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LXXXVI. NO. 52-DAILY Entered as second-clan onattsr, t'oat Office, Cincinnati, Ohio, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 21, 1929 TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS JEM Sponsor Of Oratory FREE REIN II I HI 1111 All Borah Seeks FILIBUSTER Planned In Senate HUGE SYSTEM Proposed In Plans DIVINE LIGHT Shines On POLICE BILL Passed By Senate. Oh, Cooperation Needed, Eh! Doran Could Wring Country With Regional Aid, He Says wmiiiiii iiiiii mi iWMiiii liiiiiMrnrirnnnnnnumTnwtr feT faff- reglonal authorities to "evade and sidestep their responsibilities took form as soon as the national prohibition act became a law." In a few cities, he said, corrupt political machines, through police departments made alliances with the underworld and built up illicit liquor rings. The Prohibition Bureau head quoted from a decision of the Supreme Court handed down In 1920 that said the prohibition act "is operative throughout the United States, binds all legislative bodies.

Courts, public officers and individuals within Robert W. Stewart Says In Reply To Enemies. Indiana Oil Man Has Control In Hands, Stockholders Are Told In Circular Letter. Legal And Publicity Counsel For John D. Rockefeller, Assailed For Accusations In Pamphlet.

Chicago. February 20 (AP) Robert W. Stewart ripped into adherents of John D. Rockefeller who arc trying to oust him as head of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana, In a statement mailed to stockholders tonight. Stewart charged his opponents with having assumed a "holler than thou" attitude toward the "great majority of the stockholders of the company," and with having Initiated a "rule jr ruin policy, bent on securing control of the company, regardless of That" anyone still should suppose there is any "moral issue" involved in the struggle between Rockefeller and niiuseu lor coniroi 01 me company ntM characterized as a "naive Idea," and challenged the assumption "that divine guidance is vouchsafed to my opponents alone." The statement of the Indiana company's Chairman follows close on the heels of a statement from his camp In which it was said Stewart has In his possession "proxies of a great majority of the stockholders and rapidly is nearing a working majority of the stock." It also was said the Stewart "proxies Include 'thousands of revocations of proxies orig inally given to Mr.

Rockefeller Jr." REPLY MADE TO Al.DRIUH. Today's broadside is directed at a seventy-two-page document Issued February 10 by Wlnthrop W. Aldrlch, brother-in-law of and attorney for Mr. Rockefeller. It assails Aldrlch and Ivy Lee, New York press agent, and denounces the seventy-two-page doc ument as "sly," "slander" and a "de ception." "I cannot believe that Mr.

John D. Rockefeller Jr. ever gave his approval to the publication of such slander," Stewart declared. "He sailed away to Egypt at the very beginning of this campaign and possibly the above named men (Aldrlch and Lee) may conceive that any odium which may arise over shady tactics pursued by others may be attributed to their over-zealousness and not reflect on Mr. Rockefeller Jr, "I had hoped this contest would be kept on a high plane and have done so in fact rather than in prom ises.

It was my understanding that such, too, was the hope and intention of Mr. John D. Rockefeller for whom it was stated that he did Intend to keep It on a high plane, that he published his letters of disapproval of mc merely that the public might know his attitude, that he simply was offering other stockholders the opportunity of joining him If they saw fit and that he would not enter into any 'unseemly scramble for "Then Mr. Rockefeller sailed for Egypt. "Mr.

Aldrlch and Mr. Ivy Lee apparently did not understand the matter as he did. After saying he would embark on no 'unseemly scramble for Continued on Page 2, Column 4, Of Van Sweringens Filed With Commission. Rail Merger Is Second To Be Outlined, As B. And 0.

Submitted Theirs Day Before. Nickel Plate, Erie, Pere Mar quette, And 0. And Hocking Valley Are Main Units In Combine. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO TB3 BHQUtlia. Washington, February 20 A battle of railroad titans over the apportion ment of 66,000 miles of carrier lines In the East appeared Imminent today, as the Van Sweringen- interests asked leave to set up a $2,500,000,000 system covering 13,148 miles.

The Van Sweringen plan, filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission. sought authority to acquire control of, or an Important interest In. 15 carriers. These would be grouped with the Chesapeake Ohio, Hocking Valley, Pere Marquette, Nickel Plate and Erie, already under Van Swer ingen ownership-management. This plan and one filed by the Bal timore Ohio yesterday, together contemplate-the of about 27,000 miles of railroad lines.

