Evening Star Newspaper, April 9, 1926, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast,) Fair and cooler tonight; tomorrow increasing cloudiness and continued cool, followed by vain tomorrow after noon or night. Highest, 75 at 4:30 p.m. vesterday: lowest. 45, at 7 a.m. today. Full report on page 9. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 3¢ No. 20,928, Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. WINESANDBERR ™ hineine. o URGED, SALOON HIT BY LABOR CHIEFS “2.75” Brew. With 18 Per Cent Vinous Product. De- manded at Hearing. i Room, Shouts Last By the Aseociated Press CHICAGO. April 9.—~Two men, aid- fed by a woman. risked thelr lives here early today In a daring but un successful attempt to rescue leo J. Alnzworth of Cincinnati while he clung from a window fre-swept hotel toem 300 feet above | the sidewalk. { The men formed a human ladder {from a window below the hanging | man, but before a rescue could he {effected Ainsworth dropped from the | nineteenth floor, his burned fingers no longer able to held his weight. | He was instantly killed. Scores of ivi | pedestrians gazed in horror on the Volstead Act Driving People From gl bt Temperance to Nation of Whisky | Mr. and Mrs J. W. Melville of Chicago and F. A. Guilleaume of New Drinkers, They Say. | York. guests at the Morrison Hotel, | tallest hostelry in the world. where {the tragedy occurred, were the three who to save Alnsworth, & i in radio manufacturing and rasting In Cincinnatl. SPOKESMEN DECLARE 25,000,000 BACK THEM Organized lahor of the United States. appearing today hefore the Senate suh. CLINGING TO 19th FLOOR ‘LEDGE Radio Pioncer, Panic Stricken by Fire in Hotel Burned Fingers Give Way. ledge of his{ hB WASHINGTON IN TO SAVE MAN B(}NIRUL m: PARW REAL ISSUE BEHIND ILLINOISG.07. ROW McKinfey - Smith - Primary Race Outcome Virtually Im- possible to Forecast Now. Message to Wife as | Others who broke down the door to Ainsworth's room had to battle the flames, and ~when they reached the ledge they were too late. “Tell my wife.” began Ainsworth, just before he dropped. but the re-| mainder was not heard by the two aien on the ledge below him. It is supposed Ainsworth fell asleep | on his bed while smoking and awaken- | ed to find his room in flames. A guest in an adjoining room heard him ecry for some one to break down the door and then heard the window opened. | He clung to the ledge for five minutes. | The impact of the body was so ter- i rific that many persons who heard it | % thought an explosion had occurred. | Cook County Groups Split as Never| His widow and two children lve | Before—Senator Once Beat in Cincinnati, where Ainsworth be- came a leader in the radio fleld. He was president of the Ainsworth Radio Present Opponent. BY G. GOULD LINCOL Co. of Cincinnati. In conjunction with Sta#t Correspondent of The Star, Howard Gates he founded station CHICAGO, April 9.—The Republi COURT ISSUE CLOAKS HOT FACTIONAL FIGHT | committee of the judiciary committee inquiring into proposals for the mod. | EXPECTED TO BURN SIX DAYS, ° doubt of forcement: denounced ‘‘those people who are always eager to improve the | and wine with his meals. mittee through six authorized spokes-; e case for the edification and amuse- Property Loss Estimated at have packed the little witness room | of Tank Farms. 15 per cent, was argued on the ground D it o ik that Drewaries, dae. | B CBEtwa Sre Gieed. 6 e B by ARt loTiihatoimp. | Alsetete; Sihvalding Bl vy S ot Abe Asireeican Aedaraeitn o diabor; | - THIfty miembel of the crew of the federation; Andrew Fururseth, rd Oil tanker in the Mississippl River o e toafles dénactinent; John | More thEn. two _scnre e injured D ary or thy New' detees || THADIES properiy Ioas wis aufteres he former fieli was rated as the Mr. Roberts declared the American | with a probahle loss of ganizations, was in an excellent, STRRE DI ore. Hoth ollsnk sentiment among wage earners is ab- Minlature Tornado, Generated by In. travelled 30,000 miles with the late the Volstead act. (P).—Men today continued their two- nerted, “ana the people asked us| Ll 4 e nion Oil Co, an two Sgriniealioainiln ¢ T8 beepo spread, but officials of the company be whisky. T don’t remember a tims ; fore the 5,300,090 bevuaus SC paerele o and in the hotels and all were in favor | here |3.000 men were battiing the witness, don't believe the Volstead act | o s raken by the American |largely covered by insurance. Tritten by Mr. Gompers and Mr.