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revenue and irreparably disrupt the
work Of the Government.
1T cannot be too strongly empha-
sized that literally the loss OF hundreds
Of millions OF dollars to the Govern.
ment is a constant risk that Is being
carried. due to the fire hazard in the
building occupied by the Internal
Revenue Bureau alone, and the same
conditions exist to an equally threat
ening degree in many other activities
Of the Government.
Second Warning Given.
Again last year the same repre-
Sentations were made to Congress
when attention was called to the NOR
al responsibility Of the Government.
It was then officially emphasized that:
LAS is we'll known, these buildings
are Of the most inflammable wooden
construction and are a serious menace
to the safety of thousands of em.
ployes, records and files Of the Gov
ernment. They are rapidly deteriorat-
ing. and 1t Is only by the expenditure
of considerable money yearly that they
Evening star., 1925-10-04
SEES CANAL EASY
PREY FOR PLANES
Air Expert Cites Panama
Waterway as Vulnerable
to an Enemy.
BY the Associated Press.


Los ANGELES, Calf, October 3.
Senator William H. King OF the
Senate naval committee, in a confer
ence here today with W. b. Shearer.
experimental expert for the Navy
during the World War, who has been
compiling an exhaustive report at
the Senator's S request on naval condi.
tionS on the Pacific, was told by
Shearer that the totally inadequate
defenses of the Panama Canal con-
Stitute a vital point in the present
airplane controversy at Washington.
Shearers S report to Senator King
today called to the latter's attention
the fact that Naval War College find.
ings show that in war on tn- Paclhc
a fleet can be maintained only at
Panama and that from 500 to 700
ships are required to supply the fleet
from the Atlantic owing to lack OF
naval bases on the Pacific.
Shearer Report.
The Shearer report says:
Geographically the Panama Canal
lies open 10 attack from the air from
four points, namely. foreign territory
both north and south Oh it and AR
carriers on the Atlantic and PacitlC
sides.
The only possible defense is an
equal or superior air force. A proper
submarine defense of the canal would
protect it only from bombardment by
capital ships and possible aero at
tacks based on hostile airplane car.
riers, leaving still as a tremendous
menace an air attack started from
foreign territory north and south Of
that waterway.
The objective of the enemy would
not be to capture the Panama Canal,
but to destroy it and thus break the
supply line from the Atlantic to our
feet on the Pacific.
THE report of Admiral r. +. Coontz
on the last Panama fleet maneuVers,
shows that the canal can be captured.
The only recommendation so far has
been to increase the gun caliber there
from ii to 16 inches. This is no de-
Tense against an air attack.
IF Government backing to a great
commercial aviation program to be
used in war emergency is accom- :
plished as compromise in the present
airplane controversy, the Pana ma
Canal still would be left defenseless
against aerial attack.
consequently, the cruX of the
question centerS about three points,
namely:
First, if our first line of defense.
the Navy, is to fight at all. the Pan
anna Canal must be kept open.
Second. the keystone of the canals
defense must be the air.
Third, the canal, as it stands to-
day, is one of the most vulnera bic
points, If not the most vulnerable, in
our national armor."
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Rail Unions Favor Strike.

BALTIMORE, October 3 LP-Fred
Barr, vice president Of the Brother.
hood of Locomotive Firemen and En-
ginemen. said tonight that a vote TAX.
en- among engineers, firemen and hos
tiers employed by the Western Mary.
land Railroad has resulted in an al.
most unanimous expression Of willing
ness to strike If union officers decide
such q course is necessary.
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INTEREST AT OIL SHOW
IN RUSSIAN EXHIBIT
That Nation Rapidly Coming to
Front as Producer, Ex-
perts Claim.
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
TULSA, Okla, October Ken
tucky day, City Club day and natural
gas day were wrapped into the third
day of the third annual international
petroleum exposition here. Interest
centered In the Russian exhibit, which
was delayed in shipment from Russia
Spokesman declared Russia is rapid.
ly coming to the front as an oil ma
tion.
Venezuela also has a booth. That
country has sent a representative to
the exposition, Senor Manuel Con
zales.
I'VE have been almost doubling pro-
duction In the last two years, and
production will be greatly increased
this year. he said.
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BREAK REMAINS.
Old and New Churches In Russia
Still Apart.

