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r ", ■ ' ■=— 3 WEATHER, (0 S. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow, possibly showers tomorrow; slightly warmer. r. .... Temperatures: Highest, 80, at 1:45 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 56, at 6 a.ip. to day. Full report on page 6. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 Entered as second class matter post office. Washington. D. No. 31,020. FEDERALSTRAPPED BY REBEL FORCES, TRAVELERS REPORT Almazan Caught Near Esca lon, Train Passen gers Say. WEST COAST CAMPAIGN FAVORABLE TO LOYALS Insurgent Losses in Battle at La Rcforma Put at 1,000 Bead by Government. By the Associated Press. Now far into the state of Chihuahua, Federal cavalry ranged rapidly north today in pursuit of the remnants of the once strong rebel army reported virtually destroyed in fighting at Jimen ez and La Reforma. Official government figures on rebel losses placed the number of dead at 1,000, the wounded at 500 and the cap tured at 2,000. Rebel headquarters at Juarez, how ever, stated that it had received no ad vices of the ••extermination" reported by the government. Xaco Situation tense. On the other hand, messages coming from rebel commanders and travelers from Diaz, north of Jimenez, stated •hat Gen. Almazan, the Federal advance commander, had been trapped between Escalon and Jimenez by strong rebel *°The campaign on the West Coast also was reported developing favorably for the government. The rebels were stated to have evacuated Culiacan and to be retreating farther northward. The situation at Naco on the border ■was still tense, neither the rebels nor the Federals engaging in any but aerial warfare In this the Federals suffered heavily by the loss of the one plane sta tioned there. Religious Insurgents to Be Fought. A force of 800 Federal sympathizers was reported forming in Northern Chi huahua for the purpose of attacking the rebel garrison at Jaurez and bringing that border city back into the govern ment fold. . _ Diverting additional troops to Jalisco and Guanajuato, the government con tinued its preparations to stamp out the so-called religious insurgents in those states. Gov. Phillips of Arizona has prepar ed a protest which will be sent to Washington against the alleged move ment of Mexican Federal troops through Arizona. ESCOBAR TO CONTINUE REVOLT. Insurgent Commander Attributes Loss of Jimenez to Ammunition Shortage. JUAREZ, Chihuahua, April 5 (jT*).— Evacuation by insurgents of their base at Jimenez after a four-day assault by Federal troops was attributed to short age of ammunition by rebel Gen. Jose Gonzalo Escobar, in a message to tne Associated Press today. The insurgent commander-in-chief, ! who was in Chihuahua City today for j a conference with his aides to consider | the next plan of battle to be followed I Ify the revolutionists, declared the re bellion would continue. “Our men have at present one more reason to fight with all courage our abhorred enemy—the necessity of aveng ing the blood shed in the battles of the last few days by the most abom inable tyrant Mexico ever had,” de clared Gen. Escobar. Savagery Laid to Federals. The rebel chieftain’s message to the Associated Press, a 1,000-word tele gram. which he described as a "truth ful account of the happenings,” charged the government troops with savagery which he said "was carried to the ex treme of shelling the ambulances where our wounded were given treatment.” "Many rebel soldiers perished in that manner,” he said. Passengers on a train from the south and messages from rebel generals in the field last night said that Gen. , Juan Andreu Almazan, the federal leader, whose troops captured Jimenez, • had been trapped between insurgent forces under Gen. Marcelo Caraveo in Escalon and thejebel army in Jimenez. Some 5,000 cavalrymen under Caraveo, whose movements had not been re ported here for several days, were said to have flanked the federal army and captured Escalon, cutting the federals off from their base. Cavalry Left as Rear Guard. Caraveo, with his cavalry, was left as a rear guard when Escobar withdrew from Jimenez. Caraveo is reported to have engaged in a skirmish with the federals in Diaz, a few miles north of Jimenez, and then to have made a wide circle to the west of the federal army, into Escalon. He stormed Escalon and took the town yesterday, the report said. (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) KELLOGG, IN PARIS, BETTER AFTER COLD Former Secretary of State Says Wife, Who Accompanied Him From IT. S., Protected Health. By the Associated Press. PARIS, April s.