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- WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) out. 16 degrees; ess, slowly iperature rising temperature. ‘Temperatures—Highest 37 at 12:30 yes- terday; lowest mnr:m 15 at 8:15 today. on page 5. Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages13,14 & 15 Entered as post office, 640 nd class m: ashington, he STRIKES THREATEN FAMINE I SPAIN; BIG ARMY MASSED 75,000 Reported Mobilized. Martial Law Enforced. Situation Uncertain. LEADERS OF REBELLION INTERNED IN PORTUGAL Four Dead, 20 Wounded Counted as Result of Riots and Armed Clash Yesterday. HENDAYE, France, December 16 () —Reports received here today through Republican sources said Valencia was in the hands of rebeis and three loyal generals had been executed. Travelers from Madrid said more trouble was expected in the vicinity of Saragossa, where Communists appeared to have taken advantage of the revolutionary move- ment, By the Associated Press. MADRID, December 16.—Through the heavy-handed censorship which clutched all Spain there seeped today reports which indicated that the revo- lutionary movement of the past week had developed into a general strike, threatening food shortage in many of the kingdom's principal cities. Martial Jaw was in force from one end of the country to the other. ty-five thousand troops were reported to have been mobilized, and the leaders of | yesterday's revolt of the aviators were interned at Lisbon, but civilian Repub- licans were rebelling in a series of simultaneous strikes which indicated that this “peaceful” revolt had been well synchronized. From Barcelona came reports that | the police had been reinforced by 6,000 civil guards. At San Sebastian the walls were plastered with proclamations ab- rogat all constitutional rights and the civil authorities had surrendered their powers to the military. . Bilbao's Broad Exhausted. Strikes_were in progress at Santan- der, at Bilbao, where Alcala Zamora ‘was_proclaimed "Pr‘:;dent néu_t.:u Te- iblic” yesterday, a gossa, &Hfi. yJelelL Valencia, Cadiz, Seville, Huelva and Gijon. Bilbao reported its bread supply was exhausted, no bakers were working and all provision stores closed. The frontier town of Irun, whose communications were cut off by insurgents yesterday, reported by a circuitous route that a m flmln;‘hld,mn. Supplies were brought across-the frontier from the French town of Hendaye. Similar famines were feared in other parts of Spain as the strike movement grew. The civil governor at San Sebastiaw issued = brief proclamation annoupeing that the army was in control. Fefnando Rich, the military gove-nor,” posted a long asserting esto the enforce- ment of martial law of all constitutional .were prohibited forbidden. !md through the wit their arms guards Seven- | 49 Pounds of Files And Fifteen Judges Needed for Divorce By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December 16.—The services of 15 judges were needed by Mrs. Marian Hanelin before she was granted a divorce from Dr. William B, Hanelin by Su- perfor Judge Rudolph Desort. The fifteenth judge finally granted the decree yesterday after hearng the case intermit- tently for two weeks, during which he tried vainly to bring about an agreement. She was awarded the separaticn on grounds of desertion after waiv- ing charges of cruelty. The Hanelins were married July 31, 1907. She filed her action in August, 1928. Since then the files in the case grew to a weight of 49 pounds. TWO BANDITS SLAIN AFTER BANK HOLDUP Third Shot in Illinois—Pitts- burgh Institution Robbed of $50,000 in Cash. i | By the Associated Press. SIDELL, Ill, December 16.—A spec- tacular chase that started immediately i after the robbery of the Citizens' Bank of Clinton, Ind., ended in a cornfield near Sidell today with two of the rob- bers shot and killed by a posse and a third man wounded. A posse, organized as the robbers ile(t Clinton with loot valued at between {$5000 and $10,000, finally overtook ,them on a country road near here. | Two of the men ran into the corn- field, while the third man was shot and wounded as he attempted to drag a machine gun from the automobile to | the cornfield. The posse then went into {the cornfield and shot the other rob- (bers, killing them instantiy. | The posse, in its wild pursuit, heard ireports that a deputy sheriff was shot by the robbers at Dana, Ind., and that | the loot had been recovered near Ja- | maica, IlL