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v ) (T. 8 Fair tonight, minimum 25 degrees: tomorrow and warmer. Temperature—Highest, Full report on page 9. WEATHER. Weather Bureau Forecast.) partly vesterday: lowest, 26, at 8 a.m. today. temperature cloudy 49, at 3 p.m. Closing N. Y, Stocks and Bonds, Page 14 Foenin £ WITH suxn% MORNING EDITION g * Sfar. service. The only evening paper in Was hington with the Associated Press news Yesterday's Circulation, 103,027 No. 30,165. post office, Entered as second ciass matter Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1926—SIXTY PAGES. =+ (#) Means Associated Pr . TWO CENTS. HALL MILLS JURY EXPECTED 10 GET CASE TOMORROW Simpson to Occupy Morning Session When Defense Ends Summing Up Today. McCARTER CONCLUDES AND CASE FOLLOWS HIM State's Tactics in Producing “Pig Woman" on Stretcher Assailed as Theatrical. Br the Assoriated Press COURTHOU SOMERVILLE, N. J.. December 2.—Summing up for the defense in the Hall-Mills case will be concluded this afternoon, with indica- tions that the argument for the State will not be made until tomorrow. Clarence E. Case had spoken for one hour and a half at the luncheon rocess, following Robert H. MeCarter, who finished his address soon after court opened. It was expected that Mr. Case would speak for another hour and thirty minutes in the afternoon, in which event Alexander Simpson, = special prosecutor, will ask that his summing up for the State be deferred until to. morrow. 5 It seemed certain that the case would be given to the jury early to- morrow afternoon, exactly one month after it opened. McCarter, resuming his summation this morning, after referring repeat- ediy to Mrs. Jane Gibson, the State's star witness “the pig woman,” said I hope fooled by as you gentlemen won't be that theatrical display that day she was brought here. Was there any doctor here to testify as to whether she was sick? With a nurse on one side of her bed with her hand on the woman's pulse, and a doctor on the other side. and the witness herself lying on a_bed—everything was to make vou think she was on the eve of her death.” Mrs. Hall's Friend in Court. In the courtroom this morning, for the first time of the trial, was Miss sally Peters, a close friend of Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall, who, with her brothers, William and Henry Stevens, | have been on trial for a month on charges of murder in the kiling of Mrs. Eleanor Mills. Alexander Simpson, special prose- cutor, said he was searghing for Miss Peters last Summer. When finally located in her New York apartment she said she had refused to appear before the prosecutor for questioning because she resented his methods as an_investigator. Declaring that the taking of Mrs. Gibson's testimony was a “humbug’ and a scene meant to influence the jury, McCarter went on to challenge the State to produce one word of proof that Mrs. Hall knew of the! allezed timacy between her hus- band ana Mrs. Mills, which the State has termed the motive for the crime. He urged the jurymen to read carefully the letters which Mr. Hall had written Mrs. Mills from his va- cation piace in Maine a few weeks before the killing “Unconseiously,” said McCarter, “those letters contradict the State's attempt o prove a motive. One of them reads ‘Mrs. Hall cannot derstand why 1 want to take only three weeks’' vacation’ the reason being that Mr. Hall did not want to; be away from Mrs. Mills." James Mills Attacked. attack on the slain another husband of Then James woman. 1 am not here to accuse any one,” McCarter said. “but I want to you, if knowledge of these things &n important fact in this crime, then came Mills, what about Mills, the husband whose | wife for two vears had occupied a room in the attic, who told him more than once that she cared move for Mi. Hall's little finger than for his whole body; a hushand who, in the presence of members of his wife's family and his own brother, was taunted with the statement that when Charlotte had finished her edu- cation, his wite panned to elope to Japan with Mr. Hall? He was a hustand who, that very night of the Killing, had quarreled with his wife; who had read ihe let ters in his wife s 1t the night be fore, and who says, ‘1 knew the creat er part of what was in them." ‘Those Jetters were in his house and he says he saw them He knew that changing letters wa and Mis. Hall had church. Both Children Away. Both his children were out the pight of tne Killing, and he, smarting had had with in the church, no key to the with the guarrel he his wife before she left the hous was alone. He goes out and where he goes no one knows. No one