Evening Star Newspaper, March 28, 1926, Page 2

MARCH 28, 1926—PART 1. DISTILLING FOUND BUSY TRADE, UPHOLDING CHARGE WILSON MADE Plenty of Stills in Maryland, But One Is Caught h_v? » BARBARA BENNETT TT——— WASHINGTON. D. (O, 'WOODLOCK VOTING | THE SUNDAY STAR. ALEXANDRIA 1S HIT BY $100.000 FIRE SWALLOWS POISON Dancer Denies She Attempt- ed to Kill Herself as Result of Love Affair. -Bar. hter LOS ANGELES a Benn Richard well known that she sulcidal bar tau of hers d ton today ennett W + hospital after v of poison wi ies Bemiett de. ¥ ory that d tried io because of trouble with 1 eart is ridiculous. 1 am as as can be and there is ne ma Hen rom iy said Mis the bot when 1 me, STARTED IN MUSIC SHOW, cine h Maurice Mouvet on Eve of Taking Leonora Hughes' Place. NEW YORK (®).—The rs of Bar ett, dancer s Angeles hos owing u small have been crowded and i of hex Bennett. and her Know on the stage as PS o ilon sheamin el 1 The Dream \edy of twn vears ained only for s stope short while Her name soon afterward mother tion Mrs, when eftacted: the inta prominence her father and ceful seps culminated g a ert obtaini divorce her o tarhe ing. ana Apartment who has motion pic moved to her mother Joining her sister Constance since attained stardom in Mau hon Mouvet cabaret 1 that Bar would iora Hughes as his danc when the latter married p. Barbara ice to Paris rev prepared for her replace L ing partn, en just left Returning to New York in the la vear fulfill an drbara suddenly quit e debut. She said she her salary was only Maurice said it was tempera because week ment DENI Lo THEORY Father Says He Is Informed Daughter | Took Poison by Mistak Richard k's engage. re ton aid ST. LOUIS, Marck Banpett, who closed ment at a theater h he had been advised 1 Barbara denied she attempted suicl today In her Los Angeles mpartment A telegram to Bennett from the Los | Angeles Examiner said Mise Bennett told that newspaper she had r ken A bottle of poison for medicine and had accidentally spilled some of it on her hand Bennett said his danghter conld not have been despondent over a sweet heart hecause she had none. He said the man with whom she was dancing in Los Angeles was a friend of the family E GIBSON WILL HEAD U. S. DELEGATION AT GENEVA Sy | Nine Advisers and Technical As- sistants for Preliminary Arms Parley Named. By the Associated Press The American representation at the | Geneva preliminary disarmament, dis cussion, to begin May 17. will consi of Hugh Gibson, Minister to Swit zerland. and nine advicers and techn! al assistants. incement of the person- made vesterday at the White | e and disclo Dull rtment's divisi, Dorsey Richardson, assl of of the divisiontof Western flairs: Maj. Gen. Dennis E. Brig H. A. Smith, Maj: George \* ng, Rear Admirals Hil P. Jones and Andrew T. Long, and Capt. Adolphus Andrews, com mander of the presidential yacht May flower Allen F. Am a8 eentation. MOVE TO CURB FEDERAL WORKERS’ TRIPS STARTS Employes Attend- Political Conven- Guise of Official Ob- servers, Overman Charges. By the Associated Prass Emploves of the Commerce, Labor and other departments junket around to political conventions at Government expense, Senator Overman. Democrat, North Carolina, declared yesterday in the Senate. Other Senators agreed and as a result it was decided to leave to conferees on the four de- partment appropriation bill the task of working out a plan te prevent such expenditures ns in the bill hav ed these selaction: chief of the Winslow, secretary of the ican legation 2t Berne, will serve secretary to the American repre. tions in permitted n v the several departments to he used im sending agents to conven- tions in which those departments would be interested and from which information of value to the Govern ment might be obtained. Senator Overman sald agents interested in at- tending national political conventions have done so by getting themselves assizned to ‘‘cover” some trade or other gathering in the same city. Representative Lankford, Demoerat, Georzia, introduced a bill Yesterday to make it unfawful for any one to solicit or receive from any Federal employe 2 contribution for polltical purposes. PACKERS NOT PROBED. formal statement issued vestor. by Secretary Jardine said the in- tigation being conducted by