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Evening star., 1925-05-15
POLICE SURGEON is SHOT
BY ROBBERS, MAY DIE
Chicago Official Held Up in Own
Garage-Gunman Wounded
in ARRAY.
BY the Associated Press.

Dy lne AssOcldIeu fFtss
CHICAGO, May 15.-Dr. Charles D.
Wall, police surgeon, was probably
fatally shot early today by one of
two robbers who held him up as he
was putting his automobile in his
garage. The assaiants fed without
searching him.
While police sought them they also
searched for two men who a few hours
earlier accompanied James Coyne,
gunman. in an attack on Daniel Per
ry, former Municipal Court bailiff.
Perry, under Indictment in connec-
ton with a s1.000,000 war savings
stamp counterfeit plot, was wounded
in an exchange of shots with his as.
sailants, and shot Coyne, who may
die.
The police attributed the shooting
of Perry to an attempt to eliminate
him as a possible States witness in
the coming counterfeit plot trial or to
liquor runners feud.
Evening star., 1925-05-15
MOVE STARTLES IRELAND.
1000 Free State Troops Start
Mysterious Inquiry.

LONDON, May 10 OP).-News
agency dispatches from Cork. Ireland,
say something of a sensation has
been caused by reports that more than
1000 Irish Free State troops, operat-
ing with civil guards, made an encirc-
ling movement over a wide area last
night. They are closely inspecting
certain people and premises. the re
port says. 1t is rumored that the ac-
tion is in connection with the shoot.
ing in 1923 of unarmed British soldiers
at Queenstown.
Evening star., 1925-05-15

but in good health, who said she
could not remember her age, lives
in a house in the alley that f1anks
the school. She said that she came
there in the administration of Har-
rison; she did not remember the
year. At that time, she said,
houses around were occupied by
members of the Societies of Friends,
from which, evidently, the alley
took it's name as Quaker court.
Looking up from her ironing
board, Margaret said that the folks
who lived there when she came had
told her that the plot of ground on
which colored school children now
play was the old St. Johns Gene
tefy, used by white folks"
Old residents of Washington were
queried regarding the existence of
such a burying ground. but could
not remember it.
Evening star., 1925-05-15
400 POLICE AIDED
BREWERS, is CLAIM
Forty Philadelphia Patrolmen
Suspended in Biggest But
ler Shake-U Up.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA, May 15.-A Sc
cret investigation by a special SQUAD
Of police, known as the -four cor
porals," has revealed a conspiracy be
tween a number of Philadelphia brew
cry owners and about 400 patrolmen
detailed to prevent the breweries from
violating the prohibition law.
Director of Public Safety Butler so
declared after his suspension of 40
patrolmen charged with accepting
bribes from breweries and in aiding
brewery employees in loading illegal
beer on trucks for delivery to saloons
The suspended men comprise more
than one-half of the personnel of one
police district and include the captain
in charge of the district. They have
been ordered before the Police Trial
Board to answer the charges.
Begins Biggest Shake-up.
Officials of the Police Department
said the suspensions marked the be-
ginning of the biggest police shake-up
since Gen. Butler started his cam
paign of law enforcement 16 months
ago, the history of the city.
Director Butler IN making the in
veStigation selected squad of picked
men, some of whom he stationed in
the breweries as laborers, while others
were set to work on nearby buildings
as carpenters and painters. Their re-
port said patrolmen had aided brewery
employees in loading beer on trucks.
acted as "lookouts" to warn the brew
cry officials of the presence of IN
friendly police officials, accepted
bribes from the brewery officials and
employees and disobeyed imperative
orders to change the Quarantine"
guard ordered for the breweries daily
The investigation employed several
squads of detectives, but the report of
only one squad has been submitted to
Director Butler.
Evening star., 1925-05-15
Dawson Is Flooded.

VANCOUVER, B. c., May Is uP-
A delayed message from Dawson. Y.
T., dated May II. received by the
Canadian Press last night, declared
that Dawson was experiencing the
worst flood in its history. The Yukon
River, the dispatch related, had over
flowed its banks and business houses
had been damaged by the advancing
waters.
Evening star., 1925-05-15
Earthquakes Kill
Ten in Philippines;
Damage Buildings
By the Associated Press.

MANILA, May 15.-Weather Bu-
reau officials today reported that
ten persons We're killed by series
of earthquakes in the Province of
Oriental Negros. Many concrete
buildings which were not reinforced
by steel collapsed and frame dwell
ings were seriously damaged
A number of the Muscavado su-
gar mills were badly cracked, but
only the central building was
damaged to any extent. All steel
reinforced structures were undam-
aged.
An earthquake of moderate in
tenSity was recorded today on the
SeiSmOgraph of Georgetown Uni
verSity. 1t began at 1907 and TASTED
until about 8 am, and Director
Tondorf placed it's distance as
$500 miles from Washington, with
the direction not definitely deter
mined.
Evening star., 1925-05-15
Gas Tax Held in Force.

