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The Washington times., 1930-01-31
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WALSH, CLAIM
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BOSTON, Jan. 81 G.N.S).-
Startling statements by United
States Attorney Frederick H. Tarr
before the Boston Art Club that
$74,0O0 was spent by wet" inter
ests in 1926 to elect Unit1l States
Senator David I. Walsh, Democrat.
over ex-United States Senator
William M. Butler. Republican,
stirred political circles today.
The money, Tarr asserted. was
part of a fund of $336,485 raised
that year under the auspices of
the Association Against the Prohi-
bition Amendment, of which the
Constitutional Liberty League was
the Massachusetts, branch. The
funds, Tarr declared, came in a
large measure from brewers and
brewery interests.
Plans were underway to employ
the same tactics to elect a wet"
Democratic Senator in the coming
elections, Tarr said.
Tarr asserted that the ASSocia-
ton Against the Prohibition
Amendment, and the Constitu-
tional Liberty League are directing
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London Times Urges
Press Privilege
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we're sent to Jail for refusing
to divulge information regarding
an alleged illegal lottery, which
the paper was condemning.
FavOrS Privileged Status
The London Times believes
that newspapermen should not
be compelled to divulge sources
of information, that they should
be granted some privilege under
inquiSitorial procedure, as they
render a public service by ex-
posing abuses, a service which
is hampered when they cannot
shield their news sources.
The stand of the powerful Lon
don Times is important and of
interest here, as hearings proba-
bly, will start soon on pending
legislation to protect newspaper
men from being Jailed for re-
fusing to divulge sources of in
formation.
The Times editorial follows:
"At Washington a couple of
HlOnIQS ago IIlEee IepOI CcIo OI1
The Washington Times were SEN
fenced by Judge Peyton Gordon
to As days imprisonment for re-
fuSing to answer certain queS-
tions. The Washington Times
had exposed in its columns GER
tain breaches of the prohibition
laws, and these journalists, sum-
moned before a Grand Jury, re-
fused to answer when asked con-
corning their sources of informa-
ton. In the language of the
bootlegging fraternity they were
unwilling to become stool pig
eonS,"
cat the beginning of the pres,
ent year at Johannesburg the
Rand Daily Mail had drawn at,
tention to the existence Of what
was alleged to be an illegal lot,
terry. Questioned before a maglS'
trate as to their knowledge OF
these activities, two reporters
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PANTHER NOW
BEE]EVEDDOC

William F'reel71~s1 a farmer on
the Riggs Road in Maryland, fiVa
miles beyond the District line.
thinks he has so3Te5 Efa mystery
of the wild beast Of the north
east.
Yesterday he went to his pig
pen and discovered one of his
pigs in the throes of death. Run
airedale dogs. The pig died and
ming away from the pen were two
Freeman gave chase to the dogs,
but they outdiStanced hin.
Freeman discovered tie dogs
about 10 o'clock yesterday morn.
ing, while the panther" who mas
been charged with depredationS
during the past three weeks has
always worked in the night.
Police of the Eleventh precinct
today reported that the night
was quiet, as far as the panther
was concerned, no reports of the
animal having been received
either yesterday or last night.
Scores of hunters yesterday
took up the trail of the animal
in an effort to- track it down
in the snow. The number of
hunters led to an announcement
by Capt. Charles Peck, Of the
Eleventh precinct police. that the
hunt from nov on will be con.
Quoted by the police.
Captain Peck has frequently
protested numbers of people.
armed with pistols rifles, shot
guns and what not. roaming the
fields and streets in search Of
the animal, ard has pointed out
that serious accidents are likely
to result from the promiscuous
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BIC CITIES FACE
DRY PROBE

Capitol Hill today was anticipat
ing the possibility of a sweeping
congressional investigation of pro
hibition enforcement conditions
in the large cities Of the nation.
Senators William E. Borah (R)
of Idaho and Smith w. Brook
hart (R.) of Iowa are the two
dry leaders whose activities are
heading straight toward an in
quiry that may throw the whole
situation open.
Borah is demanding a public
investigation" of charges which
have been preferred against John
F. C. Herbert. formerly prohibi.
ton director at Baltimore. and
now stationed in the Idaho Mon,
tana district. Brookhart already
has named. on the floor of the
Senate, one New York city club
where "the law is being flagrantly
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BAT TLE:SH|P
ClJTONLY
HOPE
By GEORGE r. HOLMES


