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WEATHER. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Probably showers toni MOrrow; warmer tomorro: Temperatures—Highest, lowest, 66, at 3 yesterda: Full réport on page 7. ght and to- w. 83, at 5 p.m. .m. toda. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 30 Entered as seco No. 29,716. post office, Was nd class matter shington, D. C. MITCHELL INVITES - ARMY TO PROCEED, RENEWING ATTACK. Court-Martial or No Court- | Martial, There Will Be No Pleas hy Me, He Says. ASSERTS DEPARTMENTS NEED THOROUGH PROBE Conductor of Inquiry Is Member| of Artillery, Often Rapped by Officer Under Fire. i J By the Associated Press SAN ANTONIO, Tex., September 9. —*“If the War Department does not ke the atements 1 made, let offi cials take any disciplinary action they want, court-martial or no court-mar- tial, but there will be no investiga- | tion, no pleas, no defense on my part ‘ covering a question of that kind,” Col." William Mitchell declared here toda answering a question as to what he | intended doing if prosecuted by the| Department for his statement | st Saturd: | he investigation that is needed is | of the War and Na Departments and their conduct in the disgraceful | administration of aeronaltics,” i added Altho h Col. 1 | | Mitchell was silent | on the subject, fellow officers called attention to the fact that Col. E. D.| Scott of the inspector general's de-| partment is stationed at Fort Sam | Houston. He outranks either Col. | Mitchell or Col. George A. Nugent,| igned by the War Department to| te Col. Mitchell's ement. | ugent a member of the! Coast Artillery Corps. Col. Scott is| not. They point out, too, that rivalry between the Coast Artiliery and the Alr Service is keener than between ny other two branches of service. Col. Mitchell often has peinted out the superiority of air defense over coast artillery to repel an invasion from the sea. Thinks Probe Right. zain I have been asked to ex-; press my opinion on e so-called i disciplinay measures that are being i taken in my case by the War De- awrtment,” Col. Mitchell said. “So r, all I have to go on are the new paper reports. It is entirely right and proper that an investigation should | be made by the War Department on | s question involving military juris- | pline is a dificult thing to de- | Some people call it the unhesi- | tating obedience of a junior to a su- perior officer. 1f, however, conditions that obtain are not properly estimated by superior officers, and If superior officers are not that in fact, but only in name, then the discipline cease because the people that are forced un- der them, recognizing that they are incompetent for their positions, fail to have the trust and loyalty in them which should be the case in any un- dertaking. ‘In time to be me | | war, conditions have | rely, willy-nilly, but in time of e, questions of great moment to the country must and | will be investigated by all the people | of the country on their merits, | otherwise we awould not have repre- | sentative government. To obscure | the issue In this case, which {8 the | fact that our aeronautics is in a dis- | * ceful condition and our whole n tional defense is little better, merely to delude the public It the old sea lawyer's e of ‘indul ing in special pleading to obscure the main ' or, as our friends, the diplomats, would say, of ‘enlars ing the field of discussion s t hide the questions brought up.' What I have said about the ) of | our national defense hur bureau crats in V hinzton: ought to hurt them, because it tru When our men crash in airplir killed | it does not hurt them- ver with. I (Continued on Page 4, Column 4.) of 1 condi th also note with SEARCH FOR PN-9 CONTINUES FRUITLESS No Sign of Lost Plane Seen hy; Ships Combing Waters on Lee | Side of Islands. [ By the Assoc ROY an ted P DE PAUL off Haw: Islands, September The first day's search of the southwest of the Hawalian Is trace of Capt. John Rod, ew of four, who dropped while non-stop cruise from San | neisco to Hawali, r ed in no success yesterday, despite the vigilance | of the destroyer squadron. Working on the lee side of fslands, the seaching squadron about miles from land. Late Tuesday night the searching | ft shut down their engines and were permitted to drift, keeping in isual touch with each other. dawn today the enzines will be s and the vesse will