Evening Star Newspaper, January 4, 1927, Page 2

9 THE _EVENING BE [Soviet Invites Aid ORYLAW BATILE Cites Police Records Here asj He Offers Three Bills to Modify Prohibition. By the Assoc MOSCOW, ver Q@ P January ment has sin work on a g canal Lnking the Vol Don Riy The p ive an outlet from ion to the Black the Don, permittin xports of lumt w Th decided to $65.000,000 and the would Volga wiy reat 1 e Sea by extensive received superinten Quoting statistics Maj. Edwin B police, showing 1 to December were arrested in ating what i Sheppard Dem niitic d i th Was ne m participate their near the thin 35 ritsi 1 canl nd the Don miles of each other Presumably will be built some laws the An ) ntecntl URGESSI0 DAY FORD. . HEADS ndm He e e Ho n problet Vol tion providing hteenth intro i r the third fesiln mendment | a4 per el Citizens” Bol nd to the Constitut mit the manufact portation of light Cites Number of Mr the toxication inte icles while re ar-| dy Also Favors Vigerous War on Reck- less Truck Drivers. con aw the | nte | Cochran Sheppard on <ic statement tended that under which includ i Hear approval of the movement { for the incr of District Commis. the campaign for the suppression of 1 kless delivery truck driving were "\.umi at the meetin held by the ! Central Citizens' |in the Bank : : wse police records. Volstead wrested in W ording to the Tor vio the made. for vio- oniy 187 in publ who were streets during the intoxicated period,” Mr. report shows »hol, brand . rum, e s .ot quarts were cla arvested bos in introduced the the pay of the nd made an earn support of the or the eing resolution concer Commissioners plea for the tion “It s vear for “Dur this ochran d. 126,019 quarts whisky, wine, and cognac amount as whis “The seizures under act also included mash, 103 stills vehicles. Only wrested manufacturing whisky \while 1,120 were arrested for trans- porting liquor, from the hip pocket flask up to truck loads same & “the said Mr. McMackin r or banke his in shame,” prominent 1 s man t come and patronage in order to direct the affairs of th tion’s Capital at | a salary of $7.500 a vear. Men like nt Commissioners are capa ble of earning far more money t | that in their private businéss. Suggests Salary of $10.000. he salary should be $10,000 at { least, and it is the duty of every ac | tive citizens’ body to work toward se fon Fails. called attention | {Uring that salary for our District shington there the polic busine the Volstead gallons of | and 530 motor 64 persons wer for L Says Co-opera Mr. Cochran also to the fact that in Wa is co-operation hetween and prohibtion officials, as Dboth are virtually Federal He also cited “these violations occured in a city where the T entatives of all prohibtion orga were con stantly on guard who contin- etury John mmunication in answe 1 Citizems traffic McMahon from the Commis to an appeal of the Association for more | protection. The asso-| was informed th Inspector | Brown of the e Bureal s {looking into the matters brought up nally issue statmerfts which seek to by the citizens. i create the impression that m-ohibl-i _Dr. William s tion is a fact and not a_ theory.” | Slack, Dr. P. T, He emphasized that the Police De- | dent Ryan spok partment statistics failed to show the ; the reckless dr increase in the arrests as the months YOUNg motoris proceeded during t ar, but .»,,‘zw]'xii'lluh- delivery The contrary, while 1,619 were arrest. { the attitude of ‘The e oo amuary 4 year ago, 1,066 were | Plgn against the evil arrested last month. October show Postmaster Complimented. t ! » ’e ' £ 96. T i e e el A resolution of tribute to Postmas- TR e ter Mooney was presented by Dr. OLSON SUSPECT HELD v and adupu—"l, (‘nmnu"nd]:m: {ho IN HARRISBURG, PA. of the post office in handling Youth Believed to Be One Wanted | the holiday mail. The association voted to make a di- in Connection With Wiscon- sin Murder. oner ample ciation t P Kenealy, Duncan and Presi.| in condemnation_of ving on the part of ting i | | rect appeal t6 the President for the ! reappointment of Engineer Commis- | soner Bell. Unanimous opposition to| {the proposed Lond issue was ex- | pressed. The following received into th members were | association: Miss Dena M. Kingsley, Thomas Hall, Fred HARRISBURC ary 4.— | A. Minnigh, David L. Riordan, S. E. A youth suspected of being Erdman | Storer, Henry Flury, Thomas J. Kil- Olson, wanted for the murder of his|ligan, C. Bertram Geliton, Thomas sweetheart in Wisconsin, was being | F. O'Connor, John F. Courtney, M. questioned by State police here today. | Winston, William H. Thompson, A. C. The prisoner denied he was ()]shn’Mv»orn, Joseph E. Connell, Walter R. and claimed to be Frank Jackson, 20, | Carter and A. C. Mitchell. 