Evening Star Newspaper, September 6, 1925, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. S. Weather Bureau Forecast.) artly cloudy today, probably thun- howers in afterncon or at night; tomorrow lowest, Full report on he iy Star, WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. 1,068—No. 29,713. Q. FLYERS ARE PAWNS OF INCOMPETENTS, MITCHELL CHARCE ‘Discipline in Some Form Held Certain to Be | Given Colonel. Lays_ Shenandoah and PN'giThorough Probe Planned Disasters ‘to ““Stupid” Before Department Navy Program. Heads Make Move. { SEES AIRMEN ASHAMED | OF UNIFORM THEY WEAR‘ By the Associated Press. The consensus of opinion last night { among the few War Department ofti als available over the week end was | that the charges in the statement by | Col. William Mitchell in San Antonio | were of such serious nature that | disciplinary action against him no longer could be avolded, provided the statement was officially substantiated. That steps would be taken immedi- ately 1o establish the facts as re Declares Lives Are Sacrificed for Pl'ohngnzlda Purposes of | Both Services. | By the atod Presd COL. MITCHELL MUST PAY THIS TIME, ARMY MEN SAY be instructed to obtain from Col. Mitchell a statement as to the authen- ticity of the press reports. The story then would be forwarded to Washing- jton together with recommendations for discipiinary action, if that is war- ranted by the circumstances. Associ | parted in press advices from the Texas SAN ANTONIO, Tex., September 5. { city was taken for granted in the ab- —Col. William Mitchell, ace critic « sence of any statement to the con- the air forces, today charged the War | trary by departmental officers here. and Navy Departments with “almost| Maj. Gen. John L. Hines, chief of reasonable administration” and|staff and Acting Secretary of War, in 1inal negligence” in a 6,000-word | the ahsence of Assistant Secretary tement which also included other | Dwight Davis, conferred late yesterday involving the air forces of [ With Maj. Gen. Dennis E. Nolan, es. Col. Mitchell, im- | deputy chfef of staff. Both officers de- after releasing the state- | clined to say whether any decision to press associations departed | concerning Col. Mitchell's future had by air for n fishing resort, saying he | béen /reached a result of their, expected to be arrested by Monday | et E: Monds Mr. Davis is expected to return early morning” for what he had said | this week from Forest Hills, N. Y., Col. Mitchell, whose argsuments and | where he went to attend the Davis views on matters have gained | Cup tennis matches. It was regarded congressional and national attention ;" l“’l‘,‘,l‘“h‘el I‘?j 'ihe meantime Maj. is air officer of the $th Corps. His | gl Lrnest Hinds, commanding the statement, a scathing denunciation of | S COTPS Area at San Antonio, would he practices and systems obtaining in the administration of national de- fense, was forthcoming as a result of fatal accident of th dirigible henandoah, and of the PN-9 No. 1 " These accidents are the direct re-: sult of incompetency, criminal negli- | gence and almost treasonable admin- | ration by » War and Navy De- | nents,” he asserts | Mitchell's statement covers 17 | typewritten pages, filled with sarcasm | e AR and criticism of the conduct of tion “As far as aviation is concerned, | the conduct by these departments has | issi been so disgusting in the last few | Mlssmg PN-9, No. 1, and vears as to make any self-respecting 2 hamed of the clothes he Five Navy Flyers. Col. Mitchell continued. | “Were it not for the eat patriotism | of our air officers and their hope for | a in_conditions sooner or | b7 the Associated Press. . T doubt if a real man would re-| HONOLULU, September 5.—Con main with the colors under existing | centrated and augmented forces conditions.” searching for the missing Navy sea- \ Denies Wilbur Claim. plane PN-9 No. 1, today approached Tn reply to the statement by Sec- | the hundredth hour of their ceaseless retary of the Navy Wilbur that the | but fruitless operations. Hawaiian flight proves the value of | The PX-9 No. 1, disappeared Tue: the Atlantic and Pacific as America’s | day afternoon after being forced down bulwz gainst afr invasion from a | during a storm on a transpacific flight forel power, Col. Mitchell points | from San Francisco to Honolulu. Sev. out that such an invasion from Asia | eral Navy ships put in Pearl Harbor today for fresh supplies and fuel. The | waters of the Pacific Ocean within a wide radius of the point the seaplane i« | probably landed are being systemat. would be made by way where the water to be cro wider than of Alaska, d is little the English Channel The route from Europe, he said over the course followed by the | ically gone over for any sign that will round-the-world _flvers, to Iceland, | indicate the fate of the five aviators Greenland and North America, should | Who made up the crew of the plane. — {$160,000 PLANT IS fiAlDED d BY BROOKLYN DRY SQUAD a country become powerful enough to undertake the operation. “What has the wreck of the Shen- andoah to do with the possibili impossibility of an air overseas?’ Mitchell hu_\m(. the Navy cver the moun- e oot i ihe water but under | Hidden Between Two Buildings, water, out of sight and away from! Was in Full Operation. e stni i Tl uitarsts to keep | Two Men Arrested. I Thdependent development, handied | B the Asociated Press. and directed by aeronautical experts, | NEW YORK, September 5.—Prohi- Mitchell so declared that those in | bition agents tonight seized a distilling charge affairs have gone to the| 1ane valued at $160,000 which was in utmo: length to carry their point.| : All aviation policies, “schemes and | full operation in a 20 by 30 foot space systems are controlled and directed | between two Brooklyn buildings. Two by non-fivers, who know practically | men were arrested. Fting ““‘””’ "-', ; The agents found 100 50-gallon bar- S A e rels of alleged whisky, two 125-gallon Both departments maintain public | b s % propaganda agencies which are sup- | Stills and 200 fivegallon cans of al posed to publish to the péople truth- | leged whisky sealed and ready for ful facts about national defense,|shipment, and three bank hooks Mitchell decla 'Td{r': e et th'; with deposits of ‘“thousands , of airmen are “bluffed ar hull-dozed . so that they dare not tell the truth Jollars” recorded. They refused to in a m rity of cases, knowing that| make public the names on the bank it they do, they will be deprived of | books or the amounts deposited. In elr future career and sent to the|an adjoining garage the agents found TI0S out ol LE Wiy I ites. two trucks, one loaded with 20 five- Mitchell reviewed several accidents | . of the past, declaring that the loss| &allon barrels of alleged whisky ready of life in them were due largely to|to g0 out tonight and the other loaded obsolete and improper ships and|With 125 three-gallon cans of alleged cquipmer whisky. The two men arrested near the dis- tilling plant described themselves as Isadore Fine, 20, and Baylor Ashmed, In asking what the Army and Navy | has done to show that existing obso- | lete systems should continue, Mitchell | co S8 O e Pacific e 3 - |32, a clerk. Fine told the ts thi o e e s necened ix.e.‘“fif; Tila (gafher, Abranaia Sina: Millan Arctic ex operated the garage in which the Commenting on the heralded *“cap- | trucks were seized. ture” of the Haw nds by Navy i * 2 craft despite the operations of the ! ‘_fy,.‘,_-:.p' A ,‘(‘.n:‘n“ne. L‘nml“xhu‘!'.i:v BOY, ]7, BEING HUNTED § potsat e o sao Bransie ipsior | S HNNINGRUE (COUPLE s. If surface vessels got through these, the whole Pacific would be pa- | gweetheart, 16, From Whom He trolled by fleets of submarines, he 2 said, and any vessel escaping the con-| Was Estranged, and Brother- stant submarine attack by gunfire, | i under-water torpedoes, gas and high | in-Law, Shot. explosives would be met by aircraft | P YA a s hundreds of miles from shore and| JACKSONVILLE, Fla., September 5 “sent to the bottom forthwith." | ). —Rufus Chesser, 17, shot and kill- | g ed his 16-year-old- sweetheart and his If the maneuvers showed anything | conclusively, it s favorable to craft, Il declarcd, pointin brother-indaw, Larry Dilaberry, at Middleboro, 15 miles northwest of reen Cove Springs, in Clay Count: what the 1921 airplane bombar ! tonight, according to word received tests showed what could be done. Iz o i What - would the $50000.000 to|Bhere. The girl's last name is said to $50,000,000 spent on the ¢ maneu. have been Bowles. There were but meager details of the affair here. vers have meant if applied to the de- | WIND KILLS SEV 10 Missing, 3 Injured, Houses Wrecked in Cloudburst Near Wenatchie, Wash. By the Associated Press WENATCHIE, Wash., September Seven persons were killed, ten are unacounted for and three were seri. ously injured in a cloudburst which | struck Spring Vall above Wenat. | chie, this afternoon. The three-story frame hotel and sev- | eral houses were destroved by the | wind which struck the town along with the cloudburst. The hotel was carried 60 feet by the wind and most of those killed