Evening Star Newspaper, August 17, 1925, Page 1

S. Weather Burea tonight and tom change in temperature. Teraperatures: Highest, vesterday: lowest, 63, at 6 Full report on page 7 Forecast.) orrow; little 8! 3 pm 5 a.m. today. Closing N. Y. Sioclu and Bqnds, Page 20 @he Fnening Entered post office, No. 29,693. Washington, matter GTON, D. C, MONDAY, DEBT SETTLEMENT BY TOMORROW IS SEEN BY COOLIDGE Issues Statement After Con ference With Mellon and Smoot at Plymouth. DENIES BELGIAN PARLEY HAS REACHED DEADLOCK Chief Executive Spends Free Week End, But Heavy Tasks | Begin Today By the Associated | PLYMOUTH dent Coc be reached, terms for refunding the United States. An official statement issued after the President had discussed the situ ation for two hours today with Secre tary Mellon and Senator Smoot of Utah sald “final agreement in zust 17.—Presi- e dge expe: Aug n agreement o | on tomos um’s debt to probably ow. Be was AUGUST ¢ Star. 17, 25 — 19 TWEN' “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star's carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes. as fast as the papers are printed. Saturday’s Circulation, 87,166 Sunday’s Circulation, 101,259 ey e I'Y-EIGHT PAGES. * (#) Means Associated Press. CEN WASHIN Reduction in Tax cduction in Tax - pIIN P} 0T CHARGED FXPLODES N PROBE PLYMOUTH, Vt. August 17.— Final action on a tax reduction bill by the House before the Christmas recs or oon thereafter, was promised President Coolidge today — by Representative Tilson of Con necticut, who will be the Republi can floor leader in the next sessi Taking advantage of the visit here of Sécretary Mellon and Sena tor Smoot, who is chairman of the finance committee the Belgian debt problem, the President went over the tax reduction program with the Representatives of the House, Senate and Treasury Secretary Mellon presented tenta tive estimates showing the effect on the Treasury of certain reduc tions and later Mr. Tilson predicted a cut in the surtay rate to a maxi mum of 20 per cent or even 15 per cent on the basig of the Treasury figures LA FOLLETTE RUNS AS A REPUBLICAN Adopts Platform on Which 121st Engineers Are Fuily Exonerated of Allegation of Dry Zealots. [RAW ROOKIES’ STORY BASIS OF ACCUSATIONS Haynes Inquiry Proves Whole Case Born in Agents’ Vivid Imaginations. BY WILLIAM J. WHEATLEY Stafl Correspondent of The Star VIRGINIA BEACH, Va., Search for what was termed a huge Army hootleg conspiragy, carried on in the 121st, Regiment of Engineers, has netted two zealous prohibition agents two empt flasks, and cost them an| enlistment in the Guard, calloused | hands and swollen feet, and a report | August 17 sight and that no deadlock had de-| veloped { The Treasury Secretary and Sen-| stor Smoot, both members of the| American debt commission. came here | to give the executive first-hand infor mation as to the negotiations, tempo rarily suspended, between the Belgian and American commissions in Wash. ington The followi statement in the President’s handwriting was given to newspaper men at noon Mellon and Senator Smoot have reported to the President the details of the Washinzton con ference. The progress is satisfactory. No deadlock has developed. The retary and Senator came to inform the President of the proposal t making the final agreement conference will reconvene at 3 Tuesday, when it is expected a final agreement may be reached, aften; which a full and complete statement will be given to the press by the American commission. Neither they nor would go beyond the statement is: sued to the press and the probable| terms of the agreement were not dis- | closed | Sec the President Bring Mass of Data i Secretary Mellon and Senator Smoot reached here shortly before 10 a.m. and immediately went into conference with the President Both Secretary Mellon and Senator Smooth carried portfolios containing a mass of data ! on the negotiations here President Coolidge was waiting for his_visitors on the fzent. porch.which | had been screened off by sheets to af- ford seclusion. The sheets which shut the porch off completely from view of the road had been placed in position by the President and Mrs. Coolidge, aided by two deputy sheriffs on duty here. Spliced together, one end was tied to a porch pillar, While the other was fastened to a nearby tree Secretary Mellon and Mr. planned to return to \Vashir later in the day. Nothing official has been learned here as to what terms Belgium is will- ing to accept for refundinz the $480 000,000 Tt is believed, however the main points at issue were interest rates and schedule payments Washington advices indicate that i the negotiations were to be carried to a succ ul conclusion, there must be a material