Evening Star Newspaper, December 23, 1926, Page 2

L 2 | BELATED RETURNS * BACKBELIFINGOD Local Clergy Pleased With Results of Religion Survey of Star. With final mational count the poll of religi Ly 160 newspap throug country now being tabulate York, The Star has received lated questionnaires with and, in recapijulation, has rom several prominent me the local clergy expr ation that so v the replies indicated und in rel While the cefved before the deadline for 4 tional count, indicated that 83 out of every 100 Washingtonians belicve God and that a correspondingly high ¢ belief in the necessity for relizion in| Jlie affairs was held belated ballots con less than 5 1 affirmative answ to the regarding belief in God After commenting favorably upon, the results of the poll in Washing- | ton, Rev. Jason Noble Pierce, p r of the Kirst Congregational hurch, the President’s church, said “If those who say they believe in| (God would translate words of faith into deeds of love, the whole world| believers. the th New 1 vers out 1 ans obtained ahers of it in p 1uestion e Sees Hopeful Sig | M. Diffenderfer, pastor of | Place Memorfal Church, | a hopeful sign for re powerful press religious forces as % | 3 i ligon when the the land aids the u by conducting a poll of believer: has just been completed by The ning Star in our city. As a pastor of a local congregation, I wan to express my apprecfation for services rendered by The Star the press throughout the country. is gratifying to Rnow that so many persons are willing to express their faith in God and in his revelations to_man.’ Rev. W. S. Abernethy, pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church, struck | u keynote found among many of the clergy when he stated he was “not « bit surprised” at the results of the " he said, “it would be at least that large. The belief in God is born in us. I believe every one holds to a belief in God or in religion of some sort. I am greatly pleased at the response of the city in such a mnanner as indicated in the poll.” Rev. J. R. Herson, pastor of Ham- line M. E. Church, also expressed the lack of surprise at the returns. “Dur- ing my residence here,” he said, P have been impressed with the fact that the city is essentially a religious city. The response to the poll has been so significant to me that I in- tend to analyze it thoroughly and use it as a topic from the pulpit in the near future.” Count of Late Ballots. The count of the ballots reccived too late for the national tabulation is as follows: 1. Do you believe in God? Yes, 127; no, 9. | 2! Do you believe in immortality? ‘Yes, 122; no, 12; mot voting, 2. 3. Do you believe in prayer as a means of personal relationship with God? _Yes, 127; no, 9. 4. Do you believe that Jesus was divine s no other man was divine?| Yes, 124; no, 12. 5. Do you regard the Bible as in- spired in a sense that no other litera- ture could be said to be inspired? Yes, 119; no, 115; not voting, 2 8. Are you an active member of any church? Yes, $8; no, 36; not vot- 1ng, 2. 7. Do you regularly attend any religious service? Yes, 96; no, 37; not voting, 3. 8. Would you be willing to have your family grow up in a community in which there is no church? Yes, 10; no, 126. i . Do you regularly have “family | worship” in your home? Yes, 33; no, | 79; not_voting, 24. 10. Were you brought up in a religious home? Yes, 118; no, 15; not voting, 3. 11. Do you send your children to any school of religious instruction? Yes, 30; no, 22; not voting, 74. 12. Do you think that religion in| some form is a necessary element of life for the individual and for the comguunity? Yes, 127; no, 9. | LEFT TURNS BARRED AT LIBRARY CORNER New Automatic Signals Operating at Ninth Street and Massa- chusetts Avenue. Left-hand turns were abolished at Ninth street and New York avenue today by direction of Trafic Director M. O. Eldridge, simultaneously with the turning on of the new automatic trafic signal around Mount Vernon Hquare and on Massachusetts avenue | from Ninth to Twelfth streets. The lights were put in operation for a test last night and worked satis- Zactorily. The abolition of left-hand turns at this intersection will force Union Sta- tion-bound traffic on Massachusetts avenue to go south on Ninth street 10 I street and thence east into Mass- nchusetts avenne, or to deviate around Mount Vernon place to New York uvenue, to Sixth street and south on Bixth street to Massachusetts avenue. Because of the jam of west-bound traffic at Ninth street and New York avenue and K street, Mr. Eldridge in aicated that he i= considering a pro- yosal to restore K street in front of the Public Library to a one-way thoj oughfare for east-bound traffic only. The turning on of the new traffic lights from Twelfth street and Mass nchusetts avenue to the four corners | of Mount V. achusetts ave n Square makes Mass- e an automatic traffic- controlled ar from Seventh street 10 Dupont Circle. Plans are now be ing made to extend the Massachusetts wvenue lights from Seventh street vast to New Jersey avenue DIES BEFORE REUNION. Brother of Trio Expires Before Car- rying Out Yule Pact. AUSTIN, Tex., December 23 (#).