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] WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau F\ Cloudy and much conler ably showers. Monday fa 1y rising te:uperature. Tel Hignest, &4 8 pm. Fu No. 1,123— No. 30,098. 20 NATIONS ADOPT SLAVERY PROTOCOL: LEAGUE ADIDURNS; sraffic in Humans to Be Sup- oraased—26 Other Powers Promise to Sign. MOVE BACKED TO FOUND HOME FOR ARMENIANS Chinese Delegate Criticizes U. S. for Siding With Governments “Exploiting” His Country. the Assocfated Press. S September 25.—"The League of Nations will one day be universal”™ these were the last and prophetic words uttered by President Ninchitch as he adjourned. without Aate, the smeventh assembly of the gue, which opened its sessions on | mber 6, rmany’s entry into the League,” he declared, “has forever silenced those adversaries of International un derstanding who have complained that the League embraced only a portion of the nations of the world, and es- peclally those nations which are not torn by difficulties of vital importanc ‘We have witnessed great event Preaident Ninchitch said. “We have £een nations whe have been divided in hideous strife sit side by side and labor togother under a common ideal of vol- untary obedience to the League covenant.” Plea for Arms Parley. The president urged all the members te apply themeelves vigorousiy to two | DOUble Defeat of St. Louis outstanding tasks of the League, namely, to assure the success of the projected contere ence. “General and loval disarmament will gain tor the League of Nations the whole-hearted support of all peo- ples.” he asserted. One of the last acts of the assembly was the adoption of a slavery con- vention. which was signed immediate- Iy by the plenipotentiaries of 20 gov- ernments, Including Portugal and Abyssinia, which are mopt affected. The representatives of 26 other na- tions agreed to sign by Monday. The convention calls for the pre- vention and suppression of the slave trade and the complete abolition of slavery in all its forms. It also de- clares that compulsory or forced labor should not he resorted to unless it becomes impossible to obtain volun- tary labor. Home for Armenians. Another of the final acts wae the unanimous approval of a project to found an Armenfan national home in the republic of Erivan. An appropria tion was made to permit Dr. Fridtjof Hansen and other leaders of the prof ect to lay the matter before the peo ple of the United States and Europe. who will be asked to_ contribute toward its fullfiiment. The council of the League of Natlons also has appointed a committee to promote the scheme: Unlese the powers immediately make new treaties with China based on reclprocity and equality. antl foreign feeling there will increase and it will be dangerous for foreigners to trade there, Chu Chao-Hsin, Chinese delegate 1o the league, asserted tonight. In an interview with a representa- tive of the Associated Prese, Chu said that ha had no apologies to offer any- body for his action in bringing the recent British bombardment of Wan halen before the assembly Educated in America. sducated in the United States.” he said. "1 love America and American {deals. but I do not under ptand why the United States is still following the other powers in enjoy ing extraordinary political and eco nomic privileges and immunities in China . “Thie 1= an infringement of China's sovereignty and is not in conformity with Amarican principles. 1 hope the Tonited States will take the lead in negotiating a; new treaty hefore the ather powers, thus establishing a still r relationship and a still great ehip between the United States and China Referring to negoiiations now pro ceeding hetween China and Great Britain to settle the bombardment in cident, Chu said that China's price would net be indemnity. but a new treaty with Great Britain. the object of which would be abolishment both of extraterritorfality and the "stran glehold” on China'a tariff schedules. This latter, he said, prevents China from levying the tariffs which she needs 1o conduct the country prop- ehly No Warning Given, He Says. British bombard- 1 wae Charging that the ment of Wanhsien was carried out without preliminary warning to the population, Chu declared that if this happened in any other part of the werld it would cause war . We dn not want 1o SIart a war, he said. “1f others want war with us let them start it. In the end we will win. for China is weary of heing treatl s an inferior nation ol spokesman tonight said Cecil. whn - protested Chu’s bringing up the bombardment incident without preliminary notice. would make no further