Evening Star Newspaper, July 6, 1925, Page 1

A WEATHER. (U. §. Weather Bureau Forecs tomorrow Fair tonight; morning and probably th: ers in afternoon; continued warm. Temperatures—Highest, yesterday; lowest, 73, at 5 Full report on page 7. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 20 13 fair in undershow- 91, at noon a.m. today. 0. 200651, e WEEK END MISHAPS TAKE TOLL OF 25; 115 MOTOR DEATHS Bathing, Disaster in Bostonf and Fireworks Claim | Many Lives. CASUALTIES IN EAST HEAVIER THAN IN WEST Pyrotechnics Ifill Eighteen and Two Fourth of July Stunt Flyers Die. Two hundyed and twenty-five per lost thefir lives in week end mis- | haps attendfing the celebration of the | Fourth of July, according to figures | gathered rom all over the Natton by | the Associated Press at Chicago. Of | these, 115 were caused by motor acci- | dents. gn unprecedented toll for a holiday that has always claimed | many flives. Never in the days of | the urirestricted use of fireworks in | all Sisites did the toll mount to such & figvre Dre;wnings during the holiday week end totaled 46. Forty-four persons are, known to have perished when a | Bo'ston building collapsed on more tk.an 100 persons in a cabaret. Fourth At July celebrations resulted fatally for 15 participants. and airplane | crashes killed 2. Twenty-seven casualtie: of the automobile were reported in Chicago and vicinity, with 11 from other lo- calities. Indiana had 9 deaths, Pacific coast 10, Ohio 29 and Rich Hill, Mo., 2. Five were killed in Massachusetts, £ in Connecticut and 6 in Rhode Is. land crashes. Two were killed in a ng accident in Montreal, 3 died ew York City and 5 in other rts of the State; 8 in New Jer- 2 in Pennsylvania, and 1 at Pal- yra, Ontario. The East also re.| ported 175 injured in automobile mis haps. Many Were Drowned. Nine persons were drowned at re sorts in the vicinity of Chicago and five other deaths occurred in the Mid dle West. Kight were drowned in| Ontario, and the waters about New | York claimed 10. Four were drowned | in Indiana. Two bathers died near | Wilkes-Barre, Pa.. and at North Dorset, Vt., and one each at Peeks- kill. N. Y. 'and Lake Ariel, Pa., and | Wilmington, Del. Three were drowned | in New Jersey. A arold girl died at Pat- chogue, N. Y., as a result of eating a_firecracker and another girl at Shamokin, Pa., was so severely burned when a rockat set fire to her | clothes that she died. A Haverhill, Mass., man intending to frighten friends with firecrackers, plunged down a flight of stairs and died of a fractured skull. Four deaths from | fireworks and firearms occurred in New York City and one each in Worcester, Mass.; Waterbury, Conn.; Rochester, N. and two in New | Jersey, | Seven deaths from the Fourth cele- | brations were reported in the Mid- | west. A stunt fiver at Curtis Feld, Mineola, N. Y., was killed and his passenger injured when the plane| crashed 800 feet to the ground. Another pilot was killed and his passenger injured at Dexter, Me. ONE KILLED IN CRASH. = Ten Hurt When Two Autos Collide at Tampa, Fla. TAMPA, Fla., July 6 (#).—Ten per- | sons were injured, one of whom died a | few hours later, in a collision between | two automobiles in the outskirts of the city early last night. Three of them may not live, according to hos-| pital attendants. | Mrs. William Johnson, wife of one | of the drivers, died from injurles shortly before midnight. Her hus.! band and 4-year-old son Gorman, and | Mrs. Margaret Amos, wife of the other | driver, are in a serious condition. | Sheriff Hiers sald Johnson probably would be charged with manslaughter | it he lives ! KILLING OF THREE LAID TO TEXAS POLITICAL WAR| i Two Others Wounded in Gun Bat- tle at Door of Corpus Christie Road House. Br the Associated Prese CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex., July 6. A political feud of long standing be- ween two factions is believed to have inspired the shooting here last night which took the lives of three peace officers and wounded two other men. Paul McAllister, a deputy State game, | fish and oyster commissioner and former policeman: C. M. Bisbee, con- stable, and R. R. Bledsoe, deputy con- stable, were killed. R. McMurray of Three Rivers, Tex., and George Ryder of San Diego, Tex., were se- riously wounded. The five men appear to have met by accident at the entrance to a roadhouse near the city, and there the shooting began. McAllister was killed on the spot. Bledsoe and Bisbee died several hours later. Bledsoe or McAllister are belleved to have started the firing. They | were found lying in the road only fll few feet from each other. McAllister had been shot through the heart. | His revolver had been fired only | ence. Bledsoe had three bullet wounds. NO NOTE SENT RUSSIA ON CHINA BY ENGLAND| Chamberiain Tells Commons Gov- ernment Reserves Liberty to Take Any Action Required. Br the Associated Press. LONDON, July 6.