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Evening star., 1928-12-01
GENERAL CORRUPTION SEEN.
Majority of Customs Border Patrol De-
clared Implicated.


DETROIT, December / P.-John
r. Watkins, United States district at
torney, today said statements made by
some of the IA customs border patrol
inspectors arrested yesterday on war;
rants charging conspiracy to assist
liquor smuggling and with accepting
bribes" implicated most of the remain
ing 112 members of the patrol.
From the statement Of these men it
appears that the entire patrol is honey
cornbed with corruption and money
taking" Mr.. Watkins said.
Twelve Of the inspectors spent last
night in the county jail after intensive
individual questioning by Elmer J..
Lewis, head of squad of eight special
customs agents from Washington. One
man pleaded guilty and was ordered
held to the grand jury on $2,500 bond.
Three pleaded not guilty and two of
these we're released on bond. Ten of
the men are to appear before the grand
jury today.
It was said that at least 40 rum
runners and bootleggers may be charged
with conspiracy in connection with the
investigation and members of the
patrol who have resigned or been dis
missed because of suspicion during the
past year may be indicted as result of
disclosures made since Friday morning.
Evening star., 1928-12-01
DEAD MAN FOUND
AT AUTO WHEEL
Note and Bottle of Poison Explain
Suicide Blamed on Thinking
by D. E. Earl.

With a note and bottle of poison
beside him, man identified as Dom
aid E. Earl, 26 years old. of the 900
block Twentieth street, was discovered
dead at the wheel of his automobile
on Eighth street between H and
streets, at noon today.
Two women passing noticed him and
realizing he was unconscious, notified
police. The body was taken to the
morgue.
The note, written in ink on a piece
of torn letter paper, read as follows:
This has been running on for
months. I can ward it off no longer.
have lost all sense of proportion,
right or wrong. So many factors have
entered that I would not begin to
enumerate them. Thinking, thinking,
thinking-it has driven me wild"
The man had passes in his pockets
to the Department of Commerce Build
ing, the Patent Office and the State,
War and Navy Building. He also had
in his pockets a list of the latest en-
trants who passed the bar examinations
in the District,
Evening star., 1928-12-01
FOUR TAKE PRISON
RATHER THAN TALK
Offered Chance to Tell Who
Employers Were in Gam
bling Cases.

Refusing to "welch" on the names of
their employers and to tell the proba-
ton officer all they knew about gamb-
ling in the District, John A. Mahoney,
Albert j. Lowry, Ralph A. Holland and
Frank A. Stevens were each sentenced
today to three years in the penitentiary
for maintaing a place where bets on
horse racing could be placed and where
blackjack was played, at 212 Ninth
street. The men had not taken the stand
at their trial and had been convicted
on eight counts of an Indictment charg-
ing the setting up of a gaming table.
The prosecution was conducted by
AsSistaat4 United States Attorney VII.
liam H. Collins.
Attorney E. Russell Kelly for the pris-
oners had told how the families of some
of the men are in desperate circum-
stances and had asked the court to re-
fer the cases to Probation Officer Steele
for investigation.
Offers Chance to Tell.
IF all or any one of you men will
go before the probation officer and
turn yourselves inside OUT telling him
all you know about gambling" said
Chief Justice Mccoy, II will be willing
to give you that chance without prom
Using that will place you on proba-
ton"
All four men stood mute for a mo-
ment until Stevens declared he did not
understand the courts offer. The chief
justice repeated the proposition, but
Stevens only told of his seven children,
of whom, he said, he was striving to
make good citizens, and made no move
to accept the proposition of the court.
Sees Clerks Victimized.
IT understand said Chief Justice
Mccoy that some of these men were
paid $25 day or about $1,000 annually.
Where did this money come from If not
from Government clerks and small
salaried persons who had no chance in
these gambling houses? I suppose there
would be no law against gambling if the
games were not crooked. The public
has some rights in this matter and vio-
lators of the law must take the conse-
quences."
Nick Keart. 719 Ninth street, convict
ed of a similar charge, but who took
the stand and denied he was running
a place at that number, was sent to
the penitentiary for four years. All five
men noted appeals to the Court of
Appeals, but Chief Justice Mccoy de-
clined to let them out on bond pending
decision of the Appellate Court.
Evening star., 1928-12-01
VOTING CHECK PLANNED
IN VARE-WILSON CASE
Registration Lists Will Be Com
pared With Balloting in Six
Disputed Coun ties.

