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KL SHTHFAVORED S FLIAND RUER Quezon -Reported for Him if Col. Roosevelt Is Not ‘Retained. ‘By the Associated Press. MANILA, November 25.—Alfred E. Smith, former New York Governor and 1928 Democratic candidate for Presi- dent -of $he United States, would*be a “most excellent” selection for governor general of the Philippines, President Manuel L. Quezon of the Ph{ippine Senate said today in commenting on a rumor here that Smith might receive that eppointment. “I have expressed no opinion so far as to who should be governor general under the Democratic administration,” the veteran Filipino leader said, “but if Gov. Roosevelt is to leave the Phil- ippines"—Gaov. Gen. Theodore Roose- t, son of the former President—“I would ‘consider the "appointment of Smith -most. excellent.” Quezon co-operated closely with Gov. Gen. Roosevelt during the recent legis- lative session; and it had been reported he 'go to the United States soon end that Roosevelt be retained. &emn is vacationing in Baguio Wl waiting & decision of whether a spécial session of the Legislature shall be heid this Winter and developments on independence bills in S, The - insular Legislature. authorized shington, D. C., to titude foward the Hawes-Cutting in- dependence blll, which it now opposes. The- Senaté president named Senator Aquino, who is now en route 8140 Relief Gift THE EVEN Made by S&&Weel‘:" m S- RIVA!.S IRADE ! Flop House Guard Baltimorean May Spare More if Situation Be- comes Worse. By the Assoclated Press. BALTIMORE, November 25.—Be- cause he wanted to help those who| were less fortunate, Edward J. Clark, watchman in a Baltimore “flop house” | gave $140 from hi salary of $8 a week | to_the Baltimore relief campaign. The 66-year-old watchman increased as he put it, “times are no better and demands are going to be greater this year than in the past.” He said from his post at the inn he can see the great need of funds for | relief work in Baltimore and because he has work and a place to sleep he wanted to help those who are less fortunate. If the situation becomes worse during the Winter, Clark said he may be able to spare a little more. Clark started working at the inn 30 years ago for $2 a week. He has an- nually contributed approximately: one- third of his total pay to relief work in general. JAPANESE ACCUSED OF EXECUTING 2,700 China Reports Three Whole to States, to go in his stead. “The Smith rumor was strengthened it religion & orts would make him ularly sympathetic toward the Philippines, INDEPENDENCZ FORECAST. Smoot Predicts Bill Will be Passed Dur- ing Short Session, By the Associated Press. Chairman Smoot of the Senate Fi- mance Committee today predicted a Philippine independence bill would be o early in the short session of ss. The issue, long one of dispute, is slated to be taken up by .the Senate December 8, three days after it con< Venes. “The ‘Hare bill passed last session by the House by an overwhelming ma- jority will be the vehicle for debate, bit many features of the Hawes-Cutting measure pending in the Senate are ex- peoted to be brought forward as amend- ments, if the entire Senate bill is not offered as a substitute. Duties Levied in Bill. The Hare bill would grant full inde- pendence to the-islands in about eight years. The Hawes-Cutting proposal would CULT SLAYER FACES HEARING ON SANITY Defendant Argues With Judge as to Who Is “King” in De- troit Court Room. By the Assoclated Press, DETROIT, November 25.—While & crowd of more than 500 members of his cult milled about in the corridors of Recorder’s Court, Robert Harris, | colored member of & cult known as the Order of Islam, was arraigned on a first-degree murder charge today-and | admitted he killed James J. Smith, also colored, “crucifixion time " Police who had feared a possible dem- onstration by members of the cult said there was no disturbance. A plea of guilty was entered for Harris, and he was returned to a cell pending a pos- sible sanity hearing. Harris entered into a lengthy argu- ment with Recorders Jufge John A. Boyne as to who was “king” in the court room, and the court attendants had difficulty in keeping the man’s hat off his head. *“I killed this man with the crucifix- fon,” he said. and he fell dead.” Previous testimony was to the effect that Harris, in the midst of a “sacri- ficial” rite to his gods, struck the man over the head with an automobile axle after stabbing him. “Well, I've got to go now,” zis as he completed his testimony an started toward the door. Police restrained him and, protesting that he was “king here and every. where,” he was returned to a cell, while the cult members dispersed. because it was said Har- d INSULL OPERA BUILDING TURNED INTO THEATER Chicago Contribution to Classical Entertainment Leased by New Company. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, November 25.—The Chi- cago Civic Opera Building—Samuel In- sull’s $20,000,000 contribution to clas- sical music—was turned today into a theater for light opera and musical comedies. Directors of the building announced it had been leased to the Chicago Operetta Company, a new organization headed by David Erwin Russell, for- merly of the Zxanicipal Opera of St. Louis. He will be associated with Charles H. Jones of New York as busi- ness manager. “We plan to present 12 weeks of light opera at prices within the reach of every one,” Russell said. “There will be a cast of 300, many of them from ch’}c‘:(o"' = 0 grand opera companies ve been unable to survive financial troubles this season, and the Civic QOpera, located in a skyscraper office Inxfld.\n{e erected by the former utilities has been dark since last London has voted $500,000 toward the mnmhuctmmm R 1 | flec, “while infants, b;mum a “I said ‘Ali-Kerslump.’ | Villages Wiped Out in Massacre. By the Associated Press. SHANGHAI, November 25.—Japan- ese troops were accused in a Chinese foreign office communique today of the massacre of 2,700 Chinese villagers in Northern Manchuria recently. The document said a Japanese de- tachment ordered the inhabitants of the villages of Ping Ting-San, Chien Chin-Pae and Litekou, near Fushun, to assemble in a ditch outside Ping Ting-San. ‘The mass killing followed, the troops using. machine guns to mow down the mass of rs, the com- munique said, ding that Japanese Nationals were given the land the vil- lagers had owned. Pretended Search for Suspects. The announcement said the villagers were taken to the ditch with the ex- planation that they were suspected of harboring and co-operating with vol- unteer Chinese troops and said the Japanese promised a reward if the ‘wete found innocent, then sent towns to investigate. troops into the the communique At the same time, from the ditch. At that pomnt, said the document, the Chinese, something be- sides an investigation, broke ranks and some started to run and the machine guns opened fire. 160 Escaped With Wounds. Tt added that 160 wounds, that 60 or 70 | Jwith slight died to i bullets, ers mnot killed e Chinese _statemet anese soldiers the In a mmdhnp. covered them with ofl- 50! fuel, and burned the bodies to The Japanese were charged with then ellotting the farms of the villagers to BEER UNION FEARS CONTROL BY GANGS IF LAW IS CHANGED (Continued From First Page.) were everywhere to be on guard against the gangsters.” The A. F. of L. convention, mean- while, instructed its officers to make plans immediately to unionize all em- ployes of chain stores. The action, the first taken by the convention in shaping its policies for the coming year, followed a report by the committee on organization, headed by Michael Duffy of Indianapolis. | " sponsored by the Amalgamated Meat | Cutters’ and Butcher Workers of North America, and a delegation from the Hod Carriers and Common Laborers’ Union, the resolution said the “laboring classes derive no benefit” from what is called “mammoth organization” ~of chain | stores, and asserted belief that the cur- | rent economic depression was in part | the result of growth of such combina- | tions. Hotel Unions Favored. | The federation also expressed ap- | proval of proposals that laundry and hotel workers be drawn into labor unions, and urged 21l its affiliates to re- | fuse to meet in hotels whose empleyes | are not members of a union. | The convention rejected a proposal | that a food department, associating all | unions dealing with food preparation | and handling, be formed within the federation. The organization now has |its unions classified under divisions of metal workers, building trades, rail- roads and label trades. Efforts of women to obtain a seat in the convention for their Federation of | Trade Union Auxiliaries lost when the convention referred their petition to |the Executive Council, for action next | year if that group so recommends. | * The resolution proposing unionization | of chain store workers said: “Both na- tional and local chain stores have for the past several years been monopoliz- ing in all territories from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico,” and that “investiga- | tion has disclosed that lack of organiza- | tion within the ranks of clerks of some | chain store companies has in all sec- | tions worked hardship on unionized | discrganized and discriminated against.” “These chain store companies,” it continued, “both financially and in number of units operated have shown remarkable growth at the expense of the people of the United States, and it |is our thought that the present econo- | mic depression is due in part to con- | solidations, amalgamations, and the creation of some