Evening Star Newspaper, July 15, 1925, Page 1

Vg WEATHER. (U. S. Weather Bureau Forecast.) ‘ Partly cloudy tonight and tomor- B nmI row. not much change in temperature. Temperatures: Highest, 85, at 4:10 pm. vesterday; lowest, 66, at b a.m. tod Full report/on page 7 Late N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 28 WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION sl n g Sta city block and the reg tion is delivered to W as the papers are printed “From Press to Home Within the Hour” carvier syste wvers ar edi- hington homes Yesterday’s Circulation, 94,830 50 Entered as post office No. 29,6 e WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, 1925—-FORTY-FOUR PAGES. Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS ‘World Flyers’ Flagship Plane RAULSTON DENIES Flye MOTHN 10 QASH, e SCOPESINDICTMENT - Praced in National Museum Here re RIS Unanswered by War Department. i 5 Re]eCtS Every ArgumentOf Reque: of the Army Air Service| W. de (. Ravenel, in charge of the - and the National Museum to the War | museum, said he received a letter from fered by Evolution | Department that the museum here be | the War Department in April asking the final resting place of the most fa-|if the museum wanted any of the ¢ Defense. mous of all airplanes—the Chicago, | pla He replied on April 10 that flagship of the world flight—have met | he “would be glad to have the Chicago e ! with no response and the alrplane now [or any one.” His letter never was HOLDS TENNESSEE LAW |is wasting away in a hangar at Me-|answered, Mr. Ravenel said. At the problem of its final disposition mno zhn:i ll]’m 4"u_\- nr‘ (-mu;u:'l.l hm]lq r:m‘:?o 4 nearer solutiof & Seer oEo good headway toward the historic WITHIN STATE’S RIGHTS | [i*ier sopation than o e a&o N hen | Blane's final acquisition and further zlobe that the management of the coming i sesqui-centennial at Philadelphia had : : Shortly after the official termina-| [ d "0 entative promise that the ¢ No Restraint Put on Liberty to[tion of the flight at Seattle, Wash., | [1o0 VEC B a4 0 O8O exhibition last September, the Air Service recom. there 2 ays—Openin; mended, in the face of a deluge of 4 . Worship, He Say PEMINE | eduests from nearly every city in the| During the delay officers in the Alr Prayer Protested. | countey for its acquisition. that the|Service have been very restless and | Chicago be brought to Washington |uneasy over the matter becau and housed here. for posterity. The |the many dangers that might befall By the Associated Press {City of Chicago made strenuous ef-| the world crulser while at its present < e o g 5 s planned by the DAYTON. Tenn.. July 15-Judge|forts to have the plane installed in Seiy ‘Orlednis et | the de. | the Field Museum and there the mat- keep ithe New Orleans a | ter died. ; ok l‘l]@hl Museum, whe indictment e o cientists and engineers can keep The judge's | o, e, Sraft, alons with the Newla careful watch on the deterioration Lo e e D on 1 Noaen! | But the flagship, it Is emphasized. is [from the coast to Davton in Novem. | o¢ national concern and interest and 3 o g i GRS s be LIS the Nation's s made | crews and there turned over to ”""r:h-(;:i"ljl e A spent in | Engineering Division while Washing: | “byicie “only one plane . frthe | -«‘i:n:| action. Nothing has | museum today that is in the same i could be learned today | "(Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) John T. fense motion t against John decision uph of the Tenne: ment all ision, which was tention of the de-| Before re: decision on the| After the judge read the grounds By the Associated Press on which the defense sought to quash | | ROME, July 15.—A recent large the indictment he discussed the au-| | increase in the number of sword thorities cited. Discussing the 1 duels, most of which end without leged discrepancy between the cap-| serious consequences, but also t tion of the act iy of the e »ubled bill itself, he sa “The general ti without pouring oil on the t to the act is flnfi‘ . S " % waters, has evoked a renewal of which is broad comprenensive! Time Not Ripe Until Upris-| the antiduel agitation which was and covers all legislation sermane to| checked by the war. the general subject stated. The title ings Are Ended Forever, Opponents of the duel assert that may cover more than the body, butj is is a silly survival of Romanti it must not cover less It need not . |} cism of an era which has long indéx the/details of ‘the act, nor'give Paris Says. since ended. They point out that a synopsis thereof encounters on the field of honor hd In the particular 1se, he said, the T e | seldom settle the points at issue and t the swordsmen usually scratch each other's fingers or fore caption of the act vided that the| By the Associated Press. | purpose of t is to prohibit the! pARIS, July 15.