The Washington Post
July 14, 1926

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Temperature yesterday—High- est, 87; lowest, 64. UNE. and and cloudy NO. 18,290. POSTOFFICE, ENTERED AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER WASHINGTON, D. C, WASHINGTON WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 1926,—" VENTY-TWO PAGES —— Ye COPYRIGHT, 1926, BY THE WASILINGTON POST CO, —_- —_-——— TWO CI uN Es Baer SCRIPTS By GEORGE ROTHWELL BROWN ——— “’Tis better be tedious.”” After all, told in six lines? Here’s your index. 2 > tA brief than * al The army and navy want to re- tain their munition dumps where they are, but in the face of all this publicity it'll probably be hard to keep the pork-bar’l Congressman from demanding one for his dis- trict. » a * wt The omly thing left out of the British debt agreement with France apparently is a provision for collect- ing the money. In the old days France used to celebrate the fall of the Bastile— now she celebrates the fall of the franc. + % * Index to Today’s Issue. what story cannot be | } ! Wounded Suspects Dy- Gen. Andrews arrives in London | to celebrate the’ so to speak, with reverse English. It’s the first time since 1776 that an American has asked a British king to help eerern his womeery- e EOE Senator Mr. date in 1928. just been licked thinks nobody can be elected. peedlete . . * President Coolidge 7 in the coming campaign. ing, so in politice—he doesn’t care whether he hooks a pike or a pick- | erel, just so it’s a fish. * ~ A When the Elks vote to hold their next in Cincinnati in- stead of Miami, there oughtn’t to be much doubt left to what has happened to the Florida boom. convention © * Magellan started this thing, and Francis Drake, and Jules Verne and Nellie Bly fanned it along, and now Evans and Wells are about to hang up a new mark for the globe-trotters to shoot at. o.¢ 25 Wee If Washington wanted to obtain | a real city planner from the Hub of | the well-known universe why didn’t | ty-first street they were rewarded she get the cow that laid out the | A big touring car, streets of Boston? There’s an ex- pert! And with Bascom Slemp putting | Nick Longworth in the 1928 presi- dential picture the war ¢orrespon- going to. maintain a policy of strict neutrality | As in fish- | sesquicentenniai, | | that | Coolidge will not be a candi- |” hero award of $100 each for con-| The man who has |spicuous bravery | pedition, | They ,| Waiting for something to happen. dents at Paul Smiths can hardly wait | for their next conference with the | | the first fusillade sprayed the de-| Of ficial Spahession. > John Alden’s staid | tectives’ Even the little Purites flapper in | men were firing indiscriminately on | and prosaic | the men they were risking their, times had her vanity case—the com- | pact, as it were, of the May flower— ! and a snowball rubbed on blush than all the rouge. remarked, ‘’Tis beauty truly blent, whose red | cue to make a bid for liberty. ‘man, firing first at the carload of: rival sweet and cunning | Bunmen, was forced to turn his at- and white Nature’s cwn hand laid on.”’ Reed and the Mellons the Senate. Senator will support Vare for in Pennsylvania. * * ay “First to follow Truth and last to leave old Truths behind— France, beloved of every soul that. loves its fellow-kind.”’ Thus Kipling’s the year before the world war—to the tribute—in ancient foe so soon to become an) ally. Here is one of the greatest | days in history, and we can reca!l now, from years ago, the blind rage of Count Perreard, behind the little bar in “‘The Castle” on Bastile Day, grinding his teeth with suppressed fury as he overheard the conversa- tion of Dr. Bedloe and a waggish friend who had dropped in for a lit- tle red ink—‘“‘As Ernest Gerstenberg was saying to me only last night, ‘the proudest day in my life was when I rode into Paris in 1871 at the head of my regiment.’” Sacre Bleu! But who can celebrate the fall of the Bastile on ginger pop? It takes vintage wine for so glorious an anniversary. “There was once a little animal, : No bigger than a fox, And on five toes he scampered Over Tertiary rocks.” Dr. Gidley undertakes to get the low-down on the little prehistoric equine midget, who so horrified the dull-witted Coryphodon, and shock- ed the stupid Dinoceras when he allowed he