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Evening star., 1923-02-03
TWO PLEAD GUILTY,
IN LIQUOR RAIDS
Seven Deny Guilt and Three
Cases Are Set for Trial.
Two Freed.

Two convictions of defendants
charged with violating the national
prohibition law. arrested yesterday
in connection with the city-wide
liquor raids, seven arraignments,
where the defendants pleaded not
guilty and demanded a jury trial;
three cases to be tried this afternoon,
thirty-two defendants out on bond
and two releases was the status Of
the cases in the Police Court at noon
recess today.
Those convicted were Joseph E.
Mercurio and John H. Asherton. Both.
charged with TRANSPORTING. pleaded
guilty, the former receiving a fine OF
jail sentence will be imposed. and the
latter being fined $40. In default a
Jail term Of ten days was ordered by
Judge John P. McMahon, the presid :
ing magistrate.
The seven defendants who pleaded
not guilty and demanded q jury trial
are Samuel Baylor. $1,000 bond; John
Gaskins, $500 bond; Eliza Mock,
81 500 bond: Mary Shields, 81, 500 bond ];
Mary. Balden. $500 bond; Felix
Bunkley, $500 bond, and Harrison
Banks, $500 bond.
Arthur Bowman and Henry Snowden
were released today by the assistant
United States attorney, Frank Kelly,
for want OF sufficient evidence.
The thirty-two prisoners who are
out on bond will be arraigned Tues
day morning.
John Worthy and James E. Marshall
will be tried this afternoon, and John
Pearson. IL apprehended.
The thirty-two out on bond are
Floyd Rolls, Nettie Simms, John Bald
win. alias Joseph C. Shelton: Madge
Townsend. Rose Tizel, Leon Jackson.
Agnes Smith. Henry Aubrey. Dorless
Thornton. Walter Newman, Joe Jones,
Robert Clay. John Brown. Samuel
Markowfrz, Charles A. Lane. James
Kennedy, Mary Kennedy, John Nc
Coy, Marie Mccoy. Clarence Wood,
Tomnn Wilson. George Dove. Williarn
Hall, Mary Lee, Bernard McCoons,
Alice Garland. Othello Richardson.
William V. Simpson, Annie Cole,
Blanche Clark, John Berry and Mi
chael Leahy.
The other defendants taken in the
raids yesterday are in jail.
Evening star., 1923-02-03
Wizard Of Prohibition Squad
Soon to Explore Ne,v Fields
]. L. Asher, SMaster Mind" in OUer Fifty
Raids in Washington, Viii York
in Pennsylvania and Ne,U York.

AS quietly and modestly as he ar
rived, J. L Asher. Sherlock Holmes"
of the prohibition agents. master OF
DISCUSSES. Is preparing to leave Wash
ington today after obtaining informa-
tion that led to more than nifty raids
yesterday. with forty-two arrests re-
sultant. Official announcement that
the discovery of Ashers work by
newspaper men have resulted in I'm
mediate orders for him to transfer
activities to Pennsylvania and New
York was made at prohibition head
quarters today.
The liquor seized In the raids has
not been checked UP, and 1t Is under
stood the preliminary estimate of be-
tween 400 and 500 gallons will be cut
almost in half when the final reports
are made.
Raids Ended Last Night.
The raids which started at II
o'clock yesterday morning had their
end last night at 1o:45 o'clock when
Eliza Mack. seventy -three-year-old
charges OF selling and illegal posses
sion of liquor at s17 Az street south
west. With her was arrested Mary
Shields. of the same address. on the
same CnaIkGS- ATcc gallons OIL
liquor were seized as evidence. The
raiders were Lieut.. o. T. Davis and
Sergt McQuade Of the vice squad,
with Private Bauer OF, the same
squad. and Assistant Chief Ralph
Ruby of the prohibition agents of this
division, with agents Fowler. Davis
and Hertzig.
ITS too bad that Asher became
known" Edgar N. Reed. divisional
chief of the prohibition men, de-
clared today. we had hoped to keep
him continually under cover until
some further raids. He's useless here
now and Is being transferred"
Asher Is a living refutation OF the
opinions advanced by those who
maintain that Sherlock Holmes is
pure fiction and impossible of being
considered as a real-life character.
When Asher wants information he
goes where he can get II.
Instances Of Shrewd Work.
In one case he got job as janitor
in an apartment. Armed with broom
and dustpan and clothed in white
duck coat and official 'janitor" cap.
he industriously conducted sweeping
operations outside of a certain door
from which plans of bootleggers
could be overheard. He walked into
one apartment to tinker with the
radiator. while in another room a
transaction in liquor was being car
ried on.
He also has posed as rum runner.
Evening star., 1923-02-03
new INTERIOR CHIEF
TO Be NAMED TUESDAY
President Gives No Intimation Of
Falls Successor-Many Eyes
on DR.. Work.

