Evening Star Newspaper, September 18, 1923, Page 2

FLESTATE APPEAL INTHEATER CRASH Error Charged in Decision Sustaining Demurrer of Knickerbocker Defendants. TUnited States Attorney Gordon and Assistant Unlted States Attorney O’Leaty have filed in the District Gourt of Appeals a brief in support of their appeal from the declsion of Justice Siddons of the District Supreme Court sustaining demurrers to the indictment in the Knickerbocker Theater disaster case. In forty-eight printed pages the gov- etnment prosecutors ettempt to show that Judtice Siddons erred when he declared the indictment invalid which charged manslaughter against Resi- nald W. Geare, the architect of the building; John H. Ford, the fabricator of the iron work; Julian R. Downman, istant to the District building in- pector; Richard G..Fletcher, the con- { The District's total subscription to the American Red Cross Japanese re“re-f fund today stood $1,144.68 high- er than yesterday Of this amount, $785.25 was collected by The Star; 43 by the local committee, head- y Victor B. Doyber, and $36 by {the Washington Fust. The grand [total for Wasnington now fs $11%,- 417.49, while the amount in the hands !of the Washington Red- Cross com- mittee is $89,428.99, There is no indication that contri- butions will stop coming in. Al- :Ilmu;h more than double its quoto of ($50,000, the District popuiation has {keenly appreciated the extent of re- lief in money and uupmtu for Japan undlnpnnren(l_\' is striving for a treble The following contributions have en received by the local committee i e yesterday: | Clerical Corps, D. C. Chapter Church of the Nativity, Brightweod, D. C. Cash son . Jacob Klein “elee . Additional from the Libra: of Congress. ., Mre. A, B. 5. $21.28 £e.00 2.00 2,00 26.00 5.00 District on Way Funds for Japanese Relief to Treblé Star Relief Fund Now Totals $16,261.78; Late Contributors Contributions to the fund, when went to The Star, should be made paynble to “Japanese Relle? Fund,” ond not The Evening Star. All con- tributions will be acknowledged fn the columns of The suu;. s Contributions of $500 from A. Lis- ner and $100 from B. F. Saul played # leading part in swelling The Star's Japanese disaster relief fund by §785.25 in the last twenty-four hours. The total now stands at $16,261.78. The following contributions are ac- knowledged: Previous'y acknowledged...$15,476.53 Anonvmous . .28 Elizabeth ‘M. Dawes 1.00 I B. Lehman .:.... 2.00 Filipino_ Club of Was ton, D. C. ax Mrs. Howard McK. Briscoe. . hing- 1.00 25.00 5.00 15.00(" | | | l i | 51,800 STUDENTS ENTERD. C. SCHOOLS Enroliment Expected ' to Reach 60,000 by This Eve- ning—Peak Is 70,00. With virtually every school regis- tering additional pupils today, clals predicted that when the schools close this afternoon about 60,000 will have enrolled for the new term. Fig- {ures compiled by the officials showed that 57,766 enrolled on the opening day yesterday, a decrease of 662 un- der last year. Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent of schools, polnted out, however, that the figures on yesterday's total roliment were incomplete and that undoubtedly the number exceeded the total enroliment on the opening day of achool last year. Bome of the high schools, Dr. Ballou said, did not in- clude {n their registration figures the out-of-town pupiis admitted through offi- | en- | With and About CAPITAL’S GUESTS Despite inability on the part of the world's greatest statemen, tr press of two continents and 1% reading public in generai to fathom for a long while the authorship of “The Pomp of Power,” the book on European policies and the politicians who ran the war, it was conceded b all that the anonymous writer wax |intimate with the French political world. In its réview of the book the Lon don Evening Standard said, in pari “The anenymous author of ‘The Pom: {of Power’ is a puzzle altogether mor {interesting than the much-discus | ‘Gentlemen With a Daler, | writer of “Mirrors of Liowni Y el curiously fam T French politics. Though rint a sol dier, he has a cons!derable Bras] military matters. Though not an- i parently in the strict sense a soclety {man, his knowledgs of distinguished {men is clearly first hand, and his |intercourse with them that of lequal” o o o 1 | or p o an Employes of the District of Columbla .. . ry Hobart Be end X the high school board of admission. See Steady Increawe. { From now until November 1 the ! officials believe there will be a steady tractor 'for the tile and cement work, | and Donald M. Wallace, foreman for | He the general contractor. A ‘The lower court threw out 27.50 5.00 200 5.00 5.00 Lucy” G Every detall' of the Standard's -G e opinion of Laurence Lyon, the long- 7. njamin e disguised author, was proved con- the i counsel nonymous John T. Vance ¥, saul in_the enroliment dlctment on the objection of for the defense that it fail Torth facts constituting ¢ ligence. The prosecut with the decision of the col point and also tombat t objections made sby the Misjoinder of defendants set forth a co ct or la duty on the defendant offenses. failure to show avt By of the defendants as the cause of death and th of limitations. the building been compl more than rs before the collapse of the 1 to sot Al neg- on that * ot five fendants failure to posir misjoinder a Claim Court in Brror or into which the-Tower: court fell,” says the briof of the pros-. ecution. “resmited in part fromca eon-; sideration by such court of -a part only of the indictment ‘because the dictment did not set forth a eingle | to show that the and neglected. 