Evening Star Newspaper, August 21, 1925, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. S. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair and continued cool tonight; to- morrow fair, with slowly rising tem- perature. Temperatures: Highest, 74, at 4 p.m. yesterday: lowest, 65, at 8 Full report on page 7. .m. toda: Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 16 ch ¢ Foueninag WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Entered as sec: post_office, No. 29,697. Washington, nd class matter DiSC WASHINGTON, D. C, BUDNITZ IS NAMED D.C. DRY ZONE HEAD; ' 13 OTHERS CHOSEN Four Army Officers, One Rail | Executive, Among"New District Chiefs. SELECTION FIRST STEP | IN NATIONAL CLEAN-UP| Likely Be Given Charge of Capital Rum War. Deputy Director to field fight tion was | today by secre- Treasury who mund Budnitz in charge trict, including Mary- and the District of nitz for four years of Maryland my mobilizes administr already left organize their of- | nment’s new prohil A has placed £ the loc Delawar Mr Andrews, ector Septer tors nam Washingtor fices ir I ers force here, it was | Andrews, prob- altered by this > gradu- | ip in the | named four r perience, ommended = =i by of ration it | formerly been ) | Baltimore, wi for | stratior ney of the adn Deputy to Head Work. | probably | what will administrator, and ap ninistered tepu Andre N followed Andre ition _ investiz ) a force of hishly o Gen ved in > at the front. | ief prohibition in- | has named | former Army | eet broker and’author, vely with Gen World War. Mr New York City ien. Andrews’ attention where Green was a ed Gen. Andrews in Training Camp. | Andrews the field | To the post of « vestigator Gen. And Walton A. Green, officer, Wall who serv Camp major and the Third Office Aided Andrews Abroad. | Aa helped Gen. | organization of mili- | after the World W with a bond house on - is an author of some ding | e the Overseas Andrews in the tary police and was connected Wall stre note, having Ame! an pe war w mnal. Mr. Andrews explainer principal functio big internationa and the re: army AS r hthition drews ¢ o be offe effect dism > 2 ice. In t! e. the 1 i administrator ‘ro ent force the appointed to m chine. On Ocic new administra dismiss the rem are not reappoi ically dropped Tota many will svernment Andr admin rily to be displaced drews when he now looking fo {<trators probably later dvi lows ter B Green ave twp develop | not have to} , as those who | will be automat- that date. Cut Unknown. | pay W | How so dropped from | roll on October | 1id not estimate. | trators were acting administra probably by Gie finds fhe men he i The acting admin- | will retained | rs. T wre as fol Boston: J. A. Fos- Merrick, Buffal Ewing, Chicago; W | Louis; A. C. Towns St. Paul, | and E. C. F. Crabbe of Honolulu | The Army officers appointed admin- fstrators are: A. J. Hanlon, San Juan, R.; Robert Angeles; Herbert H Z Worth, T v o npa, T In Flo: said, there W trator with this field ho ha ‘rance. about close three force prohibition: toms and Ci Baird Urged The administrator recommended by Judge Gary is Frederick Baird, for- merly general traffic manager for the Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad. He takes the post of Pittsburgh. Salaries of the new administrators will be on @ sliding scale, with a maximum at 000 instead of $7,500, which Controller General McCarl de- clared might be paid. The $6,600 Jlimit was fixed, Gen. Andrews ex- plained, because there is not onme in the Inte nl evenue Bureau, under which the prohibition unit operates, who receives more than $6,000. Budnitz was appointed prohibition director for the State of Maryland by v Haynes July 1921, and has erved in that cap since. When first took over the office he re- sived considerable opposition from he Ku Kiux Klan. Several charges Iso were made against his enforce- ibition M Page 3, Column ‘R. B New York: It as need of litar the prohibiti t Guar | city | overative Milk Produce: | woman, went on trial toda New D. C. Dry Leader gton, un- der the new prohibition enforcement reorganization PROBE OF TAYLOR DUSTING LOOMING Co-Operative Milk Group Plans to Ask Inquiry by Congress. By the Associated Press, NEW YORK, August 21. Miller, president of the John D. Federation, ald today a congressional