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weather. Showers this afternoon or tonight; tomorrow partly cloudy; no change in temperature. Temperature for twenty-four hours ended ut 2 p.m. today: Highest, 86. at 3 p.m. yesterday: lowest. 71, at 5 a.m. _ • today. Full report on page 7. doing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 22 x- 4)0 (iQi Entered second mailer iNO* wOjJUii post office Washington. D. C. 10,000 REFUGEES DIE IN FLAMES AFTER QUITTING STRICKEN TOKIO; ANXIETY ABOUT MANY AMERICANS iTrapped in Yard of Burning Factory. J DEATH LIST SET AT 320,000 NOW Disaster Accountsße lieved to Be None Too Vivid. Bt the Associated Press. Fresh calamity has overtaken smitten Tokio and the terror-strick en remnants of its population. Nearly 10.000 people, seeking refuge in the yard of a military clothing factory located in a suburb, were trapped by flames and burned to death. Food and water are scarce in the capital. As the story of the Japanese dis aster is unfolded in the fragmentary messages from press association cor respondents. Japanese newspapers and individuals, it is apparent that the magnitude of the catastrophe has not been overdrawn. In only one dispatch has there been a suggestion that the death list v iir not reach the proportions al ready indicated. This was a message from the Radio Corporation of America in Japan, which said the Japanese home office estimated the j dead in Tokio at 10,000, in Yoko hama at 100,000. On the other hand. Admiral Edwin A. Anderson. commanding the United States Asiatic fleet, says the last unofficial reports give the cas ualties in the capital and Yokohama as 240,000 dead and 450.000 injured. A wireless message from Admiral j Anderson to Admiral Edward W. Eberle, chief of naval operations, ] conveying this information, was | picked up in San Francisco. Naval officers in San Francisco believe that Admiral Anderson, who is speeding to Japanese waters, obtained advices of conditions in Japan by radio be fore communicating with Rear Ad miral Eberle. Another estimate, this one coming from the Eastern News Agency, says that 320,000 persons have been killed in the entire stricken district. Two hundred and sixteen distinct earth shocks were felt in Tokio last Saturday, followed by fifty-seven on Sunday. The most severe tremor sva. of six minutes’ duration. Flames Burn Fifty Hour*. The flames that swept the capital | burned for fifty hours, leaving Tokio and its environs In ruins and desola- ' tion. Fire and earth convulsions to- | gether have devastated an area of j twenty-one square miles in and I around Tokio, demolishing 350,000 I houses. The suffering of Yokohama, too. ' appears not to have been exaggerated. An official statement received by U. Oyama. the Japanese consul general in San Francisco, sa>s that the great port Itself and the Yokosuka naval station have been wiped out. This message, sent by a former Japanese consul general who is now at Shang hai. added that more than half of Tokio has been destroyed. Volcano Active, From Osaka comes a dispatch as serting that a new volcano has broken Into activity in the Chlchihu range, fifty miles northwest of Tokio. Meanwhile, the Japanese cities and towns unaffected by the disaster are bending every effort to relieve the condition of the millions who are be lieved to be suffering from injuries and lack of food. Cargoes of rice are arriving at Yokohama and Shiragawa. The efforts of the Japanese them selves are soon to be augmented by aid from across tha Pacific. Seven United States destroyers and a cruis er are speeding to Yokohama with supplies, while two Army transports expect to steam from Manila for Jap anese waters today. All Shipping Board vessels In the far east have been ordered to take any part In the relief work that may be assigned to them by Admiral Anderson. Ship ping board Kteamers in Pacific coast ports have received instructions to suspend freight and passenger book ings tor thirty days so as to Insure the transportation of relief supplies. 