Evening Star Newspaper, February 17, 1929, Page 1

“From Press to Home Within the Hour” ‘The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to Washington homes by The Star's exclusive carrier service. Phone Ml(ln 5000 to start immediate delivery. WEATHER. (0. 8. Weathor Bureau Porecast.) Palr today: tomorrow increaming cloudiness, not much change in tem- perature. Temperature—Highest, 45, at 5 p.m. y: lowest, 31, at 6 am. yes- -terday. Full report on page 7. WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION () Means Associated Prass. L - ‘No, 1,248—No. 30,973 FEntered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. PRISON ULTIMATUM HURLED AT POLIGE INCHICAGO PURGING City, Stirred by Gangland Massacre, Awaits Exten- sive Crime Clean-Up. SEARCH FOR MURDERERS FAILS AS NET SPREADS Paper Attributes Slaying of Seven to Canadians’ Fight for Liquor Racket Control. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, February 16.—As a di- rect result of the St. Valentine's day massacre of seven gangsters, Chicago tonight was on the verge of what prom- 1sed to be the greatest dry cleaning and general crime purging since prohibition became a law 10 years ago. The concerted drive by Federal, State and city officials against erime, vice, ®ambling—and particularly liquor—al- most overshadowed the manhunt for the murderers of the seven Moran gangsters who were executed in their headquarters last Thursday. Spurred on by general criticism and the State's attorney’s admonition to the police to “clamp on the lid or go to jail.” Commissioner of Police William F. Russell today told his captains and deputies “booze selling and booze run- ning must be wiped out.” Blames Prohibition for Slayings. He blamed “prohibition and boore” for the wholesale slayings and ordered 5,500 policemen that he said had been battling ‘crime, vice and gambling to be thrown into the fight to make Chicago dry—something the police heretofore have considered a duty of Federal au- thorities. Meanwhile the search for the four or five men who virtually eliminated the Moran gang with their machine guns extended along two lines—neither of which had heen productive of results. ‘The police were searching here and else- where for three members of the “purple gang” of Detroit, identified from photo- graphs by rooming hHouse owners across the street from the Moran headquarters as having rented rooms there shortly before the killings. It _was the police theory that those sought spied on the Moran gang, await- ing an auspicious moment to order out the firing squad. Such tactics are not new in gang warfare here. Half a dozen slayings having been traced to such The other line of inquiry lay in trac- trucks found in ‘where geng was killed and in an & polbeaqu-d:?rol- wing reports a used by the killers 3 T Dry Administrator Is Rebuked. A _theory Maj. F. D. Silloway, it administrator, that real policemen and police uniforms were the killers without sub- stantiation today. Maj. Silloway left ihis office announcing he e: to meet some one who would help verify his theory but returned later stating that he had been “unable to make con- nections.” His theorizing drew a re- buke from mm Commissioner Doran in Wi 3 John A. Swanson, State attorney, at a conference with er Russell, blamed the police for conditions which resulted in the murders and said that such crimes would not occur unless there was a ready market for liquor. Commissioner Russell’s orders were Assued immediately after the conference and he a¢ ed his men to stop selling and traffic in liquor and ordered any police officer knowing of any con- jon with the killing of any police- men to report the matter to him. Police Reorganization Asked. Police also were under fire from other quarters. Alderman John Massen said he expected to present to the city council i;ext ';eetfi .pfil{k”m m: reorganizing of the en under a non-political civilian board of control. He said the city's reputation had been damaged beyond repair by the killings which ‘would not have occurred if the Police Department had been or- ganized efficiently. The Association of Commerce took a hmfld in thl:‘ mfit‘lzbby g:immdlnxuu grand jury invesf n of puta- tions cast on the police department as a result of the slayings with a view to clearing the department or ridding it of those who might be found guilty. ‘The bodies of the victims of the gang slaughter have been claimed by relatives. Funeral services will be held Monday. For Peter and Frank Gusenberg, prin- cipal lieutenants of