Evening Star Newspaper, December 23, 1925, Page 1

© " WASHINGTO WEATHER. S. Weather Burcau Forecast.) ind continued cold, lowest tem- ire about 20 degrees tonight; to. Lorrow inercasing cloudiness with ris- ing temperature. Temperature—High- eat. 48 at 2 pm. yesterday: low 1.m. today. Full report on page 7. Fa pera | Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 28 Entered as second class Washinzton, matter D. C. 29.8231, post office. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Tpening Star. D. C, WEDNESDAY, every city b tion is delive: as fast as th “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star's carrier system covers lock and the regular edi- red to Washington homes e papers are printed. DECEMBER 23, 1925—FORTY PAGES. * ) Means Associated FENNING PROPOSES TO FORBID ALL-NIGHT PARKING IN DISTRICT GOOLIDGE DECIDE T0 ACCEPT LEAGUE ARMS PARLEY BID Finds Way to Agree to U. S. Participation, But Delays Announcement. Instructs Eldridge to Draw Up Regulation Again: Leaving Autos on Streets in Early Morning. Seeks Reaction of Public. | First definite steps to prohibit al- night parking within the District were | I’ taken today by ner Fred. erick A. Fenning Spurred to action by complaints | from residents of communities whére | the all-night it abou Com- | missioner Fenning instructed Traffic ‘,H]‘!‘Y'VIVI M. O. Eldridge to d t rezulation designed to provide for the| omplete abolition of parking on all| streets during a certain period of the| early morning Cornoration unsel Francis H. Stephens will assist Mr Eldridge in framing the regulation. . | The recent fact-finding transporta- Method to Be Followed to Be Speci- | tion survey conducted by McClellan and Junkersfeld showed that 18,458 fied Later—Hughes Men- automobiles, or 22 per cent of the total tioned as Envoy. rage space or building a private ga- ze Commissioner well us othe nfficials have & Fenning =aid he as District government ven serious consideri- tion for some time to the all-night parking evil. and have veached the conclusion that it should be broken up soon possil Cars cluttering up the streets night, the Commissioner pointed out, seriously handicap the fire apparatus d aid criminals in making their es- ape. Other large cities in the cou | Mr. Fenning explained, ban all-ni Commissil kers BORAH SEES APPROVAL OF ENTRY AS ASSURED Washington should not adopt this plan. “What we want to do.” he said s to get the cars off the stree People in outlving sections who not have garuges may he able find space for their cars on lots. The proposed regulation would ban (Continued on #utomobile population of the District.| a0 i were parked all night when a count | was made. If the proposed regulation is adopted, these motorists . will be faced with the problem of rentins ga- ¥ 'Hard Coal Is Sold NNEMENKILED e Cont b el IV OHO MINE FRE B Boston Firm Eleven Trapped, Two Are Saved—68 Escape Blaze Unhurt—Inquiry Started. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. President Coolidge finally has found | A way for the United States to the invitation from the League af Nations to participate in the pre. liminary conference he held Geneva arms limita he feels will Page 2, Column 2 ac cont to consider an tion conference vav meet with ceneral Although the F ready to make public cepting this invitation it known to sever frreconcilibles in ress and has re ceived assurance that they will offer no objection. In fact, two of these Senator Borah of Idaho. chairman of the foreign relations committee, and Senator Moses of New Hampshire, = member of that mittee—told the President today that they approve the idea and are in accord with his position The President had sent for Senator Borah to discuss the question of ap- propriations in connection with the ac ceptance of the invitation to the con fevence, White House spokesmen admitted today approval. ecutive is not A the Associated Press BOSTON, December coal has become that one larze firm, opened 12 distributing stations in various parts of the city. is offer ing anthracite to cashand-carry customers at 1 cent a pound. Buyers must bring their own hods or baskets. CONGRESS TAKES T2-DAY VACATION Groundwork for Spirited Ses- sion Laid During Past Two Weeks. his plan for he has made of the so-called 23— Hard scarce here which has By the Associated Press | | BELLEAIRE, Ohio, December Fire. believed have started a fall of -circnited electric sht lines, toll of nine liv at the W at Shadyside. a few miles south of here, last nizht Two other miners are recovering in 4 Belleaire hospital suffe from shock and gas. The dead. all 10 when coal sho took 2 bh mine Acceptance Forecast. There has: been little doubt about | Shadyside, are acceptance of this invitation. The ' John Sarre. 