Evening Star Newspaper, March 20, 1928, Page 1

WEATH! (U. 8. Weather Borean ant) Fair tonight and tomorrow: slightly warmer tomorrow; lowest temperature tonight about 32 degrees. Temperature—Highest, 44, at today: lowest, 31, at 6 a.m. today. Full report on page 9. noon Late N. Y. Markets, Pages 12 and 13 ¢ Foenin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Entered as second class matt post office, Washington, No. 30.639. WASHING D. C., TUESDAY, 4 o Star. PAGES. -SENATE OIL PROBE IBODIES ON S-4 GUARD SECRET OF HOW DEATH CAME TO THEM WILL GO DEEP INTD owvoen vak vae runa Closed—Gas Masks Unused. - HARDING S STOCKS Source of All of Late Presi- dent’s Securities Will Be Inquired Into. Fitch Tapped His Last | Signals. SENATOR NYE IS SEEKING | TO CURB CAMPAIGN FUNDS BY BEN McKELWAY. 1 Correspondent of The Star. BOSTON. Mass., March 20 —That 0t company of six men who for Nicks on Hull Show Where| three months kept a watch with death, | Declares He It Out to See That Contributions Are “Kept Within Reason.” ed in a tomb of steel on the floor of the sea, was parted for all time to- day. The bodies of Lieut. Graham Fitch | with him in the torpedo room of the | submarine S-4 of Washington and of the five who died | iogether with two dthers | TON, | | | | found elsewhere in the hull, were sur- | | { rendered to those who in life were dear | | Br the Associated Press < {to them. And as they went their va- | 5 . . Inquiry into the financial affairs of irious ways to final places of rest, a|lead only to theorles, and one man's the late President Harding by the Sen- naval board of inquiry continued to | theory is as good as another’s. What - . N Hosrr i {went on in the torpedo room of the ste Teapot Dome commitiee will go fur- | Plumb the dark. damp recesses of the x Tea » 3 T hull to plece together. if it 13 pos. | S-¢ during the three days that Lieut ther than to determine whether any of s hull to plece tog 3 Pos- | mrtel »d out 1s in code: what e Tl B or e AhEy A Fitch tapped out signals in code: what | the Liberty bond profits of the Conti- "'/ ") " Sogl ypan will ever know | Went on when the signals lost thelr se- | mental Trading Co. of Canada came!4nat' storv. Scattered remnants have |Quence and became mere taps: what into his possession. Y reopen the matter of the sale of the | #nquiry also would go back to the time | tremely difficult to raise funds by either | LIEUT. GRAHAM ) gether they give & clue. NEWELL FITCH. But these clues | BOARD T0 EXPLORE. S4HULL INDETAIL Naval Officers Surprised at Smaliness of Hole Cut by Paulding’s Bow. | there were any oil stocks or other secu- | | rities that might have emanated from | | the ofl deals into which we are inquir- i ing.” Chairman Nye said today. “We * will have to go into that as well as also owned by the late President. |N DAM ]‘RAGEDY\ The examination of the records of i the Harding estate will be made by an ! | investigator, who will be sent to Marion | 1 confer with executors of the estate. | £y idanae Believed Found at Searching Probe Planned. The North Dakota Senator said the | Scene of Break to In- through the Tecords to the time of his | dicate Plot. death. " to the political campaign contribution phase of the inquIry,|Byr the Associated Prees. By 4ha rieboiated Brese. Chairman Nye said he thought the rev elations to date would “make it ex-| LOS ANGELES, March 20.—The Eve- | BOSTON, March 20—The Navy ning Express today says that Los today was intent on a fresh inquiry into | structive, MARCH 0, 1928 ~THIR SENATORS TOCALL ROCKEFELLER INTO COAL FIELD PROBE Committee Also Decides to | Issue Subpoenas for Schwah i and R. B. Mellon. ;WATSON SAYS INTENTION | IS ONLY ““CONSTRUCTIVE” “Declares Object Is to Get Sng»| gestions on Remedy for Conditions. By the Associated Press. ‘The Senate coal investigation com- mittee decided today to issue subpoenas at once for John D. Rockefe Charles M. Schwab and R. B. Mello a brother of Secretary Mellon. “The purpose of our action,” sald Chairman Watson, “is entirely con- We want to get the views of these men, the big fello in order to find out just what they think should be done to remedy this sad situation. Some committee members believe that v on, these leaders have not realized what is | going on, and we want to see if they think it would be possible for them to agree to take steps for the purpose of adjusting the troubles in the coal fleilds. This would obviate the neces- sity of Government intervention, course which we agree should be de- ferred in case