backe bim in where he went. He came home about 10330 or later and no one saw him. but Charlotte says that some time later he called downstairs, ‘Has your mother come hom> yet? " “Did James Mills ring ‘up the hos- pitals when his wife failed to come home? Did James Mills call the police stations? Did he even ring up his sister” No, he did nothing that Fri ay - MeCarter accused Mills of “trading in his dead wife’s honor™” by selling for a “hitny $3007 the letters written by the Rev. Mr. Hall to Mrs. Mills, and the minister's diary, which were found in the Mills home after the slaying. The defense attorney stressed the fact that the letters and diarv. reveal. ing the love affair, were found in the Mills home. He also pointed out that two weeks after the crime Mrs. Gib- ed the Mills' home and spent ing there. later appearing as a witness in the case. Other Witnesses ssailed. The defense lawyer then enumerated seven of the State ibson, Mrs. Mary L. Dickman. Wil the names of witnesses—Mrs. Demarest, Hen llam Garvin, Phillip Payne. Edward | Caprio—and ! Schwartz and Frank assailed them bitterls He scathingly dencunced the arrest of Mrs. Hall at her home last July at midnight, with reporters and photog- Faphers present. He asked why the officers could not_have waited until (Continued on Page 5, Column 5) un- | the place for ex-| Washington Boy Talks Only of Princess and Mrs. Glas- gow Is a Bit Jealous. Hint of Romance Found in Dance and Moonlight Talks and Special Luncheon. Mrs. William J. Glasgow, wife of the commandant at Fort Myer, nat- urally is proud of the fact that her son, Willlam J., jr., West Point cadet lieutenant, was signally favored by Princess Tleana of Rumania during her visit to the academy recently, but she may be pardoned if she feels just a little bit Jealous over subsequent levents. The subsequent events referred to proved that a mother, being only a mother, has limited prerogatives at Uncle Sam’s military school, but a girl whom her son has never met be- fore rates all kinds of liberties—pro- viding that girl happens to be a v 75 minutes is the time limit for entertaining mothers, it seems. ILEANA HAS EVENING WITH CADET, HISMOTHER LIMITED TO AN HOUR i when it limit” comes to such vivacious young ladies | of royalty as Ileana. but the “sky's the the way things Glasgow when Column 7.) At least, that's worked out for Mrs. (Continued on Page 2, W.R.T. SALE HELD 10 BE VIOLATION - OF UTILITIES ACT Clayton Declares Purchase by North American Com- pany Is lilegal. Acquisition of the Washington Rapid Transit Co. by the North Amer- ican Co. of New York was a violation of the public utilities act, Willlam McK. Clayton, special legal adviser to the Public Utllities Commission, held in an opinion submitted today to the | commission. The opinion was based on Mr. Clayton's exhaustive investii- gation into the status of all public utilities corporations in the District. Mr. Clayton held that no other ! utility corporation in the District and under the control of the commission offended the act of Congress by ac- quiring and holding the stocks and bonds ef another public utility corpo- | ration without first securing the.con- sent and validation of either Congress or the commission to such purchase and_holding. While he refrained from expressing an opinion at this time as to the hold- ings of the North American Co. in {the Washington Railway and Electric and Capital Traction companies, Mr. Clayton warned the commission that i should a merger of the street rallway | companies fail to be consummated “‘a {very grave question” might arise as Ito the legality of these holdings. 1 Consent Has Been Sought. The purchase o the Washington | Rapid Transit by the North American { Co.. Mr. Clayton said, “seems to be the first instance” in the commis- jsion's 14 years of control “where a | public utility submitting to its juris- | diction desiring to buy or sell the stock or bonds of another publc util- Iity did not first apply for the consent of the commission to such purchase lor sale.” “In most of these petitions for ap- proval and consent.” the report added, “the commission assumed jurisdiction and consented to the sale and pur- chase: in others, acting under the advice of its general counsel, it re- fused to act, on the ground that sole jurisdiction of the particular case rested in Congress_under section 11 |(La Follette amendmient) of the public | utilities aet. “So scrupulously exact in its rigid | observance of this powerful preroga- | tive of the commission has one utility company been that, after the commis- | sion had consented to and catified the I sale of the entire issue of the