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WEATHER.
<O. S. Weather Bureau Forecast.!
Pair, warmer tonight and tomorrow:
minimum temperature tonight about 30
degrees.
Temperatures—Highest, 38. at noon
today; lowest, 23, at 5 a.m. today.
Pull report on page 7.
Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15
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MILLS WOULD CUT
BORDER PORTS TO
STEM LIQUOR FLOW
Treasury Program Will Be
Given Joint Committee as
Soon as Named.
9 UNIFIED PATROL SYSTEM
INCLUDED IN PROPOSALS
' Consent of Ottawa Officials Neces
sary to Change Cities of
Entry.
*y the Associated Press.
Plans for prohibition enforcement,
Which include a unified border patrol
•nd limitation of the number of ports of
entry from Canada, will be submitted
by the Treasury to Congress as soon as
a joint congressional committee to con
sider prohibition questions is named.
Undersecretary Mills, who made the
announcement today, said that Presi
dent Hoover’s suggestion that a con
gressional committee be named to study
consolidation of enforcement agencies
had not been acted upon.
He said that as soon as the committee
was named the Treasury will submit a
plan for a unified border patrol, which
would require the consent of Canada,
because it will provide for limitation
of the number of ports of entry to this
country. In addition to limiting the
ports of entry the plans, he said, will
provide for an intensive border patrol,
under direction of the Coast Guard, to
prevent smuggling.
Enter Anywhere at Present.
At present, the Undersecretary added,
a person copiing from Canada may
enter this country anywhere along the
border, but must report his entrance at
r the nearest port. This requires, he said,
a patrol to work 10 or 15 miles inside
the border. Under the new plan, if
approved by Congress and Canada, the
patrol would work along the exact bor
der and prevent entry anywhere except
at points designated.
The announcement of Mills came at
a time when interest had been focused
on the dry law enforcement by criti
cism of prohibition personnel by Sena
tor Borah, Republican, Idaho, and re
plies by Attorney General Mitchell and
Prohibition Commissioner Doran.
Senator Harris, Democrat, of Georgia
and Senator Glass, Democrat, of Vir
ginia. have also saked an early report
to Congress on the work of the Hoover
law enforcement commission, which is
investigating prohibition conditions and
crime conditions generally.
Hoover Suggested Change.
President Hoover suggested to Con
gress several months ago that it name
a committee to confer with the Treas
ury and Department of Justice regard
ing the executive's plana for transfer
ring prohibition enforcement to the De
partment of Justice from the Treasury,
and the resolution authorizing such a
committee now is pending in the Senate.
The spreading controversy on prohi
bition enforcement has brought two
Government departments into the ver
bal melee with statements in opposition
to Senator Borah’s assertion that with
the present personnel the Volstead law
Can never be made effective.
Attorney General Mitchell last night
said there had been an improvement in
the last six months and that the possi
bilities of further bettering conditions
were being given careful study. With
: the approval of the Treasury, Prohibi
tion Commissioner James M. Doran as
serted that Borah’s condemnation of
the entire prohibition personnel, in a
statement Tuesday, was “unfortunate
and bound to have a disheartening
effect upon the morale of the service.”
Informed of the Mitchell and Doran
statements, the Idaho Senator met the
Attorney General’s reference to efforts
to improve enforcement with the re
mark that “evidently its conditions were
such as to call for an effort and an
heroic effort." He added that he had
“no means of knowing” how much
progress has been made “as its results
have not yet appeared on the face of
things.”
Mitchell said that in fairness to the
men now engaged in the prohibition
service, he could not let Borah’s criti
cism pass unchallenged. There has
never, he asserted, been greater zeal
in the enforcement of the liquor laws
than at present.
Sees Gain in Recent Months.
He went on to say that more can be
accomplished when Congress is ready
to approve legislation carrying out the
administration’s recommendations for
more adequate law enforcement ma
chinery. His department has been at
work for months, he added, on meas
ures designed to improve personnel, re
lieve congestion in the courts and reor
, ganize the enforcement agencies.
“There has been improvement in the
last six months,” he declared. “There
2i3s also, under the President’s leader
sbip, been a noticeable change in public
attitude toward law observance.”
