Evening Star Newspaper, January 14, 1924, Page 2

9 £y URDOCK RESIENS FROMTRADE BODY ‘Successor on Commission Not Announced—Thompson to Shipping Board. <= — iWhisky in Hot- { Water Botiles Two hot ter bottles got Den- nis Cooper, colored, into trouble aturday night in Georgetown. The troublé was not with the bot- tles themselves. but with their contents, which was not hot water, but whisky. Policemaa Mills of the seventh precinct took Cooper and his bottles in tow. The negro said he had been suf- 1€ from a fracture of one of, arms. But policeman could see little efficacy in a bandage of bottles filled with cold y. Judge McMahon sent the man to Gallinger Municipal Hos- pital for treatment. His case will be called in eourt tomorrow. POWER C0. BIDS President Coslidge today recel ed from Victor Murdock his resignation as a member of the Federal Trade Commission. The President in mai- 4ng this known stated that the restg- nation would be accepted and made no indications as to the nomination «mof & SUCCessor. ! At the same time it was learned that the President late today or to- morrow probably will send to the Senate the nomination of Frederick 1. Thompson, newspaper publisher of Alabama, for reappointment on the nited States Shipping Board. Mr. Murdock was appointed to tie | Federal Trade Commisslon by Presi- dent Wilson and during tho past year has been chairman. He was a member of Congress from Kansas for a num- bher of vears and durlng the insur- gent fight on Speaker Cannon more than a decade ago his activity as an insurgent brought him natlonal prominence. Would Quit Public Life, Mr. Murdock also was promin leader among the so-called pro- aressives of the House and as a “Bull Moy " adherent. Mr. Murdock’s resignation, it is understood, is due | Senate. to a desire to retire from public life. { “There are many reasoms for my The probability of Thompson being | opinion.” he said, “but there is an all renamed to the Shipping Board was| ik s e Rnown today by Senstor Under- ;‘;‘:"h“‘:“’li‘:;‘:;e';f" the others need It is a well understood fact that 70 Alabarha Concern Largely British Owned, Says Sen- ator Backing Ford. ‘The bid of the group of power com- punies in Georgia, North Carolina, South Caroling, Alabama and Ten- nessce for the government nitrate plant at Musscl Shoals should not be accepted, Senator McKeilar, demo- crat, Tennessee, declared today in the Power Company, the principal bid- {der. is owned by British stock and jbond holders. For the United States government o lease and turn over this plant which was built by it for the purpose of being independent of all ‘othar nations in the production of nitrates in_war times to a corpora- tion whose principzl stockholders are subjects of irs leading commarcial rival, woul littte “short of tempted natic sulcid That will not be done is 2 foregone con- clusion. “Muscle Shoals, under will probably epower than all tr developed by the nine companies Joiring in the combination bid. aly oud sup- We cannot m in the keeping troiled company, how- ¥ such alien company may o us at the time. Henry Ford's lop more \DISMEMBERED BODY | OF WOMAN FOUND i Husband of Seventy-Year-0ld Vic- tim Held Pending Probe of VICTOR MURDOCK. Gruesome Crime. wood of Alabama, sponsor for Mr. ‘Thompson, foilowing a briet talk he had with the President at the White | ouse, The Presldent withdrew the nomi- | nation ot Mr. Thompson and that of Br the Associated Pres N, Ohio, January 14.—The body of Mrs. Katherine Mohler, seven- Bert E. Hatey of Oregon (o be mem-{.7: Who disappeared several weeks bers of the board Immediately affer |480. Was found In an abandoned cia- recciving the adverse report of the [tern at her home. one mile south of omination of EAWard b Forley te] o7 vesterday.- The hea be chairman of (he board. 1t i un.|a7MS had been severed and wers derstood that the President will send ! found buried with the torso. the renomiuation of Mr. Haney to the ; William Mohler, seventy-cight, hus- :;‘“—;‘,‘: ‘;h‘,{‘l":pfl;’y time he does that | yang of the dead woman, was arrest- There Indication at the|ed and taken to Lima to be question- today that the President {ed by the county authoritles. has made up his mind regarding the | The body was found b: n y searching :‘D.T"OQI;L:::rtfhuoliman“m;;{vu:;snrs;o Mr. | parties which, spurred on by an of- e Shipping ! far of $500 v s Bserd ni? (AT PRINg ! fer of $500 made by Mohler last Tues e will name to fill the existing |loo ¢ his wife, have scoured the Yacancy on the hoard which, aceords | Monler forrn ang. G t G ing to the gengraphical requirements of the maritime 2ct, must be an appointment for ‘the middle e miles around. Last flited by ! declared he would increase this re. west, iward if necessary to find the woman. The head was identified as that of Mohler by Dr. J. F. Rudy, her an. cistern in which the body was < located In a shed. It was par- filled with refuse. on top of was a layer of ashes covered with corn fodder. ©On December 31 Mohler went to Fos- . 