Evening Star Newspaper, March 15, 1926, Page 2

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, MARCH 15, 1926. TAXPAYING CROWD AT DISTRICT SFFICE However, Many Have Mailed Returns to Baltimore. Midnight Is Limit. vers lection | of were thronsi offices througho fneluding the leea BYlvania ave the Feuds the Nation today, | | atfies a1 14°* Penn-| where Deputy Col lector Powell and a -taff of experts expected to he rushed all da | Aceording ndieations. A number of pe taken ad-| vantage of the tie fou filing final return neome of | more than $i.000 returns could he ma.ied d Washing-, ton internal | revenue el | believes per | eons had o . brve heen &t 142 Penn-| past two | iarge have of z o v weeks Federal expert on duty | o public closing of -~ Munsex || ank and | v Conti | Columbia Nat onal Rank, Lin Aneoln National | wihoand H streets: | Bank. Federsal Ameri Rank Woodward & wih Rros, the | 1 the Treasury Ruild WILLIAM S, VARE. radan nental Trust Bank. Distri eoln Natinnal Bank Rank Rranch Riggs Nationa can Natienai Lothro Frecht ing Ine and rece March ins he nizght tonight penal COUNTESS CATHCART ARRIVES IN CAPITAL |, Lt e o v mailed i ffice ztamp of A as arriv 1ain falls at mid Afrer midnight in'n effect Favors Modification—Pepper. Backs Law—Pinchot for i { Enforcement. t . | e g Ry the Assoriated Press | he the foremost tssue of the campalgn by Senator ge Wharton Pepper, Gov. Gifford Pinchot and Representa tive Willlam S. \'are for the Republi an ne the United States i | | nation for | Senate at the May primaries. i | | Says She Will Visit Secretary of Labor if She Has Time—En- joved Ellis Island. In announcing his candidacy vester Representative Vare ne ot for a modification of the Vol to permit the sale of lizht Ile sald that enforce = rely stead net wines and Leer, ment of the law the American people were “tired of Mavflower Hotal today. the ecentral the indefensible invasion of their just figure in the “moral turpitnde” case, | vights,” involving her admiseahility tha| Senator Pepper is an advocate of Tnited Srates, which <till hefare | prohibition, while tquer law enforce the Labor Department and the conrts, | ment has heen stressed hy the Pinchot eaid ehe mav call nupan Secratary ate administration and Davis to pav her respacts to the man |of the principal planks in the platform whe afirmed the ruling excluding her | on which the governor will conduet from this country, but is not sure |his campaizn. ghe will have time during her short stay in Washington The countess said she had “rather eninved” her expariences at Ieiand, where she was held for more than a week pending disposition of her appeal for admission T. G. Risley. solicitor for the Lahor Department. is still working on the | appeal of the department from the | court decizion permitting the antrance ©of the countess into the United States BOY SCOUTS PLAN MAMMOTH RALLY 10,000 Members of This District to Assemble May 1—National Council Also to Meet. Vera, (‘nuntess af is in Washington Breakfasting in her suite at the Catheart, Support Presiden pledged Coolidge n. Pin atd Al three thelr support |and the national administratio chot's announeement Saturda ! he was “an enemy of the gang. Vare's statement savs he believes “the time has come to modify the ex- cess of laws which is eating like a cancer into the physic 1 moral life of the American pec | “Enforcement #® the Volstead act has failed, in my opinion,” he sald ‘because the law is not enforceable in ita present form. Attacks Referring to offensive character,” proceeds ‘Law enfore candidates have to President ent. spionage of the most the statement ment is hreaking down evervwhere, The younger generation i{s subjected to moral dangers which are the direct outgrowth of this con- dition.” Indications point to a contest for the Republican gubernatorial nomina- tion a John K. Tener, a former governor, is the only announced can- didate. Edward E. Reidleman. former Jientenant governor, and John S “isher, former state banking comm mil sioner. are expected to announce their plans for the sixtesnth annual meet- | candidacies shortly. Mr. Reidleman ing of the National Counell, to he|has the support of W. Harry Raker, held here April 30 and May 1. { chairman of the Rapuhlican State com- The Natinnal Council coneists of | mittes, and some of the leaders friend- 1,212 prominent men from all parts | ¥ to Representative Vare. DIES OF PNEUMONIA sional warlde Widow of Stilson Hutchins Suc- Fresident Conlidge, honorary pres- {dent of the Bav Scnute, has accept- cumbs in Home Here at Age of 56. ed an invitation tn address the con- v York. chiaf Beout execnt Bay Seoute of Americs, tnday ie conferring at the | University Club with Seaut Executives | Hng lncal councils within s of Waghingron relative to| Jamee E. W wvention an the evening