Evening Star Newspaper, September 20, 1925, Page 2

L BAKER'S WILD TRIP 15 LAID T0 BENSON Former Secretary, Hustled About in War, Praises Admiral at Dinner. Rear Admiral William Benson, retired, was credited with consider- able share in the successful conclusion of the World War, during which he | was head of the Ame an Navy, by | former Secretary of War Newton D. | Baker last night at a testimonial dinner given in honor of the sea fighter at the Mayflower on his 70th | birthday and the 50th anniversary of | ering the service of the United j | | { | { | i 1 Benson in large part, i, must be credited the convoy system for troops o laying of the which finally submarines to Mr. 3 on Admiral after the British keptical of its e long had use of the and suppii North defeate emy The foriwer poli Baker, was cc Benson’s insistence It was experience of ! cording to Mr 4 v | and Navy worked in per| 0 | As an instance of Ad thoroughness and effi revealed a hitherto unk on the world conflic stances of his own trip to Europe "rmm h the submarine belt in the fall of 1918. He had decided on the trip, he and communicated his plans to Secre- tary Daniels of the Navy. The lat ter turned over the arra Admiral Benson. It v e that Secretary Baker leave W ton unsuspecied by any enemy agents Who might be stationed here. Accordingly, Mr. Baker sa _ was told only that on 3 o'clock certain afternoon a man would call for d baggage and at 9 that eveni ne would call to take him to the station. He was told to trust these men implicitly, however diffi- cult it might be to do So. Shabby Men Appear. On the ernoon in question man poc sed and not at all trustworthy in appearance called for He handed it over with That evening another e suspiclous looking me for him in an old which apparently was in misgivings, its last s For more than an hour, he said, he driven about the poorer street: of Washington in this old car, grow- nd more suspicious all the t somebody had made a mi take and that he was in the han of a ruffian or a maniac. Finally, he sald, he was told to get out of the car n through a supposedly secre’ into the train shed at 'nion Sta on and hustled i an un- hted Pullman on one of the tracks Here h looking escort left him. He sat down and waited. The next person to accost him was a negro porter who demanded to know how he got into the car, told him he had no busine: th and threatened to k him off He said that he ex- plained well as he could to the porter and advised him to see the con- | ductor. The negro hesitated suspici- ously but finally complied. Accosted by Porter. t Mr. knew, he said, his compart- Some time in t it stopped and another unknow me for him and led him to side. There he was told to mount a rope ladder onto the deck of a battleship. Once there the officer in charge of the deck demanded to know who he and what business he had sneak- g on board a Navy ship. He told the officer he was the Secre- tary of War. The statement was re. ceived with considerable doubt. The obviously was flystered. ed the commandef, who evident the only person in the whole chain who had any idea what it was ail about Mr. Baker said he was hustled be- low decks and not allowed to come above for two days, spending his nights in total darkness. It was not until the ship, the battle crulser Seattle, reached Brest that his identity was revealed. Tt was the infinite attention to such detalls as this, he said, which stamped Admiral Benson in his mind as a very great officer. Wilbur Praises Admiral. Secretary of the Navy Curtis D. Wilbur paid signal tribute to the ad- mjral, speaking in place of Secretary of Commerce Hoover, who was unable to be present because of serious illness in his family, one of his sons having undergone an operation today in Bal- timore. Secretary Wilbur spoke of the great advances that have been made mate- rially in the Navy since the days of sailing ships, when Admiral Benson first entered the service. The heroism of the men, he sald, has never changed anl the same spirit that inspired the sallors on the deck of the Bon Homme Richar? was to be found in the ex- ploit of Commander John Rodgers in the Hawallan flight, in the men on the Shenandoah, in the men who manned the guns In the turret of the Missis- sippl after the fatal explosion. “From John Paul Jones to Admiral Benson,” he said, “the same spirit of self-sacrifice has nctuated the men of our Navy. Thank God that at the head of our Navy in the last great war was a man who believed not only {jp men, but in God." Bishop Hugh C. Boyle of Pittsburgh said that Admiral Benson would have been an ideal citizen of an imaginary Christian commonwealth, where every cltizen was Imbued with the ideal of unselfish service above all else. Tells of Life. Admiral Benson, in replying to the tributes, said that whatever he