Evening Star Newspaper, January 26, 1929, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair with lowest temperature tonight about 24 degrees; tomorrow increasing cloudiness, followed by rain or snow. ‘Temperatures: Highest. 36, at 10:15 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 25, at 7:35 a.m. today. Full report on page 6. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 b ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Star, “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 as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 109,003 Entered as secoj post office Wa: No. 30,951. nd class matter shington, D. C. WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 1929—TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES. * (#) Means Associated Press. AMERICAN EXPERTS DECLINE 10 HEAD REPARATIONSBODY Young Sends Informal Word to Europe by Way of S. Parker Gilbert. DESIRE TO KEEP ALOOF FROM DEBT CONTROVERSY United States Firm in Insistence on Keeping Loans Out of Discussion. BY HUGH O'CONNOR. Epecial Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, January 26.—An infor- mal caution was dispatched to the allies and Germany last night by Owen D. Young, chairman of the board of the General Electric Co. He let them know | they must cease to consider an Ameri- can for chairman of the international commission of economic and financial experts, among whom he has been in- vited to sit, with J. P. Morgan, “as| private American citizens,” to make “a. full and final determination of what Germany shall pay for the war.” The caution, which is authoritatively understood to be in accord with Presi- dent Coolidge’s wishes, is being trans- mitted verbally by S. Parker Gilbert, who sailed last night on the Paris. After delivering this information to the allied and German representatives, who will be gathered in Paris, Mr. Gilbert will proceed to Berlin. He is to resume tem- porarily the post of agent general for Teparations, supervising “as a private American citizen” the collection of Getman payments for the allies under the Dawes plan, as he has done since the original international commission of experts devised it, under the chair- manship of another American, four years ago. Confers Before Sailing. Before sailing yesterday Mr. Gilbert called on Mr. Young for a final discus- sion of the situation which will con- front the experts nominated by France, Great Britain, Belgium, Italy, Japan and Germany, when they meet in Paris on February 9, together with the two Americans, whom all have invited, as officially stated, “the American Gov. ernment having interposed no objec- tion either to the nivitation or the per- e, Young is reliably understood ty Mr. Young e to have laid upon Mr. Parker ghe duty of breaking the news discreetly 'to the Al- lies Germany that there are ex- cellent reasons for abandoning their expressed project of making him chair- man. The attitude of the United Stales Government was explained very care- fully to Mr. Young at the White House at that time, and it was a matter cf satisfaction that Mr. Young understood 1t so closely. An unofficial distinction is made be- tween the original Dawes committee and the present wl‘nmllat:’ee. ‘Tk': ml-i Young proposed only weel cal “the ae&nd Dawes committee.” Problems Have Changed. ‘The original Dawes committee was commissioned “to balance the Germau budget and give her a stable currency” at & time when the German mark had ceased to have any value whatsoever. It was regarded almost as a rellef com- mittee. The present experts’ committee, how- ever, will be called upon to scale down the total of Germany’s obligations from the figure of $33,000,000,000, which was first set in 1921. This expected reduc- tion ot Germany's debt will immedi- ately cause the allies to ask if the United States will not do as much for them as they have for Germany. In order to maintain the American position that cutting the total of Ger- many’s obligations to the allies has nothing to do with total of allied war obligations to the United States, President Coolidge, it is understood, dis- approved the suggestion that Mr. Young, an American, should be chairman of the committee which did the German cut- ting. ’%he suggestion was brought here by Mr. Gilbert and it was regarded as one of the most important missions in- trusted to him by the allies and Ger- many. They admittedly foresee a de- termined opposition between the French plea that Germany is trying to evade paying