President Harding NEXT Tuesday will
make known his choice Of a success
sor to Albert b. Fall, whose resig-
nation rs Secretary Of the Depart
ment OF Interior becomes effective
March Z next. This was made known
officially at the White House late yes
terday afternoon, and at the same time
1t was indicated that the President has
not yet reached decision as to whom
he will name.
While there are Indications that
Postmaster General Work will be
transferred to the post made vacant
by Secretary Fall. there are those high
in administration circles who insist
that the President has his mind set
on a so-called dark horse"
The speculation regarding Postmas-
ter General Works transfer includes
the appointment of Harry s.. New of
Indiana, whose term in the Senate ex-
pires on March 4, as DR.. Works sue
cessor as Postmaster General.
Evening star., 1923-02-03
WESTERN HIGH CADETS
WINNERS IN WAR GAME
Defeat Business Team in Solving
Transportation Problem on
Gettysburg Map<

A team representing Company H OF
Western High School defeated a team
composed of members of Company e
of Business High School in the ninth
war-map game of the Washington
High School Cadets yesterday after
noon. The contest was based on a
transportation problem. Each team
submitted a plan for the transporta-
tion of a fifteen-wagon transport
train from one point In the Gettys-
burg area to another while warding
off an enemy attack upon the train.
Westerns victorious team was COM
posed of William Ten Eyck, B. Rags
dale. H. Evans. Carl Barr, r.
Wetherill and John Nesbit. E. Pigeon
and H. Hoffman were alternates. Ed
ward Reicks, Charles E. Monroe,
Pearson Conlyn, Peyton Fletcher. jr.;
NJ. E. Wallace and John j. Knight
composed the Business team. Joseph
j. Costinett was the alternate. The
judges were Col. Wallace NJ. Craigie,
U. S. A, professor of military science
and tactics in the high schools. and
his assistants, Capt. William H. john
son and Capt. A. J. O'Keefe, both Of
the United States Army.
The next game will be played Tues
day between teams representing Com
panies D of Eastern and A Of Central.
Evening star., 1923-02-03
DISTRICT DELEGATE
ASKED IN NEW BILL
BIanton Measure Also Pro-
poses Four Civilians as
Commissioners.
ELECTS SCHOOL BOARD
Urges Entire Support Of Schools
Come From District
Revenues.

