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[3 2 BORAH DECLARES DRY LAW 0 STAY Idahoan Starts Reply to Reed, Who Continues Attack on Prohibition. (Continued from First Page). rescue the intemperate into a prosecu- | tor. “They have abandoned the tract and assumed the bludgeon,” said Mr. Reed. “We send unfortunates to the peni- tentiary instead of seeking to rcscuci them.” The Missourl Senator, referring to the Durant contest for the best plan for the enforcement of prohibition, smd‘l that many of those who had replied | urged the infliction of penalty on pen- | alty. He gave as examples of “en- thusiasts gone mad,” the “suggestions | of one person and of one lady.” The first, he said, had proposed that liquor law violators shouid be hung by the tongue and carried in airplanes over the country. The woman who entered the contest, he said, urged that the Government _distribute poison liquor through bootleggers on the theory that only a few thousands would die and that it was worth it to get prohibition | enforced. “Law Justifies Atrocity.” “That,” said Senator Reed, “is the spirit that is abroad in the land. Any- thing that may be done under the law is right. The law justifies any cruelty and atrocity. Yet the law has been the instrument of tyrants and the weapon of brutes since time began. Despots have sought to justify their tyrannies which have filled the land with groans of those dying by the law. “What, sirs, is the law? It is some- thing that springs from custom and is adopted by general consent. If it be a proper law, it must be more than that. It must be founded in justice and hu- mane in its provisions. It must be something that commends itself to the goul of mankind to be a proper law. A cruel law and an unjust Jaw may be 2s much a crime as assassination. It is urged that we can pass any kind of & law. Such was not the theory of the founders of our Government.” Senator Reed said that the founders of the Government acted upon the theory that all laws were derived from the consent of the governed: that they ‘Wwere against cruel and unusual penai- ties, and that they set bounds to the suthority of government itself. “Some people,” he sald, “think that if you have the votes to enact a crucl law, that he is the end of the matter. Why, the Savior of Mankind was cru- cified according to the Romen law and the Jewish law. Joan of Arc was burned &t the stake in accordance with the laws that prevailed then.” Senator Reed said that he was not urging the American people and Con- Bress to defy this prohibition law, “be- cause we have th: power of changing the law, and it is our business to pro- ceed in the right way to remedy wrongs.” The right way, he said, is to Tepeal bad laws and to change bad constitu- tions. The prohibition law, he said, is @ bad law, a destructive law, and has introduced corrupting influences into the life of the country. Senator Reed, in continuing his at- tack on the dry organization, criticized its methods in politics. He said it made | the chairman of the appropirations 7o difference how & man would vote on | committee that $59,000,000 is contrib- other questions, if he voted as Mr. ‘Wheeler wanted on the question he was su; He declared the dry forces changed from one political party to an- ;:)llil-fi‘u without regard for the ethics of The Missourian next turned his oratorical guns upon “Pussyfoot” John- son. After ?uou.nx at statements which he said Johnson had made, describing the methods he had followed in mrtherlng the cause of rrohfmuon, Senator next crit- icized the employment of members of Congress “to go about the country” luprorun; prohibition. Senator Reed declared he was not objecting to an organization defending its views, but added that he did challenge the right of an organization “to go to the men who were to pass on the laws and put money in their purses.” Turning next to the machinery for prohibition enforcement, Senator Reed continued: “What is an under-cover agent? He 1s a spy—and a spy, except in the case of the man who risks his life for his country in time of war, is unquestion- ably the lowest order of animal life. The spy is a creature who has aban- doned in advance every principal of honor. The men who enforce this law must go about peeping through key- holes. They must make friendships in order to betray them. They will com- mit perjury. They will accept bribes.” After reading records of the number of enforcement agents scparated from the service for various causes, Senator Reed continued: “It spells this story: That you can- not get decent men to do this woik. Hence it goes into the hands of off- scourings of humanity.” Senator Reed asserted vhat the old temperance forces carried on “a beau- tiful and glorious work,” which he