— An empty chair will represent one of three brothers who 12 years ago pledged each other they would hold us sentiment taken | (e ~ VERA CRUZ TODAY of i3 [BUTLER ELECTION 6OST 52 TO BE FREED. | Wilbur to Send Telegrams Christ- mas Eve to Three Navy Prisons. Santa Calus will remember 52 men incarcerated in mnaval prisons this | year On Christmas eve telegrams will be sent, Secretary Wilbur said yesterday, | discharging this number from the! various naval prisons. The Secretary ! that the worthiest cases had! | passed upon by the celemency | hoard and the releases were based on | | this report. The discharges will take | effect on Christmas day. i { Four prisoners will bLe released| from the prison at Portsmouth, N. H.; | 12 from Parris Island, and 36 | from Island, San N | caid ¥ FLYERS MAY REACH | Steve Kascholk | American Good Will Aviators | Hope to Be in Mexico City Christmas. | | By the Associated P | TAMPICO, Me December 2 Vera Cruz, 260 miles down the coast the next stop for the American zood will fiyers. The time of their de- parture is dependent upon weather conditions, but Maj. H. A. Darguc S. A, commander of the expes tion, sald he hoped to get away some time to The five big amphibian plane - rived here from Brownsville, Tex., at 30 o'clock last night after bucking a 30-mile wind which made ditficult their 253-mile flight down the coast. The flyers took off from the wate: of Laguna Madre near Brownsville shortly before 2:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon, the start being delayed b, fog. After crossing the international boundary they ran into a headwind which made flying difficult, but the big planes forged- ahead and arrived over Tampico at about & p.m. They maneuvered over the city for some time before coming down, to be greeted at the flylng field by the American consul and a reception com- mittee. The planes were escorted in by two Mexican aviators. The Mex- icans’ plane overturned on landing, injuring 'a mechanician slightly. After an enthusiastic welcome the alrmen were escorted into the city and later attended a banquet ar- ranged in their honor. Each of the five planes is man- ned by two pilots and all are com- missioned men. They are acting as their own mechanicians and had their first taste of this duty at Brownsville vesterday, tightening struts and bolts and ofling, cleaning and refueling their machines. Although their itinerary is subject! to change to conform to weather conditions, the aviators hope to spend the Christmas holidays in Mexico City, fiying to the capital after touch- ing at Vera Cruz. By JAY QUITS AS ENVOY, ARGENTINA LEARNS| 85 American Ambassador to Sail lor! U. §. December 30, Says Buenos Aires Dispatch. BY JOHN H. WHITE. By Cable to The Star and_Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1926, BUENOS AIRES, December 23.— Peter Augustus Jay, United States Ambassador to Argentina, has resigned from the diplomatic service and will sail for New York December 30. His action was taken as a result of the death of his 15-year-old daughter from sleeping sickness. Mr. Jay is the direct descendant of Chief Justice Jay, and has had a long and successful career in the American diplomatic service. He and Mrs. Jay have been extremely pop- ular in Argentina, and their depar- ture is considered a distinct loss by both the Argentine and American communities. The ambassador has but recently re- covered frora a serious illness, and the death of his daughter came as a severe blot DECLARED WITHIN LAW Republican Campaign Treasurer in Massachusetts Replies to Civic League-Attack. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, December 23.—Denial that there were irregularities in the report of campaign expenses filed by the Republican State committee after the State election last month, was made yesterday by Howard Fall, treasurer of the committee, in a let ter to Secretary of State Frederic W. Cook. The Secretary of State had request- ed the committee for an explanation of charges made by Conrad W. Crooker, counsel for the Liberal Civic League of Massachusetts, who de clared that the committee had made “unwarranted and excessive expendi- tures” of more than $350,000 during the c@mpaign in which Benator Wil- liam M. Butler was defeated by David 1. Walsh. Crooker also requested an investigation by Chairman Reed of the Senate investigating committee, “I want to say that the Republican State committee wishes to stand on no technicality,” sald Treasurer Fall, in his letter to the secretary of State esterday. “Our course has been a roper one, and there has been no ac- tion of ours which has not been strict- ly in accordance with