Evening Star Newspaper, January 8, 1930, Page 17

SHELBYANDKELLY ARE WELCOMED O RETURNTOBIREA Officers Take Old Positions as Detective Chief and Head of Homicide Squad. OLD ASSOCIATES CHEER AS LEADERS TAKE POSTS Many Offer Congratulations to Vifl-l dicated Men Accused by Grand Jury. ‘The final chapter of the hectic after- math of the mysterious deatn of Mrs. Vi McPherson was written today in the stuffy squad room of the detecttive bureau at police headquarters, where a celebration was held to mark the return of Inspector William S. Shelby as chief of detectives and Lieut. Edward J. Kelly as head of the homicide squad—posi- tions from which they were temporarily transferred following the, July grand Jury’s unprecedented excoriation of the Police Department.. , ‘The ceremonies were in sharp con- trast to those on October 1, when the detective force bade a sorrowful adieu to Shelby and Kelly when they parted to take over other assignments. The re- turn of these two veterans, made pos- sible by an extraordinary police trial board, which acquitted them on charges ©of bungling the investigation of the McPherson case, was marked by a med- Jey of flowers, cheers, applause and Jubilation. Assumed Posts at 9 AM. Kelly officially took over positions at 9 o'clock “:u them to their former duties in accordance with recommendations of the special trial board. The celebration followed a few minutes later in the squad room, where had gathered fening and prolonged ap- plause greeted both Shelby and Kelly as they entered the squad room. Trail- ing them were attaches of the Detective Bureau carrying two huge baskets of flowers bearing their expression of the sentiments of the men with whom Shelby and Kelly have long been close- 1y associated. The office of Inspector Shelby also ‘was gayly decorated with flowers, ferns and palms. The most conspicuous of these pieces bore floral the greetings of the leaders of Wi 's China- 8he Qnm'g"e, #w'ma oy g%ce'o ew, en 5 Aside ‘from the detective force, At- George ‘who repre- ihe tial board, and fwo police celebration. Wis Capt. Guy ander *of Jess than a year ago went through virtually the same trials and tribulations as Shelby and Kelly in his battle before an ex- traordinary Police Trial Board which acquitted him on serious charges. Commissioners Present. At the close of the ceremonies Com missioners Proctor L. Dougherty and Sidney P. shouldered their way through the ‘crowd o congratulate Shelby and Kelly. Scores of others followed their lead. After the in excoriate public officials. “My friends, my fellow-workers and loyal associates,” Shelby said, “we ap- preciate this hearty, spontaneous wel- come back to the fold. This, I hope, marks the end of an unprecedented period of hysteria, such as has been witnessed in no other part of the world. ‘We have had a remarkable illustration of what an evil-minded person, assisted by one or two men highly placed, en- couraged by hostile press, can do to break down the morale of a great or- acter assassin has been abroad. The religious bigot has lifted his head and stalked across the stage. Out of it all what has come? A tre- mendous reaction on the part of the public to the fact that Washington has the finest and the cleanest Police De- partment in the country. Lauds Lieut. Kelly. “One of my regrets is that every member of this force and every citizen of Washington could not have been present last Saturday afternoon and Monday in the trial ‘board room and heard Lieut. Kelly demonstrate clearly and honestly the fact ‘hat we have an efficient, able and competent detective bureau. The present head of our homi- cide squad is as competent, thorough and efficient as can be claimed by any police department in the world. “We believe it will be a long time be- fore another grand jury, behind closed doors, will undertake to excoriate public officials. “Let us take up our burden and frem now on continue to give greater services than we have in the past. Let's ve the public the full measure of the that 15 in us. I am convinced that public confidence, shaken at one been completely and fully “Disloyalty is a canker which eats up the vitals of any organization. When you find it, stamp it out, ruthlessl d fearlessly. Don't let it get a hold. Shelby closed his talk with a tribute to his attorneys and a declaration that he was proud to have been assoclated with Kelly, pointing out that the public would now appreciate him more than it has in the past. Need Not Be Ashamed. Kelly