Evening Star Newspaper, February 3, 1927, Page 2

- PATTERSONTRACT | PURCHASE URGED i Gibson Asks House to Save| Park Site Immediately. $600.000 Is Price Limit. Acqu of §1 s an ground sy to prevent real estate rubmitted to yesentative Gibsun « mittee District tial part of the and if it Gibson 1 into the ac This tract park and pl s not warned, commer 1 system Mr i acqui now it will eith: fal uses or ¢ quisition will Dbe The bill, originall yesentative BI Jimit $600,000 ce st of inc 1t introduce New Y the a th pr i gs if ahla to acqu able price $300,000 Surplus on Hand. condemn ent and reason provides f verr is un Mr. Gibsor n n his re t that ther 1s of | 0,000 standing to the credit of the District, which is to be applied to the purchase price, the balance to be paid from Dist 1 revenues. The Patter: lies on th worth side of I and ju west of Gallaudet Col It is rectly on the car line which Technical and Business High schools, both of which, M »son declares, have absolutely no space for military arill. ,In addition.the report points out that there is a cement swimming | pool in the center of the tract, con structed when the same was occupied by Camn Meigs The Patterson tract was included in the Park Commission plan of 1901 for reservation as a park. Oak Forest Still Stands. on tract lorids di passe: rtunately. this oak forest still exists_practically untouched, and the need for level ground for piayground and athletic purposes is strongly em- phasized by the fact that the re. maining area unoccupied by buildings and large enough for establishing = playground in all Northeast Washing- ton was rendered impossible of acqul: sition & few months ago by the con- struction of two apartment houses,” the report states “This is the only tract in all that section still available for those pur- poses which can be acquired without heavy expenditure to purchase and tear down buildings. The danger of the sale and diversion of this property 10 commercial and other uses is in- creasing very rapidly. Practically no other . improved land remains, and other offers for this property are re- ported.” MEEKER QUITS DRY POST. ANDERSON, Ind., February 3 (). —Dewey W. Meeker, whose three- year service as a Federal prohibition agent has included combats with rum runners along the Altantic Coast and the shore of Lake Erie, has resigned and returned to his home here. He was compelled to taste so much liquor of various grades that he feared blindness and this prompted his resig- nation, he said. Today in Congress Senator McNary will make further effort to have the Senate again begin consideration of farm relief Jegislation today Sena‘e may take up State, Jus- tice, Commerce and Labor appro- priation bills Senator Dill hopes to get action on the conference report on radio legisiation. Senator Oddie of Nevada ad- dressed the Senate on the need for a junior college in the public school ‘system of Washington, ex- pressing the hope that it might be added to the pending District ap- propriation bill. Senate agreed to hold another night session Monday to consider bills on the calendar. Privileges and elections commit- tee postponed action on the case of Senator-designate Smith of Illi- nois until next Wednesday. The committee is meeting today on the case of Senator Gould of Maine, District of 1s meeting th Columbia. committee afternoon on sev- A ions committee added $2.2 o the War Department appropriation bill, bringing it up to more than $360,000,000. Special Senate committee con- tinued hearings on tariff investiga- tion. Judiciary scommittee held another hearing on the Federal Trade Commission’s bread investi- gation. HOUS Hou: resumes consideration of District appropriation bill with ex pectation of completing action on it today House, by a vote of 72 to 25, in des in D bill item for grading of Sixteenth street to the District line Chairman Zihlman of House Dis- trict committee introduces bill for trafic violations bur 1l Subcommittee of appropriations committee, in executive session, starts hearing on second deficiency bill. - Interstate in executive consolidation Immigration committee in execu- tive sessior Civil service committee conducts hearing on inc in compensa- tion f certai overnment wor ers Foreign ducts irarde River Indian affairs ducts hearing tribal fund Committee on t ecutive session bills. In ducts lands Way exec liquor Jag commerce session committee on railroad affairs commitee ating to con- ring 1 Rio committee relating con- to certain ry in ex on cellaneous o ng ul; airs committee Philippine con on Is- subcommittee in on draft of new ion “ tness before committee in on mines and mining 1 potash in the Stat tpe con on settlement of cer- tain © Patents committee conducts hear- {ng on copyright bill Post office committee continues hearing on future policy of Post Office Department Judiciary committee holds regu- lar meeting in executive session. Commitee on public lands holds New London Vaults Open ¢n Street 1o Foil Safe Crackers By the Assoctated Press LONDON. February 3 crackers have a new problem solve, now that owners of vaults having them built into the outer wall so that the front of the safe opens in the street There has been a series of safe ackings here, and the ~olice au thorities agree that the idea of having the safe door exposed 1o the full view of persons in the street is a good one. This elimi n: the possibility robbers W & behind closed s The manager of Hippodrome was the first to build the new type of safe In London: lers have taken to the idea in