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TODAY'S MARKETS San Francisco Butter, 92 score, 40yc; eggs, extras, No: 1, MORNING I I VOL xxvn TWELVE PAGES MODESTO, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 1926 TWELVE PAGES No. 91 Federal Prosecution Of Prohibition Cases Is Held Successful CHAPLAIN IS ACQDITTEDOF ALL CHARGES MADE BY GIRL Acquitted UC1LLE SWALLOW, top, Kan- sas girl, accuser of Captain Orvi'Ie CUmpiU. army chaplain, below, who has been acquitted by court martial on all counts of improper intimacies with her. U. S.

REFUSES TO ATTEND CONFERENCE FEAR SIX MEN TRAPPED BY SLIDE HAVE Volstead Entirely Capable of Being; Enforced and Is Being Enforced, Woman! Assistant Attorney General of U. S. Declaresjcaptain Clampitt Not! By RAYMOND CLAPPER Decided As To HlSJ (United News Staff Correspondent) I Mav ASHINGTON, April is entirely capable of being J.vvoi enforced and is being enforced with increasing effectiveness, I SAN FRANCISCO, April 19 MIC Captain Orvjlle Clampitt, i army chaplain, tonight was found not guilty on all counts of improper Intimacies with Lucelle Swallow, Fort Leavenworth, Kan- enforced and is being enforced with increasing effectiveness, Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, assistant attorney general in charge of all prohibition prosecution, told the senate judiciary sub-corn- mittee when she appeared today at the request of the drys. Mrs.

Willebrandt liclcls one of the most important posts in the -federal enforcement machinery, because it is her duty to prosecute the cases that aro worked up by prohibition agents. Drys attach great importance to her testimony, because, as the superior of TJnited States Attorney Emory R. EUckner of New York, she disputed his recent pessimistic statement that prohibition was almost impossible of enforcement. Meanwhile the house alcoholic traffic committee decided to postpone its prohibition survey, which was to have started tomorrow, until the senate hearings are over. Andrews to Make Some Disclosures Assistant Secretary the Treasury.

Andrews, who has been adversely censured by drys for his testimony relating to sale of light beer, announced he would have some interesting disclosures to make before the senate judiciary committee Wednesday. Legislation to permit the coast guard to search American vessels anywhere for contraband wares, chiefly liquor and was recommended to congress Andrews. Prohibition officials slated that the new rum treaty to be negotiated with Great Britain would include a provision for -interchange, of information relative to ship. movements of suspected liquor smugglers. Mrs.

Willebrandt was the first witness the drys have put on the stand whose wits were nimble enough to meet the swift thrusts of Senator Reed of Missouri. She wore a dark tailored suit and grey off her small hat and revealed heavy raven hair smoothed down around an attractive young face. "I-would any- modified to the extent of. giving it more teeth," Mrs. Willebrandt.

said. She was not asked directly about the sale of beer under government supervision discussed by Andrews, but she was emphatic in insisting that the law can be enforced if the states will do their share. Jtecd said that she had com plained to him previously about inefficiency of prohibition agents gathering evidence. Enforces Law RS. Mabel Walker Wllle- brandt, assistant attorney general in charge of all prohibition prosecution, v.

ho told the senate judiciary sub-committee that prohibition is entirely capable of bwing enforced. sas, girl, by a court martial which has been in progress at the Presi: dio here. The acquittal came after Captain Clampitt took tho stand in his own behalf and gave his version of bis, relationship with Miss Swallow while he was stationed at Vort: Leavenworlh. Captain Clampitt i Explains His Visit The point about which this mony revolved was the statement from the accused captain that he had never visited Miss Swallow while she lived at a lodging house in Fort Leavenworth. What he did.

do, the captain said, was to visit a soldier who bad quarters in thn I same house. It was while lie was in tlie private's room that Miss Swallow entered anil said she wanted to talk with Captain Clampitt alone. was then the givli made a clandestine approach. Cap-! tain Clampitt testified. "I requested Fritz (the private to leave the room," Captain Clampitt I testified.

