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WEATHER. Weather Bureau Forecast.) ¥ cloudy and slightly cooler to- night; tomorrow fair. Temperatures—Highest, 80, at 4:30 p.m. yesterday: lowest, 70, at 5 a.m. today. Full report on page Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 28 @b No. 29,723. post _office, Entered as second class matter Washington, DRIC WASHINGTON, D. C, HYLAN, DEFEATED BY 100,000, MAY GO ON THIRD TICKET Mayor Silent on Issue. Hearst Paper Says Race Is Assured Fact. TAMMANY ACCLAIMS VICTORY OF WALKER Chances of Waterman, G. 0. P., Should Be Aided by Injection of Independent. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, September 16.—State Senator James J. Walker, backed by Temmany Hall and Gov. Smith, has won a decisive victory over Mayor John F. Hylan, supported by W. R. Hearst, for the Democratic mayoralty nomination. Repudiated as inefficient and as a “puppet” by Tammany, which had elected him twice for four-year terms, Hylan went down by about 100,000 votes in the primary vesterday. Frank D. Waterman, fountain pen manufacturer and or tion can- didate, captured the Republican nomi- nation for mayor with ease over two insurgent rivals, John J. Lyons and William M. Bennett. Leads by 88,734, Senator Walker's lead over Mayor Hylan was 88,734 at 9 o'clock today with 125 districts to be heard from out of 2,968 The vote was: Walker, 2 lan, 178,744. Waterman was leading his nearest competitor, Lyons, by 103,842 votes. The vote w: Waterman, 121,941; Lyons, 18,099: Wiliam M. Bennett, 4,876. There were 138 districts miss- ing in this contest. Tammany's jubilance this morning was tempered with concern as to whether Hylan would run independ- ently. The mayol demands of Wa support cer that he agree to the winner, was cheerful when he arrived at the city hall this| morning. E “I am pleased with two things,” he sald. “First, that I pulled the mask off the big ham and egg man from Albany, and, second, that I made the traction and underworld interests &pend an average of $400 an election | district to defeat me.” The mayor was shown a copy of an | evening paper predicting he would head a third ticket, but he*declined-te discuss that matter. Hearst Promises Third Ticket. A statement printed today in the New York Evening Journal, owned by Hearst, made it known that a third ; ticket would be placed in the field and that it could be “taken for granted | that Mayor Hylan will head the inde. | pendent ticket.” The statement in the Evening Jour- nul, printed in the editorial columns, read “As has been sald in the Evening | Journal more than once, Tammany's voters and all those they could influ- ence were well organized for primary work. “But the primary does not elect the mayor of New York. That will be done in November. “It is hardly necessary to say that the people of New York will refuse to accept representatives of the street car trust or turn their city over to them. “There will be a ticket independent of the Tammany Hall street-car owned Albany crowd, of course. “It may also be taken for granted that Mayor Hylan will head the inde- pendent ticket and give the people whom he has faithfully served a chance to v for him at the real election Not Quitter, He Says. Mayor Hylan is not a quitter. What he has said about Gov. Smith and Mr. \Walker he has said because he belteved it and knew it to be true. “And Mayor Hylan to back up what he has said and prove his devotion to the city will, of course, accept an in- dependent nomination. And, of course, he will be elected by a bizger majority than last time.” The New York Times today quotes Mayor Hylan as having told a close triend: “I am getting out of politics with a clean record. I have done my best.” His daughter, Mrs. John F. &aid that he had not indicated whether or not he would run and had no statement to make on the tic vote was 67 per | cent of the total registered. | Hylan’s opponents charged in the | primary campaign that the question | of his running independently for the election November 3 would be deter- | mined by the margin of his defeat. | Goes Over to Walker. The New York World says that Hylan, with the publisher’s backing, will seek re-election at the head of an independent ticket. The remainder | of the Hylan city ticket, the news- | paper savs, will be new. John M. | McCooey, three county the mayor, leaders who supported said today that his or- ganization would support Walker. With an_ independent Democratic ticket in the fleld, Republicans would hold hopes of electing Waterman. Both Lyons and Bennett congratu- lated the manufacturer and promised . whole-hearted _support. Charles Evans Hughes, Representative Ogden L. Mills and other national party