40 President himself was responsible for ruax, 30 this feeling. Yesterday. while dis Kennedy cussing the invitation with callers, he t. 35 Bias Alfred Zaccizini, 31 plainly indicated that he had made| & accichat, 4 up his mind to accept and that for ‘11;‘;‘3]‘\,':«_"“ ada, 50 mal announcement was merely await- e 3 AEB 25 Ing his decision concerning the best| (O * C\_e’“”{q method to pursue. He also indicated | JHrn Sags, 3. that he wanted to be satisfied just| All excenting Zaccizin how helpful this country could be 1nl““e married. participating in the preliminary con- No More Men in Mine. i ference. and just what could be ex e iy tay had|, ReSuminz deliberaiions on January pected to be ultimarely accomplished | HEECHE | PAT };‘7 v of oy had| 4. both houses will have a number of n the matter of reducing armament D€ d to all portions of the mine | s 6, jsues with which to grapple. among the nations of Europe where the men were working when | jrojia, WSS TR N K e a there as questio i fire sta . and reported v z whe the Presid should acc m " in the min, - 5 - 2 i 2 situations, debt settlements and the personally on behalf of the Wshing: | official check of the force known to | o Lot olamen ton Government or whether he first working corroborated this asser.| VATIOUS appropriation bills. | Working at top speed. the House should submit the matter to the Sen- Ate or Conzress as'a Wwholé for san has passed on to the Senate the $325.- . 000,000 tax reduction hill and prepared for'a vote on the Treasury-Post Of- ion In was indicated today following fice supply bill immediately after re- conveninz. It also adopted a resolu- several conferences that the Presi | tion calling for investization of al- dent will not make public his accep leged manipulation of crude rubber ance for at least a week. Secretary of State Kellogg, who has conferred prices by the English colonial govern- ment, and of monopolies of other with the President daily since the ar- rival of the invitation a week ago.| and who was closeted with him for o altics. halt an hour today, is leaving Wash-; Busy as it was, the lower chamber ington tonight to spend the "hr';'”"“ took time to discuss lpmmmxiun at holidays at his home in St. Paul. and | &reat length and from both sides, the will not return until next Wednesday. ivai nredominaihs b e only \ote on the subject. The vote came on a provision of the Treasury bill which He sald after being with the Presi- th 5 to the dent that announcement would not be face. Fer died. however, a few would appropriate $230.000 for use by prohibition agents in procuring evi- i rotor minutes later. The other two, Rob. forthcoming untl ont's acceptance a| ert Hock and Harry Kyle. both of foregone conclusion, the only specu- | Bellaire, who were brought to the | gence, e el arters toduy surface” alive, were reported well on | YRS <0100 Lacsed only one major regarding the method he will pursue | the road to recovery this morning. | peaqure, but it started several issues on their’ way to extended debate. It passed the administration bill creat —whether he will refer the matter to M Congress for official approval or whether he will accept and will mere- | inz a division of civilian aeronautics Iy request Conzress Apnropriafe in the Department of Commerce, and the money necessary to defray the | enacted several minor measures in ad- expenses of the American delegation dittion to confirming hundreds of nom- that will be sent to Geneva inations. Consideration of proposed American adherence to the World Court will be sumed in the Senate after the holi The Webb mine is one of the largest | s, while its finance committee will in_the eastern Ohio field and is oper: | hegin work on the tax bill. It is of whem live near 12-day vacation Congress began a today, closing a busy two weeks in which, it laid much of the ground | work Yor a lonz and spirited session. and Szigz b | tion Early today the fire was burning flercely. but little effort having heen made to check it until rescue work was complete. Company officials said the damage probably would be large before the fire is extinguished. Only 79 men of the normal force of 600 were at work at 6 o'clock last night. when the fire was discovered. All made their escape except 11, who were trapped in one of the lower lat- erals. Rescue workers succeeded in reaching them before midnight and brought three survivors to the sur- wa izht Bodies Found. The bodies of