Evening Star Newspaper, May 15, 1926, Page 5

! e THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. (. SATURDAY, MAY 15, 1926. U.5. EMPLOYES HIT CLASSIFYING BOARD Has Fallen Down on Job, Fed-i eration Declares. in State- | ment Today. ! toward “more efficient ad of the classification act Federation of Federal s in a statement fo sonnel Classification ally fallen down on the joh intrusied to it by Conzress. “11 devolves upon the nized ederal emploves.” the federation ald, “as the most effective insirument o improve conditions in the Federal | the interesi alike of ad ministrator. emplove taxpayer.’ The federation holish ment of the Personne! O \m’ and transfer of il dniies a Roavd functions 1o the Civil Com- | mission. Indo the <ame time the Federa! em hady announced its indorse of the continued adminisivaiion * compensation aei by nsation Com- | apposition to | plan which will ing commission nereasinz the tion atlowed em tine anry was Moving ministration the National or ser o nd recommend es Compensation Al At o m of the the K emnloye ploves miksion, registering any reorganization aholish the e Tendinz lezislation amaunt of compens ploves fndorsed * Althor foet more <aid Perzanne! ininred in h the aci has heen in of re vears.” the fed ification act tion Roard and as Rection 17 of the hall he the duty make a study of the sensation provided in this us and view 10 any readjust <aid hoard to he just This important completeiy red by ton Roard han th £ the el Ol ssifie: of Congres the hac A has refused provided Act provid of the ho: rates of o At for grades ment deen and r tion has the Personnel Classific Measures Songht. condnet the syevev services b innal Federation of Fed ves has underiaken to se. | ection of these notorious vy ont The terms of the i hy < the in 7 the followinz measures aholish the Personnel Classi ard and transfer its duties | ta the United States | Second First nles of classification act, Axing £1.500 per annum minimum fof all full insted upward from that figure in ac rardance with the duties and respon <ibilities inh secure and maintain 2 proper auality af service fo the public. the rates of pay and working conditions of Federal em. | ploves must he adjusted in accord ance wus modern employment stand ardewsd practices | ARTS FEDERATION CONVENTION ENDS Robert W. De Forest Re-elected President—British Ambasea- dor Speaks. <ian a The elaced its of Aris innns! eanven Hotel, tast nizht minent guests. Str Esme Howard, British Ambassador th the United Sintes. nrzed the re ced development af the handierafts and eraftsmanshin. while Mre Alfred 1. Brosseau. pre-ideni-zeneral. D. A R.. stressed the imnariance of a culti ation of the love af heauts Maj. U. 8 & 31 director puhlic buildings and publie nar ned the developmen: of Washingtan nnder the L'Enfant plan. and H. W Kent, secretarv. Metranatitan Museum New York ihed the zrowth of American art. Rev. Z B. Phillips rector of Epiphany Church. spoke on the relation of music to the other arts The meeting was nresided over by Prederick P. Kenpel. precident. Car negie Corporation, New York. and a | Airector of the Federation ! A dramatic incident the introduction of the T sador whe: wed Siv Fsme How fieation felt for the satisfar the Britisi passed the developed that American Federat ceventennth followinz the addres:es L nr af out ant Aes ed upon itish Ambas Kenpe! avd of the grati American people | ier in which M had met and had jnst conntry, This with prolonged Amia W ence 1o vhere constitutional | fonstmaster ae m e crivis that ap- | the sitn: 1 land he govern Rahert Metrapolit York, wa Federation min Wi & predident eum Ari. New ted president ot the the following nffgers W. K. B e president. fgila Mechlin Frederic A T Jann, treasurer. Cuthheri Lee. asso | NTBte kcitetas M. Richards. | assistant Helen M Camp | hell. assisian Richard F. Rach, exten- v viee presi dents. Cecelia win H. Blash fleld, Robert 1o cnd<Bliss, Mrs, George Blumenthal. ilowe!l C. Brown, C. T Crocker, Wilam 0. Goodman, Morris Gray. A. \. Hammerschlag. Edgar L Hewett. Archer