Evening Star Newspaper, January 11, 1927, Page 1

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ENRAG 21 DEAD IN MEXICD "IN CHINESE VILLAGE, IS REPORT AS CATHOLIGS GIVE BATTLETO POLIGE Fighting in Cocula Follows Opposition to Religious Demonstration,, Women and Chi the Associ LONDON el from were received today from stating that the inhabitants anghihpao, totalin thousand, *d by bandits Is that the villa 50 miles west of the uciug, at Chufu bandits, after which fire to the inhabitar v January Peki 17 A says t sage assac oppose reinfor rounded and sct village, slaughtering the irrespective of age or sex Some persons are said to have been burned to death in their homes; oth ers were shot attempting y while young children lite pulled to picces MAY HOLD CONC ments TEN OTHERS WOUNDED | awaited | they Priests Arrested in Zaragoza and | Monclova Imprisoned—Bishop Ordered Deported By the Associated Press MEXICO CITY, Jan clal dispatches from Guadala that 21 persons have heen killed and 10 wounded in a clash between Cath ics and the municipal authorities | in the town of Cocula in the State of | sco. The mayo ind local deputy, Sostenes llo. those killed tches, which were lack- iils,* reported that the spe "1 S Cantonese Indicate Intent British Property in Hankow. HANKOW, Chiga, Jan 11 An indication that the, Nationalist ernment intends to retain contr zed British concession he in a proclamation issued Cocula Cas 3 of the were among The disp: g in « was given yesterday. The proclamation, emanating from the ofice of the commissioner in who | | Yan :Resistance Results in Massacre Including ldren, Says Shan- tung Dispatch to London. . s 1o the British municipal council.” vefere was taken by the for | population to mean that Brit nterest in the on b d that the Chinese control | area is not provisional protection, | first announced by the Nationalists. i AGIT! IN IS SPREADI her conces: | Fear for Foreigners Causes Removal of Missionaries, | PEKING, Jan 11 P)— | tion foreigners is spreadin rapidly over interior China and th on_has become precarious Dispatches from foreign offic unkow received v the British w maries from reach in Hunan Rive wsin and from Province along the coast Nationalist government r temporarily the admin the British concession and Kiukiang, cities on the whe Coolie mo’ neited 1 speeches and propa- days ago tore down 1 inst re rémovin all plac the Provinces Fu- kien The taken ov tration of Hankow o, | bw ant | ganda a | ! (Continued on Page few Column 3.) futhorities offered opposi- demonstration, attacked and municipal tion to a wherenpon the Catholics municipal officiz employes policemen, u battle ensuing. Agrarians Support Cal | Ag ans, it was announced | today, have decided to support Presi- | dent Calles, and Mexico City head- ' quarters has instructe i organizations throughou = TS co-operate with federal uit of rebels wherever found. ) g | Senate Adopts Robinson Res- ring up l:4'])lll‘l.\’.. !l t fede 5 8 : e e e b | Olution—Senator-Elect Urged to Sue Pinchot. religious INQUIRY INTO VARE ELECTION ORDERED The ngo City, Torreon specials stat that Gen. Gonzalo E r, militar ecommandant at Torreon, has report- tion is merely a ented by s, who | an oppertunity The Senate today adopted the Rob- inson resolution empowering the spe- cial committee on primary expendi | tures to make a thorough investiga- tion into the election of William S Vare, Republican, to be Senator from | Pennsylvania. 1t has been that a debate might arise among § ators as to whether the Penns nia_election inquiry should be made ! by the special committee which went |into expenditures during the pri- maries last Summer or by the regular standing committee of the Senatg, which has always considered election | contests. When Minority Leader Robinson Mex revolt when presents itself. At present, the commandant quoted as saying, the Indians hav taken up arms under the religious| banner on orders from Damasco Bar- raga, “a Knight of Columbus.” Commandant Escobar said that with- | in 15 days he would restore peace to the state of Durango. Priests Sent to Prison. Reports from Saltillo say that the Catholic _priests, Isaac Peresa and Roman Blanco, arrested at Zaragoza | and Monclova, respectively, have been lodged in the penitentiary. Dispatches from Torreon also state r s