Evening Star Newspaper, April 18, 1925, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. S. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Cloudy tonight, followed by showers late tonight or tomorrow change in temperature. Temperatures—Highest, 61, at noon today: lowest, 47, at 6 a.m. today. not much Full report on page 5. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 22 @b Entered as seco: No. 29572 Jienie nd class matter Washington, D, C. 1 SOFIABOMB DEATHS REACH 160: TROOPS CLEAR CITY STREETS House-to-House Search for Terrorists Starts—Reds Reported Slain. EXPLOSIVES NEAR BRIDGEi ON RAIL LINE CAPTURED| Many Wounded in Cathedral Ex- pected to Die—5 Parliament Members Victims. Press LONDON, April 18.—The death list By the Associated rom the bomb outrage in the Svetl] Kral Cathedral at Sofia Thursday has reached 160, including five members of the Bulgarian Parliament, it is| stated in official dispatches received here today. Many of the wounded | are expected to die STREET TRAFFIC STOPS. Troops in Absolute Control of Bul- garian Capital. By the Associated Press. SOFIA, Bulga April 18.—The Bulgarian government is taking| extraordinary measures to prevent any further development of the} terroristic campaign marked by the attempt against King Boris and the| bombing of the Sveti Kral Cathedral| with a loss of 160 lives. 1 One thousand Communists and | agrarian extremists have Deen ar rested, and it is reported that a num- ber of communists were killed during | the night, this resulting from the| feeling against them engendered by | the cathedral outrage. All Houses Searched. Having proclaimed martial law| yesterday, the government now has ordered a house-to-house search of all | Sofia. Street traffic is prohibited, and patrols of soldiers and police pass incessantly. The city is in mourning and all the stores are closed. The 250 victims seriously injured in the cathedral outrage taxed the ca- pacity of the hospitals, and many Uf" them have been transferreG to the private houses for special attention. The work of clearing the debris under the central lantern of the cathedral s continuing, the mangled bodies dis- covered today increasing by half a| score the number of known dead as the count stood this morning. Provinces Are Quiet.” From all parts of Bulgaria tHE Y& ports indicate that the provinces are quiet, the signal for the “Red revo- lution” which, the authorities declare was given by the cathedral explosion, having failed to bring the looked-for rising. Information which has come to the police indicates, they say, that the center of the subversive movement’s | organization is in Prague, the attacks | being carried out by terrorists who emigrated to Czechoslovakia upon the zssumption of power by the Tsankoff government and who recently re- turned to Bulgaria. The present indications, it is thought | in foreign quarters here, are that the| vernment will be successful in sup-| essing the revolutionary movement. | The possibility of an armed uprising is discounted, but further outrages against persons and property are not | authorities are unlikely, and the ¢ taking all possible precautions. Two boxes of explosives and auto- are reported to have t the Kostenetz Statio “onstantinople Railv believed they were to destroying a big matic_pistol been found on the Parl route. It is have been used in bridge nearby, Dead Badly Mutilated. The Orthodox Easter will be holiday for the inhabitants of especially the relatives of the cathe- | dral victims. Almost all the dead) ve terrible wounds about the head | «nd shoulders, making identification | ficult. No foreigners are believed {0 have been in the edifice when the | ge occurred. The explosion was so severe that one of the three cupolas of the cz thedral collapsed, another is in a dan-| €erous condition and the great side| portal is blown down. The dead in cluded Police Prefect Kissof, Depar mental Prefect Medelechef, Mayor Paskalef, five retired generals, Nai-| denof, Nezrezoff, Zlatereff, Loloft and | Popoff, former War Minister Davidof and four members of the Chamber of Deputies SELLS BELOVED HORSES, THEN TAKES OWN LIFE| i Gets $3 Each for Animals as Lion Meat—Hangs Self From Tree Shortly After. Br the Associated Press. ALHAMBRA, Calif., April 18 When Charles Stafford, 60, found it necessary last Wednesday to sell his two faithful horses, which, like him-| self, had become incapacitated by age, | e turned sadly awa from a moving] picture studio lion farm, which paid | him $3 apiece for the animals, and remarked I wish T were going with them.” oday his body was found danglin m a tree. The noose was a horse’s halter. The two horses were to have been <aughtered and fed to the lions, but news of Stafford’s death brought an announcement that their lives would e spared. ACTRESS BANS ALIMONY. NEW YORK. April 18.