reply to Chu because the mat < now sn the hands of negotiators. Chu's protest against the British bombardment yvesterduy foliowed the arrival in Geneva of 30 Chinese stu dents from various European cap- ftals. The local press says that these students exercised pressure upon Chu | to appeal to the assembly in the| yesterday against matter. His intervention also followed the distribution of a document condemn- ing the British attitude in China and eaving that the bombardment inci- dent at Wanhsien was either a pre- cursor (o “massacres ymilar to those at Shanghai and Shameen in 1925 or i« intended to prevent the national government from pursuing its cam- raign for the emancipation of China. 1aus goading the inflamed public into sum The circular was signed “European | delegation of the Kuomintang party.” | President Ninchitch. at the opening of today's assembly meeting. deliver- ed a velled criticism of Chu by re- mil the delegates that the rules Centinued on Page 2, Column 6) international disarmament | e and the economic confer- | {14 In the next day and then lost a | of any game they are liable to break | team, natural mary action against foreigners. |, ‘orecast.) today, proh- ir with slow- mperature— at 4 p.m.; lowest, 71, at report on page 7. Entered as second cinas matter post office, Washinzton, D. Niles Gary Sweeps Home- . Built Car on 25-Mil2 Sprint at Speed of 100.4. Accidents and Trouble Mar| Final Events as Title Goes to Philadelphian. Jimmy Gleason of Philadelphia by winning the 25 and 100 mile automo- bile races at the Washington-Balti- more Speedway yesterday afternoon {acquired the “crown of champlon {driver of the National Motor Racing Assocfation for 1 Another dare- jdevil._a mere vouth, frem the Dis- |frict of Columbia. cut a notch for ! himself in the hazardous climb to race- | ariving fame by carrying off first hof {ore in the remaininz event—for ama- teurs crly. The Tuck of the track stalked among the drivers yesterday after. | noon. smiling with favor on Gleason and Niles Gary, the Washington boy, and frowning on Al Aspen and Fred Winnai with the resuit that the for- mer last night was lyving in a Balti- more hospital and the lattsr lost hix ®ood chance to he the new king of the assoclation drivers. i Aspen was injured in a practice run around the track when his car, a Frontenac, slipped from the “'110-mile | { line™ for lack of speed, tumbled down | [ the steep bank and crashed into the | | iron proteeting fence on the inner rim { of the howl. Aspen was rushed first he {D.C. YOUTH WINS AMATEUR RACE AT LAUREL: GLEASON TAKES TWO NILES GAR)Y. to the office of Dr. rel and thence to tie University of Maryland Hospital at Baltimore, where it was sald last night he was not seriously injured. i Winnal, who through tire trouble lost a good chance to win the opening 25-mile sprint and hoost his aggregate points, crashed into the outer railing on the home stretch at 125 miles an hour just after he had turned into the (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) YANKEES WIN FLAG: 0 FAGE CARDINALS i Ends American League Race. | 3 Home Runs by Ruth. ! Special Dispatch to The Star. ST. LOUIS, September —The Yankees have come through. After | many an anxious week of waiting, many a day when they seemed hound 1a crack. they clinched the 1926 Am-~r. fean League pennant by winning two games from the St. Louis Browns here this afternoon. The scores were 10 to 2 and 10 to 4, and Babe Ruth embellished them with three home runs, running his season's total to Leaving New York on September 11 with a six-game lead, the Yankees have kept their followers in a state | of excessive fidgets. They were zood one day and bad the next. They be. gan by winning a great battle in De. troit ‘and then dropped a double. header the next day. They went to Cleveland, met their closest rivals fuce to face, heat their greatest men- ace, George Uhle, and then dropped four straight. They roused hopes after that hy clubbing out a victory in the last game of the series and then went Chicago to drop a double- header. Liable to Break Any Time. It was a case of “hape deferred maketh the heart sick.” They battered v 2-tol game the day after. | no consistency to them There s Any inning loose and clout half a dozen runs. But now they are “in” they have shot the old “if" column from the stand 1ing of the clubs and they will face the St. Louis Cardinals in the world serfes which begins at the TYankee Stadium Saturday, October 2, There was a mild celebration among the young men.of the Ruppert clout- ing corps this evening—nothing like the wild happenings which followed the