It was indicated that these two sets of in terests are in accord on their plans. The New York Central and the Penn sylvania, which under the plans filed would be the only other major systems In the East, are yet to be heard from. PENNSYLVANIA TO FIGHT. All Indications were that the Penn sylvania will fight both plans as It fought projects much like them, put forward in 1925. It sought then a great enlargement of Its system.

The present proposals appear to have lit tle room for this. In some Instances, they would take away properties now under Pennsylvania control. Railroad men predicted that the New York Central will be found aligned with the Van Sweringens and the Baltimore Ohio, but officially no Intimation was given of its po sition. The Eastern consolidations will be threshed out as a whole, it was expected, when the commission holds hearings on the new plans. The Van Sweringen application was filed In the name of the Chesapeake Ohio.

It proposed that road buy the stock of or leaso the Wheeling Lake Erie, the Chicago Eastern Illinois, the Virginian, The Delaware, Lackawanna Western, the Bessemer "continued on Page 11, Column 8. Sweep Chair Factory At Wade And Barton Streets-Damage To Stock And Building Estimated At $20,000. Fire damaged the B. Klinker Company, chair factory, northwest corner Wade and Barton Streets, to the extent of 20,000 last night. Firemen responded to two alarms and quick work prevented the flames from causing heavy damage.

Mrs. Charles Vitt, 1546 Barton Street, summoned firemen when she detected flames on the fourth floor of the four-story brick structure. Dense Dense smoke handicapped firemen and a second alarm was sounded after the flames had climbed the elevator shaft to the fourth floor. Marshals Gesselbrock and Cunning ham reported that the fire appeared threatening at first. They directed firemen, who hurriedly combated the smouldering and fast spreading flames.

George H. Klinker, Vice President of the concern, gave the estimated damage to police. Mr. Klinker reported that a' extra heavy fireproof door prevented the flames and smoke from entering departments, in which considerable fin ished goods was MRS. EMMA BACKUS NAMED To Represent Governor Cooper At Indiana Clark Celebration.

Columbus, Ohio, February 20 (AP) Governor Cooper today appointed Mrs. Emma Backus, Cincinnati, President of the George Rogers Clark Memorial Commission bf Ohio, to be his representative to attend the sea-quicentennlal celebration of the surrender of Fort Sackvlllc, February 25, 1923, at Vlncennes. Surren der of the fort to a force under George Roger Clark was one of the most notable events of the American Revolution and paved the way to the settlement of the Northwestern TerrI tory, of which Ohio If a part lieforeAccepting Cabinet Position, 'Tis Hinted. Parley Is Conducted By President Elect And Senator From Idaho At Hoover Mansion. Lawmaker Is Pleased At Offer Of Chance To ove Statement That Nation Can lie Dried, Washington Observers Say- Others Declare Attorney.

Generalship Less Attractive Than Present Job. By Edwin W. Gableman. srtcur. DisrTCH to tb tNqontn.

Washington, February 20 L'pon outcome of a conference tonlirht be tween Presldent-Elect Hoover and Senator William E. Borah, Ideho, may depend Senator Borah's decision wkh. regard to the Attorney-GeneralihlD In the Hoover Cabinet. Senator Borah went to the Presi dent-elect's home eavly tonight on Invitation of Mr. Hoover and the two were closeted together until a late hour.

Neither of them authorized any statement preceding the conference. The general assumption, of course. is that the conference related to the Attorney-Generalship, the offer of which is said to have been made to Senator Borah a few days ago by an authorized representative of the, President-elect. HEFISAI, is EXPECTED. Senator Borah has refused to discuss the matter, but the general impression among his friends Is that he wllldoolunetjie ffer to preside ovVr' the DepaVtmenl of Justice in the Hoover administration.

He i raid to have expressed an to surrender his present responsible place as Chairman of the For eign Relations Committee of the Senate to accept a Cabinet portfolio. However, there was a report abroad tonight that the Idaho Senator might change his mind if he received absolute ssuranco from the Presidentelect that he would have a free hand In running the department. The Senator Is said to be intrigued at the prospect of trying his hand at enforcentnt of national prohibition. particularly after his oft-repealed statement that the Volstead Act can be enforced If the proper measure are adopted. TRANSFER IN OFFING.

