Evening Star Newspaper, May 1, 1925, Page 1

WEATHER? (U. S. Weather Bureau Forecast.) “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. Partly cloudy tonight; tomorrow fair and slightly warmer; moderate west and northwest winds. Temperature- Highest, 57, at noon today; lowest, 8 at 3 a.m. today. Full report on page WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Star. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 30 29,585. Yesterday’s Circulation, 101,213 TWO CEN PAINTERS' STRIKE SURVEY OF RIVER END LOOMS AFTER | ORDERED 10 SEEK | . LEADERS'PARLEY' BATHING BEACHES Union and Employers’ Peace | Pollution of Potomac Now ‘ Conference Arranged by Renders It Unfit for ‘ The Star. Swimming. |EACH SIDE OFFERS TERMS |FOR DISPUTE SETTLEMENT N Entered as second class matter B post office, Washington, D. C. NEHED PARALYZED AS LABOR REVEALS POWER ON HAY DAY American Envoy Forced to! Walk to Office—All Busi- | ness Stopped. WASHINGTON, MAY 1925 » AUTHOR OF LETTER ATIACKING SUTER SOUEHTBY POLICE an Effort to Influence Council Election. D, ‘C, FRIDAY, 1 —FIFTY-TWO PAGES. |Denver Business ! Men Plan Prayer To Stop Drought in li By the Associated Press. DENVER, Colo., May business” in “Denver will devote two minutes to prayer for rain Wednesday to aid Colorado The Denver Rotary Club solution that for two minutes every member will bow his head at noon in prayer for rain to alleviate the drought NEW PLOT TO KILL KING BORIS NIPPED 1.—"Big i | ANONYMOUS WRITER PUTSi 0. K. ON 7 CANDIDATES| CUMMING SEES VITAL NEED OF FACILITIES POLICE IN U. S. CITIES PREVENT ANY DISORDER Day Passes Quietly in Europe,| With Troops Raiding | Reds’ Quarters. | Associated P MEXICO CITY demons I Mexica to such The May wer by organ its shadow be American night per- automo. and the walk nbassy ration abor an ex: e ration of his unced officials homes to th bassador's chauffeur was the Syndicate of Private | at he would operate the 9 am. and 3 p.m. today t his own risk, and no offer y protection was forthcomir the government 60,000 Expected to March. Today's program, organized by the | executive committee of the Confedera- tion of Workers' Syndicates, included a parade, with the estimated partici- pation of 60,000 werkers, to be fol lowed by an address by Luis Morones, the secretary of industry, commerc and labor The pr suspen in ient suspen ram also provided for total of business, with the ho- me cases allowed to serve | t appointed hours; | of telephone and street car fter 9 in the morning, but s permitted to operate after | 3 in the afternoon to take the paraders home closure of the theaters and motion picture houses; the unveiling | a bronze plaque in memory of the | late Samuel Gompers at the labor headquarters, and the customary | speeches at the monument in the sub- | urh of Tacuba to the anarchists exe- ifter the Haymarket riot in Chicago. with jitne; vice All Workers Out. The newspapers are not publishing | and no workers or employers are al- | Jowed to enter factories or offices. The | ban upon working extended to all the | public offices, municipal, federal, dis irict and national, although May day is not officially recognized.as'a holi- day e day was expected to be observed | h equal force in the other principal cities of the republic. | | NEW YORK POLICE BUSY. Raid Communist Meeting, Guard | Public Buildings. | By the Associated Press | NEW YORK, May 1.—May day eve marked here by police raids on | &s of Communists, Socialists | a ed anarchists, at which all | the participants were driven into the | sireet. Only two arrests were made | during the day and those were young handing out pamphlets of a reputedly inciting nature to school | children. The most important raid of the nizht was at the Manhattan headquar- ters of the Workers' Part ica. where all members, including | classes he Workers' League and | the Trade Union Educational League, | were driven into the street. =Desks | were broken open and literature con- | fiscated. here was no violence in any of the | raic At the Bronx headquarters of | the Workers' Party, where police found three separate meetings being | conducted in three separate languages, samples of literature were taken nd the names and addresses of leaders ol ined, after which the meetir | permit continue. Other meet however, were broken up, the | members being given their choice of | iitting the hall or being thrown ot ry case they elected to quit the | men | of Amer- | Foster Scores Raiders. | zZ leader of the| who was at the Man- | rters of the Workers' | hen this place was raided