Evening Star Newspaper, February 4, 1923, Page 2

COUZENS TELLSD.L. CAR LIKE SOLUTION “Get Ballot First and Fight for Federal Ownership in Congress.” FIRST ADDRESS HERE New Senator From Michigan Says Conditions Here Are Most Unusual Pight for your liberty” by obtain- ing a voice in your local government and then solve the .public utility problems through government owner- ship and operation of the utilitie: was the message delivered to the residents of the District by Senator James Couzens of Michigan, in his 1irst public address in Washington at a meeting last night of the Federa- tion of Citizens' Associations in the District building. Unmercifully Senator Couze the public utility l’ul‘])l)\h" and in one instance interred { that the banks are running the street ; { | at- lway lines. He also assalled the utilities regulations as the Joseible to have among deplored the inadequate »ol facilities. and criticized | *street lighting con- voorest froe people Tublic se the “intolerable” tions. The only remedy I can mee.” said Senator Couzens, “is a definite or- Eanization of the users of the utili-| ties for the purpose of getting the Tight kind of ervice at the proper rate, which in my judgment will be only through the government taking over the property. Perhaps the best way to approach this whole problem is to first get rRome voice in your local government, at least three- fifths of a voice anyway. | hope that You will have the courage to be re: Americans and fleht for your liberty, because 1 do not believe you have | it now Unusual Conditions Here. “I demurred somewhat at coming here to talk tonight. realizing that no matter what 1 might say it would do no good. or that any conviction 1 wight carry to you in what 1 sa Wwould not be able to be expressed in | hie baliot boy,” said Senator Couzens in opening his address. “T believe that | i< the most unusual condition of af- fairs existing anywhere wumong free people. Certainly if [ were a resident ©f Washington 1 would not content myself to bLe governed and taxed without representation. It is so un- usual that I can hardly find words to e3press myself, which leaves me to Wonder why you stand for it. “It would appear to me that you #hould have at least 60 per cent of the say of what your laws should be, and that the amount of money vou £hould be taxed and hot the money should be expended. If T controlled hese citizens' organizations 1 would conduct & strenuous campaign with Cangress to germit some sort of rep. resentation. Claim War Honor Before Congress For2U.S. Units A dispute in the House whether the 79th (National Army) or the 37th (Ohio National Gyard) Division captured Montfaucon, France, during the great Ameri- can drive agamst the Germans, was forecast yesterday with the introgugtion of a bill by Repre- sentative Begg, repubdlican, Ohio, authorizing the 37th Division As- soclatlon to erect a monument on Montfaucon helghts. The Senate already has passed a bill by Senator Reed, republican, Pennsylvanla, proposing similar authorlty for the association of the 78th Division, which was com- posed of National Army men from Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware and the District of Columbla. D.C. MEN AMONG 3 ASKING JUDGESHIPS Two Court of Customs Ap- peals Vacancies to Be Filled Ere Adjournment. 1t is considered likely that Presi- dent Harding, before the adjourn- ment of Congress, will fill the two vacancies existing in the United States Court of Customs Appeals. Before the executive reaches a con- clusion regarding these two choice Judicial posts he must carefully con-| sider the merits of a large array of | aspirants. It is understood that thirty-four names have been recom- mended to the President from which he must make his selections. The candidates in this large field represent practically every section of the country, and among them are one United States senator, three mem- bers of Congress and one former member of Congress. Also there are three or four residents «f the Dis- trict of Columbia, whose friends have placed their name before the Presi- dent to be considered in counection with these coveted bench appointmnts, Tossibly the most prominent among the many whose names have heen mentioned in connection with these appointments are Senator Townsend of Michigan, whose service in the Sen, erminates on March 4: Repre- sentative George W. Young of North Dakota, Frederick Dallinger, Massa- chusetts. and Oscar Bland of In- Humphreys _of Washington Thomas O. Marvin of Massachusetts, chairman of the tariff commission. TURKS TO PRESENT COUNTER TREATY om the press T gather that you have entirely inadequate school fa- cilities and T know from personal ob- nce that You have the poorest d city in the United States. I aleo of the conviction ‘that you BLave the poorest public utllitics reg. ulations which it is possible to have among a free people. Studies Situation Persomally. The Michigan Senator explained that for more than a week he has Leen studving the street railway slt- pation and it is bevond his compre- ension why it s pe. = Detuate itself pEE “Take the Capital Tractio: Com- pany, consisting of a capltalization at the rate of $275,000 per mile. while Detroit has a capitalization of less ihan $100.000 per mile,” he declared. There should be some slight con- wideration given to the fact that they have forty-eight miles of under- #round lines, which ie somewhat more expensive, but nothing like an aver- 2e of two and three-quarter times #s much capitalization as the Detroit system. erhaps