Evening Star Newspaper, June 20, 1929, Page 4

1 & REPORT ON LIQUOR- BATTLE 1S ASKED Stimson Wants Full Particu lars of Rum Boat’s Attack on Customs Men. but Now Resort This is the fourth and last of & series of storics describing the serious- ness of the warfare between the law enforcement battalions and the rum Cunners at _Detroit, the border city (Continued From First Page.) Missouri, asked the commission | also investigate “official misconduct of prohibition enforcement officers and re- | port the number of men, women and ! children wounded or killed on land or sea in enforcing prohibition.” This drew Senator Trammell, Florida, and Caraway, Arkansas, into the heate debate with denunciations of the “propa- ganda” which they said was being | spread in an effort o discredit law en- | forcement offi s. Over in the House, Representative | Clancy, Republican, Michigan. proposed repeal of the eightéenth amendment by | constitutional amendment, in a joint | resolution presented today in ~ the | House. At the same time he m(rodur(-d‘ three other measures designed to mods | ify prohibition laws and enforcement One proposal would amend the Vol- stead law to legalize the manufacture, sale and transportation of beverages as much as per cent alcohol Another secks to prevont “wire-tap- | ping” by making it a felony when em- ployed by Federal officials, and by ‘making evidence obtained in this man- ner inadmissible in court as_evidence. The third measure would call for the suspension of any Federal prohibition | officer “when the preponderance of te timony adduced from witnesses” shows | he is guilty of killing or wounding an | innocent person. The bill would make | the suspension effective until he had | roven his innocence, and would make #m employ his own counsel At prohibition headquarters, Com- missioner Doran announced that the | indictment of 140 persons and firms in | New York for conspiracy to violate the | dry law was the “Tesult of the biggest effort the Prohibition Bureau has yet made to prevent the sale of fake! whisky.” He gave notice of intentions | 1o carry on the campaign until a 15 put to the sale of “sucker whisl Firearms Banned in Atlanta. As the discussion over the shootings | by dry officers continued unabated, Police Chief J. L. Beavers of Atlanta, issued orders to his men that they must stop using firearms against persons even though known to be carrying contra- band liquor. “Your pistol is to be used in defense of your life or that of another citizen,” his order said, “and is not to be dis- charged at people whom you suspect or even know to be carrying whisky." As the rum war broke out on the | boat coming from Canada, the runners | Canadian beer is at a premium, an " the Government has selected as a testing ground. | Special Dispatch to The Star. DETROIT, June 20 (N. A.'N. A).— Proof both of the ir asing effective- | ness of the Federal blockade of the | Detroit-Canadian border against rum | runners and the desperate character of ! men engaged in the illicit liquor traffic | was given here yesterday, when runners | took the aggressive and opened fire on | a customs border patrol speed boat. As the customs men speeded out of a hiding place on the river front on the east side of Detroit to intercept the rum opened fire and turned back toward Canada. When they passed into Cana- dian waters and thus were free from pursuit they fired a second time. The two inspectors in the customs boat were not hit, but the bow of their ship was smashed, the windshield broken and some of the machinery wrecked by the rum runners’ bullets. In the past the river rum runners, as | distinguished from the gunmen who | guarded the liquor cargoes when once | Janded, have not been armed, but have | Tesorted to the superior speed of their boat coming from Canada, to Tun the blockade Every trade has its tricks, and the| rum runners have theirs, They stand | ready to uncork every tried and true| one developed through years of skir-| mishing with United States dry agents | and to spring some new ones to meet | the toughest situation thev have ever encountered. Bullets are their last des- perate refuge. Mobilization Shows Results. The mobilization of the cream of the Government's dry enforcement agents at Detroit is already having results little is coming over the Detroit River. No big loads of distilled liquors are be- ing run, either. The rum