of May 1 Lient. € Rohert S. S. Ra- den-Powell er of the Roy Scout movement in Great Rritain, and “Chief Seout of the World.” alsn Wil address the delegates that day Oin the afternnon of May 1 a mam- moth rally will he hall hy Scouts of this vieinity, It i= expected that 10,000 members will participate. Mrs, Rose Keeling Hutchins, widow of Stilson Hutching, who for more than a quarter of a century Wwas prominent here as a newspaper own- o terday marning At her residence, 1603 Massachusetis avennue. Death was due to pneumonia. which developed fllowing an attack of the grippe. | She was 36 vears nld. Funeral services will he conducted Ated at Tnhne Hopkins fios | At the residence at 2 a'clack tomor- row afternoon hy Rev. J. H. A. Bom- herger of the Church of the Epiphany, where Mrs. Huichins attended. In terment will he in Rock Creek Cem- etery Mre. Hutchins leaves twe brothers Rev. Stewart Keeling of Philadelphia in Ralti. | and Robert Lee Keeling of New York mere. Duving the World War he | City, and a niece, Mrs. Margaret eoncelved the process of manufac | Keeling Prosser, wife of Maj. W. H furing acatone from kelp at the Iler.| Prosser, U S, A, She was a daughter cules plant fn San Diego, Calif. ife|of Rev. Dr. Robert J. Keeling of Nor- was a member of many clubs in Del- | folk. formeriy rector aware and \Washington, His widow, of this elty. and Elf na sister and two hrothera survive | ing of Baltimore. im. Mrs, lutching was prominent in BOOSTS JUDICIAL PAY. | society of hoth Washington and Ral timore and has lived here periodicall: Bill Before Senate Increases Sal- aries of District Justices. GEORGE H. MARKELL DIES. Hercules Powder Co. Official Suc-l cumbs in Baltimore. BALTIMORE. Md . Murch 15 () George H. Markell vice president and ier‘oral manager of the Herculss Pew. er Co. pital here . He wae 41| years old. Mr. Markell entered the hoepital from his home in Hollvoak. near Wilmington. Del., three months Bgo to undergn treatment for a hea gliment. Recentls he contracted preumonia Mr. Markell was horn since the death of Mr. Hutchine, in 1912, Roth olad ex Mr. and Mrs. Hutchins trav. nsively. Mr. Hutchins hy a former marriage was the father of twn sons, Walter . and Lee Hutch. ine. Walter & Hutchins survives his v for the judges o Increases in sala r the judges of | B0 (iher. the District Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals of the District are provided for in a general salary hill | ::gn:’::";m:e by the Senate ,mrlir‘lv; NOON'DAY LENTEN SERVICES e chief fustice and the associate | $ubices of the (%t of Appeals of | the Disrict would he advanced from | §5.500 each to 813,500 each. The chief i)_:m'- and aseaciate justices of the ietrict Supreme Couyf ¢ - ed from $7400 ta 15500 0 P HOUSE AGREES T0 CONFER N a n the Publl B.F.KEITH’S THEATER 12:30 to 1 O’Clock The House todav agreed 1o rence by the Senate o ibrary bill, which carties sub tive law for the work or (’. fre Public Library and makes provisin, for extending its facilities 1v agern resident of the Dietrict of l'«.mmm: The conferees for tha Honse are| epresentatives Zihlman, Repub- can, of Marvland; Kelle: Repuh.- | lican, of Minnesota, and Rlanton Demoerat, of Texas. | 5 | In addition 1o doinz her awn house. | hold work and caring for r:‘-rh r"hi’ dren, Mrs. Edward Livingston of | » Bas found time to com] Every On‘: 1 145 m quilte, 124 Ere e 15 Tour yeny SRT0SS 20 Speaker Tomorrow ~?emh)r Lawrence D. Tyson C t; Conducted by ev. T. H. Lewis - Invited—No Collection ON WET PLATFORM had failed and that | will he one | capitaliat and politician. died ves. | ROAD T0 COOLIDGE HOME TC BE OPENED !Father of President Very i Tractor to Clear Drifts. 1By e ax al Pross | PLYMOUTH. Vi March 15-—The | paeked snowdrifte of a Vermont high way must make way fo {nf the United States. Word has gone torth that the read from Ludlow to Plymouth, where the President’s father now lies critieatly ill, must be opened [to motor watic immediately. For months A losing battle has heen d with the fc nature. Week new resources have beer awn o the fight, + A bulletin oek this morning Feaid 1) Col. Coolidge had spent a omfor niht and that Lis condi tion this morning was hette rdded that Col. Coulidige i ces of Witk Ni to Be ( A fiveton tractor was b 1o Ludiow from | e in charge of h expecied 1o for attaching L retary snow plow » i made the plow will aperate pt and day clearing the dvifis down 1o hard pan to permit (e of auto { mobilas, should the | ent dacide to come here. ! Last Autumn State authorities do {eided ta cooperate with the rvesidents of Ludlow in keeping open the 13.mile | streteh of hizhway hatween Ludlow, {the railcoad point. and Plymouth { Notch. The plan was suceessful until the heavy snowa of the new vear roved too much for the equipment ilable. ow Plow perated. ons exsAry creive