Evening Star Newspaper, January 22, 1930, Page 2

SUPLYBLLONE SHOWN IN 10,000,000SET ESTIMATE " RSONS INGREAE Added Funds Allowed State, . Justice, Commerce and Labor Departments. By the Associated Press. Increased provisions were made for the growing functions of four important Government departments — State, Justice, Commerce and Labor—in the annual supply bill for the fiscal year 1931, totaling = $113,799,286, reported today to the House by its appropriations committee, Greater outlays Were allowed for penal institutions and law enforcement under the Justice Department; for regulating immigration under the Labor Department; for aviation facilities of the Commerce Department, and for improvement of the foreign service of the State Department. Bill Shows Slight Increase. Although the total of the bill shows an increase of only $1,650,164 over the appropriations for the current year, the extraordinary outlay of $8,497,000 for the taking of the census by the Com- - merce Department, as compared to the $19,000,000 appropriated for the same purpose for the current year, reflects a reduction in the grand total for the department “of $10,503,000, which is more apparent than Teai. The committee estimated that_the sctual increase for the Commerce De- partment was more than ,000,000. However, the bill was $172,687 less (h the bucget estimates and Lhe permanent and indefinite_appropriations amounted to_but $153,233. The State Department was allowed $16,799,269, an increase of $2,125,55 Justice, $31,710,362, an increase of $3,772,992; Commerce, $53,088,985, a decrease of $5,703,624, considering the difference in the usual outlay for the fifteenth_decennial census, and_Labor, $12,220,670, an increase of $1,455,240. The sum of $2,364,273, an increase of $671,438, was allowed the State Depart- ment proper, most of it being absorbed by employes of the Secretary. The for- eign service was allotted $14.414,996, an increase of $1454118. The major items included $3,298,500 for foreign service officers’ salaries, an increase of $207,500; contingent expenses at for- eign’ missions, $1,336,325, an increase of $417.225; contingent expenses ut consulates, $1,737,140, an increase of $674,140, and clerk hire at consulates, $1,853,266, an Increase of $208,266. $631,500 for Ambassadors. Ambassadors were allowed the usual amount of $631,500, the foreign service building fund $1,700,000, the Panama government $250,000 and the Pan- American Union $167,219, in addition 1o the permanent appropriation of $95,- 233, which is made automatically. The Justice Department proper Was given $5,214,627, an increase of $539, 037. Of this increase $473,699 was added to the $2,781,419 appropriation for de- tection and prosecution of crime. The office of the superintendent of prisons, recently created, was allotted $152,388 and enforcement of anu-trust laws was allowed $203,600. The judicial branch was allotted $1 527,478, an increase of $1,186,329. The sum of $293,776 was set aside for the Supreme Court judges and aides, while $2,099,000 was alwtted to salaries of Federal judges, an increase of $169,000, due to the increased number. An increase of $100,000 for United States marshals for a tolal of $3,880,000 ‘was allowed, along with & sum of $1,- 678,550 for district attorneys, sum $152,550 larger than for the current crease of $256,300, while special district attorneys were given $450,000, a sum $90,400 greater than for this year, Witness-Juror Fund Increased. Other appropriations increased due to law-enforcement work included: $2,- 105,056 for court clerks, an increase of $161,656; $600,000 for fees to commis- sioner and justices of peace, an increase $3.650,000 for fees for jurors es and $485,000 for bailffs and crie increase of $30,000. The appropiration for penal institu- tions and care of prisoners amounts to $7,968,257, an increase of $2,047,626 over the current year. The allotments were as follows: Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kans. $1.645,657; an increase of $558,747; at Atlanta. Ga., $1.116.437, an increase of $193,118; ai McNeil 'Island, Wash., $570,268, an increase of $1 en’s institution at Alder; W. V $377,125. an increase of $ trial reformatory at Chillicothe, Ohio, $1,018,690, an increase of $537,370; N tional Training School, here, '$215,080, an increase of $7,080: $300,000 for sup- port of prisoners in municipal and county jalls, and State penitentiaries and $25,000 for the probation system. The sum of $12,175.425, was set aside for the office of the Secretary of Comy merce, an increase of $2,831605. Of the toial, $7,944,000 was allotted for air navigation facilities, an increase of $2.485,38y. Alrcraft in commerce was given $1,260,830, which is $302,839 larg- er than the amount for this year. En- forcement of wireless communication was given $500,000, also an increase by $40,000. SERGT. SAMUEL NOWLAN, RETIRED MARINE, DIES Veteran Gunner With 389-Year Bervice Record Was Il Several Weeks. Sergt. Samuel Nowlan, 64, veteran Tetired gunnery sergeant of the United States Marine Corps, with a record of 39 years service, died in the Naval Hospital here yesterday after an illness of several weeks. He was a member of Costello Post of the American Legion and of the United Veterans of the Spanish-American War. He resided at 1135 New Jersey enue southeast. Sergt. Nowlan was & native of Virginia. