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-WEATHER. (U. 5. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Cloudy, followed by morrow; slightly warmer tonight. ‘Temperatures—Highest, 60, at 4 p.m. yes- terday: lowest, 35, at 5: Full report on page ClosingN.Y.Markets, Pages 22,23 & 24 rain tonight or to- 30 a.m. 14. today. @h £ No. ' 31,266. SrecTomes. Entered as second class matte Washington, r D. C. WITH SUNPAY MORNING EDITION Foening Star, service. The only evening in Washington witl Associated Press R"the Yesterday’s Circulation, 112,885 WASHINGTON, s 1. ., BATURDAY, DECEMBER (55 1929 —-THIRTY PAGES. b () Means Associated Pri TWO CENTS.. ——eee————— | CRUISER FOR HAITl REQUESTED AFTER MARINES KILL FIVE DISPERSING MOB Hoover Asks Congress to Send Commission Immedi-, ately to Formulate Newi Policy Toward Republic. MCRE TROOPS RUSHED | TO COPE WITH SITUATION Small Band of U. S. Forces Uses| Guns to Scatter 1,500 Men Arm- | ed With Machetes and Clubs| After Parleying Peaceably for| Hour—20 Are Wounded. S i News that blood had been shed in a clash between United States Marines and Haitian bands at Aux Cayes and an urgent request h‘om1 Brig. Gen. John H. Russell, Amer- jcan high commissioner on the island, that a cruiser be rushed immediately to Port au Prince reached Washington today just as President Hoover delivered a spe- cial message to Congress on the Haitian situation. Five Haitians were killed and 20 wounded yes- | terday by a small Marine patrol as a mob of 1,500 crudely armed men attempted to invade Aux Cayes. Meanwhile 500 Marines were at Norfolk in preparation for departure to Haiti this afternoon. President Hoover urged Congress to appoint without delay & commission to g0 to that country to review and study the difficulties in an endeavor to ar- rive at some morfh:ennm policy than | is at present possible. ThepPruidem requested Congress to appropriate for this purpose $50,000. He mentioned that it is his intention to include one or two members from each house of Congress on this com- mission. News of the clash at Aux Cayes reached Washington while the Presi- dent’s message was being read to Con- gress on the situation that has prompted the dispatch of more Ameri- can troops to the island republic. At the same time,"Secretary Stimson announced officially that 500 Marines had been dispatched to the island last night. !nm-e are at present 700 Marines in the island. Describing the situation which grew out of a strike of students October 31, as “distressing.” Stimson said he would deal with the problem, which he added was a difficult one, with frankness and full publicity of the information re- ceived by the State Department from Brig. Gen. John H. Russell, the Amer- ican high commissioner. In the message the President also advised ess that, in compliance with the request made by the high com- missioner at Haiti, additional Marines have been ordered dispatched to strengthen the force already in Haiti. Gen. Russell requested that the crui- ser Galveston be ordered immediately from the Guantanamo naval base to| Port au Prince, in Haiti. In a dispatch to Secretary Stimson, the commissioner said that the oppo- sition press and agitators had “in- flamed” the country and that since the situation is not clearing as rapidly as had been hoped, he suggested the send- ing of reinforcements. Russell added that it was rumored that the people are in revolt around the city of Jacmel, where papers show- ed that many automatic pistols had come into thgggountry from Guatemala. The telephOhe line from Gobedere to Jacmel and the line from Gonaives to Grosmorne have been cut. The cruiser Galveston will be dis- patched to Jacmel upon its arrival from Guantanamo. A report of the incident at Aux Cayes. in which five Haitians were killed and 20 wounded, was received today fram Gen. Russell. The report said that the Marines had been forced to fire into the mob at the city after exercising great zelf control and after firing into the| air several times. He disclosed that he has arranged for the evacuation of American women and children from the port today by steamer. Details Are Given. Details of the clash at Aux Cayes w given the State Department in a dispatch from the American high com- missioner to the island, who said the Marines first had tried to dispell the mob by firing into the air. His_dispatch follows: “Information was received at garde (constabulary) commander at Caves that a mob was moving on the city. Garde guarded tne city, while