MOSCOW, October CP).-The all
Russian church conclave has failed in
it's attempt at reconciliation of the
principal parties in their struggle for
supremacy in the orthodox church. In
a resolution adopted. the church con
gress accused the late Patriarch Tx
hons adherents of a desire to drag the
church into the political arena and
impose upon it a political role
The conclave considered further at
tempts at reconciliation vain, and
classified the Tikhonites as a counter
revolutionary organization, connected
with monarchists living in exile
abroad.
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Allentown Party Due Here.

Two hundred participants in the
Allentown. Pa. Chamber Of Com
merce Good Fellowship Tour" will
arrive in Washington by motor to-
morrow. Most of the party will re-
main in Washington for the world
series.
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Of
panic.
Center right rubbish piled
form fastspreading fuel
to them
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are habitable at all. 1t is difficult to
keep them warm in cold weather and
on extremely hot days In Summer the
temperature on the upper floors is al
most unbearable. On days such as
these 1t Is no uncommon occurrence
for numbers Of employees to be over
come by the heat. There are in
visions have found it necessary to dis
miss their employees for the day rather
than subject them to the punishment
OF working under such intolerable con.
ditions.
1.-The Government is under a dis
tinct obligation to furnish its EN-.
ployes comfortable and safe working
quarters. No we'll conducted business
house wouli subject its employees to
such conditions nor imperil its records
and files by housing them in such in.
fiammable buildings"
In a report TO the Senate in April.
1924, some II months ago. Senator
Keyes Of New Hampshire, from the
committee on public buildings and
grounds, advocating .well-ordered and
dignified housing Of the Government 8
various departments. bureaus and in
dependent establishments In the Dis
trict" and discussing the dilapidated.
wornout. apidly-decaying war-work
buildings, called particular attention to
one Of these buildings occupied by the
Internal Revenue Bureau with some
2 800 employees. He said:
Good for Short Time.
That there have been no serious
fires in these structures to date is due
entirely to elaborate precautions taken
by the officials in charge of them
Aside from the fire menace. there
is the undeniable fact that they can
last but a short time longer, and only
then by the annual expenditure OF
considerable money for their repair.
In fact, only a few months ago one
of these buildings-Treasury Annex
No 2, Fourteenth and B streets-be-
came so dilapidated that the advisable.
ity Of abandoning it altogether was
considered. Fortunately. however,
funds were available with which it
could be temporarily repaired. and for
the time being a serious situation was
aver for the reason that a
portion Of the Bureau Of Internal Rev
enue occupying the building had no
funds for rental. there was no other
Government space to which it could
be transferred, and even If 1t had had
funds no privately owned space could
be found for its use.
Baked Brittle by Sun.
,, "In these flimsy structures, with
cardboard partitions which have been
sun baked to tinderlike brittleness and
an easy prey to fire, are kept such
important records and documents as
tax returns. assessment lists and
other valuable papers which must be
available daily while tax returns are
being audited. The destruction of
| these papers would mean not only an
trreparable loss to the Government,
but to many thousands Of taxpayers
individually.
In speaking of the unfitness of
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INTERNAL REVENUE
MOSTLY HOUSED IN
FLIMSY FIRE TRAPS

CONTINUED from First Page.)
, 1925-10-26
u. S, NAVAL RADIO STATION.
CHRISTIANSTED, ST. CROIX,
24TH OCTOBER 1925.
Courtesy of The Associated Press

Courtesy OF Inc ASS0cldt60 FT6SS')
Washington. -Isdor Nordstorm, Boat
swain on the old battIeship Mearsarge
cannot receive one hundred dollars graf
uity awarded him early last year with
Congressional medal ct honor for con-
s~picuous bravery almost twenty years a
go and may not even receive medal.
Comptroller General McCarl in decision
held that law passed since the war pro
hibiting award of medal Of honor except
in cases of operation against foreign enc
my made it impossible for Government
to give Nordstorm cash or medal.
Washington.--Vice Admiral Roger
Welles reports to Navy Department that
the Destr0yers LamsOn and COghlan OF
the European squadron ordered from Gi-
braltar to Alexandria, Egypt, to be within
easy reach Of Syrian coast disturbance IN
Damascus disorder to effect any danger
to Americans in Syria.
Washington. Two enlisted men Of the
u. S. S. Milwaukee were killed when
seapIane from cruiser crashed in a tail
spin near Guantanamo Cuba, brief dis
patch to the Navy Department said plane
seriously damaged, the men are Sid
ney n. Smith, Chief aviation pilot Of
Norfolk, Va. and K. M. Summey, ava
zion Machinist mate first class Of Barber
on, Ohio.
Washington. - Post norton book writ.
ter by the late Senator Lodge denounced
Wilson as actuated by an overwhelming
thought of self and devoured by the de-
sire for power also reveals his death as
Republicans avoided trap.tor league sup
port.
Washington Exclusion of Countess
Karolyo, wife Of the former Hungarian
President, to enter the United States for
alleged u impose Of making Lectures caus-
ed R.N. Strass, Burger of NorristOn, Ia
her %inviter, to appeal to Senator Borah for
amendment Of the immigration laws.
Athens. Bulgaria reported to have &C
Greek ultimationsincapacitate Bal
, 1925-10-26