de- scribes as the work of trying to save men by appealing to them “But now behold what their succes- sors are doing. Their boast is of the number of human beings they have taken irom their families and locked up in penitentiaries. More than 178,000 rohibition arrests in Federal ecourts, ore than 58,000 jail sentences, and this is the glory of prohibition.” “Home Poor Place for Brewery.” After declaring that 5631 years was the aggregate length of the jail sentences in these cases, he added, “If Adam had been put in jail when a boy, he would just about have served out his time now he had these aggregate sentences.” Senator Reed next declared that beer and wines are being made in the homes and, “if the children are to be safe- guarded, the home is a mighty poor place to have a brewery.” Senator Reed asked his colleagues if they had read in the paper two days ago of the finding of an 1,800-gallon still within a few blocks of the Capitol. “And when they did find it,” he said, “they could not find any one who owned it, and o they broke up that still, which probably was worth only a few hundred dollars and probably had been worn out when found.” Senator Reed read an advertisement from a newspaper which he interpreted 2s indicating a big cut in prices at a chain of stores on articles to be used in the wanufacture of liquor, among them three-gallon charred kegs. “If this adviertisement instead had been an advertisement offering knives for the use of assassins at a reduced rate” said Senator Reed, “the police ‘would have been after that place in 15 minutes.” Reads Detroit Clipping. eral Government this year for enforce- length from | distillery,” continued Senator Reed. “You Caio Luis Pierre de Sousa, son of THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1929.° the President of Brazil, and his wife, who called on President Coolidge at the White House this morning. —Underwood Photo. be enforced if Congress wants to embark in the police business and with an expenditure of $300,000,000 a year. Senator Sheppard of Texas, Senator Reed said, had attempted to show that Dr. Doran believed that much could be done by correcting violations of the law at the source of industrial alcohol. “Alcohol,” said Ssnator Reed, “does not have a single source, it has 10,000 sources, and industrial alcohol is not as well received now as good old moon- shine. “If there are three earnest prohibi- tionists,” said Senator Reed, ‘‘Senator Harris of Georgia is one and Senator Sheppard of Texas is the other two. Yet Senator Harrls, discussing his amendment to increase the appropria- tions for prohibition enforcement by $25,000,000, said that prohibition en- forcement is a farce, causing disre- spect for all law. “To that I say amen. Disrespect to the law is the greatest evil that can be- fall. It is the offspring of this law and comes from it as naturally as seeds spring from the fertile earth.” Senator Reed added that Senator Harris insisted the law was not enforced because Congress did not provide the | money. Amount to Be Used Cited. “How much money?” exclaimed Sen- ator Reed. “I have been informed by uted directly and indirectly by the Fed- ment of the dry law.” Senator Reed estimated that the total sum expended would be about $100,000,- 000. No man, he sald, can measure its cost. “We say we stopped the saloon and did not stop the saloon. You made it a migratory thing. Tt runs about in an automobile and its bar is compressed into a gripsack. You did not stop the brewery. You made millions of brew- erles in the homes of the people. But why need I argue further when dry Senators here admit that the enforce- ment of prohibition is a farce.” Senator Reed said there had never been a race of men which had not had some form of stimulants, He argued that it was impossible to quench a natural appetite and a natural demand. He sald that when Congress said “thou shalt not drink,” it created a different psychology and 'that the average fellow replied: “I don't care a snap of the fingers for that law.” Senator Reed brought his long speech to a close with a plea for repeal of the eighteenth amendment and control of the problem by the States. “Let us go back to the principles on which our Government was founded,” Senator Reed concluded. ‘“Let us re- this obnoxlous, hideous amend- ment. Let us say to the States that they are capable of governing them- selves. This is in the nature of an exercise of the police power. We trust them to apprehend murderers, and we should say to them, ‘We will trust you this matter’ And then I am willing that the States shall be protected in enforcing their laws. “Discharge the Snoopers.” “Discharge the snoopers and sples who have been employed with our money to break down our doors, and as they go let us say that in this coun- try a system of sples and espionage is an abominable thing!” When the Missourian had taken his seat, Senator Jones, Republican, of Washington, and author of the pending bill to enlarge the penalties for serious violations of the prohibition law, an- nounced he would offer an amendment to the bill, setting forth that it is the intent of Congress that the courts, in carrying out this law, should discrim- inate between the casual, small violator and the regular bootlegger. 