Evening Star Newspaper, April 5, 1929, Page 1

WEATHER. (U 8. Weather possibly showers w tonight Bureau Forecast.) and tomorrow, tomorrow; slightly armer. tures: 80, at 1:45 vt R, 1, 1,12 day. Full report on “Glasing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 No. 31,020. 35 omee, Wa Entered as second ¢l shing! poe — FEDERALS TRAPPED BY REBEL FORCES TRAVELERS REPORT Almazan Caught Near Esca- lon, Train Passen- gers Say. WEST COAST CAMPAIGN FAVORABLE TO LOYALS Insurgent Losses in Battle at La Reforma Put at 1,000 Dead by Government. By the Assoclated Press. Now far into the state of Chihuahua, Federal cavalry ranged rapidly north today in pursuit of the remmants of the once strong rebel army reported virtually destroyed in fighting at Jimen- ez and La Reforma. Official government figures on rebel Josses placed the number of dead at 1,000, the wounded at 500 and the cap- tured at 2,000, Rebel headquarters at Juarez, how- ever, stated that it had received no ad- vices of the “extermination” reported by the government. Naco Situation Tense. On the other hand, messages coming from rebel commanders and travelers from Diaz, north of Jimenez, stated -hat Gen. Almazan, the Federal advance commander, had been trapped between Escalon and Jimenez by strong rebel forces. J The campaign on the West Coast also was reported developing favorably for the government. The rebels were stated to have evacyated Cullacan and o be retreating farther northward. The situation at Naco on the border was still tense, neither the rebels nor the Federals engaging in any but aerial warfare. In this the Federals suffered heavily by the loss of the one plane sta- tioned there. Religious Insurgents to Be Fought. A force of 800 Federal sympathizers was reported forming in Northern Chi- huahua for the purpose of attacking the rebel garrison at Jaurez and bringing that border city back into the govern- ment fold. Diverting additional troops to Jalisco and Guanajuato, the government con- tinued its preparations to stamp out the so-called religious insurgents in those states. Gov. Phillips of Arizona has prepar- ed a protest which will be sent to Washington against the alleged move- ment of Mexican Federal troops through Arizona, ESCOBAE TO CONTINUE REVOLT. Insurgent Commander- Attvibufes - Loss of Jimenez to Ammunition Shortage. JUAREZ, Chihuahua, April 5 (#).— Evacuation by insurgents of their base at Jimenez after a four-day assault by Federal troops was attributed to short- age of ammunition by rebel Gen. Jose Gonzalo Escobar, in a message to the Associated Press today. The insurgent commander-in-chief, | who was in Chihuahua City today for a conference with his aides to consider the next plan of battle to be followed By the revolutionists, declared the re- bellion would continue. “Our men have at present one more reason to fight with all courage our nbhorred enemy—the necessity of aveng- | ing the blood shed in the battles of | the last few days by the most abom- inable tyrant Mexico ever had,” de- clared Gen. Escobar. Savagery Laid to Federals. The rebel chieftain’s message to the Associated Press, a 1,000-word tele- gram, which he described as a “truth- ful account of the happenings,” charged the government troops with savagery which he said “was carried to the ex- treme of shelling the ambulances where our wounded were given treatment.” “Many rebel soldiers perished in that manner,” he said. Passengers on a train from the south and messages from rebel generals in the field last night said that Gen. Juan Andreu Almazan, the federal Jeader, whose troops captured Jimenez, had been trapped between insurgent forces under Gen. Marcelo Caraveo in Escalon_and the yebel army in Jimenez, Some 5,000 cavalrymen under Caraveo, whose movements had not been re- ported here for several days, were said 10 have flanked the federal army and captured Escalon, cutting the federals off from their base. Cavalry Left as Rear Guard. Caraveo, with his cavalry, was left as a rear guard when Escobar withdrew from Jimenez. Caraveo is reported to have engaged in a skirmish with the federals in Diaz, a few miles north of Jimenez, and then to have made a wide circle to the west of the federal army, into Escalon. He stormed Escalon and ook the town yesterday, the report said. (Continued on Page 2, Column RIS N A R KELLOGG, IN PARIS, BETTER AFTER COLD| Former Secretary of State Says ' Wite, Who Accompanied Him From U. 8., Protected Health, By the Associated Press. PARIS, April 5.