Evening Star Newspaper, September 29, 1927, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Cloudy, followed by showers late to- night or tomorrow: mild temperature. Temperature—Highest, 75, at noon The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news today; lowest, 64, at 1 a.m. today. Full report on page 9. Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 &= No. postoffice, - SITH MOVEMENT AMONG DEMOCRATS GAINS IN NEBRASKA Hitchcock May Lead Figh Against Bryanism in State’s Politics. 30,466. REED IS WELL LIKED AND HAS ADVANTAGE Move for Ritchie in 1932 Seen in Cousin’s Plan to Get Com- mittee Post. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Staff Correspondent ot The Star. OMAHA, Nebr., September 29.—For the first time in years Nebraska's Qpemocracy will go into a national rampaign next year without the dom- inating personality of Willlam J. Byran. Three times the Democratic standard bearer, Col. Bryan through- out ail those years made himself felt in the party’s affairs in the State. ‘With Col. Bryan out of the picture, Democrats here are lining up for a free-for-all fight for the delegation to the national convention of 1928. Bryan the lesser, “Brother Charley, Tieved to be bent upon controlling the delegation and probably in the in- terest of his own candidacy for the nomination. No one here really be- flleves that he can be nominated for President. But few people in 1924 suspected that he would be the nom- inee for Vice President. That, it is true, was brought about Ilargely through the influence of his brother, the colonel, for whose support the leaders were playing after they picked John W. Davis as the forlorn hope of the party. Hitchcock May Enter. Tt is believed to be on the cards that former Senator Gilbert M. Hitchcock of this State will enter the lists with Mr. Bryan for the delegation to the Democratic national convention. Sen- ator Hitchcock has just returned to Omaha after a trip to Europe. He has said nothing about his plans, po- litically. For a number of years Sen- ator Hitchcock has been at odds with the Bryan faction of the party, al- though he gave Col. Bryan strong sup- port in his first campaign and for some time thereafter. Mr. Hitchcock fought the Bryans successtully later, when he himself was a candidate for the senato nomination, and on other occasions. With Col. Bryan no longer here, it is believed that he would have less diffi- culty than in the past. Senator Hitcacoek, -however, if decides to permit his name to go fore the voters in the presidential pri- ‘mary next year, will do so earnestly and not as a stalking horse, to prevent the delegation going to some other candidate. Smith Movement Serious. Here in Nebraska as in other States ©f the West, the Al Smith movement is seriously under way. The New York governor's supporters are seek- ing already to line up delegates, For- mer Mayor Smith of Omaha has al- yeady announced that he will be a candidate for delegate on a Smith ticket. Petitions for placing the name ©of Gov. Smith on the presidential pri- mary ballot are being circulated. And it is well within the possibilities that imith will have several delegates from ebraska in the convention next year. iAs a matter of fact, he had the sup- rt of several in the 1924 convention f: Madison Square Garden. He fis particularly strong in Omaha, for ex- Bmple, both because he is a wet and se of the large number of voters f Irish extraction. o Nebraska is rated as a dry State. Bnd probably is. But there is a large mumber of voters of German extrac- tion to whom prohibition is anything but acceptable. Many of the German LAmericans were formerly Democrats, but went over to the Republican Entered as second class matter ‘Washington, D. C. c WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Fpening Star, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1927 —-FIFTY-FOUR PAGES. DOTY, PARDONED, MUST SERVE FOUR YEARS IN American Sent to Rejoin Troops for Remainder of Enlistment. Doumergue Signs Order for Release From Prison on Desertion Charge. By the Associated Press. PARIS, September 29.