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WEATHER. (U. S. Weather Bureau F¢ cloudy and tomorrow shifting win gentle t. Highest, 61, at noon today; lowest, 42, at 4 am. today. Full report on page 9. and warmer tonight ‘orecast.) 0 moderate Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 22 o. 29,973, G omee, Wa ANDREWS INSISTS NEW DRY PLAN 15 NOT NATION-WIDE Order Making Local Officers Agents Legal, But “Very Dangerous,” He Says. CALIFORNIA SKEPTICAL OF PROGRAM’S SUCCESS Attorney General Doubtful of Its Legality—Officials See No Advantages in It. Br the Assoclated Press. Rombarded by criticism from hoth wets and drys, Assistant Secretary Andrews today assured the country he had no intention of authorizing State and local officials generally throughout the country to act as prohibition agents. The Government prohibition chief pefterated that President Coolidge’s executive order making possible the performance of such a function by Etate, county and city officials was intended, for the present at least, for California only. He defended the presidential or- der, however, as entirely constitu- tional, but conceded that it involved gome aspects which might be “very dangerous.” Commissions to Be Revocable. to be ¥ntered as second class matter shington, D, C. CAPITAL POPULA Make Estim: Washington’s population by July 1 will have passed the half-million mark, with some 28,000 citizens to spare, according to an official esti- mate announced today by the United States Census Bureau. The Nation's Capital thereby will graduate into the select ‘“fourteen class” of American cities having pop- ulations of 500,000 or more persons. The cther thirteen, in_order of esti- mated size, are New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit, Cleveland, St. Louis, Baltimore, Boston, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Buffalo and Milwaukee. The Capital, with its approximate 2,000 inhabitants, is thirteenth in the list, being sandwiched between | Buffalo's 544,000 and Milwaukee's | 517,000 Milwaukee is another gradu- ate from the 400,000-odd class. The Government's estimate for Washington is based on the average | rate of increase in population from | 1910 to 1920, the yvears in which the ¢h Washington to Become One of Fourteen Cities With More Than Half-Million—Police Would WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, teonsvs muneau|U. S WILL NOT BAR LEAGUEAS TOPICIN ARMS CUT PARLEY Gibson Tells Commission, However, Americans Cannot Enter Such Discussions. ate Smaller. two censuses were taken. The 1910 population was 331,000 and the (1920 figure was 437,671 The Census Bureau last year Cal- culated that Washington should have 513,994 residents on July 1, 1925. The estimate for the previous year was 486,936, The estimate for this year is con- sidered as a definite indication that the Capital has passed the half-milllon mark and is entitled to all the rights and privileges of the ranking large cities of the Nation. The bureau’s gstimate differs widely from the figures obtained in the police census last November, when a careful house-to-house survey conducted by the Metropolitan Police Department disclosed a_total population of 472 Police officials today were inclined to doubt the accuracy of the Federal | estimate, in view of the fact that the police figures disclose a gain in popu- e e 1918 o ons: T2 her (Continued on Page 5, Column 7.) past {ONE FRENCH PROPOSAL REFERRED TO COUNCIL Question of Enforcing Disarma- ment Agreements—Japan Denies Favoring Naval Conference. By the Associated Prese. i A. May 24.—Asserting that YOUNG MACKENZIE WINS AT MUIRFIELD Washington Youth Brings First American Victory in British Match. By the Associated Press. The Federal commissions given the local officials, he added would be issued with the under- standing that they are revocable at any time. i Gen. Andrews expressed “surprise’ | At the reception given President’s order, which has been assailed by the | wets as an invasion of States’ rights| &nd criticized hy some drys as rest- ing on a doubiful constitutional basis. ‘Giving authority to a man over| whom you have not got 100 per cent! control is very dangerous,” said, | “and I he very loath do it | The executive order was ed f merely to meet a situation in Cali- fornia, where deputy sheriff: have volunteered to police rural pre-| cinets in on with 1t Fed- | eral forces had none througho b is he will me 1 co-operat « 1 have exten: country and | plan ntention this t the Thinks Order Legal. “However, 1 perfectly legal sound The | the order isi constitutionally | hat diver- | channels | months uthority think and etary-predicted alcohol boot stopped