investi sation may be asked to determine the causes for the removal from office of Dr. Henry C. Taylor, chief of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics. Dr. Taylor resigned at the request Secretary of Agriculture Jardine. “We view concern,” said Mr of Miller, on behalf | of his organization, representing be- tween 340,000 ducers, “Last Winter there were two co- ive marketing bills pending in ss; one was kmown as the commission bill, being supported by the chairman of the President’s agri sion., the other was inson bill bill was opposed and 350,000 milk pro- e commission by wut marketin ions of the country The Dickinson bhill was supported by many co-operativ tions The _strugsle in strenuofs. Attaches ment of Commerce were known to openly favor the commission bill. Attaches of the Department of Agri culture, including Dr. Taylor, were known to believe that if any legisla tion on the subject was to be passed, the Dickinson bill was for the best. of “We will make an investigation to | ascertain the facts in the case and if it be found that public servants who supported the commission bill are con- tinued in office and that Dr. Taylor as been removed because he favored the Dickinson Uill, then it may be well that co-operative associations will request congressional investigation of the entire matter.” OUSTING WAS EXPECTED. Jardine and Taylor Differed Widely on Policies. Secretary Jardine's action in_ per- | emptorily ending the services of Dr. Taylor yesterday as chief of the Bu- of Agricuitural Economics had since the Secre- s it was known that or differed widely on As time tion that and on ry inti resignation took office, he and Dr. Tay major agricultural policies. passed, there wa~ no indic the two could together several nceasions the Secret mated that Dy or’s would be acceptable, The Secretary sued from his sick Hospital, and the another step in the the department, a t statement was bed at Walter Reed n constituted " (Continued on P'age 4, Column INDIAN WOMAN IS TRIED IN KILLING OVER ‘EVIL EYE’ One Member of Canadian Tribe Convicted in Death of Witch- craft Suspect. By the Associated Press. PRINCE RUPERT, British Colum. bia, August 21.—Edie Loot, an Indian v charged in a 'witcheraft murder.” “Big" Alex, a Laird River Indian, was found guilty of man slaughter late yesterday in connection with the case. e victim was Wastelia Moccasin, also known as ol, an Indian youth was suspected of using an “evil against with_participati | tribe. In March 1923, the yonth was taken ;n the ice. hound and left to brothers were al (anadian Mounted DPolice hcouver late in 1924 arduous trip during roope traveled 2.420 Charges against the three brothers later were withdrawn. three named Alex Jdie Loot nd an miles. ational Co- | this action with grave | 1 of the co-operative | other members of the captured | which | Loot | WILBUR FINES FOUR NAVAL OFFIGERS IN SHIP LIQUOR CASES Nurses’ Acquittal Scored. Evidence Warranted Con- viction, He Says. QUANTITY OF RUM FOUND ON TRANSPORT BEAUFORT Two Men Lose Numbers in Pro- motion and Others Are As- sessed Money. Imposition of fines and loss of num- bers upon four naval officers found guilty in connection with discovery of liquor aboard the naval transport Beaufort at Norfolk, Va., last Febru- ary, was approved today by Secre- ¢ of the Navy Wilbur, and at the same time he announced that the evi- dence in the cases of the two Navy nurses, acquitted of charges of im- porting small quantities of liquor into the United States, warranted a con- viction, and the acquittal was not ap- proved. Secretary Wilbur's action in disap- proving the findings for the two nurses will have no practical punitive | effect, for under Navy regulations a | verdict of not guilty cannot be re- {scinded nor a new trial ordered. | Sentences Imposed. In the cas of aboard the the four officers he findings of | the court- ds were ap- proved by the Secretary and the fol- lowing sentences imposed: Lieut. ¥. M. Hohow, the loss of | five numbers in the line of promotion for having liq session on a naval vessel. | Lieut. (Junior Grade) Roland D. Hill, | the loss of 50 numbers for importing | liquor and having it in his possession | iegally. | Chiet Pay Clerk James P. Galla- gher, a fine of $40 a month for 10 months for importing liquor