had done had been done simply, solely from a sense of duty to the service. He spoke of his life from the time he entered the Naval Academy from a Georgia plantation, with less than 18 months of actual schooling in his life behind him. His first voyage was on the flagship of Admiral Farragut and his next in the nstitution on her last voyage in active service. He has sajled, he said, all the seas, visited practically every country in the world and seen a great deal of his- tory in the making. Sailing vessels stll were In service when he entered e Navy. He visited Japan when that nation was just emerging from barbarism. One of the voyages in which he takes greatest pride was an expedition into the Arctic for the re- lef of the Greely expedition. The most disquieting sign of the times, Admiral Benson said, was the growing lack of a sense of responsi. bility among citizens, who are looking more and more to State Legislatures and Congress and less to their own efforts. He would wish his life, he said, to be an example of accepting personal responsibility in all things. Among the messages received was one trom the President of the United States, as follows: “Your favor advising me that you were tendering a dinner to Admiral The the tr ment s the middle of outside N He cons: IS RECORD PRAISED REAR ADMIRAL WIL L RETIRE BUDGET BUREAU SUBMITS REPORT Claims “Record of Accom- plishment” in Carrying Out Coolidge Economy Plans. Displaying what Director Lord de- scribed as “a record of accomplish ment” in carrying forward the admin- istration policy of economy, the Bureau of the Budget yesterday submitted its annual report to the President cover- ing operations for the fis r ended last June 30. The report, the first of an ann crop from Governmental ag c ried the statement that detai rvey given was published prim or the purpose of inspiring “the rank and fie of Government personnel t conomize and to initiate T efficient methods o Government’s busi ual repo tr nt said, “but 1l individual econon , after vear, produce substantial savings in the aggregate. Moreover, the habit of saving, acquired by the practice of small economies, de. velops an alertness and initiative that will detect larger wastes of Govern. ment funds and of property, and evolve means of eliminating them.” Next Budget Not Predicted. Countl numbers of the “small ies” were recited in the report, tle regard z the next budget estimate was disc) d. President Coolidge’s announcement, made at the meeting of the Government officials in June, that Government expenses for the year beginning next July 1 should not exceed $3,080,000,000 was recalled, but Director Lord fafled to. give any indication as to whether the budget paring of estimates would resuit in a lower figure. The ann hearings on _e:llmntes of the several departments is now under way in prepartion for their submission to Congress in Decem.- ber. The budget director believed that the four-year-old policy of establishing “re- Servi in the appropriation of each Federal agency merited commendation inasmuch as the total remaining bal- ances of all Government agencies now is nearly a quarter of a biilion dollars. ‘While the funds set up as a reserve are turned back to the Treasury an. nually in most instances, Director Lord insisted that their establishment had meant much in the way of pre- :'ientlng calls for deficiency appropria- ons. Patrol Co-ordination Favored. Included in the report for the first time was a definite suggestion of bene- fits that might derive from co-ordina. tion of all border patrol activities of the Federal Government. no recommendation for legislation, but Director Lord expressed the belief that important reductions in expenditures of the several agencies concerned would result if the border services were co-ordinated. The director reported excellent pro- gress by the several bureau commit- tees engaged in standardized Govern- ment blank forms, contracts and pro- cedure, and announced that seven new Government contract forms, to be used by every Federal agency, had been drawn up. Standard specifications also were increased during the year by 13§ new articles. The specifications board is continu- ing its studies under direction of ex- perts of the Bureau of Standards, and Director Lord declared that the pe- sults of the investigations and the es- tablishment of Federal standards were carrying great influence. He believed ultimately there would be tangible evidence of industrial savings from them. = — ‘William Shepherd Benson, to com- memorate the completion of 50 years of service under the United States Government, has been received. is very seldom that one person has an official connection with the Gov- ernment for so long a period. It is one that well may be marked by ap- propriate ceremonies. Public serv- ice has a very