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Tair What warmer tomorrow. Temperature for twenty cnded at 2 p.m. today 0 p.m. vesterday ; am. today Full report on page WEATHER. tonight and tomorrow ; Highest, some- -four hours 2 at Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 28 ch WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Star. | tion is delive: The Star's .carrier every city block and the regular edi- “From Press to Home Within the Hour” system covers red to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yenerdly’s. Circnlnlio;, 96;160 < No. 28830. Entered as second-cluss matter post_office Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON, B O, FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1923 FORTY-TWO PAGES. lunge Lauds * WEEKS DENOUNCES St i Wi PAEFISTCAMPAN ASPUBLICNENACE Propagandists for Reducing Army and Navy Called Enemies of Republic. SHOWS MILITARY TAKES SMALL PART OF BUDGET Cost of Pensions and Veterans’ Bu- reau Laid to Previous Unpreparedness. “Pacifist” propagandists and or- | ganizations in the United States were denounced as publio enemies today | by Secretary Weeks in a statement | made publio by the War Department Amerfcans would do well, the state- | ment said, “to inform themselves of facts and to examine into the character and patriotism of those ho are promoting the pacifist cam- | yaign before taking a step that may ' readily align them with the enemies ©f the republic.” Widespread circulation of ‘‘incor- rect and misleading statistics. Mr. Weeks said. had been accomplished | by pacifist agencies, including “those froces in America that are preaching olution and the establishment of A communistic government and those who seent to b that any navy is unnecessary.” Un- but patriotic citizens, it vas added. are lending themselves to red if not destroy the mihitary mifeguards of the nation as a result of pacifist propazanda “Typical f the material & used in this what seems to to be a dangerous campaign.” r Secrotary continued. “is the following statemant which appeared fr. o recent bulletin of an organiza- calling itself the National | neil the Prevention of War Y as its headquarters in Washingto alse tieve or o that is he Figures Misleading. offic shows e closed one-fifth of the Army per cent st and Ny prepared chart that we are allowing | our budget for 1924 for| and Navy. More than 83 of that budget go for future wars.” Sceretary Woeks said the rried a legend stating that it prepared by the (federal) bu- | u of cfiiciency from the budget report submitted to Congress by | President Harding i December, “This government 1s not and never has been spending 85 per cent of | s budget for military purposes, M- Weeks declared. “The budget re- port of December 4, 1922, in a com- parative tabular statement numbered % shows that approximately a lesser @mount of the annual budget is being <xpended for the national defense 1w than in the fiscal year 1915, In | the latter vear, 24.5 per cent of the «ppropriations were for national de- fense, whereas the appropriations ac- tually made for the national defense for the fiscal vear 1924, were 13.5 per cent of the total. * * * it is an important fact that the pacifists erect the figure of 85.8 as a | Tueans of propaganda ¢ When they come to urging their views on Con- xress they concentrate their entire «ffort on the purposes represented by rie figure of 13.5 per cent for na- tional defense. Never do they sug- gest means for reducing the public debt charges or the pension and Vet- erans’ Bureau expenditures. All that raey seek to eliminate is the rela- | tively small expenditure for military defense of the country. will Deceiving to Public. Including public debt payments in the classification of military ex- penditures. as in the misleading chart, “ppears to have been done with the fntent to deceive the public. It is in the same dishonest category charging up to the Army the civilian work which it is obliged to perform under acts,of Congress. One may even question the pro- rriety of including the cost of the operations of the pension bureau and the Veterans' Bureau in the list of | milltary expenditures. Those pro- digious costs are to a large extent the direct result of unpreparedness, | which was due to pacifist propaganda | in the past, and it is not of record | that any organization advocates the repeal of the pension system or pro- visions fo the veterans of the last War as now provided by law. * o | Referring to the amount actuall expended for national defense, Se retary Weecks declared it was “so amalil a part of the total expenditures that abolishing the Army and Navy could result in no appreciable reduc- tion in the cost of government.” “The circulation of the misleading figures,” the Secretary continued. “‘creates an erroneous impression in the public_mind, is reflected in de- mands on' Congress for further reduc- tions in the Army and Navy, and has !