Evening Star Newspaper, June 21, 1925, Page 1

WEATHER. “From Press to Home " (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.y Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to Washington homes at 60 cents per month. Telephone Main 5000 and service will start immediately. Generally fair today and tomorrow; little change in temperature. Highest, 89, at 4 p.m. vesterday; lowest, 67, at 4 am. yesterday. Full report on page 5. Sunthy Star, WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION Entered as second class matter DOSt_office, Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON, D. C, Calles Asks Study of Mexico es Aok Sty of Mesico MLV OF o. 1,056— No 29,636. AMUNDSEN ENTICED BY GLORIOUS HALOS SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 21, 1925-NINETY-SIX PAGES. » IVE CENTS. (®) Means Associated Press. RACING RUM AUTOS TOUNKNOWNNORTH Tells cf Heartrending Job of Freeing Craft From Clutches of Arctic. PLANE PLOWED INTO ICE IN PERILOUS LANDING Ellsworth’s Heroism Saving Com- rades Is Recounted by Explorer. BY 1l ( hergen KINC JAMES B. WHARTON, orrespondent of Star and North in Newspaper Al with cu-Ellsworth Expedition at Spitz- S s BAY, zbergen, June (hy dio from steamer Heimdal).— After repeated sations with Amundsen since his return to Kings Bay 1 have gathered together in his own words for the readers of Thel Star and its ¢ newspapers plete story t The first install ment of this vivid 1 zraphic ac int. which I shall continue daily two or thr as rap- the con adio con- ks here will takes the fivers ' from the start to their land ing at 4 north latitude and through the first strenuous days of effort to relaunch their single remain- ing plane, “The first hour of our flight toward the North Pole sald Capt. Amund- sen, “was glorified by natural phe- nomena as beautiful as I ever saw. We had encountered light fog soon after we reached Amsterdam Island, miles north of Kings Bay. Through this fog, just beyond Amsterdam conve of the! for JAS. B. WHARTON. the | Asserts Civil Strife Tends to Solve Economic Ills. Reminds Americans of Social Misery of His People. The following statement by Presi- deni Calles of Mezico was made in response to an invitation to Jurther clarify his reply to Secre- tary of State Kellopg's note. It witl be noted that while Presi- dent Calles is more implicit than explicit_in_ his statement of the case_he places first emphasis on the “moral and cconomic redemp- tion” of the Merican people and ex presses the hope that conditions in Mezico may be studied abroad “without having only in mind in- terests of a material order.” BY P. ELIAS CALLES, President of Mexico. By Cable to The Star and New York World. MEXICO CITY, June 20.—In reply to your cable dated June 17, I had re- | solved not to make any new declara- tions after the unhappy incident pro- { voked by the statements of Secretary | of State Kelloge, which incident hap- DPened precisely when the government and people of Mexico are doing their | utmost to develop relations of all natures between the people of hoth { countries and make still more firm. !and friendly, in a more perfect moral form, the relations between both gov- ernments, but your kind offer gives |me an opportunity briefly to remind {the great American people of some- YOUTH FAGING ROPE 1S STABBED BY PAL PRESIDENT CALLES. thing already said by me in a public form in that country when in my capacity of President-elect of the Mexican republic 1 enjoyed their splendid hospitality. 1 then explained at length before a numerous public of capitalists in New York the specfal conditions of our country and the state of misery, eco- nomical and moral, of millions of Mexicans through the systematic ob- livion to which they were condemned during the centuries by injustice and lack of soci isted on the patriotic and humanitarian neces- sity to obtain the cultural elevation and economical redemption of the great masses, especially of countrymen that form the marrow of the Mexican nationality. I pointed out the benefit of every | kind that such a work of redemption would bring, not only to Mexico, but " (Continued on Page 3, Column 3.) Prayers for Rain Asked for Relief Of Hagerstown By the Associated Press. HAGERSTOWN, Md., June 20.