the operators them- selves can organize to improve condi- | tions. Others to Be Summoned. Chairman Watson added that he ex- pects to request the appearance of Rockefeller, Schwab and Mellon later this week, if such is possible. He added s e been found here and there, and put to- | (Continued on Page 3, Column 4.) | “We shall have to determine whether st Marion Star.” The Star was formerl_\'k Harding became President and continue | party as they have been raised in the “If the inquiry accomplishes nothing more than that it will have done much good,” the North Dakotan added. “I hope out of the whole thing can come a more clearly defined corrupt practices act, so that political campaigns can be conducted within some measure of rea: son, both as to contributions and ex- | The chairman disclosed of the record of the now is bel made to determine whether any of the contributions to the 1924 Republican campaign fund were made in violation of the election laws. Corporate Gifts. He said the particular contributions wnder study are those for $2,000 by the tion through that a study hearing g3 ju e method that was followed by late Pred W. Upham, treasurer of 3k Harding Estate Inquiry. Today was snother off day for the inquiry. but it will get under way again tomorrow after three days of subcom mittee investigation in Chicago. While be did not believe any of the bonds would be found there, Nye sald there would be a “lack of satisfaction bmits a report to ing into the ter. they are there, we are going to il the world” he added. “If they sre not there, we are going o tell the worid. 1 don’t think they are there.” Agreeing that Nye was “absolutely right,” Louls H. Brush, who, with Roy Moore, purchased the Marion (Ohio) * Btar from President Harding. issued 2 statement last night saying that he and hir associates, who re in Washington on enother matter, were willing 1o give the off commitiee “any and all detalls © the transaction. “Let us, for the sake of square shoot- ing and in fairness 1o the memory of President Harding.” the statement said “pring this thing right out in the open and go straight through it” The Marion Star figured in the early part of the oll investigation when in- quiry was made into sensational reports that some’ of the profits of the naval ol reserve were included in the sale price the paper. The news- pager s s vigorously . ihis st the time, and no evidence w uneovered U support the charges Partisan Debate in Senate. estigator will be sent pect the Harding ee- < a as % by Senator Nye 'hat A Dot leave here betore early next m 1t was Presicent Harding who s the executive order which Albert D. Fall as Be of the Interior, as- sumed directio e Elk Hills and Teapot Dome veserves and later Jeased ther ard 1. Doheny and Harry P. Binc 1 and when the Goyer properties by oourt Coviidge rescinded Ppredcessr As the Harding p action the order hase was d e foor wes L et ! veloping trewted loan de- then & w v pates of il dowen Benator peross the by yesit of 1 160004 career 1A verbe) i 118t were used from the 1920 ¥ Demands were made for the resigns on of fugh edminsiration ofmcisls Becretary M wnd one Rt Incians Jepub Bmith ol wr nRor Pt 5, € ¥ ¥our Die in Film Theater Fire umn 2.) Angeles city authorities are carrying on the disaster which claimed the lives of | that J. D. Lyons, A. K. Oliver and W. their investigation of the St. Francis '40 officers and men aboard the sub-|D. Relss, who served on the board of | Dam disaster on the theory that the)marine S-4 | the Pittsburgh Coal Co. with Mellon, | collapse, of the big buttress was caused | by dynamite. ! partment notified Rear Admiral Philip | same time. Evidence pointing to the alleged act | Andrews, commandant of the Boston| Gov. Fisher of Pennsylvania has sig- |1s declared to be in the hands of Dis- Navy Yard. today that he would be in | nified his willingness to testify, said :‘mu Attorney Asa Keyes. | Boston early this afternoon to inspect | Watson, and has assured the Senate The following statements are listed | the S-4. | committee that he would co-operate in Secretary Wilbur of the Navy De-|also will be requested to appear at the | 1 {in ‘support of the claim that the death dealing deluge in the Santa Clara River | Valley was the work of bomb setters: 1. Investigators are said to have in | their possession a sheet of note paper found at the dam site and kept secret | until today, on which was drawn a rough chart of St. Francis Dam. 2. The notations on the chart were When the craft had been