clinching of the Cardinals' pen- nant last night. when the whole town went wild, but enough to let St Lonis know that Huggins and his hand were in_town. The Yanks have won four pennants now, and It can't be called a thrill | for any except the younger men on the team Thev won {n 1921, 1922 and 1223, and won the world cham. | plonship in 1923, Oddly enough. thie| {s the first time the Yanks will he, called on fo face an out-of-town club | in the series, for all their other cham plonship battles were with the Giants. “If we're hitting at all. we'll heat the Cardinale.” aald Huggins “We have been getting fine pitching all through the Fall, and there Is no rea- son why it should not continue. Our poor success on the last trip wasn't due to any bad work in the box. T am happy over the victory of the :. They have all work- ed hard. and. I think. have surprised a lot of folks who thought we could Mot rebuild after last vear's disaster.” | $970,000,000 COAL LOSS SHOWN IN BRITISH STRIKE Board of Trade Leader Estimates “ Financial Result. Including | Indirect Losses. Br the Assomated Press WARRINGTON, England, Septem- | ber 25.—Sir Philip Cunliffelister, pres. ident of the hoard of trade, estimates that the direct loss up to the present time on output alone in the protracted Rritish roal tie-up probabl: not less than £200,000,000 (about $370.000.000). Sir Philip. in a_speech here on the coal situation. also said that there were additiona! indirect losses which no one could estimate. NEW'S POLITICAL BV DENOUKGED Civil Service Reform League Says It Invites Postal Force to Campaign. By the Associated Pr The issuance a tion"” to more than 15.000 postmasters to “get busy poiitically” in the con gressional campaign was ¢ against Postmaster General terday by the National Civil Service Reform League. A recent order of Mr. New, defining the rights, privileges and restrictions of postal employes in political cam- paigns was attacked by the league as 80 interpretinz restrictions applying to the employes as to “nullify the plain intent of the law." The order, issued in circular form. summarized the provisions of the crim- inal code covering political activities of postal emploves, the league said, ! but it was so worded that instead of acting as a restraining influence it conformed to Mr. New's “well known view that postmasters of the country have an obligation to the political or- ganization which is behind the Federal administration.” Mr. New called attention in his order to the inhibitions against solicit- ing of campaign funds from each other by Government employes and against the use of money by the em ployes to promote any pelitical ob- ject. He also cited an executive order prohibiting persons in the classified service from taking active parts in political campaligns. Postmasters appointed by the Presi- dent, Mr. New said, had a somewhat different status as to politigal cam- palgn activity, and might take such parts as are taken by any private citizen. He added that although these | gether of Republican forces in this appointees had a right to engage to a “reasonable extent™ in political mat- ters, it was deemed “‘unwise that they should accept political management or become conspicuous in political campaigns.” The league sald Mr. New desired the 300,000 employes of his depart- ment to know that they might take part in the fall campaign, nut that those holding jobs subject ta service law provisions would have t« be quiet about it and ohserve rertain restrictions. The 15,000 presidential appointees. it said, restraint by the order. $400,000 LONDON GEMS,' UNDER P. 0. GUARD,VANISH Hired Van, Later Found Deserted. Offers One of Biggest Mysteries. By the Associated Press. LONDON, September 25.—Diamonds valued at $400,000 were stolen from a mail van in one of the busiest cen. | ters of London trafic yesterday. The diamonds were malled at Hat- ton Garden hranch post office, the world's most famous diamond market. The package of gems was being trans. terred to the central post office in a hired van nunder supervision of post office officials The van vanished mysteriousiy in traffic. and was found some hours later. deserted and empty. The guards are utterly at a loss to explain how they were hood-winked. It is presum- ed the bandits escaped in a motor car, but Scotland Yard now faces the task of solving the zreatest criminal m: tery of recent years in this count Go?. Wood Gains. MANILA. September 25 (#).