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4 FOUNTAIN BATHING | GETS HRDBLONS Gradual Curtailment Comes as Result of Various Citi- zens’ Compiaints. Slowly but surely the children of the city are being robbed of their short-time victory in which they re- gained the use of the fountains in the public parks, which were denied them for bathing purposes, for now every two or three days Maj. U. S. Grant, 3d, director of the Office of Public Bulldings and Public Parks of the National Capital, issues an order clos- ing another fountain. The closing or- ders are based on complaints by citizens, _ Since thie general order permitting children to bathe in the fountains was issued, the following have been closed: The fountains at Twentieth and H streets, New Jersey avenue and New York avenue, the Union Station, and the last one, the one in the park at Twelfth and P streets and Rhode Is. land avenue. Demanded Bathing Places. i The first orders issued by the park authoritles were to close all the foun- tains to bathing, but when publicity was given to this, there arose a cry for places for the children to bathe, especially in view of the failure of the park authorities to select sites for the two hew bathing beaches, with the result that orders were issuec opening the pools to bathing The children just took cha the park police admitted that hadn’t men enough to keep them out. Besides, most of these officers were in favor of the children's bathing any- wa They were only carrying out orders of their superiors. The chil- dren went everywhere that they could find water, even to the reflecting pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial Then there came a flood of com- plaints from citizens, who protested against the children’s bathing, soma alleging noises, others alleging hul- sances, and varlous other things. After deciding to file the complaints and let the children bathe, the office again changed its policy, and now is answering these complaints by shut- ting off the fountain: X The last complaint, that against the use of theé fountain adjacent to lowa Circle, contained 42 names, and it al- leged that the children were using the nearby alleys in which to change their clothes and get into bathing suits. All alleys near this park are some distance from the parkway, and are under the jurisdiction of the ecity police and not the park police. Maj. Grant admitted that no investigation had_been made by the park police to determine the correctness of the reports, nor had the matter been re- ferred to the Metropolitan Police for investigation and action. The pool ‘was just closed. An Investigation. A little investigation made by a reporter for The Star at several of the pools developed that the noises made by the children splashing around in the shallow waters could not be heard outside the contines of the parks, in most instances not as far as the park borders, much less as great a distance away as the near- est houses. Practically all the users of the pools were little children and their lungs did not throw their voices very far. The Union Station pool, it was point- ed out by those following the matter, was perhaps the only one justifiably ordered closed. This was for sanitary reasons. The water in this pool is not continuously rurining Potomac water. In order to conserve water, electric- driven pumps were installed there, and the same water is pumped over and over again, so that it is not practicable to keep it in a sanitary condition when so many children are using it. BORAH HURLS SLUR ON U. S. DEBT PLAN BACK UPON EUROPE (Continued from First Page.) the best policy, but adds: “The na- tion signed the Baldwin agreement; let us stick to it like men.” The Sunday papers devote much space to the debt controversy and to speculation on the possibility of Mr. Mellon’s meeting Montagu Norman, governor of the Bank of England, and French statésmen. ‘The Sunday Times, which is not as- soclated with the Daily Times, com- ments editorially, deploring the con- troversy which has arisen, but at the time declaring that Mr. Church- nocked the bottom out of Mr. the American Treasury’s concerning the commer- clal part of the debt. The Times begs America to rémember that if she re. this somewhat futile hunt for the villain, it was she who on this occasion started the running. i Denies Cancellation Aim. “If incorrect statements have been made,” says the Sunday Times, “they must be answered. But it is impor- tant that Americans, both as specta- tors and targets in this fresh out- burst, should not mistake its mean- ing. ‘We are not attempting to evade our_obligations. “We can see, and it is useless to blink at the fact, that the American attitude is responsible more than any other factor for the present disorgan- ization of the world. ““Before long American herself must come to