Doran, while saying that the admin
istration of the prohibition laws is “sus
ceptible to improvement,” asserted that
“to say that prohibition cannot be en
forced with the present personnel comes
perilously near to saying that it can
not be enforced at all.” He added that
“on the whole, we are not likely to find
a more loyal and conscientious group
of men than are now serving under
me.”
Eorah said Mitchell’s statement was
encouraging, but that “the truth of the
business is that the personnel is in
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"SANTA” SEIZED BY POLICEMAN
, CRAWLING IN WINDOW WITH BAG
Gifts He Said Were for Friends Found to Have Been
Collected in Other Homes.
£" the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. 111.. December 26.—Santa
Claus stories are not of much account
December 26. Polks don’t feel just the
seme about the jolly old fellow the day
after.
Still, in away, it Is no more than
risht to tell about the Santa Claus who
!;• held in jail under the name of James
* .-jck. To overlook this would, likely
a" not. be passing the buck.
Mr. Buck, or Santa Claus, as he chose
to designate himself, was climbing
tk’-cugh the window of a home on Har-
t r r.y avenue last night with a pack on
his back. By a strange freak of fate
Entered as second class matter
post office. Washington. D. C.
THE PRESIDENT’S NEW WORKSHOP
The room In the State-War-Navy Building which will be occupied as an
office by President Hoover, pending repairs to the executive offices swept by fire
Tuesday night. This is one of the suite of the Battle Monument Commission,
and up until now has been used by Gen. Pershing, head of that organization.
Prior to that, it was the office of the Secretary of the Navy. —Star Staff Photo
COAST GUARDS KILL
FLEEING SUSPECT
Buffalo Police Lieutenant’s
Son Bleeds to Death From
Bullet Wound.
By the Associated Press.
BUFFALO, N. V., December 26.—Eu
gene P. Downey, jr., 27, son of Police
Lieut. Eugene P. Downey of this city,
bled to death last night after being
shot by Coast Guardsmen In the CG
-2245, which was partoling the Niagara
River for rum runners and narcotic
smugglers.
Downey and a companion, In a motor
boat known as the Dodge, were suspect
ed of having aboard a load of liquor
from Canada,
After the shooting the Dodge was
found to be empty. Downey’s companion
escaped after the Dodge had been run
against a Buffalo pier.
Medical Examiner Rocco C. De Do
rn lnlcis said today he was at a loss just
how to proceed in the case, due to the
attitude of Richard H. Templeton, Fed
eral attorney for this district.
Bars Questioning of Guards.
Templeton gave orders that the med
ical examiner should not be permitted
to question the Coast Guardsmen con
nected with the shooting.
Dr. De Domintcis was allowed to in
spect the Dodge, which has five bullet
holes, three above the water line and
two below.
The fact that Downey was shot In one
leg led to speculation.
“The river was rough last night,” De
tective Chief Thomas J. Riordan of the
Buffalo department, said today, “and It
does not seem reasonable that Downey
would be standing up In that 26-foot
boat while the waves were tossing the
boat around and the Coast Guardsmen
were firing at the craft.”
The medical examiner said he was
convinced that none of the five bullets
that struck the boat wounded Downey.
He voiced the opinion that the speed
boat outdistanced the Government
chaser and that the unidentified pilot
of the Dodge quickly lashed his boat
to the dock, climbed up the rope onto
the pier and ran away. He further
theorized that Downey stood up and
attempted to climb up on the dock
and was shot down then.
Downey was bleeding profusely when
Coast Guardsmen hove upon the scene.
Much difficulty was experienced In get
ting him ashore, the pier being high,
and both police and firemen were called
to aid in the task. The wounded man
died 20 minutes after reaching a hos
pital. Surgeons were quoted as saying
that had a tourniquet been applied to
the wounded leg promptly his life would
have been saved.
Faced Rom Law Trial.
Last Friday Downey pleaded not
guilty to a charge of conspiracy to
smuggle liquor and was released In $lO,-
000 bail.
Rudolph Thompson, Asa Ennis and
Orville Grant were given as the names
of the Coast Guardsmen connected with
last night’s tragedy.
Comdr. W. M. Rasmussen of the
Coast Guard said that the Dodge was
sighted by Coast Guardsmen at 4:40
P-m. off Erie Beach, Ontario. At the
same time, he said, four other men
were seen bringing a small boat down
over the ice in the Niagara opposite the
foot of Genesee street, Buffalo. The
officer In charge of the Buffalo station,
the commander said, immediately dis
patched the CG-2245 to the harbor en
trance to await the coming of the sup
posed rum boat, later identified as the
Dodge, into the harbor.