— As a result of the most serious T0 ARGTIC SEEKING POLAR CONTINENT “See You in September, Mac,” Is Call of Farewell to U. S. Explorer. LEADER SPENDS NIGHT ON MONHEGAN ISLAND Thousands Line Shore as Ships Set Sail Amid Strains of “Auld Lang Syne.” By the Associated Press. MONHEGAN ISLAND, Me., June Lieut. Comdr. MacMillan's ship, the Bowdoin, dropped anchor in this little fishing port tonight to permit the members of the crew to make the {ship secure for sea and. to allow Comdr. MacMillan to come ashore and visit his old friends among the fisher- men of the island. Virtually the entire population of Monhegan was on the dock as the | Bowdoin dropped her anchor. Fire- j works were displayed from the top of ja hill and cheers floated out across [ the harbor to the commander as he | waved a greeting from the deck. { The sail from Wiscassct was delay- jed somewhat by the boxing of the |compass on the way from Booth { Bay Harbor. FETED AT DEPARTURE. | Demonstration Marks Sailing of Two Ships for Arctic. WISCASSET, Me., June 20 (). Donald Baxter MacMillan left today for the Arctic with the Godspeed of Wiscasset, the $tate of Maine and the Nation ringing in his ears. “See you 1In September, ‘Mac’, shouted his old friends as they stood on Old Whale Wharf bidding them farewell, thereby symbolizing the confidence they have in his ability to bring his crews of two-score men PLASTERERS' STRIKE - NEGOTIATIONS FAL Secretary Davis Warns Unions Grave Troubles Are Ahead in Building Trades. By the Associated Press. Failure to bring opposing factions NTo SEE HER BUT SHE KEPT THINGS FESBOILIN! JUNE 21, SUMMER BEGINS, TODAY’S STAR PART ONE—36 PAGE General News—Local, National Foreign. Around the City—Page 16. hools and Colleges—Page 18. Current 2 rl Sco and District National Guard—Page 22. Boy Scout New “You and Uncle Financial News—| Radio New zes 30 and 31. s and Programs—Page 32. Army and Navy News—Page 33. Ctvilian Army News—Page 33. Spanish War Veterans—Page 33. PART TWO0—16 PAGES. Editorfals and Editorial Washington and Other VIRGINIA AND D. €. ONE, TRINKLE SAYS Should Unite in Working for Common‘interest, Governor Tells Boosters. ! 4y & Staff Correspundent. { ABOARD BOOSTER SOUTH-| | swamps, | of southern ' Maryland | cheerfully week after week, dribblin | The rest is simple. | starts at the stills is first linked by LINK CAPITAL WITH COUNTLESS STILLS Flood of BIo_ckade Liquor Comes in Nightly, Star In- vestigation Discloses. SALES MADE BRAZENLY IN NEARBY MARYLAND Stills Are Carefully Concealed, However, and Rubber Is Burned to Hide Odor of Liquor. Hidden away in the heart of dismal cented at times but rarely lien eyves, the bubbling stills gurgle away en by enough alcoholic liquid to supply goodly half of Washington's ill traffic in corn and green rye whisky. After these stills have done their bit for the law-breaking thirsty, high- powered, high-geared motor cars en- ter into the scheme of things. In the quiet hours of early morning just before dawn they thunder over the roads with shriekinz sirens, warning some belated straggler off the path, and, aided by speed, luck and smoke screens, rush the fruit of the stills into the secret caches of the city. The chain which these rum running car: the wholesaler, who allows - tailers and runners to convey the products to the particular site of the individual thirst. Source Is Probed. In view of the recent move of Com missioper Fredirick A. Fenning in ing a special rum squad to check, the flow of illicit liquor District. two investigators Star last weck made an in spection of the more obscure initial links in the anti-Volstead chain—the bubbling stills and the thundering motors. e tors Hath H The inspection of the first link, the drought in this section of the State | SALelY back from the Arctic, where In | jnto agreement yvesterday brought to LAND, Chesapeake Bay, June e Island, we saw a double halo. in the| Feared for Qwn Life, says middle of which the sun c fect shadow of our plane. st a per- Beckoned Enticingly. hese two multi-colored beckoned us enticingly known. The fog lasted two hours, getting thicker and thicker, but the 4 and the 5 flew close together, always in sight of each other, binks of mis tude considerably. The wifd in the upper strata was a stiff northeasterly breeze. The fog below us prevented all observation of drift or ground speed, which Is vital at the start of any flight “Occasionally we crossed open snaces in the foz, which enabled us toxee the ice, broken with many nar- row lanes of water. The fog lasted until