Evening Star Newspaper, January 19, 1929, Page 2

WINDSTORMS KILL T1IN FIVE STATES School Collapses, Killing 3 and Injuring 25—Wide Area Swept. By the Avsoclated Press. CHICAGO, January 19.—Spring storms, two months ahead of time, killed 11 nersons in five States yesterday, mjure:. -any more, caused heavy prop- erty vanuge and finally swirled away up the St. Lawrence River Valley. In several places the storm that moved Missouri, Ohio was of across Illinols, Indiana and tornadic violence, espe- clally at Cape Girardeau, Mo, where two small children were killed: at Maunie, IIl, where there were three deaths, and at Fort Branch, Ind., where one woman was killed. Mississippi Is Hit. ‘Unseasonal rains and high winds were reported over a wide area contiguous to the path of the principal storm, going as far south as Mississippi, where one man was killed. Two men drowned in the Ohio River when the storm capsized thelr skiff, and another was blown from a bridge at Louisville, Ky. Victims of the storm were: Dorothy May Handley, 12, Maunle, 1. nBernlce Tucker, 13, Maunie. Mrs. Amos Newman, Maunie. Marjorie Hargraves, 4, near Cape irardeau, Mo. GBuddle Hargraves, 3, near Cape ardeau, Mo. Gi{‘m Mary Nolen, 65, Fort Branch, d. Ind. gfiitb:lurfifl{og; 24, drowned in Ohlo River between Milton, Ky. and o k¥§£ae, near Louisville, killed in b‘v‘?flfi:‘::p"lshnsher. 43, blown from '"E»‘.%iu‘o‘ ‘é’é‘r‘?éél}' :‘B‘Suc 65, Shelby, iss 4 also was missing in the ShAelb!y‘.e'L;olsL. storm and is believed to have been buried under wreckage of the three-story hardware store and Masonic Lodge building, which was leveled. The Toof of this structure was carried across the street and dropped upon Ferretti's shoe shop, crushing it and killing the mak mg‘lersl. ‘damage from the storm occurred south of Cape Girardeau, Mo. where the two Hargraves children met death. The storm, swept by twisting wind and accompanied by rain, cut across Illinois, bearing northeast and causing damage at Texas City, Norris City, Harrisburg, Chris City and Anna. Buildings were blown down, and there was loss among ve stock. n(:loudburxl.s were reported through South-Central Illinois section, causing heavy damage by the flooding of build- ings. The small steamer Mary J. over- turned in the Ohio River at Mounds, I, no one was aboard. Small streams throughout the area overflowed, and trafic was halted in many places where the water covered portions of the hways. m"rhe yv!lolenee of the storm was in- tensified at Maunie, at the Illinois-In- diana line, where a school building collapsed, killing twé children and Mrs. Newman and causing injuries, some serious, to 25 pupils. Rising temperatures preceded and ac- companied the storm, thermometers going as high as 64 degrees at Evans- ville, Ind. Temperatures began falling when night came. Reh?gud storms of less severity swept Kentucky and Tennessee. ‘The wind overturned the skiff in which Liter and Mahony were rowing from Madison, Ind., to Milton, Ky., and their bodies had not been recovered early today. Thrasher, at work on a bridge at Luis- ville, was blown into the river and drowned. A dispatch from Louisville said that st Elizabethtown, Ky., Blair Ackers suf- fered a fractured skull and four other persons were injured less seriously ‘when a laundry collapsed, burying them. A barn_colla] on Ml%; h‘iegy. farmer living near Georgetown, Ky. He was injured seriously. Louisville hospitals treated a number of persons for cuts and bruises. Because of the storm's wide area and unsatisfactory lines of communication to many places an accurate estimate of the storm damage was impossible. DIES AFTER HOME IS WRECKED. BLODGETT, Mo., January 19 (P)— The third death as result of a wind- storm in this vicinity yesterday was re- ported today. Mrs. Willlam Brown, 35, mother of six children, died as result of injuries suffered when her farm home was demolished, one mile from here. Two children in the house were in- jured while a third escaped. ‘The Brown home was three miles from the home of Loren Hargraves, farmer, two of whose children were killed in the storm. GIRL SENT TO PRISON ON FORGERY CHARGE Record of Her Derelictions Dates Back to Sixteenth Year, Court Says. Frances Mae Pyle, a young white woman, accused of forgery, was sent to the penitentlary for five years today by Chief Justice McCoy in Criminal Di- vision 1. The court expressed the hope that she could be sent to the new re- formatory for women at Alderton, W. Va. Her record of derelictions dated back to her sixteenth year, the court sald. According to Assistant United States Attorney Walter M. Shea, who had charge of the two cases against the young woman, Miss Pyle had the habit of loitering in department stores and catching the name of persons who bought on charge accounts. She would then make a purchase of goods and order them charged to a customer, sign- ing the name of the woman shopper as she