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Miss Mary Nowlan, all of this city. Funeral services will be conducted 1 St. Patrick's Catholic Church, Priday morning at 9 o'clock. Interment with military honors will be in’ Arl Cemetery. PLOTTERS SENTENCED. Waman Insladed i Group of Mex- lcans Sent to Jail. MEXICO CITY, January 22 (#). trict Court Monday in with the bombing of the of s an as- mmmmm‘y. 1928. Carlos Castro Balda and Ed im) G.n the = on prisonmen! - the bomb. i f ! i g i £ E ] i I i ; §ife il;‘ 1§ RE il H ,396; wom- |- HUGE STRIDES OF RADIO IN U. S. Audience Grows From 75,000 in 1922 to 40,000,000 Today, Terrell Tells House Subcommittee. By the Assoclated Press. An estimated increase in the numbe of homes equij with radio recel sets from 60, in 1922 to at least 10, 000,000 at the present time was reported by W. D. Terrell, chief of the radio division of the Department of Com- merce, in m-rmr on the department’s annual suj bill. ‘The audience in 1922, he told a House subcommittee, was estimated at 75,000, while the audience this year is estimated at_more than 40,000,000 “The total radio sales covering mostly receiving sets and accessories for the fiscal year 1922 amounted to $60,000,~ 000,” he said, “while in 1928 the figures given were $650,550,000. The !xrm amounted to $2, 800,000 and in 1928 to $10.907,000. s “It is estimated mnt the;eh:u '}",; 000,000 homes without radios. Radio Manufacturers’ Assoclation states that although $2,500,000,000 in radio products have been manufactured since uzha, there was no saturation point in sight. l“"l‘he Department of Commerce esti- mated that during the first three quar- ters of 1929 sales of radio equipment reached a total of $360,897,207, with thl‘ heaviest quarter yet to be heard from.” BUILDERS PLEDGED TOASSIST GROWTH Lamont Addresses Leaders at Opening of Drive to Expand Homes Here. Pledged to the support of various recommendations for promotion of con- struction work generally, and home building specifically, to meet growing need, a group of representatives of key industries in the bullding business and allied industries wound up & meeting last night at the Chamber of Com- merce of the United States with an ad- dr by Secretary of Commerce La- mont, and announcement of a cam- paign of publication of the facts on present building conditions. The conference was called at the voluntary request of the leaders in the construction industry by Jullus H. Barnes, chairman of the National Busi- ness Survey Conference, which was created at the suggestion of President Hoover, and marked the first time that such a group of competitors in the building industry have come together of their own volition to discuss com- mon action in the interest of the gen- eral welfare of the Nation. Formal Vote Is Cast. ‘The group voted formally to recom- mend to the various industries that fund of a half million dollars be pro- vided for early publication of the facts pointing to present favorable conditions that encourage carrying forward at uce necessary construction, and recom- mended creation of a permanent re- search group to keep in touch with building needs in various sections of the country. This latter group would co-operate with governmental and other research groups and would keep in mind the dangers of overbullding. Another of the major features advo- cated by the conference was creation of ® special home financing committee, whose function would be W encourage making available funds for building, re- modeling and modernizing. One of the leading topics discussed was the desir- ability of means for getting funds now relleved from speculative operations into circulation where they would be made available to bullders and remodelers of homes and other structures. A plan also was considered to call puolic atte: tion to present favorable factors for building, making the present, the con- ferees said, a particularly desirable time in which to bulld new houses and re- condition old ones. Secretary Lamont characterized the meellng as “a big step in rounding out the program that the business men of America _have undertaken in response to President Hoover's request for co. operation in sustalning active business and employment. Construction of new bulldings sand _engineering projects, maintenance and improvement of