Evening Star Newspaper, July 27, 1924, Page 2

HUGHES' PARIS TRIP MAY SAVE HERRICT Secretary Expected to Per- suade Poincare to Yield on Sanctions. BY JOHN L. BALDERSTON. Ry Cable to The Stir and Yew York World Copyright, W24, LONDON, July 26.—Two extremely tmportant moves on the diplomatic chessboard of Europe, concealed until tonight by the fog of diplomacy which has enveloped the conference for some days, have taken place and have been explained by a European statesman who is a prime actor in and conversant with all phases of the current negotiations. Premier Herriot, as a result, he has told his colleagues, of mis meet- ing with Secretary Hughes Thurs- day and supplemented by his lunch- eon with Mr. Hughes yesterday. has thrown down the gaunttet to former Premier Poincare and has ac- cepted Secretary Hughes interpre- tation of the common agreement with Germany stressed in the Dawes report and also Mr. Hughes concerning the necessity for fation and co-operation Germany in carrying out the pro- visions of the report. This decision on Herriot's part, as he states treely to his colleagues, means immediute war with Poincare, who sent a mes- sage to Herriot earlier in the week declaring that to agree to treat witn Germany here as equals would draw down upon Herrfot the opposition ot Poincare in the French Senate views tulr reconc| with Rubr Evacuation Axked. The second vital development was a letter addressed to Premier Herriot by Premier MacDonald on Thursday asking for French military evacua- tion of the Ruhr. This question has Dot yet come up in the conference and 1t was decided at a meeting of the big five that the subject is not one for discussion at the comference, since it is not dealt with either in the Dawes report or in the Anglo-French joint agreement of July 9. It will, there- fore, be discussed, I learn, at least un- til the Germans arrive, only between the three premiers, MacDonald, Her- riot and Theunis. Herriot is agreeable in principle to the military evacuation of the Ruhr, but he and Theunis insist upon reaping advantages in return for this eoncession They have tried to raise the problem of reconsideration of the interallied debts, but have received no encouragement. Either from Mac- Donald or Hughes. Herriot has en- countered serious opposition withir the French delegation to the sugges- tlon for the military evacuation of the Ruhr, and Gen. Nollet is be- lieved to have threatened three times to resign as war minister as a result of Herriot's proposals to his subordi- nates. The present Herriot-Theunis plan, T leafn or first-hand authority, is to seek from the Germans, when the German delegation arrives next week, concessions to make French public opinion swallow the military evacuation. Question of Germa Returning to Herriot's agreement with Hughes to admit the Germans to the conference as equals, this was reached at the first meeting of the two statesmen Thursday. after ef- forts on the part of Premier Mac- Donald had falled. The appointment, immediately succeeding this Hughes- Herriott meeting. of the French and British jurists, M. Fromageot and Sir Cecil Hurst, to report on the question of German appearance here was, I am informed on high authority, de- signed merely to save Herriot's face for the climb down. The quarrel between the French and Anglo-American bankers over the international loan is not settled, but the emergence of fundamentally more important issues, such as the military evacuation of the Ruhr, tend to shove this into the background. It is probable that the loan question will be settled if Herriot is able to continue his present program, which arouses enthusiasm among the Eng- lish and Americans, but on Monday, when the conference will probably invite the Germans here, it is felt in high French circles that the fate of the French government will be in the balance because of Herriot's swing toward moderation, largely under American persuasion. When these things become known in Paris, probably tomorrow, the members of the French delegation expect a storm, which, it is hoped, Secretary Hughes, who goes to Paris on Monday, will help quell by per- sonal interviews with Poincare and other French politicians of the Right. DELEGATES STILL HOPEFUL. Spend Week End in Leisurely Brit- ish Fashion. By the Associated Presi. LONDON, July 26.—Most of the allied plenipotentiaries and experts, including the American official and unofficial observers and advisers, and the visiting bankers, today left the problems of the iInterailied confer- ence to the soothing influence of England’s leisurely week end, while they themselves sought relaxation from the reparations parleys away from the British capital. Many of the delegates were on board the guest ships which followed in the wake of the royal yacht from which the King reviewed the British fleet at Spithead this afternoon. Informal conversations among the few experts remaining here, among whom is Col. James A. Logan, jr., will continue throughout the reces: but tonight it was stated in British official quarters that the position be- tween the conference financial ex- perts and the bankers remained un- changed. The opinion was express- ed that little could be done to recon- cile the differences until after the plenary session at 4 o'clock Monday afternoon. Propose New Guarantee. The conference deadlock has reach- ed the stage where letters about it are being written to the editor of the "Times, but no settlement that will be satisfactory has been sug- gested. One proposed way out of the difficulty caused by the bankers' rejection of the security provided for the German loan is to have the allied governments and the United States Government guarantee the