2 native of Boston. He declared he il was making his way from Baltimore to Harrisburg to obtain work in a planing mill when arrested about mid- night near New Freedom, Pa. The suspect has brown eves and| heavy black hair and is said to bear | « marked resemblance to photographs | of the missing Olson. He was arrest- | ©d on information given the State ] police by J. E. Harman, an insurance | y men, at whose home the youth called | to_beg a meal { While In the house the vouth saw | & newspaper containing a photograph | of Olson and read the accompanying | news story eagerl Mrs. Harman | noticed the suspect resembled Olson's picture and State police were in-| ne Star Readers Have Donated $200 Since Yesterday for Mrs. Leapley. sived 1o date are suspensions $1,681.61 00 87.00 1.00 3.00 5.00 1.00 n . cher K 2200 Thomas A 00 formed. SRR ol PERMIT REVOCATIONS Readers of The Star have contribut- |ed nearly $200 since yesterday to the SHOW DROP RECENTLY fund this newspaper is compiling for the assistance of Mrs. Lewis Leapley, e widow of the Auth Co. driver who 18 Canceled in Last 2 Weeks of|was killed in an automobile accident two days before Christmas. The total December, Compared With 34 |fund now stands at $1,874.20 and this e {amount will be used to assure Mrs, in First Half Month. | Leapley and her seven children of Director of Traffic M. 0. Eldridge | ieir home, which was not clear Eeliitied Shp Tspenaed be tdHVEON | SAitORAY funds ST e trecallen permits of 16 District motorists dur-|powever, in order that the mother and ing the last two weeks of December, | pen children can be given the com according to his semi-monthly report | plete aid they need. - i a Maj. Edwin B.| " Contributions re ¥ ent of police. The|ag follows Y revocations for the | previo cknowledgec preceding two weeks totaled 34. Mr R A Iildridge, attributes the reduction to|Members of the fifth precinct more carefu | Metropolitan Police As_usual largest number Anonymous permits were taken up on charges of | Nat Glasser ... driving while intoxicated en_mo- | Retired motori torists lost their privileges to drive|Mrs. Mary -1t on this charge. Kour permits were H. H. ... . suspended for bud Tecords, three for!|In memory of leaving after colliding und spoon manslaughter. The report also shows permits were restored week period V. O'Conner mas entertainment ‘tion, Petworth B: Sunday ol 500 00 100 500 in Glenwood Cemetery. 10 Mrs. Mi vears old ington, died Saturday home of her brothe 1407 North Capitol s ness of two weeks Bhe was the widow of Edw nard, who conducted 1 1Two | A syinpathizer DR ¥ lifelong r dt Barnard, mornin Spei 5.00 Snubbers 10.00 5.00 1.00 2.00 1.00 10.00 rd Bar-| plumbing 5. Sh Barnard Allen Mrs Rocker, all ington Funeral service ernoon from tl at 8 v'clock N Griffith, rector of the Mount Episcopal Church, officlated t was in Glenwood Cemie her brothe were held this aft me of her brother | tev, Be . Fort Bill Gets Setback. ts Hunt and bank of the Washington, The effort to have | Washington, on either | Potor River below _{turned over by the War Department . daughter of | to the ational Capital Park und A M. Fraser of | Planning Commission as part of the this city, died in a Baltimore hospital | park system of the Capital and en this morning, word was recelved | virons received a setback yesterday here. Her health had not been good | when the bill was stricken from_ the for some time, and she entered the |unanimous consent calendar. This hospital shortly before Christmas. [ measure was sponsored by Represen Miss Fraser wos s member of the|tative Hill of Maryland, with the A 3aldwin College, of ! hearty approval of the military affairs is president committee and the War Department. Mary Baldwin Teacher Dies. Special Dispatch to The Star STAUNTO! Miss Nor Rev. Dr January | drinking | pt 3.00 | PY PUPILS SIT QUIETL Overheated Furnace Blamed for Small Blaze in Lud- low School. smolderin, of Adelaid trati principal neated furn 3 School, fought streets northeast puj low d G classrooms this disturbed The scent of Miss Davis hour for the f rnoon was discovered after the lunck telephoned the moke shortly e at by won of o en ind sounded 4 five drill 0 children p g utterly u=w, fire in the closed principal. When school yard th to run taey in ris see and » school firemen hid st the lderir Miss Davis to take ko their classrooms * meanwhile, closed the wnd continued chting. Asst. Supt Robert Haycock and s of the District repair shop the school the bl Mr. Haycock explained that overheati of the furnace was ) the fact that there was a sub. anitor the building. Mr v immediately