last | anded that the raiders show warrants for breaking ks and their authority for hose present out into the Foster, streets. ! Foster he would ice ¢ Polic build men ifter form the meeting that I complaint with Enright uardin mm today are $ 11 public ¢ homes of all noted and public officials. All special squads are on duty, and orders have been sent out from headquarters for | extreme police vigilance in every part of the city PARIS IS ORDERLY. Meetings of Workers Permitted; Pa. | rades Banned. | By the PA Assoc . | wore its cus- | A ; morning, except th: were no taxicabs on | the streets, due to the driver -hour | abstention from 1 | The calm atmosphere was expected 10 prevail throughout the day, for the author had taken precautionary | measures, but there was an even more | effect deterrent in the shape of rain,} which had been falling steadily since It night, and which the| weather experts said would continue. | Besides the taxicab men, the build jnz trades workers were the only »up to proclaim a full cessation of work, but most of the metal worker: were idle because of the number of plants to aveld possible | trouble. ~ Other unions contented | themselves with merely inviting their| members to ‘“celebrate the feast of labor.” Four Meetings Allowed. Permits were issued by the author- s for four big meetings outside of Paris, but all necessary steps were taken to prevent them from develop- ing into manifestations likely to lead to disorder. No parades will be toler- ated, either inside or outside the city. The labor leaders also appealed to | ontinued on Page 5, Column 2 ies {Explosive Fuse Found in Un- | ed to blow up the | responsib; | former |30 to 40 persons were killed and about | from the Red Star liner Leeland as the IS [ derground Passage Believed Aimed at Palace. By the Associated Press. SOFIA, May 1.—Another attempt to assassinate King Boris was frustrated today by officers of the guard, who | discovered an almost complete sub- | terranean pas: with an explosive | fuse, which they believed was intend- | 1 palace, Trial of the persons charged with y for the bombing of the veti Kral Cathedral here recently with the loss of 160 lives, was set to | begin today. Of the six men indicted, only two, Sacristan Freedman of the cathedral and the Communist leader Petrini, are in the hands of the authorities. The | Communist deputy, Grant haroff, was shot by the police Tues- day when he refused to surrender and the others, Kossovski, Koeff and Dimitroff, have escaped. | Wide Outbreak Planned. Publication of the indictments against the leading conspirators indi cates that the outrage was to have been the signal for an outbreak of | anarchy. some 200 or 300 men, working in groups of five or ten, were to have at- tacked prominent persons, buildings and generally fomented dis- order. It will perhaps never be known why these men failed to carry out their roles, the authorities say, but it would appear from statements taken from persons arrested that many of them were common criminals, who, after receiving large sums of money, de- cided that discretion was the better part of valor. A few dangerous plotters are still believed by the police to be hiding in Sofia, and systematic searches for them are being conducted. One night an entire quarter of the city is cor doned and thoroughly combed: the next night another section is search- ed, and so on. The plotters all seem to have been well provided with explosives and drms smuggled from abroad. 30 DIE IN WRECK: PLOT IS SUSPECTED Russian Economic Commis- sion on Train Derailed in Prussia. By the Associated Press. STARGARD, Prussia, May 1.—It is not yet explained whether the wreck this morning of the Eydtkuhnen-Ber. lin express near here. in which from caused by accidental derailment or was the act of political malcontents. Some color is given to the latter theory by the fact that a Russian_economic commission, headed by Dr. Markoff, director of the Rus- sian economic institute for the Baltic tates, was aboard the train. The third and fourth cars of the train were telescoped, killing most of the travelers in the third coach and injuring many, of those in the fourth. | ome bodies” were terribly crushed. | Limbs weré torn from some, and still | others were found considerable dis- | tances from the wreck. The local hospital was unable to care for all the injured, and some were transported from Stargard to nearby towns. SHIPS BLOCKED BY FOG | IN ANSWERING SOS CALL | By the assuciated Press. HALIFAX, May 1.