Evening Star Newspaper, December 9, 1928, Page 6

o 0 LACK OF CRUISERS DECRIEDBY WIBUR Sécretary’s Report Declares, _ Tactical Training Hurt. Wants More Officers. | Tactical training of the fleets” and | their maintenance in the highest state | of battle eficiency is seriously handi- | capped Wy the lack of crulsers, accord- ! ing to the annual report of Secretary Curtis D. Wilbur of the Navy Depart- ment, made public today. Lack of sufe ficient officer and enlisted personnel to | mest the increasing demands of a high state of efficiency and the situation with regard to surface vessels is further age gravated by the increasing demands on * the service for personnel for the fast- growing aviation branch. i Onlling parlicular attention “to the| value of extended cruiszrs by the fleet, | Secretary Wilbur said that no more | valugble’ training of the units of th fleet can be hed than these, and he adds. thet the resuits of the scouting | problem conducted on the outward trip | o Hawail during the year, as wall i similer problems, brought out t im- portance of cruisers for fleet operations and show how badly handicepped our THREE MEASURES PLANNED FOR AID _OF U. S: EMPLOYES |- (Continued From First Page. often proved to be due to forgetfulness or overlopking the necessity of getting the proper personnel. Reorganization Involved. Leaders.in the House, who were can- that the salary question is of immsdiate | importance, but it is bound up with the question of reorganization of the | personnei empioyment system. This redction in the Houss sséms to have resulted from the fact that ail over the country, Federal ' employes have not only sent their complainis to the National Federation of Federal Employes' headquartars here, but took them up directly with their Representa« | tives in Congress while thaye were home in their district. Thess complaints foi- !lowed a broadcast that all were to re- ceive pay increasss under the Welch bill, whereas, 25 & matter of fact, many large groups did not g°t the rate O increes2s intended for them or were barred from participation in benefi's {lnn Congress intanded they should ave. It ‘was perfectly plain at the time the Weich bill was enacted that Con- aress intended that pending the make ing of the field survey and submission |to Congress of the propossd draft for further legislation for the sstting up fleet is by the shortage of this existin% tha - slon_from its regular station for urgent duty in China so far reduced the already small number of cruisers that it was | - impracticable to give this class of ves proper tactical training. i Urges More Officers. | In order to correct the shortage in officer personnel, Sccretary Wiibur rec: cmmends that the Naval Academy b aced On a statutory five-appointmen is, instead of the four now prevailing | and which is limited by the appropria- | tlons. Such a resumption would not be effective until 1933 in the output of graduates and from that time thereon should supply from 75 to 100 officers per year over the number resuiting from the four-appointment basis. The tatic of officers to enlisted men, e says, was fixed at 4 per cent by the act of August 29, 1816, in contempla- tion of the Navy then existing and in prospect. In the meantime, conditions have changed radically, and the ratio Jonger meets the needs | ‘The rapid development | of: aviation, and the mcrfsed propor- | tion of. smaller vessels in the fleet, | combine to require materially greater percentage. of offices to men than did the Navy in 1916. TPurther, new Aux-| {liary weapons have come into being. each requiring the services of ‘a large and -constantly increasing number of | officers, and similar demands have to| be met dué to increases in number, size, and complexity of the older-type weapont of the service. author- ratio of line officers to. enlisted l"\o.n should thcreofore be n:efllud from present 4 to 8 per cent. Mr. Wilbur says that the Navy may be operated in peace time with a shortage of personnel, but at & cost of elther feducing the number of vessels * in* commission below that numa' for . the varied peace-time activities the Navy, or ‘of reducng the personnel aboard the individual vessels below the int where the efficiency °A‘ ships can of 4 per cent no of the service. during fiscal year, ‘and will increase in the future unless a te measures are ! taken to forestall it. This anticipated | ingrease is due in part to the com- | missioning of