"The girl became friendly, and I became impressed with the fact that she was making advances I and extended an invitation lo mo I which 1 repulsed." Captain Clampitt said be li-id been unable to locate the private in whose room Miss Swallow attempted to compromise him, otherwises lie would have produced him to tcs- tify at tlie court martial. Freed On the First Ballot On All Counts In acquitting Captain Clampitt AT A SUFFOCATED Projected Parley May Be Dropped; Action Of Kellogg Expected New Landslide Wipes! Out Progress Made By Rescue Workers GENEVA, April A TMumiis Entry of the United Slates into County. April the court lias been made Sixty miners were working at I much more dit'fuiiilt, it' not i speed tonight in an en- I possible, by the refusal oi tlie'tleavor to rescue six tunuol 'American government to par-: workers entombed in the Grizzly i i i i in a conference at Gou-j creek bore of the Fouther Uivcv i ova to discuss its reservations Power company since Saturday i connection i i i thc The rescuers worked tonight in 0 0 01 1 1 i raec Pessimistic reports today in: refused the hivTtalion 'to inert wlilt i i a i a six men 1-kignu court signatories, league a suffocated before an air pipe cials admitted that the projected line was worked into the scclion even the conference were held, other signatories lo tlie Hague convention would he apt to veto American reservation unless an American rcpreKiMilalive were a at the meeting. Tho league of nations' council may take up tlie question and seek another, solution whereby the Uuitad States may be admitted to the cave-in on one end and the unbored section of the tuuuol on the oilier. A new landslide in tho ivhore the rescuers were working today wiped out (he progress made and tonight it was estimated that nine or ten hours would bo required before the imprisoned men would be reached.

The being constructed is part of network hydro-electric I Kollogg's refusal, while not fed from Lake Almanor, gcthei- unexpected, caused a sensa- the" largest iirlirieial lake in the I lion. The feeling in the United Slates senate toward At 4 p. m. the rescuers sent i any meeting that savors of lhe out word that IS fuel separated I league of nations or affiliated them from (lie imprisoned men The ics is well here, but it is work vras. hampered considerably by I l.n.-c- Mouvet, Noted Paris Dancer, Weds Partner Maurice Taking No More Chances of Losing By Marriage PARIS, April Mouvut, Iambus Paris dancer, who lias lost many partners when they deserted him for matrimony, has at hist taken protective nica- against such losses in I he future.

In announcing his marriage today to Kleanora Ambrose of Kansas City, Mouvet decided that he was marrying his latest daneiny partner that he would be assured of her company on the stage for the rcniaiiider of his life. Some of Residents Flee In Canoes To Sea; Others Save Stock COLONEL OF U. S. MARINES CONVICTEDOF DRUNKENNESS I Verdict Expected In, Week Or Two; Trial Causes a i A I BASE, SAN DIEGO, April Alexander. S.

Williams today drank the dregs of the cocktail he offered to Brigadier-General medley D. Butler last month, when the military court trying i on a charge of Intoxication preferred by adjourned today under, cir! cumstances leaving no doubt as i to his conviction. While the court niatfe no com or than that it hart adjourned, the circuin- stance of its adjourn in ent were a iacit admission Unit it believed the colonel guilty oE appearing drunk in the public rooms of the 'Hotel, Del Coronado the night lie' gave a dinner party in honor of General Butler. Officers familiar with court martial procedure explained as the court departed that adjournment without 'definite announcement of acquittal is a military aourt's courteous way of Informing a defendant he has been, convicted. Verdict Will Be Announced Soon Findings and recommendations oE the.

court will be sent direct to" the as ng parties. Unanimous approval of the Amer-! lean conditions by notes from Wash- i iugton to the various signers of i convention is believed by many here 1 i i i i i i i i -lo Jc osl impossible. Such a a 1)t tor ratification'of the rasbr-j has been discouraged byi Mayor Picrson Takes Oath Of Office; Appointees Will Be Made Tonight i i i A A i A. Pierson tonight sworn tlie new mayor of Turlodc, today the court martial announced i cecding William Uridegroom. "other crs since the senuts that the accused officer was freed members of the hoard of i ac-; nal has be'en heard from the chamber in which the men are held.

Two doctors from Oroville, with complete.hospital equipment are at the portal prepared to minister to the miners when they are reached, if a spark of life remains. Richard superintendent of PMC nrpiiiniiMri OttLL Ollir LIIILj Resolution of Senator McNary Recommends That Bid Be Thrown Out on the first ballot on every count in the charges brought against him. tees sworn in by City Cleric A. P. i "Wo did have to dismiss some eases in bunches of fifty," Mrs.