PITTSBURGH BANK ROBBED. | Band of Six Gets $50,000 After Slug- i ging Man Who Sought Aid. PITTSBURGH, Pa., December 16 (#). —Flourising revolvers and sawed-off shotguns. six bandits held up the Man- chester Savings Bank & Trust Co. here today and escaped with loot estimated at $50,000. The robbery was the third bank hold-up in the Pittsburgh district ! within 10 days. The bandits covered about 30 em- ployes of the bank and of the Superior Fire Insurance Co., which has offices adjoining the bank, with their weapons o the vault and open ft. . Several cin- tomers were in the bank. Manager Is Siugged. The robbery occurred half an hour after the institution opened for business, G. C. Gerwig, president of the bank, sald the bandits had obtained asbout 850,000 in currency. An attempt was made by Adam Hoff- man, manager cf the real estate depart- ment, to go t0 the second floor and tell the telephone operators “to call police. One of the bandits struck him on the head with & revolver and inflict- ed slight injuries. Hoffman made a sec- - | ond attempt to spread the alarm, how- shadow of uncer- ‘There were no reports of open rioting, but the authorities were on the alert for any emergency. In an exclusive statement to the Associated Press today Gen. Damaso Berenguer, premier of Spain, reiterated assertion that yesterday's revolu- tionary movement had been suppressed, that the army of Spain was everywhere loyal and that public opinion was unani- mously behind the government. “‘Order is being rapidly restored in all of the country,” he said, “ fleld in consequence of the abortive at- tq!t;c Jaca. revolutionary movement failed absolitely because it received no sup- port from the people, who have given unmistakable evidence of loyalty to and confidence in the government. The current ministry is strengthened by this unanimous support of public opinion ~ (Contintied on Page 7, Column 1.) NARCOTICS VALUED AT MILLION SEIZED Customs Men Make Record Haul in New York, but Importers Escape Capture, By the Associated Press. Huge quantities of narcotics, termed 8t the Treasury the largest seizure ever made. in this country, have been taken on the steamer Alesia in New York Customs agents reported today it to- taled 1,090 pounds, and said the market value ran above $1,000,000. ever, and went to the second floor, but "the bandits had gone by the time the police arrived. The bank is located in the Manches- ter district, which adjoins the main business section of the city. Described as “Kids.” The robbers used a powerful auto- mobile that had been stolen. Th&mrka ed it near the bank and after Tob- bery three of them fled in it. The method of escape of the other three bandits was not known. Scme of them were described by witnesess as “mere kids.” Gerwig and other officers, the em- loyes and customers were ordered to eep quiet and were forced toward the directors’ room. The paying teller, Dravo Grumpton, was taken to the vault and forced to open it. packages of currency and loose bills were seized and the robbers fled. - 4 SMOKE CHARGES FILED of Justice Charged With Violating Ordinance. An lpgnunon for a warrant charg- ing the violation of the smoke ordinance at the Department of Justice Building, 1101 Vermont avenue, as well as an spartment house on upper Fourteenth street, and a building in the 1300 block | of H street northeast, was filed in Police | Court today by inspectors of the Dis- trict Health Department. The complaint against the Justice Department_ requested the arrest of Ferdinand E. Phillips, chief engineer at_the State, War and Navy Building. The violation is said to have taken | place December 8. pector Donald 1 €. Maicolm requested the warrant, Many Department { JOFFRE REPORTED ILL {Son-in-Law Claims He Is in Usual H Good Health, However. PARIS, December 16 (#).