Evening Star Newspaper, May 27, 1922, Page 4

overtime after the eighth hour, the reason being that heretofore when there was a rush a new crew of workmen would be put on when an overtime period was reached. The result was that many men worked only part time. At all three plants overtime will be paid at the rate of time and a half i for periods beyond the tenth of fifiy- four hours and double time for Sun- days and holicays. % Ten Hours’ Work Daily Ar-| Arwy FLYER KILLED. ARCADIA, Fla, May ranged With Approval |u o sicraugnin of romeite Trees Turn to News RGESEQUALPAY ez FOREDUAL WO =55 Hars distries, says the Fapler- fal the leading Germam Brown Proposes Removal of Obstacles to Advancement Organ. ‘The rxact time taken in the e 1. zellea at 7135 iped and J. was fatally injured yesterday, - - ...by-U. S. Employes- X tarned Into paper by 9130, rushe of Employes. * |yhen an airpla in which he P e gl St was flving at low altitude struck Promotions 'and transfers of gov-| | ome-hslf miles to the printimg | |BY the Associated Fress. telephone wires half a mile east of CHICAGO, May 27.—Readjustment | aristiom Jieid mear here. He died of working hours, which results in|ing comsrioasnecst ail0ul reEaln- overtime being paid employes only|sent Lo hix home yesterday ev ernment employes urider a regime of equal pay for equal work is recom- mended by Herbert D.' Brown, chief THE SAN-AMERICAN UNION office, and at 11 o'clock mews- . Paper bo. of the United States bureau of effei- | . after ten hours' work a day or fifty- . B ency, In a report to President Hard- | EIGHT LIVES TOLL four hours & week, has been put into ing on the methods of the Civil Serv- effect in the last two weeks at the ice Commission, which has just been OF CHEMICAL BLASTS | three 1argest packing plants in Chi- 1aid before Congress. This course is cago—Armour & Co., Swift & Co. and urged in distinction to the proposed Morris & Co. c OF'E' E'E' - DR’N KE'RS . Thaiifement diiexininktion (09607 Three Injured and $60,000 Darmage | Ofcials of the organizations denied ||f n. ; In discussing this guestion the re- in Series of Explosions in that the plan abolished the eight- BUILDING port says: ¢ hour day in view of the ten-hour day, “What control the commission now Pennsylvania. explaining that the arrangement had | has over promotions s exerciged chiefly. through its regular machinery | SINNAMAHONING, Pa., May 27— |oomommn o acioase” he. eavaingy of examination and certification. It |Eight men were instantl: y killed and | through equalization of the lahor D riumon, h;:rflmm:fé“fi“fl';llgg three others slightly injured yester-|done from day to day and by evening Fovernment service unless the' em- |48y In a series of explosions at the | UP tP€ Fush and slack periods. ploye first take and pass an examina- | Grasselll Chemical Company plant Rmplayes; Have, Volea tion. Probably such a rule would 4o | hore wnen three loading b | Each plant recently established on | more harm than gogd. - At present| ng houses were | employes’ representation system, ns T the Eovernment service so- cstroved and another partially | whereby the workers have & voice in ure promotions throu, the- recog- | wrecked. The damage wi the company's working ‘conditions, nitlon ot thelr merit by thelr su-|at $60,050. E© Was estimated | ,ng the shift to the ten-hour basis periors. s is the ni . ree thousand pound “ »!was passed by the counsel boards The effictency of a service is usually | dynamite were sald 10 have exoieses, |made Up of representatives of om- higher when promotions must be|The blast damaged buildings in this Ploves and employers. earned by performance than When town, on the opposite side of the hills! The whistle will blow at the end of they ‘are obtained chiefly through |from'the company’s plant. The first | ©/€ht hours each day,” said the reso- cramming and book knowledge. Oneexplosion occurred in a packing houss |ution adopted at one plant. “And large objection to an artificial scheme jon the edge of the plant. Immedi- | Starting and stopping time will ng of promotion exammatioms is that It | ately werkimen in the other Laimcy | considered unchanged.” It then ex- often forces an appointing officer L0|ran" for . safety and had scarcely | P)ains that when an emergency e fill & vacancy with a person Whom |reached shelter when the other blaaty | Sts—Wwhen there is a rush of work— he really does not care to have, and (Folowed. - Tho wpain beilaimers "oocs | the men may be “Eranted permission” who in’ his judgment is not 8o £00d{not damaged. - to continue on to the ninth and tenth as thé person of his own selection. - o fo. o il i fenth pay until after the tenth hour of a IMPORTE 4 Barred From Transfer. < - At waaS TED R / \ o4 'clerk 1o the: ¢ service | $13, day or the fifty-fourth hour of a | Soeue ; ik glericn tne‘government ervice | $13,000,000 ENOWILL |2k, g asembisd op mon;eeeemtiot, 5| CONTEST ENDS QUIETLY | crgur coo pioce i ms sxtd by com- on equal terms with persons outside any officials, the men really will re- the nervico. However, if the position B\ ragre mionay: thin W6 Botth Sought Is in = difterent department or | ¥ifford Pinchot and Other Bem"x 2 L S ASSOCIATION Pays 6 Per Cent on shares maturing in 45 or 83 months. It Pays 4 Per Cent on shares withdrawn be- fore maturity. Assets More Than $8,000,000 Surplus More Than $800,000 Corner 11th and E Sts. N.W. JAMES BERRY. Pres JOSHUA W. CARR, Secre: independent establishment.from thet {8 