that an official report had been made |asked for action on the resolution by Col. Salvador Valadez saying that jtoday Senator Reed, Republican, of his troops overtook a graup of rebels | Pennsylvania, said.he did not belleve who began hostilities at Parras de la | the distinctien as to which conimittee Fuente, in the state of Coahuila, kill- | should make the investigation is very ing 2 and capturing 10 in a clash at | important as long it is made fairly Palo Alto. {and promptly. = Senmator Reed of The reports state that 9 of the 10 Pennsylvania said he did not see the captured were summarily executed, necessity for departing from the the only one spared being Jesus Ro- | ordinary procedure of having the sales, aged 80. The rebel leader, An- | contest handled by the standing com tonio Hunez, was among those exe- | mittee on privileges and elections, but cuted. | that if it is the desire of the Senate Bandit outrages are increasing, and | to give? the task to the special com- a half dozen villages within a score | mittee headed by Senator Reed, Demo- of miles of Mexico City are virtually | crat, of Missouri, he would not objec deserted, the inhabitants having fled | The resolution authorizes the com- 10 the capital in fear of outrages by | mittee to expend $15,000 in addition the self-styled revolutionists who have | to the appropriation made last Sum- been attacking towns withfn the fed- | mer when the inquiry into primaries eral district itself. | was undertaken. The contest against | the election of Vare is being brought Junta Proclaims Revolt. | by William B. Wilson, former Secre- The most sensational developments | tary of Labor, who was Vare’s Démo- affecting the situation within the last | cratic opponent in the Senate race. 24 hours were two in number. The | first was the proclamation by a junta | VARE IS URGED TO SUE. at El Paso of a “provisional govern- | S = ment” of Mexico, with Rene Capistran | Manager Would Compel Pinchot to Garza, prominent Catholic and vice s president of the Mexican National | Issue Regular Certificate. Zsague for, the Defense of Religigts | pPHILADELPHIA, January 11 (4).— Senator-elect William 8. Va was to- Liberty, as “provisional president.” | day urged by his campaign manager The second was the arrest and ordered deportation of Bishop Pascual Diaz of Mabasco, secretary of the |to seek a mandamus compelling G Catholic Episcopate in Mexico. Five | Pinchot to issué a new certificate of other prelates were taken with him | election. et the Episcopate Building. Harry A. Mackey, cit Clarence Dubose, correspondent for | Philadelphia, who mana; the Asso who went t0 the | campaigns at the primary | election, asserted that Pennsylvania law_Gov. no choice in the matter tion. Mr. Mackey, certificate of treasurer of ed Mr. Vare’s and general under th Pinchot hg of certific ment on the development at El Paso, was taken into custody, while William Folger, United Press correspondent, who followed when he learned of Dubose’s detention, also was held. The correspondentss succeeded “(Continued on Page 4, Column 5 WOULD RING CURFEW AT 1 AM. IN PHILADELPHIA | commenting on the doubt’* sent to Mr. Vare, said it was the “crowning act tration of bigotry in | ¥l | of Pinchot's admini wrtisanship and > pretense.” He the qualified certificate was is sued contrary to law. Calls Pinchot Lawbreaker. “Pinchot has shown in administration that his ci has been persor : “He h a law Safety Director Active | Campaign Against Night Clubs cf City By the Associatcd Pres PHILADELPHIA Curfew will ring at 1 a in Philadely ht clul will be no me pocket flasks by Public § Begins enforcement Do " always I beer for the same re: In support of his contention that the law is mandatory and leaves the svernor no choice but to issue a cer te according to the usual form | Mackey quoted n 2 of w is known as the | tion act of July | Mackey decl: to thellieved, made the duty of certi \d with | the election ministerial” one in_clubs | therefore mandatory. and an-| s heing | State e to give | s re: January 11— for dancin, ud ther om hip- ed today corge W, ed this section, for one police and u flask and othe nounced t prepared Legislature 1 intoxicatir He sa Wants Action at On Mackey s nts to start suit the State me Court n in the “ounty paign X isburg, asking the