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WEATHER. (U. §. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Rain tonight and possibly tomorrew morning, followed by mostly cloudy to- morrow; warmer tonight; colder t morrow. Highest, 57, at noon toda lowest, at 3 a.m. today. Full report on Page 9. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 30 29,926, Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. No. W LES MUSSOLINI IS SHOT ™"**G¥k nknown Arcmic sea rther North From Barrow Than Any Other Man on Impromptu Flight—Reports no | IS GIVEN APPROVAL THROUGH NOSE BY e . WOMAN; - INCIDENT INFLAMES FASCISTS Land to (Snecal Corresnondence of The Star and North American Newspaner Alliance.} FAIRBANKS, Alaska, April After penetrating unexplored area of the Polar north of Point Bar- row to a distance of at least 70 miles on March 31, Capt. Georgse H. Wil King, commander of the Detroit Arctic Wrath of Premier’s Followers % % | expedition, landed safely at l.‘Irv]?. Vented in Wrecking of Op- | (it Alasia. late vesterday stier: position Newspaper Plant i; ine cxpudiions base hore Capt: and in Demonstrations. | Wilkins and his pilot, Carl B. Eiel- son. made an unscheduled recon- naissance dash out over the Polar pack before landing at Point Barrow | where they have been resting for the last five da Reporting by radio ASSASS'N' 50 YEARS OLD‘ last night, Capt. Wilkins sald IS RESCUED FROM CROWD | ing e " Right oo Rarron to degrees 30 minutes, the northern limit of our Might, more than 140 miles from land. While this distance is, of course, only a fraction of what we plan to cover in future flights, it iz ineeresting to note that we were flying at an altitude of 7.000 feet and had, under the excel- lent visibility then obtaining, an es mated view of from 40 to 70 miles beyond the point we attained. i “When we reached Barrow last | Wednesday.” Capt. Wilkins sald. ““we ! were making such splendid time and our Liberty engine was working so beautifully” we decided to make a little nt out over the ice From Barrow the first few miles out [ we found comparatively smooth fce. Then came a rough, hummocky area stretching as far as we could see in every direction; broken by leads of open water on all sides. There was no trace of land. We returned to Barrow. having penetrated perhaps miles farther due north of Barrow than any ship and. of course, than any man heretofore has penetrated. “After six days at Barrow we started Tuesday morning for Fair- Attempt on Life of Leader Creates Sensation Throughout Italy. Gun Fired Point-Blank as Fascist Chief Emerges From World Con- | gress of Surgeons. PARIS, P —A dispatch from Rome says the at- upon Mussolini's life was by demonstrations, in one of which the printing plant of 11 Mondo, anti-Fascist newspaper, was destroyed. April 7 Havas tempt followed Ry the A 1 ROM ~An attempt was made to assassinate Premier Musso- tini this morning. A woman fired a revolver point-blank at him and shot h WASHINGTON, Be Seen. | banks, encountering such strong head winds that we had to land at Circie v for refueling,” We hope to make Fairbanks Wednesday morning."” Circle City is 130 miles northeast of Fairbanks, Stefansson Ts | NEW YORK, N. Y, X “Wilkins has surprised us by dashing a considerable distance into known region of the Aretic, ¢ Foen WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D. C; WEDNESDAY, BILL FOR ELECTIVE EDUCATION BOARD ‘Gasque Measure Favored by | House District Committee, With Amendments. APRIL 1, COMMISSIONERS TO HAVE Vilhjalmur Stefansson, famous Arctic explorer, today in commenting on the | Wilkins flignt. “He has seen an area never seen before by man. I regard| the reconnoissance as of importance. His reaching 73 degrees 30 minutes | north means that he penetrated about 70 miles farther north than the Kar luk got in 1913. The Karluk got father north from Barrow then than any man had reached until last Wed- | nesday." Dr. Isaiah Bowman. director of the American *Geographic Society, says Capt. Wilkins has done a remarkable piece of work in Aying from Falr- banks to Point Rarrow and bevond into the border of the unexplored reglon of the Arctic. | “If he does as well as this In his big Fokker plane after he completes his hase establishment at Point Bar row.” Dr. Bowman said. “he will | have accomplished one of the main | purposes of his expedition In fiving over the top of the Brooks range in March across rugged. and in parts, unexplored country. He has demon- strated .again the high value of the airplane in surveving and explora tion.” (Copyright. 