|Yesterday, A miniature torrado. gen- %It i= the opinion of the American | Hope raised by a favorable change whisky-drinking Nation. Modification tanks of 56,000 barrels’ capacity each said since 1919 whet the lederation | had been beaten back in g steady re- in protest.” He further declared there, " Tl o T e o mite Fight Volstead Act Onl 000 1o 1,250,000 barrels each, and the o e mised 1f the @nd lines of trees from the landscape. O e e et jt,| rush of the fiames that threatened to “Then the federation is not oppos. ¢ VA, QY Br 8N . tfication of prohibition. delivered a | scorching indictment againat the Vol-| stead law and the futility of its en- | i people’s conduct by statutes instead of hy example”; stood rock solid and pleaded with the committee to! give the working man a glass of beer | The voices nf 25.000,000 peaple were declared represented before the com- | men who colorfully portrayed their ment of the committee and spectators, i E % who, since the sessions were opened. | $18 000,000 in Destruction uncomfortably. The plea for the re turn of 2.75 per cent beer and wine af that the wageearner does not like . : " tiafa Aigor At B0 par ent onithem | BE Mhedlisocibint 21 . 2 olisned | MISSing, and $12,000.000 worth. of ;Yl!@l IO:‘ ,\?fl RJHPV‘I'S will be abolished GioPetts- Bk Deeh | aratnoved Ui SFolP vom the hom e illiam Roberts, | Properties in two widely separated pearance, e 4 R 3 g i Yepresenting President William Green % of the country. Dutch steamer Silvanus are missing William J. McSorley. president of the{ "1 * i ) building trades department of the /%2 T sult of a collision with a Stand % ks Ao helow New Orleans. Five persons U'"",Mf'l’_m" S Connell, president of | Were believed to Lkave been killed and . when another Standard Oil tanker ex ¢ e Ohio Stat s b i i T A [ ploded at a New Orleans drydock. ederation of or, {in twe oil reservoir fields at San Luis Federation of Labor. Obispo, and Brea, Calif. The fire In y Wide. ol createst petroleum conflagration in the history of the American oil in- Federation of Labor. through uu’ iy, e ® i rederations and affiliated or- $13.000,000. e loss at Brea was bbb | estimated at $3.000,000. Both oil tank Position to feel the pulse of the people - on the prohibition question and the solutely opposed to the présent con- 5 ditions. He said in 1923 and 1924 he President Samuel Gompers, and every. tense Heat, Wrecks Home. where he went he found criticism of | SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif., April “The homes of people were turned. 4.\ hatijle against flames that were into breweries.and distilleries,” he as-| o T LU TS S0 ne barrels of ‘\When Is Congress going ‘o realize | : ;i e er makes for 1rue (empérance.’ | tAnk farms in California. The fire near here apparently had ceased to they wera forced to drink e af sonemetions supposed to | 841 It 'would be three ar four uay be- e o | fore the 6,000,000 barrels of petroleum Wwhen prohibition was not discussed ] p: s ¢ Grains out. At Brea, 230 miles southeast of e . v ooy | here, 3,000 men were battling the of modification or repeal of ihe act’” | e ; D ontinued the And a number of surfacs tanks thut The wage earners, continued the T8 B 0 il 3" The damage baing e ' jon of the elght-i done by the fires was estimated at ’--n.m“:;-::i‘;:&r‘em)‘a'-" e e Vo, | $18.000,000. which ofticlals said was Two lives were claimed by the dis Federation in annuai conventions for v v : P uion and. also read lotters Aster here when a reservoir exploded eom and Cool. | erated by he heat, tore apart the ;:‘,:,"‘,;,'"mr;:f,flf:""““” i) farmhouse occupied hy the victims. - itha ¢y | In the wind here during the night Y bor that the country B B O ks amd. riearer 1o a (Bt remaining seven or eight small - be saved stirred little enthusiasm is a stable and solid movement and MAav A . not a flash in the pan.” he witness AMOng the weary firefighters who took Its stand for heer ana wine, “only | treat before the lake’of flames. a half dozen letters have been received Reservoirs Boil Over. i v proLes Ol the | T o area successive bolling over of the six B i “ great storage reservoirs of from 750.- . ller surface tanks had spread “Would the consumption of hard fme € 2 5 Jiquor 8t the ‘installation of til)s n| fames ithat “deatroyed ' farmholsex 4 S The workers have bent their force Yolstead act s jimodified?” asked o patrolling this area, stemming the h oisa lcut off the maln highway through the Sillas tenae the valley and warning persons away ing the eighteenth amendment>" R {08 CANECE TR0 L en | de- d Senator Harreld of Oklahoma.