Evening Star Newspaper, January 4, 1928, Page 3

CATIZENS' COUNCIL VT FIGHTS BLUELAWS « Effort to Impose Religious Views by Sunday Banz Held Reprehensible. The Citizens’ Advisory Council last nicht joined ranks with opponents of the proposed Sunday “blue laws™ by adopting & revort denouncing as “reprehensible” any attempt to im- e relicious views by outlawing cer- 1in forms of entertainment or amuse. ment on the Sabbath that are permit- ted on othe da The report was submitted by Col. Jienry Newcomer and corcerned es- pecially the Lankford “blue law™ bill now pending before Congress, - Col. Newcomer, however, voiced d - proval of the police regulation for- bhidding public entertainment on Sun- day except between 2 and 11 p.m., but no action was taken since this ques- tion was not before the council. Called Reprehensible. | “The practice of suspending allj dinary labor not immediately ne sary for one day in seven. al: begun as a religious custom, is B wenerally recognized and approved, irrespective of religious beliefs,” the report read. “Christian people usually chonse Sunday for this purpose. $ Christia s other: still observe the al command: ment to rest on the seventh day of the week rather than on the first. “Under our system of government n separation of church and state, i a proper function of public authority to support one side or the Ler in religious coniroversies or to ct full personal liberty in such ters where the public peace and | canons of immorality generally | spted by decent people are not in- | r to impose one’s re- views on others by outlawing in forms of amusement or en- that are per- ¥s is considered Wants Bills Delayed. The council recommended that Con- gress defer considefation of five bills providing for a 5-cent car fare pend- ing the outcome of the proposal to merge the street railway companies, but approved bills designed to pre- vent hotels from increasing rates for conventions or other occasions bring- ing visitors to the city by requiring rates o be posted in all rooms, to te the fees of court clerks, the conduct of co-operative non-profit as- sociations, the practice of chiropractic | und to enable the National Capital Park and Planning Commission to co- operate with Maryland and Virginia in acquiring land for parks. ‘The council supported the Commis- sioners in disapproving a bill to exerhpt from taxation the historic Octagon House, at Eighteenth street and New York avenue, occupled by the American Institute of Architects. —- VARE WILL NOT QUIT T0 RUN WITH REED| Resignation of < Barred Senator- Elect to Seek Renomination Ve- toed by G. 0. P. By the Asociated Prese. P! January 4.— Benatorelect William 8. Vare, thus far debarred from the Senate, cannot resign and there cannot be a vacancy while there is a contest over the seat, in the opinion of William L. Mellon, Pittsburgh, chairman of the Republi- can State committee. Mr. Mellon met party leaders here yesterday on plans of the Pennsylvania delegation to the national convention in Kansas City in June. It has not been decided whether the i delegation will go instructed or un- instructed, he said. Mr. Mellon said a decision had been reached against the suggestion that Senatorelect Vare might resign and become & candidate for his protested eeat as a running mate of Senator David A. Reed at the Spring primary. Lawyers have said such a course could not be followed and the State chair- man belleves Vare cannot resign. Beeing through fdea s good secing an idea through is better. SPECIAL NOTICES HY HUSEARD. JAMES H. ACTON. WAS Biruck by a hus near street car lowiing plat. Torme &t 15th and H ste. ne. about 7.20 morning of December 12t He was se. yerely injured. and luter died, Will #Ons Who witriessed this accident o municats with me by letter. giv s and wic . (Signed) MRS J. H. ACTON. 