Evening Star Newspaper, September 12, 1922, Page 1

WEATHER. Fair tonight and tomorrow; cooler to- night. Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. today: Highest, 84, at 2:30 p.m.; yesterday, lowest, 67, at 7 a.m. today. Full report on page 16. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 20 ) ¢ WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ening Star, Member of the Associsted Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitied to the use for republiestion of a! news dispateber credited to it or Bot otherwise credited in this paper and also the locsl nevs pablisbed bersis. Al rights of publication of spectal @lspatches berein are also reserved. Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 84,486. Entered as second-class matter post office Washington, D. C. No. 28,625. WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1922—THIRTY PAGES. TWO CENTS. END OF RAIL STRIKE - INSIGHT AS UNIONS NEAR AGREEMENT, ‘Jewell Announces Peace| Basis Is Before Policy Body. By the Associated Press: SOUTHAMPTON, England, Septem- ber 12.—The loss of life in the foun- dering of the German steamship Hammonia off Vigo, Spain. last Sat- PLAN MAY BE ACCEPTED | iy pronabiy never b an- AT TODAY’S SESSION | ‘ otal of thos was not saved, and the total of those | on board can only be approximated. Capt. Alfred Hoefer. commander or} the Hammonia. asserts that only fif- teen persons are missing out of 557. The crew, he believes, | total of §57. mbered 192, and the passengers, Reports Indicate 50 to 75 Roads in Line—Arbitration to Settle Main Disputes. Capt. Day, commanding thé steam- | ship Kinfauns Castle, which brought 385 survivors here, says he saw pos sibly eighty drowning, while others place the death list as high as 150. One reason why the number lost will probably never be known is that most of the passengers were Spanish or Cuban workmen, whom it will be impossible to trace. By the Associated Press. 4 CHICAGO, September 12°-—-A Dbasis for settlement of the strike of railway &hopmen was considered today by the geoneral policy committee of the shop grafts, B. M. Jewell, head of the rall- #vay employes’ department of the American Federation of Labor, “an wounced at the conclusion of the morn: fng session. 300 Plunge Into Sea. More than 300 passengers slid, feet- Semell's brief statment was the first | Airst, into the sea, when the ill-fated gublic acknowledgment that a strike | steamer reached a 70 per cent list. e-ttlement basis had been presented to | This was just half an hour before it the policy committee. notwithstanding | took its fatal plunge. The passéngers Poaty rumors and reports concerning |4nd crew. who had been waiting since gettiement plans noon for the heavy seas to abate. so He. however. would give no indica- |38 to give them the chance to take to tiom what the plan was. and asked that | (h® boats. found themselves at_this n was. {eritical moment a wild and scran speculation concerning it be dropped {14 heap Tof numanity struggling in order not to Interfere with the com- | among the violent waves amid pieces There were indl- | of wreckage. boat gear and deck mittee's discussions (O eseck cutions. union officials said. that an i CUMPRERL, ol o eternity.” @zrcement probably would be reached | geclared Barroness Krumfelder. a S merry little passenger, but whose | galety was darkened since the wreck, Leaders Are Optimistic. | especially after she was notified that Mr Jewell and other union leaders |her husband had not yet reached here: enpeaced optimistic and many of |She was comforted. however. when o o ling when they left|she later learned that he was aboard ieuy s wenas i another vessel which had reached the conference room at noon after a | Vigo. H session. . After the listing movement of the The meeting has adjourned for|vessgl the struggling multitude in lunch, to meet at 1 pan. to continue the water kept afloat about the ship ideration of the strike and a pro-|and its boats until they were picked heen presented.” was all Mr. Jewell T0BEARED FIRST Other union officials were equally cheery of manner and equally se- eretive, although some of them said Union Attormey’s Plea for Modification of Injunction Must Wait. twa-ho they expected a decision late this af- ternoon. Mr. Jewell, carlier in the day. said he thought a decision prob: v would be reached by 5 or 6-p.m. llowing adjournment of thé gen- eral policy committee, the executive council of the striking “shop crafts went into session. The purpose of this meeting was not announced and «could not be learneédw.all the striking crafts were represented at the exec- utive couneil seszion. WORK FOR ALL. Plan Said to Give Jobs to Strik- ers, With Present Men Kept. By the As i N Consideration of what were de-| o Asccluted Prese CHICAGO, September 12.