The understanding all along ha been that the prohibition enforcement bureau Is to be transferred fiom the Treasury Department to the Depart ment of Justice early In the Hoover Administration, which would make i.he Attorney-General the head of the entire prohibition enforcement ma chinery of the country. This official now Is in charge of ail criminal prose cutions under the Volstead Act, but the proposed change would place him in charge of the administrative features of the law as well. Senator Borah is highly acceptable to Drys of the country, and already considerable pressure has been ex erted by prohibition leadpr. in in duce him to accept. In fact, he being importuned to sacrifice his personal desires for the benefit of the cause in which he enlisted militantiy few years ago.

The situation is such that Senator Borah may find it to be embarrassing, to refuse if Mr. Hoover gives to him the assurance that he will not be interfered with in the administration of the office. BERATIXG IS FACED. To refuse the proffer under such circumstances would subject him to the charge by the fanatical Drys that he failed to measure up to requirements when the test came. It isn't customary, however, for a President elect or a President to renounce his responsibility when he selects a Cabinet head, and If Mr.

Hoover has been appraised correctly by those who profess to know him intimately, he would be one of the last men in the world to give an absolutely free rein to any official who served under him. Senator Borah likewise has been accustomed to playing a lone hand in public life, and at no time has he displayed any fancy for teamwork, If it meant that he had to subordinate hla views to those of another. Hence, the way may be made easy for him to make a graceful exit If he decides to hold on to his Senate seat rather than take his chances with a Cabinet post under Mr. Hoover. Senator Borah has the qualifications that Mr, Hoover Is said to have If House Dares To Cut Enforcement Funds.

Navy Bill Also May Be Caught In Whirl, Since Adjournment Is Only II Days Away. Indianian Replies To Virgini an's Threat On Prohibition Bill By Saying He'll Have Chance To Talk. Washington, February 20 (AP) A decision today by Republican lead ers to kill the first deficiency appropriation bill carrying the controversial (24,000,000 Increase for pro hibition enforcement drew a threat of filibuster In the Senate against the second deficiency measure that would carry all items of the first except the dry fund. Will R. Wood, Acting Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, announced the plan of the party chieftains to put all provisions of the first deficiency measure, except the dry fund Item, In the second deficiency bill now being drawn.

It then Is Intended to add the $2,427,000 recommended by President Coolidge for Increasing prohibition funds as a compromise on the Harris proposal for $24,000,000. Senator Carter Glass, Democrat, Virginia, declared In the Senate that If this program was followed there would be little opportunity of getting the segond deficiency bill through. His declaration was regarded as a threat of a filibuster. MORE FILIBUSTERS Talk of filibuster filled the air today In the Senate, with threats also against the Navy Department measure carrying the funds for starting the newly authorized cruiser construction program and against the long pending Interior Department supply measure. Only 11 days re main 'to the end of the session, and leaders realize considerable talk on all of the propositions may block final action on some.

Senator John J. Blaine, Republican, Wisconsin, an opponent of the cruiser program, blocked an attempt by Frederick Hale. Chairman of the Naval Committee, to bring up the naval supply bill. Later In the day Senator Claude E. Swanson, Virginia, ranking Democrat on the Naval Committee, said he desired a "test" to determine If there was a flilbusler against the naval measure by asking for unanimous consent to take It up immediately.

With a smile Senator Blaine again objected. The Wisconsin Senator did not deny Swanson's query about a filibuster, and Senator Glass, Democrat, Virginia, remarked he was certain there was going to be a filibuster against the bill. TO PHESs KAVV nil. Chairman Hale then announced he would move tomorrow to displace the pending resolution of Senator Walter E. Edge, Republican, New Jersey, authorizing a survey of a Nicaragua!) canal for the navy measure.

During his discussion of the prohibition question Senator Glass said he never had Indulged in a filibuster, but observed that "It Is going to be very difficult to enact another deficiency bill" without the $24,000,000 Item, Late Chairman Wood said he had Continued on I'age 3, Column 5. In one building on the floor where the Monroe Company, headed by Sheriff Charles W. Culktn, New York County, prominent leader In Tammany Hall, has space, and at the Brooklyn establishment. The head of the latter Is James McCunn, who Is also Secretary-Treasurerof the Monroe firm. Authorities absolved the Monroe Company of association with the liquor traffic.

Investigators said, however, that McCunn, who Is believed to be ID Nassau, Bahamas, was friendly with Shannon, but no details of their association were disclosed. McCunn was said by authorities to be the head of a liquor ring catering to an exclusive clientele. Shannon was suspended last Thursday on Information given by Robert B. Watts, Assistant United States Attorney, Campbell said. The suspension was said to have taken place under orders from Washington.