M. Iuntington. John F. Lewis, Frank G. Logan. A. W. Mel ton. John Barton Paine. Gearge D. Sey mour. John R. Van Derlin. Charles Walcott and Henrr \Vhite: directors 1o serve until 1929, Herbert Adams. George . Booth, Rohert W. DeFor- | est, Otto H hn, Mrs, Gustave Radeke, Everett Meeks and €. €. Zantzinger BYRD CARRIES AID TO TWO TRAPPERS LOST IN THE NORTH | Paze.) | antined from in the ame i houy ronte and caid he wonldn't have | flizht for any other vender comfort 1o A zreat load Byrd Neh oA than Comdr made pirpose those in distress lifted from mind= of the watch in Kir Bav when the plane | ed with the news that the men | and crowded ahout . B thanking him. Besides Pederson were Gustav Lind quist, also of Tromsoe, and Ernest Shell, a German During Byrd's absence. Parker. plloting the Oriole. entertained the settlement with stunts never before xeen here—looping and spinning. After the return Comdr. Byrd ordered fwo more short flights by the Jose- phine to give members of the crew | the coveted chance to ride. { (Copyright. 1926, the New York Times | | was the ere many and St. Louis Post-Dispateh. ) Meteor Weighs 12 Million Tons. | The greal meteor that lies buried | bhetwesn Williams and Flagstaff. in | Arizona, weighs 12,000,000 tons and is cemposed of a nickel-steel alloy which feompass | {over lof 'asking him to de his nrmost 0 tand opens leads of water OIL LEAK IN MOTOR MADE BYRD FLIGHT A (;AMBLE NEARIN(; p("‘E?rrnm the cans and taken his check on 3“ = burned up. Ile handed me the gas Our | Commander’s Own Story Describes Determination to Go Ahead and Risk Getting Back If Plane Was Forced to Drop on Ice. This allment ot ve R i< 1 Comnv. Ryrd s where the 1o, Chaniies ne \ wecond ' vains 1ev {hold the plane which, in landing, | would erash through to destruction. We were flying now at 2,000 feet, and the temperature was & degrees ahove zero. ov 14 degrees helow freezing. No wonder none of the fee was melting | into pools of water, 1 | After about three and a half hours | | | | n L} COMDR. of the Byrd Pol BAY, M was the nay plane BY 1 Leade KINGS compass top of of the K. BYRD. Expedition 15.—Our sun door in the compartment and o get to the to stand on A head and shoulders out into the iwindsiream at the rear edge of the great wing of the plane. The sun was foward the north and | the wing hid the sun from view. | was compelied to use another com pass througn one of (he cabin win iows of the piloi's cockpit. Rat dur g the short time that | had my taca in the windstream. ldoking for the sun ana checking Kenneit on the line from Amsierdem Island ana the Hoei Peninsi'a. my nose and part of my face were frozen. My face had no feeling whaisosver. Luck 1 discovered this in tim= and ruhbed and beai the frozen pirts until feel ing came hack into them R, ¢ Aving it became advisable to pe me gaso the the five ga were well established on (he course. I took the wheel to pilot, giving Ben nett short rest and enable him to fill the gasoline tanks from the loose cans. 1 did not put much falth in xlu-‘ magnitic compass, so 1 held the aun Compass in my left hand and piloted | with my right. After 15 or 20 minutes Bennett was ready to take the wheel vzain e into tanks ating had box and stick my ioes Fast. that Gasoline Ha wrote on his pad we had | hurned starting the o e ed on. so | hensive ahout \orris Jessup after Howaver, we were averaging a gond <pead—abont 9 miles an hour— and thare were 480 gallons of gasoline left well <ome that was used for | ating up the engines hefors starting 11 oked as if we wonld have | snongh zas to make it hack 1o Kings Rav | While 1 had heen piloting 1 tonk the | time 1o axamine the ice pack | closely. Tt had changed little since my | Avst examination of i, 1 lonked hard | for of life, but there was nene nat a polar hear track, net a w1 nor s bivd Poseibly. 