Evening Star Newspaper, February 15, 1931, Page 1

“From Press to Home Within the Hour” ‘The Star s delivered every evening and Sunday morning to Washington homes ‘The Star's exclusive carrier service. Phone National 5000 to start immediate delivery, WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Porecast.) Fair, continued cold today; tomerrow fair, rising 3 t, 55, at 12 mid- seratures—Highesf night Fridey; lowest, 24, at 10 pam. last | report on page 4. The Sy Sta. WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION FIVE CE IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS MENAGE AND WASTE INNEW GAS SERVICE CHARGED IN REPORT TEN CEN ELSEWHERE Entered as second class matt. post office, Washington, D. Plans to Quit ||LEGGE T0 RETIRE [TWO CREWS SAVED SOON TO RE-ENTER | AS THREE VESSELS PRIVATE BUSINESS No. 1,352~ No. 31,701 o WASHINGTON, D. C., SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 15, 1931—116 PAGES. * BONUS NOW HOLDS KEY PLAGE IN FIGHT _-my =S TSR W ON EXTRA SESSION House Expected to Jam Bill Through—Many Senators Also Favorable. HOOVER QUICKLY MAKES DROUGHT PROGRAM LAW Signs Interior Measure With $20,000,000 Compromise in Half Hour After Passage. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. ‘With the drought rellef problem dis- posed of Congress tackles the soldiers’ bonus this week. If it can successfully negotiate this next hurdle a special session of Con- gress after March 4 probably will be avolded. % ‘The drought relief measure, agreed o by both Senate and House yesterday afternoon, was signed last night by President Hoover and is now law. Dispensing with the usual formality ALEXANDER LEGGE. PAY RAISE HOPES KILLED FOR YEAR Senate Yields to House on Interior Supply Bill, Pav- of sending the ‘bill to the Budget Bu- reau and the Interior Department for their perusal and approval, he scanned the main contents of the lengthy docu- ment and ed it. Only his two sec- Tetaries, Walter Newton and Lawrence Richey, and another White House em- ploye were present. Bonus Up Tomorrow. ‘The bonus bill, so-called, which would firmlt veterans of the World War to W up to 50 per cent of the face value of their justed compensation certificates, will come up in the House tomorrow. Speaker Longworth has agreed to recognize Representative Bachrach of New Jersey to move to suspend the rules and pass the bonus bill. This requires a two-thirds vote of the House. Despite the letter of Secretary of the ,Treasury Mellon to Chairman Hawley { ) of the House Ways and Means Com- mittee, asserting that the Government would have to dig up a billion dollars either through the sale of bonds or in- creased taxatiol bonus bill is the Huuleh Is expected to jam temper of many members of Senate to demand’ prompt action the bonus bill there, even though the Republican leadership may be 1o it. Senator Couzens of Mich- announced on the floor of the yesterday afternoon that he 'w to n&mnn lm.l‘nlmoul ness untm bonus bill has been acted upon. Relief Bill Pagsed Easily. drought relief fund of $20,000.- 000, com| it, carried . & in the Interior it appropria- tion bill conference report, was adopted by the Senate by an overwhelming ma- Jority, 67 to 15. The conference was hurried to the House, which business act upon it. other to h the formality of a record The ‘That body did not even on its way to the President. The President’s approval of the meas- ure had been forecast in a letter which he sent to Senator Robinson, the Dem- ocratic leader, several days ago, pledg- ing fair and sympathetic a istra- tion of its provisions. The Republican leadership of the House apparently has split over the bonus measure, with Speaker Long- worth determined to go ahead with the measure in the face of the demand of the Administration, through Secretary Mellon, that the Bill be recommitted sc that it can be #émended to meet the situation of the Treasury Department and the Government finances. Efforts were made yesterday by Majority Leader Tilson and other Republicans, to have consideration of the bonus bill postponed until later in the week, pos- sibly Thursday. But Speaker Long- worth would not agree. Longworth Tells Position. “For a long time,” Mr. Longworth said, “I have tried to avoid a cash settlement which would wholly or in Pm deprive the veterans of their serv- ce certificates. To this eng Imhl;'eu?ecn to get an agreement involving a ;:l’:‘f.