Evening Star Newspaper, March 22, 1925, Page 1

WEATHER. (0. S. Weather Bureau Fair and probably falr. est, 65, at 4 p.m. 37, at 6 a.m. vesterday. Full report on Page 14. colder today, Temperature, yesterda Forecast.) tomorrow High- lowest, 1,043.—No. 29,545. STORM BELT TURNS UNDAUNTEDTO J0B OF BUILDING ANEW Great Progress Toward Or- der Made in Three Days of Heroic Efforts. ONLY HALF OF 808 DEAD i LAID IN HASTY GRAVES| PR L | Hundreds of 3,000 Injured Still| Under Medical Care—Relief Provided for All lst of dead | | The first partial in th venade helt will he found on paze 1. THICAGO. undaunted March 21.—Saddened, but | of Wednes- do, survivors of the cata in the m belt of Tlino and Indiana tonight prepared to emu- the phenix arige from by the havoc i dny torn trophe st and its With only $08 dead con- signed to hasty the half of the ives and hundreds injured still in and nurses, plans rebullding the! as possible of herolc endeavor by thousands willing workers, spur- red k by the despera- tion brought about by the tornado in its from the Missouri Ozarks through the Ohio Valley, had wrought wonders darkness set tled tonight 000 nearly i of doctors for areas as soon the care were announced devasted Three days of their to ta 300-mile sweep when All Homeless Housed. Every housed in some heen supplied for the helpless. medi- cines and comforts had made available for the wounded and | solace had been afforded the bereaved. | Probably the dead had been covered from debris of the hun- | dreds of homes destroyed. and the death total tonight was S08, with al- | most many dead identified | While a few more bodies are likely | to be found among the ruins, a num- | ber may die of wounds. It is prob- | able that some errors have been made | in checking the dea the | wide extent of trritory :red and | the overlapping of reports from near- | by towns. Rescue workers are agreed, however, that the final tetab-wil-be | close to 860 for the five States af-| Cected. or only 50 under the first ee- | timates made by the Associated Press the night of the disaster. The storm will go down as &r in the history of Amerlca and the relief work that made almost | as fast time as the wind ord, owing to the use of airy radio in carrying supplies and ing out calls for help. Something 1ik= | $1.000.000 was raised in thres Gays to | #id the stricken, 1 subscriptions | for relief are pouring in hourly to! Increase the total | homeless person had been) manner Food had other been | the | est ! Hitx 16 Nlinois Towns. Nixteen Illinois towns w=ve hit by the tornado, and in those municipal- ftics and their rural surroundings 642 | ive were ake while 2,110 were | hurt, many verely. Murphyshoro was the worst sufferer, with ha!f its area devastated, 189 perscns killed | and 00 injured. West Frankfort came next with slain and 396 maimed DeNoto, with 71 dead; Gorham, with LX) Iu.ll-rl. and Parrish, with loss of 43 lives, were almost annihilated. Griffin was the heaviest loser in In-| diana and'in fact, in the whole storm, for only a building or two were left standing and of its meager pop- nlation 58 were erushed to death and 200 were injured. Yet. even this town will rebuild, the few survivors said today. And Griffin is still in the throes of death, for it reported four deaths tonight to add to its previous total of 34 The first tornado blast was felt at Annapolis, Mo., about 1:30 Wednes- day afternoon, swirled thre h =outh ern Illinois about 3 o'clock and couple of hours later hit Indiana with a few less violent outbursts natehing a toll of lives and propert. in sporad places in Tennessee Kentucky nightfall | i | ‘ ‘ i at Help Comes Speedily. Within a few hours.after the devas- tation had passed survivors managed | to word to unaffected towns ask- ing help. First help came from nelghvoring cities, but by Thursday morning special trains and airplanes had carried willing hands from as far as Chicago, Indianapolis and St. Louis the scene survivorsa seeking fighting had worked all night, relatives and friends and | fires that broke out in the | wreckage. All day Thursday the | h for the lost was continued, | tented cities sprang up to shel- | homelss and the injured were conveved to the nearest towns with hospital facilities By Thursday night, of State troups, some established. Friday saw the care of the hurt perfected and the billeting »f the houscless completed, so that | by today time could be gmiven to| burial of the dead. reuniting of sep- arated families and better distribu- | tion of food and bedding. As the complete lists of dead begin to come in, an increasing number of women, children and infants are shown among the dead. In West Frankfort alone nearly 40 of its dead | were babies