Evening Star Newspaper, December 30, 1927, Page 2

D . BITTER TAX FIGHT SEEN IN SENATE {Democrats May Demand Re- duction Bill Be Taken From Finance Committee. TWith administration leaders lining up in favor of withholding tax reduc- tion until after March 15 and Demo- crats urging immediate tax relief, the stage is being set for a lively contest on the revenue bill in the Senate after the Christmas recess. , The movement started by Chairman | Smoot of the Senate finance commit- tee and supported by Secretary Mel lon and Republi enate leaders will be opposed by the Demoy ¢ have besun to n_until after M Cong onal nfor s Wo! sroup ment ctio: we } ing a campaign to have the tax taken out of the k of the finance committee and brought to the floor of the Senate for a final vote. They con- tend the country is entitled to early f and that the a law before F ng to the support of the Repub- Secretary Melion declared yes in a lengthy statement that her the taxpayers nor the Govern- t have anything to lose by post- ng final enactment of the bill u il after March 15 and that delay will *‘occasion no loss to the taxpayers or inconvenience either to them or to the Government from an administrative standpoint.” —_— SIGMA NU HISTORY TOLD AT CONVENTION Annual Banquet Set for Tonight. Election of Officers Tomorrow. The history of Sigma Nu. national college fraternity, was related to several hundred delegates to the na- tional convention at the Mayflower Hotel this morning. Grant W. Harrington, former grand recorder and editor of the Delta, the fraternity publication, of Kansas City, Mo.: Samuel F. Peques. past grand treasurer, of Chicago and Charles ‘W. Jones, former vice regent and in- spector general, of Davenport, lowa, recalled the steady growth of the or- ganization following its founding at Virginia Military Institute in Lexing- ton, Va, at the close of the Civil ‘War. Twenty-three division submitted their annual reports, tell- ing of the activities of the groups under their respective supervisions. The annual banquet will be held at the Mayflower Hotel tonight. To- morrow’s business sessions will be devoted to electing officers and se- lecting a meeting place for next year. About 1.000. guests attended the ball given last night in the Mayflower Hote] ballroém. The grand march was led by Miss Adelaide Douglass and Miss Louise Abadie of this city, and Albert Walker and Brashear Avis, members of the Washington Alumni Chapter. At the conclusion of the business sessions tomorrow, a pligrimage will be made to Lexington, Va. to visit the scens of the founding of the fra- ternity. COSTES AND LEBRIX NEARLY WRECKED French Flyers Take Off in Bolivia Just as Plane Nears Declivity. By the Associated Press. LIMA, Peru, December 30.—After & hazarfous takeoff at Ja Paz, PBolivia, Dieudonne Costes and Joseph lebrix were safe here today with another 700-mile leg of their flight to New York behind them. The airmen, who were the first n the South Atlantic on a non- fiight, thought that they were a'h when taking off from La raid. Motor trouble and altitude prevented the plane from rising as rapidly expected. They taxied almost to the end of the field and were approaching a point where it dropped away in & steep declivity when a quick maneuver by Cos'es saved them and the plane began 10 rise. When the fiyers landed here the erowd Lroke through lines of police 4 troops and a thousand hands were #treiched out to welcome the Frenc men. They were hauled out of the piane and onto the shoulders of the enthuwinetic throng. Then Contes waid, or rather shouted “Long live Veru! 1ebr: imply sald noon.” “Good after- U. S. FIRM TO UNDERTAKE BRITISH GUIANA PROJECT Americen Offer Sponsor Water Plan In- Financiers volving Miilions, By Cavie 1o wnd Cnicaeo Daily yright, 1927, 2, December 30 & Bonw, American offered Lo undertske of Arainage seorgetown, Isitien ving an ex s 315900.000, wrcord o Georgelown ing the bid 1 carry ve woheme the American s wxzored the Councll 1hat under proper con the finsncing of the project 4 Le sucoesstully negotinved inthe nited Blutes DIES IN CHURCH COLLAPSE Child Killed, Nun Hurt as Walls of Barra Edifice Fall NAPLES December 30 eniid was killed and the mother su perior of (he orphenage st Barra was riously injured tuday when the wall the church there collspsed during by » of poass this morning Prompt ald Sireen, Vasost milite sand police re pulled in the rescus of the remaining orphans The church hes been strongly huf feted by the slorm which has bere for the past few days. inspectors | 1927 to| Aiture of oul the | Georgetown Dl'dk’l $100.000 BEQUEST Fortune Left Mrs. Isabel S, Lewis Realizes Son’s Ambi- tion to Study Geology. Mother Famed in Astronomy. Bel Air Relatives Also Share Duryea Estate. A $100,000 bequest which Mrs. Isa- bel S. Lewis, 1921 Park road, astron- omer and author, will receive through the will of her cousin, the late Mrs. vea of New York, widow B sportsman jand race he . will _bring a al n of the ambition of her 13- on Raymond to study geol- at Cornell. The lad is now a t Powell Junior High School. a New York today, s filed for probate revealed that the principal under the will 00,000 estate, is Mrs 8 Robert H. Heighe of Bel Air, Md. His share is $1,340,000. A niece, | Ann Heighe of Bel A furnishings of her aunt’s Paris apart- ment and $100.000 outright. On the death of her husband, CIlif. ford 8. Lew August, Mrs, Lewis, the author of several books on | astronomy, rejoined the staff of the Naval Observatory, with which she had been connected from 1905 to 1912, In addition, Mrs. Lewis has been the editor of the astronomical department’ of Nature Magazine, and has written MANEUVER ONTAX DIFFICULT TO STOP Democrats, Held Blocked by Melon and Smoot, Play for Delay. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Secretary Mellon and Senator Smoot have executed a maneuver with re- spect to the tax bill, which will be very difficult for the Democrats to upset. And the maneuver is aimed at the Democratic-insurgent coalition which was getting ready to cut taxes even more than the House did. Anticipating that the Senate might take the House bill, which calls for a $290.000.000 cut, and go further and further toward the $400,000,000 figure, which 80 many Democrats have set their goal. the Treasury has be- come convinced that the only way to win the “battle of the estimates” is to let the March 15 income tax pay- ments come in and see what drop in totals results from the rather adverse conditions that existed in many lines of business during the calendar year Eager to Boost Expenditures. But there’s another powerful factor, and that is the eagerness of Congress to spend more money than the Budget Bureau provided. The Mississippi flood problem, which affects Demo- cratic Senators very vitally, has not yet been settled. The administration probably would never confess that it is hitting the Democratic Senators a body blow by withholding the tax bill beyond March 15 and forcing them to agres on the amount of flood appro- priations early in the first quarter of 1928, but that has been the construc- tion placed on the Mellon letter, From the viewpoint of the Treasury there never has been any good reason for haste in ing the new revenue law. It's always better to know what the March 15 figures show as to tax receipts, officials contend, and no hard- ship will be incurred, because if the figures are in excess of estimates the new law can provide for rebates on 1927 payments. The difficulty is, how- ever, that once the taxpayer has sent in his first installment and made out his tax return he is usually inclined to dismiss the matter. At least that is the attitude of corporations which close their books with December 31, 1927, Cut Effective March 15. There is still a considerable senti- ment in Congress for making the cut in corporation taxes effective as of January next, instead of last January, but the bill now written would make it effective with the income tax payments on March 15 if the measure were passed by that date. The likell- hood now is that it will not be passed on that date, though a resolution tak- ing care of the corporations may be introduced and pressed, 80 as to save the Treasury the money involved in {administering refunds—a clerical job of no small expense. The Democrats have been planning to amend the House bill in many par- ticulars. Benator Smoot, who has the habit of knowing nccurately what sentiment in the Benate Is from time to time, came to the conclusion that unless & counter offensive were start. ed the administration would find ftxelf with a very unsatisfactory tax bill {11, on the other hand, the figures on | March 15 are surprisingly good, the |aelay gives both Becretsry Mellon snd Prexident Coolldge & graceful exit ifrom the uncompromising position they have taken with respect to $226,000,000 tax cut, which they set as & maximum, | (Conyright. 1027.) | " | Army Declines Horse 8how Bid. 1 A request for Army participation in the Dublin horse show next year has heen received by the War Depurtment through the American legation in Dub. lin. As the attention of the depart- ment will be devoted to preparation of an Army riding team for the Olypmic kamen in 1978, however, the depart. Tent found it hecessary to decline the invitation Navy Men. Returnin ve American Wuejckel this country from squadrons ahoard the L o face dishonor ¥ g tu naval President Haye vinlation of " a heroie role in the ship's mighty bat- te with & terrific storm last week and were rewarded by the appreciative paswengers, who signed n petition ad Ayessed to Becretary Withur asking clemencyy for the men in disgrace, it was leaMled toduy On her thirteenth voysge around the world. the President Huyes war cuught by gales which pounded her twe days In the No Atlantic Ar the storm neaied ite peak, the steam steering apperatus broke, necessl ating use of the wheel For a few moments the Dollar Hner wallowed hielplessly In th trough of the mea, Then Copt. J. Cadugan, remember ing bis Navy detall sbusrd, swung ihem into action, toxether wi other bluejackels who were returning home for honorable discharges, |nder the Airection of Third Officer John Ihillps, they turned to on the aft for yed CAPITAL BOY'S Play Heroic Roles THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1927. "TO FULFILL COLLEGE PLAN Ir MRS. ISABEL S. LEWIS. extensively for periodicals. Her latest work is a handbook on solar eclipses. Born in Maine in 1881, Mrs. Lewis was educated at Cornell. After grad- uation she taught school for a year and came to the Naval Observatory e in 1905, where she was asso- ted in research work on the motion of the moon with Simon Newcomb, :?ednf the foremost astronomers of is 1S URGED FOR 1928 Socialist Leader Predicts Op- portunity for Forming New Organization. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 30.—Oppor- tunity for creation of a strong Labor party, allied with the progressive ele- ment among the farmers, will be pre- sented by the 1928 presidential cam- paign, Norman Thomas, a leader of the Socialist party, said last night at a dinner of the League for Industrial Democracy. The new party, he asserted, would stand for ‘“international co-operation against imperialism,” for a fuller measure of civil liberty, reform of the judicial system and abolition of the injunction in labor disputes.” “The issue today,” he said, “is be- tween anarchy and planned control of our industrial life. In international affairs it is between imperialism and international co-operation, which alone can prevent a new world war.” Gov. Smith, he said, is “less of a progressive than some of his friends claim, but even if he merited all claims to progressiveness, a single progressive candidate cannot remake a party. What is needed is organized action based on the interests of the producing masses against the con- trolling classes.” ————n AUSTRIA STILL SEEKS LOAN OF $100,000,000 Question of Priority Causes Chief Difficulty in Negotia- tions Here. By the Associated Press. Austria’s desire to float a $100,000,- 000 reconstruction loan is still a matter of discussion betwen the capitals in- volved, it was learned today at the State Department, although there has been no agreement on the terms under which the transaction could be ap- roved. The chief difficulty is that of priority to be given the projected loan, as com- pared to the original Austrian relief loan of $25,000,000 made immediately after the war on which maturity has been extended by the Secretary of the Treasury to 1943, and also with respect to Austrlan reparations payments which are still to be fixed. Numerous suggestions as to an rangement for the new loan that would avold these difficulties have been made, it was said, but without acceptance as yet by the powers whose sent is necassary. 2,000 WHITE RUSSIANS MUST LEAVE TURKEY February 6 Set as Deadline for Vol- untary Emigration of Refugees. ) r and Ch By Cable g0 e ety 103 PERA, December 31.—Two thousand White Iussians, resident in Turkey, will be expelled unless they volun- tarily leave the country by Kebruary 6, according to indications in the seml- officlal press today. Beveral times the Turkish govern- ment, perhaps persuaded by the Soviet embansy, has taken steps to oust these Russians, but so far each time a r prieve has been glven, Now, howevel February 6 seems th Aslde from the White It became refugees following th of Gen. Wrangel's forces, are others who emigrated in the days of the Czar an well an a few who were actually horn in Turkey and never have heen in Russis, Afl, however, will be ex- pelled except a few trained technical workers, who are needed jraxo Daily ¢ Home in Disgrace, as Storm Tosses Ship deck and applied their husky arms to ' Wing w - 16 hours, with 10-minate relicts the sailors clung to the wheel snd brought the ship safely throngh mountalnous waves, At the end of this grueling period the storm whated somewhat and the chlef englneer was nble to repair the Bleatn HLeering B pparatus, e ended, the biuejackets went to th third cluss quarters, but vemal « only a few moments, wuests for the remainder of the trip Al but one were able to accept, the one in question having received a fiactured ankle when a wave pic Wim up &nd dashed him awainst & stanchion. e Anished the trip in the whip's h The st the ' uek by ember 21 and wind ane popor: Must Aows on the promenade ( hi uhove the water line, were sent (1 h‘ the green witer that almost hur 1l hip. The ship doel n New Xorld pesierday, 2 Ugfl o FARM-LABOR PARTY DRY AGENTS STR RAIDED NIGHT CLUB Actress Owner and Eight Em- ployes Held—350 Guests Quizzed. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 30.—Chez | ¥ielen Morgan, one of New York's | most gorgeous night clubs, was dis- | mantled by Federal prohibition agents {early today after they arrested Miss | Morgan and eight male employes, seized a dozen bottles of liquid and spent two and one-half hours ques: tioning 350 guests Fixtures and furnishings valued at $50,000 were loaded on six motor trucks and darted to a warehouse. Agents Get Evidence. Prohibition Administrator Maurice E. Campbell, who headed the raiding party of 25 agents, said flve agents had been gathering evidence against the club for the last week. He Te- fused to discuss his action in dis- mantling the establishment. The club, located in West Fifty- fourth street just off Broadway, was owded with men and women in for- mal dress when the agents entered at 1:30 o'clock this morning. Miss Mor- gan, the club’s hostess, is an actrest and has appeared in many Broadway productions. Two of the agents, accompanied by woman operatives, had previously been admitted to the club last night as guests, and at the appointed hour seized the doorman and admitted the raiding party. Activities were in full ving when the agents entered. An eight-plece orchestra was playing and many couples were dancing. Bar Is Found. When the agents revealed thelr identity