Marines were at the garde barracks at the entrance to the town. “Marines were sent by the patrol with the Garde commander out to meet the advancing mob about 200 yards from the barracks. Leaders of the mob, totaling about 1.500. demanded to enter the city to assist strikers. “They were told strikers were back at work, but as they would not believe Capt. Roy C. Swink. the leaders were allowed to pass through the line, enter the town and confer with strike leaders “They returned later and demanded the release of three prisoners; other- wise threatening to advance on the town. ‘Their request being refused they advanced down the road toward the patrol and through the cane fields on each side of the road. “The patrol of 20 Marines fired over their heads and the mob halted, but ~(Continued on Page 8, Column 5. U. S. S. TULSA ON SCENE. Gunboat Ready to Protect Foreign- ers in Chinese Rebellion. SHANGHAI, December 7 (#).—The gunboat U. S. S. Tulsa arrived here today from Tientsin, en route to Nan- king. across the Yangt.e River from Pukow, where Nationalist government soldiery are reported in rebeilion. The U. 8. 8. Luzon was en route to- day from Hankow, up the Yangtse River, to Ichang, Hunan province. The U. S. 8. Guam was stationed at Han- | JOSEPH R. RUSSIAN ATTITUDE CAUSES DOUBT OF ENFORGING PEACE League, Kellogg Pact and Treaties Seen Ineffective in Case of Emergencies. SHANGHAI, December 7 (#).— The Chinese commissioner of de- fense declared martial law tonight in the Chinese portions of Shanghai. The Shanghai-Nanking Railway placed special armed guards along the line as far as Wusth, 75 miles from Shanghai. Special guards also were stationed along the Shanghai- Hangchow Railway. BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1925. PARIS, December 7.—Soviet Russia’s carefully premeditated armed invasion of Manchuria and its almost insolent answer to the notes from the United States, France, Great Britain and Italy reminding it of the Kellogg pact, are causing political thinkers throughout Europe seriously to reconsider the effi- cacy of the world's present organization for the preservation of peace. ‘This organization consists of the cov- enant of the League of Nations and the Kellogg pact, with subsidiary treaties like the Locarno agreements, the four- power Pacific treaty, the World Court protocol and various arbitration agree- ments. Why have these solemn under- takings thus far proved so inefficacious? Will they not prove to be equally ineffi- cacious in future international disputes? Would not the peoples of the world be unwise to decrease their armaments un- til these points are somewhat clarified? These quotations are now being wide- ly asked. The situation is admittedly complicated. ~Whether the Nanking government can really pretend to rep- resent all China is still doubtful. The Soviet government, on the other hand, is a willful outlaw from the comity of nations and while it signed the Kellogg pact it is not a member of the League of Nations and considers itself the nat- ural adversary of a'l “capitalistic” gov- ernments, except those like Germany. with which it has a temporary inter- est to be friendly. Taken by Americans. The dispute concerns a railroad which is of great interest to Russia. It lies e y in Chinese territory. This road was built by the Czarist gov- ernment with French capital and was nationalized by the bolshevists in 1917. It was then retaken by American troops and run by American engineers, follow- ing_which it was returned to China, " (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) SOVIETREPLY TO U. S. NOTE REACHES PARIS Translation and Coding for Trans- mission Delays Answer of Maxim Litvinoff. By the Associated Press. PARIS, December 7.—Only today did the reply of Maxim Litvinoff, speak- ing for Soviet Russia, to the American note on the Sino-Russian Manchurian conflict, reach the embassy at Paris for transmission to the State Department at Washington. It appeared the delay was caused by the fact the French embassy at Mos- cow was obliged to translate from the Russian into French and then put into code for transmission to Paris. At Paris the foreign office decoded the message and handed it over to the American embassy at 9:40 a.m., the embassy pro- ceeding to translate it into English and code it for transmission to Washington. It was learned the French govern- ment on behalf of Washington trans- mitted the American communication 10 Afghanistan urging as in the case of all other signatories of the Kellogg pact that that country support the American initiaive in China and Russia. GOVERNOR DELAYS NAMING SENATOR FORPEANSHLVANIA Fisher Says Appointment Will Not Be Made Be- fore Monday. ISTATE’S CHIEF EXECUTIVE | SCORES BARRING OF VARE Grundy Seen as Leading Candi- date for Post Vacated This Week. | By the Associated Press. HARRISBURG, Pa., December 7.