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(TALY GELEBRATES PREMIER'S ESCAPE Messages Pour in From All! Sides, While His Followers Make Merry. By the Associated Press ROME, April 8.—Mussolini'’s mas. tery over the Itallan people is sri ingly evidenced by the obadience the great mass of the population to his | command that the public order and tranquillity be not dis urt of the attempt on his Remarkable scen in the cafes and resaur heart of the city wh Fascisti eniered chanting refrain: “Youth! Youth' Thou the Spring of Life’ In each a]l those present would arise and join In tha song. after which the groups would depa to visit - plag Rome is still crow ith wu who came for the tion hut not a single ins n re rted of a foreigner sted the manifestar Wires Kinz Qui Foreten visitors with the faci that, eratic power. Mussolin rupu- lously acknowledged 'he - neeiol b of the King. One of his first acts was to telegraph Victor Immanuel that he had been slightly wounded that he had given firm order there should be neither tumult reprisal. He concluc ‘T place at the fe my respectful on af myv The K in reply “f o it further you. Cordial greeti fectionate cousin ‘VICTOR EMMANUEL." Mussolini is. of course of the King. hut heing d: the Order of the Annunz hestowed on only a few by virtue of the order to be thus addressed. Many Send Messages. Avalanches of telegrams and other messages are pouring in to the foreizn ministry congratulating the premier on his escape. One messa; Duke and Duchess of Aosta, “God is with ITtaly and Now and alwavs, long live the duce! Telegrams have ‘heen received from the heads of all foreign governments Te Deums of thanksgivine were sung in all the churches, with large attendances of the faithful, including many soldiers and Fascist militiamen mnu rm. Italie, a daily French-English lan guage newspaper. published for the benefit of foreigners in Rome, in an editorial today, referring to ths at- tack, savs a foreign hand has struck Mussolini, “but this hand has in re- ality no nationalit. “Only people without a country or renegades could dream of striking a blow at the beloved duce,” it con tinues. “From Zaniboni to this old foreign woman there must Le the same wire of transmission. The mys- tery behind it all will be probed and elarified, and the occult forces which are working against the Italian nation witne nis in zroup: the the st A ware partienlarly that e mejesty rec he ex nas 3 o hn tele ool nev from your pir from af. \ cousin orated with 1ta, which is he 1 Feruth svs with us. will be revealed and denounced to the | civilized world." Cosgrave Sends Congratulations. DUBLI April 8 (#).—President William T. Cosgrave of the Irish Free State today telegraphed Premier Mus- solini congratulations on his escape from assassination, as follow: “In behalf of the Irish Free State 1 have the honor to congratulate your excellency and the ltalian people on the providential escape of your excel- lency from the odious attempt on your person. Sincerely hoping your wound I8 not serious, I send.you most ear- nest wishes for a_speedy recovery. The infamous attack caused much in- dignation here.” OIL FIELD ABANDONED TO FLAMES AS-LOSS SOARS ABOVE $10,000,000 (Continued from First Page.) @ollars. Even before the flames spread beyond the bounds of the four reservoirs officials of the oil company estimated the loss at perhaps as high as $10,000,000 and described the fire the most destructive in the history of the petroleum industry in California. The last two reservoirs to catch fire were the largest on the tank farm, each” having a_capacity of 1,250,000 | barrels. Like the other four storage tanks, they were filled with refining crude of about 25 gravity. The surface tanks, of which there were 20 of 55,000 barrels capacity each. and many others of smaller size, contained “tops.” or oil that had been run through the re- finery once. This_oil was 60 to 70 gravity and much more volatile than that in the reservoirs. Hit by 2 Lightning Bolts. The fire wae started early yester. day by lightning. Officials of oil company, unable to understand how the four lakes of oil could have | been ignited by one flagh, have reached the conclusion that two bolts struck simultaneously, causing two of the storage lakes to explode and!throw their flaming board covers onto the other reservoirs. With the reservoirs turned