Evening Star Newspaper, May 13, 1925, Page 1

WEATHER. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Unsettled followed ¢ night; ture. tonight and 6 a.m. today. Full report Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 26 by showers tomorrow aftel not much Temperatures t noon today: lowest, 44, at tomorrow ange in High- on page 7. ch No. 29,597. Entered as second class matter post_office, Washington, D. C. JOINT SEA AND LAND " DRIVE ON RUMNOW FAST APPROACHING Consolidation of General and| State Dry Forces Step in Campaign. BE USED IN NEW “WAR”| Posters Exhorting Obedience to Law Will Be Sent All Over Country. By the Associated P ' With the sea offensive well under wvay, reorganization of the land forces ©f prohibition enforvement has been Ftarted with a view to co-ordinating the two campaigns. One of the first fhe consolidation of special opperating under the gener: in 19 States, with the staffs State directors, The effect to give a unified organization will be used, under present plans, ex clusively on conspiracy cases and in has been forces agents of the will be moves strategical ®ther agents will be trans. ferred to the general field force, until | the State director retains only enough mgents to do inspection work, such s investigating applications for pe mits and seeing that drug stores obe the law in dispensing medicinal liquor C. Yellowley, chief of the general prohibition agents, wi be in_com mand of the “first fiefd army.” He has been placed in control of the con- solidating raiding forces assigned to New York, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and California. ““General” Yellowley will be in posi tion to concentrate the forces of al the States in his sector upon -an point reported by his scouts to be threatened with inundation by an ene- my truck convoy centration warehouse from a mass at tack by guerilla troops of the rum rebels. Carrying the war farther, enforcement have completed analogy a step which | plan “develops | - | other or to protect a con- | \Earth Trembling | Is Felt in Various Parts of Illinois By the Associated Press. CAIRO, I, May 13.—A slight earth tremor, which caused no damage, was felt here about & o'clock this morning. [~ T METROPOLIS, 11l, May 13.—A distinct shock, lasting several seconds, believed to have been an earthquake, was felt in this vicin- ity early this morning. | CHICAGO, May 13.—A slight rthquake shock was recorded at 5:35 a.m.. Central Standard Time the Weather Bureau seismo- ph at the University of Chicago today. The disturbance lasted only 1 minute 5 seconds, and the rec- ord did not indicate direction or TRICOLOR LIGHTS EOVERNING TRAFFI * TOBE URGED HERE Moller Wants Installation, Probably on Avenue and Sixteenth Street, in July. Returning today from a tour of astern cities, Col. 1. C. Moller, en- gineer in the traffic office, announced that he is ready to recommend instal- ation of three-colored automatic sig- jnal lights to bring about synchronized | traffic control in Washington. | The first installations probably will | be made in July, Col. Moller said, since |one of the traffic appropriations for lighting devices must be expended by {July 1. The amount that must be pent immediately is approximately $9.900. The traffic director has an- appropriation of more 1$40,000, to be used at any time during | the next fiscal year. Two Tentative Locations. While definite points have not been announced, | officials are . tentatively considering headquarters | Sixteenth stréet as far as Scott Circle | plans to launch ajand Pennsylvania avenue within the!of commercial and industrial firms than | ¢ Foenin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION g WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, /FRANCE TO LAUNCH DEBT PARLEY WITH LS INTWOWEEKS Formal Negotiations on Re- funding Near, Paris Announces. FRENCH EXPERT COMES DENIES LOAN IS SOUGHT Parmentier Announces He Is in United States to Confer With | | Dawes and Young. | By the Associated Press. PARIS, May 13.