Evening Star Newspaper, December 5, 1926, Page 2

20 0F 3 INDICTED INPOOL’ REVEALED Investigation of Huge Lot- teries Continues in Move to Wipe Out System. the Assciated Pre BOSTON, December 4 —The Federal Department of Justice continued its action today in what offcials declared | to be a movement to wipe out “root and branch” huge gambling pools or lotteries, The names of 20 of 36 men indicted day for interstate shipment of ticketz were made known residents of Albany k and Hudson, N. Y. near hich cities the Hudson pool, o called, to have had ite head of Boston, Spring- | Springfield. Northamptan Adams and Pittsfleld, Mass, e indicted Among those fac. | Jagges is August Meyer of Al publisher of the Sunday Tels w Rival Pool Cited. At the same time as this informa tion came out that there was fore warning of another investization. 'as £ociates of persons facing indictment were said to have practically demand- avestigation of a larze and | ul rival pool which they as. ! heavily suppoxted Democratic ndidates and t a8 gon ested. | The New k Clearing House daily | fizure the lottery of | the gambling pools Another is oper ated on the number of runs made in ba 1 games Yo furni for one e ha Denfes Campaign Aid. AMSTERDAM. N December 4 —George K. Mo chajrman of the New York State mittee. tonizht denied that the com rutter ever received a cont of §£13.000 from the Alban: pool The peol is under investigation & Beston DEFENSE WARNING SOUNDED BY DAVIS (Cantinned from First Page.) (® . spublican com hase - vital outpests in the Canal Zone end Hawaii, and for that patrol which upholds law and order to the henefit sting friendship with the neigh ing Republic of Mexico. THeavy demands are made upon the Regular v to maintain installations and | ts which may serve to assist the readiness of other elements of the | Army of the United States. Further maore, since the World War, not only | have there come into the organization of Army b new essential b s as the Air Corps and Chemical Warfare Service, but with 4n the old branches provisions have been made for the development of tanks, machine guns, railwa b And other modern equipment the foregoing factors the enlisted per gonnel of the Regular Army on the last dav of this fiscal vear numbered | Futr 17.000 more soldiers than was the case 10 vearr agn Prior annual reporte have con talped discussions of the requisites for @ctual fulfliment of the provisiens of defense act vet the | unaccomplished plan eason of only a partial execution provisions. We should not blindlv delude onrselves intn the ha- | that a plan an paper it an accom- | lished thing. Congress has provided | the plan. Its fulfillment depends on the decisions of the citizens of the United States Reviewing the civil side of the work | of the Army FEngineer Corps. Mr.| Pavie flatfootediy disapproved prope. | gals to transfer these duties out of the the sue Launds Rivers’ Program. ‘ | the long run the present svstem ©f administering our rivers and har bors vities I8 the most economi cal.’ he said. “We. in this achieve the end =o often urged of Thaking our peacetim> Army more | fullv ‘pav its way.' " Ac an additional consideration Mr. Davis pointed out that the fact that Army engineers “are officers of the A whose normal promotion and pav cannot he advanced or retarded by cal influsnce, leaves them un affected by such considerations in | their actions In discussing waterway and harbor | @evelopments, the War Secretary laid down the principle that new projects ghould be held in alevance until com- | e of those on which large ex- penditures already have heen made. | It wonld take £225.000.000 and at least five vears tn round out the principal | developments new in progress, hel said even if it were practicable to make ®mich amounts available.” He used as an example the Ohio River development. approximately 85 per cent complete, but “capahle of only| abaut 15 per cent of the service which mas be expected from the completed provect Inland waterwave now 200 000,000 of cargn annually, | eaid Secretary, at_an economic least $130.000,000 a ‘chaotic.” | case. poli carry ahout tons of He de ftions on many rivers as Sheals Nearly Complete. | penny The Muscle Shoale power plant was gaid by the Secretary to be. as a whale. 