high esult of rep: 1 original isdiction ions whict it r final action may had_be atrons wer Pinchot goes office In empl sped noon next Tuesday I tior difficult to! Before Mackey mentioned the man obtain evidence <k were broken | damus suit, Senator-elect had hidden patrons | proposed await until ct henever t their ap- S, i nd rance SOVIET Conspiracy w MOSCOY We his cam- John { obtain > of election him did not favor this except 4 pointing o | that it might be construed as an easy avoidance of the challenge implied in the s letter to Vice Presid ik Dawes, in which he stated he had doubts as to whether Vare had been duly elected. | Gov.elect’ Fisher is in New York January ®). | state and is expected here Thursday. says that the ted a daring Mandamus Legality Doubted. nents among | HARRISBURG, Pa., January Soviet | (#).—Attorney General Woodruff ient in | day said that a governor may not be | mandamused, and were | tion was decided in discovered for the electrocution the State Supreme Court, when an at rkers by i powerful charge of elec- | tempt was made to mandamus Gov ity to i t th L parts of |J. F. Hartranft i action growing machi handled by »f the Pittshurgh raflroad riots in Adabe PLOT FOILED. to Electrocute Mine v rkers Bared. av plan devise the work: res, powerhouses and equiy Doncts coal basin he Gazette says that 1 the W const o A reported | his whole | - | record, with 2 from | to- | COOLIDGE ACTION CALLED WARLIE President Pushing U. S. Into Conflict With Mexico, Says Huddleston. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. While leaders in Con- President Cool- idgo’s message on Nicaragua and ex- pressed confidence in him, Represent- | ative Huddleston of Alab: Demo- it d the President’s Ni raguan polic in on the flor of the House. = The N Aguan tang part in it will be considered 1 mittees of Congress the Capitol tomorrow. Republi and Mexico's r com- Secretary Kel- pear before the foreign relations com mittee of the Senate. The House foreign affairs committee voted today to take up the various resdlutions re- garding Nicaragua which it now has before ‘It, including ene by Mr. Hud- dleston directing the withdrawal of American marines. Joint Hearing Opposed. During a meeting of the foreign affairs committee of the House today a proposal was made that the com- mittee suggest to the Senate foreign relations committee that it sit with the latter committee tomorrow when Secretary Kellogg discusses the Cen- tral American situation, but this sug- gestion was not adopted. Administration leaders declared that the policy of the Government toward Nicaragua has been atly strength- ened by the frank statement made v the President in his special mes- age to Congress yesterday. Comiment from Mexico in regard to the President’s charges that Mexican arms had been shipped to the revolutioni in awaited w no was ind at bassy tha forthcoming later tod Huddleston ¥e: rx War, Addressing the House, Representa- ive Huddleston said that the admin- istration_apparently s pushing the into war with Mexico, Kellogg,” said the Ala na Representative, acting like a bull in a diplom hina _shop. (Continued on Page 5, Column 4.) COLD BRINGS OUT MIAMI OVERCOATS Ice in Tampa as South Experi- ences Low Temperature little interest. the Mexican em- | By the Associated Press. | Winter's grip on the South extended toduy as far ast and west coasts record low temper son | brought out _little in | Miumi and West and gave Tampa a glimp: | A minimum reading of 37 degrees |at Miami and West Palm Beach this morning _was the coldest in s |y impa_reported an offic | temperature of 33, but unofficial read were lower, and ice patches wer 4 in places. It was 36 i ersburg. reoats ch, 15 ady breeze averted frost in the suthern_portions of Florid: | but dam was believed to have sulted in other parts of the I notably in the truck section around Orlando, where the thermometer dropped to Tallahassee held the degrees, prevailed throughout of the Mississippi, the i reported, although fell in the Carolinas. It in Atianta, the lowest of the and low temperature reading: in the South forecast for to and extreme a and Mis y frost on Southern extreme Cold weather snow | was 1 Win were recorded elsewhe Killing _frost was night in Georgia, centr. northwest Flori | sissippi, and light to hea the mainland