Evening Star Newspaper, February 9, 1930, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair with rising temperature today, warmer tonight; probably light rains to- morrow; colder tomorrow afternoon. l\'mmrntures-flllhfit. 40 at 3 pm. ves! y; lowest, 28 at 8 a.m. y. Full report on page 7. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” ‘The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to Washington homes by ‘The Star's exclusive carrier service. Phone National 5000 to start immediate delivery. he Sunday Star. WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION TR == FIVE CENTS TEN CENTYH IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS FLSEWHERE MEETING IS CALLED - T00PPOSE CROSBY AS COMMISSIONER No. 1.299—No. 31,330. DRY TRANSFER BILL, FIRST OF HOOVER'S LIQUOR PROGRAM, IS Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON, D: G, - SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 9, 1930—122 PAGES. KIDNAPING RING N DETROIT LAID 10 POLICE OFFICIAL Lincoln and a Pair of Socks Newly Found Letter Reveals Him as “Graciously Political” and **Politically Gracious” in Thanking Woman for Gift—Lost Speech Discovered. APPROVED IN HOUSE Prohibition Enforcement Is Transferred to Department of Justice, but Treasury Keeps Control of Alcohol. THOROUGH PROBE OF RUM SITUATION TO BE ASKED ‘Wheeler to Demand Investigation in Resolution to Be Offered in Senate Tomorrow, Seeking In- quiry by Judiciary Committee as House Prepares for Hearings. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. The first bill to carry t in part the Hoover program for strengthening enforcement of the prohibition laws was passed yes- terday by the House. terms the enforcement of pro- hibition is transferred from the Treasury Department to the De- partment of Justice. The bill now goes to the Senate for consider- ation. The issuance of permits for in- dustrial alcohol is left in the hands of the Treasury Depart- ment, although it is provided that the Attorney General shall act jointly with the Secretary of the Treasury in prescribing regula- tic{gs relating to the issue of per- mi It is further provided that the| Attorney General may, if he con- siders it advisable, act jointly with the Secretary of the Treas- ury in passing upon any applica- tion for a permit or for a renewal of a permit. In such cases, no permit shall be granted without their joint approval. This, in ef- fect, places a veto power in the hands of the Attorney General over all permits, if he desires to exercise it. For approximately nine years the present Secretary of the Treasury, An- drew W. Mellon, has bzen at the head of the department which has to do with prohibition enforcement. He has been attacked on several occasions .as the head and forefront of prohibition en- forcement by those who charged he was not in sympathy with the dry laws and who recited the fact that he once owned stock in a distillery. ‘] Mellon ignored Attacks. 1 Mr. Mellon, however, has about | his business without paying attention to such attacks. He is entirely in sym- pathy with the proposal contained in the bill passed by the House yesterday to transfer prohibition enforcement to the Department of Justice, whose duty | it also is to prosecuts offenses against the dry laws. A thorough investigation of prohibi- tion enforcement, however, is to be de- manded by Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana, Democrat. Senator Wheeler plans to offer a resolution in the Senate tomorrow providing for such :;t inquiry by the Senate judiciary com- tee. The House ‘committee on judiciary already has made plans for open hear- ings on bills and resolutions offered by opponents of prohibition, including both repeal and modification proposals. These hearings are to begin Wednes- | day. Officials of " anti-prohibition or- | ganizations will be among the first wit- nesses heard. Crooker to Be Heard. | Chairman Graham of the House | Judiciary committee has notified Conrad Under its| BY CARL SANDBURG. NE day shortly after Abraham Lincoin had been elected Presi- dent of the United States, in November, 1860, he received a | gift from a woman, Mrs. Mar- | garet Ackerman of Dayton, Ohio. It | was probably a piece of knitted goods she sent him, possibly a scarf. -Her letter to Lincoln read in part: “Permit me, a woman who could not contribute by my vote, to express my approbation of that (your) election by asking you to accept the accompanying garment. Made with my own hand. | If agreeable to you, it would please me | much if yould wear it on the occasion of your inauguration. May wisdom and | justice signalize your administration.’ And while we do not know what Lin- | coln replied to this, we do have at hand | a letter he wrote about a year later to | a woman who had sent him a pair of | | socks she had knitted. The letter fol-| lows: | g “EXECUTIVE MANSION. | “Washington, Dec. 4, 1861. | “My Dear Madam: | I take great pleasure ‘in acknowledg- ' |ing the receipt of your letter of Nov. | 26; and in thanking you for the present | by which it was accompanied. A pair of socks so fine, and soft, and warm, could hardly have been manufactured |in any other way than the old Ken- tucky fashion. ~Your letter informs me that your maiden name was Crume, and that you were raised in Washington County, Kentucky, by which I infer that an uncle of mine by marriage was | 8 relative of yours. Nearly or quite sixty years ago, Ralph Crume married Mary Lincoln, a sister of my father, in Washington County, Kentucky. “Accept my thanks, and believe me “Very truly, “Yours forever. “A. LINCOLN." “Mrs. Susannah Weathers, " “Rossville, Clinton County, Ind. Gracious and Political. When this letter was shown to a woman who was a baby when Lincoln was inaugurated, she remarked: “On what occasion in history was any man ever_more_graciously political or more " (Continued on Page 2, Column 4. FRENGH-JAPANESE REPLIES EXPECTED Statements Anticipated to Explain Stand in View of Anglo-U. S. Remarks. BY FEANK H. KING Associated Press Staff Writer. N, February 8 (#).—Now that the can and the British views of navil armament have been set forth, the French and the Japanese expres- sions are expected in some quarters as defelopments next week in the Five- Rower Naval Conference. Premier Andre Tardieu of France is reported to be considering a similar pronouncement of the French view- point. Reijiro Wakatsuki, head of the Japanese delegation, also may voice the general views of his country, although having done this in Washington and again upon arrival in London with par- ticular emphasis on the demand for 70 per cent of the cruiser ratio al- loted the greatest power, he says rep: etition is not . With ‘Wakatsuki's statement may not be made. Next week also likely will bring Italy more into the open and develop the full meaning of reservations which Dino Grandi khn been mmg Te- tedly as work progresses on the com- gxumke plan for measuring and limiting fleet tonnage. Continuation of this work ~ constituted today's conference program. Await American Comment. American comment on the conference has been eagerly awaited in London. Senator Hale'’s criticism, obj to surrendering the right to build large cruisers in exchange for the privilege of building small ones, has rejoinder from Col. Henry imson, but the general opinion of the delega- tion is sux:lx:?n‘s nutq‘:em fes American legation Uniteq ; nplalon ‘will cover the poulbujy of* wo- jections. : Prime Minister Macdonale’ will sub- mit himself to questioning in the House of Commons Monday on his statement of British policy, and /the criticism which so far has been heard from the United States will not likely be a drop in the bucket to that of the British “big navy” die-hards when they chal- lenge Mr. Macdonald on what he pro- to do with Brittania’s navy. ‘The battleship still has stout de- fenders in Britain, while Mr. Mac- donald will have to be both eloquent Crooker, counsel for the “wets” in Bos- ton, that his committee will be glad to | give a hearing to a delegation which | Mr. Crooker plans to bring from Bos- | ton to Washington on Wednesday. In a letter to Mr. Crooker, replying to a telegram from Crooker, Mr. Graham | £2id_the committee had no power to| (Continued on Page 5, Column 1) RIOT IN GALVESTON JAIL. | GALVESTON, Tex.,, February 8 (#). «Prisoners in the main cell block on She fourth floor of Galveston County Jail rioted today, burning mattresses and other combustibles and defying Jjailers and deputy sheriffs. One pris- oner was cut by another inmate. The riot began at about 1 o'clock this morning, when mattresses were set | ablaze. Sherif R. E. Kirk and his deputies quenched the fire but were unable to quiet the inmates of the| “iron house,” whers felony prisoners are confined. The situation went out of hand 2gain shortly after noon, when rioting began for the second time. Order later was restored, but prisoners were sullen and refused food. Forty windows were broken and floors were | treaty between Great Britain and the and persuasive to convince some of his opponents that the running a grave risk in accepting only 50 cruisers, when 70 heretofore were considered the minimum needed. Could Reach Agreement. As to the future of a London agree- ment, if it were a question only of a United States, a pact could be sealed within a short time. Under the proposals made Britain " (Continued on Page 4, Column 4.) TWO KILLED IN CRASH. Christiana, Tenn., Woman and Son Are Victims—Seven Are Hurt. MURFREESBORO, Tenn., February | 8 (#).