Evening Star Newspaper, December 25, 1931, Page 2

YILE PENETRATS JALLS OF PRONS Christmas Celebrations -In- clude Special Meals, Gifts and Even Freedom. By the Associated Press CHICAGO, December 25—Twenty- four socks were hung vesterday in alimony row in the Cook County Jail and beside the gay Christmas tree in their cell biock The delinquent wife supporters held impr an mptu symposium on the sub- | on was prcliminary to ction of the Alimony Club's v president, and the verbal ba vored Moe Arthur on a pla x e Alimonites phrased it, of | “bum breaks 1o Job, lost romance. President Released. incumbent of the presi- dency was among the three dozen in- habitants of cell block “C" presented with their freedom as & Christmas pres- ent by the courts on a would settle on their_accounts Fred Perry sc The r A big blond man strug- gled to make sturdy fingers tie tiny bows of red ribbon. He chuckled “Oh, it's good.” explained Perr d wife 1 would v while my If I were out mon way interposed a_middle-aged | I can't understand | rather have us in t look for jobs than we can. I'm off ‘em fer life,” ejac- 1 youth. Second Try Better. interrupted Felix Das- decade older. “You mu: Ws Just because you the first time is no sign second. My first mar- we won't_speak of that except at’'s why I'm here—but my sec- I'm happy.” no, This Christmas is not so bad.” safd a rourd-faced man. “Most of us| got. jobs anvway. Maybe we| S nething to thank our women We'll get roast duck for s and a bil of entertainment. Not bad “Perhaps not, but—"_This came hesita from Andrew Dombrowski, tall and youthful. He turned from the Christmas tree he was dccorating. "I wish I could see my kid. But I don't even know where she is.” 40 INMATES RE! FASED. Richmond City Judges Free Prisoners; Others Get Special Food. RICHMOND, Va., December 25 (4 —Law violators were touched by the Christmas spirit_here yesterday as 1 penitentiary sentence was suspended and 40 jail inmates released by judges | of the courts, while preparations were going forward to give an appropri- ate d and some holiday sweets to 450 priscners who must remain in jail Gov. Pollard had his share in the acts of generosity by paroling Linwood Bottom years in the penitentiary for the killing of Howard D. Brown, former prohibi- tion agent. SING SING GETS GIFTS. Each Inmate Given Package Contain- ing 15 Articles. OSSINING, N. Y. December 25 (). »-The inmates of Sing Sing received their Christmas “presents yesterday. Packages, each containing 15 articles, went to all of the 2.400 inmates of the prison, except 26 slayerswconfined in the death house Since one of the articles in each of the packages was a 5-pound bag of sugar. Santa Claus had to deliver about € tons articles included a pound of coffee. a package of omions, a can of milk. an orange. an apyple. a pack- ag: igaretts, a cigar and syme clean clothes, den Lewis E. Lawes was able to the distribution through funds raised by a recent minstrel show and the foot ball games in which the Sing Sing team played this season. DOORS THROWN OPEN. Chattanooga's Jail Emptied for Chris- mas Season. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, December » ners of Chattanooga’s Jail ceived a tmas present worth Cr ng {rom the police commissioner. ig iron doors were opend wide rers were allowed to de- admonition to “sin no that is. all but three or four, who had committed major offenses and were detained. PLAN AL MENU. District Prisoners to Have Extra Food | for Dinner Toda | Several hundred unfortunates “on the inside looking out” of penal insti- | tutions in the District sat down at| noon todav to decorated dining tables | loaded with good. wholesome food— their Christmas present from Uncle Sam| At Occoquan and Lorton Supt. M. M. Barnard of District penal institutions, | approved a menu of roast pcrk, apple sauce, sage dressing, pickles, candied sweet’ potatoes, bread, coffee, pumpkin pic ) dy, mixed nuts and | &moki 1cco. AU the District jail Maj. William | Peak. superintendent. served his charges hed potat brown gravy, nberry sauce, choco- late pudding and sauce, apples, coffee, bu and bread I The pork served at the three in- stitutions came from the farm at! Lorton. Yule Gifts for Girl Friend Stop Shots Fired by Footpads Bullets Pierce Pajamas and Break Perfume Bot- tles, but Man Escapes. CHICAGO, December 25 (4).