7 ‘Toward the close of his long attack on prohibition, Senator Reed of Mis- souri declared there are more dope ad- dicts in the country today than there ever were of habitual drunkards, and JURY FILES REPORT IN CONDENNATIONS Three Supreme Court Site PropertyOwners Given In- crease and Four Lose. Only three of the eight property owners in the two squares, 727 and 728, condemned by the Government for the site of the United States Supreme Court Building, profited by their appeals to a jury of seven citizens from the finding of the Condemnation Commission, which originally passed on the value of the entire two squarcs, One was given exactly the same amount by the review jury, which filed iis report today with Justice Bailey in the District Court through United States Marshal Edgar C. Synder. The four remaining owners were given less than the commission had rewarded. The total of the awards by the reviewing jury is dentical with the total of the cunx\mmwn's award on the eight prop- erties, The owner of premises 140 A street northeast was awarded $13,000, an ad- vance of $500. The owner of premises 131 Maryland avenue received $15,500, also anincrease of $500, while the owner of premises 107 Maryland avenue was allowed $11,750, an increase of $250. Premises 22 Second street northeast was valued by both commission and jury at $8,250. Premises 102 Second sireet northeast was given only $6,250 by the reviewing jury, while the commission had awarded $6,750. ‘The owner of premises 28 Second street northeast lost $250, being awarded only $8,250, while the commission had placed the value at $8,500. Premises 26 Second street northeast was awarded $9,250 by the re- viewing jury, while the commission had given $9,500. The owner of premises 24 Second street northeast also suffered a loss of $250, when the reviewing jury gave only $7,750, while the commission had allowed $8,000. ‘The reviewing jury was composed of Clarence A. Aspinwall, Merle Thorpe, Robert J. Earnshaw, Willlam E. Peaslee, Hugh B. Thomas, Harvey T. Townsend and Henry W. Fisher, AR New Mergers Expected. NEW YORK, February 18 (#).—The new year has brought a series of mergers in chain stores, the oil industry and other fields, and Wall Street expects the movement to gather momentum, par- ticularly in banking, ofl and airplane Last year there were 629 bank merges in the country. that these people are “manacled slaves for the rest of their lives."” “Oh, you people who have turned all your wrath against the glass of beer,” Senator Reed shouted, “what say you to this advance in the horrible drug addiction, parallel with prohibition? If people want some kind of stimulant, in the name of high heaven, let them have a stimulant that will not utterly destroy them.” Senator Reed said there are realms of law, the civil law, to protect rights and property, and the moral law, which consists of proper teachings. He con- tended that no law made by man had ever made a good man or a good woman. He said that laws “may have restrained the criminal, but it did not make him anything else but a criminal at heart it he was one already.” CONFER ON BURLINGAME CASE CANAL ZONE RULING ON FOREIGN PLANES President Issues Order Which Will Be Enforced by the Governor. By the Associated Press. President Coolidge issued an executive | order today setting forth the principles to govern flight of foreign aircraft over the Panama Canal Zone. Regu- | lations conforming with the principles | noted by the President are to be drawn | up by the Governor of the Canal Zone. Under the rules promulgated by Mr. Coolidge, foreign aircraft must enter the Canal‘Zone by specified routes and | must land at designated airports be- fore leaving the Zone. At these places clearance papers must be obtained and a customs inspection will be made. The necessity of forced landings at other points must be proved. The carrying of arms, ammunition or other implements of war is prohibited. Foreign aviators are forbidden also to take photographs. The prescribed routes and landing places will be disignated by the gov- | ernor of the Canal Zone. Mr. Coolidge’s principles were drawn upon recommendation by the State, War, Navy, Treasury, Post Office and Commerce Departments. HEAVY SNOW GIVES TROUBLETOU.S. Would Be as