—Mrs. Eva Woodfin Miller, 40, of Christiana, and her son, Woodfin Miller, 15, were killed and seven others, in- cluding Richard M. Atkinson, district | attorney general, were injured in an | automobile collision near here today. Atkinson and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. James E. Fly of Nashville, Miss Jenize Simms, Mrs Palmer Insull and Mrs. Tracy Miller, all of Christiana, were flooded during the riots. injured, none seriously. NORSE SAILORS R ETRACING ROUTE OF COLUMBUS IN SAILING CRAFT Garbed in Costumes of 1492, Crew Sets Out for Cuba, Brazil and By the Associated Press. PALOS, Spain, February 8.—Norse sailors, whom Sagas credits with dis- covery of the American mainland five centuries before Christopher Columbus found an island of the West Indies, are literally following in his nautical foot- steps after an elapse of another 500 yearss since his historic voyage of 1492. The Norwegian ship Roald Amund- sen, built like the small but sturdy craft in which Lief Ericson and his men are supposed to have reached Labrador, salled from Palos today for the West Indies and South America. It was from Palos that Columbus set out with his| three little ships to find a westward route to India, and the Roald Amundsen will follow the ocean trall blazed by the %inta, the Nina and the Santa Maria. 3 Argentina. The Roald Amundsen’s crew is dressed in the garb that early Norse art shows was the fashion among sailors in Lief Ericson’s day. Unlike the steamers of the mechanized twentieth century, its power comes from the wind and the arms of Norwegians who know how to handle oars after the manner of their ancestors a thousand years ago. Water for quenching the thirst of these mariners from the North on their voyage through semi-tropical seas was drawn from the same well where Co- lumbus made similar provision for his crew. The Roald Amundsen will land in Havana and South America. It carries messages from the municipal authorities | of this port to the Presidents of 3 Brazil and Argentina. En route the | Roald Amundsen will make scientific | observations, brought no | ing L. Sti British are not | Wi CHEST VOLUNTEERS T0 EXTEND DRIVE WITHIN NEXT WEEK. THROUGH TUESDAY More Time Is Needed to Get Report From Cards Given to U. S. Employes. Facing the necessity of raising $293,- 835.15 to overcome the shortage in the Community Chest budget that still re- mains after a report of $32,076.34 in additional gifts, Chest workers yester- day volunteered another day of cam- paigning to make certain of a final vic- tory by Tuesday night. The decision to extend the campaign another day was influenced mainly by the statement of E. W. Libbey, chief clerk of the Department of Commerce and chairman of the Association of Chief Clerks of the Executive Depart- ments, that it would be impossible to render a report Monday night on the 60,000 pledge cards distributed among the Government employes, “The Government employes in the ing { District of Columbia are just as hi as any other group, and I know well that a large proportion of those who have not been solicited during this campaign will contribute to the Chest through the means of these pledge cards,” Mr. Libbey said. 0 Meeting to Be Open. Put to a vote of the workers by John Poole, campaign chairman, the decision was almost unanimous to meet at 8 o'clock in Constitution Hall on Tuesda instead of tomorrow, as planned origi- nally. It was decided to throw the doors of the meeting open to the pub- lic, and Capt. Taylor Branson, leader of the Marine Band, volunteered the services of the musicians for the meet- guest speaker yesterday, made a vigor- ous appeal for the Chest in the face of the existing emergency. He was en- countered in the lobby of the Mayflower Hotel by Newbold Noyes, chairman of the special gifts committee, and readily agreed to speak to the 1,000 or more workers present. His appearance on the platform brought a rising ovation. “If you will put the same enthusiasm that you display just now into your work, I am sure that the campaign will be a success,” Gen. Pershing . “It is inconceivable to me tI the people of Washington should deliberate- ly fix a certain sum for its charities and then fail to raise it. Other cities reach their quotas. Washington should. It is inconceivable that the people of ‘ashingtoh don't see the necessity of putting this campaign across. ‘Wants Capital to Be Model. “I feel an interest in ‘Washington,” Gen. Pershing added, “and I feel that Washington should be a model city in every respect.” Gen. Pershing said that a “pat on the back” for the campaign workers wouldn't hurt them, and concluded by wishing them “the utmost success in this campaign.” Dr. Jason Noble Pierce, pastor of the Pirst_Congregational Church, who had racket. oo Jotin.) Pershing, an unexpected | | Among the kidnaping cases referred Detective Testifies Victims and Others Hold Inspector Garvin Responsible. REVELATIONS INTEREST PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE | Sergeant Asserts Racket Has Flour- ished Since Bomb Squad ‘Was Organized. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, February 8.—A statement that Inspector Henry J. Garvin, head of police bomb and crime squad, was held responsible by victims and others for the activities of Detroit kidnapers was made before a police trial board today by Detective Sergeant Max Waldfogel. called as a witness in the trial of De- tective Adolph Van Coppenolle. The kidnaping racket appeared and flourished in this city after Garvin's squad was organized in 1927, the detec- tive sergeant asserted, but before that time abduction for ransom was prac- tically unknown. ‘Waldfogel's attack on Garvin and his story of police dealings with the under- | world eclipsed in sensational charges | and in innuendo the testimony yester- day of Van Coppenolle. Prosecutor Interested. ‘The story of Van Coppenolle brought Prosecutor James E. Chenot to the trial room with an announcement his office is deeply interested in the revelations. ‘Waldfogel's testimony caused the board to order summonses issued for relatives of persons kidnaped in the epidemic of extortion and _murder which but recently subsided. The de- tective sergeant had asserted that rela- tives of kidnaped persons had told him time and again that they believed Gar- vin was behind the crimes. For the last nine years, Waldfogel told the board, he has been a member of the black hand squad, commanded by Inspector Robert A. McPherson. The black hand squad formerly hand- led kidnaping cases. It was not until the organization of the crime and bomb squad and the assignment of investi- gations of abductions to it that there were many such crimes in Detroit, he asserted. Tells of Garvin Plot. Much of the testimony had little di- rect bearing on the guilt or innocence of Van Coppenolle, who is charged with conduct unbecoming an officer. The charge, made by Harold H. Em- mons, new police commissioner, was based on stories credited to ‘the detec- after Garvin was wounded by s on January 2. Van Oop- rvmlle, Wwho had been quoted as say- ng he knew of a plot against Garvin engineered by MacPherson, under whom he was serving at the time on the black hand squad, denied making such a charge, and told, instead, of Garvin having plotted against MacPherson and asserted that Garvin was marked for d'o;rt’h for having -double-crossed gang- o Familiar With Kidnaping. Waldfogel said that he was familiar with “every Jewish kidnaping” which had occurred in Detroit and that there is a “pretty general rumor among the Jewish people that Garvin is at the head to! it,” referring to the kidnaping to by the witness were those of David Cass, whose murdered body was found in Lapeer County; Jackie Thompson, b-year-old son of a real estate op- erator; Max Rubin, former business agent for the Motion Picture Opera- tors’ Union, and a man referred to only as “Forty Grand Ike.” The detective was followed on the stand by Ray Gagnon, who was presi- dent of the union in the Fall of 1928, when Rubin was kidnaped. He as- serted that Garvin threatened him and Rubin after the union had been warned of a kidnaping plot, and that the in- spector refused to furnish protection for Rubin after first promising to do so. Waldfogel promised Commission: who, he said, were forced to pay $4,000 to a bondsman in order to obtain ex- emption from arrest by Garvin's squa " (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) . TODAY’S STAR PART ONE—36 PAGES. General News—Local, National and Foreign. Scls'mol; and Colleges—Pages B—4 and (Continued on Page 3, Column 1) NEVER BLUFFED IN LIFE, SAYS VARE ON CANDIDACY Philadelphia G. 0. P. Leader Re- fuses Comment Regarding Retirement Report. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, February 8.