Evening Star Newspaper, May 12, 1927, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. . Weather Bureau Forecast.) Partly cloudy and somewhat cooler “onight; tomorrow fair, with slowly -ising temperature. Temperature—Highest, 80, at 1:15 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 55, at § a.m. today. Full report on page 9. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 14 30,326. The only evening in Washington with the Associated Press news service. he Foening Star. ¥ Yesterday’s Circulation, 103,344 TWO CENTS. ARCHITECTS URGED 0 PUSH CAPTAL - BUILDING PROJECT Horace W. Peaslee Advises Entered as second class matter post office. Washington, D. | U. S. FLYERS PLAN TO HOP OFF H[]PE F[]R H-Y[RS | TONIGHT OR EARLY TOMORROW REVVED INWLDS . OFNENFOUNDLAND | | UP) Means Associated Pr WASHINGTON, D. €, THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1927—FIFTY PAGES. NEW LEVEE BREAK - THREATENS LARGE 'SUGAR BOWL' AREA | Hundreds of Workers Rush to| No. nounces He and Chamberlin Will Not Wait Until Saturday for Paris Flight Attempt. ‘Woods and Waterways Are| By the Associated Pr Observers at the flying fleld be- > Searched After Three Report Having Heard Airplane. |LOS ANGELES WAITING TO JOIN HUNT AT SEA *Wireless and Steamship Companies Still Without Word of Nun- gesser and Coli. Br the Associated Press. Word came today from Harbor Grace. Newfoundland, that a third person in that far-off spot in the British colony had heard the whirr of an airplane high overhead in the fog st Monday morning at a time when | ; s. Nungesser and Coli in the White Bird were due over New- _foundland on their flight from Paris | '‘to New York. | Police patrols and woodsmen have {doined in a search that will carry “them far into the forests and wooded .waterways that indent the country. ‘It may be days before the hunt is ! concluded. May Have Drifted in Fog. | The dwindling hopes that the French aviators may be found seem to rest on the Newfoundland search. Capt. R. D. White, naval attache at Paris, informed the Navy Depart- i ment that Nungesser's proposed route would have carried him over { northern Newfoundland, near the Belle Isle Straits. The aviators may | have arifted in the fog to the south- [*ward and this would have . brought .-them over Harbor Grace. Meanwhile, United States naval ls and Coast Guard patrols are ding zigzag courses in the | western ~wastes of the Atlantic, “hunting for the airmen, while the Mairigible Los Angeles is Wwaiting for Jetter visibility before joining in the :search. Wireless Companies Without Word. Wireless and steamship companies «were still without any comforting word today of the French aces, now three full days overdue at New York. Charles Lindbergh, flight comman- der in the Missouri National Guard. hopped off from St. Louls for New York today. Lindbergh is the only lene pilot entered in the Orteig transatlantic contest. All'is in readiness at Curtiss Field, Long Islang, for the start of the EBellanca plane early Saturday morn- ing. oo @ SEARCH AT SEA WIDENED, Ships Extend Operations After Comb- ing Large Area. NEW YORK, May 12 (#).—Search for Capts. Nungesser and Coli was carried on today with renewed hope as a result of a report from Harbor Grdte, Newfoundland, that an air- . plane was heard overhead on Monday " about the time the White Bird was due. Instructions were issued by the Do- minion government that any informa- tion relative to the fate of the fiyers ‘be promptly reported. Virtually the entire Coast Guard in New England remained in the hunt, coastal radio stations kept their in- struments open for word of the miss- ing airmen, and captains of trans- atlantic vessels scanned their courses for trace of the plane. Rumor of Finding Disproved. A rumor that the aviators had been picked up by the Cunard liner Came- ronia was disproved when the ship’s captain reported to the New York of- fice that he had neither seen mnor heard anything of the plane. While three days of Yog and rain prevented extensive use of airplanes off New England, Coast Guard officials said the entire area over which air search might have béen effective had been combed by vessels. Twenty Coast Guard patrol boatsy eight destroyers, two naval tugs and innumerable small patrol craft hunt- ed in vain from New York Harbor to Nova Scotia. The search went on in an ever-widening area, however. Two naval tugs are patrolling definite courses, and the cutter Tampa, on ice patrol duty.off the Grand Banks, was assigned a 1,200-mile area northeast of Boston. - The liner France, bound for New York, was ordered 400 miles north of its regular course, to cover more closely the vicinity over which Nungeseer said he would fly. Aviation experts renewed expres- sions of confidence that the airmen would be found. WIDE SEARCH ORDERED. t “Two Men and Woman Unshaken in Reports . { Plane. ST. JOHNS, Nova Scotia, May 12 (®).