“lnd'mve said that If the Ways and Means Committee would report out a bill carrying such a pian, I would 7lve it every opportunity for passage before the end of the session. “I have had that opinion for the last three or four weeks and I have the same opinion now.” Speaker Longworth characterized Sec- “(Continued on Page 2, Column 5. sk, NEW REFINING METHOD Beet Sugar Improvement Ends Danger of Canning Corrosion. SAN FRANCISCO, Pebruary 24 () ~—Announcement of a new process of refining beet sugar was made today by Pierre Philippo, president of the Inter- national Sugar Corporation Philippo said it is an electrolytic and carbon method, is cheaper than the old lime and sulphur method and will per- mit, use of beet sugar in fruit packing A3 The beet juice is put through the electrolytic and carbon treatment prior to bolling or evaporation. By elimin- ation of lime and sulphur treatment the yefined sugar is freed from mineral ing Way for Precedent. The beginning of a systematic pro- gram of promotions for Government employes now receiving under-average salaries is virtually certain to be post- poned until next year as a result of the Senate's action yesterday in yielding to the House by dropping these in- creases from the Interior appropriation bill, : Although similar increases are in all the other departmental appropriation bills as Senate amendments, it was freely predicted on Capitol Hill yester- day that, having yielded in one case, the Senate will take the same course| as the conference reports on the other bills come in for approval. ' Couzens Makes Appeal. Although the dropping of the salary increases from the Interior bill wes overshadowed in the debate yestarday by the more important issue of drought relief, Senator Couzens, Republican, of Michigan, fired a final volley of argu- ment in defense of underpaid Federal workers be‘{:re the Senate yielded. “When w on tions submitted terior De&lmcnt bill,” said Couzens, -“it staf the committee had put in $248,194 for “Not only have the underpaid Gov- ted | Grove him to the front Chairman of Farm Board Will Rejoin Harvester Firm After Congress Quits. TOOK JOB INTENDING TO LEAVE IT IN YEAR Threw Off Cloak of Taciturnity When Bitter Criticism Was Made of U. S. Agriculture Policy. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, February 14.—Alexander Legge will retire from the chairmanship of the Federal Farm Board shortly after March 4 to re-enter the Interna- tional Harvester Co. It had been reported that Mr. Legge would resign before many months, but this action was not generally expected to occur so seon after the end of the present term: of Congress. Mr. Legge became chairman of the board July 1, 1929. At that time it was stated he probably would not retain the post more than a year, as the Interna- tional Harvester Co. which lent him to the Government, desired his return to its service. Mr. then felt a Legge year was all he could devote to the chairmanship. Target of Frequent Attacks. Frequent attacks on Mr. Legge’s han- dling of the wheat situation have been made by representatives of farm groups and others. To a]l critics he has replied vigor- ously. But many of his associates be- lieved the attacks influenced his de- cision to retire from public service, which, in his opinion, does not always receive merited popular support. Until Mr. Legge accepted the Farm Board chairmanship, which threw him into sometimes violent controversy with former close associates of the grain trade, his native taciturnity had shrouded him almost completely from the public eye. He was averse to terviews, glad enough to meet his call- ers, but likelier to question than be questioned. To ‘photographers he said Took Front Page Place. A mew Alexander Legge came to existence as guiding genius of the Unimzn States Govern::enh‘:u first vemn- ture into and se on_the ‘commodity b“l’l‘:gkctl His _position from him the mask of afl'zn&ep. o press and forced him to the great American farm community king campaign to enunciate ernment employes been cheated and fooled by for ‘a number of years, but that has been going eight years. In this case the President says, I am informed, that he approves the ition, the budget has ap- proved it, the Senate has approved it, and yet in conference, in spite of ail agencies approving on for nd refuses amendments put in by the Senate. Heads May Grant Promotion. “If we surrender this appropriation for the payment of the undes Gov- ernment employes in this bill, it will establish a. precedent