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1 4 A THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK, SUNDAY. MARCH 11. 192G WIEHRf DEBATE I Art Student Becomes Film Beauty JUICE PLANS Dies in Florida i I II Big Oil Firms Seek Scalp Of Professor McKee for Adverse Testimony Is Hint Hv.ir' I SSUES IN CAPITOL Stirs Oil King's Wrath I ii 1 1 vTzvn pf .1 if 1 Fight Raging in Congress Seen as Turning Point Against Volsteadism. Kagle Bureau.

Colorado Building. By JOHN HII.I.INtiS Jr. Washington. Mvrch 13 Wet-and-dry debate la sweplng through Congress like an angry wind. Never be-lore has there been such Incessant and insistent discussion of this single issue.

Though at no time ofll-eially before the House, Prohibition has simply barked off the map talk about farm relief, economy, national defense and the dozen other familiar topics so der to the heart of the average Congressional orator. Nut a day has passed In the" last week and half that Prohibition in some form or other has not cropped up to consume an hour or more of the House's time. observer In Washington at attaching considerable Importance to this outbreak of the Prohibition question. They are asking themselves if ft Indicates a milestone in the history of the lstth Amendment, turning paint in public sentiment. Issue Will Not Be Downed.

House leaders have done their utmost to suppress all wet-and-dry debate, but without avail, 'fhey No. 2 Princess Dl Bltcllo, the daughter of Colonel Sloart-Tavlor and niece of Mrs. Items I oil I lard of New York City and Tuxedo PaVk. Is a very well known anil successful hostess In Paris and In Home, where 'lie Is much feted. 1 ave pleaded with the wets to forego their continuous thrusts ut the Volstead Act.

which in turn prod the lrys to violent retorts. But the talk flows on like a mighty river and there is no stemming It, as long as large sections of the country opposing national 1'rohlbltion send wet representatives to the Capitol. The explanation is being given In the House that the majority leaders iave attempted to sit en the Prohibition issue, to soft-pedal it for political purposes, with the result that It boils over furiously on tho House Boor. IX they had followed the wets' requests and given 1'rohlbition some sort of hearing, the whole question, It Is now claimed, would have been "p.Vrerted to committee hearing and lhuhave been removed from such a puXlic forum as the House chamber. V- Wet to Continue Agitation.

The wets' avowed purpose is to agitate this single question as much as' possible, to discus it on all occasions and to keep it squarely he-fore the country. They believe that this la the only way to get a change tn the law. if they silently accept present conditions, they believe the jiublio mind will grow Indifferent to Volsteadism. They want to keep this wound open and sore, lest complacency effect some extra-legal cure. And no wet ran make a speech In the House without dry accepting the challenge to answer him.

Thus is created circle of 1'rohibltlon oratory. In reviewing this deluge of Prohibition debate tha two striking eat urea are these: The talk Is carried on by numerically Insignificant (roups on both ides. Arguments Are Not Weighty. The arguments pro and con that ore advanced concerning Prohibition FOB 53D ST. TUBE READYJNJVIDWTH Board Asks $100,000,000 for Subways to Brooklyn and Queens.

In asking the Board of Estimate to set aside (100,000.000 for construc tion on the new city subway system this year, the Board of Transportation yesterday announced that contracts, plans and specifications will, be ready within a month for the en' tire 63d st. line, from 8th Manhattan, to Nott Queens, including the tunnels under the East River. If the funds asked for are made available, as the Board of Estimate's policy of diverting all the funds possible to subway construction Indicates, It Is expected that work will be started on the Brooklyn-Uueons-Manhattan tube In May. This subway, according to the plans for the hew system, will bring the proposed Brooklyn orosstown and Queens blvd. subways into the Manhattan trunk lines and carry them Into the Manhattan theater, shopping and financial districts.

Tube to Cranberry Street. The board further states that contracts, plans and specifications for continuing the Ith Manhattan, trunk line through lower Manhattan und into Cranberry Brooklyn, and crosstown through the horn to Bridge Plaza and Ing Island City, will be ready before Aug. 1. Plans for the tube under the East River between Fulton Manhattan, and Cranberry st. are expected to be ready In June.

For this construction, the Board of Transportation states, will be required before Aug. 1 and' an additional $60,000,000 will be needed before March 1, 127. May Inclndo Nassau St. Link. The Board of Transportation letter also Indicates that the much delayed Nassau St.

link, which, engineers figure, will allow the B. M. T. subways to Increase their service by 80 percent, may be Included In the early construction projects. "In addition to the work of the new system the remainder of the 14th line and numerous projects for the completion and Improvement of the dual system will be put under contract," the letter states.

