Evening Star Newspaper, June 1, 1926, Page 22

ALCOHOL PERMIT “RULEIS UPHEL Commissioner of Internal Revenue’s Right to Deny Licenses Defined. Br the Associated Press The right of the commissioner of in- ternal revenue to grant or deny de: naturing permits under the Volstead POLICE SEIZE $3,000 TWO-STORY DISTILLERY Giant Plant Was Housed in Build- ing Occupied by House Decorator. talding today the residence of Morris Lean, decorator, at 1224 H street, Capt. Burlingame's flying squadron discovered a 300-gallon still and a plant, ramifications of which extended over two stories of the building. Approximately 150 gallons of liquor, 24 large hogsheads of mash and a varied assortment of incidentals to the plant were confiscated. Tt was estimated by the liquor raiders that the plant cost approxi- mately $3,000. Special apparatus had been installed act was upheld today by the Supreme Cour { The court held that the comissioner | had not abused his discretion in re-| fusing to issue a permit to the Ma-| King Products Co. of Pittsburgh. | The Supreme Court held that the “dominant purpose” of the Volstead act was to prevent the use of intoxi- | cating liquor as a beverage and that | ‘all its provisions are to be liberally | construed to that end.” “It does not provide that the com ‘ missioner shall issue any liquor per- mits, but merely that he may do s0." ourt continued s the applic ation of the applicant,’ and author s the commissioner to pre- cribe the facts to be set forth therein. “These provisions, as well as the purpose of the act, are entirely in- stent with any intention on the of Congress that the commis- sioner should pe orm the merely per- | functory duty of granting a permit, to any and every applicant’ without ref- | erence to his qualifications and fit- | ness; and they necessarily imply that | in order to prevent violations of the | act he shall, before granting a permit, determine in the exercise of his sound discretion whether the applicant is fit person to be intrusted with such privi STt s ¢ ing that tion to show ‘the | u u r that Congress in provid- adverse decision of the | commi: il might be reviewed in a court of equity, did not undertake to | Vest in the courts the administrative | functions of determining whether or | not the permit should be granted; but | that this provision is to be construed, | in the of the well established rule in analogou cases, as merely giving the court authority to deter- mine whether upon the fact and law the action of the commissioner is | based upon an an error of law or if | wholly unsupported by the evidence | or clearly arbitrary or capricious. | Here, plainly, the refusal of the per- | mit involves no error of law.” | LEPROSY CONTROL URGENTLY NEEDED Public Health Service Calls Con- | ference to Discuss New Legislation. 1t leprosy is to be eradicated from | the United States more authority must be given local health officers to enforce quarantine. State and terri- torlal health officials have been called | into conference with the Public Health | Service to discuss the advisability of | securing further legisiation to remedy this defect in the States where it is | needed. Leprosy is quarantinable according | to the laws of most States, but they in a few is it obligatory on the State health officer to enforce it. The mat- ter appears to bLe tu a certain extent optional and a general tightening up | of regulations is felt to be necessary according to a report issued from the | Surgeon General's Office. Though the Public Health Service aims to secure segregation of lepers where the lives of others are in danger, it is averse to taking any drastic steps that will work hardship for those suffering | from leprosy who are already living | in segregation under supervision. 1t is estimated there are about 1,000 | cases in this country, of which 260 are in the National Home for Lepers at Carville, La. Here lepers can receive | at Government expense ern medical researca conquer this dreaded disease. It is thought that if more lepers were aware of this fact more would present | themselves voluntarily rather than try to avoid by law, for the cases in the | Arly stages can be completely cured. X-rays, ultra-violet light and radium | are mow used in various phases of | leprosy. Since the known compounds | of chaulmoogra oil, the principal medi- cative agent used in this work, cannot | be digested by some individuals, new | forms are being sought in the labora- tory in order that as large a quantity | as possible of the precious drug can be made available to every leper. JAMES M. LYNCH BEHIND | IN PRESIDENTIAL RACE Head of Inta_mauonal Union Trails } Charles P. Howard of Chicago in Incomplete Returns. to give to! By the Associated Press. INDIANAPOLIS, James M. Lynch, president of the In- ternational Typographical Union, and & prominent labor leader for more than 25 vears, recelved the first politi- | cal setback of his carcer today when incomplete returns on the union’s | election _indicated his defeat b Charles P. Howard of Chicago. Lynch was running 00 votes be- hind Howard on returns from 7 local unions, with about 100 unions to be heard from. Additional returns are | not expected to change the result ma- | terially. The election was held in lo- | cal unions last Wednesday and results were mailed to headquarters. BEER INSTEAD OF WATER TO PUNISH LEGISLATORS | By the Associated Press. BERLIN, June 1.