declared that his associates need not now be ashamed of the De- tective Bureau and forced to go around ‘with their heads hanging low. “There was nothing done in the Mc- Pherson case which we would not do over again” he said. “In that case ‘we were as careful to protect an in- nocent man as we would have been to punish a guilty man if a crime had Kelly also said he was sorry that the McPherson case caused so much trouble for Inspector Shelby so soon after he the homicide squad is ready to start out and “assume any responsibility or any task that comes before it.” Attorneys brief addresses, made 8. Smith, chairman of the orubnc order committee of the Board Trade; A. president of the Mid-City Citisens’ Associstion, and Headquarters Detective Charles Weber, who presided J. at the O'Shea said that he had been confi- dent from the outset that if the charges preferred against the two offi- E. people in about 1 Mr. Harris taken up his duties as chief of detectives. He declared, however, that for Shelby and Kelly then b’tounwed by Odell Bhe ‘When Inspector William S. Shelby (in front) and Lieut. Edward J. Kelly (rear) of the Detective Bureau were return- ed to their former posts this morning, the event was made the occasion for showering the veteran officers with floral tributes. —Star Staff Photo. HARRIS WIL TUD PLANS FOR TRAFFC Conditions Relating to New Municipal Center Under Ar- chitect’s Supervision. A. L. Harris, munieipal architect, will make a study of traffic conditions /with relation to the new District | municipal center, as a result of yester- terday’s meeting of the co-ordinating committee. Capt. E. N. Chisolm, ir., engineer of the National Park and Planning Commission, who is a mem- ber of the committee, explained that when the new municipal center is con- structed the trafic problem will be presented of caring for some 20,000 5 minutes. will take as the basis of his study, in making drawings for the municipal center, the recent traffic sur- vey made by experts for the Street Changes Outlined. Matters relatnig to street changes were taken: up by the co-ordinating committee. After consideration, it was decided that no change would be rec- ommended for Tilden street, Reno road to Wisconsin avenue, and the oughfare will remain on the highway plan as it is at present. to widen Madison street from Concord avenue east was discussed, but in view of ‘the fact that' the commission has purchased the land on the south side of Madison street from Third to Fifth _ | streets, the committee decided that con- demnation proceedings will not be necessary. Elder Street to Be Omitted. ‘The committee approved the removal P to make a slight correction in the location of Ord and Quebec streets and Sedwick, east of Connecti- cut avenue, will be submitted to the District Commissioners, who may de- cide to hald public hearings on the| question. ' ROUTS 25 FAMILIES| |Damage to V Street Building Is Placed at $1,000 by Owner of Structure. A basement fire in the Marilyn Apartments at 1414 V street, which broke out shortly after midnight and | gained considerable headway before firemen could get at it, routed members of some 25 families from the foux-story building, many of whom fled in’night attire down fire escapes to the street. ‘The owner of the building, George A. Harrls, Washington banker, estimated the damage at $1,000, virtually all of which was confined to the basement. Some partitions had burned away there after becoming ignited from blazing pa- pers and residue. men were unable to say how the flames originated. The janitor and his family, living in the basement, joined the general exodus. Smoke awoke Lloyd M. Williamson, manager of the building, who lives on the ground floor, and he hurried to the upper storles rousing the tenants. Mr. Williamson assisted several down the fire escapes and carried his own son, Lioyd Williamson, jr. 20 months old, through the window to the yard. The smoke was so dense that Mr. ‘Williamson had great difficulty locating the alarm box inside the building to break the glass. Engine Company No. 9 and Truck Company No. 2 responded and soon had the blaze under control. cers were heard by a proper tribunal, | both would have been vindicated. ‘Was “Labor of Love.” Quinn described his activities in the defense of Shelby and Kelly as a “labo: of love.” “The only compensation we looked for,” he said, “was knowledge of the fact that we contributed in some small degree to right a wrong.” Strong made a