Evening Star Newspaper, August 1, 1925, Page 2

2 DETROIT DELUGE 1035 §2,000,000 4.71-Inch Rain Floods Indus- trial Plants, Homes and Stores. By tha Ascociatad Press DETROIT, Mich ®nd fire department fixed $2,000.000 August 1 Police officials todav the approxima Aamage caused by yesterday's rain atorm in and about Detroit. The rain fall was 4.71 between 6:20 a.m. Friday and 1 a.m. today | The greatest losses were vspwlmd: by industrial plants, where machinery in basements was flooded. and by !hP‘ Sty due 1o damage 10 pavements Many merchants losi heavily as a ! sult of the water flooding stocks stored | In basements, and of homes were fnundated. At the River Rouge plant of Ford Motor Co. thousands of men turned from motor-car making 10} manning the pumps in ihe basements | #f two buildings. where the waters rose and put two great electric motors out of commission. Much office furni ture and machinery stored in flooded hasements were ruined officials would make no estimate the loss. as re- | scores the | the but of | Hamtramck Suffers. Hamtramek suffered heavily. Joseph Campau avenue, main aviery of the city. was a basin into which the tor rents rolled from intérsectinz tho onghfares. Three of Hamtramck's four theaters were flooded. Valuabls records of the city were found undes two feet of water that filled the City Hall basement Scores of persons were their homes on the Rast troit when Connors Creek its banks Street handicapped It from De rolled over iven ida of car service was seriously record pracipitation. Oniy 1888 have more of water fallen in was July 28 28 ®onee hefore Ehan four inches Detroit. and fha 3209 The deluge « its worst during 1he peak hours of vesterday afternoon Between & and & o'clock. when thor bughfares are jammed with home Dbound traffic - The fire department gAreds of calls during the dav ‘might, mostly asking assistance redearing basements of wa Interurban service was rd fsuburban cars operated onlv ,per cent of normal during the night Telephone service was cripplad, and was not expecied to be hack at norr antil lare today Royal Oak, a suburh, was in dark ‘ness throughout the night for eandle and lamp light s Ferry traffic was hindered. especially ‘where the docks are near sewer out ‘Tets. the wate p<hing into the river With great force that made docking fdifficult hun n received hit. and +hout 10 excep Buffalo Rain . BUFFALO, ¥ More than half a Aall fell here ¢ weather hurea of rain morning Heavy. August normal .J ing last night recorded 1.74 23 hours 1 ().~ rain- The inches ending this KL PASO HAS SNOWFALI _Residents, Sweltering Karly in Week, Turn to Overcoats August 1 @) —fuly column of months, has more in the manner of the proverbiai March lion. Heavy ralns, floods, extremely low tempera tures for the seasog and even a snow- fall at El Paso marked the parting JBow of a normally sizzling month At Detioi ainfall vears caused esiim: $500.000 to Transporta- tion service ippled. industrial nlants. re: and streeis suf- fered from the downpour. and valu: able records were ruined when 2 feel of water flooded the hasement of the City Hall. Among the structures dam aged were two large buildings of the | Ford River Rouge plani. 3.000 men an the night shifi being put 1o work ©on pumps. A motor boat was driven over lawns and streets in the vicinity of Bast Jefferson streei Rio Grande Menacing. Menace of flood Rio Grande at El Paso kept reliel crews At work most of the night strength- ening weak spots in the dikes along The river near the city. Flood waters were due (o reach (he city 2t midday but it was expected thai precau- | tlonary measures would ward off danger. A flood Wednesday of only half the volume of the preseni one Tose to within 18 inches of the top of 2 dike protecting iHe residence dis- trict. A conside area of farm 1and near Juarez. Mexico, was flooded TThursday when & smaller flood broke part of the dike on the Mexican side. Railroad washouts were reporied af New Aexico no especial damage raused by rain all day and all in New York and vicinity pyents were cancelled Temperatures in the 30s distributed generously pnt the East Central States At El Paso. where snow furries fell for 6 hours, overcoats and other heavy clothing were hastily sought by residents, who had sweltered un- der » 100-degree temperature earlier in the week The only CHICAS the Summer made its exit 30, i the he, r damage viest in ences on the Althou was | night sporting and 60s e through cities qualifying in the| high mercu column were Nolce Jdago. Fresno and Walla Walla Wash.. where the thermometer reg- Jarered 100 or betier Rough going was encountered by the five Army pursuit planes on the Pmaha-Chicago leg of the transeon- tinental test flight return RIDE WITH FRIEND COSTS | WAITER $50 AND RING| ¥rio Took Him to Country. Beat (#nd Robbed Him. M. H. Alder- | son Reports to Police. i A Montgomery County farmer. on Jx way to market early todav, gave Maurice Hereford Alderson. aged 207 D street, a “lift,” that enable him 1o reach the city withont having o tramp several miles over the wer read Maurice, s waiter a1 the Willard Hotel, related to the police a story of 2n automobile ride with an acquaint ance and two other men from a pool- foom near Ninth street and New York avenue to a point in Maryland, where, he stated, he was assaulted and rob- bed. A whisky bottle was the weapon used on him, he stated, and he told the po- lice he was minus more than $50 in cdsh, a gold ring and fountain pen | when he was deserted on the road. i Charles Lomax, colored. 27. 