1926, by North American News- | paver Alliance.) MOFFETT PRAISES FLIGH Commenting today on Capt. Wilkins' flight. Rear Admiral Willlam A. Mof- | fet. chief of the Bureau of Aeronau (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) him through the nose. The woman gave her name to the police as Violet Albina Gibson, nee Dalkey. She is 30 years old, and a British subject. The shooting occurred at about 1:15 a.m.. while the dictator was leaving the session of the Congress of International Surgery in the Place di Capitole to enter his automobile. A great crowd was around the en- trance, cheering the premier, when ' the woman pressed to the front. and, pointing a revolver directly at him, pulled the trigger. The woman was rescued from the crowd with great ! difficulty and was rushed to the jail where woman prisoners are confined. Meanwhile Mussolini, submitting medical attention, maintained | great composure. He ordered that immediate dispositions be taken to| The future peace and prosperity preserve order and that no retribu- | ©f the Western Hemisphere lies to tibris badake. a larze extent in the hands of its Dr. Giuseppe Bastianelli, one of the | NeWSpapers, which have become “the hest known medical specialists in immediate channel for the éxpres- Jtaly. attended the premier and later [sion of good will and fellowship issiied a bulletin, o R |among all nations,” the delegates to perfo-| the first Pan-American Journalistic :Tr:::‘ the nostrils, but it is not se-|(nciess were told in the House of Despite the attempt on his life, Pre. Representatives, and again in the mier Mussolini went this afternoon to | Senate this morning. the Palais Littoric to preside at the: The occasion for these expressions ceremony of the presentation of the was the formal reception in the halls provincial secretaries 1o the new di- ' of Congress of the men who have rectorate of the Fascist party. - ;. e detalle of the atibarty” ' the |come to Washington from all of the premier as given out by the semi. |republics of the Americas to discuss official agency follow: their common interests in perpetuat< Atter the inauguration of the Inter. | ing through their editorial and hews national Congress of Surgery the pre- | columns the spirit of international e cRme out of the capital accom- | peace, and demonstrating that.in the eral doctors, amonk | New World at least, the pen is, in them the famous [Italian surgeon, | . - i Giuseppe Bastlanelli, and other mem. |1l (ruth. mightier thax the sword. Nearly Allin City. hers of the congress. Pressed Gun Against Face. More than 100 of the 150 delegates The crowd acelaimed the premierfrom the Latin American republics and a group of foreign students sang had registered early this morning at the Fascist hymn. Mussolini re.|the Pan-American Union, together sponded by smiling and saluting with | With nearly 200 representatives from his hand. He walked toward the the newspapers of the United States, middle of the square to reach his auto. and when the preliminary session of mohile. As he was crossing the | the congress is called to order In the square, irrounded by crowds, a Hall of the Americas this evening by woman of about 50, dressed in a dark | Secretary of State Kellogg, as chair- gown, drew a revolve: Stretching | man of the governing board of the out hoth arms she pressed the muzzie Pan-American Union, it s believed against Mussolini's face and fired, | most of the delegates will be present. wounding the lower part of his nose. The visit to the Capitol this morn The police prefect and a eaptain of iN¥ was the first official step in the caribinieri and a policeman seized the | Drogram that has been arranged for woman just as she was about to fire | the entertainment and enlightenment again, and took her out of the crowd, of the visitors. Thev assembled at which threatened her the Pan-American Union at 11 o'clock Mussolini clapped his_hand to his ' and were whisked through the Mall to nose and drew it awav covered with | the House side of the “hig white build- hlood. Dr. Bastianelli immediately | ing on the hfll." TInside they were placed his handkerchief over the sreeted by Speaker Longworth in his wound. holding it in such a way as private rooms. to prevent a hemorrhage. Special arrangements had been Mussolini and his entourage re-| made at the Capitol for expediting turned to the vestibule of the capitol. . the delegates’ passage through the big where the surgeons dressed his wound. building, but despite all precaution The premler lost none of his caln | there was some confusion, owing to the and reassured the notables who quick-| fact that the Capitol was already well Iv surrounded him. He also gave!crowded with