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Evening star., 1925-03-26
Raid on Former Embassy Nets
Brandy Plant With l3 Stills
-Four Arrests Made at r Street Residence
by Asher and Aides in Second Foray
of Day-Ne,c Driue Looms.

Thirteen stills. three of them in op-
Grafton. were uncovered at 2022 r
street today, one of the best resi-
Dental sections In Northwest Wash
inston. when Lone Wolf" Asher and
Lieut.. Ready of the third precinct led
a raid which resulted, they say, in the
discovery of one of the most preten-
peach brandy ever found in Wash
ington.
The residence, previously occupied
by the Spanish embassy, more recent
ly the home of Admiral Washington.
now commanding the China Sea Di-
vision of the Pacific Fleet, is now the
home of Charles NJ. Reed, a lunchroom
proprietor. He was arrested.
The raid brought four arrests, on
charges of conspiracy against the pro-
hibi-ion amendment. illegal manufac
ture and Illegal possession. With the
stills were seized 20 gallons of the
finest grade peach brandy, 700 gallons
of mash. $50 pounds of sugar and
numerous jars, bottles, shoppers and
other accessories.
Those arrested in this raid included,
in addition to Reed. Mrs. Lois Ray
Reed, his wife: Mrs Annabelle
Anadale of Stratford, Va, and Edward
Frank Halle of 30S Webster street.
Each was charged with conspiracy,
manufacture and possession, while
Reed and Mrs. Anadale also were
charged with selling.
Halle explained that he was
Evening star., 1925-03-26
METCALF TO ACCEPT
PENSION POST OFFER
Will Fill Commissionership Tempo
rarily to Permit Recess
Appointment.

Wilder s. Metcalf Of Lawrence, Kans.,
who does not desire the post of COM
missioner of pensions, for which the
Senate has confirmed him, has con-
sented to accept 1t temporarily and
then resign so President Coolidge can
make recess appointment.
Metcalf returned unsigned the oath
of office sent to him. After he was told,
however, that his failure to qualify
would, under technicality of the law,
leave the Office without head until
the next session of Congress, he wired
today to Acting Interior Secretary
Finney asking that the papers be re-
turned to him. A 30-day period in
which the deputy commissioner, Hays
Haymaker, may by law act as COM
missioner, expires in nine days.
An unwillingness to abandon a farm
loan business he conducts was given by
Metcalf as the reason for his refusal to
accept.
Evening star., 1925-03-26
POLISH ARMS KEEP
REDS FROM EUROPE
Nations MiIitarism Vital to
More Than Her Own
National Safety.
by FRANK II. sIMONDs.

WARSAW, March e6.-Five years
ago next Summer the Bolshevist
armies in their supreme attempt TO
the gate of Warsaw and there met
decisive defeat. The whole story of
this episode has been but vaguely
known in the West. All that has
been clear was that the vast Soviet
host. numbering 500, ,ooo, was one day
sweeping irresistibly onward, and. as
1T seemed, the next plunged in head
long retreat which was never inter-
rupted.
The Polish battle of the Marne. this
conflict has been correctly called, and
coming to Warsaw one of the first
things which l was anxious to see
was this battle-ground. Through the
courtesy of the general staff 1 was
panied by an officer who had fought
in the conflict and, under his instruc-
tion, study the decisive phase OF
this vitality important struggle.
Twenty Miles From Capital.
The bate centered about the large
distance from Warsaw and in many
other details, suggests the relation OF
Meaux to Paris in the Marne opera.
tion. Actually, Radzymin is less than
20 miles from the palace of the kings
and of the president of the Polish
republic and throughout the five days
of battle the buildings of the capital
were shaken by the reverberations OF
the artillery.
Ten miles east Of Warsaw on the
perfectly fiat plain which extends
from the German frontier to the
Asiatic boundary of Russia there Is
belt of sand, beyond which stretches
a belt of marsh: beyond this marsh
was the last line of Polish defense;
or Z miles beyond and just east OF
RadZymin Is another marsh, through
which flows a little river reminiscent
of the Ourcq of Marne fame Here
was the front line of the Poles. Be
tween those two lines the battle took
place and the supreme bid of the pick
of the Russian troops, some 100, 600
was broken by less than half that
number of Poles.
Straying over the field it was i'm
possible to escape the realization OF
the meaning to Europe of the battle
At that moment in which IL wai
fought the danger of bolshevism wal
Continued on Page 4, Column IL
Evening star., 1925-03-26
CoLLUSION rs CHARGED.
Men Held in New Haven Said to
Have Had Associate.
BY the Associa ted Press.