10,000 REFUGEES BURN. Sought Shelter in Factory Yard Only to Die in Flames. By the Associated Pres*. OSAKA. September 5. —Approxi- mately 10,000 refugees, fleeing from the ruins of Tokio, were burned to death in the yard of a military cloth, ing factory in the industrial suburb of Honjo. • Water and provisions are reported still scarce In Tokio. Three persons are sharing a single’ piece of bread. So vast an area of Japan has been devastated by the greatest earth quake In the history of this country that it will be long before the actual loss of life Is known. The most reli able estimates of the dead up to the present reach as high as 300,000 to COO.OOO. Tokio and Yokohama, with sur rounding towns, which formed the center of the disturbances, are almost completely In ruins. For two days Tokio was swept by flames, and apart from the loss of life caused di rectly through the falling of the buildings, thousands must have per ished In their attempts to make their way through the fire zones and other thousands from exhaustion. The Manlchl received a dispatch to day aaylng that Baron Okura's real-. ’ (Continued on Page 4. Column 1.) * Appeal to National Capital To Aid in Japanese Relief A terrific catastrophe has swept Japan, and Washington has a duty to perform. President Coolidge has asked the aid of all Americans in relieving distress in the stricken areas. The American NaUonal Red Cross has pledged that $5,000,000 of American money will be raised for relief work. Washington has been assigned $50,000 as its quota of this fund. There is an urgent need for this money. Funds contributed immediately may save lives, while procrastination and delay may be fata 1 . As soon as possible Washington wants to place the $30,C00 in the hards of the national organization. As chairman of the finance sub-committee, I feel certain that the city, which has never turned a deaf ear to an appeal for suffering humanity, will measure up as fully to its duty today as It did during the war times of yesterday. This city has an enviable record to maintain. When appeals were made for assistance during the war Washingtonians did more than their part. Co-operation and assistance have never been lack ing during an emergency. I am sure that this appeal will receive the same sympathetic attention that similar calls have received in times past, and that when the totals are checked up Washington wil] be among the cities in the forefront with aid to sufferers in the stricken land. Donations should be distinctly marked: “For the Japanese Relief Fund.” Checks should bear this designation. They should be addressed to the chairman of the finance sub-committee (the undersigned), at the Second National Bank, who will acknowledge receipts through the columns of local newspapers. VICTOR B. DEYBER, Chairman Finance Committee, District Chapter Red Cross. AMERICA'S HEART AND PURSE OPEN TO HEEPMPANESE D. C. Contributions Pour Into $5,000,000 Fund of Amer ican Red Cross. i America opened wide its heart and its purse to the sorely stricken people | of devastated Japan today. While the government was organ!*- | ing every agency to rush supplies of food and medicine to the ruined Nip pon cities, the American people them selves were pouring their dollars by the thousands into the $5,000,000 relief | fund of the American Red Cross re- j quested by President Coolldge. Hardly had the President's appeal j for funds had time to gain general | circulation before eager responses be- | gan to reach Red Cross headquarters j here. The first mail this morning j brought a flood of checks ranging in size from $5, from individuals, to $25,000. which Kuhn. Loeb and Com pany. New York bankers, contributed The National Capital kept pace with the country-wide evidences of sym- i pathy. responding generously and without hesitation to the call for , emergency funds. " . ... i Contributions of SSOO and SI,OOO j from individuals hslve been received , bv the scores and it is estimated that j individual contributions exceeding SI,OOO each from New York city alone j had passed $150,000 before noon to dav. In addition, there were thou sands of smaller contributions wnicn | had not been tabulated. One New , York couple, Edward D. Ha#kness and j Anna M. Harkness. sent checks for • $5 000 each. Th© executive committee of the I American Red Cross, met this morn ing and unanimously voted to take over the purchasing and shipping de partments If the American Relief Ad ministration to insure expeditious handling of supplies destined from Japan. Dr. R. B. Teusler of Tokio. and Edward W. Frazer, both former chairman of the Japanese chapter of the American Red Cross were present. They ore expected to return tq Janan immediately to represent the Red Cross and become active in relief work. Every chapter of the Red Cross had telegraphed headquarters here today, i that its organization for raising Its quota of the $5,000,000 relief fund has been completed and contributions al ready were being received. Even far-off Hawaii cabled that it had tabulated thousands of dollars in contributions. Many pledges of | supnort were among the telegrams | read at the meeting.. The Federal I Council of Churches in America | pledged active co-operation, and the 1 Vassar College Community donated . 