exist- ing structures and expenditures for other capital goods,” he said, “have been emphasized throughout our con- ferences as the field where most can be accomplished by voluntary effort.” Reviewing the progress of public co struction work as pledged to the Presi- dent by the governors of the States, Mr. Lamont asked the group to con- centrate on measures to recover the loss in building contracts during 1929, M e iy ANTI-MERGER ACT EVASION CHARGED D. C. Judge Hears Arguments in Case to Force Sale of Gas Stock. Justice Alfred A. Wheat in District Supreme Court today heard arguments of counsel on the motion of the Sea- board Investment Trust of Boston to dismiss a suit ht inst it by the District of Celumi the Public Utllities, Commission to require it to dispose of its holdings in the stock ot the Washington Gas Light Co. in excess of 20 per cent, under the terms of the La Follette anti-merger act. ‘The right of the organization, wiich Is known as & Massachusetts trust, to the ownership of the stock was upheld by Attorneys Wilton J. Lambert of Washin ‘James N. Piper of Baltimore, while Assistant: Corporation Counsel Vernon E. West urged that at least the spirit and intent, if not the language, of the anti-merger act was being violated and that the holding of the stock by the Seaboard Trust was an evasion of the law. According to Mr. West, while the act| oot uses only the word inhibition, it was intended to cover any assoclat] or group of individuals, and the present method of getting control of slock of the gas company was an sV Attorneys Lambert and Piper insisted on a strict interpretation of the word- ng of the act and in defense of the charge of evasion read an excerpt from & United States Supreme Court deci- sion by Justice Holmes, in which that ‘corporation” in its SHIFT OF DRY UNIT WINS APPROVAL OF MELLON AND DORAN (Continued From First Page.) two years of industrial alcohol for the thirteenth Chicago distriet. After a considerable hubbub, the committee adopted by & vote of 12 to 8 a motion by Representative Colton, Re- publican, Utah, to postpone considera- tion of the Schafer proposition until tomorrow. Representative Cochran, Democrat, of Missouri, then asked Doran whether he knew of any important cases involving derelictions_of prohibition which had been 'pigeonholed. Schafer and Doran Clash. “I know of none,” Doran replied. Asked why he had sald more alcohol for beverage purposes was manufactured in the corn-growing States, Doran an- swered he had not made any such statement, but merely some observa- tions on the inci production of corn sugar which he felt were justified. commissioner saild there had been a great increase in the consump- tion of corn sugar and that many of the stills ralded in the States showed this sweetening was used in making the alcohol. Schafer and Doran clashed over the former's charge that no action was taken lg\nsl prohibition agents whe violate the law by raiding homes with- out search warrants. “In Milwaukee last week they con- victed two of your agents and I think more convictions are coming,” Schafer roared. Insisting that there had been no lack of uction against Federal agents when necessary, Doran ssserted he would not accept Tesponsibility for raids made illegully by every constable, deputy con- stable and sherlff. The commissioner said prohibition agents had been charged unjustly with violating the sanctity of the homes, The bureau had strict regulations against this and the regulations were snforced, he added. He denied a charge by Schafer that the regulations were inefTective. Schafer asked the commissioner to give to the committee the names of sgents who had been guilty of violat- ing the sanctity of the home. Questioned as to his recent statement that “inflammatory remarks” had been responsible for the killing of prohibi- tion agents in Florida by rum runners, Doran said he had not accuscd anyone specifically. Schafer ‘and Doran roared at each other for several minutes and a number of other members of the committee chimed in, with no one able to under- staud any one else. ; Executive Meeting Tomorvow. Chairman Williamson banged the table for order. Finally he obtained quiet and adjourned the meeting with Doran still on the stand. The chair- man’ sald he would call an executive meeting tomorrow to consider the pro- cedure under which fhe hearings would be held because hé “félt that many of the questions on prohibition pro- pounded today were not pertinent to the subject of enacting legislation to provide for the transfer of the Prohibi- Uon Bureau. After summarizing the measure in his testimony Secretary Melion said it “meets with the approval of the Treas- ury Department. I recommend the enactment of the proposed legislation.” Mr. Mellon said the responsibility of prohibition enforeement ment because before the enactment