— Gov. John S. Fisher announced defi- nitely today that he would not make an appointment for the seat in the Senate denied William S. Vare before Monday. . ‘While he has been in communication | with various leaders of the Republican | party in the State, the governor said he had no conferences listed on the sen- | torial appointment for the week end. | The official notice of the vacancy has rot been received at the executive offices and the governor said under no circumstances would he appoint a Sen- ator until the notification came to him. Vice President Curtis was directed by the Senate yesterday to forward official word of the Senate’s action to Mr. Fisher, Plans Deliberation. Asked about the statement he made at Reading last night that the appoint- ment was & “matter of hours,” the gov- ernor said, “I am going to act with de- liberation and upof advice. It is my hope that whatever I may do will meet with the approval of the State.” The governor's last remark was in- terpreted in official circles as meaning that he intended to pick a man for the post who could run for the remainder of the unexpired Vare term and would be elected. Speculation on the identity of the man to be named by Gov. Pisher took a wide range today. No less than & dozen possibilities were advanced in political circles, with Jo- seph P. Grundy of Bristol, president of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers’ Asso- ciation, heading the list. Polftical ob- servers believed that Grundy would be offered the appointment, but there was considerable doubt as to his acceptance because of the unfriendly feeling mani: fest against him by independent Repul licans and Democrats in the Senate d m'}he investigation of his lobbying ac- vities. Opinions to Be Obtained. ‘The governor criticized the Senate for refusing to seat Mr. Vare, saying: “The Senate’s arbitrary rejection of Vare sets a precedent that is dangerous, and should give every thoughtful Amer- ican occasion to pause and think.” Gov. Fisher characterized reports that he intended to appoint Mr. Vare as ‘absolutely untrue.” Many believed that Mr. Vare would not accept the appoint- ment were it to be tendered, but that he would be a candidate for renomi- nation to the post at the primary elec- tion in May. Addresses Convention. Addressing a_State National Guard convention Reading last night the governor said: “I have been shown a statement made by & Senator better known for his voice than for his statesmanship. “Well, all T say to that Senator, who intends to oppose anything the gov- ernor of Pennsylvania does, is that he reminds me a good deal of small ants talking to & lot of jumbo elephants. I don't want to belittle the States that have small population and representa- tion out of proportion to their numbers and interest in Government, but I want to say that I would fail in my duty as governor of this State of Pennsylvania if T allowed a threat from any source, by any United States Senators or who- ever may be outside of Pennsylvania to dictate the action of Pennsylvania in selection of a United States Senator. “And one of the things I might say that seems to give them concern is a man by the name of Grundy. There seems to be some fear of some man bearing the name of Grundy. If I read the emanations from a few United | States Senators correctly there are a great many Grundys in the United States Senate of the female persuasion and all I have to say to the sisters from Arkansas and Nebraska is that I regret in the language of England's foremost living poet, ‘The female of ;rrllr‘ species is more deadly than the ale.” CUSTOMS CHARGES FACED BY R. STANLEY DOLLAR By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 7.—R. Stanley Dollar, vice president of the Dollar Steamship Co., directed to appear before customs officials today to answer charges of failing to declare goods valued at $3,700 purchased abroad. Mr. Dollar landed from the Leviathan yesterday with Mrs. Dollar and their two children after a trip around the world. Although an “immediate attention” order had been issued by the Treasury Department instructing a customs in- spector within two minutes after de- barking to examine their 29 pleces of baggage, the Dollars were held on the pier three hours, BLIZZARD HELPS $2,000 WISCONSI By the Associated Press. SUPERIOR, Wis, December 7.