to the full limit of her capacity and the German plea that the yearly payments demanded under the Dawes plan threaten her with economic ex- tinction. The allied and German reason for wanting Mr. Young as chairman was his notable service in co-ordinaiing views at the sessions of the original Dawes committee four years ago and because Mr. Young is practically the cnly man of sufficient prestige and recognized impartiality to be an influ- ential chairman. Because Mr. Young would be such an influential chairman, however, Presi- dent Coolidge's position was understood 10 be that it would give rise to a plea for allied debt reduction eventually on the ground that the German debt re- duction had been iargely influenced by American judgment. Last night, just before he sailed, Mr. Gilbert said he did not know what the experts’ commission would do now in selecting a chairman. His own function, he repeated, is simply to hold himself in readiness in Berlin to go to Paris and answer ques- tions ahout Germany's economic life as he has checked it up for the allies during the last four years. He was accompanied by his wife with her maid and by his sccretary, A. W. McGary. PLANE FLIEé INTO ROCK. American Banker and Daughter Escape in Accident Off Corfu. ATHENS, January 26 (#).—Two per- sons were killed and two injured when an Italian hydroplane on the Pireaus Brindis! Service crashed into a rock off Corfu last night. Charles Holder, an American banker, and his daughter, who were passengers on the plane, escaped injury. Charles Adams Holder, who lives in Paris, is president of the Asia Bank- ing Corporation. Radio P,rograms-—f’age 28 Believes Wilson Program Did | Not Call for Reparations Payment. Reyal Families Arrive at Docrn for 70th Celebra- tion Tomorrow. By the Associated Press. DOORN, Holland, January 26.—Mem- bers of European royal families still on friendly terms with former Kaiser Wil- helm were arriving today to help him celebrate the seventieth anniversary of his birth tomorrow in as grand a style as exile will permit. The first of the Hohenzollerns to ar- rive was Wilhelm’s only daughter, Prin- | cess Victoria Louise, who was ac-| companied by her husband, Duke Ep- nest August of Brunswick, familiarly known as “the Cumberlander.” Limited facilities for the entertain- ment of the royal guests caused them to be scattered throughout various | castles and other buildings near Doorn House. The princess and the duke with the former Kaiser's sister, Princess Sophie, widow of former King Constan- tine of Greece, will be the only guests at Doorn Castle. The Kaiser's other sister, Princess Margarete, with her husband, Duke Friedrich Karl, Prince of Hesse, was as- signed to Amerongen, where Wilhelm lived for a year and a half after his abdication. Housed Near Castle. The former Crown Prince and Prin- cess, as well as the children of Prin- cess Hermine, the Kaiser's second wife, were taken: care of at the so-called Orangerie, near Doorn Castle, while Friedrich August III, former King of Saxony, went to the entrance building of the estate. All other guests were assigned to places elsewhere than the premises. In the absence of the former Kaiser's brother, Prince Henry, because of illness, the former King of Saxony as the high- est ranking guest will propose Wil WORLD PEACE. EX-KAISER'S WISH ON EVE OF BIRTH ANNIVERSARY FORMER KAISER WILHELM. helm’s health at the anniversary dinner tomorrow. 3 Doorn postal clerks have worked over- time to handle the large bulk of con- gratulations coming by mail. “The big influx of letters started on the twenty-second, where on other years it never began before the twenty- sixth,” an official said. “The bulk is greater than ever before and comes chiefly from Germany. But there are letters from all parts of the world with a variety of stamps which would glad- den the heart of any stamp collecting child. German emigrants to South America apparently constitute a large part of the well wishers.” Thousands Send Poetry. The anniversary seemed to have moved thousands to write poetry to Wilhelm. There were hundreds of carefully orna- mented scrolls and drawings of varying artistic merit. There was an abundance of such articles as hand embroidery, stickpins, flower vases and pillows. Many persons sent their own photographs as | birthday mementos. Because of a law of the Hohenzollern house Wilhelm may not pose for photog- raphers, Baron Ulrich von Sell, friend and co-worker of the former Kaiser, in- formed every one asking for permission (Contniued on Page 4, Column 5.) FREIGHTER SILENT AFTERSENDINGS0S Capt. Fried Asks Ambulances to Meet America When It Docks Today. By the Associated Préss. NEW YORK, January 26.