vielding by the Begians. Dispatches from Brussels said that should the negotiations fall through the question submitting the en tire debt problem to arbitration would be raised in the Belgian Parliament. The idea of calling an inter-allied debt conference, the dispatch was gaining und it w served that King Albert might duce a profound effect by revealing the details of his airplane visit to Paris while President Wilson was de- liberating with the all the debt | question i President's Week End Free { The President tur to international affai week end 3 m fice. Yest before fces in a from his fa through the car with th moot | that { the | d nis attention | today after a| he cares of o wttending serv- rch across the road | home, he took a ride | in a Ford touring | vice men. i 1d on the wind- oing becoming in- Mr. Coolidge and companions 1éft thé automobile | and set out on a hike to the summit | of Messerhill, his coat and | donning in blue denim which k off be- | ent set a | through | streams. the hill vouth, to sur- | gazed off at n the distance, pace, followed automobile for | 1 Discardir stead the down Pre hill, fast pace up underbrush gainir the he o ed for a few valleys beloy the White Mountains then, with unchecked a devious route to the a bumpy ride home. i The secret service men, who admit- | ted they had gone through a grueling workout, were reminded by it of the d when they accompanied Theo- dore Roosevelt, u fast pace setter, on hikes in ek Wash- tngton BELGIAN PRESS BITTER. ind and of Ale moment used 4 ! 1 a Anger Flames Agzainst U for De-, nt Stand on Debt. SLS, August 17 (P).—Anger | and bitterness continue to mark the | comments of the Belgian press on the conference ut Washington between the American war debt commission and the Belgian mis: n The opt'mistic tone of semi-official statements made in Brussels before the conference, which encouraged the | hope that favorable conditions would | be made for the payment of Belgium’s | debt to the United States, is resented as having misled public opinion. The Nation Belge says that promises have been broken, and that Prewflent Wil- son's signature has become a scrap of paper. The Vingtieme Siecle, commenting on the suggestion of French news papers that Belgium and France form a united front for the solution of their war debt problems ays that every. thing must be tried to prevent gium_ being put under a financial guardiunship, as is threatened by the debt terms offered by the United States. This must be done, the new (Continued on Page ‘olumn Radio Programs—Page 18. | Follette iand seek the support of the progres. | pose to continue to con |in | render good [ of 'Marriages Outstrip Divorces, 35 to 1, Father Was Elected to Senate in 1922. GOULD LINCOLN. La Follette, Republican for the s of pitiful #failure to Prohibition Di-! rector Roy Haynes, who personally di-| rected the investigation. According ‘..I officers of the organization, like the flimsy bubble that it it burst to-| day leaving the clean record of the| National Guard unbesmirched ever | There was no liquor at the armory. | There was none secreted in the bag-| gage.” and there has been none in| camp. The officers of the regiment, | chagrined at the efforts to stamp the | organization as bootleg oy sharply condemned the which, they claim, is a reflection on| their performance of the duty prom- | ised in their oaths to uphoid the Con-| stitution of the United States, | The gullibility of a prohibition oper- | zent coupled with his greedi-| rs was, BY G. Robert enter the Wisconsin tion to adopted the ather ran, as a Senate in 1922 In his formal announcement of his platform copy of which was re ceived today from Madison, where made public, Mr. La M will i ies in nomina ir prima natorial his father. He has platform on which his Republican, for the succeed a ag methods used here it was id “I am a candidate for the nomina tion of United States Senator fill the unexpired term at the Republican primary. The Republican party of Wisconsin is a progressive party. not subject to the control of the reaction ary interests. It is to the progressive voters of Wisconsin that the State its position of lgadership in the Vation. T am a progressive candidate to the usual fee informer. nted the finger of suspicion at the ardsmen and s ed the machinery investigation in Washington and| moved it along here with every turn of the guard. The operations had| been successfully suppressed until to-| day, when it was brought to light by | The Sta representative in camp,! when officers freely admitted the facts. | Ior obvious reasons the names of the | officers familiar with the operations| e not given | sive men and women of the State. Will Work From