view this matter with a vision' much less detached, and then she may revise her opinions. And when she adopts a more truly international viewpoint she will have concluded that great service to the world which she began in 1917.” David Marshall Mason, an associate of the Institute of Bankers, founder of the Sound Currency Association, and former Liberal member of Parlia- ment, says in a letter to The Asso- clated Press: ‘“Weill-informed writers and_speakers, who are attacking the funding of Great Britain's war debts to America, would quarrel with their bread and butter.” All Burope should be thankful that America is prosperous, he says. HERRICK DENIES TROUBLE. No Demonstration Against U. §. Em- bassy in Paris, He Says. 24 (#).—The Amori- or, Myron T. Herrick, today denied that any trouble had oc- curred aroungl the embassy, saying: “There has bsen no demonstration before the embassy or chancellery to- day by any one. There has been no unusual police protection in expecta- tion of a Communist demonstration (‘;nl‘y the usual French police were on uty.” Demonstrations against foreigners on sightseeing busses continue in the boulevards, and Americans are not singled out for verbal attacks on these nightly tours. It is the French idea that all foreigners are taking bread from the Frenchman, hence the boos and catcalls when tourists start seeing Paris by night. o Manufacturers of Italy expeet to THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ¢, JULY 25 1926—PART 1. | POSSIBLE SITE FOR MODEL MARKET AND SURVEY COMMITTEE WARRIS & £V ING PHOTOZ COLUMBIAN INSTITUTION FOR THE DEAF The square marked “Center Market” is under consideration as a possible answer to the problem of where the new market would be located after the present Center Market goes to make way for new Government buildings. Numbers 1 to 20 (inclusive) on map show Important wholesale houses, commercial and industrial concerns that have recently established themselves in surrounding area, indicating that this is a rapidly growing commercial and wholesale center. Co.; 4, Fries, Beal & Sharl:; States Mail Bag Repair Shoj Rudolph & West Co.; 13, W Ross Iron Works, w Roofing Co. These concerns are: 1, Swift Company; 5, Sanitary Grocery Co.; 6, Piggly Wiggly; 7, p; 9, Eagle Bedding Ci Pierce Lumber Co; 14, Pulliman C these other occupants, American Radlator renting warehouse space; 17, National Motor Co.; 18, A. & P. Tea £} National (imrf 10, Loose Wiles ), E. Hart & raphic Magazine; 3, National Biscuit arber & Ross Planing Mills; 8, United Bisenit Co.; 11, John H. Wilkins Co., Inc.; 12, G. Schaefer Plumbing Co.; 16, Barber & Crosse Co., Metziger and other firms "Co.; 19, Asher Fireproof Co., and 20, Iron Clad Below, left to right: Lloyd S. Tenny, acting chief of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, Department of Agriculture; George M. Rogers, su| H. Brown, engineer National Capit: superintendent, Washington Center Market. rintendent of weights, measures and markets, District of Columbia; Maj. Cary Park and Planning Commission, and C. W. Kitchen, business manager and BIG UNITED MARKET IS URGED ON SITE OF PATTERSON TRACT (Continued from First Page,) avenue and Twelfth street southwest. It was hoped to make this a whole- sale market center patterned after the great wholesale districts in Chi- cago and New York. As a prelim- inary step, a new plant and ware- house of the Cudahy Packing Com- pany was located at Twelfth and E streets southwest to cover 15,000 square feet of land, and having ai- rect switching connections’ with the Pennsylvania Railroad. But the Department of Agciculture, which under the building program is to have extensive housing to take care of activities which are now scat- tered in 45 buildings, and whose building activities will exterd to- wards this proposed freight terminal, feels that the new market section should not go south of the Mall. The Department of Agriculture has two representatives on the committee now making the market site survey. There are two principai objections advanced against this waterfront plan —it is nowhere near thé center of population, and to get to it, people from all parts of the city would have to Imass through the most congested section of-the city. Patterson Tract Urged. The other avallable site being con- sidered, and which seems to meet all requirements stited by the sur- vey committee is the Patterson tract on Florida avenue northeast, between the Baltimore and Ohio_ Railroad yards and the Columbia Institution for the Deaf. Congress has for many years considered purchasing this tract for park purposes. During the war it was occupied as Camp Meigs, and here the District National Guard units encamped before leaving the Capital. More recently the circus exhibited on part of this site. This tract contains approximately 82 acres, and while