Evening Star Newspaper, September 5, 1923, Page 12

12 * 0000 MORE AUTOS OPERATED N D. C Accidents for Last Year Are Fewer Despite Increase. 28,992 Arrests. “Despite an increase of 20,000 auto- mobiles -in operation during the last fiscal year over the preceding year, the number of fatal accidents de- creased, according to the annual re- port of Inspector Albert J. Headley, chief of the traffic bureau, submitted today to Commissioner Oyster. This in indicative of the fact, In- spector Headley sald, “that pedes- trians and automoblle drivers allve to conditions and that greater precautions are now taken to pre- vent accidents.” During the last fiscal year there were sixty-two deaths and fifty-four serious injuries resulting from traffic accidents, while in the preceding year there was a total of sixty-five death and _seventy-three serious injuries, the report states. 26,605 Ask Permits. Application for permits to operate motor vehicles in the District during the last fiscal year, the report show totaled 26,605. Of this numebr, 19,748 were approved and 6,557 disapproved. For the preceding vear, 18,996 persons made such application, 'of which num- ber, 1 were able to pass the test of the examiners. There also were 2,156 non-residents or tourists that registered at the traffic bureau; as compared with 1,882 the previous year. Five hundred and thirty-one com- plaints for violation of the traffic regulations were i nvestigated, as against $49 for the preceding year. Arrest 28,902 Violators. Arrests for violations of the trafiic rogulations during the year aggre- gated 28,992, Of this number 9,004 were made for speeding, 533 for driving while intoxi- cated, 950 for colliding, 842 for carry- ing dead taxs, 1,965 for failing to exhibit operators’ permit, 1,366 for falling to procure operator’s permit, 173 for obstructing fire hydrants, 519 for passing street cars while loading and unloading passengers and 30 for reckless driving. . Licenses for the operation of public vehicles were issued to 1,663 appli- cants as follows: One horse vehicle, 20; automobiles, 1,448; sight-seeing x{;v;lllamoblles. 64, and Jjitney busses, The Commissioners upon the recom- mendation of the police department revoked 312 permits. The majority of the revocations were made follow- ing the arrest and conviction of per- sons charged with operating vehicles while drunk. MOTORIST JAILED FOR INTOXICATION Washingtonian Sentenced Thirty Days in Baltimore—Attempts to Escape Officer. BALTIMORE, Md., September 5.— Olin Watts, 1010 H street northwest, ‘Washington, was sentenced to thirty days in jail yesterday by Magistrate Btaylor in the trafic court on a charge of driving an automobile while under the influence of liguor. Watts was arrested Labor day while on his way to the races at Timonium on a charge of speeding. Watts, who was accompanied by Miss Anna M. Swan, also of Washington, attempted to escape after being stopped by the patrolman and was only arrested after a chase of several blocks. An additional charge of driving while intoxicated was placed against him when he was brought to the police station. PLEA OF BARRED ALIENS UP TO SECRETARY DAVIS; Appeal From Ruling Against Ad- mission of Immigrants Arriving Before Midnight August 31. Becretary of Labor Davis will be| asked to give a ruling on the ad- missibility of those aliens who are claimed to have arrived at northern ports before midnight, August 31, and who have been barred from entry, on his return tomorrow from the south, where he has been on a speaking trip. Commissioner General of Immigra- tion Husband has ruled that the alens are inadmissible under the law, but his ruling has been pro- tested. The matter will now be laid hefore the Labor Secretary. Mr. Husband believes the number of immigrants on the seas at pres- ent from several countries will more than fill the September quotas, and that it would be unfair to let in, under the September quotas, those who arrived in August, which would crowd back those who really ar- rived during the current month. CLAIMS FALSE ARREST; SUES ROAD FOR $10,000 Alleging he was wrongfully accused of not paying his fare and held in custody at Union station for a time. Thomas P. Jones today filed suit in the District Supreme Court for $10,000 damages against the Southern Rail- way Company and the Norfolk and Western Railway Company. Through Attorneys T. Wampler and R. E. Lynch. Jones sets forth that on July 29 hd rode from Roanoke, Va. to Washington. Morris .are | President Coolidge this afternoon £reeted from the south portico of the White House the delegates to the tventy-fourth annual convergion of the United National Assocfation of Post Office Clerks, now in session at the Willard Hotel. Led by C. P. Franciscus, national president, the postal clerks from all parts of the country paid their re- spects to President Coolidge and were assured of his abiding interest in_their welfare. The President greeted the clerks as ¥ fellow workers in the public serv- of the United States.” “You are the direct