—Former Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg, arrived here this morning from Le Havre, where he disembarked from the Isle de France, feeling “fit again,” after a slight cold. He gave the credit for his improved condition to Mrs. Kellogg, who accom panied him. "She made me keep to mv bed a whole day,” he said. He was met at the station by First Secretary Gordon of the embassy and represent- Cttves of the foreign offices. He left directly for his hotel. VISCOUNT GUIO IMPROVES Former Japanese Foreign Minister May Recover,' Doctors Say. KYOTO. Japan, April 5 (A*).—Physi cians today said that the condition of Viscount Shimpei Guio, former foreign minister, had shown improvement and that he was likely to recover. He is 73 years of age and yesterday was stricken with cerebral hemorrhage while on a train en route to this city. State News, Pages 10 and 11 J- . ■ . i» ' ■ Melting of Snow Discloses Body Os Missing Boy Remains of Child, Lost in Storm, Is Found Near Ranch. By the Associated Press. GORDON. Neb., April s.—The snow that cost him his life has melted away, revealing to searchers the body of 6- ycar-old Melvin Reeves. The boy, hunt ing a lost mitten, was caught in a sud den and terrific blizzard three weeks ago and perished in a struggle to reach a place of shelter. The body was found last night by George Davis, an employe at the ranch of Nathan Hiller. It lay in a cow path about 200 yards from the Hiller ranch house, indicating the boy had been try ing to reach the home of Mrs. Hiller, who was his aunt. The Hiller place is four miles from the Reeves ranch. Hundreds of persons, including 200 Indians from the Pine Ridge Reserva tion. joined in many days of fruitless search for the boy. FRENCHSHIPSAILS WITH DERRICK BODY Cruiser, Bearing Ambas sador’s Remains, Du 6 in U. S. April 13. By the Associated Press. BREST, France, April s.—The French cruiser Tourville sailed at 11:30 a.m. for New York, with the body of MyTon T. Herrick, American Ambassador to France, aboard. It will arrive in New York April 13. The trip across France from Paris was made without incident. The body of the Ambassador occupied a special car with two officers of the Paris Post of the American Legion in full uniform standing guard. Flowers From Little Girl. Mat Rennes, the little daughter of the station master, awoke Consul Gen. Gaulin at 2:20 a.m. to hand him a large bouquet of wild flowers of Brit tany with the words, “pour la recon naissance demon pays a son grand ami d’Araerique”—expressing “the grat itude of my country to a great Ameri can friend.” In the brief interval between its ar rival here aboard a 'special train from Paris at 7:30 a.m. and the transfer to the Tourville in Brest Ro6ds another impresive ceremony took place, as im posing in a small way as that at Paris yesterday. Ships and harbor defenses gave the ambassadorial salute of 19 guns as the body was removed from the •train and placed in the private reception room cf the railway station while French infantry stood at present arms and a marine band played “The Star Spangled Banner” and “Aux Champs.” * Eulogy Delivered. Rear Admiral Pirot, commander of the naval base at Brest, delivered a brief eulogy, to which Brig. Gen. Wil liam Harts, American military attache at Paris, responded.* Others around the bier were Louis Pontana. prefect of the Brest region: Harold Collins. American consular officer in charge; Gen. Durand and Rear Admiral Herr. The Colonial Infantry Battalion Band played “La Mort Dase” as the cortege started toward the harbor, a platoon of mounted Republican Guards leading the procession. When the cortege reached the Avenue Presidente Wilson it halted while a naval band again played “The Star Spangled Banner” with muffled drums and muted instruments. A group of Frrnch veterans in civilian clothes at the Place Presidente Wilson saluted as the body passed them. Colors Played Again. Once again “The Star Spangled Ban ner” and “Aux Champs” were heard at the pier as the body was taken aboard the gunboat Dolmen, its flag at half mast and with streamers of crepe from both mastheads, for transfer to the Tourville. . , As