which the employe is. working, he Settle Big Estate Fight is often barred from a transfer even| | though he siands at the top of,the : Outside of Court. civil servica ‘register. e law pro-| ' NEW yi - Vides ‘that'a civil émploye canmot be | vears' litigation 1oy ohigAlsh seven transferred _from. one -government | will of the late Amos ¥ Foe, olerosing office to another-(in the departmental{ of a $12,000,000 estate, hac boes Domng service) unless he has served for & lout of court, it was wamoeeres td period of three yeara; and cannot b, night by Clarénce J. Shean, attorney for re-employed at an increased salary, if | the Eno estate. The announcemnt f pald from a lump-sum appropriation. | lowed a conference of ceversl Loers . Within a year from the termination | with Willlam Nelson Cromwell. ong ot Stations of the nrubemploy‘m"em. These pro- ;{m attorneys for the contestants. P, P visions probably will sconer or later | Terms of the sejtle : be repealed since they have worked | known. jtlement were not made romptness, to the detriment both of the employe ! The Eno will contest dragged its way Courtggy at and of the government. through two long trials. In both cases | 4 . ' “The ‘ervice would be improved |Jurles declared the aged man to ras | : All Times! rather than impflired by this process, | been of unsound mind at the time he - because the readjustments would be |drafted the document. In both in- in the direction of the selection of | Stances the verdicts of the jurors were the fittest person for the particular [Set aside by the trial eourt. The at- job. The law against transfers was | LOrneys have for :he past several weeks enacted to prevent the departments|Dbeen preparing for a third trial. bidding against one another, at a | Gifford Pinchot is one of the contest- time when the creation of larke war- | ats. The will left ciose to $5.000,000 to time bureaus threatened to drain the | €haritable and educational institutions. older establishments. | The will, written in 1915, bequeathed about one-half of the estate to rela- §“ylll‘l' Inc}l_udl}r;z Ml; Eno’s brothers, | AMERICAN MEDICAL BODY :-m:f:":'glen}y ‘;x'i’m"'rx\—:?.‘..“".’r’“'p‘r"xi'.ce‘:flfl versity. m inch FORMS WOMAN AUXILIARY | leraice Tine Fiatauc of the itite s left to various public titutions, —_— among them New York University and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Co- Dr. John Foote of Washington Is{lumbia University was left a sum afia 0,000, Elected Vice Chairman of |ooicd &t more than 3 Pediatrics Section. ST. LOUIS, Mo, May 27.—The sev enty-third convention of the Amerl can_ Medical Association ended today with the formation of a woman's aux- iliary, election of sectional officers and discussions of various subjects. Among chairmen of the scientific sections elected were: Orthopedic sur- gery, Dr. Willis C. Campbell, Mem- phis, Tenn.; stomatology. Dr. Robert Ivy, Philadelphia; pediatrics, Dr. John Foote, Washington, vice chair- man; general surgery, Dr. Eugene H. Poole, New York; urology, Dr. Henry G. Bugbee, New York; nervous nd mental disease, Dr. Walter Timme, New York; laryngology, otol- ogy and rhinology, Dr. William B. Chamberlin, Cleveland; obstetrics and gynecology, Dr. E. P. Davis, Phila- delphia. WANT AIR MAIL ROUTE, ST. LOUIS TO PITTSBURGH | Chamber of Commerce Asks Line to Cut Time From Southwest to Seaboard One Day. By the Associated Press, ST. LOUIS, Mo., May 27.—The Cham- ber of Commerce here has announced it had taken up with the Post Office Department the question of an air mall route between here and the eas whereby a business day would be saved in the mail between the sduth- west and the eastern seaboard. { It is suggested that mail arriving ip the morning from the southwest be combined here with direct St. Louis mail and placed in an airplane which would stop at Indianapolis, and also at Columbus to pick up mail from Cincinnati, Louisville and other cities, reaching Plttsburgh at 6 p.m. The mail then would be forwarded by train east. —_— t DISGUISED, OPEN JAIL. Two Masquerading as Negroes Set Six Prisoners Free. { HENDERSON, N. C., May 27.—Two white men, disguised as negroes, walked into the home of the jailer of Vance county early last night, se- cured the keys of the jail from the jailer's wife and unlocked the jail {doors, reledstng six prisoners, one i white and five negroes. “Two negroes { were later captured. | "Other prisoners remained in_the |jail. The town and county officers are working on the theory that the jail delivery was a plot to release Guy Barnes, the only white man who escaped, because - Barnes. charged with store breaking, had threatened, they state, to implicate others. —_— (| PREACHER FOUND GUILTY. Sentenced for Illicit Distilling. Charges Frame-Up. + ANDERSON, §. C., ‘May 27.—The Rev. 8. O. Whitman, owner of Oconee Orphanage, was convicted in federal district, court of illicit distilling_dnd sentenced to serve six months in Spar- tanburg !al(l or pay a fine of $600. 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INDICTED FOR KIDNAPING. , May 27 _Edmund| detective, who figured 3 | August_Probst, Swiss butler, that an | attempt had been made to rajlroad || him’ out of the country ‘because of &y love affair with a Pittsburgh society rl. "uun testified recently that he lnd‘ 3 & lawyer representing James A. Still- an, New York banker, paid Fred uvais, Indian' co-respondent in the divorce sult against Mrs. Annie U, Stillman,. $15,000 for four AR