fervent plea for higher salaries for members of the Police De- partment and said that out of the Shelby-Kelly case it was his hope “that the people of Washington and the men on the Hill will come to a realization that Washington has an exceptional Police Department.” “In every community there are yellow dogs who jump at every straw,” Smith declared. “The honest and thinking ple of Washington, however, kncw Shelby and Kelly had done their best and were supporting them.” Driscoll sald there was nothing more gratifying to the people of Washington the trial board's verdict acquitting than S eber pi :‘.flyhu tinued co-opet 'eber continued co- - ation of the detective force to Shelby to|than that of & true human being. [FIRE IN APARTMENT | 'IMAN'S BEGINNING TRACED BACK 950,000.000 YEARS BY SCIENCE Dr. Reconstruction Fay-Cooper Cole Outlines Modern of Ancestry 'of Human Race. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. Science 1s not merely guessing when it reconstructs the story of man’s rise from the apes out of a few scattered bones and stone implements, Dr. Fay- Cooper Cole, head of the division of anthropology ‘and psychology of the National Research Council, "told the Anthropological Society of Washington in the first of a series of lectures at the National Museum last night. Starting with the earliest known pre- human skeletal material, the pithocan- thropus of Java, Dr. Cole said that sclence is about equally divided as to whether these are the bones of a bab- oon or of a creature which should be placed in the human family—and this very division of opinion shows that the lnl.m‘ll is almost the ideal “missing The find consisted of only a skull cap, & femur bone and some teeth. The teeth, he said, were so constructed that the animal must have chewed “with a rotary- motion, like a human being, while all the great apes with their in- terlocking canine teeth chew with an up-and-down motion. The structure of the teeth, however, still is only semi- human. In addition the bones showed that he could have walked erect and that the cubic capacity of the brain was greater than any of the existing an- thropoids. Brain Structure Indicated. The fossil skulls, Dr. Cole said, al ways show something of the structure of the brains that they once contained. That of pithicanthropus was quite simple, with little development of the frontal lobe which is a characteristic of the human race. The skull also shows that the face was projected much more “Pothicanthropus,” he said, “was either the most ape-like man or man- like ape known to science. I do mot know on what side of the line to place him, but that is not the point.” Among the most remarkable evi- dences of an ape-like ancestry of man yet found, he said, is an actually fossil- ized brain found in a South African rock quarry. This probably could never duplicated because the soft tissues of the brain almost inevitably decay long before the fossilization ~process could take place. The brain is that of a young ape, but is larger than that of any present-day anthropoids. It was, he said, unquestionably that of a creature who had come a long way from the apes, but was not yet over the line of humanity. Teeth Again Important. The teeth again are the important features of a jawbone found near Heidelberg, Germany, showing that the long extinct creature chewed like a man, although the structure of the jaw throws grave doubt on whether he Was able to talk. Here again the face was massive, like that of an ape, and pro- jected forward. Nothing is known about the brain of the animal. The next find of importance, Dr. Cole sald, consists of a skull, jaw-bone and some teeth found near Piltdown, England, which have been the subject of much controversy. The skull, al- though very thick-walled, seems un- doubtedly that of a woman. The jaw is that of & chimpanzee. The teeth are human. It is by no means certain that all tha?e remains came from the same animal. The age of these relics, he pointed| out, is the subject of the latest con- troversy among anthropologists. ~The logical formation is bady mixed, and frwme oldest date represented were as- signed to the bones it would indicate that human beings existed in Fngland in a past so distant that it is almost unbelievable. At the Tecent meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, at Des Moines, these remains were cited by Dr. Hen: Fairfleld Osborn of the New Yorl Museum of Natural History as ene of his arguments for placing man's