the Dolmen steamed slowly out of the Brest port three seaplanes in triangular formation hovered between it and the Tourville, dropping wild flowers of Brittany and a.small Ameri can flag on the deck. The huge destroyer Lynx and the torpedo boats Touareg and Hova, with their flags at half mast, followed the Dolmen. Their crews stood at their rails, while bugles sounded “Attention.” The Dolmen stood alongside the Tourville for a few minutes in impres sive silence as the coffin, draped with the Stars and Stripes, was lifted by a small crane from one deck to the other to the * accompaniment of “Chopin’s Funeral March” by the Tourville’s Band. CUBAN OUTLAW KILLED. Slain by Rural Police When Found Stealing Live Stock. HAVANA, April 5 UP).—A special dis patch to the Havana newspaper El Mundo from Molguin, Cuba, today said that Mateo Machado, a notorious out law, was shot and killed by rural police last night. He is said to have refused to sur render to guards who had surprised him in the act of stealing live stock at Tecajo, an American-owned farm. Judge Sellers Scores Newspaper Racks In Placing Accused Boy on Probation —-r* i Another attack on .the sale of news papers from sidewalk racks was deliv ered In Juvenile Court this morning by Judge Kathryn Sellers before she placed Thomas Brooks, 15-year-old colored youth, on probation for a year on con viction for attempting to rifle a news paper rack of sl.lO. • Commenting on the many cases which come under her Jurisdiction on similar complaints. Judge Sellers ex pressed the hope that the citizens of Washington would protest the honor system maintained by the newspapers, in the hope of having the District Com missioners revoke the privilege. Assistant Corporation Counsel K. M. Welliver told the court he had been In formed that $500,000 worth of news papers are yearly sold In this manner and that in his opinion the safeguards placed on the coin boxes are entirely inadequate. He said that the light .padlocks were easily forced and there-, W]z Itiening l&fctf. * WASHINGTON, D. ' C., FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1929-FIFTY-FOUR PAGES. * FEDERAL RESERVE WARNS BROKERS TO EFFECT LOAN CURB Continuation of Credit Ad justment Co-operation by Member Banks Is Asked. ACTION THREATENED BY BOARD GOVERNORS Assurance Held for Trade of Con tinuous Money Supply at Pair Rates. By the Associated Press. Continuation of the credit adjustment co-operation of Federal Reserve banks and member banks which has been at tended by curtailment of brokers’ loans in recent weeks was called for by the Federal Reserve Board in a statement published today reiterating its warning of February 7. , “In case the desired readjustment is not brought about by voluntary co-oper ation, the Federal Reserve system may adopt other methods of influencing the situation,,” the statement said. The board’s statement of February 7, it recalled, "pointed out that, owing to the unusual absorption of credit in the security market, money rates to busi ness were increasing at a time of the year when money conditions are usually easy.” “In thLs statement,” it explained, “the board endeavored to enlist the co-oper ation of the Federal Reserve banks and member banks, in order to bring about an orderly readjustment in the credit situation. Progress in this readjust ment in recent weeks is indicated by the decline in brokers’ loans of member banks. "Continued developments in this di rection, indicating a definite reversal of recent trends, would release an increas ing amount of credit for the use of trade and would lead to an easing in the money situation,” the statement added. Credit Readjustment Sought. The objective of its policy, the board declared, "is a readjustment in the credit situation with a view to assuring trade and industry of a continuous sup ply of bank credit at reasonable rates.” "While the system recognizes that (Continued on Page 3, Column 2.> NATHAIUEOPOLD, SR., 69, DIES IN CHICAGO Father of Bobby Franks’ Slayer, Bowed Under Grief, Fails to Bally From Operation. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, April s.