—President Doumergue today signed a pardon for Bennett J. Doty, American, who had served part of an eight-year prison term for_desertion from the French Foreign Legion while on active serv- ice in Syria last year. Doty, whose home was in Memphis, Tenn., will be under war ministry orders to rejoin the 1st Regiment of the Foreign Legion at Sidi-bel-Abbes, Algeria. He has 49 months yet to Serve of his original five-year enlist- ment under the name of “Gilbert Clare.” It is understood that he left the prison this morning en route to Mar- seille, whence he will leave on the first available transport for Algeria to begin serving the remainder of his enlistment. The war ministry, it is reported, felt that while a pardon could be allowed under the circumstances, any release trom his enlistment oath would tend to have a bad effect on discipline and FOREIGN LEGION that he must fulfill his contract. TROOPER GUARDS MRS. LILLIENDAHL Widow of Slain Doctor Close- ly Watched—Search for Beach Extended. By the Associated Prest HAMMONTON. N. J,, September 29. —A State trooper is stationed on guard today at the home of Mrs. Lilliendahl, in South Vineland, where she has re- mained since her release on $25,000 bail as a material witness to the shooting of her husband, Dr. A, Wil- liam Lilliendahl. Placed at the house at the direction of Chief Hudson of Vineland, the trooper is under orders to watch the house constantly and to follow Mrs. Lilliendahl wherever she may go. Search for Willls Beach, South Vineland poultry raiser, charged with aiding in the slaying of Dr. Lilliendahl, spread to four States today. Detec- tives disclosed that they had found new witnesses, whose evidence might prove important in the solution of the mystery. The doctor was shot while motoring with his wife September 15. Cranberry Pickers Heard Volce. Mr. and Mrs. George Cavalier told investigators that while picking cran- berries near where the physiclan was slain they heard a voice ring out in the stillness about the time the shoot- ing was supposed to have occurred. The voice called Yoo, hoo,” as though trying to attract the attention of some one. The Cavallers fixed the time of hear- ing the voice at the same hour as three Morrisville, Pa., men had seen a blue motor car speed from the thicket near where the fatal shots were fired. The description of this car as given by the Morrisville men was said by detectives to be siimlar to that of Beach's automobile, which was found in his brother’s garage at Mays Land- ing the day he disappeared. The search for Beach, who was un- der $5,000 bail as a material witness in the case, and who disappeared shortly before State troopers arrived at his home to bring him here for pos- sible identification by the Morrisville men, extended today to New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland and New Jer- sey. Police received word that a man rty after this country went into the vorld War under the leadership of President Wilson. Wet Democrats are hopeful that a considerable num- ‘ber of these voters will return to the party fold if Al Smith or some other wet is nominated for President. Senator James A. Reed of Missouri would be acceptable, too, to a large number of Democrats in Nebraska. He has the advantage, it is said, over Gov. Smith which comes from being @ Westerner and conversant with the problems of the West. Furthermore. 'he is a Protestant and would not be subject to the same religious preju- dice as Gov. Smith. Reed would make & stronger race in Nebraska than ‘could Smith, it is sald even by sup- porters of the New York governor. Nothing has been heard from the Reed however, regarding his entry into the presidential primary here, Some Democrats are enthusiastic ov Reed's chances to carry the State he be nominated. Not even the most enthusiastic really believes that Al Smith could turn the trick. Bryanism Is Opposed. There is a large block of Democ in Nebraska intent upon getting aw from Bryanism, even Bryanism in the pecond degree, as represented now by former Gov. Bryan. They will take their coats off and go to work 10 prevent the delegation from being named for Mr. Bryan. On the other hand, it is admitted that Mr. Bryan is a shrewd politician, who still has a considerable following., There has been some doubt as to whether he would seek to have the delegation named for him or would make another try for the Democratic nomination for governor. He mikht try for it, but his name would have to go on the pri- mary ballot twice, and that would not be so good. The impression prevails now that he will seek the delegation rather than the gubernatorial nomination. Particularly in view of the fact that the Republicans are centering on J. Weaver, president of the Alissouri River Development Associa- 1ion, for governor, rated a very strong candidate, and likely to win against Mr. Bryan or any other Democrat who might be put up. Indeed, one of the Jeading Democratic newspapers