Evening Star Newspaper, April 8, 1930, Page 5

NEW POLICE TEST TOBEUSEDIND.C. Revised Examination Is De-!| signed to Weed Out Incom- | petents From Force. (Continued From First Page) | i of the Civil Service Commission, is quite | different from an achievement test, such as would be used in the schools to de-| termine such a thing as eighth-grade standing. A grade test, he pointed | out, is designed for grade pupils, not for policemen. It cculd be passed bet- ter by grade pupils than by college pro- | fessors, unless they “crammed.” for they have forgotten much of the irrelavant information—such as the sources of rivers, etc.—stuffed into their heads in | the common schools. Designed to Test Thinking. Nothing of a mu..’s fitness for being & policeman would be indicated by the ! fact that he happened to know the source of the Potomac or the capital of Saskatchewan. What the exam .ners want to know i whether he can think calmly in emergencies and use good judgment in the solution of the numer- ous problems which arise in the daily | work of the officer of the law. The new test contains 100 questions, of increasing difficulty, designed to show ability to adapt to new situations, which is practically the criterior of “intelli- gence” Correlated with the Army alpha test scores of the police depart- ments of other cities, the general adapt- ability test would have eliminated a few years ago 58 per cent of the Kansas City police foree, 55 per cent of the Cleveland and 43 per cent of the Los Angeles force. % It is not intended to eliminate any- body now on the force, however they got there. If a man has made good he has passed the best sort of test. In- ferior men can be expected gradually to eliminate themselves, especially in competition with more efficlent new- comers. “Experience on the police force,” says Dr. O'Rourke, “may enable men to per- form police duties more effectively than could new men of a somewhat higher intelligence, It must not be assumed that experienced men on the force should be dropped because thelr intel- ligence ratings are somewhat below the | new entrance requirements. The ex-| perienced man should be tbought of in | terms of his experi>nce, not in terms of his test score.” Test by No Means Yerfect. The test is by no means perfect, Dr. O'Rourke agrees. Occaslonally it will} shut out a man who might make an excellent policeman, but the chances are about four to one against it. Some who pass the test will make poor police- men, but the great majority will make ‘o"l"?'lel‘! also is being worked out a series of probation and promotion tests to be applied after men actually are on the force and have attained some familiarity with police methods. The policeman is to be asked questions like the follow- ing: S Members of the” police force of ‘Washington should (1) refuse to give their names or numbers to inquirers whom they do not know; (2) require reasons for inquiries as to their names or numbers; (3) refuse to tell their names to suspicious-looking persons; (4) give their names or numbers only w duly authorized persons; (5) give their names or numbers to whoever asks for them. The persons taking the examination is to check the correct answer, 2. A citizen tells vou that the person who turned in a false fire alarm two hours ago is 2 certain 19-year-old boy You cannot arrest the boy without a warrant because (1) he is under age; | (2) the offense is serious: (3) you did | not see the offense committed; (4) the citizen did not make the statement to your commanding officer; (5) the citi- ren may be mistaken. 