Evening Star Newspaper, January 6, 1930, Page 2

THE EVENING ‘STAY CALM, WORK, ADVISES DR. KLEIN Business and Individuals Are Urged to Take Inventory as Year Begins. Dr. Julius Klein, Assistant Secretary of Commerce, proposes this New Year resolution: “To remain calm, work hard and take the long views.” In his regular Sunday night address over the Columbia Broadcasting System, the Commerce Department official said “we should resolve, above all, to take & strict and_accurate ‘inventory’ of our commercial _situation, with a candid willingness to_recognize unsatisfactory conditions.” This should be, he added, preeminently & period of self-analysis both nationally and particularly by in- dividual firms—a searching out of the weak spots as well as the strong—a reso- lute appraisal devoid of fllusions. Two Big Considerations. Dr. Klein said the two big considera- tions to be borne in mind as the year begins are that “this is an epoch espe- cially changeful and dynamic” and that “We cannot form truly just business estimates unless we penetrate below the surface and learn about the deep, power- ful currents which are often vastly more important than the superficial things that catch the eye first.” s “Vivid, sensitive alterness is” the pusimess expert said, “the inescapable price of survival in our new business world. The tempo of that world is staccato. Its tone is strident. There is a ‘dance of the machines’ Bewilder- ingly swift scientific revolutions are ac~ complished. Distarces are shed. Newly unleashed forces leap an onward toward undecipherable ends. Take Account of AlL “we must unceasingly take account of ali this. We must scrutinize, appre- hend, disentangle, rationalize and evalu- ate as best we may. We must appraise and apply. We must heed the voice of this new business age.” The pasic conditions and movements which have “for years been filling the well-springs of prosperity of this coun- try” were held by the Secretary to be sufficient to “tide us over any momen- tary readjustment difficulties that may be apparent.” “Regardless of any stock-speculative orgies,” he said. “we still have the resili- ence and ready adaptability of our peo- ple; the increasing application of Science and invention to technical prob- Jems and processes; the development of organized research which has been so vastly accelerated since the outbreak of the war. “Our campaigns for the elimination of avoldable waste are now beginning to bear fruit. Our labor situation is not- able for the co-operative spirit of the workers, and the recent presidential conferences have assured stability for the wages that they enjoy. There is ample capital for productive purposes. The unequaled natural endowments of the country are intact and, with rare exceptions, are under far-sighted, pub- lic-spirited control.” CiviL S_ERVICE BILL PASSED BY SENATE WITHOUT ROLL CALL (Continued From First Page) erage will be raised to $860 by this legis- lation. In response Semwr-?osennwr Dale said that this, bill would increase the cost by $3,504,663. He emphasized, however, that the re- tirement fund accumulating in the Treasury. from the contributions col- lected from the salaries of the employes is very large and is growing rapidly, and he predicted that it would be a long time before the Government would called upon to meet its deferred liability. It was brought out during the debate that under the present law the cost to the Government is something less than 25 of 1 per cent of the payroll and th this bill would increase the Govern ment’s cost to 1 per cent of the payroil. Howell and Smoot Inquire. Among those who took part in the discussion over the question of the Government’s _deferred liability and when that liability might have to be met were Senators Howell, Republican, ©of Nebraska, and Smoot, Republican, of Utah. Questions as to certain pro- visions of the bill were asked by Sena- tors Fletcher, Democrat, of Florida; Couzens, Republican, of Michigan, and Watson, Republican, of Indiana. In response to a question from Sena- tor Howell as to how much this bill would add to the ultimate liability of the Government Senator Dale explained the Government, Senator Dale explained a deferred liability under which tihe Government would take care of the cost of retiring those who went out of the service immediately after the first retirement law was enacted without having had time to pay in much or anything toward the retirement fund. Brings Liability to One Per Cent. Senator Dale did not have available, the estimated increase in the Govern- ment liability in dollars, but declared on a percentage basis, the actuaries figured it would only bring the Govern- ment libility up to 1 per cent in- stead of less than half of 1 per cent, as at present. He pointed out that within a few months, the retirement fund will have reached a total of $150,- 000,000 in the Treasufy. The Senator said that one actuary outside of the Government service has stated that the way the fund is going the time will come when the interest alone, from this fund will carry the annuities. Senator Watson wanted to know If this bill would force an employe to re- tire at the end of 30 years’ service, and Senator Dale replied that it was op- tional. The Vermont Senator told his colleagues that the bill has been dis- cussed for hours in the Senate in previous years and declared that it was given a pocket veto by former President Coolidge “in a way that made it im- possible for us to pass it over his veto.” Employes Swell Fund. The committee report on the bill points out that while the estimated cost, to the Government wo:'d be only about 1 per cent of the pay roll, the employes put into the fund 3': per cent of the pay roll. The report shows that on May 1, 1929, the fund had reached a total of $114,195,000. The report states that the present contribution of the employes of 3'% per cent of their salary nets annually something over $28,000,000 and that the total annuities and refunds under the proposed bill would be a little mor2 than $18,000,000, with a prospective in- crease in 1930 of not more than $750,000. “With these facts