midway be- tween latitude $2 and $3. Suddenly the mist disappeared and the entire panorama of Polar ice stretched away before our eves the most spectacular sheet of snow and ice ever seen by man fr an aerial perspective. stared out of the cockpit fascinated. “During the entire eight hours of the flizht Polewards, I,was so busy with observations that' I forgot to pull on my gloves. From the mo- ment of the hop-off I watched the Sun_com constantly. No words are too strong to use in praise of this new instrument. It kept the exact retlection of the sun constantly be- fore my eyes and assured us that our weneral ' s right. Our speed av tical miles an hour (8 statute miles). The ther- mometer during our flight averaged minus 10 Centergrade (14 above zero Fahrenheit). halos Narrowly Escape Crash. “After two hours of flying reached the Polar pack ice, which stretches unbroken and solid to the furtherest North. Through occasional holes in the foz, we saw that it was marked with heavy pressure ridges all over it. No landing place was visible anywhere. The planes con- tinued to fly together with perfect precision ‘At 1 o'clock in the morning we should have heen, by dead reckoning, at latitude $8.30, but finding that the magnetic compass showed great varia- tion, I realized we had drifted far to the west. Just after 1 o'clock we sighted the first open water, a wide lead in the pack ice, forming a basin. “As it was the only possible land- ing place seen in eight hours, T im. mediately decided to descend, so as to observ curately our position and then continue the flight. The N-24 was so close that its crew could see s preparing to descend, so they fol- lowed suit. s we climbed countabl a we down the motor halted So, instead of choice of a landing place, en was forced out of the into a narrow branch. Heaven knows how we escaped com plete destruction. The wings passed the hummocks on the edges of the lead by a hair's breadth, the plane finally halting with her nose buried in a great hummock, where she stuck. he th budge the n turn about ¢ lead. Our e of us were unable to chine. We wanted to back into the main position was precarious, as we feared the narrow lead might close | momentarily “We quickly removing the provisions and other freight to a high, dry hummock. Then we tried again to drag the ma- chine onto the ice, but its 6 tons was 100 heavy for three men. Comrades Are Lost. “During the landing we had lost sight of the N-24. worried. We did not find her until the next day, May 23, on the other side of the main lead. We immedi- ately got into communication by means of flag signals. “All day we tried to cut off the hummock to enable us to get our plane onto the ice. But the ice was hard as steel and our only implement was a 2-.pound safety ax and our sheath knives. Hopeless necessity inspired us to lash a knife blade to the end of a ski stick, which served excellently to slash the ice. Our fail- ure to provide ourselves with ice cut- ters was due to the fact that we hopped off, as it was, with 1,100 pounds overweight. “All day May (Continued on Page 3, Column 3.) lichtened the plane, into the un-! through the ! Ve increased our alti. | in years, prayers for rain will be offered at all of the services in St. John's Episcopal Church here tomorrow, and the rector, Rev. D. Assailant in Prison Affray. Held for Same Killing. et A ! Farm crops are suffering, gardens S R blighted and fruit, including a large raspberry crop, is drying up, threatening heavy financlal loss to growers, No rain has fallen in the vicinity of Hagerstown in six By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, = June 20.—Walter | Krauser, charged with the murder of | under sentence of death for the same We were greatly | a policeman, today stabbed and pos- sibly fataly wounded Bernard Grant, | murder, while the two were receiv- |ing visitors in the county jail. An operation was performed tonight {in an effort to save Grant's life, but at its conclusion doctors sald they had no hope whatever for his re- covery. Krauser in a statement to Warden Wesley Westbrook said that Grant {had threatened to kill him. The stab- | bing was done with a pocket knife which Krauser said he had found. | Warden Westbrook, however, said he i believed the knife had been smuggled {in to the prisoner. | Grant was stabbed five times. He land Krauser were taken to the visi- !tors’ room