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WEATHER.
(TJ. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.)
Partly cloudy, slightly colder tonight:
minimum temperature about 23 degrees;
tomorrow fair.
Temperatures—Highest. 34, at 2 p.m.
yesterday; lowest. 29. at 4 a.m. today.
Pull report on page 9.
Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15
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SCHULDT OH
CHANCE TO RESUME
POLICE TESTIMONY
Court Directs Him to Appear
Before Trial Board on
January 3.
* SIMILAR ACTION PLANNED
IN CASE OF AGNEW
Chairman Notified by Attorney He
Will Decline to Testify in
Shelby-Kelly Case.
Police Court Judge Gus A. Schuldt. in
•n unprecedented action, today ordered
Merritt O. Chance, foreman of the July
grand jury, to appear on January 3 and j
continue his testimony before the spe
cial police trial board investigating
charges that Inspector William S. Shel
by and Lieut. Edward J. Kelly bungled
their investigation of the death of Mrs.
Virginia McPherson.
Chance defied the trial board Satur
day when recalled for cross-examination
and announced he would refuse to testi
fy further in the case on the ground
that the board allowed irrelevant testi
mony to be given by the United States
attorney's office.
Chance had reference to a bitter at
tack on him by Assistant United States
Attorney Walter Shea, who character
ized him as "a mental misfit, drunk
with authority” in describing Chance's
conduct as foreman.
Appears Without Counsel.
Judge Schuldt's action in directing
Chance to complete his testimony was
taken at the request of Assistant Cor
poration Counsels Robert E. Lynch and
Walter L. Fowler, who are conducting
► the prosecution of Shelby and Kelly be
fore the extraordinary board. The court
pointed out that if Chance refused to
comply with the order further consid
eration would be given to legal techni
calities involved in this unusual case.
Chance appeared before Judge Schuldt
without counsel, and the court extended
the time limit for compliance with the
order so that he could consult with his
attorney, who is out of the city over the
holidays.
Similar action is contemplated by
the trial board in the case of Samuel
P. Agnew’. another member of the July
Knd jury who declined to testify.
_ lew followed Chance's example when
summoned before the board Saturday,
but when he was warned that steps
could be taken to force him to testify,
he said he desired to confer with coun
sel before making a final decision.
The board allowed him until 1:15
o'clock this afternoon to consult coun
sel and decide him course. Harry
Whelan, attorney for Agnew. notified
Maj. L. E. Atkins, chairman of the
trial board, shortly before 11 o'clock this
morning that he had decided to ad
here to his original decision and decline
to testify.
<Legal Steps Due Thursday.
Legal steps to compel Agnew to '
testify, however, will not be taken until
Thursday, when the trial board
reconvenes to resume the trial of
Shelby and Kelly. Maj. Atkins indicat
ed that the same procedure adopted in
the case of Chance would be followed i
In Agnew’s case.
Possible contempt proceedings face
Chance if he disobeys the mandate of
JudgO Schuldt and refuses to appear
before the trial board January 3 and
submit to cross-examination. Chance
completed his direct examination when
he testified Friday.
Never before in the history of the
trial board have steps been taken to
force a witness to testify’ similar to
those Involved in the case of Chance.
The trial board has had the court
issue attachments for the appearance
of a witness before it. but these wit
nesses were not specifically instructed
to testify, in the case of Chance,
however, the court, at the request of
the trial board, gave him specific dl- 1
rections to complete his testimony.
Lacking judicial powers, a police '
" (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) j
LE BRIxTnD ROSSI
SAVED BY ’CHUTES
French Distance Flyers Escape In-;
jury, bnt Plane Is Wrecked
in India.
B* the Assoel**e<i Press.
PARIS. December 23.—The French
aviators Le Brix and Rossi, who are j
making a flight from Pam to French
Indo-China. have come to grief in India, j
A message from Le Brix, dated
Hlaingbwe, Burma, and timed 2:55 p.m. j
local time, today, read. "We had to
jump with parachutes during the night
over the mountains near Moulmain on
Account of bad weather. Rossi slightly
hurt, but Le Brix uninjured. Airplane j
and mail destroyed.”
Hlaingbwe. about 100 miles east of
Rangoon, and 40 northeast of Moul- j
mein, is almost on the frontier of 61am.
BOY, UNWITTINGLY BANDITS’ AIDE,
ROBS CHICAGO CAFE OF #852
Sent With Scaled Note Demanding Money; Thieves
Frightened Away by Policemen’s Accidental Arrival.