runners are lying low, mapping out their campaign to meet the new disturbing threat. Eighty-seven per cent of the liquor exported from Canada to the United States has been coming through the Detroit district, Seymour Lowman, As- sistant Secretary of the Treasury, as- serts. But with the new drive on to blockade the border against rum smug- gling loads have shrunk enormously. Only sneak loads are being run now, Pederal officers here say. Canoes, ToW- | boats and small outboard motor boats are being employed instead of the fleets of 6 to 10 speed boats that used to Detroit River with Federal and smug- glers’ craft engaging in a lively, but harmless exchange of gun fire, Police Chief James D. Proctor of Sandwich, ‘Ontario, announced that he had called to the attention of the secretary of ex- ternal affairs at Ottawa “that some in- nocent person may be hurt or killed if it (the firing) continues.” He was referring, however, not to the newest outbreak, but to a recent shooting in which he said an American Government patrol boat opened fire with a machine gun on a suspected Tum craft. DETROIT GANG IS SOUGHT. Several Shots Strike Customs Patrol Boat—Crew Uninjured. WINDSOR, ©Ontario, June 20 (#.— United States customs officials today 'were seekiriif's gang of rum runners from East Side Detroit, whom they accuse of attacking cpstoms patrol boat No. 4101 off the downtown waterfront of Detroft yesterday morning. Several shots struck the prow of the patrol boat, but none of its crew was hit. A running fight ensued as the cus- toms men returned the fire and started in pursuit. The rum rupners, keeping up their fire, escaped into Canadian waters, when the patrol boat abandoned the chase at the international line. “Most Dangerous on River.” ‘The rum boat was described as a mahogany-colored craft with a wide white stripe above the waterline, “This particular boat is the most dangerous on the river,” Walter 8. Petty, acting collector of customs at Detroit, . “Once we have captured it a lot of our troubles will be over. We have enough men and our boats are fast enough to do that.” (Assistant Secretary Lowman, at ‘Washington, said the firing on the patrol boat indicated the desperate class of men with whom the Customs Service had to deal. He said that the Treasury cannot send unarmed men against such criminals and does not in- tend to disarm customs agents.) Reports that Ontario provincial po- lice had been ordered to search all rum boats for firearms were denied by Dis- triet Inspector Arthur Moss, who said he had issued no such order and did not intend to do so. PORT STANLEY ERIE BASE. Used by Ligquor Runners Following | Detroit Campaign. LONDON, Ontario, June 20 (Cana- dian Press).—Port Stanley has evident- 1y become the base for liquor running on Lake Erie, following the intense drive of the Detroit border patrol against runners in the border cities sector. Op- erating from their new l.eadquarters a score of speedy rum boats, capable of 60 miles an hour, could be seen moving about the harbor yesterday, awalting the opening dash to Cleveland, immedi- ately across the lake. KILLING WITH RIFLE DENIED. Ogdensburg Collector Says Border Pa- | trolman Carried Revolver. | PLATTSBURG. N. Y. June 20 (7). —A statement by John C. Tulloch, col- Jector of the port of Ogdensburg, to- day denied that Border Patrolman Wel- don J. Cheatham killed Arthur Gordon, 22 years old, rum runner, with a rifle. The officer carried a service revolver, said Tulloch, in a new version of the shooting near the Canadian border last Saturday. ‘The first report of the collector stated | that Cheatham's ‘“rifie” discharged when he stumbled while chasing Gor- | don, who had left his beer-laden auto | and started on the run to recross the border. Tulloch’s second statement said the customs office had taken care not to ! place revolvers in the hands of any men until they have been in the serv- ice for three to six months. “Border patrolmen in this district have not used rifles in six years.” It appeared likely today that the dis- trict attorney’s office would transfer its investigation to the coroner of Clinton County. It was pointed out that the Plattsburg city judge has not the &)wer to arrest and punish for con- 'mpt of court Cheatham and his fellow officer, F. L. Coveney, who have not ap- peared at the county attorney’s investi- gation here. Ii was sald that if the coroner