12.000. The executive committee simul taneously voted to increase the fund of SIO,OOO for the relief of Americans I in the devastated areas to $20,000 at I the request of Ambassador Woods. I and an" additional $2,500 was placed I at the disposal of the American con sul at Kobe. O. C, Donates *(1,000. With the passing of the first day of ] solicitation for funds to aid suffering I in Japan. Washington was reaching toward the $6,000 mark in its quota of $50,000 for the $5,000,000 national Red Cross disaster relief fund. Victor B. Deyber. president of the Second National Bank and chairman of the fund committee for the District chapter of the Red Cross, announced this morning that a total of $2,399.00 had been raised over night. In addi tion to this amount the Evening Star and the Washington Post each has pledged SI,OOO, and the Evening Star at noon today had a total of $2,494.13 including its own contribution in its I fund, which, upon completion, will be turned over to the local Red Cross. This made a total of $5,893.13 toward the city’s quota. A meeting of active leaders of the local chapter of the Red Cross was held last night in the office of Mrs. John Allan Dougherty at the National Red Cross building. At that time a plan of campaign was mapped out tentatively. It was decided to pro ceed with the task of raising the local quota along a broad line in the District,, seeking the co-operation of churches, clubs, fraternal organisa tions and and various gov ernmental groups In obtaining the funds. Machinery to work out this plan was started this morning and it is expected that organisation will be perfected under Mr. Deyber of the local finance committee withia the next day. Included in the total of $2,399 re ceived thus. far bv Mr. Deyber are contribution's of SI,OOO eacdi from the Board of Trade and the Chamber of Commerce. The Sanitary Grocery Company sent In a contribution for a similar “■~“r f ¥ SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WASHINGTON, 1). €., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1923-THIRTY-TWO PAGES. FUNDS SENT STAR ! FOR JAPANESE AID Contributions received at the office i of The Star for the Japanese relief i fund, up to noon today, are as fol- I :ows: Keening Star Newspaper Co.. $1,000.00 . Sanitary Grocery Co 1,000.00 Duree Millinery Co 10.00 ' Louis F. Moore 1.00 ! Laura V. Snuggs 5.00 William Rufus Scott 10 00 Henry Eberbach 25 00, Mr. and Mrs. W. P Tibblts... 2.00 1 R. L. Barrington 2.00 ! Hr. J. A. Taylor 5.00 1 Abble Tompkins 2.00 "A Sympathizer" 5 00 i E . Coc }jri>l 5 no i Alvin E. Shonk 5.0 n 1 M. G. Moses o on s N. G. Moses 3.92 1 L. R. Moses '7l : s * B 5.00 ; M. I. Thompson 200 I*. R. Robinson 10.00 Clair W. Cranksfiaw 12.00; Marie J. Bradshaw 50 ■ Virginia A. Bradshaw 5,00 i Mr. and Mrs, Hector Lazo.... 6.00 Mrs. A. C. Nothstine 3.00 : Gertrude Barry 5.00 Le Verne Beales 5.00 Sam FUsco 2.00 E. J. Thompson 1 Girard C. Wise.. 3.00 ! George D. Horning 100.00 ' Warren A. Rosa 5.00 : American Legion, Jane A. Delano Post. No. 6 10.00 Francis R. Weller 50.00 ' Ms. and Mrs. John M. Newbold 10.00 1 'Miss Elizabeth G. Newbold. .. 5.00 ’ Mrs. T. C. Farrow 1.00 i Hudgyard Smith 3.00 I Mrs. Rudgyard Smith 3.00 Stone & Poole 25.00 Rosalind Moore Bain 5.00 ■ Sarah E. Willis 10.00 1 John A. Phillips 5.00 : Arthur J. Linn 10.00 I S. A. Bond 25.00 1 J. Edward Fowler 25.00 I W. Schaus 50.00 i Total $2,494.13 1 Contributions to the fund, when ! sent to The Star, should be made j payable to "Japanese Relief Fund.” All contributions will be acknowl- j edged In the columns of The Star. ; MISSIONARIES SAVED,! LUTHERANS BELIEVE; Baptists Also Reported to Have Escaped Death in Japanese Tragedy. By the Associated Pre»«. BALTIMORE, Md.. September 6. | In a letter sent today to the 3,000 pastors of the United Lutheran i Church in America requesting them to collect funds for the relief of the distressed in Japan, the board of for eign missions of that church express- 1 ed the belief that ail its missionaries in Japbn are safe, having been absent in mountain resorts. The missionaries were believed to , be at Karauivawa, a resort fifty miles northeast of Tokio, for the hot j weather. The Baptist missionaries were reported safe at Karauivawa last night. SEES FRENCH REVOLT. Actress Says Monarchy Sought by Many in France^ NEW YORK, September s.