Evening Star Newspaper, April 26, 1928, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Burean Forecast.) Cloudy tonight; tomorrow cloudy, fol- lowed by rain in afternoon or night; not much change in “emperature. Temperature—Highest, 57, st 5 pm. vesterday: lowest. 38, at 5 aum. today Full.report on page 9. Late N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 C - No. Rntered 30,676, - frisrad us s second class mati Washinston ! W or i ASHINGTON, “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star's carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes ,““WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D. C. THURSDAY, 1928 APRIL 26, ¢ Foening Star. CFORTY-SIX PAGES. as fast*as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 105,956 (#) Means Associated Press. —————— — BREMEN CREW OFF | ON FRST LAP OF NEW YORK JOURNEY Relief Plane Leaves Greenly Island for Lake Ste. Agnes. OVERSEA CRAFT IS LEFT TO BE REPAIRED LATER | \ ‘ Plyers Expect to Reach Gotham Tomorrow Night—Reception Planned. _ CLARKE CITY. Quebec. April 26 (By the Canadian Press).—The re- liet plane carrying the German- Irish crew of the transatlantic mon- oplane Bremen passed over this point at 1:10 pm Clarke City is about 250 miles from Lake Ste’ Ag- nes, the fivers' immediate destina-, tion QUEBEC, April 26 (By the Canadian | Press).—The Ford relief plane bearing tie transatlantic fiyers took-off from | Greenly Island at 7:45 this mnmlns‘ for Lake Ste. Agnes. The monoplane Bremen, which bore the two Germans and the Irishman) from Ireland to the lonely island. was sbandoned to await a ship when the| straits should be clear of ice. { The announcement of the take-off | was flashed by the Government wire- less. which had been almost the sole link with civilization during the 13 days the plane and its crew had been held at the island. Landed Friday, April 13. w Priday, April 13, that the Brillntn“mldadt lot&d landing, when near the limit of its fuel supply, on the Tocky islet 400 miles north of its course The | them the memories of low Alaskan tundras are dreamlike. In Alaska the crisp, | undercarnage was smashed ana | other damage done in the landing und | the island had no facilities for repairs Ma). James Fitzmaurice. one of the crew, was brought out to Murray Bay #_few days later by the plane of C A (Duke) Schiller, who blazed the hazard- | ous air trail that other relief parties | later followed i A trimotored Ford plane, piloted by | Floyd Bennett and Brent Balchen. flew from Detroit to Lake Ste. Agnes. where | the necessary and fuel for the Bremen were . There Bennett contracted a severe cold. which turned pneumonia and from which he died | hospital. WILKINS SEES PASSENGER PLANE LINES OVER ARCTIC Fl ( ‘enter of Polar Sea—Says Soundings Could Be Made by Air Expedition. BY CAPT. GEORGE H. WILKINS. « 1o The Star and The New York Timee. JREEN HARBOR, Svalbard (Spitzbergen), ) April 26 1s only now four days after our arrival. that the rush of congratulatory telegrams is letting up | and our stress of hurrying business arrangements is over. Recent events are now taking an orderly place in our memories. We sit in comfortable upholstered wicker chairs in the cozy two-story quarters of the Svalbard radio station, conversing with our hospitable Norwegian trlends. Elelson speaks old Norse like a native and with an accent like that of his forbears a hundred years ago. This is a source of good-natured humor among our local friends. Green Harbor is surrounded by high, sheer-sided mountains. In the midst of sandlike snow is wind-blown and packed hard and loss than a foot deep. Here soft, wet. shining snow liés six. teet deep. covering everything. and drifts many more feet high stretch from the lee sides of dwelling houses Radio Masts Tower Above Houses. Here live five officlals of the Svalbard radio. Herr Ihien. the manager: two operators, ap engineer and a steward. Close by Mr. Varming. resident representa- tive of an idle coal mine and other interests, lives with his wife, three children and a governess. The governess a fine-looking young girl from Tromsoe, was among the first to greet the plane as it landed. ruins nearby. On the steep beach m front of the station lies the wreck of a beau- tiful yacht once owned by the Queen of England Two miles farther up the har- bor is a great steel structure once used for loading coal from a now idle mine, the surface machinery of which stands like a grim tombstone above the snow. It is no longer economically possible to procure coal from the mines at Green Harbor. (Continued on Page 4, Column 5.) BENNEIT T0 REST (1. 