—I1t the airplane which three rep- utable residents of Harbor Grace re- port having heard whirring through ihe fog last Monday morning was .that of Capts. Nungesser and Coli, there is a wide varfety of possibilities as to what happened to it afterward. The two men, Peter O'Brien, a farmer, and Capt. John Stapleton, who gave the first feport vesterday, said they distinctly heard the noise of an a plane engine, but could not see the plane hecause of the foir. Mrs. Hinton, wife of the superjhtendent of the Im perial Cable, at Harbor Grace, repor ed today that she also heard it. Harbor Grace, 25 miles in an air line northwest of St. Johns, is the second largest town in Newfoundland, with & population of 5,000. The main part -0f the town is on a hill, overlooking +Conception Bay, in which is located | Bell Island, with its famous iron imines. O'Brien’s farm is behind the hill, Agrees With Probable Course. An airplane flying due west over Harbor Grace would cross the penin- isula to Trinity Bay, which at that onmt is 15 miles wide. Keeping the ‘$same course it would cross a nar- row mneck to the head of Placentia Bay, known as Arnolds Cove. Ten {$miles beyond the water it would strike into the interior of southern [ Newfoundland, a desolate and rugged ¢ region of forests and rocks, but south of the mountainous district. On due west course these conditions would continue for more than 20 jmiles until the plane passed north | of Port-Aux-Basques and reached the | Gulf of St. Lawrence. A slight turn | to the southward would give a | Rage _over the Atlantic to | 1A% Wi -Page 4, Column L) MINEOLA, XN. Y., May 12.—Lloyd W. Bertaud announced today that he and Clarence D. Chamberlin are plan- ning to hop off tonight or early to- morrow morning on their proposed non-stop flight to Paris in their Bel lanca plane, the Columbia. Bertaud said the decision as to the definite time of the take-off would de- pend largely on the afternoon weather report, which is expected here at 4 o'clock, He expressed doubt on the | possibility of a getaway before mid- night but was confident he would be on his way to Paris early tomorrow. The Bellanca monoplane was kept behind closed doors in its hangar, | where mechanics replaced a metal propeller with a wooden one. lieved that the approach of Capt. Charles A, Lindbergh, another trans- atlantic _contender, who is due here in his Ryan plane tonight from St. Louis, may have spurred on the backers of the Bellanca flight. Charles A. Levine, financial backer of the flight, declined to comment on the possibility of a hop-off tonight, but admitted that an_ earlier date t}\:\n Saturday was under considera- tion. Levine said Chamberlin and Bertraud propose to land at Le Bourget Fieid, near Paris. He said he had been jesting when he remarked Mon- day that the flyers might circle the Eiffel Tower, Le Bourget Field, England. then. proceed to NEW QUIZ REPLIES -~ FAVOR COOLIDGE Most of Committeemen From 33 States Discount “Third | Term” as Issue. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Representatives of 33 of the 48 States have replied to The Star’s ques- tionnaire, sent to the members of the Republican National Committee, ask- ing whether the “third term” issue would be a bar to President Coolidge’s nomination and re-election in 1928 and whether he was the logical candi- ceed himself. With few exceptions the committee- men discount the third term issue and declare for the renomination of the President. Of the 15 States not represented in the replies received one is Wisconsin, the Republican national committee be- cause of the insurgent movement in the Badger State in 192 Some of the committecmen in the other 15 States are in Europe, others have frankly said they did not care to dis- cuss the possibility of President Coolidge’s nomination next year, but preferred to leave the matter to the President’'s own. decision, Still others have made no reply to the question- naire. Answers Are Significant. The fact that represéntatives of two-thirds of the States on the Re- publican national committee have de- clared overwhelmingly in favor of the renomination and re-election of Presi dent Coolidge and that in t"eir opinion the so-called “third-term” issue will not militate seriously against him if he be a candidate next year, is significant of the trend of Republican politics and thought today. } Unless the President should declare himself out of the race, his nomina- tion next year is considered sure by many of the