origin 500,000,000 years in the past, whereas the most radical estimates of the age of the pithecanthropus remains are around 1,000,000 years. Piltdown Relic Latest. There is no reason, Dr. Cole said, for departing from the conservative practice of dating the Piltdown - re- Mains at the latest time represented by and of the geological deposits, which would make them about 250,000 years old. Another point of controversy is the reconstruction of the skull. Some anthropologists give it approximately the same brain capacity as modern man, while others make it very much inferior. . The next step in the reconstruction, that of the Neanderthal man, is much simpler, he said, because of the great- er evidence. Bones of this race of semi-humans have been found in ‘many places, dating from the third inter- glacial period, about 150,000 years ago. The species by this time had ¢come & long way toward humanity. Ne;?dlenhc:\n "n;lriu he sald, was caught in al Europe by the ice sheet and forced to take up his abode in caves. Before that he presumably and Kelly and the celebration ended with cheers for the two,officers. had lived in the open. But he carried into the caves with him knowledge of the use of fire and already formed some crude religious conceptions of the separation of soul and body. Record of Their Lives. ’!‘hl;"ln to the fact thnll, he w;s s v;fi poor housekeeper, simply pushing dirt ‘and rubbish into a pile when it became too thick for comfort on the floor of the cave, he left a considerable record of how he lived and what he thought sbout. The bones of extinct animals in his rubbish piles show what he ate. The fact that he buried his dead with some of their stone imple- ments shows that he had some idea of a future life. His skulls show a great development 6f his brain toward ‘he human. He still had a projecting face and a thick ridge over his eyes, but a characteristic anthropoid ridge along the top of the skull has digappeared entirely. It is a+jong, narrow, low skull. The fore- bsiin, which is most characteristically human, has not developed greatly, but an enormous development is shown in the, anterior lobes, which soon are to force the brain material forward and create the human skull and face. He still had a very undeveloped chin and the foramen magnum, where the spinal cord enters the brain, is Tarther back than in modern man, showing that while he could hold up his hea probably did not to any great extent. The curved thigh-bone shows that he li:jlk!d habitually in a semi-erect po- sition. Pre-Human Ancestry. ‘There is some evidence, Dr. Cole said, that the Neanderthaler was the direct ancestor of the next pre-human.type. to gpu.mcro-mnonmm.m the ‘0-Magnon blood still flows in. the races of Europe. Some hold, however, that the Neanderthaler was completely Wiped out before the coming of the next ge. His weapons were crude and inadequate. He was forced to dispute the possession of his caves with other.anjmals who sought shelter from the cold. Among the fossil remajns recovered from the caves, he said, is one of a cave | bear; similar to the modern grizaly, with & stone hammer buried in its skull. The Neanderthaler must have been in close quarters with the bear to inflict such a wound. But the skull was completely healed over, showing that.the bear surs vived the-attack and died peacefully ears later. It is reasonable.to assume that the man did not survive. The next stage, he says, shows pre- human creatures with 'a brain capacity slightly larger than that of modern man and developed in about the same way. But they lacked almost everything tha modern man has gained through cen- turies of experience and did rot even have the primitive bow. and - arrow. Their greatest development was in ar:, some of the pictures painted by torch- light on the walls of their caves showing a mastery of details equal to that. of modern artists. The next stage was modern man. CAPT. CARROLL HEADS D. C. AIR TERMINALS Test Pilot Chosen by Directors to Direct Program of Wash- ington Airport. Election of Capt. Thomas Carroll, one of the country’s foremost test pilots, as |’ vice president of Washington Air Te: minals, which now is in the midst of a $600,000 expension program at' Wash- ington Airport, has been announced by directors. Capt. Carroll will be charged with making the field & model for safety. Capt. Carroll for 10 years was chief test pilot of the national advisory com- mittee for aeronautics.” Recently he flew tests of the planes