5. PROBES REPORT NEAR PEARY GRAVE MISSIONARY SHELD ;L. C. Oshorn Declared Taken | Prisoner in Advance of Chinese Army. Air Hzro Will Be Buried in Arlington—Body on Way Here. By the Associated Pres By the Associated Pre QUEBEC, Aprll 26.—Floyd Bennett,| PpEKING, April 26.—The American who ploted the first plane to reach | jegation was investigating a report to- the North Pole, will rest near the dis- | gy that L. C. Osborn of the Nazarene Doubts Existence of Islands in High radio masts tower above the houses. An old whaling station lies in | 903 000,000 SLASH IN TAXES IS VOTED BY SENATE GROUP r | | | | ‘ Finance Committee Approves | Bill in Place of $290,000.- 000 House Measure. | | TREASURY IS AGREEABLE TO CUT OF $210,000,000 Formal Report Delayed Until To- morrow—Republican Majority Writes Rate Schedules. | By the Awscoiated Press | A $203,000,000 tax reduction bill was | agreed to today by the Senate finance | committee as a substitute for the $290 1 000,000 measure voted by the Hous | The Republican majority on the | mittee wrote into the bill the new rate schedules over the program ot the | Democrats for a $325.000,000 reduction ‘The formal report of the bill to the Senate was held up until tomorrow. when some administrative provisions | will be settled Acceptable to Treasury. This proposal, if given final congres- | sional approval, would be acceptabie to the Treasury, since Secretary Mellon announced today that a tax reduction of as high as $210,000,000 would receive his sanction. The $203.000,000 reduc- tion pregram includes: Reduction of the corporation tax | from 13'% to 12'; per cent: repeal of | the 3 per cent automobile tax: #n in- crease in exemptions allowed corpora- tions from $2.000 to $3,000: downward revision of the rates applying on the intermediate surtax brackets, and in- crease in exemptions on the admissions tax from 75 cents to $3. | The proposal of Republicans to repeal | the mheritance tax was laid aside with- out a record vote. This action cuts the original $210.000,000 Republican plan | to the $203.000,000 schedule. { The Senate bill also would r re the | | present rates on club dues, capital stock transfers and sales on the produce ex- | changes, which the House had voted to | cut to half in each instance. Approval was given. however, to the House provision to have the admission | taxes increased from 10 per cent to 25 per cent on prizefights. $25,000, Return Scen. | | The House proposal to allow a retro- | 1active cut in the corporation tax on the | | 1927 income payable this yea: was elim- | inated. but it was dgreed to make the proposed revision of surtax rates apoly retroactively on last year's incomes pay- | | 1 PREPARATIONS TWO CENTS. 5200000 MORE SOUGHT FOR U. 3. EMPLOYES' RAISES | Additional Funds Will Be Ask- ed to Take Care of Higher Expert Ciasses. | TWO NEW GRADES PROPOSAL CUT OUT Consideration in House Monday R FOI SENATE CERTIFIES 0L TESTIMONY jBringing of Perjury Charges Against Robert W. Stewart to Be Determined. Testimony given by Robert W Stew- art before th: Senate Teapot Dome today by the nat committee was certified Senate to the district attorney of the District, of Columbia for study to deter- mine whether perjury charges shall be brought. At the same time the Senate vacaled its order under which Stewart was ar- I'HIEE PRESIDENTIAL FISH. |Three Generations e Generaions HINERSTRENGTH o it Dot LN INANA DEVILS LAKE. N. Dak.. April 26 e — Three generations celebrated birth- day anniversaries yesterday. {Victories in Bay State and Mrs. J. R. Dilday. 53, her daughter, - 2 . M- S, Senegoemann, o% 28 | Ohio May Aid Seoretary in May 8 Primary. were born on April 25 TIDAL WAVE HITS BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Having leaped the Ohio hurdle suc- paign moves on to Indiana Until the decisive victory of Mr Hoover in Ohio Tuesda Watson y. the favorite son organization had pretty cessfully, the Hoover-for-President cam- | | oY AFTER UAKE much taken it for granted that Sena- Sought Through Special Rule or Unanimous Consent. While the horizon brightened today for passage of the amended Welch bill | carrying salary increases for approxi- | mately 135,000 Government employes. | clouds of