Evening Star Newspaper, January 30, 1928, Page 2

HOOVER AND SMITH LEAD IN CONGRESS Poll Shows Neither Has Ma- jority Support—Strong Coolidge Sentiment. Secretary Herbert Hoover of the De- h of New York lead for the Re- Democratic nominations s of Congress octively, in can and Neither Hoover has anything like ma- so far, according to the are. there is still 8 per- for the renomination oolidge on the part of members of Congress. In icle Mr. Joslin says R rhert Hoover, the Secre- | . nor Gov. Alfred E. w York, widely recognized | pirants for the vresi- nominations of | on the basis of Seventieth Con- token, President rnant political hoose™ statement supplementary Republican na- ne contrary note are proved by the House and y Hoover and ore support than dates, avowed or nand anv- ies. The on with are un- coming campaign mise of being the and perhaps exciting ter of a century. Republican Ballots Divided. T ns divided their bal- ess than 16 prospective whereas the Democrats t votes among 19. Of equal signifi- almost one-third of the member- Wwas non-communicative, a large f the members affiliated with ty party making it clear that ¥ still are hopeful that Mr. Coolidge can be induced to be their candidate again. and as many members of the punority party. particulerly from tne South, demonstraing that they are unalterably opposed to Gov. Smith as ‘The sentiment in Congress was de- questionnaire which was | and Representative and second choice for the presidential nomination of his party and asking each one to indicate whether he did or did not object to the publication of his | name. A total of 462 replies were ob- tamed. Al but 96 asked that their names be withheld from publication. “If the tabulation given at the begin- ping of this article proves anything at all, it proves that any one of a8 num- ber of candidates can win either the Republican or the Democratic presi- dential nomination. Congress is repre- sentative of the country in political matters. Various of its outstanding members will be delegates to the two conventions, having much to say about the choice of candidates because of their influence nationally, and, 10 & greater extent, because of their influ- ence in their respective States. But even they cannot agree as to candi- dates, at least cannot at this time. ‘While Mr. Hoover received three times &5 many voles 2s any other t, bis total was smaller than the total for all the other candidates. Similarly Gov. Smith recefi»d twice as many votes as | Federation Votes for Demonstra-!day. his nearest (pponent, but his total was only half of the total for the others. Wbm‘ge non-commitigl totals are added usncertainty Is increased. Many Faver Coolidge. “It is impossible to place too much ‘This port is the members who insisted that they be piaced in the non-committal column, many of whom stated in confidence tnat they still were to be convinced that he wpuld not accept the nomination if it = g/uld be given to him by the Kansas Cy/ gathering, and for that reason rred for the time being at least, to position. Bu: they do say that develop- ments may be such as to compel the convention % nominate him and % in- duce him % reconsider his L “Second in importance only to the inustence on the part of certain of the Republican Senators and ta- tives that the services of the President be conscripted is the opposition among many of the Southern Democrats to the nomination of Gov. Smith. This poll shows that the governor, popular and able thuogh he is, has made hardly a dent in the solid South during the + four years. His support, which gave him g larger total than other aspirants, came, practically in i's en- y, from members in the North and with scattering votes from the Bouth is suffering from no de- that it can nominate 8 Bouthern s 3t would ke %0 do 0. ne has not yet ar- T can ride into e House. However, it bell ictate the selection of the no d it is evident that this is what do this year, notwith y v nith inated, then the chances of tc party will be hopeless ne Bouth has not been con tle more accu- utherners wno r lake & bealing now than President for four years W Hoover Lacks Majority. y for oom grem ation s B of Pres e Wt Yay of % sy in the Hous and Ber e tespect of @ committal yular with sections of e for bim srength wmong e yress, just us b i ub- wuvary 1or bim W Uanslate | pport LW voues I U whaen wll & s6ld and Gone. w presidentisl nominee i chosen by deiegat - ‘ the 4 i by lne e & Staes of the Undou One of ting facts broaght oul by |his support came not only from the Mr £ BEY The members, went Esstern Blates nelined for some Ume Jiave been support nim crived eommupicelions from their sg ricultur vere oon e nterest 11t s/ €ine their of