Evening Star Newspaper, December 31, 1927, Page 2

a ® COOLIDGE T0 UREE AMITY AT HAVANA ‘President Begins Prepara- tion of Pan-American Congress Speech. With & keen desire to praduce something that will bring aboul closer community of inierests be- iween the United States and the gov- | of Central and South ‘America, President Coolid has .commenced the writing of the ad- he will make at the openins of the Sixth Ian-American Conference in Havana January 16 tering upon this undertaking is mot znmindful of - assoctated with the meeting and also is conscious of the possible glory that will go to his ad ministration if (he conference is at tended with complete success Because of (his fecling the Presi dent will proceed slowly and most carvefully in composing the speec Expected to Answer Critics. been intimated that he wili ate not only the attitude of th tes toward the other Ameri can Republics. ception of what should be the basix of the interdependent relationship. ax well as a clear outline of the bene fits 10 expect through a better under ‘ernments standing on the part of the peopie of | these countries. Mereover. the President is expected to take this opportunity (0 remove some of the distrust of the United Siates, which he knows is prevalent in some of the latin American countries and courageously answe of the Latin America poli- < administration. only will sddress on this occasion he of vita importance. but his presence in Havana at the opening of the con ference will be notable. 1t is well understood that Mr. Coolidge plans 10 g0 bevond the borders of the United ates and upon the high seas to persomally contribute to the success- Tul outcome of this conference. To Be Machado's Guest. His attendince at the opening of 1his conference will be marked by bril- liant and impressive ceremonies. He ;and the members of the American party will be received in grand style upon their arrival. The President will be the guest of President Machado 2 hie palace. The presidential party, which will include Mrs Coolidge, relary of state Kellogg. Secretary of the Navy Wilbur end members of the American delezation to the conference, will leave January 13 The party will go to Key West by special train and em- bark for Havana aboard the battle- ‘#hip Texas. It i understood that the party will stop at Jacksonville, Fia., on the way Lo Key West, but enly for #n hour cr so. On the return trip the party will. spend two hours in Miami. “OTHER WISE MAN" ATTENDED BY 1,500 ‘Christmas Legend Attractively Pre- seited by East Washington Community Players. Fifteen hundred persons last night @ttended the presentation st East Washington Community Center of ““The Other Wise Man.” with the East Washington Community Players in Smporiant parts, assisted by Denis E Connell, Katherine Riges. Chariotte Harriman, contralto, and Judy Lyeth. The staging and lighting of the Christmas legend was most at- tractive and the parts were well playe: 1w the various groups, numbering G0 piayers Those who appeared in speaking paris were Helen Tucker, E. A. Grif- Vth. Eldred Wilson, Fdward Morris, fiarry K. Helwig, Charles Edward Joliey and Charles Johnson, In the final scene the entire per- #onnel ook part. inciuding Lillian Jambert. Margaret Crown. Louise Morse, Dorothy Spangler. Ellzabeth $pangler, Marie Castonguay, Blair sray, Mabel Battenfield, Rita Lieper, uline Abschier. Charlotte Battenfield, but will give his con | President Coolidge’s ! ot- | I: Wilbur Pardons 534'wm0w Navy Lawbreakers {As Christmas Gift . e Christmus pardons were granied hy vy of te Navy Wilbur (0 534 inmates af naval prisons, it wak Anneunced by the Necretary. e said that the conduct of the men in the service was such (hat he felt that discipline would not be Jeapardized. Before taking this step Mr. Wil hur visisted the talked ny men Ny and | rec e nls ! fxt him u_clemeney i v Admiral E ward H_ Campbell. Snnerintendents of the various naval prisons ree. ammended the men for pandons and the hoard wen( over the i and submitted (he numes to the Secre- L otary In numerous case: said. the men had des theiv immediate families wel need Pardons. he ndded granted to atl of them Many o€ he releaxed prisoners were re(urmed (o the service, while others went divectly into c.vilian tite. COLORED PRISONER HANGS SELFINCEL Commit Suicide at Police Station Within Week. m Mr Wilhur od hecause in were A second case of suicide by hang- in & police cell, i less than a occurred this morning, when {James Herman Gross, colored. 29 vears old. of 415 K street killed him- xelf at the second precinct station. He was found at o'clock hanging by his belt. which was tied around his neck and fastened to one of the upright _steel hars of his cell. John Burns hung himself by the same method at the sixth precinct station Mondsy night. Gross was not dead when he was discovered and cat down. but all the effor! the police and Dr. W, I Corey of Casualty Hospital, who re | sponded to ® rush call. were unavail- He was { Dr. Corey a few minutes after his arrival, Capt. Guy K. Burlingame of the second precinct said this morning that Gross hae been in the cell since 11 o'clock Thursday morning, and al {theugh he had been watched riosel he had shown no signs of despon- dency. He was charged with house- breaking and the theft of a suit of clothes, New Regulation Proposed. After a coroner’s jury had ren- |dered a verdict of suicide in the case of Buri it was stated officially Tues- day that a new regulation being prepared providing (hat belts must he removed from all prisoners who are locked up. The present