was nursing large ambi- tions: “I’m going to have a flowing tail! I’m going to have a mane! I’m going to stand 14 hands high On the psychozoic plain.” * * - ~ With Mussolini an Emperor wacy » ; : . King George, of Greece, is looking for a job in America. Come over— end we'll take a shine to you! in Rome, and France, Spain,+and Por- qugal trying to follow suit, and Bel- gium on the verge of making a mere ng a modern Dictator, it must be itted that President Wilson sure did make the world safe for democ- the | ‘opened fire. cheeks doubtless created a rosier | 'the side as he was climbing out of. As Viola the car. ' | ‘charges’ escape. four prisoners, ;him in the right arm. Another fur-| Political blood is thicker than water ‘rowed the side of his head. 7 BUMMER, IH, Poo AND 2 DETECTIVES | | | | | Says Coolidge Will Retire. Terrible Picture of Ruin Told. Rain Aids Marines Fight Fires. | 2—-President Planning Course. Fenning’s Dismissal Asked. 3-—Andrews Seeks Sum Accord. King May Be Dictator 4—Refugees Return to Homes. Sidelights and News of Blast. 9»—Reed and Mellon to Back Vare. Huge Sum Owed on Autos. §6— Editorial. 7—Society. : Says King Seeks Royal Mate. 5——-Graketow Named Elks’ Head. 9—Magazine Page. 10—Weather and Vital Statistics. ing; 2 Others Escape Amid Confusion. PISTOL BATTLE RAGES IN NEW YORK STREET One injured Police Officer May Die; His Partner’s Chances Are Good. | 12-13-] 4-19—Financial. 15-16-17——Sports. 18——Radio and Comics. 19-—The Legal Record. | 19-20-21—Classified Ads. | 22--The News in Pictures. Wants Weeds Mowed Down. Issue Auto Permits Tomorrow, DELAY IN BORNO SALUTE UAUSES GOURT-MARTIAL Special to The Washington Post. New York, July 13.—Two detec- | tives of the Fence squad, Henry L. |'Hoffman and Thomas J. Hammill, both honor roll men in the de ment and winners last jcauker ‘of in the face of | danger, fell wounded today for the | second time in six months before the bullets of gunmen. Two of the prisoners they were escorting when | attacked probably mortally wounded. They were taking four prisoners | to police headquarters from One in Charges; Trial to Begin Today It Is ‘Learned. were 'Hundred and Sixteenth street and | Lexington avenue, /were arrested as silk robbery sus-. | pects. | Hammill New York, July 13 (By A. P.).- | Delay in firing a salute to President | The four were in a sedan. | Louis Borno of Haiti on his recent | sat in front with the| | arrival in New York has resulted in driver. Hoffman, his running mate!2" order for the court-martial of and partner in many a perilous ex- | Col. James Thornton Watson, sta- sat in the’ tonneau with | tioned at Governors island. the other three. The charges against Col. Watson The prisoners seemed resigned to |were preferred by Col. Stanley H. their fate, and offered no resistance. | FOrd, In whose absence Col. Watson seemed complacent, perhaps | was commanding officer at Fort Jay |when President Borno arrived a ifew weeks ago. The trial, delayed by the absence of Brig. Gen. Hugh A. Drum, presi- dent of the court, who has been in where the men | Seven Gunamen Open Fire. And at Fourth avenue and Twen- | bearing seven men, swung out of the traffic at this point and crowded the sedan to the. /curb. At the same moment the | seven gunmen opened fire on the| occupants of the closed car. Sidewalk throngs shrank against | | buildings or fled into doorways as' Lake Denmark, N. J., is scheduled to get under way tomorrow. A pre- ipteeumds! hearing was keld on Satur- Due some misunderstanding ‘the 21 gun presidential salute to | the Haitian executive was not fired | from the fort as his incoming ship | passed, but was delayed nearly fif- _teen minutes, until she had reached ‘lives to rescue. | her dock. Hammill jerked out his gun and | A bullet struck him in | LO car. The bungling gun- he departed June 30, however, was rendered punctually, when a brig- '-adier general, two colonels, five The four prisoners took | 3 captains and five lieutenants lined the sound of the first shot as their | : on the battlements of Castle | up Hoff-' william in full regalia. On his ar- at Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, President Borno issued a statement that he was sure the failure to ex- tend the courtesy of a prompt sa- As he covered the | jute upon his arrival was fi two