Evening Star Newspaper, January 16, 1923, Page 4

HEALY POINTS 0UT NEED FOR FUNDS Declares Morale of Building Inspection Force Is Threatened. ! i 1 PAY ‘RATES ARE UNEVEN Temporary Men Draw More Than Regular Workers—Urges $15,000 Appropriation. ry building in- ‘spectors at a salary greater than that by permanent statutory em- whose long experience in the trict building inspector's department Iy fits them for their work, is 1ot conducive to maintaining the morale | of this essential office of the municipal zovernment, city officials point out. Yet the daily average wage of $6 ¢ the temporary men under a Speci propriation of $20,000 for the tiscal year is not regarded by those in touch with the situation as an estrava- gant remuneration in view of the ser fees performed. Building Inspeetor Healy, nual rep ntly submitted to sineer Commissioner Keller, stresse | Tact that no matter how capab’ i temporary nssistants may be, t sloyment, being of indefinite dur: . not fall of militating to some extent | Inst cfficien of administration and | perhaps, cxercise an_undes ble | t upon the morale of the orgu 1 recovied o tion. Temporary Force Aldx. { The temporary addition to the build- | tug inspectlon force provided for the | figcal ¥ 1 , which covers the period from July 1, 1922, to June 30, 1923, has been assigned as follows: Four to assist the engineering or computing force, one to inspect steel or iron work exclusively, two as con- crete inspectors and three as gen- eral fleld inspectors. The arrange- ment enables the office to check plans more rapidly and to keep in consta touch with building operations of major character, and thus protect t public to a degree heretofore impos- sible against the use of fault rerials and against lax or incompetent workmanship. In explaining the request that $1 000 be appropriated for employment of temporary building inspectors dur- | inz the fiscal year 1924, Inspector | Healy stated: { Pre-War Status. Gone. “Such a policy (employment of tem- nora spectors), “however, cannot prove factory, ‘for the stability of o cannot be assured. Even | hough the volume of operations now | being constructed be admitted as ab- | uormal, the steady und increasing | rowth of Washington is an unequivocal | futation of the idea that building con- ruction will revert to a pre-war status, Tt is absolute hat the permane be substantially increased 1 depurt- inents, and that the salaries be raised | 10 figures commensurate with the duties | of the Irespective Although compensated much below | the standard of wages prevailing in | other cities of the country and faced | with a construction iner which h vlaced Washington well up in the li of cities' showing phenomenal building development since the ‘war, with buf few exceptions. the overworked Staff of he building inspection departmient has remained at its pos time and redoubling to_overcome the hari During th neers, howe inore luerat, gineering f could not taking, it i 1 Vo in order mposed, three engi- | resigned to accept employment with en- a4 course whicl reasonably be blam is pointed ou two experienc from the alary induce 1ling of these . Mr. Healy declares. Staff Same as Twenty Years Ago. “It is believed that the public,” In- | spector Healy a “understand- ing cknowledge the inj ing of the build- ing tion division of Washin | ton n_ irreproachable admin- | istration, when it is realized that the | division has at its command the same | statutory force, the same ) grossly inadequate as ob- tained twenty years ago. ‘With a staff of employes reason- ably required by the duties devolving upon the office and with a schedule of salaries reasonably compensatory, is. felt that the public will have 1o just cause of complaint to lodge gainst this bureau of the municipal overnment.” Q! ent elsewhere. s is dif- e of — PLANS FOR RECEPTION. | The annual reception in honor of | President Howard L. Hodgkins of orge Washington -University and Nirs. Hodgkins to be given by the olumbian Women's Club, 8:30 o'clock riday night at 1719 I stree will serve a double purpose. It wiil not nly be the annual event in the club < but will celebrate the sixty- st anniversary of President Hodg- Kins' birthday, which occurs four lays later. The invitation list, which has just been mailed, includes