were in it. Rescue workers are searching the ruins tonight for several persons re. ported missing. ‘Tonight 150 rescue workers, headed by doctors, firemen and police officials, were making frantic efforts to re. cover the missing. It is thought that at least eight bodies were in the wreckage. Miss L. M. Lovegrove, a clerk in the roundhouse at the terminal, prob- fied the station to stop Great North- ern Eastbound passenger train No. 4, just as the waters swept a mass of tangled beams over the track. The train was stopped barely in time to avoid a seemingly certain crash. Lit- tle groups of laborers huddled to- gether in silence under the red glare of torches this evening. They were anxiously awaiting the recovery of bodies of missing wives or children. Late tonight six feet of water was sweeping over the terminal yards and on into the Columbia River. CHICAGO, September 5.—While many sections of the Middle West sweltered today in temperature which grazed the century mark, scattered localities in the North and West re }ported cooling breezes and rain, | promising of relief for the entire sec- tion before Sunday night. Iilinois, Towa and Kansas registered high 90s today, but temperatures were generally somewhat lower than Thursday and Friday. Chicago tied an old record Wh’n the mercudy hit 95 this afternoon, but tonight the reading was a normal 76. The official forecast for the western and central lake region contained the cheery promise that “the heat wave will break in the middle districts to- night and Sunday, and a period of cool weather\ will then ensue the entire district.” Many sections of southern Illinois Kentucky and southern Indiana are suffering for want of rain. At Her- rin, TI., water is sold in jugs at 5 cents a gallon, and industrial plants are hauling supplies 50 miles in tank cars from the Ohio Rive BOY SWALLI)WS BOLT. Child to Be Rushed to Philadel- phia for Treatment. ROCKFORD, IIL, September 5 (). | —A race across the country against death starts here at dawn tomorrow, | with the best surgical talent avail. able in this territory foiled by a 23 inch carriage bolt imbedded in the lung of Roy Kruger, who swallowed it Several days ago. He is being rushed to Philadelphia, where a specialist and hospital noted | elopment of airplanes and s _| Chesser and the girl had recently be- Tmelsiohe mekeq Danes and subma-| O tranged, it was said. Chesser | for expertness in treating afiictions Terming the Hawaiian flight planes | IS being sought by county officers. of the pleural cavity are located. “good for nothing, big, lumbering boats,” he criticized the methods used in providing for the safety of the flight, declaring that destroyers capa- ble of a speed more than two-thirds as fast as the planes should have steamed | full speed in the direction of the course, thereby keeping in sight of the flyers all the time. With gasoline | By the Associated Press. supply exhausted, the plane probal CHICAGO, September 5.—Her was caught in a_sudden ppeared beneath the said, 1 ving no trace of the disaster. Even though successful, the flight would have meant nothing from either ! military or commercial standpoint, he declared. That the Shenandoah was a mod- ern airship, completely equipped and properly constructed, is contradicted by Mitchell, who declared she was an experimental ship built in this country_and was about 50 _per cent (Continued on Page 4, Column 1) affection for her dog has made Mrs. Alice Harmon, 65 years old and destitute, unwelcome at poor farm, county jail or police station, but today she stood firmly against sepa- ration from her pet and protector. A municipal judge met her un- solved problem of livelihood by postponing a decision. For some time she had obtained shelter at a police station but the police obtained an order commit- ting her to the county poor farm. 8 s, Mitchell Woman, 65, Destitute, Spurns Home That Refuses Admittance to Her Dog Patients for that infirmary ordi- narily are sent through the jail and the jailers balked at her dog, and returned her to the police. The latter found a way to avoid the Jail and sent her and the dog to the infirmary, but the authorities there soon sent them back, explain- ing that discipline would be dis- rupted. “Trilby has saved my life twice, and where 1 go, he goes, or I don't 80, Mrs. Harmon declared as she went back to the women's quar- ters in the South Clark street sta- tion, ‘ HURLS HOTEL 0T ably averted a wreck when she noti- | over | 11 years old, | SUPER SHIP ASKED TOCARRY ON WORK SHENANDOAH LEFT Wreck Inquiry Board Finds Craft