Evening Star Newspaper, August 3, 1925, Page 1

{ WEATHER. . Fal . Weather Bureau tonight, perature. Temperatures—High: today: lowest, 50, at Euli report on page/i. ok tomorrow increasing cloudiness; not much change in tem- Forecast.) . 83, at noon today. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page it-) Entered No. =29:609; T8 Tnt second class matter Washington, DG, ch . WITH SUNPAY MORNING EDITION WASHINGTO N, D. C, MONDAY, A ¢ Foening Star. The Sta every cit tion is delivered to Wa as fast as the papers are printed “From Press to Home Within the Hour” t's carrier system covers block and the regular edi- hington homes Saturd: Sunday lay’s Circulation, 87,714 ¥'s Qireulation, 101,130 a 3y UGUST 1925 -TWENTY-EIGH ns Associated Pres: HAYNES 1S SHORN OF AUTHORITY IN NEW DRY PROGRAM Whole Enforcement Scheme| Decentralized in Sweeping Change by Andrews. ADMINISTRATORS GIVEN WIDE POWER IN PLAN Commissioner, Favoring Concen- trated Control Here, Overruled by Treasury Official. Orders issued today by the Treasury putting ©ffect reorganization of the prohibition unit Septémber 1 give broad authority to the 24 new admin istrators and sharply curtail the pow Prohibition Commissioner Roy Under the policy in adopted by Assist it Secretary of the Treasury An- drews, the new czar of prohibition, the whole general scheme of prohibition enforcement is decentralized by the orders, laying responsibility heavily upon the administrators now being appointed. In the new regulations it is pro- vided that the authority delegated to the prohibition commissioner and State directe relating to intoxicating iquor shall now be vested in the new adininistrators, and that, whereas in the past directors could act only with 1e advice, concurrence or approval of the commissioner, this is no longer re quired. Haynes Wanted Power. The official document is known as Treasury Decision 3737, issued from the officer of Commissioner Internal Revenue D. H. Blair and approved by €. S. Dewey, who temporarily s cting Secretary of the Treasury The document being sent “to the prohibition commissioner, prohi- bition directors and others concerned. While the new regulations do not supplant all the former ones regard- ing the autherity of Prohibition Com- missloner Haynes, they go far enough to indicate that much of the vital power of that office has benn stripped from it, and handed down under the scheme of decentralization to the ad- | ministrators Mr. Havnes, it is known, always has been in favor of a strongly centralized prohibition unit, with much authority at the head here in Washington. When the military genuis of Gen. Andrews stepped into the prohibition problem, however, he brought the new idea of & decentralized authority, not unlike that prevailing in military command, | in which much power is delegated and. the person to whom it is delegated is held responsible. Haynes to Travel. to be left al matters. Authority Haynes in sev have supervision, it is said, over the prohibition unit. He will probably wravel much on tours of inspection, according to the best indications from high sources in the prohibition reor- ganization. But he will not have the authority, by far, that he has held since appointment several years ago There has been no manifest differ- ence of opinion between Gen. And rews and Commissioner Blair, accord- ing to all’ indications, and so far as known the new orders carry out the plan for reorganiza‘’ n agreed to by all concerned, even Mr. Haynes. Gen. Andrews has repeatedly denied reports that Commissioner Haynes would be let out of the prohibition outfit, either by dismissal, polite resignation, or shunting him off into the Ohio gubernatorial campalgn as a candidate for governor. Gen. An- drews has said that Mr. Haynes would be his right-hand man in the enforce ment of prohibition to Mr. He is to Directors Given But the great change which is to be made in Mr. Hayne: duties are set forth, in part in the cold language of an official Treasury decision with un- mistakable clarity. ‘Where ny authority is delegated to, or the performance of any duty is required of, the prohibition commis sioner, or of prohibition directors, within the districts hereafter to be created,” said the order, “ecither by regulations or the terms of any bond, permit or other authority velating to intoxicating liquors, such authority shall be vested in, and the duty shall be performed Ly, prohibi tion adninistrat and where the authority required to be cised. or the du performed. by the prohibi tion directors, with the advice, concur vence or approval