—Capt. George Fried brought the rescue ship America to the New York quarantine station at 11:47 a. today. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 26.—Mystery today cloaked the fate of the Italian freighter Capo Cado, which sent out an S O S last night and then lapsed into silence. The signal of distress was picked up by the Radio Marine Corporation, but all attempts to communicate with the vessel failed. The ship gave her posi- tion as latitude 31 degrees 23 minutes N, longitude 48 degrees 46 minutes W., which would place her about 750 miles due east of Bermuda. No details of her trouble were given. Two Others Ask Aid. ‘The Capo Vado left Constantinople December 24 for Baltimore. Two other freighters which found it necessary to send out calls for help, but not SO S messages, were awaiting the arrival of tugs today. The Norwegian steamer Fernlane re- ported she had lost her rudder and was helpless 500 miles southeast of -Ber- muda. The American {freighter Dixiano, owned by the American Sugar Trans- portation Corporation, reported she was aground on the southern coast of' Cuba. The three vessels carry about 25 men each. Capt. George Fried of the steamer America radioed the United States Lines this morning to have ambulances | meet the ship when she docked at Hoboken this afternoon with the 32 men of the Florida. The message indi- cated that one American and four Italians needed hospital attention. Representatives of two nations, the Army and Navy and civil authorities joined to pay homage to Capt. Fried and his crew. Fried and Mrs. Anna Man- ning, mother of Chief Officer Harry Manning, who commanded the rescuers’ lifeboat, were invited to accompany the welcoming party on the city tug Macom. Mayor Walker headed the official party, which included Police Commis- sioner Whalen, Rear Admiral Louis R. de Steiguer, commanding the Brooklyn Navy Yard; Maj. Gen. Hanson E. Ely, commanding the 2d Corps Area; Emanuele Grazzi, Italian consul gen- eral, and members of the mayor’s wel- coming committee to distinguished visitors. Arrangements were that the tug Macom escort the liner to her pier at Hoboken with harbor vessels along the route saluting the ship, with siren blasts and plumes of high-flung spray from fire tugs. ‘The America was not due to dock until late in the day, and in order to give Capt. Fried and the others who figured in the rescue much d rest WARNING ON FAKE CHEST SOLICITORS Unauthorized Agents Report- ed Active—$15,000 Given «-by Melion. A warning to the public to make contributions for the Community Chest only to persons they know are author- ized to receive them was issued today by Elwood Street, Chest director, fol- lowing reports of attempts made by unauthorized persons to collect cash subscriptions, although the formal cam- paign does not open until Monday. Fund solicitors will be armed with credentials, Mr. Street emphasized, and will carry pledge cards with receipts, Each contributor also will be presented with a “givers” button, similar to a larger button each worker will wear. The workers for the most part will be | neighbors of the persons from whom they are soliciting. Police have promised active co- operation in rounding up imposters, and Mr. Street declares that any per- sons soliciting without authorization will be vigorously prosecuted by offi- cials of the Community Chest. Mellon Gives $15,000. Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, who indorsed the chest in a state- ment yesterday, later in the day showed his further approval by contributing $15,000. Mr. Mellon's gift, along with a num- ber of others, was announced through the special gifts committee of the chest, Robert V. Fleming, chairman. ‘The latter committee, it is stated, ex- pects to have its quota of $700,000 MINE BLAST KILLS ONE AND TRAPS 17 Fifty-Three Escape Through Entry on Another Side of Mountain in West Virginia. By the Associated Press. KINGSTON, W. Va., January 26— One man was believed to have been killed and 17 trapped by an explosion in the No. 5 mine of the Kingston Poca- hontas Coal Co. here early today. Sev- enty-one men were in the mine at the time of the blast and 53 escaped through another entry on the opposite side of the mountain. One of the survivors said he recog- | nized the body of Blaine Parker in a