leaders have supported Waterman. The whole Tammany Hall ticket scored a clean sweep. The mayor lost even his home borough of Brocklyn, where McCooey supported him. He carried the borough of Richmond (Staten Island) and the vote in Queens (Long Island munici- pal territory outside of Brooklyn) was close. Walker ran up big leads in Manhattan and the Bronx. Smith-Hearst Fight. Democrats and Republicans alike &ald in speeches that the Democratic primary was really a fight between Gov. Smith and Mr. Hearst with potentialities as to the next Demo- cratic national convention. Mr. fHearst, in caustic long-distance ex- changes with Gov. Smith, said he could not be a Democrat in a city where a “political mafia” like Tam- fany Hall held sway and promised (Continued on Page 4, Column 2) 478; Hy- | who has ignored | | becomes more than ever a contest Sinnott, | independently, | | jury suffered in a motor-bieycle accy 3rooklyn leader, one of the | motor-driven | was demonstrating it to the. lad Dr. Hough Cleared Of Heresy Charge By Chureh Board By the Assoclated Press. FLINT, Mich.,, September 16.— Heresy charges brought against Dr. Lynn Harold Hough, prominent Detroit Methodist Episcopal pastor and former president of Northwest- ern University, were found to be unsubstantiated by a ministerial in- vestigating board today. rges were preferred by Bird of Port Sanilao, who took exception to two recent sermons by Dr. Hough. o LA FOLLETTE VOTE I5'STALWART' ROUT Victory in Election Expecled; | to Be as Sweeping as in Primary. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Staff Correspondent of The Star. MADISON, Wis., September 16.— Robert M. La Follette, jr. and the Progressive Republicans of Wiscon- sin have cleaned up, mopped up and | otherwise generally routed the “stal-| warts” and their candidate, Roy P. | Wilcox, in the Republican primarie: for the senatorial nomination. i | The indications are that Mr. La| | Follette will be swept into the Sen- jate by a similar overwhelming vote | {In_the election, September 29. | In addition to winning the primary | |election, Mr. La Follette emerges | from the contest in a fair way to be- come a real leader in Wisconsin| | politics. Leads Wilcox by 100,000. La JFollette rolled up a lead of ap-| proximately 100,000 over his nearest, | competitor, Wilcox. and his vote was | greater than the combined vote of all | | three opponents. Rev. H ward, the Ku Klux X was third, with nearly 40,000 votes, and | former Gov. Francis 1. McGovern, a { poor fourth, with some 20,000. | William George Bruce, Democrat. outdistanced by far the League of Na tions and World Court Democrat, Judge Charles B. Rogers. But under the election laws, Bruce must have | | & total of 15585 votes, or 5 per cent | | of the vote cast.in the last guberna torial election, to get a party designa tion on the bailot for the coming sena- | torlal election, and the indications are he has failed to receive such a vote. In that event there will be no Demo cratic candidate in the election, which | between La Follette Progressives and the “stalwart Republicans.” | Made Good Impression. “Young Bob's” victory yesterday, due in part to the magic of the La Follette name in Wisconsin and in part | to the strength of the Progressivesand their organization throughout the: | State, was also due to the favorable impression which “Bob, jr.,” created on the stump. In his whirlwind | | campaign through the State during| the last three weeks he improved his own chances greatly. He has become | a real personality to thousands of the {voters who heard him speak. The | victory of La Follette is being hailed by Progressives throughout the country. Telegrams of congratula- tion from leading Progressives are | pouring in upon Mr. La Follette. The defeat of Wilcox, on the other | hand, is heralded as a defeat for the Coolidge administration, although the | Republican national committee has been careful to let it be known it was taking no part in the primary campaign. The issues were clearly defined by both La Follette and Wilcox. - La Foi- lette attacked the Coolidge administra- jtion, and Wilcox and his speakers de- fended it. Wilcox also attacked the adminiswration of the State govern- “(Continued on Page 5, Column 1.) 'HERBERT PARSONS S KLLED BY FALL New York G. 0. P. Leader Fa- tally Injured by Son’s Motor- ! Driven Bicycle. | | By the Associated Pre PITTSFIELD, Mass., September 16, —Herbert Parsons of New York and Lenox, former Representative and rominent Republican party leader of | New York, died at the House of Mercy | Hospital here today. Death came as the result of an in- dent at Lenox last Saturday after- noon. He received a rupture of the kidney. Mr. Parsons had presented hi son with a bicycle equipped w rear wheel. While he in | tront of his Summer home in Lenox it | suddenly overturned. One of the han- | dle-bars struck”him in the body. Mr. Parsons was born in New York on October 28, 1869. LONG ACTIVE IN NEW YORK. ToT e “Silk-Stocking Leader” Won Confl- dence of Downtown Wards. NEW YORK, September 18 (#).