1 thought. we werab fan | [ high 1o ehserve life. We had passed the place whore Andres. in his great halloon. was last heard from. At S0 degraes latitnde, 10 degreea from the Pole. he had lai aut ane of his 22 ear rier pigeons. and the hird was picked up with the message reporting his positfon and zood pre was two e appre make Cape | the Pole. more th was o trving to leaving Finds Hana Frozen. st [ e it e of ! had noted. cominz np the oo that we had the wind from the 1 and feared it wis swinginz s on course. Hence. 1 apene n the bottom ) v cet imonnt and d v drift Arifi indicato < zhiin it on the snow. 1 had manipulating the instrn d frozen. v hands and face o phservations. Neither s muselt mere uncomfo had the warmsst he worn--veindeer skin parkas and hoots lined with sheepskin and 1 wore polar bear pants and Benneit reindesr skin pants We had both ind - deerskin sloves g The 1rmmmom plane fine the wind drifi, and | found. as I had sxpected. that | conid tell tn « degree angle that the was 1aking ns off onr conrse We had heen ahle Ao that on the Arst transailantic flight and [ knew we conld do it even hefiar sighting on the i When the angle o Arift is abtained I means b the exact direction in which the plane ie going aver the ground is known The foz 1z the great snemy of the aiv navigator. for it impossihle while fiving over faz. ta 1ell in what direction the plane ving or the extent of the wind drift. The wind drift indieator alse gives quite ac curately the speed the plane make. the ground. which. on acconn the wind. may differ from the speed of the plane throuzh the air Checked Course Often. 1 found myself extremelv husy. On the average I calculated the drift and speed once every three or four min utes, and when T found anv chanze in the drift made the rcorrections for the course on the sun compass and then checked Rennet! on the new course. I wrote a note fo Bennelt. 10 keen on the conrse prescribed. for 1 knew that. shonld the sun stay with us. we could steer on almost an exart line the Pole. Without the sun onr course would he donbiiul when nearing the from all ane divection the does point north knows v in what direction 1t is not <o = paris of the world magnetic compass 1sed by some of the hi and it was far <maller ane would h weather was ronzh 10 steer with L. the «rraight course as ean he done wher the weather is calm. With the sun compass 1 could tell when Rennett was off his course 1 was astonished a1 the accurary his steerinz. Luck was There was not a_hump in the air. no upward and downward eurrents that tilt the plane and throw the compas 1o spinning. The sun was bright and we hid a wonderful view of the formidable ice pack. It was rovered evervwhere with snow erise crossed with prescure rid like a erazy quili. The consiant movement of the polar ice pack canses ric it we very few such leads that had net re cently been frozen over with the fresh snowless ice looking greenish against the white snow around ther » trapdoor the from with ves off i s0on oy by some vort 1 watched m e in takin Rennatt nor ably eold clothes thai ean coalekin hottom of the hod taking the Radio Reporfs Progress. We had fest sent a radie reporting 2004 prozress. What a vast difference | hetween the method of travel and communication we had nsed! Where | had Andree come down | 1 was again hack at incessant | gating with Renneit at the wheel. | could not let np for 4 single minnte I was putting avery ounes of my mind. | energy and inte making | conrse <o that we could | deviate 1 \ mile from within Knowledze strai onr not maginary he goal time " line leadin <irai and zasaline chanees af : Sueh a save inerease amy sighiing <o bright sunlit =naw my rizht eve hegan symptoms of <now blindness had 1 <hift to my left =ve. haping that it. too, would not give aur. After | an hour [ relieved Bennett again at the wheel. and when he returned from | the cahin 1o the pilot's seat 1 saw that constantly heneath to show on the ne that the firsr | and 1} | he was just finishinz a sandwich { Gives Pilot Hot Tea. not thought of food hefore but I was not hungr 1 !found some sandwiches nd two thermos battles of hot 1 had taken these thermos hottles ha. fore leaving to save weight ut the doctor alwavs solicitous of physical well-heing. had sneaked them | hack