4o had undertaken fact of neglig, defendants fai do the things to do’ Yet of the-indictment Is that, dertaken to do certain things the de- fendants did such things, but did them in a grossly negligent manner. he charge i the indictment is that these defendants wrongfally caused the death of E. Atkinson —one of the viciims of the disaster. How? By creating a dangerous con- dition and, with knowledge of the same, failing to warn her and suffer- ing her to meet her death as a re- sult thereof.” \ Mansinughter Grounds. The proeccutors clalm that the in- dlctment does not contain merely coneclustons of law. but its averments constitute a sufficient charge of the crime of manslaughter. They assert that it charges improper and inade- quate plans d dex for con- struction, inherent f and weak nesses, faulty comstructich. insufi- cient strength and placing paterials, insufficient proviston for the support of the weight of the roof and roof- ub upon the wails and structual teel and_iron. inadequate superin- tending, inadequate Inspection and other conditions- resulting from the joint failures and nelects of the fendants, The government clalms the indict- ment properly dharges criminal negli- gence in creaMng a dangerous con- dition by erecting a theater liable to collapse aud falj; in not warning the public of the dangerous condition created By’ tht defendants and by suffering the public in the thealeq iy its dangcrous con- ditfon Tailure to set forth a contract or duty fmposed on the fefendants does not vitiate the indictfent, the prose- cutors stAte, becausé the defendants 1 they prosecutors that one -is under no duty his automobile on a public highway, but if he di then the law imposes a duty to refrain fro neg enc and requires him to drive in a care- ful and prudent manner. The lawyers for the government declare there has been no misjoinder eith of parti or offenses, and as regligence i the only cause alleged, must be th proximate cause. In reference to the bar of the stat- ute of limitations, it is claimed by the prosecution atl it cannot be ralsed on demurre and even if it could, it s not well taken, because the statute does not commence to run unt the criminal c ction is complete. The crime nelaughter, there could be ion until’ death occurred. saster occurred Jan- uary and the indictment was repor the grand jury April 3 following. The government indl ent Is suff murrers should h that the court erred in dischargig. the defendapts. A reversal that decision and an order requiring th five defendants to go to trial is asked of the appellate court PREMIERS STAND FIRM voint being m no the that de- Deen overruled, ubmits that British politicians look the possible surrender of Ger- as only Intensifylng France's of capitalizing the Rubr indus- position upon many job tries. NO EXAGGERATED NEWS. Baldwin's Forthcoming WVisit De- scribed as One of Courtesy. By Cable to The Star and Philadel Ledger. Copyrigh PARIS, September 18.-—Cautiousiy dexcribed by the Qual d'Orsay as “a vigit of courtesy,” Prime Minister Baldwin's forthcoming interview with Preniler Polncare s not arousing any | exaggerated expectations in Paris. Nevertheless, it is fairly certain thai the two statésmen will not limit their conversation to an exchange of coms pliments and will discuss at least three dominant problems of the day—repara- tions, Fiume and the league. May Pave Way For Future. The British and French viewpoints being still almost diametrically op-. poked to each other on all these vital points, the meeting of the premier: can hardly have any immediate ye- sult beyond paving the way for a, better understanding in_the future. Indeed. if it leads to that much—de- P spite the barrier of language which seems destined ev to Franco-British Interviews, for Mr. Baldwin knows no more French than his predecessors—there will be good reaxon to be satisfied. As regards the question of repara- tions, M. Poincare, weary with hi Sunday sermonizing, but trlumphant in his new fole as ‘tae victor of the Ruhr” is not at all likely to allow bimself to be outmaneuvered By the British premfer, however fit the latter may feel after his rest cure at Aix- Les-Baine. France has full confi- dence In its leader's ability to carry the bout with Britain to & successful issue, feeling that “although the ship of state is salling thfough a sirens, there 16 a wise Uly: at the helm.” ¥ It is belleved here that a French Ruhr victory can only prove effective if it brings home to Germany that sense of defeat Which the allied vie- tory of four years ago fatled to impress upon her. Nor are any ap- prehensions expressed, . except in radical quarters, that M. Poincare's last discourse may precipitate the fall of Stresemann, from whom pro- Pposals amounting to an acceptance of alt France's demands are confidently expected in the near future, | He the very gist and heart | ving un- | de- | unwarned to be | to drive | phin Pablic | hamper | Washington Comme ise Chiuwber additional "neous Contributions at RBe o . - Wil 11 Groverman sdfe Hall Mre. Thomas Hy Dumbarton M. ¥ jCash . The Choy Bank | Mrs FLT. Sharné Miss Florida Biith Robert Booth . W. H. Booth Donal Simpson . B. Stafford . | Chen 10.00 M Church Towing through the Chase Sevings fr're\hm:x; reported. . ‘Total in hands of committee Collected by the Washing- ton Post R “ollected tar 89,42 by g- { S.8117.417.48 | P R l 36,333,600 PLEDGED * TORELIEF IN JAPAN §Red Cross, From Different Resources. Gives $10,000 : to Berkeley Sufferers. total for Washin, | | More than $6,000,000 of the $8,000,- 1000 for Japanese reliet subscribed by the American people has been re-| ceived at natlonal headquarters here, | it was announced tod Checks and | cash for $573485.60 were tabulated ! | this morning, bringing the total of | money actually recelved to $6,049, | [ $13.50. The rematnder ot the money | eubscribed throughout the country fs! pledges, which will be collected | with little delay, it was added. | The fund now has reached a total of $§,393.600, and there are several | districts which have not_been hearu | from By divisions, the shbscriptions { tollow Division Washington New_ England Southern Central Southwestern . Pacific issi Inular and foreig: {in Subscribed. | +$4.800,000 | 541,100 | 28000 | 1000 . 