1623) Pierce street, was cut on the arm in 4 fight in front of 1313 Corcoran| street early today. The wound was infiicted with a razor, he told the po- Hee. Two colored women participated in a fight at Half and M streets south- west last night. Fannie Tinley. one 6f the participants, residing near there, received a scalp wound. She sald the other woman struck her with afxtick. She received surgical aid at*Caswalty Hospital { | [who is greatly | than | nocent it may | not | last rites was simple. Irritated by Motor, {Bull Wrecks Plane Landed in Pasture Br the Associatad Prass PARIS, August 1. Air passen- gars from Paris 1o Brussels had a rare thrili this morning, when an infuriated bull attacked and de- molished the alrplane in which they had been traveling. The air- plane was forced hy minor engine trouble to land in a farm pasture. A bull, irritated by the rumbling of the motor as the mechanic stari- ed the engine, charged the ma chine. The piloi and the passen- gers, none of whom had been hurt when the plans‘landed. fied for the nearest fence. The bull was leéft alone with tha airplane and when he finished with it only wreckage remained. WITTNER SEEKS AID OF PASTOR IN SUIT Confers With Fundamentalist in Effort to Unite Fight on Disrespect Law. The now may continuance of Washington's famous “Bible disrespect” suit depend largely on a reconcilia- tlon of the views of Loren H. Witt- ner. Treasury clerk. rhe original plain- tff and Rev. H. R. Lawson. pastor of the Maryiand Avenue Baptist Church. interested in the case and may take a hand in it if a bill can be drawn which meets his ap proval It would be dificult to ind two men with more widelv divergent viaws Rev. Mr. Lawson and Wittne, The minister is an iron-clad fund: mentalist 0 looks upon the Serip ture &nd respeets it as the absohite ealed word of God. The implied sarcasm against rhe biblical miracies in the original Wittner bill. was withdrawn Thursday ous to Rev. Mr. Lawson i= obnoxi Both Oppose Legistation. Wittner, on the other hand. is a self-proclaimed atheist. who scoffs at the simple faith of men like Rev. Mr. Tawson and upholds a purely natural !istic hypothesiz for the creation of the world and the development of life. They have only one belief in com- mon—that any affort of the State to pass religious legislation. however in- appear, is opening the gates for a State church and is dan- gerous Rey. Mr. Lawson holds that the theory of evolution may constitute dis. | | respect for the Bible. There = no at 1empt on his part to reconcile Moses and Darwin. But he also beliaves that it is none of the State's business whether it ix disrespectful or not. since the State is hound by the Constitution to set up any Bible whatsoever for the guidance of its people. Confers With Minister. Witiner with Rev. Mr. Lawson at his home late vesterday afternoon, and the min ister explained fully the dificulties which stand in the way part in the case. A public meeting for the clarifica tion of the issue was discussed as one possibility There aiso was some discussion of introducing another lawyer into the "The name of this attorney was revealed. bur it developed that Mr. Lawson hes consulted and been advised in similar cases by one of the most distinguished attorneys in Washington. {BRYAN'S FAMILY WILL LEAVE CAPITAL FOR HOMES TODAY (Continued trom Kirst Page.) | freshed for her long journey home. as she breakfasted this morning suite in the La Favette Hotel Before separating today there wus a brief farewell ‘reunion of the fam- ilv. at which plans for erecting a fit ting memorial over the tomb of A Bryan were discussed. Whether it xhould be & shaft or a mausoleum thai would harmonize and befit the dignity of the pretenrious Deweyv memorial nearby could not be decided at the short conference. The family agreed to settle this detail aflter a more de- liberate consideration upon reaching their homes, in her Plain Stone Is Seen. As Mr. Bryan had an av avervihing except simplicity his close friends believe the family vill frown upon the mausoleum and ultimately decide on a plain tombstone suitably inscribed to show the roman: tic episodes in his earthly career. Those who becams attached to the tatesman when he fought his last battle for fundamentalism at Dayton, ‘Tenn.. and accompanied the funeral train 1o the Capital. slso prepared to leave ioday. Among the Tennes see delegation is Kelso Rice, the Chattanooga policeman. who guarded Mr. Bryan in life at the Scopes trial and kept an almost constant vigil over the body in death until its buri rsion 1o in life Downpour Stops. The downpour yvesterdav which had continued through most of the serv ices at the church let up momentarily 2s the body of the Commoner was car- ried 1o the hearse, and finaliy ceased about the time (he cortege reached the south gate of Arlington Cemetery. Members of the family and close friends in the funeral procession were as follows: Mrs. Willilam Jennings Bryan. Maj. and Mrs. Reginald Owen, Mrs. Richard Hargreaves, Willjam Bryan, ir.: n. My Mrs. Mrs. Fannie Baird. Frank Millson, Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Meeker, Mrs, R C. Meeker. Miss Hattie Van Antwerp, Dr. and Mrs. Dwight Jennings. Mr. and Mrs. O'Bannon. Mrs. Carrie Du; lap, Bryan Jennings. Dr. George T Stuart. John Skelton Williams, M; and Mrs. Daniel Bride, Mr. and Mr: Ben G. Davis, W. E. Thompson. Mrs. Edward Gottra. Richard Rogers and Wallace Haggard. Few persons were on the down- town streets to see the procession as as it passed. through the heavy rain. down Thirteenth and Fifteenth streets. through the Monument grounds and out Military road. Hun- dreds of people. however, in the of- fice buildings along the route came to their windows. o pay their last respects to the Commoner as he passed. At the south gate several automobiles were parked, among them a big sightseeing bus. A num- ber of the faithful who braved in- clement nature waited at the south gate or at the grave. At the expressed wish of Mrs. Bryan. and. it was. understood, according also to the wishes of the Commoner him- self, the military participation in his There was no caisson with its black horses—only the motor hearse,to bear him to his soldier's grave. The military tribute, in fact. did not start until the procession reached the south gate of the national cemetery. There the st Battalion. 