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2 230 3IGN HOUSE - PETITION TO FORCE DALE BILL ACTION Gibson Says Majority Favors Measure Liberalizing Civil Service Refirement Law. ORDERLY LEGISLATION, NOT CRITICISM, AIM Situation Outlined by Member of | Committee in Announcement on Floor. Designed to force the House leader- ship to allow the Dale bill to liberalize the civil service retirement law to come up for a vote in the House, a petition, | addressed to the Speaker, the majority leader and the chairman of the rules committee and signed by more than 250 members of the House, has been pre- pared asking for consideration at thsv session of the Dale bitle!. which has al- geady passed the Senate. Thispannuuncemem ‘was made on the floor of the House late yesterday by Representative Gibson, Republican, of Vermont, a member of the civil service committee, who said that it was not in a spirit of criticism that the atten- tion of the House was brought to this matter, but in the interests of orderly legislation. “We who are in favor of the bill are bound to do whatsoever we can to sccure favorable action,” Mr. Gibson explained. Favored by Majority. ointed out that: H; rx‘mnurity of the members of the House have expressed themselves as favorable to the legislation, and yet we are unable to get action. The func- tions of the House as a body represent- ing the people are involved. ‘The leg- islation is urgently demanded. I ask the leaders to permit the proposed leg- islation to come to a vote that we may all pass upon it in the light of our best judgment and not be compelled to o back to our people and explain that it is possible in their legislative body for a small group to prevent the consid- erstion of legislation.” In endeavoring to clear away some of the misapprehensions or misunder- ] | COMPETE IN PLAY CONTEST i 1 Community Guild play tournam ent. ncis Murphy. H. D. Brown, Chief of Bureau| of Efficiency, and Four Aides Loaned. Men Are Selected by National | City Bank at Govern- ment’s Request. Herbert D. Brown, chief of the | United States Bureau of Efficiency, and | four of his assistants sailed this morn- ing for Panama, where, at the invita- | of House leaders regarding ?mfigfianon. Mr. Gibson outlined the ! present situation as regards to retire- ments and explained the proposed lib- eralization. Idea Declared Not New. “Retirement for civil employes of the vernment is not‘ a new ‘ldlea,' rl:e said. “It has been in successful opera- tion for years by some of the leading governments of the world, and on a more liberal basis than is here pro- posed. It is in use by several of the States, by leading municipalities; by banking and other business enterprises, and with much more liberality of pro- visions than have even been suggested for our Government employes. * * “The United States Civil Service OCommission in its last report recom- mended optional retirement after 30 years’ service at 60 years of age. The commission well said it would meke the system ‘flexible and humane’ and cure sbuses now existing.” The bill as reported by the committee offers optional retirement, cuts . the optional ages by two years, increases the maximum annuity from $1,000 to $1,200 and the average annuity to about $820. “It is urged that these changes would add to the cost to an extent that the Government could not afford it. This argument is based on estimates of ac- ries who have been consistently wrong. When the act was first passed we were told that the fund would be exhausted in 10 or 12 years. The fact is that it has risen to over a hundred million dollars, only 19 million of which has been appropriated by the Congress. This fund (except as to the 19 million just referred to) has come from con- tributions of the employes. The fund has not only taken care of all demands upon it, but has actually accumulated & surplus of $83,000,000 aside from the Government contribution. Treasury’s Theoretical Liability. “There is, of course, a theoretical Usbility upon the Treasury. The pres- ent rato of normal cost is estimated at 3.98 per cent of the pay roll, of which the employes now contribute 3.50 per cent. The balance of 0.48 per cent rests on the Government. Under the pro- posed amendments the normal cost to the Government would be increased to 1.18 per cent, a small amount when compared with the benefits to be de- rived by the Government and its employes. There is another element of cost that is sometimes misunderstood and that is the “accrued liability.” When the law went into effect in 1920 employes then in the service and due to retire before the expiration of 30 years were not able to pay over the whole period. In the beginning this cost 5.70 per cent of the pay roll, must be borne by the Government. This cost constantly de- creases, as the employes contribute in