Twice Size of Air Giant Needed. IMMEDIATE BUILDING OF WAR DIRIGIBLE URGED Fight of TIll-Fated Mammoth's | Crew Is Called an Epic in Flying Annals. By the Associated Press. CALDWELL, Ohio, September “Carry on" was the tenor of the ¢ cial statement of the board investi tion into the causes of the the Navy dirigible Shenanc tonight by Capt. George W Steele, jr., commandant of the Lake. | hurst, N. J., naval air station. “The Navy Department will need the support of the country and the press to carry on at Lakehurst,” said the statement. “Capt. |and his officers | lives for the cause. Let the country give its support to the Navy Depart- | ment and their sacrifice may not be in | vain."” The battle with the elements Thur: day morning, which left the once | proud "daughter of the stars” broken {and scattered over the terrain of the Allegheny foothills, and which brought | to death 14 members of the gallant was declared by Capt. Steele as stituting an epic in the inals of | aviation. h issued | a 1 No Fault of Crew. | “Iam sure that everything was done | the |and erew. That she met disaster I { believe was no fault of her constr | tion or of her operators.” | The issuance of the statement { marked only the slightest pause | the inquirys being conducted along | two separate lines by the Navy De. | partment. Capt. Steele and Comdr. acob H. Klein and their felow offi. | cers immediately took up their work again. Rear Admiral C. W. Dyson, | inspector general of the Navy De. partment and chief of the Bureau of Engineering, was making an investi gation simultaneously, but separate- ly. He will report directly to Sec | retary of the Navy Wilbur. His spe- cial observation Is to be concentrated { on possible weakness in the construc- | | tlon materials of the wrecked dirigi: le. | It was'definitely established in the | investigations made today that the | airship buckled amidships by the force of the gale and broke into two_sec tions, one section free-ballooning over a hazardous and circuitous | course to a hillside resting place 12 | miles away, the other settling more | Immediateiy to the earth. Further {breaking up of the portion which {dropped more directly to the ground was caused by the contact it could not javeld with high tree tops. {these smaller fragments were lodged |in the branches of the trees that cov- jered the slopes. H Capt. Steele’s Statement. Capt. Steele’s statement, the first | formal pronouncement by 4 Navy offi- cial here, concerning the wreck said: “The cause of the disaster is very | apparently due to the effect of forces which the airship was unable to with- | stand. I have sailed with Capt. Lans. | gator he was. This storm, whose ap- | proach was not heralded, came sud. upon three sides. The opposing winds |from the fourth side were so strong that despite full speed on the engines | the ship was unable to drive her way | clear before the storm closed in and engulfed it “The survivors tell of the wonderfuf battle with the elements waged by the captain and the crew of the ship, and {1 am sure that everything was done | which could have been done by the officers and the crew. The wonderful skill and presence of mind shown by | Lieut. Comdr. Rosendahl and Lieutr Mayer, Lieut. Anderson, Col. Hall and the others who brought the forward end of the ship safely to earth, will constitute an epic in the annals of aviation.” The articles for the government of | the Navy which say that any officer or man “shall be court-martialed who shall pusillanimously cry for quarter” were cited by Capt. Steele as the Navy's answer to the question mark that has been placed upon the future |of the dirigible branch of naval aeronautics. Pusillanimous to Give Up. “It would be pusillanimous for this country to give up this important | development at this time, but it is entirely up to the country whether it is given up or not. The construc- tion of a new Shenandoah twice the isize of the unfortunate ship whose remains strew these hillsides should be begun without delay. The first bal- loon was flown in' this country in of ballooning has been practically continuous. The United States has reached a stage In this art where it }1s now possible to cross the ocean in a balloon which may be directed at will. In a rigid airship the Navy pos- sessed a scout of great value and a retrenchment of the policy will leave { the Navy without this valuable aid.” He further points out that the Los Angeles, the Shenandoah’s sister, now {in the home hangar at Lakehurst, is treaty bound not to be used for war purposes or in military