—Peggy Al lenby, actress, who has been granted divorce from Robert Armstrong, said today she wanted no ali- | | | mony. | “T didn’t ask any,” she added, “be- cause I don't need any. 1 have an ndependent inceme and 1 earn my own_ living. “I think some women have an aw- ful nerve to cease loving a man, but zo right on loving his money. “They talk about the different sinds of hold-ups and swindles, but what could be more outrageous Lha‘n divorcing a man and then taking his money, especially where there are no children?” | World's | The real Injured by Bomb YwDERWD PREMIER ZANKOFF. One of 160 hurt, when an infernal machine was exploded in_the Sveti Kraz Cathedral at Sofia, Thursday. ECONOMY EXAMPLE URGED BY COOLIDGE Stresses Federal Efforts for Inspiration They Furnish to Citizens. President Coolidge, in a radis ad- dress delivered today on the occasion of the opening of the 'Women's Fair in Chicago, declared that an advantage to be gained from Government economy and efficiency is the inspiration they provide for pur- suit of such methods in business and in the home. “If the people,” asserted the Presi dent, “in the daily management of their modest domestic affairs, note that the greatest interests of their governments and of their semi-public | institutions are dealt with in a spirit of laxity and a mood of carelessness, they find little inspiration to apply better methods in the management of their own concerns. The great busi- n operations which are constantly under theypublic eye ought to be han dled so as to make them an example in sound procedure. Importance of Economy. “The importance of sound business | methods was never so great as it Is today. It is particularly true that Government business should be placed on a basis of rigid economy. “~~“In our modern soeiety. public dnd private savings are guickly transmut- ed into capital available for produc- tion. The increased production makes goods more plentiful and therefore cheaper; and at the lower price level people can afford to consume more. disaster to a modern com- munity comes when easy and ill-con- sidered consumption prevents the storing away of new capital to meet the ever-increasing demands.” Commends Fair Sponsors. Mr. Coolidge commended sponsors of the fair for placing their work on a business basis by establishing a budget, with a result that all expenses were met before the doors were ready to be opened. This financial accom- plishment, he added, presents a “striking ' contrast to the average project of like character, supported in easy fashion out of public funds.” “I know of nothing more calculated to promote the pride of vigorous com- munity life, the sentiments of self- respecting nationalism, the truest loy- alty to high traditions of national characcer, than these distinctive as- semblies of the people,” declared the President Danger of Ignorance. “If we could find means to bring ail the people and groups of the people truly to know and understand each other, I am confident most of our so- cial problems would have been started well on the way to solution. It is not intolerance so much as ignorance that leads men and nations into an- tagonisms. Pointing out the benefits to be gained from holding the fair, which opened toda¥ in Chicago, Mr. Coolidge said: “Our country wants its arts and sciences, its commerce and agricul- ture, its production and transporta- ion, its education and invention, not merely that they may be used In the market place, the factory and the field, but that they may all be trans- lated into the home.” “All of these efforts,” he said, “are for broadening the outlook on life, for making better men and women; they all have the purpose to become effec- tive forces at the fireside. For long s past _men have gone forth into | the WASHINGTON WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Star. , D. C., SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1925—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday's Circulation, 101,294 * TWO CENTS. WILSON'S APPEAL DRAFTED SCHWAS, COLBY DECLARES Says President’s Eloquence | Overcame Reluctance of Steel Magnate to Serve. | ACCEPTED AFTER WEEKS OF STRONG OPPOSITION | Bethlehem Counter Suit Asks $9,- 744,899 for Claims Allegedly Unpaid by United States. * By the Aseociated Pre: NEW YORK, April 18.