had heard it. She also passed a number of worthless checks for small amounts on department store owners, the court was advised. MRS. FOSTER BURIED. Funeral services for Mrs. Sarah Jane Foster, 101 years old, oldest widow of a veteran of the War of 1812, who died at her home in the Kenesaw Apart- ments Wednesday, were conducted at the residence today. The funeral serv- ices and interment were private. A native of Charles County, Md., Mrs. Foster came to this city in 1827, when the population of the city was only 8,000 persons. Her husband was the late Adams Foster, who died in New Haven, Conn., in 1860. MRS. MAMIE DAVIS DIES. Mrs. Mamie Davis, 42, wife of George wilbur Davis, president of Clowe & Davis, Inc, commission merchants, died at her residence, 1621 Varnum street, Thursday. Death was due 0 jpneumonia. ~ Funeral services will be conducted at the residence tomorrow morning at 9:43 o'clock, Interment will be in Frederick, Md. & northeastward from southern | Alberto Pirelli, Ital THE EVENING STAR., WASHINGTON, D.” €. SATURDAY, JANUARY 19. 1929.' Members of the international committee of experts who will attend conferences in Paris to revise the Dawes plan and to seek a final settlement of the reparations problem. : Dr. Hjalmar Schacht. Germany: Togo Mori, Japan. Belgium; J. P. Morgan, United States; Jean V. Parmentier, France; Sir Josiah .. PROEETON HELD MO Gilbert Declares Honest Peo- ple Have Less Chance Here Than Elsewhere. ‘Washington affords less protection to | honest people than any city in the United States, Representative Gilbert of Kentucky charged at a hearing last night before the Gibson subcommittee | of the House which began an investiga- | tion of the financing plans of the Park- | way Apartments, Inc., a co-operative: project. “Several investigations similar to this have shown that honest people in the District get less protection than in any city in the country,” declared Mr. Gil- bert. “I know it is a strong indictment to draw, but it is true. You can get few people arrested for wrongdoing and few convicted. There are hundreds of bootleggers all around the Courthouse ;I;ld grand jury foremen can never find em.” Involves Property Investment. Mr. Gilbert made his statement after several witnesses had testified that after investing their savings in the Parkway apartments they not only lost their :‘qulty in the property but faced evic- jon. The committee was told that about 25 purchasers had paid about $25,000 into the corporation. The apartment house is Jocated at 3220 Connecticut avenue and contains 80 or more apart- ments, Mrs. Margaret J. Bain, a tenant in the apartment, said she had been de- frauded of $1,000 by a salesman. Joseph Small testified he lost $720 in the ven- ture. Other witnesses were Willlam H. Manning, who described himself as one of the “Parkway losers”; W. Bissell Thomas, an attorney; R. B. Warren, chairman of the co-operative apartment division of the National Real Estate Board: Edward W. Wickey and R. L. Johnson, attorney for Mr. Small. ‘The consensus of the witnesses was | that tenants had suffered through im- fl"’wr financing. Mr. Gilbert observed, owever, that the experience of the Parkway tenants seemed to show lack of care on the part of owners rather than any fundamental fault with the co- operative plan itself. 40 Others Mentioned. : ‘Warren testified that the Parkway was the only one of 40 similar co-op- erative apartments in the District that had failed. Approximately 1,200 fam- ilies in Washington live in such build- ings, he said, which have a total value of about $10,000,000. The co-operative plan, he declared, had been proved suc- cessful in numerous instapces where the financing was undertaken by men famil- lar with the subject. A similar opinion was expressed by Wickey, who read into the record a description of the financing of an apart- ment he described as satisfactory to all tenants. Thomas, asked by Gilbert to com- ment on the real estate situation in the District, said that it is almost a weekly occurence in the routine practice of law for him to meet with unethical practice in the taking out of second and third trusts on properties. He pointed out that in instances second trusts were placed with a view to “squeezing out” the real owners of properties. He sug- gested a statute requiring the owners of co-operative apartments to pay up all stock before selling apartments, as a safeguard to investors. It was brought out in the case of the Parkway, how- ever, that while the by-laws of the corporation provided for the issuance of 10 shares of stock, the records did not show any of the owners of the building had been issued stock. ADVENTUROUS POLISH PATRIOT, FILIPOWICZ, NAMED ENVOY TO U, . _7itcontm_ued From First Page.) neyed to England, and 1902 found him 8 Student in_the }ll.fu;‘don Coliege of ‘conomics, from which he w; - uated in 1905, Sl Russia was in turmoil, with