Shannon had been a prohibition agent for eight years, and Campbell re- Continue' ea Pag Columa State Force Measure Is Approved, 20 To 6. Proposal Is On Way To Certain Success Before Governor And In House, Is Prediction. Threat Of Referendum Loosed By Bender In Spirited Debate That Precedes Adoption. Rural And Urban Support Behind Move Ackerman Defends Plan From Attack Of Cuyahogan. By Wilmer Q.

Mason. HCIAL DISEATCK TO THE INQCIllB. Columbus, Ohio, February 20 Voting 20 to 6 for a state police force, to be set up In a division of public safety under the Department of Commerce, the Ohio Senate today sent the bill to virtually assured success in the House, with prospect that, if Governor cooper signu win iubjected to a referendum next fall. Promise to call a referendum was made in debate by Senator George H. Bender, Cuyahoga County, an Three rural members, one from the coal mine area and two city members, voted against the measure, which Was introduced by Senator Joseph N.

Ackerman as part of the program of the Committee on Economy in the public service, SUPPORT IS DIVIDED. Three members were absent today aud two abstained from voting. Tho bill drew support generally from both city and rural contingents, labor hafv Ing withdrawn objections, rural Interests being actively for the bill and Governor Cooper, according; to Senator Ackerman, having "most heartily approved of this measure." Administration leaders did not view prospects of a referendum entirely without misgivings. The threat of another referendum on the administration's proposed repealer of the Fence law and set-up of machinery to lake its place, lurks behind the scenes. Friends of Governor Cooper fear the police bill would attract to the polls many persons who would not understand the utilities measure, a class that in the past has shown a disposition to vote "no" under such eircumstances.

TWO SCHOOLS COLLEGES. The Senate passed unanimously a bill to make colleges of Bowling Green and Kent Mate normal schools, and approved two minor bills. The House meanwhile marked time, members flocking to hear the Senate debate on the police bill, by' far the warmest of the session to date. Another scrap is on the Senate calendar for tomorrow, with Senator w.it.r Nlckels's drivers' license bill first up for decision. The bill has been amended to provide if tycent license fees for all persons, SB cents to go to the state and 15 to the deputy commissioners issuing the document.

Opponents charged the state police system would cost the taxpayers of Ohio from $760,000 to 1,000,000 a year at the start, and that the amount Would be increased through expansion of the division by succeeding Legislatures. Sponsors of the measure did not answer this contention. "BETTER CASE, THEN!" Senator Bender asserted that "two years ago, the J. and their friends made out a better case for themselves than has been made out fnr the measure. Citing a headline in the American Issue, organ of the Anti-Saloon Jbeague, 10 me enei, state constabulary, Senator Bender referred to the League's changed position approving Jury trials for liquor law violators, and saidl "This year they (the League) have een the light because they got a good licking a deserved licking." Bender was referring to defeat of the Marshall bill to revive Justice of the Peace Courts as outlawed by the Tumey decision (n the Unlted'States Supreme Court.

Senator Ackerman explained the bill In open debate, saying that labor's objections had been met by a provision prohibiting use of the constabulary in labor disputes except upon order of the Governor or persons acting for him. 'To prevent the police from becoming a liquor-raiding agency, Senator Ackerman said, a provision had been put into the bill to confine Jurlsdlc- Coatlnued Pege Celama 4 New Haven. Conn. February 20 i (AP) Intelligent cooperation by state and municipal governments and not more concentration of power In the Federal Government was declared tonight by James N. Doran, Prohibition Commissioner, to be the pathway that will lead to more effective en forcement of prohibition.

Speaking before the Department of Economics, Sociology and of Vale University, the Commissioner charged that unsatisfactory conditions existing In certain communities "arc due almost without exception to the abject failure of local authority to assume Its proper obligation and to enforce the criminal law." The Federal Government, he said, "has substantially fulfilled Its obligation under the concurrent clause of the Eighteenth Amednment." "I am Impressed with the fact," continued Doran, "that public discussion devolves almost entirely on the effectiveness or Ineffectiveness of the enforcement of the law by the Federul Government, and the acts upon which these discussions are based relate almost entirely to local retail sales situations that are dis tinctly and unquestionably the prov ince of state or local authority to handle." Commissioner Doran declared that the movement on the part of certain TOOMBS IS INDICTED On Three Federal Charges Of Hav ing Used Mails To Defraud. St. Louis, February 20 (AP) Roy Toombs, President of the defunct International Life Insurance Company, St, Louis, was Indicted by a Federal Grand Jury today on charges of having used the malls to defraud. A shortage of approximately $3,600,000 was found In the assets of the company and caused Its failure. Two counts In the Indictment charge that employees of the Insurance company, at Toombs's direction, mailed to Toombs, In Chicago, false International Llfo stock certificates.