—A dis. patch from St. Lucie, Fla,, to the Phil delrhll Evening Builetin' today quotes Willlam 8. Vare, Philadelphia Republi- can leader, as saying that he “never pulled & bluff,” in his life in comment- ing on his candidacy for United States Senator. Mr. Vare, after he was unseated by the Senate. announced that he was a candidate for the Senate “to the finish.” Since then it has been reported in po- litical circles that he would withdraw as an opponent to Senator Joseph R. | Grundy, who is a candidate for election to the seat, if the Republican State leaders would favor former State At- torney General Francis Shunk Brown of Philadelphia for governor. Phila- delphia lieutenants of Vare favor Brown’s candidacy. ‘When he vll:. n’l:’ed :Ibuut tl;mux;e- tirement reports, Mr. Vare said at people who know him realize that he Pad never tried o bl 1n his political life. He refused to discuss the subject turther, Brown U. Student Found Suicide. BOSTON, February 8 (#).—Arthur P, Mellish, 25, graduate student and part- time instructor in mathematics at Brown University, was found dead at the Hotel Statler today, a suicide. He had cut his left arm above the elbow and then hanged himself with a towel to the rim of a shower bath, He reg- istered at the hotel yesterday. Authori- D. A. R. Activities—Page B-10. Parent-Teacher Activities—Page C-2. Clubwomen of the Nation—Page C-2. At Community Centers—Page C-2. Spanish War Veterans—Page C-2. Serial srgry, “The Romantic Prince”— Page C-3. 'ag( Organized Reserves—Page C-3. Financial- News—Page C-4, C-5, C-6| and C-7. PART TWO—8 PAGES. Editorial Section—Editorials and Edi- | torial Features. Notes of Art and Artists—Page 4. Review of New Books—Page 4. Army and Navy News- e 6. District of Columbia Naval Reserves— Page 8. PART THREE—12 PAGES. Society. PART FOUR—I14 PAGES. + Amusement Section—Theater, Screen and Music. In the Motor World—Pages 5 and 6. Aviation Activities—Pages 7 and 8. News of the Clubs—Pages 9 and 11. Fraternities—Pages 10 and 11. District National Guard—Page 132, Radio News—Pages 12 and 13 PART FIVE— PAGES. Sports Section. PART SIX—8 PAGES. Classified Advertising. W. C. T. U. Notes—Page 6, Girl Scouts—Page 6. Veterans of Great War—Pages 7 and 8. Marine Corps Notes—Page 8. Y. W. C. A, Notes—Page 8. PART SEVEN—24 PAGES. Magazine Section. Cross-Word Puzzle—Page ,22. GRAPHIC SECTION—8 PAGES. World Events in Pictures. COLOR SECTION—$ PAGES. ties attributed his act to discourage- ment, They notified his father, A. J. B. Mellish of Vancouver, B. C. Mr. Orphan Annie; Brutus; Somebody’s sl?nnl‘ High Lights of History, : i lof regular Republicans to talk about Mr. Hoover While in Florida Will Not Be Cut Off from What's Going On! FOUR ROOMS FOUND “MISSING™ FROM NEW PAUL JUNIOR HIGH Structure Not Built Original Design, B in Accordance With oard Member De- clares—"Alternate” Plan Employed. A new schoolhouse has lost ‘m‘"l rooms and doesn't know where to find | them. | Which is another way of saying that | somewhere between the signing of the plans by school board members and the opening last week of the new Paul Junior High School, two class rooms and a couple of drawing rooms have vanished into thin air. Some $1,400 worth of furniture, bought for the missing rooms, is sitting | around in odd spaces at the school waiting for some place to go, while two nice slag roofs and a whole lot of out- of-doors occupy the space where the rooms ought to be. This merry little riddle, involving nearly everything and everybody from blue-prints ‘and pupils to divided Dis- | trict government responsibilities and appropriations, came to light yester- | day when Rev. F. I. A. Bennett, mem- ber of the school board's committee on buildings, grounds and equipment, told The Star that the school was not built (Continued on Page 5, Column 7.) EFFORTS 10 GUT TARIFFS BITTER La Follette and Goff Clash and Former Criticizes President. Struggle over efforts to reduce the | 1922 rates in the tariff bill continued in the Senate yesterday, with manifes- tations of increasing bitterness over the | issue which has been thus brought up. Senator Goff, Republican, of West Vir- ginia attacked the efforts of Senator | La Follette to reduce certain rates in the chemical schedule, and as a result there was a lively exchange of person- alities between the two Senators. When La Follette scored Goff as a “reactionary” and declared that he re- gards “the interests of property as su- perior to the interests of humanity,” Goff charged that La Follette was| driven to personalities by “paucity of ideas coupled with an absence of facts.” He also charged La Follette with a “radical Socialist record.” La Follette also took occasion to criti- | cize President Hoover's unemployment | program. 