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PARK. EVENING PRE 4 THE WEATHER Italn Tonight and Tuesday; Warmer Tonight; Gentle to Moderate Winds Mostly South and Southwest. MOON AND TIDE (Extern 6tndrd Time) Sun 7.21 sets, 4.55 p. m. Won rises, 3.15 p.

sets, 6.19 a. ra. High water, 5.49 a. 6.13 p. m.

low water, 12.27 p. m. FORTY-FOURTH YEAR. NO. 10.

ASBURY PARK, N. MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 1930 PRICE THREE CENTS ASBURY Gunman On Trial INTEREST ON TAXES i a Up Tunney In Hospital For Kidney Ailment Strengthen Dry Laws, Courts To Provide Spee rohib BRITAIN UPHOLDS PACT, ASKS PARIS RETAIN OPEN MIND DRIVER HELD IN CRASH FATAL TO AGED UN 'Fair Trial', Says Commission i i llilllll il ill mm If 4 rfef SIMPLIFIED MINOR CASES SOUGHT Enforcement Probers Would Abolish Indictment and Let U. S. Commissioners Hear Lesser Complaints Codified Laws and Tighter Padlock Decrees Advised Bargain Days' Decried. Supports Dry Cause GEORGE W.

WICKERSHAM Six' Recommendations Among Array of Facts Accompanying Commission's Report. WOULD EXPAND PRISONS, ENLARGE COURT STAFFS WASHINGTON, Jan. MV-Three days before the tenth anniversary of prohibition, President Hoover today submitted to congress an array of opinions and recommendations for strenffthenina enforcement which brought that question into even greater relief than any of the recent coniro versles that have surrounded It. His message said: In my previous messages I have quested the attention of the congres3 to the urgent situation which has grown ud in the matter of enforcement of federal criminal laws. After exhaustive examination til the subjects, the commission on law ob scrvance and enforcement, and the offl clals of the department of Justice and the treasury department unite in the conclusion that increasing enactment of federal criminal laws over the past 20 years as to which violation of the prohibition laws comprises rather more than one -half of the total arrests has finally culminated In a burden upon the federal courts of a character for which they are ill-designed, and in many cases entirely beyond their capacity.

The result is to1 delay civil causes, and, of even more importance, the defeats of both justice and law enforcement. Moreover, experience shows division of authority, responsibility, and lack of fundamental organization in federal enforcement agencies and oUtimes re sults in effective action. While some sections of the American people may disagree upon the merits of some of the questions involved, every responsible citizen supports the fundamental principle that the law of thr land must be enforced. Lists Six Concrete Proposals The development of the facts shows the necessity for certain Important and evident administrative reforms in tha enforcement and Judicial machinery, concrete proposals for which are available from government departments They are in the main: 1. ReorRaniwition of the federal court structure so as to give relief from con-(OonMniied on oitre 12) I lfflWa cva mii HOOVER SUBMITS HIS SUGGESTIONS NEW YORK.

Jan. IS. Gene Tunney, retired heavyweight boxing champion, is under observation at the Presbyterian hospital for a kidney aliment. Dr. George Win-throp Fish, physician, said he would issue a bulletin this afternoon, when he would know whether an operation to remove a stone from the right kidney Is necessary.

Dr. Fish had not yet examined Tunney. The physician's statement confirmed reports that Tunney was suffering from kidney trouble and put an end to the secrecy which lias surrounded the case. To be near her husband, Mrs. Polly Lauder Tunney has taken an adjoining room at the hospital.

V10NEY FOR JERSEY Measure Reported to House Includes Eight Building Projects In State. RED BANK GETS $140,000, $25,000 ALREADY GRANTED WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 (P). Appropriations for eight federal building pro jects in New Jersey were included today In the postoffice and treasury de partment appropriation bill reported to the, house. Projects In the state for which funds would be made available either to continue or complete construction Included: Camden, Hoboken, Newark, Passaic, Paterson, Princeton, Red Bank, and 'Trenton.

