Evening Star Newspaper, February 6, 1927, Page 2

2 & . THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FEBRUARY 6, 1927—PART 1. PRESIDENT FAVORS Stricken at Capitol. ECONOMIC PARLEY Asks Congress for $15,000 to Send Delegates to Geneva Conference. B s By the Associated Press. American participation in Geneva economic conference called by the League of Nations was rec- ommended to the Senate yesterday by President Coolidge. Requesting an appropriation of $15,000 for the expenses of delegates to the conference which will begin May 4, the President said that “this | the HRUER v o country should stand ready to aid in| the study of means to promote eco- nomic progress.” Government Not Bound. His recommendation went also to the House, and with it Mr. Coolidge forwarded a copy of the invitation from the council of the League of Nations and called attention that delegates to the conference’‘“cannot in any way bind their governments and will not be qualified to act as spokesmen of an official policy. “I consider it important” the President said, “to participate in the appointment of members, not only in order that this Government may be adequately informed of discus- sions in their relation interests, but also in order that the American point of view may be duly presented in the hope of contribut- ing to the development of sound economic foundations of friendly intercourse and prosperity. “The United States Is taking its part in the study of the problem of arms limitation at the invitation of the League of Nations. This country should also stand ready to aid in the study of means to promote economic progress. Affect American Interests. “This is not the occasion to dis- specific problems outlined in the agenda. It is sufficient to note that the conference contemplates an inquiry into important problems af- fecting American interests. This Government will have the benefit of ite deliberations, but will not be bound by its results.” The President said that the pre- paratory committee which laid plans for the conference set forth its pur- poses as ‘“intended to organize a general consultation in the course of ‘which the various programs and doc- trines may be freely exposed without the freedom of discussion being re- stricted by any immediate necessity to transform the conclusions of the conference into international engage- ments.” —_— SENATE BODY TO PROBE UTILITIES NOMINATIONS Subcommittee to Investigate Quali- fications of Adams and Childress. A subcommittee of three to inquire the qualifications of Benjamin F. Adams and John W. Childress for confirmation as members of the new Public Utilities Commission, was cre- ated yesterday asternoon by Chairman g‘&pper of the Senate District com- ‘The subcommittee will consist of Senators Jones, Republican, of Wash- ington; Sackett, Republican, of Ken- tucky, and King, Democrat, of Utah, the same members who handled the mominations of the District Commis- sionera. A number of letters bearing on these appointments have been received by the District committee and will be turned over to the subcommittee. If the President nominates a people's counsel before the subcommittee con. cludes its inquiry into the qualifica- tions of Mr. Adams and Mr. Childress, the nomination also will be referred to it for consideration. The subcom- m!tt'so has not decided when it will meet. U. S. OIL COMPANIES GET STAY IN MEXICO Atlantic, Gulf & West Indies Se- cures Injunction Against Petroleum Laws. By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, February 5.—Dis- patches from Tampico say that the Tuxpan District Court, sitting at Villa Cuauntemoc, in the State. of Vera Cruz, has granted two more general amparos against the new Mexican oil laws, making four such blanket in- Junctions which this court has an- nounced. The amparos suspend ap- plication of the new oil regulations until the Mexican Supreme Court can act on the constitutionality of the legislation. 2 ‘The companies granted amparos to- day were the Atlantic, Gulf and West Indies Oil Co. and the Mexican Crude Oil Co. Meanwhile all other district courts are refusing other similar applica- tions, leaving the situation funda- mentally unchanged awaliting action by the Supreme Court. SACASA TO DEMAND REPARATIONS OF U. . Bpdnt Here Preparing Request for Funds to Pay for “Damage” by Marines. A demand for reparations for al- leged outrages by American Marines In Nicaragua is being prepared by Dr. T. §. Vaca, confidential agent here of Dr. Sacasa, head of the Liberal government there for presentation to Becretary Kellogg. A similar demand aiready has been submitted by the Liberal Foreign Minister Espinosa to the American consul at Bluefields. The acts for which reparations are to be claimed are the alleged dump- Ing of 1,800,000 rounds of cartridges Into a river and the disarming by R. O. Davies, who claimed to be an American, of 25 Nicaraguan soldiers und the searching of their barracks 85 the result of a personal grievance avies is sald by Vaca to have led 0 Marines in the assault upon the rracks. ——— BABY RADIO-PHONED. Pather Pinched It to Make It Howl for Purpose. Ouable _to The Star L4 World. . Gopyrighe. SpeRi oK LONDON, ~ February 5.