1In the course of the discus- sion the program of cutting the 1922 rates was objected to by Senators Goff and Fess of Ohlo as tending to promote unemployment. This led La Follette to declare that it did not lie in the mouths | unemployment. Charges Hoover Laxity. He sald the Republican party had done nothing about unemployment and the Persident, though he had called a conference of business leaders, had done nothing “to remedy the technological unemployment which he himself helped s0 much to bring about. Mr. Hoover, as Secretary of Com- merce, he charged, had done much to bring about mass production, and this had caused much “technological unem- ployment.” No progress was made on the bill. For about three hours discussion cen- tered about an amendment by La Fol- lette to cut the spirit varnish rate from 25 per cent to 20, thus reducing it helow existing law, No vote was reached and the debate was largely devoted to the general proposition of reduction of 1922 rates, which have not been disturbed by either House or finance committee. Not only Goft but Fess and Senator Vandenberg of Michigan opposed the program of the coalition to attack 1922 rates, to which objection has not been raised by the public. Amendment Stirs Goff. On the other hand, La Follette's posi- tion that such rates should be reduced in cases where official figures show practically no importations was backed up by Senator Barkley of Kentucky and Senator Swanson of Virginia. The discussion was begun by Goff, who protested against the La Follette amendment on varnishes and then as- sailed the general policy of attacking the 1922 rates without notice to the industries and in cases where there was no objection raised ontside to these rates. He asserted that the legal doctrine of “estoppel” applied. He asked what evidence had been produced to warrant reducing the 1922 rates in this case, La Follette in reply hit at the idea that the consumer had lost his right to get a reduction because he did not ap- pear before the finance committee. He n;id n:!u ‘was the force of the argument of Goff. “That,” he added, “is the only basis on which he could argue the doctrine of estoppel.” He held the position of Goff was “absolutely indefensible” and that the Senator maintained a tariff rate granted in the 1922 law was “a vested (Continued on Page 3, Column 5.) DR. ARMSTRONG ILL; FEAR PARROT FEVER Noted Scientist Under Obser- vation Following Death of Laboratory Worker. Dr. Charles Armstrong, noted bac- teriologist of the Public Health Service, who has been directing the fight against psittacosis, the deadly parrot fever, entered the Naval Hospital yes- terday for tesis to determine definitely whether he has contracted the strange disease. Dr. Armstrong had complained of a sore throat #nd his associates prevailed on him to go to the hospital. News of Dr. Armstrong's illness fol- lowed closely the death yesterday of Harry B. Anderson, 45, an attendant of the hygienic laboratory. Anderson. like Dr. Armstrong, had been examin- ing sick parrots in a search for the specific organism responsible for psit- tacosis, which already has claimed 15 lives in different parts of the country since its first outbreak at Annapolis a month ago. Physicians called to the bedside ‘of Dr. Armstrong reported to Dr. Hugh S. Cumming, surgeon-general of the Pub- lic Health Service, that they were in- clined to believe he was not suffering from the early stages of the malady. They explained the earlier victims of | the fever had been bothered by head- aches at first. no headache, Expect to Know Definitely Tomorrow. ‘The doctors said that since Dr. Arm- strong had been so active in the psit- tacosis investigation, it was possible that he might have contracted the disease. They agreed it would be necessary to await development before it would be possible to tell whether he had more than a mere sore throat. The phy- siclans said they would be unable to tell definitely before tomorrow. Dr. Armstrong, a native of Alliance, Ohio, has been associated with the Dr. Armstrong has had Public Health Service in Washington | since 1916. Since coming here l'e has been widely recognized as one of the world’s most eminent bacteriologists. Meanwhile an Associated Press dis- patch from* Baltimore ‘declared that serum made from the blood of persons having recovered from psittacosis was rushed by officials of the City and State Health Departments yesterday after it had shown according to physicians, good | results in the case of Dr. William Royal Stokes, health officlal stricken with the disease. Use of the serum, prepared from the blood of three per- sons at Annapolis. The first to become ill in the United States, who have re- covered, was first resorted to in the case of Dr. Stokes, who was critically ill when it was administered. Physicians attending him later reported an im- provement in his condition. The serum is being made from the blood of 10 ‘victims of the disease in eryllg'%k Dr. ¢S was reported last night still to be in a serious condition. * Investigation