Evening Star Newspaper, December 5, 1923, Page 2

BING POSTA RKS IS URGED 7 TSR Paige’s Bill Would Benefit First and Second Class flood of bills of publie activity tariun rolicitude conti through the hoj Representative The every nhase covering for humani- ses to flow per of the Hlous Calvin D, Paige Massachugetts today introduced bill classifying of oftice clerks in first und second cla post otlice und readjusting the salarics and compensation. He pro- v that lerks shull pe di vided into grades follow: First $1.600; third Bradi of a salaries post these five ie, as salary £1,800; srade, salary $2,000; fourth and fifth g bill provides that clerks in first second class post offices ghall omoted successively after one satisfagtory Service {n each Erade 1o the next highe ade until they veach the fifth grad His Lill providss two srades of spe- cial ks the first grad:, salary and the nd grade. salary Clerks who have seryved three years satisfactorily crade 5 will be promoted to special clerk, grad and after serving one year satis torily in grade 1, will be promoted to special grade 2 Representative grade. salary salury. £2.200 His and be pi vear el a0, $2.500. Frederick Dallinger prospective chair- mmittee on education, his bill f permitting mployés of the War De- partment to purchase supplies from Such commissary stores as may be operited by the subsistence diviston of the Quartermaster Corps «of the Army Representative troduced bill pr information service «ducation Representative Smith of troduced a bill, forty pages long, vegulate the pract osteop in’ the District of Columbia. New Immigration Laws. Five bills dealing with proposed new immigration laws or amendments were filed Chairman Johnson of the Immigra- tion committee put in his bidl for re- &triction of immigration to 2 per cent of the various nationals in the United States In 1880, while Representative Sabath, democrat, Illinois, proposed 4 restriction of immigrants on a basis of 2 per cent of the nationals here in 1920, epresentative Perlman, re- publican. New York. asked repeal of the immigration law now in effect. Amendments to the Volstead act nreposed in bills fi by Repre- tives Hill, republican, Maryland; Doyle. democrat, Hlinois, and Sabath. Mr. Hill advocated establishment Yederal local option distriets, com prising congressional districts, with the right to vote t each congre 1e 1 election for light wine and beer. Mr. Doyle asked the right of xtate referendum votes on Hght wine and beer. Mr. Sabath sought amend- ment of the law to permit sale and manufacture of light wine and beer. n of the c reintroduced all ctvilian Dallinger also in- viding for library in the bureau of we Ken Is proposing the House membershi of the and total t en Representativ an. Indlana: Barbour, lfornia, and Bla "exas, Representative rat, Texas, asked re- reducing the total to limiting . the mbership < Fai fd. republ cpublican demoerat Blantor port 04 members A econstitutic nibiting Tabor 1 amendment pro- persons under eigh- was proposed by onnery, demoerat, srganization and improvement the foreign service of the govern- ain was sought by Repre- Rogers. republican, Mass 1 a bill which passed the se last session mnesty. for all under the war-time plonuge acts was sentative Griffin, demoer GILLETT RE-ELECTED SPEAKER AS DEADLOCK OF TWO DAYS IS BROKEN persons convieted cutrality and es- as by Repr: New York. (Continued\rom First Page.) gratitude Is correspondingly great. Promising faithful execution of hig dutles, Mr. Gillett said the office of Speaker had become a judicial one. He would administrate 'it, he said, “without favor or The country is ng for this session,” he continued. “We are still suffering from the disorganization of the war. Eaquillbrium is not yet re- stored. “Let us try to mity 1 dign d forbearance The House unanimously re-elected Shera Montgomery #s chap- nd_on a viva voce vote re- William Tyler Page clerk, G. Rodgers sergeant-at-arms and Hert W. Kennedy doorkeeper. After clection of the House officers Representati .ongworth eongrat- ulated the ocrats on their choice of Repre ative Garrett for their leader, praising the minority leader as “a' courageous, Kindly, good-na- tured expert parliamentarian_and a pre-eminently honest man.” Repub- licans joined the democrats In an ovation to Garrett The House adopted motions to in- form the President and Senate of its organization, and Representatives Longworth, Green of Towa and Gar- rett were named to join the Senate committee in notification of President Coolidge. . In the midst of the House organiza- tion members paid a tribute to John 1. Quinn, national commander of the American Legion, who was seated in ihe Speuker's gallery. Represent tive Barbour, republican, California, called attention to Mr. Quinn's pres- ence. Mr. Quinn rose and bowed to cheers from all sides. which Mr. preserve 1y our equa: mutual reement under llett was to ba re-clected Speaker was reached last night at a confer- ence hetween leaders of the repub- lican insurgent and regular oraani- zations. By a settlement of the fight President Coolidge would begable to deliver his first message to a Jjoint sesslon of Congress tomorrow. For an hour Representative Long- worth of Ohio. the republican leader, and Representatives Nelson of Wis- consin, Woodruff of Michigan and 1.a Guardia of New York, the insur- gent