misapprehension hovered over ! many employes in the higher profes- | sional and administrativedgrades. | Conferences held by representatives of the employes with Senator Smoot of | Utah disclosed today that the prospeets for enactment of the bill are exceed- ingly encouraging. | Although the employes in the higher ‘}pmfessionll and scientific grades were | disheartened over reductions proposed for them in the bill reported yesterday, their hopes were buoyed today by the | news that Senator Smoot expects to go !'to the White Houge and the Budget | Bureau in an effort to add about $2,- 000,000 to the $16.000,000 in increases | provided in the bill | _ Senator Smoot has become intensely interested in the measure. and it was idue largely to this interest that the o gt F ettt ye ¥y by House | | Proposal Cut Out. | The House committee yesterday cut | out of the bill proposal for two new grades in the professional and scien- | tific service, carrying 1in excess of $9,000 a year. | which it is hoped to rested on February 3 for his refusal to answer questions before the committee, | but it put the district attorney on notice that this was not to be construcd as in any way affecting the contempt indict- ! ment brought against the chairman of Varna, Bulgaria, Inundated. Everything in Harbor | tor “Jim" Watson would have little difficuity winning the presidential pref- erential vote in the Hoosier State, and taking® thereby a delegation to Kansas City pledged to vote for Watson as long covere: of the Pole. He 15 to be buried | prission st Chaocheng. western Shan- able this year, which means a return of | the board of the Standard Ofl Co. of some | tomorrew mn Arlington National Ceme- tung. had been taken prisoner by the the German plane trip to New York plane. Welcome Softening ot the alone a -off could be e adve that he party. leave i m?y 0 complete their journey by air yny their early morning departure from Greenly. the three men who were first to fiy across the Atantic from cast o west were expected to reach their original objective at New York by Friday evening Amhmwmhn:e 21 Lake Ste. Agnes to refuel the plane ormal welcome of New York has The torma o Monday end Tues- been postponed day In tribute to Bennett LACK OF SKIS HOLDS BREMEN. | | Oversea Craft Unable to Leave lee on | Wheels. : 6 ) — LAKE STE AGNES, April 2 Insbility of the Bremen to rise on .:5 wheels from the ice of Beile Isle Stri jed the German-Irish ocean fiyers to decide to continue their flight 1o New York in the Ford relief plane. Skis 1o permit the Bremen w take off from the ice had becn included m‘ he list of necessary repair parts wg-. piied by the fiyers, but were left ; hind when the Ford relief plane took | off from here for Greenly Island. A | telegram was received here from Dr Lowss Cuisinier, Canadian airplane me- chanie st Greenly Island, asking why the skis were not sent. The reason for the skis being left pebind was not vn here i siane, plloted by Bernt The reliel Baichen, i capable of handling the | region. | Bennett, had he lived, would have been | Nationalist army in its advance across that province He was said to have been taken to Kaichow Cht in southern Chihl, ‘The consul general at Hankow was instructed to investigate the report and seek the release of Oshorn if he proved to be a captive. The only confirmed instance of an American being harmed in the war zone was the shooting of Dr Walter F.Sey- mour. superintendent of the Presby- terian Hospital at Tsinan. southern Shantung. by a Chinese soldler. Reports Erroneous. Evidence today pointed to this soldler being a follower of the Natlonalist Gen. Feng Yu-Hsiang. Consular advices from Tsingtao and Tsinan today convinced authoritles here that Japanese reports of the slaying of an American Metho- dist missionary at Yenchowfu, Shan- tung, were erroneous, beln‘)rglrbled ver- sfons of the slaying of Seymour Awordlnblw these versions the killing of the missionary was due to his having harbored wounded Northern soldiers and Dr. Seymour is known to have treated Northerriers at his Presbyterian Hospital. 4 A consular survey ot Americans in the battle area completed yesterday show- ed that they were distributed as fol- later be i | after the arrival in Washington | m. tomorTo’ w train here by 8 mili- 22d Regi- full military honors Byrd to Honor Comrade. Briet funeral services under the di- rection of the Rev. Archdeacon Scott were arranged at the hospital where he died. Mrs. Bennett first expressed the wivh that her husband’s body be buried near their home in Brooklyn. but later ac- ceded to the request that llulxl‘e beside | America’s other heroes at AN jows: Ichouwiu, 2; Tenghsien, 5. Tsin- o O O e Tt ee of the man | IDB. 3: Yechowiu. 