Evening Star Newspaper, December 6, 1930, Page 2

JPERATION PLAN NCREASES RELEF bles. of Revolt Dying in' ew of $60,000,000 Fund THE SAFEST FLYERS OF “THE NAVY 11 Approved by Comrfiitted. “ trictly comgressional affair, with. hite House ‘left out. Party leaders in the Sensite hat co-operstion meant to ‘Bby etting togsther” on incredsing " from | 125,000,000 to $66:000,000 the President’s fhommentiation for relfef to farmers of e drought States.’ {This, the first measure of the emier- cy progfam, goes before the Senate #fpnday, with' the unanimous, approval fi the Agricultural Cominittee given to e larger figure, Senator McNary, Hairman of the group and assistant Republican leader, placed his name on b measure. Democratic Leader Robin- bn warned there would be a floor fight jifless the 60,000,000 prevailed. Imme- te consideration and passage within week will be sought. Fuller Test Ahead. Rumbles of revolt in party ranks be- jgme less loud in view of these de- falopments, but a fuller test of the co- jjeration pledge given by Democratic fieftains appeared in prospect during e debate on the bill. n the House Agriculture Committee parties did not get together that Representative Aswell, Democrat, out.for the $60,- publican leaders the adminis- - y. ! ana, was hol 800,000, while the . re confident of reporting ition figure. he second item on the Hoover relief Fogram, $150,000,000 for public build- , also appeared in for some diffi- jylties in the House Appropriations mmittee. With the House joining the nate in week end recess, both these mmittees were driving ahead today, pectant of a vote which would per- them to report the bills on Monday. H Appointees Scrutinized. -3 New discontent in the'Senate appeared the disapproval by Secretary Stim- h of the proposals to ban all quota igration for two years or five, Sen- Reed, Republican, Pennsylvania, pnsored one of these and had ex- d confidence it would receive ad- pnistration approval. ‘The Secretary }# State yesterday calculated that with- such a law immigration would fade t year to inconsiderable proportions, kst through continuance of the present “#trict interpretation of entry rules. Presidential appointments were in for e study, bewinnln&"t%dny with ex- ation of the new commission- te . EXPECTED TO WATCH BENEFIT GRID GAME erous response seats by the Noyes' Committee, and the offerings of reserved seats and admission tickets by police and n, who- have -been of pasteboards for more than a week. Seats Still Available. 'The committes announced this morn- 5 that there are still left some choice 3 ed seat tickets and enough gen- admission tickets to take care all who apply for them at the box at Griffith Stadium. Reserved its are selling for $1.50, general ad- n for §1 and box seats for $5 id $2 each. Chairman Noyes this morning report- & hearty response” from business and-industries in Washington to plea of yesterday for their support. 7 box seat sale, Mr. Noyes reported, Swps a signal success due to the last- 2 ute subscription of many business and business men. i , National Broad- Co.; Charles H. St. John, Grif- -Consumers Coal Co.; Dr. M. since Co.; | into effect has Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. (two xes) ; P. O. Coffin, CI e & Po- Committee, terstate Commerce Committee | of week will go into the Power Com- | pea] ‘ Five pilots attached to the famous Fighting 3 Squadron of ‘aircraft carrier La; n "l'l‘phy. awarded -nnn:Il'Iy to squadron e the White House. Schift Memorial President Hoover at yesterday, pl ; trophy. ‘Lieut. Comdr. Samuel P, Ginder, who led the squadron through over lu,m miles without mishap, is holding the trophy. the ithe greatest EMPLOYES T0 TAKE FIGHT TO SENATE Head of Federation Confident Denial of Pay Increases Will Meet Defeat. (Continued From First Page.) established by such acts as amended for the departmental service in the Dis- trict of Columbia.” Representative La Guardia made the point of order that, “Its provisions are applicable not only to the appropria- tions contained in the bill now before the committee, which provide appro- priations for the Post Office Department and the Treasury Department, but is applicable to all appropriations il- able during the fiscal year 1932 and limits the salaries in ev department of the Government in bilfs which are yet to come before House. Clearly no such power is given tc the Committee on Appropriations, and the language goes way beyond the scope of the most extreme ruling on the amendments seeking to place a limitatiop on appro- priations.” McCormack Makes Appeal. Representative John W. McCormack Massachusetts made a spirited ap- in behalf of the Government workers, censuring the proposal. He “It is unfair. It is wrong. It is im- proper. It is directly co recommendations made by the Presi- dent himself. The President recom- mended affirmative rellef, but in addi- tion to failing to or adopt the recommendations the President the committee goes further and g;.::" a muve provision in the bill, which prohibits consideration by any depart- ment head -of any increase in salary during the coming fiscal year. “T trust, that the member- ship of the committee will ldog: the amendment and send this -bill the other branch without this prohibition being included therein. I also that when the bill reaches the body that when they pasged salary’ acts in Ooncrelleyi." .