Evening Star Newspaper, May 12, 1925, Page 17

ILL-FATED MISSISSIPPI Columbia Landing. lost. Below. left cued 30 passengers, RIVER STEAMER. Tenn., when loaded with engineers who were on Mayor Rowlett e of Memphi Below, at right: . Howard Fe Above: Tenn., congratula Copyrig ews Ill ruments DANGE HALL CURB | ~ WINS INDORSEMENT | Council of Social Agencies| Favors Regulation—Night i | —Rules pro- wper photographs and barring the use teleg ph, tele- phone or radio instruments in sending forth news matter were under consideration today by judges of the Superior, Circuit d Criminal Courts The judges planned the move as the fir: in a program de- signed eflect in the newspa- vers a dignified administration of Justice Type ruments, mned esp extensively ypewriter: Life Here Scored. s Evil of “improper” dance halls and | . their demoralizing effect in Washing- ton on the younger scored and the princiy proposed ame lations for ds at a meeting ¢ cil of Social ernoon at for the amendmen Jones of the U who m the chara life here Officers of for the year Arthur C. Thider: vice succeeding treasurer, and executive Robe re- ted. The question of the communi ters and telegraph in- which have been con- ally, have been used indorsed | n Coun- aft- gt erday = social functions, such, for ins the Southern Relief ball and the Chil- iren’s Hospital ball.” Joseph Sanders, proprietor of the Arcade, one of the dance hall owners who responded to an invitation to be sident, | Dresent at the discussion, said he John | thought the regulations should provide John Thld nizations to which dance Goldsmith sed elected, | sible for the conduct of their A. The Arcade closed at 12 o'clock ever: night, Mr. Sanders said, venturing the | opinion that it would not be profitable chest was brought up, and the presi- | for most commercial halls to keep dent authorized to call a special meet- jopen after that hour. - The proposed ing of the council should the move- |amendment, Mr. Sanders thought, was ment for adoption of the chest plan | “rather brc it does not define for Washington seem to require ac- |clearly enou S to regu- tion by the council. late. Mis: Dance Hall Rulin; ! recr e pur. | that she M. lones exulain d the DUl |of the Women's Bureau, who S U I e Tamee | Wholly in favor of such a law. Tt sy tuo 80 ceach weelk ideclared that it was on record that license all public dance h nd i | there were “now some very undesir. structors, and pfice enforcement of |2 ters working as so-calle the ordinance in the hands of the po- | inS , in dance halls. She re- e lated the story of a girl of 15, now in =1 {the National Training 00l 3ir] ho ha been an structor’” oving these principles, with the | Girls, who had o that in cartain cakes, at the |in one of the halls. Miss Burklin discretion of the police, the hour for | Said the council’s comittee on recre- R e mimnt 1o Iotee than 1080, " |ation was not agreed on the closing, the ordinance,” | hour feature of the amendment, as < to furnish reason. | Some thought leeway should be grant- able it police regulation | ed z for large charity affairs under for the conduct of night life in Wash- | Pror auspices. ington, and to furnish the constituted | Organizations which have approved officers of the peace with proper | the amendment are on the records of e council as the Young authority to just law. |the council as I oung M Only in this way may the community | Chr Association, Young Wom- expect to curtail the demoral |en N an As Lm_n, the Trav- growth of bootlegs hip: |elers” Aid Society, Juvenile Protective transportation of )r, joyriding | Association, Friendship House Asso- and pettin ies in the hours after | ¢ Neighborhood House, Social midnight. These various customs in | Hygiene Society and Florence Crit- wild night life have become thorough- | tenton Mission. 