Suits on Spring Calendar. Though specifically called for in the dual contracts, Mayor Hylun during his eight-year term of office refused to build the Nassau st. link. For this failure the B. M.

T. has brought a $30,000,000 damage suit In equity against the city and an action to compel the city to live up to its contract, which are on the Manhattan Federal Court calendar for trial this spring. Expert bolaney to Shift. John H. Delaney, chairman of the Board of Transportation, who for several years had been on record as favoring Immediate construction of the Nassau st.

link, reversed himself In 1924 and swung over to Hylait. With the new administration in oft Ice, however, and with Mayor Walker believed to be in accord with the MeAvoy report, which soundly scored Hylan for his failure to build the link, and with the In creasing demands In Brooklyn foe Improved subway service, the basts has been formed for the belief In transit circles since the first of the year that Delaney will recant from his stand with Hylan. Kxpcnse Program for Six Years. The cost of constructing the city subway system, estimated at $5112. 000,000, baa been allotted by the Board of Transportation as follows: 12S.

$110,000.0001 1928.. $77,000,000 m. 12J.000.OOOI 82.000,000 1927. 1930.. .45.780,000 The 1930 appropriation to be defrayed for the recapture of the Culver line.

DANCE AT CRESCENT A. C. Over 400 members and guests attended the annual St. Patrick's din- -ner dance given last evening at the Brooklyn Crescent Club, Shore rd. and 86th st.

The affair was one of the most successful of the kind held by the club. Arrangements were lit charge of V. M. Tomlln, chairman of the house committee. being sought for America.

The Philippines were pointed to as an excellent field for rubber growing. Boycott Move Pre.llct-d. These views were assailed by the Democrats as pointing toward boycott and retaliation. A policy of fair trade methods and friendly relations must he developed through mutual agreements, the minority held. The majority report recommended no remedial legislation, but said "frank discussion should secure abandonment of restrictive practices." Ralph II.

McKee. cept It on the ground thnt the original pleadings were not broad enough for that. Therefore, the Department Of Justice developed a separate case out of the Adams patents which was presented to the Federal courts in Brooklyn for contest. Though on the surface It may ap pear that the Standard OH Company tried to free itself from Its agree ment by using the Federal machtn cry to cancel the patents held by the Texas Company, Department of Justice officials tonight vigorously denied any such Interpretation of the case and offered as their proof the fact that the Standard company was a co-defendant with the Texas Company In the Chicago action and was, in private litigation elsewhere, even defending Its rights to the Adams proers. 48 ComiMnles Involved.

The Chicago anti-trust case was filed in 1924. The four princlnal de renaonts were the Texas Company. The Standard of New Jersey and of Indiana nnd the Gas Products Com pany. Forty-four other oil com panles were Involved in the case to a lesser degree. The general charge was that these companies had pooled their patents for making gasoline and had thus established combination outside the law.

The Government's contention was that the patents, among them ths ones issued to Adams, were not valid, that the processes nad all been anticipated in prior in ventions and that these companies nao. no right to demand royalties. Rivals Equally Concerned. "The Standard was In fact mak Ing as much use of the Adams pat ent, If not more," explained an As slstant Attorney General tonight. "If the Adams patents are successfully cancelled in the Brooklyn action it will have a very direct bearing upon tha Chicago anti-trust action and the Standard will be a much the loser as the Texas, Inasmuch as they are all bound together in one patent pool covering numerous processes, 1 BOYCOTT IN RUBBER ROW PREDICTED BY HOUSE DEMOCRATS Committee Minority Takes Issue as C.

0. P. Urges Com-bat on Alien Control. Washington, March 13 (JP) Recommendations for meeting the situation Created by foreign monopolies In rubber and other essential commodities were divided Into party channels In reports given the House today by its commerce committee which Inquired Into foreign control of crude products. The majority report urged con aervatlon and rubber plantation development under the American flag to combat restriction of rubber growing In British territory, with a consequent advance in prices to American consumers.