| during the next fiscal year, salaries the States intended bygone Lehlbach Explains Act. Chairman Lehlbach of the House Civil Service Committee explained the clas- sification act and declared that he does sonnel problems.” , in part: “About 1920 the question of the in- equalities of compensation for like work in the various departments and in the various offices in the same department was so forcibly brought to the attention of Congress that a joint commission was appointed, which in that year made a report. After thee years of agitation the classification act of 1923 became a law, which divided the civil services of the United States into broad services, like the clerical, the scientific, the administrative, the custodial, and so forth, and erected in each broad service a number of grades in accordance with the difficulty and im- portance of the work in each grade and fixed a certain range of salary rates for such grade. For example, a clerical grade might spread ovér $1,200, $1,260,-91,320, $1,380 and possibly up to $1,440. The act proyided that new enirants, when allocated to a position within a grade, should start in at the lowest salal d that with meritorious satisfactory ratings they time to time, in the dis- cretion of the head of the department, step from one salary rate to the other, until, if they remained long enough and their work was satisfactory enough, they would receive the highest rate in that grade. In the Postal Service we have these steps automatically annually. In the civil service generally it is at the discretion of the head of the de- rtment, “‘About three years ago there was a demand, and in ‘response thereto Con- gress passed the Welch act, increasing the salary or pay in the gradcs of these services, and the increases were generally applicable in the clerical and sul fessional and in some instances in the professional services. They did not touch the fleld. The flield has never been actually classified. By the field I mean every employe of the ‘Government who s not working u-fc‘;m' cally and actually in the Disl of , who were pi ngley, nted with the number of miles with t accident, by 150.000 AFFECTED ON FEDERAL BY BAN PUT PAY INCREASE§ President’s Three-Year Standardization Plan Delayed, but Not Repudiated, House Group Clerk Explains. The ban placed on salary increases to Government employes, within grades, in the House late yesterday affects approxi- mately 150,000 persons—100,000 in the field service and 50,000 in the depart- mental service in the District of Co- lumbia, according to an estimate by William H. McReynolds of the Bureau of Efficiency. It is intended to cover all groups of Government emiployes except those where increases are mandatory under existing law—postal employes being a specific example of those who are not affected. It should not be construed as a re- pudiation of the President’s three-year program to bring all underaverage sal- aries up to a uniform level throughout the entire Federal service, those who supported this legislation 3ay, but dis- tinctly as emergency legislation. They argue that the Government should con- serve its resources as much as possible I(Llswdevfillll&cmwlnlmm- yment relief program. 5 The intimation is given that the ac- tion by the Committee on Appropria- tions and by the House carries the President’s approval. ‘Wording of Bill Made Exact. l:x'.rugnmurx was_taken, c(ihan}xn‘:en Wood of the Appropriation Comm! emphasies, and rg:o wording of the bill approved by the House last night was made exact so that there might not be any breaking down of the tion ciple or it this measure .might not work operation of the classification act. Cl::iirmnndWood also points ou:‘ that a eguard against such an emergency was made in the classifica- tion act of 1923 a the proviso “that in no case shall the compensation of any emhn-l‘we be incre':%ed unless ;}on- ress appropriaf mong :hlcl'i the increase may l.n:lyunymg Just what the recommendations of classifical “emergency” against the House Committee, which were ap- proved by the House, contemplate are explained by Marcellus C. Sheild, clerk to the House Committee, as follows: Although contained in the Treasury- Post Office appropriation bill, it is in- tended to the entire Federal service and be a limitation on salary appropriation for o:gcr departments