resume the s Indications are that little hope e ists that the plane will be found on the windward side of the islands, 50 double attention will be given the leeward side. BONES FOUND IN DESERT. | HAMILTON, waters | nds for nd his | om sight on the wi Police Believe Man May Have Been Killed in Fight Over Gold. LOS ANGELES, September 9 (#). —Deputy sheriffs today were in the Mojave desert investigating the find- | ing of a skeleton of a man there, | which, it was indicated by the report of the prospector who found it, may disclose a_murder over gold nuggets. John Lezik, prospector, reported that | while resting at a_point 18 miles north of Randsburg he saw the bones. | A number of large gold nuggets nearby and the disposition of the torn_clothing of the man indicated death bad resulted after a struggle. The skull was cracked, Lezik said. (answered |a ! viously instructed them not to enter | to_Britishers |Fined for Seeing Gam¢ Member Sues Union for $50.000 cause LOUILS, Septembe e he fined $25 for attend ing a professionul base ball game John O. Danis, member of the In ational Assoclation Structural and Orn; n Workers, yesterday it tor $50,000 damages in ult Court the union and its local of iro The petition states that Danis attended a ball gane here between the St. Louis Browns and the Phil- adelphia Athletics after he had been handed a circular branding the Philadelphia team as unfair to organized labor because their park had been remodeled by non-union labor. As a result of the fine, Danis he suffered humiliation a reduction in his earning capacity, and he maintains the defendants had no right to take him to task for attending a ball game. RS, COOK'S DEATH BAFFLING POLICE Assassin Who Slew Church| Worker and Prohibition Cru- sader Evades Pursuit. By the Associated Press. VINTON, Iowa, September 9.—In | vestigators of the death of Mrs. Clif- | for the start bffck home tonight. ford B. Cook, church worker and pro- hibition crusader, shot down in her home as she was writing a paper to be read before the Benton County W. C. T. U., of which she was presi dent, find few clues to guide them. Coroner C. L. Modlin declared today that he and other officers were utterly baffled in their attempt to get infor- mation that might lead to afi arrest. Mrs. Cook was killed Monday by a shot fired through a rear window. “Oh, save me; save me,” were the only woris she uttered to her mother, Mrs. E. aderwood, when the latter rushed to her aid. She died a short time later. Her assailant, neighbors | and police believe, was sent by boot- | leggers, rum runners or others con-| nected with the illicit manufacture | and sale of liquor, against whom she had waged x determined v | Witnesses Called. The coroner's sume hearing on the subpognaed yesterday. Mrs. Cook’s family be among | those appear at the hearing. They | are -expected -to relate how they Mrs. Cook's scream; how they first thought her only very ill and how the doctor who was imme- diately summoned found her mortally wounded. ‘let us pray that every Christian woman will enlist in the service of God and home and every land,” were the last words written by Mrs. Cook before she was shot down. The undelivered speech was made public today by Miss Minnie Usher, secretary of the county W. C. T. U., while officers were conducting a fruit- less search for her assassin and while angements were being made for the funeral tomorrow. Women Are Needed. | Jury today will re- witnesse: “We need women to love their country, women who are unafraid, just as our brave crusaders; women | who believe in God, home and coun women who stand united for pur- and truth—a strong, united sister- »d who will ugain reinstate the old ion in home, our schools and our land.” M wrote a few mo- ments before a bullet crashed through a window of her home. Prediction that it would take 50 < 10 secure the enforcement Cook described as “our was made in the of W splendid speech. ) thal America cannot en- orce her prohibition laws,” she wrote, to do vielence to American tra- dition and to underestimate the Amer- <pirit GEN. WU IS RELEASED ‘ FROM WMILITARY GUARD Canton Governor, However, Stays From Office | as Threatening Parades Continue Unabated. By the Associated Press CANTON, September 8 (Delayed).