into seething caldrons, hundreds of men, employes of the Union Oil Co, the % Standard Oil Co. and the Southern Pa- eific Railroad 2d others, were pressed into service to throw up an earthen embankment in an effort to isolate the blaze, The fire burned t and night, casting a pall over the district by day and an ominous glare by night. Though the blaze had been inolated temporarily, it was realized by the firefighters that the real test would not come until the fire, which was 50 intense that no one could ap- proach within 500 feet of it, reached water settled in the bottoms of the reservolrs, generating steam that would cause the flaming lakes. to boil ever. Spreads Over Banks. When the crisis did come, the em- bankment was not hizh enough, and the blazing fluid, spreading in all di- rections, rapidly ignited other sections of the tank farm. A ditch-digging machine that was to have been used to throw up a strong bulwark against the expected rush of the boiling oil lav idle through the night. useless, because a heavy rain had made the field a bog. For the greater portion of the night the firefighters stood by looking on, unable to do anything after the em- bankment had been thrown up. The blaze also was watched by officials of most of the leading oil companies of the State, who had gathered to make observaticns, which might be helpful in. preventing or combating future disasters to the industry. The fire, flaring 500 to 1,000 feet into the sky, could be seen for 50 miles around. Rain fell in repeated showers during the entire night, and + With each shower the blaze flared to its greatest height. The Union Tank farm was the base of supply for Port San Luis, an oil about 8 miles away. Oil was shipped by pipe line to.the great stor- age center from througzhout the felds of Kern County ed because | d | of | much | the | Kroughout The day despite his | and | nor | om the THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, APRIL DENIAL OF JURY TRIAL IN MINOR RUM CASES ASKED BY BUCKNER! P. & A Photo PRESYDENT ADDRESSES PAN-AMERICAN JOURNALISTS’ MEETING ASSASSIN NERVOLS, SISTER-IN-LAW SAYS Lady Ashbourne Not Sur- prised by Miss Gibson’s At- tack on Mussolini. | By the Associated Press. | COMFIEGNE, France, April 8.—"My | sister-in-law’s deed did not surprise I'me,” said Ladv Ashbourne, wife of Baron Ashbourne, when informed of the shooting of Benito Mussolini by the Honorable Violet Albina Gibson, 50-year-old sister of the baron. The Ashbournes maintain a residence here “For some time past,” Lady Ash bourne added, “Violet has not been in the enjoyment of all her faculties. She is the subject of mervous attacks at irregular intervals of a highly alarm- {ing nature and repeatedly has at- {tempted to commit suicide. We tried {to place her in a sanitarium, but Italian law makes prolonged treat | ment of such cases difficult. Inclined to Mysticism. “We have not seen Violet for 18 | months. Violet always has been in | clired to religious mysticlsm, a_tend | ency which was accentuated by the | effect of recent political events in Ire. | 1and on her mind. I was somewhat as- | tonished that she should have shot {at Signor Mussolini, for her sympa- | thies would ordinarily rather be with Fascimo. It would have been more in keeping with her views for her to | have made an attempt on the life of | the Pope.” ‘Baron Ashbourne is now in Ireland attending to business in connection With his estate there. The Ashbournes spend much of their time here. They are interested in charitable work, no- | tably a home for children of the devas- tated regions. which they founded at { Bellicart, near here. | Ashbourne Wires Request. JBLIN. April 8 (®).—Lord Ash- hole:nq hvo(hfl? of Violet Albina Gib- !son, who vesterday attempted the life remier Mussolini, today messaged ascist chief: fiss Gibson jcident and express family regret the in- profound sym- | pathy. FISH ASKS “PITILESS PUBLICITY” )N COAL THROUGH A BUREAU (Continued from First Page.) high who cannot pay consumer, prices. Representativa Cooper, Republican, of Ohio, questioned the witness re- garding inability of consumers in New ork to burn antbracite substitutes. “We found bituminous coal increased 100 per cent in price during the last strike,” Mr. Fish said. “This strike wasg a crime against the public. They }want reasonable prices and a contin- uous supply of anthracite