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“From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star's carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forocast.) | Falir and continued cool tonight; to- | morrow increasing cloudiness, ‘Temperatures: Highest, 82, at 4 pm, yesterday; lowest, 58, at 6:15 a.m. today. Full report on page 9, ) ¢ Foeni ny Star, Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Yesterday’s Ciculation, 102,003 No. 311 Dontomee: Weshingias Do WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1929—THIRTY PAGES. *F (® Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. CHINA WILL RESIST PRY AGENTS PUT ON FORCE |\MERGER FAILURE - GRAF OVER SIBERiA, FORPOLITICALREWARD HIT e | INVASION, MESSAGE By Ex.PROSECUTION crrer| LAID T0 CLAYTON il SAFELY CROSSING RN IS IR U . ik INFORMS SIGNERS OF KELLOGG PAGT Nationalist Leaders Order Minister Here to Notify ‘Powers of Advance by In- vading Russian Army. OFFICIALS ARE HOPEFUL OF AVERTING CONFLICT Stand Ready to Resist in Case of Attack, However, as War Lords Pledge Government Support. 60,000 Troops Are Sent to Men- aced Area. - Br the Associated Press. i LONDON, August 16.— Reuter | dispatches from Nanking staic that the Nationalist government has instructed the Chinese Min- ister at Washington to notify the Kellogg pact signatories that Rus- sia has begun an offensive along | the Manchurian border. The Nationalist government at the same time instructed the Min- ister to state that China, while re- sisting invasion, would abide by the spirit of the renunciation of war pact and still hoped to arrive at a settlement of the Chinese Eastern Railway controversy by peaceful means. The Chinese action was said to have been taken after N:mkim;1 had received reports confirming | previous dispatches that Russia had invaded Chinese territory. Troops Sent to Border. Renewed alarming aspects of the crisis were reported in Reuters dis- patches from Mukden, Manchuria, today. Other sources related continued clashes, although apparently of minor character, along the border between Russians and Chinese and Russians and White Rus- sian emigres. A Reuters Mukden dispatch said Chang Hsueh Liang, head of the three Manchurian provincial governments, had ordered 60,000 Fengtien troops to the Stberian border, half to be commanded by Marshal Wang Shih Chen at Man- chuli and half to be statioried ifi the east at Suifenho (Pogranichnaya) under Gen. Ho Yu Kwan. It was s2id that 300 Russian marines who had occupied two small towns on the lower Sungari River had been | driven off, six Russians and two Chinese | dying in the conflict. Some sources reported a lack of agree- ment between the Nationalist govern- ment and the Mukden provincial gov- ernment. The Daily Mail in a Dairen dispatch said the correspondent Thurs- day visited Mikden and found a com- pleke ignorance there of the condition of affairs, Chang, the writer said, apparently feared the Nanking government was/| intriguing to overthrow him since the | Chinese, finding their position unten- able, sought means to escape from their dilemma. ATTITUDE TO BE STRONG. Chinese Spokesman Indicates Soviet Demand Will Not Be Met. NANKING, China, August 16 (£).—A spokesman for the National government today, commenting upon events in Man- churia, declared that China will main- tain a strong attitude and not yield to Soviet demands growing out of Man- churian seizure of the Chinese Eastern Railway. He said the government had received numerous telegrams from prominent military leaders throughout the country pledging their fullest support to the government’s firm stand. He added the government had sent circulars to the various local authorities forbidding mass meetings on the ground they might lead to disturbances. INFORMATION LACKING HERE. State Department Is Without Advice on Situation. State Department officials in Wash- ington were without information today Mrs. Willebrandt Reveals How “Ward Heelers” and More Influential Took Part in Retarding Enforcement. | (One of the hardest jobs of the Assistant Attorney General in charge of Prohibition enforcement was fighting the “ward-heeler” t}/pe of agents, whose appointments were secured before the civil service siepped in and who managed to hang on, thanks to political pull. This sinister influence permeates the courts of justice, Mrs, Willebrandt points out, but is, she believes, gradually losing its hold.) BY MABEL WALKER