—The first lvnn' debt to the United States will be- gin within 15 days, it was learned au: thoritatively today. M. Caillaux’s financial plans, as out- lined before the chamber's finance | committee, are accepted with resigna. tion, if not enthusiasm, by the French public, which continues its confidence in his ability to salvage the nation's | finances. | Members of the committee are re- ported to have been, on the whole, { favorably impressed with the outline lof the finance minister's program, al- | though the Socialists were disappoint- ed that all their schemes were isre- I garded. M. Caillaux announced that the pay- ments received from Germany under jthe Dawes reparation plan would be {applied to reconstruction of the de | astated regions and also to amortiza Iliurl of the interallied debts. | Discreet on Debt: | A number of questions as to the de- tails of his program were put to M. | Caillaux, and he answered them all | readily enough except those regarding | the interallied debts, about which he as most discreet, declaring it a deli | cate point. Among the other points, he ex- | plained that he intended to promote | legislation to prevent capitalists from i keeping funds permanently deposited !abroad, under penalty of a fine | amounting to percentage of the t is understood the traffic | capital thus exported and loss of the |ment, and his assistant, | rights of French citizenship. Exceptions would be made in cases yropaganda attack designed to weak- | congested area as two of the first lo- ! which needed money abroad for busi- en the opposition’s morale. Telling slogans have been selected for the poster campaign, all of them emph: slzing the moral benefits to flow from strict ghser in the laws of the Govern-|would be made only while the yellow | ich protects you.” America’s hi is a record of law observance and high ideals; in disregard for law lies the greatest danger to our republic An appropriation of $30,000 will be- come available July 1 for printing and distributing the posters. They will be displayed in Federal buildings. post offices public roads Efforts of the Government to bring about rigid enforcement of the prohi- bition law were commended today J. Harvey Borton and Dr. Jesse I Brown of Philadelphia, representing Athe Friends' Temperance Association. during a call on President Coolidge. They advised the President that thes aswociation, at a recent assembly, had expressed confidence in the outcome of the administration’s prohibition drive, and pledged its sympathy and support. TURN TO BORDER. Foiled Rum Smugglers Active Along Canadian Line. NEW YORK, May 13 (A.P.).—Be cause of the blockade of Rum Row liquor smugglers working along the Canadian border are increasing their activiti A Dunk of 350 cases of liquor mouth of Canadaway ried away by more trucks In Detroit prohibition agents have yaided a threestory building with ‘nquipment for bottling liguids. More .000 gallons of liquor were con- ed. Meanwhile, Rum Row still displ zome life. Yesterday a big French steamer dropped anchor and w: promptly surrcunded by four Coast Guard boats. A German steamer h left the row in Monday morn- fog reappeared and anchored the Frenchman Isolated cases of bloc have developed. Fifty are reported to have been landed a Seabright, N. J., yesterday. The New York American ~today publish: story by Norman S. Hall, in which he asserts that he came in from the row on a boat which landed 115 cases of whisky within the limits of Manhat- tan, He that he believes much more whisk the same time. Ten Coast Guard cutters, 3 former Hestroyers and 27 picket boats are pa- trolling rum row. Among them is the sea sleigh, a new type, capable of making 38 to 40 knots an hour. Aircraft are going to be used in the blockade. A seaplane, with fuel ca- pacity for four hours flying at high speed, is being prepared at Squan- . newspaper tells anded at the Creek and car- than a dozen ade running of whisky ade, according to Lincoln C. Andrew 4 istant Secre- tary of the Treasur in charge of prohibition enforcement, is only “a minor engagement,” and will be fol- lowed by “a real liquor warfare.” He made the statement en route from ¥\ashington to El Paso for a confer- ence with Meixcan officials on narcotic and rum smuggling problems. He plans better co-operation between na- tional and State dry officials and the elimination of politics from prohibi- tion appointments. NEW DRY PLAN REPORTED. \e_ present block Chicago Paper Says Andrews Will Re- organize His Forces. CHIC, May 13.—The Chicago Daily News said vesterday that Lin- coln’ C._Andrews, ‘Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, in charge of prohibi- tion enforcement, plans a reorganiza- tion of prohibition enforcement forces for the elimination of political ap- pointments o enforce prohibition as Tar as is “humanly possible.” Another change which the Daily News says Andrews proposes 1S the merging of two enforcement branches, cents operating under the State pro- Hioition directors and the general sgents in those States where both ex- [ nd public schools, and on | was brought ashore at | | cations for the try-outof s | lights. i Col tion ynchronized Moller said his recommenda- vill be that Washington use the nce of constitutional and |combination of red, yellow and green | {lights. Al right and left hand turn {light is-on. | "It is Col. Moller's intention to pre. pare immediately a plan for the eventual installation of traffic signal {lights on all the main traveled streets. | He explained, however, that carrying out the plan be gradual, depending upon the amount appropriated an- nually by ~Congress. now available, approximately $50,000, |is only a small part of the cost of |Installing the system generally, he id. Enthusiastic Over Plan. The traffic engineer returned to Washington enthusiastic over the re- sults obtained with synchronized jlights in the cities he visited, which |included Philadelphla, Wilkes-Barre, yracuse, Boston, Lynn and New York. “I 'was especially impressed by the situation in Syracuse, where they have |a most comprehensive system of auto- | matic lights,” Col. Moller said. “That |city does not have a law requiring { pedestrians to obey the traffic lights, |but_you rarely see a pedestrian w: | (Continued on Page 3, Column TROTSKY IS ELECTED T0 SOVIET CABINET |Is Restored to Place on Russian Governing Body; Hailed in Moscow. 1 ! By the Associated Press. | MOSCOW, May 13.—Leon Trotsky, deposed head of the Soviet army, who recently returned from seclusion lin the Caucasus, was today elected a member of the presidium by the Fed- |eral Congress of Soviet States. | He was given an ovation by the ‘congress. The presidium is the Soviet govern- ing body or cabinet and its member- ship- includes such leaders as Stalin, rkov, Kalinin and Zinoviev. Much surprise and widespread com- followed the appearance of on the platform next to ¢ Zinoviev, who last year led fight against Trotsky which forced the latter's political retire- ment. among those who are to present to the congress reports of government |activities last year, it is possible that he will participate in the work of some of the numerous commissions which are formulating the program of the congress. It was noticeable that Trotsky re- ceived more applause than any offi- cial who appeared on the stage. —_— JAPAN MAY HONOR CHINA. Legation at Peking Likely to Be Raised to Embassy. TOKIO, May 13 (A.P.).—According to unofficial indications here today, the Japanese legation at Peking prob: ably will be raised to the standing of an embassy next week and M. Yo- shizawa, Japanese Minister to China, will be promoted to the newly created Ambassador at Peking. | i | LEITER PLEADS GUILTY. Pays $500 Fine for Illegally Pos- sessing Liquor. BOSTON, May 13 (A.P..—Joseph Leiter of Chicago, who maintains a Summer home at Beverly, pleaded guilty in United States District Court to an indictment charging illegal pos- session of liquor and paid a fine of $500. Counts of the indictment charg- ing transportation and smuggling of liquor were nol prossed. Although Trotsky is not included | | ness purposes. he added. the measure being aimed only against wealthy tax dodgers. Additional taxes and a sterner col- lection of the existing ones was the urden of M. Caillaux’s long-awaited declaration of his financial projects. V'An increased tax on tobacco of 83 per ent will become effective Thursday. 0il Monepoly Discussed. The creation of some sort of oil monopoly. while guardedly referred to in the official document of Whe min | ister, was made clear to the finance The amount| .ommittee during the informal talk ! the | which_follo (Continued on Page 3500 BAIL IS SET FORTWO CRASHES {Record Amount Required Driver After Four Sus- tain Injuries. the reading of olumn John B. Welsmiller of 1608 A street ! northeast was held today under the highest bail ever fixed in Traffic Court, | when Judge Isaac R. Hitt, after hear- ing a demand for a jury trial on charges of leaving after colliding, driv- ing while intoxicated and a charge of colliding which was combined with an additional charge of leaving after col- liding, placed him under a total bond of $3,500. Pat O'Connor, professional bonds- ! man, then iInformed the court that Weismiller had a_previous case of driving while intoxicated against him, {and that in view of the new charges he wished to surrender his client to the court. This bond, which was $500, | raises the grand total to $4,000. Court | records showed that Weismiller was |arrested July 8, 1924, for driving while intoxicated, at which time O'Connor went on his bond. ‘Weismiller was arraigned before Judge John P. McMahon in the Night Traffic Ceurt shortly after the alleged offenses. Bond at that time was re- | fused and he was committed to jail. | Four Hurt in Two Crashes. Four persons were injured in two accidents alleged to have been caused by Weismiller early in the night, two of them being sent to Casualty Hos- pital and the others treated at their homes