—Pinching his baby to make it howl was resorted to by a man who wanted to tell his child in later years that it was the first baby to speak on the transatlan- tic radio telephone. The man is a triend of J. L. McQuarrie, who at the time was speaking from London, ad- dressing New York, testing the’ line was put into public opera to American | 1 | SENATOR JONES, who is in eritical condition as result of a heart attack. SAYS COAST GUARD " FIRED UPON YACHT ;Captain of Vessel and Two | Guests Cite Alleged Insol- ence of Federal Officer. By the Aseociated Press. MIAMI, Fla, February Charges that their private yacht, fly. ing the American flag, was fired upon | by Coast Guard patrol boat 248 at a | point_40 miles off Miami, were pre- | ferrea by Capt. B. E. Schubert, mas- ter and owner of the yacht Elsie II, 5. and Samuel Hawkes, prominent citi- zens of Corning, N. Y., upon their ar- rival here tonight. Mr. Hawkes, president of T. G. Hawkes & Co., nationally known man- ufacturers of crystal glass, announced his attorneys here were preparing affidavits to be forwarded immedi- ately to the Navy Department, Sena- tors Fletcher, Florida: Wadsworth, New York: McLean, Connecticut, and the Bahamas colonial government, protesting against the reported inci- dents. The three men said the shooting occurred shortly after noon last Sun- day while the yacht was proceeding from Miami for the island of New Providence, in the Bahamas group, and the fishing banks nearby. Their pleasure crafi, they asserted, was laden with a quantity of old clothing for distribution on the Bahama Is- lands for victims of the Summer hur- ricanes. ‘When the first shot from the patrol boat splashed near the yacht, Capt. Schubert declared he hove to. The three men declared the Government craft raced straight ahead and fired as it approached, adding that their lives were endangered by this subse- quent action. They stated they rec- ognized the patrol boat as the same rum-chaser which had anchored within 100 yards of them in Biscayne Bay at Cape Florida, § miles south, the night before they started. Capt. Schubert declared he invited the Coast Guard commander follow- ing the shooting to come aboard and make a search, but was told to pro- ceed. “Why did you shoot if you didn't want to make a search?" Capt. Schu- bert said he asked the ranking offi- 0 gave his name as T. B. “Why didn’t you stop?” Capt. Schu- bert said he was questioned The yachtsmen replied that he had stopped at the first shell, and an argument ensued in which Mr. Hawkes declared he anounced he would take the case before Washing- ton officials. “Go ahead and write to Washing- ton, Washington will only refer it back to the Coast Guard base at Fort Lauderdale and it will be for- gotten,” Mr. Hawkes said the guards- men responded. The yacht then continued to Nassau and the water contiguous for a week’s fishing expedition before returning -to Miami tonight. They said they had reported the matter to Bahamas offi- cials also. Mr. Williams is president of the Board of Education, a bank official, and a practicing attorney of Corning, where he has resided for 35 years. He maintains Winter homes here and at Daytona Beach. Capt. Schubert is well known here, having come to | Miami 8 years ago from Greenwich, Conn. and his two guests, Francis Williams | SENATE TO HURRY Subcommittee to Consider Local Appropriation Bill Tomorrow. The District appropriation bill, noon, with provisions 336,213,495, will be given prompt con- sideration tomorrow morning hy a subcommittee of the Senate appropria- tions committee and probably will be | reported to the Senate within a few days. Indications are that comparatively changes will be recommended b | the Senate appropriations committee. | The District subcommittee of the nate committes is headed by S | ator Phipps of Colorado and it known that he aiready has familiarized himself with the details of the meas ure as drafted by the House. Probe Teacher Increase. Tt is understood that Senator Cap- per, chairman of the District legisla: tive committee. and also a member of | the subcommittee on appropriations, | has been looking into the merits of | the item for 74 additional public school teachers. which was eliminated from the bill by the House committes. This may be one of the questions consid- ered by the Senate committee before the measure 1s reported. Senator King of Utah has filed in the Senate a proposed amendment to the bil] to increase the salary of the chief engineer of the Fire Department to $6,500 a vear. It is reported that another amend- ment may he proposed to provide for the adding of an assembly hall to the | John Eaton School. Early Action Expected. With the session rapidly drawing to a close, every effort is being made by Senate leaders to expedite passage of the appropriation bills and it is |likely that request may be made for consideration of the District supply | measure on the floor of the Senate be fore the end of this