coal.” East Declared “Finicky. Mr. Cooper said he believed the peo- ple of the East were “too finicky” about bituminous coal. ‘“The people of the West are as healthy as the-peo- ple of the East,” he said, “and out in Ohio many people have never used an- thracite coal. They burn bituminous, and particularly smokeless bitumi- nous.” Mr. Fish said he does not believe the committee will get much help in its inquiry from the coal Industry it- self, adding: "The people have given the industry a chance to cure its own ills, and now Congress. cannot shirk the responsibility.” He inserted in the record letters from some of his con stituents, claiming that* anthracite coal delivered in New York is filled with bone, slate and other extraneous materials that increase weight and do not burn in a furnace. In. support of his fact-finding pro- posal, Mr. Fish told the committee that there is not now any govern- mental agency empowered to secure facts on coal. He said he had asked Secretary of Commerce Hoover specific questions on production and price of anthracite which Mr. Hoover was un- able to answer. e More than 350 curioe, ancient auto- ‘to the Government would be greater graphs and paintings inherited by a Japanese nobleman wefe sold at auc tion recantly for £1,23%.000, RETIREMENT BILL ‘ ACTION IS DOUBTED BY CONGRESS HEADS First (Continued from Page.) legislation, if brought up on the floor will call for considerable debate le. cause of the known opposition to it, and considerable time would be con- | sumed in its consideration. The Presi- dent has been advised. therefore, that | the Senate and House leaders have deemed it best to pigeonhole this pol fey of the administration The President is advised siderable opposition has that will make it difficult to pass the | Watson-Parker railroad labor bill. Tt too, will be relegated to the hole, in the opinion of Senator Smoot. although it has already passed the House. Mr. Madden, who has. been diligent- Iy supporiing the President’s econ- omy program, intimated today that his_ attitude toward liberalizing the retirement act corresponds very closely to that of the President. Without questioning the principle in- volved, Mr. Madden said, following his talk with the President, that many questions are involved, some of them being very complex, which should be thoroughly studied and well under- stood before Congress passes the Lehibach retirement bill. Mr. Madden said that the age lim- its prescribed in the Lehlbach bill for optional retirement raised several important questions as to thelr ad visability and practicability. He pointed out that the 60-62-65 ages stipulrted in the Lehlbach bill for optional retirement would unques- tionably result in a great increase in Government annuitants: that the cost that con- | developed because of the low ages stipulated, and the fact that there would be many more men and women employed in the Government voluntarily retir- ing and thereby no longer paying their share of the retirement cost. FASCIST STUDENTS AT PADUA ATTACK FOREIGN PUPILS (Continued from First Page.) of all the world's democracy, plutoe- | racy and Free Masonry. “Co-operative State." “We live in a Fascist state, since we have buried the Democratic-Lib- erals’ state. We are the state which controls all forces which come from the bosom of the nation. We control political forces, moral forces, economic forces; altoegther we are a Fascist co-operative state.” The premier added that, the internal battlé having been won, tRere was now the graver battle with foreign countries. It was natural that all countries upholding the principle of fraternity without real brotherhood of equality, without peace of liberty and without independence should coalesce against Italy. The premier said he foresaw an attemp*’ economical isolate Italy, but he shouted: “W will win, because we have 3,000,000 vouths ready.” “Cannon Voeice of Country Applause greeted the premier as he concluded: “Tomorrow 1 will greet you on board the flagship of Italy. I have given orders that you, leaders of the Fascisti party, be saluted by 13 salvos of cannon. . You shall hear the voice of the cannon, which aboard the bat- tleship is the voice of the mother country.” This statement referred to arrange- ments Mussolini' had made to start for a tour of Tripoli today. Several American surgeons attend- ing the Congress of International Surgery witnessed yesterday's attack on Mussolini.. They included Dr. George Brewer. Dr. Louis F. Bishop and Dr. Allen Starr, all of New York; Dr. Harvey Cushing of Boston, Dr. Henry Aborn of Rochester, Minn., and Dr. John Dandy of Baltimore. Dr. Starr was beside Mussolini when the attempt on his life was made and saw the woman who. shot him arrested. Miners Indorse Pinchot. PHILADELPHIA, April 8 (P).