93 per cent complete. He made $o suggestion as to its ultimate dis; position Turning to the Inland Waterwa tion. he deseribed it as a “tem- | expedient,” to he continued | ate capital is prepared me this service, which is so | to nationa! development.” Davis recalled his previot on the necessity of re - personnel from “dila and quarters of W re- oving ted ime marks conditions was the | sav that than to are. naturally, worse cace a vear agn.” he sai Abhout $7.000.000 has become avail- pbie for building purposes from sale of surplus property a total of A0 in surplus has heen either o transferred to other Govern ment departments Where property to arot department of the : mnent © he said, “this (housing) con- truction should receive an e credit from the &ppropriation of that department.” The War Secretary put his foot down on the return to duty of officers who resigned to eek civilian employ- gment “The War Department is strongly oppnsed to the reappointment of off cérs wha have sought other fields of ectivity at their own volition, or who were rged on account of reduc tion he commissioned strength of | the Army." he sa It is even more Etron oppesed to the reappointment | ©f offcers who were discharged or re- gigned as a result of unfavorable clas- gification of their military qualifica- tions. Such reappointments are unfair ¢0 those who have remained in the pervice.” is nsfer Memorial medals presented annually fn Wales for Sunday school attendance hawe fuet been allotted to six women, whem 1s over 8 iband and his companion. | aon't | time { penny | hare Sidney F. Taliaferro taking oath of office as District Commissioner. He is being sworn i Daniel Garges, secretary to the Board of Commissioners. WIFE SHOOTS PAR OF ALLEGED LOVERS Pursues Her Husbhand and | Women in His Car—Arrest- ed Pending Outcome. R the Assoniated Press SHREVEPORT, Ta., December 4.— | An automobile chase of two alleged {lavers ended in a hospital today after Mre. T. L. Smith, infuriated wife of one of the pair, shot down her hus- Mrs. L. R. Simmons, at Vivian, near her Smith {8 owner of valuable oil lands in the Fldorado. Ark., fleld. Mrs. Sim- {5 ;40r00m at Donaldsonville, wi Eldorado | o is the wife of an and formerly conducted house at Eldorado The chase was said to have started several miles from Shreveport when Mrs, Smith met the automobile carry- ing her hushand and Mrs. She turned her machine around pursued them When they mons grocer hoard and pulled up in front of a drug store at Vivian. she confronted | Naw Orles. s, nd step- | Qaministrator, and Machinists WAS | Handley of the Riloxi Coast shot. after which she turned the pistol [ (88O 0 G Ccane shooting her | Gk seriously | Her hush: intervene, them with a gun. ped forward 1o but his_companion. The two were upon twice. | wounded. Mrs. Smith was arrested on a charge o ofalotine el tioten thtomdl ianais |Ireon SWtien Semeatey iheing held pending the outcome of |y (OVE | . e | awyer. TLurena Nixon of Shreveport. | pernandez of New Orleans and Luis the injuuries. s i|ence between Capt. J. ANOTHER IS HELD AS RUM SHIP AGENT Poolroom Operator With $20,000 Called Aid for Missing Arsene J. By the Associated Press. NEW ORLEA December 4.— Walter Tomplain of Donaldsonville, La. alleged land operator for the Arsene French rum running schooner, was arrested here late to- day on charges of conspiracy to vio- late the Volstead act. Tomplain, said to he an operator of ar; rested in the heart of the city by Fedéral officers following a confer- B. Edmonds, xi Coast Guard commander, and D. Jackson, prohibition adminis- Simmons. | trator. The arrest was sald to he a develop. ment of the investigation following the kidnaning of J. B. Matthews of assistant prohibition Mate Guard J. Monday night. Tomplain was said by investigators to have had $20,000 in currency on his He declined questions, asserting until he had seen a other men, Martin it Two A third wassenger in the automohile. | \jjjjeccnsa of 1lavana, Cuba, are be- said that Smith recognized his wite | {1 "1 00"\ ginilar charges as an when his automobile met that driven | (8 CE O Gl me case. by her on the roadway. She hegged to he permitted to leave the car, said. but he refused. TALIAFERRO TAKES- OATH: DOUGHERTY HEADS NEW BOARD (Continued from First Page.) led by his actions and demeanor erday I feei like a sabooiboy a vacation,” he told reporters, when one of them remarked to him audibly about his smile as for photographers he answered— “Why shouldn't 1 be happy? I'm happy as a hoy.” Then the Commiss know whether my siuccessor or to sympathies.” I'ntil his departure within a short for Bermuda and perhaps rope. Mr. Rudolph will spend his time attending to whatever private husiness may engage him. but the work will he done away from the Dis- trict starting oner added, “T to congratulate offer him my i town. December 17 he will be the guest of honor at a hanquet to he given by hundreds of his fellow citi zens here. Those now in charge of the affair say that it will eclipse any testimonial dinner ever given in on Washington. not only in the matter of | program and nunfbers who attend, hut