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Evening star., 1923-11-22
ROUNDUP IS BEGUN
IN HUGE RUM PLOT
Indictment of 126 Persons at
Savannah to Lead to
Startling Disclosures.

Department of Justice agents today
began nationwide roundup of per-
sons named in 1875 indictments hand
ed down yesterday by a federal grand
jury at Savannah in connection with
an alleged smuggling and liquor dis
tributing combine.
The indictments were said by gov
ernment officials to have resulted
from detective work by Department
of Justice agents at one of the
strategic headquarters of the Illicit
liquor industry in America. 1t will
unravel. officials believe, into one of
the most staggering Developments
since prohibition went into effect
Names Not Revealed.
Names of the persons indicted were
not revealed by government officials
but it is understood in some quarters
that a few of them were the same
individuals who were caught in the
government net q few months ago in
big roundup in Savannah of alleg-
ed rum runners.
Savannah for some months. il was
said in government circles today. has
been known as a rendezvous for a
daring band. who have been able,
with the use OF a fleet of small boats,
to do an enormous business.
Evening star., 1923-11-22

BY the Associated Press.
SAN DIEGO, Calf, November "a
Five officers and enlisted men Of the
aircraft squadrons, battle fleet, crew
of an F-5-L seaplane, engaged in
spotting torpedoes twenty-five miles
off Point Iona, had a narrow escape
from being blown to pieces or
drowned when their aircraft caught
fire. exploded and sank in fifty
fathoms of water yesterday. All five
were rescued by the destroyer Ken
nedy after they had been swimming
for more than twenty minutes. Chief
Electrician Nelson was the only man
injured.
The fire was started by the explo-
sion of d smoke bomb about to be
thrown from the moving plane to
mark the spot where spent torpedo
fired by destroyer was resting on
the surface Of the sea.
Wind DfsIodges Bomb.
Nelson had just raised the bomb
to drop it over the side when the
rush of air carried it out of his hands
and smashed it against his chest.
Nelson was knocked down ard the
bomb. carried by the wind, flew
against he starboard propeller, shat
tering it and sending splinters flying
in all directions. The bomb, or what
was left of it, was hurled into the
Evening star., 1923-11-22
Macy Plane Explodes Ouer Sea;
5Saued by Plunge From Flames

bilges of the seaplane. where the
chemicals, mixing with the water,
ignited. In fraction OF a second
the seaplane was a mass of flames.
Lieut.. Earl BriX, pilot, nosed the
blazing ship downward and shouted
for the others to jump overheard. The
seaplane's life preservers, in the mid
die of the fuselage were a mass of
flames and Brix's first concern was to
see whether all his men could swim.
They could.
Gasoline Tank ExpIOdes.
Two minutes after the flaming sea-
plane hit the surface of the sea one
OF the gasoline tanks exploded, send
ing shower of burning struts and
sections of the fuselage over the men
who were swimming for their lives.
small patch of oil and driftwood
showed where the plane had sunk.
The Kennedy, eight miles away,
sighted the cloud of smoke and
steamed at top speed TO the rescue.
All of the men were virtually ex-
haqsted when the destroyer have in
sight Cheers greeted each flyer as he
was hauled to the Kennedys decks.
The Kennedy raced to port with the
survivors. The crew of the F-5-L, be-
sides Brtx and Nelson included W.
Osterman. seaman. first class: C. D.
Foresight. chief aviation rigger: E. B.
thornton. radio man, first class. The
seaplane at the time of the accident
was flying at a speed of seventy miles
an hour at an altitude of about 100
feet
Evening star., 1923-11-22
CLASSIFYING FIGHT
BLAME IS DENIED

Herbert D. Brown of the bureau
wholly free from blame in the pres
ent reclassifcation fight between the
national federation of federal en-
ployes and the personnel classifica-
tion board.
Declaring that the employees union
in their mass meeting Tuesday night
had blamed the wrong man." Mr.
sistently as he had always stood in
favoring the use of the bureau of
efficiency program so far as possible
in execution of the reclassification
act.
The personnel classification board,
Mr.. Brown said, had reversed itself
on the program for the field SER
vices. at first announcing that it
would draw up a new schedule but
later on in Circular No. 13; over
which the employees union has raised
bureau of efficiency plan.
II stand today where 1 have al
ways stood" said Mr.. Brown, against
any one who attempts to raid the
public treasury: l urged that the
personal classification board in the
efficiency program. both in the Dis
trict of Columbia and in the filed
services, and the classification board
has now simply adopted what 1 ad-
vocated in the beginning"
Chairman Bailey of the classical
tion board today said that action of
the federal employees union at it's
mass meeting Tuesday and in ap-
pealing yesterday to President Cool
fdge for an investigation had made
no change in the plan of procedure
already outlined and that the work
of the board would proceed and make
ready it's recommendations to Con-
gress. Mr.. Bailey denied the en-
pIoyes' charge that the board In Its
new program had failed to observe
the law,
Evening star., 1923-11-22
GERMAN NOTE AGREED ON.
Allies Insist Crown Prince Keep
Agreement to Stay Quiet.