of the prohibition commissioner. such advice, concur rence or approval shall not be re- quired.” ‘ Alcohol Question in Air. he new regulations today also pro- vide for handling the situation in re. gard to industrisd alcohol, which was left hanging figuratively in the air, Lecause of the delay from August | to September 1, in the installation of the new administrators. It had first been planned to put the entire new scheme in effect, beginning August 1, placing the administrators in office and transferring the control of industrial alcohol from the collectors of inter nal revenue to the administrators. An order was issued making this change effective August 1, but as the new administrators were not on ‘the job. on account of the many troubles that sprang up to complicate their ap- pointment, the new regulations tods provide for transfer of the indust aleohol problem, except from the collectors of internal reve nue to the present Federal prohibition directors of the States. This is a temporary expedien™which will re T n in force until the ew adminis- trators will take over industrial alcc liol along with their other responsi bilities. Authority. FASCISTS WIN ELECTION. Orlando’s Home Town Chooses 50 Mussolini Followers. PALERMO, Sicily, August 3 (#). The Fascist party has won the municipal elections here in which national political interest has centered recently. The Fascists appear to have won 50 seats in the municipal assem- bly to their opponents’ 30. An attack on the headquarters of the opposition by Neapolitans who en- tered the city last night marked the election contest. One Neapolitan had been injured. whatsoever | - | Arm) for taxation, | ! Left to University | = A provision in the will of Helen H.| | Gardener (Mrs, | woman to hold the office of civil serv |ice commissioner. that her brain be | removed and given to Cornell Univer- | sity was not [learned today. In the will carrfed out, it was filed for probate today, there was a condition attached to the | or | some special brain disturbance shall | | devise that “a depleting iliness not have produced such brain disin. tegration as to render it no longer | representative of the brains of womer who have worked for the public wel- | e | Dr. Robert Y. sullivan of Stoneleigh | Courts was authorized by the will {to_remove the brain and to decide upon its suitability for service to science. If not suitable, it was to be cremated with the rest of her body. Dr. Sullivan stated today that he had not removed the brain, and it was cremated July 31 with the body. The surgeon who had been in at- tendance upon her said that owing to her several illnesses in recent | i | } | | | for scientifi | she has stated in her will, not to re- move ft. In her will Mrs. Gardener leaves lsfl\e(‘lfir instructions that no religious services be had over her remains. She | asks that Rev. Dr. Couden and Rev. | Anna Howard Shaw, as friends and not as clergymen, speak over her, and | expresses the wish that Carrie Chap- i man Catt and Maud W. Park may say |a kind word of farewell, as also the members of the Civil Service Commis- I sion, representing her co-workers. | She goes into minute detail in dis- | posing of her purely personal belong- | | ings. Among the cash bequests are $500 !each to Joshua Evans, jr., and Guy | | Moffett, named as executors; $500 to | | Maud W. Park; $200 to Margaret Lamon, a nurse, and $500 to another | | nurse, Suru C. Bressler, who is also 1o have the first right to buy the COOLIDGE TO DELAY GOAL STRIKE AGTION | | President Begins Third Year | With Every. Indication of 1 . | Easy Sailing. | | BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. ! Stafl Correspondent of The Star. SUMMER WHITE HOUSE, SWAMP- SCOTT, Mass., August 3.—Calvin l;ool—' | idge today, at his Summer home on | the North Shore, is entering upon his | | third year as President of the United | States. It was just two vears ago | that he took the oath of office as the | twenty-ninth President, adminisiered { by his father in the small living room {at the old Coolidge homestead at Ply- ! mouth Noteh. As might be expected, | Coolidge. from all outward | ances, looks upon the day | nothing out of the ordinary, and there is no evidence about White Court that would indicate an observance of this | anniversary. . | He starts off his third year with| every Indication of easy sailing. ! Coul Strike Problem. i | The only thing that might be classed | as possessing any elements of real se- riousness right now is the threatened | | strike among the anthracite coal | miners. After talking