the Potomac Freight Terminal was. boosted as a million-dollar project, the commercial development of the Patterson tract would represent nearer $8,000,000. The price asked for the tract is $2,600,000. < The Patterson tract lies for nearly 4 mile along the tracks of both the Baltimore & Ohio and Pennsylvania Rallroads. It is three-quarters of a mile from the front entrance of Union Station. The fact that it is in the new commercial zone is shown by the fact that during the last few years scores of the largest wholesale and in- dustrial concerns have located aiong- side the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad tracks, with rail connections. This indicates that the wholesale district manufacture much of the equipment wing in that direction. To keep {10 be used in the touch-vith, the-wholesale district the market center would have to go in the same direction. The Patterson tract has already been zoned industrial and first and second commercial. Location in Eckington Urged. Another {ndication that the future commercial center is in this Ecking- ton area, according to the hest judg- ment of business leaders, is found in the fact that some 200 dealers on the resent Farmers’ Market and related usiness houses in adjacent squares have petitioned Maj. Carey H. Brown to have the new market established in the vicinity of Kekington place, First street and Florida avenue. The petition stated that the signers were vitally concerned in the selec- tion 6f a new site for the farmers’ market and requested a publi¢ hear- ing on the matter before any group selected by the commission, so that they could lay before it facts regard- ing the most desirable and beneficial site for the market. Maj. Brown said that the advisabil- ity of such a hearing as requested would be mentioned to the National Capital Park and Planning Commis- sion when a recommendation as to a site for the market was presented. The survey committee has had a study made of the centérs of ‘popula- tion in the District based on the census by police precincts to see in what area a market center should be located to be most readily acessable to the largest nu r of residents. It was shown that the proposed loca- tion in Eckington would be conven- ient for a very large percentage of the inhabitants of Washington. ~ . Study Made of Tract. A particular study of the Patterson tract has been made to see how well it meets the six reguirements named above. The contour & the Patte: on tract lends itself naturally to tapping rail- road connections i amediately ad- Jacent, about miidistance of the tail- road frontage as indicated by 1 the accompanying drawing.) tracks could be run to bunkers at the rear of a Center Market building to make cheap coal delivery. Btreets cut, through the property at right angles from Flarida avenye could provide warehouse frontage with spur tracks running to rear platforms for direct unloading. The clustering of warehouses ahd wholesale houses along the Baltimore and Ohio tracks in the Hekihgton section and toward Brookland has been studied as con- firmatory of this efficient business method. The study of population by police precinéts has shown to be,een- trally largest number of District residents. Most of the farm products come from Maryland suburbs, rather than from Virginia. Chillum is the center of one of the biggest truck areas close to the city. The farmets could come in to the Patterson tract over three roads, the old Riggs road by the Sol- diers’ Home grounds; the old Sergeant road, and Queens Chapel road, all of which converge into North Capitol street or down Twelfth stréet north: east to Rhode Island avenue and thence direct to the Florida avenue grounds. " Truck Garden Section. Further east on the east side of Eastern Branch is a big truck gar- den section of Maryland. This area would feed into Benning over the old Sheriff road and Benning road into Florida. avenue. Benning road also leads into the Seat Pleasant section. In addition the farmers would come in over the Bladensburg road from around Landover, corhing down to Fifteenth street and_ Florida avenue and direct to the Patterson tract. Benning road to an intersection with the Marlboro Pike would also be a feeder for the truck section down Marlboro way. Entrance from Ana- costia would be over the Eleventh stréet and Pennsylvania avenue bridges linking in with the Maryland State road into southern Maryland via Camp Springs, T. B, and on to La Plata. The Eighth street car line from the Navy Yard runs across the front of the Patterson tract connecting with the Seventh street, Georgia avenue line up Petworth and into Silver Spring, and the ¥ street line extehd- ing out to Chevy Chase and making direct transfer connections with the Fourteenth street lines. From the Treasury, via New York avenue, the Maryland line going out