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THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON DETECTIVE T0 QUIZ CALENDAR CHANGE | SIX PERISH AS GOLD SLAYING SUSPECT Chicago Chief Goes to Charleston, W. Va., Where Confession Is Reported. Dy the Associated Press. CHICAGO, January 13.—Chief of Detectives John Egan yesterday left for Charleston, W. Va, to interview a prisoner reported to have confessed participation in the slaying of seven Moran gangsters in Chicago last Valentine day. The action followed receipt last ‘Thursday of a telegram from Dale G. Casto of the prosecutor's office at Charleston. _The message, according to Deputy Police Commissioner John Stege, read: “My informant will fur- nish a signed confession and deliver to you the perpetrators of the Valentine day massacre. You must pay reward when confession and prisoner are de- livered. Send cashier’s check for $20,- 000 to Charleston National Bank. Subsequent correspondence, in which Chicago police inquired if the prisoner was Fred Burke, who is wanted in con- nection with the massacre and for the slaying of a St. Joseph, Mich., police- man, resulted only in & request that afficials be sent to Charleston at once. Deputy Commissioner Stege said if the prisoner is “identified, brought back and convicted, the $20,000 reward will Be turned over to Charleston au- *horities.” The State’s attorney's office will with- sold action in the case until it re- ceives a report from Detective Chief Egan, according to Assistant State’s Attorney Harry Ditchburne. The slaying of seven merhbers of the “Bugs” Moran gang occurred last St. Valentine day. The victims were lined against a wall in a Clark street garage and shot down. RAILROAD PAY RAISED. Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville Official Meets Brotherhood. CHICAGO, January 13 (#)—The Herald and Examiner today said fl\l,t wage increases ranging from 1 to 2% cents an hour for trackmen and $8 a month for foremen on the Chicago, In- dianapolis & Louisville Railroad were announced yesterday by A. F. Stout of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes. The paper said the negotia- tions were carried on in Chicago with H. R. Currie, vice president of the road. — — SPECIAL NOTICES. ____ THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE STOCK- Telfers Offhe Continental Trust Company Will be held at the offices of the company, J4th and H sts. n.w., Washington, D. C.; on January i4th. 1930, at 1 o'clock pm. for the transaction of such business o ey e Y CKER. “Asst. Secretary. NNUAL MEETING OF THE STOCK- FOLDENS of the HOME BUILDING ASSO- CIATION will be heid at the offce of the treasurer, 3006 Pennsylvania ave n.w., - day, January 14, 19 8 o'clock p.m., for jection of officers and directors o the Sheping, year, And 105 Hky Gropersy-sorae such other business as m Before the meeting. JAMES M. WOODWARD, Secretary. e E A T MEETING OF THE P! - Totders of fhe "Mutual Investment Fire In surance Company of the District of Colum- bia for the election of trustees for the en- ;ullnl year and for other business will be e present and roxy vote is not allowable. Fement at end of business De- cember. 1929: Amount of premium notes. ‘Amount of cash on hand Amount of securities Amount of fire losse: HORACE NOTICE CF_ANNUAL MEETING. The annual meeting_of ‘the stockholders of the Mount Vernon Savings Bank. Wash- ington, D. C., will be held at the ng house, Ninth ‘street and Massachusetts ave- Tue on Tuesday. 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Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas is disturbed by the fact that 112,000 divorces are granted in the United #tates each year and the number “steadily increasing.” The Republican Senator, the author of a proposed amendment to the Con- stitution that would empower Congress to make uniform marriage and divorce laws, said in a radio address last evening that adoption of the amendment is the | first step in closing a road toward socialism along which the Nation is traveling “much faster than any set of radicals can set the United States on t hat highway to ultimate destruc- tion and ruin.” Senator Capper did not urge a specific law. He expounded the opinion that the contract of marriage “should a matter of interstate comity and col merce just as much as a contract for the sale of commodities or freight rates or the movement of stolen automobiles or the white slave traffic.” Sees Family Life Threatened. He asserted that our 49 different laws | on the subject of marriage and divorce “seriously threaten” the family and the right to hold property. As illustrative of the wide variance of laws in the States he cited that divorce is not ob- tainable on any ground in one State, but is granted in another on evidence of bad temper of husband or wife. Senator Capper said he was aware of the objections against statutes govern- ing marriage and divorce and he con- ceded that the dangers that might . ensue through centralization of such in- herent State’s rights are real and are entitled to serious consideration. “But the dangers to our social struc- ture from the destruction of the family are just as real,” he declared, “and in my judgment more certain. Maiter of National Concern. “The movement of families across State lines with their property and their civil rights is as much a matter of na- tional concern and legislation as the transportation of goods in interstate commerce. * * * It seems to me that it is as much of national concern that the status of the citizen as a parent or a child shall be uniform over the entire United States as that the naturalization laws shall conform.” Senator Capper spoke from WRC, the local station of the National Broadcast- ing Co., in the Colller’s radio hour. DORAN TELLé BENEFITS FROM PROHIBITION LAW Declares Government Must Back Up Armed Men Who Are Performing Duty. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 13.—Dr. James M. Doran, national prohibition commis- sioner, in an address last night at the Broadway Temple, described the benefits of prohibition and said the dry law was responsible for the present prosperity of the country. During the last 10 years, he sald, “there have been more valuable changes brought about by the prohibition law than by any other law.” He predicted that greater changes would take place during the coming 10 years. “It is deplorable that anybody has to be killed,” Dr. Doran said, “but I hope the time will never some when our Government, employing armed men in hazardous jobs, will fail to back them up when they are forced to use arms in enforcing their obligations to their Government.” He added that prohibition “is slowly but surely being accepted by the masses.” 10 NEW YORK NIGHT CLUBS ARE RAIDED BY DRY SQUAD Federal Agents and City Detectives Arrest 17 in Drive on Cafes in Theater District. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 13.—With war- rants based on evidence obtained in previous visits, Federal prohibition agents and city detectives swooped down on 10 night clubs and cafes in the theatrical district early yesterday and | arrested 17 waiters and clerks. Among the places raided was the Toto Club, on West Fifty-sixth street. Most of the other places were the alleged “speakeasy” type of resort. Will- Rogers Says: [ 8. 8. BREMEN, January 13.—When I was a little boy out in the old Indian Territory I remember seeing & sheriff disarm some men one time, and it always fascinated me. But I had never seen it since. So when I got to New York last Friday a&d they told me they was going to dik- armm whole nations over in London next week, why, I just grabbed the fastest thing there is, the Bremen, and now here I am, away out in the middle of Lindbergh's ocean. All the hired help are on President unx’};‘ boat, the night some time. I tried to get our captain to tow 'em in. I am feeling | fairly good now, but if it gets rough | you won't hear from me till I get | my feet on some of the King’s do- ) main, Yours, WILL BE DEBATED Weather Bureau Head and ‘Jewish Rabbi, Authorities, Take Rival Views. ‘The Eastman 13-month calendar, whereby each month will have 28 days, | will be discussed in detail tomorrow night at the Jewish Community Center. At this time Dr. Charles F. Marvin, chief of the United States Weather Bureau, will debate the merits of the reform with Rabbi Louis J. Schwefel. Both men are regarded as authorities on the subject, Dr. Marvin having ad- vocated the Eastman plan before the House foreign affairs committee and Rabbi Schwefel having opposed it. Business Houses Swing Over. The subject is regarded as of in- creasing importance because of the growing tendency of large commercial houses to adopt the 13-month calendar as an aid to simplifying of business methods. On the first of this year Sears & Roebuck Co. put the plan in operation. Opposition to the reform comes largely from religious sources, as adop- tion of the Eastman plan would mean a shifting of the traditional Sabbath of millions of people. It would also mean a dislocation of holidays and elimination of those birthdays and other anniversaries that fall on the 29th, 30th and 31st deys of the pres- ent month. ‘The debate at the center is open to the public. It is being held as part of the educational program of the Six- teenth street institution. Drama Lecture Coming. On Wednesday Prof. Willlam Hutch- ins of American University will de- liver a public lecture on drama at the center, under the auspices of the center dramatic soclety. U. S. LIVING COSTS AND WAGES STUDIED Purchasing Power of $7-Per-Day Workers in Detroit Is Surveyed to Fix Budget. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 13.