into the United States and having it in his possession illegally. Machinist Frank M. Hendricks, the of seniority for 10 months and a of $40 » month for 12 months be- se of conduct to the prejudice of 1 order nd discipline, importing and having it in his possession illegaliy. Comdr. D. W. Fuller. officer of the vess Baker, the other ound not guilty. the command: . and Lieut. C. officers tried, n. W were Liquor Supply Found. The Beaufort upon its arrival at of marines under the direction of high {naval officers at the port, and a search uncovered a considerable quantity of liquor. The findings of the resulting court-martials were received at the de- partment some time ago and held for action by Secretary Wilbur upon his return from the West coast. For several weeks the officers involved suffered loss of pay during the legal | proceedings. The nurses were charged with il- |legally importing small quantities of West Indl transport orfolk. Miss Anderson is chief nurse at the Washington Navy Yard, and Miss { Glaney is on duty at the naval dis- pensary here. ‘When the verdict of the court-mar- tial was announced, Secretary Wilbur indicated a belief that some eof the evidence at hand might not have been presented to the court. A report on that situation was requested of the prosecuting officers, but the result never was announced. last April on the naval Kittery, which docked at | 'ESTATE TAX REPEAL OPPOSED BY GREEN House Ways and Means Chairman Proposes State and Federal Split on Inheritances. By the Associated Press. DES MOINES, Towa, August 21.— The Des Moines Register printed to- |day a statement by W. R. Green, Council Bluffs, chairman of the ways and means committee of the House of Representatives, opposing repeal of Federal estate and inheritance taxes. Affer reviewing criticism against the estate tax, he suggested a remedy: “I propose that the full amount of State inheritance and state taxes be credited on the Federal tax, if the latter exceeds the -State tax. “Neither Florida nor the Dis- trict of Columbia have any inheritance tax. The result is that a large num- ber of very wealthy people have houses there. The evil results of the States thus bidding against each other for the exempiion of the wealthy are | <o apparent that they do not need to | ve ‘statea Another potent reason Federal inheritance ta | abolished is that it furni al mea \ what 1wt bond Federal in why %he hould not he es the only of reaching by tax- re commonly called tax- which are exempt from thy me tax. Col. House Had Option on 1,000-Acre Site For Peace Palace at Geneva, He Says By the Associated Press. GENEVA, August 21.—Col. E. M. House, once personal adviser to President Woodrow Wilson, on making his first visit to the League of Nations he helped to evolve, re- vealed that he took an option on 1,000 acres along the shore of Lake Teman, six miles outside of Geneva, when the covenant was being draft- ed in Paris. The plan was to erect a league palace and a’great “gate- way of peace” in honor to the war dead, but the idea was abandoned when the United States did not en- ter the league. Col. House told newspaper corre- spondents that the league was only half a league while the United a States, Germany and Russia were outside, and urged American asso- clate membership without covenant obligations. “Had the United States main- tained her wonderful enthusiasm and joined the league, war would have been banished for all time,” declared Col. House. He added that he had embodied the essen- tials of the peace protocol—arbi- tration, security and _ disarma- ment—in the first draft of the cove- nant he wrote in 1918, but Presi- dent Wilson thought he went too far. Radio Programs—Page 11. ¢ illegally in his pos. | | Norfolk was surrounded by a cordon | liquor when they returned from the leveled | FRIDAY, AUGUST “From Press to Home Within the Hour™ The Star's carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi tion is deliv as fast as t ered to Washington hormies he papers are printed Yesterday’s Circulation, 92,395 21, 1925—TW TY-FOUR PAGE * (#) Means Associated Press. TWO CENT AN'IF IT HADNT BEEN FOR THATy LoNG HoTg SPELL-Y ROCKVILLE FAIR' THE SUBURBAN GARDENER'S ALIBI PLAYGROUNDS HIT . BYLACK OF SPACE Activities Curtailed Greatly. Van Ness Cited as Example of Acute