and figures, it can be readily seen that it will be many years before the total annuities and refunds that are being paid out will reach the amount of the income from the contributions of the employes of $28,000,000.” the committee report stated. “The committee feels that this is meritorious legislation and will bene- fit not only the employes, but will be the means of greater efficiency and bet- ter service to the Government.” Shortly after the retirement bill passed, the Senate reached another bill on its calendar of interest to Govern- ment employes, namely, the Brookhart salary adjustment bill. But this meas- ure was postponed to be taken up at somé later time. The Brookhart bill is to questions from other | Militarism Succumbs to (The union of sea power and the champioring of human freedom is point- ed out in the fourth of a series of special articles.) BY EDWARD PRICF BELL. Admiral Mahan's large-scope induc- tion from the major instances of history being what it is—namely, that sea power has determined what political regimes should stand and what ones should fall—it follows that he deerod this remarkable force the conserver of {human liberty in the modern world. ‘That judgment, surely, is profoundly arresting. It is exceptionally so, more- over, to those nations (as Britain and America) which at once have sea power and love democracy, Napoleon, pertinacious as well as ‘brlllilnt, intrepid and picturesque, was an autocratic militarist, purc and sim- ple. Personal pre-eminence was the breath of his nostrils, and he measured the “beauty” of a battlefield by the T\'nlume of its bloodshed. De Tocque- | ville, Prenchman, said of him: “He was |as great as a man can be without vir- tue.” And Thiers, another Frenchman: “He immolated 1,000,000 men on the field of battle.” Woodrow Wilson ealled him “The enemy cf civilized mankind.” Sea Power Served Democracy. Not stopping here to consider, how- ever briefly, the good Napoleon did— and, admittedly, he did much—he was {8 despot and & soldier. Land power fought ineffectually for him. Sea | power fought effectually against him. | And sea power belonged to democratic England. Hence sea power, in the tre- mendous and sanguinary ordeal of the Napoleonic era, fought for Mberty and saved it. Liberty for whom? For the world, so far as the world had liberty—even, in the long run, France. There appears to be no in- stance of sea power suppressing liberty. As it is a comparatively bloodless power —it never immolated, and never could immolate, 1,000,000 men in bat! it is a power with a long and unmatched record of affiliation with political free- dom. The pressure of sea power in war, to be sure, is remorseless, but limited narrowly in violence. ~ Not everywhere, moreover, does it grant un- restricted freedom, but nowhere does it destroy freedom, root and branch, as so often does land power. England Championed Liberty. For many years after the Congress of Vienna (1814), reaction ran riot in continental Euroj rea of armies. If naval England, at that time, was none too democratic (the British mid- dle classes were not enfranchised until 1832), she nevertheless was the freest state across the Atlantic. And almost invariably (Ireland might be judged an exception) she favored political liberal- beyond her own borders. England’s expansion and the freeing of slaves were coextensive. For genera- tions virtually owning the sea, she was potential mistress of the world. Yet it was during those years that Belgium and Greece gained their independence, Italy achieved her unity, the Latin American countries escaped Spanish rule, and the Monroe Doctrine came into being as a great instrument of con- stitutionalism and peace in the Western Hemisphere, Where was sea power during the American Civil War? Lincoln's blockade of the extended Ccnfederate coastline is the answer. Sea power fought with Lincoln for the emancipation of the Negro race in the United States. Without sea power, Lin- coln might have won, but who can say tically? North’s Navy Big Factor. ‘The drastic restrictions of exports and imports, as affecting Lee's fate in the field, was a very substantial, if not decisive, & factor in the warlike effi- clency of the North. The stoppage of the marketing of t! South’s cotton alone was & body blow to the slave States. And what of the Spanish-American ‘War? ‘There, again, sea power played a great role for liberty. It freed Cuba,| Porto Rico, Guam and the Philippines from Spanish militarism. American military power, of course, had its part in the war, as British and Prussian military power had their part in the defeat of Napoleon. But how could American soldiers have reached the Caribbean battlefields, not to mention the Far East, except by means which were the concrete expression of sea power? There may be objectors to say that America did not free the Philippines —stopped short, indeed, of definitively freeing Cuba—but will any one say that those islanders are not immeasurably freer than they were in the heyday of Weyler? Central Powers Land Nations. 1t was almost exactly a century after ‘Waterloo, however, that sea power had another stupendous trial of its belliger- ent quality in conflict with land power. In 1914 began the World War. Ger- many and Austria-Hungary, in that struggle, symbolized land power. They had the greatest military machine, both in itself and in the moral and physical factors allied with it, ever constructed. On the other side, headed by Britian, were the naval powers, relatively ill- prepared in all the values which go to perfect the fighting worth of nations. Land power in this case, as in the classic precedent of the nineteenth cen- tury, was intensely autocratic and militarist. It had behind it 50 years of hilosophical and technical prepara- ion for war and was out to impose its conception of civilization upon the world. It struck with that swiftness and terrific force which the circu stances made natural. High hope ani- mated it. All the ponderables said it should win. Poignantly do I remember sitting one night in an artillery-shaken dugout on the west front with Sir SYMPATHIZERS