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THE WEATHER
Official Weather Bureau Report.
Fair tonight and tomorrow; slightly cooler
tomorrow; moderate north to northeast winds.
Temperature yesterday, high, 69; low,
LABOR TO ISSUE "WHITE LIST”
Sec. Davis Urges Annual Registration of Aliens
ATTACHE OF LEGATION FIGHTS COP
JDFfIE HAD
BOTTLE,
CLAIM ’
BdCvian Is Released When
He Demands Freedom as
Foreign Diplomat
After a hot fight with Police-
Wan William J. Middleton in a
lunchroom on Fourteenth street
early today, Senor Don Jorge
Blacud Jofre, an attache at the
Bolivian legation, was finally
overpowered and taken to the
First precinct poice station. He
■ehMmed-yttplnmatic immunity and
Was released. -
Policeman Middleton said today
Ah at his attention was attracted
Co Senor Jofre and several of the
latter's friends as they sat in the
lunchroom having an early morn
ing party.
According to the officer, Senor
Jofre was treating his friends to
drinks from a bottle which was
passed around in full view of a
citizen. The policeman claims
that when he entered the lunch
room, Senor Jofre endeavored to
extend his hospitality which was
refused.
Sandwich Figures In It.
A freshly fried fgg sandwich.
Which Middleton declares Senor
Jofre tried to make him eat. and
Which was also refused, caused an
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13 WNEO
IN NEW RUM
SCANDAL
Columbus Liquor Leakage
Case Grows in Scope—Jailed
Trio Make Statements
International News Service.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, April 23.
Thirteen Columbus witnesses, in- !
eluding ten former and present
Stockholders in the Physicians and
Druggists Supply Company, were
slated to appear before the Federal
grand jury investigating second
phases of the liquor leakage from
the Hayner Distillery, at Troy,
Ohio, through the Armand Drug
•nd Candy Manufacturing Com
ps ny, of Cleveland.
This newest development in the
probe today Involves for the second
time persons at Columbus. Co
lumbus first was moved into the
spotlight when Federal enforce
ment officials there were indicted
among the ten against whom
charges were made by the first
■pecial jury.
Three prisoners from Atlanta
penitentiary who were sentenced
for conspiracy to violate the pro
hibition laws, at Pittsburgh not
long ago, were brought here last
flight with the expectation that
♦hey may furnish another new
Angle to the investigation. It was
reported that they made an impor
tant statement to the Federal of
ficials in charge of the probe here.
Including Mrs. Mabel Walker
Willebrandt, assistant attorney
general.
Trull.«(lons today were that the
•candal which first setttled down
on Ohio has reached a broader
•cope, and probably will lead to the
of irregularities which
will reach Into Pennsylvania and
Michigan.
Havre de Grace
Entries For
Tomorrow
FIRST RACK—Four-year-olds and up
ward; claiming; steeplechase; puree.
SI,SOO; 2 miles.
(a) ... 1341(b) Peccant ....124
Brother Bill.. .127 alrlsh Jig 14S
• (c)Andahon ...ISOlRed Clover ...134
(b) Coffoth.l37|(c)D. Josephine.l3o
(a) Queen City Stable entry.
•(b) Woods Garth and S. Flaherty
entry.
(c) J. It, Macomber-Bayard Tucker
man entry.
SECOND RACE—Three-year-olde snd
upward; claiming; puree, >1,300; 6 fur
longs.
xDoctor Glenn. .114 xSieter 5ue..112
St. Quentin IOS xCarlton .... .107
xTony Sue 102 Timeless
Flint 108 xFornovo .......107
Dr. Chas. Welle. 104 Mome Meg..*.. 96
Erica ..... 112 Poor Sport 108
Kindred lO7 xMabel K... .103
Lather 85
Also eligible—
Muekallbnge . .1101 Oakwood *.,..108
xßella of Bonce. *4|Legation r ,
Kingeclere . ...108|
THIRD RACE—Maiden two-year-old
eelte and geldingo; puree, |1 308; 4ft
furlongs.