‘»? appearance of creating a public opinion that Is inimical to the na- tional welfare. Public opinion is the power behind the American system of government. If the nation 1 to sur- Yive it must have an intelligent pub- lic opinjon. The corruption of that ©opinion is an act which clearly indi- cates the bad faith of those who pur- port to be actuated by sincere inter- est in the national welfare, ericans who are asked to sub e to petitions or other communi- cations to Congress for reductions in ppropriations for the nation's de- ve ser s, on the plea that the Rt of militarisn’ is a dircful bur- den on the American people, would do well to inform themselves of the facts and to examine into the character and patriotism of those who are promot- ing the pacifist campaign before tak- ing a step that may readily align them with the enemies of the re- public.” - Appended to Mr. Weeks' statement was an official chart prepared by the ‘War Department in graphic form to {llustrate comparisons between the Regular Army of the United States wund those of foreign powers. “Active ‘mies™ of 928,000 men in Russia, of 0,000 in France, 275,000 in Japan, 0,000 in_Great tain and its ter- tories, 250,000 in Ttaly and 100,000 in srmany were compared with that of 6.619 in the United States, including | 1he Reguiar Army, reserves on active dnuty and the Philippine Scouts. Dollars of national wealth, per ac- tive army soldier, were given as| $£2.660,000 for the United States, $245, 000 for Great Britain, $133,000 for France, $120,000 for Italy and $90,000 for Japan. | Active armies of the world, by con- tinents, were charted as follows: 3.646,000 men for Europe, 1,829,000 for Asia, 822,000 for Africa and 369,000 for America. as | Gravesend, | pectea Br. By ery of Pilot the Asociated Press. BEL PASO, Texas, April 6.—The forced landing of an airplane carry- ing Fred Starek. managing director of the War Iinance Corporation, over the peaks of the Slerra Blanca range yesterday, was acclaimed by air officlals as a feat unrivaled in daring in the annals of aircraft in the southwest. Mr. Starek and Lieut. B. I. Gates, the pilor, were 9,300 feet In the air with less than « gallon of gasoline in the tank. “When above Sierra Blanca I sensed that something was wrong,” Mr. Starek stated. “In crossing the ashed into u peak. it seemed, began to and suddenly the pilot diriug plunge to the eurtl ot been for the clear- and nerve of Lieut neither of us wouid have been here to tell the story.” Ar. Starek planned to goufer: to with Representative Hudspeth representatives of the federal re- scrve bank relative to the cattle- raising industry in the southwest TERRORISM AGAIN REIGNS IN RUSSIA Prelate’s Execution and Slay- ing of 340 Mark Lenin’s Loosening Hold. Then the eng sound funny made hi 17 it had headedncss Gates BY GEORGE WITTE. Br Wireless to The Star and Chicago Dails News. Coprright. 1023 BERLIN. April 6.—Premier forced withdrawal from ticipation in the soviet government marks a new era of ultra radicalism, it 1s %aid here in well informed Rus- sian circles. Already there are indi- Lenin’ active par- cations that the moderates are being| pushed to the wall by the reddest of Russians, who are using the mailed fist to enforce the communistic doc- trines after the notorious fashion adopted in the early dars of bol- shevism The General execution of Vicar ! Butchkavitch, despite the protests of the whole civilized world. and the wholesale &hooting of 340 counter revolutiomsts in Jitomir, Ukrai are merely the forerunners of a new period of ruthlessness. Radieals in Saddle. “Though severely censured by the communists for having failed to live up to his promises made five years ago, Lenin while still in office held absolute power in Russia.” said a | Russian bolshevist of the moderate class living in Berlin to today. But now that it is highly probable that Lenin will never have anything to say again, a small but powerful ultra-radical section of the Russian communist party has pushed itself into the limelight once more with-the intention of putting an end to the present comparatively mod- erate policy which they declare is an almost complete return to capital- ism. For one thing they charge that the council of commissars has made too mwany coucessions to both foreign and Russian capital. These radicals demand the rigid enforcement of the gospel of communism.” RUSS START POGRAMS. By the Associated Press BERLIN, April 6.