there was a hurried attempt to dispose of pocket flasks, and many flasks were gathered by the radiers. In a rear room the agents said they found a bar equipped with the most expensive fixtures, but they were un- able to find any large quantities of liquor. The raid attracted several hundred persons, who gathered outside the building and booed the agents as they supervised the loading of th fixtures. Guests at the club were required to give the agents their names and ad- dresses, after which they were permit- ted to depart. Miss Morgan, who in addition to her night club activities is also appearing in one of Broadway's popular shows, was taken to the West Thirtieth street police station with eight club employes. Bail of $1,000 for each W obtained after several hours. GEN. FRED W. SLADEN T0 RETURN TO U. S. Relieved of Duties in Philippines to Command at Fort Sam Houston, Relieving Gen. Hinds. Maj. Gen. Fred W. Sladen, com- manding the Philippine Military De- partment. today was assigned to the command of the 8th Corps Area, with station at Fort Sam Houston, Tex., as the relief of Maj. Gen. Ernest Hinds, scheduled for other duty. The orders to Gen. Sladen relieve him of his duties in the Philippines on the completion of his present tour of for- elgn service, May 3, after which date he will proceed to Fort Sam Hous- ton, Tex. ‘Though no orders to that effect have been issued as yet, it has been an- nounced that Maj. Gen. Douglas Mac- Arthur, now commanding the 3d Corps Area, at Baltimore, is sched- uled to relieve Gen. Sladen in com- mand of the Philippine department in May next. It is regarded in military circles as a natural assumption that Gen. Hines on his relief at the Texas post will be assigned to the command of the 3d Corps Area, at Baltimore, when vacated by Gen. MacArthur, un- less there are other changes in corps area commands in the meantime. — GIRL’S HALF NUDE BODY IS PICKED UP IN FIELD Found With Head Cut and Cloth- ing Torn, Indicating Fierce Struggle With Assailant. By the Assoclated Press. WASHINGTON, Pa., December 30. ~—The half nude body of Thelma Young, 17, of Washington, with a deep in the forehead over the right eye, found fn a fleld at the city limits today. Blood, spattered over a radius of 60 feet, indicated that the girl struggled with her assallant. It was believed that she was killed with a brick, found near ‘The clothing had been ripped from her body, which ny scratches and brulses. county and city police in- vestigating the killing learned that Miss Young, employed as a domestic In the Washington and Jefferson Col- lege athletic training house, had left her home last night to attend a motlon picture show. Beveral hours after Miss Young's body was found d Drew, 17, negro, was arrested as n suspect in the case. He was found hiding under a bed in his home near the fleld where the body was discovered. When the police placed him under arrest Drew shouted, “1 didn’t do 1t." o DETROIT MOTORISTS HEED SPEEDING BAN Police Begin Intensive Drive on Violators After Bafety Zone Killings. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, December 30.—A large portion of Detroit's motoring citizens are glving fairly good fmitations wlow motion pletures this w a to a police war on trafo violators, In the two days of the campalgn more than 0,000 drivers have been “ticketed.” 600 policemen are on within 26 miles More than duty to keep motorisl an_hour, Thirty m t the trafMo violatlon burea: he drive follows a recent | of & motorist driving through an oe- cupled safety zone, killing two women and injuring several others, HERB DOCTOR ARRESTED. testing that he was an at the alning rly A from an teing medicine with: onme, Clark wia surprised to learn his business had besn under Invetigation, bellevin was complylng with th law, Ais case will be heard in Follo Lourt tomorvew, ot ! oxpert In | ¢ TWO WOMEN INDICTED ON FORGERY CHARGES Accused of Falsifying Prescriptions for Drug on Five Occasions. Mrs. Lorraine Horner, 1632 Monta- gue street, and her sister, Mrs. Vivian Tillman, were indicted today by the grand jury on charges of forgery and uttering. The women are alleged to have altered doctor's prescriptions for heroin 8o as to call for a larger num- ber of tablets than prescribed and to have uttered them to a druggist as genuine. The prescriptions are all made out to Mrs. Horner, but ac- cording to the information in the hands of the prosecutor, the sister is said to have alded in the altera- tion and to have procured the filling of certain prescriptions. Only flve prescriptions are made the subject of the indictment, but narcotic officials say that Mrs. Horner obtained many other prescriptions for heroin. The five prescriptions named in the indictment were issued by Dr. M. C. Dollman, 1620 R street, and were filled 4t Judds’ Pharmacy, Four- teenth and Girard streets. They were dated September 8, September September 24, September 27 and Oc. tober 3. The indictment is in 10 counts, one charging the forgery of ench of the five prescriptions and one charging the uttering of each of them. TOTAL ANNEXATION OR NONE URGED Arlington Says County Is Too Densely Populated to Be Divided. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. COURTHOUSE, Arlington County, Va., December 30.