2 toria, Ohio, to visit a daughter. When United States he réturned the next day he reported He sald after leav sresident | that his wife had disappeared. No one that h leaving the Prestdent } (001N D WT 0 N2 ho eaula ahed sy hat fie oxpects to sall for home in [lizht on the mystery. Mohler was abaout t‘}’” weeks, but before then he tried and acquitted on a lunacy charge Fan il st the !fled last November after two borns o belonging to Samuel Grats, a neighbor, had been burned. Officials at Lima said a charge of murder would be pilaced against Moh- | ler today. - Johler refused to discuss the finding of the body. A rusty scythe blade, with which it is thought the body was dismembered, also was found in the clstern. PROTESTS LOOTING OF U. S. MISSION Geddes Sees Coolldge, Sir Auckland Geddes, the British | ambassador, who is to retire shortly, | called on President Coolidge today 16 pay his respects and to discuss in | an informal way several matters of fuportance to Great Britain and the called to the President’s att das the nacessity for closing Maxican border at an early the evening as a means of reducing vice at night. The California repre- Sentative suggested 9 o'clock as a time for closing the border. but satd the President did not comunit himsel?. Senator Wesley Jones of Washing- ton introduced to the President to- day M. T. Hartson, collector of the port of Seattle: his son, Nelson Hart- 8on. sclicitor of internal revenue for Washington, and Roy Lyle. prohibition director for the state of \Washington. Talks Okio Pelities. per cent of the stock of the Alabama legs and | upon whom {day for information leading to the ! Mohler farm and the countryside for | Friday Mohler Certain features of the political situation in Ohie. especially in Cleve- land, were discussed by rha Prestdent today with Maurice Maschie, repub- lican leader in Cleveland. Thomas O.- Marvin of Massachu- setts, chairman of the . United States Tarift Commission, conferred with President Coolidgs toduy regarding the selection of a chairman and vice chairman of that body for the com ing year. Mr. Marvia pointed out terms of thesz two oficers eupire with today and it is understood he suggested that the commission's hear ings on the sugar schedule is to start tomorrow morning aand unless| the chairman and vice chairman for the coming year have been appointed befors this hearing it may be neces- sary to postpone the hearing until the- appointments are made. —_— U. S. SHIP BREAKS ADRIFT. Steamer Maguan Towed to Safaty in Queenstown Harbor. QUEENSTOWN, Ireland, January 14. ~Shipping in the barbor here is weath- erbound. The American steamship Maquan broke adrift and grounded in 2 sand bank, Icsing her anchor. She was. tawed to safer anchorage up the river. It will take three weeks to repair the - British * steamer Arundale, which took refuge in Queenstown, consider- ably battered and with water in = mum- Ver of er holds. The Arundale sailed drom Loudon January 3 for Philadsiphia. IRENE CASTLE IN TOKIO. Wy Cabie tv.The Star sud the Chicage Daily News. Copyright, 1924, TOKIO, January !4.—3Maj. Frederic McLaughlin of Chicago, and bLis recent QDride, the former Ireme Castls, arrived There: ahoard the President Grant, foi- lowing & Bousymoan in the orient. They are refurning home on: the same vesmul Laugiin: visited friemds. at the angn cmbassy during his sojourn in Tokio: that the | the consul Legation Acts After Chinese Sol- diers Attack Passionist Establishment. Progests against the looting by Chinege soldiery of the mission maintained by tite Passionist Fathers at Supu, in Honan province, China. have been lodged with Chinese offi- clals by the American legation fm Peking and also by Consul Mein- kerdt at Changsha. The consul's protest was address- cd to the-provincial authorities, amd the Tezation's communication, sent to the fdreign office. demanded full protection for the missionaries. A summary of a report made to by 'the Rev. Flavian Mullins, who, with the Rev. Arthur Benson. was at the cabled lrers by the legation. It said the soldiers who made the raid were o! the first Honan division, com. manded by Gen. Ho Yao Tsu, and that they looted smd the misston, fired arles and also fired on the Amertcan flag. They “claimed under the orders of Gen. Ho to Ioot the misslon and kil the forelgm devils.” . Gen. Chang Siang Ti was said by the legation to be guarding the misalon, members of which went to China in 1922 from the monastery at Brighton, Mass. e et MRS. BALLOU LOSES SUIT.