—| Politiclans learned with regret of the passing of Herbert Parsons, who for many years had taken an active part in the leadership and councils of the Republican party. He served several terms in the House of Representatives and was for many years president of the Republican county _committee. His leadership of the Republican party in the city and State campaigns re- sulted in his selection as Republican national committeeman in 1916. Mr. Parsons was 54 years of age. After his graduation at Yale and the Harvard Law ‘School he took up the practice of law in this city. Mr. Parsons was elected to the Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth and Sixty-first Congresses. He was very popular in the downtown wards, where he was often referred to as the “silk-stocking leader.” He was married to Miss Elsie Clews, daughter of the New York banker, in Newport, R. I, in 4909, | that i the inqui | board or | Yates Stirling. jr., OGBLE DSASTR PROBE TOFX LT WL OPENONDAY Wilbur Orders Inquiry Court to Determine in Full Causes of Collapse. COOLIDGE’S AIR BOARD ~ WILL MEET TOMORROW Davis Declares Himself Ready to All Charges Made Against Conduct of Service. Answer By the Associated Press The court of inquiry appointed by Secretary Wilbur to investigate the Shenandoah disaster will convene in Lakehurst, N. J., next Monday. The court itself will decide whether the hearings will be open to the pub- lic, but it is assumed here that they will be. Instructions issued today by Secre- tary Wilbur to Rear Admiral Hilary P. Jones, president of the court, formally directed the inquiry to deter- mine the cause of the dirigible's col- lapse and the responsibility for it. Responsibility to Be Determined. ‘The court was directed to submit a report of the facts it will establish through testimony and to render an opinion as to whether any acts of the airship's personnel were responsible for the accident. Meanwhile, preparations went . for- ward today for the first meeting here tomorrow of the President's special s0ard which will inquire into the whole subjeet craft with relation to the it was preparing itself to answer specifically all charges that have been made against the administration of the Army Air Service, and Acting Secretary Davis was said to be ready, if called for, to present in full the present policies of the Army air arm. Mitchell Charges Analyzed. Charges by Col. William Mitchell, | former assistant Army air chief and central figure in the present con. troversy, as well as others, are being analyzed at the War Department. It has been held by Mr. Davis that all charges against the department have been of a broad nature, and that at no time has any particular criti- cism of incompetency or mismanage- ment been made. -In view of this he feels the War Department has had difficulty in defending itself. He holds v in its case will divide inte three principal phases. One of these is the competency of the personnel of the present service, which, Mr. Davis believes, must nec- egsarily form the backbone of any in- dependent serwice that might be cre- ated. Equipment Means Expense. The equipment of the present serv- ice is another, it being contended that the Army Air Service in recent vears has asked of the budget much | | larger appropriations than it has re- cefved. Under an independent serv- ice, the department argues, no im- provement could be made in the equipment_unless more money were made avallable. . The third point in Mr. Davis' mind is that of the system of management, on which point he made it clear the department could say but little, as an independent department naturally would change the present administra- | tion of the air force. The Acting Secretary belleves the present administration of the Air Service to be competently managed and to be doing all that is possible to make itself an adequate adjunct to the national defense. NAVY BAND INQUIRY " STARTED BY BOARD Officials Make It Clear That No Charges Have Been Made. Praise Benter. Investigation of the administration of the affairs of the United States Navy Band is being made at the Washington navy yard by a special officers composed of Capt. president; Lieut. Comdr. F. E. Whiting and Lieut. John Kennedy, according to Rear Admiral B. F. Hutchinson, commandant. Admiral Hutchinson said that no charges had been made against any one in the band, but