Rhode Island avenue comes up to Florida avenue and Eckington Place. The Brookland line comes up North Capitol street, and there is a direct connection from the Anacostia linc at the City Post Office. It can readily be seen that there is direct car service to this proposed hew market center from all parts of the District. The Department of Agriculture will always own the Washington. Center Market. It has been using this insti- tution and will continue to use it as a research school for information to eliminate waste and reduce cost in handling and marketing food prod- ucts. It Has been making a study of rapidity in handling perishable foodstuffs from the producer to the consumer. It studies ways to pre- vent damage in handling through proper crating and se lort{ Wants Branches Together. The Départment of Agriculture is NELONTO TAVEL INSEGRE TORONE Hopes to Enjoy Village Fetes While Avoiding Writers and Politicians. By the Assoclated Press. DINARD, Brittany, France, July 24—Andrew W, Mellon, American Secratary of the Treasury, newly ar- rived in France, spent the second day of his vacation quietly at this holiday spot near the Normandie-Brittany border line. He was seemingly unmindful of the presence “of Benjamin Strong, gov- ernor of the Federal Reserve Bank; ‘Montague Norman, governor of the Bank of England, within reach in London; Dr. Hjalthar Schacht, presi- dent of the Reichsbank, reported at a Dutch seaside resort, and Premier Poincare, quoted as desirous of talk- ing with him informally regarding the American-French debts. Secretary Mellon plans to motor to Rome by easy stages through Brit- tany and the Pyrenees, but keeping his itinerary a secret in order to avoid newspaper men, camera men and poli- ticians, He may perhaps regale him- self by attendance at a number of local religious fetes of a picturesque character now being celebrated in Brittany. Through Theodore Rousseau of the Guaranty Trust Company, who accom- panies him, Mr. Mellon let it be known this evening that the one person he was_principally interested in seeing in Europe was his daughter, Ailsa, now in Rome with her husband, the American vice consul, David K. . Bruce. He will not visit Paris until he has seen the young couple in Italy, and then, if M. Poincare wishes a con- ference with him, he naturally would not refuse. Others with Secretary Mellon are Clarence Mackay and Paul Mellon. MONTENEGROSTILL - 15 WILD PROVINGE Men Fight, Women Work in Age-0ld Monotony of Back- ward Race. By the Associated Press CETTINJE, Montenegro, July 24. While all other capitals of Europe have been growing at a rapid pace, Cettinje, once the stronghold of King Nichol: picturesque Montenegrin kingdom, has slumbered in an atmo- sphere of medievalism and Oriental self-complacency. Situated in the heart of the “Black Mountain” district, the natives live the same precarious, monotonous lives they did centuries ago when they fled from the Tyrks. Scene of “The Merry Widow." But the “Littlest of Europe's cap- itals” still retains al Ithat color, ro- mance, animation and oriental fasci- nation which gave Franz Lehar, the Austrian composer, his inspiration for writing “The Merry Widow.” The spot where he wrote that lively ope etta is still pointed out to visitor: The great oak tree under which the redonbtable King Nicholas carried on the affairs of state and collected trib- ute from his subjects still stands, the object of intense curiosity by all tour- ists. . The inclusion of Montene: Kingdom of the Serbs, Croai venes while conferring many benefits on the hardy mountaineers, has changed the outward aspects of Cet- tinje but little. In a country which is made up largely of rock and bar- ren soil, life is given only to the sure, the strong and the swift. In many cases the Montenegrin pitches his modest stone hut high up among the crags, where the eagle makes its nest. Women Do the Work. One American visitor characterized Montenegro as a “land of tomb- stones.” Left to itself, the country would starve, for such small arable land areas as exist produce only about one-third the population’s food require- ments. The rest must come from the outside. Yet in this primitive, poverty-rid- den land, women do all the work. It is an adage.as old as the country it self that “man is the warrior, and woman the worker.” Man's sole duty is to defend the home and his fam- ily’s honor with firearms. The women age prematurely under ceaseless bur- den of work, and few of them live beyond 50. New Oregon U. President. EUGENE, Oreg., July 24 (#).