—Nathan F. Leopold, sr„ last of three fathers bow ed under the tragedy of the Bobby Franks kidnaping, is dead at the age of 69. A. H. Loeb, father of Richard Loeb, died October 27, 1924. Jacob Franks, father of the slain Bobby, died April 19, 1928. All three men were prominent in Chicago life up to the time that Bobby Franks was kidnaped and killed by "Dickie” Loeb and Nathan F. Leopold, jr. All lived in seclusion there after. Nathan F. Leopold, sr., who died last night, had been ill for some time. Re cently he underwent a major opera tion from which he did not rally. He was bom at Eagle River, Mich., and came to Chicago when 7. From 1876 until his retirement fol lowing the trial of his son, Leopold was engaged in the Lake transportation business. His first wife died in 1921. He is survived by three sons, Foreman, Samuel and Nathan, jr. Leopold, whose second wife was Mrs. Daisy K. Hahn of Los Angeles, return ed last month from Califronia where he and Mrs. Leopold had spent the Winter. 20 IN RUMANIAN WRECK Bodies Remain in Snow All Nigbt When Express Is Derailed Near Buzer, By the Associated Press. BUCHAREST, Rumania, April 5. — Twenty persons were killed and 59 injured when the Bucharest-Jassy express train was derailed late last night near Buzev. Most of the bodies re mained in the snow all night until relief trains arrived. Relief work was made difficult by a blizzard today. Such injured as could be removed were taken to a hospital at Buzev. Most of the victims were business men and soldiers. fore an added temptation to youthful delinquents. Grover E. Payne of the circulation department of The Star, testifying against the Brooks boy. told the court that 425 robberies had been reported to his department since January li. “If the citizens want their children exposed to this unnecessary tempta tion, I have no choice but to pass sentence on the defendant brought be fore me,” said Judge Sellers, “in my opinion the practice Is illegal and im prolter and should be abolished as soon possible. I have numerous complaints both personally and through the mails.” Brooks, who lives at 2614 I street, was released In custody of his parents following his arrest early son the morn ing of March 23 by Policeman L. H. Gentry. Gentry told the court he caught Brooks in the act of farcing a box at Eighteenth and G streets by twisting off the padlock with an iron 1 , bar. . . I -- - - - - ■ - ■ ... ■ KIDNAPED LABOR LEADER TO RETURN Prepared to Identify 12 Elizabethton Abductors, Hoffman Says. ASHEVILLE, N. C., April 5 (>4P).— Albert L. Hoffman, textile labor rep resentative, who alleges that he was kidnaped and forced to leave Eliza bethton, Term., said today before leaving for the Tennessee town that he was prepared to identify at least 12 of his abductors. Hoffman will be under escort. ELIZABETHTON, Tenn., April 5 UP). —Organized labor watched Elizabethton today as a result of a flare-up over re cent labor troubles which drew from President Green of the American Fed eration of Labor an emphatic protest of what he termed an "outrage” against labor officials. He referred to the alleged abduction Labor, and Alfred L. Hoffman, textile union organizer, who claimed they were taken from their hotel by a party of about 20 men early yesterday and “run out of town.” The incident resulted in the arrest of six Elizabethton citizens. Formal Statement Issued. In a formal statement issued at Wash ington, Mr. Green called .on Gov. Hor ton “to bring the criminals to justice” and to afford the labor officials protec tion while in Elizabethton. He further declared that “if necessary" he would pay Elizabethton a personal visit “as a challenge to this lawlessness." An undercurrent of feeling that fol lowed a recent strike affecting local rayon mills was believed responsible for yesterday’s demonstration. . McGrady and Hoffman reported last night they were unharmed after being taken from their rooms, placed in au tomobiles and ordered to leave the vi cinity. McGrady was in Bristol, Tenn., and Hoffman was in Asheville, N. C. J_ B. Pen lx. local labor_organizer, re (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) floo dln^Detroit MAROONS HUNDREDS East Side of City Is Inundated. Parked Autos Are Swept Away. ■ > By the Associated Press. DETROIT, April s.