of extreme Florida. Continued cold weather will shove the mercury down again tonight to hout midway of freezing and zero marks, Forcaster Mitchell predicted tody The frigid breezes are expected to | diminish by tomorrow and fair skies {then should bring about a warming- up process, he said. The rise in temperature tomorrow will not be »id, howeve The themometer sank to 16 degrees early today, and it continued to hover down the scale despite a day of sun- shine. Clear skies in prospect | for the immediate future, the bealog slatedy ¥ ind Szechwan in the | t both ends of | logg of the State Department is to ap- | statement would be | 1inot b at St. | e’ | but ineffectiv State, | - by the fore- ' MELLON DEFENDS WOOD ALGOHOL 10 PREVENT DRINKING Research Has Failed to Re- | veal Substitute, He In- forms Senate. SIMPLEST DENATURANT SO FAR FOUND, HE SAYS| S ecretary Transmits Letter Deny- ing Poiscn Is Responsible for Bulk of Rum Deaths. :IY,\' the Associated Press. 1 Wood aleohol is the | | naturant” for industrial aleohol meet- | ing the requirements of the law |<|; seientific research has failed to reveal | a substitute, Secretary Mellon today Informed the Senate in response to| its request for information on the use of poisons denaturants. “Wood aleohol as Mr. Mellon reported, treated product to ing to drink it us, and | therefore constitutes the most effec- tive means of accomplishing the re- quirements of section 10 of title 111 of the national prohibition act that | the denatured alcohol shall be unfit ! { for use as an intoxicating beverage.” | | Death Report Is Cited. | i The Secretary also transmitted to the Senate a letter from Health ‘un‘l | missioner Harris of New York City ! reporting the aleoholic deaths | there, which said that only “some’ i | of 750 deaths in that city during 1926 | I from alcoholism were “possibly due to methanol (wood alecohol) or othe | substance employed to denature | medicate aleohol.” | Mr. Harris added | | “simplest de bles the tempt- | ac 1 on or| | that { City hospi had holism under their care between De- | | cember 24 and January 4, but “only | | one was definitely attribufed to wood | aleohol poisoning.” There were also | deaths during the year n | aight wood alcoh he said. The health commissioner complained | that the infor: on given in death | tes was ‘“‘very meager with | pect to eertain important nts,” | id other que ions were in in studying the fatalities ; am not prepared to answer | spirit.” te's request for | changed with rela to the | | seven from | use of s D volved “which 1 in a scientific, dis) Ans any corresponde Wayne B. Wheeler denaturing of industrial alcohol, Mr. | | Mellon replied there had been no correspondence with Wheeler or any | i vther national officers of the Antl-| Saloon League on this subje¢ { Sends Protest to Removal. i He inclosed a copy of a recent tele- | |gram from Atticus Webb, Texas State | | superintendent of the Anti-Saloon | League, protesting against the re- {moval of “poison” from wood alcohol. | | Another provision of this act re- | | quired that the Commissioner of | Internal Revenue ssue regulations | |in respect to non-beverage alc 1.:.1; | S0 as to put “industries using such aleohol as a chemical raw mater or for other lawful purposes upon ! the highest possible plane of scien- | ic and commercial efficiency, con- | sistent with the interests of the Gov- ernment, and which shall insure an | mple supply of such alcohol and promote its use in scientific research | and the development of fuels, dyes | and other lawful products.” [ | Wood Alcohol Answers Purpose. | The slmplest denaturant meeting requirements,” Mr. Mellon | the: | dec ! fied in the original law. | | | { red, “is wood alcohol, as speci- | | The denatur- | has a and | ing grade of wood alcohol definite and disagre rle t 1t vith it its ¢ istic 1 in the original | mixture or in the treated product, and | therefore serves as notice and warh- | |ing that the product is not a bev- | erage. | The odo! industrial alcohol | in the 'S t vear W | reported 000,000 gallons. The | dye, ¢ f paint and other output of United S svidenced by their | 5 to the Treasury, Mr. | to remove | communic feel that denaturant in the | entific knowledge | i { Mellon _said. | wood alcohol & | present state of | { would destroy