law.” EXECUTION IS STAYED. Canadian Prisoner Was to Have Been Hanged Today. HAMILTON. l Ontarfo, December 531 who was to have been nged at dawn to was given a Christmas gift of tree more weeks of tife just as he was about to mount the scaffold. The hangman had | Barty had bidden farewell children, when word was that a stay until January granted. l The postponement threw the sherifi’s office and the jail into con- | fusion and the authentcity of the | instructions at first was doubted. Ernest Lapointe, federal minister of arrived and to his received had been # reanion here on this Christmas day. W. G. Eyers of Austin, Thomas L. jiyers of Saskatchewan, Canada, and ohn P. Eyers of Elmira, N. Y., met iere on Christmas 12 years ago, anc kfter their Christmas dinner agreed to repeat the reunton in a dozen vears. Brother Tom from Canada has ar- rived. But not Brother John. In- stead, ebout the time he was sched- nled 10 esrive, came a telegram an- nounclig that he had died suddenly on the day he was to leave home. The &Wo remaining brothers will carry on. . justice at Ottawa, had refused to exercise clemency. The stay of execu- tion was granted on an appeal to Justice Lennox in Toronto. Barty was convicted of slaying Mrs. Nancy Cook on June 10. Students Aid Yule Rush. | By { cemb land.” { THE EVENING MDERMOTT DENIES MELLETT SLAYING Says, on Stand, He Warned, Editor After Learning of Plot to Kill Him. Assoviated Press | | | | COURTHOU ! Ohio, De McDer n, Sugene v in his tr on a Den R Mellett, deried any com Crime and pointed to the St e wit probabie siayer. MeDer- was he who warned Mel - men were | his garage | mott, testifying to eharge murderit Canton publis] plicity in th ness, as the mett said it lett by telephone that thre Iving in ambush for him ¢ thro Pr was defiant Ltion and sk On two o s forced to rmott 18s-exaini B. McCiintock d becn “framed.” Edwin W. Dichl w reprimand McDermott his retorts to McClintock. When he refused to divulge the name of a man with whom he said he had hid for while in Cleveland the prosecution asked that he be held in contempt of court, but| the ruling was det d and McDer- mott repeatedly refused to divulge the name, declaring no ‘rat.” hout | secutor Says He Warned Mellett. McDermott declared it was Kascholk who induced him to go to, Massillon last July té hunt He said he came to Canton from M llon alone and was joined by Kascholk, who sald he had been “hired to slug an editor, Mellett.” McDermott said he d Mellett’s home twice warn him. He denicd knowin Louis Mazer, his that he had ever had a gun while he was in Canton. He said he was in bed early on the night of the murd and left the next day when he ceived a telegram from “R. L. Strang instructing him, in code, to ‘“clear out.” He sald he presumed the tele- gram was from Kascholg, who wanted him to clear out because he “knew too much.” McDermott said he went to C land and gave a fictitious name, be- ca he was afraid he would get mixed up in the murder case becaus he had warned Mellett. He said he hid out after his sister told him he was being sought. He was concealed by Ben Nadel, for whom he had sold liquor, he admitted, and by Dan Pfaff, both of Cleveland. He whispered answers into the court record in reply to his counsel's query on ‘direct examination concerning al- leged transactions between him and Prosecutor McClintock. The answel were barred from the jury's ears b a court ruling which sustained tt State’s objections. McDermott Takes Stand. McDermott was examined by Mills, his chief counsel. Jo you know Steve KascholW®” “I know him “Have y associated with great deal “Not much, for a job. Ben Rudner »defendant E. L. him 4 I met him In Cleve hat did you talk about? He asked me wheére 1 was soing | and I told him back to Nanty Gl Pa. He said there wasn't much doing at Nanty Glo and.said, ‘Come on and go to Massillon with me to look for a job.! So we went to Massillon.” “What day was that? July 8.” McDermott said he spent most of the next day in a poolroom and went to Canton that night with Kascholk. They stopped at a hotel, where Mec- Dermott admitted he registered under an assumed name. Says He Warned Mellett. “What did Steve say that night after you came from Massillon?” “He sald he was going to ‘slug an editor,’ and 1 said he was crazy.” “What did you do after that? “I called up the editor’s house. A women answered. 