in the State has suggested editorially that the Democrats should give their in- dorsement also to Mr. Weaver. Mr. Weaver has never been a candidate for public office before, but he has heen prominent in many civie move- ments, and is said to be strong with the farmers also. Just to make the Democratic mix- up more complex, there s to he a answering his description had regis- tered at a Baltimore hotel on Tues- day. Description Sent to Cities. Edison Hedges, counsel for Beach, asserted that his client would be pro- duced in court, but that he would not be turned over to the State police or county authorities. A description and pictures of Beach, who, police assert, admitted author- ship of letters addressed to Anderson” and received by liendahl, have been sent to mo: the country's larger citles. Mrs. Lilliendahl, speaking of her life as a “patchwork of joy and sor- row,” asserts that she has ‘nothing on her conscience,” and that the hap- piest years of her life were those spent with ‘her husband. At first she told the police the doctor had been shot by two negroes. Later she said his assailants might have been drug ad- dicts. WATSON IMPROVES. Senator Advises Friends of Bet- terment With Treatment. BE! NESLE WILL FACE COURT IN NASSAU Wife of American Dies as He Is Taken to Bahamas Cap- ital for Trial. ETT J. DOT’ By the Associated Press. NASSAU, Bahama, September 29.— C. H. Nesle, American, under arrest by British authorities for participation in a Coast Guard seizure of liquor in what colonial government officials say was British waters, arrived under heavy guard here this morning aboard a mail boat for Bimini. Nesle's trial on charges of larceny from a ship and receiving stolen goods has been set tentatively for mid-Oc- tober. B. C. Backus, one of two men ar- FEDERAL BUILDING PLANS SANCTIONED BY FINE ARTS BODY Department of Commerce and Internal Revenue Proj- ects Are Approved. SITES WILL BE CLEARED FOR CONSTRUCTION WORK Assistant Secretary Dewey Says Whole Housing Program Is to Be Rushed. Plans for the Department of Com- merce and Bureau of Internal Revenue Buildings, the first to be erected in |the Government housing program {here, have been formally approved by the Fine Arts Commission, it was announced today by Assistant Secre- tary of Treasury Dewey. Mr. Dewey, who is in charge of the public buildings projects for Washing- ton, received this morning from Charles Moore, chairman of the Fine Arts Commission, a formal report an- nouncing the action taken by his com- mission yesterday in New York City. ‘While the designs must also be ap- proved by the Public Buildings Com- misslon, Mr. Dewey said today that the Treasury would now proceed with the business of clearing off the sites soon and giving out contracts for what he called “‘rough excavations.” Bids Opened Today. The developments today pushed for- ward the great Federal housing pro- gram closer to actual construction than it has yet been at any time, and officials are hopeful that steady prog- ess may be made. 5 Blds %or razing bulldings on the Department of Commerce site are to be opened this afternoon at 3 o'clock at the Treasury. Contracts for this work probably will be let within a few days and everything but the House of Deten- tion and the temporary building known as Annex No. 2, housing in- come tax unit employes, will be torn down to make way for the Commerce building. The gld Annex No. 2 itself will be in line for demolition, it was learned to- day, as soon as construction work is finished on the Liberty Loan Building, adjacent to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Employes are to be moved from rested by Guardsmen when the seizure was made, was also aboard the mail boat. He is one of the complainants against Nesle, British aeuthorities say the seized liquor cargo ‘was found at Nesle's home, on Cat Bay, near the rum row, gt;‘t‘ ]thh is denied by Coast Guard of- 8. WIFE DIES IN MIAMI. Mrs. Nesle Has Been in Charity ‘Ward for Several Weeks. MIAMI, Fla.,, September 29 (#).— Mrs. C. H. Nesle, wife of “Pop” Nesle, American, under arrest by Britis] Colonial authorities for, participation in a seizure of rum reported to have been made in British waters, dled at a Miami hospital today after a lengthy illness. Mrs. Nesle had been confined in a charity ward for some weeks, while her husband lived at Cat Cay, small Bahama Island, near rum row. Mrs. Nesle, hospital authorities sald, con- tracted tuberculosis after she joined her husband on the island, where he fled a fugitive from justice. UNION AGAINST U. S. TARIFF DISCUSSED Belgian Newspaper Speaks of Pos- sible Formation of Euro- pean Bloc. By the Associuted Press. BRUSSELS, Belgium, September 29.