—Leifur Magnusson, United States repmesenta- tive of the International Labor office, announced last night that a study of the cost of living in relation to wages, sponsored by the labor office at Geneva, had been started in Detroit. Mr. Magnusson said that agents of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics and J. W. Nixon, chief statis- tician of the International Labor office, last week began a “first-hand survey of the purchasing power” of Ford Mo- tor Co. employes’ wages. This survey, he said, will be used as the basis for the entire investigation. ‘The object of the investigators is to formulate a ‘“commodity budget” which will represent, in terms of food, cloth- ing, housing, light, heat and other es- sentials, the yearly purchases of the average automobile worker who earns $7 a day, the minimum wage recently established at the Ford plant. ‘The Twentieth Century Fund, of which Edward A. Filene of Boston is presi- den:. is financing the investigation in part. BOMB MENACE FOUND. Explosive Removed From Italian Consulate Injures Two. CORDOBA, Argentine, January 13 (#)—A bomb was found yesterday in the Italian consulate here. Police re- moved it, but it exploded on the way to the station, injuring a policeman and a bystander. The perpetrators were not discovered. Conference Without Steam Heat. LONDON, January 13 (#).—The well dressed American diplomat in London during the five-power naval conference perl will need flannel underwear. The - gpnterence will held during London’s chilliest season. There is no steam heat in St. James’ Palace, where the conference sessions will take place. Fireplaces are the means of heating. SIEEPSFAR WEST | Hundreds Are Marooned by Snow in California, With Several Missing. | By the Assoctated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, January 13.— Winter swooped down upon the Far West during the week end, leaving in its wake today six persons dead, four criti- cally hurt, several missing and hun- dreds marooned by snow. Bitter cold accounted for three of the deaths—two in Arizona and one.in Washington. Heavy snow fell in many places in California. Fresno received its first snow in 20 years and San Fran- cisco its first measurable fall in 8 years. The hill country of Southern Cali- fornia received its heaviest snow in 25 years, Two Freeze to Death. | stage company manager of Jerome, and David King, 32, truck driver, were found frozen to death 3 miles from their stalled automobile near the summit of Mingus Mountain of the Jerome-Pres- cott Highway. Several other persons were reported missing. Washington counted two fatalities. In Seattle, Ray Whiteman, 15, was killed and six companions injured, four critically, in a collision between their bobsled and an automobile. Sixteen young people were coasting on the sled and most of them suffered injury. At Walla Walla, the body of a middle- aged man, presumably frozen to death, was found in a Snake River cabin. He has not been identified. Hiram_Shearer, 73, city marshal of Nevada City, died from a fractured skull received while directing traffic. He was | struck by a coasting sled. In Los Angeles, Morris Feldman, his mobile in front of a Pacific Electric train on Foothill Boulevard and was killed. 300 Autos Are Abandoned. In the Sierra foothills, 300 automo- biles were abandoned between San An- dreas and Angels Camp, while" their oc- cupants, estimated to number in excess of 1,300, sought refuge from the falling snow and bitter wind in farm houses at Murphy’s, Vallecito, Angels Camp and other communities. In the Los Angeles district similar condition prevailed. Scores of motor- ists were snowbound in Cajou Pass, while 500 residents of Winter resorts in the San Bernardino Mountains were held to their cabins. Drifts 20 feet deep were reported blocking the roads in some places. Bright, cold weather was forecast for the Pacific Coast today, with killing frosts. e COSTELLO FILES ANSWER IN $100,000 BALM SUIT Former Film Star Denies He Prom- ised to Marry Vivienne Sengler, Music Composer. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, January 13.—Maurice Costello, former film star and father of Dolores and Helen Costello, actresses, yesterday had on file in Superior Court an answer to & $100,000 heart balm suit brought against him by Vivienne Sen- gler, musician and composer. Costello denied he ever promised to marry Miss Sengler and denied gener- ally and specifically every count of the woman’s suit. He asks that Miss Sen- gler's suit dismissed and be awarded judgment for his costs. In her complaint Miss Sengler said Costello proposed marriage to her in Stockton, Calif., December 10, 1928, and they agreed the wedding would take place April 22 of last year, but that Costello repudiated his promise and re- fused to go through with the plans. Costello, in his answer, denied he pro- posed marriage to her at any time or had an agreement with her, regarding marriage or anything else. NEVADA SNOW-COVERED. RENO, Nev. January 13 (#).—For the first time in the memory of ploneer residents, this is a Winter in which Nevada has been completely covered by a blanket of snow. Saturday night there was no spot in the State left untouched by the snow, and more snow was expected. GIANT BRICK TO BUILD ROADS IS DEVELOPED BY SCIENTIST By the Associated Press. STATE COLLEGE, Pa., January 13.