more than 600 members of ¢lub and speclal Euests. The receiving line will include, be- sides Dr. and Mrs. Hodgkine, Mrs. John T. Erwin, president of the club: Mrs. Myron M. Parker and Miss Allce B. Henning, vice presidents; Mrs. W. C. Ruediger, recording secretary; Miss Ruby Nevins, corresponding secre- tary; Miss Henryette Brumm, his- torian, Those assisting will include Mrs. Willlam H. Herron, Mrs. John R. Lapham and Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle, Mrs. Joshua Evans, Jr., and Miss Elizabeth Peet will preside over the tea table. HANGING IS POSTPONED. Chief Justice McCoy has postponed until March 15 the hanging of George S. Epps, colored, convicted of murder in the first_degree for the death of his wife. The execution had been scheduled for January 27, but was deferred to await action’ by the Court of Appeals on an appeal made by At- torney John H. Wilson for the con- demned man. LET US RESET YOUR | DIAMONDS —While You Wait— The Latest Styles in 18-K. Solid White Gold Mountings Beautifully en- graved and pierced designs. Make yqur old ring new at a slight cost. a Pleasure to Open a Charge Account at FISCHER’S 918 F STREET Jewelers and Opticians £33 1w in|s ', { that th }Maryland or be Abe Martin Says: ' One good thing—th’ lawyers don’t git a whack out o’ all th’ trials o' this life. (Copyright Natlonal Newspaper Service.) CHANGEAUTOTAK FORM I APPROVED Two-Cent Gasoline Assess- ment in D. C. and Maryland Indorsed by Motorists. SEE AID TO RECIPROCITY Public Revenue Derived Equal to That of Present System, National Association Asserts. A ige in the present form of District of Columbia taxation on auto- mobiles from the tag and personal tax fee (0 the two-cent-a-gallon gasoline tax now in effect in Maryland was approved | esterday by the advisory board of the National Motorists' Association. The association believes that with the gasoline tax reciprocity can be secured with Maryland and the personal tax on automobiles in the District eliminat- ed, inasmuch as the 2 cents per gallon tux on gasoline will bring in approxi- mately the same revenue. Tax Regarded Equitable. Facts and figures in connection with the various forms of taxation were pre- sented, and, after deliberation, it was greed that the proposed tax for the | District would be equitable, provided that “such a form of taxation be the means of obtaining motoring reciprocity h the state of Maryland, and that reciprocity grant the full and com- » use of Maryland roads by District motorists without any sort of Mary- and identification tag and without Dis- trict motorists being compelled to quali- under the Maryland title law, as has been the case heretofore: that Such form of t n in the District of Co- i in licu of personal property atomobiles, and. in fact, in and a1l other forms of auto- mobile taxation in_the District, with he exception of a nominal sum for an entification tag. Oppose Addition to Cont. There was manifested emphatic op- position to any change in automobile ation that would add to the cost of District car ownership. lu reaching decision to favor a two-cent-a-gallon tax, was the opinion of the board | method, with its two pro- would save District motorists ctual money and annoyance. By adopting cent-a-gallon tax in lieu of property tax on District automobiles, and also thereby gaining reciprocity with Maryland, | 1 had in mind nof | ay for Dis- ion of the 3 na | ng to the Maryland | titling law. 0 believe that this ( method would e the District revenue from automobiles. Alternative Plan Rejected. ‘onsideration was given the propo m of a one-cent-a-gallon tax and nominal sum for identification tag, but it was not believed this method would either gain_reciprocity with sufficiently satistac- in lieu of the personal property it vises, both t b The board also had in mind_the problem, of many Washington firms operating fleets of delivery cars that do not enter Maryland, and, therefore, would not benefit by a gasoline tax not providing for the elimination of a} personal property tax. Notification of the action of the M. A. was forwarded today to the District Commissioners. Members of the advizory board pres- ent at the meeting included Wililam } Uliman, chairman: Walter B. Guy, Dr. E. G. Seibert, Rudolph Jose, Raymond Beck and Lee