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“From Press to Home Within the Hour” WEATHER. tonight and tomorrow: not Fair much change in temperature; moder- ate northeast winds. Temperature for The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterdiy's Circulation, 98,044 TWO C 24 hours ending at 2 p.m. today: High- cst, 68, at 4 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 44, at 8:15 a.m. ¥ull report on Page 7. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 28 Entered as second class matter post oftice Washington, D. C. BOOSEIELTCRIGES Py Micasielisd Wioeleso oat | . FUR G[WERN[]RSH'P With Atom-Energy Extractor| ¢ Foening Star. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ch WASHING] SEPTEMBER 1924 —FORTY-SIX PAGES. ENTS. U. . WORKERS FACE SALARY CUT WHEN o. 29367, . D. C, THURSDAY, 25, T 300 DIE, THOUSANDS HOMELESS IN NEW !Scienlist Says His Small Machine, Devel- ) BY NEW YORK G.0P. Nominated on First Ballot, With More Votes Than 3 Opponents Combined. PARTY PLATFORM HITS KLAN AND LJKE GROUPS Scores Those Who Raised Issue and Thus Appeals to Race and Creed for Support. Tr the Associated Press ROCHESTER, N. "Pheodore Roose tary of the Nav September istant Sec was nominated for srovernor by the New York Republican State convention here today The choice was made upon the first ballot. Col. Roosevelt had a majority over the combined votes for his three com- potitors, Col. William Hayward of New York, District Attorney Guy B Moore of Buffalo and Supreme Court Justica Arthur S. Tompkins of Nyack The vote was: Roosevelt, 563; Hay ward, 187; Moore, 101; Tompkins, 134 The nomination later was made wranimous by acclamation upon mo- tion of former Gov. Odell The convention then adjourned at 9:57 (dayiight time) until 5 pm.. on motion of Representative Bertrand State platform, presented here y. declares that the Republican recognizes neither color. creed nor Party race as a test of good citizenship or as | a disqualification for holding office. ‘It could not do this,” the document adds, “and remain Republican or American. We condemn and oppose any organization, whether it be called Ku Klux Klan or by any other name. that seeks directly or indirectly to weaken this fundamental doctr ither in lotter or in spirit.” The platform asserts that the Re- publican party nationally is entitled to the confidence of the country be- cause of its record in office and charges Democratic party in the St ‘with inefliciency. insincerity and laxity” in the conduct of the Al- hany government. It declares that| the “paralyz Hall “has been I & hand” of Tammany d upon State gov- ernment and business” and outlines its own program for the conduct of the State government. Protests Raising of Lssue. The Ku Klux Kl mentioned a plank headed “fundamental cipies.” The plank concluded by ating that “we condemn any candi- date or party that endeavors to make political capital out of such an issue nd while posing as its champion, be- trays the cause of liberty by a direct was appeal 10 racial and reiigious groups.” The platform pledges the Republ an party “to establish in Albany next vear the exact duplicate of the | budget svstem so syccessfully admin- istered~ by the R publican adn tration at Washington; pledges ade- « funds the furtherance of agriculture; favors a 48-hour week for women in industry and amend- ments to the workmen's compensa- tion to insure more speedy payments; advocates development of canal trans. portation and praises the m the Republic rinistration Representative Ogden Mills read the platform accomplish- n national Indorsement of President Coolidge (nd Charles G. Dawes wus the signal for an outburst of cheering. The delegates stood while th nd played America The platform was adopted by a chorus of “ayes” Only a scattering of negative votes were heard George C. Medalie of New York placed in nomination the name of Col Hayward of New York. Guy B. Moore, district attorney of lirie’ County. was placed in nomina- tion by Representative S. Wallace Dempscy of Lockport. Speaker H. Edmund Machold of the assembly placed in nomination the name of Roosevelt. Speaker Machold was received with great applause from the floor. The naming of Mr. Roosevelt was the signal for the first real demon- ration of the day There was another outburst ™eering when former Gov. Odell ap- peared upon the platform to place in nomination Justice Tompkins of Nyack