—Members of the Prussian Landtag may be compelled to drink beer instead of water. Since recent disorders in the cham- | ber, during which a member of the ! Left doused his opponents with water | until they raised umbrellas and ad- vanced to meet him in hand-to-hand | combat, the rules committee has | threatened to remove the water bot- | tles from the desks of members. If this were done there would remain nothing but beer from the Diet res- taurant with which members could quench their thirst, and it would not be hanay enough for use to douse members. Speaker Bartel, however, is op- posed to removing the water carafes. He considers water a mnecessary lubricant for the throats of long- winded speakers. Also, he fears that it members were to drink beer in the same quantity as water is con- sumed. outbreaks of disorder would be more prevalent. Australia to Fl;ht Cactus. Because the cactus plant has be- «ome a pest in Australia the govern- ment has sent scientists to America to study means of combating the plant. They are looking for some plant dis- ease or insect that will feed on the cactus and thus help to rid the coun- try of it. It is assumed that the cac- tus plant was taken to Australia tm‘?& Ind., June 1.— | i | | | America, i i which was located in the bathroom on the second floor. Through a clever device the product was led up to the third floor for condensation by a serles of lead pipes. The third floor virtually a storehouse for in- gredients used in the piant and the second floor apparently was the ship- ing room of the concern. The raiders sald that they had not definitely as- certained who was the owner of the outfit, since no one wasat home when the raid was made. The house is occupled, however, by Mr. Lean, whose sign on the front indicates he is a paperhanger and decorutor. REED DENOUNCES BRODKHART AIDES Pennsylvania Senator Says His Franking Privilege Has Been Abused. Unfair tactics and abuse of the franking privilege was charged to Brookhart supporters in Towa today by Senator Reed, Republican, of Pennsylvania. Col. Smith W. Brook- hart is_engaged in a strenuous pri- mary fight with Senator Cummins, which is to be settled at the polls next Monday. Senator Reed, who argued for the seating of Brookhart in his recent contest with Senator Steck, produced an affidavit sent to him by an Iowan to show that an envelope sent out by Brookhart's supporters under Sena- tor Reed’s frank contained not only his Senate speech, but also a cam- paign circular entitled “The Voice of Brookhart Is the Voice of Towa.” “At the request of Senator La Fol- lette of Wisconsin,” said Senator Reed, “I gave permission for the use of my speech under my frank, but I did not know, nor did Senator I.a Follette, I am sure, that the same frank was to cover the Brookhart campaign committee’s distribution of & purely political circular. This is in clear violation of the law, and if I permitted the use of my frank for this purpose I would have violated the law. I want to say publicly that I did not sanction this action, but, on the contrary, strongly disapprove of gt Senator La. Follette corroborated Senator Reed’s statement as to his obtaining permission for the reprint of several thousand copies of the speech delivered by Senator Reed. to be sent out under Senmator Reed's frank. Like Senator Reed, he sald he had no idea that any campaign material would be included under the frank of Senator Reed. However, Senator La Follette sald that he be- lieved the judgment of the Senate should be suspended until it had been definitely ascertained whether Col. Brookhart's campaign management had actually included the campaign circular with the speech of Senator Reed under Senator Reed's frank. “I recall, sald Senator La Follette that in 1922 during my father's cam- | palgn @ charge was made that a campaign document had been sent out under his frank. The matter was investigated and found not to be true. I will telegraph to Col. Brookhart and obtain from him the facts in this matter.” OFF FOR CHICAGO. LONDON, June 1 (P).—A party of eminent English Roman Catholic dele- gates to tho Eucharistic Congress at Chicago sailed from Southampton for New York today. They include Right Rev. Henry Grey Graham, titular Bishop of Ti- pasa; Right Rev. Thomas Shine, co- adjutor Bishop of Lamus; Canon E. Mitchell of the Cathedral of Leeds and Rev. Bernard McLaughlin of Edinburgh. Rev. Patrick McPhale, stant to the director general of he Lazarists at Paris, also was in the party. v arara @ e A @ A @A @ robe this week in our - Vacation heels. Sizes 2Y; to 9; Widths An exceptional opportunity to buy your shoes for the next three months—at one time, economically and decidedly Jette STITUTION A FASiON NETITGTION, | satisfactorily. Pumps and Oxfords Every day a different feature! Feature 2—Wednesday Rich Black Satin Pumps $8.75 Regularly $10 to $12.50 700 pairs in alf the new style treatments, cut-outs, strapped, gored, high-throat and opera effects with all the desirable THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLL SHORT FORM FOR NAME OF WELSH PLACE And Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwlllla- ndysiliogogogoch May Be Why Tourists Go Else- where When Traveling in Brii Pursers, passport officers and print ers were disconcerted the other day by the arrival of a steamship passen: ger in New York, who gave her name address as: “Llanfalrpwligwyngyllgogerychwy- rndrobwllllandysiliogogogoch. “There s such a place, though practical map makers frreverently label it briefly ‘Llantairpwilgwyngyll,’ or even merely ‘Llantair P. G.”" sa a communication to the National Geo- graphic Society by Ralph A. Graves. “However, the of-letter title Is its unabridged “ymric name, which means ‘Church of St. Mary in a hollow of white hazel. near to a | rapid_whirlpool and to St. Tysilio’s Church, near to a red cave. “Orthography may be one reason why so few of thousands of Amer- fean tourists include Wales in their itinerary, though it is one of the most alluring regions of the British Tsles. “The average American traveler { takes one glance at his guide ook or at the tourlst-agency folder and de- cides to go to the English lakes dis- trict. to Scotland, to the ‘Lorna Doone’ country or—paris. | “He lacks the courage to wrestle | with such place names as Betiws-y- Coed, Bodelwyddan, Dwygytyichi, Clywd, Llandudno, Pwltheli and Pen- wryd. If the traveler goes to a allway ENGRAVED RUBY GUIDES PARTY IN TREASURE HUNT Three Europeans Boldly Advertise Search for Hidden Wealth in Mongolia. MOSCOW, April 80 (Correspondence) —-A fabulous treasure buried in Mon- golla is being sought by a party of three Europeans who are reported to have left Harbin, China, for Khallar, Manchuria, 110 miles east of the Si- berian border. The party, which advertises its aims _with ~ the Russlan initials “AIMK,” meaning “Association of Searchers for Mongol Treasure,” painted on its many pleces of bag- gage, has a ruby engraved with minute Mongol characters purporting to constitute a plan showing where the treasure is buried. The searchers say they are not seeking the loot burfed by the insane Baron Ungern von Sterberg, but hint that the treasure is located in the area where the American expedition under Roy Chapman Andrews was operating before its expulsion from Mongolia, A sclentific_expedition is also starting for the same locality to continue the diggings of Prof. Dom- browsky for dinosaur remains in the Gobi desert GERMAN TRADE ACTIVE. Company Gets Radio Concession in Constantinople District. VIENNA, May 1 (Correspondence)— The “Telefunken.” a German com- pany, has received the concession for radio in the Constantinople section of Turkey. The operating company will be known as the “Electro-Radium.” It is financed by the Deutches Bank, the Banque d'Affaires and the Credit Natfonal. The concession 8 good for 10 vears. Besides a commercal wireless trans- mission station the company obligates itselt to construct an electrical machinery plant in Turkey. POF;T EXALTS AUTO. D’Annunzio Says It Has Virtue Unknown to Women—Obedience. ROME, May 4 (Correspondence).— Gabriele d nunzio has discovered that the automobile is a woman. In a letter to the director of one of the most widely known Itallan automo- bile concerns, expressing his than for the gift of a fine car, he write “The automobile is feminine. It has the grace, the nimbleness, the vivaci- ty of a seductress. It has, besides, a virtue unknown to woman: It is obedient. There follow words of gratitude and praise for the machine—in all some 200 words for what is probably a $4,000 car. Twenty dollars a word for an author must be close to the world's record. . — California. leads all the States for the amount of products marketed through co-operative marketing asso- clations. Keep Your Best Feet Forward All the Time! You can at the very re- markable savings you can make by buying your com- plete Summer shoe ward- Five-Day Specials AAA to C. A ish Isles. station to get his transportation, he cannot tell where he wishes to go. If a ticket agent in a tourist office asks whether he would prefer to go by this route or by that, with stop- over privileges here or there, the sounds convey to him no impression’ of any of the places he may have read about. “He may have equipped himself in advance by studying some ‘easy rule for pronouncing Welsh names,’ such as: ‘“To pronounce Ll, place the tip of the tongue back of the upper front teeth and blow through the side of the mouth; Ch is a strong guttural having no equivalent in English, but i8 a prolonged k (ach); W is 0o, as in good.” But if ever he imagined he could remember such rules, he for- gets their practical application the moment he hears glin-div'r-doo, meaning Glyndyfrdwy. It's 80 much simpler to go elsewhere! “Consequently, at tourlst agencles the Welsh window never has a wait- ing line, and few clerks are able to give one advice as to where to go, how long to stay and how to come back. “It fs a pity, for within this little principality, having an area consid- erably smaller than New .Jersey, one will find the loftiest peak finest mountain scenery of and Wales, the lovellest watertalls of the British Isles, heaches which rival those of Atlantic City, Deauville or Brighton, streams that teem with trout and other fish dear to the heart of the angler, footpaths through vale and forest which cannot be surpassed in the Tyrol or the Pyrenees and the gray ruins of tessellated towers and frowning bastions, each of which has its own tale to tell of romantic ad- venture and of daring in the dark or middle ages, when English kings lat tled ceaselessly to curb turbulent Welsh princes whose chief end and aim in life was warfare.” VAT AV AT T (T 2 (T G (2 A (2 (2 (Y AN [T 2 (22 G A (2 (Y Y (Y (o (2 (T (Y (23 ¥ (N (o [ (2 (o (2 (Y (2 (Y o (o (2 (2 2 () 1 FASHION INSTITUTI Parte Warshington NewYork Left—Ggor- getta ater- Left—Flat crepe in_ simulated jumper treat- ‘ment has the i fesler 2 a front pleated white elaborate a flat el Fearuring the mart Jabot treatment. . 