Blanton was in disfavor with his 3‘: to those things affecting the Unit-| qanaral he desired to retire March 4 colleagues because of hls determina- - | because of his health. He has been|tion to fillbuster when it had be- Seek Full Infor {111 for some and his physiclans | come evident that the committee and | g Boran | 52id_today he should not perform any | the House membership desired to members of the Semate |Xind of worlk for at least six months. [have a square vote on the District have Leen keenly interested dmdemen- ey surplus on the merits of the ques- ing just how far the United States! tion. U T L ONGWORTH IS HELD CHNCATRNGS Seoretary Hbahos United Representative Gilbert told Mr.| wrouen the. sienme. or.ihe| SURETOBE SPEAKER |eain it e v e 2, 2 o t s not become involved | of the House to aid him, not in his 3 roy affairs, the Senators efforts 1o defeat the District surpl desir ormation so that they | : bill, but to prevent its orderly con n eir own conclusions Begg Says Survey Shows Ohioan |sideration o amendment of the original Promise was made today by mem- | Jor resolution, calling for infor- | Will Be Named on First bers of the committee that tyree of | n garding the circur the major measures which have been | £u ling the negotiation Ballot. under consideration for the District | ag t was finally whip | will be ready for action at the special | hape by Senator Pepper of Pennsyl- | meeting on Saturday. These are the | vania | _Representative Begg, Republican.|new trafiic c the five-year school Pepper Phrasing Approved; [ Onio, one of the managers of the can- | building program and the weifare bill Chalrman Borah of the committee|didacy of Repre tive Longworth [ The motion for the special meeting had suggested an amendment which | Of that State for Speaker of the next |on Saturduy was made b presenta- | SO Kakt dimactls rer Ambassa- | House, declared today Mr. Long- | tive Gilbert, who explained that there | dor K Pronosed . reservation | Worth's election was assured on the | was considerable criticism that the & hag bean ey and It so, what | Airst ballot. The prediction was made | DIstrict was not gelting sufficient f 1 all the cir- |after covering “practically | legislation and that District day in a tha resetvac] of the incoming Con- | the House was consumed with debate = 2o Begg made the following | on relatively unimportant measures, ey RENERRT LT s it while many important legislative pro- b becter part| “The Republican Congressmen from | posals for which there was strong Art | Ohio, at a conference late yesterday, | Public clamor were being kept in the resolution | made a complete survey of status | background. He warned the commit- by Senator |0f the campaign for Speaker. The [tee that unless this legislation was ton was a0 | Ohto Congressmen, individually and | expedited there would not be time for without further | collectively, submitted reports on |/t passage before the close of the| | practically ‘every member of the in- | Present mession. = i . i e g o ere was no at- | Rgpresentatives hert, Hammer, E s oAb Lilastne » olo blooded. semal Reed and other members of the com- “We discovered that Congressman | Mittee stressed the fact that the Dis- - me dis- | Longworth's election as Speaker is | !TiCt surplus is a debt that the Gov- 1 Cour ution | assured bevond question, on the first | Sriment owes to the District, and that Sw 1d Sen- | ballot there should be no delay in having & rence to| “Mr. Longworth has been gaining | he matter settled by a vote in the . nded by |new frieds ev ay, and at no time | House | committee | since his candidacy was announced Two Bills Unopposed. i« natter a secial by the Ohio delegation has his| Representative Keller of Minnesota s e taken up at |strength been as great as today.” «ked for prior consideration of the | its meeting next Wednesday { ompulsory school attendance bill, Greeks Face Turk Reprisals. LONDON, January A dispateh from Constantinaple U. S. POSITION CLARIFIED. Text of Agreement Reveals No that the government has in Mention of Penalties. | structed the authorities there to be | gin reprisals against the Grecks. 