niew"vessls, but in large | ATt 10" the demand of ‘the ly 11,000, the total ars ‘and men have decreased 2,000, & Nt 1088 to thie surface navy of 8,000 _ Reserve Sipplies Low. shortage- of . the reserve supply for naval guns, due to the Laké mark disaster, is brought to the attention of the President by the Secretaty of tlu'llavz‘ who adds that ure of "powder “sre not %0 replace the annusl ex- for . target practice and rou- “While in:-an emergency, B S R o e g could at Tittle sdditional expenss “be.expanded - to more than twice its nt; capacity, it is: considered essen. Hal to pre; that existing eivil manufacturers of ‘smokeless powder prepared to expand ver powder in ean’ be The of “powder-. l':h:’hl:h will persnit them 1jo e r gpecially @ personne! maintaln. in condition part of ‘their | manafacturing | 3 that progress ! A <B~‘fi>&y¢m¢m of | tween & disabléd. submerged submarine | & isurface i consistd of A transmitter in & waters | {ately terative with the sal f - the of a4 comprehensive, workable compen- sation system for the Federal Govern- ment. the Welch bill was to operate in ths meantime and apply to employes all over the country. Instead, groups here and thére were stalled off or the daté was postponed for allowing the increases. > Welch bill passad the Hous> 281 to 14, and the votes recorded egainst it were not hostile, but in protest that the law was not liberal enough The intent of Congress was unmisiakable. Protest Meetings Held. ‘Yet members of Congress, both in the Senate and House, now find overtrxel ing complaint against maladminis tion of the act. Not only have the complaints been made to individual members of Congress, but mass meet- ings of protest have been Held. In Seattle, Wash., there was such & meet- ing, which the Senator and three Hous? members heard complaints by speakers representing groups of em- ployes in at least a dozen important centers. in Congress to do something to patch up the cracks in the present law, to make the administrative officers realize they have actéd contrary to the intent and then more deliber- o act upon whatever recom- mendations the Personnel Classification Board may make in the report it is re. 3ulred under the law to make éarly in anuary, for permanent salary. classifi- cation of the fleld forces on & basis comparable with the departmental em- ployes ih Washi Chairman Lel king in- formation regarding maiadministration of the Welch act, learned Lmemy that the field service in the Navy Depart- ment did not benefit under the law until August 1, although the effective | date was July 1. . He learned the majority of the field workers under the Veterans' Bu- reau did not benefit until Beptember 1 and some not until October 1. He was advised that in the custodial service, where there are mostity low-paid work- ers, the increases were allowed July 15 instead of July 1; then when organized _ywwn was made, the increase was al- owed as of July 1, but was “butchered” and did not maintain the relation of salaries after the Welch bill becamné 6p- prior to pas- of . the #ct. - For service, th Welch bill carried a -fiat increase of $180 per person, but migny were allowed only fractional parts of that amount, ‘B‘r‘ uhlmh :“Aa:. informed, and the ureau of the et figures were pre- sénted in proof of this.” ' Somie 20000 civilian ‘War rtment in the deprived of any beriéfit whatever under tght. shell, surrounded by an electro- | magnet, all attached to _several fathoms of diving cable. This is| K over ‘the sfde of the k ang arfoe, will be hel by | 7 et, which will: of. suf o o .hold | lfl plécde evéni’ with a weight cf' several fathoms of cable. { Thréughout the yéar, he says, ap-| proximately two-thirds of the strengti | of the’ Marine Corps have been em- ‘Ploved upon expeditionary, foreign or &84 duty outside of the United States. | ~Of these, the operations in Nicaragua ' Have been the most trying and weari- | ! on officers and men, due. in th - Mmost part to the primitive condition | the precipitous and dense char-| ‘Weter of the country to be traversed in m:junung the outlaws and bandis e. 2 gl up the matter of enlisted per- 4 A1 Taking sonnel, Mr. Wilbur says that the allow- Ances for’ sh d stations for the | v al r 1928 were inadequate. It 5| ' Wpparent, he continues, that new ‘cone | “struction programs invariably necessie tate ingreases of personnel to man the +3hips when commissioned, and that to | Feoiently. provide for these 1equire- ! - Ments ‘the “total numbers must be in- eréased during the fiscal year priof to commissioning. Present methods of | providing for personnel preclude all such provisions, and when new ships| * are commissioned an already in-| adequate distribution of personnel must” Exquisite mules of coloréd satin and vér, plain or fichly feather trimmed. $5and blue, Red, ack k id with eather heels. soles be disrupted resulting in a greater in- . . adequacy throughout the fleet and a .