— Regresentatives of districts 1, 2, 5, 7 afd 9 of the United Mine Workers of America, together with representa- tives of the International organiza- tion, vesterday adopted a resolution indorsing the candidacy “of Gov. Pinchot for the Republiean nomina- tion for United States Senator. The governor was in conference with the miner’s leaders at the Bellevue-Strat- ford Hotel prior to the adoption of the reselution, | plan COOLIDGE TO LEAD PRESS CLUB CEREMONY OF LAYING CORNER STONE (Continued from First Page.) to the highest design for the leals of the press. The building has been ap- proved by the Fine Arts Commission and is to conform to the MeMillan for development of downtown vashington. e lower interior and rear portion of the building Is to be occupied by Washington's largest theater, which will seat 3,800 persons. A large mo tion picture corporation has leased the space for 25 years and plans to spend 200,000 for furnishing the theater with a view to making it one of the show places of the Capital. The re. mainder of the first or ground floor with the exceptions of the entrances to the theater and to the office build- ing itself, will be occupied by a series of specialty shops. Portiona of the floors from the second to_the floors will be devoted to offices. Club to Have Two Floors. Above these floors will be the quarters of the Press Club. They will oceupy two floors and will provide for all manner of entertainment of club members and their guests. There will be men’s dining rooms, women's dining rooms, clubrooms, library, conference sections, lounges. writing rooms, an assembly hall and other elahorate appointments. A por- tion of the upper floors will be spe cially fitted for use by the members of ithe newspaper profession here whose function it is to report and interpret the news of the day as it occurs in the Nation's Capita.. 1'rom the seventh to the eleventh floors the space will be set aside in single and double rooms and in larger suites to acgomodate newspaper correspond- ents and bureaus who will need tele. phone switchhoards, telegraph facili- tles and other special services. The assembly hall is to be a feature of the club’s facilities, designed as a place where men of note and authority can be invited to speak on public problems. BUS LINE APPROVED. Foxhall Village-to-Burleith Service to Start Soon. Application of the Washington Rail- way and Electric Co. for permission to operate a “shuttle” bus line from Fox. hal! Village connecting with its Bur- leith bus line at Thirty-fifth street and Reservoir road was approved today by the Public Utilities Commission. The new line will begin operation Sunday or Monday. The rate of fare will be 10 cents cash. Free transfers will be issued to the Burlieth busses. Foxhal Village- bound passengers on the Burleith busses will be required to pay the 10 cents cash fare to receive a free trans. fer. The real estate firm of Boss & Phepls has guaranteed the traction company against any deficit in the operation of the “shuttle” line for a period of five ears. CRASH KILLS 4 MiNERS. sixth BROWNSVILLE, Pa.. April 8 (@), | —Four miners were killed and ten were injured, five seriously, at Bealls- ville near here late yesterday when a truck on which 23 men were riding was overturned in a collision with a touring car at an intersection. The miners were returning from No. § mine of the Vesta Coal Co. to their homes in villages in this district. Bunions Quick relief from pain. Prevent shoe I::uum At all drug and stoves DrScholl’s s o Rhemnatic Atiacks tan be relieved. Don't suffer any longer. Get & bottle of Eade’s Pills at your droggists. ‘They bring prompt selief —- equally effective for neuralgia, lumbago and gout. In use over 5o years. . All Druggists E. FOUGERA & CO., Inc., Importers New York, N. Y. EADE S rus (Continued from First Page.) Mr. Buckner. don’t think it in. cludes actual haiy tonic or lotion."” uppose a lot of It was made into | hair