demonstration was a personal tribute to the former governor. S PRESIDENT TO LEAVE CITY THIS AFTERNOON Will Return Late Tonight After Speech in Philadelphia. { May Speak En Route. President and Mrs. Coolidge will leave Washington this afternoon for Philadelphia, where tonight he will dcliver @ speech incident to the cele- bration of the 150th anniyersary of the first Continental Congress of America. Immediately following the conclusion of his speech, the Presi- dent and his party will return to ‘Washington and will arrive here be- tween 12 and 1 o'clock tomorrow morning. Tn the President's party will be ¥rank W. Stearns of Boston, intimate friend, who is satying at the White Youse; Dr. J. F. Coupal, White House physician; Col. C. O. Sherrill and Capt. Adolphus Andrews, military and naval aides, respectively, and K. C. Geisser, private stenographer to the President. The presidential party will occupy a special car attached to a regularly scheduled Baltimore and Ohio train. it is thought likely that when the train reaches Wilmmngton, which will be about a quarter to six, the Presi- dent may make a brief address to the crowd collected there from the rear ~nd platform of the car. At the sta- tion in Philadelphia, the presidential party will be met by a committee representing those in charge of the slebration who with a special escort ¢ of the 1st City Troop Cavalry of Phil- idelphia, one of the oldest military nrganizations in this country, will ac- company the party to the Academy of Musle where the President will de: ilver his speech. American | oping 6,000,000 Horsepower, Has | Broken Up Invisible Particle. BY HAL o LAHERTY. By Cabie to The Star and Chicago Daily News. LONDON, September 25.—Dr. T. F. | Wall, a Sheffield University professor, who has been experimenting with the “death ray"” for the past year, an- nounced today that he had completed an apparatus, except for minor ad- justments, which was powerful enough to break up atom | Wall's apparatus cons | small machine s of a very capable of projecting | an electric beam upon minute objects. Electric power thus harnessed, he de- clares, is equal 1o one-third of the | power ge the entire Shef- {field power station, which amounts to ! total of 2,000,000 horsepower. Peril In Great Power. During the experiments on Wednes- day, Prof. Wall was able to maintain the beam only three seconds, when the coils approached white heat. The | release of such an eno 0ous quantity of enerzy arouses Wall's fears as to what may happen when alterations are perfected. If maintained for many minutes the beam would wreck the university laboratory. “We have reached the moment when the mystery rrounding the atom will be raised,” said Dr. Wall today, “and we will soon be able to get down to a more scientific basis of study BOY SLAIN IN ROW | IND.C. CLASSROOM | Stabbed to Deathin Fight So | Noiseless Teacher Did Not Know of It. | | Armed with pocket knives, one of | them borrowea for the purpose from fellow pupil, two colored high hool pupils in their 'teens today aged a grim and silent battle for their “rights” in a classroom occu- pied by students and two teachers, as a result of which one lies dead in the morgue room at Freedman's | Hospital and the other lies on a cot a few rooms away, seriously stabbed {in the back The tragedy, enacted at Armstrong Manual Training School with such swiftness and lack of disturbance that the teachers and many of the pupils knew nothing of the alterca- tion until both bovs had been stabbed, cost the life of Edward W. Robin- son, 16 yvears old, son of the cngi- | neer at the Clifton Terrace Apart- ments, and the serious injury of | Charles Emerson Cooper, 15 vears old, of 2303 Sherman avenue. | According to evewitness accounts | given to Principal Arthur C. New- {man of Armstrong. Cooper placed | nimself in a classroom seat just va- to cated by Robinson, while the latter went to the teacher, Miss Ophelia Davidson, to sign an enlistment | blank for enroliment in the cadets. When he returned and found his seat occupied by Cooper, Robinson, it is | stated, demanded that Cooper get out. i Battle Noiseless. | When Cooper refused, Robinson grabbed him the and pulled him out of seat, and a spirited, but remark- | ably noiseless altercation ensued be- | tween the two. Suddenly, Principal | Newman reports, Robinson pulled out | penknife and stabbed his classmate in the back. Cooper then asked for | someone to give him a knife, and {Howard A. Mills, another student, | handed Cooper his penknife. Cooper | then stabbed Robinson just below the | heart. The attention of Miss Davidson and |of another teacher, Miss Cromwell, | was not attracted. to the fight until | T (Continued on Page Z, Column 5.) 