3. John Marshall place (1) is near the | g, White House; (2) is in the Mall neas Pourteenth street; (3) is south of the Capitol; (4) meets Pennsylvania avenue | near Sixth street; (5) is between Center Market and Pennsylvania avenue. Required to Give Procedure. Another type of promotion test con- | sists of a list of cases such as might‘ come to the attention of a policeman. | He is required to indicate which of the | following procedures he would take in | each case, his answers requiring com- prehensive knowledge of the police manual: (1) arrest; (2) communicate | Y THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 1930. Cheered by thousands of visitors, the great air armada of 160 planes flew over the reviewing stand at Mather Field, Sacramento, Calif. fare. They in review before Brig. Gen. William E. Gillmore, in charge of the mimic war- passed The pursuit planes led the line, the attack machines next and the bombardment planes ended the parade. —P. & A. Photo. THE WEATHER District of Columbia—Fair, colder to- night, minimum temperature about 33 degrees; tomorrow fair; moderate north- west winds. Virginia—Fair, colder in central and east portions tonight; light frost in east and light to heavy in north and west portions; tomorrow fair; fresh north- west and north winds. Maryland—Fair, colder tonight; to- morrow fair; fresh to strong northwest winds, diminishing. ‘West Virginia—Fair, continued cold tonight; tomorrow fair, slowly rising | temperature. Record for 24 Hours. Thermometer—4 p.m., 54; 8 p.m., 46; 12 midnight, 43; 4 am., 43; 8 am., 43; | noon, 44. Barometer—4 pm. 2046; 8 pm., 29.60; 12 midnight, 29.66; 4 a.m., 29.68; 8 am, 29.78; noon, 29.85. Highest temperature, 64, occurred at | 11:45 am. yesterday; lowest tempera- | ture, 42, occurred at 6 am. today. Temperature same date last year— Highest, 93; lowest, 59. Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States Coast and | Geodetic Survey.) Today—Low tide, 10:16 am. 10:59 pm.; high tide, 3:35 a.m. 4:05 p.m. Tomorrow—Low tide, 11:24 a.m. 11:56 pm.: high tide, 4:40 a.m. 5:08 p.m. The Sun and Moon. Today—Sun rose 5:43 a.m.; sun 6:37 p.m. A;romorrow—sun rises 5:42 am.; and and and | and sets | sets | p.m. Moon rises 1:25 p.m.; sets 3:26 am. Weather in v; Stations £ £ H H & Abilene, Tex. Albany, N ¥.. Atlanta, Ga.... Atlantic City.” 29 Baltimore, Md. Birming! 2 Bismarck, N.'D.29.80 60 ron,’ k.. Indianapolis.Ind JacksonvilleFla. Kansas City, Mo 30 Los Angeles. ... % Louisville K Miami. Fla. N. Orleans, with headquarisrs at once; (3) reporl}om it the next time you telephone or go to | police headquarters; (4) warn; (5) take | Phoenix. no_official action. | ‘While the examination will practically | guarantee intelligence of the type de- manded of policemen it leaves untouch- ed the question of character—and the cleverest of men may be a scoundrel. ‘The Civil Service Commission now is making a study of character investiga- tion methods, such as letters of recom- mendation, vouchers and oral interviews, | in an effort to make them mean more. | At present the study is concerned chiefly | with the postal service, but the results will be applied in the selection of police- men. Nobody likes to give a fellow a black eye. Left to his own initiative & former employer will write out a very “character” for 0ws is not to be trusted and whom e is glad to be rid of. This, it has been found, is less likely when the writer is pinned down to spe- cific details to be answered ‘“ves” or “00.” Thus he is asked whether the man ever has been caught in any spe- eific act of stealing, etc. Theer are 27 questions in all. At present there is 0 lgeclflc educational requirement for Washington policemen, stated in terms of schoo! grades. The general adapta- bility test measures this in a way. This month the revised test is being given to large numbers of sixth, eighth and twelfth grade students. As the problem grows more difficult the lower groups will begir. to drop out. Grade Test Meaningless. ! Qualification of policemen on grades reached in school alone, it was ex-| plained, would have no meaning. The eighth grade contains all degrees i nee, fizme zmb;lyut;elow u‘rfi of policemen e genel ldlp:l;fllty mtl.e“l?:sldu, !.i;e require- ments for com] a “grade vary so much _from u?wul to school that the term has practically no meaning. An :clgl;glh grade diploma from a country could not be considered the equiv- alent of one from a Washington school. Even among city schools there would | be a great difference. The special | adaptability test would show whether a man was capable of doing eighth grade | work, which is the essential thing. By the time a man was old enough to go on the police