most powerful and shrewdest leaders of the Republican party. Admittedly there are some of the Republicans who are opposed to his renomination, among the “progres- sives” and among the conservatives who either are potential candidates themselves or are friendly to other candidates. The Star published the first of the replies from the Republican nitional committee members a little less than a month ago. Since the publication of.the last group, members represent- ing seven new States have been heard from; Maine, Washington, Idaho, South Dakota, Tennessee, Nebraska and Oklahoma. . Third Term Held Small Issue. Summarizing the entire poll of the committee, it is found that all the committes members, who have re- plied hold that the third term issue would not lie against him and would be no serious obstacle to Mr. Coal- idge’s renomination and re-election ex- cept the national committee woman from Idaho, the national committee- woman from North Carolina, the na- tional committeeman from Nebraska. The national committeewoman from Idaho, Mrs. Gladys Terhune, says that another term for Mr. Coolidge would not legally constitute a third term, but would be regarded as such by the voters. T.e national committeewoman from North Carolina believes that another term would constitute a third term, but holds that Mr. Coolidge iz entitled to a third term. Charles A. McCloud, member from Nebraska, says that political condi- tions in his Stats are chaotic, and that there would be some objection to Mr. Coolidge on the third term issue. With similar agreement the great majority of the members of the com- mittee replying have asserted that President Coolidge is the logical nom- inee of the Republican party for President in 1928. Indeed, only_ the national committeewoman from New Mexico, the national committeewoman from Idaho, the national committee- man from Nebraska have reserved judgment on this matter. All the others have declared for the nomina- e-election of the President. States Replying. The entire list of States representqd in the'replies to The Star’s question- naire follows: Alabama, Arizona, Ar- kansas, California, Colorado, Dela- ware, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Maine, Louisiana, Massachusetts. Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Ne- (Continued on Page 4, Column 3.) | tion and | ' date of the Republican party to suc- | which at present has no members of | |Brothers-in-Law Die In Shotgun Fight Over Bible Dispute T the Associated Press. ATLANTA, Te Charles Preston, 65, and George Shields, 42, brothersinlav. are dead following an argument over the Bible which ended in a gun bat- tle at the Shields home at Midway community, 9 miles northeasi of here. Shotguns fired almost simul- taneously brought almost instant death to each. Shields and Preston were mar- ried to twin sisters and each was the father of three children. POLICE RAID SOVIET OFFICES IN LONDON Officers Guard Doors and Refuse Admittance to | All Callers. | May 12— | I | | | By the Associated Press. LONDON, May 12.—Police today raided Arcos House, the headquart- ers of the Soviet trade delegation here. After the raid uniformed police guarded the doorway and refused ad- mission to all callers. No explanation was forthcoming from any ~quatter and the officer in charge of the. police operation refused to talk. The buflding, which is situated in Moorgate, near the Bank of England, is also the headquarters of the Anglo- Russian Co-operative Society, Ltd. Raiders Cautious. Police in uniform and several plain- clothes operatives partici] raid. They were most sys their movements after éntering the building, carefully avoiding certain rooms used as the trade delegation headquarters and understood to have extraterritorial status. The Soviet embassy received word late this afternoon that the bui'ding was in charge of the police. Soviet officials said that they had not the slightest idea as to the purpose of the raid. So far as known at the em- bassy this afternoon no arrests had been made. The head of the trade delegation is M. Kainchuk, who is now a delegate to the international economic confer- ence at Geneva. Creates Sensation. The most picturesque concerted move of uniformed police which has occurred in the financial district for years, it created a sensation, as it was at the hour that tens of thousands of persons pour out of the offices en route to their homes. The police began encircling the building shortly before 5 o'clock. Some barred all exits, while others en- tered the offices. A solid line of po- lice was drawn across the front of the building and extra platoons were called out to control the crowds which jammed Moorgate street