Easter week sightseers. orders that reprisals of any character | When the Latin American newspaper were to be prevented. men arrived the corridors were 8o s | crowded at times that guards had to RSN R e constitute themselves traffic officers to After having his wound dressed, he | prevent sundry parties from clashing. was escorted to his automobile, ac-| 1t was nearly noon when the dele- companied by doctors, Undersecretary | gates reached the office of Speaker of State Grandi and other notables. Longworth. and was driven to his residence, where| There each delegate was introduced the members of the government im-| personally to the Speaker of the mediately gathered House by Dr. L. S. Rowe. director Here the premier repeated to the . zeneral of the Pan.American Unlon, minister of the interior, Luigi ieder- and 1. Franklin Adams, the counselor zoni, his categorical instruc to! of the unfon. Mr. Longworth was prevent all disturbances of the public ' already personally acquainted with a order ( the delegates and many 6 St o times the receiving line was delaye: o e T e naani ™ while old friends stopped to chat for cousin of the King, who expressed his |7 minute with the Speaker. By the foen " indiznation: over the attack.] ime the delegates were ready to leave Mussolini’ lelegraphed the King and | 107 the House ghilery the corridors informed him of the affair, but reas.| sured him regarding his condition, At ahout noon the premier received | the advocate general and an inves- tigating judge, who asked him many questions in connection with the shooting. A great crowd gathered hefore Mus. | colini's residence after news of the! attempt hecame known. Two registers in the entry were soon filled with sig | natures of callers, including the mem. | bers of the aiplomatic corps. The entire city has been with flags. CHICAGO, April 7.—Stieet pave- News of the attempt created a sen.| ment constructed hereafter in Chi- sation not only in Rome. hut in the| ecago will havera concave surface other citles throughout the country | instead of convex, the board of where it was made known. local improvements has decided. e the TamRiele eaatih was th | FRwansany sHEVRHAEHIIE nt i ofganization jof manifespations of \oy:| Tosdway Wil be lower this'yhe alty to the Fascist chief. surface aj the curbs. ¢ John J. Sloan, board presideht said that the center draining pave- ment is more sanitary over all con- ditions of weather, more desirable from a traffic standpoint and costs less than the convex type. CONGRESS EXTENDS AMERICAS' EDITORS GOODWILLOF UL 3. Visiting Delegates Welcomed in Speeches by Members of Both Houses. o (Continued on Page 5, Column 4.) Chicago’s Paving Will Be Concave With Center Drain dressed| By the Associated Pres Opposition Long Activ While Mussolini and his Fascist regime have a firm grip on all Ttaly, \ (Centinued on Page 2, Column 6.) Enormous Winery, : 100 Feet Beneath | Ground, Is Raided By the Associated Press N FRANCISCO, April 7.—A subterranean ery. containing between 60.000 and 100.000 gallons of wine, was discovered nearly 100 feet under the street level beneath a house here vesterday by a squad of prohibition agents. The house was deserted. Col. Sam Johnson, in charge of the raiders, expressed the opinion that the hiding place was one of a series of concealed warehouses maintained by a ring which has | been shipping California wines to | Eastern markets. t L0ST PILOT HALTS - AR WAL SERVICE i Further Flights to Elko, Nev., Canceled Until Aviator. Is Found. By the Associated Press | PASCO, Wash.. April 7.—A. E. Peterson, assistant superintendent of the air mail service here, declared | early today that the air mail flight | from here to Elko, Nev., will be can- | celed today unless Franklin Rose, | missing pilot, arrived here unexpect. edly. | A reserve plane was damaged near here Monday and local officials have | been unable to make repairs. | FEARED LOST IN STORM. | Leave Bolse for Missing | Airmalil Pilot. ! BOISE. ldaho, April 7 (®).—After a | testive day which celebrated inaugura- | tion of Northwestern air mail service | an aviator and a flotilla of automo- biles set forth from here at daybreak to search for Franklir Rose, air mall plane pilot, who has not been heard | (rom since he made a forced landing | at Deep Creek, Nev., vesterday after- | noon and then resumed his flight. Rose left Elko, Nev., at 2:20 p.m. yes. terday for this city with 150 pounds of | mail. When no trace of Rose was found | up to late last night officials of the! company which operates the new air | mail service organized a search for him. Reports received here stated ! that the pllot, after resuming his jour- ney, had headed into a storm raging over the Duck Valley Indian Reser: vation, on the Nevada-Idaho border. Capt. Armin Herold of Salt Lake; City is the aviator whd is searching | for’ Rose, and the automobile search ers are led by an official of the air | mail company. ery step was taken lasg night to guide Rose safely into | Boise if he was still in the air. Lights which illuminate the capitol dome, making a landmark visible for miles, - were left burning all night and radio .was used to the best advantage. | Tt was regarded Ws certain here {that Rose had been forced by the.