stock of ! the Georgetown Gas Co. of Washing- ton Gas Light Co., the Washington | company, desiring to elect a new {board of directors for the George- town company and knowing that only | stockholders could qualify” as direc- | tors. formally asked permission of the commission 1o sell and transfer one share of stock to.each of the seven directors, and _the commission, by zeneral order No. 221, consented. Cites Other Cases. “In August, 1913. the commission had under consideration, the petition of the Chesapeake & Potomac Tele- phone Co. to purchase the bonds. £140.000 worth of the Chesapeake & | Potomac Telephone Co. of Virginia, which was approved. A short time afterward the commission considered | and granted the petition of the Wash- ington & Rockville Railway Co., @ ubsidiary of the Washington Railway Column 6.) | Sicesiraioniwaes 'War Vet Confesses 'Robbing Newspaper ‘Boxes to Buy Food With a $1,500 Government certifi- rate for disabilities received in the late war, but non-negotiable until ! Janpuary 1, David McCandlish, un- | able to work and facing starvation because of lack of ready funds, appeared before Judge Robert E. Mattingly in Police Court today for theft of pennies from corner i news boxes. McCandlish was gassed. shell- | shocked and badly wonnded over- seas, Because of an injury to his | side and stomach, he is forced to | wear a_ heavy plate and plaster | cast. He was discharged from Mount Alto Hospital last Spring. He is 28 years old. | All his money gone, McCandlish stated that he took advantage of the sidewalk pennies to procure food for himself. Confirmation of his testimony was given by Rob- ert 1. Miller, judge advocate of the Army-Navy Union, who is repre- senting McCandlish without fee. Judge Mattingly imposed a sen- tence of 30 days on_each of three charges and zuspem;ed sentence. Fire Chiefs Begin Protection Survey At Mount Vernon Inspection of the fire protection system at the home of Washing- ton, at Mount Vernon, was started today by George S. Watson, chief ‘engineer of the District Fire De- partment, and_ August Emerich, chief of the Baltimore Fire De. partment, members of a speclal committee of the International Association of Fire Chiefs appoint- ed at the last annual convention of the organization to recommend better fire-fighting facilities at this national shrine. The association suggested that a fully equipped and manned fire de- partment be maintained perma- nently at Mount Vernon, under the supervision of the District Fire De. partment. Fire Chief Watson is of the opinion that this is more properly a function for the Vir ginia fire companies, and that the | Mount Vernon company should be maintained out of Federal revenues. PRIVATE BULDING CONTROL SSUE UP Fine Arts Commission As- serts It Is of Great Im- portance Here. Taking the view that control of pri- | vate bullding operations in the Dis- | trict of Columbia insofar as they af-! fect park areas or sections where ! Rublic buildings may be erected “is | a matter of great importance,” the Commission of Fine Arts meeting to- | day at the Interior Department Build- | ing decided to take up this matter | with the National Capital Park and | Planning Commission to outline the | future course of the commission with | regard to jurisdiction over private building operations. ) The commission discussed at some| length the proposal by H. P. Caem-| merer, its secretary, that some form of jurisdiction should be had over private building operations to prevent ruination of such desirable park | and other future park areas. Buildings some of the details of the plan as! laid down by James Bennett of | Chicago, a special adviser appointed by Secretary Mellon to aid in drawing up building plans. ! Appointment of a landscape archi-| tect in the office of the municipal | architect of the District to have Jurisdiction over landscaping and ar- | rangement of school playgrounds in Washington was indorsed by the com- | mission, at the suggestion of James Li. | Greenleaf, the landscape architect | member of the Fine Arts body. ! The entire commission will go to the Bureau of Standards this after- noon to confer with bureau officials on plans for standardizing the colors | of the American flag and at 4 o’clock will confer with Chief Justice McCoy of the District Supreme Court and Police Court Judge Schuldt in the | office of Justice McCoy on a location | and design for the proposed new | SCHOOL TUITION ISSUE | PUT UP TO OFFICIALS! | The District Commissioners today referred to Corporation Counsel Fran- feis H. Stephens and Auditor Daniel J. Donovan the question raised re. | | cently by the Board of Education as | | to the legal requirements concerning | | the payment of tuition by pupils in | the public schools living in the Dis.