George “Bugs” Moran, expensive caskets have been purchased with indications they would be buried with some of the lavish dis- play and pomp affected by relatives of slain gangsters a few years ago. For the other five, ‘however, simple services were planned. Ten Are Taken in Raid. Nine men and & woman were arrested in a raid this afternoon in a North Side garage suspected to be a sub-head- quarters of the Moran outfit. Detective Capt. Willlam Schoemaker led the raiders, arriving just as a truckload of whisky was moving out. In a vault were found other cases of whisky, all of 1t believed to be of Canadian origin ehipped from Detroit. > | ute_they begin to Fiery Missourian Says U. S.| Held in Reign of Hypoc- risy by Prohibition. Threatens to Bare Names of | Those Who Flout Law Secretly. By the Associated Press. A torrent of scorn and derision for | prohibition and the principles of pro- hibition was loosed in the Senate yes- | terday by Senator Reed of Missouri. | Delivering one of the few extended | speeches of the session, which is seeing | | the Missourian bow himself voluntarily |Off the stage of public service, he turned upon those who voted dry and drink wet with a fury which even he has seldom approached in the historic years of his turbulent senatorial career. So scorching was his attack that the | long-awaited Reed-Borah debate on| prohibition, the dream of those Who love to listen to sharply-turned forensic | thrusts and counterthrusts, became a possible oratorical treat for the week. | At the request of Senator Borah the | Senate agreed to remove the limit on| debate, but whether the Idahoen will decide to reply directly to Senator Reed tomorrow was not fully disclosed. Law Held U. S. Worst Crime. The Missouri Democrat contended that the United States is in a “reign of hypocrisy and cant, of violence, chicanery, false pretense and fraud,” and predicted that the time would come when the American people would awaken to the view that “the prohibi- tory law is the worst crime that has ever taken place.” He shouted that a man who voted dry, but nevertheless drinks, is “a cow- ard—a knavish coward” and said he | might in time make public the names of members of Congress whose personal habits are contrary to their sentiments as registered by their votes on prohibi- tion proj § The Jones bill to increase penalties for prohibitica law violators was the order of bu:iness in the Senate, and un- der a previous agreement debate on the measure would have been limited after 4 pm. yesterday. At the request of Senator Borah four additional hours of unrestricted discussion was provided. As Reed warmed to his subject he predicted that in time the country will see the prohibition law come “to an ignominious end.” “The day will come,” he thundered, “when the man who votes for prohibi- tion and who himself violates the let- ter and the spirit of the law will be held in that kind of contempt which ought to_be visited upon the knavish hypocrite who masks himself behind pretended virtue, and who seeks to hoid office by virtue of his false pretense. “The day will come -hcrn dfudxu bvv:’lm have made malefactors of decent boys and men will sink into that obloquy which is the just reward of cruelty, op- and' wrong. | “The day will come in this country when organized groups will no longer conduct the Government, but once more the volce of the people will be heard, and that voice will pronounce the knell of those who have yielded that thrift might follow fawning.” ‘The Senator asserted he had no criticism of those men who themselves observe-the doctrines they would force on others, but, he declared: “I hold in an abhorrence and con- tempt that cannot be painted in any tongue that man has ever the creature who, to keep his place in this body or in the House of Representa- tives will make that a felony which he himself connives at in his personal practice.” Acidly the Senator told of drinking at the Republican and Democratic con- ventions last Summer at Kansas City and Houston. He said that just prior to the convention at Houston a hoat was seized and great quantities of liquor were E “It was manifest to anybody but a plain, ordinary fool,” the Missourian declared, “that that arrest was arranged for. The papers spread it broadcast that the Democrats wanted to have a zonvention where everybody was as dry | as a Sahara Desert camel. Then in the hotels everybody was informed the par- ticular room where the liquor could be obtained.” Laughter Greets Sally. “At Kansas City,” he