to meet relatives of each. A screen divides the visitors' room into two parts, the prisoners occupy- ing one part and visitors the other. When Grant entered the room, Krauser ignered the greetings of his relatives and immediately attacked |his companion. Relatives, powerless | to interfere, collapsed, and the jail, housing several hundred prisoners, | was thrown into confusion. Blame Grant for Killing. Both Krauser and Grant were con- victed of the murder of Policeman Ralph Spuders while trying to hold lup a tea store two years ago. Both | were sentenced to hang, but the case | was carried to the Supreme Court, which upheld the decision of the lower courts as to Grant, but grant- |ed Krauser a new trial on his repre- | sentation that Grant fired the shot | which Killed the policeman. No date vet has been set for the re- trial of Krauser. Grant has succeeded in_ obtaining four or five reprieves, twice almost on thé eve of the date fixed for his execution. He s now under sentence to be hanged August 14. Grant’s hair has turned white and he has become partly bald since his conviction. He was hardly past the age of 19 when sentenced. The ill feeling between Grant and Krauser, jail guards said, had its in- ception after the Supreme Court de- cision. Grant, at the jall hospital, refused to make any statement as to who | stabbed him, answering all questions |with a curt “I don’t care to talk.” | Krauser was more talkative. { “Grant is afraid he will hang for |sure August 14, he said, “and he wanted to put all the blame on me so that he would be pardoned by the governor. He was going to get me. 1 was afraid of him, so I decided I would kill him if he got a chance at me.” | Amundsen’s THE STAR and perilous expedition. weeks. LEGISLATORS KEEP LA FOLLETTE VIGIL Form Honor Guard Around Body of Late Senqtor in Wisconsin Capitol. By the Associated Press MADISO! ., June 20.—Robert M. La Follette is back among his own people tonight to receive from them a last sorrowful tribute before he comes to his final resting place beneath the elms of Forest Hill Cemetery, where sleep his father and mother. His body reposes in the governor's reception room at the State capitol, where it was taken immediately after its arrival here from Washington this afternoon. Tomorrow it will be re- moved to the rotunda beneath the | dome of the State house to lie in state from noon until twilight. The top of the steel-gray casket will be laid back so that the crowds who know and loved him may gaze upon his countenance for the last time. Legislators Form Guard. Until the hour of the funeral sery- ices—1 o'clock Monday afternoon— members of the Wisconsin senate ~nd house of representatives will fo special guard of honor for the body. As_the special funeral train came into Madison after a 24-hour run from the National Capital, it moved for some distance between double lines of fellow-townsmen of the dead Sena- tor. All stood uncovered in silence as the casket .was removed from the catafalque in the funeral car. With members of the legislature as an advance guard, the procession made a slow way along streets where flags on specially erected standards fluttered at half staff. The casket was followed by hundreds who march- ed bareheaded in the bright sun, and grouped themselves in impressive sllence about the massive granite State house while the body was car- ried on to the reception room in the east gallery. Members ' of the legislature im- mediately took up their long vigil, while selected members of the Na- (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) Owtory | of His Polar Flight —will be published exclusively in its 65 associated newspapers of the North American Newspaper Alliance—beginning * TOMORROW OR TUESDAY. The first news of his safe landing came in a copyrighted dis- patch to The Star—and now will follow the detailed account of the flight into the North, from the pen of the leader of the It is full of interesting incidents and daring encounters more dramatic and thrilling than any we worked at low- | fiction you ever read. S| the Polar Sea the explorer hopes to find an unknown and uncharted land. | Lieut. Comdr. MacMillan's two | ships sailed away amid the greatest demonstration he ever has received !into the far north. Thousands of | persons lined the roadways along the | Sheepscot River and jammed the pier from which the Bowdoin and Peary salled. Thousands more waved farewell from the hillsides. Departure Impressive. .