began work to re the slight damage to Miss Davis U S, T0 CONTINUE ICARAGUAN POLICY White House Says Nation Has Its Own Interests to Protect. the they pied v the door L Is s soon as The Unite tends to con ing lives ates Gover nue its policy of protect 1 property of American citizens in Nlcaragus his was made apparent by President Coolidge at the White House today while discussing the Nicaraguan situation. Through his spokesman, the President ex plained that the American Govern ment has its own interests in that country, as well as the intercsts of its nationals. For instance, the Am ment has purchased f hts to build rights to locate Immediate marines from M 1s sought in a resolution introduced in the Senate yesterday by Senator Wheeler, Demo- crat, of Montana, and referred to the foreign relations committee, The measure charged that American sailors and marine Dlocking the efforts of “Dr Sacasa to restore constitutior ernment.” The order of Rear miral Latin in declaring. Puerto Cubezas a neutral zone and the estab lishment of a censorship there were cited as “hindr The Diaz arged in the resolution elected. i rican ( rn £3.000.000 the 1 and also the rican the were it s ille overnment W hington rep of Sacasa, asserted that an officer is to be found ek . 8. POLICY CRITIC in S: ED. French Newspapers Condemn Attitude | PARIS, newspaper to the attitude of in the Nicaraguan papers are virtually against the Washington In an editorial headed “The Policy of the Big Stick,” under the sig ture of Jacques Bainville, La Liberte anuary are devoting mu the United situation. The unanimous polic pangled Banner symbol of a nation endants of Bol becoming of prey for America i lar t the d iy before the war, While other United STORM CUTS OFF HAWAII. Manila municate for 12 Hours. MANIL. nuary 4 (#) station at ed today that m up to violes upbr: not ers qui lly 3 d the Station he radio Cavite repo a severe was vieinity of Houolulu, and that o'clock this it 1 unable to communicate with Honolulu by radfo for a period of <12 hours The obs: tory seismograph regi an earthquake 7,800 miles distant, sbably somewhere in the Pacific 1 VODKA FIGHT SPREADS. storm r ging 2 been afternoon Soviet Orders Drastic Sobering Treatment for Drunks. MOSCOW, v} become January in Russia n evil that the commis and the interior severe me re up sures prope foreibly lcoholles whenever they arc and to subject them ; treatment in hos th sei prohibition of vodka many quarters, but 1 with the difficulty that the gov- rnment cannot afford forego the 300,000,000 annual vodka revenue MORE “KICK” FOR BEER. British Government Breweries In- Agitation continues in for crease Strength for Workingmen. CARLISLE, England, January ) Beer with a heavier “kick” is being made in the government brew eries for sale in the state inns during the remainder of the Wint The present beer is too mild for the north ern workingman and the forthcoming beer will have more “body” to it. Managers of the inns receive orders to serve only [ s ut a time, however, as the beer is said to be too strong to be sold in large quantities. ST 4,000,000 142,000,000 cres in £ uth Aus. tral acres are unoccu- pled. .| Tells La Guardia No Official , in charge | hurried to | learned of | Spokesman| i in. - |t “not | States | il is fast | position simi- | the | Unable to Com-| the | Vodka | | wriats STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., TUESDAY, JANUARY 4 1927 ! B T ECowboy Governor to Stay Outside oo e € 1o i e Thinks DUNFESSES KILLING i HIS WIFE'S MOTHER Harold E. Webster Is Trapped by Button and Lock of Hair at Mineola. N. Y. ! DENVER, Janu | compromise with principle, orda and during the last 40 yea al-| ays has ridden at the h: his | declared | Fanch hands in the yearly round-up l(l”\ W H. (Billy) Adams of The friends of the governor-elect 1, who is in Denver for his | explain his sion (o evening dress | wration on Janu 11, when | “because is aid he'll :.m-h' 1 it he would appear in formal | his {dress at a banquest preceding his in- { auguration and again the inau- { gural ceremony | ‘I never have worn full dress, I never will, if it’s what I think declared t Senator-governor spent many yvears okir after ds, For me to scrap my nearly a half ntury immed chaps of a cowboy this time is asking 1 Adams ding cattl | Alamo: { Inau | ask illy spurs in the SANTA FE, N UP).