with intimates of the | President, the writer today is con- | vinced that he will take no action in President appear- as being | Alice C. Day), the only | :he distributed |m Cremation Deprives Cornell Of Mrs. Gardener’s Bra for Analysis, But Surgeon Decides Various Illnesses Had i Reduced Value for Research. home on Lamont street sale of the house the proc From the eeds are to among great-nieces, Helen Crane of St. Lou May L. Chenowith-Fletcher of Boston and Margaret P. Wright of Chat®inooga. Other bequests include $500 to her Rena Smith, and a like sum to Samuel Day, Willard Day and Kate Wyatt. Joshua Evans, jr., is to have $1,000 to educate his daugh- ter, and Dr. Sullivan $1,000 for med fcal services. Stocks of $1.250 are given to Maud W. Park, in tocks to be divided between Helen G Crane and Rena B. Smith, and stocks of $1,250 to Guy Moffett for the edu cation of his daughter. WOMAN SUCCESSOR ASKED. secretary, President’s Would Pery quiescence to Plea. SWAMPSCOTT, Mass., August (®)—Appointment of a woman to suc- ceed the late Mrs. Helen Gardener as i member of the United States Civil e it Ae- years and also her advanced age, he | Service Commission was predicted b 3id not believe the brain was suitable | White House officials. Service, and decided. ag |Dames of men. sas well ns women, A number of have been submitted to President Cool idge, but there was no indication as to whether he narrowed the fleld down to a probable choice. Selection of a woman would be in line with the announced policy of the President to recognize women for po- sitions as high in the Government service as they already have held. Some months ago when the name of Mrs. Mabel Walker Wildebrandt, who is an Assistant Attorney General, was proposed for appointment as a Feder- al judge in California, Mr. Coolidge took the position that he felt it not wise to set a precedent by tendering to & woman a post which had never before been held by one of the sex. It was indicated, however, that the President was not averse to giving women recognition in fields where they already had done service. BRICKLAYERS TIE UP BUILDING PROJECTS 90 Men Called Off Jobs Here | in Controversy With \asterers’ Union. Disputes in the buflding trades that have cropped up in Washingion periodically threaten to hold up a number of large structures that are now being erected by the George A. Fuller Co. All bricklayers on Fuller Co. jobs here and in other cities have been off as a result of the renewal of the jurisdicational controversy between the Bricklayers’' International and the Operative Plasterers’ Union There are about %0 men idle here, and the jobs affected at present are the Hecht Co.s new building. the Cathedral and new dormitories at Georgetown University. If the strike continues it will also affect the new additions to Woodward & Lothrop's store on Tenth and Eleventh streets. Little Effect at Caihedral. The work on the cathedral will not be very much affected, it was said, at the construction headquarters there. Five or six marblesetters, a few stone- ons and tile-setters, whose out, but, according to those handling the coal situation until a strike is ac- tually called. | If negotiations between the two par- ties in the dispute come to nothing | and a strike follows, the President, it is intimated, will offer to appoint an impart board of arbitration or will suggest that the operators and miners | themselves name a tribunal, the chair man of which ke (the President) will appolnt. Tho: who know him well are of | the opinion that Mr. Coolidge is more | ready to let matters take fl)exg‘ course | (Continued on I 2 Column ARMY OFFICER HELD | IN SLAYING IS SANE Board Finds Lieut. J. §. Thompson, Who Killed Girl in Manila, Is Normal. | By the Asso | MANILA, August 3.—At the re- sumption of the court-martial of | Lieut. J. S. Thompson on the charge of murdering Miss Audrey Burleigh of Memphis, Tenn. last April, the | medical board which has observed Thompson since the girl's death de- i clared Thompson sane. Each mem-) ber of the board, which consists of | officers, alko testified they be- !lieved Thompson was in normal con- | trol of his action at the time of the| ted Press slaying. | Miss Audrey Burleigh, 18-vear-old | stepdaughter of Capt. H. P. Calmes of the United States Medical Corps, was shot and killed on the morning | of April 5. Lieut. Thompson, with | | whom she was riding toward her |home in an automobile at the time, ldrove with the body to Fort Me- Kinley, where he surrendered to the military authorities. Jealousy was said to have been the motive