entered in the airplane safety competition of the Gug- | genheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics, which ‘ resulted in _the awarding this week of a $100,000 prize to the Curtiss Airplane Co. ‘When the United States entered the ‘World War Capt. Carroll was a student at Georgetown Law School iri this éity. He enlisted in the Army.and learned to fiy at Mineola, Long Island. He went to the front as a pursuit pilot and in France later became chief ‘acceptance pilot of the Army, in charge of testing fg’fé’“ upon delivery to the fighting es. ——e Driver Crashes Into Building. Byerly D. Vinson, 28 years old of Park, Va., is sald to have lost. con of the automobile he was driving late In any event he had g hard life. ; the The Foening Staf WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8§, 1930. - EQUAL WAGES FOR EQUAL WORK— THIS IS CHIVALRY. SAYS WHITE FEDERAL EMPLOYES SUPPORT - ANNUITY INCREASE: MEASURE Representative Here Outlines Benefit From- Larger Retirement Fund. | BUSINESS HOUSES HAVE BETTER PLAN, HE SAYS Passage of Bill Will Improve Civil Service by Spurring Employes On, He Declares. This is the fourth of a series of seven articles on the status of pro- posed - measures to liberalize the Civil Service Retirement Law in the BY DONALD A. CRAIG. Squarely behind the Dale-Lehlbach plan to increase the annuities of Gov- ernment employes: and otherwise lib- eralize the present civil service retire- ment law is the Joint Conference on Retirement, an organization of eivil service employes- of the United States, located all over the country, whose chairman and active representative in ‘Washington is Robert H. Alcorn. " Benator Dale of Vermont_ and Repre- sentative Lehlbach of New Jersey, spon- and House.of the Mr. Alcdrn in a statement to The Star, “that Congress will soon act on the 1 Dale-Lehlbach bill to increase the an- nuities of retired employes. “The conference believes that the better . the law the better the service. Given a good retirement system _the employes will all want to retire. This -nl?ulw bring good men and women into the service. Private Businesses Advanced. “Many business houses and industrial concerns of this country provide very much better systems of retirement than that for which the Government em- ployes are now asking. Nevertheless, the conference believes the Dale- Lehlbach bill would be a very decided improvement in the retirement law.” Lo whin afe 8 part tions which afe a of the filnt con- ference, mccording to Mr. Alcorn, i bout 250,000. The list of member a organizations, and ‘those co-operating 'in the movement to have the retirement law. 30 liberalized that employes will ‘want to reitre when they have reached the evening of their days,” includes the followin; ‘The ional Association of Letter Carriers, the National Federation of Post Office Clerks, the Raillway Mail Association, the ‘Typographical Union, the Printing Pressmen, the Bookbinders, District 44 of the Machinists, the Pat- ternmakers, the Molders, the Sheet Metal Workers, the Elec , Carpenters ‘and Joiners, the Allied Trades of the Bureau of Engraving and rnndnx and several mechanical groups n the navy yards, naval stations arsenals, S Mr. Alcorn in & recent letter to Sena- tor Dale an cal en available frgm the executive branch of the Government, showing the working of the present retirement law. These figures. in his opinion, show “that it will be many years before the cost in dallazs.and cents .will equal the contri- bution of the employes themselves” to the retirement .and disability fund. The contributions of the employes to {this fund. for.the fiscal year 1928-29 ! totaled $28.019,824, he pointed cut, and | the interest for the same period wi $4,560,042, while the amount paid | annuities and refunds to employes was {only $16072472. These figures prove | his contention, declared Mr. Alcorn. ‘Will Impreve Service. | 1In expressing the hope that Congress will soon enact the Dale-Lehlbach bill Mr. Alcorn said in this letter that the measure will “help in a large way to better the conditions of ..e.retired em- ployes and at the same time help in a very big way to bring about a much better civil service.” 