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WEATHER. (0. 8. Weather Bureau Fair tonight and Full report on page 7. tomorrow; much change in temperature. Temperatures—Highest, $3, at 4:10 esterday; lowest, 68, at 4:10 a.m. Forecast.) not Closing N. Y. Stocks 15(} Bonds, Page 30 Entereu post ofhe No. 29,711, Wa s seconn class matter shington. D. C ~ SHENANDOAH LOS LAIDTOGALE ALONE; SOUVENIR LOOTERS HAMPERING PROBE Twisti‘ng Off of Control and |Fli p of Coin Cost Shenandoah Radio Operator His Life By the Associated Press. |, PHILADELPHIA, September 4.— The flip of a cojn decided the fate of George C. Schnitzer, Point Pleasant, N. J., chief radio engineer of the Shenandoah, who was among those killed in the disaster. Just before the glant dirigible left its hangar at Lakehurst, Schnitzer, the father of two children, “matched” for the long “hop” with H. Monley, |alternate radio man, who was also eligible for the flight, and Schnitzer won the toss, b WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, SEP/ ¢ Foenit WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION EMBER 4, q Star. 1925 -FORTY PAGES. w The Star’s Yesterday's ted FIRST PHOTOGRAPHS OF SHENANDOAH WRECKAGE SEARCHFORPN | SPURRED BY SIGHT OF SIGNAL FLARES | Vessel Combing Pacific for Lost Flyers Sees: Lights Twice. ! “From Press to Home Within the Hour” carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Circulation, 94,327 prws. TWO CENTS. POTOMAC FILTHY, UNFIT FOR BATHING, SAYS U. 5. REPORT Typhoid, Cholera and Other Dreaded Germs Found to Infest River. Radio Cabins Opened Holesj in Mammoth Bag and Air| Rushing in Buckled Frame. i TR RO iNEW FORCES SPEEDING %GETS SEWAGE FROM D. C., I MARYLAND AND VIRGINIA TO LEND HELP IN HUNT| POLTICS BLAMED Navy Department Orders 18 De- | Results of Tests Kill Any Chance SURVIVORS TELL GRAPHIC| STORIES OF NIGHT WRECK Crew Heroically Worked After| Ship Collapsed to Bring Down Fluttering Fragments of Big Craft Without Loss of Life. Many Thrown Out in Midair. Br the Associated Press. CALDWELL, Ohio, September 4.— Air rushing into -holes torn in the Shenandoah by the twisting off of the and control cabins caused the buckling of the ship and its breaking | up into two major parts, in th& opin- fon of the naval hoard of inquiry that visited ‘the wreckage of the ship's prow today. Snapping of guy wires at the same time that the cabins were torn away in the gale also served to weaken the structure. The stress upon the hull of the ship by its rolling and rising and falling in the wind and electric storm are be- lieved responsible for the wrenching loose of the cabins. radio | boots on. Nothing Could Avert Disaster. | Comdr. S. M. Kraus, Comdr. G. Ful- | ton, Lieut. Comdr. Willlam Nelson and | C. P. Burgess, expert technicist on air- | ship_construction, all of Lakehurst, | N. J., visited the wreckage of the ship’s nose in company with Lieut. R. G. Mayer, one of the survivors who landed with that portion 12 miles from | where the tafl and midsection fel In discussing the cr it FOR FLIGHT BY MRS, LANSDOVNE {Commander’s Widow Says He Opposed and Feared “Voyage at This Season. By the Aswociated Press. LAKEHURST, N. J., September 4. Mrs. Zachary Lansdowne, widow of the commanding officer of the wrecked Shenandouh, today asserted that she had not criticized the Secretary of the Navy in her comments of last night on the advisability of the fiight of the Shenandoah to the Middle West. “1 was misunderstood last night,” id Mrs. Lansdowne. ‘‘Comdr. Lans- downe was very much opposed to making the flight at this time, and he vised the department accordingly. Having been born in the Ohio Valley he knew weather conditions out there | and bad some fear of them. “When I married an aviator,” Mrs. Lansdowne was quoted as saying last night, “I knew what chances we were | taking, and I will not knnckle down now. I am gind Zach died with his 1 intend to go through life with mine on. When a girl marries an aviator she takes a chance. I have gambled and lost.” Young, with black bobbed hair and blue eyes and dressed entirely in white, Mrs. Lansdowne said her hus- band had a premonition of disaster. Since last June, she declared, accord- ing to last night's accounts, the lieutenant commander used all his in- fluence to trip because he all off both this and a! { previous Western { | stroyers Into Action—Other Craft Also to Assist. | By the Associated Press. | SAN FRANCISCO, September 4.