Evening Star Newspaper, December 30, 1925, Page 1

¢ N A WEATHER. <. Weather Burean and warmer toi lowest temper: | degrees. Tel | Highest. 20 at 330 pn | Jowest 13 at 7 a.m. tod: ) 3 | “Toudy on page Forecast.) mnight and to. ature tonight mperatures— m. yesterday Full report E}os%ng N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 24 Entered as post office W second class matter ashington, D. C. ARBITRATION ISSUE DEADLOCKS PARLEY - TOENDCOAL STRIFE Operators Accept Proposal for Conciliation Board. Miners Reject It. UNION SEES INJUSTICE. CHARGES PRICE-FIXING Sessions to Be Renewed Today. Coolidge Would Be Asked to Name Body. YORK December appeared obstacle in the thracite NEW e 1t <ettler of the an Miners and operators bhezan day with a 1 nine-hour arbitration The miners to arbitrate con zured and not peace Iy vir found favor but is disliked by Alvan con- The by plan was presented irman the joint Markle, who is a minor- in a large independent Hazelton, Pa., has Mr stockhold coal near the appointment Coolidze of three im- s to submit recommenda committee of miners consisting of three rep- each side. In the deadlock in the joint com- industry the citizens o cast sentatives of have power Denies Arbitration. to the miners’ arzument contended that his plan not provide for arbitration, but up machinery similar to that of conciliation board created in 1903 the anthracite coal strike com- on appointed by President Roose- In Mr Hors, repiy Markle th by miss 1 conciliation board miners and three operators. matters of interpretation of contracts that cannot be de. the mines between mgn and When the members of ree on a disputed int it is referred to an umpire ap- inted by the United States Circuit Appeals at Philadelphia. The miners asked whether the fact- finding committee provided for in the arkle plan could investizate freight vates, royalties and other items enter- ing into the cost of delivering coal to the consumers. and also whether it " could fix the selling price of coal. Mr. Markle replied that the fact-finding committee could not go beyond the limitations of the contract, and thdt it would be a violation of the Federal laws to fix the selling price for coal. Charge Price Fixing. The miners charge that price fixing 1s practiced in the anthracite industry, but this was denied by the operato 1a ould be learned the ques tion of the check-off, by which union miners’ dues are deducted from their pay by the operators and turned over o the local unions for serious consideration. The joint conference was called to meet again at 1 p.m. today. The dis- cussion vesterday, according to Chair- man Markle, s conducted with the best of feeling. The session was inter pted only lonz enouzh for the six ners and six operators to be the Markle at dinner in the where the meet- 1 the cided management the board cannot a w r ruests of Mr. Union League Club, ing held. Green, president of the »deration of Labor, ar- rived toc and went to the hotel where the miners’ committee is mak- inz its headquarters. Mr. Green here to address the American Associa tion of Labor Legislation at its meet- i tonight. He declined to comment on the present anthracite negotiations. was reported that Mr. Green and Lewis would discuss the progress neg 1tions before the mine worl committee meets with the era- this afternoon. MINES NE M 1e D REPAIRS. Operators May Be Forced to Ask ntenance Men. Pa the to December 30 anthracite mines W the effects of four months’ idleness, and if the New York negotiztions between miners “nd ope fail it will be necessary the mpanies to appeal to permission to employ red additional mainte arly repairs are said to | complete breakdown beginning th several e if 1s FATE OF BRITISH SHIP CONTINUES IN DOUBT Steamer Coronado, Carrying Prom- necessur to be avoided inent Personazes, Flashed Distress Without Repeating. ated Press LONDON, December 31.—Nothing further had been learned this morning of plight of the British steamer Coron distress messages from which were picked up at Land's ¥End lasi night The Coronado month for Jamai sengers. including ica. Lord and Sir Archibald from Avon ies 60 p the Bishop of Lady Invernairn ind Lady Emon bound and stone. Elders and Fyffes the Coronado, think picked up by some which mistook either the name of the ship. Ltd., owners ef the calls foreign vessel the meaning or French Flyer Sets New Record. PARIS. December 30 (4).