of the eighteenth amendment the commis- sioner of internal revenue was charged with the duty of collecting excise taxes levied on alcoholic liquors sold for beverage purposes and administering the provisions of the denatured alcohol act of 1966. “It was an fllogical choice,” he as- serted. “There is no connection be- Lween the assessment and collection of taxes on beveragés which it is legal to sell, and the enforcement of laws in- tended to prohibit their manufacture, transportation and sale. “When Congress created the Bureau of Prohibition,” he continued, “it for- mally recognized that there is no such relationship. If this be so, prohibition is unrelated to the duties of the Treas- ury Department and to the purposes '?;d which * that department was cre- atedr Sees Beiter Result by Change. Mellon said the Treasury was pri- marily responisble for managing the finances of the Nation, collecting revenues and protecting the integrity of the revenue laws and of the cur- rency. know of no reason, therefore,” he said, “why the Treasury Department should be charged with the duty of en- foreing an unrelated penal statute. On the other hand, there is very sound basis for charging the law enforcement departnent of the Government with this K. ~ "u&‘s‘-vm duty of the Department of Justice, acting lluvum gh um“:a vlosl“mrufi district attorneys, prosecu ators ”r Federal statutes, It better results may be those “who are to try the cases are i a position to control and direct investigations of violations of the law and the gathering- of evidence necessary for their prosecu o Quoting the recom tions of the ational Law Enf nt. Commis- sion, he nld:“;‘n'llz‘:‘:d ll‘Mll'ld aly t:‘l;: the cases are inves and prepa; by agencies entirely disconnected with and not answerable to those which are to prosecute them.” Resignation Would Cause Furor. Jurist sald: “We do not speak of evasion, because, when the law draws a line, case is on one side of it or the other if on the safe side is none the worse legally because party has "availed himself to the ‘of what the law permits. Justice Wheat will take the ‘matter under advisement. LADY HEATH MAY GET DIVORCE ‘BY DEFAULT: Husband- of ‘Aviatrix Refuses to Be Served With Papers T . .in Suit. By the Assoclated Press, RENO, Nev,, January_22. Mary Heath, famous may be ‘That Lady British aviatrix, H il £ i i iil 3 | mored, Dr. Doran, whose resignation is ru- entered the Government service 20 years ago and has been in charge of the prohibition enforcement unit for nearly three years, Previously he had served as chief chemist of the Treasury, | pos and in that capacity was prominently connected with the preparation of formulae for denaturing aleohol, Should the reports in circulation to- prove correct, it is expected that & furor will follow in dry circles. Doran thi particularly in which found him the’object of severe “"His saiary s $9.000, while the present reports -;y he has been offe twice and three times that amount to enter private industry, ‘The rumors have it, yeais e can o longer disregard such can regal aitractive Propositions and. that he re- gards the transfer of his unit as an appropriate time for stepping out. Frr NSt Sy Rt i ACTRESS IS FREED. LOS ANGELES, 2 .~ presumably * was placed with the Treasury Depart- ! HALL RELIEF FUND REACHES §1 410 Laurel, Md., Residents Send Day’s Biggest Contribu- tion to Family. The fund being raised through The Star for, the relief of the Hali family of Seat Pleasant, Md., three members of which were injured fatally when a bomb exploded in their home on New Year day, grew to a total of $1,948.10 yesterday, after a number of contribu- tions had been added. The largest _contribution yesterday was from the Ladles’ Auxiliary of the Laurel, Md., Volunteer Fire Depart- ment and citizens of the town. The list of contributors follow: :ckllo"hdlld . $! . V. H. People's ~ Life Insurance Go, Annapolis, Md. L. L. A, Ladies' Auxiliary of the Laurel Volunteer Fire Department and citizens of the town. ‘Total . AGAIN UNDER PROBE Senate Committee Examines W. W. Barbour Regarding Promotion Fund of 1928. By the Associated Press. Returning again today to the subject of the fund raised to advocate a pro- tective tariff during the presidential campaign of 1923, W. W. Barbour, treasurer of the American Tarift League, told the Senate lobby commit- tee today that $45,650 was collected and $43,313 was spent. Barbour reiterated testimony given yesterday when he asserted that money was spent independently of the Republi- can national committee. He had said that Dr. Hubert Work, then chairman of the committee, hi approved a “hook-up” with the league, but that the plan was abandoned after consid- eration, Grundy Named as Contributor. Among contributors to the fund, league records showed, were Joseph R. Grundy, now Senator from Pennsyl- | vania