—Foreign Secre- tary Chamberlain today told the House of Commons that Great Britain has sent no note to Russia regarding re- cent events in China, but that the British government “reserved fuil lib- erty to take whatever action it might think was required.” He was referring to reports that Britain might break diplomatic rela- tions with Russia because of alleged Soviet influence in the present Chinese troubles. 1 | 1 by airplane. | ble seems more practicable to them {ing the Eckner { Pocket of the clothing. { bandyings of Entered as second cl: Washing 'Planes Impractical in Arctic, @h [\ WASHINGTON, Amundsen and Ellsworth Say \Will Make No Further Effort, E xplorers Agree, But Concede Chance for BY JAMES B. WHARTON. Special Correspondent of The and North American Newspaper Alliance. 0, July 6.—Neither Amundsen Ellsworth will ever again at- tempt polar exploration with afr- planes. This decision has been reached by them after the most care- ful consideration of every factor in their recent flight. Their experience has proved conclusively, they be- lieve, that heavier-than-air craft are dangerous and impractical in the Arctic. Although ice and light conditions would not always be as unfavorable as they found them on this fiight, yet the prevailing uncertainty regarding these vital conditions seems to them to preclude further polar exploration Arctic travel by dirigi- « nor When I asked them point blank to- day if they were interested in Kck- ner's proposal to tryv for the P A super-Zeppelin, they said “Yes. indeed,” but they were non-commit- tal as to their own participation in such a project. Eckner has already | expressed himself as anxious to have them with him in the enterprise. Lincoln Ellsworth. the only Amerf can in the party of six men who made the great northward flight, is certain Iy not finished with the Arctic. “T have only just begun.” he said to me today. “The mysteries of the vast Polar Basin have a remarkable fasci nation. I have had only a taste of it It gets into your blood, and you must g0 on. That is how I feel.” Discuss project, Ellsworth added: “A lighter-than-air craft could always avold being crushed in the ice by hovering, or by keeping its weight 44 BODIES FOUND IN'BUILDING WRECK | More Victims Are Sought in Ruins of Boston Dance Hall. By the Associated Press BOSTON, July 6.—With the recov erv of four more bodies early today from the ruins of the building which housed the Pickwick Club, night life resort, the list of known dead from | the collapse of the building in the| early morning of July 4 had reached 44 when District Attorney Thomas C. O’Brien opened a grand jury investi- gation of the disaster today. Several of the victims had not yet been iden- tified. The body of Francis J. Driscoll of Roxbury, one of the four taken from the debris in the early morning hours, was identified by a union card in a He was busi- ness agent of the Plasterers’ Union and had gone to the club to meet an- | other union official for a conference, members of his family said. About six months ago Driscoll was appoint- ed superintendert of public build- ings by Mayor Curley, but the Civil Service Commisslon refused to ratify the appointment. Others who were found were Bart H. Chapman of Dorchester, Mrs. Lil- lian Mclsaacs of Roxbury and Miss Clara M. Frederick of West Roxbury. The district attorney had before him today as the first witnesses a number of consulting engineers, who were questioned as to the condition of the building before the fatal collapse. Grand Jury at Scene. The members of the grand jury visited the scene of the disaster at noon under the guidance of the Dis- trict attorney. The grand jurors were admitted to the ruins, where many workmen were searching for bodles of victims believed to be still buried and began a study of the structure of the wrecked building. = Mayor Curley had paid a visit to the ruins earlier in the day and direct- ed the searchers to demolish parts jof the structure that still remained standing in the hope that this would facilitate the recovery of the remain- Ing bodies. The grand jury will hear | witnesses later in the .day. By this morning searchers had found nearly all of those about whom this early morning life had centered. “Ella’s” body, Miss Ella_Cauley, was brought out pitifully bruised. In her dress they found the money for which she had smiled away the broad the guests that she might realize her hope of marriage and a home. Frank Tillo and Neddo Flanagan, who had won many local ring battles, were found. Inspector Benjamin Alexander of the Boston police, who had thought to add an- other arrest to the several made at the club, died in the wreck. Some of the bodies found were of persons pay- ing their first visit to the club, others were those of habitues. ©One man, his wife’s picture in the pocket over his heart, was found in the dead arms of another woman. | Occasionally a worker picked a bof Dirigible’ in | s Success. | off the ice through its gas content. 