for the shooting, Miss Burleigh having taken part in an amateur show at the Army and Navy Club a few hours previous- |1y over Thompson’s objections. Miss Burleigh formerly lived in Memphis, Tenn. Lieut. Thompson is a former resident of Far Rockaway, Long Island. He graduated from West Point in 1924, When Thompson appeared for trial | on May 4 defense counsel was grant- ed a continuance until depositions from the United States regarding the mental condition could be re- b the construction for the Fuller Co. at the cathejfral, there is plenty of work to be dofe on the building in other ines. the progress of its erection will not be affected materially. On the Hecht Co. job there are about 35 bricklayers out. This means a de- v of some importance. At the Georgetown University there is. ac cording to persons on the job there, a serious delay: tile-setting will'not go on, and altogether about 50 men will be vut. At the headquarters of the interna- tional union officials were in “‘confer- ence.” A similar situation was de: clared to exist at the Fuller Co.’s headquarters. Both offices announced that they did not know when their officals would get through ‘“confer- ring."” $20,000,000 in Work Tied Up. NEW YORK. August 3 phase in the interunion conflict be- tween bricklayers and plasterers de- veloped today when bricklayers em- ployed by the George A. Fuller Con- struction Co. went on strike in all bullding projects in this city, Wash- ington and Florida. Officials of the company said work was halted on ap- proximately $20,000,000 worth of con- struction. The move was interpreted as a re- tallatory stroke by the brieklayers in answer to the last move by the Plas- terers’ Union, with whom they have | been at odds over union matters since last March. Company officials said the strike was motivated by the re- cent walkout of plasterers from con- struction in New York, Chioago and | Philadelphia in protest of the alleged employment of bricklayers for plas- terers’ jobs on Miami projects. Halt Burial and Seek Blast Victim Alive! | the official starting point for the Pa- On Murder Charge in Suspected Plot| By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, August 3.— Henry Schwartz, vice president and general manager of the Pa- cific Cellulose Co., who was sup- posed to have met death in his own laboratory at Walnut Creek last Thursday by an explosion, was sought by Sherifft R. R. Veale today. A.J. Nielson, a dental expert, declared after a minute examina. tion of the charred body found in Schwartz's laboratory that “this ‘e is not Schwartz. The mn since the Spring again | called | Union | union | is affiliated with the bricklayers, are | P).—A new | FENNING LAUNGHES - WAR ON BASE BALL - POOLS IN CAPITAL | Declares Gamblers “Bleed” | Gullible of $30,000 Weekly | in Lottery. |ALLEGED AGENT QUIZZED ‘ | TO FIND “HIGHER-UPS” Taken Saturday Night, Believed Small Figure in Gigantic Ring. Loewe, Aroused over the continued and parent defiant moters of the pools, Commissioner Frederick A ning today planned a vigorous cam paign to clean Washington of the lot tery operators well their nu merous organized buse as as agents he Police Department’s drive against the pools, extending over a period of more than a month, has re- sulted in only one arrest. An agent and not « promoter was caught in this | net. Commissioner Fenning wants to round up the master minds behind this pretentious lottery, who are bleed- | ing about $30,000 weekly from gullible | | Washingtonians. | _Just what method Commissioner | ‘enning proposes to use in trapping | roters has not been defi mined. He will hold conference this afternoon with Inspec. tor Charles A. Evans, acting major and superintendent of police, to dis- cuss these details Reports of the widespre activities | of the new lottery coming into his office, Commissioner Fenning ex plained, warrants the serious and im mediate attentios of the Police De- partment. It is an evil, he said, which should be stopped Police Probe Ordered. In the | | | | meantime, Detective Jam E. Lowry of the eighth precinct, who is credited with the first arrest of a member cf the gang of pool operators, is continuing his investigation, con: fident that he will find the lair of the | promotors. A constant shift in the | base of operations of the promotors | ever since The Star's exposure of the pools, has Kept the police on a never | ending trail. i Martin Loewe, 1741 Columbia road, | whomn Detective owry arrested last week when he is alleged to have sold| the officer two of the lotter; Fourteenth and U streets, is