within would vote the funds carried in pending ad- ! ration measures, including a| )00 slemental appropriation, | dry bill, which would | reorganization of the | x @ m H and make possi prohibition machinery A directing the Senate | Judic tee to inquire into | prohibition order is | by Senator | comm the new roduced today Utah. | went over under the | Democrat resolution les. 1t re d that the order of the | President authorizing employment of | State, county and municipal poli prohibition enforcement officer of “dubious legality”” and should be in; quired into. \dvocates of modification of the pro- hibition law took the first step 'uda,\‘ toward linking up the liberalizing proposition with the Goff bill, which seeks to make enforcement of the dry law more stringer Senator I Republican, Jersey, offered three proposals as| amendments to the Goff bill. They| will lie on the table to be called up whenever the drv forces seek action on the Goff measure. i Referendum Is Sought. { The firsi is authority for a natfonal referendum to permit thej people to vote both on modification of the Volstead law and on the repeal modification of the eighteenth ! amendmen On this proy al Senator lidge takes the position that since movements are under way in several | States for separate referendums he | lelieves it would be wiser to have the <ame questions submiited to the en- tire country rather than different querles in individual States. The second amendment would change the definition of intoxicating liquor from one-half of one per cent as pr vided in existing law to “‘non-into: cating in " The thi the pubiic home an in fact ! While all three of these propositions have been broached before, the pur- pose of Senator Edge in offering them foday as amendments to the new dry enforcement bill is to make it possible | to get them before the Senate at the game time that body is asked to vote for stricter enforcement. PLAN'S LEGALITY DOUBTED. eneral Skeptical The of New | proposal or amendment would give | :ht to produce in the beverage “non-intoxicating California Attorney of Success. By the Associated Press. N FRANCISCO, May 24 (®).—U. Webb, 2 today threw the first wrench in J'resident Coolidge’s rew machine for county enforcement of the Volstead st when he expressed doubt as to ihe legality of the move. Under the presidential order, Ned G a Federal prohibition admin istrator here, would be empowered to swear in as Federal officers deputy sheriffs, who now enforce the Jaw un- der the Wright act, a State law which adopted the provisions of the Volstead act. The advantages of the new move Ly Green were not clear to the num- her of sheriffs interviewed by the ociated Press. They maintained ihey could do nothing as Federal offi- cers that they are not now able to do as county officers. United States Court Crowded. Under the State law all trled in superior courts located with- in the county where the offense has heen committed. Under the new plan all cases would be thrown into United States district courts, where conges- tion of cases has-left crowded calen- dars, the officials point out. 1f ‘the law could be legally worked out in a State where no local enforce- ment measures are in effect, the re- sult would be more far-reaching, the officials said. Col. Green prepared today to for- ward the names of 35 officials in_the cases are | MUIRFIELD, Scotland, May 24— Youth brought home the first Ameri- can victory in the British amateur golf championship tournament, which | opened here today. of Washington, | player on the | Roland Macken D. C.. 19, younge: American Walker cup team, over whelmed his doughty Scottish oppon- ent, W. J. Guild of Murrayfield in the first nine holes of their match, and then played zood enough golf, despite | {wo had holes on the homeward route, | to win 3 and 2 | Guild has the reputation of being one of the deadliest putters in Scot- Jand. but he had few opportunities to display his talent up to the ninth hole, the voung American having him 5 down at the turn. Wood Shots Bring Applause. MacKenzie was three under fours at the ninth. His screaming wood shots, time after time, brought bursts of applause among the large gallery which followed the only American Walker cup team member to compete | in the morning's play. | Capt. Robert A. Gardner of the| American Walker Cup team was the st to grasp Mackenzie's hand after the latter's victory over Guild at the teenth hole. “The first of my lambs is safe in the fold,” said Capt. Gardner. Mackenzie was so interested in his first championship competition in Great Britain that he did not stop for breakfast, but once he was on the links he played as steadily as any of the grizzled Scottish veterans, who followed his outward play with amaze- ment. Exclamations of approval and wonderment were numerous as the voung plaver sent mighty drives 40, 50 and even 60 vards bevond Guild's. The cards: Mackenzie (out).. Guid_tout) 183 ackenzie (in 8 id Gin) .. 