loan. Should the United States fail to to this it is suggested that the allied governments should back a bond issue on Ddehalf of Germany | the motorist T TRAFFIC CASUALTIES SHOW HEAVY ANNUAL INCREASE Big Gain in Number of Automobiles in City and Lack of Funds te Build System Greatest Problem of Deaths in traffic accidents are an- nually increasing. There is a corre- spoudingly large increase in the number of people driving cars and the number of cars in the so-called congested area downtown. Both fur- nish a serious problem to the traffic board. named by the last Congress to study and solve the traffic problems in the District of Columbia. While the board has no funds with which to go ahead with. its work of study, so far as looking into condi- tions in other cities, the apprepria- tion for it having been lost in the last minutes ol Congress, neverthe- less the preliminary survey of ihe figures on accidents and resultant casualties shows that few if any of them can be attributed to the heavy trafiic. or that regulation and moving of it in any way would lessen the number of deaths. The fisures show that of the 103 deaths that occurred last year, only 13 were in tie con- gested zone, while the remainder were outside of it where the tratfic movement cannot be said to be thick With the figures indicating this condition. it was pointed out, the traf fic situalion. so far as it means a cutting down of the death and cas- ualiy Tist, means the necessity of get- ting the fullest with cau- in the compliance the regulations for safety and tion, or the provision of more police | to bring the offenders who court ac: cidents by their disregard of regula- tions into the courts and making such examples of them as will force others to give their co-operation in bringing the death and casualty list down each year. 13 Deathx In Congested Ar Out of the 103 deaths attributed to traffic during the fiscal year from July 1, 1923, to Jume 30, 1924, only 13 occurred 'in the congested zone. while the other 90 occurred outside. In No. 1 precinct, which has most of the congested arca, there were 11 deaths during this period, while No. 3 precinct, which has a part of the arca. had 8 deaths, only 2 of which were in_its section, which is in_ the traffic zone. The precincts which have a large suburban area showed even greater trafiic casualties than those which have the built-up sec- tions. 3 By precincts the traffic casualties noted for this period follow: No. 1 eleven: No. 2, nine; No. 3, eight: No. cleven: No. 5, nine: No. 6. seven: 7. eight; No.'8, ten: No. 9, eleven: 10, thirteen: No. 11, two, and No. 12, four. Of the 103 deaths, 23 were children of 14 years of age and under. In the cases in which deaths oc- curred, it is_interesting to note the figures on the verdicts of the coro- ner's juries. 1In 25 cases persons were held for the action of the grand jury: in 59 of the cases the deaths were called “accidental” and in 12 of them the accidents were declared due to the carelessness of the de- ceased. Motor vehicles figured in the deaths of 84 of the cases, street cars 12, rail- road trains 4 and teams 3. Aceidents at Crossingm. The total number of accidents at street intersections as compared to those between street intersections seems to bear out the opinion that motorists and pedestrians show a great lack of caution at the point where traffic crosses. The total num- ber of accidents at street intersec- tions was 6,010, as compared with 3.297 accidents at points between street Intersections. The figures show that 47 people suffered serious injuries during the year covered by the reports. while 2,793 suffered minor injuries. 608 of which were children 14 years of age and under. In 6,418 cases there was damage to property. Vehicl, 1.401 people and street cars, on the basis of the Spa reparation percentages. Such a plan is not given much en- couragement at Downing street, where the stand of the British gov- ernment is that Britain is not pre- pared to guarantee loans on behalf of other governments. The refusal to guarantee the loun fo Soviet Kus- sia is cited as a recent precedent. Although the conference officials admit they have not found a formula which will satisfy both the bankers and the French, they do not admit their despair, maintaining that the theoretical plan for launching the Dawes scheme is complete and that the happy phrases likely to pacify the Qual d'Orsay, Wall Street and Lom- bard Street may be hit upon at any moment. Delegates Are Comfident. The great amount of technical work which the conference has completed and formulated Into reports for pres. entation at Monday's plenary session is cited as sufficient basis for the confident optimism which all the delegates insist on maintaining in the face of the seemingly unsolvable problem of satisfying the investors and agents that whatever money is loaned to Germany for applying the Dawes plan will be safe. The delegates say they have the right to be happy over completing the technical details associated with such problems as the fiscal and economic unity of Germany, for it was upon these very questions that the previous conferences had been wrecked. It is explained that the delegates cannot think of despairing over the one issue which remains for settle- ment, for the public opinion of the world will insist that the Dawes plan be given a fair trial. For this reason the delegates will resume their con- ference work on Monday, determined to complete the full program neces- sary to make the scheme effective before they leave London. Pruwian Premler Going. BERLIN, July 26—It is semi-of- ficially announced that the Prussian premier intends to accompany repre- sentatives of the Reich when the