| School children crowded the whart dnd unloosed a shower of multi-col- ared toy balloons as the 5th Infantry Band of Portland played the na. tional anthem. Commander MacMil- lan stepped aboard the Bowdoin, took the wheel, the lines were cast off and the craft slipped out among a hundred or more flag-bedecked small boats that were on hand to accompany him to | the mouth of the river. | The band went aboard their boat, the General Robert Anderson of Port- { eircled his craft about the whart for | & final wave of farewell the strains of “Auld Lang Syne” floated across the | calm water of the river. The departure was immediately pre- ceded by a celebration in Lieut. Comdr. MacMillan’s honor on the village | green, where he heard prominent men | of Nation and State wish him well and ! express their confidence in his suc- cess. Gov. Ralph O. Brewster of Maine, Capt. D. E. Dismukes, com- | mandant of the Portsmouth, N. H., navy yard, were the speakers. Mrs. Peary At Wharf. Many old friends of Comdr. Mac- | Millan were on hand to bid him good- |bye. Among them was Mrs. Robert E. Peary, widow of the late Rear Ad- miral Peary, discoverer of the North Pole, and with whom MacMillan made his first trip to the Arctic; Mrs. Ed- ward Stafford, Mrs. Peary's daughter, who was born beyond the Arctic Cir- cle, and her brother, Robert E. Peary, jr., and Maj. Gen. A. W. Greely, the first American explorer of note, and who 41 years ago reached the farthest northern point that any explorer had reached at that time. The Peary slipped away from the pier a short time before the Bowdoin sailed, but she lay in the middle of the |stream waiting for the commander's {ship to lead the way behind an escort of two Navy eagle boats. | Before the ships left Wiscasset, on any of his eight previous trips| land, and as Commander MacMillan | ;an end Secretary Dav conference | for settlement of the strike of the | Operative Plasterers’ International | Unton. In closing the conference Secretary | Davis declared that unless the dis- | putants, the Operative Plasterers and | the Bricklayers against masons and | the, Plasterers’ International Union. are able to reach some basis of agree- | ment between themselves which will jnclude an immmediate truce and the Tesumption of bullding operations “they must assume full responsibility { The strike, the result of a jurisdic- | tional dispute, he said, has affected many localities, and ““unless the issues | grave trouble in the building trades i will oceur.” | The Labor Secretary announced that President McGivern of the plas- | terers’ union had agreed to a cessa- | tion of hostilities, the return of his men to work and the arbitration of points at issue, but that the brick- layers’ organization, as a prerequisite to agreeing on arbitration. insisted upon the withdrawal of all charters issued to newly organized plasterers’ unions in Florida. Issue Halts Parley. Officers of the bricklayers' union contended that none of their men are on strike and that the new plasterers’ unions were organized in violation of an agreement made between the two unions in 1911. The plasterers held that this agreement had been abro- gated. ! “"The plasterers’ strike was called by President McGivern of the pasterers’ union in New York last week, and | had the immedate effect of bringing out plasterers employed by _the Thompson-Starrett Co. of New York, |the Longacre Engineering and Con- struction Co. of New York and Fuller & Co. of Chicago, wHich have under way between $75,000,000 and $90,000,- 000 worth of construction. “The strike has affected work on dwellings, schools, colleges, churches, hotels, office buildings, apartments and mercantile establishments in many citles in the East and Middle West. CAB DRIVER ROBBED "D. {are settled now for all time further | Lieut. Comdr. Richard E. Byrd, com- manding the naval airplane contin- gent of the expedition, said the planes had been inspected by Grover Loen- ing, their designer, and found to be OF HIS CAR AND $2 in tiptop condition. Peary Speeds On. Accompanying the expedition to Sydney, N. S., where the two ships will stop for fuel, are Dr. Gilbert Grosvenor, president of the National Geographic Society, which has spon- sored and financed the expedition, and J. R. Hildebrand, chief of the so- clety’s school service. On the