Bt th« Aiioeitted Pres*
CHICAGO, December 23.—An un
suspecting, 10-year-old bowling alley pin
setter was the leading actor and a
crowded North Side restaurant the set
ting for a strange robbery staged by two
bandits early today. *
The bandits accosted Johnnie De
cos te. the pin setter.
"Do us a favor and we will pay you,"
one said. "All we want you to do is to
y dellever a note to Rickett’s Restaurant.”
The boy took the note to the restau
rant and handed it to John Rlckett. one
of the owners, who was behind the
counter.
Rlckett read: “Take all the money
c\ of safe and register; put it In
p:r o»g and give It to the kid. If
Entered as second claaa matter
post office. Washington. I>. C.
INSIDE STORY OF AUBURN
RIOT SUPPRESSION TOLD
Police (thief Who Led Rescuers De
scribes Mobilization and Steps
Taken to Quell Revolt
<W. O. Dapping. menacing editor of
the Auburn Cituen. who sent the graphic
store of the recent Auburn Prison out
break to the Associated Pres* bulletin by
bulletin, while prisoners end officials
were struggling for mastery inside the
historic structure, tells here the first
"Inside” story of the revolt, as reported
1 to Mayor Osborne of Auburn by Chief of
! Police Bills, leader of the forces of the
law.)
BY W. O. DAPPING.
AUBURN. N. Y.. December 23 UP).—
| When the fragment* of testimony now
being gathered in three prison investiga
tions have been pieced together, the re
| sutling mosaic will present what is per
haps the most thrilling chapter in the
i history of the penal system of New York
! State.
That most of the facts will be burled
somewhere In official archives is proba
ble. But from the welter of excitement,
has been constructed the first ronnerted
BURKE GUN HELD
USED IN MASSACRE
Ballistic Expert Finds Test
Bullets Marked Like Those
in Moran Death.
“*
By th* Associated Pres*.
CHICAGO. December 23.—Maj. Cal
vin H. Goddard, ballistic expert, as
serted today that markings found on
bullets taken from the bodies of the
seven victims of the Moran gang mas
sacre last February were identical with
markings on bullets fired from the sub
machine guns found in the St. Joseph,
Mich., home of Fred Burke, notorious
killer and bank bandit.
Maj. Goddard made his announce
ment in testifying before the coroner’s
jury reconvened today to hear the latest
development in the 10 months’ investi
gation of Chicago’s most spectacular
gang murders.
The ballistic expert said he fired 35
bullets from the weapons brought Sere
from the St. Joseph bungalow after
Burke had, shot to death a traffic po
liceman In an argument a week ago.
He pronounced the peculiar riflings
on the lead noses of the ballets and the
ejector block markings on the shells
identical.
Burke Already Implicated.
The testimony was regarded as a
definite link in the evidence connecting
Burke with the massacre of seven of
George "Bugs’’ Moran's North Side
gang in a Clark street garage last St.
valentine's day. Burke was listed last
Spring as one of the 17 wanted for
questioning in connection with the ease
and was reported to have been identified
by witnesses as one of the executioner?
seen entering the garage just before the
slayings.
His identification as the hair trigger
killer of the St. Joseph policeman a
week ago and the finding of his cache
of stolen bonds and his arsenal led to
the resumption of the inquiry into the
Moran killings.
Coroner Bundesen himself made ten
tative identification of the machine guns
and bullets last week and submitted the
case to Goddard, now a member of the
faculty of Northwestern University’s
Crime Detection School.
Prominent Men on Jury.
The coroner s jury as reconvened to
day was composed of Bert A. Massee.
vice president of the Colgate-Palm Olive
Peet Co., foreman; Cyrus McCormick,
jr.. Col. A. A. Sprague, Walter L. Meyer
John V. McCormick and Maj. Felix J.
Streychmans, former Belgian consul.
0
PAY ACTION AWAITED
BY CHICAGO TEACHERS
Salaries, Overdue, May Be Paid
Before Christmas Through Tax
Warrant Sale.
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, December 23. —Chicago
school teachers —13.000 of them—will
know by tomorrow at the latest if there
; 1s really a Santa Claus.
Two nopeful possibilities today stood
out in the financial tangle involving
payment of the teachers’ salaries —now
| overdue.
One hope hinges on the efforts of H. I
Wallace Caldwell, president of the Board
of Education, to sell *3.000,000 in tax
anticipation warrants; the other was
the po6sibile aid forthcoming from the
i Citizens "Remedial” committee, headed
by Silas H. Strawn.