Willebrandt admitted, "because of faulty -warrants. "Untrained' agents will rush into a place like a bird dog that barks instead of seta." Says Enforcement Conditions Better WASHINGTON, A i jSale of the American-Orient, Mail lino to R. Staplcy Dollar was held up today by a senate resolution of protest. Chairman O'Connor nf Uie ship- She insisted enforcement, conditions were "What about New York?" Ileerl asked. "Well, I don't want to do any Coueing about New York," she laughed, Indicating she doubted if that great city was getting better day by day in every way.

"Wouldn't agents do better if they were under you instead of under the treasury department?" Reed asked. "You -are asking me to admit I'm a bigger man than anyone else," she objected. "What can we do to get better enforcement?" Reed persisted. "Quit talking about it and niako results do the talking," she said quickly. "Is the law being enforced now?" Goff, West Virginia dry, asked.

"It ia being enforced increasing effectively, as is shown by the story told by stalistics," Mrs. Willebrandt replied. Taking the years 1923 and she said the number of a a convictions had increased from the total amount of fines from to the average jail sentence from 21 days to 43 days; the total length of sentences from 2,003 years to 4,560 years. Such of these figures as ping hoard was preparing to sign the bill of sale when tiio resolution of Senator McNary. recommending Dollar's bid of $4,500,000 be thrown out, was passed unanimously.

Thu chairman said he would withhold his signature until the shipping board had considered the resolution. The resolution set forth that it was the sense of the senate i a lion on the world court first be-i the rescue forties, gave came known. Is a tlie trapped men UK: Ferguson were: Sain. -McCulIasli i UI signatories 1 ll lam Cope reman j- and A. i i i i i i 0 tlie that! JB lfnn lain Clampitt said-he had not madu orn uleclud I 'nit-cut i i i 011G of the aLioils SCIKI-! up his mind whether ho would leave "itely "Hit ie American rcserva-1 the army or not.

At any rate, he The i i niuiiihun; of i should be accepted. will not leave the inluistry. board besides I. iiyur linilegraom 1 The captain the owner of "Reel -o: G. W.

E. Johnson anil Aiiios'Uld. Law Head," an intcrnaliomilly famous Gillilland. horse which has been awarded a A i o'f a city number or first prizes. A motion chief police, city recorder, ABOARD STEAMER KALA, 'SLAND OF HAWAII, April fourth outbreak of the volcano Mauria Loa from its Kau side was seen today from the decks of the Haleakalt.

There was an immense glare on the advocate general of the navv dark mountainside high above the at Washington and communicated se a. I together with his. recpm Two widely separated actions are with an activity greater than known before in historic times. The outburst today occurred to the south of the one that began nine days ago. E.

Edison. C. McFcrmeit. KILO. T.

April native village Hoopuloa lies under 50 feet of cooling despite tlie sacrifices of Hawaiiaiis to Fele, goddess of the volcano. The offered'pigs, herbs and tlis: tilled Ikiuor to the molten rock stream from Mauna. LOR rolled, over the 'homes of the hundred: in- the fled i by the clouds of smoke arid steam, time to drive, flocks of slieep mendation for sentence, secretary of UIP. navy. The veidict is expected to be officially announced in the national capital within a or two.

Dismissal from the service 15 the maximum penalty possible under naval regulations, but In not involving- drunkenness on duty 1 sentence usually does not exceed reduction i rank "or numbers. Colonel was on duty When, testified byGeneral Butler during the Vfas ''full" at his home "and Ingly, aiggHngty drunk at the hotel." Arguments the con- Rpiwion nf the tfinl thflav were'-brier, and so was tlw-rieliberA- tion of court after it'retired st on verdict of lhe new trustees tomorrow i picture company has offered to star engineer and i o'f I "Kurt'Head" 1 In a picture, and Cap-1 schools i bo made at a meeting tain Clampitt might he Induced to leavo his service in the army on the strength of Hie prospect offered for capitalizing lhe fame of his horse. Illicit Distilling Is Put In Effect Would Bar Users Of Gas, Ele.ctricity SACIIAIHKNTO, A i I linv declaring illicil distil-; other villages. A few saved somo 11:32 a to ml er of their small Shortly afldr 12 o'clock departure ol nun small belonging. building As small belnngin Iho red hot lava, poured throiigu the village, it set afire 1 the 15 buildings; and covem! the ruins.