into the plane. and 1 ceriainly was grateful 1o him at that mmnunlA]' 1 had leaving very foor Pole Tt compass not 1 took of the steam ing tea Rennetf and | conld how Very nueh he en-| joved it | wi old Floyd. e had lnwn 3000 | with me in the Arctic last vear rieking hi= life | Without him | 1 Aoubt if 1 would have got W0 miles instead of | 2.000 zain 1 knew that if <hould be Bennatt 1o | whom the warld should give most of | the credit. Rut this time he would have tn share honors with Tdeut. | Noville, whn had heen superhuman in | the work of preparation. | After another hour of the greatest | concentration T was capable of in con | tinuous checking of drift. speed and ! eourse, 1 tnok the wheel again We | were now looking info regions never | hefore seen by man. unless it was| ill-fated Andree. I kept a sharp look out for possible land. but there was nothing te disturb the monotonon our of the horizon nk of it! Traveling at o u mile and a halfl a nnexplored inns We _would_be_over ind o one saetly " dy point i< i other con 1 had an the plane as larze as that senzaing ships Tiahte and hore he was azai without fneni ha 10 the h not 4 perfertly mare 1 1ve heen tast vear ten much ouey and 1ecopded it the rate | minute over | the Hotel Inn 604-610 9th St. N.W, unexplored | Appearance Is Deceiving. Some of these frozen leads, probably older than the others. had & laver snow over them, and looked as flat as a 1able. but | knew them for danger sl g o0 Bus sivens, They gave the appearance | (400 :v"""; “\"":'[:"5‘_1‘.‘":3 il of affording an excellent landing, bui [y With foilet. shower and lavators. $10 Thet were very probably too thin te |3 in reom. 307 mare. Roams lke Mot s Sterling Worth and Service Selfishness, unfeeling treatment—a desire “to pass the buck.” How many Institutions have builded their frame-work well, only to have it topple, through a lack of hl{man qualities. An honesty of purpose and efficiency of procedure, that cheerfully and inexpen- sively smooths the way, to the customer’s complete satisfaction, would have served them well. But, this discovery usually comes too late. Business requires personality, no less than social contact. To that end we count ourselves fortunate, that our personnel is made up of men with wide experience and accomplish- ments in their particular field. - There is no “guess” from one end of our establishment to the other. Consequently, our pleasure in doing busi ness is equally shared by our customers. We would ask no more. 1526 14th St. N. W. Potomac 5600 rontains 2,000,000 ounces of platinum worth $1.000,000,000, according ta the Dearbern Independent. o S T e s oy ) STERLING WORTH AND SERVICE T S e O N S ) Y e S O S e SR ( A { our line of fight w | Peary’s line of ma h Bennett had filled the gas tanks | the gasoline. | report i gasoline consumption had gone down to ahout had enough left to fiy way of Cape Morris Jessup. | as he took t 30 gallons a he n b to Ki delighted hevond measure ROINE 1o get an even hetter gas | sumption than | had caleulated on for {the engine revoln ing for the quicker wheel b4 28 Bay by | we had hoped to get was | and we We were con ons we were mak We wanted 1o make good speed, Shows 0il We went on for another ing at v to 3 what in the rvight arying ity feet. when thought w nd mo wheel and asked | hix opinion of Tealk very ould we do? 1" had row moments, moto goal, we off Pole wanld ing voas g were about an hour and were the 1 the n e I e jotted dow and that he ould not la I owa ides wn was at | we conld gel thre {the hetier our chance to have the sun | (Al the way on the retnrn trip. Motor hor from 1 suddenly ad oil I &h Leak. fly- 2000 k took the o give me | the seriousness of the that it was afraid the long < one of the What hig We decided to keep on for le and decide what to do afier it We wo as it 1 every taking nap. It 1ronble he fron y on i Ny would run from (he coveted minute of the unexplored was tough would make no difference We moto we st more the nther two mof | wonld he the the th ay th 1 the way ha Pole hen thiottled