BY the Assoca ted Press.
PARIS, November 21.-The allies,
through their representatives in the
ambassadors council, last night
agreed to notify Germany that the
interallied military control mission
will resume its functions in the reich
and that the Berlin government is
bound to afford it facilities and pro-
lection.
They also decided upon a second
communication in which they note
the former crown princes letter re-
nouncing the throne of Prussia and
voice expectations that the German
government will see to 1t that Fred
erick William faithfully observes the
promises made therein.
Under those conditions the allies
will not insist upon laying hold of
the prince, but they declare the Ger
man government must rigidly adhere
to its assurance that the return of
former Kaiser William to Germany
will not be tolerated.
This is the first time the allies
have agreed upon a question relating
to the execution by Germany of the
treaty of Versailles since the parti-
tion of Upper Silesia was referred
to the league of nations two years
ago.
Evening star., 1923-11-22
DEFENDS HIS REGIME.
Stresemann Welcomes Renewal of
Americas Interest.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN. November %, In the
course of a vigorous defense of his
administrat ton before the reichstag
today Chancellor Stresemann well
coined the renewed American interest
in the reparation problem. and said
he hoped an international conference
would be convoked.
He also took the occasion to deny
the reports published in the German
press that the government had been
officially approached by American
1inanciers, and added that he had not
been informed of any impending in
ternational financial action.
The address. which occupied two
hours in delivery, dealt at length
with both the foreign and internal
situations, and was wholly in the ma
ture of vindication of the chancel-
lor's policies.
The government is to demand a
positive vote of confidence from the
reichstag. the outcome of which is
yet in doubt.
Evening star., 1923-11-22
"V00D00" MAN CONVICTED
OF NUMBERING NURSE
Negro Crushed Girls Head With
Stone, Contention in
Pittsburgh.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, November "a
Lorenzo Savage, negro, known as a
"voodoo doctor" was found guilty of
first degree murder today. He was
tried for the murder of Miss Elsie
Barthel, a nurse. whose body. with
the head crushed, was found near a
deserted mansion in the East End
district several months ago.
The prosecution charged that Saw
age killed the girl when she refused
to pay him for a "love charm"
Defense counsel maintained that
Savage had met the nurse the night
she was killed, but that he had moth
ing to do with the killing. He con-
fessed, the defense contended, only
after city detectives had used third
degree" methods and had threatened
to crush his head with the seventy
one-pound block stone which was
used to kill Miss Barthel.
Evening star., 1923-11-22
WIDEN RUM PLOT PROBE.
Federal Agents Say Interior Cities
Included in System.