— Judge Willard-Jewell rail | :f:l‘z:d ::l!l!e‘::enl T ;:opg:ul, wag [ James H. Wilkerson today deferred scheduled to come before today's!hearing on the motion of attorneys meeting in Chicago of the Dollcyfor the rail strike leaders for modi- e O icen Toceived foday in | fication of the temporary restraining official quarters in touch with the ! order pending completion of the gov- sail strike situation. X | ernment’s effort to show that the The advices said that decision as t0 gominant purpose-of the alleged con- mcceptance of proposal _depended | largely upon the number of roads B. | SPiracy is the destruction of inter- M. Jewell, head of the striking shop | state commerce. craft workers, could show to be ready | 10 agree to the proposition as worked | out, it was said, by him and Daniel Willard, president of the Baltimore wnd Ohio railroad. The information reaching Washing- ton, officials said, indicated that be- tween fifty and seventy-five roads were Inclined to favor the settlement plan_under consideration. The pro- posal was underatood here to involve the return to work of all strikers, men now employed in shops to be re- tained,-and fundamental questions at dispute to be arbitrated by a com- mittee representing the railroads and the unions. Seniority was said mot i Citing Supreme Court decisions in | the Cornado coal case, Retail Lumber | Dealers’ case and the Patton cotton {'corner prosecution, Judge Wilkerson said the question raised by the gov- | ernment’s allegation was a vital one |and should be settled before the re- quest for modification of the present order can be acted on. Declare Statement Libelous. Donald R. Richberg, attorney for |B. M. Jewell and John Scott, strike 10 have becn mentioned in the settle- ment plan. — e Explosion in Baltimore Also In- jures Seventeen Others. RALTIMORE. Md., Fire Capl. George Lentz was killed and seventeen other firemen suffered burns and cuts and possibly . more gerfous injuries as the result of an explosion while they were fighting flames that broke out early today in 1ha umbrella store and manufactory of William Beehler, Inc., 22 West Lex- ington street, in the heart of the busi- ness district. Capt. Lentz fell from September 12.— | leaders, interrupted the hearing to |demand of the government attorneys whether a statement which he branded “criminally libelous,” printed in morn- ing papers as coming from Attorney General Daugherty’s office, had been given out by Mr. Daugherty or his associates. The statement was a resume of the list of murders and other crimes growing out of the strike, read -in court yesterday. Judge Wilkerson said he had not | seen the statement, but would read the copy produced from the Chicago i Tribune by Mr. Richberg and pass on it later. The strikers’ attorney said the statement “libelously” attributed to his clients acts of which they had no_knowledge. 300 SLIDE INTO SEA AS SINKING LINER TIPS UP Wild, Scrambling Heap of Humanity Thrown Into W aves From Hammonia. 385 Saved by Heroic Efforts. up by the life craft of the Kinfuuns Castle. One Man Saves Sevew. The hero of this scene was W. H Judd of Gravesend. £ingland. the only Englishman aboard, who was return- ing 1o Mexico on bus He off his outer garments and leaped into the waves and immediately proceeded to pick up these wit were sinking. He personally saved seven women and children and helped the Ge n officers to enforce the rule of women | and children first. He did not leave the scene of the disaster until the Grman captain and his faithful nine- teen volunteers, who stayed behind in a desperate effort to keep the ship afloat by manning the pumps. depart- ed. Many of those rescued declared that a great outcry arose when the be- draggled passengers finally reached the decks of the Kinfauns Castle. 1t was said by some that the firs -lass passengers, besidex saving their had also carried with them their clothing. money and Jjewels The second and third classes lost all their belongings. Dr. Paul Kleefeld, a German subject returning to Mex- ico on business. was especially bitter against the cused first-class pas- engers. He hurled epithets at them nd called then war profiteers and harged that they had been warned in advance by the ship's officers that he would be deserted. This gave them time to collect their valuable and slip off with life preservers to safer crafts. the revolting second and third class passengers contended. Ti was only by the threat of force that Capt. Day prevented a group of despairing widows, who had lost their husbands in the raging seas, from casting the “profiteers”’ into the ocean. The cause of the sinking of the Hammonia is still