—A blizzard got principal credit today for prompt solution of the $2,000 robbery of the Wisconsin State Bank, at South Su- rior. peThr" men, held in jail as the robbers, could blame the blinding snow, plus & fesble knowledge of highways, for their predicament. Police who had the men dumped fairly at their front door, sald two of them had confessed and all the kow. Both the Luzon and Guam are river gunboats. They will be held in readiness to protect forelgners should guch & need arise. stolen money had been recovered. ‘Those held were Edward Kosnic, Joliet, TIl.; Jack Burton, Chicago, and George Henning, chlcn" ° POLICE SOLVE N BANK ROBBERY 1 Three men entered the bank yester- | day, scooped up money from the cages, | at the point of pistols, and fled through the storm. About six miles south of here. not knowing where they were, they turned East. A police car which had followed them took a different route, turning West. The pursuer met the pursued. The pursued drove into town, circled several blocks and then drove out again only to return. In the center of the business section the police did some quick maneuvering. The bandit car was forced into a light pole. With .Ouc{"t':p;?d p&:e lbl‘lfl‘li:‘l' -:r: wrecked. o e bandits, han air, and surrendered. ol g ACEALD IYSTERY S SOLVEDBY B Discovery of New Mountain Range Explains Formation of Ice Barrier. BY RUSSELL OWEN. By Radio to The Star and the New York Timen, LITTLE AMERICA, Antarctica, De- cember 6.—One of Antarctica’s greatest mysteries has been solved. Comdr. Byrd flew back to camp last night, having discovered a vast new mountain range running to the north and south, east of King Edward Land. It was mapped with thé aerial camera for at least 150 miles. It is this land which holds in the great ice sheet at the eastern edge of the Ross Sea, ice which explorers have attempted to penetrate since it was first found by Sir James Clark Ross, the English explorer, in 1840. It extends far to the north and ap- parently turns eastward within the range of visibility from the plane, so that it is probable that this great unknown coast has actually been delineated to its northern boundary. That can Le determined after the pictures are de- veloped. May Be Rim of an Archipelago. The importance of the flight geo- graphically can hardly be overem- phasized, as this mountain range, with a high plateau behind it, seems to compare with the similar range on the western side of the Ross Sea and may be the eastern side of the great Barrier in which the Rockefeller Mountains and King Edward Land are part of an archipelago. “It is much more than I ever ex- pected to find,” said Comdr. Byrd, who was delighted today with the success of the flight. “I supposed there was land there if we could only reach it, but this magnificent range was un- expected.” It lies well within Marie Byrd Land, on the other side of the meridian dividing the Ross Dependency from the land discovered last year and runs out of sight toward the south. Where the mountains go and what lies between their southern end and the country to_the west is still to be learned. But in themselves they provide much material for speculation and have added many miles of coastline to the great unknown sector of the continent between here and Graham Land. Ice Barricade Baffled Predecessors. | The existing charts show that from King Edward Land, hitherto the limt of discovery to the eastward, the ice in the Ross Sea runs in a great curve to _the north and west. Ross, the daring pioneer who first | forced 'his way through the pack into the sea which bears his name, and wno found the great Ice Barrier, bumped into that barricade and turned back Capt. Robert F. Scott and Sir Ernest | Shackleton tried to make their way along the coast in ships and were baf- | fled by the ice islands and drift ice which closed in about them and forced them to turn back. ‘Whalers have hovered along the edge of that great ice shelf for years and | wondered what held it there. Comdr. Byrd himself tried to get up there in | his flagship, the bark City of New York, | three times last year and was turned back by fog and storm and new-form- ing ice. Twice he has tried to fly there | and was headed off by clouds and snow. That part of the Antarctic has been one of its most tantalizing