passageway. Another miner who es- caped told of seeing a huddled bundle, which might have been another body, but he had no time to investigate. ‘The blast, which was heard a mil> away, came from the pit mouth with such force that it knocked cver one small building and damaged others. " (Continued on Page 4, Column 3.) Seventeen-year-old Ruth Barnett, who told police that she came here from Bristol, Tenn., today was sen- tenced to 60 days in jail for carrying a gun. The girl was arrested on January 6 by policewomen at Union Station and a revolver found in her possession. She j told_the police that she left her home in Bristol after having trouble with | ner stepfather and came here with a | traveling salesman who was on his way 'to New York. She said she stopped here to Jook for a brother, whom she Gun-Carrying Tennessee Girl of 17 Is Given 60-Day Sentence in Jail believed was a painter. She was ar- rested after accosting several people and asking them if they knew her brother. The police checked up on her story and reported they were unable to verify it. The sentence by Judge Gus A. Schultz in Police Court today followed. Judge Schultz said he sentenced the girl so a further investigation of her case could be made. It was learned later that she told the police yesterday [CE BARRIER HALTS BYRD PLANTO CUT BERTHFORBOLLNG Storm, Now Brewing, Ex- pected to Shift Frozen Mass Southward. THICK CAKES WITHSTAND RAMMING AND BATTERING ‘Caal Is Economized During Halt in Trip Through South Polar Territory. BY RUSSELL OWEN, Wireless to The Star and New York Times. BAY OF WHALES, Antarctic, Jan- uary 26.—Yesterday Byrd made a val- iant attempt to reach the ice barrier to cut a passage through the heavy pressure ice with the City of New York to a low place where the Bolling could be easily unloaded. The ice was too thick, however, and after a day of ramming and battering the ice, under which the old ship stood up nobly, he was forced to quit and await a little aid from the weather. It ap- pears now as if it might be coming, as a storm is brewing, which may shift to the south, and if it does, this part of the bay 1cehshould go out. We left the berth where the ship had been made fast to the edge of the ice floe, because the ice in that spot was getting soft. Several men went in up to their waists during the morning, and finally Norman Vaughan, who has been carrying heavy loads in the last few days, went in up to his shoulders while he was standing alongside his team preparing to start in with a load of coal. He went down like a shot before he could make the slightest attempt to spring aside and hung there in the icy water, his arms outstretched, until Eddie Goodale, another of the drivers, pulled him out. Vaughan, dripping and half-frozen ifrom his icy plunge, ran to the ship and up the plank and into the boiler room to strip his clothes off and thaw out. In a few minutes he was again ready to start. In the meantime his sledge weighted with coal bags had been sinking lower and lower in the ice, which bent in around it until the top was level with the water despite the efforts of men to hold it up. They also were in im- minent danger of going in for a time, but managed to pull the coal bags off and drag the sledges to safety. Byrd Seeks New Mooring. That decided Comdr. Byrd, however, to seek a safer spot and as the lead on the east side of the bay had opened up:to within a few hundred yards of the low part of the barrier he deter- mined to attempt to smash away in the hope that he could make & pas- e for the Bolling. 'he ship pulled along the edge of the bay ice under steam until out in the open lead. With Byrd sitting on the main top gallant yard and Strom in | toq, the crow's nest the ship was headed south parallel to the barrier and about 300 yards out from it, where there seemed to be a series of openings that led on a gradual curve inward toward the barrier. The ship hit the ice with all the power in its engine and easily cut its way through for some distance, The jce became heavier until it checked the forward movement, and then we began to back up and ram ahead, making a few feet each time. Once the ship was caught amidships by a big cake that folded under other ice and as the bow was jammed tightly at the same time it was as if she were held in a vice. Men went over the side with bars, poles, axes and shovels and finally broke the ice loose so that the ship could move again. Ship Goes Ahead. As if to make up for this delay the ship went ahead with renewed speed for some distance, the bow lifting up and smashing down again_through ice five and six feet thick, rolling a little (Continued on Pa Column 8.) AMERICAN KIDNAPED BY REDS IN CHINA Minister Held for $10,000 Ransom. U. S. Minister at Nanking Seeks His Release. By the Associated Press. PEKING, January 26.