Evening Star Newspaper, February 16, 1931, Page 2

PLAN SIMPLIFIES U.S. SALARY RAISES Personnel Board’s Report Provides Automatic Promotions. (Continued From First Page) vision and the possibility of elimirating also the !flcl!nc{nrlflr\( now made twice & year was hailed by Miss Gert- rude McNally, vice president of the National Federation of Federal Em- ployes, as outstanding features of the report. She felt sure that Government workers would welcome this recommen- dation. The 400-page report in a nutshell recommends a completely revised classi- fication act, which would bring together into one uniform system the classifica- tion of positions in the department and field services of the Federal Govern- ment. It was estimated today that this would affect about 104,000 positions in the field service and about 50,000 posi- tions in the District of Columbia. In other words, it was explained by McReynolds, the new act would cover all civilian employes of the Govern- ment not otherwise specifically covered by some salary or wage specification. The act, in addition, also would au- thorize the board to assume responsi- | bility over about 75,000 or 80,000 em- | ployes who were not surveyed by this | activity under McReynolds. Situation Summarized. i This would include, McReynolds ex- plained, several groups which are now under the jurisdiction of wage bcards such as a considerable number of em- ployes in the Washington Navy Yard. This new jurisdiction situation was explained specifically in a summary of the board's report as follows: ; “The board recommends t)hl:’tdcfl;lnm ups of itions b> excluded from gpfim&mnry schedules, and while it proposes their inclusion under the statute, it suggests different procedure for fixing the pay of such groups. The positions that: will be'!%:“n this in- dividual attention are: The mechanical trades; skilled or unsl 1 ficers or members of a cre: and other groups specified in the report which require especial consideration or in which the conditions of work are liar and unlike those of the regular 11-time Government positions.” Gen‘rally speaking the new salary| schedules were explained by the sum- | mary as placing the classification plan | now in effect for the departmental serv- | fce in this city in a somewhat en- larged character in order to apply to the fleld positions. Three New Services Urged. ‘Three new classification services are recommended. In addition to the pres- ent professional and scientific service, the subprofessional service, the clerical, administrative and fiscal service, the custodial service and the clerical-rac- chanical service, the poard recommends “inspectional and investigational ' ‘an “educational service” and ~-keeping and depot-keeping service.” It alto recommends a com- plete recision and extension of the pres- ent custodial service to form a new “crafts and the custodial service.” ‘The promotion system, which is per- haps the newest feature of the recom- mendation, was said by McReynolds' 8t of his report to be designed to bring about a more uniform treat- ment of emploves throughout the Gov- ernment service coming within the of the proposed classification act. % board suggested an efficiency rating plan by which the head of each department shall determine and r at least once a year whether the serv- ices of each employe under his jurisdic- tion and occupying & position subject to the classification plan have been fair or unsatisfactory. Any em- ploye rated good shall be automatically promoted to the next higher rate of pay in his class at _least once a year until he reaches the highest rate of the class, provided that Congress has appropriated money for the payment of such in- creases. Such increases wifl be limited to one salary rate a year. An employe rated fair shall not be eligible for a salary in- crease and if he is receiving a salary higher than the middle rate of his class he shall be reduced one salary rate. An employe rated “unsatisfactory” shall be either demoted to a lower class or grade or Simpler System Seen, ‘This new system, if administrative officers desire, might be worked with | the aid of the old efficiency rating sys- tem, McReynolds explained, but he thought it more likely that the oid sys- tem, with its big sheet of a lot of ques- tions and percentages, would probably be discarded for a more simple system of rating an employe into cr::l cft three groups of good, fair or unsatisfactory. Oepr:znny speaking. the salary sched- ules recommended by the board are designed to