—Aviator PDarque, flying in a hydro-airplane, carrying 1102 pounds weight, vester- day established what is said to be a world record for 100 kilometers (62.14 miles), His average time was 1 11 heur. althouzh a zale of n miles an hour prevailed. miles rly §0 ea deciding | is composed . did not come up | were | 1 Movie Extra Girls Unable to Smoke; Director Aghast By the Associated Press NEW YORK, December 30.—A motion picture director received the surprise of his life when 20 out of 30 “extra girls” emploved in a2 new Metro-Goldwyn-Maver production confessed they did not know how to smoke cizarettes. A group of cizarette-smoking flappers was needed in a scene, when the director. Benjumin Christianson, told the property man to pass around the cizarettes Then the girls admitted that they conld not smoke. “What a blow fossion’ type of makes movie sophisticated,” to the ‘true con- magazine that appear so sal tianson. PLANS CONFERENCE OF TTCORN STATES lowa Governor Seeks Imme- diate Program to Help Hard-Pressed Farmers. By the Associated Press DES MOINE Towa, December 30. —A program for immediate relief of agriculture, backed by farmers of 11 Middle Western States. is sought by Gov. Hamill of Jowa, who expects to call a corn belt conference in a few days. Plans for this conference and an insistence on a farm products export corporation were amonz the principal { measures adopted at the “all-lowa” marketing conference here yesterday under the auspices of the lowa Bank. ers’ Association Towa's entire conzressional delega tion spoke’ in favor of the “principle of the McNary-Haugen bill" as Sen- ator A Cummins_expressed it. Others, especially Senator Smith A Brookhart and E. T. Meredith, former | Secretary of Agriculture, advocated, in | addition, a price-fixing Federal farm | | board. Enjoyed by Industries. “Tariff-protected industries enjoy | indirect price fixing,” said Representa- tive Gilbert N. Haugen. ‘“There is nothing paternalistic or socialistic or | difficult about fixing prices.” Senator Brookhart was sharply eriti- | al of the part he said the bunkers, | played in deflating the farmer five | years ago. which s just now bearing ! fruit. His proposed export corporation would start with $1.500,000,000 of Gov ernment capital. add 5 per cent to the farmers’ cost of production and set that as the price. After several exten- | sions of his allotted time the chairman cut him short in the midst of an at- tack on the Federal Reserve Board. | Demand for Results. | Several others of the speakers were also cut short, including Senator Cum- mins and Mr. Meredith. ! Gov. Hamill warned the Washington delegation that the people of lowa, {long patient, were after results, and ! not words. I “We do not want paternalism or | charity,” said the governor, “but only i what has been done for-every other industry.” | | The authority of the bankers' mar- keting conference to speak for the | farmers of the corn belt was sharply challenged by the Farmers’' Union. As the “authorized spokesman of a mil- ilion farmers,” the Union telegraphed | President Coolidge to await present. tion of their farm relief program, | formulated here Monday at a confer- ence of 24 farm organizations. The | Union called the marketing conference | “presumptuous.” i | | CAPPER SOUNDS WARNING. | ‘ = | BOSTON, December 30 (#).—Warn- | | ing was issued to by Senator Cap- | per. Republican, Kansas, that unless | the tariff was made to apply to agri- cultural crops its protection probahbiy would be removed from manufactured | vroducts, Addressing the Boston Chamber of | Commerce, the Senator declared that some ‘“practical and sensible way" must be. found to take care of farm surplus. “Something must be done, and speedily, in regard to the trouble- some matter of crop surplus,” he said. | It is inevitable, it seems to me, *hat | some arrangement must be ln:nlé; whereby, when there is a surplu to | export, that the surplus, say 10, 20 per cent of the crop, wiil not go ern_the price of the entire crop. “This simply means that some feas| ble system must be worked out so that the surplus can be moved into foreizn' consumptive channels, sold for what it will bring and the lo properly distributed among the pro ducers, who will then be able to sell i their remaining crops in the home markets free of the drag of this e cess production Need of Tariffs. “This must be done in a way that fx | practical and sensible, a way the en tire country will accept as such. her our tariff must apply effective. 