increasing periods before retirement. All of the cost, however, is offset by iIncreased efficiency through the turn- over in personnel. SOCIETY WILL HONOR SENATOR AND MRS. GLENN Becretary of Interior to Address { Illinois Group at Meeting on February 27. A meeting in honor of Senator and | Mrs. Otis F. Glenn of Illinois will be held by the Illinois State Society at the Willard hotel, February 27, at 9:30 o'clock, it was announced today by Sen- ®tor Deneen, president of the society. Roy O. West, Secretary of the In- terior, will address the meeting and a program of music and entertainment will be provided. Dancing and cards will follow the program. Chairman of the various committees are: Mrs. Dencen and her daughter, Miss Bina Day Deneen, social; Mrs, Carl R. Chindblom, entertainment; Mrs. ‘Theodore G. Risley, cards; F. N. Strick- lin, floor; Judge P. M. Linebarger, mem- bership, and Mrs. Algernon R. Bailey, publicity. It was also announced that the society will give a reception for Gov. and Mrs. Louis L. Emerson and other Tllinois State officials who are attend- ing the inauguration, Sunday after- noon, March 3, from 4 to 6 o'clock. s P e g ASKS $10,000 DAMAGES. Man, Sanitary Grocery’s Awning. Alleging that the Sanitary Grocery €o. placed the awning rods in front of its store at First and D streets south- east so low that pedestrians could not pass under the awning in safety, Marks Nimelstein, 115 D street southeast, has filed suit against the corporation for $10,000 damages for alleged persogal injuries. Claiming Injuries, Blames €|y, Bennett and A. L. Peterson will ac- tion of the Panama government, they ill make a study of administrative procedure in Panama and work out a budget system for the government. ! The Panama government requested | the National City Bank of New York | to select experts to do this work for | it, and Mr. Brown was chosen. | President Coolidge, Secretary of State | Kellogg and President-elect Hoover have given their hearty approval to the worl which Mr. Brown and his assistants are undertaking. While on this assign: ment Mr. Brown and his assistants will be on leave without pay from the Federal Government and will act as employes of the Panama government. During Mr. Brown’s absence from the Bureau of Efficiency, William H. Mc- Reynolds will serve as acting chief and T. F. Murphy as acting assistant chief. Herbert H. Rapp, Paul L. Rapp, James company Mr. Brown. George E. Roberts, vice president of Two of the fair members of the Park View Playets, who are competing in U. S. EXPERTS SAIL TODAY ™ TO PLAN PANAMA'S BUDGET THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, P ¢, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1929. Left to right: Johanna Schmutser and “~—Star Staff Photo. 1 1 HERBERT D. BROWN. the National City Bank of New York, will accompany the party to Panama. On the return trip Mr. Brown and his assistants will spend some time in the Virgin Islands in order to make an economic reconnaissance of those is- lands for the information of the com- IPOLICE VIOLENCE AT CARPENTER'S Officer McNeill Follows Three Other Policemen on Stand at Hearing. DETECTIVES QUESTIONED ON ACCUSER’S STANDING Two Headquarters Men Testify Youth Has Record as Pocket- book Thief. HOME S DENED LOOT RECOVERED FROM YOUTHFUL APARTMENT ROBBERS Defense testimony, in which the S. F. Gravelly and Rupert McNeill of | the third precinct, and M. P. Creel of | the fourth, who are accused of “man- | liindhog” Joseph Carpenter, 21 years | old, and members of the family, when they camd.to their home at 491 H street, southwest ‘on the night of February 2 to arrest dbhe youth on a charge of petty larceny. % Policeman McNeill took the stand in his own defense, after Lieut. Frank Dent and Sergt. Emil Desch and Police- man John A. Hebrew of the fourth precinct testified that they witnessed no violence on the part of the arresting officers. Sergt. Desch Testifies. Sergt. Desch said he was standing directly behind Policeman McNeill in the vestibule of the house, and saw | McNeill produce a warrant which he exhibited to the boy's father, William F. Carpenter, through the glass door, for the arrest of his son. McNeill, Desch said, told the elder Carpenter to produce his son in order to aveid a disturbance. The boy’s father, it was testified by Desch, replied that he had received in- structions from his attorney to:admit no one to the home. Lieut. Dent testi- fied to disorderly conduct by certain | members of the Carpenter family, who came to the station house after Joseph, his father and elder brother, Elmer, had been arrested, the latter two as the re- | sult of the trouble at the house. Officer Hebrew, who had been sta- tioned in the rear of the house while other officers entered by the front way, said while he was at no time in the house and, therefore, could