Evening Star Newspaper, December 30, 1926, Page 2

] L J BRUCE AUSTRALIAN: PARTY IN CAPITAL Prime Minister Tours City This Afternoon—Will See President Tomorrow. ! M. Bruce, | and My ashington this ! immediately to where they will | Saturday morn- Hon nle of Aust in V went Hotel The R prime © Bru afternoor commissioner for ates, who vival in to return here n met the New Yo Jater toda tralia’s hos. 1 the on his arrival Withur and at hand to Mayflower, ind luncheon was er his arrival. ident Tomorrow. vill receive the White 1louse will see and other It is un ters which Depart f extending the Laisiness men ry on business where : tend: me minister at no bear- it Australia, would appoint a od States. It was ish embassy that unlikely to come this time, ing on the pos: in_the near fut minister to the Ur indicated at the Id this is & quesion up for some time The need for an Aust fster is not imperative, it was said, as in the case of Canada and the Irish Free State, which recently appointed envoys to Wash has power to aties with the United other countries with- out reference to Gr ain. 'The only question involved in that policy was that if any tre was likely to affect any other £ f-govern- ing dominion, it “hoped” that the dominion would be consulted. | The_prime minister was quoted in | New York saving that when the nuemorus and complexity of diplo- matic questions between the United States and his country make it ad-| visable to have Australia appoint a representative here, the matter would be given d consideration. Tour City Today. Accompanying the prime minister and his wife were Percy Deane, sec- retary of the prime minister’s depart- ment, and Gordon B. Cooke, private secretary to the minister. The visitors will be taken on a tour of the city. after the reception this afternoon and then returned in time for another reception and dinner to be given in their honor. They are leaving Saturday morning for Ot- tawa, Canada, where they will re- main several days. Then they will go to Chicago as next step of their journey through the United States. The English-Speaking Union will be host to the visitors at a reception and tea tomorrow afternoon from 4:30 to 6 o'clock at the Cariton Hotel. While in England just before coming liere, the prime minister delivered before the imperial conference at London the third annual lecture in memory of Waiter Hines Page. This was under the auspices of the British Society of the English Speaking Union. Sir 1Tugh Denison, commissioner for Australia to the United States, escorted the party from New York to Washington, the prime minister and his wife being guests at the May- flower. 3 A number of elaborate entertain- ments are planned during their stay here. More than 100 officers of the Navy entertained the visitors at Juncheon today in the Chinese room of the silower, the ir being given in appreciation of the welcome extended by Australia on the occasion visit of the United States fleet iney in and August, 1925. Among those present at the lunch- eon were Secretary of the Mrs , the Assistant Secre s. Theodore Doug: and Mrs. Ed- r Admiral the command- rps_and Mrs. Admir n min- e Coont ine . Robert } the M Lejeune A H John Rear miral during the calendar year 19 Prominent Mason Dies NATHAN HAZEN. 400,000,000 LEVY DUE TO MISTAKES Mellon Says $175,000,000 Refund Has Been Made on Last Year’s Errors. While the Treasury refunded $175,- 000,000 in illegally collected taxes last fiscal year, Secretary Mellon declared today that during the same period it d collected $400,000,000 in additional ies made a result of mistakes taxpayers in computing their re- turns or in failure to make returns. The bulk of the refunds resulted from regular court orders, Mr. Mellon said, and many of them resulted from mistakes by the Government in inter- preting provisions of the excess profits tax, which is not now in existence. he “list of refunds paid by the Government during the last ~fiscal year was sent to the House ways and means committee this week by Seeretary Mellon, in accordance with the revenue law, which provides that the Treasury indicate to whom the refunds are given. President Coolidge Congress a request for another $175,000,000 appropriation to take care of refunds which will have to be paid during the next fiscal year. All persons named in the list “sub- mitted this week have been paid. Oldfield Urges Cut. Further reason for tax reduction legislation at this session of Congress is found by Chairman Oldfield of the Democratic congressional _campaign committee in the request for an ap- propriation of $175,000,000 for the re- funds. He says that it calls attention to the fact that the Government is collecting entirely too much mone; from both individuals and corpora- tions. Making it plain that he is. not criticizing the refunds, Mr. Oldfleld says: “The greater part of the money will go to a relatively few indlviduals and big corporations, for instance the du pont interests, which will get back from the Federal treasury approxi- mately $10,000,000. “While it is prchably true that most of this money was collected unjustly and possibly illegally, it is also true that a lot of this tax money was passed on to consumers who will