—Serious confl in the Ukraine between bolshevist troops and peasants are reported in dispatches received here by way of Lemberg. The bolshevists are de- Cclared to have executed 340 peasants, uspparently because of protests against the soviet prosecution of high church dignitaries. Anti-Jewish pogroms also are re ported from the Ukraine, and numer- ous Jewish families are said to be ing toward the Polish front POLES NOT TO PROTEST. | By the Associated Press. WARSAW, April 6.—Although Po- Jand has been deeply shocked by the execution in Moscow of Viear General Butchkavitch, the government has i sued no official statement on the sub- ject. Foreign Minister Skrzynski points out, inasmuch 2s the prelute \as a Russian subject, 2 protest is out of the questior, since it would represent _interference in Russia's internal affairs. 3 The recent note of M. Tchitcherin will be discussed today by Premier Sikorski and the foreign minister. The forbearance of officlaidom, however, is mot shared by the public, and the people are organizing a large demonstration during which all Stores and factories will be closed. Notwithstanding _the vigilance of the police, there have been several anti-Semitic disturbances. Several Jews have been slightly injured by being thrown off street cars. FIFTY HURT IN RIOTS. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1923. BERLIN, April 6.—Fifty persons were wounded in a Warsaw pogrom, according to the Berlin Mittag Zel- tung. The riots, which were caused by the execution of the Roman Catho- lic Vicar General Butchkavitch by the bolsheviska lasted several hours and many shops were plundered before !the troops succeeded in quelling the disturbances. WILL SEEK BODY IN OLD ENGLISH CHURCHYARD : BY HAL OFLAHERT v Cable to The Star and Chicago Dal = Copyright, 1023. LONDON. April 6.—Through the ef- forts of the English-speaking Union, arrangements finally are being per- fected for the exhumation of what is supposed to be the body of Pocahon- tas, now resting in the old church- vard at the mouth of the Thames at The home office is ex- to grant official permission y News. soon. In the meantime the descendants of the illustrious Indian princess, two of whom live in London, have ex- pressed a desire to have the search for the body prosecuted. Sir Arthur Keith, curator of the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons. has of- fered his services in examining any 4 S| the writer | | s ! TWO SLANWOMEN | FOUND ALONG ROAD Believed Thrown From Auto on Staten Island—One Had Artificial Leg. IN BOOTLEG WAR AREA Bodies Discovered One on Each Side of Highway—Bloody Knife in Bushes. the A<soc ated Press NEW YORK, April 6.—Miss Bessie feMuhon of Buffalo. X | Trene Blandino of Jersey N J were found murdered, with their throats cut, along isolated road- | City, n side at Dongan Hills. Staten lsland carly today. The police believe they were murdered elsewhere and i bodies thrown from an automobile. Mra. Blandino, who had an nrllflcm’] leg, was identificd through the find- ing of a receipt for the limb. Miss McMahon had been visiting her at her home in Jerssy City, N. J., ac- cording to the police. Married at Age of Fifteen. as issued by John N York arifictal limb their | The receipt Escher, New { manufacturer. Escher said Mrs. Blandino had told him that she was married four ye: ago. when she was fifteen years Her husband. & barber in Jersey City. | told him last week. he said. that he had gone into the saloon business in bore there three was ndino's throat wounds and n her back of Miss McMahon also on the back. in addition the throat separate long siash The bod. bore wound to those at Short Kitchen Knife. The slayer's weapon, a short kitch en fe of the type ordinarily used I by housewives for peeiing potatoes was found in a clump of bushes a few feet from the bodies Detectives who went to | barber ship found him out. An assist ant told the police that Blandino had been perturbed because his wife a Miss McMahon had been absent all o Blandino's {time later, both he and the assistant, | Broyario di Lorenyo. were taken to | headquarters for questioning. | Di Lorenvo said Mrs. Blandino and iMiss McMahon twent out about 8 {o'clock last night. 