—The Red Cross ner Sylvia and the government steamer Stanley today were groping their way through heavy fog to the spot, 29 miles southwest of the Sambro Island lightship, indicated in messages 40 injured, w: of an SOS call received last The last message was received al 11 f ..usnue standard time, when the Zeeland reported she had picked up the word “clacklas.” From this it was inferred that the vessel in distress was the wooden steamer ~kamas, from Norfolk to Halifax burned | after | 'stay with 800 Army To Decide Who By the Associated Press. HONOLULU, May 1.—Eight hun- dred Army and Navy officers, rep- resenting expert opinion cn the subject of United States defen: assembled here today for round table discussions to ascertain which force—the Blue or the Black—won the recently fought sham battle for possession of the Island of Oahu. The assemblage, officially termed a “critique,” was open only to Army and Navy participants. Secrecy was maintfiined because details of the landing of a con- structive force of 40,000 Marines at Haleiwa, on_the north coast of Oahu, were to be aired. The land- ing of the marines of the Blue at- tacking naval forces is understood to be the punch that ended the al and Navy Experts Meet “war.” Details of this surprise landing on the ls]aud‘ide!ended by Labels Ticket Commissioners Find Legal Ground for Action. *“Administration. i | Following a conference today with | Jesse C. Suter, president of the Fed- | eration of Citizens' Associations and ‘hairman ex officio of the Commission- | rs' Advisory Council, the District | Commissioners this afternoon in structed Inspector Clifford L. Grant, chief of the detective bureau, to in-| vestigate the origin of a “scurrilous anonymous letter mailed yesterday to | many delegates of the federation and | regarded as a cleverly veiled attack | on Mr. Suter and half a dozen candi dates for the council. | The Commissioners turned over to | Inspector Grant two copies of the| mysterious letter, which is typewritten and signed “Campaign Committee for | the Administration Ticket.” Appar-| ently all the 90 delegates to the fed- | eration, in whose hands falls the elec- | tion tomorrow night of the council. | received carbon copies. Postal Officials Can’t Act. i Mr. Suter previously had shown copies of “the letter to city postal au-| thorities, who advised him they were | unable to assist in identifying the | sender. The letter, itself, they stated, | In Sofia alone, it is alleged, | was not a violation of the postal regu- | lations. Its postmark, they added, in dicated it had been mailed shortly| 11 o'clock yesterday morning, | probably in the downtown section. | The decision to turn the matter over | to the police for investigation, it is understood, we..' reached by Engineer Commissioner J. Franklin Bell and| Commissioner Rudolph, after the Dis-| trict officials had agreed the letter \\':\ai an attack on a semi-official body, war-| ranting a police probe | ant to Act at Once. | Two of the letters, one addressed to ! Mr. Suter and the other to Willlam | McK. Clayton. now are in the hands of Inspector Grant, who will put one | of his detectives on the case at once.|charge embezzlement, 18 being based | Langley’s machine “now b, | forgery charges against State's Iz 2 (4 25MORE CHARGE AGAINST GARRET Rockville Grand Jury Adds Embezzlement Cases to 29 Forgery Reports. Special Dispateh to The Star. ROCKVILLE, ‘Md., May 1.—In a final report to Judge Robert B. Peter this morning the special grand jury investigating ~ embezzlement and At more indictments, Garrett was indicted yesterday on charges of forgery, 34 witnesses baving testified. The additional bills THE. HAPPY -MAY- QUF RN |LANGLEY PLANE NOT MUTILATED, . WALCOTT REPLIES TO WRIGHT | Dayton Man Will Send His Own Plane to Great Brit- ‘: ain—Treatment | | Denying charges from Dayton | Ohlo, ‘by Orville Wright that the | Langley airplane now in the Smith- ~onian Institute here has been “muti- lated” and that this reason impelled Wright to offer the first Wright plane to a British museum for preserv tlon, Dr. Charles D. Walcott, Secre- tary of the Smithsonian Institution, made public today a full history of the plane which has aroused the | torney John A. Garrett returned 25|controversy. Mr. Wright, who, with his brother Wilbur, made the first flight in a | heavier-than-air machine in Decem- | ber, 1903, is quoted as saying Prof. sing in Mr. Suter conferred with the in-|on the forgery cases and seven, it is|the museum is not the original ma- spector immediately following his con- | ference with Col: Bell, giving Grant all theyinformation he has regarding | the letter and advising Wim, i was! learned, concerning certain develop- | ments in the council campaign. The letter is the most damnable, | contemptible plece of work I have ! ever come across,” Mr. Suter declared | today. “In an insidious way it seeks, | on the eve of this important citizens’ election, to influence the delegate | voters by discrediting seven named candidates. “By calling on the delegates to vote for an.alleged ‘administration ticket,” which, the letter asserts, comprises to attack the good faith of myself and | the men and women named.’ i Text of Letter. The letter is worded as follows | “April 28, 1925. | “Dear Fellow Delegate: ““This letter will go to those federa- tion delegates who will understand and act upon it accordingly. “It is no time to mince words. We | confront a crisis in citizens’ associa-|afternoon that he was influenced by | tion ranks. “President Suter, with great tact and brilliancy, won the Commission- | ers to the ‘council’ idea. He is in the fullest confidence of the Commission- ers. He, quite likely, will be the next Commissioner of the District of Co- lumbia. “The presidency of the council was | forced upon him, as the next com- | missionership should come to him un- asked. “The members of the ‘council’ elected by you must be in thorough | harmony and accord with President | Suter and the Commissioners. { “Failure will dog the council’s steps from its very start otherwise. | “Only through ‘heart and soul’ ad- | ministration candidates must be elected. No radicals, communists, trust busters, corporation assassins, ca- | lamity howlers, kickers over the| traces, trouble makers or peanut pol- iticlans should be considered for a moment for a place on the ‘council.’ | “After the most careful investiga- | tion among the 30 offering, we ask vou to vote for the following admin- istration ticket, who will at all times and under all circumstances can be depended upon to ‘stand pat' and | put’: Administration ticket: Harry N. Stull. Seorge A. Finch. James G. Yaden. willam S. Torbert. “harles A. Baker. “And elther Mrs. Harvey W. Wiley or Mrs. Angus Lamond, “We have the votes to put this ticket over. Let nothing turn you aside. “Back up to the limit in this cru- cial_fight President Suter and the (Continued on Page 2, Column 4. Won “Mimic War”| the Black Army forces. are con- | siderad invaluable by military men, as the move is one which would give an enemy force control of the islands and a dominating position on the Pacific coast from Alaska to the Panama Canal. No civilians were permitted to at- tend the critique, but it was planned to issue a short summary of the results. The main findings will be released in Washington, after review by the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy. Results of the critique are anx- iously awaited by residents of the Hawaii Islands, because of the cromparative ease with which the commander of the Marines landed his forces, thereby disclosing what is characterized unofficially as the faults of Oahu defenses, | terday {of Mr. Coldren as an adviser in con- said, charging fallure to turn over judgments and moneys collected for his clients None of the indictments have been | made public, but the sums involved are said to aggregate $40.406, ran in amounts from $70 to $5,000. Judge Peter temporarily discharged the grand jury and bench warran were issued. Garrett, who appeare: voluntarily ~vesterday and supplied ging {$10.000 bail, ‘was expected to appear {again today. Jurors Thanked by Court. in. various operations. | | chine, but is mostly a new | with many of the restored machine parts of | GIRL ORATOR GETS 530 STAR PRIE Here Is Feared. Story Disputed. different construction from the orig- inal” He further declared “I could not be assured that our machine, if given to this institution (the Smith- sonian) would be any fer from mutilation than Langley’s has been or that the label (identifying the craft) put on it would be any more true than the label on his.” Dr. Walcott miade public a copy of a letter he wrote October 10, 1921, to Col. W. Lockwood Marsh, secretal of the Royal Aeronautical Socies London, with reference to a paper hy Grifith Brewer. an Englishman, in which the charge was made that ex- periments conducted in 1914 at Ham- mondsport. N. Y., showed that the original machine could not have flown with a_per: Dr. W hat_in " (Continued on Page 16, Column 1.) that | Details of Both Proposals With- held—Meeting Produces Frank Discussion. ; adinz figures At a meeting of the I 'in the present