03 BEGIN FINAL LONG FUBHT TEST | Expected to Leave for U. S. i in Few Days if Trial To- day Is Success. | | | By the Amsociated Press. FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany, September 25 —The Zeppelin ZR-3, | built here for the United States Navy, left her hangar today on another test cruise, which is expeeted to consume 34 hours. Dr. Hugo Eckener, president of the Zeppelin Airship Company, who is con- ducting the trial trip of the giant dirigible, started the airship on her long endurance test today with the intention of sweeping around Ger- many in a great circle, spending the night over the Baltic and reaching Berlin Friday morning. This afternoon the dirigible was expected to take a peep into the oc- cupied territory of the Rhineland and | the Ruhr, although probably only a distant look, pass by Frankfort and thence proceed over Helgoland and on to Flensburg, in Schleswig, where Dr. Eckener was born, and then pass over Hamburg and Bremen. The route mapped out for the big flyer, in fact, called for her passage over some 200 towns. l Upon the performance of the Zep- pelin’s motors on this trip depends the date of her starting on her trans-Atlantic flight to Lakehurst tor delivery to the United States Navy. If the motors come up to expec- | tations her builders plan to start her| for America within four or five days. | The Americans on board the ZR-3 today are Capt. George W. Steele, Commander Jacob H. Klein, jr., and Lieut. Commander Sidney M. Krauss of the United States Navy; Maj. Har- old Geiger, U. S. A.; Lieut. Karl Schmidt, U. S. N, and Jack Yoiton, construction superintendent of the Aeronautical Department of the Goodrich Rubber Ce. ¢ LEAGUETO | the Once we break the atom we discover what is the effect of its re- leased energy upon other atoms. My assistants and myself have been handicapped because we were only able to work slowly at short periods, owing to the strain of handling del cate apparatus, but we hope that suc- cess will attend our efforts in the next few weeks.” (Copyright, 1921, by Chicago Daily News.) . If Dr. T. F. Wall really has found a method of extracting energy from atoms, without burning up several million times as much generated en- ergy to do it. man’s toil in this world is to be reduced to a minimum, in the opinion of experts at the Bureau of Standards. Like the alchemist's dream of mal ing gold from mercury, the ultimate goal of physicists and engineers, al most from the minute those sciences came into being, has been to take out of invisible atoms the tremendous energy that is stored up in them and put it to work for mankind. Some of the world's greatest scien- tists have spent their lives trying to reach that goal; at least one has ac- tually succeeded in disintegrating the positive, electrically charged sun of certain atoms. But them perhaps half a watg of energy, (Continued on Page 3, Column & 40 Bandits Use Machine Guns in Holding Up Train WARSAW, September '(.—I‘orly armed bandits, with several ma- chine guns, yesterday held-up a train between Brest and Luniniec, eastern Poland. They cowed the passengers after killing one and wounding two, then blew up a bridge behind the train, and start- ed the crewless engine toward Lunin where it stopped, out of steam. The gang looted the baggage and robbed all the passengers, in cluding M. Downarowicz, chief executive of the Brest district, giving them “receipts” in the name of the revolutionary committee of Ukrainians and White Russians. The robbars escaped, but M. Down- arowicz walked to Luninisc and organized pursuit by the garrisons of nearby towns. SETTLE BRITISH-TURK ROW Both Sides Agree to Arbi- trate Charge of Lausanne Pact Violation. By the Amsociated Press, GENEVA. September 25 —Great Britain brought a new element into the Mosul controversy today, when, at a meeting of the council of the League of Nations, she accused Tur- key of invading the Mosul district in violation of the treaty of Lausanne and gave formal notice that under ar- ticle XI of the league covenant she desired to submit the matter as one threatening that good