regula- tions provide for the remova! only of weapons and botties, or articles which { mizht pe used weapone or for sell injury. Burns is alleged to have been drunk when he was placed in a cell but Gross wus nol. Policeman Robert Hinton of the | second precinct saw Gross with a suit of clothes under him arm near Nev- enth and M streets Thursday morning. As he started tow, him. Gross began 0 run, but was caught by the police. man. An investigation by headquar- | ters detectives was begun. and Groas | was suspected of having committed il number of robberies by housebreak- ing within the past few months. He i* suld to have admitted severa! charges of housebreaking. Waen Policeman James A. statio |ing week, | Hunt, keeper, visited the celiroom at 42 o'clock this morning, Gross ap. peared (0 be all right. but Policeman Charles H ‘Tucker entered the cell. |romn st 7 o'clork and diseovered the | man hanging by his beit. He h i dei Jumped from his cot. Taguest Ordered. Deputy Corener Joseph D. Rogers will hoid an inquest in the case this afternoon Grosa and his brother-in-law, Charles Clarence Evans, of 419 K street, who also is under arrest, have been “us- pected by the police of having robhed the apartment of Margaret Diller. 336 Becond street mortheast, December 22 and committed numerous other thefts pronounced dead by | THE EVENING 8 'S SHOES -~ CLUE IN SLAYING Found in Doctor’s Posses- sion, Police Say—Prisoner Denies Murder Charge. By the Assoviated Py LOS ANGEL December 31— Sherifi’s investizators dug into & krowing mass of tangled clues here today in an effort 1o reconstruct an ovderly story of the slaying of Mrs. Ameliu Appleby, widow of a million- sire Chicago Inventor A piece of patched canvas and some bits of cord which correspond to those used (o wran the body were added to (h> chain of evidence by which the prosecutors expect (o convicl Dr. Churiea M. McMillan of the murder Although MeMillan continued to assert hin innocence, (he authorities declared their case aguinst him hid heen materfally strengthened by the finding of the canvas und the cord ind by word from Chicago that he had heen involved in the financial affeirs of the woman Place of Slaying Fixed. The canvas xnd' the pieces of rope, according to the officers. fixed probuble place of the slaying in u ynorth rear roomn of Mrs. Appleby's home here. It was there ulso, the officers said. that the body was wrapped in the canvas before trans- porting it to the outskirls of the city. where {1 was found Monday, Meanwhile the sherifl’s homicide squad continued to lay a barrage of | auestions down upon Dr. MeMillan. Alleged discrepincies in his uncertain alibi and numerous facts as yet unex. plained were cited as points strength. ening the State's case, despite (he gh\'sm-n- declaration. I didn’t kill .. The officers declured they had not | vet obtuined a satisfoctory explana- tion from the dostor of two pairs of shoes of the slain woman found in his apartment There were no shoes on the body when found Likewise. the fovestigators plan to quesiion the doctor further on why he rented Mrs. Appleby’s house on the dav the body was foynd. it she hud told him. as he had contended, that she wis going to San Diego for only |a visit | Handwriting Experts Called. They huve placed in the hands of | handwriting experts a purported will of Mre. Appleby in which she left her fortune to Dr. McMillan, who bad lived with her and in recent months managed her husinest affairs at a salary which he waid was $100 »« month The officers believe the hody of the will is in the doctor's handwriting. The document. written on the station- ev of a Duluth hotel, 1n signed “Amelia Appleby McMillan. Mollie Burke or Amelia Fllenhaugh.” McMillan, who first denied he knew anything of the woman's will, al- though it was found in his possession, later said he regarded it not will, but @8 a power of attorney. Alco a part of the igvestigation in the muysterious staving §s the where. shoute of jewels. valued at $60.000 which Mrs. Appleby was known to have had in her possession, | One phase of the Investigation switched 1o Chicago as the officer: sought to determine why McMillan dispatched a letter to lessees of one of the slain woman's Chicago properties instructing them to he prompt with the rent and to remit it to him at his apartment. Although the doctor admitted living with Mrs Agppleby. he denfed that he had journeyed with her as man and wife on an Eastern trip. Denies Driving Car Away. He denied the story told by neigh. hors that he had been seen (o drive her car a from her home last week. First. according to the officers, he denied he knew how to drive an automebile, later admitting, however, that he could drive a ear, Another discrepancy was discovered, according to the officers, when they telephoned to the minister of the church where Dr. McMillan sald he attended services last Bunday night The physician said the pastor d:-liv. ered his sermon without notes. The minister said that although it was not his usual custom. he used notes in delivering his sermon. Mra. MeMiflan. the doctor's en. tranged wife. who In living in Lox An. &eles. declared her intention of stand ing by him in the present cuve, d { the | ¥ twere to be u R. WASHINGTON, n. OLD REVENUE LAW BRINGS FEAR [FOR BROADWAY CLUBS' GAYETY Dangcr of Confiscation May Put Daxfipcr on NCW Ycar Festivities in Gay Places. By tha A b W YORK. December 31.