With It is clear, however, that Follette will follow his father's course, which was to work from within the Republican purty for the reforms he advocated. Only his life did Senator La Follette aban don this course—when he ran as an! independent progressive for the Presi dency. The younger La Follette wiil not run, now at least, as an inde- pendent, but as a Republican. . The progressive Republicans, the La Fol ette supports, have controlled the Republican organization in Wisconsin for a quarter of a century. They pro. L it, It they impty Flasks Found. The first came lik guard headquarter in the last vear of |ceived a letter vector Haymnes Mr. Lal the investigation | pected bomb when | in Washington re- | om Prohobition Di informing headquar- | ters of the uncovering of this alleged? great liquor conspiracy, and that| scores of gzallons of liquor were to be concealed in the camp paraphenalla | ind taken to camp for the consump-| fon of the members of the guard. A | search of company quarters was made | immediately, and netted two empty flasks, with not even the odor of| liquor | Prohibition authorities, not satistied | with this, had secretly enlisted in the Guard two prohibition agents, for the | press purpose of followfng out the | had from their informer. ors the regiment were n officers’ meeting left for camp Oehniann, command ould not atfirm < done, but offi nfirmed it when as uncovered Enlisted men now fun in am o cendidate on the platform indorsed by the voters of Wisconsin three vears ago ‘when Robert M. La Follette was clected to his fourth term the United States Senate,” con tinued the stitement issued by Mr La Follette. “If I am chosen to fil »ut the unexpired term, I shall do all in my power to fulfill the pledges and carry out the program outlined in that platform. Its spirit and intent shall be the guide to my public service.” Runs on Own Merits. Follette declared he did not the support of the people of nsin because 1 am Robert M. La Follette’s son. 1 am well aware that this relationship in i does not entitle my candidacy t tion. At the same time that ship does not disqualify me. “I believe long association with my father in his public service, intimate | knowledge of his work in the past and his plans for the future—the policies involved, the iss take, together | with s of contact with progressive leaders in and out of public life, will, if 1 am elected to the Senate, enable me to keep the record strdight and to service to the State of Wisconsin and the Nation for the next three vears.” Mr. La Follette gives a “brief sum- mary of my position upon the imme- diate issues which are likely to present themselves for a vote in the Senate within the next three ye: He do not include in this summary any ref- erence to the proposed ultimate Gov- ernment ownership of raiiroads or to a proposed constitutional amendment to make the Legislature supreme in | determining what shall be the luw, ir-| respective of the decision of the courts | regarding the constitutionality of the jaws enacted, which were made the | predominating issues in the campaign the Republicans against the 1 lpad But warned of this before the ol by Col. John Col. Oehm: denv that this v cers of his regiment ¢ confronted with the by newspaper men. freely d it, and ev recruit who " en just previous to camp is under suspicion of his veteran com. rades. The whole action of the | wccepting as tru Mr, “ask W a grew out of the ohibition informer in h the braggart re. recruit that he was ents with his Wash to handle his wares in camp, and coupled with the addr of the bootlezger. st Clue Is Worthless. first leg of the it was learned from source, brought the z gators up to a fictitiou: ing them with cold clue. The armory investigation gave to thém two empty flasks, and the camp examination nothing but hard work and still 13 days more of it ahead. Officers and men in the camp are up in arms at the efforts to stamp them as the foundation of suc bootleg conspiracy, born of the imaginative d of a 'raw recruit, but in doubt as to whether to feel complimented >r condemned for their ability to main tain such an organization as the pro. hibition people give them credit for. | The men, or. such of them as have learned of the investitgation, are in a i no mood to fiscover the hlenul,\"l«_:l' oL thie Ve i il he agents, who impressed upon gudrd | GollstesWhssleroticig: flanc Y st officials the information :h;.une‘:mm, Have to Face Issues. | chests were to be filled with bootleg ¢ be criticized for this by the | liquor and dispatched to camp under regular’’ Republicans during the com- | the ¢ e of military equipment. ing campaign, and a_demand made for | oth officers and men, from Wash. him