—It was a good thing for Joseph Carchin that he bought his girl friend some Christ- mas presents. Otherwise it seems likely he would have been a dead man today. He got her some silk stockings, pajamas and a few bottles of perfume Then he started out to take them to her. but on the way two hold-up men stopped him Carchin gazed over his packages. One of the robbers, who was a trifle nervous, fired twice. The bullets went through the packages, perforated the stockings and pajamas, and shattered two bottles of the perfume, but spent their force and failed to harm Carchin FAIRMONT, W. Va, December 25| F) —Sectting his bare feet down gingerly on cold sidewalks and care- fully avolding iron gratings, Edward Connor came down Fairmont's main thoroughfare. Even his shoes and socks were taken by a hold-up man, and on Christmas eve, ¥ sentenced in 1925, to serve 20 N In addition to the customary holly of Christmastide, the unusually mild Winter has produced pansies and roses in Washington's parks. Upper: One of the many roses bloom- ing in the large bed at the rear of the | Navy Department, near Seventeenth street, typical of many Washington gardens at this season. Lower: A pansy, Tepresentative of many flowering in the parks. Already crocus shoots are beginning to push their heads above the sod and offictals of the Office of Public Public Parks fear that the mild Winter may force the flowers to bloom prema- turely and spoil the anticipated display arranged as a feature of the George Washington Bicentennial next year DRIVER FOR SOCIETY KILLED BY CAR AFTER DELIVERING GIFTS (Continued From First Page) dence near Chain Bridge, where Leroy was to obtain a Christmas tree from his employer. The boys had planned to was 11l when a sccond automobile, operated by Thomas P. Henry of Rosslyn, Va., started 4 U turn from the north curb. The machines hit near the center of the street over, pinning Leroy beneath it. A 'passing motorist_took the youth to Georgetown Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival. He had suffered a fractured akull and internal injuries. Henry was uninjured, and Charles Faunteroy escaped with minor cuts and bruises. Both drivers were taken to No. 7 precinct to have their brakes tested. The colored youth told police Henry began his turn without holding out his hand to signify his intention. Wit- nesses said, however, that Henry ap- parently was driving slowly and care- fully. TUG, ONGE PEARY’S SHIP, HAVEN IN STORM By the Associated Press, PORT ANGELES, Wash.. December 25—Seven hours after she was be- lieved lost in one of the worst storms off the North Pacific Coast in many years, the historic tug Roosevelt crept into the shelter of Neah Bay, west of here. yesterday. 5 Her wireless cabin was stove in and flooded, which explained her silence after frantic SOS calls, which sent three Canadian and United States pa- trol boats speeding to her aid. Later it was found she was in no danger. The Roosevelt, Admiral Robert E. Peary’s North Pole discovery ship, chal- i lenged the gale in an effort to bring | the schooner Commodore, winner of a | sage he expressed the hope that ‘“con- | tee sent the dolls back to be dressed, the race from Hawali, into port for Christ- mas. Buildings and | Celebration | decorate the tree for their mother, who | They were driving west on M street, | and the roadster tul’nedI HE EVENING HOOVER EXTENDS YLETIDE REETING Capital Spends Quiet Christ- ' mas—Unemployed in City | Remembered. i (Continued From First Page.) of the people of the National Capital | to the President was expressed by Mary | Schaller of Troop 82, Girl Scouts, and | Robert Crowder, Troop 43, Boy Scouts. The Marine Band, conducted by Capt. Taylor Branson, was assisted in the musical presentation by the Govern- | ment Printing Office Quartet, the senior | class of St. Patrick’'s High School, the | Young Peoples Society of the First| | Congregational Church and the chotus | of George Washington University As twilight faded into darkness, the President 4nd the Pirst Lady bade gootinight to the household staft and | jolned with their sons, Herbert and | Allen, and their daughter-in-law, Mrs. Herbert Hoover, jr, in arrangements | for Santa’s visit. Behind the white door of the Presi- dent's House, on which there hangs & symbolic circle of green leaves and red berries, the Hoover grandchildren claimed today for their own. With a live Santa Claus and a surprise array | jof toys, they thrilled with the childish | pranks of Christmas morning. | Reminders of homeland observances ¢ were breucht into the American cele- | bratlon by foreign officials as the city became an alembric of the emblems of | the Yuletide season. Back of the ma: sive doors of legatiohs and embass'e: | in the private celebrations of the repre- sentatives of other lands, there are re- | flections of the Yule log that marks | the day in France and of the hay-filled | wooden shoes put out for 8t. Nick's reindeers in Holland. And then, too, | the pungent foods and convivial bowl that makes the Christmas feasts of | | influence STAR, WASHINGTON HESS GIVES ANGLE IN DIAMOND PROBE Gangman’s Murder Followed Taxi Ride in Which “Mys- tery Man” Figured. By the Assoclated Press. ALBANY, N. Y, December 25.