—Hundreds of families early today were marooned in their homes by flood waters from Con nors Creek, on Detroit’s east side, caused by heavy rain. Water to a depth of 5 feet swept over streets and many families were forced to the sec ond floor of their homes. Police re ceived reports that members of one family had been overcome by gas, but were unable to reach the house to at tempt a rescue. An area of about a mile square was flooded. Automobiles parked on streets were swept away, some of them several blocks. Basements of stores in the district were filled with water. Shopkeepers opened up to sell hip boots and waders to rescuers. In addition to the work of removing those most seriously In danger,, police and other workers were confronted with the problem of cleaning clogged sewers. One fire company was called out and aided with ladders in removing ma rooned persons from their -homes. * - I - - - f . - - , ■■ ~n . - *■,. , Why Wait Many Hours for Afternoon Sports Results? All Washington newspaper readers now have to do is obtain the “Sports Final” edition of The Evening Star and the full chronicle of the day’s events in the sporting world is there/ Base ball, racing, golf and other activities afford an interesting array. Make it a point to get the SPORTS FINAL EDITION OF ®Sje€beninß&tar * * Big Cat Smothers Sleeping Infant To Death in Cradle By the Associated Press. ALLIANCE, Neb., April 5 UP). —A large maltese cat smothered to death a 5-months-old baby on the farm of Charles Mracek, 20 miles north of here yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. Mracek had put the baby to sleep. They re-en tered the room to see the cat leap out of the cradle and found the baby dead. PROBE OF NOMAD MYSTERY IS SEEN U. S. Agent Denies Schoon er’s Rich Owner and Crew Were Drunk. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, April s.—The aux iliary schooner Nomad lay at rest in the Philadelphia harbor today, her skipper lost in a watery grave and her millionaire owner and crew of two rest ing from 11 days’ battle with angry seas. The 125-foot pleasure craft was towed into port by Coast Guard patrol boat 107 from a point 18 miles off Cape May, where it had been sighted aim lessly drifting without a helmsman by Ensign W. E. Anderson, Coast Guard aviator. Aboard the craft today was Customs Officer Luther Sterner, who told of the Nomad's terrifying log as it had been related to him by the owner, Leland ’H. Ross of New York City. Ross and the crew, Richard J. French, steward, and Henry G. Bush, sailor, rested in their bunks below decks. Motors Fail, Sails Put to Work. The Nomad, Sterner said, put out from Charleston 11 days ago, flying the pennant of the New York Yacht Club. Ross, as if acting on premoni tion, placed his wife ashore just before they left. Within a few hours the motors failed, and when efforts to re pair them failed sail was set. The Nomad plowed through gradual ly mounting seas under full sail until a sudden squall tore away part of the mainsail. Capt. John L. Schofield climbed aloft to make repairs when a rolling sea wrenched him from the mast and washed him overboard. He was never seen again. Day after day Ross and his crew worked to keep the craft headed into the sea. Water flooded the stores and sub merged the engines. Liquor Cache Reported. .A distress signal was flown. On the eleventh day, with all on board prostrated by exhaustion, the Nomad was sighted by the aviator and a patrol boat* dispatched to assist her. Sterner denied tha* Ross and his crew were drunk or that the craft was without a helmsman when picked up. He declined to comment upon the statement that 40 bottles of liquor were found in the ship’s cabin. It was re ported that Federal authorities would make a thorough Investigation of the (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) Cold Wave in North Italy. ROME, April 5 UP).— Winter has re turned to northern Italy and today Rome was feeling the effects of cpld winds from the Alps and Appenines. Snow fell in Venice, where the tempera ture was considerably below freezing. MITCHELL. CAPPER IN RADIO FORUM Attorney General and Kansas Senator to Speak to Nation. Attorney General William D. Mitchell and Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas will address the American people to morrow njght over the national radio forum arranged by The Star and broad cast over the country-wide network of the Columbia broadcasting system. The Attorney General, ip is under stood, will discuss matters relating to the Department of Justice, while Sena tor Capper will take as his subject “Law Enforcement.” MiteheU’s First Address. This will be the first public address by Attorney General Mitchell since he entered the Hoover cabinet. Although