14344 Ouimet Also Wins. Francis Ouimet came through the round successfully, defeating son of Carlyle, 7 and 6. George von Eim, the Los Angeles star, defeated Russell Boyack of Baberton, 4 and 3. J. B. Beddard, who has been nlf_\‘v ing in the amateur nhampinnshnnfi for several yea defeated R. _\\. Ryle, another British golfer, 6 and 5. S The morning's play saw five Ameri- | cans eliminated from _the champlon. | | e | | { | I 4343 4 ship. They, were Everett Brooks of the Glen Country Club, Nor- mandy, Mo. C. Fownes of Pitts- burgh, Alfred C. Ulmer of Jackson- ville, and _the two Florida pl: ers, Spratt and O'Brien. The latter two scratched. As the play went on today the winds freshened and became chillier. | but they were not strong enough to affect the quality of the pla. : The innovation of charging admis- sion to the matches apparently af- fected the attendance and only about a thousand persons paid their half- crown to see the first round. A fe BELGRADE MINISTER | TARGET OF ASSASSIN Youth With Bomb Meant for| Leader of Jugoslavia Peasants Arrested at Meeting. | By the Ascociated Press. BELGRADE, Jugoslavia, May 24. —_An attempt to assassinate Stefan Raditch, Croat Peasant party leader and minister of education, was frus trated at Starapazova today. A young | Nationalist, Slavko Mflitch. was ar- rested just as he was about to throw a bomb at the minister during a meet- |ing of Raditch partisans. Milich told police that he belong: to a Nationalist organization and that his attempt to assassinate Raditch | was actuated by political motives. | official of the District | port whether the action of this House | the United States wished to do every- thing possible to promote the move. jment for the limitation of armaments Hugh Gibson, American delegate, 1o day told the preparatory commission | on disarmament that his delegation SUIPE O FENNING lems which might have League of Na tions aspects. Mr. Gibson said that tife Americans. s of course, would not be able to par-| Judiciary Body Leaves QUeS- |t ipate in such discussions, hut would | | not stand in their way. His statement tion of Acts Before Taking | was made in the courso of a debate | A jover the desirability of exercising Office Unsettled. !snmé sort of control over the arma- | ments of nations participating in the | conference, once reductions have heen agreed upon. France was in favor of a regular form of control, to which Italy, however, interposed objections. The question of whether the Houss judiciary committee, in hearing evi- dence on the impeachment charges brought ‘against Commissioner Fred-| CacliOlfes Covenait. erick A. Fenning by Representative| 4 s ake| Viscount Cecil, the English delegate, il U ST U L ; ] 4 i 4KE | expressed the opinion that any dispute into_consideration alieged illegal acts| GPCNC (L PPN o T GNP by Mr. Fenning before he became an| cords were being loyally carried out | was raised at| norm: would come under the | the morning session of the committee | eleventh article of the covenant of the | today, but resulted in no decision on| League of Nations. This article pro- | e moatter ides that any dispute between mem- | During the presentation of docu.|Pers of the league is a matter which | mentary evidence by Mr. Blanton in|{oncerns all members and mayv be| sl . L brought to the attention of the league | support of his charges, Representa-{ council. | tive Gorman, Republican, Illinois This brought an objection from one | interrupted and asked delegate who remarked that discus- | “Mr. Blanton, I've been following|slons on the covenant might em-| vour case closely since you began its| barrass non-league members. It was! sentation. What 1 want to know ! then that Mr. Gibson presented the | , can this committee bring in an im peachment_against Mr. Fenning for American attitlde of not placing ob- | stacles in the way of anything that acts committed before he became Com-| might help to bring about arms limita- | missioner?"” tion. Cites Legal Precedents. i Mr. Blanton replied that it eould| and Mr. Gorman observed that the resolution, under which the hearings | control of the disarmament . ch tl ontro problem e being held states that the com-|ijj] go to a subcommittee of military mittee is -directed to inquire and re-| experts for their opinion. After a| lively debate the delegates approved | is_necessary concerning the alleged | (na contention