follow more closely than @o the present schedules the trend of salaries pald in outside industrial establishments. A comprehensive survey conducted by the board of salaries paid to employes in private industrial and commercial establishments shows that most Gov. emment employes recelving $2,000 a| year or less are being compensated at a relatively higher rate than are em- ployes performing comparable work in private industry After the $2,000 mark is reached, nowever, the Federal em Ellnm were found to be at “an ever. creasing disadvantage.” | The rates of compensation in the in- dustrial world, the board pointed out, take a pronounced upward swing as positions involving the elements of judgment, discretion and executive abil- ity are taken into consideration. The | rate of increases for the ment of | Government, positions involving work requiring these same elements is by no means as rapid as that for the payment | of employes in private concerns. The lary rates recommended by the board are intended to make the disparity be- tween Government and non-Government executive positions and the higher tech- nical and professional positions smaller than it now is by somewhat increasing levels of pay for these positions. ‘The new salary scales recommended by the board, excluding the clerical- mechanical service, which was not con- cerned in the fleld survey, are presented in full elsewhere in The Star today. ‘They indicate the ranges of pay and the salary steps in each grade in each classification service. Any Government worker now under classification should be able, by the use of these tables in The Star, to find out approximately, if not exactly. just what the new classifi- cation bill would do with his own salary. Amount of Raises Higher. It will be noted in these tables that the salary steps are larger than those in the present classification act. This means, as a general rule, each advance- ment in pay from one salary rate to e next higher will be of greater amount thun is the case at the present time. Special salary differentials are recom- mended to offset such factors as isola- tion, hazard and service outside the continental United States. | The board believes the relatively few | employes whose saisries are at present | too high in comparison with proposed | } pay schedules, should not receive a sal- | ary cut as a result of the extension of | classification to the field service. Concerning the field, the board con- cludes that there is now a great need | for the classification of fleld positions that under existing conditions. there i no uniformity of pay for similar work, and that tities of positions in many instances are meaningless or misleadin nd umeluub:: for purposes of personnel n. As 8 group, Federal employes were, found by the board to compare ?uu favorably as to stability with private employes of comparable character, but the Federal personpel,” it was said, “is oW mugh less stable than it was during VENING Three Held as Yeggs VILLE SAFECRACKERS SURPRISED. ALLEGED HYATTS Police of Hysttsville, Md., early today captured three men and charged thes with attempting to open a safe here. In the photo, right to left, are: Joe Rose, one of the men held: Chief Albert Anderson of tne Hyattsville police, Lewis Jercme and Albert Oriente, the other two men held, and Deputy Sheriff Tom Garrison. Star Staff Photo. the first decade of this century, and the stability is greater in the depart- mental than in the fleld services.” U. 8. Liberal in Leaves. | The experience of private concerns | with rating scales in selecting employes | for salary increases, the board found, has not been encouraging, and several concerns report that they have discon- tinued them because of the difficulty of educating the supervisory force to use them properly. | Going further in the comparison of Government and industrial salaries, the | report said that the salaries paid b private concerns to their major ex ecutives exceed those paid by the Fe eral Government, to positions of similar responsibility anywhere from 100 to 500 per cent. The hours of work in the Federal | service compare favorably with those in general commercial practice, it was | found. except that the practice of not working Saturday afternoons is more prevalent in private industry. The leave privileges in the Federal service were said to be generally more liberal than those in private employment. The Civil Service requirements for emplo; -} ment in the Federal service are mors exacting and thorough than entrance | requirements _generally for non-Gov- | ernment employment. | The board's report summarizes and | recapitulates the results of the survey of salaries paild to employes in private industry which were first presented in | the preliminary report submitted in| February, 1920.” It also deals with such topies a3’ conditions in the feld service, e basic principles of the classification of ‘positions, the relationship between a | B the Associated Press . classification of positions and the fixing | NEW YORK, February 16.