Bandits Loot Japanese Ship.
HONGKONG. December 23 (/Pi.—The
; Japanese steamer Ryujin Maru went
aground at the mouth of the Whampoa
; River early today and was looted by
dozens of armed Chinese pirates, said
i a dispatch received by the British naval
wireless from Canton.
you fail to do this you will not get
home safe tonight Be careful, you are
beine watched Don't let the kid know
anvthing about It. It had better be
over *I.OOO. Be careful and don’t ask
the kid anv questions—see?”
A* he read. Rickett heard a tapping
at the window
The two bandits stood without—one.
of them pulled back his coat and the
light glistened on the barrel of a re
volver.
Enter the policemen —four of them;
they stopped at a patrol call box near
the restaurant entrance; the bandits
fled.
Rlckett failed to see this; he handed
Johnnie the bag and the youth sauntered
out. He did not see the men w'here he
left them and so returned to the bowl
ing alley.
He told his employer the tale—the bag
was opened and found to contain $852.
* They returned the
Wit laming .
WASHINGTON, D. G, MONDAY", DECEMBER 23, 1929-THIRTY-SIX PAGES. ***
narrative of the mutiny of Wednesday,
December 11, 1929, during which, with
its hostages, its carnage and its heroic
rescues. Auburn Prison was lost and
won by the forces of law and order.
To the record of facts obtained at
first hand during the thrilling drama
have been added the ordered statements
of principals. None surpasses the official
report of Chief of Police Chester J. Bills
■ I of the Auburn Police Department, made
today to Mayor Charles D. Osborne.
Excitement ‘•Felt’' Before Break.
There had been hints of something
amiss, too vague, however, to be trace
able. To all surface appearances busi
ness as usual was the order at 10 a.m.
: on December 11.
| Out on the cell block there was an
i air of suppressed excitement. At least
a score of convicts knew the time had
| come for a "break." Other inmates
i < Continued on Page 2, Column 4.)
| RAIL MERGER PLAN
SCRUTINIZED HERE
—
Efforts to Forecast Outcome
I
Follow Announcement
by I. C. C.
By the Associated Press.
Washington today poked inquiringly
into the future in an effort to forecast
the outcome of the Interstate Com
merce Commission's plana for consolida
tion of the Nation's raUroads.
The commission's proposal has in
itself no binding effect and was in
tended for the guidance o t the car
riers in taking voluntary action. It is
believed in many quarters that, lacking
the co-operation of the rail lines, addi
tional legislation must be enacted by
Congress if the plan ia to be made
operative.
For this reason, there was a par
ticularly sharp watch for any indication
of the attitude of the roads, attended
by much speculation as to what their
reaction might be. in the course of
which it wss pointed out that the com
mission’s proposals fell short of the
previously expressed wishes of a num
ber of the carriers.
Briefly, the plan of the commission
would establish It competing transpor
tation units, with 5 trunk lines in the
Eastern section. 3 in New England, k
in the South and 9 In the West.
Among Key Lines.
Among the proposed key lines were
the Pennsylvania, Baltimore * Ohio,
Chesapeake & Ohio, New York Central
and the Wabash In the Cast ; the Bos
ton & Mame and New Haven In New
England; the Atlantic Coast Line, the
Southern and the Illinois Central in
the South; and, the Great Northern-
Northern Pacific Systems, the Chicago
Milwaukee. St. Paul & Pacific, the
Burlington, the Union Pacific, the j
Southern Pacific, the Santa Fe. the I
Missouri Pacific, the Rock Island and i
the Chicago & Northwestern in the i
West.
Senator Fess. Republican, Ohio, is l
deeply interested in railroad legislation I
and is the author of a bill making con
solidation compulsory. He plans to
confer with members of the commission
to determine what they consider neces
sary from Congress.
Senator Watson of Indiana, the Re
publican leader, believes that additional
legislation must be enacted and is of
the opinion that it should be consid
ered in the near future: possibly, as
soon as the Senate has disposed of the
| pending tariff bill.
Opposition by Democrats,
j Opposition to some of the unifications
i proposed by the commission has been
heard from Democratic members of the
Senate. Wheeler of Montana disap
| proves of the consolidation of the Great
1 Northern and Northern Pacific, declar
ing it would be a ‘‘great calamity” to
the West. Pittman of Nevada Is not in
favor of this combination and contend?
it would afford no reduction of freight
rates on farm products, minerals and
logs, which he described as the chief
freight of the Northwest.