U farmers ey perly's e West msy succeed the elimination of 1 ommerce, W Cant on the basis o 1 bringing st Becretary of expect 10 be suceess{ul tie poll in nominating . nor | eir stand- | cr elected W & conventon | ing in the interest of Lowden, he re- ryduy vowrs i | ceived 15 fist choice ballots and 29 2 Howsver lacks Uie | Middle of certin mevers of Congress |und Par West nave been his 88 recenty | who designated Lowden es thelr first| uniortunetely cannot be | s did some other members who marked They Jecently they have re- Lonstituents saylng st tey | inced e hes worked sgainst | parently ts going slong with bim for & wnd for | hellot or two s u favorite son before it preferied sane l:l.k! THE EVENING €., MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 1928.° Presidential Poll REPUBLICANS, (1st Choice’ (2d Cholce ) Ve . 74 Dawes .. Hoover . .22 6 2 1 1 Borah .... i Hughes Longworth Total........72 .25 2 Total...... KANSANS T BACK DRIVE FOR CURTIS Candidacy for President to Be Indorsed at State’s Celebrations. | | The candidacy of Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas for the Republican presidential nomination will be approved at celebrations of Kansas day through- out the country tonight. Dinners are to be given here, in Ni York, Chicago and other cities in celebration of the 67th anniversary of the admission of Kansas to the Union. Supporters of | Senator Curtis for President are taking | the occasion to boom thelr candidate. The dinner here will beRSh-en by the Kansas State Club at the Rhleigh Hotel at 7 pm. Senators Curtis and Capper will be among the guests, as will the | Kansas delegation in the House. Senator Capper’s Statement. In support of the candidacy of his | colleague, Senator Capper issued the | following statement: | “Kansas believes Senator Charles | Curtis should be the Republican nom- |inee for President first and foremost | because Kansas believes in Charlie Curtis, the man. | “Out in Kansas, and generally the Middle West, there is a strong and growing feeling that the time has come | when that section of the country should have a more direct part in directing | the affairs of our National Government. | With that feeling prevalent, a Midwest- |ern man of mmg and pfm‘jl‘:meFr:o:‘. possessing the confidence o e as well as of his own section, would be a wise choice for the Republican party to nominate for President, Kansas believes. And it believes also that Se: | ator Curtis would fill that kind of a demand in a most admirable way. Availability Unquestioned. “Not too conservative for the lib- erals, not so radical as to lose the trust of the conservatives, acquainted | with Western conditions through a life- time of intimate association; acquaint- ed with the East—in fact, with the Nation as a whole, through 40 years of active public life, most of it in the National Capital—Kansas believes Sen- ator Curtis not only would be a strong snd capable and worthwhile President, but that he also would be & strong e candidate 1s not to | “And a strong be despised in the 1928 campaign. BIG LABOR DAY PARADE - PLANNED IN CHICAGO tion, Despite Objections by Sev- eral Subordinhith YUniofisy, * By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, January 30.—Such mat- ters as shoe leather and exercise have entered into the question of a big Labor day parade here next September. The Chicago Federation of Labor yes- terday voter, 99 to 23, to have the “All Chicago leaves town on that day, so what's the use of parading unless there's some one to see you,” observed one of the objectors, and, too, the Street-Sweepers Union objects. “Pa- rades clutter up the streets too much anyway,” believed a gentleman from that union. The meter readers think parades make the feet hurt, but the Boot and Shoe Makers' Union is for a long march. “Jt wears out shoe leather, thus creat- ing a bigger demand,” argued a mem- | ber. The hat and cap makers, however, want to make the affair something like a presidential ring where there is lots of shouting and tossing of hats in the | air. | Members of the Lathers’ Union work inside all day, 50 a parade from Evans- | ton or Wilmette, North Shore suburbs, | to the downtown district would be just the thing, they sald. i 'BECK IS A CANDIDATE T0 SUCCEED HIMSELF | Pennsylvanian Announces Plan to Run From First Phila- delphia District. | By the Associsted Press | PHILADELPHIA, January 30.