| ! storm to land somewhere in the wilds | of Owyhee County, which Is the worst possible territory for a forced | landing. It s a land of tortuous | canyons, sage brush covered moun- | tains and rocky platea: Excepting | |2 few scattered cattle outfits, the land | is uninhabited. Bruneau, 12 miles south of Snake River, is the first, town he could reach. On Rose's fiight | {line is the Humboldt National Forest, | | Where rangers could aid him and the | Duck Valley Indian Reservation. It | is not known whether or not he | passed over these places. Blazing a new air mall trail across parts of four Northwestern States, Leon R. Cuddleback arrived at Eiko, Nev., at 12.08 p.m. yesterday with 400 ‘pounds of mail, completing - the | | first_trip from Pasco, Wash. 3 | Bolse vesterday celebrated dedica- |Lion of the municipal aviation field. The celebration was featured by a parade of several thousand persons to the field where exercises were to be held to greet Kose. Searchers | | ings on the measure, | section. CONTROL AT ELECTIONSl Qualifications of Voters Chlnged‘; and First Balloting to Fill 9 Places Set for May, 1927. hle report on the Gasque | providing for a popular election of the Board of Education in the | District of Columbia was ordered to- | day by the House District committee by a vete of 10 to 3. ! The Gasque hill was amended in two important particulars in an exer utive session of the District com- | mitiee. Instead of a series of three | qualifications of voters In the original | Gasque bill an amendment offered | by Representative Reid, Republican | of Illinois, chairman of the subcom: | mittee that conducted extensive hear was approve, This amendment provides that “any citizen of the United States, 21 years of age or over, without regard to sex. and who is Rot an insane person or an idiot, nor a person convicted of a felony, who has resided in the Dis- trict of Columbia for at least one year, shall be qualified to vete in &chool elections in the District of Co lumbia.” The second important amendment places the election machinery in the hands of the District Commissioners instead of with the Board of Educa tion. This necessitated changes | throughout the entire bill. | First Election May, 1927, The bill was also changed. provid ing that the first election under this legislation 1o fill all nine vacancies on the Board of Education shall he heid on the third Saturday in May, 19 The bill was favorably reported | from the subcommittes hy Representa- | tive Gasque, Democrat, of South Caro- | ured the committee that no hill af- fecting the Diatrict of Columbia”has| heen the subject of fuller hearings | with opportunity given beth sides to| present thelr case. Hé pointed out | | that most of the civic brganizations of | Kingle | the District had indorsed the legisla. |avenue, at a speed greater {tion, as had also the Chamber of | mil Commerce and the Citizens' Advisory | Council. It carries the unanimous re- | port of the subcommittee. ! Mr. Gasque explained that the ap-| pointment of the school board is now in fhe hands of the judges and there i#no authority anvwhere to remove | an incompetent after he has been ap- | pointed for a three-vear period. It is| the unanimous opinion that the ap- pointing power should he taken from the Supreme Court judges and they are anxious to be relieved of this duty, Mr. Gasque stated. Representative stalker. Republican of New York, asked if this measure ix a forerunner for broad franchise in the District of Columbia. Mr. Gasque replied that he believed in a limited | system of Jocal self-gpvernment. but | Government. He insisted that this bill has nothing to do with the fran chise, but merely provides a way in| which the people of the District can have some voice In the conduct of the | public schools. It provides a different method of | selecting the school board, he said, but | does not give the school board any | larger powers. | Representative Underhill, Repub- | lican, of Massachusetts. asked if there | had been any serlous