—Possible formation of a European economic union to defend the interests of the Old World against the United States is discussed today in an article in the Independanice Belge, which speaks for important shipping and in- dustrial interests in Beigium. Reviewing the general economic sit- uation in connection with the French and American tariff policies, the paper says the United States i3 opposed to reciprocity as far as tariff questions are concerned, although prepared per- haps to make concessions concerning loans, conversion of debts and the like. Germany, it continues, considers the American viewpoint audacious and u justified; Great Britain backs Franc and so will all the other powers who, like France, are subjected to the For ney tariff and “its manifold surprises, Such being the situation, the paper concludes, the question arises whether it is imposeible for all the countries Senator Watson, Republican, Indi: ana, who has been undergoing treat- ment at the Mayo Sanitarium, at Rochester, Minn., for more than a month, is improving rapidly, he has advised his friends here. The Senator had a recurrence last Summer of an abdominal disorder, and after consulting his physician “here went to Rochester for a diet treat- ment usual in such cases. He expects to leave the hospital within a short time. By the Associated Press. LONDON, September 29.— Scenes reminiscent of the sixteenth century were enacted in Westminster Abbey today, when the possessor of one of England’s most romantic names, Lady Jane Grey, was married in the Chapel ot Henry VII to Rev. Peveril Hayes Turnbull, rector of St, Crosswith, at Homersfield, Suffolk. The bride wore a gown of white vel- vet, copied from a portrait of her ill- fated ancestor, who was beheaded at London on February 12, 1554, with her wand, on charges of treason, after 10w over the election of the mational @ontinued on Tege & Column 4 h: 1 ng been proclaimed Qugen in July, interested to unite with a view to con- :llluting a bloc for their mutual de- ense, Swallows Battleship; Dies, CHICAGO, September 29 (#).—Six- year-old Ruth Koehn is dead as a re- sult of having swallowed a toy battle- ship, prize of a candy box. She suf- focated while physicians at a hospital sought to remove it from her stomach, She had been under the care of spe- clalists since last Friday. Sixteenth Century Scenes Recalled As Lady Jane Grey and Rector Wed The chapel was dimly lighted by tall candles similar to those used in the period of England's short-lived Queen, who was a great-granddaugh- ter of Henry VIL The bride's dress had a closely fit. ting bodice and full skirt flowing out from the hips. A shawl of point lace served as her vell and her train was fashioned into a cap arranged over a slender wreath of orange blossoms. A bright splash of color came from the scarlet of the robes of the Bishop of London, who performed the cere- mony, and the choristers’ robes lit up the Grey Chapel, which was decorated with bunches of Michaelmas daisies to match the bride’s bouquet. Annex No. 2 to the Liberty Loan Building and probably elsewhere as soon as the two new stories on top of the Liberty Loan Building are com- pleted. The old Income Tax Building, Wwhich for years has been criticized as an unsafe place for the millions of dollars of income tax records stored there, can then be demolished. Contract for completing the fourth and fifth stories of the Liberty Loan Bullding were let today to the firm of Skinner & Garrett of this city in the amount of $183,597. The bid was the lowest received by the Treasury, Commerce Building Longest. ‘The site for the Department of Com- merce belongs entirely to the Govern- ment and appears to be in condition probably to admit the steam shovels before the site for the Internal Revenue Building, where there are several indefinite factors still pending. On the Commerce site, bounded by Fourteenth and Fifteenth, B and E streets, there will be plenty of room to start excavating when the build- ings, with the exception of the House ot Detention, and the Treasury annex are torn down. The Commerce Build- ing is to be the longest in the National Capital, even exceeding the length of the Capitol Building itself, and it is likely that even the rough excavation will take considerable time. The Treas- ury is eager to get started as soon as possible: The Internal