the tractor When th par os The arrival of the tractor, said, will provide the with sufficient power to push the plow over the hills and open the road in short order. it was | Weakness Is Extreme. | e Alhert M I his physiclan, deglared toda weakness of Col. Coolidgs was ex- treme. Yesterday saw further loss of | Rround. The patient continued to fal, and sedatives wer ilieve suffering. Heart action slower, although respivation was nor- mal. D, Cram indicated that only | e Conlidge’s vitality was prolonging his 1ife. The patient ittle liynid nourishment, ifficulty | Col. Coolidge became critically ill early Iast week and on Thursday his heart condition was considered &rave. He rallfed temporarily, only to suffer | further relapse, ' Since last December, when he loat the nse of hisx lezs, he has been hed {¥idden. | PRESIDE tram of Bridgewater. fs able to take only a and that with " READY R TRIP. Will Not Leave at Once Unless Father ‘Takes "Turn for Worse. There were no indleations at White House at noon today that Pr dent Coolidge is contemplating making la trip to Plymouth, Vi within the next 24 hours, to vi his father, un | less reports in the meantime regarding | his dition _are more alarming. lHowever, the President has directed | that everything be in readiness for a | hurrfed journey at a short notice. Col. Coolidge was today again able to talk with the President over the lephone. The latter, as has been his custom during his father's serious illness and since the telephone was installed in his father's home. called {up the home this morning, and while | inauiring about the colonel's condition | enough ta converse with him over the i President and Mrs. Coolidge, the week end aboard the vacht Mayflower, returned to the | White Ilouse shortly before 8 o'clock { today. They were accompanied on the {eruise hy Secretary of Commer | Hoover and Mrs. Hoover, Represen ative Purnell of Indiana and My | Purnell. Representative and Mrs. Crumpacker of Oregon. Mr. and Mrs George Horace Lorimer of Philadel phia and Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Stearns of Boston. . Two Runaway Girls Held. NORFOLK, Va. March 15 (®)— Two Brooklyn girls, Alice Waters and | Ruth Minnerly, one a typist and the sther a telephone operator,. were de- talned here last nignt as runaw from home at the request of the N York police. Stories of the South and their reason for coming to Virginia. I Today in Congress Nenate. Senator Walsh of Montana ad- dressed the Senate the cution of Senator Wheeler of Mon- tana by the Department of Justice which resulted in of Senator, on prose- | some time aga, ! the exoneration Wheeler. Debate will be resumed later in the day on the Gooding long and short haul bill. ] Favorable report on the Capper bl to discrimination agalnst co-operative marketing | assoclations hy boards of trade was ordered by the agriculture committee. The judiciary committee |s meet- ing In executive gession on routine pending matters. Chairman Capper of the District committee announced his commit- tee would take up within a few davs the hill passed hy the House to provide Washington with atle. quate bathing pool facilities. The privileges and elections com. mittee I schedultd to meet this | afternoon. . prevent House. House takes up unanimous con- sent calendar and bills under sus- pension of the rilles. Tomorrow the House will have under consideration the District of Columbla appropriation bill. and House Leader Tilson will ask to suspend calendar \Wednesday, so fhat the appropriation measure may he passed on that day. Vote taken in House foday on passage of White radio control bill, which has heem under considera- tion for two davs. Committee on agriculture con- tinues hearings on agricultural re- lief measures. Naval affaira committee, in exec- utive session. considers Navy De- partment bill for equalization of rank and opportunities for pro- motion as hetween line and staff officers. Merchant marine committee con- tinues hearing on bill to amend shipping act. Trrigation and mittee considers a clamation relief bills. Subcommiftee of judiciary com mittee considers a number of bills in executive eession, including the proposed changs in the term of courta. o o 1] reclamation com- batch. of re- | ! Weak—State Sends Big - the President | rond workers | that the | adminisiered to ye' | xrew | he was told that the latter was strong | a desire to obtain work were given as | heriff Angus MacAunley and M g constant care of o « ous visitors away and dside. | | takin, jall i at olidge sin ads (e newsy WATCHING OVER COL. COOLIDGE, se whio has heen The sherlft keeps ers (o the President’s father SCHOOL INCURY ~ MAY BE SOUGHT ~ POISONS PAPERS 'Boardl of Education May Ask | Study of Charges of Funds Diversion. Request may he made by members rd of Edueation, it was de committee holdine hearings on the Gasque elective school b A thorough Investigation of charges { made at the h aturday nizht by Snowden A mer munici: pal architect, that money in the school vepaic fund ix being iilegally used to complete new school huildings. 