Defending Liberty. SEA ROADS TO PEACE Power of Great Navies Philip Gibbs, when he suddenly ex- claimed: “A new race has arisen. These land giants will conquer the world.” The land giants drew very near to that prodigious achievement, but sea power, at last deploying its full strength, cut their primary bases from beneath their feet, and they sank back into mili- tary impotence. And this sea power, true to the position of 100 years previ- ously, was a power of political progress, of civilianism, as contrasted with muli- tarism; of individual dignity, as con- trasted with collective tyranny; of lib- erty as liberty is understood wherever men pursue the ideals of democracy. Recall the terrible words of the fa- mous German general, Ludendorff: “My soldiers still were fighting in March, 1918, but they were half- demobilized by the pangs of hunger, As they drove the British and the French back in different sectors on the West front, they halted in the pursuit to fall like wolves upon the stores of food left by the retreating armies. They dealt with the machine gun nest of the enemy feebly. Why? Because they continually were running hither and thither in search of food.” Allied Blockade Victorious. Sea power! It took the world’s pro- ductive energies away from the autoc- racles. It shut them off from the money markets and from the farms and mines and forests of the world. It re- duced not only their armies, but their civilian populations, to hunger. It shat- tered their only possible foundations of victory. It was history’s resistless arm interposed .between the advancing hosts of freedom and those who sought to stay the march on ground which would have been agreeable to Napoleon or to his ultrareactionist successors of the holy alliance. Incontestably, be the reason what it may, the sea and human liberty seem inseparable. Perhaps about the wild movement of salt water there is some- thing which breeds in peoples an un- conquerable will to be free. Rosebery once said that nobody could study as- tronomy and be narrow-minded. Pos- sibly those nations which are children of the tides naturally have the power and feel the duty to resist the stifling hand of despotism. Another consideration—it is peculiar to liberty to love peace, lacking which there is no liberty. As we have looked to the sea for liberty, so, I have no doubt, we must look to it for peace. Imperishable in memory would be the forthcoming London naval conference if it solved the problem of making sea strength and peace strength synony- mous terms in world affairs. (Copyright, 1930, by Chicago Daily News.) (The power of navies for peace as well as for liberty is pointed out in the next special article, appearing to- mMOrrow.) U. S. PLANS TO SEEK FIVE-POWER PACT AT LONDON PARLEY (Continued From First Page.) position to guide instantly the impor- tant decisions of American policy. Such parting guidance as the Presi+ dent can give at the present stage will be imparted to the delegates tomorrow at a White House breakfast. Then, ac- companied by its advisers, the dele; tion will leave Washington on Thursday morning no a special train for New York, and will sail that afternoon on the steamer George Washington. That will mean three days in London before the conference meets two weeks from tomorrow—a period Secretary Stimson, as head of the delegation, proposes to turn to advantage in personal consulta- tion with the representatives of Great Britain, Japan, France and Italy. Formally opening the negotiations for the United States at the first ses- sion, on January 21, Mr. Stimson will speak in general terms of the great ex- pectations of his Government for naval limitation and the advancement of peace. He will explode no diplomatic bombshell, as Secretary Hughes did in opening the Washington Conference in 1921. Instesd, he will counsel a patient examination of the whole fleld of pos- sibilities before an effort is made to draft definite agreements. In the succeeding discussions the American delegation will be expected to follow certain general lines of policy, laid down after weeks of consultation here. They include: Sincere invocation of the Kellogg treaty, outlawing war, not as an abso- lute guarantee of security, but as a moral commitment to frank and open dealing around the conference table. Would Avoid League Decision. Non-involvement in the purely European aspects of the discussions, and avoidance of any proposal which would put enforcement of the confer- ence decisions into the hands of the League of Nations. Retention of the battleship as the backbonz of the American Navy, at least for the present, but with battle- ship construction sharply restricted pending the next conference, 1936. Maintenance of an American cruiser strength based on the necessity of pro- tecting the Nation's developing trade routes. A holiday in_building destroyers, to replace those which are passing beyond the age of usefulness. As drastic a restriction of the sub- marine as other nations will accept. It will be for Secretary Stimson and his colleagues to clothe these general principles with practical detail as the negotiations proceed. Even in this di- rection, however, much already has been done, and more will be attempted in daily consultation among the dele- intended to give a salary increase of one step within each grade under the classification law to al who were advanced by under the Welch law. % the family, three those employes Crowd before the home of John Hall of Seat Pleasant, only one ILD o flhlmtfll‘llmm"blt gates during the eight-day trip across the Atlantic. AID HINGTON, D. MASSAGING RULED FREE FROM LICENSE| JAILED IN BLAST st Convicted Masseur Ordered Released as Court Reverses Verdict. When Congress, in the act of 1896, Permitted the practice of massaging, both common and Swedish, without a license, it did so upon the theory that such practice would be beneficial, de- clared the District Court of Appeals today in an opinion by Justice Charles H. Robb, in which the conviction in Police Court of Barnat Rubin of Rubin’s Health Institute was reversed and his discharge ordered. Rubin had a legal