Evening Star Newspaper, March 8, 1923, Page 1

‘WEATHER. {r tonight and tomorrow; not change in temperature; lowest ht about 36 degre: mperature for twenty-four hours nded at 2 p.m. today: Highest. 42, at p.m. vesterday. Lowest, 30, at 7 “From Press to Home Within the Hour” | _The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edition is delivered to Washington homes as fast 4 muc! . loduy; Full report on page 7. _ Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 28 The Entered as sec No. 28801, LASHES IN NAVIE BEGUN BY FRANCE ~ AND GREAT BRITAIN New Estimates of Both Pow- ers Cut to Come Within Washington Treaties. FRENCH DEPUTIES PUT QUESTIONS ON PLANS Some Opposition Shown to Dis- arming—No Discussion on Britain's Budget. iated Press. 8. ARIS, March §.—The government's 21 program was introduced in the nber of deputies today by Min- ister of Marine Raibert!” with the re- spark. that the program “was con- ceived within the framework of the Washington accords, so that the gov- erament cannot give stronger proof tenticn to obtain their ratifi- program.” * continued the min ot fix the number of ry with the needs but it fixes egory © Use Light Unt ittleships it provides for 1 but the preamble explains government has no intention onstructing to that extent at pres- eut. for these reason “Firstly, the type of capital ship has secondly, the accord with has to construct a fleet of ships and a tleet of light units must choose and we “doy its, as that may v the national defense, e tonnage for cach ca & capita gt - protection of maritime We nee light io boat destroyers and Only unforeseen circum- calse us to consider torp ines wilt € Washin and naval the maiu amber dur- proposed closing A deputy the advisability establishment at a ald, the existence of might endangered. of Marine Raiberti replied: ‘The cntente cannot be endangered, A8 it corresponds with the permanent nterest of the We are rthic vies discu ng questioned nte he two countries. obli replied W ne Deputy Loequin. =hington acco ¥ ified. ged 1 of niore the re engi elimitation rma- nister of mavitime reiter- the government intended ould be ratified. Tefort on U. 8. Action. Deputy Loecquin ©f the ratification process had fur- nished arguments for Americans in accusing of imperialism. “Ame failure to ratify Deace treaty was ulso a great v n for France,” Balanant During ai m it was stated that France would remain within the terms of the Washington accord in constructing a battleship of 25,000 tons to rel the lost battleship e Deputy Locquin sought to estab- lish that the United States Navy was beginning to increase the tonnage of its’ small units to bring them in proportion with the capital ships. Deputy Sevens, u naval captain, point- i out that it was France who de- nded that the Washington agree nents maintain freedom of constr ton irded the small units, Locquin replied that hither- ited States had not mani- intention to increase this He added that he con- premature for France to sion before commu- ons the powers sue of nations would take nent measures, PLANS NEW BUILDING. Municipal Architect to Aid George Washington Project. Architect Albert L. Har- appointed one of the rehiteets who will draw the new building George Washington University will t at the corner af 21st and G ts northwest, it was announce by Charles C. rman of the commit- and grounds of the -ance ca's xa- ating and the on arma icipal r been university Mr. Harris already has made con- siderable progress on the plans, it {8 understood Hates Inspire.Wireless Duels; Undesirable Programs ‘Mussed’ Er tiie Associated Press. EBERSWALDE, Germany, March £ —There is a merry little wireless .battle going on between the Eiffel Tower in Paris, with its high- vowered wireless apparatus, and the l.orenz broadcasting station here in Ilberswalde. The latter has been distributing concert programs to the central European countries regularly vice a day. Now it is beginning to cceive complaints from abroad, par- cularly from Holland and Switzer- land, declaring that the transmissions some concert numbers is so dis- bed that they are unintelligible. German Hymn Ruzsed. Investigation has revealed that =torics read from the works of the Ravarian humorlst, Roda Roda, as rell & phenograph record giving death cene from Wagner's istan and Tsolde.” “went through post office Washington, D. our | have | hav- ! of re your | the | the slowness | the | interjected Deputy ! plans for | ond-class matter C. Pueblo Indians’ Snake Dances Put Under Ban By the Assoclated Press. SANTA FE, March §.