The third count charges that the Grand Avenue National Bank here, at Toombs's direction, mailed a draft for $106,000 with false stock certificates attached to the National Park Bank of New TRAIN WRECK Takes Lives Of Five. Cars Go Over Embankment 150 Miners Are Injured Broken Hail Is Held Cause. Peoria, 111., February 20 (AP) Five miners were killed, four others so seriously hurt that they may die and 150 suffered less severe Injuries In a train wreck today. Four cars of an eight-coach train of the Peoria Terminal Railway Company plunged over a 25-foot embankment near Hollis, five miles south of here. The train, carrying about 76H miners to work at the Crescent Coal Mines, 15 miles south of Peoria, war proceeding at the rate of only 12 oris miles an hour, miners and railroad officials said, when one of the coaches was thrown off the tracks by what miners said was a broken rail.

One car after another tumbled down the embankment with their loads of from 60 to 75 miners each, until four cars were piled in teh ditch. A fifth car left the tracks and slid part way down the bank, but remained upright. In several of the cars were coal heaters and one of them waf afire by an overturned stove. blaze was extinguished before it had spread to other cars, but not before a miner was burned probably fatally. He was pulled from the car by a companion.

The homes of many of the men were nearby and within a few minutes scores of wives, mothers and children were rushing frantically to the scene. Tonight 40 Injured men still were in hospitals. One hundred others had been treated for minor injuries and taken to their homes. Those killed were William Brown, Lester Jones, George Wilkinson, Cecil Walker and Charles Luthy, all residing in or near Peoria. Those seriously hurt were James Clark, Bert Noel, Henry Zorn and Henry Zimmer.

H. I. Battles, Manager of the Peoria Terminal Railway, said ho believed the rail which broke had been crystallized due to the extreme cold. He said the right of way had been inspected regularly and was In good condition, although several miners disputed this statement. Sweet Grass, February 20 (AP) A Great Northern passenger train locomotive and several cars "Jumped" the track, killing the fireman when the train rammed into a four-foot bonk of snow which had drifted across the tracks near here today.

Paul Greening, Great Falls, was killed and the engineer of the train, whose name was not learned, was Injured slightly. Nono of the passengers was hurt. The cars, with the exception of the engine, remained upright and were pulled back upon the track, the train proceedlnc on IU way, these limits," to support his contention that state and municipal officers should share more of the burden of enforcing the law. Doran defended agents of the Federal Prohibition Bureau as being "as clean as any body of men of like number In any service throughout the land." He suggested that employees of Federal District Attorney's offices throughout the country be placed under civil service. "There Is much talk about corruption In the Federal service," Doran said.

"Let me say that at no time has the Federal Government failed to take drastic measures to maintain a clean service. Recent disclosures of conditions In police departments in some of our large cities should Continued on Pace 2, Column MALT BILL To Be Allowed To Die In Ohio Assembly, League Announces At Capital. Measure "Aroused Interest, But Will Not Be Pushed," 'Tis Said Drys Call For "Action." srscHL DisrArca TO th Columbus, Ohio, February 20 It was admitted today by the Ohio Anti-Saloon League that the bill by Repre sentattve F. W. Piper, Belmont Coun ty, to prohibit the purchase and sale of the malt extract used in making home-brew is not to be pushed to en actment In the Ohio General Assembly.

The league say the bill "aroused considerable Interest," but continues that "It Is doubtful if the Piper bill will be pushed to passage," although, the Lengue says, "Its Introduction was a good thing, for It awoke the state to the fact that Ohio already has a law on the subject and even under the national enforcement act the sellers of malt syrup In Kentucky are being prosecuted and convicted." The League then asks "why do not Ohio officials act?" The League ad mits malt stores "have multiplied rap- Idly under prohibition," and their principal business is "catering to the manufacture of home-brew." The League denies malt is used In baking. The contention is made by the League that possession of "property designed for the manufacture of liquor. Intended for use In violation of law" is Illegal and that "no property rights shall exist In any such property." The League notion that the Introduction of the bill will serve to stir up the prohibitionists to have malt sellers arrested and prosecuted while opponents contend the Piper bill may have the opposite effect, spreading propaganda upon the case with which beer Is made and the exhllirating results obtained from Its use. In that manner more former prohibitionists are to become "home-brew fans." The present percentage is estimated conservatively at from 60 to 80 per cent of the people, dependent upon their "luck" with the brew. PRISON TERMS Decreed For Asa Kejes, Former Prosecutor And Promoter New Trials Are Denied.

