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Evening star., 1926-05-24
G0LDSTR0M BEATING
SCHEDULE IN RACE
Mauretania Making Top Speed
Through Heavy Seas to Make
New Record.
BY JOHN GOLDSTROM.
Special Correspondent of The Star and
North American NeWsnane. AlIi 49,

special CORRESPONDENT of The Star and the
North American Newspaper Alliance
ABOARD S. S. MAURITANIA
May 23.-The Mauretania is far ahead
of her schedule and will easily be able
to drop me at Plymouth before sun
rise Tuesday. Today. at the end of
the fourth "a hours of my attempt to
set a new record for circling the globe.
1 had covered 1906 miles, our fourth
days run having been 592 miles.
The Mauretania has been passing
many steamers and racing at her best
speed to aid my effort, in spite of n
heavy gale and very rough seas. To-
day the sea is moderating and the sky
clearing. Up to date 1 have made a
daily average of 576 miles, 46 miles
more than the daily average neces-
sary to complete the trip in 35 DAYS.
and moro than 81 hours under the
present record.
Copyright. 1925. by North American News
paper Alhance.)
Evening star., 1926-05-24
CAPITAL. POPULATION OF $4,000
BY JULY 1, SAYS CENSUS BUREAU
Washington to Become One of Fourteen Cities With
More Than lf.MilliOn-POlice Would
Make Estimate Smaller.

past two censuses were taken. The
1910 population was $4,000 and the
1920 figure was 437 ,571.
The Census Bureau last year Cal
culated that Washington should have
513,994 residents on July l, 1925. The
estimate for the previous year was
4S6,936.
The estimate for this year is con
sidered as a definite indication that
the Capital has passed the half-million
mark and is entitled to all the rights
and privileges of the ranking large
cities of the Nation.
The bureaus estimate differs widely
from the figures obtained in the police
census last November, when careful
house to house survey conducted by
the Metropolitan Police Department
disclosed total population of 472,052.
Police officials today were inclined
to doubt the accuracy of the Federal
estimate, in view of the fact that the
police figures disclose a gain in popu-
lation since 1919 of only 1854 per-
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Evening star., 1926-05-24
CITIZENS WIN FIGHT
TOBAR ROW HOUSES
Only Detached Homes to Be
Allowed in "A" Restricted
Areas After 1927.

Civic ganization representatives
who waged a bitter fight with specula-
tive builders at a public hearing of
the zoning commission Thursday over
a proposed amendment to the zoning
regulations TO permit the construc-
ton of only detached homes with two
side yards in "a restricted areas, won
a decisive victory today when the
commission. in executive session, vot-
ed to approve the change.
In order to prevent the new regula-
tion from working~a hardship on
builders who already have acquired
property for the development of semi
detached or community house projects
in "'A' restricted areas, the commits
sion decided not to put it into effect
until January /, 1927.
Builders Fight Change.
The amendment was vigorously
opposed by the builders, who de-
clared that it's adoption would result
in the erection of cheap, flimsy and
unattractive detached homes. Rep
resentatives of the citizens associa
tions were aligned solidly in favor of
the change, maintaining that they
wanted to preserve the present de-
tached home developments from en-
croachment by emi-detached ana
community houses.
Another proposed amendment
which would have barred apartment
houses, fiat community houses and
hotels from A areas was approved in
modified form. The compromise will
prohibit only hotels in this zone.'
The commission approved in its en-
tirety another amendment which will
require the written consent of rs per
cent of property owners within 200
feet for the establishment of fuel
yards, and gave the Washington Gas
Light Co. permission to erect a 130-
foot gas holder at Twelfth and NJ
streets southeast.
Other Changes Made:
Other changes in zoning approved
follow:
Rezoned from first commercial "C'
to residential "a area property
bounded by Ridge road, Bowen road,
nue. southeast.
Rezoned from first commercial &C,
so feet, to residential "a" 40 feet.
property abutting both sides of
Nichols avenue southeast, between
Fourth and Epsal streets.
Rezoned from "A" to "a" restricted
area, all property in the Northeast
bounded by Twelfth street, Randolph
street, Bunker Hill road, the line of
Fifteenth street extended to Kearney
street, except the Twelfth street COM
mercial frontage.
Rezoned from residential "B" to
first commercial &c" the east side of
ontecello avenue northeast between
Queen street and the line of Genos
street.
Rezoned from residential to first
Evening star., 1926-05-24
BRITISH SHIP CONDEMNED
Federal Court Orders Seizure Of Al
legged Veteran Rum Runner.

