Evening Star Newspaper, January 17, 1925, Page 1

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Seeks No Fund, Plots Nothing, Says Grand Duke on Arrival Brother of Cyril Says Wife, Niece and INRECRGANZATION PLAN FOR DRY UNIT Successor May Be Picked Outside Enforcement Circles | to Give New Impetus. | DRIVE ON BIG VIOLATOR | OF LAW CONTEMPLATED | = i | Cocfidge Declared Opposed to Jail-| ing All Offenders—Industrial | Alcohol Large Problem. i | | | The sixth vear of national Bition been hered in auguries of changes in both the per- sonnel and methods of the Federal enforcement corps, Roy A. Haynes, field marshal of en- forcement since early in the Harding administration, likely to be replaced by some one who heretofore has viewed tha Government's prohi- bitfon activities from & distance, and who will bring to the service enforce- ment opiritons of h Go Atte® Big Offenders. Meantime, it prohi- | has with seems own. been revealed at the White House in the most author ttative mancer that President Cool- fdge would ilke to see Federal agents give their major attention to boot Jeggers and not to hip-pocket flasks. and does not faver a’'kill reported by the House judiciary committee ma Ing it mandatory for courts to im- pose jail sentences on those convicted of breaking the Volstead act At the same time it was impifed. but not ated specific that the admin- stration might look with favor on the Cramton bill removing the prohibition unit from the Internal Revenue Bureau and making it an independent bureau itself under the Treasury Department. has Haynes Isx Storm Center. Consumers of {ndustrial alcohol, ap- pearing before committees of Congres: have in some cases opposed the Cram ton bill if prohibition enforcement is to remain as it is and Mr. Haynes is to | have control over the release of alcohol | for industrial purpos The Anti- | Saloon League has indorsed the bill, and at the same time has defended e- peatedly the methods of Mr. Haynes. 1t appeared likely today that the present prohibition commissioner might remain on the job pending passage of the Cramton bill, but would be expected to stp out.in the course of the reorganization that would be put into effect. His suc- | cessor has not been selected. .. Degrees of Guilt Stated import of the White House pronouncement regarding en- | forcement remalins a matter of con- | jecture, since officials are not willing | just now to enlarge upon it | The President's views came out in | connection with the bill to make jail | ment mandatory for prohibition | | The possible Violators. Mr. Coolldge beileves m of punishment and should use discretion d that degrees of gu ent should be tak | Account @nd that the posses | liquor in a pocket flask for personal | | | | n v should not be consldered as serious an offense as Its possession which has been before the President, as an rent of the policy of attack- | t liquor distribution at rather th its ultimate | estina contemplates a concen- | tration of prohibition enforcement | s against the bootlegger, | with a rigid system of | nd 1 alcohol rele a corps of expert chemists suggestion coup che une King stria ses | Alcohol Leaks fnto « The assertion that a large part of the hol released goes Into syn- | thatis and ot illegal drinks has repeatedly before the | committees of but whether he President accept recom- mendations to leases under | sci supervision rem be | seer | Should he is probable that =01 experienced in general law | t will be placed In charge | branch of prohibition | which will conduct | Arthur Woods, | police issloner of New has been suggested for the | League's support | icies of Mr. Haynes led to| slation today as to the able attitude toward | place him and It is under- | move to oust the joner was started several months ago, but that his friends came to his | defense in such force that the Presi- declded to defer action pending orking out of legislation along | line of the Cramton bill FLASEKS NOT CONDONED. n. nade will place revise | ds. the ne Coolidge Merely Emphasizes Other Offenses Are Greater. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. President Coolidge does not con- dona the carrying of a flask of liquor on the An entirely erroncous impression was spread, it was said | at the White House today result | of the press conference there Friday. | Mr. Coolidge was simply trying to make a comparison between the vary- ing degrees of seriousness in | ing the Volstead law, particu i with respect the penalties ! should be applied. His attention had | | i been called to the provisions of the hill pending before Congress, which would make it mandatory for judges to impose jail senter of - fenders who had been convicted of| violating the Voistead law. | The reason for thix request on the | part of the “drys” is that again and | again men who have been engaged in | “bootlegging” have pleaded “first of- fense” und have been released on to assume another name and when | convicted in another city they have | again pleaded “first offense.” Like- wise the men high up in the bootleg | rings have taken advantage of this| loophole to engage new employees, | who, if caught, would not be jatled. | because it was their “first offense.” ] In order to catch the “bootlegger” | and his lieutenants, however, the pas- | sage of a law compelling judges to| impose jall scntences on all first of- fonders would make it necessary to (Continued on Page 3, Column 3.) es on first | debts matter, as well as on other im- | FRANCE | amounting to | from 7,000 to 10,000 francs; 4 per cent Self Seek Only G Pleasure ir By the Associated Press NEW YORK, January 17 and | Dulte Borls of Russis acrived on the| Olympic today with the grand duchess for an indefinite stay in America “on pure pleasure bent,” as the duke put it With party. but second class and in a distant section of tha ship, the grand duke's mother-in-law, his wife's eight-year- | Natalle, and a titled secre- | the traveling | were old niece, tary We haven't had invitation to any of the Monday Opera Club,” Borls, referring to the soclety or- ganization which entertained the| Grand Duchess Cyril during her re cent visit here. the honor of an| of the functions said | “We hope for an invitation to some shooting and some golf. We want to see soms of the Broadway follies and NEW FRENCH ENVOY SAILS FOR AMERICA Daeschner to Bring Fullf Instructions on Debt Ques- tion to United States. By the Ansociated Press PARIS, January 17.—Emile Daesch- ner, new French Ambassador to the United States, accompanied by Mme. Daeschner and their daughter, left Faris this morning for Havre and is | sailing on the steamer Paris th ernoon for New York. The sador goes to his new post with co plete instructions concerning the war portant the countries. It is understood, however, that for the time being the Ambassador's in- terest in the debt question will be confined to the transmission of such communications as Minister of Fi- nance Clementel may have to make. | The finance minister will continue to deal with Washington, as well as with London. in this connection questions between two Looks Forward to Work. Ambassador Jusserand's successor sxpressed again just befora leaving his great satisfaction with his new assignment. He said he looked for- ward with special interast to the re- sumption of his contact with Secre- tary of State Hughes, whose ac qualntance he de when Mr. Hughes was here last Summer, and with Am- b ador Kellogg, the Secretary of State designate, whom he met during the finance ministers’ conference. he conversations I had with Mr. Kaliogg,” said the Ambassador, “wers such as forecast most excellent rela- tions in Washington T am sure they ware not only agreeable, but profit- atle to the interests of both coun- tries.” 1t is sald in officlal circles that the representative of France hington probably will have fa arize himself with his new post before the debt question reaches an active stage, because M. Clementel desires first to learn just what the British requirements of France are going to be TO RAISE TAX ON CHILDLESS PEOPLE| Bachelors and Couples Without | Children May Have Levies Increased. By the A PARIS, J Bachelors and childless couples are to be still more heavily taxed for the benefit of large | tamilies under the terms of a bill introduced in the Chamber of Deputies and backed by members belonging to almost all the parliamentary groups. The bII proposes to raise the monthly allowance to parents with | large families from 90 francs, as now provided. to 360 francs. To pro- vide the necessary funds the incomes of bachelors of both sexes would be taxed on a sliding scale, the levy 2 per cent on incomes from 10000 to 20,000 and nt on those exceeding 20,000 Married persons without children would get off more lightly, belng asked to pay agly 2 per cent ou in- comes from 10,000 to 20,000 and 4 per cent on incomes over the latter figure. This tax s applied over and above the ordinary income tax . on thoi 6 per c Prince to Attend Dinner. LONDON, January 17.