the subject of much discussion. Some -of them aboard declared today that it was due to the springing of the exterior plates. Others said that some of the doors of the coal bunkers were left open. During (Continued on Page 2 RAIL WRECK, FATAL TO FOUR, LAID TO TRACK TAMPERIN Derailment of an express train on the Michigan Central railroad, near Gary, Ind., on August 20, which re- sulted in the death of two railroad employes and injury of two passen- gers. was caused by “malicious tam- pering with the track,” according to a report issued today by the burean of safety of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Careful examination of the track after the accident, the report stated, showed it to be In good condition, while no defects were found in the wheels and axles of the derailed equipment. ‘The evidence,” the report said, clearly Indicates that thirty spikes had been withdrawn from the ties on the outside of the left rail, leav- ing it without support and permitting it to spread outward under the en- gine hauling train No. 39, resulting in the derailment of the engine and following cars. At the time of this investigation it had not been defi- nitely determined when or by whom the spikes were removed.” TARIFF BILL AGAIN BACK IN HOUSE Conference Report Likely to Be Disposed of by Vote Thursday. his fifty years_at sea. m Column ) By the Associated Press. The administration tariff bill as finally perfected in conference was presented today in the House and the conference report on it, bearing the signatures of the republican man- agers, will be called up tomorrow with the expectation that it will be disposed of not later than Thursday. The measure then will go to the Sen- ate, but because of opposition to the threw | | Rosslyn a second traffic bridge would ARTS COMMISSION TURNS DOWN SITE FOR NEW BRIDGE Exhaustive Argument Holds New York Avenue Would i Destroy Whole Schieme. WOULD SEVER AXIS FROM | CAPITOL TO ARLINGTON ;Lincoln Memorial Location Best, | Communieation Sent to Col. ! Sherrill Declares. i The fine arts commission hus forward- | €d to Col ¢. O. Sherrill, executive! officer of the Arlington Memorial bridge commission, an exhaustive discussion | setting forth the reasons why the, bridge should start from the Lincoln | Memorial rather than from New York avenue. A plan for locating the bridge at the latter point has been submitted. | “The Commission of Fine Arts re- spectfully advise that a memorial bridge of masonry. sixty feet of road- way and two sidewalks, each ten feet wide, be constructed on a line drawn a from the Lincoln Memorial to the mansion house at Arlington.” is the conclusion reached in the report. | c— signed by Charles Moore. chairman of the Fine Arts Commission. | Vital to Park System. ! In reaching this conclusion the com- | mission considered at length the pian MICHIGAN SKIES FAVOR TOWNSEND for the improvement of the Wash- ington park system as reported o the Senate in 1902, declaring that two vital features of the plan are the continuation of the park system across the Potomac river to the newly reclaimed lands stretching from Ana- lostan Island nearly to the Highway bridge, and, second. to unite two na- tional memorials, the Arlington ceme- | tery and the Lincoln Memorial. | “The idea of the public mind, and! also embodied in legislation. is 1o |ereate a memorial bridge,” Chairman ore stated in his communication to zineer-Commissioner Sherrill. “To [ehange radically plan which Ibeen before the public for more than | Votes Begin to Fall in Primary Fight. ha D e e T e e | BALLOT INSEIGHTSTATES | e hereneraral dayu uey. e bridge for a memorial bridge, is so “Redhead.” accidentally discovered great an innovation s to call for! by his prospective ninth bri cogent reasons.” He points out that| b = the park plan of 1901 has been car- | Lodge in Bitter Contest for Massa- ried out in the majority of its ele- ments, and that the change could| chusetts Tog‘_vemgm G.0.P. Voting. hardly be made to save expense, since the bridge proposed at New York avenue would be higher and consid- erably longer, The extension of New York avenue, Mr. Moore avers, would involve the destruction of one or twe valuable buildings of the Naval Hos- pital “and would take off so much of ‘the hospital grounds as to dis- member that institution.” Chairman Moore in the course of the report draws attention to the fact that the proposed bridge, 100 feet high at New York avenue, might dwarf the Lincoln Memorial, whereas a bridge on the Arlington line would become an important element in the ! grand composition. | Mr. Moore considers in detail the| seven principal arguments put up for | a bridge on the New York avenue| line. In answer to the first arsgu- | ment—that the bridge can be built without a draw, whereas the large | amount of river traffic to the George- | town wharves would necessitate a draw if the bridge were built on the Lincoln Memorial-Arlington line—the | Fine Arts Commission chairman states that Chicago has built a monumental bridge across the Chicago river at Michigan avenue and both the street | traffic and river traffic there are now | many times as great as they are in Washington. The river traffic to Georgetown, he declares, is carried on mainly in towed barges, which could readily pass beneath the arches of the memorial 1 BY V. 0. MESSENGER.. Stafl Correspondent of The Star. DETROIT, Mich., September 12.