—Gov. Gen. Leonard Wood. who was oper- ated on Wednesday for hernia, con- tinued today to make tisfactory progress toward recove All symp- toms were favorable, said physicians. Two Policemen, Escorting Prisoner, Hit By Auto: One's Skull May Be Fractured' Twe policemen attached to the ninth precinct station were injured. one of them seriously, In an unusual acci- dent early today on Bladensburg road h-ast beiween K and L streets. The officers, Irving Bridges and Harry Hilbrup, were escorting Willilam Hodges, colored, whom they had ar- | rested on a charge of intoxication, to a waiting patrol wagon. when a ma- chine plunged into the trio near the | center of the road. The policemen ] were taken to ‘Casualty Hospital. where it was found that Bridges has a possible fracture of the skull, and | Hilbrup had been cut and bruised and was suffering from shock The prisoner was unhurt, but made no_attempt to escape. Liscy Rucker, 52 U street, driver of the machine, said his vision was obscured. He was taken to the ninth precinct station and is being held pending the outcome of the injuries to the policemen, brazen invita- competitive | efvl | were relieved of Swallowed in Traffic. | WASHINGTON, D. C., SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 26, 1926.—106 PAGES. * NEW YORK G. 0., SPLIT BY DRY LAW, Fate of Senator Wadsworth in Balance as Convention Delegates Gather. DEMOCRATS EXPECTED 70 FIGHT FOR WAGNER Republicans Cast About for Candi- date for Governor, With Rep- resentative Mills Likely. BY G. GOULD LINCOL! Staft Correspondent of The Star NEW YORK, September 25.—Polit- E. Warren of Lau-{jcq) history that may be national in effect is to be written at the Repub- liean State conv:niion opening nere tomorrow - morning. Two the Democratic party, nationally, went on the rocks in the old Madison Square Garden. Tomorrow the Republicans tempt fate in the new Madison Square Garden. As the delegates to the Republican convention gather here tonight there is much doubt and bitternes. The ¥ o which the Republoan bark !lhr!a!pn! to split s prohibition. The underlying issue in the struggle |among the Republicans is whether i Republican party leadership in the | Empire State shall be wet or dry. Drys Claim Preponderance. The drys say emphatically that the | Republican party of New York State { must be dry. the professional drys, are willing to !cast Senator James W. Wadsworth, a Republican leader of the Senate and in order to prevent the wet retaining the party leader- {ship in this State. The drys insist ! that man for man and woman for | woman, the dry Republicans consider i limbo | element his State. do not want, they say, the I tail to wag the dog. That is one ex- cuse that will be given for throwing over Senator Wadsworth. These diys, who are backing State Senator Franklin W. Cristman for the senatorial nomination against Wadsworth and will run him as an ;independent in the general election in November, while not saying it publicly,, would prefer to have Robert F. Wagner, who is slated for the Democratic senatorial nomination, even though he iz a wet, too, elected rather than have Wadsworth triumph and continue as leader of the Repub- lican party in New York. Wadsworth Is Target. Democratic party leadership in New York is lost to the drys. They know it. This makes it all the more im- portant from their point of view to hold the Republican party dry and ito prevent it from being swallowed lup also by the “wet interests.” They ! visualize control of the Republican I party by the wets in New York as a | possible starting point for a great i e to have the Republican party | throughout the country espouse the | wet cause. So they are centering | their heaviest artillery in New York | this campaign and their target is | Senator Wadsworth. ! It would be idle to minimize the seriousness of the situation for the | Republicans and Senator Wadsworth. Unless there is a great getting to- | State within the next five weeks the | Republican rout is likely to be com | plete. Indeed. some of the upstate leaders, coming from dry territory, | declare that today things are in a ! frightful mess, and that the best the Republicans can hope for is to hold | control of the Assembly. They re. gard the governorship as gone al ready If Gov. Al Smith {s nominated at the Democratic State convention in Syracuse, which also opens to- | morros Wadsworth Is Confident. They fear for Senator Wadsworth, although they bhelieve he has a better chance of winning than any guberna- torial candidate the Republicans put forward will have against Al Smith. This sounds pretty pessimistic, but | the Republicans under the Wadsworth | the leadership have not given uR fight by a long shot. Senator Wadsworth himself | lieves he will be re-elected. He be. lieves that after