| c2ieq That two. reservoirs were vir. s only the “Volstead act.V saM! puaily burnéd out: while, numerous Mk 7 ! hollings over by one of 1,250,000 bar- Representing 1,000,000 men in the rels’ capacity Had 08t exhausted bulldmg tradns department, Mr. Mo.! (e Capacity Wag ‘ajmont jexbansted Sorley testified he was authorized |01h"",“l"‘ field, were i(cked up greedily report that his organization “favors purring A€ modification of the Volstead act and PV M SRS ol e prin. are in favor of a law that will give UAn ¥ OB G0 Uiooee of the to_the working men of this country| GORN Y L S0 pailies, re. Mgkt Wioan wod fiow. . They Sl Ihed intact, although windows the present law is unjust and thev U0 %y, rered. and there was other o v e of the ofl containers. K v 3 |as if struck by a torpado. working man |s deprived of the right| st least two houses were destroyed. B e s e Dl iypototatie itibe at Whithtire Baer &A1 6hTiE e et two persons lost their lives was torn Prerand 12 to 1% per cent light wines.! of and the porches torn off. The barn e e 2 i bens roui fiure | Was s heap of, timbecdbilt @ smalier. aneldont believe 2.75 beer would hurt yuildinis 100 feet nearer the fire was T the “faltark of the. law (o work | Untouched. Telephone polex dnd Lresy ot My, McSorley declared in one | W5ie PIOWD SONEL L e of refining Ohio County the district attorney has | " B4 SN Mol Yeervoirs had to compel justices of the peate to | > o s = resign hecause they were “co-operat-| _(Continued on Page 3, Column 2) PEACEOFWORD WAMH, which, last year, was sold to the Kodel Radio Corperation at Cin- | cinnati, can voters of [llinols will go to the polls next Tuesday to decide whether Senator William B. McKinley, who | voted for the World Court with the Senate reservations, or Col. Frank L. Smith, who i< protesting against | American® adherence to the court, shall be their candidate for the Senate | next November. 1 On the surface, the World Court is the fissue in the primary election. Here in Chicago, however, the World Court issue serves only as a cloak for a contest over political control and the | centrol of patronage. Nevertheless, the race is one of the most hotly contested that has taken place in Illinois in vears. Smith Seized Upon Issue. The race between Senator McKinley and Col. Smith began long before {the World Court cropped up as al possible _issue—began. indeed. way back in September. But when Senator McKinley cast his vote in the Senate last Winter for American adherence to the World Court his epponent im- INHANDS OF PRESS, - JOURNALISTSTOLD Need for High Code of Ethics | Stressed by American and Mexican Delegates. | | | | | . An appeal for the establishment of a definite code of ethics in journal- ism. coupled with the warning that until newspapers accept their full| mediately seized upon this as an issue, responsibilily and recognize the|relying upon the great antipathy In mandate of justice and truthfulness | this State to the League of Nations { the nations of the world can never ' and hoping to convince the voters |2ttain their long-cherished goal of |that American adherence (o the universal peace, volced this mornin | l€A8Ue court” way merely a back door entrance into the league ltself 1t the second business session of the | “grnomirence Into the league inelf Pan-American Journalistic g Congrese | with the charge that Col. Smith is in the hall of the Americas. found | setting himself up as an opponent of unanimous approval from the naws- | President Coolidge, who strongly sup- paper men of the Westarn Hemi. Ported the resolution for American snhere as represhnted at the confer. Adherence to World Court—President pine | Coolidge who carried Illinols in the e Inational elections in 1924 hy nearly The topic hefore the congress « 300,000 G - ¥ ¢ N .000 votes over his nearest competi- cerned newspaper ‘ethiés, incornorai- | or John W. Davis, the Democratic Ing the influence of journallim on | nominee. - Senator McKinley put. it international relations and the In-i{nis wav ternal.affairs of nations, bearing in, : } i At the polls next Tuesday. the Re mind the necessity of reconailing! 7 coter: e sy Bl > ol Ve g im { publican voters of Illinols either will the i repudiate President Coolidge and the highest conception of the athics of | g, v . publican party or they will indorse | Journalism. On this subject ‘Wo | faiihful service and loyalty to party | papers were presented for dixcus- | jlaqzes sion, the first by Dr. Juan Jose Ta- | " 1 pointa out blada, editor of EI Universa, Mexico | torm adopted at the Cleveland con. ‘F"fi' ,""“N‘"' second by John H.|yention in 1924 instructed every Re- Tabas b ‘l!he:luf the Evening Post|publican Senator to vote for the A e e ddiress declnred | Harding-Hughes-Coolidge Republican R SH vese declared peace plan.” which means adherence it the beginning that the World War|i5 the World Court with the Senate had removed forever all doubt as!ieeervations ¢ 10 the power of the press, even as the molder of internatioral opinion. | Says Smith 0.K'd. Court. “My opponent, Col. Smith, was a It is, In fact, he sald, the xreateal {delegate to the convention which so single influence In international re- instructed me.” adds Senator McKin- lations today, and for this reason he gpared no words in bitterly eriti- | o. "'and when this campaign started | my opponent openly indorsed this | cizing foreign correspondents who,| | peace tribunal, and his campaign either thoughtlessly or deliberately cabled false reports from the rapltal!