—It would be unwise, in view of the ap- parent closeness and bitterness of the senatorial nomination contest, and the fact that the ballots are even now falling in the boxes throughout the state, to ven- ture a prediction of the outcome. “On form" it must appear that Sen- ator Townsend has a good chance for renomination, having regard to organization sup- port, to the friend- liness of certain Senator Townsend, Tracial factions, and to the back- ing of the friends he has made in twenty years' service in House and | Senate. However, opposing considerations must not be overlooked, such as the Georgetown Bridge Fills Gap. To the second argument—that the New York avenue bridge would con- nect with the Lee highway—Mr. Moore replied by stating that since the government is about to open a new bridge from Georgetown to: berryism cry_and the personal fol- lowing of Representative Kelley, which might award the palm to that; popular member of the lower house | of Congress. It has been an exceedingly bitter campaign, replete with personalities, engendering acrimony, and there has been more than the usual amount of speciousness and political license in campaign utterances throughout. 1f Senator Townsend should win the nomination his troubles wouldn't be over, for he will still have to run the gauntlet of the November election with the certainty of material disaf- fection of republicans, excited over “Newberryism,” who, in advance of such a contingency, are threatening to vote for the democratic nominee for senator, former Gov. Woodbridge N. Ferris, in November. Doubtfulness in Vietory. i seem tto be unnecessary. “The plane of the Lee Highway Association show that proposed thor- oughfare as crossing the Potomac river on the new Aqueduet or Key bridge. A bridge on the New York avenue line would have its Virginia términal on the road running-in front of the Arlington cemetery. The me- | morial bridge at the Lincoln Memo- rial site reaches the same road and one would connect with the Rosslyn terminal of the Lee highway as well as the other,” Mr. Moore states. The third point was that “either the bridge must be subordinate to the Senator in Better Form as! | THE COAL DUST TWINS. NINTH LOVE FLITS KID McCOY OVER “REDHEAD” NOTE, AN . Calif.. September 12.—Kid McCoy’s ninth romance is ked and Mrs. Jacqueline Mc- Dowell, who came here from Bal- timore with the announced pur- pose of becoming his partner for life. has returned to her home in the east. This is the statement of Kid McCoy himself. whose real name Is written Norman Selby on the now useless marriuge license which he and Mrs. McDowell ob- tained here several days ago. the knockout wedding plans, SN AND G B PASSED BY SENATE Measure Requires Sidewalks Be Cleared or Made Safe for Travel. to th it | | Snow and ice must be removed from the paved sidewalks of the District by owners of property abutting there- on during the coming winter or they will be subject to a penalty of $25 for |- each offense under a bill which re- ceived final legislative action by Con- gress yesterday. The Senate late yesterday after- noon concurred in the House amend- ment to the so-called snow and fce bill and the measure now goes to the President for his approval. B io ice from the sidewalks was held un- France, election in November. W secretary of the conference, 'SENATOR FRANCE ! | CRISIS SEEMS OVER FOR MRS, HARDING, PHYSICIANS REPORT Latest Bulletin Shows Con- dition Best Since Critical lliness. SURGICAL PROCEDURE DEEMED UNNECESSARY President Greatly Encouraged by Hopeful Turn, But Annuls To- day’'s Cabinet Session. The crisis in Mrs. Harding's condi- tion “seems to have been passed.” an al bulletin issued by attending icians at 9:35 am. today said he text of the bulletin, signed by Brig. Gen. E. Sawyer, White House { physician. follows DECIVE VITOR Maryland Democrats Favor Bruce as Opposing Candidate. PRIMARY VOTE LIGHT Hale Re-Elected Over Democratic Opponent in Maine by 28,671. By the Associsted Press. BALTIMORE, Md., September 12.