15th Fleid Artillery, headed by the 3rd Cavalry ‘Band, all dismoun ot the cortege, and Thomas Allen, -{ moment - | President which | and his xtrorneys conferred | of his raking | | Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. THE EVENING COOLIDGE FAVORED . FOR SECOND TERM iG. 0. P. Leaders Convinced That President Will Be Choice of 1928 Convention. | (This is the third of a dispatches on the theme “Two Years of Coolidge,” apropos of the fact that Monday marks the end of the second year that Calvin Cool- idge has been President.) series of AA“'RE CE. SWAMPSCOTT, Mass, August 1. There is an indefinable something |tha! seems (o enter the thoughts of {the politically minded and signify a | definlie trend long in advance of Jconvention or election. That some thing just now is almost a conviction among the Republican leaders of the country that if Calvin Coolidge wants the nomination in 1928 he can have lit. And there are a greal many in |fluential Republicans ~ who do not | think it will be necessary for him |10 express a desire on the subject, as they will be mors anxious (o name him. pavticularly if he is as strong |in 1928 as he is todav, than he him i self may be to serve. With & good many Republicans the wish, of course, ix father (o the | thought. because the Coolidge admin |istration bhasx on the whole ireated the Republican organizations consid erately, but i significant, even amonz Democrats of good judgment in nationat politics. thera is a definite expectation that they will have (o find & candidate 1o oppose Mr. Cool-| idge BY DAVID i it Situa Naturally, the interested in the how strong Mr. Co the country as a Extraordinary. Democrats are noi Repubifcan view of lidge may be with whole, but at this they will concede rhai the stands ace high with the | Republican party and iis all-important nomgating machinery. | "This is an extraordinavy situation { in party wolitics. because M holidge has acivally been in office only five months in his firsi four-vear term Normally at the end of five months # | President has hardly made a dent. and | ihe politicians shake their heads dubi ously about making predictions n second term. But Mr. Coolidge veally had two years of service and a Aving start on all possible rivals. The discussion among politicians is just as s if the mid-period in the firat term had been reached and as if | the election for President were less than two vears away. There is paturally in the minds o those Republicans who might wish 0 support another candidate a feeling that perhaps Mr. Coolldge's two vears in office already may he a handicap. In that he‘is expectad to deal defi nitely with national problems without the usual allowances heing made for unfamiliarity in ofice during the i vear. ‘Their idea seems to he that Mr Coolidge hax more time in which 1o make mistakes that may noi be for given, | [ | | clear-cut President Is Sile Mr. Coolidge himsell has not said a | word to any one about 1925, He is 100 ishrewd a politician to allow any body o approach him on the subject. but he is human in his political make-up {and he has received enough communi {cations from well.-wishers 10 indicate {thai he is strongiv regarded even al this early date as the nominee for a {second term. ‘There s a story told about Mr. Coolidge when he was presi dent of the Massachusetis Senate | Despite the earnest pleas of his politi cal friends that he announce himself As a candidate for lleutenani gzov ernor. Mr. Coolidge would noi sav & | word until after the Senate had ended | lis legislative session. He declared ! ithai the reason for his sijence was an unwillingness 10 project the question | of 4 successor to himself Into the | ranks of the Senate. He insisted that | /It he had made an earlv announce. | {ment every decision he made in the Senate would be viewed as political. Mr. Coolidge is in # somewhat paral lel situation today. Even it he is think |ing serlously of ending bis public | service in 1928, it would be politically {unwise o sav so because his influence {in his own party would tend to dimin {1sh rather than increase. and faction |alism would develop a< the conse. |auence of different political boom {particularly in Congress, where presi |dential aspirants have hecome un usually numerous since the Republi {can party chose a [inited States Sena tor in 1920 as the standard bearer. Congress Fight in Offing. So long as Mr. Coolidge remains | silent. therefore. he keeps political unity for himself. Another reason for avolding a premature indication of his plan is the fact that the congressional elections of 1926 are on the horizon 1t will in reality be a tesi of Mr. Cool- idge’s strength. “Already his support- ers are planning that kind of a cam- paign. Indeed. they count on Mr | Coolidge's popularity 1o help retain a { Republican majority. The Democrats { Wil not be stow to characterize the loss of either House as a repudlation | jof the Coolidge administration. The | public may not realize it, but among | ihe politicians the 1926 and 1928 cam- Palgns are one and the same thing be- cause of the definite feeling that if all goes well in the congressional fight {Mr. Coolidge will be the inevitable | ! mominee to succeed himself. i (Copyrighy. 