Evening Star Newspaper, December 4, 1925, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. S, Weather Bureau Forecast.) Rain tonight and tomorrow what warmer tonight, colder row afternoon or night. Temperatures—Highest, today; lowest, 45, at 6 w.m. Full report on page some- tomor 52, at noon oday. 1 Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 30 ch tered as second class matter post office. Washington, D. C. AID OF POPEASKED INTURNING CHURCH 10 BACK DRY LAW No. 29.802. Auto Rum Train And $30,000 Cargo Taken in Florida By the Asso TAMPA, d Pla., Decerbe tratn of liquor and truc captured and assorted whisky ed at approximately $30.000 were sel, near Bradenton, Fla trol inspectors from the United States fmmigration otfice her nounced today Four men were captured, say, after a running pi They are now being held at Bradenton. PLEADS FOR ONE WORD os ron o voro (ITOHEL| CHARGES DISPUTEDBY NAVY Caused Growth of Klan Lansdowne Had Full sponsibility on Flight, Officer Testifies. Press. A wils val d today Prohibition Committee Head Tells Pontiff Catholics Are Not Co-operating. in apital p to| e united | enforce Congress, thition ling several temp m hodies, both Catholic and Protestant, today to Pope Plus XTI an appeal for moral 1 authority” in A support of William Mitche! hat the Navy Deps ment was ¥ megligent” in sendin Shenandoah on her last fligh disputed today by high « Department c: to testify at the charges erim whose athingly em of en- the letter to address here de- the present in Americ refers to hoth were the pros icers of t Mitchell today Capt. Gatewood Bureau of who 1c Nava prepared racent stater ve h's flight America had written epl f o «d that « ity’ In her generos 1 objected to making mations of it sarvices ¢ to lustrious pr tERa R i world peace, especis Bitione ’_r: proclamation of t e e over all nations as the e unde ereign ruler of the world, I at he was no aympathetic response fr - tian spirit that dominates e Aot 1 4 can heart and conscience e the Shen ind that Comdr Says Dry Violations Boomed Klan. wne alona was responsible for “With & confidence bor Janoyement lef that vou understand Sepolisialo tions as & people, I am pr address vour holiness in of thousands of Americans on a ter which I believe concerns hoth t church over which you preside well and the country which we love reached the America of their Mid sdown order the ess and vour il e discretion ignore untarily com of our be-| r aspira to Eberle Conceived Plan. Lie boar ‘| Eberle, the chief T operations, | 2nd f1< primary purpose was to tr Our people, wishing to be a sober | the crew. ( Mitchell has cla nation, have put inty their funda-|that the Shenandoah went to Siertal Ty s dRersl HoDia: the | doom while engaged in a propagand manufacture, e and dlstributi ot | mission for the avy. Much of the intoxicants used for bLeverage pur-|correspondenc passing _ betwee yoses. This prohibition. termed the | Comdr. Lansdowne and the Navy De eighteentl: amendment i9-our.Copsti- | partment regarding the jtin o tution, makes ample provision for|the proposed flight, already sagramental wines, and the American | public by the Shenandoah's court prople are determined that this legis. | inquiry, was entered into the record n, ratified by 46 out of our $8|0f the Mitchell trial today States and inaugurated for the w Col. Mitchell's charges that efforts fare of the present and future gen-|were made at the time of the Shenar erations, shall not be lfied | doah’s disaster to “muzzle” the pr As friend of Catholles, as well as| were denied by Comdr. J. H. Klein of sman of many patriotic citizens, | the Lakehurst naval air station. He de ) filled with deep regret in bring. | clared the statement L newspaper the attentio vour holiness | man, called by the defense, to the ef act that the seer indifference, | fect that he (Comdr. Kleln) had asked position, the part of him not to publish a story about the Catholics to the enforcement of | Probable cause of the disaster, was ibition law has created great | “incorrect.” opposition to the Catholis d did much to call into ex Ku Kux Klan Wants Catholic Leaders’ Aid. The prob.»m of enforeing our pro-| on law, which is of supreme im- nee to the citizens of America, is wated by our having large ractal any countries. Presi- v