the nominations have heen made in convention here and the party platform adopted, the Republic- ans will get together again. He be- | lieves that loyalty to party will play a big part in the final outcome, and that rockribbed Republicans upstate will £till be found voting the party ticket. A strong appeal will be made to the ! Republican voters to support the Cool- idge administration. It will be heart- fly indorsed in the party platform. Efforts will be made 1o convince the votera that the re-election af Senator Wadsworth 18 essential If the Repub- lican party 18 to retain control of the Senate in the Seventieth Congress. i Will Play on Prosperity. | Republican prosperity will be played 'to a fare.you-well during the cam- i paign. The hope is that not only will the solid Republican interest of the State, many of them tremendously wealthy, but also many wet Demo crats and Democrats of substance, ! some of whom have voted for Wads- | worth in the past, will cast their bal- {lots for him in November. in part | offsetting the desertion of Republican drys. | A great danger to Wadeworth, ho ever. lies in the fact that the Dem (Continued on Page 4, Column 2 | | | Gene Tunney As Ed Van Every Knows Him An intimate life story of | the new champion, told by his friend of 20 vears, in a series of six articles, be- ginning Monday in The Evening Star STRVESFORPEACE years ago | Many of them, certainly | at present State leader. into the outer | outnumber the wet Republicans | to the Senate for the nexf six years be- | WHILE S Ry > NO PROSPERITY. CHAIRMAN OLDFIELD /7 CLAIMS I'M SO PROSPEROUS | CAN STAND. - Star o : LN SHORT GOLD SPELL COMING TO GAPITAL Snappy Weather to Follow | Sweltering Spasm, But | Will Not Last. : After sweltering for several «days in 80-degree tamperatures. Washington is heading into the testh of a brief but biting cool spell, according to the way things looked to the weather man late last evening. The thermommeter was due to take a 30 or 40 degrees drop at the instance of chilly showers from the north and west, but fairer and warmer weather was predicted for tomorrow. A maxi- |mum temperature of 91 degrees was registered vesterday afternoon. ¢ Thece will e no snow, such as Mon- tana_and the Dakotas have experi- enced recentlty, but the populace will ifind thei topcoats and furs in order for the Sabbath, it was safd. A minl- {mum of 30 or 80 degrees was looked | for overnight, with showers threaten {ing to drench the churchgoers this | morning. |1t will continue cool tonight. the {forecaster declared, but clearing | weather tomorrow will result in a | slow upward trend of the mercury. Heavy rainfall yesterday evening {created a quagmire of mud in Con- | necticut avenue between Van .Nesw {and Albermarle streets. which caught | two dozen motorists and trapped their ‘ cars for several hours. | " Acting Chief N. B. Barker and Private J. F. Kern of the twenty- eighth engine company discovered the | plight of the motorists and by skill- | full maneuvering the chief's car was {moved up to the edge of the mud | hole. The motorists were transferred |10 the Fire Department machine but | their automobiles had to be moved | out by wrecking cars. i RAIN COOLS NEW YORK. | | Temperature Reached 84, 20 Points | Above Year Ago, NEW YORK. September 25 (#).— | Thundershowers hrought relief to- night from New York's helated Sum- |mer weather which exceeded the calendar limit and carried the preced ing season’s warmth into the official | Autumn. | The temperature reached 84 today with the humidity at 64, a combina- tion sufficient to cause prostration in one case and discomfort to thousands. | No record was broken by the day's |temperature, but it was 20 point: higher than a year ago. COLD PUSHES EAST. | Blight of Winter's Blasts Is Felt in Middle West. CHICAGO, September 25 (#).—The blanket of cold weather flung east- ward yesterday from the Rocky Mountains encompassed the whole | Central West today and moved grad- | | ually toward the Ohio River Valley. | Killing frosts last night in Nebraska, | | northern Kansas and parts of the | { Dakotas, and general but less severe | | frosts in lowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota | { and Illinois, gave force {o the Weather | Rureau's forecast that Indlana. south- | {ern Tllinow, Missouri and perhaps ! Ohin would feel in the lowlands to- | night the blight of Winter's blasts. | " The corn helt reported that corn had | not suffered greatly. the crop being { put of danger in Kansas and Nebraska. | and frosts elsewhere being too light to infure 1t. and in xome cases helpful | In_pushing it to