(a)N. Express.. 118 Gettysburg 116
Lanark ..118 Kink ...118
Old Guard ... .118 (a)Red Cap ...118
Lieab 116 Exchequer .....118
Volunteer 116 Bill 118
Brush By .......116 Zeoda llg
Cannae 116 Endor *........116
Lewis lit
(a)E. B. McLean entry.
FOURTH RACE—Three-year-olds and
upward; claiming; purse. 81,389; 6
furlongs.
St. Mia* U»le..llttFenjoK'TJTT7. .'Tir
Sea Sand IttlTuxedo 103
Mixture lOOlxMaclean 113
xMon. Morning. 112lxLeatherwood ..110
xWarnlng ...... 1 OX|xEverglade 113
xWellflnder ... .112|xDireetor 110
Bother . 101|
FIFTH RACE—Three-year-olds and
upward; claiming; purse 81,200; mile
and seventy yards.
xaG. De Mar. .1131 Rodeo 109
Slate 1041 C. Ni Houhlan.lo2
Can’t Say No. .1101 xaLucifer , 10S
xVillager 1051 xWa vercrest ....97
xMarjorie C.... 88’xClique ........110
Volcano 104'xMoon Magic... 102
xDuckling .... 961
aG. C. Winfrey entry.
SIXTH RACE—Three-year-olds and
upward: claiming; 81.200; one mile and
sixteenth.
Stevens 10(|xTlcacey .......101
xDemljohn .... 95lxToodlee 92
xSoviet 104*xVlce Chairman. 100
xFairlight ....104|xTry Again 89
xLagoon 94!xSnow Malden.. 99
Play On 951
SEVENTH RACE Three-year-olds
and upward; claiming; purse, 81,200;
mile and one-sixteenth:
Rechablte lOSlSeths Flower... 100
Oil Burner .... 90'xAmpolac 85
Sc. Michael .. .102) -Masquerade ..100
Pole Star 90Wonder Light... 94
T. Clockmender. 1021 Rags 106
French Lady .. 85 !
xApprentice allowance claimed.
Weather, clear; track, fast.
Lepers Are Cured at
Philippine Colony
Copyright. 1925, International News Service, Inc.
MANILA, April 23.—Amazingly successful results in the
cure of leprosy by use of chaulmoogra oil have been made at
Cullion, leprosy asylum in the Philippine Islands, Governor
Leonard Wood told International News Service today. Cullion
is the world's largest colony of lepers.
In an exclusive Interview, Gov-'
ernor Wood revealed that almost
500 cures have been made at Cul
lion during the past four years. The
governor , declared he believed
leprosy soon would be controlled
and eventually eradicated.
“The situation at the leprosy
colony at Cullion is one full of en
couragement,” Governor Wood said.
“More than 400 negatives—almost
500 cures —have been made In the
past four years and several hundred
more are now in sight.
"People are beginning to look on
Cullion as a place for treatment,
rather than a place of segregation
and confinement —a place breathing
hope instead of despair.
“I believe we are on the way to
make great results and if these are
followed, w’e will eradicate leprosy
entirely not only here but every
where.
"It is too early now to make a
definite statement but the situation
is full of hope.
“We succeeded in eradicating yel
low' fever in Cuba and we con
trolled malaria. Our methods, when
applied, have made the tropics a
healthy climate.
“The Philippines have heen made
safe from smallpox and cholera, too.
If we can, and I believe we can,
eradicate leprosy in the Islands an
other great work will have been
completed for humanity.”
Cullion doctors are more opti
mistic even than Governor Wood
and stated today that cure was
practically certain if treatment was
started before complete ravaging
of the body had taxen place.
A great problem of the fight, the
doctors said, was to discover in
fected persons before the disease
had progressed too far. although it
often takes fifteen years for the
disease to Incubate.
At Cullion there are 5,000 pa
tients, with 4,000 under treatment
at this time.
At leant 75 per cent of these are
WASHINGWTiMES
rTHE-jT N A I*lo tsl AU n daily"?
NO. 13,222
MAN HELD.
