Evening Star Newspaper, January 1, 1929, Page 7

——— DRY LAW BENEFITS CITED BY LEADERS {McBride and Cherrington De- | scribe Progress Made Dur- ing 1928 Because of Act. | | | iBy the Associated Press. Prohibition was declared yesterday by {Ernest H. Cherrington, general secre- | tary of the World League Against Al-| cohol, to have scored some of its most significant advances during 1928 At the same time F. Scott McBride, general superintendent of the Anti- Saloon League, said that “more people greeted the new year sober than ever efore in our history.” | “In looking back over the past year,” said Mr. McBride, “we are most grati- fied by the prosperity and well-being of the average home toward which pro- ‘hibition has contributed mate- rially, and by the popular support so emphatically given prohibition in the gecent elections. 1 Predicts Enforcement. | Predicting that during 1920 the dry daws will be more effectively cnfnn‘edi han ever before, Mr. McBride declared | jevery indication points toward increased | voluntary observance because the benef- | icient purposes of prohibition are he- «coming more generally understood and reciated. The principal achicvements of the | policy of prohibition in the life of the | Nation during the past year are written not in the records of courts and police «tations, but in the statistical data of ¥ where economic, hygienic ances are accurately registered,” declared Mr. Cherrington. “The economists of the Nation, with- jout an exception, are agreed upon the predominating part played by prohibi- | tion in making possible and developing | 'the unusual prosperity of the country.” s Increase Cited. He called attention then to the in- | crease in savings deposits in the Na- | tion and the extensive purchase of | Jife insurance, far exceeding, he pointed ‘out, the pre-prohibition total : Mr. Cherringion also declared that | the “world-wide movement against the luse of beverage alcohol gained impetus in almost every country in the world jduring 1928, and said that the suc- icess achieved by the United States under the prohibition regime was an important factor in stimulating the @nti-alcohol movement generally. 1. W. MIDDENDORF DIES. | fWas One of Organizers of Seaboard Air Line Railway. .. BALTIMORE, Md., January 1 (P).— . William Middendorf, sr.. banker and ne of the organizers of the Seaboard | |Air Line Railway, died yesterday at the ‘home of his son after an illness of grippe and a heart attack. He was 79 years old and his connection with Bal- timore banking history went back to ‘the period just after the Civil War and continued into the early part of the ipresent century. With his former partner, John Skel- ton Williams, Mr. Middendorf was one of those engaged in organization of the Seaboard before the association with it of the late S. Davies Warfield, and at one time he was vice president of the Seaboard. He was also one of the or- | ganizers of the Maryland Casualty Co. | and was a director at the time of his | death. Our “Arcade Shop™ Open Nights | chateau, | 1929 Legislature, when it completes its | FIORSHEIM School Plan Halted MRS. PEARL FLANNAG!/ { Otherwise known as the Countess des| | Taurines, promoting a $10,000,000 school | to the tender’s coupler is 125 feet. The | for singers, to be founded at her French | is at odds with the law at| Kansas . She and her business | manager, Charles F. Faye, alias_ Seitz, lost their wardrobes to a constable on complaint of the countess’ partner in promoting the school, Grosvenor Bar- ron. Police learned Faye had served terms in Wyoming and Kansas peni- tentiaries. -—Associated Press Photo. | JOHN MAY BE MAJOR ON TRUMBULL STAFF Governor to Ask Legislature for‘i Emergency Action so Coolidge | May Take Rank. By the Associated Press. HARTFORD, Conn,, January 1.