2y > “Surely there can be no question as {to the merits of the pending bill,” said Mr. Alcorn in a recent statement under the heading of “A Few Facts on Retire- ment Legislation.” “It proposes to liberalize the law by providing a maximum annuity of $1,200 per annum, the average to be something like $860, whereas the present average is about $740. I am fully convinced that the members of the House and Senate are quite conversant with the facts on ‘this subject and can see no reason why they might delay passage of this legislation. “This 1s meritorious legislation in every detail and a great.army of civil service mplofis throughout the United States is looking to the members of Congress to enact this bill speedily into la! ‘We trust and hope that it will be passed and become a law before the end of this session of Congress.” Mr. - Alcorn has prepared formation in mimeographed form, show- ing the working of the present law and explaining the provisions of the pending legislation. This is available to any per- son_interested in furthering the Dale- Lehlbach bill or working in behalf of a liberalization of the existing law. “I shall be glad to furnish this infor- mation, or any infarmation touching upon this subject at any time,” he has | announced. Mr. ‘Alcorn tan be reached by mail or telephone at 1703 Second street north- Relates Conversation. Gett! away from the “cold, bare | facts g‘x‘d figures” and closer to the human side” .of the question, Mr. Alcorn relates a story about a conversa- tion he had not long ago with a fellow passenger—not a Government employe —on'a train to New York. - At first the e: : “Well, this is the first relief I have felt in many years!” A fe! pathef yesterday and crashed into the founds- | man truction tion of a bullding under consf at 1353 Wisconsin avenue. He explained to lice he was taken ill suddenly. Vinson was treated at Georgetown University Hospital for a dislocated shoulder. A “I've just spent ‘$4,000. in bills,” he continued: “It's tough, be- cause saving these days on a moderate | the that and { B Assistant Labor Secretary Urges Women:to Demand Rights in Industry. He Thinks Economio Read- justment Gives Marriage Richer Meaning. - Y CORINNE FRAZIER. Chivalry is not dead. y Assistant Secretary of < Labor Carl e ey yes! ay, not only e r-uny«uut women should have equal opportunities with their- brothers in the fleld of labor and.equal pay for equal held out & helping hand to th day, Mr, Whif suggested wmdz equal'pay for ual ;mrk all fields of industry -nd'gm; sponsibilities, this is entirely beside the issue. Common fairness demands a sin- ,le wage scale, regardless of sex or lamily burdens. A woman who fills any given position should be paid exactly the same salary as the man who filled it before her or who might follow in her wake. ‘Women Must Demand Equal Pay. this single standard ‘be established? I think at the root of the matter kl the failure of women in seek- employment to set a high enough upon tHeir labors. My advice to them would be to study carefully what the average pay for-the job they segk has been when men have filled it.. Then, in applying for it themselves, let them state that as_their minimum. If they ::nnhéel:nd demand it, I know they “We are going through a perfod readjustment today naturally coinci- dent with the entrance of women into the economic field—wage problems are & part of that readjustment, which is being made as rapidly as possible. Mod- ern woman, with her educational and. economic opportunities, demands more of her husband, perhaps, than did the e woman of 3 more of his wife than he used to ask; 'Society énd General * PAGE B—1 STEPHAN FAVORS AUDITORIUM USE ASGUARD ARMORY Says Representative Bow- man’s Bill Would Meet Five-Year Necessity. CARL ROBE WHITE. tion—the “en quently, the “Undoubtedly, the old age ;( tdur::ml, l;!‘:d, conse- o ‘worl progress. of chi 3 *| when &' man could mount his steed an g0 out to do battle for his lady, has|armory and with it the sentimentalism sham -of that time. But in its come & new form of chivalry, d r ‘s partner rather than-a creaturc ‘o put upon a false peds ! Ethelbert Stewart, United States com- missioner- of labor statistics, asked if statistics - indicated that men ‘were . shirking their responsibiliifes, espeeially toward the parental home, to a greater degree than in the past, re- plied in the negative. This was another raised by Miss Paterson. Male Character Unchanged. “Men and boys do not lend their sup- port to the parental home in so great a proportion as the women in industry do today,” he said, agreeing with the ‘Woman’s Bureau bulletin in this state- ment—" but it is not Dbecause some quality disa) from men'’s ‘make-up which formerly was there. “The sons of the household never did le as did the