— Gen, Wu Hon-Min, military governor of Canton, who left that position to go under military guard when facing | a threatening situation, has been re- leased from his guard, but has not | resumed his position as governor. | Announcement was made that two British corre rested Thursday were released after being confined in a cell with other offenders. The men were delivered to the British consul, who had pre- Canton. Strikers and armband pa: all foreigners carry which are not fssued Large parades were held vesterds in which the strikers continuously | thi ! Tabernacle at Salem, and the choir of WASHINGTON, D. C, LEGISLATIVE DRIVE - HEADS GOOLIDGE'S AGENDA ONRETURN President Due Here Tomor- | | row, Confident Congress Will| | Approve His Program. 1928 ELECTION PLANS OF PARTY ARE MAPPED | iChief Executive Coming Back | Much Improved After 11 Weeks | on North Shore. H BY J. RUSSELL YO''NG, Staft Correspondent of The Star. SUMMER WHITE HOUS Swamp scott, Mass., September 9.—Fvery- thing is in readiness for the de- parture of President and Mrs. Cool idge and their large retinue of as sistants, clerks, Secret Service agents | and servants, and then, after 11 weeks of prominence, Swampscott, the Summer White House, the North Shore and everything else incident to | the President’s vacation up here will L f ben WITH SUNDAY.MORNING EDITION WEDNESDAY, ny Star. SEPTEMBER 9, 1925—FORTY PAGES. drop from the limelight and will give the center of the stage to the Dis-| trict of Columbia. For several days every one has been busy packing and making ready The special cars to be used by the | presidential party are on the siding | at the Salem station, and all that is | MADDEN SEES TAX et me wauid Tenverontenetne | Would Repeal Inheritance nearest he has come to that was yes. g * and Nuisance Levies and Lower Surtax. terday, when he announced news; ed to be back in Washington 1 day or Frid: Start Virtually However, that lack of definite nouncement about the time of parture is only looked upon as one| of the Coolidge characteristics, and every one associated with ihe presi- dential outfit felt absolutely certain at noon today that the President and his ty would be aboard the Harbor Special when it pulls out Salem at i% o'clock tonight In eveni they will arr Wash- ingon about o'clock tomorrow alternoon. Besides newspaper or two party- the Pre: Certain, | By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, September 9.--A tax re- action of $330,000,000 is in sight, thinks Representative Martin B. Mad- den, Republican, Illinois, chairman of the House appropriation committee. He believes that it will be possible to shave appropriations by $125.000,- 000 and that the next Congress will do jit. The foundation of any tax reduc- tions must be laid in mederate appro- | priations, he observed in conmection with an expression of his views on Government finance today. Repeal of the Federal inheritance taxes because “the Government needs live taxpayers, not dead estates,” was favored by Mr. Madden, as well as a reduction of the maximum surtax to! 15 per cent. Hits High Surtax. man who is required to pay per cent of his income to the Gov- ernment is zoing to work very hard to increase his income,” he said, anent the high surtax theory. Mor2 money would be yielded to the Government by a 15 per cent surtax than the present rate of 40 per cent, he is convineed. Reductions already made and the moderation of the tax on capital gains have proved that lower rates mean more revenue from the big incomes, he thinks. The normal rate on incomes up to )00 should be lowered to 1 per| cent; the maximum normal rate should not exceed 5 or G per cent. M idden calls sulcidal and de- structive to public interest in efficient Government the total exemption of | small incomes. Would Repeal Nulsance Levies. de- ver service, . the correspondents, and -one . tiere will be in the dent and Mrs. Cool- | idge, Maj. James F. Coupal, the President’s physiclun, and Mrs. | Coupal; Secretary Sanders and Mrs. Sanders and Col. A. A. Cheney, the President’s chief military aide. BEd- ward T. Clarke, the President’s per- | sonal secretary, and Mrs. Clarke will | motor back to the Capltal. Although John Coolidge, who has been visiting his parents at White ! Court since he finished his tour of duty at the citizens' military trai- ing camp two weeks ago, is not to return to Washington with th no | explanation was made here where he will go until he resomes his studies at Amherst in about a week. | Mayflower Ready to Leave. pt. Andrews, commander