that'it had come to his attention that there might be some irregularities in its administra- tion, and he decided to have a board go into the matter to determine whether there was anything wrong in the operation of the Navy’s music or- ganization. Admiral Hutchinson sald that no charges had been preferred against | Band Leader Charles Benter. Officials are high in their praise of Benter in building up this Navy organization, and it was pointed out today that it was known that he has spent much of his own money to put the organization on the high standard that it has reached. The board is holding its in- vestigation in a secret session. Ad. miral Huteginson said that in view of the fact that those who might appear before the board might make some baseless statements, it was decided not to open the hearing because of the il effect it might have on the organiza- tion as & whole. e IN TOILS OVER HALF PINT. MONTICELLO, Ind., September 16 (#).—When John H, Randall, deputy State game warden, was arrested to- day after Sheriff I. M. Stanley had raided his home and discovered a half pint of liquor, Justice E. ‘G. Smith set his bond at $4,500. Eight charges were placed against Randall: Two for possession and one each for transporting, giving away, furnishing, selling, handling and dis- posing of Intoxicating liquor. He will be given a hearing Friday. Radio Programs—Page 18 1 WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION News Note: on the ballots. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1925 —FORTY-TWO PAGES. In the Wisconsin primary the Democrats failed to poll votes enough to remain FRANGE ST PAY ON BASS ST HERE Smoot Says Agreement With London Will Carry No Weight. By the Aseociated Press France's war debt to the United es must be settled without any reference whatever to the terms of agreement that npation m: have reached with Great Britain, it was asserted today by Senator Smoot, Re- publican, Utah, member of the Amer- ican Debt Commission. The Utah Senator’'s position, made known in a formal statement, was is- sued cofncident with a visit to the White House by Chairman Borah of the Senate foreign relations commit- tee, who protested more lenient terms for France than were given Great Britain by the United States. Senator Smoot issued his statement on arriving here to attend the meet- in~ of the French and American fund- ing bodies, while Senator Borah took the occasion of his first meeting of several months with President Cool- | 1dge to voice his views, with the added remark that he would have something to say about the situation when Con- gress reconvened. “The United States,” Senator Smoot said, “will settle with France without any reference whatever to the con- ference held between M. Caillaux ‘(French finance minister) and Mr, Churchill (the British chancellor of the exchequer) or any propaganda by either one or both of them. The United States has nothing to say about any political deals or under- standings between European coun- tries and does not propose to be drawn into them. “M. Caillaux and associates will be granted every possible chance of pre- senting their side of the question. The United States commission will look after the interests of America.” I twas pointed out that by the agreement reached between Calllaux and Churchill at London France is to pay Great Britain an interest rate of 2 per cent on its war debts to that country. CABINET FACES TASK. Will Have Difficulty Avoiding Defeat on Debt Terms. By the Associated Press. PARIS, September °16.—Finance Minister Caillaux left for the United States on his debt funding mission this afternoon. He took the boat train for Havre at 3:35 p.m. Simultaneously swith his departure (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) — POSTAL CLERK WOliNDED BY MASKED BANDIT GANG Shot Through Stomach With His Own Gun While Trying to Thwart Robbery. By the Associated Press ROCKY MOUNT, N. C., September 16.—TJohn Burgess, postal clerk, was shot through the abdomen here last night when he attempted to frustrate the efforts of four white masked bandits to rob the local post office. The bandits escaped. Burgess, at a local hospital, sald that he was shot with his own gun in the affray. His condition is regarded as_serious. ‘The robbery took place shortly be- fore 11 o'clock. The bandits rifled the money order department and made off with several packages of valuable mail. No estimate of the extent of the loss will be available, it was stated, pending a check-up by post office officials. Quick Removal Of Houses Aids Confidence Men By the Assoclated Preas. OMAHA, Nebr., September 16.