—All or none of Ar- lington County should be annexed to Alexandria, and not a portion thereof, the annexation tribunal was told to- day by counsel for that county. Charles T. Jesse, Arlington County's delegate to the Legislature, explained that this broad claim is based on a ruling of the court at the time of the Clarendon Corporation proceedings, known as the case of Bennet versus Garrett, in which it was held that the congestion existing outside of the ter- ritory, which was sought to be incor- porated, was so great that a line could not be drawn through any part of it to designate a corporate limit. He argued that Arlington County, as a whole, is 8o densely populated and built-up that this court now in ses- sion cannot separate any particular portion of it for annexation to Alex- andria. Opposes Court Ruling. Mr. Jesse presented this argument in noting an exception to a ruling by the court that it was not interested in testimony regarding the density of population outside of the territroy which Alexandria desires to take with- in her boundaries. The ruling of the court occasioned a spirited debate on the part of counsel for Arlington and Fairfax Counties. The effort was so spirited, in fact, that Presiding Judge Samuel G. Brent was prompted to break into the controversy with a re- mark that he had never heard of a court ruling not being respected by counsel. The court might be wrons, he added, but counsel had redress by taking exception to the ruling. Jesse disclosed that Alexand nexation proceedings constitu threat against a carefully worked out, comprehensive scheme on the develop- ment of Arlington County along mod- ern city lines. He said the county now has every right accorded a city, and wishes jealously to guard those rights. Extensive Loans in County. “Do you mean to say that this court should extend Alexandria’s limit be- yond the section requested by Alexan- dria in these proceedings?” asked the court. “We contend,” counsel for Arlington County replied, “that the county is so densely populated that all of 'it, or none of it, should be annexed. We base that contention on the ruling of the court in the Clarendon case.” At the opening of court this morn- ing Carroll Plerce, president of the Citizens' National Bank of Alexan- dria, testified that the city’s three national banks had deposits totaling $6,700,000 and had loaned money ex- tensively in Arlington and Fairfax Countles. Questioned regarding the Alexandrig Water Co., of which he is a_director, defense counsel ruised an objection to “the insinuation” that this water vorks is municipally owned. Judge Brent remarked that the court understood it was a priv corporation, but added that it was Alexandria enterprise.” Mackey of counsel for Arlington County took vigorous exception to Judge Brent's statement about the being an Alexandria enter- Ezrine, subdivision develop- er, testified regarding building opera. tions in the disputed territory and also within the city lmits. Court adfourned for lunch with George K. Garrett, former county engineer, on stand for cross-examination, The court announced that it would adjourn this afternoon until next Wednesday. Increase of 4711 Shown. The special Federal census of Alex- andria’'s population, requested by the court at the city inatigation, con- curred in by the countles, showed a population increase of 471 since 19. The figures were seizsed upon yest day by defense counsel as corroborat. Ing their contention that Alexandria 8 not progressive and that there is no need for an increase In its bound: ary lines, Witnesses put on the stand day afternoon for Alexandria testi. fled the city is prosperous and has ex- d & marked rise in land values Ll war. Thes cluded Taylor Ru Warfleld, bankers, now, real eatate dealer. On conclusion of cross-examination of Mr, Burke it was charged by Car- ter Hall of counsel for the city that attorneya for the counties have un. necossarily prolonged the examina- tion. The charge was denled by John 8. Rarbour, an attorney for the de- fonse, MAN, 61, FOUND DEAD IN GAS-FILLED ROOM Son Discovers Body on Return From Trip—Last 8een Alive Tuesday, The lifcless body of James . 01 yearn old, roti ¢, was found this m his home at et northeast, his son, J. K. Johnson, ¢ U, 8. 8. Dolphin, on hia veturn from A vialt to his slater in Novfolk, His father lived alone, When the son arrived, he sald that he found the firat foor filled with and an open jet in the Ilvm‘ room. As far as polloa conld determine this morning the or Johnson was inst ween alive enday night by a ealth And wagiubject (o heart [ g e hhors sald Ih&lm hadt been in MODERATES REGAI CONTROL N CANTON Right Wing of Kuomintang May Aid Chiang—Backed by Merchants. BY PAUL WRIGHT. The S Chies By Cable to Tho, Star, and Chicaro Dally HONGKONG, December 30.