HARRISBURG, Pa, May Is
Gov. Pinchot has signed the Wheeler
bill, containing the cents a gallon
tax on liquid fuels until June !, 1927.
1t is estimated to yield the State
$40, 900, 900 within the biennium.
Evening star., 1925-05-15
BULGARS RAID VILLAGE.
Jugoslavia Irritated by Attack OF
Machine Gunners.

BELGRADE, Jugoslavia, Nav IL
R).-The ministry of the interior
hears that 80 Bulgarian soldiers with
machine guns crossed the frontier OF
the Timok district of Jugoslavia and
rushed the village of Tsernochavtse
near Negotin.
The villagers drove out the invaders.
The incident - causing much irrita-
tion here,
Evening star., 1925-05-15
PROPOSED RATE APPROVED.
Officials Here Willing to Grant France
Same Terms as Britain.

BY the Associated Press.
The one-half of l per cent amortiza
ton rate mentioned in Paris adyices
as Il mark for adjusting the principal
Continued on Page 4. Column -
Evening star., 1925-05-15
Twelve Ships Leave Row.
Border Guarded Carefully.

About 100 agents are now on the
Canadian border seeking to prevent
land running of rum into Northeast
and Northwest border points.
The Coast Guards activities off
rum row are criticized by w. H. Stay
ton. head of the Association Against
the Prohibition Amendment. He re-
CARDS these activities as futile and
waste OF money"
Evening star., 1925-05-15

George Bernard Shaw Ill.
LONDON, May Is CP).-George Ber
nard Shaw is indisposed and confined
to his London residence.
Evening star., 1925-05-15
UNDERWOOD BUYS
HISTORIC ESTATE
WoodIaWn, Once Owned by
Washington, Passes to
AIabaman.

Senator Oscar w. Underwood of
Alabama, prominently before the
country on several occasions as Dem
ocratic candidate for the presidency,
has bought Woodlawn, the 16O-
acre country estate near Mount Yer
non, it was learned today.
The transaction was handled, it is
understood, by II. w. Hilleary and
Louis S. Scott of the Hilleary Real
Estate Agency. The price is not re-
vealed, but is believed to have been
around 100000. The sum set on it
some time ago when it was quietly
offered by a number of Washington
dealers was s150,Oo0. The owners
were the heirs of Miss Z. w. Sharpe
of Germantown, Pa. and elsewhere.
The purchase is taken by friends Of
Mr.. Underwood to mean that he will
make Washington his permanent
home, and quite possibly retire. at
least for time, from the political
arena.
Several months ago it became known
that Mr.. Underwood would probably
have opposition for reelection at the
expiration of his present term, which
ends March 8, 1927. His strong anti
Ku kluX stand before the Democratic
convention last June and July at New
York created a strong back-flre of sen
timent against his return among GER
tain elements at home.
Thompson Mentioned.
The name of Frederic 1. Thompson,
Shipping Board commissioner repre-
senting the Gulf States, was put for
ward, and Thompson is regarded as
a; likely candidate because of his ex-
perience of affairs at Washington and
the backing of four of the largest
daily newspapers of Alabama, which
he owns or controls. However, Thomp-
son has given no indication of a deci-
sion. 1t has been accepted for quite
a while that he would retire from the
Shipping Board, as he has been forced
into a minority in his fight to keep
the maximum number of Government
owned vessels in regular service.
Others who may be candidates
against Senator Underwood are E. T.
Continued on Page 2, Column II
Evening star., 1925-05-15
Early Probe Seen.

Assistant Prohibition Commissioner
Jones said the Government had had
so much difficulty in enforcing pro
hibition in connection with the use of
sacramental wines that it had had TO
resort to a check-up of the member
ships of certain Jewish synagogues in
other cities. Under this general pol
icy. he said, the Government probably
would go ahead shortly" with it's in
vestigation into the wine lists of Mr.
Kaitlin and the membership of the
synagogue of which he was a member
Mr.. kaitlin, Rabbi Loeb explained,
is not a Jewish rabbi, but had been
designated by the congregation to
handle the sacramental wine, which
under the prohibition law. Jewish peo-
pie are allowed to have for sacra-
mental purposes
Evening star., 1925-05-15
Luckett Leads Raid.