mammoth organiza- |tions of chaian store companies now operating in the United States.” CHAPIN Ili FLORIDA | Commerce Secretary and Wife Ar- rive by Plane. MIAMI BEACH, Fla., November 25 workers. * * * Local unions have been ! CLAIMS OF CANADA October Exports Held to Be $1,070,839 Greater Than September’s. The reported trade war between the United States and Canada now is reaching the stage where each coun- try is claiming victory on the slightest margin of trade figures. The United States claims to have gained $1,070.839 in its exports to Can- ada during October as compared with September, while the Canadian gov- ernment cites figures to show this country’s Dominion trade was aided by materials being shipped into the United States from other nations merely for re-export across the border. Exports from the United States to Canada in October, according to fig- ures made public by the Ottawa gov- ernment, amounted to $20,626,212 in value. The Dominion Bureau of Sta- tistics said a large proportion of the shipments was rc-exports from other countries. Comparing these figures with those of the previous October, $26,566,- 015, a reduction of $5,939,803 is noticed. For the same month in 1930, this cduntry’s export trade to Canada amounted to $48,320,267, which shows a cut of $27,594,055 in two years. Re-export Portion Smaller. ‘However, department officials said amount of coffee, silk and rubber re- ceived at ports here for re-export into Canada were not as great in value as this country’s direct shipments of coal, petroleum and raw cotton. Trade reports made available at the department show there has been a de- cline of 35 per cent in the United States trade with Canada during the last nine months, for which the world-wide de- pression, with its accompanying drastic drop in raw material prices and the de- cil!i,?e in exchange, was held respon- sible. For the first nine months in 1932 this country exported goods valued at $207,567,033, as compared with $316,- 907,664 for the same period a year ago. At the same time world-wide trade to Canada dropped off 30 per cent, accord- ing to available statistics. Comment Is Declined. Department officials declined to make any comment on the reported trade war. However, they did release a re- port from Assistant Trade Commission- er Herbert W. Barrett at Ottawa, which shows Canadian world-wide ex- ports of passenger automobiles and au- tomobile parts were 25 per cent higher in October than in September. As to what part American automo- bile branch factories played in this up- ward trend was not cited in the report. In automobile circles, this increase was viewed with some significance because of the reported decreased in production in American factorties during October to a level never before reached in the history of this industry. It is under- stood the department will make public a report on this country’s automobile trudk-e for October during the coming weel CANADA HAS TRADE BALANCE. $20,065,849 October Figure Just An- nounced. OTTAWA, November 25.— Canada had a favcrable trade balance of $20,- 065,849 for October, it was announced today. The grestest part of this was accounted for by trade with the United Kingdom, - which _veceived '$18,672,033 worth of goods more than was imported by luc-nl/dl. £ &. ¥ e o S et October, 1930, the excess ,939,591. The excess of over exports in trade with the United States in the last 12 months was $92,942,780, as compared with $141,720,234 in the previous 12 months and $251,127,656 in the 12 months ending October, 1930. COL. ROBINS ARRIVES t AT FLORIDA ESTATE s e Members of Family Accompany Dry Crusader on Motor Trip From Asheville. By the Associated Press. BROOKSVILLE, Fla.,, November 25.— Col. Raymond Recbins, who was recently located at Whittier, N. C., after being missing since last September 3, arrived | at his Hernendo County estate, near here, last night, it was learned today. Accompanying Col. and Mrs. Robins were Miss Mary Drejer, a sister of Mrs. Robins; John Dreier, a nephew, and Miss Lisa von Borowsky, & friend of the family. The party left Asheville, N. C., by motor Wednesday without announcing the destination. It was learned Wednesday night was spent somewhere in South Georgia. No one except members of the house- hold were allowed to see Col. Robins today. Mrs. Robins received newspaper representatives, but she told them it was the last interview she or any mem- ber of the household would grant until Col. Rchins has recovered. ‘Tha prohibition advocate and peace leader appeared tired from the trip, Mrs. Robins said, but she expected him to overcome that as soon as he hes had the proper amount of rest. She emphasized that they were here to allow Col. Robins a “complete rest,” as physicians have ordered. — TWO VASSAR GIRLS LOSE BAGGAGE; CHASE THIEF $2,000 