—Reports i S the | 518,933 PITIS QUESTIONED BY PROSECUTOR ON EARNINGS SINCE 7 Government Contends In- come Insufficient to Pur- chase Stock He Held. TAX RETURNS OFFERED AS EVIDENCE IN CASE Principal Defendant Denies Bor- rowing Money to Make First Investment. Efforts to show that G. Bryan Pitts, principal figure in the F. H. Smith Co. conspiracy trial, had not earned enough money to purchase stock he admitted holding were made today by the Gov- ernment in its cross-examination of the witness. Pitts, who is on trial with C. Elbert Anadale and John H. Edwards, jr, for an alleged conspiracy to em- bezzle funds and destroy records of the Smith Co., completed his direct testi- mony this morning. His defense was along two general lines. In some cases he denied ever re- celving money which the Government claimed had been embezzled. In other instances he admitted recelving the money, approximately $900,000, but en- deavored to show that he was entitled to it. Under cross-examination, Nugent Dodds, special assistant to the Attor- ney General, attempted to break down Pitts’ testimony by showing that his expenditures were greater than his legitimate income from 1917 to 1927. Battle of Wits. He first obtained admissions from the witness that in 1927 he owned ap- proximately $750,000 of Smith company preferred stock. Pitts said all but $100,000 of this amount was paid in cash. He also testified that a year later he bought and furnished a home in_Florida for approximately $350,000. Dodds then introduced income tax returns filed by Pitts from 1917 through 1926, showing a total }nc‘;?;s% t.hnlt period of approximately ,000. was pointed out by the Government attorney that this was about one-half of the sum Pitts said he had paid for. his stock and his home. The cross-examination developed into a battle of wits between. the two men when the Government attorney at- tempted to probe Pitts’ business affairs over the 12 years. Pitts frequently replied that he “could not remember” when questions were put to him. Denies Borrowing Money. He denied emphatically, however, he had berro that wed money from Samuel J. Henry, Smith to vy . foe ok of Pitts also denied he had ever seen the cash disbursements journal or the general journal of the Smith Co. These were among the records which the Gov- ernment has charged the defendants with eoncellntxg.. Pitts said t at one time his in- come as chairman of the board of di- rectors of the Smith company was $90,000 a year. In 1917, when be- came affiliated with the Smith company, his income was $6,500 a year, according to his income tax return. In 1918 it was $8,277; in 1919, $13,56 in 1921, $103,975, and had accounted for $900,000 of the $1,190,000 allegedly embezzied when he finished his testimony. The balance of the money had already been ac- counted for by a defense accountant, Pitts admitted that money had been deposited in various banks to his credit, as charged by the Government, but con- tended that he received it legally from three subsidiary corporations of the Smith Co. He sald he was principal stockholder in the subsidiaries, the Beverly Building Corporation, the Mont- clair Corporation and the Forty-Third and Locust Street Corporation. He testified that the money was due him from surpluses in the treasuries (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) \DRUGGIST ARREST WARRANTS ASKED | Adulteration of Drugs and Unclean | Sterilicers Included in Complaints, The District Health Department, con- tinuing its drive against unclean and unhealthy conditions, applied in Police Court today for warrants for the arrest of managers and proprietors of 18 drug stores, charging violations of the act | relating to the adulteration of food and | drugs |~ The | stores complaints against the drug were mostly for adulteration of !drugs, a Health Department inspector and chemist claiming that certain |drugs were being sold which differed from the standard strength recognized in the United States pharmacopoeia. One application charged unclean ster- tlizers, The drug stores included some of the | most prominent and largest in the city, {most of which are situated in down- town business sections. | Court official said the warrants would be issued today and sent to police pre- 22, > ' [s0ld in the premises. ~As in | with WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION bening TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1930 TaxarioN WITHOUT | RECRES! T&q TaxATioN FORTY-EIGHT PAGES ¥ YEA ,II%ZSTM HARBOR oyg FoREFATHEPS SAID ATION 0 T ouT REPRESENTAT/ON. WE oF THE orFCorumBl DISTRICT A ARE IN T2 E SAME BOAT, TAXAT(OM WITHOUT | RePRESENTATION TEA | TAXAT! ol;’ 1 THOL l‘{“mmv- TODAY RIGHT T0 REGULATE D. . SIGNS DESIRED Planners and Engineers to Confer on Pending Legislation. With a view to obtaining from Con- gress more authority for the District Commissioners to regulate and control outdoor advertising signis, officials of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission and the District Engineer Department are expected to confer this week with the city heads on the general signboard