of the vacht Maytlower, reported today that the vessel is in readiness to lift anchor and head for the Potomac at a mo- ment’s notice. He sald that unles he recelves orders to the contrary he will start the boat on its way at day break tomorrow morning The detachments of m have done patrol duty : Court have broken c: today will depart for regiments. The President put in a full day de- spite the fact that it was his last one at White Court tdge had breakfas: usual and at 8 o'clock we vay to visit Mrs. John Ha: at Rox- i suburb of Boston, an wunt of | Cool It was nea noon when thex urned. At 12:30 ek the ceived the fire chiefs of M A are veek hol thewr ¢ convention at JMarblehead. At! o'clock the President and Mrs Coolidge will entertain Rev. W. H. Spence, pastor of the Congregational | fnes who White later various ance . _especially those on theatr ions and automo- biles, should be repealed,” he said. “The motorist is already heavily taxed, whereas the gasoline tax levied by the States and zpplied to highway construction is almost an ideal form of automobile iaxation. since the motorisi levies his own i propertion to his use of the earlier than 1 their o s activi es “Business suoyed but ana wealth trusts. not only is de are bankrup. tendency to form g it and ereating fixed cl result of inherit- ance taxes, is his theory. Conditions are createqi by them whereby in- competent inheritors of wealth are artincially protected from the rigors of economic struggle,” he says. has a that church aboard the Mayflower. It was this church the President and his family attended during their stay | here. President’s Health Good. President Coolidge is returning to his desk back in Washington appa: ently in the best of health. He h: POORLY PAID TEACHERS l OPPOSE PAY INCREASE fully enjoved his 11 weeks up here | and one glance at him would convince | ny one who knows him that he has | See Favoritism and Blow at Union | en rested and otherwise thoroughly | efited. He tackles the big jobh! iting him when he gets b with | newed vigo: The President looks heavier, but he says he has not gained | in weight. He is harder. His custom- ary palene: has given wa ticeable tan. President his the Summer White House after hav- ing sounded most of the Ilepubiican leaders on the impending legislation and mapped out the administration's jrogram on China and the foreign deht While here he has reaffirmed : in Proposed Salary Boost in Chiecago. By the.Associated Press. CHICAGO, September 9.—Chicago {is the 119th city of the country Inf { the rate of pay of its school teachers. Yet, though Willlam - McAndrew, uperintendent of education, has rec- ommended a salary increase, Chicago chool teachers are opposing it. Opposition to the r: comes from the Teachers' Federation, affiliated with the Chi Federation of Labor. cried, “Down with imperial One t vmer r hetween Canton today Trafalgar Square Is Esthetically Pai By the Associated Press LONDON, September 9.—Trafal- gar Square, whicn carries all sen- timents of pride of home to far- away Englishmen, is eonly an unholy mess that jars the es. s of Jacob Epstein, the American sculptor. Defending his last creation, the memorial -to W. H. Hudson, the famous naturalist and writer, who died in London in 1922, which has been widely eriticized adversely, Mr. Epstein, in an interview, says: There are hardly any good statues in London. Look at that fearful concoction in front of Buckingham Palace. It is so ‘big that one cannot avoid seeing it. “Look at Trafalgar Square— y This organ protested that Me- \ndrev:s’ beuefited higher aried aid ot position on the fore: debt, ety t all the de skall Page 2, Column 7.) 3 bly chool ve (Continued or " intended 1 Haley, of the Teachers’ Federation: “Unholy Mess,” nful, Says Sculptor CLEARED 0;: HERESY. | Michigan Methodist Pastor Was Accused by Bishep. LANSING, Mich., September 9 (#), Itiam L. Phelps, editor of the Michigan Christian Advocate, was exonerated of the charges of heresy preferred, against him' by Rev. Levi Bird of Port Sanilao, Mich., by the i igating committee of the Michl- Methodist Episcopal Church here Wh 1t is the worst square in the worid. Think of that columin in the middle car- ng a puny figure of Neison, which is out of proportion and cannot be seen.” The sculptor idea about the huge white marble memorial to Queen Victoria outside Bucking- ham Palace is more or less in agreement with the idea of the late King BEdward, who, pain- affected by what he conzid- the inartistic appearance ol the memorial, at its unveili céremony said; “It's a good for the memorial to' my fathe In art circles the sentiment unaninous that the memorial to Albert, consort of Vietoria, is an offense to any one's artistic senses. !but feeble resistance. Engineer Resigns Boss Job to Make More as Laborer Br the Associated Press BOSTON, September 9.