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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-26
FEDERAL CONTROL
HIT AS SOLUTION
.FORDR|NK PROBLEM
Former Ontario Premier Cites
Canada's Experience as
Warning to U. S.
HOLDS HOME is LAST
PLACE TO CONSUME RUM
Insurance Head Refers to Gen.
Pershing's Testimony Before
Military Committee.
BY the Associated Press.

by the associated Press.
Canadas experience with government
control Of liquor was cited today at the
House judiciary committee prohibition
hearing as warning to the United
States not to embark upon such a plan.
E. G. Drury, former premier of the
Ontario provincial government, testify
ing as witness for the group support.
ing the eighteenth amendment. asserted
that whatever the solution of the drink
problem may be-" it was not in govern
ment control.
Government control is not the
remedy" the Canadian said. Effective
control is indeed impossible. The
Anglo-Saxon temperament will not
stand for the inquisition into private
affairs which would be necessary to
establish any effective control.
'An we have is government sale.
with consumption in the home or the
hotel bedroom. No longer is drink a
mans vice. Women and children are
exposed to 1t. The home is the last
place In the world where liquor should
be consumed. Crime is increasing.
drunkenness is increasing, motor ac-
cldents are increasing. Whatever the
solution OF the drink problem may be, Is
not government control.
Insurance Head Testifies.
He took the stand after John J.
Lentz, president OF the American In
Surance Union with headquarters in
columbus, Ohio, had submitted insur-
ance STATISTICS which he argued showed
Ct fo ho1
spread benefit.
Lentz, one-tine a member of the
House OF Representatives from Ohio.
SAID mortality had decreased under pro-
nloitlon and that the abStainsr from
alcoholic beverages usually paid four
more annual insurance premiums than
the drinker
Testimony of Gen. John ]. PershinR
made years ago before House military
committee favoring the abolition of
Army canteen was also introduced as
evidence by Lentz.
Today'S hearing was the first this
week. The dryS had been expected to
conclude presentation of their case but
at the outset Mr. Mcbride an
nounced they would like at least two
more days. The committee did not
pass upon the request at the time, but
Chairman Graham has said the conn
mittee would give both vets and drys
ample opportunity to present their
views.
Before either Lentz or Drury took
the stand, Representative Hadley, RE-
publican, Washington, read a telegram
from j. j. Donovan of Bellingham,
Wash, asserting the Dollar ships did
not permit the sale Of liquor, as has
been charged at previous committee
sessions.
Donovan wrote he had travelled on the
Dollar steamships in different parts of
the world and had not seen LIQUOR used
or dispensed aboard them. The tele-
gram also praised Capt. Dollar, the 90
year-old head of the line, as a valuable
citizen Of the country.
representative La Guardia interposed
ne would place into the record q report
OF the hnes imposed on the Dollar ships
tor violations Of liquor and narcotic laws.
at the proper time.
I want to show that men aboard the
Continued on Page 2, Column 81
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-26
JAMAICA GINGER
SEIZED BY RAIDERS
Southern Paralysis Epidemic Leads
to Arrest in st.
Louis.