understanding between the nations on which peace depends. Lord Parmoor read a communica tion alleging that Turkish regular soldiers:formed part of the invading bands which allegedly status quo, which both Turkey and England agreed to respect, pend- ing settlement by the council of the league of the frontier dispute. See Treaty Violated. As late as September 22, Lord Par- moor continued, an Irakian force un- der British officers was forced back by these bands, their retirement be- ing accompanied by the flight of masses of Assyrians, Christians and Irak tribesmen; the British govern- ment desired to protest in a most solemn manner against the inten- tional and flagrant violation by Tur- key of the Lausanne treaty, which had been duly ratified, had entered into force and had been registered with the League of Nations. The British spokesman concluded that the British authorities in Irak had been authorized to take all nec- essary action to prevent any further invasion, which was likely to entail serious unrest or bloodshed. Ali Fethi Bey, Turkish delegate, retorted that British airplanes had been carrying on military operations on the Turkish side of the status quo frontier between Turkey and Irak, but he agreed that moderation by both countries was necessary during the investigation by the council. Today’s developments rendered the council's task of thediation more diffi- (Continued on Page 4, Column 2.) SINGER UNDER KNIFE. Chaliapin Undergoes Operation in Paris. By Radio to The Star and Chicago Daily News. PARIS, ~September 25.— Feodore Chaliapin, the Russian basso, has been operated on for throat trouble at a private clinic here, but he said to- day that he will be able to fill his | engagements in the United States this Winter. ful. ‘The malady has been troubling the singer for a long time and almost caused him a lawsult by preventing his appearance at the Paris Opera on three separate occasions last season. He is due to sail for New York in three weeks. opyright, 1924, by Chicago Daily News Co.) — Ex-Representative Dies. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, September 25.—Francis 0. Lindquist, former Rep- resentative from the eighth Michigan district, died early today at a hospital here. Ho was elected to Congress in The operation was success- will | to wring from | disregarded | | i i | | i | | LAFOLLETTEMUST RUN AS SOCIALIST California Decision Barring His Electors Forces Him to Use Party Label. By the Ansociated Press. CHICAGO, September 25— Repre- sentative John M. Nelson of Wiscon- sin, national manager of the La Fol- lette-Wheeler campaign, announced today that the independent organiza- tTon's presidential electors in Califor- nia would be entered under the Soctalist party label. A public statement accompanying the announcement said that Sepator La Follette “desired to run as an in- | dependent, but the action of the Cali- fornia Supreme Court will force him to go on the Socialist ballot with™the same electors.” Predicts Victory Anyhow. “This effort of the predatory in- terests to rob La Folette of California will not succeed,” Mr. Nelson's state- ment said. “La_Follette will win California, and the people will rebuke those who deny the free exercise of their elec- tion franchise.” ELECTORS RULED OUT. California Court Decides Against La Follette's List of 13. By the Asociated Press FRANCISCO, September Thirteen presidential electors, named by petitions of California voters and committed to support the candidacy of Robert M. La Foilette, stood barred today from the ballot at the general election in November. as a result of a 4-to-3 decision of the State supreme court vesterday. The decision of the supreme court was based upon the finding that a presidential elector is merely the agent of a political party, operating solely through a political convention as a sort of messenger, and therefore - | cannot be placed upon the ballot by {initiative petition. but only through the agency of a party convention. May Try to Recall Judges. Aroused by the decision, La Fol- lette supporters in San Francisco to- day were discussing measures which might overcome the legal handicap placed upon their candidate by the court. In Los Angeles the La Fol- lette organization resolved to start a movement to recall the justices who wrote the majority opinion. As far as the general election was concerned, La Follette headquarters today urged their