from the Bank of England for an entire block. After the police had been in the building a_ half hour they began es- corting girls and young men clerks to the streets. They were allowed to go their way. None of the Soviet offi- clals appeared. The police declined to say whether any of them were being detained. Although there have been open manifestations in recent weeks of unsatisfactory relations between Great Britain and Soviet Russia, there has long been a strained feeling because of alleged Communist propaganda in Great Britain. Last February the British govern- ment sent a note to Soviet Russia pro- testing against holshevist propaganda directed at Great Britain, particular- }_\","gurlng the general strike in May The note warned against the *con- tinued notoriously ~ unsatisfactory relations” hetween the two govern- ments and declared that no improve- ment was possible so long as the rulers of Saviet Russia persisted in ‘publicly defaming Great Britain or advocating a world revolution. The Soviet government, replying, denied the existence of propaganda by responsible officials against the British government and stated that anti- British sentiments expressed by indi- vidual Russians were matched by anti- Soviet expressions by British subjects, some of them in official life. touch their wheels at | | Hoover Says Figures May Run Much | Repair Embankment After Cave-In. WATER POURS INTO 10-FOOT CREVASSE Rich Section Is Imperiled When Mississippi Goes Wild at Another Point. By the Associated Press. | BATON ROUGE, La., May 12.—The | {levee on the Bayou des Glaises, pro tecting the “Sugar Bowl" section in | Louisiana, one mile northwest of Cottonport, broke today, a crevasse 10 feet wide occurring. A crew of sev | eral hundred workers started at once to repair the crevasse. LOSS IS $250,000,000. | Higher. MEMPHIS, May 12 (#).—Arriving here today from an inspection trip through the lower Mississippl Valley, Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Com- merce, plunged immediately into a conference with Red Cross officials, at which it was understood the general relief situation in the flood area was discussed in detail. Mr. Hoover said upon his arrival here that the damage thus far in- flicted by the flood probably will amount to $250,000,000 to $300,000,000, and declared that “the tragedy of it is that it is impossible to tell how much greater the loss will be before the disaster reaches its climax.” OVERFLOW 18 FEARED. Bayou des Glaises Levees Hold as| Crews Work All Night. NEW ORLEANS, La., May 12 (#).— Under the pressure of steadily rising backwaters the Bayou des Glaises levees were holding early today, but with warnings that a crevasse might occur at any moment. Throughout the night citizens and laborers filled sandbags to stop the flow of water through hastily con- structed topping and to raise higher the dike between Bordelonville and Sarto, 125 miles on an air line north- west of here and on the west side of the Atchafalaya River from the Mississip M;y Overflow Dike. - Flood relief headquarters at Batou Rouge were notified that theé water had nearly reached the top of the dike and Army engineers expressed the belief that before nightfall flood waters would be cascading over the top, if a crevasse did not occur before then, Live stock in the threatened area has been removed to safety and all residents have moved to higher ground except the 1,000 or more de- termined men who sent out word earlier this week, “If it goes out, it will go out with us on top of it.” ‘While outside the area plans have gone forward for relief in event of a crevasse, the citizens have declared they would hold back the flood waters. A rescue fleet has been concentrated at strategic points. Would Relieve Other Points. A crevasse at the threatened dike within the next 24 hours would cause much of the flood waters from the Arkansas breaks and the Winter quar- ters and Cabin Teele crevasses to be diverted down the Atchafalaya Basgin, bringing some relief to Mississippi River levees. A smallpox epidemic in the Bouef River section of northeast Louisiana was feared by Red Cross relief workers. Miss Winifred Callahan, a Red Cross worker, reported that 20 cases of smallpox were discovered by rescue workers in the Bouef River section, but all cases were in one house where negroes were marooned. The victims wers isolated and placed under medical care. Ten thousand smallpox vaccine points and 10,000 units of typhoid serum were taken to the area by Miss Callahan today. Rising waters from the Cabin Teele and Winter quarters crevasses neces- sitated evacuatfhn of all refugees concentrated at Jonesville. Boats were available to remove them to Har- risonburg, Sicily Island and Rhine. hardt. COTTON PLANTING STARTS. Farmers Expect to Get About 60 Per Cent Crop This Year. JACKSON, Miss.,, May 12 (#).