1 believe that any project for a polar flight should not be content with merely reaching the Pole, but should plan its route for a flight clear across the Pole, terminating in Japan.” Ells- worth pointed out that there s no longer any mystery about the air be- tween Spitzbergen and the Pole. While his airplanes reached only latitude 87.44, yet their areas of ‘‘observa- tion™ extended nearly a degree beyond this point, to within a hundred miles of the Pole. “The valuable area for scientific explorati now lies beyond the Pole,” he said. “There is undoubt- edly land in that district, a vast area of which has never been penetrated. Today, more than two weeks after |his return to Spitzbergen, Ellsworth still shows the marks of his experi ence in his face, which Is drawn and | wrinkled from ‘the strain of those | terrible days in the North. “I was my responsibility for the lives of the {men that wore me down,” he ex | plained today. For three weeks, dur ling their isolation in the North. Ells worth and Amundsen, in the hours | when they should have been sleep |ing, frequently paced the ice together beside their airplane, and told each |other, with the grim emphasis of rep etition: “‘We must not die up here.” Probably both men will try again, not with airplanes, but in some practical vehicle they will again stake | their lives against the Arctic, I feel sure. (Copyright. 1925 America and Japan in U. S, Canad by North ~American Newspaper Alliance: in England by Central News: in Germany by Ullsen Verlag. in France by Petit Parisienne: in Italy by Cor- riere delia Sera: in all Scandinavian coun- tries by ‘the Norwegian Aero Club. = All rights reserved.) RUIN OF HAWAIIAN OIL TANKS DENIED House Probers, However, Urge Filling Despite U. S. Case Prejudice. | BY Radio to The Star and Chicago Daily N HONOLULU, July 66.—"“Our Mili- tary and naval defenses in Hawaii are in excellent condition, and they, with the fleet, guarantee that no enemy can attack our Pacific coast.” A. E. Stephens of Cincinnati, chalrman of a delegation of elght members of the House committee on naval affairs, here on the United States transport Henderson to inspect Pearl Harbor, told the correspondent after five days of careful investigation of the naval and military defenses of this strongly tortified island of the Oahu, on which Honolulu, Pearl Harbor and numerous forts are located. “‘Contrary to the characteristic claims of alarmists that Hawali could easily be taken,” said Mr. Stephens, speaking for the delegation, “we have here a second Gibraltar safeguarding the United States in the Pacific. De- velopments, of course, are necessary We will recommend improvements to the House committee in December, but we are gratified to find the de- fenses in excellent condition.” Denies 0il Tanks Ruined. Mr. Stephens spiked circulated reports that the Doheny- constructed oil tanks were ruined by corrosion. The committee visited the tanks, which are said, with those con- structed earlier. to provide the largest | oil reserves storage in the world, hav- ing a capacity of 6,000,000 barrels. The tanks were tested with salt water on completion and not all the water was drained out, resulting in corrosion which a visiting newspaper corre- spondent has described as ruinous. The committee found one thirty-sec- ondth of an inch corrosion, which is easily removable with a hammer, dis- No material damage has been done and closing a small aperture will probably assure their remaining sound, but the Congressmen believe it is preferable to fill all the tanks with oil. Mr. Stephens favors acceptance of the Doheny offer to fill the tanks, but the Government's attorneys insist their case against Doheny would thus be prejudiced. They hope for an agreement of counsel and a court order for filling the empty tanks, with a capacity of 150,000 barrels. Doheny- built tanks of 55,000-barrel are already filled with reserve oil and are not corroded. Money Need Apparent. Inspection of Pearl Harbor con- vinced the committee of the wisdom of authorizing the expenditure of $6,000,000 for deepening, widening and straightening the channel to permit the largest battleships to enter the harbor. The House appropriations committee is certain to approve the recommendation adopted by the naval affairs committee of the last Congress, according to Mr. Stephens. The dele- gation will also recommend additional expenditure to develop sea walls and moorings, permitting lodgement and “(Continued on Page 3, Column repair_simultaneously of as many as (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) Natives Pay $25 Each to See Coolidge Swimmin’—But Sprite Is Dick Jervis By a Staff Correspondent. SWAMPSCOTT, Mass., July 6.