week. Senator Phipps, who will have charge of the measure in the upper branch of Congress, has handled the District bill for a number of years and is thoroughly conversant with the re quirements of the District govern ment. Senator Oddie of Nevada suggested a few days ago that provision might be made in this year's bill for the preparation of plans for a proposed junior college as a new feature of the public school system here, but what course the subcommittee will take or this proposal is not known. ARMY SUPPLY BILL PASSED BY SENATE Measure Carries $360,000,- 000 and Increases Military Forces to 118,750. | tow Cartying a total of $360,000,000 for next vear's expenses, or almost $3,000,- 000 more than was proposed by the House the Army supply bill was passed yesterday by the Senate. The measure provides for a standing army of 118,750 men, and goes to con- ference for the ironing out of miner differences between the two houses. Additional appropriations agreed to by the Senate include $100.000 for the improvement of Fort De Russy, Hawali; $360,000 for the repair, main- tenance and construction of roads, bridges and trails in Alaska and $27.- 000 for the purchase of land at Camp Marfa, Tex. The Revolutionary battle of Cow- pens interrupted for some time the triumphant march of the bill when Senator Blease, Democrat, South Car- olina, ohjected to omission of a $3,000 item to survey the Cowpens battle- field in his State and the Kings Moun- tain battlefleld in North Carolina. Chalrman Wadsworth of the mili- tary committee told Senator Blease that the War Department already had been authorized to make the survey, but Blease insisted there should be a specific appropriation. The South Carolina Senator then started to read a 50-page account of the battle of Cowpens. A compromise was reached, however, and the bill passed with a $15,000 amendment pro- viding for surveys of battlefields gen- erally. President Coolidge's lack of ex: cise is beginning to give his famil and close friends much concern. There has been a growing tendency on his part, during the last six months or so, to pay less and less attention to those things that were supposed to be essential to his well being and gen- eral physica) fitness. The President has even cut down on his walking, much to the distress | of those about him, and although he appears to be in excellent health and | contends that he never felt better, there is a general feeling that sooner or later his now rugged constitution will suffer for the want of proper exercise. Not only does the Executive walk less, but those little limbering up stunts in which he has ‘nduiged each morning for a number of years im- mediately upen arising have been cur- tailed, and the electric horse which he used most religiously and earnestly for more than & year as a means of exercise is now seldom used. No explanation Is offered by the President for this apparent indiffer- ence to those things judged as being 8o _beneficial to his health. The President had always been a great walker, and since coming to the White House, where his official duties have been burdensome and confining, and affording little time for recrea tion, his indulgence in walking was looked upon as the real solution of the exercise problem. Until the last half year Mr. Cool- idge never missed a day without a good walk. Generally he walked twice a day, before breakfast, or imme. diately after, and late in the after- noon. Peculiarly enough, he con. fined his walking to the downtown section of the city and invariably during the rush hours. Apparently he enjoys being in the ’ FEAR FOR PRESIDENT'S HEALTH RAISED BY LACK OF EXERCISE Family and Friends Concerned as He Cuts Down Daily Walks and Curtails Other Limbering-Up Stunts. crowds. MNet only does he delight in rubbing elbows with the street crowds, but the shop windows along the way never fail to interest him. Until he commenced shortening his walks and passing them up entirely day after day, he generally walked a distance of about a mile and a half in the morning and a trifle longer in the afternoon. In all these walks he has never been known to go to Rock Creek Park, or Potomac Park, or the nearby country sections, as did Presi- dents Roosevelt and Taft. The President seldom goes for a motor ride. He appears to look upon the automobile merely as a medium of transportation. Only once since he has been President has he been horseback riding, and then only for a very short distance in West Potomac Park. Another form of outdoor recreation in which the President no longer in- dulges Is his Mayflower trips. He has been on only one cruise since return- ing from his vacation in the Adiron- dacks last Summer, and that trip was only as far as Quantico. Previously the President went for a cruise at least twice a month, in the Winter as well as Spring and Fall His abandonment of the Mayflower is Jooked upon as trange, too, because he has so frequently spoken of the pleasure he derived from these trips. He never failed to come back to the ‘White House refreshed and well rest- ed after a week