force he probably ld have forgotten most he learned lnm eighth grade anyway—as would a physician or an engineer. Taken unawares by an dfimh grade achievement test, all prob- ably would make a poor showing com- pared with children actually in the| eighth grade. This certainly would not | indicate .that they were less intelligent | than eighth grade children or less ea of being physicians, engineers or —_— Lake Rate Case to Come Up. HUNTINGTON, W. Va., April 8 (#)— ‘The h::m?rlo freight rate emm‘lafe. meet here Thursday to discuss the | renewed effort of Northern coal oper- | atars to reopen the Lake cargo rate case | before the Interstate Commerce Com- mission. The meeting was called fol- lot the filing of a petition before the Southern _coal- dismissal of Pt.cloudy Pt.cloudy Clea: r Pt.cloudy Clear Cloudy Clear Pt.cloudy Pt.cloudy Clear Pt.cloudy 62 Clear 42 0.66 Cloudy Po i Portland. Oreg. 3 Raleigh. ' N. C. Salt Lake City. San Antonio...” 30. San Diego, Calif San_Francisco.. 30. St. Louls. Mo... 30, St. Paul. Minn. Seattle. pok:ine. Tampa, WASH., D. Stations. London._England Temog Paris, France 3 roturs. Weather. 6 Rain somtebody he & N 50 e Noon, Greenwich ‘time, today.) Horta (Fayal). Azores 58’ Part cloudy Current ) Part clouly Part cloudy Clear Cloudy 80 62 80 | the books for tomorrow afternoon. A | | $18,000,000 for his stock. | of his 55 years in prison, was sentenced | torney, CO-EDS CALL SHOWDOWN ON DRESS; CHIFFON AND TWEED RIVALS CLASH Michigan U.’s “Unwritten Law” Is Opposed by Faction Favoring Sports Attire. By the Associated Press. | ‘The suggestion was ANN ARBOR, Mich, April 8.—A | askance by some groups, for it is almost showdown on the matter of dress for 8n unwritten law among woman stu- dents here that they must dress up for the University of Michigan co-ed is on | SIS bete SHEL LSy i lnv‘tltlon; h.vetuea) issued (o;_hl “battle of tweeds against chiffon,” one of | “sports clothes party” tomorrow. e the feminine participants has called it. | bids urge the co-eds to wear their 1t all began when a group of woman | ‘“sportiest” costumes and promises have students, sponsored by the Women's 'been made that the question of class Athletic Association, met and decreed | room attire will be thoroughly ironed that low-heeled shoes and sports dress out. constituted the proper costume for | Miss Alice Lloyd, dean of women, has campus wear. Hats tand gloves were |given her moral support to the move- not tabooed, but their use was declared | ment by admitting that there has been optional. | a “decided tendency to overdress.” WILLIAM FOX REMOVED [PRESBYTERIAN MINISTER AS HEAD OF FILM FIRM SCHEDULED FOR HEARING Purchaser of 151,000 Shares of Commission to Report on His Chris- Stock Elected President of Pro- | tian Views as Reflected in Dis- ducing and Exhibiting Company. cussion of Evolution. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 8—The financial war within the Fox moving picture | . enterprises was ended today with the Arkansas Presbytery today was prepared removal from the presidency of Wil-|to hear a report of a commission ap- ilam Fox, who had built up the $300.- | pointed to inquire “into the soundness ?00.0?0 c:rlpontlo:lh (r;m a $1,666,66 | of faith” of the Rev. Hay Watson investment in one theater. i Following the sale by Fox of his|Smith. pastor of the Second Pres 151,000 class B shares in the Fox Film | byterian Church of Little Rock. and Fox Theaters Corporations to Har-| Dr. Smith's views on the theory of ley L. Clarke of Chicago, president of | organic evolution, as contained in a the General Theaters Equipment Co., | widely distributed pamphlet, caused the Inc., Fox and the officers and directors | General Assembly of the Presbyterian of both corporations resigned. > | Church in session at Montreat, N. C Clarke was then elected president. last Summer, to order the inquiry. Winfield R. Sheehan, vice president| The question ot whether the inquiry and general manager, was continued was to be made into Dr. Smith's be- in that office. It was announced that lief on the subject of evolution, or his a new board of directors would be “soundness of