Mr.. kaitlin was arrested last night
at his home by prohibition agents un-
der the leadership Of Harry NJ. Luck
EFT, chief of general prohibition agents,
after Kaitlin. according TO Mr.. Luck
EFT, had sold the last inStallment of IA
gallons of sacramental wine to an
Continued on Page 5, Column p
Evening star., 1925-05-15
SYNAGOGUEW WINE
CASEF|GHTL LOOMS
Congregation Backs KaitIin,
Arrested Here as Dry
Violation.

The sacramental wine issue. which
has disturbed many sections of the
United States and resulted in wide
difference of opinion among religious
leaders, particularly those of the Jew
ish faith, has been precipitated into
Washington, with prospects of a stiff
fight between the Government and the
defendant. Semuil kaitlin, 64 years
of age, of Ohev Sholom Synagogue,
who was arrested last night at his
home, 1404 Fifth street northwest
charged with illegal sale of sacra-
mental wine.
While Rabbi J. T. Loeb of Ohev
Sholom Synagogue today stoutly pro-
tested Mr.. Kaitlin was entirely inno-
cent of violating the law and the
congregation would fight to get back
possession of the S5l quarts of wine
seized at Kaitlin's home, the Gov.
ernment moved ahead not only toward
the prosecution of the defendant, but
also toward investigation of the syna-
gOgue
Evening star., 1925-05-15
i. s. TO THROW RUM
BLOCKADE TO GULF
ANDNORTHB BORDER
Success Off Atlantic Leads
to Plans to Extend War
on Liquor SmuggIers.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW TORK. May 15.-With the
efficacy of the Atlantic rum row
blockade demonstrated, Federal pro
hibition officials are laying plans to
guard the Gulf of Mexico, the Missis-
sippi River and the Canadian border
more carefully than ever.
The one weak spot in the great
drive against liquor smuggling is ad-
mitted TO be the Pacific coast. OFF
southern California particularly rum
runners are doing a good business
Two large steamers dropped anchor
about 30 miles from San Pedro yes
terday. making five rum vessels in
that vicinity. Whisky is reported to
he as cheap as S45 a case in Los An
geles. Prohibition officials are hope
full of stopping this leak.
Twelve Ships Leave Row.
sNewY Yerssis rum row continues to
dwindle. Coast Guard officials report
that - schooners hauled anchor yes
terday, leaving only two schooners
and two steamers. At jackson, Miss,
z. c. Yellowley, prohibition field agent,
indicated that extensive plans were
afoot for a rum blockade. in which
100 dry speed boats on the Mississippi
will be utilized.
The seizure of $4,000 worth of
champagne. liquor and candy filled
with cordials on the Belgian steamer
Mercier at New York yesterday in
dicated that customs officials were
closely watching the crews of foreign
ships to forestall any attempt on their
part to defeat the blockade. No one
claimed the beverages and no arrests
Evening star., 1925-05-15
FORD OFFER BARES
NEW SHIP POLICY
Administration Declared Bent
on Getting Rid of Burden
of Cost of Fleet. -
.4rDAVID LAWRENCE

The beginning of the end of Gov
ernment ownership of shipping is in
sight.
The negotiations between Chairman
OConnor and Henry Ford, out of
which the latter might obtain 400
ships and scrap them, are resented by
other members of the Board The
action of the chairman, however, was
not of his own initiative. He acted
with full knowledge of the admins
tration and in pursuance of a policy
which is gradually coming TO the
surface. namely, TO get rid of the
ships, either by sale or scrapping.
The cost of maintenance is visual
lied by the administration as a drain
in these days of rigid economy. A
subsidy plan having been defeated,
the Government is inclined to turn
the ships over to private owners at
rates low enough for them to oper-
ate.
Two objections to this course are
expressed by minority members of
the Shipping Board. One is that the
surplus of shipping is an insurance
against excessive freight rates on the
ocean, and the other is that American
merchant ships will slowly but surely
fall into the hands of foreign ship
ping corporations If ever turned loose
by the American Government. Thus
the auxiliary in time of war would be
diminished and a new fleet made
necessary.
Evening star., 1925-05-15
Insurance As Burden.

The whole thing in a nutshell is
whether the United States Govern
ment can afford TO take the view
that cost of twenty million
dollars a year-the present appro-
priation-for maintenance and oper-
alton of the existing fleet is good in
surance TO pay for the future of
national defense, or whether il is an
unnecessary burden.
The private owners who endeavored
to get hold of the Government fleet
under the Harding administration
found themselves balked time and
again because the Shipping Board in
sisted on guarantees that once the
ships We're sold certain routes would
required real cash to back up any
patton in profits, or deferred pay
ments out of expected profits under
private ownership.
1t begins to look now as if the
policy of the past is slowly being
broken down and that the fleet will
pass out of Government hands with
in the next few months. so that the
Shipping Board will really be de-
prived of job. Already there is talk
of cutting down the board to a COM
mission of three, to consist of cabinet
members, SO that the whole thing
Will be in the control of the EXecu-
tive. 1t has always been contended
heretofore that when the ships were
turned over to private owners the
Shipping Board will remain as a sort
Continued on Page g. Column 81
Evening star., 1925-05-15
WEATHER.