1y commercialized, and they are a dis- | Mrs. Walter grace to the proud name of Washing serious cha of some nigl council wer M Mrs. Charl Newhold Nc ancer: Lyd ation Burklin, the chairman council, reported of Explained. e ained that poli public night, to were sociation went on record as Ufford, representing Protective Association, entation at the Na- Wednesday of a bene- her association Aid, “Alice in the Twentieth Cen tire on Washin the Juvenile ton. Is it common sense to regulate |announced pre every mode of life and conduct from |tional Theater sun-up till bedtime and cquntenance (fit entertainment for unregulated conditions that are lur-{and the Travelers’ ing thousands of young folk to ruin |Blunderland,” by between midnight 4 Well, | tury Club. Tt is that’s exactly what we a As the performance will be fc The ordinance, he said, would not [the henefit of two member azencie: affect “affairs in the large hotels, and jof the council, she strongly urged its in bona fide clubs, conducted as purely support. {ton The steamboat M. E. Norman, which capsi n exc By Chicago Courts houldsbe held respon- | had conferred with officials | She § for | Men's | B. Bridge- y Depart- National Photo retary Wilbur at the ed near rsion. Twenty-three lives were ting Tom Lee, a boatman, who res ton, who commanded the M. E. Norman. ht by P. & A. Photos and Wide World. DRY LAW IS WINNING, May Be Banished | U. S. MARSHAL SAYSl | Snyder Discloses Captured Alcohol | Aids Postal Trucks in % Winter. Prohibition is gradually becoming effective in the United States, Edgar C. Snyder, United States Marshal for the District of Columbia, declared in an address at the weekly luncheon of the Newcomer’s Club at the City Club yesterds Mr. Snyder told of the thousands of bottles of ligior destroyed by his office 4and said that he was turning all the denatured alcohol confiscated by him over to the Post Office Department for use in their trucks and cars in the Winter. He said this department spent about $50,000 for alcohol last | vear. ~All the jars and bottles are | being turned into the Department of Agriculture. The speaker declared that the storage of confiscated cars was cost- ing the Government $5 per car each | month and he suggested that these | cars be turned over to the Federal | departments who need them but have not been | from Congress. | In outlining the work of the local | marshal's office, Mr. Snyder said that | his department served 92,000 papers last vear and the 60 deputies under | him traveled about 1,500,000 tiles to | serve the papers. LATIN .bIPLOMATS LEAVE Dr. . L. -8 | Party on Three-Day Visit as | Guests of Trinkle. Diplomatic representatives of a number of Latin-American countries, accompanied by Dr. L. S. Rowe, di- rector general of the Pan-American Union, left here last night by steam- ship for Norfolk, where today they be- gan a three-day tour of Virginia at | the invitation of Gov. E. Lee Trinkle. Those who accepted the invimtion were: Ambassador Mathieu of Chile, Minister La Tour of Guatemala, Min. ister Alfaro of Panama, Minister Orea- muno of Costa Rica, Minister del Ariza {of the Dominican republic, Minister Ayala of Paraguay, Minister Freye of | Bolivia, Minister Oritz of FEcuador, Minister Bogran of Honduras, Charge Gracio of Brazil, Charge Padro of Cuba, Charge Tigerino of Nicaragua, Charge Castro of Salvador and Charge Yanes of Venezuela. - Madrid to Have Radio Exposition. A radio exposition is to be held at the Ice Palace, Madrid, in November, jaccording to a report today to the Department of Commerce. American manufacturers have heen invited to attend the exposition und to display their products, Rowe Accompanies able to get appropriations | FOR TOUR OF VIRGINIA, | Washington | new conduit he declared that a high MAY 12, 1925. i T S A GROUP OF OLD-TIMERS. Left to right: Col. Lee Crandall of Wash- ington, 93 years old, a member of Camp 171 of the Confederate Veteran: Chief Good EIk, 96 years old, and Ezra Meeker, 95 years old, who blazed the Oregon Trail. The Indian and Meeker are with the 101 Ranch show. National Photo, Edouard Albion, manager of Washington Opera Company, has charge of 1 i at the Washington Auditorium, May 15, for the Walter Wynn fund. the YOUNG ORATORS VISIT MO AMBASSADOR AND NAVAL COMMISSION Ambassador, with his a House yesterd ZIHLMAN TELLS DISTRICT NEEDS; SEES FAVORABLE LEGISLATION AT THE WHITE HOUS e, and the Argentine naval commission, visitors w Pleads for Better Sewerage, Lighting, W ater Supply, Paving, School Program, Park System and Hous- ing Facilities in Talk to Capital Business Men. A comprehensive program of local