- lowering of efficiency. REPORTS T0 BE STUDIED *"AS MERGER MARKS TIME Chairman Capper of Senate m:trictl CTémmittee.Gives Week to Subcommittee. ‘', Chairman Capper of the Senate Dis- | Ariet committec will mark time on the | question this | wmk, to give the members of the spe- | e #treet rallway - merger Senate subcommittee time to study the reparts of the Bureau of Efficiency and of Dr. Milo R. Maltbie before call- ing another meeting of th2 5ubcnm-| mittee. ‘The Senator said he thought it ad- | visable to give the subcommittee mem- sers an opportunity to go over the two | voluminous reports before proceeding. He indicated the next subcommitt: week. The committee chairman has not in- dicated what he belleves the future @focedure of the subcommittee will be. A i £ wood hsel. meeting probably would take place next | Pretty figured satin Iarge boudoirs, - with side rosstte. L .| the House Priday viso in the Treasury-Post Offic vassed yesterday, invariably pointed out | jn, t | compossd of 10 employes, each of dif~ This Has resulted in determination | ¥ the Welch act, through administrative For 52 “Hahn” been Washington’s Headquarters for SLIPPERS brown or D'Orsay wood Daniel Green quilt- ed satin boudoirs. Soft’ dded so6les — or $1.29 Tth & K—3212 14th THE ' SUNDAY interpretation, Mr. Lehlbach wes in- formed. m The attempt by Mr.'La Cuardia in to strike out the pro- ce appro- priation bill limiting salaries to average for the grade was more impor- tant than generally “estimated. Mr. Lehibach promptly emphasized its im- ortance. THhis proviso was employéd ve years wien the classification act first *went into operation as a brake to prévent all salarfes in a grade being immediatély jumped to the highest rate. It has outlived its purpose and has slowed up on advancement in the sei o6, and 13 now acting as A draf down initiative of employes, Tried to Begulste Promotions. A year ago Mr. Madden attempted through distinctive legislation to put | through a more efficiont. method of reg- ulating promotion by providing for peri- odical increases, not oftener than once & year for those in the higher des | and once in six months for those in the | lower grades, Mr Lehlbach has become convinced | that the device of controlling throu,ln‘ keeping the average pay at or below t middle rite for the gnae 1s mechanical and arbitrary, He has bsen shown by way of “illustration, tHhat in a force ferent rates of pay, but whoss average ry is at the middle rate for the grade, if the four lowest pald are droppad be- cause the other six have so increased their efficlency that they can do all the work that the 10 previously per- formed the average salary rate for the six exceeds the middle rate for the ‘ade, but they cannot be rewarded for * their increased efficiency. Their only hope lies in having the most highly aid of their number resign or in hav- ing new persons added fo the force at the lower rates for the grade. Mr. Lehtbach believes that in so far as possible, standard lévels of perform- ance should be established for the sev- eral salary rates within the class, and that when the cmploye Attains the standard performance required for a salary rate, he should réceive it re-| gardless of what other employes in his | group are éarning. If all the employes in a given group succeed in attaining the highest stand- ard level of performance, the cost per unit of performance would be lower, he points out, although all employes are at the maximum rate for. the class. ‘The fundamental conclusions on which Representatives La Guardia and Lehlbdch are working are that sys- tematic provision should be made for rewarding efficiency in the performance | of substantially unchanged duties: that this should be done as a rule through the establishment of minimum, maxi- mum and intermediate rates within the . ‘They are of the opinion that bly the best general rule is to these steps contingent botii on length of service and efficiency, but that t6 this rule there