maturity. | " Truck and forage crops. tobacce and | potatoes suffered over the whole area, however, and sections of the Midwest which escaped frost damage last night | feared injury tonight. | Canada, where the wave brought heavy snow, reported the storm mov- ing eastward tonight into Ontario. In some oarts of the Northwest { warmer weather was promised. | The lowest temperature last night {was at Stewart. Idaho, where the mercury descended to 4 degrees. Many other Idaho communities re- ported records of less than 20 de- grees. A minimum of 20 degrees gave Ogden, Utah, its coldest night at this time of year since 1374. In the Central West temperatures ranged from 256 te 45 degrees and Chicago's offices and apartment houses {felt the surge of steam in their | radiators for the first time this Fall. The temperature here was descending | gradually from 46 degrees, today’s early mark. Foot ball teams who embarked to. on the 1926 season enjoyed the chilly temperatures and the surcease from the Summer weather which pre vailed during practice. TODAY’S STAR. PART ONE—10 PAGES. General News—Local. Foreign. Army and Navy News—Page 30. Radio—Page 31. Schools and Colleges—Pages 33 to 35. Financial—Pages 36 to 38. Giir] Scouts—Page 40. Spanish War Veterans—Page 40. PART TWO0—14 PAGES. Editorfals_and Editorial Features. Society News—Washington and Na- tional. Reviews of New Books—Page 4. Around the Citv—Page 4. Clubwomen of the Nation—Page 4 Tales of Well Known Folk—Page 10. News of the Clubs—Page 11. Boy Scouts—Page 11. D. A. R. Activities—Page 13. PART THREE—11 PAGES. Amusements—Theaters and Photo- plays. Music—Page 5. Automobiles—Pages 6 to 9. Civillan Army News—Page 10. Serial. “Mysterious Eweetheart"— Page 11. Fraternities—Page 13. PART FOUR—1 PAGES. Pink Sports Section. [ PART FIVE—8 PAGES. Magazine Section—Fiction and Fea- tures. The Rambler—Page 3. Classified Advertising. Veterans of Great War—Page 10 District National Guard—Page 11. GRAPHIC SECTION—10 PAGES. World Events in Pictures. COMIC SECTION—{ PAGES. Betty: Reg'lar Fellers: Mr. and Mrs.; Mutt and Jeff. g KING PICKS MASSEY AS MINISTER HERE Formal Appointment, How- ever, to Wait for London Conference Soon. Br the Assoctated Press. OTTAWA. Ontario, September 25. | —Premier W. L. Mackenzie King. who succeeded the Right Hon. Arthur Meighen in that post today, tonight | said that the Hon. Vincent Massey of Teronto is his choice for Canada's first minister plenipoteniary at Wash- ington. Definite appointment, however, will not be made until after the prime minister has discussed the matter with the British government, which he intends to do when he goes to Lon- don next month for the imperial con- ference. Mr. Massey probably wiil be asked to visit London at the same time. Mr. Massey, who was born In Toronto in 1§ was educated at St. Andrews’ College and the University of Toronto. He was a lecturer in modern history in the ['niversity of Toronto from 1913 until 1915, Tn_1919 he entered the Mass National and EXPERTS STUDYING FUTURE HIGHWAYS L. D. Tilton of St. Louis Here to Draw Un System for “Greater Washington.” A thorough study of the highway () Means Associated Press. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to Washington homes at 60 cents per month. Telephone Main 5000 and service will start immediately. FIVE CENTS. PARKS ADVOCATED 'T0 SPEED CLEAN-UP BELOW THE AVENUE Grass Plats Would Promise Completion of U. S. Build- ingsin 3 to 5 Years. CONGRESS TO GET PLEA TO RUSH PROPOSITION Erection of Five Structures Will Be Sought at Once—Funds Ready for Three. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. Not only have administration lead- ers, including President Coolidge and members of his cabinet, committed themselves to the plan advanced by Secrstary Mellon at the last meeting of the Public Bulldings, National Capital Parks and Planning and Fine Arts Commissions for immediate pur- chase of all of the privately owned land in the triangle between Pennsyl- vania avenue and the Mall, but it is proposed that the public buildings to be erected in this area shall not be closely congested, but entire squires and triangles be left open for lawn and park development. This will mean an attractive de- velopment of the entire triangle area, which for more than 25 years has been an eyesore in the most conspic- uous part of the Capital City. within the next three to five vears under the $50,000,000 public building program, instead of having to wait another 10 to 25 years for complete occupancy of this area by costly buildings. According to the plan now being worked upon the incoming session of Congress