end aboard the yacht. The President’'s tendency to lessen his exercise and outdoor recreation became noticeable shortly after his return to Washington last Fall from his vacation in the mountains. Dur- ing the 13 weeks he was at the camp he did no end of exercising, principal- Iy trout fishing. He returned to Wash- ington ruddy-faced and hard, but since then he has done virtually nothing to keep fit, vertheless the President is in splendid condition. His physician is of that opinion, and the President himself says he er felt betteg, DISTRICT MEASURE which passed the House, Friday after- | aggregating | EVIDENCE OF MOTORISTS CROWDING THE LEFT TRAFFIC LANE Above: Long line of cars on Pennsylvania avenue, all keeping wéll to the left, near the car tracks, w of wasted space nearer the curb—a condition that creates congestion all over town. Below: White cross-walk lines completely obliterated near center of street and well defined near sidewalk, showing preponderance of traffic always bears to the left. DRIVING TO LEFT WASTES ONE-THIRD OF CITY’S STREETS ntinued_from First Page) that easily might be utilized for three or four extra lanes of traffic with a tremendously beneficial effect upon the whole movement of the clty’s vast fleet of motor vehicles. Advantages Are Obvious. It is obvious that utilization of the full width of the only radial ar- teries of the city, with all drivers making a conscientious effort to keep at the greatest legal speed consistent with safety, would be the equivalent of adding a great many more streets to the Capital's highway system. The advantages to be reaped from an end so easily accomplished are ob- vious. It {s patent that they would include greater safety, a freer and faster flow of traffic and an enormous saving in time. Washington, how- ever, has failed to take these advan- tages for vears. That it will con- tinue to fail is an assumption held by those who point out the enormous waste that exists at present. Left-lane driving has become a fixed habit and breaking a large body of motorists of any long-in- dulged vagary has been demonstrated to be an almost futile task. A heroic measure that will get around and not try to overcome the habit is held to be necessary. In only one instance, it is argued, does left-lane driving fail to interfere with the even and easy flow of the vehicular tide. That is on the one-way street, where passing is permitted on either the left or right of an over- taken car. Passing on Right Dangerous. Skirting around another car on the right on the heavily traveled thorough- fare under present condition is recog- nized by all to be dangerous. The driver who attempts to advance in this way may have been spurred to act by a situation that would make the most law-abiding citizen desperate, ¢ but this is no defense in case of an ac- cident. The factor that contributes most to Washington driving that has impress- ed many experts and even casual ob- servers of traffic conditions. A traffic engineer has labeled this character- istic as “a dangerous inclination to ‘wobble. He explains his definition as mean- ing that “while Washington is filled with left-Jane drivers, one cannot be certain that the very moment the man behind gets desperate enough to pass on the right the first vehicle will not wobble toward the curb. Left- lane driving is bad enough In itself, but combined with this vagary infinitely more hazardous and trying."” In cities where passing on either side has been permitted for vears, this authority points out, ‘‘wobbling or weaving from one lane to another” is a rarity. One learns quickly that to change one’s lane in New York, for instance is foolhardy. As a result, one does not do it, it is pointed out. Lines Indicate Waste. Any of the wider thoroughfares where white lines have been painted to designate safety zones and cross-walks graphically illustrate the waste of traveing surface. In the center of the streets the lines are quickly worn awaye Near the right curbs they show few signs of wear. Safety zonmes particularly suffer from the left-lane driver. The mo- torist who attempts to pass another vehicle is compelled- to traverse the outer line of the zone if he is to avoid a collision. The wear on these zone markings is mute and emphatic evi- dence of where Washington drives. The lesson it teaches is fraught with significance. Pennsylvania avenue, one of the most heavily traveled arteries in the city, reveals the ‘keep-to-the-left" tendency at its worst. This thorough- fare, 125 feet wide, one of the broad- est city streets in the country, repre- sents a waste of more than 40 feet, according to a searching survey After making allowance for the angle parking there is sufficient room for three lanes of traffic on either side of the car tracks. Even in the rush hour of the morning and evening, one never sees threelane travel on the avenue. Vehicles may be stopped three abreast at an intersection over which a traffic officer presides, but the instant the go signal is given, the first car pulls far over to the center of the street. A majority of those be- hind follow suit. Instead of having 100 cars in one block, they may be strung out over three. Thus, the Ave- nue might well be only 80 feet wide, for all the use made of the 20 feet nearest the curbs. Other Streets Similar. Sheer necessity occasionally forces the traffic into two lanes on this thor- oughfare, but never does it seem to create the three that are possible. But it is not only on Pennsylvania avenue that the traffic veers far to the left. All other wide thoroughfares re- flect the same tendency. Connecticut avenue, Rlnde Island avenue, both in the northeast and northwest sections; Massachusetts avenue, Maryland ave- nue, Wisconsin avenue—all represent a great deal of wasted paving surface. 