—Richard C. Dillon, N new governor, appeared at his inau- ral ball Saturday night wearing a who | tuxedo, When elected the the | announced his aversion to for nsive | dress and later requ «d the inau | gural ball committe W him t ppear in “plain busines suit.” Those in_chi however, said they wished | today confessed the murder of his d‘kll"lh"""‘ 1 aut f""“ to n-l T Prop” |mother-in-law, Mrs. Catherine Galla erly dressed as possib nd the qu i o e faliA* yasERNiEg tion as to what the nor w : been | wear had “wide com- |With her skull crushed at the home £ Col- ment | of another son-in-law, Dr. Dell C. Bas- L Sl 2 . at Hempstea CELLOGG REPLES GRL, 1. ISTRAGED - TOQUERY ONNEWS 10 PHLADELPHA Webster had been questioned in 1d By the ted Press. MINE@LA, Y., January 4.— rapped by a coat button and a lock Harold 1. Webster, 26 A ‘formal dress’ the fu for full | toc who 1 has ien by District | after fo at six hours at the office of the rict attorney he District Attorney twards said Webster confessed he had killed his mother-in-law because she had threat- ened to cause her daughter, M Blanche Webster, rt proceedings. Wife Collapses at News. Mrs. Webster, held room while her hus prosecutor’s office, collapsed when |told of her husbarid’s confession. A letter written by Webster to his Father Learns Daughter, Dressed as Man, Bought Ticket at Union Station. of Department Sought to . Use Press Agency. public the district It d: I have gone far enough in regard to this murder. Please, dear ma, tell them everything I have told you. | Also ple e them the blue trou sers and anything else you might have that bears blood stain é forgive me and don't worry they have treated me fi Evidence in Vietim' A few strands of hair head, torn out by the roots and a button found In the still w: of the dead woman led to the arrest of Webster on a_charge of first de- gree murder. The halr was said by the district attorney to correspond with that of Webster. The button w perfect match for others on Webster's sack coat. Dr. Bassett, veterinarian, law. body when home from what proved to be a fictitious call. She had been left with Webster's 1 old child while its mother was shopping in ew York. The Websters had been nding the week end at the Bas sett home. DUTCH RUSH FORCE by attorney. Secr Special Dispatch to The Sta UNIVERSITY PARK, Md., 4. —After a hour search for M . Elizabeth Jacobi, 14 ye old, who disappeared from her home here yes terday after cutting off her hair and dressing herself as a man acobi, her father, that he had definite inform t | his daughter had gone to Philadelphia No word of her from friends there has vet been received, howeve Mr. Jacobi traced the girl to Wash- ington, where she was scen alighting from a Riverdale car yesterday, and learned that she had bought a ticket for Philadelphia at Union Station. He ts her to seek friends whom she ast Summer. The girl left home about £:30 o'clock to feed the chickens of Mr. and Mrs B. 0. L. Wells, next-door neighbors, who wer ¥ She v to return home to get her lunch before leaving Hyattsville High Schoo!, where » is a student. When the girl failed to return home late in the aftefnoon fes developed that she had not been at hool all day When Mr. and Mrs. Welis returned home last night they found stuffed - their cellar steps a bundle con taining clothes that were identified ¢ helonging the girl. Stuffed in blouse was the girl's hair, which she had cut off. Mr. Wells missed a suit of gray clothes, a blue shirt and an old over and felt hat and be lieved that the girl changed to these clothes A playmate of M 1 told 4 ndmo Some one dressed in to have heen itional Bar ville yesterday morning. and a $2.50 gold piece currency. TEASURY SURPLUS ary Kellogg vesterday replied to the La Guar resolution with re ard to the origin of the Associated H ss dispatch of ovember which reported concern alleged com munistic tende Mexico be thrust into Latin . an affairs, ~The 1 sent to the House foreign affairs committ Itow made public by Represcntative 1 read: ave transmitted to me ymment or reply as I may i proper a copy of House olution No. 334, introduced by Mr. rdia of New York. Denies Giving Informatiof “I have the honor of submitting to you the following reply: P, nd 2 of the resolu ion are addressed to the general que ion whether the Department of State, 1y of its offic - about the 1 day of Novembe sought tc luse the various news agencies to put out information or conclusions in re fd to Mexico without assumi 3 { ficial responsibility ther | swer to this question is {" “With respect to paragraphs 3 Jand 4 of the resolution, I do not m it compatible with the public in t for me at this time to discuss > refe 1 and in the negative, r ph 5 is required (Signed) FRANK B. KELLOGG. Sought Ba | In his | sought and ment office tions to send out a story co ternal conditions in Mexico; whether a request was made not | reveal the sou of information | whether graphs and the der had _accurate | formation cerning Bolshevist