supporters to vote for the socialist party electors named on the ballot under that designation who will be pledged to cast their votes in the electoral college for La Follette and Wheeler. RENEWAL UNLIKELY Senator Ashurst Won’t Call Committee and Other Mem- bers Out of Town. Senator Ashurst of Arizona, a Dem- ocratic member of the Daugherty in- vestigating committee, declared today that “under no circumstances” would he call a meeting of the committee. The Arizona Senator said that if a meeting were called he would be glad to attend, but he questioned his au- thority to call one. He had sent a telegram to Senator Brookhart, Republican, Iowa, chair- man of the committee, he added pointing out that the chairman was in touch with the situation and that if he considered it advisable to call the committec together he would agree. His present plans are to re- turn to Arizona Saturday. A meeting of the committee was urged by Gaston B. Means soon after the publication of his repudiating statement given out by former At- torney General Daugherty last Mon- day morning. Radio Programs—Page 34. Town Demolished In Alps Landslide; 15 Persons Killed By the Assoclated Prees BERN, Switzerland, September 25.—A landslide last night oblit- crated a large part of the moun- tain village of Someo, in the Tes- sin Canton, crushing 12 houses into ruins and partially burying destruction was increased by a wild mountain stream which overflowed because of the land- slide and inundated part of the village. According to later reports 5 persons were killed and 20 houses destroyed in the disaster which fol- lowed a heavy thunderstorm. Thus far three bodies have been found. PRESIDENT 10 JOIN INNATS' GREETING Coolidge Will Lead District Populace in Welcome to Base Ball Victors. President and Mrs. Coolidge, as ar- dent base ball fans, will lead the Dis- trict of Columbia in giving Bucky Harris and his victorious team an un- precedented welcome on their arrival here Wednesday. At the terminus of a procession through cheering pennant enthusiasts down Pennsylvania avenue to the Zero Milestone, the Chief Executive of the Vation and Mrs. Coolidge, surrounded by other high officials, both Federal and local, will receive the first ball team to bring the American League championship to the Capital City. In addition the Presidnet will deliver an address to the seasoned athletes which will be heard all oger the Eli from amplifiers installed by the Chesapeake and Potomac Tele- phone Compan) The foregoing is brief the re- sults achieved by the special commit- tee appointed by the Commissioners vesterday to provide an appropriate welcome for the District's heroes of the national game. Urged Gala Dress, Melvin C. Hazen, chairman of the committee, urged business houses along Pennsylvania avenue to bedeck their establishments with flags and other colorful decorations. The com- mittee also decided to stage an auto- mobile parade, in which every fol- lower of the Nats who possesses an automobile is invitedj to take part. Mr. Hazen requested all persons plan- ning to join in the procession to dec- orate their machines. Isaac Gans, chairman of a subcom- mittee on invitations, announced to- day that in addition to the President and Mrs. Coolidge he has invited the following guests to occupy places on the platform at the Ellipse: The cabi- net, the justices of the United States Supreme Court, the justices of the lo- cal courts, the base ball players, Clark Griffith and Edward Eynon, of- ficials of the ball club, the District Commissioners, the citizens' commit- tee on arrangements and Gen. Per- shing. Mr. Gans, accompanied by Edward F. Colladay and Gen. Anton Stephan, went to the White House yesterday afternoon and invited the President and Mrs. Coolidge to lead Washing- ton in welcoming the players at the Ellipse. The program on the Ellipse will be for all Washington ‘to take part in. On Wednesday night at 8 o'clock the base ball players and & number of officials will be guests of Gus Buch- holz at dinner at the Occidental Hotel. The subcommittees named yester- day to arrange details follaw: Music, Col. Clarence O. Sherri8 und -John Ghien; automobiles, Samuel J. Henry, Gus Buchholz and George Mullen; grounds. Gen. S. D. Rockenbach, Thomas Bones and John Poole; pub- licity, Newbold Noyes, dohn Gleissner, H. H. Stansbury, G. Logan Payne and John J. Spurgeon; program and invi- tations, Isaac Gans, Edward F. Col- laday and Gen. Anton Stephan, and finance, Samuel J. Prescott. WALLACE HOME BURNS. Secretary’'s Summer Place De- stroyed by Fire. COLORADO SPRINGS, Col.,, Septem- ber 25.