—The Prince of Wales will attend the farewell din- ner given by the Pilgrims to Am- bassador Kellogg January 30. Win- ston Churchill, British chancellor of the exchequer, it is said, will propose the principal toast Army Air Service W | gather | satd olf, Hunting and 1 America. to spend some time at Palm Beach, after a few weeks in New York. They certainly were not here to money or aid any movement sponsoring & return of monarchlal government to Russia, sald the grand duke, although he admitted he sup- ported the claims of his younger brother, Grand Duke Cyril, to a Rus- sian throne “To use an expression I picked up in New York 24 vears ago, when I last visited this country, we are here on our own hook., " said Boris. He he wanted show America” to his young wife, whom he married six years ago after her divorce from a Russian army officer Informed that Representative La Guardia of New York sought to have the grand ducal party barred from America on the ground that it was engaged in an intrigue to overthrow this Government, Boris said “Ah, then I would become emperor of this great America? That would be charming, indeed. NORWAY CHECKING TS RUN-RUNNERS Oslo Government Gets List of Ships Off U. S. Coast in Plan to Curb Them. By the Associated Pr OSLO, Norway, January legislation to prevent the participa- tlon of Norwegian vessels in the rum- running trade to the United States, which is characterized here as “a dis- credit to the flag.” The foreign office through its lega- tion in Washington has obtained the names of ten Norweglan vessels identified as among those on ‘“rum row,” and the list has been sent to the Ship Owners' Assoclation and ministry of justice for further action. Will Deny Protection, The Ship Owners' Assoclation ready had cautioned masters against rum-running, warning that it would refuse assistance to vessels running foul of the American laws, and the government has also issved a warn- ing that vessels caught in- American waters would not receive the support of ihis country’s offictal representa- ve: While the government is seeking a suitable form of legislation whiech would give the greatest assistance to the American authoritles, experts on international maritime law are doubtful whether any very helpful formula can be found which does not clash with the theory of “freedom of the seas” and the claim that carry- ing liquor outside Amerfcan terri- torial waters is not legal and must be classed with the transportation of arms and munitions and the transfer of such cargo to rebels in the open sea. al- Few Ships in Rum-Running. It is pointed out that few Nor- wegian vessels—not more than 10 in all—have been engaged in the liquor traffic to America, and that seldom more than five of these are operating oft the coast. Norwegian public opinion as re- flected here favors the enactment of any legislation assisting the Arme:l can officials so long as it does not abridge Norway's legal rights on the sea. . SNARED IN COAL HOIST. Worker Lifted 50 Feet and Dropped Into Ship's Hold. ROSTON, January caught in the steel hoisting scoop, hauled 50 feet above a steamer’s deck, then dropped into the hold, Clarence A. Martin is in a hos- pital, severely injured. Working as hoisting engineer on the collier Glen- white, he slipped and the jaws of the scoop closed over him and several hundred pounds of coal. The scoop was up in the air before his plight was discovered, and in the haste to release him it was dropped into the hold. re GIRL, 15, SLAYS YOUTH. Laughs as She Tells Detectives of Shooting. CLEVELAND, January 17.—Fifteen- year-old Angeline Mannio laughed and joked with detectives today, as she told of having shot and killed Tony Valore, 24, in her home last night. Angeline surrendered shortly after the shooting, alleging Valore had betrayed her. first appear before Juvenile Judge Addams® who will decide what cour: a trial will take, authorities said. ins Collier Trophy For Accomplishment of World Flight Alr the United States Army has been awarded trophy by the National Aeronautic Association for the greatest achievement In aviation in America during 1924, by its ac- complishment of the flight around the world, it was announced today. The trophy is donated by Robert J. Collier and awarded annually by the Aeronuutic Association. The