— Reports that President Coolidge was swimming in the lcy waters of the North Shore, off White Court, induced a number of curious men and women each to pay $25 to a boatman yesterday to row them to view the unusual sight. Presidents seldom are seen in so unconventional attire as a bathing suit, and the possibility of seeing Calvin Coolidge splashing noncha- lantly in the chilly sea was too in- viting to forego, even if it cost $25 per glance. Sure enough, as the boat neared the rocky shore of White Court the figure of a distinguished-look- ing man was visible. The bather cavorted playfully in a small pool formed by the jutting rocks, div- ing, floating, standing on his head in the surf and performing other aquatic feats. Not until a number of boatloads had watched the spectacle with ill- concealed delight diq, the truth be- come known. The was that of Richard Jervis, head of the White House Secret Service staff. Mr. Coolidge really is going to follow Jervis’ example in a day or two, it is believed. Mrs. Coolidge could not resist the lure of the ocean waves herself this morning, S0 she donned an attractive bathing suit of dark materfal, with orange rubber cap, and got good and wet in the same pool used by the Secret Service man yesterday. ‘The President stood on shore and ‘watched Mrs. Coolidge enjoying her dip, and Secret Service men stood at a respectful distance. Returning from her bath, Mrs. Coolidge wore a gossamer cloak of light green shade. Mr. Coolidge is in the best of health at present, despite the nerv- ous strain upon him as a result of the iliness of his father. Dr. Joel T. Boone, medical officer on the Mayflower, saw the President this morning and pronounced him in ex- cellent physical condition, thanks to the salt air and change of sus- roundings. more | South | . |developing upon a larger scale than the widely ( closing the perfect metal underneath. | capacity | WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION P: r0; FRENCH QUST ARMY HEAD IN MOROCCO AFTER RIFF GAINS Guillaumat to Replace Lyau- tey as March Toward Fez Continues. ABD-EL-KRIM REINFORCED BY DEFECTION OF TRIBES Paris, Pessimistic Over Strife, Fears Great Onslaught Will Be Made Soon. | By the Assoc 1 July 6.—Supreme command | rench forces opposing the Riffans in Morocco is to be taken | from Marshal Lyautey, the governor | general, and inirusted to a general | Who will leave France immediately | for the front This decision. which is subject to ratification by the cabinet today, was reached at a council of war held last | night under the chairmanship of M. | Painleve. the premier and war min- | ister. The step is being taken, it is| explained, to allow Marshal Lyautey freedom in carrying out his adminis- | | trative and political duties. Guillaumat To Get Post. The man selected for the post is understood to be Gen. Guillaumat, commander-in-chief of the allied oper- ations in the Balkans during the World War. The probability of the appointment of Gen. Guillaumat seemed increased today when he visited President | Doumergue and Premier Painleve. His appointment is expected to be announced by the cabinet this evening. | Dispatches from Fez yesterday rep- | resented the situation in a highly pes- | simistic_light, with wholesale defec- | tions of hitherto friendly tribesmen and an insufficiency of French troops to hold the long line against Abd-el- ! Krim's drives in the direcion of Fez| |and Taza. This caused such a stir in Paris that | | Premier Painleve issued an explana- tory note declaring that “public opin lion” ought not to allow itself to be | disturbed by such episodes, which are j customary in colonial war: The impression prevails, neverthe- |less, that Abd-el-Krim's offensive is d Press {of the | i | i any he has thus far attempted. calling | for drastic action on the part of the French command. | The French have begun a counter | movement. and this is making con- | siderable headway, according to the {latest advices from headquarters, | Taza has become the center of in- terest on the Moroccan front. The tribes north of that city, which pre- viously have sided with the French, | now have rebelled, throwing their sup- port to Abd-el-Krim and thus increas- ing the danger to Fez from the east. | French official circles, however, ex. | press themselves as reassured by the | measures being taken to meet this | new development. FRENCH EXPERTS WORRIED. Are Doubtful of Abilities to Keep Fel‘ From Capture. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily New: | PARIS, July 6.