1t ix unders 1 that e« members resent the i given by Mr \sh 1 welcome cong of a poliey which the tneation wnd the Engineer | Commissioner have been compelled to H ol wainst their withes neer Commissioner Hell al with a defense of the diver The records will show, ot tended by Education Hoard member that the divert of money sehool repair fund to the comple of new school buildings was init by Mr. Ashford himself in the e of the I'etworth in 192 Powell School in 1418 and the It { Brown School in 1920 In the case of the Petworth Sehool 1 that $5.000 was spent for a fng plant. wnile the sums used in the Powell Sche and the E Brown School were 31000 and §2 respectively Were it illegal for the repair fund to be used to finish up new schools, it s con ded, this could not he clted a legitimate compiaint against the Board of Fd much as the board has no authorit over the repair fund except what District Commissioners concede them | Frnest Greenw lthe Board of Education, hedded the committee in ! the repair fund for the hoard, has re- peatedly protested at meetings of the “raiding of the repair fund™ for com- pletion of new schools a result, the hoard at a mee eral weeks ago called upon Maj. Raymond O { Wilmarth, business manager, to make up a list of moneys spent from the [ yepair fund on new huildings over a five-vear period. It was the view of | the hoard to use this list A% AN argi- ment hefore the House approprintions committee that Con e should not ppropriate piecemeal for new school bt give sufficient money not oniy t complete the school, but to grade sur ounding land and construct proper pproaches. Were it not for the fact that the re- i pair fund had been used to furnish ip mew schools it is declared that | many of the new schools now in use would still be uninhabitable. An unofficial estimate of the amount of money taken from the repair fund during the last five vears in the in terest of mnew school construction places the sum at approximately £40,000. This is compared with $X0. 000 charged Saturday night by Mr Ashford Engineer not take charges. While Mr. Rell admitted that some of the money in the repair fund had | been spent for grading and paving around newly constructed schools, he explained that it had heen nsed for public purposes and he saw no reason to take M Ashford’s accusations seriously. t is just a matter of ns. ing money out of one pocket instes of another,” he said. Col. Rell pointed out that when a contract 1s let for the construction of A new school no provisions ave in- cluded requiring the contractor to grade the ground, lay sidewalks and plant shrubhery. The ground must nettle hefore these finishing touches are added, he declared, and it would be unwise to delay a contractor in turning over new schools, as badly as they are needed, to put such items in his contract. As the money appropjriated for that bullding proper has either been used or gone back into the Treasury if the contractor’s price ix lower than the amount ayailable, we have found it necessary to use a part of the repalr fund for the finishing touches,” said the Ingineer Commissjoner. *Such projects #o closely border repair work that there hardly seems to he room for ohjection.” the oried and I testimony | thev would cognizance Lioard of T the v money Bell duves Ashford Commissioner seriously the FIRST-DEGREE VE7RDICT ASKED FOR COURSEY Second Parent on Trial at Towson, Md., Charged With Beating Boy to Death. Special Dispatch to The Star. TOWNSON, Md, March 15.—The trial of Ralph P." Coursey, charged with fatally beating his stepson, Eld- ridge Coursey, 5 vears old, and whose wife was convicted Saturday of a similar charge, opened here today be- fore Judges P. Scott Offutt, Frank I. Duncan and Walter W. Preston of Criminal Court. Attorneys for the defendant said they expected to show by expert wit nesses that the death of the bo; February 7 could not have resulted from the beatings he had received the day before, while Herbert R. O'Con- nor, State attorney, said he would ask conviction of murder in the firat degree upon the ground that Coursey heat the boy the day he died as woil as the prev o Defense counsel said blows were administered by th wife after the whippings Coursey hac administered. 