maneuvers, This, Capt. Steele says, makes requi- site the Shenandoah's replacement. Out of the demolition of the Shenan- doah is bound to come some benefit to the future of the operation of lighter- thanair craft, in the opinion of Capt. Steele. The observations made by the survivors while the storm was buffeting the ship about and after she had broken up and was free-balloon- ing over the countryside, he said in his statement, were clear and thor- ough. “They promise to be of great !value in determining in details the | causes of the accident when time is avallable to sift the evidence care- tully.” The testimony of witnesses to the disaster was taken today by the Lake- hurst officials. In an old-fashioned country parlor, the captain and com- manders in gold braid and bright-col- ored insignia listened to the stories of the Ava townsmen and their rural meighbors. They told how their early (Continued on Page 5, Column 5) i wreck of Sunday morn 60 cents per n and service wi “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every evenin and ing to \Washington homes at month. Telephone Main 5000 ill start immediately. WASHINGTON, D. €, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 6, 1925. —SEVENTY-TWO PAGES. UP) Means Associated Pre: *¥ FIVE CENTS. ashington | Lansdowne | and men gave their | could have been done by officers | in | Some of | | downe and I know how careful a navi- | denly upon the ship and flanked it | 1793 and since that time the practice | | | SINDBAD AND THE OLD MAN OF THE S EAUP TO DATE, JONES WINS GOLF CROWN OVER CONN ‘Retains Amateur Title at Oakmont by Defeating i Pupil-Pal, 8 and 7. | By the Associated Press. | OAKMONT, Pa.. September - Golf and gruelling Oakmont lay prone | today before their m: er and Robert | T. Jones, jr.. stocky Bobby lof Atlanta, Ga., reta amateur | champlonship, hi: | tory in successive years. Bobby ihis great victory today, succe | defended the title he won at Merion !in 1924. He added the crown to the {open championship laurels he won in 11923 at Inwood Jones administered to his little 19- | year-old “pal.” Watts Gunn, a sev | thrashing in his final of the 1 { tournament, which attracted a gal third national vic by lery of more than 4.000 to a club that is 15 miles from the city of | | Pittsburgh. * | | Gunn, unschooled in tournament | play. received defeat with a smile and folded his arms about the shoulders jof his greatest idol at the end, the twenty-ninth hole. The score was § {and 7. | Never before in the history of golf |in the United States have two such friends from the same city been called upon to duel for the greatest honor |in their sphere and prior to the con | test there were great misgivings for {1t was argued that the one could not i bear to defeat the other—and this, de. ispite the pre-battle statements of !both that they would fight it to a | finish. Gunn Hangs on Doggedly. For almost half of the fray little ! black-haired Watts carried on in bril- liant fashion and at times attained | the sensational, as when at the fourth green in the' morning, after three | holes had been halved, he drove his { second to the green and holed a long putt for an eagle 3. Again, in the ! afternoon, with defeat imminent, he to drop a pitch from a trap at the | twenty-first and scored a birdie I that for a time kept him in the run- { ning. All the time Bobby was himself and | the broad smile w ion. Especially did he enjoy Watts® chasing of grass hoppers from the putting line. The strong sun, which caused thousands to swelter, also at- tracted the ground dwellers by hun- dreds to the smooth surfaces. Each creditable pitch by brought congratulations from | champion. lesser shots time and again, yet never for the moment did he relent. in his struggle for the greatest golf goal in America. Jones bore down a§ a cham- pion should, determined to end the match as soon as possible, and he gave no quarter. Gunn, likewise, com- | pelled the champion to play putts of a i foot and at times, even less. A con- ceded hole was a rarity. Several Matters Explained. At the end several matters that had been widely discussed during the tournament were explained. It ap- pears that Jones had experienced diffi- culty in separating young Gunn from his parents for the week of the cham- plonship and that Gunn himself had argued that Bobby was trying to make a fool of him. “I didn't have any intention of qualifying,” the little lad said, “but the people were 50 nice to-me up here that I wanted to stay. T'll tell you all that I don’t believe there's an body in the -world can beat Bobby. Jones’ speech at the eighteenth was in the usual Jones style. “This tournament has been handled wonder- fully and the spectators and gallery runners have donme everything well. The Oakmont course undoubtedly is the most difficult in the world.” ‘Willlam C. Fownes, jr., a former champion, who qualified, but was de- feated in the match play by Von Elm of Los Angeles, said he was proud that the championship came to his home club. He added that he also was proud that Jones and Gunn, “the Atlanta cyclones,” had survived until the final round. The officials of the United States Golf Assoclation who spoke were unanimous in the opinion that Oak- mont is the most difficult course in the world, and they paid tribute to Bill Fownes, its maker, and Emil Gunn the ~{Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) | broke from the strain in that he bore | ever evident as | | his youthful antagonist fought on and | He nodded approval of the : Loeffler, the well known brofessional,] TODAY’S STAR. | PART ONE—22 PAGES. | 1 | | Gene News—Local, ional and Foreign. Radio News and Programs—Page 9.| Schools and Colleges—Page 10. 1 | Current News Veterans of Foreign Wa | | D. €. National Gus Fina News—Pages 14 and 15. | Income Tax Returns—F PART TWO0—8 PAGES. Is and Editorial F on and Other 2 of Well Known Folk—Page 5. ews—Page § es 15 to 21. | | —“The Wrath to Come"— Page §. and Navy News—Page 8. i | RT THREE—10 PAGES. Amusements, Theatricals and Photoplays Motors_ and and Reviews of New Books—Page 8. Fraternal News—Page 9. + | Music in Washington—Page 10. PART FOUR—1 PAGES. Pink Sports Section. PART FIVE—8 PAGES. | Magazine Section—Fiction and Fea- | tures. The Rambler—Page 3.+ the Motoring—Pages 5, 6 | | PART SIX—8 PAGE! | Classified Advertising. Boy Scout News—Page 8 Spanish War GRAPHIC SECTION—S8 PAGE! World Events in Pictures. | COMIC SECTION—! PAGES. Eflelr): Reg'lar Fellers; Mr. and Mrs.;| | | Veterans—Page 8 Mutt and Jeff. | : AGREE TO SHUTDOWN 30,000 Workers to Be Affected When New York Firms t Close Next Week. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 5.—Manu- facturers connected with the Amer- ican Cloak and Suit Manufacturers’ Association and employing a total of between 25,000 and 30,000 union op- eratives, decided at a meeting today to cease manufacturing next week. The employes affected comprise 80 per cent of such operatives in the city. Officers of the association, which numbers 900 cloak and suit manufac- turing firms, attributed the contem- plated shut-down to the alleged failure of the jobbers of the city to live up i to union standards as well as recom- | mendations contained in the roport of Gov. Smith’é advisory commission in the authority made public on July 10 last. One resolution which they say the jobbers have disregarded.was that the jobbers in estimating on contracts to Subcontractors provide for 3 per cent | of the wages of the union employes which the jobbers were to turn into | the unemployed fund of the Interna- tional Ladies’ Garment Makers' Unlon, Up to last season the manufacturers collected this fund, which is said to have a deficit of $500,000. Another charge is that the jobbers have violated agreements with the ‘manufacturers in letting out contracts to non-union firms, thus creating un- fair competition. De Martino Sails for U. S. ROME, September 5.—Giacamo de Martino, Italian Ambassador to the United States, who has been in Rome for the last few weeks conferring with his government in regard to the forthcoming negotiations at Washing- ton over the funding of Italy’s debt to the United States, sailed from Naples for America today on the Giulio Cesare. | ver DEFEATOF LA SEEN I NEW YORK ' But Public Will Get Low Fare and Subways Any Way Cat Jumps. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Staff Correspondent of The Star, NEW YORK, September 5.— Transportation, more subways, more busses—and 5-cent fares—these are the promises which the candidates for mayor of New York City are making “day day in every w pr in the primary campaign. Transpor- tation with a big T is the issue dangled before the eves of the mil- lions of strap-hangers in this great city. That and the low fare While Gov. Al Smith and William Randolph He: are fighting tooth and toe nail for control of the de- mocracy of New York City through their respective candidates for the Democratic nomination of mayor which, unless the unexpected happens will be tantamount to election, they well understand that the people must be given something to get ex- | cited about other than the