Evening Star Newspaper, December 28, 1925, Page 1

WEATHER: Ather Bureau Foreeast.) i tomorrow: contin tonight U temperature 26, I oftice ccond class matter Washington, D. C. | ¥ - Highest, 15, at 4 p.m. | 1 owest, 13, at 4 am. today. it Vo st 7 | Closing . Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 18 ¢ Foenin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION far. “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. WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, DECEMBER 28, PERSHING, ILL, W CHIEFS OPTINISTI By Failing Health ONEVE OF PARLEY = of War Leader. |Return Not to Be Held! Green Predicts Miners Will Be Back at Work Within Diplomatic Retreat in Plebiscite. | | Ten Days. Associated Press | i |, Because of failing health, Gen. John *ershing is expected to re h WORKERS EXPECTED TO |wiiin the next month from Atien, Chile | where he is representiag Presi: | dent Coolidge in the Chilean-Peruvian |arbitration over Tacna-Arica INSIST ON PINCHOT PLAN His physician has recommended that = | he begin the homewara trip not later Priests Cancel Meeting at Which | than January and he may depart | from Avica before that date if proper “Drastic Action” Was to | rrangements ean be made. Have Been Taken H Details of the general’s fllness are nown here, but reports reaching Washington have somewhat alarmed | nis friends in the Capital. There has beer 4 marked increase in blood pressure. in addition to complications € esuliing from infected tecth. He is n his sixty-sixth vear Although Washington officiale de clined to make any announcement re zirdine Gen. Pershinz's return to the United States. there were evidences % hat his departure from South Amer < a Id in no sense bhe a diplo f matic retreat from an international situation which has become em. oth groups | bharassing. e basis of [ Steps will be taken to continue, so el chservers | far as possible, the work he has been doing as Dlebiscitary Except for mer head of the Tacna-Aric commission minor troubles, the for- the outcome. fam Green ation WORK TO COME HOME IN MONTH OF SETTLING STRIKE #icnt- e atemca ILL DROP ARICA 0-GENT FARE BILL DEFEAT IS SOUGHT - BY UTILITIES BODY Companies Would Be Ruined, Commission Tells House Committee. FIGURES ARE OFFERED TO SHOW RATE UNJUST Effect on Service Would Be Disas- } trous, Statistical Report Declares. | Unfavorable action by the House GEN. JOHN J. PERSHING. District committee on the icent car & fave bill is recommended by the Pub o e e s ammag e Pl ! usually good health for a man of his! "¢t © groung Mhara vears up to the time of his departure | b ruinous to the street railway com last July for South America panies and disastrous to the service As a precaution, however, Maj. | now furnished by these companies. Glenn 1. Jones of the Army Medical | This report by the Public Utilities | Corps was detailed o accompany | commission was received today v him. Some weeks ago Maj. Jones re ) irman Zihlman of the House D! t committee, who had asked th Commissioners to report this which carried provision 1t the rate of six for 25 cents hool tickets, to be sold on all { ported that the general should make |a trip to this country to have some ! | dental work done, but his condition was not considered sufficiently serious | measure, to make mandatory his withdrawal | tickets (Continued on Page 3, Column 3) | with’s Ch on wher his commander of the American i made | trove . HOUSE BODY PLANS INUUIR@N COAL Insist on Pinchot Plan. e 1 Probe of Anthracite Strike Situation to Be Made workers agree in- | e by Committee. “'The operators are expected to lay - BY WILL P. KENNEDY. The ned advertise- | Sienis thet t the mining region:| While press dispatches tell of the Immediate mption of work at the fanthracite coal operators’ overtures to W e in force when the menlihe coal miners, of famine rampant in Jaid down their tool nd @A TeSUMD- | he colonies of miners, and of dire tlon of conference on a mew coN},frering of householders and indus. - e, Ainerst | tries needing coal, preparations are o d these ad.!in progress on Capitol Hill for a o < to prejudice | sweeping investization by Congress ers” Spoks- | to see what can be done about it eI ity ! not bel Shortly after the first of the year peded b o |the House committee on interstate . priests \:(l{;, ”*‘ land foreign commerce, of which el L ae ot the | Representative Parker of New York i - ere and Maj. W, |i$ chairman, will undertake a solution - . operators' | of the coal problem as its most urgent eled a | work, second in importance only to At the special Investigation of the rubber \ prie monopely ordered on motion of House o racite | Jeader Tilson, at the behest of Sec ere to “take drastic action.”