not testify as to what took place inside, he did not see any members of the Carpenter fam- ily struck by the arresting officers. McNeill Goes on Stand. McNeill, testifying in his own behalf, described how he, in company with Officers Gravelly and Creel and three other police officers from the fourth precinct, went to the Carpenter home that night and were refused admittance to the house after he had shown a war- rant for the arrest of Joseph. McNeill denied that he or other members the arresting party used violence in affect- ing the arrest of young Carpenter or his father or brother and said that he did not see any one struck at any time. The first witnesses were Headquarters Detectives Larry O'Dea and John Fow- mittee on appropriations. HIGH TRIBUTE PAID TOWOMAN LEADERS Miss Anthony and Miss Paul Lauded for Service to Feminine Sex. Glowing tributes to the memories of Miss Susan B. Anthony, pioneer suf- fragist, and Mrs. Nanette B. Paul were paid by speakers at a meeting to com-. memorate the two women leaders in the First Congregational Church late yes- terday afternoon. The occasion marked the 109th anni- versary of Miss Anthony’s birth. Mrs. Paul was widely known in this city, ‘where she was active for many years in work to perpetuate the memory of Miss Anthony and the latter's activities to obtain votes for women. Representative Edith N. Rogers of Massachusetts described Miss Anthony as a woman “who overcame every ad- verse condition. I am very anxious to pay tribute to a woman who did so m\‘xch for many all over the world,” she said. Miss Anthony’s Career Cited. Clinton N. Howard, chairman of the United States committee for law en- forcement, described Miss Anthony’s many sterling traits of character and declared that to be a woman before women had a right to vote was “a civic misfortune.” Telling briefly the part Miss Anthony played in securing votes for women, he said: “She rediscovered a truth. Equal rights began in the Garden of Eden.” Mrs. Francols Berger Moran, who ‘worked with Miss Anthony in the cause of suffrage, told how Miss Anthony had .early in life influenced her to work to put women on a civil equality with men. Mrs. Ida Husted Harper praised Miss Anthony as “the greatest woman that ever lived.” Mrs. Anna E. Hendler who opened -ihe meeting with a gavel formerly used by Miss Anthony, read a letter from Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey, honorary dean of the Washington College of Law, in which she praised the scholar- ship and work of Mrs. Paul, who was a graduate of the college. Dr. Homer F. Curtis said that for many years it had been the idea of women that they should have equal rights with men, “but until that idea was vitalized by Miss Anthony it didn’t materialize.” Other Speakers Pay Tribute, Other speakers were Edward B. Stecle, Lady Marie Louise Montague, president of the International Humanitarian As- sociation, Mrs. Lyman B. Kebler, Mrs. Aaron D. Newman of the League of American_Penwomen, and Mrs. Mary Church Terrell. The latter praised Miss Anthony for the work she did for the freedom of slaves. Vocal selections were rendered at the meeting by Miss Mary Apple, accom- panied by Paul DeLong Gable, and by Mrs. Margaret Ashbridge Rabbit, accom- panied by Mrs. Muriel Evelyn Day. A delegation of picked Boy Scouts pre- sented colors, while the call to the colors and taps was sounded by Richard Babcock, champion Boy Scout bugler. Organ accompaniment for singing was rendered by Mrs. Helen Brandow New- man of Pittsburgh. Rév. Dr. Jason Noble Pierce, pastor of the First Con- gregational Church, eelivered invoca- tion. Mrs. Frances Howlett-Wright pre- sided. Senator Copeland of New York, listed as one of the speakers, sent a message expressing regret that he was unable to get away from business at the Senate He says he was struck on the head by an awning rod as he passed the store last May 11, and was knocked to the sidewalk. He is represented by At- torneys Simon, Koenigsberger, Young & Ervez. in time to attend the meeting. o e e i In San Francisco Sunday services of Baptists, Congregationalists, Methodists, Cathalic, Christian Science and Presby- BURNS PROVE FATAL. Mrs. Redway’s Clothing Caught Fire From Coal 0il Torch. Mrs. Daisy J. Redway, 60 years old, of 1612 A street northeast died at 8:50 o'clock last night in Casualty Hospital from burns received yesterday morning when her clothing caught fire from a coal oil torch she was using to clean a bed on the second floor of her home. he ran down the stairs, her clothing in flames, and into the rear yard. R. B. Jones of Ballston, Va., attracted by her screams, attempted to smother the blaze with his overcoat, but when firemen arrived the remnants of her clothes were still smoldering. LABOR SITUATION IND. C. REVIEWED Employment Held Satisfac- tory, in Keeping With Condi- tions Throughout Country. Satisfactory employment conditions prevailed in Washington last month, the Industrial Employment Information Bulletin issued today by the United States Employment Service asserted, and was in keeping with the situation over the country. 