Bowdoin today were .200 members of the Civitan Club of Min- neapolis. There were salling as far as Monhegan- Island ‘where Comdr- MacMillan plans to pass the night. The Peary after stopping .at Booth Bay Harbor to take on 5,000 gallons of fresh water, continued to speed on toward Sydney. ’ SENATOR LADD IMPROVES Condition Better, But Still Serious, Physicians Report. Slight improvement was reported last night in the condition of Senator Ladd of North Dakota, who is suffer- ing from kidney trouble in a Balti- more hospital. The attending physi- clans stated that they had noticed some improvement during the past 24 hours and did not consider the patient’s condition particularly alarm- ing. They emphasized, however, that it continues serious and that the danger point has not been passed. Assassin Wounds Consul. ESSEN, Germany, Jupe 20 (#).—An expatriated Pole, named Chaskel Ber- gler, attempted to assassinate the Polish vice consul today. As the con- sul was discussing with Bergier the matter of his status, Bergler draw a pistol and fired three shots, seriously wounding the consul. Bergler was ar- rested. t Three Young Bandits Steal Ma- chine and Money From Taxi Man. Three young bandits robbed Joseph B. Eckloff, public hacker, of 4 I street, of his automobile and $2, he told police last night. Eckloff told police that he was hired at the Seventh street wharves by the three, who ordered him to drive to Livingston road southeast. While crossing a dark portion of the road he was overpowered by the men, who ejected him from his machine after taking $2 from his pockets. They then drove off. Eckloff gave a description of only one of the men, being unable to recog- nize anything of the other two. All appeared to be about 22 years old, he said. HEAD OF IOWA W.C. T. U. MAY RUN FOR THE SENATE Mrs. Ida B. Wise Smith Reported to Be Seeking Nomination to Succeed Cummins. By the Associated Press. DES MOINES, Towa, June 20.—The Des Moines Capital today said Mrs. Ida B. Wise Smith, State head of the ‘Woman's Christian Temperance Union, may be a candidate for the Republican nominatfon for United States Senator. “The report that Mrs. Smith wili run for Senator Cummins’ seat,” the article said, “freely was discussed at the last meeting of the State central committee, particularly among the woman members of that body.” Tales of Well Knotvn Folk—Pag Reviews of New Books—Page 18. News of the Clubs—Page 13. Y. W. C. A. Notes—Page 13. Fraternal News—Page 15. Parent-Teacher Activities—Page 15. A. R. News—Page 16. PART THREE—10 PAGES. Am;lsememk'l'henlel‘! and the Photo- play. Music in Washington—Page 4. Motors and Motoring—Pages, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9. Serial, “The Most Dangerous Game"— Page 10. PART FOUR—# PAGES. Pink Sports Section. PART FIVE—8 PAGES. Magazine Section—Fiction and Fea- tures. The Rambler—Page 3. PART SIX—10 PAGES. Classified Advertising. GRAPHIC SECTION—8 PAGES. World Events in Pictures. COMIC SECTION—4 PAGES. Mr. Straphanger; Reg'lar Fellers; Mr. and Mrs.; Mutt and Jeff. BONUS CERTIFICATE LOANS ARE PROBED Secret Service Agents Seize 235 From Money Lender in Texas. One of the most important issues involving the World War bonus since the Government began issuing certifi- cates January 1 of this year was raised yesterday, when agents of the secret service seized 235 bonus certifi- cates from a money lender in San Antonio, Tex. ‘What will be done in the case of the man, whose name was not revealed, had not been decided by Washington officials last night, according to a can- vass of several most closely concerned, but all agreed it was a matter of para- mount importance. The certificates are in the hands of the secret service agent at San Antonio. Director Hines of the Veterans' Bureau was out of the city yester- day when his office Was notified by W. H. Moran, chief of the secret service of the seizure of the certifi- cates. Gen. Hines, however, was sald by a high official to be deeply con- cerned over the possibility of the soldler bonus certificates passing into unauthorized hands, through trans- actions not authorized by law. It was believed any definite action by the Veterans' Bureau would _probably await the director’s return tomorrow. Chief Moran explained last ‘night that the money lender from whom the certificates had been taken had e 20| stills, produced no tangible results. (via cia amateur radio, courtesy