to state his position on these mat- | ington’s besi homes, are just as an ters. . The, La_Follette platform of | ious to keep bootlegzing out of the 1927, however, it was declared here to-|camp as the prohibition authorities, day, upon which he stands, did ex-'their ofi Toaly ayen™ ot press the opiniefi that Government | memor. h or-| iContinued on Page 3 (Continued on Page 5, Column 4.) The investigation an authentic lous investi address, leav nothing but a broken, Column 1) | In D. C.; Alexandria Leads in Latterj’ married in the Vir | ginia city. The divorce rate in Alexandria, although high, was lower than in 1923, when 166 cast off the legal tles of matrimony which bound them. Arlington County’s divorce rate | was veéry nearly as high as its marrlage rate in 1924, according to tigures made public by the Census Bureau today. One hundred and thirty-three persons were divorced in Arlington County last year, while 194 assumed the bonds of matrimony. Marriages in Arling- ton County in 1923 totaled 151, while there were 132 divorces in the county, in the same year, one less than last year. 1 The population of Arlington County is estimated by the Census Bureau to be 18,367. Divorces in Arfington County outstripped in number those in any other county in the State. Alexandria, however, with 136 divorces in 1924, was far behind the mark of 425 set in Richmond and the 328 credited to Norfolk for the year, Marrying in the District of Co- lumbia proved far more popular in 1924 than divorcing, marriages out- stripping divorces by a ratio of approximately 35 to 1. But across the Potomac River in Arlington County. Va., and particularly in the neighboring city of Alexandria, cutting off of the marriage ties was almost as popular last year as annexing a life partner. Five thousand, three hundred and eighty-three bridegrooms gazed longingly into Col. William A. Kroll's sympathetic eves last vear and took out licenses permit- ting them to marry, while only 126 divorces were granted in.the Dis- trict of Columbia for the same period. Col. Kroll's expression of sympathy, “Another good man gone wrong,” boomed for 5739 bride- grooms in 1923, the year showing the same number of divorces as 1924—126. Alexandria, however, with a population of 18,323 against Wash- ington’s, 497,000, registered 136 divorces’ for 1924, while only 923 persons were TYPHOON STRIKES season, when storms of this type, great fand October, 1920. | from the ocean, but its lower districts | typhoon Z0OO0O SWAN. iIN MURDEROGUS FATALLY WOUND Ordinarily Peaceful, Cowardly )(ga' n “ECONOMY" LENSES A SPEC\ALTY PRO 2 Py ey | CRAZE, 2 FLAMINGOS| Bird, Driven to Frenzy, Attacks Delicate Companions After Sunday Morning Me black and rather from Australia. forenoon after owl pond un the Harvard Zoo and in s so seri-| kill A black swan, ¢ primitive waterfow ran amuck vesterday breakfast in the waterf, der the stone bridge near street entrance to thte jured two scarlet flamin ously that it was necessary them A third flamingo was nick of time by Zoo attendants, at- ted the pond by the uns us med screaming among the birds. The pool is used for a motley col lection of showy birds, mostly of the pe N family The black swan has lived there peacefully for the past six months. He is naturally a coward and would cut a poor figure in fight witheany of the pelicans, according to Keeper Blackburn. The pelicans are peaceful birds, perfectly willing to leave. their Satanic poolmate in peace so Jong as he minds his own business. The scarlet flamingos, hqweve, built for decorations rather than to hold their own in a fight. They have| very slender wings and 1 They are among the most beautifully plun zed of water fowl, ne: I‘g all their feath- ers being of a deep Mse color. Th natural habitat is North Africa and extrene southern Europe. With the murderous craze upon him. the black swan probably was at t ted by the bright of his fellow swimmers. He is only about | three-fourths as big as the ordinary white swan, but he has very powerful wings with which he can deliver an almost letha) blow to a weaker bird. The fight caught Mr. B to rescued in the to | killers out of other other attendants prise. When terday morni harmonious hout brother The in for completely ie birds were fe hey seemed p he swan was swir flamingos by sur cctly ning like amonz third flamingo has been placed pool to himself, little the his narrow from death swan left in the same with pelicans. He appears fectly from his frenzy morning. If he should have anc murderons spell the pelicuns are well le to discipline him Examples « Als running amuck are quite comn and are constantly uarded against at the ful watch is kept for the f the temporary insanity