LONDON, Jan. 81 Q.N.S y
Reduction in battleships and
sterilization of other categories
at about the present levelS-Ghese
stood out today as the principal
achievements the London naval
arms conference can hope to OBJ
tain.
Ten days of the most intensive
work among the delegates Of the
other four powers have convinced
the Americans that no more can
be hoped for at the present con.
ference. If they can accomplish
this much there will be general
satisfaction, Notwithstanding the
fact that such results would rep
resent a considerable Comc-ttOWn
from President Hoovers high
hopes sor real reduction" in all
classes of naval craft.
Actual Figures Withheld
It is significant that. although
the conference is now two weeks
old and innumerable hours have
been spent in conference and
private discussions, there has as
yet been little talk of actual tjg-
ureS.
Nevertheless, it is we'll known
that when the appropriate time
comes France and japan are
going to demand auxiliary ships
greatly in excess If the ba tticship
ratio. In some categorIe5 it is
expected they will demand ap-
proximately equal strength with
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WORKERS
GET S822,309-

Government employees will
be solicited for Community
Chest subscriptions at their
homes. Solicitation in the
Government departments has
been forbidden, although
President Hoover and other
high officials thoroughly in
dOrse the campaign.
The Washington times., 1930-01-31
Dry Officials SHIELD CORRUPT AGENT'
GOOD
'NE E,,'T1S z!

If you have good news, tcle-
phone the City Editor Of The
Washington Times, District
$3.50.
House passes Cramton bill
authorizing eventual outlay of
$23,O00,000 to establish George
Washington Memorial Park, to
extend from Mt. Vernon and
Fort Washington along both
sides of Potomac to Great
Falls.
Purse of $1,100 given Rev.
Father Francis j. Hurney by
parishionerS of st. Patricks
Church to mark closing of 10
years of service as assistant
pastor.
Squirrels and birds in Wash
ington parks being fed daily
during cold. snowy spell by
Humane Society.
DR.. Mordecai Ezekiel, sector
agricultural economist in Blu
reau of Agricultural Econo-
mics, Department of Agricul-
ture, named assistant chief
economist of Federal Farm
Board.
Charles Lathrop Pack presi
dent Of American Tree Assocla-
ton. and George Hewitt Myers.
of Washington. donate substen-
tial gifts to School of Foresty
OF Yale University.
Thirteen men and women
educators of Brazil arrive in
Washington for six-day visit.
during which they will study
various phases of primary, sec.
ondary and university educa-
ton.
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ME RC(JRY Y
6 ABOVE
At DAWN

Washington youngsters can fig
ure on three more days of coast
ing at the least, the weather man
predicting that the shade tenn
perature will not rise above the
freezing point today or tomor-
row. 1t is also predicted that
the melting of snow will be prac-
tically nil today or tomorrow as
a very much higher temperature
is not in the offing for two days
anyway.
A low temperature of 6 de-
greeS was recorded at 7 o'clock
this morning. marking a sharp
drop from midnight when the
thermometer registered II de
grees. At 10 o'clock this morning
the temperature had mounted to
II and hovered there until after
noon.
Colder Tonight
BY night the temperature will
take a sharp dip, the weather
man said. The thermometer
probably will record about 10 de-
greeS about sundoWn, possibly
lower.
Fair weather is forecast for to-
night and tomorrow with steadily
rising temperature Sunday. There
is no snow or rain in the fore
cast for the next 48 hours.
Motorists suffered most in the
record snowfall. the largest since
the Knickerbocker Theater dis
aster in 1922, hundreds Of ma
chimes being buried in the large
drifts. Cars were frozen up dur
ing the night as the jets of steam
from radiator caps evidenced
early today.
Street car traffic was not
halted appreciably.
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The campaign to prevent the
failing of newspapermen who
refuse to reveal confidential
sources of information has been
taken up by the London Times.
This issue, which was acute
last fall, when three reporters
of The Washington Times were
sent to Jail for IS days by
Justice Peyton Gordon for re-
fusing to violate newspaper ethics,
has been revived by a similar
case in Johannesburg. South
Africa.
Two reporters for the Rand
Daily Mail, of that city, recently
The Washington times., 1930-01-31
High Officials shdorse
Porter Drug Bills

High officials of the District of
Columbia and the superintendent
of the nations insane asy lum to-
day added their voices co the
chorus of approval of the two
bills now pending in Congress,
introduced by Representative
Porter of Pennsylvania, to tighten
up the present narcotic laws.
The Porter bills, in brief, will
The Washington times., 1930-01-31
CANT|LLON DIES
Of PARALYSIS

HICKMAN, KY, Jan. 81
4N.SJ Joe Cantillon, famous
old time baseball player, manager
a--d umpire. died here today.
following a paralytic stroke.
Although reported slightly i'm
proved yesterday, the veteran suf-
fered a relapse last night and
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ANTHEM URGED
BY PATRIOTS