3 “The slight surplus of skilled and unskilled labor reported was due in large measure to the prevalence of un- favorable weather that curtailed many outdoor activities” the report said, with reference to local employment. “The miscellaneous manufacturing es- tablishments “operated on normal schedules, with their usual forces en- gaged in most instances. Municipal activities were confined mainly to water, sewer and street maintenance work. Record in Private Building. “Private building under way included several large apartment houses at an aggregate ¢ i over $2,900,000, and other projects. A contract was award- ed for the erection of a Federal inter- nal revenue building to cost $5,789,000. The supply of building tradesmen is sufficient to meet all requirements.” Turning to the situation in Virginia, the report said that.there, too, the erm- ployment situation last month was re- garded as satisfactory and that “normal operating schedules and forces were maintained in the major industries in most instances.” Maryland Situation Outlined. ler. Both testified that young Carpenter m_s‘n police record as a pocketbook ef. CONFEREES MEET ONLUMP SUMISSUE Other Questions in District Appropriation Bill Also Being Considered. Senate and House conferees on the District appropriation bill are holding their first meeting today to discuss the items in the measure on which the two houses took different action, in- cluding the question of what amount the Federal Government should pay toward the upkeep of the National] Capital. The House followed the practice it adopted several years ago of approv- ing a $9,000,000 lump sum as the Fed- eral share, but the Senate raised this | to $10,000,000. The decision now rests | with the conferees, and the outcome | of their discussion on this point is be- ing awaited with keen interest by the | people of the District. 1 ‘There are a number of other ques- tions to be settled by the conferees, in- cluding the future policy to be followed | in appointing normal school graduates as teachers, the proposals to raise the | normal schools to teachers colleges, the establishment of a sanitarium for tuber- | cular children and a number of street paving items. It is problematical whether the con- ferees will complete their work today, and if they do not, conferences are expected to continue next week. e DEBATE DECISION WON BY AMERICAN U. GIRLS Defeat Western Maryland College Team—Hood Will Furnish Opposition Tonight. American University girls, having won a debate last night from Western Maryland College, will send another girls' team to Hood College, at Fred- erick, Md.,, tonight to complete their part of a debate between these three schools. ‘The decision of 3 to 0 by the judges last night at Hurst Hall, on the local campus, went to the American Uni- versity negative team, consisting of Ethel Moulton, Ethelwyn Hine and Jane Lytle. They defeated the visitors, Who were Mary Warfield, Virginia Hol- land and Margaret Martignoni. The In Maryland, the report found that “the industrial employment situation in nearly all localities” was described as practically normal for this season of the year.” Except for the plants season- ally closed, the report said, “working schedules and forces engaged were well maintained in the majority of the indus- trial plants.” Over ‘the Nation, the report pointed out, there was a Slackening {0 permit, of the annual inventories, but that “con- ditions 1n the textile industry were not altogether satisfactory.” .. HOSPITAL CLUB DANCE. Naval Corps Group Entertains at Cairo Hotel. States Naval Hospital gave a danee last night at the Calro Hotel in honor of Admiral C. E. Riggs, newly appointed surgeon general, and Mrs. Riggs. The guests included Capt. T. W. Richards, commandant of the hospital, and Mrs. terians are broadcast. Richards, together with members of the hospital stafl, ‘The Hospital Corps Club of the United | a question was: “Resolved that the principle of complete freedom of speech and Pnress on political and economic questions is sound.” ‘The judges last night were Miss Ruth Kentyler of the Marjorie Webster School of Expression; J. Austin Stone and Melvin D. Hildreth, both lawyers of this city. The presiding officer was Miss Mary Louise Brown, dean of women of American University. ‘The affirmative American University team, which will debate the same question tonight at Hood College, con- sists of Charlotte Magee, Nola Liv- ingston and Kathryn Heath. ~STUDENT IS INJURED. While workfmg .behind the scenes y at Western High School t