} retary Hoover. Priests Urge Settlement. Mr. Parker announced today that g . the coal inquiry will be started just ued another letter to the as soon as p le, as a preliminary 1o - g ol miners o his committee’s effort to agree upon i e s a coal measure that can be submitted \ Rev. .J Fagan, to Congress for approval riel's Church, is & hidh ‘the exprei May Have Precedence. action ¢ glish The coal study may be started even s o indorsed the po- | hefore the investigation as to methods sitic * non-English-speak- by which foreign monopolies control i ling the rubber, wood pulp, nitrate, tin, I can safely ve the mine- quinine and other essentia} imports sworkers of the col +nd unflinching Jimit their exports and charge usuri support of the unselfish of the ous prices to American consumer: Seranton diocese,” Father n said. | Mr. Parker said he has not definitely i decided which investigation will come i . first, but as the House has already PINCHOT PLEASED. taken emergency action on a report = by the rules committee directing the investigation of what Speaker Long- vorth calls an “international hold- up.’” it is generally believed that the rubber study will be started first. The study of the c¢ problem will be made Predicts Coal Without Increased Price o Public. IARRISBURG December 28 w. G nehot in a statement to- | hy the entire committee, while the rub- v expressed gratification at the re-| her study will be delegated to a sub. synption of nesotiations between the | committee of nine members. operators and miners and | “We are planning to take up the ! ed the negotiations should pro-|coal problem promptly and ener- duce a settlement not only just to the | getically,” said Mr. Parker, “and to Sieraiors ax one which | give everybody interested a chance zive the public hout anto be heard. so that we can get the i most complete information upon ilarly gratified that the | which to base the action we =hall | ; mavors and burgesses | take later. I am unable as vet to S on December 16 | state who will be called before the 3 in the resumption of4committee or to give any details of nezotiations between the miners and] our plans.” o ernor said. | o SR RE T L Coolidge’s Views. » for his efforts to ] S cronal b here are about a score of bills 5 e b lawaiting consideration, proposing a : ix Tar s the | wide variety of methods of dealing with the coal situation and prevent- ing future and seasonal controvers between operators and miners operators are blic concerned, safeguard the to get coul and i increace in pricer | which third party consumers faremte of avars Cund | sential industries are the wor elution adopted author. | ferers. They range all the way from h o movernor Lo APOOIAt & commit. | the companion measures of Repre- i fnvite the operators | Sentative Treadway of Massachusetts, | Thiners 1o resume negotiaiions atla member of the Republican legisla. the point where they broke off last|tive sSteering committee, authorizing A s with the understandin 8 the President to declare an embargo SAud ot thas ey e upon coal strikes, to the m e of offered may be ¢ red. This com-' Iepresentative lack, Democri of mittee immediately started to work | New York, calling for the creation of ith Mayor Durkan as its chairman, |8 corporation somewhat 1like the L L resulting in the meeting be. | Jmergency Fleet Corporation to take Tminers' wage | Over and operate the mines in times tween the operators an the week expect Saturday fare of jand Sunday at the rate of USE UF I-EG I.US]- | three-fourths the regular fare charged adults. The reply came from the Public | Utilities Commission of District days of the I hecause the District Commissioners ex officio. comprise the commission . Ll Figures Are Offered. FASTACT N Ly | The report points th the | Cay 1 Traction Co. has carried dur i i 1 1 10 monins of the pr Faulty Circulation Confines! ing the first 10 monin< of the | calendar year 421,802 cash pas i 4 sengers and 37.872.781 token pas President’s Father to sengers. Had these passengers paid E . the rate of fare descri 1 in the 5 His Bed Again. cent fare bill. exclusive of th tion for the school tickets, t 1 5 T pany's revenues would have been By the Associated Press | £2.339.122.60. The company’s actual PLYMOUTH. Vi, December 28— | Operating expenses for this period Col. John C. Coolidge, father of the | Dot including taxes, have heen ¢ President, was confined to his beq | 784:480.85. ax shown in its statement e et 10 RS 9SC L stibmitted| imunithly {o the Bublis 106 R‘, p€ciuseshehadiiogt thensciof | Utilitles Commission. which amount his ight leg, due to faulty circula | is $235.358.25 in excess of what the tion. Dr. Albert C. Cram of Bridge- | receipts would have