—Tired of bossing a $200,000 road construc- tion “job in which most of the workers were getting considerably more money than he drew down from the State, Francis R. Atkin- son, a civil engineer, has quit in favor of work as a common laborer. He says the 65 cents on hour which he will earn will net him more than his $1,800-a-vear salary. He has been employed for the State for 13 years. For 15 months dur- ing the World War Atkinson was a member of Company L, 23d Iingineers. VASTARVY HURLED AT RRFAN LNES French and Spanish Forces Set Long-Planned At- tack in Motion. By the Associated Press. PARIS, September 9.—The long- heralded Franco-Spanish offensive against Abd-el-Krim's Riffian tribes- ful landing on the shores of Al foen and their allles has begun, and soon will be in full sway, it was said in official quarters toda The Spaniards, after their success. hucemas Bay yesterday, are march- ing on Ajdir to the south. Franco-Spanish forces between 150,000 and 200,000 already are or shortly will begin attacking Tetuan in the northwestern section of the RIff country and Sheshuan, farther to the south. The Spaniards from the north are to launch a heavy assault around Tetuan, while the Frach army from the south clears the Sheshuan terri- tory \nother French army meanwhile is ivance from the south toward Abd-el-Krim's capital. simultaneous and closely eo- ordinated operatiomg are designed to exert prescure azainst the Riffans from all in an effort to crush them. American Flyers Attack. FEZ, Morocco, September 9.—A French communique concerning the fighting against the Riffians states that the Sherifian Escadrille, as the American volunteer aerial squadron is called. has carried out 14 bombard- ments of Sheshuan, important city in the RIff country. Spanish Advance. TANGIER, Morocco, September 9 P).—The Spanish advance against Ajdir, Abd-elKrim’s eapital, was re- ported this morning to be progressing favorably, with the Riffians offering numbering 1 Richest Tribe Surrenders. LONDON, September 9 (®).—A_dis- patch to the Daily Express from Tan- gler says the Temsaman tribe, one of the riehest and most important in | Morocco, surrendered unconditionally to the Spaniards when they landed yesterday In Alhucemas Bay. BEARD CHAMPION HURT. Man Aged, 78, With 22-Foot-Long Whiskers. Hit on Bicycle by Auto. RENO. Nev.. September & (#).— Zack Wilcgx, who lays claim to fame by ason of his 22.foot beard, which won him second place in the whiskers competition at Sacramento several years ago, was seriously in- jured at Carson City when struck by an automobile while riding his | bicycle down the main street. One leg was broken in two places and his | shoulder was sprained. Because of | his advanced age it Is feared that hul injuries may be fatal. Tpon the harnllebars of his bicycle was his green parrot, his boon com- panion for 20 years. It was un- injured, but expressed its indignation. Killed for Snatching Cigar. PASSAIC, N. J., September 9 (#).— Jamés Fasino paid with his life for plucking a cigar from the pocket of a companion. Joseph Spotto was held by Garfield police on a charge of murder. Police say the men quarreled at an Italian festival in Garfield last night when Fasino playfully lifted a perfecto from Spotto’s supply. Fasino died today of bullet wounds. | British SEEK EARLY MOVE FOR DISARMAMENT Neutral Nations Ask Quick Action by League—Mosul Plebiscite Demanded. By the Associated Pres GENEVA, September 9.