committee on award for the 1924 trophy consisted of Orville Wright, chairman; Godfrey L. Cabot, presi- dent of the National Aeronautic Assoclation; G. W. Lewis, secre- tary of the national advisory com- mittee for aeronautics; Porter H. Adams and B. Russell Shaw, both of the Aeronautic Association. The Service Collier to Glenn H. Curtiss for hydro- aeroplane development; In 1912 to Curtiss for development and dem- onstration of the flying boat; in 1913 to Orville Wright for develop- ment and demonstration of his automatic stabilizer; in 1914 to Elmer A. Sperry for development and demonstration of gyroscopic control; in 1915 to W. Starling Burgess for development and dem- onstration of Burgess-Dunne hydroaeroplane; in 1916 to Elmer A. Sperry for development and demonstration of the Sperry Drift Set. The trophy was not awarded between 1917 and 1920 owing to the war, but In 1921 it went to Grover C. Loening for development and demonstration of his aerlal vacht. Since 1922 the United States Air Mail Service has won the trophy. The award was first made in 1911 a~ Radio Programs—Page 9. N ~The | Norwegian government is considering | Having been | Jaws of a coal- | Nearly apparatus w. | fore blaze that w noon ing damage | tents $45,000. nature paratus. firofighters Despite th the firemen flery rary distabl window and and slight them, Mrs, keeper, tarr! and she st through th | smoke to th Among blaze were Kane Trans of the struc ot gla ran to the he south ing the alar automob safety. Crowd By the ti on the scen | from | every upper | was sounded but they high schools vicinity was alleys, from fences. The paper Harry Jeffre: {and Reuben of various manufacture property of pany, direotl Fumigating Birds live, cree issued without tri; is declared, miners. News Note Paper Box Plant Fire Calls Out Nearly All of City’s Apparatus. all to Columbia Specialty | factory at 54-60 Hanover street i estimated Because of the highly of the contents of the three- story brick structure, the blaze gain- ed threatening arrival of the first pieces of fire ap- and provided of Chiet George second stubborn and within a week. form in order to fight the veritable furnace that raged two upper floors of the paper plant, the only casualties were the tempo- men because of the inhalation of the stifiling fumes that poured from every glass, nails and so on. Employes Forced to Flee. The five employes of the paper com- pany, who were in the building when the fire was discovered, to seek safety Frank Wallord | an armful of the company's rec the erates a garage of these employes, and a | whole upper part of the building, at end, was ablaze his colleagues succeeded in removing 2 number of the one end of the building to other, and were bursting forth fron Watson arrived he turned in anothei alarm. The second alarm also brought police reserves from found colored boys and girls from task of keeping them awa: appeared from | teenth street, as a p | chandise boxes lapproximately $50.000, Because of her youth, Angeline must | chinery, that, it is belleved, serious damage. The bullding ward Chapman, The yard and stables of the coal com- ing piant, were in danger for a while. Mr. Chapman said the wrecked struc- | ture was insured for $62,000. GAS FUM Fumigation of Home Fatal to Man and Daughter. TORONTO, rick Bird, 63, and his daughter Mary, 35, here yesterday. who fumigated the house where the acid for this purpose, first warning the occupants home for the day. out ball as & material witness. Ore Robbers Face Death. MEXICO CITY, January huahua State provides for execution digging under the mine timbers in search of rich ores, of Washing fire as called out shortly be- put out a three-alarm recked the interior of the Paper Box Co.'s au to the building and con- at approximately n's tnflammable headway before the the army of under personal direction Watson, with the| disastrous fire | e hazardous feats which were called upon to per- though the ement of weveral of the crevice in the bullding, cuts and brulses from were forced One of the book- long enough to grab on the run ted her clouds aggered with e billowing e street first seve fer Company, to the emploves the which op. on the ground floor W. S. Coates, on, heard a crashing and when he saw that the discover ture. roar, street he Spread- m In the garage, he and transfer company’s and trucks to places of Hampers Firemen. me firemen had arrived e %the flames had swept the window. A second alarn at once, and when Chief every precinct, that hundreds of nearby had beat them there. The from the | as they | ~down | over almost hopeless all direction: passageways and company is conducted by ¥ of 4323 Sixteenth street Aaronson of Six- artnership. Mer- and paper containers descriptions were being | d In the building. The the factory was worth including ma- scaped | is owned by J. Ed- locnl coal dealer y in the rear of the burn- ES KILL TWO. Ontario, January 17.