Luggage Falls From Their Car—Pursuit of Man Proves Fruitless. By the Associated Press. WHITE PLAINS, N. Y, November 25. —Two Vassar students, on their way to New York to spend Thanksgiving, chased a motorist three miles Wednes- day night in an attempt to recover $2,000 worth of jewelry and clothes which had fallen from their car, but lost their quarry in the traffic. The students, Miss Virginia Curtis of Clinton, Iowa, and Miss Suzanne Di Lorenzi of South Bend, Ind., told police they heard their two traveling bags fall out of the rear of their car on the Bronx River Parkway, just south of White Plains. They turned around in time to see a north-bound automo- bile stop, a man get out and pick up | the He tossed them into his car and drove away. ‘The girls drove after him in a vain nf:;npt to catch up or to see his license plate. AT T EPIDEMIC AT DAM | P).—Roy Chapin, Secretary of Com- |merce, and Mrs. Chapin arrived here today by airplane from Washington for a brief vacation. Secretary Chapin said he would be here sel;ernl days to recuperate from a cold. { | bad Paris Studies Terms With Russia. PARIS, November 25 (#).—The gov- ernment is studying an invitation from Russia to open tions for a com- mercial accord. decision has yet been-reached. - Influenza Spread Forces Closing of School. LAS VEGAS, Nev., November 25 (). — A spread of influenza in Boulder City, headquarters for the construction of Hoover Dam, has resulted in the clos- ing of the school there as & precaution- ary measure, although other public cen- ters remain open. Government authorities said that al- though uvun“’lt persons were ill, :..\n sit- uation was serious enough to erip- ple construction work. | 1 | | Saloon map issued by the local branch of the Anti-Saloon League in 1913 to show the number and location tion, made a map some time ago similarly adorned with dots to show the location of-places where liquor NG STAR. WASHINGTOX. D. C. FRIDAY, NOV EMBER had of saloons then. been bought in the District since ‘The Crusaders, & wet organiza- prohibition, the information being compiled from police records. The rectangular marks on the above maps indicated the lication cf schools. TWO-FOLD TASK FACES CONGRESS s IN LIQUOR-LAW LEGISLATION Must Act as National Legislature on Fed-| eral problem, Then as State Legislature for the District of Columbia. If and when the Volstead act is mod- ified or the eighteenth amendment lifted out of the Constitution, Congress itself must change prohibition enforce- | ment legislation for the District of Co- lumbia, for, in relation to the District, Congress, representing the Nation, is both National Legislature and State | Legislature with exclusive legislative power over the District. Already there i a District dry law on the statute books concerning the present validity of which there is some difference of opinion, but it is now an- ticipated that if there is modification, the pronibition situation in the National Capital must be specifically defined. hrvuilehuc by r‘le:::ntw victories u:t the: polls, ‘are plann! erase the eighteenth amendment, but even before that to bring in beer as soon as pos- sible under, the eighteenth amendment. The drys in have an- nounced opposition to the wet program, and the Anti-Saloon League also has declared open warfare against any kind of change. New D. C. Law Proposed. A new liquor law for the District is | propused by wet organizations, who are | confident of modification. They point | out that in view of difference of opin- | fon over the Sheppard act, this act| should be wiped off the statute books | and a liquor control law written for On only one issue does there seem to be common ground between wets and | drys. They are generally agreed there should be no return of the old-time saloon. ‘Two local champions of beer, Rufus Lusk, vice commander of the Crusaders, and Jobn B. Colpoys, secretary-treasurer of the Labor's National Committee for modification of the Volstead act, are united in the belief that there should be a repeal of the Sheppard act, and new legislation enacted to control the liquor traffic in the District of Colum- bia, conform to whatever modifica- tions are made in the Volstead act. Would Draft Legislation. “A committee of representative men and women should be appointed,” Mr. Lusk proposes, “to formulate a plan of liquor control here, for submission to Congress. This has already been done in some other States by State law. Our organization intends to see that some new control is established, to see that law is properly enforced and to fight prohibition.” Mr. Colpoys cf the Labor Committee said the proposed labor beer bill, au- thorizing 2.75 per cent beer, would be approved by the convention of A. P. of L. officials at Cincinnati, and that | it would leave the question of enforce- | ment to