—This is not a pro- teaching of the evolutionary theory 5 S Freneh| Arms in their “mortal” combats. 4 pitious time, it was said in French| “3N 7 Cl N cles on the in the public schools of the pad s official circles today, for negotiations| subject have appeared lately and ite. provision is 1ther general in its n: o he con.! Seeking revision of foreign extra terri-| there is talk of reviving the Inter tinued, “and in my conception of the | toriality privileges in China. The opin-| national League Against the Duel, terms employed in the caption and|ion was expressed that the essential| founded by Prince Alphonse de the body, those used in the caption preliminary for the proposed nine-| Bourbon, but abandoned after the are broader and more comprehensive power Chinese conference is that Chi.| ©utbreak of the World War than those employed in the body of|pg restore order and show she can | vided for in the body and is germane Borah Stand Approved. i ‘theratc n no way obscures | £ Talltlon e ned B vt T e el pEKING, July 15 UP.—Approval of | In my judgment, the caption *,* ¢ | Senator Borah’s stand in fa\'tn'lnl!\ {3 BT fo DIt At abandonment of the extra-territorial PeniMicient to put uny member of the i rights now held by forelgners in Chi nature the proposed legislation na expressed in a letter signed b: e Tty theeoposed leslslation 41170 Amorican missionaries, men and | nsive » body of the ac women. | prehensive than the body of the #¢t."| “he signers of the document declare Sy L lleging a viola-1 40" \ilitary intervention in the | N otga itonal brovision | esent situation by the foreign pow- | Rejects Proposal of France that the L. ture should cheri i - i s d. as far as the missionary literature and learning in sche e, (RODIC RE e SESta et ; enterprise is concerned, alienate Chi-| . . the ‘State, he passed over with the SUETDUSS 18, cONCETG MR S S | and Spain—Will Adhere brief statement of the law, since the | (eS8 EN0C Wil ST S € o Nstian point had not been pressed by the , . age of love and brotherhood. to Trea detense. They say that Senator Borah's state- | eaty. ments have had a calming effect on e The next, a purely technical point charging the bill had not been read 4 - o the Chinese people sufficient number of times in the two | Ty CTINOSe DOORIE. i nister, John | BY the Associated Press houses of the Legislature before its| .y A MacMurray, today presented| LONDON. July 15.—Foreign Secre enactment, also was dismissed with a | pen A. MECHUTEAL (0 dent ary Austen Chamberlain outlined simple read he consiitutional| ppa minister was conveved to the| Great Britain's position in regard to provision. executive mansion in the red: cere-|ine Morsecan sithation 15 Tegl ThE 1o monial coach built for the late Presi- | ., ection in the House of Commons dent Yuan Shi-kai, with uniformed “Schools Not Places of Worsh n | today \ Taking up the next phase, which |outriders and a military guard. | The French and Spanish govern- alleged a violation of constitu- Missionaries Safe. | ments, he explained. had proposed the {ional right 10 ership (od accord | 1 ONDON, July 15 UP.—Official | co-operation . of British naval forces isidual conscience. he declared he ! messages received here announce the|in the surveillance of contraband failed to see “how this act in anv. ! safe arrival at Swatow of all mem- [arms' traffic in the territorial waters ise interferes or in the leastwise ra. |bers of the-English Presbyterian mis- | of Tangier. The extension of the ter strains any person from worshiy sion at Wukingfu, ritorial limits of the French and Spa (On July 9 Cantonese soldiers at- | o : i cked this mission, which is about It gives no preference ticular religion or n zones to six miles into the sea, tead of three, and the landing of t 50 miles northwest of Swatow in Cook Field, Dayton, Ohio, with the| War Department inquiry developed | HILLES' SELECTION FOR CABINET SEEN [FVAGANGY OCCURS Summons of G. 0. P. Commit- teeman Brings Rumor of Appointment. = STRICKEN SECRETARY REPORTED IMPROVED President and Mrs. Coolidge Visit Quincy, Mass., Today; Son to Return Soon. RUSSELL YOUNG Stalt Correspondent of The Star SUMMER WHITE HOUSE, SWAMPSCOTT. Mass., July 15.