— | | The Navy Department has instruct- ed Admiral Robison to dispatch 18] | destroyers that left Samoa September | | 1 for Hawaii to the search zone to | | participate in the hunt for the mis | ing PN-9-1 and its crew. | In announcing that the ships which | were returning from the Australian | cruise would be used to endeavor to find Comdr. Rodgers’ plane the flight command here stated that “there is a | ray of hope” in the telegram which | | the Whippoorwill sent that it had seen a white flaré and two flares or rockets at 7:10 and 8:10 last night. These were seen in the Kauai Channel, on | | the far side of the Island of Oahu. FLARES ARE SEEN. | Tender Whippoorwill Twice Catches | Sight of Lights. | HONOLULU, September Just | before midnight the tender S. Whippoorwill, searching in mid-Pacifi waters for the missing PN-9 No. 1, | naval seaplane, reported | At 7:10 p.m. we saw white flare ahead. We headed for the spot for| { one hour and then saw two flares or| rockets from starboard. Have been | steaming now for half hour, but have | | seen nothing more.” Aid Going Forward. In spite of the halting expression | here of the unwilling feeling that it would be a miracle if the plaue were discovered and the occupanits rescued, | new searching detachments, rein-| forced by the destroyer Reno, are 4 | putting squarely of Creating Beach Under Present Conditions. The Potomac River is little better than a great uncovered sewer which receives the daily refuse and pollu- tion not only from the entire District of Columbia but from parts of Mary- land and Virginia as well It is literally alive with the dread germs of sewage-borne diseases— typhoid fever, paratyphoid, cholera and other violent intestinal infec- tions—and would be a menace to public health if used for bathing pur- poses This is the gist of a formal report prepared by the United States Public Health Service, which, in co-opera- tion with the District Health Depart- ment, has just completed an_exhaus- tive study of the Potomac River 1o determine whether not it would be safe to provide Washington with a bathing beach along its shores. Not Fit for Bathing. In blunt language the chemists and sanitarians who made the analyses have declared that at no point from far above Great Falls to miles below the mouth of th Anacos River does the Potomac “anywhere nearly’ approach the sanitary conditions necessary for protection of health and public safety. This, in the opinion of expert sani tarians and medical men, definitely removes the possibility of making a bathing beach along the Potomac in the near future. It is regarded as up to Congress the necessity for finding elsewhere a sub- stitute for the Tidal Basin bathing beach, which was abandoned early last Spring. In view of the fact that the Public Health Service experts, in the same agreed among the inquirers { feared the battle with Ohio thunder- nothing could have prevented the dis-|storms would wreck the ship. aster except, perhaps, greater speed | politics, she charged, demanded that | to get away from such a gale. | the trip be made. Never before had | Technicist Burgess said that ships | Lansdowne fafled to circle over their had not as yet been devised capable | bungalow, but on this last trip she speeding toward station V, where the | report, prongunced the waters of the Aroostook had her place in the line' Anacostia Ritkr and Rock Creek even of the guard ships. | more deadly, and that they found Here the searchers will be reorgan- i every sizable stream emptying into ized today and their efforts intensi-|the Potomac polluted, this is admitted But | Above: Center section of the ship, which was a part of the front half. With members of the crew clinging to girders and ropes, this part of the dirigible drifted for a mile-and a half, Lieut, E. W, Sheppasd of Washington held to the section of a girder, but it parted from the drifting gas bag and | of attaining & speed sufficient to have served the pufpose. however: o | Comdr. Kraus said it would be use- Jess to attempt to salvage any of the wreckage for further use. Salvaging even for experimental and study pur- poses was prevented by the looting that has occurred. Lieut. Mayer said that when the prow landed it was in- | tact except for ‘he two cabins that had been lost. Tuday when he escort- | the inquirers to the hillside on which the wreckage lay the frame- article. Wreck Stripped. g and cells had all been torn | Cover awa | the silver cloth over the uppermost part of the ship’s remnant. Cables, | platforms, joints, gasoline tanks, elec- tric communication. wires—everything | detachable was gone. ! Looting had -stopped _today at | Sharon, however, an improvised guard of American Legion men in overalls, straw hats, khaki belts and carrying | rifies standing watch and keeping | spectators beyond the fences. | Fhe body of Celestino P. Mazzuco | was