—Former Secretary of State Frank B, Kellogg, arrived here this morning from ~Le Havre, where he disembarked from the Isle de France, feeling “fit again,” after a slight cold. He gaye the credit for his improved condition to Mrs. Kellogg, who . “She made me keep to | “BREST, France, April 5.—The Prench i [Melting of Snow Discloses Body Of Missing Boy Remains of Child, Lost “in Storm, Is Found ‘Near Ranch. By the Associated Press. GORDON, Neb., April 5—~The snow that cost him his life has melted away, revealing to searchers the body of 6- year-old Melvin Reeves. The boy, hunt- ing a lost mitten, was caught in a sud- den and terrific blizzard three weeks ago and perished in a struggle to reach a place of shelter. The body was found last night by George Davis, an employe at the ranch of Nathan Hiller. It lay in a cow path | about 200 yards from the Hiller' ranch house, indicating the boy had been try- ing to reach the home of Mrs. Hiller, who was his aunt. The Hiller place is four miles from the Reeves ranch. __Hundreds of persons, including 200 indlans from the Pine Ridge Reserva- tion, joined in many da; search for the boy. W e FRENCH SHIP SALS WITH HERRICK BOpY Cruiser, Bearing Ambas- sador’s Remains, Dué in U. S. April 13, By the Associated Press. cruiser Tourville sailed at 11:30 am. for New York, with the body of Myron T. Herrick, American Ambassador to | France, aboard. It will arrive in New York April 13. The trip across France from Paris | was made without incident. The body of the Ambassador occupied a special car with two officers of the Paris Post of the American Legion in full uniform | standing guard. 2 Flowers From Little Girl. Mat Rennes, the little daughter of the station master, awoke Consul Gen. Gaulin at 2:20 am. to hand him a large bouquet of wild flowers of Brit- tany with the words, “pour la recon- naissance de mon pays a son grand ami d’Amerigue”—expressing “the grat- itude of my country to a great Ameri- can friend.” In the brief interval between its ar- rival here aboard a Special train from Paris at 7:30 am. and the transter to the Tourville in Brest Rodds another impresive ceremony took place, as im- posing in a small way as that at Paris yesterday. Ships and harbor defenses gave the ambassadorial. salute of, 19 as the body was removed from the ¥ and placed in the private reception room of the railway station while Prench infantry stood at present arms and. a marine band played “The Star Spangled Banner” and “Aux Champs.” * Eulogy Delivered. Rear Admiral Pirot, commander of the naval base at Brest, delivered a brief eulogy, to which Brig. Gén. Wil- liam Harts, American military attache at Paris, responded. Others around the bier were Louis Pontana, prefect of the Brest region; Harold Collins, American consular officer in charge; Gen. Durand and Rear Admiral Herr. The Colonial Infantry Battalion Band played “La Mort Dase” as the cortege started toward the harbor, a platoon of mounted Republican Guards leading the procession. When the cortege reached the Avenue Presidente Wilson it halted while a naval band again played “The Star Spangled Banner” with muffled drums and muted instruments, A group of French veterans in civilian clothes at the Place Presidente Wilson saluted as the body passed them. Colors Played Again. Once again “The Star Spangled Ban- ner” and “Aux Champs” were heard at the pier as the body was taken aboard the gunboat Dolmen, its flag at half mast and with streamers of crepe from both mastheads, for transfer to the Tourville. As the Dolmen steamed slowly out of the Brest port three seaplanes in triangular formation hovered between it and the Tourville, dropping wild flowers of Brittany and a_small Ameri- can flag on the deck. The huge destroyer Lynx and the torpedo boats Touareg and Hova, with their flags at half mast, followed the Dolmen. Their crews stood at their rails, while bugles sounded “Attention.” The Dolmen stood alongside the Tourville for a few minutes in impres- sive silence as the coffin, draped with the Stars and Stripes, was lifted by a <mall crane from one deck to the other to the - accompaniment of “Chopin’s Pun;r:l March” by the Tourville's Band. CUBAN OUTLAW KILLED. Slain by Rural Police When Found Stealing Live Stock. HAVANA, April 5 (#).