PROVIDENCE, r. l.. May "a up.
Believed by customs agents to have
been a veteran rum runner along the
New England coast, the British steam
trawler Gemma today was ordered
forfeited and condemned by the Fed
eral Court.
The Gemma, minus cargo, was ap-
pretended near Sakonnet light early
on the morning of January last by
a Coast Guard patrol boat. Later a
libel was filed. charging that liquor
had ben landed from the Gemma on
previous occasions.
Evening star., 1926-05-24
Supreme Court Refuses to
Pass on Test Case Involving
Agreement Enforcement.
INJUNCTION PROHIBITING
SALE is LEFT IN FORCE
Litigation Involved Attempt to
Sell Residence on S Street-Colored
Association Took Up Fight.

Holding it had no jurisdic ion. the
Supreme Court today refused to pass
on test case involving the right of
property owners in Washington to
enforce an agreement barring negroes
from owning houses in certain resi-
dental sections.
The case had attracted wide atten-
ton because of the prospect that
the highest court might decide a
question which has led to contro-
Versy in many cities.
considerably more than the mere
question of racial segregation was con
cerned in the case. The paramount
problem before the court concerned
the right Of property owners to sign
an agreement to exclude persons they
consider undesirable from their neigh
borhood that would stand the legal
test of court trial.
Leaves Injunction in Force.
The effect of the courts refusal to
grant review will be to leave in
force an injunction. issued by the
lower courts, prohibiting sale of a
residence on $ street to a woman de
scribed in the court documents as
having negro blood.
In this case John J. Buckley
brought suit against Irene Hand Cor
rigan to restrain her from selling
her home, at 1927 S street. to Helen
Curtis. colored. Mr.. Buckley claimed
that Mrs. Corrigan had signed an
agreement with himself and a score
Of other property owners in the same
block not to sell their property to
colOred persons.
Association Fought Case.
In the lower courts the plea was
sustained that the contract was a
legal one and the restraining order
was issued. The National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People, however, accepted the issue
as one affecting the liberties of the
cOlored race and, with the assistance
OF prominent attorneys from New
England, who are interested in the
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Evening star., 1926-05-24
Fireman Leaps From Swaying Ladder
To Third Story Window to Save Three

window. AS he called to the woman
to drop the child to his arms she fell
back into the room, overcome with
smoke.
Crouching on the top rung of his
swaying ladder, Reviello sprang into
the air, caught the grating and pulled
himself into the flaming room. He
passed the woman, her child clutched
in her arms. down to Reilly. Then
he dropped back through the air to
his ladder and descended.
AS they reached the street the
woman moaned out that her baby was
still in the blazing room and Reviello
repeated his earlier performance and
saved the baby.
Evening star., 1926-05-24
BELGRADE MINISTER
TARGET OF ASSASSIN
Youth With Bomb Meant for
Leader of Jugoslavia Peasants
Arrested at Meeting.
Rv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BELGRADE, Jugoslavia, May "a.
An attempt to assassinate Stefan
Raditch, Croat Peasant party leader
and minister of education, was frus-
trated at Starapazova today. A young
Nationalist, Slavko Mitch. was ar
rested Just as he was about to throw
a bomb at the minister during meet
inc of Raditch partisans.
Milich told police that he belonged
to a Nationalist organization and that
his attempt to assassinate Raditch
was actuated by political motives.
Evening star., 1926-05-24
Court Sets Standard Diet for Prisoners
To End Profiteering in Cleveland Jail

making impossible profiteering on
merchandise sold in the Jail.
A grand jury investigation revealed
that prisoners had been charged 5
cents for newspapers selling on the
street for 2 cents, that 15-cent cigar
cites were sold for 25 cents and that
penny boxes of matches were retailed
in the Jail for cents.
The grand jury in it's report Satur-
day declared the county Jail diet was
totally and wholly inadequate" and
that "exorbitant prices" were charged
for merchandise sold in the Jail.
Evening star., 1926-05-24
JAIL BILL Is SIGNED.