1925.) | and led the slow processional a short | distance to the grave, while the band plaved the funeral march “Niobe." A khaki tent had been spread ovér the grave. The artillervmen, in rain | coats, lined up at attention, and eight | stalwar: soldiers bore the body | dérly from the hearse through lines of the honorary pallbearers snd rain drenched flowers as the soft strains of “Lesd. Kindly Light" were plaved. Mrs. Bryan Remains in Car. Mrs. Bryvan. in her infirmity, did not 80 to the graveside, but remained in her limousine during all the final serv ices. At the last she wept silently, Rev. Dr. Joseph R. Siz00, who had | | conducted the church services, com. | | pleted the rites of the church at the | grave beneath the tent. briefly con-| cluding, “‘For if we beliave that Jesus died and rose again, aven so them also which sleepin Jesus will God bring with Him.” | Reference to thé Commoner's Ten- | nessee battle was made by Dr. George | R. Stuart, evangelist and lecturer of | Birmingham. Ala.. an old friend of the family, who has been close to the Bryans for years. After offering thenks_io the Divine for the “inno- cent fine bovhood. the flower . of | young manhood, and the richness of | mature life” of Willlam Jennings Bryan, the minister sald, “We thank Thee that he dled so triumphantly, and under such circumstances, after he had fought one of the greatest | battles of his life for God. for truth and for the blessed Word of God. The downpour, so noticeable a fac- tor during the day, was referred to by | Dr. Stuart, in his prayer of thanks. | as “wonderful rain, the emblem of [truthfuiness.” ‘With the church rites over, Sergt. Frank Witchy, 3rd Cavairy, who had given the last soldierly benediction to the Unknown Soldier and to Waodrow Wilson, lifted his gold-plated bugle and sent softlyinto the cool avening air the hero’ ‘well, “Taps.” Staff | | fourth | some | w | value, | fighting on STAR. WASHINGTON Upper: The Corcoran Gallery of Clark collection. Lower, left to right: €. €. G who today anno William \. Clark. ver, 'KENTUCKY PRIMARY DRAWS LIGHT YOTE of Real Many From Polls—Nine Women Absence Issues Keeps Seek Nominations. Ky vote LOUISVILLE unusually light feature today’s primary which voters weni to choose nominees for State, county and municipal offices. No State-wide national issues nvolved fact 10 which political leaders attributed the small pre-primary vegisiration Interest in the contesis dwindled as primary day drew near hecause pariy chiefs succeeded in obtaining consent of many candidates to withdraw their names in the interest of party solidar ity and economy. As a result 33 Democrats and 14 Republicans are as sured of seats in the next Gener Assembiy because they have no op- position today Women participated activity was evident paign. nine beinz candidates for the Legisiature. One. Mrs. Mary E. Flan nery of Catletisburg. is a candidate to succeed herself Elections are held in Kentucky every vear. Following the presidential vear comes the legislative and county election. then the congressional. next the gubernatorial d then in vear again comes the igressional and legi August 1 expected in Kentucky the polls An fn what little during the cam dential WORLD FLlGI:iT FLAGSHIP FINALLY WINS PLACE AS SMITHSONIAN MEMORIAL (Continued from First Page.) the flight and pilot of the plane. fiv it to Washington. but the Air Service did not wish take the risk with such a historic and famous plane. Its exposure to all soris of weather and salt water on the globe flight may have caused a structural weakness in isolated place. which. it was argued, might fail when the plane off the ground Mr. Davis' declsion apparently puts an end to the three-cornered fight which waged for a time for possession of the -plane. The city of Chicage made vigorous pleas for the plane for the Kield Musenm. and the sesqui centennial at Philadelphia also sought it for exhibition there. In addition, the Smithsonian here had applied for it Mr. Davis, a few weeks ago, inti- mated that the plane could noi be glven (o the City of Cheago without congressional approval, and inas- much it_was of national historic should be housed “in the to as it Capital No announcement was made by the department as to the final disposition of the New Orleans. the second plane to make a compleia circuit of the globe. It is understood recommenda- tions have been made by the Air Service that it be boused in the Me- Cook Field Museum, where experts of the engineering division can make deterioration studies of it. Undoubt- edly the New Orleans also would be brought here if space were avall- able. Will Replace Exhibit. The Chicago will be placed in the afreraft building, adjoining the Smith sonian Institution. In order to ac commodate it. however, a “lLe Pere’ biplane, of the type used by Lient. John A. Macready on his world alti tude flight, will be removed and stored at Bolling Field until accommodations can be found for it later. This plane, of French design. was developed dur. ing the closing days of the war and is an excellent example of a two-place observation and fighting plane which, in the opinlon of Air Service officials. would have