—James | M. Beck announced yesterday that he is & candidate 0 succeed himself in the National House from the frst Philadelphia district Mr. Beck, whose residence qualifica- tions for the seat he occuples are under | fire at Washington, will have the sup- port of Republican organization lead- ers in the South Philadelphia wards He expressed confidence that he would successfully resist the effort 1o unseat | | him. | At a special election Jast November. Mr. Beck was elected Congressman, suc- ceeding James M. Hazlett, who resigned Haziett succeeded Benator-elect Willlam B. Vare in the lower house ! former Gov, Prank O. Lowden of 1i- nois, The combined Wtal for Lowden as only 21. These voles came exclu- ely from Middle Western Blates Not one ballot was marked for him by & | member of Congress from the East, the Bouth or the Far West “In eontrast was the support given | Vice President Charles G. Dawes, who has deliberately kept out of the pre- conventon contest because of his e~ Jong friendship for Lowden, While the Vice President has stated repeatedly | that he was not & candidate and by his | every sct has proved Lhat he was work- l | second choice. It 15 nowworthy that | est, WUt from the East, Bouth Mot of the members | | cholcs made him thelr second cholee. | their bullote for Becretary Huover, President Coolidge and Benstor Frank B Willis, who, 1t may be sald n sn wside, got the most of his 14 votes trom hie howe Blate of Ohlo, which ap- | | | o 29 S of Both Houses DEMOCRATS, (1st Cholce) (2d Chx imith Reed .. Reed . Hull ... olce ) © Donahey . ‘Woollen Robinson .. Pomerene . Garner ... Harrison . Walsh . Young ..... Hitcheock . Meredith . Non-commit. No cholce. Absent . Total. ,.‘..,2—02 BANGIT KIDNAPERS MAKE §35,000 HAUL Four Thieves Seize Teller and Force Him to Open Bank. Meredith Pomerene . Baker Heflin Davis Total....evue TSI eI PPRSPY 13 Bl e nene By the Atsociated Press. CHICAGO, January 30.—The “kid- naping” system of bank robbery, used for the third time within a month in Chicago, today netted its practitioners $35,000. "James Dillon, a teller of the Industrial State Bank of Chicago, told | police that he was held a prisoner in the bank all night while his four cap- tors walted for the time lock in the bank vault to open at 7 am. The quar- tet escaped after looting the vault, leaving the cashier bound and gagged in the bank. Dillon, 26 years old, said he was kid- naped while returning from church at noon yesterday by two men who forced him into an automobile, threatening to shoot him if he made an outcry. He said he was taken to a small garage and kept for six hours, then was forced to call his landlady and inform her that he would be out for the evening playing cards, after which he was taken to an apartment and finally to the k, which he was forced to open at 0 o'clock last night. He was taken inside and a negro porter was seized, the robbers standing watch over the couple until the time- lock was released. The robbers bound their victims before leaving, but Dillon crawled to a telephon:> and knocked the receiver from the hook which re- sulted in the police being notified. It was the third such robbery here in the past month. Eight robbers by a similar ruse obtained more than $80,- 000 from the Ravenswood National Bank. Last week men believed to be the same robbers obtained several thousand dollars after kidnaping the president of a small West Side bank. MORE SNOW IS DUE IN CAPITAL, SAYS WEATHER PROPHET| | (Continued from First Page.) appearance in Police Court tomorrow morning. “The boys and girls of Washington have only cne or two chances a year to en,oy sleigh riding, and I think they | should be permitted to do so when it is| possible.” Senator Curtis declared to- | ™ The Senator made known his views to police officials yesterday in no uncertain tones, when he learned of mmmnq sifdding on Stindiy. . assumed full responsibise’y for the order, explaining that he did not have enough men to afford proper pro- tection yesterday. When he learned of the rising tide of protests, however, he sent out several policemen to permit limited coasting on several of the streets. There is no traffic regulation against Sunday coasting, he said, the manual providing for properly regulated coasting on streets designated by the police and roped off for that purpose Maj. Hesse said the boys on Massa- chusetts avenue were warned to desist after they had nearly coasted into an automobiie, and that the arrest was made when they refused to heed the policeman. Many minor casualties resulted from the slippery condition of the streets and sidewalks. Nathan Neymar of 1529 Q street was injured slightly early this morn- ing when the automobile he was driv- ing was in collision at Eighteenth and L streets with an automobile operated by Wilson Smith of 1707 P street. Ney- :‘lgl was treated at Emergency Hos- Frederick Haimer. 