—The host of an old revenue I rose toda couse some misgivings shout what promised to he Broadway's most ex. pensive and wildest celebration of a New Year. { Under authority of this law, prohibi. | tion agents stripped Chez flelen Mor- gan. one of the cily’s most popular night regorts, of its $50,000 worth of furnishings. Owners of other night clubs hacame a bit appreliensive about tonight's developmenis. Reservationg at all the popular olubs and houels had heen exhausted days ago and it was estimated 100,000 persons would dine and dance the old | year ont and the new year in. payinz ay least §1,000,000 for the privilege Two Agents ta Each Club. Coupted with the threat made by the Morgan Club raid was a letter sent all | mght elub proprietors hy Administ: tor Maurice Campbell. in which warned that two agents would he as. | ned to each club, He aul« called attention to a recent Federal court de- | cision in ago which held that the | mere furnishing of glasses, cracked | ice or ginger with knowledge they d in eonsumption of liquor, was geound for padlock pro- | ceadings. Campbell said that the raid on the Morgan Club had the approval of | I'nited States Attorney Charles H | he | 14 the dismantling of the carried out under secti the Revised Statutes od this gee of club w. 2458 of added that he was convin tion authorized the confiscation properiy. N The law provides that persons in pos- session of taxable goods (which in chudes liquor) with the intent to sell the same “in fraud of the internal revenue lawe shall be Jidble to a pen- alty of 3500 or not less than double the emount of taxes fraudulently at- | tempted to be evaded. * * * All tools, | implements. instruments and personal property whatsoever in the place o bullding * * * where such (taxah articles are found. may also be s o and shall be forieited.” May Go to Supreme Court. 1. Arthur Adler, councel for Miss Morgan and the eight employes of the club who were arrested. denounced | the raid as a violation of the pracess | and search and seizure clauses of the | Constitution and 1 he would carry | the case to the United States Supreme | )| d, A welcome promising to he eve madder and merrier than those of th past today awaited 1928 in New Yor As the old year prepared tc. mo i off into the ages indications weore that | the din of welcome by the surging treet crowds, the nizht club revelers and the diners and dancers at holels purties would exceed any- the previous history of tbe Perhapa the only there will be no cove that given by (Urban 1. Zero). philanthroplst. to s dred “down and cuters” who will he fed in front of the Public Library at Fitth avenue and Forty-second street, only a few blocks from the theutr distriet. where it is estimated $1.000 000 will be spent to usher in the new irence D Chamberlin, transat- lantic fiver. expects to welcome the new veur in the air He announced that at midnizht he would fly ov Man noina plane docked in clee- tric City Poliee Will Wink at Celebratio Leaving Arrests to Agents. CHICAGO, December 31 (). —I"rohi- bition enforcement 1n Chicazo tonight will be purely a Federal uffair, with enforcement officers on duly from pm. until the last tin horn has sounded fts blatant hurrah to the New Year. Chief of Police Huzhes indicated that the police force would make no efforts toward liquor law en- ement. leaves dob to U. 8. Agents. “I'm going to keep my New Year pntinue my fight the chief said. “It is Halt of my foree Lut | won't stand in will be off duty. H 1 think the the Governmeni's way. No police details will be assizned to nizht elubs and cabarets. nor will hilarity be regarded as disorderly conduct. Police will not he permitted to search pockets for bottles, the chief said, Set-Ups"” Are Burred. The Federal prohibition depart- ment. howaver. has made extensive plans to make eertain thut Chicago's New Year eve celebration is dry. A force of 250 Federal men has been asxigned to hotels and eabarets. The department, umler the direction of E . Yellowley. administrator, has been ecruited for the occasion by agents from Indlanapolis. Milwaukee and southern 1llinoi ities The Federal men are understood (o have been Instructed to arrest any hip-flask toters they may observe. Many hotels have posted notices that no “set-ups”—which is vern ular for ginger ale and eracked ice— NEW YEAR SIGNAL ’ 70 SOUND TONIGHT | FROM WHITE HOUSE (Continuad_from WFirst Puge) to gather in the front grounds of the | White House to hear this music. Brunsen Will Lead. Following the playing of reveille the brass quartet will play “Your Land and My Land.” This will be fol lowed by ying of a chimes oblagat- ta, “Bells of $t. Mary.” The bands. | men who will participate have been | selectsd hecause of their ability as stars in that famous organization and will be under the personal diraction of Capt. Taylor Branson. No plans have been made for the President and Mrs, Coolidge for the celebration of the New Year tomorrow | other than attendince at the First | Congregational Churc| Otherwise | the customary daily routine of the White House will be followed. There are no house guests. uithough it is understood that several friends will be invited to dinner at 7 o clock tomor- row night The Prexident and Mrs. Coolidge Monday will receive at the New Year ke yearly receptions | the at the White House Keception Starts at 11, This reception will wturt at 1i TOWN TERROREZED BY MAN'S THREATS Would-Be Kidnaper, Calling Himself “The Wolf,” Sought by Jersey Police. y the Associa‘ed Prese BEVERLY, N. J., December 31.