for surrendering on every other appropriation bill which is still to pass through conference.” Even if these increases are eliminated from all the supply bills, it will be pos- sible for department heads to grant some promotions by using unexpended balances resulting from deaths or resig- nations of employes, but not to anything like the extent of the program which the Senate advocaied. The salary increase items which the Senate has been inserting in the vari- ous supply bills amount to 30 per cent of the total required to take care of all underaverage cases, the theory being to spread this salary equalizing program over a three-year period. H Would Cost $4,200, If the Senate amendmenis had been sustained, the total for such increases in the coming year throughout the Gov- ernment service would have been about $4,200,000. For the entire three-year program, the estimate was wmehgtenx over $14,000,000. A few hours after the Interior con- ference report had been disposed of, the Senate passed the legislative appropri- ation bill, which also contained Lgm sal- ary increase amendments. Senator Couzens deplored the fact that the Sen- ate was putting these amendments in this bill, when, he said, it was a fore- gone conclusion the Senate would not insist upon them in conference. —e. BLAST IN HOTEL INJURES TWO, PROBABLY FATALLY Police Believe Exnlosion Linked ‘With Recent Labor Disturb- ance in Tulsa, Okla. By the Associated Press. ‘TULSA, Okla, February 14.—Two men were injured tonight, probably fatally, in an explosion in the Lynn Hotel, which shattered the interfor of the building and attracted thousands of persons to the scene. Officers said the blast apparently had centered in a rc,m occupied by Prank Disney, 50, a boilermaker, one of the injured. “Bugs” Riley, a news vendor, occupying the room beneath was the other victim compounds, which heretofore have pre- vented its use in fruit canning in tin cans due to danger of corrosien of the tin containers. Nelson J. Moore, chief of police, be- lieved the explosion was linked with recent disturbances but said exact cause of the blast had not been flmrmlned_.‘ I.J-AHNCKE AND PIGECN “ON LEAVE,” ENJOY NEW ORLEANS’ MARDI GRAS Citizen Finds Bird in Yard, Officials Here Authorize It to Have Good Time During Celebration. At Teast two representatives of the | Pickett were in New Orleans today for Navy Mardi Gras. They were Ernest Lee Jahncke, As- ] ', Whose a Navy pistant Secretary of the Na home s in New Orleans, an carrier n. ‘While scheduled address there yesterday, &eun roosted in a citizen’s yard, whhl.n‘ it Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, N. The oitizen uhfl Rear stary Jahncke delivered a the doubt- were back home at the Magruder, commandant of the eighth naval district in which New Ofrl:-lnl is located, what to do with the bl ks No. 444 discovered in yard of New Orleons, this date. Request instruetions,” wz, the m e sent to the Navy Department by Ad- miral -der. on’ nutherized leave of ab- wm’ v it New | Moon in a the policies and solicit co-operation for the Farm Board. The board's market activities under his leadership engaged him i sharp conflict with the private grawn trade, and its advocacy of diversification of crops and smaller wheat aoreage en- countered mingled opposition and co- operation of agriculture. His utterances were uncompromising, forthright, de- termined. Durings his stumping through Kan- zas, the principal wheat State. he in- curred the hostility of Max and Louis Levand, publishers of the Wichita Beacon, who demanded his resignation and asserted he had insulted Kansas with the statement: “The biggest hog lies in the trough; Kansas is now in the trough.” Mr. Legge. replying to their charge, said he had merely questioned “Is Kansas in the trough?” and added: ;3!]3“ may tell Max and Louis to go to i Gave Up $1 a Year. When Mr. Legge gave up the presi- dency of the International Harvester Co. for the Farm Board post that might last a year, he foreswore a $100,000 yearly salary for $12,000 from the Government. It was not his first public service. It has been related that Bernard Ba- rush, chairman of the War Industries Board, had never heard of Legge when his name was suggested during the war to head the Allied Purchasing Commis- sion. ~An associate of Mr. Baruch is said to have pointed to Legge's name on the roster of eligibles and said: “There’s your man, but you can't get him. He knows Europe. He knows human nature, he is a very shrewd trader, he is as straight as a die and an unbeatable fighter. His is the best head in the International Harvester Co. He is a rare combination of talent for leadership and gentleness.” He became (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) e TODAY’S STAR PART ONE—28 PAGES. General News—Local, Natonal Foreign. Educationai News—Page B-4 Spanish War Veterans—Page B-4. Parent-Teacher Activities—Page B-5. PART TWO—8 PAGES. Editorials and Editorial Features. District National Guard—Page 6. D. A. R. Activities—Page 6. Veterans of Foreign Wars—Page 6. Y. W. C. A. 