the only person connected with the gigantic | ring of promoters, agents and sub- |agents who has been caught. Ac- | cording to the police, Loewe is only an agent, and efforts to learn the fdentity of the “higher ups” proved futile. Loewe is now enjoying his freedom under a $1,500 bond, and Assistant District Attorney Ralph Given has not planned to prosecute his cuse until he returns from a vacation. There seems to be some uncertainty in Mr. Given's mind as to the statute in the District code on which to base the prosecution. Severe Penalty ovided. ! charge of violating the handbook and betting provisions of section 869 of the District code was | logged against Loewe. There are four other sections of the code on which M, | Given believes the prosecution may based—sections $63, 864, 8§65 and All relate to lotter nd were originally placed on the statutes to| combat the old policy lotteries. These sections provide severe penalties ranging from one to five years' im prisonment, a $500 fine, or both. I Commissioner Fenning pointed out that the renewed campaisn which he proposes to launch against the pool | | operators will have to be conducted | jointly between the Police Depirtment and the district watorney’s office. The | close co-operation of the district at-| v‘ll)l‘h. 's office, he suid. is vital if the | drive is to be successful. Tt is like- Iy that he will urge Maj don, or one of his assistunts, to attend | thie confergnce this afternoon with In- | | spector Evans, at which plans will | be made for the war on the ball pools. | The specific AUTO ACCIDENTS KILL 98 | IN MIDWEST IN WEEK Ohio Leads States With 27 Fatali- ties—7 Crash Victims, 5 Drownings Sunday. By the Associated Press CHICAGO, August 3.—Ninety-eight deaths from automobile accidents were reported in 11 Midwestern States last week, virtually the same number of fatalities as recorded for the pre- vious week. The deaths were dis- tributed by States as follows: Ohio, 27; Llinois, 16; Indiana, 14; Michigan, 10; Missourd, 9; Minnesota, 8; Kansas and Texas, 5 each; lowa and Ken- tucky, 2 each. The Sunday-only toll of automobile fatalities was 7, somewhat lower than on previous Sundays. In addition, | there were 5 drownings—over the | week end. i Three were killed at Moorhead, | Miss., yesterday, when a train struck | an automobile; three deaths also oc- | curred near Indianapoljs when a| traction car struck a miachine, and | one demise was recorded in Chicago. | The Chicago mortality brought the | automobile death list for the city and | suburbs to 431. Drownings and automobile acci- | dents took a toll of four lives in the Rocky Mountain States Sunda; teeth vary widely from Schwartz's teeth.” ! Schwartz carried §180,000 in life insurance. Joe Rodriguez, a laborer, has been missing since the explosion. Dis- trict Attorney Tinning announced today that he had withdrawn per- mission to Mrs. Schwartz yester- day to proceed with the funeral of the body which she ipsists is her husband's. You can announce that hwartz is wanted for murder,” the San Francisco Examiner duotes Tinning as saying. *This hody s positively not Sehwurtz.” tickets at | from him | | der OH Jox! THIS SUMMER HAS BEEN Clorious'd POISON HINT AND ‘K. K. K NOTES BAFFLE WOMAN’S DEATH PROBERS Illinois Teacher’s Murder . Following Attempted As- sault, Mystifies Police—Was Member of Promi- nent and W ealthy Family—Body Found in Well. By the Associated Press MATTOON, IlI. August ‘tallman, former school teacher, found dead in a cistern on the big farm of her sister, Mrs. Anna Seaman. was delirious Friday night and moaned “That made me take something that made me awfully sick That was the information given Coroner F. S. Shilling, who has un- dertaken to solve the myster rounding her death, which is a tan gled web of facts and rumors, includ- ing a sheaf of nearly a dozen threat {ening and anonymous notes. Some of s Girls,"” Mrs. inexplicable 2.—Cora man sur these | Boys So,” i tures. The | prob: | poisoned, are, and and igned Two, other hree So-and signa- trange that the situation leaves the Miss Stallman was coroner said, although (he udded that it may have been sui cide. but not by drowning. “She was not drowned, weTe sure {of that. The doctors found no water in®the lungs.” Family Widely Known. The Seamur: family is one of the i best known in this section of Tlinois. Mrs. Seaman was an heiress before | her marriage to Seaman. whose rela- tives are wealthy and substantial resi- s of this county The G00-acre estate of Mrs. Seaman BANDITKILLS THREE; ROBBERY 1S FOILED | Man Escapes After Shooting When Victims Deny Having Money. Peyton Gor- | By e Associated Press DENVER, Colo., August 3.