Evening Star Newspaper, December 29, 1929, Page 20

RETRENENT BIL ACTON 1 URGED Joint Conference Members' Advised by Chairman to Get Behind Measure. As a New Year greeting to the more than 400,000 Government employes ! throughout the country, some 64,000 of | whom are in Washington, the hope is| expressed that “our efforts may be erowned with success” in the passage of the Dale-Lehlbach bill to liberaliz> the | Civil Service retirement law in a letter | sent yesterday by Robert H. Alcorn, chairman of the joint conference on re- tirement, to the members of the confer- ence. He urges united action to get | the measure through. | ‘Tha affiliated organizations in the | conference Tepresent some 270,000 of | the 400,000 Government employes, and include: The National Association of Letter Carriers, the National Federation of Post Office Clerks, the Railway Mail Association, District 44 of the Machin- ists and all other crafts and employes at all the navy yards and arsenals, rep- resenting some 40,000 Government em- ployes; typographical workers, printers and pressmen, kbinders and all the allied trades at the Government Print- ing office and the United States Bu- reau of Engraving and Printing. Bill Indorsed by Groups. All of these organizations and asso- ciations have re‘}e‘-unly indorsed the Dale-Lehlbach bill. Mr. Alcorn in this letter, which is to be transmitted through their re-secme organizations, urges all of the Government employes to impress upon their Representatives in Congress the necessity for promptly pessing this bill which has already passed both houses of Congress either unanimously or without serious oppo- sition, only to run up against presi- dential veto. “For the past five years,” Mr. Alcorn reminds the conference committee as representing the Civil Service employes throughout the United States, “we have advocated and fought for a better and more liberal retirement law, and our ath has been very rough with mighty arge political stones, some of which have been rolled aside, and yet there sre other stones that have not been rolled out nor crushed as they might or should have been. “There is now pending before the Senate and House a bill known as the Dale-Lehlbach retirement bill. In the Senate the Dale bill is numbered 8. 15, and in the House the Lehlbach bill is numbered H. R. 1815. The Senate bill is on the Senate caltndar, with a favorable report, No. 19, having been reported in the early days of the spe- cial session with the recommendation that the bill as reported should pass. In the House no action has been taken, as the House committee on civil service was not organized until about two weeks ago, or since the beginning of the regular session of the Seventy-first Congress, just before the holiday re- cess. The House committee has agreed to take up the retirement bill the first thing when they reconvene in January. Provides $1,200 Maximum. *“The Dale-Lehlbach bill as now pending provides for $1,200 maximum annuity. It also provides for an optién of two years less than retirement age— | wher: the employe has 30 vears of | service and is in the 70-year group, | zaid cmploye could at his option retire | at 68; likewise for those in ths 65-year | group, the employe would be permitted | to retire at 63; those in the 62-year anup would be permitted to retire at . This bill provides for a chang® of divisor from 45 to 40. Another provision is for comput the annuity on the last five years rather than the last 10, as now provided in the law. » bill does not provide all the changes that should bs made in seek- ing A better law, but it would bs very much better than the present law. ‘This samé bill has passed the Senate threz times and the House once, unani- mously. only being def-ated with the presidential veto. While we do not | enticipate this opposition. again, there are other obstacles that we must meet. ‘There are a good many individuals who are advocating special amend- ments and some have gone to the committes to they may have a cbance to convince m->mbers of the committee that their particular amendment should be added to the bill. Situation Alarming. “Thi~ situation has become ~omewhat alarming. as pronosed am:ndments or changes in ths bill would make it nec- essary to submit such changes to the board of actuaries for an estimate as to added cost. This would take con- siderable time, cause much delay, and might mean another Congress without getting action on the bill. “While there are many changes that should be made in order to have the retirement Jaw what it should be, many friends are becoming very much alarmed over the situation, and we must exert curselves to make sure that we get ac- ton on the bill that is now pending. I most earnestly recommend that all members of the conference and their friends write to the members of