them and would ren- | { der impossible, the duty imposed on | { the Treasury requiring the Commis- \N“"‘.I. of Internal Revenue to pro- i industry.” mote such r | | Sums Up Case. ! Summing the Treasury head | id: | The | dangerou | but Cc E cury the duty | effective denaturan 3 iable to Industry. An ef > denaturant \ful if used for beverage pur not yet been found, al- rch is continued. | sury feels, then, that it | | has not the discretion, under existing }law, to abandon an effective de- naturant in favor of one not harmful up, not wish to use | s denaturamts, . sed upon the | | poses j though res “The Tre | | 'RATIONS BILL REPORTED. | Measure Would Put Army on% } Equality With Navy and Marines. | The Jam on a y jand Ma bill to place Army ratiol ty with those of the Navy | rine Corps was reported today | House military committes nt allotment for each m: is between 51 and the Army figure is | pre: | saitor | Whe cent | Secreta | about 35 Davis of the War Depart- ment has informed the committee of | his protests to the budget di against low Army rations ings | that these were fixed by e | der, whereas the rations for the Navy jand Marine Corps were fixed by Con- HUGE BUSINESS FAILS. | NEW YORK, January 11 (@.— | Growth of a business from an original 21 investment to $6,000,000 and its decline to less than the initial stake was described in a suit involving the estate of the late Solomon Silberstein, Braokiyn cotion goods converter, | ute: | fi | stroyed | had HERE WoyLD \rw'g BEF WECogLD NT ‘ PuFF QURSELVES? 700 PUPILS MARCH SINGING FROM FIRE Blaze in Towers Schoon Con- fined to One Room on First Fleor. While firemen subdued flames at the Towers School, at Eighth and € streets southeast, at 1 o'clock today 300 pupils marchad calmly out of the building to the assembly hall at the Hine Junior High School and sang Christm; HONR! When smoke was seen issuing from the north ®nd of the building on the first floor the fire gong was sounded and the 300 puplls filed out of the building within less than two min- taking theit wraps with them. Miss Julia M. Rawlings, prineipal, sald they walked out “like little sol- diers” before the first fire apparatus appeared. An over heated flue probably was the cause of the fire, it was said, the damage being confined to one room en the first floor. When the larm was sounded the teachers at the Hine Junior School and the Wal- lach School, adjoining the Towers Building, held the students in readi- ness. It was soon seen, however, that the fire w confined solely to the Towers School. Only one alarm was sounded. men said the flames were confined i in the wall, but s pouring from all the win- dows on the first floor. Robert L. Haycock, assistant super- intendent of schools, was one of the st to appear on the scenc., After learning that the damage was only | slight, he instructed Miss Rawlings to have the children assembled later in the school building, if that were pos- sible, and to assign their lessons for tomorrow. BOY BURNS TQ DEATH. Colonel Severely Injured in Vain Effort to Rescue 7-Year-old. ROCK ISLAND, IIL, January 11 (). —Kenneth Lum, 7 years old. of Chi- ago, was killed, and Col. C. R. Terry, commandant of the Illinois Military Institute at Aledo, 11k, near here, was seriously burned in a fire which de- the junior dormitory last night. Disregarding the warnings of fire. men, Col. Terry climbed a ladder and entered a second-story room where the Lum boy was known to be. He car- ried him to a window, but collapsed before rescuers could reach him. Maj. Ellis Braucht, director of ath- letics, entered the room after the roof llen in and dragged Col. Terry to safety The boy’s body was not recovered | until the flames had been extinguished. BROTHER KILLS BABY. SPARTANBURG, S. C., January 11 (#)—Francis M. O'Daniel, 14-month- on of W. M. O’Daniel of Drayton, vas accidentally shot and killed today ) 7-year-old brother Willard while the child was being dressed in the arms of its mother. The charge from a gun entered the head near the temple. According to members of the family the child’s father had been alarmed by the apparent attempt of some one to enter the house early this morning. He loaded the. shotgun and after making an _investigation laid it be- side_his bed. Shortly after 6 o’clock the boy entered the room and picked up the gun. In some manner it was discharged. COMMISSION ACTION DUE. Senators Consider Dougherty and Taliaferro Saturday. The special subcommittee of the Senate District committee will meet at 10 o’clock Saturday morning to con- sider the nominations of District Cor- missioners Dougherty and Taliaferro. The subcommittee is headed by Senator Wesley Jones, Republican, of ‘Washington, and the other two mem- bers are Senators Sackett, Republi- can, of Kentucky, and King, Demo- crat, of Utah. Spanish War Vets Meet. ORANGEBURG, 8. C., January 11 (#).