—How Charles M. Schwab was drafted for| the war-time service of the Govern ment was described today by former | Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby. | in commenting on suits involving mil- lions of dollars which the United| States and the Bethlehem Shipbuild- | ing Corporation filed against each | other yesterday. | The controversy involves the cost of ships built for the Government at the Bethlehem works during the war, while Mr. Schwab was acting in the dual capacity of director general of the United State Fleet Corporation and president of the Bethlehem Steel | Corporation. | Drafted by Wilson. i President Wilson, by assuming that | Mr. Schwab aiready had agreed to be- | | | come director general of the Emer- | | gency Fleet Corporation, brougnt him | into service, Mr. Colby sald. | | i e of b enereica. trom | LiUt. Schur and Boatswain important work which he then adl fiiiana] | Reber of Navy Selected to At a luncheon with Mr. Colby, pre g ceding an interview with the DPresi-| Go on Arctic Trip. was of the opinion that he should not | Weeks had been spent in endeavor i ing to convince Mr. Schwab, but he dent, both Eugene G. Grace, president | of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, and Mr. Schwab insisted that the later was doing all he could by keep- | Final organization of the naval ing his companies at top speed on|aviation section of the MacMillan Government contracts. Facts Behind Suit. Frederick 1. Thompson of the United States Shipping Board today sald: Nqva) Air Station, Pensacola, Fla. As one\of the commissioners of | b B n R TOR TERTACOR the United States Shipping Board, at | °. Joatswaln Earl k. Reber one period of such service having Alrcraft Factory, Philadelphia, to be much to do with the settlement of Piluts, and the addition of two mor¢ shipbuilding claims and as one urging | mechanics, ‘Aviation Pilot Andrew C. the action of that body in instituting | Nold and Aviation Chief Machinists sult against the Bethlehem Ship- | Mate Nels P. Sorensen, both of the | building Corporation, it would am)eu]:c.\ml Air Station at Anacestia, D. (. to me as essential that the elemental | The selection of Lieut. Schur anc basis of the action be clarified and | Chiéf Boatswain Reber was made | the injection of Mr. Schwab's war|after a long discussion and study service be separately considered. from a volunteer list of more than “The record evidences that Mr. |40 officers and men of the Navy. They Schwab, as director general of the |have been ordered to repert to Lieut. Fleet Corporation, very properly and | Comdr. Richard E. Byrd in command | very soundly asserted that any profit | of the naval section, at the Bureau of | in excess of 10 per cent on ship con-| Aeronautics for instruction struction was improper and officially | acted in support of such policy, but - Officers Are Assigned. admitted an earning of 18 per cent on | Lieut. Schur will be retained here to the contracts of the companies in |assist Lieut. Comdr. Byrd in working Which he was personally interested. | out details of the project. while Chief | 3 N | Boatswain Reber will return to the| Source of Concern. | aircraft factory at Philadelphia and “I cannot agree in the asserted po- | Supervise the assembling of the am- sition Of Mr. Schwab that he could | Phibian planes when they are received not with propriety have concerned | from the manufacturer. 7 himself with the contracts of his own | Aviation Chief Machinist's Mate Sor company while serving as director | ensen will be ordered to McCook Field, | Arctic expedition, under the auspices {of the National Geographle Society was effected today with the selection {of Lieut. (junior grade) M. A. Schur. ke eet” Conponreetor | Dayton, Ohlo, Immediately, to famil e st ot coorPoration. |jurize himself with the Army’s amphi. should have assured himself werc‘bh‘u plane now located there. With {him will go Aviation Chief Machinist | Mate Charles . Kessler of the Naval fit he set. P ! D et ce of Mr. Schwab to the| AIl Station here, previously selected | Government in_ wartime 1o net ‘opl@s a mechanic. Chief Petty Officer {ssue. That service is clearly recog.| Nold Wil g0 to the aircraft factory in nized. But it was patriotic, not com- | Sonnection with the assemblage and Stors v 2 | test of the planes and he w as- g‘:'l‘:‘“_"’r;‘x ur{‘m}‘r"“(f f“";,""“sfch‘:““{g"t‘o‘u.