new buildings now going up. PROTESTED AGTION ON BAKING CHARGE Federal Trade Commissioner Safe are | Asserts Complaint Was Dis- missed Against Wishes. By the Associated Press. The Federal Trade Commission's nti-trust complaint against the Con- ntal Baking Co. was dismissed the protest of Commissioner Nugent and A. R. Brindley, trial at- torney for the commission, a Senate elections subcommittee was told today in the course of its investigation of the baking merger. Commissioner Nugent told the com- mittee that the agreement to dismiss the case was reached by B. T. Hainer, the commission’s chief counsel, and agents of the Department of Justice. Taken by Surprise. “1 was taken completely by surprise when the chief counsel presented a memorandum to the commission say- ing that he had agreed to dismiss the commission’s case because the consent decree was to be entered by counsel for the Continental Baking Co. and representatives of the Department of Justice,” sald Nugent. “T was not even aware of the fact that the chief counsel had held the conference with the Department of Justice agents.” Felt Case Was Strong. Brindley declared the commission’s lawyers felt that the case against the baking company was a strong case, and that Hainer more than once had expressed satisfaction with its prog: ress. Mr. Brindley added: “Of course, it was a new case, as it was the first time that action had been taken under section 7 of the. Clayton act, but I believed it came distinctly under this provision.” Commissioner Humphrey, who made the motion that resulted in dismissal of the case, testified that he was led to believe that it was not regarded as a strong case. BOY, HITBY AUTO IN SKATING, DIES Frank Johnson, Nine Years 0ld, Expires at Sibley Hos- pital—Many Are Hurt. t over Frank Johnson, 9 years old, of 603 F street, was was knocked down by an automobile operated by Michael A. Carley, 38 years old, of 1108 Eighth street, while skating on New York avenue west of Sixth street vesterday, according to the police, died today at Sibley Hospital. A coroner's jury held the accident unavoidable, and exonerated e investigation of the acel- showed that the boy was skat- in the roadway of New York avenue when he slipped and fell in the path of the approaching automo- bile. Chinese Boy Hurt. Joseph Ching, a 9-year-old Chinese boy, playing in front of his home, at 313 'D street, shortly before & o'clock yesterday afternoon, was knocked down by the automobile of Mary Gray. 627 Massachusetts avenue northeast. and his leg fractured. He was given surgical aid at Casualty Hospital. A southbound Capital Traction car, operated by Motorman Frank West, and an eastbound automobile, driven Ly Frank Lewis, colored, 35 years old, Seminary, Va., collided'at Fourteenth and T streets last right about 9:30 o'clock. Lewis possibly received a fracture of the skull and cut over his left eye. Surgeons at Emergency Hos- pital rendered first aic. Leonard Hall, 53 years old, 206 A street southeast, walking on the road- way on Maryland avenue, between Fourth and Fifth streets northeast, about 630 o'clock last night, was struck by the automobile of Joseph Barrington, Brentwood, Md.,.and sev- eral ribs fractured. Surgical aid was siven at Casualty Hospital. Thrown From Vehicle. F. Lartz, 207 Quackenhos and John McIntosh, colored, 1115 New Hampshirs avenue, were drivers of automobiles that collided at Thirteenth and Euclld streets about 5:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon and were damaged. McIntosh, suffering from an injury to his head, was taken to Garfleld Hospital. Raymond Mitchell, colored, 18 years old, was thrown from a motor delivery vehicle at Tenth and I streets day afternoon as a result of a c between the machine in which he Was o passenger and the automobile of Lewin M. Mackintosh, 2517 South Da- kota avenue. Mitonell received severe cuts on his right emple. Surgeons at Emergency Hospital rendered first aid. John BANDIT, 13, BLAMES DARE. Caught in Hold-Up, He Says Com- rades Egged Him On. PITTSBURGH, February 3 (P).- That he never took a dare in his life was the explanation given by Edwin Shields, 13, in Morals Court today for his attempt to hold up a confectionery store proprietor last night. The boy was ordered turned over to Juvenile Court authorities. Shields told Magistrate A. D. Bran- don he found a pistol at his home and showed it to some boys who were flying kites near Peter Panzie's store. When the boys dared him to hold reeting in executive ses Militai consideration up Panzic, the lad said, he placed a handler r his fice and wen the store, demanding money. He in abd fumned GueR o THE EVENING WOMAN'S ILLNESS HALTS BUSCH TRIAL Question Raised by Moreno | Also Figures in Adjourn- | ment Until Monday. | | The trial of four defepdants charged| with first degree murder in connection with the death of Policeman Leo W. K Busch was adjourned until Monday lan hour after the session opened in Criminal D.vision this morning. The balt in the proceedings was brought about by the inability of Mrs, Gladys Pope, whose testimony was in-| te pted la week by illness, to re | sume the stand today, and also by the question raised by Samuel Moreno. { one of the defendants, about the volun-, |tariness of his statement of the shooting. Assistant United States Attorney George D. Horning, jr., in charge of the Government’s case, stated that he had only two more phases of evidence 10 offer, one of them being concerned with the statement by Moreno. Thig defendant’s counsel, it was understood, had