Senator Howell, Republican, Nebraska,
a member of the commerce committee
who has been an opponent of rail con
solidation. was pleased with the large
number of key lines proposed, but ex
pressed doubt, even so. that the com
mission's plan would work any great
benefit.
I
LOREE DENOUNCES
CONSOLIDATION PLAN
j
! Propcsal to Make Terminals Com
mon Property Paternalistic,
Says D. & H. Head.
I By *he Associated Press.
NEW YORK. December 23. —Leonor
F. Loree. president of the Delaware A
] Hudson Co., in a statement today de
; nounced the proposal of the Interstate
Commerce Commission to unify all
| terminal lines In Its railroad consolida
tion plan.
"The proposal to make terminals
common property would be more proper
to a paternalistic than an individual
, istic Gov-mment.” he said. "In a
period of 80 year* the P-nnsylvania ha?
built up a terminal system around
Philadelphia of great, magnitude. I
don't understand how any mad that
has built itself a dominant terminal
position can be made to relinquish it.”
The commission’s proposal to estab
lish a fifth Eastern trunk line through
, the Wabash <te Lehigh Valley systems
. i clashes with Mr. Loree’s plan to create
‘ j such a trunk line by building a new
.'railroad through the Pennsylvania
I mountains to Chicago.
► • -
' Portugal Baked by Gales.
LISBON. Portugal, December 23 ,;Pi.—
; i Heavy gales followed by terrific down
r pour of rain today flooded houses and
i fields In the district of Villanova de
Rodam.
i . • •
? 47 Communiit* Arrested.
BUCHAREST. Rumania. December 23
</P). —Forty-seven Communists were ar-
S, rested today after clashing vi:h gen
: darmerie when they were denied the
right to meet
>« . t
j LEGGE TO TESTIFY
LOBBY PROBE
IF REQUESTED
Farm Board Head, However,
; Says He Lacks Time to
r Give Committee.
LETTER HAD DENIED
CHANGE OF POLICIES
Refusal of Senator* to Put Missive
in Record Their Business,
He Declares.
Bt the Associated Pres*.
Chairman Legge of the Farm Board
said today that he had no time to ap
pear before the Senate lobby committee,
but. that if he was asked he would do so.
The Farm Board chairman, referring
to the refusal of the committee to
make a letter he had written part of the
record, said that the committee knew
its own business, and that he had sent
the letter only to straighten out. certain
j information which apparently had been
| misunderstood.
I Mr. Legge wrote the committee that j
I no policies of the Farm Board had been
i changed as the result, of a conference
! he had held with Julius Barnes of the
United States Chamber of Commerce,
grain exporter, and three other prom
inent grain dealers.
Barnes had testified before the com
mittee that he had understood that the
! Farm Board would attempt to change !
! some of its policy with regard to loans i
to co-operatives as a result of the con- j
ference.
Question of Altering Folley, j
Before the committee Barnes test!- j
fled he understood, after a conference \
with Chairman Legge, that, the board
would alter its loan policy so that
fanner members of co-operatives who
borrowed money from the board would
pay the same rate of interest as that
paid by others borrowing from eom
j mercial sources.
In turn Legge wrote the lobby com
| mlttee a letter of explanation. Chair
j man Caraway did not put this in the
record, but told Legge he would be
I given an opportunity to appear if he
! wished to do so.
I Caraway also wrote Legge that he
I hoped the board would repudiate the
I announcements made by Barnes, as-
I sertlng that it must do so if it wished
to retain the confidence of the farmer.
This drew an immediate reply from
Legge. who said that every loan to co
operatives was made at the rate pro
vided in the farm act and that the co
operatives themselves fixed an addition
al interest paid by farmer borrowers. 1
Legge also asserted that the board had .
not agreed to submit Its policies to the
grain trade before action.
Manager h Selected.
Meanwhile, the National Grain Cor-
I poratkm informed the Farm Board that
William Kellogg of Minneapolis. Nall I
known grain man. has been selected as
manager of the corporation and will as
sum.* duties on January 1. W. C. Lons
dale, Kansas City grain dealer, had been
offered the post, but refused It, saying
that he was out of sympathy with the
board's grain marketing policies.
The National Grain Corporation,
which is a national sales agency for all
l the grain co-operative associations, al
ready has been buying wheat on the
Chicago Grain Exchange, a procedure
which Mr. Legge said today was ap-
I proved by the Farm Board. ,
The corporation, he said, had found
that there was more space available
for storage than had bean expected,
and also that some of the wheat how
being bought would go Into export, trad*,
which the corporation expecta will soon
Increase.