in the spontaneity which has marked the progress of the arrapge- ments. . Laborer Digs Up 1796 Penny. Spe Dispateh to The Star PORT CHESTER. N. Y., December 4. One of the laborers digging for the Westchester Lighting made _an unuenal find in Congress Park at Port Chest today, when he unearthed a dated 1796. At first the man thought he had a hundred dollars, the heing marked *1/100." The was in excellent condition and likeness of one of the colonial heroes coin Ruilding and in an office down-| she yjttie 1o t | | | | and | M | he posed | | Edmonds said he could add he statement made by him Tuesday, when he told of leaving the Arsene J., anchored, after a gale and high seas had depleted fuel supplies. When he returned, he said the schooner was gone with Matthews and Handley on hoard. Handley, he said was directing the towing operations hefore the rale de- veloped and Matthews had gone aboard to question members of the frew concerning the vessel's opera- tion. The Arsene JI. tonight ktill had not en located after a futile search by Coast Guard patrol boats of the hes of southern Louisiana and four days of cruising about the Guif of Mexico. U. S. OPPOSES RIVALS OF DIAZ IN NICARAGUA American Charge Notifies Mahog- any Firms to Protest Taxa- tion by Rebels. Capt By the A ted Press. MANAGUA, Niearagua, December 4.—The American charge, Lawrence Dennis, today received a note from the State Department at Washington instructing him that the department cannot admit the authority of the government set up by the liberal revo- lutionaries in opposition to the Diaz government to collect a tax on ma- hogany logs exported from ports un- der their control. The State Department declares that it recognizes only one govern. ment in Nicaragua, and that is the government of President Diaz. Mr. Dennis informed the mahogany tompanies on the east coast of Nic- aragua that they should not pay the tax to the revolutionaries unless com- pelled to do %0, and then under pro- teat, making the protest a matter of rec The Sale of Our HEALTH SEALS for Christmas, 1926, has begun. Remember We had here in Washington Only 49 Deaths per 100,000 Last Year From Tuberculosis—Among Our Whites (It was 183 per 100,000 in 1900) This is a very low rate, one of the lowest in the United States. Only in certain Western cities, with their splendid climate and absence of congested dis- tricts, have they slightly lower rates. BUY OUR SEALS Help us to carry on our Health Camps for pational Therapy at the Tuberculosis Hospital, School Lunches for undernourished Children, Healtl Pam- Bulletin: _Ph!etswand Health Rules, as well as Information for everybody. Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis Telephone Main 992 )l" Agve poid Jor the ebepe dulistin (legsi notice). 1022 11th Street N.W. -, GIRL IN HILL GRAVE CLUBBED TO DEAT! Autopsy Reveals Method of Wisconsin Killing—Sweet- heart Still Missing. Br the Associated Preas. PRAIRIE DU CHIEN, W cember 4.—Clara Olson was clubbed to death, physicians testified today be- | fore & coroner's inquest after an | autopsy over her body, found Thurs- day in a hillside grave near the home of her missing lover. A letter found toddy on the body of the girl at the autopsy was the last message to her from her missing sweetheart and is of a ‘“sensational nature,” District Attorney G. S. Earll sald tonight. “It was the last letter from Erd- man Olgon to Clara,” sald Earll. “It is so different from what was general- Iy expected that we cannot make its contents public until we have ques- tioned certain witnesses.” The letter from Erdman was de- livered to Clara on September 9, a few hours hefore she disappeared, and is said by the district attorney to have contained his request that she flee with him. “Four pathologists, including Dr. Charles H. Bunting of the University of Wisconsin, agreed that one or more blows killed the girl and that they were struck from the back. They re- ported a series of fractures over the left ear and a slighter fracture at the right side of the skull. Probably there was more than one blow, Dr. Bunting said, for only a blow of terrific force would cause so many fractures. Letter Water-Soaked. Had the girl lived, the doctors testi- fied, she would have become a mother of a baby girl soon after Christmas. The letter found on the body was soaked with water, but officials said its contents would be made known as soon as it dried. The testimony of the doctors was the first revelation of how the 22- year-old girl died, although her death had been charged, before discovery of her body, to Erdman Olson, the lover four years her junior, who disap- peared from Gale College, where he was a senior, a fortnight after