representatives in your various communities of the government of the United States,” he told them. “You get your direction, I hope your inspiration often times, from the city of Washington. You are the people who carry out these directions nd vou w=ive to the public the im- pression that they receive of the ef- nciency of our public service.” The greeting by the President fol- lowed a morning session of the con- vention at the Willard, at which ad- dresses were made by Representative John J. Boylan of New York city, Mrs. Bessie Brueggeman, chairman of | the United States employes' compen- sation commission, and John H. Bart- l(‘(ll. first assistant postmaster gen- eral. Calls Law Larceny. The civil service retirement law is “nothing less than grand larceny” as| applied _to ‘postal employes, Repre- |Sentative Boyland told the post office clerks. He “denounced their salaries as “low and miserable,” and in the course of his address applied the ad- Jectives “insufficient” and ‘“meager” to postal clerks' salaries. | Representative Boyland said that if la clerk Is paid $1.200 a year salary. and has to pay out a certain per cent for retirement, and another clerk is paid $2,000 a vear. and pays out the same per cent, and both only get §60 a month on ratirement, “the govern- ment is permitting the crime of grand larceny agalnst the man who received $1.200 a_year. Mrs. Brueggeman told the clerks that President Coolidge, recently con cluding a conference with her about the work of the employes' compensa- tion commission, declared: “Be as kind as you can, be as sym- !pathetic as you can. be ay considerate as you can—and keep within the law. First Assistant Postmaster General Bartlett explained the done under his dire FIRST-HAND NEWS SOON AVAILABLE |Reopening of Communication Lines Expected Within Next Twelve Hours. tion for the Special Dispatch to The Star. SAN FRANCISCO, September 5.— Some time within the next twelve hours the veil of uncertainty and chaos which has enveloped the real fatalities of Japan's terrible catas- trophe is to be pulled aside and the| rest of the world given its first close- up perspective of the appalling| wreckage of life and property. | | "Within that time there is exected lto be forthcoming from within the | |cittes of Tokio and Yokohama them- | | selves, definite and accurate informa- | i tion regarding what is already known | |from indirect sources to be the world's | ‘grel(csl tragedy. 1 Messages received here within the | | past few hours from the other side of | the Pacific indicate that the sem-| blance of a cabinet which Premier Yamamoto hastily called together last Monday afternoon as the city of | Tokio was still being rocked by earth- quakes, has at last commenced to function with some degree of effi- clency and that under the combined efforts of Japan's army and navy order is taking the plice of chaos in the | devastated areas. Some time today according to these measures, direct communication by airplane ~and telegraph with the | blighted district will be opened up. | Trained American and European cor- | respondents will be permitted to en- | ter for the first time and to send out to the rest of the world their sum- marization of what has happened. What these word pictures will be when they finally come is still a mat- ter of conjecture. Loss of life is still a matter of guesswork. The nearest [thing to anyihing official has come trom the metropolitan police depart- ment of the Oyama prefecture, which “estimates” the number of dead in Tokio and Yokohama alone at half a million. Probably it is exaggerated. (Copyright, 1923.) TESTS 6,700 WEIGHTS. Bureau of Standards Alds Private Firms as Well as U. S. Within the past year the bureau of standards has tested 6,700 precision welghts, the largest number of welghts ever tested at the bureau in any one year. Fifty-seven of these weights were high-precision com- mercial _standards and 616 were laboratory standards, the latter being partioularly difficult’ to test because of the great precision required. Of the tests made 476 were made for the bureau of standards, 1,143 for other parts of the government or- ganization, 152 for state govern- ments and 457 for educational insti- tutiong. The largest number were made for private and commercial laboratories, dealers in weighing ap- work belng | |of a_wife THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1923. COOLIDGE GREETS P. O. CLERKS OF NATION IN CONFERENCE EERE benefit of postal emploves. He said that the officials of the Post Office department in allowing clerks a few do everything they can for the work- ers, under the law and with due re- gard for their oaths. He pointed out that some members of Congress had looked askance at the action of the department is allowing clerks a few hours' recreation on Saturday after- noons this summer. He predicted the day would come when a Saturday af- ternoon holiday would be granted by Congress Following the meeting with Presi- dent Coolidge at the White House at 1 o'clock. the delegates journeyed