|: misstor, was at the two mission-| to be actimg Brings Trouble FOR SHOALS HT A delegntion composing the cou: Gommizsioner of Imdtan Affairs Burk tion. tribe. D. C. CHILD WELFARE LAWS TAKEN UP Russell Sage Foundation Ex- pert Here to Aid Com- missioners. The task of revising and modern- 1zing child welfare legislation In the District began today with the arrival of Willlam Hodson, expert of the Russell Sage Foundation. Mr. Hodson was invited by the Commissioners to come to Washing- ton and assist the local child we#fare code commission in its big under- taking. The first statement of Mr. Hodson was an appeal to all agencies and individuals interested in public wel- fare for co-operation. do not belie seek to set jteelf up as ce er of all legislatlon that proposad affscting children o welfare.” said the Russell ort. “Dut it is to be hoped - one Interested In this big w111 at least co-operate to the of discussing questions that the com | subject exten larise. i Study of Existing Laws. Mr. Hodson made it plaln that he could not speak for the commission. but outlined some of the things he would recommend. “I will suggest,” he sald, that we make a careful study of all existing legislation and how effectual it is in cperation. “Then, that we inquire into the latest and best legislation enacted in the more progressive states with a view to finding out to what extent it ight be helpful her: F bresume. it will be anme o aims of the Washington commlssion. not only to formulate new laws, but ead timbers from existing i ito eut i statute: i Mr. Hodson advocated only a rin- fmum number of laws to accomplish the destred result, pointing out that unless they are eded and prac- tical for enforcement. For Fullest Publicity. The expert also d-caved himsel advocate of the “fullest publicity” everything done by the commiasfon in its Surver. With that cnd m view he rald he would recommend that public hearings be he!d by the commisston on every pisce of lezislation formu'ated. Mr. Hodson mentioned the JuvenWe Court law as cne that probably would receive the earnest attention of the commission. “Tn handling the depend- ent child,” he eaid, “your system here is already one of equity procedure. But in dealing with the delinquent child it is ctill a criminal proceeding.” The proposal for a family relations court might also properly be taken ip. Mr. Hodson estimated that the job before him flr{:l Lh\e Weéfzrl" ca"r:‘\-’ fusion might take eix months, and a9t \was probable that different Sabjects would be handied as sepa- Tate bills, interrelated and harmoni- *Commtssioner Rudolph this morning assigned office space to Mr. Hodson in the District building. CHRISTMAS TREE BLAZE CAUSES LOSS OF $2,000 Sparks From Stove Ignite Branches of Yulettde Emblem in Home of B. 8. Howard. stmas tree caught fire at the e ot Richard 9, Hownrd, $18 15th street southeast, this morning and re- sulted in damage of $2,000. Sparks from a stove caught the tree and the conflagration quickly spread throughout the dwelling. Directing his attention to gettng a voung child from the house, Mr. Howard was un- able to fight the flames. Mr. Howard and his family were compelled to seek shelter in a friend's house. RITES FOR MRS. WEST. Wzs One of Founders of St. Augus- tine’s Parish. Funeral services for Mrs. Elizabeth Simms West, who died Friday at her home, 93¢ M gtreet morthwest, aged ninety-four years, were held this moruing at St. Augustine’s Catholic Church. 15th and M streets nn;r:h tch she was a founder. ;fi:c'ngzrmm was In Mt Olivet o Hire West was a native of Queen | Anne county, Ve. and had been a resident of this elty for the past She bad married twice and survived both husbands. She was one of the founders of St. Augustine Catholic parish and for many re had been one of the active rs of that church. - She is survived by _two sons. Dr. Charles I West and Leo S. West, and one daughter, Mrs. Eleanor E. Russell. i Court Dismisses Action Alleging Alienation of Hmsband. BALLSTON SPA, N ¥.. January 14—The suit brought by Mrs. Grace E. Ballau of Saratoga Springs against Mrs. Marie Featherstone Sterry, widow of Leland Sterry, who ewned Lotels at Saratoga and Palm Beacin was dismissed teday court by Judge “N\ma?tr. Ballou had asked $50,000 for alleged of her hus-~ Ballow, formerly & alienating of the. Band, Trnest fhauffour employes By. the Starnx amily, - the | {1t is useless to enact laws in volume | THE EVENING STAR, WASHENGTON, nefl of the Osage e. The purpese of the visft Histo | Within a few weeks the original Declaration of Independence will bel ed in a beautiful shrine, now being made in the wall of the west fronts of "the upper gallery of the Library of Congress. immediately over | {the frout door, Last spring Congress appropriated {$12,000 for preservation and exhibi- tion of this historic paper, Under the jdirection of the Iibrarian, Herbert | |Putnam, a