leaders, discussed thefr differ- inces around the table in Mr. Long- worth's office. _Afterward Mr. Nel- +on, chairman of the insurgent group, said a -recommendation would be made to his organization that its sight of the speakership be abandoned. Assurances were glven by Mr. Long- worth, said Mr. Nelson, that oppor- tunity would be accorded to the House to make such changes in ex- jsting rules as a majority might de- cide upon. He added that from the first the insurgents had held out for this. Rules Only Temporary. Under the program which appar- ently had the approval of the con- ference, the House aftar organizin \would adopt temporarily the rules of ihe Sixty-seventh Congress, subject » amendment after thirty days. Dur- ing that period the ‘rules committee 2001l consider such changes as mem- 1.or8 of the House may offer and then 1he whole subject will be opened to discuesion and final action by the Tiouse. This proposal was made by Mr. Jongworth In a formal statement sued late vesterday after another ay of futile balloting for Speaker. Tt as to make certain of the right of the House to vote on rules amendments. offered from - the floor that last 3.ight'S conference was arranged. wde, salary, $2.400. ! ldaho in-! respect ; 1 Electric Driven . R.R. Engine Runs 105 MilesanHour Iy the Assoclated Press, ERIE, Pa., Decembeor —What ix believed to be a new weorld rpeed record for an electrically piepeiled rallway locomotive w estebliehed here yesterday in the 1lant of the General Electric Com- pany before a gathering of fore- most ruilrond officiuls and engl- neers of the United Stites. The lucomotive.attained & speed of 105 miles an hour. In a “tug-of-war” test the ele tric_locomotive out-pulled the letest improved type of steam ihcomot've. AL GEN. SQUIER second | ll } shot { is unable to do so. TORETIRE DEC 3 To Be Succeeded by Col. Saltzman as Chief Signal Officer of U. S. Army. With the approval dent, Maj. Gen, George O. Squier, chief signal officer of the Army. will be transferred to the retired list Decem- ber 31, on his own application, after more than thirty- seven years' serv- ice. Gen, Squier wa horn Mich., of the Presi- s in Dryden, March 21, 1865, and would not reach the statutory retiring age of sixty-four years until March 21, 1928, After his retirement he will devote his entire time to the da- velopment of cer- tain Inventions on which he has been engaged for several years. He graduated from the ilitary Ac in June, 1887, and after twelve years' service in the artillery was transferred to the Signal Corps in Feb 1899, He was chief sig- nal v with the Amerfean ex- ¥ itionary for s during the world war, and was awarded a distinguish- ed service medal. He Is a recognized inter: lonal athority on and general wire communications, and has devoted many years to selentific research work The retirement of Gen. Squler in- volves his relinquishment of the of- fice of chief signal oficer. He will be succeeded in that office by Col. Charles McK. Saltzman, senfor colonel of the corps, now stationed at Gov- ernor’s Island, N. Y., as signal officer of the 2d corps arear. He is a gradu- ate of the Military Academy class of 1896, and was attached to the cavalry for five years. His subsequent serv- lce has been in the Signal Corps, in which he has served with speclal dis- tinction. During the world war he was in charge of the Washington sfiice and was awarded the dis- tinguished service medal. As chief signal officer, Col. Saltzman will have ghe rank and pay of a major general Of the Army MRS. HALL AND MILLS ARE HELD INNOCENT (Continued from First Page.) GEN. SQUIER, sald, Yesterday he was furnished with photographs- only and was not given the mame. Analyses Elwell Case. After a study of the pictures said: “This he & man is conceited. -His chief concern is his personal appearance. He is a gambler, and has equally bad or worse habits. He curses himself for getting into a bad way of living, and decides to change his habits, but His friends drag him back, . He gets far top little sleep, and is constantly seeking new intimates—men and women. With him it is always women, women, women. He spends his whole income on clothes, women and oh men. He seeks others who have certain of his habits, and those who do recognize him at once as one of their own mind, “He has toyed with the idea of sulclde, but really fears a violent death. T see for him a very tragic end within two years after this photo- graph was taken. He will be mur- dered, yes, killed by a perverted man, I think ' He drinks and admits ali £orts of persons to his apartment.” YOUTH WAS MURDERED, CORONER DETERMINES Body Found With Eight Bullet Holgs in Head in Ala- bama Marsh. MOBILE, Ala,, December 6.