the Department of Agriculture into the slaughter of cattle in Chicago involves only one small house, and the inquiry relates to alieged irregularities oc- curing several years ago. The Secretarv of Agriculture,” says the statement, “desires that this fact be made absolutely clear, so that the great packing and livestock in- dustries of the country may not be unfalrly associated with an alleged situation invelving only one small Chicago slaughlers huuse,” P he had | t for a bottle of | nd the | $500 | at his daughter | STILL KEPT SECRET | Senators Warmly Clash and Block Move to Air Their Stand. By the Associated Press. Repeated efforts to have the pub- lic let in on the deep secret of how Senators voted Friday on the nom. ation of Thomas F. Woodiock of York as a member of the Inter siate Commerce Commission were blocked vesterday in the Senate by | practically the same combination of | Republicans and Democrats that con- | firmed the nomination. | The Senate wrangled over the ques- tion for more than two hours and then voted, 34 to 30, against going back into executive session to declde the issue of whether the vote on con- | irmation should be made public. as isually 1s done in the case of votes m highly controverted appointments made hy the President. Many Want Session. The roll call on the question of go ne into the executive sesafon re. ed as follows or: Republicans--Borah, Brook- . Dale, Gooding. Howsll, Johnson, Follette, McMaster, McNary Norris, Nye. Total. 11 Democrats—Blease, Broussard, Cope- land, Dill, George. Harris, Kendrick, King, McKellar, Mayfield, Pittman, Sheppard, Simmons, Stephens, mell. Tyson, Walsh and Wheeler. Total, 18 mer Labor 30 Shipstead—1. Grand | Republicans — Ringham, meron, (apper, (‘ouzens, Fdge. Ernst. Fernald. Feas, Goff, Hale, Harreld, Jones of | gton. Keves, Means, Metcalf, | Oddie, Phipps, Reed of Penn Sackett, Smoot. Wadsworth, Waison and Willis. Total, Rutler | Curtis Gillert | Wa | Mroses | svlvania Warran 28 | Demoacrats {of New Mexic and Swa n. | total, 34 The vote fo confirm Woodlock was 2 to | BEdwards, Overman, Total, § Glass, Jones | Ransdell | Grand | Blease Starts € row was precipita Rlease, Democrat Caro lina. who with Semator Norris, Re | pubiican of Nebraska, asked unani { mous consent that the vote on Wood | lock be made public. Instant objec { tion was offered by Senator Curi Kansas, the Republican floor leader and Senator Means, Republican Cdlorado, on the ground that two Senators who were absent would have made such objection had they besn present. They were nnnamed. Senator Norris then wanted unani mons consent for every Senator to e relieved from the rule for secrecy |50 he might tell his constituents how he voted, but Senator Means again | objected. After the reading of an Associated | Press dispatch detalling what had oc | curred in the executive session, Sen | ators agreed that the vote seemed the only thing that remained a secret, and | argued that the public ought to be | informed ahout that | Senator Borah, Republican of Idaho, =aid he could not understand the rea- | sons for secrecy. and served notice i that he would oppose further restriof |ing publicity on executive sessions. “I am informed on this side of the | chamber.” he said, “that there will be | more secrecy on executive sessions { from now on. 1f we do this we will he at the mercy of what seeps out { through the kev holes and it would | be inAnitaly better to publish ali the | tacts.” Senator’ Pittman Democrat of | Nevada, also protested agalnst “this constant secrecy,” while . Senator Norris charged that had nators thought the vote would bhe made | | punlic. the vote would have been dif- | | ferent. | Senator Glass. Democrat of Virginla, | | suggested that the Nehraska Senator | was impunging the motives of the| | whole Senate. | “All right,” | Norris. BOOTLEG CAéE SUSPECT | The i ator returned Senator 20 Men of Same Build and Height Produced by Feuerstein in “Pa- rade of Wooden Soldiers.” Br the Associated Press = ATLANTIC CITY. N. J, March 27 —Hearing of Herman Feuerstein, alas | Herman Bussev of this city. one of the suspects in the alleged natlon wide bootleg alchol conspiracy cently uncovered at Cleveland, was held before United States Commls- sloner Albert McKee today