daughters to hold er the tal home—they have been trained since the world n to get.out and ‘try their wings’ as soon as they were full grown; to break home ties and make their way in the world. There was a time when living condi- tions were on & lower scale and even the mic conditions demand more of | to econor both of them. The result is—women in industry. It is & new order of which has come to stay and with it has come a new relations| all the organiza- } is the human race! When chivalry dies, ambition dies also. And ut am- bition.prg . With & few in- evita] A mén of the world are stri to go forward today, as they have always e, with but one aim in view—the of ir homes, the safety and comfort of their women. It {5 my éarnest belief that if a day should come when men left women and_ their homes entirely out of their thoughts in their work, in dreaming their dreams of success, day would see the end of ambi- CARBOLIC ACID POISON CONTRIBUTORY TO DEATH Carbolic acid poisoning, in addition to alcoholic poisoning, contributed "to the death at Gallinger te of -Vinton Guy King. 54 years B e‘vl;n':b’g:r D. st south- according . Joseph D..Rogers, deputy coroner, who performed an | autopsy. King was picked up at Twelfth and E streets southeast by an ambulance | from Casualty Hospital responding to ian emergency call. He was given first- iald and later removed to Gallinger [P Rogers A said he was unable to d termine if an-aleoholic sumably drunk by King, had been with the acid or whether the acid was taken alone after the aleohol. . H. S..NICHOLS DIES. Long Illness Is Fatal to Chiet Por- ter at Washington Hotel. Henry S. Nichols, 56 years old, chief porter at the Hotel- for ‘10 years, and before that at the Shoreham. died yesterday at his residence, 3413 P street, tellc'%: long illness. Besides hix w _he is survived by three sons, €laude, William and Charles Nichols, and three daughters, Miss Ruth Nichols, Mrs. Frances ham and Mrs. Louise MacIntyre, all of this city. Funeral services will be morning at the residence at 9:15 o'clock, with requiem mass at Holy. Trinity Church. Burial will be in Mount Olivet Cemetery. —_— salary is next to impossible. But, thank God, I'm going to get something when I retirel” Then the logue continued:. . ° Mr. Alcorn am very much inter- -hdh. Do.-you mind telling me how much?” - 3 3 Stranger: “OH, only $225 a month— after I'm 60, and -that will be in three Tot much these days for a mm:t th & family, but I can get by b Mr. Aleorn (to himself and thinking of the annuities paid to Government employes) ;' “Get by on it!” and then aloud: “My work happens o be in that line. T represent Government employes, who under the present law ‘cannot re- ceive a_ higher annuity than $1,000— for a whole year.” * Stranger - (su ): - “Why, . don't- employes of the Government con- tribute to a retirement fund?” i “Yes, 3% per cent of , pre mixed | held Friday | high taking a_general ‘gap\lhtbn. “Thie, the pereentage their case will be lower. ‘World Appreciates Money Value. their res I do believe that women are more inclined to assume burdens and make sacrifices than men, however. With their en- trance -into. the economic fleld, women have . changed the nature of their sacrifices, and today, when they are measured in dollars and cents, the world is beginning to appreciate them L OADING PLACES BLAMED FOR JAMS Merchants’ Association Asks Street Car and Bus Stops Be Separated. Location of street car and bus loading ?YMEI‘ side by side on busy thnmllgh- ares is causing unnecessary congestion of traffic, the Merchants and Manufac- turers’ Assoc by Stephan, president of board. The letter states: “Our attention ' has been traffic congestion, which is some of our street upon which both busses street cars operate and which is caused by the present practice of placing both car and bus stops at the same location. This sto] of both of these public transit lines at the same time side by side effectively blocks the whole stream of traffic on these called to on ways. “We feel that the congestion can be tly - relieved by either placing the | and car stops at different points in the block or requiring the bus to travel on the car track and load from loading platform, as is now done by street o WINNER OF SCHUBERT PRIZE TO APPEAR HERE| Charles Haubiel to Be Featured as Ameriean Composer in Concert Program Friday. An-American composer, whose latest work was a prize-winning ition, given the Schubert prize last year, will arrive in