dry docked and the bodies of the last eight victims | |10 be recovered been removed from their {:teel tomb, the tragic story was but; partially revealed. i Naval officers who inspected the scene | |before the bodies were taken out saw | | mute evidence of the desperate fight to | any way possible to help the investiga- tion. The Indiana Senator intends to write to Gov. Fisher requesting him to state a time when he can testity con- veniently.” The move to call Rockefeller, Schwab and Mellon was started yesterday by Senator Wheeler, Democrat, Montana, a member of the coal committee. {the city agueduct. i ped | durts P from in out the Republican Harding of e Pea reoned oharis Tound at |shut out incoming water, but failed to the scene of recent dynamitings along | find written messages in which it had |been hoped the doomed men might 3. A short length of newly fraved have recorded their account of the |Tope of the same strand size as that | g o oo used by aqueduct dynamiters in Owens Valley to lower their charges into sev- eral sections of the ::m-y was found | at a spot have been lowered Dam reservoir. i MARINES CONTINUE NICARAGUAN DRIV Flyers Report Three Contac! With Rebels—Skirmishes Occur. Covered With Mud. The bodies were covered with mud St. Prancis | hich had “seeped in from the ocean " ‘btd off Provincetown, scene of the crash {between the submarine and Coast | Guard destroyer Pauling. December 17, | and there were several inches of water | over them. | One of the surprising features of the dry docking was the revelation of how small a hole the Paulding had cut through the hull of the submarine, It | seemed a minor gash, naval officers said, tg but submarine men explained that the collision had rendered the submersible’s machinery useless and left her helpless, a victim of the law of gravity. The delicate machinery of the ship was destroyed by long immersion. and every compartment was filled with de- MANAGUA, Nicaragua, March 20 (#). | bris and silt. Board Is Designated. —Marine airplanes pursuing a group of | Sandino rebels who fired on two Ameri- : |can “planes yesterday. wounding one | nyged S study cach compartment ok | man, e made oughly and to be especially careful to search for possible logs, records and Emm times since then. . ad | Each time the Marine flyers open confidential notes which may have bee { fire with machine guns nr;,d mmhx-laul left by the victims. The inquiry is e could not determine the casualties | pacted o last about five days. ‘The bodies removed were those of Lieut. m Newell Fitch, Washington, Torpedomen Roger Leslie Short, | among the Sandino men, who scatter- | | Boonville, Mo. Frank Snizek, Ridge- | ed under their fire. Gri ‘The contacts were made near Murra, | terday’s skirmish took place. I neld Pack. . 3 Humel . | . A Archibald | Reports of another contact with the | o, PR o JRussell, Archibald | paneca, near which a pack train under | PP TEE ! : ge Pelnar, South Omaha, | Lieut. " Peterson encountered small | iy, \ochiBl POTNE Wil Do train, which returned the outburst, kill- 4 ing two men. It was believed that some | JOseph William 'Sternman, Riverside, an inspection of the surrounding moun- tainous country was impossible. 4 into the 20 miles southeast of Jalapa, where yes- | | sandino forces were recelved from Tei- | SN B0 8%, CalL: Ecamen Jo- |band. The rebels fired on the pack | i\ JIEH AR Mole William, Demp- of the Sandino men were wounded. but All except Dempsey and Sternman were in the torpedo room. PRESIDENT SUGG ' THREE DIE, FIVE HURT IN APARTMENT FIR | By the Assorinted Prese BOSTON, March 20.~Three persons ! were burned to death and five others injured in a fire which drove 200 ten- | g, goic?, ST (UL FIbRATEen ants of a four-story apartment house | ticable would be installed on undersea {in the Upham’s Corner district to the | boats In service | street, early this morning N % i " by ICE IMPRISONS TUG. | The dead are Mr. and Mrs. | Donahue and the latter's mother, Mrs Crew of Three Btays Aboard Boat Held in Lake Michigan Flo | William Donahue, who occupled an | apartment on the fourth floor, Lo which the flames were largely confined BENTON HARBOR, Mich, March 20 (. The fishing tug Willlam Engle, imprisoned in a Lake Michigan ice floe SHOALS BILLS TABLED. for five days, was frozen solld today in Military Committee Plans to Draft the ice w mile and a half off shore, in no immediate danger Although the three men aboard the boat could walk ashore over the ice, they remained with the ship. hoping