—Premier Painleve’s| | conviction that whatever may happen, France will hold Fez is not shared in | certain military quarters which are keeping in close touch with develop- ! | ments on the Moroccan front. These observers believe that unless a powerful counter offensive is started | within a short time the Moroccan sa- cred town may fall into the hands of Abd-el-Krim, since the Riffian regulars, | according fo today's reports, are al- | ready within 15 miles of the city. Lack of Troops Felt. The critical situation of the French is due mainly to lack of troops. De- spite the government's good will in answering Gen. Lyautey's pressing de- mands for more troops and war ma- terials, the reinforcements sent are in- sufficient to cope with the situation because Ab-el-Krim's military forces increase with every, new progress of his mehallas. Lately the most trusted tribes have gone over to Abd-el-Krim because the French, adopting European war tac-| tics, have been withdrawing troops | from the curtain they had established along the frontier to protect the | tribes, and concentrating them at one | | | point, from which a great offensive will be launched as soon as sufficient | | reinforcements arrive. The tribes | thus abandoned, fearing Abd-el-Krim's ruthless vengeance, join his forces and attack the lines of communica- tion of their former defenders. (Copyright. 1925, by Chicago Daily News Co.) { FRENCH ADMIT LOSSES. Defections of Tribes to Abd-El-Krim Blow to France. | RABAT, French Morocco, July 6 (#).—The French military authorities | announce they have ‘“had to take special measures”” because the hos- tility of a number of tribes along the eastern sector has become so pro- nounced. The French government admitted Sunday night that the defections of Moroccan tribesmen previously friend- !ly to the French had strengthened Abd-El'Krim and given the French a serious setback. | RIFFS APPROACH TAZA. {Women and Children Removed From i City by French, FEZ, French Morocco, July 6 (#).— 1t was officially announced today that !the French have removed all women and children from Taza as a precau- |tion. Sunday night the French ad- mitted reverses on the front near Taza {in the war with Abd-el-Krim's Riffans. | The French severely defeated Abd- lel.Krim's tribesmen in two engage- ments vesterday. The Rifflans attacked near Ain Matouf and Kiffane. They lost heavily at the first and were rout- ed at the second place: The French captured all the arms and munitions of the attacking tribes- men. These successes, French officials said, have produced an excellent effect on some of the Moroccans whose loyal- \ M)\ \ (\\\\' l WARM D STEKY WEATHER 0 LAST Mercury Climbing as Upper Air Becomes Stagnant. No Relief in Sight. Washington is suffering from an at tack of heat stagnation in the upper atmosphere that is likely to keep the populace sweltering for some little time to come, according to Forecaster R. Hanson Weightman, who will do the prognosticating at the Weather Bureau during July. Scan as he did the maps today, Mr. Welghtman could discover nowhere a riffle on the horizon significant of re- lief, and he finally had to settle back in his chair, turn on the electric fan and predict 'a mounting temperature for today. By 4 o'clock this afternoon, he be- |lieves the mercury will have hit the general vicinity of the 94.degree mark about 4 points higher than yesterday mark of 90. There is a possibility of local thundershowers tomorrow after- noon, he advises, but even this dis- turbance is not expected to alter the | general temperature. Gentle southerly breezes tonight may aid perspiring citizens to sleep off their discomfiture, the forecaster states. As was the case this morning, the temperature probably will drop to about 73 degrees early tomorrow. “All in all, this weather is not un- seasonable,” Mr. Weightman declared today. “Warm and ‘sticky’ weather is always prevalent at this time of the vear, and Washington is not alone in this respect. I don't think we have anything to complain of. It might be a whole lot hotter.” Cool in Clouds. The coolest place about Washington today was found to be 10,000 feet above the city, according to the aerometeorograph, which is making daily upper air soundings in a Navy landplane for the information of the Weather Bureau. With the temperature at the ground about 90 degrees, Lieut. C. D. Palmer of the Naval air station at Anacostia, D. C., went aloft in the metereological plane. At 5,000 feet the instrument recorded a temperature of 63 degrees and at 10,000 feet it was Lieut. F. W. Reichelderfer, aerologist of the Bureau of Aeronautics, to whom the readings of the instrument were forwarded, interpreted them as meaning there would be no change in the condition as it exists today. 