—Bishop O'Shea of the Catholic mission at Kanchow re- ported today that Communists had kid- naped an American, Rev. Edward Young, near Nananfu, Kiangsi Province. A ransom of $10,000 has been de- manded. American Minister MacMurray tele- graphed the State Department today that he had instructed Counsellor of Legation Perkins of the legation now at Nanking, to take up with Foreign Minister Wang, the kidnaping of the Rev. Edward Young, an American Catholic missionary, and request im- {nedlau action to effect Young's re- lease. The consul general at Hankow re- ported that Young was captured Janu- ary 22, at Nananfu, by the Communists Chu Teh and Mao Chi Tung, who de- manded $10,000 a sa ransom to be paid within three days. The consul general said he was making direct rep- resentation to the local authorities at Nanchan, urging immediate action to effect Young’s release. NEW YORK, January 26 (#).—Rev. Edward Young, reported kidnaped by Communists in Peking dispatches today, Is a member of the Vincentian order serving as a missionary at the Shensi Mission in Lungnan, China. His mother and brother live in Smithtown, Long Island. He is about 30 years old and has been a Chinese missionary for threc years. He was known as an athlete, particularly as a runner and base ball player. “He always had a leaning toward mis- sionary work,” Father Riley of the Vin- entian Fathers in Brooklyn said today. “He was particularly anxious to do work in China.” Maryland and Virginia News that her mother lived in Johnson City, Tenn,, and messages have been sent there in an efoss to locate her, Today on Pages 6 and 7. THIS THING COMES/ BEFORE IVE, HARDLY FiN| €D LOOKI\NG BUILDING HARMONY PLAN GONGIDERED Development of Avenue Be- tween Treasury and Capitol Before Park Group. Development of the north side of Pennsylvania avenue, between the Cap- itol and the Treasury Department, to harmonize with the extensive building program of the Federal Government in the triangle on the south side of the famous thoroughfare, occupied the at- tention of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission today at the opening session of the second day's program. A drawing is being prepared for the exhibition to be held at the convention of the American Institute of Archi- tects meeting here in April, showing the proposed development on the north side of the Avenue. The plans are to be laid before the Fine Arts Commission later, as a suggestion for the develop~ ment of that section of the city. Horace W. Peaslee, Washington archi- tect, is chairman of the national com- mittee of the American Institute of Ar- | chitects that is studying ‘whole ‘Washington development, and the Chi- cago chapter of the institute has de- voted its attention to the north side of Pennsylvania avenue and prepared the plans that the commission considered ay. Plan Harmonious Development. Many of the buildings now erected on the north side of Pennsylvania ave- nue, such as the Washington Hotel, the Willard Hotel, the Munsey Building, the National Theater and The Star Building, will be fitted into the scheme: Maj. Carey H. Brown, engineer of the commission, explained today that the suggestions contemplate a harmonious development with the south side of the avenue, but not at all extravagant structures. The general layout of the Lee Boule- vard was discussed by the Commission, particularly the possibility of getting a road around the south side of Fort Myer, and further studies are to be made to determine how any develop- ment might affect the Arlington reser- vation. The Commission considered a . letter from Alfred Granger, Chicago architect, who is chairman of a committee of the Chicago chapter of the American Insti- tute of Architects that is to study the north side of Pensylvania avenue. Mr, Granger’s letter, which was addressed to W. G. Partridge, architectural con- sultant of the Commission, reads as follows: “The drawings for the proposed de- velopment of the north side of Penn- sylvania avenue, which are being sent with this letter, have been prepared by graduate students of the Founda- tion for Architecture and Landscape Architecture, at Lake Forest, under