Los Angeles, February 20 (AP) Asa Keyes, former District Attorney, and E. II. Rosenberg, former Julian Petroleum Corporation promoter, both convicted of a conspiracy to give and receive bribes were sentenced to terms of one to fourteen years In San Quentln Penitentiary late today by Superior Judge E. Butler. Judge Butler denied their motions for a new trial.

Ben Getzoff, the third convicted man In the Keyes bribery trial, ob tained a two-week probation rom sentence because of Illness. Oral notices of appeal were, filed in all three cases. After a brief argument a denial to motions seeking admittance to ball for Keyes and Rosenberg was made and Judge Butler remanded the prisoners to county Jail. IPhoto by Underwood Underwood MRS. CHAUNCET M.

DEPEW. Mrs. Depew, widow of the noted former Senator from New York, has bestowed the income from to George Washington University in Washington to establish a chair in oratory in memory of her husband. This is an especially posed and personally selected portrait of Mrs, Depew. CLUE FOUND In Abandoned Car.

Postal Officials Join Search For Missing Child. Pair Flee After Attempt To Leave Girl' At Home Of Victim-Father Is Sought. San Francisco, February 20 (AP) Finding today of an abandoned automobile in which were a rag doll and a quantity of candy scattered over the floor supplied the newest clue in the five-day search for four-year-old Doris Smith-Murphy, missing Blnce Friday. when she disappeared from a. public playground here.

Investigation disclosed that the car had been abandoned by a man and woman who had with them a girl resembling the missing child. Police disclosed that what may have been an attempt to return Doris to her parents was made last night. The supposed attempt was made by a man and a woman who stopped an automobile before the dwelling of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Murphy, the child's mother and stepfather.

A small girl resembling Doris sat between them, witnesses reported. Apparently frightened at the approach of a policeman, the woman, about to leave the car with the child, sat down in the par and slammed the door. The man then drove off, followed by a police car, but after a pursuit of several miles the car escaped down a dark street. Continuing their check of clues, contributed by 1 scores of persons, police still were searching parks and wooded hills and dragging reservoirs' and a part of San Francisco Bay off the Marina District. Federal authorities joined police in the search today when Postal Inspectors examined a series of notes re ceived by the child's parents.

The notes, signed purported to have come from the child' abductor. They said the child was safe and added she would be returned March 5, provided the police ceased their efforts to find the writer. Police today concentrated their efforts on the child's family, believing that if Doris's father, Ulysses M. Smith, who is divorced from Mrs. Helen Murphy, mother of the little Continued on Page 3, Column 8.

CADET SHIP Of Spanish Navy Fails To Answer Wireless, Although Due Today At San Francisco. San Francisco, February 20 (AP) Marine authorities here were mys tified today at the failure of the Spanish naval training ship, Juan Se bastian El Canto, to answer wireless messages broadcast over the Pacifio in an effort to ascertain her whereabouts. The ship, a four-njasted barkentlr.e with an auxiliary engine, carried 109 naval cadets in addition to a crew of 14 officers and 168 men. A message from Suva, Fiji Islands, said the ship left there December 1, 1928, for Spain on way to Panama. Reports hero, however, were that It left Suva January 24 and Is due here tomorrow, The Spanish Consulate la San Francisco, announced that there was no occasion for alarm as the ship's schedule had been disarranged because of the extensive entertainments for the cadeti at various ports of call.

Confidential Agent Is Ousted From New York Dry Office New York, February 20 (AP) Suspension of Thomas Shannon, confidential agent and second in command to Prohibition Administrator Maurice Campbell in the. New York district, was disclosed today. Charges against Shannon were not made known by Campbell nor would other Federal authorities explain, but from persons' acquainted with prohibition enforcement came predictions that the grand Jury Investigation growing out of two raids last week in which liquor valued at $500,000 was seized, would result In sensational developments. The raids, made In a oullding housing the Monroe Lamp and Equipment Company and at the International Postal Supply Company In Brooklyn, were carried out by special agents from Washington and elsewhere under direction of William J. Calhoun, who is in charge of investigation of Interdlstrlct and Interstate violations of the Volstead act The city prohibition unit knew nothing of the move.

Authorities said they found liquor P. 0.