1 BY DAVID LAWRENCE. is reported tl the est reek subjects were to be sef e offick text of News | FIRST PLEAS OF MRS. FERGUSON which he said would meet with no ob- on. This opinion was confirmed by | presentatives Hammer and Blanton Tiie bill to extend Baneroft street w special order of business foilow- the compulsory school attend 1 on the in entative it would ny objection. Repre- ontinued on Page 2, Column 6.) LS LIBERAL PARDON PLAN, ECONOMY i1t in payment of actual words were read | L . | was uncertainy as o Levy on Cigarettes Asked in Message to Legislature meriea hac m tted her- = 1 plisd obligation to hélp | to Provide Money for States Educational de his| D s 1 i Institutions. ally or mor- | by the critios | | t 10 every- | p. e Assoctated Press. tions. Mrs. Ferguson ention | ™ \USTIN. Texas., January 2)—The|could be raised in that way and aag | his phra with respect to any such | irSt woman governor of Texas sent | hated it an “educational ta | contingency” and th fically re- |her initial message to the Legis e lfv»\n_mknrx reé not interested in | ferred to penalties, Paris agree. | ture today. She pleaded for rconomy, | the, EXeat cause of cducation,” she nt upon examination will be found | adoption of princlples In the Demo- [ tic ) [hey, would :,';,wnx‘n do fol o be without es a = 4 e e rems of the tax would ;nr' it “does O it s ooin [ cratie platform upon which she Was|pa to cut out smoking uniil Shich tae tions that might ar \1 y{. V’\:»l ny‘y[\'u:;: elected, and forecast a more liberal|as their desire for smoking “'nuld‘ plated payments should not be made | policy regarding pardons of State|overcome their opposition to eduen. | prisoners on the part of her adminis- | tration. “In my opinion," she propriations should be r Covered by Versailles Pact. This Is really where the allied press made its mistake and where miers of Europe fa said, “ap- the pre- duced to at ed to draw a dis tinction between the American back- |least $30,000,000 or at the outside not ground and their own more than $35,000,000." The Paris agreement presupposed | The topic of prisons occupied more so far as most of the allled powers |{(ime jn the address than any other are concerned that the Versailles|sybject, Mrs. Ferguson urged the treaty is binding. T treaty con- | adoption of a I which would give tains penalties for default to be im-|any prisoner, “regardless of the posed after due action by the rep-|length of his sentence” the right to arations commissi e United fapply. for a conditional parole after Etates is neither a signatory of the |15 vears of good behavior and ef- Versailles treaty nor a member of the | fiefent service. reparations commission. There s no| peclaring she would “look with doubt that the acceptance by any of | qistavor upon the establishing of any the allied vowers of t Paris agree- |additional school during my ment commits them all just as mueh | yration,” the new governor, to the collection of reparations as the | ferring to State education, recom- paration clauses of the Versailles |mended a tax on factory-made cigar- treaty. Their status has not been|ottes as a means of raising sufficient changed, but Ade_even more ex-|revenue to finance additional build- ued on Page 2, Column 8. lings among State educational institu- » \y | tion; but I dare say this will never | | occur because the man who smokes | is generally the most liberal man in | the community.” The governor safl she favored con- struction of additional Natlonal Guard armories, reducing the size of the force of State rangers, construction of lateral roads, “to bring the rural dis- tricts in closer connection with the rest of the world,” and permanency in road building. “Ma” Ferguson’s inaugural ended with a dance last night. Tripping feet from every part of day the Texas commonwealth closed a| day of solemn formalities, \pressing social duties an® celebration. It was the finale to an ow2drst of jubilant | Texans, determined to commemorate | the history-making induction of a woman into the governorship by the most elaborate and colorful inaugural reception and ball in the history of | Texas inaugurations. AU REVOIR. OPIUM CONFERENGE TENION RELIEVED French Proposal Tempers Crisis Between British and U. S. Delegates. By the Assoctated Press FEN January 21.—The the internatio opium confer- threatened through failu the British and the American d gates to agree on asproposition for the suppression of opium smoking in the Far East secemed somewhat tem. pered at the conclusion of this morn- ing’s session as the result of media- tlon by France This took the form of & mew pro- posal by Edouard Daladier, French minister of colonles, that the various countries engaged to abolish oplum smoking within 15 years afier the council of the League of Nations crisis ence has officially recorded the fact that the growth of opium in the pro- ducing countries has shown an ap- China Curb Lim| Set. The French plan gives China two years to curb her production and provides for the league council mak- ing an invest ion the third year to determine whether the reduction The conference 1journed until measure of at eased the situation n proposal