inter-allied conference summons them to London, so that he may safeguard Prussian interests, Bavarian and Badenese representatives also expect to go with the delegation. THREE BEACH PICNICS. Engraving Bureau and Printing Ofice Employes Among Visitors. Three organizations will hold out- ings this week at Chesapeake Beach. Federal Employes’ Union 105, composed of women workers at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, will hold their excursion at the re- sort Tuesday. Mrs. Mabel Rackey is chairman of the excursion committee. More than 1,500 persons are expected to attend. An excursion for the benefit of the Prince Georges County Memorial Cross, in_process of erection on the Washington-Baltimore boulevard at Bladensburg, Md., will be held at the resort Wednesday. The excursion will be under direction of Snyder-Farmer Post No. 3 of the American Legion. Chairman of the excursion commit- tees are J. H. Hiser, tickets; C. L. Alello, publicity; H. T. McClay, pro- grams, and O. H. Kee, athletics. The Government Printing Office Cafeteria and Recreation Association will hold its annual outing at the Beach Thursday. -More than 2,000 are expected to attend. Willlam D. Skeen, president of the assoclation, is in charge of arrangements. Blowing Off Steam. From the Kansas City Star. Boss—That hired man of mine just like a steam engine. Empy- worker, eh? Boss—Np; go0od whistler, e co-operation from | New Board. 1.497 persons injured were occupying vehicles. The period between noon and mid- night seems to be that of greatest danger, while Leople seem to ba less cautious, and there is no difference in the figures on ratalities as to those oecurring between noon and 6 p.m.. and the latter hour and midnight, seeming to indicate that the period of darkness has no effect. Of the fatal- itles occurring for the period of the report there were ten between mid- night and 6 a.m.; twenty-five between |6 a.m. and nqon: thirty-four vetween | nocn ‘and 6 pim., and thirty-four be- tween 6 p.m. and midnigh More Cautien Needed. Study of the figures as to the places |of accidents would seem to indicate | that they can onls be lessened when both the pedestrians and the motor- ists take the necessary caution. The accidents that occur outside of the s0-called econgested zone might have been prevented had both parties ap- proached the crossings more cau- tiously. and particularly those where it is difficult to see a vehicle coming along an intersecting street. Last week there was a Serious ac- cident at Thirteenth and Girard streets northwest, involving three vehicles, two of which were turned over and all badly damaged. How- ever, by some lucky ecircumstance no one was injured. Even cautien in thix case did not save one of the cars. One of the vehicles was pro- -oding west on Girard and another proceeding north on Thirteenth street | When they collided, the impact send- | Ink both” cars into a third whten had stopped to permit one of them to pass. atements of witnesses at the time varied as to which vehicle was making the speed. but trom the im- pact and the distance both cars werc thrown it would seem that both were making fairly good time. Who- ever was at fault, it was plainly evi- dent that there was lack of caution and the fallure of some one to ob- serve the rght-of-way rule, to the extent of co-operating in pulling down the accident record of the District. Police Ansintance Needed. The only matter which would seem to correct these conditions would be to have the police rigidly enforce the right of way rule at street intersec- tlons, and ‘take any further steps which would compel the people to be cautious. Where collisions occur, the fact could be impressed not only on the offending party, but on ob- servers, by providing stiff fines. Such a course. it is believed, would cer- tainly result in bringing strongly to the minds of drivers the fact that they must take time to be cautious. Cutting down the death and casu- alty list means getting the full co- operation of motorists and pede- strians in the exercise of extreme care at all times, and not alone when they are in the congested area ac- cording to Inspector Headley. Very few of the serious accidents occur in the traffic zone, the greater per- centage taking place at street inter- sections, and practically all attribut- able to the lack of caution in ap- proaching intersections and the fail- ure to strictly observe the right-of- way regulation Certain streets of the city which are used by through traffic, such as Tenth street, and particularly Thir- teenth and Sixteenth streets, which bear a heavy load of traffic. should be watched closely by motorists crossing them. and were these thor- oughfares, and some others, placed under the' so-called arterfal highway system, giving the trafic moving along ‘them the right-of-way, and requiring motorists crossing them to stop completely, and observe closely when the highway is clear for cross- ing, many serious accidents would be prevented, But, before putting in such a system, there are many mat- ters to be worked out, such as the placing of sikns and the lighting of these signs at night, so that there will be no valid excuse for a motor- ist failing to compl BATTERY RETURNS T10D. C. THURSDAY Record of New Organization Equals That of Any Other Local Guard Unit. Special Dispatch to The Star, FORT MONROE, Va, July 26— —Wednesday afternoon will mark the close of one of the most successful encampments of any National organization of the District of ro umbla since the war, when Battery A, 260th Artillery. embarks on the Norfolk and Washington boat for ‘Washington. Not only has the camp S0 far been successful from the point of view of new efliclency