re- ceive none of the benefit from the re- funds. It is_also true that unless there is immediate tax reduction legis- lation, the Government will collect approximately a half-billlon dollars more from the taxpavers during the present fiscal year than it actually needs, and that is as unjust as was the collection of the money Mr. Mellon now asks an appropriation to refund. “If he will give his approval to the tax reduction bill now before the which would reduce taxes 27 approx- 0,000,000, he will be help- ing to do something for the consum- ing m: es who will get little or nothing out of the $175.000,000 refund appropriation now recommended. Mellon Takes Exception. “It would be much better for Mr. Melion to join in this just plan of relief than to go on collecting exces- sive and unjust sums, and then come to Congress next vear on the eve of another presidential election and ask for refunds and reductions for politi- cal and not economic reasons and has forwarded to Hao 3 imately $3 | seventh THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. FOSSILS FOUND IN ALASKA SHOW NATIVES WERE OF ASIATIC ORIGIN NATHAN HAZEN DIES FROM LONGILLNESS Served for More Than 47 Years in Office of Chief of Ordnance. Nathan Hazen, 77 vears old, who was retired as chief clerk of the offi of the chief of ordnance, U. S. A.. August 20 of this year, after more than 49 years of Government serv died at his residence, 2844 Twenty street, yesterday afternoon after a long illness. He had been em- ployed continuously in the ordnance department for more than 47 3 Mr. Hazen was a charter member of the Army Ordnance Association and was prominent in Masonic circles, having been past master of Benjamin B. French Lodge, No. F. A. A. N a member of the Washington Chap- ter, No. 2, R. A. M., and Washington Commandery, Knights Templar. He also was charter member of the Co- lumbia Permanent Building Associa tion and a director in that organiza- tion for many years Born in Pennsylvania. Born in Pennsylvania, May 30, 1849, Mr. Hazen came to Washington and obtained employment in the Govern ment Printing Office August 1, 1877. He entered the Ordnance Department as sergeant of ordinance, August 12 1879, and on August 8, 1882, he was transferred to a civillan clerkship in that department. Passing through the various grades, he reached the posi- tion of chief clérk of the office, March 1, 1918. holding that position until the date of his retirement. Many high tributes were paid Mr. Hazen by the various commanding generals of the department with whom he came in contact during his many years of service. Fueral Services Tomorrow. Mr. Hazen is survived by his widow, Mrs. Mary Ha a daughter, Mrs. Ralph S. Nagle, and two broth- ers, Scott Hazen of Mount Bethel, Pa and Dr. W. P. C. Hazen of this cit Funeral services wil be conducte at his late residence tomorrow after- noon at 1:30 o'clock. Interment will be in Arlington Cemetery. FOES OF INHERITANCE TAX MAP CAMPAIGN Delegates From 30 States Attend Meeting at the Raleigh Hotel. Thirty States were represented at a meeting yesterday of the National Committee Opposed to the Federal In- heritance Tax. at the Raleigh Hotel, where plans for concerted action by the majority of State Legislatures were determined on to demand from Congress repeal of such tax. Most of the States’ representatives at the meeting were members of the State Legislatures that meet next month, or appointees of the governors of those States especially designated to attend. Arthur A. Sherman, president pro tem of the Rhode Island Senate, presided. According to Edgar A. Brown, speaker of the South Carolina Legisla- ture, the Federal inheritance tax, as contained in the last revenue measure, has resulted in a nation-wide protest from taxpayers, State Legislatures, and civic leaders, many of whom have already appealed to Congress to repeal this levy. Sentiment both in the House and in the Senate at the present time is for the repeal of this measure, Frank W. Mondell, former majority leader on the floor of the House, told the meeting. Others who spoke at the meeting were: William H. Blodgett, tax com- missioner of Connecticut; Oscar H. Morris, State Senator of Wisconsin; Harrison Hewett, lawyer, of New Haven, Conn,; Clark Durant of Hart- ford, Conn.; Henry C. Downward, speaker of Delaware Legislature; Harvey P. Hall, State Senator of Delaware; E. A. Harriman of Wash- ington, representing the State of Florida; E.-D. Telford, State Senator of Illinois; Jesse L. Deck, State Sena- tor of Illinois; J. F. Lochard, State Senator of Indiana; William H. Hol- man, member of Maine Legislature: J E. 8. Haskell, member of New Hamp: shire Legislature; L. F. Kefauver, 'member of Maryland legislature; J Ronald Horsey, member of Maryland Legislature; Elmer Spear, member of Massachusetts Legislature; James C. Quinlan, State Senator of Michigan; Dexter G. Look and Fred J. McEach- ron, members of Michigan Legislature; | CITED IN CHICAGO Dead Villages Indicate Rich 0ld Culture, Declares Dr. Ales Hrdlicka. Immortality of Soul Must Be Fact, Says Another Sci- entific Speaker. Ay the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, December 30.