— A bespectacled would-be Kkidnaper. who calls himself “The Wolf' uad has terrorized this neighborhood for three duys was sought today by throughout the State Believed to huve heen grompted in his actions by reading of the kidnap- ing and slaying of Marian Parker in Los Angeles by Willlam Fdward man who nicknamed himeelf Fox ' the mun has made three ap pearnnces in this vicinity. Terror. stricken mothers have been warned 1o keep their children indoors. while Anxious fathers serve in posses “The Woll'a" latest uppeurance was at midnight lust night. when he at. tucked 17.yearold Reginald Duncan son of the superintendent of the Bev erly Cemetery. 1t was his second ut- SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31. police | Mildred Lieper, Helen Oehmann, Eliza heth Brown. Leon Unklesbee, Ida Lyone. Emma Burkhalter, Mary Haves. Louise Kaiser, Martha Gant, Jean Hess, Lillian Bimms, Martha Hese. Paul Crove, Augustine Crovo, Virginta Burnett. Margaret Unkiesbee, during the jast vesr. “l might as well be dead as go tn Jull for life.” Giross is reported (o have | remarked to Vdward Dillard, in the [cell next to him. a few minutes be. [ fore his bodv wes found. But Dillard “Dr. Charles McMillan Te! WACO, Tex., in 19%. RECORDS SHOW PRISON TERM. Sentenced in 3 (P - o'clock In the morning, when members of the Cabinet, high officials of the Government und justices of the courts here as well us high ranking Army and Navy officers and members of the diplomatic corps and members of var! to carry off young Duncan, | Thursduy night the boy escuped ufter | @ wevere beating wnd last night he | ot aw hefore his ussullant. de. seribed as about 35 vears old and more than 6 feet in height, got hold of him. Jtuth Critchfeld. Margaret Crim. KNancy Pered Lorraipe Hayes, Dor viky Jurrett, Derie Kaiser, Flise Thompeon, Margaret Thompson, Mar- garet Crovo. lawrence Morris, Helen Tucker. Frances Wright, Laura Bar rerr. Dasle ¥nell. Lester Bhafer and Marian Chace * The production was staged by Bess Trasi chreiner, awsisted by Mr Connell and Mise Kila Monk. Lester Fhafer N K Gardner, ¥ A. Grifith, © K Voliey, Inmle $nell and others Marold Enyder of the community een ter department had charge of the Lghiing effects The guests were received by Mre L. W. Hardy, supervicor of the couter ond Mre, iila BPoort, in charge of the «enter, EMBEZZLER OF $129,000 ADMITS HIS IDENTITY Bankes's Tip Leads 1o Arrest—Con- fession Follows Crose-Coun- 1ry Trip. Auwaten Prese YOIK. Decembmr 3 T Aturh, who eame hers Viven foomp Hollywoon, Calif o disinen with deler on o that he be treed with honors s $ravelng €2 penmen i hin a1rest proved b mistare Loday admitied 1o police Thist e U ian wanted for hef) e Varviers lown & York in 1924 var arrested in Hullywond banker had potieed hin re the bk sought e s ineisted by was Jamen Ca i legger and more B gtocer's Clurk, Me waived Uit inder the Lerme of he o ‘h e detectives 00U Lram, When b elie Wlspar 1o inh b [ wh 4 hud several caplure in ihe e Bed trom The puiice it iyt wnd desopiptione uf of Ve world porint ) portvalin CURTIS CLUB FORMED. Republicans of Chorles £ Hughes ! Home District Back Kausen T Docember 31 (4% Juseph Fleinierg funnse wssembly s yesterday winouneed Ui forme sident ¢ Fepublisn prawiden il el R New York vougior YLK Tabs 1 o enteenth P bk tia 0 e caomiiive forinerts vepveantos Churivs b Ioe M |ssys he thought he was jeking and {heard no sound to indicste what was ST MISSION NATIONALIS SPONSORED IN MEXICO Delegation Will Attempt to Have Latin Americans Lift Citize ship Restrictions. i | By tie Asaocinted #roms MEXICO crry | Ricaran Topete lof Deputies w pointed irmnn |of the permanent eongressional com {mittes, which will it during the par- | Harentary recess | efore Congress clowwd Haet night the Hen [committes of threm o vimit Latin Ameriean countries o create menth ment i favor of \he recanl decision o nvite all Congressen of thane e ©omeaify thelr pespeetive con wne by granting (o visiting latin Amwricane the wame vights and privilegen ax nationals Mexien Lannounced e willingness 0 geant P Mexlean ctizanship 1o pesident nr [vimiting Labin Americans uw soon ws Lo majority of the countries express [ their willingness 1o do likewine The Bernie wiwo acceded 1o former Vresident Ohregon's request not eRlify bk military pank Gen Obregon now wants civilian CONGRESS STRIKE PROBE IS PLANNED BY BOYLAN New York Representative Will In. Afrer Decembar Ity wenslon te appointed treduce Rerolution Holiday Recers Congressionel Ipvestigation of e staike of soft cout miners by e Pean eyivants fielne wiil be mought by entutive Hoylan, Democrat | Yok | wo | i | tep New | week naniry b epeciouily alreeted s Qe well wp fito the mesns ot the Gy et s Alspomad for providing rellef the formi of surplus Aviny clothing 1 ot Congress Gught (o consut l Tvis he I Apd oul why his s | saitle (he sirihe failen biat Uhie anly wotthon be for () o wten nwt Gnes ik te, Ahe minen A fregeseur Mecre Aeclured i ileve Government ho- P m it 1 Do hiw | Jfer the Moune celurne Ve matd ooy he would ask that the “into e ciumen of the strike's prolongslon that Decembe, . ous civic nnd patriotic socleties of the Disirict will be received up (o noon. when there will he an hour's recess 10 wfford the President and Mrs Cootidge and those assisting them time oo rext und to have lunch ®on At | oclock In the afternoon the reception of citizens will com mence It in this fenture of the New Year reception at the White hHouse that lends the most color and Interest hecuuse the line Is drawn nowhere vich and poor slike are recelved. N time has heen set for the conclusion of the publle reception. it being the intent'on to permir It to run as long ax there Is any evidence of u line on | the outside of the