Evening Star Newspaper, March 19, 1926, Page 17

WHERE PLYMOUTH RESIDEN' f in the little Vermont village. from Dr. Cra serlously Injured. HUGE DISTILLERY SEIZED N JERSEY “Bootleg King” and Others Accused of Selling Product as “Banana 0il.” | Br the Assnciated Press | NEW YORK. March 19.--The ar-| raignment yesierday of Samuel Senate of the Bronx before Federal Commis- sioner Cotter revealed that Emanuel | (Manny) Kessler, called the “king of | the bootleggers,” and u “ring” of 20, others had heen indictéd for operating | & large distillery at South River, N. The “ring.” the indictments charged, had converted an old dve works at Bouth River into a plant capable of redistilling alcohol at the rate of 4,000 | gallons daii | The product, it was charged, was, shipped to- bootleggers as “banana oil.” Supplied With “Safety Gate." The building was constructed with & “mafety gate.’ by which the mill could be drained at a-moment's notlce | in the event of a rald. Beneath the dye works were storage tanks capable of holding between 30,000 and 40.000 ' gallons, | Morris Sweetwood. who served two years in the Federal penitentiary with Kersler for violating the prohibition law, was one of those indicted. Among ! the others were Leonard Rossal and| John Gourley, chemists, and J. Dohen | Corry Welnant, said to be a council-| man of South River. Kessler is also under indictment, charging that he had defrauded the Government out of more than $1,560, 000 due &s fncome tax in 1922 on his bootlegging profits. DPoctors and Druggists Accused. ‘While the courts were proceeding inst the alleged members of the “Kessler ring,” Federal agents began yesterday the drive against phys- felans, druggists and distlllery agents for conspiring to violate the prohibi- tion law. The Federal authorities said their Investigation showed that the amount of whisky which could legally be with- | Arawn from warehouses was exceeded by 500.000 gallons for the vear ending Jast June. It would take some 4.000,000 physicians’ certificates to| withdraw that much above the au-| thorized amount. RADIO PLANE WARMNGS. New Weather News Service Plan- ned Soon by Navy Department. Establishment within the next | month of a radio weather informa- tion service for airplanes while in fight in the New York-Washington- Norfolk_area has heen decided upon | by the Navy Department. The plan was worked. out at a re- cent interbureau conference in the Navy Department, and also is_under discussion with Army Air Service | officlals with a view to its extension | throughout the country. 0ld Church to Be Post Office. | Apacial Diapatch to Th WILLIAMSBURG, March 19.—The | ald- Methodlsi Church’el this place, | after remodeling. will become the new post affice for the first incorporated “city” is Virginia. TROLLEY CAR TAKES A NOSE DIVE. the outskirts of Chicago, and not a single one of the 20 passengers was | epidemic | opera, | been TS RECEIWED BU S FF It jumped from a bridge on’ Wide World Photo. New York-Chicago Air Mail Pilots Set Speed Record Covering the distance of miles from Chicago to New in 4 hours and minutes’ actual fiying time for an average of 158.04 miles per hour, Air Mail Pilots George Myers and Earl Ward es- tablished a new record for the route last n which called forth the praise of [ostmaster General New. Pilot Myers flew his plane from Chicag Cleveland in 2 hours and 5 minute= znd Pilot Ward then 0ok the pline on to New York in 2 hours and 50 minutes. The best pievious time for the route has bheen i hours and 24 min- ntes. The schedule time is 7 hours and 30 minutes. ROESSLER TO SING ELSA IN “LOHENGRIN” Metropolitan Soprano to Take Place of Anna Fitziu, Who Is Il Marcella Ro Metropolitan O for her work in Wagner heen engaged for appear the hington Opera Co. in erin” Mondav nizht in place of Anna Fitziu, who was to have sung the part of A, Miss Fitziu is seriously ill with in. fluenza, and her condition, is such that there Is o pos ; of her ap- pearance Monda iz Receiving 2 telegram to that asterday, General Director Edouard Albion im: mediately got in touch with the Met- ropolitan company and through the courtesy of the management securcd the services of Mme. Roessler, one of the premier artists of that com- pany. The other members of the cast, Paul Althouse, tenor, who will sing Lohen- rin; Ina Bourskaya, contralto of the Metropolita who will sinz Ortude. Ivan Ivantz baritone, who will sing Telramund. and Sigurd Nilssen, basso, who will sing King Hen all fortunate sn far in es of influenzs plaved havoe among York. A chorus of 120 singerz. many move than the usual chorus, has heen dili- gently at work on the score of this and the orchestra. ton, has panded to meet the needs of the Wagnerian score, This opera will he the next to the 1ast of the season, the remaining per- formance being a_double bill, “F liacci” and “The Secret of Suzanne, which will be sung on April 8. CENTENNIAL PLANNED. Dever Will Name Committee of 150 for Chicago Event. CHICAGO, March 19 (®.