—As flood waters slowly receded, planters of SBunflower and Washington Counties today were trekking back to their water-soaked homes. -Already - those whose plantations have emerged from thé water. have begun planting cot- ton. Despite the lateness of the planting and the damage by the flood waters, a crop about 60 per cent normal is ex- pected. Germination in the fertile soll of the delta of Mississippi is rapid. Reduction of acreage due to the disaster will make labor available. Shortage of live stock is facing the returning caravans, as hundreds of fmules and horses were drowned, and unless stock is obtained quickly plant- ing will be further delayed. Plans are being made by the Department of Agriculture to supply mules. As rail- ways into the section will be weeks restoring facilities, stock will be shipped as near as possible by rail and then be driven to points of dis- tribution. Man, 75, Declares Bride, 70, Tricked Him; Too Feeble to Care for Self, He Says By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, May 12.—Marriage an- Abraham Mayer, 7T5-year-old suspender sales- man of Milwaukee, were filed in Su- { perior Court yesterday against his bride, Dora, who is past 70, alleging he was tricked into marrying her nulment proceedings last November. The bridegroom sets out in the bill | that he married the helpmate in his declining vears, hav- ass- | ing heen led to believe she was hale | forced Dot {and hearty and able to take care of |housework and wants to continue to - (L his -household. .1 of woman he -sald, he do found her to be older than he had expected, and too feeble even to take care of herself, to say nothing of helping him. Mr. Mayer says he had to carry her from the train when he returned to Milwaukee after the wedding here and that the next day she fell and injured her hip. Sending her home to her daughter, Maver said she again fell, due to her infirmities, and as a|broke her leg. As a result Mayer said he was to resume doing his own 2o i iy MEYER IS APPOINTED. Succeeds Williams as Federal Farm Loan Commissioner. Reorganization of the Federal Farm Loan Board has been completed, it was announced by Secretary Meilon today, by the appointment of Eugene Meyer, jr., recently made a new mem- ber of the board, to the position of farm Jloan commissioner. He suc- ceeds A. C. Williams, who director of the War Finance ton and in his new giving much attention to the question of loans in the stricken States of tie Mississipp! flood region. & COOLIDGE AWAITS HOOVER'S RETURN President Defers Permanent | Flood Relief Program Pending Arrival. | President Cooldige is awaiting the return to Washington of Secretary of Commerce Hoover, it was stated today, before giving any further considera- tion to the flood-control program he is planning to lay before the next Con-| gress. Any program for permanent relief from the overflow of the Mississippi, involving as it would the appropriation of hundreds of millions of dollars, can- not be worked out satisfactorily in a short time, it was explained, and de- mands a comprehensive study of all such plans advanced. The President expects material assistance from Sec- retary Hoover along this line, espe- clally in view of Mr. Hoover's first- hand knowledge of conditions and needs of the various sections as a re- sult of his personal investigations in the flood area. . Mr. Hoover will place at the dis- posal of the President, upon his re- turn from the flood zone, all the in- formation he has obtained, as well As his own personal views as to legisla- tive remedies to prevent the recur- | rence of widespread calamities. The | President also intends to call others | into conference before finally shaping any legislative program, and it was h‘xdlmted that this would take a long time. Deaf to Extra Session Pleas. In the meantime the President is turning a deaf ear to pleas by various Senators for a special session of Con- gress to provide governmental relief for sufferers in the Mississippi areas. It was explained that Mr. Coolidge has not changed his opposition, as stressed | recently to Senator Reed of Missouri. Senator Simmons of North Carolina and Senator Sheppard of Texas are the latest to appeal to the President for an extra session, but the same reply made to Sénator Reed has gcne forth to them. The success with which the country is responding to the ap- peal of the Red Cross for relief funds, the President is said to feel, makes it unnecessary to call Congress into ses- sion at this time. Any hurried consid- eration of a