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Evening star., 1928-12-28
SHIPPING BOARDS
MOVE is ASSA|LED
Cunard Line Official Charges
Restriction of Trade in As
signment of Fighting Ship"
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December 28.-Robert
H. Blake, associate director of the
Cunard Line, has written T. v. O'Con-
nor, chairman of the United States
Shipping Board, saying that the action
of the board in assigning the liner
President Roosevelt to the Ward Line
for competition against Cunard serv-
ice to Havana is an illegal act, forbid
den by the shipping act of 1910.
The Cunarder Caronia sailed from
New York to Havana yesterday Its
rates were higher than those of the
Ward Line. The President Roosevelt
sails on its first voyage for the Ward
Line in about a week, and from then on
will sail from the same ports on the
same dates that the Caronia departs.
Charges Trade Restriction.
The ALLEGATION to the Ward Line OF
| the President Roosevelt, said Blake s
| letter, made public today, lis an at
tempt to restrict foreign steamship com
| panies from freely trading between
| two countries. There have been and
there are laws restricting other coun-
tries from competing in coastwise trade
! but never before have there been re-
strictions against international trade.
Blake quoted O'Connor as having re-
| ferred in a telephone conversation be-
tween them to the President Roosevelt
as fighting ship" and then referred
to the shipping act clause prohibiting
use of "a fighting ship, either separate.
ly or in conjunction with any other
carrier, through agreement or other.
wise. The term fighting ship in thi:
act means vessel used in a particular
trade by carrier or group of carrier.
for the purpose of excluding, preventing
or reducing competition by driving
another carrier out of said trade"
Threatens Court Action.
Blake's letter concluded: "Our proper
recourse in such circumstances as nov
confront us would naturally be to refe
the matter to your board, but as thu
ship involved is the boards vessel ant
is put into the trade on the terms abov
described by the board. We may find
necessary, If we are damaged to an.
! appreciable extent II appeal to tn
: courts for syelse1.%@
Evening star., 1928-12-28
WARRANT CHARGES
MURDER OF RYON
Kreitzer Remains in Jail at
Upper Marlboro Following
Coroner's Inquest.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BOWIE, Md, December ga war
rant was to be served on Henry Kreit-
zer today in the Prince Georges County
Jail here charging him with first degree
murder in connection with the death OF
Melvin Ryon the night of December
18 last at Kreitzer's home, at Bowie.
County Policeman v. M. Nichols Sc
cured the warrant from Justice of the
Peace H. B. Kelbaugh shortly before
last midnight, after the coroner'S in
quest, which met in the fire house here.
had returned a verdict that Ryon was
shot by Kreitzer. Kreitzer will be given
a preliminary. hearing at Upper Marl-
boro probably tomorrow.
witnesses testified last night that 1t
was done so quickly they did not real
ize for a time it had occurred. Lyle
Simmons, Bernard Walker, Robert
Walker and Herbert Jones were present
when the shooting was done. Omcer
Nichols, who arrested Kreitzer, also
testified.
Flee Scene Of Tragedy.
After the shooting Simmons, the
Walker brothers and Jones fled from
the house, they testified.
n was said by the witnesses that
Kreitzer jokingly pointed the pistol at
Ryon when the latter said he did not
believe Kreitzer had the nerve to shoot.
He then fired. The bullet struck Ryon
in the forehead and he died almost IN
stantly.
Kreitzer was not present at the in
ouest, but he has stated that the shoot-
ing was accidental and that he did not
know the pistol was loaded.
Nichols testified that ne was ADVISED
of the shooting by Simmons and the
Walkers and went to the kreltzer
home Failing to find Kreitzer there:
he went to the business district OF
Bowie Here he met Jones, and while
he was talking to him Kreitzer drove
un in an automobile. He was put under
arrest by Nichols. who said that when
he asked Kreitzer why he shot Ryon.
he. said he did not know. Nichols said
that Kreitzer told him he put Ryon's
body in the latter's car, and had taken
it into the woods some distance from
Bowie. AT the place indicated he found
the body. t--
Pistol Fired in Field.
Jones, who had gone to Kreitzer'S
home to go to a show with Ryon and
Kreitzer. testified that KreitZer fired
his automatic pistol Sunday, before the
Shooting. in a cornfield. and that re-
turning home he pointed 1t at his wife.
Mrs Kreitzer had remarked, however.
that the pistol was empty. Jones said
that on Monday, the day before the
shooting. he and Kreitzer had gone TO
Baltimore and on the way home Kreit-
ger had observed that he had forgotten
to get bullets for his automatic ana
that he had no bullets for 1t.
Evening star., 1928-12-28
H. D. MANKIN EXPIRES.