1y to agricultuural! surpluses or its benevolent protecting hand is likely, 1 fear, to be removed from our pluses of manufactured products. Declaring that national prosperity ' was dependent on agricultural pros- perity, Senator Capper asserted that Dublic opinion everywhere should sup- bort the farmer In his economic dif- Heulty. e pointed to the general de- pression in 1920 as indicative of the Gisastrous national effect when the farmer’s buying power slumps. T inter s of the East and the " (Continued on Page 4, Column 2. | | | ch | operating motor busses would get to- | Has Been Collector for This Dis- WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, D ¢ Foening S WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ECEMBER 30, 1925—THIRTY-FOUR PAGES. CUTIN BUS FARES }GIVEN BYW.RT. GETS OFFICIALO.. §Charge Reduced to 6 Tokens | for 50 Cents, Effective cn January 1. MERGER HII\TT HALTS ! HEARING ON EXTENSIONf Transit Company and Capital Trac- tion Agree to Frame Sys- tematic Service. The Public Utilities Commission ac | | cepted ‘an offer of the Washington | | Rapid Transit Co. this afternoon tc | immediately reduce its fare on its bus lines from five tokens for 45 cent: six for 30 cents The cash fare | will remain at 10 cents. The new rate will become effective January 1 The company’'s offer to voluntarily reduce its fare was made at a public | hearing by George P. Hoover. lezal | representative of the North American Co., new owners of the Transit Co The plan accepted provides that the | reduction remain in force for a short but indefinite experimental period. | | FHIE CONVERT In the meantime the commission, it | | was announced by Engineer Commis- | sioner Bell, chairman, would study the results of the experiment in order | to determine whether a further cut | could be made. | "William McK. Clayton, chairman of | the public “utilities committee of the Federation of Citizens' Associations pleaded for free transfers between busses and street cars at Thirteenth |and F streets und Seventh street and | Pennsylvania, and « rate of three | tokens for 25 cents. Chairman Bell, | however, promised that these ques tions would he tuken up at the next public hearing Announcement of the rate reduction came after a morning session of the | Utilities Commission, at which & hear |ing to consider extension of existing I bus routes in the District was halted abruptly after Mr. Hoover jconsent of the Public Utilities Com | mission for u continuance on the | ground that the various agencies now PLANS COMPLETED FOR REORGANIZING Bill Would Give Commission- er Place on Public Util- ities Board. A bill providinz for the reozani- zation of the Public Utilities Con mission was sent to the Budget Bu- reau today by the District Commis- sioners. The bill provides for commission of three members, in- cluding a Commissioner in charge | of police, a lawyer and an engineer. The Citizens' Advisory Council recommended a commission of three members independent of the Com- missioners. In differing got_the zether and work out a co-operative and systematic schedule that would be entirely in the interest of improved " (Continued on Page 2, Column 4. TURK WAR COUNCL INSECRETSE Devise Plans in Conformity With New Russian Treaty. a with the advisor: council over the placement of ! Cimmissioner on the commission, Engineer Commissioner Bell ex- plained today that the commission needs the advice and assistance of the major and superintendent of po- lice, the director of traffic, the engi- neer ot highways, the electrical engi- neer and other officials who are un- der the administrative control of th- Board of Commissioners. Makes for Harmony. “Any rious conflict of opinion be- tween the two commissions,” said Commissioner Bell, “would be detri- mental to the welfare of the District of Columbia. In order that this har monious condition may be continued the Commissioners should be three of the five members of the Utilities Com mission. This arrangement is similar to that already provided with such ex- cellent results for the Zoning Com- mission, the Commissioners of the Di trict being three of the five memb: of that commission. “There is no doubt that the {ence of one of the members of Board of Commissioners on the Na- tional Capital Park Commission serv to harmonize the action of that com mission with the interest of the va rious departments of the District gov- ernment. “But with increasing population and increasng and more diversified Dis- trict activities, the time demanded by the Commissioners for purely admin- istrative affairs is greater and greater Their time is fully occupied with ad- ministrative