| trict whose parents live outside. { The matter already has been under consideration by the auditor for more | than a week, but he reported to the | Commissioners that; due to a conflict | of opinion existing between himself | be condidered jointly by them with| a view to reaching a common under-| standing. | Seventy-eight cases are involved in! "the joint opinion of the auditor and corporation counsel. All are an out- growth of a decision rendered some- time ago by the auditor as a result of lan application for a refund of tuition paid by a father of a non-resident pupil ‘for his daughter. In this par- { ticular case Maj. Donovan ruled that i the tuition charges were properly paid and therefore could not be properly refunded. ! There have been 50 appeals from ! {this decision of the auditor, and pend. | Ing final determination of the case | | the school board has decided to hold in abeyance the suspension of pupils whose parents or guardians have net paid the tuition fee. |ana the corporation counsel, it should GOVERNMENT CASE RESTS IN OIL TRIAL; DEFENSE IS OPENED Fall’s Letter About $100.000 Loan and Doheny Profits Called Telling Blows. WALSH AGAIN TESTIFIES, BUT DISAPPOINTS CROWD Lambert Tells Jury Defendant ex- Secretary Had Only Welfare of United States at Heart. After dealing what was regarded as two telling blows against the defense, Owen J. Roberts, chief counsel for the prosecution, in the oil conspiracy case against Albert B. Fall, former Secre- tary of Interior, and Edward L. Do- heny, ofly magnate of Los Angeles, Calif., on trial before Justice Hoehling and‘a jury in Criminal Division 1 of District Supreme Court, announced the close of the Government's case at 9:50 o'clock this morning. Roberts read to the jury a letter from Fall to Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana, prosecutor in the Senate ofl investigation, in which Fall declared that he had not obtain ed the famous $100,000 from Harry F. Sinclair or any one else conected with the Teapot Dome issue, or with any other oil concession. The prosecutor, with permission of the court Attorney Frank J. Hogan for the de fense, declared to the jury that the Pan-American Co., a Doheny corpora- tion, by the resale of oil secured un der the two contracts obtained from Fall, made a profit of 15 cents per | barrel, or a total of $791,012.03. Walsh Not Cross-Examined. Senator Walsh was the last wit ness for the prosecution. He said he had been unable to find the letter which he had received from Fall, but that he had read from the letter when glving its contents to_ the Senate committee. Mr. Roberts then read from the Senate committee report the text of the letter, Walsh was excused. He was twic on the witness stand during the trial and twice were the spectators disap pointed that he did not enter into a discussion of the oil situation. The defense made no motion for an instructed verdict, but immediately following the close of the Govern- ment's case, Attorney Wilton J. Lam- bert outlined the defense of Fall to the jury. Mr. Lambert said he might well rest the case with the statement made at the opening of the trial by the gentleman from the Keystone State (Mr. Roberts) and the full and complete presentation of the defense as given by “my brilliant associate, Mr. Hogan,” but he felt the ju should be glven all possible light on the matter. “You have heard records and seen prominent officials on the witness stand,” said Mr. Lambert, “but we will also present records which will | clarify the situation and will bring Government officials to give evidence just as conclusive. You will. hear Admiral Robison, Director Bain and other Fall's Policy Described. Fall had only one policy from the time he took office, Lambert said the efense would show, and that policy “runs like a thread of gold throughout | his administration.” His policy was to retain Govern- ment olls in the ground and not to make leases, counsel said, except | where absolutely necessary as shown to him by experts to protect the Gov. ernment property from drainage by other corporations. This policy wa areas as the Piney Branch section |changed in November, 1922, when the of the Navy, Lambert said, Secretar The commission announced its ap-|wrote to Fall the famous letter which |the Colesville pike about four, miles proval of the general public building | changed the whole aspect of the oil |north of Silver Spring, Md., which program as outlined by the Public ! situation and which was considered | Rule and a group of Roy Commission