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NORFOLK, Va., February 14.—Los- ing their way in a stiff southwest gale, which brought heavy rains, three ships were driven ashore before daybreak this morning and another became dis- abled when her engines broke down. Coast Guard headquarters also was ad- vised that a fishing smack had been abandoned by its crew near Cape Henry. The crew was reported taken off by two other fishing craft. Two of the ships, the Nelson Line steamer Fort Armstrong and the fish- ing trawler Salvatore, were cast upon the beach, the former on the North Carolina coast between Point Lookoul and Corebank and the latter at Dam Neck, a few miles below Virginia Beach. The Mallory Line steamer Mallemak, loaded with nitrate from Hopewell, went ashore off Rock Landing Shoals in the James River. Cutter_to Rescue, ‘The Oriental Navigation Co.’s steam- er Oritanti became disabled 150 miles off Cape Fear and ihe Coast Guard Cutter Modoc was ordered from Wil- mington; N. C., to assist her. Her trouble was due to & breakdown in | lher engine room. The Salvatore struck the beach only about 100 yards off shore end her crew of 11 were rescued by crew of the Dam Neck Shore Coast Guard Station. The Coast Guardsmen resched the stranded ship in surf boats and had little difficulty in taking off the crew. Steamer Crew Stays Aboard. The Salvatore, accordiog so last re- ports, probably can be saved. The ves- sel is of 18 net tons and is owned by Joseph Ponzo of Boston. She was built at that place in 1925. The Fort Armstrong left Norfolk yes- terday for San Prancisco in ballast. She has 32 men in her crew and oper- ates regularly between West Coast ports and Norfolk and Baltimore. She struck the beach nose first and is only 100 yards off shore. Coast Guardsmen from the Point Lookout and Conebank sta- tions reached the side of the stranded craft this afternoon, but her crew de- clined to leave at that time. The vessel was in no immediate danger. The Coast Guard cutter Carrabasset was dispatched Irom Norfolk to assist the steamer and the wrecking tug Relief was sent out of New York on the same mission. Smack Is Abandoned. Coast Guard headquarters tonight re- ceived a radio from the cutter Mascoutin stating that she was standing by the abandoned fishing smack Beauty St. Joseph six miles east of Cape Henry. The crew of the smack had been taken off by the Smack Joseph and Mary and another fishing boat, the message stated, but did not say how many men were aboard. Marine records here show the Beauty St. Joseph to be a motor vessel 88.2 feet in length and carrying a crew of 12. She is listed as owned by Prank W. Willisson of 16 Fulton Mar- ket, New York. ‘The Mallemak is in no immediate danger, striking the shore in compara- tively shallow water and within a few yards of the shore on either side of the James River. WAR ON BREAD PRICE RENEWED IN CHICAGO Seven Picketing Bakery Arrested After Battling Police—500 in Demonstration. By the Assoclated Pres CHICAGO, February 14.—Residents of the Humboldt Park district resumed their “war” for 6-cent bread tonight and seven of them who picketed a bakery were arrested as they battled police. The disturbance began when some 500 protestors marched from a meeting in a nearby hall to one of the bakeries now selling 10-cent bread and began another open demonstration. Police were sent to the scene and or- dered the crowd to disperse. The seven leaders fought back and others jeered and booed the officers. The dispute between residents of the Humboldt Park district and bakery owners has been going on for weeks. A court injunction was issued to halt picketing and this brought about the first violence last Sunday when a mob of 500 fought police. Five persons were arrested at that time. |CHIEF, 13, SEIZES BEER; b 1411 QUIZ MILLIONAIRE AFTER DRUG RAID | Chicago Police