4 short time after | Blandino had left ti house. i Blandino had gor out, he said, at | the request of his barber shop part- |ner. whom Di Lorenyo knew only as | “Nick,” to take charge for a f { hours’of Nick's saloon. Mrs. Blandino and Miss McMahon | trequently were seen’ abous Jersey City dance halle, the police said they | had 1earned. oz i The medical examiner said the young woman identified as Miss Me {Mahon wore a wedding ring. e made pared conditions prevailing - s are again ing. The census bureau to the popula mitting the as the official pepulation tal growth, lation large enough SHFTEDBY CENSLS , New York Near 6,000.000 Mark, While Capital Data Are Not Taken. Changes in ral larger Amer ated by o public today arious localit ver, that it had m 20 t The bureau if th to Jju the relative Washington siz n cities sus bureau which in exp de 1o es abulation of believes any, in t has istify an ned e of sev- are in figures. were pre- on the assumption that growth 1920 in the continu- ho tim; on of Washington, per- to stand the capi- that the he popu- not been estimate | While there is no definite indic Milkman Finds Bodies. p A milkman discovered the bodies Both girle were iwell dressed. had bobbed hair and appeared to be about | twenty-one years of uge The bodies were found on each side | of a road in an isolated secction.| There are fow houses in the neigh- | borhood and the roadside is covered | with brush. | The police recalled that the section | kas been marked by Lootlegging ac- | tivities during the past winter. A small creek which rum runners used | | to operate small boats runs near the | | roadside. i | Thirty " feet police dlscovered a large bloodstained butcher knife In aadition to their throats being cut, a stab wound was found in the | back of each girl The girls had been dead from four | to five hours when found, ccording | to physiclane. There were no sign of = struggle at the roadside. t f from the roadside the | « | also as acti of have and of Fhiladelphia A There have b n rank of the first six and now rank of n a clump of bushes | passed larger t eleventh place. 5| and : Birmingham. San Anto ve forged ahead conclusion a_result of Lie The new the fifty replaced that two h: the fifty-largest shown ve six-million from the is n is n heen to e ms ar nd Detroit has been ities the population hag decreased estimates show that eight largest their rk, uidation : been pu: class [y aring ar to no changes in largest drawn nearest Chicago three-million n tha war e city cipalities rivals shed out New York pproaching closely is not > mill million the cities. Baltimore has gone ahead of Boston the countr Pittsburgh San Fran an Buff: ank yrleans, and now now ranks {of relative size. RIB90BINDS - fifty-fourth d torty-ninth cit 3 class i places cities Springfield, Mass INBANDITS' LOOT | | Salt Lake City. | Bs tho Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, April | 6.—Registered | Bank amounting to $2.139,900 were | in the loot obtained by five bandits | | who last Monday morning held up a |} | mail truck in the heart of the down- | | town business section here, accord-|830; ing to information obtained this aft- |6 | ernoon by the St. Louls Post-Dis- | | vatch g ! The bonds. printed in Washington, were being sent to the bank here. They lacked vies president the bank The bonds were in number and de- | 515 56 nomination as follows: 10 of $40, 20 | ¢, of $100, 500 of $1,000, 25 of ’5,0!1')' and 150’ of $10,000. | The total of other bonds taken, | was learned, was approximately $225,- 000, of which $81,250 at least were negotiable. It also was learned that | shortly before the hold-up of the | armored truck, ten sacks of registered { 4 mail, containing many valuable pack- ages for large downtown banks and trust companies, were delivered at central post office, and the bandits thus missed these pouches. They ob- ! tained nine mail. 1 OF POCAHONTAS ' 1 1 1 Lowell, 1 107,620; Spokane, bones found. He believes that they will easily be recognizable should | they be those of Pocahontas. Some difficulty is expected owing to the fact that many bodies buried in t George's Church, at Gravesend, | were badly charred during a fire | Wwhich destroyed the greater portion | of the crypts early in the eighteenth ' century. " Even though the fire left few traces there must exlist metallic ornaments which were buried with | ihe princess. The