mysteries. Even its northern boundary was only ~“(Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) HUGE LOG JAM IS FOUND 200 FEET UNDERGROUND Engineers nggm Tl‘—reeu Changed Course of Skokomish River, Nearby, to Present Canyon. By the Associated Press. Fugitives, Losing Way in Storm, Return to Town and! Tacoma, wash. December 7--Dis- | Are Captured. covery 200 feet underground of what appears to have been & log jam of the sort film dramatists delight to depict was announced yesterday by engineers directing boring of a big tunnel for the Lake Cushman power project. Many of the logs, including fir, were sald to be as sound as when uprooted, no one knows, how many years ago, its way through a nearby canyon. The have forced the river to change its course after its waters had dumped earth on top of the jammed logs, and that the changed channel in the course of years cut into the present canyon. Radio Programs—Page 30 f | | Big Auto Is Caught By Cowboy’s Lariat Meant for Bovine Bs the Associated Press. LONGVIEW, Wash, December 7—~When an innocent bovine wandered onto the Pacific_high- way near here yesterday, Buster Nichols, a cowpuncher, saw his duty and did it—that is, he tried. He spurred his horse and went to the rescue. At what Buster deemed the psychological moment he whirled his lariat and let it go. Instead of the cow he caught a nice big automobile. Buster is nursing bruises in the places where the pavement scratched the hardest. CHOIGE OF HURLEY MEETING ACCLAIM Favorable Comment on War Secretary Selection Heard on Al Sides. President Hoover's elevation of Col. Patrick J. Hurley from Assistant Secre- tary of War to the head of the military establishment, which important post he has been filling since the death of James W. Good nearly & month ago, is being met with much acclaim. The favorable nature of the com- ment. from all sides following his an- nouncement late yesterday of Col. Hur- ley's promotion has given Mr. Hoover today every reason to feel that he has made a most popular selection, and that the appointment in every particular will prove to be a most happy one. In Army circles‘the appointment is known to be pleasing, and at the Cap- itol Senators and Representatives have expressed great satisfaction. What the President is hearing today from all quarters is that he has not only picked a man universally popular and well liked by all, but one of wide experience and exceptional ability to take over the |5 war portfolio. Likely to Please South. Aside from all this, President Hoover feels that the South will be pleased now that it has representation in his cabinet. Col. Hurley hails from Okla- homa, which State joined others in that section in foresaking the Demo- cratic candidate for Herbett Hoover in the election of 1928. It is known that there was considerable disappointment in those States when Mr. Hoover failed to appoint one of their citizens to his cabinet at the beginning of the admin- istration. Following Secretary Good's death the claims of the South were again laid before the President. Busi- ness men, regardless of party affilia- tions, and political leaders in virtually every section of the South and South- | west are known to have urged the ap- pointment of Col. Hurley as Secretary of War, President Hoover is known to have been greatly impressed by this evidence of Col. Hurley’s popularity and esteem in_which he is held. He re- ferred to this yesterday afternoon, when he publicly announced his appointment of Col. Hurley. Mr. Hoover said in this connection that by putting Col. Hurley in his cabinet the South would now have the representation it had so earnestly desired. The President added in this connec- tion that “Col. Hurley is a lawger of wide experience”: that he had “dis- tinguished himseif as a soldler,” and h‘nd llustrated his ability as an execu- tive.” Well Fitted for Post. Of course the satisfactory manner in which the appointment is being re- ceived generally throughout the coun- try is highly gratifying to President (Continued on Page 2, Column 2) | SWINDLERS USE NAME OF STAR IN SOLICITING | Paper Warns Readers of Young] Men Operating in 2300 Block of S Street. A swindle in which the name of The the | NEW PEPCO RATE SET AT 417 GENTS Reduction on All Schedules Becomes Effective on January 1. ‘The Public Utilities Commission to- day announced reductions in the elec~ tric light and power rates amounting to one-half of 1 cent per kilowatt hour on all schedules. These rates will be effective on bills