Democrats Flay Report. Four Democratic members of the committee. Representatives Ray-burn. Huddleston, uMalmma. Hhallenberger, Nebraska.

nnd l'arks, Arkansas, attacked the majority report as "indefensible under existing high tariffs." Recommendations of tha majority report, submitted by Representative Newton, Republican; Minnesota, also urged "renewed Watchfulness" against foreign controls, whllo In dependent sources of supply wi 1 tire of a very low order, certainly no lietter than would appear in a gram mar school debate on the subject. The wets who are making all the I PUZZLES POLICE Crooks Get Light Sentences, No Fault to Find, Says Commissioner. Police and judicial cirrles are puzzling over Police Commissioner McLaisjthlln's terse statement last night that he "has no fault to find" with tha disposition of the rases of Vincent Buono of the Prospect Hotel, Coney Island, and Isidore Hell-man of 868 Broadway, Manhattan. 'These men, both of whom have long police records, were sentenced to a year in Sing Sing and 60 days in the workhouse, respectively, by Judge Levins in Oeneral Sessions on March following their pleas of -guilty to lesser charges than those for which they were indicted last month. This means that Buono will 0 be free In eight months and 10 days, while Hellman will get out in one month and It days.

Men Held in .50,000 Ball. One of the outstanding developments In the war on crime yesterday was the fixing of high ball for Michael Coppola, 25, of 120 66th Astoria, whose casa has proved of particular Interest to Commissioner McLaughlin and the Police Department. When Coppola came up for a hearing in Ihe Morrisanla Court on a charge of suspicion of robbery he was held in 150,000 bail by Magistrate Oberwager for a further examination Monday, despite the vigorous protests of defense counsel. On March 8. when arrested, he hud been released in 15,000 bail by Sessions Justice Dlrenzo.

This drew from Commissioner McLaughlin a denunciation of the easy bail evil. McLaughlin Looked Over Kocords. Tho Police Commissioner tnada the statement on the Buono and Hollman cases after he had looked over the records of the two men and had read the report of Detective Herman Levins of ths Fence Squad, in which the detective said that neither he nor the complainant had been notified or subpenaed to court on the date on which the men plead ed guilty and were sentenced. The Commissioner did not enlarge upon his brief statement. Buono and Hellman had been charged with assault and robbery by Samuel Taunus of 120 W.

47th Manhattan, on Jan. 17. Three days later they were Indicted by tho Orand Jury for ntlauioted robbery, first degree: attempt I grand larceny, first degree, and assault, first degree. In addition, ilwono was Indicted ss a second offender for violation of Section 1,897 of the Penal Law. Detective Levlne's report stated: Policeman's Record of the Case.

March 0, 126, Isidore Hellman pleaded guilty to assault, third degree, and was sentenced to 0 days -In the Workhouse by Judge Levlne, Part General Session, on this date. Vincent Buono pleaded guilty to violating Section 1.ID7 of ths Penal Law and was sentenced to one year In State Prison. Depu'y Assistant District Attorney George Marra represented the people. The following records of the two men were made public by Commissioner HcLaughlln: Both Men Old Offenders. "Vincent Buono Nov.

22, 120, Brooklyn, grand larceny, sent to penitentiary for six months; March 15, 192, Brooklyn, grand larceny, automobile, discharged; April 22, 1923, Brooklvn. felonious assault, knife, discharged; Feb. 24, 1925, Brooklyn, felonious assault, six months In county Jail: Sept. 29, 1925, Brooklyn, nssault nnd robbery, discharged; Oct. 2, 1925, Brooklyn, at-tempterd extortion, no disposition.

"Isidore Hellman 1913. Newark, N. receiving stulen goods, Iteh-wav Reformatory; May 21, 1920, homicide, discharged; Sept. IS, 1920, the Bronx, assault, fined 1100 in Special Sessions; Oct. 30, 120.

grand larceny, discharged; Oct. 20, 1921, Los Angeles, burglary, three years In Tolson Prison: March 4, the Bronx, grsnd larceny, automobile, Coppola Was In llandlis' Car. Coppola, with two companions, was arrested with two companions In a motorcar bearing the license number of the car used by bandits who stole a truck loaded with 1 1 5.U0U worth of cigarettes In the Bronx on March 8. Coppola's two companions escaped after knocking down a US' tectlve. Five hours later Coppola, after communicating with friends was re.

leased on ball by Justice Dl renzn. Police Commissioner Mr Laughlln was urprlsed not to find hfm In ths line-up next morning When arraigned In Morrisanla Court Magistrate oberwager held him without bail for examination yesterday. Atlorney Protests llcary Hall. Yesterday he appeared in Morris- nnla Court again and was arraigned on a short affidavit. When Assistant District Attorney O'Ourman asked that he be held without ball for further hearing Monday, Coppola's counsel, William JtSikson.

protested that as long as tha prisoner was In court saw no reason why a full complaint could not be drawn up at ones. Us declared that his client had been in jnll four days and that his Constitutional rights were being vio lated when ha was held without bail on a short affidavit. "All right. If you want hall. I I fix It." agreed Magistrate Oberwager "Hall Is 150.0110.55 "That's too much." pleaded th ettorney.