MEMORY
GONE
“William Steele’s” Attempts
to Help Establish His Identity
Only Add to Mystery
Silent, but restive under his con
finement, am amnesia victim is be
ing held by the Alexandria police
who has proven an enigma to the
authorities of that city, Washing
ton, and nearby places.
Os massive frame, be sits in his
cell in the 'Alexandria jail and to
every question, only shakes his
heattf and mumbles: "I don't know.”
He thinks his name is Steele—
' "William Steeld,’* he says, but he
professes absolute ignorance of
where he came from, or how he
happened to be In Alefxandria.
He tells the authorities that he
thinks he suffered a severe blow
on the head.
His only impresstons—and those
vague—are that he last recalls liv
ing in Hollywood, California, and
that he was arrested once in
Rockville.
Authorities of the latter place
have examined him and say they
never saw him before. Their
records, they state, fail to show
such an arrest.
“Steele,” if that’s his name,
voluntarily went to the police
authorities in Alexandria and asked
that they help him, “as,” he said,
“I am not sure of myself.”
“J seem to have forgotten every
thing, where I’ve heen, where I’m
going, why I’m here, and where my
home is.”
Asked if he had a family, he
apparently seemed dazed as the
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constantly improving, it was stated.
The first year a «arge number of
cures was effected, when 160 were
recorded. The first practical Chaul
moogra oil was madd by Doctor
Victor Heiser, of the Rockefeller
Foundation.
Governor Wool said that the
results here had been accomplished
over the determined opposition of
Filipino doctors and health chiefs
who declared leprosy cures were
impossible and that the treatment
only killed patients.
American physicians were forced
to assume subordinate positions in
order to carry out their work
among the lepers, he said.
Even Filipinos are now convinced
leprosy is curable, and thousands
have come to Cullion for treat
ments. many submitting voluntarily
to live on the island, despite the
fact a few years ago Cullion was
known as the "Isle of Living
Death.”
"We need money and buildings
and more medical men at Cullion,"
Wood declared, "and we hope to
raise $1,000,000 for the work in a
campaign in the United States. The
insular government has been gener
ous and contributed one-third of
the health funds for the fight on
leprosy. It can do no more with
out seriously injuring other health
work. I am confident Americans
will aid in this great work,”
YEGGS BLOW POSTOFFICE
SAFE DURING STORM
FRANKLIN, Ta., April 23.—Un
der cover of a heavy electrical
storm, four bandits blew open the
safe of the Cochranton postoffice,
twenty miles north of here, early
this morning and escaped toward
the Ohio line in an automobile. The
loss was small. Postmaster K. J.
Flying said, t
Entered a* aecond-claM matter at
Foitofiice at Washington, D. C.
WHITE LIST,
LABOR'S
PLAN
Central Union Will Ask Work
ers to Support Cer
tain Shops
Plans for a gigantic campaign
among the forces of union labor
in Washington to solidify the
buying power of the laboring
man and direct it to those es
tablishments favored by organzied
labor were anneunked t»*ay by
officials of the Central Labor
Union.
On Monday night, the central
body will be asked to increase an
existing special educational com
mittee to the number of fitfy, in
order to carry out the most in
tensive drive for marshaling the
dollars of labor in the history of
the local unions.
The special committee, headed
by Harry Hollohan, met last
night for several hours before
the program of procedure was
adopted.
Million Spent Weekly.
The project calls first for a sur
vey of the earning power of organ
ized labor in Washington. It is
now estimated, according to Finan
cial Secretary N. A. James, of the
central body that $1,000,000 is spent
weekly in local business by mem
bers of the city’s unions. It is be
lieved that the new survey will givs
a more approximate figure.
It is proposed that the new com
mittee of fifty shall be divided into
subcommittees, to urge upon the
various unions the importance of
assisting In the survey and of carry
ing out the future work of the
committee.
To Send Out Speakers.
After the financial power of local
labor is given its final estimate, the
committee intends to send speak
ers to union meetings for a period
of several weeks, educating the
men and women as to economic
power held by labor and the neces
sity of using that power to promote
the interests of organized labor.