tivities in Mexico and regarding Mexi- jco’s attitude toward agua and Mexican activities in Central America | detrimental to the United States. He also asked (in pagagraph 5). such information had been given out at the Department, for the name lof the official who furnished-it. IS EMARYLAND ASSEMBLY' Margin for First Hralf of Fis- T0 OPEN TOMORROW | ¢z vear 15 $92,681,037 e found M he re irned to havi no for Reports. Mr. La Gu paragraphs State. Depart d press ia s Jacobi said the resolution, going to her 1 man's attire, rl, visited of Hyatts- and had ¢ changed Sumatra Outbreak Attributed to Communistic Natives Will Be Suppressed. and to and H in. ac- to By the Associated Press. PADANG, Sumatra, January llion in | Troops have been sent from Kock to the scene of the rel | the Siloengkang district, on the west coast of Sumatra. ¥ [} i The trouble, attributed to | described as Communist: {be similar to the unsuccessful revoit |in Java in November. It started Sunday night when armed bands tacked Government offices and police barra nd cut telegraph lines at several points. In the first outbreaks, a native chief |and a Dutch army officer were killed |and 2 native soldiers wounded, while !about 30 rebels were killed. Advices today natives said to Fight Expected to Develop Over Gasoline Tax and Dry Act En- forcement Bill. i More Than Year Ago. sury ended the first half ar with a surplus | compared with period The postmaster for Siloengkang | was slain, and the post office is closed, a | interrupting the dispatch of malls in the distri Local train service also toms receipts | has been suspended, and other trans- ast quarter in |POXt is impossible. Suntie m_imfln- troops from ANNAPOLIS, Md., ormal opening of | State Legislature will ! morrow at noon. As | session, both parties cuses tonight As the Democrats have a majority | ‘in both houses, it is believed certain { that Senator David G. McIntosh of | Baltin County will be re-elected president of the Senate and Maj. Brooke Lee of Montgomery former Secretary of State of the Hous The opening procecdings domory | will consist largely of organization. { A joint session will hear Gov. Ritchie read his m he message will contain Stat nd suggestions a8 to new le Following the governor's report the General As Sembly is expected to adjourn until next T , during which time the presiding offic will select the rious committees, f the bigge is expected posed inere 00 for the same nuar Mary! e place to- prelude to the will hold cau Income tax and o flowed in during the |increasing amounts, most of the exce During the 3 ndeavor to restore communications A revolutionary organization is reported to have been discovered | Southern Sumatra, but the situation there is said to be under control, with a number of persons under arrest. December the public 504,301 to a total of Of the reduction, accomplished during ending 31 duced MEMBERS OF 2 PARTIES GUESTS OF PRESIDENT | White House Breakfast Confer- ences Resumed With Blease and Caraway Present. the last month Customs receipts for | months the present amounted to $318,817,857, with 621,815 a ar ugo. of $48,431,263 was collecte toms in December or than last Decenibe Income tax collection { months $1,046,840, ith the fis first al of year reports islation. for the 59, compared year. In De- et esident Coolidge invited a bi- an gathering to breakfast today the resumption of the White House early morning conferences, which have been the order since the convening of Congri The guest list included Blease, South Caroli rlansas, Democrats; Cameron, Ari- i, and Ernst, Kentucky, Republi- Represe arrett, Ten- . the Democratic floor leader: McLaughlin, Nebraska; Cramton. Michigan; Leatherwood, Utah; Demp- New York; Burton, Ohio, and al, Indiana, Republicans. poisence BARON ANSWERS WIFE. MR | Dwindles From $89,704.859 in|Pennsylvania Man’s Body Taken| Annulment. Period Since Tobacco Man's to Rockville. NEW YORK, January 4 (P).— ob i St e Biu;nn George de Toronow, in a letter i PO S e Star. to his bride attorney yvesterda: Death in 1925. ROCKVILLE, Md., January 4.— |plied to preliminary’ papers i Struck by a Baltimore and Ohio train| annulment action by his wife, r Boyd Station, i3 miles north of | former Florence Marjorie Clendin, the the body of Peter IHughes, 43.| New York American sa Lurg, Pa., was brought| 'The American says the baron’s - last night. The man apparent- | letter answers summons in the suit had been killed' instantly and meets formalities of acceptance County Officer Guy Jones said he | of service in any further action. were law, vielded only $334,45 st six months of this mpared with §4 A0 Although caleulations base figures for the first six mo to show a surplus of almost $500,000,000 League | fop the y Underseeretary Winston enforce | gaclared the surplus would be about $383,000,000. He said the margin for the onths was cut yesterday by the appropriation of $123.000,000 to the fund for veterans' adjusted service certificates. 