tonic. Would the 60,000,000 gal- | | lons include that alcohol which might he._taken out of hair tonic after it had been sold on the open market? “‘Yes, it would.” “Then all vou hive stopped is the |J turning out of u'cahol for use in de. natured form. ‘There is nothing you khow of the alcohol that is being re- 1ekner, iting recent gov said there were in the United “Isn’t it reasonable Senator Harreld ernmental statistics 17,000,000 automohi | States, and asked: | to suppose they nse 16.000,000 gallons jof alcohc | | I don't want to get inta that” re- | | plied Mr. Buckner “but T fall back on | ! the work of men in stopping {000,000 zallons of alcohol from going into the hootleg trade.’” 1 “T only wanted to shpw vou if yvour | { figures we, rejoined Senator Harreld. he more you show the alcohol was used for industrial pur- poses it brings cown the amount of consumption. Thinks Records Err. Referring to pleas of guilty and fines as ‘“convictions,” Mr. Buckner declared the records in the Depart- ment of Just-ce sheuld read, “Escaped on payment of money " “This business of the enfor of law paving its way is a very | thought.”" ‘continued the witness. “1'l | undertake 1o prosecute the pick- | pocket law in New York and make it {pay. 1 had the case of an employe | in the Iniernal Revenue Bureau in Washington whose attorney wanted | me to fine him. declaring he was not guilty 1 told him that for me to ac- cept a fine in the face of the declara- ‘ tion of innocence is biackmail. He was tried four months later and sen- tenced. “1 read t ment bad prohibition is paving | its way—that's a great mistake. 1| think Secretary Melion o to col- lect the revenues of the country and the Department of Justice onght to put men in jail.” Mr. Buckner said from “sheer neces- | sity” and to relieve the crowded | dockets, he has cleaned up a number | of cases by allowing persons to plead guilty and receive fines. “If 1 didn’t do this in one case. I'd he six years in prosecuting ihose cases alone.” he ! added. Some Fines Adequate. 1 vou. that | vhere a fine | ked Sen- | “You recognize, don’t there are many offens i« adequate punishment ator Reed. “Oh. certainly,” replied the witness “There are thousands of people in New York violating the prohibition | law., who if arrested. forced to give | bail und fined $50 would stop forever They would be too ashamed to have thelr children and neighbors read about it.” Mr. Buckner asserted he first want ed the “machinery” in the form of | reputable, efficient agents and judes | to send the men to jail and then more jails could be built “How about a stone wall around the cx asked Senator Reed as the crowded witness room roared i “I'm only talking for my distriet,” | said Mr. Buckner in reply. | The padlock, said Mr.” Buckner. | “after all, is not more than a dent. | See how we are hampered? We have nobody to see two weeks later if a place is still padlocked.” Fight Assures Delay. “What is the average time?" asked Senator Harreld. “Six montns if they fight, and a year if they do. “And for 6,000,000 people,” he con- tinued, “to get the evidence, follow it up, arrest, and keep an eve on pad- locks, we have 23 men! he empha- si%ed. “That's an unlucky terjected Senator Reed. “Largely with the assistance of the New York police we locked up 500 places in the last six months'™ con- tinued the district attorney. “If you had sufficient machinel then the padlock would make a big- ger dent,” interrupted Senator Har rel “Yes. don't number,” in- We put the owner under an injunction and if he is caught he is given a speedy trial and sent to jail. But powerful as the injunction is, it ie denied us for the lack of machinery. Mr. Buckner sald that New York long ago worked out a plan for abol- ishing jury trials and substituting a “Special Sessions Court,” which had the power of sentence up to two years. It {8 essontial to police conduct that a jury trial for petty offenses should be abolished,” he declared. “If the United States wants its prosecutors to en- force the police laws, then give them i police courts,” shouted the witness. Reed's View Differs. i “That's simple enough from the standpoint of the prosecutor, but how about the poor devil brought up and rallroaded?” asked Senator Reed. “Av a citizen, do vou advocate the boli- tion of the right of trial by jury “You can't enforce police laws with- out