—A mchlrdlgi that Mateo Machado, & ll:‘w.mtuhot:nfluuedbymrupom t nf 3 He is sald to have refused fo sur- rander to guards who had j him in the act of stealing live stock at Tecajo, an American-owned farm. T IT——— out- | Felief trains arrived. WARNS BROKERS T0 EFFECT LOAN CURB Continuation of Credit Ad- justment Co-operation by Member Banks Is Asked. ACTION THREATENED BY BOARD GOVERNORS Assurance Held for Trade of Con- tinuous Money Supply at Fair Rates. By the Associated Press. Continuation of the credit adjustment co-operation of Federal Reserve banks and member banks which has been at- tended by curtailment of brokers’' loans in recent weeks was called for by the Federal Reserve ‘Board in a statement published today reiterating its warning of February 7. ) “In case the desired readjustment is not brought about by voluntary co-oper- ation, the Federal Reserve system may adopt other methods of influencing the situation,” the statement said. The board’s statement of February 7, it recalled, “pointed out that, owing to the unusual absorption of credit in the securlty market, money rates to busi- ness were increasing at a time of the year when money conditions are usually easy.” “In this statement,” it explained, “the board endeavored to enlist the co-oper- ation of the Federal Reserve banks and member banks, in order to bring ‘about an orderly readjustment in the credit situation. Progress in this readjust- ment in recent weeks is indicated by the decline in Dbrokers’ loans of member banks. “Continued developments in this di- rection, indicating a definite reversal of recent trends, would release an increas- ing amount of credit for the use of trade and would lead to an easing in ga dmoney situation,” the statement led. Credit Readjustment Sought. The objective of its policy, the board declared, “is a readjustment in the credit situation with a view to assuring trade and industry of a continuous sup- ply of bank credit at reasonable rates. “While the system recognizes ""(Continued on Page 3, Column 2 NATHAN LEOPOLD, SR., i EDERAL RESERVE | 69, DIES IN CHICAGO|, Father of Bobby Franks' Slayer, Bowed Under Grief, Fails to Rally From Operation. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, April 5—Nathan F. Leopold, sr., last of three fathers bow- ed under the tragedy of the Bobby F;nnkx kidnaping, is dead at the age of 69. A. H. Loeb, father of Richard Loeb, died October 27, 1924. Jacob Franks, father of the slain Bobby, died April 19, 1928. All three men were prominent in Chicago life up to the time that Bobby Franks was kidnaped and killed by “Dickie” Loeb and Nathan F. lf&\;old, Jr. All lived in seclusion there- after. Nathan F. Leopold, sr., who died last night, had been ill for some time. Re- cently he underwent a major opera- tion from which he did not rally. He was born at Eagle River, Mich., and came to Chicago when 7. From 1876 until his retirement fol- lowing the trial of his son, Leopold was engaged in the Lake transportation business, His first wife died in 1921. He is survived by three sons, Foreman, Samuel and Nathan, jr. Leopold, whose second wife was Mrs. K. Hahn of Los Angeles, return- ed last month from Califronia where r‘;‘ ::d Mrs. Leopold had spent the inter. 20 DEAD, 59 INJURED IN RUMANIAN WRECK Bodies Remain in Snow All Night When Express Is Derailed Near Buzer. By the Assoclated Press. BUCHAREST, Rumanig, April 5.— Twenty persons were killed and 59 injured when the Bucharest-Jassy express train was derailed late last-night near Buzev. Most of the bodies re- mained in the snow all night until Relief work was made difficult by a blizzard . Sugh injured as could be removed were taken to a hospital at Most of {HE vietims were business men and soldiers. Judge Sellers Scores Neis;;péper Racks In Placing Aceused Boy on Probation eudh)uvqlk'mfih,l::ht“ Tola colored fore an added temptation to youthtul its. Grover E."Payne of the n:lfl:ullmnI department of The Star, testifying ‘t‘l’n‘:hmm/hqhmnlemu UNDAY MORNING EDITI0 D..'C, v \THIS MAT APRIL Now 1P WE - ~ ORLD COURTP)” THEY!D TAKE ity A ZRRIGHTOUT OF/ A KIDNAPED LABOR LEADER 10 RETURN Prepared to Identify 12 Elizabethton Abductors, Hoffman Says. ASHEVILLE, N. C, April 5 (#).