WILLEBRANDT. I have been told, times without number, by people who originally favored prohibition, “Why, it never can be enforced because the men who are enforcing it are among the worst offenders!” Of course, that is not true, but it is true that enough agents have offended to give bad odor to the whole force. Few people T realize that this bad odor comes almost wholly from the fact that politics domin- ated prohibition enforcement in its first years and has not been routed from power yet. | In the beginning and during five or six years following, the prohibition en- forcement force was composed very largely of men of the ward-heeler class. Appointments of prohibition agents were, until 1926, made as the result of political indorsement. The frequent reward for | polling precincts, getting out the votes on election day, marking and stealing bal- lots, “slugging” the opposition poll watchers and generally being useful in operating the machinery of politics was appointment as a prohibition agent. I have in mind an example of the type of men who constituted too large a proportion of the whole prohibition force until recently. This one lived in Kansas City, one of the cities of the | country that has struggled with corrupt government, not only sincc the adoption of the ei preceding. Mrs. Willebrandt. ghteenth amendment, but for 20 or 30 years | Ward Politics Rewarded. ‘ This man’s education had been limited to a few years in graded school. Afterward he held various jobs calling for no special knowl- edge, skill or training until he secured, as the result of activity in | ward pohti‘cs, an appointtent as deputy constable in a justice of the peace court. (Continued on Page 3, Column 1.) CROSSL. 5. PLANE | OVERTUREIS HAE DELAYEDBY FOGT0 GREATBRTAN Spokane Sun God, on Non-:GO Per Cent Compromise on! | i | Capital Traction Co. intends to ask for| Stop Flight, Heads for Cheyenne. By the Assoclated Press. MILLS FIELD, SAN FRANCISCO, August 16.—The_transcontinental non- stop refuéling”plane Spokane Sun God, after making two contacts with a re- fueling ship here, headed eastward shortly before 7:30 a.m. today, presum- ably on for Cheyenne. Field attendants said, however, that the endurance flyers had not received all the gasoline they had wanted and might return for a third refueling. Nick Mamer and Art Walker, pilots of the endurance craft, requested 250 gallons of fuel when they appeared over Mills Field shortly after daylight. In the two contacts made the plane re- ceived about 160 gallons of gasoline. On completing the second contact, how- ever, the Spokane Sun God headed east and ground workers presumed that Mamer had decided to move on with the fuel he had. Another indication that the plane had ped by Mamer congratulating the re- fueling crew. ‘The endurance flyers, who took off at 5:58 p.m. yesterday at Spokane, plan to fly across the continent and return to Spokane without touching terra firma. The plane arrived over Mills Field at 5:25 a.m. today. The fiyers made it known that they had arrived over San Francisco about 3 am., but that haze had kept them at a high altitude until daylight, when they cvame down far encugh to be sighted. REV. J. T. B. SMITH DIES. CHICAGO, August 16 (#).—The Rev. John Thomas Brabner Smith, who for eight years was director of secular press publicity for the World Service Com- ‘mission” of the Methodist Church, is dead at the age of 59. Born at Yorkshire, Leeds, England, the Rev. Mr. Smith joined the ministry at 19, after working a number of years in steel mills. He came to the United concerning the reported instructions by (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) States in 1898 and subsequently edited many secular publications. SELF-EXTINGUISHING CIGARETTE AND FIREPROOF MATCH EVOLVED Scientists at Bureau of Standards Experiment With Hazards of Burning Discards. BY BESS FURMAN, Associated Press Staff Writer. A self-extinguishing cigarette and a fireproof match now are on the horizon of science. At the request of Representative Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts, sclentists at the Bureau of Standards, in a six-month test of nine popular brands, have evolved a “safety cigar- ette.” Its fire-protection factor lies in an inch-long cork tip, lined with water- glass—air-excluding sodium silicate. Their interest increasing-as the work | progressed, the scientists also have de- veloped a fireproof match, coated with