Is Extended. Public health officials here also re- vealed that their investigation had been etxended to include parrakeets, love birds and various other types of small parrots as well as the far more commonplace large parrots. This ac- tion was taken after it was learned a woman in Kansas City, Kans., had caught the disease from a love bird she had received as a Christmas present. An official of the Public Health Serv- ice, who visited the woman, found her fendl‘zlon to be ser! Before return- ng Dr. Carl G. Brown, secretary Kansas Board of Health and ci officials of Topeka, Kans. to learn whether an: ~ (Continiied on Pa of the o utiempt a cases of the 3, Column 7. | { [ Washington " he arranged with | pe, | bach bill, emphasizes that “no full-time FEDERATION 0.K'S RETIREMENT BILL Lehlbach Measure Offers Ad-| ditional Benefits, Em- ployes Head Avers. The new civi! service retirement bil, | introduced in the House yesterday by Chairman Lehlbach of the House clvil service committee, “provides all that the Dale bill offers and additional benefits that will substantially increase as time goes on,” according to a statement is- used last night by Luther C. Steward, president of the National Federation of Federal Employes. He disclosed that the federation is sponsoring the bill and believes it will Ployeain the lowes salers oetings ployes in the salary ratings.” Chairman _Lehlbach discussed the rlrovmnm of the bill with President loover before introducing it, and says he is confident it will be passed, be- cause “there is no serious opposition from any quarter to lation to lib- eralize the retirement law.” He will| call the full committee together early | this week to discuss the bill. | Minimum $450 a Year. Mr. Steward, in analyzing the Lehl- employe will receive an annuity less than $450 a year, and every employe within the purview of the bill se- cure an additional annuity for each year of service over 30 years, which is the present maximum number of years allowed in computing annuities. " The bill provides that in addition to the $30 allowed for each year of service, an amount, determined by actuarial tables, will further increase the annuities re- ceived by the employes. There is no maximum provided, and Mr. Lehlbach | g, asserts that the annuities will in someq instances reach $3,000 a year. If the annuity of $30 for each year, plus the purchase value of the amount in the employe’s individual account, does not reach a sum equal to the average an- nual basic salary, not to exceed $1,600 a year, received by the employes during any five consecutive years of service, multiplied by the number of years' serv- ice, not to exceed 30, and divided by 40, then this latter computation is used.” He explained that “the advantage of the 40 divisor is that it increases the annuity approximately 12! per cent. The increase in the annuity can easily be ascertained by simply adding one- eighth to the present annuity and that will be the new rate under the proposed law. Under the present law with the | divisor 45, an average salary of $1,500 is required to obtain the present ma: mum annuity of $1,000 and an average salary of $1,800 will be necessary to s cure the proposed maximum $1,200; while with the 40 divisor a salary of $1,333.33 entitles the employe to the present maximum annuity of $1,000, and | an average salary of $1,600 to the pro- | posed maximum annuity of $1,200. Additional' Benefits Provided. “Employes having an- average salary in excess of $1,500 will be entitled to an additional benefit up to and includ- ing $1,600. This additional benefit can be computed by multiplying 2'> per cent of the excess of the salary over $1,500 (not exceeding $1.600) by the years of service, and_adding this sum | (Continued on Page 5, Column 4.) Nine Killed in Elections. BUCHAREST, Rumania, February 8 (#).—The newspaper, Universul, re- ported today that nine persons had been killed and 59 hurt in the course of the district elections just concluded throughout the country. Communal elections begin tomorrow. Civic Organizations Agains§ Principle of Naming Retired Army Man. MANY DISTRICT BODIES TO TAKE PART IN PROTEST] Group Also Expected to Consides Jones Bill and Express Definite Stand. With a rising tide of sentiment i opposition to the principles involved i President Hoover’s selection of an Army officer as a District Commissioner, Ed« ward J. Murphy, president of the Board of Trade, last night called an extraordie nary conclave of the heads of Washa ington’s major trade and civic organle zations to discuss the issue. Mr. Murphy requested the heads of the orgamizations to meet with hing Wednesday night in the Trade Board'd new quarters in