The total limit of cost for these projects' would be $9,385,000 of which was previously appropriated. The 1931 bill would furnish funds from a $32,000,000 fund for completion of the projects. The postoffltfe and federal building at Elizabeth was reported under way and the necessary sum of $175,000 for completion already appropriated. Hearing before ths appropriations committee, showed that the postoffice at Hoboken would cost $250,000 of which $50,000 already had been appropriated. It was reported that $75,000 toward a $350,000 building at Passaic had been appropriated, and $325,000 toward a building to cost $80,000 at Paterson.

No work had been done on the Princeton postoffice, the report stated but $25,000 had been appropriated out of previous funds toward a building to cost $95,000. $140,000 For Red Bank The postoffice at Red Bank would I cost $140,000 of which $25,000 already naa been made available. At Trenton, $800,000 had been ap propriated toward a project to cost tsou.ong. The Camden postoffice would cost $1,100,000 of which $410,000 had been appropriated. The Newark postoffice and federal building was ordered under a previous bill to cost $5,000,000.

The sum of previously appropriated was still available, the report showed, since no work had been done. To Improve Coast Guard Stations The bill carried an item to rover rebuilding projects at seven coast guard stations along the Jersey coast to cost $15,900. General repairs were noted for Sandy Hook, Cold Spring, Wild-wood and Hereford inlet. Bulk head protection for the boat house would be provided at Long Branch to cost $1,500. A concrete foundation would be built at Mantoloking at a cost of $6,000.

No Prohibition Increase Carrying no Increase in outlay for prohibition enforcement the treasury-(Contlnued On Page Two) MRS. WINSOR DIES; LONG RESIDENT HERE Widow of A. P. O. G.

Bank President Expires at First Avenue Home. Active In Many Organizations. Mrs. Mary B. Winsor, widow of Henry C.

Winsor, former president of the As-bury Park and Ocean Grove bank, died of complications early this morning fit her home, 701 First avenue. She was born in Philadelphia, ths daughter of the late James and Mary Bartram. She had been a resident of this city for many years during which she was active the work of the First M'. E. church, the Asbury Park Woman's Christian Temperance Union.

She was also a member of the Asbury Park Worrum's club. Surviving are three daughters and a son. They are Mrs. Alfonso Dare of Colllngswood. Mrs.

William A. Pettit of New Brunswick, Mrs. Theodore Appleby and H. Harold Winsor, both of this city. Two sisters also survive.

They are Mrs. Catherine Clark and Miss Irene Bartram, both of Ocean Grove. Funeral arrangements are in charge of Fred E. Fairy and will be announced. i NPOSTOEFIC FRANK McBRIEN McBrien Faces Newark Court on Charge of Killing Pub-, lie Service Cashier.

SPECTAT0RS.ARE BARRED FROM THE COURTROOM NEWARK, Jan. 13. Faced with a battery of 100 state witnesses whose stories may bring the shadow of the death chair closer, Frank McBrien, tha Jersey Kid, went on trial today for the murder of George B. Lee, a Public Service cashier slain in a hold-up in 1928. With McBrien, who flouts the tatooed motto, "Death before Dishonor" appear, three accomplices, on trial for the same crime.

They are Joseph Rado, Victor Giampietro, and Louis Malanga. Among the witnesses who have been summoned to seal his fate, is Mabel Davis, a Philadelphia girl found In his apartment when he was trapped some time ago by police. A desire to save her from harm, he told police, at the time, prompted him to hand over his gun to his captors, with only a weak attempt at an escape. McBrien, Is also accused and indict ed by Monmouth County Prosecutor John J. Qulnn, as the man who sped the bullets, resulting in the death of George Danielson, 67-year-old Bradley Beach bank messenger, Danielson was slain in a hold-up of a $7,280 payroll being carried by him to the Btelner and Son factory.