bullets struck tentional,’’ and the incident was thought to have been closed. Col. Watson, day, is confined to the island, but _ Capt. Fred Christy, port adjutant ‘at the time of the ‘‘misunderstand- ing,’’ who had charge of the detail- |tention to the nearer danger of his. Gunmen’s Car Flees. The wounded Hammill leaped, | from the stalled car and ran toward) ing of instructions for the salute to |The would be rescuers had a clear ‘field for escape, and they made the ‘moet of it. | bodies. the other machine, firing as he ran.' President Borno, has been sent to Plattsburg barracks for work in connection wiih the citizens’ mili- tary training cam The touring car then y E LK The salute fired when | it was learned to-' | | 11—Virginia Democrats Face Fight. | | | | | President ‘them, apparently, IS CONFINED 10 FORT JAY ed upon by the President to show a | charge of rescue work at the scene. of the naval arsenal explosions at'| | | { | District PENNING GONFERD WITH G. 0. HEADS AND HIS ATTORNEY Speak for President in Urging Him to Quit. CONFEREES REFUSE T0 REVEAL RESULT — Veterans’ Bureau to Reduce - Commissioner’s Wards; He Assails Allen Plea. | f ' | | | | SENATOR GUNIMIND PREDICTS COOLIDGE WILL RETIRE IN Zt One of Them Believed to Adminstration Leaders, | However, Say He Will Seek Renomination. MIDDLE WEST HOLDS LOSS OF POPULARITY Defeated tein Plans to Write Book on 28 Years in Public Service. Commissioner Frederick A. Fen-| Des Moines, Iowa, July 13 (By ining held what was regarded as a highly 'terday. important conference yes- He was closeted for more ‘than an hour with Samuel J. Pres- cott, Edward F. Colladay and _Thomas, P. Littlepage. Messrs. Colladay and Prescott, ‘Col. intails +. Watson Named leaders in the local Republican or- ganization, indorsed the appoint- ment of Commissioner Fenning by Coolidge. And one of is being depend- ae ‘tinued refusal to resign. Fenning the folly of his con- Mr. Lit- tlepage was one of Commissioner Fenning’s attorneys in the recent ‘impeachment proceedings. None of the four men would say what took place at the conference. The President, personally, has never taken up with Commissioner Fenning the matter of his resigna- tion, it was said at White Pines camp yesterday. This matter, it was said, was being leftt to a man active in Republican politics here who is friendly with both the President and Mr. Fenning. Confer in Associate's Office. The impression here was that the man in question was either Mr. Col- laday or. Mr. Prescott.. The conference yesterday was held in the office of Commissioner Rudolph, who, at the time, was us- ing the office of Mr. Fenning. The latter’s office had been made ready for a meeting of the board of com- missioners to consider an applica- tion for the establishment of a pri- vate cemetery for colored persons near St. Elizabeths hospital. As the meeting was about to start, Mr. Littlepage called at the building. Commissioner Fenning took him into Commis- sioner Rudolph’s office, leaving Mr. Rudolph and Engineer Commission- er Bell in his own office to conduct the hearing. A short time later, Mr. Colladay joined Commissioner Fenning and Mr. Littlepage, and after him came Mr. Prescott. Questioned about the conference, Commissioner Fenning made the same reply he has been making for months—“‘I have-nothing to say.”’ Asked specifically if the question of his resignation was discussed, he ‘made the same answer. ang then (CONTINUED ON “PAGE >, COLUMN 3.) | darted out of sight into Lexington | ‘avenue traffic leaving Peter and: | Dominick Bianco, brothers, lying in| ithe sedan with bullets in their’ The shooting was ended as sud-| Police of Boston Believe Doctor Dismembered Girl denly as it began. Both wounded | prisoners were unconscious. They were taken, with the wounded de-. ectives to Bellevue hospital. Doctors | gave the suspects only a_ silight' chance for recovery. Hammill’s | Hoffman has an even chance for life. ‘Dissection of Body Found in Two Boxes and Bag Done Skillfully; Youths See Middle-Aged Man in Vicinity. wound is not considered serious. ; { One of the prisoners who escaped | was wounded. He limped as he climbed into the tonneau of the “rescue” car. The other suspect escaped on foot in the confusion. Boy, Rushed in King’s Car to Hospital, Dies Boston, July 13 (By A. P.).