—Ceremo- nial dances by the New Mexico Pueblo Indlans, which annually bring thousands of visitors from the entire country, have been for- bidden except in the winter time by Charles H. Burke, commission- er of Indlan affairs, according to an announcement made here to- day. Mr. Burke, in his official ban, holds that the dances are demor- alizing the Indians" Jife and indus- try. Especially does the commission- er object to the exhibitions of the tribe dances given at the annual dances held by white people. ‘I do not want to deprive you of decent amusements or ,occasional feasts, but you should not do evil or foollsh things or take so much time for these occasions,” Mr. Burke's order says. “No good can come from your ‘give away' cus- tom at dances and it should be stopped. Tt 1s not right to tor- ture your bodies or to handle poisonous snakes in your cere- monies.” Large numbers of rattle snakes are handled with apparent impu- nity by the Hop! in their famous snake dance. | i | I TURKS SEEK PEACE SAYS BONAR LAW i ;Assembly, Though Rejecting| Lausanne Pact, Strongly Favors Negotiations. | | {ISMET GIVEN FREE HAND | | | i ot [Full Power to Treat on Economic |y, { Terms or to Wait Sanctioned | at Angora. L5 tlc Associated Press. LONDON, March §.—Prime Minister Bonar Law stated in the house of {commons today that an official state- |ment from the Turkish authorlties| iRl Argora, relayed by the British | Ligh commissioner at Constantinople, | | Was to the effect that the draft treaty | Presented at Lausanne was consid- cred unsuitable, but that the grand national assembly, by a greai ma-| | jority, had given authority to con- | tinue the peace negotiations. | A dispatch to Reuter's from Con- | stantinople says the nationalist gov- | ernment seems to have won a com- | plete victory on the Lausanne treaty { situation in the assembly at Angora. While the extremlists were vocifer- | ating their objections to the govern- | ment proposals the ministers organ- | {ized their supporters and guillotined | ! debate with a motion of confidence | which specifically indorsed Ismet | | ’asha’s attitude at Lausanne. ! The situation. therefore, iagaln where It was at the f | tion of the Lausanne confercnce, and | back jthe government has a free hand to| {treat_ upon the cconomic clauses of | the treaty or to leave them until! after the si gnature of general terms | | of peace i | SEEK MIDDLE GROUND. { ! Constantinople Hopeful of Agree-| ment Insuring Peace. | NOPLE, March §.—Tur- key's rejection uf the Lausanne peace | ilrcnlj«i which was not unexpected, has | been received calmly in both foreign tand natlve circles in Constantinople. The belief persists that it is still vossible to reach a middle-ground agreement toward peace. The Angora government will now proceed to draft a reply to the allies, in which it will continue counter- proposals within the limitations es- tablished by the assembly’'s debates | and Monday night's resolutions passed | by the ~assembly, which demand strict adherence to the principles of | {the national pact on all matters af- i fecting Turkey's absolute indepen- dence. | The situation apparently has set- tled down for an indefinite perlod of | negotiations. ISMET GIVEN FREE HAND. Assembly Indorses Concessions Foreign Minister Made. By the Assoclated Press. PARIS, March 8.—Dispatches from Constantinople declare the Turkish grand national assembly at Angora jhas given full powers.to Forelgn Minister Ismet Pasha to continue | negotiations with the allles on the financial. _economical and judicial ! peace terms which the Turks have | ot accepted. The assembly. it is stated, endorsed the concession; Dby lsmet at Lausanne. Samade A note from Ismet is to be dis- patched to the powers some time to- day, these advices declared. Political circles in Angora, it is added, are optimistic over the issu negotiation: P onithe tas-clear as a bell, and yet whenever “Deutschland Uber Alles” was put on it sounded at the recelving end like a conversation at the Tower 6f Babel. The Germans claim that the Eiffel tower keeps a close watch on the programs, and that whenever it finds \anything distastetul it immediately tunes up its sending apparatus to the same wave length as that used by the Lorens station and fres away with a counter program. Consequentiy neither the German nor the French numbers. are intelligible. The same thing has happened, ac- cording to the Germans, to n out about the Rhur. P The Eberswalde station says it ig still able to outstrip the Eiffel tower on transmission to Scandinavia and parts of Austria but it denies that it makes any effort to disturb the French .t ion by means of counter messages. IFrench Inner Circles Con-| | INVADERS ARE REFUSING ! without work | ana {ent s | | last iterrup- | o | By Cable to The Star and Chicago |about to collapse. I Jeft bank of the Rhine shall be per-| | within WASHINGTON, D. C, SHONDOHNINRURR LOONS AS HUNGER PNCHES STRIERS vinced German Resistance Is Collapsing. TO OPEN NEGOTIATIONS Dortmund Police Disarmed—“Bat- tle” of Bochum Raging for Ten Days. By tle Associated Press. LONDON, March 8.