—The city council yvesterday approved proposed appointment by Mayor Dever of a committee of 150 to arrange for a Chi- cago centennial to be held in either 11933 or 1937. The vear 1933 will mark | the 100th anniversary of the establish- | ment of the first village here and mp‘w tha later date of the incorportion of City of Chicago. Mayor Dever will proceed at once 10 name the 150 committeemen an- the centennial program will be work- ed out. 3 3 M DR. CRAM. The neighbors of Col. John Coolidge ¢ the illness and death of the President’s father, Hegbert Moore (left, seated) is reading a bulletin the Coolidge physici A view of the general ngregated there and received the Photo by Acme. WITH THE WASHI local organization, w American League pe BA! PRESIDENT COOLIDGE LEA carlier in the day, the pres of five cars left Washington at 5 Attorney General Sargent. & the Spring practice from the bench. nant winners, i H i idential CALLING AT THE COOLIDGE HOME, idge talking with Sheriff Angus Macauley (eft) outside the The sherifl made the reports of Col. Coolidge’s co homestead. received from Dr. Cram. - r was caught in a traffic Jam on o’clock and arri G WHITE HOUSE FOR TRIP TO PLYMOUTH, Neighbors of Col. John ¢ ool- FEW ACCOMMODATIONS FOR N WSPAPER CFrri el d the Goose Goslin, preniier slugger of the Copyright by P. & A. Photos. Clark Griffith, president of VT. MRS. COURSEY FREED fBruce and Reed Invited to Tennessee IN DEATH OF SON, Husband's Trial for Beating Lad Softened Judge's Opinion of Woman. Special Dispatch tp The Star BALTIMORE. na M. Course; 1y accused with husband, of beati March 19, Mrs, who had been joint- alph T. Coursey, her nz her son, Eldridge, 5, 1o -death, was fined $200 terday and paroled in the cusiody of her father and uncle for one yvear, A jury before Judge Duncan had found her guiity of manslaughter. Two days later Judge Duncan, sit- ting with two other judges, found Coursey, the foster father of the child, Bullty of second-degree murder and sentenced him to 10 vears. State's Attorney Jenifer of Balti- more County asked for leniency. He was convinced the father had been the one who whipped Eldridge into his grave. | _Judge Duncan, too, experienced a | change of heart after listening to the | 2vidence against Coursey, who for- merly was a conductor for the United Railways. “I thought as the jury thought after hearing Mrs. Coursey's trial,” he said. “Had her husband been tried first I would have thought differently.” He added that after hearing the tes- oy in the hushand's case he be-! | came convinced the man was solely | responsible for the erime. With her father the wopian went to Denton, | Md., where ‘her children were being cared for. 4 2 To Test State’s Hospitality and Rum | By the Associated Press. Some unnamed resident of Tennes- see has invited Senator Bruce, Demo- crat, Maryland, to visit him, and “bring Jim Reed,” to test the hospi- tality of that State, which the pros- pective host contended was maligned recently when Senator McKellar, Dem- ocrat, Tennessee, spoke in the Senate on_the benefits of prohibition. The invitation, as read to the Sen- ate yesterday, said that Senator Mc- Kellar is out of touch with the folks back home, and added that “if he can | guarantee that I will not be perse- cuted or prosecuted by his enforce- ment gang, and if he gives me the money, I shail be able to buy and de- liver to him within three hours enough liquor to prove that he is wrong, or I will acknowledge that he is right.” f you decide to visit and make the test, bring Jim Reed with vou,” the invitation conclnded. Senator George, Democrat, Georgia, regretted that the invitation had been read to the Senate in Senator McKel- lar's absence, and expressed hope that “if the Senator from Maryland and the Senator from Missouri do liquor up in the monkey State,” they would permit Senator McKellar to accom- oany them: i ARBUCKLE IN FILM POST. Banished Movie Comedian Restored to Screen Work. HOLLYWQOD, Calif., March 19' (). —Roscoe "Arbuckle, one-time famous film comedian, has been signed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to direct Marion Davies' next picture, officers of the producing company said yesterday. Since his banishment from the screen following his trial in 1921 In connection with the death of Virginia Rappe, in San Francisco, Arbuckle has been directing comedies, but al- ways under a name -other than his own. For the last year he has been working for Educational Pictures. Although acqnitted ini his Arbuckle’s name has not since that time appeared In connection with motion pictures. - PY trial, | of MOLLER HEADS GROUP. National Signal System Committee to Meet Here Tuesday. Col. I. C. Moller, assistant director of traffic, has been appointed chalr- man of a new national committee on traffic control signal systems at stret intersections, organized by the Na- tional Highway Traffic Association. The committee will meet here Tues- day to map out its work. An effort will be made to develop standard meth- ods of operation of traffic signal lights. Wales to Take Brief }iolidn.y. LONDON, March 19 (#).—The Prince Wales, the Westminster Gazette announces, has decided Lo take a short holiday - on the continent early April. . His plans are not yet fixed. On account of no arrangements having bes c nsylvania avenue on the way to the Union Station. The spe ived in New York last night at 9:45. The President and Mrs. Coolidge were accompanied by I Wears colored glasses, but retains his batting eve. Ty Cobb, manager of the Detroit Tygers, had an oper- s eves at the time ial train Washington Star Photo. STEEL GATES TO-END SMUGGLING URGED Canadian Official s‘yul Present Patrol Force Not Working Satisfactorily. By the Associated Press. OTTAWA, Ontario, March 19.— Steel gates which could he locked at sundown are suggested by one cus- toms officer as a precaution against smuggling at principal points on the international boundary. The minister of customs, G. H. Bolvin, who outlined tentative plans to stop smuggling into Canada and from Canada into the United States in the House of Commons yesterday -afternoon, announced that he had not yet decided on the merits of the steel- gates suggestion. ‘The special preventive service force, which had been authorized last year under an appropriation of $350,000, he said, was not operating satistactorily. Forty men out of 67 now engaged would be dismissed and a force of ap- proximately 260 men established. This force would not be entirely engaged in partolling the boundary points, but would give considerable attention to junction points. In addition, a certain nimber of the customs officers would be equipped with motor . cycles or high-powered cars (o watch small country roads leading into the Dominion. A number of boats would he added to those now in lIn service in. the vicinity of the mari- tima provinces and British Columblia. A THE BERI IN MADFIRA. former Ellin Mackay F The new! y 10, Linemen Rush Wire To Save Dying Man With Electricity B the Associated Pre MILWAUKEE, Wis Double crews of linemen ing with death. erecting ver a half mile de to the sickroom of Louis F. Radke, 43. a Thinesville, Wis., farmer. Today, when it is expected the line will be completed. a foreman will throw a switch. A flood of elec- tricity will leap over the strand of ‘ are rac- high- wire to become artificial sunlight, which alone can save the life of the | sick man. | Two weeks ago Mr. Radke was stricken with tubercular peritoni- tis. His condition hecame critical | vesterday and physicians ordered | the wire strung. LODGE VIEWS DEATH AS ‘NEW ADVENTURE’| Declares Process of Soul's Leaving Body Is Not One of Extinction. | By the Associated Press, LONDON. March Death as a “new adventure” and not as “extinc- tion" described by Sir Oliver Lodge in an address vesterday at Christ Church, Back Friars. He ap. pealed to his hearers to dismiss the idea of death as a gloomy thing. Sir Oliver declared that he had fre- quent talks with the dead. Human souls, he said, are temporarily in- closed in a body of matter in this world, and it is quite