to the Interior Department, where they witnessed in the auditorium the showing of several films taken by the government depicting varlous gov- ernment aciivities. Final business of the convention will be held at the Willard tomorrow. when _election of officers will be held and resolutions adopted. It is ex- pected that resolutions asking for an other reclassification of postal clerks will be adopted. This resolution calls for an Increase in salaries, so that the mimimum will be $1,600 and the maximum $2,400. Prohibition Problems, Topics. Prohibition enforcement problems were discussed at a lenghthy confer- cnce yesterday between President Coolldge and = Prohibition Commis- sloner Haynes. Thelr conversation dealt particularly, it was said, with the proposed conferenc of state governors on prohibition Mr. Coolidge is said to be satisfied with the progress made thus far in enforcing prohibition and with the operation of the present enforcement machinery, but Is desirous of effect- ing closer co-operation between the federal and state enforcement officers The President hopes that at the forth- coming conference steps to this end will be taken. Statement by Haynes. Commissioner Haynes after his talk with the President sald that concrete proposals would be made at the gov- ernors’ conference by federal officials in an effort to bring about close c operation between them and state officers. Among the proposals probably will Dbe one for the calling of conferences in the various states of local officials to discuss plans for more effective prohibition enforcement and meetings of church members and civic organi- zations, whose ald in promoting law observance will be sought There Is no immediate prospect of a change in the prohibition ~enforce- ment organization or of an extension of agencies, Mr. Haynes said. AUTO RECIPROCITY INTOWING SERVICE Motorists’ Club of Maryland Plans to Extend Courtesy to Washingtonians. Bpectal Digpatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, Md., September 5.-i- Reciprocity between the National Motorists’ Association of Washington and the Automobile Club of Maryland in the matter of towing service is one of the most important questions |coming before the meeting of the board of governors of the automobile club tonight, according to-H. M. Luclus, secretary. “The Natlonal Motorists' Associa- tlon has extended the courtesy of towing service to our membership,” aid Mr. Lucius. “This means that when a member of the Maryland club has his car break down in the District of Columbia he can be towed to a garage free of charge. We want to give the Washington motorist the same service.” “There are about twenty service stations in Maryland that have been designated by “the automobile club as official towing stations. In the event a reciprocal agreement is Teached. these will be opened to the members of the National Motorists’ Associatlon without charge.” Under the English law the savings o of the money allowed her for household expenses must be turned over to the creditors in the event of her husband being declared a bankrupt. D. C. GIRLS" SCHOOL CHARGE BASELESS Justice Siddons Finds No Ground for Complaint Against Epiphany. After hearing a number of wit- nesses testify ‘as to the manner in which the Epiphany School for Girls, |3017 O street, had been conducted, {Justice Siddons of the District Su- preme Court declared today that he |did not believe the charge that two childreh were not properly fed at the institution was justified. The question of the nourishment given children at the echool was | brought before the court some days {ago in connection | proceeding in which the two chil- jdren of the parties to the suit were yplaced in the Epiphany School. In court today two of the sisters {who had charge of the children ut {the school denied emphatically that their puplls were not adequately nourished and recited to the court After listening to Justice Siddons sald: | “As far as I can make it clear to | this testimony, the public, T want to say that I can see no reason for any complaint as to want of care or want of proper treatment, or want of proper food. Nothing of that kind has been shown by anything that has been said here in_court toda The children concerned are daugh- ters of Mr. and Mrs. Francis M. Wil- liams. —_— WOMAN POLITICIAN ILL. ton, Taken From Train. Special Dispatch to The Star. W. Va. September . McElroy of 711 G street, was removed by physi- from the westbound Capitol | Limited here while on her way to {Chicago to attend a republican women's convention. She was taken ill shortly after medical aid was asked by wire in |anticipation of her arrival here. She is recovering satisfactorily, it said. U. S. MAN SAFE IN KOBE. Employe of Ohio Steel Firm Be- lieves Others Escaped. YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio September &. —The Truscon Steel Company, which has a plant near Osaka, Japan, today received a cable from Mark F. Sami- ers, an employe, saying that he was safe. The message sent from Kobe said