the eight who died in the mine were brought to the surface | before 2 o'clock this morning. No statement was forthcoming from the company officials early today pending an investigation DLy State es Approval. mine officials, who reactied the scene ho is one of the late last night in the nate of | Borah Senator Bor: leading opponents the administration’s World Court pro- tocol, said today after his talk with Mr. Coolidge that he approves of the President’s position. The ldaho Sena- tor said the President could count on his support. Senator Moses, World Court and .t the White House today that he \pproves participation in this pre- liminary conference. “I have said so 111 along,” Senator Moses d. “And T expressed myself to that extent to the President today.” Senator Moses added principal object of his White House had to fAlling of the vacancy caused by recent death of Alien Pr ty S e todian Hicks. He said the matter s ST Rt i % Tt he Geneva conference came up dur-| WAYNESBURG December 23. inz the conversation. It was inti-| —Four volunteer firemen were killed WAVE OF MURDERS mated by Senator Moses also that'and five others injurcd. two serfously. | authorization of an appropriation for | during a fire which swept the busine: this participation is the only con-!gistrict of Waynesburg early today. | srasslonalwrloy Do and Moses Several buildings were destroyed and | Roth Senators By and Moses MRIS S ! sald they did not discuss the World | 2 number of others damaged, the total| it loss being estimated at $750,000. The : firemen were crushed under a falling | Four Slayings and One Suicide Zourt with the President today. wall. : Mhe firemen who met death were| Mark Pre-Christmas Outburst of Crime. (Continued on Page 2, Column 1) | planned to finally pass the tax meas. ure by March. The foreign debt set 5 tements, which met opposition upon | their first mention in the upper cham- tion when the tax bill is cleared away. Both houses have concerned them IN $750,000 FIRE Falling Wall Crushes Volunteers T Senator King, Democrat, Utah, was Fighting Flames That Sweep laid aside at his own request, while at in the House, by Representatives Waynesburg. ¥ i another foe of the | the league, said | | each having received resolutions au | thorizing American participation in | the preliminary sessions to be held at | Geneva. The Senate resolution, by the | the the the Cus- of selves with the disarmament question, that call at do with sh, Republican, New York, and Moore, Democrat, Virginia, was re ferred to committee. an Lenroot Sees President. Senator and member of relations committee with | whom the President conferred today was Irvine L. Lenroot of Wiscohsin, who is personally conducting the World Court fight in the Senate for the administration. Senator Lenroot | Three other men received cuts «nd . (CHICAGO, December 23.—Four mur- said afterward that he came to the bruises. All the injured. who were) Another t the foreign Harvey Call, William inch. Joseph Rifenberg and Thurman Long. Victor H. Silveus suffered tractures of th skull and jawbones, and Luther Ren ner sustained an injury to his bac 1u_\ the Associated Press. these avneshurs fite com.| ders and a suicide in a pre-Christmas Whits Houss printarily In the'interest | nembiers of he S Sehbng 58 S0 ouenuat’ ot gani | fiisday liiol ighis (Continued on Page 2, Column 8) | PaTw: WOR 1R condition of Silveusand robberies, were under police in- = c and Renner was serious. . | vestigation today. Buildings destroved were the DoWw-i War between liquor factions GIVEN CITIZEN RIGHTS. ' ney Hotely a threestory brick struc- | neiq” responsible for the denihs. ot L Y ture: the &rossman Bullding, a four- | joenn Brooks, soft-drink parlor owner g z ;. | story brick, and the First Presbyte. | TSP FRRRR ST Ci 0k Bastor owner Ban Partially Lifted From Reli-| 520V (5 “"The loss to the hotel, | and alleged dy v, an ward i i which tained 50 rooms, was placed | Harmening, county highway police- gious Cults in Russia. b 000, mnd that of Grossman man. Their bullet-riddled bodies were MOSCOW, December (P).