went on, turning to the Republican side of the cham- ber, “leading official prohibitionists were paying the boys in the hotels from $7 to $10 a pint “for a class of whisky that no respectable Missourian would ever think of drinking.” There was laughter from the floor and gallery and attendants shushed down this infraction of the rules. “The liquor was across the street from the leading hotels and could not ‘have been there if the Republican con- vention had not been there” Reed | shouted. “Then these sniveling hypo- crites adopted a plank in favor of pro- | hibition enforcement. I have sometimes been tempted to write a list of the names_of men who vote dry and drink wet. I do not know but I shall do it yet. “Prohibition is the breeding place of crime, because there has been driven from the open into the dark the liquor business,” he declared. “It has been taken out of the hands of a class of people who were law abiding and put | into the hands of people who, the min- act, are criminals. " (Continued on Page 4. Column 1. North Carolina House Memorializes Congress to Build Roads to Planets By the Associated Press. RALEIGH, N. C., Pebruary 16.—Con- gress would be called on to build a sys- tem of roads connecting the earth. sun. moon and stars under a memorial adopted today by the State House of Representatives. The rtesolution came to the House from the Senate originally as a memo- rial calling on_ Congress to take steps to build a highway system connecting the capital cities of all States. Repre- sentative Gwynn, Republican, of Rock- ingham County, declared he believed the whole proposition a joke, but doubted that Congress would recognize | t as such unless it was made more ob- Hg then offered the amend- ment to include the planets and it was adopted by a vote of 36 to 20. | The Senate resolution further pro- vided that Col. T. L. Kirkpatrick of Charlotte be appointed head of & com- | mission of five, the other members to | ba selected by the governor, to confer with Congress relative to the matter. Representative Gwynn's amendment provided further “that Col. Kirkpatrick shall be appointed to take the first trip over this celestial system.” Representative Nash added a further amendment that “nothing in this reso- lution shall obligate the State of North Carolina to any expenge” It was adopted without & recor§j vote. The resolution goes back to Senate for 4conourrence in the House ! tflz Sundwy Star, WASHINGTON, D. C., SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 17, 1929-110 PAGES. REED FLAYS "DRINKING DRYS" IN DERISIVE SPEECH IN SENATE SENATOR REED OF MISSOURI. —Associated Press Photo. LEGISLATVE IAM FACING CONGRESS Reseating Opposition in House Is Threat—Comple- tion of Work Seen. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. ‘The Seventieth Congress goes into the stretch this week, in a final drive to complete its legislative program by March 4. In the two weeks that remain of the session, much remains to be done. While the leaders exniess confidence that they will be able finally to dispose of all the appropriations bills, there is still the chance of a legislative jam at the close. Opposition to reapportionment of the House of Representatives, rolled up in a bill which has passed the House and 1is now on the Senate calendar, contains a real threat to the program. ‘Lurking in the offing, too, is the long-awaited report. of the Reed slush fund commits tee on the case of Senator-elect Willlam 8. Vare of Pennsylvania. The situation in Washington during the final days before the close of Con- gress promises to be enlivened further by the return to Washington this week of President-elect Herbert Hoover. He is due back here Wednesday or ihurs- day, according to reports, to polish up his inaugural address and to put the finishing touches on his cabinet. In the absence of Mr. Hoover, the cabinet makers have been busy. But so far, there has been no official statement regarding cabinet places and the word that has come from Florida is that Mr. Hoover is not likely to announce the make-up of his cabinet until he sends the list to the Senate March 4. Jardine Out of Picture. The gossip in Washington now is to the effect that, with the exception of Secretary Mellon, none of the present cabinet is to be retained in office. Mr. Hoover may put a different complexion on this report when he returns. But gradually the rumors have eliminated the probability that any of the present heads of the departments are to be re- tained, except the Secretary of the