The crime occurred Aug. 3, of last year. The alleged driver of the death car in the Stelner Job, Robert Tull, of Audubon, will face a trial at Freehold Thursday, on a charge of murder in connection with, the slaying. At McBrien's trial, which started today, spectators were barred, and extra guards were placed about the court. That McBrien will probably ot be called to testify against his alleged con federate, Tully, was indicated today by Prosecutor Qulnn of Monmouth county, who said that the Jersey Kid's reported (Continued On Page Two) 'FIRE' CRY STARTS PANIC Police Seek Small Boy Three Over-rome.

JERSEY CITY, Jan. 13. Polios were searching today for the small boy whose shouts of "Are" caused a panic in the Palace "Movie" theater yesterday afternoon. Two women and a man were over come in the rush for the exits and were taken to a hospital for treatment. There was no clue to the identity of the boy who cried out from the balcony.

BEAT DAUGHTER, JAILED SHREWSBURY, Jan. his arrest by Officer Raymond Collins of Shrewsbury township on a charge of beating his 18 year old daughter, Wal ter, k. Kurreiaring, 3H was given a six months jail sentence when arraigned before Justice of the Peace El mer C. Wainwright here. According to the police officer, the man was intoxicated at the time.

DANIEL SON BANDIT RIAL ESSEX RISES S20.000 IN Fl Commissioner Pratt Lays Figure to Increased Borrowing Rate and Delinquency on Payments. IMPROVEMENT NOTE FUND GOES UP $10,000 (This il the fourth and final article of a series of reviews of the budget th various departments for 1930.1 Commissioner Thomas H. Pratt this mnrnln ascribed the $27,980.23 in crease in the budget of the Depart ment of Revenue and Finance to a ris. in interest rates on tax notes, increas ing delinquency in 'the payment of taxes, and the increasing amount of temporary improvement note interest due to the extensive development iu iram now under way. Tax note interest requirements show a rise of i20.000.

and temporary im nrovement note Interest is up $10,000 These Jumps, with an extra $1,000 for supplies and expenses, and added $400 frr Hrcnifl sunrjlies and exoenses, are Rllchtlv offset by a decrease of $2,979.75 In bond Interest requirements, and of $40 In the retirement of temporary lm urovement notes, bringing the net in crease of the department's budget to $27,980.25. The department's total budget $329,696.26, as against $301,716.02 last year. In addition to the items in the revenue and finance account, two man datory items in the general city budget also reflect the condition that caused the Jump in Commissioner Pratt es tlmate of expenditures. One is for $29,906.01, under the heading, "appropriation for ture of 1928; note Interest caused by higher bank rates; investigating arson and emergency excise work -and xtra sewer work." The other is also an expenditure of 1923, "note Interest caused by higher bank rates and extra sewer work," $14,261.48. Borrowing Rate Up The city formerly paid Vi percent interest for its money, the commission er said, until, during 1928, the rate was raised to 6 percent.

There was, consequently, a shortage In the amount provided for the payment of that in terest. That accounts for the bulk of the mandatory Items mentioned, and for the $20,000 increase in the allow ance for tax. note interest this year. Bather than face another shortage this year, the commissioner based his es timate on the maximum rates, he said. Tax notes serve to finance the city between the start of the new year and the collection of the taxes which sup port the city.

When the collection of taxes is slow, so much more money has to tie borrowed to keep things going. That situation is also partly responsible for the $20,000 increase, the commis sioner indicated. Improvements Bring Rise The need for an additional $10,000 for payment of temporary improvement note interest this year, he declared, rises out of the tremendous amount of improvement launched by the city. AH its improvements, as the con struction of the casino, and Conven tion hall, and Improvements to its boardwalk, and other properties, are originally financed In temporary improvement notes, whose amount natur ally pyramids with the start of new projects. That fact also accdunts for the les senlng of the bond interest require ments for 1930.