-- Only a few meager bits of informa- tion. were available to police to- night ‘as they sought to establish the identity and murderer of an attractive young woman whose dis- membered body was found between two grave yards today. While the cause of her death had not been definitely determined by (Special Cable Dispatch. ) Rome, July 13.—-The King of Italy today while motoring in Flor- ence was attracted by a great crowd near the railroad. Upon learning that a boy had just been run over, he ordered the youth put into the automobile, which raced to a hos- pital. The boy died in the king’s car. The king was returning from Bolzano, where a monument was unveiled yesterday. 500 Whales Delayed Liner, Says Captain New York, July 13 (By Assgociat- ed Press.)——Maybe its another con- vention. Capt. Byrne, of the Van ck, arriving several hours late m South American ports, said he was forced to detour off Atlantic City by a school of “between 400 and 500 whales’ which so clogged the regular steamer lane that he feared for the ship’s safety. Any- | way, its. a-whale.of-a yarn, | Medical Examiner Leary, evidence pointed to illegal surgery. The clothing found with the body offered absolutely no clew to her identity, and the only indication as to who the murderer might be came from young men who saw a well dressed, middle aged man nervous- ly driving an automobile in the vicinity last night. The body was found on Walk- hill street, in the Mattapan district, between the new Calvary and the Mount Hope cemeteries. Part of it was in two cardboard boxes, tied with window cord in sailor knots. Another part was in a cloth bag. Some parts had been wrapped in Boston newspapers of June 27. Whoever had dismembered the body had done it skillfully, Dr. Leary young woman, about 25 years old, five feet six inches tall, weighing 120 pounds, with shingle bobbed black hair and dark brown eyes. The girl, apparently of American extraction, had been dead from 48 to 72 hours. The only clothing found was a white cotton nightdress with a pink ribbon. The vital organs had been removed from the body and wrapped in the nightdress, which was then placed under the head in the larger box. Monticello, N. Y., July 13 (By A. P.).—Authorities today were awaiting the arrival of Mrs. Viola Hall, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., 1 the hope that she could assist in solving the mystery of the killing of her sister Nina Vilona, whose body, clad in a bathing suit, was found beneath a heap of stones in the Neversink river. She had left a boarding house at Bradley Fri- day morning to go swimming and the body was found Saturday with bullet wounds in the head. Officials believe the killing was done by a man and hope that Miss éald, and apparently was an expert| Vilona’s sistcr may be able to 1""- surgeon. nish a clue to some incident in the The body, the medical examiner} woman's past and give them some- said, was that of an attractive thing to work on, 'A. P.).—That | ‘nation erie President Coolidge will not be a candidate for re- election in 1928 was one of the predictions made by Senator Albert B. Cummins on his arrival here from Washington today. “One doesn’t know that Presi- dent Coolidge will be a candidate or that he wants to be a candidate, My own prediction is that he will not be a candidate. I think he will have had enough of it by that time. It is an immense task and few men last through it. ‘! think Mr. Coolidge has been a very successful President in all but*one thing,’’ said the senator, ‘and that is his policy toward agriculture.”’ Cummins to Write. Senator Cummins said that after his retirement next March 3, he would return to -his home here to write a history of his 28 years in public service. The political uphcaval in lowa and other mid-western States pres- ages a prolonged period of strife in the Republican party, whieh if allowed to continue will throw that party ‘‘on the rocks,’’ especially if the Democrats maintain their solidarity, the senator belfeves. In his opinion the present ‘‘nominal’’ Republican majority in the upper house of Congress may disappear with the November. clection. ——— + Held as Candidate. That Presidcnt Coolidge fully in- tends to be a candidate for renomi- in 1928, is the belief of members of his administration. In case he should decide not to run, as