Need. Washington is “fairly well sup- plied” with playgrounds, as far as number is concerned, but the grounds | are sadly cramped for lack of space, | except in two or three locations, The | Star's survey of playgrounds has dis- closed. | The mere fact that there are i operation this Summer 25 municipgl | playgrounds and 40 school grounfs does not provide an adequate pictaire |of the conditions existing. Some of the so-called municipal play centers are so small and shprn of equipment that it would take & broad | definition to include them in #he regu- | 1ar category of playgrounds, and keen { perceptive powers to recognize them for what they are supposgd to be. Simply Small Yot. The Van Ness municipal play- ground, on M street southeast, front- ing the navy yard, fs a typical ex- ample of what a plavground should not be, in the opipion of Probation Officer Sanford of Ahe Juvenile Court. This center with the aristocratic decorated with ‘a tiny field house, a | couple of swings and one or | other pieces of equipment. There isn't room enough on the whole lot for a {game of bage ball, tennis, or, indeed, | scarcely amy other game requiring a moderate umount of space. There is no fence inclosing the lot, and the | topograghy of the ground is anything | but degirable for play purposes. Theye are but two other play- grounds available for white children |of the Southeast—the Garfield Park !and the Virginia avenue grounds. | Neither of these is as large as a { Prayground should be and none has a gwimming pool, now recognized as an important adjunct to recreation facili- i tes. ! “On but two or three playgrounds in the city is it possible to play two games of base ball at once—a condi- tion necessary to insure attendance of older boys ordinz to Mr. San- ford. Most of the playgrounds have but one small diamond, ich the vounger bovs are given preference {in use, with the result that bovs of the age most conducive to “ganging” arq forced to seek the diversion of a street corner “loafing bee.” Mr. Sanford contends that (Continued on Page 2 DEBT BODY PERSONNEL FOR FRANCE FORECAST Cabinet to Pick Funding Commis- sioners at Next Meeting—Cail- laux Probably Will Lead. By the Associated Press. PARIS, August 21.—The French Debt Commission, which will sail on the steamer Paris for the United States on September 16, in all prob- ability headed by Minister of Finance Caillaux, will be definitely appointed at _the next cabinet meeting. The Matin says the commission al most _certainly will include Senator Henry Berenger, reporter of the budget committee; Senator Fernand Chapsal, president of the customs | tariff committee: Deputy Vincent Auriol, Socialist and former president | of the budget committee of the Cham bher: Deputy Lamoureux, reportr of { the budget committee of the Cham- | ber: Deputy Maurice | former reporter of the budgzet com mittee; Marquis Pierre de Chambrun, jand Joseph Simon, a banker and | formerly director of the financial sec- ) tion of the French High Commission to_the United States. The government in selecting these commissioners, the Matin adds, will aim at having all shades of parliamen- tary opinion represented, both gov- ernmental and oppositional. THREE DOOMED TO DIE. Alleged Communists Taken After Battle in Warsaw. WARSAW, Poland, August 21 (#).— Death sentences were pronounced to- day against three alléged Communists captured in one of Warsaw’'s busiest streets on July 17 after a gunfight with detectives and subsequent chase in which a score of persons were wonuded, several fatally. The sentences were passed in the face of the receipt by Premier Grab- ski of threatening telegrams from French and German Communist every Column 7.) groups, P name is simply a small corner lot! two | Bokanowski, | Hoover Employes Faint From Heat In Offices, He Says Reiterating fhe hope that the Department «f Commerce may soon be houged in a Government- owned buildfng large enough to in- clude all the expanded activities of the deparvment, Secretary Hoover declared 4pday that the time lost from their work in the Summer time by employes of the depart- ment in temporary buildings be- cause of stopping of work in heat- ed periods ff translated into money would more than pay the interest 0o/i a new building. Emploves of the Census Bureau and other