situation in Washington. The signboard situation, according to Roland M. Brennan, chief clerk of the local Engineer Department, is beyond the complete control of the Commis- sloners, especially with respect to signs of the ‘‘tack and hammer” type. It is proposed to present to the Commission- ers recommendations that immediate steps be taken to bring the matter to the attention of the House District Com- s b e Senshe AAPRR P ust. ‘18 3 2 enacted into law at session. bill, however, does not meet ‘with the full approval of all concerned, it was said, and certain amendments will be recommended to the Commis. sioners. In a statement to The Star Mr. Bren- nan said: Declares City Heads Powerless. “The Commissioners are now power- less to prevent the painting or erection of a sign requl no buil permit, it that sign adve: ducted or a commodit; a result, the 18 being plastered ‘miscellaneous udy s ad- vertising every conceivable commodity or_product. “For example, in some cases, the corner grocery as many as 20 or 30 signs advertising different com- modities fastened, painted or tacked on the walls of the building. While there should be no interference with legiti- mate outdoor advertising in the eity, there is a need for a more effective control, especially in the National Capital, over riminate advertis- g™ Meanwhile. public sentiment, both in ‘Washington and Maryland and Virginia Aubur\;nn districts, oonc‘tnum: to muln‘l; fest vigorous support of campa/ to remove commercialized ugliness from the roadsides leading into the Capital City. Action was taken by two repre- sentative groups last night. Billboards Declared Dangerous. A resolution was adopted by the in- terfederation conference held in the National Capital Building denouncing billboards as “not only a serious nuisance but a very real | danger.” This interfederation is made up of delegates from the District of Columbia Federation of Citizens’ Asso- (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) pusscibiczhost safuadiorrin, DECAPITATION OF CHILD BY VOODOOS PROBED Havana Police Learn Act W Committed for Purpose of Mak- ing Offering to God of Cult. By the Associated Press. HAVANA, December 16.—The secret police are investigating reports that Voodoo worshipers near Havana re- cently decapitated a small child for the purpose of making a sacrificial offering to Chango, the mythical god of the cult. Cuban Voodoo worshipers are de- scendants of former African slaves, who con- | commodities United States Chamber of. Commerce | Reynol ACTOR TO RETURN GIRL Court Order Legalizes Barthelmess SBettlement With Ex-Wife. NEW YORK, December 16 (#).—The New York Daily News says Richard Barthelmess, the motion picture actor, has been served with a writ of habeas corpus ordering him to return to Mary Hay, his divorced wife, their 8-year-old daughter, Mary. ‘The order legalizes a settlement re- cently effected by Dr. S. Parkes Cad- .. ALTOST WOUNDED BY STRIE TROORS iDriver Refusing to Halt Is Shot Near Danville Mills. Two Homes Bombed. | Special Dispatch to The Star. DANVILLE, Va., December 16.—The serious wounding of Lockwood Pickett, by troops patrolling an area for possible dynamiters at Schoolfield, and word of two more dynamitings yesterday in the Mayfield section, about 10_miles from Schoolfield, were the major develop- ments in the textile strike situation today. b | Lower Body Paralyzed. Pickett's condition at the hospital here today was reported unchanged. | He is suffering from a bullet wound in the back, which paralyzed the lower part of his body. He was fired upon when he attempted to drive an automobile, in which he was riding with a young woman companion, Miss Virginia Hobby, 20, of Durham, N. C, past a military patrol after he had ignored an order to halt. Maj. E. W. Opie, second in command of the 116th Regiment, in a statement later sald 60 gallons of whisky was found in the car. was fired on in pursuance of orders in an area which was being scoured for possible dynamiters following a series of bomb explosions over the week end. Pickett's condition this morning was reported serious. The bullet had not been removed at an early hour. Pickett is from Foresthills, N. C. Young Woman Is Released. Miss Hobby was released after. ques- tioning, no charge being filed. H. L. Ople, in command, today appointed a board wmmnd of Majs. R. T. Grubert, H. F. White and G. D. lds, to investigate the shooting of Pickett. He sald a report will be completed