The halls of Congress rang
today when leaders in the move
ment to make the Star Spangled
Banner the official national an
them stormed the House Judiciary
Committee demanding Congress
Sional action.
A hundred women attending the
Women's Patriotic Conference on
National Defense and raQreSen-
tatiVes of other patriotic or
CARNATIONS crowded the conn., it
tee room.
A Navy orchestra opened the
hearing by playing the anthem.
The entire audience, Surcharged
with patriotism, sprang to its
feet at the first note. A few,
however, failed to face the music.
Mrs. Elsie Jorss Reilly, Of
Washington. was the Soloist with
others joining in.
Petitions said to be a part Of
100000 signatures in support of
the proposed legislation were dis,
played.
Representative Linthicum d.
Of Maryland and Celler CD of
New York, both of whom have
introduced bills. to make the Star
Spangled Banner the national
anthem, appeared before the ON,
mittee.
Mrs. Reuben Ross Holloway
Baltimore. who has given Is
years of her life to an almost
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Patriots Laud Police
For Red Dispersal

proceeding agalns ''Red' agit3 tors
than has the Federal Government .
Representative Melvin Mas Of
cism in the United States and
Minnesota today dccried paCifi,
said it is not a product of world
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THE WEATHER

nE6n Fair tonight and
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A$1S1A Saturday,. not quite
N ~ so cold, with lowest
q IH temperature about
VA ~ Is degrees today;
WSS5r5SW slowly rising tenn
S2SS perature Saturday;
gentle west or northwest winds,
becoming variable. Temperature
yesterday-Highest, IS; lowest,
II. Full weather report on
Page 1S.
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) SENATORS PREPARING
EXPOSURE Of CRAFT
AND immortality

The lid is due to be blown off the Prohi-
bition Bureau within the next two weeks.
Three prominent Senators are amassing
ammunition for the expose.
The Washington times., 1930-01-31
MCCORMICK GOING HOME

LOS ANGELES, Calf, Jan. 81
Q.N.SO John Mccormick, Irish
tenor, will leave here next week
for his home in Ireland. He will
be accompanied by his wife and
daughter.
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EXCLUSIVE NEWS SERVICE

The Washington Times Is the only afternoon
paper in this city publishing the news dispatches
Of international News Service and Universal
Service.
New Britain herald., 1930-12-26

man of the National Thrift commit tee of the Y. M! C. A.
 Chicago-Golfers whom John D. Rockefeller encountered Christmas have dimes; policemen found by his daughter, Mrs. Edith Rockefeller Mccormick, on Lakeshore Drive, have s5 gold pieces.
 West Orange, N. J.-After inten- sive holiday study, Thomas A. Edi- son perhaps has some ideas for new inventions. He had dinner of crackers and milk, played with the grandchildren bit, then devoted himself to lengthy perusal of tech nical publications.
 New York-Nlrs. Babe Ruth evil dcntly wouldn't mind if Babe got away for some hunting. Gazing wietfully at a nifty tree he fixed in the house for the kiddies, he sighed: If we only had an air rife now we could go into the other room be- hind the piano and neatly pick those glass balls off the tree" And up spake Mrs. Ruth: There will be no shooting around the house. Washingt mployes of the White House have ash trays and jewel cases made of wood taken from the White House when it was remodelled two years ago. Accom- panying each gift was bit of free verse by Mrs. Hoover telling how a pine tree on the hills of Maryland became portion of the storled structure and how the gifts, via waste basket and fire, eventually will
New Britain herald., 1930-12-26
Italian Planes Ready
 To Begin Ocean Flight

BOlana. Portuguese Guinea. Dec. 46 PA fleet Of fourteen Italian seaplancs rcposed on the calm Al lantic waters here today ready for their great adventurc--a flight across the Atlantic.
 When weather conditions are right twelve of the planes will strike ont across tho open ocean for Natal, Brazil, on the first transatlantic flight O. such q large air squadron. From Natal they purpose 10 fly 10 RIO De Janeiro. and possibly to Butnos Aires.
 The distance Of about 1,6J0 miles is 70 be patrolled by q number Of Italian destroyers and other naval vessels. ready to race to any local uy where one oc the planes may come down.
 The fourteen planes flow here yes- rarda1 from Villa CisncrOs. Rio De Gro. arriving at 4:&o D. m., local time. The takeon for Natal IS not expected until next week.
New Britain herald., 1930-12-26