— Albert L. Hoffman, textile labor rep- resentative, who alleges that he was kidnaped and forced to leave Eliza- bethton, Tenn, said today before leaving for the Tennessee town that he was prepared to identify at least 12 of his abductors. Hoffman will be under escort. ELIZABETHTON, Tenn., April 5 (#). —Organized labor watched Elizabethton today as a result of a flare-up over re- cent labor troubles which drew from President Green of the American Fed- eration of Labor an emphatic protest of what he termed an “outrage” against bor officials. / “He referred to the alleged d@hduction J ve. - of “Ami “of r, and Alfred L. Hoffman, textile n organizer, who claimed they were taken from their hotel by a party of about 20 men early yesterday and “run out of town.” The incident resulted in the arrest of six Elizabethton citizens. Formal Statement Issued. In a formal statement issued at Wash- ington, Mr. Green called.on Gov. Hor- tor “to bring the criminals to justice” and to afford the labor officials protec- tlon while in Elizabethton. He further declared that “if necessary” he would pay Elizabethton a personal visit “as a challenge to this Jawlessness.” An undercurrent of feeling that fol- Jowed a recent strike affecting local rayon mills was beliéved responsible for yesterday's demonstration. « McGrady and Hoffman reported last night they were unharmed after being taken from their rooms, placed in au- tomobiles and ordered to leave the vi- cinity, McGrady was in Bristol, Tenn., and Hoffman was in Asheville, N. C. J. B. Penix, local labor_organizer, re- (Continued on Page 4, Column FLOOD IN DETROIT MAROONS HUNDREDS East Side of City Is Inundated. Parked Autos Are Swept Away. By the Assoclated Press, DETROIT, April 5—Hundreds of families early today were marooned in their homes by flood waters from Con- nors Creek, on Detroit's east side, caused by heavy rain. Water to a depth of 5 feet swept over streets and many familles were forced to the sec- ond floor of their homes. Police re- celved reports that members of one family had been overcome by gas, but were unable to reach the house to at- tempt a rescue, An area of about a mile square was flooded. biles - parks on Why Wait Many Hour for Aftefndbp SRy Big Cat Smothers Sleeping Infant To Death in Cradle By the Associated Press. ALLIANCE, Neb.,, April 5 (®). —A large maltese cat smothered to death a 5-months-old baby on the farm of Charles Mracek, 20 miles north of here yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. Mracek had put the baby to sleep. They re-en- tered the room to see the cat leap out of the cradle and found the baby dead. PROBE OF NOMAD MYSTERY 15 SEEN U. S. Agent Denies ‘Schoon- er’s Rich Owner and Crew Were Drunk. By the Assoclated Press. PHILADELPHIA, April 5.—The aux- fliary schooner Nomad Iay at ‘rest in the Philadelphia harbor today, her skipper lost in a watery grave and her millipnaire owner and crew of two rest- ing from 11 days' battle with angry seas. The 125-foot pleasure craft was towed into port by Coast Guard patrol boat 107 from a point 18 miles off Cape May, where it had been sighted aim- lessly drifting without & helmsman by Ensign W. E. Anderson, Coast Guard aviator. Aboard the craft today was Customs Officer Luther Sterner, who told of the Nomad's terrifying log as it had been related to him by the owner, Leland H. Ross of New York City. Ross and the crew, Richard J. French, steward, and Henry G. Bush, sailor, rested in their bunks below decks. Motors Fail, Sails Put to Work. The Nomad, Sterner said, put out from Charleston 11 days ago, flying the pennant of the New York Yacht Club. Ross, as if acting on premoni- tion, placed his wife ashore just before they left. Within a few hours the motors failed, and when efforts to re- pair them failed sail was set. ‘The Nomad plowed through gradual- ly mounting seas under full sail until a sudden squall tore away part of the mainsail. Capt. John L. Schofiek climbed aloft to make repairs when a rolling sea wrenched him from the mast and washed him overboard. - He was never seen again. ! Day after day Ross and his crew worked to keep the craft headed into the sea. Water flooded the stores and sub- merged the engines. Liquor Cache Reported. +A distress signal was flown. On the eleventh day, with all on board prostrated by exhaustion, the Nomad was sighted by the aviator and a patrol boa dispatched to assist her. Sterner denied that Ross and his crew were drunk or that the craft was without a helmsman when picked up. He declined to comment upon the statement that 40 bottles of liquor were found in the ship's cabin. It was re- ported that Federal authorities would make a thorough investigation of the (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) - Cold Wave in North Italy. " ROME, April 5 (#).