On the lists of the local unions,
there {ire more than 65,000 mem
bers, according to official figures.
The Central Labor Union estimates
that each of these members, many
of whom are men and women with
families, control an average of
three persons each, making a total
of 266,(K)0 spenders of money with
local bustness houses.
Plan a New One.
The first inklings of this piah,
according to Secretary James, were
broached at the recent meeting of
the central body, when that or
ganization was considering the re
plies of local banks to letters sent
out by the ('. L. IT., asking whether
these banks were in league with
builders in an alleged plot to de
feat union labor in the building
strike.
The replies from the banks are
now being analyzed by a commit
tee working independently of the
Hollohan group.
Ever since the hank mutter first
came to the public eye, union lead
ers have discussed among them
selves the question of educating
the organized men and women a.i
to their support of their affiliations
by patronizing stores favorable to
organized labor and buying union
made goods.
Plan of National Scope.
When the Hollohan committee
was named its purpose at rhe time
seemed to be that it would outline
merely a general course of pro
cedure toward urging the member
ship to remember the old policy of
organized labor in this direction.
Today, however, it appears that
the committee has found itself un
equal to the outlined tasks which it
imposed upon itself last night, and
has embarked upon a campaign 9t
national importaaoa,
WASHINGTON, THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1925.
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The most remarkable pictures ever taken of a sinking vessel. The crippled Japanese steam
ship Raifuku Maru is shown going down nose first about 400 miles off Boston, carrying with it
the entire crew of thirty-eight men. The picture was taken by a passenger -aboard the steamship
Homeric, which vessel had rushed to the assistance of the crippled freighter, but because of the
turbulent seas was unable to start a boat or life raft to the ship.
CAPTAIN DENIES
LAXITY IN SHIP
RESCUE
Did All That He Could, Says
Homeric's Mate; Assailed
By Passengers
NEW YORK, April 23.—"1 saw
no one clinging to the wreckage,
and I gave no order to lower the
boats. There was nothing to be
| accomplished when there was no
one to be saved.”
I This was the explanation given
today by Captain John Roberts,
of the White Star liner Homeric,
which arrived here late last night,
as to why he did not lower life-
• boats to go to the aid of the
•Japanese steamer Raifuku Maru
I which went down with all of its
crew of thirty-eight last Tuesday
off the coast of Nova Scotia, while
; the Homeric, which had rushed to
I the scene, stood by.
Praise Skipper's Efforts.
Although 123 passengers on board
the Homeric signed a testimonial
praising Captain Roberts for his
efforts, there were some on board
who voiced opposite feelings.
i Failure to try to cast off the
life rafts, attached to the Homeric
iby ropes, so that the waves would
carry them to the Japanese sailors
struggling in the mountainous seas,
was the main contention of Captain
Roberts' critics.
The majority of the passengers,
however, agreed that three lifeboats
were swung out on their davits
aboard the Homeric and kept in
readiness for lowering.
Pinchot Flays Captain.
Arnos R. E. Pinchot, brother of
Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania,
Was one of the group of passengers
who said they saw Japanese sailors
struggling in the water after the
Raifuku Marti had disappeared.
| “The captain's statement,” he
'said, "was extremely inaccurate
when he said there was no life in
th*» water after the freighter cap
sized.
“I personally saw several men
fralnff carried toward tha Homeric.”
THREE CENTS
PnMiahed
Week-day*
World Is Better, Says
Chauncey Depew
At 91
NEW YORK, April 23.
"Moderation and cheerfulness is
the secret of longevity revealed
by Chauncey Depew, who cele
brated his ninety-first birthday
today.
Depew made his birthday the
occasion of a holiday, remaining
away from his directors’ desk
at the New York Central offices
and receiving congratulations of
his friends at his home.
The world is growing better,
the famous optimist said. "You
come back here nine years from
now, when I’m 100 years old and
see if I am not right,” declared.
Political and other problems
held no terrors for Depew.