The Dodge, Rasmussen said, was
cruising without lights. The Coast
Guard craft hailed her, but she failed
to heave to. After the usual required
signals were given, one of the men
aboard the Government craft fired at
the motor boat, the commander ex
plained.
A formal report on the slaying of
Eugene P. Downey, Jr., son of a police
lieutenant at Buffalo, by U. S. Coast
Guards had not yet been received by
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Lowman, he said at noon today.
Pending study of the formal report
Mr. Lowman said he would make no
comment on the matter.
a policeman observed him. He pulled
Buck back out of the window and in
quired what was the idea.
“I am Santa Claus,” said Buck. “My
friends who live here are away and I
thought I would seize the opportunity
to slip in the window and deposit gifts
about the place.”
“You may,” said Officer Sachs, “be
Santa Claus to little children, but
you’re just a suspicious character
to me.”
There was no denying Santa had
some nice presents in his bag. It was
not surprising, for, he later explained
to policemen, the presents had been
collected from some of Evanston’s best
places.
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V J V y WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION
WASHINGTON, D. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1929—THIRTY-EIGHT PAGES. ***
PRESIDENT MOVES
INTO NEW OFFICE
Occupies Room in Which
Famed Proclamation Was
Signed.
In a sunny room on the second floor
of the White House, overlooking the
rear grounds, which was the office in
which Abraham Lincoln signed the
Emancipation Proclamation, President
Hoover is today carrying on the busi
ness of the Government,
By tomorrow afternoon he expects to
move into the large room on the sec
ond floor of the State, War and Navy
Building, now used by Gen. Pershing
as the head of the Battle Monuments
Commission, and until recently the
private office of the Secretaries of the
Navy. Hoover’s several secretaries and
virtually the entire executive force will
be located in rooms adjoining and
nearby. The work of carrying the flies
and that furniture which was not badly
damaged during the executive office fire
to these temporary quarters was under
way this morning and if the plans are
carried out the President and his force
will be at work as though nothing had
happened within the next 24 hours.
Likes Lincoln Office.
Mr. Hoover Is rather pleased to have
this opportunity to carry on his work
in the Lincoln office. The historic
room has a most peculiar fascination
for him and soon after taking up his
residence at the White House he re
stored what Lincoln furniture and ar
ticles remained in the White House to
this room and has since been using
it as his private study. There is not
the slightest question but that he has
more Interest in this room than in any
other part of the White House.
The desk he is using today is the
one used by the Great Emancipator and
one of the several bookcases around
the walls belonged to him. Although
it is not definitely known to be a fact,
it is understood that the chair at the
desk and one or two others in the room
were used by Lincoln.
Akerson In Hallway.
In the wide hallway outside, George
Akerson, one of the secretaries, is car
rying on his business at a long mahog
any table which was used by President
Lincoln and his war cabinet during that
dark period.
Secretaries Richey and Newton are
using rooms directly across the hall
from the President’s temporary office,
one of which was used by Alice Roose
velt, now Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, as
as a bed room. The other was a bed
room for White House guests. Another
room at the northeast corner of the
building, immediately north of the
President’s office room, has been turned
over to the President’s private stenog
raphers. The remainder of the execu
tive business is being transacted in
rooms on the basement floor of the
White House, although all those clerks
and stenographers whose services were
not absolutely necessary today were
excused from work and those who were
on duty were occupied principally with
sorting out papers and books and other
articles which had been salvaged from
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BYRD WHALING SHIPS
REPORTED CRUSHED
Crews Rescued After Vessels Are
Caught in Jam—ldentity of
Craft Is Not Disclosed.
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, December 26.—Exchange
Telegraph dispatches from Wellington,
New Zealand, yesterday reported that
the crews of two whaling expeditions
sent out by the Byrd Antarctic Expedi
tion had been rescued after their boats
had been crushed in the ice.
The news was received by the Byrd
supply ship Eleanor Bolling by wire
less. The Eleanor Bolling is now at
Dunedin, New Zealand.