sky queen, was destroyed in France on a flight from England to India with the loss of 1T lives.
 America regained its monopoly on the major world altitude records through Lieut.. Apollo SoUcek, navy flier, with a new mark of 43,16G feet.
 Capt. Frank Hawks established two transcontinental records, flying from New York to Los Angeles in 14 hours, 50 minutes, and 4S seconds, and retaining in r hours, p minutes, and seconds.
 Ward T. Van Orman gained his second and America's third success sive victory in winning the inter- national balloon race for the Gordon Bennett cup.
 Death robbed aviation of num- bor of pioneers, including Glenn Curtiss. Capt. Lionel M. Woolson, designer of a diesel-type aircraft engine, and Count de la NaulX, head of the government body of sporting aviation. Federation Acronautique Internationalc.
New Britain herald., 1930-12-26
FIVE KILLED BY
 POISON LIQUOR
Five More Gases PrObed-45 in
 New York Ill

New York, Dec. e6 LP'-FiNe per- sons were dead today because they drank poison liquor on Christmas.
 In their homes on the streets and subway stations and on piers they dropped yesterday and were taken to hospitals for treatment that taI.- cd. Five more deaths were belnI investigated in inc same connection and 45 parsons were being doctored Lor acute alcoholism.
 Dr. Charles Norris, medical exam fner. said it Nas the u-arest Yul'- tide rou in three years. Last year &3 cds-s were treated although th-n, ueru no official fatalities. In 1928 there We're two deaths and 53 ,n- stances Of iliacss-
 Tue doad were John Cocbrano, s. Patrick \. Rrven. 47; Andrew Rich rrr, 54 and two unidentified men. Among rho morta1ities undcr scru- i.0y nas that ot Mrs. Lena Gornlaa. 55, whose body nas tound in yu- cant lot on West I7Jh stree.
New Britain herald., 1930-12-26
BOSTON RETAIL SALES
 SHOW SMALL DECREASE
Waterbury Reports Indicate Drop of Twenty Per Gent Under
 Last Year.

Boston. Dec. 26 (UPl-Torol re- tail sales in Boston for the first 10 months Of Ia3g showed J decrease ot only s per cent under a year ago, while the decrease in 641 stores for 26I cities was per cent undcr a year ago.
 According 10 inc Fatrchild retail price survey based on both depart ment and speciality stores, prices in Boston on November l averaged -5 per cent below November i. 1923, compared with an average decrease Of 2D per cent recorded for the ioI- lowing cities: Fall Ei1@r, Watrrbur>. Buffalo. \. '. Cleveland. O.. St. Louis. Mo-. Baltimore Md- Aljnnca- polls AIinu. Los Angeles Cal, and PhflaGrIuala.
New Britain herald., 1930-12-26

go, free smoke before free wind, to touch again the hills of Maryland.
 New York-The most picturesque
 debut of the season has been that of Miss Natalie Mae Coe, grand
 daughter of the late Henry H. Rog-
 CTS. A hotel ballroom was trans formed to represent Cherokee plan tation, near Charleston, S. C., old
 home of Mrs. W. R. Coe, the debu- tante's stepmother. A representation
 of the portico. of the southern colo nial homestead was there with such things as a brick fireplace Tn the | drawing room and ball of mlstle-
 toe. Blue gauge and silver stars on the ceiling made sky.
 hington-Automob num- | bers are easy to remember in the Curtis family. The vice presidents is | lii: Mrs. Dolly Gann's is II.
 New York-Janeu and Blanche Hutchinson, five and eight years old
 respectively. have a lion cub to play
 with. It came by airplane for Christ mas. their father, George Hutchin- l son, having obtained it at the De- | troit zoo. It is two months old. London-Brtish turfmen know | how to keep inside information from
 getting outside. A court has ruled | that it is all right 10 fog stable boys
 who tell tipsters things.
 Some germs will live in ice or | intense cold Sufficient heat alone
New Britain herald., 1930-12-26
AVIATION BECOMES
 TRANSPORT FACTOR
DoHs Circus Spangles for OVer-
 allS During Past Year