—Gloomy pie- tures of the situation in the Ruhr, with warnings of an impending crisis, are painted today by some of the London newspaper correspond- dents. A Duesseldort dispatch to tho Tele- graph says that unemployment is in- creasing and that the political situ- ation is dangerous. KEconomic con- ditions he describes as disastrous, asserting that 25,000 persons are in Duesseldort alone, that the unemplovment wages are insufficlent. The workmen are noticeably depressed, the correspond- adds, and rumors are current that they dre beginning to doubt the issue of the struggle. Soup Kitchens Popular. Tie French, this dispatch asserts, are preparing to deal with the food problem which will undoubtedly arise with the Increase of unemployment. soup kitchens, boycotted at are now popular, The Cologne correspondent of the Dally Express reports that conditions in Essen and Bochum are pitiful anc that the death rate among the chil dren has risen Z0 per cent in the | month, and milk 1s almost un- obtainable. he phrase “hunger | blockade” is on the lips of the whole German_population. The French military authorittes | have, given definite orders to admit | all foodstuffs to the cities, but some | of the trucks never arrive and part | of the shipments is stolen. | Education at Standstill. Education, the correspondent adde, at a siandsull, for the French ve occupled the schools. The pas ing of each day finda public feeling | more embittered. ; | | | {Sam Haston, Mother, Sister | and Two Wounded Near Deathbed of Mrs. Haston. i time with fearful results in blood- | | Haston, The fmpression that “the caldron | secretary of stat; his mother. Mra | lin the Tuhr may boil over at any Foen . WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ny Star as the papers L 4 are printed. CONVICT SHOOTS o; TRALEDBY POSSE ELDER WOMAN MAY DIE Tennessee Secretary of State, Her Son. Leaves for Scene With Bloodhounds. i the Associated Press. NASHVILLE, Tenn brother of March: 3.—S8am rnest Haston, George Haston, sr.; pero, a sister; Mrs. B. D. Shap- Tullus Trogden, a boy |WOMAN HELD IN GOTHAM ON D. C. CHECK CHARGES NEW YORK, March 7.—Mrs. Blanche |S. Garrison, twenty, who says she is la writer of short stories, was ar- Irested today on charges of passing in Washington a worthless check. made payable to Robert L. Mills. witnesses hav to identify not been taken there woman under arrest. HECHTCO.TOBULD TSTORY ADDITION shed” {s expressed by the Cologne |llving on the Haston place, and a fifth | representative Gazette. He continues: i It is the opinlon Gf those best| able to judge that unless an agree ment {s’ £oon teached it can only be a matter of time before another | war breaks out. * ¢ ¢ I am told that France would not hesitate | to declare war and bemb the Ger-| 1 clties, including Berlin, if her| ces are attacked.” The corre- spondent adds that it is only fair to | of the Westminster character may sources. COLLAPSE IS NEARING. be traced to German | French Convinced German Resist- ance Is Broken. Copyright, 1923. i PARIS, March §.—French inner | circles are convinced that German | resistance to the Ruhr occupation is| The correspond- | ent is informed that the German in- | dustriallsts have repeatedly ap- | proached the French government in | the last ten days with a view to reopening . negotiations, but the | French have refused to respond, pre- ferring that Germany’s surrender, which ~they regard as inevitable, shall be open and complete. Will Ask for Terms, He Says. Louis Loucher, French industrial- ist and statesman, intimated today | that Germany would officlally ask for terms within a month or six weeks. The French intimate, moreover, that | the longer Germany delays in re- turning within the treaty and re- suming reparations deliveries the harder these cventual terms are llke- 1y to be. The writer {3 now able to confirm the assertion that when the negotia- tions are resumed the French gov-1| ernment is determined to do its best to liquidate all outstanding Franco- German differences, so that when the new agreement is signed the two peoples can lay aside their rancours and suspicions and resume friendly relations. France intends ultimately to evacuate both the Ruhr and the Rhineland, but intends also that the i | manently neutralized, and for this purpose it is prbposed that France and Belglum shall retain a super- visory control of the Rhineland rail- ways. To Maintain 133/000,000,000 Marks. With respect to reparations the French goeyrnment intends to main- tain the integral total of 132,000,000,- 000 gold marks, of which, however, only the A and B bonds—that is to say, 60,000,000,000 marks—will be actually demanded for the present. The C bonds—that is to say, $2.000,- 000,000 gold marks—wlill not be issued the immediate future, and Germany will be accorded a reason- able moratorium during which it must | rehabilitate its finances. However, if France i pressed for its debts by Great Britain and the