81nee the organization of the cor
poration it has been under the active
management of a committee appointed
by the board of directors.
250 CHmESEDROWN
AS STEAMER SINKS
Vessel Caught in Storm Swamped i
hy Huge Waves—Two Sea
men Are Picked Up.
By the Associated Pres*.
HONG KONG, China, December 23.
—The Chlneee steamer Lee Cheong,
with her Chinese ©Ulcers and crew and
250 Chinese passengers, including many
women and children, sank late Satur
day night with practically all «.n board.
The vessel was caught in a violent
storm shortly after leaving Swabue
Saturday afternoon for Hong Kong and
went down at midnight, swamped by
i huge waves.
Two seamen clinging to wreckage
I were picked up yesterday and brought
; here.
LEGISLATOR MARRIES.
Representative Nolan of Minnesota
Weda Former Secretary.
Representative M. I. Nolan of Min
nesota was married on Saturday by
Rev. James Shera Montgomery, chap
; lain of the House, to Mrs. Estelle Flan
ders of Minneapolis, who was his pri
vate secretary while he was lieutenant
governor, friends here learned today.
Representative Harold Knutson of
Minnesota was best man and Mrs.
Wetmore; who has, been Representa
tive Nolan's secretary here since he
succeeded Walter Newton last .June
when the latter became secretary to
the President, was bridesmaid. Repre
sentative Nolan and his bride went, im
mediately. to New York and will sail to
morrow for their honeymoon in Panama.
PLANE DEBRIS SIGHTED.
j Italians Report on Search for Three
French Aviators.
TRIPOLI. Cyrenaica, December 23
<£).—ltalian aviators, searching for
three French aviators flying from Le
Bourget to Saigon. Indo-China, and not
; heard from since December 15, reported
I today that they had sighted the debris
* wr * c *ed airplane near Slrte on the
Mediterranean Coast.
I*** three airmen. LaSalle. Rebard
and Ft 1 tot, arrived at Tunis on Decem
ber 15 on their way to Indo-Chlna and
I left again the same evening for Bengasi.
• uyrenaica. They have net been .sigh-rad
• i anywhere since, and ships have been
- »arehing the Gulf of Gabes for some
trace of them. • h
1
I
WAIT. OF THE RELATED SHOPPERS.
PLAN TO ESTABLISH
; MONGOL REPUBLIC
Would Be Set Up in Bargo
District Under Soviet
Encouragement.
By the Associated Press.
TOKIO. December 23.—A projected
new Mongol republic under Russian en
couragement In the district variously
called Barga, Kulunner or Kolonbail
was reported today in official Japanese
dispatches from Harbin and Mukden.
The plan was seen here as likely to
complicate further the vexed Chinese
Eastern Railway situation.
Consuls returning to Harbin on the
international train In which they at
tempted to reach Northwestern Man
' churia to learn the fate of their na
j tionals brought a few details of the
project. The consuls were prevented
from venturing past Mienttiho by
Chinese military.
The territory of Barga. roughly the
western tongue of Holung-Klang, in
cluding the city of Khallar, which the
Mongols hope to make their capital, and
the Lakes Kulunner and Bornor. has
been disturbed frequently in recent
years by the ambitious "Young Mongol"
party, which has attempted to achieve
independence from China. Soviet
Russia was believed to encourage the
party.
Occupy Deserted Towns.
Apparently trustworthy information
reaching Japanese officials here said
the "Young Mongols” had opportunised
the November Invasion of Northwestern
Manchuria by Soviet forces to occupy
towns deserted by the Chinese.
Khallar, it was raid, was now held,
not. by Soviet regulars but by Mongols,
with Russian and Buriat officers, under
Russian arms. A partial confirmation
of this was the Russian statement at
the Khabarovsk conference on the
settlement of the Chinese Eastern Rail
way controversy that Khallar was occu
pied by Mongols and the Russians were
unable to compel an evacuation.
Wan Fu-Lin, Governor of Holung-
Klang reported the Barga situation to
Mukden. Gov. Chang Hsueh-Liang of
Manchuria then dispatched several
Mongol princes, who acknowledged his
overlordship to Barga. in an attempt
to head off the independence movement.
Japanese believe the Soviet, has en
couraged the Barga developments in
order to strengthen their claim that
Chinese are unable to maintain peace
in the sone occupied by the Chinese
Eastern Railway, and, therefore that
the Soviet should share in policing the
railway. It was believed that the ques
tion was certain to arise at the coming
conference between the Chinese and j
Soviet conferees at the Moscow meeting
next month to complete settlement of
the controversy.