planned on questioning the volun tariness of Moreno's statement by celling several witnesses to testify to his condition at the time he signed the declaration. Moreno was wounded twice in the Petworth gun battle Horning Takes Stand. Justice Willlam Hitz, it was under- stood. is willing to allow Horning to present testimony through Detective Sergt. Fred Sandberg that the bullets found in Busch's body could not have been fired by Policeman Frank L. Ach, the dead officer's companion in the shooting. This testimony is the re- sult of some experiments made by Sandberg with Ach's gun, and also involved the weighing of the three bullets taken from Busch's body in the office of the chief of ordnance. When Horning sought to present this testimony yesterday afternoon, the defense objected on the ground that he had removed ‘“evidence in this case” for experimentation without consulting the defendants. After a long consultation with Justice Hitz at the bench this morning, in which all attorneys participated, Horning him- self took the stand, was sworn and testified that last Saturday morning he secured from the court clerk six bullets and three revolvers which he took to the office of chief of ordnance and “returned them to this court in the same condition as they were when taken.” Three of the bullets were from the body of Busch, the other three from Ach’s body. Two of the revolvers were found on the scene of the shoot- ing and the third was used by Ach in the battle. Defense Attacks Horning. The session ended yesterday after- noon with an attack on Horning by the defense for removing exhibits in the case from the courtroom and con- ducting experiments on them without consulting the defendants’ counsel. ‘When Horning placed Detective Sergt. Fred Sandberg on the stand to testify to experiments he had made, which were to show that it would have been impossible for Policeman Frank L. Ach to have shot Busch, as the de- fense has intimated, O'Shea laupched the attack against the prosecutor. McCabe's counsel told the court that bullets from Busch's body “were in- trusted to this court and they should not have been taken from it. No notice was given to us and we were entitled to be there. This is a fine procedure, when four defendants are on trial fr their lives and the Gov- ernment takes evidence out of court. We protest and object to it.” ‘With the jury absent, it was ex: plained by Horning that the three Busch bullets were taken to the office of chief of ordnance and weighed and that Ach's revolver was fired by Sand- berg, with the view of comparing the discharged bullets with the ones re- moved from the body of the officer. O’Shea shouted to Horning that he ob- jected “to your tampering with evi- dence that is in the custody of the clerk and I object to your putting one grain of dust on the bullets.” “I don’t think you had any right to do it,” Justice Hitz said to Horning, and the young prosecutor replied: “T am sorry. They have been in my possession for a long time and I saw that their condition was not changed, Both the court and O'Shea sald they believed Horning acted in good faith. Horning said he expected to prove that the bullets from Busch's body weighed 146 grains, whereas the .38 special” bullets, supposed to be sim- lar to the ones fired by Ach, weighed 158 grains. 0’Shea Notes Objectio O’'Shea then declared he would ob- ject to any conclusions by Sandberg from tests he made, adding that the only comparison that could be drawn would involve the bullets being fired into a human body. Prior to this occurrence Capt. Fred- erick Cornwell of the tenth precinct was recalled by O'Shea with the police blotter containing the “inci- dental” which gave the description of the men wanted for the shooting. Cornwell previously had testified that he received from Busch a descrip- tion of ail four men and had made a note of it at the time. He returned to the station house and gave the writing to the station clerk, Luther Allen, who entered it in the book and telephoned it to police headquarters as a “lookout.” 0’Shea had Cornwell read the “inci- dental,” which said: “Look out for four young white men, two tall and wearing light clothes. No. 3 is short, wearing green slicker, with long dark hair; one that did the shooting. No description of No. 4.” Cornwell steadfastly maintained that he had noted a description of the fourth man and that ‘‘something” had been left cut in transferring the nota- tion from his memorandum to the book. | | | | | | i t | | | STAR, WASHI {on life in the | busy 3 TON D. €., THURSDAY, Chicago Chief of Police Decides to Retain Horses When Publ By the Associated Press CHICAGO, February 3.—Because Chicago's population, from children to grandmothers, raised such a hulla- baloo over Chief of Po- which would the few re- with motor new lease an order of lice Morgan A have caused maining eycles Collins replacing police the ho horses ervice. Chief Collins, who heen kept for a week trying to explain why he thought motor cycles would be better than horses, last night threw up his hands, acceded to the uproar and said he would submit a Lettered Woocien Blro‘cl(s Used by \il;om Unable to Talk, to Describe Murder| By the Associated Pross ST. LOUIS, February ing Mrs. Pearl Gram, 32.year-old maid in the home of Dr. A. W. Saner here, William Rohn, 32, also an employe, at- tempted to take his own life today in the presence of the doctor’s wife, who is suffering from p: Mrs. Saner, who is unable to talk, told the story later with the aid of wooden blocks