BY the Associated Press.
ST. LOUIS, March 26.-The Norris
Products Co. was raided last night by
Federal prohibition officials upon receipt
of information that jamaica ginger sold
by st. Louis firm was found in COM
munities in the South where numerous
cases of paralysis have been attributed
to the drinking of such beverage.
The dry agents said they seized a
quantity of jamaica ginger after buying
small quantity as evidence. They
ordered John c. Norris, 70-year-old pro-
prietor of the company, to appear today
in Federal Court to answer charges OF
violating the dry law.
Prohibition Administrator Sam Haley
said Norris admitted having sent ship
ments of the Jamaica ginger to South
ern rural communities, but denied 1t
was his product which caused the pc
culiar illness. He told officers, they said,
he only distributed the ginger after
purchasing it from manufacturer in
Boston.
Prohibition agents said chemical
analysis of the evidence purchased from
Norris showed an alcoholic content OF
about 65 per cent, and that 1t did not
contain as ingredients certain f1ne
extracts of ginger prescribed by Gov
eminent regulations to make 1t unit
for beverage.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-26
CANADIAN HOUSE
BANS RUM EXPORTS
Opposition Scores Premier, but
Passes Bill to Senate by
1871 Vote.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
OTTAWA, March 26.-Having passed
In the House of Commons by a vote Of
173 to IL, the government bill to refuse
clearances to cargoes of liquor destined
for the United States went to the Senate
today.
Although the opposition subjected
Premier W. L. Mackenzie King and his
government to a whitening fire of
criticism during debate on the measure,
only 10 opposition votes were cast
against it. The eleventh negative vote
was that of Mai. C. G. Poweg of Quenec
South, Liberal and member of Nar.
Kings party.
The attack on the government, led
by r. B. Bennett, Conservative leader,
centered upon what the opposition
charged was change of front in the
governments policy regarding the ship
ment OF liquor from Canada to the
United States.
Mr.. Bennett challenged the govern
ment to resign, and attacked Mr.. Kings
announcement that Canada was nego-
tiating a reciprocal treaty to prevent
smuggling across the United States
border, and demanded to know why the
government was now taking up a treaty
which the United States offered in 1924.
Ernest La Pointe, minister of justice,
replying to the opposition, accused the
members OF putting on "an amazing
spectacle Of DR.. Jekyll and Mr. HYDE
by talking against the bill and then
voting for 1t.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-26
DEMOCRATS ROUT
KANSAS CITY G. 0. P.
Republicans Lose All Races as OPP
ponents Elect Mayor
and Council.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY. March 26.-In the
first test of strength since the 1928
Hoover-Smith fight, Kansas City Dem
ocratS, led by Bryce B. Smith, mil
lionaire bakery executive, yesterday
completely routed Republican candi-
dates for all municipal offices.
Approximately 100000 voters, the
greatest number to visit the polls in an
exclusive city election, ended all vestige
of Republican power.
Mr.. Smith was elected mayor by an
unofficial majority of 23,726, defeating
George E. Kimbal. The Democrats also
elected eight councilmen and two mu-
nicipal judges.
voting was comparatively free of vio-
Ience, although Morris Goodman and
louis Demayo Republican workers,
were reported kidnapped. Bernard Lillis,
a Democratic worker, complained to the
county prosecutor that police sergeant
and another unidentified officer kid
mapped and beat him.
Ten persons were arrested for alleged
illegal voting practices.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-26
VAN SWER|NGENS
RULE RAIL EMPIRE
Brothers Control Worlds
Largest Privately Owned
System.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 26.-The New
York Times said today that by recent
deals o. P. and M. j. Van Sweringen
Of Cleveland have rounded out the
largest privately owned railroad empire
in the world.
Their $4,000 900 900 18,Oo0-mile net
work is exceeded only in the Western
Hemisphere by the 10000 miles of the
Canadian National Railways and else
where only by the 10000 miles of the
German State Railways.
The railroad influence of the Van
Sweringens extends from New York to
Salt Lake City and from Chicago and
st. Louis to Omaha, FL Paso, Galveston
and New Orleans. A line controlled
by q friendly interest connects the sys-
tenn to San Francisco.
The brothers, former real estate men,
who entered the railroad world in 1916
with purchase of the Nickel Plate road
from the New York Central, today con-
troll directly the Chesapeake & Ohio,
the Erie and the Nickel Plate. Through
the Allegheny corporation and by
other means they control the Hooking
Valley, the Pere Marquette, the Wheel
ing & Lake Erie, the Missouri Pacific
and the Chicago &c Eastern Illinois.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-26
Charles Mccarthy, Secretary
Treasurer, and w. S. Rob-
bins Named by Jurors.
$39, 227 DEFALCATION
CHARGED BY AUDITORS
$24, 1894 Reported Paid Back to In
stitution-Loss Not Sustained
by Depositors.

