Evening Star Newspaper, March 1, 1925, Page 1

WEATHE (U. S. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Increasing cloudiness rising temperature, foll today and tonight, follow and colder tomorrow. 4 p.m. yesterday; vesterday. lowest, Highest, Full report on page R. with slowly owed by rain ed by clearing 36, at 18, at 4 o. 1,040.—No. 29,524 Entered as second class matter *___Dbost office, Washington, D, C. PRESIDENT SIGHS POSTAL PAY AND RATE RAISING BILL Coolidge Springs Surprise by Quick Action on Measure He Once Vetoed. PLAN FURTHER INCREASES AFTER INVESTIGATION Informed of Provisions Executive | Decides Not to Ask Budget Bureau's Opinion. and rate night inc by The posta rease bill de ! pay was vigned last Presi- Coolidge Announcement the that the President had measure came as a surprise, as earlier tndications that he would send 1t to the Post Office Department and the Budget Bureau for study before taking action e bill. w at the for an averag in posta White House signed the on ich White incry it was received House, provides e of about $300 employes salaries, 1, this year, s terday annually effective of Januar: #nd increases postal rates, effective April 15 next, to about $60.- 000,000 of the $68,000,000 required for the pay advances Carries ¢ The bill also carries a nmended by the Senate ymmittee strictly campa expenditures of sional candidat The salary Increases are similar to those carried in the measure passed at the last session, which was vetoed by President Coolidge on the ground that no provision was made to meet the expenses The bill, which nse Rider. “rider’ campaign limiting congres- paign Ex is one of the first pleces of general legislation sent to the White House this on, was advanced at the time the Senate, by a very narrow margin, voted to tain the veto of the pay measure While the rate for'a joint no time increases limit is placed on the bill provides Congressional committee to conduct hearings this Summer with a view to recommending further revision of schedules at the next ses- sion President _Informed The President had been miliar with provisions in the Senator Moses, New tepublican member of the Senate| Post Office committee, who sponsored the: bill In the Semate, afid had been | advised as to its financial clauses in particular through an alalysis of the bill by Postmaster General New. When the President left his office late yesterday, it was not anticipated | that he would take action on the postal measure for several days at least. After dinner, however, he re-| turned, unexpectedly, to his work- | room, sat down to his desk and placed his signature on the document, then walked out to the telephone room and informed the operator to call the newspaper correspondents and Inform them of his action. Instead of sending the the White House by me the custom when Congi action on legislation, F Rosenbloom, Republican, West Vir- ginia, carried the document to the Executive mansion in person. DEMOCRATS NAME GARRETT LEADER on BilL made fa-| bill by Hampshire, 8 measure to enger, as is ss takes final presentative House Minority Selects Tennessean Candidate for Speakership. as rrett of | acclama of Dem the next be the and au- leader, Representative Finis J. Tennessee elected by n last night in the caucu ocratic members-elect in (Sixty-ninth) to candidate aker, tomatically becomes minority which office he holding. As the Republicans will control the next House and the Democrats will be unable to poll enough votes to elect thelr candidate as Speaker, the action last night n- thusiastic indorsement of Represent- tive rett's mi- vority leader and assurance that he will continue to be his party’s leader in the House. Placed in nomination by Repre- sentative Byrns of Tennessee, MTr. Garrett was cheered by his col- leagues and later delivered a speech thanking them for the honor they | had conferred on him and assuring them that he would wage a militant fight on behalf of the minority dur- | ing the next Congress Representative Carter of Oklahoma | designated chairman of the | caucus, while Repr tive Hill of | Washington wa For | the first ti a woman— | Mrs, Mary T. Norton of Jersey City, | who will represent the twelfth New | Jersey district—participated in a | Democratic caucus. She was selected us assistant secretars G was Congress for S party | is now was merely an performance as 1 i | ; i | 1 e history Fill Committee Places. places on the Ways | and Means Committee were filled at! the caucus so t those appointed | could in turn make assignments of | minority members to other standing | ommittee 1 All Ways und Means Committe members who will members of | the new House were selected again and Representative Doughton, of North Carolina, was named to fill one of the two vacancies, after a con- test over Representative Shallen- berger of Nebr: The other will not be filled as the Demoerats expect, | n account of the increased Republi an majority, to have their represen fon on the committee reduced by one. The Demoeratic be French Bakers Raise Price. TOULON, France, February 28.