rendered by the Potomac Electric Power Co. on and after January 1, 1930, regardless of whether the current for which the charge is made was used in 1929 or not. The reduction affects 135,000 con- sumers, of whom 17,000 are in Mary- land and the balance in the District. a‘nr:]c reduction in all amounts to $650,- The new. schedule A rate is reduced from 5.2 cehts per kilowatt hour to 4.7 cents. This is the domestic rate for general lighting of all homes and apartment units. Schedule C, the rate for general lighting . for apartment houses, is reduced from 5.1 to 4.5 cents per kilowatt hour, and the same reduc- tion is made for schedule D, which af- fects general lighting of department stores. The industrial rates will remain unchanged. ‘The reductions given above relate only to primary rates. Secondary rates, which are charged for excess consump- tion over certain stipulated minimum consumption, will also be reduced. but the amount of these reductions will not be announced until later. The annual reduction in light rates which has continued uninterruptedly since 1925 is made by virtue of a com- promise court decision made ni 1924 when the rate was 10 cents per kilowatt hour, The decree provided that the company should be allowed to earn 7! per cent on its valuation. Any excess earnings over this percentage must be applied one-half to reducing rates the following year and the other half to the company. In 1925 the rate was reduced from 10 to 715 cents and since then the follow- ing annual reductions have been made: 1926, from 7.5 to 7; 1927, from 7 to 6.25: 1928, from 6.25 to 5.9; 1929, from 5.9 to 2; 1930, from 5.2 to 4.7. During the current year the company earned, with the last two months esti- mated, $1,318,000 in excess of a 7'% per cent return. Half of this sum, or $659,- 000, was used in reducing the rates. Of this sum $271,000 will be used in reduc- ing the domestic rate and the balance will be spread over the other rates. SRR VIGILANTES ORGANIZE. | 8t. Paul Citizens Band to War on Dog Poisoners. _ST. PAUL, Minn., December 7 (#).—A vigilantes organization has been formed | to prosecute dog poisoners who have | killed more than 60 dogs receatly in one residential section. An indignation neeting was heid last night at which protest was made against dismissal of a felony complaint against one offender who pleaded guilty to de- struction of property and was given a | suspended workhouse sentence. MAYOR BARS CHECKERS. LACROSSE, Wis., December 7 (). —Playing checkers in public places has been forbidden by Mayor John E. Langdon in his campaign against gamb- ling devices. “If we closed up and let checkers st IS MCALL GAVE SCRVENER THEDRY, HEFIN RETERATE Senator Sure She Told Him She Thought Peliceman Slew Detective. REPORT EXPECTED SOON IN DEATH INVESTIGATION Department of Justice Will Con- tinue Search for Finger- print Identity. Denials by Miss Pearl McCall, assis- tant United States attorney, failed to shake Senator Thomas J. Heflin of Alabama today in his assertion that Miss McCall told him that she believed a member of the Police Department killed Detective Sergt. Arthur B. Scriv- ener, who was shot to death in a Georgetown alley in 1926. Senator Heflin brought Miss McCall's name into the case in a letter which he wrote to United States Attorney Leo S. Rover before he received a grand jury summons to appear as a witness which he ignored. Informed today of the denial by Miss McCall, Senator Heflin said: “I understood her to say that that was the impression she had gained from people who had talked with her about the case, that Scrivener had been murdered and that a policeman did it.” Senator Heflin said the conversation he had with Miss McCall occurred last year some time. Doesn’t Intend to Misquote Her. In commenting further on published reports of what Miss McCall said, Sen- ator Heflin said that of course he would not intentionally misquote her, but that he had understood her to express the opinion he referred to in his letter. While Senator Hefin did not go be- fore the grand jury yesterday in re- sponse to the subpoena, he expressed a perfect willingness to go befors the grand jury later if his letter was re- garded as insufficient and if it was believed there was any further infor- mation of value he could furnish. He expressed the belief that he had given all the information that could be of assistance to the grand jury. He em- phasized further that hs had intended no disrespect for the court, but on the contrary wanted to be