‘m&"“" Allen’ Moore, had voted as A member of the House for the Rur- of other nations. Blames Press for War. !'ton resolution urging the Senate to “'Before the war,” Mr. Fahey con. adopt this plan.” tinued, “the press of Kurope had a _ However and notwithstanding. the large part, together with greedy mon- Republican voters in Illinois have been archial systems of government, in|asked by Col. Smith and his followers | responsibility for the condition which ' to turn Senator McKinley out because | resulted in that conflagration. | of his vote, and to put Col. Smith in, “Without the aid of the press the|on t theory that Col Smith, if al leaders of autocratic governments ' Senator, would oppose the court plan. could never have aroused the suspl-| How seriously the voters themselves i cion. prejudices and national an- regard the World Court issue is not tipathies on which extreme national- | entirely clear. In some quarters| ism was built up. here it is insisted that the World! that the party plat- ing with agents who were shaking | down people.” | Says Beer Would Satisfy. i Senator Reed wanted to know just | how beer and light wines would aid | In the comforts of life. | Give us our beer and we will be| pertectly satisfied.” he renlied. [ B the Amocuted Press. “What effect is hard liquor and the bootleggers havink on the eopler:| PARIS, April 9--Jullana Hastres, asked Senator Reed. | young Argentine singer, has been “Anybody wiih any sense at all ean | stung on the finger by a scorpion sea what 13 °going on.” answered MT. \hich wi McSorley, and ‘the witness room Uts| o frster eE. Dere Ineiiees a7k tered. “If the people get beer they | ™ aiie. Hastrea, whose home is Bue- Wouldn'€ tonch Whisky. | nos Aires. but who now resides in the Then if Lhes‘v‘_mt beer, t would| [ atin quarter, received a superh choc- minimize Whisky? | ojata Raster egg, handsomely bound tion | with ribbon. , Column 5) i The egg was open% during dinner K Singer Stung by Scorpion Sent to Her In Easter Egg Filled W papers of Europe had opposed the ex- ter of the campalgn. the on'v thing | through the parliaments. If, eveh on | outside of the effort of one greup of | break, leaders of the European press|tain him. Both Senator McKinley have been. el | ter is’ chairman' of the Republican before in history. It revealed great|,atinnal committeeman, appointed b, derstand. It represents now the great- | i | contest unusually difficult to fore- | Bell's Assistant to Take Course at|its huge vote. To the outsider, the| | for this election never hefore, | ant Engineer Commissioner of the hand, supporting Col. Smith, and on in August, which di-|in the offing. At one time former| 20 and September 3 to the ecom-! gether, and Thompson was & bitter as a student for the 19261927 course i thermore, Senator Deneen and Lun: an assistant to Engineer Comm ‘The present linesup bears dut the weeks. | hedfellows. ‘| county and city tickets, and that the masted schooner Alvena, which salled ' nothing to the leaders of the factions Irene, slipped quietly into harbor here | not themselves vitally interested as ¢ | candidates are from “down State,”| hooked up with one or the oth | much of on the surface. | travagant armament plans, it is likely | ihe voters are generally interested in, ! the eve of the catastrophe in the fate | Republican factions to oust Senator | had demanded a general conference, and Col. Smith in the past have been “The war demonstrated tre- | State central committee, and his man- reservoirs which even those mOSt| o State central committse after the | (Continued on Page 4, Column 2) | Outcome Hard to Forecast. ! | cast 1s the multiplicity of the Re-! | factions seem as numerous as fleas General Staff School. ! { There are the Crowe-Barrett-Brund- | District of Columbia, whose four.year £ early|the other the Deneen-Lundin fac-| the War Department today. Mayor. Willlam Hale Thompson and mandant of the General Staff School | enemy- of -the Crowe-Barrett faction | at_that school. I cessor as|din were enemies, although now they er Bell at the District Building will | d_adage that politics make atrange BATTERED éH-IPj DOCKS i thing can be in this-muddle that the | from Aberdeen, Wash., last December ; underneath the surface. As a mat- today. battered and bruised by a|to whether McKinley or Smith shall | | as distinet from Cook County. groups of factionalists, and so the| l Senator Deneen 18 here and has| ith Cockroaches at a restaurant. Ins; Box. carefully wrapnea, " "'!'* | siderable influence to Senator McKin: Mile. 