2025 Bewning_rosd THE PARTNERSHIP PREVIOUSLY FXIST. ik betveen Jumes € Hoyle and Raymond Martyr as Martyn 1 e ¢ th e thin 10 4. { this notice, JAMVS ¢ HOY] _HAYMOND M MARTYN. ae AEETING oKl STOoCK « of the com Ve i Transt e meeting President 10 dae prior 1 OHN MEINBY.RG a TV_ROVER et TV A MEPTING OF THE SHARE hoiders of National Bank of Washiog. Lo, Weetington D C for the elsction of the transaction of such other Va'tore the wing house 5 at 12 o il wpen from noon ‘to Jrn o rlork Jum ANK WHITE Cashier AL _MERTING OF THY ~TOCK of the General Auto ut te ofice 2 Washingts at My THY. FTOCK derw ot the Huwh i Coms i st wt the offioe of the w. W he Arunmwction of wueh ouher Dusiness i Bisy come e lore Uhe ueeiig Bigned) MV GH BELLY COMPANY,, 1BA G BLUMER. oo L MYETING OF THY, & Wirpuse of cpeting Uk coimusug Year ana Ui 't an Seiy Tpimitiens a8 1isy lgally G il aiing % asurm, 3 G A Baanid WEET TG G Wasisngon Ho BEUAL “n pm angary 18 iwon amnation o1 e oty Tl al Ui w16 14ih st v et iz bt sey Prorident Y C1LARK VE AN ANWIAL WERTING l}u THAY f Pveston CouMpAN ZAGfiAN Tuis ARTY R By AL THIE 18 0 NOTIKY THE PUBLIC ndesaired by mutua) sopsent, hsve o day " Blawived "thir basiwseip. extaily e Unddes Gaw e yf 0wl 3 i U Hamnion ye pinis thw e Al hould b i ALvE y, HamnnoN, Yy RESPONS(ELE ™ FOR I} i, CREAGER MAKES APPEAL FOR HOOVER CAMPAIGN Texas Committeeman Cites Secre- tary as Best Standard Beaver of Party. By the Aseociated Pross. DALLAS, Tex., Janua Creager, Republican natior teman of T\ 5 ter te ' ‘exas offi litmn Larty naming Herbert Poover as the man “who Will best carry out the Coolidge policies and perpetuate the prosper: ted the Coolidge program.” The letter, announced here at State headquarte ribed Hoover as a “genuine n and mreat man in every sense of the word." Mr. reager invited Te tepublicans to i ng Mr. Hoover commit- with OAROLE FOR COOK TAKENTOCOOLIGE Attorney for Explorer Says He Will Ask for Reduction of Sentence. By the Ascociated P FORT WORTH, Tex., January 4.— dent Coolidge will be asked to re- duce the prison sentence of Dr. Fred- A. Cook to 10 vy so that he ¢ be eligible for parole next July . Wade, attorney the Arctic rer-oil promoter, here yes- P said courts b place prisoner they have begun serving sentenc “ends the fight for probation of Di Cook as far as the courts are con cerned. The only way left Cook’s release is for the reduce his sentence to 10 attorney added. “If that is done, Dr. Cook will be eligible for parole next Summer.” Wade said he expected to go to Washington shortly to lay the matter before Mr. Coolidge. to obta P He will contend | that Dr. Cook has served nearly four vears, counting the year and a half he was confined in the county jail here before he was committed to the Federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, for using the mails to defraud in his oil_promotion schemes. TUnless Dr. Cook receives a reduc- tion in his sentence of 14 years and 9 months he will not be eligible for parole until March 5, 1930. CAPPER DELAYS STUDY OF CAR MERGER PLANS Senator Awaits Report From Pub- lic Utilities Commission on Proposals. Although he has certain general | views on the question of the merger of the local street railway lines, Chalr- man Capper of the Senate District committee said today that he has not begun consideration of the specific plans for accomplishing it. Senator Capper said he would wait to ascer- tain from the Public Utilities Commis- sion the results of various studies of the question that have been proposed during the past year. Without reference to any specific plan, the Senator said he did not think there should be an increase in fare in Washington, and he doubted also whether Congress would approve any merger plan that provided for a guarantecd later return. ‘The District committee will hold its first meeting of the session tomorrow. o DONAHEY OUT OF RACE. COLUMBU Ohio, January 4 ). —Any doubt that friends of Gov. Donahey may have entertained as to his future political intentions were dispelled last night. Donahey made it clear that he is not a candidate for a fourth term as govern that he is not a candidate for United States Senator and that he is not seeking the Democratic presidential nomination. He mald he would support either Senator Atlee Pomerene of Ohlo or Gov. Al Smith of New York, should one of them receive the Demucratic nomination for President, 10 THE ATOUKHOLE OF [HE NA tional Capital [osuraiice Company of the n Colymbin—Pursuant o s rewolot) the b 1 the N ! strit umi; “4th day of December 1927 n com the provisions of section 630 the code of law for Columbia noti t the woniual meeting of st e held January 1 1928 w12 on at the office of the compan; Washing ton the harte, of sald company so s s 10 Include the n on dwelling REPPTT] C ¥ DONOHOB 81 ¥ PREACK T iSO, RT 35 CATRY, NEWSOM MARLOW ity of the 1 Trisines RY %1 MO Aidreama v MAite 3 205 1408°G et now ‘,’uo' u'niv,'r.: APHED P17 M i LETTER 8O K ¥r 7143 Opn K50 nm FAPONSIBLE PORANY wny one’ “other than e GLASCOR 03§ M T ONEVER DISAPPOINT T BYRON S. 