of assistance if he could. He said that vesterday he was particularly anxious to remain in the Senate because the Vare case was being finally settled. Senator Heflin expressed the belief that if the letter which he had written | before yeceiving the- i arrived at the District attorney’s soaner the subpoena would nog been issued to him. Immune From Arrest. The grand jury made presentments to Justice Gordon on the refusal of Senators Heflin and Blease to appear have day that they were immune from arrest. Expressing regret that her name had been drawn into the e, Miss McCall today declared: “You know there are a million and one theories on who killed Serivener. As a newspaper man you must realize that if I knew who killed Scrivener 1 would have been duty bound to place my information in the hands of the United States attorney immediately, I don’t know and I haven't the slightest idea how to find out who shot Scrivener, so there must have been a mistake. “Mr. Heflin wrote to Mr. Rover that I told him in 1928 that I thought a member of the police department killed Scrivener. I believe Mr. Heflin is an honest man. I know he is sincere, but the conversation I had with him about the Scrivener case took place so long ago he has forgotten just what I sald. I, too, have forgotten my exact words, but I am certain I have been misquoted. “I formerly lived in the same hotel where Mr. Heflin stopped. I saw him at social gatherings there quite often. 1 know from my contact with him there that he is sincere. I haven't seen Mr. " (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) DRY BILL COMMENT AWAITED BY HOWELL |D. C. Prohibition Measure to Be Introduced After Review by Officials. The local prohibition enforcement bill | drafted by Senator Howell, Republican, of Nebraska, will be introduced as soon as the Senator receives comment on the measure which he has requested officials of the local and Federal governments to_furnish him. ‘The primary aim of the bill will be to enlarge the powers of the local police in carrying on prohibition enforcement work, whereas at the present time only a limited number of policemen have the authority of prohibition agents. In sending the bill to Corporation Counsel Bride, the Police Department and other agencies, Senator Howell's idea is to obtain any suggestions they may have to make before the bill is presented 1o the Senate. LEGAL ALCOHOL Proof Gallons By the Associated Press. The production of alcohol, by legal processes, is increasing. Making his annual report today, Pro- hibition Commissioner Doran disclosed Evening Star has been used in the past 1&- days was brought to the at- t and presumably swept down What now ) teny; ¢ this newspaper today, when s tne Skokomish River, which winds |1 uon Sfarned that two young men have been operating in the 2300 block engineers suggested the log jam might |or g gtreet soliciting funds under the Pretext that they were to go to a “din- ner” and “ball game” sponsored by ! The Star. he 1ssupoflibl! that the men also have been elsewhere in the city, and the paper desires both to inform its read- ers of the swindle and warn them to guard ageinst it. that 200,832,051 proof gallons were pro- duced in the fiscal year ending last June 30 and that that figure was 31,682,051 more than the output of the preceding 12-mqnth period. During the year 8,892,247 gallons were withdrawn from warehouses after tax payments, an increase of 217,266 gal- lons, as compared with the previous year. * Withdrawals for tax-free pur- poses, including denaturation, for ex- | port, for use by the Government, hos- | PRODUCTION SHOWED INCREASE LAST YEAR| TR | Van Alstynes had been separated sinc: Commissioner Doran’s Annual Report List 200,832,051' in 12 Months. | pitals, laboratories, colleges and other educational institutions, 185,650,908 gallons, an 22,732,825 gallons. uring the year a total of 1,616,658 gallons of distilled spirits, including brandy, were withdrawn from bonded warehouses, an increase of 3,860 gal- lons, while there were 9,149,440 more gallons of cereal beverages produced than in the year previous. During the year 509 wineries, a de- crease of 56, operated and produced 11,381,990 gallons of wine, an increase of 6,459,373 gallons. The quantity of wine removed on payment of tax for non-beverage and sacramental purposes totaled 3,004,200 gallons, while on last June 30 there were 23,138,754 gallons of wine in warehouses. amounted to increase of | | lum Tiag | haring. office | as witnesses and