fitting home has been de- | signed. Between two plilars in the west ! of the second fioor gallery a {niche has been cut about six fest! {bigh by four wide. That opening I8 | {to be filled in with & frame of marble {which will hold the document. Over fts face will be a glass which has | 45 to ex 1Rht. A colored | Il hung before the frame 20| that its contents can Be seen { | i WIIl Have Balustrade. | ; On the floor in front will ba an up- {right case In which will be the Con- |Stitution. Then around the whole {will run a heavy marblé balustrade | {which will mark off thia sanctuary jand prevent any injury to these sacred relics. The Declaration of ihas led a wandertng 1i |years. According to J. C..Fitzpat- IfltkA assistant chief of the division of manuscripts in the Library, it has | mua\qul about In five different states {an | From ten diffarent towns and eities. its birthplace in Philadelphta it ‘went to Baltimore, when the | ritish | | DRUGRISTS SEEKING ALCOHDL T CAT Manufacturing Concerns 0p-5 pose Seeing . Inventory Values Reduced Half. Tndependence fe for many Hearings of vartous business inter- ests on proposed tax revision before the House ways and means committee today brought out a sharp division of opinion on reduction of the industrial alcohol tax. Drug manufacturers asked that the tax be maintalnéd lest its reduction force cuts of almost 50 per cent in their inventory values and their busi- ness be endangered. Retail druggists ed reduction or elimination of the ta: Abolishment of taxes om theater admissions and yachts and motor boats also was asked by other im- terests. Those who appealed for discard of the aleohol tax included Frank A. Blair of the Proprietary Association and E. C. Brockmeyer ot the National Aseociation of Retafl Druggists. If the tax is not eliminated, they asked that it be reduced to the prewar fig- ure, or half of the present tax. W. A. Saller, represénting the American Drug Manufacturing Asso- ciation, declared drug manufacturers would suffer a loss of aimost 50 per cent of their present. inventory, “a loss ‘which many of our members could uot make up.” Repeal of tiis tax on stack sales and transfers was urged by Lawrence ®weedy, president of the Consolidated Stock Exchange of New York: 5 ax, Tweedy said, “yields ess than §10,000,000 trom (ve wiiie country and 80 per cent of it is col- lected tn New York eity.” | “Scores of witnesses Bive asied to! ibe heard either om the .gemeral sub- | Ject of taxation.or on spectfic sec- tiohs of the measars submitted by the Treasury Seeretary. Determined to eonclude hearings by the end of ithe week, however, the committes {ad limited each witness to fifteen minutes, ten minutes for uninter. rupted presentation of his views and !five minutes for questions by com- mittee members. . Secretary Mellon has net informed the committes whether he desires to be heard, but a number of Treasary exyerts will be called to expisin the probable. results of the operation of the measure. S S KILLS WIFE AND HIMSELF Louisiana Lumber Buyer Had At- MOBILE, Ala,, Januarv 14.—Geerge Edward Lewis, fifty-six years old, | lumber buyer, of Shrevegort, La., shot and imstantly killed Ris wife, Mrs Margaret Jane ‘Lewis, Nere. vesterday, and then killed himself with the same o e e — e e and; a tion withs his wife. and wher she re- fused to- return. to. him. ha shot her twice and then Killed hiwself. LOS ANGELES, Calif, January 14. —Dr. Quincy Van Hummel, eighty- one, physician, sportsman and | trotter, and said te have heen panion’ @f Theodore Raasevelt e Proposed in Library Wall For Declaration of Indepen: ric Paper, Still Well Preserved; to Rest im Sight | of People 4 fter Long Wanderings—Now Not on Exhibition. [menaced the city of Brotherfy Love ! war office building till the war qf the bureau of cngra D. ¢, MONDAY. JANUARY 14, 192% AARRIE XE W/ ne dian tribe of Oklahoma arrived in Waskimgton Saturdny to confer with Secretary Work amd ! to take up il e quextion of tiae further i Left to right: Commixsioner Burke, Principal Chief Panl Red Esgle, Secretary Hubert Work mad Chief Bueon Rind, with members of the Osage | ‘Shrin 1 ene BREWER EXPECTED T0 LOSE POSITION Justice Attorney Connecte With Bureau Ouster May Be Out Tomorrow. and oblimed Washington to cross the Delaware. But early in the spx{ng of 1777 1t returned to Philadelphia, when it was hurried off to York, Pa..'ef the time the enemy again threatened the T 1". July, ‘17'-': :é""l'w‘;‘:}"fi"';" Reports were current in well in- omo and remafne ro til 4 Ay ¢ S s he mutinecs eanduct of the | formed circles today that Charles B. Pennsylvanla line troops caused an |Brewer, attorney of the Department of adjournment fo Princeton. N. J.a 19 Justice, who was connected with the which place the document was jre-| moved. ~ After a few more