de land in this line, corner 50 oo trade
and incidentally keep the morey at home.
American pleasure steam Yacht Ohio
Of C1ncinatti. Captain NJ. G. H9imbrod,
owner +. W. Scripps, arrived off this
town yesterday and anchored near the
Fort Louisa Augusta lighthouse. She
was last from St Thomas from which
place she brought seven bags mixed
mail, and proceeded today to Martini
que, French West Indies.
The Native Brass Band entertained a
large number of children and groWnups
with a popular concert yesterday after
noon. In the evening the program pub
lj5hed in Saturdays Avis was we'll rem
dared to the enjoyment Of big and
%appIausive gathering.
, 1925-10-26
LOCAL

by the Governor. Holidays, so far as we
understand that term nowadays, are sim
ply such days as are considered Of Suth-
cient importance for one reason or anoth.
err to be classified as holidays and they
are observed by the public service, but
their enforcement by compelling private
business to suspend operation is not con
tcmplated.
The mails Of Saturday last were rather
late in reaching Christiansted owing to
the delay in arrival of the steamship
Bolivar at F. ederiksted with the New
York letter-mail which was dispatched
by this boat instead Of via Porto Rico
with the view to advancing its receipt
here. The mail for this town was 50 and
not 65 bags as reported in Saturdays
issue,
The S. S. Bolivar arrived at this port
yesterday morning, discharged cargo,
and sailed for St. Kits in the evening
carrying mails for the Leeward and
WindWard Islands and passengers, in
Guiding the Rev. Father Clair of he Holy
Cross Church, this town, and Mr. C.. G.
BuIlen, representative of C.. B. Rice and
Co.'S tailoring firm of Barbados.
In a notice to fishermen and others
concerned G. c.. Mattison, commanding
officer. U. S. c. & G. S. S. RAJ ger, an
nOunces that wire drag work around the
island Of ST. CroiX is completed, notice of
October Il, being can eled accordingly.
According to definite information re-
ceiVed The 5. S MaraVal which sailed
from here for New York with a number
OF passengers OIL October 9Th arrived
safely on the morning ef the 10th. The
scare given the public as "a the safety If
this boat appears to have TO basis in fact.
1t is understood that through its sales
man, Mr.. G.. & BuIIen, c.. B, Rice and
Co., merchant tailors of Bridgetown, Bar
bados, have just canvassed So, 900 worth
OF business in this island. In other words
sale OF about that much dry goods mate.
rial including a fair percentage for work
manship has slipped through the fingers of
local merchants and tailors by other than
mail order competition. Without offer.
ing any comment on foreign trade and
and with due respect to the satisfactory
service for which the Barbados tailoring
companies are well known here, it is
decidedly no little reflection on us as a
OF business men that from
the large stocks of mems suitings car
RED by dry goods stores in the island
and with several competent tailors we
, 1925-10-26
AN ORDINANCE

AN ORDINANCE
to provide for, and set apart, Legal
Holidays for the Municipality Of
St. CrOiX.
Be 1t enacted By the Colonial Council of
the MunjcjpaJjty of st. CrOjG IN session
assembled;
That the days fixed as legal holidays
shall be as follows.
Section l.
Every Sunday.
January 1st New Years Day.
February 18th Lincoln's Birthday
February 22nd (W~ashington's Birth
day.
Good Friday.
Easter Monday.
May 30th Memorial Day.
Whit Monday.
July 4th independence Day
The First Monday in September ia
Dor Day.
The Day declared by tie President
as Thanksgiving Day.
December 25th christmas Day.
December 10Th Second Christmas
Day.
ana SQcn Oll6f Gays dH lut IilSlQGul VI
the Governor may by proclamation de-
clare to be a holiday shall be legal hOli,
days in st. Croix for all purposes.
Section 2. Whenever a holiday falls
upon a Sunday, the Monday following
shall be the holiday.
Section 3. All commercial papers fall
ing due and all negotiable instruments
maturing on a Sunday or a legal holiday
shall! be for all purposes of presenting for
payment, payment and tori acceptance,
payable and (or) accepted on the next
secular day succeeding.
Section 4. All laws or ordinances or
parts thereof in conflict with the provi-
sionS of this Ordinance shall be, and the
same are hereby repealed.
Thus duly passed at the 4th Ordinary
, 1925-10-26