M. Hudson, jr., 3755 19-year- stud | our judgment, charges were denied, was started today | before the Police Trial Board in the' | case of three members of the force,: Furniture. lamps and rugs, stacked up in the fourteenth precinct police station today as the result of the arrest of three youths, who are said to have confessed to five apartment house burglaries. H. Blandy, who arrested the boys, and Capt. C. H. Bremmerman. In the photo, right: Policeman Harry —Star Staff Photo. {ACTRESS BRIDE OF D. C. MAN MARRIED SECRETLY THURSDAY H. Crawford Leckey Weds Miss Thelma Parker of Savoy Co. They Met Back-Stage at Shubert Theater on December 29. H. Crawford Leckey and his bride of two days—Miss Thelma Parker, attrac- tive young player with the Savoy Musi- cal Comedy Co.—slipped away family and friends today for a brief honeymoon in Washington before leav- | ing on an extended trip later in the month. Leckey first met his bride-to-be De- cember 29 while attending the show- | ing of “The Gingerbread Man” at the Belasco Theater. A friend introduced them back stage, and a short time later they became engaged. Accompanied only by a few friends, they went to Alexandria_Thursday were married. The groom’s father, who lives at 2600 | Thirty-sixth place, said his son’s mar- riage was a surprise. “All we know,” he said today, “is that Crawford called us up yesterday morn- ing and said he was married. We haven't heard from him since and don't know where he is staying.” Friends of the bride also professed ignorance of the couple’s whereabouts, saying she probably was honeymooning some place in Washington. The manager of the hotel where she stays when in Washington said she did not return after the performance at the Belasco last night. ‘The bride’s home is in Brooklyn, N. Y. Leckey, who lives with his parents, is in the contracting business. SENATE APPROVES AIRPORT STUDY Vandenberg Resolution Pro- vides Investigation by Commission. ‘The Senate late yesterday adopted the resolution of Scnator Vandenberg, Re- publican, of Michigan, providing for a Joint Senate and House commission to study the airport requirements of the National Capital and make recom- mendations to Congress not later than December 15. The resolution still re- quires action by the House. In reporting the resolution to the Senate Senator Vandenberg declared: “I. desire to say in this connection that, in the judgment of the committee, this is not an effort to delay the project in any degree, but, on the contrary, in it is the surest and quickest method of getting adequate relief.” . The proposed commission would con- sist of five Senators and five members of the House, with authority to inquire into the airport and landing field needs of the Federal Government here, as well as from a municipal standpoint. The pu is to study the relationship which would exist between an airport for the city of Washington and similar facilities' for the Army, Navy, Post Office and Commerce departments. ‘The resolution directs the commission to make recommendations as to “suit- able allocation of costs.” A week ago Senator Bingham, Republican, of Con- necticut, chairman of the subcommittee in charge of District appropriations, ex- pressed the belief that the Washington airport would be used largely by persons having business with the Federal Gov- ernment, and that, in his opinion, the Federal Government should bear the expense of establishing it, or at least a large share of the cost. Zihlman Proposal Identical. Chairman Zihlman of the House Dis- trict committee today introduced in the House a joint resolution identical with the Vandenberg resolution, which pro- vides for the setting up of a joint com- mission to study the airport needs for the National Capital. This resolution directs that the joint commission shall be composed of five members of the Senate and five Repre- sentatives elected to the next Congress. This commission would study the air- port needs of the War, Navy, Post Office and Commerce Departments, and of the District of Columbia. The commission ‘would be directed to report with recom- mendations to Congress as soon as prac- ticable, but in any event not later than December 15, which would be imme- diately after the first regular session of the incoming Congress. Senator Vandenberg was in confer- ence with House Leader Tilson today urging that preferential consideration be given to this legislation in the House, Marie Grayson Asks Divorce. Marie Grayson, 490 School street southwest, has filed suit for an absolute and son of Representative Michigan, received a scalp wo ) struck by a falling cu welg] He was removed to Georgetown Hospltll.