'THIRD OF D. C. STAFF TO GET PAY RAISES [Step-Up in Salary of Classified Workers Agreed by Committee. Approximately one-third of the claseified employes of the District Gov- ernment will receive a step-up in sal- | ary within the next few weeks in| accordance with the -~ appropriation act for the current fiscal vear, the District personnel committee an- nounced toay. The committee also decided as a matter of policy to give one step-up to all employes rated 85 per cent or over in efficiency before giving more than one step-up to any worker. Maj. Donovan explained that in some of the departments the number of employes to be given increases will have to be curtailed because part of the money allotted to those departments for increases has already been absorbed by re-allocating em- ployes to higher basic salaries. Engineer Commissioner rell, who attended the conference of the com- mittee this morning, said it probably would not be possible to put tbe step- up increases into effect until the pay day at the end of July. CUBAN IS EXECUTED. Army Private Faces Firing Squad for Murder. HAVANA, July 6 UP).—Private Luis Cabrera of the Rural Guard today was shot by a firing squad at the Pinar del Rio Barracks. He was sen- tenced to death by a court-martial for the murder of Corp. Crespo November 11, 1924. ty to tie French has been doubtful of late. Radio Programs—Page 16. This is the first military execution in more than five years. Two death sentences from the civil courts of the Province of Pinar del Rio now are awaiting presidential approval. The last civil execution was in 1908, ¢ Foening Star. The Star’ every city b tion is delive “From Press to Home Within the Hour” s carrier system covers lock and the regular edi- red to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Sunday 80,752 101,372 ation, s Circulation, MONDAY, JULY 6, 1925—-TWENTY-SIX PAGES. AS PINCHOT PICTURES COLOMBIAN CITY BURNS. Fire Damage at Manizales Esti- mated at $20,000,000. NEW YORK, July 6 P).—A cable gram recelved by the consulate gen eral of Colombia today reported the destruction by fire of a large part of the City of Manizales, 110 miles north | west of Bogota, capital of Colombia. The commercial section of the city was wiped out, the cable said, with |a loss estimated at $20,000,00. [ - | Steps to Make Water Safe for Bathing to Be Taken If Condition Permits. Survey of the waters of the Potomac River near Washington to determine what steps, if any, may be taken to render the river safe for bathing is now beginning by the United State: Public Health Service. The survey, which is to be made with the co. operation of the District health officer, Dr. William C. Fowler, will be in charge of Assistant Sanitary Engineer A. F. Allen, who has just come to Washington to have charge of the work, under the direction of Surg. Gen. Cumming. Dr. Allen, who will give his whole time and attention to the survey of the Potomac, has established his head- quarters at the Hygienic Laboratory of the Public Health Service, where the samples of the river water will Fowler, and with the District engineer and other officlals who may be of as- sistance in carrying on the survey. Will Report to Congress. Samples of the river water will be taken and tested until the middle of September. The engineering prob. lems relating to the disposal of sewage and the minimizing of the river pol- lution also will be studied by Dr. Allen. When the survey has been completed a report will be compiled with recommendations. This report will be available for Congress when it tackles the problem of adequate out- door public bathing facilities for the people of the District of Columbia. Dr. Allen has had wide experience during his connection with the Public pollution. He was ordered back here from Texas by the Surgeon General to have charge of the survey here. If it is possible to reduce the river pollution through the better disposal of sewage now emptying into it so that the river may be safe for bathing purposes from a sanitary point of view, the problem of outdoor bath- ing would largely be solved for Wash- ington. Public bathing beaches along the river, with proper life guards and bath houses, could be established at a comparatively small cost. If it is found that the river cannot be used, then Congress will have to turn to the establishment of artificial pools, filled with filtered water. But the pur- pose of the survey now starting is to place the fullest information in the hands of Congress when it undertakes to establish bathing beaches for the people heré. Two Injured in Auto Collision. Special Dispatch to The Star. HARPERS FERRY, W. Va, July Mr. and Mrs. Wood of Baltimore, driving a Chevrolet sedan, were slightly injured yesterday when the sedan was demolished about one mile from town in a collision with another machine. By the Associated Press GENEVA, July 6.—Mrs. Wood- row Wilson, unostentatiously and with the general public not aware of her presence, yesterday made a modest pilgrimage to the League of Nations, for the creation of which her husband was primarily responsible. She arrived quietly from Paris, accompanied by Miss Belle Baruch, daughter of Bernard M.’ Baruch, and Miss Johnson of New York, and spent several hours walking about league headquarters. It was her first visit here. Miss Florence Wilson, a distant relative of the former Presicent and librarian of the League of Nfjions, and, Miss Alice Bartlets, IT. - OF RIVER IS BEGUN be tested for bacteria and pollution. | He will confer immediately with Dr. | Health Service in problems of river | (®) Means Associated Press. BANDITS HOLD UP -~ TAXICAB OFFICES Armed Men, Faces Partly Concealed, Take $150 Cash and a Check. Two armed bandits, their faces partly concealed with handkerchiefs entered the office of the Blue and Gray Taxicab Company, 212 Thirteenth street, shortly morning. held up William P. Turner, night superintendent, and two chauf. feurs, Charles A. Reardon, 3262 M | street, and Frank A. Upton. 1317 Pennsylvania avenue southeast, and obtained $§150 for a similar sum. Reardon told the armed men he could not comply with their demand to hold up his hands because he had A sore arm, and again came the de- mand, “Stick 'em up!” It was after the second demand that Reardon and two disguised and armed men were serious. Ordered to “Face the Wall." An order to face the wall and re- main quiet under penalty was complied with by the trio. A hatchet was used by one of the rob bers to open the cash drawer. Ob- taining the cash and check, the men walked quietly from the office and went south on Thirteenth Presently the men left in the office heard noise of the starting of an automobile, and took it for granted that the disguised armed men had the car in waiting. Colored Man a Witness. They said it was full~ half an hour before they were able to get a story. Later Detectives O'Brien and Nally took up the investigation. A saw the armed men enter the build- ing. He hid behind an automobile, he explained, fearing he would shot if he made an outery. STETSON APPOINTED MINISTER TO POLAND Philadelphian Had Not Begun Duties in Finland and Pearson ‘Will Go There From Warsaw. By the Associated Press. SWAMPSCOTT, Mass., The appointment of ohn son, jr., of Philadelphia a minister to Poland s today. At Warsaw Mr. Stetson, who new in the diplomatic service, succeed A. J. Pearson, transferred to Finland as minister. Some time ago Mr. son was named to the Finland p but he had not taken over his dutie: there. It is understood that Mr. Pear. son requested the transfer to Finland one of the reasons being that found the expenses incident to serv. ice in Poland higher than he Justified in meeting. JARDINE IS STILL ILL. July B. American announced [ to Be Serious. MANDAN, N. Dak Willlam M. Jardine, § and suffering from an attack of in end here. He became ill when in Mon. tana last week. serious. Mrs. Wilson Makes Secret Pilgrimage To Headquarters of League of Nations assistant librarian, Mrs. ¢ 2 She ent to see a tablet dedicated to Woodrow Wilson and placed in a wall of the league building, fac- ing the Quai Wilson. Before she arrived Misses Johnson and Baruch had placed wreaths there. Mrs. Wilson left last night for Venice, where she has taken a palace for August. She expects to return to Geneva for the Septem- ber meeting of the league's as- sembly. Mrs. Wilson salled for Europe in May, expressing a desire to avoid publicity as much as possible and saying she merely wished to travel quietly over France and some other parts of escorted after 3:30 o'clock this| in cash and a check | the other men fully realized that the | of death! street. | policeman, to whom they related the| colored man emploved in the garage| get | is will who has been American Stet- he felt Secretary’s Condition Is Said Not July 6 (#).— retary of Agri- culture, was still somewhat indisposed digestion when he left last night for Minneapolis after spending the week His condition is not TWO CENTS. ZONING LAW HELD CONSTITUTIONAL AS - VITAL STATE RIGHT Police Power Includes Au- thority to Control Buildings, Says D. C. Supreme Court. MANDAMUS IS DENIED IN STEERMAN ACTION Failure of Woman to Specify Type of Business Intended in Stores Fatal to Case Justice s Bailey of the Dis- trict Supren Court today upheld the constitutionality of the zoning law and declared the regulation of the Zoning Commission as to the locating of busi ness houses in residential a8 to be neither “arbitrary nor unreasonahle. The court accordingly denied an appli- cation of Mrs. Annie Steerman for a mandamus against Col. John W. Oeh- mann, building inspector; the District Commissioners and the Zoning Com mission to compel the issuance of a | permit to make alterations to premises {1656-38-60 Columbia road so that the property could be used for business purposes. | The court points out that the zoning laws are within the police power as de. fined by the United States Supreme Court