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Whe have paid for the above bulletin (legal notice). it is | area of the city dally, are emphatic examples of the condition that is in- terfering with the safe, smooth and speedy flow of traffic. Any one who has driven on thes thoroughfares at any hour of the da will have dificulty recalling a time when he ever was able to pass another vehicle without having to put at least two wheels of his car on the car track. Connecticut avenue is 90 feet wide and permit three-lane travel on either side of the car tracks with comfort. That one vehicle cannot pass another under present conditions without going into the tracks certain- Iy is indicative of an enormous waste of street surface. Speed Rule Purpose Defeated. Massachusetts avenue is a particu- larly conspicuous example of the d plorable effects of “‘middle-of-the-road"” deiving. The best traffic thought of the city last October decided that a speed of 30 miles an hour was permis- sible with safetv on this street. The thoroughfare is wide enough for three lanes of travel, but the slow traffic takes to the center and the purpose of the higher speed limit is defeated, and safety too frequently becomes a mat- ter of chance. The long, but not steep ascent, is regarded by many as contributing to a needless blocking of traffic on this street merely because the driver who is unable to make speed persists in retarding all others behind him in- stead of moving over to the slower- fspeed lane. The same situation is to be found on all other important thor- oughfares. Left, left, left some invisible ser- geant of speed and greed seems to he commanding the Washington motor car operator. Left, left, left and the street sur- face within 20 feet or more of the curb is ignored as useless. Thus are Washington drivers accused of roh- bing themselves of many hundreds of valuable lanes of travel on all of t‘hlp more important streets of the city. Left, left, left—there is where Washington drives, and yet the man who passes on the right is, tech- nically a law violator. There must he a remedy for this evil sftuation, and it should be found. Such is the opinion of those students of motoring conditions who are earnestly inter- ested in the promotion of a safer and freer flow of both pedestrian and vehicular traffic through the streets and highways of Washington. AIR MAIL PILOT FALLS. Johnson Uninjured Crash in California. SACRAMENTO, Calif., February § (#).—Eugene Johnson, Governmen air mail pilot, crashed with his plane near Cisco, during a raging blizzard today but was uninjured and delivered his ‘mail pouches to the Southern Pacific Railway at Tamarack, a small station near Cisco. Word received here by N. R. Taylor, meteorologist of the United States Agricultural Bu- reau, said Johnson's plane was de- molished. Eugene in SLAIN IN BARBER CHAIR. Alleged Gangster Riddled While Face Is Covered With Towels. CHICAGO, February 5 (#).—Sitting in a barber's chair, a hot towel about his face, John Petrack, alieged gang- ster, was riddled with bullets tonight and’ probably fatally wounded by assailants who made their escape. The police saw in the shooting a fresh outbreak of Chicago's gang warfare, and attributed the act to a desire for vengeance on the part of friends of - Jules Portugese, gang chieftain, slain several months ago. Study Gould Report. By the Associated Press. At_an executive session yesterday the Senate elections subcommittee i vestigating bribery charges agal Senator Gould, Republican, Maine, gan theustudy of a preliminary d of the: report of their findings pi pared by Chairman Goff. T sul cfommiftes plans to meet early th! week fo adopt conclusions. DEFENDS FAILURE | 10 USE PULMOTOR | Hesse, Backing Harbor Police | in Jones Death, Doubts De- vice Surpasses Human Aid. Absence of mechanical devices for| reviving persops near death from drowning in the equipment of the| harbor police precinct, as developed | Friday when efforts e made by two members of the preeinct re store life to Thomas A. Jones at Hains Point, was defendad yesterday by Maj. Fdwin RB. Hesse, superin tendent of police, and W. E. Longfel low, chairman of the first aid and life saving committee of the District Chapter and assistant national direc tor of first ald and life saving of the American Red Cross. While Maj. Hesse did not decla a poliey