eeds here and there. as they became known, were immedi- ately filled. The ous flow of money wnd supplies apparently is to be without parallel Determination of the general prop- erty and material loss probably can- made for days and possibly Figures variously reported a total between five and eight million dollars, Insurance actu- aries, now in all fields, assert it will take many months to untangle claims | and arrive at proper valuations, MURPHYSBORO IS HOPEFUL. while ter the with the help order had been aquickly gene not be s weeks estimate 1y the Associated Press. MURPHYSBORO, The brunt of the horror which as- sailed Murphysboro last Wednesday, when & tornado ripped through fifths of the eity, was well past night Looking forward, three points were (Continued on Page 4, Column 63 M, March 21.— two- | to { suites | terred | mission named Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. h WASHINGTON, D. Employment Agencies Found Gouging Job Seekers Here Girl’s Letter to The Star Prompts In- quiry—Fourth of Month’s Pay Fee in “Contract.” While the law provides that no fee in excess of £2 may be charged by an employment agency for placips an employee in a position, a large num- .ber of such bureaus in Washington are asking 10 and 12 times the legal te fixed by Congress. F mpted by an appeal from young woman who was asked by an agent bonus of $22.30 for a position that offered a salary of only $90 a month, The Star conducted an investigation which disclosed that many Washington employment bu- reaus demand from 20 to 25 per cent of the jobsecker's first month's sa Law Allows Only The law, as officlally interpreted b Fra H. Stephens, the corporation| counscl. stipulates that a licensed agent ma ent fees aggregating 52 | from an emnloye for whom he has| found work. He may charge the em- | plover _accepting the applicant $2 | also. To receive more, the statute de- clare is uniawful. ‘When, however, a reporter for The | Star sited & number of the promi- nent gencles, many occupying in expensive office buildings, and appealed for assistant in obtain- ing a sccretarial position, he found | PERSHING BELIEVED 1 COOLIDGE'S CHOICE FOR TACNA MISSION Trip to Latin America Held | | Step to Groom Him for | Difficult Task. one neis shn . Pershing probably will | be selected by President Coolidge to head the joint commission to super- vise the Tacna-Arica plebiscite. Announcement be deferred until the Chilean and Peruvian mem- bers of the commission have becn named by thelr respective govern- ments, which must be done, under the Tacna-Arica arbitration = award, on or betore July 8. The commission is required to hold its first ne=tiug in the city of Arica on or before Sep- tember 9. The award also provides that the American member shull be president of the commission. Tresident Coolidge and Secretary re known to be siving care- ful consideration to the s:lection of the American member a Gen and so far known the name of Gen. Pershing has been almost clusively before them | for the post. { Liked in Bo Countrie: recent trip to South America enabled him to come into personal contact with high govern- ment officlals of both Chile and Peru. He went as head of the American Ayacucho Commission, appointed to attend the centennial celebration in Peru. During that trip he was ex- tended greetings by both govern- ments and people of the two countries of so unusual a character as to tes- tify to the high regard in which thc former commander of the American Expeditionary Forces and the ranking officer of the American Army, activ or retired, is held throughout the southern republics. The fact that Gen. Pershing is re- garded as the almost certain selec- tion of President Coolidge to.com- plete the difficult task undertaken by President Harding of finding a solu- tion for the Tacna-Arica dispute and averting the probability of war in South America tends to throw new light upon the reason that prompted | his assignment to the Ayacucho mis. sion. It also brings out the possibil- ity that the administration had Gen. Pershing in mind for the plebiscite commission assignment when it de- announcement of the award synchronized with his return uth American trip. it is regarded as ossible that the earliest review by Secretary Hughes of the cases sub- mitted by the Chilean and Peruvian vernments convinced him that some form of supervised plebiscite would afford the only solution to the dis- pute over sovereignty of the two ter- ritories that could be arrived at. It was argued that this might have prompted a decision to send Gen. Pershing on the Ayacucho trip in order that he might have the advan- ages of acquaintan: hip in both Peru and Chile as a background to insure his acceptability