— ¥ nd other objects with in- dications of Asiatic conditions, recent- Iy discovered in Alaska, were de- seribed today by Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, in | @ paper prepared for the American | Association for the Advancement of | Science, The objects showed evidences of a remarkable and rich old culture. Under the auspices of the Smithso- | nian Institution Dr. Hrdlicka made a four-month trip to Alaska and islands of the Bering Sea. One object was the tracing - of all possible clues as to man’s antiquity and his_migrations. About 800 miles of the Yukon, from Tanana downward, and the principal Bering Sea Islands and the seacoasts { from Nome to Point Barrow were plored. Results of Research. he results,” said the doctor, “‘were the location of scores of dead villages with some older sites along both the Yukon and the coasts, the finding of & | nitherto unknown stone indus the lower central Yukon, the gather- ing of many old acheolog objects, particularly of fossil ivory, which how collectiv a remarkable and rich old culturt with indications of connections on one side deep into Asia and on the other with that of the American northwest coast, and the collection of over 300 crania with e series of fair complete skele. representing most of the more important subdivisions of the Yukon and the co The new | president of the associa- tion elected today is A. A. Noves of the California Institute of Technology. Vice presidents elected are: Mathematics, Dunham Jackson, Uni- versity of Minnesota; physics, A. H. Compton, University of Chicago; chem- i . Roger Adams, University of Illinois: astronomy, W. §. Adams, Mount Wilson Observatory, Pasadena, Calif.; geology and geography, Charle: Schuchert, Yale University; 200logy C. E. McClung, University of Pe: vani; search, Yonkers, N. Y.; & y | R. J. Terry, Washington University psychology, Knight Dunlap, Johns Hopkins [niversi social and nomic science, W, Leathers, derbilt University and philos ophy, Harry mith Col- ]]C‘g engineering, A. N. Talbot, Uni- versity of 1llinois; medicine, G. Canby Robinson, Medical School of Vander- bilt University; agriculture, L. 8. Call, Kansas State Agricultural College, Manhattan, Kans., and education, / T. Gates, Teachers' College, Columbia University. A lifetime spent in studying astrono- my and allied sciences has led Dr. Heber D. Curtis, director of the Alle- gheny Observatory, to believe that the human soul exists after death. In addressing the scientists on the “Unity of the Universe,” he showed how the same elements composed the earth and the most distant stars, how electrical action appears to be the same on earth as on the dimmest star and how physical and chemical processes seem to be the same throughout the universe and time, and he added: Element of Mind Stressed. “I personally find it impossible to regard handel’s “'Largo,” Keats' “Ode to a Grecian Urn” and the higher ethics as mere by-products of the chemical interaction of a collection of - hydrocarbon molecules. . With energy, matter, space and time .con- tinuous, with nothing lost or wasted, are we ourselves the only manifesta- tion that comes to an end, ceases, is annihilated at three-score years and ten? “What we crudely call the spirit of man makes new compounds, plays with the laws of chemical action, guides the forces of the atom, changes ) [ DR. ALES HRDLICKA. the face of the earth, glves new forms and takes it a millions of animals and plants. is a flame that controls it flaming, a creative spirit which can- not r onably be less than the con- tinuity it controls ‘“This thing, soul, cannot well be an exception. In some way, as yet impossible to d fine, it, too, must possess continui Einstein Theory Disputed. The Einstein theory of light re- flection is disputed by Dr. Charles Lane Poor, physicist and astronomer of Columbia University, and Dr. R. F. Moulton, professor of dynamic as- tronomy at the University of Chicago. Dr. Poor said that Einstein's theory was “not in accordance with the facts, and Dr. Moulton asserted that it was “impossible” for Einstein to have spoken with anything resembling finality.” He said there a per- centage of error in Einstein's calculas tions varying from 5 to 20 per cent. 3xperiments_on_rabbits have con- vinced Dr. D. H. Bergey, of the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, that diebetes is caused by a filtrable virus, which may be cultivated. This discovery, he said, opened the way for the de- velopment of sufficient prophylactic and _thereapeutic measures the disease. Will Measure Universe. Scientists will some day estimate accurately the size of the univers Dr. Eljnar Hertzsprung of the Uni- versity of Leyden, Holland, predicted. Dr.” Hertzsprung further expressed the belief that the accomplishment of this feat ists will be simple. “In the Milky id, * various groups of stars Cepheid. To measure astronomical distance we select a group of these and in conjunction with the known speed of the sun, which is 20 kilo- meters per second, distance from the sun as its light rays show through them “These stars are nearly 1,000 ti brighter than'the sun. With this culation made, we measure the amount of drift by combining the sun's speed with the angular motion of the stars, and