divisions of the Com- merce Department, Mr. Hoover said, are frequently excused from work for several hours a day dur- ing warm weather, and in some cases work not more than a few hours day Thos employed in the ‘pasteboard’ buildings, he added, are exposed to such heat that many of the women faint at their work. Mr. Hoover said there is a press- ing need for enlarged facilities to house the enlarged activities of the department. He said he had not talked recently with Senator Smoot regarding the proposed $150,000,000 Government building program, but hoped the Commerce Department would benefit under the proposal. STRIKE PICKETS LAY BRICKBAT BARRAGE Two Hurt in Battle to Enforce Wildcat Walkout at Coal Mine. By the Associated Press ZIE I, August 21—Two persons were slightly injured and several automobiles were battered by flying bricks and clubs today as approximately 150 miners passed a picket line at the Bell and Zoller mine No. 1. here, where a wild cat strike 18 in progress at the mines Guns were in evidence, but no shots were fired. Most of the miners t safely past the ba ze of mis- siles and went to work in the mine. ‘About 200 men composed the picket- ing party Sheriff Henry hastily Dory summoned eve: Benton, available at at the shaft at 3 p.m. to protect the men when they quit work. The streets today were crowded and the feeling was tense. Adjt. Gen. Carlos Black, at Springfield, was noti- fied of the outbreak, but no troops were asked. F. Kendrich, a miner, was treated at the Zeigler Hospital for an in- jury. He was able ta go to his home. An unidentified woman received bruises. ° LOST FLiYF:RS 7N0T FOUND. Naval Station to Aid Hunt for Three Young Chicagoans. CHICAGO, August 21 (P)—Search for the Maiden Gertrude, the Chicago airplane missing since July with three young aviators, was continued today. Belief was expressed that the plane must have gone to the bottom Dy this time, if an accident occured on Jake Michigan. Comdr. Evans of the Great Lakes naval training station is preparing to send a Navy hydroplane to help in ‘the search. Coast Guard station boats have combed the shore line of the lake near the point where the flyers were ast seen, but no sign of the miss- ing airmen or their plane has been discovered. deputy and constable to have them | ATLANTIC FLIGHT 0 BE TRIED SOON French Flyers Await Plane for Proposed Paris-New York Non-Stop Hop. By the Associaled Press. PARIS, August 21—Lieuts. Fran- < Coll and Paul Tarascon, maimed :Frvnr\h veterans, plan to start on a | non-stop airplane flight from Paris to New York within a few days Inan interview with Excelstor, Coli and Tarascon sald that immediately | their 420-horsepower nine-cylinder e inz their Atlantic. | chine, and Coli, who is a skilled navi- gator, will direct his course. oli, while admitting the difficulties were great, said he did not believe them insurmountable. Allowing for the spherical shape of the earth, the distance to be covered was only 6,000 kilometers (3,728.29 miles). The great thing, he added, was to find altitudes where the wind would be favorable. The plane, which already has been given a successful trial flight at the Villacoublay fiying fleld, is fitted with a navigraph. This is considered an indispensable accessory, since the course will have to be changed every quarter of an hour, once for evei degree, to allow for magnetic declina- tion. "Another accessory is a small canvas buoy line, to be used as a sheet anchor, and which, in case the machine falls into the sea, will keep its head to the wind. To save welght |in the flight the landing wheels will be dropped at the start, and the plane | will make its landing on its outer shell, the body and wings being pro- tected by sprags. Plan Trip in New York. NEW YORK, August 21 (#).—Two French aviators, Lieuts. Anton Moore and Georges Kirsch, who plan a trans- Atlantic flight from New York te Paris late this Fall, arrived today on the steamer Rochambeau, to make pre- liminary preparations. | The airmen. both of whom saw serv {ice during the World War in the | French Air Corps. will compete for the $25,000 prize offered for the Paris to-New York flight by 12ig. Two fellow countrymen compet ing for the same prize plan 1o fv from Paris to New York late this month. Weather conditions will the date of their take-off, the aviators | said, expressing a hope that they might launch the flight this Fall or, at the latest, early next Spring. ONE OF LIU’S ASSASSINS KILLED BY CANTON GUARD Slain Finance Minister Was Rab- idly Anti-Foreign and Leader in Bolshevism. the Associated Press. CANTON, China, August 21.