—After weeks of anxiety and terror while in the hands of “Leftists,” Canton once more is under control of Right Wing moderates of the Kuomintang. De- tachments of Kwangsi troops which entered the city Thursday morning are meeting with a welcome from merchants, which is regarded by the commercial class as approval of the policy of the ruling faction. There is reason to belleve that the victors wil! be able to co-operate with Gen. Chiang Kal-shek. Gen. Li Fuk-lum's sudden departure was the most startling development. For about 15 years he has maintained a stronghold on Ho-Nam Island, an integral part of Canton, siding with various winning groups in South China's constantly changing politics. Li Fuk-lum has preserved law and order in Canton as well as shown an uncanny ability to pick_winners. In some ways the Chinese Com- munists in the Swa-bue district are showing greater ingenuity than their Russian prototypes. Reports from Swa-bue affirm that the Communists not only use the old Cheka terrorists’ methods, but add features of their own, such- as parading their victims through the streets with rings through their noses and ropes binding them. Local newspapers assert theres are about 150 victims per day. A Chinese 80 years old and a friend of the Italian Bishop Valtora was put to death by the slicing process, which is barbarous beyond imagination. Many members of the commune are girls and boys 15 to 18 years old. LONG SIEGE ENDS. Shansi Troops in Chochow Give Up After 79 Days. PEKING, December 30 (#).—Siege latsing 79 days of the town of Cho- chow, 40 miles southwest of Peking, has ended with the surrender of the Shansi troops, who were stranded there almost three months ago when the Shansi invasion of the Province of Chihli was repulsed. The siege was a queer combination of modern and ancient methods of warfare. Despite a shortage of sup- plies and munitions, the Shanai troops used the city’s twelfth century as a barricade and repulsed a greatly superior Manchurian force who utilized the most modern weapons in China, including artillery, aircraft, a modified form of tanks and even attempted a gas attack. —_— GRAND JURY MAKES PRESENTMENT IN OIL JURY SCANDAL (Continued from First Page) torney’'s office they will seek a post- ponement. Maj. Gordon said he would tell the court the Government is prepared to g0 ahead in prosecuting the contempt charge against Blackmer, and that Owen J. Roberts and Atlee Pomerene, special oil counsel for the Govern- ment, were prepaerd to come here for the hearing of January 6. Blackmer already has posted $100.- 000 in Liberty bonds, pared to forfeit to the Government for failing to return from Paris. to ap- pear a witness in the first Teapot Dome case. A second charge of con- tempt will be placed against the miss- ing witness if he fails again to an- swer the court summons to appear as a witness in the second trial, which opens on January 16. Maj. Gordon said today no one has notified him that Albert B. Fall, for- mer Secretary of the Interior, is too ill to come here January 16 to stand trial. Owing to the situation involved in the contempt proceedings now un- der way in Justice Siddons’ court. which involves Sinclair and his five associates, it {s likely that the second Teapot Dome trial will be postponed. Case Is Separate. The present contempt, case involving Blackmer is entirely distinct from any similar proceedings which might be brought against the missing witness after the Teapot Dome trial re. sumed. Maj. Gordon said the Govern. ment would resist any effort to post. pone the hearing, set for January 6, until after the Teapot Dome case is concluded. The grand jury investigation into the charges of jury tampering got un. der way November 2, the day Justice Siddons declared a mistrial in the original Fall-Sinclair conspiracy case. The mistrial was ordered when it was revealed by the Government that since the Teapot Dome case opened October 18, Burns detectives, hired at the direction of Sinclair, had placed the trial jurors under constant and close surveillance. A rald by two assistants of the dis- trict attorney's office on _an apart. ment in the Wardman Park Hotel brought about disclosure of the jury survelllance. Reports of Burns' opera- tives made to Henry Mason Day were seized, AfMdavits this effect and another set of afMdavits played an important part in bringing about the mistrial It was charged in the second set of aMdavits that Don King, a local news- paper man, and J. Ray Akers had approached Juror dward J. K- well and discussed the trial with him during its progress. Kidwell was al. leged to ha remarked that he ex. pected to get an automobile in event that Fall and Sinclair were acquitted. The firat tip to the Government re. garding the jury surveillance was given by Willlam J. McMullen, Rurns deteotive, who visited ex-Giov. Qifford Plnchot of Pennsylvania in Washing- ton and revealed to him that he had been induced to swear to a false am. davit charging that a Department of Justice agent had approached Juror Norman L. Glasscook. The Burns man declared this was for the purpose of bringing about a mistrial it the Teapot Dome case should go against Sinolatn Par‘dng in Apecial Dispateh to The Star CHICAQO, December 30.