then, by comparing the brightest of stars with the bright- ness of other stars of a lower magni- tude, determine their distance from the earth. Immigration s Topic. Speaking before the social science branch, Dr. Ronald Young, University of Pennsylvania, said that whatever non-enforcement of the immigration laws in the United States exists, is due in large measure to exceptional circumstances found in this country rather than neglect or inefficiency the part of the immigration service. Dr. Young recommemtied in generai terms a few protective measures. Among them were. Select immigrants on their indivi ual merits, limit quantity and qual ity of immigrants by economic needs of the United States, determine the admissibility of the immigrant in his home country and adequate supervi- y from Here miud or spirit, s | sion of resident aliens. 30,000,000 GRAFT Federal Attorney Says Fund PANAMA EXPLAIN NEW U. S. TREATY Foreign Minister Alfaro Is- life to | own | against | determine their | THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1926. WARNS DEMOCRATS NOT 70 BAR SMITH Ex-Gov. Dunne Says Block- ing of Oath for Senator Would Be Fatal to Party. By the Aseociated Press. . CHICAGO, December 30.—The powers that guide the Democratic party have been warned by one of their own po- litical faith that denial of the oath of |a Unite es Senator to Col. FFrank L. Smith of Illinois “will be fatal to the party.” The prediction was made by Edward F. Dunne, former Democratic Gover. nor of Illinois, who declared that such |an act “would be the biggest blunde |by the Democrats since the Civil | War” and the death knell of State's | rights. Protesting the | Ashurst, Democrat, from Arizona, that |the Senate withhold the h of Col. | Smith, the Illinois Democratic leader, o the representatives of his Washington to keep their ctivity in the controversy —over mith’s deating in strict accord with Jefersonian principles. Calls Doctrine Terrible. The Senator-elect should be given his oath and allowed to present his credentials, after which he could be regularly refused a seat by a two thirds vote, Dunne argued. ‘“Any other method, particularly in view of his appointment to a vacancy, will be fatal, in my judgment, to the Demo- ‘('rn.tk‘, party. “I cannot cenceive of political lead | ers nurtured in the school of Jefferson even giving consideration, much le: support, to the terrible doctrine pro- posed by Democratic members of the United States Senate. “I cannot state the case too strong- ly, to do what Senator Ashurst pro- poses shall be done would be the bi | zest blunder by the Democrats since the Civil War. Opposed to Smith. much, because they constitute the party that has been naming judges who are carrying out the centralized Government program of gradually ex- tinguishing all State rights. The Ashurst proposal, if adopted, would | mean the wiping out of the last ves. | tige of State sovereignty, which the Federal Constitution intended never should be done. Affirming his political opposition to Col. Smith without passing judgment | on the campaign expenditure charges about which the controve over Smith's seating revolves, Dunne de- ined the peril to the party to be, in repudiating a certificate of election, opening the way for Republicans : some later date to refuse recognition of credentials of Democratic Senators | from Southern States by charging that the elections violated the Consti tution, with regard to the amendment | siving the negro the vote. Senator Ashurst, sponsor of the pre tested resolution, forwarded to Go Small of Illinols a request for par- ticulars about ‘his appointment of Col, Smith to complete the unexpired term {of the late ator William B. M | Kinley. The Arizona Senator wanted to know whether Smith was appointed on the strength of his recent election to the long term or for other reason Gov. Small has indicated he chiefly was guided by the verdict of the bal- lot. Meanwhile, “Republicans at Wash- ington rested and awaited a first state- ment from Smith as to his acceptance or rejection of the appointment, which he again declined to make here last night. LEAPLEY AID FUND OVER .00 MARK $683.29 Still Needed to Clear Home of Family Fatherless After Accident. Subseriptions to the fund now being collected for the relief of Mrs. Lewis Leapley, 708 G street southeast, whose seven children were left fatherless one week ago today when her husband was killed in an automobile aceident, ed the $1,000 mark today. The ct total recéived by the cashier of r was $1,016.71, leaving but | $683.29 to be paid on the little home of the Leapley family if those in | charge of administering the fund proposal of Senator | s | By the Associated Press. “It won't hurt the Republicans o | Giraffes at Zoo Get Many Holiday Cards and Letters High Boy and Dot, the two giraffes at the Zoo, got about as many Christ- mas cards as any two children in Washington. Some quite elaborate Christmas mes- ges were sent to them by boys and 1s, Dr. William M. Mann, superin tendent of the Zoo, sald yesterday. They have been getting letters ever since they arrived, but they have needed a soclal s ary during the holiday season. Some of the children word their messages as If they