— Nomination of William C..Bruce as the democratic candidate to oppose United States Senator Joseph I France at the November election was made certain by delayed re- turns today from yesterday's pri- mary. The extent of the Bruce victory in the three sided contest still was uncertain because of con- fusion in counting of second choice votes, but both he and Senator France, who defeated John W. Gar- rett, were assured of more than the necessary sixty-seven delegates to the nominating conventions. BALTIMORE, Md., September 12.— nited States Senator Joseph I republican, and William C. ruce, democrat, probably will be the pposing candidates at the Maryland Senator France on decisively over John W. Garrett, Washington arms in yesterday's primary, ‘hile Bruce appeared from incomplete bridge. He quotes records to show | unknown quantity of the radical " fonio that during the six months ended | vote. which, superimposed upon the| The fight to have such legislation | . rps to be assured of the victory September, 1921, a draw would only | issue of “Newberryism,” might give enacted has °°“l""“"’,““,'n';‘:§‘fl-‘w’“"s in the three-cornered - democratic have had to be opened fourteen times, | the victory to Candidate Baker, and | il fact ever since a for AL the vote of the women, the New-|viding for the removal of snow and fight. The four districts in Baltimore city | on the ground that it did not fall upon tall !based upon the police powers which Congress has over the District of Co- lumbia and has been designed to meet constitutional by the Court of Appeals | g ont strongly for France, and he also carried seven of the eleven outside counties from which complete returns had been received. These gave him a total of fifty-nine delegates to the nominating convention, while he held an apparently safe margin in at least five other counties, controling twen- ty-one additional delegates. citizens alike. The new bill is the objections Taised by the court. Fathered by Dillingham. Senator Dillingham of Vermont in- troduced the measure and had it passed through the Senate three times in difterent Congresses. In the pres- ent Congress he turned the measure over te Senator Ball, chairman of the District’ committee, and the Senate put the -bill through following the heayy - snowfall last winter, at the time of the: Knickerbocker Theater disaster. It was recently passed by the House with an amendment ex- Sixty-seven delegates are necessary for a choice. The democratic contest considerable confusion due to provision for first and second choice voting where there are three can- didates, and the method of distri- buting the second choice votes in the event no candidate received a major- ity in any county. In several coun- ties failure to announce the second choice votes made it djfficult to de- termine the winner. Bruce, how- ever, carried three of the four city developed “Mrs. Harding's condition. 8 am.: Temperature, 95.5: pulse, 94 piration, 32. Early part of night restless; latter part comfortables General appearances improved Enlargement due to nephrosis de- creasing. Laboratory findings favorable. Crisis seems to passed. s ed unnec for the present.” The bulletin was deseribed by mem- bers of the executive household a= “the best news” that has come from the bedside of the patient since her condition became critical last week. It showed u drop of 1.2 degrees in temperature from last night and the nearest approach 1o normal in tem- perature since she became seriously ill. Both pulse and respiration this morning were slightly above inight's readings.- but the physicians +letin la decidea in attendance have emphasized might be expected to vary these Leanening of Ten: Immediately was after the morning bul- iskued there was noticeabl: lessening of the tension | which has existed at the White Houze | | was shown -|ily physician. his son, {and Dr. Joel the | and in official circles close President and Mrs. Harding. The cabinet session today. however to the iwas called off as well as the Presi- dent’s semi-weekly meeting with newspaper men. This action was tak en. it was explained, to permit the President to remain near Mrs. Hard- ing and to conserve his strength. The symptom of increased elimina tion of wastes through the kidney. noted in last night's bulletin was the indication of improvement to which attending physicians attached thé greatest_hope, it had been explained by Gen. Sawyer in discussing the case with newspaper men late in the after- noon. It had given the doctors, he sald, a sense of relief they had not felt heretofore. President Much Encouraged. Although an increase of one-half of one degree in the patient's temperature from that recorded yesterday morning in the night bulletin, at which time it was 100. a pulse registry of 90 