—Fire destroyed the summer home of Secretary of Agriculture Henry C. Wallace, near Green Moun- tain Falis, Col. today and spread to two other homes nearby, according to word recelved by forestry and other officiala. MAKES QUEER USE OF WILBUR SPEECH Democratic National Com- mittee Gives Twisted Ver- sion of Undelivered Text. A unique campaign situation has resulted from the giving out through | the Democratic national committee, in the form of a statement by Repre- sentative Finis J. Garrett of Tennes- see, minority leader of the House, of a partial and misleading report of a speech by Secretary of the Navy Wil- bur, which Mr. Wilbur never delivered. The purpose of Mr. Garrett and the Democratic national committee ap- parently is to make it appear that Mr. Wilbur is in conflict with Presi- dent Coolidge and the administration on important matters of policy which are discussed as issues in the pres- ent campaign. As the speech was never delivered, Secretary Wilbur re- fuses to take any cognizance of the Garrett version of it, and Mr. Gar- rett, therefore, had an unusual oppor- tunity to “put one over” on the oppo- sition, | Rumors as to Speech. The Wilbur speech was prepared for delivery at Denver, but when President Coolidge summoned Secre- tary Wilbur to Washingten for con- ference on naval matters the Denver date had to be canceled. There were rumors &t the time that the proposed Denver speech had been in some way responsible for the summoning of Mr. Wilbur, and a story went the rounds that the particular part of the pro- posed speech which had met presi- dential displeasure had to do with the League of Nations. In quoting from the undelivered speech, Representative Garrett would seem to give color to this particular rumor by taking only such excerpts as will serve (his purpose. For in- stance, he quotes this paragraph: “I was and am a believer in the League of Nations. I belleved that if we went into the lcague immedi- ately upon cessaiton of hostilities we might save Europe from bankruptec: I, therefore, sympathized with Wood row Wilson in his campaign for the League of Nations, and 1 would rather praise him for his attitude than blame him because, when he had the power to make America a member of that league by making reasonable concessions to the mem- bers of the Senate who were ¢qually responsible for determining our atti- tude, he refused to recogmize their judgment.” = Real Position Ignored. But in the very next paragraph Secretary Wilbur had said that he did not now believe the United States should join the League of Nations. This emphatic declaration of position is completely ignored by Mr. Garrett. Copies of Secretary Wilbur's speech had been prepared and sent out ahead of time for pub- lity purposes, but these were to be considered as confidential until the speech was actually delivered, and it was never delivered. An actual com- parison between the speech itself and the parts given out by Mr. Garrett, would show contrary meanings in re- spects other than regarding the i League of Nations. Mr. Garrett explains his use of the confidential manuscript by saying that since Senator Carraway read the speech at a public meeting at the Shoreham Hotel Tuesday night, it had become public property. However, | strongest { dominion. It was the scene of a terrific battle | ARMENIAN QUAKE Eleven Districts Destroyed in Two Disasters on Asian Plateau. KEMAL GOES TO SCENE; GOVERNMENT SENDS AID | Territory Has Been Site of Bitter Warfare for Eight Centuries. BY A. R. DECKER, cago Daily By I Radio_to The Star and News. Copyright, 1 PERA, Turkey, September 25.—The second earthquake Tuesday within two weeks in the region of Erzerum, ars and Ardelan destroyed 11 dis- tricts. Three to four hundred people were less and are camping in the fields, Mustapha Kemal Pasha is on his way to the scene. The government sent relief funds to the earthquake victims, Long Seeme of Warfare. Erzerum-Kars-Ardelan where earthquakes are reported to have taken a heavy toil, is on the Armenian Plateau in Turkish Asia, a The region, Euphrates, where the natura sources encouraged farming, which was further the scene of indus- trial activity, including iron and cop- per mining. It is relatively heavily populated. The territory has been the scene of warfare for more than eight cen- turies, a constant struggle for pos session being waged by the Russians and Turks. re- by that name, was the bulwark of the Armenians in Byzantone times, and was reckoned before the World War as the fortress in the Turkish in the World War when in Feb- ruary. 