records established, but from various other angles. il The organization apparently spr. up overnight, and with more or jesy difficulty in ‘enrolling the type of personnel desired, Maj. Walter W. Burns added to the roils of the new battery the names of 59 Washington young men. The majority saw active service during the World War, a good many Were.members of the old 60th Coast * Artillery, District National Guard, in which so many District men served during the war. Several are reserve officers, and many of those not having had prior service were High School Cadet officers. Take Hold Quickly. The War Department some time ago authorized the formation of one regiment of five batteries of artillery troops for the District, and Maj. Gen. Anton Stephan, recognizing the ability and popularity of Maj. W. Burns, formerly commander of thi old 1st Company, 60th C. A. C. au- thorized him to proceed to recruit the first battery. Upon arrival in Fort Monroe the District Guardsmen were assigned to Battery De Russy by Maj. E. V. Put- ney, cémmander of harbor defense, and on the first day's gun drill the sergeant-instructor assigned reported to the fort commander that Battery A was qualified to take complete charge of Battery De Russy, which is a record for National Guard troops. Battery De Russy is the largest bat- tery in the fort and is equipped with three 12-inch guns, each gun and carriage weighing ' over 200 tons, shooting a projectile weighing more than half a ton and having an ap- proximate range of 15 miles. The guardsmen have used the large guns since they have been in camp, have had subcaliber gun practice and tomorrow morning will hold record target practice. In gun drill Wednes- day the guardsmen made a high rec- ord in loading, sighting and firing within 26 seconds from the load and fire commands, a speed which is faster than ordinarily made by Regular troops. The firing of the big shells will commence tomorfow morning, with Maj. Burns as battery commander; First Lieut. Louis M. Gosorn, range officer, and Second Lieut. James D. Eggleston, executive officer. _The first gun to be fired will be gun No. 3, which has only been fired 216 times, the last time being July 23, 1923. Many District people e visited the fort during the week and have observed the work of the artillery- men, but the largest crowd is expect- ed 'tomorrow. _Tomorrow's target practice will end the camp duties, a trip being arranged to Fort Storey Tuesday and to Fort Eustis Wednes- day. The battery will return to Washington Thursday morning, Syl ‘| stop after hitting o LA g The photoxraph shows the Exposition Bullding in &Tip of the fire which threatemned to wipe out the whole of the §1,500,000 SOUGHT FOR NEW SEWERS City Expected to Ask This Sum for Work in Next Fiscal Year. Although rapid strides will be made during this fiscal year in ex- tending Washington's Sewer system to meet present-day requirements, it is reported that the Commissioners will ask for close to $1,500,000 more for sewer construction in the new budget. For the next twelve months the sewer department has $805,000 to spend on all classes of sewer build- ing. Although this is $90,000 more than Congress appropriated last year, it is about a million dollars less than the sewer engineers asked. There are two distinct phases of sewer development. One is to ex- tend connections to all new dwell- ings as they are completed. The other is to lay the larger pipe lines necessary to carry off siorm water and surface drainage Muxt Meet Current Needs. Until a comparatively recent date the sewer department was unable to keep ce with the demand for serv- ice sewers for the hundreds of housea built following the war. The situ: tion in this respect is greatly im proved, but substantial appropriations will still be needed in future to keep abreast of building development. The current appropriation for ex- tending sewer service to new dwell- ings under the assessment system Is 250,000. Between now and next Spring, the District will spend $60,000 in con- tinuing work on the Rock Creek main interceptor sewer, which, when com- pleted to the District Line, will free Rock Creek of pollution.” Another $60.000, which probably will be sought in the new budget, will finish the project. During the ensuing year, $20.000 will be spent to lay a 4-foot sewer in the valley of Twenty-eighth street, between Rock Creek and Calvert, which will make possible the filling of a ravine, $10,000 to Be Spent. Approximately $10,000 will be spent this year to bulld another section of the ‘north Illinois avenue sewer, which will relieve a bad drainage pocket in Longfellow street between Ninth street and Illinois avenue. For street paving improvements, it is understood, the new estimates ask about $1,400,000. Of this approxi- mately $900,000 is for work to be paid for out of estimated gasoline tax collections next year, and the balance out of general tax revenues. The Commissioners already have transmitted their preliminary figures for next vear to the Budget Bureau, amounting to $36,500,000. " No info mation has been received yet as to how much, if any, the budget author- ities will want cut from that total. Last year, the city heads sub- mitted a preliminary budget of $32,500,000, which was trimmed down approximately to $26,000,000. Since then, however, Congress . has raised salaries of ail municipal employes by about $3,000.000, which accounts for three-fourths of the $4,000,000 added to this year’s tentative budget. Budget Bureau officials probably will begin in & few days conferring with Maj. Daniel J. Donovan, District auditor, to obtain more light on the sums asked by the city. iy GOUVERNEUR MORRIS WEDS HIS SECRETARY Writer Announces Second Cere- mony Will Be Observed to Com- & ply With Divorce Law. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif,, July ‘26— To comply with the California divorce laws Gouverneur Morris, fiction writer, and the former Miss Ruth Wightman, his secretary’ and collaborator at Hol- lywood, 'will go through a second mar- riage creemony Monday at Salinas, Calif., according to a statement today by the novelist, says the Examiner. The interlocutory decree, _divorcing Morris from his first wife, Mrs. Eslie Waterbury Morris, granted in Los An- geles a year ago, became final toda Morris today declined to say where the first marriage ceremony for him- self and Miss Wightman took place, but stated that it was outside Califor- nia_and “shortly after” the granting’ of the Los Angeles decree. GETS TWO TO FOUR YEARS WILMINGTON, N. C., July 26.—H. A. Boyd, former assistant manager of a ‘chain grocery store, was tonight sen- tenced to serve from two to four years in the State penitentiary for running into and killing D. A. Matthews with an automobile 3 months ago. Boyd's young _wife collapsed when sentence was pronounced on her husband and tonight is under care of physicians. Boyd's attorneys served notice of ap- peal. Matthews was killed on the Wrighta- ville turnpike near the city when by Boyd's machine, said to' have moving at an excessive rate i S o AR winexs distriet of the Virginia town. DRY OFFICERS RAID TWOROOF GARDENS Four Men Arrested in Quiet Trips to Arlington and Le Paradis Dance Floors. Police and revenue agents last night struck two more blows at the night life on local roof gardens, raiding the Ar- lington Hotel and the Le Paradis roof around midnight and arresting four persons. While the ruid on the Arlington roof was in progress, by 5 strange coinoi- dence, the band was playing “How Dry 1 Am" Under Divisional Chief Harry L. Luckett of the prohibition unit and Lieut. Davis of the police vice squad four raiders worked quietly among the crowd and picked up two men on charges of drinking in public and legal poseession of liquor. One was George C. Tuey, 310 Indiana avenue, a deputy United States marshal. and the other was Charles Egan, 928 Massa- chusetts avenue. Both were released at the second precinct on personal rec- ognizance. Following the - Arlington Hotel roof raid the agents moved their attention to Le Paradis, where they made two arrests on similar charges—dripking in public and 1llegal possession of liquor. Those arrested were Fred Harper, 1761 Church street, @ clerk, and Jacob Wal- ters, 1617 R street, a student. Each was released on $35 collateral for appearance in the police court to- morrow morning. The Le Paradis raid last night was greatly similar to the one on the Arlington roof in that it was engineered so quietly that patrons of the roof garden were unaware of its progress. Among features of the rald on the Arlington roof was a strategic hurling of a bottle containing liquor to Ver- mont avenue from the roof. According to Chief Luckett these raids are part of a recently planned campaign to make it “supremely un- comfortable” for any one to violate the Volstead act on local roof gardens. DAVIS COMMENDS FORCE. Le Paradis Owner Satisfied at Dry Officers’ Act. Meyer Davis, director of several dance orchestras and proprietor of Le Paradis, where several patrons were arrested for violating the prohibition laws recently, yesterday addressed an open letter to Harry M. Luckett, di- rector of prohibition enforcement in Washington and Maryland, express- ing belief in the ultimate triumph of prohibition and a willingness to co- operate in its enforcement. After expressing compiete satis- faction with the visit the enforce- ment agents paid to Le Paradis, Mr. Davis pointed out the difficulties faced by the proprietor of such a place. “The management,” he said, “cannot go around sniffing glasses, searching prominent business men or college vouths of good families, nor ‘watch people like hawks. In this difficult situation fhe res- taurant proprietor's best aid is the public knowledge of efliciently func- tioning government enforcement agencies. The success of a smart dance resort does not depend on winking at the prohibition laws.” EX-POSTMASTER SEIZED Georgia Man, Removed From Office, Charged With Embezzlement. MACON, Ga., July 26.—Olin Robin- son was arrested late today on a fed- eral charge of embezzling Government funds following his removal last Thurs. day as postmaster at Milledgeville, Ga. A ‘shortage of $1,000 in his accounts is charged In the complaint against him. Hugh T. Cline has been appointed to_succeed Robinson in the office. Robinson is alleged to have used Post Office funds for his personal checking account. Fhoto by Bell Studio. LYNCHBURG FIRE 0SS OVER §220,000 Photographer’s ~ Flashlight Ignites Decorations at Industrial Show. Special Dispatch to The Star. LYNCHBURG, Va., July 26.—Book- ers’ tobacco warehouse, in which the second annual industrial exposition was being staged this week by the Lynchburg Wholesalers and Manu- facturers’ Association, and three Main street retail stores burned early this afternoon, when flimsy decora- tions ignited from a photographer's flashlight. The damage is estimated at more than $250,000. Insurance figures were not available, due to the fact that upward of fifty exhibitors lost displays ranging in value from sev- eral hundred to $4,000. A retail grocery and wholesale grocery were deluged with water, and stocks are probably entire losses The fire started an hour before the afternoon vaudeville programs were to start, and very few people were in the building. An effort was made to pull down the tissue paper rolls which festooned the warehouse, but the hlaze spread faster than men could work. _With scores of roof ven- tilators open, the blaze went through the structure, and in less than five minutes the' building, covering a fourth of a block, was in a blaze. Three Stores Destroyed. The stores of Woody Evans Co., retail grocers and feed dealers, 1220 Main street: Perrow Evans Hardware Co.. 1218 Main stveet, and the Army and Navy Sales Co. store. 