in office as head of the De partment of Justice for only a few weeks, Mr. Mitchell has a background of much experience from which to speak, as prior to being elevated to the cabinet he was Solicitor General of the ; United States. The senior Senator from Kansas, Mr. j Capper, is not only familiar with the business of drafting laws, but also with j enforcing them. As Governor of Kan sas he served two terms before he was, elected to the Senate, and had a wide j experience as an executive. He is thor oughly in sympathy with the demand of President Hoover that there be a gen eral stiffening in the enforcement of all (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) THREE ARE*IhISSING IN SHIP COLLISION -Destroyer Childs and Schooner Crash Off Hampton Roads, Navy Learns. The destroyer U. S. S. Childs and the schooner A. Ernest Mills, out of Boston, collided 50 miles southeast of Hampton Roads, Va., about 9 o’clock last night, the Navy Department was advised today in dispatches. The schooner’s master, Capt. A. C. Chaney of.East Kingham, N. H., and two men, George Barnes of Portsmouth, Va., and Paul Ferguson of Norfolk, Va., are re ported missing. The destroyer, with U. S. S. Coghland and Bruce, scouting fleet destroyers, are searching for the missing men. „ Six of the schooner’s crew were taken aboard the Childs, the department was informed. The destroyer’s bow was dam aged, the department said, and she will 1 be towed to Hampton Roads by the C:ghland. None of the naval vessel's crew was injured, it was said. The schooner, en route from the Ba hami Islands to Norfolk, had to be abandoned as the craft was reported awash. The destroyers were en route from Hampton Roads to join the scout ing fleet in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. . ■ ———■■■ ■■ ■■■ » MEXICO FREES 27 NUNS. Warned Against Leading Convent Life-Priest Is Held. MEXICO CITY, April 5 (A s).—Twenty seven nuns arrested in the neighbor ing town of Atzcapotzalco on charges of leading a convent life have been re leased from custody here after being warned that their alleged practices were against the Mexican religious laws. A priest who was taken with them has been held for further Investiga tion. Squirrel Runs Amuck, Biting 7 People; Police Asked to End Animal s Career the Associated Press. CHICAGO, April s.—Seven persons, four of them children, have been bitten by a red squirrel during the past three days. One woman was bleeding from 20 bites on the arms, neck and shoulder when she ran into a police station yes terday and told of the attack. Mrs. Marie Meyenberg said she was hanging clothes on the line when the squirrel jumped on her shoulder. When she tried to brush it away, she said, the animal began biting her. Her hus band also was bitten, the squirrel leap ing upon him as he sat on the porch. Augusta Schrader, age 6, was on her way to. school when .the squirrel jumped “From Prest to Home Within the Hour ” The Star's carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 108,978 OP) Means Associated Press. G.O.P. PATRONAGE CHARGES PUT INTO PROBERS’RECORDS Statements of Contributions to Campaign Funds in South Given by Brookhart. TEXAS POLITICAL WAR WITHIN PARTY BARED Split Between Creager Faction and Wurzbach Described in Evi dence Submitted. By the Associated Press. Letters, telegrams and affidavits'to show that large sums of mpney were contributed in recent years to Republi can campaign funds by postmasters and other Federal officeholders in Mississippi, Arkansas, Alabama and Tennessee were put into the record of the Senate patronage committee today by Chairman Brookhart. Affidavits collected by the Post Office Department at the request of the com mittee disclosed that more than $12,000 was contributed by 110 postmasters of Mississippi, one of them giving $2,125. Some of the money, the affidavits said, went to E. P. Booze, husband of the colored Republican national committee woman for that State. A total of 154 postmasters said they had never con tributed. Texas Letters Go in Record. Texas letters put into the record at the request of R. B. Creager, Republican national committeeman tor that State, were laudatory of the methods used by his organization. A committee cneck up of records furnished by Leonard Witbington, secretary of the Texas Re publican State organization, disclosed, however, that a large number of them were