1916, the Turks were driven out by Russian forces commanded by Grand Duke Nicholas. Later, in the partitioning of Ar- menia, the Turks again acquired con- trol. g LENINGRAD TOLL 19. Loss of Life in Furious Gale Is Considered Light. By the Associated Press. LENINGRAD, Russia, September 2. —Nineteen persons are known to have perished in the great flood which followed Tuesday’s gale. (Continued on Page 4, Column 8. FOREIGN ENVOYS WARN CHINESE Bombing of Cities Brings De- mand That Aliens Be Safeguarded. By the Associated Press. PEKING, September 25 —An appeal and a warning to the rival forces, fighting on the Manchurian-Chihlian border for control of the Eenalisui ernment of China, to quit bombing unfortified towns from the air was drafted today at a meeting of Peking foreign government ministers here. The warning was sent to Gen. Chang Tso-lin and the Peking gov- ernment in view of the bombing of the border town of Shanhaikwan by a Manchu air squadron, and because was planning an air raid on Peking. The ministers asked both sides to. refrain from bombing at points ex- field or fortified places or naval units. tarian grounds, but at the same time a warning was issued that if forergn lives were taken or foreign property damaged as the result of such at- tacks on capital cities or treaty ports, the authority who ordered the attack would be held strictly responsible. It was pointed out to the heads of the rival armies that such air raids lack military value and can only re- sult in the destruction of historic buildings and damage to the legations of friendly nations. By bombing unfortified towns “the lives of foreign nationals who are not taking any part whatsoever in the actual conflict and intend to maintain absolute neutrality in this domestic quarrel would be put in grave and constant danger,” the note points out. “For these reasons the heads of le- gations represening foreign govern- ments feel it their duty to appeal to your excellencies, and while giving expression of satisfaction to the fact that you made known yvour intentions the ethics of responsible newspapers would not permit the publishing of such confidential matters under such circumstances. This feature of The Sta and relatives. ¢ ginia, 5 cents; in other State: to afford full protection to the lives and property of foreigners in the line (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) , The Holy Name Parade Pictured in the Rotogravure Section of Next Sunday’s Star. r makes it egpecially desir- able as a souvenir of the great gathering in Washington last week terminating with the Pennsylvania avenue parade and mass meeting on the Monument Grounds. Mail a copy of next Sunday’s Star to Mailed to points in Maryland and Vir- vour friends s, 10 cents. In Next Sunday’s Star. killed and 10,000 were rendered home- | fertile area watered by the Western | and | Erzerum, the capital of the vilayet | of authentic reports that Gen. Chang|2and the dec cept “where armed forces are in the The appeal was based on humani- | GIVEN PROMOTION McCarl Rules Advancing Em- ploye Must Take Lowest Salary of New Grade. WILL MEAN REDUCTION OF INCOME FOR MANY Decision Rendered in Case of Treas- ury Official Who Would Lose $100 by Higher Status. | Controller General Me i red up a furore among | departments with a new | reclassification, wh | down the law t under certa | specified conditions, when it is wish- i €d to promote an employe to w b | position and higher grade, his | must be reduced. fon, rendered to the Tr rl has s de in effect, | The ae {ury Department, is based by Mccarl on previous decisions by his office and on the principle that | sought by the pre which it inserted in every app | tion act for personal serpices ir | District of Columbia subject t t, to average absolutel of the. personal services in | priations for every grade.” Two Factowx Enter In. The promoted employe must be paid a lower salary, McCarl ruled. in all | cases where two factors obtained | 1. Where the Towest salar: the | grade to which the promotion is pro- | posed is lower