actual opening of | G the grave probably will occur some | time in May, when many Americans | have been invited to attend the cere- | mony. | Should success attend the venture the public will be asked to decide whether the immortal Pocahontas shall find a suitable resting place in the United States or in England. Opinion in this country seems favor- able to allowing her remains to be transported to the shores of Chesa- peake bay. fifty more population shows many change: those which outstripped their neare: rivals including Grand Rapids. Spring- Forth T Camden, Wilmington, | Del,, Kansas City, Kans., and Yonkers. | not es neapoli the signatures of the|New and the secretary of | M 1261,082; mated; 204,382; | 181.044; 067; estimated; pouches of ' registered | o, not rank of citi and which in The eld, Mass., Los and isco lo and hal is sixtee goes Minneapolis has out- grown two cities. Cincinnati and Ne as seventh largest city Angeles taken has ninth grown into nth lumbus, Ohio. has passed Providence twenty-seventh; in ie nto by es below 1920 had Worth and Dallas the table cranton and Paterson. forty-seventh . respectively. in 0, have been forced out of the first| fifty-third Norfolk and and the first 100,000 or Trenton, The estimates for the sixtyv-eight York Philade! New 86,121: roit, 995,668; st.” Louis, Joston. 56,853 San_Francisco. 5 $; Milwaukee, 48 orl 104, Indianapolis, Jersey City 73,621 Den re "o 268,338 Toledo, Oakiand, 240,086; Atlanta. Worcester, 191,59 84,727; Dallas, 17 Vew Haven, 172.9 Houston, 154,970; rand Rapids. 143, estimated; 414,22 Fort 40.923; Worth. 143 Scranton, 39.679: New Trenton, 127,390; 26,241; Camden, 21,128; Fall Rive Wilmington, 17,3763 115,089; 11,444; Reading, ph! Cleveland, §88,519. 803.853: 770,400 Pittsburgh, 613,442, 058: Buffalo. Washington, 240,86 Loutsville, it | Gence, 242,378; St. Paul, 241,891, Dayton, 165.530; Norfolk, Bedford. Del., 11' Kansas City, Chi; Baltim, Los 4,595 ewark, 438.699; Cincinnati, 575; Kan 309,034 ver, Columbus, 671 Akron, Birmingham, 1 27; San 7,274. 67; 159,089. | cities in the 100,000 class in 190 show | onds of the St. Louis Federal Land | Stitsih {ofats as of Ju Tow 1923, as fol- De- cago. 5: ore, 773.- Angeles, 6 Min- 406,312; sas City, o., 351,819; Seattie. not estimated. 0 Rochester, Portland, Ohio, ; Provi not esti- Omaha, Antonio, Syracuse, 184,511; Richmond, Memphis, 170.- Bridgeport, not Hartford, 152,138; .947; ,821; 130.636; Des 130.07 Youngstown, i Springfield, Mass., Moines, Paterson, 72. Salt Lake City, 124,157 r, 120,912, 728; Cambridg! 110,917; 104,578. Kan., Nashville, Albany, 1 81; e. Mass., Yonkers, as “LEST WE FORGET.” Record Calls for 1924 Honor, He Declare. {Vice President Silent As to Own Future. Responding today his attitude toward 19 Vice {President Coolidge predicted that | President Harding’s renomination and | re-election would be demanded by the to inauiries as Lo J e The' RANK (]F 8 cmES Coolidge Says Public Will Demand President’s Return |people becausa ef the record of his {administratior | The Vice Presi declined to jpre: ict what his own attitude would |be towara renomination | Harding’s running mate that he did not regard las an opportune time of the subject ent indicating the present ssion je Answers Many Questions. My had made It was exnla {office t 1 regarding ined at Coolidge's his position the presidential nomina- because of numerous ques- tions addressed to him and hecause of recent specutation volv mention of Lis name i nec with the party’s 1 He sent this telegram i tion clea newspap in- nig ion con- ticket reply to a DEFYLOCALIND.C. ELECTRICAL STRKE Employers, Told to *“Man | Their Jobs.,” Putting | Available Men to Work. | With the consent and advice of the International Brotherhood of Elec- trical Workers. electrical contractors today started filling the ranks of | striking electricians here regardless of whether the new employes were union men. Charges of a were carried to an international organization by the electrical em- ployers after more than 100 members of a local union walked off their jobs last Monday morning. The inter- national union sustained the plea of the local electrical contractors. The contractors asked for men to be sup- plied by the International, in ac- cordance with the agreement. The International replied that it was im- possible to furnish men at this time, and ‘verbally issued the dictum: Man your jobs as best you may.” Meetings Are Continued. That's what the contractors are doing today, paying