by the Assocfa ted Press.
NEW HAVEN, Conn, March 2s-
John F. McCarren of 1914 Eleventh
street and James J. Clifford, both OF
Washington, were held as fugitives
today in connection with an alleged
conspiracy in Washington to defraud
the Government of large sums in tax
es. Both have agreed to waive extra
Sition.
Police here understood that the case
under investigation involved frauds
amounting to millions of dollars,
which are alleged to have been per-
petrated through collusion with an
auditor in the income tax division of
the internal revenue department.
Police here say McCarren and Cliff
ford were until several years ago
employees of the income tax division
of the revenue department, but re-
signed and went about the country
representing themselves as Income
tax experts" offering to have income
taxes of large corporations cut in
half If they were promised part of the
proceeds of the saving.
The men, according to the police.
approached officials of the New York.
New Haven and Hartford Railroad
with the proposition and these off,
cials reported the matter to Wash
ington.
Evening star., 1925-03-26
LiquOr Car Nnbbed
By Police TO,Ued
A,oayDuring Night

Bigger, broader and altogether
more embracing ideas in thievery
are showing themselves in Wash
ington. Police reports yesterday
recorded the theft of a large NOV
ing van. Today's report added in
suit to injury in two additional
cases.
A bootleg car, riddled with bull
lets, with a hole in its gasoline
tank and two rear tires fiat, had
been parked in a vacant lot near
the eleventh precinct station yester-
day b yprohibition officers. Last
night thieves calmly removed it by
towing II away.
At the same time some ambitious
person removed six loads of build
ing stone. valued at about $50,
from the rear of Klingle Mansions,
800 Connecticut avenue, without
arousing any suspicion until the
owner found them gone.
Evening star., 1925-03-26
COERCION DENIED
IN M. {. UNITY VOTE
But Advocates of Plan May
Appeal Bishops Ruling on
Recording Choice.

Although entering Solemn pro-
test" against charges that Bishop
Warren A. Gambler of Atlanta had
used "coercive" methods in forcing
an aye and nay vote in the Baltimore
annual conference yesterday. which
rejected the cause Of Methodist unity,
it was reported among reliable
unification leaders in the conference
at Mount Vernon Place Church today
that an appeal to the College of
Bishops from a parliamentary ruling
yesterday by Bishop Gambler was
under consideration
No one would say that the appeal
would be noted, but it was admitted
by several that the matter was the
subject of much discussion and would
be seriously weighed from every
angle before a decision was reached
The College of Bishops meets in
May at Nashville, Tenn. A decision
by the college reversing Bishop
Gambler, it was said by one of those
vitality interested, would not affect
the negative vote taken yesterday
by this conference, but might have a
far-reaching effect on the future
methods of bailoting in the more
than 40 conferences in the Southern
Church yet to vote.
Ruling Made by Bishop.
The ruling by Bishop Gambler was
one in which the bishop held that
one-fifth of the delegates could order
an aye and nay vote after the con-
ference early in the morning had de-
cided by standing vote to take up
the matter of unification at 1880 and
to follow the recommendation of the
general conference in taking a secret
ballot The final vote on unifcation
was by ayes and nays.
DR.. H. H Sherman of Nashville of
the joint commission on unification
referred to the ruling of the bishop
as Surprising" during a short speech
from the floor this morning, in which
he vigorously denied the truthful
ness of an account in a morning
paper concerning Bishop Gamblers
ruling and statements attributed to
DIR. Sherman himself.
DR.. Sherman said he wished to be
perfectly fair and just in speaking
of the bishop, and he signed the reso-
luton of solemn protest" against
the morning paper account. The
resolution, signed by both unifica-
tionists and antiunificationists alike,
was unanimously passed by the con-
ference.
The resolution noted with deep
CONTINUED on Page 2. Column g.
Evening star., 1925-03-26
Federation to Ask Appoint
ment of Personnel Chief
to Settle Disputes. !,
WOULD TAKE POWER
FROM BUREAU HEADS
Will Urge Congress to Standard
ize All Regulations, Including
Annual and Sick Leaves.