than the salary held { by the employe in his previous posi- { tion. Where the so-called “average | provision” is exceeded th {to which it is wished to promote | Violation of the average provisior | takes place where the average of th sum of the salaries being received {all employes in the grade exceeds t average of the sum of the sala | ollowed by the classification act wi | that grad. For instance, McCarl explains the matter in his decision in the case of Guy H. Sutton, an assistant chief of ! ivision, at ! Register ~of the . whom the wished 10 per v Treasury i promote to the next higher grade. ané make him hief of division, at a higher salary. To make this promo- i tion from grade six to grade seven lof the clerical and fiscal service, Me- Carl ruled, Sutton would have to be transferred to the lowest salary | available in grade seven, $2,4600. In ! other words, under McCarl's decision utton could be promoted at a loss {in salary of $1 : Rouses Wrath of Workers. | The mandate of the controller zen- ieral, to which he declared promo- | tions made under such conditions { the future “must” conform. hurled i self into the comparativel peacefu progress of a long series of interpre tive decisions by McCarl on reclassifi- cation. Departments and establishments are up in arms. Persons intimately formed on classification matters de- clare it to be one of the most revolu- tignary things which has happened in th€ administration of the law since passage. They say it is contrary to | the intent of Congress. They pro- nounce it to be the subject of most | vital interest before Government em- | ployes today | Already. it is understood. the con- | troller general has been asked in at | least two separate letters from the cla: | Civil the whole problem again ification board itself and from the Service Commission to review | Delay on Decision, Following the receipt of the con- troller's decision it is understood the Treasury Department did not promote |the man in question. Mr. Sutton. which | would have necessitated reduction |in salary, but has continued him | his present position as assistant chie As evidence of the gravity which the controller and his associates at tached to the problem is the long {time required by that office to come {to a decision in the matter. The | question was presented on July 0 ion, which lic today, was dated Sept { The Treasury explained " ter that the chief of division, Chester !E. King, salary $2,500, had resigned, and it was desired to promote Sutton to take his place and salary, raising from grade six to grade seven became pub- mber 12 ts le |_“Before Mr. King resigned.” the | Treasury explained, “there were five | employes in grade C. A. F. 7 in the register's office, each paid at the rate of $2,800 per annum. Average Provision Violated. In reply to the Treasury's ques- tion then, whether promotion of Sut- vision, McCarl declared it wouldfl ton would violate the average pro- and that Sutton would not only have to go into the next higher grade at less than $2,800, but at the very mini- mum salary provided by the law for that grade. How the “average provision™ violated is explained by the contr in clear terms: “The range of salary rates of grade 7, clerical. administra- tive and fiscal service,” he said, $2,400, $2500. $2,600, $2,700, $2,900 and $3.000, and the mathemat- ical average is $2,700. If there were five employes in this grade, each paid at the rate of $2,800 per annum. the average of the salaries of the total number of persons in the grade ex- ceded the average of the compen- sation rates specified for the grade, and it is assumed that this resuited by reason of the proper allocation of positions held June 30, 1924, and within the exceptions expressed in the average provision of the appro- priation act of April 4, 1924, Public, No._ 68, providing for the Treasury and Pot Office Departments for the fs- cal year 1925." McCarl cited previous decisions, one of which had held than an emplove in the Public Health Service could be promoted “only at the minimum salary rate in grade 5 C. A. B Sought Absolute Control. “In_other words,” the controller said in “laying down the law” with- out qustion of a doubt, “the stated rule was not intended merely as a suggested method by which the aver- age in a grade might be reduced, but as the uniform rule which must be applied in new adjustments in a (Continued on Page 10, Column 2.) X