The regular yearly retirement of bonds automatically reduces that amount, unless there should be new bonds to take the place of the old. The casino. Convention hall and other projects are not yet on i permanent bond basis, the commission er explained, and thus, the bond interest for 1930 is decreased $2,979.75, to $140,432, from the 1929 total of $143, 412.33. There is a similar but smaller decrease of $440 in the allowance for three percent retirement of temporary Improvement notes. In general, the commissioner pointed, tiny Increases in other departments of the.

city government, and every new project lauched by the city, are reflected by a rise In his own departmental budget, for the letter takes care of financing the whole city enterprise. The estimated expenditures of the department for 1930, as compared to 1929, are allotted as follows: Sinking fund requirements, $10,939.39, same as 1329; bond Interest, $140,432.58, down bond retirement, $65,417, same as 1929; temporary improvement note Interest, $35,000, up tax note Interest, $60,000, up three percent retirement of temporary improvement notes, $5,407.30, down $440; license supplies and expenses, $3,000, up $400; contigent expenses, $2,500, came as 1929: supplies and expenses, $4,000, up $1,000: director's salary, same as 1929. The Press Today Special Features A Question of Honor Pg. 10 Comics V. 16 Editorials Pg.

10 For the Love O' Pat 6 Radio Program 7 Social News 19 Suburban Vewi Women's Page 8 Charity Card Party Catholic Daughters Court Holy Spirit, Tuesday evening, January 14th, at Lyceum, Third and Bond 8 o'clock. Refreshments, Admission 60c. advIO '6J Cent S'inner Will be saved at Th; Hi milton E. Church on Tuesday, Jaa. 14, from S.30 o'clock.

NANCIAL BUDGET ie ifion fiCTiQM ON administration, as It has grown up for other purposes, to this huge problem of enforcement cf prohibition Is not easy, Bnd will require much further study. Unification, centralization of responsibility, and means of ensuring cooperation between federal and state agenciei are things to which we must come, quitj apart from tha exigencies of enforcement of prohibition, but which can not be achieved overnight." Defends Secret Hearings Replying to those who have assailed it for a failure to hold public hearings on the prohibition question, the commission reported to President Hoover that it conceived it "to be more useful to make a careful study of the whole question, securing information from the responsible officers of government and from printed reports, as well as from hearings before committees of congress, before embarking upon public hearings." Summing up its four recommendations for legislative enactments, the commission said: "We think they could not In any wise Interfere with any ultimate program which we may have to recommend, and would in the meantime advance observ ance of the law." Treasury to Keep Permit Control The commission dealt with each of Its recommendations separately and with some of them at considerable length. In urging transfer of the prohibition unit from the treasury to the Justice department, the report said it was an anomaly that the cases are investigated and prepared by agencies entirely disconnected with and not answerable to hrt5 Who are to prosecute them. "If prosecution, the legal side of enforcement, is partitioned between two district agencies," the report said, "the diffused, ill-defined, non-located responsibility is sure In the long run to be an obstacle to efficiency." The commission reported that there must be a careful study of how to separate the work which belongs in the treasury of granting permits and administration of regulations as to the legitimate use of alcohol or liquors. 25 Statutes Involved Pointing out that there are 25 statutes, many enacted before the 18th amendment, to which there is recourse in prohibition enforcement, the commission asserted they were in form disconnected, unwieldly, and in much need of coordination and adjustment to each other.

Consequently it recommended that these statutes be "revised and digested," with a view to making them a unified whole in the form of a simple, better-ordered and hence more workable code. On the question of padlock Injunctions, it was stated that the use of in-Junction proceedings as a means of enforcing prohibition was so important that the section of the Volstead act dealing with this subject should be so amended as to enable tha courts to reach unknown claimants to property, non-residents and residents who conceal themselves to evade service of process. "It contains nothing which is not already dona in the states generally when private claims to property are con cerned," the commission added. Eliminate Indictments Congestion In the federal courts caus ing long delays in prosecutions and "bargain days" for accused was declared by the report to have done much to create a feeling in some localities that the law can not be enforced. "If It.