1. and Taiantu. 13 who blazed the air trail over the An"kt" Transportation Lacking. Comdr. Byrd announced thal| ... Amorican and British mission- aries at Taianfu asked to be evacuated the airplane he would use In his P;:; tempted fight over the South Polf| LU ne consuls there have been unable to get transportation for them at pres- would be named “The Floyd Bennett ent. The British consul at Chefoo, to- ward which Northern deserters were re- ported heading, advised the British to 80 to Welhaiwel, or elsewhere. A Japanese regiment arrived at Tsin- an; capital of Shantung, which has fallen into the hands of the Nationalists. second in command of the expedition and probably at the controls of the plane on the flight. From President Coolidge and Secre- | | tary Wilbur, his two highest ranking officers; from the men with whom he flew and worked. from his shipmates of | the days when he was an unknown Native of Ohlo. itional weight of Capt. Koehl BIraFI -v?»fi Huenefeld and Ma| Pitzmaurice with little trouble, It is a glant tri- motored monoplane. and relieved of the weight of the repsdr parts and ex- tra fue ed for the Bremen. can ole party of fiyers and 1 at one time The flight plane was arranged by York World -and the North iewspaper Alllance Huenefeld plans either 1o wiand to fiy out the more favorable condi- the plane shipped by ne seawon when the ice JUNKERS PLANE TO AID, in Shape for Put ¥-12 Bremen Crew 155 PIELD, N, Y., Apri 26 () were rushing repairs 0 s monoplane ¥-13 day %o ignt fiy o Montresl this aft- oon 1 bring the Irish-German crew o New York womorrow or the next day. It as they had o Mechanics s that naval mechanic, messages of condolence | came (0 Bennett’s widow i He had captured the admiration ol the world and the love of all who knew him by his unassuming manner, his quiet courage, his lack of ostentation, and his casket was covered with flowers these persons sent Many Send Condolences. Comdr. Byrd notified Bennett's 80- | year-vid mother at Lake George, N. Y., | of her son’s death and she plans Lo meet { the funeral party in New York for the rip to Weshington. Mrs, Mary E Bree- year of Waterbury, Vt, Mrs, Bennett's mother, s o join her daughter for the | journey. Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, who risked his life to carry serum provided by the Rocketeller Institute from New York to Quebec, returned to New York by plane yesterday. Lindbergh's plane swooped low over the hospital where Benneit's nody lay, the thunder of its motor plain- (Continued on Page 4, Column 4.) Mr. Osborn, whose, home is in Olm- stead Falls, Ohio has been in China since 1916, when he went there with the Houlding Independent Mission. He has been a missionary of the Church of the Nazarene since 1916 He was stationed at Chaocheng In western Bhantung Province, but for the past year has had his headquarters at Tientsin because of the trouble In the interjor. It was assumed at the church headquarters here that he may have back to Chaocheng, where dis- patches from Peking reported he was captured, on an inspection trip, It was believed also he might have been ac- companied by the Rev. Peter Kiehn, Pasadena, Callf, misslonary superin- tendent, who recently went to China to inspect the missions. Mr. Osborn came (o the United Btates on furlough in 1923, and re- turned to his post in Beptember, 1924 | | (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) Ball Team Gets 92 Hits and 109 Runs He was born in_ Columbia Station, | about $25,000.000 to individual tax- payers The mndfl fight today centered on the tax. Senator Stmmolis u:‘:l‘ofl. ‘e&mnnn. l’emr of the Demo- [ on committee proposed that the umntlon rate be cut to 11, per cent. was defeated, 11 to 9. on a stralght party vote, with the Republi- cans opposing it. Simmons then pro- posed a 11% per cent rate, which was voted by the House and then a 12 per cent rate. and similar fates met each proposal, The Democrats also asked for reten- tion of the graduated tax on corpora- tons with incomes of $15,000 and less which was voted by the House and thie inlm was rejected on a party division | On the repeal of the auto tax which | was provided in the House bill. the com- mittee was unanimous, Another attempt by Senator Reed Republican. of Pennsylvania, to have the capital galns of insurance com- panies included In their profits, was de- feated. 