the girl vanished. The youth had been besought b fore Clara’s disappearance to mar her. Parents of both are fairly well- to-do farmers of Crawford County. Clara’s father asserts that Frdman called for the girl in his car late the night she disappeared, but the boy's parents deny he could have slain and buried her because of his prompt re- turn home that night from a dance almost 20 miles away. “A series of fractures were found on the left side of the skull at the antopsy,” Dr. Bunting reported to the coroner’s jury. ‘“The whole side of the head had been crushed in by a blow or blows administered in the reglon of the left ear.” Covered With Coat. He sald he found no pathological conditions of the body which would have resulted in death. The body was covered with a coat, a red sweater, a silk dress, under- garments, stockings, shoes and rub- bhers. A broken string of pearls and ing were found. Mrhe dress, according to Dr. C. A. Armstrong, who shared the autops: contained an empty purse and a small bottle to hold perfume. ‘ Dr. F. J. Antoine testified that the girl's right hand was folded across| her chest. The viscera ir to he ex- amined further, but all four physi- clans agreed she died from clubbing. Death was almost Inatantaneous, Dr. Bunting concluded. BOY'S BODY UNIDENTIFIED. l Relatives of Missing Youth to Visit Chicago Morgue. CHICAGO, December 4 P).—Only the identification by relatives of Frd- man Olson can decide whether the body of a youth in the county morgue here ik that of the boy sought for the slaving of Clara Olson, local authori- tien decided tonight. ‘Accordingly, a representative of the coroner’s office went to Wisconsin to accompany a relative of the boy to Chicago. The action was taken after a man who said he had known the Olson family for several years went to the morgue today and at first definitely identified the body of the Young man who swallowed poison in a Chicago hotel a month ago as that of the missing Wisconsin youth. This man, according to information at the coroner's office, gave his name as George Burke, and sald he had last seen Erdman about a year ago. Later, when accosted by reporters, however, he sald he was Michael Finnegan, 43, born at Seneca, Wis., and said he had never seen Olson but had made the identification from pictures. He said he had relatives living near the Olson home. ‘At the same time two boys who said they attended school with Olson at Galesville, Wis., visited the morgue and said the body there was not that of the Wisconsin boy. They said, however, that it bore a striking re- semblance to the missing youth. $8,164 GRAND TOTAL FOR LA PLATA RELIEF Red Cross Officials Announce Clos- ing of Relief Drive and Dis- position of Fund. The Red Cross announced yesterday that it had completed its relief work in the La Plate-Cedarville tornado area. The total contributed for this work to The Evening Star and directly to the Red Cross was $8,164,87. This was expended as follows: Food, $852.57; clothing, $141.86; building and repairs at Cedarville, $1,050; house- hold furnishings, $2,120,90: mainte- nance to disaster sufferers, $3,260; farm implements, $2,930; live stock and poultry, $100; seed, feed and fer- tilizer, $366.54. The largest item, $3,260 for mainte- nance of disaster sufferers, represents provision made for food and clothing for familles whose principal source of income, the tobacco crop, was de- stroved. The fund will assist them until the next crop is harvested. In the La Plata and Cedarville areas families were assisted. To gifts totaling $15 were recelive by The Evening Star yvesterday, brin ing the amount contributed to the fund through this paper to $3,609.72. The donors were the Woman's Club of Woodside, which gave $5, and Mount Pleasant, Chapter, 34, O. E. S., $10. - —— Bakers in olden times made little paste images with currants stuck in for eves, and these were given to their cusiomers at Christmas. It was believed that he or she who preserved the image unbroken all through the year would not be injured by fire or water or slaln by the sword. 