the Houses civil service committee and to the members of the Senate committee. urging them to help get the pending bill passed at the earliest date possible. ‘Then other changes that should be made can be followed up almost im- mediately. We should all remember that this step is not all that is desired, yet it would be a decided step forward, 2nd I sincerely trust that all friends will either write personal or organiza- tion letters to the members of the House and Senate. urging that this legislation be brought forward for con- sideration without further delay.” —— SHOUSE LAUDS WII:SON AND ASSAILS HOOVER Democratic Leader Critieizes Presi- | il dent for Failure to Declars Position on Tariff. By the Associated Press. LOUISVILLE, Ky.. December 28— Jouett Shouse, chairman of the Demo- cratic national executive committee, in an address here tonight, criticized the e P B e | piece living room suites, in fine mohair, for $169; four-picce bed room suites, | in real walnut vencer, for $129; distinctive dining suites of colonial mahog- his position on “the outrageous sched- ules of the psnding tariff act.” Speaking at a dinner commemorating the seventy-third anniversary of Wood- row Wilson's birth, Mr. Shouse said | President Hoover “has refrained from iving his vie a great subect | g A y % A ok Mol B B —including overstuffed chairs, occasional tables, magazine stands, beauti- Congress for some time, yet on two oc- casions he has not hesitated to repudi- ate the action of that body. “On one occasion it was the deben- ture and on the other the flexible pro- visions 6f the tariff.” In his review of the life of the for- mer President, Shotise sald Wilson “be- lieved in the responsibility of leader- ip, and in that responsibility as a #pokesman for the people.” bt e WIFE SEES MATE SHOT. CAMDEN, N. J., December 28 (#).— George Myers, a cigar salesman, was Peppered with machine gun bullets while on his way home tonight and left for dead near his doorway. His as- sailants drove away in an automobile. The victim’s wife, watching for him #t their apartment window, saw a man ! From the economic standpoint it pays to buy good furniture—and “Furni- I THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGION, D. €, DECEMBER 29, 1929—PART, ONW, worth of stock, almost certain wealth l Ends College Career DR SM"H RE"RES e Smith, small of stature, white- EIELSUN SlGHTED i . haired, almost electric with energy and b enthusiasm, looked steadily across his I shall have to manage my orchards in N;»\:t'hch-.(:llm:axt ;hn‘l‘l )]:‘;ve t{: :;ll N W) write. But I should make the A et College President to Leave|same decisions again.” Natives in Vicinity of Tchu- School Life After 49 Years I kotsky Report Seeing as Educator. WHAI.EN UUII.INES Smoke, Says Radio. Special Dispatch to The Star. By the Assoclated Breas: LEXINGTON, Va, December 28.— MOSCOW, Union of Soviet States of Dr. Henry Louis Smith, 70, professor- | Russia, December 28.—The captain of president at Washington and Lee Uni- s’ Boviet eléamer Btavropal Tepioeted| versity here, will retire December 31| . |by radio today that Carl Ben Eielson, atter serving 49 years as collese teacher | Chicago and New York Will |missing American aviator, was believed and university head, it was announced l t h s 4 | |to have been sighted by natives in the ay. . tsky Bay. His resignation becomes effective at nterchange Special g ARSI L Other reports relayed by the steam- the close of this year. It was tendered Police S d ehigy rnplalr.’ o the DRlAC thit (he The in October, 1928, but was deferred at olice Squads. formation might aid in the search, . were that natives had seen smoke in Dr. Smith plans to_leave January 1 the vicinity of Vankarem, west of with his family for Greensboro, N. C..| By the Ascociated Press. Koliutchinsky Bay, and that Russian DR. HENRY LOUIS SMITH, to begin a full-time business career and G t an_airplane a few Who will retire as president of Wash- | to serve education as lecturer and | CHICAGO. December 28.—Grover |hunters had sighted | m‘?mm, was | ington and Lee University after noted | writer. Whalen, police commissioner of New |Tiles Wen ircled twice over their service ‘of 49 years as an educator. St OSSR York City, said tonight that ho and |camp before disappearing toward the ~—Assaciated Press Photo. 4 0 = William F. Russell, Chicago's police | west. | e During the interregnum until Sep-| commissioner, had determined on a . tember. wh the trustees ct to GALE ON SIBERIAN COAST. PROF. GREENE HONORED- 1n;':’a|f1rth: ;pw reesldreurfl. i;lee:::cuuvg program of joint efforts to combat —_— s e committee of lge faculty will govern | racketeering. NOME, Alaska, December 28 () —A 2 " he umwversity. The pl: lined by Co - | freezing 50-mile gale today was whip- Columbia U. Man Heads American " ® plan as outlined by Commis: e | 3 about his long career. lishment of racketeering squads in|Ben Eielson and Earl Borland, have NEW YORK, December 28 (P.