1 asked if Mr. Mellett was there. and she said, ‘No. “Then what did you do?” “I called un Mellett again the next night and told him to stay away from his garage, that there were some fel- lows waiting there to get him.” McDermott then told about his various meetings with William Bitz- ler, the State’s ‘“surprise” witness, during the Week preceding the mur- der. He related his activities from day to dayv up to the murder night. He sald he went to a theater and remalined until 10:30 that night, then went home to bed. He denied he had a gun in his room, as Bitzler had testified. Admits Getting Telegram. McDermott said he arose about 10 o'clock the morning of July 16 and did not hear about the murder until he went out to breakfast. At this point the defense ques tioned him about the telegram ad dressed to “Charles Thompson, which previous witnesses testified McDermott had received. The de- fendant admitted he got the tele- gram and left town at 4 o’clock that afternoon. Then McDermott was questioned about automobile trips to Akron and Massillon, during which he is alleged to have been in touch with Ben Tudner, his co-defendant. Denles Seeing Rudner. Although he could not recall the date, McDermott sald he made these trips in company with Homer Con- nelly and Peggy Cavanaugh, his friends. “Did you see Ben “I did not.” “Did_ you Akron?” “I did not.” MeDermott surrendered When he nere he it was 10 was permit testified. The defense met a barrage of ob- jections when it asked McDermott to relate what promises were made him | by the investigators. His answers to such questions as whether he had been offered money to testify, whether M Clintock had suid anything about his candidacy for Congress and whether | rewards had been dangled before his cyes were permitted to go into the| court only out of hearing of the Jury. Rudner?” i call Rudmer from | then related how he at Twin Rock, Pa, as brought to county jaH asked to see a lawyer, but days before an attorney to visit him, he Admits 2-Year Sentence. McDermott McClintock. He admitted spending nearly two years in At lanta Penitentiary for grand larceny and breaking confine- ment. He also admitted having \been court-martialed for larceny while he was in the Army. He bootlegging in_Cleveland for Nadel, one of those who aided him in hiding while a country-wide search for him was in progress. Attorney E. L. Mills, defense coun- sel, asked McDermott several ques- tions about his alleged conversations with Prosecutor McClintock after hi surrender. All of the questions were was cross-examined by BRIDGEPORT, Conn., December 23 (#).—Ninety-three undergraduates at 18 EBastern colleges and universities are aiding in handling the greatest ;u!h of Christmass business on record ere. objected to by the State and the ob- Jections were sustained, The questions asked McDermott in- cluded queries about alleged offers of g | the mew said he was| Ben| Upper: Wrecked cat: occupied by injured bo Lower, left: Park bénch smashed to splinters by Br. Portrait at top: Thomas H. Seibert, who died from injuries received. Bottom: Johannes Grinstad Bryn, hurt, but expected to rece T, Rudner and_ Louls Mazer, indicted jointly with McDermott. McDermott said on tion by Prosecutor McClintock he did not ride from Canton with M mght of July 9, but t me to Canton alone on an interburban car and Kas- cholk came later. vs He Changed Name. said he changed his name when he returned to Cleveland from Canton because he was afrald he would “get ixed up” In the case because he had ned Mellett.” When the defense attempted to bring out the nature of conversations he held with Prosecutor McClintock, the State objected sustained, Did er and did McClintock tell lawyer and a politic do you any good?' " The State objected, but McDermott ready had answered. “He did The defendant’s answer as to the identity of this lawyer was forestalled by objections. Judge Reprimands Both. Twice early in the cross-examina- tion Judge Diehl was forced to repri- mand McDermott for retorts to Mc- Clintock, made half under his breath. MeClintoc assistants implored him to move away from his position close to the witness ‘stand. McClintock moved back, but soon was at McDer- mott’s side, punctuating his questions by thumps on the wooden witness box. Defense Attorney Durand leap- ed to his feet and protested “‘the pros- ecutor’s methods.” Judge Diehl inter- jected with: “Peace, gentlemen.’ sumed his seat. McDermott declared: “I've been framed.” Do you mean that Bitzler and ~holk and the others framed you?” McClintock asked. “Exact McDermott shouted, leaning across the rail of the witness box. Declines to Reveal Names. examina- sillon to MeClintock re- K Ml to hide him in Cleveland, but admitted Ben Nadel and Dan Pfaff were among them, “Why don’t you want to tell, Pat?” Mills interrupted. mi mo ‘rat,’”’ McDermott replied. He steadily refused to tell any names other than those of del and Pfaff. The prosecution.asked that McDer- mott be held in contempt of court. The court did not rule on the request. McDermott's testimony, , under cross-examination corroborated his story under direct questioning. McDermott grew &ngry asked whether he had told William Bitzler he could tell “Canton police o go jump in the lake” and Judge Bieh] admonished him for answering the prosecutor's question improperly. He branded as a lie Bitzler's testi- mony that Thursday night McDer- mott told him “I can’t drink