the direct supervision of Earl H. Reed, jr., head of the department of architecture at Armour Institute. Recognition Urged. “The young men who prepared these drawings are: W. R. Emmerson, Maz- zone; Louis Thompson of the class of 1927 at the foundation, K. C. Ander- son and Stanley Brown of the class of 1928. These young men have given their time and enthusiasm to the work and their services should be recognized. “In preparing these drawings in ac- cordance with the program drawn up by you and Mr. Reed, the effort has been made to design groups of build- (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) WAR AGAINST OUTLAWS. Reported Attack on Paraguayans by Brazilian Troops Explained. RIO JANEIRO, January 26 (#).—War against outlaws was the explanation given in a government statement today referring to newspaper dispatches from «Asuncion saying that Paraguayan civil- ians had been attacked by Brazilian troops. ‘The newspaper dispatches said that four Brazilian soldiers were killed in the encounter but that no direct word wnls“recclved in Rio Janeiro of any cas- ualties. | lodges were destroyed. Plane Beats Sled Travel by 24 Days Carrying Prisoners By the Associated Press. BETHEL, Alaska, January 26.— Cutting 24 days from previous similar trips by dog sled, a plane hopped off from here yesterday with a prisoner who is to be tried on a murder charge in Federal Court at Fairbanks. The plane was to stop en route at Sleet- mute to pick up witnesses. Those aboard were E. E. Ben- nett and Tom Gerard, pilots; Dcputy Marshal ‘Wiseman, the native prisoner and an inter- preter. IDENTITY ADMITTED BY MYSTERY GIRL Native of California—Moth- er’s Health Believed Motive for Refusing Name. The identity of the mystery girl held at the House of Detention, who has in- sisted that she would go to jail on a charge of vagrancy before she would disclose her real name, was revealed today as Mrs. Alberta Davidson, whose husband resides with her parents at Hemet, Riverside County, Calif. Her father was described in informa- tion received here as a prosperous busi- ness man. Her mother’s poor health is believed to have been the motive be- hind the girl's attempt to shield her family from knowledge that she was a prisoner here. The Woman's Bureau has been informed that her relatives in California will take care of her and she probably will be sent back there. ‘Taken before Judge McMahon at a private hearing this morning the girl, who steadfastly had declared her name was Jacqueline Smith, admitted her identity. Judge McMahon, who, with Lieut. Mina Van Winkle of the Woman's Bureau, has taken an interest in the case, continued the hearing on the vagrancy charge until next Tuesday, but indicated that she would be released and permitted to return to her home. She is 22 years of age. Arrested on January 5 when she came to a police station to make inquiries concerning Harold Hubbard, arrested by Detective Sergt. Jett on a charge of possession of an automobile stolen in Detroit, the girl insisted that she had no relatives. She told the police that she did not know the automobile had been stolen. Hubbard was returned to Detroit. MACHINE GUN JAIL GUARD. Precautions Taken Against Res- cue of Bandit Chieftain. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Janu- ary 26 (A).—A machine gun has been mounted at the county jail here, where “Whitey” ~Walker, accused bendit chieftain, is a prisoner awaiting trial in connection with a raid by five des- peradoes on the First National Bank of ' Lamar, Colo., last May. | Coupled with this precaution against any possible attempt by friends of | Walker to deliver him, Walker, who was brought here Thursday from Buffalo, N. Y., where he was arrested, was said ; by police to have been identified by ! several eye witnesses of the Lamar hold-up as one of the men who took | part in the robbery. . Masonic Temple Burns. ST. JOHN, N. B, January 26 (P).