bearing the letters of the alphabet. TRohn cut the maid’s throat with knife. Obtaining a B K. HOLMES DIES: NOTED STATISTICIAN Department of Agriculture Expert Expires After Pro- tracted lliness. After kill George Kirby Holmes years old, statistician of the Department of Agriculture, and widely known for his statistical compilations, died in Garfield Hospital Tuesday. He had been in failing health for several months and seriously ill for a short while. Coming to this city in 1835, Mr. Holmes was first employed as a sta- tisticlan in the Census Bureau, and in 1890 served with the bureau as a special agent in charge of the division ,of farms, homes and mort- gages. later entering the Depart- ment of Agriculture, he served as a member of the crop reporting board there from 1905 to 1924, and served as a writer of interpretative comment concerning the board's reports to the press. Known as Writer. Mr. Holmes served as a delegate to the International Institute of Agricul- ture in Rome. He was a fellow of the American Statistical Assoclation, a member of the Agricultural History Society, the American economic Asso- clation and the American Farm Eco- nomic Association. In addition, he was the author of a volume on Farms and Homes, & publication on real es- tate mortgages and had contributed numerous articles to Department of Agriculture publications. Born in Great Barrington, Mase., ho was educated in the grade and high schools there and later studied law, being admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 18 Funeral Rites Tomorrow. In 1898 he married Miss Lillian Hunter of Washington. He is sur- vived by his widow, two sons, George K. and John H. Holmes; two daugh- ters, Miss Mary K. Holmes and Mrs. Harold C. Taylor; a sister, Mrs. Nellie Holmes Crocker and two grandchildren. Mr. Holmes resided at 1323 Irving street. Funeral services will be conducted in St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church to- morrow morning at 10 o'clock. Rev. Dr. George Fiske Dudley, rector, will officiate. Interment will be private, in Fort Lincoln Cemetery. “DEAD” PERMIT CHARGED. Driver's Case Is First Under New Auto Regulations. Julian A. Johnson of 1445 Oak street, owner of an operator's permit under 50,000, arrested yesterday as the first violator of driving with an expired license under the new law, ef- fective Tuesday, pleaded guilty in Traffic Court last night. An excuse that he was going to leave the city within a short time for a number of years saved him a fine, and ,with the warning that he could not operate his machipe again with- out renewing his permit, Judge Gus A. Schuldt ordered his personal bond taken. A fine of $5 was imposed for passing a red signal on Massachu- setts avenue. 1t is believed that a test case under the new regulations will come up to- morrow, when a similar charge will be met with the plea of not guilty. May Buy Railway. ‘The Capital Traction Co. has opened negotiations for the purchase of the ‘Washington Maryland Railway, which runs from Fourteenth and Kennedy streets to Takoma Park, Md., accord- ing to reports recelved by the Public Utilities Commission. The com- pany has been operating the line for the last 10 years under a lease ‘which expires February 19. ic Assails His Ruling! | the whole matte city | | trafic commission Fven if the commission says the | horses must go, they will remain in the downtown district until January 1, Chlef Colling explained to the hourse lovers, because money has been appropriated for them up until then There are 85 police horses still in service. Each horse is a shiek in his own block and each day hastens to greet his friends who offer him sugar. Two vears ago “the shiek of Randolph street,” the horse in the theatrical district, died from eating t00 much sugar taken from restau- | rant tables by his admirers. to the new an, chest. Still able to walk he returned to a room in which Mrs. Saner sat and cut his own throat. He then ked out of the house and later was found in a neighbor's yard. At a local hospital it was said his condition was critical. The maid was killed in a room ad- jacent to that In which Mrs. Saner sat in her invalid chair. By means of the blocks she later described how she knew what was happening. CAPPER ADVOCATES RETENTION OF BELL Writes to Wadsworth Urging Favorable Action on Bill to Waive Routine. Characterizing Col. J. Franklin Bell as the best, “if not the very best,” Engineer Commisisoner the District has ever had, Chairman Capper of the Senate District committee has written to Senator Wadsworth, chairman of the military affairs committee, urging favorable action on the bill which would enable the President, in his dis- cretion, to keep Col. Bell on the board of Commisisoners. Under the War Department law re- quiring officers asigned to civilian posts to serve one year in every five with troops, Col. Bell's term as Com- misisoner will end this Summer. The Capper bill would exempt Col. Bell from that requirement. Senator Capper advised Senator ‘Wadsworth he introduced the bill be- cause “I know how very highly he is regarded by the people of the Dis- trict of Columbia.” The Senator said many residents of the city have often expressed to him the wish that Col. Bell might be retained for a longer period of time in the District service. In his letter Senator Capper offered to appear before the military affairs committee when it takes up the meas- ure. He also inclosed indorsements of the bill that have come to him from elvic organization: ARMY FLYERS OFF ON SECOND PERU HOP Four “Good Will” Planes Expected To Arrive at Lima This Afternoon. By the Associated Press. PAITA, Peru, February 3.