waterglass within a half-inch of its head. Tossed aside as a fag-end, the self- extinguishing cigarette was found in tests to go .out quickly enough to re- duce the fire hazard some 90 per cent as compared with the untreated cigar- ette, Possibilities of accidental fires were reduced approximately one-third by the fireproofing matches. An annual fire of approximately £90,000,000 from carelessness of smok- ers prompted Representative Rogers to , ask scientific aid. P. D. Sale and F. *T wiaheine under supervision of 8. H. Ingbert, chief of the fire-resistance laboratory, attacked the problem. Recognizing human habits as an im- portant faetor, they studied discarded cigarette stubs in highways, byways and building corridors. By scientfic meas- urements, they learned that a 1% inch cigarette stub is the one most fre- quently discarded, and that two-thirds of the smokers will toss aside a stub between 1 and 1, inches long. The long cigarette is seldom discarded ex- cept at entrances of buildings, where it hits pavement and does no damage. Laboratory experiments showed that cigarettes, taking into consideration to- tal national consumption, had a 40-to-1 fire hazard as compared to cigars. ‘The scientists, therefore, concentrat- ed on the last inch of the cigarette, ex- perimenting - in a thousand ignition tests on dried grass pads, electrically fanned, with lighted rettes treated with asbestos paper, boric acid solutions and water glass. The best results 8l were obtained from the water glass. ‘Two thousand matches, including all varietiés in common use, were ignited in | 7 the tests. It was learned that five sec- onds is the time most frequently taken for lighting cigarettes, 10 seconds for cigars and pipes.. The scientists then computed the percentage of water glassing with the greatest safety factor while retaining the fiery usefulness of the match. started for Cheyenne was a note drop- Debt Demands Offered by Four Creditors. THE HAGUE, August 16 ().— Desperate efforts to come to an | agreement on financial questions~of T the Young plan disputed between Great Britain, France, Belgium and Italy tonight caused the delegates to The Hague conference to postpone the meeting of the financial com- mittee scheduled for tomorrow, to gain time for further private nego- tiations. By the Associated Press. 1 THE HAGUE, Netherlands, August| 16—Last-minute efforts to reach an| agrecment on the financial question and plans looking toward evacuation of the Rhineland weré in progress today at The Hague. Premier Briand of France called on | Foreign Minister Stresemann of Ger- | many and again talked about evacua- tion of the Rhineland, while Emile Francqui, Belgian delegate, called on Philip Snowden, British chancellor of the exchequer, with a formal proposi- | tion from the other creditor powers. It is understood that Great Britain was offered 60 per cent of its claims of about 30,000,000 marks a year (about| $7,500,000) to be included in the un-| conditional annuities. Out by November. Premier Briand told Foreign Minister Stresemann that the second zone of the | occupation of the Rhineland, the Co- blenz bridgehead, will be evacuated by the middle of November. As ot the third zone at Mainz, ex- perts are still at work studying the de- | tails. The situation in the financial com- mittee also was discussed by the two ministers. . ‘When M. Francqui made his proposal to Chancellor Snowden he also made a detalled reply of the creditbr nations to the chancellor’s argument, in the course of which Francqui declared that the British interests had been far bet- ter cared for in the reparations settle- ments than the chancellor had ad mitted. | Meeting Futile. ‘The four countries in whose behalf Francqui spoke were France, Italy, Bel- gium and Japan. Before 's meet- ing the British chancellor had declared that offers previously made were to- tally inadequate, and that. unless the other creditors found a way of satis- fying the British demands fully it was futile for the financial committee to meet tomorrow. ‘THe French delegation has made it clear that it has gone to the limit of possibilities seeking to make up & sum to satisfy the British while the Italians have remained fi in resisting the British position. ese _circumstances (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) Capture Rum-Laden Boat, NORFOLK, Va., August 16 (#).