—The South Carolina department of the United Spanish-American War Veterans began a two-day convention here last night with United States Senator Rice W. Means of Colorado, national commander of the soclety, a8 peaker, GRAND JURY TO RENEW INQUIRY OF LYNCHING Same Men Who Served Before in Wytheville, Va., Investiga- tion Are Recalled by Court. By the Associated Press. WYTHEVILLE, Circuit Judge Horace Southe: yesterday summoned a_special & jury to resume investigation of the iynching of Raymond Bird, negro, who was removed from the Wythe County jail here on August 15, shot and his body hung from a tree near the Saint Paul settlement, in the western end of the county. The grand jury, which is composed of the same men who started an in- ¢ into the affair soon after it oc- curred, will meet Tuesday morning at 10 o’clock. The earlier grand jury, of which they were members, adjourn ed without making a report and auto matically went out of existence at the opening of the October term of court. ENVOYS, IMMUNITY UPTO DEPARTMENT Eldridge Asks State Officials to Consider Their Status in Traffic Cases. v 11— and late , Janua Whether diplomatic immunity hould be extended to foreign envo who violate the District’s traffic regu- lations is a question which the State Department has been urged to con- sider, it was learned today, following a conference between an official of the department and a representative of the District governmient. The question has been brought to a head, it was said, as a result of a di pute between Traffic Director M. O Eldridge and Dusham Sekulitch, chief clerk of the Serbian legation, over a parking space. A formal complaint against this legation attache was filed with the State Department by the Commissioners. Mr. Eldridge is represented as heing strongly in favor of removing the diplomatic immunity courtesy in so far as violation of the traffic regula: tions is concerned. While the diplo- mats themselves seldom come into conflict with the police over traffic vio. lations, the worst offenders, he said, are the chauffeurs and ‘underlings’ of the embassies and legations, some of whom are Americans, who seek refuge under the cloak of diplomatic immunity, Just what action the State Depart- ment has taken in regard to Mr. Eldridge’s complaint has not been re- vealed, but it is known that the traf- fic director has conferred with offi- cials of the department over this case and several others involving those in the diplomatic service. ACTION ON DEBT PACT UNCERTAIN IN PARIS Chamber of Deputies, Convening Today, May Devote All Time to Domestic Issues. By the Associated Press, PARIS, January 11.—The Chamber of Deputies convened this afternoon, after its Christmas holidays adjourn- ment, with the prospect that the reg- ular 1927 session would assume un- usual importance, embracing as it does discussions of pressing domestic and foreign affairs. Among the most important matters to come up is Premier Poincare’s as yet undivulged plan for the future of the frane. In view of the program already out- lined, it seems certain that the Wash- ington debt agreement can come up only late in the session, if at all, as the premier considers domestic affairs to be more important for the moment. Today's session was largely devoted to formalities. One item on the order of business was the election of a new president to succeed Raoul Peret, who was elected to the Senate on Sunday. Flyers Reach Salvador. SAN SALVADOR, Republic of Sal- vador, January 11 (#).