and found that aloft hut an &0 miles no tronhle now firet and 1 the return later s glances on | motar and 1. and 1 1ail n Fase navigated 1 he oil surfaces faseinated Conld an twa matore” ted hy tand hecause 90 miles more not onh conld make h abont he w When running A on one of with that We time, regions to have near the bt we starhoard | conld a little with There reaching then zei Rut reahont Motor, frequent from the wonld motor saw | were with and we the ground an | knots over cren At the end of the hour lc |at the Pole. We reached | Greenwich time, just about there. it at Bennett and [ shook {and I went back to the cabin, sto |attention and saluted for | Peary. The Navy had r I pole ‘again, the blessed |did not drop an Ameri | Peary had done that. The snow were similar o that Peary had described, bhut not the same as in the There jt i= in constant motion slightl when | et descrihed ossed in the same way. We flew seve s further, ed Polar tion pictures. As wa flew there top of the world we had not leaky oil tank would prevent veturning by way of Cape Jessup. But ona thouzht compensated me for through, for the danger that avound us and that lay ahead Iv. that if we could fiy the world business need no | hesitate to take up aviation then. aur effort we (ro Re Continued.) 1976, he the New York s Post-Mapateh | that It M (Capyright And St RETIREMENT BILLS STIR WARM DEBATE ACTION DUE MONDAY wontinned from First Page) (o hegin 12 yea whether Is hegin 1 wonld have ite share in however, th nt pavme: the Government the Lard suhsti They the der i old Navy. flag and which the fee wax appropriat T : area all the way to the pole. Then |was still turning up full revolutions average $17.000.000 a 1ld meet Admiral [and power, making | the committee bill, in- «ingly lighter load as the gasoline |he wanted to correct the 1 took my | would not eost the Government any lations, and found that we were hing. 901 the hour hands simply Admiral the It owas sugher here than it had heer eriss cir cled and then took some stili and mo 1 the clreumnavigating in a few minutes of flicht, I regreiied found land and that | Morris more 1 all we had g 1d heip the gama. an e wan name to the top of lor ar and under | plied. e are talking ahout this 000,000 a_year. | fund. There will be a deficit in t told the Senate|fund, and when the emplove pavs impression | many dollars into thiz fund it wi |in some minds that the retirement act | more than pay for any annuity if the employes separating themsclv from the Government for the n vears will get. But during that Senator Stanfield He explained that all monay contributed by the employes draws 1) per cent inferest, compounded an-|years there s a liahility fur over | nnally, and that if the employe ve-|lar that s put into the e signs, i separated from the service or | When that lability comes, of dies hefore he receives his annuity his | from year tn vear afier the 12 contribution must bhe returned with [ the amount will he inereased. bt s Stanfleld then hrouzh “| i herefore waid the Senator. “it | SGUALOF m'.';?"]"d" ,,;:.',, 1 :,’-,,r,‘,.,, must he obvions that the Government [ {1t ZAEE T (08 S Cm 0L ot 815 nltimateiy must meet its proportion 0 f more per annum for ate part of this cost, which under the " ol kel : pending bil} would agonnt to 3.23 per | ment empioye than th pla rent of tha pay roll. The employes'| Senator Dale. Republican of Ver contribution i« 4 per cant of the pay [ mont. a memher of the suhcommitiee which considered the roll After Senator Stanfield had ex- | problem. declared the Government i the | saving money on the retivement lnw plained the differences hetween | | $1,200 committes bill and the $1.000 | hacause of the increased eficiency resulting from tha retirinz A ubstitute Simmons. Demo | crat of Nort slina, asked: | workers. He said Has the Senate surrendered to the | “It {mpressex me that the nds of the administration?” {ators who are discussing this No” answered Senator Stanfleld. | are antirely, leaving out ane element am trving to make it very plain |of {1 