—The British schooner Jupie, out of Bermuda. ‘contpany -10-days: | He denied the jurisdicti | the case, BY TRACTION HEAD Long Cross-Examination of Hanna Practically Ends His Company’s Case. W. R. & E. PETITION MAY BE TAKEN UP TODAY Decision Reserved on Bus Line's Objection to Being Made Party * to Fare Hearing. William McKay Clayton, counsel for the Federation of Citizens’ Associations, today conducted a long cross examina- tion of John H. Hanna, president of the Capital Traction Co., which practical- 1y wound up that company's part of the case before the Public Utilities Commis- n on.the request for an increase in atfare. The case of the Washington Railway & Electric Co. also a petitioner for an increased carfare is expected to start late this afternon or early Mon- day. During the cross-examination Mr. Hanna accused Mr. Clayton of being re- sponsible for preventing a merger of the street car companies. Mr, Clayton start- ed to reply to the accusation, but Com- missioner Harleigh H. Hartman ordered Mr. Hanna's remarks and the question which had brought them out stricken from the record. During the cross-examination MTr. Clayton also developed the fact that the | | | 1 an increase in fare on its Maryland | operations. 1 The matter of half fares for school | children came back into the hearing | and in reply to further questions by Mr. Clayton Mr. Hanna said that the | company would not voluntarily put half fares cn school chlldren into effect, preferring to leave this to the commis- sion. He said he did not think the introduction of half fares would se- riously affect the company’s revenue. The commission took under advise- ment an objection filed in writing by Attorney George P. Hoover to the com- mission’s order making the Washington Rapid Transit Co. a party to the pres- ent case. Bus Officials at Hearing. E. D. Merrill, president of the Wash- ington Rapid Transit Co., and George P. Hoover, counsel for the company. were present when the hearing “opened this morning to present the formal objec- tion in written form to the commission’s order making the Washington Rapid Transit Co. a party to the present street car fare case. Mr. Hoover read the objections, which were listed under 11 headings. ‘The commission’s order, Mr. Hoover contended, does not give the Washing- ton Rapid Transit Co. 10 days' notice of the formal hearing as required by law, nor was the order served on_the £ *prior to the hearing. ion of the com- mission and its authority to draw the ‘Washington Rapid Transit Co. into the present case. * Referring to the original motion of William McK. Clayton, representing the Federation of Cltizens’ Associations, that this company be made a party to Mr. Hoover sald that Mr. Clayton had set forth no facts which would confer jurisdiction on the com- mission in this situation. He contended that “there is no ccuaplaint before the commission_respecting the rates, tolls, charges, schedules or services of said company legally sufficient to confer Jurisdiction upon the commission.” The questions before the commission in the present rate case, involving the | Capital Traction and Washington Rail- way & Electric Cos. are entirely foreign to the operations of the bus line, Mr. Hoover insisted. Right to Probe Value Denied. The bus company’s attorney partic- ularly denied the authority of the com- mission to investigate the value of the company's property, especially since the commission did not give-the company 30 days’ notice in advance. ' Summing up the pleading of the bus company, Mr. Hoover declared: “The Public Utilitles Commission is with- out jurisdiction to enter order No. 767 granting the motion of the Federation of Citizens’ Assoclations and making the Washington Rapid Transit Co. a party to formal case No. 205, because, as appears by the record in said formal case, the object and purpose of said motion is to have the Public Utilities Commission, without warrant in law, conduct an investigation respecting the fair value of the property of the Wash- ington Rapid Transit Co., used and useful for the convenience of the public in said formal case No. 205.” Vice Chairman Hartman said that in the absenct of Gen. Patrick and Col. Ladue, the otner two members of the commission, the objections of the bus company would be taken under advise: ment and a ruling made later. Mean- time, Mr. Hartman explained, no testi- mony would be taken relating to the bus company and testimony already taken would not’be held binding upon that company, unless reoffered in evi- dence, in case the commission’s order was allowed to stand. Mr. Clayton then began a searching cross-examination of Mr, Hanna. He first asked whether the Capital Traction " (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) SHOOTING oF POLITICIAN BLAMED ON BOOTLEGGERS Leader in Queens Believed “Put on Spot” by Enemies in Rum or Gambling Feud. By the Associated Press. % NEW YORK, August 16.