of M. Daul Boneour 9fclal misconduct of Frederick A |that the question of strengthening the o F o ombssioner of The TAN | isague connell in order to enforce < 0 & { disarmament agreements was a mat-| Mr. Blanton explained that was one | o t8" T8I0 CRECCRENTE ol itnelr phase of the resolution, adding ‘h“llrnlhor than the disarmament com- it had two parts. The second part, he [ [HEE ' contended, begins where Mr. Gorman | ™} % left off reading. He read it as follows: Fr'e‘nc‘,‘,“:x;;’:i‘;,"fz";r',‘hr:'gml;{::," | and said committee on the judic Sont to the council With the requse | that it be examined immediately. is in all things hereby fully author | JAPAN ISSUES DENIAL. | Referred to Council. The question of the advisability of | the commission’s assuming permanent and empowered to investigate all acts of misconduct and report to the House whether in their opinion the said Fredrick A. Fenning has been guilty of any acts which in the contempla tion of the Constitution, the statute laws, and the precedents of Congress, | are high crimes and misdemeanors requiring the interposition of the con stitutional powers of this House.” The Texan supplemented this read ing with a brief reference to legal precedents which, he declared, do not hold an official accountable to acts committed only while in office. The Has No Plan for Separate Naval Con- ference, Says Tokio. By the Associated Press. TOKIO, May 24.—The Japanese { government made formal disclaimer | today of any intention of proposing {any move for armament limitation | apart from the present session of the | Jm‘e)lminnr\' disarmament commission | at Geneva. discussion ended here with other mem A foreign office statement declared MAY 24, 1926 —-THIRTY ¢ Toening Star. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION -SIX PAGES. * THE THINKER. service. (#) Means Associated Press. BAPTISTS 10 OPEN MODERNIST FIGHT Bible Union Marshals Forces | to Press Issues at | Convention. Convinced that acceptance of any but | a literal interpretation of the Bible amounts to an apostacy, members of | the Baptist Bible Union of North | America today marshaled their forces for a determined conflict with the modernist wing of the Northern Bap- tist convention, which opens here to- morrow, with the hope that a definite stand may be taken by the Northern convention against the encroachment | of liberal doctrines. A series of reso- lutions dealing with controversial matters is being considered by the union today. More than 00 members of the Northern Baptist Convention are gath- | ering here today for the general ses- sion which will run through the week. Many members of the Bible Union are delegates to the convention, and it is through them that the fundamentalist organization plans to attack what they term un-Christian tendencies of { rationalism that are prevalent in the religious world. May Force Many Issues. Because the antagonism of the Bible Union delegates to the teachings of the Modernist wing is based upon their insistence on a_strictly literal interpretation of the Bible as the di- vinely revealed and authoritative word of God, the resolutions which they plan to introduce in the meeting of the general convention may force con- ideration of a great field of contro- | versial subjects on the convention, in- cluding evolution, the Virgin hirth, the requirement of baptism by immersion and others. A _resolution was proposed by W. H. Riley, vice president of the Bible Union, early this afternoon denounc- bers of the committee listening atten- | that Geneva reports crediting Japan tively. | with such inclination do not in any | session | way reflect the true intention of the Hogan Objects to Speech. Japanese government. The statement followed receipt of Geneva dispatches crediting to Japanese circles there the informal suggestion that Japan would like to participate in a triangular conference with the United States ~and Great Britain, in case France and Italy could not be per- suaded to join such a gathering. ‘Wants Success at Geneva. In well informed circles, it is as. | serted that the government of Pre- mier Wakatsuki is keenly desirous of further naval reduction by interna- tional agreement, basing its hopes of | ontinuation in office on the possi- bility of tax reduction through fur-| ther naval limitation. However, the | government takes a stand similar to | that of President Coolidge. that every | ald and assistance should be given When the committee recessed at noon to resume its sessions at 2:30 o'clock, Mr. Blanton had not complet ed the submission of documents and | papers which he began at the first of the committee Thursday. His course in this