were in charge there would be no_question of his power to arrest and punish the officers for failure to ap- pear. Court Beports Cited. County autharities took exception to i teal | protest to the collector at that time | cross boldly from the liquor export docks in Canada to Detroit, Ecorse and ‘Wyandotte. The customs border patrol recently seized & rowboat to the bottom of which three cases of whisky had been wired. Other loads, somewhat larger but by no means beginning to measure up with loads run before the present drive, have been submerged in the shallows off va- rious reedy islands down river, of which Grassy Island, which is all that its name implies, is an example. At night the runners have gone to the marshes in black-painted canoes and rowboats or in small outboard motor boats, called skip-jacks, and have brought the liquor ashore in small parcels of a case or two. Officers Using Skip-Jacks. The skip-jacks can enter marshes that speed boats are unable to pene- trate. Now the customs border patrol are using 12 of the skip-jacks them- selves, confiscated from the rum run- ners, and are probing the marshes for Tiquor caches. ® Prices of liquor to the retailers are already ascending, and consumers will soon feel the increase themselves, liquor operators here say. The present drive is bringing a golden harvest to a com- bine of down-river operators who stored away a large supply of whisky and gins in anticipation of a shortage of good Canadian liquor, but Detroit, if it wants to drink it, must pay for it. And is the rum capital of Amer- Other cities will have to pay higher prices also. No such reserve supply of beer was laid up, beer having been peddled by the rum runners as soon as they got it safely ashore heré. As a result Detroit is drinking “alley beer,” made in un- derground and camouflaged breweries in this city. But Federal agents have been so active in finding these that a beer shortage, even of the alley variety, is reported. Federal officials state that they have come upon carloads of beer shipped here from Philadelphia, Chicago and Milwaukee. The beer, however, proved to be near-beer when tested. It was to receive its alcoholic kick when in the hands of the retailers. Clean-Up Alley Brewerics. In the last year Federal agents have broken up scores of alley breweries in | this city, the breweries and blind pigs dependent on them suffering a loss of $4,000,000, including equipment, auto- moblles, liquor and beer. Fines totaling $800,000 have been paid into the Federal Court in that period. Since July, 400 permanent and 500 temporary padlocks have been placed on premites in this district. Much of the alley beer made here has been converted by the simple pro- cess of fraudulent labels (turned out by the hundred throusands here) into | “Canadian beer.” 8o, too, much of the moonshine turned out by Detroit dis- | tilleries has been put in bottles with | counterfeit lables and sent to other cities in the country as the “real stufl.” Federal officials literally have bales of evidence of this. When bribery failed or was accounted too expensive, rum| runners have resorted to ingenious de- vices to get real Canadian liquor into the United States through the Detroit territory. One method, which meant either great profits or huge losses for the rum runners, depending on its success or failure, was shipping Hquor In freight cars, brought under the river.through the railroad tunnel or over it on rail- road ferries. Millions_ of dollars worth of liquor has been shipped in cars as hay, wheat, | a bullet from the officer's gun had broken his wind shield. The shot was fired, it was said, dur- ing a chase through a Plattsburgh street January 7 of this year while Coveney was trying to overtake a car he suspected of carrying liquor. Mayor John H. McGaulley sent a| and in answer Tulloch told the eity officials he had ordered his border pa- trolmen not to shoot in thickly popu- lated districts. WHITE IS BOUND OVER. Agent Accused in Death of Virkkula Waives Hearing. INTERNATIONAL FALLS, Minn, June 20 (#).