legislation for the next session of Con- gress, which if enacted into law would | place the National Capital in the front ranks of civic achievement, was out- lined by Representative Fred N. Zihl- man, chairman of the House District committee, in an address before nearly 400 leading Washington business and | professional men_ who attended the Intercivic Club dinner at the May- le flower Hotel last night. of the class of citizens who need it, As Representative Zihlman outlined |0 give them decent and sanitary the program, which he hoped would |homes, can be devised. The question meet with the favor of the coming | Of alley dwellers should be but a mere Congress, the Washingtonians present | memory five years from now,” de- cheered from time to time as they |clared Representative Zihlman. He realized that many of the urgent needs ifllso predicted that at the next ses- of the District that have been allvo- |sions of Congress the remaining four cated for years would at last get a)9angerous grade crossings would be chance before the Legislature. eliminated e s (. Favoring the development on Great raises Civ les. { Falls and the installation of a hydro- Praising the work of the civic and | electric system, the speaker declared trade organizations of the city Repre-|that he felt that the question would sentative Zihlman outlined “‘What I v be solved one way or the other at the hope Congress will do for Washing- | next Congress. ton.” The chairman of the District House Traction Merger Plan. committee began his list with the im- | He held forth that the hopes of the provement of streets in Washington. | merger plan affecting the street rail. “The streets of the National Capital | o S€\ g oo g e The st R ational capital | ways would be successful to “put all Should be properly paved, and as much | these corporations under one board, e e (h0%ible should be on hand |to be regulated for the public. in- Lo mttaln P e e S e s terest.” He urged the establishment . of a separate public utilities com- Hp::e tax might be used for this pur- m:asgun that would relieve the Com- i missioners “of the technical duty of Byetylomeiame ::eesm;‘r‘(;pi'; fixing the rates of the public utilities.” ey facilithes. | Broader powers for the Commissioners Teas are mot s Juwurs.bu o moders | (o elleve the- neceauity ‘ot Congress 3 With minor matters affecting necessity and the people of the A National Capital are entitled to them,” | h® District was also advocated - =i Representative Zihlman said he "Amid the applause of those present |Would Introduce a bill for the estab. he urged that Congress should provide |lishment of a separate public utilities a better lighting system in Washing- f:;:;';"g:g"r V{;ll:h an attorney to rep- ton, and_with the completion of the |res public. D In discussing the future fiscal re- lations between the National Capital and the Federal Government, Repre- sentative Zihlman declared himself in favor of the lump-sum appropriation. He sald, however, this should not be a fixed amount, but should be increased as the city grows. A fixed amount, he said, would not be fair to the city. He urged the people of the District to cultivate the kindly feeling that is growing between Washingtonians and Congress and to sell Washington and themselves to the members of Con- gress. Following the addresses by Repre- sentative Zihlman and Lieut. Col. C. O. Sherrill, director of the office of public buildings and public parks of the District of Columbia, who spoke | commission planning the extension of | the Botanic Gardens will bring a plan to Congress that will be justified in its adoption; and serious thought should be given to the acqusition of all the property on the south side of Pennsylvania avenue from the Treas- ury to the Capital for the future needs of the Federal Government,” declared the speaker. Adequate housing facilities in the District were also urged. “Surely some plan on a profitable basis, to take care water pressure system should be in- stalled to protect the downtown busi- ness area from the danger of fires. School Program Favored. “I hope that the example set by the last Congress in respect to the local school System will commend to the coming Congress a far-reaching