bullding. During the past few years the wnd of the line huw passed into the White Houre ctween 3 and 4 o'clock In the Af'ernoo | Police oMiclals today declured there will be no spectacular rulds on night alubs or other pluces of amusement. where violutions of the Nabbath or Volstend laws may occur. the present plan being to keep close watch und cather information quietly with view to swearing ont warrants | court U oweh Theaters Are ere appenrs Hitle possibllity that any of these warrants will be takon ont agelnst night clubs where o cover charges are made. but 1t in ex peeted w number of thenters which have udvertined midnight perform: ances. will run_ afoul of the Kunday waw. Inspector Willlum ¥ Xholhy, us «intunt_wuperintendent of police. sald toduy that @ theatrioal rlorma after midnight |» clearlv a violation o the lnw und that wirennis will have W be wworn out in all such cases ob: served tonight Inspector Bhelby explained that wn der w rullng made by Judige Sehuldt in Poliee Court, a night club appar enily loven 1 Identity wn w plice of publie amunement when cover chirges o omitted and the gueste e only fon food, with dancing an an ineldenta! | R | Japanese Crowds ,'.0 "i('l' [l)l’ l“l ||!:.‘.‘.I.‘u:"n:" AUCIY vosor O meation helns | finlly of he VORIIEARTN Loand dance bl 1F adminsion chnvgon ade after midnight Iegul Ao o proseciute Records here show that a Dr. Charies MeMillan was sentenced in 1920 serve two years in u Federal peniten v after a triul in Federal Court on of violating anti-nareotic In 1919 he pald a §200 tipe ilur offenne. He registered {n Waco January 9, 220, for the purpose of prcticing e, e wun married, lfved at hotel wnd hud an oMee in u local of fice building | | SENATOR WATSON BEFORE GRAND JURY Indiana Political Probers Expected to File Report Before Term Ends Today. By the Associaten Press INDIANAPOLIS, Henator dumen nens todiy be krand Jury w hun been Tovestigating ¢ Phitjeat corvaption in Bulore going befora the grand Jury | Menator wtaon wald he hoped o he able o eateh the avon tenin to e pald he expected to re miuln thers until Tuewday, when he olans Washington, ar HIving there In time for the vaspesning ] Decenniby | Threatened. noe of Indlune, preceded Kenator Wat won usw whiness The geund Jury term ends ot mia nlght tomight and 1L war sspecied A Bl veport woulil b Aled some time oy . | | | | e will e tandorn The pollce alwn have he Wy Ml Mewse 0 warn celebiants o the ateests and other public placen trom muking tao ohaireparons se of nolee making dey wioh hella horne. whisttew und ratchets, and o tonlupetion has hean orderad against the dishurie of Grearm Churehen Plan "Wateh Nights” 1 te eatimntad that (houmands of dollars will flow into (he coffars of night e wndd oiher misement IEht an w vesilt of (he wnd expensive celehiaiinny Pwenty dol Wy e Asminsatot TOKIO tnken the ol December the 3 Phe Nrst mubiway in the Vided o new maans tor the Jupunese Many pussengers spent tiw duy riding haak and the oneand.ahull e Hhough the wourdn Iried MRy One n o directs on In Aewt als e 1ol o wecidante ik Ihe cinwdn wlien The it tie dunie which 1100 i i)ven e elaboraie wiranmed for patrons, | dran who A young woman nurse frustrated “The Wolf's" attempt to Kidnap un infant son of u prominent Riverton family three da ago. Before t mans fiest uttack on vounz Duncan ad warned the s family by stone their ~diningroom window “The Waolf's” last uppearance deputies und u posse of citizens 4 in the hunt CONFINES FREE TUITION TO DISTRICT CHILDREN Proposal Would School Money to Youngsters in Maryland and Virginia. et appropriation bill considorution by the House lations committee, Chajrm: Rimmonas of the subcommittee whi t> it Wil endeavor to b n cluded o provision that none the money ullowed bo used to educate ehile parenis not hona fde residents of the District This 1w designed to compel rosidents of nearby Marytnnd and Virginta, who nend thele ehildven to the Disteiet wehools, (o puy tuition For the lust four o joing Simmons’ Bar h five vears there tand and Virginia ho educited in the schools at the expense of the taxpayers, e r—— lars w couple was the harge In the better kno lubs, the charge entitling g Ainuous munsie from and o Distriet hew there will be “witeh nlghi’ wervices i sharp CONLEAAL 0 the Wilnrly elvew her Mpecial wermons will be wlhven mu wleal rokewme pravided ond other | devational features wiforde wvelty on down town » an important Pt of the wvening's progam One of (he ke e down town will be at the City Clab, the wu Altorium . of which has heen trans tormed Into n wyivan wotting vepre wentative of Florkda in #ummertime According 1o 10 Odenthul execu Uve mecretary. (he aifale will he the most pretentionn (n the organisation's istory m.m.n"" sanper, duneing and Cwtunts lark Lunsburgh (s ohabrman of the commtite 1 chi The Lidependent Opder of the Bon Jonadah Wil hold (s sixtieth New Yo o Hon starting at ¥ a'olock At 6i Loulsinne wvenue Represen tative ol M Rabaion of Kentucky wnd eV Walter 30 Hubbapd - will apenk Many rmuu.mt Will hold vee g Hons M . of ghe ohu ot Lo (he plane and motor we fonind (hat 1929, TACNAREADATA | BELEVED READY Recall of Col. Kreger Indi-! cates U. S. Plebiscite Report Is Complete. | | | | Belief that the long delayed Persh- ing-Lassiter report on the Tacna- Arica plebiscite has been completed has heen occasioned by the recall from speciul assignment of Col. Fd ward A. Kreger of the Judge Advocate General Corps and his assignment to military du'y at the 2d Corpr Area | headquarters in New York Col. Kreger was selected by Gen Pershing