—Mme. Olga Petrova, the actress, said today on her arrival on the steamship Olym pic, from Paris, that the movement for a royalist revolution In France Is being widely discussed In Paris. Many of her friends, she said, believed France would return to monarchical government. Koreans Poisoning Tokio , Resisting Troops , Japanese Say By Cable to The Star. PEKING, September 6—Korean in dependents are poisoning l wells'and fleeing from Toklo, the Funabashi radio station reports. Many of them are armed, and they have explosives. They are resisting the troops. Efforts to maintain order are only partly successful. Prinoe Kanin and the Dowager Princess Tamashina are missing. Princess Kayo was burned to death. Eight hundred patients at the Uni* U. S. Consul List in Yokohama Grows. NAVAL HOSPITAL MASS OF RUINS Woods Emphasizes Grave Need of Food. — 1 1 Fate of Americans Reported Killed. | Max Kirjassoff. consul general at ! Yokohama. i Mrs. Max Kirjassoff. Yokohama, j Paul E. Jcnks, vice consul at Yoko . hama. | Elwood G. Babbitt, assistant com j mercial attache at Tokio. v Family of E. G. Babbitt. | Reported Safe. I Two children of Mr. and Mrs. Max Kirjassofr at Kobe I Sam J. Wardell. vice consul at Yokohama, j William F. Nasos, student inter • pretc-r at Yokohama, i _ l.eo D. Sturgeon, vice consul at , Yokohama. 1 Mr. and Mrs. William Boyd Spen -Icer of 1343 Park road, j W. Lowry Farnham, brother of ■ Arthur B. Farnham, 3140 17th street. W. R. Lynch, formerly with United I States Shipping Board here, j Representative Krnest R. Acker : man of New Jersey. 1 Miss Jane Neil Scott. Y. W. C. A ■ w orker. i All on Y. W. C. A. staff, j I. N. McAllister, San Francisco. . George Young. San Francisco. Miss Grace Heller. } Harry Esting. Chicago j Mrs. Harry Esting. Chicago, i Mr. and Mrs. C. Greiner, Chicago, j Edwin P. Brown and party, Boston. 1 AH employes of Singer Sewing ■ Machine Company. Mark F. Zanders, i All Baptlit mtasiongrisa. All United Lutheran missionaries, j Mai- Ernest Pugmire and family, .Salvation Army. | Capt. VV. B. Sullivan. United States Marine Corpz. attached to embassy. ; Believed safe, but report not con ; finned. Reported Injured. | Commander U. R. Webb. United , States Naval Hospital, at Yokohama. Safety in Doubt, j Rev. Mark McNeal, S. J„ Jesuit ! College, formerly of Georgetown Unl ■ verslty. j Bishop John McKim, in charge of , Episcopal Church work in Japan. 1 Rev. Norman C. Blnstead. formerlv 1 of St. Alban's Parish. : Rev. William Buchanan. Rev. Wal j ter Buchanan, missionaries, brothers of Dr. J. C. Buchanan of 901 M street i northwest. j Miss Ruth Burnside of H/attsville, sister of H. W, Burnside of 607 30lh | street northwest. Harry H. Campbell, brother of Mrs ! Eugene W. Bond of 222 Blair road. 1 Miss Mary B. Campbell, sister of 1 Harry H. Campbell, I Leighton H. Peebles, brother of j Miss Annie B. Peebles of 1617 19th street northwest. Miss Mary Hoffheims. sister of W. j E. Hoffheims of 1315 Decatur street , northwest. ! Homer Rhodcheaver. assistant to 1 Blllly Sunday. Miss Myrtle King, daughter of Mrs. ; Will R. King of the Farragut apart ! ments. j Clarence O. Dubose. Tokio corre ! spondent for the United News Service. | Dr. and Mrs. J. T. Meyers, mlsslon , arles of the Epworth Methodist Epis copal Church South. While all Americans in Tokio are believed to be safe, American colon ! ies in other devastated Japanese ! cities, especially among members of ; the consular service, arc feared to I have suffered severe casualties, ac i cording to brief messages that came slowly into the State Department here today over partially restored dines of communication, j Ambassador Cyrus E. Woods, in 1 the first message he has been able to | file direct from the destroyed capitil j of Japan, reported that he believed | Americans in that city had escaped j death or injury, but added that he understood a number of Americans in Yokohama were dead. He placed |the ( number of deatj in Tokio at only 10,000, but failed t» name the source from which he had obtained his in formation. That it is still impossible to obtain authentic information in the catas trophe-ridden