revolu- | tlonary movements both in old Russia | and in Poland. Filipowicz returned to | Warsaw and plunged into the Tevolt, | which was directed by the Polish So- | ciallst party, to which Marshal Pilsudski | also belonged. He was captured, tried and condemn- ed by a Russian court to be deported to North Russia. By 1908 he had again | escaped his guards and made his way | back to London, where he remained | engaged in publicity and newspaper work both In Polish and English until the outbreak of the World War in 1914, ! Fights as Soldier in Ranks. Joining the legions of Pilsudski as a simple soldier, Filipowicz saw three years' service on the war fronts, When Pilsudski seized power at the close of 1918, Filipowicz was named first Polish vice minister of forelgn affairs. He represented Pilsudski during the Ver- sailles peace conference, In 1919 he was sent as chief of the Polish mission to the Caucasus. Caught in the bolshevik flood that swept over the Caucasus, Filipowicz spent several months in a Red prison. After the peace of Riga he was sent STRICKEN N AUTD, . SEHDOLEYDES CHARLES H. SCHOOLEY. HARSH SLAYING THAL NEARS X0 State Demands Death Pen- alty as Lawyers Launch Closing Pleas. By the Assoclated Press. ATLANTA, Ga., January 19.—The jury that for four days has heard de- tails in the trial of George R. Harsh, former college student charged with the murder of a drug clerk during a hold- up, today made ready to receive the case as attorneys for both sides launched into their closing pleas. Harsh, a member of a wealthy Milwau- kee, Wis,, family, is accused of slaying Willard Smith, 24, manager of a drug | store, during an attempted hold-up last ber. Testimony was completed late yester- day. The State demands the death penalty. In pleading for mercy William Schley Howard of defense counsel yesterday described Harsh as “an abnormal boy, cursed from the cradle with constitu- tional weakness and a disordered mind.” Assistant Solicitor F. A. Stephens of the prosecution pictured Harsh as a slayer with a-“shrewd mind,” declaring be had been pampered from youth, and demanded that “he should be made to pay_as every cold-blooded murderer is made to pay.” DAWES’ SON, TRAPPED IN FIRE, SAVED WITH 42 OTHER STUDENTS| __ (Continued From First Page.) long jump to ground. Some of the bfl)'y formed human chains by holding onfo each other’s hands and feet, and many escaped by climbing down the backs of their companions. Others leaped to the ground. ‘The loss exceeded $75,000. Most of the boys were barefoot and | clad only in pajamas, having no time to save clothing and valuables. A few snatched up overcoats before leapad. Everett Noble, assistant master of Dawes House, directed the escape from the blazing house. He led some of the boys down a fire escape. Noble only two weeks ago narrowly escaped death when a fighting yachi was tossed against a rock off the coast of Miami, Fla. ‘The fire started in the basement, and | was discovered at 3:20 a.m. Within 10 minutes the structure was enveloped in flames. Dean Mather A. Abbott, head master of the school, said the Dawes House had just been refurnished throughout at great expense. Vice President Dawes donated the dormitory to the school in memory of his deceased son, Rufus. MISS BERRY, 95, DIES. Was Lifelong Resident of Wash- ington—Funeral Rites Monday. Miss Lucinda Alice Berry, 95 years old, a lifelong resident of Georgetown, died at her residence, 2538 Wisconsin avenue, yesterday after a short illness. | Funeral services will be conducted in the chapel in Oak Hill Cemetery Mon- day morning at 11 o'clock. Interment will be in Oak Hill. While playing basket ball last night in the Congress Heights Auditorium Robert Shanklin, 22 years old, of the Vistoria_Apartments, ~ Fourteenth and Clifton_streets, was thrown against the wall of the gymnasium, sustaining & to Moscow as the first Polish minister to the Soviet state. Later he was Polish envoy to Finland and then to Belgium, compound fracture of his left leg. The Emergency Hospital ambuiance was summoned and at the hospital he was reated by O, Walter Gladding, - ™ Above, left to right: Owen D. Young, United State: Below | Dr. | where he had gone in his automobile = | days. they 3 Dr. mile Moreau, France; Emil Franqui, | Indian Affairs Bureau Aid Succumbs at Home of Physician. Charles H. Schooley, section chief in the purchasing division, Bureau of In- | dian Affairs, active in church and | fraternal circles, died suddenly Thurs- day night at the home of his physician, | Eugene Jones, Kenington, Md.. after becoming sick while driving. He ‘would have been 60 years old today. After Mr. Schooley had succeeded in parking his car and had shut off the motor the doctor was summoned and rendered first aid. Mr. Schooley died as he was being carried into the house. A native of Waterford, Va., Mr. Schooley was the son of Rev. William T. and Julia Schooley, and spent