A program TO govern legislative
action regarding Federal employees
to be presented to the next Congress.
recommending complete standardiza-
tion of all matters relating to Gov
ernment personnel, including work
ing conditions, sick and annual leave
and other matters now left to the
discretion of the bureau chief or su-
perior officer of a department or bu-
reau. was presented to the executive
council of the National Federation of
Federal Employees, meeting today in
the Labor Building.
Outlining a complete revision of ex-
listing management of personnel in
the Government service, the pro-
gram, presented by Luther c. Stew
ard, president of the federation sug-
gested creation of a new office-that
of personnel manager-for the Gov
crnment service, whose duty il would
be to pass on all controversial ques-
tfons arising with regard to person
mel administration. The council en-
tered at once on discussion of the
plan, and was expected to recon-
mend today its presentation to Con-
gress when the Legislative body meets
next December.
One of the major issues involved in
the plan as presented by Mr.. Steward
Is proposed uniform annual leave
rule. Mr.. Steward contended that 80
days annual and 80 days sick leave
for Government employees either is
right of such employees or is not a
right. He wants IL taken out of
the realm of personalities and put on
standardized basis. He told the
council that Government employees
now are in the position of literally
having to beg for annual leave, and
that sometimes they are granted
their vacation and sometimes not.
When a man enters on a new job
in private employment he is told
what his working hours will be, what
period with pay he will get. And
be gets exactly what Is agreed to-"
Mr.. Steward said 'In the Govern
ment the working hours are uniform
and the pay rate depends more or
less on the Individual, but in two
Offices of the same bureau one em-
ploye may set full annual leave,
while another employe doing the
same work. may get none. 1t is per-
sonal matter. resting with the inn
mediate superior, and il should not
be so. Such questions of right should
be removed from the realm of per-
sonalities and put into the realm of
legal rights"
Many other matters having to do
CONTINUED on Page 2, Column 81
Evening star., 1925-03-26
18 MEN REJECTED
FOR CHAPMAN JURY
Eleventh Member Selected and Ef-
forts Will Be Made to Com
plete Panel Today.
By the Associa ted Press.


HARTFORD, Conn.,, March 26.-
Eighteen prospective jurors in the
case of Gerald Chapman. charged with
the murder of a New Britain police
man last October, were rapidly dis
posed of, without result, in an at
tempt to get a twelfth juror today,
the third of the trial.
Most of them disqualified them
selves by declaring they had opinions
of the guilt or innocence of the
prisoner. Others were opposed to
capital punishment. Four were ex-
cused through peremptory challenge
one by the State and three by the de-
tense. With the examination Of the
10 talismen, the defense had left only
one peremptory Of its original 25. It's
request for additional peremptories
was denied.
A second special panel of talismen
was exhausted without result to get
the twelfth juror.
Court was adjourned. at 1880 o'clock
until 2 pm. Meanwhile, 20 Hartford
men are to be summoned as a third
special panel
Evening star., 1925-03-26
Ship to Seek BrOmine From Ocean:
Shortage Created by Ethyl Gas Use

Chemical experts estimate that
each LOO gallons Of sea water
contains one pound of bromine.
A. M. Maxwell, vice president of
the Ethyl Gasoline Corporation,
says a new process will enable the
Ethyl to obtain 100000 pounds of
bromine monthly. Success Of the
venture. he thinks. may mean the
equipping of a fleet of bromine
ships and the creation Of floating
chemical industries for the re-
covery from the seas Of "other
valuable constituents to enrich
mankind"
Bromine heretofore has been
laboriously recovered from min
eral springs and from the potash
deposits of Germany.
The Ethyl was formerly the
Shipping Board vessel Lake Har-
minia.
Evening star., 1925-03-26
ANTHRACITE PRICE CUT
ANNOUNCED AT MINES
Four Pennsylvania Companies Re-
duce Cost of All Sizes From
$1.25 to IS Cents Ton.

By the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, March 2S.-
Reduction in the prices of domestic
sizes of anthracite coal were announced
today by several of the leading produc-
ing companies, including the Reading.
Erie, Lahigh Coal and Navigation, and
the Susquehanna Galleries companies.
The reductions vary, the Readings
new prices showing a drop Of 70 cents
a ton on egg, IS cents on stove, 95
cents on chestnut, 20 cents on pea, 80
cents on buckwheat and 25 cents on
rice. The Lehfgh Coal and Navigation
Co.'s revised prices show a decrease Of
IS cents on egg, so cents on stove. IS
cents on chestnut, 75 cents on pea, so
cents on buckwheat and rs cents on
rice. Those Of the Erie are rs cents
on egg. 81 on stove, $1.25 on chestnut.
80 cents on pea and buckwheat and 10
cents on rice, while the Susquehanna
Galleries announced a reduction Of SO
cents on egg. stove and pea, and 80
cents on chestnut.
Evening star., 1925-03-26
MANIAC'S VICTIM DIES.
Hospital Patient succumbs to At
tack After Operation.