Capt. H. H. Railey, New York repre
sentative of Rear Admiral Byrd, said
last night that he did not know of any
"whaling expeditions’’ having been sent
i out by the Byrd party. He said, how
j ever, that the whaling ship Neilsen
Alonzo left her base recently in New
Zealand for the whaling grounds and,
as an accommodation to Rear Admiral
Byrd, carried a load of supplies for the
[ exploring party on the Ice Barrier.
The Neilsen Alonzo had planned to
transfer these supplies to one of the
r small “chaser” whaling ships accom
[ panying her and this “chaser” was to
r take the supplies through the Ross Sea
i to Little America. It was due at the
Barrier on December 10.
s Whether it was this “chaser” that
t was meant in the Exchange Telegraph
: dispatches from Wellington, New Zea
land, as quoted by the Associated Press,
1 could not be determined,
s Capt. Railey said that if the "chaser”
l had been crushed in the ice and its
i supplies for the Byrd expedlton lost,
i no serious hardship would befall Byrd
and his men.
CONGRESS IS READY
TO APPROVE NEW
EXECUTIVE OFFICES
President’s Quarters in Re
placed State Department
Building Suggested.
FINE ARTS COMMISSION
HEAD OFFERS PROPOSAL
Structure for Government Archives
Also Included in Projected
Plan.
While Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d,
Army Engineer officer In charge of the
White House Building and grounds,
was concerned today with the Im
mediate task of providing adequate
temporary quarters in the State, War
and Navy Building for the President
and his secretaries, assurance was given
today by leaders in Congress that what
ever legislation and funds are needed
for the erection of a new and adequate
building for the Executive offices will
be promptly provided by Congress.
That Congress wUI welcome a recom
mendation to provide a permanent fire
proof, modern office building for the
use of the President and his rapidly en
larging clerical force, is emphasized to
day by the most prominent men in
Congress who are in the city—Demo
crats as well as Republicans. This
should be an essential part of the
Federal BuUding program in the
National Capital, they pointed out.
Urges Fireproof Structure.
Senator Wesley L. Jones of Washing
ton, who will be chairman of the com
mittee on appropriations of the Senate,
said he believed that it will be far bet
ter to erect a fireproof building to be
used as the executive offices of the
President than to repair the offices
which have been damaged by fire.
“I looked over the executive offices at
the White House this morning," said
Senator Jones, "and while it would be
possible to repair that building, I per
sonally think we should put up a fire
proof building there. The executive
offices which were damaged by fire were
Intended to be temporary structures and
contained a great deal of wood. I be
lieve that we should take some of the
money which has been set aside for
the Federal buildings in the District of
Columbia and construct a new office
building for the President.”
Senator Jones believes that the ex
ecutive offices should be erected on the
site of the old offices. He did not take
kindly to a suggestion that the old
State, War and Navy Building should
be removed to give place to larger of
fices for the President, with the State
Department and the War Department
placed elsewhere.
"Such a plan might be carried out
later,’ said Senator Jones, "but I be
lieve that the erection of fireproof of
fices for the President, with perhaps a
somewhat larger building, on the old
site will be satisfactory for many years
to come.”
Fire Sorry Spectacle.
"It is a sorry spectacle for the country
to see the President climbing through
a window into a smoke-filled office to
rescue important state papers,” said
Representative Britten of Illinois today.
“It emphasizes to the whole country the
absolute need, in the interests of good
government and economic administra
tion, for the Federal building program
in the Capital for. which Congress has
already authorized an expenditure of
$75,000,000 and a bill has passed the
House authorizing an additional $115.-
000,000. The new Executive Office
Building should be made one of the
early buildings on this program. Price
less papers and records are now at
hourly fire risk in non-flreproof build
ings occupied by practically every de
partment of Government, just as were
the White House records when Presi
dent Hoover and his secretaries climbed
through the windows to rescue them on
Christmas eve.”
Several members of the House have
already stated that they are ready to
introduce whatever bills may be needed
for authorizing the new Executive Office
BuUding, including Representative
Royal Johnson of South Dakota and
Mr. Britten.
There will probably be a flood of bills
introduced proposing a new White
House office building. It is likely, how
ever, that the one which will be enacted
into law will be sponsored by Chairman
Elliot of the House committee on public
buildings and grounds, who is a mem
ber of the Public Buildings Commission
If a new executive office building is
the best thing to be done in the opinion
of those in charge, it will be promptly
authorized by Congress.