when the ward was announced and the Amer- jean member of the plebiscite com- The general's until from the In some circles Well Fitted For Task. The fact that Gen. Pershing is not a lawyer may of itself have been in- strumental in bringing his name up for consideration for the new com- mission assignment. He would have the support of an adequate legal and expert staff in his work and vet the peoples of Chile and Peru could be satisfled in his selection that the president of the commission would be free from the danger of losing him- self in legal technicalities in exercls ing his deciding voice. It also is to (Continued on Page 2, Column 2 Serves Six Years for conditions which made him doubt the authenticity of the law until the corporation counsel interpreted it in plain language. Edward W. Thomas, assistant corporation counsel, declared after being informed of what the reporter found, that he would prosecute “to the limit” any agent using such prac- tices, if persons who were asked to pay exorbitant rates would furnish him with the necessary information He declared the law leaves no loop- hole for cvasion. The Star recently received the fol- lowing letter from a youns woman living in the northwestern part of the city: “T am emboldened to with rogard o matter You can wnd perhaps 1o be, of real assistance ‘It has to do with the various em ployment agencies now much in vogue real and rapidly not refer to labor stead to office employ lar. These came into existence ing the World War, and they flourished like green-bay trees since. * * * “Before the war office employment was handled free of charge by the (Continued on Page 16, Column 3.) KLINGLE PARK AREA 1S BOUGHT 10 HELP write which willing growing evil. 1 do as such, but in ment in particu dur-. have ever - SAVE ROCK CREEK Vital Watershed Tract Pur- chased From Harry Ward- man at Low Price. Valley Park, has been sought of Con- is about to become a reality. A large tract of what will form ultimately the entire parkway s purchased yesterday by the Na nal Capital Park Commission, Lieut. Col. Clarence O. Sherrill, di- rector of public buildings and public Klingle of which gress for years, parks of the Natfonal Capital and| executive officer of announced, The tract purchased immediately borders Klingle Ford road and ex- tends from Connecticut avenue to the the commission, junction of the road with Cathedral | avenue. It Harry Wardman, area already had preparatory to to the parkway was purchased from nd part of the been cleared away building right down Amnouncement of Purchase. The announcement of the purchase came in the following statement from Col. Sherrill: “The National Capital Park Com- mission authorizes the statement that a considerable area of land imme- diately adjoining Connecticut avenue in Klingle Valley has been purchased from Harry Wardman at a reason- able price. “Mr. Wardman, in foregoing his de- velopment of thix area, which was un- der way, and being willing to sell this property to the United States at rea- sonable figures, has shown a com- mendable spirit of co-operation with the National Capital Park Commis- sion.” Price Very Reasonable. Although the exact price paid for the tract was not made public, it was indicated that it was very reasonable. The purchase of this tract of land does not complete the project as pro- rosed. There & still a large area nortt of and adjoining the road which is to be purchased, and it is under- stood that negotiations are under w for this tract. With the furchase of this tract of land it will complete the park way trom Rock Creek Park proper, along Klingle Ford road, which runs under the bridge of that name, which car- ries the traffic along Connecticut avenue over it. Will Preserve Watershed. One of the prime reasons behind the origin of the movement to pur- chase this tract, it was pointed out by those familiar with It, was to pre- serve the watershed of Rock Creek proper. With the advance of build- ing, with the constant stoppage of small streams, which under ordinary conditions would feed the creek, the flow of water would be stopped and the waterway left nearly dry. There- fore, in order to preserve the park with all its beauties, including the water, it was desirous that this tract, among others, be purchased. The fight to obtain this tract of land has been waged for vears before committees of Congress by local clvic bodies and Government officlals, and efforts were made annually to con- vince Congress that it should pass the special bill which carried it, in order to presefve.it from the en- croachment of rapid building expan- sion. This was one of three tracts which were carried in one bill which never succeeded of passage. The other two projects were the Piney Branch parkway, running along the old Piney Branch, now piped, between Fourteenth street at its junction with | " (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) Non-Support; Ousted From Jail Under Protest Special Dispateh to The Star. ELIZABETH, N. J, March 21.