\led by Aviation Chief Machinist’s confuse the two issues. It would also| Mate Floyd Bennett, now on the west be unfortunate if those charged with | (2%t He and Chief Boatewain's Mate | ihe responeiblkcy of protection ot the o hare aiso were previously select 2 o o oS cul L On|ed. When the expedition is ready to e prytme anipbullding confracts iesve Wiscasset, Me., the latier part of ritleism . for doing what abviously |June: possibly three of the mechanics o o & at obviously| wiil be taken along. was a duty.” i < “The President, who was fully inj Schur Veteran Pilot. mpathy with the effort to requisi-| Lieut. Schur is 31 years old, and was tion Mr. Schwab, came out of an!born at Marshfield, Oreg. He attended inner room assuming that the matter | the Christian Brothers Business Col- was settled,” said Mr. Colby, “and|lege at Portland, Oreg.. and entered that Mr. Schwab was willing to un- | the ; from civil life in 1912, trans- dertake this work. | ferring to naval aviation in Decem- this work. ber, 1916. He was officer in charge of Schwab and spoke in acknowledgment | the aviation ground school at Dun- of his sacrifices and of his patriotism | weedy Naval Training School in Min- in a way that would have moved any | neapolis from 1918 to 1919, and since man. the war his duties have included flight Agreed to Draft. instructor at the naval air station, San i @ | Diego, Calif.; pilot in the aircraft It affected Mr. Schwab, and in that | squadrons with the battle fleet on the instant his doubts and hesitation were| pacific coast from October, 1921, to gone, and he agreed to be drafted.| May, 1923, and flight instructor at the With the reaching of a decision Mr.| naval air station, Pensacola, Fla., Schwab_threw himself into the work | where he has been stationed since within the earning limitation of the (Continued on Page 4, Column 2.) By the Associated Press. KANO, Nigeria, April 18.—Crowds of natives poured into Kano all night long to get a view of the Prince of Wales, who arrived here vesterday. The newcomers dis- played great enthusiasm, blowing horns and making so much noise that sleep was impossible. The scene from the building tops this morning was = amazing, great streams of plodding natives stretch- ing for miles in all directions, con- verging on Kano like swarms of ants. The emirs have already congre- gated for the durbar (formal re- ception to native princes). Most of them traveled hundreds of miles, accompanied by hosts of relain- ers, and there were many seaths among the parties owing to the in- tense heat and jungle accident.. All the emirs are attired in new and costly garments, acquired es- pecially for their interview with the royal traveler. Despite the long train journey and his exertions at tennis, Wales attended a_dance after dinner las: evening. The history of the prep- arations for the dance is interest- ing. Six weeks ago the site, two miles outside Kano, was ordinary bush, with a small fish pond mn a valley below. Stirred with enthusiasm over the prince’s forthcoming visit, the in- habitants cleared the whole arca, laid an excellent dance floor, in |Death Strikes Gayly-Clad Natives Thronging in Heat to Greet Wales| (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) |leaving the fleet air squadrons. Lieut. Schur was a member of the team of Navy pilots in the St. Louis air races of 1923, and flew second in the Merchants' Exchange race, pilot- | ing a Navy Douglas torpedo plane at 1107 miles per hour over a 200-kilo- meter course. In Navy 17 Years. Chief Boatswain Reber was born in Chicago 36 years ago, and attended the high school at Oelwein, Towa. He has been in the Navy 17 years, and in naval aviation since 1916. For seven months in 1917 he was flight instruc- tor at the aviation ground school at (Continued on Page 5, Column 4.) stalled electric lights and drained the pond, making it into an ar- tistic flower garden. Heavy rains turned the garden into a swamp, but by strenuous exertions it was reconverted into an attractive little lake. Kano's white population is only 350, but 500 were present at the dance, visitors having come from all parts of the northern province: ] A striking scene awaited the prince when he arrived at 8 o'clock this morning for the durbar. There were 20,000 horsemen, ranged in a horseshoe formation, all flaunting their colors. - As the prince arrived complete silence fell on the big arena, this beinz the Nigerians' manner of showing re- spect. Then a Nigerian regimentul band, the members of which play by ear, burst into a stirring narch and hundreds of native drums were vigorously beaten. A parade of Nigerian infantry and artillerymen, the latter carr: ing gun parts on their heads, was< executed with beautiful precision Troops of the emir's cavalry charged into the field almost to the prince’s feet, with their lances at point and their swords, many «f them dating back to the Crusaders' times, waving In the air. Great maneuvers of cavalry followed wave upon wave of horsemen, each headed by a band plaving ancient instruments and all clad in zorgeous uniforms, DAVID 1. WALSH Discusses the United States Senate Beginning in the Editorfal Section of The Sunday Star the former Governor of Mas- sachusetts and former United States Senator will tell of the needs, importance and foi- bles of America's greatest legislative body, predicated upon knowledge gained in his service there. | FIRST ARTICLE TOMORROW Do not miss it or any of the three to follow. ANOTHER | no reason DRIFTING Writer and Pianist | Fear Brigands; Get| $500,000 Insuranceg By the Associated Press EW YORK, April i | 18.