President Coolidge today signed
the bill authorizing the construction
of a new wing at the District Jail at
cost of $175.000, which will pro-
vide more adequate quarters for the
prisoners at this institution.
The President at the same time
signed the bill transferring the juris-
diction over Conduit road from the
War Department to the District
Commissioners. The transfer was
asked by the Commissioners in order
to permit a program of widening
and sidewalk construction on Con-
duit road.
Evening star., 1926-05-24
PLANS LEGALITY DOUBTED.
California Attorney General Skeptical
of Success.
Nv the Associated Press.

OF success.
sv the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, May "a R).-U.
:. Webb, attorney general for Caltfor-
MIA. today threw the first wrench in
President Coolidge's new machine for
county enforcement of the Volstead
act when he expressed doubt as to
the legality Of the move.
Under the presidential order. Ned
Green, Federal prohibition admin
istrator here, would he empowered to
swear in as Federal officers deputy
sheriffs, who now enforce the law un-
der the Wright act, a State law which
adopted the provisions of the Volstead
act.
The advantages of the new move
bv Green were not clear to the num-
her of sheriffs interviewed by the
Associated Press. They maintained
they could do nothing as Federal Off
GERS that they are not now able to do
as county officers.
United States Court Crowded.
Under the State law all cases are
tried In superior courts located with
in the county where the offense has
been committed. Under the new plan
all cases would be thrown into United
states district courts, where conges-
ton of cases has left crowded calen-
dars, the officials point out.
If the law could be legally worked
out in State where no local enforce
ment measures are in effect, the re-
suit would be more far-reaching, the
officials said
Col. Green prepared today to for
ward the names of 35 officials in the
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Evening star., 1926-05-24

By the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, May 24.-Common
pleas judges today drew up standard
menu for the county Jail.
The menu provided prisoners with
Sufficient healthful and wholesome
food" instead of the starvation diet
which has been served them by Sheriff
Fred Kohler and which caused a "a
hour disturbance in the Jail last week
by prisoners in protest against food
served them.
Evening star., 1926-05-24
BOGUS LORD HELD
ON FRAUD CHARGE
Philadelphia Police Say
Beaverbrook Took $125,000
From Woman He Wed.
Rx the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, May 24.-De-
tctives today arrested d man whom
they identify as the Lord Beaver
brook" man of many wives. on a
charge of having married and swim
died New York woman out of $125,-
600 worth of jewelry.
Wed Capital Woman.
Lord Cornelius Beaverbrook," :"
known to local police as a man with
a dozen aliases and as one of the
alleged peers in the realm of conf
dence operators who make women
their victims, was married in the
Spring of 1925 to Mrs. Virginia Mar
tin, a resident of Wardman Park Ho-
tel, after a fast and furious courtship.
He bestowed jewelry valued at
thousa nds of dollars on his bride and
a few days after the marriage de-
serted her, taking with him a large
amount of money which she had in
trusted to him.
His operations were nationwide in
aspect, it was believed by police. after
Investigation of this case. 1t was
found that he had adopted as a dis
tinct method of operation the ensnar-
ing of women with profession Of love
and after marriage deserting them
and decamping with their funds. He
conducted his operations, according to
the police, only in the most elite and
select circles, using only persons Of
high social and financial standing as
his potential victims.
He was married to Mrs. Martin in
Rockville and later showed up in St.
Louis after conducting operations in
Chicago. Held there under bond. he
skipped his bond. according to allega-
tions contained in a dispatch from
that city at the time, and has been
free from that time until the time Of
his capture in Philadelphia.
Evening star., 1926-05-24
Heat Wave Coming East.

CHICAGO, May % R.-A heat
wave which gave Pierre, S. D., tenn
perature of 102 degrees yesterday is
expected to reach Chicago and the
Mississippi Valley tomorrow with at
least 80 degrees of heat, H. ]. Cox,
senior meteorologist, announced this
morning. 1t may last throughout the
week.
Evening star., 1926-05-24
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, May PA f1reman's
courageous leap through the air from
the top of a .swaying ladder three
stories high resulted today in saving
a mother and her two small children
from being burned to death in a Har.
lem tenement fire.
When fire apparatus arrived at the
the tenement, a women was seen
standing at a third-foor window with
a child in her arms, all chance of es.
cape cut off by flames. A ladder was
thrown up and Firemen Reviello and
Reilly raced UP the rungs. Standing
at the very top Reviello was still out
Of reach of an iron grating below the
Evening star., 1926-05-24
FRENCH DEBT DEAL O. KID
House Ways and Means Committee
Gives Settlement Approva1.