— A man who has spent 2,149 days in the Union County jail here in small sentences for the same offense was forcibly evicted today on an order signed by County Judge Stein. The county hoard of freeholders decided it was costing too much money to support him. The offense for which Vitelo Bag- inolo, 79, hat been sentenced so many _times is nou-support of his wife, Maria, 84. Baginolo has spent nearly 6 years of the last 10 serv- ing six-month and three-month sen- tences on this charge. LY Each time Baginolo was atrested he seemed to welcome the jail sen- tence. He always pleaded guilty, and assisted the prosecuting attorney with lurid testimony in the hope of getting a longer term. He pleaded with officials today for permission to remain in jail. He said he dreaded going back into the world to make a living for himself and his wife. But the officials were deaf to his pleas. He was escorted (o the door of his home and told to remain there. Union County, he was told, would no longer feed, clothe and shelter him, Baginolo dhzedly went inside and slowly shut the door. : \ this city, which constitute a! the purchase | Sty WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION C., SUNDAY INCREASE IN WINE SOLD FOR JEWISH RITES STIRS RABBIS Even Black and Red “Com- _municants” _ Help Swell Total, Says Dr. Simon. {HEBREW PAPER LEADS | ATTACK UPON ABUSES | Some Clergy Want 10 Gallons An- | nually—Others Hold One Sip Fills Obligations. | ' b Allezea srivilezes of the | which each member | faith is allowed two gallons of wine each year, showed sizns yesterday of being draggzed the limelight of notoriety by Jewish leaders | selves. abuse of sacramental Volstead act, of the wine under into tional expose yesterday by the Ameri- | can Hebrew, a national magazine for | American Jews, published in New us to clean house when occasion demands. Prohibition officials admitted 3 terday that abuse in the sale of wine intended for sacramental purposes had &rown to be one of the “big problems our own and red!sti pressed ation of alcohol, and ex- gratification that Jewish ders had set themselves to “clean | their own house.” Row in Own Circles. Sharp difference of opinion has bob- bed up over the matter of Jewish cirel principally between those who feel i that the of fern ted wine is { necessary in religious rites, and those who feel that grape juice will do just wel Rabbi erday Wuthorities permit mented wine, and God.” Rabbi J. T. Loeb and Rabbi Moses A. Horowitz, however, of the ortho- | dox faith contended that Biblical idenmnded the use of real wine. { explained that the strictest tions were maintained in the issuance jof sacramental wine for religious purposes and that the alcohoiic con- tent need not be high, use Abram said: Simon “The the of this city highest Jewish use of unfer- does Almighty Both i Conference In Urged. { - A..movement sponsored by the Union of Ameriean Hebrew Congre- gations to call a conference of na- tional Jewish congregational organi- zations to . co-operate on religious questlons was approved by the Amer- ican Hebrew 1in an editorfal which | proposed that should find within its lur:.om',\ of petitioning | ment either to abolish the (sacra- mental wine) privilege, far as_ it | pertains to Jewish ritualistic obser- vations. or to find means to enforce { the privilege o r 1y that its abuses will cease.” Assistant Prohibition Jones, in discussing the ‘mvtter yes- terday, explained that the ment was glad Jewlsh leaders were Jooking into the question and he hoped their efforts would have nven more salutary cffect on the abuses than any efforts the Govern- ment might make. purview the the Govern- Commissioner Dublous of Unity. seemead to however, Mr. Jones There ference, leaders, be a great dif- among Jewlish explained. as to of fermentation necessary in the ob- servance of their religious rite: Should such a proposed conference of all Jewish organizations In the country be successful in bringing about a united request to the Govern- ment in regard to the Jewish sacra- mental wine question, Mr. Jones thought it would be an excellent thing, but In view of the wide variety of opinion expressed by different dele- gations calling at the prohibition unit, he thought such unity would be exceedingly difficult to bring about. “For instance,” said Mr. Jones, “we gation of four elderly members of | the orthodox faith, with long beards. Every one of them said