— Political tongues started wagging fu riously here today when it was lea hat President Coolidge had sent an invitation to Charles D. Hilles of New York, Republican national committee. man, and one of the vice presidents | of the national committee. to come to | ence. conference hi White Court tomorrow for a confer Hill s being . Mr. Hilles will be one of a party of White Court tomorrow, which will in |clude Count Alexander Skrzynski, | foreign minister of Poland, who is to n ton, assistant to Senator Butler lecture before the Institute of Polit ! ical cienc Hays Hamm Williams College: John mission, who has a Summer home ar Gloucester; James White of Be | George H. Lyman of Boston, Melville | Adams. The trip to this thriving South | sclected by { Shore city, 10 miles from Boston, was | as chairman of the debt-funding com. made aboard the yacht Mayflower. mission which g0 to Washington in September. are visiting Quincy, Mass, fof two former Presidents of the|of the foreign relations committee of E. Stone, secretary of sliwic, charge d legation President Visits Quincy. President and Mrs. Coolidge today the shrine jutler Wright, assistant ate, and Hipolit aires of the Pglish United States John and John Quiney which steamed away from fits moor- | ings at Marblehead Neck at 1 o’clock founding and Preside gretted that he could not arrange his ! time then to participate, but, despite ! the_disappointment of the populace Quincy just recently finished cele- brating the 300th anniversary of its nt Coolidge re- |at that, it turned out in full force to- | day to pay honor to the distinguished visitors, This quaint old seaport is peculia! qualified to entertain a President in| that it was the birthplace residents. The of two I Adams homestead Adams and his son worshiped and {are buried, are the two spots where |inspect the huge airplane carrier U. S. | struction | : o SN atOW emn | contingents of troops by the three Ounphbilese e Kwangiung province, and gave severe zents e Llanes of B Dne of the men and two | countries of Tangier for the protection | S DEMURE® Wwoman C miksionarles. . The |of the city also were propose. British consul at Swatow demanded| The British government, Chamber | EnN o aeser r an officlal apology, punishment of | lain declared, was ready to carry out e those guilty of the attack and repar- | the obligations of the Tangler con He also failed to see how the teach- ation in the form of compensation.) | vention and to co-operate in the sup er's ri STAar the. sime neoirinlon 7 i pression of contraband traffic in the of the State lfllwv tior e \.u"."n} OPPOSITION CLEARS AIR. | territorial waters of the district, but 5 Bnstites e e preferred mot to participate in any © that under- Reveals Nature of Discussions Re-|action outside these waters, nor could B Shat o s | it acquiesce in the extension of ter garding China. ritorial waters bevond the three-mile i the the State e ioic employment in & The ,contractu; constrain ) theory hne n find where in oth ® ¢ * and give his beliefs and cc Disclosure in Paris today that | Y|F nch official opinion does not re conscience | the time as propitious for inaugt the evolution | jnz steps toward revision of ext (Contint . Column and ather subject P R L | COLOGNE EXPECTS LOAN or A% muhonte """ O $15,000,000 FROM U. S. “Neither do I see b the id, are p Oppose Sending Troops. r-| The British government also op | posed the proposal for the dispatch !of troops to Tangier because such | action might possibly provoke an at | tack on the town by the Riffs. Other proposals made by the French and Spanish governments were that the representative in Tangier of the Sultan of Morocco should be in- any restraint on h to worship | | structed to hand over to the Spanish according to the dict of con-| Transaction Being Considered by |authorities any natives from the science. Und i ns of this | Spanish zone who might escape to the St ATIE A fendant ox ARt ines| Banking Firms in New international zone. and, ‘Turthermore sons, can enter velizious be | that inhabitants of the international lief which ppeals to their con York