—Elec- brothers, owners of that building, | found slumped in the rear seat of a tion and citizenship rights have been which housed their department store, sedan abandoned in a south side park extended by the sovernment to mem- at §325.000. Thirteen shops located | Two retired policemen, friends for bers of parishes. such as istans. | in the hotel building suffered loss>s | vears, quarreled in the lobby of the organists, rectors, psalm readers and | yanzing from $1,000 to $30,000, ind | Central Trust Co., in the business dis flar auxiliary pertonnel of religious ' six stores in the Grossman Building | trict. One shot and killed the other | nad losses ranging from $1.000 tc'then, as his old crony fell, he was Whereas heretofore classes. $5,000. The church loss was $10,000. | stricken with remorse, turned his pis- along with priests and monks. were | The four victims were turning wa- | tol against his head and killed himself. denied the right to vote, they will be | ter into the hotel building when a| Caught in a cross-fire between two allowed in future to hold political of- | wall collapsed. trapping them in the | robbers and the owner of a drug store, fce in city and rural soviets, provided | debris. The injured firemen, fichting | Leo Real, 23, a drug clerk, working their basic source of income is not | the flames nearby. had sufficient| his first day iff the store, was shot to licrived from the performance of re-| warning to make their escape, but | death. lizious rites. were struck by bricks. & oy 8 . The fire was discovered in a restau- | = SR sati rant located in the hotel buildinz. It! issi $14,280,000 for French Aviation. ijckiy spread to the other structures. | 20 Boats, 150 Fishermen Missing. PARIS. December 23 (#).—France | Guests in the hotel escaped in their; TOKIO, December 23 (#).—Twenty i1l spend 357,000,000 francs ($14,280,- | night clothing and lost all their be-|fishing boats containing 150 fishermen e nilitary aviation service longings. The county courthouse. lo.|are missinz in a storm which stk ine 1996, L ameunt was voted cated nearby, was menaced for a time, | Northern Japan yesterday. A number I am-ber Tnaay after lvely op- | but saved after the townr hadlof houses were wrecked and 40 ves- 1 ton from the Socinlists, | boe troyed. sels capsized. virtually | ht | parking, and he sees no reason why | to STARTS IN CHICAGO, was | RECKLESS SPENDING: MUST CEASE, DRY AGENTS ARE TOLD \Dismissal Will Follow Un- justified Expenditures, Andrews Warns. |CITES MAYFLOWER CASE | AS “HORRIBLE EXAMPLE” | Letter to Prohibition Administmwr; Orders Care in Use of Funds | in Seeking Evidence. | warned to- unjustifiable ex- | during their work in the would cause their dismissal from the enforcement service letter to prohibition administrators prompted by the recent Mayflower Hotel case, in which two agents ex ' pended nearly $1,000, Assistant Secre tary Andrews of the Treasury declar ed money for tracinz down bootles zers must be used intellizently and economically, and “never used with out complete justification.” Mr. Andrews said that flower incident, which f days furnished the subject ‘H(m«p debate. occured in the days of hix occupancy of the A Secretary’s office, and hefore taken any steps toward tion. 1 do not feel. therefore his letter said, “that it affords uny occasion for severe discipline i those azed under the circumstances 1 feel that it affords a tell lesson to the whole organi: and therefore, I am your attention witl inz that vou will careful consideration and see to it that your operatives are instructed and your supervision of their work is so careful that anything of this kind cannot tecur in the future: with the added understanding that here iny case of reckless, unjustifiab penditure of public funds will with severe discipline. un speakinz. with immediate trom the service.” Upholds Undercover Work Mr Andrews declared he regarded undercover [nvestigutions prob- ably the surest way to break up the hootleg industry. but he warned the agents that they should not conduct themselves in a way which would permit violators of the law to plead entrapment as defense. He added that reckless expendi- tures were likely to influence a jury azainst the Government's agse Tt would have been hetter. he said. to handle the Mayflower case by disclosing how the liquor wis | brought into the city. Money spent intelligently o accomplish this pur- pose, he xaid, would have been amply i justified The Mayflower case arrest of two hotel later were acquitted Edge Changes Plans. Senator Sdze. Republican, Jersey. has abandoned the idea of seekingz juint conzressional hearingzs on the various Senate and House proposals for modification of the pro hibition act Soon after the Fdse expects to requ Cummins of the judiciary com to name a subcommittee which hear evidence on his propesal for \per cent beer and removal of the present restrictions on prescription whisky. > A number of writers and edncators who have made surveys of prohibition enforcement will be heard, as will Labor Union leaders and others. The subcommittee will give full op. portunity