been at the rates water, his personal physician, said| prescribed in the 5-cent fare bill his patient’s condition was not to be, The report shows similarly that the considered serious: | Washington Railway and Electri Dr. Cram visited the Coolidge home ! (including its subsidiary street | here twice yesterday and twice today. | way companies) carrfed for the same Shortly after noon today. on leaving | 10-month period 14.940.590 cash pas for his home in Bridgewater, the phy- | sengers and 47.462.541 token passen sician said he had found the of Col. Coolidge “about the engers paid the the ondition | gers. Had these same." rate of fare prescribed in 5-cent Col. Coolidge, who was seriously | fare bill. exclusive of the reduction ill several weeks ago from a condi- | due to school tickets, the company’ tion described as “heart block,” has | revenue would have been § g had several heart attacks recently,!The compani’s actual operating ex but none of them was of a serfous penses for that period. not including nature, his physician said. The poor | taxes, have been $3 5.04, as in circulation from which he now is suf-{dicated in its statements submitted fering, the physician sald, was caused | monthly to the Public by the heart affection misston, which amount is $1.203 Col. Coolidze has been confined 10| in excess of what the receipts would his house several davs, and has been | have been at the rates prescribed in in bed since Saturday. ! the i-cent fare bill if in effect HOUSE TOGETD.C. * BILLS ON MONDAY Utilities Com i Passenger Total Dwindles. The effect of the rate of fare pro. posed under the b.cent fare bill is set forth in tabular form for both of these street rallway companies for the cal | endar years 1922, 1923 and 1 show. | ing a steady decrease in the number of passengers carried. The effect on the two companies the revenue of ch {cash, or six tickets for 25 cents, [ Proposed in the bill, is shown for e s : of the years 1922, 1923 and 1924, the Widening of First St., Open-Ldiyh-i(o'r.:f“|hw"i‘ pial -xr,’;l'.,..n‘.u, : g pany being, in 1922, $95.526.84; for ing of Another and Creation | 4‘4_“?-?{-“:;: o ehingtont Hailwag {and Electric Co., in 1922, the deficit of Flag Proposed. would have been $1.362 $1.290.566 and in 1 President Rudolph of the Board of Commissioner in hi<h|'l~p<\|! to Mr. Zihlma Jhasizes that no attempt the District Commissioners will be in- | 71 her mafa i preparing (his data troduced in the House by Chairman | {0 estimate the additional loss in reve- Zihlman of the House District com-|nue that would result in a further mittee next Monday when < | reduction in the rate of fare for school resumes work | ¢hildren. | ©One of these proposes the creation | He 523 5 S i ,:'r,,,f",',.,\ ,';'_".;“f‘ . Utilities Commission, under the act for s - ‘ongress creating it. to observe for a distinctive flag for the District ConBLee e 5 Strict | ologely the operation of these corpora of Columbia, losely t D Commission of Fine Arts., | exercising. Another bill would provide for the| The commission is unable to see widening of First street between G |from its analysis of the operating ex- and Myrtle streets northeast i penses of these companies, how the The third bill would authorize the | AR be Teduced suffiajently to offset opening of « street from Georgis ave, | the deficit that would resuit from the nue to Ninth street northwest through | Imposition of the rate squares 2875 and 2! Three District bills recommended by | Congr Street Too Narrow. i only to maintain the present high The Commissioners explained that | standard of service, but in addition to the object of the bill to widen First | these expenses, to earn enough to pay street is to provide for condemnation | taxes and interest on bonded debt, to of land along the east boundary of the | ¥4y nothing of dividends. The only | ree squares numbered 675, §76 and | possible way in which such deficlt in with @ view to widening the | ODerating expenses could be met would street. This street runs haward | be through substantial reduction in from Union Station pla en the | Wages and extensive curtailment of City Post Office and the Union Station: | Service. neither of which measures thence along the west side of the|Wwould be in the interest of the public. building and_elevated tracks of Washington Terminal Co, | The street Is 60 feet wide from the I GAS the PbléONING VICTIM’S CONDITION IMPROVED plaza to G street; 40 feet wide from G street to Myrtle street, and 110 feet wide north of Myrtle street. The " (Continued on Page 3. Column 2 e committee i W York to-|Of emergency. rovEoty While' Mr.” Treadway clalms that IMe governor today also was to see| ~(Continued on Page 5, Column 