for w ¢hift In the wind which would break in the ice and enable the tug to | make harbor. With the assistance of the coast guard. they obtained addi- STS STUDY. | e Recommends $200, to Seek Subma- rine Safety Devices. sident Coolidge yesterday recom- | mended that Congress appropria :{2004000 to enable the Secretary of the vy to investigate and experiment with safety devices for submarines, | | | | Measure, | The House military commitiee voted tdsy o table the six Muscle Shoals wills which it has been considering and begin tomorrow with the drafting of a commitiee measure The Cyansmid offer was tabled by | & vote of 13 o 7: the Norris resolution 1y vote of 11 0 4, and the Morin [tonal food supplies last night bill by & vote of 15 w0 6 The boat salled from South Haven “The other three proposals were re- |last Friday. was caught in the ice floe Jected practically unanimously and drifted until it hecame frozen in. Tawn's lndufltry Halts as Gr:ind Jury Checks First City Election Ballots Ve Anencraten Preee The 27 fishing smacks, around which POINT ISABEL. Tex, March 20 —{industry here centers, remnined at the The grand jury investigating the first | docks A nursery was established in the municipel election i this 100-year-old | courthouse for ‘the bables, and syste- Gull cosst wwn todsy was only down | matic questioning carried the jury 11 "M o it interrogation of the 308 | through the “I's” of the voting list voters, leaving industry virtually st a| Whik persans did not choose to standstill vote, they were informed by the court ummoned o testify in e investiga- | thel “certain reputable persons had 0 of wlleged drveguianities in e bal- | eharged Dregularities” and & thorough g March 13 which resulted in & | HGuiry was negessary ole of 143 10 42 1o Incorporale Bs ® . ", e nseniwiaqiat 5 (Radio Petramn colerdey Page 24 h It was explained by Wheeler vester- day that he wanted to question Rocke- feller because of his connection with the Consolidation Coal Co. of West Vir- ginla. He said also that Schwab would | appear as chairman of the board for the Bethlehem Steel Corporation. which mines coal in Pennsylvania, and that Mellon, a brother of the Treasury Sec- retary, would be questioned as a mem- ber of the board of the Pittsburgh Coal Co. Lumber Ordered for Barracks. Lumber has been ordered for con- struction of barracks to house union miners due to be evicted from property of the Clarkson Coal Co. and the Y. & O. Coal Co. in Ohio on April 1, Lee Hall, president of District 6 of the United Mine Workers, said here today. The eviction, he added, was in ac- cordance with the injunction issued by Judge Hough at Columbus on December 4, and 131 families were affected. Hall said the national unfon had been supplying between $80,000 and $90,000 monthly since November, 1927, for the relief of striking union miners in the Ohio section. “Miners' families in the Pittsburgh district are living under animal condi- tions,” the committee was told by Fan- nie Hurst, authoress, who declared that conditions in that area “were worse than I found in Russia. yond the telling.” she said, and her views were seconded by Senator Good- ing Authoress Testifies. Senator Wagner, Democrat, New York, likewise agreed with the story of “malignant conditions” in Pennsylvania, adding that he was struck by the indif- ference of the State government toward the situation. of striking miners as “ bles” and said that such condition: seeds of anarchy.” She advocated gov- ernment intervention. Herbert McCory, a photographer who visited the Pittsburgh coal area for the New York Daily News, sald he saw ne- gro strikebreakers shooting into homes of strikers and into the schoolhouse at Broughton, Pa. “The school was in session at the time,” he added, “and the teacher later told me that she had the children lying on the floor to keep them from get- ting hit.” The photographer sald that about 8 or 10 Coal and Iron police, under command of Sergt. Little, “were In the vicinity at the time, but did nothing to halt the barrage.” He also asserted he obtained a con- fession from Hampton Matthews, & negro_ strikebreaker, that he had been paid $25 by a Coal and Iron policcman for shooting Into miders’ homes at Bruceton. Miners' Counsel Statement. Rives K. Eaton, the miners' counsel, today replied to the denial by the Canadian National Rallways to his charge that its subsidiary, the Rail and River Coal Co. had been guilty of op- pression toward the miners “As & mattes of fact’ Eaton sald, “W. R. Woodford, president