—Winter has re- furned to northern a8 ot "o 5, 1929 —FIFTY-FOUR PAGES. MITCHELL, GAPPER IN RADID FORUM Attorney General and Kansas Senator to Speak to Nation. Attorney General Willism D. Mitchell and Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas will address the American people to- morrow -njght over the national radio forum arranged by The Star and broad- cast over the country-wide network of the Columbia broadcasting system. The Attorney General, i is under- stood, will discuss matters relating to the Department of Justice, while Sena- tor Capper will take as his subject “Law Enforcement.” Mitchell’s First Address. “This will be the first public address by Attorney General Mitchell since he entered the Hoover cabinet. Although in office as head of the De- partment of\Justice for only a few |qicpe weeks, Mr. has a background of much experience from which to speahnprhtmbeln‘emhdmuul cabinet he was Solicitor General of the United States. ‘The senior Senator from Kansas, Mr. Capper, is not only familiar with the business of drafting laws, but also with enforcing them. -As Governor of Kan- sas 'he served two terms before he was elected to the Senate, and had a wide experience as an executive. He is thor- oughly in symputhmlf.h the demand of President Hoover t there be a gen- eral stiffening in the enforcement of all | “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star's carrier system covers’ edie every city block and the reg tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 108,978 ) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. 5. 0.P. PATRONAGE CHARGES PUT INTO PROBERS' RECORDS Statements of Contributions to Campaign Funds in South Given by Brookhart. TEXAS POLITICAL WAR WITHIN PARTY BARED Split Between Creager Faction and Waurzbach Described in Evi- dence Submitted. By the Associated Press. Letters, telegrams and afdavits “to show that large sums of mpney were contributed in recent years to Republi- can campaign funds by posimasters and other Federal officcholders in Mississippi, Arkansas, Alabama and Tennessee were put into the record of the Senate patronage committee today by Chairman Brookhart. Affidavits collected by the Post Office Department at the request of the com- mittee disclosed that more than $12,000 was contributed by 110 postmasters of Mississippl, one of them giving $2,125. Some of the money, the afidavits said, went to E. P. Booze, husband of the colored Republican national committee- woman for that State. A total of 154 postmasters sald they had never con- tributed. _ Texas Letters Go in Record. Texas letters put into the record al the request of R.B. Creager, Republica national committeeman for that State, were laudatory of the methods used by his organization. A committee check- up of records furnished by Leonard Withington, secretary of the Texas Re- publican State organization, disclosed, however, that a large number of them were from Federal officeholders, most of them postmasters, who had been regular contributors to Creager’s cam- paign fund. A former postmaster in Arkansas said in an affidavit that he had paid $378 to his Republican committeeman in order to obtain his job: a Tennessee postmaster declared, also in an affidavit, that he had given $200 and two hogs for his appointment, and an Alabama physician, in a letter, asserted he be- lieved “appointments were and are being given to the highest bidder here in Tuscaloosa and oiher parts of ihe State.” First Hearing Sinée Hoover Spoke. Today's hearing was the first called by the committee since President Hoo- as appointments pending reorganization, and expressed the hope that recommendations for ap- pointments in other Southern States would be made with the aid of an ad- visory council. In nearly all instances, the Missis- sippi contributions were described as voluntary, but in some cases the affi davits carried the inference that al successful candidates for postmaster- ship appointments were expected to donate