and independent offices. c It contemplates no increases in sal- ary except by change in ition through promotion or reallocation by, the Personnel Classification Board. Promotion Not Stopped. Promotion of an employe from one grade to another is not stopped. If there is a vacancy in a higher grade, promotion to that vacancy is not stopped. If there is a new position in a higher e, promotion to that new tion not prevented. Any place in which there is a change in duty is not included within the pro- ‘hibition. Tt means simply any increase within the grade. It does not knock out increases pro- vided under the Welch act or the Brookhart act. They have already been granted aund the new rates are in effect. it It knocks out—temporarily, or rather mponea for one year—the President’: e-year program for bringing all sal- arles up to an average for the same character of work throughout the entire Pederal service. It goes further than this by prevent- the | ing any leeway under lump sum appro- itions by specifically providing that shall not be used for granting any increases. It does not reduce anybody's pay. *It does not change anybody’s grade. It does not prevent promotions from one grade to another, = All it does for.the next fiscal year is %0 'hold stationary those positions with . grades at the same salary rate at they will be found July 1 next. ed. The fact is that the committee, in taking the position it has assumed, has considered the economic condition of the country and concluded that we should not increase these salaries in the amount of $4,264,000, as suggested, at a time when 4,000,000 men and wom- en are out of employment, without s day’s work. Increase $25,000,000. “Under these conditions, we do not think we should provide an increase of compensation to_the employes of the United States. They are better now than at any time in the history of the country. There is no occasion for an increase in their wages such as there was when previous increases were granted. We have increased the salaries of Government employes more thdn $2,000,000 in two years. What employés outside of the Government have had their salaries increased in the same pro- portion anywhere? H “I am proud to say that the labpr leaders in this country, when this disaster spread over the country, agreed that they would not ask for an increase of wages, and they have kept the faith. That is to their credit. Now, in the face of tHat, why should members of Congress come here and voluntarily vote for an increase of $4,250,000 to the Gov- ernment employes when there is such suffering throughout the land? “We have increased these govern- mental salaries, as I say, time and time again, since 1920, the date that the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Lehl- bach) has spoken of, and those in- creases were based on the fact that they were necessary on account of the in- creased cost of living. Then, according to the logic of the matter, when the cost of living has fallen, we might be- gin to lower these salaries. “But have you ever heard of wages or salaries being lowered wheén once fixed? Not once, - . ou never will hear of such a n the last two years the cost of 1t has gone down, and yet we are asked to increase these salaries. There is no disposition on the part of this committee to deny the it to men to amend and remove these in- equalities, but not now. These people are not lu!!efl’lqg, While feonu outside are suffering. Therefore, I think this is not the time for Congress to do this, in view of the prevailing conditions. Industries Cited. “In my district I have some of the greatest manufacturing industries in the country. How do they meet the situa- tion? They have agreed to give their employes two or three days’ work a week. Columbis. . .Couldn’t Pass Average. ““I'he Committee on Appropriations the classification act had gone placed a rider upon :& pra tion bills, and there was no jection to that, that the average salary in a unit should not exceed the aver- age of the various salary rates within the grade. In other words, if the sal- aries renge from $1,200 to $1,400, the average salary of the aggregate of the clerks within that grade could not ex- ceed $1,300. Some would be at the average and as many must be below as e “The ' administration found that in very many of the bureaus and divisions and se: of the departments the tional | average salary under the classification has been taken by the United States Government. Every one of its employes is occupying full time, and every one is receiving full wage at we‘gudl of the best paymaster in the world. “The City of Washington toda; a better condition than any city of its size in the world, because of the fact that the pay roll comes regularly and In full and in payment for full time. “But, gentlemen, it is an easy matter for us to lend ourselves to