Legislative proposals for giving the
people of the District the right to
elect a delegate In Congress, four civ
flian members OF the board Of Com
missioners and seven members of the
school board with provision that the
entire support Of the District schools,
their erection, maintenance and pay
of all employees shall come out of Dis
trict revenues is made in a bill intro
duced In the House today by Repre-
sentative Thomas L. Blanton of Tex
as. Mr.. Blanton claims that he has
the support of a majority Of the COM
mirtee on his proposals for local cleo
ton OF a delegate and members OF
the board of Commissioners.
Representative Blanton's bill also
withdraws from the Public Utilities
Commission any authority to grant q
Ia provided for in the charters of the
street railway companies.
Provisions Of Bill.
The Blanton blu provides as fol-
Election of delegate to sit in the
national House of Representatives.
With the exception of the Engineer
Commissioner, appointed by the Prest-
dent. the Board of Commissioners
shall consist of four. instead of two,
civilian members, who shall be chosen
bv the people In an election. The
District Commissioners shall receive
the same salary as at present.
Seven members Of the board OF
education are to be elected. The
term of Office of the present members
of the board of education would ter
inmate on December 81, 1924.
Authority Is Curbed.
After January 1, 1924, tho Public
Utilities Commission would consist OF
the Engineer Commissioner 2nd two
duties would remain the same as at
present. except that all orders here
tofore made by the Public Utilities
Commission authorizing any street
Mrm IsIrer than that authorized in the
charter Of such company Is revoked
and hereafter the commission Woulo
have no authority to allow any street
car company to charge q rate OF rare IN
excess of that provided for In. its
The bill provides for a special cleo
+ion ON the Tue Sday next FOLLOWING
the first Monday in November, 1873
at which two new District Commis-
sioners. members Of the board OF edu-
cation and the delegate In Congress
would be chosen by the people, all to
hold ONCE from January l, 1924, to
January /, 1925.
Thereafter four Commissioners
would be elected annually and other
oficers at the regular election on the
date above fixed.
BY the terms Of the bill all COSTS
of constructing new school buildings 3
sites for school buildings and play
grounds, and the maintenance OF
school buildings and property. shall
be paid wholly out Of the revenues
Of the District.
The bill provides also that the sal
aries of teachers, officials and en-
ployes of the District schools shall
also be paid out of District funds.
!, The bill also provides that renu-
neration' Of the Commissioners, the
board of education and the delegate
in Congress be paid wholly out OF
District funds.
Evening star., 1923-02-03
WILL HAYS ASKED
TO DEFINE POSITION
Institute Government Wishes
to Know What Assurances
Public Has. I

Will II. Hays was called upon today
by H. H Lund. president of the In
stitute Government. TO define his
precise position and power as arbi-
traitor Of the moving picture industry
and to indicate what assurance exists in
the present scheme OF control of film
productions which will build up public
confidence in the moral standards of
motion picture players.
To BE Given Convention.
President Lund in a letter to Mr..
Hays said he Is desirous OF having
his answer to place before the forth
coming convention of the Institute
the Willard Hotel the week Of Febru-
ary 19. One of the sessions of tho
convention, Mr.. Lund pointed out.
viii be given to the consideration of
the educational and patriotic aspects
or the motion picture.
Il need not recall to you the ac-
emulation of events calculated to
break down public confidence, both in
the personalities involved in the pro-
ductton side of motion pictures and
the supervisory force claimed by your
association" said Mr. Lund's letter.
The matter of Mr.. Arbuckles rein
statement and the muddled aspect Of
that violation of moral principle as
now exists, the lack of decision con-
corning the future showing of Reid
films. Haunting a self-confessed vic
tim OF vicious moral practice, which
becomes important in principle even
though wise disposed charity exists
In his favor. and the recent utterance
OF Mr.. Douglas) Fairbanks, are all
but samples Of the issues in which
the public has real concern
Odious Circumstances.
1T would be unfortunate to dwell
upon circumstances which are merely
odtous, and in the exposure of which
only bad taste would follow, but
the public Is entitled to know. and
the organizations which look to the
Institute of Government for infor-
nation demand to know, nat assur-
ance exists in the present scheme of
control which makes impossible the
recurrence of these conditions Of their
immediate and satisfactory settle
ment in the event Of their continuance
ut is with the idea that you NAV
deem it of importance to enlighten
the country in this respect. and thus
afford the Institute Of Government
as one organization interested. a fair
basis of discussion at its meeting that
l thus address you For your infor-
nation. am making this communi-
cation public"
Evening star., 1923-02-03
HUGHES IS INVITED
TO VISIT BRAZIL
Would Be Guest of Govern
ment During South Ameri-
can Visit.