—The “mystery man,” one of 13 persons to play parts in Jack Diamond's last | living hours, yesterday told what he | | knew of the gangster's activities the night he was shot to death. Sylvester Hess talked with the dis- trict attorney. Hess had been sought A week, District Attorney John T. Delaney saicd he was not satisfied with Hess' ex- planation of his absence, “out of town.” All of the 13 have told sdmething of the acquittal celebration in a speakeasy and the events leading up to the mur- der except “Kiki” Roberts, Diamond's sweetheart, and the gangster's little nephew, who couldn't tell much be- cause he was asleep almost all evening. “Kiki” 8 in Boston with her mother, vowing to do Dbetter—and writing about it Hess sat in a taxicab chatting with John _Storer, the driver, while the chauffeur waited outside Miss Roberts’ apartment for Diamond. The gangster had left the acquittal revels to call upon “Kiki.” Diamond was under the of liquor, Hess told Delaney Along Broadway, about 15 blocks from Diamond’s rooming house, Hess got out of the cab, he said. Storer took the hoodlum chief home and a short while after he left two or three men did what three other groups of gunmen failed to do—they “bumped off” Jack Diamond. That ago tomorrow. | Italians who hold their Christmas | service in the #plendor of St. Peter's in | | Rome, r Cabinet Members at Home. | Most of the members of Mr. Hoover's | cabinet planned a day at home with | their families. Secretary Stimson and | Secretary Hurley of the State and War Departments, respectively, are among the Santa Clauses of the day. The War Department head has four small young- sters with whom to share Christmas | Joys Attorney General Mitchell was to| have his two sons with him and the | daughter of Secretary and Mrs. Hyde | planned to spend the day with her parents. Ray Lyman Wilbur, jr., also was with his family | More than 2100 boys and girls in Washington were visited by a Santa | Claus from the Christ Child Soclety last night. Far into the night members of the organization distributed toys that had been @onated for the under- privileged youngsters of the city The Central Union Mission, which yesterday gave gifts to 1.600 underpriv- | leged children at its biggest party in 17 years, today kept open house for the homeless and jobless men of the city. Approximately 556 men. many of them former converts, were the mis- slon's guests at Christmas dinner. It was a generous repast, the Civitan Club of Washington having contributed a | 300-peund gide of beef and various firms also having contributed groceries and delicacies that seldom grace the tables at such repasts. Tonight the mission will keep 1t8 doors open for all who seek shelter. Special Service Held. Before the dinner, which women of the mission served, 4 special service was held in the chapel attended by several | hundred men. Col. James Laird made | a talk and there was special music led | by Miss Ruth Branson at the piano. Mr. and Mrs. John S. Bennett, who | | run the mission, expressed their hearty | gratification over the public co-opera- | tion of their many friends in helping (to make this the most successful Christmas, perhaps. in the more than | 40 years of the mission's service to the poor Members of the Lions Club were out early distributing 75 baskets of food to needy familles. They aided Santa Claus in his visit to the Washington Home for Foundlings, the Wisconsin avenue Home for the Aged and at Friendship House. Vergne Potter is |chalrman of the Club's Christmas Charities Committee. “EVERYBODY IN WORLD” GREETED BY JOHN D.