4) Tinaldo Cappellini, president of Dis- t United Mine Workers, i ok at desk after 10 days® <t. the governor immediately began < on his plans for the special ses- of the Legislat which he called to convene Junuary 13. S RS END EXRER) The use of raffles, roulette wheels |and other zambling devices by Episco- Aabor Department Regards Anthracite | a1 Churches of the diocese of Wash- Situation as Hopeful. |ington is condemned by Right Rev. zarding the resumption of wage |James E. Freeman, Bishop of Wash- tiations between striking anthra- | ington. «cite coal miners and operators in New ; In a letter to the clergymen and lay- wpeful, because [ men of the church, which appears in are in gress | the Church Militant, official organ of there i alwayvs a prospect of settle- | the Episcopal Church in the diocese of pient.” the Labor Department late to- | Washington, for January, Bishop day will send two of its coal experts | Freeman calls attention (0 a resolu- 1 New York to attend the meetings | tion adopted at the Episcopal conven- and report direct to the department |tion in 1922, which set forth that the developments of the parley. The |“such unlawful methods as the use department no attached particular | of gambling devices for raising money significance to the advertisements | for church or charitable purposes are <igned by W. W. Inglis, chairman of | raprehensible and unworthy of Chris- th¥ operators’ negotiating committee, | {ian people who believe in the duty 1rFing the miners to return to work lof obedience to law; the representa- pending a settlement of the points at|ijves of the Protestant Episcopal ue. which have been inserted in|cChurch of the United tes of Amer- Column "lca, In convention assembled, place ” Church’s Use of Gambling Devices 1 For Charity Is Mrs. Beyer, Whose Daughter and Were Killed, i , ; | Grandson i Still in Danger. Scored by Freeman == e ey | Mrs. Mary E. Beyer, Vi ! hon monoxide gas poisoning. which ourselves on record as opposed to the | killed her daughter, Mrs. Ruth Caro- u:; ."fv”’,m“' roulette wheels. and |line Harris, and her 5-year-old grand- other gambling devices in the gather- | son, John Beyer Harris, at their home, ing of money for parish expenses and | S0 S s B other phil. c o 4429 P street, Christmas day, was said philanthropic_enterprises under | : the control of the Protestant Episco. ! t0 be in @ more satisfactory but still pal Church, and, furthermore, condemn | critical condition at Emergency Hos- all unlawful methods of whatever sort | pital today, after she had started tak- in collecting_ money for private or!ing nourishment. charitable purposes.” | Physicians hold out much more hope In his letter Bishop Freeman says: | for her recovery today than they did “It is important that this rule by the | vesterday, although they belleve the | general church should be widely and | period of danger has not yvet passed. scrupulously observed, and I commend | 'The two other children, Mary Lorena it cordially to the clergy and laity o | Harris, 2 jears old, and James Wen- the diocese. dall Harris, 4 vears old, who were “The church does not ('ounlenance!also affected by the fumes of gas, any method of raising money through | which was determined by Coroner J. any means wherein the eiement of | Ramsay Nevitt as having escaped chance is involved. Games for prizes, | from the furnace and asphyxiated the chances sold for given objects, or any | five persons, have practicaily recover- other questionable device for raising | ed, according to physicians. They | money “are both undesirable and un.|are in condition to leave the hospital orthy. . this evening or tomorrow. im of car- MRS. HENDERSO TO PUSH DRIVE | ON SHORT SKIRT, DESPITE APATHY! through a reduction in fare to 5 Cents | By the Associated Pre ‘It is the duty of the Pub. | country to India once c With the advice of the | tions, a duty which it is constantly | t fare pre-| iral scribed in H. R. bill 3805, and at the! (eopoican have become Soviet re- same time enable the companies not | | | | | | | | | has Women Generally Not Greatly Moved by Society Leader’s Plan to Change Styles and Ban | Wh imously John B.