it is too ancient to that the records show plainly that in 1895, $5,135.000 worth of water was put into the system. Some of this water may have been absorbed, be- cause 1 find that in June, 1918, your Utilities Commission valued the roperty at some $217.000 per mile.’ 3 I'IN“‘ \Aa!h(nxln Y(!II\K‘s\y'flnd lec- | c Company with 128 miles of sin track, of which sixty-three n‘llw:‘li: underground, he eaid, apparently has a more modest caplitalization, be- ing about $125.000 per mile, wity a capitalization of 25 per cent In exe cres of its value ! #nator Couzens ®aid tha wries of eighteen officials of the Wash- | ington Railway and Electric Company | are charged jointly to the Potomac Tlectric Power Company, and that four are charged entirely to the rall- Wway company and that two are charged entirely to the power com- pany. “The totala show.” he declared, “that over one-hailf of the total sal- s, $60.750 out of $117.000 s hargad to the power company alone. and of the twelve jointly charged general officers, the power company | Pays 0 of the aggregate of $77,- 500, or 5 per cent. “Attempt to Ralse Rates.” “Tt must ur to you,” tinued, “that the pro rat: laries {n this manner tempt to raise the cost of power to wxcessive rate. and you may answer | that it automatically reduces the sal- aries of the railway company, and Thereby maves car riders. but in that | connection 1 wish to say that the| Washington Railwa nd Electrie Company. with only 125 miles of line. | are supporting a decidedly excessive | overhead in the way of salaries, “Take the Capital Traction Com-! pany, which has only sixty-four miles o operate. The preaident of the com- pany alone gets $18,000 and the vice }»rfsh’@nl in charge of operations gets 14.000; the sccretary and tredsurer, §7.000, ‘and a lawyer to look after their interests, $8,000. We in De- troit do not have such salary as this §n fact, 211 we have Is a_claims coun #el, at $5.000 per year, for a railroad nearly three times the size.” 1f the railroads cannot combine and operate under one management. and the management be required to furnish var fares at j centx a fare, with poseibly R _cent extra for transfers, Senator Couzens asserted that then both companies should be abolished and the &yvstems taken over by the gov- crnment, “so that you might have a naified and simplified management at & mintmum of cost.” iy attention has been drawn to (he fact that out of the fifteen direc- tors that it takes to run the Wash- ington Railway and Flactric -Com- yany, consisting of 128 miles, twelve zre directors in the banks and trust companies of Washington. 1 do not fnow whether this has any signifi- cance. It seems to me that the banks aire running the street railway lines. And this may be good or bad; I do not Jcnow. he con-i of these is an at-| Sale of 27,500 Shares. “The newspapers recorded last No- Yember that a group of investors con- cted with the North American Com- a public utilities holding com- " , wWith holdings in many public atilities throughout the country, pur- «hased 27.500 shares of the common stock at a price of $1,500,000, Which. “ am again informed, due to s The banks which had made consider- uble loans secured by this stock. It was further said that the purchasers of this stock hobe to reap large profits 3n the event of a favorable decision in @ suit of the Potomac Electric Power <ompany which now has impoundéd .. fund of 33,000,000, which, I am in- was collected in excess of the owed by the Public Utilities, Commission. 3 At the eeaclusion of his addrdys, | that {influence (Continued from First Page.) to employ legal counsellors chosen trom a list drawn by the permanent court of International justice. Armenian Protest. . These counsellors will participate in the perparation of legislative re- forms and will be assigned to judi- cial districts of the courts of appeal at Constantinople and Smyrna and the ordinary courts at Samsun and Adana. They will not sit as judges but will have the right to recelve complaints from foreigners respect- ing the administration of fhe law and submit these complaints to competent Turkish authorities in order to in- sure strict observance of the Turkish code. The united Armenfan delegmtion sent a protest to the conference to- day against what it calls the aban- donment of the Armenians by the conference. Tt recalls promises made by the powers concerning a national home and declares non-scttiement of the Armenian question is not con- ductive to peace in the near east. |D- C. FACES LONELY NINE MONTHS WITH CONGRESS AT REST (Continued from First Pag conference at Versalllés—even during and-it hasn't let go yet. It will have to 1€t go on the 4th of March, however. The con- stitution provides for that and one; can detect already at the executive! end of Pennsylvania avenue a very | audible murmur of hank the Lord | for the constitution.’ i Congrens Ia Blamed. i For ninc long months Congr | going to be without the means of | expressing itself —speechless, if one ! can Imagine €uch a thing. During| time the President and the Sec- | retary of State may zo far if they choose in the direction of formulating | a foretgn policy. Many keen observ-: ers believe that the vonflicting views | of senators have had much to do | Wwith keeping forelgn alfairs’ in a | muvdled condltion. The senatorial Will_be gone from March | to December—nine months—and much can happen in that time, The_persistency with which gress has been on the country’s hands can best be realized by the fact that there have been extra sessions of | every Congress except one since Mr. | Taft went into the White House on March 4. 