—Louis of salary schedules, the relationship of | Mann, actor, is dead. On and off the a classification of positions to other per- | Stage, he Wwas the inveterate comedian sonnel and fiscal functions, the installa- | from 3 to 65. tion and continued administration of | Il with cancer for the last two the recommended classification and | MONths, he suffered a relapse on Tues- compensation plans, the factors enter- | 43y and died last night at Mount Sinal ing into wage determination. the cost | HOSPital in spite of an emergency oper- of the proposed scales of pay. the prob- | Ation. With him at the end were his lems of salary differentials including | Wife, Clara Lipman, herself an actress geographic and other differentials, and | Fannle Hurst the writer, and Repre- the problems of allowances for quarters, | Sentative William I. Sirovich. subsistence and - other maintenance |- AS death drew nigg, the portrayer of items. | countless comedy roie8 and ihe inventor | of such famous quips as “It is to laugh,” Survey Recently Completed, grew serious. The new bill s said by the board to| No, T have no fear of death he “incorporate many of the administra- | a7k, bt 1 TOUEHL as long as 1 could, tive features of the several acts deal-| Louis Mann seldom forgot he was a ing with classification” and is based to | éurdmy e His dfll”icficn f]’l “}1“ East | Side " father struggling valiantly 8 large extent on the fAindings of the | o ohsis to keo his brood. together: board dufln,‘eiu recently completed sur- | his high “splitfence” collars, his antice vey of the field. | with a telephone, his tricks of mispro- t will bring about a uniform plan | nunciation, his flaring _temperament, for classifiying positions,” said the|made him known and beloved wherever boa summary, “and paying employes | the footlights flashed. falling within its scope. Born in New York, he was educated The board proposed that its recom- under pressure at the University of Cali- mended salary schedules shall not apply fornia, deserting in the midcle of his to positions the duties of which are to | course to join a stock company in San perform or assist in apprentice, helper | Francisco. But before that he was an or journeyman work in a recognized ' actor. He made his first appearance as trade or craft, or to perform the work a tot of 3 in a children’s pantomine of a skilled artisan or a skilled or un- | called “Snowflake.” He made his last killed laborer, or to serve as an officer | in “That French Lady” in 1927. In be- | tween he played the leading part in suggests that the rates of pay for | more than 40 plays, and toured Amer- these poeitions be fixed and adjusied |ica from one end to the other. from time to time by the board so One of his greatest successes was to conform, as nearly as is consistent | “Friendly Enemies,” a wartime play, in with the public interest, with the pre- | which, in the role of a German-Amer- vailing rates for similar positions under | ican, who is converted to ardent sup- similar employment conditions in pri- | port’ of the United States, he played vate establishments in the locality | opposite Sam Bernard. This play was Wwhere the work is performed, or, in the | a favorite of President Wilson. case of marine positions, where the e His lifelong fear that he would he ployment is made. The retes ere to buried aline will be respec thre determined by the board after appro- | cremation. i S priate investigation of prevailing rats ——— e LESSING PAID HONOR and provisions are made for making use of existing wage board organizations Exercises Held on Anniversary of omedian Dies LOUIS MANN REACHED PEAK IN PLAY WILSON LIKED. LOUIS MANN, and methods as far as practicable, for | consultation with the heads of depart- | ments and for the holding ¢f hearings for the employes affected. The new biil would apply to both the departmental and the field services. —_— Woman's Society to Meet. CLARENDON, Va., February 16 (Spe- cial).