Christlan man, terms condemned committed to intoler- as frequently urged upon izens thelr duty to observe nd upon all public officials enforcement. It seems to any of us that such appeals should est with more response from Catho- aders than ias | anifested 4w a ry made Explains Talk fo Press. Fe £aid that there were certain later developments at the scene of the Shenandoah crash that he felt ought not to be published and the newspaper men present, hut clared these matters were not o ted with the cause of the disaster Col. C. D. Hall, an Army survivor Shenandoah, who wa Service observer aboard the ship on her fatal flight. denled that the wreck was caused by anything other the “dynamic forces of the storm and expressed the opinion that para i de- f life at the time John F. Vietory, assistant secretary of the Natlonal Advisory Committee on Aeronautics, produced a technical port on the design of the Shenan doah with a view to showing th that the Navy Department had sulted aeronautical experts in design & the airship The report was a itted in evidence without the closure of its contents L R. G. Mayer, one of the de. W1 au. | signers and constructors of the She large | andoah, was recalled to answer this re and | question by Mr. Reld: “Did you | read a report by the other designe: {the Shenandoah or hear them |that the Shenandoah had certair | weaknesses which would affect he disastrously if she encountered bad weather |7 I reconect ment mac ! effect that under certain | the Shenandoah could be broken | witness rey of v& respected the Cath- unflinching advo. as well as from your what was always sition of re dance i ever 15 authorized nited commit meeting held in December 1 by annual D.C le to the conditions humble servant CLINTON N of the E: HOWARD United Commit forcemien ibitior Letter Vo Lays Crash to Storm. 1 Hall that the Shenan b was hecause of the ursting her cells. He that he dynamic forces of the were to blame. The valves | had mo connectio th the disaster d, but later admitted under ross-examination t | been unnecessary to employ | methods of operating the had been sufficient automatic He sald that parachutes | now designed would have been useless {on the Shenandoah, explaining under | cross-examination that the erew would the committee { would not have had time to use them, commu fon was sent to the!anyw ite House yesterday afternoon by | < Methodist Episcopal Board of | naval off Prohibition and Public | tions for wing the Howard ad-|vessels ring that the board the orders for the responsible only for its own utterances | Shenandoah and never delegates authority to fed-|{ He testified, under direct exami erations, organizations or individuals ! nation, that Comdr. Lansdowne. did to make statements in its name.” | not object to him about making the Mr. Howard, in his letter to Presi- | fatal flight, but had expressed an dent Coolidge, transmitting the copy | opinion to the chief of naval oper: his address, said | tions in his presence as to the best The address was approved by all | time for making the trip. He satd of tha constituent bodies represented, | that the latter part of August or early And it was voted that a copy there.|in September was suggested b o should be sent to the President|Shenandoah commander. The witness and released to the press. | asserted that Comdr. Lansdowne ex- “The representative of the Metho-| pressed himself as satisfied with the dist Board of Temperance, Prohibi- | plans to make the flight, first to him- wr e of gas nie; ful T = tende ed u vote send | storm™ d 10 have mmittee at 1he been in nigh! mmittee, drawal of e meeting for late yes the us the cu he declar lited ¢ ranual valves if which suf. repre- election still matn now-famous speech which has gone to the represented the unanimous of officers 1ains that Mr. Howard, President, opinion of A er who pared !nstrac. the movement of all naval nd as the man who prepared last flicht of the P Morals 85 wnuiide tion and Public Morals disclaims for | self (Capt. Lincoln) and later to Ad- body responsibility for the ad-|miral Eberle Their representative was not| When Mr. Reid took over the wit- d did not hear it ss for examination the wit- copy thereof was placed in his hands | ness stated he was not a flying of- «fiar the approval