and de. | veloped into what United States Dis- | trict Attorney A. E. Bernsteen termed a “parade of wooden solfders.” Feuerstain appeared with about 20 men of the same height and bufld and defled Agent Harry Voipe of Providence. R. 1, chlef witness against him, 1o identify him. Afrer much marching about the men so | confused Volpe that he was forced to admit he did not know which one was Feuerstein. Another agent, who heiped make the arrest, identified the defendant and the hearing was continued to | Aprll 10 Ball of $20,000 was con- tinued in the case. . Couple Shot to Death. GALVESTON, Tex., March 27 i), —Fred W. Arend, 45, and Sadia Cole. man, 40, assistant Y. W, C. A. matron, Were found shot to death on a side- walk in a residential section here to- day Police said evidence plainly indi- cated that Arend shot the woman and killed himself because of her refusals to marry him. Magnus Johnson to Run. ST. PAUL, Minn., March 27 (#).— | Magnus Johnson, former United States | Senator from Minnesota, was indorsed as a eandidate for governor at the State convention of the Farmer-Labor Asociation here tonight. He accepted and will appear on the June primary ballot. . Axel George takes a human hurdle, Cor eebe, leading Troop 12 Milton 0. this part of the country. gl. A. Meinke and Corpl. McCowen holding Pvt. McAllister. , Fifth District of Boy Scouts, the only mounted Scouts in BOY SCOUTS GIVE RIDING EXHIBITION Mounted Troop at Fort Myer En- tertains Washington Members, Aided by Soldiers. The Fort Mver mounted Boy Scout Troop. No, 129, 5th Division, formed and the only faounted Boy Sceut troop fn this of the country, gave a riding exhibition at recently ction | the Fort Myer riding hall yesterday | for the benefit of Washington and Virginia. scouts About 400 hovs, representing 1st, 2d, 3d, 4th and 5th di attended. The Washington S marched to the north end of Kay Bridge, where they assembled and took the cars for Fort Myer. haplain Milton O. Beebe of Myer is scoutmaster of the new troop. The 3d Calvary RBand played. fol- lowed by mass formations by the 2d Squadron. 3d Cavalry. Troop I, 3d Cavalry and non-commigsionad oM- cers gave exhibition jumps. Rattery B, 16th Field Artillery executed sev- eral maneuvers The feature was an exhibitlon of trick riding by Troop G and F, 3d Cavalry. BERLIN FLOWER ‘GIRL,’ 78, AT ONE STAND 50 YEARS Greiser, Known by Name to Thousands Frau Always Smiling, of Passersby. 3 By the A riated Press. BERLIN, March Frau Greiser, 78 wvears old, one of Berlin's most popular flower “girls,” will celebrate on April 1 her fiftieth anniversary a a street vendor of flowers. Today she is hent and infirm, but always smliling. She has presided over the same corner flower stand at the Bellalliance Platz for the last half century and is known by name to thousands who pass her stand daily. She has several sons and grand- ons, but all are so poor that she feels it her duty living. Having been informed that a rushing business awaits her on the anniversary day, Frau Greiser has abandoned the fdea of taking the day off and will be at the s*and as usual. By the Associated Press. The attack that Houss Demoerats have directed at the tariff law this session was supplemented yesterday by the demand of a group of women that the ways and means committee immediately hold hearings with the view to recommending a downward revision of rajes. . Headed by Mrs. Borden Harriman, president of the National Consumers’ league, the group presented its de- mand to Chairman Green of the com- mitiee, who advised them to confer with the Damocrats. This they did but Representative Garreit of Ten- ) Women Leaders of Consumers’ League Make Pilgrimage to Seek Tariff Cut nessee, the Democratic leader, who called Democrats on the committes to his office to Jisten ta the women, finally informed them that they were talking to the minority party 'which could do nothing but sympathize. It was agreed that the women draft & pe- tition and present it to the committee. The group then journeyed to the office of Speaker Longworth, Wwho hastily made clear he had no author- ity over the committee, and Repre- sentative Tilson, Connecticut, the Re. publican leader. who was present, as serted he ulso hud no Jurisdiction ovey legislation until