—Fatally shot as he strolled near his home in Lon; Island City, James Emmi, 39 years old, a district political leader in Queens, ‘was believed by the police today to have been “put on the spot” by enemies in a bootleg or gambling feud. An_automobile that had been follow- and liquor laden, was captured this morning by the Coast Guard patrol boat off the Virginia being brought to the section base here. II ~ Bank Statements ‘Washington clearing house, $4,335,- 69.06. New York clearing house exchange, $1,783,000,000. New York- clearing house balance, $189,000,000. Treasury balance, $104,194,002.79. = o s Radio Programs—Page 18 o ing him drew near the curb when he was four blocks from his home. Four shots were fired and as Emmi fell the automobile speeded away. ‘The police sald a candy l‘bl'e. con- ducted by Emmi, was raided last Spring when ch:ms of mrunn"l:: a nmbnllh:dx game and possess or were against him. Six els of alleged wine, however, changed to water over- night, and both the gamb'ing and liquor charges were dismissed. Charges were filed ‘against two policemen in conaec- tion with the alleged substitution of the water for wine, but eventually were dropped. I l State News, Page 10 | SANED -THAT COOLING! EXP LES Woubp HAVE 7 SE ' PLETED T Q2 ENSE N W ALL, =4 7ES TE HAS JUST Copmq- 770N Liow DoL L AR ” 7= 74 M HE [NITALLA ML SUEAR INGREASE 5 DISIPROVD House Tariff Proposal Fails at First Vote Before Committee. | | By the Associated Press. | The proposed increased sugar duty | carried in the House tariff bill was dis- | approved today by the Senate finance | committee Republicans. | The committeemen did not determine | upon a new rate, but were expected to | do so before the day was over. Only one vote was taken, it was an- nounced, and this on a motion to adopt the House rate. The vote was not made public. ‘The House bill increases the existing tariff of 1.76 cents a pound on Cuban raw sugar to 240 cents and the duty against other countries from 2.20 to 3 cents. There were conflicting reports after the morning session over what action would be taken on the sugar rates. One report was that the Cuban sugar rate ¥ reduced to either 2:30, -the Ppresent’ world rate or an even 2 cents, | and another was that the House in- | crease would be wiped out altogether. hairman Smoot declared that he and his colleagues hoped to finish rewrit- ing the entire bill with respect to rates | today and to begin consideration of a score or more of amendments, includ- ing the debenture and stock transac- | tions tax proposals, which Senators | | have announced they would offer when { the bill reaches the floor. 'HOLD SNOOK JURY WAS INFLUENCED | !Attorneyl Will Make Charge in | Arguments on Motion for New Trial. i By the Associated Press. COLUMBUS, Ohio, August 16.—A charge that one or more of the jurors who sentenced Dr. James H. Snook to | death by finding him gullty of the murder of his co-ed paramour, Theora Hix, was “unduly influenced” will be made when arguments are heard on Monday on motions for a new trial, his attorneys said today. Some of the jurors had decided against the 49-year-old defendant be- fore they retired for their deliberations, E. S. Ricketts, one of Snook’s attorneys, declared. The jury found him guilty on the first ballot, without a recom- mendation of mercy. The verdict was read 28 minutes after the trial ended. Other arguments for a new trial will be that the jury was prejudiced, and the allegation that an outburst of ap- plause which followed the final argu- ment of County Prosecutor John J. Chester, jr., was planned. Snook will be removed to murderers’ row in the State Penitentiary next week if Trial Judge Henry L. Scarlett gives an ad- verse ruling on motion. He exhibited the same calm demeanor today which characterized him during the trial. STOCK PRICES SOAR IN BULLISH DRIVE Improvement in Credit Situation Results in Great Buying Wave. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, August 16.