and before the ad- | ficer dress was released to the press. No| “Do disavewal or disapproval was made at | ships time of its return It, therefore, | Reid. resents. ar we are able to! The witness hesitated for some mo- «rate, the unanimous opinion of the | ments, and started to reply, but Mr United Committee.” Reid objected, and the question was Split in the united committee came | reframed, as follows: - the meeting for election of officers "Do you an:ld’r that know > Column 70 wed on Page 2. Column 3.) present u enough about air- one?” you know to navigate you (Continned an Pace ship on | so stated to| the Air | than | chutes would not have prevented loss | t it would have | pt. Lincoln was introduced as the | asked Mr. | WASHINGTON, D. €., FRIDAY, DEC " ON HIS PLANS FOR PROWOTER SLENT * NATIONWIDE FETE !SETS DE:EI::ZZ&.DAT-E, I Inquiry Disoloses Former Pastor Has Launched Other Movements Prominent Men Withdraw. inent men who have al mes to be used as vice | presidents, honorary vice presidents, | {members of the national committes | and' other posittons in the National | Sesquicentennial Committee, headed ¥ Dr. Charles T. Baylis of New York and maintaining offices in the Mu: sey Building it became kne hat this is not the underta, with which Dr. Baylis himself as leader. Dr. Bayl nd reports | scores of pron wed thei: here, W st & has identified the « York today is at his avenue, s is of LA FOLLETTE ISSUE d = rning i1 present He sai f 1s 1 quet here De T be 16, it be Some Not Yet Convinced Re- publicans Should Welcome Him to Fold. where postponed becau: well Que ns funds, he said a| v handling al so far re given as v in the but were fina committee funds and that any ceived had been v money’ ntarily nizers ave 1 he d, \seriptions With the Senate Republican ence called for tomo and » still troubling party snvening atmosphere toda s keyir the gavel fall on Monday Republican leaders in the Senate stil un uncertain situation in their to have the ty conference ow recognize, without issue, the anism of Senat elect La Fol- f Wisconsin. Senator Butler of Lusetts, chairman of the Re- | publican national cominitiee, s one Ior @ number of Senators apparently the misappropriation of funds in one|not yet convinced that the plan of of the indictments, but the charges|Senator ('urtis of Kansas, the major were all dismissed a4gainst him. This | ity floor leader, and other party lead relief body was known as the }.Hles",r to treat the Wisconsin Senator as ”""f‘.'l“l '("_‘fvi'_“wn,nn‘n\:m;_ :;'-1_”"5‘“ party regular warranted by his ary vice presidents, exonerated Dr RBay any blame for its failure, ised dissolu of the body imission was found to be In e extent of $3,885, and M It and Mr. Parker each paid vard repayving this debt vears ago Bavlis came 1 the scene as the direc chief ganizer of t A rican The avowed Jeet this organization was t mote the discussion and the nding of the Constit on and to stand up for and gener emphasize unadulterated Americanism.” Dr. Baylis showed his ability to n in this endeavor by r. Nicholas Murray Butler, former Undersecre Franklin D. Roosevelt, g of New York, Presi-| of Princeton University ovthers as vice presidents. The late President Harding ordered | the use of his name discontinued after | | it had been used as honorary president the organization 1 Mr. Roosevelt he sald ow ing prop K ; lead- iries Relief Body Fails. br. B non-ps He %0 ers, the the pre e ongress iz Aronwide klyn p It developed previous exper He is a 1 styles F 1S ora- iveler and public During | the war he started a rellef body which came to a dismal end when Dr. Baylis was indicted on a charee of grand | larcer He also was charged with had org }ing ements scape. tor, wh tor, t is La Follette Is Silent. Senator La Follette. whose campaign utterances are regarded by some Sen tors a constituting attacks on th Repu! n party, has declined to in dicate whether he purposes to accept the invitation to attend the confer- ence tomorrow In the session ahead the question to 1D and United ob- & prevent fillbusters is one that ably will occupy many hours of de bate, and Vice President Dawes al- ready is on the ground prepared to carry forward his fight for such a change. Since his arrival vesterday. however, he has declined to make any ement regarding