Native Washingtonian, Aged II,
Succumbs After Lingering Illness.
Harry Dent Mankin, II years old
native Washingtonian and lifelong resi-
dent here, died at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. Thomas j. Sweeney, 3125
Northampton street, Chevy Chase, to-
day. He had been in failing health for
some time. Mr.. Mankin was clerk in
the electrical department of the Dis
trict until retired about three years
ago.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs
Katherine v. Mankin, and FIVE daugh-
ters, Mrs. Sweeney. Mrs. L. G. Bouscar-
en- and Mrs. John T. Elder of this city;
Mrs. Mable NJ Bouscaren of Louisville
KY, and Mrs. Frank H. Tower of Buff
falo, N. Y.
Funeral arrangements have not
heen. cenpleteds.~ '"'Aa-sS
Evening star., 1928-12-28
ARLINGTON zON|NG
ACTION IS URGED
Chamber of Commerce Di-
rectors Ask Appointment
of Personnel.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CLARENDON, Va, December 28.-
Early action by the supervisors of Ar
lington County, putting into motion
adequate machinery for zoning the
county, Is urged by directors of the Ar
lington County Chamber of Commerce
In g. resolution adopted at a meeting yes
terday.
The supervisors are asked to appoint
D zoning engineer and other personnel
to carry the work to a successful ccn-
clusion and to set aside $4,000 for use
Of the coming commission in getting the
project under way.
Clarence r. Ahalt, president of the
chamber, in speaking on the subject,
declared that while the act passed by
the General Assembly giving the county
authority to designate areas for the
segregation of industrial, commercial
and residential properties, has been on
the statute books % months, very little
has been done. He stated that there
was nothing more urgent for the future
prosperity of the county than imme-
date action looking to plan of zon-
ing.
GosneI Is Favored.
Appointment by the board of super
visors of Fred Gosnel as a member oi
the zoning commission to succeed Maj
E. w Cushing. resigned, was Endorsed
by the meeting.
The board went on record as ready
to lend it's full strength to the count!
in its fight to defeat the Alexandra
annexation suit. The secretary was in
structed to convey this action to Com
monwealth Attorney William G. Glotl
of counsel for the county in the suit
Two places on the board of directors
left vacant by the designations o
Charles F.. Kincheloe and Thomas J
Sebrell, were filled by the election o
Leon Arnold and Thomas j. Crack.
Committee Is Authorized.
APPOINTMENT of a special committe
TO arrange for the annual banquet o
the chamber, to be held in Washington
Lee High School the evening of Janu
ary %, was authorized. Officers of tn
chamber will be elected at that time
Members of the board arranged to at
tend in body the celebration tomor
row morning of the recent improve
r1ents and reopening of Lee Highwa
from RoSslyn to Cherrydale.
The committee of the chamber ar
ranging the celebration met yesterda
afternoon, with Robert I. Mount, resi-
dent engineer of the State Highwa
Commission, arranging for partial clos
ing of the highway during celebratio
exercises. 1t was decided to close tn
hiebway to traffic from Ruckcr avenu
to Thrifton road from 1870 am. I
1pm., making a detour by way of Viz
riria or Rucker avenues to Key boule
ward. left to EllerSon avenue and rigf
10 the Lee Highway.
Evening star., 1928-12-28
ssCow Tree Found
In Guatemala to
Yield Milk Supply
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, December %
Milk from contented trees"
might well be a slogan in
Guatemala.
Samuel j. Record. wood tech
nologist on the staff of the
Field Museum, has returned
from Central America, bring
ing a sample of milk and wood
from the Guatemalan cow tree.
The milk is palatable and
tastes and looks much like cows
milk. Record said dairy OF
cow trees would be practical.
He added, however, that the
tree might be used more profit
ably in the manufacture OF
chewing gum.
Evening star., 1928-12-28
600 Flu Cases In Lynchburg.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LYNCHBURG, Va, December a.
Six hundred cases of influenza in the
CITY is the estimate Of DR.. MoSby G.
Perrow, director Of the municipal de-
roartment of public welfare. There have
been II deaths thus far this month
from the malady. slightly more than
normal In the epidemic Of October,
1918, there were S,023 cases and 2A'
deaths. ina the geitys
Evening star., 1928-12-28
Masons Hold Annual Observance.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
STAUNTON, Va. December 28.-The
Masonic Staunton Lodge. No. 13, A. F.
and A. NJ, began festivities last night
in celebration Of st. John the Divine
day. Addresses were made by Grand
Master william Lee Davis of Ports
mouth, Grand Lecturer John Cochran
OF the State Grand Royal Chapter and
James II. Price. past grand master. Of
hsslodee;offR Riehnacg,ae
Evening star., 1928-12-28
Former Councilman Dies.
.cial pispatch to The Star