Is possible to deal with this mat ter adequately with the existing machin ery of ths system, it should be the report went on. "We think such a solution entirely possible and in the line nf progress." Pointing out that the Jones law has expressly rfengnized a class of "casual or slight violations," the commissien said statute authorizing the district at torneys tn such cases to prosecute by complaint or information would obviate Mia long delay, unneeesfary expense, find needless keeping in session of grand Juries which arc demanded by the pres ent state of the Ir-w. In such cases, when so prosecuted. the penalty would be a fine of not more than and imprisonment in jail without hint labor not to exceed six months, or both. "We think also that it would bo expedient for conjre: to define the term 'casual or slight the com- mission said.

"Speedy convictions and certain impositions of penalties are important considerations and are mora likely to be efficacious than threats of severe punishment rendered negatory by congested dockets overpassing any possibilities cf trial In ttm manner constitutionally appointed for crimes of such magnitude." Suggestion oko was made that petty cases be heard before a United States commissioner and a report made to the courts which would pass Judgment on the esse. There would be a safeguard that the accused, found guilty by a commissioner, could demand trial by jury within three days. The literature of the prohibition controversy was Increased today by (Continued on tae Vis Darn-in? Classes Thursday Hlfh School b-Tinners at 7 p. and p. m.

Children fi'sm 10 to years at 4.30 p. m. Studio, 727 UmUmx Ave. I'huue XIZl. Sherman W.

Dorman, Long Branch, Charged With Causing Death of Mrs. Kate Raphael. OCEAN GROVE MAN DIES OF AUTO INJURIES Less than 48 hours after an elderly woman was fatally injured by a hit-and-run driver, detectives, working under the direction of Chief of Police H. L. Byram, arrested the alleged driver and charged him with manslaughter.

Coincident with the arrest the police chief announced a vigorous campaign was launched by police against drivers who fail to stop after striking people. Drastic punishment will be meted out to such motorists, avowed the chief. The accused driver Is Sherman W. Dorman, 41, 1010 Broadway, Long Branch. He was charged by police with causirfg the death of Mrs.

Kate Raphael, 70. She died In the Ann May hospital, Spring Lake, from a fractured skull Saturday afternoon, A motorist struck her Friday night. Denies He Drove Car a hearing he was taken into custody last night by Detective Sergeant Williams and De tectives Burke and Masco. He was held for the action of the grand Jury at Freehold. Chief Byram asserted detectives located one woman who saw the accident and furnished the Information that led to Dorman's arrest.

He said she positively identified Dorman as the driver of the death car. The police chief declined to reveal the Identity of the woman. Chief Byram quoted Dorman as admitting he was one of the men that assisted in carrying the victim Into the Gardner hotel, 321 Sewall avenue, near the scene of the accident. He denied, however, according to the police chief, that his car struck her. The police official further quoted Dorman as asserting a large expensive sedan riding directly in front of his own car ran down Mrs.

Raphael. Grove Man Dies of Injuries The second victim of motorists who continued on after the accident was Harry Fetzer, 68, 68 Mt. Tabor way, Ocean Grove, who was mortally injured Saturday night at Lake avenue and Bond street. He died yesterday afternoon In the Monmouth Memorial hos pital, Long Branch. Chief Byram indicated an arrest In this case will be made in the near future.

In an attempt to prevent any escapes in possible future hit and run in stances, Chief Byram issued orders to all polloemen to guard against motorists whose license tags are concealed by bumpers or are dirty. He also asked of ficers to note If auto headlights are adjusted properly and in working order. Fetzer leaves his widow and two sons, Harry and, Walter, both of 'New York city. The body has been removed to the Fred E. Farry funeral home.

Funeral arrangements are expected to be announced later. (Continued On Page Two) AXMAN IS SENTENCED Intentions May Have Been "Miscellaneous," But He Gets 90 Days. SHREWSBURYJan. 13. With axe uplifted, Frank Socoloskl, employed oil the Sunnyslde Dairy farm at Middle-town, was said to have chased a fellow workman, William Neadean, with miscellaneous intentions.