ordered shipped to his father, | August Mazzuco, at Murray Hill, N. J. The Navy Bureau of Medicine and | Surgery advised Lieut. Comdr. Charles | Rosendahl to telegraph relatives of victims whose bodies were badly mu- tilated, suggesting that they consult | with local undertakers before viewing | the bodies. { I Looting Stopped. | Crowds continued to swarm about | the main section of the wrecked air-| ship today. They began to arrive af daylight and all day automobiles and | pedestrians crowded the narrow, dusty | rough road leading east ome and a| half miles from Ava to the wreck. | In some places the reddish dust is | four inches deep and frequently auto- | mobiles are forced to stop and await | the clearing of the dust in the air so | that drivers can pilot their cars on | the hilly road. This adds to the traffic | congestion i | All looting has been stopped by a detail of soldiers from Fort Hayes, at They keep the spectators at a_distance of 100 feet:from the wreckage. Meanwhile, as the crowds continue to come, hundreds of dollars poured into the pockets of. Charles Niswonger, owner of the farm where the main section of the ship landed. Many gained entrance to the field without admission, crawling under fences What remains of the only American- built dirigible heing broken by the wind much the ocean-going ship aground is broken up by the wav | Fourteen dead members of the crew, | including Lieut. Comdr. Zachary | Lansdowne, lay in an “olumbus. up f same as an| was noted he sailed away without even ap- proachiing their home. “He knew conditions in Ohio,” she said. “He was born {n Ohlo and kill- ed in Ohio, 100 miles from the spot where he was born. The commander often said the ship was likely to get into trouble in thunderstorms, with the hot air going up and the cold air coming down. A big airship getting nto this would smap in two. “He used evéry bit of influence he could to keep from going. He never flight, but before starting on this one that he could not get through. Some officers at the station dis- tion that politics caused the trip. The (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) YELLOWLEY GIVEN CHICAGO DRY POST Former Chief Agent Is Moved From San Francisco—De- troit Unit Enlarged. E. C. Yellowley, eneral prohibition agents, today was named Federal prohibition ad- ministrator for district No. 13, with headquarters at Chicago. Col. Ned M. Green of Los Angeles was named administrator for district No. 21, with headquarters at San Francisco. Ewing to Remain. In transferring Yellowley to Chi- cago it appeared that Assistant Sec- retary Andrews of the Treasury had straightened out a hitch that had securred since he was first given the place at San Francisco. Although it was not disclosed why he had been shifted, advisers of the Assistant Sec- retary were understood t ohave held that Yellowley was better fitted for former chief of the Chicago place than any other | available man. Col. Green has been engaged business in Los Angeles. B. 5. Ewing, who has been acting administrator at Chicago, probably will be given an appointment to some other post in the Chicago division. The Treasury took another step to- day in its campaign against liquor in he was killed. The gondola was located in the front part, but it fell from the ship when the break came. Is oceupants, ineluding Comdr. Lansdowne, | Lieut. Comdr. Hancock, Lieut: A.”R. Houghton and others, were killed. Below: Rear part of the Shenandoah, which drifted for about 10 miles, carrying | | & number of the crew. to safety. Lieut. Richardson, Col. Hall and Lieut. Bauch were away from the big craft. The picture also shows the topography of the section where the Shenandoah met disaster in the storm. this section. The photograph shows how the keel pieces were torn Copsright by P. & A. Photos. L VANDERBIT work was stripped of every lnoscrappeared worried over any previous | : | he was extremely nervous and fearful | with the exception of some of |agreed with Mrs. Lansdowne's asser- | ISon of Late Cornelius Van- derbilt Was Noted as Horseman. By the Associated Press. PORTSMOUTH, R. I, September 4 | —Reginald C. Vanderbilt died early | today at his country home, Sandy | Point Farm, here, as a result of in: ternal hemorrhages. | Mr. Vanderbilt had been in fairly | good health, members of his house- hold said, up to last night. Shortly after midnight he suffered a hemor- | rhage, which left him in a weakened condition. About 4 o'clock this morn- ing a second attack caused his death. He was in his forty-fifth year. Had Throat Infeetion. Later it was announced that Mr. Vanderbilt had been suffering from a | throat infection since Tuesday. The | illness responded to treatment to such |and extent that Mrs. Vanderbilt left | for New York, where her husband | was to_join her later for a trip to | South America. On Wednesday night it became necessary to call in phy- | sicians and last night a specialist in stomach disorders’ was summoned. Blood transfusion was resorted to | when the first hemorrhages developed. Mre. Vanderbilt is returning here. | Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, sr., { mother of Mr. Vanderbilt, was at | 8andy Point Farm when her son died. NOTED AS HORSEMAN. Vanderbilt Was Son of Late Cornelius | Vanderbilt. | NEW YORK, September 4 (P).