In a notice to fishermen and others
concerned G. c. Mattison, commanding
officer, U. S. c. & e.. S. S. RAJ ger, an
nounces that wire drag work around the
island of ST. Croix is completed, notice of
October Il, being can eled accordingly.
, 1925-10-26

According to definite information
ceiVed The 5. S MaraVaI which s;
from here for New York with a nun
Of passengers Oh October 9th arr
safely on the morning ef the 10th.
scare given the public as "a the safet,
this boat appears to have 10 basis in
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$3.50 p. m.-Hockey game, Pitts
burgh versus New York city, with
WIZ from New York.
10 p. m.-Dixie Jubilee Singers
with VIZ from New York.
1920 p. m.-Crandall's Saturday
Nighters
IL p. m.-spanlsh Village orches-
ira,
Beniamino Gigle, tenor Of the
Metropolitan Opera Company, will
sing Sunday night during the At
water Kent hour rnat will be broad
cast through station WCAP. The
famous Italian made his debut in
New York in the character of
"Mephistopheles' in Faust He will
be presented in some of the num-
bers in which he has won so much
applause on the stage.
WCAP Sunday Program
II a. m.-Services from Epworth
M. e. Church South, the Rev. John
Paul Tyler will preach the sermon.
p. m.-Servicea from Bethlehem
chapel Of the Washington Cathe-
dral. The RI. Rev. James E. Free
man, Bishop Of Washington, will
deliver the sermon.
7:20-9:15 p. m.-Musical program
by the Capitol Theater family, Maj.
Edward Bowes directing.
915-1O:15 p. m.--Atwater Kent
hour featuring, Rosa Low, soprano,
and Benianimo Gigli, tenor, of the
Metropolitan Opera.
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WCAU. 27s; WCBD, GAS; WCCo,
as; WEAF, 492; WEAR, $50;
webb, $40; WEEP, 349; WENR.
266; WFAA, 476; WFBH, 273; WIFI,
39A WGBS, 316; WGBU. 278;
WGCPs 252: WGHP. go; WGE,
$40; WGR, 319; WGY, $50; wHAD,
275: WHAR, 275; WHAS, 400; wHB,
367; WIN, 361; WHO, 526; WHIT,
400; WHO. 226: WAR, 3O6; Wild,
303: WJR, SIT. WY, 4O5; WIZ,
454: WKRC, 422; WLIB, 500; WIS
345; WLW, 422; WLWL, 2g8;
WMAK, 267; WMBB. ESQ; WMBF,
384; WMCA, 341; WNAC, ESQ:
WNYC, 526: WOAI, 395; WoAN,
2S3: WOAW, 526; wOAx, $40; voc,
484; WOK. 217; WOO, 278: WORD.
ITS; WOS. AL; WPG. 800; WQJ.
44S; WRW, 273; WSAI, 326: WSB,
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|ROmping Around
the
Radio Dial
By Listener.m

There was one fly in the other
wise perfect ointment of a splendid
Christmas program.
AS the Mozart String Quintette
concluded their request program
| from WCAP and as the last meas
ures of the selection were being
played the announcer broke in and
explained to us all about the
musicians; by the courtesy Of what
company they were allowed to play;
the coming program and an entirely
uninteresting rigermarole. while be-
hind his voice one could catch only
snatches OF the music. And again.
during the playing of Victor Her
bert's "Badinages" the same voice
broke in and ruined the last part.
OF course yesterday was a strong
day for Christmas music. Every
station that broadcasted at all gave
some Christmas carols, but some of
the larger stations, including our
own local stations, struck the
the happy medium by adding va
riety to a delightful program.
Classical music other than Christ
mas carols, popular songs: jazz
orchestras and talks were all
crowded into the programs through
our own stations. They made a
supreme effort and gave us truly
wonderful programs.
Yesterday morning at about 6
o'clock we were bustling around
getting ready to go to church when
it struck US to try the radio and
with a few touches we got an early
service from Zion City, Ill.
Last night, in a variety program
from wSBC, Chicago. we heard sew
eral of the medley selections by
Mildred White. She must have used
everyone of the worries on the key
board, and the Numbers came
through fine.
Washington sportsmen will get
the first of the winter sports on
the air tonight when WRC will take
the broadcasting Of the hockey
game from WIZ for local fans. The
game tonight, which is between
! Pittsburgh and New York, will
come direct from Madison Square
| Garden.
| Crandali's Saturday Nighters will
go on the air as usual at 1890
| o'clock and the other musical fea-
| lures will be the New Willard Or
| chestra, the Hotel Madison Orches-
ira from New York, the Bike Jubi-
! lee Singers from New York and the
| Spanish Village Orchestra.
WRCS Complete Bill
IL, (noon)-Organ recital from the
Homer l.. Kit studios.
| l d. m.-Hotel Hamilton Orches
ira.
6 p. m.-Lee House Trio.
6:45 p. m.-"Parrotts at Home, y
by DIR. Alexander Wetmore.
/ 4 D. m.-New Willard Hotel Or
chestra.
1880 D. m.-Bible talk. by William
Knowles Cooper.
7:45 p. m.-Radio novel by CosmC
Hamilton with WIZ from New
| York.
8 p. m.-Hotel Madison Orchestra
with WIZ from New York.
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JAY WALKERS
FACE ARREST