that there would not be ar such devices at the harbor precinet, he sald preliminary investigation of | their elfectiveness in time of need convinced him the methods now em- ployed against suffocation were more efficient. Has Faith in Men. The superintendent declared to his own knowledge there are several men at the harbor station-in possession of extensive knowledge and skill as to the proper manner of restoring drown ing persons taken from the water In particular, ne pointed to C. M. Rirkight, who worked over .Jones body hefore it was sent to Emergency Hospital, and declared “that if ever fell into the river I would want him to pull me out and revive me." Criticism of the manner in which the harbor police and two game wardens, in whose boat the officers sped to Haine Point when word was received at the station that a man was in the water, was ohjected to by the major, who stated that Birkight and D. O. Hayes, the ather harbor po- liceman, were far more capable of tell- ing whether the man could be revived than persons at a distance. Mr. \Longfellow, who has taught members of the Fire Department res- cue squad here and conducted a cam paign of education in life-saving tac- ties throughout the country, declared the Red Cross, the United States Pub- lic Health Service and the Bureau of Mines have adopted the “prone pres- sure system” as the most effective means of restoring a suffocated per- son. Suffocation by water, gas, smoke or shock by electricity is the same, he explained, and the system is applied to all cases. Prefers Red Cross Method. Mr. Longfellow declared that the Red Cross does not permit any of its chapters to spend money on mechani- cal devices, so firmly convinced it is that the human hands are superior to machines in such cases He added that policemen at the harbor precinct use that method and It is to be desired above the working of a machine that may fall into the hands of a person unfamiliar with its operation. Lieut. Harry R. Lohman, in com. mand of the precinct, said that he had never seen a mechanical life-saving device at the station house during his three vears of duty, and that the ques tion of one never arose. He said he had been informed by “some doctors™ that they were not satisfactory, but he would inquire further, and if con vinced they would. supplant the sys tem used by his men he would put in a request that they be supplied Battalion Chief Thomas O'Connor. detailed as drill master of the Fire Department, said that the rescue is caxried on every call, but the first act of his men is to apply the prone pressure system. This system em bodies placing the victim on his face and with both hands applying pres- sure below the floating ribs 12 times a minute. This draws air into th: lungs, whereas the mechanical device pumps it in, it was explained. Death Laid to Blood Clot. Jones came to his death according to Coroner Nevitt from a blood clot in the lungs. The obstruction had moved into a position where it pi vented functioning of the pulmonar: organs and Coroner Nevitt expressed the opinion that death could not have been prevented by use of a pulmotor. Drowning, he stated emphatically, was not the cause of death and he ex pressed the belief that it would have been impossible for a pulmotor to have removed the clot from the lungs. Jones' funeral will take place at 10 ‘clock tomorrow morning from the Funeral Home, 809 Cameron street. ervices will be conducted by Rev. gar Carpenter, rector of Grace Fpiscopal Church, and interment will be in Bethel Cemetery. SWIMMERS IN RACE AT CATALINA ISLE Without Incentive of $25,000 Prize, Three Women and Man Enter Contest. By the Associated Press. THE ISTHMUS, SANTA CATA- LINA ISLAND, Calif., February An impromptu race across the San Pedro Channel was in progress to- night, this time without the incen- tive of a $25,000 prize, as two swim- mers splashed their way through the chilling waters - and two others; awaited propitious moments to make their starts. In the lead was Mrs. Myrtle Huddleston, a 30-vear-old mother of Long Beach, Calif, who| plunged into the channel here at 2:30 | this afternoon and an hour and a| half later was estimated by onlookers #e have made about 3 miles. At that time Peter Meyer of Cin- cinnati was just leaving the shore. At 5:30 he was reported a mile and a half on his way over a course of 20-0dd miles. The schedules for the other swim- mers called for Miss Martha Stager of Portland to make the plunge at 10:10 o'clock tonight and Mrs, Charlotte Schoemmel of New York to follow her at 11:80. WOMAN HIT BY AUTO. Mrs. Fannie Melincor Victim of Hit-and-Run Driver. Knocked down while crossing Penn- sylvania avenue near Sixth street, Mrs. Fannie Melincor, 50 years old, of 1427 Meridian pla: was critical! injured last night by an automobi whose driver raced away from the scene. She was taken to Emergency Hos- pital in an automobile owned and op- erated by L. C. Jager of 1104 Third street northeast. Examination by Dr. Gross disclosed that she was suf- fering from a fracture of the skull and severe body injuries. Police started a search for the hit- and-run motorisi CHARLES DEERING DEAD. MIAMI, Fla, February 5 (#).