—The United Sates Army Pan-American fly- ers left Paita at 7:40 c’clock this morn- ing for Chimbote. There they will re- fuel and continue on to Lima, the cap- ital, where they are due this after- noon. The _planes making the hop are the New York, San Francisco, St. Louls and Detroit. The fifth plane, the San Antonio, of the squadron which left San Antonio, Tex., on December 31, i at Tumaco, Colombia, awaiting the a rival of a new motor from San Fran- cisco. Upon the arrival here from Guaya- quil, Ecuador, vesterday Maj. Herbert A. Dargue, the commander, said he was satisfled with the progress thus far, although the squadron was a few days behind its schedule, owing to minor engine trouble. The aviators expect to remain in Lima three days. They will then pro- ceed to Lomas, Peru: visit La Paz, Bolivia. (probably by rail); return to the coast and fly south to Valparaiso and Santiago. STRANGLERS SENTENCED. Four Women Among Nine Accused of 18 Murders. MOSCOW, February 3 ().—Four bandits, members of a gang known as the “Stranglers’ Corps,” with a record of 18 murders in and around Moscow, were sentenced to death to- day. "Five others, including four woman accomplices, were given 10 years’ imprisonment. In many of the cases the only mo- tive was to secure the victims’' cloth- ing. The mose recent crime in the series was the murder of a 13-year- old girl on her way to church. “We killed her for her white dress and shoes,” the leader’s wife testified coolly. KING WILL BE SPEAKER IN HOSPITAL FUND DRIVE Utah Senator on Program at Lunch- eon for 62 Teams in Casualty Campaign. Senator King of Utah will be the speaker at the third luncheon meeting, tomorrow at the Willard Hotel, of the 62 teams engaged in raising $250,000 for construction of a new wing to Casualty Hospital. A total of $32,619 has been sub- scribed so far, according to a “gpeedometer” installed in the Wil- lard to record progress in the drive. Heads of the many teams will report their additional receipts at the meet- ing tomorrow. Teams of five allotted divisions re- ported donations amounting to $7,519 Vesterday. Initial gifts brought the total $26,000 higher. There are 10 dlvisions and the remaining five will report tomorrow. Campaign headquarters are at 604 Fourteenth street. Checks should be made payable to Robert V. Fleming, treasurer, Roy L. Neuhauser is chair. man of the general committee. Vice chairmen _include Malcolm Gibbs, Thomas E. Jarrell, Dr. Joseph D. Rogers and C. Melvin Sharpe. Alley Cat at Show Caused Short-Lived Dispute in Congressional Gircles purring little brindle alley Dick or Buster by name, was the innocent cause of a short- lived dispute in congressional circles vesterday when the wife of the former Representative from West Virginia claimed as her own the furry little fellow exhibited by the children of the Senator from Delaware in the Wash- ington Cat Club show at Wardman Totel. Pk R appened when Mrs. Stuart F. Reed, the wife of the former West Virginia Representative, visited the show to satisfy her desire to see the pretty felines on exhibition. Coming lpon one of the cages, Mrs. Reed saw a brindle cat that strongly resembled @ tabby that disappeared from her home about a year ago. The resem- blance was so stréhg that she told the little exhibitors that their Moby Dick was her Buster, and she received the prompt advice: “If you want any information you can see Senator Bay- o A Further inquiry developed that Moby Dick had been purchased by Mrs. Bayard from @ local pet dealer when the tabby was a wee Kitten. Both families are upset over the cross claims, and this morning Mr. Reed A pretty, cat, Moby | said that the matter was a closed in- gat the proper and sole Bayard childregs “Those little children have had the cat for some time now and they are attached to it and there'll be no more to the claim,” he said. “They obtained the cat in a perfectly right- ful way and it would be ridiculous to make any other suggestions. The point is simly that Mrs. Reed visit- ed the show for no purpose other than to see the cats themselves, and she just happened to see the brindle that looked very much like the cat we lost. The whole thing is unfor- tunate and I am sorry it has hap- pened.” Mrs. Bayard said this morning that her only statement is to the effect that she bought the cat herse]f when it was a kitten and that she under- stood the Reed Buster was grown when he disappeared. During the dispute over Buster- Moby Dick, which, by the way, won a ribbon in his class, the business of awarding the most coveted prize of the show was going on. The silver cup and cash award for the “best cat in the show" regardless of class and color, was given to Leander of Henley, owned by Mrs. F. E. Winkle FEBRUARY shotgun he then shot himself in the | 8, 1927. RIO GRANDE SEES NIGHTLY BATTLES Liquor Smuggling by Pic-| | turesque Methods Carried on Over Border. BY ROBERT T. Special Dispatch to The Star. EL PASO, Tex., February The | United States Army intelligence serv- {ice is keeping close watch. on events {in Mexico, but thus far along the! border things are as quiet and placid |25 the shallow meandering Rio Grande, which separates the two republics. Nightly shogs ring out along this boundary, but they are not those of |revolution or of international war. They are merely the battles of the | smugglers. These xo,on incessantly. | The toll of dead at the end of a |month period is quite startling. Oc- | casionally a customs man or a Texas |ranger is killed wounded. More |often the smuggling bands, less expert |in the use of their ever ready arms, are the losers in the fusillades which rattle through the chaparral or splat- ter into the mud flats which represent what the geographers flatteringly call a grand river T | ALl | Southern Methods | | From El Paso to Brownsville, down on the Gulf, a distance as the river flows of about 1,000 miles, the booze battles seem never to cease. Much is heard in the North of the smuggling across the Canadian border, but the |smuggling down here is not to be sneezed at. The methods here | Grande are entirely different from those in the North. In the North the high-powered motor car i the vehicle of the rum runner. Down here the horse or mule is the beast of illegal burden, and when a smuggling band meets its enemy, there are fights, much in the manner of the old Indian days. Rum running along the Rio Grande is more picturesque than the organ- ized commercial game along the Do- minion border. In the middle of the darkest nights the swarthy smugglers steal through the chaparral and lead the heavily laden mules through the wide river bottom. With a thousand miles of river and dense brush to pro- tect their operations, it is surprising the smugglers ever are caught. But, considering the smallness of the American force along the border, their forays with the bootleg bandits are more than surprising in their fre- quency. along the Rio Few Ever Captured. The Mexican smuggler is quick to rand Francis Mills Thunery, 216 Up- ! i NAMED FOR WEST POINT. C. H. Bonesteel, Son of Major, Highest in Competitive Test. | Charles Hartweil Bonesteel, 3rd, kon | of Maj. . H. Bonesteel, U Infan try, on duty in the office of the Chief of Infantry, U A., has been nom inated by the District Commissioners to fill a vacancy at the United States Military Academy, at West Point, June 1 He was first in a_competitive exam ination taken by 26 local youths. Merillat Moses, 1377 Quincy street, shur street, were nominated to be al ternates SIX MORO WOMEN KILLED IN BATTLE Datu Tahil and Wife, Who Was Educated in U. S., Es- cape in Sulu Fight. By the Associated Prese MANILA, February 3.—A dispatch to the Dafly Bulletin from Zamboanga today sald six Moro women had been killed when the constabulary attacked the fortification of Datu Tahil, rebel lious Moro nobleman, on the Island of Sulu recently. The dispatch said the women stood beside the men in defense of their fort. It was learned that Tahil made his folowers take an oath of al- legiance in the name of Mohammed before he made his getaway. Tahil's rebellion created a sensation when it became known that the pre: ence of his fourth and favorite wife, Princess Tarhata Kiram, niece of ths Sultan of Sulu and graduate of the University of Illinots, was holding off an attack of the constabulary. The constabulary troops hesitated to at- killing or injuring her, and thus in- voke the wrath of the whole Moro tribe. Eventually she was whisked away and Tahil also escaped before the attack, leaving his followers to make the best of the situation. JADWIN DEFENDS MAJOR’S ASKING FUND Rivers and Harbors Group Probes Fiske's Soliciting From Pri- resort to arms and the battles in the darkness are often bewildering affairs. The United States agents generally have to estimate the casualties they have inflicted. They will se a dark figure slide from a horse and know that a smuggler has been hit. It is rar, however, that captures are made. Horses are often taken laden with contraband liquor. In the vicinity of El Paso, this liquor is more often the so-called “American” whisky, which is being distilled across the border in ever- increasing quantity. The “American” whisky is both rye and bourbon, and, aside from being extremely “green,” is a fairly good imitation of the “old stuff. To the eastward and along the more lonely stretches of the river the smug gling generally is done in the Mexi- can national drink, tequila, made from cactus, a white liquor, as strong as pure alcohol. Attempts have been made to use the airplane for smug- gling liquor out of Mexico, but the success has not been great. 'TITLED HOTEL CLERK FACES DEPORTATION Count Basil Alderberg Entered U. S. as Student; Found Not Enrolled in School. Released on bond following his ar- rest on a charge of entering the United States in violation of the im- migration laws, Count Basil Adler berg, an employe of the Carlton Hoter. faces early deportation unless he can bring forward some proof that his presence in this country is in accord- ance with his entry as a prospective student. Count Adlerberg was given a hear ing in Baltimore last week before Im- migration Inspector W. M. Johnson. His attorneys were given 10 days fol- lowing the hearing in which to file briefs. 1f the Labor Department reverses its stand and permits him to remain in this country in the face of the false entry charge against him, it will, in the view of officials, taken an in- consistent stand in view of the order for deportation issued against him in 1925. The titled clerk, .who is em- ployed as an interpreter at the hotel, left the United States in June, 1926, for Canade, reentering the same month as a student. Through the re- lations maintained with educational institutions, the Labor Department learned that he had not enrolled as a student. His arrest followed. Deportation to Russia, his home- land, according to Count Basil, would be the same as a death warrant, for he claims to be on the prescribed list of the Bolshevists. s Schneider Cup Course Debated. ROME, F¥ebruary 3 (P).