— | Reginald C. Vanderbiit, who died to- | day at his country home in Rhode Is- [1and, was one of the leading horsemen of the country. He was president of improvised | smuggling from Canada by authoriz- | the National Horse Show Association morgue in Belle Valley, their faces|ing Collector Ferguson, at Detroit, to | of America, which he organized, and tuncovered to the view of the visiting | establish a new unit of enforcement | also was president of the American hundreds. | Two in Hospital. ! Two injured members of the crew | are in a Marietta hospital. Nothing could have saved the dirigi-| ble in its battle with the storm, accord: ing to the consensus of all members | of the crew. Neither was it any fault | of the ship, in their opinion. The dis- | aster was the result of the most feared of storms to an aviator, a line squall, the result of the clash of hot and cold | currents of air. Lieut. Comdr. Charles Rosendahli, who came into command of the crew efter the death of Comndr. Lansdowne | and Lieut. Comdr. Louw J. Hancock, declared that nothing cou.d have saved the Shenandoah and that } uman hands could not have fashioned a ship to live through the ordeal. At the same time Navy officials are (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) Foochow l?t‘ctionl Fight. * AMOY, China, September % (#) (De- Jayed)—Foochow reports indicate se- rious trouble between opposing mili- tary tactions and fighting has been re ported within the city. {to control about 100 miles of the northern border, with Detroit as the center. Assistant Secretary Andrews in- structed Mr. Ferguson to select a dep- uty collector of customs, whose duty will be to direct the operation of some | 50 new customs inspectors in the ter- ritory. Attention was called at the same time to the corps of immigration of- ficers scattered in the district over which Collector Ferguson now as- sumes a new jurisdiction. ‘It was understood that the immigration bu- reau had about 60 men in this section, and it was indicated that Commission- er Husband and Gen. Andrews had reached some sort of an agreement by which the former's force will co-op- erate with the customs inspectors. MINE BLAST KILLS 150. TOKIO, September 4 (#).—One hun- dred and fifty persons were killed in an explosion at the Tethaku coal mine, near Pingyang, Korea, dispatches to the Jiji Shimpo recelved here today said. 7 1 Hackney Horse Society. : He was the youngest son &f the | 1ate Cornelius Vanderbilt. He in- | herited $10,000,000 from his father, | when 21 years old, and later, in 1815, | he inherited $5,000,000 from hi: brother, Alfred Vanderbilt, who wa: lost in the sinking of the Lusitania. Mr. Vanderbilt was the brother of Gen. Cornelius Vanderbilt, of the Countess Laszlo” Szechenyi and of Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney. Reginald Vanderbilt .married Miss Cathleen Neilfon, a daughter of Mrs. Frederick Neilson .and a niece of erick Gebhard, “in April, 1903 |'They have one child,’ Miss Cathleen Vanderbilt, who Harry C. Cushing 3rd. | Mr. Vanderbilt and his wife separat: ed, and after a period of years she browght suit for divorce, which was granted, and the final decree was en- { tered in April, 1920, at Newport, Mrs: Vanderbilt .being granted the custody of the child. Mrs. Vanderbilt married Sydney J. Colford, jr.. in January, 1821, : Mr. Vanderbilt was married for the second time to Miss Gloria Morgan. daughter of Harry Hays Morgan, con. sul general.at Buenos Aires. Their marriage was in 1923, S | By the Associated Press TOMS RIVER, N —Capt, Anton Heinen, former German dirigible pilot and con- struction adviser in the building of the Shenandoah, said todav that the removal of eight of the 1§ safety valves on the dirigible’s gas bags, was the cause of yesterday's disaster and that the victims of the crash'“gave their lives to save this precious helium.” “In the storm the craft rose too fast for the remaining valves to let off sufficient gas,” he said, “‘the upward movement of the ship