Revenue site, south of the Post Office Department, is now three-fourths occupied. The farmers’ market sheds run east and west across the south half of the site and it ap- pears to be problematical as to just when these sheds will be moved, or where they will be moved to when they are torn down. It seems,to be the tentative plan to get them out of the way about the first of the year. Meantime the whole market question is about to be reopened. Center Mar- ket may have to be eliminated soon to make way for the Department of Jus- tice. The northwest: square in the site, bounded by Tenth and Eleventh, Little B and C streets, is under condemna- tion proceedings. commissioners hav- ing reported to the court a figure of $815,000 as a fair price for government acquisition. The court has given both the Treasury and the property owners until October 14 to appeal, if they de- sire, from the award of the commis- sioners. The Public Buildings Commission, which is next to get the completed plans for the two buildings, has al- ready approved, not only the general plan of the triangle development, but the explicit sites and the preliminary designs for the buildings. GREECE PLANS TO ASK PROTEST TO BULGARIA Allege Factional Plot to Strain Re- lations With Jugoslavia, Fol- lowing Bombing Attempts. By the Associated Press. ATHENS, Creece, September 29.— The Greek government, it is under- stood, intends to discuss with Jugo- slavia the advisability of making a joint protest to Bulgaria against the activities of Bulgarian Comitadjis (ir- regulars) in seeking to stir up trouble between Greece and Jugoslavia. Following the arrest yesterday of three men armed with bombs, an- other arrest was reported today, and the authorities claim to have unearth- ed an organization planning outrages both in this country and Jugoslavia in reprisal for the preventive actions taken against the Comitadjis. The men will be tried in the criminal courts. Athens dispatches yesterday sald the Greco-Bulgarian frontier had been closed to prevent the ingress of Comitadjis. One of the arrested men was alleged to have admitted that the Comitadjis were prepared to destroy Greek consulates in Belgrade and other Jugoslavian) cities in hope of -straining Greco: slavian relations, COOLIDGE PHONES 10 CALLES TODAY Booticqgers Presidents Will Exchange Fe- licitations on Opening of New Line. ‘When President Coolidge and Presi- dent Calles of Mexico indulge briefly in felicitations late this afternoon over the long-distance telephone, they will formally inaugurate the direct long- distance telephone service between ‘Washington and Mexico City, thereby marking another step in the remark- able progress that has been made in recent years in the advancement of international communication. It is expected that at least 300 spe- cially invited guests will be present when President Coolidge talks to the Mexican executive from the TPan- American Building. President Calles, at the same time, will, it is under- stood, be surrounded by a large com- pany of officials and friends when he talks from the National Palace at Mexico City. Interpreters Needed. During this telephone conversation, which will be merely of the usual dip- lomatic nature, neither President is destined to understand the other, be- cause President Coolidge knows on Spanish and President Calles has only a very little English at his command. Their conversation, therefore, will be interpreted at both ends of the phone, and in the talk none of the primary significance of the occasion will be lost. Guests at the Pan-American Union and at the national palace in Mexico City during this ceremony will be given headphones, which will enable them to listen in on all that tran- spires over the wire. The ceremony is scheduled to begin at 5:30 p.m. Just prior to the inauguration of the serv- ice between the two Capitals, Walter S. Gifford, president of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co., will give a brief account of the evolution of long-distance phoning, following ‘which service connection between the two Capitals will be made by Dr. L. S. Rowe, director of the Pan-American Union, who will hold the connection until the line is clear and otherwise in readiness for the two Presidents to enter upon their conversation. Bands to Play National Airs. This conversation between President Coolidge and President Calles, which will not consume more than 10 minutes, will be followed by Wilbur J. Carr, Acting Secretary of State, talk- ing to Genaro Estrada, acting minister of foreign affairs of Mexico. Then will follow an exchange of felicitations be- tween Arthur Schoenfeld of this city, charge d'affaires of the American embassy at Mexico City, and Manuel C'. Tellez, Mexican Ambassador to the United States. The playing of the Mexican national anthem here by the United States Marine Band and the response of the Mexican National Band will “The Star Spangled Banner” will add to the in- terest of the occasion. N RIVERA WILL MEET CHAMBERLAIN TODAY Premier Arrives at Barcelona for Interview With Sir Austen, Taking Yacht Trip. By the Assoclated Press. BARCELONA, Spain, September 29.