—Evidence that the neutral countries of Europe will persistently labor for the early convocation of a disarmament con. | fernce was given today when former Premier Zahle of Denmark, addressing the assembly of the League of Na- tions, urged that the league's council continue preparatory steps for such a conference and study all the prob- lems connected with disarmament. The assembly today began general discussion of the council's report. The sessioh was marked by impressive tributes to the delegates deceased dur- ing the vear by Afranio Mello Franco of Brazil and Lord Cecil, the latter eulogizing the late Rene Viviani of France and Hjalmar Branting of Sweden. Lord Cecil received a great ovation upon his reappearance »~ a delegate after two years' absence Seek Mespotamian Hlebiscite. Formal demand for a plebiscite to determine whether the Mosul district in upper Mesopotamfa shall go to Turkey or the British mandate state of Irak was contalned in a memo- randum presented to the council of the league by Tewflk Rushdi Bey, the Turkish foreign minister. The memorandum declares that if Great BriMain refuses to agree to the plebiscite {t will be “indisputable proof” that the Turkish clatm is well founded and that Mosul desires to be restared to the sovereignty of Tur- key, “her mother country.” The protection of minorities, a curity pact among the Balkan na- tions and reorganization of the council of the league are among the outstanding questions for the assem- | bly today Security Pact Discussed. se- | sale of revolvers and other dangerous {to Commissioner Fenning today | of persons practicing as chiropractors { vers figured in 18 of them. M. nd Bri M. :d. Austen Chamberlain Vandervelde, the French, and Belglan foreign mini: ters. with Signor Scialofa of Ita conferred at length this morning, e i the report on the security uestion drawn up by the allied and German jurists at their meeting last week in London. The conferees joined in saying they hoped to arrange an early meeting with Dr. Stresemann, the German foreign minister, for discussion of the question. Later the ministers :1- tended the session of the assembly. The reason for the reluctance again to take up last year's Geneva protocol was summed up today by a French spokesman: “If we tried to resuscitate it, we could easily have a majority in the assembly. ‘But it would be a proto- col without England. If we obtained ‘a victory of applause,’ we would find the next day that we had done a bad plece of business.” COUZENS WANTS PROBE. Favors Inquiry by ‘Congress on g Mitchell’s Charges. DETROIT, Mich., September 9 (#), —A congressional investigatiou of the Nation's administration of its air de- fense was urged by Senator James Couzens today. “'An investigation by the Army and Navy would be useless,” he said. "It would take more than Col. Mitchell's | pard dry { ing year they seized only 144 automo- | 1 that “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star's carrier system covers cvery city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 92,617 _TWO CENTS. FIFTHOF WORKERS HERE RIDE N AUTOS, * (#) Means Associated. Press. Arabs to Give Up Smoking to Save Land From Zionism By the Associated Press. JERUSALEM, September The saving of Palestine by ceasing the habit of smoking is the latest idea of some of the Arab leaders. They have decided to conform with the command of the Koran, which prohibits Moslems from smoking. Five Arab notables have decided to quit emoklug and to establish a fund for & bank “to save Pales tine from the Zionist menace.” The bank is to be known as the “Smoke Bank.” The Arab newspaper El Carmel supports the idea and urges Arabs to give up the weed and turn over the money thus saved to the “Smoke Bank.” ANTIFIREARM LAW a iMachines Carry More People in Heart of City Than Public Conveyances. 1 39.2 PER CENT RIDE CARS; 2.9 PER CENT IN BUSSES Great Tmportance of Automobile in Transportation Shown by Second Section of Traction Survey. Estimating that 20 per cent of the working population of Washington URGEDBY SULLIVAN Revolvers Figure in Most of | Vircinia ‘travel to and. fiom. wort 3 | every day by automobile, the engi Murders, Annual Police | neering firm of McCiellan & Junkers Report Shows. | field today submitted to the Utilities | Commission hte second section of its report on the transportation problems | of the National Capital. This estimate led the engineers to conclude that “the private automo | bile is a very important factor in the the out.