for shock. The hospital pa- tients were Miss Helen Cornellus and Miss Blanche R. Young, both resid ing at 1457 Fairmont _street; others were Miss Cora L. Schubert, 114 Maryland avenue northeast, and John P. Swecker, Clarendon, Va. Welsmiller's car struck Swecker's machine that was pulling to the curb near Miss Schubert's home, over- turning the latter vehicle and shock- ing its two occupants. Continuing west on Maryland avenue, Weismil. ler's car entered the Capitol grounds and struck an automobile in which the two Fairmont street residents were, (mms. painfully injuring them. Following the second collision, it is stated, Weismiller continued driving through the Capitol grounds, but was overtaken by a Capitol policeman and arrested before leaving the IFederal reservation. Hit By Trolley. Hugh Lyon, colored, 36, 1602 Eighth street, was knocked down by a street car at New York avenue and Ninth street vesterday and cut about the face. He received treatment at Emer- gency Hospital and went home. Miss Thelma Winkjer, 1921 Law- rence street northeast, was struck by the automobile of Harry Artos, Uni- versity of Maryland, while in front of 1906 Rhode Island ‘avenue northeast yesterday afternoon." She was only slightly hurt. rt Hall, 2104 I street. was l_;_nock;dfldolwn :y!a.x: automobile at ‘wenty-first_ant reets yesterday « His left Jeg was injured, the | i PLANE FALLS HERE, | Lieut. Ofstie Slightly Hurt ;‘ When Ship Crashes in Spin Test. Lieut. Comdr. Marc A. Mitscher, {head of the plans division of the Bu- reau of Aeronautics, Navy Depart- Lieut. Ralph escaped death hen the seaplane {A. Ofstie, narrow lor serious injury | they were testing for its spinning abil jity crashed on Hains Point today. {The plane landed in a normal pos: | tion. ‘but the lower wings and pon itoons were smashed to splinters. | Lieut. Ofstie received minor cuts and {bruises and a twisted ankle, while | Ldeut. Comdr. Mitscher escaped un- {hurt. | With Lieut. Ofstie at the controls the plane took off about 10:20 o'clock {from the Naval Air Station and was lto be tested for its performance in | spins. On two previous occasions the {same type of plane refused to spin | normally, coming to earth in a flat ispin while the pilots, Lieut. A. {J. Williams and Lieut. Harold Brow, {vainly worked the controls to restore lit to normal flight! Modifications in the tail surfaces since had been made jand Lieut. Ofstie recently returned |from the Boeing factory, in Seattle, | Wash., where he flew the planes thus {altered. ! Plane Motor Differs. i { The type flown today, although |embodying the larger tail surface, | was not the same Lieut. Ofstie had | brought out of the flat spin at Seat- {tle, differing with respect to motor nd pontoons instead of landing Lieut. Comdr. Mitscher said the |plane had reached an altitude of labout 4,000 feet and then Lieut. Of- Istie kicked it into a normal spin. { Much altitude was lost, and then the (plane changed its maneuver of spin- |ning with the nose hanging down- {ward to the flat spin—a continuation {of the spinning maneuver, only in a {horizontal instead of vertical posi- | tion. Although Lieut. Ofstie headed |for the water, the plane landed | squarely in the center of the point, ibetween the driveway and the end {of the land. The motor and propeller inever struck the ground and were {undamaged. Impact Is Slight. Lieut. Comdr. Mitscher said he thought the plane could have been | brought out of the flat spin if more laltitude was available. The impact on crashing was surprisingly light, he said, and was likened to the jerk |given the body when a parachuts opens. More experiments will be conducted with the fuselage and tail surfaces, Lieut. Comdr. Mitscher said until the | plane performs as other do in spin. The Boeing plane was selected from a dozen submitted to a trial board at the naval air station, Pensacola, Fla., and its performance in every ma- neuver was deemed superior to other craft offered for test. At that time it spun normally and was brought out of the spin without difficulty. How- ever, the defect in construction was discovered here two months ago when | Lieut. Williams, was unable to haul it out of the flat spin and crashed at | the north_end of Bolling Field. _The NAVY AIRMEN SAFE Star. every city bi tion is delive: as fast as th The Star’s Yesterday’s Circulation, 100,535 “From Press to Home Within the Hour” carrier system covers lock and the regular edi- red to Washington homes e papers are printed. 1925—THIRTY-SIX PAGES. TWO CENTS. iCUBAN PRESIDENT-ELECT MAKES OUT CABINET LIST EET | Machado Will Retairi Two Mem- | Dbers of Present Regime—Takes | Office May 20. | By the Associated Press | HA“ANA, Cuba. May 13.