his youth at Waterford, Manassas and Herndon, Va. He was graduated from Central High School here in the class of 1889 and in the same year was appointed clerk in the Government Indian School at Grand Junction, Colo. Some years later he was trapsferred to the Bureau of Indian Affairs here. Mr. Schooley had long been active in the Hamline M. E. Church here, former- ly serving as superintendent of the Sun- day school and as precentor both in the Sunday school and church. He was a member of the choir there at the time | of his death and assisted the pastor in | the communion services last Sunday. He was married in 1901 to Miss Freddie Hough. He is survived by his widow, a son, Kenneth L. Schooley, and a brother, Ira P. Schooley, both of Forest Glen, and a sister, Mrs. Heber V. Schooley. At the time of his death Mr. Schooley resided at Forest Glen, ! where he had made his home for the t 24 years, moving there from this He was a member of the Kensington Lodge of Masons and the Capital View Citizens’ Association. Funeral services will be conducted in the Hamiine M. E. Church Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Rev. Chesteen | Smith, pastor, assisted by Rev. Joseph T. Herson, former pastor of Hamline, | will officiate. Interment will be in Rock | Creek Cemetery, with Masonic_ rites at | the grave by the Kensington Lodge of | Masons. JED GITTINGS DIES; . PROMINENT MASON Funeral Services Will Be Conduct- ed at Bethesda Residence Monday. Jed Gittings, assistant secretary of | | the Merchants' Transfer & Storage Co., and one of the most prominent mem- bers of the Masonic fraternity in Mary- land. died in the Takoma Park Sani- tarjum today after a short jliness. He had been in the sanitarium about 10 He resided on the Old George- | town road near Bethesda. U. S. DELEGATES British Ambassador Confers With Morgan and Young on Reparations. By the Associated Press. PARIS, January 19.—The names of Owen D, Young and J. P. Morgan have been officially and definitely approved by the reparation com- mission, the men having been named to serve on the expert committee, which will consider reparations re- vision, | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 19.—Having received the acceptances of J. P. Mor- gan and Owen D. Young to serve as | unofficial American observers to the reparations conference, Sir Esme How- ard, British Ambassador, was here today to confer with them. Sir Esme, upon his arrival in New | York, sald he obtained the acceptances of Mr. Morgan and Mr. Young by tele- phone before leaving Washington and | had already cabled the fact abroad. | He said he also had obtained the ac- ceptance of Thomas N. Perkins of Bos- ton to serve as alternate. Formal Invitations Awaited. The final step to American participa- tion in the conference will not be ac- complished until the formal invitations are received from the commission, but | Sir Esme, who was asked to act for the commission, said the acceptances re- ceived by nim virtually concluded the | matter. | Although Thomas W. Lamont, a| Morgan partner, was not mentionad by Sir Esme as an alternate, there was general expectation that his name would be forwarded to the commission after today's conference. At any rate, it generally was expected Mr. Lamont would accompany Mr. Morgan to Paris for the commission meetings next month. Up to Commission. Sir Esme sald the question ot adding Mr. Lamont to the delegation | as an alternate would be for the rep- arations commission to decide. ly to discuss various aspects of their (COMMUNITY CHEST |REPLIES ARE MADE ‘W. Griffen Gribbel, prominent Phil- adelphia clubman (upper), and John W. Blackburn, inspector of Philadelphia police, whom he shot and killed when a squad of police attempted to force their way through a barricaded door of the Gribbel home. Gribbel, shell-shocked during the war, was shot four times by police before he was subdued. —Wide World Photos. NEW THREAT SEEN | His conference with the American | UN VARE EUNTRUI_ representatives, he said, would be main- | co-operation and the probable time of their arrival in Paris. One object of Sir Esme’s trip to New | York was to bid good-by to his two sons, who sailed for England on the Majestic at midnight. NEW YORKER BUYS BGAS LIGHT STOCK Leiter Estate Gets Approval of Sale of 7,000 Shares to Outside Interests. Seven thousand additional shares ot Washington Gas Light stock have been acquired by D. A. Pearson, a New York financier, through a court decision rendered late yesterday by Justice Bailey in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. The terms of the ruling permit Joseph Leiter and other beneficiaries under the will of the late Mary Leiter to sell this block of gas company stock. The price paid by Mr. Pearson is $125 per share, the highest | figure yet recorded. Purchase of this large block of stock comes in connection with efforts which have been carried on