distinct and real mean- ing. It ought always to be applied singly, not for the benefit of any sec- tion or class but to promote the wel- fare of the whole people. In its most successful form it is without any trace of selfishness. I wish you would extend to those who are gath- ered to honor one of the prominent veterans of our country my best wishes, and to Admiral Benson my hope that the increasing years may continue to bring him increasing wis- dom for the performance of his duties and that in his declining days he may look back upon his public serv- ice with great satisfaction.” Among other messages were those from Vice Dawes and Gen. Pershing. Many at Dinner. ‘The testimonial dinner was ar- ranged by a committes of 100, of which Secretary Wilbur was chair- man. Among the guests of honor in addi- tion to the speakers were Gen. Le- jeune, commandant of the Marine Corps; Secretary of Labor Davis, Jus- tice Butler of the Supreme Court; as- sociates of Admiral Benson on the Shipping Board and Right Rev. Peter Fumasoni-Biondi, the papal legate; Bishop Thomas J. Shahan of Catholio University, the District Commission- ers, Rear Admiral Hilary T. Jones, Maj. Gen. Tasker H. Bliss, Edward J. Sanford, John Barton Payne and John Hays Hamond. 3 Martin Conboy of New York was toastmaster. Music for the dinner was furpish~" by the Navy Band. received President There was | i printed during STREETS IN NATIONAL CAPITAL SHOULD BE FINEST IN COUNTRY Modern Construction, Resurfacing and Widening Are Prime Requisites of Program for Paving. Repairs Should Be Handled Promptly. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. This is the concluding article on the condition of Washington sirects. Previous ardcles in this the past week series show that: (1) A very large percentage of our streets are worn out, having baen in service fol' many years beyond their natural life," and carrying traflic, far heavier and in larger volume han they were built to bear. (2) At a certuln period each year they will deteriorate even mare rap- idly, at a time when no repairs can be made. (3) There !s controversy whether the best type of surfacing material is being used. (4) The policy in regard to snow and fce removal after a severe storm causes extensive damage to the streets, greatly shortens thelr life, ls inefficient and expensive, causes in- ileulable loss o business men, and umages trucks, automobiles and sther veh ) The mented b wsoline tax, even supple- assessments ners under the is insufficient to up the yearly quota of resur- not (o mention catching up the accumulated deficlency of more tha 000 square yards of resur- facing that should have been done vears ago. Should Have Best Streets. So we now come to the very perti- nent questfon—"“What should be done?” The Nation's Capital should have the best streets of any city or State in the country. Visitors from all parts of the country, and from all over the world, who come here to ad- e what we boastfully claim is “the best citv in the world” should not have their enjoyment knocked out of them by being bumped and jolted around on strects that were worn out before the war, and which have been “outlawed” for 10 to 20 years. Our streets in the City of Washing- ton should always be in first-class condition, with repairs made im- mediately when the break comes, in stead of being allowed to deteriorate, going for months and years with holes and ruts growing worse and worse all the time We are now so far behindhand on :eping our streets in shape that it incredible to believe that Congress (which has exclusive control over ex- res—for street work, or any © municipal improvement) will at rize a complete job of re- habilitation. Program That Is Required. To set up a practical program, di- ed toward that objective, the gen- accomplishments to be sought First—The construction of modern roadway pavements adequate to sus. tain the legal axle loads on all im proved roadways or others not suffi ciently well paved to carry modern heavy traffi Second—The resurfacing of a very notable area of old asphalt pave- ment, whose extreme age has re- sulied in u deterforation that can only be corrected by a new blanket of I—Undertaking a program of widening of business and are streets, where the tre. mendously increased volume of vehic uiar traffic has far exceeded the ca- pacity of the present roadway width. These are the three biggest, general lines of improvement but there are also important policy decisions that should be made as soon as possible on matters where there is now very serious disagreement. Must Fight Snow. (A) Our streets must be kept open for truck, automobile and ve- hicular traffic just as well as they are kept open for street car service. Ade- quate plow equipment attached to powerful trucks must be provided to clear traffic