—The cab. inet’ President-elect Gerardo Mach ado, who takes office on May 20 | unoficially announced as | Forelgn affairs. Carlos Manuel de incumbent: Justice Jesus aque; interior, Rogerio treasury, Enrique Hern va; sanitation, Daniel Gis. pert; agriculture, Andres Vereria: war and marine. Rafael Iturrala., present interfor _secretary; education, Guil- lermo Fernandez Mascaro: public works, Carlos Miguel de Cespedes: presidency. Viriato Guiterrez. The cabinet will not be official until published in the official gazette. MRS MOGRE FLAY ULTRAPATROTS’ {National Council Head Tells Foreign Women Attacks Are Un-American. was ing themselves false to the Constitu- tion to which they so effusively swear allegiance. Thus Mrs. Philip North Moore, presi- dent of the United States National Council of Women, answers the at- tacks of critics of the International Council of Women, which will con- clude its quinquennial convention here | tonight. : The attacks reached their climax |last night, when the National Pa- | triotie Council conducted a mass meet- ing in the interests of preparedness at | the Interior Building, across the street from the Auditorium, where the Inter- national Council was holding an open session in the interests of peace. “I might venture to say,” continued Moore, “that our women and immediate families have the more enviable records for gallantry - and service in war-time, compared woman for woman with many of thelr critics. Mrs. Moore's full statement follow: Arraigns “Ultra-Patriots.” “Since the arrival in this country of the first foreign delegates to the convention of the International Coun- cil of Women, and spasmodically throughout the convention, there have appeared in the press various charges and counter charges, accusations and denials concerning the personalities and purposes of our organization. ““As president of the-National Coun- cil of the United States, which is act- ing as host to this brillaint as- semblage of women from all over the world, I have been relunctantly forced from time to time to make brief state- ments in answer to these stories and rumors. “Thus far, however, I have re- frained from making any statements which might engender further con- troversy, for I did not wish our vis- itors to take home with them any memories of petty disturbances grow- ing out of this convention, the guid- ing motive of which has been to se- cure peace in all matters. “But_now, on the eve of the de- (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) By the Consolidated Press. Rum and radio have become at one and the same time boon com- panions and sworn enemies. And the battle that is raging at present between the rum-smuggling fleet of the Atlantic and the United States Coast Guard is not so much a war of bullets and bombs as it is of radio and wits. At the headquarters of the Coast Guard here today it was revealed that not only the dot-dash transmit- ters are being utilized in blockad- ing the entry of contraband goods to American soil, but that radio- phone communication also has been established _between the many Coast Guard cutters and between the cutters and the shore stations, and is being worked successfully. These phone transmitters were in- stalled_only recently in virtually all of the Coast®uard rum chasers. They operate on secret wave. lengths in addition to dispatching messages in a variety of innocent- sounding codes, Opposed to this scheme of com- (Continued on Page 3, Column 3.) IRadio and Wits, Not Rifles and Lead, Decisive Factors in War on Rum Row munication between” the Coast Guard fleet and headquarters is a less highly organized and un- licensed scheme of wireless com- munication maintained by the rum- laden vessels that boast a residence in rum row and their base of opera- tion, for the most part along the Jersey and Virginia coasts. Despite its imperfections and its lack of a Government license this radio system, by which the master minds of the alcohol fleet direct the landing of whisky, quote bids and offers and generally supervise the ;::n:e:‘l:;dmmlln‘ business, has a : ficlent degree. st Coast Guard officials, however, will only sketch the results that they have been able to obtain from their wireless supervision of the opera- tions of rum row. They neither deny nor confirm reports that they had been able to certain im- * - vers and thereby to follow the plans of rum row. £ .. {Copyrlent, 1528 “By thus attempting to censor our | meetings these ultra-patriots are prov- | | CILBANK €. TWIGE, L SHooTS S 1Wealthy Virginian in Serious Condition—Just Had Nerv- | | ous Breakdown. {new Finger Prints Sent By Wire Identified Within a Minute CHICAGO, May 13.