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BATTLE CREEK, Mich., January ~Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, anthropologist of the Smithsonian ~Institution at Washington, denied yvesterday at the third Racial Betterment Conference here, that, under normal conditions, intermixture with any other white stock would cause deterioration of the old American stock. He adduced the evidence of the foremost nations to- lay, all of which are greatly mixed Mating With Inferiors. “The internal factors of racial de terforation are all those that lastingly enfeeble or derange the sound hered ity of the group,” he said. animals the most common of such causes are prolonged _inbreeding. breeding with inferlor stock, the weed- ing out of the best, the preservation and breeding of the less fit, affection of progeny through prevalent infec- and idleness. Much the same agencies, with similar results, must in man.” The external factors were listed as se, war, untoward lasting inges in climate, overwork and poisons, all supplemented by such mental effects as favor demoraliza- tion. Hrdlicka outlined the steps in the rise and decline of such units as he Ezyptians, B Grecks, Rom: He said that in none of these were the groups pure or whole they were rather political and linguis- tic untis, and while they were surging receding, other parts of the same stock were unaffected. Race Rarely Dies, 4 But although a group may decline, complete destruction is rare, accord- ing to the Smithsonlan sclentist. “There are to this day remnants of pure old Egyptians, Greeks, Assyrians, Mongols, Mayas and of all the other dominant ‘races’; but the great major- ity are a mixture of the old with what- ever came later,” he said. “The North American Indian, the Polynesian, the semi-Mongolic tribes of Russia and Siberia are going, but largely through admixture. Only such small groups 1s the Tagmanians, the Mottentots and African Bushmen have gone or are going out entirely; they were too small in numbers, possessed too little ingenuity against Introduced dis- cases and were too undesirable for mixture to survive.” Flappers’' Health Scored. Modern dress, “the insane desire” for a boyish appearance and “too much night life" were held up at today’s conference by Dr. S. Adolphus Knopf. New York, as- causes for “the alarming increase in the morbidity and mortality of tuberculosis among young women," Dr. Knopf is a major in the Army Medical Reserve Corps. The filmy modern al, sleeveless lowshoes dress of thin waist and short and silk stockings in the coldest weather” con stituted the first cause of disease among young women, in Dr. Knopf's opinion. He also scored {intentional undernourishment to obtain a boy- ish figure. Knopf recommended periodic examinations to discover incipient tuberculosis and improvement in girls’ INCOME TAX PLEA DENIED BY COURT Board Upheld in Refusing to Con- sider Belated Appeal Relating to Alleged Deficiency. The District of Columbia Court of Appeals yesterday, in an opinion by George E. Martin, chief justice, up- held the action of the Board of Tax Appeals In refusing to accept and file an appeal from a taxpayer received by mall at 7:10 p.m. on the sixtieth day after notice of an alleged de- ficlency In income or excess profit taxes. The board had refused to file the paper, giving as its reason that it was not accompanied by the usual §10 fee, The appellate court finds this reason not tenable, as the payment of n fee is procedural merely and not jurisdic- tional, but afirms the refusal on the ground that the application was not received during the usual business hours of the court between 9 a.m. and 430 pm. The order being correct, the chief justice points out, it will not be reversed because the trial court based its decision on InsufMclent or ETTONEONS Tennons or grounds, The court took judicinl notice of the order of the tax board fixing the hours for doing business, and declared the paper was not filed when dropped through the mall chute by a postman when there was no clerk or other esentative of the court present to ecelve It The