his plan: One of the Vice President's first callers was Senator Underwood, Demo. crat, Alabama, whose proposal for a change of Senate rules was introduced at t specfal Senate session last March after Mr. Dawes had launched his reform fight in his inaugural | addre Whether either the Under | wood resolution or another sponsored by Senator Jones, Republican, Wash- ington, to shorten Senate debate, can recelve a favorable vote in the rules committee for report to the Senate is doubte: by both Republican and Democratic leaders Work on Tax Bill. House Republican leaders were per fecting plans today to have the House zet down to work on the tux reduc- tion bill immediately after the reading of the President’s message on the second day. The program for the opening day calls for organization and the receipt of the report on the tax bill. The first political gun of the season has been fired by Senator Harrison, Democrat, Mississippi, who {in a formal statement that the “long vacation in which the President has been permitted to exploit himself und the misdeeds of the administration is now at an end.” “In the coming Congress,” he said, ‘an accounting wiil be demanded and the people shall know the hypocritical manner in which the Government has been administered during the year. “What a spectacle is presented in parks of the National | the House and Senate! In the one, Washington this | the leadership is not yet determined { whether recalcitrant progressives are to receive committee assignments, and 8 w e haroo [in the other the same political mus- made tomorrow morning, Col. Sherrill | & 4 R Ol n TErnet and Cum- said. The council will meet then, and | ninC" Cho were most vociferous in inform him by telegraph of its action, | reading La Follette, Ladd and Brook- and if in his favor he will have ready hart out of the party, are now heading his decision and wire an immediate | pllgrimages to the White House fm- { repiy | ploring presidential sanction to we! Col. Sherrill made it plain that he | come them back into the fold * < personally was intensely interested in | “The Republican party enter: Ohtaining this position, which would [ coming Congress in fear and tremb offer him such a great opportunity in | MDE. ~With Borah. as its leader in Nls work of city planning and devel- | foreign affairs, challenging the admin- opment, to which he has given so|istration’s position with reference to much time since he has been with the | the_ World Court. and Dawes. tional Capital on detail from the | Mussolini of American politics, threat- Army Ingineer Corps. {ening invasion and destruction to = those of his political faith who dare Resignation Necessary. | oppose his_senatorfal reform views, There are many things he must con- | the poor old Republican party is in for sider before definitely accepting, he |rough sledding and a hard time.” pointed out, among them his long service in the Army, with retirement only a year off. He made it plain that | NEW RULE HITS HACKERS. | one of the prime factors in making his | > decision would be Mrs. Sherrill. He has not talked over the matter of his resignation from the service with any of the War Department officials, but he said that if he accepted the posi- ! tion it would be necessary for him to resign, as there is a law which would interest | i l ; i of State Bishop M dent Hibbe: and many ued on Page 5, Column 3) SHERRILL EXPECTS T0 LEAVE CAPITAL (« {Will Announce Decision on $25,000 Cincinnati Post Tomorrow. | Enthusiastte dered him_ by the city council of Cincinnat!, Ohio, to become its first city manager at a salary of $25,000 a ' ! Lient. Col. Clarence 0. Sherrill, | | ‘tor of the office of public build. | i over the offer ten-| , returned to ernoon The decision on the matter will be | . Under the new taxicab regulations agreed upon today by the FPublic Utilities Commission all operators of cabs and also individual hackers will have to show financlal responsibility to the extent of $5,000 for one ma- take the position, pointing out that in his case it is different than with the Marine Corps, which loaned Gen. But- ler to Philadelphia as director of pub- regulation on the ground that it lic safety. ¥ would place an unnecessary burden _ It _did become known that he has|on them and make it