The Star Building fos a thorough discussion of a situation which he believes has robbed Washing« ton of its last vestige of “home rule” The_ invitations were sent to Charl W. Darr, president of the Washingt: Chamber of Commerce; Maj. Gen, Anton Stephan, president of the Mers chants and Manufacturers' Associati and Dr. George C. Havenner, presiden of the Federation of Citizens’ Associae tions, Against Military Man. Although there has been no indica« :l:kn 'hmm-xdenmu action en, two of the organizations—the Chamber of Commerce and the Board of Trade—have already advised the President that they are opposed to the appointment of Maj, Gen. Herbert B, Crosby as successor to Commissiones Proctor L. Dougherty on the ground that he is an officer of the military service and not a civilian. 4 The federation and the Merchantg and Manufacturers' Association have thus far remained silent, although the former went on record a week ago iy opposition to the Jones bill which would liberalize the residential restrice tions of appointees to the commissione ership, The criticism of the two trade ne izaf is not personal—both of made it plain that their ition ig to the principle involved pointment of Gen. 3 that the appoin! it w the Taw requiring that 1o of \he siee aw 1 members of the M?M ers be chosen from civilian life. Not Representative, The fact that Gen. Crosby is to ree tire before he is appointed commise is not satisfactory to the ore ganizations. It is their contention th:: even though on the retired list would still be an Army officer and not ;;pr:emnnme of the ecivillan life of as] gton. . Aside from the issue involved in the selection of Gen. m‘i' the heads of the four organizations are to discuss the Jones bill, and expected take & definite stand in opposition to it. Chamber of Commerce Protest. ‘The Chamber of Commerce, in a lete ter forwarded to the President yesters ted that its members feel “thay remnants of local representas tion in the government of the districtj of Columbia—in the form of two ap< pointive civilian Commissioners—shou! be preserved. “At their regular February meeting the board of directors expressed the hope that the newspapers were incorrect in reporting you as consid the ap= pointment of a gentleman at presens an officer in the Regular Army. {o _the position of Commissioner of the Dise trict of Columbia,” the letter read. “The sentiment of these gentlemer§ is based upon a profound feeling tha§ the last remnants of local represen tion in the government of the Distric§ of Columbia—in the form of two ape. pointive civilian Commissioners—shoul be preserved and that such officers should be civilians in the sense cus< tomarily understood and as construe in Tyler vs. United States, in which i was held that retired officers are to be renlrded as continuing in military service. Aspersions Lack Basis. “It is their belief, further, that ase persions recently cast upon the City of ‘Washington—with reference in. partice ulur to crime conditions—lack any sul stantial basis of fact and that tI abandonment now of time-honored cus« tom in the appointment of civil Commissioners would tend to cloth such aspersions with an appearance of truth which they in reality do not pose sess. “In view of these sentiments of oue board we write respectfully to urge their name and at their request tha the appointment in question receive Yuuli consideration “before it is mac final.” The Trades Unionist, official organ of the Central Labor Union, yesterday contained a first-page editorial attacke ing President Hoover's decision to ape point . Crosby and pointing out the “‘political serfdom” of the residents of the District. iy FINGERPRINT TESTS CUT 1 OF 13 OUT OF CIVIL SERVICE POSITIONS ;Commissioner Would Make Examination of Applicanty | For U. S. Jobs Compulsory. Having learned that 1 out of every 13 applicants fingerprinted last year as a part of the civil service examinations had a police record, Willilam C. Dem- ing, civil service commissioner, has recommended to Congress that finger- printing be made a compulsory feature in the future of all civil service examin- ations for positions of trust or law en- forcement. posts. Some of the startling results of the character investigations made of appli- losed by 8 , _but, nevertheless, obtain eligible ratings, 55 per cent failed solely because of informas tion secured in the character investie gation,” he declared. /60 Per Cent Ineligible. “The commission applied the chare acter test to 1,103 competitors for cuse thin 50 et ‘cens of "the comix titorss an 60 per cent of the who had met all the mbee&l Te jul worst crook_may sometimes be able to- gi\@ (Gontinued on Page 3, Column 6.