Tell of Wide Plundering.
Consuls returning on the interna
tional train at Harbin told vividly of
the widespread plundering and destruc
tion .by Chinese during the November
retreat. The whole region between
Chalantun and Mlentuho. and especially
Buchatu, they said, had been stripped
of valuables, which were loaded on
military trains and sent to the rear for
sale.
Some loot was sent to Tsltsihar,
provincial capital of Kolung-Kiang.
where it. was marketed. Gov. Wan Fu-
Lin took immediate steps to halt, the
sale and punished the leaders. Later
Chalantun became the loot market.
The Japanese consul reported there was
still a hundred carloads of loot there. I
PEACE PROTOCOL SIGNED.
Moscow and Mukden Agree to Railway {
Status Quo Ante.
MOSCOW, December 23 (/P). —Moscow j
and Mukden have made their peace i
and have signed a protocol fixing rela- j
tionship between the Soviet, Russian |
government and the Manchurian Chi-;
nese provincial government.
A foreign commissariat announce- ;
ment said the Soviet plenipotentiary, i
M. Simonovsky. snd Tssl Yun-Shen, I
the Chinese representative of the Muk- ;
den provincial government, signed at:
Khabarovsk, Siberia, protoeal which re- I
stores the status quo ante on the dis- I
puted Chinese Eastern Railway and t
immediately restores consular and com-!
mercial organizations in the two coun- !
tries.
Troops to Be Withdrawn.
Formal resumption of relations will i
not be arranged until a further confer-!
ence is held January 25, but meanwhile
all troops will be withdrawn from the
Russian and Manchurian borders, all
persons arrested In connection with the
railway dispute will be released, and
white guard Russian will be dL«arm*d
and deported by the Chinese.
The new Russian general manager of
the railway and his assistant will leave
soon for Harbin to assume their duties
(Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) '
I
Hoover Recognized
By Few as He Goes,
Window' Shopping
President and Wife Pause
Frequently to Look at
Gifts on Display.
Recognised by few in the Christmas
season throngs President and Mrs.
Hoover spent an hour yesterday win
dow shopping in the business section
of the city.
Lured by the display of Christmas
gifts they walked along Pennsylvania
avenue and P and G streets, between
Fifteenth and Twelfth streets. They
walked slowly and .'topped frequently.
There were crowds of people on rhe
streets. Few of them recognized the
President and Mrs. Hoover, tnose who
did wishing them both a Merry Christ
mas and a Happy New Year.
Mr. Hoover has been unable to find
time to get away from hi* office for a
shopping expedition or to see the dis
plays, so when Mrs. Hoover, after re
turning from church yesterday, t-ro
poaed a walk, Mr. Hoover jumped at
the suggestion. At a number of places
he and Mr*. Hoover paused for some
time and ori more v ltan one occasion
the President enthusiastically pointed
out some article in the window.
Wild Turkey* for Dinner.
Two W'ild turkey*, one weighing 20
pounds and the other 19 pounds, which
were shot on Saturday by Lawrence
Richey, one of the President's aecre
(Continued on Page 2, Column 1.)
DRY WORKERS SET
MUR RECORD
Confiscate More Than 1,000
Gallons of Rum and Ar
rest 45 Persons.
v •
Police and prohibition agents broke
all records for a 48-hour period over
the week end when they arrested 43
person* for prohibition law violations
and confiscated over 1,000 gallon* of
Christmas whliky. Assistant United
States Attorneys David A. Hart and
James R. Kirkland refused to make out
; papers against eight of the defendants.
Policemen William McEwen and W.!
R. Laflin of the eighth precinct halted
three automobiles within two hours, one
of which they said was carrying more
than 30 gallons of liquor.
Julius H. Jackson, colored, of the
of L *ireet, was arrested on
Fifth street near w after a chase.
Lafl)n said Jackson abandoned his au
tomobiie when he found he was losing
the chase. The uncontrolled car crashed
into a parked machine.
Hart and Kirkland aald that the
number arraigned today far exceeded
the number brought into court on anv
previous week end. The former record
Is said to be 30.
GOVERNMENT DROPS
i CONSPIRACY CASES
~
i Charges Againit 167, Including
Pennsylvania Officials, Will
Not Be Prosecuted.
j th. Associated Frees.
PITTSBURGH, December 23. —
j Charge* of conspiracy to violate th
prohlbltion laws, on which 187 persons.