Helpless as Europe, Forecaster Points Out. Although the United States is far ahead of Europe in communication fa- cilities and in equipment to carry on ordinary transportation during the cold weather and the usual snows, this country would suffer as severely from unusually severe snow falls as has Eu- rope from the deep snows and unusual cold weather of the past fortnight, ac- cording to Charles L. Mitchell, forecas- ter at the Weauther Bureau. Pointing to maps of the bureau which show unusually low temperatures and extraordinarily heavy falls of snow over much of the Middle West and West, Mr. Mitchell said our transportation sys- | tems would have trouble meeting the | situation which has faced Europe if | similar conditions existed here. “When snow falls beyond ordinary means of | clearing them blanket a State or a| country, we are as helpless as any one,” Mr. Mitchell said, “even though we have gone beyond Europe in the mat- ters of communication and clearing | away heavy falls of snow.” Could Not Hear Signals. Mr. Mitchell declared this country could not obtain weather reports from France by the usual method of radio| communication during Europe's cold weather. “We could not hear their sig- nals at all” he sald. “But we were | able to get through to the Navy vessel Raleigh, which was stationed in the Mediterranean, and which kept in con- stant touch with us regarding the cos ditions on the Riviera and wherever re- ports came from.” Mr. Michell sald that probably the extent of the cold wave has been little more than outlined because of the meagerness of reports from many places. “We get no reports direct from Siberia and from many parts of Russia,” he said, “because we have no formal relations with the Soviet states. We do not know how severe the weather has been in Siberia or in many parts of the country north of Viadi- vostok. But it looks as if & cold wave from the Arctic has struck down on both continents, for at about the same time Europe was having its cold snap, our Northwest and Western States were in the grip of unusually cold weather.” Mr. Mitchell produced a snow map, showing snow to have fallen over a very large portion of the country, even falling in New Mexico and Arizona and in most of Texas. Washington Fortunate, He sald that Washington is fortunate | in having all the facilities of the Weather Bureau at the call of the city heads and directors of utility companies who have the job of clearing away snow. “During the Winter,” he said, “we are called on the telephone twice a day from the municipal government to find out whether a snowfall is predicted.” Mr. Mitchell added that Washingtonians generaly do not appreciate the never- ceasing vigilance of the District govern- ment in Winter to be able to place all emergency forces in readiness hours before a snowfall, and take steps to remove the snow as quickly as possible. He recalled Washington's last big snow- fall, in 1922, when the roof of the Knickerbocker Theater fell, and said that equipment has been marshaled now which would probably forestall the virtually com?leu paralyzing of trans- portation which existed for hours at that time. Washington, he said, has been very fortunate this year in not having been in the path of the cold waves which have struck many fll".! of the country, and in not lying in the snow-covered area. Some parts of the Northwest have had within a month 15 different cold waves, coming at short intervals. Fifteen such waves in the course of an entire Winter is the normal average, he added. YOUR INCOME TAX. No 15. A loss on the sale of residen- tial property purchased or con- structed by the taxpayer for use as his personal residence and so used by him up to the time of the sale is not deductible. Where however, property so purchased or constructed is prior to its sale rented or otherwise appropriated to income-producing purposes and is used for such purposes up to the time of its sale, a loss the sale of the property computed as provided in section 111 of the revenue act of 1928, is an allow- able deduction in an amount not to exceed vhe excess of the value of the property at the time it was appropriated to income-producing purposes (with proper adjuste ment for the depreciation) over the amount realized from the sale. However, in case the property was 50 appropriated prior to March 1, ADMIRAL SIR FRANCIS BRIDGEMAN BRITISH ADMIRAL EXPIRES IN NASSAU Sir Francis Bridgeman Dies While Resting at Hotel, Listening to Orchestra Play. By the Assoclated Press. NASSAU, Bahama, February 18— Admiral Sir Francis Bridgeman, 81, vice admiral of the United Kingdom and former first sea lord of the ad- miralty, died here last night of harden- ing of the arteries. ‘The admiral, who had spent many of his Winters