—A general meeting of the Wom- German Dramatist's Death. BERLIN, February 18 (#)—Memorial exercises for the 150th anniversary of the death of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, noted German dramatist and critic, were held vesterday in Berlin and other German_cities. At am’s Bociety of the Clarendon Presby- terian Church is announced for this evening at 8 o'clock at the manse, 124 Ellerson avenue. Several important matters are to be presented for consid- | eration and all members are urged to be | v present. | Brunswick, Lessing is buried, President Paul Von Hinden- burg’s prize for the best essay on the scholar’s philosophy was awarded to Prof. Hans Leisegang of Jena Uni- sity. It is valued at 5,000 marks (about $1,200). where r()posed g S. Salary Scales Seven Tables Prepared by the Personnel Classification Board Accompanying Their Report to Congress to Revise Classification Act. Scientific Service. 3 12.600 3:300 838232 g85sds8s 3¢ 5,000 Proposed Inspectional and Investigational Service. Scales of Pay. 31720 31.820 1930 2,050 388853 Subprofessional Service, Bcales of Pay [} ¥ Clerical, Administrative and Fiscal Service, Scales of Pa 1380 31,440 1.620 ucational Service. Grade. S ales of Pay Bo.13tnn toeanorsnonsn it ] 13 Qe y 51530 31.620 720 1820 Somamien 2OBAR 2883 E3EE8 3588 2383 ENRRRN H 5388 3853 323 = 2335888 3 §335k 23333 H 3338 3338 Bora < e 3323 (1§88 Proposed Light-Keeping a Keeping Service. 553 1 .... roposed Grade. 1 2 8 or more. rafts and Custodial Servive. Scales of Pay [ a8 o FaEska STAR, WASHINGTON D. C MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16. THREE CAPTURED N GROCERY STORE Wakefulness of Hyattsville Woman Leads to Arrest of Baltimoreans. By a Btaff Correspondent of The Star. ! HYATTSVILLE, Md., February 16.— jail and frustrated an alleged attempt to crack the safe of the Sanitary Grocery Co.'s store on the Baltimore Boulevard at Arundel avenue. Mrs. Warwick, who, with her husband, william J. Warwick, operate a d:li- catessen store adjacent to the Sanitary store, heard an unusual tapping about 2:15 this morning and called her hus- band. After satisfying themselves that the nois> came from the Sanitary store, the couple called Chief of Police Harry Anderson and Deputy Sheriff Thomas H. Garrison. Anderson arrived at the scene first and drove to the back of the store. His appearance scared the alleged robbers, Deputy Uses Gun. Garrison then arrived and took up a osition at the front of the store wh-re fic noticed & hand on the base of a show window and pointed his revolver through the glass. Seeing the gun, the men, who had surrendered. handcuffed their prisoners. Taken before Justice of the Peace H. J. Moffat, the men gave their names as Joseph Rose. 22 Eastern avenue, Bal- timore; _Albert Orente, 1014 Thorne street. Baltimore, and Lewis Gerome, 1500 Pratt street. Baltimore. They were tempt to rob and held in the Marlboro Jail for bond of $5.000 each. Garrison said the men worked with gloves and_had no identifying marks on them. He believes they are profes- sionals and is attempting to link them with several other.recent grocery store robberies in the neighborhood. The trio broke into the store by forcing a rear door. They pried off the back of the safe with a jimmy bar, a ripping bar and a hatchet. They had not reached the strong box, however, and a small amount of money which was in the safe was not disturbed. An automobile said to belong to Ge- rome was found on Arundel avenue. the store or car. - |5-CENT BREA® LOAF | Chain Grocery Will Continue to Procure Bakery Products From Baltimore, However. The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. ilod?, announced that a one-pound loaf of bread selling for 5 cents will be placed on sale in its various stores in the Washington area tomorrow. Testifying recently before a Senate subcommittee investigating food prices Frank W. Wheeler, assistant to the president of the concern, declared his company was making a pound loaf of bread and selling it at a profit for an average of 552 cents. Senator Capper of Kansas, chairman of the subcommittee, suggested that the company might be sble to make brend more cheaply if it had & Washington bakery, and Mr. Wheeler replied that he wopld suggest such a project to his office. Officials of the company said today, however. that the price reduction was not brought about by the contemplated establishment of a bakery here. The Washington _stores still obtain their bread from Baltimore and probably will continue to do £o for some time to come, it was said. Eventuallv, however, the concern will establish & bakery here, it was added. FOUR DIE IN CRASH Bride of Five Months Killed as Auto Hits Street Car. CHICAGO. February 16 (#).