— Finger prints sent by wire from New York to Chicago last night were identi fled in one minute after being re celved, the bureau of identification of the Police Department said The tests were made in lonnec- tion with the international con vention of police chiefs in New York. 40000000 SLASH INTAXES PROPOSED Bacharach Tells Coolidge New Law Must Be Satis- factory Politically. By the Associated Press. A program for $400.000.000 tax re- duction was proposed to President Coolidge today by Representative Bacharach of New Jersey, Republi can, a member of the House way: means committee, which will revenue legi tion next F; At the same time the New Jerses Representative told the President new tax legislation must be approached from a ‘“practical, or the political, viewpoint, rather than from a theo retical, or the so-called standpoint Sees Political Angle. all right.” he said, “to talk tax reduction and T be lieve many of the changes suggested by Secretary Mellon and others along these lines ought to be put into effect “But I am basing my observation upon experience gained as a member “It is of scientific {of the ways and means committee, having fresh in mind what happened when we were considering the tax re- scientific, | LEWD NAGAZIE SHLES STOPPED B 0.0, DSTRBUTOR Rapid Strides Made in Drive on Salacious Writing and “Art.” DEALERSACTION HALTS PROSECUTION BY GORDON Police Ordered to Prevent Recur- rence of Distribution of In- decent Matter. Swift and decisive developments in the fight to rid Washington of the | salacious literature and obscene “art that has been cluttering its news. stands for the past vear followed in rapid succession today, assuring a victory for the forces determined to keep the National Capital clean of lascivious publications Three victorious achieved today First, two of the leading distributors jof magazines in Washington sub mitted United States District At { torney Peyton C. Gordon copies of every publication they offer for sale and definitely promised not only to stop the sale of questionable ones but {to recall immediately many as possible that have already been dis tributed and ship them promptly back {to the publishers from whom they j were purchased. results were Suppressions Ordered. | Second, Maj. Gordon announced | that he had ordered the suppression lof many of the ma res: that he ihad asked the police department to | keep a strict watch for any recur rence of the “orgy of salacious pubii cations” that has been practiced for | duction last year and in 1922, and aiso | months past, and that any newsdealer Gilbank C. Twigg, wealthy of Leeds Manor, comprising | Virginia's largest fruit orchards Markham, Va.. is in a eritical condi | tion at Emergency Hospital from a wound inflicted when he shot himself | today in his apartment at 1302 Eight- eenth street. 1 | “am sorry I didn't make a better; ]JUD of it,”" the wounded man is quoted | |as telling a nurse who had been as- | l.\mned to keep constant watch owner ! i | they keeping in mind the fact th a4 new revenue bill can be before sed by that bedy will be in the midst of pi mary cumpaigns for renomination, and to tax reduction along those whieti they think will meet the ap- proval of their immediate constitu- encies, and not concern themselves so much about the country in general.” Would End Excese Taxes. A maximum surtax rate of 20 per are going to pledge themselves | lines : ! found violating the promise to cease |the sale of objectionable editions one of | the House many of the members of | would be prosecuted \ithout merc: land without loss of time. | Third, Inspector Evans, acting superintendent of police, sent an order to every precinct station in the city, | calling ‘the attention of commander: to existing conditions, ordering every serpeant and private in the city o carefully watch newsstands for ob- jectionable literature, and declaring that the precinct gommanders would be held personally responsible for the Overlcent and elimination of most of the|immediate cleaning up of their dis Mr. Twigg, following a nervous break- | miscellaneous excese taxes, including | tricts. down two days ago. Mrs. Josephine Conrad Twigs. the| wife, collapsed in an apartment in the | | Shoreham Hotel on being informed of her husband’s act. She has been re-| | stding at the hotel si sudden illness. those on automobiles and accessories, motor boats, jewelry and club dues was advocated by thé New Jersey Representative. | Warrants to Be Withheld. i As a result of these sweeping de | velopments, District Attorney Gordon Reduction in the rates on incomes|will withhold service of the two war- ince Mr. Twigg's | between $2,000 and $10,000 also is|rants that were issued for the arrest {possible, Mr. Bachrach declared, as|of two dealers, charging themn with | In accordance with Mrs. Twigg's well as increased allowance for de.