here, was seated in the hotel lounge and was listening to the orchestra play a number he had just requested when he was stricken. Three physicians were called, but he was dead when they reached him. Admiral Bridgeman had just com- pleted arrangements for the annual races of the Nassau Sailing Club, which he organized five years ago and of which he was commodore. G. W. U. GIVEN CHAIR ON PUBLIC SPEAKING BY WIDOW OF DEPEW (Continued_from_ First Page). the Government or expect to under- take careers of a governmental or civic nature upon graduation. For this reason I believe that Mrs. Depew's gift will have a far-reaching effect in helping to produce more efficient and better train- ed men for public service.” In referring to her gift, Mrs. Depew sald, “The courses will be established and maintained with the object of train- ing and instructing those availing of their benefits in the art of public speaking and oratory in its various branches, in all of which my husband, | in whose memory this gift was made, was during his long, eventful and useful life the most eminent of his time. “He was devoted to the Capital, and during his terms as United States Sen- ator he frequently visited George Wash- ington University and delivered speeches | there. I am comforted he would be happy to have his memory perpetuated through this great university.” One of Dozen Contributions. Mrs. Depew's gift is one of the larger of a dozen contributions which have ralsed the endowment and income of George Washington nearly $2,000,000 in the last year, Courses in the new department will be offered both during the day for reg- ular students, and also in the evening for those who are recelving education while working. Special classes will be formed for business and professional men and Government officials. The late Senator Depew died April 5, 1928, at the age of 93. He was one of the most noted orators of the nine- teenth and twentieth centuries, He was appointed and confirmed Am- bassador from the United States to Japan, but declined. He refused the offer to be Secretary of State in Benja- min Harrison’s cabinet, and declined the election of United States Senator in 1835. He was probably best known as president and chairman of the board of directors of many large railroads and corporations in the United States. OXYGEil “LUNG” TESTS WAIT ON CALM SEAS By the Assoclated Pi KEY WEST, Fla., February 18.—The Navy tender Mallard was anchored 40 miles off Key West today, awaiting calm seas for trials of the new oxygen “lung” in attempted escapes from a submarine lying in 128 feet of water. Lieut. Comdr. P. H. Dunbar, olicer in charge, sal the tests would be made today if the weather permitted. Lieut. C. B. Momsen and Chief Tor- -edoman Kollnowski will attempt to leave the submersible S-4 at 120 feet and ascend to the surface. The tests have proved successful at depths rang- ing from 30 to 70 feet. s Marriage Licenses. Marrlage licenses have been issued to the following: Alton M. Hall, 21, and_Carrie E. Sharp, 18 both of Beaverdam, Va.; Rev. William M. Hoffman. Gozlee Brown, 26. and Pearl Moore, 25; Rev. George O.'Buliock. James H. Peck. 47, and Ammon B. Mayn, 8 Rev. Danjel L. Snvder. Noble ‘Troutman. 33. and Margaret Crane, 24 Rev. Stephen G. Lampkins. W. Emmitt_Schissler. 38. Buffalo. N, Y., and E. Lee Wilson, 43, Chicago, IiL; Rev. E._Hei Swem. William Losinsky, 25. Baltimore, Bertha Slavsky, 19 Rev Becker. LeBoy Robiuson. 21, und Lucile Johnson, « W \‘:;rflh 2% gnd Ruth T. Rev: Willlam . Lay A2 “and ‘Pauiine Pinket, Md., and er. | looked upon today by investigating o(-‘ Id | the younger Doheny and had been in Employe Is Believed to Have Been Mentally Deranged Temporarily. Father, Oil Magnate, Col- lapses on Being Told of Son’s Death. By the Assoclated Press. LOS ANGELES, February 18.—The | slaying of Edward L. Doheny, jr., heir to the Doheny oil millions, by his secretary and friend, Theodore Hugh Plunkett, who committed suicide, was ficials as the deed of a man temporarily mentally deranged. | Doheny, 36 years old, was shot to death in his home here late Saturday night as his family awaited the arrival of Dr. E. C. Fishbaugh, to treat Plunkett for a threatened nervous breakdown. When confronted by the physician Plunkett retreated to the room in which Doheny’s body lay and shot himself through the head. The doctor found both men dead. Conference Preceded Shooting. Several points regarding the murder and suicide remained to be cleared up, however. Whether there had been a struggle as Doheny had attempted to qulet Plunkett was uncertain. The furniture had been disarranged. An overturned bottle and several glasses were on a table. Since Plunkett’s wife obtained an un- contested divorce last October, investi- gators of the district