—A special commission is studyving the question of selecting the best course for the competition for this year’s Schneider cup, which was won by Maj. Mario de Bernadi in the United States last November. Venice or Naples prob- ably will be selected. Job geeker, at‘70, Says He’s Handiest Man in All Britain By the Assoclated Press. WELLING, Kent, England, Feb- ruary 3.—Seventy-yearold Edward Hunt of this village, looking for employment, claims he is the handiest man in Great Britain. Here's a list of the things he can do: Drive and repair any make of motor car; run electrie light plants, gas engines and elevators; do wood work, paperhanging, glazing; re- pair boots and shoes; lay bricks and fancy tiles; plow, sow, reap, mow and milk cows; drive a four- in-hand, shoe a horse, row, swim and skate; act as valet, serve at ta- ble;, manage a grocery business, cultivate a garden and run a public church warden. of Clayton, Conn. Leander of Hen- ley is an imported cat and was born In addition he is a clever has ridden to hounds, knows ™ rides & hicycle expert-Jmittesy t, By the Associated Press. A meeting of the House rivers and harbors committee was called by Chairman Dempsey today to inquire into recent charges that Maj. Harold Fiske of the Engineer Corps solicited funds from private interests for a survey of Tennessee water power sites. Maj. Gen. Edgar Jadwin, the chief of Army Engineers, was asked to ex- plain his recent testimony before the House military committee that the tack while she was there for fear of | FORD CO. ACCOUNTS MINUTELY STUDIED Tax Appeals Board Starts In- tricate Examination of Balance Sheets. By the Associated Preas An intricate examination of balan sheets of the Ford Motor (‘0. was u dertaken today by members of th: board of tax appeals, conducting hear {ings on the Government's efforts to | recover $30,000.000 additional taxes from former holders of minority stoc in the company The figures presented operating expenses, and sales for 1904 and 1916, Paul M. C tors Service mated the v March 1, 1 In making dealt with production costs various periods betweer ay of the Moody Inves testified that he esti e of Ford stock as 13, at $10,200 per shs ita original tax levy the Government placed the value at $9.489. but now contends it actually was worth only $3.600 a share Senator James Couzens, the leading appellant, was a spectator at the hearing. 'He stands to lose $10,000,000 if the board upholds the revised val ation of stock on which the ditional - assessment s based Senator probably will he called the stand within a few days | ANTIPATHY FOR STREET SEEN. Rejectlon of Billion-Dollar Offer Laid to Hatred for Fina ers. W YORK, February 3 (#).—Henry rd’s refusal of $1,000,000,000 for his automobfle business was regarded in financial circles today as further ev dence of his antipathy to Wall strest Testimony of Ford's refusal of the bBlllion-dollar offer was given by John M. Prentiss’at a hearing in Washing ton yesterday in the Government < $30,000,000-tax suit against former m { nority ' stockholders of the Ford Co. The offer was refused three times, the last refusal a month age Wall Street circles recalled that even in the “deflation” of 1921, when Mr. Ford was pinched for cash he declined assistance from New York bankers. At that time there was a veritable procession of bhankers to hif. One of them was handed his hat, the story goes. Has Been Big Lender. Henry Ford has been a big lender of call money in Wall Street through banks in which he deposits, but there is no record of purchases or sales by him through the Stock Exchange. Edsel Ford at times has been oredited with being a large buyer of Hudson Motors. “My company will never go to Wall Street,” Henry Ford has said. Stock of the Ford Motor Co. is not available in any markets, but Ford Motor Co. of Canada is quoted on the New York Curb against Henry Ford's ‘wishes. Except for the one instance of hand- ing a financier his hat, Ford has been a good host to callers from Wall Street. New York flnanciers at va- rious times have been his guests in Detroit with the stipulation that talk of buying his company was barred. Speculation Scheme Scented. transaction seemed to him authorized by law. Jadwin again defended Fiske's ac- tion at today's committee session, and Chairman Dempsey of the river and harbors committee declared he thought Fiske “well within his rights.” The law, he sald, permits acceptance of funds from individuals for surveys for navigation purposes. Representative O'Connor, Democrat, Louisiana, questioned whether the statute cited covered the case, and said he regarded acceptance of pri- vate funds under such circumstances as “bad business.” HOUSE APPROVES _ 16TH ST. EXTENSION (Continued from First Page.) surfacing 500 feet of Alabama ave- nue to the District line, so as to connect Suitland, Md, with an all- paved highway. Representative Gambrill of Mary- land, who sponsored the amendment, precipitated a sharper fight than was waged even over the extension previously voted for Sixteenth street. The Maryland delegation carrfed the amendment by vote of 100 to 71. Defending the action of the appro- priations committee in striking the budget estimate from the bill, Repre- sentative Funk protested that the committee was ‘“not a_ rubber stamp to follow blindly the director of the budget.” Charging that the proposal to link up Suitland, a town of only 500 