should be ex- ceptions so that the system is directly applicable to the elass to which it is applied. Plans to Call Meeting. Mr. Lellbach eéxpects to call 4 meet- llI\J of the eivil service committeé early this week at which the personnel prob- lem will be discusssd with particular téféréencé to the p stop-gap measure, which probably will be retro- active. , Lehlbach does. not think, however, that it will be necessary to have 1 y hearings. He believes his executive conferences with those who know most about the operation of | the Welch act will disclose sufficient information' on which to base his reliéf b 3 In full acpord with the movement to amend the Welch law, Chairman Dale of the Seénate civil service committe: declared yesterday he would give gmt considération to any move the ousé may take to correct what mem- Dbers of Congress regard as injustices in the présent interpretation of the meas- ure. Senator Dale said he is waiting t0 se¢ what course thé House may follow 0 improve the salary law, but empha- sized he is in agreement with those who feél the method adopted fot put- ting the increases into “éffect did not'| lish what Con, had in fhind in pn!m‘ ‘the act. t;e &dmd out that; his belief that he "“{ the Jaw. should be amended béfore thé presént session opened. Senator Brookhart of Towa, another years the stores have Shapely satin mules in black with linifgs of - contrasting _colors. $3.50 sil- $6 Black lining feather trim, $ satin - mules oolor Novelty vari-colored suedé and checkeéred satin slippers, spe- and _ clally priced. 98¢ Blue, black or red kid boudoir _slippers, with silk rosstte. Soft dded soles and o $1.45 oW Wonten's Shon 1207 F S | he ‘held under the old law. TAR, WASHINGTON, member of the civil service committee, who believes the law should be amend- ed, still“favors the plan he advocated of providing for the same last Sprin salary steps in a grade number o the, under the new law *s existed in each grade under the old law. In enacting the Welch law, Congress omitted the two bottom salary steps, but in a num- ber of grades -added only oné new step at the top of the grade. This meant consolidation of seven salary stéps into six, and complicated the task of carry- ing out the provision directing that an | employe should be placed in the same | relative position within the grade that | | PE SHORTS RUSH TO COVER AS PRICES AGAIN FALL UNDER RECORD SALES | _(Continued From First Page.) | it was the greatest on record, the reac- | tion in the last half of this week ex- | ceeded In intensity all previous breaks in market history. Measured by the Assoclted Press averages, it was at least three times ns bad as the dra- matite collaj in prices in March 1928, although prices generally are consider- ably higher than they were then. dr:;':fc fo::awlnld m:oe nlluatnm the price reductions in several of | the high-priced stocks: | Net Week’s Today’s Loss Stock. High. Close. Today. Radio Corporation 420 296 72 Int. Harvester 370 National Tea. Case Threshing .. Wright Aero...... 276%; Montgomery Ward 423 Rossia Insurance.. 270 the “bears” started at th2 opening of the market, with honors about even for | the first hour. Radio, which was un- der steady sclling pressure from the opening, began to show signs of acute weakness, and the rest of the list reacted in sympathy. When word was ssed back to the brokerage offices rom .the floor of the exchange that Radio was selling nearly $20 a share below the prices appearing on the tape, a deluge of selling orders appeared and prices broke wide open. Radio dropped as much as $10 a share between sales. The reaction this week is expected to bring about a sharp reduction in the volumz of brokers' loans, due to the closing out of thousands of speculative accounts. Exchange member loans as of November 30, announced this week, reached the record-breaking total of $6,301,644,264, while the Fed- eral Reserve total, published week set & new high mark at $5,394,580,000. Bankers that these figures will set & N i markefor some time. Prices of ds took the toboggan along with those | East Coast 5s, Katy 5s A, Rock Island of stocks today, havy selling ulnflh;x the general list down 48 much as 34 points. In the face of D. C., DECEMBER 9, Morgan is Reported Organizing Forces to Support Market By the Associated Press. NEW YORK. December 8.