pro- gram of modern school construction that will set the National Capital in a standing with those of other cities,” he declared, in outlining the need for adequate school facilities. The extension of the parKing sys- tem “and a plan of park development that will make the parks of the Nation's Capital the most beautiful system in the country” was also ad- vocated by the speaker, who expressed |of the liberality of the last Congress, his hope that the proposed boulevard |citing the legislation affecting schools, connecting the old Civil War forts |traffic, parks. the Memorinl Brids around the city will eventually be-|etc., Commissioner Bell tock issue come a reality. “I trust that the[with them, declaring, “Congress was . 'the tra NINETY-FIVE YEARS OLD, HE 1853, driving one of the 101 Ranch now nected with the circus which is {5 UNT VERNON IN THEIR SIGHTSEE at the home of George Washington yesterday. The boys and girls are being conducted to all the historic places about the Capital City Vachingt Honorio Pueyrredon, Argentine ith President Coolidge at the White National Photo. MAN AND CHILD HURT | | Ten Persons Slightly Injured in | Traffic Accidents About Capital. A child and man were struck and knocked down by an Jut obile a they stepped from a street oading platform at Georgia and New Hamp- shire avenues yesterday. They vear-old Viola Crump of 619 Rock Creek Church road, and James J. McCarron, 78, a resident of Soldiers’ Home here. The two were shaken and bruised, but not serio injured. They were treated at Garfleld Hospital. The automobile was driven by Arthur O. Fowler of 54 Rhode Island avenue. Cora Bunnell, 44, 505 Eighteenth street, was knocked down near Penn- Ivania avenue and Eighteenth street | early this morning by the automobile | of Paul E. Schwetler, Cleveland |avenue, who was fofced to make ! quick move to avoid striking an | mobile that came to a sudden stop |in front of him. The injured woman {received first aid at Emergenc: Hospital. While putting air in a tire of his automobile in front of 3054 Mount Pleasant street last night W. C. D ter, 26, 5412 Sixteenth street, was knocked down by an automobile and injured about the body and right arm. Pursied by Harry Cohen, a ta driver, the driver of the car that in- |jured Dexter jumped from his ma- chine on Belmont road and disap- peared. A safety zone post at Penn: avenue and Twentieth street, struck by automobiles on two prior oc sions, was struck by the automobile lof R. G. Bowman, Southern Railway Building, late last night, post and ma- chine being damaged Harry Clem, 24, occupant of the automobile, wr cut about the face. He received treat- ment at Emergency Hospital. Other persons mentioned in police reports as having been injured in traffic accidents yesterday were Miss Annie Adler, 3000 Connecticut avenue; William Ramsay, 23, Winston-Salem, N. C.; Vincent Beede, 44, 1322 New | York avenue; Thomas J. Davis, 9, 1010 Eighteenth street, and Mrs. Mary F. Balderson, 60, 433 Tenth street southwest. e ylvania generous in letting us spend our own money,” and pointing out that every $1,000,000 added to the budget was 10 cents extra on the local tax rate. Director of Traffic Eldridge reiter- ated his policies in regard to his ef- forts to make the streets safe in Washington. He deplored poor head- lights and brakes, and stated that in the examination of 265 headlights re- cently only one set was found per- fect. “Sixty per cent of the fatalities |last year were aiter 6 p.m., indicat- ing that the poor lighting of the city and bad headlights fic problem.” said Mr. Eldridge. | He also scored the careless and drunk- en drivers. | GETTING OFF TROLLEY were | | the greatest possible public utility and might be much of | views before any STILL DRIVES OXEN. Ezra Meeker, who blazed the Mecker, who is at mearly the century showing in Washington. Oregon Trail, in “schooners.” mark in age, Nat con- R ING TRIP. Contestants who took part in the national event in Washing > LARGEST AUXILIARY SCHOONER. The Speejacks, the ry schooner built on the Atlantic coast in 1924-1925, sliding at Neponset, Ma A large crowd witnessed the launching. | |Lucy Stone League ey Ston Loz EFFENGY RULE L Mo Nome - (NG ST thl-i‘\\' YORK, May 12.