Evening Star Newspaper, January 17, 1925, Page 4

it THE EVENING E. H. SMITH G0, FILES LIBEL SUITI Asks $100,000 for State- ments Contained in Liti- gant’s Complaint. [House Challenged to Stop Funds of Classifying Body HAYNES ADDRESSES W.C. T.U. SESSION | 1 Body Observes Fifth Anniver- | Jon the civil service. and now it lies - | without action on the Senate calendar. “What is required clear and simple. The first_ and most necessary step I to get an honest, straight forward, law abilding enforcement of the act we already have. The second is for the classifying |agency and the Budget Bureau gent- | {1y, but firmly to control the admin- | Istrative officers on the basis of | certained facts in accordance and standards laid | is | Charged Appeal Denied. nts of sil and worth torie inew nothing re- s until thes~ ¥ announced had opportunity fu each by himself to appeal ble the Mrs. Helen inst Mr. and Mrs. n of New York, it sary of Dry Amend- ment. STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., SATURDAY, J UARY 17, 1925. I K iDANCER SUES HUSBAND’S SENA]’E DEBA]‘ES 7 JAILED IN $1,000,000 P[]I_IGEMAN STRUB |PARENTS FOR LOVE THEFT | SILK SHIPMENT THEFTS | Accuses Mz. and Mrs, W. H. Johin- | Shipping Boamd Vessels ame BY FLEEING ‘[RUEKi son of Alienating Affections of NAVAI. SIRENGIH Heavy Losses Through Gang Youthful New Yorker. in New York. Driver Runs Down Officer | yopoisayonia dumue Juitor | Ratio Status and Gun Eleva- \’“"i After Refusing to Heed | tion Flares Over Appro- A soo e ar '.'"‘i;ll""" Stop Signal. priation Bill. " men with | e to ena down h others merce act o The prisoners a d last ate operato week by of Jastlce | WOMEN CONSIDER DRUG CURB PLAN Practical Application of The-:i\ ories to Stamp Qut Evil Dis- cussed by Federation. York ( Mez LUTHERANS ELECT. Island, Ill., Man Chosen Head. Rock Church Council authority to from Ame to be used for ynstruction of existing rope and foreign mis societies distressed A ware-ivace nz of Colum- of the joint synod Dr 0. lius, Ohio, pre of Ohio f Mi itheran retar Stul the America; New York | 3 ng Policeman J. M. Hor- s signal to stop, a colored man rating a truck, at Fourth and A | streets southeast, vesterday, stepped on the gas and ran him down, injur- ing him about th and hand Horten was arrest the truck driver, who was accompanied by another c d man, and was sig- common & classifyin be central agency on # | prevent adm himself were | & Position in o el s 4 higher grade upon & | Fhaspieiai atement of the dutes of el position. There should be first- woe tha Vet I hand investigation by representatives | equality of the classifylng agency in every|yaling the truck to halt from a point use where any doubt exists as to|in front of it. The truck was sent SR cy or completeness of the |y, t toward him, and his effort to | facts upen which the action is to be ey | taken | United States Civil Service | on must go further than it| [hus to provent administrators from | going | selecting for promotion employes not | Police started a s. possessed of the qualifications re- [ driver harges of quired for the higher jobs. The tax-| driving while drunk, i they & pavers must be prepared to pay the|signal, colliding and failing to make laries necessary to secure for the | his identity known ial positions in their G ! 2 A it Traperly anannaa e | Pedestriun Struck. all | Congress ts not relleved of its re-| ility when it appropriates ! funds to pay the nec out to he @otis ke arch for the truck ree different d to correct employes | The | & this and th us preceedings. they withdrew they were told tha they won and the cougt ruled that ed in the grade Id put them all in the ed manda or s that ause William Messev Sixth cet, was Rhode Tsland street last nigh the automo | 1001 New aven fons like Neill the nistration o s Holds Steps Vital, “The steps just enumerated are nec b rators from priations by | favorites higher | au ol and i down by th flaherty Says Fundamentals Ignored. | ; grade, getling course by abolishing tions or by holdir the ency H son- | d to apply the assification h a cen- administra- relating to | sylvania southeast last lock and slix pital Charges collid Paul | southes RE lided lasslfica . rs | southwest in th rates | hc within thelr grad cause of their | iency. he classifyi far greater control over advan { tro te to within tho Bupeau. o mf- [ fTOm RIS Eo T G ftio subatitite L0k |insia inasia Administrat 4 by . be free, uncentrolled should not be jump a favorite from rate to ra step at a time within the grade. as the classification act provides, but | tve interval be- a constructive ses to ust exert 4l executive control of e o eme tters agency mw abo ars were 1 control as Congress may it- i without the aid of any wey. Experi- this theory | with only tween jumps. t the adminis many ad- | feature of the cla boost | May be necessary boost the |restore a provision which was in OOS: d the House |¢ adminis. the = this e control, > wild. They own salaries. They of their immediate assisyants, advanc: The Congress for de ordinates administrators in salaries of their and as it was Senate committes on Ci | ing to this provi ments within tr vear and rate money ervi be | ad own | to one a higher ng adv out Special Dispat NEW Y( hundred ar Hall dur IRK | central execu- impartial | to accom- | g thin perabrd Foulded the classifying t Bureau adminis ates agency | exert proper control over tors. Experience demons ever, that administrators cannot left froe and uncontrolled w power to advance favorites as ra Iy as they will from bottom to t | of the grade. “The ary the agency responsibility rests grade. administering the It develop 1t in_its Con- to de- |of departm administrators and the |separately ncy of the freedom | under this act and the diff and views o s in the ad- steps to erent a the very forces about the conditions reclassification act must it fails s under prope have legisiat gress T nized facts classification act ion board as to exert the neces- these eld Obvious. of the course he agency | cation act s n. de by S r ma provide that rators ot advance employ e higher rates of the grade with n a vital | the expressed c of the cent eedom in|agency after tve show wn con- |of the exceptional efficlency of the plo deprive 1 the t still be wit to the public and each class % to be ed thr the salary rates must t for that class. If the tes for a grade are too hi appropriate for a given class of positions within that grade, the clas- & agency should advise admi s that these higher rates can ed for that class. If s in the grade are too low of emploves required, | the classifying agency should not n for that class of positiol am which he set up wi L3 s House, throu Jus opponent o o their Willlam H. J n, Jr. 20. The was an entertainer in a dance hall at Cromwell, Oklahoma’s newest oil town. Johnson was represented by asso- tes at Cromwell a scion of a ealthy family who had come to Oklahoma to learn the oil industry Mrs. William Johnson denied that her husband is very wealthy and said he is a New York newspaper man. REBUKED FOR SMOKING BOY STAGES ‘YOUNG RIOT’ Bites Would-Be Censor on Train, Then Gives Battle to Policeman. I g himself uming. cursing, biting hound 4 T A kindly old ma mouishing forefinge buked him id t waved an ad at him and re Joe sunk his o r, then for five min- blistering It mg- hots at th censor When arters tten torn r to the 1 'PERSHING TO MAKE TRIP. Accepts Facilities for Tour Offered by Argentina. ATRE. BUENOS 7 Pershing hn J iary oche to Foreign e m or the trip to s by way of Port San An- Bahia Blanca Pershin Aires fro; 5 enos WOODLAWN MANSION, originally part of the Mount Vernon estate, that portion being & gift from Gen. Washington to his nephew, Lawrence Lewis, and his wife, Nellie Curtis Lewis. THE BRICK DWELLING, which was planned by Dr. William Thornton, architect of the Capi- tol of the United States, has been modernized and has all the convenicnces usualy found in a ity house. From the elevation on which the house is placed are commanding views of the Potomac River and outlying section. The property runs to Dogue Creck, which is an estuary of the Potomac River. ON THE LAWN, which conta found walnut, chestnut, oak, maple, poplar, spruce, pine, hone cedar elm and hickory; also some fine specimens of boxwood. of land, a part arable and a part in forest. ns about five acres, are many varieties of trees, among which are locust, Kentuc coffee bean, erc are approximately 160 acres THE OUTBUILDINGS consist of garage, stables and tenant houses, and arc in good