matters and by matters ! pertaining to legislation. zoning and the budget. They do not have the time to study the records of the vari- ous public utilities companies, to ex amine their equipment and to’ inform themselves of the actions taken by other public utilities commissions, and the decisions rendered by the courts relative to rate cases and related sub- | jects. These are matters that in jus- tice to the public should not be left to subordinates. Would Facilitate Action. “It is believed that the addition of a lawyer and an engineer to the com- mission will provide the personnel needed to make these studies and in- i vestigations and to conduct public hearings with but one of the Board of Commissioners present, leaving the other Commissioners free to conduct administrative matters. It is believed that the proposed lezal member of the commission will Dy the Associated Press CONSTANTINOPLE. December 30 —The Turkish war council went intc secret ion at Angora vesterday ifternoon to devise plans in conform ity with the new Russo-Turkish treaty and regarding the decision of the council of the League of Nations put ting the Mosul region of Irak unrder British mandate. Gen. Djevad Pasha, former military commander of Constantinople, who or zanized the Turkish forces on the Mosul front, participated in the coun cil. TURKS STUDY DEFEN President Mustapha Forms Supreme Army Council. LONDON, December 30 (£).—A dis patch to the Dailly Mail from Con stantinople s 4 new Turkish su- preme army council was inaugurated Monday by President Mustapha Kemal Pasha. Mustapha declared it was essential to prepare for the de- fense of the country and to study ways for increasing the army's ing value. New HOLTZMAN IS EXPECTED TO KEEP CUSTOMS POST trict for Several Years—Gertman Also Probably Will Continue. Charles H. Holtzman of Cumberland, Md., was understood today to be favor Dbly considered by the administration for reappointment to the position of | collector of customs for the thirteenth | district, with headquarters at Balti more, and including the District of Columbia. Mr. Holtzman has been the collector for thix district for several years, and his reappointment, it was understood today, is practically assured. His term expired last Spring. but he has been | Dreparation of all documents, order: continuing in charge at Baltimore. | correspondence, etc. h-rr;ede::utl; curl)llec‘tqrtor tcu'ixu‘)msh;n | Assistance Required. chal o e strict ol “olumbia hev v 2 customnouse at Georgetown I Leo | interests at stake anm i sy G 1che A. Gertman, who, it was also under- | emploved by the utilities companies stood, will probably continue at his|for presentations im court, it is be. post. |lieved that the general counsel of the views and arguments of the commis- sion before the courts, as it would he undesirable for a member of the Board of Commissioners to so appear. | This lezal member should also con. jduct informal conferences and give {the proper legal supervision to the Literary Lights Hit Mail Order Method Of Turning Trades By the Assoviated Press, | CHICAGO. Ilecember 0.—Manu- | facturing methods are being used in| efforts to turn the butcher, baker and | | candlestick maker into literary | artists, in the opinion of authors here {for the literary group meetings of the Modern Language Association of | America. University courses for writing and | mail order firms that guarantee to| teach the parlor maid and the chauf-| | feur “how to become famous authors | by studying at home” come in for { special denunciation. “University teachers are lock step- pinz over the courzes of literature,” ~ays Christopher Morley. | delusion mmission, who is also the corpora- ; tion counsel of the District of Colum- bia, should assist the legal member of the commission. “It is believed also that a people’s counsel should be appointed to repre- | sent the people, not only in presenta- tions before the commission itself, but ““Fiction teaching is no part of the |50 to represent the people in cases true university, nor salesmanship.|in court. Tt is believed that the in- advertising or special trades. It is a |terests involved wholly justify the ad- that works of art can be |dition of a people’s counsel.” produced by the methods of successful | . o MANY DIE FROM COLD. ‘William McFee declares that “(he! MEXICO CITY, December 30 (#).