3 Mrs. Coursey was convicted of man slaughter by & jury before whom ehe repudiated a confession that she was responsible. = . to have the House sub- | rd bill make | csipnal from the | - SAY POISON NEWS |Authors of New Book Claim ' Suppression Leads to | Ruin of Journal. | By the Associated Press. | CHICAGO, March 15. A newspaper more afford to poison its news than a dairyman ean afford to put prussic acid in his milk." Harper | Leech and John . Carroll in | their new hoolt on the newspaper, “What's the N fust published. he newspaper which poisons fis product poisons itself. Suppression f important or pertinent 1% in th interest of popularity class, gang clique_or self interest 15 the equiva lent of a death warrant if persist in Or 1% the toll of dead news papers is sufficient testimony All ph the newspapers’ rela- tion to the myrked activities of et ern life are touched on in the hoo which deseribas news as “accele literature™ and the newspaper | institution “which s writing ture as the clock ticks" On Tribune Staff. The anthors are members of the staff of the Chieago Tribune. lLeech s known as a writer on economic | topiea under the pseudonym o while Carrol the Medill Northwestern ran no say sox ¢ litera in at writers declare that nevapa men long have had a triple ¢ f news. hased on the themes of morfey, love and religion To more specific and probahly moie ¢ lightening. news interest as disclosed hy the worlid in review as it tumbles day or night upon the copy desk from wiv bles, hot from the porter’s typesvriter o# cooler from the mails, seems to he summoned up thus “Life and death. desire aAmuse- | ment. « psity, ambitic d cupid lity, wealth and poverty, religlons | hope, generosity and stinginess, hon esty and dishonesty, heroism and fenr Crime Proportion Lower, While crime is called “the most in teresting of all news themes—judged | hy clrculation gains and popular in terest—the authors assert that the cost of publixhing has fners and the volume of crime has eased, the proportion of all crime that wins a place in the waned until it is less of 1 per cent in the larzer dailles.” | “The most sensational newsy are less sen: al than their read- |ers. Strive as they may to tickle Denios, the mechanfeal and economic limitations on newspaper space are such that they constitute one of the |least sensational forms of letters. Per thousand ems of type or pounds of ser, they runless to crime and cagedy than mose of the great | elassics. | ““The idea that the sappression of | erime news would lessen crime ignores |the fact that newspapers are by no | means the only methods for the dis semination of information. They | huve never superseded the gossip and the grapevine telegraph.” Little Sex News. Likewise the anthors find that com | paratively litile of available sex news [is printed. although citing the subject sfone of wide interest. “Sex will disappenr from the news when newspaper are written and read hy Robots, Men and women and their problems as such ajways have been the theme of accelerated literature as of nearly all other sorts “Rut. Just as in crime, the very abundance of sex news in time force: a process of selection, until A very minuute fraction of sex news ever gefs into the newspapers, and that Is usu- |ally selected hecause it carrfes with i some unusual feature of appeal—ex actly as the sex of great literatur: ix always something vastly more than wex." | The relation of advertising to news [ papers is commented upon. It ha | become conventional to say that i | newspaper lives on fta by-product, ad | vertising.” The anuthors deny this | saying: It probably is true today that th great majority of newspaper advertis ers are as dependent on the news I papers as they are on the raflroads the post office or the telephone fo; their continued existence and func tioning.” PARIS BALLOTING LIGHT. Public Indifference to Deputies Requires Second Election. TARIS. March 15 (#.—The ap- {parent Indifference of the public toward the Chamber of Deputies was exemplified hy the fact that more than 40 per cent of the voters ab- stained from casting their hallots in vesterday's election in the second parliameniary division of Paris held to replace two deputies who died recently. No absolute majority was obtained hy a candidate and a second ballot will have to be held. NORWAY PLANS DRY VOTE. Bill Proposes Plebiscite on Reten- tion of Prohibition. OSLO, Norway, March 15 (#).