Treasury. Secretary Jardine took him- self definitely out of the picture, an- nouncing he had accepted a position outside of the Government. While Secretary Davis of the Department of Labor has made no announcement, it 15 understood that he, too, has other plans in mind than remaining in the cabinet. The offices that are puzzling the cabine’ members in the Capital par- ticularly today are those of Attorney General, Secretary of Commerce, Secre- tary of Labor, Secretary of Agriculture and Secretary of War. They believe that they have the rest of the places pretty well lined up, with Henry L. Stimson _to be Secretary of State, Andrew W. Mellon to continue as Secre- tary of the Treasury, Waiter F. Brown to be Postmaster Gene: Cramer_of North Carol be_Secre- " (Continued on Page 3, Column 5) WIFE ACCUSES WAR HERO. 1927 Romance Strikes Rocks as Divorce Petition Is Filed, By the Associated Press CHICAGO, February 16.—A romance which attracted attention in 1927, when Jean Francols de Villard, French war hero, announced he and his bride would encircle the globe by plane on their honeymoon, ended in the divorce court today when Mrs. de Villard charged he had struck here with a swagger stick. De Villard, now a Hollywood moving picture producer, and his wife were married at Yuma, Ariz, on August 18, 1927. Their proposed air honeymoon never took place. Mrs. de Villard said they separated last Thursday. KILLS HIMSELFr AND WIFE Four Small Children Look on at Double Tragedy, b PALESTINE, Tex., February 16 () — Four small children of e son, 39, tenant farmer, looked on while Thompson shot and killed an too0] ‘The mother with a shol d his own life. at the Thompson farm n of here. ‘The oldest of the children, a 10-year- old boy, told om'urs ATTENPT 10 D BURLINGAME BANK ACCOUNTIS FUTRE Department of Justice Agents Trace Movements of Checks Involved. MRS. BLALOCK EXPECTED TO RETURN WITHIN WEEK Counsel Bride Says All Efforts Be- ing Made to Speed Trial of Suspended Officer. A check up by Department of Justice agents in all banks in Washington and vicinity has failed to show the existence | of an account in the name of Capt. Guy | E. Burlingame, suspended commander of the second police precinct, according to a report submitted by the depart- ment yesterday afternoon to William H. Collins, assistant United States attorney for the District. The report, the third of a series pre- pared by Department of Justice agents, who are co-operating with Collins and District officials in their investigation into the charges of Mrs. Helen F. Bla- lock, also goes into considerable detail as to the bank accounts of the missing palmist, and traces the movement of two canceled checks alleged to contain Burlingame's indorsement, which Representative Blanton of Texas intro- duced as evidence in the case. One, for $8,700, was drawn on a building and loan association and the other on a prominent local bank. It for for $2,500. Collins regards the new report with utmost. importance, particularly in view of the allegation of the palmist that she had given Burlingame checks for various sums, and the Department of Justice investigation reveals he has no money on deposit in a bank. The ques- tion that now puzzles Collins is what Burlingame did with the money if the woman’s statements are true. She Said He Kept It in Safe. In her affidavit Mrs. Blalock stated tbat Burlingame kept “large sums of his own money” in large sealed envelopes in the safe at the second precinct sta- tion. “At one time he opened one of these envelopes that was thus sealed,” the document declared, “and he counted out $14,000 that was in bills of the denominations of $1,000 and $500 each.” Collins is guarding the contents of the Justice Department’s latest report with just as much secrecy as he has the previous two preliminary reports. He insists it would be ‘“unfair” to Burlingame to make the reports public and give the impression that efforts are being made to “try the case in the newspapers.” A copy of the report, Collins said, would be sent to Counsel William W. Bride, who is to draw the chl:se& which Burlingame will be called to answer before an extraordinary trial board. Bride already has coples of the first two reports of the Depart- ment of Justice, but he declared they contained little information helpful to him in drawing up the charges. Says Palmist’s Presence Necessary. Despite reports to the contrary, Bride said every possible effort is being made to bring the case to trial without fur- ther delay, but he is waiting