Lemar Robinson. . —_— SOLDIER LEAVES $15,880. Will of Cavalryman, Who Died Here, Filed. Harry Broderson, a cavalryman who died at Walter Reed Hospital January 7, left an estate valued at {the ship subsidy act. {to do so, $15,880, according to a petition for the probate of his will. Broderson left $1 to a brother, Mike, when the latter is found, and $50 each to two nurses at the hospital and $800 for Red Cross work there. Andrew J. Scott is named as executor under the will. —— Scientists have invented a machine which records how' long you have slept and what movements you have made in the night. PERPETUAL BUILDING ASSOCIATION Pays 6 Per Cent on shares maturing in 45 or 83 months. It Pays 4 Per Cent on shares withdfawn be- fore maturity, Assets More Than $8,000,000 Surplus More Than $800,000 Corner 11th and E Sts. N.W. JAMES BERRY. President JOSHUA W. CAR Secretary THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, TUESDAY, JANUARY 16, 19 SHP SUBSDY BIL I HOPELESS I Southern Business Men Believed to Be Main Salvation. LASKER TO QUIT JUNE 1 Atlanfic and Gulf Lines Discon- tinued Because of Great Losses. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. The ship subsidy bill has gotten into such a jam in the Senate that the entire American shipping business is facing an uncertainty bordering on chaos. About "the only hope for the measure lies in the pleas of southern business men who have been ad- vised that virtually all the South At- lantic and Gulf lines established by the United States Shipping Board must be abandoned immediately after March 4 if the ship subsidy fsn't passed. There Is talk also of the resignation of the entire Shipping Board. If this does not happen, the President will find it necessary to reorganize the board and fll several neies. Chairman A. D. Lasker has told his associates on the board that he will retire on June -1. irrespective of whether the bill passes or not. He has given two vears of time to the problem and is ‘anxious to return to private business. Several other mem? bers are ready to leave, but are hold- ing on in the hope that they may be of some help in the transition perfod between government operation and the private control contemplated by fails, of course, they will have no in- centive to stay, as they are convinced {government operation merely means an accumulation of expense and in- evitable failure. The President has told senators that it the ship subsidy bill fails he will put squarely upon Congress the re- sponsibility " for shaping a shipping policy and that Congress will have to keep. on appropriating annually many times the sum asked for sub- sid or else sell the ships to foreign jbuyers at remnant prices, as American shipping men claim they cannot operate under American laws withous a subsidy. Southern Lines Losers. ‘The reason the south Atlantic and Gulf lines are to be abandoned is that they are losing heavily for the gov- ernment. These lines were established in conformity with the act continuing the present Shipping Board. That act directed the board to set up certain trade routes to benefit American ship- pers. The section most in need of these lines was the south with its heavy cotton shipments. ‘Without regular lines cotton growers of the south would be compelled to ship to northern ports and pay the high freight rates. Naturally those southern business men who realize the damage that will be done by the withdrawal of these ship lines are urging demo- cratic senators from the south to help, The democratic senators, on the other hand, say they feel com- mitted, as a party policy, to oppose ship subsldy. To this the business men answer that the democrats ought, therefore, no be in a position of obstructing a vote on the bill, and that they would not hold {t against their senators if they voted against the measure if they felt it necessary but to let the bill come to a vote anyhow. Cannot Pass Next Congress. The republican leaders in charge of the bill insist that they have enough votes to pass the measure if it can only be brought to a vote at this ses- jon, which expires automatically on March 4, and they concede they can- not muster enough votes to get it through the newly elected Congress, {which would come into power after March 4. An extra session would