in a day or two and for- warded to Gov. Pollard. Word of additional dynamitings, making the total for 24 hours five, was received from North Carolina authori- ties at Ruffin who are investigating two explosions which occurred at Mayfield. ‘The home of S. 8. Davis, a non- union man who works in the mill, was damaged. No one was injured. Davis, according to the authorities, reported hearing a car stop in front of the house shortly before the blast and drive oft after it occurred. The porch was (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) Shop Early “Things not .worth ad- vertising are not worth selling.” The merchants are ad- vertising in The Star the things the people want at He asserted the car | hug WOOD FIRM IN FIGHT ON SALARY RAISES New Department Bills Changed So That Stay of In- creases Will Be Automatic. Chairman Wood of the House Ap- propriations Committee was supported today by his committee in continuing his fight against increases in salary for Government employes during the com- ing fiscal year and to carry out the ad- ministration’s pledge of bringing all un- der-average salaries up to the average through a three-year program. The House Appropriations Committee in reporting out the agricultural appro- priation bill eliminated the increases but recommended by the Budget Bureau under the three-year pi . This action is consistent mm policy which the committee adopted on the two other big appropriation bills, Post Office and Treasury, in which the com- mittee action was approved by the House, and the Interior Department ap- tion bill, in which the House o w'},c-un Wo\:d“lmd- e payment of salary increases. ‘It is confidently expected that the House also will take similar action when the agricultural appropriation bill comes up for consideration. Deficiericies Are Noted. In explaining this situation, Repre- sentative Dickinson, chairman of the subcommittee which drafted the agri- culture appropriation bill, said: “In accordance with the requirements of the act of July 3, 1930 (the Brook- hart act), amounts aggregating $268,- | OIS 287 are carried for salary adjustments. While this sum shows throughout nu- merous items as increases or parts of increases over appropriations for 1931, the new rates are being paid during the current fiscal year and deficlency apropriations will be necessary to sup- plement present funds on that account. “The committee, in accordance with the plan pursued in connection with previous appropriation bills at this session, has eliminated the amounts submitted as the first installment of the dget program of three years of ap- propriation for increases in pay for employes in the so-called under-average grades under the classification act. The amount involved for the department (of Agriculture) for the fiscal year and deducted from the estimates for the accompanying bill is $223,820." Stay to Be Automatic. ‘The agricultural appropriation bill as reported today does not carry the so- called Wood amendment which is car- ried in the Treasury-Post Office bill and which was stricken out of the Interior Department bill on a record vote in the House. With _this Wood amendment omitted, (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) LA PLATA MILL RAZED BY BLAZE Flames Menace Lumber Yards and 0il Tanks—District Aid Is Asked. Special Dispatch to The Star. LA PLATA, Md, December 16.— Fanned by a brisk wind, a fire this after- noon razed the Matthews-Howard Co.’s flour grain mill and was menacing the firm's lumber yards as well as the oil tanks of the Sinclair, Southern Mary- land and Standard companies. Calls for help was sent to the fire companies of all surrounding towns and to Washington, D. C. * U.3. SHOULD BEAR EXCESS D. C..COST, GOTWALS THINKS Tells House Hearing Citizens Ought to Pay Ordinary ExpenseskOnly. CITES ADDIT|ONAL BURDEN FROM MUNICIPAL CENTER Seat of Government Costlier Than Comparable Cities, Engineer Com- missioner Declares. The United States should make s contribution to the District sufficient to meet expenses above the normal op- erating cost of the Municipal Govern- ment, Maj. John C. Gotwals, Engineer Commissioner of the District, today told the special committee of the House studying the fiscal relationship between the Federal and District Governments. Maj. Gotwals made his statement in response to a direct question by Chair- man Mapes as to what he believed should constitute a practical formula for determining the relative