right, the court finds, to practice massaging, and it would be a strained and unreasonadle construction of the act of Congress to d that he was without legal right to express his opinion as to the bene- ficial results of his treatment. One of the witnesses against Rubin had said he told her she had arthritis, but the court says this fact is of no particular significance in view of the fact that Rubin made no examination of the patient, and the statement amounted to nothing more than an expression of opinion. To characterize it as a diagnosis would accord it un- due dignity, the opinion stated. The court finds that the trial judge should have granted the motion of counsel for Rubin for a directed ver- dict of “not guilty.” The court brushes aside the claim that Rubin called himself a doctor as of little significance and point out that the testimony showed that Rubin ap- plied an ointment to his patients and Tubbed it in by a process of massag- ing, which is especially exempted by law from the requirment for a license. .. CIVIL SERVICE BOARD APPEAL IS DENIED Lower Court's Action on Mandate Granting Applicant's Plea for Examination Is Upheld. The United States Civil Service Com- mission today lost its appeal from the action of the District Supreme Court grauang a mandamus requiring it to permit Nathaniel Ward, minor son of William 8. Ward of Ohio, an attorney in the Department of Justice, to take an examination for senior stenographer and typist as a resident of Ohlo. The action of the lower court was upheld in an opinion of the District Cour® of Appeals_ rendered by Chief Justice George E. Martin. The commission had claimed that since the boy had been residing-in the District of Columbia for the year prior to his application he was not eligible to take the examination as from the State of Ohio. Ward and his attorney, Marcus Borchardt, pointed out that the father and son had resided in Ohio before the father had accepted a gov- ernmental appointment and, as the law of Ohlo permits absence from the State on Government business, the son shared the domicile of the father. The boys' physical absence from Ohio, the Appellate Court finds, during the year preceding the examination is not material and did not defeat his, right to enter the examination as a bona fide resident of Ohio who had been actually domiciled in the State for the prescribed time. The court quotes with approval, opinions of former Attorneys Gen. Wickersham and Miller as to the meaning of the words “gctually domiciled,” and points out that with these official interpretations in view, Congress employed the same language in relation to the same sub- ject matter in the legislation under consideration and under such circum: stances the courst is justified in as- suming that it was the legislative in- tent 'that the words as thus employed should be given the interpretation set out by the Attorneys General. DR. ZAIDA B. KATES | FUNERAL TOMORROW Ashés of Well Known Spiritualist to! Be Taken to Philadelphia for Burial. Funeral services for Dr. Zaida Brown Kates, chiropractor and well known spiritualist of Washington, who died Saturday at her residence, 16 Eighth street southeast, will be held tomorrow noon at the chapel of J. Willlam Lee’s Sons, 332 Pennsylvania avenue. Follow- ing cremation the ashes will be interred in the family plot in Arlington Ceme- tery in Philadelphia. Dr. Kates, an exponent of spiritualism for 48 years, came to Washington with her husband, the late George W. Kates, in 1905, when he was appointed secre- tary to the local National Spiritualists® Association. Besides her activity in psychic work, both as lecturer and me- dium, Dr. Kates had carried on an ac- tive practice in chiropractory. survived by two George H. Brown and Nelson C. Brown, and two sisters, Elizabeth E. Brown and Mrs. Fred B. Handy, all of Philadelphia. Dowers Given Poor Brides. ROME, January 6 (P —King Victor Emimnanuel today, in honor of his son's approaching marriage, gave the gov- ernor of Rome 500,000 lire, or about $26,000, to be used as a fund for wed- ding dowers for poor girls. This adds to another sum the King gave for thc same purpose on the occasion of the wedding of the crown prince’s elder sister, Yolande. VICTIMS OF NEW YEAR BOMB Md., yesterday, where they contributed to a fund to help New Year bomb explosion. —=Star Staff Pheto. Y. BRADY BROTHERS Husband’s Story Leads to I Two Arrests—Uncle Is Released. (Continued From First Page.) last night as a result of the question- ing of his nephews. The elder Brady had been confined since Friday night. ‘The statement obtained from Herman is sald by his inquisitors to involve a fantastic “suggestion” of the young widower that the bomb might have been sent to his wife to “scare her” and that a question of “the family honor” was linked to the act. Herman is known to have been quizzed closely regarding his wife’s condition at the time of their mar- riage and concerning reports that rela- tives were worried over the “affair” of the couple. Officials investigating circumstances attending delivery of the fatal package have established, it is said, that the gayly-decorated box, addressed to “Naomi Hall, second house on Car- mody road,” was delivered about 4:30 o'clock on the Sunday morning before New Year day. Apparently by mistake, however, it was placed on the front of the second house on the opposite side of the street from the Hall house, and was taken in by Mrs. John Buckley, who did not know the adressee. Mrs. Buckley did not learn where Mrs. Brady lived until New Year morn- ing, when she called to one of the Hall boys and forwarded it, unsuspectingly, on its mission of death and mutilation. Movements Are Checked. A check-up on the movements Satur- day night and Sunday of Herman and Roy Brady has been made by the au- thorities. The inquiry shows, they as- sert, that the pair went to Southern Maryland early Sunday morning after telling friends of the intended trip. Herman is reported to have told one friend to “take good care” of his wife while he was away. The theory on which the officials are working today is that the explosion was the