[ where three stitches were taken in his'| scalp. Then he returned to the school. divorce from Mathew Grayson, Bethes- da, Md. They were married Septem- ber 30, 1922, and have no children. The wife charges misconduct and names a co-respondent. She is represented by Attorney George S. Naphen, afternoon and | from | ARKER LECKEY. LIQUOR DEFENDANT GETS FINE OF 40 Told Court He Was Advised to Plead Guilty and Save Counse! Fee. Frank Addison Ricks, whose story of being advised by a professional bonds- man to plead guiity in a liquor case and save counsel fee, led to the suspension of the bondsman yesterday, was fined $400, with the alternative of 120 days in jail, by Judge John P. McMahon, in Police Clourt late yesterday after entering the plea. Ricks was up on two counts, trans- porting and possession, but the penalty was affixed only in the former. H. Mendelson of the 3400 block of Eleventh street, the bondsman in ques- tion, denied the charge. Arrested Thursday by members of Sergt. George Little's liquor squad as he attempted to transport 240 quarts of liquor into the city, Ricks was arraigned yesterday. Not represented by counsel, he pleaded guilty and placed himseif on the mercy of the court. Procedure Explained. The unusual procedure was explained to the court by Attorney Harry Whelan, who stated that relatives of the defen- dant had told him of the mstter when approaching him to secure his services, asserting that the bondsman had said counsel fees were prohibitive and by pleading guilty Ricks might escape with a minimum fine. Ricks was immediately placed on the witness stand. Mendelson, Ricks said, had informed him that attorneys' fees Wwould amount to $150, while his fine, if pleading guilty would total not more than $50. A guilty plea gllows a bonds- man to be freed from the security he has placed for a person. Mendelson Denies Charges. Summoned to the stand by the court, Mendelson denied the charge and said that he had discussed the matter with Desk Sergt. George B. Wheelock of the sixth precinct. Communicating with the police station, Assistant United States Attorney Camalier said he was informed that the officer had been ab- sent from duty for 10 days on account of illness. Ordering affidavits to be filed by Ricks and by Merdelson, Judge Mc- Mahon then suspended the bondsman from further services until the matter could be investigated. Other courts of the District of Columbia were notified of the suspension. Ricks was unable to withdraw plea and was forced to allow the judg- ment of the court to be the determining factor in the case, CRUISER MODEL GIFT. A model of the cruiser Omaha will be presented to the Abigail Hartman Rice Chapter of the Daughters of the Amer- ican Revolution by Senator Hale of ine at the chapter’'s anniversary and ‘Navy night” banquet in the Roosevelt Hotel Monday evening. The chapter decided to combine its fourteenth anniversary dinner with the Navy banquet in celebration of the pas- sage of the cruiser bill. Senator Schall of Minnesota will be the principal| speaker. Mrs. William D. Leetch, regent, will | receive the model, which is being pre- sented by the Navy Department at the request of Senator Hale. . I-!;mored by Coworkers. | his | FIVE APARTMENT THEFTS CLEARED Police Hold Three Young Men Alleged to Have Operated in Auto. Five thefts from lobbies of fashion- | able apartment houses along upper Connecticut avenue during the past two days, in which loot valued at more than $500 was taken, were solved early today, police say, with the arrest of three youths as they were in the act of taking a valuable lamp from 4701 Con- necticut avenue. Police charge they drove from place to place in an ex- pensive roadster, which they used for carrying the aritcles taken to their homes. They are Burrus Williams, 22-year- d_music teacher, of 444 Irving street; J: E. Bromwell, 21 years old, of 1229 Irvidg. street, a bookkeeper in his father’s Plaging establishment, and Ed- ward Dominick. Waldron, 21-year-old clerk employed by-the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co., who lives at | 1205 Monroe street. ~ | All the property is thought-yo have been recovered. It was found at the | homes of Waldron and Brom+well and &t the studio where Williams is employed. The young men have admitted the | thefts, police say. Heavy Drinking Blamed. They would never have,stolen, both Eromwell and Waldron told reporters | today. if they had not been drinking | heavily Williams declared he was not g:n;:king at the time of any of the rob- Ties. | ol J. Harry H. Blandy of the fourteenth pre- cinet. Blandy said he was searching | for a stolen automobile when he saw | their car draw up to the curb about 1 o'clock this morning at Davenport street and Connecticut avenue. Bromwell and | Waldron got out and entered the apart- ment_house at 4701 Connecticut ave- nue, he said, whil= Williams remained in the car. The policeman’s suspicions were aroused by a floor lamp sticking out from the rumble seat. He inquired