not be called merely to get action on ithe ship subsidy bill, as there is no hope that it can be passed if it fails between now and March 4. The Shipping Board's plan of with- drawing southern trade routes is not issued as a threat to southern sena- ors, but the members of the board cel that enough money already has heen spent on these lines and that they would be derelict in their duty if they did not shut off the virtual sub- sidy, which has been granted ships which have been running from these outhern ports. Some of Ports Affected. Some of the ports, which wlil be affected by a change of policy are Wilmington, N. C., Charleston, S. avannah and Brunswick, Ga.. Mobil New Orleans, Galveston and Jackson ville. Republican _leaders are frank enough to say that a fillibuster against the bill between now and March 4 will succeed unless the dem. ocrats completely change their tac- tics and desert the progressive bloc and others who are keping the ship- ping bill from being considered and acted upon by the Senate. (Copyright, 1923.) (PUEBLO INDIAN CRISIS TOPIC “The Pueblo Indian Crisis” will be the subject discussed at the luncheon forum to be held tomorrow at 12:30 o'clock in the Ebbitt Hotel under the auspices of the National Popular Government League. Miss Mary Aus- tin of New York will speak on “The Marvel of the Pueblos,” and Pablo Abeita of New Mexico, a famous In- dian orator, also will speak, his sub- ject to be “Will Congress Respect the Pledge of Abraham Lincoln? Herbert Quick will preside. All-Weather Tread Cushion Tire is better than the old Goodyear Cushions he knows so well. Butitis better. It has the All-Weather Tread, and it grips harder, cushions better, and wears longer. Iffimofflc‘n line read ;nd Tires we sell MID-WASHINGTON SERVICE CO., 1602 14¢h St. N.W. If the measure | 23. — How to Torture Your Husband. VT CERTAINMLY 15 A COMFORT T HAUE PLENTY OF TIME AND NOT HAVE TO RUSH., WE'LL HAVE A wHoLE HOUR BEFORE WE HAVE To LEAVE —By WEBSTER. 1T SEEMS SILy OH,\T'S LOVEL To ME - GETTING- | | £17's THE FIRS T DRESSED AND THEM | CTipmE WE'LL ENER SITTING AROUND BE PUNCTUAL FOR An HOUR- FOR A DIMMER- ENGAGEMENT | MIGHT JUST AS \NELL HAVE KEPT MY OLO CLOTHES O AND BEEN COMRRTABLE N i “CHECK" ONPARKED AUTOS APPROVED District Authorities Give As- sent to System Adopted by Business Firms. 1 I ! | i Authorities at’ the District building } today approved the plan of business | concerns employing “checkers” to see that automobilists do not park any | longer than the time limit in front of | stores or other Institutions. Police officials say business men have from time to time resorted to this means of preventing motorists from parking all day or for long periods In front of their doors, there- by making it impossible for custo- mers to drive up to the establish- ments. Works Well at Bank. The American Security and Trust Company, 15th street and Pznnsylvania avenue, Is the latest Institution to try ot this eystem, and an official of the company said today it has worked wepl:irklng beyond the time limit be- came so frequent that patrons of the bank could not get near the emtrance with their machines and the company stationed a man out front. One of the officers of the bank stated GuESS WE D BETTER GET OUR THINGS OM, THE TA¥I WILL BE HERE 1N 15 MINUTES that the primary duty of this checl er is to ask motorists not to ex- ceed the parking regulations. Few Violators Reported. Violators are reported to the po- lice only when they show an unrea- sonable attitude. The bank officials have found that most persons heed the request. Commissioner Rudolph said today the plan should prove helpful to the police in enforcing the regulations on parking. _———— The veterinary science was not sy: tematically studied until the eight- eenth century, although it is said to have originated in 300 A.D. in Rome. Hot Chocolate When in the vicinity, enjoy a delicious of .our hot chocolate. is warmth in it, and new on a cold i ::gy or tir- 12th and F Sts. 15th and G Sts. 1784 Col. Road. You'RE A SIGHT! You'LL HAVE To GO /' AMD CHANGE , R e FRENCH ORDER ARREST Cludes Officials UF ESSEN AGITATORS Eludes Officials | Vigorous Demonstration Before By the Associated Press. LA PLATA, Md., Junuary 16— Hotel Marks Half-Hour Strike. Ofticials of the naval proving