—The | organization January 9, will be asked to suspend its rules and rush through an amendment to the militia law that will make John Coolidge a major when he attends the governor's ball that night. Gov. Trumbull yesterday revealed that he would ask emergency action on a proposal to make room on his staff for a representative of the Citi- zens' Military Training Camps and, if the General Assembly acquiesced, ap- point John Coolidge to the place. The major-to-be is the son of Presi- dent and Mrs. Coolidge, the fiance of Gov. Trumbull's eldest daughter and a clerk in the main offices of the New Haven Railroad. John Coolidge is not a voting citizen of Connecticut, but, Gov. Trumbull polnted out, the law does not require members of the staff to be citizens of the State. . the staff are almost The dutles of entirely honorary, consisting of at- tendance upon the governor at State functions. Officer Ordered to Panama. Lieut. Col. Joseph F. Siler, Army Medical Corps, has been relieved from duty in the office of the surgeon gen- eral of the Army, Munitions Building, and ordered to the Panama Canal Zone | plete engine weighs 715,000 pounds, and THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, TUESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1929. BIG ENGINE WEIGHS 1,087,000 POUNDS Monster Locomotive Expect- | ed to Haul Three Ordinary Freight Trains. By the Assoctated Press. SCHENECTADY, N. Y., January 1.—| { A million pounds of freight locomotive, the largest in existence, will roll out of | this city for a Western railroad soon. | | The giant was built for the Northern | Pacific Railroad in the American Lm-u-i motive Co. plant here, and with it the rallroad company hopes to haul three ordinary freight trains over mountain | grades. The locomotive, with its tender, stretches out for almost half a normal city block. From the tip of its f(‘ndr‘r’ | | | top of the cab, flush with the stack, is | more than 16 feet above the rails. Its width necessarily was restricted by de- | | signers to 11 feet 8 inches to allow for| its use on a regular two-track system. Heavy Weight on Drivers. To give sufficient traction for its drive wheels a load of 554,000 pounds | was imposed on the drivers. The com- with the tender the total weight mounts to 1,087,000 pounds. ‘The locomotive exerts a tractive effort of 153,400 pounds on its drawbar. To accomplish this a steam pressure of 250 pounds to the square inch is built up, creating, at full throttle, some 6,000 horsepower. | The engine is designated as the Yel- | lowstone type. Its running gear is classed by railroad men as “2-8-8-4.” a side view showing a pilot wheel, eight drivers in groups of four and two wheels | of the trailing truck. The tender is mounted on two six-wheel trucks. Coal enough to supply & one-family house for two years is burned in a sin- gle hour when the engine is hauling a heavy load. More than 20 tons of coal is thrown over a grate area of 182 square feet by an automatic stoker. Mallet Type. The engine is of the simple Mallet type, working steam through cylinders of the same size rather than from large to small cylinders. The pistons ride in a bore of 26 inches and have a 32-inch stroke. The boiler of the Leviathan is more than 60 feet in length and has 7,670 square feet of heating surface, of which 3,219 is super heated. To provide for the countless joints in the plates and fastenings at other points the workers drilled 20,000 holes. Pive thermic syphons render an even flow of water through the boiler, drawing up cooling water from the bottom to the hotter areas around the upper flues. ‘Transportation of the engine to the Northern Pacific lines will be accom- plished by “dead hauling” or coupling into a freight train and towing it. A careful study of the lines over which it is to be routed is being made by the manufacturers and railroad of- ficials, Not only do_allowances have to be made for its height, but room for passing fixed objects and trains must be provided. ‘The nose of the engine, riding on bearings imposed between the frame | and the front set of drive wheels, swings far out over the ties when | for duty, effective in June. SHOES Man’s Shop 14th at G 3212 14th rounding a curve. all sizes included mediate action This is the annual, big shoe opportunity for men. All styles, all leathers, To Judge a Judge JUDGE W. W. McCRORY- Will preside at the trial set for Jan- uary 7 at San Antonio of Judge A. J. McCloskey, charged with altering elec- tion returns to show himself winner in the fourteenth Texas district congres- sional race over Representative Harry M. Wurzbach, Republican. URGES LIQUOR CASES FOR STATE COURTS U. S. Judge Says Prosecutions; Should Not Be in Federal Tribunals. By the Assoclated Press. DULUTH, Minn,, January 1—United States District Judge Willlam A. Cant of Duluth, in a New Year statement today, urged the prosecution of liquor [of every Greek for 1929 should be to | cases in State rather than Federal| courts. He also suggested “a little more right thinking and a little more sound public sentiment” in connection with enforcement. of