program of permaneut flood control legislation, such as would follow a special session, would be un- wise, in the opinion of administration offictals. Relies on Public Generosity. Senator Simmons telegraphed the President that he regarded the flood situation as.one of ‘“extremely grave national concern” and that if Con- gress were callell together it would not hesitate to place the resources of the Government behind relief measures. The Texas Senator made his desire for a special session known in a letter to the President urging the prompt passage of relief measures. The President is confident that the generosity of the public will take care of immediate needs in the flood areas until such time as Congress and the administration has agreed; during the course of the next regular session, upon a carefully worked-out program that would prevent further flood men- aces. For the present, at least, the President feels that the situation, as grave ag’it is, does not warrant call- ing Congress together at this time. This is a matter, it was indicated, that he would discuss with Secretary Hoover, at any rate, upon the latter’s | return to Washington. .. LEAGUE OFFERS AID FOR ARMS PARLEY Section of International Body to| Be Available to Conference Delegates. 1 By the Associated Press. GENEVA, May 12.—An official League of Natlonas communique today says that, acceding to a request from the British and Japanese govern- ments, the league has placed all its facilities at the disposal of their dele- gates and those of the United States for the tripartite naval conference to| be held here next month. 3 The | Standard |ett, parents of Eleanor Ambrose, wife | Governor of Fez Gets Typewriter With Arab Letters By the Associated Press. FEZ, French Morocco, May 12.— A typewriter has come Into the life of ‘the governor of Fez Pasha Bouchta EI Baghdadi. Tre ma- chine, with Arabian characters, the first of its kind here, was presented to hjm recently, and Gen. Charles De Chambrun, showing the elder- *+ pasha how civilization uses the typewriter, tapped out with two fingers the customary phrase, “May God bless our lord the pasha.” It was only last ycar that the pasha declined to use the govern- ment's gift ol an automobile, with the words: “I am too old fo get into that machine of the devil.”” He was persuaded to try it, however, nd now uses the car constantly. BASOLINE PRIGES CUT INWAR HERE Slash to 17 Cents Made by One Firm—Six of Biggest | Concerns in Conflict. | A gasoline price-cutting war. which began unobtrusively in Wash- ington Monday, today took on the form of a genuine battle, when the Penn Oil Co. slashed 2 cents from its service station price list for straight gasoline, bringing the retail price, including tax, down to 17 cents a gallon, the lowest of six of the big- gest oil concerns in this section. The war is conflned to the District only. The Standard Oil Co. started the 2-cent decline. Monday on its straight gasoline, bringing it on a par with the Penn gasoline which, according to Paul Himmelfarb, president of the latter cbmpany, has been 19 cents a gallon since last October. On the same day the American Oil Co. reduced its straight gasoline from 20 t» 18 cents, and the Texas Co., which mgintains no service stations, but supplies the individual dealer, dropped to 16 cents for wholesale price. The Tidewater Oil Co., which Who!}e!n]es only, likewise went down to 16. Tuesday the Columbia Oil Co. drop- ped to 19 cents retail. High-test gaso- line also underwent the 2-cent change, making this type of fuel 22 with $tandard; 22 with American Oil Co., 24 with the Columbia Oil Co., and 22 with the Penn Oil Cd. While the Penn Co. undercut the on the straight gasoline, which Monday began selling at 19 cents, the Penn reduction brought its high-test fuet on a par with that of the Standard product. The Penn fuel was 24 cents, but now is equal with the American Oil The Columbia high-test fuel, at 24 cents, remains the highest. Virtually all the big dealers today admitted the war was on, hu: pre- dicted it could not continue for a very long period. Companies like the Texas and Tidewater could not pre- dict at what retail price their gasoline would be sold by the individual dealers who own their own service sta‘ions. It was indicated that these service stations would eventually suffer the hlnl'dest blow if the price-slashing con- tinues, Famous Dancer Is Dying. NEWTON, Kans., May 12 (#).