which e peacef: animals prettly This is es Iy true am: the “deer, since are particularly prone to go in- attendants claim. birds. howev much less non esvecially those in the bridge, have practically amount of freedom the in a wild state, sire to fly aw wors The pool per this her s beer he recove tures. Moreover usually match for each the are othe kept a ®ood 2 insanity The waterfow!, ol under the the same | would have 1na seidom show a de- Most of the time they perfectly appy of the flamin A nong the most colorful and Interesting birds in the whole is greatly regretted by Keeper Biackburn The incident is unprecedented in Zoo history, so r as birds are concerned JAPANESE CITIES Several Drowned, Damage of | More Than 15,000.000 Yen Caused by Floods. the Associated Press TOKIO, August 17.—A vioient rain- storm flooded various parts of Japan | today. Several persons were drowned Damage is estimated at between 15. 000,000 and 20,000,000 yen By The coasts of Japan are particularly liable to damage by typhoons at this circular winds which hdve their ception in the equatorial Pacific, sweep up the shores of Asia, leaving millions of dollars of damage in their wake. The most disastrous of recent ¥ar Eastern typhoons was that of August, | 1923, which ravaged Hongkong and| Shanghai. Tokio was visited by dis-!| trous typhoons in September, 1917, | in- Lowlands Suffer. low-lying parts of the city along Tokio Bay and the Sumida | River, mostly reclaimed ground, suf-| fer most, as the waters of the bay | back up in the numerous canals of | these districts, flooding thousands of | homes. Osaka also, becapse of the large number of its canals, usually suffers heavily from typhoons which combine heavy winds with severe rains. Ocean waters, driving into the canals, cause the inundation of large areas. Kobe, more sheltered, suffers less. Kyoto, be- ing inland, is not subject to flooding | | 1 The, are easlly inundated from the numer- ous - mountain rivers which flow through it. Earthquake is the most. disastrous of Japan's natural scourges and seis- mic visitations have been frequent since the great holocaust of September 1, 1923, hundreds having been killed in the Toyo-Oka quake in Western Japan last May. But typhons and their ac- companying floods are a good second in the loss of life and property they cause. August, September and Octo- ber are typhoon months. Osaka is Hit. OSAKA, Japan, August 17 (®).—A struck Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe and vicinity today. The amount of the damage is yet to be estimated. el U-Boat to Be Destroyed.. COPENHAGEN, Denmark, August 17 (®).—The Danish admiralty has de- cided to blow up, some time this week, the German submarine U-20, which was wrecked on the Jutland coast in 1916. The U-20 was credited with the torpedoing of the Lusitania, 4 | Chile, youthful husband of Mrs. Con- | this country | Columbia-K D URBINA INDICTED *ONTO CHARGES Husband of Former Mrs. Gracie Accused of Forgery and Grand Larceny. ount” Humberto A. de Urbina of stance Schack Gracie de Urbina, was indicted today by the Federal grand jury of two charges of forgery and grand larceny, both preferred 1t his wife. The husband left Washington June 3 and is now supposed to be in Santiago, Chile. Extradition papers will ke sought to bring him back to (o apswer the indict- s expected. harge of forgery involyes a| drawn on the irving Bank- kerbocker Trust Co. of New York for $2,100 and bearing the signature of Constance S. Gracle, in which name the widow of Col. Archi- bald Gracie kept her account even after her marriage to the young Chilean. Mme. de Urbina says the signature is a forgery. She notified the bank officials and no money” was secured on the check, it is said. The grand larceny charge is based on the disappearance from the home of the wife in this city of a diamond ring, valued at $500, and other house- hold effects. She told the grand jury that de Urbina left her home early in June and she has not since seen the articles. In addition to the dia-| mond ring, the indictment alleges that de Urbina “feloniously did steal, take and carry away 12 spoons valued at $10810 each: one coat, valued at $250; one fan, valued at $350; one cape, valued at $325, and one pair of opera glasses, valued at $25. POSTAL WORKERS STRIKE. 2,200 Shanghai Employes Ask Higher Pay and Shorter Hours. SHANGHAIL, August 17 (#).—Twen- ty-two hundred out of 4,000 postal em- ployes walked out today demanding increases in pay and shorter working hours. The strikers attacked the Chin- ese constable guarding the post office and administered a_beating. The con- stable fired upon the men, wounding one. Deliveries have been suspended. ments, The check b R Schooner Wrecked on Rocks. NOME, Alaska, August 17 (.