—Emmet J. White, the bor- der customs agent charged with killing Henry Virkkula June 8, waived prelimi- nary examination vesterday on a charge of second-degree murder and was bound over to the District Court to await ac- tion by the grand jury. This action, County Attorney David Hurlburt explained, would obviate White's appearance for preliminary ex- amination set for July 2. No plans were a recent statement by Collector Tul- loch that Patrolman Coveney had never been involved in a shooting before. They cited court reports here that showed Coveney had paid for damage (1o an automobile owned by Herbert Dougstte of this city, who charged.that made for a special grand jury to con- sider the case, the county attorneys said. l‘hzwnext regular session will be held in THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, RUM RUNNERS TURN TO BULIifiTS AS U. S. TIGHTENS BATTLE LINES [Liquor Rings Have Relied Upon Speedier | Boats to Beat Detroit Blockade in Past, to Gun in Fray. chinaware, machinery. roofing, washing powder—almost anything. Not infre- quently railroad employes were bribed. Shipped as Baled Hay. ! Por example. a carload of baled hay would be shipped from Buffalo to De- {troit via Canada, the shortest route Pefore the car left American territory |it was inspected and sealed by customs | authorities Somewhere in Canada the car would | be switched to a sidetrack, the hay re- moved, and beer or whisky substituted. Then fraudulent seals would be placed on the car, cleverly counterfeiting the originals. ‘The car would rumble into Detroit as “hay.” It would not be sus- pected by customs officials and would be spotted on a siding of the consignee, masquerading as & hay and feed mer- chant Sometimes carloads of whisky were consigned to “Mexico.” but reached their real destination here. One car discovered by the agents contained $200,000 worth of wines and whisky. It was billed as “gears.” Other cars, billed as “beans” or the like, got to Chicago, Loutsville, Indian- arolis, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh. An investigation at Buffalo revealed that as many as 50 cars of liquor daily entered the United States. About 2,000 freight cars pass through Canada in | transit from one United States city to | another datly. Unload in One Minute. ‘The other method of smuggling liquor has been by boat and automobile. Swift speed boais have darted across the river in less than three minutes and have | unloaded liquor cargoes in less than another minute, armed men keeping any innocent citizens in the vicinity at | bay until the liquor was safely en route | to its storage place. over the ferries. - These cars had no springs or cushioning, but contained hollow compartments, false tops and fake gasoline tanks, where dozens of bottles could be concealed. Small quantities of a bottle to a dozen bottles have been brought over the ferries on the person, concealed un- derneath clothing. but this is a negligi- ble source of supply. It may become ! important in the future if other routes are kept closed by the dry army mobil- ized here. It only costs a nickel to cross the river on the ferry. In chasing speed boats over the river Government patrolmen have recently | been impeded by other speed boats crossing their path or throwing up heavy waves, making hot pursuit diffi- cult. If these other boats were chased they were found to be empty. They were convoys. ‘The rum runners have spies all along the border, and by judicious bribery were able in the past to slip across the river at certain points unmolested. Flash Signals Across River. Signals flashed from down-river is- lands or the main land would notify the “pullers” on the Canadian shore when to begin their dash for the docks or boathouses on the American side. Indictment of 20 customs border patrol- men for accepting bribes and of three others for perjury, plus transfers of men, has broken up such easy routes, for the present at least. On shore the rum runners had other devices. One was the use of chemicals, which, when introduced by a valve into the exhaust pipes of. liquor-carrying au- tomobiles, threw out a heavy smoke screen, under cover-of which they es- caped pursuit. Officers speeding after such cars have plunged wildly into s ditch when running suddeniy into dense clouds of smoke, which blinded them. Use of moving vans 1o take cargoes of beer, whisky and wine, concealed un- der furniture, to Cleveland and points East, and to Chicago and points West, has been frequent. Even hearses have been used to transport liquor. Laundry wagons and trucks disguised as United States mail cars are also utilized. ‘The alley breweries and distilleries also show similar ingenuity. One alco- hol distilling plant found