By the Associated Press.
The Senate committee investigating
the Vare-Wilson senatorial contest in
Pennsylvania decided today to check
registration lists with voters lists in the
six disputed counties.
Such a check is expected to consume
considerable time and doubt was eX-
pressed by Chairman Waterman whether
the committee would be able to report
on the contest within the short session
of Congress opening Monday.
The committee also has instructed
counsel for William B. Wilson, the DEM
ocratic opponent of Senator-elect Ware,
to classify their protest, and this is
expected to require additional time also.
Meanwhile the special investigating
committee of 1925, headed by Senator
Reed, Democrat, of Missouri, is pre-
pairing a report on its charges against
Senator Ware of excessive expenditures
in the primary campaign.
Evening star., 1928-12-01
SEVEN ARE RESCUED
WHEN TUG is SUNK
Everett, Wash, Harbor Lashed by
Gale, With Small Craft
Hardest Hit.
Rv the Associated pres.

BY the Associated Press.
EVERETT, Wash, December L.
Seven men we're rescued from the
storm-tossed waters of Puget Sound
last night after a gale, which tore
through Everett and Mukilteo, had sunk
their tugboat Bay Island and llarassed
small craft in the harbor here.
Although the United States Weather
Bureau reported that the storm was
centered in British Columbia and was
reaching out over Washington today. a
small area around Everett apparently
was the only section to suffer. The
storm was moving in an eaSterly direc-
tion.
The tugboat was the only sizeable
powered craft known to have been a
victim OF the storm. When it sank
suddenly the seven men comprising its
crew were left clinging to a dolphin for
more than an hour before they were
lifted from the cold waters by the tug
Elmore. They were brought here, ap-
parently suffering little from exposure.
Scows torn from their moorings and
disrupted log booms were scattered
about the sound, while small boats were
battered on the beach. A corps of tugs
spent the night rounding up the logs
and Scows. A Sunken scow blocked a
ferry landing and other ScowS hemmed
in the Pacific Tugboat Co.'s wharf.
A 75-foot smokeStack was blown down
here and other nominal losses were re-
ported In the vicinity.
Evening star., 1928-12-01
CROATIAN FETE DAY
MARKED BY VIOLENCE
Anniversary of Union Ignored by
Zagreb People. Save for Pro-
| testing Gesture.
BY the Associated Press.

BELGRADE, Jugoslavia, December /.
One person was killed and a police
man seriously injured today during vi
olent scenes at Zagreb which occurred
during the celebration of the tenth an
niversary of the union of the Serbs,
Croats and Slovenes While official rep
resentatives were proceeding to church
to celebrate the union, three huge
nags were displayed on the cathedral.
Police forcibly entered the edifice and
tore down the flags. This act was fol-
lowed by violent scenes.
The people of Zagreb refused to cele-
brate the holiday because of the murder
of Croatian leaders in the Parliament
at Belgrade last June. Papers there
barely mentioned the fact that today
was the tenth anniversary of the union.
In Belgrade, however, the streets
were bedecked with flags and crowded
with happy throngs. Great professions
of Sokols (athletic organizations) i,
Scouts and other Nationalist organiza-
tions passed through the streets to at
tend a service of Thanksgiving in the
Cathedral.
All Belgrade papers published special
editions giving the history of the union
and an account of the progress made
during the last 10 years.
Evening star., 1928-12-01
Senator Burton
To Serve in House
10 Days of Term