— Omaha police are seeking two confidence men who sold vacant houses they did not own with the proviso that the houses be torn down or moved. ‘When Mrs. Elizabeth Hopkins went to inspect a house she had bought, she found a vacant lot. Neighbors said that the house had been moved away. J. E. Eggenberg explained a similar disappearance by telling the police that a house had been moved by him after he had pur- chased it from two men for $75. A rental agent, upon discover- ing two men tearing down a house he managed, was told that they had been hired to raze it by & third person, who said he_ had bought the building. POLCE NAY FALT CARS AT CROSSINGS Street Railway Heads Agree to Accept Proposed Plan at Boulevards. Following a public hearing before the Utilities Commission today, there were indications that the question of whether street cars should stop be- fore crossing seven important boule- vard intersections might be solved by placing policemen at those corners to direct all traffic. Commissioner Fenning, who super- vises the Police Départment, inti- mated by questions he put to railway officials that he is considering the de- tailing of policemen at the disputed intersections as a means of disposing of the problem. At the same hearing the commis- sion considered the protest of the Capital Traction .Co. against the es- tablishment of safety zones for street car passengers by the painting of white lines only. It developed at the hearing, however, that officials in the traffic director's office agree with the Capital Traction Co. that some satisfactory stanchion should be placed at the edge of these painted safety zones in order to protect pas- sengers standing in them. Partly Aceept Plan. ‘When Commissioner Fenning asked the railway officials if they would be satisfied to have policemen direct traf- fic at the seven intersections where the companies object to giving the right- of way to boulevard traffic the official replied that such an arrange- ment would be satisfactory while offi- cials were on duty. S.” R. Bowen of the Washington Railway and Elec- tric Co. and Willlam McK. Clayton of the Federation of Citizens’ Association raised the point, however, that the problem would still remain unsolved if there were certain periods of the day when no policeman would be on duty. ‘The commission will not decide what is to be dohe until they have an executive meeting tomorrow after- noon. J. H. Hanna, vice president of the Capital Traction Co., and Mr. Bowen both expressed a desire on the part of the railway companies to co-oper- ate with Traffic Director Eldridge in solving traffic problems, but they de- clared there was an honest difference of opinion between them and Mr. Eld- ridge on the question of making the ~{Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) Fire Alarm Confused With Mail Box; Brings Engines Dr. P. R. Brown, 68 years old, of West Point, Miss., turned in a false alarm of fire unwittingly to- day while trying to mail a letter at a fire alarm box at Forty-fourth street and Klingle road. Dr. Brown is here visting his daughter, who lives at 4429 Lowell street. He had a letter he wished to mail and inquired how to go about it. He was told a letter box ‘was on the corner. So the doctor went to the corner, but he picked the wrong box. He noticed that the door on the fire for Visitor’s Letter alarm box was.a bit ajar. He opened it. Inside was the lever saying: “Pull down and let go. He followed the directions. But he didn’t find any place to put the letter. _While he stood there try- ing to figure things out, up dashed No. 28 engine company, with No. 20 engfne following close behind, and No. 12 truck clattering up in’the rear With plenty of noise. No. 7 precinct patrol drew up shortly after the arrival of the fire engines and Policeman Barrett fer- reted out the reason for the false alarm. No action was taken in the CIVIL SERVICE POST WORRIES COOLIDGE, Candidates for Place Held by Mrs. Gardener Meet With Opposition. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. It is believed, in political circles here that President Coolidge may re- gret having publicly announced that he preferred to name a woman to succeed the late Mrs. Helen Gardener as a member of the United States | Trouble is | Civil Service Commission. brewing in the matter of aspirations on the part of a number of women, amd it is expected by one of the Presi dent’s close ssscclates that this storm will not subside until he has finally announced his dechsfor.