Evening Star Newspaper, March 19, 1926, Page 27

ASSERTS NEW ORLEANS IS BASE FOR NARCOTICS Is Hypodermtc Needle Through ‘Which Middle West I3 Supplied, Former Police Official Says. Assogiated Press g NEW YORK, March 19 «New | Orleans is the hypadermic needle | throngh which the Middle West in supplied with narcotics, Dr. Carleton Simon. a former dupty police enmmissioner in ch, e of the narcotie dlvision, here, ass; vesterday on his return from Lo He has made A ‘month's survey of. the drug traffic in that State at the iInvitation of Dr. Oscar Dowling, president of the Louisiana State Board of Health. Dr. Simon alse reported that the use of hashigh. I8 -Widespread. not only in Lonisiana, kit _throughout’the Seouth and Middle. West. The* drug I8’ smuggled in from Mexico, hé said. ‘and by thousands of voung men and men “in preference to expensive | ‘synthetle heverages of a somewhat { | less jntoxicating nature. He recommended lation against the banned by law localities, legis. is | few nal which drng, only & whaling ‘fleet gathered x of whale oil last vear. Norwhy's The Last Word in PRICE REDUCTION On Clothes of First Quality ALL Winter Suits and QOvercoats Stein-Blachs Included ‘Formerly THE EVENIN MORAL CENSORSHP FOUGHT BY WOMEN Denies U. S. Has Rvght to | Stop Insurance Because of | Alleged Actions. | B the 2 CHIC the Veteran morals of. | benericiary {eided in "he e Corrine Maj. Mark who France For more than a year Mrs. Hanna has been seeking to force the Gover ment (o resume payments to her on her hushand’s $10.000 war visk insur- ance policy. Three vear ernment removed her as heneficiary and stopped the payments, basing the action on statutory charges investi zated by the Veteran provided for in the morals provision of the insurance laws. Woman Asks $8,000. Hanna demands 38,000, which | | she claims is due her as heneficfary of the policy, and the Government fs cn- deavoring to compel her to return the $2.000 she already has collected. On April 20, when her claim comes ted Press. March 19, Bureau to pass on the soldfer’s war insurance is the guestion to be de: ral Court her . Hanna, jr.. was killed "in action in Mre, will take the stand as a Government witness, since a subpoena has been is- The right of | «| Charge Made by Representative up in Federal Court, it is possihle she | G_STAR. Russia Cuts Time For Wedding Rite By the Associated Preas. 3 3 MOSCOW, March 19. -Beginning yesterday, the time for a marriage ceremony in' Soviet Russia has | heen decreased by official ruling from 15 minutes to 9 minutes. Divorces now are to require 12 minutes Instead of 32 @s merly. b : This is made by the substitution of an American card index system for the old cum brous registry books! in which the es of persons maveied or di-. ced were entercd. No ¢ s made for either ceremony, if_either party to a wedding or divorce desires an attested certifi- cate a fee of 50 cents Is charged. DENIES LIQUOR ABOUNDS | IN GEORGIA HOUSEHOLDS e Representative Upshaw for- possible Sn\ysI | Tinkham Is Baseless. i { i By the Assoctated Press March 19, Repre- haw of Cieorgia, speaking before the Woman's Civic | Conneil of Atlanta late vesterday. r plied 1o a letter read In Congress by | Representative Tinkham 6of Massa- | chusetts, which quoted M. B. Wel- horn, governor of the Atlanta Federal | Reserve Bank, to the effect that near Ly every one in Georgla kept whigky ‘WASHINGTON, D. To Nine Minutes!' | Ohio $1,500,000 WHISKY TRAIN UNDER GUARD Six l’ohcemen Hold Watch at Cam- berland When United States Shlpment Passes., Special Mspatch to The Star CUMBERLAND, Md., Mavch 19, Guarded by six armed policemen, a ain of 16.cars loaded with whisky, valued at $1,500,000, passed through Cumberland early yesterday. The whisky was shipped from the Hannis Distillery, in 1 it Louls, to a Govermment concentration ware- house in Baltimore. In each of the 16 cars thnere were 125 barrels of whisky. Upon arrival of the train in Cum herland Capt. Harry D. Schmidt