Tlie beach, where the Biitiyes hail la'-nched their fishing boats, covered-by smoking rock. From, the rose clouds of --team and a- ioar Mike the exhaust of a thousand loco-. fuhmy, carrying a a i Bill To Give Real Impetus To; motive's as Lhe 'lava 'formed new of 55,000 or two years in jail, or used in (he mountainous i regions of the south and east JUrorS In Slllt! against moonshiners, has been i nto effect by lhe federal govern- Collective Action, Says Secretary ASHINGTON. April (IP)TM tho sale should bids called for, bo stopped, new ships allocated to persons interested fn the, north- was west. The shipping board I charged i accepting thn hid when il held larger hid, hut I refused to open it.

Senator McNary said W. Kecne, representing Porllaud ami Seattle financiers, had offered $100,000 more for the ships than Dollar, but that 'he board refused to consider the offer because it came- in late. The resolution said the sale would give the Dollar company a monopoly in the Pacific. The shipping board late today ordered the signing of the contract be held up pending report by general counsel of the board on the legal status of lhe matter, expected tomorrow. a i i Forcing Merchants To Accept Manchurinn Military Paper; Money Worthless 1 journf; I Til Oil II i to ask l.lu tnjiirl fui 1 a i i nl' an- i anicndmo of the cighlcenLh The law providing the hcaviur iicualty, vioialion of which I A i Tso-Lin's troops are in possession of Peking and already have created liial i prevent Jud i a felony, Wiis placed on the rove singer from i stututefi eight years ago, bheels loiific sil.ii.-iiion by compelling i a i jurors were r.onsii to accept military paper money.

is worthless in exchange. I Piflcen hundred Manchurian sol- British Are Lifting diers already aro inside the city and more are coming. Tuan Chi-Jui, provisional chief executive originally installed on Chang Tso-Lin's orders, continues but asserts he is at earliest on- When the a i moved toM'oinls out. but fell into disuse be- 'cause of the nal.ional prohibilion act providing a penalty lighter. Manchurian ers of gas or clectricily, 1 the court This money overruled i promontory on Iho ocean bed.

Thousands of spectators, coming automobiles ovar liie government road which -oncirclea the of Hawaii, witnessed the scene. Othevn from stenmerr a "half mile'of shore witlched fire and water meet. Auto Output Of Nation For 1925 Totals 4,314,636 "Tlic siild. "will KJVD real impetus to collective a limi whicli, liy eencral agreomcnt. Is prcrptiiiisilc: t.o agrlr.ulliinil i i i i i i i output for 1H25 totaled YORK.

A i innhilizo for ilcrn fnrmers a credit biif notifying tlio "defendant interpreted in the light court martial precedent as Intlicatins a Verdict of conviction probably "had been reported, and the definite 'nouucenient of adjournment "to await action of the convening aii- tliority," meanliiB the secretary' of the navy, was isaued less" than hours later. Trial Originated In Dinner Party Colonel trial, which l)f- came sationally known as Uie cock' tail court martial, originated In a dinner party the colonel gavt -at Coronado home March vl in honoi of General Bntler. who was eent San Diego to relieve Williams aa. commander of the marine base. Guests of the colonel on occasion Included, beside the guest of honor and Mrs.

Bntler. Major and Mrs. Ross ROwell, Major and Mis rtussotl H. Davis, Captain and Mrs. source i a to let into the markets ill an increase of nearly 20 ralll re- per cent over 1021.

according tn the ft' Captain and Mis them KO Conner and Drass Kesearch associa- George P. Stokes, Major and i Doxey and Captain even terms Eggers Suspected Stock Restrictions; In Bank Robbery 1 tion. will) all. Registrations passed the will help every fanner who 000 mark, showing a rise of 13 per i lias to sell bis produce in tlie a i cent, since J92-I. it is estimated I for lack of resources over." wit luu to hold office, The report is I ready to retire portunity.