lanes. The heavy snow must be fought as it falls and not al- lowed to pile up, blockading. our streets. If the District officials are in- competent to supervise such work, let private contractors do it. The streets can be kept open for traffic, even though there must be an interruption of curbstone parking, without any great increase in cost to the tax- payers. (B) Decision should be made wheth- er it is better economy to use lake asphalt exclusively for surfacing and resurfacing our streets, rather than the ofl asphalts that are being more generally used, merely because they are a little cheaper, and therefore a somewhat larger area can be tem- porarily covered each year. First—In regard to the necessary construction of modern roadways. In earlier articles in this series it was shown that traffic during the last § to 10 years has undergone a remark- able change. It has grown not only tremendously in volume but also in unit weight. Roads that were bullt 10 or even 5 years ago were not of sufficiently strong foundation or of proper type to zllow the present legal load to pass over their surfaces, even though they do not fail styucturally, without such serious abrasion as to make maintenance of those surfaces for proper traffic extravagantly. ex- pensive. Maintenance Cost Cut. For example: When the District authorities were seeking from Con- gress appropriations to resurface Connecticut avenue, Georgia avenue, Bladensburg road and other heavily traveled thoroughfared, the engineer- ing force of the District showed that AR costing 15 to 25 cents per square yard per year to maintain these roadway surfaces in even rela- tively unsatisfactory condition. When they were repaved with modern pavement this maintenance cost was at once reduced to about 2 or 3 cents per square yard per year. One of the great gateways to the Capital City, which opens into a suburban territory that is increasing rapidly in population, and which must bear 2 great deal of heavy trafiic, is Sixteenth street north of Columbia road. Yet this street is known by the District authorities and by the com- mittees of Congress to be structurally inadequate to carry the type and vol- ume of traffic. This is mainly due to the influence of the traffic on the road- way surface which makes the cost of malntenance tremendously expensive. Second—In regard to the necessity of resurfacing a great deal of worn- out road surfaces. In the fifth articlé in this series, printed Friday, it was shown that about a score of our main traffic thoroughfares have already been resurfaced under the gasoline tax fund, and that with repayments by abutting property owners under the Borland amendment this good work will continue on an enlarged scale. New Streets Cut. But—it must be remembered that due principally to the unprecederited building activity since the war, and intensively during the last three years, calling for new streets in all direc- tions, there has been a much greater street area added to be paved and maintained than the relatively few (about 60) streets resurfaced under the gas tax have deducted from the sum-total of work to bs done. Just give thought to the fact that the builders, to get.cheap land, have gone out on the hills and into the valleys & 13t ap ros= and rows of d amen re. | suburban | they = houses, with entire new streets built up on both sides —so that the District has to build entire new streets' for these new taxpayers, in scattered territory. The street engineers, already facing 1ore maintenance work than they ould handle, have had all this new reet area to luy. The result is that re now further behind on their worlk than three years ago in building streets in rapidly developing suburban residentlal dis It was generally admitted that the Washington streets were in fairly good condition before the World War —at Jeast there wasn't any great amount of “kicking” about them. To maintain our streets at the same standard they ware In 1914, and realiz ing that the street-building profession estimates the extreme life of pav: ments to be 30 yvears, it is obvio that at least one-thirtieth of our en- tire roadway surfacing should be re- surfaced each year—merely to keep them up to the imperfect condition they were in before the war. Much Is Undone. A graphic chart showing the amount of resurfacing done each year since 1914, as compared with what should have been done. demonstrates that we have a minimum accumulated de- ficlency of resurfacing amounting to 750,000 square yurds. Remember, this {8 not a precise statement, but that any way you figure the total of work undone aggregates more than 750,000 square yards of resurfacing, most of which should have been done years ago and some of which has been held up for 13 vears. It would cost up- ward of $3,000,000 to do this left over work, and