—A cablegram was received here last night by Mr. and Mrs. Howard Puck- of Maurice Mouvet, famous dancer, stating that Maurice was dying. The message came from Switzerland, where the dancers have been three months, }STREH GAR LINES CIVEN NEW ROUTES |Brookland-11th Street, Le | Droit Park and Anacostia- Central High Affected. A general rerouting of three of the important lines of the Washington | Raflway and Electric Co. was ordered today by the Public Utilities Commis- sion. The change affects the Brook land-Eleventh street, the Le Droit Park and the Anacostia-Central High School lines. Under the new plan of routing, the Brookland line will run to the | wharves, the Le Droit Park line will | terminate at'Fifteenth and G streets, and the Eleventh street cars will go to Anacostia and Congress Heights. At present the Brookland cars go to Eleventh. and Monroe streets, the Le Droit Park cars to the wharves and the Anacostia cars to Central High School. ' New Routes Given. The new route of. the Brookland line will be as follows: From Brook- land to Massachusetts avenue via North Capitol street, via G street to Fourteenth street, and via Fourteenth street to the wharves. The Le Droit Park cars will follow their usual route except they will terminate at Fifteenth and G streets, instead of running through to the wharves. The Eleventh street cars, starting at Eleventh and Monroe streets, will run to Eleventh and E streets, east to Ninth street, and south on Ninth street past Oenter Market to Ana- costia and Congress Heights. The change in routes will affect thousands of street car riders, and was recommended by Capt. R. G. Klotz, chief engineer of the Public Util- ities Commission. It will become ef- fective as soon as the car company installs a right-hand turn switch at Ninth and E streets, which, it is estimated, will cost $25,000. Action Is Deferred. The commission deferred for 30 days, at the request of Clayton E. Emig of the public utilities committee of the Federation of Citizens' Assoclations, action on the one-man street car ques- tion, which has been pending for sev- eral weeks. Authorization was given the Wash- ington Railway and Electric Co., how- ever, to purchase six new yellow coaches to augment its motor-bus | service. Consideration was given to a pro- posal to employ experts to assist the commission with its contemplated re- valuation of the physical properties of the Washington and Georgetown Gas Light Companies, but no action was taken. Appointment of the ex- perts probably will be made soon. SITE CHAIN STORE HELD UP, ROBBED BY LONE BANDIT Held up at the point of a pistol, M. A. Foster, manager of the Sani- tary Grocery, at 941 I street, early this morning was forced to open a small safe and hand over approxi- mately $15 to a swarthy looking bandit whom police believe has been responsible for other chain store hold-ups, Foster told the police that the bandit was a “short, dark-skinned” man who came in the store at 7:15, drew a pistol and ordered the man- ager to empty the contents of the safe. He then backed Foster and an assistant into a back room, left the resting. Impounded Copies of And Decameron to Copies of “certain editions of clas- sical literature,” which have been held up by collectors of customs in San Francisco and New York, under the tariff act which forbids the impor- tation of ohscene printed matter, will be released to importers, it was an- m’w Assistant Secretary of the ers. 7e ‘warned store and locked the door after him. Arabian Nights Be Released in Ports questioned as obscene were lald before the conferees in Gen. Andrews’ office. Importers generally will be advised, under orders by Gen. Andrews, through collectors of the ports that no further orders for importation shall be placed until the final ruling. “In the meantime,” said Gen. An- drews in an official statement, “the problem presented to the department ‘will be thoroughly canvassed and, as_promptly as may be, principles out “Thi Institute Members to Get Behind Congressmen. COMMITTEE REPORT HITS RIDER IN BILL United Action to Insure Great Beautification Measure Held Essential. Members of chapters of the Ameri- can Institute of Architects were urged today at their annual meeting in the Chamber of Commerce of the United | States, by Horace W. Peaslee of this | eity, to acquaint their representatives | in Congress with the facts regarding the plans for the development of the Capital City, and he promised that the weight of the architects as a constit- uent group would be heeded. Mr. Peaslee delivered the report of hte committee on the plan of Wash- ington and environs, of which he is chairman. He spoke particularly of | the rider on the public buildings bill which, in effect, would permit a hodge- podge of private buildings to be erect- * ed around Lafayette Square. He urged the chapters to unite to insure the future greatness of the National Capital. Says Need Is Urgent. “The need is