— Forced to raise the price of bread | anotuer 5 centimes per kilogram, the bakers have decided to make a new type of loaf called “Parisian bread.” it will be sold to large families at a reduction of 15 centimes, ncident to such a raise. | | been undermined by an attack of in- | The general is probably the most si- I In Race for Presidency | | Upper: Formar Chancellor Mars. Low 2 “h Cuno. PASSING OF EBERT MIAY MAKE LUTHER (R MARX PRESIDENT |Germany Mourns Death of| First Executive, While | Pondering Successor. By the Associated Press. BERLIN., February Theaters | |and were dark throughoyt jermany tonight, concert halls were | closed and cafe orchestra. enced in mourning for Germany's first presi- | dent, Friedrich Ebert, the: former | saddlemaker of Heidelberg, who suc- | ceeded Kaiser Wilhelm as the chief| executive of “Germany and steadied the new republic through six stormy | years ; President © Bhett @ea at. 10415 o'clock this morning from peritonitis, following an operation for appendi- citis five days ago. His system Hhad eras fluenza preceding the operation, and his heart was not equal to the bur- den imposed by the poison which had spread throughout his system. Two Named in Race for Post. Who will succeed Ebert as the chief executive of Germany is a ques- tion which is forcing itself more | urgently upon the German people be- cause of the fact that the constitu- | tion does not provide for a vice presi- ldent. Many Germans were made sud- | denly aware tha@the president's of- fice, of which they were hardly cog- nizant, since Ebert's rare tact pre- vented him from forcing himself to he fore, is a pivotal point in the whole republican stfucture and that the future of the young democratic state will be vitally affected by the choice of the man placed at the helm. Two names thus far stand out pre- eminently as presidential possibil- ities—Chancellor Luther and former Chancellor Marx. Dr. Luther would get the support of the Nationalists, Conservatives and a large part of the business world, while Dr. Marx would have the indorsement of the Clericals, Democrats and Soclalists. loth men have enviable records of national and international achieve- ments, Dr. Luther chiefly in connec- tion with financial policies, and Dr. Marx as a negotiator with the en- tente and a conciliator at home. Cuno Alsé Mentioned. other names mentioned in rcles are those of Gen. Von and former Chancellor Cuno. Two wider Secckt lent man in German public life, which, added to his capacities as an admin- istrator and organizer, his friends say, eminently qualifies him for the presidency. It is doubtful, however, whether the Nationalist parties would dare resent a professional military man as their candidate. For Dr. Cuno it is argued that whilc‘ he is not used to the turmoil of Reichs- | tag politics, where he often was some- what embarrassed, his quiet and charm- ing personality is well suited to the representative duties devolving on a chief executive. As in other countries, it is extremely likely a dark horse may be presented by either of the two major groupings in German political life. With a large Communist vote in the offing, it is doubtful whether an absolute majority will be obtained by any candidate on the first ballot. The constitution pro- vides in such a case that another popu- lar ballot must be taken 14 days later, when the candidate with the highest number of votes will be declared elected. Flogx at Halt Most, . This afternoon Germany's war flags on land and sea ‘were all at half mast by ordér of Gen. Von Seeckt, commander of the German army, and The provided laway in the attic along with $2,200, WASHINGTON, D. NDAY WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION y MORNING, MARCH 1, D.C. FUND MEASURE REPORT 1S GIVEN SENATE APPROVAL Bill Proviciing $9,000,000 Ap- propriation by U. S. Now Goes to House. & $2,631,500 DEFICIENCY FUND ALSO IS GRANTED Money Is Provided For Enforce- ment of New Regulations to Govern Traffic. The District appropriation the fiscal vear 1926, as finally to In conference, was approved by the | Senate late yesterday. The conference report on the bill | will be laid before the House tomor- | row, and it is predicted, will be adopted, and the bill will be sent to| the President for his signature. i As agreed to in conference, the bill | carries $9,000,000 as the lump sum | contribution of the Federal Govern- ! bill for | d g ment, instead