Later Free| Canadian and Heiress to | Horlick Fortune. | By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, February 14—The Herald | and Examiner says that agents of the United States and Canada, co-operat- | ing to track down an international narcotic smuggling organization, raided | two gold coast hotels and seized for| questioning today a millionaire Cana- | dian and a woman who is heiress to millions. At one hotel, the paper says, the agents invaded the suite of W. Perkins Bull, C., of Toronto and London | owner of large estates over the British | Empire. At the same time, it said other | Government men entered the Lake Shore Drive apartment of Mrs. Mabeliy Horlick Sidley, daughter of William H. Horlick (Racine, Wis.,), multimillion- aire manufacturer of malted milk. Papers Are Seized. In both cases, private documents and correspondence were seized and im- pounded by the agents, who carried out the raids almost to the minute late | last night. The agents also visited the residence of J. J. Harrison, head of the private detective ncy which bears his name. With Mrs. Sidley and Bull, Harrison and his wife were taken to the offices of the United States district attorney. For six hours, Bull, Mrs. Sidley and the Harrisons were questioned by as- sistants to George E. Q. Johnson, dis- trict attorney. It was not until dawn that the quartet was released. Raid It Criticized. Attorney John E. Kehoe, described by the Herald and Examiner as the lawyer whom Bull consulted after his release, said he believed the Govern- ment “had assumed a harsh attitude.” The Harrisons refused to discuss their experience. The paper quoted Kehoe as saying: “Some sort of malicious enmity is| behind this. There is absolutely no basis for the seizure of Mr. Bull nor of his papers. The Federal authorities gained nothing by the raid. Mr. Bull assures me that they discovered not a single particle of incriminating evi- dence against him. Nor were they able to confront him with any suspicious circumstances.” Mrs. Sidley is suing her husband, Dr. John Streeter Sidley of Racine, for divorce. She has appointed Bull her attorney. Sidley, meanwhile, has filed a_damage suit against Bull, asking $250,000 and charging shadowing by Bull's operatives and Harrison. JUDGE, 16, PROSECUTES By the Assoclated Press. KEWANEE, Ill, February 14.—The Boy Scouts ruled Kewanee for just one hour today, and in that hour ‘the 13- year-old chief of police raided a store, seized a case of beer and haled the proprietor into court. There the 16- year-old city attorney prosecuted the storekeeper, who pleaded guilty and paid $100 fine and costs. The boy governmeint was a part of the observation of national Scout an- niversary week. Richard Brosius, as chief of police, obtained a John Doe warrant and, with John Daniels, 16, as city attorney, conducted the raid on Clarence Sadler's store. Young Brosius said his first hour as chief of police would not be his last. “In 10 or 12 years I'll be sitting in the chief’s chair regularly,” he said. line. war in history.” Oout for Pressure—] not be coerced!” First Division Moves Up! Tomorrow in His Memoirs “My Experiences in the World War” GENERAL PERSHING tells how General Bullard’s Division was sent into the front i “It was a source of real regret to me not to command the First Division in person,” he says. Read his ringing words to these Americans “entering this great battle of the greatest Other High Spots of the Week in This Absorbing Narrative. President Wilson’s Concessions to British Embarrass American of D'trnuter Unless Americans Hurry—Pershing's a Real erican ‘Pounds Table with Fist and Says, “Ge) Dow't Miss a Single Installment of General Pershing's Amazing Record. ORDER YOUR COPY OF THE STAR AT ONCE Am¢ it Allied Army nt n, I will MISS CHILDRESS AND FIANCE INJURED IN COLLISION. MISS ADAIR CHILDRESS. Miss @dair Childress, debutante daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Childress of 2200 Twentieth street, and her fiance, Francis Lee Tompkins of 3001 Garrison street, were injured last night when a coupe in which they were riding collided with the parked machine of Stephen Poradzewski of the Polish legation in the 3200 block of Ellicott street. Mr. Tcmpkins took Miss Childress to his home, where Dr. Earl Clark of the Medical Science Building treated her for cuts on the neck and head and a minor foot injury. Three stitches were taken in her neck. Mr. Tompkins was treated -for a cut over