was origina ear limit for the sup- smoking, beginning once, modified yesterday to make the period 15 years, while the British suggestion was that the 15-year limit for suppression start with the disap- pearance of the smuggling danger. Lord Cecil argued t the Ameri- can proposal to el authorized opium smoking in Far East within a definite beginning now and impossible of the huge smuggling for if the colonies of governments stopped | for legalized smok would cause an in smuggling and evil everywhere. Lord Cecil insisted that R the had French somew The Americ Iy for a 10 pression of nate the period was to carry out hecause possibilities the various orting opium the action iner; smoking vy immedia a worse epresanta tive Stephen G. Porter of Pennsyl- vania. head of the American delega- tion, had failed to face this fact, and | had practically confined himself to the obligation im! harging t (Continued on Page at , Column 5.) FLOOD CONDITIONS IN SOUTH IMPROVE Death Toll Remains at Ten. Georgia Highways Damaged $100,000. By the Associated Press ATLANTA , January 21 -—Sec- tions of five Southern States, flood- | swept n week, turned their at- tention tod rehabilitation as the receded, althou Georgia and portions and South Carolina mained inundated. Conditions Louisiana and Mississippi were on the road to normal The death toll remained at 40. Damage to Georgia highways estimated at $100.000, those h t re- in well waters southern Alabama was being the only figures available from any section. Railroad ser impaired today, and tralns in Carolina _and Alabama continued to run on altered schedules. RENT HEARING HALTED. Session of House Causes Cancella- tion Tomorrow. The hearing on the rent bill for the District of Columbia which was scheduled for tomorrow night has been postponed, it was announced to- day, owing to the fact that the House is to hold a night session to- morrow, and the House members of the joint committee conducting the heariny wculd be unable to attend the committee meeting. When Senator Ball, chairman of the committee, returns to another date for the next rent hear- ing wili be fixed. of | | 4 p.m., with the opinion prevailing that | conciliation | at | overidealistic | | i { Yachtsman Alone Sails 4-Ton Vessel On 35-Day Voyage By the Assocts PORT O uary 21 a Press. SPAL Trinidad Harry Pidgeon, 2 single-handed the four-ton Amer- fcan salling vacht, Islander, ar- rived here today, completing a 35- day voyage from Ascen Jan- The lone navigator Angeles November 18 round-the-world cruise in his 1 craft. He visited places of in the South Pacific, In- dian and Atlantic Oceans. After overhauling the boat, Pid- geon will endeavor to return to Callfornta via Central “American ports and the Panama Canal. He hopes to arrive In Los Angeles next September. JAPAN GETS RIGHT TOEXPLOIT RUSSIA New Treaty Provides for Qil and Coal Grants—Nippon Quits Saghalien. By the Associnted Press. PEKING, January 21.—The between Japan and Ru: providing for resumption of dipiomatic relations, which was signed here at midnight, consists of seven articles. Among these oviet the validity the treaty 2 recognition Portsmouth that Rus- is of treaty, but it is understood sia does not assume responsibility for the completion of that treaty. All other treaties concluded prior to the provisions of 1917 will be revised or abolished at a onference to he held shortly Both ssia and Japan promise to restrain their nationals from ac! like- 1 nger the order and security | of the other country. Both also prom- to restrain persons in governmental rvice or receiving governmental financial assistance, from such acts. Neither party wiil permit in its ter- ritory organizations pretending to be the government of any part of the territories of the other party, or aliens arrying out activities for such or- anizations. Agrees The Soviet to Concexsion. agrees to give coal and oil concessions to approved Japanese on advantazeous terms for a period of 0 or 50 vears; also the right to ex- ploit o The rovalties in the case of coul will amount to § per cent and in the of ol from 5 to 15 per cent with 45 per cent where gush- rs are brought in. Materials re- quired for such enterprises will be admitted free of duty. | The Soviet representative expresses (Continued on Page 3, Column 8. SPANISH ATTACKING MOORS AT ALCAZAR Three Warships and Eight Planes Used in Onslaught From Straits. By the Assoc'ated Press LONDON, January 21.—Three Span- ish warships and eight airplanes are bombarding the Anjera tribal forces from the Straits of Gibraltar, off fce in Georgia still was | Point Alcazar and Seguer, and to the South | east of those positions, according to ews Agency dispatches recejved this afternoon from Tangier. MOOR REBEL LEADER BESIEGED IN HOLY CITY | By the Assoclated Press. MELILLA, Morocco, January 21.