'Hastrea.' delighted In the be. 18¥. Deneen also voted for the World | lief that a pleasant surprise was in | COUrt In the Senate. . i -wrr fo':ehfl"‘. &ot hl“ fin(leri all mixed | Rival Crowd Attacked. | up in her hurry to untfe the st i binding the little box. s\vhenhn,.:lf;";“ ‘The campaign. booklets put out by | was opened, out came a dozen foul- | the two factions and lists of candi- smelling - Asiatic cockroaches and a | dates for the county offices are typical | small scotpion. The latter promptly | Of this strange campaign. - The Crowe- ' attacked the singer and stung her on Barrett-Brundage-Thompson faction in | the finger. She Feparted the incident | 1ts_booklet carred the banner “Ame; 10 the police, 1 | (Continued on Page 3, Column £, 1f a majority of the leading news-| Court matter really has been the cen- | they could never have been carried ' As a matter fact, it Is the only issue | ful weeks which preceeded its out-| McKinley and another group to re.. Who can say what the result might |ganch, regular Republicans. The lat- mendous power of the press as never|,ger, Mr. Moore, is the Republican familiar with its influence did not un-| g2, "9 5 “TE CERIIGE BT | WHEELER Td = | What makes the outcome of the | publican factions in this eity with {on an alley cat. They are aligned | Maj. Raymond A. Wheeler, Assist- age-Thompson factions on the one| tour of duty. here is expirin under orders {ssued bY|tjons, with the Len Small faction | rect him to report between August red Lundin were hooked up to- at Fort Leavenworth, Kans., for duty and of Edward J. Brundage. Fur-| The selection of his ission- | gre on the same bandwagon. be announced within the next few" X "ol 1t is as clear as any- | fight here in Chicago is over the MLAML, Fla., April 9 ().—The tour- | World Court .Issue means little or 11 In.a race with her sister ship, the jter of fact, the Chicago factions are grueling experience in the Pacific. |Be the senatorial nominee. Both! But | ‘n hnp‘rom that their candidates are | | World Court issue {s" belng made | thrown the weight of his very con.| ] i WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Foenin . D. C, FRIDAY, APRIL .9. 1926—FIFTY- TWO PAGES. The only evening paper in Washington with the i news Yesterday’s Circulation, 103,124 TWO CENTS. RETIREMENT BILL'S SPONSORS RETAIN - HOPE FOR PASSAGE | | e [House and Senate Leaders | Hear President Reiterate Demand for Cost Sheets. () Means Associated Press. {COOLIDGE THINKS $1,000 IS ADEQUATE MAXIMUM | et o | Continues in Stand That 70 Years Should Be Age for Majority to Leave ‘Service. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. Liberalized retirement legislation at this session of Congrese is not entirely hopeless despite the opposition offered ]h\ President Coolidge because of the | cost to the Government. according to | Senator Stanfield of Orezon and Rep resentative Lehlbach of New Jersev who are sponsoring this proposed leg. islation in the Senate and House re pectively and who conferred with the President at the White House today The President made it plain to these retirement-bill sponsors that they D.C. FISCAL PROBE URGED ON HOUSE |Zihiman Reports His Measure for Inquiry by Joint Committee. the laid House hefore Chairman Zihlman of District committee today {the House the committee’s favorable report on Mr. Zihlman's bill for ap- pointment of a joint committee to fix the amount to be contributed hy the United States toward defraving the expenses of the District of Columbia. In his report, Chalrman Zihiman states that in 1878, when the present organic law was passed. It was pro- vided therein that one-half of the ex- penses of the government of the Dis- trict of Columbia should be paid by contrfbution from the Federal Treasury. ' This system of contribution continued up until 1920, at which time the appropriation bill for the District of Columbia changed the 50-50 svstem and substituted a system of 40 per cent by the Federal Government and 60 per cent by the District of Colum bia. Thix continued during the fiscal years 1 1922, 1923 and 1924 and un til the fiscal vear 1925, when Congress substituted a lump-sum contribution for the existing plan mp Sum Provided. the appropriation bill for the 1925 the sum of $9.000,000 was carried, to which was added certain revenues which had formerly been credited in part to the Federal Gov- ernment. The Zihlman hill as reported makes the lump sum of $9,000,000 permanent law for the fiscal years 1927 and 1928, In vea | and provides for the appointment of a Joint committee, to be composed of five Senators to he appointed by the President of the Senate and five Rep- resentatives to be appointed by the Speaker of the House. This joint | committee is authorized and directed | to Inquire into the present fiscal rela tions between the United States and the District of Columbia with a view to ascertaining and reporting to Con- gress whether the persent percentage proportion basis of appropriating for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia should continue. and if so, priation for such purpose should be pald by the United States