—Melvin Brantley, nineteen, formerly of Ger- land, Ala, employed at the Lerio Tyrpentine Company plant here, mys- terfously missing since Saturday, X vember 24, at noon, and who' was found dead in a marsh on the east wide of the Louisville and Nashville railroad tracks 300 yards north of Chickasabogue late Tuesday after- noon, was murdered for his money, according to the police. A post-mortem on the body of the youth held last night by Dr. 8. F. Hale, county coroner, revealed eight bullet holes in his head, according to an officlal statement issued by him. Coroner Hale said that Brantley was down and wmurdered in marsh. Following the finding of the body of the misaing boy, County Bolicitor Bart B. Chamberlain fssued a' state- ment to the effect that he would gwear out a warrant today for Leon Layfleld, seventeen, held in the police station since November 27 as a Dect in connection with the dis Dearance of Brantley, charging him with the murder of the latter. Panama Canal Idea Old. One of Balboa's companions, Alvara de Baavedra, was the first to con- ceive the Panama canal. The real history of the canal began when, thirty-two vears-after the discovery of the Isthmus of Panama by Chris- topher Columbus in 1502, a survey of the Toute was made. Saavedra had conceived the idea for the canal when crossing the isthmus in 1513. Garages, and Dwellings Lead. Figures compiled for the first half of 1923 show a steady growth of building operations throughout the country, and in the larger cities this is especially moticeable. In a ques- tlonnaire sent out by the bureau of labor statistios Information was asked of all cities over 100,000 as to the type of bulldings being erected. The answers show ‘that the greatest number were for, one-family dwell- ings and garages. Salary of Pilots Growing. Pllots on the River Thames in Lon- don are in demand. Bome earn sal- aries as high as $5000 a year and some receive even double that amount. Before he can obtain his licen a Thames pillot must have served as a ship’s officer, with a mawter's certificate, for seven years. Moreover. Trinity House examines its pilots every year. electric | (GHANGES IN TAX - PROCEDURE URGED Board of Anpe silsked to " 'Decide on Problems of Collection. i I “Decentralization” of procedure. for collecting federal taxes was recom- mended to Congress, today by the tax simpilfication board in & report mak- ing numerous suggestions us to pro- posed fmprovements in the adminis- tiation of revenue laws. The board proposed a board of tax appeily, to be constituted similar to {the Court of Customs Appeals, as a Judicial tribunal, before which the taxpayer might go to contest his case. Congress also was urged to give carcful consideration “to the wisdom of eliminating capital gains as income and capital losses as deductions.” Help for Taxpayer) By the term “decentralization,” the tax simplification board sajd, it meant “procedure whereby the roturns of taxpayers shall be audited, questions rising in connection therewith de- termined, and any change in tax lia- bility from that shown \In the return ttled in various local offices through- it the United States as convenient Dossible residences of the eetive : The inconvenience and expense to the taxpayer in having to wait for final decision on_his case to be made at Washington, and the necessity of pensc in trips to the Capital were °d as sufficien: to warrant change lin the procedure “The expense to Ing from trips to Washington to set- tle their tax liability or from the employment of counsel here,” it was said, “is estimated to involve tre-, mendous sums in the aggregate.” “The present procedure was worked out in the stress of war times, when a mountain of work was encoun- tered,” said the bourd, “but it be- ooves us now that we are at peace to establish procedure which will re- sult in etficacious administration of the revenue laws, with as little vexa- tion to the public and as little ham- pering to business as possible.” No Jeglslation would be necessary to de- centralize, it was pointed out. Shortcoming of Board. The committee on appeals and re- view, under the control of the com- missioner of internal revenue, while conside )y the tax simplfication board t kood work, does not Ko far enoush in its efforts to afford adequate opportunity to the, taxpayer in adjudication of his claims, it is held. " A board of tax ap- { peals should be established, it is con- tended. to be a judicial tribunal for the taxpayer, The function of the commissioner of internal revenue was imaid to be “fo assess and collect the taxes,” an administrative not a judi- cial function. “The appeal given to the taxpayer from the action or pro- posed action of the commissioner, said the tax simplification board, “should be to & judicial body inde: pendent of the commissioner.” “It 15 the bellef of our board that if such a tribunal were established, tax- payers would feel that they would recelve a fair and impartial hearing before being required to pay any ad- ditlonal tax assessments. We belleve that the luw creating the hourd should be so drafted as to permit the members to function in groups In tuxpayers result- various parts of the United States.” Although admitting that the prob- lem is “beyond the proper scope of recommendations to be made by our board,” the report discusses the pro- posul to eliminate profits on sales of capital assets as income apd of loss- es on_such sales as deductions, declar- ing that such a change would he “onc of the most effective measures which could be adopted to simplify the reve- nue aet.” “The best considered opinions of acountants, actuaries, and economists appear to us to indicate’ said the board. “that the elimination of both capital gains and capital losses, even now, would result in no decrease. in | revenue to the government over a | period of vears." H BILLTOEXTEND | D.C. WATER SYSTEM Representative Moore’s Pro- posal for Connection With Arlington County, Va. Representative R. Walton Moore