—The University of Oregon will install its new president, Dr. Arnold Bennett Hall, oh October 18, as part of a week's celebration of the fiftleth anniversary of the university’s founding. Dr. Hail comes from the University of Wis- consin. il 2 i Two Officers Promoted. Lieut. Col. James T. Watson, In- fantry, recently stationed at Fort Jay, N. Y., has been promoted to the grade of colonel and Maj. famuel W. Noyes, Infantry, recently stationed at Schuyl kill Arsenal, Philadelphia, has n promoted to the grade of lieutenant golonel. integral parts of the one system, That is why the De) ment of Agri- culture representatives are looking most favorably upon the Patterson tract—because it provides ample room for such a model arrangement, and with ample space for parking of automobiles for those who come to the market to buy provisions. There is no other place in the District where 82 acres of land are lying un- developed in the very heart of a grow- ing commercial section. Relatively cheap warehouse sites have been purchased in the Eckington section on Baltimore and Ohio tracks, running about §2 and §2.60 a foot, as against like property in the compar- atively small area on the Pennsyl- vania tracks which -has been quoted at $4.50 a square foot. Those who have estimated say that warehouse sites cduld be provided, with spur track facilities, on the Patterson tract for §2 a square foot. The connection with the railroad yards from the Patterson tract would pass under the grade of New York avenue, thereby eliminating any grade crossings. Several hundred business men, and all the consumers the District are anxiously awaiting’the decision as to where the farmers’ market will be located after the farmers have been dispossessed of their present stand to make way for building opérations. It is understood that when the survey committee has completed its study, if rty for a | time as TROPHIES OF WAR GO BEGGING IN DISTRICT, RECORDS SHOW George Washington Pos of Legion Has Only One Owned in Capital. Payment of Freight From New Jersey Only String on Federal Gifts. Trophies of war, captured from the German imperial army by the Amer- fcan forces in France, and which were almost priceless elght or nine Yyears ago, are having difficulty find- ing a claimant in the District of Columbia, Under War Department regulations, the District Is entitled to a, large num- ber of the captured war relics, the only requirement for their possession being that it take them f. o. b. Rari- tan, N. J. * And that, together with what should be done with them in case of accept- ance, is what is holding back what- ever desire there may be for them. To date, only one organization in the Capital has taken advantage of the opportunity — George Washington Post No. 1, American Legion, which has a German gun out on its front lawn at 1829 I street. Many Applied for Relics. When the War Department, devised its plan for disposing of the relies, it was agreed to give them to the Stat and Territories, including the District, in proportion to the number of men sent to the front. The District was informed of the trophies it was en. titled to, and Maj. Gen. Anton Stephan, commanding the District Na- tional Guard, was placed in charge of making up a list of the desired | nvassed every organization in the city, had lists of the large number of articles printed and distributed and received the George Washington St's application. That post paid the freight bill down to Washington, and, possessing permanent quarters, had space enough to display it. While nearly every hamlet, village and town has more tunity to get a German prize and di play it in the main square, the War District’s sole trophy, a German gun {!1 front of the George Washington os o Department_still has a large supply on hand. Recently they placed the limit for their distribution to 1927. Many Have No Space. As far as could be learned here, triotic organizations who would d a few trophies, much as field guns, have no means of dfsplaying or keep- ing them, Nevertheless, if the George Washington Post had not stepped to the fore, there would be no tangible avidence to date that the thousands sent to war by Washington even cap- tured a coat button. There are sev- eral huge guns at the National Mu- seum and other German war imple- ments, including uniforms, rifles, sub- marine parts and a Fokker scouting plane. 8o whenever the District resident has a passion for lookin the tools employed by the ka fortes he can get an eye-full. they are not District property. Sometime in the near future, G Stephan is going to launch another big drive to interest civilian and pas triotic Washington in the proposition of paying the freight b r ing places for the exhibits. Department, it was emph d yes- terday, is ready and willing at” all times to give the order for shipment of the freight bill time July, or's But Seamen Who Know Chanteys Decrease With Passing of Sailing Ships and Grog By the Assoctated Press SAN PEDRO, Calif, July 24.