—City and county police authorities today were searching for a hold-up man whose revolver last night took three |lives,” two young women and a young | man, when he was foiled in his at tempt to rob them. The shooting oc curred on an outlying boulevard. The victims were: Mr Stearns, her sister, Miss Marie McCormick, 17: Fred Funkner, 19. Carl Perry, 25, was wounded in the shoulder. The robber, who is believed to be the man who has recently focused his activities on automobile “petting parties,” jumped on the running board of the slowly moving machine fn which his four victims were riding and ordered them at the point of two revolvers to turn over their valuables. One of the men told him that the: had no money. The bandit then fired into the machine several times, in- Julia | stantly killing Miss McCormick and | fatally wounding Funkner and Mrs. Stearns. He then fled. Perry, who was shot in the shoulder, ran to a mearby farin house and sum- moned the police. FLIGHT TO START FROM SAN FRANCISCO Navy Planes to Depart September 2 for 2,400-Mile Hop to Hawaii. San Francisco has been selected as cific Coast-Hawaiian flight of three Navy seaplanes, scheduled to depart September 2 or the first favorable day thereafter, it was learned today. With the choice of San Francisco over San Diego as the point of de- parture agreed upon, the general plans for the project are complete. The only remaining details to receive ! attention are with the flight tests of the giant PB-1, the Boeing flying boat, which just has emerged from the factory at Seattle, Wash. The distance between San Fran- cisco and Honolulu 1s approximately 2,400 miles and it is estimated that the planes will have to fly one day and night and two hours into the _next day before they land at the naval afr station in Hawali. | was inherited by her from 1 | Lane Bogart. who died vears ago. She has a I the farm. } hushand on his own large farm operates, but comes I noon for the evening i { man. who kept the hovks of her sis { ter's’ farm business. occupied a smal cottage. The e unele ber of me o1 home which he after Miss Sta investigation the mystery was virtually at a standstill todayv while the funeral was being held in Cincinnati. Miss Stallman was Lorn in that city and attended the Unive sity of Cincinnati. The body was taker by Mr. and Mrs, Seaman {o the hc of another sister, Mrs. Warren Kin ney, in the Ohio city s Stallman was attacke the 1 last Thursday by a man who wore overalls, Coroner Shilling sald The man knocked her down, but she blew a whistle which she carried and he fled, She told on aman about the attack and the latest threatening letters, There were addressed to Miss Stall man, Mrs. Seaman and other members and neighbors of the family. Seaman never received any far as the coroner knows. Miss Stallman hecame ill Friday, and the next morning she had disippeared. Seaman called her for breakfast, but received no re. sponse. After a lengthy arch e (Continued on Page 5, Column 4.) LABOR DENIES AID ~ TO THRD PARTES ’Federation to Support Men | of Either Affiliation Who i Back Its Policies. The American Federation of Labor which in 1924 threw its support to the independent presidenti:l candi dacy of the late Senator La Follette. will henceforth return to its non partisan policy in political campaigns and tie itself up to no third party movements. The federation’s executive has emphatically announced this pur | pose at the conclusion of sessions here | devoted to mapping out a “strenuous non-partisan campaign to be waged | in behalf of individuals receiving the | labor indorsement in next vear's con gressional elections, regardle: of par- |ty affiliations. Such indorsements will be suggested in reports now being | prepared for the federation’s national | convention at Atlantic City next Oc- tober, dealing with local, State und na tlonal political contests. Declares Independence. The council made organized labor's position clear to leaders in the pres | ent third-party movement with th | declaration that “no aid or comfo: | will be given those seeking to launch | such movements. It thus carried | further the dictum of the federation’s couneil 1 El Paso convention that it “must be | as free from political party domdnation now as at any time in its history. The 1924 campaign, the council said, demonstrated that the launching of third-party movements, which gen- erally expire after one election, “wasted effort and injurious to the de- | sire to elect candidates with favorable | records.” ! "In calling on State federations of | labor and central lahor bodies to pre- ‘llfll‘t' to give active assistance in the | forthcoming campaign, the council | warned them to be on guard particu- {larly against efforts of | “bosses” to defeat the primary system | for nominating candidates. FOUR KILLED IN RIOT. Fifteen Cthers Hurt in- Italian i Clash Over Tax Rates. ROME, August 3 (#).