for M-s. Blalock, who is expected to return o Washington voluntarily within a week. The presence of the palmist is abso- lutely necessary, he believes, if the formal charges are to contain any specifications based on the serious ai- legations of the woman. As the case now stands, he said, Burlingame could be cited before the trial board on a charge of conduct unbecoming a police officer, in which the love letter would play the only part. But in view of tha sensational nature of the affidavit, he prefers to await more developments from the Department of Justice inves- tigation, and, most of all, the appear- ance of Mrs. Blalock. Bride appears to be certain that Bur- lingame will go to trial before Congress adjourns, which contradicts reports that District officials are deliberately “stall- ing” in the prosecution of the case until Blanton passes out of Congress and becomes a plain citizen. If the palmist comes back to testify against " (Continued on Page 3, Column 2.) TODAY’S STAR PART ONE—28 PAGES. General News—Local, National Foreign. Schools and Colleges—Page 10. Serial Story, “The Ragged Princess"— Page 24. PART TWO—12 PAGES. Editorial Section—Editorials and Edi- torial Features. Notes of Art and Artists—Page 4. Review of Winter Books—Page 4. Pinancial News—Pages 7, 8 and 9. PART THREE—16 PAGES. Society. News of the Clubs—Pages 8 and 9. Clubwomen of the Nation—Page 10, Y. W. C. A. Activities—Page 12. Parent-Teacher Activities—Page 12. D. A. R. Activities—Page 14. At Community Centers—Pages 14 and 16. and PART FOUR—I18 PAGES. Amusement Section—Theater, and Music. News of the Motor World—Pages 5, 6 and 7. Aviation Activities—Pages 8 and 9. Col. Lindbergh’s Story—Page 9. Veterans of Great War—Page 10. Spanish War Veterans—Page 10, ‘Marine Corps Notes—Page 10. District National Guard—Page 12. Cross-word Puzzle—Page 12. Army and Navy News—Page 13. District of Columbia Naval Reserve— e 13. Fraternal News—Pages 14 and 15. Organized Reserves—Page 15. Radio News—Pages 16 and 17, PART FIVE— PAGES. Pink Sports Section. PART SIX—8 Classified Advertising. PART SEVEN—8 PAGES. e Section—Fiction Humor. GRAPHIC SECTION—12 PAGES. ‘World Events in Pictures. COLOR !!CTID‘—,‘-‘ PAGES. Mutt and Jeff: Reg'l r Screen PAGES, Yol Bich Lists§ Historn " | dnoss HUNT FOR DISABLED - FREIGHTER IS VAIN Steamer Reaches Position Given in S 0 S, but Can- not Find Ship. By the Asiociated Press. NEW YORK, February 16.—The ! Radio Marine Corporation at 10 o'clock tonight received the following message from the steamship London Corpora- tion: “Now in latitude 41:30 north, longitude 49:50 west: found no trace of S. 8. Padnsay; now going to search to leeward.” The position given by the London Corporation is the same as that report- ed by the Padnsay when she broadcast her 8 O S this morning. ‘The message from the London cor- poration was the first word received that any ship other than the President Harding of the United States Line had heard the S O 8 or was going to the distressed steamer’s assistance. Harding 300 Miles O Capt. William Rind of the President early this morning that he did not expect to reach the po- sition of the Padnsay before 4 a.m. to- morrow morning. He was sbout 300 miles away when he received her mes- sage of distress. Efforts to communicate with the Padnsay have been unavailing. One of the worst North Atlantic storms of the Winter was raging when the President Harding plowed toward the Padnsey, rudderless and helpless with at least 35 persons aboard. The liner immediately departed from its course for Europe when the freight- er's 8 O S was picked up about 10 a.m., and expected to reach the vessel about 4 am. tomorrow. ‘The general position of the vessel was given as 300 miles south of Cape Race, Newfoundland, and 1,000 miles east of New York. The President Harding had been making only about 12 knots, pre- sumably because of heavy seas. ‘The steering gear of the Padnsay presumably was broken some time dur- ing the 36-hour storm that had been sweeping the Atlantic Steamer lanes. Rain and snow, driven by winds which had approached gale force, were abat- ing, although weather continued thick and a heavy sea was running. Five Passengers Aboard. ‘The offices of the Barber Line, oper- ators of the Padnsay, sald the vessel's captain might be able to rig up a jury rudder and fight the storm safely. The freighter had two ngers bound for Monrovia, Africa, and carried a crew of about 35 or 40 hands. ‘The Padnsay, owned by the Amer- ican West African Line, is 380 feet long and 