—A wireless message Teceived here yester- day from the gasoline schooner Maud stated that the trading schooner Ram of Nome had broken up on rocks near ‘Whalen, Siberia. : Her créw was' reported’ safe at Whalen. : i sk bl {Chapman’s Pal, | eral i tp | several squads | peace officer, | was acquitted ANDERSON NATION-W ELUDES DE HUNT Sought for Murder of Informer, Is Still at Large. wiated Press MUNCIE, Ind.. August 17.—George (“Dutch™) Anderson, mail robber, jail breaker and pal of Gerald:Chapman, today still was being hunted for his atest crime—the slaying of Ben Hance and his wife, who informed on Chapman Anderson, who has eluded scores of Federal officers, private detectives and police departments of the entire coun try since he escaped front the Fed- penitentiar; t Atlanta nearly has been reported seen times on the streets here and in apartment houses since the slaying of the Hances last Friday night. but each time the police raid the places Anderson is missing. An derson is wanted by the Government to complete a 20-vear sentence for robbing a mail truck on the streets of New York. vear s nume 20, Tip Proves False. st night police received a “hot that Anderson was hiding in a firm house between Muncie and Hart ford City, Ind. Armed with riot guns, of police closed in on the place, but after a complete search of the place Anderson, as usual, was missing. Hance, police say, has pald with his life because he violated the un- written code of the underworld in squealing” on Chapman. As a re- sult of Hance's information last Jan Chapman was arrested here and, with the help of the former's testi- mony, he w convicted of the murder of Patrolman James Skelly of the New Britain, Conn., Police Depart ment during the holdup of a mercan- tile establishment. Chapman is now being held in the Connecticut State Penitentiary under death sentence for the murder of the officer. That Hance and his wife feared they would be killed for informing on Chapman was plainly evident, and severai times Mrs. Hance. called on police for protection, saying her home was being watched. Inquest Postponed. A coroner's inquest scheduled for today. officers say, will be indefinitely postponed to give police and Federal operatives who are assisting in the search more time to hunt the slayer and to gather evidence. Anderson and Charles (One Arm) Wolfe were named as the slayvers by Hance in a dying statement. Hance told Marshal Booher of Middletown, near where they were slain, that “Dutch Anderson and Charles Wolfe got me, Wolfe, former Hartford City, Ind., who several years ago of having slain his first wife, was held fn the county jail under bond of $100,000. Wolfe was taken in a raid on the home of his mother-inlaw a few hours after the slaying last Friday night. All efforts by’ detectives to have him answer questions have been fruitless despite the fact they have questioned him at frequent intervals. since his arrest. . . Boy, 6, Swims Delaware River. PHILADELPHIA, August 17 (#).— Six-year-old John Devine yesterday swam the Delaware River below Phil- adelphia in 45 minutes. The river at the point is about a mile and a half wide. The boy's father said that he was training the youngster to tackle the English Channel when he's a few years older. TWO Parking Violation arking Voiion B EROUNDS FAL Recardo 2 Yers. () LT JIVNE CRIME, M52 H0WS for 22 years on the highways the National Capital, during which time he had nev even been stopped by a policeman for any i Most Delinquents Live Near Recreation Spots, City Survey Discloses. operating a motor vehicle of traffic violation, Otto G. Jacobi of 1350 Randolph street, was arrested aturday night for the violation of a parking regulation His good record was broken by Policeman F. A. Peacock of the Tenth Precinct, who demanded his permit an to his prise AW that it was as large us a marriaze certificate In size and bore the date August 2, 1903. It was numbered 72. | Accord; to Mr Jacobi, he \‘ SUPERVISOR OFiLOTS DISAGREES ON ISSUE parked his machine in a vicant space on Irving street between Thirteenth und_Fourteenth. while | he and his family went into a mo. tion picture theater. It was not ; 3 until the policeman told him that | Child Lawlessness in Northwest no parking was allowed on that | e - Mirest that he knew ihat me had | Oreater Than Elsewhere Here: violated any law. TR B He told the vourt According to Chart. had parked in beiween 14 and 1 muchines and did not see any sign forbidding purking. Because of his previous record the court took his personal bond U000 SLASHED today that he i nacea for | iuvenile ;deli This the robution Office {of the Juvenile lting the value juenc is declarati I of « ph W. Sa While adm srounds t officer o statements child zrounds interrelated purposes, the « es stror exception fect that plaj raad nion s of obtained | capacity at the tiated by long pers All Items Cut From D. C. Fig- | vt juver b e s deas Diffe ures to Go Back as- Supplementals. those of by him in local court al it bstan experience H | she Root ideas fre Rhod grounds for the District Ars. Rhodes ends Krounds are In carrying out the order of Budg-| ishing child et Director Lord more she il 52,000,000 from their tentative St next vear, the Commis.