— People Into Authors cheer leaders of literature say only | believe in your side and vell loud, enough, and you overturn the laws of | nature and score a goal. Many thou- sands are fagging away at writing | who are destined to disillusion who|t0 the almost unprecedented might have had true happiness in|Weather. Asa consequence a bill has making clocks.” {Leen introduced in Congress propos- {ing the appropriation of 500,000 pesos {to be used in the purchase of clothing land providing warm quarters, for the poor. throughout the country recently due Radio Programs—Page 29. pres. | the | be the proper agent to present the | There have been numerous deaths' cold | !Annual Tag Rush Have 2 Dy Let. JppROVE AS PAR The anticipated eleventh-hour rush automobile tags 1926 Building of procrastinati lines the waiting their For the past than 50,000 tags were issued 1 superintendent licenses, announced that there 0,000 tags remaining for for identitication tarted today at the when hundreds motorists formed basement corri- turn for applica- 10 Fine Arts Plan Also Calls for Transformation of Village of Rosslyn. District long in tios s days not mor Wade Coombs, Carryng a recommendation that the | town of Rosslyn. at the Virginia end of the Key Bridge. with its miscel laneous collection of factories, gaso: line refineries and various small in dustries. be transformed into what the commission considers an approach to Washington on a par with other ipproaches to the Capital and to fit in with the beauty of the new Arling ton Memorial Bridge and its ap proaches, the Fine Arts Commission nd Secretary of War Davis have ap proved plans for conversion of the area now occupied by the Arlinzton Experimental Farm into a park area, with & part to be included in Arlington ire vet distribution The time limit t will not Commissioners phatically today without the new and black tags for procuring the be extended. the announced em and motorists rellow of will not be permitted to venture on the streets with their cars day | Cemetery ITTLEHSU” SHoT | west and northwest to Washinzton | and its transformation is contemplated in the broad plans for completion of | Chinese General Assassinat- | the memorial bridge and its western | ipproaches. Moving of the Arlington | ed in Revenge for Killing | i icioe"Raionar Comesors me 1o Lu Chien Chang in 1918. [4 | is looked upon as a par the engineers in charge of the bridze pproaches and the park developments 11 the western end of the bridze about 125 acres. Much of this acreage wiil be within the cemetery wall, prob- | ably assizned to soldiers of the World | War as an addition to the already | extensive World War section. The plans, which have been ap- proved by the commission over the protest of officials of the Department of Agriculture, were drawn up by James H. Greenleaf, landscape archi tect member of the Fine Arts Com mission. Azriculture Department offi cials protested. when the move was first suggested several months ago. that moving of the experimental farm weuld destroy the results of many vears of labor and effort and result in considerable delay in important szricultural experiments. The entire area between Rosslyn nd the present Military road. which leads to Arlington, would come in for development under the plan proposed | | by Mr. Greenleaf, with its central mo- {tive a zreat park and plaza marking the western end of the Arlington ived after a tour | Bridge. Connecting roadways, 120 feet | of Europe,” the United States and |in width, will run from Rossiyn to | Japan, where he studied political. | Alexandria and Mount Vernon. tieinz {economic and military afiairs for the [in with the west end of the new Peking government. e had re-|bridge and crossing the line of the ported to the chief executive and left | Lee highway Peking vesterday to visit Gen. Sun| The Lee highway, under the plans Chuan.Fang, governor of Chekiang. |:#pproved by the commission and Sec- and other military leaders at Tientsin. | retary Davis. will start on Columbian Hsu was at one time private secre. | Island. at the north end of a pro- tary to Tuan Chi-Jui. the present chief | posed driveway and plaza, at each end executive. He was prominent in Pe-|of which monuments ma be placed King in 1917-18, during the armed strug- | and will continue on through the ter- le between Chihli military leaders | ritory north of Fort Myer to Falls and the Anfu Club, and was in chief | Church to tic in with the present command of the Anfu northwest fron- | boulevard. tier army. He took refuge in the! Dresent plans of the Lee Hizhway |Japanese lezation here after the Anfu ociation call for a broad boulevard, defeat. In October. 