Charles A. Mccarthy, SIS, secretary
treasurer of the East Washington Saw
ings Bank since its organization in 1905,
was indicted today by the grand jury
for alleged embezzlement of bank funds.
Willard S. Robbins, IS, clerk in the
bank for IL years, also was indicted for
embezzlement.
While Mccarthy is charged in five
counts with regulations totaling only
$5,073, and Robbins with total of
$2,45712, the report of Department Of
Justice auditors, who examined the bank
showed defalcation of $39,22755.
McCarthy's wife is said to have made
good $l9,694 of the amount and Rob-
bins is reported TO have paid back
$4,000, leaving a balance of $14,433.55
which it was said would be taken care
of by insurance.
No loss was sustained by the savings
depositors, it is reported.
Specific Charges Given.
The specific charges in the indict-
ment against Mccarthy are $500, De-
cember 10, 1927; $1,573.36 August IS,
1928; 5000 October IL, 1928; 81 900 July
6, 1927, and 81, 100 July Is, 1929. There
are seven counts in the Robbins indict-
ment, including $500 September l6,
1927; 5000 May 4, 1927; $500 January
3, 1928: $425.12 August l, 1927; $21O
September 81, 1927; $422 August 81,
1927, and 500 September 81, 1928.
United States Attorney Rover, on the
reporting of the indictments against
Mccarthy and Robbins, stated that no
arrests will be made, as he was notified
counsel, who have promised to bring
both men into court.
Mccarthy has been i'll since last Oc-
tober, when agents of the Department
of Justice investigated his alleged pecu-
lations from the bank.
Officers Decline to Comment.
J. C. Yost, president of the bank, de-
clined to make any statement and other
officers also were loathe to comment on
the matter.
After Mccarthy resigned last Sep
TENDER, officers of the bank said, he
went to Atlantic City with his wife and
is still there. Nothing was known OF
Robbins at the bank.
Bank officers said that an investiga-
ton of McCarthy's accounts was under
bdktIl ny tlAC 0Cpdt btAACAlb VI JuotACC AuSt
September at about the time Mccarthy
resigned. H. H. Mckee, president of
the National Capital Bank at 316 Penn
sylvania avenue southeast, acted as sec
rotary treasurer during the investiga-
ton. The two banks are not aff1liated.
Mckee said, but he is one of Is trustees
of the East Washington Savings Bank.
Mckee refused to say anything about
the return of the indictments or the
circumstances of the alleged shortage.
officers of the East Washington Bank
said that Mckee was in charge through
out the investigation and until S. w.
Earnshaw became Secretary-treaSurer.
Mccarthy lived in Washington at 403
Seward square, few blocks from the
bank. He has two children, a son and
daughter. Robbins also is married
and lives in the first block of Grafton
street, Chevy Chase, it was said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-26
COUNTY Jury TOLD
DEAD GET PENSION
Montgomery Funds Otherwise
MishandIed, Witnesses Tes-
tify Before Probers.
BY a STAFF Correspondent of The Star.

BY a staff Correspondent of The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md, March 26.-Pau-
pers' pensions have been paid to de-
ceased persons and county funds have
been otherwise miShandled by Mont
gomery County officials, the grand jury
investigating the strife between the
''antis" and the regular Democrats in
power was told yesterday by repre-
sentatives of the former group.
The county officials today Wht at
tempt to convince the jury that the
published allegations of the "antis" are
false and criminally libelous, and that
those responsible for their publication
should be indicted on a criminal libel
charge.
witnesses for Today.
witnesses who will be heard today
are: DIR. BENJAMIN G. Perry, president
of the board of county commissioners;
Lacy Shaw, member of the board; John
T. Culver, clerk of the Police Court, and
Odorian Douglas Roby, former COM
missioner.
The grand jury's probe was started at
the request of the county commissioners
and E. Brooke Lee, county Democratic
leader, who have insisted that II the
charges published in the Independent
are true the guilty county officials should
be indicted, and that II they are false
the persons sponsoring the publication
should be held for criminal libel.
George E. Bonifant, member OF the
independents board of directors, is I'M
derstood to have cited instances to the
Jury in which it is alleged paupers' pen
sions were paid in 1929 to persons who
died in 1926. He also is believed to have
testified that one official used county
materials to improve property which he
had purchased for private purposes.
After Mr.. Bonifant left the room the
grand jury sent out for county books
containing records of pension payments.
Instances Cited.
The principal witness was E. Barrett
Prettyman, chairman Of the Independ-
ent's directorate, vino was before the
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-26
WOUNDS BRIDE, THEN
COMMITS SUICIDE
Double Shooting Occurred After
Honeymooners Had Quarreled
in Night Club.
BY the Associated Press.