—The government has decided to submit to the Storting a bill proposing that a plebircite he taken In Octoher to give a popular answer to the question whether the existing prohibition of liquors shall he retained. The prohibition law does not ban the importation of wines, which, there- fore, will not be affected by the pro- posed pleblscite. * | today - west news has | than one-half { FIND MANY INCELLS| AS THE WEEK ENDS Investigators Report Police Court Congestion Unabated Despite Relief Measures. With some w Police Court, rev Star Inv fon, ditlons continued unabated, ag shown by the number of prisoners licked up over this week end und the numbers teral lsts number locked in the United States, jet and fie Court cell rooms was 160, The teral list, one of the largest in history of the courthouse, was Added 1o this number ix 15 more were released on hond, thus bring- the combined total of locked-up collateral and hond eases o confe foot to plan ¥ 1o relieve the congestion in aled by The Evening the crowded con o on Conzuitments Listed. These numbers divided up ax follows: United Court, 40 locked up, % on collatersl and 10 on bond: Pistrict Court, 108 locked up, 111 on collateral and none on bond: Traflic rt, 12 locked up, 400 on collateral and 5 on hond It was well the conrts that their appearance today, thus forfeit ing their collateral. Only 33 out of the 111 defendanix on collateral in the District Court. answered 1o their names, I < for those answering 0 in Affie Corrt cannot be ascertained as ve but i1 was thonght likely that only a small per centaze would make their appearance Aduring the day. Cases Refore Judge Hitt. the sama time Judge Isaac It i= scheduled 1o hear four eases {today when the new jury is fimaily | impaneled. Another group of de- | fendanis might he added who were given summonses and made their ap- pearance in Police Court without first putting up their collateral at the var- [fous precinets. Despite the fact that | Maj. Hesse hasx glven explicit instrue. tions that parking vielators and de- fendants of sundry regulations, are (0 the precincts and put up eol many disregard these orders \peat in Police Court first. nately n ontinued caxes are w Mondavs further to swell the amazing hizh fgures ni for the many rrying on of alled 10 make At Hitt COLORED MANHELD ON SLAYING CHARGE {lohn Middleton Indicted in ! Death of Mary E. Jones. Others Under Charges. | | John Middleton. colored, was indicted hy the grand jury on a charge of murder in the first degree fn con- | nection with the death of Mary Ella | Jones, also colored. July 19 last in a { building In rear of 940 G street south- According to the police Middie ton said he was asleep when ho heard a noise like some one falling. and. go- ing down to investigaet, found the! woman lyving dead on a couch. The indictment savs the nan died as | the result of physical xerted | | upon her by the accused. Jurors Ignore Charge, The grand jurors ignored # charge | of homicide against Ernest Rias well, agent for an apartment house at 1409 Eleventh ,street, where Mis Josephine E. Johnson was found dead January 4 last. A daughter of the | woman, returning from school, de- | clared her mother's room was filled | { whith a blue vapor. I 'The exoneration of Mr. Braswell| { brings to a close the first attempt tc held an agent for. a rented house re.| sponsible for the death of a resident non-feasunce ir supervision of the quarters. Braswell | was held for action of the grand jury | by & coroner's jury which decided the | woman died of gag because of “defec ! tive ax appliances.” There was n | precedent for the charge | Indictn is and Exonerations. | ighteen other persons were in- | dicied and 17 others exonerated in the report of the grand jury. Those cases dismissed were: Charles D Scheetz, violating white - slave act: Walter Vine, robbery: Louls Grit Violuting national prohibitlon act: Oscar R. “Bavne, grand larceny [ John 11 Carter it with dangzer- | bis weapon worth Smith and Luther Dansgerger, violating na- | tHonal motor vehicle theft act: Leroy Wallace, assanlt with dangeron weapon: Cora Edwards. violating in- ternal revenue laws: Kenneth L. | Moare, false pretenses: lLee Laok allas Lee Duk, Sing Les and Les Chung. violating Harrison narcatic | act: Arthur P. Alseander, false pre- tenses: Fred Nickens, grand larceny Nick loanon, false pretenses: Wil- liam 1. Warren and Theodore R Tillman, grand larceny. | Charges Enumerated. Others indicted and the charges against them are: Homer Cook and John Wallo, alias 1 Wall sarnal knowledge: Will . Tollman, lurceny after trust (two cases):. Robert Thomas, assault with dangerous weap- on and assault with intent to kill: An- gelo Chapman, Harry Earl Bost and John A. Watson, non-support: George Carter, William Ross and John Stan- ton, Willlam Johnson and Frank Gor- don, grand larceny: llorace Turner, ‘ard (. Smith, Charles Jackson (tw casen), Raymond Crawford, Joseph E. Cameron and Jam dd, housebreak- ing and larceny. \SHORT-WEIGHT DRIVE BRINGS 31 ARRESTS 125 Illegal Scales Confiscated Since the First of Current’ Month. George M. Roberts, superintendent of weights and measures, announced today that his department is waging a vigorous campaign against violators of the weights and measures law. Since March 1, he said, 31 prosecutions have been instituted for such viola- tions. Seven of the cases were for making sales of meats by short weight, one for selling ice by short welght and | others were for violations of other provisions of