| | ORMOND BEACH, Fla, December 25 /P, —Here's John D. Rockefeller's Christmas wish: “A happy Christmas for everybody in | the world.” The multimillionaire's Winter home. | the Casements. bustled with Christmas | activity today. but “Neighbor John," fs he 18 known here, did not vary his dally routine. He planned a round of golf and Members of the department proved ex- | greetin, to see for friends who dropped in im. In a4 pre-Christmas mes- | | ditions | will improve with the Hewl| year.” RACUSE POLICE FIGHT WAGE SLASH SYRACU Mayor Threatens to “Act” if Force' Does Not Accede to Cut by Tomorrow. SYRACUSE. N. Y., December 25 (A Syracuse police yesterday ‘“respect- tully declined” to accept Mayor Rolland B. Marvin's proposal for a 10 per cent voluntary reduction in salary of city employes. The mayor told them he gave them until 2 pm. Seturday to change their mind. If they do not, he said, “then I'll act.” ‘The Policemen's Committee, waiting upon the mayor, cited recent utterances of President Hoover against wage cuts !in support of their stand. They said “We are acting in behalf of 30000 members of the New York State police conference.” The mavor did not indicate what his action may unchanged Forms to be signed by those accept- ing the mayor's proposal now are being circulated smong the teachers by principals of every school in the city. NOTES OF PROTEST MERE FORMALITY, TOKIO CONTENDS which is Chinese. but where Japanese have “vital interests”? Showdown Seen Within Week. Whether the powers will see Manchurian Situation from the same angle is another matter eral situation in the world were dif ferent there is not the slightest doubt that these arguments would be im- mediately refuted. But the United States and the principal European powers have many other more vital problems of their own to consider. Consequently the Japanese foreign of- fice is convinced the world powers will be satisfied with some platonic protesta- tions and will be glad to accept any plausible explanation Japan may offer in order to get the Manchurian situ- ation off their hands. Whether the reasoning of the Tokio Government is right will be seen in the course of the next week. It is unlikely. however, that the Government of the United Btates will be satisfied to accept the Tokio explanations and will go on record with a protest which may be useful in years to come. the Balk on Dressing Dolls. KITCHENER, Ontario (#)—There is a limit on what a fireman can do. pert at mending dolls, but when the woman members of the Rellef Commit- laddies just climbed on the truck and went to a fire. Connie Mack Honored by “His Boy in Philadelphis, MANY SEND GIFTS TO ATHLETICS' MANAGER ON SIXT » Y-NINTH BIRTHDAY. —A. P. Photo. fgther’s will, as a week | be if the police stand is| | Oontinued From First Page) the | If the gen- | B O | DECEMBER 25 Hoovers Participate in Christmas Fete ! 1 i | | | RESIDENT HOOVER and his ent right: A White House military and Allan Hoover. Little Peggy FOUR STILL HELD | | | | | Authorities Await Chemical Analysis of Clothing of Marian McLean. CINCINNATI, Ohio, December 25 (4" The outcome of a chemical analysis was awaited today as police continued thelr man hunt for the kidnaper and ver of Marian McLean, Apparel found in the room of a suspect was turned over to a chemist to determine whether foreign matter staining it was blood. A comparison was being made with matter also found on_the clothing of the 6-year-old girl Four suspects, one of them a grocer, arrested late vesterday after police said he was unable to explain his movements satisfactorily, still were being ques- tioned without result The search for the room where the | ing of tenement er body in the be. house Tuesd: con- tinued. Police held to their theory { that Marian. lured from her play eight | davs ago, had never been far from her heme. She had been assaulted and |died of internal hemorrhages and shock Christmas eve failed to bring the expected reunion of the girl's estranged parents. Joseph McLean, the father ement of a atrplane from Phoenix, Ariz., was forced by bad weather to remain overnight in Memphis, Tenn. The mother, Mrs Mildred McLean. who is nearly ex- hausted, was secluded in a hotel, HOOVER HEL.PS STM\;TA WITH PEGGY ANN'S AND HERBERT’S YULE GIFTS _(Continued From First Page.) to the assistance of old Santa, so that the presents could be lifted from the bag more quickly. He later crouched over and assisted his little grandson in wnrking‘ some of the mechanical toys. When the last present had been taken from the bag, Santa, with a jolly wave of his hand, disappeared into the chimney. Peggy Ann and Herbert, 3d, became absorbed in their playthings Soon after the departure of Santa Claus, the family, with the President in the lead, went to the east room, where all of the attaches and servants were lined up in front of a large Christmeas tree. After an exchange of greetings, Peggy and her brother, in the name of the President and Mrs. Hoover, presented a gift to each. Presents for Hoover. Of course, there were numerous presents for the President and Mrs. Hoover and the