two weeks ago, | by Fall to be a direction to him t0 jented as a camp. Testimony showed and announced its satisfaction with | proceed with a policy which crsytal|that while the defendant and a dozen lized in the contract of December 11 1922, Lambert said he would show that | Fall was out of the city during the|gapce in the vicinity stopped to ask greater part of October preceding the contract and did not return until two daye before the receipt of th | letter from Secretary Denby, and that | g, hee when Rule fired a pistol. all negotiations were conducted by Assistant Secretary Finney, as ad mitted by the latter when on the stand as a Government witness. Offers Character Witnesse. Two charheter witnesses were the first introduced by Attorney Hogan on behalf of Doheny. One declared the oil magnate to be “the foremost pa- triot of Los Angeles” and the other described him as a man known to everybody in the city, “whose repu tation for honesty, integrity and patriotism was of the highest." The witnesses are next-door neighbors of the oil man and have known him intimately for many years, they said. They were Carl Leonard, president of the Southern Portland Cement Co. of Los Angeles, and his son-in-law, Frank J. Powell, vice president and secretary of the same corporation. Dr. H. Foster Bain, former director | of the Bureau of Mines, now secre- tary of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, was next called. He first learned of the Péarl Harbor contract and leases at a conference in Fall's office in October, 1921, which was attended by Fall and Admiral Robison, U. & N. There the possibilities of exchanging crude oil from the naval reserves for fuel oil for the use of the Na was urged by Admiral Robison, he sald, who pointed out that the Navy had up to that time received nothing from the reserves and Robison want ed to get something out of them, if possible. Bain was then instructed, he said, to discuss with Pacific Coast lessees plans for storing some of the Navy rovalty oil. He was assisted, he said by facts and figures which Doheny had either volunteered or had been asked to give by Fall. The next step in the project, according to the wit ness, was the receipt: by him of a letter dated December 9, 1921, from Assistant Secrstary Roosevelt ad- dressed to Fall, which inclosed numer- ous plans and specifications for the building of storage tanks at Pearl Harbor and which letter concluded | with this statement: “In view of the fact that this project is part of the war plans of the Navy Department, 1 (Continued on Page 4, Column 3). —_—ee Radio Programs—Page 53 and over the objection of | and Senator | Lumberjack’s Ax | Uncovers Fortune RULE 1S CONVICTED OF MANSLAUGHTER At Sinele Stroke | Defense 1o Appeal From Verdict — Court Adjourns Without Passing Sentence. By the Associated Prese SOFIA, Bulgaria, December 2.— One stroke of the ax brought un- Areamed-of wealth to the poor lum- berjack. Assen Tscholakoff. He felled a tree in the vi- cinity of Tschepchapare and was setting ahout to cut up. the roots, when his ax struck a stone slab covered with Turkish inseriptions. | B a Staft Correspondent of The Star. With difficulty he turned over the | B OCIRVINER Mo, Docomie: siab. Underneath it he found a iy Gelllaaiinn, BEC Ui treasure trove of thousands of old | hours, a jury sitting in Circuit Court here early this morning decided that Richard Henry Rule, 22, of 1627 Six Turkish gold pieces. The value of the treasure is esti- mated at about $450,000. The gold eenth street, Washington, was not| coins date hack to the fourteenth | justified in killing William J. Barbee, | centur: ear-old student, living at 1822 News of the lumberman's find | Vernon street, during a fight that| Spread throughout the country like wild-fire and within a few | developed from a Halloween fest, and found the youth guilty of man- slaughter, Defense counsel immediately served notice they would seek a new trial {and ceurt was adjourned withouy pro- | !nouncing sentence. The maximum penalty in Maryland for manslaughter hours the natives were out in num- bers with axes and shovels. They worked such hovoe in the surrounding forest that the au- thorities found it necessary to die- patch a posse of gendarmes to re- strain them. . PO is 10 years' imprisonment and a fine |of $500, | The verdict was rendered at 1239 a.m., after a day filled with sensa- [} y | tional moments, before a large au !dience which packed the courtroom. | ! Sitting beside the defendant were h)(i Ifather and mother, Mr. and M | Henry Rule, and his brother Gordon | The parents of the slain boy had been in court all day, but left shortly