3 —— e — The left view of the head of the I ncoln statue at the right shows the head as it appears under the present lights. Lincoln Memorial shows how it will system of lights (contracts for which have been let) is installed in the Lincoln Memorial. lfiprlr when a new ‘JAIL 'EM,’ CRY BOOTLEGGERS, AS AMATEURS CUT YULE TRADE Protest Alarming Slump in Prohibition Enforcement That P Competition to Professional bootleggers fn Wash- ington, facing cut-throat competition by amateur liquor vendors and “night clubs” that threaten to deprive them of pre-Christmas profits, are protest- ing mightly against what they claim is an alarming slump in prohibition enforcement. Their plaint is that lax dry law enforcement is about to ruin their usual brisk Christmas trade by open- ing professional flelds to a horde of amateur competitors. Better prohi- bitlon enforcement, they protest, would break up much of this undesir- able competition, and a little more ac- tivity by ralding parties would close up certain sources of supply that are robbing them of regular clients. From police and enforcement offl- cers, however, another picture of the situation i drawn. Enforcement business is proceeding as usual, ac- cording to records of the police blotter, Sergt. Little's squad, it is true, made fewer arrests last month than any month during the year, but reports of seizures show that bigger hauls were made. Few Warrants Issued. On the other hand, it would seem that the complaints of bootleggers against an apparent slump in raiding activities have some ground. Ralds must have heen curtailed considerably last month, for records show that less than half of the average number of warrants were issued during October and November, which are the lightest months for arrests this vear. It is a fact that the bootleggers are up in arms, in view of local condi- tlons, according to opinions expressed to a Star reporter by some of them. They think they have good cause for grievence against prohibition officers |and they give this as the reason why #0 many amateurs are hreaking into ermits ‘Cut-Throat’ Reduce Profits. the “profession.” These are opening up new stands, they claim, and are taking an ungentlemanly advantage of the fact that the enforcement agencles have not yet emerged from the chrysalls of reorganization. “More raids and more arreats” is the pre-Christmas slogan adopted by the professional bootlegger. Ask a good professional “retafler” how business is these days and he will probably tell you: ‘“Slow, pal, slow. These new guys are opening up stands and robbing us of most of our clients. There ought to be more raid- ing dome. That would wipe out the amateurs who don't know how its really done and leave us who do, sit- ting pretty.” Rald Shortage Explained. Bellef is expressed in circles well informed on prohibition work in the District that the reorganization of the prohibition unit, as well as of the flving squadron, has%een responsible for the shortage in raids. This opin- ion seems to be based upon the fact that the police reorganization and the prohibition reorganization both took place during early October. Po- lice officlals, however, expressed themselves well content with the work being done by Sergt. George Little and his new flying squadron in charge of special prohibition en- forcement for the police. Police point out that, although the figures for arrests show a drop during the month of November, the seizures are average, and they take that as an indication that more liquor is be- ing seized per arrest. The biggest month of 1926 was January, when 580 quarts were seized. The only month showing less than 400 quarts seized was May, when the figure was 376. Noon Wednesday Is Limit in Photo Contest of Pets If you care to have that picture of “you and your pet” in The Star's rotogravure 'section, the pictures must be in the thands of the picture contest editor by noon on Wednesday. J The contest editor said yester- day that there has been a flood of pictures, and while the sub- jects have been for the most part excellent, many of the photographs are not capable of good news- paper reproduction and therefore have been thrown out of the con- test. : The contest editor believes, however, ‘that there are many other hoys and girls who have pets and who have not entered the com- petition. Remember that in addl- tion to the cash prizes offered, every picture printed will bring the boy or girl who sends it in a crisp $1 bill. The photographs should be of ou and your pet” and sent to the picture contest editor of The Star. CHURCHILL PLEDGES $50,000,000 TO PREVENT WARS OF AGGRESSION (Continued from First Page. apparently come to nothing, if, indeed, it was ever contemplated. M. Vandervelde, the Belgian states- man. disposed of the matter by as- serting, after a long talk with M. Briand this afternoon, that there was no thought of such a conference. He and M. Briand, however, discussed nearly everything coming before the Leagus of Nations Council, over which M. Vandervelde will preside. Sir Austen Chamberlain, Dr. Strese- mann and M. Briand are expected to have an important conferen: al- though officially no such confererce is planned. It is taken for granted that these three leaders are likely to talk things over informall They will know how to meet by chance if there