conceivable that in the future they might be clothed in an instrument made of something other than matter. “The body is a nuisance to get rid of." he continued, “and when the sep- aration takes place we should try to regard the process with intelligence and_not with emotion. “There is too much superstition about the grave. There are no dead in graveyards. I have never seen the grave of my son in France. asked me not to. “What happens to us elsewhere de- pends on what we have done down here. Matter looms far too big in out attitude here. The possibilities open to us are beyond our imagina- tion."” 19. was SCORE HELD IN RAINIER ANTI-PARKING CAMPAIGN Special Dispatch to Tbe Star. MOUNT RAINIER, Md., March -19. —A score of arrests have been ma in a drive by local police to enforce an ordinance prohibiting parking on the west side of Thirty-fourth street between 7 and 11 p.m." Defendants will be arraigned to- night, at 7:30_o'clock, before Justice of the Peace Robert E. Joyce at the town- hall. A resolution passed by directors of the Chamber. of Com- merce at a special meeting last night, to be presented to the mayor and council at their next meeting, asks modification of the ordinance, which was passed about six weeks ago, hold- ing it works a hardship on businese houses. It is asked that half-hour: parking be permitted. " AT PLYMOUTH. Coolidge homestead is located is not prepared to care for many visitors. the illness and death of the President’s father, were forced to sleep in a dan taking a sun bath at the bat married couple March 19 1 ¢ froz. | ! mission from The small village where the These newspaper men, reporting hall in Plymouth Copy Ty & Underwon ! and his wife, the ing beach of the e been staying in Madeira W e Worid Phe TARIFF BODY PROBE - BEGING NEXT WEEK The song wri Senator Robinson Chairman of Committee Named to Investigate. F The special committea appointed bv the Senate to investigate th Tariff Commission will begin the task early next week. probablv Tues- day. it was announced following the organization meeting of the commit- tee vesterday afternoon. Senater Robinson of Arkansas. Democratic floor leader. was elected chairman of the committee. Senator La Follette of Wisconsin, the “Progressive Republican” named by Vice President Dawes. cast the deciding vote. Senator Wadsworth, Republican, New York. was suggest- ed for the chairmanship by the other Republican member, Senator Reed of Pennsylvania. Senator Bruce. Demn- crat, Marylamd, supported Senator Robinson. F. W. Taussig of Harvard. who was the first chairman of the Tariff Com- 1917 1o 1919, will he the first witness and probably will he followed by T. W. Page of Wash- ington, who was the second chair- man. Senator Robinson was directed 1o request President Coolidge to recall ‘William 8. Culbertson, now Ameri- can Minister to Rumania. so he can be examined. Mr. Culbe: n was a member of the commission at the time of the sugar tariff inquiry of 1924 and it has been charged that & number of Senators and Repre- sentatives of the sugar industry, meeting _In the office of Senator Smoot, Republican, Utah, sought to influence him on that question. POPE ENCYCLICAL HIT BY LUTHERAN COUNCIL Feast Move Called Uncharitable, Sectarian and Hostile at Na- tional Session. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO. March 19.-—The Nation- al Lutheran Councll, in session here, yvesterday took exception to the De- cember encyclical of Pope Pius XI, instituting the annual feast of Christ the King on the last Sunday in October, as containing statements “which are sectarian in the worst sense and uncharitable.” They dis- sented strongly from His Holiness’ suggestion that Protestants partici- pate in a festival to Christ the King. A statement adopted by the council asserted that a . hostile spirit was shown in the selection of the day for the annual observance of the feast in that it was made the nearest Sunday to October 31, anniversary of the reformation movement's inauguration by the act of Martin Luther. Creation of a centralized church agency In New York to represent the church in National.and State affairs and the distribution of $250.000 for emergency foreign relief work were announced at the closing session of council, No farm movement is successful In the eyes of some politicians unless It ereates more Jjobs.. - | % | | | |