—Four per- sons were killed and 15 injured in a fight today at, San Giovani in Fiore, Italy, when a mob demanding the abolition of communpal taxes and the dismissal of all city medical employes city hall. The police were forced to fire and troops were rushed from Cosenza, 25 miles to the west, to re- store order. political | in the province of Calabria, southern | not natives of the place stormed the | 5. CENTS. TWO SUMMONS EVADERS MAY LOSE PERMITS Eldridge Favors This Plan to | Break Up Practice Among Motorists. Motorists who ignore summonses to appear in Traffic Court may not have their operators |the time comes next March for the renewal of all outstanding permits, | Traffic Director Eldridge declared to day ’ Mr. Eldridge recalled have been several the past few months which | torists have not complied with | tices to meet a traffic officer in court he said it was his belief that a n who pursues such a course should not be permitted to drive after his present permit expires. Although eight months will elapse 1before it becomes necessary to cariy out the provision in the new traffic law requiring the renewal of all drivers’ permits annually. Mr. Eldridge real- zes it will be an enormous task to perform and is already studying the question The law, as renewal of all March, but Mr. ommend to the that hundred cz there in mo- es in enacted, requires the permits annually in Eldridge plans to rec Commissioners that they ask Congress to amend the pro vision so that the renmewals can be {made gradually throughout the year instead of having to renew more than )0 permits at one time. renewing M. the Trs will record of arrests and if has a long list of him he may not get In Eldridge said consult a mo offenses a new permit. ELDRIDGE PLANS SELLING TAGS AT ALL STATIONS | Would Avoid Rush for New Auto License Plates and Prove Aid to Motorists, He Thinks. In order to avoid the annual rush of motorists to the District Building to et their new automobile tags in De cember. Traffic Director Eldrige is | considering having the license plates sold at all police stations this vear. If this course should be followed a car owner could go to the precinct sta tion nearest his or her home. At the tation houses it also would be possi- |ble to sell tags in the evenings, when hundreds of persons who cannot get to the District Building during the |day would be at leisure | " Although em of issuing tags was adopted last December by Supt. of Licenses Wade H. Coombs which |greatly expedited handling the crowd at the District Building, Mr. Eldridge believes it would prove a convenience |to have the tags on sule in neighbor- {hood police stations. This would not interfere with the issuance of tags at the District Buildinfi, Mr. Eldridge sald. gKile - Fl;ilig Ban |Found to Harass D. C. Youth—Maybe Gosh, fellers, you can't even fly a kite in'this town without violating the law. First it was this “safe and sane Fourth” business, then Commis sioner Fenning's “no noise” cam- paign, and now somebody has dug up a police regulation against the harmless little pastime made fu mous by Ben Franklin. Here's what the police book says “It shall not be lawful for any per son or persons to set up or fly anv kite, or set up or fly any fire bal- loon or parachute in or upon or over any street, avenue, alley open space, public inclosure or square within the limits of the cities of Washington or Georgetown, under a penalty of not more than $10 for each and every such offense.” Mrs. Susie Root Rhodes, super- visor of playgrounds and champion of children, is trying to get this reg- ulation_abolished, claiming that it proscribes recreation in the Dis- trict of Columbia. But it's there, just the same, and if one of Maj. Sullivan’s ultra-con- scientious denizens of the law wants to be mean enough he can hustle you off to the police station, kite and all,, if he catches you hootlegging a kite from the corner lot. Radio Programs—Page 28 |COMMISS ’TO ISSUE ORDER DOUBTED permits renewed when | 1’GAPIIAL TRAGTION PROTESTS DEMAND FORPAINTED ZONES |Open Safety Areas at Stops Endanger Passengers. Hanna Declares. ION’S AUTHORITY ~rims Platforms Are Hazard to