For the first 10 days of the
short session of Congress, Sen
ator-elect Theodore E. Burton,
Republican, of Ohio, will continue
to serve as a Representative in
the House, moving over to the
Senate December Is to fill the
seat of the late Senator Willis.
Senator Cyrus K. Locher,
Democrat, who was appointed by
Gov. Donahey of Ohio to occupy
the Willis seat pending an elec-
ton, will continue to serve in the
Senate until December IA. It was
explained at the Capitol that
under the law in Ohio, a Sena-
tor-elect chosen to finish an un-
expired term does not begin serv-
ice until December Is following
the election.
Evening star., 1928-12-01
NEW SMITH TRIAL
PLEA CONSIDERED
Chief Justice Mccoy Takes
Motion of Defense Attorney
Under Amusement.

Chief Justice Walter l. Mccoy today
took under advisement the motion for
a new trial on behalf of Franklin E.
Smith, 50-year-old bank watchman,
who killed his 19-year-old daughter,
Bessie L. Smith, September &c, at their
home, 1151 New Jersey avenue, by
strangling and smothering her to death.
Attorney E. Russell Kelly. appointed
by the court to defend the prisoner,
insisted on his plea for new trial on
the theory that the court in its charge
to the jury, failed to instruct on that
irresistible impulse or inability to choose
right from wrong, even though possessing
the ability to distinguish right from
wrong is a necessary element in the
plea of insanity. Assistant United
States Attorney William H. Collins op-
posed the granting of the motion.
II have my personal opinion on that
proposition of law" said the Chief JUS
tice, but am not sure that the Court
of Appeals has not settled the matter
for this Jurisdiction in some cases
where insanity was defined by that
tribunal. want to re-read these de-
cisions, so will take this motion under
advisement."
Evening star., 1928-12-01
FOUR GRID GAMES
HOLD L|MEL|GHT
GeorgetoWn-Detroit Battle
May Help Settle Cloudy
Title Claims.

Georgetown's foot ball team is figur-
ing in one of the four big grid battles
that are being staged in the country
today, the Blue and Gray meeting the
unbeaten University of Detroit eleven
in the city of automobiles. 1t was con-
sidered an even battle.
In the other three clashes that are
holding the limeligft, Army and STAN
ford are meeting in New York, Notre
Dame is on the Coast for a contest with
Southern California and Boston Col
lege, another undefeated eleven, is fac
ing Holy Cross in Boston.
These games should serve to clarity
the claims to the national title. Army
might establish itself by beating STAN
ford, Detroit would have fine claim if
it can dispose of Georgetown and Bos-
ton College would remain very much
in the running by defeating Holy Cross.
Southern California is the Pacific
Coast Conference champion, so that
Notre Dame has a grand chance to
spill the beans for the west coasters
and at the same time add to its pres
tige, although it is out of the title
chase.
Washington is interested in the
service game for the Presidents cup
which is being staged between the
Quantico Marines and the Newport Ma
val Training Station eleven at Grifith
stadium at o'clock. It not only
should be good foot ball game, but
should be colorful and highly enter
tanning from its other aspects.
Games listed today other than those
mentioned are:
Loyola VS.. DePaul at Chicago.
The Citodel VS.. Presbyterian at
Charleston, S. G..
Havana VS.. Howard at Havana, Cuba.
Clark VS.. Knoxville College at Atlanta.
Evening star., 1928-12-01
ALL CANADIAN RUM
DOCKS MAY Be SHUT
80 Windsor Piers Already
Closed in War on Liquor
Smuggling.
BY the Associated Press.