result of a plot by persons who wished to conceal the fact that the 18- year-old bride of six week was soon to become a mother. Federal Advice Sought. Meanwhile, the authorities moved to seek expert Federal advice as to the value as evidence of certain fiagments of a lead tube and other significant articles found at the scene of (he ex- plosion Saturday by a group 07 buys and turned over to Maryland officials by The Star. A cursory description given to Dr. Charles E. Monroe, chief of the division of explosives of the United States Bu- reau of Mines, brought from uim an unofficial opinion that the infernal ma- chine was the work of an experienced hand. He said the lead fragments ap- peared to be part of a phial waich may have contained sulphuric wcid, used often as a detonating agent in_bombs of the “instantaneous” type. Such a detonator was used in a bomb which exploded in the Capitol during the war, Dr. Munroe recalled. Construction of a bomb of this type requires ingenuity of a high order, it is explained. Materials for its building are not readily obtainable, and it should not be very difficult to trace the source of the tube, the acid and a spe- cial fusee match required in making an | acid-type detonator. While the brothers were being ques- tioned yesterday afternoon at the county seat the mutilated body of 4-year-old Dorothy Hall, third victim of the atroc- ity, was lowered tenderly into the grave where had been consigned Saturday the bodies of Mrs. Brady and little Samuel Hall, 19-month-old baby of the stricken family. The funeral service was held at the Mount Oak Methodist Church, in Mitchellville, with Dr. Julius McDonald, pastor, officiating. Only a small group of relatives and friends was present. The grave had been held open to receive the third casket after the death Friday of Dorothy at Sibley Hospital. Relief Work Starts. Relief measures for the stunned fam- ily were initiated yesterday from sev- eral sources. Dr. McDonald had a col- lection taken up at his church, as a re- sult of which $120 was raised, and com- Church and the Seat Pleasaht Pire De- partment also started collection of funds to aid the needy family. Hall is a grave digger and was at work in a local cemetery when the bomb exploded. Mrs. Nora Hall, the mother, and two older sons, Leslie, 16, and Thomas, 8, are recovering in Providence Hospital from terrible lac- erations and shock. A cigar box was nailed to the side of the wrecked kitchen of the Hall home yesterday, with the inscription, “Hall Pamily Relief Fund, Seat Ple: ant Fire Department.” Into a slot in the box was dropped during the Sab- bath day a total of $46, made up of silver and currency contributed by the thousands of curious persons who milled about the tragic scene. The Fire De- partment fund is being supervised by William Cooper, who requests that further donations be sent to I. I. Main, treasurer of the department. At the same time a committee of women of the Methodist Church made a canvass of the community and se- cured approximately $65. The women will continue their efforts. The work is in charge of Mrs. Martha Morrow and Mrs. Dora Bateman. Herman Brady Questioned. Herman Brady, accompanied by an- other brother, Emmett, came voluntarily to Marlboro yesterday morning and was subjected at once to questioning led by Lieut. Joseph H. Itzel, Baltimore detec- tice “ace,” who, with Sergt. Charles Schalter, another Raltimore detective, has been assigned to_the case at the suggestion of Gov. Ritchie. Emmett was not questioned. Herman was closeted for hours with Ttzel, Schalter, State’s Attorney J. Prank Parran, Headquarters Detective John H. Fowler of this city, Sheriff Charles Early and County Officer Frank Prince. Afterward two officers were sent in search of Leroy, but the latter showed up of his own accord at 6 p.m. During the long interview Herman agreed to sign a written statement, as a result of which Leroy was placed under arrest. The statement is said to have cast on the brother suspicion of such a nature as to cause him to express dis- belief that Herman had signed it. To convince Leroy of the authenticity of the statement, the officers brought the brothers face to face and Herman is said to have repeated stolidly the statement_to his brother and to have announced that he signed the state- ment without coercion. It is under- stood the scene was not so dramatic as anticipated, Leroy merely repeating his denials that he had anything to do with the crime. Leroy then became the center of in- terest of the investigators, and the young man was the target during the afternoon and night of intermittent barrages of questions. Leroy maintained his composure throughout and con- tinued his vigorous denials. The ques- tioning did not let up until 3 o'clock this morning, at which time both brothers were returned to their cells in the county jail. CARSPNEL i Give Up Hope for Zogu. VIENNA, January 6 (#)—The Wiener Montagblaft today published o report that Vienna speclalists regarded the condition of King Zogu of Albania as hopeless. The recently crowned Al- banian monarch was sald to be suf- fering from tuberculosis of the lungs and cancer of the throat. JANUARY U. S. WOMEN'S BUREAU BULLETIN | mittees of the Seat Pleasant Methodist | 6, 1930. DECLARES CHIVALRY IS GONE Director Strikes Cynical Attitude on Mod- ern Marriage. Says No Economic Security Is to Be Found by Wom- en in Wedlock. A decidedly cynical attitude toward marriage and chivalry is taken in a re- cent United States Women's Bureau bulletin _entitled “What . the Wage- earning Woman Contributes to Family Support.” - Marriage Is seen as “no economic se- curity” for women and chivalry is branded as “an age-worn, theoretical myth.” The author, Miss Agnes L. Petersin, assistant director of the bureau, sees “a great difference from conditions a gen- eration or so ago” in that now “a large proportion of families living in cities depend largely upon the earnings of women, and in many homes the entire income is earned by wife or daughters. She calls attention to “the great per- sonal sacrifice demanded of women in order that they may make a