Washington. Dec. 26. Pl- Ameri- can aviation traded it's circus span gles for oyeralls in 1880 and went to work.
 It dug down to bedrock to rear a tottored edCSZ2h-w vt. ,rnsWe hr dlu solid structure in place of the fragile framework that tottercd under de- pression. Sound economics were sub stituted for high pressure ballyhoO.
 The spotlight turned from spec tacular flights to practical air trans portation. Aviation was content 10 let it's work for the year be summed ID in terms Of what 1t mad meant to the public in flying passengers, mail, and express.
 Spurred by lowered fares, passen- ger traffic on scheduled lines grew so that during the first half of the year 4,952 more people were carried than in the entire year Of 1929. Three great air systems spanning the nation with mail and passengers are already in operation. They are < southern route by American airways between Atlanta and Los Angeles, a midcontinenI route by Transcontinental-Western Air be- tween New York and Los Angeles. and a northern route by Boeing and National air transport between New York and San Francisco. Foreign routes were extended with promise that an international hook-up will be arranged in 1881 to fly mail be- tween America and Europe by way 1 of Bermuda and the Azores. i In all there are now 120 American ] air transport routes, domestic and foreign. with 1IG,G05 planc-mil"s f scheduled to be flown daily com- ! pared with 90,43G planc-miles a year | ago.
 A number of notable flights cap tured the public's imagination. Capt. i Dleudonnc Costcs, tireless Lind berghs Of France and Maurice Bel lontc in the Qu -stion Mark suc- ceeded in the first Paris-New York nonstop flight
 Capt. Charles Kingsford-s -smhn and a crew of three flew the At i lantic from Ireland. They later fIe" to Oakland. Calf, completing tol the leader md his southern Cross d Itwo-ycar round world journey.
 Capt. kingsford- smith climaAed his series of outstanding air feats by flying another ship from Englano to Australia in the record time oi { days, 2G hours.
 Capt. Wolfgang von Gronau flc" rom Germany to the United State' with five stops while the South At
 Iantic was spannod by Jean Mermo.
 flying the first ocean air mail iron
 St. Louis, Senegal, 10 Natal. Brazil.
 The only successful EastWart
 crossing ot the Atlantic was tht
 flight of Capt. J. Erroll Boyd an( IL.eut, Harry P. Connor from Mon
 creaI 10 Tresco island, England, Il Ithe Transatlantic plane Columbia,
 Hoger c. Williams had previously made a nonstop round-trip flign
 from New York 10 Bermuda in th
 old Columbia. Capt, Roy W. Amme
 flew 3.19S miles nonstop rom Ne' York to Panama.
 Lighter-than-ai craft wrote avia
 ton history with the veteran Ora Zeppelin flying across the equato from Germany to Brazil, contlnuln
 n0rthward to the United states ar'
 respanning the Atlantic to it's hom
 baso. while the British R-l9H mad
 q roundtrip flight between Englan and Canada.
 The years greatest air traGed occurred when the E-iOI, s5,Oo0,oU
New Britain herald., 1930-12-26
Road Conditions in the
 State of Connecticut

Eo4i aondirIons and dorours in .hc State Of Connecticut made na- CtSsarv ny highway construction. re- pairs and oLiin-. announced by 'h" Connecticut Highway Department .s Of December II. 19&n.
 Route No. 5 Wood1ury-M road steam shovel grading and culyert eonstruc- lion on new location. pa,our around urli-c work,
 Route No. [. S. Thom1stoN bridge or,r Na.-a- tue. river. East Main street Is under construction No dero.r
 Route No. |. =. Cauaan and Salisbury Linn. Eoc> bridge. 2rado crossing elimination IS under construction. Open 10 traffic
 Route No. t2 NurRlch-JoWatr City road l~ un- der construction. Grading a~ being done and ,ulverrs ar, being nstau- rd. Traffic can pass.
 Route No. 11 I.as, Hartford urljg2 oro. rooN- augm nyer 5- uaGer construction. but op.l -o or--usy traffic.
 Ruute No~. iii. lt> and 3 Sorrnlngt0u. Intersection Of th" 1ruldala ro.J $ under construction. Oprn to traffic.
 Route No. 13f Cornwall Bridge project approach grading or a.w location, No de- tours.
 Route No. t35 Naw Haven. extension Q. tar Fozon road under coastr.erIon. No delay 10 traffic.
 Route No. 202 Harnlntou. HarvuHron Trrm%a." roai is under construction. No de- tour.
 Route No. 322 Orange Grassy Hl road .S .r ing oiled for a.le-.
 No Route Numbers Danbury Clapooard roaa -c work holu- done on this project. Easrtord. Kerr Ash ford road is under construction Grading is being done. Traffic cm pa~s.
 Last Hampton. Haddam aud Ea-r Haddam HaIdam NecE-Easr HaI- dam road is under construction Through traffic advised O avoid thi, load
 Mansfield. Wiulmdu..r-Sr0 roa, is uadar construction,
 New Furfial1-Ba.s Pori road steam shovel grading and maeadan construction No derOurs.
 Orange. Grassy Hill road is .uds construction. No delay in traffic. Winchester, Tormnsford street i completod.