tonight. I've got a big job on” Tells of Telegram. The telegram to “Charles Thomp- won.” previously mentioned In direct “xamination, was signed by “R. L. Strang MeDermott said he didn't know any one by that name, but he thought the telegram Was from Kascholk. . “What did the telegram mean?” McClintock asked. “Get out of town ou left, didn't you?" s, for Cleveland.” “Why would Kascholk be sending you a telegram?” “KFor me to cle 1 knew too much. “Did you hear the testimony about the telegram?” out. Te thought “What do you say about it?” “I was framed.” “Do you mean to say Bitzler and Kascholk framed you?” Ixactly. The defendant then related how he met Nadel and Pfaff in Cleveland and was harbored in an apartment there. Because he didn’t want to “get mixed up in it" he refused to say who fur- nished him with money. He denied, however, that he had received any money from Rudner. Asked how long he expected to hide in Cleveland, McDermott replied: “Until they broke down Kascholk's story.” < b b ey Deliberate destruction of four of boulevard stop signs was reported today by Traffic Director M. O. Eldridge. The signs, the traffic director said, apparently were pried loose from their stanchions with a crowbar, and thrown into thé street for passing traffic to mutilate. As all four of the signs were in the liquor producing communities of Washington Mr. Eldrige suspects bootleggers as the culprits. *Boot- leggers do not want these signs be- cause they don’t like to stop,” he said. “T hope If they are caught “money” and “immunity” to Mc Dermott if he would testify against “, that they will be given the limit of the law.” that | .rmott refused to divulge the | names of some of those who helped | when | TWO MEN KILLED IN AUTO CRASHES; ONE FATHER OF 7| ed from First Page.) went quickly to the scene of the tragedy. Policemen P. 8. Tormey and G. I Hellmuth are investigating the case with Capt. Headley Sergt. W. F. Terry and W. C. Lewis of the Traffic Bureau tested the brakes of the truck and the taxi and pronounced them perfect. Dr. Joseph Roger: tant cor- | oner, said that Leapley had died of internal hemorrhages. The truck was taken to the morgue as exhibit and Cheek was held for the grand jury by the coroner's jury at an inquest, Cab Slightly Injured. The carbide gas tank which sup- plied the truck with light tas knocked off and the truck bddly damaged in the accident. The taxi- cab was injured only to the extent of a smashed hood and minor damages. | Young Bryn, who was driving the automobile ~which fizured in the | accident at Connecticut avenue and S street, had recently taken out his first naturalization papers. Noise of the crash attracted the attention of a number of persons, including taxi- cab drivers, and the injured men were hurried to hospitals, Bryn being taken to Garfleld Hospital by a taxi- cab driver, while the others were taken to I by Robert E, Sanford of 1133 Girard street. Bark- ley and Seibert are students at George Washington Universit Police of the eighth precinct investigating are BROWNING SUED AGAIN. Reporter Claims Real Estate Man Damaged Reputation. NEW YORK, December 23 (#).— Edward W. Browning, wealthy New York real estate man and defendant in a separation suit filed by Mrs. Frances ‘“Peaches” Browning, and a $500,000 damage suit filed by a once adopted daughter, Mary Louise Spas, has been served with u summons and complaint in another suit, this time for $250,000 damages. The plaintiff is Arthur Lee Mefford reporter for a New York tabloid, who alleges that his reputation was dam- iged when Browning is said to have told other reporters for publication that Mefford had “taken possession of Mary Louise Spas, put her in a high- powered automobile” and so com- mitted, the reporter charges, the crime of kidnaping. The incldent, it i{s explained, pre- ceded the payment of $500 to Mary Louise Spas for the ‘story of her life” with the real estate man. DR. HOUCK GIVES MORE CLUES TO HIS MISSING WIFE (Continued from First Page.) wife. After leaving Mr. Gordon. the physician assisted the police with an unknown task. Dr. Graven last night paid his first visit to his old friend, Dr. Houck, since the latter was found in New York. He went to Gallinger Hospital and was deeply touched by the scene that followed. Dr. Graven expressed itnense pleasure, however, over find. ing Dr. Houck apparently rational and near a stage of genuine convalescence, He said the broken youns psychiatrist greeted him heartily. “The first thing he did.” Dr. Graven said, “was to laugh and apologize for having entertained hallucinations that I might know where his wife was. He was sane enough to realize there was no foundation for the belief. “1, of course, have not seen her. T am bewildered by her continued ab- sence."” Mrs. Houck called on her son, pre- paratory to her return to Wisconsin. She remained with him only a short time, however, preferring that he