450,000 . 1,106,000 203,500 | Total ..$8,398,600 The emergency committee of the | Red Cross paused in its ministrations | for Japan today long enough to give | attention to a catastrophe nearer ! | ho A preliminary allotment of | $10,000 was made to the Red Cross| | organization at Berkeley, Callf., where ) fifty blocks of the residential section were razed by fire. A temporary shelter hospital and canteen service already has been es- | | ta hed in Berkeley by Red Cross workers. The committee émphasized the fact | that the money allotted to Berkeley {was not takeén from the Japanese |fund, but from the Red Cross fund {held for such purposes. The Jap- anese fund is to be used solely for Japanese relief. | e | ! Havre de Grace Entries FIRST RAOCE—Purs | yearolds: five furions: | Oor _Gommissioner. 118 | Suburben T | Zama . | Summags | Kingron - Skirmisher | Dear Marie rtan ... aitland - Bite kil . SECOND RACE—Purse, ase; four-year-olds as $1,800; maiden twe. Yehement Memento Beau N Grageful Also el Benator Moon Btar Blaok Art Aitissimo North Breese $2,000; ad up; 130 }Viosine dy Fia 187 Theift . “Nonus tockton eniry. olasmi about tws ount ] Beckinghoris o 1Ral ‘lfl and Woods 4R, Pending entty. i3 | Behal Gy f on | Wellander |38 Deadiook ‘ athrop 95 Mainmast 105 Apex Eastern Shere handi- for two-year-olds; aix FOURTH RACE- cap, 310,000 added; futlongs. Thoughts 126 ey R Bodost . ; } Dr. Doanel 2 | " {Doubtful starber. W, J. Salmon entry, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Coburn entry. FIFTH RACE—P 3 1,300 laiming ;. P2 0 gy PR Iy D1l Nea L 118 *Iavigorator | SIXTH RACE—Purss; $1,900; threo-yoat.olds and up! mnile &nd & sisteen Doughaut . -»3& Sluk ere May Bol Prince Wells <3 Ducks and Drakes *Dumbfounder ... | having | population. Bronaugh. T R. i A | I A A A 5 ner Mre. Dann s : Additional, Optimist Club. Victor Kauffmann.. Mrs. Loren 5. Matthews Rosa May Muzz. ... 2o ¥ John Wesley A. M. E. Zion Church’ cuaans«fasi oo232c00003000: 235333338383 $16,261.78 COUNTER REVOLUTION IN SPAIN IS BELIEVED CERTAIN BEFORE LONG (Continued from First Page.) sible to revive the mechanism of the country and increase production to its full capacity. DISSENSION IN ARMY. Juntas Resent Being Ignored in Cabinet Personnel. (By Cable to The 8tar and Philadeiphia Public Ledger. — Copright, 1928.) MADRID, September 18.—The way of the dictator is hard. That threat- ens to prove true in the case of Europe's latest exponent of the gen- tle art of taking over the reins of government—Gen. Primo Rivera, who hae set out at the head of a direc- torate to rule’ Spain in the name of the army and by grace of King Al- fonso XIIT. While all is calm and the country atill firmly belleves that a new day has dawned, a cloud has aiready ap- peared on the horizon. The cloud arises trom within the ranks of the army itseif. Ite nucleus is the junta those pecullar military organization: founded some time ago as officers’ unfons, with the avowed purpose of seeing that promotions were given on the basis of merit, not favoritism. Resent Their Isolation. These organizations in the new order of things subsequent to the coup d'etat at Barcelona are “left out in the cold” Inasmuch as Primo Rivera_considers them “useleas dan- gers,” he has taken ho cognizance of their power to work mischief by them represented on his di- rectorate. Sharing the anger of the juhtas Is group of important generals who are jealous of power coaferred wpon other military figures to the exclu- sion of themselves. This antagonism within the army is tacitly admitted by the new dicta- tor. On the one hand he announces that a new offensive will be imme- dlately undertaken In Morocco and, on the other, his “intention” of raising a special guard of 450,000 men “to maintain order and support measures taken by the new government. Morocean War Unpopular. = . Thus the dictator seeks t8 digpose the rebellious elements by eh- gaging them in the service of the country and at the same time train an immense following which would be uncontaminated by the ideas exist- ing at present in the army. However, the continuance of the Mo- roccan campaign Wil be a dangerous expedient, and one which will serve to allenate many elements of the Spanish The recent cabinet was no mors unpopular with the people than was the Moroccan campalgn, with its demands for recruits and taxes. In the event that the peoplé should accept its contlnuance as a necessary evil there would still remain a potential danger to the dictator’s position. With the slight. est setback he would be forced to the wall. The Moroccan debacle of two years ago paved the way for the fail of one government. With ahother similar ca- tastrophe beyond the Mediterranean, the way would be paved for something in- finitely worse. STRICT RULE FOR WORKERS. of Government Employes Ordered to Actually Perform Duties. LONDON, September 18.—In conse- quence of the decree issued in Madrid ordering all government employes to be at work promptly at 9 o'clock in the morning, hundreds of such workers who hitherto have dfawn their salaries with- out earning them were seen hurrying to their cmg{s }‘me‘rdlk says a Madrid dispatch to the Dally Mail. The correspondent adds that the method heretofore emflflnfl by the holders of government sinecures was to send agents to colléct their compensa~ tion. Capt. Gen. Ptimo Rivera hopes to save considerable sums of money by compelling such_employes to attend to their duties under penalty of instant dismissal. The military directorate has issued a decree forbidding gambling in all clubs, including the milltary. The president of the supreme civil tribunal has resigned. REBELS CAPTURE TOWN. MONTEVIDEO, September 18.