Evening Star Newspaper, December 19, 1926, Page 13

TANK LS FOUR INFACTORY CRASH Girl Is One of Dead, and Five Others Are Removed to Hospitals. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, December 18.— Four persons were killed, five were removed to hospitals because of in- s and ser of others weve Iy when a 10,000-gal on the roof of the T. H. Wunde andy Factory collapsed today. Those killed 22; Robert C arie Hammill, and Charles . all Philadelphia, and John Driscoll, address unknown. All were crushed by falling timbers and debris when the big tank crashed through the building from roof to cel: lar. The cause of the collapse was as yet unknown tonight. It was reported at first that there had been an explosion sppled the tank from its brick n on top of the three-story building. Plant employes and offi denied this. however. Most of the employes leave the plant 11 am. Saturday. Those caught ¢ had remained to earn overtime There was no warning, they ccept the grinding of twisted pports of the tank col ving steel beams, plaster crashed from the third floor to the basement. Rescuers worked until almost dark in an effort to locate the missing men. They were halted by Chief Ross A Davis of the fire department until the tottering walls and loose beams are made safe. It will take days, the chief said, to clear up the wreckage. WANTS CENSUS TO TELL COTTON “CARRY-OVER” South Carolina Senator Introduces Bill After Talk on Situa- tion With President. After discussing the cotton situa- tion with President Coolidge at the ‘White House yesterday Senator Smith, Democrat, South Carolina, in- troduced a bill to authorize the di- rector of the census to include in his sus of the cotton “carry- sympathetic with the cotton farmers of the South, and In favor of any reasonable measure to assist them. Declaring that the ‘“‘carry-over” was an important factor in fixing the price of cotton, Senator Smith said his bill would place the report of the 3 * on actual facts instead of on estimates. Under the bill the census director would be required to report nof than September 1 on the “car: of August 1, “based upon an ac and exhaustive census, taken under the direction of the director of the census between June 1 and August 1.” The bill would require e official or agent of cotton s, ginnery or other place where such cotton is stored to permit an exam ination of the cotton at the request of the census director. A penalty for refusal was fixed at a fine of not less than $300 or more than $500, or im- prisonment for one vear. e, COMMISSION ACTION DUE. Dougherty and Taliaferro Consid- eration in January. The Senate District committee will meet carly in January to act upon the nominations of Proctor L. Dough- erty and Sidney F. Taliaferro to be District Commissioners. The Christ- mas recess of Congress will extend from Wednesday of this week until January 3, and the committee is ex- pected to meet within a few days thereafter. The reappointments of Judges Charles V. Meehan and George C. Aukam of the Municipal Court are pending before the judiciary commit- tee and may come up for action at the meeting of that committee scheduled for tomorrow. A Well Wired Home Enables THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., DECEMBER 19, 1926—PART 1. GIRL BANDIT AND LAWYER HUSBAND Bradley Rogers and her husband, Otis Rogers, whom sk o married more than a v ago marriage was kept sec was arvested as the g W at Buda, Tex. Rogers a law practice, while his ~hile attending the until Rogers came to the aid of h man who held up the Farmers’ National a lawyer in a small West Texas town, estah ife was employed at Austin in th eral’s office. Mrs. Rogers is now out on $5,000 bail pending v of Texas. Th whet Attorney Gen- TRICK GIFTS POPULAR, YULE SURVEY SHOWS Mother and Father Abandon 0ld Reliables for More Mod- ern Presents. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December 18 —Trick presents have replaced the necktie and cigars that mother used to buy father, and the hose and candy that father used to give mother for Christmas, observation disclosed to- day. Among the gifts which mother is buying for father are handy devices for marking the names on golf balls; brief cases holding bottles and cup tops as well as documents; a walking stick with a cigarette lighter in the top and a_ cigarette and match case with a golf score card on the hack. But mother also will have to learn to operate her presents. Among them is a collapsible umbrella, a_novelty box with hidden springs which re- lease each of three drawers filled with hosiery, slave bracelets with deceptive fastenings and cigarette cases and lighters disguised as other objects. The effect of the bootlegger on the Christmas present is conspicuous. Decanters flourish everywhere. Fre- quently they are in the shape of ani- mals with metal heads. Bottles with tops that padlock in which to to keew what the owner believes is rare oid stuff, were snapped up $o quickly that one jewelry store sold out its entire stock weeks ago. Lt 'SWISS LIKE EXECUTIVES. Choose Two Former Presidents for High Posts. BERN, Switzerland, December 18 ®).