1908. That was fourteen years ago. Only in 1915 was there the usual long vacation. Tt is_small wonder that Washing- ton officialdom views the coming vacation with a feellng akin to equanimity. (Copsright, 1923.) — e that conferenc Con- C. Suter how the residents of the Dis- { Fort Smith, | the 1. 5. MEDIATION, DIRECT WINTER LAYS GRIP ON CAPITAL AGAIN Weather Office Cold Wave Forecast Covers Greater Portion of United States. SNOWSTORM IN SOUTH Twenty Degrees Below Freezing Tomorrow’s Prospect for Tennessee. Today will be cloudy and cold and tomorrow clear and ¢old. The cold snap, according to weather bureau forecasts, is for the Atlantic, east gulf states, Tennessee, the Ohio valley, and the lower Make regions. The drop of the mercury, It is ex- plained, is due to & high pressure area which already has been attended by a cold w e throughout the lake re- gion, the great central valleys, the southern plains states and the inte- rior of the west gulfl states. Cold wave warnings have been is- sued for New England and eastern New York, and the rest of the At-; lantic seaboard will be affected, ac- cording to the forecast, as far south as central Florida. The mercury is, expected to go below freezing tonight | in northwest Florida. Alabama and Mississippi and to central Florida and Georgia tomorrow morning. H ICY IN CENTRAL WEST. | Chicago Mercury Tumbles 30 De-! grees in Twelve Hours. By the Associnted Press. CHICAGO, February 3.—With the; entire central west shivering in the grip of icy blasts a cold wave tonight was extending its clutch from the {far northwest toward sunny Florida and from New York to San Franclsco, rolling down the mercury to new low records. In Chicago, the mercury tumbled more than thirty degrees in twelve hours. and the weather bureau pre- dicted that the bottom would not be reached until it touched six degrees below zero. Eveleth, Minn.. the cold- et spot in the United States, re- ported minimum temperatures of forty-five degrees below zero. In Minneapolls 1t was twenty-five de- | greés below, while St Paul and Bismarck, N. D.. registered one de- gree higher. On their way to Chicago the icy blasts brought new seasonal records | in many parte of lowa and Nebraska as they spread over the lower lake region, the Ohio valley, Tennessee and | the interior of the east gull states and swept toward the Atlantic | coast, which they were expected to | reach tomorrow. In the southlands the disturbances were confined to high winds and rains, the most de- structive causing considerable prop- erty damage in the vicinity of Savage, Miss.. where scores of persons were left homeless As an offset to depleted coal bins, {health authorities reported that tha | {cold wave would act as a curb on the increase of Influenza and pneu- monia, No warm weather is in eight for the central west, the weather bureau here announced and predicted gen- erally fair weather for the next few days with temperatures below the seasonal normal. The regions for {which this prediction was made in- cluded 1llinols, Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, Jowa, Migsouri, Kansas, Nebraska. South Dakota, | Montana and Wyoming:. | The zero line in this region ex- {tended today from Alpena, Mich., | {southwest through Chicago and Pe- loria and then followed the boundary | {line of Towa and Missourl, extending south to Dodge City, passing through ! | Kansas and then going northwest to Denver and turning north to the Yel- | lowstone National Park and on into | Canada. CENTRAL SOUTH SHIVERS. Cold Wave Preceded by Sleet and Snow Storms. MEMPHIS, February 3.— Wintry blasts swept the central couth tonight on the heels of the first real snow and sleet storm of the season, with prospects by tomor- row of the temperature of from 10 to 20 degrees below freezing, the low est of the winter, in wake of spring- like weather and one of the mildest winters in vears. Tonight the storm, which appearance early today, replacing a warm rain, apparently was centered in eastern Tennessee, leaving as a re- minder of its visit from three to six hes of snow. which blanketed much of Arkansas and Tennessee and ex- tended to the south as far as Grenad and Clarksdale, Miss, approximately one hundred miles gouth of Memphis. | In Memphis the snowfall amountad to about three inches. while points in Arkaneas reported a fall ia some places of six inches, on the western border of Arkansas. reported a mperature of 24 degrees, with a promise that by tomorrow the mercury will reach a minimum_ of 10 degrees. Eldorado, Ark., in the extreme southern part of state, received five finches of snow, the heaviest fall since 181 Cold wave warnings, issued today and tonight. predicted temperature of from X to 1R degrees above zero n northern Arkansas, snd from 20 10 24 in western Tennessee by tomor- row Wirs comniimeea=2m throughout the area swept by co rm \as badly di arranged with communication eut off | Tenn., made its | to some sections, while to others only | intermittent service could be maln- tained. Both the telegraph and tele- | plone companiex mustered all avail- | able linemen and tonight reported i not more than 10 per cent of the lines radiating from Memphis out of com- mission. { i | i PARLEYS, UP T0 CHILE| { Bolivian Proposal on Outlet to Pa- Senator Cousens was asked by Jesse | | i { trict could obtain a voice in the local government. “Fight, Aght, ight,” was his laconic answer, The federation gave Mr. Couzens a rising vote of thanks, and urged him to have his address published In the Congressional Record. AR a result of Senator Couzens' critieism of the street lighting con- ditions, the federation oh motion of Thomas J. Donovan, voted unani. to request the conferees on the District appropriation bill include in the measure an appropriation suf- ficient to mive the District “a proper ighting system, irrespective of cost.” Delegate Donovan, likewise deplored the wtreet lighting conditiohs, de- seribing them as “intolerable.’ The federation also approved the ac- tion of the Senate in inserting in the District appropriation bill an item of £40,000 for the purchake of a site for the proposed home for the feeble- minded, and went on record as favor. ing its location on a site other than that at Blue Plains. On motion of Delegate Donovan the federation pledged its co-operatign with the Almas Temple in making arrangements for housing the vis: tors coming to Washington to attend the Shrine convention in June. It also voted to request the Shrine arrange- ment committee to send & representa- tive to address the fext meeting of the body. ' cific Coupled With Plans to Revise Treaty of 1904. By the Associated Press. BUENOS AIRES, February 3.—| Bolivia will propose an acceptance or| the good offices of the United States | in arriving at a solution of her dis- | ute with Chile over an outlet to the acific, if the latter country accepts the Bolivian proposal for direct negotiations to reviee the treaty of 1904, Thie statement, says the La Paz correspondent of Na Nacion, was made today by the Bollvian foreign minister in giving out the text of the note to Chile, the receipt of which was announced from Santiago on Thursday. The note reminds Chile that when Bolivia appealed its case to the league of nations the Chilean a:lag-- tion informed the league assembly that Chile was ready to settle the question by direct negotiations such as Bolivia now proposes. The general council of the British Trades jon Congress has called two general conferences this month to con- sider plans for an amalgamation inte two groups of all the unions in the engineering and textile {curred ! was along the rift of the earth's crust | eable of | somewhere { mograph How Seismograph Recorded Felt Ovcr the World y..mz.“;'"’ TAH PREAEHES f 1 g -mhy:qrrp:i., Nyt (7 e (RN I WL U (RUAL i i LA r” Copy of part of sclsmograph record at Georgetown University Observia. tory, showing nn ordiaary carth shoek as recorded by the ims: trument: (at right) and how the Indicator meted during earth disturbances of yes- terday. ASK LAW TO KEEP CAUSED BY QUAKES (Continued from First Page. was demolished and the water cov- ered the wharf office to a depth of three feet. The Kahului damage is estimated at_$500.000. Several large lumber scows were driven ashore against the boulders at Kahulul. Mud covers the streets and fish of wll sizes were found in the roads swept by the waves. Scows Swept Ashore. At Kahului, Island of Maui, a total of four scows were swept ashore. Two of | them were loaded with lumber. one with sugar and the other was empty. So far as can be learned at the present time the only serious damage caused by the tidal wave was at Hilo, Kahulul and Haleiwa. Practically no damage was done At other points on the islands. On November 10 last tidal waves swept Hilo bay from 8:36 o'clock in the evening until 1:10 o'clock the fol- lowing morning, plling the beach with sampans and washing ten craft out to sea. No lives were belleved to have been lost. The Japanese living on the waterfront packed their be- longings and fled inland. QUAKES RECORDED HERE. SEVEN TIDAL WAVES ‘ ers Urges Voistead to Champion Measure. ruling made yesterday by Controlle; under the federal employes' compen sation laws must be restricted to ca of Injury in actual performance o duty, is being sought by the organ. ized employes of the government. delegation representing the Nationa yesterday to champion a bill amend meet the situation. Coaterences Are Held. Conferences were held last night be tween the members of the States employes’ compensation com mission and a committee represent ing various national organizations o tederal emploves. Tremors 8o Violent Needle Thrown Off U. 8. Seismograph. Br the Associated Press. Two distinct earthquakes, one of tremendous and unusual proportions, the other of moderate intensity. oc- today. but their exact loca- tion could not be determined from the records of delicate seismogTaphs. and scientists diffcred widely in their opinlons as to the regions affected. The first quake, the worst of the | Liofr the two. was emtimated to_have been |persoris hitherto conaidered compensa b 3,000 miles from Washington. | ble for lead poisoning. tuberculosis o centered 5,000 miles from Washinglon. | o}, " ccupational infection or dis Its tremors continued for more than three hours and before they had ended the selsmographs recorded a second series of shocks estimated to be at another point between 3,600 and 3,700 miles from Washington. Seismologists were much at variance on their estimates as to the exact location of the major disturbance. Deslgnations ranged from Alaska. the Aleutian Islands and the arctic region on the north to northern Argentina on the south. On the west the range was from the bed of the Pacific ocean, at a polnt southwest of Lower California, to the vicinity of the Marshall Island between Hawali and the Philippines, and in Japan Prompt_ radio communication with Japan, however, disclosed no unusual disturbance