~A 9% telegram regeived at the foreign of- fice from the Uriguayan consul in Zuarahy, near the Brasil-Uruguayan frontler, says the town was taken by & force of 1,800 Brasilian rebels. There was a sharp fight in the streets in which seven men were killed and twenty-seven wounded on both sides, ‘Twenty meémbers of the government force were drowned as they attempt. ed to escape by swimmin Cuarelm. Their commander and fif- teen men were captured. [, NIGHT SCHOOL OPENING. ening of the os ublio night schools on October 1 will bé recommended to the board of education at its meetin; tomorrow afternoon by Supt. o sq_lf.:olnfl)‘un:: W. B&ll:\l. $ S e date s expected to ap- proved. Dr. Ballou also will recom- mend that the Americanization school open on ‘that date. | foosta - e rrol Lough Storm [ . SEVENTH RACE—Purse, t!:-plu'-o\‘l and up; yards. 1, and seventy Oanyon May. Eludalst’ = vk ot s it OPENS SPANISH CLASS. A special course commercial Spanish will be given at the Y. M. C. A. Bchool by B, C, Canova, re- search ‘assistant of the bureau of for- eign and domostic commerce. The class will begin tomorrow evening at ;’h 0:::]0':& f‘:h‘“fl‘:"e 18 I:‘anfil ]‘R e ning ol o ase, wi wi be conducted in the main Y, M. Duilding, 1796 & streqr 11 o i ! | Van cargo of marshal, in charge of van, on left, THREATENS APPEAL TO U. S. AUTHORITIES IN OKLAHOMA ‘WAR’ (Continued from First Page.) cerning troops movement ordered here by the officer. Court Session Adjourned. Word was received from Coalgate that Judge J. H. Linebaugh had ad- journed the regular sesxlon of dis- trict court there until next Monday, explaining that he wished to avoid any question as to the legality of the court’s right to proceed. This, with the orders issued preventing the con- vening of a special district court grand jury here, are the only in- stances of military interference with the courts, Civil authorities here hold undis- puted police powers following Mayor Cargill's threat to withdraw the en- tire police department from duty un- less the military relinquished control over it. Col. W. 8. Key, command- ing the local troops, immediately o dered the reinstatement of Folice Chief Ray Frazier, ana machine guns which had been trained on the city kall and county courthouse were res moved. Although Greek county, with Okla- poma and Tulsa countles, fell under Gov. Walton's decree of ‘“absolute martial law.” no troops have been stationed there. Much Evidence Obtained. The Natfonal Guard court of inquiry which has been in session continu- ously since August 14, when martial law ‘was first declared in Tulsa, has adduced thousands of pages of testi- mony from alleged victims of floggers and four men already have been sen- tenced to the penitentiary on the strength of, this evidence. Adjt. Gef. Markham, commanding milltary forces at Tulsa, hurried here by airplane for a conference with state officials and afterward lssuod a statement declaring that military rule in the state be enforced . “same orderly manner as at Tulsa. He declined to comment on the pur- pose of his visit. State Capitol Guarded. Ot the approximately 300 militia- men under arms here less than 100 actually are on duty. These are at the state capitol, eity hall and court- house. Troops at the capitol, besides guarding the entrances, are posted at the doors of the house and senate ¢hambers. This is believed to have fesulted from rumors that certain legislators are endeavoring to con- vene the assembly witheut the con- stitutionally prescribed call from the governor. «(ov. Walton has threat- ened to imprison all legislators who attempt to meet here. Power to be Questioned in Court. An initiative petition for a bill to wer the legisiature to convene without a oall from the governor recently has been submitted to the buréau of governmental research here. Political enemies of Gov. Walton have charged that the governor used state highway department employ in checking names on the petition. It was primarily to investigate these charges that the grand jury, which was prevented by the military from meeting today, was ordered. An attempt to test the governor's suspension of the right of recourse to writ of habeas corpus will be made Wednesday in the district court at Tulsa before Judge Albert C. Hunt. The court today ordered Adjt. Gen. Markham to appear and hear arguy ments of counsel for the three men now held by the miiitary as wit- nesses for their release. These men, Ben and Grover Sikes and Earl Sack, confessed to partlcipating in the flogging of a man at Broken Arrow and have been sentenced to three years each in the state peni- tentiary. SEEKS ARREST OF 800. have been commanding Governor Charges Forgeries in Signing of Petitions. HENRIETTA, Okla, September 18, —dov. J. C. Walton yesterday defend- action placing Oklahoma under law, declaring the Ku Klux ‘anarchistic ' force” which ‘must be driven from the state. The governor explained that his ac< tlon of Saturday hight, when he placed the state under absolute mar- tial law, was necessary to stop the “Klan grand Jury that had been called” He said that the real pur- pose of the Oklahoma City grand jury was to launch “a counter attack on my fl‘hi against the Klan” He de- olared tI r charges against him that he had misused state funds in having state employes check signatures on an_ {nitiating petition was a subter- tuge. governor declared that “war- rants would be issued in 800 cases charging forgery in connection with the