— The New York World will say to- morrow that four partrers of J. P. Morgan & Co. and several “outsiders” were in conference all this afternoon in the Morgan offices. No information was given out regarding the conference, but the World will say & report was cur- rent in Wall Street that lead- lng banking interests were con- sidering plans for organized sup- port of the market. the widespread heaviness of the mar- ket, a few issues, industrials, utilities | ani rafls, made small gains, but did| not attract much trading. Traders | who usually lighten commitments -for over tcneed w'zek entdhs :Hp!‘{enuy ;‘e‘re cg; couraj go the limit on s the break in the stock mckzl. l!’om sales exceeded $5,000,000. Brookiyn Union Gas debenture 515s, recent sensational performer in ths ad- vance, dropped 34% points on a small turnover to 330, as compared with the year's best price of 396%. Andes Cop- per s sold oft 6 points to 179, &8 com- pared with the year’s high of 241. Losses of 1 to 5 poinis were shown by Anaconda Copper 7s, Transconti- nental Oll 658, Public Service of New Jersey 4,8, National Radiator 614s, Federal Light & Traction 5s and Barns~ dall 6s, while other active industrials made fractional declines. Gains of as much as 2 points were shown in such issus as Dery Dry QGoods 7s, Consoli- dated Coal of Maryland 5s, American Smelting 58, Remington Rand 5 United States Rubber 5s and Intern: tional Paper 6s A, Rails moved irregularly lower. Penn- sylvania 4358, Ann Arvor 4s, Florida 4s and Baltimore & Ohto first 5s showed Selling of Bt. Paul 55 was con- , while Central of New Jersey 58, Unlon Pacific first 4s, Kafy 4l4s, New York Central 4s, Baltimore & Ohlo 4,8 and others were under pressure. ‘The foreign list ylelded to general selling. United States Government ob- ligations were frregular in light trading. Curb Sales Set Record. All Baturday trading records were broken on the New York Curb Market today when 1,464,000 shares changed hands in -a sweeping reaction which carried scores of prices down 1 to 28 points. The previous Saturday récord ;v:.«l’t,l,fll).loo. established on Novem- T ‘The reaction embraced all groups of stocks, but was particularly severe in some of the high-priced specialties. Brokers again reported that many curb issues were thrown overboard to pro- tect committments on the “big board.” where many margins had been wiped out in the drastic shake-out of the last three days: 1928—PART 1. HOMEES ARE RAIDED, TWO WOMEN HELD Fourteen Put Under Arrest on Disorderly Conduct Charges. Two women were arrested last. night and charged with conducting disorder- | Iy houses and 1llegal possession of liquor when their homes were raided by police of the first precinct. Mrs. Martha W. Fox, 3¢, of the 800 block of K street, whose apartment was first visited, was charged . in- addition . with permittiog ?lr:'llhg, l;l'd an :dded“cct:d% mn"u- actur] Jquor was Ty, Sophie D Hoffman, l’n, of the 900 block of I street, the second woman fed: fl\‘;‘)%fly‘ t,h:t.’al. p;h‘e° K street, “A:- S oun ns whom z 4 booked for dicorderly conduct. = They were released under 85 collateral each. | E‘olm;-three bottles of alleged beer were | seized. Liquot Confiscated. At the T street address 20' bottles of alleged beer and a half gallon of alleged liquor were confiscated and four men | wete arrested for disorderly conduct anc later released-under $5 collateral each. Officers making the rald were. Pre- cinct Detectives John LeFoe and Georse R. Browning and Pvts. A. 8. Douglas, F. Smith, F. A, Carr and 8. R. Russell: | Yesterday afternoon Sergt. Oscar J. | Letterman’s vice squad raided an al- VR BT B BRI A SRR e ! 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A second raid was made yesterday afternoon by the vice squad at a house in the 2000 block of Fourteenth street. where they are alleged to have found 22 quarts of whisky, two quarts of gin, 120 Dottles of béer and 50 gallons of beer mash block of U street was arrested and charged with sale and possession of | Tiquor. Officers on the raiding squad were Sergt. Letterman and Detectives Wil- lncr(r:\ F. Burke, R. J. Cox and George M SLIP the gift last long the men h Willlam Cush, 29, of the 100 | POLICE DOUBT STORY. Bookmaker's Claim Kidnapers Got Only $500 Is Investigated. LOUISVILLE, Ky., December 8 (). —The ride Ed Alvey, Loulsville’s book= maker, took last Monday night Wwith alleged kidnapers who held him captive 53 hours, cost him less than $500, he told policé, Chief of Detectives M. Rey | Yarberry said today. 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