54 years old, of Capitol Heights, Md., fractured his wrist yesterday when he slipped and fell on the pavement while leaving the Corcoran Gallery of Art. He walked to Emergency Hospital nearby and | received surgical attention. | Other Victims. Ely Caulk, colored, 58 years old, of 558 L street southwest, had an icy bath in the Potomac River last night when | he slipped from the gangplank of the | Norfolk & Washington steamer South- | land and broke through the thin coat- | ing of ice on the water below. He was| rescued through the combined efforts | of Robert Gray of 1203 Sixth street and Sergt. Russell and Privates LaDow and Adams of the harbor precinct First aid was rendered by the Fire De- | partment rescue squad, after which he | was treated at Emergency Hospital for | @ cut over his eye and shock | Miss Laura Bryant of the Hopkins apartments, Baltimore, Md,, received an | injury 1o the spine yesterday afternoon | when the bus on which she was a pussenger struck a_ridge of snow on | the road near Fort Myer, Va. She was taken to Emergency Hospital On the Capitol grounds police were | busy driving away the scores of chil- | dren who sought to coast down the two winding thoroughfares which run down to First street. A photographer, who attempted to make a picture of the comsters, fleeing before the officers, was alro ordered away There 15 no law against cousting on the grounds, David Lynn, architect of the Capitol, sald toduy, but it 15 stopped because of danger. A year or more ago 4 boy comsting down Capitol Hill ran under a truck und wis killed, Mr. Lynn recalled ‘The control of trafic on Lhe Capitul grounds s under the police hourd, consisting of Lhe sergeant-al- arms of the Benate, the sergeant-ut- arms of the House and the architect of the Capttol. This board could per- mit coasting on the Capitol grounds. | but trame would have to be shut off und the consters protected at the fool of Capitol Hill, Mr. Lynn sald Dritting Snow Is Problem, Drifting suow put & double burden on the Yond forces of the OMce of Pub- lic Butlaings and Public Parks yester- duy with the result that they are sull | today trying W do mgaln u tusk which | hey thought ¢ ted Baturday —that of opening the roadways and walks I the public parks The forces under Prank T. Oartside, | chief of the park maintenance division, | Loday ure concentruting on the roads in | | mukes its real cholce known “It would sppesr from the poll thut the Vice President will be n man well worth providing the Kansas City ox s unable W meke cholce on the rarly balloling und there 1 the parks which are part of thorough- | fares ‘The roadways I Rock Creek | Park wll have been opened for vehiculas traffic for & second tme, while today he or-driven plows are concentrat g i the Ellipse, the Monumen Grounds and West Potomec Park when s fust chwice, ls no slanpede W President Coglidge” (e Waflic s heaviest, » MRS. RODSEVELT HITS DRY LEAGUE Notes Division Between As- sociations of Democratic Women. By the Asenclated Pross. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, in charge of women's activities of the New York Democratic State committee, is out of sympathy with two Washington organi- zations—the National Women's Demo- cratic Law Enforcement League and the Federation of Democratic Women. A division with the Law Enforcement League was noted in letters exchanged between Mrs. Roosevelt and Mrs. Jesse W. Nicholson. the league’s president, in which the New York woman declined an_invitation to attend the organi- zation's recent convention here. Another letter, made public in New York, ex- pressed Mrs. Roosevelt's objection to the federation's stand against legisla- tion supported by the Children’s Bu- reau and questioned its right to a title that implied that it “represents the overwhelming sentiment of the women of the Democratic party.” Change of Title Asked. The letter to Mrs. Nicholson sug- gosted that the league should change, its title to “National Woman's Dry En- forcement League,” unless it is making as great an effort in behalf of the four: teenth and fifteenth, or voting, amend- ments as it is in support of the prohi- bition amendment. Mrs. Roosevelt said she was per- sonally “absolutely d but that she disagreed with those “who think this question the question of vital impor- tance today.” There seems, she added, a “great deal of muddled thinking,” especially among certain women, as to how to obtain temperance. In her reply. Mrs. Nicholson ex- ressed regret that Mrs. Roosevelt was following the “reactionary Republicans in dragging in the fourteenth and fif- teenth amendments.” “We favor, broad- 1y, law enforcement,” she said of her organization, “with special emphasis on the eighteenth amendment, because its violation is just now peculiarly flag- rant. Gov. Smith is opposed to the eighteenth amendment and no