signing of those petitions. There are that many hames on the petitions that are not the signatures of the purported signers. Holds Murtial Law Necessary. “Martlal law is necessary for the entire state becausé the Klan is in control of all countles,” he asserted. The movement to take the pardon and parole power from the governor is being made for no Other reason than as retallation for the conviction ot floggers in Tulsa. I have sent four ment to the penitentiary from Tulea and 100 more are on the way. They will not be pardoned or paroied” The govarnor's reference was to an lnlll‘u& petition revently circulated under direction of Campbell Russell, former chiifihan of the state corpora- tion commission, whi¢h would ‘have vested pardon and parole authority, in a board instéad of in the governor,'as at present. The petition failed for lack of sufficient signatures. Among the tréasures of the Vati- cen library s a Hebrew Bible, for whioh $105,000 has beeh refufed. It 1o probably the most valuable book in the world. hotegraphed tollay nt the United States eol The photo alxo xhows K d Milton Lee, drive . C. Sny United Statex ma DISTRICT PRISONERS TO TRAVEL DE LUXE New Auto Van to Take Away All Jouncing and Provide Latest Thing in Comfort. Prisoners tried in the local criminal courts will now travel “de luxe” be- tween the jall and the courthouse in & new auto-van which Marshal Edgar C. Snyder has secured, through the co-operation of the War Department. A practically new body has been mounted on a rebuilt chassls by the government's experts at the alloca- tion Bureau at Camp Holabird, Md., 4na the prisoners will no longer feel the bumps over the cobblestones or unrepaired Washington concrete. Marshal Snyder, In expressing his appreciation of the aid given by the War Department, declared that it would have cost the Department of Justice between $3,500 and $4.000 to | have furnished a new van. which was much needed. By the arrangement made with the War Department the new van will not coet the government 1 cent, declared Mr. Snyder. The mar- shal is proud of the new van, and asserts that Its llke has never been seen on the streets of the National Capital. Deputy Marshal Ceremile, in charge of the transporiation of prisoners, and Chauffeur lee, who brought the car {over the road from Camp Holabird, are enthusiastic over the easy-run- ning qualities of the new motor and the manner in which the van Is equipped. D. C. BUDGET FOR 1925 BELOW THIS YEAR’S SUM BY $2,500,000, IS SHOWN (Continued from First Page.) the desire of the President for the utmost .economy, the Commissioners feel that certain faots should be called to your attention and that you should also be informed that the estimates proper, together with the supple- montal cstimates, represent the mini- mum amount that should be spent during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, It the people of the District are to be adequately served, {f reasonable conditions as to comfort and sanita- tion are to exist, and if the progress and growth of the city are not to be retarded. “In order to bring the estimates within the limit of $26,144,882, it has been necessary to reduce greatly the figures presented by the heads of the various branches of the District gov- ernment, which, in accordance with instructions previously given to them, had been prepared to cover merely those items that were régarded as in- dispensable In the proper administra- tion of this large and rapldly growing community. The limited total which the Commissioners are permitted to submit is not adequate for the health and comfort of the people, who under these estimates would continue to sufter from crowded schools, unpaved streets, inadequate Water and Eewer service and insufficlent standard of publle lighting and other remediable evils and inconveniences. “It is not possible within the amount of the limited estimates to ask for increased appropriations for street and suburban road malntenance; street lighting: maintenance and con< struction of sewers: maintenance and exteénsion of our city tree s for cleaning Btreéts; nor 1& it po to ask for any appropriations for t purchase of additional sites for the gub"e #chools or the erection of new uildings. “It is not possible within the amount of tl limited estimates to ask any increase In personnel of the police force and the fire department; to in- clude any provision Tor such import- ant jtems as the acquisition of the Klingle valley, Piney Branch and Pat- terson tracts for park purposes; to acquire additional land for play- rounds; nor injtial funds for the evelopment of the present unsightly water front; to include any sum for continuing_consttuction of ‘tho Home for the Feeble Minded; ner any amount for stables for the engineer department; not an initial appropria- tion for commencing the tion of a building to house the offices of the recordéd of deeds and the Municipal and Juvenile Courts. Paving Item Reduced. “Beca: of the limited amount of the estimates it has been hecessary to reduce the item for s¢hool bullding construction to nearly $500,000 le than the ourrent year's appropriation, the sum asked for this purpose being only sufficient to compléte four bulld- ings now under contract; to reduce the Item for street paving to less than one-third of thé appropriation for the work for 1024; to reduce the item for Increasing the water supply to l"fhlly over on f of the ap- propriation for 1924; to eliminate e tirely from the estimates any provi- sion for continuing the motorisation of the fire department, as Well ag rovision for the acquisition of land ?o - Rock Creek and Potomao In those cases whére the Commis- sloners were unable, within the total of the estimates they are permitted to submit, to_include adequate or any provision for the several muniéipal and other activities au rovision i carried in the amounte récommende: in the supplemental estimate: VETERANS TO MEET. Special Dispateh to The Btar. FREDERICKSBURG, Va, te ber 18.