police courts. If there were no prohibition law just for naracotic, pure food, etc., alone, I would say that the United States Government long ago should have followed in the wake of New York and other States.” If by legislation or constitutional amendment the jury trial for petty offenses is abolished, Mr. Buckner said his district would need three addi- tional courts in Manhattan: three in the Bronx; three in West Chester and one each In the counties running up to Albany. “There must be six or eight million people extending from the Battery up to Albany.” he said, the motivating R T P22, The Columbia National Bank 911 F Street " Capital and Surpiua ' $600,000.00 TIIA LR e 220 N IIIIII 11 1IN I10007 Makes Appeal Before Senate Inquirers for More| Courts and Better Pay for Prohibition Agents. Cites Failure of Present System. { that territory and for that vast num tional Federal judges in his district, the southern, alone. agents 15.- | applicants for the job." the { marked prosperity } I shall not gzo inte details abent | | the agents.’ ! 8, 1926. | “and 1 regard those 17 courts as miniumum basis to enforce the law in ber of people If the tria Buckner said he would need $5 addi- “If the prohibi- tion law should be repealed tomor- row, we would need six additional judges to conduct the jury triale.” | Holds 1,500 Agents Needed. minfmum of” 1,50+ prohibition should be provided for the southern distriet of New York to -uryey, among other duties, the activi ties of the 7.000 people who hold Jermits 1o buv liquor. Mr. Buckner urged. The <alaries, now $1.800 a1 the heginning and $2.200 ai the max imum “are not living wages for a man with a wife and child in New York. Yet there are a number of A Why?" asked Henator Reed. oom again rang in laughter. | Why, what asked Mr. Buckner. “Why do they nt jobs that don’t pay a living wage. s one man told me, the work.” “Opportunities make It 1 knew that, secute them.” What salary do vou think there should be to put them beyond tempta tion?" asked the Missouri Senator? Would Have $3.250 Wage. My is that a works for the overnment bhe paid a salary which him to live respectably. he enjoved money." Senator, I'd pr man who | ought to will enable I think the position minimum ought 1o he $3.250." | Haven't some of them manifested a arrested two since | came into offic A man told me it was hard to get the facts on them. 1 told one person I wonldn't padlock his place if he would tell me to whom he paid money for protection Says Life Is Menaced. “He said ‘I wouldn't think of it My life would be at stake.’ Another man said he had paid $5.000 for pro tection. ‘Give me the evidence and I'll not prosecute vou,’ I said. ‘You can put me in jail to the utmost limit he vepl We've only by jury is kept, Mr.Fuaqy blead guflty and get from 30| | corn sugar | prohibition could be enforced with ade- | would produce a of prohibition in different States. He said his answer to that would be “yes.” He added, however, that various States have different kinds of prohibition now. Quizzed Regarding Stills. The witness was questioned by enator Reed of Missourl and Mr. Codman as to how many stills are being operated in private houses in | New York He said he could not answer that but that about five such cases a_weei were picked up hy the police. These cases, he sald, can be approached from the standpoint of the fire hazzard they create in tenement houses, and said the defendants ua- an arrangement different kind to 60 days. This reference to stills in private homes caused Mr. Buckner to predict that If Gen. Andrews is given ade- quate machinery and higher paid agents and should succeed in stopping the free flow of alcohol, it would re. sult in the setting up of numerous stills in cellars and garages to supply the demand formerly taken care of by the supply thus eliminated Reed Amuses Crowd. The crowd in the hearing room was amused when Senator Reed asked Mr. Buckner if he knew. anything about stills made up of an ordinary tin pail. | few bricks. half a gallon of sour mash and a little five. Mr. Codman followed this question immediately with a query about the possible use of in producinz alcohol. “Those are assignments I have not had occasion to study vet,” Mr. Buck- ner replied Senator Reed then questioned the witness as to whether it was not more difficult to enforce a law prohibiting a thing which people