the left eye. Philip Porter of 2712 Wisconsin ave- pue, who also was in the coupe, escaped injury. Although the ccndition of Miss Chil- dress is not regarded as serious, she was unable to leave the Tompkins home. Her mother was called there after the accident. Miss Childress, Mr. Tompkins and | Mr. Porter were en route to the Chevy 'hase Club at the time of the acci- lent. Mr. Tompkins, who was driving, was blinded by the headlights of an approaching car, it was said, and drove into the machine of Mr. Poradzewski, which was double parked in front of 3215 Ellicott street. After hitting this car, Mr. Tompkins, police said, lost control of his machine and collided with the automobile of Dr. Robert Y. Sullivan of 1801 I street, which was parked on the cpposite side of the street. ‘The engagement of Miss Childress and Mr. Tompkins was recently an- nounced. PR e DOG BITES POLICEMAN MAKING RAID FOR RUM Canine Watchman Causes Hasty Retreat From Fence to Front Door of House. A dog bite last night was indirectly responsible for the arrest of 16 men and women f - illegal possession of liquor and disorderly conduct. Repulsed by a dog which bit him in the leg as he went over the back fence at 1340 Cedar court to stage a raid last night, Policeman R. A. Wil- liams retreated back over the fence, then went iairough the front entrance of the house and arrested three men B hed Charses o itcesl posseseon of e cl of illegal liquor, upon the repol selzure of half a gallon. ‘The prisoners were booked as Ray- || mond Morten, 28 years old, and his wife, Elizabeth. 24, of 2216 Eleventh street, and Clifton Spruce, 22, a Charles White, 21, of 410 Franklin street. After this raid, Willlams, who is a member of Inspector Bean's vice squad, recelved treatment at Freedman's Hos- ital. He then raided 1702 Seaton place, - arrested 12 eolored men, ‘where 4 with illegal F)-elllnn of a8 th disorderly ey B 19 quarts of liquor and 8 ct. ‘Will Suppress Party. WARSAW, February 14 (#).—The minister .2 interior announced to- night the left vl.:’m b:'w ‘members this faction are accused of communistic tendencies. o United States-Sweden Pact Ratified P . | flows through the sand filter beds. the Polish So- | Su =< a (e S S AN w0 D. C. WATER TASTE Public Utilities Engineer Warns of Effects of Boosted Pressure. SAYS SYSTEM’S GROWTH NOT.PROPERLY PLANNED Violation of Regulations Alleged in Survey Pointing Out Inade- quate Control—Remedies Urged. Charges that the Washington gas companies have violated regulations of the Public Utilities Commission by in- creasing gas pressures which may result in dangerous and inefficient appliances because of improper adjustment, are contained in a report submitted to the commission by Bert H. Peck, its chief engineer. Mr. Peck recommended a thorough check of gas appliances and any ad- Jjustments that may be necessary, as well as immediate improvements in pressure conditions, which he, declared has made gas service unsatisfactory. Some Areas Suffer. Prevailiny h res, . declared, have. fenerally beeh necessary ecessary in order to prevent unduly low pressures at points that have been Will Visit Railway Tie Creo- |prived soting Plant as Result of Complaints Received. rej ‘With the Potomac River at the lowest stage in its history, complaints of the taste of the water in Washington have been so persistent that Carl J. Lauter, " ryi chief chemist at the filtration plant at S Dalecarlia, will leave today for Green Spring, W. Va, to run down reports that the taste is being caused by the creosote from the Baltimore & Ofio Railroad tie treating plant at that place. Mr. Lauter said that he had been in- formed by officials of the Hagerstown, Md., water system that the nce of creosote in their water supply system had been traced to the Green Spring plant.. Mr. Lauter said, however, that he is not satisfied with the report, and intends to make a personal investiga- tion. He will be ready to réport in two or three days after his return Mon- day or Tuesday, he said. ‘Water Here Pure. a Mr. Lauter said that the water now being served to Washington is as pure, both from a chemical and bacteriological standpoing, as any in the city’s history. The sharp taste, which has caused so many complaints, is due in part to dis- solved carbonic acid Al- though this is not an impurity, it is difficult to obliterate it from the supply by chemical means because the water now flowing in the river is almost ex- clusively spring water, owing