denunci- ation by his adherents of alleged vio- lations of the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments will make respectable his contempt for the eighteenth.” Attitude Assailed. The letter to Mrs. Mortimer W. West, president of the Federation of Demo- cratic Women, said the organization's title suggested national membership and added that “to Democratic women of this State and in the Nation, your at- titude toward the Children’s Bureau legislation is abhorrent.” “It seems to me a wicked thing.” she declared, “for any women, daring to call themselves a federation, to be so ignorant of the good which has been ef- fected by that bureau. I believe there are many Democratic women who will not wish to have it believed that th back the sentiments voiced by your or- ganization.” Virginia Show Pony Dead. Special Dispatch to The Star. CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, January 30—-Dilly Dally, a pure-bred Welsh v. noted for its victories at horse shows in Virginia, was put to death sev- ral days ago following a fall in a field, fn which its leg was broken. The ani- mal belonged to Anthony and George Rives of Cobham. BAND CONCERT. TOMORROW. By the United States Soldiers’ Home Band Orchestra, at Stanley Hall, at 5:40 | pm.; John 8. M. Zimmermann, band- Overture, Morceau, “Adagio Cantal 3 Richard Strauss the opera “La L ‘Grand selection from Puccini Tosca” Fox trot, Waltz song. Sot “The Star Spangled Banner.” Apparatus set up atop Trea whally tre ateahol van clal treat, denaturunt, 0 b ot 1n not used by the Gov SUBMARINE S-3 LOST FROM FLEET OFF CAPE HATTERAS RESCUE LEAGUE AIDS ANIMAL SUFFERERS AS STORM HITS CITY Horse and Dogs Are Given Shelter and Food by D. C. Workers. Organization Continues to Carry On, But Lacks Proper Facilities. Besieged with appeals in behalf of suffering animals caught in the snow- storm, the Animal Rescue League sent its agents into many parts of the city yesterday and Saturday to the aid of shivering dogs, cats and horses. Although hampered - by depleted funds and a broken-down ambulance, the league performed valiant service in behalf of man's dumb friends, many of whom were forgotten by their mas- ters or had becoms lost in the snow. An outstanding case was that of a horse that was left without cover for several hours in froat of a house on K street northeast. People living nearby had heard a radio message broadcast that the league would give shelter and food to homeless animals, and a wom- an telephoned to the league about the horse. An official of the league en- listed the help of Agent Lucas of the Humane Soclety and they went to the K street address. The raan had driven off, but they caught up with him and when told that he was under arrest, he jumped from his wagon and escaped. A phone message came to the league during the storm that a collie dog was lying exhausted on G street near Eleventh. Workers for the league went to the spot and brought in the dog—a light yellow collie of great beauty. With the aid of warmth and food it was revived. An abandoned puppy was reported on Good Hope road southeast and the league brought it to its quarters. A bulldog lost in the storm late Friday night or Saturday morning at Chevy Chase was rescued by the league Saturday. Its owner went to the Jeague, identified his dog and made a liberal contribution to the league. ‘The league responds to emergency cases day and night, though the diffi« culty is now great, its ambulance being disabled and the league is without funds to buy another. Old horses, lame and unfit for work, are purchased when possible. Aside from the human motive the sanitary results are to keep from the streets and alleys diseased stray ani- mals that might endanger the safety of children. As the work of the e |league has become better known to| vy Bullding v designed to determine whether b solidly for sSmith. the oansd” to mike (L palatable, I can, that ment in its campalgn for “perfect ) ithe public, the demands upon it haw greatly increased, but without a corre- | sponding increase in financial assist-| ance. DRY FORCE COPIES BOOTLEG METHODS Prohibition Unit Sets Up Still| to Test Denaturant Formulae. Uncle Sam has turned distiller. In {the campaign to outwit bootleggers and | at the ' same time develop a non- poisonous denaturant for alcohol, the Prohibition Bureau has set up a modern copper still of miniature “com mercial” proportions in the laboratory !atop the Treasury Building. to give severe practical tests to all tentative | formulae. The business of this new still is to do the same thing the bootlegger does —“clean” denatured alcohol. If a| formula disappears after going through | the still, it will not be used. Several | formulas are already in effect through- out the country, for such uses as auto- mobile radiators and body rubs. | _What the Government wants to do, | Prohibition Commissioner Doran ex- | | plain®d today, is to take every drop | of poison out of the denaturants, but | retain a disagreeable taste. The best formula which the Government has put out still contains four parts of | wood alcohol, which is poisonous, and | the elimination of which is sought. The ingredient which prevents the liquor from being drinkable is “aldehol.” which tastes like burnt crank case drippings, and 1t 15 desired to retain | | s. | Six or eight formulae are now under | experiment” at the laboratory, Mr. ‘ Doran says. 