here is where the gas- tax fund is being applied—but, remem- ber, each year there is another one- thirtieth of the whole street surface being added to the pile. Third—In regar obvious that our principal downtown business streets are overcrowded with traffic, and this is emphasized by the parking problem. Thirteenth street and M street (Georgetown) are illus. trations of how central business streets can be improved by widening and resurfacing. Wisconsin avenue and Bladensburg road are examples of a like improvement on thorough. fare streets. The District street authorities and Congress are committed to a g street-widening program, as it s by the fact that E street from Fifth to Thirteenth is to be widened and re- surfaced next Spring, and the widen ing of Eleventh street from Pennsyl- va avenue to New York avenue and of Connecticut avenue from K street to Eighteenth street will be recom g;;vmlml in the coming appropriation Speed Is Desired. But this work should not be allowed to progress too slowly. It is one of the real solutions of the traffic prob- lem, and in this connection it must not be overlooked that congested business streets ought to receive first attention, and that it will do little good to widen one small stretch of a business street if it leads into a nar- row street. Street widening must be carried through to an equally wide outlet. Since the advantages of a widened street have been demonstrated on Thirteenth street, a very strong de- mand has grown’ for continuation of this street-widening program, espe- clally in the downtown business sec- tion, just as rapidly as appropriations can be secured from Congress. (a) In regard to keeping a way open for trafic during and after a heavy snowstorm. Bear in mind that there are two distinct phases of this work—Airst, and really most important, and at the same time least expensive, fis plowing the streets, pushing the snow toward but not into the gutters, so that vehicular traffic can move without trespassing on the right-of- way of the street cars; and, second, re- moving whatever portion of the snow the sun does not dispose of before the clean-up force gets busy. Lose Sight of Need. Many persons, including District officials, have seemed to lose sight entirely of the importance of plowing a general traffic way alongside the street car tracks and along all of our principally traveled streets. This is of prime importance. A plow attach- ment to be hitched to a powerful truck costs relatively very little. A committee of business men and Dis- trict officials last year recommended that 35 plows shduld be operated, al- lowing for 4mile trips. We face the Winter with 22 plows, 11 of which are to be used on 6-mile trips and the others working on main traffic thoroughfares as best they can. If a careful study showed that 35 plows are needed and that a 4-mile trip is the most efficient run, we should have at least 35 plows and not try to get by with 6-mile runs. ‘The superintendent in charge of this work is planning to hitch some of these plows to flushers and some of them to what he calls ‘“one-man graders,” which in fact are small trae- tors. If plows are put out they should be given a chance to work efficiently. To drive through the snow and push it aside these plows must be attached to powerful 5 to 10 ton trucks—and the Government has an abundant sup- ply of such trucks in Washington, which would otherwise be idfe after a snow storm. A plow attached to a powerful truck will probably do more work in 5 hours than it will in 25 hours attached to a small tractor. Must Move Quickly. One of the most important things the street cleaning department must be prepared for is to start promptly, as the street car companies do and fight the snow as it falls. The Dis- trict plows should trail behind the street car plows and as they throw the snow from their tracks the Dis- | trict plows should scoop it further back toward the gutters. If the su- perintendent of street cleaning work, after conferences with street railway officlals, figures that 11 plows can cover the street car routes—then three banks of plows, one overlap- ping the other, ought to be able to push the snow back almost to the gutters and give an open roadway for Jraffic. It the snow is pushed back as it falls, there need never be any snow Jams or blockading of our streets. It is the actual removal of the snow after a storm that has been expensive —which it was estimated by the busi- ness men's-District officials’ joint com- mittee would require more than 2,000 men for six days, when only about 855 men can be depended upon, and a bat- talion of 264 trucks. Distribution of Cost. In figuring the cost of $67,638 to clear away one snowfall of a depth of 6 inches, that committee only put in $700 for plow truck drivers—while $20,520 was