the court ruled yester- | FAVORABLE REPORT ON TAX AT GNVEN BY SENATE CROLP Senate Finance Committee Submits Measure for Big Reduction. NO SER|0—US OPPOSITION EXPECTED TO PASSAGE Republican Leader Believes Reso- Intion Will Be Voted on Monday. By the Associated Press. | The Senate finance committee today | unanimously reported favorably on the $160,000,000 tax reduction resolution. | The resolution, previously approved by the House, proposes a 1 per cent re- duction in the tax rates on individual and corporation incomes. & Senator Watson of Indiana, the Re- publican leader and a member of the committee, said after the meeting of the group that while he had not definitely decided to call the measure up Mon- day he believed this would be done. He added he did not look iy look for serious oppo Plan Is Explained. | Undersecretary Mills of the Treas- | ury, appeared before the committee and Iexplllned in detail the proposed reduc- i tion, A |~ Chairman Smoot said he hoped to proceed next week with the tariff bill and to finish action on the wool schedule at least before bringing up the | tax cut proposal. Senator Simmons of North Carolina, ranking Democrat on the commif sald it would be agreeable 1o the Deare: :n:.; m" thfi !u’ measure was called at e when it woul wl.tlslh the tariff bill, S e general understandin to be that the tarift bill woujd 7:3‘&?.?.‘3 to occupy the Senate’s attention until a definite course could be dect between the two partfes, g i Time May Be Extended. Although there ha - sestions from the Demotsats ‘sha. 1om might seek to have the reduction aj ply to more than one year, Smoot and &lb son said no attempt was made in the committee today to mq | The administration pasreoricasure; ecommended that the cut be appil icaiad: ppiled to only 1929 Explaining the g:npu‘ed reduction, ills said it would vl of 7. As a) to this s official said the would b2 from $45.000,000 as existing law to $20,000.000 under theé resolution, or & cut of 55 per cent. W P‘;:‘r" ::m"fi h-vtnx In‘comn of $100,000 r e cut wo i cent, he said. M | 'SIGNALS SPUR SEARCH FOR TRAPPED MINERS Crew of 100 Cutting fhtough Fall - of Coal to Release Three ‘Workmen. By the Associated Press. MORGANTOWN, W. Va., December 7—Signal tapping by three miners entombed behind & huge fall of coal in the Brock Mine of the Continental Coal Co. at Cassville, near here, spurred rescuers early today. OMeiais of the coal company said they believea the rescuers were within 30 or 35 feet of the trapped men. More than 100 rescuers, us cutting machines, hacked ."i.;l.:-h:he: fall of coal, described as about 200 feet in length when it caved in on the men about 3:30 o'clock yesterday aft- ernoon. This force worked in shifts throughout the night. The tappings could be heard more distinctly toward dn;;:. officials nlge, e men were belleved to have been at work beyond the fall of coal, it ey re Sam Krageh ey are Sam Kr: en, L. J. Martindale, the latter two Nnumu“ ‘.“ “LIFE SENTENCE” TURNS OUT TO BE 30-DAY TERM Couple Married by Chicago Judge on October 30 File Action for Divorce. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December 7.—The “life sentence,” as Judge Borelli described it when he pronounced W. J. Van Alstyne and Miss Ernestine Jung man and wife last October 30, turns out to have been only a 30-day term. Young Van Alstyne was before Judge Borelli October 30 on a charge of hay- ing bilked Miss Jung and her mother out of $4,100. Both young people, how- ever, expressed a desire to forget that and be married. The charge was dropped and Judge Borelli performed the marriage cermony, calling it at the time “a life sentence.” Case No. 193,002 was filed-in Cireuit Court yesterday. It was an action for divorce—Van Alstyne vs. Van Alstyne. It named a “Mary Roe” and stated the November 30. $51,000 OFFER IS MADE FOR U. S. S. MAYFLOWER The Florida Railroad. & Navigation Corporation of Tampa, Fla., in g;m $51,000 for the . former presidential yacht U. S. S. Mayflower, when bids were opened today at the Navy De - ment, was the highest of five Mm No award has yet been made, dfficials explained, as Secretary Adams has to pass on the offers to purchase the fa- mous ship, which is now at Philadel- phia, Pa,, where she went after leaving the Washington Navy Yard. The other bidders, and the sums they offered were: Boston Iron & Metal of Baltimore, Md.. $15,776; Kenny & Cors of New York City, $17.017; William F. Carey of New York City, $31,000, and .:t‘:i\rzn”w. Hubbard of Pittsburgh, Pa.,