contribu- tion of the United States toward the operation and maintenance of the | District, | Maj. Gotwals pointed out that the | expenses of the District are greater than those of other comparable municipali- | tles due to the fact that Washington is the Nation's Capital and he believed the United States should share in those expenses of the excess cost. He cited as one gl illustration the additional burden placed upon the District use it is the seat of the National Govern- ment, the cost of erecting the munici- pal center, where the buils are to be made monumental in cl r to har- monize with those of the Federal build- SENATE PRESENTED CONFEREES' REPORT ON JOBLESS RELIEF —_— $116,000,000 Appropriation Approved in Form Attacked by Democrats, FAVORS EMERGENCY PRESIDENTIAL POWERS Drought Relief Measure Downed by Minority Party Aided by G. 0. P. Votes. By the Associated Press. ‘The conference report on the $116,- 000,000 emergency public works bill was presented to the Senate today and Sene ator Jones, Republican, ‘Washington, sald he would ask consideration to- morrow. Conferees of the Senate and House :.lnr::‘d' earlier to,dly to the $116,000,000 'ncy employment appropriation in the form in which it a.—-gpo»:'ouum y&,!x"firdly ‘:r;du;filsemu. e revi contairis the provision giving President Hoover authority to use the funds as he sees fit if emergencies arise. This had been stricken from the bll_lrhb‘z d'::blsen‘;“ lon of the conferees, reach- ed tentatively last Saturday, was assail- Several Amendments Dropped, Chairman Jones of the Senate Appro- priations Committee, will report the formal ld';ueemen! to the Senate. He ex- gdrea'zedd bt that a vote will be reach- ay. The conference report also eliminated the amendment of Senator Cousens, Republican, Michigan, requiring that contractors spending the $116,000,000 avenue—Mall triangle. Suggests Fair Solution. “I think & fair and equitable solu- o e Plo separate. the aperaing “woul operal costs and ital expenditures of the District and let filedbulll:.flcl hetrl ozhe ordinary expenses an Federal Gov- ernment the others. This is in reality an unconscious appliance of the same principle embodied in the 50-50, 60-40 nng lump-sum plan of Federal contri- o i Pederal Treamng 35 to its credit in the ‘Treasury to the extent of $260,000 to provide the iprovements _contem $9,500,000 contribution, applied entirely to Capital expenditures, while all other operatin, met out of revenues collected by the trict. Prospective Expenses Reviewed. “Our present expenditures are ex- traordinary,” sald Maj. Gotwals. Commissioners asked the department heads to give them an outline of pros- pective Capital expenditures for the next 15 years. These have not been care- fully reviewed, however, but I know they are not complete. For instance, there is no provision for a sewage dis- g:ul plant. That is something we may forced to provide in the next 15 years.” Chairman Mapes asked Commissioner Gotwals if he was familiar with taxes and the tax burden outside of Wash- intgon. In reply, he sald his family was paying taxes on property outside of St. Louis and that he owned a house in Norristown, Pa., and one in Wash- ington, and that he had no impression that the tax burden is “fbnormally or abnormally low” in Wi to; comparison with those two places. Mr. Mapes then asked him if he knew (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) YOUNG STUDENT SHOOTS SELF AND COMPANION ‘Washington Boy Accidentally Dis- charges Pistol in Theater at Staunton. Special Dispatch to The Star. ' STAUNTON, Va., December 16.—The hero of a Western thriller being shown on the screen of a local theater here had unexpected reinforcements, when Philip A. Dieterich, aged 15, of Wash- ington, D. C., a cadet at Staunton Mil- itary Academy, accidentally disc! 8 .25-caliber automatic revolver, wound- ing himself and a schoolmate, Cadet | ings to be erected on the Pennsylvania| h I sald, will be | ped costs will be | that fund employ local labor and pay the . ighest w scal $ o age le prevailing in the Amendments of Senators Black, Democrat, Alabama, and O.n;'le. Demo- crat, Oeor&mmn. available the un- expended nce of appropriations for road construction work in their States without the necessity of the States auflwu the funds, also were stricken Meanwhile, the Mouse Agriculture Committee ted a motion Tesentative. "Popnel, diana, to invite Secref FEE = without amendment thorization for food l"' cut