personally were known by the giraffes “You must have noticed the little boy with the military coat, brass but tons and cape lined with red standing in front of y ige last Sunday,” writes one. hat was me." “I live near the Zoo and have been to see you,” writes another. “I would like to have you ¢ nd see me as soon as the weather gets warm enough for you to go walkin BRAZILIAN REBEL FORGE VANQUISHED sa Government Army Wins 7-. Hour Engagement in Southern State. . BUENOS AIRES, December 30 Advices to La Nacion concerning the revolt in southern Brazil v a rebel column headed by Zecca Netto was completely vanquished by govern- ment troops, after seven hours of fighting. The advices, from an of- ficial source in Porto Alegre, State of Rio Grande do Sul, declare the governmental forces lost only four men in the encounter, which ended in the flight of the rebels. The City of Sao Francisco de Assis, in the same state, is reported to be in the possession of revolutionaries. The State of Rio Grande do Sul, the southernmost of the Brazlian federation, has been troubled by revo lutionary outbreaks for several years, sometimes proclaimed against the state government at Porto Alegre and sometimes against the federal govern- ment at Rio Janeiro. The revolutionis re reported to consist of roving bands of a few hun- dred men each, which neither federal mor the state troops ally have been able to dispers they flee into the remote parts of the sparsely populated regions when out- numbered to bide their time. any of the rebel for evacuated the City of Sao Paulo after the formidable revolution in that city in July, 1924, took refuge In Rio Grande do Sul and, it is said, never were captured. Since that date the outbreaks in this state have been more frequent than formerly, resulting, according to reports, in considerable damage 1to the interests of cattle raisers and other peaceful VILE BUT HARMLESS FORMULA SOUGHT BY adulterants. In treating source of supply, the unscrupulous bootlegger, caring not for the qualiiy of his product, but only for the sales, was sald by the Treasury spokesmen to be turn ing out liquor which was not fit for consumption in i intimated at the Treasury t poor quality of the liquor available today for illicit beverage purposes was the best testi- monial to the i sing effectiveness of the Treasury program for enforce- ment of prohibition. Secretary Mellon believes there has been a degree of improvement in en- forcement, but that there is room for more. It would be unreasonable, in his opinion, to believe enforcement complete, any more than to believe that the law against murder or any other crime could be enforced 100 per cent. But the Government was said by the Secretary to be making efforts to make prohibition effective as possible Meantime, the argument of wet and dry champions over poison liquor continued, with the = Association this Prohibition Amendment | | | the | which ! natured With wood alcohol and other GANGSTER BIRGER DENIES HIS ARREST Undecided on Whether He Will Surrender to Sheriff in lllinois. By tho Associated Press. 111, December 30, ‘harles Birger, gang leader, was under arrest was somewhat of a mystery today. He is accused of com- plicity fn_the murder of Mayor Joo 5 st irner of Saline ¢ would not say whethere Birger n arrested after a warrmnt had vered to Turner Tuesday by Pritchard, sheriff of Franklin Coun had 1 becn d James County. Pritchard s to have I seat. of Franklin 1 he could do nothing ken to Benton, the County, since the leader was out of his jurisdic A trip into Franklin County , would result in Birger's in Pritchard sald. - telling a_correspondent. Tucs night that the warrant had besn «d on him by two deputy sheriffs, erlay said that the report 1l a mistak dded that he was not r he would surrend t he was spending consid- for Carl Shel- nd leader of yet sure whe nd ex plained able time searching 1 avowed enem STATE DROPS CASE OF MRS. McPHERSON, LOS ANGELES PASTOR (Con irst Page.) nued from radio operator. Mrs, Ormiston sald she received the letter following her crival in Sydney, where she went live with her father after leaving California last January, Mrs. Ormiston revealed, however, that the letter informed her that she was “free to seek a divorce,” while Ormiston would be content to “live on in memories” of a happy married life. Would Drop Ormiston Case. In the event the charges against Mrs. McPherson and her co-defend- ants are withdrawn, a motion also would be made to quash the con- spiracy indictment against Ormiston, the district attorney’s office indicated. | A new investigation was ordered when Mrs. Wiseman, who previously d that she had been hired by ‘Pherson to perpetrate the so- rmel hoax to bolster the kidnaping story, added to her story the accusation that she had been first approached with the propo- siton by a relative of Roland Rich | Wooley, at that time Mrs. McPher- | son’s personal attorney Wooley issued a strenuous. deniel, declaring that the “whole thing is a frame-up engineered by interested parties for the sole purpose of having the case thrown out of court.” Mrs. Wiseman-Sielaff, who declared that she and Wooley were schoolmates in Salt Lake City, was confronted terday in the