2,977 tons net register. The United States Liner America, under command of Chief Officer Harry Manning, who directed the rescue in a lifeboat of 32 men of the crippled freighter Florida on the liner’s last westward voyage, was again bound for America and was 700 miles from the position given by the Padnsay. No mes- sage from the America had been re- celved within the first hour following the 8. O. 8. call, however. The President Harding is a sister ship of the President Roosevelt, which, under command of Capt. George Fried, rescued 25 men from the stricken freighter Antinoe in midocean three years I’o Capt. Pried was in com- mand of the America when the Florida crew was rescued. D. C. MAN ON PADSNAY. William C. George, colored, 25 years old, who was recently appointed secre- tary to the American Minister to Liberia through the State Department, is a passenger aboard the American freighter Padnsay, re] in distress in a Midatlantic gale, 300 miles off Cape g George, whose local residence is 1319 Q street, sailed Sunday to begin his new duties as secretary to Minister Francis of Liberia at Monrovia. He intended to serve two years at this post and then return for further study in foreign serv- ice here, his family declared last night. He was employed as & secretary for the Republican nationa! committee dur- ing the recent campaign and prior to that was employed at the office of the recorder of deeds. George was graduat- ed from Dunbar High School, later en- tertaining Howard University, where he ml‘{fiu“ol:l'fd ‘I:r 1927. mother, Mrs. Margaret George; his father, John S. George, employed as a mall carrier for 42 years, and seven Ww and sisters live at the Q street Satchel Holds No Bomb. BUENOS ), (#) —Police ly have a to a satchel found in the gov- ernment palace in the belief that it might contain a bomb. It was opened with due care 'and revealed a pair of old and soe solied g 16 o \T'S NICE To HAVE &7 ")SMEONE ¥ THINKING [/, Horse Race Betting Causes Telephones To Be Ripped Out By the Assoclated Press. PHILADELPHIA, February 16. —Telephone booths were rippcd out on three floors in City Hall today because they were used to place bets on horse races. Mayor Harry A. Mackey issued the order after he had received com- plaints from wives of City Hall employes who sald their hus- bands had been losing money on the races. It was reported that book- makers had the telephone num- bers of the booths and sent rac- ing results on them. FOGAND RAIN FORCE LINDBERGH T0 LAND nere | |_one Eagle” Halts Flight at Hatteras Inlet, on North Carolina Coast. “Lone Eagle” tonight nested at the Hatteras Inlet Coast Guard Station awaiting better weather. Forced down on the beach 15 miles south of Cape Hatteras this afternoon by fog and rain, Col. Charles A. Lind- bergh added another to the anxious periods of search that have marked sev- eral of recent flights. For the second time in two days, friends, officials and fellow airmen were given anxious mo- ments when the New York-to-Paris fiier failed to show up in Washington fon his return from inaugurating the air mail route to Panama. The colonel left Charleston, S. C., at 6 o'clock this morning en route to ‘Washington. He was due in the Capital City about noon and after he was an hour or more overdue, an intensive search was started by the Government lighthouse service and other agencies. A check of Eastern North Carolina landing fields and coastal points brought forth little information. A yellow and black plane had passed over Southport, N. C., at the mouth of the Cape Fear River at 8:30 o'clock this morning and over Wrightsville Beach, east of Wil- mington at 8:45 am. The Southport Pilots’ Association office reported him flying northeast along the coast line. It was not believed that he would attempt to swing as far east as Cape Hatteras, but apparently the low visi- bility overland and a heavy rain that started during the morning led him to attempt to fly around the storm. GUEST OF COMMANDER. In No Hurry to Take Off, Plans Uncertain, He Says. NEW BERN, N. C., February 16 (#). —Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, who was forced down at Cape Hatteras this afternoon, was comfortably quartered at the life-saving station at Hatteras Inlet Station as the guest of Capt. Walter Yeomans, station commander. Col. Lindbergh is “in no hurry” to take off for Washington and his im- mediate plans are uncertain, he told a representative of the Associated Press over long-distance telephone tonight. Telephone communication with the isolated station was established from here after several hours of effort. ILL-FATED FREIGHTER ENDS “GHOST CRUISE” Alloway Piled on Alaskan Beach, With Chance of Salvage Impossible. By the Associated Press. DUTCH HARBOR, Alaska, February 16.