in that country. The Leavier of the two quakes be- gan at 11:13 a.m., when the first pre- fiminary tremors were recorded on the seismographs of Georgetown Uni- versity here, and the second prelim- inary tremors were recorded at 11:23. The maximum vibrations wers at 1 0, and continued for ten minutes, during which the needles on one of the Georgetown seismographs were thrown off the records. The tremors were continuing when the preliminary waves of the second quake were re- corded at 1:54 p.m. The secondary tremors of this quake were recorded at 2:02 pm. It was not until about 6 p.m. that the tremors dled away. 4,500 MILES FROM GOTHAM. by the compensation commission untf the end of the fiscal year, June 3 but thereafter no payments of com pensation may be made to federal em through accidental or fortuitous hap- pe & in contradistinction gradual organic changes. will The effect of the controller’s decision it 18 stated, is to make the federa law, and far less the laws of California or Massachu setts for example. It will affect fed CTnion. Personnel of Committee. the compensation commission with Chalrman Volstead consisted of the National Federation of Federa Employes; Thomas F. Flaherty. sec retary of the National Federation o Post Office Clerks: E. J. Cantwell, sec. retary of the National Association o Letter Carriers: H._ W. mecretary of the Railway Mail Asso. ciation, and N. P. Alifas. president o District 44 of the International Asso. ciation of Machinists. —_—— HARRISBURG, Pa. February A summary of the week's activitie by the state police to enforce the pro. hibition under the new crusad: started by Gov. Pinchot, shows ther of thirty motor vehicles, 10ads of beer and hundreds of gallon of other liquors. The state polic carried on operations in counties. John T. Davis, federal director for Pennsyivania, ment Gov Pinchot a letter expressing his appre Vibrations in New York Are Re- corded Nearly Three Hours. By the Awsociated Press. NEW YORK, February 3.—Revised enforcing the law. SICK PAY CUSTOM Committee of Federal Work-|prior to the war was fine” the Emergency legislation to meet the Chairman Volstead of the House|ment is obedience to law judiciary committee was asked by a|have determined it Federation of Federal Employes late ing the employes’ compensation act to Tnited The ruling will permit continuation of the payments on the present basis ployes unless their injuries have come to the Under the controllers decision, as two or three hundred ease following injury will be unable to benefit under the law after July 1. and all future cases of this character be denied compensation unless the law I8 broadened in the meantime. | law as narrow as the narrowest state iberal than either eral employes in every state in the The committee which conferred with and pem e i Miss Gertrude MeNally, vice Dmlden!l. M and James P. McKeon, secretary. of Strickland, DRY CRUSADERS TAKE 104 i were 104 arrests and the confiscation two car- cighteen | contest in the September prima prohibition ation for the assistance rendered in DIGNITY OF LAW Chief Justice Tells Yale _Alumni Country Now Is | Facing Crucial Period. OBEDIENCE IS URGED Pereonal Inclinations Should Not Sway Action of Good Citi- ‘zen, He Declares. Pratsing the response of the col- lege men to the aid of their country in war time, Chiél Justice William Howard Taft of the United States Supreme Court, and member of the Yale class of ‘78, urged all college men to respond equally as well to the aid of thelr country today in up- hoding the legally constituted laws of the land. Justice Taft spoke at the forty-ninth anniversary banquet of the Washington Yale Alumni As. soctation last night at the Racquet Club. “I know the spirit of college men Chief Justice stated, “but 1 want it to be even greater during the erucial period we are now facing. This great period has many disquicting symp- toms which in themselves constitute a period of lawlessness, and even protests against law. The safety of society is_in_obedience to law. If you like the law or not, as long as rlit is regularly adopted, it is our General McCarl that payment made | business to obey it. - Basis of Govermment. 8| “To obey the law is to be a true ¢] democrat. If every man thinks every law must suit him in order to obey it, he is not a democrat, but an an- archist. The basis of good govern- as people to be. Young 1{men should be trained to know that to be patriotic and democratic mem- - | bers of society, they must realize not only what it means to obey, but to instill the act of obedience in others” Chief Justice Taft described the old days at Yale and what they meant to | him. He declared that the forty-fifth reunion of his class would be held in June, the same reunion that his father ;| had attended when he was graduating in 1878. He recalled some old fa- miltar figures of those days, including the late Chief Justice Wade of the % | Supreme Court ‘and John Peters of Maine. He said that he was now get- ting along in years and the only fa- {mular faces in Congress that were as old In public life were Senators © | Nelson, Lodge and Warren and Rep- iresentatives Cannon and Burton. I 8till feel young, however.” he stated. “especlally at these meetings, which with pleasure bring my old college 7| days back to me.” r To Invite Clubs Here. - | Other speakers included Dean Ros- well Parker Angier of Yale, Edward A. HUll ofsthe class of '75, Gen. M. M. { Macomb, former president of the War College and member of the class of ‘73, and Representative Frank H. : F'unk of Iilinois, member of the class of '$1 It was announced by the president of the alumni_association that the Federation of Yale Clubs would hold its convention the first week in May in Chicago and that an invitation to hold next year's convention in this clty would be extended. f | RITCHIE FOR GOVERNOR ‘| Former Maryland Controller Will Enter Primary—Indorsed at Mass Meeting. s Dispatch to The Star. CUMBERLAND, Md.. February 3.