urgent,” he says. “The situation as regards the White House and Capitol frontages stands as challenge to one of the most important elements of the MacMillan plan. The alternatives are abandonment of the plan, immediate purchase of the prop- erties involved, or subsequent pur- chase with millions of dollars added in improvements. “Let us not think of the effort, of the cost or of the thankless task. Let us rather regard it as our unique privilege to grasp decades in advance the vision of a glorious Capital to be, and our great opportunity, our greater obligation, to work for the realization of that vision. “And let us keep humbly in mind how little we can do compared to the offering in genius, in enthusiasm, in self-sacrificing, of the young French- man who relinquished a not irfcon- siderable city practice to seek a vision in the wilderness; who wrought that vision within a mere twelvemonth, and went to his grave without honor or reward - becauset he anticipated the uitimate greatness of the Nation and fought for his . s “Let us not lend our casual support y castial memorial to Charles L'Enfant until by our own efforts we have brought to fuli real- ization his vision of 136 years ago. Urges Solid Support. “If each chapter of the American Institute of Architects will do its part in reaching all of its representatives in Congress and in stating the facts clearly and frankly, its technical ad- vice and its weight as a constituent group will be heeded. “The notable contributions of many eminent architects toward the devel- opment of Washington have created the impression that the profession a whole is watchdogging the Cap- ital's development as a patriotic serv- ice. We like to believe that this is the case, but it it not fully borne.out by our works. As a profession we have accomplished much for Wash- ington, but the efforts of those who work are not infrequently nullified by the shotrcomings of those who are supposed to be pulling and are not.* “We are in no positlon to stir up the public or to assail the shortcom~ ings of Congress, while many of us who ought to understand and to flame with indignation ignore condi- tions or are indifferent to them. It will be recalled by delegateés to the 1926 econvention that the chairman of this committee was given special opportunity to bring before the con- vention at the ing session vending rider -on the public build- ings bill, potent with dire results. It excluded Government build- ings from the area north of Penn- srlvania, avenue, being aimed di- rectly at the defeat of the McMillan plan in so far as it concerned Lafayette Square. Cites Complications, “The bill and rider passed and the resulting complications have occus~ pied the full time of the committes during the year. The passage at once removed the protecting arm of the plan_and the commercialization of the White House frontage began with a hotel and two projected office buildings. Two bills were offered fo relieve the situation, one establish- ing control of facades facing Gov- ernment property and one specifically authorizing the ' purchase of the hotel site, at Sixteenth and H streets. “Both bills were lost and we now submit to this convention, for its consideration, the situation that one of the chief national monuments should be surrounded by ‘an archi- tectural hodgepodge of office. build- ings, hotels, shops, opposed in. char~ acter t¢ St. John's Church, which stands for a tradition all of its own,. to the historic residences which are falling by the hands of their owners, and to the haif-begun monumental plan for the square as typified by the one-third completed Treasury Annex and by the corresponding Chamber of Commerce. % “The subject has been aided by the press at large, and is now in process of being forgotten, while the commer- cialization process proceeds, - Soon another element of the plan will have been lost for the next genmeration to bemoan as we today struggle against the handicaps of the Veterans' reau, of the State Department Build- ing, Navy and Munitions Bullding, of the blocked vistas and lost parks.” New Problems Told. In submitting to the convention the report of the committee on publie Garfleld of Clevel ¢halrman, said that architects should be prepazed to co-operate in X the Federal building program. is program, he said, brings with jt :e“'; problems and new necessities of ly. S i o will be laid down for the guidance of" in the future in their duties fmposed upon of Federal em| ‘A provision of the existing bullding. bill,” he said, “gives to the Sec: the Treasury authority to reinforce architectural machinery by others outside of the office i) g eomteryuon Gen, S8 e avbievining- arobltgct of |