the weights and mens-| ures law, Including use of incorrect scales, fallure of bakers to properly | label bread, failure of coal venders to dispaly their names on vehicles used by them for the sale and delivery of coal and faflure to sell coal by weight. Approximately 125 scales and other instrumnetas which did not meet lega) requirements also were conflacated since March 1, Mr. Roberts said. ftwo |alley {the ¢ Must Forfeit Life. BT T T T APMAN. arried his bat- gainst a death enee the Supreme Court, lost out foday when the court refused to review his case. POWERS WILL USE FORCE IN'TIENTSIN Naval Commanders to Be Given Full Rights to Open Taku Channel. te ny By Cable to The Star JAMES L. BUTTS. Darly News This informed xer pro- Mareh ahly a t s the ministers of 1h s At 4 meeting decided to naval command, with & ultimatums t conflicting Chinese miii- fary commanders. hoth on land and sea, to clear the Taku Channel, dis mantle the Taku forts and restore free communication from Tien with the Boxer re that invest = full pow the varion seaward 1sin, in aties. accordance Daity No DECISION oy zhe 1 JAPAN POSTPON Cabinet Agrees Not to Hold All China Responsible, However. he cabinet st decision regarding ands to be made upon China over { last Friday. when Jupanese destrovers were fired upon whiie attempting to pass up the Pei River. owing to a desire 1o t the Chinese reaction to the allied powers’ note following the affair It 1= understood that the menihers f the cabinet agreed upon a friendiy, independent action toward China. not holding all China responsible. hut asic ing for punishment the guilty Chinese wha fired on the desirovers and also for proper remuneration fe the wounded and a pledge t) would be no future inciden ASSASSINS -PEN_SIONED. Rewards Participants of Moscow in Emperor's Slaying in 1881. MOSCOW, March 15 U®) women and one man. participanis in the assascination of Alexander TI. \peror of Russia, on March 13. 1881, were granted pensions vesterdav of $112 monthly for life by the Council nmissars. This was in nmemoration of the forty-fifth an niversary of that event Aexunder T fell victim to u ist plot when drivins in one streets of Petershurg (now Lenin grad), nesr the Winter palaca. lle was mortally wounded by the explo: sion of hombs. STILL FOUND IN COUCH. of the nhl(h"{v!‘n’lv:':\::.n«l’h morning ied to the discovery plete stili of 10.gallon capacity creted in and heneath a big old-fush- foned conch on emises of Wii liam Mainn, 35 3 old, 148 Schott nortneast. Marks Nihil of the Iney Marks vesterday of a com- Lieunt, was in charge of a I Rquad that went to the heuse to serve a warrant for an alleged disorder, and while there the lieutenant overturned and discovered the still The small still was concealed in the couch, according to the police, the colls being fastened to the springs. A charge of illegal possession of a still was preferred against Mainn. 13’ HAUNTS TRAFFIC CASE Special Dispateh to The Star NORFOL March 15— Thir- teen has played a dramatic part in a 1t of the antomobile pvember 13, last. of Carlisle Wood, 13-vear-old schaolboy James Kendler, automobile sule: man, was acquitted by a jury in ¢ poration Court on a manslanghter charge, after 13 of the jury panel had heen rejected. On March 13 he was tried on a_ hitand-run count and con- victed. His name and that of the victim each contained 13 letters. lnvention.s Give Perfect Record Of Heart Beats By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, March 15.—Staff phy- siclans of St. Luke's Hospital have combined two modern inven- tions, the radio-stethoscope and the electro-cardiograph, in a de- vice which they believe makes it possible for a physician to get an absolutely accurate record of hu- man heart beats. The stethoscope’s function is to amplity heart sounds. Hitherto, it was pointed out, every physician who listened had a different ear, and even when the sounds were filtered disagreements in diagnosis resilted. The _cardiograph has been attached to the. siethoscepe in such manner that the heart beats are recorded= mechanically, thus doing away with a Jarge amount of error. at there | Eight § 'DRY LAW OFFICERS SUBJECT OF ATTACK Work in D. C. and Adjoining States in Unsympathetic Hands, Is Charge. BY the Associated Press. Prohibitionisis generally and en- forcement directorship in the District of Columbin, Maryiand, Delaware and Kentueky specificaliy age &t tacked in nta issued here, opening a week that is expected to see Congress devore considerable at tention to the subject The statements eame fram the Board of ‘Temperance, Prohibiiion and Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church, repeating its con tention that prohibition enforcement in many caves rests in unsympa- the and from Represen tive tepublican, 'ennsvl- vania. Representative «harged