Hut the hail stood. Two other men, seised Friday a tha suspected comrades of Coppola, were held without ball for examination Tuesday. They were Philip Cardovana, 19. of 5511 221th the lirnux, and Robert Verdlna, 22. of 51 K.

U7th tha Bronx. Brennan Asks Women To Fight "National Evil, Volsteadism" Chicago. March 12 The Chi. cago Ieagite of Women Voters today staged ill unusual spectacle of a United States Senator and two opposing candidates mnkfng campaign speeches from the same platform and (hen submitting to a round of a-enernl questioning. Senator William II.

MrKlnley, Krsnk 1.. Smith, chairman of the Illinois Commerce Commission. 1( 1 1 a s. and George K. Brennan, Democrat, appeared before the women voters.

For llrentian, national committeeman, who finally determined to run for office after 25 years behind the scenes, the meeting was debut. Itrennan's pisiform Is "wrbmlig wet." anil his chtsf purpose Is to nb lair, mneii'lmstit or repeal of th- Id lie did not trim sail for fear ot Ihe women's dtsfavor but rather claimed their support along with that of pronounced drvs and Republicans, so that be might lend a 'ongressionsl fight saslnct "this iMitlonal svll, Volsteadism." Mclaughlin ON SHORT TERMS So. Miss Kthylcn lair, who ilia's not swim, rifle ir damf. but was i-oimnerrial art student in New York City, wus spied In a hotel dining riaim by a casting director in search of a type, who signed Iter up, so now she Is en route to Hollywood, where site will make licr llrst pictures. DRYS APPEAL TO C00LIDGE AS TIDE TURNS (out linicd front I'ugc I.

the White House conference. At the Treasury it was reiterated that Mr. Andrews had tho conlldence and sup port of Secretary Mellon in his program. Mr. Andrews expects to send to Congress during tho coming week two or more Prohibition hills, proposing revision of the Prohibition act so as to tighten administrative provisions dealing with enforcement.

Coolltlgc Told I'ublk' Don't Count. The visit of the Anti-Saloon League Committee to tho White House, a statement issued by it said, was primarily to take up several questions "important to effective enforcement of the law." hut the subject of newspaper polls on Prohibition also were gone Into and the visitors advised the Prent- lent to take no stock iu such balloting. It was learned subsequently tnat the callers ut the Executive olllces discussed legislation. particularly the pending hill to establish customs md Prohibition units In the Treasury Department, which has Anti-Saloon Leugue endorsement. league Attacks Press Poll.

The league' statement, issued after the committee left the President's otfU'e, had a number of sharp things to say about the newspaper balloting, and It came simultaneously with one from Senator Edwards. Democrat, New Jersey, declaring It was "downright immoral." for Congress to ignore the Prohibition question "because through its subtnls-slvenessto the dictates of the Anti-Saloon League it is conniving with criminals." "I do not believe It is lair, I do not believe It Is just," he said, "for Congress to 'pussyfoot' on this ques tion. And I herewith openly charge that this Is what Congress is doing today." As to tha newspuper polls, the Anti-Saloon League statement said meat of them do not reflect publl sentiment and should not ba taken as an indication that sentiment is In creasing for modification of the Vol stead Act. "Most of the papers engaged In this matter," it said. "ar in largo cities where the sentiment for hlbition has not been slrongly developed, and ws have credible evi dence that Wet organizations are pushing voting.

Assert Drys Don't VoIP. 'The friends of Prohibition i class will take part In the so- called vote and will not be serious ly concerned nor disturbed by the result or me effect, whether so intended by the newspupers or not, the straw vote Is ii part of the Wet agitation and propaganda which Is being car ried In advance of the Congressional lections of this year. It may be Ignored by the Drys and cannot be considered un expression of the sen- iimetu 01 trio quuimcii voters or etc majority of the people." An attempt by Jlepresentatlve Up-shaw. Democrat, lieorgia, to obtain recognition In the House today to discuss Prohibition was blocked by three members. When Iteprrsentatlve Black, Democrat, New York, objected to his request to print severs! telegrams In the Congressional Itecord, the Oeor- gian stalked off the floor with the remark "I oil 11 never get ufiywhcrc that way." Mr.