Senator Cummins (Republican) Iowa, predicted yesterday, at Des Moines, Iowa, the expectation is that no announcement of the fact will be forthcoming until a few months in advance of the Repub- lican nominating convention. The Cummins statement, as viewed by Republican administra- tion leaders, reflects the present feeling of the middle Western group, which sought the cnactment of the corn belt farm surplus legis- (CONTINUED ON PAGE 5, COLUMN 6,) Actress Ends Life By Leap From Cliff Rio Janeiro, July 15 (By A. P.). Nina Sanzi, Brazilian actress, who was popular years ago, has com- mitted suicide py tnrowing herself over a cliff onto rocks at the sea- | side. Dressed in elegant clothes, she took an automobile to Copacobane yesterday, and when the car was passing a steep declivity, she threw herself from the automobile. Senora Sanzi was 41 years old. In 1908, she appeared in Italian, French and Brazilian theaters in.a company headed by the late Eleanora Duse. ‘ARC RECTIFIER USED FOR POWER IN RADIO Motor Generator Abandoned in Test; Broadcast Cost Seen Cut in Half. pair of Nile green stockings and a' Special to The Washington Pent. Orlando, Fla., July 13.—Suecess- ful use of the mercury arc rectifier as a new source of power, and abandonment of the motor. gener- ator in radio transmission, was perfected here today by broadcast- ing station WDBO, Rollins college, engineers in charge announced. It is believed to be the first successful use of this mode of power by a broadcasting station. ‘ Adaptation of the are rectifier was made by Max Green, jr., son of Charles Maxwell Green, con- sulting engineer. of the Generai Electric Company, a pionecr in the invention and perfection of the mercury arc rectifier. The new method would lower present broadcasting power costs’ ahout 50 per cent, it is said, would be more simple in operation and make less noise in transmission. 5 DAY FLORIDA EXCURSION, rye W; ehiaeien July 16- Suma! 1a u a, 22 da Ag mat Fine & i. Tan From Bowlders, Bark Burned From Trees Found on Tour of Region; Hush of Death Spreads Over Scarred Terrain. Dover, N. J., July 13 (By A. P.). Evening shadows settled tonight over the high valley that holds what is left of the Lake Denmark naval arsenal with only aie wavering thread of smoke here and there over the demolished buildings and the occasional muffled popping of sinall arms shells to tell of the hor- ror of devastation that leaped from the skies Saturday afternoon to send 21 persons to death. was unfolded to the group of news writers and cameramen who were staff to see for the first time the ruins that mark. the heart of what was the navy’s greatest ordnance store. Lake Denmark reservation of which remains intact. along the flat ground that into the narrowing valley where Lake Picatinny lies as an added | barrier between. Northeasterly runs a massive tree-clothed ridge coming sharply down to the water’s edge, south lies the somewhat lower ridge on which the naval base was sit- uated to overflow beyond the rim of the 300-foot hill and spread its network of magazines and small houses across a more gently sloping |ward toward Lake Denmark, A terrible picture of destruction | which it drew its name, and flatten- | shepherded in person by Brig. Gen. ‘Drum led his personally conducted Hugh Drum and members of ei. tour passes into the valley from the the Mount Hope sector, outside the | set off the blast. northern and eastern fences of the |“ounted noses repeatedly to to see |Sure that they brought out as many the damage wrought among the cot-|*8 they took In, tages and little homes that have|suard of troops sprung up along this line and none | left the cars, the | way in from the hill valley reaching north- from away ing out to the south and east. The railway over which Gen. northwest, to climb slowly in a rradual curve over the navy switch up over the breast of the hill, where The army men make and then, with a to see that none engine puffed its gate for the first The twin arsenals join each other | real view. leads | A few rotten tree trunks had top- | bled in the woods on either hand (CONTINGCED ON PAGE 4. COLUMN 5.) [9 APPROVED BY BOARD of Lines Operated by Government. the proposal of the ship sales com- mittee of the board, for the sale of the United States lines and the American. Merchant. lines. Steps