for the dry forces to pre- sent their case 'BRIDGE DYNAMITED IN RAIL STRIKE AREA Western Maryland Trains Forced to Detour Because of Damage at Chieftain, W. Va. | Prohibition day that penditures future agents were reckless, In a the May seversl of early tant he had reorganiza has enz do 5 object tion. however brinzing it to the understand ve this matter ex meet sepi as the ! who involved employes, New, holidays Senator Cha toe will Special Dispatch to The Star CHIEFTAIN, W. Va. December —Dynamite bombs planted under the Western Maryland railway bridze | here let o about 3 o'clock this morn- | ing, seriously damaging the struc- ture and tving up traffic on the main line of the Elkton division of the road. The accident occurred at a time | where no fast trains were endangered, jand the discovery enabled officials ! of the division to dispatch warnings and save freight and passenger trains from danger. Neither the concrete nor steel of the bridge was seriously affected hy the explosion, but shoes upon which | pillars rested were displaced and the structure so weakened it was said travel had to he suspended. The | trains will he detoured until the dam- | age is repaired. Meantime, investi- | gations are being made hy railroad officlals and the unions representing striking employes. For several weeks engineers and firemen of the road have been on strike and efforts to obtain a_compromise with President Byers of the road have been with- out success. | | FORD TO ENRICH 26,991. { Will Pay $1,744,000 to Employes | Holding Certificates. | 1 | | DETROIT, December 23 (#).—The Ford Motor Co. announced yesterda: {it will distribute $1,744,000 next | !month to holders of Ford employes’ | investment certificates. A total of | .991 persons will share in the dis- | | tribution, which represents 8 per cent | on their investment and brings thelri income for the vear- from the mnm.l cater 1o 16 per cent. An 8 per cent {return was received last July. | | The Kord Co. discontinued issuing the certificates April 6. after §23 ooo».l 000 had heen puichased. . attained {and hegan to’ take effect early this | allowed to go to export has been in- i creased, [l THANKS' BuT BOTH MY HANDS ARE ALREADY o 7 7 & | Mayor Ke COFFEE PRICE RISE REPORT STIRS U.S. Congress and Hoover Ready‘ to Retaliate if Rates Fol- low Rubber Rise. CHRISTMAS rf() BE COOL AND FAIR, WEATHER FORECASTER DECLARES now Flurry Possible, But Won’t Last, He Predicts. Trees All Over City 1o Give Children Large Measure of Festivity. iay will he fair the official prediction lureau today Wash for the most prosper- 1 nces are cominz this said, and it Christmas This was the Weather ington prepared jous Yuletide | storm_disturd H | way. Forecaster Mitchell g LT that there will be sqgme other et tomorrow night. just about the chants and city ican consumers from high rubber | time Santa Claus is due to skim over The busines prices. which have Great Britan's|waiting roof-tops. have combine Support. now comes news of the plan | But whatever preciy children a of the State of Sao Paulo, Brazil, to the forecaster said. will own hold up the price of coffee, aiso with -‘:“I;‘_’L'(" nw":l:::,‘:n“,f"" British financial backing. every meteorological sizn e e a Hesitating to attempt loan: sunny Christmas Day. Heavier snows country. largely because of t vill cover nearby sections with a sub- | child in Washington is invited to come plea of Secretary Hoover that stantial blanket of white, it is said, (0 the Auditorium between the hours n bankers deny credits to foreign- | and the nearhy mountains of Mary. | Mentioned. shake hands with s for such purposes, Sao Paulo ex-!land will have quite a re storm, | and receive a present :‘:«ui ‘(n ,Iuy\‘l’)vm\x.:m»xu\lmalr': $30.- | but little or none of this will get as The tree. 18 feet hizh. was donated 000.000 from London bankers. The far Washington. by Geerze Shatfer. It will be hand Brazilian legislature has been asked Every human beinz in Washington somely decorgted with tovs being given an opporiunity to share r—— - ® to authorize the loan, which would By B (Continued=oH~Page 3, Column 6. be used to bolster the coffee market SE e TENPESTIN AR NEW POLAR FLGHT * TAKES NINE LIVES TOSTART MARCH 21 jcans may be asked to pay high prices for coffee, as well as rubber, finds Congress and Mr. Hopver ready to develop retallatory measures. When Ferryboat Sinks—Enormous Wilkins’ Exoedition Ready to Damage Done—Wires to | Venture Two-Year Stay Outside Worid Down. on Arctic Ice Cap. the congressional investigation into 1 cocl. in the this « jovs that abound tmas. In almost the citv