1216 Main street, were gutted with complete losses. C. R. North & Co., wholesale grocers, 1213-15 Commerce street. and Anderson, Stons & Co. retail grocers and feed dealecs, 109 Thir- teenth street, as well as the offices of the Tobacco Warehouse Corporation were flooded with water. Fred R. Reh, decorator, who had more than a carload of decoration materials in the building, lost the entire outfit, and had no insurance He was burned about the head and face slightly in an effort to stop the incipient blaze, this being the only accident reported. Although some 800 merchants who attended the exposition from out of town, had gone home, the program for tonight, which included a wed- ding, was expected to draw the larg- est crowd. Members of three vaude- ville troups lost all their equipment and costumes. The photographer, whose flashlight caused the fire, when the blaze spread made an exit through a warehouse window onto a platform, used for loading tobacco, jumped nine feet to the pavement and fled. Many Automobiles Burned. In the exhibition booths were costly industrial machinery, printing presses, furniture, and some 25 or 30 automobiles, all' of which were burned. All of the available apparatus from fire stations was brought to the fire on the second alarm, and then many citizens volunteered and worked an hour and a half before the fire was under control. The department had ample water, for a large main used only, for fire purposes, with 110 pounds pressure, was available on three sides of the blaze. Several squares of parked auto- mobiles were moved off by citizens or many of these would have burned. As it was, only one burned at the street curb. The three Maim street stores which were burned had open doors leading Into the floor of the tobacco warehouse, & condition which accounts for the spread of the fire. Other buildings were saved by fire walls. More than 150 pounds of dynamite were removed from the hardware store before the flames reached there. Two persons were slightly injured during the excitement Hot Weather Advice for Babies It is raw milk that causes mearly all the 16ose bowels among bables Raw milk is hard to digest. Scaldod or boiled milk is easily digested and does not constipate. Milk poor in fat is best for babies. Pour off some of the cream when milk appears very rich. Every baby should get small doses - of orange . juice or strained canned tomato juice, diluted in some water, be- tween bottles, once or twice dally. These substances con- tain quantities of vitamines which help the assimiliation of food. Give the baby plenty cool, boiled water between bottles. Keep all milk cold and cov- ered. A Get the sanitary rating of your milk Dress the baby lightly. Use no flannels. Keep the feet un- covered in hot weather. Protect the baby against flies and mosquitoes by net- ting. Besides the daily bath, sponge the baby off once or twice a day. Keep the baby in the open air, in shaded places, as much as possible. Do not allow the sun to strike it. Cover lightly or not at all. Our pamphlet, “The Bottle- Fed Baby,” will be sent free to any address in Washington. Do _not worry the baby or fondle it. Tt needs quiet. Iy at the Health Ofice _ This Bullstin i paid for by the BUREAU OF HEALTH EDUCATION ? . E. Berlines, Sov'y. : SOME CHANCE SEEN FOR PAY INCREASES Departments Asked to Sub- mit Estimates of Reclassi- fication Needs. ‘A new ray of hope for govern- ment employes broke through the re- classification storm clouds last night when it was learned that there is some prospect of salaries increasing under classification in the next fiscal year. The prospect Is not too strong. It is’ somewhat definite, however, be- | cause of the attitude of the Bureau of the Budget, revealed for the first time last night. In planning for the next fiscal year, it is understood, the Bufeau of the Budget will ask the heads of gov- ernment departments and establish- ments for estimates on advancement of salaries under reclassification. No promises are understood to be held forth, except that the departments will be expected to include in their | estimates on personnel how much of an increase may be needed. Will Not Change Policy. This does not mean that the Bureau of the Budget expects to change its policy of economy and efficiency, nor that ‘it will increase the total of the | estimates submitted to Congress for the next fiscal year. President Cool- idge has decreed, and the Bureau of the Budget has announnced that esti- mates for all expenditures for the government for the next fiscal year must not exceed $1,800,000,000, outside of the Postal Department and the public debt, interest and retirement. To hold 'the aggregate estimates down to that figure some sharp whit- tling will have to be done on the various estimates, and no doubt some- thing will have to suffer. But from the unofficial indication received last night it is not anticipated that the sufferers will be the government em- ployes. Some Raises Considered. All this is wholly unofficial. No au- thoritative pronouncement was forth- coming from the Bureau of the Budget on the matter, but the pros- pect stands nevertheless that some raises in salary are to be considered in the estimates Meantime the controller general, through a series of many decisions on various points in the administration of classification