grounds at Indian. Head, Md., are co-operating with. Froderick S. Barbour, county game warden, in an endeavor to apprehend the per- son who has been catching ducks and geese on the Potomac river with the aid of an airplane. A submarine chaser was sent out from the Indian Head ion Te- cently in the hope it may recognize the plane or its owner. The air- hunter, however, did not put in an arance during the time the ssel patrolled the river, as thought he had put a stop to his activities. During the past week, the game warden said the plane again started its hunt, and on one occasion was seen to chase au goose for several miles over the open countr; val au- thorities have assured M rbour they would send out an airplane to assist in the capture of the law- breaker. The hunting plane was first re- ported here several weeks ago. It was said at that time the pilot would fiy up the river, locate a flock of ducks and then put them to flight. As the ducks would fly away, he was said to have piloted his ma- chine through the flock, and with the aid of a large pocket-shaped net stretched from the wings of the plane would capture a number of them. 4 LONDON, January 16.—The French |-authorities at Hssen have ordered the | German police to arrest the instigators !of a demonstration at the Kaiserhof | Hotel yesterday, a Reuter dispatch from Berlin says. | Chancellor Cuno, replying to a tele- gram from the en town council, has promised the city government to do everything possible to alleviate the “hard lot” of the residents. | _The haif-hour stoppage of work at | Essen vesterd says a Reuter dis- patch ‘}nnt!- rench demonstration outside the | Kaiserhof Hotel, the headquarters of the interallied mission. The proceedings opened with a patri- | otic speec an unnamed,orator from | a balcony overlooking the square, who | exhorted his hearers to look forward to the day when they would victoricusly {beat back the French into their own territory. Enthuslastic exclamations preeted the sentiments of the orator and the crowd sang_“Deutschland Uber Alles,” :Die Wacht Am Rhine,’ and other war songs, which were interspersed with de- nunciations of French official pho- tographers who appeared in the hotel ¥ 'NEW VICTOR RECORDS for the “FIRST” Time HERE TOMORROW This special release is in answer to the thousands of requests for the followings FOUR SENSATIONAL NEW DANCE HITS You will find them about the best yow've ever heard. Lost—(A_Wonder- ful Girl). Fox Trot, Great White Way Thru the Night. Waltz. The Sere- naders. ‘Where the Bam- boo Babies Grow. Fox Trot, The Vir- ginlans. My Buddy. Fox Trot, znternationat Novelty Orchrestra. Red Moon. Waltz. The Sere- naders. When Hearts Are Young, Fox Trot. _ Whiteman and His Orches- tra., Journey' End, Fox Trot, White- wan and His Or- chestr venings Until 10 P.M. When Winter Comes. _Fox Trot Great White Way Orchestra. ES "\ # CLOTH CREDIT OUTFITTERS T0 MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN 7TH AND L STS. N.W. Lurking in Dark, Rum Ships Peril, Skipper Reports By RK, January 16.—Dark- ened ships, lying at night beyond the three-mile limit directly in the path of incoming liners, have becorhe a menace to legitimate shipping, Capt. J. W. McKenzie of the steamship Fort Victoria de- clared on his arrival. He reported sighting a group of vessels, be- lleved to have been part of the fleet along the Jersey coast which recently supplied scores of motor boats wi caggoes of liquor. “There is great dapger presengce of such .a fl Capt. McKenzie, “for the carry no lights at night, as th probably are secking new loc tions or keeping under cover of darkness to avold the prohibition navy. “Last night a blinding storm made navigation difficult and the danger. was increased by the faet that' the booze fleet’ could not be seen, although we believed it to be there. The fleet has grown smaller since 1 went out last Wednesday. At that time there were twelve schooners and one Canadian steamship of about 2,000 tor, the latter anchored about tw e miles off the lightship, To- day there seemed tu be only seven schooners and the steam- ship.” RENCH FIRE ON GERMAN RITER By the Assoclated Press. PARIS, January 16.