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LYNCHBURG, Va, December %
John l.. Baber, 73 years of age, re-
formerly a member of the Lynchburg
City Council and a lifelong Baptist
died yesterday at his home here OF
bronchial pneumonia. Funeral services
w4ll keshe6 ct the home 4on1orroN s1N-'
Evening star., 1928-12-28
TWO GIRLS KILLED
IN CROSSING CRASH
Train Hits Auto Near boswell, Va.
Two Other Occupants Escap-
ing With Shake-up.
BY the Associated Press.

BOSWELL. Va, December 28.-
Jessie May Nuckols, IA years old, of
Longdale, and Pearl Blunt, IA, of near
boswell. were almost instantly killed
when the automobile in which they
were riding was in collision with a
Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac
passenger train. at a grade crossing
near here yesterday.
Two other young women, occupants
of the automobile, whose names could
not be learned, were shaken up.
Evening star., 1928-12-28
PRACTICE is BLOCKED.
Chicago Board Of Trade Members
to Miss Annual Fun,

CHICAGO, December 28 R.-For
once Chicago Board of Trade members
are to miss their year-end traditional
fun of filling the air on December 81
with flying samples of grain and -four.
Owing to the fact that the board is
housed in crowded temporary quarters
while the new Board of Trade Building
is under construction, the throwing of
sample bags has been prohibited as dam
gerouS.
Evening star., 1928-12-28
Historic Churches

. quite abundant in Washington. Many American
notables in years past attended Divine Worship in
churches that are being religious services today
you these churches rich with historic as
sociations. are located? ~t't -@-f
You learn all these facts and much other valuable
information in regard to the religious activities in Wash
ngton by reading the church pages in Saturdays Star
Most of the citys churches give detailed statement
of their services together with pastors name location
of church, sermon subject, special music, etc. ~6
Evening star., 1928-12-28
HISTORIC SHIP AS TARGET
Training Vessel Long in Mexican
Service Sunk at Sea.

MEXICO CITY, December 28 G).-A
Vera Cruz dispatch to Excelsior says
that the historic old training ship
zaragoza, considered UNIT for further
use, was cnverted into a target for
Mexican gunboats and was sunk a short
distance off the coast.
The Zaragoza was used for many
years to carry Mexican naval cadets on
trips around the world.
Evening star., 1928-12-28
Violated 4 Traffic
Laws i'm 5 Minutes;
Man Is Fined $55

Convicted of committing four
traffic violations within five min
utes, Melvin Pekovsky, "a years
old, q clerk, of the 500 block Of
Fourteenth street northeast, yes
terday was given fines totaling
$55 by Judge John P. Mcmahon
in Traffic Court. e
Motor Cycle Policeman ]. r.
Jenkins of the Trafic Bureau
accused Pekovsky Of passing
three stop signs on @ street, be-
tween Vermont avenue and
Fourteenth street, and tof speed
ing at 80 miles an hour.
The defendant pleaded guilty
to all charges. He was
fined $40 for passing each sign
and $25 for speeding.
Evening star., 1928-12-28
CAPT. GEORGE JAEGER,
INDIAN FIGHTER, DEAD
Veteran of Several Campaigns Will
Be Buried Tomorrow in Ar
lington Cemetery.

Capt. George A. Jaeger, II, Indian
War veteran and former employe OF
the United States Pension Office for 40
years, died at his home, 1l06 Thirteenth
street, yesterday after long illness.
Capt. Jaeger served as a lieutenant
under Gen. Miles in various campaigns
against the Indians In the West. Later
he became captain in the Pennsyl-
vania National Guard. He was retired
from the Pension ONCE about five years
ago. after having reached the grade OF
section chief.
He is survived by his widow, and a
daughter, Miss Helen Elizabeth Jaeger
Funeral services will be conducted at
Hysong's Funeral Parlors, 1900 N street
tomorrow afternoon at o'clock. Inter-
ment with military honors will be in
Arlington Cemetery.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1928-10-01
THE CHURCH AND POLITICS
DR.. Polling Says Mrs, Willebrandt
Did Not Send Preachers to
Their Pulpits; They Never
Left Them