~ It became known today that the | President had narrowed the list of dozen names, and since then there have been received at the White House a number of protests against one or more of these on the so-called pre- ferred list. The law makes it necessary to have | not more than two of any one politi- cal party on this commission at the same time. The two present commis- sioners, William C. Deming of Wyo- ming and George R. Wales of Ver- mont, are both Republicans, and it is necessary for the President to ap- point a Democrat to succeed Mrs. Gardener. Miss Smith Opposed. Miss Ethel M. Smith, head of the ‘Woman's Trade Union League, who is well known in Washington, having taken a prominent part in obtaining legislation providing a minimum wage for women, is understood to occupy a promffent place on the preferred list, and since this fact has become known through a ‘‘feele: which is put out by the White House to see if her ap- pointment would meet with general approval, principally by the Federa- tion of Women's Clubs and the Na- tional League of Women Voters, the White Howse has received a number of protests against her selection. It was learned at the White House today that these protests are not confined to any one organization or to repre- sentatives of any one political party. Mrs. Virginia White Speel, presi- dent of the League of Republican Women of the District, called at the White House today to lodge com. plaints or protests against the selec- tion of Miss Smith. Mrs. Speel said afterward that she called attention to activities of Miss Smith in work- ing up a congressional “black list” for the use of the American Federation of Labor in the 1920 campaign, and also her activities in connection with a 1 number of “‘radical” movements, both in Washington and outside. Miss Dell Urged. Mrs. Speel said that Miss Smith's appointment would be most unfor- tunate, and while she was at the White House she indorsed Miss Jessie Dell of Georgia for the post. Miss Dell is now chief of a division in the Clvil Service Commission and is represented as being especially well qualified for the vacant position on the commission. She is supported by Brig. Gen. H. M. Lord, director of the budget; Senators Smoot of Utah and McKellar of Tennessee ana others, but Miss Deil, too, is coming in for her share of opposition. The White House already has ‘received protests, principally from Democratic women, who oppose her selection be- cause of her activities with the Na- tional Woman's_Party during the picketing of the White House in 1917. Some of the women who have been mentioned in connection with this high appointment are Mrs. Medill Mc- Cormick of Illinois, wife of the late Senator of that State and daughter of late Senator Mark Hanna, and Mrs. Minnie, Fisher Cunningham of Texas. The President has not made up his mind, and it is not expected that he - will make a decision at a very early date. He conferred late yesterday afternoon with Commissioners Dem- ing and Wales, when he's understood to have sought their opinipn upon the qualifications of those names he has placed upon the preferred list. —_— PLAN RITES FOR MAX PAM. CHICAGO, September 16 (P).— Business men and city officlals will be active and honorary pallbearers of Max Pam, noted Chicago attorney, who died in New York Monday, at his funeral tomorrow. - Services will be held from Sinai Temple, and burial will be made in e Foening Star. * 1 “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star's carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’: s Circulation, 94,784 (P) Means Associated Press. TWO CENT “Subsidized Vice” At llinois U. Is Laborite’s Charge By the Associated Press. URBANA, IIL, September 16.—A challenge to University of Iilinois officials to show that they are not harboring what he styled as “‘sub- sidized vice” was thrown down in the State Federation of Labor con- vention here this morning by Edwin R. Right of Chicago, former State president. Mr. Wright picture of morality.” “Better burn universities to the ground,” he sald, “than pay them money if our sons and daughters attend them to learn immorality.” “My attention to university morality,” Mr. Wright said, “was provoked by recent magazine and book literature, some of it by college officials. And I have found evidence to support the reports in some places. I have been told of a fraternity house which was complet covered with a canvas shield, while inside a drunken orgy took place, which even savages would not have tolerated.” 500G, AUTOISTS HELD N TAG WAR Montgomery County Police Charge Residents in Mary- land Evade Law. printed a lurid “fraternity house Special Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., September 16.