there will nity tree <ipplement nal communits the President n trees will everywhere every be a of sec com the big Christmas tree is to dedicate tomorrow ldition, a number of be decorated by mer men Washington to give the community tree all their from 10 o'clock Christmas morninz until noon it will be attended in person by Santa Claus. The busi 1ess men’s tree will he on the stage of the Washinzton Auditorium. Every By the Associated Press With Congress and ver actively seekin rescue Secretary to ty's poor sround hing, and in this il recent ica | the rubber situation gets under way \fter the holidays it simultaneously will delve into the subject of the con trol of coffee prices in Brazil as well as into other similar foreign monop- olies. Hoover in Fighting Mood. Mr. Hoover himself has launched an attack on the rubber prices. in which he will enlist the co-operation of American automobile users, and there is no doubt that he will reiterate his appeal to decrease consumption of coffee. Only recently the Secretary that prices charged Amer many foreign commodities fair and that steps must be defend oursclves against tr being made upon us. He B the Associated Press PARIS, December 23— continues to howl in Fre death and destruction in Nine passengers were drowned in the war | Seine last night It suggested . ferry boat capsized that consumers organize Il i SIS | (ims were workingmen };,:';.‘—’T.LT‘J(N\« Droducts monopolized, | MAn Was the, only that substitutes he used more largely |10 be saved. o that American buyvers be per- | Paris now is almost completely hritted throush legislation to combine | off by telezraph from the world. One line each is in for the emergency against foreign monopolies. order with Switzerland, Belgium and 2 3 ffects olicy of Secretary | b to certain known elements of foz con Effects of the policy of Secretary |England. There is no communication | gt o oty “U 2 ”I' cor HoO e A L hroducts' wene | With Germany anaiTtaly e S ey o commery e et Department ‘offi-| -As all wires sxcept one with I ¢ e e inady . in or seen by Commerce Depar Bt aias + that special navigation tables for clals today in the recent drop in crude |and Brest are down, rubber prices from the highest levels | hetween United & being seriously delayed. Owing to prostration of wires everywhere it Mr. Hnover vesterday will be some time before the full ex nounced a nation-wide arging greater conservation in tent of the oc wrought through out the coun wr rubber, President Coolidze has been advised of the policy and has left the ¢ matter in Mr. Hoover's hands As far as Paris me than a score of persons have more or less seriously hurt hy pieces Efforts Cover Two Years. of flying copings. bricks and falling Extraordinary efforts of the Goverr. ment and the industries concerned (o |trees, telegraph poles, fences ar get fair rubber prices have been in |signs. The railrcad to Dieppe v progress for two vears. When rubber | put out of commission when a half dropped from 50 cents a pound during | dozen telegraph poles fell across the the war to 17 cents afterward owners | track. of British plantations and the British colonial office devised a scheme to levy an export tax, which would cut exports to 60 per cent of the rate- COOLIDGE 0. K.’S HOLIDAY. producing capacity on the plantations. | B The British plantations produce |g; : AT R o omd e |Signs Resolution Authorizing Ban ply, and the United States consumes almost that much. Rubber manufac turers in the United States protestcd the scheme at its outset. althoush the backers of the new law declared that a price of 35 cents was all they wished to attain, the liw being so designed that as the price rose the percentage of output might be in- | creased. The scheme got ed Special Dispateh to The Sta DETROIT. December ne, thrust the Polar se hich Capt H. Wilkins wil command American G zraphical the Detroit tion ind the North American Newspaper ne hop off from Point 21, Capt Wilkin unless CUl weather Alaskan outside | o Tl o £ The date has been fixed in relation he tempest nce. leaving 22.