these ap- s that are col from the organ- le Sam here. But y is in preceden condition. Are we to be blamed, then, in setting an example under such con- ditions by declining to raise the com- pensation of those now employed. by the Federal Government?” Amendment Criticized. Sharply criticizing the Wood amend- tes | ment, President Steward of the Federal in his quoted sect “Increases in allowed upon 1923, which the attainment Wotmn':ww% to the range main. o e e, P , however, that In no case shall compensation of any employe be ased unless Congress has appro- money from which the increase v be lawfully paid, nor shall the rate for any employe be increased beyond the maximum rate for the grade to which his position is allocated.” . “This section,” he continues, “was further restricted by the so-called gerngo provision which first appeared appropriation bills in 1925, prevent- 4ng any given unit of employes from receiving more than the average salary rate of a grade, Such restriction plearly implies an obligation on the of Congress to increase the com- tion of employes who maintain i satisfactory standard of performance, Bt least to the average rate in the re- spective grades. Because of pressure exerted by former President Coolidge practically no increases on account of Continued satisfactory service, were al- lowed, and evidently because the de- Iayed obligation to the employe was recognized by President Hoover, the sstimates submitted to Congress through the Bureau of the Budget at the beginning of the present session con- tained amounts approximating 30 per cent of the sum to bring employes below the average of the grade nearer to that figure. “It 18 not conceivable that those who hold the purse strings of the United Btates ry have such a debased ethical concept of a clearly implied contractural obligation that hiding be- hind the specious argument of tempo- rary business depression it is proposed to invoke repudiation. “As adding insult to injury Mr. Wood couples his repudiation proposal with sweeping slurs upon the whole | mass of civillan Federal workers directed at their industry, application and loyalty to the Government. The baselessness of such wholesale slander will be immediately recognized by the general public. “The National Federation of Federal Employes, as the authorized spokesman of Federal workers throughout the world, does not accept the action taken in the House as final and will present the issue to the United States Senate with the firm belief that the final out- come will be reflected in a verdict for fair dealing and not arbitrary abuse of power.” i o BAND CONCERT. By the United States Soldiers’ Home Band Orchestra, Stanley Hall, this eve- ning, ning at §:30 o'clock; John 8. M. Zimmermann, bandmaster; Anton Pointner, assistant. 1, March, Ca 2. Overture, ery, Bergenholtz 3. Descriptive fantasia, “Storm King Mountain” . .. C 4. Potpowrri, “Echoes From the Volga” . . Soredy Rilssian m ‘Anything You Say,’ Donaldson 6. Waltz song, “Baron Trenck”...Albini Finale, “College Stunts”.... ecink “The Star Spangled Banner. 15 e MERRY. CHRISTMAS HEALTH TO ALL compensation shall be | apply generally throughout | hom FOG ALONE GVEN BLANE FOR DEATHS Official Probe Shows No Deadly Gas or Caustic Chemical jn Mist. (Continued From First veiled like the women of Moslem - tries, their mouths and noses tecte by handkerchiefs and improvised masks. Doon steged Tor e Bine oo, bave for & in 1; ehmlwmnr. Y B lowever, the hypothesis of poison- ous fumes having come from def::iarlb- ing poison Tu bombs of wartime ap- parently could not hold water, since ;_‘fl:c;ed d::m:tfl:fimn miles from the inders e Where poison first appeared in 1916, i & FOG IS BROKEN BY SUN. Danger Passes, But Meuse Valley In- habitants Cling to Fears. BRUSSELS, Belgium, December 6 (#). —Slowly asit had come, the suffocating pall of poisoned fog which has choked the life out of more than threescore dwellers in the Meuse Valley, began to disappear this morning as the sun bored through the mist, ml;it had gone, however, it had taken th it the secret of its sterious menace. Doctors in a dozelll'l‘y!vflllzes were t0o busy answering frantlc calls to confer with the authorities seeking an answer to the riddle. They knew only that as the fog rolled in the vic- tims coughed, choked and died. No more deaths were reported today, and as reports came in from the strick- en districts it began to appear as though this terror had. passed. Government medical authorities were on the ground to b'f’n their investigation, and they had all the co-o) tion they needed. The simple folk who fled their village es in panic or remained inside be- hind locked doors, could not be reas- sured, however, and persisted in the conviction that this death fog had come in waves of poisoned gas, whose origin they did not attempt to explain. The fog which