declsfon was rendered in an ap. weal by the Lewis-Iall Iron Works, no notice of which did not reach the board until a late hour of August 10, 1926, which was the last date for ftm filing. David H. Blalr, comminsioner of internal revenue, moved the board to dismiss the appesl, which wan done, and this nction pproved by the appellate tribunal, AIDS 2,879 REFUGEES. Chafrman of Phelps-Stokes Fund Active in Turkey. Rev. Anson Phelps Btokes, chair. man of the PhelpsBtokes Fund for canon of Washington Cathedral, {x taking an active hand in trying to ald 2879 Russtan refugees in Con stuntinople, who face deportation iel, ruary 6 unless they obtain Turkish citleznship, Thin win made public today through Leifur Mognusson, director of the Wishington branch of the Interna-. thonal Labor Office of the Leakue of Nutlons, who snld Dr. Stokes ix taldng the mastter up with vartous nattonal rellef organtzations und phitunthropists in o0 effort to atd i transporting the refugees by rais Ing $100,000 before the end of this weel L fugeen are to he settled In Argenting and other Houth Amertean countries, as well aw In polnts along the Meditorranenn, Mr. Magnusson dectares AU tw practically tmpossihie for the refugees 1o @ vt the Purk fnh citizenship provision, wive for cer Lt technicians needed by the Angors vuvernment o Frederick Man Bailed, Spectal Disputeh o The Blar PREDEIICK, Md, January 4. Hobert 1. Baer was adinitted to £1.000 hatl yesterday, following urres on charges of statutory bhreaking and oarrying meenled weapons, Haer, former clrealation mannger of the local afternnon newspiaper, In alleged 1o have attempted 1o open the safe in the newspuper office early Bunday. - . It & cow even smells wavlio fo minutes her milk will have a & Bavor, 10 10 MIXING OF RACES " ACES UP! : Taken From the Hithe:tb_s;ret Archives M p\pr’fi\"& WEDNESDAY, JANUA} . 1928. . *, ¢ JOHN KNOX s i R of the United States, Great Britain, France, Italy, Germany and Stories of Surviving War Eagles. PART 1 The Amazing Story of Frank Luke, jr. Amerlean Ace of Acen, Second Allied Balloon Ace, Wi f the Distin- Nervice with o the onal Medal of T e’ Wighent. amard I the ift e’ American Teople and the only Alrman to win this distinction. LD men make wars and young ‘men die in them. This is t story of the American hoys—War Eagles “whose heroic battles in_the air electrified America in '17 and '18 when a cautlous censor permitted a few carefully guarded detalls to trickle back home. They were boys you knew or might have known—hboys who carried their books to school past your door or up the next street or in the next town, Bred to peace and wrapped in the ! et | ambitions of eatly youth, they their futures behind them and volun- teered as soldiers in a new warfare. They did not go into battle heartened This official photograph of Lieut. Frank Luke was taken wl he be- came our Ace of Aces. He passed his twenty-first birthda; his intense concentrated expression, the result of the nervous tension en- dured by a war-time pilot. Men lived OMcial Photo—Courtesy U. S. Signal Corps by the touch of comrades’ shoulders or stirred by martial music and the contagion of battle. Golng fresh {rom algebra to aviation, these youths fought a series of the most remark. able battles in the long harsh history of warfare—and fought them alone, miles above the earth where the re- sult nearly always demanded victory or death, In the beginning, alone, supported only by their native courage and lack- ing the professional touch that could only come with training in actual com- hat, they ranged the skies in alrplanes with none too certain engines and #uns that seemed made only to jam at those moments when a si and a matter of seconds the delicate balance between life and death. They went gally and gallant 1y into a new warfare without tradi- tions and established method, for air fighting was born in the Great War * gt 8 a%00 '”m«# Fesnin The letter of Frank Luke, r., destined to be an the World War, demnnding n secret filen of long table, youthful faces that had lived years in fleeting moments. They were ~eager faces this September night and deflantly gay. This was thelr evening hour when nerves and muscles could be relaxed after a day spent in matching wits with Death to the music of chattering machine guns and watching flaming coffins hurtling from the sky. A plano burst into skillful harmony under the fingers of a player who knew his instrument and his audience. The hum of talk dled, but the lilting notes of the plano romped on to an- other accompaniment—a deep bass note that rolled into the room through the closed doors and windows. The erman guns before Verdun were roaring their vesper song. The music ended and an officer rose his feet at the head of the table. T think it is time for us to hear from Lieut. Luke” he began. He pped, smilingly, as a shouted chorus rupted him. ‘Speech! Speech!