—Arthur | | Train, lawyer-novelist, and Ernest Schelling, pianist-composer, prior to their departure on the liner France today for a three - month trip through the Balkans and the Near East, took out $300,000 bandit insurance with Lloyds. Lloyds have contracted to pay 90 per cent of any ransom demanded in case the travelers are kidnaped by bandits, and in return Mr. Train and Mr. Schelling pay a premium of 2 per cent, or $10.000. The two men said they were taking precau * tions because of the recent out- | breaks, particularly in Bulgaria. | Mr. Train and Mr. Schelling said | they were going to the Balkans to | obtain material for an opera on which they are collaborating. Mr, Train is doing the libretto and Mr. Schelling the music. lald in said. | The scene is | the Fayum Desert, they FEW RENT BOOSTS | FORECASTBY BALL Doubts Wave of Gouging Will; Follow Death of Hous- ing Act. In all probability there will be some little rent boosting and gouging in realty prices when the District Rent | Commission goes out of existence next month, but this condition will not be | general, according to the opinion ex- | pressed today by former Senator Ball | of Delaware, chairman of the com- mission, who was in conference at the | White House | Senator Ball feels sure there will be | for the citizens of this | city to become alarmed over the Ppos: sibility of ruthless profiteering when the commission becomes a thing of the past and there is no longer any | control over the housing situation in | the Capital. Aside from what the nat- | ural intention of the real estate men and the owners of houses and apart- ments may be after May 22, the date set for the expiration of the commis sion, Senator Ball believes they will, for the greater part, act fairly toward the public. Congress Can Act Later. He intimated that this may be due to the fact that they are fully aware that Congress will again meet next December, and that if the rent situa- tion becomes too acute in the mean- time, and there is any evidence of flagrant rent boosting, he believes | there is a strong likelihood that Con- gress will enact stringent rent-control legislation, and that it will be of a per- manent nature. He thinks that if Congress again passes a rent law for Washington it will have plenty of teeth, and it will not be entirely to the Iiking of the real estate operators. Senator Ball said his call at the White House, which was of a_brief nature, had to do entirely with the affairs of the Rent Commission, which are now being rapidly wound up. He said he is to obtain a full list of the salaries and other statistics con- cerning Federal employes receiving $2.000 annually and less, living in Washington. He indicated that these figures, along with other statistics, In the possession of the Rent Commis- sion, will be used in drafting a plan, which he has in mind, and which he hopes to put into effect when the Rent Commission expires, will con tribute greatly toward the establish- ment of a satisfactory housing sit- uation here. He declined to discuss any of the details, explaining that publicity at this time would not help and that the plan in its entirety if finally adopted, will be made known at the proper time. — POSTPONE BERMUDA TRIP Airship Los Angeles Held at Lake- hurst by Bad Weather. LAKEHURST, N. April 18.—The second flight of the Navy dirigible Los Angeles to Bermuda, which was post- poned from Thursday at sunset to last night and then put off until noon today, again has been postponed until early Sunday morning because of weather conditions, . air station offi- DIRIGIBLE NO RUSSIAN PRINGE, | “Prince” | wa { the contrary, he said, he and his United States for 17 months, though his passport is only good for five| months. | Society had watched for many months _the ardent courtship of | Martin Marshall Marston, prominent young clubman, of Miss Delight Potter Arnold. attractive voung | |light on the situation or the prince's | w@s a war refugee and was befriended | cials announced this mnrnlng Radio Programs—Page 9. HALLOFF DTS Dancer Who Won Societyi Bride Here “First Bey” in Tiflis, He Says. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 18.—His claim | finding a_majority in the chamber if | questioned, | the Socialists abandon it, even if it is to his title having been Roufat Magometoff Haliloff, | professional dancer, who was married | to Delight Potter Arnold, daughter of an American Army officer, in Wash- | ington Monday, has admitted that he is not a member of the Rpssian po- | bility i Haliloff said that in his own city of | s a “first bey.” He said he wa not | a Russian and never claimed to be on | cestors had fought the Russians for 67 | vears. Blames Translation. Here they call me a prince.” hel id. “That is how they translate my title. Perhaps it is not an accurate translation. I cannot help it You have no better word with which to de- seribe it He admitted that he had been in the | daughter of Maj. and Mrs. Davis G Arnold, and the announcement by her parents of her marriage to Prince Roufat Haliloff came as a great sur- prise to many of the bride’s most intimate friends. The ceremony was quietly performed Monday St. Margaret's Church, and the couple left s in bridal hortly after for a honey- moon in New York. Danced at Le Paradis. While the family will give out mo| ancestors, it is said that the prince until a week ago had ‘danced at Le Paradis, and in the backzround of the unexpected weddjng is the story of romance which began when the prince b¥ the bride’s father, who is now as- | sistant director of the Veterans' Bu- reau e HARVARD MAGAZINE BAN | PROTEST IS ABANDONED Editors Accept Police Edict That Flag Is Improperly Used and Picture Is Indecent. By the Associated Press. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 18.- The editors of the Harvard Lampoon, college humorous magazine, today de- cided to make no opposition to ye: terday’s edict of the Cambridge and Boston police which withdrew from newsstand circulation the current i sue of their publication, known as the “literary digest” number. Attorney Arthur Weed, acting for the Lampoon board, called on the police and inform- ed them that the editors would co- operate with the authorities and would make no effort to circulate the issue. The board had announced previously that the police ruling would be con tested. The issue of the Lampoon was ban- ned by the police of the two cities on the ground that improper use was made of the American flag on the cover design and that a picture in the body of the magazine was in- decent. Dual Citizenship Woman’s Plea In Alien P Can one be a citizen of the United States and a citizen of Ger- many at the same time? This problem is put up to the District Supreme Court today in the first suit to be filed against Frederick C. Hicks, the new alien property custodian, for the return of property valued at $100,000 seized under the trading-with-the . enemy act. The petitioner is Mrs. Beta Isenberg, citizen of the Ha- waiian Islands and of Bremes Germany, who sues to recover property taken as belonging to her deceased husband, Paul Isenberg, because of his German citizenship. The court is told that Payl Isen- berg became a citizen of Hawaii in January, 1874; was a noble and Ex-Crown Prince ‘Visiting Madrid, Germany Hears By the Associated Press BERLIN, April 18 Tageszeitung says that the former Crown Prince Frederick William has arrived in Madrid, where he is the guest of the Spanish royal family. The paper adds that he will accompany King Alfonso on a trip to Seville. ~The Deutsche Frederick W{liam returned to Germany from his exile in Holland in November, 1923, in the status of a private citizen. There has been no indication of his intention of leaving the country. PAINLEVE SUGESS * HANGS ON2ISSUES Socialists Wittthold Support Pending Financial and Religious Statement. By the Associated Press. PARIS, April 18.—The new cabinet | met this morning for its first real grapple with the details of the for-| midable tasks before it, the first which is to reconcile Foreign Minis Briand’s advocacy of er can with the opposition of this course by the majoritv in the Chamber Deputies, and second, to overcome the eventual opposition of the Socialists to a financial policy that excludes o capital levy. Both of these questions must be treated frankly in the ministerial dec- laration now being prepared by Premier Painleve and which will be read to the Chamber and Senate next Tuesday. The Socialigts have already warned the premier that the govern ment’s declaration must be clear and categorical on the figancial question and that until it Socialist group will reserve tude toward the @ew government. Socialist Support Essential. The attitude of the moderate con servative groups shows