charges against the conduct of the present school sys- tem, and Mr. Gasque replied that | there were very serious charges. | Representative Houston. Republican, of Delaware, said that this ought to have most serious consideration be- fore being reported to the House be. cause it establishes a new principle in | the District, that of election rights | for the people. Opposes “One-; Mr. Houston sald that the school hoard at present is not responsive to | the desires of the parents or the cit- | wens. It s too much a one-man | hoard and this ought to he changed. Mr. Houston sald that this is the opinion also of the teachers through- | qut the school system. | On motion of Mr. Underhill the com- mittee went into executive session while considering the bill, section by | At this point Representative ' Hammer, Democrat, North Carolina, declared that the Gasque bill is a most | important matter affecting the rights | of the people and that members of the | commitiee ought to have the fullest opportunity for conference and free discussion. The motion for an exec- utive session was carried by a vote | of 6 to 5. COOLIDGE NAMES | NEW ARMY HEADS | Sends to Senate Nominations of | Eight Officers for Staff Chiefs | and Other Positions. | President Coolidge today sent to the Senate nominations for eight high po- | sitions In the Regular Army. i They follow: i To be chief of finance,. with rank of | major general, Maj. Gen. Kenzie Wal- lace Walker: chief of ordnance, with rank of major general, Maj. Gen. Clarence Charles Williams; adjutant general, with rank of major general, | Maj. Gen. Robert C. Davis: surgeon general, with rank of major general, Maj, Gen. Merritte W. Ireland: chief of engineers, with rank of major gen- eral, Brig. Gen. Edgar Jadwin, su ceeding Maj. Gen. Harry Taylor. who will retire; assistant chief of engineers, with rank of brigadier general. Col. Herbert Deakyne: assistant to the quartermaster general, with rank of brigadier general, succeeding - Brig. Gen. John B. Bellinger, who retires | April 15, Col. Harry R. Rethers, and; Col. P. Jackson to be a brigadier gen- eral of Infantry. | way i ruling. | itself “would not 1926 —FORTY ng Sfar. “-TWO PAGES. I od FH oy AMeglc) 2o N S i €O RNVALIS service. (P) Means Associated Press. ey T FLDRIDGE IS DENIED RIGHT TOCUT SPERD McMahon Holds _Director Cannot Reduce 22:Mile Mark in. Bridge Case. Judge John MeMahon threw angfher monkey wrench into the mAchinery of trafic control in Wash {lina, sponsor of the measure. who as:{ington in Police Court today when he handed down a 10-page opinion dis missing a charge preferred by the po- lice against the driver of a heavy Chevy Chase bus for erossing the Ford Bridge, ‘onnecticut than 15 on s an hour. The sense of his decigion was that the trafic director has no power to limit the speed of vehicles below 22 miles an hour, but only to increase the speed ahove that rate. His decision today was in line with his ruling in the recent case of 4 man arrested for proceeding over the legal limit of 15 miles an hour on a section of Bladens burg road. Judge McMahon also dismissed a charge against the bus driver for al leged failure zive the right of to a police car that was at temptjng to pass the bus. The driver argued that he feared to swing his heavy vehicle nearer the cars parked on Connecticut avenue. The question in this case, the ‘udge ruled, is for the Commissioners to decide whether | not to such an extent that any ad-|such a large bus shouid be operated | vantage could be taken of the Federal | on the public streets, where it is liable to block traffic at any time. Immediately upon being Judge McMahon's decision informed of Mr | Eldridge sald he would ask Corpora- |take up for consideration these res tlon Counsel Stephens to appeal the The traffic director said, how- ever, that trouble from this source would be cleared up by the traffic bill pending in Congress, which gives him the right to lower the speed limit where deemed necessary. Questions Eldridge’s Powers. McMahon'’s decision, which allows heavy busses and vehicles of all description to speed 2cross the Klingle Ford, or any other bridge, at miles an hour, follows recent rul- Ings in which he has questioned the power of the director of traffic to make certain regulations. He has ruled that “stop” signs At boulevards do net prevent drivers from continu- Column 1.) Judge. (Continued on Page 2, MENCKEN 15 FREED; SEEKS INJUNCTION Acquitted of Selling Obscene Literature, Editor Would Stop Interference. By the Associated Press. —H. L. Mencken. editor of the American Mercury, was scene literatur Monday when he =old a copy