KEARNY, N. J., March 26.-David
Norris, Sc. a patient in the West Hud-
son Hospital. who was in a serious
condition after ,an operation when
beaten and partly strangled by a
maniacal patient yesterday, died to-
day.
The maniac, Peter Granato Of Ar
lington came out of a 36-hour coma in
a violent state, attacked, beat and part
ly strangled three patients and three
nurses. after which he plunged through
the glass Of door and escaped, but
was captured later and confined at the
hospital under guard.
Evening star., 1925-03-26
AY-WALK|NGB BAN
FOR BUSY STREETS
TO Be CONSIDERED
Eldridge Declares His Mind
Still Open on Value of
Regulation.

A Jay-walkinE regulation for busy
streets will be carefully considered
as one possible means of improving
traffic conditions here, Director of
Traffic Eldridge said today.
Mr.. Eldridge made it clear that he
has not made up his mind as.to the
desirability of such rule in this city
and pointed out that it may be a
debatable question. He said. however,
that he was inquiring into what other
cities have done along that line
Since becoming director of traffic
Mr.. Eldridge has received a letter
from a friend in the West, telling him
that Los Angeles, Calf, has been
rather successful in trying out a
regulation governing the manner in
which pedestrians shall cross streets
in the central district of that city.
The letter explained that Los
Angeles uses gong which rings
twice between the changing of signals
at the intersection. The first sound
Of the gong means "Get ready" the
second is to "Goi"
The writer told Mr.. Eldridge some
pedestrians hav, a habit Of going at
the first gong, which, he says, is toll
Grated, but is not entirely safe.
Few Arrests Made.
A policeman stationed at the inter-
section blows a whistle If he gees a
pedestrian start across the street at
the wrong time. The writer told Mr..
Eldridge the ordinance became effec-
tive in January and that there have
been few arrests.
Crossing streets in the middle of
the block has decreased remarkably,
though sometimes it means an incon-
veniently long walk to a corner" the
writer said.
A memorandum accompanying the
letter stated that for the, month end
ing March Is accidents in the central
district of Los Angeles were 24.5 per
cent less than on January 16.
The director probably will endeavor
to find out what experiences other
cities have had with pedestrian regu-
latfons
Sixteenth Street May Get Test.
While no decision has been reached
with regard to arterial highways and
signal devices, Mr.. Eldridge indicated
today that he regarded Sixteenth
street as the thoroughfare on which
new signal apparatus probably would
be tried, out. An appropriation of
$4,000 made by Congress for traffic
signals prior to the passage of the
new traffic. law must be expended be-
fore July 1 or lapse into the Treasury.
When the traffic law passed Congress
made another fund Of $4,000 avail
able for. traffic regulation.
Fred Seller, former manager of the
touring and transportation board of
the American Automobile Association
today wired from Pittsburgh his ac-
ceptance of the post of executive as
sistant to the director of traffic.
Col. j. c. Moller of the United States
Bureau of Public Roads today wrote
to Mr.. Eldridge from Columbus, Ohio,
that he is keenly interested in the
offer that has been made him to be-
come engineer to the traffic director
He said he would come to Washington
within day or two to discuss the
question with Mr Eldridge
Evening star., 1925-03-26
THREE BURN TO DEATH.

ST. PHILIPPE DE NERI, Quebec.
March 26.-Three persons are dead and
a fourth is dying as a result of a fire
here yesterday, it became known today.
The dead are Cyprien Chamberlain,
": Mrs. Wflfred Chamberland, his
daughter-in-law, and Marie Chamber
land, z, the latter's daughter. A sister
of the girl is dying.
The fire resulted from the action of
one Of the family who poured gasoline
into a stove, causing an explosion,
which wrecked the house. The injured
members of the family were not able
to escape the resultant fire.
Evening star., 1925-03-26
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW. YORK. March 26.-The
steamship Ethyl will sail April 15
from Wilmington. Del, to extract
bromine from the ocean.
A world shortage of bromine,
which is said to threaten both in
dustry and science. caused the
Ethyl to be fitted out as a factory
for recovering bromine from sea
water, the American Chemical
Society announces. The Ethyl will
call at no port, but will roam the
ocean and extract from the waters
her cargo of bromine which Is re-
garded as essential to medicine,
motion pictures and to the ethyl
fluid of motor fuel. The rapid de-
velopment of ethyl gasoline in
automobile operation iS given as
the cause Of the shortage.
Evening star., 1925-03-26
LABORITE THREATENED.
Kirkwood Arouses Enmity for At
tacks on Wales.