United States, France will begin to press these C bonds upon Germany. Might Crush Competitors. Moreover it Is considered here that it Germany were relieved .of the C bonds it might recover too quickly and crush all its competitors in eco- nomic strugglefi for the depreciation of the mark has left Germany with its industries greatly, strengthened, with no foreign debt and virtually no tnterlor debt. ‘The French government estimates that Germany should be able to_pay an annuity of 3,500,000 marks. Fur- ther, the French are disposed to make to Germany more lenient commercial conditions than those named in the treaty of Versallles, and they desire (Continued on Page 3, Column 2.) ~ ~ | 11l and who ated man were shot at the family home of the Hastons, three miles from Spen- er. Tenn. carly this morning by s Douglas, negro paroled con- ct, who escaped after the shooting and is being sought by a posse. Details of the shooting are not known, but it is reported members of the family were sitting up with ts morning. The report reached Nashville that Mrs. Gieorge Haston cannot live and that Sam Haston had both legs broken by the negro’'s shot. Secretary Haston left here at 8-30 o'clock this morning for Spencer, carrying bloodhounds with him. Douglas, the negro, - was sent to i prison in 1915 on a charge of arson, his sentence carrying a term of five to twenty-one years. NAY QUITU. S. PoST TOHEAD BIG FIRM C. H. Huston of Tennessee, assist- ant secretary of commerce, is expect- ed to resign in the near future to accept the presidency of the World Commerce Corporation, a new ofl company now being organized in New York and Pittsburgh for the purpose of acquiring control of ofl lands in Venezuela and Central America and establishing a shlpping servico to market the product. Mr. Huston would not confirm re- Permission Given to Increase i Height Limit at 7th and i F Streets. Plans are being prepared by large addition to its department store on the southeast corner of 7th and F streets. This came to light today when Alexander lHecht, a member of the firm. appeared before the Zoning Commission at the District building to have the height 1imit of that cor- ner increased from eighty-five to 110 feet. Mr. Hecht explained that the pro- posed addition would extend north- ward from the present store on 7th street to I and east on I strect as far as the Pacific building. A Seven-Story Building. This development would mean the te .ring down of the Shubert-Garrick “heater, which Is within the area of the proposed structure. A representative of Jarvis Hunt, In s.chitects, exhibited rough sketches of the bullding to the com- mission to show that the design con- templated would in no way detract from the appearance of nearby gov- ernment buildings. Edward F. Colladay, atotrney for the petitioners, told the commission that under the old law of 1910, which regulated the height of buildings beforo the zoning law was enacted, the proposed building could have been erected on that corner. It was explained that if the peti- tion for a 110-foot limit is granted the new store would be seven stories high. Mr. Hecht said he could not estimate the cost of the project at ithis time or state definitely when | warded the New York authorities, but | the | point out that inany reports of this Mrs. Sam Haston, who was serfously { Hecht Company for the erection of al THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1923—FORTY-TWO PAGES. | i WOMAN MAY DIE, RESULT OF BURNS Son and Daughter Painfully Hurt Trying to Save Moth- er, Ablaze. t | 2 | Word of the arrest was received in | this city at the office of the United | States attorney. it being stated that | the woman denies she s the individual wanted here. A woman of her name 18 wanted here to answer charges of having passed several worthless checks on local merchunts. It is said were given o young woman formerly had an count. Copies of checks she alleged to have passed have been for- RUNS, SETS HOUSE AFIRE Practically No Hope Held Out for Mrs. Catherine Neitzey at Providence Hospital. Mrs. Catherine Neftzey, fifty-nine years old. 649 Morton street northe east. was burned serlously and proba- bly fatally today when her clothing ignited from a fire she had started in the réar of her home to destroy trash, Miss Margaret Neltzer, her daugh- jter. twenty-one vears old, and Wil- liam Neftzey, her son, thirty vears old, received painful burns while [trying to save thelr mother's life, land fire was started on two floors of | the house. where the mother ran in & ifrantic effort to get asaistance. Ran in House Ablare. | As soon as Mrs. Neitzey's dress ig- {nited. it is stated, she started toward |the house, entering a rear basement door and running to the dining room on the first floor, where the table- cloth ignited and eet firs to the ofl- cloth floor covering. Breaking away from her daughter, who