a wage scale of $9 per day to workers. Meanwhile, unlon electricians are continuing to hold meetings at which plans for con- tinuing the strike are broached. Defl- nite announcement of the results of these meetings, which are being held daily. is not forthcoming. The clectricians went off their jobs last Monday, asking for a wage in- crease?to $10 per day from the pre- vailing $8.50_ scale, despite protests made _fo the body of the membership by officials of the union. It is under- (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) broken agreement Enlarged Rotogravure Section With Next Sunday’s Star Twelve pages of remarkable photographs—the best examples of the photographic art—superbly reproduced. The Finest Rotogravure Section in America Next Sunday’s Star as Mr.| VICE PRESIDENT COOLIDGE. questioner who asked whether he be- lieved President Harding would be renominated, and whether he him- self would again become u candidate for the vice presidency I believe the peopie will demand the renominatio: Al re-election of President Harding because of the great cord of accomplishment under Lis leadership. “I have no announcement at th time of my futur to make own plans for the AN SHOT TODEATH - BELIEVED BURGLAR 1Mystery Clouds Richmond| Killing—Engineer Arrested for Manslaughter. | Br the Associated Press. RICHMOND, Va., April 6.—The body of Wilfred Coawette, alias Wilfred Reed, twenty-five vears of age, was found today on the lawn of a house in | the fashionable residential section of I this ecity. A bullet had entered the | chest come out of the back. Po- |lice said the man had been dead sev- eral hours when his body was dis- | (Continued on Page 2. Column &.) TORNADO WAS FREAK OF NATURE; DISTRICT NOT IN CYCLONIC BELT The tornado, which swept | astorus path through Silver Spring and { Sligo yesterday afternoon was a freak !of nature and does not indicate that | Washington is in a cyclonic belt, in the !opinion of weather bureau authorities. Tornadoes in this section, it was pointed out, are rare, and the few that have occurred in years past were only £qualls in comparison with the one that wrecked a dozen homes in the nearby {Margland town, swept away trees and telephone poles and injured four persons. Path 200 Yards Wide. As a matter of fact the records at the weather bureau, in its half cen- tury of existence, have not chronicled & tornado within the District, a pe- rusal today by Dr. P. C. Day showed. Back {n 1879, Dr. Day said, a tornado struck Sandy Spring, Md., on Septem- ber 3, but did little damage. Again in 1891, he added, a tornado of mild intensity blew through Nottingham. Prince Georges coynty, Md., but like- wise was not very destructive. In recent years several tornadoes of mild intensity have occurred in the vicinity of Baltimore and Annapolis. A survey of the path of yester- day’s tornado by Wilfred Day, as- sistant to the weather bureau fore- caster, showed that it was about 200 yards wide and two miles long. The velocity of the wind was estimated @8 ranging between 100 and 200 miles its dis- TWO CENTS. Ship Upside Down \Among Phantoms Reported at Sea The standing request of the naval hydrographic office that mariners re- port any unusual incident of their voyages brought a strange grist of replies in today's mall. The British steamer Galileo re- corded observing, in mid-Atlantic, “the image of steamer upside down bearing north, and another steamer bearing east, having mast and fun- nels elongated to three times their normal height. Capt. J. R. Mitchell of the Ameri- can ship Liberty Glo, reported an area of thick yellow water off the South American coast, extending fifty miles, and apparently caused by a set- tlement of dust blown from the shores hundreds of miles awa Strange and uncharted tide rips and ions of various shapes were One mariner solem rded the wdventure of {paper,” which, set adrift in 1 | Newfoundland, was picked up France, {reported in in a port in DEPOSITS N BANKS - BREAKD. C. RECORD | ' Unofficial Total of Deposits | Put at $197,000,000, Gain [ of Eight Millions. BY I. A. FLEMING. oW illions of 'Ulvl'u shington has more in the vaults of its I na- [tional. savinge and trust companies | than ever before. | A call for a report of co i the close of business April troller of the cu nks tion at this | was 1 rency orning | Preliminar | ficient gains to i jof the previ posits, S138.084 5 { " April . the high n deposits |wa from preliminary reports, | | reports have shown suf- $£157,000,000, perhaps