at “under the rule of the ‘drys the Constitution ix fast hecoming a scrap of paper. the system junk, fus- tice ] Government, through its agenis, the greatest law- breaker." Senator Bruce to Discuss Topie. At least one address on prohibition will be delivered during the week ! the Senate, where Senator Bruce, Dems¢ Maryl 1. will rep td Sen: . Demecrat, on Saturday declared pro- coss, despite vio ed aristocra ation by the Repubite statem ness, wl hibition was lations by the “mone: jand the law's admini higgest distiiler in g In addition. the Senate |ndicfary € commitiee W mest moon to con sider pending modification bille and [ Hocida” Whather 1t will_ recommend that public hearinzs he held The hoard of 1emperance statement declared that while the recently or ganized group of men to combat mic nse of the alcohol permit Seystem wonld pr helpful when anti-pro- i hibitloniste or icient men I maintained in positions of respo: bility the confidence of the peaple is shaken on 1 ple real for instance. convinee the dry p nd Delaware that ment is intended fn long as Mr. Budnitz jon adm mpossihie. ot indicates to that the politie Senaor Weller (Republican ire held to be af gres Ithan prehibition enzo | e people fartunes of Marylandy mportane ement This Alstrict Othere Officers Criticised. | The statement also criticized the ve {tention of William (. Mayvs. adminie Lirator Kenticky and Tennesses, [declaring he was appointed for politi cal veasone and that his office was a machine headquartars sentative Phillips d ed that 1 a short time agoe the term approbrious. six years of undi and almost unechal {ienged power has rendered the word synonomens with intemperance. higotry, arrogance and teal Repy while ¢ Swet” v wited wiry intoleran tyranny Referiing 1o newspaper polls heing raken throughont the country. he maid thansands of votes recorded in the w are heing cast by persons. wonld have haen cohimns who, €ix vears ago, Jased definitely as “drys.” Tem perate. honest. lawahiding peaple who have protested against the effors to put prohibition “above all else in the legal calendar,” he nied “have Leen hodily cast over by the prohibitioniste In tn the ‘wet” groun nd so hranded. 1 myself have h classified as a ‘wet.’ hecause 1 ha had the temerity to protest, privatel and officially, against that very situa- ion. {FARMERS WOULD AMEND | WATSON-PARKER BILL | National Grange and Federation Bureau Propose Final Authority to I C. C. Over Excessive Wages. An amendment rker railroad 10 zive the Interst Commisston final authe the wulMe from excessive creases that would increase fr rates will he sought hy the Grange and the American Farm renu Fedepution, Contending that the | passed by the ilouse does not afford the public adequate protection. the fgrange in 1 statement vesterday said | it was cooperating with the Farm inmwn Federation in an.appeal to the Watsan nfil. which mmer e ¢ o protect wage in to " anor i | | » i i i measure everv member of the Senate to amand the proposal i There is pend | ment, “a wi 1id the state nd which will {eost the 1a QAON0.A00, Shewuld this he agreed to under the me of I the Watson Park hill, the cost wonld ! he passed o the shippers of freight. and agrieuliural freight rates | wonld inevitably he made to absorh a | major part of it. The Interstate Commerce Commission would have no recourse but to add this to the cost of railroad operation. which the rail roads under existing law must he per | mirted to earn. | "““The operation of the present Rail road Lahor Roard gives the public | resentation. The proposed law | not.” does {SPECTACULAR COMET MYSTERIOUSLY VANISHES | Ensore's, Scheduled for Display in Heavens. Disappears—May Have Gone Too Near Sun. Ry the Associated Press. WILLIAMS RAY. Wis, March Ensore's comet, generally viewed thie time of vear with a display Halley's comet, has mys terlously disappeared. Prof. Edwin B. Frost of Yerkes Obsarvatory of the University of Chi cagn recorded the disappearance to day. ife said that the comet might have | run too near the sun. When a come! gets too near the sun, he added, iix head shrinks and it becomes so dif fuse that it cannot he seen throuch a telescope. at rivaling |VOTE AGAINST RETURN OF KAISER’S PROPERTY By Radio to The Star and Chicago Daily ) BERLIN, March 15.—FEight million Germans, or a majority of the normul vote. already have voted against re- turning_the roval property to_the | former Kaiser and former princes. More than 1.000,000 voted against the prop- osition in B thought fhat during the next < winding fup the referendum al of 10,000, - | 000 votes will he reached. 1t is helieved the Relchstac will seek a compromise, as the ref- erendutm shows that the will not_support leaders who try 1o return his wealth to the former Kaiser. (Copyright, 1826. by Chicago Daily News Ce.) £