Ambassador Alencar of Brazil made
an appointment today with Secretary
Hughes to extend an invitation from
his government for Mr.. Hughes TO visit
Brazil during his prospective visit to
South America. Although the invita-
ton had not been received, it was un-
derstood at the State Department that
Secretary Hughes would accept it con-
ditionally and make q brief visit to
Rio de Janeiro.
Present arrangements are understood
to call for the departure Of Secretary
Hughes from New York to Montevideo
probably on March 3. Passage is ex-
pected to be booked for that time with
the Grace line.
Ambassador Fletcher. head Of tn.
American delegation to the Pan-Ameri-
can conference at Santiago, is expected
TO come to Washington from Brussels
and meet there with other members of
the delegation. Although the date for
departure from the United States has
not been fixed, it was said the delega-
ton would sail soon after Congress ad-
iourned March 4, allowing sufficient
time to reach Santiago before the con-
ference there Is convened.
Evening star., 1923-02-03
''WOLF" LEAVES us,
OFFICERS IN LURCH
David Lamar Disappears as
Time Approaches for Him
to Enter Prison.
MARSHAL BEGINS SEARCH
Attorney Declares Missing Man
Will Turn Up Before
Monday.
MARSHAL BEGINS SEARCH
By the Associate Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. February 3-Federal
agents, going to the Hotel de France
to take David Lamar. wolf of Wall
street." to the Essex county peni-
tentfary to serve a sentence for a
wartime offense. today discovered
that Lamar had checked out of the
hotel yesterday and disappeared with
out leaving an address. Harold Spiel
berg, counsel for Lamar. declared
that Lamar had no intention to try
to escape from the federal authori-
ties
"If Mr.. Lamar Is not at the Hotel
de France, then I do not know where
he is," he said. IT have been in con-
stant touch with him and saw him
as late as 1880 o'clock this morning
and received a telephone call from
Mrs. Lamar this morning 1t was my
assumption he was at the Hotel de
France. II he has left. 1t may be
for reasons of personal convenience
and he certainly will surrender to
the authorities on Monday
"Of course, Mr.. Lamar has been
moving heaven and earth to get a
pardon because Of the condition of
his health, but he has not the slight
est intention Of attempting to evade
the authorities"
United States Marshal Hecht said
that Lamar left his hotel at II o'clock
yesterday afternoon and was now
considered fugitive from Justice. A
bench warrant for his arrest had been
issued. he said. and two deputy mar
shals were searching the city for
him
Evening star., 1923-02-03

BY this ruse he gained confidence OF
clique of bootleggers who never
suspected his Identification until they
stared dazedly at him in a police
to the cellroom to await bond, and
he strolled about easily and smilingly
talking to policemen and fraternizing
with them.
His aAshman. Exploit.
His ashman exploit is being talke5
Of today throughout police circles.
Acting as an "ashman" blind ;or
cache their Illicit possessions behind
latrobe in one of the houses that
were raided yesterday. When the raid
took place and the man OF the house
smilingly invited the police to take
a look around and see what they
could find he almost suffered a stroke
of apoplexy when they walked
straight to the latrobe and pulled out
the fake paneling behind 1t. moving
stove and hearth out and disclosing
the stored liquor. 1t was because he
obtained his information by such
unhealthy for Asher.
In speaking of the raids yesterday,
Lieut.. o. T. Davis today declared that
they were aimed at the habitual vio-
lators Of the eighteenth amendment.
tered our attention somewhat. upon
apartment house workers and the
higher class bootleg trade" Lieut..
Davis said. What we intended yes
terday was to throw a few bomb
shells into the smaller retail traffick-
ers who have always been fairly we'll
known to us. Asher was of immense
assistance to U.s."
AS a matter of fact, according to an
Associated Press dispatch from Louis
willie, KY, bootleggers there, receiv-
Ing word of Ashers activity in Wash
ington, were greeting each other with
a smile. nod and II told you So"
Agent Asher came to Louisville 4
year ago." says the dispatch. "a dark
horse from an unannounced point.
Long before his transfer to Washing
ton, about three weeks ago. he had
won the title of lightning raider,
and bootleggers and moonshiners
were quoted as referring to prohibit
ton officers as 'Asher's men,"
In all but few cases yesterday
charges of illegal possession and
selling Of intoxicants were preferred
against those arrested. BY night
practically all had been released on
bond. more than 100000 being put up
for their bail. The cases were made
on warrants sworn out before United
States Commissioner George Mac
donald and will be heard in the
United States branch of the Police
Court. starting next Tuesday, it is
reported today.
Evening star., 1923-02-03
CHARGE LAWYER FORGED
CLAIMS TO SIX ESTATES
Alleged Swindler Collected About
$4,000 From Banks, Says
Indictment.