Mr. Moore's Proposal.
Construction of a new State Depart
ment Building on the west side of La
fayette Square, demolition of the State,
War and Navy Building, just across
from the White House, and provision
for the presidential executive offices on
that site or in the new State Depart
ment Building were suggestions advanced
today by Charles Moore, chairman of
the Fine Arts Commission, who has
given the subject exhaustive study and
thought.
The executive offices that were burned
on Chirstmas eve were constructed
merely as a temporary measure, to get
the President out of the White House
during his working hours, removing the
Chief Executive’s workshop from his
home, Mr. Moore said. Now that the
fire has made it necessary to repair the
executive offices, the time seems oppor
tune, in the opinion of Mr. Moore, to
look to the future and make permanent
arrangements.
The present "monstrosity”—the State,
War and Navy Building—should be torn
down, the chairman of the Fine Arts
Commission insists, as it is not only an
architectural misfit, but is a fire hazard.
In the opinion of prominent architects,
Mr. Moore explained, if the building
caught fire it would be destroyed in an
hour and a half. The exposed iron
beams would warp with the heat, he
said, and the granite would crumple,
sending the structure tumbling into its
foundations.
Cost $3,000,000.
It would cost some $3,000,000 to re
model the State, War and Navy Build
ing, Mr. Moore pointed out, and then
when the job has been completed, there
be but a makeshift, at best.
. .Tne best thing to do is to scrap the
building, ’ Mr. Moore asserted. "It wUI
be cheaper to tear it down.”
‘ The Proposed State Department on
the * w . eßt Bide of Lafayette Square might
contain provisions for the executive of
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JkyweUgJS*- .
RADIO BAN ASKED
ON QUACK CURES
New York Health Commis
sioner Says Public Is Men
aced by Fakes.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, December 26.—Pake
doctors and quack healing concerns,
driven from the advertising pages of
reputable newspapers and magazines by
the combined action of publishers and
health authorities, now are finding re
newed prosperity through radio adver
tising. This became known yesterday
when it was learned that Dr. Shirley
W. Wynne, commissioner of health, has
written a confidential letter to the
Federal Radio Commission at Wash
ington, outlining this new invasion and
asking what can be done to stop It.
The National Better Business Bureau,
of 383 Madison avenue, also is at work
on the problem. Through its 47 affili
ated local bureaus it made a survey sev
eral months ago and subsequently in
duced a number of the larger broad
casting stations throughout the country
to maintain self-imposed standards.
Old, exploded treatments are being re
vived, Dr. Wynne said, either by men
who formerly engineered them or by new
workers who have inherited the ap
paratus and sales talks. Mechanical
devices vie with drugs and herbs for a
share of the gullible radio listener’s
money. Among these devices, sold at
prices ranging from S4O to SIOO each,
are medically useless electrical and me
chanical contraptions offered as cures
and treatments for virtually every hu
man disease.
Dangerous Treatments Sold.
Dr. Wynne said that treatments
which were distinctly dangerous unless
administered after a thorough physical
examination, and then only by a skilled
practitioner, were being sold to the
general public for home use. Not only
has he found that this kind of self
dosing is being urged over the radio,
but also that medicines, diets and ex
ercises are being dispensed by fraudu
lent and Irresponsible concerns which
have no connection with any registered
physician.
In many cases, the commissioner
said, these wares have not been con
cocted by licensed physicians, as suf
ferers are led to believe, but by hawk
ers, "pitchmen,” vaudeville "strong
men” and other commercially-minded
laymen. Some, recommended to cure
obesity, contain harmful drugs which
may produce serious illness and death.
Others suppress annoying symptoms
and dissuade the victim from obtaining
competent physical examination.
The production of a false sense of
security in 111 persons is one of the
most insidious and dangerous phases
of such quack treatments, it is pointed
out.
“Akin to medical quackery, a number
of cosmetics and hair restorers, recom
mended by persuasive announcers for
the treatment of blemished skin and
disappearing hair, are also being ad
vertised over the radio,” the commis
sloner said. “In many cases these prep
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CALLESWCHANGE
IN AGRARIAN POLICY
Former President Discusses Pay
ments From Public Funds for
Lands Taken by Government.
By the Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY, December 26.—El
Universal today published an interview
with Gen. Plutarco Elias Calles, in
which the former Mexican President
advocated changes in the national
agrarian policy.