was doing her best to save the mother's life, Mrs. Neltzey ran to the upper floor, where bedding caught fire. Outeries in the house attracted the. attention of the neighbors. An alarm was sounded from box 665, and sev- eral companies of firemen soon ap- peared at the Neitzey home. Work of extingulshing the two fires was completed quickly, and while firemen were preventing the flames from destroying the home Acting Battalion Chlef Hubert McConnell of the fire department was speeding to Providence Hospital with Mrs. Neltzey and her son, while Capt. L. J. Stoll of the ninth police precinct took the daughter to Casualty Hospital. No Hope for Mother. Miss Neltzey was treated at Casual- ty Hospltal for burns to her arms. She left the hospital as soon as her Iburns had been dressed, and hurried to Providence Hospital, where she | | ports today that he actually haa!work will be started. He indicated, [ visited her mother and brother. Dr. signed a contract with the corpora- tion, but he indicated that he might have an announcement to make on the subject before the end of the week. The organisation and investment In. volved in the World Commerce Cor- poration, it 16 understood, will be on an extensive scale. The company expecte to take In some organizations which are now operating. Mr. Hus- ton's salary is to be Beveral times that which he recelved as assistant secretary. When Prestdent Harding organized his cabinet Mr. Huston, active for a number of years in the republican party organization in Tennesses, was seriously considered for Secretary of Commerce, and it was indicated that he probably would have been given that place had Herbert Hoover de- clined it. He has been assistant sec- retary since the beginning of the present administration. however, that it would not be post- poned long if the change in height limit is allowed. At an executive sesslon following the public - hearing the commission granted the application for the increase in the height limit, No one appeared in opposition to the change. P RAPS MAGAZINE TAX. MONTREAL, March $—The recent proposal In the house of commons for 2 tax on American books, magazines and periodicals as & means of stifling competition with Canadian literature Was criticlsed today by Prof. Stephen Leacock of McGlill University, a novele}§ ist. He declared the proposal smacked of spite work and expressed the be- llef that commercial interests were behind it. Such a tariff he added, would render impossible the efforts of literary men and women to weld a bond of letters and sclence between the United States and Canada. What Do You Know About Germany?‘ Read NextSunday’s Star Frank G. Carpenter, famous world traveler, is now in Germany. He will write of actual conditions. * He will visit the rich and poor, the factories, banks and the Reichstag. His articles will many. tell you the facts about Ger- First Illustrated Article in the Magazine of Next Sunday’s Star Richmond A. Brooks, who took charge of Mrs. Neltzey at Providence Hos- pital, sald thers was practically no hope for the patient's recovery. Mrs, Neitzey had been burned about her body, legs, arms and head, but had not”'lost ’consclousness when she reached the hospital. Willlam Neitzey recefved severe burns on his face and hands, but his condition was not critical. Mra, Nelt- 17ey’s_husband was in the employ of the Washington Railway and Elec- tric Company on the Columbia line for many years. He was retired sev- eral years ago, and later died. FINDS 114 TEMPERATURE IS TOO HOT INDOORS Young Woman Would Leave Bed. Gets Many Messages From Sympathizers. ESCANABA, Mich.,, March 8.—)iss Evelyn Lyons chatted cheerfully with her friends today, apparently undi turbed by her temperature of 114 de- grees, which has persisted for nine- teen days. She seemed to be resting better today, physicians said, and her pulse was nearer normal. Dr. Harry Defnet reported that there was no decrease In the thermometer read- ings. M Lyons ceased to complain agalnst her confilnement today, al- though she protested that she knew she would feel better if she were al- lowed to “get out into the cold air.” The young woman, who has received a flood of letters, post cards and tele- grams from all over the country ex- pressing sympathy and wishing her success in her fight for recovery, said she wanted to thank those who had sent .her m es. ‘I am glad to have their comfort. I know I will Fet Jrell,” she said. ’ i | STORES' INVASION | | | the other { avenue, | Zoo, Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 96,511 TWO CENTS. Says Wife Gave | Cheap Coffin Ad To Dying Spouse By the Assoetated Press. CHICAGO, March 8. — Evidence in connection with the deaths of three husbands of Mrs. Tillle Klimek, charged with murder, was allowed by the court today, but her co-defendant, Mrs. Neille Kou- lik, her cousin, was freed today by Superfor Judge