struck terror to the Meuse Valley brought inconvenience to .other sections of Belglum also. At Hoboken an Antwerp ferryboat went aground a hundred yards from its pler and the passengers waded ashore through 2 feet of mud. At Appert & French Army airplane made a forced landing and was wrecked, although its occupants were not injured. Near Cour- fell into a canal and was A lc tied up in the River Scheldt. o Bixty-four deaths were counted in eight villages. Others, uncounted, were in hospitals seriously i1 ‘Various theories were advanced to.ac- count for the visitation. One the most striking was that.of Prof. J. B. S. Hal- dane, eminent British scientist, who said was something like the ‘Black Death,’ » the mysterious plague which ravaged Western Europe in the fourteenth cen- tury, laying low one-third of the popu- lation. Scientists practically abandoned th theory that poison gases, emmun: from = burled German ammunition :“h.‘}c%" :u the c;:r of the deaths, ‘ere Tregar as read over too wide an area for lunh'pm be the case. The ministry of health undertook a searching medical and judicial inquiry, and while awaiting its result before making an official statement, announced that the me liminary investigations supposed deaths to be due to the lmpenuly ¢cold, wet fog which has lain over the area since Wednesday. “It does not seem like an ordinary ‘Winter fog, but I In streaks,” the newspaper People said of the mist. “One moment you are walking in or- dinary daylight and then suddenly you find yourself against what looks like an impenetrable wall, in which the dim shapes of le are discernible walk- ing about like phantoms. As you en- ter the fog breathing becomes difficult and the atmosphere pungent and clammy.” . One theory was that the ons af- fected by the ‘fg were virtually all asthmatie, or licted with lung and heart aflments which made them sus- ceptible to the unnatural conditions, or already had weakened lungs due to work in factories, or coal, zinc, stone, lead and sulphuric acld industries, This was discounted somewhat, however, by the extent of the calamity. . Connected With Floods. Prof. Haldane, commenting from London and advancing his theory of a new visitation of the “black death,” declared: "“I do not believe the epi- demic can have been caused by war gas because the deaths have occurred in widely separated villages. They have been having floods in that district late- ly and it possible that may have to do with it.” the mysterious “black death. A prominent physician of Liege re- called a similar mysterious cpidemic in 1911, when 11 persons died unexpected- ly in one day after an icy fog. Most of e victims were either elderly persons or workers in deleterious industries, wilt;n lungs unable to resist the sudden cold. The little town of Engis was the hardest hit by the malady. Its mayor, speaking with newspaper Interviewers in England over telephone, explained that he himself had got up Irom a sick bed to answer the paper’s call. “The 3,000 inhabitants of my little town are terror-stricken. Nobody knows. what the cause is, but it is as- sociated in the popular mind with the fog which has lain over the valley for | Pa: the past few days, We have 14 dead ready here and about 60 in the hos- . Besides there suffering with the disease, but not badly enough to go to hospitals. Symptoms Described. “The symptoms are pains throat and ohest, with a severe dry cough that gives no rest. 1 don't think the theory of German poison gas having buried in the neighbor- | hood and corrupting the air is sound. ‘The fog has no smell and no apparent taste. My doctor has considered the g:mn gas theory with his colleagues, it remains of the opinion that the af- fair 1s entirely mysterious.” Beside Engis there were 8 dead in Flemalle Haute, 4 in Flemalle Grande, 5 in Yvoy Ramet, 10 in.Jeneppe-Sur- meuse, 7 in Qth celles a cyclist lost his way in the fog, | ditions. drowned, ‘William J. Carnell, brought back here from Pittsburgh to face an ment charging him with the murder of Louis Bush, bus line admitted today that Bush was killed as the two of them struggled sion of a gun when he attempted to hold up Bush, Carmell, on the custody of Capt. Edward.J. Kelly. operator, wh for the left, in ~—Star Staff Pl . $500,000,000 VALUE OF U. S. PROPERTY TAX-EXEMPT HERE (Continued From First Page.) CARNELL ARRAIGNED IN DEATH OF BUSH; - PLEADS NOT GUILTY systems employed by assessors and the standards of value are so different that it is difficult to make any accurate clusion and perhaps the only satis! tory way would be to have an a?m- ization visit tite different cities and use the same set-up in each for determ values. Richards admitted that such an Intensive study would be necessary to get a more accurate picture of the values, but pointed out that the method used by the Census Bureau probably ‘would not