|StAlStcs ¢ it is une aefided to- day to ask in the form of supplement Is for mearly all minated The city ence early this mornin J Donovan District when they adjourned had pi ctically completed the task of bringing the regular estimates rom $39,479,866 to the figure the Budget Bureau of $36 n differ Susie Play imbia, that play in dimin \Ithough D m Irs delinque attem does har the to cut ar ford that esti ed by ) To prove zrounds have linquen had mates for s convietion pla sloners, stood ! little or ne the probation prepired for The the District 1tion of the propjects he: lo confer- with Daniel | auditor and at they ur U year. arra nce lesignated all of ipal and school means of beaded ely thousand ju 1 ed by according to place of On this map were hington’s | playgrounds, and, by pins, the approximat venile delinquents \ere loc |street addresses. The completed chart, off-hand, would tend to corroborate Mt Sanford's views the pins. on the whole. are clusiered around the play grounds. M Rhodes noo unic down | set by 0,000 Some liems Dropped. | While : few items were dropped | entirely, it w reported that most »f the big projects taken from the| regular estimates were at the same | wauth (e Prediction that such a map time placed in the list of supplemen- | saped FPON a0 aimost complete ab 1 estimates to be itoraie ;o000 0 DIRS U Che Imimediute vicin Budget Bureau. This would indicate | ground aupervions o giibe Play that the supplementuls will-tota) close |Gt the oot o SE t i 1o $3.000 ] x the o, = e .. jcame back with the observation that 4:;:; figl:rn:??m“ ;]]:L#{‘ i ';:kjl;i!\'}: ino distinction was made between white e okt 3 and colored children or playgrounds chool bullding prosram had t0:,nd added that bly many of the be cut deeply, it was learned that all |, Bl kit h .ud of th of the school building items stricken | hanted colared chilaes aponds repre from the regular budget will be're-| nd B e et submitted as supplemental items. | lax] v The total amount for school buildings | - e Epe veoreg fuay; and grounds in the tentative esti.; > 00 mates, it is believed. was in the vicinity of $4,000,000. To what extent this figure ‘;.‘!:‘ reduced in the cutting progress today was-not revealed. but | yointed ou » o e pliy it was indicated that the city heads “‘?.‘,'-,.1‘:”\1‘:.“1‘," ,KQ.I'MA,,\L(” . will make strong efforts to have these | {ion of pins were wWhite playion . stricken school items allowed by the 'jonted in Strictly swhite meieh Sudget Bureau when hearings are ! ur otored in colored held on the supplemental items e g September. The map shows that child P Iy had ven u Pos: was seve: with Races Are Separa This content | however, by Probation Officer Sanford e. n was not shared rounds rhoods ones neighbor delin- Spread to All Classes. | quency is more rampant in the | west section of the city tha It also was learned that the Com:| oo Moot ety S than missioners I it made every effort to r. Sa v spread the reduction of $3,000,000 over | .o i, SANIOrd disusrees with the us as many classes of work as possible. | ScL 090 Sl B. Sullenger o It was not possible, however, for them | (he University of Omaha. that de- t0 5o into any of the small details of | linquent children live far from places the” various™ departments because | Of supervised play, at least in so far these routine items were kept down |28 Washinzton Sounerned ¢ pile to what the Commissioners regarded | makes a point of ascertaining in each as rock-bottom figures in the tentative [€OUrt case the distance the child estimate: lives from playground, and his This means that pracicially every |Judgment has been that the number item eliminated was for some new muy-(0f delinquent children who do wnd niclpal development, such as erection| Who do not live near the playgrounds of buildings and purchase of grounds.