is building up a mass of precedent. which daily is illumi- nating the situation, and also seems to be more strongly entrenching the authority of the personnel classifi- cation board. Exceeds Expected Cost. The result of the array of prece- dents which 8o far has been in har- mony also wish the announced policy of the President on other phases of classification, has been to raise up out of the mass of questions the proposi- tion that Congress has legislated the administrative branch of the Govern- Tientiintola; Shole® andl willlfase) to appropriate additional funds before the end of the fiscal vear, or leave it in sore embarrassment In other words, classification, be- canse of two or three factors, is cost- ing more than Congress has already apropriated. Departments are allot- ing their funds for the fiscal year ata rate which_will not last for the en- tire year. They are doing this by or- ders of the President and the Con- troler General. When ~Congress comes back in December it will have to face the situation of its own mak- ing. . e Allocation Final. r instance in decisions of the Controller General to the Library of Congress it was determined that the alloactions of .the Personnel Classi- fication Board should be “final.” “The fact that the amount of the appropriation now available will not suffice for the payment of the rate of compensation based on the revised allocation during the entire fiscal year does not authorize payment of any other than the rate of compen- sation based on the revised alloca- lion.” said the acting Coutroller Gen- eral. “Any resulting deficit in the appro- priation must otherwise be avoided.” There_is the kernel in.a nutshell The Controller General does not say how it may be avoided. The proviso is section 7 of the classification act.” continues the same decision, “that in no case shall the compensation of any employe be increased unless Congress has appro- priated money from which the in- erease may lawfully be paid” relates to increase of compensation within a grade, and not to payment of in- crease of compensation by reason of reallocation of positions.” The Library of Congress had com- plained to the Controller General that “the lump sum appropriated will not, of coyrse, suffice to include these ad- vances. Where there are statutory limita- tions to the positions in the field, the Controller General held in another de- cision of week - increase salary be paid. This decision was rendered to the Secretary of the Treasury in the case of storekeeper gaugers of the Internal Revenue Bureau. In the same decision, although not saying so in as many words, the acting Con- troller General indicated his office was in accord with the position of the President and the Bureau of the Budget, which had directed depart- ment heads to handle salaries in the field services as anticipated in the fleld service reclassification bill which failed of passage. This bill failed because it lacked official signatures after passing both House and Senate, and is expected to become law short- 1y after Congress meets, appropriat- ing_more money. Protests against the allocations of the Personnel Classification Board continue to pile up. The board is continuing to consider appeals. Its principal task, however, for the next few days will'be the issuing of class_specifications, or descriptions of positions and the salary ranges allotted to them. within the. grades. This list will be before the board Mon. day. and is expected to go to the printer early in the week. NEW MEMBERS ADDED TO HOWARD U. FACULTY University Now Has 175 Instruc- tors—Teachers Are Studying in Europe. With the addition of several mem- bers, the teaching staff at Howard University now numbers 175. Among those appointed to the faculty for the coming vear are Charles H. Houston of Washington, a graduate of Amherst and of the Harvard School of Law, who has for the past year pursued graduate work In law in Spain. He goes to the law school faculty. Willlam S. Nelson of New Haven, Conn., a graduate of Howard College, class of 1920, who has since pursued courses_at Union Theological Sem- inary, New York city; the Univer- sity of Parls and the University of Berlin, will teach Biblical literature in the school of religion. Lewis K. Downing of Cambridge, Mass., a _ graduate of Howard, bachelor of sclence in civil engineer- ing, class of 1921, and who has this year_received a similar degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology, will come _as instructor in civil engineering, School of Applied Science. R 3 Miss Gwendolyn Bennett of Brook- 1yn, a graduate of Columbia Univer- .lz‘. New York city, with the decree of elor: ' science in art, has been ‘ CODLIDGE SCORED ON DEFENSE TEST Secretary of Peace Body Says Many Patriotic Citi- zens Will Ignore Event. Frederick J. Libby, executive sec- retary of the National Council for the Prevention of War, to whom President Coolidge addressed a letier Wednesday objecting to the denomi- nation of September 12 as “mobili- zation day” and the assumption by Libby's organization that the national defense test to be held then is “a militaristic gesture,” in a reply yes- terday abruptly contradicted the President Mr. Libby flatly told the President that “many patriotic ecitizens” will pay no attention to the Nation's efforts to test its defensive abilities September . because they believe that “the wise national policy for our country at this juncture” is to “ex press in concrete and practical forins of co-operation a spirit of audacio.s triendliness.” Designed As Reminder. .In his letter to Mr. Libby, Presi- dent ‘Coolidge frankly pointed out that the proposed event was designed solely to remind the American pe ple