contribu- tion to the support of their families” and says that “the double standard in wages and the absence of chivalry have resulted in the unscrupulous ex- ploitation of the potential motherhood of the land.” Sons do not assume equal responsi- bility with daughters toward the pa- rental home, she said. “It may be considered common knowledge that sons do not forego mar- MISS AGNES L. PETERSON. riage and careers to anything like the extent that daughters remain at home because of the needs of parents or younger sisters and brothers,” the bul- letin set forth. In a study of more than 17,000 un- married women one in every five was found caring for a family with no help from male relatives, her report said. She cited another investigation of 30,- 000 families in which 27 per cent of the workers stated there were no man wage earners in their families. Marrled women now form such a large factor in industry that in 10 re- cent Women’s Bureau studies single women formed less than 20 per cent of the wage-earning group. In three other studies the unmarried element fell to less than 35 per cent. jeral of the Army, ARMY COMMANDS - 0 BE FILLED SOON Maj. Gen. Rivers, Inspector General, Will Retire for Age January 11. By the Associated Press. Scarcely settled in the offide’df retary of War, which came tg through the death of James Wi.€ood, Patrick J. Hurley is confronted with the immediate task of selecting dffjcetls to fill important vacancles, i e Army’s high command. sttt Within the next few days '#électiofis must be made to fill the post of "fif- spector general and quartermaster gen- while a vacancy in the rank of brigadier general exists a ready through the promotion of Ewing E. Booth to be major general. Maj. Gen. Cheatham Through. Maj. Gen. Willlam C. Rivers, in- spector general, is to retire for age on January 11, while the four-year term of Maj. Gen. B. Frank Cheatham as quartermaster general expires on the seventeenth. Under the policy of rotation these bureau posts are given every four years to a different officer of lower rank, mostly colonels. During the term the bureau chief holds the rank and pay of major general and the assistant chief is a brigadier. At the end of the term the officer reverts to his permanent rank, waiting his turn for promotion, or has the option of retirement with the pay of the higher rating. VERDICT DUE TODAY IN POLICE HEARING; KELLY BACK ON STAND (Continued From First Page.) . made from the time he was called to the Park Lane, shortly after Mrs. Mc- Pherson’s garroted body was found, until he interviewed the husband of the nurse for the second time at the third precinct police station, where he was being held for investigation. McPherson told him during this in- terview, Kelly said, that his mother had seen his wife and that she was not satisfled with the arrangements for a reconciliation. McPherson, Kelly con- tinued, said he called his wife on the telephone Thursday, September 12, and she told him she wanted him to come to the apartment to see her. Accordingly, Kelly said, McPherson declared he went therc about 7:30 o'clock that evening and his wife greeted him in a black evening gown. Kelly then quoted McPherson as say- ing that his wife wanted him to go a dance with her and he refused, say- ing that he was separated and was “through.” Kelly said McPherson told him he did not call his wife Friday, but on the following morning he telephoned the apartment twice, but got no re- sponse. Later that day, Kelly said, McPherson declared he went to the apartment for the purpose of deter- mining whether his wife had taken the furniture, and it was on this visit that he found her body on the bedroom floor. “T asked this boy,” Kelly said, “if he had anything to do with his wife's death. He replied that he did not. Appeared to Be Sorrowful. “From my interview with McPherson at the apartment and also at the police station, he appeared to me to be sor- rowful. While he was not crying, he displayed sadness. He was ready and willing to answer all questions. From my experience as a police investigator he gave no indication of guilt.” Kelly then told of his return to the detective bureau, where he reported the result of his preliminary investiga- tion to Inspector Shelby, telling him that while the case “looked bad” it had the elements of suicide. The detective then told of his subsequent visit to the Dis- trict Morgue, where he made an ex- amination of the body of Mrs. McPher- son_for marks of violence. “It had no bruises,” Kelly continued. “There was a mark on the neck and a scratch on the index finger. The mark on the neck looked like an old one to me—it had a scab on it. “After I saw no bruises and no marks of violence, these facts, coupled with Mrs. McPherson’s previous alleged at- tempts at suicide and the parting of husband and wife, were enough to con- vince me that no crime had been com- mitted. “I did not insist that Dr. Rogers, the deputy coroner, hold McPherson. had no right to insist. It is just as much the duty of a police officer to protect an_innocent man as it is to prosecute the guilty.” Impressed With Story. Kelly said he was particularly im- pressed with the manner in which young McPherson’s mother conducted herself. She told us, he said, that she was asleep on Thursday night when her son returned from his trip to Mount Rainier and had no idea what time he got in. “This bore the impress of truth’™ Kelly declared. “Mothers will lie for their children, especially when they are in trouble. I have found this to be true on numerous occasions, and you can’t blame them for it. But here was a mother who would not misrepresent the truth, even to strengthen the alibi of her son, who was being questioned relative to what might have been a murder.” Picking up again the thread of his story, Kelly told of McPherson’s bus trip downtown Friday morning and his return to a playground on Georgia ave- nue, where he spent the rest of the day. “McPherson also told us,” he said, “of going to a dance at Indian Spring that night, returning home about 2:30 o'clock and going to bed, after kissing his father gwd-fllgh!. He told us he