faith” plunged the elected within a few days and a new | Dresbytery into a heated debate which financing plan put into operation. Al- | lasted throughout an entire day. though no official announcement was compromise resolution provided that the made, it was reported Fox received | inquiry should proceed upon the ques- | tion of his views on evolution as re- |1ated to the basic principles of the | church. Henry Rayfield, who has spent over 30 | Charles E. Coleman, Little Rock at- who spoke for Dr. in Wolverhampton, England, to three | charged that the General Assembly's months’ imprisonment when he boasted | action was prompted by “disgruntled” that he was “a famous Irish gunman.” | theologians. By the Associated Press. OSCEOLA, Ark, April 8—The VALUES At All A&P Meat Markets Whites Bury: Hatchet, NEW ULM, Minn. () —After 67 years, New Ulm has buried the hatchel with the Sioux Indians. In 1862, while many of the men of New Ulm, then a pioneer town, were away fighting in the Civil War, the Sioux perpetrated what has been re- corded as a massacre. This Winter the Sioux were in need on their reservation, near here, and the descendants of the men and women whose blood was shed in 1862 raised :hnme of cash, food and clothing for em. CHOICE PIANOS FOR_ REN FREE TUNING | . UNDER RENTAL CONTRACI WORCHS 1110 G esters | Fillet of looked upon | Smith, | i POTENTATEPAY FRATERNAL VT Head of Aimas Temple, With Divan, Meets With Pen- talpha Lodge, F. A. A. M. An unusual occasion was noted last evening in Pentalpha Lodge, No. 23, F. A. A. M., when the illustrious poten- tate, James C. Hoyle of Almas ‘iemple of the Mystic Shrine, accompanied by his divan and uniformed bodies, paid & fraternal visit to the worshipful master of Pentalpha Lodge. Ava Marcus Dan- fels is the third generation of the Dan- iels family to occupy that station in Pentalpha Lodge, his grandfather hav- ing been largely influential in the or- ganization of the lodge, and served as its first worshipful master in 1869. The illustrious potentate. with uni-' formed bodies, left the new Almas Tem- ple Club House, 1315 K street, in march- ing formation, and proceeded. by way of Fourteenth street, thence south to New York avenue and then east to the Ma- sonic Temple. Formal Reception Tendered. Arriving there the master of Pen- talpha Lodge received the visitors, ex- pressing to the potentate his personal appreciation of the call. The potentate responded appropriately. James A. West, grand master of Ma- sons in the District of Columbia, who is a past master of Pentalpha Lodge, was present. After being received with Ma- sonic honors, the grand master was pre- sented a life membership in Pentalpha Lodge by the master of the lodge, who explained that while his lodge, this year, must share the grand master with all other lodges of this jurisdiction, yet the honor which he brought to the lodge | belonged singularly to Pentalpha and | that in having the privilege of present- } ing the life membership, the master ex- pressed likewise the love, admiration and friendship, collectively and personally, | of the members of Pentalpha. Grand Master Responds. k ‘The grand master assured the mem- bers of his lodge that when the time came for him to lay down the gavel of | authority he would do so with the| knowledge that the arms of Pentalpha ::;e open to receive him back into its old. | Potentate Hoyle made an address | entitled “Why a Noble of the Mystic | | Shrine?” A program followed, consisting | of selections by the band of Almas Temple, solos by Newton Hammer and ;Erlnd opera selections on the piano by Ralph H. Gauker. Guests Given Surprise. ‘The master then informed the mem- bers that a surprise awaited them and | which would be made known by the | illustrious potentate. The surprise con- | sisted of an invitation to everyone pres- ent to form in procession behind the | Almas Temple Band and uniformed bodles and proceed to the recently com- pleted club house, where they would be entertained with a band concert, drills | by the different bodies and an oppor- tunity afforded to inspect the ne building under the guidance of members of the