of the com- pany, testified yesterday, under oath, that he was a member of & committee of Ohlo operators which on March 25, 1026, demanded & wage reduction for the mines of eastern Ohlo, which in- cluded the Canadian National Raliways' property. He further testified that these mines had been closed down for two_years, throwing 1,600 men out of work” rather than pay the union wage scale in Ohlo.” After Benator | 1ooding had called at tention yesterdny to an attack by Gov r of Pennsylvania on the Benate » which toured the Penn- sylvania ¢ fields, Chalrman Watson of the Benate interstate commerce com- mittee sald the governor would be “in vited o appear at his venlence Benator Gooding declared the aub committee, of which he was chairman went Into Pennsylvania with an open mind and that the subcommittee’s re port was & “simple account of condi Uons s we found them” ‘The 8 sald the stand attributed to the Po sylvania governor was “an insult (o the Henmte subeommittee. o this commiite and 1o the United Btates Sena “The human degradation there is be- | Miss Hurst described large 'lmlll?sl BY Y-EIGH! servic Yesterday's Ciunlation, 105,46/ The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news 0 S—— (#) Means Associated Press. HECK i, LO0KS LIKE EVERYBODY HAD STRUCK OILC A BUT ME =\ a7 o 7 7. INCOME PAYMENTS GREATER THIS YEAR Tax Receipts Thus Far Lead- ing Figures for Same Period in 1927. By the Associated Preas, Treasury receipts from the March 15 | income tax payments, which are bemg‘ watched closely by Congress and the | administration, show that at the close | of business March 17 the Government | had obtained payments of $215550,- | 008.07, while on the same date last year the total was $197,690,398.51. If this proportion should carry | through for the entire collections of | 1928 the Treasury would be likely to | have about $100,000.000 or more above its estimates. On this showing hinges the fight in Congress over tax revision, but Secretary Mellon is expected to | await a fuller showing before announc- | ing his position on this issue. ‘The March 15 payments usually com- prise one-fourth of the total due on 1927 income, although many taxpayers select that date for making payment in | full, and thus the quarter is by far the most in increasing Government rece! ‘The statement of March 17 included all payments received and checked during the first three full busi- ness days after the installment fell due, eand a factor of increasing efficiency in collectors' offices. or of increased fa- miliarity with income tax requirement on the part of taxpayers, might be sufficient to bring about the apparent increase indicated. while at the end of the month the Government might find itself with less cash than it obtained last year in the same period. Another effect of the inflow of in- come tax funds was to bring the Gov- ernment’s cash balance kst Saturday to the comparatively high figure of $438- 572,477, while the manipulation of the | floating debt timed for the March 15 payment date has resulted in the retire- | ment of short-time obligations to a | total of $824,000.000 for the month and the incurring of new short-time debt so far in the month to a total of $1,086,000,000. PRIEST ARRESTED | AFTER AUTO CRASH His Car Caught in Chase by An~L other Motorist, Police Say—Faces | Four Traffic Charges. Overtaken after his automoblle is al- leged to have upset another machine, injuring its occupant, Rev. Gerald James Finan, 31 years old, 1244 V street southeast, was arrested shortly before midnight last night and charged with Jeaving the scene of an accident without making known his identity. Rev. Finan 1s an assistant rector at 8t. Theresa's Catholic Church. He was caught by another motorist, who saw the accident, followed and overtook him, forcing him to halt by ramming his car, police report. Four specific charges were lodged against him: Colliding and failing to stop, reckless driving, falling to exhibit an operator's permit and failing to ex- hibit a registration card ‘The accident occurred at the circle south of the Connecticut Avenue Bridge. The car driven by the priest, it is al- leged, struck m machine operated by Thomas Harold Willlams, 28 years old, 1215 Vermont avenue, overturning it and Injuring the driver's hand Jefferson D. Brooks, 26 years old, Highview Apartments, 61 Rhode Island avenue northeast, set out in pursulc of the car and at Connecticut avenue and Florida avenue he struck it, ripping off one of its running boards, His