several months by out-of-town interests seeking con- trol of the local company. Transfer of the 7,000 shares to Mr. Pearson will make him one of the large shareholders | in the company, but will not carry con- trol with it. While the New York financier refuses to state how much stock he actually holds, it is generally understood among bankers that he wiil have to obtain many more large blocks before control of the local utility will pass from its present management, Furnace Plan Rumored. It was stated several weeks ago that Middle West utility interests were the real forces seeking to buy stock control through Mr. Pearson. The New York man, however, issued a statement in which he said he was representing a group of private investors who believed the stock to be an extra good purchase and also thought the company could be made to increase its earnings to a very much larger amount. Washington bankers, however, believe that any group of private investors would be willing to sell their stock to a large utility company provided they were offered a generous profit. Reports have been in circulation here for months regarding what out-of-town interests proposed to do in the way of expanding the company's property, should they obtain control. One re- port said it was planned to spend $25,000,000 in laying new mains all over Washington, in which to carry a cheaper grade of gas for heating pur- poses. At present gas for all uses goes through the same mains. The belief Mr. Gittings had been affiliated with | the Merchants' Transfer & Storage Co. | since 1912, first under the title of | assistant manager and then assistant | secretary. Prior to then he was for 32 years with the old Knox Exp: Co., | which became a part of the Merchants’ | Transfer & Storage Co. in the same | year Mr. Gittings became connected | with the latter. ! Mr. Gittings' Masonic affiliations in- cluded that of past commander of the | Montgomery Commandry, No. 13, Rock- ville; past master of Bethesda Lodge, No. 204, of Bethesda; instructor in the Grand Lodge of Masons of Maryland, past senior grand warden of the Grand | Lodge and past high priest of the James F. Allen Chapter, Royal Arch Masons of Maryland. He also was a member of the Society of Natives of the District of Columbia, He is survived by his widow, Mrs. S. K. Gittings, and a daughter, Mrs. Peyton Whalen. Funeral services will be conducted at the residence Monday afternon at 2 oclock. Interment will be in Glenwood Cemetery, with Masonic rites at the gra by the Bethesda Lodge of Masons. E. T. REES, POLICEMAN, DIES OF PNEUMONIA | Ernest T. Rees, 34 years old, a police- man at the eleventh precinct for nearly 10 years, died at his residence, 1363 E street southeast, this morning of pneu- monia. The Fire Department rescue squad was summoned to the home, but was unable to be of any assistance. He was appointed to the force Feb- | ruary 25, 1922, and served connnunllyl at the eighth, ninth and eleventh precincts until his death. Rees was commended by his superiors on two different occasions for the ar- rests of auto thieves. He also was com- mended by the American Automobile Association for a similar arrest, . Classes from 1887 to June, 1928, were represented at an annual meeting of the Organized Classes of the University ©f Pennsylvania, was expressed. that a aign to in- stall gas furnaces in great numbers would be reflected in an immense in- crease in earnings. Before leaving Washington for New York last night, Mr. Pearson express- ed satisfaction over the amount of stock he has so far obtained. He has spent much time in Washington for several months and has interviewed many of the largest stockholders in the Washington Gas Light Co. personally and made direct offers for their stock. He also has visited the trust officers in several local banks with reference to purchasing stock tied up in estates, Two Moves Under Way. _ Two separate moves by out-of-town interests (o obtain control of the gas | company are now under way. G. Bowie Chipman of Harriman & Co. is acting for a utility company, Mr. Chipman has withheld the name of this com- pany, but he has made an offer di. rectly to the officers of the company for the stock. His price also was under- stood to be around $125 per share, The Washington broker said a few days ago that the law preventing out-of-town interests from owning more than 40 per cent of the stock in any local pub- lic utility was a technicality’ holding the matter up just now. During the past week the stock has climbed to & new high mark on the Washington Stock Exchange, selling at 109'; for the first time. Recent sales have been in small lots, but the stock has gained nearly 10 points in about three weeks. It was up to 106 before the Christmas holidays and then re- acted to 100. Recently it Ims-shown much more strength. Ord Preston, president of the Wash- ington Gas Light Co., had no comment to make today on this latest transfer of stock. He was also silent on the offer made direct to officials of the company by the interests represented by G. B. Chipman. It can be stated, however, from con- versation with other company officials that Mr. Preston Is opposed by the man- agement of the company passing out of Washington. He also believes that any offer for the stock should be made to all the shareholders and not to the largest ones only, considering it unfair to leave the smaller stockholders “out on thg ends of & Umb of & tres.” . o Election of President Judge Made Over Protest of Senator-Elect. By the Assoclated Press. PHILADELPHIA, January 19.