10 to 6. on a non-partisan vote Simmons Drafts Report. Benator Simmons of North Carolina, ranking Democrat on the committee, drafted the minority’s program at a conference of Democrats on the com- mittee yesterday, and he is prepared to carry his fight to the floor Chairman Smoot, however, belleves he has a program which will win almost united support While administration Republicans have lacked support in the past from the Western insurgent grouy in tax fights, they expect this support | now in view of its declaration against | any cut this session On that basis. it Is felt, the Western group will support the program ecalling for the least re- duction. This 1s expected to be true at least In the fight for reduction of the cor- poration tax, where the main fight will hinge. However, the Westerners are not prepared to glve any support to Senator 8moot's plan for repeal of the inheritance tax. Neither are the Demo- crats united on this proposition. and a merry contest with party lines oblite ated s In sight on this issue Republican Proposal. The Republican proposal for rev of the surtax rates applying on inter- mediate incomes. showing the brackets of Income In the present law and those proposed, follows went 1w #4000 1000 X000 0 0000 i 4,000 0000 000 000 44000 AR 000 B2.000 - AR 000 10,000 4,000 70,000 O 000 H0000—100.000 Over 100,000 | | | | I . 1004 1K.000 1 §0' 44000 k 1% 0000 0000, 420000 40,000 AN 000 G000~ 60,000 000 50,000 KO 000 100,000 | ver 100000 . . Communists to Be Punished. TOKIO, April 26 () v Tanaka told the Diet yesterday that etermined to deal nvicted of recent nist Intrigues, but also would en- | | AL I okited pon “Ahe Brosecition at Insis upon * of Robert W. su:‘:n“ under that in- dictment. Resolutions Amended. Approval of two resolutions was given | after more than an hour of debate, the result being the amendment of both of the rexolutions as they came from the committee. Is Sunk. as he desired to hold it. But the.out- | come n Ohio. backed up by the Massa- | chusetts vote, has given the situation © By the Associuted Prede { VIENNA, April 26.—The whole of the | May 8. the primary date. the cam- Bulkan Peninsula, shaken by a series of | paign will be waged vigorously. devastating earthquakes in the past! Mr. Hoover has demonstrated his week. is still oeing swept by violent | strength in Michigan, bordering In- tremors, | diana on the north, where he has a The latest cities to fall in the wake | S0lid delegation. He has, too, the Ken- That vacating the order of arrest of the earth’s terrific movement are the | tUCky delegation. and Kentucky borders made no reference to the contempt - | dictment, Senator Walsh of Montana the committee prosecutor, explaining that no one in the committee had as- sumed that the prosecuting officer would put any such construction on the resc- | the destruction of the classical Greek lution, Senator Norris of Nebraska, a leader of the Republican independents. in sisted that there should be a refer- ence to that matter and then Senator Walsh offered an amendment covering the ground, which was approved. ‘With the approval of individual mem- bers of the committee Chairman Nye prepared a resolution for the informa- tion of the Senate, setting forth that in purging himself Stewart appeared not at the bar of the Senate as the warrant | directed he should appear, but before a committee of the Senate This resolution also set forth that the answer to one of the questions which Stewart refused to answer on February 2 and 3, whether he had had conversa- tions with Sinclair about the Conti- nental bonds, could have been made without in any wise prejudicing Sin- clafr's ofl conspiracy case since it was in the negative A recital also was made that Stew= fancient city of Adrianople, in European | [diena on the south, - Ofio les tm- Turkey, and the large Bulgarian city | ever, on the west, is for Frank O. of Varna, on the Black Sea, while the | Lowden for President. Hoover's leading successive upheavals have completed | opponent at present. But in Illinois, the organization was severely defeated | in the recent primaries, which has lent some color to the