; including Supt. of Police Peter P. Walsh,
j State Assemblyman Samuel J. Greinet
I and several other police officers and
j political figure* were indicted, were
, dropped by the Government today.
I The motion to nolle prosse the cases
was made by United States Attorney
Louis E. Graham. Leslie E. Slater,
i special assistant to Attorney General
! Mitchell, recommended the action. The
explanation was made that the Attorney
General approved the move.
A blanket indictment and Individual
indictments were dropped. The defend
ants were indicted in June, 1928, after
the Federal grand Jury had heard scores
of witnesses in its probe of an alleged
i city-wide liquor ring.
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GARNER AGAIN ASKS
HOOVERSTATEMENT
President’s Tariff Activities
Defended by Wood in Reply
to Democrats.
By the Associated Pres*.
Whether or not President Hoover lent
the co-operation of his high office to
Cuban interests opposed to an increased
sugar tariff brought on a wordy week
end battle between the national Repub
lican congressional committee and the
publicity bureau of the Democratic na
tional committee.
Representative Wood of Indiana, as
chairman of the former, stood forth as
its champion and stanchly defended
the chief executive, while Representa
tive Garner of Texas, Democratic leader
of the House, took the view that a
statement from Mr. Hoover was neces
sar' and for the second time issued a
statement calling for such a pronounce
ment.
The controversy grew out of the testi
mony of H. C. Lakln, president of the
Cuba Co., before the Senate lobby in
vestigating committee. He said he had
employed Edwin P. Shattuck, a New
York attorney, to assist him in the cam
paign against a high sugar duty be
cause Shattuck was a friend of Presi
dent Hoover. Other testimony was to
the effect that Mr. Hoover directed his
secretary, Walter Newton, to bring
about a contact between the Cuban in
terests and the House ways and means
committee, then drafting the tariff b!H.
Wood Defends Hoover.
Wood said that even supposing it were
true that Mr. Hoover had discussed the
sugar tariff with men opposing an in
creased duty, he could see nothing
reprehensible in that fact. He went on
to say that for the President to give au
dience "to men of personal repute, who
are also representatives of industry or
commerce, does not constitute a plot,
nor is a conversation between the two a
connivance.”
He reproached Garner for his first
statement with the assertion that it had
sought by inuendo and implication to
impugn the motives of the President.
1 He declared this "characteristic of the
| Democratic national committee, but not
of Gamer, and asserted that the com
mittee had hid behind Gamer's name.
Gamer again called upon the Presi
dent to issue a statement setting forth
his side of the controversy, with the as
sertion that lacking a pronouncement
from the White House many people
would not take a kindly view of the
episode.
He reviewed the testimony laid before
the lobby committee, both orally and in
correspondence, and asserted that, since
there is no way of bringing the Presi
dent before the committee, the latter
is "handicapped in getting at the facts."
He asserted that many of the state
ments made before the committee have
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Three Killed by Bomb.
SOFIA, Bulgaria. December 33 UP).—
A dispatch from the Jugoslavian
frontier town Dragoman today said
three were killed and eight injured
when a bomb exploded in a railway
train between Pirot and Nish. A peas
ant passenger who handed the bomb to
a fellow passenger escaped.
HELEN WILLS’ WEDDING TODAY
MARKED BY SIMPLE CEREMONY
Only Six Guests, Members of Family, Invited; Service
Omits Both "I Obey” and "Surrender of Goods” Clauses.
By the Associated Press
BERKELEY. Calif.. December 33.
Extremely simple ceremonies will mark
the wedding here at noon today of
Helen Wills, woman world tennis cham
pion. and Frederick 8. Moody, jr., San
Francisco stock broker.
In picturesque little St. Clement's
Chapel, at the foot of the Berkeley
hills. Rev. Lindley H. Miller will read
the Episcopalian marriage service. Be
sides Dr. Miller and the bride and
bridegroom, only six persons will be
present.
They are the bride's parents. Dr. end
Mrs. C. A. Wills; Mr. and Mrs. Fred
erick Moody, sr.. and Mr. and Mrs. Cor
bett Moody, the bridegroom’s brother
and sister-in-law.
Reports are that the tennis champion
and her husband will leave immediately
after the service aboard the yaeht Gala
tea, but the honeymoon plans were a
carefully guarded secret.
Saturday’s Circulation, 108.5*4
Sunday’s Circulation. 11 ft, 123
THOUSANDS WADE
THROUGH SLUSH TO
SPEED UP SHOPPING
Colder Tonight, With Clear
ing Skies, Dims Hopes of
White Christmastide.