of | Yirginia today introduced a bill authorizing the connection of the water system of the District of Co- lumbla with Arlington county, Va. He explained that the provisions are practically as contained in a bill during the Bixtieth Congress, making provision for connecting the water systems of the town of Chevy Chase, Md., with the water system of the Distriet. The Moore bill provides that the District Commissioners shall be au- thorized in their discretion, when the interest of consumers of water in the District of Columbia will not suf- fer thereby, upon the request of the board of supervisors of Avlington county, Va., to deliver water from the District system to the Arlington county sanitary district, which was created by ap act of the general as- sembly of Virginia March 25, 1920, It provides also for connecting the’ District water mains with water mains in Arlington county over the Francis Scott Key bridge. A proviso is included that the ex- penses of making such connection shall be borne by Arlington county, which shall pay such charges' for the use of the water as may be determin- ed from time to time by the Commis- sioners, the payment to be made under regulations prescribed by the Com- missioners. Another proviso gives the District Commissioners the right at any time te revoke any agreement that may have been made. PRINCESS FATALLY HURT IN AUTOMOBILE CRASH Daughter of Duke of Torlonia in Italy Dies of Internal Hemorrhage. By the Associated Press. ROME, December 5.—Princess Marla Chigl, daughter of the Duke of Tor- lonia, died today as a result of an automobile accident near the royal hunting lodge of Castel Fusano, close to Rome. * The princess was motoring from Rome to Castel Fugano. The car, after turning a sharp corner, became unmanageable, crashed into a tree and turned on its side. Another account of the accident says the motor car skidded and fell over an embankment twenty-five feet high. The princess died a result of an internal hemorrhag: Prince Francesco Chigl Deila Ro- ‘vére-Albani, husband of the princess, who was in the car. escaped unhurt, The chauffeur was injured: eft to i M. D. 8 No. 1 precinet, recol weeretary. GOOLIDGE LAUDS ONROE DOGTRINE Held Factor of First Import- ance in International Concerns. ith, No. 4 By the Associated Prexs. RICHMOND, Va., December 5—The Monroe Doctrine “has proved a factor of the first fmportance in & very broad range of international concerns,” Presi- dent Calvin Coolidge declared in & message today to Dr. Clarence J. Owens, chairman of the international centennlal celebration that has been {n mrogress here since Sunday. The doc- trine, the President said, is “one of the great contributions of American state- craft to the determination of relation- ships between the new world and the old.” The celebration here was brought to & close last ngiht with a reception in honor of the descendants of President Monroe, and today a pilgrimage was made to “Ashlawn” home of Monroe, near Charlottesville. ~Addresses were on the program after the party reached “Ashlawn,” and from there they went to “Monticello,” home of Thomas Jef- ferson, to celebrate the recording yes- terday of a deed conveying the title to the property to the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation. 300 PENS RECOVERED. Colored Employe of Stationery Firm Under Arrest. hundred fountain pens, valued at $1,600, recently stolen from the stationery store of Charles G. Stott & Co., 1310 New York avenue northwest, were recovered this after- noon by Detectives O'Dea and Cul- Hinane. ] McKinley Howard, colored, chauf- feur, residing in Dingman court northwest, former employe of the stationery’ firm, was arrested by the detectives and charged with house- breaking. He is said to have admit- ted his guilt and told of having re- ceived $165 for the pens, losing the greater portion of the money gam- in a house on 1st street. NK CLERKS HELD UP. Ohto, December 5—Two late this morning held in the Xenia avenue branch of the City Savings and Trust Company and stoles money from the cash 'drawer said to approximate $10,000. Thre, bling BA DAYTON, unmasked mer up two clerks ng secretary; A. E, precinct, president ; OVERCOME BY GAS. | Henry Steimback Unconscious in Room. A middle-aged man, believed by the police to be named Henry Steimback. was found unconscious from illum- inating gas polsoning in a rooming | house ut 233 Pennsylvania avenue northwest today. He had occupied the ,rnnm the past week or more, she D lice were told. but had not register, | It is thought he was overcome the gas as a result of an accident. | The “name Henry Steimback w found written on « silp of paper in his room. Police of the sixth precince are investigating. |ARGUMENTS IN FORD . MAGNETO CASE END New Orleans Court Expected to Render Decision in ‘ Two Weeks. By the Assoclated Press. NEW ORLEANS, La., December 5.