— gas took the lives of Pat- Bert Woodington, told police he had used to_ stay away from He was held with- 17.—A de- by the Governor of Chi- al of ore robbers. By | vear-otd | the | consignments ATTEMPT AT MATRICIDE IS BLAMED ON CLASSICS | Mentality of Boy, 12, Is Believed to Have Been Affected by Reading. By the Associated Press NEW HAVEN, Alienists today Conn., January » examine Arthur Waters, held as a of an attempt to ki step- Mrs. Harriet Waters, by g her six with a carv- The mentality of the lad | s believed to have been affected by overreading. Mrs. V ported recovering today The lad’s father, Frank Waters, the boy for several years had greatly absorbed in the Greek and Roman history, was able to quote extensively from the writ- | ings of Marcus Aurellus and from Sapho, and expressed admiration for certain of the heroes of antlquity | about whom he had read. Reading of | classics was interspersed with | reading of literature of the dime | novel variety. He is deseribed by his teachers as a bright yapil, but is =ald | to have avolded the society of juve- ile companions. U, MAY RESTORE ALIEN PROPERTY Reparations Settlements Reached Make Possible Return of $300,000,000. result mother, slashi times been | study of BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE, Reparations settlements at Paris have made It possible for the United States Congress to restore the $300,- 000,000 odd of “enemy” assets still held by the Alien Property Cus- todian. As this is now to share in German reparation payments, cover of our war claims and Rhine Army costs, the necessity for retaining sequestered * " hold- ings no longer exist The way at length is paved for vin- dication of a historic American prin- iple—not to enforce payment of public debts by confiscation of private property. Legisiation by Congress is required, under the trading-with-the- enemy act, to return German, Aus- trian and Hungarian property to its ightful owners. It may be initiated the present session, but is hardly kely to be enacted until the Sixty- \inth Congress passes it. country in Rival Schools of Thought. There have been two rival schools ) thought with regard to disposition of alien property. One branch favored immediate utilization of the assets of | our former enemies for pavment of | the cbligations due from their respec- tive governments, after adjudication | by the Mixed Claims Commission. | The commission, which once confront- | ed claims aggregating $1.250,000.000, decided to scale these down to a| round $350,000,000. Cover for the lat- | ter total has just been provided in the interallled deal at Paris. The other school of thought favored im- mediate and unconditional return of all alien property. Our separate former enemy sta peace treaty with | Tnited (Continued on Page SOCIETY FOLK SEIZED IN DENVER DRY RAIDS Gigantic Liquor Combine Headed by Business Men Charged by Officers. By the Associated Press. DENVER, Colo., January 17.—In- vestigation of what they described as a gigantic liquor combine with in- fluential business men at its head, led dry agents of the district at- torney’s office and State enforcement officers late last night to rald several homes in the fashionable Capitol Hill residential district. A quantity of fancy liquors and wines was seized, it was announced at the dis- trict attorney's office, and identified | as part of a recent large shipment of “tomatoes,” one of the largest of liguor to enter Denver since prohibition. Warrants were issued for the ar- rest of Morris Robinson, president of @ dairy company; E. R. Miller, real estate dealer, Ramon Solis, cigar manufacturer, Carl C. Madsen, con- | sels Eaward |3 | Florence street northeast, the robbers, it endanger the lives of the L] tractor, and L. J. Stark, attorney. all prominent in Denver business and soclal life. * TWO CENT A plan has been proposed to run Sixteenth street through Lafayette Square. FACTORY WRECKED SENATOR ON LIST IN 32 