— Bricks 80 enormous that two of them | ® would about make the wall of a small bungalow were forecast today in the an- nouncement of discovery of a new build- ing material at Pennsylvania State Col- lege. ‘The announcement says that with this new material bricks may be made 20 feet long, 5 feet wide and 6 to 8 inches thick. Their colors are expected | to be red or buff. The surface of the small models which have been made in the laboratory resembles that of paving bricks. The material is a vitreous clay sub- stance produced by Prof. Joseph B. Shaw and Myril C. Shaw of the ceram- ics department. Prof. Shaw is a lead- ing scientist in ceramics and consultant for several commercial organizations, The financial backing for this research was supplied by Senator W. B. Pine of Oklahoma, and the objective was to dis- cover a new road-paving substance. The announcement, issued by the depart- ment of public information of the col- lege, states: “Roads harder than concrete, cheaper than macadam and easier to build than either of them are promised in the new material. These new roads will be made of huge bricks, as large as 5 by 20 feet G:t poisons out of system. . . . Doctors know that this modern scientific laxative works efficiently in smaller Safe and mild for old and young. Feenamint FOR CONSTIPATION L] and 6 to 8 inches thick, laid on graded earth surface, just as present concrete lab roads are. 'The paving material may be manu- factured anywhere that deposits of clay or shale are found, no special quality of raw material being required. An entire- ly new manufacturing process had to be devised and a new way of handling raw materials. The results were ‘bricks’ of unprecedented size and hardness, large, massive clay products which it was im- possible to make under any of the pres- ent methods.” ‘The material weighs about 100 pounds per cubic foot. No name has yet been chosen for it. Prof. Shaw withheld details of the process, saying he would present them in a paper before the American Ce- ramics_Soclety at its meeting in To- ronto February 16 to 21. Uses in addition to paving are under consideration, such as the processed small home, facings for buildings, sea walls and dams and floors and pilings. | i | In Arizona, Timothy Kirkpatrick, 35, | vision obscured by rain, drove his auto- , D. C, MONDAY SEA ROADS Fighting by Navies Is Almost Certain to Involve Land Forces. (The world’s most dangerous political explosive, sea_power, is discussed in this article, the tenth in a series in the subject.) BY EDWARD PRICE BELL. Gathering in London to arrange, if possible, the apportionment of mari- time strength among the five leading naval nations—Britain, America, Japan, France and Italy—the delegates of these | countries meet to essay the wise han- dling of the world's most dangerous political explosive—sea power. How strong this power is for peace we have tried to show. We have argued that large-scale warfare with sea power massed against it is out of the question. Strong for peace, sea power is equally strong in potentiality for war. Its pe- cliarity in the latter respect arises from the fact that while land fighting may occur without involving navies, sea fighting is almost certain to involve armies. For 60 years before the great war Continental Europe, the smallest of the continents—it has been called “a mere peninsula thrust out from the great mass of Asia”—was a scene of recur- rent tumult and bloodshed, while peace reigned generally upon the seas. Rus-|be sia in that period fought twice; France, Germany and Austria three times; Italy four times. Every great European mili- tary people was engaged. More Inflammable on Land. Does any one suppose that sea war- fare, comparable in degree, could have been waged during those years or could be waged now without cognate dis- turbances on land? All the chances are against such an assumption. They are against it because there is a great deal more inflammable material on land than on sea and because war anywhere is highly likely to ignite inflammable ma- terial everywhere. Fighting for peace at sea, the London delegates will be fighting for peace upon every square mile of ground where military forces are maintained. The five-power Naval Conference, that is to say, will be not merely a naval confer- ence of five powers, but a peace confer- ence of the world. Every structure, ideal or concrete, has its ultimate foun- dation stones somewhere. The peace of the world has them in peace at sea. “Layers of ultimate foundation stones” would describe very well those who put firmly in position the basic supports of maritime peace. Dangerous as sea power is at this momeat, it is far less so than it was a year or two ago. Something happening in the region of international law has made the difference—the Briand-Kel- logg pact. Previous to that treaty peace at sea had next to no security. It stood under a constant threat. Any war spreading to the sea exposed the peace of the whole maritime world to peril. Recall War of 1812. Recall once more the War of 1812-14. Britain and America fought that war over the sea question. The sea ques- tion again critically strained their re! tions during the American Civil War. In the World War the same ques‘ion brought the two names a third t’.ae to the verge of a trial of force. Fur any state to make war prior to the Briand- Kellogg pact was for that state to men- ace English-speaking peace in all the seas. The situation was changed radically by the pact. If a war breaks out to- morrow, what happens? Some nation tramples upon its solemnly plighted honor. If this nation be Britain and she begins to stop our ships, we shall fight her. If the violator of the pact be America and we begin to stop Brit- ain’s ships, she will fight us.