should have as much rest as possible. Mrs. Houck s highly pleased over her son’s chances for complete recove: from the present maniac episode least, and she expressed the belief that once he is gotten to a private institution and given an opportunity of entering some occupational voca- tion he will fmprove more rapidly. Dentists Must Register Soon. Announcement was made by the board of dental examiners of the District today that all registrations of dentists and dental hyglenists must be submitted to Dr. C. Willard Camalier, secretary-treasurer, not later than December 31. The board also announced that the next exami- nation for license to practice denistry in the District will be held the week of January 10 at the Georgetown University Dental School. 23 1926. NDEATH 0 Authorities Probe “Shoemak- ers” War” Theory in Long Island Explosion. By the Associ BALDW] STAR. WASHINGTON, . D. €, THURSDAY, DECEMBER Two persons dozen injured and 12 wooden build- N. W ings destroyed sion whic| set off in h a authe might have been caused b; “shoemauker ed Press. ere kil toda; i Last week District W Samuel ceived s morning the tavern was torn | almost board from board by an ex- plosion that rocked the town, killed s wife and infant and | probably fatally injured Acarbi him- the shoema self. To Seek S The distri had taken steps to obtain the threat- ening letter, which he said Acarbi had turned over to postal authoriti that every effort find the sender and discover if toda: ratal explosion was the fuifillment of his threat. Mr. ke ict rds of Nassau Acarbi, a shop in the (& a attorney woul Edwards said th bomb theory there were also the p sibilities that the explo causing by a bursting gas main or by still. The explosion seemed to center in an_explodin the Baldwin Tavern, blast. wooden_buildings fire after tered. the nearh The hotel, an old wooden struc- ture, was on Pipeline boulevard near the Long Island Railroad station. Two Auto Accidents. . Windows throughout the town were broken and the concussion w several miles away. Besides several the houses which were d another the automobile in which policemen hurt wh they were struck a from hurr pole, persa ing and severely injured when automobile of a driving in from a nearby village. MELLON GOING HOME. Treasury Head to Spend Christmas in Pittsburgh. Secretary holidays. ever, before Ne Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Carl T. Schuneman, who is to take charge of the great public building program of the Government through the office of the supervising archi- tect, will arrive in Washington next Monday. Mr. Schuneman, whose nom- ination recently was confirmed by the Senate, was in Washington for some time in conference with Secretary Mellon and other officials of the de- but he returned home, in St. Paul, Minn., a few days partment, ago. In view of the fact that Congress has authorized already a_$50,000,000 of the Treasury will leave Washington tonight for his home in Pittsburgh for the Christmas He plans to return, how- v Year. fire ¢ buflding _program _for and is favorably considering expan. sion of that program, Mr. Schune- w post will be an of- eatest importance and man in his ficlal of the tuteres I rict. December shoemaker, Baldwin Tavern, a letter threatening | up the hotel if the cobbler did not cease a house-to-house canvass for nder. 200 ARE INDIGTED INLIQUOR PROBE Smuggling Totaling More Than $1,000,000 Is Charged on Coast. I the Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO, ing its fight ainst Pacific st liquor smuggling with added | intensity, the Government today launched a legal attack on a front | extending from Ios Angeles to| Seattle, aimed directly at more than | ) versons who are accused of vio lating the law in wholesale fashion. | Federal grand juries reporting al-| most simultaneously in Seattle and in | the southern California metropolis | brought indictments revealing alleged | muggling activities running well above the $1.000,000 mark in five months. The Seattle grand jury had been in- vestigating charges of liquor and | graft activities in Snohomish County. It returned 64 indictments, 21 of which were kept secret. District At- | { torney Revelle said many city and | county officials had been named. Court attaches sald a total of 170 persons would be named in the true bills. The Los Angeles indictments, in-| volving 38 members of a smuggling combine which is alleged to have brought more than $1,000,000 worth | of rum into southern California in | the last five months, charge violation | of the national tariff act. They name virtually all of the officers and stock- holders of the dian_Consolidated Exporters’ Corporation, Ltd., of Van. couver, British Columbia, and wealthy | shipping men of Los Angeles and San | Francisco. The operations of the defendants | are said to have dovetailed with those of 42 members of an alleged smug- gling ring indicted