two sons and the daughter-in-law, but. in accordance with the previously announced wishes of the Hoovers, none was of an expensive nature. Besides many simple gifts, the Presi- dent and Mrs. Hoover received thou- sands of Christmas cards. Many of these greetings were in the form of telegrams and cablegrams. In addition, they reccived scores of potted flowers and boxes of cut flowers. There will be two Christmas meals at the White House today. One at 2 o'clock will be just an ordinary family affair with a 20-pound gobbler the fea- j ture of the feast. Tonight at 8 o'clock, of the cabinet and their families, again was a happy and colorful event. With the presidential family at dinner were the secretaries and chief military and naval aides and their families. Inexpensive presents were distributed from & large Chrstmas tree in the cor- ner of the dining room. Christmas Eve Party. Pollowing the meal, the White House was the scene of a real old-fashioned family Christmas eve party, brought to a climax with dancing of the Virginia reel in the East room. President and Mrs. Hoover did not join in this dance. Later, with the President in the lead, holding little Herbert with one hand and lighted candle with the other, the entire company, each person carrying a Ighted candle, marched all over the White House, which was ih darkness. | Kept From Seeing Mother. OKLAHOMA CITY (#)—To share in the estate of their grandfathér, Leopold ONNIE MACK, méster mind of the Philadelphia Athletits, received many gifts from admirers on his sixty-ninth | M, Guggenheim. Paul' Guggenheim, 14, birthday Wednesdny, chief among them bélng & birthday caké présénted by members of his team. Photo shows | llh\‘l Big George Earnshaw and Jimrite Dykes, membass of the A's, presenting Connie Mack with the cake in hik offics JEA8t his_sister, Mary, 12, must live at 800 miles away from their mother. stipilation was made in the grand- brother, Herbert Hoover, 3d, stands at her side N SLAYING OF GIRL child was secluded prior to the find- | who is being given a free ride by | President and Mrs. Hoover will be hosts | at a dinner in honor of the members Christmas eve at the White House | FIRST FAMILY PICTURE MADE HERE AT COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS TREE. ire family posed for their first Christma: national community Christmas tree. which he illuminated late yesterday. aide, Herbert Hoover, jr Anne Hoover, the Presider Mrs. Herbert s granddaug | | s picture this year at the foot of the Bhown in the upper group are, left to Hoover, jr.; the President, ) hter, is seen holding his hand —Star Staff SENATOR LA FOLLETTE. WISCONSIN SENATOR TO SPEAK IN FORUM La Follette to Discuss Plan for $5,500,000,000 Prosperity | Bond Issue. ] Senator Robert M. La Follette, jr., of | Wisconsin will discuss his plan for a \ 00,000,000 prosperity bond issus to | finance emergency public vorks in the National Radio Forum arranged by The Washington Star and broadcasted over the coast-to-coast network of the Co- lumbia Broadcasting Co. at 10 p.m. to- morrow. The Wisconsin Senator feels strongly that the Government must step into the |breach in the present business depres- | sion and set the wheels in motion again {with & huge program of construction | that will place at work again millions of | persons now out of jobs. -In his bill Senator La Follette proposes an addi- used bonds. IDEMPSEY BROTHER FINED Pleads Guilty to Possession of 24¢ Gallons of Wine. LOS ANGELES, December 25 (P).— Joe Dempsey, brotter of Jack Dempsey, former heavyweight champion, pleaded guilty yesterday to possession of 24 gal- lons of wine. He paid a fine of $60. Dempsey previously asked a jury trial, which was scheduled for yesterday, but pleaded guilty upon his court ap- Ppearance. for redeeming these prosperity Father and Mother Drown Trying to Save Son and Chum. HAMPDEN, Me., December 25 (P).— ‘Treacherous ice glasing the swift Sour- dabscook stream caused the loss of four lives here yesterday. A father and & mother were swept to death in a futile effort to save their 7-year-old son and his chum from drowning. The dead: P Mr, and Mrs. Ralph Barnes of Hamp- en. Ralph, jr., their son. Prank Sanson, jr., 8. The boys, playing 200 feet off shore, were plunged into the stream when the ice, weakened by mild weather, broke beneath them. Their cries summoned Barnes and his wife. Warnirg his wife to remain ashore, Barne: gitempted to reach the bo: clinging to the edge of the ice. But he, too, was plunged into the water as the ice gave way. Mrs. Barnes, in a vain ;t‘wmpu to reach him, went the same Y. Bodies of Barnes and the boys were tecovered quickly, but the body 6f Mrs. Barnes, cartied under the ice, was not Tecovered until ap hour later, tional surtax of 2 per cent on all in-| |comes over $5.000. the proceeds to be | TRAGEDY FOLLOWS TRAGEDY 100 COWVICTS HALT * BREAKS IN LEVEES Sumner, Miss., Flood Peril Averted as High Waters Still Inundate Big Area. By the Associated Press SUMNER, Miss, December 25.