— Steam and ships of steel have stifled the songs of the days of sails and wooden eraft. A recent search of the water front here for the chan- teys of a former day brought so poor a result that searchers went scurrying to other ports, with little * = better effect. The search was i n connection with a motion pic- ture production. Its object proved # musical Blue Bird-— found perching right on the motion pic ture set. The investigators found a few old sailors among the 1,500 gathered for sea battle scenes in the story of the frisate Constitution the best authori- ties. “It's the grog,” explained an old British seadog. “You see, most of the chanteys said something about a bit of rum. - A right good pull in the old days on the sailing ships was re- warded.” In justification of his theory the old fellow brought forth *‘Whisky John- nle,” which manages to steer a middle course on the liquor question. 1t opens with this philosophy: Whisks is the life of mar . Whisky, Jonnnie. Oh. Tl drink me whisky white T ean Whisicy. Johnnie b whiskiy st {4 whisky strong \his i sing you a sonk ny Johnnie “Antis” Sung 'Em Down, Here the antiliquor forces their opponents in a flood of lung power, with the Whisky Johnnie re- frain at the end of each line: Oh. whisky makes me wear old clothes, Whisky gave me a broken nose: Whiaiy ilted my oor old dad. Whisky druv. my mother mad And 50 on for innumerable stanzas. One of the earliest of the short-drag Give me w Whisky t and lazy, and of . beginning: . ouce I had an Irish girl. fat and Inry And then 1 had a yeller girl, she nigh druv me_crazy. But now 1 st " ot an English girl, and she Still another chantey unearthed con- cerns one Paddy Doyle, a famous dive keeper of Liverpool It is told of him hat he kept a cow’s horn in the back around which he solemnly marched green hands that he might tell a doubting skipper that they had been “round the horn” three times. but she was RADID RECEPTION BETTER N SUMMER 0Old Theory Falls as Stations Unheard Last Winter Are “Brought in.” By the Associated Press, CHICAGO, July 24.—Sumertime, long classed as a period in which dis- tance radio reception was a fact in name only, slowly is bringing about a change in opinion among listening experts. The present Summer season, but a few weeks old, has been productive of much better reception than was all of jast Winter, when night after night Tocal stations were all that could be recefved with any satisfaction. Sunspot Blanket Removed. Numerous theories have been ad- vanced for the change. Among them was the statement that the diminish- ing of sunspots, so much in evidence last Winter, has rem~,ed a magnetic blanket that tended to Smother radio signals when coming from a gr distance than 150 miles. ince the sun beran its southward journey a noticeable improvement in reception has been observed. Distance stations that could not be logged last Winter, with no local transmitters in opera- tion, now can be brought in with a powerful nearby station functioning. On local silent periods thie class of reception equals if, it does not surpass the so-called ideal conditions of the ‘Winter. Low-powered transmitters, mainly operating on the lower wave lengths, where the interstation interference is the greatest, were most difficult to bring in last Winter. Now they tum- ble in almost on top of one another. Less Static and “Fading.” One of the greatest drawbacks to ideal Summer reception is the in. creased amount of static, attributed largely to thunderstorms. While static is ever in evidence, both in Winter and Summer, it dies out enough between Summer thunder- storms so as to leave many perfods wherein conditions are as nearly ideal as could be hoped for. £ Another disturbance known as “fad- ing,” wherein the’signals come and go with varying intensity, this Summer has been less of a mar to reception than the fading of last Winter. Titini Sleeps as Nobile Talks. NEW YORK, July 24 (#).—Titini, pet terrier, who accompanied the polar fiyers, holds that as a lecturer her master, Gen. Nobile, is an expert navigator. She slept peacefully on the platform throughout the general's erudite lecture to the Engineering Soclety. 3 SETERE AR SRS Conditions are so bad in Latvia that not only merchants but farmers are Davis Asks Identity Of D. C. “Mayors” in Letter to Kellogg Daniel E. Garges, secretary \the Board of District Commission- ers, had referred to him yesterday a letter written by Secretary of Labor Davis to Secretary of State Kellogg asking the names of the mayors- of cities within the Dis- trict of Columbia. The letter, Mr. Garges said, did not indicate a lack of local data on the part of the two cabinet officers, but was a form letter sent to each city in the country by the Christy ~ Mathewson Memorial Foundation. It bore Secretary Davis' signature as chairman_of the national committee. It has been the policy of the State De- partment to refer all questions concerning local organization to the District Building. HGNOR SYSTEM FAILS. Policy Does Not Work Well Among Philippine Convicts. MANILA, P. I, July 23 (P).