—Four of a party of six were killed today when their automobile crashed head-on with a street car. The dead: Mrs. Julia Ahrens, 19, bride of five months; Joseph Budak, 25; Frank Swift, 28. and an unidentified young woman believed to be the flance of Bwift, BRAWLEY, Calif., February 16 (#).— Imperial Valley truck gardeners cal- culated rain damage to the Winter let- tuce crop today at 3,000 freight carlonds. Several carloads of carrots and pea: and a part of the Winter strawberry crop also were ruined by heavy pre. cipitation. INCOME TAX FACTS No. 15. The revenue act provides that in_computing net income, upon which the tax is assessed, there may be deducted from gross in- come several specific items, namely, business expenses, inter- est, taxes, losses, bad debts, de- preciation, depletion and contri- butions. Business expenses constitute, usually, the largest item. Typical expenses of a mercantile estab- lishment_are_amounts paid for advertising, hire of _employes, rent, insurance, light, fuel, water, telephone, postage, stationery, printing, ‘etc. The expenses of a manufacturing business include labor, raw materials, supplies, light, heat, power and selling costs. A professional man, such a lawyer, doctor, dentist, ete., may deduct the cost of supplies used in his business, office rent, cost of light, heat, water and tele- phone used in his offices, the hire of office assistants, and the amount_expended in the opera- tion and repair of an automobile used in making professional calls, dues to professional societies and subscriptions to professional jour- nals. A professional man who uses his residence both as his cffice and his home may, if he pays rent, deduct the rental value of the rooms occupled by him as office, also the cost of light d heat furnished these rooms, and a portion of the wages of do- mestic servants whos> time is partly occupled in caring for his office. ~ Amounts currently ex- pended for books, furniture and professional _instruments and equipment, the useful life of which is short, may be ucted. The act provides for the deduc- tion of “ordinary and necessary expenses incurred during the tax- able year in carrying on any trade or busines:.” Note should be taken of the words “ordinary and necessary.” The Bureau of Internal Revenue has held, and is supported by the Board of Tax Appeals and the courts, that both of these feaftures are necessary. Ordinary and necessary expenses are defined as those which are usual and essential in the case of similar taxpayers. The wakefulness of Mrs. Margaret War- | wick this morning landed three men in | but he saw them move toward the front. | crawled to the front of the store, arose | with their hands above their heads and | The officers entered Ind‘ charged with housebreaking with at- | No guns were found on the men or in! ON SALE TOMORROW Planes Invade Capital By Night OARING through the darkness in formation at a speed of 170 miles per hour, 18 of the Army Alr Corps’ most modern pursuit planes, composing the 17th Pursuit _ Squadron. Selfridge Field Mount Clemens, Mich., last night dem- onstrated the speed with which an aerial defensive force could be rallied for the protection of the National Capi- tal. Led by Capt. Ross G. Hoyt, Air Corps, | formerly in the War Dcpa ment here, the squadron left Selfridge | Field at 6 o'clock, just as darkness was | closing in, and headed across the open waters of Lake Erie, a distance of 60 miles. The water hop and the re- mainder of the flight, by way of Cleve- | land, Pittsburgh, Uniontown, Pa. and | | Cumberland, Md.. was made by instru- | | ment navigation, the route being off | | the beaten airws The course flown | was 425 miles. Two hours and 30 minutes after leav- ing the Michigan field the squadron, In close formation, arrived over the Capital. The squadron's cargo plane, a tri- motored high speed Army transport plane, piloted by Lieut. John S. Grif fith and carrying five mechanics, which left Selfridge with the pursuiters, landed at Bolling Field after one of the fastest trips ever made between Detroit and the Capital by a large transport plane. Pilots of the 17th, a World War squadron with a notable combat career, in addition to the cross-country train- ing last night completed their re- quired annual 10 hours of night fiying, Capt. Hoyt said. Pilots of the 18 pursuiters of the 17th Squadron