Regardless of the purpose, Justice of the Peace Elmer H. Wainwright sentenced ihe man to 90 days in the county Jail on a charge of disorderly conduct. Complaint was made by the pursued. AGENTS FOIL HI-JACKERS NEWARK, Plans of hijackers to steal a carload of whisky by Impersonating prohibition agents were foiled when the federal officials learned of the car and had it brought hero, and unloaded. The hi-Jackers called rail- road officials and asked that the car be placed on a siding.

MAIL BY AUTO at Hadley Field. Richmond yesterday, he made a landing at Washington and picked up mail for northern points. When he was within a few miles of the shore section, he ran Into a dense fog. After circling lov? over the land, he located his home and made a perfect landing on White's farm just across the way. By the time his plane was safely on the ground, motorists who had been attracted by the roar of the circling I machine crowded onto the field.

The Pltcarln monoplane was staked to the ground by Auburn and Vernon White I and Wlllard Butler who live close by, and Lawrence McKelvey was detailed to stand guard over it during the night, Treat then took the delayed mall to its destination. This morning after the fog had cleared away, the pilot too i the plane to Newark and thence to Hadley field where planes of the mall transport company are kept. Belraar Auto Show All this week at Legion Home. Music Adolph Snyder Orchestra. advlO-ll' tS.

New York and Return. 13 Everyday. leave 9 a. Nw York 6.30 d. m.

Bus Co. Phone 19, dv27i21 in El, London Reaffirms Faith In Kel logg Treaty as Disarmament" Basis, Sees Danger In Preconceived Stand. U. S. DELEGATES PROVE GOOD SAILORS IN STORM LONDON, Jan.

13. () A note from the British government to the French, puHlshcd today, tacitly asked that Frence not come, to the forthcoming Iiondon naval conference with a pre conceived stand from which it might be difficult to recede. The note reaffirmed the British ex presslon of faith In the Kellogg antiwar pact 83 a basis for prospective ne.val limitation in contrast to the French view that the covenant of the League of Nations should be the basis instead of the Kellogg pact. The British note expressed prefer e.ice for handling of limitation by classes, types, and categories, rather thap otl tin French thesis of global tonnage. The British gave little en' couragement to the French suggestion of a pact of non-aggression and mu tual security in the Mediterranean.

The note was the answer of Premier MacDonald's government government to the French communication of Dec. 20, in which various French views with reference to the coming conference were set forth. Altho London after publication of that note saw no in surmountable obstacles to a naval agreement in its expressions, certain Washington circles regarded it as dis tinctly clouding In possibility of a five' power agreement. TheEritish answer concluded with the expression i "His majesty's government notes with particular pleasure the opinion expressed by the French government that none of the problems mentioned in the memorandum amount to irre movable obstacles and they share en tirely In the confidence left by the French government that there will be cordial cooperation among the dele gations to promote the' great alms of tha conference, and that success will terminate their labors." Envoys' Ship In Storm S. S.

GEORGE WASHINGTON, Jan, 13. W1) The American delegation to the forthcoming London naval confer ence today planned to hold the first general consultation since the Georje Washington sailed last Thursday for the purpose of going into subjects that will confront them when the conference opens. Since all the major points of the American position have already been determined and were announced before the delegation left Washington the dis cission will be concerned rather with methods and procedure. The cold has increased somewhat since the departure in spring-like weather from New York last Friday. The.

bow is conted with ice, and there is a biting breeze and a rough sea which has given the ship a heavy roll. Altho there has been considerable Illness aboard not one of the delegates has missed a meal in the dining saloon. STILL PROBE DEATH OF MAYETTA HUNTER Ocean County Authorities Continue Search For Man With Hobnail Shoes Near Where Dunfree Was Killed. iSiirdiil Tn The I'm' TOMS RIVER, Jan. 13.