— Fire seriously damaged the Masonic | Temple here today. The loss was esti- mated at $100,000. Paintings of Ma- sonic grand masters and charters of ARE YOU INTERESTED IN i ,Wotoring? If so, you will want to read the special Auto Show Section THE SUNDAY STAR tomorrow PARKWAY FAILURE HIT BY COMMITTEE Co-operative Apartment Idea Found Sound, but Gilbert Deplores Rash Ventures. Holders of the sccond trust on the Parkway Apartments, a co-operative ownership project erected at Connecti- cut avenue and Macomb street, “failed to exercise any precaution to protect the buyers and countenanced the sale under a plan that any reasonable per- son should have known was doomed to failure,” Representative Gilbert, act- ing chairman of the Gibson subcommit- tee, which conducted an inquiry into co-operative apartment business here, declared today in announcing con- clusions reached by the committes on the subject. While criticizing the financial oper- ation of the Parkway Apartments, how- ever, Mr. Gilbert made it clear that the committee in its study found that | | | ICARL ASSALS [EHBACA BIL A SEROUS WSTAKE Attacks Proposition to Strengthen Power of Clas- sification Board. CONTROLLER'S LETTER ANSWERS 3 QUESTIONS Brookhart Understood to Share in Principle Position Taken Uphold- ing Department Heads’ Authority. Firing a broadside attack on the Lehlbach propesal to strengthen power of the Personnel Classification Board, Controller General McCarl has warned the Representative that such a measure would break down the “essential prin- ciple of the original classification act,” usurp authority of department heads over their own employes, result in many demotions, threaten litigation, and “prove most detrimental to good ad- ministration in the departments and cstablishments.” The charges were made by McCarl in a letter direct to Chairman Lehlbach of the House civil service committee, and author of the proposed measure. The controller general sharply crit- icized the very phase of the Lehlbach pay relief bill which the committee yesterday authorized its author to in- corporate into a redrafted composite pay bill including parts of several pend- ing measures. McCarl admitted that the Lehlbach measure would give the board power to review and reallocate positions which were fixed last July 1, by McCarl's de- cision interpreting the Welch act. But the controller general extended his con- sideration of the whole principle of en- iarging the powers of the Personnel Classification Board, and finally char- nclzer?zed it bluntly as a “serious mis~ take.” The controller general's letter was in answer to three questions from Chair- man Lehlbach concerning the scope of the bill. Lehlbach was told his bill would do all it contemplated, and much more. The correspondence followed & personal conference between the two men, when it was agreed that the con- troller general would not appear as a witness before the House committee holding- hearings on the bill, but would gl‘(‘)’xis in Rv:;mng al:ilns:;r to any ques- resentative Lehlbac! propound. R The position taken by McCarl uphold- ing the authorif f partmen heads and mb'l’hl;u:ht: B ‘ the co-operative apartment idea is o fundamentally sound. “The hearings have been productive of evidence leading to the conviction that the co- fi:nli\'e apartment plan is fundamentally sound when properly conceived, properly financed and prop- erly managed, with safeguards set up for the protection of investors.” ‘Warrant Issued for Arrest. The Parkway failed last Spring as a co-operative project and was sold at auct in July last under foreclosure by holders of the second trust, Roy L. Neuhauser and Sol Lansburgh, who also suffered financial loss, according to tes- timony of Mr. Neuhauser at the hearings. Warrants have been issued for the arrest of Arthur M. Suit, who :v‘;.s president of the Parkway corpora- n, ‘The Gilbert statement adds: “It ap- pears from the testimony that the hold- ers of the second trust on the Parkway Apartments did not profit by the trans- action. On the contrary, it appears that they lost money.” He added, how- ever, that the committee “feels that they are entitled to little sympathy.” Simultaneously with the report on the hearings a letter sent to Mr. Gilbert by the Better Business Bureau was made public today by its director, Louis Rothschild, urging the enactment of a securities law for the District as a means of protecting purchasers of stock in co-operative apartments. Findings of Subcommittee. The findings of the Gibson subcom- mittee as reported today by Mr. Gilbert were announced as follows: o “‘Members of the Gibson subcommit- tee of the House committee on the Dis- trict of Columbia have just concluded an inquiry conducted into the plan for the sale of apartment houses to tenants on a co-operative ownership basis. The object of the inquiry was to determine the financial arrangements and plan of operation of co-operative apartments as it applies particularly to investors in such apartments. “During hearings on this subject, tes- timony was adduced from real estate