revolutionized aircraft the western front if 1t could have been brought into use. An interesting feature of the Chi cago i that no one but Capt. Smith ever has landed the plane or taken it off ground or water. When the matter/| of having the plane flown to Wash- ington from Dayton was discussed, Capt. Smith is quoted as saving: “I would like to fiy the faithful old Chi- cago to Washington. I don't think it would be fair to let any one alse do it. because no one has ever aven taken it off or landed it on 't would break my heart to se thing happen to it.” % . Marriage Licenses. Marriage licenses h: been issued to the following : Alfonso Rosai Ida F. Rott. @hicues o LS IVNOL. otk o Hampton, Va. k. R its ana ma venoer Eimnis B0 20 KU Y00 arior. William R. Daniels, jr. and Thelma E. P pon John T Faircloth and Agnes Shisler P. Berarducei of Brie and and Kathryn 1. Kenney. annall and_Edith . Tayman D. MeLean and Doris M. vofimn_ Russell E Marker of Mason and Dixon. Pa. and Mildred 8. Collins of Harmony. Md David R Morsell of this city and Bagke of Williamsburg Va. * ‘Walter E. Rogers and Jennie B, Carey. Frank Davis and Alberta . N "+ Coftman. 4" Stocker. rt A Marbury and Mary B. am Roache and Floreine By Transtae Fhe Wm‘h House ed acceptance of the Clark ¢ arlotte Art. An additional wing will house the o president of Corcoran Gallery of Art, llection and the late Sepator CORCORAN GALLERY ACCEPTS $2,500,000 | CLARK COLLECTION (Continued from Firat Page.) of Ispahan, Polonais, Damascus, Em- pire and Persian workmanship. A famous connoisseur who has himse given the Metropolita Museum a cal lection of rugs valued at $500,000 a nip te Washington recently that Senator Clark’s examples. while collected alonz certain special lines, were so fine that they would make a very handsome bequest by themselves alone An exiensive Fasence. Old antlque K sels of on stated display of Majolica Deift, etc.. and another eneh. ltalian and Brux- the fifteenth, sixreenth d eighteenth centuries f the collection stained glass window Gothic desizn. dating trom the teenth century: another window of the sixteenth century and n sixteenth century manteipiece. all of which are included in the collection and will come to Washingion. There ia valu- furniture, Attings, ornaments and curtains of the salons of the period Louis X\" and Louis XVI of France. One room of the period of the lat- monarch is to come here in its entirety. s ceiling” Is covered by a larke and beautiful example of the painting of Kragonard. This meas- ures spproximately 40 by 25 feet. No art gallery here at present possesses such a treasure. There ix a re- markable series of decorative panels by Boutel (e Monvel. depicting the life of Joan‘of Arc The hequest 1o the gallery contains Approximately 200 paintin colors and drawings. There are paintings by Corot, 22 by Cazin by Monticelli. and many works of great value by such old masters as Rembrandi. Titian, Raphael Dyck. Hobbema. Terberg and others. Iv represented paintings by Joshua Reynolds John Hoppner. Gainsborough, Rae- burn, Constable and others. There are also in this collection exceptional works by Rousseau. Daubigny. Diaz, Millet. Degas. Fortiny. etc. The col- lection contains a group of about 40 rare and valuable drawings by great ©0ld masters—Da Vinei, Raphael, Van Dyck and others 29 STREETS NAMED AS BOULEVARDS TO form a part here s a of able many especially fine Sir (Continued from First Page.) ond street to Connecticut avenue and from Sherman avenue to Vermont avenue. ¢ New York Seventh streel Good Hope road, from Nichols ave- nue to Navior road Navlor road, from Good Hope rowd t6 the District lina. M streei northwest, from Pennsyl vania avenue 1o Key Bridge. Q street northwest, from Twenty. second street 1o Winconsin avenue. Sixth street, from D street north west fo Rhode [sland avenue. Tenth northwest, from G street to Vermont avenue. Sixteenth street, Alaska avenue Eighteenth street. from Pennsyiva nia avenue 1o Columbia road. | Calvert street from Columbia to Connecticut avenue. Twenty-second street trom Virginia avenue setis avenue, Eleventh street costia B nue. Mount Vernon place from Seventh nth streers. r. Eldridge emphasized the fact today that no increase in speed limit | has been authorized on any of these | boulevard streets as vet. He said that | when an incre in to be allowed on | certain portions of these highways it {will be indicated by unmistakable signs erected at the beginning and end avenue, from Sixth to | from H street to road northwest 1o Massachu- | southeast from An- ge to Massachusetts ave- 1o [m the stretches in which the higher speed will be allowed The present effect of designating these streets is to require all vehicular trafic 10 come to a stop before enter- Ing or crossing a boulevard. The painting of the nacessary stop signs at all intersections along these highwavs will be carried on as rap- {idly as possible. Mr. Eldridge said the time that will elapse before a higher speed limit is allowed on these houlsvard highways will depend entirely on how fast the | motoriats adapt themselves to the stop rule. In other words, the increased speed will not be authorized until | there is full compliance with the stop | rule. The trafic director and his as- | aistant. Col. Molier, also announced to- |day that they planned to recomment o the Commissioners a new regula- tion prohibiting a vehicle from pass. ing - another machine going | same direction on the Klingle Bridge. | This rule when adopted will require automobiles 10 move in single fie ‘n ross this bridge. where a serlous