showed a decrease of & points since morning and of 20 points since Sunday night, while respiration had de- creased 2 points since morning to 2, being nearly normal. President Harding retired at an eariy hour last night much encouraged. it was said by friends, over the improve- ment shown In his wife's condition. Dr. George T. Harding, jr., of Columbus. Ohio, a brother of the President. told newspapermen yesterday that Mr. Hard- ing had borne up under the strain of i Mrs. Harding's iliness as well as could i be expected and that physically his con- dition was excellent. Dr. Mayo Leave: Dr. Charles Mayo, who was called to Washington from Rochester, Minn.. for consultation particularly on the surgical phases of Mrs. Harding's case, will leave for home this after- noon or tonight, it was announced at the White House. Dr. Mayo, it was said, feels he can leave the White House, since surgical requirements have subsided. Departure of Dr. Mayo will leave as consultants to Dr. Sawyer, the fam- Dr. Carl W Sawyer of Marion, Ohio: Dr. George T. Harding, jr., of Columbus, Ohio. T. Boone, naval medical officer on the vacht Mayflower. Dr. John M. T. Finney, Johns Hopkins University specialist, returned to Bal- timore Sunday. PRAY FOR MRS. HARDING. Hundreds of Washingtonians Unite in Petition for Her Recovery. Lincoln Memorial or the Lincoln Me-| If Senator Townsend is renominat- dye embargo and other provisions cepting -the Capitol bullding and districts with seven delegates each the roof of the building. Fire ofi- cials said that a back draft caused the explosion. The blaze was confined to the Beeh Jer building and no more damage was done to adjoining shops than by emoke and water. Mr. Beehler esti- mated hix loss at around $50,000, cov- ered by insuranc: Gives Figures on Equipment. Blackburn Esterline, assistant to the solicitor general, resumed the presentation of the government's evi- dence in support of the bill for a permanent injunction with the read-, ing of afdavits and reports covering ! interference with fruit shipments from the state of Washington and!: figures on accidents due to faulty railroad equipment. The report showed that of 67,926 locomotives on action there may be delayed a week or more. As now framed, the bill is estimated roughly by the experts to raise ap- proximately $400,000,000 in revenue on the basis of the present volume of the nation's import trade. The level of its rates, according to the experts, is slightly below the level in the Payne-Aldrich bill, the last republi- SLAYS TWO DAUGHTERS. Bodies Thrown Into River, Says Eansan, in Confession. KANSAS CITY, Mo, September 12.— railroads_reporting 7,506 were out of seryice during the entire month of July, while 48,835 were reported for inspection and repairs. H Reports of the Interstate Com-| merce Commission were presented ! showing “bad order” freight cars and ' locomotives on July 1 and 15 and| A confession that he had killed his i two daughters and thrown their| AuSust 1 and 15 38‘,‘5.‘%"}!,\'8,',’3‘,;2,“ of the country’s 2, can protective tariff, but is consider- ably above the level of the democratic Underwood law now in force. Replaces Former Acts. The bill will becomé effective im- mediately after President Harding signs it, replacing both the Under- wood and emergency tariff acts. It is designed to a large extent, its bodies into the Missouri river was required repairs, or.14.3 per cent of | framers have said, to meet the un- morial must be subordinate to the| bridge, and of the two alternatives the subordinati of the memorial is to be chosen”| 1In reply to this Chairman Moore said: “It is not easy to conceive that such a choice will find favor. Nor is it necessary to make such a choice. ‘While it is true that the construction of a high bridge would dwarf and be- little the Lincoln Memorial, a bridge on the Arlington line would be an important element in a great compo- sition. The bridge would be subordi- nate to the Lincoln Memorial only in the sense that the Union station is subordinate to the Capitol, both being parts in one grea scheme of capital improvement and each taking its ap- propriate place in the scheme.” Trafic Plans Arranged. Considering the fourth argument— ed, it appears practically certain that the republican senatorial ticket will lose the support of an influential gection of the. independent press on “Newberryism,” which will go to Mr. Ferris, making Michigan a doubtful state in the fall elections, notwith- standing the overwhelming republi- can majority. : An eleventh hour development (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) in INSISTS AMERICAN CONTINENT IS NOW ' iof daylight and the ceasing of any Tounds and the Congressional Li- Brary building from