—The ai across George for the Society were un e above Itouen when All the vic The ferry person aboard Societ conditions prohibitive. the is ng | ns, Havre 5y cable dispatches the day may ates and Paris are . When Barrow our flight will tanding that ails to reach Spitzber, Point Barrow. no will be sent years.” be prepared we start nor Capt o Wilkins said be made with if our plane en or return to rescue expedition for st least two Point today, the und ed, mor out heen i May Land and Drift. It is possible, according 1o the plans outlined today. that Capt. Wilkins and his pilot wiil land after thev reach the peak of the globe and will then drift with the polar ice, living “oft the land Capt. Wilkins expects to h no difficulty in killing enough s to ~ustain life. My first goal is the ice pole, |Capt.” Wilkin But many geogra | phers believe that if I fly nerthward to Close Saturday. along the 156th meridian I will dis cover land on the way. As soon as I President Coolidge has affixed his sight any land I will drop an Ameri signature to the joint resolution de- can flag on it, claim it for the United |claring Saturday a legal holiday in|States, photograph it from the air and this city, thereby making it a law.” 'return to Point Barrow. There never was any doubt about “On the following day. in company I the President signing this, inasmuch | with my other plane, I will return to s he had issued a proclamation de- the land. One of the planes will land. claring a holiday next Saturday for|if pos and establish a base there {all Federal and District emploves in |for purposes of exploration and map- { the District prior to the introduction | ping. of this resolution in the House. The| i emploves in question would have had ' l'a holiday regardless of this resolu- - tion. the latter having been passed to but not until February 1, make it legal for banks to remain even in the face of the present unex- | closed Saturday. matical Pole—that discovered by pected price, will the plantations be| Neither the President’s proclama- l'eary—and proceed to Spitzbergen. It permitted to ship their rated 100 per | tion nor the joint resolution extends is my belief that in good weather our cent. this holiday to employes beyond the lP'okker plane will travel upward of District of Columbia. 12,500 miles without refueling. In case { I we strike formidable head avinds which exhaust our fuel supply after crossing |the mathematical P’ole we shall land L3 said under way in 1922 vear. The price has risen almost stead- ly_since, with no checks, until rubber has exceeded $1 a pound. The quantity Sure He Can Live on Ice. “In case 1 do not sight land on the flight from Point Barrow to the ice pole T will keep on across the mathe- TUndue Restriction. The Commerce Department’s inves- | LT i :“_it‘r:c":heh]‘e‘;aj‘"l"o‘ga;fi c:’:lfit"reg;n ! on the ice, and later get to Spitzbergen STEAMER ABANDONED. goes into effect the rubber supply will | e Dt o can. (The | Obaerea - | |tions of many explorers make me feel e onduly resfticted, because the|giyteen of Crew Picked Up—18 cortain that we shall drift toward colot aw says that 400 pounds an | Spitzbergen. Favorable winds may acre shall be considered the expormhle‘ Men in Boat Not Located. come within a few days: they may not | maximum, slthough many welll man. {0 Bl ie e O in B e 't ? aged plantations can, for a time at |, FogtFATh Tova Bootis, Decembel | an Nve on the ice indefinitel Le:a;,crleurn out upwaru of 500 pounds| hight reported by radio that the Capt. Wilkins' statements show that | 1t has been charged frequently | Steamer Marina had been abandoned 'in the event of any sort of a forced . ‘eq! y | off the-coast of Newfoundland. landing he will endeavor to cope with | that the British war debt to the | ®g icon men from one of the Ma- | the Arctic with little more equipment (Continued on Page 3, Column 2) |rina’s lifeboats were said to be,than a rifle, navigation instruments | iahoard the steamer which sent out | and a primus stove. He has practiced the radio. Another lifeboat contain- | three methods of Killing seals on the | Ing 1% persons was reportsd as mot | L0lar Sea—heneath the ice, on the ice | haying been located. - (Continued on Page 2, Column 6) ' Radio Programs—Page 26. come for a year. What matters? We | . Yesterday’s Circulation, 99,758 Pr TWO CENTS. BUTLERTORETURN 10 MARINE GORPS; IRED" BY MAYOR General Refuses to Quit Phil- adelphia Post Until Actual- ly Dismissed. INTIMATES REPRISAL ON POLITICAL LEADERS Officer Incurred Hate of Party Chiefs in Clean-Up of Quaker City. the Acsociated Prese. PHILADELPHIA, December drick today formally Butler as director of pub- effective at noon 4l received the letter of ortly the mavor office was delivere the mayor's A group of friends were in the director's office read it quickly. Well, I'm out!” he exclaimed The mayor has fired me. Now we can shoot at him.” and the mayor's secretary looked at him in surprise. “There’s nothing to stop me naw I'm a free man,” the general said. Asked his plans, the brigadier gen- eral. who has seen fighting service all over the world, said “I'm going to my home in Over- brook and I'm going to drive there in a car of the United States Marine Corps. The Marines can take care of me. and I'd rather be in the Ma rine Corps than in 15.000,000 cities like Philadelphia The zeneral said he would remain here for a few days. and added, there may be something doing in that time.” 23.