on the flight here last night are Capt. Hoyt and Lieuts. M. W. Reed, F. C. Heiman, W. M. Morgan, R. D. Moore, E. K. Warburton, M. F. Slaght, |P. W. Wolf, J. M. Sterling, R. W. Burns, P. M. Norman, L. O. Ryan, P. K. Mor- A. K. Van Avken, R. C. Rhudy, J. Hixon, Murl Estes and C. F. Theisen. The squadron took off from Bolling | | Field shortly after 3 o'clock this after- | on for Middletown Air Depot. near iarrisburg. Pa. There the planes will | be refueled and will take off at dusk for Selfridge Field. | |CAROLINA SENATOR ‘ ASSAILS RASKOB IN DEBATE IN SENATE | ___(Continued From First Page) rill, R. “that such information from Mr. Shouse would be interesting and informing.” The Texas Senator, an ardent dry, | had read to the Senate, before he issued | | this challenge to Mr. Shouse, a state- | ment from him published in the Dallas News, attacking a speech made by Mr. | ) Bhouse recently in Miami, Fla. In that | Flcrida speech Mr. Shouse said in effect | that a majority of the delegates in the | | next Democratic national ccnvention | would be in favor of changing the na- ! | tional prohibition laws. He declar: | that if that meant that the Democratic | | party was wet, the party had already | | become wet. | Senator Sheppard insisted that the Democratic party is not wet and that| | he intends to do everything in his power to prevent its becoming wet | The statement by Senator Sheppard | caused Senator Wagner of New York, Democrat, who is opposed to national prohibition, to announce that tomorrow he proposed to analyze the report of | the Wickersham Commission on pro- hition during the Senate dcbate, pro- | vided that what he had to say would not interfere with the prompt passage of the so-called soldiers’ bonus bill. | | That measure has not yet reached the | | Senate from the House. | Dry Law Termed. Hypocrisy. ! With the subject of prohibition thrown into the Senate debate, Senator Tydings aitacked what he called the hypocrisy of the Volstead act. which he said permits farmers to make and to have in their homes for beverage purposes hard-cider and alcoholic wines. After pointing out that the law discriminates against the making of beer in the home by the! city dwellers, Senator Tydings chal- | lenged any dry member of the Senate | to offer an amendment which would | take away from the farmer his right to make cider and keep it in his cellar until it would become an intoxicating beverage. The Maryland Senator read from the regulations issued by the Prohibition Bureau which make it possible for farmers to have cider made and placed in the homes without interference. He called attention to the fact that soon after the cider is produced and placed in the homes it will become intoxicat- ing. The Maryland Senator again called | attention to the fact that the national prohibition law permits unfermented grape juice to be sold without limit, and | that once this grape juice is in the home | it can be turned into wine. Many con- cerns, he said, make & business of pro- | viding the grape juice to the home own- | ers and then seeing that it is made into wine, with as high an alcoholic | content as 20 per cent. Tydings Opposes Prohibition. | “Not a dry member of this body | will offer an amendment which will | take away from the farmer his cider,” | shouted Senator Tydings Senator Black of Alabama, a dry, suggested that if Senator Tydings had discovered this flaw in the law, he him- | sclf should offer an amendment cor- | recting . it. | “I am not in favor of the philosophy | of prohibition,” replied Senator Tyd- | ings. “And I do mot propose to do anything to strengthen the prohibition | law. But I call attention to the | hypocrisy of the law as it now stands.” | ZIONIST LEFT $2,500,000 LONDON, February 16 (R).—The| | Sunday Express said Lord Melchett of Lindford, British industrialist and Zionist leader, who died December 27, left an estate of approximately $2,500, 000. This was considerably less than | had been forecast. When her attention was called to the matter, Lady Melaiett said the state- ment regarding her husband's will was '“absolutely unauthorized.” She added that she, as well as every one else was ignorant of its&ontents, | made the trip from Michigan to W: last night. | who attended the funeral of their old | of the Marine Corps. SELFRIDGE FIELD FIGHTING SHIPS MADE RECORD TRIP IN DARKNESS. Above: The 18 fighting Army planes from Selfridge Field, Mich., which ashington under gover of darkness early ___ Below: Capt. Ross Hoyt, commander cf the