—The United States Army will air fleet” ar- rived here af o'¢lock this morning +ezom G Cliga - | and BROOKHART CHARG Action Comes as Senate Committee Was Ready to Sift “Lobbying” Rumor. Senator-elect of Towa was paid lobbyist” for Cyrus E. Woods, nomi nated to the Interstate Commer Commission, were withdrawn tos y Senator Daniel F. Steck, Demo- t. Towa. The charges were withdrawn as the senate commerce committee was £o- ing into executive session to investi- gate them. Those calléd for questioning In- cluded the former Ambassador to Spain and Japan, Mr. Brookhart, and Senator Steck, Democrat, Iowa, who successfully contested ~Brookhart's seat at the last session and who called attention to the rumors yes- today in the Senate, which _or. dered an_investigation after a hal hour’s debate. Before the committee quit yester- day Mr. Woods had branded the ru- mors as false, while Brookhart, who has been here for several weeks in the interest of farm legislation, char- acterized them a; falsehood man- Chz W that Brookhart fore the rumors were brought up the Towan had issued a s a he was opposed to Woods tion. Steck’s charges created quite a stir in the Senate. said he had received from nk J. Lund, Brookhart's last campaign man- ager, and J. C. Lewis, president of the Towa Federation of Labor, asking him to vote for Woods' confirmation, id he replied to these requests a telegram to Brookhart, aid: currently rumored t hington as the p: ist of Woods and these telegrams give color to these ereports.” reply that undoubted. were sent at Brookhart’s request. Lewis and Lund, in statements at Moines, denied that Brookhart had ked them to support Woods, and said their telegrams were inspired. by John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Worker: DISCUSSED F De FARM AID D AT SECRET HEARING House Committee Closes Doors to Take up McNary-Haugen Measure. The Haquse agricultural committee v voted to consider the new Me- Nary-Haugen relief bill in secret ses- sion. Before locking the doors Chairman Haugen denied a request by Repre- sentative Aswell of Louisiana, rank- ing Democrat on the committee, that consideration of farm relief measures be postponed long enough to give various agricultural * organizations time to agree on one measure. That would be after March 4, Haugen said. “We had better tackie this thing now.” Represeritative Ketcham, Repub- lican, Michigan, asserted that the were’ indications of farm organiza- tions agreeing, and also wished ac tion postponed. Aswell said that it never got a bill through the House on which there was a difference of opinion in_the committee. “On the other hand,” he “we always succeed in the House when we have agreed unani- mously here.” | confine discussion of farm relief to its | own members and other Representa- tives who h: ures. A2 T 08 SUES FOR DIVORCE. CHICAGO, January 11 (#).—Mrs. Grace Meeker Cramer, daughter of Arthur Meeker, wealthy = packer, through her attorney, yesterday brought suit for divorce here against Ambrose C. Cramer, 2d, charging de- sertion. They were married at a fash- ionable wedding in 1916, and the suit charged Cramer deserted her in Jann- ary, 1924. Mrs. ‘Cramer is at Santa Barbara, Calif., with her two children, and Mr. Cramer at present is in Paris. Radio Programs—Page 24, Smith | ufactured out of the whole cloth.” Be- | He read telegrams he | in He added iny The committee decided last week to | ave introduced relief meas- | - DEALER WHO SOLD LFWD MAGAZINES S CIVEN IO PN Sentence Suspended When Prosecutor Tells Court Ac- cused Was Uninformed. CONVICTION IS HELD IMPORTANT TO DRIVE District Attorney’s Office Plans Campaign to Ban Salacious Literature. The first conviction utors of obscene and salac zines in the District of Columbia was obtained to when William H. Smith of the Capital News Co, plead- ed guilty in Police Court before Judge Gus A. Schuldt. The court imposed a fine of $160, with an alternate of 90 days in jail, but suspended execution of the sen {tence upon the recommendation of | Ralph Given, assistant United States . who stated that he did not mith was aware of the nature ines he was distributing operated {in every way with the district attor ney’s office. mith, who lives at 227 B street, s arrested July 17 following the { Evening St impaign to prevent { the sale of indecent literature and § | ture: A so-called “art” magazine {led to Smith's arrest by Policemen |John E. Thompson and J. L. Billman, of the sixth and third precincts, re spectively. The periodical contained many illustrations, which, in the words of Mr. Given, “had