area, however, is indi cated by the conflicting reports that the State Department is receiving from its representatives in the orient. One report stated that only Vice Consul Sam J. Wardell of the * (Continued on Page 4, Column 2.) verslty Hospital have perished. Dam age to the imperial palace waa blight, and It has been reopened to care for refugees. One-third of the buildings In - Tokio are still standing. Many were wreck ed by the earth tremors, and the rest were burned. Among the destroyed structures were the Bank of Japan, the Mitsui, the Tokio Bank and the Yasuda. The department of Justice, the navy building, the supreme court building, the house of representatives, the pre fecture! office building and the Im perial Hotel werp not destroyed. ‘S COMMANDER HURT WHEN U. S. HOSPITAL FALLS IN YOKOHAMA Two D. C. Families Reported Safe—Fate of Mission aries in Doubt. t The suspense which for days has beset Washingtonians having friends and relatives in Japan today was broken by news of the injury of Commander U. R. Webb. 1832 Kenyon l street, and the safety of Mr. and Mrs. William Boyd Spencer of 1343 Park road and W. Lowry Farnham. brother of Arthur B. Farnham of 3140 17th street. No deaths of Washingtonians have been reported. These messages were the first to come to relatives or friends in this city concerning local persona in the stricken area. Commander Webb was in charge of the United States Naval Hospital at Yokohama, in the collapse of which he was Injured. He has made his home here from time to lime at the Kenyon street premises. Miss Anne Pegram of that address, sister of Mrs. Webb, today was noti fied by the State Department of the message from Japan, saying that the hospital had collapsed, and that the commander was injured. There were no further details. During the war Commander Webb was in Washington at various times during changes of assignment to duty in the Navy. Among his services dur- i ing the war was the command of the ! hospital ships "Mercy" and "Comfort." 1 Word concerning Mr. and Mrs. Spencer was received this morning by 1 Mrs. Edward F. Moores, an intimate' friend of the family, in a cablegram from Kobe, Japan. The cable said that both were safe and well. Mr. Spencer Is representative of the in ternational law firm of J. H. De Beker, at Yokohama. Farnham Family Safe. Arthur B. Farnham was notified to day by the National City Company that a message had been received earlier today saying that his brother, W. Lowry Farnham. and family were safe. The family had been at Kobe, and had just left, according to the message, when the disaster befell. There was nothing to Indicate whether their home, on a bluff in Yokohama, was destroyed. Mi. Farnham is a brother of Miss Emma J. Farnham of 3138 17th street. He was born in Washington, and re ceived his early education’ here, but had been In Japan about fifteen years. The last visit to Washington was in the fall of 1921. Mr. Farnham's offices were in Tokio. Sinters Still Hope. Two sisters here of the American consul general •• Max D. Kirjassoff. at Yokohama, who has been reported killed, are still hoping against hope that their brother may somehow have escaped.. They are the Misses Rose and Lillian Kirjassoff of 1400 Girard street northwest. Although no definite word has been heard from Capt. W. B. Sullivan of -.he Marine Corps, attached to the em bassy at Tokio, officials here were In clined to the hope that the report saying the embassy staff was safe also Included Capt. Sullivan. He has a brother-in-law, Ernest E. Eller, at Quanttco. Capt. Sullivan was in Washington for a time, assigned to the naval inteligence. Friends of the Rev. Norman C. Bin stead. who is in Japan for the Epls ‘ copal Church, today entertained hope that perhaps he had gone to the [ mountains for part of the summer and may haVe escaped the quake. He I had been a worker In St. Alban’s par ish, at St. David’s Chapel, Conduit 1 and Canal roada. No N'ewa of Buchanan. Two brothers of Dr. J. C. Buchanan of 901 M street northwest, are In Japan. It was learned last night. They are the Rev. William Buchanan, a missionary there for the last thirty four years, thought to be at Gifu, and the Rev. Walter Buchanan president of the Presbyterian Seminary at Kobe. 1 The latter was In Washington last I summer. The Rev. William Buchanan has two children. Miss Elizabeth and Daniel Buchanan. Miss Myrtle King of the Farragut Apartments, who with Miss Emma Curtiss