The French war debt settlement
was approved today by the House
ways and means committee. The
House is not expected to take it up
until after June 1.
Chairman Green of the committee
expects little opposition on the House
floor. but long and bitter fight is in
prospect in the Senate.
Evening star., 1926-05-24
Saturday Is U. S. Paw Day.

Because May 81 will be observed as
Memorial day, all Federal employees in
this city will receive the balance Of
their salaries for May on Saturday.
Arrangements to that end have been
made at the Treasury Department
Evening star., 1926-05-24
Cecil Cites Covenant.


The question of the advisability of
the commissions assuming permanent
control of the disarmament problem
will go to subcommittee of military
experts for their opinion. After a
lively debate the delegates approved
the contention of NJ. Paul Boncour
that the question of strengthening the
league council in order to enforce
disarmament agreements was a mat
ter concerning the council itself
rather than the disarmament COM
mission.
1t was therefore agreed that
French exposition of the problem be
sent to the council with the request
that it be examined Immediately
Evening star., 1926-05-24
Ouimet Also Wins.

Francis Ouimet came through the
first round successfully, defeating
Frank Williamson of Carlyle, and 3.
George Won Elm, the Los Angeles
star. defeated Russell Boyack OF
Baberton, 4 and 3.
]. +. Beddard, who has been play
ing in the amateur championships
for several years. defeated r.. W.
Ryle. another British golfer, and o.
The mornings play saw five Amerl-
cans eliminated from the champion
ship. They were Everett Brooks OF
the Glen Echo Country Club, Nor
mandy, Mo: w. c. Fownes OF Pitts
burgh. Alfred G. Ulmer of Jackson
Vile. Fla, and the two Florida play
ers. Spratt and O'Brien. The latter
two scratched.
AS the play went on today the
winds freshened and became chilller
but they were not strong enough to
affect the quality of the play.
The innovation of charging admls-
sion to the matches apparently af-
fected the attendance and only about
a thousand persons paid their half
crown to see the first round. A few
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Evening star., 1926-05-24
Gibson Tells Commission,
However, Americans Cannot
Enter Such Discussions.
ONE FRENCH PROPOSAL
REFERRED TO COUNCIL
Question of Enforcing Disarma-
ment Agreements-Japan Denies
Favoring Naval Conference.
By the Associated Press.


GENEVA, May 24.-Asserting that
the United States wished to do every
thing possible to promote the move
ment for the limitation of armaments
Hugh Gibson, American delegate, to-
day told the preparatory commission
on disarmament that his delegation
did not wish to present any obstacle
TO discussion of disarmament prob
lens which might have League of Ma.
tions aspects.
Mr.. Gibson said that the Americans
ticipate in such discussions. but would
not stand in their way. His statement
was made in the course of n debate
over the desirability of exercising
some sort of control over the arma-
ments of nations participating in the
conference, once reductions have been
agreed upon. France was in favor of
a regular form OF control, to which
Italy, however, interposed objections.
Cecil Cites Covenant.
Viscount Cecil, the English delegate.
expressed the opinion that any dispute
as to whether the disarmament ac-
cords were being Loyalty carried out
normally would come under the
eleventh article of the covenant of the
League of Nations. This article pro
vides that any dispute between mem
bers of the league is a matter which
concerns all members and may be
brought to the attention of the league
council
This brought an objection from one
delegate who remarked that discus
sions on the covenant might en-
barrass non-league members. 1t was
then that Mr.. Gibson presented the
American attitlde of not placing OBJ
stacles in the way OF anything that
might help to bring about arms limita-
Evening star., 1926-05-24

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Evening star., 1926-05-24
YOUNG MACKENZIE
W|NSAT MU|RF|ELD
Washington Youth Brings
First American Victory
in British Match.
By the Associated Press.