by Jne Associated Press.
TORONTO, Ontario, December L.
The closing of all export docks on the
Ontario border from which liquor is
being smuggled was forecast today by
Sir Henry Drayton, chairman of the
Ontario Liquor Control Board, who said
the closing of 80 Windsor docks yester-
day was the first step in the program.
The closing of the Windsor docks, he
said, followed a recommendation by
him to w. D. Euler, minister of ma
tional revenue, at recent conference
in Ottawa on runa-running activities
along the border. s..,sse
Dominion and provincial authorities
are cooperating In the program, al
though their motives are different. The
Dominion authorities, who were respon-
sible for the closing of the Windsor
docks, are seeking to prevent evasion
of the export duty on liquor, while the
liquor board is attempting to prevent
the re-entry into Canada of liquor os-
tensibly exported to the United States.
GENERAL. CORRTTpTTON SEEN
Evening star., 1928-12-01
SUZANNE ARRIVES INCOCNITO
PURPOSE OF VISIT A MYSTERY
Mrs. LengIen and Youth Deny
Her Presence on Ship
in New York.
Name Linked With That of
Baldwin Baldwin in Mar
riage Rumor.
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK. December IAN un-
heralded visit to the United States by
Suzanne Lenglen, tennis marvel of
France, provided material for a mystery
today.
With her mother and young An1eri-
can in a blue beret she landed incognito
last night from a transatlantic liner,
but why she came or whence she went
could not be learned In fact, her
mother insisted Suzanne wasn't even
here.
She is in France" said Lenglen mere
in French as she sat atop 81 pieces of
luggage waiting for the customs inspec-
ton, she did not come on the steamer" +"
mo speak English" said the young
man in the beret in the best California
accent.
Those who know a temperamental
French tennis star when they see one,
however, insist that Mile. Lenglen was
aboard the Conte Biancamano when
Evening star., 1928-12-01
President Elect Starts Run
of 8 Hours to GuayaquiI.
viii Stay Overnight.
MAY MEET BOLIVIAN
DELEGATION IN CHILE
Leaves Tomorrow for Callao, Peru,
Second Port of Call in
South America.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
y. S. S. CLEVELAND, OFF GUAYA-
QU1L, Ecuador, December 1.-Presi.
denU-elect Hoover and his party were
transferred from the U. S. S. Maryland
to the cruiser Cleveland this morning
and the Cleveland Immediately began
her eight-hour run across the road
stead and up the river to Guayaquil
the principal port of Ecuador.
1nasmuch as the Maryland could not
go close enough to the coast to send the
party ashore in small boats, the Cleve-
land had been summoned from Central
American waters so that Mr.. Hoover
might land on Ecuadorian soil, his first
stopping place in South America on
his good will tour.
The Maryland arrived at her Ecua-
dorean anchorage at 5 o'clock this
morning and the transfer of the Hoo
yer party to the Cleveland was COM
pleted safely at $40 am, the cruiser
Immediately starting on her run to
Guayaqui.
Will Remain at Hotel.
Mr.. Hoover and members of his party
were to be guests of the Ecuadorean
president at dinner. Mrs. Hoover was
to return to the Cleveland for the night,
but others of the party intended to re-
main ashore at hotel.
Sunday the President-elect and his
party are to board the Cleveland for
the trip back to the Maryland and
anchor will be weighed late in the day
for Callao, Peru, the next port of call.
From Callao the PreSident-elect will go
to Lima, the capital city, to be greeted
and entertained by President LegIia.
Ecuador, the country selected for the
first stop in South America on the good
will tour, has population estimated at
million and half, with cocoa as the
principal product.
49, May Meet BoIivians.
Time limitations will not permit the
President-elect to visit Bolivia, but
nevertheless he may be greeted by For
eign Minister Palaccio and other cabinet
members. The Maryland is expected to
stop for that purpose at some Chilean
port between africa and Valparaiso.
since Mr.. Hoover has received numerous
messages from Bolivian officials suggest
ing that they would like to greet the
President-elect of the United States and
would do so at any convenient port he
might select.
After the gentle ministrations of King
Neptune's court on crossing the Equator
many of the Hoover party are some
what stiff and sore. All. however, will
keep vivid memories of the experience.
Maryland's equatorial veterans outdid
themselves In their initiation, knowing
that Mr.. Hoover would be spectator.
Associates of the President-elect say
he declared that never in his IA pre-
vious passages of the Equator had he
seen better "Neptuning,'
Evening star., 1928-12-01