he had been a | Tabbi for more than 50 years. They rep- [resented the orthodox branch of the church, they said, and explained that at Jeast 10 gallons of real wine was I necessary for each person in connec- | tion with his religious ceremonies for the year. Wants Only “Sip.” “On the other hand,” continued Mr. Jones, “Rabbl Rudolph Coffee of Oak- land, Calif., who was here for a con- ference recently, told us that only a ‘9ip’ of wine would be necessary, if indeed, fermented wine was necessary {at all” Others held out for the ne- { cessity of a goblet of wine, instead of the sip. There seems to be a wide ,dlflrronce.of real religious conviction | over the question of a sip or a goblet, and the question of fermented wine {and only grape juice. 3 i “The question of sacramental wine is now one of our big problems. We had mot been able to give it the at- tention it deserved until lately on ac- | count of more pressing problems. | Also it did not develop into such an {acute problem until after we had ef- fectively checked some ather forms of { Ilegal distribution of liquor. “One of our first problems with the advent of prohibition was how to check the withdrawal of bonded {liquor from warehouses on forged and counterfeit withdrawal papers. This was effectively .met by a new system and a new kind of permit. ‘The bootleggers next took to diluting fand coloring grain alcohol which had heen prepared for industrial pur- poses. We met this leak by provid- ling that this alcohol should be de- natured. Then they took to intensive smuggling and _redistilling and to the selling of what sacramental wine | they could obtain. We are now grap- |pling principally with these three most pressing phases of prohibition enforcement.” Growth Camses Inguiry. . The increase in the amount of sac- ramental wines dclivered under con- itrol of the prohibition unit grew so remarkably, Mr. Jones said, that in- quiry into it was_made. Figures from the records of the | unit show that the number of gallons withdrawn for sacramental purposes increased ‘from 2,138,909 in the fiscal year ended June 30,1922, to 2,503,489 in the fiscal vear 1923, and to the T (Continuca on Page 13, Column 1) MORNING, MARCH - 22, them- | of prohibition,” along with smuggling | law | rezula- | “such an organization | vern- ! 1 an the amount of wine and the quality ! \ | | were visited some time ago by a dele- | | Jewish | One of the first instances was a sensa- | | i i | York City, which declared “it behooves | ‘BAIL PLEA DENIED, - SHEPHERD IN CELL Alleged Slayer of Wealthy Ward Is Blackmail Victim, His Attorney Says. i 1 i | By the Associated Press { CHICAGO, March 21.—Willlam D. { Shepherd, charged with the murder of ! William Nelson McClintock, his mil- lionaire orphan ward, returned to his { cell tonight until Monday, at least { when attorneys will continue to fight out the question of his admission to ball in the Criminal Court of Justice Jacob Hopkins. Meanwhile, Chief Justice Harry Ol- son of the Municipal Court announced he would subpoena several witnesses | to appear at the next hearing of the i Inquest into the death of the voung { millionaire, which Is set for Monday morning. Justice Olson refused to | divulge the names of the witnesses he ! will ask to appear. { Attorneys for Shepherd today sought | to impeach the testimony of Charles | C. Fatman, head of the National Uni- | versity of Sciences, as given in earlier | hearings of the coroner's inquest. { Their effort was fruitless, however, and met with stern opposition at the hands of the State, Justice Hopkins | finally asking both sides to present Aauthorities to him on Monday on the question of bail for a capital offense. | " mail Plot Charged. i | i | A desire to blackmalil Shepherd on the part of Faiman and others, and scheme to break the will of young Me- Clintack, which gave the greater part of his fortune to his foster father, are the motives for the activities against Shep- herd, William Scott Stewart. noted criminal attorney, told the court in his plea for bail for Shepherd tobert 1. Crowe, State's attorney, de- manded Stewart’s motion be dismissed on the ground that the State's case, al- though circumstantial, was supported by a_confession of Faiman that he and Shepherd had plotted McClintock's death by inoculation of typhold germs. Faiman is held under guard in a hotel. DRY AGENTS BATTLE WITH RUM RUNNERS| Gun Fight Starts Campaign to Clean Bootleggers Off Wash- ington Boulevard. | By the Assoclated Press. | BALTIMORE, Md., March 21.