personalt ambitions of Gov. Smith and Mr. Hearst. As a general rule only a v small percentage of the people of any community are especially in- terested in merely throwing out one set of politicians and officials to put another in. | Both for Low Fare. So Mayor Hylan, the candidate spon- sored by Mr. Hearst, who wants to re- main in the office which he has filled for the last seven years and some months, is advertising himself as the man who has kept the traction inter- |ests from increasing the 5-cent fare, He is going farther, and insists that the election of any one other than himself will mean handing over the city to the street railway interests which will boost the fares perhaps to 10 cents. This would mean nearly $100,000,000 taken from the pockets of those who ride on subways, the L and surface lines. An increase to 8§ cents fare would mean an exaction of over $65,000,000. But Senator Joseph R. Walker, the Smith candidate, at the same time proclaims his love for the 5-cent fare; asserts that he has been its staunch defender for vears at the capitol in Albany, and pledges himself to re- tain it. Furthermore, Tammany has pulled a trick out of the bag which is calcu- lated to rob Mr. Hylan entirely of the 5.cent fare issue. The Tammany leaders have taken steps to call a special meeting of the municipal as- 1,000,000 70 LIVE INCITY'S PRESENT AR, STUDY SHOWS ‘Engineers Say Increased . Transportation Will Be Imperative Soon. L’ENFANT PLAN UTILITY MARRED BY ITS BEAUTY | Layout Not Designed for Huge [ Traffic Load, First Re- port Declares. dicting that Washington will have an ultimate population of a mil I lion people within the present city limits and that there will be a conse. que; 4 and for increased trans | portation facilities, the engineering firm of McClelian & Junkersfeld ves terday lald before the Utilities Com mission the first section of its report on the transportation problems of the District. | “Considering | p | the 13 census enu- ning from 1800 to 1920 w of growth indicates ithin the sent city limits the popr will be of the or illion people and that a sub. art of this development will | come relatively soon,” the engineers i concluded. For five months these experts have been studying the Nation’s Capital i from every possible angle to determine i how the transportation systems might be improved nd officials of the util- ties board believe the results of their work will constitute the most far reaching and complet 'y that has ever been made of z city’s trans portation needs The North Amer n Co. Yor which has substantial public utility investments in Washington put up $50,000 to have the inquiry { made, and it w indicated at the out \set that the information thus ac | cumulated would serve to determine | whether a merzer of the city’s trans { portation systems is likely to bhe | realized. ! Will Show Effect of Merger. The several reports of the engineers { of which this is the first, will be con fined strictly to fac hout recom mendations. The f: neral of New t up in sa complete a manner, however, that it will be easy for the interested oups to draw logical conclusions 15 to just witat effect a merger would have on the transportation systems ! When all the reports e been made public they will be available for study. not only by the North Ame: ican Co.. but by the local commission the local railway and bus companies and by the various organizations working for the advancement of the eity. The first section of the report is a detailed and accurate description of how the National Capital grew from a series of farms in 1500 to one of t beautiful capitals of the world in 1925 Vision of Future Bright. | After unfoldinz this story of the past. the engineers gzave this vision of the future: {.“In spite of the many factors affect ;in): rate of growth of population which icannot be forecast, the | facts collected herein indicate that the |recent rate of growth is likely to be |continued for a number of years to {come and that provision must be Efi»r P | portation facilities. | “The blishment in Washington {of the national headquarters of a large {number of organizations is resulting lin a highly stable addition to popula |tion. A nation of the size, wealth and { multiplicity of activities of the United | States of America, with its increasing population, will continue to require a {very substantial Federal establish | ment { “Efforts to reduce the number of | Government emploves in Washington, iboth by their transfer to district {offices elsewhere and through dimin ishing the staff and