— In a campalgn against fictitious auto- mobile tags, State police this morn- ing arrested more than 50 prominent men and women at the Montgomery County line as they were driving into ‘Washington. It is alleged they live in Maryland {and operate their automobiles under | District of Columbia licenses, cost only $1 a year, while the Mary- land licenses are $7.50 a year and up, according to horsepower. Some are additionally charged with which { failure to have Maryland operators’ | permits. Many Bethesda Residents. ‘Those summoned to appear in Rock- i ville Police Court ¥riday and Satur- day gave their names as follows, the list lacking several to be reported by belated officers: Vernon Watkins, Be- thesda: George Plitt, Edgemoor lane: John E. Miller, Bradley Hills; Roy E Best, Bethesda; Roscoe J. Garrett, Rockville; T. C. Steppan, Bradley Hiils; Anna Heiberg, Edgemoor; Rus- ST 0 FOPERATI AUTOISTWIE AR FARE, REPORY SK1S Expense of Running Machine Is $690 a Year, Nearly 12 Cents a Mile. 2 OF 10 WALK, 2 DRIVE, 5 RIDE IN STREET CARS Fifteen Minutes Is Average Time 1,600 Actomobiles Take to Get to Work. The cost of running a private mobile is more than double the cost of riding the street cars, figured on a per-passenger-per-mile basls, the engi neering firm of McClellan & Junkers. feld contends in the final and mo: fmportant chapter of its report on the transportation problems of Washing. ton, submitted to the Utilities ( mission today. Throughout the survey the engineers have confined themselves to state ments of fact without attempting to draw conclusions, but officials at the District Building who have follow the inquiry believe that study this great mass of data will i the desirabili rallway lines. Costs Compared. In bringin the engineers survey close, re that the relative cost of the various means of trans- portation is as s If you ride the tokens, the cost per If you ride the street cars and pay the cash fare, the per mile is 2.93 cents. If vou ride the motor bus on tokens the cost is 3.66, and on the cash fare, 4.07 cents. If you maintain a private automo bile and allow for an average of 1.95 passengers to each auto entering the downtown section, the cost is 5.85 cents per passenger. 1f you use mile is 23.90 cer By appealing to all persons employ- ed in Government department downtown busines: fill out questionna found out just how means of transportation, what the cards showed { Half Use Street Cars. That of every the cost per the engineers many use each and this is 10 persons emploved, 2 walk to work, 2 ride in automobiles, sell Bean, Rockville; Thomas Jackson Rockville; Ralph Smith, 1832 Thir- teenth street, Farra Burn, Conduit road: Albert H. Boyle, Bethesda: Gerald Amann, Be- thesda; Aubrey H. Osmond. Bethesda. G. E. Powell, Bethesda; C. Robinett, Bethesda: C. F. Meany, Washington Grove; Miss Hellen Manning, Bethes- da; Chancellor Chaser, Bethesda; E. C. Stanton, Bethesda: Robert nedy; Chevy Chase; Chase; C. F. Burrows, S. B. Martin. Bethesda; Robert L. Brins, Washington Grove Griffith, Gaithersburg; G. W. Bethesda; August Huntt, Battery Park; George Pitt, jr., Edgmoor lane B. P. Lamberton, Halpine; E. H Copenhowe, Bethesda; W. V. Shufor. | Conduit road; R. S. Faloner, Bethesda; T. S. Mott, Edgmoor; Ernest Parker, Rockville; 'Edward Keyes, Seven Locks road; W. Bohannon, Montrose; L. H. Price, Bethesda; B. P. Rockville; Upton Genus, Poolesville: Leon M. Grand, Wilson lane; D. S. Parsons, Bradley Hills. Many Are Indignant. The arrests were made by Sheriff Plummer and five State officers, in- cluding Guy Jones, Earl George Windham, Roy Bodmer and Roy Snyder in the vicinity of Wi consin avenue and Bradley Lane. As the autolsts appeared, acgording to their wont, crossing into the D trict from Maryland, they were hailed by officers who told them what the arrests were for, and notified them when to appear in Police Court. Many iclaimed to reside in Washington, D. C., which accounts for the addresses given other than Maryland, while oth- ers expressed indignation at the “inter- ference,” saying they had been driv ing under the Washington license tag for a long time and thought it per- fectly legal. Some escaped arrest by having previous information, it is said, and leaving their cars at home or driving through by a circuitous route. The campaign s to be con- tinued, the police say, until all resi- dents of the county have Maryland tags. ROAD MOVING NORFOLK - OFFICES TO SAVANNAH Seaboard Air Line Changes to In- clude General Manager and Transportation Head. By the Associated Press. NORFOLK, Va., September 16.