of | Visual inspection seems to be the last M. A. Leese)—Virginia and the Dis-| thing desired by these operators. For | trict of Columbia are one community, | that reason they modestly retire into | having much in common and each de. | the swamps that stretch their murky | pending upon the other, but this is|ireachery between the Wicomico, t not vet fully realized by the people | Potomac, the Patuxent and the of either jurisdiction, Gov. E. Lee|apeake Bay. Thh»v optimt: o5 Trinkle of Virginia told the Boosters | Yestigators thought—poor wits—tha tonight at their first assembly of the | PY running up hidden trails into some trip. {of the woods, thickets, swamps and The Virginia ~Govérnor | jungles that crop up here and there, painted a | 4).ov might, perchance. hjunder into & |two communities uniting and devel oping those things which they hav in common, for he said as one pros-| pe: so will the other. | Virginia needs the District and the | District needs Virginia,” the Gov- | ernor declared. “The two communi-, ties are so much a part of each other | that when I am in an audience such | as the business men who compose ! | this gathering I feel at home. i Virginia Welcomes Factories, | Gov. Trinkle said that the oppor- tunity for the development of the two | areas were much greater than many | of the people had been made to real ize. He pointed out that the District | of Columbia did not want factories or | industries, particularly those that | emitted much smoke, but just across the river in Virginia that State wel- comes them and would gladly take them for development. | “Why should the District of Co- lumbia and Virginia stand by and let | interests from the North pass through the Capital City and through Virginia and on further South, when right at the Capital's door is land Waiting fur‘ development,” he asked. | “The two should work together and | stop these industries from passing through and both would benefit and | Drosper.” [ He regretted the fact that business | men did not more often cast aside! their cares and get together as boys, | as they have on this trip. Gatherings | of this kind are to be encouraged, he | said, as they result in betterment for | the men, the community and the coun- try, and serve to put them in an op-| timistic frame of mind. By such a state of mind the coun- try “will again be drawn to an even | keel from the perilous times during | and since the war. | Picturing a grand j word picture of the possibility of lhel i spectacle of | trict of Columbin until it bursts through its geographical boundaries the rapid development of the Dis-| still or two. They were to be dis- !appointed. And they felt keenly about it, too. until they learned from sources of unquestioned authority, that many of the rum cars—in fact, the majority of them—do not go direct to the still, but to the cache near it. Work in Inaccessible Spots. And from this same source the: learned that the still operators like to work in solitude. unhampered by pry- ing eves, and accordingly construct shacks and plants in the most inac cessible places that can be found. If some doubting motorist who goes zin- ping merrily over the smooth south ern Maryland roads believes that this is poppycock because it cannot be seen, let them live serene in their be- liefs. For it approaches the impossi- ble to convince them otherwise by visual evidence. ery now and then a prohibition agent by some strenuous work spot: a still and raids it. But these raids do not even mar the surface of the rum- making industry. Weeks of work, and possibly months, wiil be needed to fer- ret out some of the swamps and marshes which shield the stills, ac- cording to the general opinion held by natives and authorities alike. As for the Batney Oldfields of boot- leggerdom—wha act as the Gany- medes for the thirsty—they have evi- dently conceived a system of fleet transportation that is going to prove at least troublesome to those attempt- ing to break it up. Go With Sirens Shrieking. With the inspection of this branch of the industry the investigators had better luck—much better luck. Short- ly after 11 o'clock Friday night during their tour on southern Mary- land roads, the investigators began to be aware of the presence of these rum racers. Out from the dark in | the rear, just over the District line, | came one of the first groups of ma- into the States beyond, bringing