Thev' seem (o he speaking of ahat 1 shall propose this substitute | yetirement of Government emplove as a matter of generosity on the and lel the Senate decide what ft | vill do about it.” Senator Stanfield | pav( of the Government foward the later added that he wounld not per | amployes, comparing the gzovern sonally support the substitute ments ane with another, and statinz that certain governments ave heing A OVEE B move generous with thelr employes Senator Simmons wanted to know | than are some other governmen if Senator Smoot thought this admin- | This is nol a matter of generosity istration should be concerned over the at all. The hasic principle the effect of retirement legislation on the | whole thing is a purely nomie Treasnry if the Government iswot re- | principle. Tha 1niteq States ( auired to meet it share for at least | arnment todav with its retiren 12 vears, law is not giving s employes ant 1 do thing. hut it is making money on just the | the mystem. 1t is net costing institution wonld take ecare of anv ! Government todav half muech 1o Kind of a proposition that wonld In- | pay the retirement pa i volve a future payment.’ o keep these old nuated em In arder tn determine whether this ployes in the serv result in a deficit in the Treas rompensation they vears from now we would It is purelv an what are zoing tn he Foreign governments that expenditiures of the Government & matter af ecanamics Thev da not 2t time, and we would have ta|ask the emploves ta contiihute any 1 what are zoing tn he the re | thing colpts of the G ament during that Senator o mmeons ohserved the most afficient ing abont receipia Giovernment have Senater ve- ages of 5 and 70 each CGovery 21,000 vetivement den hiit Cone answered Senator Smont same as the manager of any the the rate af ini nry ha feel it to know = ratd that at emploves ir hean o Smont some het weer r Pa expenditives moot Senat o Monday's Important Event The May Sale of SILKS Offers the same unusual values you have learned to expect here A timely offering of new Summer Silks—of the usual Woodward & lLothrop qualitv—but much lower priced for our May Sales. Washable Crepe de Chine, lovely colors, $2 yd. Flat Crepe, unusually fine quality, $2.45 yd. Silk Broadcloth, twenty-seven shades, $1.65 yd. Striped Tub Crepes, variety of colors, $2.50 yd. Baby Broadcloth, twenty-two shades, $1 yd. Natural Japanese Pongee, good weight, 65¢ yd. Printed Crepe de Chine, newest designs, $1.65 yd. Flat Crepe, wide choice of colors, $1.95 yd. Colored Pongee, twenty-five shades, $1 yd. Black Faille Crepe, cxcellent quality, $3 yd. Black Satin Crepe, splendid quality, $3 yd. 311k Section, Second floor. Wondward & Lnthrop 10th, 11th, F and G Streets | replied that he did not doubt the atement. but contended the Govern nt haz heen miore eficiently admir ered under the retivement law than 1e hefore ator Smoot declared he helieve retiveinent legislation. He id he helieved a comparison of ti pavments made by en of the Tnited States and other ther with the hours o Government. service, woi that emploves of the Unite Government would he taken care of as well. if not better. under the substitute plan than the worker of anv other zovernment in the world Senator McKellar. Democrat, of Tennessee and Senator Copeland Democrat, of New York, both indicated by their remarks that they favor the £1,700 plan. Semator McKellar said h felt confident that if the Senate ane passes the committee bill the Prezident would sign it Senator Smont concluded his zpeect declaring that he favored retire Jation, but felt that the sub ttite hill goes as far “ongre. " afford 10 go at this time If husiness continues as it j=." he <aid, “and if our appropriations do nat by leaps and hounds. there is tion hut that these annuir 4 at some future tim 2 whenever tiat time comes T = ‘o the Senate that | would he one 1ld support legislation lookinz end retirement rement lahor e T meagures will come the unfinished husiness in * o'clock Monday the % PAID ON SAVINGS DEPOSITS MORRIS PLAN BANK Under Supervision U. 8. Treasnry ‘