Tucker of Baltimore Is on her way around the world, was said by her mother, Mrs. Will R. King, to be In Japan. J- . . ,The two girls started on their world-wide tour some time ago, it was said, teaching one season In Oregon, another In Honolulu, and expecting to teach this coming season In the Phil ippines. No word has been received from them since the disaster. Mrs. Clare O. Dubose, well known In Washington, wife of Clarence M. Du bose, Tokio correspondent of the United News Service, obtained pass ports yesterday to sail for Japan. Mr. Dubose was registered at the Imperial Hotel in Tokta. August 16. COOLIDGE.URGED TO PICK 12,000 BY MERIT TEST i ■■■■■■■- ■ ■■ ■ ■ i Civil Service Reform League Proposes Policy to Free Executive From Office-Seekers’ Importunities. Measures designed to relieve the Chief Kxecutive from the importuni ties of office-seekers were recom mended to President Coolidge today by a committee of the National Civil Service Reform League, headed by the organization's president. William Dudley Foulke. The committee was accompanied to the White House by Chairman Deming of the Civil Service Commission. The first recommendation was that the President issue an order providing for appointment in each case of the first man on civil service eligible lists for presidential postmasters. The presidential class of postmasters em braces about 12,000 offices and the committee contended that such an order would effectually dispose of patronage disputes arising under the present system of awarding these offices. Would Include Others. A similar order to cover the fourth ciass postmasters and rural carriers, requiring the Post Office Department to choose the first name on lists es tablished by competitive examination, was urged. This would take in ap proximately 37.000 postmasters and 46.000 rural carriers. The committee advised that steps be taken by the President looking to the classification of such offices now excepted from civil service rules as might appropriately be filled through competitive examinations. Such posi tions would Include deputy collectors of internal revenue, deputy United States marshals, employes of the Shipping Board, the Veterans' Bu reau, the prohibition unit ana various oiner bureaus and independent estab lishments. Changes suggested affect the dis tribution of appointments of approxi- SEES NEED OF MORE DENTAL CLINICS Health Officer Urges Increase of Service in Schools. D. C/ Mortality Rate. Additional dental clinics for school children are urged by Dr. William C. Fowler, District health officer, in hls< annual report submitted today to Commissioner Oyster. An item covering the cost of such clinics is contained In the annual estimates of the health department. Dr. Fow ler said. The report shows that 248 more persons died during the year than the preceding year, Increasing Wash ington's death rate frdm 13.34 to 13.89 per thousand. Total deaths during the year numbered 6,305. of which 4,043 were white. There were 9,616 births, of which 6,732 were white. Heart Disease in Dead. Organic heart disease was the greatest cause of death. 721 being ascribed to it. Pneumonia took 639 lives. Accidents cost 361 lives, an In crease of 100 over the previous year. Suicides numbered sixty-seven, as compared with eighty-four the pre cedipg year, and homicides were fifty two as compared with fifty-seven In 1921. Influenza and grip caused forty one deaths as compared with thirty four in 1921; Many more persons were bitten by dogs last year than the previous year Dr. Fowler said, and rabies prevailed to a greater extent. Forty-four cases were referred by the health department to the District Attorney for prosecution, for viola tion of the food and drug laws. Fines and forfeitures amounted to $1,425 as compared with $1,400 the year be fore. Police Court cases numbered 291 as compared with 333 the preced ing year, and fines and forfeitures amounted to $1,793 aa compared with $1,543 the previous year. “From Prets 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. mately 120.000 federal employes and would in the view of the committee greatly decrease the work of the President. Members of the committee de clined to say what attitude the President had taken toward the recommendations except that he had declared himself favorable toward recognition of merit in the filling of federal offices. President Coolidge received and took under advisement today an invi tation tendered by the Southern Trade Congress to speak at its an nual meeting in New York, October 9. 