— Arguments were concluded yesterday before the United States cireuit court of appeals in a number of techaical- itles arising out of the $11,000,000 damage suit brought against Henry Ford by Edward S. Huff of Miami, Fla., former employe of the Ford Motor Company and inventor of the fiy-wheel magneto used on automo- bjles produced by the Ford Company. The court took the case under advise- ment and is expected to anpounce its decision within two weeks. The suit |'was filed in the federal district court |at Miam! last year. | " The appellate court was asked to decide whether Ford had paid the |plaintiff all that is due him for the |invention and whether the case should be tried before a jury. It wASs | ot called upon to try the case on ite merits. Counsel for Huff |invented the device while in the em- ploy. of the ord company and that he was promised & rovalty of $2.5 each automoblle where the was used from the time it was pat- | ented in July, 1913. Attorneys for the Automobile manufacturer contended that Huff had been paid §10,000 honus tfor the patent rights to the device and that he at no time was promised a royalty on it. The case was ap- pealed by the Ford company from the dévision of Federal District Judge Clayton at Jacksonville, Fla, several months ago that the malin issue could be tried hefore a jury ! —_— | PLAN BUREAU CHANGE. | _Creation of a finance service in the | Veterans' Bureau, with separate di- | visions of disbyrsing and accounting, | wws announced today by Director Frank T. Hiney Harold W. Breining, |an assistant director of the bureau, |hwas named chief of the service. claimed that he \Representative H. R. Rathbone Added to House D. C. Committee Deeply Interested in Promotion of Na tion’s Capital. Born in Washington and Ever in Touch With Local Issues. The House District committee is to be strengthened by the assignment of Representative Henry R. Rathbone, republican, mgmber at large from Iil- nois, who succeeds Mrs. Winifred Ma- son Huck. The selection Is due to his litelong interest in the National Capital, his birthplace. Representative Rathbone will take the place on the committee vacated | by Representative Elllott W.:Sproul of Tinois, who was one of the most earnest supporters of constructive legislation on this committee in the Sixty-seventh Congress. Representa- tive Sproul will probably be placed on the post offices-and post roads com- mittee, but being a close personal friends of Representative Rathbone, his intimate and sympathetic concern for District legislation stifl will be ‘exerted. Native of Washington. The building at 8 Lafayette square, where Robert Lansing, formerly Sec- retary of State, now -has his offices, was the birthplace of Representative Rathbone, who lived there until he was elght years old. His family until recently owned this property. Rep- resentative Rathbone visited, . Mr. Lansing vesterday 'mnd revived many happy childhood memories as he went hi: 1d ho , ita” of the Cosmos Club, 25 P nes Nite o sthe e site of . : Madison place, 1s arfother, plecé_of property which Mr. Rathbghe's faml- Iy owned until récent!years. % In view of the facts that he was born here, " speat’ much of his life here, that'his family was very well known in Washington, and ‘that he has always keptsin tloge touch with affairs of the District, many friends ave urged Representatt hbone B eccens &, piace trr:the House Dis: trict committedy where 1t {8 belleved T REPRESENTATIVE HENRY R. RATHBONE. :he can do important service to his native elty. “I am really very much pleased if the committee on committees de- cides to place me on the District com- imittee” "sald Representative Rath- bone, “I want to be of the utmost service to my fellow people in the city of Washington.” He is giving close study to the bills that -have aiready been introduced for consid- eration by the District committee, and s reading the hearings on the constitutional amendment to give voting representation in Congress and in na- tlonal elections to the residents of the District of Columbia. He is also reading the hearings on the street railway problem, with a view to bringing intelligent and helpful con- sideration to these problem: Honored by Chieago C) ‘When a group of prominent Wash- ingtonians who had for years been intimate with the' Rathbont family called at hig office, today to. urge hini fo accept a place on the District com- mittee they found there a-huge floral emblem from the Hamilton Club.'of 'hicago. Mr. Rathbone was presi- dent of_that club, whll,?-, is the larg- est “republican club in the country, lwllhhmt;;o ‘t{.m n.oomm?elr's..duri ng the Hu camp; 0 an: ,"nferr this country entered the world ‘war, 4 - e i | | | the assoctation, J. R. Currier, trafllc bureau, first vice president; W. Miller, No, 3 precin®t, trustee; J, E. Wilson, No. 6 precinet, financial ENGINEERS AGAIN RAP CLASSIFYING Four Instances of Violating Act Cited in Summary Sent Board. The American Association of Engi- neers, said to have a membership of 15,000 throughout the country, most of whom are not in the employ of the government, today launched sec- ond attack on the Personnel Classifi- cation Board for failing to write class specifications teplying to a letter of inquiry from the board concerning its first attack, Leonard B. Smith, federal manager of delivered to Chair- man Bady a letter of further expla- nation, and an_extensive ttatement, in which the board again was ac- cused of “violation of the letter and spirit of the act” ‘our Instances Given. In a summary of the charges made by the engineers: the board is charged with breaking the law because: “(1 It required department heads in the District of Célumbia to allo- cate positions to the rejected bureau of efficiency schedule, including tho: parts whith were rejected in both cnate and House. wiereas the law