that Mr. Sanders had not heard from any other emploves of the company, but that he believed they were safe. {as the offices had been closed on the day of the earthquake on account of a holiday, and most of the em- ployes had gone into the mountains for the week end. with a divorce | {various foods that are given girls.! Mrs. K. P. McElroy of Wnshlng-‘ {leaving Washington, it was said, and | was | 7 — T The Walkers. > B e Along the highways, day by day, Unwashed, unshaven and forlorn, 1| see them go, at aye and morn. The town they lately left behind was rather brutal and unkind; the «cops pursued them through its streets, and called them bums and likewise beats, and many another ghastly name which ought to bring the blush of shame. The town ahead these bos will spurn; no welcome lamp will for them burn; as soon as they appear the cops will execute . some leaps and hops, and canter blithely on their trail and chase ! them to the city jail. My intellect is surely grand; a lot of things I understand. But I could never see the sense of walking without recom- pense, of drilling through the sum- mer heat, the autumn rain, the winter slcet, without ) anywhere, without a bed or easy chair. For if a man is amply strong to walk the dusty pike alo' g, he's strong enough to push a plow, ‘or jwield a saw or groom a cow. And doing simple tricks like these will help him purchase pies and cheese, shoes, and hire a bed in which to snooze. And when some day he goes to town the peelers do mnot run_ him down; they bow politely las he wends, and all good people jare his friends. I cannot see why |any jay should pass this up to {beat his way. y (Copyright) ~WALT MASON. ORDER RESTRAINING AUTO MEN IS SOUGHT | Alvah W. Beckett Alleges J. L. Ramsey and A. V. Pankey Use His Firm's Name. | . The United Automobile Association, with offices in the Munsey building. today applied to the Distr: Supreme Court for a restraining order against ! Amos V. Pankey and Joseph L. Ram- | say, who, it is charged, also are trad- ing under the same name. The suit is filed by Alvah W. Beck- tett, who sa¥s he is the vice president of the United Automobile Association, jincorporated under the laws of Dela- {ware, He tells the court the defend- ants have ned offices in Washing- ton under the name, the United Auto- mobile_Association, Mr. Beckett explains that the asso- clation of which he s vice president serves its members bv concessions in prices in buying automobile acces- sories. STORES OPEN SATURDAY. Saturday summer holidays are end- €d and business in Washington is get- ting back into full stride, a bulletin from the office of the Merchants and Manufacturers’ Association announced today. The regular whole and half holidays on Saturdays in July and August were extended this year by proprietors of local mercantile establishments so as to include the first Saturday in Sep- tember. | Bawlier fae ay-Fer for Hayflver! 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C. a_ welcome | {will buy him hats and shirts and| The probable cause of the great carthquake in Japan will not be known | for many weeks, according to Father | Francis Tondorf, astronomer and seis- mologist of the Georgetown University | here. 1t s likely, however, he added, ! that the tremors will be found to have been “tectonic,” or caused by the slip- ping of rock strata at great depths due | to faulting or tensile stresses. Father Tondorf, considered one of thc world’s eminent selsmologists, was the | first observer in this country’ to report | that a catastrophe had occurred. He i notifed the Associated Press early Sat- | urday morning that a quake of unusual | | intensity hsd occurred at a distance | afterward found to be within 100 miles l'of the center of disturbance. When the reports of seismologists throughout the world become availahle 1o Japanese scientists, said Father Ton- dorf, it will be possibie for them to plot | the approximate center of the tremors, {and inspection of the geological fea tures in that vicinity will give data | upon which to base conclusions Quakes of Two Clanses. Earthquakes are of two classes, he { explained, volcanic and tectonic. ‘The| |nature of the seismographical records REPEAT THERAD ON OLD DUTCH MILL Old Duteh Mill, 1525 T7th street, ccene of a raid conducted by the vice squad and policewomen several weeks ago, was again raided early today by Lleut. Davis, Sergt. Mcquade and Private Stello of the vice squad, as- sisted by Lieut. Ready and Sergt. Kilmartin of the second precinct and Revenue Agent Asher. There was a fairly large gathering of men and women in the place when the police arrived. Six persons were arrested. Thomas E. Gardiner. colored, thirty-six years, proprietor of the place, was held on a charge of keep- ing a disv-derly house, while Henry H. Goldstein, one of his manage was charged with illegal possession, sale and transportation of liquor. Only one woman was arrested. She registered at the second precinct | station as Florence Green, thirty| years, 3727 M street. A charge of | drinking in public wae preferzed against her, it being alleged she in- dulged in a drink shortly before the rald was made. Others Accused of Imbibing. Another person arrested was regi tered as Raymond Burton Evani radio operator at Fort Myer, Vi who was charged with having in dulged in a drink of an intoxicant in the place. W. L. McCollum, 1205 K street, also was arrested on a charge of| drinking In public, while Wilbur E. Burton was charged with transport- ing. The cases are being investigated in Police Court today. | | Sick house organs take a long time to die The first six issues of a house organ or company magazine are usually good ones. Then the interest in the magazine begins to taper Probable Cause of Japan Quak Held Uncertain by Scientist observed and the fact that no unusual action among Japenese or nearby vol- | canoes was reported prior to the quake ten to show at volcanic activity subsegently was the result and not the cause of the arthquake. Volcanic tremors, also. while some- time exceedingly violent locally, are not widely distributed through the | earth’'s crust. i Japanese scientists have advanced the theory that heavy rainfall in the | northwest section of the Japanese | islands, increasing the stress on un- derlying rocks, adds to the strains which cause faulting and rock slips. | Recalls a Prophecy. In this connection Father Tondorf recalled a scientific prophecy made by a Japanese seismologist in June, | 1921, ‘that within_six years wouid be visited by a great catas- | trophic quake. This statement as based upon the observation that in- tense quakes occur after a period of decreased tremblings of lesser inten- sity, while a period of continuous| light shocks demotes normal readjust- | ing of lower rock strata. | Such a quiescent period preceded | the present earthquake. Lighter tremors since which have | been recorded here as well as .I.w\-[ where, Father Tondorf added, were un- | doubtedly shocks of “readjustment.” MANY BABY BEAUTIES IN CLARENDON SHOW| Martha Isabell Hendley Again Takes First Honors in Close Contest. : Special Dispatch to The Star. 4 CLARENDON, Va.. September 5.— | About 100 bouncing babies, escorted | by their proud mothers, appeared be- | fore the judges in the “tots” beauty contest last night at the third annual carnival of the Clarendon Citizens' | Association and Fire Department With so many fine specimens present, all of prize-winning caliber, the task of the judges in selecting the most beautiful was far from being an easy | one. Their choice, however, seemed | to meet with popular approval. The judges were: Mrs. C. M. Rogers, Capt. E. W. Jordan and D. M. Smith. Martha Isabell Hendley, nine- month-old_daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Hendley, who came into prominence recently when it won the baby contest at the Park View, Wash- ington, D. C. fair, was awarded first prize. Second prize went to Arthur | James Orrison, fifteen-month-old son | vf Mr. and Mrs. Roger Orrison, while | third ‘was awarded to Ruth T. Ar-| rington, two-vear-old daughter of | Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Arrington Tonight has been designated as | “citizens' _association night” at the carnival by the committee in charge and the probabilities are that an other big crowd will be present to enjoy the many entertaining features provided. SECRETARY DAVIS SPEAKS. ‘ Secretary of Labor Davis is toda addressing agoint session of t legislature Gf Alabama at gomery, following a trip to « 5 where he made a Labor day address at Birmingham. He will arrive back in Washington tomorrow night. apan | ¢ | cab IRAPID PROGRESS . - MADE BY MARNES Expeditionary Force Finds Better Road Conditions Near Gordonsvile. Special Dispatch to The Star. GORDONSVILLE, Va., September 5 —Conditions proved ideal again yeu- terday, and the fifteen miles separat- g Rapidan from Gordon vered in rapid time by th “orps expeditionary f Fort Deflance for m Trip Made in Five Hours. The column left Ray o'clock, and reached ca mile beyond Gordonsvil ter noon. The mar interest shown by towns and country the column se:d eater part ned by spec ack and in A flect o and “jitney officially a thriving tors from the visit the ma 2 Cobham to be Next Stop. Cobham will be the next stop about ten miles from here and scouts report road conditions as excellent The column is expected to reach this camp early this afternoon Henry P. family were his estate ne wa shortl marked by pa roads and arryin It is ASKS “SALLY” ARMY TO RAISE RELIEF FUND NEW YORK, Bramwell Booth Army today issued a 2,000,000 pounds f f American headquarters received a ram inquiring how United States c York headquarters message to ari s throughout the country. Gen. Booth sent his cail to seventy-six countries New York headqua vation Army was don that word Srn J: fe in Zawa official word ptember of the Salvation 14 call for r Japanese r Thi: iva esentative day when the quak off. Notso many people come forward with things to be printed. 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