after the case was given to the jury | Rule Returned to Jail. | Rule and his family heard the ver- | dict calmly, with no show of emotion. | The mother kissed her son and he was returned to the Rockville jail to await a move to release him on bond, pending decision as to a_new trial. | The defendant was charged with | muder, but the State, in its conclud- ‘ing statement, did not ask the maxi- mum penalty because the testimony AND HOTEL SOUGHT New York Avenue Structure Would Also House Busses, Under Proposal. Plans for a new $1,500,000 build- ing to be located between Eleventh and Twelfth streets on New York |had not established that there was|avenue and which will house an lany “premeditation” in the slaying.|armory for the National Guard, a pecial _Assistant State's Attorney | 450.r00m hotel and a bus terminal, obert B.”Peter, jr., asked a verdict of manslaughter. The tragedy occurred at midnight, in front of a shack on are now being discussed. While the erection of the build- ing has not yet actually been de- cided upon, it is understood that there is every probability of the project going threugh. A. L. Wells, local real estate man, who is the sponsor of the plan, declared that he is now in negotiation with a Detroit concern, which he hopes will take over the hotel part of the build- ing. The Washington Rapid Transit Co., it is understood, has been ap- proached with the suggestion that they take over the bus terminal part of the building on the ground floor. In discussing the offer of part of the building, as an armory for the District National Guard, Maj. Gen. Anton Stephan, commander of the local Guard, declared that the offer of a location in the proposed build- ing was the best rental project sub- mitted to the National Guard. He explained, however. that appropri- ations as they now stand allow an ! October 30, souts had | boys and girls were staging a Hallow- {een party there, Barhee and about 20 {other youths hound for a fraternity ! directions; that a fight ensued when | Rule was “kidded" about his Scottish kilt costume, ending in the death of ! Admits Firing Pistol. On the witness stand Rule admitted he fired the fatal shot, but declared the gun went off accidentally while he was attempting to raise it to fire into the air to frizhten the crowd away, and that he feared he and his friends were about to be assaulted. State’s Attorney Joseph C. Cissel, in his final argument to the jury, deliv- ered a scathing arraignment of mod- | anmusl rental expenditure by the ern youth, who, he declared, had “re- | o' iization of only $10.000. - This, volted against law and authority.” | he” explained, would be insufficient “Youths of today seem to have over- | tc oecupy space. in the proposed ridden all the restraints to which we | pyjiding. =~ Gen. Stephans, however, were subjected in our youth,” he cried. “It is time that some one says to them: ‘Stop, you have gone too far.’ | Weapons were made for legitimate purposes, and ,not for heardless | youths to carry to parties or to dis- |charge to frighten children with {even for foolish youths of 22. We |must show them that human life is explained that a new bill would ask for $20,000 appropriations for annual rentals. He said he preferred the Pension Office Building for the or- ganization's headquarters above any- thing else suggested. It is understood that the result of the various offers made to the bus companies and the National Guard will in a large measure decide recious, that there is a price set Epon Xilling 2 human being. We can- | Whether or not the building plans not let sympathy ingerfere with our | Will be’ carried through. | duty.” -— | Mr. Cissel referred to the testimony jof Rule and his friends that he had | iearly in the evening of the tragedy Italian Railways Profit. ROME, December 2 (#).—A favor- i fired his pistol a_number of times as | aple balance of 378,000,000 lire for the {a part of the Halloween “fun” to|year 1925.6 was shown by Italian q;::}:'(er\ younger membera of his |y rvay it was announced in a re Y. 2 ¥ | port by the railways administration The State's attorney reminded the| The report aleo relates great progress Column 4, | which has been attained by the rail | ways in the technical and commercial = | flelds. |~ (Continued on Page COLD SNAP TO LAST UNTIL SATURDAY Mercury Goes to 26 and Will Drop Lower Tonight if Skies Are Clear. The cold snap, which started last night, will continue through tomorrow OUST EMPRINGHAM FROM PROHIBITION LEGISLATIVE BODY Dry Leaders Also Delete Episcopal Church Tam- perance Commission. CALLED UNSYMPATHETIC WITH CONFERENCE WORK Andrews Invited to Address Dele- gates