caus- ing rapid expansion of the gas bags which broke the shell of the ship in the middle. “1 would not call it murder,” said Capt. Heinen, “but 1 cannot put it oo strongly that if it had not been for the foolishness in cutting down the number of safety valves the crash_would not have occurred.” Capt. Heinen said the ship should have been able to discharge 21,000 cubic feet of helium for every 240 feet that she rose above an altitude of 3.000 feet and that he had under- September {Removal of 8 Valves From Shenandoah | Killed Crew, Capt. Heinen Declares stood from Comdr. Klein that she was nearly filled with helium when she left the station. Insisting that the Shenandoah, as originally desizned, was the “'safest thing in the world,” Capt. Heinen asserted that due to the reduction of the number of valves about six weelks ago he would not have gone on the dirigible “for a million dollars.” “It was not sal changes,” he added. went and knew of were brave, indeed.” with valve The men that the changes Navy Deparument clined to comment today on the assertion of Capt. Anton Heinen, consulting _engineer in the con: struction of the Shenandoah, that the reduction in the number of safety valves in the bags of the dirigible, was responsible for the wreck At the Bureau of Aeronautics, however, it was said that the re. duction was made recently by di- rection of the officers at Lake- hurst and had not come directly before the bureau in any way. officials de- BOBBYJONES 4 P ONVONELN I 8 Watts Gunn Leading Dick Jones 1 Up in Other Semi-Final. By the Associated Press. OAKMONT, Pa., September 4.— Bobby Jones, the champion, was 4 up on George von Elm of Los Angeles at the end of the morning round in their semi-final match of the national amateur golf championship today. Watts Gunn of Atlanta was 1 up on Dick Jones of White Plains, N. Y. Bobby Jones shot a 71, one under par. Birdies were frequent and Von Elm had .an eagle 3 at the ninth by means of 4 marvelous pitch, Young Gunn, who disposed of. Jess Sweetser yesterday, experienced a lot of trouble In gaining the advantage of Dick Jones. The lead see-sawed, Guon’s inability to find himself on the greens causing him to have only | the 1-hole margin at the home hole. At the eighteenth Dick Jones made the. most spectacular shot of the 'round. He sank a 30-foof putt for.a birdie 3. ¥ Almost: Gets Eagle. The sun was breaking through as Bobby. Jones and Von Elm started, ‘with Jones, first to drive, sending a long shot down the center. Von Elm was_trapped’ to the right, and came lout to the brow of ‘the hill. Bobby's second shot. just missed an eagle, Von Elm conceding the birdie 4 when his putt for a 5 fafled. Jones 1 up. Jones took a lead of 2 up with a birdie 3 at the - second, his . pitch dropping four feet from the cup. Ven Elm had a par 4 of the GITY WILL WIDEN TWOMORE STREETS Eleventh "and Connecticut Avenue Are Favored for Im- provement Next Year. The two streets which probably will be recommended for widening next year are Connectfcut avenue and Eleventh street, it was reported to- da While a definite announcement has not been made-by the city heads, in- dications today were that those'two thoroughfares are being most seri- ously considered as a result of the public hearing at the, District Build- ing yesterday. The boundaries between which the widening would be recommended is one of the points which has not been finally settled. The belief prevailed at the District Building, however, that on Connecti- cut avenue the widening next year would be from K to M streets and that on Eleventh street the widening. would ‘start at Pennsylvania avenue. Provided in Budget. The Commissioners have fixed ten- tatively a certain sum of money to be devoted to street widening in the] next budget and they are understood to be waiting now for officials in the highway division to determine how much of Eleventh -street and Con- necticut avenue can be taken care of nmext year on that allotment. In the case of Eleventh street the city already has available from Con- gress an appropriation for the laying of a new payement from E to G streets to replace existing cobble- stones..' This paving will not be done until Spring, however, and it has been indicated that if Eleventh street is to widened the Commissioners would be Jones’ putt from off the x.o# n-2) Nmt.lvfl.-d on &: 2, Colum: i TR (Continued on Page 14, Column 1.) DEFEAT OF HYLAN ISVITALTO SMITH | Aides Say Victory for Mayor Would Hurt Presidential Hopes. | BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. | Staff Correspondent of The Star. | NEW YORK, September 4.