DR.. Daniel A. Polling, of New York City,
Chairman of the Executive Committee of
thirty-tWo cooperating temperance or
CARNATIONS of this country, President of
the Worlds Christian Endeavor Union
and editor Of The Christian Herald, is
quoted in a special dispatch in the New
York Times as saying:
Governor Smith has centered his fire
on woman, Assistant Attorney General
Mabel Walker Willebrandt. This is we'll
The attack is now in the open. Mrs. Will
lebrandts honesty, courage and efficiency
are Of record. She respects her oath. She
champions cause, but it is mistake to
hold her responsible for sending preach
ers to their pulpits. On prohibition and
law enforcement they have never left
their pulpits
DRY opposition to Governor Smith is
honest. It stands upon the facts. 1t
will not be silenced by intolerance or in
timidation. The friends Of the Eight
zenith Amendment have opposed and de-
feated wet office-seekers in both parties
and of all faiths.
Governor Smith has invited citizens to
vote for him, claiming that he would
legally reintroduce liquor. Now he pro-
tests that drys who oppose him are in
sincere and that they base their opposi-
ton on his religion. There are many
thousands of Catholics who are opposing
Governor Smith upon his record. Cover
nor Smith himself ha; made prohibition
in this campaign partisan issue For
the Political Parson' moral and constitu-
tional reasons lift this election out OF
partisan politics.
Personalities and candidates are in
cidental. The pulpit must do more than
preach righteousness 1t must be mill
family righteous. Here the mandate of
She church is as old as the decalogue.
Finally, we refuse to allow Tammany
Hall to hide behind srnokescreen of
campaign oratory. The Tiger knocks at
the door of the White House. He shall
not pass
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1928-10-01
The CANADIAN SYSTEM" AND DRUNKEN YOUTH
Visitor and Montreal Gives Us First Hand Information
the Workings of Government Control; Also Testimony
From the Liquor Control Commission

in the effect upon the young people.
Every cabaret that serves meals has the
privilege of selling wine and beer to its
patrons. The young people gather in
these cabarets for dancing and drinking.
They are supposed to close at 200 i. m.
On the Sunday morning on which I was
in the city I heard of them closing any,
where from two to four o'clock. In the
vicinity of one of the largest churches the
police had to be called at two o'clock to
quell the disorderly conduct of horde of
young men and women in maudlin con-
dition coming out of nearby dance hall.
In his eagerness to save the young peo-
pie of America from the curse of the hip
flask Governor Smith is advocating the
adoption of the Quebec system. If before
doing that he had taken the time to run
over from Albany to Montreal, and had
spent few hours of the night time visit
ing the cabarets of that city, we think he
scarcely would have dared TO make the I'M
warranted attack which he did upon our
American young people, and recommend
as a remedy for their delinQuencieS the
Quebec system
I'm concluding this article permit me to
quote from an editorial in the Toronto
Star under the date of August "A, 1928.
The editor makes reference to six news
items in which liquor was factor, report
ed by the M0I and Empire Of the same
city on the previous day. Commenting on
that the editor Of the Star says:
These items of news show that the
Toronto police are trying to cope with
reckless driving. drunkenness and the
use Of poisonous liquor. If they failed
to do so conditions under government
control would become so bad that the
public would quickly get rid Of the
system.
Fourteen months experience with
government liquor control seems to
make it clear that the system has
caused a large increase in drinking
and drunkenness and added 90 the
dangers of our highways throughout
Ontario as we'll as in Toronto
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1928-10-01
VETS DEMAND MRS. WILLEBRANDT BE RECALLED
Including Prominent Furious Over M
Wiebands Expose Smiths Committee Will Not
Recall Her. Chairman Sorry She Hasn't More Time Give

ANY doubt as to whether Mrs. Mabel
Walker Willebrandt has been speaking un-
der the auspices of the Republican ma
tional committee was dispelled today when
she called at western headquarters"
II am only sorry that she cannot give
us more of her time Walter Newton,
chairman of the speakers bureau said.
His declaration resulted from a question
put to the woman attorney general as to
whether she had been free-lancing. Turn
ing to Mr.. Newton, Mrs. Willebrandt sug-
gested he could best answer that.
Mrs. Willebrandt has been speaking
under the auspices of the speakers bureau
of the Republican national committee and
she has future engagements in several
States including Kentucky and Tennessee
for October" Mr.. Newton answered. 1.-The
demands for Mrs. Withdrawals time from
the various States far exceeds the number
of days I can place at the disposal of the
State chairmen in the middle west" he
added.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1928-10-01