SNOW SUITS Fletcher of Florida Named for Failing to Have Side- walk Cleared. against delinquent owners, numbering 32 in failed to remove the snow in front of their premises in the prescribed time, were filed today in Municipal Court by Assistant Corporation Coun- E. Thomas and Joseph McGarraghy. Senator Fletcher of Florida was among those sued. The declarations were sent to the Police Court from the corporation counsel’s office in the District Bufld- ing where they had been by the Street Cleaning Department. property all, who According to an act of Congress in| 1822, the failure to remove the snow from the sidewalk fronting one's dwelling is not a police violation, but a municipal one. Department removes the snow and enters svit through the corporation counsel in the Muncipal Court. The court may find the property owner guilty, and, if so, a penalty of $25 is tmposed on top of the costs of having the enow removed against sald property. This money is given over to the funds for the Street Clean- ing Department. Names, addresses and costs of those sults filed today are as follows: Pelle Matteo, 802 F street, $1.80; Richard W. Claxton, 912 F street, $2.85; Charles H. Parker, 200 H street, 3 ; Daviette C. Ficklin, 1823 Blit- more street, $24.58; John L. Hargrove, 1526 Biltmore street, $7.03; Thomas W Stubblefleld, Clifton street be- tween Thirteenth and Fourteenth, $33.15; Rudolph B. Behrend, $14.28; Ada B. Holman, 1010 Pennsylvania avenue, $4.48; Ada B. Holman, 1008 Pennsylvania avenue, $4.83; Christian Heurich, 1006 Pennsylvania ave- nue, §$5.25; Mamie E. Norment, 63%-640 Massachusetts avenue, $10.08; Duncan U. Fietrher, 1221 Fifteenth street, $1.33; Duncan U. Fletcher, 1455 Massachusetts ave- nue, $1L.5 Hopkins Wylle, 1205 Thomas Clrcle, $10.99; Margaret L. Turton, 1110 K street, $1.06; Leslie E. F. Prince, 1108 K stree $1.96; John, Ella. S. and Mary Elizabeth Ford, 844 K street, $7. George W. Norris, 814 I street, $1.26; Morris G. Foote, 807 1 street, $1.54; Allena C. Hartman, 801 1 street, $5.04; Goodman Hanes, 804 H street, $1.33; Wilhelmina Mueller, 719 H street, $7.42; Maurice J. Sheehan, 145 H street northeast, $17.48; Emily J. Howlett, 211 H street northeast, $4.56: Dennis A. and Cath- erine A. McNamara, 217 H street northeast, $3.99; Annie E. Harr, 901 H street northeast, 3$8.47; Dora Molenof, 405 H street northeast, $4.37; Ethel M. Rutty, 609 Florence street northeast, $2.28; Ethel M. Rutty, 607 $2.28, and amuel H. Sixth street southwest, Gusack, $18.05. 100 PORT CAPTAIN B‘L.AI;IlED FOR AMERICAN’S ARREST By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, January 17.—The port captain of Progreso. Yucatan, is held responsible for the arrest of Dr. W. F. Lorenz, chairman of the Wis- consin State Board of Control, who, with other members of his party, was found aboard the wrecked ves- sel Ruth on'Perez Island and later imprisoned on charges of clandestine fishing in Mexican waters. The foreign department is notified that Dr. Lorenz has been freed and that the port captain is to be tried for exceeding his authority by order- ing the arrest without notifying the proper officials. Five Cathedral Sch For Purchasing and Drinking W hisky Five boys, none of them over 16 years old, have been expelled from the National Cathedral School for buying and drinking whisky, it was learned today. George H. Bundick, colored waiter at the school, pled guilty to being the source of supply. He was ar- rested last night by Sergt. Sidney Marks and Pvt. Paul Proctor of the seventh police precinct. Ac- cording to them he confessed sell- ing pints of whisky to the boys. Following an investigation by made out| The Street Cleaning | Wild Boar Invades Sick Room; Invalid Is Cured Speedily By the Associated Press BOURGES, France, January 17. —Pursued by hunters, a wild boar dashed Into a private house in the village of Grand Mallery near here, and made his way into a bedroom where an invalid had been lying for months The sick man shrieked for help, then arose and jumped out of the | window. The wild boar was finally killed. The invalid has returned | to work. | HOUSE CHALLENGED 10 STOP FUNDS OF - CLASSIFYING BODY Representative Stengle, As- sailing Board, Moves to Abolish by Vote. {HOLDS CONGRESS INTENT IN PASSING ACT IGNORED Condemns Administration of Law as Egotistic Plouting of Authority. 