had kissed his m:;r every night since he was a small He said McPherson’s mother told him and Inspector Shelby of a telephone conversation she had with her daughter- in-law, Virginia, Wednesday night. Vir- ginia called her, Mrs. McPherson told them, and was sobbing so at the time that she could hardly carry on a con- versation. Kelly quoted Mrs. McPherson as informing them she told Virginia Bob was coming down to see her that night, to which Virginia replied: “Mother, he has been here and gone. Tell him not to bring that money down, 2s I am going away. Remember that whatever happens 1 loved you and daddy.” Miss Berry Is Quoted. “At Trinity Towers, in our interview with Dot Ringer,” Kelly continued, “she stated she had been at the McPherson apartment on the Monday night pre- ceding her death. “We next went to see Martha Berry, who said she was the best friend Mrs. McPherson had in Washington. She said she was at the McPherson apart- ment on Tuesday when Bob came in and said: ‘Virginia, come in here and clean up this mess’ She also said she knew the couple had had some quarrels, but she did not think McFherson would do the girl any bodily harm. “On Wednesday, Miss Berry said Vir- ginia called her four times, asking her to come and share her apartment. Miss Berry said that while she was in the' McPherson apartment Thursday, Vir- ginia asked her if a grain of morphine would kill her. She said the girl seemed to be melancholy. “After interviewing Miss Berry we returned to police headquarters, where 1 saw McPherson and Mr. and Mrs, Roy Heavrin. Mrs. Heavrin said she knew Mrs. McPherson had been mur- PUBLIC UTILITIES HEAD ACTS TO SPEED MERGER Gen. Patrick Asks Speaker to In- sert Time Limit in Traction Resolution. Gen. Mason M. Patrick, chairman of the Public Utilities Commission of the District, today transmitted to the Speaker of the House a request that in the Jjoint resolution authorizing a merger of the street railway companies operating in the District there shall be included the following paragraph: “This agreement hitherto set forth shall be submitted to the stockholders of the Capital company and the Wash- ington company for their action within six months after its approval by the Congress.” REVOLT PENA'LTY DODGED. TECUCIGALPA, Honduras, January 6 (#).—The Supreme Court has been asked to decide whether three former members of the Nicaraguan National Guard shell be returned to that coun- try to face charges of rebellion, or shall be permitted to adopt Honduran citi- zenship. The men are Carlos Gabuardi, Venecio Garcia and Juan Ramon. They were said to have rebelled last October 18. They were recently captured on Honduran territory, near the border and gave up 30 bombs, 4,000 cartridges, 14 rifles and two machine guns. The Nicaraguan government asked for their extrgdition, but the men announced their intention of becoming Honduran citizens, which can be done auto- matically under the constitution. If this citizenship is granted, they will avoid extradition and the penalties for their rebellion. Art— 6bjeetl Burned. PITTSBURGH, January 6 ().—Val- uable paintings, one of them valued at $70,000, and other art objects were damaged today by fire in the apart- ment of Ernest T. Weir, president of the Weirton Steel Co. The $70,000 painting was a work of Sir Peter Lely and was obtained by Mr. Weir in Europe several months ago. The fire was confined to one room of the apartment. 14 Miners Are Hurt. CAMBRIDGE, Ohio, January 6 (#).— Fourteen miners were injured, several sl ly, when an elevator in the shaft of the Walhonding mine of the Cam- bridge Collieries Co. fell 50 feet today. Many of the victims suffered broken arms, legs and ribs, but all probably will recove dered because she had heard a fight in one of the apartments nearby and heard a woman screaming and the 1| noise of dishes breaking. “I asked her if she could give me any names that might have been men- tioned during the fight or any other information that might help us, and she replied that she had heard a woman say: ‘I'm going to take all of my damn clothes and get out of here tomorrow.” Mr. Heavrin tried to talk several times, but his wife stopped him. The next morning Inspector Shelby and I went to the Heavrin apartment and Mrs. Heavrin repeated the story she told the day before of having heard a woman scream and say she was going to take her clothes and get out. “We next went to the Lombardi Apartments, adjoining the Park Lane, and there interviewed Willlam Brown, who told us of a quarrel he had with his wife on Thursday night. “We then came out of the Lombardi satisfied that the noise heard by the Heavrins had occurred in the Brown apartment. The Heavrins seemed quite satisfied and said that was the fight they had heard. “From the Park Lane Inspector Shel- by and I proceeded to the High View Apartments, where the McPhersons once lived. There we interviewed Mrs. Seville, the manager, who knew the couple’ when they were first married. She said Mrs. McPherson appeared to be a girl who always wanted to drama- tize herself. Mrs. Seville also told us of several alleged attempts by Mrs. Mc- Pherson while in that apartment to commit suicide by inhaling illuminating gas. “We then went back to the Park Lane and interviewed Manager Huff and Miss Conway, another telephone operator there, who was on duty Thurs- day night and also on Wednesday aft- ernoon, when McPherson left with his clothes, telling her at that time he was going away ‘for a long time.' " Kelly then described the trip he and Inspector Shelby made to Casualty S Hospital and their conversation at that time with Dr. Rodgers. Leaving the hospital, he said, he went back to the Park Lane, where he talked with Howard Templeton, an employe in the Park Lane Drug Store. He said Templeton told him he had taken a package of cigarettes to Virginia Mc- Pherson in her apartment shortly be- fore 8 o'clock. He said she told him she was going to a dance in George- town. Templeton said he asked her whom she was Tolng with and she re- %léebd?." “who would I be going with but Kelly then told of the conversation at police headquarters with