difficult for them (Continued on Column 4) 'to earn a lving. $1,000 gnore for each additional cab up to 43. The individual hackers opposed the BOTHERS SENATORS of | of amendment of the Senate rules to | prob- | declares | the | the | prohibit him from obtaining leave to| cpjne, $7,000 for two machines and! EMBER 4, S 9 - il FOUR VICTIMS CLAIMED i BY MYSTERIOUS POISON| Three in One Family XKilled hy! Substance Doctors Fail to Identify. BS the Associated Press EAST ST. LOUIS, T A mysterious poison, sicians and investigators have been unable to identify, clafmed its fourth ctim and the third member of family with the death hers toda: Miss Mildred Kuhlman, 21, of 3 ville, 111 Miss uhlman'’s death followed that of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Kuhiman, October 24 aund November 6, respectively The Knhlman -old_son, October from what rst believed to be the f ng milk from that had eaten white snake root weed, @ polson- | ous plant. John MecGin 1 | bor, was similarly stricken An examination of Mrs stomach contents at St. Louls Univer- | sity Medical College revealed no trace of poison. An autopsy wus ordered on the body of Mildred Kuhlman further effort to solve the myster BRIAND'S FISCAL POLICY 0. K. NEAR family | Inflation Measure Before Senate After Stormy Vic- tory in Chamber. B the Aszociated Pre PARIS, December 4.—In political circles there seems to be no doubt that the government's proposed la which calls for inflation of the cu rency by 7,600,000,000 francs and fresh taxation of from 20 to 100 per | cent, soon will be an accomplished fact. The bill yesterday successfully weathered the storm in the Chamber of Deputles, and last night it was tak- en up by the finance committee of the Senate, which accepted it in full and will recommend that the Senate take favorable action upon it. Briand Issues Warning. After a sleepless night and day M. Briand appeared before the finance commission and issued an ultimatum nflar to that given by him in the mber of Deputies Wednesday eve | ning. tn effect that if the bill was not iopted as it stood ‘“no government was possible. Previously in commit- tee, numerous modifications to the bill | had been discussed and inserted in it, but when the premier had spoken the members of the committee yielded, and under their recommendation it 1S Virtually certain that the Senate will adopt the measure. The upper chamber will begin dis- cussion of it this afternoon, and while its safety apparently Is secure, it per- haps will not go through without first being strenuously debated pro and con. With passage by the Senate, AL Briand's troubles by no means will be over. Next week he will have to de- fend in the Chamber Minister of Finance Loucheur's big financial re- form plan, which will provide for re- demption of France's floating debt. This measure Is guite distinct from that voted in the Chamber vesterday, which was an emergency bill to fill the empty coffers of the treasury. It is likely, however, to retain and make permanent some of the temporary tax increases contalned in the inflation bill and will replace the Painleve capital levy plan, which died with the downfall of Painieve’s ministry. The Senate today began discussion | of the Dbill. Senator Berenger, gen- eral secretary of the finance commit- tee, advocated voting the bill as adopted by the Chamber of Deputes. RUSSIA ON SPREE. Many Deaths Follow Resumption of Vodka Drinking. MOSCOW, December’ 4 (#).—Disor- ders arising from vodka. drinking have become so prevalent that the govern- | ment has found it necessary to form a special commission to draft measures for dealing with drunkenness. It has |already taken steps to limit the num- | ber of liquor stores in the neighbor- | hood of factories and to restrict the | sale of vodka on Sundays and holi- !days. A $25 fine for drunkenness is | in contemplation. | Many deaths are said to have result- ed from the introduction of the new 40 per cent vodka. Delirium tremens, heretofore an uncommon disease {n Russia. is declared mow to be fairly prevalent. =) N A | B ¢ Foening Sfar. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION tion is deliv as fast as t The Star’s every city block and the regular edi- “From Press to Home Within the Hour” carrier system covers ered to Washington homes he papers are printed. Yesterday's Circulation, 100,830 1925 -SIXTY-EIGHT PAGES. 