—Rum runners and Federal agents took part | in a battle this afternoon on the Wash- Ington boulevard, the agents arresting |the runners after shooting a hole through the gasoline tank of the speed- ing car. In an effort to make a getaway, the bootleggers smasned bottles con- taining corn liquor in the path of the agent's car. The agents retaliated by puncturing the tank. Six arrests were made. One of the prisoners was given treatment for a badly lacerated hand. { Two other automobiles were seized by | the agents. Today's arrests marked the beginning of a campaign to clear the Washington ' boulevard of bootleggers, uccording to one of the agents. Travel by motoris { has become dangerous because of the | excessive speed of the bootleggers, who operate between Washington and Balti- more, he said. i DR. WILMER TAKES POST |AS OPHTHALMOLOGY HEAD | Accepts Charge of Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins and Prepares | for Its Opening. Special Dispatch to The Star. | BALTIMORE, March 21.—Dr. Wil- | |11lam Holland Wilmer of Washington today formally accepted the appoint- ments. as full-time professor of Ophthalmio'ogy in the Johns Hopkins Medical® School and ophthalmologist- in-chief of New Wilmer Eye Institute, which will be established at the Hopkins. The new institute was named in honor of Dr. Wilmer. Conferences | between Dr. Wilmer and the Hopkins | authorities ‘as to p'ans for develop- ment of the new fnstitute are ex- pected to begin at once. No date has yet been set for its opening. ‘ard Saunders, | their hodp. Star, 1925.—NINETY-EIGHT PAGES. TODAY’S STAR | PART ONE—40 PAGES General News—Local, National, Foreign. Army and Navy News—Page 22. D. A. R. Activities—Page 22. News of the Clubs—Page 23. Girl Scouts—Page 24. Schools and Colleges—Pages 26 and 27. Current News Events—Page 27. Notes of Art'and Artists—Page 30. At the Community Centers—Page 30. | Radio News and Programs—Pages 32 and 33. Financial News—Pages 36, 37 and 38. | Boy Scouts—Page 38. 1 PART TWO—I12 PAGES. Editorials and Editorial Features Washington and Other Society. Tales of Well Known Folk—Page 10. Around the City—Page 11. PART THREE—12 PAG | Amusements—Theaters and the Photo- play. Music in Washington—Page 5. Motors and Motoring—Pages 6, 7, 8| rnal News—Page 10. Reviews of New Books—Page 11. Veterans of Great War—Page 11. District Natlonal Guard—Page 11. Parent-Teacher Activities—Page 12. Spanish War Veterans—Page 12. PART FOUR—1 PAGES. Pink Sports Section. | s | PART FIVE—S8 PAG | Magazine Section—Fiction and Features. The Rambler—Page 3. PART SIX—10 PAG Classified Advertising. GRAPHIC SECTION—S PAG World Events in Pictures. COMIC SECTION—i PAGES. Mr. Straphanger; Regllar Fellers; Mr. | and Mrs.; Mutt and Jefr. | FOUR MORE BODIES TAKEN FROM NHNE Hope Abandoned for the 22| Who Were in Right Head- | way at Barrackville. By the Associnted Press. FAIRMONT, W. Va., Removal of four more bodies from the Bethlehem Mines Corporation mine at Barrackville today brought the total number of dead taken from the property up to 11. All were found in the left way of the property, which wi scene of an explosion last Tuesday night entombing 23 miners. Mine officials in a recheck today said there were 11 men In this payt of the workings, and that the remaining 22 who are missing were in the right neadway at the time of the blast. Hope that any escaped death has been abandoned Jay Wells, a member of one of the rescue’ crews, late, today found the body of his.brother. . Wells came here from another camp and did not know that his brother was working at Barrackville’ until ‘he stumbled across his body. . Searchers tonight continued their exploration of other sections of the mine and, with improved air condi-| tions encountéred underground, ex pected to find additional bodies with- | in a few hours. i Fairmont tomorrow will bury Leon whose charged body was the first to be brought out. Gov. Gore, who has been on the scene since last Wednesday, aiding in the rescue | work, will attend the services. Saundérs’ mether, critically ill, has| not been informed of her son's death. | ORPHANS ARE WANTED. Several Seek to Adopt Two Little Storm Victims. PRINCETON, Tnd., March 21.—Sev- eral persons who have visited the hospital here where.lie 35 of those injured in Wednesday's tornado, have sought to ‘adopt Harriet MeClurkin, 5 years old, and Ada McClurkin, 4, sisters, who were injured In the storm which took from them their mother. Their father was kicked to death by a horse several years ago. The little orphans—Harrlet, with a broken arm, and Ada, temporarily blinded by @ blow on the head—are | the pets of the hospital. Never have | they cried or complained, although | March® 21— head- the both have suffered intensely. Dolls and toys, gifts of persons who have | tions by |time, Sunday morni and service wi “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every evening and ing to Washington homes at 60 cents per month. Telephone Main 5000 ill start immediately. * FIVE CENTS. STRICT REGULATION SANELY APPLIED IS ELDRIDGE'S POLICY No Radical Changes Planned by Traffic .Chief Taking Office Tomorrow. SURVEY OF D. C. NEEDS LOOMS AS FIRST STEP Hopes to Have All-Day Parking Areas—350-Cent Permit WAR PERIL GROWS, FISKE TELLS CLUB Rear Admiral Says Country Must Maintain State of Preparedness. BY the Assor NEW YORK, March 21.