reception committee of Almas Temple. At the club house Pentalpha Lodge served light refreshments. Royal Employes Happy. SANDRINGHAM, England (#) King George is the ideal employer, ai least from the point of view of English- | men looking for jobs. | _Seldom does any one employed on the | King's estate here quit his job, for— | | He gets a nice house with a garden.' | He and his family are looked after by the King's physician at a fixed rate |of 2 pence a week He can look forward to an old-age pension, and if he dies his widow gets a rent-free cottage. | He gets milk from the King's prize cows, wood from the King's forests and an occasional brace of rabbits or fow! A | from the royal barnyard. | He has the use of a club house with library, billiards and games rooms anc a concert hall where concerts cost him 1 penny, half price for children. He gets his beer at a penny a glast cheaper than any one else in England - | A prominent British air service re- cently completed 5,000,000 miles of | cross nel flying. e comenty s e Haddock |- Lb. 19¢ Spanish Mackerel Fresh Herring -« FORTY FATHOM Fillet of Haddoc Chesapeake Bay SHAD BUCK b 25¢ b §e Lb. 33¢ STEAMED A—S SHANGHAY'S NIGHT LIFE THREATENED Cabarets Must Close at 2 | A.M., Early Hour in “Paris of the Far East.” HUMAN BREATH EXTINGUISHES FIRE THROUGH REFRIGERATION New Liquid, Inhaled by Eix—emist. Easily Puts Out:Candle in Demonstration | Before Members of Society. ‘ BY HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE, Associated Press Science Editor. ATLANTA, April 8.—Human breath was converted into a fire extinguisher at the American §Chemical Soclety | youiq lead to mechanical réfrigeration meeting today. “Thomas Midgley, Ir. of Dayton, Ohlo, | TCHCOlIIE L BT lighted a candle and on a table in view of a general session of the chemists. Into a glass dish alongside he poured to the depth of an inch a new liquid refrigerant, the temperature of which he sald was 18 degrees below zero. It began to boil and the rim of the | glass dish turned white with frost. | Dr. Midgely then placed his face directly over the fumes, opened his | mouth and inhaled the cold steam. Then he ‘turned to the candle and breathed gently in its direction. The touch of his laden breath smothered the flame Refrigerant Non-explosive. “This refrigerant,” he said, “is non- explosive and we believe non-poisonous. It has not harmed animals. I have breathed quantities of it without last- ing bad effects. When I took enough it produced a sort of intoxication. “The best way I can describe this sensation is to say that it is deaden- ing. Instead of exhiliration such as credited to alcohol, these fumes do not rouse a desire to sing or recite poetry. “The refrigerant still is in the experi- mental stage.” Dr. Midgely's research is sponsored by General Motors, with Dr. Robert L. Henne co-operating. The new sub- stance is a combination of fluorine, chlorine and methane. To Fluorine Dr. | tons of material for toiletware, celluloid Midgely credited the unusual effects. | articles, film, auto lacquers and artificial Fluorine is a comparatively rare ele- | leather. | COUPLE IS SENTENCED |AVIATOR AT HOLLYW0OD TO TAKE HONEYMOON| WITNESS AGAINST POLK] e { Testifies Accused Flyer Directed Husband and Wife, Both 65, Purchase of Airplane for Use Blamed Each Other for Failure Chap L By the Associated Press. | to Obey Court. NASHVILLE, Tenn. April 8.—Phil- lip M. Mohun, a Hollywood, Calif., By the Associated Press. | aviator, in a deposition given here yes- | 1o CHICAGO, April 8.It's & lot harder | terday testified that Capt. R. H. Polk, '0 get marrie o] sl on e sec- | | ond honeymoon than on the first, in the l::;: ';_';::: and ;;:“;{r::;':;:fl“’w | opinion of Superior Judge Sabath, but | dent, James K. Polk directed him to e yosterae o4 & OUPIE 0 | robels in the short-lived Escobar revolu- | | Joseph Enslin and his wife, Amelia, | oD in Mexico. both 65, married for 47 years, received d#om}étgflz = El‘.fwg“)l':"“Agg b et et ‘Z.’:;“m‘i‘y'%,.‘é".’