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This modern means of river commerce is to be made possible by u channel improvement program extending over five vears, whereby approximately $2,000,000 will be spent the first vear between Kansas City and Lous. The first attempt to navigate the ssourl by steam was made in 1819 vas a hazardous undertaking sides the danger of the rives needed the most skiliful because of snags, sandbars and tortuous channel, there was the dan ger of the lurking suvage, concealed in the grass along the river banks ready to open fire on the boatmen without warning. First Boat Had “Serpent.” The Western Engineer, a small steamboat 75 feet long, was the first to ascend the river as far as Council Be. JUNE 1, 1926. Army of Millions of Pigeons Believed Gathering for Migration to the Ozarks Special Dispatch to The Star. WEST PLAINS, Mo., June 1.—Be- ief that some where in Central Amer- ica or perhaps still farther south, mil- lions of wild pigeons are assembling for another migration to the Missouri Ozarks is expressed by Lewis J. de Priest and others who hunted the birds years ago when they paid an- nual visits to this region. It was 42 years ago, in the Fall of 1884, that the pigeons made their last flight to the timberlands of the south Missouri and north Arkansas Ozarks from the pine forests of Michi- gan. ‘Trees were broken by the weight of the birds that clung to the branches. The pigecns could be heard for miles as they fiew intp the Ozark country, De Priest continued. 5 they settled to the earth the birds formed a huge circle which narrowed as they reached the tree tops and dropped on the branches. Sometimes the roosts covered an area of 5 to 10 acres. Pigeon shooting in the early days Bluffs, which it reached September 17, 1819. It was built expressly to awe the Indian. n the bow ning from the keelson forward, was a large steam escape pipe, made in imitation of a serpent. The pipe was painted black and the mouth of it red, and clouds of steam belched forth as the little ship crawled upstream at the rate of three miles an hour. The first steamboat to ascend the river above Council Bluffs was the Yellowstone of the American Fur Co., which left St. Louis April 16, 1831, | and reached the mouth of the Bad | River in South Dakota on June 19. | The following year the Yellowstone ascended to the mouth of the Yellow- stone River. thus demonstrating the claim long made by Army engineers that the Missouri was navigable that far. “Traffic_on the “Big Muddy"” flour- ished after 1830 and was at fits height between 1850 and 1860. Lines of noble hoats plied the stream, mak- ing possible the military and trading posts of the ever extending frontier. of the settling of the Ozarks did not have to be a science. De Priest, born in a log cabin on Eleven Point River, in Oregon County, was known as the champlon pigeon killer of the Ozarks. Armed with double-barrel shotguns, the hunters gathered near the pigeon roosts. After it became dark, they made their way into the timberland where the birds had gathered. Then the shooting began and continued un til the guns became so hot it was dangerous to use them longer, De Priest said. Often the shooting con- tinued almost all night long. At dawn the birds would leave for another roost, and as they formed in circles and flew away the noise re sembled # thunderstorm. The hunt- ers watched the birds from points of antage and located their next roost, which often was only a few miles v, where the scene would be re. peated the next night. After the birds had moved the hunt. ers picked up the dead pigeons, ioad- ed them in wagons and hauled them to the nearest raflrond station to be shipped to market. Families for miles around were supplied with wild pigeons. If it was in Winter the birds would be picked and drawn and hung in the cold to freeze, sometimes supplving the household for weeks 1 the moon happened to come up the shooting always ceased, because the pigeons flew away when fired upon during moonlight or in the day- time. £ Hunters from Michigan followed the flizht of the pigeons from their roos ing place ate to the Ozarks and thence to Indiana, which usually was thelr last stand until the migra- tion back to Michigan. At times th pigeons would not come each year, but ed in even larger numbers abour corn-gathering time in when they made their last appearance. The wild pigeon was swiftest birds of the air. could catch it. miss a wild pigeor ¥ when they shot at the bird in fight. 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