—Wrecked on the rocky northe ern shore of Ugamak Island, at the trance to Unimak Pass, near here, the ill-fated freighter Alloway has finally reached the end of her “ghost” cruise, Ralph * FIVE CENTS - | TEN - CENTS ELSEWHERE IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS 1.5 PAY SURVE PARTLY REPIRTED Personnel Board Finds Some Employes Receive Less Than Civilians. The Government pay scale for some employes is lower than in private em- |ployment, while for other groups the | Government scale is more liberal than outside, according to tentative conclu- sions submitted to the Senate late yes- terday by the Personnel Classification Board, when it filed a partial report of its comprehensive survey of the field services of the Government. ‘The board emphasized that its survey is by no means completed, and that the comments presented under the heading of “tentative conclusions” are in the | nature of observations as the work progresses, to be followed by final recommendations when the survey is finished. The tentative conclusions re- lating to comparative pay scales in and out of the Government service follow: “The Government pay seale, repre- sented by the classification act of 1923 and amendments, for the positions in the custodial service, is generally some- what lower than the average pay for similar non-government positions. “For positions in the other services the Government pey scale below the $2,000 level is more libéral than the average pay for similar non-government positions, and for those above the $2,000 level it is less liberal. Pay in Certain Positions. “For_certain kinds of professional and sclentific positions the Government pay scale is more liberal than the average pay for similar positions in the larger colleges and universities, although these same positions command a considerably higher rate in some of the institutions in question. “There is a considerable number of employers who pay higher rates than the Government scale even for the lower level of positions.” Although the survey has been under- main purpose of enabling Congress to establish a classification system for the thousands of Government fleld em- ployes, it was explained last night that these tentative conclusions regarding pay scales and working conditions apply to the situation in the District of Col- umbia as well. Other comments in the list of tentative conclusions are: “The hours of labor in the Govern- ment compare favorably with com- mercial practice. “The leave privileges in the Govern- ment service are generally more liberal tl outside. ‘Non-government employes do not generally provide retirement systems, but in some cases systems even more liberal than the Government retirement slan are provided and in many instances other similar advantages are provided, such as group insurance, and co-opera- tive stock-purchasing plans. “The civil service tests of fitness for employment. in the Government service are more exacting and difficult than entrance requiréments generally for non-government employment. Difference in Lecalities. “There does not Aprelr to be justifi- cation on the basis of comparison with non-government_practice for establish- ing generally a different level of pay for similar work in different localities.” In making comparisons as between Government and private employment, the board told Congress it obtained in- formation concerning the duties per- formed and the pay received by approxi- mately 500,000 non-government em- ployes. For purposes of comparison the duties of these employes were allocated to the several services and grades set up by the classification act. The de- tailed results of this-comparison are set forth in one large section of the report. Commenting on the comparisons, the report state “The outstanding fact disclosed by the " (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) By the Associated Press. ‘The activity that has prevailed in W. Dempwolf of the|the White House since Mr. and Mrs. Comdr. United States Coast Guard cutter Chelan reported today. The Chelan found the Alloway piled beach under a 1,000-foot cliff Coolidge began preparing to leave the Capital, yesterday was miore pronounced. [Four large vans bore away from the executive mansion the first of the Cool- IVAge | jqge