Washington tomorrow after- noon.. Charles {4,000 in the auditorium, w) busses. at Connecticut avenue and R tpe $1,000,000 DECLARED AMPLE FOR PURCHASE Committee Chairman Explains De- sirability. of Converting Structure Into Serviceable Building. Conversion’ of_the Wash has vexed the ‘Guard here for years, provide an “ideal structyre” for housing the District Guardsmen, and further re- tain for the Capital s meeting place for large organizations, Maj. Gen. Anton Stephan, comman officer of the District National Guard, declared today. The proposal to turn the Auditerium , ‘before the National Guard officials for several months now, wman, Repub- lican, of West Virginia introduced s bill in the House calling for creation of a commission of thrce men and authoriz- ing appropriation of $1,000,000 to ac- quire the armory and make the neces- sary changes in the structure to turn it into an armory. Wants Quick Action. “Other plans wé had afoot for an armory put off as much as five years,” the aunrdsmepn Housed. m.\lcu:""fi :?hu‘:udlwflum plan offers the solution ges. structure desire uthoz guard official it had been frowned He explained that the gallery of the would be cut away and an intermediate floor put in to give th building greater space. This would lea a seating capacity of apj tely 'h would large amply take eare of most of the [ in the city, he said Evans Backs Plan. Joshua Evans, jr., today made the fol- to con- dent Robert N. Harper of the Au recently “Presi ‘Washington our mem- bership of this committee comprises E. F. Colladay, Ross P. Andrews, "n-mmu P. Littlepage, Robert V. Flem- ing L. Gourley, E. Darr, l‘ JJ. Hyman, Samuel . Prescot E. C. Branden| and 17, o st e ances from the directors of the Wash- ington Auditoriurh that for this p\x‘gllc the | use the Auditorium can be acquired at a figure much below actual cost and that from the estimates given by a eomm pemu the‘ price at which woul 'I'-hlno‘ll 000, it o ,000,000. The builder furthe advised that the alterations could :: completed within a short time, which mym immediate availa- “The location ef the 1 type of architecture, its ni“:’“m"w w:f struction, the.complete ada the structure for the pro; poses l’::d the lo: argue building mitfed. As to the necessity for ::: Quate and permanent facilities for our ;;ttbm'lx'h Guard there can be no dis- ) e present ht i Known and as.generstly deplotears " RULING ON' GASOLINE TAX DEDUCTION SEEN Commissioner of Internal Revenue to Decide Whether Sum Can . Be Taken From Income. Whether District motorists-ean deduct from their income taxes the approxi- Liately $1,371,500 they pay every year in District gasoline taxes is up for rul- ing before the Commissioner of Inter- ’bm Menu;. it was announced today y 5 W’ manager of the District of Columl Division of the American Automobile Assoctation. Heretofore District motorists have not been allowed to deduct the gasoline tax from their income taxes, it having been previously ruled by the commissioner that the District tax is one lxplled to the dealer in motor fuel and not to the consumer. Eighteen States, it is pointed out, have held that the gasoline tax is de- ductible from tax returns as a tax upon consumer and not the fuel dealer. TWO HELD ON CHARGE OF ABANDONING BABY Mrs. Nellie Ernest, 19 years old. .of Gaithersburg, Md., and Garnet W. May~ hew, 18 years old, of Deerfield, Md:, were held for grand jury action in Po- lice Court today when arraigned on & charge of abndonment of “Robert V. Gordon.” a 6-week-old baby. Both were released on $500 bond. “Robert V.” who was named -by nurses at Children’s. Hospital, where he resided for over a week, is now in the Haublel, whose “Variations Ore! “Karmi l, a native of Doeln,'t the Government want to pay more?” Mr. Alcorn; “It is not that our Gov- ernment does not ‘want to pay more. It simply doesn't understand, and it is the of _the ‘joint conference which I represent to show they really are and' prove received by retirsd Govern- iployes” ate wholly inadequate - ‘hings will be better, T before long." . . ment to their feel Drize, Delta, Ohio. . compositionis MR. HAUBIEL. Mr. Haubiel will be featured as the American compeser in'a_concert pro- gram to_be given under auspices of the Misses Rose and Otillle Sutro at the Carlton Hotel Friday gt 4 pm. custody of the Board of Public Wel- Mo appeared n'eourt in s cHem 5 ., & an eff adopt the child. e WALTON R A. P. Walton was re-elected presi- m of Capitol Lodge No. §70, Brof ot T E-ELECTED. -