—Members -of aim "of which 1s the st of miden| ONe Rating May Be Substi- by lh::,\@ entitled to use (!1(3‘ #%| tuted for Two, as Under Present System. gest_auxil down the wa names prefix M were rejoicing in the fact that the bride of “F. P. A New York news per humorist | had been given permission to use her | maiden name on a passport for her ropean honeymoor. Permission for her “Esther Sayles Root, wife of F lin P. Adams,” will be the first plication of a recent decision by State Department made in r to arguments by Lucy Stoners in the | National Women's Party. The Lucy Stoners were well resented at the Adams-Root m: in Greenwich, Conn.. last The list of guests, as furnished to| the papers, comprised married folks, but only a few of them were indi. ated as such. For instance, the mentioned “Miss Neysa McMein and John Baragwanath, Miss | Hale " and Heywood Bro seems as if there is mnot unanimity among those whom Mrs. Gertrude therton termed the “'sophisticate. . : in the matter of maiden names, for |R3rtments and establish the list referred to “Mr. and Mrs.| Probably the most import Ring Lardner.” | modifications bein The country Final Deci |ding was held is on the border of| xy fina der |New York and Connecticut. Mr.|, o il decision will o ns could not remarry in New !¢ the Personnel Clagsific | York, where he had been divorced|ff fie, Dersonnel Classification Boar: [ e e teit was A wedilingdyiy ~ until - some’ time. later. when InAeh of o0 oeC from the New Yorlt - 5aiiia) notice will be sent to the ey ‘{‘)g{tg;:‘slf‘.(he estate to the Connect!-|ornment departmer and establish St SRAIN WILL OPPOSE LEASE |/, i o i e OF MUSCLE SHOALS Should one of the two ratings be abolished, according to Mr. Bailey it would be the one of November Coolidge Against Temporary Rental of Power Product of Big Alabama Plant. to travi The Personnel in formally departments Classification Bo: notifying all Government establishments to prepare to make their efficiency rat- ings of all emploves May 15 has in- or,. | timated that a proposal is under way rep- | e oo |to change the svstem to | semi-ann s . ing of each Government worker. | of 11 the ‘modifications in the rating system fication act and_ope: | rection of the Burea the Personnel 'd, the proposal to elimin ratings is circular sent ency ation to nt of the considered. ate where the wed ion Delayed. ion will be re: proposal, there ar ions |“to_provide for interim ratings for employes who, because of changes in |duties or recent appointment, have |not been rated in their current posi tions after occupying them a sufficient |time tb constitute a reasonable basis {of rating The efficiency ratings circulax 11, containing the orders for May 15 s unwilling to [ratings and proposals as to changes, make any temporary disposition of {was signed by both Herbert D. Brown, the power produced at the Muscle |chief of the Bureau of Efficiency, and Shoals dams until it is shown that by | Chairman Bailey of the Classification so doing he will not hamper the es- | Board. tablishment of a permanent policy | The Bureau of Efficiency which the Government can follow in |developed today, is making dealing with this property. of Government His present intention, it was said at |establishment heads concerning new the White House, is to await the re- | regulations which are under con port of the commission which has |sideration to govern the selection of been appointed to survey the problem. [employes for demotion or separation The President cgnsiders that the ob- |from the service ject of the Government in managing the property must be to obtain from it x e Chile to Revise Basic Law. SW YORK, May 12.—Chile is ming a new constitution, which will The commission will formulate its President from domination by teps will be taken, | al parties, Admiral Carlos Ward probably even before the Government | Chil na commissioner, &aid on In connection with the single rati L A President Coolidge it also an inquiry departmental and the greatest monetary return to the Treasury that can be obtained in con- sideration of the first object. consents to even a short-time leas today from Valparaiso on covering the water-power Installation, | his way to London,