when that tribunal said ‘We hold that the police power of a state embraces regulations designed to pro- mote the public convenience or the zeneral prosperity as well as regula- tions designed to promote the public | health, the public morals or the pub- lic safety. The regulation against business | houses in residential areas, the court declares, is designed to promote the | public convenience as well as the | public health and safety © This is shown, he says, both hy common knowledge and from the testimony in- troduced by the defendants. Busines houses in such areas, the court de- clares, are in the nature of a nuisance. Legislature May Act. Like most general laws, the court suggests, this regulation as to zoning may work hardships in individual cases and there might be some forms of business which could be conducted in such locations without injury to the public convenience, health or morals, but since the legislature has power of the general policy of a law it may also determine the question of fact upon which the legislation is based and may prescribe general rules not arbitrary or unreasonable. In this event, savs Justice Bailey, the courts are bound by the acts of the legislature. Failure of Mrs. Steerman to set out | the use for ‘which she intended her property—what kind of business—is declared by Justice Bailey to have been fatal to her case and to have been enough to bar her from the re- | lief_asked. The opinion of the court reads “In my opinion, the zoning law is within the constitutional power of | Congress, being included in the police | power as defined by the Supreme | Court in C., B. & Q. Railway Co. vs. | Drainage Commissioners, 200 U. S. 561, where the court said We hold that the police power of | a State embraces regulations designed ! to promote the public convenience or | the general prosperity, as weli as reg- ulations designed to promote the | public health, the public morals or {!ha public safety.’ | “The particular provisions of the | zoning regulations attacked in this case, those prohibiting business | houses in residential sections, are in my opinion designed to promote the public convenience as well as the public health and safety, and this I find to be the case, both as a mat- ter of common knowledge and from the testimony introduced by the de- fendant. There seems to be nothing arbitrary or unreasonable in this limitation on the use of property in resident sections or in the particular |section in which relator’s property { lies. i “I think, too, that the effect of the |decision in Hadarcheck vs. Sebastian, | 239 U. 8., 394, is to sustain the power |of the Legislature to prohibit the conduct of any business in a resi- dential neighborhood as being in the nature of a nuisance in such a loca- { tion. { tet- Application Denied. “It may be true that the zoning law or the zoning regulations may, as general laws usually do, work an injustice in particular instances, but they are not unconstitutional for that reason. It is true, too, that there | might be some form of business which might be conducted in relator's prop- {erty without injury to the public con- venience -or health or morals, but where the general policy of the law lis within the powers of the Legisla- ture it is also within its powers to determine the questions of fact upon which its legislation is based and to prescribe general rules designed to carry out its nurpose and where there is nothing arbitrary or unrea- sonable in its determination of those {facts the courts are bound by its |act | esides, in the Instant case a relator in her petition does not state the particular business for which she intends to use her property and, even if the question were materiai, the court cannot determine whether the particular use would or would not be la detriment to others in the par- ticular neighborhood. This omission is alone sufficient, I think, to bar realtor from the relief asked. “It results, therefore, that the ap- | plication for a writ of mandamus will be denied and the petition dismissed.” Bell Is Gratified. Engineer Commissioner Bell, chalr- | man of the Zoning Commission, today expressed gratification over the deci- sion of the court, and said he regard- ed the case as an important one, since it involved the question of regulating Dbusiness development in residential sections. “I am gratified_at the outcome of the case,” Col. Bell said, “and the commission is also deeply appreciative of the support it received not only from the citizens but from the busi- ness and real estate organizations of the city.” In preparation for the case a citi- zens’ committee raised a fund with which it_employed Edward M. Bassett of New York, a legal expert on zoning laws, to assist Corporation Counsel Stephens and Assistant Corporation Counsel Wilkes in defending the com- mission. BT