from Federal officeholders, most of them postmasters, who had been regular contributors to Creager’s cam paign fund. , . , A former postmaster in Arkansas said in an affidavit that he had paid $378 to his Republican committeeman in order to obtain his job; a Tennessee postmaster declared, also in an affidavit, that he had given S2OO and two hogs for his appointment, and an Alabama physician, in a letter, asserted he be lieved "appointments were and are being given to the highest bidder here in Tuscaloosa and other parts of the State.” First Hearing Sinie Hoover Spoke. Today's hearing was the first called by the committee since President Hoo ver announced that Republican organi zations in South Carolina, Georgia and Mississippi would not be recognized as dispensers of -Federal appointments pending reorganization, and expressed the hope that recommendations for ap pointments in other Southern States ; would be made with the aid of an ad j visory council. { In nearly all instances, the Missis sippi contributions were described as ; voluntary, but in some cases the affi l davits carried the inference that all ! successful candidates for postmaster ship appointments were expected to | donate to the campaign funds. R. K. Haxton, postmaster at Green ville, Miss., who said he gave $2,125, de clared he subscribed SSOO of it in the form of an investment in an insurance (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) LONDONPAPERSPLAY U. S. POLAR CLAIMS British Foreign Office Denies Con troversy on Sovereignty Over Antarctic. By the Associated Press. t LONDON, April s.—Reports pub lished in the United Ssates that the American Government was preparing a diplomatic note contesting British claims to sovereignty in the Antarctic based on the explorations of Comdr. Richard E. Byrd were published prom inently in the Evening Star an<J Eve ning News today. "Who owns the South Pole?” and "U. S. challenge to Britain in Antarctic” were streamer headlines clear across the front pages of the two papers. The Star does not think that the latest reported flurry in Anglo-Ameri can relations needs serious treatment. It prints a picture of the frozen Ant arctic wastes captioned: "What’s all the argument about?” The British foreign office said that it had not yet received any American note and that there was no controversy going on with the United States au thorities over the Antarctic. At the foreign office it also was said that no note had been sent by the British gov ernment to Washington protesting any claims by Comdr. Byrd regarding sov ereignty over the territory he has been exploring. The only explanation that has been suggested for the reported American note was that it might be based on a British note sent to Washington when it became known that the Byrd ex pedition was setting forth. In this communication Great Britain offered to lend any assistance possible in British territory and referred to a resolution of the Imperial Conference in 1926 re garding Britain’s claims in the Ant arctic. , at her, biting her hands. Harry Franke, , 4 years old. was bitten while at play Mrs. Rose Vogel, her son Carson and : Lawrence Flournoy were attacked on the street. Acting Police Captain James Walsh, to whom Mrs. Meyenberg told her story, said it was the first time in 3? years’ ; service he ever heard of a squirrel biting i a person. t The Department of Health and the , Police Department Joined forces today in an efTort to find and kill the squir ■ rel. All the attacks were in the vicinity of the 1300 block on Addison street. The seven who were bitten were in ,no danger, physicians said. TWO CENTS. 3 PERSONS SLAIN IN 15-MONTH PERIOD OF DIMITIES 16 Are Killed by Agents—9 Officers Die in Arrest At tempts. LOWMAN SAYS VIOLENT CASES SHOW DECREASE Attributes Better Condition to Rule Prohibiting Promiscuous Use of Firearms. By the Associated Press. Assistant Secretary Lowman reported today that 16 persons had been killed by prohibition agents and Coast Guards men in enforcing the prohibition law during the last 15 months. In the same period, seven prohibition agents and two mounted customs in : spectors were killed by persons they J sought to arrest. In making public details of each case in which a citizen was killed by a Gov ernment officer, Lowman said that the number of violent arrests was growing materially less and he attributed the decrease