about | chines: a_siren shrieked a warning, a the development of that great metro- | gark hulk went by with an accom- politan _district now being planned, | paniment much like that of a machine Maj. Willlam E. R. Covell, United | zyn—then another—and still another. States Army Engineer Corps, Assist-| These were cars of the block system. ant Engineer Commissioner of the Dis- trict of Columbia, gave to the Boost- ers some facts and figures which brought vividly to the mind's eye not only the possibilities and probabilities, but the acutalities that are coming. Maj. Covell is in charge of public utilities and has made a thorough study of the situation, giving full credit to those in Washington whose opinions are entitled to great weight in the facts and figures which he quoted. Transformation Under Way. The transformation now is taking place, he said. I'rom a provincial town it is developing into the most beautiful city and capital of the world. Manifestations of it are seen every were. Washington is leading in (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) (Continued on Page 4, Column 2.) President’s Desk Clear as He Makes Preparations to Leave White House President and Mrs. Coolidge are busy. preparing for their departure Tuesday for Swampscott, Mass., where they will spend the next two months. The President's yacht Mayflower weighed anchor late yesterday with the first detachment from the ‘White House bound for the Sum- mer retreat. Carrying two cooks, domestic servants and the White House dogs, Paul Pry and Rob Roy, the vessel will proceed to Marblehead, Mass., where it is ex- pected to arrive tomorrow. Mr. Coolldge had a busy day, but the évening found his desk clear and him ready to leave. Only a few appointments are pend- ing, and the President has few questions demanding fmmediate disposal. With an office set up for his use at Lynn, Mass., Mr.=Cool- | idge will carry on there such busi- ness as arises during the Summer. Soon after the departure of the family from the White House, workmen will start extensive reno- vation, and Mrs. Coolidge is busily engaged in arranging such direc- tions for this as will be necessary. An appropriation of $50,000 was granted by Congress for - the re- pairs, most of which will be in semi-public rooms on the first floor, new rugs and wallpaper will be placed. ‘The presidential party will leave Tuesday afternoon, arriving in Salem, Mass., carly the next morn- ing. From there the President will motor the four miles to Swampscott. wealth, intelligence, zoning, in build- | On the journey back—it may have been the same machines, it may have been others—the investigators _saw three cars scurrying toward Washing- ton. During = the instantaneous {glimpse that they had the investi- igators noted that the first car ran | high on the springs; the second, a bit {saggy, and the third, like the first, light. Each of the guard machines |had two men. The center one had |three in it. That is the system—a vanguard, the “load” and the rear {guard. And to get the “load” police {or prohibition agents will have to |take chances in wrecking some motor |cars, it seems, for they go like the wind and whoever tries to stop them has some stopping to do. Make 60 Miles An Hour. The Investigators noted eleven ma- chines from 11 p.m. to 3:30 a.m. There were two groups of three—one en route to the cache near the stills, the other headed for Washington. The other five were “lone wolves.” Each had three men in the front seat. And not one of the eleven, when seen, was going at less speed than 60 miles an hour with the tail lights out so as to hide the numbers on the license plates. Three hundred miles of southern Maryland's ideal “moonshine” country were covered by the investigators in their search for stills ‘and rum-run- ners. The trip took them through the jungle-like wooded sections of Calvert, Charles and St. Mary’s Counties. Stills are known to border many of the streams that run through the ‘solated swamp lands, but they are camou- flaged by nature’s own heavy veil of woods and underbrush. Even revenue azents long ex- perienced in the work of ferreting out the illicit distilleries have found it { difficult to locate them. The investigators began their trail for stills just east of Waldorf on the road that leads to Leonardtown, the county seat of historic St. Marys ""(Continued on Page 2, Column 19 4