in a three- story building here this Spring was dis- guised as a garage. Although sur- rounded by the raiders, six men work-| ing on the night shift of the distillery escaped by crawling through a tunnel under an alley with an outlet in an-| other garage. Made 1,500 Gallons Weekly. The plant was one of the most elab- | orate ever found in Michigan, and had | been in operation night and day for a year and a half, distilling alcohol from molasses. Its capaity was 1,500 gallons a week. ‘Much of the alcohol ultimately found ‘its way labeled as “Canadian whisky” to consumers throughout the country. But the Federal enforcement officers also have tricks to play. Coming here from citles as distant as Seattle, they One method sometimes used is to find a man willing to introduce them as his iends. The man already having en- tree, the officers have no trouble. Ralds follow. From the arrested proprietors and bartenders information concerning the source of their liquor supply is ob- tained, which is the important point, and the wholesale liquor depots, the distilleries and breweries begin to yleld before the axes of the agents. Neither side heretofore has lacked in resourcefulness, but the Government forces have been undermanned and un- derequipped in the past. Now Wash- ington is throwing an army of men here, together with a large part of its dry navy. The winner of the battle to be fought here will be largely determined by who has the best bag of tricks. (Copyright, 1929, by North Ameri e N e TROTSKY IS REPORTED SEEKING U. S. ENTRY Exiled Russian Desires to Resume Publication of Paper He Con- ducted in 1914. By the Associated Press. CONSTANTINOPLE, June 20 (Jew- ish Telegraph Agency).—Leon Trotsky, | exiled Soviet leader, intends to appl: i0 the United States Government for permission to enter the country, ac- cording to reports current here yes- terday. It was stated that before making formal application to the State Depart- ment, Trotsky intends to get in touch with the American Federation of Labor to obtain its consent. He desires, it was declared, to resume publication of the Russian Journal, Novy Mir, which he published in New York in 1914. In the meantime it was reported here that the Turkish authorities have waived the original time limit on Trotsky's stay in the country and will permit him to settle here permanently, FOODS IN D. C. INCREASE. Survey Reveals Jumps in Prices in 48 Out of 51 Citi By the Associated Press. Reports made public today by the | Department of Labor revealed that 19 staple food products increased in price in the month from April 15 to May 15 and that 10 articles decreased. Over the same period there was an increase in the average food costs in 48 October. So far as he knew, Hurlburt said, nothing definite'has been done to trans- fer White's cu‘p Federal courts. of the 51 cities from which figures were received and a decrease in 3. ‘Washington showed an increase of 2 . per cemh | and Another plan was to run automobiles | P’ are able to gain entrance to blind pigs. | U. . DIVORGE PERIL Missouri Synod Cries for Halt in Growing “Social Breakdown.” By the Associated Press. RIVER FOREST. I, Companionate marriage, increase in di- vorce, decrease in marriage and birth control have been condemned at the triennial conv Lutheran Missouri Synod. It was pointed out that at the pres- ent rate of increase divorces in the United States would end one-fourth of all marriages by 1950 and by 1990 the rate would be one-half. “The Lutheran Church calls for & halt in the social breakdown in which marriage has become a matter of mere convenience to be discarded at will and for a series of excuses not in the Bible,” declared Rev. Paul Lindemann, St. Paul, editor of the Lutheran American. | The growing economic independence of women was ascribed by Rev. Martin | Walker of Buffalo as the outstanding external factor in the decreased mar- riage rate and the increased divorce rate. “The chief factor is the loss of re- ligion,” he said In remedying conditions, Rev. Mr. Walker recommended greater uniform- ity in marriage and divorce laws and more strictness in issuing marriage licenses. Birth Control Attacked. Pointing out that increasing divorce rate usually was accompanied by a de- creasing birth rate, synod officials pro- tested the “unscriptural but rampantly popular methods of birth control and point to broken lives, shattered