2 the | over tax ¢ fights of to develop e of gusoline % to ts lon, d by State Roads Com to create u fund for lateral | nd bridges. Another fight I8 expected velop when the Anti-Saloon presents its usual bill for | ment of the Volstead Act DUKE ESTATE FALLS OFF T0 $53,451,778. Or session the pr from Sponsor missior roads W 346 fis revenue for the vear, vear Senators 1 on the s would By the Assor SOMERVILLE The estate of the tobacco manufacturer pist, was worth $89 January 4.— | mes B. Duke, nd philunthro- Iy Bdwardst divorce mother after he confessed was made | ! | sages. TOATTACK REBELS say three more men have been | killed while opposing the insurrection- | wt de Kock will | Iso | PHONE TOENLAND HILL OPEN FRIDAY Service on Radio From New York to London to Begin at 8:45 A.M. By the Associated Press. LONDON, January 4.—The post- master general announced today that service on the transatiantic radio tele- phone system will open on January 7 at 1:45 p.m. London time (8:45 a.m. New York time). | Absolute secrecy will not be at- tained in transatlantic radiophony for some months, an officlal of the British post office told the Daily Mail. Plans to insure secrecy, however, are com- plete and it is only a matter of work- ing them out by experts who are de- | voting their efforts to foiling possible eavesdroppers. “We are well aware,” the officlal | said, “that the service for some little time will be only semi-secret and that if a person cares to go to the trouble and expense of fixing the necessary apparatus he will be able to ‘tap’ mes- We very much doubt, how- er, whether he will be able to over- ear two-w onversations.” “The voice sounds from he continued, “would be | and not understandable in London un- considerably amplified by a spe- al process which the post office has wborated.” He advised that users of the radio- | phone service, pending the attalnment of communication, the habit of repeating imme- diately what the party at the other end s He also suggested that | eavesdroppers could he outwitted if | ‘Lhfl users adopted code names. LICE i SE IS GRANTED. A. T. & T. Co. Is Given First Permit for Transocean Phone. | The first license ever granted for | telephone service across the ocean was | issued today to the American Tele- York-London radio system, which will begin operations soon. | Secretary Hoover issued the permit | for the American end of the servi { The British general post office will | take charge on the other side. A li- | cense was required here because all | radio stations must receive formal per- mits, |SENATE REQUESTS 1 MELLON TO SUPPLY | i rose and said he wished to| r and heartily concur in every- th:‘nlg the Massachusetts member had | sald. | Under the rules, a member may al-| ter his remarks on the floor of the House before they go into the Record. Taking advantage of this rule, Repre. | sentative Celler changed his state. ment that “many members drink, and drink to excess,” so that It appeare “Drinking is rampant over the Na. |tion. Men_ in highest places drink. Many members of this House and | members o the other chamber | drink.” | Representativé Black New York, asked for Treasury cor.| | respondence for the information of State governors in proceeding against | “all persons respensible” for alcohol | deaths, while Representative Fair- | | child, Republican, of the same State | | would have Congress inform Federal | officials that “there is no such thing is legalized murder,” and that any | official who causes poison to be used | in denatured alcohol “does so upon | his own responsibility and at his own | risk i | Meanwhile, as Secretary Mellon pro- ceeds with his proposed research for |an ‘“ideal alcohol denaturant” with- | out poison, soon to get under way | at the Mellon Institute for Industrisl| Research, at_Pittsburgh, drys in both | Senate and House have come to the| defense of the formula now used.