were immediately taken to draft the advertisements for the ‘several proposals by which the government hopes to transfer ownership of the ice into private hands. J. Harry Philbin, chief of the ship sales department of the fleet corporation; T, H. Rossbottom, | general manager of the United States lines, and Commander R. D. Gatewood, manager of the New York district, have been designated formulating the advertisements and specifications for the sale of the tonnage. | consume two weeks. Within tisement for the two services will be published. | The’ board's took the form passed by the six commissioners present, upon the motion of Commissioner Teller. Commissioner Myers was absent. Mr. Teller adviséd the board that he believed the two serv- ices could be consolidated and separated successfully “by Ameri- can brains with American money.” He stressed the point that no con- sideration should be given by the board to any offer made by foreign ‘interests. He ‘declared that the question of permanence of service was an item of great interest to the government, and that whatever sale agreement was decided upon, a minimum service of five years would be provided for. The resolution of the board quotes the Merchant Marine -Act, which stipulates that a fleet shall be kept in operation by the govern- ment “until the business is de- veloped so that such vessels may be sold on satisfactory terms and the servi@ maintained.” “Bill” Astor Likely To Emulate Parents action of a yesterday resolution, Chicago, July 13 (By A. P.).— ‘Bill’. Astor may go in for politics and follow in the footsteps of his famous parents, Viscount Waldorf and Lady Nancy Astor, he said to- day. ‘‘Bill’”’ is William Waldorf As- tor, 18-year-old son of the viscount, who, with his father, is visiting Chi- cago. He intimated that he liked the name of “Bill.” The American trip, the viscount said, is ey for the son's benefit. VERY LOW EXCURSION FARES to Klorida July 16, jood to return in 15 days, also Savannah, Ga. and Havana, Cuba; 3 caus aga daily via ‘are $25 te cee ponsh, agit e Rwy. Inquire 714 Seaboard tr “Main 6 sie ady, Ys. ‘Itwo North Atlantic passenger serv- This task is expected to 30 days the first adver- the unanimous vote of SEEK AMERICAN BUYERS | PASS scene IN DISPOSAL OF U. $. SHIPS AROUND-WORLD RACERS ANE NEAR NEW RECORD Shipping Body Aareni to Sale Evans and We Wells Hope to Be in New York Today After 428 Days 10 Hours. ILLINOIS | by Chairman Teller, of the board’s| ship sales committee, to assist in, | Formal approval was given yes-' terday by the Shipping Board to Rantoul, Ill., July 13 (By A. P.). inton Wells, on the final lap of their dash to break the world-girdling record, arrived here in two airplanes tonight and were forced to stop at Chanute field for the night because their air- planes were not equipped for night flying. They did not receive the instruc- tions to proceed to Cleveland in- Stead of to Dayton until they reached Chanute fleld, but said it was too dark to make the trip even as far as Dayton. Had they reached Cleveland, they had expected to make the final lez of the journey New York iv planes equipped for flying at night. Wells said they will take off here at dawn tomorrow and expect to make a nonstop fiight to New York, reaching there before noon and completing their trip in 28 days and about 10 hours. As it is, they hope to better the best previous record by nearly seven days. This record of 35 days, 21 minutes and 35 seconds was made in 1913 by John Henry Mears, but he did not have the use of airplanes. French Mail Steamer, Afire, Is Abandoned | a to London, July 13 (By A. P.). Africa, says the French mail steam- er Fontainebleau is afire and has been abandoned. ‘The passengers and crew were saved, together with a small amount of the cargo. The mail was lost. The dispatch states the steamer is expected to be destroyed. TURKS.CONDEMN 13 PLOTTERS ON 13TH Smyrna Quay to Witness the Execution of Doomed Men at Dawn Today. Smyrna, Turkey, July 13 (By A. P.).