and the Dis- trict of Columbia, respectivel or whether the present temporary providing for a lump-sum con! tion should be continued as permanent law. . The bill further provideg that the various officers and employes of the District government should furnish the committee all necessary informa- tion regarding the powers, duties. ac- tiwities, organization and methods of business, and also provides that the committee shall have access to and the right to examine any hooks, docu- ments, papers or records of the admin- istrative service of the District. Report by January, 19 e findings of the committee are toTb'; reporle{l to the House and Sen- ate on or before the first Monday in y, 1927, Ja"x“r‘.::i has been no investigation. Chairman Zihiman points out. of the fiscal relationship hetween the Federal vernment and the District of Columbia_since 1915. a period. of 11 ears. The present lump sum, which is now temporary law, was con- ceived largely in the mind of the sub- committee having _the District of (Continued on Page 3, Column 2) DEBT PARLEY ADVANCES. Pranco-U. S. Negotiations Progress Satisfying to Peret. PARIS, April. 9 (®.—Finance Minister Peret indicated today that the debt negotiations between Am- dor Berenger at Washington he American Government were basea and t progressing favorably. M. Peret sild he was awaiting further information from Washing- ton ‘w ore going to London to rake up the British debt. However. mat- ters were progressing so at Wash- ington that he counted on meeting | Chancellor Churchill by the end of next week. ‘Although negotiations have been in progress for some time between Secretary Mellon and the French Ambassador here on a hasis for fund- ing the French debt. Treasury offi- cials indicated today that nothing vouid be done until the Italian debt agreement. now before the Senate, was ghwled of. Radiv Programs—Page 36 what percentage of appro- | Seven Russians Dying as Factor Tea Is Poisoned| Ry the Associated Press MOSCOW. April 5. Twenty seven workmen have heen poisoned by drinking tea from a galvanized tank. which, investigation showed, contained arsenic. Seven are ing and the rest are in a critical condition. A special commission, consisting of the Moscow public prosecutor, the head of the criminal police, a labor inspector and a judge, is in- vestigating the circumstances. A plot the entire staff of LQUORSHNCATE SELEVEDBROEN Two Arrested Here, Valuable Champagne Cargo and Taxi-- cab Are Captured. to poisen rtory chaking and seizing a taxicah with its twe oceupants and two trumks full of champagne. while en route to make a delivery to the home of a prominent local resident last night. police and prohibition agents believe they have checked operations of a prosperous and important “wet" svn- dicate, with headquarters in New York. which has been sending large quantities of liquors into Washington during the past three months in one of the most skillfully contrived schemes for aveiding prohibition en- forcement yet concocted, Even by capturing the taxicab po- lice stopped only half the shipment for another taxicab, with a similar amount of the “wet” goods, evaded the police cars, which were stationed at Union Station to get those escort- | her suit. as required by court rules, | must show him carefully prepared fig. ures of the estimated cost 1o the Gov. | ernment of their respective bills be fore he will consider them seriously Until he is shown these estimates of cost he will withhold his approval and sanction. Favors $1,000 Maximum. PETER PROTESTS e | President was represented as saying that he thought the maximum annui |n= | tv should be $1,000 instead of $1,200 as Consents to Temporary | proposed. and that the minimum age junction Pending Degision in | eriimss Government smplozes to voluntarily retire should be 70 vears | Instead of 3, as now proposed. The President held separate confer- $2,300,000 Case. | ences with Senator Stanfield and Mr. P L e Lehlback. and prior to talking with | them he conferred at length with Brig Gen. Lord, director of the budget, re garding the retirement legislation and today asked the District Supreme |its prospective cost Mr. LeRlbach - o v was accompanied during his confer- 2 "_“f: ““N l':" ;’m”‘f;:‘ "f'rl"‘e": h"'"’" | ence with the President by Represent sneity - . { atives Gibson of Vermont and Hudsen pounded by counsel for his wife, [ o¢ Misgouri. members of the civil serv Mrs. Anna W. Peter of Dobbs ice committee, which is handling this Ferrv. N. Y.. until the wife has |legislation in the House, of which Mr. Armistead Peter, jr.. owner of Tudor Hall and prominent in society. | entablished her right to have posses. | Lehiback ix chairman <ion of the $2,300,000 worth of securi- | u»“nzlm’ Stanfleld said after the con ties for which she has asked an ac- | ference that Be TNt FOL counting by him. The