and former vice president of the league, who gave $2,000. The Linen | Thread Co. of Rumson, N. J., of which Barbour is president, also contributed $2,000. Senator Walsh, Democrat, Montana, read from league records that a deficit resulted from the organization's activi- ties in connection with the pending tariff bill, Questioned about the league's policies, Barbour asserted that it advocated “a tariff that does protect,” but did not concern itself with individual rates. “We simply advocate the general pol- icy of adequate protection,” he added. “You want higher rates than the Democrats will give, don’t you?” Walsh asked. “We don't think the Democratic rates would give adequate protection,” Bar- bour replied. . “How can you come before this com- mittee and say you are not interested ," Barbour returned. “The league has never interested itself in individual rates.” | Denies Asking Higher Rates. Barbour said his company wanted continuance of the existing tariff rates and denied he had requested higher rates on its products. ‘Walsh asked if “Grundy & Co.” did not get an increase in the wool schedule. “I don't know,” he said. Asked by Walsh if the contributors to the education fund had not regarded it as an “investment with the hope of getting higher rates,” Barbour said he couldn’t “subscribe to that.” FAMILY’S SOLE SURVIVOR DIES BY HIS OWN HAND Proprietor of Drug Store Founded Before Civil War in Wheaton, I, Shoots Himself. By the Associated Press. ‘WHEATON, Ill, January 22.—The last of the Hiatts, a family that has been prominent here since pre-Civil ‘War days, is dead of a bullet wound, which, police say, was self-inflicted. In post-bellum days L. L. Hiatt founded a drug store—L. L. Hiatt Sons. The late Judge Elbert Gary used to buy sodas there. Later it was a popular rendezvous of Red Grange, the “Gi loping Ghost.” It was a Wheaton in- stitution, ‘The drug store business has changed in the last decade, but Linneaus Lee Hiatt, grandson of the founder, carried on much the same as the Hiatts had done before. Yesterday, at the age of 59, he was found dead in his home with & bullet in his head. STEPS TO STABILIZE GRAIN MARKETING TAKEN Farmers’ Corporation Committee Decides on Selection of Advisory Commodity Groups. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, January 22.—Selection of advisory commodity committees as pre- liminary steps in the Farm Board's pro- gram by settting up stabilization corpor- lons was decided upon here Monday E ‘the managerial committee of the *| Farmess National Grain Corporation. adyisory commodity committees | o . w t fsom time to time as the oc- © rises’ declare an emergency, when, eir“apinion, the market for the several commodities could be bene- nud'by actiorrof the stabilization cor- rations. Alexander Legge and Samuel McKel- vie, members of the Federal Farm Board, met with the committee and 8 rvesolution denied that the Farm Board would discriminate between e:lnblhned and newly former co-oper- atives. BANKRUPTCIES GAIN, B to_The Star T Ry newe onyrieik, e Chiceso ROME, Italy, January 22.—A rapld increase 4n the number of bankruptcies In ‘Italy, coupled with a rise in number of unem) on petition | countries, TARIF CAMPA { across the Atlantic as he opened the Five Ramsay Macdonald, prime minister of E: This photo, transmitted by cable, shows the British Sovereign speaking before the microphone that carried his voice 'ower Naval Conference in London yesterday. gland and chairman of the conference. (Copyright, 1930, by Pacific & Atlantic Photos, Inc., by Bartlane Transmission over Western Union Cables.) On the left of the King is J. FORUM SPEARERS DEBATEDRYPLAN Senator Harris and Repre- sentative Black to Discuss Proposals Tomorrow. The recommendation made by Presi- | dent Hoover and his Law Enforcement | ‘CommLulon that United States Com- missioners be used to hear cases of minor violations of the prohibition laws will be the subject of addresses de- livered by Senator Harris of Georgia | |and Representative Loring Black of | | New York, in the National dio Forum | arranged by The Star and sponsored by the Columbia Broadcasting system, at | 10:30 p.n. tomorrow. Senator Harris, who already has introduced a bill em- bndr{dlnfmlhe mhlcmle of this recom- | mendation, w! support the proposal | :mt;l Mr. Black will speak in opposition o It. Designed to Relieve Congestion. The proposal that the United States commissioners be used to hear minor | violations of the dry laws is designed | | to relieve the congestion now existing | {in the Federal courts, which makes it { impossible to bring many cases to trial and which delays many cases of gre importance. The President and the Law Enforcement Commission have laid particular stress upon this part of the program for legislation recently submitted to Congress for the purpose of