years of | wandering it was brought to Wamh-| ington in 1800 and {t remained w\:- | even other disturbed In a building used as ye | o Ot dismissed emploves of ing and printing, 1812, when the advance of the Brithl1 | will be cut of tho government serv- caused it to be hurrfed off to Le&Se |fce by tomorrow night for his part Bure; va- |in the ecandal. Comes Back to Capital. These report When the safcty of the Capital wa#), assured, it was returned to the Cap- ital and after being stored in several A places, was placed in the patent office | until its removal for exhibition at the ty entennial. When sent bac Philadeiphia it was placed in State Department, where it has rest- | ed until brought from there in 1921 2 to its permanent home—the Con- 3 of the dfsmissed gressional Library. temployes at the bureau, recently pre- While many of the names have diciyd that not only Director Hill and taded. many are also auite plain. The Assgitaut Director Perry of the bu- engrossed body of the paper is clear, |rean would go, but that Brewer had having been done by an expert pen- |also hecn named as one of those who indicated that Brew- er, would have nominally completed his special commission by January » 82d wonld be through of Departme Justice, ; avatlable At Mr. Bre {w's office on the second flcor, s#'d Le was not in, and would prob- afly be absent most of the das Sena democrat of Ar- kansas, By the Awsociated Press. CHICAGO, January 14—If posses- sion of great capital Iy a danger to the country. then Henry Ford is one of the greatest dangers to the United | States, Israel Zangwill. author and b dramatist,i declared [d4st night in an address before the Jewish Peapie’s Institute. Mr. Zangwill made this statement man and with the best quality ink. The signatures are in many fke Dectick) With the affair. Brewer, it and some were of poor quality. Some 'has bean stated. was among those who of the heavy inking In the large let- 'assistil In preparing and presenting terings has scaled off, but the words the ch.grges demanding the dismissal of the Declaration are perfectly plain. [of Wilmicth and his chiefs, recently Much rolling and unrolling has 2146 |exonerayed and offered restoration. injured the paper, and careless han-| There Wwere also reports today that dlibg has caused many cracks. [action mught be expected by the | Treasury' today.or tomorrow on the . 5 [matter of the resignation of Director i3 and Qe cholce of a successor. sEEs FORD s cAPlTAI. } “The ma\ter of a new director has | been kapt ysecret by Secreiary Mellon, who is un:‘k‘rsloed to have had difi- MENACE.TO REPUBLIC) 55t Sk iiond teha e e ot * job. . No,iratimation &s 10 Who the | new direfiop may be has been allowed to leak. o i i i 1 B —_— L Israel Zangwill, in Address, Cites| Reasons for Opposition to 2REAI. ES‘]ATE BROKER oo | 10,000 | WINS $10,000 SUIT s —_— Weller Gets Werdict in Case Brought by R. Harris & Co. in Buildiyg Deal. . Chiet Justice McCoy in Circuit Di- vision 2 dfter pointing out that ome of the |T°TUTR 2 Verdict in favor of Joseph 4 L Weller in the suit foy- $10,000 dam- Thasans otiem glven for oppostelon t) .. o yrougnt against hn by R. Har- the Jewish race was “capitalism.” g 4 : he sal Ancther reason often given, hie saig, | /'8 & CC. In connection writh the sale g by Mr Weller of' the Jeyifer bujld- was that the Jéws wore “bolsheviks” Ing, at 7th apd D streets oy Tthwest, in e st wes ciac cha Jews kified {Decomber, 1919. Tha plaindil claimed “We are out to bring the world to | that, althaugh it had emgt'oved Mr. Deace and justice." Mr. Zangwiil | Weller to represent It in nerotiating said, adding that this purpese of his | the. purchase, he had also .received face was very different from Mr. Ford's idea of the objective of tho Jews. The author said that the legend | butlding. of the “Elders of Zion," the story of | _Aftorneys Peelle & \Oxilby fa- Mr. the aspiration of the Jews to seek | Weller claimed .he had repres‘nted control of the world, had long ags | the owner throughou: the transa-tion been exposed as a forgery, but thet | and that this fact was known &2 R. the story still continued. 'He chap- | Harris & Co., before the company had acterized Mr. Ford as “dishonest.” in | first approacied Mr. Weller Iu a. f Bis attacks upon_the Jews. fort to buy the property. The cm- Referrtug to the Ku Klux Klan, |tract described Mr. Weller as aymut ori |of the owner, they pointed out, Mr. Zangwll sald the organtzati e “has the tmrpudence,” to hold itself e filing of charges against James L. Wilmcth, former director and twenty- | it was 1 ¢ of 'would step out because of -his con- | today divecthd the fury to] | compensation from the ewner of the! MEMPHIS CELEBRATES NEW TRAIN SERVICE Locomotive Christened ‘With Bottle . of River Water as It Leaves -for St. Louis. By the Associnted Press, MEMPHIS, Tenn., January 14.