last month in San Francisco. . Bonds totaling almost $400,000 have been set. The highest surety asked was $40,000 in the case of Marvin E. Schouweiler, against whom the Government a year ago filed an in- come tax lien of $250,000, indicted on twé counts. Schouweiler is said to| be the wealthiest of all the operators. | Russell Whitelaw, head of the Cana- | {dian Consolidated, and Tony Cornero. described by officers as the of the coast's liquor smugglers, quired to post $20,000 each. Mrs, Mabel Walker Willebrandt, | Assistant Attorney General, is here in connection with the investigation. PHILADELPHIA TO BE DRY. By December 2 W i | | | | | | | | | | i | i i i Raids Have Already Resulted in Sei- zure of Large Stocks. PHILADELPHIA, December 23 (). | Members of unit No. 1, the police liquor raiding spuad, must work Sat- urd: Inspector John Holton, in command | of the unit, said today that he and every member of his squad would be on the job all of Christmas day, and xpected to work harder than usual. Director of Public Safety Elliott | | has ordered a dry Christmas,” said | Holton, “and 1 mean to do ail in my power to carry out his orders. Christ- mas week is a busy time for us. Al- veady the rush has commenced, and we have raided several places in the last week that had stocked up well.” SOCIETY WOMAN HELPS. | Introduced Dry Agent, Paving Way for Night Club Raids. i v YORK, December 23 (#).— A\} v woman who believes in pro-| n enforcement and some young | women of society and the stage who| | get a thrill out of Broadway night| | life share part 6f the responsibility for the gloom that prevades 58 | ordinarily ~scintillating night clubs | and cabarets. 5 Federal agents claim that a promi- | nent woman whose name is in the social register and who felt it a civic| duty to enforc y laws intro-| duced a pseudo English nobleman to some young woman friends of Broad way and Park Avenue. He, in turn { introduced other “butter and egs| men” to the young wornen, who wel-! comed these escorts with apparently fat bank rolls and gladly introduced | them into resorts of gayety nearly hard to enter as the 400 itself. The agents spent $8,000, it is sa at the office of Federal Attorney nory R. Buckner, entertaining the young women and gathering evidence Then, - when injunctions and com | plaints in padlock proceedings had | been served on the select o8, the agents quit Broadway for a health| { farm In Connecticut to recover from | | the effects of bad liquor. | The liquor obtained in most places was “something terrible the { opinion of the men who drank it for the Government. At least 98 per cent was “cut” or adulterated, they claim, and some contained two per cent wood alcohol. Samples were | obtained in 75 places, the agents de- { clare, and at least 15 in addition to the 8 will be served with complaints and injunctions before Christmas. lled, about a in ties an_ explo- believed bomb W ‘o4 Attorney bunty Ed- learned with re- to blow said that he d be made t {DECISION IN “KING BEN’S” i CASE DUE IN JANUARY Last of Three Girl Witnesses Against House of David Leader Called Today. By the Associated Press. BENTON HARBOR, Mich., Decem- ber 23.—The last of the three girl complaints against “King” Benja min Purnell, head of the House of David .Colony, was called to in Justice Court today. Mrs. Gladys Bamford Rubel clared in her complaint she was forced to marry a member of the cult she hardly knew in order to pro- tect the “king” when it became known | that State officials were to raid the colony. Mrs. Rubel, a divorcee, is of Ruth Bamford Reed, wh fied yesterday that she was subj to indignities by the cult leader when 10 years old. Both girls were born in_the colony. Decision as to whether Purnell will be bound oyer to the Circuit Court will be rendéred at next month’s ses- sion of the Justice Court. BACHELORETTE WEDDED. Sixth of Club Breaks Not to Marry. CHICAGO, December (#).—The sixth of 15 young women who five years ago formed the Bachelorette Club and took solemn vows never to wed was married here last night. The sixth girl to break her promise was Miss Angela Giarno, 23, who mar- ried George Francis Emme, a medical student at the University of Michigan. Each of the club members staked $100 of their possible husband’s money | { { | t besides the fon had been which caught leven other by wére_ s as felt ms injured in estroved, two town re to a the scene de- woman was struck by the ief who was sister Melion Promise to his Washington, them—to the club. The fifth vietim, the girl months ago. | fronted four of the ‘William F. Bradford | gullty at | show' t | time after Chr | creature | the life of Albert J. Miller, cler final productive for year's deficit at quarter was £116,355,442. total 038,000 was expected to be exceeded this year because of the long coal ti ———————— FOUR MAIL BANDITS MAY GET 100 YEARS Convicted on 11 Counts in Rock