the section which makes it the duty of the chief of en- gineers of the Army to remove the snow from paved sidewalks in front and appeared to have polled enough voles in outside counties to go into the more tha the required number of dele- convention with considerably of or adjacent to all buildings owned or leased by the United States within the fire limits of the District. The Senate’ concurred in this amendment sterday. ye’l‘he bl’;l provides that it shall be the duty of every person, partnership, corporation. joint stock company or syndicate in charge of any building or lot of land within the fire limits of fhe District fronting or abutting on 2 paved sidewalk, whether as owner -or tenant, within_the first sight hours snow or sleet fall, to remove the snow or sleet from the sidewalk in front of the buildings:or lots they may . con- trol. P (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) CONGRESS 10 DECIDE FATE OF HOME SCHOOL ! Commissioners Will Ask Fund for Deserted Institution to De- Hundreds of Washingtonians gath- ered at midday at Keith's Theater to- day to offer up prayers for the recov- ery of Mrs. Harding, wife of their President. The meeting was held un- der the auspices of the District Chris- tian Endeavor Alumni Association. Owen P. Kellar, president of the as- sociation in the District, presided. Prayers were offered by Rev. Wil- liam S. Abernethy, D. D., pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, which church is attended by the President and Mrs. Harding: Rev. James Shera Montgom- ery, D. D. chaplain of the House of Representatives; Rev. Wallace Rad- cliffe, D. D., pastor emeritus of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church DRIFTING TO WES By the Associated Press. | cide Future. and acting chaplain of the United States Senate: Rev. John Brittan Clark, D. D., pastor of the First Pres- usual world industrial situation, and more particularly to protect Amert- can industries from the low-cost in- the total. Thé percentage increased to 15.1 on July 16 and reached 15.3 that congested traffic conditions would be created by having the made today by Tony Dinello, of Kan- Penalty $25-and Cosats. gas. City, Kansas, to Henry T. Zim- It fell to 14.8 er, chief of police, and several de- tectives, the police chief anrounced today. UNCLE SAM’S 226 WOODEN VESSELS GO FOR $750,000 The government today: sold its fleet of war-built wooden ships, the Shipping Board accepting & bid of $750,000 made by George D. Perry, an attorney of the firm of Lent & Humphrey of San Francis. co, for 226 of the veasels. = The bid was accepted at a com- per cent on August 1. per cent fifteen days later.. The locomotive reports showed 13,- 896 of the 64,516 engines in need of repair July 1, or 22.5 per cent of the total number. July 15 the “bad or-! der” 1ist reached 24.7 per cent; 28.5! per cent on August 1, and 30.3 per cent | on August 15. Says Strikers Hit Her. Mr. Esterline read an afidavit from the wife of a Chicago railroad man who went out on strike, but later re. turned to- work when the grocer cut off the famiiys credit. She told of an attack by three strikers who struck and cursed her aid searched her house in an efort to find her husband, whom they called a scab. Mr. Richberg made a general objec- tion to all such afidavits to be pro- duced by the government on the dustries in Germany and the countries carved out of Austro-Hungary. In its effort to meet this situation the House based the ad valorem dutles on American valuation—that is, the value of the American article comparable to the imported article— but the Semate went back to the time-honored system' of foreign val- uation. It added, however, provi. sions, which were approved in con- ference, conferring broad authority on the President to increase or de- crease rates on foreign valuationand to declars American valuation—that is, the wholesale selling price in the United States—as the basis for as- sessing duties wherever it was shown that this was necessary. Conferees Act on Rates. The conferees In perfecting these provisions, however, decreed that the LONDON, September 12.