—In- 4aul ration of the Illinots Central | railroad’s new through train service between Memphis and St. Louis was lebrated by railroad d city offi- { 1s and prominent citize: {The fast train which left {11:30 o'clock last might on its first ‘Yun Was christened with a bottle of water from the Missiseippi river. An interegted spectator in the crowd of several hundrcd P rsons witnegsed the christening ceremony was Chief Clear Sky, an lroguois In- |dtan, bedecked in the fall regalia. U. S. RETIREMENT ACT IS DECLARED UNJUST AT COMMITTEE HEARING (Continued from Firet Page.) provigions included us o result of compromise, which were not in ac- cordance with the original draft of the bill and which did not meet with the entire approval of the sponsors for this legislation.” It was reasoned at the time of the passage of the bill that it would be than suffer defeat, and this conclu- sion has been amply justified by sub- gequent experience. Hope was enter- ! tained that whatever inequities ex- isted in the law could and would ulti- mately be remedied by amendment “The demaind for a more liberal law has come from the retired employes, who, in many fnstances, have been made to realize kecnly thé inadequacy of the anpufty provided; it has come 120 from employes in the active serv- who have studied the inequitles |in_ the, present la articularly in iregard to the disparity in the ages of gibility for retirémeni, and in the iscale of annuities as related to the amount of contributions to the fund, as well ‘as the rating of annnities on imfl jbuzis of three-year periods of service. “Finally, many admiaietrative offi- rs of the government have in their annual reports and otherwise gone on {1ecord in suppory of a liberalized re- { tirement law. o Bill Is Approv . “Of the various bills introduced dur- ling the present session of Congre {H. R. 4975, intreduced by Mr. Lehl- tach, Jutuary 8, 1824, wmore nearly embodies e views of the bureau of |pensions than any cther bill, and | with your permission 1 wili outldne 11; scme of jts salient features. - It provides for retirem after ixty vears of age, contingent upon the empiove having Tendered at least Lirty years of =ervice, such i | {Plove, or upon the order of the head the department or i extablishment cerned. ¥ |in the service bevond the sge of eli- | Eilbility for retire th ploye and the head of the depart | ment or independent establisbment. | From and after July 1. 18%5, all {emploves upen reaching” the age of seventy vears shall be sutomatica |Tetired, ‘excepting those who of service. 3. The grouping of emploves under the provisions of the present law in Tespect to the age of eligibi retirement—that is, at sixt six- y-five and. seventy vear: is to be | abolished, and all empioves placed on 'FIII equal |same priviliges in the matter of eli- |sibility for Tetirement. New Computing Method. “4, A new method of computing an- nuities s provided as follows: The factor $12 is to be used in every case, to which will be added 1 per cent of the average compensation re- ceived by the employe during the last ten years of service, and the resuit- ing total multipiied by the number of vears of service will constitute the annual rate of retirement pay, subfect to the provision that in no case shali the annuity exceed 75 per cent of the average compensation during the last ten years of serviee. . For thc purpose of determining the aggregate service rendered by the employe, credit will be given in the sum total for every year and every sum total for every year and every month service, elimi- nating _ouly fractional { wo, |ty ot the method will overcome the objection- eble feature of the present Jaw, under which annuities are deterrained by an arbitrary division of service into thre-year periods, with a max: mum limitation of thirty years “The bill aiso provides that its ben- efits shall be extended to thoee who shall have already retired; that the Secretary of the Treasury shall es- tablish 2nd maintain an account {ehowing the annual liabilities of the government under the act: that re. tirement on account of alleged disa- Bllity be more carefully safeguarded, and includes various other features intended to harmonize all the provi- slons of the new bill, whick in effect constitutes a revision of and super- sedes the act of May 22, 1920, and &) subsequent amendments and modifica- tions thereof. Speaks for Postmasters, Harry T. Weeks and Col. Kemp spoke for-ihe aseociation of service postmasters, made up of 196 post- masters who have been promoted or appointed from the postal service to be postmasters. They urged that the law should be amended so that men who | ity for lof the footing and accorded the part | of a month, if any, in such total. This | 14 —_—————— TREDYEAR TO SN ° LAWYERS FOR TRIP Farley Tells of Efforts to Have Bar Association Use American Ship. Officials of the Shipping Board and the United Stafes lines negotiated with the American Bar -Assaciation for a year in an $ffort to have the association use an Bmerican passen- ger lner for its forfhcoming trip 1o Europe, the Senate was informed to- day by Chairman Farley of the board in a letter dated January 9. The com- munication was in"respopse to a reso- jlution In which the board also was asked as to why the Chaimber of Con merce of the United Statés chartered {a foreizn ship for its trip Yo Italy | “The reason why the Unjjed Stat the thansport lines did not secure | tion of the members of the Unlited States Chamber of Com | letter said, “undoubtedly it did not have a passenger 's running direct to Italye The Shipping leasing of ofl tands in the Osage reserva- ' Detter to accept a compromise rather | Board does not know what the rea- sous are that prevented it from secur- ing the transportation of members of the American Par Association.” Use of cither' the Leviathan or the George Washington was proposed” to the Bar Assoctation, Mr. Fariay and the United States lineg to meet the on whic the new n of the ted the Beren; Cunard line. FAVORABLE REPORT “ ON POLICE PAY BILL ASSURED IN HOUSE Continued from First Page.) | the budget bureau. the Co ers had been resiricted in budget burcan ret 332,500,000 estimate, saying that 000" was a1l we cou:d have like a m ofat; we would ex budret bure; budget of § ful for that, ad approved District 0t is 1o be effect- T jed by mutual agreement between t may have rendered less than fAfteen years | vas eg ound complicaz late the liquor lawe “We are proud of our police znd work that th do, While the |Commissioners canpot go bevend the {recommendation of tie budmt boreeu 'wllhln!l the help of Congress. it iCongress finds you can aligw meore money for conducting the dharabfer of work the police Go. the whole city wouid appreciate it Hits Laek of Courtesy, Ropresentative Elanton said that he was a great admirer of the police of Washington, and that he on'y one. {eriticlem ” that was thut they mhould ihe & little more courteous 1o vieitors. {|He commended Maj. Sullivan'e recent lecture to the force 10 be courteone. Commissionér Ovster eaidl tiat one of the biggest troubles he had to coo- tend against. was thai peop o who know the law apd regul on dis gard them and appeal Lo members o | Congress for protection { Representati Blanton asked missioner Oyster if in framing increased pay bill allowance for un {forms had been figured in. and was told that jt had not. Commissioner iOyster said jt would be amendment In behalf of the fire depariment Commissioner Oyster 1r de- partment stands high with the in- {surance people. They give 100 p cent service. The department is short of mwen and short of equipment. Firo- {men not only rick their lives at fires, ibut from the minute they leave the fire house, § congider it criminal to put them on the antiquated aad dilapidated -apparatus,”’ he said. Shelby Testifles. Capt. W. S. Shelby said that Wash- ington, the capital of the nation, {should set a standard not enly in {quality of service by the police. de- partment but jo Teiumergtion. *You can mot hope to attract the character of men essential unless you cen-offer them proper remuneration,” he said. “We are not doing that now. The character of the police is second ‘to rone, but it should be better, and it {71l be better With the passuge of this bill,” he assured the committce. apt. Shelby laid before the com- mittee the plan of Maj. Sullivan to linterest the public. generally for jthoroughly educating policemen in ltheir work before sending them out | i1 e out-as 106 per cent American, while being' Intolerant of the Jew, the Catholic and the negro. . DEMOCRAT 12,000 AHEADQ " FOR SEAT IN CONGRESS Republicau in Ninth Kentucky District Begarded Suve. ASHLAND, Ky. January 14—Fred|: 3L Vinson ¢f Louisa, democrat, to- day hid a lead of approximateily 12,000 votes over his republican oppo- nent, Dr. W. S. Yazell of Maysville, and fs assured of the ninth Kentucky district seat im Congress, made va- cant by the resiguation .of Willlam J. Fields to become Governor of Ken- tucky. : s Thé election,” which was held Sat- -out.only a lght vots. Election of Pred M. Vinson Over i | provided that' the purchaser, \ria’ & Co. should pay $415,000 Qf which 405,000 was to represent the purchase price and $10.000. to be o fiecount of “fes charge” ta Mr. Wel- et At ’the conclusion of the testimony for the plaintiff counsel for Mr. Wel- lcr asked for the instructed verdict 4nd the court granted the request. Atforneys Peyser, Edelin and Pev- sér appeared for the plaintiff. The plaintiff will take the case te- the Court of Appeals. - Abe Martin Says: . impaseable conditicns of|’. I & up returns from e | - . more remots. precinets, and final re- turns are not expected for a few KLAN CLEAN-UP THREAT AROUSES RUM RUNNERS Highlands. N. .J., Klansmen' Pre- paved. for Drive, Chureh Meeting Beveals. 