Miss Lillian Conway and Mrs. Mary Roberts. Miss Conway told detectives she went into the McPherson apartment at about 8:20 o'clock on the night of September 12 and saw a black evening dress lying in the middle of the floor. Kelly said she told them the bedroom door was closed and that she did not make any further effort to locate Mrs. McPherson. To Replace Nine Chiefs. Altogether, in 1930, nine bureau chiefs and assistants are to be re- placed, while one major general and five brigadier generals of permanent rank are to leave the service for age. In addition, Maj. Gen. Fred T. Austin will end his service for physical dis- ability on February 15. He is chief of Field Artillery. The officers who retire from age during the year, besides Maj. Gen. Rivers, are Brig. Gens. George C. Shaw, Herbert O. Williams, William W. Harts, Charles J. Symmonds and Frank M. Caldwell. All are line officers. who are to revert to lower rank through operation of the rotation policy, besides Q. M. Gen. Cheatham, are: Maj. Gen. Andrew Hero, jr., chi=f of Coast Artillery; Maj. Gen. Herbert B. Crosby, chief of Cavalry; Brig. Gen. Harry F. Rethers, assistant quarter- master general; Brig. Gen. Herbert Deakyne, assistant chief of Engineers; Maj. Gen. Clarence C. Williams, chief of Ordnance; Brig. Gen. Willlam E. Gilmore and Frank P. Lahm, assistants to the chief of the Air Corps, and Maj. Gen. Merritt W. Ireland, surgeon general of the Army. The terms of the two assistant air chiefs expire on the same day, July 16. HOUSE BILL PAVES WAY FOR HOOVER TO CUT ARMY COST (Continued From First Page.) partially was effected by curtailing the appropriation for the Army ho program to the extent of $2,000,000. ‘The decrease in the non-military ac- tivity outlay largely resulted from the lack of an lgpmpriaucn for the Inland ‘Waterways Corporation and for return contributions flood control work. The increase for military purposes was due to greater outlays for the Quartemaster Corps, amounting to $2,021,000 for im- proved _uniforms, isition of land and for regular supplies. An increase from $34,910,000 to $36,057,000 for the Army Air Corps was 'd and an increase of $1,396,000 for the Ordnance Department for purchase of Christie tanks and development of equipment for mechanized forces. Amount for Pay Roll. For the pay of the Army $133,557,000 was set aside, but the entire outlay for the finance department amounts to $135,968,000. This will provide for a Regular Army personnel of 12,000 com- missioned officers, 1,038 warrant officers, 118,750 enlisted men and 6,500 Philip- pine Scouts. It also provides for 190,000 National Guardsmen, 37,500 trainees at citizens’ military training camps and for 127.500 students in the Reserve Officers’ Tr’;g]xng Corps. e Engineer Corps was given & to- tal of $92,480,000 for non-military ac- tivities. Included in this appropriation was $55,000,000 to be made available immediately for existing river and har- bor works, an increase of $5,000,000 over the current year: $35,000,000 for flood control on the Mississippi River, an increase of $5,000,000; $1,000,000 for flood control on the Sacramento River, $800,000.for roads and bridges in Alaska, $400,000 for an emergency flood control fund, $260.000 for Muscle Shoals dam No. 2, 818,000 for the California Debris Commission and $2,500 for maintenance of the birthplace of Washington. The ‘War Department previously announced all the projects to come under these appropriations. Other Major Items. The other major items in the non- military activities included $11,235,000 for the National Home of Disabled Vol- unteer Soldiers, an increase of $1,168,~ 000 over the current year; $1,129,000 for national cemeteries, $303,000 for na- tional military parks, $300,000 for Washington-Alaska cable maintenance and $11,653,000 for the Panama Canal, an increase of $1,642,000. In the division for military activities the bill would appropriate $963,000 for the office of the Secretary of War, $372,000 for the General Staff Corps, $1,556,000 for the adjutant general's © ice, $27.000 for the inspector general, $113,000 for the adjutant general, $91,- 060,000 for the Quartermaster Corps, $2,687,000 for seacoast defenses (of which $1,025000 is for the United States), $852,000 for insular possessions and $809,000 for the Panama Canal. West Point Allotment. The measure also set aside $3,116,000 for the Signal Corps, $1.642,000 for the Medical Department, $83,000 for the Bureau of Insular Affairs, $683,000 for the Engineer Corps, $11,603.000 for the Ordnance Department, $1,347,000 for the Chemical Warfare Service, $2,470,- 000 for West Point Military Academy, $33,058,000 for the Militia Bureau, in- cluding $27,014,000 for the National Guard; $6,542,000 for Organized Re- $6,822,000 for the Citizens’ Mil- itary Training Camps and $710,000 for the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice. - The committee's report sald that more . than 20 per cent of the items in the bill for military activities were charge- able to the Air Corps. Under other heads in the measure, the report said, referring to pay, housing, food supply, equipment and other items, in addition to the $36,776,000 directly chargeable to the Air Corps, the total for that service was $72,833,000. Pending the result of the economic survey of the department's activities. the committee recommended that the housing program be slackened, and as a result curtailed the appropriation for this purpose by $2,000,000. . \ Greek Patriotism Urged. ! ATHENS, January 6 (P).—Premier Venizelos has given a Elonographh: message to American Greeks. He urges concord. “Don't transfer your differ- v Kelly accused the grand jury fore- man, Merritt O. Chance, of being un- willing to listen to him while he was testifying. He sald Chance tried to stop him from testifying, but another grand juror insisted he be given a chance.to tell his story. ences to the New World, but work i the conscicusness that you come from a Greece which was not demoralized by disaster, but is a morally untted hellenic republic advancing firmly to- ward prosperity. 1 beg you never to forget your motherland.” . A