effects to be move ‘The would be Jpossible, Comdr. Dempwolf next easterly gale prob- ‘Their cargoes largely of ived by the ARNS PARLEY AN DENED BY BRITAN THROLEH DPLONAT Sir Esme Howard Declares He Was Speaking Only for Himself. STATEMENT IS ISSUED BY ENVOY OF ENGLAND Ambassador Asserts Whole Situa- tion to Be Nothing But “a Tempest in a Teapot.” BY WILBUR FORREST. The impression created here Priday that Great Britain is preparing to in- itiate a new international conference on naval arms limitation is & misunder- standing, it was indicated last night. Sir Esme Howard, British Ambassador to the United States who issued a state- ment that “there would seem to be every reason to believe, now that the 15-crui- ser bill has become & law, & further ef- fort before long will be made to reach an agreement between the principal naval powers of the world for & limita- tion of naval armaments,” last night stated that this was his personal opinion and that in no way was hz/:penktn: | for his government. | Sir Esme's supplementary position | came after it had been learned officially from London that inferences that Great Britain was about to call an arms parley were incorrect. He characterized the whole thing as & “tempest in a tea- pot,” due to a mistunderstanding. The British Ambassador pointed out that, although his statement may have been so interpreted in ‘this country, it contained nothing to indicate that “I was speaking on behalf of my govern- ment.” Tssues Statement. Sir Esme’s statement, prepared at the embassy last night follows: “I was recently asked by opinion with regard to & cablegram from London foreshadowing early resumption of nego- tiations for the further limitation of armaments. I authorized the publica- tion Friday of the written answer to this question, which I had prepared bui held pending the enactment of the naval influence in any way the courge of dis- cussion on a matter which in Engiand we hold to be purely an affair of the United States Government and Con- s warranted that some efforts in this direction be made before long—that is, before the next Washington conference at any . “I regret that my omission to e specifically that, on this occasion as on many others I was not speaking di- rectly for my government should have led into this B Officially Washington was pussled when Sir Esme’s statement was issued because no intimation of a renewed British interest in an international con- ference to be called by the London gov- ernment had come to the State Depart- ment through diplomatic channels. g, together with ad night, together don, explain the situation and make taken by the personnel board for the | Leagu ambassador may sion bringiag the different naval prob- lems of the two nations nearer to some agreement. In his personal opinica there may be ground later upon which a conference of the principal naval powers could follow the Geneva parley. He made it plain that the present mis- understanding over his statement was md A of a z"umpfll! mn.umwt" and unimportant as all such tempests are. At no time, he insisted. has he sought to mirror the opinions of his government upon the naval question or would he do so in & public statement. Agrees With Dispatches. Sir Esme was in perfect agreement with cabled dispatches from London that there has been no change in the situation since Sir Austen Chamberiain's statement in the Commons on Feb- ruary 6 that the government was éx- amining the question of Anglo-Amer« ican relations based on naval condi- tions in both countries, but that noth- ing expected to follow for some time. ‘Without. this information and based Mother Must Serve Four Hours Daily in Jail for Thefts. COLUMBUS, Ohio, February 16 (#).— | Mrs. Emma Steel, 24, mother of three children, must spend four hours each day for 30 days in solitary it at the city work house, but will be free the remainder of the day to care for her children. Municipal Judge Kime meted out the sentence today. Tha woman was adjudged guilty of petit larceny. She was charged with steal- ing appare! from a department store. Vans Begin to Remove From White House Household Effects of President Coolidge term in office. For several weeks the selection of those which are to be taken to Northampton has been in progress, and the first consignment was taken to & warehouse to await shipment. John Coolidge arrived yesterday for & short visit with his parents, and pos- sibly to pick up odds and ends of his, own possessions. > H:::epllw ldl;ofll' mum“ e z o wark in New Haven, —_—