to the campaign funds. R. K. Haxton, postmaster at Green- | ville, Miss., who said he gave $2,125, de- clared he subscribed $500 of it in the form of an investment in an insurance (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) THREE ARE MISSING |LONDON PAPERS PLAY IN SHIP COLLISION -Destroyer Childs and Schooner Crash Off Hampton Roads, Navy Learns. The destroyer U. 8. S, Childs and the schooner A. Ernest Mills, out of Boston, collided 50 miles southeast of Hampton Roads, Va., about 9 o'clock last night, the Navy Department was d | advised today in dispatches. The schooner’s master, Capt. A. C. Chaney of East Kingham, N. H., and two men, George Barnes of Portsmouth, Va., and Paul Ferguson of Norfolk, Va., are re- ported missing. The destroyer, with | U. 8. 8. Cogl hland and Bruce, scouting fleet destroyers, are searching for the men., \ Six :fm mcmm crew were taken aboar e e department was informed. The d 's bow was dam- aged, the department said. and she will be towed to Hampton Roads by the Ccghland. None of the naval vessel's crew was injured, it was sald. The schooner, en route from the Ba- hami Islands to Norfolk, had to be abandoned as the craft was reported awash. The destroyers were en route from Hampton Roads to join the scout- ing fleet In Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. PO MEXICO FREES 27 NUNS. Warned Against Leading Convent Life—Priest Is Held. the Al Snow fell in Venice, l:ber: u‘eAppenlna tempera- Ya Spotts Results? All -Wuhingwx',_nmplpor readers now have to'do is obtain the “Sports Fi " ‘edition of The Evening - Star and the full chronicle of the day’s events in the sporting world is’ there/ Base ball, racing, golf and other' activities afford an interesting array. Make it a | point to gt the ., ~ ‘SPORTS FINAL EDITION OF U. S. POLAR CLAIMS | British Foreign Office Denies Con- troversy on Sovereignty Over Antaretic. By the Assoclated Pross. 2 LONDON, April 5.—Reports pub- lished in the United Ssates that the American Government was preparing a diplomatic note - contesting British claims to sovereignty in the Antarctic based on the explorations of Comdr. Richard E. Byrd were published prom- inently in the Evening Star and Eve- | Jt ning News today. “Who owns the South Pole?" and “U. S. challenge to Britain in Antarctic” were streamer headlines clear across the front pages of the two papers. The Star does not think that the latest reported flurry in Anglo-Ameri- can relations needs serious treatment. It prints a picture of the frozen Ant- arctic wastes captioned: “What's all the argument about?” ‘The British foreign office said that it had not yet received any American note and that there was no controversy going on with the United States au- thorities over the Antarctic. At the foreign office it also was sald that no note had been sent by the British gov- ernment to Washington protesting any claims by Comdr. Byrd regarding sov- ereignty over the territory he has been exploring. only explanation that has been suggested for the reported American note was that it might be based on a British note sent to Washington when it became known that the Byrd ex- pedition was setting forth. In this communication Great Britain offered -to lend any assistance in British territory and referred to a resolution of the Imperial Conference in 1926 re- garding Britain's claims in the Ant- arctic, quirrel Runs Amuck, Biting 7 People: “Police Ask_ed to End Animal’s Career her at her, biting hands. Harry Franke, cld, wuhm:nwmbnb% Hg. Rose Vogel, her son Carson wrence Flournoy were attacked on the Captain James Walsh, told I,!,fm, el biting of Health and the Acting. to Police £ PERSONS SLAIN INTE-MONTH PERIOD OF DRY ACTIVITIES 16 Are Killed by Agents—9 Officers Die in Arrest At- tempts. {LOWMAN SAYS VIOLENT CASES SHOW DECREASE Attributes Better Condition to Rule Prohibiting Promiscuous Use of Firearms. By the Associated Press. Assistant Secretary Lowman reported | today that 16 persons had been killed by { prohibition agents and Coast Guards- jmen in enforeing the prohibition law during the last 15 months. In the same period, seven prohibition agents and two mounted customs in- | spectors were killed by persons they sought to arrest, In making public details of each case in which a citizen was killed by a Gov- | ernment officer, Lowman said that the number of