vary more than 10 per cent. At _this point, Chairman Mapes asked Mr. Richards if he thought his method is as accurate as the Census Bureau's system, which works on a per capita basis. “No,” he replied, “I think the Census Bureau's method is ‘more ac- curate mine under present con- White House Valuation. ‘The valuation upon the grounds of the White House, Richards testified, is $20 a square foot, which is about $5 a foot less than ground privately elvxrchned in the vicinity of the State, 'ar and Navy Building. He estimated the assessed value of the White House grounds at $15,748,- 000 and $2,250,000 for the improvement of the White House itself. Summarizing the valuation given to a large number of public buildings and parks, Mr. Richards testified that the total of land and improvements in what known as the White House section, om_ Ffiteenth- to Seventeenth street and B to I streets, he had estimated at $65,687,000 for the ground and $35,- 000,000 for improvements. These valuations, he said, were based on a conservative estimate of the cost of reproduction. Park Areas Estimated. An estimate of $52,404,550 was placed ‘the ‘park experts making pre- | Rock Creek unds. % placed on circles such and 280 separate triang Mr. Richards testified that a valua- tion of $1.50 a foot had been placedl on Potomac Park, the total for that tract being $19,241,000. / On East Potomac Park a valuation of §1 a foot makes the total slightly exceed $14,000,000. The tax assessor for the District told the committee that he had not and would not attempt to place a valuation on the Was Monument, the Lin- coln Memorial or the new Arl Memorial Bridge on account of ir historic nature. He even ridiculed any such suggestion when it was made by members of the committee, Monument Grounds Figure. On the Monument grounds, however, he puts the valuation at $3 a square foot, which he said was much less than land being bought adjacent the grounds. He _sald about 105 acres were in- cluded in what he termed the Monu- ment grounds. On the Agricultural Department grounds he put a valuation of $4 a square foot, or $6,000,000 for the grounds and $5,000,000 for the building. The Smithsonian Institution valuation, the same per foot, totaled $15,131,000 for buildings and grounds. ‘The valuation of $3 a foot, Mr. Richards said, is placed on the grounds between Seventh and Third streets, in- cluded in the Mall. Potomac Park Section. For all the land included in the total of the so-called Potomac Park' sec- tion he placed a valuation, grading, he eéxplained, from $33,000,000 and $43,000,000. He admitted to Mr. Mapes that the Government had acquired this land when it was virtually all marsh and swamp and had improved it at its own expense. Potomac Parkway and Montrose Park are valuel at $3,382,942, Mr. Richards testified. An assessment of $10,000 an acre, he sald, was placed on the Zoolog- ical Park, totaling $1,750,000. Some discussion. arose over the valu- ation of $9,636,000 placed on Rock Creek rk_proper. It was brought out that the Government purchased the land for about $1,000,000. That was taken into consideration, Mr. Richards said, in making the assessment. > Finds Values High. ‘Territory immediately west of Rock Creek Park is being rapidly developed, Mr. Richards explained, especially near the old Plerce Mill. Land values in this section, he said, are high. A_$3-a-foot assessment was placed on Meridian Hill Park, approximately the same for private property in that neighborhood. The assessment for the park was $1,332,000. Anacostia Park, estimated at $2,000 an acre, makes a total of $2,000,000, and the Klingle Val- ley parkway was assessed at $200,000. A total assessment of all the water plants, reservoirs and grounds was laced at $2,686,972 for the land and EIB,BW,NID for improvements. Some of the other assessed valu- ations on Federal properties were placed by Mr. Richards as follows: ¢ Bureau of Standards, $9800,000 for grounds and $3,000,000 for bulldings; United States Naval Observatory, $20, 000 an acre, or less than 50 cents foot, when property around it is sell- mll}g‘{orlboutlflnloot National Train- “ana 32000000 'tor (Continued Prom First Page) had been returned here. McKay, the other two say, plot the attempt and the gun for . He did not ipany them to the scene. Carnell sald their selection of Bush as a victim was the merest chance. He said they were cruising near the Plaza Hotel, which Mr. Bush owned; on the night of the robbery, when FETCHER DENES TARRFITERESTS Hoover Appointee Tells Sen- ate Group He Sold Stooks to Avoid Prejudice. By the Assoclated Press. & former diplomat, told Senator Reed, Pennsylvania, he had never engaged in tariff lopbying and had not been active in Pennsylvania politics recently. ; Disposed of Stocks, He added he had not been connected with any industry seeking tariff tion and