will be asked to approve not only the immediate purchase of the privately owned land, but that the en- tire triangle be at once developed by the erection of five new buildings, for thi of which appropriations have requirements of future Washington and its environs—one of the first and most important steps in the prepara- tion of a comprehensive city plan— has been started by L. D. Tilton of St. Louis, an expert retained by the Natfonal Capital Park and Planning Commission. ‘Woerking with Maj. Carey H. Brown, already been made, and the rest of the space thrown into grass plots which will give these buildings a proper set- ting. It had previously been expectéd that the privately owned squares would be acquired piecemeal over a long term of years and that the Cap- ital would have to await a complete development until funds were avail- able for ten or a dozen buildings. executive aide to the commission, Mr. Tilton will delve carefully into all conditions that are necessary in de- termining the lavout of a compre- hensive highway system for whatever areas of Maryland and Virginia aré agreed upon for inclusion in the re- glonal plan of “Greater Washington.” According to Mr. Tilton, the first factor to determine is how far into the two neighboring States the re. gional plan should extend and then lay down a highway system that would bring about an orderly and proper development of the entire sur- rounding region as the growth occurs. Long Task Ahead. The task of perfecting a compre- hensive plan for Washington and vicinity as contémplated by Congress when it enacted the park and plan- ning act at the last sesalen, is one llhat will take many months to com- | plete, and the study just undertaken by Mr. Tilton is only one element. Mr. Tilton is associated with Har- land Bartholemew of St. Louis, the city planner who helped establish the zoning law in Washington six years ago, and from time to time during the next 12 months other assoclates of Mr. Bartholemew will come to ‘Washington to assist the commission in_other phases of the plan. William D. Hudson, who spec in railroad problems, such as freight terminal facilitles, will visit Wash- ington for short periods in October, November, January and again in April. Earl O. Mills. whose specialty f& local transpertation problems, such as street car and bus facilities, will be called next Spring after other phases of the planning work have begun to | take tentative shape. Mr. Bartholemew spent a week here |in August laying the groundwork for the undertaking, and will return from time to time as the work progresses. Maps to Be Prepared. In surveying the situation from the standpoint of a highway system for the entire region around Washington, Mr. Tilton announced yesterday that he would prepare the following maps: One showing streams and water courses, another showing all forested areas within the region, a third of land now devoted to agriculture, land de- voted to market gardens, argas dom: nantly urban, areas devoted to rail- roads and industrial use and maps showing all public and semi-public in- stitutions: then he would show the Juisdictional boundaries of all towns thus far established in the region, re- gional transit facllities, the time it takes to reach various points within the region, street and highway widths and what proportion of the total width of highways are available to traffic. izes 2, Column 2 " (Confinued on Page 2, Column 7.) Taft Paces Station Almost Unnoticed: Tunneyfl;lfias 10,000 to Welcome Him Special Dispatch to The Star NEW YORK. September 25.—Two hours before 10,000 clamoring fight fans jammed the Pennsylvania station today to welcome Gene Tunney home to New York City. a former President of the United States. William Howard Taft. now Chief Justice of the United States, paced up and .down a train platform with his wife, almost un- noticed. Newspaper reporters came to interview him, but otherwise his presence was ignored, even the Pull- man porters, seemingly, being un- aware of the distinguished passenger’s identity. Chief Justice and Mrs. Taft occu- pied a stateroom on the Washing- tonian, which arrived in the city at 940 am.. and left at 10:15. They were returning to the Capital, after spending the Summer at Murray Bay, Canada, where Mr. Taft has taken his vacations for 35 years. The former President wore his usual cheery smile and several times broke out in the hearty Taft hu‘?.. but showed plainly the effects of & long ride from Montreal through the oppressive -humidity. He was asked | if it were true that he had been seri- ously {ll when he first went to Murray Bay, and met the