—Dr. Joseph Motta, who was president of the Swiss Confederation in 1915 and again in 1920, has been elected to serve in that post again for the vear 1927. He will succeed Henr! Haberlin. Edmund_Schulthess, who was president in 1917 and is now chiet of the department of public economy, was named vice president. Both officers are elected by the Fed- eral Assembly for the term of one year, Janu to December 31 You to Enjoy Many Electrical Conveniences—We'll Wire Yours Right 4 Wonderful Christmas Display of Lampsg and Clectrical Appliances This house has always been Hardly Knows the Gender. From the London Tid-Bits. A violinist entered a country music seller’s shop. “I want an E string, please,” he said to the assistant behind the counter. Producing a box, the latter said “Would you mind pickin’ one out for vourself, sir? I 'ardly knows the ‘e’s from the she’s GARRET SEEKING TOFORGETAXCUT Democratic Leader Moves to Have Garner Bill Re- ported to House. By the Associated Press. Reviving the fight for tax reduc- tion by the present Congress, Repre- sentative Garrett, the Democratic leader, yesterday initiated steps de- signed to force the Republican ma- Jority to act on the $335,000,000 Gar- ner tax bill. He intro d a resolu- tion calling for the discharge of the measure from the House means committee on which thor, Representative Garner of is the ranking Democratic membe: and its consideration by the House. If adopted the Garrett resolution would defeat the recent action of Re- | publican members of the ways commitiee in voting to ta all tax-reduction pro the President’s tax an. House rules. the Garrett lution was referred to the rules mmittee. Its author cannot de- nand action on it until 30 days after the pigeonholing by the ways and means committee of the Garner bill, was done a week 0 today Garrett asserted his action was i line with announced intention House Democrats to resort to evel parliamentary means to bring about tax reduction. By placing this resolution before the rules committee, Garrett has two levers with which he hopes to move the Republicans. The other is the vight to circulate a_petition calling for the discharge of the hill from committee. The signatures of a ma- jority of the House—218 members would be necessary as well as a ma- jority vote on a resolution to dis- charge the committee. The Garner bill, which the Demo- crats are supporting, would reduce the corporation tax from 13 to 11 per cent and would abolish many of the so-called nuisance taxes. In the middle Atlantic a ton of hout 30 pounds of ame volume HAWES PRESENTS MODIFICATION BILL Measure Is Designed to Raise Legal Alcoholic Content Limit of Beverages. One more proposal was added yes- terday to the list already on file at the Capitol to modify the national pro- hibition act when Senator Hawes, newly elected Democrat of Missourd, introduced a bill designed to raise the percentage of alcoholic content from one-half of 1 per cent to whatever limit the courts may decide is non-Intoxi- cating. The bill would add the fol lowing provision to the prohibition law: “Provided, That nothing contained in this act shall prohibit the manu- facture, sale or transportation of non intoxicating liquors within, the im portation thereof into, or exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof, for beverage purposes.” In a statement issued last night Sen- ator Hawes said his bill is based on the. langua of the eighteenth amendment and contended that it would not violate either the letter or spirit of the constitutional amendment. Senator Hawes admitted there will be. little opportunity for discussion of the question at this session, Senator Hawes took the position that that existing limitation of rne hal of 1 per cent is not a scientifically detarmined point of intoxica Lo, ‘s argued that “what is and what Is not intoxicating is a matter of fact, a mat- ter of evidence and susceptible of proof. ““Science has progressed to such cer- tainty in its efficiency that a_proper limitation can be reached. The im- mediate object of this bill, therefore, is to raise the present prohibition in the Volstead act from one-half of 1 per cent to 2, 215 or 2% per cent, dependent upon a_determination of fact by a jury and final review by the Supreme Court. Observers in England have noted s difference of 10 degrees in temper ature between the top and bottom of « certain hill only 200 feet high, the listance between the two spots being feet. A PLAYER FOR XMAS! OWN IT THE EASY WAY! W. & J. 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