homes, blasted hopes and the score of physical piritual complications which fol- low in the wake of such unnatural | practices “The Lutheran Church has no sym- for the fashionable and popular mode of coddling criminals or of as- cribing criminal acts or tendencles to diseased adenoids and tonsils. Organized efforts to abolish the death penalty are in particular condemned by the Lutheran Church, the officials an- nounced. “The Lutheran Church con- | demns the movements which would restrict the force of the law and facilitate the evasion of its penalties,” the officials said. Pleads for Energy. In his message formally opening the convention, Dr. F. Pfotenhauer, Chi- cago, president, called on the Lutheran | Church to continue aggressive church work &s energetically as in_ the past three years. Stressing that the fathers of the church prized purity of teaching as their greatest treasure, he urged the church to stand firm at all costs in the cause of true biblical confession. A general revolt of sectarian’ college students, such as recently swept Des Moines _University, was predicted by Dr. W. T. Daul, president of Valparaiso University, “unless the fundamentalists give ground to the modernists.” In & division of faith in which fun- damentalists are pitted against mod- ernists, the former are more likely to vield as they are in the rinority, he said, but In case they do not a_ break in the church ranks is forescen by Dr. ul. Following the president’s announce- ment that education is the keynote of the convention, it was learned that a $2,000,000 budget is being sought by educational institutions of the synod. A resolution asking the Federal | Radio Commission to Increase the power of KFUO, Lutheran broadcast- ing station at St. Louls, from 500 watts to 1,000 watts was passed. LEADER URGES PEACE | IN STRIKE WARFARE Ware Shoals Union President Ad-| monishes Followers to Avoid Violence. By the Associated Press. WARE SHOALS, S. C. June 20.— While State troops and speclal deputies continued thelr guard duty at the Ware Shoals mill, strikers today had the ad- monition of their union leaders to re- frain from violence and use persuasive means to attain their ends. The mill opened with & partial force of operatives yesterday after being closed for more than two weeks, follow- ing a walkout of workers in protest against the discharge of two employes National Guardsmen were sent to the mill by Gov. John G. Richards upon request of three sheriffs, who said | threats have been made against employ- es who announced their intention to re- turn to work. R. E. Campbell, one of the employes whose _discharge precipitated the strike, was elected president of the local. In a formal statement yesterday he said | strikebreakers would enter the mill to- day only “over my dead body,” but after his election retracted the state- ment and asked for peaceful conduct of the strike. Mill officials said all but about 300 of the 1,700 employes, working in day and night shifts, reported at their places when the mill opened. PRESIDENT PLANS REST AT RAPIDAN RETREAT Will Go Over List of Names Sug- gested for Farm Board With Secretary Hyde. President Hoover is going to his fish- | ing spot on the headwaters of the Rapidan River in the Blue Ridge Moun- tains of Virginia to spend this week end. He hopes to leave Washington some time tomorrow and probably will not return before Monday morning, but | this will depend entirely on the duties of his office. The President will be accompanied by Secretary of Agriculture Hyde, Lieut. Comdr. Joel T. Boone, White House physician, and Lawrence Richey, one of his secretaries, and several secret | service men. Mrs. Hoover has an engagement that will compel her to ILUTHERANS ASSAIL | June 20.— | ion of the Evangelical | | infuriate remain in Washington Saturday, but she is hoping te join the party early | Sunday morning. | It is the President's intention to mix | a little business with his play. He will take with him the list of the sev- | eral hundred persons who have been suggested for appointment to the Fed- | eral Farm Board and, with Secretary Hyde, the President will go over thesc | names in the cool of his mountain | camp. | JAILED FOR ASSAULT. By a Staff Correspondent of The St HYATTSVILLE, Md,, June 20.