attorney's office sald, young Doheny’s secretary had de- veloped a nervous ailment which had become serious. Dr. Fishbaugh, the Doheny family physician for 10 years, at the request of Doheny, jr, had at- tended Plunkett. Saturday afternoon, a few hours be- fore the double tragedy, a family con- ference had been held .over Plunketts condition, which had become worse as the result of his refusal to abide by the physician’s instructions. The conferees attempted to induce Plunkett, who was living at Greystone, the home of young Doheny, to go to a sanitarium for rest and treatment. They said Plunkett had refused to go. Young Doheny was clad in night clothing and a robe when his body was found on the floor of Plunkett's room. Dr. Fishbaugh, who was the first to see the bodies, expressed the opinion that Doheny hi gone to Plunkett's room late in the Vening to observe his condition and that he had found the secretary to be in a mentally serious condition. A plllow from one of the twin beds had been neatly placed upon a chaise longue, indicating to officials that Do- heny had tried to quiet Plunkett by having him lie down. That Plunkett refused was indicated by the unruffied pillow. Dr. Fishbaugh, who had been re- | quested by young Doheny to hold him- | self ready to go to Greystone on short | notice, arrived shortly before midnight, |after having been called out of a thea- ter. Mrs. Doheny met him at the door, saying her husband was talking to| Plunkett in the latter’s room. Mrs. Doheny said later she had heard |an unusual noise in the house, but thought it was the sound of a piece of furniture being overturned. She was | about 75 feet from the death room at the time and did not recognize it as a pistol shot. Mrs. Doheny also disclosed that she and her husband had visited Plunkett in his Los Angeles apartment Saturday afternoon in an effort to persuade him to go to a sanitarium, and that the meeting had ended in a verbal tilt. She sald-Plunkett later telephoned the Do- heny home demanding to know “the meaning” of their wanting him to go to the sanitarium. When Dr. Fishbaugh was shown to the bedroom door by Mrs. Doheny, they found Plunkett standing in the hall. “You stay out of here!" he shouted, according to Dr. Fishbaugh. The doc- entered the bedroom. An instant later a shot rang out. Dr. Fishbaugh sent Mrs. Doheny back to the living room, opened the bedroom door and found the bodles of the millionaire and his secretary. Elder Doheny Collapsed. Edward L. Doheny, founder of the huge oll business, collapsed when called from his home across the street, re- covered quickly from the shock and assured his friends he would face the situation stolcally. He is 72 years old. His wife, mother of the younger Doheny, remained at home, The younger Doheny was the only son of the oll magnate. He was mar- ried to Miss Lucy Smith, Pasadena soclety girl, in 1914, two years before he was graduated from the University of Southern California. Young Doheny was indicted on a bribery charge as the result of the Teapot Dome and Elk Hills oil lease scandal several years ago, but the charge was dropped. His home was completed only recently at a cost of $500,000. Plunkett had been a classmate of Wis employ for about 15 vears. Plun- kett was about 33 years old. Besides his widow and parents, Doheny is survived by five children. BANK SUES UPSHAW. While William D. Upshaw, former Representative from Georgia, an ardent dry, was seated in the Senate gallery Saturday afternoon listening to Senator Reed of Missouri excoriating the “drys in Congress,” he was served by Deputy United States Marshal Cerimele with a summons to answer a clivil suit for $1,284.40. Earlier in the day Attorneys Seal and Dice had filed the suit in the District Supreme Court on behalf of the Peoples’ National Bank of Rocky Mount, Va., which claims that Up- shaw owes that balance on two notes held by the bank, one of which was dated June 30, 1923, and the other June 4, 1926. Upshaw remained to SECRETARY KILLS DOHENY. JR.. AND THEN COMMITS SUICIDE Above: EDWARD L. DOHENY, JR. Below: HUGH PLUNKETT. COMMISSION HITS PRISON SYSTEMS Compares State Penal Insti- tutions With Those England Abandoned Years Ago. | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 18.