—One of the men who participated in the as- sassination vesterday of Liu Chung- Hoi, finance minister of the Canton government, was killed by guards while fleeing fro mthe scene, and an- other wounded. The remainder es- caped. Liu Chung-hoi was a leader of the Canton workers and was regarded as the real power behind the prosentanti- foreign strike. At one time he was minister of finance in the national government at Peking and was three times governor of Kwangtung prov- ince. He was known as violently hos- tile to foreigners and to Christians, and as a leader of the bolshevist ele. ment in the Canton government. A previous attempt on his life recently was unsuccessful. flight westward across the By PHILIPPINES FOR PARLEY. MANILA, August 21 UP).—Both houses of the Ppilippine legislature have approved a fesolution providing for the sending of a mission to the United States to confer with President Coolidge and others regarding a definite solution of the Philippine prob- lem. President Serglo Osmena of the low- er house and another vet to be select- ed will sail August 22 League Documents Stolen. MILAN, Italy, August 21 OP).— Police are investigating the theft of a handbag belonging to Amdul Alin Bey Mafaz, Egyptian delegate to the forthcoming League of Nations meet- ing in Geneva. The satchel contained several important documents, Federal Income; By the Associated Press. Tax reduction advocates received additional comfort today from a Treasury tabulation showing that in spite of the lower schedules which became effective this vear internal revenue collections for July amounted to $125,866,689, com- pared with $110,814,885 during the same month of 1924. The decrease, due to the new law, included a drop from $6,000,000 in July, 1924, to $1,500,000 in July, 1925, on amusement tickets, and there were also reductions in re- ceipts from various other forms of sales and consumption taxes. There an plane is ready they would start wing- | ascon will pilot the ma- | Ramond Or- | determine | Judge Puts Limit On Wives’ Power To Jail Husbands The application of wives to have their husbands locked up to pre- vent payment of alimony based only on a casual remark of the husband that he would leave town if taken into court to settle mari- tal troubles has become too com- mon, according to Chief Justice Coy, who today expressed his isapproval of the custom “It is a serious thing to deprive a man of t liberty, said the chief justice, “and lock him up mpressions of his wife of e. casxually said to her There must be a sworn afidavit showing that the man really in- tends to go away and thus evade his duty to support his wife. It is not at all likely that a man who has been living here a number of vears and s engaged in_business is going to leave, even if he does make such a threat to his wife in a casual way.” BLUE RIDGE SWEPT Blaze in Carolina Mountains Declared Worst in His- tory of State. By the Associated Press BLOWING ROCK. N. © 21.—Sweeping its way through vi timber on the lower half of the slope of Grandfather Mountain, in the Blue Ridge range of North Carolina, a forest fire, said to be one of the great- est in the history of the State, had caused damage estimated at approxi- mately $1,000,000 and early today was slowly burning itself out With the aid of a light rain State foresters and mountaineers who vol- unteered to combat the spread of the flames had checked the conflagration on the eastern side of the mountain | They prevented the fire from leaping across the State highway between Blowing Rock and Linville. The fire started vesterday morning at a burning sawmill and spread to the eastern side of the mountain. Throughout the day and night the ity, due to the high wind and lack of rain over the area for many daye. The lower half of the mountain was parently enveloped in flame, while a lighted cloud hovered over the sum- mit. The wind had died down this morn- ing and a light rain had fallen, stopping the spread of the fire and allowing the rangers to extinguish scattered flare-ups. SUBURB IS PERILED. California Town in Path ef Oniush- ing Flames. SANTA BARBARA, Calif., August 21 (P).