—Con- victed of assault and battery on his wife, Naomi. James Kimble, colored, was yesterday sentenced to two years in jail by Prince George County Police Court Judge J. Chew Sheriff. Harry Lucas, also colored, was given fines totaling $111 on charges of driv- ing while drunk, reckless driving and operating without a license. According to Deputy Sheriff Harry Robinson, who made the arrest, Lucas collided with a machine operated by Walter Earl Mas- .nicup on Riggs road Sunday night, DANCERS APPEARING IN “SHERWOOD” JUXNE 20, 1928 Anna Schuliz, Dvothy l'lrsns and Martha Fisher 1hndlnn nd Preble Walters (kneeling) . DRAMA GUILD TO GIVE ROBIN HOOD FANTASY Cast of 100 Will Present “Sher-| wood" in Sylvan Theater | at 6 Tonight. { “Sherwood.” dramatization of the | story of Robin Hood and his band, by | Alfred Noyes, with a cast of more than | 100 Washingtonians, will be prescnled‘ tonight at 8:20 o'clock at the Sylvan Theater, on the Monument grounds, by the Community Drama Guild. In the event of rain at 6 o'clock or later this | evening, the presentation will be de- ferred until Saturday evening at the same time and place. The drama has been arranged for production here by J. Milnor Dorey, | with music by Edward A. Mucller. The music will be played by the United States Marine Band Orchestra. The final rehearsals for the drama | were held last night. In the cast are the McKinley Dancers, who will appear ! both as Titania’s fairies and as the “ladies and gentles” of the court of Richard the Lion-hearted; singers of the Epiphany Church Choir and mem- bers of other choirs in the city. The Iatter singers will appear as the nuns of Kirklee. This part of the cast is under the direction of Adolf Torovsky. Tonight's presentation at the Sylvan Theater will be the first spectacular open-air drama to be presented at the theater since 1917, when the stage first was built and_opened for community productions. The theater was built by the Government. It has a large seat ing capacity on the grassy slopes of the Monument grounds. Tickets for chairs near the stage will | be 50 cents and $1, but there is no charge for general admission. INQUIRY OF VESTRIS”® | DISASTER GOES ON Agent Says Ship Drew 26 Feet 8! Inches on Sailing Day. By the Associated Press. LONDON, June 20.—The question of the draft of the steamship Vestris agair: cropped up today in continuation of the board of trade inquiry into the sinking of the vessel last November. Continuing his evidence, Marine Su- perintendent Harry Wheeler of Sander- son & Son, agents for the ship, said that at the time of the sailing the draft was given at 26 feet 9% incher, but that it was possible water had beer pumped out later, E. A. Didby, counsel for the ship's officers, examining Wheeler, said: ‘I am making no criticism of the American inquiry, but is it true that| the result of the inquiry was to put the whole blame for the loss of the Vestris and the loss of life on the shoulders of the ship's officers?” asked Digby. “I don't think that is a fair question to ask me,” responded Wheeler, who | said that he did not remember who eise was found to blame. GIRL KILLED DODGING CHILD ON HIGHWAY | Miss Martha Reyburn, Daughter of New York Merchant, Vie- tim of Crash in Austria. By the Associated Press. INNSBRUCK, Austria, June 20.—Miss Martha Reyburn, 21, of New York, daughter of Samuel W. Reyburn, presi- dent of the Assoclated Dry Goods Co. of that city, was Kkilled here yesterday when her automobile crashed into a tree after she had swerved it to avoid a 7T-year-old girl who raced heedlessly across a street. Miss Reyburn's sister and her aunt, Mrs. Frances Reyburn van Etten of Lit- | tle Rock, Ark., were both painfully hurt in the crash. Miss Carolyn Montague | Lewis of Philadelphia escaped unburt. The child who caused the accident re- ceived only minor injuries. Mr. Reyburn 1s a director of the Fed- eral Reserve Bank of New York and of the New York dry goods firm of Lord & Taylor. e That a red rag waved at a bull will | the animal is refuted by | scientists. Animals below the intel- ligence of monkeys cannot distinguish colors and when the bull shows anger it is the waving of the rag and not its color that peeves him Roofing Quality at Low Prices 3—Branches—3 MAIN OFFICE-6™ & C.Sts. S W. CAMP MEIGS-5" & Fla Ave.N.E. ,'RI_OHTWOW:.;“I,&”.NM {of LONDONERS SETTLE BETS. Large Sums Change Hands as Re- sult of General Election. LONDON, June 20 (®).