'EQUALIZATION FEE IS URGED AS SOUND. House Committee Told Fsmens Want McNary-Haugen Bill or None. [ 87 the Aseociate Press. The views of those who want the Me- | | Nary-Haugen bill with the equaliza- | tion fee, or no bill at all during the present Congress were given to the! | House agriculture committee today. | A W. Ricker, editor of the Farmers' | Union Bulletin, at St. Paul, Minn., pre. |sented such an attitude in a letter to Chairman Haugen, which was read at ening of hearings on behalf of ary-Haugen bill, and w similar | | stand was taken by J. N. Kehoe, Mays- | ville, Ky.. vice president of the Burley Tobacco Growers’ Co-operative Associa ton “We are convinced that an act similar | to the McNary-Haugen bill i what the | tobacco growers need.” said Kehoe, | ‘and that means an equalization fee. | We want it. and believe it is the best | solution of the farm problem.” | In bis letter Ricker said that farmers | in Lis section “are so well informed on | the principles of this bill that they will | regard any other measure presented in | | 1ts stead as & mere gesture ™ He asked that his views be included In the record of the hearings. and | served notice that thousands of North- | west farmers “have made up their/ | minds to use their ballots as & means | of punishment should the Republican ) and Democratic parties fatl to meet | requirements of the situation ™ 'REED CAMPAIGN OPENS | IN NEW ENGLAND STATES| [Senator's Claim on Democrats fo! Presidential Nomination Wil | Bo Stressed by His Friends. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, January 30 -The New York Times sald today that plans to | seek delegates i New England States | and m Pennsylvania and New Jorsey were under discussion by friends of | | Untted States Senator James A Reed | | of Missour!, candidate for the Demo- | Jeratie presidential nomination ! A survey by Samuel W. Fordyee of 8t. | Louls, chatrman of the Missouri Demo- | cratie committee, and Lee Merriwether, | vice chatrman, in the thterest of Reed's | candiducy, the Tunes states, Was satd | 1o have shown thete was same chance | of getting & few Reod delegates n those | Ntates, partioularly i New England | Convineed that New York State would Tnes savs Senator Reed's friends have decided | | qefinitely not to make any atlompla for delegates here, | | OPPOSES INGREASE. IN POLICE WAGES | Citizens’ Council Is Against| Raise for Bluecoats and Firemen. crease in the salaries of members of the | | Police and Pire Departménts, and rec- | ommended that they be placed under | the Personnel Classification Board, as | are other municipal government em-{ ployes. Action was taken following a | protracted discussion on the Bfanwn‘ bill, providing a blanket increase of $300 | a year for all firemen and policemen. ! A report on the bill, submitted by: | Edwin S. Hege, showed that present | "TMULLIN REPORTS ATTACKEDINCRURT | Government Checks Up on 0il Case Statements and Ex-Detective’s Record. The Government today paved the way for the conclusion of its evidence ! in the Sinclair-Burns contempt pro- ceedings tomorrow by putting on the stand a number of witnesses who testi- fleld to the falsity of reports made by Willlam J. McMullin, ex-conviet and former Burns detective, who charged a to bring about a Teapot McMullin was given ano griliing by defense eounsel ing before he entered his four counsel, over the co ored to reveal more of M: ¢ re [ y of * his testimony. They sprung on the ex- detective a fourth marriage, which the witness emphatically denis Siddons refused to perm: prodding into McMuilin's penitentiary record or activities after his discharge rom prison on parole. Defi jury surv hether scheme Gov thi made in the reports. Chert on Statements. Friday’s Judge Daniel for Henry M: Gordon with SC District atto: had used to have McMullin fingerpri . The defense attorney appealed to the court to c: the district attorney for *i Eu! Justice Siddons overruled his mo- ion Thew Wright. attorn ason Da. J on salaries of firemen and