—Ar- rangements are being made to move the offices of the operating department of the Seaboard Air Line Railway from Norfolk to Savannah, Ga., it be- came known today. At the offices of the Seaboard neither Vice President M. H. Cahill nor C. R. Capps could be reached, and no other official would comment on the rumors of the proposed change. From other sources, however, it was learned that the offices of the general manager, superintendent of transpor- tation, the chief engineer and the car accounting department probably would be included in the move to Savannah. A move of this extent, it was said, would mean that more than 125 employes in the Seaboard general offices here would have to move to Savannah. The object of the proposed move is to obtain a more central location for the offices involved, the only objection to Norfolk being that it is too near one end of the Seaboard system. Lightning Kills-Three Sisters. HAVANA, September 16 (#).—Three young girls, sisters, were kiled by li~htning during a heavy storm yes- terday. When the storm broke the gir]s fled to the home of an aunt for safety. .Hardly had they got inside, however, when a bolt struck the )‘:hwumdmnmuykflredmmmol them. Washington; Thornton | Roberson, 932 Florida avenue, Wash- | | ington; Floyd E. Davis, Beane, Md.: candidates down to less than half a | . Ken- | H. A. Ehrman, | Rock. | Burdine, | ugé the street cars and 1 uses { suburban and interurban railways and busses. This means that 40 per cent of the workers who answered the | questions are either motorists or walk- | ers who never use the public trans- | portation facilities. The engineers say | they obtained completely wered i questionnaires from 8,252, or about 75 | per cent of all the employes in the Government and other downtown | establishments. An interesting fact developed f the study of these cards is that 1 persons living within one mile of the | downtown section come to work ‘in | automobiles and ‘that the average tim t takes them is 15 minutes The thousands of automc in Washington will stud terest a chart prepared gineers showing that it costs $: a vear to maintain an auto, whic 11.49 cents per mile, based on an age of 6,000 miles a y printed elsewhere in this issue the average automobile bud, | which this cost per mile was based. 84,000 Private Cars. These items of cost, of course. vary for individuals, but the eng | treated the problem from the point of averages. Tn determining the unit cost of op- |erating an automobile the engineers found that there are £4,000 private | automobiles in Washington, including |the metropolitan area, and that, ac | cording to tax assessments, they rep. j resent an aggregate value of $32.000,- 000, or about $400 per machine. | Then they found that the gasoline tax collections f r endin; May ‘were §701,500, indicating line sales of 35,000,000 gallons. Figur- ing 15 miles to ‘the gallon for ail classes of cars, this much gas would operate 525,000,000 vehicle miles, or an average of about 6,000 miles per car per vear. They calculated the operat ing expenses for a car to be $390.30 |a year, divided into 6,000 miles, gave | the per mile cost of 11.49 cents. Car-Riding Habit Low. The report reveals the fact that the street car riding habit, which means the average number of rides each person makes in a year, is lower in Washington than in most large cities, due to the proximity of the residential sections to the business area and also due to the amount of automobile parking space available downtown. The engineers found that {in 1924 there was a total of 146,866,- 946 revenue passengers. Based on a population of 496,200, the engineers computed the revenue rides per capita at 284, The engineers estimate the total employed population in Washington to be 200,000, including domestic sgrv- |ants. Of that number about 65,000 iare in the Federal Civil Service. The 90,000 persons who answered the questionnaires which enabled the en- gineers to determine how the work- ing population of the District travels represent 75 per cent of all those em- ployed in the Government and in downtown private establishments. Many Work Here. It is stated in the report that the National Bureau of Economic Re search found recently that the Dis-, trict of Columbia. has a higher ratio at working population to total popu- lation than any State in the Union, Summarizing the data furnished by the 90,000 persons who answered questionnaires, the engineers sa: ““These two summary tables show . that more than 20 per cent of the working population surveyed travel to and from their places of business by means of automobiles, and approx- imately 23 per cent walk to and from their places of business. These two groups, aggregating approximately 43 per cent of the working population covered by the survey, represent those individuals who make no reg- ular use of the public transportation facilities. “Of those indlviduals who travel regularly on existing railway and bus lines, the largest number make use of the facilities of the Washington ~{Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) _ e owners with in by the en will eers and-