the liner docked, and that she left i'm
mediately for parts unknown.
The young man, it was discovered,
was Thaddeus Winters of Pasadena,
Calf, and there are reports that the
home of Mrs. T. A. Winters in Pasadena
is, Suzanne's ultimate destination. She
visited California on her professional
tour of this country in 1926. Her bag
bage was consigned to the Savoy Plaza.
but the conspiracy of silence held sway
there, too, and if she was there she kept
to her room
Neither Suzanne's name nor her
mothers was on the passenger list of
the Italian liner, and the lines officers
refused to discuss the matter.
The relations of Winters with the
Lenglens was not disclosed. Her name
has been linked in marriage gossip with
Continued on Page 2, Column 81
Evening star., 1928-12-01
Polish Marriages Dwindle With Girls
Waiting for Deletion of Obey Pledge

rite will be introduced beginning with
January /, 1929.
One change concerns the marriage
oath, which has not been the same for
men and women. The bridegroom prom
ised ''love, faithfulness and marital
fidelity" while the bride had to promise
love, faithfulness and obedience" Un-
der the new rite the marriage oath will
be the same for both parties
Therefore many girls decided to wait
until January for their weddings. The
prospective bridegrooms were in many
cases greatly aroused by their decision,
and number of marriages in Warsaw
have been entirely broken up because the
men would not give up the idea of being
married under the old rite with obey
included.
Evening star., 1928-12-01
Ry the Associated Press.

BY the ASsocIaJeu FFeSs.
WARSAW, Poland, December L.
The number of marriages has greatly
diminished during the last month, since
most Polish girls decided to postpone
their weddings until January in order
not to have to promise obedience to
their husbands.
From 1914 the Roman Catholic
Church of Poland observed the rite ap-
proved for that country by Pope Paul
y. In 192O-that is, almost Immediately
after the re-establishment of the inde-
pendence of Poland-tfle Polish bishops
found it necessary to introduce certain
changes into the rite and addressed the
Pope with such propose The Pope
approved of the proposal and the new
Evening star., 1928-12-01
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Any complaint will be
~ Immediately investigated.
Evening star., 1928-12-01
ONE KNOWN DROWNED
AS CAR DIVES IN LAGOON
Traffic in Chicago Park Tied Up
When Auto Plunges
Of Bridge.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, December AT least one
person was drowned In Lincoln Park
lagoon last night when Herman Reeds
automobile, to avoid collision, crashed
through bridge rail and plunged into
the water.
No bodies were recovered, but wit
neSses said there were four or five men
in Reeds car.
Traffic through the park, whose
tl1oroughfares, offer the principal out
let's from the loop to the North Side, was
held up for several hours. Thousands
crowded the banks of the lagoon watch
ing efforts to recover bodies.
Evening star., 1928-12-01
FLYERS Brought to Safety.

PHILADELPHIA. December / R.-
The Norwegian tanker Madrono arrived
here today with Charles M. Sellick,
Clarence Suder and William Simpson,
all of West Palm Beach, who were
picked up from a disabled airplane 80
miles off Jupiter Light, Florida, last
Monday.
Evening star., 1928-12-01
U. S. Flyer Leaves Havana.