of the Police Department of the Cum- berland division of the Baltimore and ailroad was prepared against any attack that may have been plgnned to loot the train during a chinge of locomotives here. tion question were “misleading and of no_consequence Referring to his own recent address in Congress in reply to Represen Tinkham, Mr. Upshaw said he jefonding the fair name of d the State of Georgia against the henemy of prohibit in House of Representatives. FRIDAY. MARCH Atlanta | Inantry, the [ the Arm: 19, 1926. RESEARCHERS T0 DELVE INTO EARTH AT MEGIDDO Area Where 20 Years Ago Traces of Time 10,000 Years Ago Were Revealed. By the Associated Preas. SALIM, March 19.—Megiddo, v excavations 20 years ago s of time hardly less Than 10,000 . is being_excavated again by a University of Chicago ex Six or seven well defined layers. rep. resentative of successive cultures. be. ginning with that of the troglodytes and ending with what was probably third Semitic, were revealed when work first started. The present excavators are search- ing for traces of the great warriors whose hattleground Armageddon was since time immemorial. Thotmes 111 warred here with the allied Syrians in 1479 B.C. Through the centuries rec- ords are found of the battles of Ikkna- Toshua. Solomon, .Jehu, Josiah, Nebuchadnezzar, the Crusaders, Na poleon. Ihrahim Pasha and, eight years ago. Gen. Allenby The evidence on the mound shows that it has not been used for human habitation since about the time of the captivity of the Judeans, shortly after the death of Josiah on this same sp The site, therefore, has not been dis turbed {or a n]al[nr of 2,500 yvears. Placed on Rem‘ed List. Neison M. Holderman, at Camp McClellan, has heen placed on the retired it of disability in Capt ath Al — BROWN U. DINNER. Local Alumni Will Hear Reports at | Session Next Wednesday. Senator Metealf af and Senator Sacket of Ke he guests of honor at the ann ner of the Brown University al din Alumni Association of Washington next Wed. nesday evening at the University lub. Both itors are graduates of Brown The administrative’ officials of the - represented by A ary, who tend the reporrs of recent undergraduates events the ind zvaduat 19 Stores—the hetter to serve ypu SAVING NEW'S of Importance! Cigar Department pecials! Today and \'murlln_\' Only! Men! Be to take 2 sure savings durs ing this special <ale. 'I are effective for today and tomorrow onl mportant xtreme cut prices 55.—50.— 45.—40. 2 for 15¢ “W hite Owl” (Invincible speiat. 0 for 39¢ $3.13 sued at the request of the district at torney in charge of the case, who will attempt to prove with her own evi dence that she was guilty of the of- charged during the time Ah! the $2,000, far marshals have failed | ubpoena, her attorney havin, vised her that this “ig not the time for her to to interviews in the office of the ¢ ‘L attorney Bank Robber in Case. Thomas W. Hanna, father of the dead soldier. and Earl Wagner of Kan onvicted bank robher re Hanna as havin n Jkl’!lr‘éd to divert the payments o in- | surance 1o Mr. Hanna. The charges | resulting I stopping the payments to her were based on her friendship for Wagner, whom she says was intro duced to her as a wealthy clubman. | They became engaged, but she broke with him shortly before his conviction. | Her payments stopped before he went to the penitentiary, howe After she filed her petition, Hanna and other interested individuals filed a petition of intervention. charging her | with immoral acts, naming Wagner |and referring to other men in_their homes “There Ix absolutely ne foundatior. for such a siatement,” Mr. Upshaw Welborn' was no doubt but he m«! said. "'Gov. honest in his statement, tragically mistaken.” | The Georgia Representative said i % on the prohibi- Formerly 25. s 3O, BOTH GROUPS include selections suitable for Spring wear in: Medinmweight Business Suits—Top- - coats—2-Picce Golf Suits— 4-Picee Sport Suits. 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