of the $11,000,000 pro-| posed by the Senate. The House de-| the Senate conferees finally agreed to the House provision. The HouSe conferees, on the other hand, yielded on ction 7 of the section provided that estimates of| appropriations for the District next vear should be submitted by the| Budget Bureau on. the same basis of | ment which the present bill pro-| vides—$9,000,000 lump sum. The sec-| 1 H i tion now woes out ot the vt he | President Will Go to Capitol Senate conferees declined to vield on . at 11, and Review Pa- | i | rade at 2. clined to yield on this matter, and contribution by the Federal Govern- | the Senate amendment which struck | section 7 from the measure Agree on Judges' Mennures. The only other item which was in dispute between the two houses when the conferees met for their final con- ference vesterday afternoon related to the Police Court. The House had:Sumed by for two additional police | Which the court judges and included provisions thirty-fifth changing court procedure. The Sen- | nesday ate had stricken alt of these provi-| At 11 o'clock in the morning President | sions from the bill, providing merely | Coolidge will begin the time-honored for two police court:judges, 43 URAET | yorney down Pennsylvania avenue to | HE . - The ¢ s vt > y AT rte b rhom MIENY Fine Gapitol 't will return o the White House language so far as it related | House about 1 o'cloek, and before Wash- | ington's bells have sounded the passing to the two additional judges and | of the mext hour he will have reviewed u‘lher court Qmfllo)‘l,, but leaving oWt ‘of ‘the bl tha provisions looking | the inaugural parade and retired to the | simplicity he so plainly prefers. to a change in colirt procedure. The two additional Police- .Court| “wygtever celebrations the enthusiastic public Indulges in after that will be en- | judges were authorized in the new Vavsen Dot Hoases ana baty ity | tivety without the assistance of the Presi- the approval of the President to be- | dent ‘The nearest approach to anything come a law. | bordering on-the official will be an in- | The District bill as now agreed to | formal reception of 15 minutes to the in conference, ‘and by the Senate, | viciting State governors and a few close carries a larger sum than @ny other|friends from Mr. Coolidge's home town, District ~appropriation bill, nearly | Northampton, at 4 :30 o'clock in the aft. ernoon. Civil Less than three hours will be the official Nation will administration con- ceremonies with inaugurate ite next Wed- i i $32,000,000. | Deficiency Passed. H The Senate also passed ciency appropriation bill carrying | important items for the District, in- cluding $2.631,500 for the public ! schools agreed upon by the House to | be paid for out of the surplus rev- | enues of the District. The Senate | added $500,000 to begin work on the Arlington Memorial Bridge across (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) War Honor Guard. the defi- . Arrangements for the President's de- parture from the White House and his return after assuming the oath fice were announced from the exec office late vesterday. His official party, | like the entire program for his inaugura- tion, has been limited to only necessary officials, Mrs. Coolidge, Mrs. Dawes and a guard of honor consisting of eight veterans of the Civil War. Word has been sent who will ride with the be at the White H | o'clock Wednesday morning. Prompt- 1y at 11 o'clock the machines will !swing out of the White House gates for the Capitol. In front of them will {ride a detall of mounted police, and | a troop of the 3d United States Ca alry from Fort Myer, commanded by WOMAN, 70, BURNS WITHLIPESAVINGS 55 £ ! i v rhind he cavalry- Husband Helpless to Aid Vic- | bm"-::’lf‘f}{:'r”o"fi.f e l;rfl.ldl..m St 53 tim Trapped in Attic of ! Fairfax County Home. — out Pre. to those ident to at 10 Coolidge and Senator Curtis as chair- man of the congressional joint com- mittee on the inauguration. Next will come a car bearing Vice President Dawes, Mrs. Dawes and a member of |the committee, whose name will be announced later. The third car will carry four mem- | bers ‘of the congressional commlttee, and in the fourth will ride the final member of that board and William T. | Galliher, chairman of the Washing- | ton citizens’ inaugural committee. A Fairfax| or for official aides will precede machines bearing tha members of the cabinet and two cars with the guard of honor, all members. of the Grand Army of the Republic, will complete the official pasty. Another troop of cavalry from Fort Myer, commanded R. Fi ed on 1 nn 2.) Special Dispatch to The Star. . i ALEXANDRIA, Va., February 28.