33 AT, “1 il RICH LIQUOR RING SMASHEDBY U.3. Sportsman Among 19 Held, Said to Have Paid Lavish Bribes. Assoctated Pre NEW YORK, Dec prohibition age smashed the smuzgling sy with the arrest of 1 & the head of the ar, wealthy sportsman te, they ch: Coast Guardsmen lavishly and “wine, women and song,” operated a fleet of 18 or more vessels off the coast and developed an elaborate sy tem of control over both wholesale and retafl liquor trade runming inte millions of dollars annually. Six members of the Coast Guard are among the prikoners taken yesterday after six months’ investigation. They face court-martial. The round-up, described =zs the atest in the history of prohibi- tion,” was still under way today, with 24 Federal warrants watting to be served. Dwyer Free on Bond. Dwyer, part owner of the Mount Royal race track, in Montreal, and of the Coney Island race track, in Cin- cirinat!, was released in $40.000 bail after he had denied the charges. The drive hegan when 32 prohibition agents, ¢ deputy United States mar- shals nd 7 policemen raided a dozen places in New York and Long Island. Federnl Attorney Buckner said the rald had practically smashed the ring. Coast Guard officfals fn Washington sald they had known for months of the bribery of certain crews, but had ber 4 “ederal believe th powerful the st di | ot interfered, as they were anxlo to give Mr. Buckner and his assist ants a chance at the “men higher up.” The investigation started through having the name of “Bill Dwyer thrown in our teeth in almost every case that came up,” sald Mr. Buck. ner. This man, sald Assistant United States Attorney Stichman, when Dwyer was arraigned yesterday, “‘was DEBT STAND SAME LOUCHEUR DECLARES Cables Winston Reminding Him of Paris Conversation Last May. By the Associated Press. PARIS, December 4. —Finance Min- ister Loucheur has cabled Garrard B. Winston, Undersecretary of the American Treasury, reminding him of a conversation they had on the war Gebt question when Mr. Winston was in Paris last May. M. Loucheur said he was of the same opinion now as then. It is un- derstood he told Mr. Winston that he was for France paying her debts he had been misunderstood in other utterances attributed to him. Washington dlspatches sald Secretary of the Treasury Mel- lon had recefved word from M. Loucheur expressing hope for early renewal of negetiations for funding France's debt to the United States. yesterday | from jmust be restored before 'day’s sersion * 40 or 45 Entombed By Blaze in Mine; Gas Causes Alarm By the Associated Press BOULDER, Colo., December 4. Betwera 40 and 45 men were in prisoned In the Cardinal tunnel, & property worked he Fairview Mining Company, a fire that broke out in the workings early today. The mine is 20 miles west of here. Six rescue crews left here for the scene. Mine officlals sald they feared the {mprisoned men were uncon- sclous from the heavy smoke that is pouring from the mouth of the tunnel and that has prevented workers, who were not equipped with masks, from entering. b FRENCH OPEN DRIVE TOEND DRUSE WAR Shell Rebel Stronghold and|: Prepare Round-Up of 5,000 Still in Field. By tha Assocated Press. BEIRUT, December 4.—Almost simultaneously with the arrival of France's new high commissioner in Syria, Henry de Jouvenal, the French have gone on the offensive again rebel Druses in southern Lebanon Yesterday they began throwing shells their artillery against various points occupied by the Djebel Druses preparatory to a maneuver in which it is hoped to surround and capture the § ho are still fie] ret After the hc completed, infantry and cavalry are expected to be thrown into the fray | agatnst the tribesmen, who, at a coun the headquarters of leader, war at Attrash. Sultan thelr an- | nounced that it was their purpose 10 give combat to the French to their | last man. The shells of the French yesterday had as their principal target the town of Hasbelva. to the southwest of Da- mascus, and report has it that this tronghold of the Druses was slowly being leveled. No civillans were in the town M. De Jouvenal, on his first day in Beirut, sald that order and security peace with the rebels could be discussed. “Peace to those who