—The |New York mayoralty campaign is | rapidly assuming national significance for the Democratic party. It has no national significance for the Repub- {lican party so far, and the chances are |remote that it will have any, except |in the circumstances of the hereditary | enemy would have. This is bad news for the Democratic party nationally. Gov. Al Smith, the pride of the sidewalks of New York, Ihis bonnet, and the argument now being made by State Senator James J. | Walker, the governor's candidate for | mayor against John F. Hylan, the in- cumbent, is that a victory for Hylan would mean a divided Democratic dele- gation from New York at the next national convention. Mr. Walker. after asking “‘why should Mayor self as follows: “Just because at the next national convention when the chairman asks the spokesman from New York, ‘For what purpose does the gentleman rise?” the answer will be to vote New Smith.” Might Crush Party. The same line of talk is being made by other Smith-Tammany-Walker leaders. They are trying to impress upon the New York democracy that the mayoralty would injure greatly 'the prestige of the governor and might smash tbe New York Democracy much as the national party was smashed last year. There are Democrats in New York thing that can happen for the party nationally is a continuance of the fight which developed at the conven- tion in New York last year and that the candidacy of Gov. Smith in 1928 will mean a continuance of that strife. But they seem to be in'the minority today. ~There is this about it, of course, from the national point of view. ' New York, even with her big flock ‘of votes, cannot nominate Gov. Smith for President in 1928 unless a ;mt many other State delegations all ‘into line. The danger, however, lies in.the interjection agdin of the Catholic. and anti-Catholic, the Ku Klux and anti-Ku Klux strife, which may follow the serious candidacy of either Gov. Smith or of William Gibbs McAdoo. Means Blow to Smith. The defeat of Govy. Smith in this mayoralty fight would be a severe blow to his political ambitions. At the same time, a victory for Walker will mean :-hmlm r!:om rfolflh the governor. So e nce of the present primary grows. If &e Smith wins the natural reflex which any change! Hylan be turned down,” in informal| conversation answered the query him- | York's entire delegation for Alfred E. | a defeat of the Smith candidate for! who realize that probably the worst | fled with vessels proceeding to oc-| cupy a new scouting line at the en-| | trance to Kauai Channel. Comdr.| ‘ Wilbur Van Auken of the Ar\wfilooki reported last night that the Aroostook | had scouted between longitude 156 | to 158.35 and between latitude 23.20 | and 24.15 and found “no news from vessel.” Two Chances for Di: Aviators grudgingly express the opinion that one of two things prob- ably happened to Comdr. John Rodg- ers if the plane is not still afloat. First, | that he was unable to turn into the | wind due to the lack of gasoline and | was forced to land with the wind on the tall which forced him down, a highly precarious operation in any sort of a sea, with about one chance |in a hundred of landing safely. Sec- | ond, that he was blinded by the heavy | in squalls, to which he referred in his last series of messages, and that the aviators, with their clouded gog- | gles, were unable to distinguish rain | from the sea, thought they had more | “ceiling” than they really possessed, | descended slightly and struck the | |ocean at high-fiying speed, which | | would have resulted in a crash and | | the wrecking of the plane. Some of the Navy ships engaged in the search are running short of fuel and will have to return to port, while | the number of airplanes from Mau | assisting has been reduced to four, | one having been forced down last | night at Kahuiui with a broken con- nection roa. , any ster. TTALY WILL SEEK & apparently has the presidential bee in | “BUSINESS" TERMS 1 | | Poorer Than Belgium, Min- ister Volpi Points Out in | ! Debt Discussion. | By the Associated Press. | | ROME, September 4.