squadron. —Star Staff Photos, LAST RITES VN T0 GEN. EDWARDS “Yankee” Division Leader Is | - Buried Beside Family in Arlington Grave. The body of Maj. Gen. Clarence R. Edwards, U. S. A, retired, war-time commander of the 26th “Yankee” Di- vision, was burled early today with full military honors in the southern end of Arlington National Cemetery, beside the graves of his wife and daughter. Secretary of War Hurley and Maj. Gen, Douglas McArthur, Army chief of staff, in_civilian clothes, represented | the War Department. The large throng gathered in the cemetery included Sen- ator Walsh of Massachusetts and other members of the Bay State delegation. Honored In Boston. Gov. Cass of Rhode Island and Brig. Gen. John H. Agnew, adjutant general of Massachusetts, h-aded a large dele- gation of prominent New Englanders who cam: here with the body early this | morning from Boston, where Gen. | Edwaras dled early Saturday following an operation. All day Sunday, the body had lain in state in the State House at Boston, where thousands of his former comrades and fricnds' viewed it. Met at Union Station by a Fort Myer escort, the body was plac:d on a caisson and proceeced slowly to the Fort r gates of Arlington, wh:re several hundred men, who had served under Gen. Edwards in the New Engiand division, were waiting. Troops of the 3d Cavalry Regiment, the white horse battery of the 16th Field Artillery and the 3rd Cavalry Band were formed at the cemetery for the escort to the grave. The hos orary pallbearers were Brig. Gen. Geor; S. Simonds, assistant chief of stai Brig. Gen. John E. Bellinger, retired; Brig. Gen. Edward L. King. assistant | chief of staff: Col. Harry N. Cootes, 3rd Cavalry, Fort Myer; Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, Corps of Enginers; Col. M. E. Locke, retired. and Col. Mathews A. Delaney, Medical Corps. Heover Lauds General. Dies in Plane VETERAN PILOT IS KILLED IN CRASH. JOHN KYTLE. By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, February 16.—The roster of mall pilots skimming across Southern skyways today was stripped of a re- sourceful pioneer. “Johnny"” Kytle took aloft a new plane here on his day off and fell to death while stunting. ‘The airman. veteran of nine years in the clouds at 25 and victor in frequent encounters with the elements, was killed at Candler Field yesterday before a crowd of several hundred persons. Traversing the treacherous night for the Eastern Alr Transport Co., Kytle was rounding out three mail- fiying years which saw him gain mem- bership in the Caterpillar Club. In September, 1929, he took to his para- chute near Crew. Va., and landed safely, although his ship, dry of gasoline, was destroyed. During a night rainstorm May 8, 1929, his plane roared into the side of Stone Rev. Dr. C. Ernest Smith, rector of | Mountain near here. The machine was St. Thomas' Episcopal Church here, of- | wrecked but Kytle salvaged the mail ficiated at the services at the grave.|and suffered only a split lip and & Active pallbearers were selected from broken finger. former comrades of the 26th Division | Another mountain felt the impact of | who had served overseas with Gen. Ed- | Kytle's plane on August 18, 1928, when | wards. Three volleys were fired over | he plunged into one near Oid Fort, N.C. the grave by a squad from the 3rd Cav- | Both wings were stripped from his ship, |alry and at the end of the service a ‘ but the mall was saved. NAVY BILL FORCED him personally at the| bugler sounded farewell “Taps. President Hoover sent a message of condolence to Mrs. Lucia E. Otis of Bos- ton, sister of Gen. Edwards, and desig- nated Maj. Gen. A. J. Bowley, U. 8. A., to represent ing of your brother. The fine and de- voted service of Gen. Edwards will long | live in the grateful memory of his coun- trymen. His going will be un)\'ersllly‘Construcfion Program 's Put mr;‘ll;‘l“ddl bled e f the 26th| 1ty disabled veterass ; L on,patients at the Moung Aside for Appropriation Measures. funeral here today. | | President Hoover's message follows: | “Please accept th= sincerest sympathy | of Mrs. Hoover and myself in the pass- Division, patients at the Mount Alto | Hospital here were among the men commander. No arrangements had been provided for their attendance and at a late hour | the Army was able to furnish only a By the Associated Press. truck for thelr transportation. Owing| The administration's $90,000,000 naval to the condition of the patients, the| 5 . hospital authorities would not permit| “OPstiuction bill was forced aside