—Flames last night leaped across a burned-out area on the west side of the Santa Ynez Mountains in_the direction of Montecito, the Joining Santa Barbara. Starting a week ago yesterday in Blue Canyon, 12 miles east of here, the flames have steadily eaten their way up the east side of the Santa Ynez range, over the top and down the west side,, but, owing to an old burned-over area, the forest officials until yesterday feared no danger to the City of Montecito. However, a old burn and into a heavily timbered canyon that leads directly into Mon- tecito. Supervisor Chester Batbara National recruited all the Jordan of Santa Forest hurriedly men he could se- cure and left for the canyon with | hose and an engine. He said he be- lieved the flames could be checked. CHARGES LIFE GUARDS LET GIRL. 9. DROWN Rochester Attornsy Says Protector Played Ukulele and Refused to Heed Cries for Help. By the Associated Press. ROCHESTER, N. Y. August 21.— Charges that one of the life guards employed at the city bathing pool in Genesee Valley Park played a ukulele on the pool bank while Genevieve Breen, 9, drowned, and that another guard answered calls from the child’s playmates -that they were pipe dreams,” were made today by Leo Rice, attorney, who announced he had been retained by the child's mother to bring a action against the city. Rice said he would attend an inquest today into the death of the girl and pre- that' three guards, Walter Raymon and were negligent. Mr. and Roy of the investigation, Windstorm Sweeps Ital: MILAN, Ttaly, Considerablo proper: caused by a derstorm which swept Milan and its environs during the night. Many buildings were unroofed and trecs up- rooted. damage was Lowered Tax Schedules Fail to Impair More Cuts Possible were considerable gains from tobac- co_and corporation taxation. The total collection of income tax from corporations and individuals during July was $34,953,218. In July last vear it was 64,137, Miscellaneous internal revenue E s vielded $90,.- . against $51 47 in July, . The capital stock tax on cor- porations vielded 3,000 last month, while in July, . it yielded but $ 00, There wus a slight falling off in the tax receipts from cigar con- sumplion, while ctgarettes furnish- ed $22,836,000 in ¥ederal revenue for July, 1925, against $19,749,000 in July, 1924, 1 j BY 51,000,000 FIRE flames ate into the woods with rapid- | ap- | and headed up San Ysidro Canyon suburb of wealthy home owners ad-| high wind swept the fire across the | “having | ,000 negligence | Park road drive out there Benson, The three guards | have been suspended by Park Com- | missioner Riley pending the outcome violent wind and thun- | SHELLING PROTEST DECLARES TRAFF 5 OVERREGULATED {Maze of Rules and “Experi- ments” Mystifies Driver and Walker. |ELDRIDGE AND AIDES CALLED TOO ZEALOUS Mean to Do Good Job, But Are Going Too Far, in Opinion of Many. BY WILLIAM ULLMAN, Automobile Editor of The Star. That the ever-increasing traffic regs- ations, coming day by day, if not hour by hour, from the office of the df rector of traffic, are burdensoms and irritating is the consensus among a huge number of users of Washington's |SU‘!‘P[>~ That the confusion created among motorists and pedestrians alike by the multiplicity of “Do’s” and “Don'ts : rust upon them each day is defeat { ing the original purpose of the traffic director — further congesting, rather n relieving, traffic—is a conviction | fast fixing itself in the minds of many {of those who must stop, listen and memorize today’s regulations | Veteran motorists who have driven {in many of the large and smaller cities | of the country that nowhere have they been onted with_so many direction signs as in the Na tional Capital. Local streets, they say, {are a perplexing and cogfusing suc- { cession of trafic instructions. It is | either don't park here, don't cross | there, no left turn, stop, slow, go straight ahead. go around, no right turn and such like, until they are at {once afraid to move and afrald to stop | look assert First Enthusiasm Cools. | Greeting the establishment of the new trafic regime with enthusiasm and a hearty willingness to co-operate, |the