By the Associated Press.
SAVANNAH, Ga, November 22.-
With 126 defendants in various sec
tions of the country under indict-
ment, eight defendants on trial and
more indictments expected on charges
of violating the national prohibition
laws, federal agents are continuing
their Investigation along the east
ern seaboard and in the interior fol-
lowing clues obtained in the grand
jury investigation Of the liquor traf-
fic In this section of the country.
When the investigation of what
was described by an official at Wash
ington as "one of the most gigantic
combinations ever attempted. legal or
Illegal" is completed federal agents
expect to have disclosed a liquor traf-
fckins ring almost country wide.
Begin Trials of Eight.
The eight defendants whose trials
began yesterday are Savannah men.
but they are only the first of many to
face trial here. court officials say.
Clues developed in Savannah, ac-
cording to federal agents, have led,
among other localities, to New York.
Philadelphia, the Chesapeake capes
and Charleston, S. c., with connec-
tions in the traffic chain unbroken as
far west as Pittsburgh, and the end
not in sight.
Eventually, and in some cases al
ready made, prohibition officers say,
the line Of evidence will lead to those
who have financed the alleged liquor
conspiracy. The indictments so far
are understood to involve charges of
conspiracy to violate the national
prohibition law, transporting, ship
ping, possessing and importing
liquor.
Foreigners, largely Englishmen and
Canadians, are involved. 1t is statd.
Evening star., 1923-11-22
FOUR SHOT AS SHERIFF
OPENS FIRE ON POSSE
Official Mistakes Citizens for Sus-
picious Auto Party-Victims
Seriously Hurt.
Rr the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. November y.
-Four members of a volunteer posse
organized to search for supposed bank
robbers were shot and seriously
wounded by posse headed by Sheriff
Herman Weber of Clay county in a
gun battle at Cory. southeast Of this
city at / o'clock this morning. The
wounded men are Claude Lloyd.
Thomas Collins, Joseph Van Deeren
and Paul Willis.
Sheriff Weber received a call about
midnight from near Cory to the ef-
feet that an automobile party in that
vicinity was acting in a suspicious
manner. With force Of deputies, the
sheriff started for the scene. In the
meantime the vicinity. of Cory had
been aroused and a volunteer force
formed.
AS the sheriff's party approached
the village 1t was met by the citizens
posse. Believing them to be bandits.
the citizens posse called upon them
to halt. Sheriff Weber, thinking he
had been ambushed by bandits,
opened fire with a sawed-off shotgun.
The volunteer posse returned the fire.
but none Of the sherins party was
injured.
Evening star., 1923-11-22
TOLEDO IN TERROR
. AS BOMBER RE|CNS
Eighth Attack Partially
Wrecks Home and Leaves
Police BaffIed.
RY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
TOLEDO. Ohio, November 22.-Scorn-
full of efforts of large details of plain
clothes men and police to apprehend
him, Toledo's bomber was still at large
today, while Mortified residents of the
West End fearfully discuss his devas-
tating operations and are wondering
where the next deadly missile will fall.
Police say the bombs are being planted
by maniac.
The bombers latest victim was
Charles S. Yant, whose home was par
TALLY destroyed last night by a bomb,
the eighth bombing here within the
last sixty days Yant, his wife and
another woman smelled the burning
fuse of the bomb and rushed from the
house Just as the bomb exploded. The
Yant home and neighboring houses
were damaged to the extent of several
thousand dollars.
Anxiety Throughout City.
Meanwhile, the city is in state of
anxiety. fearing with each new explo-
sion there may be loss of life. All
available police and detectives are
working on the case, which, according
to Police Chief Harry Jennings, is the
most battling in the history of the
Toledo police department.
While there have been no casualties
and property damage resulting from
the explosions has not been large. the
terrorism has caused police to make
every effort to capture the person or
persons responsible. Apparently the
bomber Is aiming at no particular
person or section. His victims say
they have never been threatened.
We're doing all we can," says Po-
lice Chief Jennings, who has well
coined suggestions from every one.
Critics of the police department, de-
ploring Ihe operations of the bomber,
have insisted that there must be some
medium of checking the outrages, but
have offered no remedy.
Men who have investigated the ex-
blossoms, including that which dam
aged the home of Rev. Patrick
O'Brien, Catholic priest, and also the
one in the Norwood Avenue Church
of Christ, are loath to consider the
theory that a religious fanatic is re-
sponsible. They contend tkSt if the
terrorist is prompted by a religious
mania 1t takes the form of hatred for
all creeds and all religious organiza- :
tions Householders whose lives and
property have been assailed since the
reign of terror was instituted are of
diversified spiritual, fraternal and po :
litical affiliations.
Evening star., 1923-11-22

that "the sky was the limit" and that
"the bones were running hot" So. we
Travelled out Marlboro way as far as
the top of the second long hill, turned
sharply to the right. went over a
bumpy road for about a mile and a
half and pulled into the side yard of
Prince Georges county's famous gam
bling resort.
Ushered Into the Lair.
The big house, with its front porch
directly on the road. was dark. Not
light showed until we pulled into
the yard. where a hired man with a
fiashlight aided us in parking the
car. Then the same hired man guided
our steps to the side door We en-
tered.
All the mystery Of a high school
secret society seemed to enshroud US.
We stood for a while in a sort of
hallway, under an electrict highland
then we noticed that we were being
carefully inspected. From four or
five holes in the second door we were
given thorough examination, and
finally we were allowed to enter
another hallway. Then, up a mar
Continued on Page 2. Column p
Evening star., 1923-11-22
RU|NOUS TURNOVER
ON US. Jobs SHOWN
Civil Service Report Shows
Changes Involving 20 Per
Cent in Past Year.