15 e HIGHLANDS, N. I, January 14 Exocited and voluble groups of mem, ‘whose boats Between this Hitle port aad the rum ‘fleet offshore fs: an open secret, gathered in 'the streets today and cousidered msans of frustrating s ro- ported Ku Klux Klan erusade agalnst them. 5 The Klan gave evidence last night that “clean-up"™” w:nu;. ‘clean-up’ um: sson. “w g from: operation of rum-runming' “We often wonder if th’ fddler (dom’t have a time collectin® what’s comin’ t’ him? o) One geod thing about prohibi- tiom,” we . hain’t allus gettin® - (Copyright ‘Nationat Newspsper Sertice.} who have for years been in the pos- {on the intricate task of regulating Ithe conduct of citizens. tal service should not be cut off from all benefit under tho retirement act because they accept appointment as postmaster. . Col. Kemp said he had been in the wervice thirty-two vears and had Werved 1wo Years a3 postmaster of Wailadelphiz. He_spoke, he said, not for himself, b for other men who had long rec- orts as postal employes und had fing\'ly been appoinied postmasters in ctt\a9 whére the salary was not so larsva as in Philadelphia, Mrv Cantwell, speaking for the let- ter cwrriers’ assoctation, -told the com- mittey that at present the minimum annuily of the letter carriers was $360 @ year and that under the pro- posed M gislation the minimum would be $480,, and that the maximum today is $720" and the proposed mazimum for the furriers was $920. The cormnitiee adjourned until 10:30 tomorTow Amorning. ALUNNI PLAN SHOW. Business EWgh Body to Present * . Annusi Entertainment. The third :ewual veudeville. show 2nd. dance of th\e Business High School Alumni- Associatn will be held at the school ‘Fetruary 731, 22 and 23; 4t was arnounced today © by Alfred MeGar. rughy, chairmsn (@ the committeo on te. KRR e 1o chares consns of Alfred. McGarraghy, Cheirmen: Miss M._P. Bradshaw, tick\'s, assisted-at the school by the followin\% teachers, H. B, Beil, F. M. Butts, M. ¢ ery, F. E. Grast, A & Jones and Besate 1. Yoder; Dorls Schutz, Marie E. CalW1s, Miss E. L, Thompsen, Dr. A. L. hR-ward, John A. Reflly, Thomas Cond\rs. ' Thomas DuFief, Maurice Robbin, \obert Green- wood, Lee Hoskinson awl Joseph C. MeGarraghy. ARRESTED AS PRIATE. BOSTON, January 14—Ray” Cass of Somerville, a boxing promcw er, was arrested today on a federal charge of piracy in connaction’ with \the gt- tack ‘on Capt. Arthur Moore Wf the British rum-running schooner J'. Soot ox | "In emphasizing the hazards of po- {lice work he showed that during ten {years, fifteen men have met death in lline of duty, killed by ‘criminale, itwenty-three were seriously injured las a result of gunsbot wounds, many of whom were totally_incapecituted for future service; 59 sustained minor injuries. in the performance of their dyiy, making a total of about §06 men or more than 50 per cent of the entire police force injured in iine of duty, which he s3id WaAS greater than the casulaty list in any war. The element of hazard hes beén in- creasing, he said, showing that all over the country inore. pelicemen have been killed in the last six yvears than in the preyious seventy vears. “For years that has been unrest in the pelice force, because of uncer- tainty of the future,” said Capt. Shel. by. “The men are not paid.a living wage, and when he endeayored to lay before the committee the difficulty of a_policemen, with a basie salary of 1$1,550 providing for-his family, Rep- resentative Blagton interjected, “you do uot bave to argue that point With us, we realize that @ man ecsmnot support-his family: op that amount. Cites Cut to Drivers. Capt. Shelby explajped the situa- ‘tion with regard to ghe thirty-eight driver: privates, some of whom now receive $1,800, but who, . under | the new bill, would be automatically re- duced to' $1.500, with no provision for increase. He told the commitiee that these men work fourteen hours a day. Hse thought the wise and equitable procedure for the committee was to advance these mef o the grade of private clasm three, who now weuld with the bonus get $1.900. Ho told the copmittee. that the-drivers have iong hours, their duties are arduons snd they ere subject to haserds tho swne a8 policemen. The hearing will be resumed morrow morning at 10:30°0'closk ofor TWO TRAINMEN INJURED, LOUISVILLE, Ky, Jenuary 14.— Claude - MacDonald, - engineer, end Chester Day. freman, both wére fu- jured slightly when the ine. of Southern Raliway . e 1 tarned partly over o brflk‘.h'fivl‘j.l?e 1 was edthirteen hours T Soels S ihicteen By office” here.