City. | zone outside of Tangier should be dis s, £ | By the Associated Press armed The statute o held g not | B e AR A The British government felt such | y. lawfully deprive wpes of any of | COLOGNE, Germany, July 15— action would be useless as a means A priv e preperty. | Burgomaster Conrad Adenauer sald [of ending the revolt in Morocco, and s in the indict |today a loan by the city of Cologne held, did mot exist, since it | “undoubtedly will be subscribed in the [and unrest. Mr. Chamberlain stated. copies the words of the ; United States.” | however, that other s, thercfore, sufficiently | (It was reported in New York Juneibe taken in an " 130 that a Cologne loan, expected to|Tangier zone from becoming Y be about $15.000,000, was being con- | of rebel intrigue, Cites Ban Upon German sidered by New York bankers.) " Burgomaster Adenauer said the RIFFS PREPARE ATTACK. proceeds of this loan would be devoted i cclusively to productive purposes. 54 s . T!\ol.~,..‘\ of Cologne's industrial m. | Abd-elKrim to Act Before ~ Spain's portance, of the soundn of its Borce Arrivest credit and of the substantial commer- . 1 cial progress it has made in recent| FEZ French Morocco, July 15 (#). years, despite the allied occupation.| —The French today. defeated two at- He suid Celogne will have an inter-|tacks by Abd-el-Krim's Riffians upon national transportation fair in 1927, positions prote ting Fez @ nd Taza. in which he expects extensive Ameri-|__The unsuc ful Riffian _ attacks Weakness cha there was an against teachers as a missed with a reading of a ruling by the State Sypreme Court in which it was held class legislation + which has applied equally to all that are in or th come into the like situation and circumstances and which makes a rea sonable and natu d in the law in that discrimination ass ne dis: class. ificatior v 1d constitutional.’ : o ol or D “ S o dhe AlEeed At o par (Continued on Page 4, Column 3. the fourteenth amendment to the Constitu n of the United States, A s indon ™ G Money Experts Are Devising Method of the decision of the Supreme = | . Court in the case of Meyer vs .the | State of Nebraska, ' weien It was| To Make Dollar Bill Last Longer eld that a State prohibiting the | ching of any language other than | English to children was not in con- Money experts from all over the placed. More than a billion such fict with the fourteenth amendment. | yrnited States were called into con- | Dills were printed last year. at a Concluding, he quoted from the ru : i cost of 1 7-10 cents each. ng of the State Supreme Court in 'hr“ ference today at the Treasury on 1 By the Associated Press. months, after which it must be re- Treasury officials hope to stimu- Leeper se, generally cited the| the question of how to make the It ety i o m:? $2 and $5 cutstanding authority in similar cas dollar bill last longer. COTHE T e S St L in the State of Tennessee. In The 12 Federal Reserve banks, | jass to produce, so that the $1 bilis rcase it was held that the establish-| the Bureau of EngravingandPrint- | may be held longer for seasoning ment and control of public schools IS ing and other Treasury bureaus | before being put into circulation. a function of the General Assembly| were represented. Assistant Secre- Part of the money paid to Treas- and_that if the Legisl deems| tary Dewey declared the dollar bill nry employes in salaries today was (Continued on L'age 4, Column 2) now averages @ Jie of seven ' in §2 bills, e Fe | orde \E | The stral | Swammpscott soon to d measures would | .jtyral situation with President Cool- effort to prevent the |jjge but he plans to return to Wash- a center {ington before making this trip. i | man: of the cabinet with the Reichstag's foreign relations committee and the premiers of the Federated States of Germany. most visitors head for when they come Heve well | negotiates first to Quincy. These place: as the birthplace of John Hancock whose signature has brought him un- presidential party. Will Visit Shipyard. When the party lands it will go first S. Lexington., under course of con- rd Melville E. Stone, retired general manager of the Associated Press, an old perso and Mrs. Coolidge, who came to White Court today for a visit of several days, al friend of the President (Continued on Page 2, Column 2. TRIP T0O STRENUOUS; JARDINE MUST REST Secretary of Agriculture Goes to Wisconsin for Brief