1'pshaw explained the telegrams were in reply to a letter re-rently read by It' presentutlvs Tlnkham, Republican, Jdassuehusetts, from M. M. Wellborn of Atlanta, which said that drinking was "almost universal'' in all cities in that State. Mr. Iliack objected on the ground that Mr.

Tlnkham was absent. The other two members, Itepresr ntat! Mclaughlin. Republican. Michigan, and Helic. Republican.

Ohio, oppoxed the request because of the lateness of the hour. a t.uartlla Itlillculc Ilutler. Liqimr Is served at nearly all dinner partus held In the national capital and In New York City, llcne. -illative La (luatdla. Socialist, New York, charged tcxluy.

UileMs at social parlies In Washington and the metropolis are virtually always confronted with a coi kiall or highball when they sit to the dinner tsble, he said. The recent action of Itng-Oen. Smeilley Ilutler. or the Marine Corps, in reporting a fellow officer who served liquor at a dinner parly, em-phasliO's "the unnatural and ridiculous nature to the prohibition law." the legislator Wild. Blease Charge of Rum Under Capitol Dome Generally Admitted Kagle HurstiU.

MM 1'nlnradn Rullding. Washington. March 1.1 The state- liolse are Tlnkham of Massachusetts, Hill and Tydings of Maryland, (Iriffln, Caller and Black of New York. The dry defense In the House falls heavily on two men ('pshaw of Georgia and Wanton of Texas. The great mass of dry Representatives, Secret Probe in Manhattan May Have Decisive Effect on Suit Here to Cancel Adams 'Cracking' Patents.

i When ths suit filed by the Federal Government In the United States District Court in Brooklyn last week annul soma 16 oil "cracking" patents finally comes to trial, the result of another proceeding by ederal officials in Manhattan may have un important, perhaps a de- Idlng effect on the 'decision to be reached. This Manhattan action is at pres ent a preliminary investigation by the office of United States Attorney E.mory n. oucaner or charges, made by so far unnamed persons, that rof. Ralph H. McKee of Columbia rnlversity, head of the Chemical Inglneerlng Department there, had been the victim of an attempt to nun because of testimony gave for the Government in pre vious hearings affecting the oil patents.

Charge McKee'a Scalp Is Nought. Specifically It was charged that a group in the Institute of Chemical Engineers had started a move to oust him from that body and ruin his professional standing as punishment for daring to testify against large oil concerns. The investigation Is continuing, with Assistant United States Attorney Kenyon in charge. If sufficient evidence to back up the charges Is discovered a Federal Grand jury, will be given the facts and Indict? ments may then follow. Suncr-Sccrccy Marks Proceedings.

But it Is going on with a secrecy more profound than anything that has been made here since the super- secret days of the World War. All those known In any way to be directly affected answer with a silence of the Sphinx, Others, only with the greatest reluctance and on solemn promises that their names will not be revealed, consent to mane even the most meager comment on the alftiatlnn Dr. McKee himself begged to do excused. "You can see," he said 'that I am not in a position to dls- uss this. The matter is now in the Government's hands and hot In mine." Mr.

Buckner remarked that "1 have nothing at all to say." Ills assistant, Kenyon, snoog nis head at the question, "rm sorry I've been forbidden by Mr. Buckner to say anything about tnis at an. Silence la Contagious. So, also, Dr. D.

W. Thompson of the National Lead Company and halrman of the Institute commit tee on ethics, who would have to pass on any question of ousting Dr. McKee. 'I have nothing to say on that, he declared. "Will the situation develop presently," he was asked, "to the point where you will be in a position to make a Btatement That," he replied, "would be say Ing something, 4nd 1 have abso lutely nothing at all to say." One Attorney Micds Light.

One Government attorney com mented on the situation with the understanding that his name was not to be used. He said: 'If it turns out that there is reallv an effort to get McKee out of the Institute because of what he testified to against tha oil companies, it will be probably the tlrst known move on the part of a financially powerful Industry to Influence the opinion of a college professor on a sclent i no matter In uib I iriuuiu iicm. Such efforts have previously been made, of course, when the economic political or ethical opinions of a professor went contrary to those of organized llnunclal power. Says Views Cct Distorted. Of course, it Is possible to tinder- stand how certain members of the Institute could with perfect honesty feel that McKee did something unethical by opposing the oil companies.