district attorney’s office by Wooley, who denied he had the woman before she office here. Both were or- dered to appear before the grand jury today. Alleged Offer of Revelation. revealed by the prosecution that during the past two weeks Mrs. i Wiseman had approached a Los Angeles newspaper Wwith a proposi- tion to sell it an entirely new versfon of her story of the disappedrance. In that connection, she offered to give the paper the name of the man who she said had paid her to enter the | McPherson affair. Mr man testified at the pre- limin: hearin that she was em- ployed by Mrs. McPherson to produce a woman who would pose as the cot- tage companion of Ormiston. This was taken by the State to indicate that the evangelist had ‘manufac- tured evidence” to combat the State's contention that it was she who was Ormiston’s Carmel companion. CITY OF FABULOUS WEALTH GUARDED BY MAGIC STONE SOUGHT st_Page.) It was | (Continued from Solomon and the Queen of Sheba to by land and sea. ilization rivaled the Phoe- and the riches of northern Africa and of Asia poured into their \Which would directly benefit only a relatively few people, but give no re- Against the lief to the consuming millions on whose shoulders more than 70 per |cent of these tax’ burdens are un- { loaded.” Den | Taking exception to the charges of sished | Representative Oldfield, Democrat, 0f | ¢ virginia Legislature; H. P. Henshaw, dinner | Arkansas that the refutids of 1axes|siate Senatoor of West Virginia: of the |showed the Treasury was collettifi | james H. Brewster, member of West | nt {Loo much money, and therefore there | irginia Legislature: Kenneth H. Fake, | e e e member of New York legislature, and | 1o Fins Iitite wibe wndeteom | £ O D Bigler. Biate Fseater W collected under the old ex: Maryland. law, no longer on the statuce UNION ETEFTAE‘[‘)IES, | books. 1d, They were : eat warriors and remained unconq :red until a mysterious, unrecordec tragedy emp- tied the city of its inhabitants, wiping e said a state-{,,¢ the Nabeatean race. ment from the Association Agai Ever sinée the Blace hss heen alinie |the Prohibition Amendment, “a boot- | nad by the Arabs, who did not allow legger has killed a prohibition en-;nyhoc pproach the mysterious forcement agent in the course of «|oity. The British occupation of Pal- running fight, the unfortunate offices | astine changed matters and a party of the law has been at once enrolled | of archeologists, protected by a strong in the noble army of martyrs by Mr.|detachment of troops, is on the way Wheeler. . to Petra now to verify the statement But now, when a citizen innocent|of a Bedouin, who, by mere chance of the breaking of any law—for even|obtained a glimpse of the untold Mr. Wheeler's pet laws do not make |treasure. it a crime to purchase liquor—is| According to the Westminster Ga- poisoned by the bootleggers’ goods, the | zette, an Arab member of a Bedouin victim, by Mr. Wheeler's dictum, Is |tribe encamped near Petra stepped guilty of suicide, a moral crime of fupon a “moving stone,” which tiled such™ atrocious natur not more land dropped him into a shallow vault than u century ago would suffice tofand then crashed back into place. have its perpetrator buried at four |leaving him In darkness. Feeling crossroads, Wwilth a stake driven |around the vault, he found the open through him, ing of a passage abeut a half mile In opposing the use of poison de-jlong. Walking toward a faint light, naturants, this association has always [he arrived in a large room from held that nobody voted for prohibition | which six other passages led farther with murderous intent. It still holds | back into the mountain. that the misguided followers of the| In the center of the room he found Anti-Saloon League did not so vote.”” |a huge urn, and climbing a pedestal, Z e LT he saw immense wealth in gold coins, HILLES IS PICKED The. Bédmain halpar himsstt 10 as TO REFORM G. 0. P. LINES IN NEW YORK Admiral Eoho field, assistan om Franklin S. Edmonds of. Philadelphia; | Arthur A. Sherman, president pro | tempore Rhode Isiund Senate; Zenas | W. Bliss, tax commissioner of Rhode | Island; Edgar A. Brown, speaker of | South ' Carolina_ Legislature; R. O. Norris and J. W. Topping, members Is Impressive Force in Politics. sues Statement, Answering | finally decide to exvend the money for that purpose. European Comment. The contributions received to date attacking Wayne B. Wheeler’'s state- ment yesterday that the 'victims of liquor were “deliberate sui “When in the past” s r Admiral Scho- Albert Knothe, R. N, whe of the Br | are: Acknowledged Joseph Brittoni. . A. B. N. Pitcher G. W. B oo Louis E. Hayes Mrs. J. M. O'Roy T. Partridge. M € ME. s | Emma_Stahl Rau Helen Hayes Set for Tonight. and Lad; the disti Dinner By the Associated Press CHICAGO, December estimated at $30,000,000 a year in the Chicago district comprising the 19 northernmost countles of Illinois, was remarked upon as a “force to be reck- oned with in politics” by Edwin A. | Olson, Federal district attorney, in re- porting to Washington yesterday upon his four years of office, goon to end. The Volstead act and the possibil- ities of enforcing it were dilataed upon, | with the final observation that “the manufacture and sale of liquor as a | husiness can be stopped in this district whenever the Government receives | proper co-operation from local law en- forcement official The permanent injunction he char- acterized as prohibition’s sharpest weapon, and said that while there are only three Federal judges in the dis- trict to handle all litigation, there are in Chicago 15 times that many equally | capable of directing padlocking: Mr. Olson sald his office had econ- By the Associated Press. PANAMA, December 30.