liquor law “Prosecution for violations of the Volstead act should not be in the United States District Court,” Judge Cant de- clared. “The amount of other litiga- tion is more than enough to fully oc- cupy the time and tax the energy of that court. However, the amount of time required for dealing with such cases is comparatively small. It is im- portant civil business and the prosecu- tion of other and more serious crimes which occupy the time. “Liquor cases involve the intimate and immediate welfare of the people round about us and the good order of the communities in which we live. Such matters should be taken care by intel- ligent, law-abiding, law-enforcing local officers. It should not be necessary to call on far-away Washington for help.” 1 9 TORAG PRIVATE ROOM OR OPEN STORAGE LONG DISTANCE MOVERS CRATE AND PACK BY EXPERTS | 1313 YOU STREET, N.W. PHONE NORTH 3343 . Butim- necessary ! {RANKIN LAUNCHES \ ATTACK ON JARDINE Says He Is “Great Enemy” of Cot- ton Growers—Declares Cap- per Abetting Him. By the Assoclated Press. Opposition to the reappointment of | Secretary Jardine on the ground that) he is “one of the greatest enemies the | cotton growers of this country have pressed in a statement yesterday by Representative Rankin, Democrat, Mis- souri. Declaring Senator Capper, Republi- can, Kansas, had opened a drive to “impose” Jardine on the farmers as| Secretary of Agriculture for the next | four years, when on December 22 he filed a minority report on the cotton in- vestigation of last Spring, Rankin, who | was one of two House members that sat Wi‘t(l; the senatorial inquiry committee, said: “Senators from the South can pre- vent the confirmation of Jardine in case Mr. Hoover attempts to reappoint him. If they fail to perform that duty the farmers of the South are going to de- mand to know the reason why.” ‘The Missouri Representative de- clared that Capper, who comes from the same State as Jardine, had at- tempted in his minority report to “whitewash the Department of Agricul- ture for its misconduct in wrecking the cotton market last year” and to uphold the “speculators and manipulators who contributed to that disaster by their in- defensible conduct on the exchange.” PREMIER GREETS GREEKS. ever had in a public office” was ex-|, | culated copies of the book. NAN BRITTON FILES SUIT FOR $100,000 DAMAGES Author of “President’s Daughter” Names Three in Alleged Libelous Statements. By the Assoclated Press. TOLEDO, Ohlo, January 1.—Suits for $100,000 damages against three resi- dents of Marion, Ohio, were filed in Federal Court here yesterday by Nan Daughter.” They are based on statements in “The Answer to the President’s Daugh- e which she claims was written by the late Joseph De Barthe. It fis charged that the statements alluded to Miss Britton and are false, defamatory and libelous. The petition states that there was no address of publisher or printer on the book and that it was not_ possible to obtain identity of the publisher. The defendants named are C. A. Klunk, Marion Hotel; Charles J. Bever and Claybourne V. Hudson. It is alleged that they displayed placards advertising the book in the hotel and in the office of Bever & Hudson, in Marion, and sold and caused to be cir- -Old Fort Stormed. ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (#)—Grim old | Fort Marion, which withstood the as- | saut of Sir Francis Drake and the rav- |ages of Gen. Oglethorpe, has fallen. Thieves scaled its walls and stole a sum of money belonging to the State Historical Society. Greater Effort. ATHENS, January 1 (#).—In & New Year message to the Greek people Pre mier Venizelos today said that the wish see followed with a greater intensity the admirable effort which was dis- played by the Greek people after their Asiatic disaster for healing wounds and creating a better future. Political stability, he continued, was insured by the elections of August 19. Character Furni We Only Hold Two Sales a Year Venizelos’ New Year Message Asks | | ture Britton, author of “The Presldent's" | | | | Kl ing them with conspiring to offer John F. Eckhart, acting assistant Federal gro- to hibition administrator, $300 a mont] tip off prohibition agents when ralds U. S. JURY ADJOURNS AFTER 3 INDICTED ve:f ey e eei'ca Ohio State Treasurer Is Accused of | COMPROMIS.E ADOPTED. Conspiracy to Bribe Dry Agent. Non-Co-operation Is Threatened by Indian Congress. 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