for pay of shovelers, $38,016 for truck hire, $2,100 for oper- ators of loading equipment, $1,800 for pay of foreman and $4,500 for main- tenance of mechanical loaders. If the District officials will buy enough plow attachments and hitch them to powerful trucks and keep the streets open for traffic, even if it costs 10'or 20 or 50 times the $700 estimated, the public is not soing to be over- critical about a yery speedy hauling away of the snow—because they will Le able to got around the oity, and will Upper—A closeup of one of the 8x8 supports, which illustrates how decay has eaten through the wood. This is the) building at Eighteenth and B streets northwest. Below—View along the side of tem- porary building at Sixth and B streets northwest, where excavations have been necessary to get at the rotting underpinning.~ Jacks are placed under the building as the decayed supports are removed. CONVIGTS OF EASE' REPORTED AT 000§ Chicago Has New Clean-Up of Dry Forces as Chief Swings Ax. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, September 19.—The life of ease and semi-freedom lived by Chi- cago beer runners serving sentences on Federal charges in jails in and near Chicago continued today to come un- der the scrutiny of Government agents, while the prohibition office here gave evidence 6f activities likely to put more prohibition law violators behind the bars. Frankle Lake, beer runner de luxe, who got out of the Cook County jail 82 days before a year's sentence for contempt expired, and who is now back in serving the rest of the sen- tence, and Terry Druggan, his part- ner, who enjoyed frequent trips out of jail while serving his sentence, were reported to be wrangling among themselves in the county jail over their difficulties. Bribe Talk Probed. The two, with Sheriff Peter Hoffman and half a dozen jail employes and former employes, will appear in court next week to show cause why they should not be held in contempt for the lberties gllowed Druggan and Lake. Meanwhile Federal agents were inves- tigating storles told by jail guards and later denied by them that Druggan had pald more than $20,060 to those who accorded him special favors in il m.lohnny Torrio, beer runner, doing a nine months’ stretch in the Waukegan jail, has canceled reservations for a trip to Europe which he expected to start next Wednesday, two days after his release. Instead he will probably be brought before Federal Judge Adam C. Cliffe, who sentenced him, to tell about reported liberties he en- joyed. Sheriff Edwin Ahlstrom, once previously cited for contempt for lib- erties allowed Federal prisoners, will appear before Judge Cliffe next week to relate the circumstances of Torrio’s imprisonment. Druggan Played Races. Statements obtained by Sheriff Hoff- man from other guards were made public today, and among the charges was one statement that Druggan had been allowed to use a telephone in the jail storeroom to play the races and for business calls. Meanwhile the ax was being swung with a viclous swish about prohibition enforcement headquarters, where E. C. Yellowley recently assumed charge as administrator. Nine other agents were fired yesterday. These men and many qthers, it is reported, are to be replaced by “aces” picked by Yellow- ley from throughout the country. Temporary injunctions were issued today by Judge Cliffe against nine well known cafes and clubs, closing them for violations of the prohibition laws. One bootlegger was arrested while doing business in the city hall and 13 men were arrested in a raid on a ga- rage, where a large quantity of liquor was seized. —_— be infinitely better served than ever before. That is why business men have pro- tested vigorously that the snowstorm could be taken care of and the streets kept open, easily within available ap- propriations. The suggestion of Supt. Hacker that business men should co-operate after a severe storm by cleaning off only a portion of their sidewalks and not in- creasing the gutter pile any more than necessary & a good one, and the busi- ness men will be glad to cooperate in this or any other practical way. Controversy ‘Over. Oil. (B) In regard to the policy of using oil asphalts instead of lake asphalt. There is a big and bitter controversy on this subject, in which the District street authorities refuse to take part. The street engineering profession knows that lake asphalt will stand the traffic strain. Those who lay both the lake and oil asphalts prefer the lake asphalt, and many of them believe it will give better service. The District authorities, while refusing to take sides In the controversy, do know that the lake asphalt gives a street surface that has actually given good service under our peculiar climatic conditions for 30 to 40 years. They do not know that the ofl asphalts will give