—Get up and tell ug about it, Frank! MAKE him talk!” whooped the diners enthusiastically A score of hands hoisted a tall, lithe, protesting figure to the top of the table. A flaming blush of em- barrassment blazed under tow-colored hair. Fellow: began a halting volce, 1 haven't done anything except what all of us are doing. You—we are all trying to get as many Huns as we can before they get us. I've been lucky—that's all there is to it.” ‘The voice became suddenly firm. “They got Joe Wehner,” it went on, clearly now, “And I shall make them pay for that. There is just one thing I want you to know; if I am h;'n\\l[{ht down, they won't take me alive.” The first pursuit group of the Amer- ican Expeditionary Force cheered its ace of aces in vast approval. The boy had the stuff, but he wasn't swell headed about it, they proclaimed to each other joyfully. This dinner to Luke was a great idea—whoever started it. Life—and death—moved swiftly in those September days of 1918. Every | man at that table knew the grim necessity of giving Frank Luke his pralse today: they knew that tomor- row _he might not be alive to accept it. This blushing boy who had not yet cast his first vote looked as though he would be more at home in the fresh- man class of an American college than dafly dicing with death In the sky s0 did most of the other diners about that tah His youth was not re. markable in ftself. arly all the flyers were young. What was re. markable wis that «o young a lad with so little schooling in the art of war could have done what he had done. An Unparalleled Achlevement. In less than two weeks he had flown from comparative obscurity among the 2,000,000 soldiers of the American Expeditionary Forces to the unofficial title of American Ace of Aces. To win this coveted distinction he had destroyed more of the enemy than had any other of his hundreds of flying comrades In France. In one day he had established a record unequaled by any of the veteran flyers of England, France or Germany—a record t was to stand unchallenged except by | his own later performance. Inventor of a new technique of aerial warfare | he had marked every mile of the Ver- |dun front with the charred wrecks of German planes and balloons sent blazing to earth by his prowess. Let us leave the diners at their feast In the shuttered hangar while iZer t, Washington, . C. American Ace of Aces and the greatest flght to service. Reproduced by pormission of the Sy oo L ALy i At Ited Ntates War Departmes ‘ TO THE ADJUTANT GEN wi w. 3n Section: in the Signel Off “he su'hority ef Congress. v L .yesrs ins ey Sfter having credirebly pursued she heretn provi Vo n LS ot ems Neig) Wy business 1e .:/. > 5 )/l ineloss ledters of roeccmmendssion Lieut. Luke's_application for a commission. This historic document now poses in the archives of the W WAR DEPARTMENT SIGNAL CORPS. U. 8. ARMY et 10 né your (I} trems /35.,7,( K, ‘ sourse of atif ary & sitizen of the United States ._a[% ;%:Z L oF THE Amuy @instion for s commissten 74 tcers Reserve Co inetruetion tor and_gddre re- ar Department at Washington. hind him that graduation day in 1917 Leader among his fellows during his short life, it was natural that Frank Luke should seek admission to the Air Service. The world echoed in those days to the valor of Fonck, Guy nemer. Ball, Bishop, Boelke, Immel man and that almost mythical band of knightserrant, the Lafayette Es- cadrille—about whom we shall have much to say later in this narrative. Little did any one dream that this vouth was destined to be the greatest fighting airman produced by any army in the World War. No zen of Phoenix pictured this tamiliar tow-headed boy fighting alone | against hosts of flying foes, smashing his way through their ranks with roaring guns