—Severely criticizing jalls and other local penal institutions throughout the country, a committee of the National Crime Com- mission, in a report made public yester- day, recommended that the “individual States should take over the care of all their convieted prisoners.” The subcommittee, headed by Frank O. Lowden, former Governor of Illinois, reported that nearly nine-tenths of all commitments are made to local institu~ tions, such as county and municipal Jalls, workhouses, farms, chain gangs and camps, and charged that these con- stitute “a penal institution hoary with the age of centuries, an institution which England abandoned over 50 years 3 tor said Plunkett wheeled then and |38 Jail Conditions Depicted. The report listed the “distinguishing features” of the ordinary jail as: “Filth, | the herding together of convicted crim- inals and persons awaiting trial, the mingling of well and foully diseased in- dividuals, the close association of young and old offenders, the prevalence of bedbugs and lice, universal idleness, the prevailing practice of subjecting woman prisoners to the oversight of male at- tendants and the scheme which one| finds in many States of paying the jailer a per diem sum for boarding each prisoner without specifying how much, or shall we say how little, food is given to_him.” In support of its claims the commit- tee cited the testimony of individuals and excerpts from official reports from several of the States and declared that “we have been informed by many re-| liable persons that they represent a fair picture of at least 85 per cent of the Jalls and other local institutions as they are today.” Remedy Is Suggested. “The plan we offer for the remedying of this evil situation,” the report con- tinued, “is of a twofold character, in- volving, on the one hand, a strengthen- ing of State control and on the other a build up of county and municipal ma- chinery."” Recognizing that certain difficulties exist in the way of a realization of its program, the committee suggested that lh"l: are several ways in which to . gin. “If a State cannot afford,” it said, “to embark on the policy of creating a sufficient number of institutions to care for all misdemeanant prisoners, it should establish one for a selected group, making the selection not accord- ing to the crime, nor the length of sen- tence, but preferably on the basis of personality.” The report was signed by the secre- tary of the committee, Louis N. Robin- son, noted economist and criminologist. Other members of the committee are Arnold Bennett Hall, Mrs. Jessie D. Hodder, Clark Howell, Sam A. Lewisohn, Sumner T. McKnight, George L. Rad- 1 hear the end of the address. cliffe and Charles S. Whitman. EUROPE MENACED BY FLOOD THREAT Prospective Thawing of Snow and |ce Feared Qver Continent. By the Assoclated Press. LONDON, February 18.—In prospec~ tive thaws a new danger appeared for Europe today. It is feared that evente ually there will be floods, in which weeks' accumulations of ice and snow fn the mountain areas will spread destruc- tion as they seek outlet to the sea. Meanwhile flerce snowstorms were reported in Central Europe, ice condi- tions were as bad as ever in the Scandi- navian countries, and the wintry snows still caused intense suffering in the Balkans. In the British Isles the cold subsided somewhat. Along the cost, particularly in London, the high wind was replaced with a heavy fog. Roads were clear in most sections where there was no more snow yesterday. Virulent Influenza Appears. ‘The mail today said that with the ine tense cold of the last four days a more virulent type of influenza than London has known heretofore made its appear~ ance and claimed many vietims. The symptoms were the same, being merely accentuated — temperatures higher, headaches worse and general discomfort greater. Poland seems to have had the worst of the Central European snowstorms. Rallway communication was disorgan< ized and in Eastern Galacia many en- tire districts were completely cut off. Tarnopol has been unable to communi- cate with the outside world by any means other than radio since a week ago Saturday. The government has or- ganized a sleigh village-to-village type of transportation in this district. Danish Traffic Suspended. In Scandinavia the Danish State Railway announced suspension of all traffic over the great belt because of the ice. The route to Germany by way of Gedser and Warnemunde was also halt~ ed when the ferry became ice bound outside of Gedser. Denzig reported 110 vessels frozen fast in the ice. Southern Scandinavia had tremendous snowfalls. From Venice came news that a ser- geant was killed and two soldiers seri- ously wounded when a special train ran through their group as they walked a railroad track between Trieste and Pos- tumia. A heavy snowstorm prevented their seeing its approach. In Berlin a municipal gas tank ex- ploded and injured five pedestrians, smashing windows and crumbling walls. Experts believed the blast to have fol- lowed bursting of underground pipes by frost. . |ALEXANDRIA BLAST INJURES FOUR MEN Portion of Building Is Thrown Into Street by Force of Explosion. Special Dispatch to The Star. . h's torage & Hai Co., 111-117 South. Pitt street, this afternoon injured one