| tering maore or Jess na Mrs for sharp U‘(urn\} negative reaction to Henderson's appeal in feminine habits, the der of Washington's exclusive dip- ymatic circle prepared today to carry | her ficht for anklelength skirts right | into the salons of Parisian modistes, | where the fashions have their Unmoved even by the views of prom inent women, who sympathized with the spirit of the crusade, but held that it would end in failure. Mrs. Hender on declared America is plunging to the doom that overtook Rome. | “Remember,” she said, “that it was| and recklessness, too much | thought of pleasure, that caused the | fall of old Rome In the meantime, throughout the country views today with society leaders their own communities on the ratsed by Mrs. Henderson’s war dress and origin Juxury ne carr spapers d inter- of | issue These | | to see any | abol | them moking, Survey Indicates. { cause for alarm in modern tendencies, others who would prefer on of the cigarette have come pt the practice as a matter of | se_ now In New York. for, instance, accord ing to an Associated Press dispatch, | the “R: Daisies,” who 30 vears ago | organized to shorten women's skirts | for hygienic reasons, are getting a big laugh out of e mew crusade to pull dow zain, Mrs. Lou Rals ton, president of the Rainy Day Club. | of which the “Daisies” are members, | doubts if Mrs. Hender s war will | stop either the debutante or the flap- | | pe We we knew better id. short certainly builded Mrs. Ralston started the agitation for and now they are too short constitution decreed that skirts should e at least 6 inches above the ground But we never thought to place any (Continued on Page 5, Column 2.) than “We | skirts Ou RUSSIA CAPTURES AFGHAN ARMY POST Action Arouses British—O0ld Aim of Moscow Believed Being Pushed. LONDO. December 28.-—A report from Afghanistan that Russian troops have made an unprovoked attac upon and captured the Afghan post of Darkbad, or Darkad, has arouged concern here In official circles it is believed that if the proves true the action | would be regarded as a significant | step toward realization of a move ment which Russia is allezed to be secretly making toward India. Storfes of attempts by Russia to Afghanistan with report gain possession of a view to advancing through that used excite- ment. Diplomatic arrangements, how- ever, brought the scares to an end in 1407, after which, until the bolshevik revolution in 1917, the bogey of aj Russian menace to Afghanistan and India had not reared its head. Move Long Expected. the revolution Russia’s cen- which adjoin Since Asiatic provinces publics within the Russian federation. Reports have been constantly re- cefved of Moscow ntention to carry through these territories communistic propaganda to the masses in India with a view to creating that revolu- tion in the East which Russian public men declare is the ambition of the Soviet republic. The statement prepared for Parlia- ment hy the director of public in formation of the government of In dia_just made public, says “The traditional designs of Russia, after being temporarily suspended. have now been resumed in a new and | formidable shape, and a flood of arti- British propaganda is being directed ! against impressionable points on the perimeter of the British zone.” The director expresses the belief that the spread of Russian influence in Asia still is the alm of the Russian government, as it was under the Czars, and he declares that Russia’s new nationalistic policy is likely be- fore long to constitute a serious threat against Afghanistan. Darkbad Important Post. The report dwells on efforts Russia allegedly is making to extend her in- fluence in the territory of Ameer Amanullah Khan, including “propos- als for an improvament of communi- cation with Kabbl, the capital of Af- ghanistan, and Oxus. As the post of Darkbad and the surrounding terri- tory which the Russians are reported to have seized are at an important crossing of the Oxus river, suspicion been aroused here that the inci- dent is likely to cause trouble. A dispatch from Kabul telling of the capture of Darkbad said the Afghan commander was killed by the Russians and that the surrounding territory, consisting of whole or part of an island formed by two branches of the river Oxus northwest of Khanabad, had been occupied by the Russlans. BUTLER RETRACTS 1S RESIGNATION “I'm Back in Service and Have Nothing to Say,” ‘ | He Declares Here. | | Briz. Gen. Smedley Butler today | withdrew his resignation from the | Marine Corps Although the leave under which he | had been serving as director of public safety of Philadelphia would not ex pire until December 31, Gen. Dutler | immediately reported for duty. He | will return to Philadelphia for a few | days to arrange his private flairs and then come back Late in to Washinzton January he will o to San Diego to take command of the ma rine base there Has Nothing to Say. Gen. Butler came here from Pitts. burgh this morning and after a con ference with Maj. Gen. Lejeune, com mandant of the Marine Corps, he pre. sented a letter asking that his res- ignation be returned to him ignation was submitted last « time Gen. Butler believed he to remain as director of public at Philadelphia. The request complied with imme- ‘Lhe res. week at was Has Nothing to Say. Gen. Lejeune had held the resigna- tion on his desk in accordance with a practice he has followed af personally talking the question over with officers who have announced their purpose of leaving the service. “I am back in the service and have | nothing to say,” Gen. Butler said Asked if this meant he would hence- forth make no statements or make speeches, he said there would be “no more anything.” Gen. Lejeune expressed pleasure at having Gen. Butler back in the ma- rines again. BUTLER'S LAST “BLEAT.” Philadelphia and Mayor at Pittsburgh Rally. PITTSBURGH, Pa., December 2§ (P).