|loc2] transportation situation: in the _| District of Columbia, because of th; ge of working populs as a means of transpo An earnest of a plea for the enactment law by Congress to restrict the weapons in Washington standing recommendation in the an-| nual report of Maj. Daniel Sullivan,|larse precen superintendent of police, transmitted ; tion using it | tation | More Drive Than Are Carried. Another outstanding feature of this second report is a table showing by ctual count that more individuals pass into and out of the heart of the city in private automobiles in the course of a d: than are carried In the same grea by the street cars motor busses and taxicabs combined In order to gauge the relative im | portance of the several means of con Construction of a modern station,vVeyance, the engineers stationed house in Tenleytown, which is now | cordon of men around the area a sub-station of the seventh|bounded by Rock Creek, S street, but which covers a large| U'nion Station and Maryland avenue and rapidly growing residential area.| and counted the vehicles passing in Legislation to place the 63 crossing | and out of that central portion of the policemen on the government pay roll | city, together with the number of per. instead of having them paid by the|sons carried in one day. Here is what street railway companies, as at pres-| they found ent. That 004 private A law to give the police more au-|passed this boundary line. That they thority in holding fugitives from had a total seating capacity of Jjustice in other jurisdictions That they actually carrie A law to make drug addiction individuals, or 56.8 per cen felony in the District. the total number of persons An amendment to the medical prac-| counted. That they averaged 1.9 tice act to provide for the regulation | passengers 1o an autemobile, The report also lists the following as matters that should receive the early attention of Congress in order to improve the service rendered by the department Erection of a central building to| house police headquarters, the detec- tive bureau and other administrative | branches of the department. New Station Needed. automobiles . and osteopuths and of ail persons who | Street Cars Carried 301,517, attempt 1o treat disease, injury or; That 15,273 street cars passed the deformity. | designated boundary, having a tetal 76,021 Arrests Made. | seating capacity of 672,012, and - Jactually carryi 04,547 passengers The department made 76.021 arrests | Ty bpe aa s 5, 3 pared with 72,234 in the previous fiscal | rere 1o o s ghio Al ; year, an increase of 3.787. | S Thae Of the total number arrested 10! _ . b e s 833 were under 21 vears, and of that | S & otal seating capa number 2.591 were less than 17 years | 3iigiate twhich aarorUung - diviauals, w Arrests for felonies totaled 3426, an | Coat of the total increase of 261 over the preceding 12| oy Sus months. “It is again deemed advisable,” the | report went on, “to present in this report comprehensive statistics relat ing to the crime of murder, the most serious of all felonies, not only for the purpose of demonstrating the efficiency of the force in dealing with (hose offenses, but in the hope that it will | emphasize the need of adequate legis- @tion dealing with the subject of carrying weapons.” | The report shows that murders committed last es passed ty of 58,203, 6 In- per There were 11.2 078, with a seating capacity of 53,300. They carried 3,708 persons. o 1.1 per cent of the total, and only . passengers pec cab. Most of the second section is de. voted to a detailed description of the rolling stock, trackage and other equipment -of the railway lines and bus companies operating in Washing- ten, which information will be essen- tial in studying the possibilities of a CE T W ey vear. revol In 4 cases | knives were used. The other 9 in-| volved other instruments Out of 283 arrests for assault with dangerous weapons, 124 cases in-!| volved revolvers and knives were used in 97 cases. Out of 341 arrests for carrying concealed weapons, 241 were revolvers, 52 razors and 35 knives. Dry An increase in the activity of the olice in prohibition enforcement is ndicated by the statement t 738 arrests were made last vear under the Volstead law. against 4,239 the previous vear. For violations of local Shep. law there were 11,813 ar rests last vear, compared with 9,715 the preceding vear. During the 12 months ended July 1, | cellaneous types the police seized 21,892 gallons of | Taxicabs—Total liquor, as compared with 14,354 gallons| Motor busses, §5. the previous vear. In connection with | Motor trucks, 10,63 dry law arrests they also confiscated | Tractors, 80. 