man, -hurled threé” others into the Street and threw out a portion.of the front of the building. The injured is W. D. Bray, 22 years old, of the Hotel Humphreys, who was severely burned about the face, while Lawrence Downey, 18; Leo Downey, 2: William Finnell, 21, and A. W. Meades, 27, sustained minor cuts and bruises when thrown into the street by the force of the explosion. T. F. Rohr, 24 years old, of 614 South Lee street, driver of a gasoline truck which was filling a tank under the first floor of the building when the explosion occurred, was thrown beneath the truck, but was uninjured According to Fire Chief James Duncan, jr., the explosion probebly wi caused by some one in the building lighting a match, igniting the ac- cumulated line fumes. Three com- panles of the Alexandria Fire Depart- ment responded when the alarm was turned in, but they did not go into action. Bray, when questioned at the Alex- andria Hospital, where he was treated for his burns, said that he heard the explosion and then saw a huge flame leap across the office in which he was standing. Falling brick knocked him unconscious. People standing on King street, nearly a block away, were shaken by the concussion, they say. LINDBERGH SILENT ON WEDDING PLANS WHILE VISITING HERE (Continued From First Page.) Western division at Clovis and Los An~ geles. From New York to Columbus, transcontinental passengers will be car- ried by the Pennsylvania Railroad and from Weynoka to Clovis by the Santa Fe Railroad. No mail or freight is to be handled for the present, though an extension of the line from Los Angeles to San Prancisco is being considered, the colonel sald. When told of the anxiety felt here Saturday when he falled to come through the bad flying weather between Charleston, 8. C, and this city, Lind- bergh said: “That was not necessary. There need have been no cause for worry. I have flown some 5,000 miles in the past month and it is only natural that some bad weather should be encountered in that distance.” He explained that he landed on the desolate Hatteras Beach only after he had flown along the fog and storm belt far inland and then out to sea to make sure that there was no clearing through which he might continue on his way. Hatteras Inlet was the farthest north he was able to come, he explained, and o he landed there at the Coast Guard |station in perfect safety and waited for the fog to lift. He repeated that there need be no cause for worry at any time if he should disappear during ‘any flight he :nay make and apparently be lost “even for three or four days.” The Private Life v Senator Reed read to the Senate a statement which he said had been is- sued by the United Committee for Law Enforcement in which was reported to | be given “the truth about Washington.” This statement charged that the Capi- <al is seething with lawlessness and liquor is being sold in hundreds of places. ‘The Missouri Senator read from a newspaper clipping to show that the 1l- | legal liquor business in Detroit gives | employment to 50,000 persons, includ- | ing the smugglers, bootleggers and so forth, and that the value of its annual output is $215,000,000, second only in value to the nuwn}ntl:)lle [i)r:)dust.ryh md:re' The testimony of Dr. Doran, head of the nmhibltr:(‘mnzmorccmem unit, before Left to right: William H. Collins, assistant United States attorney, and a congressional committee, was discussed | W. W. Bride, oration counsel for the District, as they left the office of Rep- by Senator Reed. He quoted Dr. Doran - resentative Blanton this ing, where they conferred with Mr. Blaniton on 35 saving that the pi daw ould the Burlingame case, ‘. T ~E « —Star Phota '/. 1913, the loss is an allowable de- duction in an amount not, to ex ceed the excess of the value of the property at the time it was 80 appropriated or at March 1, 1913, whichever is greater (with roper adjustment for deprecia- ion). over the amount realized from the sale. A person claiming @ deduction for a loss incurrec. in the sale of residential property should attach to his return a statement showing how the de- ?ucunn was computed, including facts as to the use of the prop- erty, supported by evidence (rec- ords if possible), and the date the property was appropriated to in. com-pmdnunxl&urpuu and! its valué on the it was so ap- propriated, of the Prince of Wales This intimate biography ruler will be published in 15 chapters, beginning in The Sunday Star 0‘ February 24 Chicago Commissioner of Police William Russell (at right, standing), in conference with captains an ity missioners, whom he summoned to his office and outlined drastic orders to clean and dry p Chicage, The lu:l‘u came on heels of massacre of seven members of the Bugs Moran gang Thursday. ~P. & A. Photo.