Principally, the former President
said, there Bhould be advance or im
mediate payment for lands, which
under the agarian laws it may be
necessary to take over, this payment
to be taken from the public funds, since
otherwise virtue of the operation
is lost.
The former President advocates also
a study of national distribution methods
to avoid the bad results likely to arise
if the land is handed out in too small
parcels, such as, he said had been done
in cases in France.
Consolidation of all the nation’s debts
so as to become payable from the coun
try’s resources, leaving a surplus for
payment for lands, was the closing re
commendations in the interview which
was granted to Antonio Galvan Duque, a
close friend and former chief of his secre
tarial staff, while Gen. Calles and his
party were coming back recently from
Europe.
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Radio Programs—Page 29
Divorces in Chicago
Granted at Rate of
1 Each 55 Minutes
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, December 26.—The
divorce rate in Cook County
Courts for 1929 was revealed to
day, showing an average of one
divorce every 55 minutes for the
fiscal year. The number of
divorces granted in Circuit and
Superior Courts was 9,669, this
being 220 more than In the
preceding year. The figures were
made known by the clerks of the
two courts.
The divorces averaged one to
each 103 homes and affected
5,793 children. A majority of the
parties involved, however, were
childless. Wives were the peti
tioners for divorce in three of
four cases. Desertion and cruelty
were the principal causes for
which women sought the sever
ance of marriage bonds. The
majority of men based their suits
r on charges of infidelity.
The reports showed that only
approximately 15 per cent of
the contestants were native
Americans.
3BIG CABIN PLANES
LAST EIELSON HOPE
Ships Arrive at Seward and
Are Rushed North to
Aid in Hunt.
By tha Associated Press.
SEWARD, Alaska, December 26.
Arrival here of three powerful cabin
type planes, with a complement of ex
perienced Canadian flyers to man them,
revived today the fading hope of the
Northland that the search for Pilot
Carl Ben Eielson and Mechanic Earl
Borland, missing In Siberia since No
vember 9, might prove successful.
The planes and flyers, brought here
from Seattle on the Coast Guard cut
ter Chelan, were speedily transferred
to a train on the Alaska Railroad and
were proceeding today to Fairbanks,
where they are to be reassembled and
flown either to Nome or Teller, Alaska,
to engage in the search. The train Is
due at Fairbanks today.
Can Carry Six Passengers.
Each of the planes has room for six
passengers in addition to the pilot and
can lift sufficient gasoline to enable
them to undertake long flights. They
are equipped with everything neces
sary for the safety of those flying
them. The expedition will also be
equipped with an aerial camera, with
which it was said they might be able
to pick up details of the areas passed
over which would not be noticeable to
the human eye.
Although Alaskan pilots have been
making strenuous efforts to find Eielson
and Borland, they have been handi
capped by lack of proper equipment.
Prior to the arrival of the three cabin
planes here yesterday, the only planes
available in the North were open cock
pit machines, Incapable of carrying the
required amount of fuel and which af
forded their operators little protec
tion from the elements.
Reach Icebound Nanuk.
Pilots Joe Crosson and Harold Gillam,
however, managed to reach the fur
trading ship Nanuk, icebouhd at North
Cape, Siberia, to which Eielson and
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FLOOD CONTROL TOPIC
OF FORUM SPEAKER
Senator Ransdell of Louisiana to
Deliver Address Over Colum
bia System Tonight.
Senator Ransdell of Louisiana will
discuss Mississippi Valley flood control
in a radio speech tonight at 10:30
o’clock during the National Radio Fo
rum, arranged by The Evening Star
and sponsored by the Columbia Broad
casting system.
Locally the address may be heard
through Station WMAL, a unit of the
Columbia system.
Senator Ransdell represents a State
whose people are deeply interested in the
Government's flood control program. He
is thoroughly familiar with the progress
of the work In the Mississippi "delta,"
and played a part in shaping legislation
providing for Federal regulation of floods
in the valley. He Is a member of the
Senate Commerce committee, which
sponsored the flood control measure. *
The only evening paper
in Washington with the
Associated Press news
service.
Yesterday's Circulation, 98,056
(ff) Means Associated Prase.
ORTIZ RUBIO GIVEN
CORDIAL WELCOME
Mexican President-Elect and
Wife Will Be Lavishly En
tertained Here.