report that the or- ganization in Indiana, dominated by | Watson, might meet with reverses in jview of the political scandals which | have torn the State in recent months | Backed by Organization. Senator Watson has the Republican organization with him. It is reported to be functioning in nhnr Mr Hoover, on the other hand, faced | with the opposition of the organiza- tion, and his workers are comparatively few. It would seem on the face of |city of Corinth and several additional | towns in Bulgaria. The Varna earthquake, which took place last night, is described as worse than that whirh caused great damage fn the populous city of Philippopolis several days ago. It was accompanied | by a giant tidal wave which inundated |the city and sank everything in the | harbor. Cyelone Follows. The far-famed islands of Mitylene and Syra in the Aegean Sea. immortaliz- ed by Byron, and places where the | things that only an uprising within the | American Near East relief is caring for | party could defeat Watson and give {10000 Greek and Armenian orphans. | Hoover a victory i Indiana. The also were swept by a cyclone which un- | Hoover chances. however, are increased |roofed hundreds of houses, damaged | by the fact that there has been a |crops and spread panic throughout the | demand among many Republican voters | population in Indiana that the party “clean Mahy American nurses and reliet | house.” To continue the Watson or- workers in Corinth had a narrow escape | ganization in power at the coming pri- | from death in one of the shocks as the | maries would scarcely be regarded as art’s answer to the question as to his temporary rellef stat®n in which they | “cleaning house.” knowledge of the Continental bonds wus not given voluntarily, but in re- sponse 0 questions propounded by members of the committee. Senator Walsh later presented the | rendered heroic service in rescuing vie- report and resolution to the Senate | tims burled in the ruins with a brief explanation, He declared there appeared to be an “frreconciliable | discrepancy” between certain testimony given by Stewart on February 2 and 3 0 all of the ruined areas and that given on Anvi]l 24 Against Purging Stewart. A similar view was expressed Chalrman Nye, who told the Senate that personally he was not inclined to | lef supplies the view that entitled to a resolution Senate contempt “than Benedict Arnold 15 entitled to a resolution excusing him for his treachery.” “And vet technically he has purged himself.” the chairman sald, adding (Continued on Page 7, Column 2) MAN KICKS PET DOG; Stewart was any more THREE SHOT IN FIGHT| Draws Gun and She s Wounded in Struggle. By the Awsocinted Pross CHICAGO, April 26 —~Two women and a man were shot, one of the women posaibly fatally, following an argument tesulting when the man kicked & police Animal's Mistre: Fires on Assailant; by | Inth urging him of ! dren of New York City to the Greek | were aiding the injured collapsed | " Three of their number, Edna Bassett of Los Angeles, Grace Harrls of New | York and Emma Cushman of Boston, In addition to the advantage of hav- ing the organization with him, Senator | Watson has the support of leading ewspapers in Indianapolis and else- | where in the State. PFurthermore. it | has been widely heralded that a vic- Red Cross Sends Aid. tory for Watson is in reality a victory American generosity is extending ald The contri- | butions of the American people to the | | Red Cross are being used in Bulgaria The Near East relief is rushing to Cor- 5000 cases of condensed milk, 2,500 tents, 6.000 blankets and other re- some of which was do- nated by the public high school chil- id, much support in Indiana. Mr. son. It has been predicted, would throw the Indiana delegation to Dawes M It became apparent he could not | himself be elected This is both an | asset to the Watson ticket and a weak- ness For the Watson candidacy, it it is popularly believed he is merely a talking horse for Dawes, loses its favorite son” appeal. Senator Watson has issued statement after statement {denying he Is a stalking horse for any | man. and that he was a candidate | for the presidential nomination in his own right. He is reiterating this on the stump today. | Some of the farm organizations in | Indiana are throwing thelr support to Watson and against Hoover because of the McNary-Haugen bill issue. Wat- son voted for the bill in the Senate and