that the cab inet would have great difficulty in decided to adopt a conciliatory policy of the maintenance | of a French Ambassador at the Vati-| is forthcoming the | its atti-| NEW TRAFFIC CODE T0BE OFFERED FOR - APPROVAL MONDAY %Changes to Be Effectve May | 3 If Commissioners Agree to Suggestions. |22-MILE BASIC SPEED LIMIT TO BE SOUGHT ! New Parking Restrictions in Con- | gested Area Are to Be Pro- posed by Eldridge. | Traffic Director Eldridge today su marized the principal end | tions which he expects to lay before ! the Commissioners Monday for adoy j tion in Washington’s new traffic code If they meet with the approval of | the Commissioners they will become |effective May 3. The outstanding recommendations include the follow ing: The speed limit for passenger cars will be not to exceed 22 miles an hour throughout the District, except on arterial highways or uch points where signs will indicate a special limit The speed vehicles will recomr for commercial 18 miles an hour if pneumatic tires are used and 15 m an hour for solid-tire trucks Vehicles emerging from an allc | will be required to come to a stop fore crossing a sidewalk limit be Change at Intersections. { The present rule fixing a definite speed limit of 1 " hour at tersections will be superseded by a | new regulation recommended in the | following 1. “A vehicle approa a street tersectior under shall s such W dowr 1d be kept Operators of s approaching an intersection from the left shall look out for and give the right of way to vehicies ap- proaching from the 1:ght, provided | that a vehicle making a right or left { hand turn 1l give the right of way to through traffic.” Director Eidridge explained that motorists will he expected to regulate the speed at an i regarding the religious conflict. For- tersection in accord elgn Minister Briand's Intention is fnice with canditions prevalline at the id by his friends to be to allow the|'me. If there are no pedestrians or Senate and Chamber to pass on all | et vehicle the intersection, Mr. questions of a religious character! Lidridge said, a motorist may proceed without posing the question of con-| f¢T08S within maximum speed fidence. imit If. o the other hand, there Discussing his policy after the cab.| 3T® Pedestrians crossing the street | Tiflis, in the Republic of Georgia, he |inet meeting, the finance minister, M. | Caillaux, said exceptional tions. or extraordinary incomge tax. minister when the first put into effect in France.) I shall confine myself for the pres. ent to considefation of immediate and practical measures which must not be | regarded as final solutions.” Veterans Oppose Caillaux. Tt was announced this that the Association of Veterans was organizing a demon- stration for 6 o'clock this evening at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, in protest against “the return of Cail- laux to power.” Among the general publ afternoon c greatest | interest attaches to the financial sec tion of the statement. M. Caillaux, as the new finance minister, is undoubt- edly the man of the hour. Lucien Chassalgne, managing edi- tor of Le Journal, who is credited with a knowledge of the ideas under- Iying Calllaux’s financ program says he is today, as before, a deter- mined opponent of any sort of capital levy. He considers the financial con dition the country is in from the economic, and perhaps even subordinate to it. Has Trade Balance. The economic situation is incon testibly good, Mr. Chassaigne goes on France alone in Europe has a favor able trade balance; she alone has no unemployment, a position which was formerly regarded as a certain sign of pro: ty. M. Caillaux believes that all purely financial measures are doomed advance unless accompanied by cor responding economic measures. There. fore, the finance minister must be absolute master of the nation’s purse strings, with the undisputed right to suppr of “T must not be expected to produce solu- It must be remembered that it | | took me three months to evolve the (M. Caillaux was finance income tax was| French War| eparable | ss or reduce appropriations for | or other vehicles approaching, the new regulation requires a motoris: to slow | down. Mr. Eldridge said the reck- less driving law will apply to moto: ists who fail to slow down at an in tersection when conditions make it necessary Share Right of Way. The traffic code to be recommended Monda. will state that pedestrians have the rightof way at crosswalks and vehicles have the right of way be- | tween intersections The brake regulation as drafted for { the Commissioners reqlires that a driver be able to stop his car within {50 feet while going at 