—Smedley D. Butler, in his own | words, has issued his “last bleat" | since having been dismissed last | Wednesday by Mayor W. Freeland | Kendrick as safety director of Phila- delphia. He left Pittsburgh late last night after delivering an address in which he flayed the political “bosses” of Philadelphia, gave his version of why he was “fired,”” described the Quaker City as a cesspool and declar- ed that “because the gang got me fired, they didn’t bluff me.” The general, in his talk, delivered before a law enforcement rally, de- clared that Mayor Kendrick was “all | right,” but that “he is just in a jam, that's all. No hard feelings toward him or anybody else. It is just a war, and unfortunately it came to the stage where I was not willing to any longer carry on my shoulders the stigma of not enforcing the law on rich and poor, big and little, all alike.” Flays Radio Programs—Page 21 | of bitter | howeve | week ends in year | more thun a ]2 delphia, Wor DEATHS AND FIRES FOLLOW COLD WAVE Distress Reported From | g . the women of America were|show that while many wemen fail| ROCKY Mountains to Atlan- |vesterday’s high ma Forecast 11 tic—30 Lose Lives. By the Associated Press CHICAGO, December 28.—Astrono mers, with their eyes on sun spots and other solar phenomena, and weather prophets who recently warned cold weather the’ latter part of December have seen their predic Sweeping out of the Northwest like Valkyries hent on destruc Win and . the have in. section of the Canada, icy winds of vaded al United Stat time deathe and destruction as a week end fterma Fror Mountains to the nti 1 freezing and sub emperatures prevailed, with virtually no relief in sight today, Tut with some moderation promised Tuesday. The cold from the North land pushed even into the heart of Dixie and bevond to the northern reaches of Florida Nearly 30 Deaths. Nearly 30 deaths were attributed to the cold. accidents were numerous, property valued several m Saturday’s Circulation, 83,239 Sunday’s Circulation, 105,960 1925 -TWENTY-SIX PAGES. * (®) Means Associated Pre TWO CENTS. RELIEF IS IN SIGHT AS MERCURY HALTS DOWNWARD PLUNGE Rising Temperatures by Wednesday Forecast ! for Capital. 14 ABOVE IS PREDICTED AS LOW HMARK TONIGHT Firemen Busy—Bread Line Start- ed—Skating in Season—Many Cars Frozen. | | | Repenting somewhat for the v which he sent sc istmas present to Washington ani the Old Man of the Nofth te ixed in a warmer ucceeded in halting the mereur; wnward plunge and caused | the Weather Bureau to hold out hope for an upward réaction in nex few days. Little change in prevailing condt s expected by Forecaster Mitchell fo { tonight and tomorrow, but by Wednes {day, he belie the balm | breezes from the lake region will be vieinit few current the one es, more | gin to make headway against { blasts that have kept the city liter i - frozen of late | After hitting a low mark of I3 { degrees ubove zero shortly hefore | midnight, w ; ns fought off | chills and omobiles, water pipes iand heating plants fell victims of the cold, the tempera ain early today s morn ega meter ts aliove 16 degrees. e iBaior Above Tonight. aritable water pipes heating plants. Chimne; the un usual str pes from substitutes and com- nic rafters and that bles to adjoinin es, with the result dashes oday e ma- vas destroyed hy fire and grea . 5 2 fering was caused among the 5 SHsenec con ind homeless. In the East, particu- | gitie p s W ihoze larly, the low temperatares brought . o% polier dotly home the seriousness of the hard coal | 1'% b Ll : strike, now in its seventeenth week He:o ¢ Below zero temperatures were record- | g iate b 4 ed in several parts of Pennsylvania A B and other anthracite producing re-| i ouig be at gions. While most of the continent was in the grip of the cold wave, element & Al at manifestations of other kinds were Al Attty noted in other parts of the world s L Lightning incidental to a violent Storm | quwniawn. i t and Sos set fire to several petroleum tanks at | Jodging places were filled (o capacs Buenos Aires, causing damage esti-|of “men' sceking. shelier | froir™ mated at $1.000.000. Severe th- | Chilling breatl & : juakes were felt in several localitie: et e n Vera Cruz Mexico, while storm Bt S continued to exact a heavy toll in o France. At La Rochelle a fishing boat foundered. drowninz seven. and melt inz snow swelled the streams causing serious tloods. At New York City cury hovered around 7 above Sunday the weather was biting enough to use Robert Mavokowk, a visiting Eskimo from Alaska and points North, to say “Eet is cold.” The fcy winds! did not interfere with the daily swim of 14 members of a Boston where the mer organization known as “The L Street Prownies,” although ice had to be broken. Canada Also Cold. Most of Canada shivered with United States, the North common- wealth experiencing one of the coldest . with the mercury some sections. One the 4 to 26 below in note of contrast, however, was pro- vided by West Kootenay, in British Columbia, which reported “Springlike weather,” a green Christmas and grow- ing grass. The cold weather directly or indi rectly caused 13 deaths in Chicago. while the Midwest metropolis saw million dollars worth of property destroyed by fire in two days. Five hundred alarms were answered here. The fatalities included four men found frozen to death in the streets Three deaths occurred at various points in Ohio and three in Kentucky, with other casualties distributed as follows: New York Cit Rensselaer, . Y., and Baltimore, two each: Ph ester, Mass.; Yonkers, nd Toronto, one each. adelphia an aged lamplighter, fell on his post in one of the old-fashioned streets. He was carried to a hospital, where he died of the effects of his exposure to the cold. Fire at Wheeling, W. Va., caused 400,000 damage: a business block was destroyed at Williston, N. Dak., with $150,000 damage; Golden, IlL., witness- ed a $71,000 blaze, and a half million went up in flames in Ohio. Numerous smaller fires throughout the country helped swell the total loss. Record Is 28 Below. While below zero temperatures sprinkled the entire weather map Saturday night and yesterday, the record for extreme drops was held by the Northeast. The low point, at Tupper Lake, N. Y. was ‘Zfl. with Stewartstown, H., a close second with 27. The reading was 24 at Lake Saranac, N. Y. Marks of 10 to 14 below were common in the Middle West and Rocky Mountain States. The mercury at Ainsworth, Nebr., reached 19 be- low, while such widely separated points-as Miles City, Mont., and Sault (Continued on Page Column 5) | fled points close ch enguifed Washingt serature is below the freez in ern Mexico and Florida, Mr. Mitchell said today swhsville, Tex.. and Jack sonville, Fla., experienc while Mot 1. Fla., reported lowered the Memorial sed until a s to 4 inches w police. The minimum . Ala., and 15 degrees. temperature the covering the Li Pensac With thick coln coat reported by ccordingl poo] thrown open this morning to s and as the news spread during the dav crowds of men, women and chil dren, with skates thrown over their shoulders, wended their way toward Potomac Park. i Bonfires Allowed. | Lieut. Carroll's men joined whole heartedly into the spirit of merriment and turned their backs from such flagrant violations of Government i regulations as bonfires, the while ping their fingers toasted in a higl I+ illesal way. No casualties were re corded during the day, save a few spectacular spills that bruised knees knuekles or noses and helped to make strap-hanging popular in half-filled {street cars and busses. Virtually every small st lake within miles of the city had its and its blazinz am | aquota of voungsters | fire on the banks. Even the { turbulent tributary appeared to have | succumbed to the icy blasts and be ! come frigidly rigid. | The headquarters of the Salvation | Army, the Gospel Mission, the Ce tral Union Mission and similar places of refuge for needy men and women were the mecca of hundreds of under privileged citizens, some of whom were provided with clothing to shield them from the bitter winds, and others with hot coffee and food to fill empty stomachs and warm shivering bodies Fortunately for these sufferers there seemed to be no dearth of accommo dations at the missions, such as has been the case at various times in the past, and none was turned away. Relief for Motorists. The Gospel Mission established a bread line last night in pursuance of the request of several local bakeries and provision merchants who donated large quantities of bread, doughnuts and meat for that specific purpos !Score: of shabbily dressed men, mos ly bent and gray, took prompt advan- tage of the treat. Steaming coffee ‘was supplied with the food. The emergency force of the A. A. A (Continued on I'age 2 4 most Column 3.)