DOWNTOWN DISTRICT
JAMMED WITH CROWDS
Police and Car Companies Prepare
for Peak of Holiday Rash
Tomorrow.
Splashing through snowy slush, thou
sands thronged the downtown street*
today In a rush of last-minute shop
ping while hopes for a white Christ
mas, whirh ran high after a night of
snow and sleet, were dimmed by the
pronouncement of the Weather Bureau
that colder weather tonight will bring
clearing skies and two days of fail*
weather.
A thaw which began with the dawn
continued during the day and on all
thoroughfares the early morning cov
ering of snow, which delighted thou-
I sands of children out of school for the
holidays, gave way to slush and water.
I The temperature probably will mod
' erate somewhat over Christmas, the
Weather Bureau said.
Throughout today great throngs of
shoppers jammed the midtown district.
The congestion was most acute on cen
tral sections of F and G streets, and
Seventh and E streets, where the street
railways have double tracks.
Peak Rush Tomorrow.
The Police Department and street
transit systems are preparing for the
peak rush of shoppers tomorrow, when
the Government departments will be
closed. The crowds which move down
town. however, probably will And street*
and sidewalks clear of the melting snow
which worked considerable . hardship
today.
Additional precipitation Is expected
later today In the form of scattered
rain, or an occasional flurry of snow.
The temperature should remain slightly
above freezing, however, and mpatof
the snow is expected to thaw.
The low extreme this morning was
29 degrees, while the temperature St
night is expected to get down to 23.
Yesterday’s extremes were 34 and 27
degrees.
Clearing skies tonight will be attended
by "moderate to fresh" west and north
west winds, the Weather Bureau pre
dicted.
The snow called into service the 31
snow plows and scrapers of the Dls
j trict Street Cleaning Department at 4
a.m. The scrapers traversed the heavily
traveled thoroughfares.
Crew Out With Shovels.
Two hours later the white wings In
the department's employ were turned
out with shovels to keep the sidewalks
clear, particularly in the downtown sec
tion.
Although hampered by weather con
ditions this morning, the motor deliv
ery service of the Post Office Depart
ment was sble to keep incoming and
outgoing mall clear.
Post office trucks were delayed some
what In leaving their garages this
morning while chains were put on.
The volume of mail for local delivery
was the heaviest of the holiday season.
Extra trucks were pressed Into service
to transfer it, to the substations, and
to distribute special delivery letters and
parcels.
Postal authorities said there was less
of a last-minute rush this year than
last, a circumstance they attributed to
'mail early" publicity campaigns. Every
Sieee of outgoing and Incoming mail
ad been cleared at noon.
Fewer traffic jams have resulted this
year in the shopping district, police
officials say. This was due to some
extent to new signal lights at a num
ber of intersections.
The 20 extra policemen detailed by
the Traffic Bureau to shopping districts
last Monday have been able to keep
the intersections clear, and few Jams
have resulted.
Several additional policemen will be
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ELMER HUCKINS AGREES
TO FACE FRAUD CHARGE
By the Associated Press.
WAUTOMA, Wis., December 23.
Elmer S. Huckins. head of a business
enterprise which is reputed to have
paid investors 2« to 52 per cent in
dividends, surrendered to authorities
today to answer fraud charges preferred
against him in Cedar Rapids. lowa. He
waived preliminary examination and
agreed to surrender to extradition war
rants. should they be issued. Huckins
was released under $5,000 bond to in
sure his appearance here January 7.
The elder Huckins. with his son,
George, now under arrest, at Excelsior
Springs. Mo., on similar charges, con
ducted a business the exact nature of
which has not been known. It was
reported that exceedingly high rates
of dividends have been paid Investors
Some months ago the Federal au
thorities investigated the business and
brought, charges of using the mails to
defraud.
Apparently not a bit perturbed by
her coming nuptials. Miss Wills spent
yesterday on the courts of the Berkeley
Tennis Club. In the afternoon aha
rested and last night an informal fam
ily gathering took place at the Mills
home.
Telegrams of congratulations from all
the world continued to pour into
the Wills home, which was filled with
flowers sent by friends. Aside from the
flowers, almost the only sign of the
wedding preparations yesterday was the
packing of trunks.
Dr. Miller arrived here last night
from a hurried trip to the East, where
he had gone to attend the funeral of
his mother. The new Episcopalian mar
riage service which he will read does
not make the bride promise to obey
her husband, nor does it require the
groom to promise to endow his bride
with all his worldly goods.
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