similar service; but they do know that some of the oil asphalt surfacing first laid ‘broke down in 5 to 10 years. They ex- pect better results from improvements authorities make for using oil asphalt is that it is cheaper, and consequen they can cover more street area Wi tha fu allgyv2d by Congress. ] CITIZENSHIP SCHOOL TO OPEN TOMORROW Evening Classes in Americaniza- tion Will Be Resumed Next Month. Americanization school day classes will open for the new term tomorrow, it was announced vesterday by Miss Maud E. Aiton, principal. The night classes, however, will not be organized until October 5. In the day school, Miss Alton said, | classes would be organized for begin- ners as well as for those taking in- termediate work, advanced English and special citizenship subjects. The time schedule has been so arranged, she pointed out, that the school work will not confliet with the employment of pupils. The Summer evening classes, or- ganized on the departmen plan, proved so successful, according Miss Afton, that the plan will be continued through the Winter. The subjects in the evening classes will include civics. speaking, reading. spelling, business English, history and mathematics. Miss Aiton will be at the Webster School, Tenth and H streets, to give information to prospective student Her telephone number is Main 600 branch 356. e BANKER IS FOUND DEAD. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., September 19 P).—J. K. Knox Fleming, president of the First National Bank of Bir- mingham, was today found dead in a cottage on Shades Mountain from a bullet wound. A pistol lay by his side. Coroner Russum began an inquiry at once, and officials sald preliminary investigation indicated suicide. He had been in ill health. to | {SHERIFF SURRENDERS | FURBERSHAW TO U. § ‘Date of Trial for Killing of Bootleg Suspect to Be Set Early in Week. BALTIMORE, Md., September 19. | —Harford County authoritles today ndered Joseph A. Furbershaw, vashington prohibition agent charged {with first degree murder, to the | Unitea Government, and he was brou to Baltimore by United States Marshal George W. Collier. Sheriff Thompson surrendered Fur- bershaw, who has been denied bail since the killing of John Bungori, August 1, only after Federal Judge Soper counte ed a writ of cer- torari and habes: corpus. Furbershaw ow a prisoner at the Baltimore City Jail and will be tried for the killing of Bungori before Judge Soper. The date of Furbershaw’s trial for the killing will be set some time early next week, Amos W. W. Wood- cock, United States distriet attorney sald, and bail would not be as for Furbershaw if spee: could be arranged. Attorney General Robinson, however, is expected to ask a postponement of the case until the Lawrence Wenger case, a similar one, is settled in Supreme Court. WOMEN’S CLUB PLANNED. LONDON, September 19 (#).—Gen- tlewomen of small means are to have a residential .club in London, built by funds collected by members of the aris. tocracy. Lady Bertha Dawkins, who is a lady-in-waiting to Queen Mary. has organized the original appeal, and formed a committee of 60 prominent women to tackle the various trades and professions for funds. If You Tire Easily —if you should also have a persistent light cough, loss of weight, some chest Qain:r hoarseness you may be developing consump- tion and you should lose no time to See a Doctor or Have Yourself Examined at the Free Health Department Clinic 409 15th St. N.W., Tuesday, Thursday or Saturday at 2-4 o'clock. Friday evenings from 7:30-9 o'clock. To Prevent Consumption 1 2. Avoid house dust and impure or close air, day or night. Get all the light and sunshine possible into your home. 3. Avoid raw milk, raw cream and butter made of unpasteurized cream. Eat plain, nourishing:food. Get enough sleep by retiring 4. 5. 6. Try to avoid worry. Be cheerful. acts on your body. early enough. Think kindly. Your mind Health Insurance A Physical Examination Every Birthday Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis Telephone Main 992 1022 11th Street N.W. Who have gaid for the above bulletin (legal motice). BUILDING SUPPORTS DECLARED UNSAFE U. S. Workers Endangered by Decay, While Congress Denies More Money. Only a few shreds of rotten tim- ber in many instances, and the eternal vigilance of Army engineers in others, separate scores of Government em- ployes trom possible accident in the temporary shacks which were rushed to completion for war purposes and still are being used today. Buckled floors and cracked walls give mute warning of impending ca- tastrophe, which engineers are trying to ward off by renewing a pier here and there, where decay makes it urgent. New and smooth asphalt streets in the vicinity of these build- ings are actual life savers, according to engineers. Were they paved with brick or