MIAMI, Fla, March 25.--Daniel VIII
liam Faust, "a, died today from bull
let wound which his bride of two
months said he inflicted upon himself
after shooting her. The bride, Mrs.
Ella Faust, %, is in hospital for
treatment for bullet wound over the
right eye, which doctors said MAJ
prove fatal.
The double shooting occurred at their
apartment early today after the couple
returned from night club where they
had quarreled, she told George Bing,
State criminal investigator.
She asked that her mother, Mrs.
Catharine Salley OF Camden, N. j., be
notified. She said Faust formerly lived
! in Champaign, Ill.
Warren l.. Newcomb, justice of the
peace, who investigated, said the shoot
ing was clearly case of suicide and at
tempted murder. No inquest will be
held. he said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-26
American SanCtioning of Con-
SuItative Agreement With
out Military or Moral obi
cations Opens Path.
TREATY SCOPE DEPENDS
ON FRENCH CONCESSIONS
Hope for Five-Power Alliance,
With Real Reduction, Brightens
as Result of Stimson Decision,
With 90 Per Cent Cut by Paris
Held Likely.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, March 26.-Secretary
Stimson and Prime Minister Mac
donald conferred at the House of
Commons this afternoon and it
was reported that the premier told
MIR. Stimson Great Britain was
prepared to go ahead with secur-
fty pact for France.
Secretary Stimson, after seeing
Prime Minister Macdonald, die
tated a long report to President
Hoover.
1t was said that the scope of the
security pact would depend on
what concessions France was will
ing to make in her naval tonnage
figures of 724,000 tons presented
to the conference as the French
program.
The political aspect of the Naval Con-
ference came strongly to the fore today
as conference talk centered on the pos
sibility of pact being evolved to
break the Franco-Italian parity dead
lock and produce five-power treaty.
During the day, all abrupt and some
what sensational change came over the
face of Naval Conference affairs with
the re-emergence of security pact talk
as q means of working toward solu-
ton of the Franco five-power aspect.
u. S. Attitude Is Firm.
Resurrection Of the security pact talk at
this time caused considerable surprise
in American headquarters, it having
been assumed that this phase of the
conference discussion was done with.
One thing was abundantly empha-
sized, however; this was that the Amer
lean attitude regarding security pact
even of consultative variety, had not un-
dergone a change. It was stated in au-
thoritative American quarters that
while the Americans as previously in
dictated, have no objections to entering
a consultative pact as such they viii un-
der no circumstances enter any pact,
even on a consultative basis, which in
volved the United States IN anywise in
commitments to material assistance.
In other words, if there should be
any security pact in which the United
states plays a consultative part, 1t
would be stipulated and possibly writ
ten into the pact that the American
obligations went nowhere beyond con-
eultation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-26
MARCONI USES RADIO TO OPEN
SYDNEY ELECTRICAL EXPOSITION
Inventor Speaks With Australia While on Yacht in
Harbor at Genoa

which outlined what he intended doing
later in the day-transmitting a small
unit of power to Sydney in order to close
circuit there and light the electric
lamps of the exposition.
The inventor said: "It is not more than
80 years since transmitted the first
faint wireless signals across the Atlantic
Ocean. Today we demonstrate that 1t is
possible by wireless to bring powerful
currents into operation at other ends OF
the EARTH
The reception was very good at both
points.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-26
HOPE OF TREATY BRIGHTENs.
u. S. DECISION Opens Way for Anglo
French Mediterranean Pact.
BY PAUL SCOTT MowRER.

BY PAUL SCOTT MowRER.
BY Gable to The Star and Chicago Daily
News. Copyright, 1880.
LONDON, England, March 26.-The
chances of the London Naval Confer
ence achieving a successful five-power
treaty with real reductions have never
been so bright as they appear today.
Much remains to be done and serious
complications still persist, but the out
look is entirely transformed. The
deepest pessimism has been transformed
into lively hope.
This situation is entirely due to the
initiative of the American delegation,
which upon learning Saturday that a
three-power treaty would be distasteful
to the British government decided that
1t might be willing in certain condi-
tons to make a consultative pact here
and now.
British Seem Willing.
The British were informed of this
decision Sunday. In consequence the
British themselves now seem willing
to make a mutual assistance Mediter-
ranean pact with France and Italy. AS
for the French. they admit that such
q Mediterranean pact undoubtedly will
enable them to envisage substantial
reductions.
France has taken no revisions yet on
figures, and will not do so until il
knows exactly what kind of Mediter-
ranean pact Great Britain can offer.
The writer learns, however, that
Frances reduction may amount to &c
or 80 per cent, bringing the French
total tonnage down to perhaps 100000
and enabling Great Britain and the
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-26
Sets Loaded Plane Record.