in 1925 as a member of the wegal siafl of the American delega- tion to the plebiseitary commission at Arica. Since June. 1926, he has heen assisting n. Pershing and Maj. Gen. Willizm Lassiter, who succecded Pershing as | member of the commission, | piling their final report. ! Tentative Draft Made. | cording to the best information ailable, a repoit followed closely the closing speech of Gen. Lassiter to the com- mission in Arica in June, 1926. At that time Lassiter reported that a plebiscite to determine the natlonality of the territory was impossible on account of Chilean “territorization of Peruvians” and other unfair prac- tices in violation of the spirit of | Coolidge. State Department officials denied today that the report had been deliv ered to them by Gen. Pershing. but { the possibility was seen that _since I Arica _matter as arbitraor, report would not enter into the urual departmental routine, The report, as claborated by Col. Krezer, is sald to be an exceedingly bulky document, containing a minute in a in” Arica of the piebiscitary commi {sion which waw established by Pres | dent Coolidge to supervise the execu g In this award he ordered a Dlebiscite to determine the nationality of the territory disputed by Chile and Peru and thus solve the dispute which erge cf war since 1§85 No recommendations for future ac tion_ it is understood. were included the report. which limited itself to stating facts and explaininz why the American delegation in Arica saw ft- seif obliged to declare a plebiscite im- ilure to carry out its international obligations. thus rendering the work of the plebiscitary commission futile. Marked by Secrecy. "nusual secret precautions were taken in connection with the rveport. which. it is believed. were dictated by nunwilingness on the part of the Washington administration to have the controversial Tacna-Arica problem projected American Congress, in Havara. Fears oi=o Fave been oxpressed in some quarters that once the final report of the American delegation is in the hands of President Coolidge. at least one of the parties to the dispute might urge final pronouncement on the whele Tacna-Arica problem by the arbitrator which, again in view of the Pan-American Congress next month. might be Inadvisahle. While there is evidence that _he re port had been completed, there is | none, even among President t,‘oolldf"- ndvisers In the Tacna-Arica question, any taken upon it by the arbitratqr. Since the report f{tseif does not make any receminendations, future steps are left entirely in the discretion of President Coolidg: ALT AIR HAMERS ENDURANCE FLIGHT Brock and Schiee Find Even Insides of Spark Plugs Are Corroded. RY EDWARD F. SCHLEE, Whe with William € Brock is seeking the | worki's eadurame record 1 Spectal to The Star and the New Tork Times | DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., December 31, —Once more the Pride of Detroit ' walls on the runway for the takeoff | at dawn trom Daytona Beach Twice vesterday we took the ship down the beach after the wttempt | Thursday, Both times we got her into Coe alr. and both times we were forced back to the sund. But we are not downhearted, for in | *plte of our (ailure to xet away our | 220-horsepower Wright whirlwind mo- | tor and Stinson-Detroiter monoplane | did eurry Into the alr for nearly three mites 5,935 pouads without danger— | und this fest we believe is a world | ecord for this type of ship and a 220 | horsepower motor. | Made Perfec’ Landlngs. (0 (hix achlevement af th Detroit my Gaith in Billy Brock's ability ue a Aver wmounts| daily. for he twice tanded our ship ! WIth the full load of gasoline and | oll This Ix one of the most crltical | monents in the take ot The slightest misaaloulation and the Pride of Detrolt | would hiave hoen no more { We were tearing down the sand at| 5 mitew an hour The tall had auto | Aday Pride o matically taken the . orrect fyine posi | ton and our Wrigh whiclwind was | turning up 1160 revalutions per min. | ute, when almost ax woon ax the ship felt the ground he motor hegan ml aplutter and lose revolutions with correaponding loss of power, Billy shouted (o me, “Don't dump the gas | L think U can tand her with the toad * | Through my mind fustied th picture | of other Avers who have had to come | down under similar elreumatances and | have b v xplll thele fuel | Salt Alr Harwful, When we made a ihorough check up (he walt air, heavy dew wnd fMne sand | had filtered through evervihing Even the smallest Magneto Wires were cor voued W wet malt The Giult fay not with the whiclwind. but prineipatly | With the spark plugs. Every plug was we oo fine walt depon rodes in (he o with porcelain, were rusted. and they were pivigniting. mueh in the same WaY (hit an antomoblle ratties with o n‘\urk knovk when pulling up & hill in hgh at slow spesds %y the time "Doe’ Kinkaid ha mu“ul the pluss and tested the tor the had risen wnd Wl the heach COORYHARE TIIT I e New York Tomes s . More than 000 tans of woap lan Ave haing enporied from thia Cuiniey every menth American | in com- | tentative draft of the | « fair plebiscite ordered by President | sP’resident Coolidze acted in the Tacna- | private capacity | the Pershing-Lassiter | dey-by<day marrative of the activities of his arbitral award of March. | has kept the two countries on the | nossible and to blame Chile with the | in the forthcoming Pan- | Investors to Split Almost a Billion As New Year Gift By the Associated Press NEW YORK. December 31.