—The anfiual rewunion of the Confedérates of Westmoreland odunty will be held at Montross on Wednes. xv..’. :"“i‘.:«'fin All vetes ot o W and world war, are exmad to meet them. thouse, ready for itx first trip t the District jall with rahdl, on right; C. Cerimele, deputy FLAMES DEVASTATE BERKELEY, CALIF., AND STILL RAGE IN WOODS (Continued from First Page.) apparatus in Berkeley, Oakland and nearby ecitles was mobilized and hur- ried to the scene of the conflagration. "The utmost confusion reigned in the fire zone and in the district for blocks gurrounding that laid waste by the 1 householders stuck to their {posts ‘with garden hose or buckets, | striving vainly to hait the fire's attack on their homcs, until they were driven away by the encroaching flames. { Many fraternity and sorority houses {of the University of California were |destroyed as were homes of several Instructors, ~aithough the institu- tional structures themselves were not harmed. Hundreds of university men engaged in the fght to check the | fam Soldiers Rextore Order. Toward evening chaotic Hcenes which marked the afternoon became fewer, and ordcr grew out of the excitement attending the destruction. {The arrival of 100 soldiers from Fort Scott rapialy eliminated much of the confusion. On Hearst avenue dynamite to check had approached almost within strik- ing distance of the residence of the |president of the University of Cali- {fornia on the schools' campus. Among the homes reduced to ashes are those of Benjamin Ide Wheeler, president emeritus of the university, |and John Howard Taylor, architect. Fraternity houses destroyed included the Tau Kappa Epsilon, Alpha _ Tau |Omega, Phi Kappa Sigma and Theta jPhi.~ The sorority houses consumed wero the Zeta Tau Delta, Delta Zeta and Alpha Sigma Delta | _In Scenic avenue the paims lining the thoroughfare were ignited by fiying sparks. Fleeing refugees were endangefed by these huge torches which toppled into the street Water Supply Lacking. In a statement, Mayor Frank D. ringham declared that a proper water service and supply probably would have averted the disaster. The catastrophe had been long feared by the city, he sald, owing to inadequaté water maing. With the city hall as headquarters, Police Chief C. D. Lee immedjately mobilized a force of several huhdred deputies, including hundreds of Unle versity of California students, who assisted in policing the devastated zone, removing household goods, and |fAighting at least two small fires which broke out after the large conflagra- tion was placed under control. When darkness fell Berkeley vir- i i firemen used the flames that soldiers of the regular Afmy and the National Guard on duty. A solid eor= don of armed men surrounded the burned area with orders to shoot looters. Only a few scattered fne stances of looting were reported, po- lice firing at suspects in one instance. As the advanced through the thick growth of trees on the north- east slope of the ridge and topped the crest they struck a southeastwara course down the slope thtough the residential district. Here and there they skipped a residence or turned sharply at right angles, leaving one gide of a street in flaming ruin, while houses on the opbosite side of the street stood intact. Checked at University Gates. At the very gates to the grounds of the University of California the fire was checked. Falling transmission lines created a tangle of wires on the streets in the fire area. When the glant trees lining the streets burst into fame from fiy. ing sparks many crashed to the pave- ment and formed impassable barriers to mutomoblles carrying fire fightera and relief workers. Burning cinders wefe sprayed about by the wind as house after holse was eaten away bz the roaring flames, and this hamperei the work of those rtruggling to pre- vent the spread of the fire, oS~ WOMAN PRISONER TO HANG SELF IN CELL Cut Down Twice by Policemen as She Dangles by Apron String. Maund Smith, ¢olored, twenty-four years old, & prisoner at the fourth precinct station tried to hang herselt twice with #n apron string early today but falled becauss of watchfulness of policemen on duty. he made the first attempt shortiy before & o'clock. She was cut down from the cell Wloor before she had suffered serlously., Five minutes later, she made & similar attempt, when Pollceman F. R. Reh walked into the cell room and cut her down by slashing the string with a penknife. She was treated at Bmérgency Hospital by Dr. Dean and transferred to Gallinger Hospital i the patrol waon. At that hospi~ tal it was said her condition is not serious. ——— GOES TO TRIAL DRUNK, ’ JAILED FOR CONTEMPT p < Arrested on Charge of As- saulting Woman Gets Forty- Eight Hours to Seber Up. ‘When Harry J, Soper was called to trial in the United States branch of Police Court before Judge yestepday on two charges of into: cation and of Willis he was too much under the influence “of drink, the court de- Msm, to &o on trial. huldt held him it hours in were in con- jall. nued un- tually was an armed camp, with 700 | increase and on that date, when the peak is reached, mbout 70,000 will be on the school rolls. As soon as members of Con- gress return for the next session and place their children 1n schoo! Dr. Bal- lou looks for a further increase in the enrollment Central High School, as usual, en- rolled the greatest number of pupils yesterday, the figures showing that 2,994 were admitted 807; Business, 1,200; Columbla Junior High School, 987: the Junlor High School