— Charles Deering, 75, Chicago capital- ist, died late tonight at his Winter estate hergh squad owns one of the devices, which | OPORTO IN CONTROL OF REBEL FORCES Portuguese Loyalists Avoid Fighting Which Would Affect Residents. LISBON, Portugal, President Carmona’'s government is having difficulty suppressing the revolutionary movement which began at Oporto several davs ago. At that February in | important eity the 1autiny soldiers and their supporters are entrenched in the center of the town and have offered strong opposition to the government loyal troops seeking to eject them. Carmona’s forces succeeded in enter- ing Oporto, but falled dominata the ‘rebel position Wishing to spare the ecivilian population as much as possible, the commander of tha loyal fol endeavoring to find a way to overcome the revolutionaries without further hombardment An official note issusd here today declares that the military insurrection took place only at Oporto, Figueira da Foz, a seaport in the province of Beira; the garrison Tavira, in the province of Algarve, and on the gun- boat Dengo, anchorad near Faro. “The revolutionary seldiers sailors of those garrisons and the ship.” says the official statement, were overcome and their leaders ar- rested. The Oporto insurrection not yet compietely been dominated, as the rebels are entrenched in the cen ter of the town and the government is desirous of avoiding as much as possible destruction of the city of Oporto.” Notwithstanding the government's optimistic announcements, reports are current that the revolt has spread to various parts of northern Portugal. nwhile Lishon iemains peaceful. FREIGHTER RAMMED AND SUNK: 31 SAVED Steamer Michael Tracy, Bound for Newport News, Hits Wooden Craft. to ana By the Associated Press. v YORK, February ~The freight vessel Cape Cod was rammed by the Sound steamer Michael Tracy in the East River, opposite Ninety- second street, late this afternson, and {sank within five minutes. Thirty-one men, believed to be the entire crew, were saved. The Cape Cod, a wooden vessel, was bound down the harbor and the Tracy in the opposite direction. The crash stove a great hole in the Cape (‘od, She was a craft of 557 gross tons and 1 feet in length, owned by the Thames Steamship Co. and built in 1900. Marine fire and police boats went to her assistance, but she had gone down before aid arrived. Other harbor craft stood by to assist in rescuing members of the crew struggling in the fey water, The 31 men were picked up ard taken to hospitals suffering from sub- mersion and exposure. The boiler of the freighter exploded as she was sinking. 'The stesi prow kof the other boat had ripped cpen her bow at the water'line, The Cape Cod was en route to Nor- wich, Conn., and the Michael Tracy was bound for Newport RACE TO BE HELD IN U. S. Gordon Bennett Contest Date Will Be Between July 1 and September 15. The Gordon Rennett international balloon race will be held this year in the United States, according to a de- cision of the Federation Aeronautique Internationale announced here ves- terday. The exact date will be fixed by the National Aeronautical Association, and will be between July 1 and September 16. The date and place will be an- nounced not later than April 1, and entries must be filed with the associa- tion not later_than May 1. The Navy Department recently an- nounced that it would enter a balloon in the eligtnation race to determine American gepresentatives in the inter- national event. Lieut. Comdr. M. R. Pierce has been chosen us the commanding officer of the naval unit which will partici- pate in the elimination race to de- termine who shall pilot the American entry in this year's race. Legion Tax Bill Approved. The Bacharach bill to exempt Amer- an Legion members who attend the Paris convention next September from paying the usual revenue tax on pas- sage tickets, was approved unanimous- Iy yesterday by the House and sent to the Senate. The Evening Star Offers to its Readers A New Map of Europe. Six new nations were created by the World War, and the boundaries of a majority of countries in Europe wera hanged. The names of more than 50 impor- tant citles, including many capitals of Europe, have been changed. Russia has recently been mapped anew, for the first time since the revolution. Old maps of Europe no longer give correct information. A new map has been prepared for the Washington Information Bureau of The Evening Star. Old and new boundaries and old and new spellings are shown. A seven-color map, 21 by 28 inches, on heavy paper. Every home, office and school will want one at once. Copies are offered through the Washington Information Bureau of The Evening Star at a post- age and handling cost of 10 censa. Use the attached coupon, The Evening Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, 21st and C Sts. N.W. ‘Washington, D. C. Inclosed find stamps (or coin), handling charge, ropean Map. 10 cents in postage and for the Eu- Name. Street. . City...