reported by @ come mitiee, | Hopkins | galvanometer | to tell how soundly & person is sleep- to earn her own | OLD MYSTERY OF SLEEP SOLVED IN PART BY NOTED PSYCHIATRIST Special Electrodes and Galvanometer Enable Dr. C. P. Richter to Tell Type and Depth of Subject’s Loss of Consciousness. BALTIMORE., March A den- nite step in unraveling the mystery | of sleep, which has baffled. scientists from earliest times; has been made by Dr. Curt P. Richter of the Henry Phipps peychiatric clinic of Johns University. = With a string | and specially con- | strueted electrodes he has been able | ing without awakening him His experiments not only have Shown that sleep is of two distinctly | \different kinds, but that there is a | difference between real slaep | and conditfons in which certain 4ypes of mentally 1ll people appear to be asleep, His discoverles are reported in a paper entitled “The Significance of Changes In the Electrical Resistance of the Body During Sleep,” which appears In the current issue of the proceedings of the Natlonal Academy:| of Sciences, His research showed that the re sistance to an imperceptible electri cal eurrert sent from hand-to hand during sleep was localized almost entirely in the skin. This resistance fncreased in one instance from 50,000 ohms when the subject was awake to 500.000 ohms when asleep. | sleep was not sound, the r The current electrodes of was applied by twe zine covered with a thick kaolin paste mixed with satu- rated zine sulphate solution. These were attached to the hands and con- nected to the strong galvanometer, designed to measure the smallest currents. These experiments showed that the intensity of the resistance varied di- rectly with the intensity of sleep. It was discovered, however, that when istance of the skin on the backs of the hands usually decreased, In these cases the subfect was not refreshed by sleep In the case of patients suffering from catatonic stupors, which so closely resembla sleep that it ia fm- possibla to tell by looking at the pa- tient that he is not asleep, a very dif- ferent condition was found. In these cases it was discoversd that the palm-to-palm resistance of the hand was less than normal, indicating an Intense consciousness: while the re- sistance from hack-to-hack of the hand was very high, indicating com. plete muscular relaxation and lack of control. From these studies it is hoped that new light will he thrown upon nerv- ous conditions, not only of mentally ill patlents, but of relatively normal people suffering from nervous strain. If You Tire Easily —if cough, loss of weight. some chest sou should also have a persistent light ains or hoarseness you may be developing consump- tion and you should lose no time to See a Doctor or Have Yourself Examined at the Free Health Department Clinic 409 |5th §t. N.W., Tuesday, Thursday or Saturday at 2.4 o'clock: Friday evenings from 7:30-9 o'clock To Prevent Consumption ‘Avoid house dust and impure or close air, day or night. Get all the light and sunshine possible into your home. Avoid raw milk, raw cream and butter made of unpasteurized cream. Eat plain, nourishing food. Get en Try {o aveid worry. Be cheerful. acts on your body. ugh sleep by retiring early enough. Think kindly. Your mind Health Insurance A Physical Examination Every Birthday Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis Telephone Main 992 1022 11th Street N.W. Who have paid for the above bulletin (legal netice), . The Board of Temperance, Prohibi. | tion and Public Morals is not likely | to he challenged by outraged sons of | Maryland, result of its recent charges anent the widespread produc as a ticularly thereof. The b in the southern countles vd had said that “conditions in Maryland are bad™: that “in some of the southern countles utterly dis- graceful conditions prevall,” and that large stills are operating seemingiy without the least oposition on the | part of the lncal officials.” | The Star & curlosity was aroused by | these statements, emanating. it was | sald, from Dr. Clarence True Wfison It wax decided to send a reporter into some of it ull that The representative did see une of those large stills in operation He suw many gallons of the whisky it h produced, and he heard from na t of the State of o <% other amateur amid profession or plants in the counties of soutl Maryland Still Now Deceased. Rut it must be added that said still no longer is extant nd as for the others, they are. after all. hut rumors, for he was not permitted to inspect them. He has grave suspiclons, how ever, that Washingion's supply of corn und rye from Maryland Is safe, ut least for (he present he re did not himself dis cover the cmentioned stll Lt previously hud been located by scouts of one Edmund Budniiz, hibition administrator for Maryland and points south the same gentleman taken 10 1ask hy the Methodist morals beard for the presence of &0 much Haquor in southern Maryvland. —Mr. Budnitz's agents allowed The Star's agent 1o accompany them en the day set for the still’s seizure. and so. hum ming “Maryland, My Marvland." the sleuthing t out in the gen- eral direction of Upper Marlboro. The agents had been informed the glant stll was operating in a thickly wooded section near the State road in the Huntington Avrived in the locality specified by the scouts the locs specitied hy the distance away and struck off quietly through the woods. Rum Sleuths Sniff. The party had not progressed far before they knew they were on a live trail. Over the (reetops not far awa could be discerned dark elonds of smoke billowing heavenward. This sight would #rouse no suspicion in Washington's residential section, b out there in the forest it was most significant ‘he agents stealthily for action. Membs had surrounded the spot e smoke was arising ”‘Hm the raiders already had been discovered. Suddenly three. —men broke through the woods in different directions. Two were colored and one was white. In the resulting confu sion the tri disappeared. The agents were certain that at least one of the fugitives was in hiding in the under- brush. Strategy was resorted to While other members of the raiding party went ahead to the still, one agent hid, erouching, at the base of a tree. Soon ha was rewarded by the breaking of twigs nearby. The form of a colored man, trying to “gum Shoe™ his way out of the woods, hove o view m"rh:-‘ agent’s casual dispia® of his 38-caliber automatic was sufficient to effect arf pasy capture. The negro, a forlorm-looking individual, gave his name as Tom Ray Only Stoker, Says Tom. readily admitted he had just the still. There was no use Hul #ll he had done, was to coal the boiler. boiler for a distil was not moon- bootleg pro- hegan to spread ou « of the party soomn from which Tom heen at denying that he explained Stoking a steam lery, Tom reasoned, i me‘h:ghan,dr»ufl- which had been plac o ound Tom's wrists were removed a':\dmho":\,np set to work to smash up the whole works. There appeared to be tears in his eyes as he hacked mercilessly into copper colls, connec- tions, mash containers and other paraphernalid of the plant, including the big steam’ boller. Nearby stood an abandoned house. In it wer meal, hundreds of glass jars and hiher materfals used in the trade. A full barrel of green “cawn’ and a large tub of fresh drippings from the colls were emptied on the soil. The destruction of one of southern Maryland's large stills had been ao- complished. Could there be more? The revenue informant, who had guided the agents tothis one, de- Clared there net only could be but Were. But not so many, he added, in Calvert County As there were west of the Patuxent River, in Charles and S, Marys Countes. 1t was pointed out that Prince Georges and Anne ‘Arundel Counties also had yielded moonshine in the past. The exact stats of affairs in the laiter two countles, It was asserted, had not been asosrtained recently by prohibition authorities. Reporter Goes Tt Alone. Across the Patuxent, then, into old Charles County, the reporter wended his lonesome way. The agents had returned to the city, leaving him in the very heart of Maryland's moon shine country. Croseing from Bene- dict, he landed where despot's heel had feared to tread and strick up an acquaintance with the first old-timer he met. There are but two main topies of conversation in southern Maryland he learned. One is the weather and the other bootlegging. Sunshine and moonshine. Ha used sunshine as an opener and followsd up® with moon- shina. “Pretty dry hereabeuts, eh, cap'n?’ the scriba