husband de-| i, onded. He sald he is now in some- ferred answer to the rule to show | what of a quandary as hew best to pro canse until the time for answer(ng ceed. since the President has insisted the suit pires, April 19. i!hnl the actuaries make a report upon Througn Attorneys Frank J. Hogan | the eost involved in this measure. and Arthur_Peter, the husband told Thinks Time Too Short. the court that while he thinks the | wife's petition fails.to set up sufficient | Tg comply with this, Senator Stan- grounds for an injunction to be grant- | field said it would take too much time ed since 1t does not charge that he |5 make it possible to wet any action has alienated or attempted to dispose | op this legislation at this session. He of any of the securities and jewelry | intimated that he would meet with named. he was willing that a tempo | the Senate civil service committee to. rary injunction shall he granted, and | morrow and present the President’s restraining order was signed yjews and ask what the committee v Chief .ustice Walter I. McCoY.| hinks best to do under the circum Under st temporary order he 8 qiances. enjoined from disposing of the securi-| -The Oregon Senator had no hesi ties, whicn, Mr. Peter says, are intact | qancv in saying that in his opinion and which he expects to hold Within | 1 could obtain the passase of tnis the jurisdiction of the court, 10 aWait | bilj if he could get it hsfore the Sen final decree in the wife's suit. | ate without further delay. He is in Defends Right te Silence. ! clined to feel that 1he delay that would " > -a| follow if the hill is iurned over to yhe - interrogatories. of - Attorneva | {1% iarien for an eatimite would ington and \illiams. Myvers, Quiggle | Prove deadiy. Al hope would then & Breeding of New York. for the D¢ 198t Sy o will folle : e iy te" the hushand, are|he indicated that he will follow the premature and might well be in or.| Sukgestion made by the Prosident be, der after a decree establishing the | PauSe he veaiizes Bow (RS ¢ O artor the wite, Tt mot before | be to proceed isuins: the Presdent’s such determination. These questions, | Known objection. instead of having for their purpose | Thinks Hope Remains. securing of facts to aid the wife in | While Senator Stanfield left the say counsel for the husband, clearly | White House feeling that the success are intended to learn the location |of his liberalized retirement bill would of the securities and jewelry for the |he threatened if it is turned over to purpose of obtaining by writ of re-|the Government actuaries. he said ing the trunks when they arrived last night. Gerald Murphy, chief of prohibition | agents. and Pvi. Tom Heide of the ! Burlingame flying squadron made the capture. The two men arrested gave their names as Owen Donohue, 32| vears old, and Willlam Acie M. Cheary, both of Long lIsland, N. Y They were charged with transpor ing. {llegal possession and conspiracy in violation of the prohibition law. Scheme Known Long Time. The capture was premature and failed to achieve its ultimate purpose. For months it has been known to local prohibition agents that Wash- ington received shipments of cham- pagne and liquors. from New York City, where a large syndicate was operating. First evidence of this sit- uation cropped up when Capt. Bu lingame’'s men, working with prohibi- tion agents, discovered that two solic- itors were visiting prominent Wash. ingtonians and obtaining orders for champagne. These orders were filled hy packing the bottles in small steamer trunks in that city. The trunks were brought to this city by a man and A woman. Prohibition agents in New York were tipped off to watch that angle. Un- derground information lines were finally hooked up last week, with the result that definite knowledge of the shipment last night was relayed (o local police and prohibition men. When the four trunks were placed upon the flyer from New York the local agents and police had word of it. Plans were made here to follow those trunks to their final destinatjon. ‘Three police and prohibition cars were stationed at the Union Station last night, some time before midnight when the trunks and the couple es- corting them arrived. Police watched porters carefully carry the trunks out from the baggage room and place them in a taxicab. At first it appeared as if all the trunks would be placed in the same cab, At the last minute, however, the woman decided against it. hailed another taxicab and had two of the trunks placed therein. Police Cars Divided. Police cars divided for the ‘shad- owing"” of the taxicahs. The woman evidently became suspicious, for her taxi started acting as no taxi- cab carrying a lady just in”from New York with two trunks would ever think of acting. It. went into alleys and back again into streets, and weaved back and forth dizzily until the