of their relations to and d ence upon the Nation's defense ¢ lishments. “What is propose September 12 is merely & compliar with the purposes of the national a fense law of 1920, the President wrote. Referring to the President's statc- ment, those who first attached September 12, “the term biliz: - tion day,’ and then proceeded to co demn it, have been utterly unfair Mr. Libby replied Urat he had obtain. i this appellation from “The Army ar: | Navy Register of January After quoting from a statement aocreditc to Secretary Weeks, too, Mr. Libi added “The name, therefore, if undesis able, was at least given to the du by its friends.” Continuing he add ed: “* * + Multitudes of your fel low countrymen belicve that w are no longer victories for any nu tion, and that consequently our « security lies in preventing war self; that as a measure for preve: tion of war increasing a nation military precautions tends only 1 precipitate the calamity it wou avert ¢ * o Climaxed hy Coolidge Letter. The President’s letter, whict brought to a climax when it was puh lished yesterday afternoon the col troversy over the Government's pro posal for observance of September 1 as “Defense Day,” was in reply to « request from the National Council for the Prevention of War for his officia indorsement of its three months campaign for world co-operation t stop war. The request. combined with the criticism of “Defense Day.” sulted in President Coolidge’s re Mr. Coolidge declared he was ever had been “unqualificdly <ympn- thetic with the aim and purpose 1o make war. 5o nearly as might be, an impossibility in thix world,” 'hut added that such a hope and desir was not inconsistent with his an- proval of the program of defense day Mr. Libby replied by thanking President Coolidge for his letter and expressed “appreciation” of his “efforts to diminish the danger of war. * * * I appreciate,” he con- tinued. “the attention you give in your letter to the ‘national defense test” The storm of protest that beginning to arise ¢ ¢ * &hows that in this new military measure is felt to lie an issue that affects not simply the approaching campaign, Lut America’s fundamental po world relations.” Seex 1l Effects. The “psychology” of this “opposi- tion,” Mr. Libby described as parily responsible to what is termed thn “bad psychology” of holding such a demonstration this year. Should other nations announce similar “tests.” e added, “the act would be regarde everywhere as bringing the world nearer another war. As a t reason. he cited that it is being ognized a novation * ¢ Mr. Libby added, “many patriotic citizens” are ready to stand for peace and the World Conrt. but not for what he described as an unwise national policy. Commenting on President (ool fdge's letter to Libby. Paul 1. 3 Gahan, department commander of the District of Columbia department uf the American Legion, said rd Action Draws Attention. *“The action of the President not help but direct nation-wide at tention to the propaganda methods of the pacifists. e unqualiifed manner in_which declared the methods employed by Libby and the members of his various organiza- tions and their radic: allies, to be ‘unfair’ and the emphasis that he placed upon ‘the device of misrepre- Sentation' cannot help but make many now afllated with the v TLibby outfit pause and consider be- fore they co-operate further. * * * Libby makes a definite mistate- ment in his latest ‘handout’ when he declares that in some places the American Legion will lead the move- ment.”. I have no hesitancy in say- ing that the national organization of the American Legion has not given any indorsement to the activities of either the national council for pre- vention of war or of the women's league for intcrnational peace and freedom. “The American Legion knows well, after careful investigation, the taint of communism and bolshevism that makes these two movements a menace to the United States NAMES MYSTIFY IRISH. Find can by Returning to Free State Gaelic Titles Puzzling. CORK, Ireland, July 25.—Irish Americans returning to their native iand after long absence are much at a loss In figuring out the street names in_many towns of the Free State. Efforts aré being made gen- erally throughout the state to popu- larise the Gaelic language, and in many citles and towns the strect signs are printed in Gaelic. Bookshops display Gaelic gram- mars and methods for learning the language, and advertise the exercise books emploved in schools which ar seeking to make the knowledge o Gaelic general throughout the i The struggle is much the same thal many of the new states of Europe are making to put their own language above other tongues. 2 R g added as instructor in art, School of Applied Science. uring the summer three members of the university faculty are pursu- ing graduate work in Europe. They. are Miss Helen M. Wheatland of the department of ~romance languages and Miss Madeline V. Coleman an Miss Carolyn Grant of the school of music. A number of other members of the faculty are pursuing advanced work in American institutions hold- ing summer sessions. The board of trustees at the annual meeting voted advances In rank to the following members of the college faculty: Frank Coleman, from. asso- ciate to full professor: George W. Hines, from assistant to assoclate professor; Jason C. Grant, jr., from instructor to assistant professor James V. Herring. from instructor to assistant professor; Stewart R. Cooper, from instructor to assistant professor; Miss Madeline V. Coleman from instructor to assistant profes or; Wesley L Howard, from in- structor to assistant professor..and Charies. Cecil Cohen, from instructer. to assistpnt professon, .. thoroughly radical in-. and, 7))