—The Pana- | man foreign minister, Senor Alfaro, is sued a statement vesterday dealing with comments published by the Euro pean press with reference to the new treaty pending getween the United States and Panama. This treaty sup- plements that of 1903, and provides |1 that in case of war Panama will aid |C the United States in protecting the |4- Canal Zone. ¢ European opinion has been some- what disturbed by what it considers a defensive alliance betwen the two countries. In his statement Senor Al- faro said: “All these made unoff plete lack of knowledge of our rela tions with the United States. As a | atter of fact, before Panama joined | League of ations there the treaty of November 15, 19 tween Panama and the U whereby, owing to special cir stances, we could not remain neutral | in the evént of a war in which the United States was one of the bellig- | erents, | “This fact was evidenced in 1917, when the United States declared war against Germany. The next day Pan- | ama did likewise. These details a not unknown to the League, and th is why perhaps the League has re- frained from making any statement on the subject.’ PLANS BIG C.ELEBRATION. 30. — Graft room promine; y It could not be logically concluded, according to Mr. Mellon, that because the courts decided certain funds had | bean illegally collected under an ex- t | cendingly difficult law to administer that the Treasury could now stand {tax reduction. The refunds, he point- ed out, were from decisions of bo the Board of Tax Appeals and th courts, and e out of exceeding technical ques difficult to decide. er of Burnside Post, G. A. R., ma ! . and was to have been installed in Joserh Union Army vete with the § ment as cnief clerk of the N Mili Home, at Dayton, Ohio, 28 v , died at his residence, Third street northeast, last night after | a short iliness. Mr. Wier w 5 ol 2,00 1.00 1.00 1.00 5.00 2.00 .00 5.00 5.00 of 2 comments have been | Mr N lly and reveal a com-|Elon von Culin. |A Friend. ry R and Mrs. Lon, tish Charlt Soli Mitch and Mrs t Secre nt But the 0 Housekeeper Dies in Fire. that office next month, it is stated. He had lived in this city since 19 CHICAGO, December 30 (). —Miss | e by e RI6ass ach, 65 years old, the hous ton and Mrs. James Rob. 000 bootleggers in | lost her life when flamesiertson of New York and Miss Agnes | th 3 number cough the upper floors of the | Brown of Philadelphia. | ¢ other prosecution office in | rmandy Hotel. A num- | Funeral services will be conducted |tk T and had set another | persons were ied by fi at his late residence tomorrow after-|record in the number of places pad- .ved the blaze originated | ncon at 1:30 c'clock. Interment will [locked by injunction for one year. \nd Mrs, | from a lignted cigarette. Ibe in Arhngton Cemetery. The district attorney disclaimed that | prohibition had made officials turn crooked, but had opentd up new sources of revenue for the same graft- ing officials who always protected | lcenda Bell, Nearly 126 Years Old, Dies; gambling, prostitution, dope peddling, W | thievery and other forms of crime. as Free-Born Natlve 0£ FrederICkaurgl It has been estimated that the graft e collected from beoze and vice in this | district amounts to the princely sum of $30,000,000 a vear.” he said. | “The influenc: 000,000 of year- {1y graft money is a force to be reckon- | ed with in politics. It reaches into high | pla 1t finances campaigns. It will | stop at nothing to prevent the prosecu- | tion and punishment of its Dbenefici- arfes or to discredit and destr honest public official who refuses touch its dirty money or to listen to its | seductive offers of political advance ment."” Politicians are_incapable of enfore ing prohibition, he asserted, and tho enforcement machinery — should be placed in the hands of those who believe in enforcement and the en-, forcibility of the prohibition laws. tor ry L keeper, | swept t four-sto tary of | ber of wrr, the {men, who be D State A ssist My nt Secr Wilbur « ¢ Com much as he ecould rry and went toward the fissure in the wall through which light came. After making desperate efforts, he able to step through and reached amp by sunset. The next day, mpanied by members of his family tried in vain to find again the stone moved or the fissure. When he tried to sell some of the gems and coins he was arrested by the jritish authorities, to whom he told the wonderful story of his discovery. The British high commissioner, al though skeptical of the Bedouin's tale, veported to London, and the British Museum authorities decided to act at Centennial Sunday Mrs. Charles Hathaw: 1}!91"“ 2. Machen Mrs. E. Reznek H. B. Maxwe Baptist ner |~ d s, | cond secretary i f the ation