painter: hrought about through the efforts of The Evening Star, two concrete propo: mitted. These two propositions, one from the strikers and one from employers, will be submitted to the respective organizations for their con deration, with prospects that an end | of the difficulty would be reached in a few day: Those who attended the meeting were William J. Gallagher, interna tional organizer of the painters’ union; Herbert Shannon, president of the Operative Builders' Association; Ar thur Chamberlain, local organizer of the painters; Rufus S. Lusk, execu- tive secretary of the citiz fair {wage committee, and Robert J. Cot- trell, real estate reporter of The Star. | Both sides engaged in a frank dis- cussion of their respective claims at the meeting, which is the first that has been brought about between the leaders of the contractors and build- ers who are opposing the grant of an increase by the master painters and the leaders fo the union. |~ The meeting lasted for almost three hours, during which both sides gradu- ally worked out their proposals. Rep- resentatives of each inclination to appreciate the problems confronting the other. While the terms of the proposals were withheld for the time being, they revolve around a great deal of liberality on the part of the employers if a satisfactory wage |is agreed. Both sides expressed realization that the present controversy is haw ful and a bad thing for prospective business in the city. All those in the conference were unanimous in the opinion that they desired a quick and satisfactory agreement. The proposals will be pjaced before the respective organizations at once. FAILURE OF POLIGE | DOG LEADSPOSSE ™ aw LAWS BARED T0 ABDUCTED GRL Judge Peter thanked the grand jurs | MiSS Asenath Graves Cheer- | Ex-Convict Farm Hand Cap-‘ the aforementioned candidates, it aims | for the expeditious manner in which | its work was accomplished. Albert M Bouic, appointed to serve as State | attorney pending trial of Garrett, is in charge of the prosecution George G. Bradley, Bethesda mer- chant and former president of the board of county commissioners, who yesterday afternoon qualified as bonds- | man for Garrett in the sum of $10,000, and the prosecuting officer had for many vears been bitter political ene- mies. Bradley stated here yesterd: “sympathy for his family.” Garrett stated yesterday afternoon that he expected Attorney W. E Leahy of Washington would defend him. The grand jury is the same which several weeks ago commended Garrett in its report for his “vigilant and faithful efforts in bringing to justice violators of the law." COLDREN IS CHOSEN PARK BODY COUNSEL Long Labors in Behalf of Develop- ing and Beautifying Capi- tal Recalled. Fred G. Coldren, chairman of the committee on parks of the Washing- ton Board of Trade, and for years| an earnest advocate of park exten- sion in the National Capital, to- day was appointed attorney of the National Capital Park Commission. The commission at is meeting ves- authorized the appointment nection with the purchase and con- demnation of land which is to be added from time to time to the park system here. Lieut. Col. Clarence O. Sherrill, di- rector of public buildings and parks and executive officer of the park commission, announced Mr. Coldren’s appointment. In making the announcement Col. Sherrill paid a high tribute to the unceasing efforts of Mr. Coldren as a civic worker in fostering the ex- pansion of the park system and the beautification of the Capital. he remembered, Col. Sherrill said that Mr. Coldren rendered exception- ally fine service in drafting and pre- senting to Congress the bill for the creation of the National Capital Park Commission. As chairman of the committes on parks of the Board of Trade, Col. Sherrill continued, Mr. Coldren has been a continual and earnest advo- cate of park development and is well qualified for duty in the office of the executive secretary of the commis- ! sion on account of hs familiarity with park requirements and plan- ning. The Park Commission yesterday spent the entire day examining plots of ground which it has in mind for purchase 2nd addition to the park system. Col. Sherrill said the trip took the commission around the en- tire boundary line, but that go an- nouncement on purchase wouild be made till the necessary papers are made up and the negitiations com- pleted. i It will | | ed by Eastern High Stu- | dents at Ceremony. | _Presentation of The Evening .