Motorists, De- fending Course. The Capital Traction Co. toda street cated lines only b contending thia | without @ platform | not give the tection from traffic The protest was prompied by der from the Utlities Com recting the company line safety all c Fourteenth street from K t | In a letter to the | H. Hanna, vice pr | been advised the out authority | paint these requested nature of ainted line stanchions passengers sufficient pi nission « to paint white stops « Johr 1 he b is with company t sident. sa commissior to order the lines iat he | the authorit i Eldridge for Wh | In this connect | day that Mr tor Eldridge to the rela e e s and informed o ines it developed t Hanna and Tratic Dire hold different views ve merits of sufety . indicated by white lines and those th are indicated platforms | the erection of § Director Eldridge fupon his recom fon missioners recently passed tion which read us fc son shall drive through any part o whether such | not Mr. Eldridge said | standing that ir the | would enact such a re i companies would | establishment of for passengers lines raised st poir missioners m the c bject 1} waiting padnting such points Are Menace, Han Says, In his letter t day, however, M { “We do not beli in police regula {in any way affec establishing safety by while ltnes said ve that the change to wi ability zones marked or In the first place, we do not lelieve that literal enforce ment of such a provision is possible { under all circumstar and, second our experience has clearly showr | that safety zones marked by whit lines only do not give the street ca passengers the feeling of security to which ther are entitled, und conse quently their use is not effective, constitutes, in our infon. decide menace to street car riders, e mits motorists to pass stand] { Elaborating on this view, Mr stated today he was still in a raised platform, or a_ post stanchion which would ! physically stop an automobile from entering fety zone. bu and Hann favor he erection o Calls Platforms Hazards. | Director Eldridge, on the othe hand, suid he regarded the woode | platforms hazard in the wollen {and that the try-out stanchic resulted in accident Mr. Eldridge said the new regulu tion prohibiting & _motorist from driv through a pointed zone, whether it Is occupied by people or not, can and is being literally enforced. He said a driver is liable to & charge of reckless driving if he passes througl a painted zone. i The director he understood that in addition to the white lines there was to be an iron traffic button | each end of the painted zones. Mr. Hanna explained today that the commission first wrote the company asking for its views and the compan replied it was opposed to white lines by themselves. The commission, said, then wrote authe pany to paint the lowed by a letter directing zones be painted. and this resulted in the company’s letter of today. inquir ing for the authority on which the order based | The commission sider Mr. Hann meeting Thursday. |OLD SCHOOL.UNIONISTS { ALARMED IN ENGLAND Labor Menace of Reds in Coal Strike Crisis. s a stated 1s has was probably letter will con its regular Veteran Leader Foresees Recent | By the Associated Press LONDON. August 3 ists of the old who are {garded as fossilized by the |leaders, are shaking their heads over | the latest demonstration of the power achieved by the unions in connectipn | with the threatened strike of coal miners last week. George Nicoll Barnes, labor member of the House of Commons for Glasgow from 1906 to 1 1d the Daily Mail | that when years ago he helped organ ize the unskilled workers, he neve foresaw that they one day would “take the community by the throat.” | “In_view of what happened last . week,” he sald. “the community must lin some way resort itself and become the top dog. The red element, al though very small in number, has as | sumed the direction. It is represented lonly to a small extent among the posi | tions of authority in the trade unions. 'but the leaders are being dragged | along by it. | “Among the signatories of last | week's order forbidding the transport Trade union school, re. new ® of coal in the event of a strike, wer men who knew the goal to which | they were heading. and who would see blood spilled without compunction | The future course of events camnot | be foreca only think the | country to industrial | chaos.” | . | Batted Ball Kills Boy. | NEW YORK. August 3 (P).—Hit on {the temple by a batted ball while | watching a base ball game. Chester Menzies, 11. died while being taken o a hospital. - st; one can is marching