(U. s. Weather Bureau Forecast)
Fair tonight; tomorrow increasing
Cloudiness with rising temperature.
Temperatures: Highest, II, at
pm. yesterday; lowest, 50, at am.
today.
Full report on page Z.
Evening star., 1925-05-15
From Press to Home
Wihin the Hour

The Stars carrier system covers
every city block and the regular edi-
tion is delivered to Washington homes
as fast as the papers are printed
Evening star., 1925-05-15

Continued on Page 3. Column 81
The Coconino sun., 1925-07-03
WHY LAW LOSES IT'S GRIP

Are YOU a Iawbreaker? Of course you are! How
could you hope to obey all the laws passed by your
city, your state, and your national congress Ii
you should employ the most able lawyer IN the
land to guide you he could not read fast enough
to keep informed as to the new legislation and
multiplicity of court decisions.
One legislature in the west recently sent more
than 1000 bills to the governor. Fortunately Tor
the people of his state he vetoed many OF them.
Flihu Root recognized as one of the world S
most brilliant attorneys, said recently that $4,000
statutes had been passed by congress during a
brief period and that an equal number OF court
decisions had been made while at the same time
all the states in the union were grinding out new
laws.
Since we can't even hope to know what all the
laws are it follows that we must violate many OF
them And since we can not have respect Tor
such a system are we not gradually reaching a
state of mind where we will use our own dlscre-
tion and be our own judges of what is proper and
what is wrong?
The fact that a thing is law no longer inn
presses us. The man who Graves a drink and can
get it feels no moral restraint. Tell him that he
is a awbreaker and he will laugh and cite In
stances to prove that you, too, are a laWbreaker
man who pfides himself on his good citizen.
ship does not feel guilty when he breaks the
motor speed law on the highway. So
long as he doesn't feel that he is endangering the
lives of others he does as he pleaSeS Why! Sim
ply because law itself has no appeal for him. He
knows he cannot obey all the laws so he Will use
his own judgment as to what is right and wrong.
How can he be expected to have respect for the
statutes when so much foolishness is displayed
and when the thing is grossly overdone?
No one can seriously claim that Justice is pos
sibe when the lawyers and the Judges do not
know what it is all about.
IL we could elect national congress with suf-
ficient intelligence to wipe the slate clean and
draft few statutes written in plain language
and could get the states to follow suit, we might
hope to restore respect for law and curb the spirit
of anarchy that is steadily being fostered in all
of us-July Sunset.
The Coconino sun., 1925-07-03
BORN FOR JOB

Senator Goophus' six-monthsAold
son started bowling at six o'clock in
the morning. At ten p. m. he wax
going strong. At midnight the storm
subsidized temporarily, but as the sena-
tor and Mrs. Goophus tiptoed out of
the nursery, the bowling broke forth
with renewed vigor It continued
more or less vigorously until six
o'clock the following morning, when
Goophus Jr.. fell asleep.
Blear-eyed and haggard the sena
tor turned to his wife, Maria" he
said proudly, "our sons future is as
sured He is going to be a United
States senator. He has just conducted
his first filibuster, most successfully"
The Coconino sun., 1925-07-03
'FowEL REToRT FROM A YOUNG ROOSTER