—Premier Primo de Rivera arrived here this morning and will have an in- terview with Sir Austen Chamberlain, the British foreign minister, who also has arrived here by vacht. Sir Austen is aboard the yacht of sir Warden Chilcott and is making a Mediterranean holiday trip. One of the problems in which both Spain and Great Britain have an in- terest is the present discussion con- cerning the status of the International City of Tangler. Negotiations be- tween Spain and France have been going on for some time as an out- come of Spain's request for control in administration of the city, which now is vested in an international body. Great Britain is represented on this body. There have been intimations that Italy has been seeking a share in the discussion of the Tangier problem and reports have been circulated that Premier Mussolini would see Sir Aus- ten during the latter's Mediterranean trip. Reports that such a meeting was being arranged, however, has heen denied by -Italian spokesmen. . service. (P) Means Associated Pre * STRICT VAGRANCY LAW DRAWN, AIMED AT CRIMINALS IN CITY and Bookmakers’ Runners, Pickpockets, Thieves and Loiterers Would Be Made Subject to Arrest. The draft of a new vagrancy law for the District, drastic and far reaching in its scope, was submitted to the District Commissioners today by Corporation Counsel William W. Bride. The measure was framed at the request of Maj. Edwin B. Hesse, superintendent of police, who has re- peatedly advocated a more stringent vagrancy law which would properly safeguard the people of the District from the depredations of known criminals. The new bill, as framed by Mr. Bride, contains seven definitions of vagrants, ranging from pickpockets to common prostitutes and all other persons who earn a living by unlaw- ful methods. These definitions, Maj. Hesse believes, will enable the police to arrest agents for rum runners and runners for bookmakers. The definitions follow: All per- Safe Combination Given Over Phone Obliges Yeggman Late Tuesday night a man called Leo Bowman, manager of the Standard Oil Co. filling station at 3226 Georgia avenue, on the phone, told him he was a company agert and asked him if the combination of the safe had been changeo. Bowman said it had not. The “agent” then asked for the com- bination, and Bowman obliged by telling him. Yesterday morning Bowman found a rear window of the office pried open, the safe door open and $140 missing. COAL_MINE'STRIKE : MAY END IN PARLEY Another Effort Will Be Made to Settle Five-Month Dispute in Illinois. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, September 29.—A new effort to settle the wage dispute that has closed the Nation's soft coal mines for nearly five months will be made tomorrow when representatives of the Illinois miners and operators meet here in joint session. Whatever settlement may come from _the Ilinois negotiations is expected to point the way to settlement through- out the entire central competitive district. Dwight W. Miller of Hillshoro, 111, a director of the Illinois Coal Opera tors’ Association, said that the out ok for settlement of the strike was romising,” but added that the at- titude of the miners themselves would be the determining factor. Railroad officials at Bloomington, M1, said they had heard a secret meeting between operators and i miners was to be held today, to reach an accord, so that tomorrow’s meet- ing would be merely perfunctory in- dorsement of terms of settlement. Representatives of both sides, how ever, refused to confirm this report. Harry Fishwick, president of the Tllinois miners, and Rice Miller, who heads the operators’ association, both are in Chicago and are understood {to have had informal discussions, the results of which have not been sons known to be pickpockets, thieves, confidence men or common prosti- tutes, whether by their own confes- sion or by conviction in this