querfed. “Wa-al," the stranger drawled, shift- ing a cud of well worn cut plug, “ves and no. All depends on how you mean {1." “I mean speaking from the stand- point of one who's sort of thirsty, for instance.” “Brother, 1 don't know who yeu are, and I don't care, but you can get all you want, I recken, providing vou'ra properly Introduced, which at present T figure you ain't.” g The reporter reminded him this didn’t bear out the story told by a motorist who stopped at a country stors down that way not long ago to get some alcohol. “White or colored?” keeper asked. The motorist told him his radiater wasn't particular., Nobody Worrled. The ;Star's Tepresentative decided next to head for Leonardtown, fre- \quently mentioned as being near the reenter of a large liquor industry Passing through Hughesvilla he stop- ped over for a while at Morganza, across the Charles County line in St. Marys County. He found that the liquor problem was not disturbing the inhabitants to any great extent. Several residents sald they favored some kind of supervision that would give the Government the benefits that bootleggers now are getting. Further details of this plan were lacking, however. It was in Morganza that he learned “she nwng of the ploueer moonshiner the store- Budnitz’s Band; “Cawn” as Plentiful as Talk, | Star Sleuth Finds While Taking Walk. | tlon of illicit liquor in Maryland, par- | those counties to see If con- | sote | | subject. their holstered guns ready | found sacks of sugar and | in St. Marys County. He ix known as “Siim.” Since Slim first set up his hoiler and coils some years back the Slims of St. Marys (ounty have increased into the hund, it was | udded “Here come two of ‘em {nformants remarked as the group stood on the main strget. Down the | road two sutomobiles were approach ing. headed in the direction of Wash | Ington Bafore he hud finished his remarks two more cars appeared. closely fol | Jowed by twn others—all speeding up the grade at Morganza at a healthy pace. All six wers declared to he rum cars, and before long word came that one of them had skidded down | the road and narrowly missed plung ing over an enbankment. ‘Rum-running lsn't anything un usual down this way,” the repurter was told by & Morganran, who vught | w know “Ihey gov through here | every day, and none of ‘emn ever seem | | to get caught. They all vome from | somewhere down the county Heads Down County. ewhere down the county, acoord Ing! the nawe hound determined to go. By nightfall he had arrived thereabouts, and finding himself in | Leonardtown, halted for the nones 1o | iearn what there was to laarn. | Leonardtown, seat of Si. Marvs County. Is southern Maryland's me- | trupulis. It had been reported that | recent rulds iu this wnd adjolning | counties bad just abuut dried up the laudscape. Seciously, he ventured a remark along those lines to the town | shoemaker, who can tell by the mud | on u client’s shoe whether he has been working in his garden or in the | moonshine hills. The shoemaker had been shining | the scriba’s dust-covere shoes and noting to himself that the latter had | heen in half a dezen rounties of late At the remark he dropped his brush and doubled himsalf up in a gnffaw | “PDry” he chuckled, on regaining | bis composure. “Where do you hail | from, mister. Say, if this county dry, Noah's flood was an April shower. You can get all the lig down here. and by the quart, gallon or_barrel, too The shoemaker's story wa rated by numerous ather Strolling toward the hotel the report- ar came across a seady-looking gentle | man with primeval facia) foliage. The | latter halted. “Nay, stranger.” he began, “may 1 have a little confidential talk you now.” his correbo . Marys County’s principal “con fidential” topie was well known. The | reporter readily gave him permission | to divulge any facts pertinent to the Get Down to Bushess “I've heen drunk for the last two days, said the stranger and | feel monstrons bad. I think another littie | drink would brace me up, and what I wus going 1o say was, can you let | me have a dime to get a drink?” | streeis | struction of a number of the hlis{ness | and the F yr you want | residents. | swith | Business District Menaced. Two D. C. Companies Re- spond to Call. Two Alexandria