from the Senate’s $60,000,000 to sum, being i H R i g5k to money, but free food loan provm.o’n. Sometime week or next a vote will be ht. To no v lican, Idaho, had thrown into dispute a plea for action, remin his colleagues that while they talki g;rlp!e were hungry. But at least ident Hoover had received stanch defense from Senator Watson of In- diana, the Republican leader. tor_ Jones, Republican, last night had taken to the ive the public directly a defense of {he Chiet Executive. President Hoover Defended. “He 1s an innocent of deceit, of what is called ‘bunk’ and of deception as & new-| babe,” sald Jones. “He may make some mistakes—who does mnot? That he is denounced as a deceiver of the peorle and a ‘bunk peddler’ should meet with the condemnation of every good citizen, regardless of politics.” Debate in the House was limited une der the procedure by which the meas~ ure was brought up, but the bravlg gi):nred to add zest to the vigor wi which Republican and Democrat match- ed words for and against the pi 5 ;n the endh::l“ {gll rc‘lull showed: 'or suspen e les and passing the bill: rlf& if i Republicans: 20¢. Ackerman, Adkins, Aldrich, Allen, An- derson, Arentz, Bachmann, Bacon, Baird, Barbour, Beck, Beedy, Beers, Blackburn, Eohn, Bolton, Bowman, Brand of Ohio, Britten, Brumm, Buckbee, B Burtness, Cable, Campbell of Pennsyl- vania, Carter of California, Chalmers, Chindblom, Christopherson, C! Clancy, Clark of Maryland, Clarke New York, Cochran of Pennsylvania, Cole, Colton, Cooke, T of Ohio, Coyle, Cramton, Crowther, Culkin, Dal- inger, Darrow, Dempsey, Denison, Glenn A. Irvin of Buffalo, N. Y. The bullet struck Dieterich in thigh and Irvin in the calf of the leg. The wounds are not regarded as serious by attending physicians. It is under- stood that Dieterich. who had been out for a hike, on entering the darkened theater attempted to unload the gun as a dfrmuuomry measure, When it was discharged. Possession of pistols is in violation of the school regulations, | Dickinson, Doweil, Dunbar, Dyer of Mis- souri, Eaton of New Jersey, Elliott, Englebright, Estep, terly, Evan: Cllifoblgflt'nnh. .nflr % , "\iflv (Continued on Page 3, Column 8.) ALABAMA BANKS MERGE Birmingham Combination’s Assets 1t said today. were current today in the Chamber of ! cincts stations to be sirved. Court b : Deputies that Marshal Joffre, victor of | action in many of the cases is not ex- the Marne, was seriously ill. Last night | pected this week. his son-in! referring to reports of | Inspector Philip 8. Cake and J, B. his iliness, said the marshal was “in his | Reed of the Health D:partment, filed customary good health.” the complaints, ARRAIGNED FOR SHORT-C}iANGING, MAN GIVES $195 FOR $200 BOND mgs Are Over $1,000,000. this time. practice human sacrifice as a part of their religious ceremonies. Voodooism in any form is sternly frowned :}xm. but occasionally crops up in spite the vigilance of authorities. ‘The narcotics were shipped from Tur- ¥ey, inclosed in cases of furs that orig- fnated in Constantinople. The Alesia, en route from Turkey, first #ouched at Providence, R. I., where cus- toms agents kept it under surveillance. Nothing was landed there. When the ‘vessel proceeded to New York, customs p : BIRMINGHAM, Ala, The Star is the shopping | WINTER STRONGHOLD CONQUERED |22 ks Netionay Back: guide in more than 163’,005 merger of bama with the Ensley National Bank, Whenever one of the secret meeting| homes in Washington and | BY JOURNALIST ON WORLD TOUR [0, e Shaminies Soccress’™ places is discovered it is immediately suburbs. . Terrell, 63, for many years broken up and the paraphernalia used . president of the Bank of Alaf e e o B ooniets ol Shop in the morning for | herbs, frogs and the like, is seized and your own comfort qnd con~ venience and. mail your destroyed. presents early. Yesterday’s Advertising (Local M)A.l“ Lfies The Evening Star. . .56,176 2d ‘Newspaper. . , ., .25,813 3d Newspaper. .., ; Supt. of Banks t F. Green said that & recent m:t&..n in :;Bllllnt shape. it o ONTARIO HEAD RESIGNS Ferguson to Represent Canada as Kaibab Forest in 15 Snow Seasons. [ REDS CAPTURE KUNGAN Military Forces at Hankow Sent to Evanston Police Declare Their Suspicion Justified That made the trip in Prisoner Had Been Cheating Cashiers. foam a8 By the Associated Press. PHOENIX, Ariz, December 16— Kaibab Forest, one of Winter’s strongest forts in the Southwest, was conquered he ith By the Associated Press. Total Wi