"There aren’t any political
problems today worth thinking
about,” he said. "Emotional- ■'
i sm —that’s all these things like
(flappers, bobbed hair and boot
leggers amount to.”
MANY GIVEN LEGACIES
IN MRS. BUXTON’S WILL
One thousand dollars each are
given to Clara Ruxton Tyson, Louise
Coflin Chase and Buxton Coflln,
nieces and nephew of Emily A.
Buxton, whose will, dated January
18, 1924. was filed for probate to
day, Fifty dollars each are given
to Robert Hertel, David Hertel,
Austin M. Edwards, jr., Harry Ed
wards, Hazel Pond, Lawson Pond
and Richard Pond.
All the household furniture and
personal effects are given to the
niece, Mrs. Louise Coflin Chase,
who is also to have the residue of
the estate and is named executrix.
ROCKVILLE GRAND JURY
CALLED BY JUDGE PETER
ROCKVILLE, Nd., April 23
Judge Robert B. Peter, of the cir
cuit court, today directed a special
reassembling of the grand jury
Wednesday. It is understood that
the session is for the purpose of
taking up the charges against
State’s Attorney John A. Garrett,
charged with misuse of funds.
Judge Peter today issued a formal
order directing Albert M. Boule to
act as State attorney, “owing to
the absence of State’s Attorney
John A. Garrett.” Bouic was desig
nated several days ago by Judge
Peter to act as spacial attorney to
handle certain specified cases com
ing up under Gaxratt'a office.
[HOME]
Remarkable Pictures
of Ship Sinking
Japanese Steamer Rai-
1 f uku Maru Goes Down
With AU Aboard.
FIRST ARTERIAL
HIGHWAY IS
SELECTED
Motorists Will Travel 25 to 30
Miles an Hour on Sixteenth
Street —Other Problems
The next task of the Traffic
Director’s office will be the selec
tion of arterial highways and
electrical signal devices, M. O.
Eldridge, Director, announced today.
Colonel I. C. Moller, Assistant
Director, will leave Washington
next week to visit manufacturing
concerns and large cities to study
various lighting systems.
Meanwhile, Director Eldridge and
Fred Seiler, Assistant Director, will
make a study of conditions here,
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‘REDS'
Indorsement by Congress Is
Foreseen When Committee
Reports Resolution
Secretary of Laber James J.
Davis today wked the support of
the Daughters of the American
Revolution in having legislation
enacted which would provide for
the annual registration of Ameri
ca’s foreign born population. His
request was in the form of a reso
lution introduced by Mrs. S. A.
Dickson, State rsgant of Louirisna.
The purpose of such legislation,
it was explained, is to the end
that the 13,000,000 foreign born
in the United States, of whom
nearly 7,000,000 are not yet
American citizens, may be brought
into closer touch with the Gov
ernment and with the spirit of
American institutions.
Endorsement Expected
It would provide for encourage
ment and aid to the desirable idlen,
and the deportation of the unde
sirable foreigners who preach the
downfall of our present form of
government.
Favorable action by the Congress
is expected to be taken on the reso
lution later in the week, after it
receives the endorsement of the
resolutions committee to which it
was referred.
Swift progress in the field or
immigration education was reported
by Mrs. John Laidlaw Buel, chair
man of the manual for immigrants
committee.
The United States Shipping Board
and steamship linea, she stated,
aided in the distribution of 400,000
copies of the American manual on
their incoming ships, explaining
American customs, history and tra
ditions and the spirit of Amsrican
institutions. The manual is printed
in eleven foreign languages, she
said.
Demand for Manuals
priests, rabbis, pastors of
churches for foreigners, clerks of
courts, and ths Polish parochial
schools have also made a heavy de
mand on the D. A. R. for the
manuals.
Large orders for copies are being
received from naturalization courts,
night schools, rural parent teactr
ers associations, social workers,
missions and factories throughout
the country.
Massachusetts, the report shows,
led the States last year with an
order for 87,000 copies. New York
was next while in West Virginia,
particularly in the mining regions,
they were used in • refuting the
radical literature published in for
eign languages and distributed by