— Abd-El-Krim, commander of the Moorish rebels, is besieged with his Riffian warriors in the holy city of Xauen by Kabyle tribesmen, who have surrounded the place and cut off the water supply, according te pri- vate advices. The Spaniards report a successful raid in enemy territory near here by a native column under Comdr. Varela. ‘Washington | Alrplanes co-operated with the col- umn. The rebels suffered heavy casu- alties and were put to flight, BUS AND CAR LINE SENATE APPROVES | ASKING COOLIDGE FOR ARMS PARLEY Accepts Amendment to Naval Bill Without Debate or Record Vote. ADMINISTRATION MEN RAISE NO OBJECTIONS Had Been Expected to Oppose Move in Deference to Presi- dent’s Opinion. Without discussion or a record vote the Senate today accepted an amend- | ment to the naval bill President Coolidge to arms conterence. The amendment, offered by Senator King, Democrat, Utah, was accepted without ebjection by Chalrman Hale of the naval committee, In charge of the bill. It has been indicated quite recently requesting call another dent Coolidge did not consider time ripe for such a conference, and administration Senators had been ex- pected to oppose the King amendment as untimely. They made no tion of their failure to do o, nor was any light thrown on the move from {n administration quarters that Presi- | tastimon the | immediate explana- | DRY LEAGUE PLOT 10°GET” EDWARD CHARGED AT TRIAL Defense in Jersey Bribery Case Accuses Anti-Saloon Body Officer. SENATOR NOT PRESENT AS TESTIMONY CLOSES Last Witness Against Officials As- sailed as Former “Nickel Thief.” A Press TY, N. J, January 2 —New Jersey's rum consplracy case in which 10 Wechawken policemer and two civilians are standing tri on findictments charging wholesa bootlegging activities, will go to the jury late this afternoon, another ex ample of the rapidity of “Jerse: justice.” With lightning rapldity taking of n the trial, which opened the White House or State Department. Commissioners Tell Senator Ball More Than Repeal of Present Act Needed. The Distriet Commissioners believe the Washington Rapld Transit Co. hould be included in any merger of * street railway lines of Washing- ton, they advised Senator Ball today in a new report on the question of consolidatio The city heads also told the Senate District committee they belleve it wiil require more than a mere repeal of merger_act will accomp sh the pur- pose. It is believed, however, that it | will take more than the mere author- | Ity to accomplish a consolidation. To this end, consideration of Senate bill 776, modifled to include the Wash- ton Rapid Transit Co.. is suggest- This bill represents the views of in ed ed after careful study of the question. It includes a penalty for failure to | merge and, by a slight change in wording section 3, which relieves com- panies fr | men, may be made a reward for con- solidation. The passage of Senate bill | 2776 by this Congress is recommend- fear Tax to Foree Merger. The bill referred to by the Commis- sioners by substituting for the present tax of | 4 per cent upon the gross receipts of the railway companies, a tax of 20 per cent upon the operating incomes of the companies. The bill further pro- vides that as soon as the companies re merged the old tax basis of 4 per cent on gross receipts shall be re- stored. he same bill would permit the Washington and Georgetown Gas Light companies to merge. FOODLESS 3 DAYS Says Mexican Captors Only Gave Them Water After Animals Had Drunk. | By the Associated Press, | . NEW ORLEANS, January 21.—Maj. | William F. Lorenz, professor of ner- | | vous and mental diseases at the Uni- versity of Wisconsin and president of the State board of control, reached here yesterday after a harrowing ex- | perience at sea and arrest and con- Doscribing his experiences, Prof. Lorenz said: “We left Pensacola, Fla., |on January 6. carrying aboara the schooner Ruth bait, ice and food enough for three weeks trip, which 1 was taking for my health. Our plan included a run down along the | Mexican coast, a few days of fishing | there, and the run back to Pensacola. |Our dreams came to an end with a crash as the ship plled up on Alacran Reef. off the coast of Yucatan. The vessel stuck fast on the coral {reef. Nine of us left the ship, leaving Swim and one man aboard ths They planned to stay there, while we tried to reach a lighthouse 16 miles away. We were caught in a | norther, and fought the winds and waves for hours. “Toward nightfall we were sighted by a Mexican