Turnover of employees in the gov
ernment service in the District of CO.
lumbia. exclusive of employees of the
District government, averaged nearly
90 per cent from November /, 1922. to
October 81, 1923, according to figures
made public today by the Civil Service
Commission. On the latter date there
We're 65.s51 employees in the govern
ment service here, reduction of 2,713
over the 6s.564 in the government en-
ploy in the Capital on November l a
year ago.
During that year there was total
forces. while 1891 employees broke
their connections.
Two Months show Increase.
Only two months in the past year
showed an increase in the number of
workers added TO the government
forces here. as balanced against the
separations, February and May show
Ing a total increase of thirty-eight.
The present force of federal work
ers in Washington represents the
smallest number on the government
pay roll since 1915. when there were
but 3g,442 employees of the govern
months later the number of federal
workers had swelled to 117.160. and
Washington was humming bee hive
of industry, turning the wheels Of
the gigantic war machine, whose cut
ting edges were 1900 miles away.
Two years after the war. on July
81. 1920, the number of federal erl.
ployes had dwIndled to 9O.55S, a1'1
has been dropping ever since, until
today. Notwithstanding the increase
in bureaus and Independent estab-
lishments. due chiefly to the war. the
number of government workers re-
mains at the lowest figure in seven
years. Today the field service of the
government is a little more than half
the war peak, with approximately
100000 workers on the rolls, against
100000 on Armistice day.
Reasons for Separations.
Gradual reduction in the federal
service in Washington and in the field
is being effected. according to the
commission. by cessation of wartime
work. But other reasons, among
them small salaries, unpleasant
working conditions. lack of opportu-
nifty for advancement, cause separa-
tons from the government service.
Within the past year and half
several hundred clerical workers have
been dropped from the government
paw rolis-mostly temporary en-
ployes There have been few whole
sale separations among the regular
civil service employees of the govern
ment, although many have been sep
arated from the bureau of engraving
and printing. the pension office and
other government agencies.
The Chicago post office offers one
of the outstanding examples of turn
over in the government service, off,
ciaIs say. The regular force of the.
office is placed at 6.010. Since July
/. 1920, there have been 1857 ap-
nointments from theecivil service list
at Chicago, a turnover of more than
100 per cent. This is not typical.
however, Civil Service Commission
heads say, but is a result of condi-
tions local to Chicago.
Turnover of government. employees.
if duplicated in private business.
would be ruinous, John T. Doyle,
secretary of the commission, said
today.
Evening star., 1923-11-22
CITY OF DAVID FOUND
BY PALESTINE PARTY
Confirmation of Discovery Given by
; Prof. MacAlister, Leader
of Expedition.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, November 22.-DiseOSery
of traces of the ancient City of David,
reported from Jerusalem some time
ago. is confirmed in dispatch from
Prof. Robert A MacAlister, leader of
the joint expedition sent to the Holy
Land by the Palestine Exploration
Fund and the Daily Telegraph.
Prof. MacAlister says he has every
reason to believe that by a fortunate
coincidence the expedition has dis
covered the remains of the mysterious
Milo" mentioned in the Biblical de-
scription of David's fortifications in
the Jebusite citadel he captured. The
statement that the king built round
about from Milo" has always puzzled
commentators. 1t has been conjec-
tured that Milo" was a tower or
dam, but it has been agreed that only
excavation could reveal its true
identity.
Evening star., 1923-11-22
Message
Forecasts Part
In "a Campaign
BY the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, November 22.-Ac-
tive participation of Woodrow Will
son in the next presidential cam
paign, Brooklyn democrats be-
lleve. is foreshadowed by a letter
which the former President sent
the secretary of the Regular Dem
ocratic Club. twelfth assembly dis
trict. Kings county. acknowledge
ing resolutions commencing him
Tor the principles enunciated in
his Armistice day radio address.
Mr.. Wilson said: Il am deeply
gratified by the generous preamble
and resolutions of the Regular
Democratic Club and beg that you
Will express to the members of the
club my great satisfaction in the
thought that we shall be comrades
in the great work which lies i'm
mediately ahead OF the democratic
party--work which will, in my
opinion, lead to permanent tri-
umphs in the great cause of justice
and humanity"
Evening star., 1923-11-22
MAGNUS JOHNSON
D. c. COMMUTER
Will Live in Small Takoma
Park House, if Wife
Gives Assent.