—Con- viets and householders waded about | together in mud and water this Christ- | mas morning, bolster levees weak- | ened by rains and overflow waters from | the Tallahatchie R T A sudden break in the levee system along Bayou Cassidy last night threat- ened to undate Sumner, but the quick work of 100 convicts from t State Penitentiary and residents | checked the flood Wwaters | being. Marooned Families Rescued. At Glendora Supt. Jim Williamson the State penal system pe supervised reconstruction and strength- ening of the levess by convicts. They were working there in water four fect for the time of el 1an sector. Reports continued that colored per- | sons in the flooded area had been drowned. but workers were unable to | verily the statements or to make thor- | ough checks because of the vast in- | undated area | Flood dangers around Monroe, La., were two fect away as the gauge on the Quachita reached the 40-foot stage because of the high levees above and bl Monroe, Armed Patrols on Levees. To protect their private levees from threatened dynamiting by over-anxious land owners w to relieve t ¢ irkes. planters are maintaining an armed patrol. Several | attempts at dynamiting were reported Few Christmas trees blazed to cheer refugees, mostly colored plantation workers. Relief workers said it was taxing the resources of the Red Cro and the plantations to provide ba necessities of life, and the situation hourly is growing worse. A gradual rise was rioted on the lower Mississippi River vesterday. with 339 registered at Vicksburg, the highest stage there for the year. | JURY FINDS MAN GUILTY MADERA, Calif., December 25 (£ — A Superior Court jury yesterday con- victed Albert W. Fuller, formerly of Macon, Ga., of the first-degree murder of James W. Kipp, his former business associate. The jury made no recommendation which means the presiding judge must pronounce the death penalty when | Fuller is sentenced Fuller took the verdict stoically. He | came into the court room with a rabbit's foot in his pocket. Mrs. Marjorie Fuller, his estranged wife, who had expressed a desire to | see the death penalty imposed, swayed as If she were about to collapse. Buperior Judge Stanley Murray set December 28 for passing sentence. Mass Funeral Held for S Who Lost Lives in Water. ven | CHICAGO, December 25 (#)—Fu- neral services for Orville Oman, 7, and six persons who tried to save him from drowning near Muskegon, Mich., last Saturday were held yesterday in a West Madison street chapel. ‘The other dead were Albert and Elsie Oman, parents of the child, and their other son, Oliver, 12; Harry Ergang, 20; Peter J. Morgan, 17, and his brother Theodore, 14. All were related. The seven gray and white caskets| were grouped at one end of the chapel Those of Ergang and Albert Oman were draped with American flags, significant of their World War service. Rev. R. B. Montgomery of the Jack- son Boulevard Christian Church offi- clated. Members of the Chicago Print- ing Pressmen’s Union, No. 3, were pall- Dbearers. Interment was in Forest Home ' 2 | | before the 1in a combined drive of State and | virginia | cargo of on | be worth $4,000 | had better come out of E Fi7 DRY AGENTS SE7E MUCK YULE LIQUOR Prohibition Officers Make Huge Hauls to Stop Virginia Holiday Supply. By the Associated Press. RICHMOND, Va., December 25.—If this jsn't a dry Christmas day in Vir- ginia it's not because officers haven't made tremendous dents in the sources of supply. Two heavily laden liquor trucks from the South were captured holiday and tho gallons of whisky and mash destroyed eral agents rlier in the nine other trucks were caught What is true of Virginia applies al: to North Carolina, according to Capt. R. Q. Merrick, Federal prohibition ad- ministrator for the fourth enforcement district. Just back from the neighbor State, Capt. Merrick said that his of- fice at Wilson, N. C., reported that one crew of two agents had captured three liquor-bearing automobiles in the east- ern district of the State and that the central district administrator at Greens- boro reported seizure of 13 cars in & single nigl Five Drivers