of the April issue of his magazine on Bos- ton Common. The arrest was made at the instance of Rev. J. Frank Chase, secretary of the New England Watch and Ward Soclety, which had caused suppres- sion of the April issue of the mua;(nei “Hat- hecause of an article entitled rack,” dealing with conditions in a small Western town. ' The case was heard yssterday an decision was reserved to give the court | an opportunity to read the article. Tn announcing his decision Judge Parmenter said the story was ‘‘not salacious and did not tend to corrupt the morals of youth, as charged.” The judge sustained the argument of counsel for Mencken that the mag: zine was distributed primarily for an intellectual group and that the article tend to bring ias- civious thoughts to any person of that type.’ Mr. Chase was not in court. Attor- | neya for Mencken said they had come prepared to serve papers on the com- plaint in connection with the Federal Court proceedings, seeking an injunc- tion to restrain the Watch and Ward Society trom further interference with distribution of the magazine. I'roops of Papal " Guard to Attend Chicago Meeting ¥ { | | | | | | By Cable 1o The Star and Chicazo Daily News PARIS, April 7.—Soldiers of the pointifical army will set foot on American soil for the first time in connection with the coming Eucha | ristic Congress to be held at Chi | cago. | | | | | It was announced today that a detachment of the Nobel Papal zuard would form an escort of hon or to the holy sacrament at the congress, which will be opened by* recitation of the Lord's Praver in 300 dialects simultaneously. (Copyright, 1976, by the Chicago News Co.) HOUSE WILL PUSH FENNING INQUIRY District Committee to Take Up Matter if Rules Group Fails to Act. Daily It the House rules committee does not act hefore next Wednesday on the Blanton and Hammer resolutions call inz for a congressional investigation of Commissioner Fenning and other branches of the District government the House District committee. as the order of special business at its next egular meeting on Wednesday. will lutions and others providing for an investigation. Representative Ernest W. Gihson, | Republican, of Vermont today pre. <ented to the committee the resolution printed in The Star last Monday. pro ‘iding for an investigation of the ad ministration of the District govern ment. Mr. Gibson explained that it is a condition and not an individual he seeks to e investigated in order that any errors in the system of municipal administration may be cor- rected. Mcleod Plans Substitute. Representative Clarence J. McLeod, Republican, of Michigan. served no- | tice that he would present a resolu- tion to be substituted for the Gibson resolution. Representative Willlam C. Hammer, Democrat. of North Carolina, insisted that he would ask the committee to act upon his resolution, now pending before the rules committee, with slight alterations, providing for inves. tigation by the District committee. Mr. Gibson asked that all resolu- tions for investigation of Commis- sioner Fenning’s administration or other charges concerning the District Government should be considered at the same time. Attacks Fenning's Business. Mr. Hammer scathingly denounced Commissioner Fenning for doing a land office business on the misfortunes of former service men. He charged him with getting a maximum commis- sion in all cases and commercializing the soldiers’ mental incapacity. He said that a man who practices in that way I8 not fit to be Commissioner of the District Representative Frank R. Reid, Re- {publican, of Illinois asked M | Hammer if there was any testimon: to show that Mr. Fenning had violai- ed the law. Mr. Hammer replied that this method of commercializing the misfortunes of the former service men had made him a subject of ridicule and condemnation. 3 It was on motion of Mr. McLeod that the committee decided to take action next Wednesday if the rules committee has not acted before that | time. BILL ASKS DISTINGT UTLTES BOARD Action Deferred by Commit- tee—Body Would Have a People’s Counsel. Provision for an entirely new Public Utilities Commission, distinct from the Board of District Commissoners and with a people’s counsel, is made in a hill presented to the House District committee today by direction of the subcommittee on public utilities. The committee was ready to act favorably on the measure, but action was deferred for one week in order that the hill might studied carefully by all the committee hefore being urged for action in the House. The bill was drafted by Chairman Zihiman in conference with the legis Jative drafting service. The commit tee today directed that a declaration in the bill should be enlarged so as to apply to ail public utilities ard not directly to the street railway com panies. Provides Varied Terms. The hill provides that “the Public Utilities Commission of the District of Columbia shall be composed of three commissioners. by the President, by and with th advice and consent of the Senate.