20 { hour, using the foot brake, o 75 feet using the hand brake The headlight recommendation pro- | vides that headlights shall be of 21 | candlepower and be such as to enable the driver to distinguish an object 200 feet ahead. It will further provide | that lamps be focused so that the { beam will not rise above a horizontal | line passing through the center of the headlight. Dimming of headlights i will be permitted on brightly lighted thoroughfares, in going over the brow of a hill and in foggy weather. | One-Hand Signal. # In place of the tiree different hand | Siznals now required to indicate which way a driver is to turn, or when he is to stop, it is recommended in the new code that the arm be extended straight out in all instances. Closed cars will be permitted to use an autc matic signal on the rear of the vehicle The new code will recommend a new system for issuing operators’ per mits after May 3. The recommends | tion is that a 10-day temporary permit | be issued to enable the traffic officials in|to determine whether the applicant is |a proper person to hold a permi | permanently. Before the temporary |permit is issued, applicant will be |given a test as to his mental and | physical ability to drive a car Although the traffic director is plan the other ministers’ departments when | ning for the establishment of arterial he deems such action necessary in |highways, none of them will be ready the interest of the State. He is said [to put into operation by May 3. to have made this an absolute con-| Director Eldridge announced today dition before agreeing even to con-|that the new eode will recommend es- sider acceptance of the portfolio. | tablishment of two new one-way The first part of his program, then, |streets as follows: H street from says M. Chassaigne, provides for | Massachusetts avenue to Fourteenth rapld adoption of the budget and a |Street for west-bound traffic; I street general speeding up of the taxes due |from Sixteenth street to Massa and in arrears, which ought to go|chusetts avenue, for east-bound far toward relieving the plight of the | traffic treasury. | Adoption of the plan to prohibit . | parking during the rush hours on | certain busy thoroughfares and rec- DIES AT AGE OF 116. |ommendations for a number of e | changes in existing oneway streets LUGO, Spain, April 18.—Ramon |marked the final session last night of Gomez, who claimed to_be 116 vears the advisory committee. of age, is dead at San Vincente. To | 2 e the last he retained his faculties | S mentally, and had all his teeth and | much hair. For the last years of his life Gomez ate nothing but potatoes and milk. Until recently he worked on his farm v Streets. The following streets, now I will be restored to two-way traffic the Commissioners approve the c mittee’s recommendation: Tenth street, | Sixth street, Eighteenth street, Nine one-wz it daily, and in his spare moments made |teenth street, Madison place, Jackson wooden shoes. place, L street and Mount Vernon | place. | _ Streets on which parking will be | forbidden duripg certain periods of i the day are: | " F street from Sixth to Fifteenth, no | parking from § to 9:15 a.m.. from | Seventeenth to Nineteenth (except on the south side between Eighteenth to roperty Suit Here perty g Nineteenth), no parking from § to member of the upper Legislature |9:15 a.m. 5 Y under the monarchial regime. G street from Sixth to Fifteenth and from Seventeenth to Nineteenth, Then " dual citizenship was permit- | |no_parking from § to 9:15 a.m. i ted undey the laws of the islands, it is stated, and Isenberg in 1899 H street from Massachusetts avenue became a citizen of Bremen, Ger- |to Fourteenth, no parking on the many, without giving up his citi- |South side at any hour; from Four zenship in Hawail. When the |leenth to Seventeenth, no parking United = States took over the |from & to $:15 am., or from 4 to & ilands in 1900 the laws of the |P.m. # 3 islands were continued in opera- I street from Thirteenth to Seven tion and all persons who had been | teenth, no parking on north side from citizens of Hawaii on August 12, |8 to 9:15, or from 4 to 6. 1898, became cttizens of the United K street from Vermont avenue to Fifteenth, no parking at any time. § Sixth street from Pennsylvania {avenue to Rhode Island avenue, no parking from 8 to 9:15, or from 4 to & Fifteenth street, Pennsylvania ave- nue to H street, no parking from § .~ (Congnued on Page 5, Column 1) States. Mrs. Isenberg claims that as her husband was an American citizen his property should not have been seized, even though he was also a citizen of Germany, and that it should be returned to her. i