car was damaged also Police of the elghth precinet arrested Rev. Finan, He was released on §700 collateral MRS. LONGWORTH HELPS. Sends $100 to Senator Borah's “Re demption Fund.” Another member of the Roosevelt family* - Alice Roosevelt Longworth has contributed $100 to the fund being ratsed by Senator Borah of Idaho, to reimburse Harvy F. Sinolaie for the $160,000 In contributions he made to the Republican party in 1923 ‘The wife of the Speaker of the House sent In her eheck. Her brother, Theo- dore Roosevelt, fr, sent Senator Borah his eheck $100 yesterdny e collection now Lotaly $3,600, about “Knowledge” Fails, “Strength” Is IlI, Play Handicapped By the Associated Press, WILLIAMSBURG, Va., March 20. —Fate has stepped into the field of dramatics at the College of William and Mary and smote with a heavy hand the plans of directors of dramatic productions. One club, deciding to present a play from the ancient classics, found characters to portray the roles of “Strength” and “Knowledge." Latest rehearsals have disclosed that the student in the role of “Strength” is confined to the college infirmary, while “Knowledge” has become ineligible under a rule that bars students with scholarship de- ficiencies from extra curricula ac- tivities at William and Mary. HOTELS BLANED FOR DRYLANTY Lack of Enforcement Also Laid to “Society” by Brookhart. By the Associated Press. “High-tone soclety and high-tone hotels” were declared to be the root of prohibition enforcement troubles today by Senator Brookhart, Republican, Iowa, in a committee room quarrel with Senator Bruce, Democrat, Mary- land. over the merits of the dry law. The Maryland “wet” denied that the “highbrows or smart set” were to blame and asserted that not one member of this class had been convicted in Balti- more, but that it was almost every other class of people which was inter- ested in liquor. The Io “dry” countered that on that basis, every class of people should be rounded up and convicted, but Bruce | replied that an indictment against the whole people cannot be framed. Doran Is Present. Commissioner Doran of the Prohibi- tion Bureau, who was before the com- mittee, commented that improved con- GORDON QUERIED - BYTWO SENATORS | Procedure in 0il Case and Gambling Charges Basis of Questions. . The Senate subcommittee handling the nomination of Maj. Peyton Gordon | to be an associate justice of the District Supreme Court held an executive ses- | sion today, at which Maj. Gordon was | questioned concerning a number of | matters relating to his duties as district attorney. The meeting was attended by Senators Deneen, Republican, Illinois, | chairman, and Caraway, Democrat, It was indicated that the third mem- ber of the subcommittee, Senator Steiwer, Republican, Oregon, would be given an opportunity to read the record | of today’s meeting before the subcom- { mittee meets again to take action on | the nomination. It is understood that Maj. Gordon was asked a number of questions con- | cerning the method of procedure in the Sinclair-Burns contempt case out of one of the oil trials. It was reported that he was asked why indict- P It was learned that the district attor- ney also was questioned about reports of gambling games said to be operated just across the District line, drawing patrons from Washington. The subcommittee probably will con- fer again within the next day or two, at which time it is expected a recom- | mendation to be made to the Senate judiciary committee will be decided | upon. —_———— | UNEMPLOYMENT SURVEY BELIEVED ENCOURAGING President Informed on Some Phases of Report—Situation in Feb- ruary Held Normal. | The survey of unemployment under- | taken late in February by the Labor | Department will show that a few more | people were out of work at the time | than 1s the case at other seasons, Presi- | dent Coolidge has been informed. but it also will indicate that there was a TWO CENTS. HOUSE MEMBERS JOINU.S. WORKERS INSALARY APPEAL {Many Employes Here Suffer From Poverty Wages, Com- mittee Tol. | WELCH BILL TO RAISE PAY HELD OBLIGATION |Campaign Promises to Compel Cheap Labor in Effecting Econo- my Bitterly Assailed. Cumulative testimony regarding the imperative need for establishing a mini- mum wage of $1,500 in the Federal service and the pledged support of members of Congress to work for enact- ment of the Welch bill was given at | the continued hearing today before the House civil service committee in the wavs and means committee room. Particularly earnest pleas depicting | the plight of underpaid Government employes who are unable to live up to ithe boasted American standards of living were made by Representatives | La Guardia, New York: Douglas, Ari- 7ema; Crosser, Ohio, and Stobbs, Massa- chusetts. Statements regarding the conditions | ot workers in the field service of the Government were given by vice presi- dents of the National Pederation of Federal Emploves. covering several of the most important areas. La Guardia Makes Plea. | The principal speech covering a sur- | vey of the Southwest area was made by Walter P. Taylor, blologist in the Biological Survey of the Department of eration and the accredited representa- |tive of the American Association of Engineers and _secretary-treasurer of the Southwestern division of the Ameri- |can Association for the Advancement of Science. Representative La Guardia spoke feelingly on the necessity of establish- ing a minimum wage somewhat higher than the actual cost of living. He pre- dicted that in a coming economic re- form the Government will establish a minimum which an employer may be allowed to pay a worker. He insisted {that the Government must establish a system under which all its employes will be able to live properly, and de- clared it preposterous that ome Gov- ernment department engaged in re- search and study into the cost of living broadcast its findings that $2200 to |$2.400 is required for support of a family and in that same department making these studies there are many employes receiving only $1.200. It is absurd, Mr. La Guardia said. that Uncle Sam should have sny un- married girl on his pay roll for less than Sr:f:o or any married man for t : | Guardia told his col “We must not brush aside our knowledge of actual conditions.” He declared that 75 per cent of the girls on the Government pay roll in Washington cannot go to jchurch on Sunday or get exercise on |that day because they have to stay fa::‘me and wash and iron their cloth- In passing upon legislation. Mr. La | . . 'y can't eat a classification and }(he_\' can't pay rent with the report of | a commission,” said Mr. La Guardia. “All jour boast and glory of a great land is ; discounted if we have poverty.” he said. “The greatness and success of our coun- | try is measured by the number of happy. Imn:emm people. They can't enjoy the {blessings of liderty om an empty | stomach.” Rer- sentative Sirovitch of New York, | & member of the committee, injected the remark apropos of Representative la | Guardia’s discussion of the fact that | children in homes of many Government {employes are not sufficiently nourished. hat “a soldier in the trenches has three t ditions had resulted generally since the | lack of labor in certain localities of | jimes better chance for his life than prohibition law became effective, and that the law could be given some of the credit Senators Bruce and Brookhart locked horns in a long but more or less dis- passionate row over the dry law during consideration by the Senate civil service committee of a bill by the Iowan to relieve some of the prohibition agents from terms of the civil service exam- inations. Bruce opposed this and Com- missioner Doran demanded it, Chairman Dale, a dry and the only other: committee member present. chimed into the discussion to ask the Prohibition Bureau to defend its men from the attacks in magazine articles | by Chester Mills, former prohibition administrator for New York. Attacks Criticism. Senator Bruce assured his support of the enforcement measures when Sen- ator Brookhart remarked that enforce- ment would \be improved {f men in public life and particularly those in Congress would refrain from “eterpal criticlsm " “But a large part of the public has no faith in the prohibition service,” Bruce continued. “It may be unjust, but it 1s so. You go to almost any hotel and see liquor flowing freely and read in the paper the next day where the dry agents have pounced on some wretched little bootlegger. “They don't pounce on any boot- legger that doesn't deserve pouncing Brookhart retorted would pad- lock about a dozen of these high-toned hotels myself. But don't tell me you can't enfy n oree prohibition.” 