popu- lation, with the District was but an- other move on the part of real estate developers, Mr. Funk made a. vigorous fight in opposition to the amendment. He declared the reason the committee had eliminated the item from the bill was because not & store or house was on this stretch of road, and that im- provements for main arteries were supposed to be made where traffic was heaviest. Funk Makes Protest. Mr. Funk protested that the com- mittee had tried to present a “busi- nesslike bill” and that it would be impossible to flnance every request made. Minority Leader Garrett inquired from the subcommittee chairman how much revenue would be collected dur- ing the flscal year 1928 from the tax on gasoline. Mr. Funk declared that the estimate was $1,060,000, which was to be set aside for the special fund for street improvements. “We try to expend this money on main arteries of the city which have the greatest traffic, and this proposal under consideration is not desirable,” Funk said. Representative Simmons declared that he went over this road during a recent rain and found the gravel to be in excellent condition. “I protest against the State of Maryland coming here and always insisting that the District of Columbia pave roads for the interest of real estate developers,” he sald. Bridge Approach to Be Improved. Another amendment adopted, with- out debate, appropriated $16.000 for resurfacing the approach to Highway Bridge. This was agreed to at the request of Representative Collins of Mississippl. The sum of $12,500 appropriated last year for acquiring Sherman Circle triangle under condemnation proceed- ings was reapproved. Mr. Gibson ex- plained that the verdict of the jury that gave $21,000 condemnation award had been set aside on the ground that the award was excessive and a new jury had been drawn last Monday. Wins Chicago Art Prize. CHICAGO, February 8 (#).—The rize in the thirty-first an- Phal xhibition of artists of Chicaks Institute today, was awarded H. Amiard Oberteuffer for his oil, “A Yellow Dress,” which won the Mr. Mrs, Brank G. Logan medal and | a bill introduced to dones, Demoorat, “Oh; you are one of those Wall Street guys,” was Ford's greeting to Mr. Prentiss, now senior member of the Wall Street. firm of Hornblower & Weeks, when he went to him with the first of his sensational offers which finally touched the 10-figure sum. Learning of the Prentiss offers, men in the financial district expressed their opinfon of his acumen in the state- ment that “if Jack Prentiss offered $1,000,000,000 for the Ford Motor Co. he probably already knew where he could sell it at a comfortable profit. Mr. Prentiss came to New York years ago with little more than ambi- tion, hope and self-confidence. Now he is rated a muiti-millionaire. The Boston firm of Hornblower & Weeks, of which the late John W. Weeks, formerly Secretary of War, was a member, sent Prentiss here to dig up business. A vigorous “house- to-house” campaign along Wall Street soon made him known. Speclalized in Motors. Specializing in automotive finance, Mr. Prentiss has handled the securi ties of Dodge, Chevrolet, General Mo tors, Hudson Motors and more recent 1y the Timken Roller Bearing Co. The $1,000,000,000 Ford deal, if successful, would have been unprecedented in the history of finance. Experts here say that the offer places the Ford Co. in a class contain ing only one or two other corpora tions, such as the United States Steel Corporation and the American Tele- phone and Telegraph Co. If the deal had gone through, Wall Street. leaders believe, the Ford Co. would have heen entirely recapital- ized and the securities distributed to investors in all parts of the country. Because of the wide interest in Ford securities, they feel that the brokers would have made a goodly profit, even at a capitalization of $1,000,000,000. MINETARLE?EALLED. Operators and Workers’ Delegates Summoned to Miami Feb. 14. CLEVELAND, February 3 (#).— The joint call for the joint conference of coal operators and miners to dis- cuss wages and working conditions, to be held at Miami, Fla., February 14, was issued here today under the sig- nature of Michael Gallagher, an oper- ator and chairman of the conference, and John L. Lewis, president of the United Miners of America. The call is for operators and miners of the old Central Competitive field, Ohio, western Pennsylvania, Illinois and Indiana. SEEK NURSES’ HOME FUND A deficiency appropriation of $400,- 000 for construction of a nurses’ home for Columbia Hospital will be sought by the District Commissioners. Decislon to this effect was reached today at a conference of the Commis- sioners, District Auditor Donovan, Assistant Engineer Commisisoner At- kins and David Lynn, architect of the Capitol. o Ten thousand dollars of the sum would be used for working out imme- diate plans for the building, which has been authorized by Congress. S R BAND CONCERT. TONIGHT. By the United States Navy Band Orchestra, at the Marine Barracks, § o'clock, Charles Benter, leader. 2 TOMORROW. By the United States Marine Band Orchestra, at the Marine Barracks, 3:30 o'clock, Willlam H. Santelmann, leader; Taylor Branson, second leader. In the future the regular weekly evening concerts will be given Wed- nesdays, 8:15 o'clock, instead of Tues- Would Repeal Vet Pay Limit. house; act as bell ringer and |and vicinity, which opened at the Art| The law reducing to $40 July 1 the® maximum compensation payable to veterans in hospitals who have no Gependents would be repealed under “da‘ by Senatog t