the several States. “Unlike the prohibitionists,” said Mr. Colpoys, | “we will not try to force down the | throats of the States our program of | beer, but would leave the question to the sovereingty of the States, so that States which desire beer may have it, and those which do not want it, can prohibit it. “So that there can be no question about the District of Columbia, Con- gress, of course, will legislate first for the Nation by amending the Volstead act, and then in its capacity as a State legislature, enact a new ‘enabling act’ & reasonable bill, to put into effect the modifications of the Volstead act. The American Federation of Labor,” he ex- plained, “is opposed to the old saloon, but wants to bring back a state of sobriety and temperance, with provision at the same time for the rhan who can- not belong to fashionable clubs to get | his beer. Some provision must be made for these men.” Bride's View Stated. Concerning the Sheppard war-time | prohibition bill, Mr. Colpoys belfeves | Congress by specific enactment will wipe it out, and set up a new liquor | law for the District. Corporation Counsel Bride has ruled that the Sheppard act was repealed by the Volstead lay, but A. E. Shoemaker, counsel for e local Anti-Saloon League, is firm in the belief that the Sheppard act still stands except, per- haps, for a few of its provisions. He pointed to a part of the Volstead act reads: “All provisions of law that are inconsistent with this act are repealed only to the extent of such in- consistency and the regulations herein provided for the manufacture or traffic in intoxicating liquor shall be con- strued as in addition to existing laws.” In connection with the proposal to modify the Volstead act, Mr, Shoe- maker said the local league would unite with the Anti-Saloon League of America in its program, to be developed at & convention here early next month coincident with the opening of Con- gress. The local league’s annual meet- ing will be held in January. Although refusing to admit formally that there may be ‘modification of the Volstead act by the short session or the session of - the hibition step by step, and would make no compromise on beer or light wines. Stubborn Retreat Planned. “If we have to go backward, how- ever,” he said, “we will hold to whal we , going back step by step, only as are compelled. If under w | license, we will favor enforeing license laws; if under regulations, we are in favor of strict enforcement of regu- lations. “Our experience,” he declared, “is that the liquor traffic cannot bz regu- lated. Therefore we are for prohibition and will fight for it. If we can't get prohibition, we'll get as much as we can hold. We are fighting for the ex- termination of the liquor traffic. If wi are defeated in what we are fightin; for, we will fight for just as much look. ing toward the exterminaf of the liquor traffic as possible. ‘e have only just begun to fight.” Asked if beer would be authorized in the short session, Mr, McBride s: there was nd basis now determina- tion if the drys who voted last session are still dry. On a test vote on beer he recalled the House last sessfon votec 169 wet and 228 dry. He admitted, however, that the sweeping election of Democrats had had an effect on the present membership of the House. He said his organization had not yet figured | out the wet strength of the new Con- gress, as it was impossible yet to tell. “It was a Democratic landslide—not a wet landslide,” he said. D. C. Has No Voice. In the coming battle over beer and | the elghteenth amendment, will the District of Columbia have a chance to speak for itself? Under the helpless, voteless plight of citizens here, they will have no right officially to record their position, either wet or dry, at the pclis. While citizens of other States are voting for retention of their State pro- hibition laws, local option laws, or fcr | repeal of their State laws, and setting | up of new liquor control legislation, the residents of this city must accept the verdict of Congress elected by the rest of the country. ‘What have the States been doing on prohibition? As a matter of fact, 16 States already have taken some action on the subject. Maryland has no State-wide pro- hibition law, although several of its counties have exercised “local option” on prohibition, with concurrence of the State Legislature in each case. Mary- land ratified the eighteenth amend- ment, but passed no enforcement act. The States of Rhode Island and Con- necticut did not ratify the eighteenth amendment, but they did adopt pro- hibition laws in some form. It was Rhode Island which brought the big test case to the Supreme Court to try the validity of the Volstead act. Prior to the November, 1932, elections, five States had repealed their State liquor laws: New