—Al- most a billion dollars will be paid invesiors in stocks and bonds over the turn of the year, Wall Street estimated today. This umount will estahlish a new high record for dishursem . January disbursements were ex mated to exceed $750.000,000, an increase of £75.000.000 the same mocnth this vear ASTHOURCROND * INRUSHFOR TS | District Building Basement | Jammed by Belated Appli- cants for Auto Licenses. | : | Ly The basement floor of the Dist: Ruilding was crowded today with m torists who waited until the ) mi ute to procure 1928 automobile ider tification tags. It was the first far, that has occurred since fssuance « the tags was started December 1 Hundreds o° procrastinating mota e - |ists were in line waiting for tazs be | tore Wade H. Coombs, superintend within an hour the throng had ereased to several thousand 001 e cts 10 issue about § 'terflfls Hutl F“e Awlwa !;’--t-m::'u:rh:mrle vh’- hm;nn: tions Before That Time or Lose Compensation. M this afternoon at 3 o'clock, which virtually complete the distrib pleasure vehicle tags for mac now in operation. Since distribution was started D cember 1. Mr_ Coomb's office has i« | posed of 74,500 sets of tags. If & are issued todav, Mr. Coombe sa | there wili he very few cars. exce { those in storage. which will he tout 1923 licensea when the dead! |on the 1927 tags expires at 12 ! tonicht. Police have been instr rest all motorists who | after midnizht with 1 District | Those few motorists wilhout the 1% {t2gs will not be able to procure the aft o'clock this afternoon o'clock Tuesday morning. a. Coombs’ office will be closed a! Monday, Traffic Director William H. Harian announces that 1927 Virginia tage = {be recognized In the Districr une January 15 the date on which 1 | expire in that State | Midnight tomorrow will be the last | chance for veterans of the World War to file applications for the adjusted compensation. or so<alled soldiers® bonus, and arrangements are being made by hoth the Army and Navy | Departments to have persons on duty all day Sunday to handle late appli- cations. ‘The War Department office at Rixth and B streets southwest, Building E, wil' remain open continuously up un- til midnight 2unday, s» that persons file their applications up to the {last minute. Arrangements also are | being made to have the mail arriving n Washington through the post of- fice rushed to this office 50 as to favor as much as possible all applications. Under the law. department officials say they must have in hand the ap- | plication itself before midnight Sun. | day. It will not be sufficient to ha the post office stamp on a letter prio -4 VICTIN'S WILL I o e FILED FOR PROBATE The Navy Department will have per- | Charles A. Ford, Only Civilian | sons on duty up to 430 Sunday afier [ noon, at room 3721 Navy Buiiding, on| Aboard, Leaves Trust Fuad for His Wife. ucted to 2 venture 0. M- a4 the Mall. After 4:30 applicants may | ieave their papers with the guard at | the door. and an official will be on hand at midnight to make the official collection of the last applications. The will of Charles A. Ford. oni: The offices of the national rehabili-| civilian on the ili-fated S-4 whicn tation committee of the American Le- «nk nmear Provincetown. Mass. Le- cion. 417 Bond Building. at Fourteenth cember 17. was filed today for probate street and New York avenue. also will He gives {o his mother. Mary C. Ford, remain open all day tomorrow until the of an insurance pot 45 at night in order :to facilitate nd to his brother. Francis J. F veterans or their dependents In pre- §i06. The remaining estate paring their applieation: |to the National Savings & T Director Frank T. Hines of the Vel- | and Thomas H. Patterson in tr erans’ Bureau said today his offics his wife, Rosell Archer Ford The was being deluged with inqu'ries a< | trustees are directed to pay $5 per to how to make the application. &nd ' month each to his sisters. lda J. Ford what to do. In a formal statemecn”. be | and Grace May Ford. and to provide said. in explanation: “If the person | $1,088 each for a home for the sisters who wishes to make claim has a form | in some suitable home for the aged ol application or can immediately <~ | On the death of the wife 20 per cure one, it should be executed and cent of the estate goes tn the Gospel delivered to the War or Navy Depart-| Union Mission. 35 per cent to the Fuli ment at once. If ft cannot be deliv- | Gaspel Assemt 3 per cent 0 the eced personally. it should be mailed | American Home Bibie Institute and without delay. 1If a form of applica- | the remaining 40 per cent to Potomas tion has not been requested and it | District Council. Assemblies of God is not immediately avallable, the inter- | The value of the estate is mot ested person should not subject the | closed. claim to delay by waiting to get a form. but instead a letter should be written immediately and dispatched | o the War or Navy Department. as| the case may be, signifying the desire of the interested person to make claim. | BETTER CANADIAN LABOR CONDITIONS PREDICTED | *“The letter should indicate the! ! | _ Optimistic predictions for lbor eon- |erean T e fa e | ditions 1n Canada for the coming year | ing made by a dependent of a deceased | Were made by Peter Heenun. Canadisn there should be indieated |MiRister of fabor.' who addressed jonship to the veterzn upen ' Driefly. a meeting Reid in his honor which the Claim is predicated last night at the Hamilton Hotel by | - X (he Canadian Clud of Wash.ngton. Warns Against Delay. { which was also sttended by members “1f you are in doubt. do no: stop to | ° {Be American Federation of Laber ask questions. Write