to observance of the rule pro mulgated more than a year ago prohib iting the promiscuous use 01 firearms by prohibition agents. Following those in structions, he said, prohibition agents never resorted to the use of weapons ex cept to protect their lives. Os the total number killed during the period 11 persons met death in resisting arrest by prohibition officers, who lost only four less of their own number. Coast Guardsmen killed five persons in the 15 months, but no persons were killed by customs officers during the year. The customs inspectors slain were killed by smugglers near El Paso, Tex., in 1928. In every case where an agent killed a citizen in attempting to make an arrest where the officer was not absolved of hlame by a coroner's or grand jury, he has been found to have acted in per formance of his duty when tried in i court, Lowman said. Several cases, j however, still are pending. Synopses Prepared. Mr. Lowman prepared for Under | secretary Mills a list of the killings [ and a synopsis of each case, as follows: By prohibition agents: Lee Prudman, colored, near Julius. Ark., January 9. 1928, when he resisted i arrest with a shotgun during a raid on 'j a still. Coroner’s' jury exonerated ! j agents. - Douglas Srtiith, rolored. Louisville, ! Ky., January 28. 1928, opened fire on officers who raided his home. Officers ! acquitted at trial. Mike Soy tick. May 10. 1928, near Cumberland, Wyo., killed in duel with agent after Soytick had killed one of the officers who raided still on his ranch. Coroner's inquest exonerated officer. Albert Edmunds. July 14, 1928, Phenix City. Ala., resisted In raid on saloon. Officer struck him with re volver. which fired, cutting Edmunds’ , jugular vein. Charges against agent ; pending in Federal Court. Jose Villegas. July 14, 1928, near Santa Maria, Calif., when he attempted to shoot officer to whom he had sold keg of whisky. Coroner’s jury found agent acted in self-defense and in per formance of duty. Bernard Cottrell. July 20. 1928, In I raid, on still in Kanawha County,’ W. Va. Agent acquitted of charges of murder. Jess Hughes. August 2, 1928, in raid on still in Saline County, Mo. Hughes, ex-convict, attempted to shoot agent who rushed still and was killed by an other officer. Coroner’s jury found slaying justifiable. Jim Ratliff. August 15, 1928, Wash ington County, Tenn.. in raid on still. No record on disposition of case. Ben Bailey, Negro, August 31, 1928, . Florence County, S. C., when he re sisted arrest on warrant by prohibition ' officers after he had assaulted State t! officers and fled. ; j John Hysler, September 26, 1928, in ; revolver fight with officers who stopped '! liquor-laden automobile near Jackson ■ I ville, Fla. Agent exonerated by grand ■ jury. Joseph O. McGuire. February 3, 1928. at Laramie, Wyo., in raid on house ■ where he was resisting arrest on charge ' cf murder. Coroner s jury returned ver ; diet agent was' acting in performance of his duties and protecting his own life. Killed by Coast Guard. By Coast Guardsmen: Jacob Hansen, shot May 6, near ' Lewiston, N. Y., died August 24. “Re ■ j fused to submit to search and tried to i run down officers.” Zeb Powell, "bootlegger,” shot and killed June, 16, 1928, on motor boat off ’ Bogue Inlet station when he refused i to heave to while running cargo of r liquor. Leslie Adams, fatally wounded last > October 6 on motor boat. Refused to i heave to while jettisoning cargo of . liquor off San Pedro, Calif, r Carl Anderson, master of American motor boat Bug, on last November 29 i shot and killed when he refused to heave to. Papers in pocket indicated i he cleared a Canadian port with cargo . of ale. Leon Meingui, March 22, 1929, sea man aboard Canadian schooner I’m Alone, sunk in Gulf of Mexico. 190 Killed in Nine Years. i Statistics show that since the lnaugu- II ration of the prohibition law a total of 1135 persons have been killed by prohi bition agents. During the nine years 55 prohibition agents have met death *in line of duty. The deaths by years were: 1920, agents 6, citizens 5: 1921, agents 8, citi zens 14; 1922, agents 12, citizens 13; 1923, agents 4, citizens 17; 1924, agents 2, citizens 22; 1925, agents 5, citizens 20; 1926, agents 6, citizens 17; 1927, agents 5, citizens 16; 1928, agents 7, citizens 10; 1929, agents none, citi zens 1. 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