had disposed of some stocks Wwhich he thought might be involved In _the tariff. In to questions, he sald he had made o study of th tarif wntl his appointment to the commission, . Miatantpr, 1 e e W mighé h e was “‘wi call the high protector,” He’&“hfl' re- P ‘'Well, I don’t think so.” Favors Non-Partisan Group. politics in nehcung rsonnel. He told Senator King, Loy he believed the commission should be non-partisan. i suggested they stick up the bus line | SC owner. Mationey, Camell sald, had worked | 1o for Bush, and knew he carried consid- erable sums of rhoney on his person. Mahoney and Carnell noticed Bush's car parked in front of the hotel. They drove to an alley near his home, and Carnell went to the Bush garage to walt for the victim. Recalls Only Two Shots. Although police found five e led shells from an automatic in the alley 1l said he could | J near the garage, Carnel recall only two shots. He received a :gcp scap wound in the SMITH CO. DEFENSE .- OBTAINS ADMISSION - OF POSSIBLE ERROR (Continued From First Page.) fense Counsel FPrank G. Raichle for cross-examination. In his earlier testimony the account- ant had dealt with ene item in the bill of , wherein the Govern- ment cl Pitts with embezaling $31,143 on May 18, 1928, by levek::.l sl&t‘h company checks and Ppocketing proceeds. One of these checks was for $511.90. Taking up this check, A e v o “If we w t a Smith Co. gave a bad check to‘:"m amount, and that Pitts then sent his own check to the Commercial National Bank to cover the bad check, would you still think he had embezsled the m?";;yf?z;uo facts true, I sho lacts were 3 uld think not, insofar as that ‘particular item is concerned,” Malgne answered. the bill dealt in alleged embezzlement by Pitts Malone Explains Interpretation. Malone said that with regard to this item, all he knew was that & check of the Smith company in that sum had been cashed, and that on the same day a like amount had been d ited to Pitts’ personal account. Not having the cash disbursement journal of 'the com- pany, he satd, he could trace the trans- actiog no further. Ralchle then introduced documentary evidence to show that on the date in question a check for $3,300 had been executed by the company to Thomas L. Hume in payment for some stock. also produced the canceled check }mm?’. indorsement on the m.wlfih HENRY RETAINS FEES. Court Allows Sum to Former Head of Smith Company. Chief Justice Wheat of the District Supreme Court, who recently removed Samuel J. Henry, former president of the F. H. Smith Co., from the position of trustee under .me on four apartment houses, yesterday rendered an opinion allowing Henry to retain a total $889.57 which he been paid in the e:clfinot three of the apartments, but d ed to allow any compensa for his services in connection with Al-Roy Apartment, of which he had never been in possession. ernment Printing Office Bullding has a Vvaluation of $4,000,000 and $552,970 on the land, Mr. Richards said.” The United States Patent Office Building he estimated at $3,500,000 and $5,457,000 for the dand. For the United States Weather Bureau the land is valued at $620,000 and the buildings at $700,000. In addition to these, Mr. Richards pidces i ‘property, Tnany purchased by of property, many pul fhe Park and Planning Commission, which include the assessed valuation of $10,000,000 on the land and $5,000,000 on_improvements. In response to' questions by members the assessor said his Testimony Is Finished. Richards “completed his tesyj- tion him later | made a care- Mr. of $3,300 . zé. e from the Smith Co. on June | He | Burea tion | Washington. “No, he did not," Coulter mllll. 8,999 UNEMPLOYED LISTED IN DISTRICT BY CENSUS TAKERS g §E§s=;;: -5 g3 ER I % i Bs & £ : i 55 E gt £ £ R 2888 2 | e ving jobs, but on lay-off 701 out of a total of 1, | Broups by age, tnunog or 41 per cent of the 130 years of age; 1,958, or were between 30 and that 231 ‘were male, | while 264,986 were female. ©Of the 243,859 total of gainful work- ers, the Census Bureau asserted that xl::j::z were males, and 88,977 were fe- D. C. Job Agency Ready. To the employers of the 1, Froderlo A, Delano, chairman of {he Dllltrlnt :l Columbia Committee on Em- | ployment, today offered the | services of the enlarged and em fll";nl.d employment 3 m_!ll statement, Mr. 130 said, in part: “Men and women require work— more than ever before in We have classified them according to their capabilities; rged trict mangged, we tonal equipment, trained assistants and made it the official clearing house for applicants for' jobs. We have done his because we know you would not care to be flooded with applicants from Numerous agencies, neither would you sonl o Jour” pasoes el ur Shecific traintag, s Wants Requests Now. “I am ore making my that you that intel- t may be l’!llon-bly“g“-uredw ntg;n will be given the calls leave