of Williams where his companions had gone, and was told they were visiting “Mr. Jones.” Just then they came out of the apartment house door, Bromwell with a 'amp in his hands. Police Explain Thefts. | Blandy declared they first said they | had tried to return the lamp to “Mr. | Jones,” and found he was not home, | but later admitted taking it from the | lobby. According to police the boys' | method employed in each case was | to stop their car in front of an apart- | ment house. One would stay in the machine. A second would board the | elevator and go to an upper floor, where | he would engage the elevator operator, | the only employe on duty at that hour, in conversation, while the third was | taking whatever caught his fancy from the lobby of the building. The articles stolen include mirrors, lamps, lamp shades and various kinds of expensive rugs. According to police, | the young men hav®’confessed the tak- ing ‘of articles from apartment build- |ings at 4514 Connecticut avenue, 3217 | Connecticut avenue, 2915 Connecticut | avenue and the Tilden Gardens at 3016 | Tilden street, besides from 4701 Con- unecticut avenue, where they were arrested. Waldron and Bromwell said today they took the stolen goods home and | told their parents they were presents | they had bought them. ‘The automobile used by the trio is | said to belong to Williams. DYOTT GIVES \ VES VIEWS OF BRAZIL JUNGLES | Motion Pictures Reveal Difficulties Encountered in Search for Miss- ing Fawcett Party. Though Comdr. George M. Dyott did | not rescue Col. Fawcett and his fellow | explorers in Brazil, he found what| seemed conclusive evidence of the Faw-| cett party’s fate, and in his search | he amassed a notable series of motion picture reels of jungleland which he showed last evening before members of | the National Geographic Society at the | Washington Auditorium. By a strange series of circumstances Comdr. Dyott encountered the chief, who it ultimately developed, had helped make way with Fawcett. And it was discovered that this tribesman had sim- ilar designs upon the Dyott expedition. | | When the chieftain realized his plot had been discovered he fled, and was not seen again. A trunk in his possession and trinkets worn by his womenfolk pointed most clearly to his knowledge of the fate of the earlier explorers. That was not the only adventure of the Dyott party, however. Upon an- other occasion the members were sur- rounded by an overpowering number of Fellow employes of Richard C. D. Hunt, a fleld man in the District tax assessor’s office, yesterday presented him with a fountain pen, pencil, watch chain _and penknife on his resignation, after 13 years’ service. The presentation was made by Tax Assessor William P. Richards. Mr. Hunt resigned to enter the real estate busi- ness. Indians, but by promising to give them all presents the next morning, and waiting until they had retired to the woods to sleep, the explorers managed to make their escape down river. ‘The pictures showed the slow progress through the jungle region by bullocks and later in canoes. Some of the cargo canoes were made with bark of tress, cut in a single piece, and then by heat, bent into shape for the craft. The trio were arrested by Policeman | SUPPLY BILL RIDER STRONGLY OPPOSED - BY TEACHER UNION | Elimination of 25 Per Cent Normal Graduate Priority Plan Urged. 'BRIEF SENT MEMBERS | OF D.C. SUBCOMMITTEE ‘It Contends That High Quality of Present Standards Are Endangered. Strong opposition to the 1 p 30 ap- propriation bill rider, which li mi(s local teaching position appointment to 25 {pel’ cent of the Washington Normal | School graduates was voiced by the District of Columbia Teachers’ Union in a brief sent to each member of the District subcommittee of the House | appropriations committee today, urging | that the rider be stricken out. The | Senate eliminated the rider following ‘!he strenuous_objections of the union | and school officials. ~ The Teachers’ Union contends in its brief that priority for graduates of normal schools is the universal custom in cliies maintaining that type of teacher-training schools, and that re- moval of the priority would not “insure any improvement to teacher personnel, but would rather endanger the high quality of the present standards” and cause the local residents to feel aga'n “how little they have to say in the conduct of their purely local affairs.” The union contends further that the proposed priority limitation would dis- courage prospective students from en- tering the normal schools. Danger to Standards Discussed. “The proposed system would stress ! the competitive examination as aganst | a more extensive, more far-reaching system of evaluation,” the union’s brief sets forth in discussing the danger to | the present standards. “Psychologists, educators, efficiency