strengthening the enforcement of the | ! prohibition laws, | Criticism of the proposal has held | that the plan would deny to defendants | in cases of minor violations of the dry | laws a jury trial, and that it would | violate the spirit if not the letter of | the Constitution. But this is denied by | supporters of the plan, who point out | that many cases of minor violations of the law are heard now without jury trial, by State magistrates. Futhermore, | it is polnted out that in the .plan ad- | vanced by the law enforcement commis- | son, it is d to give the de- fendant an opportunity to demand a Jury trial if he is not satisfied with the findings of the United States commis- sloner_ , Once Criticized Commission. Senator Harris is one of the leading drys of the Senate. He sharply criticized the Law Enforcement Commission last year because it had not made any recommendations in regard to prohibi- tion enforcement. He has expressed his approval of the recommendations that have now been submitted, however. He has had. wide experience in public office, as director of the census, Acting Secretary of the Department of Com- merce, and as chairman of the Federal Trade Commission. He resigned the last office to enter the race for the Senate in 1918, Mr. Black is one of the most active of the “wets” in the House. He has attacked prohibition on many occasions in the House. He is a lawyer and before he entered the House served as a mem- ber of the New York State Senaie. INDICTMENTS NAME 200. Liquor Cases Lead Charges Filed by U. 8 Jury in Florida. JACKSONVILLE, Fla., January 22 (). —Indictments naming approximately 200 defendants, most of whom charged with liquor law violations, were return- ed by Federal grand jury here, it was announced Monday by E. R. Williams, clerk of the United States District Court for the Southern division of All of the persons named are resi- dents of the lower East Coast. . DR. PATTERSON HONOR‘ED. Pennsylvania Educator Heads Academy of Political Science. PHILADELPHIA, January 22 (#)— Dr. Ermnest Minor Patterson, professor of ‘economics in the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, was elected president of the American Academy of Political and Social Science at a meet- ln{.[o( the directors Monday night. e succeeds Dr. Leo S. Rowe of Washington, D. C., who had been presi- dent of the Invites' Guests Prom Abroad, Forum Speake Upper: Lower: SENATOR HARRIS, REPRESENTATIVE BLACK. MORAN AND MACK BREAK UP VAUDEVILLE TEAM “Two Black Crows” Come to Part- ing of Ways Over Business Disagreement. By the Assoclated Press. LOS ANGELES, January. 27.—The vaudeville team of Moran and Mack, better known as the “Two Black Crows,” has come to a parting of the ways. In Superior Court George Moran, whose real name is George Searcy, has ob- tained a temporary restraining order against Charles Mack, prohibiting him 1f0m\'r|l:|n¢ the names “Moran” and the 0 Black Crows” in further acts. Mack’s birth name is Charles E. Sellers, ‘The disagreement followed the sign- ing of a contract by the comedians in which Moran was named manager of the team. Moran claimed hé signed the ur-per without knowing that he !’ would recelve no compensation from | Mack for assuming the mn-gmhlp,{ Moran alleged he asked Mack to clnml; the contract, but that his former part- ner refused. AUTHOR HELD FOR THEFT. Serves One Week in Jail, Then Ill Placed on Probation. PHILADELPHIA, January 22 ().— After serving one week of & two to! four year sentence in the county prison for the theft of books from stores, Roy E. Alexander, an author, yesterday had his _sentence revoked by Judge Joseph | L. Kun and was plu:snon &l’oblfinn for five years. After tencing Alex- ander, Judge Kun received letters from interested in literature and per- sons of means !Xflrfllh‘l[ & desire to help the author, who has s:veral works on the market and who three While serving a seven-year sen- in Chester nine years ago, Alex- ander published several poems which brought praise from critics. BULLETS ROUT MOB SEEKING FILIPNOS Racial Clash Provoked by At- tendance of White Girls at Dance. By the Associated Press. WATSONVILLE, Calif., January 22.— Shotguns fired at a group of charging | men saved Filipinos from possible vio- | lence at Palm Beach, a resort near here, late last night. The attack climaxed PLAN AIR SURVEY OF WABASH GORGE Move Necessary to Deter- mine Action—Citizens’ Pro- tests Halt Blasting of Ice. By the Associated Press. VINCENNES, Ind., January 23.