— e | Former State Controller Hugh A. Me- e { Mullen this afternoon decided to en- ter the race for the democratic nom- ination for governor. Gov. Ritchie {has already announced his candidacy ifor renomination. An Interesting v is lanticipated. The belief here now i that State Treasurer John M. Dennis, who has all along been reported am serfously considering jumping in to the fray, will refrain, and thus a | three-cornered contest will be ob- registered on the seismograph at th University of Washington, Director Henfy Landes of the uni versity’s aeismographical expressed the opinion that the dis turbance had originated in the Aleu calculations at the American Museum of Natural History placed today's earthquake 3.500 miles from New York, in the Pacific ocean, off Lower California The tremors recorded on the mu- seum’s instrument covered a period of two hours and fifty minutes. It was said the disturbance eventually where severe volcanic activities hav been reported recently Light Tremor Registered. BUENOS AIRES, February 3.—Th seismograph at the University of Li Plata registered a Hght earth tremo: at o'clock this afternoon. Th distance of the quake could not b caused by the memorable 1906, Violent sefsmic disturbances ware | first recorded on the museum's instru- ment yesterday. They continued today with increased intensity and had not ended at 2 o'clock The break In the Midway-Guam the Commercial Cable Com- =y tenoriea” Yestoghss® Seruon Tiecarded in Cannda. near” Honolulu and may{ S\SKATOON. Sask. Febru 5. have heen caused by earth tremors. officials of the company said today. They said they had not reccived a re BOFE BY S < &5 break. Al —er. repor lines down the vast o America were not affected. quake of {to be te the north pany, by the seismograph at the Univers of Saskatchewan from 8:15 tn 10:3 {this morning. Observers said th - nrobably & SCgPP” sy Darticularly severe at 8:50. Felt in Tenneanee. MEMPHIS, Tenn.. February | shock helieved by SAN FRANCISCO, February 3.—No| Belzoni, 150 miles south of here. t damage had been reported in Japan| have been an earthquake was felt i by the earthquake Which jarred seie- | that village at 4 p.m. today. T needles today throughout|was of sufcient intensiiy to caus the United States, according to direct| doors and windows to rattle. wireless advices' obtained by the Radlo Corporation of America from the Japancse govéernment wireless | service at the reguest of the Asso- clated Press. These advices were received here at 12:10 p.m.. Pacific| time, or more than four hours fl(erl Japan Safe, Says Radio. : By the As ated Press, 1 Throws Needles OF. CAMBRIDGE, Mass.. February -as recorded here this foranoon at 1 o'clock 13 minutes 7 seconds. Thi the firat tremors were recorded in this{ oSS (0, HNES ) O O e of th I = | selsmograph during Detected in Seattle. jrmon SEATTLE. Wash., February severe earth shock. 1.700 and 1,800 miles ffom Seattle, was disturbance. 3.—A | estimated at 4,760 miles. It Cannot Happen Without Your Knowing of It —because to keep you posted on everything everywhere, right up to the close of the day —the 5:30 EDITION of The Evening Star is issued every Week-day. For sale by newsboys and laboratory tian islands or the Alaskan peninsula, caleulated. but its center was believed jday’s mass niceting and enter the A violent earthquake was registered | 1ogany occurred in the west. | | An earthquake ‘described by the staft of the Harvard observatory ae “large” viated. e Mr. McMullen today addressed a letter to Herman D. Billmeyer, chair- -Iman of the committee that called on Mr. McMullen at his home Thursday - inight. and formally notified him of - ithe action of the mass meeting held in the city hall auditorium Tuesday. e|The letter acquiesces with the | unanimous desire of the meeting that Mr. McMullen enter the fight The former state controller said | this afternoon since his return from a|the east on Thursday numerous citi- +|zens had called upon him and per- e | =onally urged that he give favorable e { consideration to the request of Tues- n- teat for governor. This morning he receivad a petition signed by upward {of forty representative republican {voters from various sections of Al- county, asking him to be- \{come a canilidate for governor. *| ONE KILLED IN BLAST. ol HAMPTOX W, February S.—Ben- jamin M. Johnson was killed and Farl Snyder seriously injured and the residents of | four other civilian employes of the 0 | helium plant at Langley Field were n!hurt when a liquid air tank exploded t| shortly before noon today. The cause © [of the explosion has not been deter. mined. Virtually all machinery in the plant was totally wrecked. | 14 The distance of the earthquake was Ofcials de- entering between ' clinad to speculate on the place of the Digressing for a few minutes from thelr consideration of the Army bill yesterday afternoon, senators felicl- tated Senator Knute Nelson of Minne- sota upon his having reached the age of eighty years. Senator Swanson of Virginia, demoerat, riging in his place on the floor, called attention of the Senate to the fact that the veteran senator from Minnesota had attalned four-score vears. know I am_volcing the senti- ments of both sides of the chamber, republican and democratic alike. sajd Senator Swanson, ‘“when I ex- tend to him our heartiest felicita- tions and best wishes for many hap- y_recurrences of that anniversary. 