nothing to do with in any accepted meanin of the word. Demanded Jury Trial. The distributor gave a $100 bond for his appearence, and stated to Mr. Given that he did not know the kind { of pictures contained in the magazine. He stated that he would carefully sean all periodicals on his stands in the future and would bring question- ble ones to Maj. Peyton Gordon's of- fice for examination. Because of his expressed desire to {aid the court officials, Mr. Given | stated that he did not want to make an example of the dealer, but did want to warn all other deale | Smith later on demanded a jury trial {and because of the congested panel | the case was delayed. | Later Mr. Given summoned Smith | and told him that if he continued his {demand for a jury trial, he could { expect no leniency from the court. It was said at the time that a num- ber of New York attorneys were coming to Washington to fight the case. | “Stith withdrew his demand for | jury trial and went before the court today. | Following this action, Mr. jin an interview with The & | clared that having secured this con- | viction he would go the limit in prosecuting future offenders. “After | today,” he said, “I will ask for maxi- | mum 'penalties.” One - Publication Suspends. i Those so-called t magazin he id, “are printed solely to appeal to eye of the salaciously inclined, and base their hopes of financial this channel alone. I but I do believe should be barred i where cents inst distrib- { believe fof the d | gain through m not a mo | such publication: from the stands in the ¢ young children_may for a purchase them.” Mr. Given stated that he had been in several conferences with Maj. Gor- | and had been advised to do everything possible to prevent fur- distribution. One magazine tha i Given had under surveil | stopped publication a month ago { was printed in Washington and its | spicey paragraphs did not, Mr. Given | clnimed, come within the bound of common decency. The section Smith { under, is section | code. | = 1t was sted of the District Conviction Held Tmportant. fact that a conviction ha | obtained for the sale of objectionable | reading matter from newsstands was considered important today in view of the activity of the Police Department and the district attorney’s offlce in seeing that Washington's newsstands are swept clean of such matter In o series of articles The Star some time ago showed conclusively that literature of a type which is not only vulgar, but in some instances sala was being sold openly on the newsstands of the city, and that many vending places for such mate- Tial were close to schools, where they found a ready sale to school children. Police aciion was confined at first to warning the news dealers that prompt arrest and prosecution would {follow if the objectionable reading { matter was not taken off the stand. ! 4 s to the news dealers, | was lled today, most of them | agreed to co-operate with the police by voluntarily removing nes, and within a_few d ‘he Star’s inauguration of its | paign most of the newsstands | cleared. The conviction today, while considered wholly in the light of = test case, will give the District attor- ney and the police an effective weap on, it was pointed out. to hold over | the heads of newsstand proprietors who fail or refuse to co-operate with | the authorities. New York Follows Capital. New York, following Washington's footsteps, is now waging a campaign gainst the sale of indecent pe icals. District atorneys of the various ew York boroughs were loud in their praise today of the undertaking. District Attorney Banton of N York made a study of the aspects of the problem and found that three convictions had been rendered during 1926 against the men who exploit lust-provoking pictures in the name of “art” and by other dodges. In a statement by Mayor Walker he said that the city in licensing the stands that sold the periodicals con- nived at thelr distribution. The threat to suspend all licenses where they are sold has-been made. In the view of one publisher, “Smash New York and you clean up the whole country. District Attorney Dodd of Brook- Iyn and District Attorney Newcombe of Queens also praised the drive on dirty magazines. A vote of apprecia- tion was also extended by the con- ms:uon of the Chuech of the Cove- nanf Thy | | | |