in 399. No report on the McKinley High School enrollment was received. FIUME SITUATION DISTURBS LEAGUE (Continued from First Page.) the inc¢ident at the opening session on Thursday. It is felt that the gov ernment of Premier Pachitch n suffer, especially If public opinion feels that the ministry has made too optimistic an interpretation of the pre. ceding links in the chain of Italo-Ju- goslav negotiations, and that it has failed to keep the public Informed ation. The foreign office thinks Italy's action at Fiume may really be the outcome of internal disturbances there, and suggests that a local resident of the free cit rather than an official sent from Ital might replace Signor Depoli, who ri signed as head of the Fiume govern- menf Public Ts Conceried. The foreign office has no confirmation of the news and official cireles continue optimistic, particularly because of the registration of the Rapallo treaty at Geheva. The public, however, does not ehare this optimism. Should the occupation of Fiume be- come an accomplished fact there would probably be a strong reaction of opin- ion at the expense of the Pachitch cabinet. Parliament will reassembi® Thursday, when the incident will form the subjeot of & lively debate, for which the minority re actively preparing. . parties GOVERNOR IS HAILED. Fiume Population Greet General Enthusiastically—City Calm. By the Associated Press ROME, September 18.—Gen. Giar- dino. the newly appointed military governor of Fiume, arrived in the free city yesterday afternoon. Ac- gording * to dispatches received in Rome he was greeted enthusiastically. The military governor appeared on the balcony "at government house, and in_an address exhofted the peo- ple to remain calm and thereby testi fy thelr confidence in the Italian gov- ernment. Signor Depoli, Who resigned as vice president of the assembly of Flume on_BSunday, recelved Gen. Giardino, and handed over the government of the free city. - He greeted the gen- eral a8 the representative of Italy. Gen. Giardino, in reply, said he rec- ognised the importance of the task that he relied for its fulfiliment in the collaboration and discipline of the population. Appointment of an Ttalian military governor in Fiume does not in any way signify annexation by this coun- try, it was authoritatively tated, and any Mmoves made by Italy up to the present have been for the purpose of bringing Jugoslavia to see the need for a satisfactory arrangement con- cerning the disposition of the free elty. Tt is held that Premier Mussolnit did everything in his power to avoid the situation as it is today when he asked the joint Italo-Jugoslav com- mission considering the Fiume ques- tion to finish its work on August 81, and begged the Belgrade government to_make a_definite decision on the commission's report by September 15 Jugoslavis, however, let the date pass without coming to' any agfeement, and this, it is contended, threw entire responsibility for Fiume on Ttaly, which for five years has been malintaining the city at het own ex- pense. Government circles declars reporte spfead abroad have emphasized and exaggerated the military preparations on the part of Italy. POINCARE SEEKS PEACE. Endeavoring to Gain Settlement of Balkan Menace. By the Associated Press. PARIS, Beptember 15.— Premier Poincare is making an effort to bring about the settlement of a menacing controversy between the Bulgarian and Jugoslav_governments over the infiltration of Bulgarian irregulars into Jugoslav térritory. He has sug- gested through the French minister at Sofla_that the commission lu(hof- ized under the agreement of Nish fo draw up an extradition treaty should meet at once, ahd it had been agreed by the two governments that thé commission shall’ meet in Sofla on Qctober 1. The Bilgarian government three days_ago complained to the Inter- alifed mission at Sofla that Jugo- slavia was massing troops near the Bulgarian frontler. -~ The Jugoslav government the same day made re resentations to Paris that the activ ity of the Bulgarian irregulars ha greatly disquieted the Belgrade gov- ernment. he , ¥rench government thereupon made the suggestion for the meeting of the commission, which was accepted by both sides. DENBY WITNESSES TEST. E Schulqt | possesses - | ance saulting Miss Inesseapla; With Admiral Moffet Inspects New Type of Seaplane. laeunw of the Navy Denby and Admiral Willlam A, Moffett of the bureau of aeronautics yesterday vis- ited the naval alr station at“Ana costia, D. C., and carefully Inspected a new type of seaplane undergoing tests thefe, The .plane is a product of the Aeromarine Corporaition and is be- lieved to be the first of itg kind that an hull. _In appear- it resembles the F-6-L- boat- ne Nayy. It is powered with a twelve- eylinder liberty “motor. As the plans was only submitted to the Navy by the manufacturers for inwpection, it had no offic The | s0 Vvirtually evéry woman employ: the buFeau of aeronautios. was @ flight in it during the week, ven New Bastern | High_School ehrolled 1,260, Western, | the old Eastern building, | on all the developments of tae situ-| which had been intrusied to hin. ahd | the | cout _and bomber of the | Clusively late yesterday afternoon : the New Willard Hotel, when a litt scene was enacted in the lobby of that house which should go to !convince the most peseimistic thar iback of all intrigue, political greed jand international misunderstandin there still exists a/warmth of feell i1n the hearts of individuals of Francc | Britain and America. g While standing at {cussing his new, work, Is No Peace” the kn Just told the wrifer h of the United States, Frenchmen, military. men, well known blue-gfay. and red, =, familiar here during war days, ap proached the desk, registered