Vacation. By the Associated Press. an immediate return to Washington and has gone to Wiscon- sin for a rest. Although his general health is not | considered to be impaired, the Secre- | tary has not fully recovered from an | attack of indigestion suffered during his recent -week tour of the West For several vears the Secretary has been the victim of a digestive dis: | er, and at times hag been forced | “tically to live on a diet of milk pared to resume his departmental ties. might even cause additional trouble | 14y The _ S& etary expects to go to cuss the agri- SECURITY PACT REPLY| IS DRAFTED IN BERLIN| Cabinet Agrees on Text—Will Meet Reichstag Foreign Rela- tions Committee Friday. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, July 15.—The German | cabinet today agreed upon the tenta- tive text of its reply to the French note regarding Germany's proposal | for a western European security pact. There will be a final sitting of Ger- reply Friday at a conference ‘The French note, representing an Anglo-French agreement, replied to Germany's suggestion in February for a security pact protecting the frontiers | ment of western iurope. ned | Although ‘the purpose of this, not been disclosed, the | | speculation is to the effect that there | is some likelihood of Mr appointed to the Coolidge cabinet if « rumored resignation should occur. 'FRENCH NAME HEA OF DEBTS MISS Reported Ready United States Decide Army Can Be Cut. tinguished guests at luhcheon at | nd. former chairman of | the President’s fact-finding coal com Special Dispatch to The Star cable to the New World says anklin-Bouillon, the Painleve government Franklin-Bouillon has the | understands do | 80 if plenary powers are given to him. | Questioned on the subject. he said accept the leadership of the it | POLICE PRECINCTS TOHANDLE PARKING have | which ordi Caillaux goes to to sign the Have Widest as the World -anklin-Bou France he far bevond { accompany dyving fame, will be visited by the| Due to the exceptional circumstances French government | empower the commission to take up | with the American government every | angle of the question in hand to the shipyard, one of the largest in' even go the country, where the President will He also will be shown the | excessively three Argentine battleships at the! France's 5 perialism, and the World learns from | Washington | formation of an unofficial but authori in which Americ: predominate tative body body to decide whether in the present | duce the size of her S. to 0. K. Committee. This unofficial of one Englishman, one Frenchman, one Italian 9 is carried to pected to he under the of Washington, as was the case with the Dawes committee experts | ington, having Secretary Jardine has postponed his | plans for impartiality The method of getting the body into being and_making its findings official (Continued on Page DRY ISSUE TO STAY, WATSON BELIEVES Column 1)) n of travel and his vigorous | activities in participating in feats of | horsemanship during his trip_taxed his strength. His a at after a brief rest he will be pre- | ciates believe | By the Associated Press. With the Treasury endeavoring to eliminate patronage | forcement, an administration clared flatly toda possibility of v that there was no | prohibition long been advised,” he ) said, “that the tariff was not a politi- cal question, taken out of politics. prohibition be taken out.” amending the Vol | Senator Watson believes, | rests upon whether the opponents of the law adopt the tactics of the dry leaders in working from two political parties. Advocates of modification, had failed to gain substantial | way, because they had not committed | themselves unalterably in to the restoration of the saloon and had not offered a tangible substitute | for the saloon. The Indiana Senator said Congress at the next session would amend the , but he would not predict the form the legislation would take. also expected the interstate commerce committee, of which he is chairman, 10 be actively occupied throughout the He is opposed to the enact- within the consolidation 0y BY JOHN GUNTHER. By Ca LONDO! July 15 ckefelle ) are goi don back to the world = xclu American archeologist the first time the magnitude of | for one of the most impor tory of archeology. London the h Breasted has been ir few months, and is ju United States | work | career | the Unive with | Washington the question of France's Washington the terms which F consideration considerable | Hereafter enforcement of the mobile parking limit will largely by the police precincts instead of by the Traffic Bureau, | Brown announced today In carrying out this change of pro- cedure, however, there will be no let-up ir the strict enforcement clared | { limits on parking, the | 1t was explained ¥ regulations, in which said, they have little bicyeles. The inspector has these bicy t tain to use his men to !of his men to watch they will work in co the captain of the pr | the machine they are | parked. | Inspector Brown believes this change will enable the nine bi | volved to render more efficient service. Sees No Chance of Taking Pro-| hibition Out of Party 'WIFE-BEATER LASHED; | SHAKES WITH SHERIFF Sentence. | By the Associated Press. Shroyer, 28 the post by S | ed las | been carried out. with only three witn | sician present for wife beating ma ary pariy. ha deitake the task. {from the center to the U.S.EXPERTS PLAN GIGANTIC TASK! OF RAISING ARMAGEDDON TO VIEW | N - of. Breasted, Rockefeller and University of Chi- cago Join in Uncovering of Vital Biblical His- tory Hidden in Palestine. ' not beli tive field direct wccompanied by the University are gatherir ting the expedition Higgins of le to The Star and Chicago Daily News Higgin: nd the University to give ve interv arles H. Breasted, the famous oceed to Armageddon in th which is expected to last five vears fortress above he ‘plain which is « Battlefield of the Ages,” The veteran archeologist is turning from Egypt to Palestine, with the ex tion of the ancient fortress of Armageddon as a sort of culmination of his | An expedition already is start debt-funding commission T shall £o | s Clarence & Fianer acon <hington determined | settlement, ¢ | until T do.” If Finance Minister ard home | Washington stately old | the close of negotiations and the granite agreement. church in Quincy Square, where John | 5,000 years. ed explained the pecu importance of Armageddon in anc sentimentally an economic factor. mountain_ranges ntinued on Page 4, Column 6.) be- | tempora sity of Pennsylvania, as ac- Sonorous Snoring Leads to Blacking | Of Neighbor’s Eye | Traffic Bureau Will Take Bi-| atiatrc cior. cycle Men From Job of Watching Cars. | B. Hadley were in accord today jtion of poles appearing in M n’s court last | be reflected in the co: be handled ! put up with the snoring had Pabst not called him bad names when he objected to of the time | inspector d€-| pail for grand jury battery charges. FALLING OF CRATE KILLS SIGNALMAN Terminal Crushed When Big Spool Rolls From Handcar. own that nine bicycie have been working from Bureau on enforcement | pres lenactments would be des recommended le men back to the precincts where they can be of greater service as mounted men and thereby enable each precinct cap- vantage in checking up violations, as well as all other laws. Bureau Will Ass Inspector Brown stated bureau will continue to assist enforcement of the parking tions, but that when he rked machines Employes street north Washington signal maintainer at the power plant of the W Terminal Co., and his helper, Allen E.| Crosby of 716 F street northe: The men were oper on which was a duit wire, which fell over on them, it was stated. Smallwood w. Hospital immediately dent, where he died early this after- is unconscious ting a hand car s taken to Emergency Blacksnake Wielded Ten Times on Maryland Bricklayer Under {tured skull i The Washington Terminal Cp. in istituted an investigation into the ac cident shortly after 2 o'clock WIFE KILLS éANR ROBBER! WHO SHOT HER HUSBAND Goes to Rescue of Manager of Ca- nadian Bank Wounded by FREDERICK, Md., July 1 vears old, convicted of | wife beating, today was whipped at | eriff Ingomar W. baugh of ~Frederick County. lashes were applied with a regulation | blacksnake whip under sentence pass- Monday by Magistrate Guy K | Motter.” Shroyer shook hands with the sheriff when the sentence had | The whipping took place | privacy of the Frederick County jail s and @ phyY- | gy ne Associated Press CATHARINES, ing to her husband’s aid after he had been shot in a hold-up in the Davids Bank, manager, M i It was the first whipping man in the State in several { Under Maryland law the punishment ¢ be either a jail term or the whipping post, in the dis- cretion of the magistrate. of which he Rogers shot the robber, here today | he encountered the robber, Matt Koli- of Hamilton, Police brought Kolidee here, is a village near’ . s Colijn May Be Premier. THE HAGUE, July 15 (#).