5 NC\\' Rudio Device By Recording Signals From Beacons| By (he Associated Press The latest atd to alr navigation, & radio device to allow the pllot of an afrplane to see whether he 1s on his course, was demonstrated today by the Hureau of Standards and Willlam P, MacOracken, Asslstant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautios, A plane equipped With the mechs anlsm was suocessfully flown at Ool- o Park, Md., hear Washington, and the new device probably will o oalr service regularly in the future While radio guidance for atrplanes has heen developed Ritherto. (he des Vice tested today ts completely encoms L) | the United States. | So far as the results have been con- veyed to the White House the situation was found to be normal and the con- altions of later weeks was found to have decreased the total of the jobless. The President has been given to un- derstand the Labor Department has undertaken to recheck some of the re- turns i the interest of accuracy. but An early announcement of the finding is expected. PRI FRIEND OF HARDING KILLS SELF IN GOTHAM Maj. H. J. Harding Uses Same Pis- tol That Wife Employed in Her Suicide Two Months Ago. By the Associated Pr NEW YORK., March 20--Maj. H Jefferson Harding, war veteran and close friend of President Harding's fam- fly, killed himself in his Fifth avenue ofice today with the same revolver that his wife used to commit suicide two months ago. Friends of Maj. Harding. who was 323 years attributed his suicide to des spondency over the loss of his wife, who was belleved to have killed herself be- cause of poor health The major, a member of the Army Reserve Corps, an official of the Hotel Continental, {n Times Square, and & widely known' real estate man. appar- ently went to his office late last night and shot himself early this morning in the hroom adioming the office. Guidcs Aviators ppassed In A dial on the mstrument board of the flying machine. A pilot, instead of listening constantly through headphones for radio signals, will merely drop his eye from time to time on A pointer an his nstrument board and, by keeplng 1t at & predetermined point, will know that he ts on his Proper coutse Slgnaly fram a radio beacon located anywhere within 100 miles of the wov- g plane will serve to guide the e strument Plans (0 establish & number of sueh | beacon stations. Several are how n operation serving istruments of the Lolder head type. The Cummerve Department | {a child born into a family that is try ing to live on $1,200." Representative La Guardia urged the | committee for prompt action in lishing & minimum wage for unma women and married men and to trans- {late the American standards of lving into legislation to meet al conditions for practical results. New Standard Urged. Representative Douglas said that the Federal Government should pay suca | salaries as to attract capable employes and make it possible to weed out work- ers who are not up to the required standard. After discuss conditions fu the fleld service, especially regarding land examiners w have come under his personal observation, Representative Douglas stated that the Federal Gov | srnment is entitled to employes of a! | ity. comparable with those patd by pri- | vate interest, in order that the Govern ment's decistons may be fair and just “From every point of view this meas- ure is fair and equitable, and will do justice to the employes of the Govern- nd all taxpayers of | | this country. \ Representative Crosser declared that there must be a fundamental treatment {0 the question of unemployment o foring justice to Qovernment employes. | Since 1890 the actual compensation of | those emploved by the Guovernment has | sufferad a reduction @ 70 per cent of what they recelved nearly twoscore vears ago. Mr. Crosser satd. He declared he has no patience with the man m public lfe who promises his electorate that he will get all the work he can done for the Government at the lowest price. | | Condemns Economy Cry. [ "Tt 18 no economy 10 ask any oane to work for less than he is worth,” said NIr. Crosser, emphasising that the ¢ acter of service rendered corresponds | Automatically to the satistaction of the employe with his salary and the oons ditions under which he works. “The Qovernment owes it to thase who have served falthfully and well to provide for & readjustment of pay alwng lines of fustive.” satd Representative Crosser. Representative Slodds declared that he 18 “in hearty sympathy with the purpose of the Welch hijil” R cons flacts with the various Government de- PATIENtS Nave Brought him Knoewled hat there are many en os of abuls ity and expert tralniug N deserve | mueh wore Ahan they arc oting He pait tridbute 10 the hgh tpe of Qov [ernment emplove I Washingion and sAlt UI0 W penurious and A shorts stehtad poalioy 1o forve the Cavernment (Continued on Page 4 Culuii Y s