.:‘f&’kgg | charges of violating President Hoover's o 30-day honeymoon trip ordered by Mexican neutrality prociamation. Mo- : P Y hun is_the chief witness against Polk. the judge six wecks ago when he refused | Pn, S, ie Chief Wiiness sgainst Bolk | o Iy Ors o had packed:hep | AGENt AE/El Paso; ‘Tex, and) Arthur E. | 8 E packed her suit case ready f Johnson, manager of the municipal : L y for the trip. but that her | 2irport at EI Paso, also give depositions husband refused to go. He insisted it | G/ Bors o 4 = e was the other way aro - Y. - | MAIN OFFICE-6™& C Sts S W. CAMP MEIGS-52 & Fia Ave.N.E. W und. “You are like two children,” the judge | BRIGHTWOOD-5921 Ga Ave.N) ment, canary blonde in color, discovered in 1886. Some of its effects in the refrigerant, he said, were contrary to accepted opinion of how it would react. He forecast increasing safety which By the Associated Press. SHANGHAL April 8.—The night life of the “Paris of the Far East,” as the various Shanghai Chambers of Com- Forecasts Silk Increase. merce call their city, is threatened by WE:l’d.nYK)s‘t,ll;!n ‘fimr:nme Ame:;lu c;n |a new menace. silken garments made | e A R !chemh"y ae | The city administration, which wiped forecast in several papers. Prof. Charles (OUt the gambling casinos of the inter- E. Mullin of Clemson College said the | national settlement last Summer by sending the proprietors to prison, has :ganumlx'?;zs:tt v,hesel silken fabrics in e Unf ates will exceed last year | decided to make matters as uncomfort- by 30 per cent. It will be worth about | able as possible for the bars and caba- rets by closing them up at 2 o'clock in $190,000,000, an increase of $40,000,000 the morning. above 1929. This country. he said, makes almost ‘The regulation comes as a surprise three times as much of this synthetic|to cabaret managers and hundreds of goods as the next three largest pro- | Russian, Chinese and Japanese dancing ducing countries combined, Italy, Eng- | girls, who make their living tripping land and Germany. About two-thirds|the light fantastic at so much ‘“per trip.” It is the consensus among the of the American output is from plants | south of the Mason and Dixon line. night owls that both the cabarets and For cold weather he forecast artificial | the girls are doomed to “slim pickings” unless the municipal council relents and escinds the order. The order also means that the in- ternational settlement will lose most of its glamour for the tourist parties. -Two o'clock may seem a late closing hour, but not according to the Shang- hai calculations. Most people who go out for an evening start their merry- making at about 1 o'clock. BATS TO GUTDFRUIT Farmers coming slowly into practice. The “wool is similar to the silken synthetic fiber, | except that instead of being smooth its | strands ar>= made with a covering ot‘ curlicues which serve to create small air_pockets. ‘W. Donald Munson, research chemist of the Southern Chemical Cotton Co., | Chattanooga, said that cotton is used | to make 40,000 tons of synthetic silken | goods annually. It is made from the | tuzz remaining of cotton seed after the long fibers have been cut off. From this fuzz also is made annually 30,000 | Plan to Protect Pecans From Insects. SAN SABA, Tex, (#).—A million bats may be invited to San Saba to kill off "insects menacing the pecan crop for miles around. peginz. Rl.!leni-E one of "Xll'exl&' leading growers, is sponsoring a cam to raise $1,000 to set up l" lnflcp.b’.l% roost in a graveyard. He believes & flock of a million bats would completely protect pecan crops from ravages of InsAects ;lln‘l’gnbl‘ radius of ten miles. priva t roost accommodat; 1,000 bats is maintained by Mr. Rll’lneg at his home. New 1st Quality said. “Neither of you will give in. You | | i Per square foot. .. have got to take the trip. Now go.” Ev - 'They left. the court toom hand in | h"yl’“d;‘ Wants an hand after Enslin asked his wife if she | Automobile— eally wanted to go, and she replied | “yes.” 3¢ Also Insulating Board and Fireproof Rockboard Nearly Everybody Should Have One. Berlin Discards Tuxedo. BERLIN (#).—Never before, say Ber- lin's fashion tailors, have they supplied as many evening dress suits as this| year. 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