—The election of Judge Charles L. Brown as president judge of the Municipal Court over the protest of Senator-elect Wil- liam S. Vare was viewed by political observers today as a greater signifi- cance than the defeat at the November election of several candidates in South Philadelphia wards who were backed by the Senator-elect. Many politicians accepted the out- come of the Municipal Court contro- versy as a serious threat to Vare's leadership of the local Republican or- ganization. Patronage of the court, with its 550 employes and annual pay roll of $1,000,000, was said to have had something to do with the controversy. Senator-elect Vare had telephoned ‘Thursday night from Florida, where he is recovering from a stroke of paralysis suffered last Summer, and appealed to the members of the court to recognize their “obligations” and vote for Judge Leopold C. Glass, an adherent of the Vare organization. His appeal was in vain, for seven of the ten judges com- prising the court cast their ballots for Brown, who has not been identified with the Vare interests. COMBINATION BILL MAY CLARIFY PAY Measure Including Best Fea- tures of Various Plans Held Possible. A combination of the best features of the various bills cesigned to clarify the Welch government pay act and remove the declared inequalities of its adminis- tration may be included in any legisla- tion reported out of the House civil service committee, it was indicated to- day by those who have followed the committee’s hearings. These hearings were concluded yes- terday afternoon and the committee will now turn its attention to deciding which of the half-dozen bills, or what provisions in them, incorporated in a new bill will eliminate the salary in- equities which are held to have resulted from Controller General McCarl's in- terpretation of the Welch act. An exec- utive session of the committee is ex- pected to be held next week for this purpose. McReynolds Gives Views. William H. McReynolds, assistant chief of the Federal Bureau o!‘s E‘ll- ficlency and director of the field sur- vey of the Personnel Classification Board, was the final witness. He told the committee that the Government had a noticeable lack of uniformity in its promotion policy, and said he had in mind to recommend an annual in- crease in the salaries of all Govern- ment workers, doing satisfactory work, to correct this condition. Although McReynolds sald he got his idea for annual increases from a New York firm, the plan is similar to the one proposed in the Sirovich bill, one of the measures before the committee. The Sirovich bill would grant flat in- creases from $100 to $300 to all Gov- ernment employes whose work is sat- isfactory. Outlines His Survey. McReynolds gave the committee a detailgd outline of the comprehensive survey undertaken by the classification board to determine the comparative salaries and personnel qualifications of Government employes and those in outside organizations. While the sur- vey is yet incomplete, he said, he would submit a preliminary report to Congress within 10 days which would cover in detail the operations and con- tain a definite statement of the prin- ciples and policies followed. The survey will show, McReynolds sald, that Federal workers in the lower salary rates of the various grades are better paid than employes in outside firms doing comparable work, while those above $2,000 class were getting less than those on the outside. The survey also wil show, he said, that the salaries of Government employes in ‘Washington average $63 higher than tohse in the fleld service. Luther C. Steward, president of the National Federation of Federal Em- ployes, announced at the close of the hearings that his organization has been trying to bring about such a survey | for 11 years. He is convinced that it | will show the Government pays less to its employes than does the private em- Sloyes, UNITANNOUNCED Merle Thorpe Named General Vice Chairman of Pub- licity Group. C. Melvin Sharpe, chairman of the publicity unit of the Washington Com- munity Chest, today announced the appointment of f rle Thorpe as gen- eral vice chairian of publicity and | named members of other departments of the publicity unit. The list follows: Dr. W. L. Darby, Dr. John