-~The reat of the country can sit back and view Chicago as & laboratory for testiv out romediea for the downtown trafo ille that aMict oities most everywhere when next week one drastio s of trafo regulation will have ita trial Ditvers from that time on will e tor Chicago's “loop” with an adwent tlon fvom the law to Keep moving. Thers will he no parking from T in the morning until 430 in the evening along 180 blooke of downtown atrests, Bteiot regulations and 300 active po- lion ave 10 see to that, TraMo (s expected 10 ba apesded up nearly 80 per eent at the vush houre- & Teault very much hesded 1o Felieve 1 but hich he is pre- | Colder Weather For Capital Due B Monday Night fle New Year day over most of the land will be ushered in with “very cold weather,” a drop In temperature for Washington is not due before Monday, Forecaster Mitchell predicted today. The weather hers will remain mild with occasional rain, and in the last few hours of the old year tomorrow night the thermometer may begin to recede slowly. How- ever, its rate of descent throughout Sunday will not be noticeable, but toward nightfall the advance guard of the cold weather now in the ‘West should be here. Mr. Mitchell has little doubt but that it will be “quite colder by Monday.” “I don't know whether it will be the coldest weather of the season by Monday night or not,” the fore- caster added, “but it is going to be Auite cold. It will be very cold all through the Middle West and Northwest by New Year.” HUNT FOR GRAYSON PLANE ABANDONED Further Search Futile, Navy Holds—Destroyers Are Withdrawn. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 30.—Con- vinced tkat further search o the waters off the Newfoundland and Nova Scotian coasts for Mrs. Frances Wilson Grayson and her three male companions in the amphibian plane Dawn would be futile, the United States Navy has ordered withdrawn the five destroyers which for two days searched the waters about Cape Sable. Authorities were unanimously of the opinion that the Dawn could not have escaped discovery if it had been in and the dirigible Los Angeles. Urges Inland Search. Remembering her husband's remark that if forced down would try to make land, Mrs. Brice Goldsborough, wife of the Dawn's navigator, urged that search be made inland for her husband, Mrs. Grayson, Oskar Omdal. motor expert, who accompanied the plane. Additional reports were received of an airplane circling about in the vicin- ity of Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, Mrs. Grayson's destination when the Dawn left Roosevelt Field 4 night on the first lap of a projected flight to Croydon, England. Mr_and Mrs. Burress, keeper of the Half Way House between Carbonnear and Hearts Content, Newfoundland, and two others said they heard the dro! of an airplane motor several times between 8 o'clock and midnight Saturday while a snow squall was in progress. They believed the plane was trying to make a landing. Heard Plane Saturday. Four women at Harbor Bretor: said they heard a plane passing there about 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon, having no knowledge of th Dawn’s flight had not regarded their information as important. Carbonnear is about half way te- tween Harbor Grace and Hearts Con- tent, whence came the story by a telegrapher of a radio message. signed with call letters resermbling those of Can you locate u: Harbor Breton is on the course the Dawn was ex- pected to follow on its flight. Comdr. H. E. Rideout of the Coast Guard cutter Ossippee, which aided in the search for the Dawn, said that sounds were picked up Monday and Tuesday by the Ossippee’s operators similar to thoss which would come from spark coils or some improvised radio apparatus, but they could not be deciphered nor their origin de- termined. WILL CURB ROWDYISM. ot be tolerated in Rowdyism will connection with New Year eve cel brations, Maj. Edwin B. Hesse, su- perintendent of police, said today in issuing an order to his captains, in- structing them to direct members of their commands to be on the alert for such 8. “This refers particularly to the ringing of bells, blowing of whistles and discharging of firearms.” sald Maj. Hesse, “all of which are in vio- lation of the police regulations.” Maj. Hesse directed that prosecu- tions should de instituted in all in- stances involving the discharging oll firearms. e———————————— Under instructions to “play along™ with the Rurns operatives. kept the District attorney constant touch with matters relating to the jury shadowing Burns later made public the Me Mullen afidavit, which was not flled with Justice Siddons, however, until four days after the mistrial. He claimed the afidavit had been made in good faith, and that McMullen was known to the Burns agency only as Willlam V. Long. After several weeks, the grand jury suddenly stopped fts investigation and criminal contempt charses were brought against Sinclair, Burns and the other four associates Decembder 3 in Justice Siddons’ court. Day and Clark had been charged with con apiracy in connectiop with the jury tampering when they refusad to tes tify before the grand jury on the ground of selt-incrimination. Telal of the contempt charges con. tinued for two weeks when juror Kid. well was placed on the stand to tell about admissions he had made to the district attorney that he Knew he was being shadowed during the Teapot trial, Proceadings in the contempt case were get aside December 20 to inves tigate charges made by Hoaver, counsel for Sinclalr, that Kid. well and other witnesses had been intimidated by officers of the Govern. ment, These charges were still the subject of inquiry when oourt ad- journed over Now Year day and will be resumed Tuestay. Chicago's New Traffic Rules Prohibit Business Section of City_ an almost tapossible situation. This scheme, however, involves only the downtown distriot and is on trial, The ity still lacks a plan 0 ocut down Automobite Killings, which this vear have mounted to 993 for Chicago alone, With over 20.000 infured. This is an ncrease of approximately 133 per vent fur the year. 2 From next Tuesday on, wnless re- a«lv\l after a trial, & olty andinance 1l bar all but fire apparatus from Parking on the Rap streets. 