Every now and then The Citizen feels constrain-
ed to defend Tucson and it's institutions against
newspaper attacks inspired by the jealousy OF less
fortunate cities. We are now accused by the Co
cocino Sun of being possessed of an overlapping
ambition citing as evidence that plain, black
Minorca hen, weighing seven pounds and living
around the city pumping plant down there at
tempted to lay an egg weighing three pounds and
three ounces and died in the attempt"
Instead of praising the hen for it's glorious at
tempt The Sun draws moral which, If regarded
by the barnyard public, would make it unlikely
that eggs will ever be larger than they are now.
It says Nov if the hen had been contented to
lay three or four smaller eggs each day she might
have been tired in the evening after her day S
work but she would have attracted much COM
ment among her neighbors and still be living to
tell them the secret of her success
Any hen can lay small egg, but it is nothing
to cackle about. The hen that can lay three
pound egg will achieve everlasting fame, and we
are proud of the fact that it was a Tucson hen
that essayed the task. It was but another mani
festation of the Tucson spirit, to do something
bigger than any other city has DONE and though
the Minorca failed, there are hundreds OF thou
sands Of other hens in this growing poultry dis
trict that are not dsheartened Had Orvllle and
Wilbur Wright ceased experimenting when their
first airpane failed to fly, we should not now nave
airplanes carrying our mail.
There is a demand for three-pound egg ana
ultimately it will be produced. We do not con-
ceal our belief that it will be Tucson hen that
will do it. We confidently expect that the day is
not far distant when Americans, ordering their
traditional breakfast, will order "a slice of Tucson
fepg over and when an entire family will feast on
a single Tucson egg. -.
But there are other possibilities for the utiliza-
ftion of the pound egg. We have never seen
an egg. no matter how large or how bad, that was
equal to the task of conveying the full measure OF
our regard for the actor who laughs at his own
Jokes SO much that he can not finish his lines A
fthree-pound egg could express Volumes for as the
poet says:
L Oh the language of eggs, that tell
What words could never speak SO we'll!
Tucson Citizen
One can readily see that this young rooster
hasn't been out of the shell long or he would not
subscribe to the "get-rich-quick- ll-in-one- shot
idea. Many bandits try that scheme and fall
Now, instead of eating half pound slab of an at
tempted Tucson egg, if all hens tried the 3-pound-
/ egg laying stunt there would be no eggs.
Then the most fatal part of the foolish hens at
tempt to gain fame all in one setting, was that hel
owner murdered her for the attempt
| The moral Isl "No hen should try to be ar
ostrich
Just lately an ape was found monkeyfng arouno
Tucson loose and widely advertised. We don't see
ANYTHING odd about that down that way but we
are not going to discuss it unless more freaks turn
I Qp there soon.
The Coconino sun., 1925-07-03
"THE SPIRIT OF '49"

When we think Of the Lord Chesterfield of the
Arizona press letting his whiskers sprout on his
face neck and ears, so that he can truly qualify
as a pioneer of 49, one of them Covered Wagon
chaps, we can hardly resist jumping the job and
going to Flagstaff, July fourth, just to see Fred
Breen and his whiskers, if nothing more.-TomD-
stone Epitaph.
No. We wish to advise this villainous young
Ciragi editor that we are far more patriotic than
that in our efforts to forward the interests of our
community There is a shortage of water here at
this time, consequently we have agreed to forego
a bath until after the fourth. Thus save water
and at the same time perfume the local atmos-
phere in equal decadence with those OF the mat
tressed faces. In other words we are willing to
freely offer our incense to the occasion while the
rest of the gang are offering only scenery.
The Coconino sun., 1925-07-03
A WRONG IDEA

LaFollette's son will seek the seat in the senate
made vacant by the death of his father While
not knowing whether Young LaFollette is capa-
BILE or not, we are inclined to think the sym
pathy" idea of representation smacks whole lot
of the royal idea of succession. Our system OF
government is supposed to be based on represen-
tative idea, the representative being selected be
cause of his fitness and ability to represent the
people A good deal of mawkish sentiment has
grown up in the past few years tending toward
monarchy. Because a man has made good name
as representative of his people it is sign that
the office he held should remain in the family,
peddled out to wife, son, daughter, the hired man
or the hired girl.
The Coconino sun., 1925-07-03
FOREWARNED

The late Lew Dockstader Of min
stre1 fame was opposed to censorships,
and in an after-dinner speech in New
York he once said:
"The scantiness and transparency
of the new fashions has caused a de-
mand for censor of girls clothes.
But a censor's task, gentlemen, is to
cut out, to eliminate, to subtract
never to add
"If then, gentlemen, the dress of
our girls is a moral menace now, and
we put a censor on it with his shears
oh, N.Y."
The Coconino sun., 1925-07-03
SWINDIED

Doris Atkinson, little daughter Of
the Cahuenga Pass demon, sidled to
her mother the other day and said:
Virginia told me babies came from
heaven. Is that the truth 2"
"Well," said Blanche, smiling, "that
is what always was told.'
"Then it's all right" declared Doris.
whats all right, dear?o
'I can see why baby cries all the
time. He wants to go back where he
came from"
The Coconino sun., 1925-07-03
THEY Do THE TOURIST

Novelist Peter B. Kyne was de-
scribing at a dinner party in New
York, his recent tour Of the world
When he came to Samoa a woman
asked:
"What do the natives Of Samoa do
for a living, Mr. Kyne.?"
"Oh," the novelist answered, "They
sell coconuts and birds of paradise, and
Robert Louis Stevenson's inkwell."