| Senator Shepard, Democrat, Texas, sald the “lamentable deaths from i | dulgence in industrial alcohol shows what can be ,expected from the use of alcohol.” while Representative Blanton, Democrat, also of that State, declared it is against the law ‘to drink the stuff.” Democrat, | Child Needs Quart of Milk a Day. BW HAVEN, Conn., January 4 A quart of milk a day is neces ¢ to insure complete development of the growing child, says the com- mittee on nutritional problems of the Amerfcan Public Health Assocfation in a report given out here. cording to first accounting filed in | Court today. Money paid out for ta administration expenses, trust funds since Mr. Duke 1925 cut the value 33,461,778.76. Legacies were puid and trust funds get up to the amount of $36 080, while taxes and the administration of | the estate cost $9,957,710. The bulk of the ¢ or §62,443,383, was made up of stocks and miscel- Jlaneous bonds, while $18,6 nvested in Government, Sta | 1 bonds. « h, notes Dble totaled $4, ¥ | The executors are Mr. Duke's widow, | Analine H. Duke, and George G. Allen {and William P. Perking where he was killed and questioned | him closely. He had about $5, and | was well dressed, Jones said, und he found no r on to detain him. > body was taken to the Pum phrey undertaking establishment. Efforts will be made to communicate | with relatives. met the man yesterday near the spot Army Is Seeking Fast In its eiforts to obtain a fast color + | for cotton uniforms for the Army, the | Quartermaster Corps is receiving as- istance from the Bureau of Stand- age di- | ards, leading chemical authorities, dye srector, who developed such stage and | concerns and textile authorities gen- receiv- | screen s William Farnum, | erally. What {s desired is the devel- Dustin Farnum, Bert Lytell and Bello | opment of a color for fleld uniforms DANIEEAOT R Y | which will be fast and at the same | time possess a low degree of visibility. o | ""The old Khaki uniform, of vellow- BAND CONCERTS. | ish tint, adopted nearly 30 years ago, TONIGH' A s | during ‘the Spanish War, was then Rum Ship Beported Wrecked. At Marine Barracks, §:15 o'clock, by believed to be the most invisible for 100 CITY, January 4 UP.—|United States Marine Band Orohestra, | U€€ In tropical countrles. It had been dispatches from Puerto Mex- | William H. Santelmann, Pioneer Stage Director Dies. ST. PAUL, Minn., Januar; ccounts leader. Ty | developed by the British as a result say that the British schooner Cai- |lor Branson, second leader. 3 T4Y= 1 of the Boer War in South Africa. It man, from Havana to Belize, British | | was worn by the Rough Riders of the Honduras, with a cargo of whisky,| By the United States Soldiers' Home | U. S. Army in the Cuban campaign of Stanley Hall, 5:451898. In the khaki uniform was Uniform; Frown on Idea of Camouflage | Color for Cotton cloth was adopted after innumerable experiments, but it has not stood the | test of actual field service. Quarter- masters report that the color has never been absolutely fast and has faded into varying shades from laun- | dering, the result being a veritable | kaleidoscope of color in the ensemble | of the many organizations. . Efforts for standardization of a fast- eolor uniform are not receiving unani- mous approval in the service. That is indicated by the variety of sugges- tions received by Q. M. Gen. Cheat- ham. One of these suggested that the . new uniform show a series of variegat- | ed colors irregularly placed, after the | style of camouflages during the World | | { FRIENDS OF SMITH - DECRY EARLYBOOM Hilles Belittles Governor’s Vote-getting Power, While White Praises Him. By the Associated Frees. NEW YORK, Januars tial politics continued t. of a stir. Reports that some supp Al Smith were making drive for delegates to the conventifon were followed by lican spokesman's statemer Smith’s power as a_voto g statement came fron CH Hilles, Republican Stat and national vica cb The New York World, porter of Gov, & it said governor's closest fr ing upon efforts to rly start, vised and 4—Pr lay to ereat rters an active Democrrit @ Repub bellctling ter. Thi les D chairma ardent that Kans., in a_pub! Smith and Coolldge The Kansas editor was asked during an address before the forum of i Jewish Center In Brooklyn whether it Al Smith went down to Wast ton, there would have to 1 change in the attitude of the Government toward big business Warmly Praises Smith. “You have the horse,” Mr. Whitc swered. will have to be a chan, in th attitude toward big business befc Al Smith can ever go to Washingtor Personally, I consider that Al Smitl represents the biggest, best, keenes and cleanest brain in American pub lic life today—and I am a Repub- Hean.” Mr. White spoke on “Coolidge anc the Changing Times.” He declared President Coolidge to be “as much of a mystic as any other New Englander ever has been, even Emerson, and his mysticism is that he belleves that, given prosperity, justice will come as a by-product.” He sald that he thought the Presl- dent to be the typical political leader of the new era, in which prosperity is the chief end of mankind. “T think Calvin Coolidge represents the very best that can be sald of this new commercial era in its political phase,” he continued. ‘He is a typi- cal politician of the better sort under the new order. He is educated as Jew Englanders and Americans go, but he has nothing of the erudition that Roosevelt or Wilson had and nothing of the broad interests in life that any one of a dozen of the elder statesmen had; he got on the political escalator and went right up; he i thoroughly .regular in his party; he has never led a lone cause, never had a political fight in his life in the sense of going out and cleaning up the gang in his ward, his district or his State.’ Mr. Hilles, in a statement, saild that Gov. Smith carried the State by 150, 000 less votes last November than in 1923, the last off year, and predicted a Republican sweep in New York anl the Nation in 1928. Holds Governor Expensive. “While I appreciate the person popularity of Gov. Smith,"” he “gnd while I admit that he has address, compared before “There cart | head of his ticket, carried two Uni | States Senators with him, it is indix- putably true that his majority is il than it was and that he was unahl in the last election to carry either ort de | phone and Telegraph Co. for the New | branch of the Legislature of the entir: | i5t ticket. Every one seems to have under- stood that he would not have accepted the governorship except to utilize it as a stepping stone. . Asserting that Smith has been expensive governor and for that r son alone many would not supp him for the presidency, Mr. Hilles drew an analogy between the popu- larity of Gov. Smith and that of th late Gov. David B. Hill. “In 1890," he said, “Gov. David B Hill was hardly less the idol of th Democratic party in the State scarcely less popular generully Al Smith. He seemed a presidentis probabilit But two years late Grover Cleveland was nominated ir stead, Serious differences within the Demc cratic party on fundamental problems might cause the nomination of a third . didate even if Gov. Smith were the standard bearer, said Mr. Hilles. Ife Would like to hear the governor ex press his stand on the League of N tions and the tariff. DIES AFTER ARGUMENT. Robert A. Devine, Canadian Mining Man, Was in Directors’ Meeting OTTAWA, Ontario, January 1 P —Robert Devine, Ottawa minin man and a director of the Bathur: Mines, Ltd., died of heart failure du ing a meeting of the directorate he last night. Witnesses =uid that Devine died after a heated argument WRh_F. M Ruggles of New York. Devine, was said, struck Ruggles, who mad: no attempt to return the blow. Town's Only Store Burns. WISEMAN, Alaska, January 4 (# —Wiseman's population of about 100 was without a commercial food ply today as the result of a fire whic destroyed the only store in town yes terday. The loss was $40,000 Food & is being sent here from Bettles, 50 miles distant. Today in Congress Senate. Resolution of Senator Edwards seeking information from _the Treasury on the denaturing of ir dustrial alcohol was adopted. Department of Agriculture aj propriation bill was taken up fo consideration. Senate and House conferees radio legislation made further ef forts to agree. Subcommittee began hearings on the case of Senator Gould, Repul lican, of Maine. House. Before starting on the day work today the House indulged in a brief discusslon regarding drink ing by members. Representative Underhill, Republican, of Massa chusetts, made a blanket genial for his colleagues, characterizing then: as able, industrious, sober and hard-working representatives of the people. The House today took up con sideration of the Navy appropria- tion bill which was reported ye terday. The joint committee on the li- brary today directed that a study be made of plans for building up a greater Botanic Garden on the sito south of the present location, which is needed for Mall develop- ment. Subcommittees of appropriations committee in executive session on State, Justice, Commerce and La- bor appropriation bills. War. Facetious expansions of that | idea, it was explained, naturally would lead to the use of such distinctive | ! was wrecked in a gale at Punta Gorda. | Band Orchestra, The captain and six members of the o'clock. John M. Zimmerman, | replaced By the olive-drab cotton cloth crew were drowned. The only sur-|bandmaster; Emil A.Fenstad, assistant | uniform, gvhich is still the standard f the U. Army. That vivor, R. Martin, went insane, leader, uniform names for organizations as “Zebras, “Prairie Hens,” “Bull Frogs” or ‘Cobras.” Interstate commerce committec in executive session on railroad consolidation legislation. Naval affairs committes conducts :murl.n'& g on modernizing of battle-