violent arrests was growing materially less and he attributed the decrease to observance of the rule pro- | mulgated more than a year ago prohib- { iting the promiscuous use o1 firearms by | prohibition agents. Following those in- structions, he said, prohibition agents never resorted to the use of weapons ex- cept to protect their lives. Of the total number killed during the | period 11 persons met death in resisting arrest by prohibition officers, who lost only four less of their own number. Coast Guardsmen killed five persons in i the 15 months, but no persons were killed by custems officers during the | year. The customs inspectors slain were killed by smugglers near El Paso, Tex., in 1928. | ,In every case where an agent killed a | citizen in attempting to make an arrest | where the officer was not absolved of | blame by a coroner’s or grand jury, he | . Several cases, however, still are pending. { Synopses Prepared. Mr. Lowman prepared for Under- secretary Mills a list of the killings and a synopsis of each case, as follows: | By prohibition agents: Prudman, colored, near Julius, Ark., January 9, 1928, when he resisted t with a shotgun during a raid on |2 Coroner’s™ jury exomerated 1 agents, - | . Douglas Sthith, colored. Louisville, Hfi;" Jan\i‘ury Qi?ldmlzuas gmned fire on icers who raided his home. Officers :actfi\il:ud s:t trial. i e Soytick, May 10, 1928, near | Cumberland, Wyo., killed in duel with | agent after Soytick had killed one of the officers who raided still on his ranch. Coroner’s inquest exonerated officer. Albert Edmunds. July 14, 1928, Phenix City, Ala., resisted in raid on saloon. Officer struck - him with re- volver, which fired, cuiting Edmunds’ jugular vein. Charges against agent | pending in Federal Court. Jose Villegas, July 14, 1928, near Santa Maria, Calif,, when he attempted to shoot officer to whom he had soid ikeg of whisky. Coroner's jury found agent acted in self-defense and in per- formance of duty. Bernard Cottrell, July 20, 1928, in rvaid o:x:tl:x in u‘f":"lh‘ County, W. a. nt acquitted of m|3rder. . cqt charges of iess Hughes, August 2, 1928, in raid on still in Saline County, Mo. Hughes, ex-convict, attempted to shoot agent who rushed still and was killed by an- other officer. Coroner's jury found slaying justifiable. Jim Ratliff, August 15, 1928, Wash- ington County, Tenn., in raid on still. No record on disposition of case. Ben Bailey, Negro, August 31, 1928, Florence County, S. C. when he re- ;slsced arrest on warrant by prohibition | officers after he had assaulted State | officers and fled. John Hysler, September 26, 1928, in revolver fight with officers who stopped lquuur-lnden automobile near Jackson- | ville, Fla. Agent exonerated by grand jury. Joseph O. McGuire, February 3, 1928, at Laramie, Wyo., in raid on house where he was resisting arrest on charge cf murder. Coroner’s jury returned ver- dict agent was' acting in performance of his duties and protecting his own life. Killed by Coast Guard. By Coast Guardsmen: Jacob Hansen, shot May 6, near Lewiston, N. Y., died August 24. “Re- { fused to submit to search and tried to el well, “bootlegger,” shot and killed June, 16, 1928, on motor boat off Bogue Inlet station when he refused to heave to while running cargo of lquor. < Leslie Adams, fatally wounded last October 6 on motor boet. Refused to heave to while jettisoning cargo of liquor off San Pedro, Calif. Carl Anderson, master of American motor boat Bug, on last November 29 shot and killed when he refused to heave to. Papers in pocket indicated h{e :‘lmed a Canadian port with cargo of ale. Leon Meingui, March 22, 1929, sea- man aboard Canadian sci e I'm Alone, sunk in Gulf of Mexico. 190 Killed in Nine Years. Statisties show that since the inaugu- ration of the prohibition law a total of 135 persons have been killed by prohi- bition agents. During the nine years 55 prohibition agents have met death’in line of duty. ‘The deaths by years were: 1520, 8, cllg- its 6, citizens 5; 1921, its luen‘: s 4" cifizens 11-?.';:: ounts A 3 B 4, its 2, citizens 22; 1925, agents 5, citizens 20; 1926, mt citizens -17; 1927, agents 5, 16; 1928, agents 7, auml 10; 1929, agents none, citi- zens 1. Bank Statements Washington clearing house, $5, 398.62. 3 balance, $419,611,574.98. l..' York clearing house exchange, York clearing house balance, u"’fin 5 y