or an- other jurisdicition, unable to give a good account of themselves, found loitering in or around any place of public assembly or upon any high- way or in any store or shop and per- sons found begging in any such places or from door-to-door. “2. Persons upon whom shall be found any instrument or tool usually employed for the commission of crime or for picking locks or pockets, who shall fail to satisfactorily account for the possession of the same and all persons classed as vagrant at com- mon law. “3. All persons who do not have sufficient means to maintain them- selves and their families and live idly without employment and who are able but refuse to work. “4. _All_persons who shall come (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) MOSCOW PROBES ARREST REPORTS Near East Relief Heads Say 28 Workers Merely Ques- tioned on Propaganda. By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, September 29.—The Soviet authorities have begun an in- vestigation into reports received at Constantinople that 28 employes of the American Near East Relief in Russian Armenia have been arrested. Dispatches from Constantinople yes- terday said_that the officers of the Near East Relief there had received advices that 28 employes, most of them teachers, had been arrested. The belief in Constantinople was that ‘the reported arrests had to do with the Soviet laws concerning the reli- gious teaching of school children. The foreign department of the Near ast Relief in New York yesterday denied that the employes had been ar- rested, stating that they had been merely brought before the Soviet au- thorities over a period since last June for interrogation about revolutionary movements or propaganda. It was stated also that the 28 were natives of Armenia, employed by the Near East Relief. (e VILLAGE IN ARKANSAS IS STRUCK BY TORNADO | Houses Unroofed in Fruit Shipping Town, but No Loss of Life Is Reported. By the Associated Press. FORT SMITH, Ark., September 29, —Rudy, a Crawford County village, | about 12 miles north of here, has been swept by a tornado, according to S. T. Cantrell, division superinten- dent of the Frisco Railroad. He said every building was leveled except the depot. He said the train on which he | was traveling narrowly escaped the | storm, which struck at 9:30 o'clock. Later reports said that a number of buildings were unroofed, but that there had been no loss of life. Rudy is a fruit-shipping point, with a population of about 200. It has| know: about 15 business buildins: Modern Moi':lxer‘s Fear of Auto Traffic Compa.red With Stone Age Terror of Beasts By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, September 29.— The mother of the Cave Age, as she strug- gled to rear her children, ever lived in tear of the jungle beast. Today’s mother finds a counterpart for that terror in the “jungle” beyond the curb, where motor juggernauts take a ‘“ter- rible toll” of young lives, Harold S. Buttenheim, editor of the American City, told the National Safety Congress today. The jungle mother heard the lon's roar with quaking; today’s screeching brakes blanch the cheeks of mothers —and why, Buttenhelm asked “have The editor answered by declaring there is no sense of fair play or cour- tesy among the general run of motor car drivers. “The mental attitude of most motor- ists and of some lawmakers appears to be that pedestrians who still survive as such are a well nigh intolerable nuisance. We hear a good deal of the need of pedestrian control on, the high- ways, but mighty little of Considera- tion of pedestrians.” He advocated the revoking of driv- ing licenses as punishment for reck- less driving, adding ‘the average driver would rather lost his right to vote than his right to operate a car.” T T TR Yesterday’s Circulation, 99,143 TWO CENTS. COST OF DIVERTING WATER MAINS AND SEWERSUPTOU.S. Federal Government Respon- sible in Triangle Building Plans, McCarl Rules. HELD NOT CHARGEABLE TO D. C. APPROPRIATIONS Question Entirely Different From Market Sheds, Controller Says. Treasury Prepares Estimates, The cost of diverting and relocating water mains and sewers in the Penn- sylvania avenue triangle building pro- gram must be borne by the Federal Government and not the District of Columbia, it was decided today by Controller General McCarl, In a letter to the Secretary of the Treasury the Controller General went into detail to show how the building program is a Federal instead of a municipal project and that .costs for this work properly should be taken care