want peac war to those who want wer,” he added He recelved pledges of co-operation from the 10,000 persons comprising delegations from all the political and religlous groups of the country, with the excention of the rebel Druses. The Druse to have suffered serious losses when they attempted to bar the route to a French column proceeding to the vil- lage of Medjel Cham on Wednesday. LANGL EY REF USED REHEARING IN CASE United States Circuit Court of Appeals Denies House Member’s Plea. By the Associated Pre CINCINNATI, Ohio. December 4— The application for a rehearing in the case of Representat: ley of Kentucky, convicted on charges of having conspired to violate the Vol- etead law, was denied by the United States Circult Court of Appeals here t Langley is under sentence of two years in the Atlanta Penlitentiary Langley by Judge A. M. J. Cochran in the F eral District Court at Covington. Ky. The conspiracy involved alleged re- moval of 1,400 cases of whisky fron the Belle of nderson Lawrenceburg, Ky. Milton Lipschutz, Phi convicted with Langle tenced to two years in the Atlanta Penitentiary. The conviction of Langley and Lip- schutz was affirmed by the United States Circuit Court of Appeals re cently. Langley filed a motion for a rehearing, which was denied today. Engineers to Meet in California. NEW YORK. December 4 (&) The Spring meeting of the American | Soclety of Mechanical Engineers will | be held in San 28 to July Francisco next June 1, it was announced at to. of the sd convention. An industrial ness meeting tonight will conventlon, with Secretary Davis and E. H. Gary prepared end among to the limit of her capacity and that | SPeaKers. Volpi Gets Great Welcome. TURIN, TItaly. December 4 (#) Finance Minister Count Volpi, return ing from his successful debt funding |convalescence. and who was report a mission to Washington, received (#) Means Associated Pre: in the | )ardment has been | tribesmen are declared ve John W. Lang- | was sentenced in May, 1924, | lety’s annual | the of War the TWO CENTS. SOLID TIRE TRUCKS BARRED FROM FOUR TRAFFIC ARTERIES Order of Commissioners Also Bans Horse Vehicles From Main Boulevards. WILL RELIEVE PRESENT CONGESTION AT CIRCLES Massachusetts. Rhode Island, New Hampshire Avenues and Six- teenth Street Named. Solic trucks and horsedraw | vehicles will bs barred from port four main arterfes, except in mal | ing actual delfveries, by action of tie District Commissioners today. [he regulation reads as foll ‘Commercial vehicles, with eolid tires and horse-drawn | hicles shall not be operated on teenth street between H strest Colorado avenue; New Hampshire a: nue between Washington Circle & U street: Rhode Island avenue Le tween Connecticut avenue and North Capitol and Massachusetts avenue between Tourteenth Twenty-second streets, except for the purpose of making deltvery or loading and for such purposes such vehicles | shall enter and leave at the nearest intersection to such delivery in, provided, however, that | cle us sald highways for purpose herein permitted times obey the parking regvlations i force thereon.” One Modiflcation Made. This farreaching regulation adopted with one modificati the language in which it was recom mended by Traffic Director Eldridge, when he submitted the other amend ments to the traffic code recently. Tha director had first proposed that the restriction on Massachusetts aver extend from Unfon Station to She dan Circle. The director agreed to modification. The chief object of this new phase traffic control is to simplify the han dling of the large flow of vehicles pass Dupont, Scott ar rcles, which are bisected by the highways from which trucks are being_barred. The rule will also ! the effect of expediting the move of traffic on these thoroughtares. Claim Cost Increase. ‘When the puhlic hearing on all of the traffic amendments was held mer chants and truck operators vigorously opposed this recomendation on the ground that it would increase the cost of commodities by curtailing the traneportation of materials by mot truck. | The regulation will become effec ve 10 days after it has been ad | vertised as a legal notice | The Commissioners also approved {an amendment to the traffic code which was held over from the publ! hearing providing that vehicles mov - |ing over any highway on three ¢ {more axles not less than 90 inches | apart shall be exempt from the gross weight limitation of 28,000 pounds. Another amendment relieves truck owners of the present requirement of painting the weight and load on the sides of trucks, since these welghts { are now heing recorded upon the reg istration certificate which goes w! the truck. Another amendment approved to | day repeals the present requiremer that only amber colored glass mat be used on stop lights on the rear o | automobtles. Mr. Eldridge explained |to the Commissioners that satisfac | tory amber colored glass fs not al {ways available. 