York, Montana, Nevada, Wisconsin and Massachusetts. Nine More States Act. At the November election nine States repealed either their State law or con- stitutional provision, while some re- placed liquor under State control against the time when the Nation should release control to the States. These included Michigan, which re- pealed its constitutional provision and replaced State control; North Dakota, which repealed its constitutional pro- vision but put nothing in its place; California, which adopted a new con- stitutional amendment taking over State control of liquor in event of repeal of State and national prohibi- tion; Colorado, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, New Jersey and Louisiana. ‘Two more States voted wet on referenda. Wyoming answered “yes” to the question, “Shall the eighteenth amendment be repealed?” and Texas, at the Democratic primary on July 23, voted “yes” on the question whether the eighteenth amendment should be submitted to the States for an expres- sion of sentiment on repeal. Rhode Island has passed a bill pro- viding for no punishment for the manufacture of beverages of 3 per cent of alcohol by weight. Beer Bill Vetoed. In Massachusetts, in 1920, Calvin Coolidge vetoed a bill providing for 2.75 per cent beer. New Jersey “legalized” 31; per cent beer, but it was held unconstitutional by the State Supreme Court. Congress, it has been pointed out by constitutional lawyers, exercises much more power in its capacity as a State Legislature over the National Capital, than as Congress of the United States. In its national capacity it acts uncer grants of power from the Consti- tution of the United States of the States of the Union, while in its ca-.| pacity as the State Legislature it has broader powers granted by the Constitu- tion itself. ‘The Constitution on this point reads * Congress shall have pow- of the | G his 1o pro-, seat of Governme: * of the United tes,” The concensus of several court de- cisions on the power of Congress here declares that “Congress legislates for the District with the same power as the legislative assemblies of the States and in doing so it acts as the Legislature of the Union. The failure of Congress to exercise its power in no way impairs the grant, but it must be exercised sub- ject to the prohibitions contained in the Constitution.” Thus the people of the District find themselves voteless and helpless to ex- ercise their own sovereignty while the | States have already voted on the liquor | problem, and most of the State Legis- | latures plan to meet early in 1933. With prospects of new liquor legis- lation stirring afresh the wet and dry fight, the development of prohibition | here in the National Capital was recalled as the campaign to reduce saloons and finally to outlaw them in 1917 was reviewed. The dry fight started most actively in 1893, it was recalled by Mr. Shoe- maker, who was the first and has been the only counsel of the local Anti- Saloon League. At that time he esti- mated there were about 1,100 licensed places in the city, including both retail and wholesale, or 1 for every 218 of the population. There were four brew- eries here, he said, and one in Arling- ton, Va., just across the Potomac. Saloons Were Limited. As the saloons began to expand into the residential area, Mr. Shoemaker re- | called, thefe was enacted as a result of temperance agitation, the so-called Jones-Works law in 1913. This limited saloons to not more than 300 in num- ber, and to streets where more than half of the frontage had to be occu- pled by business. The growth of license for saloons started with a “low” license of $800 for saloon and was raised later to a license of $1,500 for a saloon each year, and $300 for a wholesale house. ‘These measures of the Jones-Works law, and high license, Mr. She er said, had the effect of bringing the sa- loons out of the residential district and | concentrating them in the business area while reducing their number. Special restrictions around certain institutions and public buildings grad- ually increased here from time to time during the growth of the prohibition | movement. Under one of these a sa- loon could not be located within 400 feet of a public school building or a | house for religious worship. Another special act prohibited saloons within one mile of the Soldiers’ Home, and later a special restriction area was | thrown around St. Elizabeth’s Hospital. | Two saloons in the Capitol building were eliminated through an amend- ment to the immigration bill, which had prohibited saloons near immigra- tion stations. ‘War-time prohibition came fo the National Capital with enactment of the so-called Sheppard act, effective Novem- ber 1, 1917. This bill passed the Senate on January 9, 1917, by a vote of 55 to 32, and the House on February 28, 1917, by the