Magnus Johnson, the dirt-farmer
senator from Minnesota, expects to
become full fledged Takoma Park
commuter before nightfall He has
picked himself out an attractive little
homestead as near to his beloved
countryside as possible and all that
remains now to make it the senator's
Washington farm is Mrs Johnson's
stamp of approval.
Senator Johnson paid another visit
to the place this morning, carefully
inspected IL and promptly made an
engagement with Mrs. johnson to
afternoon. The senator is so sure
that his wife will be pleased with the
place that he has already begun to
call the northeast suburb home"
TT would have been nice" he said,
ito have found a place with more
/ ground. a semi-farm. But that was
, impossible close enough to Wash
| ington. | had no difficulty. however,
being suited In your city and I really
think real estate prices here are quite
reasonable. / am quite confident we
shall take the Takoma Park house.
But. of course, Mrs. johnson must ap-
prove of it first
Staying at the Portland.
At present Senator and Mrs John
son are stopping at the Portland. 14th
street and Thomas circle. Their per-
manent home will be rented furnished
and contain only five or six rooms,
since only the two younger girls will
be brought TO Washington to live
with them. The rest of the Johnson
farm "by choice"
All of the robust health that years
of labor on his Minnesota farm be-
slowed upon Senator Johnson will find
plenty of exercise during his resi-
dence in Washington. if he attempts
to follow the bace he set this morn
ing. Up with the sun, he ate an early
breakfast, and was at his desk in the
Senate office building before the at
tendantS there had begun to rub the
sleep out of their eyes.
After wading through several bush
els of mail he and several friends
motored to Takoma Park for a final
inspection of his prospective home.
Returning from there at IL o'clock, he
went with another senator to the
Senate chamber to discuss his seat in
that auditorium. When he again
reached his office he found two news
paper men and the Representatives of
two New York labor unions waiting
to interview him. Asked on which
side of the Senate he would sit, Sena-
tor Johnson replied:
May SIT With Democrats.
Il have not made up my mind yet.
will not know for a few days. 1t may
be that / will sit with the democrats
just to keep them company The sena-
tor and / reached no definite decision" Z"
Turning momentarily from his inter-
viewers. he spoke briefly to the labor
representatives. politely declined a tele-
phone invitation to visit the studio of
a prominent Washington photogra pher
and sit for picture, and immediately
afterward made his engagement TO
take Mrs. Johnson out to Takoma Park
this afternoon.
In the meantime a third senator en-
tered his office with a prominent sculp-
tor, whom he introduced, and behind
them came still another senator Be
fore the hands of the clock reached
IL 80 he had satisfactorily interviewed
all of his guests and escorted the two
senators and the. sculptor into his pri-
vate office for a further conference be-
fore lunch.
Evening star., 1923-11-22
S1,O00;OO0 FIRE LOSS.
Cordage Plant :at Reading, Pa
Crippled for Months.

READING, Pa. November 22.-The
entire plant OF the Jackson Cordage
Company was swept last night by
fire of undetermined origin with
a loss estimated at nearly million
dollars.
oficiaIs of the company said that
the loss is machinery would cripple
the plant for perhaps six. months,
none of 1t being made In this coun-
Evening star., 1923-11-22
SCHOOL BOYS ACCUSED
! OF STABBlNG TEACHER
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, November 22.-Three
boys, one of them a grammar school
pupil, were arrested today charged
with having stabbed John Wechsler.
a public school teacher, when he re-
fused to discuss with them the failure
of a fellow student to pass his exam.
nations. Wechsler, with wounds in
the chest and abdomen. was. said to
be in a serious condition.
The boys, Dominick Passmondi.
nineteen; his brother. Carlo, fifteen.
and Carmine Soldo. fifteen. are ac-
cused of having wayiaid Wechsler
when he left his school In Harlem.
Evening star., 1923-11-22
THREE KILLED In BLAZE,
Fourth Member Of Family May Die
of Injuries.

SHERBROOKE. Quebec, November
22-Three were killed and a fourth
perhaps fatally injured in fire today
at Collinsville, when the. residence of
William Gendron was razed.
Mrs. Gendron and two sons, aged
eleven and eight years, were killed.
A daughter, Jizelle, aged f1ve years,
was seriously burned.