police pursurers became confused jand befuddled, with the result that somewhere in Washington today there plevin possession of them before the | that there is no occasion to feel that court passes on the question of their aj] hope is lost. He intimated that ownership, custody and admifistra- | ha explained to the President in some tion, : little detail the more important fea As the suit s hetween hushand|iyres of the measure, particularly the and wife, counsel for Mr. Peter point | (i respecting the retirement out. he ompetent. but not com-|ageg and the amount of the annuities pellable. to testify and to require him Ly, genator stated that the President to answer the interrogatories would { ttd FEAEIEE SIEHCE L (IS o what e e B e F e craJeNC€ | the latter described as the too liberal for or against his wife in ecivil pro. | y ceedings in violation of section 1»«”“'1_';"_"'",';"::::" faBe e ore of the District code. He therefore| The e asked to he relieved from answering |EP0 Senator as being more concern any of the proposed questions re.|Ahout this feature than the amount fating to the whereabouts of the jew.|of the annuity itself. However. the elry and securities and when he re.)President’s views regarding the Stan- moved them from a safe-deposit box | fleld proposal could be . summarized of the American Security and Trust | very briefly by saying that the maxi- Co.. where they had heen placed in{mum annuity should not exceed the' joint names of husband and wite. [$1.000 and that the minimum retire g \ment age for the ordinary run of Ne Answer Flled. employes should be 70 years. Counsel for Mr. Peter called the! Mr. Lehlbach and his committeemen, court’s attention to the fact that Mrs. |after their conference with the Pres- Peter's bill did not charge that Mr.[{dent, stated that they were going Peter had sold. pledzed or removed |directly to the Budget Bureau to from the District any of the stocks |confer with Gen. Lord with the view and bonds which she claimed. The |to obtaining from his office an esti- attorneys further pointed out that | mate of the cost involved in ‘the there was no charge whatever that | bill which has been reported by the Mr. Peter threatened to do any of House eivil service committee. these things and. therefore, there Asks Definite Figures. was no hasis in the case for any in-! junction if they wished to oppose the | Mr. Lehlbach said that the Pre issuance of one. However, Mr. Hogan | dent. seemed greatly Impressed told the court. so long as the suit |the cost figures furnished by the brought by Mrs. Peter s pending it [Government actuaries. and althéugh is the intention of Mr. Peter to hold | It was explained to him that thesé intact within the jurisdiction of the 'fEuUres were not based entirely upon court, all of the securities listed in | the Iehibach bill. but upon about his wife's bill. The lawyers said that, | SiX other retirement plans. the Tree- in view of that fact, an order of the | ident. nevertheless. insisted that he court restraining the disposition of |be given some definite figures con- the stocks and bonds and keeping | COrning this particular bill. In this them n the District would not only | "¢Pec! l:‘-e |m-'1‘3\"'|'h. 'H\;n'erlto’:d. not be ohjectionable’but would be an- | (0, have dealt Tt the ot tirely agreeable to the defendant. The | Titleemen hrac Sely | Senator Stanfield. injunction was, therefore, agreed to. ifically what he No anvwar wis A1 toldley 10 Mry. | 0N Mkl Specichll N h ’ vi personally thought of the prospect Peter's bill and It was stated by the | for amending_ the retirement act ai . | President, Mr. o e fTgsented to the court untllipeen an optimist all his life and he Attorneys Hogan and Peter, at the | PIGROsed fo continue o8 one. a e of & Tempeamented L0 | tollow- further figuring on the cost of tion, presented to Chief Justice Mo- | (nis proposed lexelation, Bur e b5 Coy objections to five interrogatories | ¥ R i obtained: th 11 which were served on Armistead |Proval finally 1s obtaieed there v Peter, Jr.. by counsel for Mrs. Peter, | "0t be the slightest diffeuity In ob- By the interrogatories the piantifts | tining passage of his bifl counsel asked Mr. Peter to state Reiterates Opinion. chen _th . X e the iocks and bonds. which| rne President reiterated his opinion removed from boxes in the American | e atiin Ny -oposit! . Security and Trust Co. rented in gl'“ Rod for the Government for the name of the husband and wife, vhat ny years has reached 60 or 62 or 65 to “what places the securities were many ye: 16 fiot suMMciént feason , and whe nd e e e Ay oo | e him. to retire o private life and are two undetected trunks full of they are now held. In the objec- :d L o 1b atos Tid m?'m on Page 5, Column 8) | tions presented to the court today A Ry (Continued on Page 4, Column 1) "(Continued on Page 4, Column'l)