Springs, Wyo., Robbery. By tho Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo., Possible sentences of vears in Federal Decemby more than prison 100 s¢ ven defendar convicted in Unite Distric Court here last night of taking « T and bonds valued at $32000 from a Union Pacific mall train Rock Springs, Wyo., August The others, womin found guilty punishable by sk Madigan, mail clerk on Jack Kearns, Howard E. John Kamariotis were all of the 11 counts in the re dictment. Theodore The Sourloa and Edna Na tences for conspiracy. Two Pleaded Guilty Originally there were nine defend nts, but Raymond “Kid" Ellis and ente 1 pleas of the opening of the trial when confronted with evidence show ing they aided in burying the loot most of which was recovered by Fed one of ) wer convicted e widely try pting te sses wrated parts of the tified, the Government att it the robbery was an inside admitted this charge and that the idea was obtalned accounts of an robbery, which he decided wa: than staging a “Wild West” The first flve counts, con: robbery of the mails by placing the life of the mail clerk in jeopardy by the use of firearms, carry sentem of 25 years flat. The next five counts robbery of the mails with the jeop ardy clause eliminated, are punisha ble with sentences of from 1 to 1 vears each. The last, of conspiracy carries a maximum sentence of years. from cot tes job. El jeclared by reading Sentence Is Delayed Court attaches that would not be pr tmas, Kennedy having counsel 10 days in which to file me tion for a new trial. In his summing up of the evidence District Attorney A. D. Walton ask the jury to find all of the defendants guilty on all 11 counts of the indict ment. Later he amended his request He described 2 Nagley as a *“poo " and stated that “whate you do whith her will be all right wi me.” The defense argued that Kamario Barnett and Madigan, confessed “inside man,” were guilty of robbi the mails without putting in jeopards in charge, inasmuch as Kamariotis and Barnett entered the car through door left open by Madigan with their revolvers unloaded. ———— HEFLIN ATTACK SUPREME COURT Senator Says Decision in Mal Daugherty Case, Pending Two Years, Should Be Given. The United States Supreme Court came in for criticism in the & vesterday from Senator Heflin, crat, of Alabama, who dec court should have made a dec long time ago” in the contempt cas of ‘Mal Daugherty, who refused give certain testimony during a S ate investigation several years ago. Senator Heflin was in the midst of another attack on the recent verdict of acquittal in the Fall-Doheny oil se in the District Supreme Court when he made reference to the M Daugherty case in the highest tribu nal, Senator Heflin said, in part “When the committee ordered h al was taken. Ti ipreme Court an appeal is ir may [ be parde citizen and a T it I ask why th not handed down case? That case yreme Court for more than two y That particular case, because of %t immediate importance to the Gover ment, ought to have been decic 30 days.” SCIENTISTS SEE DEATH OF DISTEMPER IN DOGS British Investigators Believe Per Is ren in the manent Immunization in Sight. By the Associated Pre LONDON, December immunization of dogs is within sight as the r by investigators of the British Med ical Research Council. The investi gators include Dr. William E. Gye ar J. E. Barnard, who are devoting thel: aftention to distemper as well as i cancer. The research council, which presses its gratitude to the Distemper Council for jts aid, nounces that the investigators hav confirmed that the discase is due to ultra-microscopic vir 1t expeets t- evolve u method of immunizition by inoculation. . The Daily Mirror, which interviewe: the council’s ¥, suggests that suppression of distemper will lead 1o « marked diminution of influenza amon humans, as the two diseases are sup posed to be closely connected, though this has not been proved. £144,753,300 IS DEFICIT. Permauner om_distempe: sult of work London Is Not Alarmed at Third Quarter’s Shortage. LONDON, December British treasury budget deficit for th end of the third quart an amount which treas consider normal, as th the year are most tax collection. Las he_end of the third £144,753,300, v expert months of Treasury officicls stated that budget deficit of 1925 of up and other industrial conditions It was added, however, that the ex pected increase in the deficit was not such as to alarm treasury officials. —— Yoshihito’s Condition Worse. TOKIO, December 23 ().—The con X dition of Emperor Yoshihito was re- on their pledge, and Emme recently | ported as somewhat worse in a bulle paid his fiancee’s share by delivering | tin issued at 9:30 o'clock tonight. His a suit case full of pennies—10,000 of | pulse was irregular_and his tempera- ture higher than heretofore. Higl who | eourt officials were called to the bed formed the club, was married three |side, indlcating a serfous turn in his