operators in the District of Columbia who have built up successful business in co-operative apartments and also from those connected in one way or another with one co-operative project which failed, with loss to those who had invested in apartments in this building. ““The hearings have been productive of evidence leading to the conviction that the co-operative apartment plan is fundamentally sound when properly conceived, properly financed and prop- erly managed, with safeguards set up for the protection of investors. “In fact, though evidence was taken concerning the failure of this one proj- ect in question, the inquiry was not productive of evidence tending to show that the co-operative idea is wrong. I believe that when a co-operative apart- ment project is properly planned by honest, experienced and conScientious operators, there is little doubt that it should succeed so long as there are! buyers in the market for permanent apartment homes. Believed Overpriced. “In the instance of the Parkway Apartments, which was investigated by the committee in connection with its general study of the matter, there was evidence which indicated that it was improperly conceived and improperly managed from the start. Evidence seemed to indicate also that the building as offered to prospective purchasers was overpriced. It seemed aj nt also from testimony that tI particular apartment project was overfinanced, which placed in jeopardy the invest- ment of those who purchased ments. It appeared from the testimony that the holders of the second trust on of Government departments and estab- lishments are known to fear more the Personnel Classification Board than the controller general. While they have not testified before the committee, there have been growing evidences of resent- ment against th authority of the classi- gecl:uon board among employes them- es. One employe organization, Le: of the American Civil Serfleem aged by Mrs. Margaret Hopkins ‘Worrell, come out strongly against the Lehlbach measure, contending the board would be given “czaristic” power. The Ni tional Federation of Federal lmpm however, has adopted a more concilia- tory pesition, declaring the board should administer the classification act. While flatly opposing extension of the Powers of the board, McCarl, in his etter to Lehlbach, declares the board (Continued on Page 4, Column 4.) 3 JURY-SELECTING SYSTEM STUDIED Gibson Subcommittee Hears Court Officials on Methods in Use Here. The Gibson subcommittee, which is investigating all phases of the munici- pal government, is now engaged in & careful study of the jury-selecting sys- tem. In executive session today the subcommittee had before it Harmon Burns, clerk of the jury commission, who gave details regarding the method of drawing jurors, and Frank Cunning- ham, assistant clerk of the District Supreme Court, who furnished the names of jurors in all of the oil trials and the dockets of the court. Representative Gibson said today that he is preparing legislation to revise the system of automobile registration. He figures that an adequate registration fee of approximately $20 would yield $3,000,000 in revenue. Representative Gilbert, Democrat, of Kentucky, expressed the hope that Mr. Gibson in his report to be submitted at the close of the present session will recommend legislation to correct the real estate situation here which he con- siders very unsatisfactory. Mr. Gilbert said that adequate protection should be given to the investing public. Representatives Gibson and Gilbert discussed the ineffectiveness of pre- vious “blue sky” legislation and said that there was not sufficient protection for the investing public. Representative Gibson said in regard to prohibition that the condition as to enforcement of the law is not as sat- istactory as it might be and that he believes legislation should be enacted to su}e‘num&nmth: 5.‘“’""“ law. e sai at the same opinion appli also to gambling. ” P SEEK TO OUST GOVERNOR. MADISON, Wis,, January 26 (#)— Attorney General John W. Reynolds today appointed special counsel to removal action Gov. Walter J. Kohler in the name of the S The attorney general the Parkway Apartment did not profit| nis by the transaction. On the con A four it appeared that they lost money. The|of the faction led by committee, however, feels that they are (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.), entitled to little sympathy, in so far e8| Gov, Ucas Follette. = Kohler. is a conservative Riib= ¢ A