NEW YORK, February 3.--'tAn origi-
nal and lucrative swindle" was the way
Assistant District Attorney Hastings
characterized the operations Of Larazus
Shenfeld, lawyer. indicted on six charges
OF forgery in the second degree and
locked up In the tombs In default OF
$4,000 bail.
Shenfeld. arrested a week ago. was
alleged to have collected about $4,000
from various banks through forged let
ters Of administration in the estates OF
f1ve individuals he represented as hav
ing died.
The scheme, it was charged, was to
watch advertisements, OF banks seeking
information of persons with dorn1an..
accounts, who had not communicated
with the institutions for more than fvs
years. Fraudulent letters naming Shen
field as administrator then were alleged
to have been presented at the banks
and the money collected.
The maximum penalty is ten year.
Imprisonment on each Of the six indict-
mentS
Evening star., 1923-02-03
LAMAR SEEKS PARDON.

President Harding has received an ap-
pltcation for a pardon from David
Lamar, "the Wolf Of Wall Street."
whose motion for q writ OF habeas
corpus to prevent his Incarceration
under a one-year sentence for con-
spiracy in restraint of foreign COM
merce was overruled Monday by the
Supreme Court.
The President. 1t was understood.
intends as a matter Of policy to act
on no applications for pardon until
they come to him in the regular way
after being passed upon by the De-
partment of Justice. AS a further
point in his policy, it was said, Mr..
Harding plans to grant no pardons
to applicants who have not been con-
fined In prison under the conviction
from which they seek clen,ency.
Evening star., 1923-02-03
MOTION IN MORSE
/ CASE IS REJECTED
Court Denies Defendant Bur-
dit Right to Demand Bill
of Particulars.

Justice Stafford in Criminal pi-
vision No. / today denied a motion of
George NJ. Burditt, one Of the eleven
persons indicted with Charles w.
Morse, New York shipbuilder. on a
charge OF conspiring to defraud the
Shipping Board in connection with
war contracts. Mr.. Burditt sought to
compel the government to file a bill
OF particulars setting forth which of
the contracts it expected to rely on
to support the conspiracy charge, and
just when Mr.. Burditt had entered the
alleged conspiracy.
Motion TO Qsash withdraw.
A motion to quash the inictment.
filed on behalf of Rupert NJ Much,
another of the alleged conspirators,
because he had not been warned,
when he appeared before the grand
jury with certain books OF the Morse
interests, that he was under investi-
cation, was withdrawn by Judge
Nash lockwood of New York. Counsel
stated he would renew the motion
later.
The trial Of this case, which is the
first to grow out of the investigation
by the Department of Justice Of war
frauds, Is scheduled to start next Tues
day before Justice Stafford. Counsel
on both sides profess to be ready and
willing to begin the trial Tuesday, but
a rumor persists about the courthouse
that the beginning of the trial will be
deferred.
Decline to Discuss Rum0r.
Maj. Gordon and Judge Turner, who
have charge Of the prosecution, de-
clined to discuss the rumor that the
trial probably will be postponed until
the first Tuesday in March.
Those indicted are Charles w. Morse,
his three sons, Erwin A. Benjamin w.
and Harry F. Morse; George NJ Bur-
dit, Nehemiah III. Campbell, Rupert
NJ Much, Phillip Reinhardt Leonard D.
Christie. Richard o. White and Colin
H. Livingstone.
Evening star., 1923-02-03
BOOST SOVIET NAVY.
Workers Pledge Efforts to Make
Efficiency Equal Army's.