experts agree that the formal examination is of but little value in determining the true worth of an applicant's personality and his ability to deal with other people.” The brief points out that “a first- class normal school eliminates the un- fit student prior to graduation” and cites the fact that from 1924 to 1928, inclusive, 19 per cent of the students | who enter the Wilson Normal School | were eliminated prior te graduation. Citing graduation from the Washing- ton normal schools as a better medium of determinirfg qualified teachers for positions in the school system, the union’s brief declares that the “outcome of a formal examination is more of a matter of chance than the outcome of a three-year training course” because “a set examination can not take into account temporary physical conditions and cannot determine an applicant’s ‘wearing’ qualities.” Elaboraging upon its declaration that it is the universal custom for cities maintaining normal schools to extend appointment priority to their graduates, -the union's brief states that “at pres- eft;- three-fourths of the graduates of a State .pormal school are teaching within the State in which they were professionally trAined, the State auto- matically certifying, without additional competitive examination; those who have been graduated from - its own training institutions.” The 25 per cent restriction, the teachers contend in their brief, would establish a heretofore un- known custom. Pointing out the discouragement the proposal would mete out to prospec- tive normal school students, the brief points out that “this restriction would make the Washington Normal School fail to grant its graduates the economic protection that all other city normal schools afford their graduates. “It would be economically wiser for the prospective teacher to receive her training in an inferior two-year nor- | mal school, teach for one year with practically no guidance or supervision and enter the competitive examination, offering as ‘additional qualifications’ teaching experience, which in fac j Would in no sense be additional.” Local Normal School Praised. Commenting upon the local normal school, the brief declared it “is one of the finest in the country,” with "85 per =ent: of its teachers college-trained women, who have had years of prac- tical experience in teaching, and 50 per cent of whom have done graduate work in education.” “Those who seek to bring outsiders into Washington are in a paradoxical position,” the teachers contend: “If the outsiders are not better than the na- | tives, then there is no excuse for favor- |ing 'them. If the outsiders to be | brought here are of that higher group | which raises that State’s general status | almost. to the present level of the Dis- | trict of Columbia, then this ‘rider’ to | the current appropriation bill secks to deny the several States the best trained teachers each State may have, reducing thereby the present relatively low per- centage of professionally trained teach- ers in the several States, a practice which would be far more unsocial than any local priority clause now existing. “If outsiders are to be incorporated in the city system, a well organized plan of teacher-exchange should be autho- rized. Such a plan is educationally sound and is socialy wise, as it penalizes | none and aids all.” | The.brief concludes with commenda- tion of the suggested creation here of a normal college. “We would welcome a statutory meas- | ure creating such a college—a positise | constructive statute, rather than a nega- | tive. restrictive rider,” the brief con- cludes. BOY DRAWS YEAR TERM FOR THEFT OF 61 CENTS Tudge Sellers Scores Newspaper Racks in Sentencing Youth to | Industrial Home. Theft of 61 cents from a newspaper rack the night of January 18 yesterday sent & 14-year-old boy to the Industrial Home at Blue Plains for one year. The boy was already on probation and had two or three complaints registered against him since his probation. In passing sentence, Judge Sellers stated that she felt it was for the good of the child, as well as the District, that he be committed to the home. She re- marked that the source of temptation, the newspaper racks, was proving costly to District taxpayers. “This boy's theft of 61 cents is going to cost the District taxpayers ove: $300,” she stated. PN VR GROUP TO ENTERTAIN. Catholic Daughters Announce F gram for Tuesday Evening. The monthly entertainment of 1! Catholic Daughters of America will b: held Tuesday night at 8 o'clock in th~ Community Center, 601 E street. Th program, arranged by Sara Carroll, in- cludes a talk .on motion pictures b; Anthony Matre, musical numbers and a motion picture presented through the cour'ul.-sy of the National Diversified Cor« poration. Mary C. Boland, grand regent of the organization, will preside. 1