—Order been restored at Bochum, in the newly occupied Ruhr district, where a clash occurred between German demonstrators and the French trocps of occupation last night, it was officially announced here this morning. By the Associated Press. BOCHUM, January 16.—One German was killed and two Germans were riously wounded last night when Fr troops fired on a crowd in order to quel a clash between nationalists and com- munists. * The nationalists were holding a demonstration before the city hall where the French general is staying, when the communists began a coun- ter demonstration and a clash be- tween the factions resulted. This is the first disorder since oc- cupation. SHOTS KILL BOY. the aid vessels in has h l Man and Woman Also Hit Bochum. By the Asséciated Press. LONDON, January 16-—A boy Kkilled, a man seriously wounded a woman probably ally hurt when French. troops firad on a crowd in Bo chum Monday night, says a dispatch received this morning from Copen- hagen by the Exchange Telcgraph The dispatch adds that the excite. ment in Bochum continued through- out the night and that volice were powerles: at | was accompanied by a vigorous | the German ! BL 10 EQUALE PENSINS FAVORED ] {Report to House Recom- mends Enactment of Meas- ure for Police-Firemen. 1 Representative Fred Zihlman Maryland today filed in the House, authorized by the House District com- mittee, a favorable report on the bill to alize pensions of retired policemen nd firemen of the Distriet, This measre affects 159 members of two departments, who would re ve an increase in pension with a to- tal cost to the District of approximatels $11,804 a year. In his report Representative Zihlman District Commissioners. He revie the fact that in 1916 Congress passed a law, known firemen’s relief fund, which provided that 1% per cent of the monthly salary of each member, with all fines imposed by the Commissioners upon memb. of the two departments by way of d cipline and with all rewards, proceeds gifts and proceeds of sale of unclaime: property in the custody of the polic department, should corstitute a relief fund for firemen and policemen Benefits of the Law. £ th and policemen in the course of ti receive medical and hospital {ment, which is paid for fro jrelief fund. When any member Le comes permanently -digabled throu injury received or disease contractrd in the line of duty, or having served ot less than twenty-five ached the age shall for jently dis him’ for Under the provisions the firemen injured vear, of fifty-five : become 1 S0 as to incapacital. performance of dut shall be eligible for retirement. These pensioners receive §0 pe cent of the monthly salary recefver at the date of retirement. The pur pose of the act favorably reported by the District committee is to equalize the pensions of all policems and firemen, their widows phans Total of Pensioners Last Year. Last year, Mr. Zihl points ol there were 443 pensioners on the roli 307 members 'from the police depart- ment and 136 members from the fii: department. In speaking for the committee, Ren- resentative Zihlman said: “Your con mittee is of the opinion that all p sioners who are subject to the san livipg costs and who have render exceptional service to the District who have been injured or have b retired because of age, should rece the same pension, and that th should no discrimination in of these aged and disabled vants because of the period retirement. In the case ¢ e retirement was prior to the of the bill increasing the pay of policemen and firemen. The nun ber of men affected by this bill W grow less each succeeding year an all future pensions paid will be upo the same basi be n 1217 Conn. Ave. A Shop of Individuality Exclusive Fashions for Women and until sold at low prics. ¢ Fans and other novelties at All our remaining F Coats with Handsome Fur Collars and Cuffs and Plain Coats will be placed on sale Wednesday January Sale " of Splendid Values ine Fur Coats and Cloth Actual Cost Price A group of dresses for all occasions at remarkably A number at less than cost. Beautiful Bags, absolute cost. Winter Hats $5, 87.50, $10, $15 Next Door to R. Harris & Co. Ladies’ Coats SPORT COATS, with throw collars — in Tweeds and Herring- bones. f DRESSY COATS, with big fur collarsy full lined, emb_roidered or plain. Choice of any of these models— 95 ates that this bill is indorsed by the:x as the policemen's ands~