16 and 11. The Invitation was de livered by a committee of the con gress, w’hfch has among Us member ship southern governors, senators, and representatives, mayors, editors and business men. Watson Takes Message. Senator Watson, republican. Indi ana. will carry to the republicans of Missouri, to whom he will speak at a meeting Friday night in Kansas City, a message from President Cool idge to “get together.” The Indiana senator, calling todav at the White House, asked Mr. Cool idge if he had any message he would like to have conveyed to Missouri republicans. and the President’s answer, according to Senator Wat son. was: "Tell them to get together.” President Coolidge received at the White House this afternoon the 110 cadets of the Massachusetts Nautical School, before their embarkation upon the U. S. S. Nantucket from the wharf at the foot of 7th street. The cadets were introduced to the President by Commander Copeland, They arrived here last Thursday, and will leave Friday. They have just completed a foreign cruise. PRECINCT COURTS, sums PLEA Says Magistrates in Stations Throughout City Would Be of Greatest Value. Creation of magistrate courts in the several police stations of the Dis trict to dispose of the numerous petty cases of violation of the police regula tions is advocated by Maj. Daniel Sullivan, chief of police, in his annual report for the last- fiscal year, sub mitted today to Commissioner Oyster. The establishment of such courts Maj. Sullivan pointed out will not only save the time of the citizens and po lice, but will relieve to a great extent the congestion In the police courts. The police chief recommends that the magistrates shall determine the cases at the several station houses every morning and evening. Baltimore, Philadelphia and other large cities have magistrate courts Maj. Sullivan said, and he believes that It would be In the Interest of progress that the magistrate court system be adopted in Washington. Cites Delay Caused. In 5.223 instances last year mem bers of the police force, not Including those atfached to the detective and wonjan’s bureaus, were detained In Police Court awaiting hearings of cases until after It o'clock. Maj. Sullivan stressed. "Not Infrequently is there an arrest made during the after hours of the night, and the member of the force making It Is not only required to re main on the street until after 8 o’clock In the morning to complete his tour of duty, but must repair to the Police Court, without rest, per haps without breakfast, and there re main until his case Is tried,” the re port declared. "The merchant or pro fessional man may be taken from his business or employment as a witness. A prisoner may be acquitted, but he has been transported In a van or patrol wagon from the police station to the court, after being confined In (Continued on Page 2. Column 7.) esterday’s Net Circulation, 89,379 LEAGUE AT CRISIS AS ITALY DEFIES ITS PfIWERINDISPUTE Sensation Follows Sensation as Greco-ltalian Issue Is Hotly Debated. EUROPEAN PEACE FACES STRAIN, DELEGATES HOLD - England Leads Powers in United Front at Cost of Rome Withdrawal. By the Associated Press. GENEVA, September s.—ltaly's rep resentative. M. Salandra, toid the council of the league of nations today that Italy would regard intervention of the league in the Greco-ltalian crisis as unjustified. The league, he asserted, had no competency in the affair, which belonged properly to the interallied council of ambassadors. It is reported that Paul Hymans, the Belgian delegate, has received orders from Brussels to stand solidly with England in assuring respect for the league’s pact, even at the cost of Italy's withdrawal from the league. Signor Salandra’s statement created a sensation in the council chamber, which had many Americans among the spectators. In his address SI. Poiitis declared that the Italian seizure of Corfu was entirely unjustified because Italy al ready possessed double assurances which were sufficient guarantees— one was the council of ambassadors and the other the league of nations. Signor Salandra in the course of his address said: Assail* Amomliii. "The brutal assassination of the Italian mission on Greek territory was not only a flagrant violation of the laws of humanity and the funda mental rules of international law, for which Italy has a right and a duty