do not regard as bad in itself than it is to enforce a law which is on its face a crime, such as stealing. Mr. Buckner insisted that he belleved quate machine: With the co ner's testimony journed until morning of Mr. Buck-| committes ad tomorrow ision the 10 o'clock Vare Called to Stand. | “The wiinesses called by 1he wets last night included Representative Vare of Pennsyivania, who is running against ! Senator Pepper and Gov. Pinchot for the Republican senatorial nomination | this Fall: Alfred J. Talley, former judge of the Court of General Ses- sions at New York; Dr. William €. Woodward of New York. secretary bf | the bureau of legal medicine and leg- islation of the American Medical As- sociation, and Hudson Maxim, the in- ventor. ! The night session, like those pre- ceding it, was punctuated with laugh- ter and brisk dialogue, and the former New York judge received the first pro- longed demonstration of applause of the law,’ he said. ‘I paid to some ers who take care of my truck- They give me protection. It i much easier for me to go to jail than to assist In this investigation and find myself bumped off." Actually,” con tinued Mr. Buckner. “that man went to jall instead of telling me the names | of two of the gangsters.” Nir. Buckner did not uniform pay scale for 4gents. but ‘did think that the size of New York should be higher. Mr. Buckner closed his with an appeal for modification of the Volstead law as a “bait” to New York State to cooperate with the Federal Government in the enforcement of the amendment. advocate a prohibition in a city the salary Bernnan Statement Filed. Julian Codman. representing ‘wets from the m Cook County and the City of Chicago, headed by George E. Bren- nan. Democratic national committee an and candidate for Senator on a wet” ticket, and Anton J. Cermak president of the (‘ook County Com missioners, Mr. Brennan's statement said “we are indebted to the Vol- stead act for increase in drunkenness, increase in fmmorality, disrespect for law, corruption among offictals sworn to uphold the law. the bootlegger and the rumrunner, Increase increase in insanity, poison liquor. moonshine deaths and blindness.” The report was accompanied by statisties purporting to show vast percentages of increase in crimes and degeneracy in 1925 over 1918, Sums Up Testimony. Summing up his testimony as the hearing adjourned today. Mr. Buck- ner declared he believed the function of the Federal Government is to deal in an auxiliary way with the States in ;h! enforcement of the prohibition aw. said. should be on a partnership basis between the Federal and State gov- | ernments, and that if the States seem unwilling to enter the partnership for enforcement on the Federal Gov- ernment basis ,then the Federal Go ernment should try enforcement on the basis of the States. Asked by Attornsy Codman if he had read one of the pending modifica- tion bills proposing to allow the State to fix the percentage of alcoholic con tent on which prohibition would be based in each State, Mr. Buckner ask. ed to be excused from commenting on | any particular bill, pointing out that %0 much depends upon committee could apply his testimony to any of the bills it may consider. Referring briefly to the proposal of having each State determine the alcololic content to be used as a guide In enforcing the Federal pro- hibition law, Mr. Buckner said he had heard the argument that such | NEW and USED Office Furniture| Save 50% and More 3 H. BAUM & SON 464 Penna. Ave. Main 2136 YOU CAN ALSO RENT IT Our Savr'nzs Deét. Pays 3% A Bank’s Prosperity —is directly dependent upon that of its depositors. Mutuality of interests forms force which invests Co- lumbia service with definite value to the depositor—makes connection with this'bank so practically helpful. {{We believe you'll profit by our han- dling of your banking business. Open at 8:30 A.M. Every Business Day Monthly Statements on Checking Accounts testimony | filed a report of a committee | in murder, | The enforcement of this law, he | the exact | phraseology. He said he thought the | | = FRIENDS evoked during the hearing from the crowded spectators when he explained to Senator Harreld, Republican, Okla {homa. a dry, why he thought that, “if | you give the people light wine and | beer. they will not give a whoop about | haa liquor. “You put beer and wine in the {open.” he