Most of them are consulting engineers. They make their living from oil and other large companies and gradually they become con vtneed that the companies can do no wrong. But Just the same the situ ailon Is disturbing." Dr. McKee testified in hearings in Indiana in a suit brought by the Government Under the Anti-Trust Law against the Texas Company and 49 other oil concerns, charging certain monopolistic practices which it desired to enjoin. Testimony launched Fraud Knits.

It was there that the scope and validity of the oil "cracking" patents Kt anted to Joseph H. Adams of 1325 Albemarle Brooklyn, and assigned to the Tea Company came Into question. The hearings were then suspended and the present stilt followed In Brooklyn to annul the patents on the charge of having been obtained by fraud. As In the previous hearings. Dr.

McKee will no doubt be called to testify In the Brooklyn trial as an expert witness. By tha time the trial Is railed the question of the profes sors "Intimidation and "punish ment" will have been thoroughly threshed out. If he has then been expelled from the institute attorneys for the oil companies ran point to his "damaged" reputation as a reason for questioning his testimony. If. on the other hand, the ouster proceedings are halted and eveh a Federal Indictment or two are returned because of such nn attempt It will count to that extent In favor of the Government's case.

Standard Oil Will Lose As Heavily as Texas Co. If Patents Are Cancelled Kagle Bureau, (tot Colorado Hldg. Washington, March 13 The tiov. ernment's suit to cancel the Adsms (HI "cracking" patents on (he ground of fraud, as filed In Brooklyn. Is the direct outgrowth of Information gathered by tha Uovernment during, the hearings on Its action pending In Chicago, where 4 8 oil companies are charged with a monopoly under the Sherman Act, according to Sherman J.

Oalloway, Assistant Attorney tieneral. This statement Is made In refuta tion of the current suspicion thai the Standard oil Company, which leased the Adams patent from the Teas company on a royalty bests, had made use of the Federal (lov ernment and Its Judicial machinery In an effort to void these Important patents and thus nullify lt arrangements with the Texas company. Fraud Scenlcd hy Agents. flovernment officials, In Ihe course nf the Chicago procedlnKs, upon something that looked Ilk fraud to them In the Adams pntents I tv Investigation Ihey developed this angle of the cne and sought to have this new evidence Introduced Into their antl-frust case. The master taking the testimony refused to ao Col.

Frederick A. Wells. COL. FRED A. WELLS, GUARDSMANfORMER ASSEMBLYMAN, DIES Weil-Known Brooklyn Man Passes Away In Florida After Brief Illness.

Frederick Adams Wells, who started as a private in the 23d Itegt. of Brooklyn in 1175, remained with the regiment 42 years and rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel, died yesterday at St. Petersburg, after p.n illness of two weeks. He was 68 years old and lived at 1339 Bed ford ave. He Is survived by his widow, fcda Wells: his Bon, William and his brother, J.

C. Wells. Funeral arrungementa have not been completed. Fine Record lit Guard. Colonel Wells was born In Brook lyn, the Bon of James Wells, captain In the Union Army during the Civil War and Alth'a Wells and was direct descendant of Hamuel Adams.

He made a distinguished record, not only as a National Guardsman, attaining fltate-wido fame, but in politics, serving as an Assemblyman from the 17th Dis trict, Brooklyn, for eight years, lie had been president of the New York Htate. National (luard Association nno was responsible tor the enact inent into law of many reforms in the Guard. Major Wells first entered the Guard service as a private In Co. was warranted corporal Nov. 6.

17S, and made sergeant May 2, 1883. He was commissioned 2d lieutenant July 2. 1890, and was ad vanced to 1st lieutenant April 1 893. He succeeded to the captaincy of "the company the same year and received his commission as major Oct. 3, 1901.

He was brevettt-d lieutenant colonel for faithful and meritorious service. His last attiva service was at the Mexican border In 191 1. Was Champion Rifleman. Me was one of the Htate's leading riflemen. For seven consecutive years, up to- ths time he became major, the regimental team won the 2d Brigade match.

He won ths 23d Kegt. Grand Gold Medal for six years and the unver Aggregate Medal for a like number of years. He served as range ofllcer at Camp Ferrv, Ohio. In International rifle matches. He was one of two del gates sent to represent New York Htate nt the convention of National Guard otllrers of the United States a Los Angeles In 1910.