cobblestone, constant vibra- tion would surely bring the bulldings down, so serious 1s their condition at this time. Yet they are still used ta house Government workers. Supports Rotten. There is already heavy settiing in progress in these temporary buildings, according to Lieut. Col. Clarence O. Sherrul, director of the office of pub-- lic buildings and public parks of the National Capital, and they are grow- ing worse and worse each year, te eiforts to keep them from down. There is not, he con- tinued, enough money available ever to replace the &by wooded piers with the roughest of concretd supports, and the life of one of the wooden sections of shoring is only about three years. The dampness eats away the timbers almost as fast as if rats were gnawing at them. Several of those exposed to view vesterda: were more than three-quarters gone, and it would appear a little vi- bration or concussior 1d surely collapse them. Responsibility for such a condition, or a catastrophe, should it occur, would have to be placed square the shoulders of Congress, accords to engineers. Yet a board of inquir. or even a corner's would follow such could hold no one. Tt s having charge are doing the be y watching the p i 1d: most of ex maintena n renew make the bui and every day the po: or mor ibilities o of these struct v of the underpinning, pointed ou kes one wonder t the build hained so_long With the underpinning condition despite v Jinted in_such of snow. mig! h consequent Government res of a section of it probably a uilding would, re whil pulling ectric would priceless conditions . each year has failed to e provision for new or the adequate repair of these. The crowd- ed conditions in the Gover nt de. partments, shortage of office space for arrying on the normal functions of the Federal Government, makes it solutely necessary to use these st tures, it was asserted. Not an inch of space in them goes to waste, as in the small attics, and even under the first floor, on the bare ground, mate- | rials are stored for the want of better storage space. Weights Eveniy Placed. Careful check is kept on all weights | placed in the buildings to distribute it | as much as possible, so that no great amount will be overloaded over any of the weak spots where the underpin- ning is found to be decaying. Col. Sherrill pointed out that the conditions under Treasury annex No. 2, at Fourteenth and B streets, was 5o bad for a time that the office was on | thé verge of abandoning it. A thor- {ough survey was made, however, and | the underpinning braced up so that | the building could be used a little longer. This building is forced to bear the vibration of the heavy inter- urban cars which pass one of its sides. At the present time the building No. 7 at Virginia avenue, Eighteenth and B streets, is having extensive repair work done. The decay of the under- pinning there caused a serious settle- ment in the building, which called out the emergency repair gang to place jacks to take the place of the rotten 8-by-8 piers. The rotten sections are being cut out while the jacks hold up_the building, and new sectlons are being made ready to be put in place. Engineers are continually required to crawl under these buildings and make inspections to order a repair wherever it is urgent, and where money can be shaved from another source. FOUR AIR POLICIES OPEN TO COUNTRY UP TO PROBE BOARD (Continued from First Page.) the their way through the lalyrinth of official red tape to Secretary Davis’ desk. Then, if approved, they must go right straight back through the channels whence they came. Arriv ing theré, after some more details are attended to. the officials may be- gin assembling a court. Certainly no effort is being made to rush the court martial. It fs rather belleved Col. Mitchell will not be called to trial until after he has testified before the President’s board. There is no desire on the part of War Department officials to embarass him in such an important mission. Two or three weeks is the least time mentioned at the War Department for the convening of the court, and by that time it is thought Coi. Mitchell will have finished at least his first session with thes President’s board. There is some doubt as to the charge or charges that will be pre- ferred against the colonel in event the court martial is ordered. Under Section 96 of the War Department code an officer may be brought to trial for conduct considered to the prejudice of good conduct and mili- tary discipline and under this charge a court would be called to pass only upon whether the colonel actually made the statements. This is the im- pression given at the War Depart. ment, but some officers belleve that if this charge only was preferred, it would not prevent Col. Mitchell from re-presenting the statements already made.