e lishments were virtually destroyed b fire which broke wbout 12:80 o’ eufi this morning {n the Forbes Milling Cey t the corner of ['nion and Frepnch The fire tnreatened the de. commercial e extablishments alonz the Alexandris water frant and waa not placed under control_until twe engine eompanies from Washington were pressed inte service, According to witnesses the fire etarts ed is helieved, from spontaneous comgbustion in the Forhes Milling Ca. and spread rapidly through an ad- jolning bullding occupled tha Walker Rolerts Hay and Feed .. Buth of the bulldings wie of Lrick struction and firemen believed this fuct suved the destruction « surrounding buildings Appenl Here for Help. andria’s three fire on truck compans the hiaze for more than an heur, when theyv discovered thev cauld ne contral it they appealed to tha Was| ington fire department for assistance Engine Companies No. 13 and refighter were immediate! ordered to Alexandria and 3 their effort the was under oy rol abwut Ale panies and placed this o The Vulunte Va Fire Compeny of Pu tonac to the alarm also responded $100,000 Loss Estimated. contents £100,000 of the Roherts, owne the propriet hlishment Walke of the and store, and H B hes, proprietor of the flour mill. watched the hlaza da. stroy thelr siructures. Mr, Forbes paid that the damage establishment | and the machinery will amount te more than $50.000, a part of which | is covered by insurance. Mr. Roveris alwo eatimated that fhe | dumage to hisx building and contemts would reach at leasi 350.000, The | buflding is partially covered by insum Both the dings are located alose | to the water and this fagh, th firemen pointed out, probaWly mawwe nding buildings from catehs | the surr | ing fir mare | CONGRESS T0 GET - | RETIREMENT COST DATA TOMORROW rom First Page) | | (Continued immediately legislation | hopes idge sign into the task of starting on the road, which ft end with President (ool g the Lill before Congress |~ dime to get a drink? Where in blazes can a man get liquor for a dime”"” “Oh. that ain't cheap down here he replied “Now and then I can get a drink for a nickel, if | meet the right man.” During the stay in Leonardtown the reporter canvassed publie opinion with regard to the state of | drought sald to have bean precipitated in southern Maryiand by the prohibi tion forces. On sll sides he was told | that this drought was conspicuous by its absence. The citizenry of the town, when he arrived, were exictedly discussing the big rald made a few days before near Plank Ridge, on the ou irts of the town, where revenue officers found a large cache of wet goods in a building brazenly close 1o th State road. | “Washington people are always in | & hurry to get Ilquor.” one member of the group stated. “and they object 1o golng very far off the road for it. | I they drove their machines into the woods very offen they would arouse suspicion. * 8o the moonshiners have | to bring it out to where thay can load | it_esastly.” | What The Star's emissary wanted most was to see one of these stilis not known to the authoritief. He finally gained the confidence of a townsman who volunteered to show | him one. He was taken to it, all rizht, but he found It to be a “dead” one. ' Operations had been suspended for some time. although the still was in oondition for resurrection at any time ‘its owner falt &0 inclined. Spring Sales On. He learned all about the present staje of the hootleg market during his' rambles. A new Spring schedule for moonshine products recently ha gone into effect, it seems. Prices on both rve and corn have been re- duced because of the large surplus on the hands of some of the larger operators. The reporter could not obtain defi- nite information on the actual num- her of stills in operation in either the Leonardtown or La Plata section He visited the latter on his way back to the eity. All that his fnformants would tell him was that “there are plenty of them, that's all.” Destruction of stills and confisca- tion of liguer by prohibition agents, he was told, had only “scratched the surface” of the moonshine and hoot- leg industry in southern Maryland. BUS ROUTE ANNOUNCED FOR CHERRY TREE TRIPS Ttilitd Commission Approves Double-Deck Line Areund Tidal Basin. The route of the