question with the laughing rejoinder: “Just take a look at me. Do look like a sick man? I went there to take a rest cure and to guard against a condition which needed at- tention. You musn’t-held me respon- sible for erroneous reporis about my health.” . R * Chief Justice Taft sald he was go- ing back to Washington to preside at the statutory conference of the nine senlor judges of the Circuit Courts of Appeals in the nine Federal districts which opens. Monday. He said the conference would make a thorough survey of the condition of the deckets of all the Federal courts and would probably renew its recommendation to Congress to provide additional Jjudges. B Chief Justice and Mrs. Taft arrived in Washington yesterday. afternoon. - ¥ ‘With a decision reached to place the new $10,000,000 home for the Depart- ment of Commerce on the sites here- tofore allocated to the prospective new buildings for the Departments of Jus- tice and Labor, it is now intended to lace thése new departmental build- ings which are to be the next batch to hé recommended to Congress, on the two sites now occupied by the center or retail market and thé wholesals market. As the Department of Jus- tice needs a much larger building than the Department of Labor, it is prob- able that the Justice building will be placed between Ninth and Tenth streets, facing Pennsylvania avenue and running back to B street. and that the new Labor building will be on the present Center Market site However, there is a possibility that the District Government may be given one of these new buildings and placed on the Center Market site. The pres- ent District Building, which is recog- nized as one of the most beautiful structures in the Capital would be iglven to some other activity, possibly the Department of Labor. Present Building Crowded. The present District Building is al- ready overcrowded and not partic- ularly well adapted.to District govern- ment needs. The new public utilities act, which is awaliting the President’s nature as soon as Congress meets, provides that this new agency shall be given offices in the Municipal Building.. There is now no space available for this new branch of the District government. Two squares south of the present District Build- |ing have been held in reserve for future expansion of this bullding, which, it is suggested, could just as { well be used for expansion of some |other Government department. | The suggestion of a new District Building .is fathered by the Commis- sion of Fine Arts, which has always contended that the Center Market site 1s the logical location of the Municipal Bullding, where it would occupy a commanding position midway between |the Capito] and White House on Pennsylvania avenue and face to- ward the center of the city. In the report of the McMillan Park Commis- sion in 1901, which brought up to date the L'Enfant plan for future Capital development, provision was made for extension of Ninth street through the mall, to panel effect, which monotony of a col from ths "Capital Memorial: It was the cross-panel plan influenced the decision to ';ocate"tl;: new Commerce building en the Fif- teenth street site. The Fine Arts Commission held firm for the exten- slon of Ninth street through the Mall. There would not be room for the Com- merce building on the Pennsylvania avenue site unless it could have the entire area hetween Seventh and Tenth streets, which would necessitata the closing up of Ninth street. It would jalso block ‘one of the vistas which the Capital planhers have in mind, north on Eighth street to see the south pottico of the historic Patent Office Bullding, considered one of the cholce bits of architecture among the |older bulldings. Sacretary Hoover was unwilling to thwart the plans of the Fine Arts Commission and so ac- cepted the Fifteensh street site. General Policy Approved. The general policy of alternating im- pressive buildings and open spaces in the treatment of the area south of Pennsylvania avenue was discussed at the conference last week and approved by all those most interested in the “City Beautiful” program for the Na- tional Capital, being especially sup- ported by several members of the cabinet, who pointed out that it would be absurd to crowd thousands of Government workers into this rela. tively small area. They also empha- sized that it would be an architectural monstresity to pack monumental buildings side by side, and that te give a proper frontage for the Mall there should be, as far as possible, alternate stretches of greensward be- tween tl 11di: which would (Continued on Page 2, Column 1. ) & I to the Lincoln