an were about to be Shown to their rooms, when the second of the two dressed in “civvies.” thought to in quire about matters of money, t visitors having apparently beew ghor: - exchanged in New York The limited English of the fightins men, sent to this country to stud military maneuvers, oon broug the entire corps of clerks to th |assistance, but the more words fle |and gestures waved the more mi |understood were all parties to the | POW-wow. Quickly enifting the cause of discussion, Laurence Lyon mo: quietly over to the little group snd in perfect French, and a manner that would have madé a Chesterfield jesl- | ous, not only subdued the excitement but'in short order had the three old- time allles on a basis that made possible for them to splinter the Hin- denburg intrenchments, The two French soldicrs were Ma Paul Perrignon and Commander La Avere, veterans with enviable records and many decorations. They are this country on the invitation of t government and in a few davs Mal. Perrignon will go to Fort Sill. Okla and Commander Lanaverc to Phil delphia. The two officers will rema in the United States nine months. Delighted at the t 80 diplomatic and desirous of lea ing the Britisher's feelings regurd- ing the occupation of the Ruhf dit trict by the French, a short visit in Mr. Lyon's apartments elielted the fact that he, a_former member of parliament for Hastinge, and an Englishman from the top oll his ne: combed head to the soles of his well proportioned feet, was heartily in ac- cord with the present policies of France “I am afraid that we in Kurope. when the nightmare was 1ifted after more than four Vears of warfare, at firet made the mistake of imagin- ing that we might-ravert to peace # we had knawn it befofe 1913, It was impossible “Ah. France! T am sorry to cay {she has not received fair treatme {#ince the treaty of Versailles was signed. We in England have received practically all that Germany was to give us umier the tréaty. We have seén the German navy destroyed. We have seen the German fect distributed amongst ourselves and our allies. We have seen Germany bereft of her colonies and we have received our {share under mandate. We are onlv ientitled to 25 per cent as compared to the 52 per cent which g0és to France, and even that proportion would be much less if pensions were not _included.” “But France was to get two thi reparations for the past and = jfor the future, and at the y | time she has received neither the one nor the other. No, France is justif in her actions, and I believe she - win out in the end. She could not pos- sibly do otherwise and retain her self-respect.” Mr. Lyon was loud in his praise of America, and safd the thing that im- pressed the visitor most was that there was not an idle man nor idle doliar throughout the land that was not high-class. As a young mau. he was a_ guest in the city, wheir ho came here with his grandfather. Sir Henry Strong, former chief justice of Canada, who represented Britain in a controversy with one of the South American republics, the Ametican diplomat being the iate Don Dickin- son. Postmaster General Mr. Lyon is lecturing in the conntry and will leave for New York today. With a mind still dwelling on thinge international, it was only nat- ural that the first person encountered on entering the Hotel Lafayette should be the Rev. A. Wylie Blue, tector of the May Street Presbytérian Church, Belfast, Ireland, Who came to America to attend the Stoney Brook conference on Long Island. The Irish clergyman Was most en< thusiastic over the beauties of Wash- ington, and sald he thought it the most entrancing oity In the world. “I have traveled much,” he said, “but really this is the wonder spot of the universe.” He paid a glowing tribute to the work being done by Rev. Dr. John F. Carson of Brooklyn, president. of the Stoney Brook conference: which pro- vides a gathering place for the dis- cussioén of matters of Christian faith and allows for inspirational demon- strations. “Dr. Carson's work," eontinued the clergyman, “which includes the su- pervision of an exceptional school for boys, is a monument to his genius. He Is doing God's work.” Rev. Blue wae one of the four Presbyterian minlsters to visit this country during the Irish troubles, and It was gratifying to learn from him that the governments of both north and south Ireland iere func- tioning in perfect order, “Our government in "the" north.” amiled the Belfust man, “is goilg along smoothly. We hold nothing b good wlil toward our brothers in. south, and wish President Cosgrave every success in the world. From all reports things have quieted down wonderfully in that section. and we hope and pray for the mafety aud well-being of ‘all Ireland that such conditions will continue.” Asked if there was any chance of union between the two sections, Dr. Blue sald he would not care to say. “That is for future generations to da- cide, I hardly think it will come right now. We want to be friendly with the Free State, and it will not be our 1t it our feelings are not recipro- cated.” — Convinced that ¢onditions in the.old world were not altogether hopeless, a hurried trip down to the Hotel Wash- ington brought the writér head-on into C.'E. Bockus, well known Vir- ginla coal operator, who was hurry- ing from the lobby to catch a train for. the north. “How's Virginia coal Mr. Bockus?"' tar the desk dis- “When There lishman. had impressions when two one in the havior of one these dave rang out through the corridor. the blg man kc‘:t going. “0, K he wafted back, and a pretty girl dsked her mother if any- thing had happened: “Really, I don't know, Gwendolyn: people act most pecullarly in this part of the country, Conte le! go to our room.” And oft the two it THE MIXER.