said, “and you remove the incentive of seeking the forbidden. You will remove bootleg liquor; you will remove the bootlegger, and you will abolish the speak-easy.” He also expressed the opinion that conditions would be “immeasurably hetter” and erime would be “‘reduced tremendously” if the eighteenth amendment were repealed. The pro hibition law, he said, ix “the greatest | single menace confronting us.” Vare Supports Edge. Mr. Vare supported a proposal by Senator FEdge, Republican, New Jer- sev, to legalize the sale of beverages “non-intoxicating in fact.”” To supple- ment this proposal, the New Jersey | Senator has introduced another, which { would permit each State to define the words, “intoxicating in fact.”” as used in the eighteenth amendment, and fix drastic penalties for the shipping into any State of a beverage stronger than it permitted. Mr. Vare told the committee that legalization of the sale of beer would | restore an industry in which $792,914.- 000 was invested and 66,000 workers emploved prior to 1920: open a mar- ket for farm products valued at $87.- 520,287 13 years ago, and create a mz<et for materials estimated at $122.685,489 annually. Dr. Woodward testified in favor of | the Edge proposal to remove liquor Inres(‘r!nlinn restrictions, describing | as foolish the provision in the law | permitting prescription of the same {amount of liquor for an infant as for |a “chronic or near-chronic drunkard.” | Says Need Is Easily Met. Senator Harreld suggested that. if | physician needed to prescribe more {than the law permits, there were sources from which to get it. “The suggestion of the Senator from ' Oklahoma,” remarked Senator Reed, Democrat, Missouri, the only wet on the committee, “is that the doctor ought to join the bootlegging gang because we have passed an idiotic law.” “Not at all,” returned Senator Har- “What T meant was, the doctors | as fri ari lis wi cessful banking. REVENUE EVIDENCE BARRED IN DRY CASES Seizures Cannot Be Used to Enforce National Prohibition Law, Texas Judge Rules. By the Associated Press. SAN ANTONIO, Tex., April 8.— Evidence seized by Federal officers under the internal revenue act can- not be used to prosecute a defendant under the national prohibition act, Federal District Judge Duval West ruled yesterday. N. A. Baker, local enforcement officer, declared the dec- sfon would materially hamper eh- forcement of the prohibition law. Baker explained the authority con- ferred under the internal revenue act permitted officers a wide latitude in procuring search warrants, especially to_enter private homes. To obtain a smearch warrant under the internal revenue act it is neces- sary for the officer only to allege & suspicion that seems to warrant the belfef that liquor is being made or dis. pensed in a private home. The Vol stead act requires that an actual pur. chase be made by the complainihg officer before a search warrant shall be issued Judge West held that the internal revenue act had been superseded by passage of the national prohibition act. Although Federal dry agents were commissioned by the commlis sjoner of internal revenue, they had no authority to invoke the inclusive wers of that act to enforce prohi ition, it was pointed out. STATE DEFI;\IING PBWER IN DRY LAW PROPOSED Senator Edge's Amendment Would Grant Loeal Rights to Limit Alcoholic Contents. Another amendment to the prohibi tion law was proposed vesterday by Senator Edge, Republican, of New Jersey. one of the wet leaders in Congre: It would permit each State to de- fine for itself the meaning of the words “intoxicating in fact” as used in the prohibition amendment and would provide drastic penalties for persons convicted of shipping into any State any beverage prohibited b such State as “intoxicating lquor.” Penalties proposed are not more than 10 years in the penitentiary or fines ranging from $10,000 to $100,000, or_both. This amendment supplements one previously offered by Benator Edge under which the Volstead act would be so changed as to permit the sale of beverages ‘“non-ntoxicating in fact” In those States which had not prescribed a percentage of alcohol Iimitation in their own State codes. Pastor Accepts Richmond Call. Special Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND, Va., April 8.— The Rev. John A. MacLean of Greenwood, S. 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