gunboat and picked up. The boat returned to the wreck and took on Capt. Swim and the fisher- man. “We were taken to Progreso, wher the captain of the port ordered u: put in jail were without food and given water only after the dogs and donkeyvs had drunk. Then we were taken to Merida, where we were tried, al- though I do not know on what charge. During this time I had communicated with an American consul and wired the Governor of Wisconain, and after & short hearing we were released,” MERGER FAVORED the Public Utllities Commission form. | m payment of traffic police. | eks to bring about merger | finement by the Mexican government, | Text of Amendment. | The amendment as approved fol- lows: “That the President is author- | ized and requested to invite the gov- ernments with which the United {States has diplomatic relations to | send representatives to a conferente | to be held in the city of Washington, | which shall be charged with the duty | | of formulating and entering into a general international agreement by which armaments for war, either | upon land or sea, shall be effectually | reduced and limited in the of the peace of nations and the relief of all nations from the burdans of | inordinate and unnecessary expend!- | ture for the provision of armaments and the preparation for war.” 52,000,000 SWINDLE DTOSI00LOAN the antl-merger act to bring about a ! consolidation of the street car com- | panies. The report reads, in part, as . follows: {Head of Young Judea in New Support in Pledged. “The Commissioners are very inter- | YOFK Reported to Have ested in the question of the consoli- N x dation of the two street car com- | anles of the District of Columbla, Admitted Forgenes. and will be glad to lend their up Bortits any.n Al lexislation which will tend to bring this about. At pres- | BY the Associated Press. ent, although paragraphs G4 and 74 | NEW YORK, January 21.—Moe Tur- of the public utility law permits this [Man, son of a Chicago rabbi, president consolidation, the antl-merger act of | ©f “Young Judea" in this city and March 4, 1913, expressly forbids {t | prominent in Brooklyn social circles, If it is desired merely to remove | Was reported mulberiiies today to this prohibition, a repeal of the anti- | have confessed to forger totaling 11,3 0,000 in the business of the Equity | Finance and Service Co., of which he | was managing director. Assistant district attorneys who are | sald to have heard the confession be- | fore Turman's arrest said the total of worthless securities he issued would reach $2.000,000. “I tried to be a Napoleon of finance —a_ Ponzi—but flopped,” Turman’s story concluded, the prosecutors sald He is 27 years old. His career as a swindler, according to the alleged confession, started | several years ago, when, coming to | New York, he borrowed $100 to send his widowed mother and her five children in Chicago. He “borrowed from Peter to pay Paul” until he {evolved a scheme to borrow money {from friends to loan merchants for A week ago, when authorities began investigating the business of the Finance and Service Co.. Turman dis- interest | Monday, ended this morning, and b |11 o'clock George Cutley, chief of defense cou had completed = dramatic summation of the testimony from the po of view o he accuse men Senator Edward 1. Edwards, forn er Governor of New J accuse sterda as the “chief backer” of the wholc sale rum conspirators, did not com hera to deny the accusatio | by three pronibition age: i v | The climax of Cutley's dramat { summation came with his charge th i the 1 f Senator Edwards i in the of which S ndent superin 7 | League of New Jerse autho | Wiison was In the crowded cour room. Cutley pointed a dramat finger at him | Points Out Accused. “There’s the man,” he told the jur who is the author of this frame uy | He started out to ‘get’ Senator Ed J\\'.’\rds a vear ago, and here's the sorry result.” ‘ There was only one witness today i and his admissions on the stand pro- vided the foundation for Cutley's at- tack of the prosecution's case. This was Lionel Wilson the first of t trio of dry agents who yesterday tod | the stand and told a story of having | given $3,800 to Senator Edwards to | be held in for later payment lto Wiiliam lewed “mas ter mind” of ¥ and one of the defendants, aftpr Griffin had dellvered 100 cases of Scotch whisky {to the Pseudo bootlegger i Wilson, recalled for r { ination, admitted to © that 1n | July, 1913, he had o convicted { of petty laceny In a New York court and later had been dismissed from the employ of the New York Tele- phone Co. for having rified colr boxes. Attacks Witnesx' Record. don’t think that a man