procedure was in- | terrupted from time to time by ques- ! | tions from the committee and remarks | from Frank J, Hogan, chief counsel | for Mr. Fenning before the inquiry. Attorney Hogan at one point objected to Mr. Blanton making a ‘speech’ after he had answered a committee | member’s question, adding that “I can | make speeches myself.” Mr. Blanton turned around to the | lawyer and observed: “I won't at- tempt to compete with Judge Hogan, | who hasn't a peer in the United | States as a speaker.” | At another point in the proceedings | when Mr. Blanton was discussing a certain phase of his documents, he ! explained he was making an argu ment, which Mr. Hogan declared was “not sound."” “It's just as sound as Judge Hogan's address hefore the Real Es tate Boartl here in which he called | members of Congress a bunch of ig- | noramuses.” Several members asked | for the “regular order” and Chairman | Dyer, Republican, Missouri, head of | the special subcommittee of 12 con- ducting the hearings, ordered the col- loquy stricken from the record. M. Blanton then asked the chairman to | prohibit Mr. Hogan from making “side har" remarks while he was pre- | senting his case. Chairman Dyer re- minded the two principals in the argu- ment that they are both “lawyers of high standing. ] Mr. Blanton's case was opened with the stipulation from Mr. Fenning's counsel that Lee B. Mosher, manager of the Washington office of the United ed | States Fidelity and Guaranty Co., if | Geneva called to the stand. would testify to | the amount of commissions paid the | (Continued on Page 4, Column 2.) |Court Sets Standard ! | !By the Associated Press. | CLEVELAND, May 24.—Common pleas judges today drew up a standard menu for the county jail. The menu provided prisoners with “sufficlent healthful and wholesome food” instead of the starvation diet | which has been served them by Sheriff | Fred Kohler and which caused a 24- | hour disturbance in the jail last week by prisoners in protest against food (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) served them. The judges also drew b regulations To End Profiteering in Cleveland Jail | Diet for Prisoners | making impossible profiteering on | merchandise sold in the jail. A grand jury investigation revealed that prisoners had been charged 5 cents for newspapers selling on the street for 2 cents, that 15-cent cigar- ettes were sold for 25 cents and that penny boxes of matches were retailed in_the jail for 5 cents. The grand jury in its report Satur- day declared the county jail diet was “totally and wholly inadequate” and that “exorbitant prices” were charged for merchandise sold in the jail. | naval Geneva. “Japan is determined to co-operate | with the powers to the best of her | bility to realize a solution of the | disarmament question,” the foreign | office statement said. ‘“‘Consequently, Japan earnestly hopes for the success of the preliminary conference at | Geneva and -entertains no proposal | with respect to any similar undertak- | ing other than the present conference. “In these circumstances we need scarcely say that the rumor emanating | from Geneva that Japan has some ! new proposals does not in any way | eflect the true intention of the Jap- anese government.’ Experts Are Pessimistic: Japanese military and naval experts hold little hope for an agreement for \rmament reduction in Europe from | the present Geneva sessions. The hopes held in this country for further limitation are based rather on a sec- ond gathering comparable to the Washington conference in case the | attempt proves abortive. However, it is the official attitude that Japan does not intend to submit any proposals to this end either for- mally or informally. At the foreign office it is believed that the sentiments of some of the Japanese delegates at Geneva may have been misconstrued as forecasting an informal proposal for a new move to limit naval armaments. A SN Heat Wave Coming East. CHICAGO, May 22 (#).—A heat wave which gave Pierre, S. D., a tem- perature of 102 degrees vesterday is expected to reach Chicago and the Mississippi Valley tomorrow with at least 90 degrees of heat, H. J. Cox, senfor meteorologist, announced this morning. It may last throughout the ‘week. Radio Prwnms—l’age 30 | i Te: |to make possible an agreement at | NC'ghern territory. Rev | speak on_th ing the policy of the Northern Bap- tist Convention of permitting mis- sionary workers who teach doctrines in conflict with a literal interpreta- tion of the Bible to continue at work in foreign fields after charges had been lodged against them. Rev. Dr. W. 8. Abernethy of Washington, who is chairman of the arrangements committee of the