1922, he was im- Sontinasd b Puge T -Gela : [blicciad o « rovolt aeutien fhe Tochun| 0 ot w8 TUgS 2, Dolusn 1) !(military governor) of Fukian Province. | Lu Chien-Chang. father of Hsu's as assin, had been appointed special com- imissioner to the southern provinces iwhen Hsu shot him. and was general i!.\ declared to have been the victim of a political intrigue. ¢ His murder at Tientsin created wide spread indignation. but Hsu's poli cal influence protected him and kept him for two vears longer at his post in command of the northwest defense forces. CHANG ATTACK B the ocrated PEKING. December 30.—Gen. Hsu Shu-Chenz. popularly known as “Little Hsu,” was shot and killed on the rail way station platform at Langfang | last night | Tre assassin, self-proclaimed country-wide manifesto Cheng-Wu. a captain in the Kuomin | chun (National People’s army). and son of Gen. Lu Chien-Chang. whom | Little Hsu shot in Lu's zarden at Tientsin while a dinner guest there’ in 1918, Capt. Lu. who apparently has not been arrested. declared hi {act was in revenge for his father's murd; Lu is a cousin of Marshal Feng Yu- Hsiang, formerly styled “the Chris- tian general,” who commands the Kuominchun forces which recently | occupied Tientsin. | Hsu had just a Prese in a was Lu | | | GRANT OFFICIALL ASSIGNED TO POST Becomes Director of Public Build- ings and Parks to Suc- ceed Sherrill. AGAIN. P)—The| Maj. U. Grant, 3d, Engineer { Corps, U. S. A., today was formally a: signed by President Coolidge as officer in charge of public buildings and pub- lic parks to succeed Lieut. Col. Clar- ence O. Sherrill, who has resigned his commission in the Army to be city manager of Cincinnati, Ohio. The President more than two webks | ago announced officially that he had decided to assign Maj. Grant, who has | I been assistant to Col. Sherrill, to suc- | ceed the latter, and Maj. Grant shortly took office as acting officer in | _ | charge. . 5 Col. Sherrill delivered his resigna- CITY FLAG BILL 0. K.’D. !tion to President Coolidge in person | more than two weeks ago, at which |time he was complimented by the! The District Commissioners today | Executive for the successful manner 'sent to Senator Capper, chairman of |in which he had administered the af- | the District committee, a favorable | fairs of that office during the more | report on the bill to create o commis- | than five years he held it. About the | sion to design a flag for the District |same time he submitte. his resignation | of Columbia. The Commissioners told |as an officer in the United States Army | Senator Capper that most of the|to the War Department. States have a distinctive flag, and that Washington should have ome. LONDON. December 30 Peking correspondent of the Daily Mail reports that Marshal Chang Tso-Lin is reattacking from the north, threatening the line of com- munications of Gen. Feng Yu-Hsiang. i who is rushing up reinforcements. The forces of Gen. Li Ching-Ling, | former civillan governor of Chihli Province, who has been unable to pur- isue after defeating them in the | vicinity of Tientsin, have joined with the troops of the governor of the Shantung, Gen. Chang Tsung-Chang, ally of Marshal Chang Tso-Lin. Cinei. | in ! County: “From Press to Home The Star Within the Hour” 's carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Y ¥ Drives Rum Baron Into Bankruptey Br the Aseociated Press. LONDON, December activities of the American Guard and prohibition agents mainly were responsible for the appearance in bankruptcy court today of Sir Brodrick Hartwell England’s rum-running baronet. Sir Brodick said that after several successful shipments of liquor to the United States one shipment of 36.000 cases was seized ¥ the prohibition authorities. He estimated it to be worth £250,000 (81.200,000), but he had received no return on it. CONGRESS MAY AIR TARIFF CHARGE Norris Says Allegations of Costigan Will Get Thor- ough Probe. 30.