ac- cident occurred several weeks ago. Col. Moller said the recommenda- tion to the Commissioners also will provide that: trucks: track In crossing this bridge. thir- | Van | The English school is strong- in the | THRIFTY DISTRICT GAINS BY GARBAGE {Conversion Into Grease Brings Profit of $69.922 Over Cost of Collection. The garbage cans of yielded the District government $250 049.44 during the last fiscal vear by converting the food scraps into grease and selling it. Morris Hacker. super visor of city refuse. told the Commis sioners in his annual report today | The cost of collecting the garbase {and hauling it 1o the grease produc ition plant at Cherry Hill. Va. was {only $180,126,60, with the resull that garbage disposal was operated by ihe {city Jast year at a net profit of 369 922.84. This showing was made despite a reduction of 2162 tons in tha {amount of garbage colleciad | The trash plant was not as suce Iful from a financial standpoint. [to the low value of dump paper. My | Hacker reported. 'The receipts from this plant totaled $92.361.18, whereas |the cost of collection was $101,029.60. | Mr. Hacker told the Commissioners |that even when operated at a slight {1088, this is a cheap method of disposal and i less objectionable than burning the waste material on dumps Even Ashes Utilized. present plant is no to its full capacity.” M Hacker said, “and an additional one should be built in another section of ! the city in the near futnre.'” Ashes from the private households | of the city were collected at a cost of | $133,484.49, and much of rhis materia) | was usea for the temporary surfacing of newly opened streets and allays un {th they are permanently paved. Re- |ferring to snow removal work, Supt. Hacker stated: “Equipment is necessary that the ! division has not acquired because of the expense. Even with a Iarge ex- penditure for equipment it would ba | idle much of the time and sireet clean- ing would suffer. Such large axpendi- | ture has not been feit 10 be warrantsd {for a city located in this latitude, which has infrequent falls of snow. Such equipment s is useful all the vear around is heing purchased.” NEW HEADLIGHT LAWS CUT NIGHT ACCIDENTS Eldridge Says Figures Show De- 1 ecrease From 57 to 23 Per Cent of Total After-Dark Crashes. | As evidence thai the new headlight law has made the streets of Wash | ington much safer, Traffic Director Eldridge announced vesterday thatonly |23 per cent of the accidents reported | since the new code went into effect | | May occur after dark. whereas 57 | per cant of the accidents during the | previous 12 months took place at night Since the new code wenl! into opera tion, only two fatal accidents have taken place at night, Mr. Eldridge said Information has reached the traffic | director that a New York grand ju has recommended adoption of a head | tight taw similar 10 that now in effect Here LMy Washingion due heing Eldridge gave final notice { car owners that this is the last dev on which motorists may drive at i night with lenses on their headlights | that are not on the approved list | The rule requiring proper focusing | of lights and Gxing the candlepower | strength of headlights has heen in effect since May. but motorists were | allowed until Amgust 1 to get new lens if the ones they had ware not | of the approved type ] Acting Police Supt police would begin tomor; {ing the approved lense The list of approved lenses in the trafic code any Acres Unsurveyed. In the Siaie of Utah there are | 848,760 acres of valuable unsurveyed Jand. There sre. in addition, 11,698.798 acres of unappropriated lands that have, however, heen surveved. Much of this latter land is desert and nnfit for agriculture and without minaral deposit. so far as is known now. i Evans said the pw enforc rezulation & printed Landsman With MacMillaw’s Party Finds His Sea Legs With Difficulty | Williams Dodges Swinging Boom, He Writes, But BE EFFECTIVE TODAY | here is no place on hoard a smali i schooner bound for the Arctic for a | landlubber.” writes Maynard Owen | Williams. a representative of the Na tional Geographic Society, from the Bowdoin. fagship of the MacMillan | Arctic expedition With Liberty en gines on the deck. steel barrels of gasoline lashed to the rail and boxes which brings a man’'s head at the ex fact height of a swinging bpom. = | landsman must get over being a land lubber at the first possible moment. ““The minute we got outside Monhe igan Comdr. MacMillan sald, “Wil liams. take the wheel: keep her on 120°." and immediately turned and left the Bowdoin to me. Both he and Mate everything. but don't talk technical language in order to appear imposing. I found out. for inatance, that a ‘sheet’ is not a sail, as [ thought, but & rope which serves to hold a boom down toward the point where it can bat a man on the ear. Dresses Stork Fashion. “Our watch is midnight noon to 6. Dick (Salmon) interrupted my dreams (if any) with & large hand in the small of my back, and one of the first annoyances was that there are little pantaleftes inside a suit of oilskins and aticky rubber boots don't slide into the trousers as easily as & landsman would like. 1 did avery- thing but put my hand on the galley stove. Playing stork and tugging at reluctaat garments that have become fast friends is mot easv in & rough sea, even if that sea is what a seaman calls ‘moderate.’ | “When F went on deck we were in | & fairly thick fog. Under the red | and green-lights the pretty curve of bows. reached up (o the prow, ahove which the jih was furled into a spirity | mase with the rope meandering along { its back like the Potomac in jts moat | undecided mood. ‘In_thé sea there were phosphorescent flashes. and the black water purled into a creamy mass under her prow. “We eat very well. Pickles and | hardtack on deck seem to appeal to | the seasick ones, who, on the table below, would have to face fish chow der, a huge tray of lobsters and many | | which one is ill prepared when his world is adrift and won't settle down. A passenger on a big steamer thinks he has his sea legs when he can walk down a 20-foet promenade deck without becoming a Laplander. But the landlubber in oilskins has a different task. The rail on the Bow- doin is just the height of the decora- tion of my goif stockings. There are to the ear- | halvards and sheeis, dory tackle and 'lubber on his first water with ‘all sorts of other lines which coil Finds Cretonne Curtains Donated by Ladies of Scant Use When He Is Hurled From Bunk. of gasoline and oil making a false floor | Robinson do all they can to explain | to 6 and | other things. including mince pie, for | |Wealthy Yankees Drive 2,000 Miles% RANK'NG mSPU]E BY JOHN GUNTHER. | By Canle 1aThe Star and Chicago Dails Nawy. | LONDON. Aug. 1. -Two Amert cans, Frank A. Armstrong and his siater of New York Clty, ap- proached & taxicab in the Strand on July 13 and asked the driver, E. R. Visser, 1o drive them around England Visser had bad some experienca with the extraordinary nature of the demands of some American tourists, and. without hesitation, sald: “Jump in He drove off. The party return- #d to London todav. having cov- ered 2,000 miles, from Sussex 1o Scotiand and back again. On Sat urday the Americans will drive 10 Southampion in the same car. with the same chauffeur, to. embark homeward The amouni of the hill for what is probably the longest taxi ride in history has not been made pub lie, but Visser disclosed that the Armstrongs tipped him $150 and gave him a diamond stickpin (Copyright. 1925. by Chicago News Co.) ENGINE3TOGET STARCUP TONIHT ' Trophy to Be Presented to [ Fenning for New Record in Answering Alarm. Declares Rear Admiral and Major General Are of Equal Standing. By tha Associatad Press Attorney Sargent has ruled that all rear of the Navy rank with major generals of the Army, thus settling a _question which has disturbed the two services for several years The opinion was giver requesi of the Army and vesulted. in part. from the which. arose a few vears the relative rank of Rear Admiral John D. McDonald and Maj. Gen. i Charles P. Summerall, hoth of whom were. stationed at Hawaii found conflict in their standing at | ceremonials. eneral ' admirals at the joint Navy, and question ago as to and some Differs With Seymour. Acting Attorney Gene; in January, 1923, held rear admirais of the lower section ranked with brig adier generals. He based the opinior on 4 clause in the war risk act. Attorney General Sargent cafiing attention to the repea sections of that act. includ ferring to the question of all rear admirals ranked major generals The revised staiutes provid ed rear admirals should rank relatively with major generals and commodores with brigadier generals. The rank of active commodore was abolished number of vears ago. tive servy Daily Seymour insurance tha now with he said | nd commodores d 10 rear ad numbers of promot | placed in the | that rank. oo T |ELLSWORTH TO ATTEMPT Tiens ANOTHER POLAR FLIGHT lower nine (18 to attend presentation of The Star cup to Washington's championship fAre company—Engine 23. G street twean Twenty-first apd Twenty-sec- ond streets—was completad this morn ing and eyerything is in readiness 1o honor the speedv company this eve. | ning. Promptly Amundsen York. Member of Back New Favors Use of Dirigibles American Party in oclock. Commis sioner Fraderick A. Fenning. head of | the fre and police departments: of. ficiala of the Fire Departmeni. and # number of prominent business men will arrive at the quarters of Kngine 22 10 present the cup. 'ol. . Fred Cook. representing Tha Star. will |to the North Pole would he atiemy make the presentation to Commis- | I certainiv hope slonsr Feniing | said. ““And we look on the last attempt Washington has formmily claimed |8 merely a preliminary We-have. not the national chempionship for Engine 2% Vel. howevar. made definite 23 by virtue of its record of 71.5 sec. | fOr A new stari onds in leaving its gquarters on an| Mr. Ellaworth said the Sdores e Ave lon the Brst flight As a matter of fact. the actual run- | Satisfactory A dirigible ning time was 2 1-5 seconds, as the more feasible for e irip timing was bagun when the gong first | but the expense would be great began to atrike. and it took the hell T had three thrilla during five seconds 1o all tha company where Mr i it must go. - Baltimore had previously claimed the national record. One of its crack companies had goilen away to a fire. under exactly the same nditions as those imposed upon the Washingion | department 10 seconds This lowered the hest time made by De troit, which in turn had deciared possessed the fastest fire company the United States. Washington, how- ever. succeeded in knocking almost | thres seconds off of Baltimore's time RICH MAN DIES IN FALL. y the NEW Eilsworth ver Amundsen in ter's recent fight. returning today on the steam- ship Frederick I11, said another fi Associated Presc YORK. A Lincoln Roald ar I ust with plans planes used were not entirelv would b he sald, vhen wa the xecond Feturp, and Nor | said sta when the third & way Ellsworth. “ihe off through the fog e 100k off on our he reception at