LOS ANGELES, March 26 (P.-Of-
ficials of the National Aeronautical As
ISOLATION announced today that Pat
Fleming, plotting a tri-motored Bach
plane, set new worlds record of 142 sc
miles an hour for tri-motored planes
50-kilometer course at Metropolitan Air
port this morning.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-26
EXHAUSTED LANDING
TUNA ON CANS AND BARE HOOKS
VOracious Giants Caught So Fast in Virgin Waters That
Members of Grew Collapse.

the fishermen threw away 10000 sar-
dimes which they had taken along as
bait.
Capt. M X. Freitas of the Navigator
said that the fishing ground apparently
was new to fishing boats. Fish were
caught faster than they could be put in
refrigeration, and men collapsed from
the heat If they worked more than
three hours at a stretch. Twelve men
catching and two men tried to stow
away fish as caught. Inside of half an
hour one crew was taken on to help
stow fish.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-26
Hy tha Associated press.

BY the Associated Press
SAN DIEGO. Calf, March 26.-The
crew Of the Navigator, a fishing clipper,
was back home here today telling about
run Of giant tuna with such voracious
appetites that they bit at tin cans, bare
hooks and pieces of cloth.
The fishermen brought back 1870 tons
of yellow-fln tuna in the refrigerating
space of the Navigator as evidence.
The big fish were taken OF Cocos Island
in the Pacific, 2,400 miles south of San
Diego.
So ravenous were the big tuna that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-26
Sister, 3, Carries
Baby Brother Saved,
to Death in Flames
By the Associated Press.

TULSA, Okla, March as
When fire late yesterday destroyed
the home here of Mr.. and Mrs. w.
H. Page, a Swear son of the
household carried John william
Page. 11-month-old baby, outside
to safety.
Then a 3-year-old sister of the
children carried the baby back
inside the flaming house and
tucked him in his crib. The in
FAINT was burned to death.
The sister explained she
thought it was "too cold" for the
baby outdoors.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-26
PRESIDENT APPROVES
1ST DEFICIENCY BILL
100000 Made Available for
Urgent Needs of District by
Hoover's Action.

President Hoover today signed the
first deficiency bill, thereby making the
appropriations amounting to $169,447
1896 Immediately available.
Approximately 100000 is available
for urgent needs of the District of Co
lumbia government and more than
81, 100000 for a number of Federal
projects in this city.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-26
ASKS CATHOLIC PRIESTS
IN MEXICO TO REGISTER
Archbishop Diaz Issues Circular
Letter in Compliance With the
Government Regulations.

By the Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY, March 26.-Recom-
mendation that all Roman Catholic
priests in Mexico register with the gov
eminent before the end of the month
is contained in circular letter sent out
by Pascual Diaz, Archbishop of Mexico.
Registration is in compliance with
government regulations and was agreed
to in the settlement of the church-state
controversy last June. The majority of
the priests already have registered.
The archbishop also called on the
priests to cooperate In the national
census being taken under government
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-26
SENATE AND HOUSE PLAN
TO RECESS FOR WEEK END
Upper Chamber to Meet Friday,
but Only to Adjourn Until
Tuesday.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Senate rested from its tariff
labors today while the House devoted
its attention to series of minor calen-
dar bills and planned a three-day week
end recess.
After tomorrow, the House will adj
journ until Monday, when the tariff bin
comes up.
The Senate will meet again on Friday.
but only to recess until Tuesday,
Neither branch OF Congress can be in
recess 1or more than three days without
the formal consent OF the other neces-
stating the brief session of FRIDAY.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-26
U. S. OFFICIALS HOPE BILL PASSES.
Declare American Border Patrol Could
Re Gsreaflv Cuk

Declare American Border Patrol Could
Be Greatly Cut.
By the Associated Press.
Passage by the Canadian House of
Commons of bill designed to prevent
clearance Of liquor to the United States
was considered today by American Gov
eminent officials as giving promise of a
forceful blow at liquor smuggling across
the northern boundary
Ofdcials in charge of anti-smuggling
activities have expressed the belief that
the law would make possible a reduc-
ton in the American border patrol and
decrease the smuggling of liquor from
entire motor boat cargoes to a few bot
ties by vehicular traffic.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-26
Kaye Don Still Waiting.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla, March &c
P).-A gradually leveling beach was in
prospect today for Kaye Don, British
contender for the worlds speed record,
but the driver decided to await further
Improvement.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-26
By the Associated Press.

NIIS FASoUOIdIGU
GENOA, italy, March 26.-Short
radio waves cutting across the Atlantic,
America and the Pacific, today carried
the voice Of Marquis Guglielmo Marconi,
inventor of wireless, from his yacht
Electra here to Sydney, Australia, to
open an electrical exposition.
Signor Marconi spoke across 11,OOO
miles to the director of the Electrical
Association. Fisk, reading message