—The Coast Charges made by a member of the United States Tariff Commission. that the Tariff Commis. sion “hus ceased to represent disin terested and non-partisan independ ence” will be thoroughly aired on the Senator Norris of E. P. Costigan floor of the Senate Nebraska declared today Commissioner Costizan’s charzes *rainst the commission were made in New York last night before the Amer ican Economic Association. He icined by Prof. E. F. Taussiz of Har vard University, former chairman of e Tariff Commission. who said that the commission had now been groomed to serve partisan politics rather than unbiased research into facts. I am delighted.” said Senator Nor that Mr. Costizan has broken se and made the statement. As a matter of fact. so far as I can learn from the press reports of the meeting lust night. Mr. Costigan has not told alf the story. But the whole will be 'ought out. and when is a congr sional investigation doubtless will low.” Mr. Costigan. in his address in New York. is reported to have urged strong Iv an investization of the operation the so-called flexible provision of the Fordney-McCumber tariff act by the Tariff Commission “Within the last year. Commissioner Costigan said. “the United ariff Commission. taken as (Continued on Page 2, Column 70 ARE SENTENCED INBIG RUM PLGT Penalties in Daniels Case Range From 4 Months to 2 Years and $5.000. was < fol- 1 whole By the Assoriated Press INDIANAPOLIS, State Se Lou: Federal Ind. December Michael J. Kinney one of 22 men convicted court here December 1% for conspiracy to “milk” the Jack Daniel Distillery, in St. Louis els of pre-war whisky new trial by Federal Judge Baltzell today he was 30 of 1tor was nt Rob. Kinney's counsel convicted on in ed a ert C. contended ! sufficient evidence. Ali of the 22 Doncaster. 1unner, New tr defendants. except alleged Cincinnati ked new trials als were denied to defendants but Senator M. J and the court also declined arrests of judgment In the motions Judge Baltzell said he felt that Arnold J ellmich of St Louis. former collector of internal rev enue for the eastern Missouri district, is one of the men who helped carry out this conspiracy from incep tion."” Ben rum 1 of the Kinney to zrant overruling Four Get Two Y Arnold J. Hellmich, Nathan Gold- stein, Harry Levin and Morris Mul- tin. all of St. Louis. were sentenced to two vears in Federal prison and fined $5.000 each. Judge Baltsell re- ferring to them as “the heads of this conspiracy.’ Hellmich is former collector of in- ternal revenue for the eastern Mis- souri district. Goldstein isx former Circuit Court clerk and Levin and Multin were allezed to have had part the buying and selling of the whisky William J former deputy collector revenue under Hellmich, tenced to 18 months in fined $1.000. Edward Meininzer of Cincinnati manager of the Daniel distillery after its purchase by the syndicate. was sentenced to prison for 18 months and fined $1,000. Rum-Runners Get Light Terms. of St of R pri Louis internal as sen son and Kinney Sentences of 15 months and fines of 500 each were imposed upon Daniel O'Neil and Edward J. O'Hare. both for. mer deputy constables of St. Louis on Robert E. Walker and John Connors, members of Walker. White Bill Posting Co. of St. Louis on whose property part of the whisky loading was said to have been done. and on Harry F. Stratten of Cincin- nati, alleged rum-runne Clifford Sampson, Carlisle Sampson and Bernard Brink of Cincinnati, all alleged rum runners, who pleaded zuilty, were sentenced to four months |in jail, as were Isadore Multin of St Louis, alleged member of the buying syndicate: Richard Fitzgibbon of St Louis, watchman at the Daniel dis- tillery, and Ben Doncaster of Cincin- nati, the allezed rum runner whose arrest in Indiana was the basis for bringing the suit here. Sidney Multin. called a member of ing_syndicate. was sentenced to six months in jail. Don H. Robin. son of Chicago, an alleged stockholder in the Daniel syndicate, was dis charged when the court learned tha he had testified before the grand jury at St. Louis. Thomas I5. McCaffrey of St. Louis, former poilceman, was sentenced to 30 days in Jail. Michael J. Whalen, Democratic poli- t two years in prj 'S?n and fined $3,000. < esterday’ (#) Means Associated Press. |U. S. Coast Guard of 891 s Circulation, 98,869 TWO CENTS. DRYEST NEW YEAR EVE INPROAIBITION HISTORY PLANNED Forces in Big Cities, Larger Than Ever Before, to Curb Celebrations. {ARRESTS THREATENED RICH AND POOR ALIKE | Places Devoted to Merriment to Be | Watched—Drive Against In- oming Rum Successful. With hibition d ing h tead act Director nes today ces whic on pecially in larger Hlation, would pu ittempted everywhere In Washington the Government's machine plans New new fu make dryest the Vo pro- speed the running 4foot eve are to the Year the of if pos: of Prohibit predicted are x years n James E 1ugmentec h ac 1 the field 1 ver before of a serious crimp celebrations es the centers pop the full force of hibition age under Gerald P. deputy prohibition adminis- in charge of the District of Columbia, will be on duty. Plans have been made