is objection to a formal prearranged affair. M. Briand is understood to have objected to talk of a conference of three or four as discourteous to others interested in German problems, par- ticularly Belgium. Whatever may oc- cur, the allles ought to_ have their ideas pretty well digested and be in accord by now, for M. Briand, Sir Austen Chamberlain, M. Vandervelde and M. Zal the Polish foreign minister, mulled over things yester- day and today, and all four took the | train together tonight for Geneva. rmany and Italy may know by this ime what these four think, for the | itish foreign secretary had the Ger- man and Italian ambassadors to lunch | tod: M. Vandervelde said part of today's talk with M. Briand Was devoted to the Chinese situation, concerning which the French and Bel- glum views were identical. Belgium | is particularly interested in Chinese affairs because the Sino-Belgian con- | vention was denounced by the Peking government, which apparently is try- {ng to make a test case in order to establish a precedent’ for denouncing that a_great | the facts. other foreign conventions when they come up for n??l-l. ARREST OF DE LA HUERTA IN ARIZONA REPORTED Former Mexican President’s Seiz- ure by U. S. Agents Is Not Confirmed. By the Associated Pre NOGALES, Ar December 4.— Reports that Adolfo De Ia Huerta, former provisional President of Mex- ico and for several years a political fugitive, had been arrested by De- partment of Justice agents on charges preferred by tha Mexican consular of- fice at Tucson, Ariz., could not be con firmed tonight. The Nogales Herald said today it learned by telephone from the con sular office in Tucson of De La Huerta’s arrest, but the consul, Senor Anchondo. could not ba located to. night, and his secretary denied having given out any information relative to De la Huerta, Federal, county and border patrol officers denied® knowledge of De ILa Huerta's arrest. STATE QUIZ ASKED OF BUTLER'S RACE Massachusetts G. 0. P. Ac- qused of lllegal Expenditures in New Complaint. By the Associated Press BOSTON, December 4.—The Repub- lican State committee, whose cam- paign expenditures are under the fire of the Liberal Civic League, tonight faced possible State investigation as well as that promised by Chairman Reed of the United States Senate in- vestigating committee. A complaint filed today by Conrad W. Crooker, counsel for the league, charged violation of the law requiring disclosure of the names of contribu- tors and of other sections of the elec- tion law. The attorney general was asked to act on the complaint, which named Howard Fall, treasurer of the Republican State committee, as re- ampalgn _in which Crooker charges Republican organizations spent excessive amounts ended in the defeat of Senator Willlam M. Butler by David I. Walsh, but in the election of the Republican State ticket. Crooker struck his record blow to a His first, 10 days ago, brought assurance from Senator Reed that the charges would be lald before the full Senate investigating committee on his return to Washington, about December 8. Crooker followed this up last Thurs- day with a_telegram to Reed which declared Republican _ organizations spent $453,236 In this State ang ghat additional expenditures by numegous city and town committees were still to be totaled. In the complaint lodged with the secretary of state today Crooker ac- cused the committee of falling to total their expenditures, of not accounting for the sources of large sums and of expending sums in & manner not au- thorized by law. Crooker also declared that the discounting of notes for $15. 000 for the committee by the Ameri- can Trust Co. of Boston was fllegal. CHILE FORWARDS REPLY T0 NOTE FROM KELLOGG Understood to Accept in Principle Proposed Solution of Tacna- Arica Dispute. By the Assoclated Press. SANTIAGO, Chile, December 4.— Chile's reply to the latest American formula proposing a solution of the Tacna-Arica territorial dispute be- tween Chile and Peru, was handed to Ambassador Collier . tonight. While strictest silence is being main- tained as to the natire of the note, Chile, it is believed in well informed | quarters, accepted in principle the American proposal to glve the two provinces to Bolivia. The Chilian reply is sald to seek some explanation and hint at slight modifications. WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT RELIGION? Newspaper Survey to be made in American Cities. The Evening Star will help secure facts. HAT religion occuples a large place in the average man’s life is demonstrated by the fact that there are 50,000,000 church members in the United States. A great teacher and philoso- pher once said that “man is incurably