—Italy’s capac- | ity to pay, based entirely upon busi- | ness considerations, will be the sole | determining criterion of the proposals | to be made by the Italian war debt | | commission - to Washington next | {month, Count Volpi, the finance min- | |ister, said to the Associated Press to- | day. i “Italy desires to conclude as soon as possible a just settlement of her war debt to the United States, based { completely upon the realities of her | industrial, economic and financial sit- uation,” the finance minister said. | | “We have every reason to be hope- {ful. I am a business man and will be | dealing with business men of my own | type, like Secretary Mellon, who I am | sure will approach the problem with | an eye to realities. | “I have successfully carried out | many similar missions in my career, |and T trust this one will have a satis- tactory conclusion.” | Commenting on President Coolidge’s statement that the terms of America’s settlement with Belgium would not constitute a_precedent, Count Voipt said: ‘Naturally I cannot divulge the de- talls of our proposals. It must be| remembered that the individual wealth | of Belgium is greater than that of Italy. This must be considered, since our plan and any intecpretations of it are based fundamentally on our capac- | ity to pay.” Count ~ Volpi concluded his refer- ences to the debt problem by .declar- ing Italy willing and desirous to pay to the full extent of her: capabilities. to present a difficult problem, but one that must be solved at the coming session. Safe Beach Demanded. Through one of the hottest spells of record, Washington sweltered early this Summer without a single saf: | place, outside of a few pools, where it might cool off. Thousands of wilted persons took a chance in the polluted streams. Many were drowned: how many more -were made ill is not known. But the authorities have pro- tested another Summer must not pass without the creation of a safe bathing beach here. The report of the Public Health Service experts occupies 50 typewrit- ten pages. The survey was made during July. Specimens of water were obtained from hundreds of places on both the Washington and Virginia side, between some distance above Great Falls and some dir ance below the conjunction of the Potomac and Anacostia. It shows that whereas sanitarians everywhere have agreed that not more than 10 per cent of the samples of water taken over a considerable pe- riod shall contain more than 100 bae teria per cubic centimeter, some sam- ples from the Potomac River disclose 95,000 bacteria per cubic centimeter. ¥ew showed as low as 700 bacteria, and none below that number. No Part Clean. At the very outset the report say “During the latter part of July, 25, no section of that part of the mac River which forms the west- ern boundary of the District of Co- lumbia could be considered free enough from pollution with sewage to permit its use for bathing without s potential danger to such bathers of contracting sewage-borne diseases. “This period was one of about aver- age Summer conditions and the pollu- tion at this time was about that which may be expected to exist at least some time during the bathing season of any year in the river as it flows past the District. ““These statements are based upon the results of bacteriological examina. tions of the water in this section of the river and upon conditions observed in other areas bordering the river both in this section and for a few miles above it, together with a study of records of various sorts covering sev. eral years past. “A brief description of this section of the river and of that immediately above it, together with @ statement of the possible sources of sewage con tamination is necessary that one may fully understand the method of ar- riving at the above conclusions which are derived from the data presented in the following pages. Outlet for Sewage. 19: “The Potomac River above Great Falls has received the sewage of many cities in Virginia and Maryland. Be tween Great Falls and Chain Bridge, there is a large, rapidly growing su- burban district considerable portions of which are served by local sewers which discharge either directly into the river or into small tributaries of the river. “In some of the latter the sewage may accumulate during dry weather and remain more or less ponded until flushed out into the river by the nat- ural rainfall discharge of the streams. This fact probably accounts for some of the periods of high pollution, last- ing only a short time, that are noted subsequently as occurring in the river. “Two thousand feet above Chain Bridge a sanitary sewer discharges from the Maryland side. Between Chain Bridge and Key Bridge three small domestic sewers discharge from the District of Columbia. The sewage from one of these is ponded at the out- fall. A small unsewered area on the District side, together with a large unsewersd area on the Virginia side, drains into this section of the river. “On the Virginia side there are a few small sewers that discharge into tributaries that flow quickly into the river. Between 3,000 and 4,000 per- sons on the District side and a some- Radio Progra)ms——-Pnge 27., what smaller number on the Virginia ride contribute their sewage direct to (Continued on Page 5, Column 2.