temporary bus line to be operated by the Washington Rapid Transit Co. around the Tidal Basin when the Japanese cherry trees bloom was announced yesterday after- noon by the Public Utilitles Commis- sion. It has the approval of Maj. U. 8. Grant, 8rd, director of public buildings and parks. Double-deck busses will be run ex- olusively. of B street just east of Seventeenth street, the route follows: South on Seventesnth sireet to the John Paul | Jones statue. thenoe along tha east | side of the Tidal Basin te Fourteenth street, across the outlet bridge, thence along the roadway. between ths polo fleld and Tidal Basin to John Paul Jones statue, thence along the road- way east of Tidal Basin to roadway west of the power house in the Monu- ment grounds, thence along thie road- {way leading to Sixteenth street, thence to B street, thence west vn the north side of B street to the starting point. The routs will be changed somewhat on Sunday beginning at 12 o'clock noon. so that the busses will run via the west instead of the east sida of the Tidal basin becaise of the ene-way trafic rule in affact on Sun day afternoon around the basin. ’;hl bus company has been granted permission to charge a 108.cent cash fare or one bus token for the round trip. —_— Suspension of rail .transportation has so, greatly increased the freight and passenger business of Shanghal steamship companies that heir capacity Is booked far in advance desplte’ that they have raised all rutos, A the | Starting on the north side | adjourns In May in his statement | Alcorn suld thai not ding vessimism felt in certain quarters garding the chances of passing a re tirement bill hefore adjournment, ha helieves faverable action will he obtained | His statement fall “The leaders of the administration {at the close of the last session gave |the faithful Government workers defi nite and positive assur that the present inadequate retivement annuity would be liberalized at this session of {Congress: and 1 cannot believe it |18 the policy of the administration to deliberately break such « promise. The | report and cost estimaies of the &c tuaries will be in the hands of the House and Senate civil service com mitices by Monday. There is every reason to believe that following this |the committees will promptly report on the bills, which are expectad to be | practically the same in the House and | Senate. While 1t is trua that the time before {adjournment is getting short, there i | still ample time for the enactment of the retirement bill, if it is given thu support of administration leaders. [ feel mure that Congress wiil not longer delay an act so urgently needed the relief of old retirad employes, many of whom are in actual want. | Chairman Alcorn pointed out that astde from the humane aspact of a reasonably liheral retirement law, it has been authoriiatively siated by Government mctuary that the saving to the Government through the creased efficlency of vounger emploves practically offsets the cost of anpuities. A great numher of larze business concerns throughout 1 country have' adopted liberal retire. ment systems. he stressed, because it has been found by experience to be a good business proposition. Many of the States and cities have more liberul retirement systems in opera- tion than is sought in any of the pending bilis. Mr he last thst night e nee Iy Wilson Players to Present Tark- ington Oomedy Before Arets Club, The Wilson Players, as guests of the Arts Club of Washington, will present “The Intimate Strangers,” hy Booth Tarkington, at the club next Tuesday and Wednesday evenings. The players, who are directed by Aurora M. Poston, recently presented the same play before enthusiastio audlences at the Columbia Helghta Community Center and the Kast Washington Center. The play to be presented iy given instead of “The Scorpion,” by Edlth 0. Heidel, which has been postponed until April 27 and 28. Burbank Has Heart Attack. SANTA ROSA. Calif., March ‘Luther Burbank, famova horti- light heart at- last night. condition was reported as ‘‘improved today. He is being attended by a special nurwe. NOONDAY LENTEN SERVICES » " B.F.KEITH’S THEATER 12:30 to 1 O’Clock SPEAKER TOMORROW Bishop Freeman Conducted by Rev. W. S. Abernethy Every One Invited—No Collection