Evening Star Newspaper, October 26, 1924, Page 8

CLASSYING BARD * BUSY ON APPEALS Every Case Given Most Care- ful Scrutiny Possible, Members Claim. Personnel Classification Board engaged in its principal husiness for the present of review- ing appeals from its allocations, : been sent to the board from departments and establishments of the Government. A total of about 2,500 appedls have been sent to the board, it wa ted today, since the allocatic ame effective the first of this vear, July 1 total number of persons in the District of Columbia ed by the board was about The is busily account of the care exercised, 1s been somewhat slow “tor entering into the »eation fa gone tto by the investi- When the board determines to do with each case, a report to the department concern r or not the appeal is granted I Appeals Considered. smplaint that the jon Board has many of the ap- d today that very appeal eceive atten- as emphas ber task before the board, 1 efficiency rating, is now ked on by the Bureau of which has forwa d proposed efliciency rating to the departments and establish- ments of the Government. Under Close Scrutiny. department and establishment will put this new efficiency gram under close scrutiny Under the law all em- pioyes must be placed by their chiefs in th oper place of their grade according to the new efficiency rating. When the proposed plan is returned ireau of Efficiency with com- t will be given final cons . and then be to the Personnel Cla \ Board. All this part of k is expected to be rushed t the greatest speed con- with accuracy, in order that departments may have the new to scale employes on Novem- The heads rating pr this week. Chairman Bailey of the Personnel Classification Board, in his capacity as 4 member of the staff of the Bu is occupied now before that bureau on t PresidentCoolidge will send to Congress in December. e spends part of his day, however, with the Personnel ¢ ication Board, where other members and ex- perts arc pushing ahead with the SCHOOL OF RELIGION PLANS CONVOCATION Howard University Conference to Be Addressed by Prominent Clergymen. The eighth annual convocation of the School of Religion of Howard 7 will be held Tuesday, ; and Thursday. The ar- rents for the convocations are being made by Dr. D. Butler Pratt, dean of the School of Religion of Howard University. The subject to be discussed at the convocation con- those who will address the Dr. James H. Dil- rd. president of the Slater-Jeanes tov. George C. Clement, D. D, Ky, Bishop of African Mathodist Episcopal Zion Church; tev. Robert J. MacAlpine, D. D., vterian Church, ." Prof. William h Robert L. Kelly, stor of egro Theological Seminary Survey, ew York City; Rev. L. S. Hollo D. D., pastor of Second Baptist Church, Washington, D. C.: Rev. H. T. Medford, D. D., pastor, John Wesley Zion Church, Washington, D. C, I S DDy urch, Washington, Abernethy, D. D, Calvary Baptist Church, W Dr. H. 1. Shantz, scientist, 4 States Department of Agri- : Rev. Lu K. Williams, D. . ent of the National Baptist Con- Chicago, Ill; Dr. William field secretary, N. A. A. C. P., City; Rev. Robert W. , pastor of Lincoln Congrega. emple, Washington, D. C.; . W. D.'Norman, D. D., pastor of the Metropolitan Baptist Church. Washington, D. C.; President J. Stan- ley Durkee, D. D., of Howard Uni- versity; Rev. Matthew W. Clair, D. D., Bishop of the Methodist KEpiscopal Church: Rev. Reverdy C. Ransom, D. D. Bishop of the African Methodist Fpiscopal Church, Nashville, Tenn.; Rev. Prof. Sterling N. Brown, D. D., and Rev. C. C. Williams, D. D., pastor of Union Wesley A. M. E. Zion Church, Washington, D. C. A number of subtopics ‘will be dis- cussed at the various sessions of the convocation, including, “Conditions in Africa” “Conditions in the United States” and *The Education of Negro Ministers.” Arrangements have been made for an @nformal reception to all visitors in the new dining hall on the university campus. This reception will take place on Wednsday eve- ning, October 29, and will be fol- lowed by the annual convocation dinner. — F. H. NORRIS, SR., DIES. Native of District Formerly Em- ployed at State Department. Francis H. Norrlg, sr., 70 years ola and a lifelong resident of the District of Columbia, died at Emergency Hos- pital Thursday. Death followed a stroke of apoplexy which he suffered October 7. Mr. Norris was employed for a number of y. s at the State De- partment, retiring from active work several years ago. He resided at 810 Twentieth street. Funeral services will be conducted at the residence of a son, Frank H. Norris, jr. tomorrow afternoon at o'clock. Interment will be in Con- gressional Cemetery. Mr. Norris is survived by three sisters, Mrs. Susan J. Thomas of this city, Mrs. Annie Dozier of Newport News, Va., and Mrs. Dayvid Moore of Franklin, Pa.; a brother, Charles A. Norris; two sons, Frank H. Norrls, jr. and Charles A. Norris, and two daughters, Mrs. E. T. Mertz and Miss Mary C. Norris, all of this city. . . Ordered From Panama. Officers of the Army Medical Corps, stationed at Balboa Heights, Panama Canal Zone, have been ordered to the United States for duty, as follows: Maj. Henry L. Kraft to Fort Humph- heys, Va.; Maj. Claude D. Holmes to ¥ort 8ill, Oklahoma, and Capt. Wesley C. Cox to the Army Medical Schfil. y‘i; ' this city. | Speaks Here Wednesday MRS. CLINE NEVILLE-ROLFE, of London, an authority on social hy- giene and eugenics, who will speak Wednexdny evening at 8 o'clock, at the First Congregational Church, un- der auspices of the local social hy- ziene wsociety, LA FOLLETTE FORCES ASSAIL ENFORCEMENT Charge Mrs. Willebrandt Has “Kept Truth From Public” on Prohibition. La Follette-Wheeler headquarters in a formal statement last night re- iterated that Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, who has charge of pro- hibition cases in the Department of Justice, had kept “the truth from the public in prohibition enforcement matters to protect the Republican party” and asserted that if she will not “give out the facts to back up her charges” made in a recent I srcement league otficia Philadelphia, they would give inmde history of some of the cases in which political influence has pre- vented prohibition enforcement based on data in the files of the Department ice and the Department of the ury.” Senator William B. McKinley of Illinois, the statement said, arranged an appointment with President Coul- idge for two Chicago politicians last ['ecember which led to the pardon of Fhillip Grossman, “wealthy Chicago <aloon-keeper convicted of selling in- texicating liquor in violation of the law." Senator to law en McKinley, the statement added, also was “the man through whose influence Prohibition Agent Joseph A. Tatro of Chicago was dis- missed from the Federal prohibiti enforcement service in August, 1922 ————— 236 LIQUOR ARRESTS. Record for Past Week Is Below Average. Two hundred and thirty-six vic- tims of intoxicants found their way behind the bars in the dozen police stations the past week, a much smaller number than the average the four weeks of September. There were 17 arrests for driving while intoxicated. The number of violations of this provision of law has continued large the past month or more, police say, and both the Dis- trict Commissioner and Maj. Sulli- van have urged Jjail offenders as the only remedy. Other arrests growing out of the sale and handling of intoxicants the past week were: Selling, 33; posses- sion, 71; transporting, 34; drinking in public, 9; conspiracy, 3; manufac- turing, 1, and maintaining a nuisance, 1. 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