—The stock market boiled over with bullish en- thusiasm today as & result of the re- cent improvement in the credit situa- tion. Scores of issues were marked up $2 to $10 a share, on trading that averaged around a million shares an hour. New high records were estab- lished by at least a score of issues, in- cluding = American Can, Machine & Foundry, Consolidated Gas, General Asphalt, Standard Oil of New Jersey, Simmons Co., Union Pacific, New Haven and Pere Marquette. ‘The drop of $68,000,000 in Federal re- serve brokers' loans, coming on top of several days of sharply advancing prices, was accepted tors as proof by specula that had been no important dis- tribution of stocks by leading financial interests. “Bear” traders, who had sold stocks heavily in anticipation of a “sec- ondary reaction,” were driven to cover and forced to pete with an army of new buyers who had stood on the side- lines until the Federal reserve state- ment was out of the way. shares o fi”/‘“"/ Cloudburst Bares Jouburst Bares AR AND PROPOSES Awd ilver onill TRATEIS CHANCES Colorado Town Remem- | bers $6,000,000 Re- vealed by Storm. | Flan Seen as Move to Per- manently Abolish Parking in Downtown Areas. By the Associated Press. LAKE CITY, Colo., August 16.—The dark cloud that brought a cloudburst | into this vicinity a few. weeks ago has | A prohibition against all parking on had a golden lining, and a miniatwe | the south side of F street between gold rush is on. Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets is The cloudburst sent streams of water | Fecommended by Traffic Director Wil- coursing down hillsides over land known | liam H. Harland in a series of proposed to be rich in gold and silver ores. In amendments to the traffic code which many places earth which covered veins | he drew up today for approval of the of metal was washed away. | District Commissioners. A landslide on_one hill almost com- | Th pletely uncovered the vein of an al- | Official move ever made for the per- ready worked mine and made it no|Mmanent abolition of parking on any longer necessary for the owners to|Street in the downtown business sec- 4 | tion, and in traffic_quarters it is be- work underground fo reach their gold. | };2Us, %0 "the forerunner of a gradual The proposed regulation is the first | | By _the Associated Press. American | t1in, Scores of prospectors have come intn | the district. Many of them remember | back 23 years, when the Lynd brothers | found nearly a carload of gold and sil- | ver ore, which netted them $6,000,000. | lying on the surface after a cloudburst. | DEATH ADHISON 15 TERNED HOM Buluth Laborer Had No Part in Girl’s Murder, Po- ban on parking in the restricted area. The prohibition on the south side of F street for the one block, Harland pointed out, will make little change in existing conditions, since parking is not | now permitted in front of the National | Press Building and the Palace Theater. 1 The actual effect of the regulation, he | said, will be to eliminate parking space for about eight machines in the center of the block. - A canvass of the business men on the | south side of the block, according to th | traffic director, showed that' they are in favor of the parking restriction. Other Changes Proposed. A dozen other changes in the park. ing regulations are proposed in series cf amendments. The majority of them are designed primarily to prohibit | parking on the flow side of heavily | iraveled arteries during the morning {and afternoon rush hours, and to fa- i | cilitate the movement of the rush hour lice Declare. i | | DULUTH, Minn., August 16.—Three | | hours after Oscar Olson, 29, a Duluth dock worker, had confessed to police to | slaying Dorothy Aune in Minneapolis last Saturday Police Chief of Detec- | tives R. E. Donaldson announced the | man had no connection with the mur- | der. | Olson, who was arrested after he had attempted to corimit suicide by drown- ing in a stagnant pool beneath a rail- road trestle, had not been in Minne- apolis for several months, Chief Don- aldson said. Olson, who had been under the care of physicians for treatment, was de-. clared by Donaldson to be demented, and had been drinking heavily the last few days. ‘When questioned by Donaldson, Olson could not recall teiling Sergt. Eli le Beau, who arrested him, of his detailed | confession of the slaying of the Aune girl. Olson’s mother, Mrs. J. Hegstrom, of Duluth told Chief Donaldson her son had been under constant watch by two other sons because of his condition. Olson is being held in jail pending a sanity examination. NINE HELD FOR QUIZ. Minneapolis Police Get New Clues to Slaying. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., August 16 (#). —PFinding of her red tam-o’-shanter and holding of another' suspect who had been acquainted with the girl today gave police new leads in their search for the slayer of Dorothy Aune, 12 years old. The tam was missing when Dorothy’s body was found near a railroad yard | early Wednesday, 14 hours after she had left home. The body was wrapped in two gunny sacks and a cord was around the neck. The latest suspect to be held was said to have admitted that he know the | irl and that he had taken her to a ake to swim. He refused to answer many questions put to him by police. Nine Held for Questioning. He was one of nine persons held in jail for questioning today. Detectives spent most of yesterday afternoon and evening interrogat'ng three brothers, all shoemakers, but announced late last night that they had failed to find any- g to eox’necc any of them with the slaying. One of the brothers was first taken into custory in his shoe store, which is not far from the home of Mr. and Mrs, Andrew Aune, parents of Dorothy. In his shop detectives found several strands of hair resembling Dorothy’s, and in the basement they found a suit of underwear which had been recently washed and buried there under a pile of rubbish. Each of the brothers, ques- tioned separately, admitted ownership of the underwear. Rewards Total $4,995. Authorities decided to take one of the brothers to his shop, but the plan was changed when it was learned several hundred curious persons were gathered around the place. Instead, he was taken .Iot Dorothy. to a funeral parlor and shown the body traffic. Two of the principal amendments will prohibit parking on the north side of.Rhode Island avenue from Six- teenth street northwest to Twelfth street northeast from 8 to 9:15 am. and on the south side from 4 to 6 p.m. Harland said these regulations are in- tended to improve traffic conditions on Rhode Island avenue, one of the heaviest traveled traffic arteries in the District and on which the volume of traffic is steadily increasing. The rush hour parking prohibition, he explained, will have the effect of increasing the width of the street by one traffic lane, thereby facilitating the flow of traffic and tending to reduce accidents. In connection with the parking pro- hibition on Rhode Island avenue the traffic director also recommended the | adoption of a two-hour parking restric- tion on this same thoroughfare from Scott Circle to Connecticut avenue be- iween 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. He also pro- posed an amendment to forbid parking at any time around the inside curb at Iowa Circle, and to restrict parking at the outer curb during the morning and afternoon rush hours. Urges Ban on 19th Street. Another street on which Harland urges a prohibition against parking is Nineteenth - street from H street to Pennsylvania avenue. The regulation he has drawn forbids parking on the west side from 8 to 9:15 am. and on | the east side from 4 to 6 p.m. He also recommends that Nineteenth street between H strest and Pennsylvania avenue be closed to north-bound traffic between 8 and 9:15 am. This section of the street is now closed to north- bound traffic_between 4 and 6 pm. but the traffic director said the re- striction is no longer desirable due to the heavy traffic and large number of street cars operating to Potomac Park and tapenmng south on Nineteenth street. Parking on the south side of C street southwest from Seventh to Ninth street would be prohibited at all times under another proposed regulation. A parkin ban on the south side of Benning roa northeast between Fifteenth and Six- teenth streets, would be partially lifted, however, under another amendment. In lieu of a permanent parking prohibition in this block, Harland recommends that one-hour parking be permitted from an (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) URAL MOUNTAINS; ALL'S WELL ABOARD "Zeppelin, Making Excellent Time, Enters Asia at Speed Averaging More Than 60 Miles an Hour. ECKENER SHIFTS COURSE TO AVOID BAD WEATHER Dirigible Swings Northward After | Missing Moscow Due to Gale Ahead—Few Reports of Progress of Air Liner Over Plains Now Anticipated. BERLIN, August 16 (#).