A I April SAN FRANCISCO, A i lo Tbcotlore DriUali are i i tlio restric-; gers. notorious criminal, with the lions on live cattle, robbery of Llic J.ibcrly Itank lirancli KOiit's, hay and straw imporls Twciily-Miird and Mission streets, Texas, i hav io L. A. Bank Absconder Sought In Seattle to hold it I that lhe total consumption of copper Ijy the automobile, industry lasf. year totaled more than pounds.

The figures of tho National Automobile Chamber of Commerce, ehow existed shicc 1o by tho police, i'. was To Start Own Mother of Screen Radio Next Month; Actress Gravely September 22. it icrtcd announced loday. Eggcrs, recently the commons, dcparlmciit today! rc'easerl from the county jail, where CHICAGO. April casting station WCFL, owned and operated exclusively by (he Chicago Federation of Labor, will be on the air early next month.

Daily talks on labor conditions will be radio- cally ill. iilh six Coi parUcipa- these from I i 'in the uscape of his brother. LOS ANGELES, April (IP)-- Lillian Glsli, motion picture actress, left here today for London, California cotitttines. Is 1S I el ere tuuay lor ijunuuo, 1 i "V7 her mother is reported to be criti-! Wrecked Uy I a i Milo, from lhe federal building. Is being held for robbery of waiter.

Dur: John Doxey and Captain aud Mrs. Charier llice. All of these offciers testified at the court umrlial, l)ut their wives and oilier women guests at the party were not called, lo the stand by either prosecution or defense. 'General Butler, as the prosecution's star witness, testified hio host was "full" at Hie party and SKATTLE, April 1,138,408 cars were produced whei) be Siiw latcl at tholiotel, tailed search of Seattle and neighboring towns W.IK started old ay for tlie first quarter erf J92G, setting James 11. O'Neill, a Los Angeles wanted in con- bank teller, ho in Liberty bonds from tho insMlution where he was LOR Angeles officials employed.

ised Se- attlo police thai, believed the escape. Ariel Eggers, O'NelH to be in this slate, waiting brother, was iiled. went back to 1922 were lower, and cast ari(1 entertainment features will 'MISS Gish plans to sail from New the upward, curve of all was regular. 1)e "Large cities present the greatest number and gravest examples of law violations," said Mrs. Wille- brandt.

"Where states have quit talking about it and have settled i down to the business of punishing! violators, the federal government's problem is proportionately small." I York Saturday. i 8 7 Men Killed In Wanted-- EARLY RETIREMENT OF ELBERT GARY HINTED NEW YORK. April A i of Gary's pbssible refire- SAX FRANCISCO. April Safocrackers wirly Hiis morning i PKipa trn Rum War blew open safn of hie Klosta Ice; UniCagO Ivum VVar Cream conipany. linuulway.

CHICAGO, April (ffi)--liighty- Oakland, oblHinc.1 several hundred men, inclmliag six policemen. wi dollars in casli. and Ihcn wrecked been killed by liquor ngs new $1,500 ciiKli register, a i the Chicago in the last and a half years, il was revealed loday by John Siege, deputy chief of detcc- an opportunity to go to Canada. WASHINGTON'. A i A magnetic survey from St.

i lo Tucson. has been a new record for lhe quarter. French Law Limits Incomes To $20,000 I A I April one France Is permitted by law to cam inoro than 520,000 a year. Such- is surprising and perhaps unfore-! seen consequence of tho taxes and is voted by parliament i year in an a to restore Bv faV'tiie sensational phase nation's finances. ID staggeringly drunk he had to be carried out.

In fart, ho added, thi: colonel of marines, whoso distlii- Kiiished military record had not been 27 years of service, was FO on Mto Tiicrht i-f March 0 that, he giggled. The defense fought back with witnesses who 3iiid the colonel did not- appear to be intoxicated: It some of them admitted lie mstoady on his feet, probably ordered liy the con contents. Oakland police stale'! ilial the safe was blown by experts, oniy two holes being drilled and nllro- an address which many believe may have been his valedictory as chair. a of the United States Steel cor- --That for which you Dave no, poration. Elbert H.