All the military fanfare and official
honors usually accorded the active head
of a nation greeted Pascual Ortis Rubio,
President-elect of Mexico, and his wife
on their arrival here today for a four
day visit.
Not forgetful of the Latin American
homage paid America’s President-elect
and Mrs. Herbert Hoover during their
“good will" tour a year ago, the United
States rendered the highest coutesles to
Senor and Senora Ortiz Rubio when
their special train arrived from Balti
more at noon today.
President Hoover sent to the station
a fleet of White House automobiles and
designated Secretary of State Stlmson
and other dignitaries to meet the dis
tinguished guests In the presidential
room at Union Station.
Hoover to Repay Call Personally.
Later this afternoon he will pay an
unusual personal tribute by going to
the Mexican embassy to repay In per
i son a brief call to be made earlier by
the Mexican President-elect at the
White House. Mrs. Hoover also will go
in person to the embassy to bring
Senora Ortiz Rubio to a tea at the
White House.
As the special train bearing the
Mexican party rolled Into the station
there was a flourish of trumpets that
brought to attention a lane of Marines
extending from the tracks Into the
presidential reception room and which
had Its effect also on a war-strength
troop of Cavalry lined up at the plaza
entrance.
Accompanying the President-elect
and his wife as they descended from
the train were Or. Pulg Caussarance,
director of the federal district of Mexico,
and his wife; Gen. Manuel Perez
Trevino, leader of the National Revolu
tionary party, and his wife, and Senor
Hernandez Chazaro, private secretary
to Senor Ortiz Rubio. A staff of aides
completed the retinue.
Children Come Here Earlier.
Senorlta Megla, cousin of the Presi
dent-elect, had preceded him here at
11 o’clock, bringing with her the chil
dren of Mexico’s future head, Pascual,
6 years old; Ofelia, about 7, and Eu
genio, 4 years old. Senorlta Megla met
the party at the station.
Secretary Stlmson and Mexican Am
bassador Manuel C. Tellez shook hands
with the President-elect and his wife
as they stepped to the platform. Senor
Ortiz Rubio using perfect English in tha
conversation which followed the Intro
ductions.
The group then walked rapidly be
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TOKIO POLICE ARREST
180 KOREAN STUDENTS
Group Is Charged With Participa
tion in Recent Trouble at 40
Provincial Schools.
By the Associated Press.
TOKIO, December 26.—Arrest by To
klo police of 180 Korean students of
Tokio universities alleged to have been
implicated in recent student troubles in
Korea was revealed here today.
Japanese authorities in Korea allege
the trouble with the students was orig
inally a student affair, which developed
a political character under the direction
of a "secret society of Communist ten
dency.’’
More than 800 students were arrested
at Seoul, Korea, on December 9 and
many still are held for examination.
The vernacular papers here assert the
movements Involved 40 schools In 6 Ko
rean provinces, but a recent statement
from the Korean governor general as
serted the trouble was ended there.
BYRD PLANNING TO CITE FIFTEEN
FOR WORK ON POLAR EXPEDITION
Leader of Little America Party Acknowledges Promotion
to Navy Department.
By thi Associated Praia.
Richard Evelyn Byrd, recently made
rear admiral by Congress, will recom
mend 15 members of his expedition for
commendation by the Navy Department
as soon as they return from the South
Polar regions, because, he explained by
radio today, they “deserve great credit
for the work of the expedition for which
the leader has been promoted.”
The message from Byrd, acknowledge
lng an announcement of his advance
ment in rank, was made public by the
Navy Department. It came from the
■expedition base in Little America, to
TWO CENTS.
TRIAL BOARD CITES
AGNEW ON REFUSAL
TO GIVE TESTIMONY
Police Body Meets Third Re
buff in Questioning Grand
Jury Members.
DAVIDSON ASKS LEGAL
ADVICE AFTER WARNING
Scott Talks Freely of Shelby’s Ap
pearance Before McPherson
Death Probers.
The extraordinary Police Trial Board
sifting charges of Inefficiency against
Inspector Wiliam S. Shelby and Lieut.
Edward J. Kelly met Its third rebuff to
day In an effort to question members of
the July grand Jury which excoriated
the two police officers for their inves
tigation of the death of Mrs. Virginia
McPherson.