— An attempt to save her life’s savings from a hiding place in the attic of her burning home today cost Mrs. Mary E. Lloyd, 70 years old, wife of Samuel Lloyd, Franconia, County, her life. ! Mrs. Lloyd was alone when the fire | was started, it is belfeved, by a de- | fective flue. ' She realized that she} had $600, her life’s savings, tucked | which Lloyd. She started for the attic, and the fire, blazing flercely, cut off her es-| cape. Her screams%ttracted the hus- | band and a neighbor, who were| forced to jump for their lives after | vain efforts to reach her. Unable to Effect Rescue, Mr. Lloyd, nearly distracted, sloodi by the blazing building while his! companion of years died in the flames. ; There was no telephone near to sum- mon the fire apparatus. The charred | remains were taken from the smold- | ering ashes late this afternoon. Mrs, | Lloyd is survived by four daugh- fers—Mrs. Frank Rogers, Mrs. Al- | bert Rogers and Mrs. Harry Rogers | of Franconia and Mrs. Marshall belonged to her son, William | (Continued on KILLS DAUGHTER, AS ACT OF MERCY Doctor, Fearing Death, De- termined to Take In- President Considers For Eight President Codlidge is understood to be seriously-considering aban- doning the White House for at least 8 or 10 weeks this coming Summer. Although he has not reached any definite conclusion regarding this change, he has intimated that he will visit his father in Plymouth, Vi, for two weeks, and will then establish “a 'Summer capifal at Swampscott, an - attractive Sum- mer colony on the north shore of Massachusetts. It is understood that the President practically has decided to take over White Court, one of the show places in that sec- tion, which is commodious and has five or six acres of attractive grounds surrounding it. . or Ten Weeks During Summer Stout, Alexandria—and by one son, William Lloyd, Franconia. valid With Him. Leaving Capital Sy e VR DENVER, Colo,, February 28.—Real- izing that the poison he had given his crippled daughter had been effective, Dr. H. E. Blazer, 61, a physician, lies in a hospital tonight waiting to die. Mean- ‘while, police battled to save his life that he may be held to account for what he considered was, an act of mercy. Investigators said Dr. Blazer gave: poison to the daughter, Hazel Blazer, 32, a chronic invalid, to. forestall the pos- sibility that she might become an objeot of charity should he be unable to take. care of her. He then made three at- tempts at suicide, . investigators added, saying they had found this note, ap-| parently written. before the first effort to take his life: “I am weary and afraid—afraid of being taken suddenly and leaving Hazel. Do not pay an undertaker more than $100 for easket and his services for the two of us. I made up my mind a good many years ago 1 would not leave her behind to be a burden to some one else. In making known the President's tentative Summer plans, one of his friends explained that his idea in leaving the White House for so long a period is not with the idea of seeking a cooler climate so much as it {s for him and his house- hold to be away from the White House while extensive repair work is being done. Congress appro- priated $50.000 to be used in put- ting a new roof om_the -White House and in making fireproof the attic and other parts of the famous old residence which' are now con- sidered unsafe. During this period conditions aBout the house and grounds will'be greatly upset, and it has been pointed out to the President that he and Mrs, Cool- W |on R N\ BABI IN THE WOOD. TODAY’S STAR | T ONE—10 PAGES General News—Local, National Forsign. | The Starry Skies in March—Page 24. District National Guard—Page 24. Farent-Teacher Activities—Page 25. Boy Scout News—Page 25. D. A. R. Activities—Pages 30. Civilian Army News—Page 31. Y. W. C. A, News—Page 31. Girl Scouts—Page 31. Veterans of the Great War—Page 32. Spanish War Veterans—Page 32. Notes of Art and Artists—Page 33. ! Serial, “The Astonishing Adventure of Jane Smith”"—Page 34. News of the Clubs—Page 35. Radio News and Programs—Pages 36 and 37. Current News Events—Page 37. Schopis and Colleges—Pags 38. | PART TW0—20 PAGES. | Editorials and Editorial Features. Washington and Other Society. Tales of Well Known Folk—Page 16. | At the Community Centers—Page 18. Music in the Churches—Page 19. PART THREE—I12 PAGES. Amusements—Theaters and the Photo- piay. Music in Washington—Page 5. Motors and Motoring—Pages 6, and 9. Army and Navy News—Page 10. Fraternal News—Page 11. | Around the City—Page 11. | 7, 8 PART FOUR—1 PAGES. | . | Pink Sports Section. ! PART FIVE—S PAGES. Magazine Section—Fiction and Features. | The Rambler—Page 3. l [ ed Advertising. | Reviews of New Books—Page 9. | Financial News—Pages 10 and 11. GRAPHIC SECTION—8 PAGES. World Events in Pictures. | 5 | COMIC SECTION—4 