LONDON, March 26. - The Daily
Mail says that David Kirkwood. La
borite member of Parliament, has
received so many threatening letters
in consequence of his attacks upon
the Prince of Wales in the House of
Commons and elsewhere that the
Glasgow branch of the National
Union of Railway Men has taken
up the matter with the home sec
retary.
The latter is said to have promis d
Mr.. Kirkwood full investigation of
the threats and to have offered him
police protection, which he has re-
fused
Evening star., 1925-03-26
New Comet Discovered.

LONDON, March 26.-The Morning
Post reports that Prof. Richard
Schorr. director of the Hamburg Uni
versity Observatory, at Bergedorf, on
Monday discovered a comet of the
eleventh magnitude in the neighbor-
hood of the consultations Leo and
Virgo.
Evening star., 1925-03-26
Nicaragua Rejects Loan.

MANAGUA, Nicaragua, March 26.--
The Nfcaraguan Congress today re-
jected the proposed loan of 100000
recently negotiated by the govern
ment with New York bankers. The
Congress considered Objectionable
the terms on which the loan was
based. 4 .
Evening star., 1925-03-26
Dennistoun Arguments In.

LONDON, March 26.-Arguments by
counsel on the legal points of the
jury's verdict in Mrs. Dorothy Muriel
Dennistouns suit against her former
husband were concluded today. Judge
McCardie reserved judgment.
Evening star., 1925-03-26
SAMUEL GOMPERS'
WILL is SUSTAINED
Jury Rejects Widows
Charge-Gives Her Only
Dover Rights.

The will OF Samuel Gompers, late
president of the American Federation
of Labor, dated November last, was
sustained today by the verdict of
jury in Circuit Division 1 of the Dis
trict Supreme Court. The jurors de-
clared unfounded the charge of Mrs.
Gertrude A. Gompers, widow of the
labor chieftain. that Samuel j. Com
pers, a son by previous marriage,
had unduly Influenced his father into
revoking a previous will giving her
the bulk of the estate and making the
new will. leaving her only the dover
right fixed by the District Court.
Three questions were submitted to
the jury. First, was the will of No
vember s, 1924, the last will of Sam
uel Gompers: second, was that paper
obtained or the execution thereof pro-
cured from Samuel Gompers by CO.
J. Gompers or any other person. and
third, was the paper canceling the
former will of September 81, 1921, OBJ
tained or the execution procured by
undue influence of Samuel J. Com
pers or any other person? To the
first question jurors answered yes
and to the other two replied in the
negative.
Two Witnesses Heard.
The only evidence offered was that
of William c. Roberts, legislative
agent of the American Federation of
Labor, and Edward S. Tracy, an as
sistant secretary of the labor fedora
tion, who had signed the will as wit
nesses at the request of the late labor
president. They declared Mr.. Cont
pers was then of sound mind and ca
pable of executing a valid deed or
contract.
AS soon as. the verdict of the jury
shall have been confirmed, which
usually takes four days, Samuel ].
Gompers will ask for letters on the
estate and take over his fathers
property from the possession of the
collectors appointed by the court
when Mrs. Gompers began her con-
test. Attorney George E. Edelin, who
with Capt. julius I. Peyser, repre-
sented the widow, was present in
court, but. offered no testimony in
opposition to the sustaining of the
will.
Attorneys Newmyer & King repre-
sented the executor and other MEM
bers of the Gompers family. The es-,
tate is said to be valued at between
$4,000 and $4,000.
Evening star., 1925-03-26

The Stars carrier system covers
every city block and the regular edi-
ton is delivered to Washington homes
as fast as the papers are printed.
Evening star., 1925-03-26

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Evening star., 1925-03-26

GU. s. Weather Bureau Forecast.)
Fair and warmer tonight; minimum
temperature above freezing; tomorrow
unsettled; probably showers; colder at
night. Temperatures: Highest. II, at.
$3.50 pm. yesterday; lowest, AZ, at 6:45
am. today. Full report on page T.
Evening star., 1925-03-26

CONTINUED on Page 2, Column 81
, 1925-12-28
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LUBRICATING SYSTEM FOR
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= of high pressure fabrication than the
Ford. The AIemite (Zerk Type) Llbri-
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