Following the example of Merritt O.
Chance, foreman of the grand Jury,
who was cited In Police Court for de
clining to complete his testimony be
fore the trial board, Samuel P. Agnew
and Baxter M. Davldv.n, two other
members of the July grand Jury, refused
i to testify* when the trial reopened after
the Christmas recess. Agnew was im
mediately cited to appear In Police
’ Court tomorrow afternoon, when the
trial board will take steps similar to
those in the case of Chance In an effort
I to compel him to testify. Davidson,
however, when warned that he also
would be cited, asked leave to confer
with counsel before making a final de
cision and was excused, to be recalled
this afternoon.
[ Agnew’s Refusal Is Setback.
I Chance, cited In Police Court Mon
, day, was ordered by Judge Gus A.
! Schuldt to appear before the trial
• board January 3 and complete his
testimony. He has announced, how
i ever, that despite the court order he
- would refuse, thus facing possible con
tempt proceedings, although the court
has not indicated what procedure It
may follow.
Agnew’s defiance of the trial board
did not come as a surprise, since he re
vealed several days ago that he would
1 refuse to testify when recalled. The
board, however, appeared to be some
what set back by Davidson’s refusal to
go on the witness stand.
Shortly before the board reoessed for
lunch, Robert I. Miller, attorney for
Davidson, submitted a report to Chair
man Atkins setting forth his client’s
reason for refusing to testify.
Cites Oath as Reason.
The report said In part: “For more
3 ®° y ear s grand Jurors have sworn
to Almighty God they 'Would never re
peat what they heard in the privacy of
chambers. No power on
earth caA release them of the obliga
to*l of that solemn oath. By reason of
that oath I cannot divulge to this board
1 “i* proceedings In the grand Jury room
during the McPherson Inquiry.”
Miner said he would advise Atkina
th ?. t h ® T ou,d U»ble to a contempt
, action if he atempted to force the wit
ness to violate his oath.
When Miller attempted to read the
8 to the board Prosecutor Rob
*r* E - L y nch J objected and Chairman
Atkins refused to permit the statement
to either be read or embodied as a part
of the record of the proceedings.
Davidson was then brought Into the
room and notified to be In Police Court
tomorrow afternoon at 1:30 o’clock—
the same time Agnew has been cited to
appear.
James C. Scott, another member of
the July grand Jury, called by the
prosecution after Agnew and Davidson
refused to testify, showed no hesitancy
in answering questions about proceed
lngs of the grand Jury Investigating the
McPherson case.
Another member of the July grand
Jury who testified In the Shelby-Kelly
trial Is John P. McKnlght, who ap
peared Saturday. v
Scott corroborated substantially the
testimony of McKnlght to the effect
that Shelby admitted before the grand
Jury that police had “bungled” the In
vestigation of Mrs. McPherson’s death
and declared that the Washington po
lice department was not equipped to in
vestigate cases as well as some of the
European departments.
Agnew Cited to Police Court.
When the trial was resumed at 10
o’clock, Agnew, who declined to testify
Saturday, was recalled by the prosecu
tion. Accompanied by Harry Whalen
his attorney, Agnew faced the trial
board. Asked by Chairman Atkins to
raise his right hand and be sworn, he
declined with an announcement that he
would refuse to testify. |
Atkins warned Agnew that if he re
fused to testify he would be cited In
Police Court. He again said he would
refuse to testify.
The board then cited him to appear
In Police Court at 1:30 o'clock tomor
row afternoon, when the attention ol
the court will be Invited to his action.
No action was taken by the board
last week when Agnew declined to tes
tify because of a doubt in his mthd
whether he could be compelled to do so
He was excused to confer with counsei
before making a final decision.
Davidson, another prosecution wit
ness, was next called, and he followed
Agnew’s policy. Atkins also warned
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the Navy’s radio station at Tutuila,
Samoa, and thence to Secretary Adams
Signed •’Byrd," the message said:
"The department’s message, Inform
ing me of my promotion to rear ad
miral, is respectfully acknowledged and
I send sincere appreciation for the de
partment’s congratulations.
’’lmmediately upon return to the
States there will be forwarded to the
Navy Department commendations of 15
Navy men who have contributed greatly
to the success of our enterprise and who
therefore deserve great credit for the
work of the expedition for which the
leader has been promoted."