\‘l.u‘s{ M Asenath Graves. | champion in the n contest, by G ditor for The E a fitting clima 0 prize to Washington's | tional oratorical | Lyon, associate ning Star, came as to a program in honor of the 1 vear-old senior of Eastern High| | School, who is to represent Wash- | |ington "in the national finals of the| |contest. The program_ was held in |the auditorium of Eastern High School this morning | Charles Hart, principal, acted as chajrman. Before introducing the | speakers he zave a brief explanation | of the contest in its national phases | {and in its relation to Eastern. | | Miss Kate D. Buckman, director | of the contest at Eastern, sounded a note of praise for the newspapers | and the individuals who have made | the contest possible. She failed, however, to zive credit to one who has been extremely faithful in the Washington contest, namely, herself. Students Cheer Winner. A representative of the student body, Olin Everett, praised the ef- forts of Miss Graves and congratu- lated her on behalf of her fellow students. “We are glad she has won several hundred dollars,” he said, and was interrupted at this point by storm of applause, then continued, and we hope she will win several | thousand more.” The president of the Home and School Association, Dr. Raymond A. Fisher, offered the congratulations of the parents connected with the school and assured the student body of their support. Dr. De Witt Croissant, president of the Alumni Association of Eastern High School and professor of English at George Washington University, kept the audience roaring with laughter at his witty remarks and humorous reminiscences of his school life at Eastern. He became serious long enough to congratulate Miss Graves on her victory and the student body upon its splendid support. He especially stressed the point that the school spirit of Fastern was one of the important factors in Miss Graves' success. Leigh Praises Candidate. Randolph Leigh, national director of the oratorical contest, congrat- ulated Eastern on its splendid school spirit. He pointed out Eastern High School’s advantages in having first place on the program in the final meeting, in having the concentrated support of the community and school, and in having a candidate of outstand- ing abllity and persuasive eloquence. At the close of the meeting Miss Graves received an enormous bouquet of flowers, a present from the school. She was almost overwhelmed by the demonstrations of praise and appre- clation, but promised to show her appreciation of the support of her teachers and classmates by doing her best in the contest May $. Tonight in six contest centers out- side of Washington the finalists in each of the six major zones of the national oratorical contest will com- pete for the privilege of participating in_the national finals in the Washing- (Continued on Page 2, Columa &) R v T, tured With Child, 11, After Week’s Search. By the Associated Press. RANDOLPH, Vt., May 1.--A Ger- man police dog early today led three men to the barn of an abandoned farm in South Brookfield, where they found Earl Woodward, farm hand and a former convict, and 11-year-old Lu- cille Chatterton, who left her in Granville with Woodward a week ago. Woodward was captured without resistance. The capture brought to. an undra- matic end a week's search by armed posses through the wooded mountain townships in which Woodward had been a fugitive since he took the child from the home of her father, Walter Chatterton, last Friday night. Yes- terday cadets from Norwich Univer- sity joined the State authorities and armed citizens in the search. Go Ahead of Posse. Early today three men, accompanied by a police dog, set out before the posses were ready to take the field. They were George L. Jerd and Ray L. Chase of Randolph and Winfield Dubois of Weston. At the point in Brookfield where the chase was interrupted vesterday by rain and darkness the dog was set on the trail and in half an hour had led the way to the deserted farm of Harry Harper in southern Brook- field. The dog went directly to the barn and there in a hay mow the searchers came upon Woodward and the little girl. Although armed with a rifie and with five cartridges left, the former convict quietly submitted to arrest. Lucille, her rescuers said, wept when they took her away, and protested that she was afraid to go home. Wood- ward defended his action in taking her away by saying that the child was afraid of her father, Former Kaiser’s As Grandson’s BY LEOPOLD ALETRINO. By Radio to The Star and Chicago Daily News. AMSTERDAM, May 1.