Icft Oiiard to Hun for Assembly, Colonel Wells resigned his com mand to run for the Assembly In si a. This was when he was faced with the dilemma of either resigning his commission or give up hope of Ins hack to the Assembly in which ha had served. lis was a member nf Dr. Cadnlan church and the Invincible Itepubll can Club of tha 17 th A. D.

IMMEDIATE TRIAL ORDERED FOR 2 MEN HELD AS GUN-TOTERS A del Continues Policy of Deny log Bail in Sullivan Law Vio lations. in accordance wnn tne policy announced last week by County Judge Frank D. Adel and District Attorney Richard 8. Newcomhe'a oftico that all accused gun totars In Queens will get a. speedy trial, two Brooklyn youths who were held without bal by Judge Adel will ba placed on trial tomorrow morning on a chsrga violating tha Sullivan law.

The nien Joseph Mercaldo, 2414 I'aclllc st and Glsbero Meserole, of 170 Hull were arrested by I'ntrolman Clarence Allen of the Jamaica preclnc a week ago. They were arraigned In the Magistrate's Court. Jamaica and held for the Grand Jury under bonds. On Tuesday the were Indicted by the Grand Jury and the following day were arraigned lieftire County Judge Adel Following ii I 'ea of not guilty, tboy wore I without ball. Assistant District Atlorney Frang Hlgglns has been assigned to Tiros Acini.

Ihe rase. '4jrulman Allen caught the mer a few minuies i made to him by Abraham Mar of II Williams av Brooklyn, that vniinir men bed lust passed In a motorcar which laid been stolen from him. I'ntrolman Allen re-ported that he found revolvers on both ni Mrs. F. A.

Miller, Aged 100, Buried at Sag Harbor Hrldgehampton, 1.. 1-. March 13 Mrs. Frances A. M.

Miller, widow of Hedges Miller, who for mors than 100 )ers was a resident of Suffolk (own tv was burled In the Oakland (m Mai Harbor, this aflsrnoon Mrs. Miller died In the Southampton llosnltiii of acute bronchitis at tn age of 1U0 jr, I months slid For the past few years Mrs. Mllle hud made her borne wun airs, isnoei Corey at Itrlilsehsinplnn. but s1 Was related distantly to most of th old families here. or.

as Mrs. i on mild, "was related prettv well around llriilgchiimpton." Mrs. Mill had one son and one daughter, both of whom are dead. The funeral services were held In ths Presbyterian t.iuilH'l. Hag Harbor.

nient of Senator Cole Blease of Sduth Carolina that bootleggerB visited the Capitol daily and peddled their wares, and that some of them had called at his office lias brought up the interesting question of why Senator Illease, who is a Dry, made no effort to report these illegal liquor purveyors. Senato Hlease has aeiiverca several fiery anti-liquor speeches on tho floor of the Senate and might ordinarily expected to scUe on any such obvious violation of the Eighteenth Amendment. Thus far, however, lie has contented himself with making a speech about it. Andrews Hasn't Acted. P.rhr.

(len. Lincoln C. Andrews, in charge of Prohibition enforcement, has made no attempt to interrogate Senator Blease or in any way to ob tain Information about bootlegging under the dome of the Capitol. Such a condition may seem rather strango to the country at large and very strange Indeed to the ardent Drys. The answer Is to be found iu the prevailing Washington code.

Strict observvance of Prohibition simply isn't part of the routine of official life. The action of Brig. Oen. Smedley U. Butler, for example.

In reporting a fellow officer of the Marine Corps for violating the Volstead Act lies provoked a very hostile reaction in Washington. ltlcaso Charge Admitted. The condition to which Senutor Blease has drawn uttention is generally admitted. It Is known that bootleggers do visit the Capitol dally and that various Senators, both Wet and Dry, patronize them. The Pro-bilstlon enforcement people make no effort to Interfere with this practice, both because It simply Isn't done and ulso for obvious political reasons.

It may be quite al right for Senators and Representatives who Vote Dry to partake of liquor in prlvnte houses, on the assumption. In most rases flimsy, that the liquor is of pre-Prohibltlon stock and therefore legal, but It ia another matter for Sunators and Representatives to ignore the operations of hnotlegers under the dome of the Capitol. No Action Mkelj. The situation Is enguglng the uttention of the Dry organizations. It is conceivable that Senator Blease my be asked to give further information.