h iilable candidate for the Senate a year and a half hence. Mr. Hilles, according to reports re- ceived here, is willing to undertake | the burden of building up the organ- atlon azain. He declared to be acceptable to all the party gioups wkich have threatened to become fac tions. e has announced already that he will seek to have the next Repub lican rational convention held in New k City. During the Taft campaign in Mr. Hilles was chafrman of the Republican national e He is widely known ut the country. Before Mr. became chairmian of the Re. n national committee he was Vv 1o the President in the Taft folks | of the War of 1812, was familiar with pars old | the early Civil War days when Presi dent Lincoln first came to the White House and of the era followinz the cilted her, and then mitEEitL Lo e Mes, Colo fm e (DA Sit the old colored woman who died | that Al sted she was hortly after 10 o'clock this morning | J€YE le o (rechon to forey - aily toddy when | 1% Freden Vo sbasiy wios oady wor was fort iy '\,’My} ‘\‘]"5 d who smoked her old black corn S complained before b | coby pipe, had often complained since s died, m feel “po'ly” Alcenda | pe ejghteenth amendment en- was born, her people said this morn- | ,.ied, her daughter-in- said, that in Fredericksburg, Va.. In 1801 | 57'C001dn't ‘e so poo e ool 1 +h me to Washington the day | only have a good toddy. esident Gartield was assassinated. Althou she was able to walk until She had seven children nml_ now her Monday, the old colored woman survivors have inereased to include 10 | hag to give up her old black corn cob yandchildren, 28 great-grandchildren | pipe several years ago through sheer nd 4 great-great-grandchildren. 1HGK O sthength. 3 Seated in the modest little sitting | As many of the surviving children at noon today, Mrs. Martha| and grandchildren who can reach Cole, her daughter-in-law, who is her-| Washington in time for the funeral self nearly -threescore and ten, will be here to attend the final pro- cession to a Washington cemetery. flashes of the old life that was s ped this morning. Her mother Funeral arrangements have not been completed. d and 1 n 126 Bell is de ve be Alcenda she would I r day BIRDS FIGURE IN COURT. Patten, e Association Will Remember Eman- cipation Anniversary. nt out that the anclents ill in making secret pas s and doors which were ap parts of stone walls, but cunningly devised system asily opened under pres- spot. It is likely the Bedouin accidentally stepped spot controlling the counterbal opening the secret door and fell into the vauit. The slab closed behind him and could not be opened except by some one who knew where to press it from within. iight have e ohibition that 1t mig ve hi 1 Goose and Turkey Hen Are Basis ¢ po of Larceny Charge. sagewa parently - | which, by of balanc sure at The | emancip: celebrat xty-fourth anniversary of the fon proclamation will be | aturday at the Galbraith A. M. E. 7. Church, Sixth and L streets, under the auspices of the | Emancipation Association of Washing. ton, D. C. | Speukers on the program will in- clifde Col. West Hamilton, U. 8. Army and editor of the Sen- Douglas of the Dunbar High School faculty; Rev. Dr. J. C. Olden, Rev. Dr. W.' D. Battle, Mrs. Lena Hart and Willlam O. Walker, managing editor of the Washington Tribune. Several fraternal orders are expect- ed to participate. P. H. Bethea is president of the assoclation and he will preside, while C. W. White, sec- retagd, will act in that capacity. N ARTIST EXPIRES. William ey hen figured in when Bernard I Parker and Howard Luckett, both | colored, pleaded not guilty to a joint | charge of petty larceny and demanded |a jury trial, Judge George H. Mac- | Donald fixed the bond at $300. According to Policemen K. P. Green- low and F, L. Arrington, of the four- teenth precinct, the defendants en- tered the back yard of Fred Banger- ter, 3830 Davenport street, Christmas night and seized both the goose and hen. The goose was located after the colored men, police say, had sold it for $2.75 2.75. Robert Scholz Dies at| B n’s Home. vl Seholz rs old, his son. | IN8 recalled here today that Sen- ator Wadsworth not long ago an- nounced that President Coolidge was the logical candidate of the Republi- can party for President in 1928. The President is strong in New York, probably as strong as in any of the Brec excepting Massachusetts. f e selection of Mr. Hilles to take Efforts to find the hen proved fruit-| the lead in rebuilding the party or- less, but, gpoording o Policeman | ganization in -the Empire State was Greenlow, omle of the defendants ad- |commented upon favorably in Repub- mitted enln’ Mcan quarters here today. { Deat ing his After return survived by and two | John Howard, Author, Dead. STAFFORD SPRINGS, Conn., De- cember 30 (#).—John Raymond How- ard, 90, author, editor and publisher, died today. His writings include a study of Henry Ward Beecher, of whom he was a close friend. BAND COINCERT. TOMORROW. By the United States Marine Band, at Marine Barracks, 3:30 p.m., Wil- liam H. Santelmann, leader; Taylor Branson, second leader. room morrow afternoon the Masons in will be private, | she said, vividly remembered incidents 5 Interme charge. i - %