a letter to the | and Frank Morrison. secretary of the War or Navy Department at onct. | “Huntcm . anermeon Mr. Heewan making im for such benefits of the | "o ntartained at 3 luncheon at the World War adjusted compensation | y,miiton Hotel. at which other suesis jact as may be due. and write & fur | ¢ ponor were Prof. and Mra Bruce ther letter afterward to ask Questions. | Carev. former director of the Eiger The maia thing to be sccomplished | (moir of Hamilton. Ontario. whe cor is 10 get & letter in the hands of the | g i War or ¥ Department on or de | \merican patriotic songs: H. H. Wad fore January 1. Application must be | deputy minister of lator. of Canads fled personally by the veleran or. inja.nd Dr E H. Kirstead. head of the the event that the veteran is deceased. | cconomics department of the Unive 1t _must be fiied personally by the sty of New Brunswick dependent ™ | b E C. Rarnes. pre Hundreds of thousands of vetersns the clud, was in charge t have not yet applied (op the bonus. | tainment and there is a movement among some | | T members of Congress to extend the | provision of taw. so rhat the oppor | tunity will be reopened No new legis | fation has been enacted. however and | under present law there is no exten | sion of the privilege. { lay by airplane from Key West Underwood in Havana HAVANA. Cuba. Decembder 31 & —Former Senaior Owear W. Unde wood of Almbama arrived here vester [ I Proponents of proposed legisttior to extend the bonus hope to obr fuvorabie action. but this depends upor ! Congress and veterans were neet by all executive departments today that under present law the st chanes f= tomorrow night The expiration alse applies tomor g o those veterans “who D. C. INQUIRIES fusted service certificate. Veterans | START NEXT WEEK. BROWN ANNOUNCES who served only 60 davs or less are Continued from ‘le is the frst Ameriun deiegaie to rrive for the Pan-American Congress vhich opens January 16 He was we omed by members of the Amecican ~mbassy and a representative of N¢ Cuban state departme considered as having heen paid the | bonus which was allowed men on dis. charge up o $60. and receive no mere | Men who were allowed $36 or less ad ditional bonus under the compuiation | for credit. would be pal in cash in | girect the Investlgation of the # stead of a certificate. In order to et | reictions | Mr. Havenner is o this cash veterans must apply BefOre | her of the it Advisary OV tomorrow midnight Mr. Brown told the Commissone s e ——— (hat the Inquiry inte the fscal re s WOULD PARDON CONVICTS | tio0s had Been requestent by Beig Ger | Herdert M. Lord. director of the WHO TAKE FOOD TESTS | iyt memhe ol st i tridbution which should be made & ing the expenses of the Dstrict ‘ Columbia ;mwn and will be “pressed with as | MUCh vigor and dspateh as consisten The bureau's study. Mr. Reown sa 't comprvhens Chemistry Expert Has Free Prisoners it They Survive. By the Assoviatet Press BUFFALO. N. Y. Decembor 3t Experiments in dlet on prisoners is ad vocated by Dr. Albert I* By, professor | of ohemistey In the University of But | talo. [ The sxperiments. which woull be | comparable to those on wnimals in ) health laboratories. woull carey o promisze of pardon if conviets subm g 1o them survived i Budget Burean. for the purpese Plan to!(he Frieral Treasucy towant deria would begin shortly after the ho s our understand \ Brown wrote the Commisstoners. N Your boand i now peeparing deia v data on this subiest for - 0 Committess af Congress The ini MAton and @tistios will peove Valuable 1o Ou (Nvestgatars and W " “ D CARE (hAIE most sertous consdvi o . e by 4o | Thocefore, may T sugaeet that certaining what It‘\bml\\-hl -M} Arrange 1o have an et oy what is RarniCul (n the diet of the hu: | PRI O Your material so ihat 48 00 man being. with far greater cortainty | PIUPEr thne & may boowne 4y it fan we ow can n our sxporiments | S ur tnvtenies: U With animal | o A 1 Wl Be (ur Beiter (o give prin. | OMMUSNOrS. widerstant | onera A chance (o volunteer, far such | MAT on_(he sssumption 1he aaporiments. and (hus do soinething | e ot .‘. »;:r g o B for the Benefit af Rumanity, with u | iveh B¢ the Fadern) (Gover promize of pardon s conclusion o . natlon Wil the axpeviment. than to heep thew | hi0Ne the determimation wld loekad up for vears utterly e lass i+ B eeonhe t 3 nowas (0 themaelon or (o the warkd * | g warld salh, ta b0 ditected W sorutiny of CRASH FATAL TO TWO, | Petersh Soruniniii” 5.0 1% | Foderal Goverament should pav e | por cont and the istiet governmen: S0 per cont of the xanual wuaiine .}‘NII.«N‘N MICh.. Decomber 31 | hudget 8 v prese Dedt W sud (®) Henry Winoheater an Arbor, | antive law widely hl!nvn Nl‘l‘lr‘fllll““w=w_ The flrst work, 1t was palnted oyt And ol Merbert 8. Mallaey of (he [ Wil he o deoide whai fuviwes .m.».;\a ehetorie dopartment of the Uiversity | be tnoluded 1 o general study of e of Michigan. were fatally infured last NEht when (helr wutamonile crashod | relations of (he twe guie: aments v he Purpose of budged making When inte the side of & moving (relght near here Both died in hospitale shortly (hese factors are determined facts w swmbied and Vewed > Alter the grash exterior, ignaring the standpainis of Prod Mallory, who was deiving, ap | DOIN governments o perhaps ks PATEREIY A et see the (relght (rain | Dath nte aocount, and then an el (o heavy anow sy Pt Mabkwy WaAR Bl At Akcan, Ohie and tame 1 ~ Wil be made (@ determine whai rat A ARy, AhaR guvern Ahe amone Uhe University g Michigan i 1908 1he maid A e Breanuny and e ey e Yale \ IOl veapectively,