and. single handed, spreading terror along miles of the German front. The beginning of August saw Luke | lif., armed with an| r a commission as first lieutenant in the Air Service of the Signal Officers’ Reserve Corps—now a historic document which is repro- duced here from the files of the \\'.11‘} Department at Washington. Passing the mental and physical tests at San Diego, Luke returned to Phoenix to wait for the call for serv fce. Complying at last with all the Army requirements, his application for a commission received the notarial seal on August 29—a fateful date for Luke: many things were to happen to_him on the 29th of the month. Two wecks passed and nothing hap- | pened. ring. perhaps. that the war might end before he could play his part {n it, on the 13th of Septem- ber he wrote to the War Department at ington, taking them gr: to task for not making use of his serv- ices. Frank Demands Action. It was a boyish letter, A folded sheet of flag ked lett paper of those days. The paper he handled so carefully then and com- ! written on | otary of War from the ofticial and more leswons were learned In bat. te thian could possibly be imparted on the training feld And our boys learned. Let us count the notches on the guns. According to the ¢ man airplanes and 71 Germ: bulloons during the pertod of participation in the W In the same period Ge wvintorn whot down 367 of ouv planes and 31 of our ba krand total of the wrim The United Blatos, . nany Our i The won thelr war in the alr of more than 2 to 1, The titls of "Ace’ wits gIven to each fiyer who shot down five or more wnemy aliernft We hud 76 Aces They shot down 687 the ene raft ‘Pwelve of our Aces fell in theno combitn, Measnred by the yard stick of authenticated victorles, our ‘Acen thus took @ toll of victorles, an agninst losses in the ratio of nearly 46 to 1 Tt seems dneredible, but these are the fgures. While praine ts belng showered on Aewerving forelgn Knlghts of the alr it tm Niting that we should remembe OUF OWN, RO ANy whom dled [ wly for the American cause, hin story 8 weltten that we may not forget. CHAPTER T, A wray hage of tobacon dimmed (he lights In the great bave Yoom. Hinnkets oover the win dows and every ohink In the rough wooden walls had heen stuffed with papor lest #n ghint of lght might es cape to dimw (Re eye of & chance German Nyer Keen youny ' fuces murvounded a y 1 amoke we turn back the calendar for a little more thin u year. It In graduation day at the Unlon " Hehool In Phoenix, Avie. As Kk Luke aits among the graduat 10k senfors walting hin turn to step forward and claim his diploma, let our minds run back with his through his boyhood, Horn of wturdy ploneer parenta (his father, Frunk Luke, sr., had come to Arlgona in 1878), younk Luke had Krown up in a household where theve were many children and not too much money, Hovn aflter the days of Gevon Imo and the Apache Wars, he had passed his ohtldhood amid the ech of Avigona's wild and vecent past. A sober oy, not too studious, and a bit resentful of discipline, he had followed kravely his own childhood and youth ul concerns, Boyhood Career, ng d healthy with the rux Hed health of the nearby desorts, he had made his appotinted progress throukh the krand ‘-n!un of hoyhood 1nto high wehool, He had heen quartor back and fNeld keneral of hin foot ball team for hiw entive ime at Union High Do had hoen in turn captain in tame BAIL foot hall and on the track Ho had played basket ball and tennis and had boxed well. Ho wan olosing hin hikh sohool career with the envied vecord of having done well the things that were set bofore him to do. Al thess sohoolboy honors were be LIPS Lebm i e SNEE Rl 225 Er A mitted to the mall with such high hopos n nd stained trom (s 10 years (n the floa: lke a faint v from the past it brings back those Summer days of 17 whe r school boya elamored to ko to we The ac companying reproduction shows, ke the other documents, the notatons seribbled tn wartime Washington. o dating this letter on the 18th, Luke thority to change his classification irom bombing to pursuit pilot. LYON. actly what transpired is un- written history, but no ordinary pro test could have inspired’a reversal of | Aymy orders in a telegram sent at 4 o'clock in the morning! Frank Luke, jr., got what he went after. (Copsright. 