steals coins—nickels—from a phone box should be aliowed to com into court and altt of a United ates said. ck the reputatio Cu Senator,” | He declared that the prosecution's | case rested chiefiy on the testimor | of the Rev. Father George Be Roman Catholic priest. who exp the rum conspiracy bombshel Fall. He laid great on | priest’s failure to id the court room. | George T. Vickers, special prosec { tor, followed tley in summing | the prosecutlon’s side of the case Depends ou Evidence. After speaking almost two hou |in which he made but slight refc ence to S Bdwards, Prosecu | tor Vickers rested Vickers based lis summation the main, on the testimony of Fathe s in the hands of John who, he said, had succeeded ilson in the leadership of prosecution w Milton, Woodrow W ! aiscounting bills, keeping for himsel | Bennett, declaring that the jury mu half of the discount saved his clients, | ¢ither d priest lied o | | the stand or that three police b Lemders Chief Losers. en-defendants who testified per ! “Unf ¥ e i selves. e s=ald he hoped |, “Unfortunately.” Turman s reported | o0 themselves, He sald he hoped to have confessed, “the Equity Finance| ot permeat the jury room 2nd Servico 20.. Which L organissd, dls-| ““inginer Bennett and the. othier | counted my forred notes as well as the | | FAIREr Beanelt and the other notes of my; érchant sustometa, My [ Loeit ot USRS BRES bubble bursted just when it looked (SIGGRCS necessary ¥o | most real.” « ct,’ e sa " i { Eesaoe ) foom whom mrman wer | OATARE e i s {rowed the money to loan merchants | thnipisacat taliNe {are ailezed to have been the chief los- | 2dded that his name had been brough [érs: ‘Thes claim to have lost s | into th e prosecution in its | ranging from $15.000 to $30,000 each. | STt to connect Griffin with the rum | _Forged notes in sums ranging from | ¢90SPira: | thousands to hundreas of thousands ot | T the ““f"‘“”‘ 8. charges that the | dollars and bearing the name of promi- ‘!“k“i"‘: of t 18 Snatore Dime Wb { nent business men are in the hands of | STIs was the reqult of a ‘Arame | prosecutors up” he pointed to the fac at the | i | appeared. He said that he had gone to Buffalo, St. Louls, Jefferson City and Kansas City, and then decided to re- turn here to “take the medicine.” His ompanied him to the district office, where, in her pres- ence, he Is alleged to have confessed. | BUSHMAN AN[;;NIFE | AGREE TO LIVE APART | | | Beverly Bayne Quoted as Saying Divorce Prospect Not Immediate. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, January 21.—Fran- cis X. Bushman, motion picture actor, land his actress wife, Beverly Bayne, have separated, the Los Angeles Times said today, quoting Miss Bayne to the effect that while no divorce, action was In Immediate prospect, “Mr. Bushman and I just decided it | woula be more agreeable to live apart.” | The Bushmans were married in 1918 and have a five-year-old son, who {lives with his mother in Hollywood. { Bushman 1s in Europe with a Holly- wood motlon picture company. TWQ HELD IN MURDER. HILLSBORO, Ohio, | | | | January 21— The first three days we! While a statewide search was belng imade for two robbers who shot and killed Harry P. McGlll, deputy county surveyor, and wounded E. W. Lemon, a policeman, here early yesterday, Hillsboro officials were Investigating two suspects detained at Springfield last night. The men gave their names as Harold and Frank Barnes, brothers. # him,” New Jg Democrats. No man in this poSition, he argued, would lend himself to the furtherance of o { “frame-up” agalnst a Senator of h |own party. HARTS MAY “MAKE UP. Wife Tells of Proposal for Rec ciliation. SAN FRANCISCO, January @ Rumors that the Willlam S. Harts motion pictures might be reconcil rather than be precipitated int further litigation were lent color i a statement by Mrs. Hart upon th eve of the “good-bad man's” depar: ure for a vacation trip to New Yor} gave up the trust fund estal lished for me by my husband and agreed not to return to work at an time if he will let me come back t sald Mrs. Hart In commentink upon the court decision which per mitted her to resume screen work under her name of Winifred Westover Hart. “I have no plans to return to pictures at present.” MAYFIELD CONTEST UP. Committee to Make Decision To- day on Texas Senator’s Status. Action _on the election conte: against Senator Mayfield, Democra | Texas, will be taken late foday by th committee which investigated it. After hearings last session, the committee declared charges of exces- sive expenditures of money in the campaign had not been sustained. The charges remaining to be de- cided aiiege fraud and Intimidetion.