—Of- clals today were awaiting the Teport of an airplane pilot and s photographer, who planned to make an aerial survey before determining what action, if any, should be taken toward breaking up the huge ice gorge near Riverton, Ind., several miles up the Wabash River from here, Protests of officlals and residents of Mount Carmel, Ills., and Vincennes, last night, halted plans to dynamite the gorge. The complainants saic they feared the losed ice and wajer might have disastrous results in the already flooded district. Griffin, Ind., was suffering from water both from the Wabash and Black Rivers. Back water last night had reached many of the streets of the town and was standing in some places 25 feet deep. The town, which in 1925 was destroyed by a tornado, is ’nrnucud by « levee which was weaken- ing. H. B. Williamson, field representa- tive of the Red Cross, last night report- ed that a house hoat, which held an unknown number of refugees, had broken its mooring near Mount Carmel, 11, and was loose in the raging flood. William Fbrtune, head of the Indian- apolis chapter of the Red Cross, said aviators from Fort Benjamin Harrison would be asked today to fly planes to Claypool Hill, near Decker, Ind., where 30 families are reported marooned without supplies. RESCUE WORK DISRUPTED. Freezing Weather Retards Efforts in Mississippi Valley. MEMPHIS, Tenn., January 32 (#).— Freezing weather enveloped the Lower Mississippi Valley today, disrupting res- cue operations for more than 200 fam- ilies marooned in the Big Lake, Ark., region and approximately as many more water bound in highland camps. Albert Evans, field director of the Red Cross, said some of the families already reached had refused to leave their homes. He estimated that in all 1,600 familles in Southeastern Missouri and Western Arkansas had been af- fected by levee breaks on the St. Fran- cis and White Rivers and on Big Lake. BANK DEFAULTER GIVEN 370 20 YEARS IN PRISON Saginaw Man Robbed Bank He Had Served for Two Decades. Makes By the Associated Press, SAGINAW, Mich,, January 22— John R. Dufty's dream of quick and easy riches through stock market spec- ulation, which caused him to risk funds of the bank he had served for two Confession. several days of growing tension, origl- nating when white girls were taken as dancing partners to a Filipino soctal | club at Palm Beach. | A crowd of 200 men surrounded the | Northern Monterey Filipino Club at the ' beach early in the evening. A little be- fore midnight they attempted to rush the building, only to be confronted by the owner, Charles Lock-Paddon, and his brother, with shotguns. Two of Mob Wounded. Two of the mob were wounded, one | in the cheek and shoulder and another in the hand. The defenders then held the attackers at bay until the arrival of sheriff’s officers with tear bombs. The officers dispersed the crowd and escorted | 12 automobiles carrying Filipinos to | their homes at Watsonville. Note Gives Warning. Earlier in the evening a stone, to which was attached a note bearing a skull and crossbones, was tossed through the window of a Pilipino residence. The note said: “Let white gitls alone.” ¥ Across the river in Pajaro, 12 Pili- pinos engaged in a stone fight with 8 whites last night. The Filipinos were said to have been routed. decades, Monday brought him a sen- tence of from 3 to 20 years in the Michigan Reformatory. Dufty, who was cashier of the Mer- rill State Bank at Merrill, Mich., plead- ed guilty to a charge of embezzling $35,000 before Circuit Judge Martin, who immediately passed sentence. He will not be taken to prison, however, until he has assisted State bank ex- aminers in thelr audit of the bank's books In_his ‘e6hfession’to Detroft” authori- tles Dufty said he had hit on the rob- bery scheme as the easiest way to cover up certain shortages in his accounts which had been caused by his unsuc- ‘cessful activities in the stock market. | PLANNING WAR ON RUM. | Lansing, Mich., Police to Have Radios and Scout Cars. | _LANSING, Mich,, January 22 (P).— | Emergency 'appropriations to provide | Michigan State police with a radio sta- tion, scout cars, machine guns, tear | bombs and bullét-proof vests to com- bat Detroit-Chicago rum runners were given tentative approval here Monday. The radio system would include re- Fraternity !nd;lcts J.; Davis, LEXINGTON, Va., January 22 (#).— John W. Davis of New York, Democratic presidential nominee in 1924, was in- ducted into Delta Sigma Phi, national honorary legal fraternity, by the Wash- ington and Lee University Chapter here Monday. Mr. Davis, who is a member of the board of university trustees, was 1]1 Lexington to attend at trustees’' meet- ng. celving sets for every county, for mu- | nicipal police _departments, ' and the |scout cars, which would patrol the trunk highways between Detroit and Chicago. The cars would have bullet- | proof windshields. | Another phase of the proposed of- fensive against crime which was ap- | proved by the committee was establish-~ | ment of the State Police School for | training not only of State police re- | eruits, but also of members of sheriffs’ | forces who may come to attend. 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