™ Of the three commissioners first ap pointed. one shall be for a term of one year, one for a term of two vears and one for a term of three years, commencing in July, 1926. The terms of office of all successors shall be for three years. Each com- missioner would receive a salary of $7.500 a year.- The commission would he required to meet at least biennially. | that ‘‘no commis his. term of office Provision is made sioner shall during hold any other public office.’ bill provides that any vacancy in the board shall not impair tiie right of the remaining commissioners to ex- ercise full powers and that any in- vestigation and hearing may be made by any commissioner whose acts and orders. when approved by the com- shall be deemed to' be order of the commission. The Zihlman bill provides for ap pointment by the President of an ad ditional counsel of the commission to be known as the people's counsel, whose duty 1t shall be: . To represent and appear for the people at all hearings of the commis- sion and in all judicial proceedings in volving the interests of users of the products or service furnished by the ublic Utilitles. To represent ana appear for peti tioners before the commission for the purpose of securing lower rates or im- proved public service. May investigate the service given by the rates charged by and the valu- ation of the properties of the public utilities. The term of office of the people's counsel shall he four vears at a salary of $7,500. No person shall be eligible for appointment as people’s counsel who has not been a bona fide resident of the District continuously for ' at 1 five vears immediately preceding the date of his appointment, or who has not heen engaged in the actual practice of law before the Supreme Court of the District for a period of at _least five vears. The bill declares it to be the sense of the Congress that the Public Uthi- ties Commission should, after investi- gatlon, make such recommendations to Congress as it may deem advisable and take such other action as it might deem important with the purposes in view of securing improved services, establishing lower rates for publio utility service and establishing a half fare for school children on street rail- ways and motor busses in the Dis- trict, At Rate of 7 Feet a By Cable toThe Star and Chicago Daily News. MOSCOW, April 7.—Continued geo- logical disturbances in the Caucasus Mountains are creeping irrisistibly toward the Black Sea at a speed of about 7 feet a day. Dispatches from Sebastopol report that the movement is especially no- ticeable in the Crimean Peninsula be- tween Sebastopol and Yalta, making th? railroads and highways impass- able. Half of the resort city of Alupka, on the southern shore of Crimea, has been destroyed and serious damage 'Earthquake Creeping Toward Black Sea s . Day; Damage Great has been wrought in the suburbs of Yalta. Along the eastern coast of the Black Sea traffic on the railroad between Tuaphe and Stochi is threat- ened. Gangs of workmen are kept busy repairing the damage. Prof. Mushketov, director of the geological commission, has named a committee of scientists to seek means of averting the danger. (Copyrizght, 1026. by Chicago Daily News Co.) Radio Programs—Page 28. be printed and | members of to be appointed | The | the | The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press’ news Yesterday’s Circulation, 102,053 TWO CENTS. BUCKNER AMAZES PROBERS RELATING DATAIN RUM WAR $3,600,000,000 Annual Busi- ness Has Deluged Courts, Federal Prosecutor Says. SEES 60,000,000 GALLONS OF ALCOHOL DIVERTED | Drug Stores, Getting Twice as Much Liquor as Needed, Accused of Illegal Practice. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. | Amazing conditions existing with re- gard to prohihition enforcement in Greater New York were graphically described to the Senate judiciary sub- committes hy United States Attorney Emory D. Buckner at the “wet" and “dry” hearings today. A picture of courts so crowded with cases as to be from one to four years | behind in their business, of hordes of minor offenders under the Volstead act arrested and turned loose because of the impossibility of trying them or preserving the evidence against them. and finally of millions of gzallons of alcohol diverted from denaturing plants to the hootleg trade was drawn by Mr. Euckner. Mr Buckner. using Government fig ures, estimated that the presumable amount of alcohol supposedly for in dustrial uses but which went into the bootleg trade during the fiscal vear ended June 30, 1925, was no less than 0,000,000 gallons Sees $§3,600,000,000 Trade. “Gen. Andrews, in charge of prohi bition enforcement, has told this com- mittee that this aicohol is split four | ways to make whisky for the bootleg trade.” said Mr. Buckner. “Our esti mate is that it is diluted three timee. | 1t the whisky so produced is sold for $5 4 quart. ft means they have a | gross business of $3.500,000000 3 year.” Mr. Buckner told the committee | that so zreat was the diversion of alcohol from its intended use for in dustry into the hootleg trade that it is being shipped from the United States into Canada. whe the tax on alcohol 1s very hizh The drug stores in New York city Mr. Buckner said. are drawing twice as much liquor on permits as the doctors' permits could call for, and this liquor is finding its way into illicit trade too, he said. The witness told the committes that much of the aicohol which is supposed to be denatured at the | plants. goss direct to the bootleggers in it | without any poison being p | Other alconol that is actullly de | natured, he said, is renatured by a | remarkably well developed process. | Renaturing ‘Good Job.’ ‘It's a good job,” he said. referring to the renaturing of the alcohol. Representative Wiliam S. Vare of Pennsyivania. “wet" candidate for th | Republican nomination for the Senate | against Senator Pepper and Gov. Pin chot, will be a witness hefore the com mittee tomorrow _or Friday. it was | learned teday. George E. Rrennan candidate for the Democratic nomina | tion for Senator in Illinois. is to ap- pear also. | Mr. Buckner in his estimate that §0.000,000 gzallons of alcohol started | on’ its way to the industries and final | 1v wound up in the bootleg trade in 1925 made allowance for an increase | in demand for industrial alcohol at 1,000,000 gallons a year. Senator Walsh of Montana wanted to know if the industries didn't really | call for a greater increase in the {amount consumed than this figure. “Here's a very shocking thing. said Mr. Buckner in reply. “In the scal year ending June 30, 1924, the | apparent leak to the bootleg trade was only 40,000,000 gallons. I know of no revolution in industry that woull require an increase of 20,000,000 gai | 1ons in a year.” Thinks Little Is Seized. Genator Harreld of Oklahoma asked | it a great deal of this alcohol was not captured and destroved. Mr. Buckner said he knew of one truckload being so captured and de. stroyed. Gen. Andrews, Mr. Buckner said. had tackled the diversion of alcohol from industry to the bootleggers. On September 1, 1925, Gen. Andrews sent to New York John A. Foster. who had been in the Internal Revenue Bu- reau service for a quarter of a cen- Foster brought with him 21 men. These men were stationed in 13 denaturing plants in New York and Brooklyn, and within 60 days a mar velous thing took place, Mr. Buckner said. The output of these plants de- creased 300.000 gallons a month. or 3.600.000 gallons a year, capable of making 10,800,006 gallons of whisky, with a potential value of $216,000,000. “Overnight this diversion was stop- ped by merely placing 21 men in these plants, who merely stood around and examined books and made no effort to interfére in any way with the business of the con- cerns. id Mr. Buckner. “Weren't agents stationed there be- fore?” asked Senator Reed of Mis- souri. Mr. had probably Buckner said he thought there been some agents as- signed to this work; he did not know how many or how constantly they were at this work, they had so many | things to do. Cites Huge Increase. The distribution of industrial alco- hol in 1920 was 21,000,000 gallons, Mr. Buckner said, and in 1925 it had in- creased to 88,000,000 gallons. Mr. Buckner early in his testimony told the committee he “had no doubt that the prohibition law could be en- forced in my district if we had the right kind of machinery.” He described conditions when he came into office, March 2, 1325. H spent a month before he actually be: gan work, he said, making a_surve. particularly of the Federal Building in New York. “l found many persons wers brought into the building for viola. tions of Volstead aci by the New York policemen. 1 found that in a year 50,000 violators had been arrested | by the city police and the Federa] agents. . “I tound the United States commie- sioner 1~ Federal Building oefnre whom thess violators wers [