However, under the rode, which even tha Dry. organizations honor, It Is not probable. There are plenty pf parties given in hotels and clubs in Washington which official persons attend, where there cannot he any doubt that the liuuor served hus been Illegally trans ported Into the private room or the club even if Its origin is legal. However, there Is a general feeling that the higher law of hospitality must be observed and until the practice, becomes too notorious it ia improbable that anything will be done about it. Move to Block Trial Of Col.

Williams as Wet; Gen. Butler in Hospital Han Diego. March 13 OW Brig. (len. Hinedlcy I.

Butler, who a few days ago startled Army nnd N'avy service circles hy his charges of Intoxication against Col. Alexander S. Williams of the Marine Corps, today had ten Infected teeth extracted at the Navy Hospital here. It was said at the hospital that Oeneral Ilutler was much weakened by the umk official circles were rife with reports that an effort would be miiile to stop the fourl-martlal proceedings against Colonel Williams. Nobody In authority was willing to be quoted, however.

Col. W. H. Prltiiisrd Is temporarily in command at the Marine base while tleneral Hutler Is In the hospital, and Col. A.

H. Miller Is acting commander of the 4ih Regiment of while Coltmcl Williams is technically under arrest. Probe Reports of Bribery In Jersey Rum Patrol Cape Hay. N. March It-Coast guard officials admitted hers today that they are Investigating a report that 'itllcers and men of the federal "Rum Nsy" patrolling the witers on the south Jersey coast have accepted bribes from rum syndicates to permit the lamltfig of cargoes of contraband on Ihe coast of south and Delaware Hav.

I Commander Kdward H. Addison of base No. A at Mi-Well's Point said lit an Interview today: "It Is truo that an Investigation Is going on. hut are of the belief that tho report of bribes einunsteti from disgruntled rum runners who have been unable to get their stuff pas: our 71-foot patrol boats" Th NtniMiipnt Kim nuiflf Hi? ifini ('otnntiftlnn that th ptoh lot of ti hunrirfMl wki on of thw theft a ftotn thn Ulrttid lm nl fetid mi him whtrti rr hliia; In-fsl iKHtttd unrt OtHt nn Inn, unir Mil-frl( hn nientlotifft a uatnmnr nf ihf lnvoi part of whh 'rrilt hfMidbi. rlHlMM-l tf iKIUtrftiil of th origin of ttif I.

IMpi. 1ml frov't thiit (urn hn'Mj thtti of John Nil Irwin, wIium' nihlr-iB In I fin rut I unkii'Hn. Whlli Mri''t1n itr ri-Mrli ly tH I.otiK IhIuihI uu1hir-UicM I It I 'omminMhiti llfM tl-lllMl to irtv further fnt rtgnriJIng (hat enti of tha tranaai'llun. and they outnumber the wets four te one, sit by silently and let these two Southern Democrats carry the burden of the eighteenth Amendment. The Argument Siimmarlr-e-d.

Briefly summarized, the arguments I hat appear tor and against present-day Prohibition ait something like thin: For The Eighteenth Amendment was legally enacted It is now the law nnd must be obeyed. The great in. iks of people favors it. The churches are for It. Htatistic show It financial Itenehts to tha peoplo.

A legitimate Kederal power. Against An Invasion of personal liberty. The law has broken down and clogged the wheels of Justice. It has bred corruption, crime nnd general dlsrespert lor all law. The constitutional amendment was "put over" when 4,000,11110 men wore at war.

Statistics to prove these general contentions. Arguments Very Hare, only on the rarest occasion does a new argument Intrude Itself Into these Prohibition debates. Fauii speech's makeup can be anticipated and catalogued under the foregoing i lassitiratlonH. Tlnkham of Massachusetts opened Hie sluice gales of this debate last week by calmly reading Into the is. old newspaper clippings roconnt-i V'Nl outstanding ecclesiastics who disapproved ITuliPI.il ion.

He quoted Cardinal O'Connell as saving that "1'rolilbltlonlsts habitually practice misrepresentation." Here's an I pshaw Specimen. Then came the reply of I'pshaw of Ueorgln. Here are aoino of the choice bits from his speech. Just to show the sample of arguments employed by the Irys: "I want to stats that that declaration of that Catholic prlafe that jevmt zcreec JUPu'ayns -Ration, at ouraoor 'prohibitionists habitually practice misrepresentation' Is a miserable lie. an unwarranted, uutrugoous statement.

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