1928.) TOMORROW—Read of Frank Luke's voyage to France, of his troubles in training there and of his final assignment to duty at the front. Read his own story of his first victorious bat- tle in the air near Soissons and | of his later fights on the Verdun | sector. U. S. DRY LAW FIGURES QUOTED BY VATICAN Official Journal Sees Conditions | Which Should Intensify Prohibi- | tion Likely to Destroy It. | By the Associated Press. ROME, January 4.—Osservatore Ro- mano, official Vatican organ, vester- day published on its first page an ex position of conditions in the United “tates under prohibition. The article | Juotes American news stories of dry raids, destruction of property, increase | o? alcoholism, killings and also the claims of prohibitionists that the dry law has reduced drinking. 1 Among news items mentioned are hose of the destruction of $50.000 | worth of furnishings at the night club Chez Helen Morgan in New York, o | recent statement of Representative F. | M. La Guardia of New York that a | fiquor syndicate controls sales in the | nerican metropolis and a statement | by Mrs. James J. Walker, wife of New York's mayor, that Volstead act en | forcement has failed miserably. | The paper also quotes figures by | Dr. Charles A. Reed of the Univer | sity_of Cincinn tormer president | of the American Medical Assoclation | giving deaths due to prohibition en- forcement as 65,000 — several thou | sands more than the American deaths in the World War. The article concludes, “and so the | figures which should intensify prohibdl. | tion will end by destroying it." | INDIAN CUSTOM FAILS } AS MURDER DEFENSE, Chippewa Sentenced to Life for Slaying Infirm Mother- in-Law. | By the Associated Press. ! DETROIT LAKES, Minn, January 4 ~The Chippewa tribal custom of staying the axed and mfirm has fatied | as a murder dofense in the palefie cou A Federal court jury yesterday convicted Alex Jourdan, a Chippewa for slaying his 90 yearold motherin law with an ax last Mazch, and h was sentenced to life imprisonment. Jourdan pleaded that his motherin law was old, blind and fecble, and that | A custom of his tribe prescribed that such persons should be hurried on the | Journey to the happy hunting grounds Rocords revealed a previous tm prisanment of Jourdan tor the slaving 18 years ago of his father. His sen: | tence served then was four years. Gen. Pershing Returns. Cen. John J. Pershing, who spent the holidays with his sisters in Lin | coln, Nebr,, has veturned to this city and again tiken up his restdence in save this fatetul figuve fa feat ap pearance fn hin record. It was dos Unod to show itself again under far different clreumstances In Anawer to this lettor, the em beyo fiver wan ordered to report to the Qround Behool at the University Of Texas in Austin on Septembor (Eaind o bewin his tealning St Vg things were to swing thelr orbig about him before the next 29th of Heptember was turned up on the calendar of 1918, Forty houes tn the ate today would bo reparded as the scantiost of pre- Hinavy teatning for an aviator, but that wan all Frank Luke, v, had had When he revelved hin commisaion as wocond lisntenant in the At ¥erv Wwe on January ¥ 198 While he was enjoving 18 duyvs’ leave at howe, the Mving oficers at San Diego olasal Ned him an & bombing pllot. That he had definite tdeas an to the st of fving he wanted to do e shown by the fullowing elogquent telesram now in the War Department files Han Diego, Calif, 1, Fob W, ANM 4 N1 Alr Tralning Slgnal Oos, e D He, N KL Washa, Our telesvam 49 B oof February 4 recommendod Hovond Lleut Frank Laike, §v % bomblng pilot. He was on leave wigen classifiod, board has e constdered hin oase and requesis aw the Metropolitan Club, . A monoplane with 12 engines which Will carry 60 passengers is belng built | MARLOW COAL 0, BN fn_Germany. T, 1888 Dependable Quality Reliable Service Fair Prices MARLOW COAL COMPANY | 811 E St. N.W.—Main 311/ SOURNESS, HEARTZURN, SICK HEADACHEZ, DiZ NESS, NAUSEA or DISTRESS AFTER EATING or DRINKIN € BeLLans Hot water Sure Relicf ELL-ANS FOR INDIGESTION FLAT TIRE? MAIN 500 LEETH BROTHERS WANTED Young man as runner in a bank. Mut be good-manncred, intelli- gent, rapid and willing to work. Small :alary to start. An wer, g ing full details as to all previous positions held. 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