|in Washington about equally It is belleved the Commissioners are | divided. retaining some money for additional| “I get lots of cases construction work at Gallinger Mu-|dren live right acro nicipal spital, although it may he‘,or immediately adjoining play- less than w included in the tenta-|grounds,” Mr. Sanford declared. “In tive estimate: [Tact, 1 have had cases where the de ‘There were reports today that the'linquency actually ‘hatched’ on play- Chain Bridge was one of the items of | grounds. Understand me, I new work that went over to the sup- preaching against pl plemental list. | believe they are absolutely ey Chécle: Gt jin a large city. where the streets S | fraught with potential hazards. Bu Although the Commissioners decided |1 do wish to record my belief that in a general way this morning how jplaygrounds are not playing any great the reduction would be distributed. | part in the serious delinquency prob- may hold one or two more ses-|lem confronting the Nation's Cap! sions to check up on the eliminations | They should not be expected to agreed to tentatively today. |linquency deeper £ It is‘;‘mderqmmr that a few urgent | that.” ems that came to the attention of | Ned N b the Commissioners after the tentative | e S e estimates were completed were placed | lecting at random from 45 on the list of suppiemental items |recently before the court, Mr. Sanford which Gen. Lord gave them the privi. |Pointed out 23 of the children resided lege of preparing when he ordered the i Within five blocks of a playground. origial budget reduced. {Thirteen of these lived within three blocks of a play center. Of the 22 | whose homes were more than five {blocks away, elght Mved within six Iblocks of a playsround, two lived {within seven blocks. four within eight ing insulting letters to George Bern.|blocks, one with nine. two within ten hard, editor of the Vassische Zeitung, |tWo lived fifteen blocks from the near in which the editor was threatened €St municipal recreation ground, and with a beating unless he refrained|three had no playgrounds at all avail- from his attacks on Gen. Ludendorft, a |2ble. young student mamed Lutz, a member |, Results of the survey conducted here of a Facist club, has been given three |in 1920 by the United States Chil months in jai dren’s Bureau, in which it was ob The court ruled it wa served t n general, those having a stop to such a |the poorest play facilities also had the rih- in any is in which chil- the street from P De- than has a root cases Jailed for Threatening Editor. BERLIN, August 17 (#).—For send- time to W put political excesses." Trapped in Galley of Sunken Boat, Sailor Narrowly Escapes Death George Gyland, member of the crew of the Coast Guard cutter Apache, stationed here for the re- satta Saturday, underwent the fantastic experience yesterday of being inside the galley of a sunken craft when the door; the only exit, was unexpectedly slammed shut by the full force of the tide sweep- ing up the Potomac. Secured in a potential underriver coffin, Gy- land narrowly escaped death by pushing with all his strength against the closed door. He fin- ally got it open and rose to the surface just before his breath gave out. Gyland was trying to recover property from the Voyager, pleas- ure craft of Albert Mitchell, which was sunk near hway Brid; during the racés . was about to come to the surface lgreatest amount of delinquency,” are |discredited by the Juvenile Court pro. Ibation official. ““Whoever wrote that {couldn’t have spent much time in { vestigating the facts,” Mr. Sanford isald. “The records in my office do not show it. 1 e st Wwith a stove which he had secured | ACCIDENTS KILL 13, when the door closed. | ST e Undaunted by his hair-raising experlence, he dived a second time, after a brief rest, and brought up the stove. Members of the Coast Guard crew on duty here during the races spent the greater part of vesterday recovering property from the wreck. Joseph Sosnow- ski in one dive brought up pocketbook containing over s which he turned over to the owner. Among the divers who aided in the work were: W. O. Linton, E. L. Crocket, W. Palulski, John Mor- rissey, E. J. Morton, M. R. Purnell, H. Matthews and Albert—Peyton. The recovered articles included two watches, pocketbooks, cush- ions, instruments, all the worse for' soaking, and ‘the mast of the boat. - Crashes, Drowning and Plunge Into Mine Swell West's Total. CHICAGO, August 17 (#).—Thirteen persons met death in automobile, bathing and other accidents over the week end in the Middle West. Four persons were kill and six injured in Nebraska auto accidents, two at | Plattsmouth and one each at Omaha and Tremont. One automobile death was recorded at Chicago and two at Muskegon. Mich. One drowning oc curred at Fox Lake, near Waukegan, Ill.; a woman was struck and killed by a train at Rockford, L, an uni {dentified man met death on railroad tracks at Madison, Wis., and three youths plunged to their deaths in an abandoned coal mine near Pleasant- ville, Towa. l