'mm; may take 30 winutes to lad or wn load, but moat of the truok delivering | 18 naw done at night, When Whe new reRulations do not apply, Passanger ::\n A:‘ tl::dl\ul hree Nuuv‘:‘ l: 1Ot ox take la passngere 'l‘:’ © W Mw stands, where may herwise they the waters covered by the destroyers | pllot of the Dawn. and Fred Koehler, | the Dawn, asking, “Where are we? | CALLES' OIL LAW DOUBTED BY FIRMS Mexico Still Retains Subsoil Rights—Process of Ap- peal Indefinite. Saeveral of the attorn rious oil companies int ico do not beli.ve the posed by President Ca {enougk. They are pi n spirit of the new law, but they perplexed as to how the Me ernment I8 going to settie so: vital points that are ne in the re nor in the b for the va. rights are recognized which acquired before May before that date a po consummated, such as actual exp tion of an ofi well or the makir, lease between the la oil company expressly oil exploitation is fntended. Still Called “Concessions.” Second, the so-called confirm of rights must still be mad, the troublesome word ‘“con. This is predicated the national ownership in retained at all times by Government. It is cons that titles, after all. m and that in their place inde! ces=ions are substituted. it “‘conce: what beco: companies, which are express bidden by Mexican law to obtaia “ cessions”? Must all foreizn corpora- ! tions be reincorporated as Mex!can | institutions? As such they w of course, lose their right of appeal, to the American Government, for in- stince, because they would no l.nger ba entitled from the Mexican point to American protection. Department of State, however, insis that no America . citizen can surren- der his right to diplomatic appeal, and that even if he waives it the Den: ment of State ca~ intervene in h bhalf on its own volition. 1} io led from the t t0 do American companies. No Chance for Review. Fourth, provision is made for judicial review of Mexican departme has been assumed tions for confirmat would have to be Mexican departmen right of review has been cut o affects not only leases but quired before May 1. 151 Also it has not been explained and the law does not indicate wheth Mexican government in pu J id 1 of natiun: ip of resources means to set itself up as par question of validity of titles and leas < or will allow the matter to be o between the land owners an sons or companies to was sold or leas The American ¢ ! selves as lessees, but do the Mexican governmen itself in the position of hav the original owner. If that is t! tude, then the titles in effect ha retroactively confiscated by the Mexi- can government leases really pass from land own- ers to the Mexican govercment as original owners. Until these points are resolved the ofl controversy will hardly be called settled, and the Depa will be besieged by the oil men to con- tinue its efforts through A to prevent retroactivi th» application of the new law.. It may be that the Mexican govera- ment intends by decree or mental ruling to cover the points fa dispute, but that is why the are hesitant to grow enth the new law till the foreguing ques- tions are answered. (Convriedt. 1927) [LINER IS DESTROYED | IN §1,000,000 BLAZE | { Flames Sweep Hoboken Water | Front—River Steamer Towed to Safety. By the Amocisted Press. | HOBOKEN, N. J.. Decemder $0.— A millton-dollar biare whic two waterfront blocks, Clyde Liner Seneca, two p | several barges. was brou | control today after all Hodod equipment, aided dy firedoats and wol. unteers, had fought it 4 hours. The fire started on a pler ownediy wanna Ratlroad, | was moored. The Hudson Line mer Hendrik Hu b fup for the Winter, was savad & | destruction when tugs towed { ream and extingw! n_her bow. | It was belleved the dare with an explosion of gasoline | Flotcher pler or in the plant & & paint company neardy. | The binze was the worst aloeg the {city’'s waterfront since last Mard, when fire destroyed & puer, thive factories, 50 freight care and several barges, all valued at more than $1,000,000, PR 'REPORTS OF BRITISH | OBJECTIONS DENIED" | Kellogg Says English Have Not® .| Elevated Guas on Ships Nor 0p- posed U, & Doing Se. Ry the Amaciated Prosd | Publishet rgports that the W |Roverament Wwas ablecting * ralsing of the main dattery § Amerioan battleships promived Sevce tary Nellogg 10 depart fwm & use Al custom totay to authorise & ety Quoted denial “My attention has deen calal te w | Press report stating in substaws that the Reitish govermment Had edvaed] 1ts gUns after the Washingion treaty Tand then had adjected to the U - | States doing the sama ™ the Sewwary o [sald “This 18 & wistake “The Rritish government flrmed the Unital States that ft Dl wmat elovatad its guns and thin depariment and the Navy Departmeat are - fed that this fa correel. The ROVOrnment s not mow odieciing the United States’ gua elevation. The deftviency opriation N4 W cently signad By Freaktent (o aley :tlu o . carvisd an item Amerioan ahips, prov Coalidie ShOUN deoide ThAt sweh G - Ui WOUKE ROt Viniate the Wash: aves treaty, The swi waa " Dated At longth i the of ihe proposst B2 oximeg )