vote of 273 to 137, and was approved by the President on March 3, 1917. When it went into effect November 1, it closed 267 saloons, including 22 in hotels and 9 in clubs, and 89 wholesale places, including 4 breweries, a total of 356 legalized and protected liquor emblh}lmenu. D. C. Referendum Proposed. An interesting development in con- | nection with enactment of the Sheppard law, recalled by Mr. Shoemaker, was a referendum proposed in the District of Columbia. This referendum was pro- posed by the late Senator Oscar Under- wood, Democrat, of Alabama, leader of the wet forces opposing the Sheppard law. The Anti-Saloon League fought the submission of this 'referendum, though many drys favored the submis- sion of the question of the Sheppard bill to a vote of the people of the District. The vote was close, but the referendum was defeated. The Sheppard law was said by Mr. Shoemaker to be broader than the Volstead act in some of its provisions, and forbids “alcoholic and other pro- hibited liquors for beverage purposes.” With other things it makes “drunken- ness,” and driving a street car while drunk, offenses. These are not offenses under the Volstead act. FIVE KILLED IN CRASH Train Strikes Auto Containing Schooel Children. ATHENS, Ga., November 25 (#)— Pive persons were fatally injured and the sixth was reported dying in an Athens hospital today as the result of a crossing accident, when a freight train struck an automobile filled witn children bound for school. | | $75,000 in Liquor Seized. Mass, November 25 (@).— officials GARNER FORECASTS BEER BY JANUARY 1 {Bill Now Being Drafted for Presentation to Two House Committees. (Continued Prom First Page. M. K. Goetz Brewing Co., Chicago, fa- vored 2.75 beer by weight to be sold as near beer now is through “ordinary channels” and “without sales restric- made to sur- 2.75 -beer was non-intoxicat- in fact, he held this method cf selling in bottles or by draught would produce h revenue and keep the price “wi reach of all” Letter to Wickersham. During the holiday prohibition dis- cussion, Mrs. -Elizabeth Tilton, chair- man of the Woman’s National Com- mittee for Education Against Alcohol, made public a letter in which she asked George W. Wickersham of New York whether one-half of 1 per cent was not the “only enforceable” definition of in- toxicating liquor. The letter to the former chairman of President Hoover’s Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement said: “I noted with interest that were quoted in the press as sa that somewhere between 1 cent and 20 a court t find int where action by Congress (in what constitutes an intoxicant) might be held o B port 4 per cent beer, Mrs. Tilton said, explaining that “while some would be intoxicated by less amounts and others could carry much more, 4 per cent strikes an average.” “It seemed to me that such an average could hardly fail to fill our courts with drivers whose susceptibility to alcohol ran below the average,” Mrs. Tilton said, asking: “Doesn’t it begin to look as if the only enforceable definition is that which has been used through the years, one- half of 1 per cent?” FISHING SMACK CREW IS BELIEVED DROWNED No News of Any Rescue Received Concerning Capsizing of the Rappahannock. By the Associated Press. NORFOLK, Va., November 25.—Lack of any news of their rescue has resulted in the opinion here that the crew of the fishing smack Rappahannock was drowned when the craft capsized off Smiths Point, near the mouth of the Potomac, on Tuesday. rts filed at the Coast Guard of- fice here show the overturned smack was picked up by a patrol and not far away a small boat was discovered en- tangled with fish stakes. It is believed that if the crew had escaped some word would have been received from them by now. }Tokio Proposes New Dipl'omatic Post in U.S.to Aid Relations “Counsellor at Large” May Be Appointed to Call on American Leaders. By the Assoclated Press. TOKIO, November 25.—Japan is thinking of keeping a “counsellor at large” in the United States to seek im- provement in American understanding of the Japanese position, it was learned y. The Associated Press was told in an official quarter that this innovation in Japanese-American diplomacy was un- der serious consideration, ‘The plan would not alter the present diplomatic esentation in Washing- ton very much, and would go into ef- fect probably in January, when Ambas- sador Katsujl Debuchi returns to the United States after a furlough. i, chief of_the Foreign Office Commercial Bu- reau, to Washington as counsellor of the embassy as was previously an- nounced, but to retain Hiroshi Saito in | hhe United States as eounul.lor-lt-‘ rge. Mr. Baito went to the United States from London recently as charge d'af-- faires and counsellor during Mr. De- buchi’s absence. Mr. Saito would be attached to the DESGRBE EATIG OF SICK VETERAN Government Witnesses, At- tendants at Hospital, Say They Protested. By the Associated Press. AUGUSTA, Ga., November 25.