Kavanagh. Mrs. Koullk, however, still is under in- dictment in connection with the death of one of her husbands, by polson, it is alleged. The state has sought to show the cousing were involved in a murder con” spiracy. Charges that Mrs. Kiimek sat by the death bed of her third hus- band, Frank Kupczyk. and stitch- ed her mourning gargents, were made by Assistant State's Attor- ney William F. McLaughlin in his opening statement today. “We will prove she also showed him an advertisement of an un- dertaking firm showing coflins for $30." sald the prosecutor, He wert on to charge that the defendant, before Kupczyk's death, had raid {hat he did not have long to live. “Three of her husbands are dead and one still is in the hospital” went on the prosecutor. NEAR Z00 BEATEN Connecticut Avenue Citizens Fight Requests of Wardman and Kennedy. The Zoning Commission today turned down two requests for a change In the zoning regulations which would permit invasion of the residential zone of Connecticut avenue by stores One was an application of Harr. Wardman to establish stores in a: apartment house opposite Connecti cut avenue entrance to the Zoo and as a request of Ldgar! Kennedy to have stores in an apart- ment house at Cathedral and Connec cut avenues. g At a public hearing preceding the consideration of the requests, prop- erty owners entered vigorous pro- tests against them. Mr. Wardman asked that 300 feet on the west side of Connecticut opposite the entrance to the be changed from residential to first commercial to enable him to open stores on the ground floor of an apartment house. H Edgar S. Kennedy asked for a simi- lar change on the northeast corner of | Cathedral and Connectlcut avenues to | put stores under an apartment house. Mr. Wardman told the commission that, while he felt a few stores would be needed at the Zoo entrance, he would not press his application if there was objection. Mr. Kennedy testifled that he did not expect to profit from the estab- lishment of stores under his apart- men but believed some commercial accommodations would be needed for| the hundreds of familles who would | move Into new apartments that vieinity. Grove Heads Objectors. Harry Grove, appearing for the Connecticut Avenue Citizens' Associ- ation, opposed both changes, declar- ing that the residents of Connecticut avenue want the high-class residen- tial character of their nelghborhood preserved against business encroach- ments. A number of other residents of the section protested. 5 The commission took the argumefits under advisement and will render its decision after an executive session. Proposed changes in property in other parts of the city also were con- sidered. ACGIDENT VIGTIM AWARDED §20,000 Struck by Auto in 1918, For- mer Red Cross Nurse Sues for Injuries. Miss Fay Gring Butler, formerly a Red Cross nurse, was awarded a ver- dict for $20,000 damages today by a jury in Circuit Division 2, before Jus- tice Hoehling, against Mrs. James Hamilton Morton of San Franclsco, Calif. Mrr. Morton is said to be the owner of an automoblile which struck and injured the plaintiff December 7, 1918, while she was on the sidewalk at 13th and M streets northwest. The case was tried last May and re- sulted in a verdict for Mrs. Morton, but a new trial was granted. Miss _Butler, through Attorney | Henry L. Davis, sued for $50,000, claiming that she was dragged about fifty feet and sustained seven frac- tures, including the shattering of her jawbone and the knocking out of five front teeth. The introduction of tes- timony occupled nearly a weel { reclassification ! such manner as to make the las | vide Jower rates of pay for two grades |of { sons do; { accordin low i Coal ERRDRS CURTAL PAY OF 2 CRADE 0FLL. . ENPLOYES Two Serious Mistakes in Re- classification Act Hit Cus- todial Service. +BOARD WILL ACT AS CONGRESS INTENDED Matter Will Be Called to Attention of Body Later Correction. for “Two serious errors act by crept into the mistake, 1n pro- the custodlal service. according to a statement issued today by the personnel classification board, fol- lowing & meeting this morning at the Treasury. Four minimum rates of compensa- tion were included in the act for per- custodial service, which, to the board’'s statem “does not express what cle the Intention of Congress.” The four minimum salarfes which the board de- clares were included by clerical mis- i take were for grade 2, $750 and $540, end in grade 3, for $300 and $960. Error to Be Corrected. It is the intention of the board, statement sald, to proceed on basis of the law as the board ur stands Congress intended it to be, and submit in its first report to Congress the situation, so that {t may be amended if Congress sees fit The statement by the board today explained that the board obtained & certified copy of the law from the State Depart d began a careful study of