MUIRFIELD, Scotland. May "a
Youth brought home the first Ameri-
can victory in the British amateur
golf championship tournament. which
opened here today.
Roland Mackenzie of Washington,
D. c., 10, youngest player on the
American Walker cup team. over
whelmed his doughty Scottish oppon-
ent, w. j. Guild of Murrayfield in the
first nine holes of their match. and
then played good enough golf, despite
two bad holes on the homeward route,
to win and >.
Guild has the reputation of being
one of the deadliest putters in Scot
land. but he had few opportunities to
display his talent up to the ninth hole.
the Young American having him D
down at the turn.
Wood Shots Bring Applause.
Mackenzie was three under fours
at the ninth. His screaming wood
shots. time after time, brought bursts
of applause among the large gallery
which followed the only American
Walker cup team member to compete
in the mornings play.
Capt. Robert a. Gardner of the
American Walker Cup team was the
first to grasp Mackenzie's hand after
the latter's victory over Guild at the
sixteenth hole. The first of my
lambs is safe in the fold, said Capt
Gardner.
Mackenzie was so interested in ms
first championship competition IN
Great Britain that he did not stop for
hut
links he pIayed az steadily as any OF
the srizZled Scottish veterans, who
followed his outward play with amaze.
ment. Exclamations of approval and
wonderment were numerous as the
Young player sent mighty drives 49,
so and even 60 yards beyond Gullds.
Tho ca rdG.
Evening star., 1926-05-24

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Evening star., 1926-05-24

20. s. Weather Bureau Forecast.)
Partly cloudy and warmer tonight
and tomorrow; gentle to moderate
shifting winds.
Highest. 81, at noon today; lowest,
AZ, at am. today.
Full report on page 9.
Evening star., 1926-05-24

Saturdays Circulation, 1851
Sundays Circulation, 107,399
Evening star., 1926-12-12
FORD HOSPITAL ROW
IS DUE TO SMOKING
Use of Cigarettes by Nurses Cause.
Four to Sever Connections
With Institution.
BY the Associated Press.

DETROIT, December 11.-Cigarette
smoking among nurses as a moral Is.
sue was not involved in the contro-
versy that led to the resignation or
dismissal of two executives and
two nurse instructors. of the Henry
Ford Hospital here, according to Miss
Katherine G.. Kimmick, who resigned
as superintendent of nurses of the in.
stitution.
Instead, she said yesterday, it was
a hospital rule, for bidding smoking
anywhere on the hospital grounds.
She rendered her resignation, Miss
Kimmick said, after having been told
to reinstate two nurses who had been
discovered smoking in the nurses
home. This, she said, she refused to
do, holding that the morale Of the
hospital would suffer if infractions of
the rule were thus condoned.
Miss Emma Jones and Miss Bertha
Bennett, instructors of, nurses, re-
signed with her, Miss Kimmick said.
w. L. Graham, whose dismissal as
superintendent of the hospital was
made known in a brief notice, inform
ing him his services were no longer
required, said yesterday that so far as
he knew it was due "just to differ
ence Of opinion His, part in the
cigarette-smoking episode appears to
have been confined to forwarding a
petition from the nursing staff to the
hospital management asking rein
statement of the two senior nurses
Miss Kimmick had ordered DISCHARGED
for smoking.
Miss Kimmick. whose home is in
Mount Vernon, N. Y, is a graduate
of Columbia, and has been a nurse
for 20 years.
Evening star., 1926-12-12
MINE LEADER PROTESTS
AGAINST REGULATIONS
West Virginia Union Chief Sends
Letter to Davis-Believes Indus
try Should Rule Itself.


MORGANTOWN. w. Va. Decem-
Der 11.-Van A. Bittner, chief of the
United Mine Workers Of West Vir-
ginia, protested in letter to Secre-
tary of Labor Davis yesterday against
proposed legislation by Congress to
regulate the bituminous coal industry
and to provide FOR mediation and con-
ciliation. He asked that the letter be
transmitted to President Coolidge.
Bittner urged that more influence
OF the Government" be exercised to
require coal operators to carry out
present agreements with the union.
Speaking of the protest against the
proposed legislation filed by the Mo-
'nongahela Coal Operators Association
yesterday. the union leader said the
organization was opposed to regula.
tory legislation because it wants to
bring on strike In the unionized
field SO as to reap the benefits there
FROM"
He maintained that the United Mine
Workers was the only organization
which has stabilizing influence on
the coal industry, and said the regula-
tory proposals now before Congress
would hinder rather than help.
The position of the United Mine
Workers, Bittner said. has always
been that the industry should be regu-
lated by the operators and miners.