The addresses of Mrs. Mabel Walker
Willebrandt, especially those made in
Ohio in which she has told the truth and
nothing but the truth about Governor
Smiths wet record. his Tammany aff1lia-
tons and his intentions to destroy the ma
tional prohibition policy if elected Presi-
dent have thrown the wet camp into
turmoil. An effort has been made to
make it appear that Mrs. Willebrandt has
embarrassed the Republican Campaign
Committee by the speeches. Demands
have been made by the vets, especially the
ardent followers of Governor Smith, that
she be forbidden to make any further
speeches and that she be compelled to re-
sign from her position as Assistant At
tOrney General. They do not base their
demands upon anything Mrs. Willebrandt
has said about Al. Smiths wetness but
have endeavored to make it appear that
Mrs. Willebrandt has injected the religious
issue into the campaign. An Associated
Press dispatch carrying a Chicago date
line of September 26 says:
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1928-10-01
CAN'T PUT oNUs ON CHURCH
Bishop Berry, of the NJ. E. Church,
Says Religion Is Not Issue
but Prohibition Is

Bishop Joseph F. Berry, Of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church, in an interview of
the Chicago Daily Nea0s, of September %,
said:
Religion doesn't enter at all into the
fight the Protestant denon' nations are
making on Al Smith, but prohibition
does. If the Republicans had nominated
q dry Catholic and the Democrats a wet
Protestant, you would have found the
militant churches lined up behind the
dry Catholic Democrat and no one would
have said word about his religion. I
have supported Catholics repeatedly for
Office and SO have other bishops of my
church, but never a liquor sympathizer
Smith first made prohibition a ma
tional campaign issue by his reply to the
Democratic National Convention after. his
nomination, and if he had not done so
it would not have been a major issue
The Democratic platform as we'll as the
Republican platform pledged continued
fight on liquor But he found it stirred
up such hornets nest that he has be-
gun his charges of intolerance as a smoke
screen for his record as a public official on
the wet and dry proposition. He is try
ing to put onto the dry Protestant
churches the Onus for raising the re-
ligious question, but it cannot be done
because they didn't raise it. He did it
himself"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1928-10-01

Harry NJ. Chalfant, editor of the Penn
sylvania edition of AMERICAN ISSUE, re-
Gently visited the provinces of Ontario and
Quebec for the purpose of investigating
the workings of liquor control sometimes
called government control of the liquor
traffic. The following is an excerpt from
his report:
I'm Montreal visited the liquor COM
mission headquarters and was very gra-
ciously received. 1 was given copy of its
annual report, and was somewhat aston
ished to find that the arrests for drunken
ness in that city during the gear 1927 had
increased IS per cent oUer the arrests for
the same 06enSe during the precious gear.
Within one hour on a Saturday evening
encountered more actual DRINKS than
have seen in the past six months in this
country. Concerning the rapid rise in the
arrests for drunkenness the liquor COM
mission report says:
"As for the extraordinary increase
of arrests for drunkenness which have
taken place lately, it is, we repeat,
DeTD mysterious. No satisfactory eX-
PLANTATION has been furnished US by the
municipal officials who are in imme-
date contact with the offenders.
Only the future can tell if we are in
the presence of an accidental, tram
Sient phenomenon, or if this situation
Is destined to last.
Among many thoughtful citizens of
Montreal whom had the pleasure of
meeting personally there was widespread
lamentation over what is happening I'M
der the present system. They pointed out
two features especially. 1t was their al
most unanimous testimony that the sale
of liquor to be carried home and drunk in
the presence of the children is proving
most damaging, and it is undermining the
stability of the homes while it is teaching
thc children the drink habit CThe liquor
control system in effect in the province
requires that distilled liquor purchased in
government stores can not be drunk on
the premises)
"a second deplorable feature is found
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1928-10-01
CHURCHES OBSERVE SUNDAY, OCT. %
Nation Called Upon Concerted Action Urging
Voters the Polls

It Is TO be hoped that every individual
church in the United States will observe
October Is as q day for concerted
action in defense Of the Eighteenth
Amendment The result of more than
thirty years effort by the Christian CT
izenship of this nation under the lead
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1928-10-01

ership of the churches is at stake.
The churches fought to secure this
beneficent prohibition law. They must
now fight to defend it against those who
under the leadership of Governor Smith
of New York are intent upon destroying
1t.