— | It is a plain office, the administra- | each city and a continual interchange |been lost for nearly seven weeks and ' 3 - | tive room of one of the oldest univer- vhere th ship, Nanuk, and Soviet ship, Stavropol, are icebound,; ot men gone out from its doors—among | Whalen said the first step would be | pjjo rnnkp Dgrh-nd'zmrepomd here. to the presidency of the American His- | them Gov. Crittenden of Kentucky, taken next week, when several men torical Association for 1930, was an- | Govs. McDowell, Letcher and Kemper | . CANADIAN PLANES TESTED. [of Virginta: = Court Justives | Would be assigned to come to Chicago nounced today. He succeeds Dr. James Lt e oo LR LD Y qny | Trimble and Lamar, Ambassadors| With available New York evidence in| pAIRBANKS, Alaska, December 28 Harvey Robinson of New York. He will| Thomas Nelson Page and John W.|the Marlow and Yale gang slaying | (#).—As warm weather brought a hazy take office Monday when the forty- | Davis, and scores of Senators, Repre- canse ceiling over Fairbanks today the three fourth annual meeting of the associa- | sentatives, college presidents, literary . i Fairchild cabin planes which will be tion opens at Durham and Chapel Hill, | figures—its view through the window Racketeering Vital Probiem. used by the Canadian airmen in the o of Lee Memorial Chapel, where across| Bullets, shells, confiscated guns and | search for Carl Ben Eielson and Earl | Other 1930 officers of the associa- | the corridor from the office he occupied | sther material held in both cities are | Borland, lost between Teller and North tion are: Ephraim Douglass Adams, | 88 1pmldenl of the college after the| = % hat infe jon | Cape, Siberla, since November 9, arose Stanford University, first vice president: | Civil War, Gen. Robert E. Lee lies| !0 be compared for what information | gr/om P OCn oo S 08 JROREIART o ad Carl L. Becker, Cornell University, sec- | buried—typify the college which for 181 | they may hold. in test flights over the city. ond vice president, and Dexter Perkins, | years has delivered education for| “Racketeering is the most vital of | The three ships were said to be ready secretary. scarcely half what it has cost to pro- |our police ~problems,” Commissioner | for the long hop to Teller via Nome, Prof. Greene is a graduate of Harvard | duce it. Business profit has been sacri- | Whalen said. “Business men are losing | which probably will start not later than | and has studied at Northwestern and | ficed to teach young men. millions. Monday. While the Canadians were Berlin Universities. He served on the| This note of plainness, this quality [ “Most of them won't fight their own | planning to be actively in the search faculty of the University of Illinols (of character, struck a visitor yesterday | battles, but pay tribute to avoid|for Eielson and Borland not later than from 1894 until 1923, when he came to | 5 he listened to Dr. Smith answer his | trouble. The system also leads the | Wednesday, stlence enveloped the fiyers Columbia. questions about half a century of teach- | gangsters to fight among themselves: | already on the search, except for & o AP SN ing, of romantic research in science, | they are covetous of the spoils of the | Christmas message from Marion Swen- which would close officially in a few | rackets and they kill their competi- | son, 17-year-old Seattle high school POLICEMAN IS KILLED. hours. tors.” girl, who is on the fur-trading vessel Smith Is Colorful Figure. Favors Ban on Parking. Nanuk, frogen in the ice off North| ape. 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The | tem for dropping allied messages behind | PATKINg in the downtown business dis- | Locently flew from Teller to the Nanuk, slayer, standing on the running board | the German lines in 1918, the university | trict, 88 practiced in Chicago, must be | g 2"5 14 that her father, Olaf Swen- of & taxi in which he and his two con- | president who had been honored socially | {troduced in New York,” was his con-| ¢ ““nead ‘of a Seattle’ fur-trading federates were taking fight, fired one | and officlally by King George and the | Clusion. “Your downtown traffic is| orioany “and Gillam had made two shot into the patrolman's head, as the | British government as perhaps ro one | Much faster than ours for that reason. | fioific™ ) ‘search of Elelson or the latter, in a commandeered car, drew | else has ever been honored except mem- | OUr situation is becoming steadily [ wreckage of his plane, but did not men- alongside. ~ The patrolman, Joseph | bers of royal families, worse. tion whether Crosson had been in the Jockel, 31, died immediately. 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