PAGES. | Mr. Straphanger; Reg'lar Fellers; Mr. | and Mrs.; Mutt and Jeff. OIL “TRUST" PROBE. PLEA SENT SENATE {Units of Old Standard Combi- nation Seen Violating Dis- solution Decree Aims. Investigatjon by the Department of Justice of the results of the Standard dissolution decree was recom- mended by the Federal Trade Com- mission in a report sent yesterday to the Senate by President Coolidge. ‘While companies which were mem- bers of the former combination now operate “less consistently as a group,” the commission’s report said, some of the more important members “are fortifying themselves by acquiring control of independents and entering new branches of the industry as in- tegrated and dominant units in the territories in which they operate.” Former Standard units found to threaten domination of their saies territories included the Standard Oil companies of New Jersey, California, Kentucky and Indiana. See Price Domination. The last named, with the Prairie Oil Co., another former subsidiary of the Standard Oil group, was asserted tg dominate “in a substantial degree” the price of crude oil and of gasoline in the mid-continent area, which is the barometer of the petroleum market. Independents were declared by the commission to “keep in touch” with these two companies and to op- pose, through, their various associa- tions, any effort at price cutting. The commission’s report was sub- mitted in response to a resolution by Senator Trammell, Democrat, Florida, requesting the President to transmit it “if not -incompatible With public interest.” + The Florida Senator charged that the recent increases in the price of] gasoline, amounting in some locali- tes to 6 cents a gallon, could naj be Justified by the reserve supply or pro- Quction statistics, g Consideration of the resolution was blocked more than two weeks by sev- eral Senators, led by Senator Moses, | Republican, New Hampshire, who ex- plained that hé feared publication of the report would embarrass actlvities. already begun by the Department of Justice. ~ Warning that companies named in the report would be “placed on mnotice” of the charges against Star. 1925—108 PAGES. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered cvery evening and Sunday morning to Washington homes at 60 cents per month. Telephone Main 5000 and service will start immediately. * FIVE QUAKE SHAKES CITY; THIRD OF U. S. FEELS VIOLENT DISTURBANCE Tremendous Area Is Affected Without Damage; Exact Center 500 to 600 Miles Away. CENTS. TREMOR GREATEST SINCE 1755, SCIENTIFIC OBSERVERS SAY Thousands Flee From Homes and The- aters; Seismographs in East Thrown Out By Intense Rocking of Earth. the Associated Press TORONTO, Ontario, February 28-—The Dominion Ob- servatory reported late tonight that earthquake’s center was at the mouth of the Saginaw River in Michigan. Old Mother Earth shook herself from a long period of lethargy last night and treated Washington to a genuine, breath-taking earthquake that sent startled residents running to the door in alarm, roused early slumberers, rattled dishes and windows and knocked out of commission temporarily the seismographs at |House Leaders Unwilling to| swept in an e | with the | tieany RETIREMENT VOTE RESTS ON COOLIDGE Georgetown University. marked degree in the past in tactics, Mrs. Earth saw to it that 1t | after o'clock. | coast. Father Francis A. seorgetown University declared Act Without Views on Economy Program. tant from Washington. vernment employes worn out by ervice through the best years ir 1ife are living in hopes to- day that the House will be assured by President Coolidge that the re-|others drement bill, which has already passed the Senate, is mot in conflict with his financial program and that it will become law during the three days remaining of the present sion of Congress, This hope was heartened by the Impression given by Senators Sterl- ing and Stansfield after a conference with the President yesterday that the Chier Executive was in sympathy legislataion. Statements made by Secretary Work of the Interior Department and by Secretary Davis of the Labor De- partment, who said that they spoke | occurred about for the entire cabinet, and that they | Cators on two of believed the President himself is in |3t Georgetown Universit favor .of this measure, and the prac- | !2 %o furlously that they san off the unanimous sentiment in both | €OTding chart. something that has o > happened on such rare occasions as the Houses of Congress for the retire-|happen = 3 L ment bill have caused the civil sery- | ToKio and San Francisco disasters.. The ¢ 3 % e, maximum oscillations continued for ice emploves to have added hopes. | }ou¢ four minutes and 'then settled down to a steady succession of shivers | that