—Queen | night. ‘Wilhelmina has asked Finance Min- ister Colijn to form a ministry suc- ceeding that which resigned June Colijn, leader of the anti-revolution- s not yet agreed to un- Catharines. Radio Programs—Page 34. NEED OF LEGAL BAN ON TROLLEY POLES TACKLED BY BELL Commissioner Looks to Gradual Reduction in Num- ber on Streets. HEAVY EXPENSE MAKES DRASTIC STEP UNLIKELY Present Law Obscure, But Will Be Made More Sweeping if Necessary es to determine whether any n tion on the mended plannin; eet avenue heyond the Calve e and to place the high tension wires 0} mplete elir from the n ground rail constr view present 1 justifiec at this t Bus May Bring Change. The question of what will be ways where the overhead-trolles exten an im transpo Bladens v some time n overhe: It developed ing its tracks on Wisconsin av y vith the paving of that th e. the W to connect ks witt tand M Macomb str nue extended 1is means that for the present the company will continue to operate the bus line to Massachusetts avenue extended inst of resuming car service on the Macomh street and Massachusetts avenue line William F. Ham, president of the Washington Railway and Electric tem, said today that whether the com yany will later re-establish rail serv- e to Massachusetts avenue west of Wisconsin ill depend upon what the people i at vicinity want He indicated tha they favor the tempo: bus line now in operation it will be retained Col. Bell, his assistafit, Maj. W. H Holcombe, and F al Engineer W the elimina- i overhead wires on the outlying streets and avenues will have to be carried out gradually over a period of years, because of the heavy expense it would place upon the utility companies. and which would of service, Mr. Hadley explained that the trol ley poles used for overhead car stating that any plan f | service to the various suburbs were | specifically authorized by Congress | when each these subur ban lines as started cation Needed. d to overhead wires used elephone, telegraph and electric ghting. Mr. Hadley said that Con gress passed a number of different ) to vears ago, and he ex ad the belief today that a clarifi cation and revision of these several able now The legislation governing overhead wiring on the streets was passed at different times in ‘“‘piece-meal” fash ion, Mr. Hadley said, and would stand clarification FEngineer Commissioner Bell stated that, as a general proposition, he does not see a great advantage in moving | trolley poles from the center to the | side of the street. He favors it on | Connecticut avenue, he explained, be- cause of the heavy traffic there, and ialso because it is possible on Con necticut avenue to put the trans mission wires underground. leaving only a single overhead trolley wire, supported from small poles at the curb Col. Bell still does not helieve the same program could be carried out on Wisconsin avenue, where center poles have recently been erected in connec n with the relocation of the car ks. Electrical Engineer Hadley today recommended to the Commissioners that no more overhead wire poles be permitted on Massachusetts avenue west of Wisconsin avenue. He ex plained that in 1913 the Commission ers issued an order prohibiting the erection of any poles on Pennsylvania venue, Sixteenth street or Massa chusetts avenue from Union Station to the District line. When Congress later authorized the railway company to put trolley poles on Massachusetts avenue west of Wisconsin avenue the Commissioners removed the ban against ‘other wire poles on that part of the avenue. Mr. Hadley's recom mendation today is to restore the pro. hibition against poles on Massachu setts avenue extended. /AMERICAN YACHT LANAI WINS SEAWANHAKA CUP Defeats British Defender Coila in Race for Third Time and Takes Trophy. By the Associated Press. ROTHESAY, Scotland, July 15.— The American 6-meter vacht Lanai today won a_third victory over the British defender Coila to capture the Seawanhaka cup for the United States. The British boat won the first race, | while the next three went to the Lanai. The times for today's race were: Lanal, 4 hours, 48 minutes, 16 seconds! Coila, 4 h . 50 minutes, 2 secinds, A