The death of William Dunfree, Mayetta bayman. whose body was found In the woods west of Barnepat during the deer hunting season, is still being investigated by Ocean county authorities. Dunfree nas shot while facing the holder rf the gun. Hunters who found tha body have been Questioned aealn bv Detective Edwin Spencer. At the time of the shooting it was declared that the death was accidental.

The police, however, sought to trace persons wearing fhoes with hobnails. Imprints of the hobnails wera found leading from th body. Those questioned recently by Detective Spencer were Matthew Lamb, of Engllshtown, and Sampson Conc-vcr cf Manalapan. BURNS FATAL TO BOY Walter Pettit, nine-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs.

Walter Pettit, of 73 Morris avenue, Neptune City, died yes- I terday at the Ann May hospital, Spring I Lake, from burns he received last Mon- day whjn he attempted to lleht a fire 1 with a ran of kerosene at his home. He wa3 rushed to the hospital In the Nop- tune township ambulance. After one week of brave fight for his life, he sue- cumbed. HELD AS BURGLAR WEST ORANGE, Jan. 13.

0V) Otto 3chmaller, charged with a series of burglaries in this vicinity, was held tn bail of $70,000 when arraigned before Recorder Llghtplpe. The Dollars Are Coming! Cash dividends to you. Look for ftn-nounrrmcnt in W-dnesdry's paper. Sample Shoe Store, 220 Main St. Ii.ss $4.95.

Nq higher. Uvl0 S. a of at All WASHINGTON, Jan. 13. W)-Re serving Judgment on its ultimate prohi' bition conclusions, the law enforce ment commission In a preliminary report sent to congress today recommended that the national prohibition law be immediately strengthened in the Interest of promoting observance of and respect for all law.

"If on no other grounds than to give the law a fair trial," the commission said, "there are obvious and untontrovcrted difficulties, pointed out by experience, which may, and, as we think, should be met so as to make enforcement more effective." These difficulties were declared by the Hoover commission to be: Division of enforcement between the treasury and Justice departments. Disordered condition of federal legislation involved In enforcement. Would Strengthen Padlocks Possibilities of defeating padlock In junctions by means of concealing own ership of property used for manufacture and sale of illicit liquor. Congestion of petty prosecutions in the federal courts leading to whole sale disposition of accumulated cases under circumstances impairing the dlg-ii' ty of and Injuring respect for those tribunals. "Without prejudice to any ultimate conclusion," the report said, "we think that, In the Interest of promoting ob pervance of and respect for law, the national prohibition law may well be strengthened and its effectiveness in creased In these Important particulars.

Must Remember Past Fkrantings As to observance, the commission declared that "it is wholly Impossible to set oft observance of the prohibition act from the large question of the views and habits of the American peo' pie With respect to private Judgment as to statutes and regulations affecting their conduct. "We must not forget the many his torical examples of large-scale public disregard of laws In our past," the re port said, edding that "we must bear In mind the Puritan's 'objection to r.dmlnlstratlon, the Whig tradition of a 'right of the conception of natural rights, classical In our pol icy, the Democratic tradition of individual participation in sovereignty." 80,000 Arrests In Year Asserting that as to enforcement there were no reliable figures to show the size cf the problem, the commission said the reported arrests in the last fiscal year of upwards of 80,000 persons from every part of continental United Statse "in dleates a staggering number of what might be called focal points of infec tion." Attention was directed that there also were 18.700 miles of boundary and shore lines for the United States "at every point of which infection is possible." The number of smuggling roads from Canada is reported as at least 1,000, It was added. Personnel Is Inadequate "To deal with an enforcement prob-cm of this size and spread," the report continued, "The federal government can draw only on a portion of the personnel of three federal services, whose staffs aggregate about 23,000. 'Approximately one-tenth of this number is in the investtfrative section of the prohibition unit. Of the remaining 20,000, only a small proportion of the personnel is available for actual preventive and investigative work.