O'Giady and Dr. Abram Simon, church co-oper- ation; Fred P. Guthrie, radio; Newbold Noyes, newspaper contacts; John E. Shoemaker, outdoor advertising;: W. Harriman Rapley, theater co-operation: Ernest Johnston, window displays; Col. Leroy W. Herren, display advertising; Jullan Brylawski and Harry M. Cran- dall, motion pictures, and Norman S. Kal, general publications. Billboards Offered. William C. Ewing, director of pub- licity for the Stanley Crandall Co., has tendered the use of four large bill- boards on behalf of the Metropolitan and Earle Theaters, which will be used in the outdoor poster campaign by the chest. John Poole, campaign chairman for the Community Chest, will explain the plan of campaign over radio station WMAL tonight at 8 o'clock, this period being sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce under the direction of Dorsey W. Hyde. jr. Mrs. Sidney F. Taliaferro, the only woman vice chairman of the special gifts unit of the chest, has secured the largest amount in pledges of any of that unit’s divisions, it was an- nounced at a meeting of the commit- tee yesterday. No amounts raised are to be made public, however, it was stated, until after the chest's campaign has gotten under way, January 28. The campaign will be for the sum of $1,343,348.93. Explains Suggested Scale. Elwood Street, director of the Com- munity Chest, today explained the scale of suggested giving as recently pub- lished, stating: “We do not presume to tell people what they should give. A person's gift is a matter for that person alone to decide, but we have been asked so many times as to how much we thought some certain person should contribute, that we compiled a scale, based upon past campaigns in Washington and in other cities, and including not only the re- corded gifts here but an_estimate of the unrecorded gifts as well. This scale was published Yfor purposes of informa- tion only, but we do ask the people of | Washington to remember that this is the greatest campaign ever undertaken in the Capital for one year's expendi- tures and that they must give on & hitherto unprecedented scale if it is to be the success that it should be.” HOOVER FOOD AIDES WILL BE N PARADE Favorable Ruling Made on Application of His For- mer Associates. Men and women who worked with Herbert Hoover in the food adminis- tration when the President-elect was virtual dictator of food, produced in the United States, will march in the inaug- ural parade, the inaugural committee announced today. An application for a place in the parade for former associates of Mr. Hoover in the latter months of the war and the post-war period, was made by J. E. Bacon and favorably acted upon under a ruling of the committee permitting “organizations of special nature, due to their affiliation with the President-elect,” to be allotted places as marching clubs. Further plans of the parade commit- tee have allotted national veteran and patriotic socleties a quota of 35 march- ers each and the auxiliaries of these 35 each. Bands or drum corps ac- companying these units have been giv- en a limit of 30 each. Chairman An- ton Stephan's original plan of one marcher to each 20,000 persons in the State has been adhered to in the parade plan, and the personnel of State march- ing clubs will be selected by State Re- publican committee chairmen. These clubs will be allowed a band or drum corps in addition to the marchers. All bands and drum corps have been re- ferred to the adjutant general or the Republican chairmen of their State and the inaugural committee requests that early application be made, as the first division of the parade is already filled. It will probably be several weeks be- fore plans for participation of commer- cial aircraft in the aerial show to ac: company the parade are made known | Col. Paul Henderson, in c! e of ar- rangements for commercial aircraft, is | on the Pacific Coast, and is out of touch | with the committee temporarily. | Gen. Stephan will broadcast an ad-| dress on the coming inaugural over | radio station WMAL tonight at 9:30 o'clock. Dr. McCabe Dies. DYERSBURG, Tenn., January 19 (#). —Dr. Alexander C. McCabe, 72, arch- deacon of the Tennessee Diocese of the Episcopal Church, died today. 