religious.” It is impossible to kil re- ligion. The story of the Christian martyrs is one of the most thrilling in_history. But there is a great variety of opin- fon among thesé 50.000,000 church members on even the fundamental doctrines taught by the church—to say nothing about the beliefs, or dis- beliefs, of the millions outside the church. It i3 important to know what the religious tendencies of the people in this country are—whether they are being swayved by “fundamentalts “progressive” discussions, whether they disregard the teachings of the Rible because they have no faith in its inspiration, whether they consider Jesus as divine or merely a great teacher and philosopher and simply human like the rest of us, whether they believe in a hereafter, whether they believe that God answers prayer and whether religlon 1is, after all, worthy of the support of 50,000,000 Americans. What do the people actually belleve about these questions? Let us face But first let us get thel facts. | To this end The Evening Star will | print for five consecutive days, begin ning tomorrow, a questionnaire on T ligious beliefs which was prepared by a commission of 100 leading clergy- men in various parts of the country, representing different denominations. It is believed by these clergymen that the daily newspapers can secure this information as no other institu- tion or organization possibly can. The Star is very glad to co.operate with this commission and with the church advertising department of the In- America, an advertising campaign from Christmas to Easter in order to interest people in religion. The main object of the questionnaire fs to find out what America believes | about fundamental religious questions, so that those in charge of this cam paign will know how to address them selves intelligently to the problems that trouble the people. This cam- paign is to be non-sectarfan, fres from purely academic discussion and will be under the direction of leaders who rep- resent many shades of religious belief. Following are the questions to be asked: 2 ¢ 1. Do you believe in God? 2. Do you believe in immortality? 3. Do you belleve in prayer as a means of persual relationship with iod? 4. Do you ve that Jesus was dtvine as no ot! man was divine? 5. Do you regard the Bible as in- spired in a sense that no other liter- ature could be said to be inspired? 6. Are you an active member of any church? g 7. Do you regularly attend any re- ligious services? 8. Would you be willing te have your family grow up in a community in which there is no church? 9. Do_vou regularly have worship™ in your home? 10. Were you brought up in a re- ligious home? 11. Do you send your children to any school of religious instruction? 12. Do you think that religion in some form is a necessary element of life for the individual and for the com- munity? These questions are to be answered only by “yes” or “no.” It will not be necessary to sign Your name. Do not answer the q tions until you ean use the blank form to be printed in this papar tomorrow. Mean- “family ternational Advertising Aseociation, which organization {s setting up, in co-operation with the churches of while think about the answ°rs you will give and talk to your friends about them., e picture at the| UNEQUAL TREATIES IN CHINA WILL DIE Will Not Submit Sino-Belgian Pact to World Court, Says Geneva Envoy. By the Associated Pres GENEVA, December 4.—China has decided to terminate all unequal treaties on their expiration, Chu Chao- Ilsin, Chinesa representative at the League of Nationz, anounced teday in a statement on China's recent de- nunciation of the Sino-Belgian treaty of 1865, The statement syys that China will refuse to submit to the World Court the question of interpretation of the treaty, since it considers the contro- versy political rather than juridical. China, however, is willing to submit the case to the League Assembly, the statement declare Sixteen powers have treaty rights in China, including Belglum. The | others are Brazil, Denmark, France, reat Britain, Italy, Japan, Mexico, he Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Port- | ugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and | the ©nited States. Denunciation early this month by the Peking government of the Sino- Belgian treaty, was the first cancel- lution by China of one of its series of treaties which have long been in force, and led to fears that China would denounce the remaining treaties as their terms expired. To- day's statement by Chu Chao-Hsin, whowever, is the first official word in- dicating the realization of this fear. The Sino-Belgian treaty was de- nounced after Belgium had refused negotiation of & new treaty based on “equality and reciprocity,” and had proposed reference of the question to the World Court. On >ovember 18 it was stated that | the Belgian government would soon submit the Sino-Belgian treaty con- troversy to the World Court unilat- erally, the Chinese government hav- ing formally declined to submit it jointly. GUARDS WATCH STRIKE. Hopes for Improvement With Cantonese Aid. HANKOW, December 4 (P).