jiggled the seismograph needels in greatly agitated fashion Apparently the only casualties the strange performance of the I In the country's great according to Associated Press di ses- for a serious explosion. New York’s many-sorted canyons of steel and conerete felt the shock, too | In fact, reports from observers Fordham University there said the tremors, lasting for more than | two minutes, were the strongest ever felt in the metropolis. The needle of the Fordham seismograph Jjiggled over an amplitude of 7 inches. At the height of the that shocks, which <, the indi seismograpl began vibrat- Budget Director to Report. Meanwhile the Republican leaders in the House have shown a reluctance to act until they have direct assur- ances from the President that pas-|scape were a few disarranged p sage of this bill will not interfere| cy; S el i) hessse il Do Y with his economy program | various sections of the city. Occu- The director of the budget pants’of at least one apartment house understood, will advise the ran into the hallways in fright, par- upon this matter. | ties ana parior conversations were It is being emphasized by friends | interrupted and telephone lines were of the clerks that the decision of | soon congested with calls to news- Gen. Lord must be in their favor, be-| paper offices from inquiring citizens cause the increased cost to the Gov ernment Is insignificant and the Gov ernment actuary has shown in a pre- pared statement that it would mnnnl a real saving to the Government It 1s pointed out that the passage of this bill would really serve the| purpose for which the retirement law | was -originated—to weed out the in- | competent and ineffiecient, who must | now be kept on the Government pay | rolls out of charity, because the pres- | ent retirement. pay is insufficient to | keep them even when they have no | families. $37,000.000 in Fund. Emphasis is placed on a recent re- port which shows that there is now more than $37.000,000 in the retire- ment fund and that it will be man years before the Government wiil have to participate in the cost of operation. There are now some 11,000 persons badly in need of relief. The law ap- plies’ to 400,000 civil service em- ployes throughout the United States. The new bill, it is pointed out, in- creases the cost to the employes in greater proportion than to the Gov- ernment. The employes are called upon to pay 31 per cent where now they pay 214 per cent, and under the bil ‘as passed by the Senate the Gov- ernment pays ony 2.1 per cent. This legislation provides for optional retirement, after 30 vears of service, for postal employe: anies and (Continued on Page ' of nd- L it s President | | Area Tremendous. | Father Tondorf, after reaa the selsmograph records of the pronounced it as “tremendous.” center of the disturbance, could not be determined spec but was between 500 and 60 from Washington A slip in one of two well known faults in the earth in the northeast- ern United States was thought by the sclentist to be the probable cause One of these faults, is the Laurentian fault line, which, he said, runs up along the New York border, while the other is in Massachusetts, and caused yconsiderable trouble in the past. In 1663, for ins he said, a slip in this fault o a quake, which was “felt ma in Ma! sachusetts. Seldom in the recording of earth disturbances, according to Father Tondorf, are the indicators thrown off the scales of seismographs, but last night both the vertical and the hori- zontal instruments were thrown be- yond their ability to record the limit of the extreme shock. used kedly” of Exceeds Recent Shock. The most pronounced earthquake of recent years, which was felt here in Washington, was said by Father Ton- dorf to have been one centering in Virginia, not far from Richmond, which broke some window panes here. At that time the needle was shaken Inaug’Ural Editions @he Foening Sap March 3, 4, and 5 Mailed, postage prepaid. 10c (Anywhere in the United States and Canada.) " In addition to all the current news in each issue, the < edition of March 4 will contain a special rotogravure section of ‘the inauguration ceremonies from the first President to the present day. Pictures of the various brilliant processions, the Presidents taking the oath at the Capitol, and special Aincidents connected with historic inaugurations. ‘New' and hitherto unpublished photographs of the President, the Vice President and their wives. Send list of mames and addresses (accom tyl'ru\,n-,‘(ve_n-: and the three Inaugural issues will be idge might be greatly incomven- ienced, « ks 4 i She is a burden, notwithstanding our love for her ! them, Senator Moses urged that it be ~ (Continued on Page 4,- Column. Cognizant that the Nation's