HAVANA, Cuba, December / R.-
Leonard S. Flo, American aviator, who
flew here from Walkerville, Ontario, in
two hops. instead of nonstop as he
had hoped, said last night that he
would take off at 3:45 pm. today for
Key West. He plansato remain there
over night and to reach Jacksonville
Sunday.
Evening star., 1928-12-01
GAS FLAMES CONQUERED. .
Men Use Asbestos Suits to Ex-
tinguish 21-Day Well Blaze.

tinguish 21-Day Well Blaze.
LOS ANGELES, December l R.-
Three men in asbestos suits, aided by
cooling blasts from Hollywood movie
wind machines and streams from fire
hoses, yesterday turned a lever which
shut off the Santa F'e springs gas well
fire which had burned for 81 days.
The damage to this we'll and loss
incurred in the shutdown of nearby
wells, was placed at more than 81 ,O0O,-
OO0 Three days before the gasser
caught fire another gas we'll blaze in
this field had been eXtinguished after
al days of effort.
Today other men tugged at the end
Of 30-foot lever attached to the valve,
but they were unable to move it until
the three volunteers protected by their
asbestos garments, penetrated to the
very center of the heat zone.
AS they turned the lever, the long
flame, which had burned in the night
like a giant candle, began to flicker.
Then it was snuffed out. And the fight
waged day and night for three weeks
was won.
Evening star., 1928-12-01
FRANCE PLANS ACTION.
Will Seek to Prevent Further Pc.
litica1 Sayings by Foreigners.

PARIS, December CP-Decision
that France would take the most active
measures to prevent further political
assasisnations on French soil was
reached by the council Of ministers to-
day.
The announcement was made after a
bag discussion during which the pres
ant agitation in Italy over the case OF
Verge di Modugno, who shot and killed
Count Carlo Mardini, italian vice con-
sui. in 1927 was mentioned. Modugno
was sentenced on Wednesday to two
years Imprisonment. 1t was believed
that there would be further deporta-
ton of suspected foreigners and tight
eninz UP Of police supervision.
Evening star., 1928-12-01
C. U. FRESHMEN WIN.

Defeat Emerson Institute, 40 to o,
at Brookland Stadium.
Catholic University freshmen routed
Emerson Institute, 48 to 0, in their foot
ball game this morning in the stadium
at Brookland. It was the final game of
the season for the Cardinal yearlings,
who in six starts have not been scored
upon.
Johnny Oliver and Carl De Mello,
halfbacks, led the field attack, each
scoring two touchdowns The high spot
was an 80-yard run by Oliver to
touchdown on the kickoff.
Evening star., 1928-12-01
AMERICAN STUDENT DIES.
George r. Robinson Found Asphyx-
lated in Cambridge Room.

lated in Cambridge Room.
LONDON, December / CP.-George
Ronald Robinson, a law student of
Downing College, Cambridge, said to
be an American, was found dead in his
lodgings today. Police stated that the
gas jet in his room was turned on
Robinson's death is the second among
American University students in Eng
land in the past two days, Robert David
Cohen, whose parents live in San Fran
cisco, being found dead beneath the
window of his residence at oxford yes
terday.
Evening star., 1928-12-01
TWO FISHERMEN MISSING.
Plane Seeks Men When Boat Is
Found Sunk Off Florida.

CLEARWATER, Fla, December (E).
An airplane and dozens of small boats
we're engaged today in search of har-
Dor and Gulf waters for Herbert We'll
Ter, 28, of Clearwater, and D. B. VIII
liams. st. Petersburg, painter, who have
not been seen since they left in a
small boat early yesterday on a crab
bing expedition.
The 10-foot boat in which the men
set out for their fishing cruise was
found late yesterday sunk in the chan
mel off Hog Island.
Evening star., 1928-12-01
''FrOna Press to Home
Within the Hour"

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., 1928-12-01
WEATHER.

%. s. Weather Bureau Forecsst)
Cloudy and somewhat colder tonight,
possibly light rain; lowest temperature
about 38 degrees; tomorrow cloudy.
Temperatures: Highest, so, at 10 pm.
yesterday: lowest, As, at 7:35 am. today.
Full report on page 8.