of out of Federal appropriations. “The vacating of the streets to be used as parts of the sites includes the removal of existing water mains and sewers,” said the Controller Gen- eral. “Obviously these cannot be re- moved without making provision for diverting the water and sewerage. Such diversion is, theefore, neces- sarily incidental to the vacating of the streets, and, accordingly, expendi- tures for such purposes either in con- necting the mains and sewers with other existing mains and sewers, if feasible, or the relocating of such mains and sewers in other streets, it necessary, are properly chargeable to | appropriations made for the acquisi- tion of sites and the construction of buildings as authorized by the act of May 25, 1926.” Different From Market. This question, however, the Con- troller General pointed out emphatical- ly should be considered entirely dif« ferent from the question of the Farm- ers’ Market sheds. In a recent de- cision the Controller General held that Federal appropriations might tear down these sheds, but if they were re-erected District of Columbia money would have to be used. The market sheds are on the site of the Internal Revenue Building, soon to be erected. “The removal of the market shed: said the decision, “was not dependent on their re-erection elsewhere, and it followed that the cost of such re- erection was not a necessary incident to the construction of the new build- ing. Here provision must be made for diverting or relocating the sewers and water mains before they can be removed from their present location, and consequently the cost of such work is directly traceable to and is a necessary part of such removal.” “The divorgence or relocation of the sewers and the mains is not re- quired by the District of Columbia, nor will such divergence or relocation be of any apparent benefit to existing service maintained under District of Columbia appropriations. Accordingly there appears no basis for charging the cost of work necessary in the construction of Federal buildings tu i\lnysmmm of Columbia appropria- onee In Treasury Estimates. The facts in the case at hand, the Controller General said, not only dis. tinguish it from the market sheds d cision, but also from decisions holding that the costs of sidewalk construc- tion, planting of trees and street parkings and repalring of streets ad- Jjacent to Federal buildings are pay- able from specific District of Colum- bia_appropriations for such purposes and not from Federal appropriations for repairs and improvements to such buildings and grounds. “There is an extensive building work here involved, for which Con- gress has provided appropriations as an operation of the Federal Govern- ment. It is to be distinguished from the normal work for performance by the District of Columbia in its conne: Eflor:hwélh s?l\;'egs. water mains and so orth, for which annual appropriati are provided.” TRt The Treasury Department, it also was recently learned, feels that the Federal Government should bear the expense also of installing new water mains and sewers, and has included in the estimates for next year's appro- priations an item, understood to be about §225,000, for this purpose, SIR CHARLES BATHO NEW LORD MAYOR OF LONDON Sir Harold John de Courcy Moore, Husband of Washington Wom- an, Withdraws. By the Associated Press. LONDON, September 29, — With their usual ancient ceremony, the dig- nitaries of the City of London as- sembled at the Guildhall today to elect a lord mayor for the ensuing year the choice unanimously falling on Charles Batho, who will take off November 9 in succession to Sir Row- land Blades. Among the- three other eligible can- didates was Sir Harold John de Courcy Moore, whose wife is the for- mer Mary Mitchell Cuthbertson of Washington, d@nd whose election had been regarded as probable. Sir Harold, however, withdrew be- cause of business exigencies and London must wait at least another year for its first American-born Lady mayoress. o RUSH TO PAY TAXES. Crowds at Collector’s Office, as Penalty Starts After Tomorrow. Long lines of taxpayers jamm the first-floor corridor of the jDillrlecli Building today waiting to pay the initial installment of the real estate and personal property taxes for the current fiscal year. All taxes not paid tomorrow will draw a penalty of 1 per cent. Chat. ham M. Towers, collector of taxes, lannounced that checks mailed to his our cities fallen down in their traffi 5 : T o o #*%IRadio Program—Page 34 LI W%iknied whnout ‘ho pensiivs e