highe The president of a large {bank. asked as source | deposits. made th Who ever had money hag more than ever before, and those who never had any before mor . Good Wages Factor. bank esecutive said wages that are paid in and in every chanical shop: siop for a minute a; waten real estate and automobile | activity, consider the bootlegger, who | now has $2,000 to $5.000 each, and in| Some cases $23.000. Wwho what & bank account was 1t also must be remember the present call comes Immeds after the payment of the first install- ment of the income tax, in some cases all of that taxpayers of [ Washington have paid 50 per cent| of their 1923 taxes, checks having| been sent in for the amount. proba- | bly $5,500,000. last November. 3 On the banks' side they have their vaults a large part of the J uary disbursements vet unex pended: they have practically all of the millions distributed with April intercst and ividend payments and | some of them have the proceeds of ! the most recent sale of Treasury certificates, for Secretary Mellon sti has $500,000.000 in the ks of the| | Riggs Bank Leads. | The Riggs National Bank has the {1argest deposits and the best gain— 28,200,000 deposits and $3.500.000 | The Americ Security and | Trust Company close second. with | £26.356,498 dep and $2.430,000 gain Some of the larger national banks lost through the settlement of court cases that were responsible for heavy | withdrawals Other banks generally good gains. The Feder: with $11.008,329 deposits, gained $645.259; the Liberty National, with $2,436,730 deposits, showed a_$441,105 increase; the Union Trust Company. 186,495,178 deposits. $683.060 gal | Farmers and Mechanics' National, 122,900,034, gain $158,026; the Nationai ings and Trust Company ained $351.652: the Security Savings Commercial, $214,901: ~National of Washington, deposits of $5,150,424 gained $64.438:; Bank of Commerce and Savings gained $85.447. Columbia _ National gained $95.- | 544.04; Lincoln National, with $5, i 368 deposite. gained ' $65.898; | tomac Savings gained $85,898, Second National gained §178.270, Park : ings, $2.608.263, a gain of $3 Northwest Savings Bank, with 1818 deposits. increased $1 Washington Loan and Trust showed gain of 3646175, and the Munsey | Trust Company a gain of $33,956. | The smaller savings institutions are [likely to keep up the percentage of |increases shown by other banks. These figures are subject to some | adjustment, but the official totals of individual institutions will vary very little from the preliminary figures. | The losses will aggregate less than 1$1.000,000 all toid. national of the ave Another sider the building industry sits | reported American, an hour, progressing in eddies and (whirls In_its narrow path. Mr. Day, who went to the scens of the tornado shortly after it oc- curred. tracked its origin to the north entrance of Rock Creek Park. It blew from that point in a north- easterly direction, and reached its maximum intensity on an open fleld just east of Sligo. That the wind was of a distinctive tornado char- acter, in that it was revolutionary, he said. is indicated by the trees in its path, those on one side being| twisted to the right and those on| the opposite side to the left 1 Cause of Tormado. Forecaster Bowie explained that tornadoes are different from cyclones in that they do not cover as great an area as cyclones, and the wind veloc- ity is more intense. He sald it was unusual for a tornado to occur at this period of the year in this section of the country. The tornado, it was pointed out, was caused by a volume of warm air try- ing to rise above a volume of cold air above it, which caused a vortex. Had there been any instruments for measuring wind velocity In Silver Spring _when the tornado struck, it was explained, it would have been virtually imposible to record its in- tensity, because of its violence. The velocity of the wind in the case of the tornado yesterday was said to have been increased considerably by the broad arch of threatening clouds { tumbled REBUILDING BEGUN IN TORNADO-SWEPT SILVER SPRING. ND. Four Hurt, Five Homes De- molished, Twelve Wreck- ; ed by Winds. SCORE OF STATE GUARDS PROTECT DAMAGED AREA Little Time Lost in Efforts Clear Up $100,000 Loss Wires Torn Down. 1o Silver Spring. Md., beg: to “ today of rebuilding what was stroyed vesterday afternoon. whe the little village was swept by a tornado. traveling at a speed emt! mated by weather bureau officials « between one and two hundred