Capital has been slighted to a connection with her shimmying the city, along with many others, was favored wih more than an hour and a half of trembles, be- ginning at 9:21:50 p.m. and continuing in dimini hed form until Widespread reports showed that the tremors ast and west direction from Colorado to the Atlantic Tondorf, professor of seismology at the quake was one of the most | violent ever recorded on the local instruments, and he estimated the center of the disturbance to be about 300 or 600 miles dis- BIG CENTERS AFFECTED. centers of population—New York. Chicago, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Boston, Detroit and the quake was severe enough to alarm millions of people, spatches. In some cities, notably Detroit, hotel guests hurried into the streets. In others theaters and movie halls were vacated, their patrons mistaking the quake for a measurement of about 3 mil- | limeters, Father Tondorf said, while at|during th quake last night the needle was moved for a distance hefore it went off the chart of at least 130 mil- limeters. The quake was recorded on the seismographs in charge of Father Tondorf as beginning at 9:21:30 and continuing for more than an hour and a half. The moW severe dis- turbance began at about 9:24 and iasted for about 4 minutes. At 11 o'clock the deli instruments were still recording slight tremors, but it was said by the scientist that the quake was practically over. east-west component of instrument which was completely off the scale and point measured 130 milli- It was the the horizontal | thrown at that meters, Inxtrument Thrown Off. The vertical seismograph which re- cords the movement of the earth up and down showed severe shocks, which at places threw the tiny point of light, which recorded the action on a sensitive photographic paper, en- tirely off this paper. The light moved so fast in places, also, it was revealed, that it did not even show on the pa- per, except where it turned around to come back, leaving there faint dark spots. This was said to be mot unprecedented, but unusual. The va- riation, so far as could be measured on' the vertical record, was 115 mil- limeters. In the | seismogr {on a of ph, which the horizontal ecords by needles smudgy scale, these needles went entirely off the scale, but evi- dently did not go off so far, Father Tondorf said. but that they returned and traced further movement. Dur- ing an earthquake in Turkestan years ago, he said, the shake had disturbed |the needles so far that they went clear off the paper and did not return. Felt Floor Rocking. | Henry J. Doolan, a patent attorney, reported that he distinctly felt the *quake in his apartment at the As- toria, Third and G streets. Halting in the midst of a conversation with a friend in his parlor, he exclaimed, “We're having an earthquake,” and started walking across the floor. “As 1 walked the floor seemed to sway from east to west and back again several times, and I had diffi- culty in keeping my balance,” Mr. Doolan informed The Star last night. Several families rushed into the hall in_their excitement, he said. F. R. Krumm, auditor in the Treasury | Department, stated that the davenport |on which he was lying at his home, | 1636 Kenyon street, shook violently, “as | though some one had taken hold of the | springs,” and at the same time a flower | bowl on the table nearby rattled audibly |in a mysterious dance. Mrs. Krumm, who had retired, was aroused by the disturbance, he said. urex om Wall Shaken. At the home of Mr. and Mrs. B. E Long, in the Loudoun Apartment House, 314 East Capitol street, pictures on the | wall started swinging and the portleres | in_the room moved, it was learned. George R. Gilbreath, John R. Adams and Miss Ethel Emerson were sitting on the third floor of the house at 69 Rhode Island avenue, when the build- ing began shuddering very noticeably. They hurriedly sought safety on the | lower floor, where Miss Estella Cagle confirmed the fact that the structure had swayed several times in an east imd west direction. Structures in the downtown section, including probably the White House, trembled for several minutes, although few occupants were on hand to notice the fact. At the White House it was said that the shocks had mot been felt, but in the District Building, scarcely two Dblocks away, employes reported sensing a marked swayng. Located on the top floor of the Dis- trict Building at the fire alarm head- quarters and switchboard, at 9:23 last night sat Louis F. Mothersead, L. W. Trower and Mrs. Florence Hazel. There was a lull in calls. Mr. Mothersead was sitting quietly In his chair with feet propped up on a foot rest. Trower was still after-tasting a strong cigar a friend "7 (Continued on Page 3, Column &) A