—A Mos- cow dispatch to the Berlin news- paper Vorwaerts this afternoon said the Graf Zeppelin had crossed the Ural Mountains from Europe | into Asia, passing over the town of adezhdinsky, about 350 miles | northeast of Perm. | By the Associated Pres: More than 36 hours out of Fried- i richshafen, the world-girdling Graf Zeppelin was speeding today i | over Siberia, apparently on a some- | what northerly course in an effors to avoid unfavorable winds. The huge airliner, with its 26 | passengers, was reported north of | Perm, near the Urals, at 7 am. | Eastern standard time, when she |radioed Friedrichshafen that all was well on board. She was headed in a northeast- erly direction, crossing the North- ern Urals into Siberia rather than | across the middle region, which had been planned. The Zeppelin was making excellent time. When north of Perm she had covered approximately 2,100 miles of her 7.000-mile journey, an average of slightly more than 60 miles an hour. Reports of the air liner, so frequent yesterday during her passage over Eu- Tope. became meager today. As the ship steadily drew nearer the vast tundras, or Siberian plains lying south of the Arctic Circle, it was expected that only occasional wireless reports would be picked up and that reports of actual sightings would become infrequent. Berlin newspapers reported that the | Graf was already in contact with the Irkutsk, Siberia, wireless station and wes receiving Siberian weather rcports. ALL WELL, ECKENER RADIOS. Message From Graf Is Received by Zeppelin Works. FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany, Au- gustt 16 (#)—The Zeppelin Works re- | ceived a radio this' afterncon from the dirigible Graf Zeppelin, reporting her position as over the village of Pojevska, north of Perm, Russia. at 7 am. East- ern standard time. The wireless con- cluded with the terse message “All's well on board.” Perm is a city of 85.000 inhabitants, which is an_important transit station for freight from Moscow and Central Russia for the Kama district and Si- Iberia. It is roughly 700 miles east of Moscow. MISSES MOSCOW TO AVOID GALE. Graf Zeppelin Was 600 Miles East of Moscow at 2:30 AM. . MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., August 16 (). —The Graf Zeppelin speeding on into the heart of the steppes of Siberia passed over the town of Viatka, 600 miles east of Moscow, at 2:30 a.m. East- ern standard time today. Viatka is the point furthest east at which the Graf has been actually sighted. A previous Berlin dispatch had given her passage over Wischni Wolotschok at 7:05 p.m. Eastern standard time ‘Thursday. Wischni Wolotschok is the German ‘name for the town of Vishni Volotchok, which is 200 miles north- west of Moscow. Heads Toward Ob River., Perm, north of which the Graf re- ported her position at 3:15 am. ac- cording to the German Telegraph Union, is nearer the Ural Mountains than Viatka and is in Europe. At that time she was said to be flying 120 miles north of Perm in a northeasterly direc- tion toward the Ob River. Dr. Echener had set his course from Viatka for Ustsisolsk in the center of n ARREST IN EATON CASE. Scotland Yard Holds Alleged Com- pauion of Man Sough4. LONDON, August 16 (P).—James Moore, alleged companion of a man Scotland Yard wants in connection with the brutal attack on Philip Eaton, schoolmaster of Southboro, Mass., in Eaton's Mayfair apartment, was in custody today on a charge of stealing and receiving clothing belonging to the American. Eaton’s condition was somewhat im- proved today. He i St. George's Hos- pital, where he is recovering from cuts and a severe beating. PRISONER FLEES ESCAPE-PROOF JAIL ON EVE OF ITS DEDICATION Town Postpones Celebration After Having Taken Special ? Pains to Capture Him. By the Assoclated Press. PALA’ » I, August 16.—The reason Palatine didn't dedicate its new escape-proof jail this week was because the prisoner, captured especially for the event, escaped. ‘The dedication was to have been h:ld Tuesday. On Monday night, there- }ore, policemen scoured the town for a jail guest, finally arresting A. L. Fialka of Chicago. The following day found Pialka gone, he having decided that the escape-proof jail was merely a figure Chicago police yesterday arrested Fi- alka and held him on a charge of jail breaking for Palatine officers. It is not unlikely that when the Palatine jail is dedicated next week its prisoner ziul beflll’h:'h. and l:‘l-ne gharge":galnslfi im w e escapi rom e jai being dedicated. ;3 :