2 tacl there is no_ pudlic man in America who has rendered more dis- tinguished, otic and efficient service th: the senator from Minnesota.” Other senators followed Senator Swenson With their congratulatory remarks, among them Senator Cara- way of Arkansas, democrat; Senator Warren of Wyoming, republican, and Senator Fletcher of Filorida, demo- orat. Prafse From Demoerat. “The senater from Minnesota was a gallant Union roldier. and all my people followed the stars and bars, \ Senate in Tribute to Nelson, Reily Has Heard No Reasons for Resigning Post By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 3.—Gov. Eimont Reily of Porto Rico, whose administration has been under at- tack, was asked by a reporter be- fore he sailed for the island if he- intended to resign. “That depends wholly upon my health,” he sald. “Granting that your health is all right, are there any political rea- sons for your resigning?" T haven't heard of any. Gov Relly returned from San Juan some time ago to confer with Presi- dent Harding and Secretary Hughe! The governor, six of whose rib: were broken in a taxi accident in Kansas City, arrived at the ship feeling very weak. He went directly to bed. CLASSIFYING PLAN BOES T0 PRINTER Draft Completed With Unani- mous Approval of Presi- dent and Cabinet. During the early part of this week the complete and revised plan for reorganisation of the government de- partments, with the unanimous ap- proval of President Harding and his cabinet, will be placed in the hands of the joint congressional committee on reorganization. & is considered very doubtful, thomgh, if the legislation necessary to make effective the provisions of the plan will be brought to the attention of efther branch of Congress before adjournment, March 4. The complete plan as prepared by Walter F. Brown, chairman of the| joint cammittee, and containing the| changes and modifications found nec- essary to meet certain objections on the part of several members of the! cabinet, was sent to the public printer early yesterday and copies are ex- pected to be in the hands of the President and members of his cabinet tomorrow. This fact was made known at the White House yesterday, and at the time it was intimated that it was not| necessary to make any great num-| ber of changes in the original plan| to meet the approval of all the cabi- { inet heads and to thereby break what had developed into a cabinet “dead- lock.” The revisions, it is under- stood, applied principally to those sections of the plan affecting the De- partments of Commerce, Interior and Agriculture. LEAGUE THREATENS FORCE FIRST TIME (Continued from First Page.) her Germun colonists. A conflict in the council over the nomination of a financial adviser for Albania resulted in postponement of | action for the restoration of the Albanian firances. ‘The Albanians asked the council to choose an im- partial and competent financler to take the country's financial inter- ests in hand. The league committee on finances chose S. Peterson, a Brit- ish subject, to whom first Italy and then France objected. The counail then decided to defer final action, upon which the Albanian i deleagtion sail it would be obliged | to refer the whole question back | to its government. PEACE PLAN READY. Proposal to League Body. By the Associated Press. GENEVA, February will | ments committee of the league of | i Lord Robert Cecil Will Submit! i 2.—Lord Rob- [ert Cecil submit to the arma-| | nations, when it meects here next| Friday, the draft of a treaty wher»-[ by the European powers would vn- dertake mutual guarantees and re- | duction of armament. Those who have seen the text say it is a most complete and finished plan. It was worked out by Lord Rob- ert with the aid of British experts and embodies his ideas for a general peace arrangement as opposed to the French plan of regional understand- ings. Lord Robert's plan, however, it is undestood, does not preclude such regional arrangements, provided they are mot exclusive. URGES FRENCH BOYCOTT. German-Americans Would Bring Economic War to U. 8. LOUIS. Mo., February 3.—The executive committee of the Miesouri branch. German-American Citizens" League. today issued a request to all of members, friends and affiliated so- cieties,” urging a national boycott on all French goods and wares, because of "the French occupation of the Ruhr in- Qustrial district. The request also asks that demand be made through congressmen that France promptly settle its war debt to the United States “without remission or cancellation in any part.” ST s 80th Milestone said Senator Caraway. “He is a re- publican, and all my people are dem- ocratic. 'Such a magnificent charac ter. however, had the distin- guished senator from Minnesota that he disarms me of all the prejudice I have cherished all my life, and sometimes 1 almost feel that I have a grievance against him; he is such a good man that I feel that I was mistaken when I hated the repub- licans.” Senator Warren said: “My relations with the senator from Minnesota com- menced some three-score years ago, and my feclings for him, and our relations here, are such that I regard him almost as if we were of one famlily. There- fore, I rise to thank senators on the other side for speaking o highly of one whom I love as a brother. 