Vice President Dawes is friendly to the measure Large Vole Foreseen. The Indiana little from the Ohlo in that in the first | State candidates for Governor, Senatou | and members of the House are to be | nominated There Is widespread in- terest In these contests The vote i the primai therefore, may be very Women's Patriotic League. The same organization also is dispatching 8,000 tents, 15000 garments. medicines and money to various other distriets in the Ball carthquake zone |CREW FLEES FLAMES ABOARD OIL TANKER 34 Men Picked Up Off Floridé as Explosion Ignites ths Overbrook. By the Assoctated Press NEW YORK April 26 The Ameri- can ofl tanker. Overbrook, caught fire following an_explosion i the pump | | | i a different aspect. Prom today unti | for Vice President Dawes. who has, it | primaries differ not i‘ room while off the Florida coast earl: dog owned by Mrs Lottie Frain of St | this morning A message to the own much larger proportionately than the primary vote in Ohlo A large vote is | pointees. In making those interested in emactment w:l:huunmu’s'uuma'"! nlleve\dl;lh“'-hrhdm- cond now desperate hoummt'-tu-fiurmn sufficient funds these t higher grades without the e Tease ranging from $100 to $180 a vear for the lowest paid Govern: mentemploy:c. = Monday Action Sought. orts are being mad. | the Welch bill come up lormeonsiymm h&: |in the House on Mon: Chairman i Lehlbach of the House civil service com- mittee left town with the understanding that the bill would come up Monday through the Speaker's recognizing him under suspension of the rules. Repre- | ure, ma_x‘n.hbe dona,o peful that this e question has been rais - ever, that under the rules of fi Hm-em the Speaker can.recognize a member to move suspension of the rules only on the first and third Monday of each j month. Next Monday is the fifth Mone day, so that, the parliamentarian argues, it would be necessary to get either a | special rule through the rules committee OF unanimous consent in order to bring up the Welch bill Monday. An added complication is that se- cording to the calendar already adopt- ed the farm relief bill is due for cone sideration on Monday and as this measure has been stubbornly fighting for an opportunity, it is considered im- probable that the farm bioc would be willing to step aside gracefully to allow the salary increase measure to be con- sidered even though individually the members of the bloc are also deeply in- | terested in the Welch bill | @ Unanimous Consent Needed. It was the hope of Chairman Lehls {bach of the Civil Service committee | and of Representative Welch. father of the pay increase bill. that this meass ure. as reported from the committee | yesterday. could be brought up in the | House on Monday under suspension of the rules. Parliamentary experts, however, to- day showed that it will be impossible for the Speaker on Monday Tecog: nize Mr. Lehldach or any other mem- ber to move suspension of the rules The rules of the House provide that the Speaker may recognize for suspension | on the first and third Monday of each j month. Next Monday is the ffth J xux;«er the rules is treated T day not viously ase signed. L e In order to get the Weich dill up Monday it will be necessary either to get a special rule through the rules committee making it an order or to get 1t up under unanimous consent. Embarrassment to S. Feared. It was declared unoficially that the reduced rates proposed for some of the Guvernment’s most expertly tralned sclentists and other officers would greatly embarrass and hamper the Gov- ernment in holding onto the services of | these emplayes, and I securing new ap- ncreases in all the il lowers the salary lower pasitions, the [em, the Gladstone Transportation Co. | [, e Giadatane “Transportation 0. | ganeraly ‘considered more (avorable 1 | ranges of the ‘h The tanker, Fred W. Weller. had | N candidate opposed by the organtsa- | salary s recoued all of the 34 men i the Over- [ 0N on the theary that the organiza- | brook crew, who left their burnin ~"""f“‘.lt‘..\‘.’.' a light vote Is pretty sure to | In life boats. The Weller was standing o . by to await the areival of a Coast | The Hoover managers fn Indiana are | ndor n which they flew i Greenly Isiand | They continue thelr origingl destination t “The Bremen rather reie! plane iu which deavor 1o eradicate the soctal evils which | fouis Mo helped to create the extremist tendencies | Joseph Plgonowski, o guest with Mrs of 1hs radicals. Fraim At the home of Mrs Bertha Nuciegewskl, kicked the dog. Whereupon Mrs. Fraim shot him. - Plgonowski grappled her. seeking to disarm her During (he struggle the weapon was igher grades. 