- But is there the remotest chance of either of these contingencies? Rule it out! Neither Britain nor America will violate the Briand-Kel- logg pact. What Is Left? Now, what is left? The possibility— it is only a possibility, and I, for one, never expect to see it—that some na- tion will take leave of its senses, dis- honor its signature before mankind, tempt to gain by war what it has sworn to seek only through peace. What then? That nation would be a violator of our treaty; for the Briand-Kellogg pact, in the core of its importance—that core being its universality—is more ours than any one else’s. Do you fancy we should aid the criminal? We might not actively join the de-| fenders—we are under no legal bond to | do so—though I feel many of us hope | we should. But in any event we could | not support the aggressor. The Ameri- | can consclence, the American sense, I will not say of honor, but of elementary | decency, would not permit that. Neither | would Britain support the aggressor.| She would be much likelier to attack him. Hence a sudden, aggressive war | today, unlike the situation before the Briand-Kellogg pact, instead of threat- ening a British-American conflict at| TIRE BARGAINS When you need a dependable Used Tire see us. We are taking them in on new DUNLOPS every day. All used tires g u aranteed to deliver mileage in proportion to price. LEETH BROS. 1220 13th St. N.W. 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Pledged as Obligation. ‘Those there are, to be sure, who feign | to believe—possibly do believe—that what Mr. Kellogg has termed “the great moral declaration” of the peace pact| makes no difference in a realistic or hard-boiled world. I do not think the| London Conference either will open or close under that impression. The two most important men at the conference, the one actually present, the other di- recting every move of his delegates, will Premier Macdonald and President Hoover, who declared in their recent Joint statement in Washington: “Both our governments resolve to accept the| peace pact not only as a declaration of | good intentions but as a positive obliga- tion to direct national policy in accord- ance with its pledge.” Whoever knows Macdonald and Hoover will not suspect either of them of making that declaration lightly. They are not riflers. ‘Cynicism is equally re- pugnant to both. They are clear- headed and tenaclous of will. Every| word of their joint statement was| weighed as a chemist weighs a powerful | drug. Ordinary pegple forget the lan-| guage of such a statement, but its au-| thors, especially when they are men of the Macdonald and Hoover type, neither forget the language nor become insensi- ble of the conviction and the purpose which created the language. A Majestic Position. Sea power, as far as the British pre- mier and the American President can control matters, will sit at London for the permanent peace of the world—the peace of the Briand-Kellogg pact. It is a majestic position to assume. There is about it a morality, a dignity, a sanity, an accuracy of response to the desires of the world which makes it an uncommonly awkward and formidable | thing to oppose. Opposition to it, let | us hope, will be conspicuous for its ab- | sence. | So far as its known, of course, the general problem of keeping the peace at sea and of morally uniting sea strength as a fortification of the peace of both land and sea will not figure in the| agenda of the London Conference. It | is true, none the less, that this problem | is the ultimate one at issue; naval co- | ordination and reduction are only means to an end, and that it will in- sinuate cohtinually into the collateral conversations of the delegates. (Copyright, 1030, by Chicago Daily News.) | (Bill or rights for neutrals is - | Ject of the next article.) shewd _————m— Will erect | building to suit tenant - Frontage of 45 ft. (6,735 8q. ft.), near 15th and K sts., in heart of financial district; 20- ft. side alley, 30-ft. rear alley. Garage. One of the most de- sirable downtown sites now available. For full information Call Mr. 9. C. Bowle H. L. 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The two outstanding candidates Representative Linthicum, Democrat, Maryland, present chairman of the group of anti-prohibitionists, numbering about 100, and Representative Beck, Republican, Pennsylvania. ) The present “general disgust” mani- fested throughout the country over the prohibition law, Britten contended, to- gether with an awakening of members of Congress to the situation, makes “enough work for both of these cut- a‘r._'l_;-‘g.;‘&lbmon group. “The fact that these two men seek the place of chairman of this informal group,” Britten said, “indicates that the movement for temperance is on upgrade, while the costly, unsatisfac. ibition movement is being N comntty gonérally s disgusted “The country generally with the fanatical leadership of the g:senc prohibition,” he declared. “It lost confidence in since his bucket-shop gam disclosed. 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