Cooperation of the citizens Of the
District in the enforcement of the
recently adopted pedestrian control
regulation was demanded today by
Maj. Edwin B. Hesse, superintend-
emit OF police.
The ten.day educational period
has come to an end, the police
chief points out. and all pedestrians
should. by this time, have become
acquainted with the regulation.
Four policemen have been sta
toned at various points throughout
the District to teach pedestrians
how to obey the signals Of the
crossing officer.
Violators have been warned and
requested to stay on the pavement
until the signal says go"
Major Hesse said that in so far as
the regulation has been adopted it
is up to him to enforce 1t. and un-
less pedestrians abide by the rule
arrests will be made.
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Best Bets From.
Out Of Town
ON AIR TONIGHT

S:00-Youngstown Artists. WCAE.
Sl5-t'L Lookout 1885," Society's
Musical Revue, WIP.
S:30-Hockey Game, Pittsburgh VS..
New York, WIZ.
osO0-Cliauot Club Entertainers,
WEAF.
Yale Harvard College Pro-
gram, WBBM.
e:I0--The Police Glee Club, WNYC.
10:00-Nick Nichols Orchestra, WPG.
Dixie Jubilee Singers, WIZ.
1O:15-Jeanne A'Dair, Composer,
Pianist and Singer WRNY.
10:30-Arrowhead Inn Orchestra,
WGBS.
12:00-Congress Carnival, KYW.
Time Schedule For Distant Stations
f Tonight.
Hours in parenthesis indicate
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SUNDAY NIGHT SPECIALS
From distant Stations

a:15-Concert by New York String
Quartet and Esther Dale,
Soprano, VITO.
S:S0-Reese Hughes Orchestra,
WHO.
s:30-America41 women's Quartet,
WGBS.
Concert Program, WLW.
iO.0O-TheatricaI Mutual Association
Program, WMCA.
Godfrey Ludlow, Violinist,
WIZ.
1O:30-Popular Program, WENR.
11:00-FroIic with Benny Ford 8
De Sofa Orchestra, KTHS.
1:00-Nutty Club, WBBM.
Time Schedule For Distant Stations
h. l.. ..o..l.. 4I.ol.l-. l5lnn
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Legal Notices
phone Clasustisd Ads q Main $3.50,

Phone Classified Ads 70 Main $3.50.
SUPREME COURT or THE DISTRICT
OF COLUMBIA. holding probate
court. estate Of Catherine 3. Cannon.
deceased No. 33,6Ts, Administrations
docket is. Application having been
made herein for probate Of the last Will
and testament Of said deceased. and for
letters teBtamentary on said estate, by
Charles r.. Guerin. II ID ordered this
10th day OF December a. p. 1925, thai
the unknown heirs at law and the mn
known next of kin Of Catherine -
Cannon, deceased. and all others con-
ccrned, appear in said court on Monday.
the 26th day OF January. a. p. 1895. at
10 O'clock ~ m. to show cause why
such applicable should not be granted.
Let notice hereof be published in the
ssWashington Law Reporter and The
Washington Times once in each Of three
successive weeks before the return day
herein mentioned, the first publication
10 be not less than thirty days before
said return day. a. "A. HOehling. JUS
tice. fSeaD Attest: John A. Shell,
deputy register Of wills for the District
of Columbia. clerk of the Probats
Court Covington. BurIing and Rublee,
attorneys.
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WEARING APPAREL

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