— dis missed Gen safety The gene Aismissal reached h After It secretary as he fused to Resign. _ nal dismissal came as a e director’'s refusal to re. as requested by the mavor ves terday. The general earlier announc ed he would leave his office tod as “under pension” and that the mayver would have to “fire” him be fore he would quit The mayor's letter of dismissal was follow “Your letter of Decemtbter 22, {in- quiring why 1 request vour resigna- tion and would relieve you from duty, ceived: T am not required by law to give 2 reason for dismissal of a directo Tn order to comply with your reques T may say that you have not a proper appreciation of the obligation which vou hold to the mayor as your supe rior officcr, The confidence and harmonious re- {lationship whieh should exist hetween us as mayor and director of public safety has by vour actions been com- pietely destroyed. “As you have failed to comply with my request for vour resignation. I hereby dismiss vou as dircctor of the department of public safety at Phila- delphia, the dismissal to take effect at 12 o'clock noon today. You will turn over your depart- ment to Assistant Director Elliott.” Won Politicians’ Enmity. Gen. Rutler incurred the enmity of certain local political leaders shortly after he tr office on January 7. 1924. From the start he let it be known that he wanted no interfer- ence with his method of handling the wolice, who, he said, were to be di vorced from politics. He gave his captains and lieutenants 48 hours to start a campaign to rid the citv of vice and crime. Raids fol- lowed in quick succession. Butler fre. quently accompanied the raiders and \ade nizht inspection tours to see that the policemen were “on the job. led zamblinz places and closed sai said to be owned or operated hy <, and upon one occasion he hodily ejected from his office se eral political leaders. During his i week in office 431 raids were made and 1,423 saloons closed. T can still spit in their eve,” com- mented the general on the fact that he seemed to be neither Marine nor po- liceman. At the end of last vear. when Gen utler's leave from the Marine Corps was about to expire. Mavor Kendrick requested President Coolidze to extend the leave another vear. In granting the reguest the President asked that it he not made a second time. The mayver, however, headed a committee hat went fo Washington last month to urze the President for a further extension of the gzener=l's leave. This was refused by Mr. Coolidge. Elliott Takes Office. George W. Elliott, assistant direc- or. named by Mavor Kendrick as General Butler's successor, accepted the appointment shortly before noon His nomination must be confirmed by the City Council. Elliott sald he accented the place on terms satis- [actory to the mavor. Acknowledging the mayor's lette: dismissal, Gen. Butler sent reply in which he charged the mayor with lack of moral courage and stated | that the reason given for his oust- ing_was “simply camouflage.” “You have not Interfered in the en. forcement of law against the power- less violators or those in whom you are not interested.” Gen. Butler | wrote, “but when you halked and di rected your city solicitor not to pro ceed with the padlock proceedings against the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, against which establishment there was as much and as vicious evidence as azainst any of the other places we have closed, and when yvou refused to revoke the dance license of the big hotels such as the Ritz-Carlton, the Walton and the Bellevue-Stratford, controlled by your friends, on evidence as damaging as has caused revocation of many other licenses, all of which action was urgently recommended by me. and when on December 21, I .gain pressed you to act and indicated that I would find other means of doing so if you did not act, you on Decem- ber 22 dismissed me from office. Submits Case to People. “You called me disloyal because pressed you to be a man and carrv out your oath of office and your promises vou have publicly declared and pledged to the people who elect- ed vou, and to me. In order that the people of Philadelphia who are your superiors, may know that the fallure to take action on my part is due to vour lack of moral courage ana (Continued on Page 2, Column 3)