—Sen tries walked their posts hehind barri | cades around the British and French | concesstons of Hankow in the early morning hours today, awaiting de- velopments of the general strike of employes of foreigners. Radical lead- | ers of labor a week ago ordered the | strike to begin today, as an antl- | foreign demonstration by Chinese. | “Sailors and marines from foreign | warships were on guard in the foreign concessions. Their ships, five American gunboats and one Rritish destroyer, rode quietly at their anchor- age in the Yangtse River, an occa- sional signal light blinking from their | mastheads. i Trafic Is Halted. | Uniformed pickets of the atrikers Hankow ! halted traffic through the former G man concession, now controlied by Chinese, thus preventing traffic mov !ing through the important streets of | the foreign area. It is hoped that the arrival of high officials from Canton, expected within a’ few days, will produce a marked improvement in the condition of ui rest. Local officiala of the Cantone government have little influence with the radicals of the striking element. After a week in which union leaders land pickets virtually dominated t | Hankow sftuation, the Cantoness government authorities acted vester- day in an effort to end industrial strikes. A council of eight was form ed, with two representatives each of the Natlonalist government, the Kuomintang political party ~which dominates it, the Chiness Chamber of Commerce and thelabor unions, to fix wage scales. To End Strikes. The government officials announced that they hoped to end all atrikes afte tha council reported, which they expected would be within five dave. Thereafter they would officially dis courage all labor agitation. ‘Thirty strikes of the 56 begun since November 1, have been settled. Most of the setilements were made by forelgn firms, which agreed to in- | crease wages. The majority of the unsettled strikes are against Chinese firms. DEFENDS CHINA'S FIGHT | Lloyd George Says People Battling For Fundamental Rights. BRADFORD. England, December 4 | P).—Former Premier Lloyd Georga came to the apport of China today in addressing Liberal meeting at Bradford. The “Reds,” he declared, are not the real cause of the troubls in China. ““Phe real cause,” he explained, “is the (‘hinese struggling for their funda- mental rights.” Suggesting that certain people were eager for war in the Far Kast, he at- tributed to the Tory press “the usual preliminaries to war—tales of out- rages, suggestions of worse to come and panicky stories,” and went on: Rebelllon Held Natural. “China’s ports are occupied by for- eigners and governed by foreigners. The Chinesa cannot raise revenus in their own way; vet they are an em- pire of 400,000,000 of civilized peoples. | Naturally they are rebelling. | ""The record of Western civilization |in Crina is, indeed, black. We forced | optum upon China against the will of | its greatest moral teachers. It is not | surprising that China has rebellad against the indignity, humiliation and injustice inflicted upon her by the Western powers.” The British government was under great pressure to do something “im- pulsive and provocative,” he said, and was essential that public opinion should be aroused. Plan No Intervention. SITANGHAT, December 4 (P). Great Britain has no intention of in- tervening in China's chaotic affairs. | but will hold out a npathetic and helpful hand, Miles W. Lampson, Brit- ish. Minister to China, toM the { General Chamber of Commerce today in an address at a reception tendered him Mr. Lampson said the chaos in China had worked to the detriment of trade in China, but more to the datri- ment of Chinese than to British trade. * The Hritish, he said, were ready to help clarify the situation, but this did not mean intervention. a POLES TO FORM FASCISTI. Move Is Launched by 300 Dele- gates at Meeting. POSEN, Poland, December 4 (#).— A Polish Fascist movement was launched here today at a conference of 300 representatives of various llal!'l in Posen province, under the adership of Roman Dmovski, chief of the Nailonal Democrats. ‘The organization will constitute a Fascist militia, at present not particl- pating in politics, but confining its activities to “sdueatng the pesple (n .morality, religion and preparedness.