Caught. s fer the men nce December 12 1 the activity of ing the December traffic, which he said is the heaviest of all months in the year. He pointed out that he is al- lowed no additional men for the season. State agents under Director H. B Smith reported the seizure of six trucks during the past week, the confiscation of approximately 500 gallons of whisky the capture of nearly 60,000 gallons of mash and the destruction of 41 stills— 21 of them in one day Two of the five trucks trapped on the highways during the month were caught during the past week. The was estimated by police to be valued at $3,000 at prevailing prices, and the load on the other was s: id to “Hawks Flying Aroun Eight of the stills captured were in Franklin County. Federal Agent don described this parti having an intricate telep] warn distillers of the ag “Those mountaincers I f prettiest and most effective systems of signal work I have ever seen.” he said, “A lot of talk over the teleph code language tips them off." the a said. He cited one instance in which a man told another to “get his chickens in because the hawks were fiying around.” CONGRESS TO BALK FURTHER DEBT CUT, WATSON ASSERTS (ontinued From First Page ) ing money into Europe, He issued a Statement saying the United States should “come out of Europe and sta out.” He said ‘I can see no recovery Europe until reparations are cut out, elim- inated, in their entirety. For 12 years conferences have been held. readjust- ments made, but none have brought re- lief. The downward movement econom- cally has been almost constant. For 12 ears we have been told that this plan, or that plan. assured recovery, all based upon some temporary expediency with reference to reparations. But no recov- ery came. If Burope cannot sec her way clear to end reparations and dras- tically cut armaments, th, ted States pe and stay ohit thing to come to out us stay an- 245,000~ h United States help which may be exter when they p 1 } grams which make help vain and effectual Pays in Different Ways. “If it be said that to her uncondi her damages, many has pai reparations some tWo per cent ¢ This gives her ar greater. to h her own esti Senator Bora had in mind in urgi of armament. indi a cut of 30 to 40 per cent expenditures of about §: armaments in Europe The Republican and Democratic ers of the House, Representative of New York and Representative Ra of Illinois, respectively, declared they not only were opposed to cancellation or reduction of the debts, but that they did not look favorably on any proposal for a further moratorium. Admission was made by congressional leaders that some of the European debtors might not P sked what he the preson 000.000.000 for pay, but they took the psition that, if they did not pay, the foreign debtor nations could defa Chairman_Col- lier of the House Ways and Means Com- mittee, who engineered the passage of he moratorium resolution through the use last week, said that he was in no mood to discuss revision at this time POPE'S APPROVAL SFEN. Expected to Indorse Appointment of Woman as Arms Delegate. VATICAN CITY, December 25 () Some church authorities here today inferred the approval of the Vatican for the appointment of Dr. Mary Wooley as one of the American repre- sentatives at the world disarmament conference because of the interest shown by Pope Pius XI in arousing the women of the world to use their in- fluence in the cause of peace and dis- armament. The Pontiff's declaration today thas he did not wish to say anything defi- nitely l’!‘%nrdmg his views on disarma= ment left a general aversion to being quoted, but it was pointed out that the Pope recently appointed Cardinal Cer- retti to the task of encouraging the International Federation of Catholie Women's Association its work for peace. CHOICE HAILED IN SPAIN, in Woman Leader Congratulates Hoover on Naming Dr. Mary Woolley, MADRID, December 25 (#) —Clara Campoamor, prominent woman leader and member of the Chamber of Depu- ties in Spain, today hailed the appoint- ment of Dr. Mary Woolley as a member of the United States delegation to the world disarmament conference as “worthy of emulation by other coun- tries.” “I congratulate President Hoover, as well as Miss Woolley, whose work I know well,” she raid “The President’s tction represents a recognition of a world-wide opinion among_intelligent women that women must_co-operate in all fundamental na- tionai and international affairs in order to attain well balanced results.” One-fifth of the actidental death: the country over, are ascribed to the automobile.