MOSCOW, February 3.-workers of
soviet Russia have pledged them
selves to bring the navy to a state Of
efficiency equal to that of the army,
and in some eases they have agreed
to furnish funds for ship construc-
tion.
Another result of the weeks cam
paign in behalf of the Russian navy
has been the enlistment of more than
1000 men for the naval service
Evening star., 1923-02-03
REID ESTATE, $50, 900.
Letters Of Administration Sough,
by Movie Actors Widow.

LOS ANGELES, February s.-Let-
ters Of administration in tho estate
of Wallace Reid. motion picture actor.
who died here January Is. have been
asked OF the superior court by Mrs.
Dorothy Davenport Reid, the widow.
Property listed with the application
was estimated to <be worth approx
mately $4,000, the principal item
being the Reid homo In Hollywood,
valued at $4,000.
Evening star., 1923-02-03
NOT TO VISIT BOLIVIA.
Secretary Hughes Forced to De-
cline Invitation "for Present.

BUENoS AIRES, Argentina, Febru-
ary 3.-Secretary of State Hughes
has declined Bolivia's invitation to
visit that country during his voyage
20 South America to attend the Pan
American Congress at Santiago in
March, according to La Nacion's La
PaZ correspondent.
The American Secretary is said to
have expressed regret that he could
not accede to the request for the
present. as the short time available
for his trip would not allow any de-
@arture from his original itinerary,
Evening star., 1923-02-03
II ADMITTED TO BAR.

RALEIGH, N. c., February a.
Seventy-seven attorneys were licensed
Yesterday to practice law In North
Carolina, the list of names being
made public at midnight by the state
supreme court. Among those licensed
are the following from South Caro-
lima:
William Lenoir Angel, Greer, S. c.;
Hoyt Burns Best, Ga1livapts Ferry. s.
c.; William Jasper Johns, Allendale,
s. c., and Samuel WATSON, Loris.
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1923-11-15
Ell RESUMEN DE LA CONFEREN
CHA IMPERIAL FUE HECHO
PUBLICo HOY

aLONDRES, nov. IA (Cable frances)
Hoy Sc di6 la publicidsd los pun
tos de la conferencia imperial. En- 10
relative a la politica interior de In
glaterra que necesariamente fueron SUI
jetas a las miras y acci6n de los go
bernadores Y parlamentarios de varias
parties del Imperio Sc dan los siguien-
tes puntos como principales:
Sc hace responsible a cada parte
del Imperio representada en- la confe-
rencia de SUI defensa local.
Sc acuerda restringir al minimum
que sea possible de las fuerzas nava-
les de la nacion hasta reducirlas Q
igualarlas cualquiera potencia naval
de otra nacion, de acuerdo con la con-
ferencia de Washington. .lsa
Sc hace constar ell deseo de adoptar
en- cuanto sea viable un sistema de ma
vegacion aerea y academies para avia-
ci6n de adoptar un sistema uniforme
de equipo militar con exception hecha
del cuerpo de aviacion.
La conferencia ta1nbi6n tom6 nota
del interes demostrado por Australia Y
Nueva Zelandia y la India de sostener
una base naval en- Singapore para man
tener la seguridad del comercio inter-
nacional en- aguas orientales.
Necesidad de la Gran Bretafa de
mantener bases a6reas para la de-
fensa de sus costas en- tai medida que
sea igual la de cualquier otra nacion.