300 EXTRA TRAFFIC OFFICERS 0.k DBY JOINT COMMITIEE Jail Terms for Drivers Run ning From Accidents, or Intoxicated, Approved. ; | be reachea tn t Authorization of 300 additional trat- | 2PPropriation bill fic policemen, jafl sentences for| The first offenders convicted of running | Whelmi away from the scene of an accident father without making identity known, and | Civil driving while intoxicated, will be in- |t corporated in the model traffic law now being drafted by Joint com- | mittee of the House and Senate Dis- | | triet ittee. Meeting day in | executive session to consider the Charles | three traffic bills submitted, the com- | New Y mittes is said to have voted una | House to sho mously on these three provisions for | sincers its | the new law | bill 1ast | Determined to eliminate the “hit| what they |and run” and intoxicated drivers | opportunity | from the streets of Washington, the |1y p, y committee not only provides for d: ~ Coupled | tic penaities for ~these types of g.p0n8 | driver, but authorizes sufficient | Loy number of policemen to apprehend + R with the perso and what he | Expert Urged 500 Men. House lead | Although Dr. John A. Harriss, New | this expla York City traffic expert, recommended |to the committee that 500 additional | policemen be appointed, the commit- tee felt that 300 men taken on as s appropriations allow would quately cover the situation. the committee has no authority propriate the necessary money fc payment of the new men, it is ex- | pected that the appropriations com- | mittee will take care of policemen’s salaries as the need arises. As one Senator explained after the meeting the department {s now some 60 men | short of its quota, and the 300 men may not all be added at the same time. It was also declded by the commit- tee that the 63 traffic officers now under control of and being paid by the street railway companies should { be put under the exclusive jurisdic- tion of the District Police Department and should be paid out of District ap- propriations. This wil settle the | controversial question of policemen | being paid by street rallway com- | punies which has been raging in Washington for many years. BY WILL P. Abolition of th, fication board by of cutting off the s support during the will be today, KENNEDY. - personnel classi- the simple process ppropriation next scal year H late is expected to ependent offices House last year g vote ay d by Chairman Service o el roved Lehlbach of the tommission n in the He he salaries fo. comr ¢ | in w,” Represe on board the cure to make since 1810 ve worker In t 1 1 ice employes as editor, author and legisla tor. He is honorary vice president of National Association of ( ade- While to ap- | Hits Act Application. Representative Stengle sums fault with the I 17Cl Board in two words tion “The ay be impr lars, but nothi accomplished unti the body the spea applied by an sirous of givin 1 ca wrong with the present any situation can see ross maladministration, in the face no act could be successfu Take the b crimination ar cating posit under the A The obvious intent that the Pers: Board was to class speci seribed by govern the ac allocating po. up assificat bad admi suscept particu g can made nges are the act has bee administrative agency de- g full effect to its obvic - what details of th famillar charge 1 Jail Sentence Mandatory. In taking up penalties for motorists | who flagrantly disregard laws whic deal with preservation of life, the committes was desirous of puttir teeth into the new provision. Al- though the minimum and maximum terms for first offenders in the two classes named were not decided upon, | Schedule contained the committee believing that the|did the Board | courts would fmpose severe punish- |Pare and pu ment, jail sentences were made man- | cations required datory. ot locat It required The committee also discussed department heads to make the alloc propriety of imposing jail sentences not t schedule contained for first offenders of those convicted | the act, but to the discredited Bur! of passing a street car while dl. of Effic ¥ ule. That eve charging passengers, but due tu con- | schedule had ffered on the floor siderable difference of opinion among | of this House n amendment to the members of the committee on this | classification it was question, it was not voted upon helmingly re et th ity of the Person Class Meet Agaln Thuraday. | Board, under the ir The provisions of the bill which | forces, required department have already been discussed at previ- | allocate