General Conven- tion, was criticized in the resolution because he declined to vote for the dismissal of one missionary charged with teaching un-Baptist doctrines. The resolution was being discussed this afternoon. Rev. T. T. Shields of Toronto, Can- ada, was re-elected president of the Baptist Bible Union this morning. Rev. J. Frank Norris of Fort Worth, , was elected vice president for the Southern territory and Rev. W. B. tiley, who is a resident of Minneap- olis, was named vice president for the . Hez Swem of Washington was made a member of the executive committee. Final Session Tonight. The final session of the Bible .Union will he held at the Washington Audi- torium tonight when a mass meeting will be held to which all Washing- ton church-goers are invited, includ- ing modernists and fundamentalists. Dr. Norris will deliver an address on The Beast of Modernism” and Dr. {Riley will preach on “The Growth of Modernism in Baptist Schools. This afternoon the noted Rev. John Roach Straton of New York City, an outsianding fundamentalist of the Northern Baptist Convention, was to e much-discussed situa- tion of the foreign missions of the Baptist Church, the object of vigor: ous complaints by fundamentaliste against the sidious” activities of the liberal faction. Rev. Frank M. | Goodchild of New York was to ex | plain the proposed amendment to | the constitution of the Baptist | Church which would set up baptism by immersion as a requisite to mem- bership in the Baptist Church. Attacks Dr. Fosdick. A forecast of conflict between op- posing forces in the convention this week was given yesterday in an address before the Bible Union at the Metropolitan Baptist Church, Sixth and A streets north- east, by Rev. T. T. Shields, president of the union. He denounced Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick of the Park Avenue Baptist Church of New York as “one of the outstanding enemies of the Christian faith” and called on the fundamentalist group, which con- stitutes the Bible Union, to “fight through to the last ditch” against modernism. Pointing “to Dr. Fosdick as one of the outstanding modernists of the day, Dr. Shields said he did not know a single fundamental doctrine of "~ (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) !Judges’ Escorts Are Armed Aflef Threats Are Heard United States Marshal Edgar ¢ Snyder, it became known tod: has taken additional steps for the protection of the justices of the District Supreme Court as a re- sult of the arrest of James Woods, who, after heing released from St. Elizabeth’s Hospital. was said to have in his possession a pistol and a list of persons, including two justices of the court. The six deputles, one assigned to each judge. who stays near him in court and accompanies him on his trips between the courtroom and the justice’s chambers, have been equipped with loadéd pistols car- ried in holsters beneath the coats of their uniforms. BOGUS LORD HELD ON FRAUD CHARGE Philadelphia Police Say Beaverbrook Took $125,000 From Woman He Wed. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, May 24.—De- tetives today arrested # man whom they identify as the “Lord Beaver- brook,” man of many wives, on a charge of having married and swin- dled a New York woman out of $125,- 000 worth of jewelry. ‘Wed Capital Woman. “Lord Cornelius Beaverbrook,” known to local police as a man with a dozen allases and as one of the alleged peers in the realm of confi- dence operators who make women their victims, was married in_the Spring of 1925 to Mrs. Virginia Mar- tin, a resident of Wardman Park Ho- tel, after a fast and furidus courtship. He bestowed jewelry valued at ‘thousands of dollars on his bride and a few days after the marriage de- serted her, taking with him a large amount of money which she had in- trusted to him. His operations were nation-wide in aspect, it was believed by police, after investigation of this case. It was found that he had adopted as a dis- tinct method of operation the ensnar- ing of women with profession of love and after marriage deserting them and decamping with their funds. He conducted his operations, according to the police, only in the most elite and select circles, using only persons of high social and financiai standing as his_potential victims. He was married to Mrs. Martin in Rockville and later showed up in St. | Louis after conducting operations in i Chlcago. Held there under bond, he skipped his bond, according to allega- tions contained in a dispatch from that city at the time, and has been free from that time until the time of {his capture in Philadelphia. e {FRENCH DEBT DEAL 0. K.'D House Ways and Means Committee Gives Settlement Approval. The French war debt settlement was approved today by the House ways and means committee. The House is n®t expected to take it up | until after June 1. Chairman Green of the committee | expects little opposition on the House | floor, but a long and bitter fight is in prospect in the Senate. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 24.—A fireman’s courageous leap through the air from the top of a.swaying ladder three stories high resulted today in saving a mother and her two small children from being burned to death in a Har- lem tenement fire. ‘When fire apparatus arrived at the the tenement, a women was seen standing at a third-floor window with a child in her arms, all chance of es- cape cut off by flames. A ladder was thrown up and Firemen Reviello and Reily raced up the rungs. Standing at the very top Reviello was still out of reach of an iron grating below the Fireman Leaps From Swaying To Third Story Window to Save Three CITTZENS WIN FIGHT TOBARROWHOUSES | grant Allowed in “A” Restricted Areas After 1927. Civie organization representatives, the zoning commission Thursday over a proposed amendment to the zoning regulations to permit the construc- tion of only detached homes with two side yards in “A’ restricted areas, won ed to approve the change. In order to prevent the new regula- tion from working..a hardship on builders who already have acquired property for the development of semi- detached or community house projects in “‘A" restricted areas, the comm sion decided not to put it into effect until January 1, 1927, Builders Fight Change. The amendment was opposed by the builders, who clared that its adoption would result in the erection of cheap, flimsy and unattractive detached homes. Rep- resentatives of the citizens' associa- tions were aligned solidly in favor of the change, maintaining that they wanted to preserve the present de- tached home developments from en- croachment by semi-detached and community houses. Another proposed which would have barred apartment houses, flat community houses and hotels from A areas was approved in modified form. The compromise will prohibit only hotels in this zone.* The commission approved in its en- tirety another amendment which will require the written consent of 75 per cent of property owners within 200 feet for the establishment of fuel vards, and gave the Washington Gas Light' Co. permission to erect a 130- foot gas holder at Twefth and M streets southeast. Other Changes Made: Other changes in zoning approved follow: Rezoned from first commercial “C” to residential “A" area property bounded by Ridge road, Bowen road, Forty-second street and Southern ave- nue southeast. Rezoned from first commercial “C," 80 feet, to residential “A,” 40 feet, property abutting both sides of Nichols avenue southeast, between Fourth and Epsal street Rezoned from “A” to “A" restricted area, all property in the Northeast bounded by Twelfth street, Randolph street, Bunker Hill road, the line of Fifteenth street extended to Kearney street, except the Twelfth street com- mercial frontage. Rezoned from residential “B" to first commercial “C" the east side of ontecello avenue northeast between Queen street and the line of Genos street. Rezoned from residential to first (Continued on Page 4, Column 5., BRITISH SHIP CONDEMNED Federal Court Orders Seizure of Al- leged Veteran Rum Runner. PROVIDENCE, R. I, May 24 (). —Believed by customs agents to have been a veteran rum runner along the New England coast, the British steam trawler Gemma today was ordered forfeited and condemned by the Fed- eral Court. The Gemma, minus cargo, was ap- prehended near Sakonnet light early -on-the morning of January 7 last by a Coast Guard patrol boat. Later a libel was filed. charging that liquor had ben landed from the Gemma on previous occasions. Ladder window. As he called to the woman to drop the child to his arms she feil back into the room, overcome with smoke. Crouching on the top rung of his swaying ladder, Reviello sprang into the air, caught the grating and pulled himself into the flaming room. He passed the woman, her child clutched in her arms, down to Reilly. Then he dropped back through the air to his ladder and descended. As they reached the street the woman moaned out that her baby was still in the blazing room and Reviello repeated his earlier performance and saved the baby. amendment | | from | dential ! lower ! residence on S street to a woman de ‘Only Detached Homes to Beg | brought suit a | rizan | th The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news Saturday’s Circulation, 97 Sunday’s Circulation, 107,399 TWO CEN RIGHT TO RESTRICT