1If all the property T own, and all my interests, were in his hands, I would know that I could always get what we in the country call a square deal.” Nelson Thanks Colleagues, Responding to Senator Swanson, Sen- ator Nelson eal “1 assure the senator from Virginia that it is a great comfort to me that I have the confidence and good Wwill of associates in this body on both sides of the chamber. I have always aimed to conduct myself in such a pirit of fairness that no one could complain of any injustice on my part. and that will be my aim in the future.” ¢ RUDOLPH INDORSES ZIHLMAN MEASURE Only Clause Commissioner Is in Doubt About Is That for Titling Al Autos. FAVORS SPECIAL COURT Oyster Expresses Sentiments in Letter and Keller Sees Ball Bill as Traffic Aid. - ‘The Zihlman bill to create a traffic court and to strengthen the arms of the law generally in regulating traf- fic was indorsed in practically all re- spects yesterday ‘by Commissioner Rudolph. Mr, Rudolph said he was heartil In favor of establishing a spec tribunal to devote all of its time to trafic cases and the appointment of an additional judge to preside in that court. The chairman of the board of Com { missioners said he was not ready to | 80 on record in favor of the provision of the bill which would require the titling of all automobiles, but in other respects he believes the meas- ure would go far toward solving Washington's traflc problems. Oyster Gives Views. Commissioner Oyster only a few days ago wrote to Senator Phipps of Colorado, urging the creation of = traffic court with an additional judge so the Zihlman bill would have his support also in those respects. Commissioner Oyster's _disabled knee has improved to such an extent that he hopes to be back at the Dis- trict building tomorrow. The Com missioners expect to be ready by Wednesday to decide what action they will take on the set of proposed general highway ‘trafic rules sub- mitted by William P. Eno, chairman of the committee appointed to study the situation. % Assistant Corporation . Counsel Ringgold Hart now is engaged in going over these rules to determine to what extent, if any, they would conflict with existing polica regula tions for the econtrol of traffic. Urges Rigid Examinat Applicants for permits to drive mo tor vehicles should be examined carefully as a locomotiv& engineer Col. Charles Keller, Engineer Com- missioner, declared ' yesterday, dis- cussing the problem 8f reducing street accidents in Washington. The colonel said he beljeves that if any doubt exists in the mind of the examiner that an applicant is not fully qualified to drive an auto- mobile the public should be given the benefit of that doubt by withhold- ing the permit until the applicant lias demonstrated that he is capable of driving cautiously. : Until a few vears ago Operators permits were issued loosely in the District. but since the creation of the traffic bureau, under Police Inspector Headley, all applicants must pass an oral examination on the traffic regu- jations and demonstrate to a police- man his or her ability to drive. Asks Revocation Powers. Commissioner Keljer =ald the hands of the Commissioners would be strengthened greatly if Congress would enact the bill introduced Senator Ball at the request of the District authorities giving them au- thority to revoke an operating per- mit after a hearing when, for any reason, the Commissioners feel that continuance of such a permit would Constitute a menace to public safety. The city heads now revoke permits porarily for flagrant violations he traffic rules, but the proposed would give them broader dis cretion in this respect. GEORGIA POSSE PUTS 2 NEGROES 10 DEATH Shooting of One of Its Members During Hunt for Robbers Provokes Lynching. By the Associated Press. MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga., February 3. ~—Two negroes were lynched near the line dividing Hancock and Baldwin counties today, following their shoot- ing of Lindsay B. Gilmore, a member of a posse that was pursuing the negroes, after an alleged robbery committed by them on the outskirts of this county during the night. The negroes are alleged to have burglarized two stores near Sparta Ga., located near here, and besides money secured a chotgun and am- munition. Bloodhounds from the state penitentiary picked up their trails early today. When the pursuing posse neared the negroes they opened fire with the stolen gun, and Gilmore fell, seriously wounded. Several shots were ex- changed before one of the negroes was captured. His body was riddled with bullets, The other negro escaped during the battle, but early tonight was over- taken and put to death. The lynched men _have not been fdentifie January Circulation 92,494 District of Colymbia, FLEMING NEWBHOLD, Business Manager of THE BVENING and SUNDAY STAR, does Solemply swear that the actual number of copies of the paper named sold and distributed uring the month of Jenuary, A.D, 1028, was [Tt PNS PO Coplen. 93841 04,638 Less adjustments... .. v net circulation. otal d . circus aily average nét pai lation ... f covss Daily ayerage "number of coples for service, etc. Daily average net circulation. SUNDAY, Copies. Da. 94411 21 ... #5280 28 il Days. ay 14 Less adjustments,.......... Total Sunday net circulation. Average net paid Sunday cir- culation ......... Average number of service, eto. Average Sunday net oircula- tion b NEW 0!’.“” v SRR A ibed and ewora to tale $ra a3 o Foheanry, A D 1908 2 (Seal) ELMER F. YOUNT. A