activities of the |several Government departments, | while they may be considerable as |affecting some departments, influence jsuch a_small percentage of the total { populafon as to have little effect upon {a city whose growth has reached the |'proportions enjoved by the metropoli- | tan district of Washington.” | Data to Be Complete. i the traveling public. sembly next Wednesday to pass lhe“ The sections of the report which are Craig bill making it unlawful for the |to be made public within the next bcard of estimate to permit any in-|few weeks will give more detailed fig- crease of carfare or any modificatlon | ures as to the existing street car. of existing contracts or franchises|motor bus and other facilities, meth- without obtaining the consent of a|ods of routing and transferring and a majority of the voters in a popular |great mass of data as to how the referendum. Tammany is Ntmn::“pnpulauon moves to and fro through | the city in the various types of con- it is asserted, to put|veyances. gh, a bill, by the way,| The engineers pay high tribute io which the mayor postponed action on | Maj. I'Enfant for the success he when it was brought forward some | achieved in laving out the plan for time ago. This action would seem to | the city of Washington from the be a complete answer to Hylan |standpoint of beauty. They make the charges that Tammany is ready to|observation, however, that multiple throw the 5-cent fare overboard. It |intersections created by circles and still leaves, however, the problem of | diagonal avenues and the location of more subways and better service for | parks in the line of highways has to | some extent limited the capacity of | the streets to carry heavy traffic and to this extent has defeated one of the principles on which the I'Enfant plan was based. enough in both houses of the munici- assembly, Pledged to Building. Both Hylan and Walker pledge themselves to build the needed addi- tional subways and to provide more | “An exceptionally large proportion busses and to see that the city owns |of the area of the ctiy of Washington and operate them. But Mayor Hylan is devoted to highways,” the report sees a_ sinister motive in the attempt |continues. “These highways, how- to oust him. He charges that Gov. |ever, lose effectiveness on account of Smith has gone over bag-and baggage | their frequent changes in width and to the traction interests, to -Wall|direction and because of the inclusion Cor { therein of numerous small parks or (Continued on Page 6, Column 4) | circles, necessitating realignment of By the Associated Press. HERRIN, Ill, September 5— A “sponge bath" water ration faces all of southern Illinois because of prolonged drought. This region, known as Egypt, has to buy drink- ing water at many places. Herrin long since has given up even its Saturday wash and is buying water by the jugful at 5 #cents a gallon. The water wagons call at homes each morning to leave the jugs in the same manner that milk is distributed. The cost is 25 cents for a 5-gallon jug. Familles who can afford it have large tanks filled for $4. Nine water wagons are operating, Herrin Must Buy Water in Bottles And Cut Baths Bécause of Drought traffic streams. Multiple intersections | resulting from diagonal streets slow up | traffic adn substantially complicate its safe regulation. The grouping of Gov- ernment office buildings, now housing !a number of workers unthought of a | hundred years ago, places heavy bur- s dens on streets not originally designed and their proprietors are doing a |to carry such volumes of traffic. ) ‘thriving business. They are haul- Hold Plan Justified. ing the water from Marion, 10 | «Nevertheless, the plan must be con- miles away. Many persons have [sidered to have been justified ip that mounted tanks on the rear of their |it has produced a city of exceptio automobiles and haul water from beaaty wighout making impossible Marion for their own use. They |iransportation service, although some- pour it into their cisterns. what complicating that problem and Some water is being drawn from |44ding somewhat to the cost of such aban T here for | service. bt e S e e fo |™In discussing the growth of popu dustries are hit hard. lation from 14,000 in 1800 to nearly There has been no appreciable |500,000 in 1925, the engineers sav rain here all Summer. The Feat of |there I8 a greater concentration of the last few days put the finish- population in the center of Washing- ing touches on the ruination of the |ton today than .there was in Chicago (Continued on Page 3, Column 2.) 2 e