miles an hour. It left in wak injured persons, five residences raze to the ground and a doz partially wrecked. its four Confined to Subdivisfon. The destruction was fined to a new purb. and houses were of constructio At today of clearing strewn about b nder bricklayers were to co early away t o wind wa carpenters applying pairing those homes tha ly destroyed a of the little su damaged an hou work thaic) af orts rei compar with guns were guord- possib their shoulders the territory against looting and the 1 vrio seckers had co e from Washington * a hundre Railway 1 the ephone Ce repairing to the poles and wircs Damage Near £100.000. Little time amity pany were damage done lost following the & up Tosses the best estimates damage will reach of personal proy ez in ¢ i th and according to the total property $100.000, exclusive erty Those known to have been injure. R. Heath of Washington. broke r bone and possible intern P, Hen northwest, erations. Harry Wachtes, injured leg and poss the skull Mrs. Joseph Steckli was destroved, and injured on ley ernal Brook ible hose home ying glass ¥ failing brict That _more pe: were not 1n jured is considered miraculous those who were in the vicinity of the town yesterday and by those w visited the ruins today. Houses without a second’s waruin roofs, ehutters, timber and other debris flew furiously through the ai trees were uprooted and limbs were blown in_all directions, in many in stances for great distances. Thera are two whole trees—large old elms with the grass-covered earth ching ing to their roots—in a fleld mo than a of « mile from ti scene of the small section where t wind scemed to confine its greates fury. Girls Lifted Off Feet. A small shed adjacent to the con- struction work being done by Brooke Leo and used as temporary office was blown more than a hundred from its position. An automob standing in the roadway lost its t. and the hood, but it otherwise gamely stood its ground Florence Davis, sixteen, whose pa ents’ home in Oak avenue was dar aged, was on her way home wi Delna Stenley of 929 Hamilton street Brightwood, when the storm reached its greatest velocity and they were lifted from their feet and thrown against a fence more than fifty feet away. They were uninjured The homes destroyed are those of Dr. F. E. Dudle who conducts a drug store in Silver Spring; Vernon Dodge. Joseph Stecklina. John C. Carroll. Mrs. Walter Harden and « small five-room building on_the rear of the property of Capt. Frank I Hewitt The barn. vards a large frame structure. on the rear lot of Mr. Carroll's prop- erty, was blown every direction as, the owner described it Resldences Damage: Those residences more or ously damaged were those of Harry Alexander, William Von Hurlebis Chris Kronbitter, William Daxvis Capt. Hewitt and Montgomery Blair The latter is the handsome old Blair home, noted for many vears in that section. The damage to this structure was confilned to the roof. but what was looked upon as the greatest loss to it was the destruc- tion of nearly half a hundred shade trees in the grounds. In checking 9p the toll of the storm it 1s conceded by all that the tornado swept In @ northeasterly direetion for a quarter mile. Signs of the wind were noted, however, at intervals for a distance of about two miles. The width of the area covered by the gais was less than 700 feet and some build ings just beyond that prescribed limit showed no signe of being affected Hits Show Place of Town. less ser The residential section, which felt the full welght of the terrific wind. was one of the show places of Silver Spring. Little more than a year ago there was barely a house within its confines and practically every one of the damaged homes was less than a vear old. The attractive little home of Dr. Dudley, which was totally destroyed, was only just completed and he and his wife and two little children ltad moved into it just three wecks ago. “We had watched it eagerly and hourily during the course of its conatruction.” he said today as he moved about the ruins, “and we were just getting comfortably set tled Despite his loss Dr. Dudley and his wife were joyous, because their little two-and-one-half-year-old _daughter Margerie, who was in the home dur- irg the gale, with her colored nurse, Leena Warren, was unhurt. Dr. and Mrs. Dudley were in Wash above, under which it revolved, which is analogous to the gust that pre- cedes a severe thunderstorm. ington at the time. Thelr six-year- {Continued on Page 2, Column 3)