10 CHEST QUERIES Workings Are Explained to Those Writing Essays in Contest. Further answers to the scores of in~ quiries on the workings of the Com- munity Chest from those writing eseays in The Star’s contest on the advantages of the Community Chest in Washington, prepared by the heads of the chest fund campaign for the edification of the essayists, were announced today. Many queries as to the manner in which the budgets of the member agencies of t..e chest are determined have been received from the essayists. ‘The chest heads answer: “The agencies submit to the budget committee of the Community Chest an itemized statement of their receipts and expenditures for the past three years. Their requests for the year ahead are based upon these statements and the social needs of the community. The budget committee carefully scrutinizes these requests and makes recommenda- tions to the trustees of the chest. The board of trustees then carefully goes over the recommendation of the budget committee and takes such action as it deems best.” On the Human Element. Not a few questions have been asked about the chest taking the human element from charity administration and mechanizing it. Many have sald, “I want to feel the thrill of giving and see a man’s face light up with gratitude when I aid him.” The chest heads answer: “Such alms-giving will prolong the need for charity indefinitely. Have you the means to study each case carefully, to determine the real causes of the need? Have you the time to work out a comprehensive plan of rehabilitation? Do you know that your grateful man is not receiving the same dole from many other people in Washington? Pane handling is easier than working. The number asking for charity will increase as long as there are people who will hand out alms indiscriminately. It should be remembered also that in & large city many persons are in distress who would remain uncared for if there were no organizations working day by day to care for them. Sending a check to the treasurer of the Community Chest is no more mechanical than send~ ing checks to the treasurers of 57 organizations.” Tag Days to Stop. The chest heads point out that, while from time to time, as the need arises, building fund campaigns for some of its member bodies will be allowed, they assure Washington that the tag days, balls, bazaars, floods of appeal letters and the long list of ways in which money has been raised in the past by the member bodles will be dis- cfl)ntl.nued under the chest administra« tlon. Four days remain for essayists to enter their essays in the contest. The essays must be in the hands of the Community Chest Essay Contest Editor, Star Building, before next Wednesday. They must be less than 300 words in length. Prizes of $100, $50 and $25 are offered by The Star for the three best essays and these prizes will be awarded at the dinner at the Mayflower Hotel on January 28, when the chest cam- paign will be launched. The essays will be judged by a board of editors of The Star. WIFE HELD AFTER MATE IS WOUNDED Husband, 75, Shot in Neck, in Critical Condition at Hospital. Franklin Pierce Naylor, 75, is in a critical condition in Casualty Hospital with a gunshot wound in his neck, said by police to have been inflicted early this morning by his wife, Mrs. Cora Pearl Naylor, 38, who is being held a¥ the eleventh precinct police station ta await the outcome of his injuries. The police reported that Naylor's wife was & colored woman. ‘The woman is said by Naylor, polica claim, to have shot him while they were in bed this morning .as they struggled for possession of a .38-caliber revolver. At the hospital, little hope was held by physicians for his recovery. Naylor's wife was arrested at her home, 817 Forty-eighth street north- east, by Sergt. Harry T. Burlingame of the eleventh precinct a few minutes after the shooting, which occurred about 7:15 o'clock. Sergt. Burlingame found the man on his feet with blood flowing from the wound. He sum- moned the patrol and sent Naylor to the hospital, Neighbors told police that they heard the couple quarreling several times in the course of the night, and this morning heard the report of a gun. They telephoned police. Mrs. Naylor is quoted by police as saying that the gun was lying beside her bed and her husband seized it and rushed toward her. They grappled, she said, and the gun exploded. ‘Wesleyan University will award the 10 annual Denison scholarships—$500 each—in 1929-30 term. Prizes of $175 cAre Offered for Community Chest €ssays Washington's Community Chest drive is near. Through it the city’s giving to charitable projects will be co-ordinated. Greater good is expected to be achieved with organized effort. Citizens everywhere are uniting for the great fund-raising effort. These funds are to be distributed to 57 organized charities of the District during the course of the coming year. To further interest in the coming campaign The Evening Star today is offering prizes totaling $175 for the best essays to be written by Washingtonians on the advantages of the Community Chest in the National Capital. These essays must be under three hundred words in length. All persons in Washington, except employes of The Star, are eligible to awards. Manuscripts must be submitted to the Community Chest Essays Contest Editor of The Star before Wednesday, Jan- uary 23. ‘Their merits will be judged Star. by a board of editors of The That essay deemed best will be awarded a prize of $100. Second best, $50, and third best, s $25. Be sure and enter your essay early. Do not delay.