specifically directed that altocations were to be made to the grades in the compensation schedules as contained in section 13 of the aet. 2) The uniform procedure out- lined by the board to govern depart- ment heads did not include the class specifications required to be prepared and puoblished “(3) The board has not yet a classification for the District olumbia that distributes the po- sitions by classes, according to the definition of class as set forth in the act “(4) The beard has disbanded its fleld division, which was proceeding in full mccordance with the act, and has called upon department heads to make allocations for the field to the bureau of efficiency schedule despite the fact that this schedule is not in accordance with the requirements of the act and was rejected by Congress,” C. R. WILSON FUNERAL HELD THIS AFTERNOON Prominent Lawyer Buried in Oak Hill Cemetery—Bar Asso- ciation Represented. services for prominently legal circles of this city for many years, who died suddenly Monday morning, were held this afternoon at 2 o'clock at John's Episcopal with the rector, Rev. Dr. Chureh, Robert Johnston, officiating. Mem- bers of the family, close friends and business associates were represented at the services. Mr. Wilson wae former president of the Harvard Club of this city, di- rector of the American Security and Trust Company, trustee of Garfield Hospital and member of the Phillips- Exeter alumni. Members of the Bar Association designated by Maj. Peyton Gordon attend the funeral were Georg Hamilton. Henry E. Davis, Joh Larper, Benjamin S. Minor, Corcoran Thon J. Holdsworth Gordon, Alex- ander ' T, Britton, Frederic D. Me- Kenney, H. Prescott Gatley, James S. Easby-Smith, John E. Laskey, J. Morrill amberlain, Stanton C. Peele, J. Spaulding Flannery, Charles A. Douglas, Chapin Brown, Charles ¥. Wilson, Daniel W. O'Donoghue, Daniel Thew Wright, George P. Hoover, Leon Tobriner, Walter C. Cle- phane, Charles W. Arth, G. Thomas Dunlop, Charles L. Frailey, Wilton J. Lambert, Arthur Peter, 'Edwin Erandenburg, Henry H. Glassic, Wal- ter Bruce Howe, Fred Faust, Henry W. Sohon, John Lewis Smith, James B. Archer, Frank J. Hogan, Morgan H. Beach and Alexander H. Bell. Burial was in Oak Hill cemetery. Honorary pallbearers included Brig. Gen. Charles L. McCawley, U. 8. M. C.; Corcoran Thom, Frederick H. Brooke, C. Carroll Glover, John F. Wilkins, John Mclllhenny,” J. H. De Sibour, John Boit, Walter B. Howe, Chandler P. Anderson and Edward A. Mitchell, Funeral Wilson, Clarence identified R in Standard Time Forty Years 0ld. The United States adopted steand- ard time in 1883 on the initiative of the American Railway Association and the telegraphic signals sent out daily from the naval observatory at Washington were changed to the new system on November 18, 1883, ac- cording to which the meridians of 75, 90, 105 and 120 degrees west from Greenwich became the time meridians of eastern, central. mountain and Pacific time, respectively. But it was not until 1918 that standard time was made the legal time throughout the United States. WOMAN AND GIRL MISSING, A bulletin issued by the woman's bureau, pelice department, this after- noqn.'dlrecwd that ‘search’ he made for. Irene Gross, twenty-three years, and Virginia Meehan, sixteen years, reported missing. _They left their home, ‘apartment 23, 48 H _street northeast, November 25, according to the police, and failed to return. Their , descriptions are given in a essage to several precints directing at "gearch be made for them. {SETTLEMENT OF $8,000 CLAIMED IN THORNE SUIT $100,000 Heart Balm Action of Actress Satisfled on Eve of Trial. = By the Associated Press CHICAGO, December 5.—A - settle- ment for $8.000. was accepted by Mary Lygo, former Follies girl, for dismissal of her $100,000 breach of promise suit against Gordon C. Thorne, _wealthy clubman, and another $100,000 ~sult against Mrs. Katherine Thorne ~Camp, Thorne's mother, according te Thorne and his attorney. Agreement between at- torneys representing the parties to the actions was reached yesterday s the suit against Thorne was v to go to Reports yesterday sald $75.000 was settlement. Miss the basis of the Lygo is sald today to have uccepted 00 in the action against Thorne tnd 33,000 in the mction against his yther, whom she charged with call- ing her a “vampire. FIND NO GAS FUMES INHILTON SCHOOL Authorities Say Building Is Not Seriously Affected by Heating Plant. Stirred Dby reports of unhealthful conditions at the Hilton School, at 5th and C streets northeast, due to an obsolete heating plant, which has thrown off polsonous gases on sev- eral occasions, school officials today condueted a through investigation of the bullding and learned that the eit- uation Is not serious. There was no evidence of the pres- ence of gas fumes in the air in the bullding today, the authoritles said, and at 10 o'clock the temperature in all rooms in the building was up to the standard of 64 degress required by the board of education. Health Officer Willlam C. Fowler some time &go called the attention of Supt. of Schools Frank W. Ballou to the shortcomings of the heating plant, and it was subsequently repair- ed At that time the health officer reported that the building was not evenly heated Hot Afr Furnaces Unsed. The heating plant at the school consists of two hot air furnaces, and a gasoline