—Twd Government witnesses testified yestere day in the murder trial of Austin Leroy Brown, a former attendant at ‘the United States Veterans' Hospital here, that he kicked and beat Charles K. Dickinson, a patient, so severely a few |days before the latter died that they protested. Dickinson, a resident of Somerville, Tenn., died last October 8. Physicians testifying at a preliminary hearing soon afterward attributed death to pneumonia caused by one of his 16 broken ribs puncturing a lung. * “That's enough. Let him alone, for God's sake. Youll kill' him,” Aaron E. Ott, an attendant at the hospital, trampied Dickinson on the oor after on the floor choking him. e “Choked With Towel” Ott declared the patient was choked into unconsciousness by a towel around his_neck. Ott and Walter Epps, a fellow attend- ant, testified Dickinson was beaten after he suddenly attacked Brown. Both described the patient as having borne the reputation of “a most violent and dangerous man in a ward reserved for disturbed nervous cases.” “Just as I came on duty the evening of September 28,” Ott said, “Dickinson, without warning or cause, leaped from his chair, jumped on a table and lunged at Brown, striking him and drawing blood. They fell together into 8 heavy chair and then onto the floor. Dickinson came up fighting. “Brown said ‘Let me have him,’ antl T went to quiet other patients who were in an uproar. Old employes always handle patients who suddenly become violent as Dickinson did, and Brown was senior man. “I looked back and saw Dickinson on the floor with a towel lying over his body and an end of the towel in . I saw Brown stomp . I called Brown off and let the patient up. Later, after Dickinson had returned to his chair, Brown struck him lightly once or twice and choked him a little, but didn’t put him out.” Omitted Details in Report. Epps denied he saw Brown choke the pailent into unconsciousness or that he kicked and trampled him, but Ott tes- tified later that Brown inflicted such o e ntnon Dickinson. al lerce of defense counsel elicited the statement from Ep]:s th‘: g:u‘ butw“ “n]ever known to hit & was always jumj tendants.” sadimyagm o 7 “He told me once he believed if he killed an Jattendant they would let him g0 home,” Epps continued. ‘“Another time he developed a notion that if he quit eating, he could go home.” Oft testified that several days after the encounter, he reported it to his su-" periors in p-nm but omitted most de- TWO DIE IN MISHAPS ON THANKSGIVING DAY Unidentified Woman Victim of Crash Is' Not Expected to Live in Cumberland. , Md., November 25.— Two Thanksgiving day accidents resulte Who fgured i Thd Aecident oy Hie a acc! Tite dead are: . ot married, yard brakem: ho had both legs severed when he t:fi'x:- g:ln Bingaman, 17, Buffalo Mills, few miles north of Cumberland, l?'n ding ‘Weaver, Washington, D. C. Bingaman was accidentally shot by & companion who was loading a gun when the breech suddenly snapped shut and the piece was ‘harged. An unidentified woman, in her early 20s, at Allegany Hospital with a frac- tured skull, is believed to have been a companion of Clarence ankin, 28, also at the hospital with a skull fracture re- ceived in an automobile accident. Her condition is precarious. Both are un= conscious. Edward Loy, 25, Augusta, W. Va. wounded in the face while hunting, and Mrs. Martha Weller, 38, head injury, struck by an automobile, are also local hospitals. Free fi;l. Seeker Learns of Fortune Brother Left Him Peddler Reaches Mission Too Late to Claim Inheritance. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, November ‘25— Rickard W. Pauley wandered into the midnight mission here yesterday for a free Thanksgiving dinner, and found himself three months too late to claim an English inheritance. He needs it, too, for he is 61 years old, & shoestring peddler, and an invalid. If Mrs. Mary Covell, executive secre~ tary of the mission, can learn the names of the lawyers who were inquir ing for Pauley three months ago, he may yet get the inheritance. But she ‘| was unable to recall them. She sald, however, she would write to English probate ' courts. “We courdnt find Pauley when the lawyers asked about him,” she said. “It seems a brother died in London and left him a small fortune.” Pauley said that would be his brother |Edw1in. : P “I heard he made a lot of money {from a new gasoline pracess,” he ex= plained. “I was born in Canada, and used to support a wife and four chil- dren. But I couldn't hold a steady job after 1 became an invalid. Now make atout 40 or 50 cents a day, that buys me a room and As now mapped out, the idea would | the ;| be to send Toshihiko Taketomi