—There will be “increasing probability a foreign war” during the next 20 years and therefore the United States “must always maintain a state of rezsonable preparedness for war.” Rear _.dmiral Bradley A. Fiske, retired. declared tonight. in an address before the Politics Club of Columbia University He explained that, in_his opinion. the increasing foreign irade of the next 20 years “means increasing lia- bility of a conflict with competing nations, because of the enormous amounts of money involved.” For the same reason, he said. he considered it “probable that wars on the ocean will be much more frequent and tre- menhdous in the future than they have been in the past.” He discussed the trade competition of the United States with both Great Britain and Japan In the Far East,as a situation “containing fruitful seeds of conflict.” “The utmost we can do.” he de clared, “is to conduct out national af. | fairs in such a way as to avoid armed conflict so long as armed conflict is avoidable, and vet in such a way that if a conflict comes we shall enter it on at least equal terms with our ad- versaries.” Reasonable Preparedness. He said the United States never vet been able to maintz state of reasonable preparcdness war, because the doctrines of paci have had an undue hold of the ple. especially of the women. The latest cxample of this, h was during the first two vears the World War, “during which United States was waeedled bullied into certaln undignified certain maneuvers that minated in the sinking of the Lusi- tania and the torpedoing of our mer- chant ships, although the United States was a neutral nation. Theodore Roosevelt been President instexd of Woodrow Wilson, it is in- concelvable that this could hav. oc- curred.” Admiral Fiske he said, a opinion expla has for pro- suid of the a yosi- told, for the story which in ned the basic c-use first his >f Mr. Wilson'’s conduct as communder- | hief of tne Army and Na Dreaded By Wilson. that in 1923 President Wilson accepted an invitation to wit- ness Navy target practice in Chesa- peake Bay. Later, he said, President Wilson wrote the Secretary of Navy that he would fulfill the engage- ment, “but he added that he wa looking forward to it with the great- est possible dread.” Therefore, sald Admiral Fiske, the request for the President's presence was withdrawn and he never went to the target practice. “Some time after that,” continued Admiral Fiske, “I spoke of this in- cident to ex-President Roosevelt. “*That explains many things, said he, ‘tht man Is a physical coward.’ I answered that it seemed to me that it was merely a case of nerves.” REAL SOS C ALL STOPS “HELP” SIGNAL LECTURE| Breaks Into Radio Talk—Broad- casting Resumed Without Trace of Source. Special Dispateh to The Star. NEW YORK, March 21.—Powerful Government and privately owned wireless stations groped blindly for nearly an hour tonight over thou- sands of miles of the Atlantic in an effort to trace a faint SOS call ported by vessels at sea. ing throughout the East was ordered suspended while operators sought to find a ship believed ot be in distress, but whose dentity or location was not known. After broadcasting had been shut of 26 minutes, operators of the naval communication service gave up the search when ‘the call was not re- peated. Radio sending recommenced at 8:24 p.m. The White Star liner Cedric at sea and the radio station at Cape Sable, N. S, both reported receipt of the call for help, but heard no further signals. Frederick J. Turner was de- scribing sending of SOS calls at sea re- cul- | Had | the | Broadcast- | Fee in Prospect. S —a BY WILLIAM U Washington flic courtesy | judgment the newly fie, M. O. Eldridge | of trame will not | sudden and radical changes | novations will follow | tates of greater publ | pediency. | These, in general, were some of th | policies uppermost in the mind of the new director after he had taken ti | oath of office yesterday, pledging hir | sere the task of minimizing the i colossal death toll Washington streets and establishing the Nation Capital model traffic city AN, may t T expe Ettationk trict ex- ercize of tr tempered by rance and the appointed sane under supervision of director The even tenor disturbed by and in- nly the dic- safety and cx- to mi on | | a Takes