engine The engine drives the fans which circulate the warm air through the building. « One of the furnaces is working satisfactorily, the school officials ~u!nl. while the other is responsible for the gas fumes which have been reported in the building. The gasoline engine also has thrown off gases, it was sald. Repairs will be made on the xag:{hne engine and the furnace on Friday when the schools are closed for the Teachers' Institute. The heating plant in the Hilton School, it was pointed out today by Supt. Ballou and Asst. Supt. Robert L. Haycock, has been recommended for replacement, but the necossary funds have never been provided. The officials said they are particularly anxious to have a_modeca heating plant installed in the H on School and many other older school build- ings. Statement of Architcet. Munlcipal Architect Albert L. Har- ris, who supervises repairs to build- ings, said that most of the ald build- ings are equipped with hot-air fur- naces and that it is the present policy to replace them with steam heat us rapidly as possible. The repair shop. he sald, already has repaired the furnace at the Hil- ton School and replaced the gas en- gine used to operate the ventilation fan. The old gas engine was taken out'as a whole and i its place the repair shop installed a better one, taken from the Takoma School. An official of the District repair ehop stated that if the door between the gas engine room and the furnace in the Hilton School is kept closed gases will not be driven through the building. GOVERNOR RITCHIE ISSUES ORDER FOR AUTO RECIPROCITY (Continued from First Page.) nize the automobile license tag of every other state—and of the District of Columbia. “It is time to relieve the people of the District of Columbia of the inex- cusable annoyance of being compelled to purchase two automobile license tags,” said Representative Aswell Any state failing to do so will forfeit its proportion of the federal funds for roads. States Get Millions. The annual appropriation for 1924 for the state of Marviand was more than $500.000, and that of the state of Virginia was more than $1,250.000. The total appropriation received to date from the federal funds by the state of Maryland is over $4,000.000 and the total received by the state of Virginla is over $9.000,000. Representative Aswell declared to- day that the object of the federal roads act was to nationalize high- ways and facilltate interstate com- munication, and that reciprocity ameng the states and the District of Columbia is immediately impera- tive for the good of the country. He proposes to amend the federal high- way act by adding the following pari.graph: So sums shall be apportioned or reupportioned under this act to any state which does not recognize the motor vehicle identification tags and licenses issued by any other state or by the District of Columbia. NEW HEADLIGHTS RULE. Corporation Counsel Stephens today is drafting an amendment to the traf- fic regulations providing that any headlight lens approved by the bu- reay of standards or the Maryland authorities will be accepted on ma- chines in the District of Columblia. This amendment Is being made as one of the concessions agreed to by the District Commissioners yesterday in working out & temporary recigroc- ity agreement with Maryland for tlie months of January and February. Discussing the headlight_ quesiion today Inspector Albert J.” Healley, chief of the traffic bureau, pointed out. that even an approved lens is of no value unless it is properly focussed, He, therefore, urged motorists to see that their lenses are properly ad- justed. The District Commissionars ate marking time awaiting final from Gov. Ritcnie of Marylane whether he will issue. the formal proclamation necessary to maks reci- procity a reality for sixty days. 'As soon as a favorable .dhywer is received from the governor, the Com- missioners will issue the necessary. otder permitting Maryland machines to enter the District during Janu- ary and February. —_— RIFFIANS GET REVENGE. today TETUAN, Moroceo, December §— Sanguinary revenge has been taken by Riffian tribesmen against the household of Abd el Krim, chief of the Moroccan rebels, who are at war with Spain, _Ten 'persoris of the househlod . were killed, including Kimana" ans. The trouble grew out of the de- tention by Krim of Amarjetu, a Rifflan tribal chief, who had called on the Moroccan rebel leader. 4 uard, in an attack by the| ILEHLBAGH ANNUITY BILL REINTRODUCED Provides for Retirement Pay Based on Salary of Fed- eral Employes. At the request of the joint confer- ence on retirement of the federal employes, Representative Frederick Lehlbach of New Jersey, chairman of the committes on reform in the eivil service, today reintroduced his bi1l, which failed of consideration in the last Congress, to amend the retire- ment act covering employes in the classified civil service, Representative Lehlbach explained that he refntroduced his bill so that the proposition to liberalize the re- tirement act would be before the committee in concrete shape. in order that hearings could be held 'and these proposals be considered in con- nection with other bills on the same Retirement Provision. The bill provides that ninety days after enactment all employes in the classified civil service upon reaching the age of sixty-five, years who