—Smyrna quay, to which thou- sands fied to escape the wholesale tragedy of the burning of the city four years ago, will witness another tragic scene at dawn tomorrow. Fifteen persons were condemned to death today for plotting to kill Mustapha Kemal Pasha, President of Turkey, a month ago on his ar- | rival at Smyrna, and at dawn thir- teen of them will be hanged from tripods at duly separated points of the water front. Two were con- demned by default. The superstitious say that thir- teen death sentences on the thir- teenth day of the month boded il) for the future of New Turkey. Nevertheless the verdict of the tribunal of mnqeppn dente was ap- plauded. The ceimamant men include gix members of the Turkish parliament. Arehhbishop Carley Urges All Catholic ie The Meseat of ° while almost paralleling it to the | Terrible Picture of Ruin |W NDS MARINES. hound at Both Arsenals After Explosions Cease Skeletons of Massive Buildings, Soil Covering Stripped GUMBATING FLAMES IN ARSENAL REGION Parts of 21st Body Found in Ruins; Remains of Woman Located. FEW OF THE INJURED IN SERIOUS CONDITION ee ee - Refugees Are Permitted to Return to Their Homes; Lines Removed. TOTAL OF MISSING NOW ESTIMATED AT ONLY 7 Newspaper Representatives Make Tour of Devastated Area in Railroad Cars. Dover, N. J., July 13 (By A. Rain fell tonight on the P.) last smoul- dering embers of the wrecked naval ammunition depot at Lake Den- mark. Army and navy rehabilitation work in circle of devastation, shower Officials directing the 10-mile welcomed the increased assurance of safety from the large stores of dead- ly explosives still in the magazines at Picatinny arsenal, adjoining the naval depot. Late the remnants of an- other body were recovered from the ruins of the bringing the to- 'tal of known dead to 21. as today depot, Lights in Villages Again, In the shattered villages of Moust Hope, Denmark and Hibernia, on the fringe of the twin arsenals, lights twinkled through paneless windows and from improvised shel- ters, marking the former sites of trim cottages, for the first time since Saturday evening, when the hail of death scattered the inhabitants throughout the surrounding dis- trict in a mad flight from the terror. Almost 1,000 refugees were permit- ted to return to their homes today, when military authorities deemed the greatest danger passed. since a bolt of lightning ignited a supply of T. N. T. at the naval depot Saturday \ and caused of cxplosions that wiped out a score of lives and did damage estimated at $100,000,- 000, it had been feared that the fire mizht spread to the adjoining Pica- tinny army arsenal. If that had happened, officers expressed the opinion that explosions would have resulted in making the naval holo- caust seem like fireworks. Ever ammuition a series Marines Battle Flames. It seemed for a time that this was about to occur. An unfortunate shift in the wind last night sent flames racing down upon a group of naval magazines as yet unexploded and one of them caught fire. Spread | of the flames to the Picatinny arse- inal seemed imminent and only the A Lloyd dispatch from Jibuti, East! however, | courageous work of marines sent to , the scene from Virginia prevented a recurrence of the earlier tragedy. The danger was at last averted, and today Brig. Gen. Hugh A. Drum, in charge of polic- ing the devastated area announced that the situation was well in hand. So sure was he that the crisis had been passed that he raised the guard around the shell-torn district tu permit newspaper men to inspect the no-man’s land. Marine details completed explo- ration of the twisted and torn country within the reservation and preparations were made for inau- guration of a regular patrol in the territory, which until yesterday morning could not be approached without grave danger. Woman's Body Is Found. The body of Mrs. John Wadhams, wife of the chief civilian clerk ai the navy depot, was found in tho embers of her home by a naval de- tachment. The number of missing continued indefinite because of the destruc- tion of all records in the fire. It was generally believed, however, that the number was not more thar seven. ) Hospitals reported that many of the more severely injured had been discharged and that none of those ~— remaining within the institutions — was in danger. : Fifty-nine newspaper representa- — tives were taken into the no-man’g land that once was the navy's trim depot, on five railroad flat cara, after Gen. Drum himself had made a tour through the territory. : The railroad runs through wood: - land where trees were cut ef (CONTINUED ON PAGE 4, COLUME- 8A