Gary today told further use--no matter what is. You will be surprised how many people are waiting to buy practically ANYTHING that you may "wish to dispose of. Furniture. Household Goods, Farm Implements, Clothing, Musical In- stockholders that the world's greatest industrial company, despite its huge suVplus of more a 000,000, was not yet in a position lo distribute dividends with a lavish hand. Recounting his twenty-five years struments, find a ready 0 stewardship, -which has spanned market when advertised in the full life of the corporation, classified columns of the outlined the slcady growth in Herald.

the financial strength oi Uniled Stales Steel, assuring stockholders What have YOU lo sell? Adver-! that tbe management had "carefully tise it in the "Classified" andM" 1 1 an organization and eslab- yoa can be assured of pleasing) plants which wiIMnsnrc pro-jployes -words of cordial thanks and menl, which has been rumored in Wall street since early this year, came "when lhe veteran chairman concluded: "While we are all strong and vigorous loday. yet we know that in the natural course of events, it i probably soon be time for some of! us to say goodbye." At another point in his address, he remarked that "if these, were the last utterances of your" chairman concerning the affairs of the corporation, he would, in behalf of the holders of the securities of the Uniled Slates Sleel corporation, express to its subsidiaries and their officers and em- glycerin used. Wind Halts Flight to a i more accurate markings puido il parties. 1 Captain Stcgc said a murders by the traffic in illicit liquor had increased (hreefold in recent months. His figures showed len Mayings in two and a a Of Giant Dirigible eievoiMi.

ip. 43 19251 and 25 In tho first three and a a months of this year. PEOPLE URGED TO GO TO POLLS BY COOLIDGE iof the trial, however, concerned A big business man, a colonel's condition nor a i fiOd.000 francs a year gets Coronai i cocktails. It involved about per cent ot Iho first uions hv 0 a iC er 8 of the colo- 000 far Himself and of the remain-. comin tliat Gcncr al Biitlor browbeaten them into their written statements on the Coronado affair so to say "lio was drunk" instead of "he was unsteady on his feet." or words to that effect.

)00 for himself and of the 1 ni? 300.000 state lakes all ex-; tection and advancement to the I grateful appreciation for their his' terests of stockholders, and i i ilionghthtl find RHPcossfu I terests 01 and i i ilionghthtl find may phone your ad without detriment to i work pertfonins to the operation LAKEHURST, X. A i 1 i blowing at right an files to hangar, prevented the dirigible I-os Angeles from being removed from UK; shed lo (he mooring mast this moniiuj; in preparation for lhe flight achud- ulcd for today. Officers in ciiavsc of tlio craft be- lieved it could not be taken from French Ace Plans N.Y. To S.F. Flight PH.

func- iu the hangar until late today. ITALY-GREECE PACT I ATHBXS, April Minister Itoiiplon today denied the IMS) and we'll collect later, welfare." properties ia their care." of thn 111 flit against Turkey. SAX FRANCISCO. A i i plain Reno Fonck. lhe French ace of airmen, who brought, down German planes during the war, after announcing plans for a nonstop transatlanlic flight from Paris lo Xew York next September, declared he may test hi3 craft by non-stop flight from Xew York lo San Fraiiuato early in iug in word reaching this from the Frpech capital.

A I A i Citizenship in America i-s vale enterprise, but a i President Ccxilide" address tonight before tho i i congress of the alional Society of Iho Daughters of tho American Revolution, i which he urged the people to exercise a greater interest in their government by going to lhe polls on election observance as il relates lo the no! ibli aid day. "The whole system of government," he asserted, "rests on the ballot box. I'nloss citizens perform llit'i'r, nidi i med duties of citizenship, the president said it "cannot be denied that in the ispicndor and glamor of our life moral sense is sometimes blinded." "It cannot be disputed." he said, "that in too many quarters there is a lack of reverence for a i and of obedience to law. Such occurrences are sporadic and produce their own remedy. When society' finds that Its life and properly arc! in peril from evildoers, it is very TcmpcraiTM WEATHER FOR MONDAY, A I 19.

1923 Clean northwest Tvind. quick to organize its forces for its own protection. That cannot fail to uiio in our own fiii" people as a whole are Ihor- P. i shrl Making a passing rcfcrcaco to oughly law abiding." FOLLOW A RcbcU'cn. the first militant opposition In America to the British crown, began April 20, 1676..