positions to the very ous meetings, such as the addition |ule this House had rejected of two judges for the Police Court,| regulation of issuance of operators’ | permits and others, were not taken up today, and in ail probability will | be left in the bill | The next meeting of the committee, at which time the bill is expected to be completed, will be held next Thurs- day at 2:30 o'clock. lass spect act In a tion the the| | been majo cation ce of outside eads to Officers Not Controlled. the ie administrative officers departments were not con Congress Intended they controlled, by specific the form prescribed by discredited Bureau schedule had been . | committee because it was too incom plete, fragmentary and indefinite to | ministrators and securing real classi- | fication. | " “On what aia Personne | | 1a’ be ations in act. The Efficlency rejected by class NIP REVOLT Army Officers Accused of Planning Uprising to Free Prisoners. BUENOS_AIRES, January 17.—The | police of Rio Janeiro, according to reports reaching here, have discov-|ployes of the Bureau of Effiflency de ered another revolutionary plot said | tailed to the Personnel Board. In twos to have been engineered by a group | or threes they were detailed to confer of army officers. It was stated that|wlith departmental administrators. the revolution was to have broken| “Under the circumstances it is no out after the departure of President| wonder that members of this House Bernardes for Petropolls on a vaca- | hear stories of favoritism and diserim- tion fnation and even of trades between rep- The main purpose of the plotters, | resentatives of the Personnel Board it was sald, was to free their col-|and the administrative officers. Fa- léagues who had been imprisoned for | voritism, discrimination and trades are similar actlvities, then take posses-|inevitable in the situation unless defi- sion of the principal military bar-|nite measures are taken to prevent racks of the city. The police are|them. The preventive ures, re- declared to have arrested the prin-|quired by the act, the board refused to cipal leaders, including one captain s take. It is safe to assert that the ma- and two lleutenants, and seized a|jority of employes believe that this re- number of bomb: classification was made on the basis REPORTS ROME QUIET. of existing rates of pay, rather than on duties and responsibilities, as the act required, except in the case of u per administrative officers. Ambassador Fletcher, at Rome, catled the State Department today that the situation in the Italian capi- tal was quiet. ““Public order has not been disturbed and the situation is perfectly quiet,” he said. the Board rely for securing uniformity of action on the part of all administrators and for preventing favoritism and discrimi- nation? Mainly upon a handful of er Says Review Wax Fake. “Did the board itself review these allocations to bring about uniformity across departmental lines and to detect favoritism, partiality and trades? It went throuzh some motions which the majority members of the board might be pleased to call a review, but any one who knows the problem of review- {ing thousands of allocations kuows that review was a fake “To aid In keeping administrators of the stralght and narrow road of rightoousness, to prevent them from dallving down the pleasant paths of favoritism and discrimination, it is | generally recognized that one of the | Best forces is the knowledge and | public opinion of the employes. Fa- voritism and discrimination seek the dark secluded places. They cannot | flourish in the light “What did the Bureau of Efficlency in running the personnel board? It decreed, ‘no light that can possibly |be prevented Many employes in the District of Columbia never wers glven an opportunity either to pr pare = description of their own duti or to_seo the description prepared ~~ (Continued on Page 4, Column &y oolboys Expelled the headmaster, Willlam Church, the five boys were brought before him and dismissed. Additional in vestigations will be made, how ever, to determine if other boy are using alcoholic liquors at the fashionable Episocpal school, one of the finest institutions of its kind in_this section of the country. Bundick pleaded guilty of boot- legging upon his appearance in Police Court today, and, following a heavy reprimand by the judge for aiding in the corruption of youth, a jall sentence of four months was imposed by the court. do 4