—A policy of confining the worst Moro criminals from Mindanao and Sulu in Bilibid prison in Manila instead of at the San Ramon Penal Colony at Zam- boanga has been inaugurated. A dozen of the most desperate convicts have been brought here. At the San Ramon colony the pris- oners are placed on their honor to a large extent, with the result that many of them have escaped and formed outlaw bands which have ter- rorized the Moro country. sank | ANOTHER OBJECTS 10 REZONING PLAN Mrs. C. E. Hopkins Says Home for Incurabies Might Have to Enforce Pact. Objection to the proposed rezoning of property contiguous to the Wash- ington Home for Incurables north of Upton street from A restricted to A area was voiced yesterday by Mre. Charlottee Everett Hopkins, The pro- rosed change will be acted on by the Zoning Commission, at an executive on tomorrow morning in the Dis t Building. , “From the point of view of the home, this would be a very undesir- able change, since anything that will add to the traffic co stion and noise in the neighborhood of the home will tend to negative its aims,” sald Mrs. Hopkins. “While the petitfoners for the change in zoning disclaim any inten- tlon erecting other th detached houses on the property, if the cha ingr is made there usal of a permit A buildi to erect any kind of mitted within the are onstrated in the c tion for a permit to establish an un- dertaker’s headquarters in the resi- dential section of Connecticut avem: zoned first commercial “Covenants .of builders, while they may serve as a protection for ment, are of doubtful owing to m s ass covenant t with the land, in the face designation 1 houses. In any enforcing the covenant thrown upon the Home ables and might at some future time result in a needless expense to this ¢ institution. solution would in a retenticn of the of the contiguous p appear to ricted zc operty.” SEAPLANE HITS LO IN RIVER, PILOT HURT Two Other Occupants Uninjured in Accident in Landing at New York. Special Dispatch to The St NEW YORK, Ju down on the ¥ to refuel at a gasoline sloop, a seaplane from Florida, struck its nose toda weeping | a log which was of the Cl ation, put out cued the flvers. 1 shipped much the plane w kept afloat t the wings. Niell uffered a broken nose and cuts or right hand and lip. Tk not injured. Niell, a former to speak of the companions_hop; ton Roa and origina i« SHOT ALARMS MANY. Police Find Colored Man Fired Pis- tol in Argument. ny fiyer, refused He 1 f from Hamp- r Oyster Bay Tampa After police of rushed to the C dale at 2801 Adams Mill roa night in response to a report t women and a man had been there, they found the excite occasioned by two colored x argument during which one fir small pistol in the rear of the apa ment. Sergt. William McDonald and Po- liceman Walter Aller arested Jesse Derrk, 38 years old, of 3252 Bell place northeast, and Willi McKinley 2, N 0. 10 precinct had Derrk was charged with tion and Braxton with carryi cealed weapon. History of the Kohinoor. The first owner of the famous Kohi noor, or “Mountain of Light,” was, cording to legend, the hero K whose deeds are celebrated inthe M habharata” and who is said to have carried the great stone 5,000 ago. The Kohinoor, which to England from India 76 yes and presented to Queen Victoria the following July, made its first au- thentic appearance in_ history in the fourteenth century when Ala-ed-Din carried it to Delhi. At that time it was said to have weighed 793 carats. It appeared in the great dlamond market of Golcon- da in 1550. - The lack of skill of a Venetian lapidary, Hortensio Bors- hese, reduced the weight to 279 carats. After the sack of Delhi in 1739 the diamond went to Afghanistan, being the property, in turn, of several Af- ghan rulers; thence passed to the Sikh chief, Runjeet Singh. Upon the abdication of the last ruler of the Punjab, and the annexation of that territory to the British empire in 1849, the great stone became the property of the East India Company. the famous “John Company’ presented it to Queen Victovia. was recut soon afterward, and now welghs but 102% carats. It is beyond price, although $10,000,000 has been given as a fair valuation. There now is an average of one radio receiver for every seven families in Vietoria, Australia. The terms of Morris Plan’ Loans are simple and practical and;] have to_borrow. you a to de- sit §1 week ccount, 0, may be the note when ifair—it is not necessary to: had an account at this Bank Loans are pass-' ‘ed within a day ortwo after, {lllnl :g lication— ith few excep- tions. MORRIS PLAN notes are usually made for 1 vear, peflg':d oflfmfll 3 to 12 months. MORRIS PLAN BANK Under Supervision U.S. Treasury 1408 H Street N. W. «Character and Earning Power Are the Basis of Credit”