to the pro- longed drought. Spring water is charged | wit dissolved lime and magnesium carbonates, and when these come into contact with the aluminum sulphate with which the water is treated at the filtration plant, a certain amount of carbonic acid gas is liberated. The creosote might also cause the sharp taste, but Mr. Lauter said that his researches into this phase of the subj-ct were not complete, and that he would have more to say after test- ing the water at Green Spring. Lime Treatment Reduced. The practice at th: filtration plant is to place quantities of aluminum sul- phate in the water after it is drawn would be more than offset by decrease in pilot light consumption.” Pressures Found Unequal. ‘The engineers found that in a large portion of the District pressures ex- ceed the maximum Lmitation of 6 inches, and that in other the pressures are unduly low, falling below the 2 inches. This condition, it was explained, is the result “of adding increased business. to a system of poor inherent design with- out the development cf plans to care for expansion.” “The survey,” the report said, “dis- closes that there ‘are only three com- paratively restricted areas in which the commission’s requirements are meeting with compliance. These areas are (1) the district surrounding the Navy Yard west to the War College, north to Gar- field Park and east to the Congressional Cemetery: (2) the district west of Georgetown College and bordering the Potomac, which is served at high pres- sure with house governors and (3) the Anacostia district east of Pennsyl avenue, which is similary served at from the settling tanks and before it |high . The scttling tanks take out the larger par- ticles of mud, which sink to the bot- tom by gravitation, and the aluminum sulphate solution takes out the rest, consisting of the finest particles. In normal times, when rain is plentiful, the practice is to treat the water also with lime, so as to decrease the acidity caused by the sulphate treatment. This leaves the watcr almost as soft as nat- ural rainwater. Owing to the drought, however, the lime treatment is now greatly réduced or altogether omitied, depending on daily chemical tests, as the water now reaching the filtration plant already carries a high percentage of lime salts. ‘These lime salts furnish the familiar “hard water” problem of some water supply systems. The salts tend to crystallize out in pip:s heated for hot water, and eventually they will clog old rlpes or so restrict the flow as to cause leakages where there is heating under high pressures, as in steam boilers. Deposits Found in Furnaces. Numerous tests have shown the presence of these lime carbonate de- posits in pipes in Washington furnaces. ‘Through the co-operation of A. R. Mc- Gonegal, District plumbing inspector, sections of pipe where leaks have de- veloped are transmitted to the chemical pressure. “Elsewhere pressures exceed the maximum _limitations of existing rules, viz, the Wesley Heights and Spring Valley districts, extending eastward to Georgetown College. In this latter ter- ritory the daily pressure variations are al;o in excess of commission regula- tions, and, as elsewhere, the maximum pressures are excessive.” Results Are Summarized. Mr. Peck summarized the results of the study as follows: “1. The gas companies are not com- plying with commission requirements, particularly as regards maximum pres- sures. “2. To effect compliance with present rules or with any satisfs tion will require additional transmission main capacity and additional station pumping capacity. It will also require increased distribution capacity in some sections of the city. “3. 1t is urged that improvements be immediately undertaken. Unless this is done, conditions next Winter will result in more extended violations of com- mission regulations, and further un- satisfactory servige. “4. A revision of commission pressure requirements along the lines indicated should result in more satisfactory serv- ice to the consumer. ly “5. Appliance _adjustments (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) "{Continued on Page 5, Column-3.) THREE BOYS, PLAYING IN GARAGE, OVERCOME BY CARBON MONOXIDE Mother Runs 2 Blocks to ;l'elephone and Rescue Squad Pulls Youngsters ‘Three small boys, playing in their Through Safely. Their mother ran two father's garage last night, were over- De ‘come by the fumes of carbon monoxide |y were given prompt treat- Department Rescue