COLORED PROPERTY OWNERS IS UPHELD | Supreme Court Refuses to Pass on Test Case Involving Agreement Enforcement. INJUNCTION PROHIBITING SALE IS LEFT IN FORCE Litigation Involved Attempt to Sell Residence on S Street—Colored Association Took Up Fight. _ Holding it had no jurisdic ion, the Supreme Court to on a test case involving the right of operty owners in Washington force an agreement barring negroes owning houses certain ns The case had attracted wide atten tion because of the ha the highest court m a auestion which has Jled versy in many citi Considerably question of racia rned in the case. problem before the court concerned the right of property owners to sigr an agreement to exclude persons thex consider undesirable from their neig borhood th: uld stand the le test of court trial refused to pa o in res rospect ht decide to contro mot than the mere regation was con he paramount Leaves Injunction in Force. The effect of the court’s a review will be to leave force an injunction, issued by courts, prohibiting sale in the of a scribed in the court having negro blood. In this case John J. Buckle: inst Irene Hand Cor to restrain her from selling her home, at 1727 S street, to Helen Curtis, colored. Mr. Buckley claimed Mrs. Corrigan had signed an reement with himself and a score of other property owners in the same documents who waged a bitter fight with specula- | hlock not to sell their property. to tive builders at a public hearing of | colored persons. Association Fought Case. In the lower courts the plea was sustained that the contract was a |legal one and the restraining orde | was issued. The a decisive victory today when the |for commission, in executive session, vot- | People, however, ‘ational Association Advancement of Colored accepted the the | as one affecting the liberties of the i colored race and, with the assistance vigorously | de- | of prominent attorneys from Ne England, who are in d_in the (Continued on Page 4, Column 4.) GOLDSTROM BEATING SCHEDULE IN RACE Mauretania Making Top Speed Through Heavy Seas to Make New Record. BY JOHN GOLDSTROM, s SR Tmercan” N psomuer i, ABOARD S. S. MAURETANIA, May 23.—The Mauretania is far ahead of her schedule and will easily be able to drop me at Plymouth before sun- rise Tuesday. Today, at the end of the fourth 24 hours of my attempt to set a new record for circiing the globe. I had covered 2,306 miles, our fourth day’s run having been | The Mauretania has heen passinz | many steamers and racing at her best | speed to aid my effort, in spite of heavy gale and very rough seas. To v the sea is moderating and the sky clearing. Up to date I have made a1 daily average of 576 miles, 46 miles more than the daily average neces- sary to complete the trip in 35 days, and more than 21 hours under the present record. (Copyright, 1926. by North American News paper Alliance.) s PASSENGERS UNWAKENED IN FATAL TRAIN CRASH Engine Smashes Three Cars, Jumps Track, Wrecks Signal Tower and Turns Over. By the Associated Press. MANSFIELD, Mass., May 24.—In a wreck that caused the death of one trainman and even knocked over a sig- nal tower, some of the passengers of the Owl, a fast train from B New York, were not even aw from sleep this morning. The wreck was on the New York New Haven and Hartford. The Owl, running 25 miles an hour, hit the end of a freight ¢ a crossing. The big passenger locomotive made “#adl of three freight cars and then jumped the rails, heading for the signal towe The signal tower man, Thomas Man- ning, dashed for his door, followed by two companions. All three fell clear of the wreckage and unhurt as the tower crashed on the rail There it caught fire from the loc otive coals. The passenger locomotive finally rolled over athwart the New Haven's three main lines, and its fireman, Er- nest Ridding of Newtown, Conn., died a few moments later from his injuries. JAIL BILL IS SIGNED. . President Coolidge today signed the bill authorizing the construction of a new wing at the District jail at a cost of $175,000, which will pro- vide more adequate quarters for the prisoners at this institution. The President at the same tim: signed the bill transferring the ju diction_over Conduit road from the War Department to the District Commissioners. The transfer was asked by the Commissioners in order to permit a program of widening and sidewalk construction on Con- duit road. Saturday Is U. S. Pay Day. Because May 31 will be observed as Memorial day, all Federal employes in this city will receive the balance of their salaries for May on Saturday. Arrangements to that end have been made at the Treasury Departmen’.

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