—A mys- terious silence surrounds the house of Doorn. The residence of former Kaiser Wilhelm has not been dis- turbed by political events in Ger- many. Mobnotonous daily life contirues regularly, although the former Kaiser and his “court” are listen- ing carefully to all sounds coming from Berlin. It goes without say- ing that the election of former Fleld Marshal von Hindenburg greatly pleases the former em- peror, who contrives, however, in a masterly way to conceal his thoughts. He is apparently reconciled to his fate and lives in silent retire- ment, spending quiet hours in the workroom in the “little tower” of the stately manor. He is in con- stant touch, however, with the leaders of the Berlin monarchist party, who keep him posted of wiu. and tel phed him the home | {Copy: Defects That Defeat Justice Reported to American Law Institute. Sweeping condemnation of American police methods and a demand for adoption by all States of a uniform and model code of criminal procedure to curb the alarming growth of crime port presented to the third annual meeting of the American Law Insti- tute, which opened its sessions today in_Memorial Continental Hall. Defects in existing cedure in the United States are held to be “directly contributing to this in- crease of crime,” and the institute was frankly told that there is more crime, with fewer convictions, in this country than in either England or Canada. Conditions generally ‘“emphasize the inadequacy of our police departments and peace officers,” the report as- serted. The report was prepared by a com- mittee headed by former Gov. Herbert S. Hadley of Missouri, now chancellor of Washington University, St. Louis, after a year of intensive research under authority of the institute. Other members of the committee Dr. William E. Mickell, dean of the sylvania, and John G. Millburn, promi- nent attorney of New York City. American ~ criminal procedure is slow and cumbersome; prisoners with money and influence can delay jus- tice to the extent of ofttimes defeai- ing justice under the present code, and too frequently the police depart- ments fail even to apprehend those who have committed crimes of a seri- ous nature, the committee told the institute. The ‘same necessity for the prepa- ration of a model code of criminal procedure has been pointed out b; practically every bar committee that has studied the subject of crimi procedure and the defects in our cri inal law in the past 10 years, the insti- tute was told. It was also announced (Continued on Page 3, Column 5.) Hopes Veiled Popularity Grows results of the election. But sen- sational reports of rejoicing at Doorn are erroneous. The former Kaiser. although he is highly satisfied with the success of the monarchists, never has been a personal friend of Hindenbers, who before 1914, had fallen into disgrace with the Kaiser. The for- mer Kaiser realizes that his chances of reascending the throne are very slight, and he now has set his eves and hopes on his grandson, Wilhelm, the eldest son of the former crown prince, who during the last few weeks suddenly has come to the front, and recently was received by the King of Spain on his visit to Madrid. But young Wilhelm heretofore mnever has cared much for his grandfather, and never has come to Doorn to see him. It seems this coolness results from the hos- tility of the Hohenzollern family toward Princess Hermine, the for- mer Kaiser's wife, who is still con- sidered an intruder. right. 1025, by Chieago Daily News Co.) strike today, | | sitions for ending the strike were sub- | the | side showed an | in this country are contained in a re- | criminal pro- | included | Law School of the University of Penn- | Public Health Service Seeks Means of Making River Itself Available. i BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. A of the Potomac River and its banks in the vicinity of Wash- | ington by the Public Health Service, in co-operation with the Health De. | partment of the District of Columbia was announced today by Surg. Gen Hugh S. Cumming, for the purpose of 1. Ascertaining the state of the wa- ter with regard to bathing | 2. Determining whether practical |and feasible steps may be taken to | render the river safe for bathing pur- | poses. | The planned should | prove of great value, particulariy if |it is found that through sewage dis- | survey survey now posal and regulation it will be pos. sible to provide bathing beaches in parts of the Potomac River itself ac- cessible to the residents of Washing- ton. Since the ban placed by Con. gress on the bathing beaches in the Tidal Basin, the people of Washing- ton have been left without