to require just punishment, compen sation and moral reparation, but also i an offense without precedent against the council of ambassadors, which had entrusted the international mis sion with the difficult and delicate duty of fixing the frontier between Albania and Greece. "Though the right of Italy is not dependent on the right of the council of ambassadors, the connection be tween the violation of each of these rights is so evident that Greece has not denied that it exists. Gen. Tellinl and liis companions were assassinated because they formed part of an in ternational mission. There is thus a perfect parallel of the Interests of the conference and the interest of Italy. Honor Involved. “The assassins, however, chose these officers for their victims because they were Italians. Violation of the sanctity of human life, which Italy must guarantee to her citizens, and an offense to the dignity and honor of the Italian nation, consequently are added to the violation of Inter national law. "The council of ambassadors has well understood that this terrible crime could not remain unpunished, and if the news which has been published is correct. Greece has recognized Its responsibility by declaring that it 1 will submit to the decisions of the. ! council. Italy, whose rights have I been more seriously offended than 1 those of the conference, has on her I side claimed punishment of the guilty 'and moral and material compensa | tlon. I "In order to secure execution by I Greece of her obligation. Italy has i felt obliged to take guarantees, which I are all the more necessary as the in j stability and inferior moral position of the Greek government, which has | not been recognized by a large num • Sber of states, and its present attitude I could not ensure the confidences. I which alone would have rendered I such a guarantee superfluous in the circumstances. 1 "Greece, with great skill, ha* en ideavored to escape its responsibilities j by turning the attention of the pub- I He and of the League of Nations away 1 from the crime that has been com i milled, and by endeavoring to direct attention to the seizure of a guar antee." . , _ , . , . , Lord Robert Cecil of England added a sensation by insisting that articles 10 12 and 15 of the covenant of the league of nations should be readjm mediatciy both in French, and in Eng lish. and by declaring that if these, articles were to be disregarded the I whole settlement of Europe would be 1 shaken. Articles Cited by Greece. The articles in question were cited ■ by Greece as the basis of her appeal ito the league and stipulate that the 1 council of the league has a clear right Ito an Investigation when there is ganger of rupture between any of the states which are members of the league. Further discussions of the Greco ltalian crisis was adjourned to an unfixed date, but perhaps tomorrow, in order to give the members of the council an opportunity to examine the Italian declaration and decide upon the future attitude in the crisis, which is generally regarded as hav ing been aggravated by Signor | Salandra’s pronouncement. M Polltis remarked that it was for the council to say whether it was competent to deal with the Greek I affair and not for one of the parties to the dispute to declare the league s Incompetency. Would Ruin League. "If such a point of view was ad mitted,” asserted the Greek spokes man, "it would mean the definite ruin of the pact of the league and of the. •International organism which the pact has created because it would always be possible to pretend for one reason or another that the pact did not ap ply to the nations which were parties to the dispute, and also that a nation Interpreted the pact differently and that consequently the league’s or ganism would not operate." "This would .mean that the league was not to operate for the main tenance of peace.” added M. Politls. but merely a kind of official body, effective only "when two parties had reached an accord.” The Italian government expressed its Irrevocable opinion through him that the council should not accent the Greek request that the league take up the matter. By her appeal, said Signor Salandra, Greece sought to escape her responsibilities. He em phasised that the present Greek gov ernment had not yet been recognized by a great number of .countries, hence the necessity of Italy to seize Corfu to obtain satisfaction for thy (Continued on Page 2, Column 1> TWO CENTS.