|violating the law prohibiting the sale instructions, a male nurse was on duty pendents. He would have the surtax !of “obscene, indecent or lewd" pub- |all last night at the Twigg apartment |rate apply only on incomes of $15,000 |lications in the District of Columbia lon Eighteenth street. The night nurse |was relieved this morning by Jesse R. | |Booth, another nurse. Booth and | Twigg sat down 1o breakfast short |after 8 o'clock, and the latter seemed | |in good spirits, it was stated. | Found Lying on Floor. “After eating a few mouthfuls Mr. | Twigg excused himself and went in| |the bathroom,” Booth said. ‘“Before | 11 could follow him I heard a shot. 1! found him lying on the floor, the re- |volver at his side. He was conscious, | \S.n: sald he was sorry he bungled the | ! job.™" Headquarters Detectives Cullinane | and O'Dea; who answered a call for| police from the apartment, began an | investigation of the shooting, and sat- isfied themselves that the wound was |self-inflicted. f “We asked him if family troubles | were responsible for his act, but he| replied in the negative, declaring that | Mrs. Twigs was ‘a wonderful wom- ! an'" the detectives stated. “He! didn't give any reason for his decision | to end his life. | The detectives took possession of the revolver, a heavy 45-caliber type | of weapon. | Victim Is Conscious. } . Mr. Twigg was still conscious when carried to an ambulance on a stretcher. He was taken to a private room at the hospital, where he found Mrs. Twigg | awaiting him. They conversed very | briefly in low tones prior to the ar- | rival of Dr. James F. Mitchell, prom- diately to the urgent call for his aid | sent to him in another part of town. | Dr. Mitchell administered opiates to | (Continued on Page 5, Column 2.) 44 INFANTS DIED | AT “BABY FARMS Bureau of Vital Statistics Gives Record of Institutions Since 1918. By the Assoctated Press. NEW YORK, May 13.—Records of the Bureau of Vital Statistics were made public today showing that 44 babies died in two “baby farms” con- ducted by Mrs. Helen Auguste Geisen- Volk in this city since 1918. Mrs. Geisen-Volk is being held in $36,000 bail on charges resuiting from in- vestigation of the institutions. Graves of two of the children who died at the baby home of Mrs. Geisen- Volk within 16 months are to be opened today in an effort to ascertain whether any crime was committed in connection with their deaths. Assist- ant District Attorney Ryan obtained a court order yesterday for exhuma- tion. ‘The children are Agnes Toohey, 18 months old, who, according to the uncorroborated statement of a nurse, was held by the heels and dashed against a wall, and Willlam Winters, 4 months old. Mr. Ryan is presumed to have information about the Win- ters baby that has not been disclosed. Mrs. Volk, widow of a German army officer, has issued a statement asserting that she is “the victim of spite and malice and that every phase of this case can be properly ex- plained.” She is in jail, accused of substituting another child for Steven Angerer, 7 months old, whose father, ‘Willlam Angerer, started the investi- gatlon. The real Angerer baby has |a general court-mart inent surgeon, who responded immne- |s and_upward. While agreeing in part with Sec- retary” Mellon's plan to eliminate the inheritance tax, Mr. Bachrach said he did not believe the present make-up of the House would consent and he x;uggested reducing the inheritance ax. COMMANDER HUFF CHARGE DISMISSED Court-Martial Acquits Him of Un-| becoming Conduct in Ali- mony Case. By the Associated Press. ‘W YORK, May 13.—Lieut. Comdr. Earl P. Huff, Medical Corps, U. S. was acquitted by ial sitting at the Brooklyn navy vyard yesterday of “‘conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman,” in connection with his |alleged failure to pay alimony to his | divorced wife since April, became known today. While no official 1924, it statement by higher naval authorit; tood that the court’s ing was in- fluenced by the fact that Comdr. Huff | has brought action in Massachusetts courts for reduction of his alimony, |fixed by a decree in a California court of December 26, 1922, at $145 a month, in accordance with a written agree. ment made out of court settling property rights between Comdr. and Mrs. Huff. Comdr. Huff made pay- ments until April, 1924, the charges showed. Recent information from the Navy Department indicated that consider able correspondence had passed be- tween Comdr. Huff and the depart- ment relative to his alleged failure to meet his alimony pay: Secretary of the Navy Wilbur had admonished him that continued failure would result in disciplinary measures. POLICE IN BRISK WAR ON “REDS” IN LONDON Permits to Remain in England Being Canceled and Quantities of Literature Seized. By the Associated Press. LONDON, May 13.