—Is the American continent drifting west- ward and slowly leaving Europe be- hind? It is, if the:theory propounded bridge terminal near the Lincoln Me- morial—Mr. Moore indicated that, on the contrary, the Lincoln Memorial was located and its surroundings were planned so as to care for the traffic to the savants of the British Associa. tion at Hull by the German geologist ‘Wegener is correct. Dr. Wegener declares that the va- rlous continents origmnally were join- ed at the poles, but now they are slowly drifting away from the poles and from east to west. America is moving westward f than Europe, he said, and Geenland still faster 'than America. He added that this movement had been proven by experi- ments at observatories in Europe and at Washington. In the discussion which followed Prof. Turner of Oxford sald there that would cross a memorial bridge. The great circle around the memo- rial was planned with the bridge in view. The circle, he sald, like the one around the Arch of Triumph at Paris, was designed as a point of re- union and arture for the roads leading from and to East Potomac Park and Rock Creek parkways and to the memorial bridge. Answering the fifth argument—that New York enue extended would open a passageway from Virginia to the White House and the business center of Washington—Mr. Moore_em- phasized !:fi p;oll““thl-! New Yo;'k avenue, while pointing toward - the White House and the business cen- control shall make the sidewalk rea- however, that as soon thereafter as or corporation controlling the build- person or corporation to have the snow and ice removed from the side- walk, or to have the sidewalk made reasonably safe for travel, it becomes the duty of the District Comml: It is'provided that in case the snow, sleet and ice cannot be removed from the sidewalk without Injury to the sidewalk the person or corporatiom in The Commissioners have agreed to include in their new estimates the regular item of approximately $50,000 for operation of the Industrial Home School during the year beginning next July. This statement was made by F. W. McReynolds, chairman of the board of trustees of the school, after he and his fellow board members emerged from a lengthy conference with the city heads at the District building to- day. If this item remains In the esti- mates when they go to the Capitol it will give the home school trustees the opportunity they seek to have the ap- propriation committees of the Senate and House decide whether they be- sonably safe for. travel by sprinkling sand or ashes thereon. It is provided, the weather shall permit, the person ing or lot abutting on the sidewalk shall have the sidewalk thoroughly clean. In the event of the failure of any Hon- byterian Church; William = Knowles Cooper, general secretary of the local Y. M. C. A., and by other well known ministers and laymen of various de- nominations. \ Percy S. Foster, president emaritus of the Christian Endeavor Alumni As- sociation of the District of Columbia, directed the music. A bass solo was rendzred by Fred East of the lvary Baptist choir, accompanied by Y Wilson. s The District Commissioners were present, headed by the president of the board, Commissioner Cuno H. Ru. dolph, who spoke of the sy and apprehension of the o the District of Columbia dufl? Mrs. Harding’s iliness. The Billy Sunday Ushers’ Association, under its presi- dent, James C. Lewis, was in charge - of the seating. The general ar- rangements were under the direction of xford L. Holmes, secretary of ground that secondary evidence of that typ:’u not competent. D . The assistant solicitor general read vits from non-union men em- President could not incresse rate: after he fimd declared American val- uation. He might, however, decrease ter, does not lead to the business Sorser. “Tne chagge Would being ad reef e o ng ad- ditional trafc to the already con. was no _astronomical observation worthy of serious consideration in gener’s-theory. Green- Heve the school should go out of existence or continus The institution ceased to function as ers to have the snow and ice removed. The corporation counsel is directed to sue for aind récover in such case, the the Christian Endeavor Alumni As- socfation of the District of Columbia. General observance . _throughout the United States marked the call to petitive sale conducted by Chair- man Lasker and members of the Shipping Board and the action leaves the government with only ten wooden ships on its hands. The ships sold today répresented a cost 'of §300,000,000. An them within a radius of 50 per ceént. ‘Where the foreign valuation remained in effect the it could raise rate within a radius of rt of Egg fied, Bad an soparent ition between Y ah::o -.nfiu a mile in }l’l 1907. * All other evidence. h:vezv ¥, was against the existence. of s in ilatitude and longitud gested corner of 17th street, he ex- ned. ' Extension of B street its ‘width to 23d street, on the other hand, would be traffi itinued on expense of removi the snow and|a Home for wards of the board of chil- Jith & penaity mot ex-|dren's guardians s few days aso; for offense, with|when that board withdrew the 1 jeni_so recovered the amount | three youngsters who were being u Column 1) cared for there. Ice, s 35 Enar e Bt U A wi lni.icrl.l secretary of the United So- of Christian vor, whose bea ters is in Boston. g