tondition. WASHINGTON is within 45 minutes by motor over a macadamized road. WOODLAWN MANSION is superior to any property now on the market in this region, and it is offered for sale on account of the death of the owner. Price and Full Particulars Upon Application to H. W. HILLEARY Representative of Executors 1624 H Street N.W. Washington, D. C. Telephone Main 4792 I i I THREE BLOCKS FROM CON. AVE BRIDOE ¢ ROCK CREEK BELMONT The naval appropriation bill has car- ried from the House to the Senate the [flare of debate over the ratio strength of the American battlefleet The discussion as so far developed having consisted mainly of an attack by Democratic Senators on the position of President Coolidge against the elevat of the big guns on American battleships Senator McKellar, Democrat, e nessee, had served notice that he wo call up today his amendment directing such elevation to give them an avera range equal to those of Great Brit and Japan | eratior New York ford, N. ., Isidore Midler Tucker and Wy Brooklyn cording to the ted States Shipy anization ha greguting $1,000,001 of th tives all other m U and bricks and mc most miraculous event 1 and preside addressing the qua of the W. C. order by auy on on record on the question at this time. any further move by the United States | Democrat, t of &|a { denial | that | called in the Spring, the President was | Moore, wanted in Baltimore, Md., on a esterday sent a l | Carolina yesterday ffor a trunk line railroad traversing the State, i ROAD HALORAMA Subject to elimination on a point of nember, however, ad- leaders predicted this fate SEEKS TO QUIZ HERRIOT ON SOVIET FLEET ISSUE |& Deputy to Demand Explanation of | co Rumors of Plan : tion by the Senate which would put Would Have Parlay Called. In the fact of the re-emphasized position of the President, aiso, that conditions in Europe still precluded to Deliver Wrangell's Ships. toward the lmitation calling of another s conference, Senator Ki tah, served notice yester e would move an a to the naval bill “auth questing” the President to invite world powers into such a confer: In connection with a White Ho; esterday of published repe arms an conference would be 1 1o be matter must the success or of Nations' mo e o : Extradited on Rum Charge await developments aga Sov 1 I EVELA ’ y 7 fallure of the League | e in that direction assured Deputies that there would be WOMAN HELDilrl;l JAIL. viets £ and « at on t s told of gat ‘Wanted in Baltimore, Los Angeles | Court Denies Writ. LOS ANGELE January 17.—Mabel of PERSHING, 3701 16th St. | Modern Apartment Building Now Ready for Immediate Occupancy. harge W, yesterday | on the subject m in” Superior embezalen FLYER KI[:LED IN FALL. warrant for the coming by air mail fr and the applica return at 31,0 Th 1 of having le els valued at approxim ich were not paid for Reserve Officer's Leg Broken Tail-Spin Crash. refused in and her bail Land Law Held Invalid. RALEIGH, N. ¢, rney en 1 Br January 17.—At- mmitt of Nort concurred in opinion of his predecessor, Attorney General Manning, that the Bowle jaw | i passed by the Legis 3, | authorizing a $10,000, unconstitutional ELL CHOSEN home sites are founded on tangible values and surrounded by val- ued intangibles. For who can set a price upon the scenic beauty of Rock Creek Park, which over- looks Kalorama’s whole Width, or name the value of it's cool forest beauty in Summer, or buy the Autumn sunset view across it's Western hills? But these points go hand in hand with Kalorama’s tangible advantages of befng near distinctive churches, fine public and private schools: theaters. and on direct roads to country clubs. Kalorama is fronted its entire width by Rock Creck Park and backed by a solid section of the finest residence and embassy buildings in the Capital. : Lalorama SEE Kalorama yourself or in company with your banker or a disinterested friend. Motor out Massachusetts Avenue and turn north into Belmont Road to Tracy Place, where property begins; or out Connecticut Avenue, turn into Kalorama on the last street to the left before the bridge is reached and motor around to Belmont Road and Tracy Place. For prices, detailed informa- tion and terms, see ALLAN E. WALKER & CO., Inc. Mr. Godden—Main 2690 813 15th St. N.W. (Southern Bldg.)