—The Daily Chronicle says the police are taking strong measures against the Bolshe. viks in London. The permits of numerous persons to remain in Eng- land have been canceled and the re- newal of others refused, the number thus dealt with mounting into the hundreds. Quantities of literature have also been seized. In consequence of these measures, the paper declares, the Bol- shevik book shop here, where the newspapers Prada, Izvestia and other publications were sold, has been closed and the official Bolshevik paper in England, the Soviet Union Review, has ceased publication. The staffs of Russian commercial establishments are being greatly re- duced, the Chronicle adds, but it is unaware whether this is due to the police campaign or merely to econ- omy. e "~ Radio Programs—Page 29, was | available, pending review of the case | it is under- | ents, and that | The slightest infraction in the future, { however, will bring the offenders to |speedy trial, he promised. | The two news dealers, who supply a majority of Washington’s newsstands | with their literature, made a clean | breast of their wares when they vis | ited Maj. Gordon's office. Accompanied | by attorneys, they took with them copies of every magazine under their | control here and asked the district at- | torney to give a decision as to the legality under the District code. Thexy { even submitted such substantial and irreproachable publications as the Postal Guide and magazines on proper diet. Gordon Rules on Many. After an examination Mr. Gordon | blue-penciled a number of the maga ! zines, informed the dealers that thev would be prosecuted if they offered | them for sale and added that, taking his decision as a guide, they must act | as their own censors in the future o i the Criminal Court would be called | upon to assume that role, with the |attached to the submarine base at|natural consequences to the dealers | New London, Conn., { The law, Mr. Gordon said, is clear in | its intent and sweeping in its scope. ! As a result, the dealers promised { promptly to withdraw from circula tion_the forbidden publications. Thou sands of copies through the city, but the di agreed to inform news dealers of the ruling, take back all copies they could obtain and ship them bac York and Chicago, from which most {of them were originally shipped to Washington. Extraordinary care will be exercised in the future. Dealers Plead Ignorance. The dealers pointed out that they were unaware they were violating the law and promised the fullest co-opera tion with the prosecutor’'s office and the Police Department in strictly en forcing the law. Feeling that the ends he sought to attain had been satisfied for the present, at least, Maj Gordon said he would not press serv- jce of the warrants at this time, but will hold them until newsdealers and distributors have been given an op- portunity of cleaning their own houses. Maj. Gordon has taken steps, how ever, to see that the law continues to be enforced. He has informed the | Police Department of his stand on this question, asked the fullest co-opera tion in strict application of the statutes and promised immediate prose. cutions for every case submitted to him by an officer if the publication or | picture in question is deemed obscene. | indecent, lewd or offensive to public | mogality and common decency. Police Ordered to Act. Even before the district attorney had taken this action, however, the Police Department had stepped into the fight, and before noon today an order was in. the hands of every pre- cinct commander in Washington di- recting that the officers on every pa- trol be instructed to inspect news- stands in their districts and putting enforcement of the law squarely up to the precinct chiefs. This order fol- lows: “To all captains and precinct com- manders: Your attention again is in- vited to section 872 of the Code of Laws for the District of Columbia, re- garding indecent publications. It is Teported to these headquarters by re- sponsible persons that newsdealers and others are violating this law. You will instruct officers under your com- mand that this law 1s to be strictly enforced and commanding officers will be held responsible for the suppre: sion of these publications in their dis tricts. In addition to these developments, (Continued on Page 5, Column **