The re mainder is engaged in work far different from prohibition. "These figures speak for themselves. "To adjust the machinery of federal manent and painful nature. The plank is cited in the complaint as part of excavating operations in connection with sewer work being done at the time by De Ponti. For alleged negligence on De Ponti's part, for failing to have lights on the obstruction, Mrs.

Scholes seeks th sum of $50,000 from the contractor. Both Ocean township and Deal, are described in the action as constructing or causing to be constructed certain sewer connections. Both municipalities are also charged with negligence for the alleged failure to have the obstruction properly lighted. From each, a sum of $50,000 Is sought as damages. The damages, according to the complaint, include permanent injuries, loss of employment, during Mrs.

Scholes' illness following the accident, and the complete wrecking of her car. Mrs. Scholes is employed by the Radio Industries Broad cast company, which operates over sta tion WCAP of tills city. Permanent Waving $5 Complete Bobbed heads guaranteed. Frieda Marie, 118 Main Bradley Beach.

Phone Asbury 7215. Bclmar Auto Show All this week at Lesion Home. Music by Adolph Snyder Orchestra. aUvlO-11 I 8 TREAT FORCED DOWN AT SHORE, 2 MUNICIPALITIES, CONTRACTOR NAMED IN $150,000 ACCIDENT SUIT DELIVERS U.S. AIR Pilot Lands In Fog Near Glendola Home Cargo Only Mrs.

Vera H. Srholos lU ings Action Against Ocean and Deal For Auto Crash Causing Injury. Three Hours Late To the postoffice department's motto, Neither rain nor snow nor heat hor cold nor dark of night stay these cour iers from the completion of their appointed rounds," should be added the word fog, it was demonstrated at denote yesterday when Vern Treat, a mall pilot enroute from Richmond, to Newark made1 a foreed landing In a heavy fog Within a few hundreed feet of his home. Treat then secured his own car and he and his wife transported the mall to Hadley field. Despite the landing, the seven bags of mall in the grounded plane were less than three hours late on arrival at the latter field.

Pilot Treat, a World war aviator, has been following air travel for the last 15 years, the past two of which have been in service of the C. A. M. company transporting mail. After he letfi Income Tax Returns now being prepared by Ralph E.

Pearce, Electric Building, Phone 6100. Famous Dinner Every day including Sunday. Klrgs- Anas, Asbury Park, ftdv286i23 by Ocean township, the Boro of Deal, and Peter De Pontl, a contractor of 243 River avenue, Red Bank, are named in a negligence suit brought by Mrs. Vera N. Scholes of Monmouth road, Oakhurst.

Mrs. her attorney Judge Ward Kremcr, of this city, seeks the sum of $50,000 from each defendant, for injuries allegedly sustained when she ran into an obstruction on Roseld ave nue, Ocean township. According to the complaint, the obstruction consisting of "plank or wooden horse and a quantity dirt and ottwr debris" was unllghted 8 o'clock on the night of Oct. 14, the date of the accident. She states that she was driving her car along Roseld avenue In an easterly direction and on the right side of the read.

A plank or wooden horse in the road, she declares, struck her car and went thru the windshield striking her In the face and causing injuries of a per Gullstin Rugs The famous Gulixtan DcLuxe rugs, made at the Freehold Rug Mills, at greatly reduced prices. Discontinued patterns, trial samples and slight irregulars. A larse stock to from. sizes from 22'ix36 to 11.3x21 ft. McKelvey.

reehold, N. J. advlO-U Press to Disclose Operation of "Policy Rachel'9 In Asbury Park The Press will begin tomorrow a series of articles dealing with the "policy racket" as operated In Asbury Park. The racket, better known the number game, locally lias a hold which seems to be greater than In other sections of the county. Raids by police and county officials have failed' to break the racket.

Today the game flourished as It has every business day for years past. The articles, discussing the intricacies of the racket, should prove of unusual interest at this time. Sisterhood Luncheon Wednesday 1 p. m. at Temple BpUi First and Sts.

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