Tomorrow—Members to Ask No Open Questions. Rev. James Empringham of New York City. enrolled as the official rep resentatice of the Church Temperan: Society-of the Episcopal Church, w ordered unseated as a member of the prohibition cause's national legisl tive conference by action of mnoted “dry" leaders of the United States a: |a meeting in the gray room of the Raleigh Hotel today After a spirited debate, the Nation most-noted prohibition sponsors. in | cluding Wayne B. Wheeler, furth ordered that the name of Mr. Em pringham's organization be deletel from the list of 32 “dry” organizi tions co-operating with the National | Legislative Conference Andrews Invited to Speak. | The unseating of Mr. Empringham fand the voting of an invitation to Lincoln Andrews. in charge of prohi- bition . enforcement. to speak beforc | the conference tomorrow morning at 10.30 o'clock were the high lights of today's session, which resuited in th~ adoption of a general legislative pro |gram for the impending session of Congress. Upon explanations made by Dr. Ed- swin C. Dinwiddie. secretary of the conference, and Mrs. E. A. Yost, chairman of the local legislative com- mittee, that Prohibition Director An drews would confine his talk tomor: to an explanation of what legislation | be believes necessary to make pro- | | | Tomorrow will not be quite so cold as today, and Saturday will be consid- erably warmer. TRY TO SAVE CREW. Coast: Guard Makes Desperate Efforts 'to Reach Stranded Boat. CLEVELAND, December 2 (#).—- Coast Guards at Eagle Harbor, neai Houghton, Mich., were waging a des- perate battle with the heavy seas and elements today in an effort to rescue the crew of the Thomas Maytham, Cleveland freighter of the General Transit Co., reported hard aground on the sandstone off Point Isabelle. The ship carried a crew of 23 men. under the command of Capt. Edmund Ricor. and was bound for Cleveland with a load of grain. sent word to the Cleveland office that it had cleared the Duluth Harbor bound for home. ter mile from shore, but the water is so rough the crew does not dare make a dash for the shore. The Coast Guard ‘was summoned by two of the May- tham’s crew, who took the desperate chance of reaching shore in the ves- sel's largest rowboat. Seven dther freighters icebound in the icy waters of the West Neebish Cut of St. Mary’s River, as the result of the N torm and freezing (Continued on ¥ WORST STORMS IN 50 YEARS SWEEP RIVIERA Portions of Cannes Flooded, Roads Impassable—Rhone River Rises Rapidly. By the Associated Press. NICE, December 2.-—The famous Riviera, where the sun is supposed to shine uninterruptedly the year round, {s suffering, like the rest of southeastern France, from the worst Fall season in 5) years. Two and one-haif inches of rain has fallen in Nice during the past 24 hours. Floods are raging along the coast from Marseilles to Mentone Portlons of fashionable Cannes are Inundated. Nearby roads are swirling torrents. A farm wagon yesterda was swept off cne of them and its occupants were saved only with much difficulty. Similar conditions prevail at Antibes |and La Brague, where the plains are vast lakes and roads are impassable. ‘The Rhone Riv and its tributaries are rising rapidly. CLAUDEL IS “bELIGHTED" Poet-Diplomat Expected - to Come Here From Tokio. PARIS, December P).—Paul Claude] is “delighted” with his ap- pointment as French Ambassador to the United States, he has informed the foreign office will lose no time in taking up his new post, probably going from Tokio, where Ite is now Ambassador, direct to the United States After establishing contact with American official circles, he may come to Paris for a visit. Christmas is coming [ SHOP || EARLY |l Garrard B. Winston, Undersecretary | of the Treasury, will resign soon and | will be succeeded by Representative Ogden Mills of New York. Announcement of the change was | ! Every } Lels Store Can AT AW Give You Better | said it would take place as soon as Mr. Mills felt he could leave his seat in_Congress. The New YVork Representative, who was ?eledled in November as the Re- M) Service : Now! ‘ 1Winston Will Resign Treasury Post | To Ogden Mills, Mellon Announces| publican candidate for Governor of New York, would automatically retire from the House on March 4. It is expected he will remain a member | until the alien property bill, one of the first questions to be considered at of. Mr. Winston, who took office lhree] years ago, has expressed the deaire to resume the practice of law in Chicago. ’ The ‘last word heard from the ma-| rooned veseel came Monday. when it | The ship is reported cnly a quar- | It is expected that the poet-diplomat | in Washington. according to the | pyhition enforcement more effective, it Weather Bureau. was agreed among those present no: The mercury dropped to 26 last!to direct queries at him from the night. Tonight or early tomorrow |floor. It was explained this precau morning it may go a trifle lower, if | tion must be taken to save Mr. An thelsky; remains/clears, 124t {a cloudy | AfeWs *from unnecessdry embartass LS ECLLL L2 CRi, ! It was voted by the conference tha ino one will be permitted to ask My i Andrews a direct question tomorrow, | but if they desire to have him answer | anything in their minde regarding les- islation they will write the question out ori paper and submit it to the chair for presentation ta the prohi- | bition administrator. | Wheeler Explains’ Views. _“Wé cannot let the bars down to morrot,” Mr. Wheeler told the repre- { sentatives. “We must confine our questions to interrogations regarding | pending prohibition legislation. If we asked him all he wanted to ask him we could ask him 10,000 questions.’ The dropping of Mr. Empringham from the conterence committee follow { ed a long debate indulged in by almost | all of the representatives present. It {was brought up by Dr. Dinwiddic, { who told the men and women that he had taken upon himself the respon bility of not sending Mr. Empringham { an invitation to attend the conference | He explained that the temperance society’s representative had plainly shown that he is not in harmony with | the work of the conference and the:e | fore he should not be entitled to repre. | sentation. The fact that Mr. km | pringham early in the year had siznedl and caused to be published a report | on behalf,of the society advocating | modification of the Volstead act was | not mentioned. It was the sense of some of the rep resentatives that while Mr. Emprinz- i ham undoubtedly should be unseated, ithe organization he represented ould be held as a constituent unit in conference, and an invitation ex- th ! tended to it to send a new representa- | tive. i Both Finally Dropped. | This proposition, however, did inot meet with general approval and it { was finally decided to drop both Mr. Empringham and his organization. It | was made plain by the representa- !tives that their action intended no re flection upon the Episcopal church. 'and it was voted to take up with re sponsible Episcopal churchmen the appointment of a new representative by their group. | Decision to support actively eight bills pending in Congress, which it 1 believed would strengthen the enforce ment of the Volstead act, was made by the conference following the reau |ing of a report by Mre. Yost | The bills are: Goff-Graham bill, to [eliminate fllegitimate manufacture. juse and sale of intoxicating liquor |the Salker bill. providing increased penalties for liquor violations: the ad ministration’s reorganization bill, the jCramton bill, placing prohibition ,agents under civil service; the bill | authorizing the deportation of alien | convicted violators; the Hudsox- | Jones bill, to establish a border patro! ito aid in the prevention of smug | gling, the measure to amend the Har | rison narcotic act and the creation {a group of mobile Iederal judges e Isfinnal to law enforcement Having adopted the general legi lative program as submitted by Mr: | Yost, the members of the conterenc proceeded today to take up each one !0‘ the bills for discussion and ind. | vidual attention. It was made plam that they are looking forward to M: Andre address tomorrow before making up their minds on some of the legislative detail: The meeting today was presided over by Dr. A. J. Barton, chairman jof the conference. The organizations represented at the conference follow Anti-Saloon League of America, Asso- ciation of Catholics Favoring Prohibi- tion, Association in Support of Na- tional Prohibition, Board of Tem- perance, Prohibition and Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Board of Temperance and Social Wel- fare of the Disciples of Christ, Cath- olic Clergy Prohibition League, com mission of law enforcement of the Congregational Church, commission on temperance and social service of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, committee on promotion of temperance legislation in Congress, committee of 60 on national prohibi- tion, committee on temperance and | Bills Discussed Separately. | made today by Secretary Mellon, who | the approaching session, is disposed | social service of the Southern Baptist Convention, Department of Moral Wel- fare of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, departmenf of al service of the Unf (Continued on Page 2,