—Ib is esti- mated that between $500,000 and $750,- 000 changed hands today in settlement the “differences” arising out of dealings in the stock exchange “ma- jorities” tions. Some payments ran into tens of thousands of dollars. Because of the wide variations be- tween the prices at which dealings took place and the final standing of the parties, especially in the case of the Liberals, some heavy differences had to be met. | first time under on the recent general elec-| SEAATECONFIRNS 71N OPEN SESSDY Three Nominations by Presi- dent Not Acted Upon, Time Lacking. With the Senate operating for the its new rule for open | executive sessions, the public sat in yes- terday afternoon and watched the proc- | ess by which the upper branch of Con- | gress_confirms postmasters and other | presidential appointees. | The new rule provides for open ses- sions en nominations and treaties, ex- | cept when a majority decides a closed session should be held. None of the appointments considered yesterday re- quired a record vole, action being ob- | tained by unanimous consent. Among the nominations confirmed | were those of Arch Coleman of Minne- | apolis and John W. Philp of Dallas, | Tex.,, to be, Trespective First and | Fourth Assistant Postmasters General; | Lieut. Col. Jarvis J. Bain to be a mem- | ber of the Mississippi River Commis- | sion, and Ferry K. Heath of Grand| tary of the Treasury. | Others_approved were Ben F. Cam- eron as United States attorney for the southern district of Mississippi, Emil S. Helburn as collector of internal rev- | enue at Louisville, Ky, and Warren N. Cuddy as United States attorney for the third Alaska division. Only three nominations of President | Hoover were not confirmed and will | therefore lapse. They were those of Albert L. Watson to be an additionai | Federal judge of the middle Pennsyi- vania district, James N. Tittemore to be United States marshail for the East- ern Wisconsin district, and Julius H. Hart to be Unitde States attorney for the second Alaska division | Under the rules, all nominations not acted upon are returned to the Presi- dent after the Senate recesses. There was some speculation at the Capitol whether Mr. Hoover, under the regula- tions, would be permitted to give recess | appointments to Watson, Tittemore and Hart, should he desire to do so. The nomination of Watson could not be acted upon because the subcom- mittee appointed to investigate him failed to complete its work. 19290, 5. REVENUE HITS §3.790,141.997 income Tax Collections Show $190,140,331 Gain Over 1928 Period. By the Associated Press. A materfal increase in income tax collections has hboosted the Govern- ment’s total revenue for the current fiscal year to $3,790,141,997, as of June 18, giving a present surplus of $101,- 795,855 The Treasury's daily statement today reported that income tax collections for June 18 amounted to $239,602,300, one of the largest single day's collections ever made. It raised the total for the month to $359,971,240, or $130,534,951 more than collected in the same period of last June. For the fiscal year since June 30 in- | Rapids, Mich., to be Assistant Secre- come tax payments have totaled $2,135,- 420,544, or $190,140,331 more than col- lected in the same period last year. The amount is only $46,000,000 less than the total for the entire fiscal year of 1928. The total collections for the current fiscal year, which ends June 30, exceeded those for the same period Iast year by $38,715,826. Treasury experts said that upon the basis of present returns, all indica- tions pointed to the Treasury having the $100,000,000 surpms June 30, e- cently predicted. French Honor Petain. PARIS, June 28 (#).—Marshal Henru Philippe Petain, commander-in-chief of the French armies in 1917, was elect- ed today to the French Academy by unanimous vote. His election among “the immortals” fills_the gap in_military representation in the academy’caused by the death of Marshal Foch. Th It was only a pas Two More Days of Big Shirt Event t Ends Saturday Night ing circumstance w selling of such shirts at such a price possible. hich makes the This maker preferred to dispose of his reserve stock rather than move it into his new factory, a day s journey away—permitting us to give vou this extraordinary opportunity. $1.55—3 for .50 These shirts are of the fine quality for which this maker is well known and includes plain and fancy broadcloths and madras. 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