1If the hedule as announced s Anally agreed upon, it was stated. the plan Seems 10 be to raise the minima and maxima of the lower salary groups. to ralse slightly the minhma bat not the In Eight Innings, So Score Keeper Quits { what the Atlantic hoys, second string- | ers, oo, did to Grigwold's only pitcher, | By Une Awpiergtad ¥ ATLANTIC, lowa, April 26,11 Babe Be Watved Apris 26 ) wseport regulstions have beer tor the German-irish Uransat Chijet Immigration In. W Trudell has been Trudell was men gIve sny co-operstion ¢ power if the fiyers enter the| | this district Children Set Town Afire SERURG, Cpechoslovekia, April Littie ehtidren playing with st fire 1o the towrikof Cirom causing destruction of 3 Unied Slates 1o he0 12 butldings . Dadio Programs Page 41 instructed | | Gustim They made 92 hits in 130 attempts. ‘They hit 16 home runs, 6 triples and 23 doubles, They scored in every inning, getting 40 in the second and 27 in the seventh. One of them made 5 home runs and another scored 14 times in 14 times at bat The game stopped st the end of the elghth loning when the score keeper hecame exhausted Ruth, Lou Gehrig and thelr slugging | | New York Yankee mates ever come 10| Atlantic they will have a dificult tme showing the natives anythi new in base ball, The reason s that nesrly every- thing except on extra nning end errorless game neppened when Atlantic beat Gris- wold, 109 10 0, in a bigh school geme veslerday. While olteher, hurled Toronto Holdup Nets $25,000. TORONTO, April 26 (#)-~Two wrmed men held up & branch of the .| Btandard Bank of Canadae todsy and nosrun game | escaped with approximately $28,000 puck ot 18 'They drove away in # closed automobile *n @t bat, this s | hearing & Michigan license, 1 Lot 15 bt in 17 1 their “THE PENALTY” "Golden Rule” Film Produced by | The Evening Star To further traffic salety is heing shown today along with the regular program at | The Tivoli exploded twice, one bullet striking Mrs Naclegeswski, the other plowing through Mis Frain's jaw. Mrs wha reported dying RED CROSS GIVES $15,000. Contributed quake Sufferers. A contribution of $15,000 toward the rellef_of earthquake sufferers In Greece and Bulgaria was made today by the Amerlean Ked Cross through (he Btate Department. The Gireek Rod Oross will vecelve 85, 000 for use in the Corinth distriot and Fund to 14th and Park Road 10000 will go to the Bulgarian Red Cross. The Ameriean Red Ovoss sont $5,000 to Bulgaria April 20, Earth- | Frain | | | 10 Which the men were to Already claiming that the Ohio result Continued on Page 2, Column §.) ‘:fiuntcr" B;\g; Franklin Park Pigeons While Police Pay Visit to Tailor Shop i 1 | | While the park police were at thelt hunter had bagged his hmit or had | tatlors today, belng measuved for thelr | heard that police were on thelr way | new uniforms for Summer wear, some | He had left with his bag of pigeons ane who uvt:n-nuy had a tp that they | when Baesgen arrived would not be around, started bagging | It is & viclation of the park la- plgeons, which are Y‘n‘w-m i greal | tona to terfere n any way with birds aumbers in Franklin Park Some one | in the parks. According to n- ot In a harry eall to park police. Head | terviewed by the afficer, the man fed the Ofioer Bacagen, detalled there as clerk, | pigeons from his hand and then grab- was the only one present and he | bed one at a time, placing them In a rushy 10 Frankln Park, but the bag, 3 W i | grades maxima of the employes in Tmediate and to “squeese down™ both the minima and maxima of the advanced positions These decroases affect grades 4, § lcm-md T of the |:\\l«:nm and sclen- I service and the correspondin grades 11, 12, 13 and 14 of vm-urk\‘f administrative and fiscal secvice. The comparison in the case of professtonat and sclentifio services are: Qrads 4 Predent salary vange. $3.800 to $3.000. oposed range, $3.800 (o §4.40: present salary range, 3, $6.000. proposed range, $4.600 to $3.300. grade 6 present salary range. $6.000 o $T300. mopasd range, $5.400 W $8.000. and |n=t- 7. present l.m. STH00, proposed range. $6.500 to §7, ™ both the present law and the pro- posed blll grade 4 i the e (Continned on Page 3, &$ ot