bathing and swimming facilities, except the small municipal pools and such pri- | vate pools as are located in Wash- | ington Will Urge New Pools. Lieut. Col. Clarence O. Sherrill, su- perintendent of public buildings and grounds, under whose charge came the bathing beaches in the Tidal Basin, has declared that a survey of the Po- tomac River to determine what steps might be taken to minimize pollution should be made. Col. Sherrill said that | he was heartily in favor of the survey now to be begun by the Public Health Service. He is convinced, he said, that the Potomac River, under present con- ditions, is not safe for bathing because of the polluted condition of its waters. For that reason he is planning to sub- mit _estimates for large bathing beaches or pools, filled with filtered water, to the Budget Bureau and through it to Congress. Dr. William C. Fowler, health officer | of the District, has declared his will- ingness to co-operate’with the Public Health Service in the proposed survey of the river. Dr. Fowler said emphat- ically, however, that the Potomac River in the vicinity of Washington is now not fitted for bathing -purposes because of pollution.. | Will Make New Tests. Surgeon General Cumming in an nouncing plans for the survey said | that it would be begun in the near fu- ture and would be completed about | September 1 The Surgeon General said: “The Public Health Service, with | the co-operation of Dr. W. C. Fowler, ! health officer of the District of Co- {lumbia, is planning to make a sani- tary survey of the Potomac River in |the vicinity of Washington to make | bacteriological examinations of the | river water, with a view to determin- |ing whether it is safe and practicable to use any part of the river in this vi- feinity for bathing purposes. The work | will "continue throughout the Sum- mer months, and it is expected that the report of the findings will be is- sued early in September.” | May Divert Sewage. | The survey of the Potomac River jwill have two aspects. One will deal | with the engineering side of the ques- |tion involved, the other with the | bacteriological content of the river {during the months in which open-air |bathing and swimming is possible in | Washington. Under the first will come | methods’ of handling sewage through | interceptors and disposal plants and | regulatory measures to prevent pollu- tion through some of the sewage | which now empties into the river. The |analysis of the water during the sur- vey will be very complete. | "As a result of the survey it should {be possible to determine finally whether steps can be taken which will make it possible for the people of | Washington to make use of the great river which flows past their doors for | bathing and swimming. The hope is expressed, of course, that it will be possible to devise plans which will { make swimming in the river reason- {ably safe. |" But if the survey shows conclu- sively that the river cannot be used for bathing purposes, it will have served a useful purpose, both as a warning to the hundreds and thou- sands who use the river for swim- | ming now and as an indication to { the authorities that steps must be | taken to provide municipal bathing and swimming facilities entirely | apart from the river. Know River Is Polluted. The Public Health Service. under fan act of Congress approvea Au- | sust 14, 1912, is authorized to study | the “pollution, direct or indirect, of the navigable waters of the United | States.” This action was taken by | Congress in recognition of the fm- portance of the pollution of nav gable waters in certain sanita problems which are really national in scope. Pursuant to this act, the | Public Health Service made a very comprehensive survey of the pollu- tion and sanitary conditions of the Potomac_watershed, at_ the request of the Governors of Virginia and Maryland and the Commissioners of the District of Columbla. This in- vestigation was begun in June, 1913, and continued until May, 1914, It was under the direction of the.then Surgeon Hugh S. Cummings, now surgeon general. The Public Health Service, there- fore, is already in possession of very complete data about the Potomac River. It is in a position to bring this data up to date, so far as the waters and banks in the vicinity of Wash- ington are concerned, with the least effort and expenditure. After the survey has been completed it is probable that Surgeon General Cumming will assemble in Washing- ton a board of leading sanitary en- gineers and lay before it the results | " (Continued on Page 4,