'MAN BELIEVED DEAD HELD AS DESERTER Charles W. Bowman, Former Navy Patient in Hospital, Is Identified by Fingerprints. = ave | | | Charles Wesley Bowman, rears old, of 2916 Vista street northeast, who was thought by the Navy Department ! to be dead, s arrested todav Navy deserter he the suspicior | fice of Public Bu RS disappearing recently fingerprints had been those of other employes Thinking his _summa | strange, the offictals communte with the Army and Navy Ident. tion Bureaus and at the naval brunch it was learned that the fingerprints taken of Bowman matched those taken of @ man supposed to be dead | The original finger prints on file in | the naval ident ation bureau be | longed to one Bowman, who was se to the Naval Hospital here as a pa tent in 1924; who obtained leave of | absence in July of that vear because offl there during killed In a snowslide out West, in great popular welcome when his train | letter ostensibly written by his father, arrived here today. | Rome. Later he left for in December, 1924 Further checking up resulted Pride or an uncontroliable desire for self-assertion cost one of the buyers at the sale of dead parcel post $1.60 yesterday when he raised his own bid on an article that would have gone to_him for $1.76 to $3.25. ‘While the rest of the patrons locked on in dazed silence, the lone bidder raised the price six times, despite the fact that F. C. Staley, director of the sale, repeatedly urged him to stop bidding as the merchandise was safe- ly his. When the auctioneer, declding that the farce had gone far enough, handed the goods to the buyer, the latter, head erect, left the room, as | serting in an audible tone that ‘he had certaln personal rights at any | auction sale and if he chose to bid, no mere postal offictal could stop him from so doing.” ‘The total of this sale, which is be. ing held by the division of dead let- L) “Bargain Hunter” at Post Office Sale | Increases His Own Lone Bid Six Times|MAN ters and dead parcel post in the Post Office Building, at Twelfth and Penn. sylvania avenue, 15 expected to fall considerably short of that of last year, when $4,500 was raised, as the mer- chandise is being sold at about one third of its real value. New sizes are going for $10 and less. 17-jewel watch went for $7.50 vester: day, and the rest bf the goods are golng for correspondingly low prices. Stolen jewelry that has been recov- ered but never identified went on sale | this afternoon and those in charge of | the sale believe that it will swell the revenues somewhat, as it is of a con- siderably higher grade than the 1est From all appearances, the sale will be continued tomorrow, and Mr. Sta- ley has announced that in this event the auction room will he opened at 'the nsual tim: automobile tires of varving | One Bowman b#ing turned over to the r ceiving ship at the Washington Naty { Yard as a deserter. Y ARE HOMELESS. {2 KILLED IN TORNADO By the Associated Press. JACKSON, Miss., December 4. —Two persons were killed, more than a score injured and from 50 to 100 familles made homeless by a tornado which struck Yazoo City early today, accord- |ing to a message recelved by State headquarters of the Red Cross from Mrs. R. G. Thornton, representative {at Yazoo City. The tornado swept |iul(l the city from the northwest, | blowing down houses and bulldings | and leaving a trail of destruction ir its wake. PADUCAH, Ky., December 4 (#) Messages reaching here indicated th: a wind storm of cyclonic proportions strus near Kuttawa, Ky.,, at 9 | o'clock this morning. Roofs were re- ported blown off houses and a church demolished. No information regarding infurles was available