policemen are | a commensurate with those paid similar employes in certain other large cities, | and that a higher wage schedule at| this time is unjustified. Mr. Hege's re- port also showed that increases provid- | District $649.350 a year. which would result in an increase in the tax rate of slightly more than 5 cents on each' $100 of assessed valuation. | Opposed to Increase. Mr. Hege's report did not contain any recommendations, but he said his own view was that the salaries should not | be increased. By placing firemen and policemen under the board. he pointed | out, administrative heads of the two departments might benefit through a slight increase in pay. Col. Henry C. Newcomer agreed with Mr. Hege that there is apparently no justification for a general increase. Department of office of Judge Wright. attorney tri nograph was waiting the office, pose of the visit. but this defense B George T. Beason, however. said he fa- | 1 vored an increase of some kind, and | !}r:l:u dulam:e of fll’!m:é‘l and policemen should not be compared with the in other cities. T The b fective July 1, 1924 Mr. Hege's report explained. and since August, 1918. sal- aries of first-class privates have doubled. | the salaries of second-class privates | | have been raised from $1.080 to $1.900 | and the salaries of third-class privates | have risen from $1,200 to $2.100. 605 in $2.100 Grade. Of the 694 privates now in the Pire ' Department, the report declared. 605 are in the $2.100 grade; 70 are in the 1$1.900 grade and 19 are in the $1.800 graduate. In the Police Department. it said. there are 1,188 privates, 849 of | whom are in the $2.100 grade: 284 in | present salary basis became ef- | : to newspaper Judge Wrigh inquiries. co bad declared instructed M Ji fense couls go further into this maiter. McMullin's marrisge record again was the subject of attack. He denied ever k-.“tr*lng known s Spanish woman ed “Did were s W having the $1.900 grade, and 55 in the $1,800 |, grade. “The council takes pride in _the achievements of the officers and mem- | bers of the fire and police departments,” the report added. “It real bringing the District budge: for al year ending June 30, . e that would not rest too heavil taXpayers. a number of projec to_be either abandoned or Mr. Hege and Dr. George ardson were directed by this SUSPECT IS HELD IN $5,000 THEFTS :: fessed Gem Jobs—Impli- cates Others. id by the palice to have adm s 21 homes here of jewelry and property valued at approximately 000t the last six months, and hav- | 10t 1 cent to show for i, Theodore | chfield, 17, colored, 35 Myrtle street | is under arrest with four | also colored. alleged to hawe or otherwise handled some of | veral days | ing squad. | sed yes- | E Brodwe | AR by members of He is reported to terday to Detective Hubert and Chauffeur Hugh Robery | Colored Man Said to Have Con- ™ at G upe the idk ing O'Reilly de lowing his statement. the detective - rested the four for qu registered as Joseph Fle Defrees street; Peter Suide street; Franeis Holly, 2%, street, and Emeline Butler, Jersey avenue Pulice charge that Sulde. a barder, bought fewelry fram those who purchased from Crutchfield fleld 18 satd to have confessed taking jewelry valued at $L600 from the apartment of Mrs Else Austin, 1807 ted at | Wigconsin - avenue $LR00 from the b s Sarah hing. 333 New me o Lindsay, 2120 O charm and wateh, v the hame of Miss Oxdel New York avenue He is alleged to have sold & $400 ving © Metcher for $3. and police aliege that the latter obtained $30 for 1t ! Another expensive ring was sald tor $10 to another mdividual, Crutehaeld s reparted to have said. the buyer ob- talning $100 for Several ol the mare expensive articles of jewelry invalved i Cratehs flelds reported confession have been recovered. froam Sanderson, 113 Phone to Netherlands Opened NEW YORK. Januaty $0 (4 - Rioh ard M Tobin, United States Muntster to the Netherlands. was ane of the fist to use the transatiantio telephope service InAUEUTALEd today between this country and Holland My, Tobin conduciad hs | telophone conversabion fom his hoted yoom here, relatives wouki have been et searchers delleve Crutehs | ¥ {BOY BELIEVED DROWNED. Overturned Boat Identifiad Moreland's Near Cape ORFOLK. Va. urned rowdoat later wre W which Hugh M Aol Hampeon Rgh delieved 0 have deft hus MOrRing o g0 o late vesterday near Cape He 118 miles from he paiit of depariae Searvhing paréies who had soowred e waiers of Hampion Roads. Ot Peake Bay and ¢ Mudted the youth had beed downed The Y chiance that he still ® ative, sakl i that he might have dova P DY soie vessel Dound fo s CHAICE 18 SHIL &3 VEIY T0W STV HOW Rer t oquipped WiEh wir and had versel S0 equoped PEESE D ap .