Up Work Tomorrew. Mr. Eldridge will v |upon nis duties s | probably | from the | knowleas m, than any has been the trafiic was such has seen me of proportion | destrian lto a the {and an important part city’s development _thraffically | also in that of the Nation. He | t0 a new job not unarmed with sou and sensible ideas that will prove a | pasis for future action | Motorists and nants { more so than pedestrians, are vitaly interested in Mr. Eldridge’s idea .c { trafic regulation under the law | enacted by Congre Plans Thorough S As a bellever in basic fac ures, the new director, it is unde stood, proposes to have made at the very outset a traffic survey and count of Washington's gtreets and congest- ed districts, such as was made in Chicago recentiy by officials of that city in_ co-operation with United ates Bureau of I'ublic Roads, to determine, ng other things, the following points: The density of vehicular travel, the density of pedes- trian travel, speed consistent with | safety, accident. hazard possibilities of one-way street ng jous crossing and lighting facllitie While the tendency in some of rger cities is toward the m ation of one-way street | true particularly in Chic delphia and Boston—A\r. not certain that the one-way street is an essential part of the traflic pro- gram in Washington. Rather, he inclined to_ believe that safety a expediency might better be served by the conversion of some of the now existing one-way streets, such Madison place, Jackson place, Eigl teenth and Nineteenth streets, in two-way thoroughfares enter tomorros pcd for the job of the subject, temp bition and determin other man in this city speaking terms blem ever sin 1R What" ngton grow from ‘one-lunger,” when motor vehicles to s ing like i had a par not_only in the Tut better equi point of 1 pr a th Wash the of was sand » merc rhaps { | | | | am th this i o, Phila- Eldridge is All-Day He is merely Parking Areaw. not satisfied that Washingto, ¥ have an efficient and just parking arrangement. He s ful that he may be able to devise more satisfactory system, giving due to the all-day parker, the the shopper and the office who wastes a considerable portion of the day moving his car every hour. He has in mind the es: tablishment of all-day parking areus In his opinion, the constant shifting of cars every hour not only is a great annoyance to the motorist, but it is a factor contributing to the congestion and confusion on the downtown streets during business hours. Although Mr. Eldridge approaches this important and difficult job with an open mind, a free hand and wit out prejudice, he will be disposed not to temporize with one phase of the problem; that is, speeding. However tolerant he may be on other phases of | the question, the director will set every ounce of his authority and every avaliable man under his com- mand toward the elimination of speeding and reckless driving in the Distr Speeding, in his opinion, is a relative term, and "9 miles an hour may be a reckless rate under certain conditions. No matter whether a car is traveling at 10, 20 or 30 miles an hour, the driver at all times must be able to prove that he Is not operating his car recklessly. | regard merch employe Zomex in View. highways and streets, the es- is authorized Speed For the arterial through-boulevard tablishment of wh under the act inclined to fol tem of indicating speed zones by t erection of signs, reading “Begin Mile Limit,” “End 20 Mile Limit,” Begin 30 Mile Limit”" etc. He has }an idea that a 30-mile limit, under | normal conditions, would be entirely | justifiable on certain sections of out- lying streets, but the operator of a | car at such a speed must at a'l times | be prepared to show he is not driving lin a reckless manner. The driver on Maryland roads knows when he is | Violating the speed law, and Mr. Eld- | ridge proposes to make the same in- formation just as easily available for the District motorist. There are many phases of the new w which will have to be defined. r. Eldridge is looking to Corpora- tion Counsel Stephens to assist him lin determining exactly what ths powers of the director of traffic are. One of the new angles of the law which will demand = great deal of the director’s attention, at least for fthe present, is the matter of annual permits. The law provides that driv- ers obtain permits every vear, and that the fee for such permit be §1 It is understood the director has in mind the postponement of the initial issuance of these permits un- til March, 1926, if such practice will visited the children's room, litter over station WEAF when the faint|bhe found to be permissuble under the signal for assistagnce was heard. (Gekimual 7z Page 2 Columa 1) R