had rendered at least fifteen years of service or who had completed thirty vears In service would be cligible for retirement. It contalns a proviso that rallway postal clerks shall be efigible for re- tirement at sixty-two vears of age, if they have rendered at least fifteen years of service or have completed thirty years of service It provides the method of determin- ing the amount of annuity which re- tired emploves shall receive, The proposition Is that this shall be “the number of years of service, not ex- ceeding thirty, multiplied by the average annual basic salary received during a ten-year period preceding the date of retirement, but not ex- ceeding $1.800, divided by 45, but that the annuity shall in no case ex- ceed §1,200 a year. Basis for Maximum. This bill contains &« proviso that where the number of years of servicc i in excess of thirty. or where the average salary s in excess of $1,800 4 _year, the vears of service or the average salary or both shall be treat- ed for the purpose of computing the annuity as thirty years and $1,800; Tespectively. A further proviso s that in deter- mining the number of years of serv- fce for the purpose of computing nuities, fractional parts of a year {shall be disregarded and the ~an- nuity shall be computed as to the nearest multiple of twelve. The bill provides that “the basic salary, pay or compensation, shall be so” construed as to ‘exclude all bonuses, allowance, overtime pay of salary, pay or compensation given in addition to the base pay of the p sition as fixed by law or régulation. A new paragraph would be inserted under section 7 of the current act, as follows: 2 “Every employe who is, or hereafter becomes, eligible for retirement be- cause of completing thirty years of service and who has not otherwise reached the retirement age, may with- in sixty days after the passage of this uct, or thirty days before having completed thirty years of service, or jat any time thereafter, flle with the commissioner of pensions an appli cation as provided for (n (ks section Anpuities granted under this provi- sion shall commence from the date of separation from the service and shall continue during the life of the an- nuitant. —— 1 KILLED, 3 INJURED. When term Two Homes Damaged Whisky Still Explodes. WEST NEW YORK, N. J.. Decem- ber 5.—Alphonse Groazio was killed, three other men were seriously burned and two homes were damaged by fire today by an explosion of a whisky still in ‘a garage. Groasio's charred body was found in the ruins of the garage. PLANS RAIL LAW FIGHT. In the coming drive in Congress for reduced freight rates, Senator Csp- per, republican, Kansas, chairman of the Senate farm bloc, is to {ntroduce a bill providing for repeal of the “fair return” section of the HEsch- Cummins transportation act, for re- peal of its railroad consolidation plen and to restore full pre-war status and powers of state rallway commissions. BANKRUPTCY PETITION. NEW YORK, December 5.—An in- voluntary petition in bankruptey was filed today against the Navy Knit- ting Mills, Inc., with principal efi- ces in this city. The liabilities were listed as $750,000 and assets $700,000, RADIO NEWS. Radla Editor: Kindly advise through your col- umns whether closed ciroutt gravity coils are practical for lighting the fllament in radle tubes. I find that dry cells require renewing approximately every 100 hours when used with the .25-ampere tubes. and If these tubes are of the heavier vol type the cost of operation is rea: 1y_noticeable. Tne ordinary storage battery, though expensive at first cost, is no doubt the best all-round means for the purpose mentloned, but it has occurred to me that the gravity cell, if practical, should serv a “happy medium” when compas with the cost of dry cell batteries and storage batteries, C. ALONZO RICE, 1024 17th street northwest. Physicists in the battery department of the bureau of standards say that closed circuit gravity cells can be used for lighting the filament in radio tubes, but that they are not desirable nor economical because the internal resistance 1s exceptionally high. Closed circuit gravity cells do not work' efficiently unless used conatant- 1y on a closed circuit, If used on an open circuit they foul quickly and require cleaning frequently, Radio Editor: Is this an unusual request or not? I am a rank amateur who “aeci- dentally set up a one-tube regen- erative set, which I have since added to another step. making two tubes—now—I am getting lo- cal stuff, loud enough to Rn me down, and 1 am getting Pitts burgh very clear, and 1 have reached Atlanta, Jefferson City, Chl ), De- troit, Cleveland, Sohenect ana Philadelphia, but just about elear enough for me to understand, but not enjoy. N Now it seems to me that with the strength of two tubes, I should be able to hear any of the above stations clear, The set 1 have is commonly known as & D-K set, and 1 was wonderipg if through your' column 1 would be able to get in touch with another radio bug. who knows D-K sets and would be willing to exchange his knowledge for any 1 may be able to give him. My phone after 6:30 p.m., is North = 3664-J, address, 1921 1st street northeast, and will _be glad to, welcome any one who has a similar set, that would like to visit and tell me' whether in” his ., opinion T am gotting all J can with ‘what I have. B W. HOLMES, l !