miotoring and pedestrian public has [ become tired of waiting for the prom |ised improvement und is now mani ! festing dissatisaction with regula tions they believe offer no improve ment The real outburst of public temper i came with the latest left and righ hand turn regulation, which calls for vehicles intending to turn one way or | the other to draw up to the right-hand jcurb and await further instructions This is the scheme in effect in a num | ber of small cities, in Pennsylva | particularly, and many local motori have had experience with it. One District motorist tells of has = had it called to his attention in Allentown where he attempted to [ make a left-hand turn accaording to | the generally recognized big-city rule “Don’t you know,” bawled the traffic cop. “that to make a left-hand turn vou gotta first pull up to that right curb and stop?” | “No replied the motorist. “and what's more, T didn't even suspect it |~ That incident, it is pointed our, in dicates the small use of the regulation ! and serves in a way to illustrate what may be expected here if it should be applied to a greater local traffic well | mixed with the large number of out of-town cars that ply daily through the streets of Washington Over-Regulation Seen. Fair-minded citizens are not ex- | pressing dissatistaction with the traf fie director, whom they believe to be honest and earnest, but feel that the | traffic office, in its eagerness to ef {fect a lot of regulations which indi | vidually seem reasonable, is overdoing | the thing. They believe, in short, that { traffic is being over-regulated. | Several traffic students are of the opinion that the traflic office should | quit making new regulations for a | few days and survey the results of those already in effect. It is believed ! that a calm and dispassionate size-up of the workings of many of the cross road puzzles that have besn inaugu rated would reveal a state of con fusion exisung among motorists ex ceeding ils congesting capacity the conditions that existed prior to the initiation of the new rules. It is pointed out, for example, that if the same motorists used the same | streets everv day they would in time memorize all the various regulations encountered on their journey through | the city and that eventually this par- | ticular trafic would flow smooth as | oll. But there is the “foreign” traffic, ‘lhe people from out of town and the | 1ocal motorists who in great numbers | every day at every intersection are | virtual strangers. To test this goint, it is suggested that any motorist who is unfamiliar | with the Mount Pleasant section in { the vicinity of Fourteenth street and some eve- ining after dark and battle with the One motorist declares { that an entire evening can be spent - | regulations. sent witnesses in an effort to prove|running down parking mirages and Mrs, | backing out of one-way streets. All of which, it is also declared, makes for halting, stalling, annoying and worrysome conditions that are, in the final analysis, worse than no regu- lations at all and possessing far er potentialities for serfous acci Added Police Big Help. 1t is widely believed that the b {thing that has happened to local traffic conditions was the increase in the number of traffic police. It has | been observed that the appearance of one officer at a busy street inter- section will do more to smooth out the flow of traMic and minimize the accident possibilities than a dozen signs. | 1t is understood, of course, that it is practically impossible to have police: at every corner, but the marked change in the conduct of ! both motorists and pedestrians in the presence ot policemen leads to a very clear conclusion. It shows quite { plainly that 99 per cent of the mo- torists know how to behave and that they really know what s right and what s wrong in driving. | There need be no signs, there |need be no officer’s upralsed hand; irrespective of the traffic conditions |at that corner, whether good, bad or indifferent at the moment, mo | torists and pedestrians alike, at the | sight of an efficer, immedtately check | up on their conduct and proceed with caution and, among motorists espe clally, with due regard for the rights of others present. This fact, close observers of trafc " (Continued-on Page 2, Column 3) ¢