stood. to keep sharp surveillance over principal places where the law be expected to be violated Expects Some Arrests. While Mr. Murphy rangements to forestal lation of the law as possible, and drives against sources of incomin holiday liquor were said to have been largely successful. he is still expecting to make some arres the night wh in olden days, used to be the most hilarious and widely celebrated with liquor of the entire vear. If necessary. it is understood services of a United sioner may be reques t is under- h made ar- as much vio. the States commis ed. should the warrant There were in- that rich and poor alige, m public or private places. whe: ever arrested. stood a good chance of a ride in the rezular police patrol While indications came from othe < that some hotels had announced New Year celebrations in the avow ed desire to co-operate more effectivel: with prohibition officials in observance of the law, there were indications th: in Washington no such curtailment | dances. parties and entertainmen: had been planned. There was no pul lic announcement, however, of “wet" celebrations. no Reservations Already in. A survey of the leading hostelrics and other dining places revealed no | cancellations of parties, but rather huge advance reservations for a hiz time on New Year eve. Two of the larzest places reported reservation: j already over the thousand mark each Variety of attitude on the question of prohibition was discovered, how ever, in the survey. Some of the more conservative plices, according to the management. have not only warn their pz that liquor is tolerated in “dining room have printed such notices on a cards. Others do not notices regular thing. but have already printed such warnings for the special New Year eve menu At one popular resort. however, it was stated on behalf man- «cement, a_“hands off icy is maintained in regard ibit and that if pat hose to bring in liquor they did it at their own No “warni were printeld the menu cards there, it was sald Employes Warned. Universality, however, seemed prevail in the announcements emploves of the dininz p inz liquor. Accord to nunager interviewed. the employes themselves are not supposed to fur- nish any alcoholic drinkables. one place, which has achieved w notoriety on account of a rec liquor case. the banquet manage stated that emploves had been espe- cially ordered mnot to serve liquor. Detailed azents and of the Capt. Burlinzame secrecy, but there w the fact that they on New Year eve The big chief of prohibition. Lincoln C. Andrews, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. is out of the city on a_trip to Cuba. and it has been intimated ur officially he mayv_endeavor to open negotiations looking t d a treaty 1o help keep America dry. It is known that Gen. Andrews has been building his reorzanized prohibition machine to function not only on “week” days and regular days, but_of such nature as to be able to take care of such peaks” as New Year eve. Gen. An- drews is expected to be back in th Capital next week. the to pre if to o as to any T of the prohibition flving squadron of were veiled in s no secret about expected to be busy Forces Strengthened. The field forces of the reorganized prohibition unit_have been strength- ened by about 435 additional men. a« cording to Director of Prohibition Jones, who feels that these additiona! fo placed in larger number where it is fizured they will be the most needed, will be effectual in keel ing New Year eve sober for the Na tion. Not only the larger force, hut the henefit of vears' experience, were believed by Mr. Jones to operate for « dryer holid Some doubt was expressed in wet quarters today as to the prospect for hone.dry celebration here, as it was reported considerable liquor had been | brought into Washington, in spite of {the close watch of the Government men. In rezard to the cancellations hy hotels in other parts of the country of public dances and celebrations, it | was predicted in some quarters here that this would do no good, private rooms of the hotels would { probably be fuller than ever of drink- ers oin account of the lack of a public i function at which to celebrate. | $1,000,000 IN RUM SEIZED. | Sweeping Pre-New Year Raids Staged i in New York. W YORK, December 30 (#).—A i million dollars (bootleg prices) of hizh. zrade liquor was seized yesterday by Col. Sherrill s leaving tonight for | tician of St. Louis. was sentenced to | Prohibition agents, whose efforts, com: el “(Continued on Page 2, Column 3. bl