5 automobiles, whereas the preced- | Move Cars Further Out. biles. In order to find out how these Discussing the traffic situation, the |automobiles are spread over the report commends Congress for estab. | city. the District was arbitrarily di- lishing a night Traffic Court and for | Vided into 95 neighborhoods and a providing severe penalties for speed. | record made of the number of ma- ing, reckless driving and similar of- | chines in each neighborhood per 100 fenses, | persons. The report also praises the Com-| “An examination of this ratio.” missioners for selecting M. O. Eld-|savs the report, “discloses the fact ridge to be director of traffic and |that there are a greater number of states that “in the short time elapsed passen automobiles with respect between the date of his appointment | (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) effected many improvements in trafii | WIDENIN& EEEANTH STREET NOW CERTAIN regulation and control.” 81,240 Cars in Service. Because of the large number of peo- | ple using private automobiles. the gineers made a most careful analytical study of the total number of such vehicles, and how many automobile owners live in each neighborhood of the city They found that the District had is- sued 98,000 motor vehicle tags from Jani 1 to June 23. Then' they eliminated duplicate tags due to used cars changing ownership. d found that there were actually 40 motor vehicles in service. t they segregated the autos ac- rding to type, and found the follow {ing: Private automobiles—Total, 2; divided into 42 touring model 5 roadsters, 14,447 sedans, 2,633 | coaches, 9,245 coupes and 2,320 mi$. Activity Increased. the Eldridge Praised. ! The report characterizes him as an | efficient public servant and predicts | “‘when the constructive plans | which he has in view are fully devel. | oped and put into effect trafic condi- | fommissioners Also Decide to Put ! broadside to blast 1oose these burean. crats, but I hope his broadside will | have the effect of blasting out of the incompetence.” some | tions in Washington will amply jus Connecticut Avenue in Next tify lhe_acl the Commissioner selecting nportant office of Year's Budget. fhc direct sent incumbent.’ port réfers to the automati ued on Page 2, Column b, | 'Forest Fires Are Burning Dirt Off Sides of Tennessee Mountains By the Associated Press. JOHNSON CITY, Tenn., Septem- ber 9.—Controlled only in isolated sections to protect villages.and im- portant property, the unprecedent. ed forest fire on the western slope of the Unaka Mountain is still rac- ing northeast and southwest after having devastated an area approx- imately 15 miles long by 5 miles wide, extendirle from the Noli- chucky River northeastward, Scores of men under W. P. Stone- burner, government fire ranger, are engaged in fighting the flames. Their efforts are bent not only in checking the rush of flames on the Unaka, but in preventing a pos- sible -&u across the valley. Al- ready fire has State into North "The District Commissioners have | definitely decided to ask for funds in {the next budget for the widening of | Connecticut avenue from K to Eight {eenth street and Eleventh street from Pennsylvania to New York ! avenue. The roadway of Eleventh street will be broadened from 55 to 74 feet. | Connecticut avenue, now 50 feet wide, will be made 80 feet between K and M streets and 65 feet from M to Eighteenth street. | These two streets were decided on following a public hearing last week {at which the advisability of widening 2 dozen downtown thoroughfares was |considered. The general sentiment at jthe hearing was favorable to the {iwidening of all of the streets listed. Ibut_the Commissioners concluded they could not spare sufficient funds to recommend more than two of them in the estimates for the next fiscal year now being prepare ‘Radio Programs—Page 34. a batie is being waged to pre- vent its spread through the coves toward Erwin, Unicorn and other villages. s, The race of the fire across the picturesque “Land of the Sky is on the path of tinder laid by a_drought of proportions hitherto unknown in Appalachian history, and unexpected turns are baffling the most experienced mountaineers. Even the top sofl is burning. Arid and spongy for lack of rain for three months, the fire Js burn- ing the dirt as though fit was pressed cotton. Several inches, and even a foot or more below the sur- face, burning roots of grass, bushes and even trees are carrying n::in‘ flames behind the point of back- REPORT DECLARES