provisions. “In examining the text of the law, sald the statement “it was soon noti ed that two serious errors had been made in the passage of the bill through the two Houses of Congress. In two finstances the law does not clearly express what was the inten- tion of Congress. The statement explains how tor Sterling and Senator agreed to strike out the lower rates of pay in conference and the bill bad been reported without the vbjectional r rate of pay Furthermore, the statement ins, the Congressional Record of arch’ 2 contained a cony of the Bill, as amended and read into the Record, without the lower grades. “When passed by the Senate.” said the statement, “the minimum rates of 780 for grade 2 and $900 for grade 3 appeared in the bill as it went to the House. This was plainly an error in using the wrong print. as the Senate had actually adopted the mini- mum rate of $900 and $1,020 for the two grades. Declared Unfortun he DLill went to conference ued the board's statement here the Senate amendment accepted, with amendments touching the rates of these grades. The errors were rot detected until the bill had become a law_ through the President's approval. Tt is un- fortunate tnat in these lower grades of small-salaried. employes these ere rors should have occurred. “The board makes this early an- nouncement,” it was said, “in order that there may be no uneasiness felit by the employes concerned mnor any apprehension that the board will recommend the erroneous rates. As the rates of pay do not become ef- fective until July, 1924, ample op- portunity to correct the errors will be afforded. With the board using the correct rates in_all its calcula- tions and reports there can be no question of loss to any emplove and the board belleves there 1 he prompt action by Congress to correct such manifest cletical errors. Protested by Union. The objectionable low rates cons tained in the discovery today by the board were among the principal rea- sons for protest by the National Fed- eration of Federal Employes at = ass meeting recently. T he classiffication board today also issued an appeal to any persons in- side the public service or outside of it for “written suggestions relating to the metlods and procedures to bs adopted in the first step to be taken in the task assigned to it under the classification law.” No Oral Hearings. The board fndicated that in receiv- ing suggestions it would not have time for oral hearings to receive sug- gostions, and it therefore requested that all ideas be made in writing. The board pointed out the gigantia task before it and said it intended to call upon officlals of the government service to aid in preparing the bud- get to be presented to Congress COAL MAGNATE DEAD. PITTSBURGH. Pa. March §— Matthew H. Taylor, chairman of the board of directors of the Pittsburgh Company and one of the best known bituminous coal men in the country, died late last night in At- lantic City from pneumonia, accord- ing to information received at the company's office here today. Mr. Taylor, who made his home in Erle, Pa., went from his office here a weelk ago to the aeashore to recuperats after a severe cold. While there he developed pnsumsnll. He was sev- 8 ol ox- Traffic of 4 Cities to Furnish A member of the Commissioners traffic committee is to go at an early date to Brooklyn, New York, De- troit and Chicago to study traffic con- aitions and regulations in those cities, it was revealed today in a letter ad- dressed to Chatrman Ball of the Sen- ate District committee by Commlis- sioner Rudolph. Commissioner Rudolph's letter was' written in reply to a suggestion from Senator Ball that the trafic plan of Willlam B. Eno should be adopted here provisionally. Mr. Rudolph said. “In reply to this suggestion, I wish to say that the Commissioners have established a committee for the pur- pose of studying our trafic situation and advising such changes in the methods of handling traffic as seem to' promise betterment in conditions. | Tips for D. C. Committee’s Use ‘This committee has had the benefit of Mr. Eno's views in conference with him in the past and will, I am sure, carefully consider these as they rogress. S » "[‘ might add that one member of this committee has been instructed to proceed at an early date to Brooklyn, New York, Detroit and Chicago for the purpose of obtaining the very late est information available on this sub- ject, and for the further purpose of carefully observing how trafic is handled in each of these places. On his_return the committee will no doubt make an early decision as to the necessary remedies and the time at which and the manner in which they should be applied.” The Senate District committee, un- der the Robinson resolution adopted by the Senate, is to investigate traf- fic conditions here itself, but that probe will not be made, it is sald, un= til late in the year. v