Oslo Homecoming Joy Kills Man. Thomas O'Rourke of Eng it land, a1 the age of decided vevisit_his bovhood home in Belfasi, !ireland. A= he reached ihe beautifdi Mourne Mountains Kilkeel he stopped at the foot of the hill leadin upward 1o his old home and after Ffew seconds dropped dead. Physicians say his death w aus the emotional excitement and vhich { were 100 much for his physical condi ton at his age ! | THE WEATHER Distriet of Columbia < Generally { tonight #nd tomorrow; little cha |temperature; moderate west and north | west winds. | Maryland—Generally fair tonight and tomorrow: little. change in tempera {ture; moderate t and winds Virginia | tomorrows ture: moder winds West Virginia {night and tomorrow temperature Records Thermometer 12 midnight, 65 11 am. 76 Harometer—4 29.76; 12 midnight s am., 11 a.m Highest temperature 11 a.m. todey: lowest occurred at § a.m. today ‘Temperature same daie last Highest, §1: lowest, (¢ pdition of the Water Temperature and condition o water at Great Falls st —Temperature. condition Pide Tables. (Furnished by United and Geodetic Surves Today—Low tide, 11:30 11:42 p.m.: high tide. 5:09 p.m Tomorrow—Tow {high itde, 3:42°m.m The Su Sun p.m in Liverpool WEST PALM BEACH. Fla 1.—The plunge 10 death from the eighth story of Citizens’ Bank Build | ing yesterday of Carl Schrebnick. 55 millionaire and ploneer citizen. was attributed by his family 1o an attack of vertigo. An inguest will be -held Schrebnick, with his wife, had gone 10 the Carmichael Jaw offices 16 con sult with his attorney snd while wait ing in the outer office. walked calmly 10 8 window. A crash as his hurtling | body struck an awning on the floor below gave first knowledge of the tragedy. August w northwest tonight and in tempera Generally fair little Thanze te west and no from mentel estimated | The economic loss diseases in this country a1 $300.000,000 a vear Generally litt 23 Hours. for 4 pm 4 a.m S S pom., 8 am S pm p.m 2884 = aceurred muddy. their serpentines around where one least expects them. The flukes on | the anchors are as eager 1o.grab a foot as they are (o seize on & footing or a holding. or whatever it is they grab in the bed of the sea. To add o the confusion. there are all the casks and cases of gasoline and the three huge cases of Liberty motors. | A landlubber must get over lubbering soon or else become a liability or & corpse “Aft we bave bunks in a storage space behind the captain’s cabin. This room fs shared with the mate “From Capt. MacMillan's room one antera the engine room with iis 80 | horsepower Fairbanks - Morse semi- | Diesel ofl engine and its various gen- | arators for electric light and radio | equipment. ““The hold has become a radio room |and its fore quartera are occupied by !I. dark room and an electric ice box | Spofled meat has not only cost ever | other Arctic explorer dear, but has de- | prived the men of something fresh | Our bushel of cucumbers are crisp as the phrase they gave birth to. | Curtains Short-Lived. “The pantry. galley and forecastle | are all together, though some lady via. | ltors did install some cretonne cur- | tains, which have gone the way of all | beauty. A eretonne c aln is no sup. port to a man who rolls out of a top | bunk in a hurry. T know. o this is our little boat. beéauty and every seaman envies us our place in her. The crew is won. derfully fine. AN in all, it's a place for a man even if he starts as a land- !Tubber. He may never return a first |class seaman. but if he can't learn to and 4:40 am tide, 12 and 6:11 p.m. and Moon Today rose 5:08 sun isets 7:20 Tomor Sun !sun sets 7:19 p.m Moon rises 4:50 p.m.. seis I Automobile lamps to be one-half hour after sunsel Weather B Tes 53 am. lighted saromoing I s eomo] Stations, J \ eoq 3 b < Ampansas Clowdy: Rain Clear Cloar Lhilens.Tex. 30 012 Albany 29 Atlanta 30 fantic Cits altimore Birmingham Bismarck oston | Bustalo | Charleston | is inod pak 30.12 3040 Clear Prolondy | She's a Pr.cloudy Clear Cloudy Rain S, 30.22 Tiionacoila 30:04 hold her helm steadv when, a huge JK‘:::‘“:""“: '{3(‘)‘2 sail with & forty-foot hase bail bat | fion Anceian 3098 |tied to it Is trying to Babe Ruth a| Lousyille © 3008 {few. heads he_is better off the hoat | ¥'8 B eans: 30:10 | ¢ Pt Clea Pr.clondy Clear Pecloudy olear By clouay Cléar Clear Clear Clear Cloudy Clouds Pt.clondy Clear Clear Clondy Clondy loudy tRE3RE than on it. Now Vork - 2080 “There is no question of the ability | Qkla, Cits- - 3012 of Comdr. MacMillan. Seamen and | Phiadeiohis 2884 explorers testify to that. But the Phoenix .. 3083 |safety of the whole ship may depend | BItAOUED - 5858 {at times on whather a landlubber can | Portland.0r. 40 09 | steer, raise or lower sall or pick a | Raleigh.NC 30-8% | tiay ‘light out of a deep fog on a|ZaKetome 304 | horizonless sea. This is no training | San_Diexo . 2004 crulse for midshipmen. By force of | §; o circumstance the man of the sea. who | St. ;—l‘fl knows its moods, must trust to land. | Jeattle - {lubbers at times. All hands will be on | WASH.D! deck when the need arises and Mac- | | Millan and Robinson are able men. | But sooner or later the landlubber has to face it. So perhaps it is not as | surprising as it seemed 1o me that and fair weather and a smooth. sea our captain 1éft out the A B © thi ory and handed the wheel. 10 a land: ‘Take 9 2DD BB 3332033 | | .04 A1 (8 am.. Greeowich time. todax.) Stations. Temperature. Weather. London. England’. . Paris. France Berlin, Germans Stockholm. Swaden Horts (Faval). Azores Do’ Ham (jumud-‘ Clou the wheel: Keep her on 120° Part clgmdy