in them to take the rough ride. The the Senate today as leaders insisted Army then appealed to the commandant | upon giving priority to the appropri- Within 15 min- | atjon measures. g el sutorroatlon te tha ored | Ghatrman Hale of the Naval Commit- pital for all 5 patients, tee, yielded to the importuning of Chairman Jones of the Appropriaticns Committee to withdraw his motion for immediate consideration of the naval | measure in order to give right of way |to the supply bills which must be passed | before March 4 adjournment in order to ! void an extra session. The House today, meanwhile, dis- | agreed to tHe Senate amendments to the annual $24,000,000 legislative ap- propriation bill and sent it to confer- ence with the Senate on differences be- 22 ARE OVERCOME BY DEADLY POISON Fumes Like Those Which Killed 100 in Clinic Blaze Sweep Pen Factory. route bctween Atlanta and Richmond | By the Associated Press. CINCINNATI, Ohio, February 16.— Poison fumes, said by firemen to have been similar to those which claimed the lives of more than 100 persons in the Cleveland clinic disaster, overcame | 22 persons today in a fire which fol- tween the two hranches. In the Senate opposition to the naval | construction bill was manifest. Senator |La " Follette, Republican, Wisconsn, | served notice he would not consent to any agreement on it. ‘The Republican independents have passed the word to Senate leaders that lowed an explosion at the Pick Pen Co. |any attempt to force through the con- ‘The fire caused damage of less than | struction bill will seriously impair the $10000. When firemen and employes | chances for enactment of the necessary made their way to the street after the | appropriation measures. fire was extinguished, they complained In yielding to Jones’ request, Hale of feeling dizzy and collapsed. | told the Senate that as soon as the ap- Six woman employes and two fire- 'propriation measures are disposed of men were among those affected by the he will renew his request to consider | fumes. the construction legislation. Rites for Gen. Edwards ) of Arlington Cemetery today Rith the [ —A. oto, The escort winding along the roads body of Maj. Gene Clarence R. Edwards. YOUTH IS SCALDED DEFENDING MOTHER Husband Attacks Wife With Hatchet, Hurls Boiling Water on Son. By the Associated Press. LAWRENCE, Mass., Pebruary 16.—A crazed man early today inflicted nine hatchet wounds on his wife and hurled boiling water on their 19-year-old son who had come to the aid of his mother. He was captured only after he had plunged through a second story win- dow and was tripped on an icy pave- ment. The man was Joseph Stolorz, 45, an allegedly demented weaver. He was |placed in a hospltal charged with at- | tempted murder. His wife, Helen, 39, is in a critical condition with two frac- tures of the skull. In addition, Mrs. Stolorz suffered from severe burns caused, police said, by hot stove lids, which they believed her husband had pressed against her flesh. Stolorz, himself, suffered a frac- tured left elbow and a possible fracture of the hip, sustained in his leap. The boy, Walter, was awakened by sounds from the kitchen. He found his father before the stove, upon which were several large pots of boiling water, two hammers and a hatchet. Stolorz turned on the boy, hatchet in hand and, as the son barricaded himself in 'r;u own room, began to chop down the loor. Mrs. Stolorz rushed into the kitchen only to be the object of attack, with hammers and a hatchet. Walter, un- locking his door, attempted to defend his mother and his father hurled a pot of boiling water upon him. Badly scalded, Walter dashed for his room, lowersd himself to the ground from a window and called police. When the officers broke in the crased man hurled himself through a window. ‘Two daughters of the couple, Evelyn, 17, and Helen, 12, were in the house g:dr:n' the melee, but hid under their BALTIMOREAN HELD AS MAIL BOX THIEF {McLachlen Banking Books Found on Man—Firm Lost $1.25 by Transaction. | | | A man believed to be Sidney Reiss, 28, of 914 Washington avenue, Balti- more, who had in his possession bank books of the McLachlen Banking Core poration of Washington and the Chel- sea National Bank of Atlantic City, to- gether with ‘a nail file, a key and 25 allegedly stolen letters, was arraigned | by Federal authorities in New York to- day on charges of robbing mail boxes. According to dispatches received here, Reiss was caught taking mail from the bofis 31( B};og l}':?uaeholders. e McLachlen Banking Co - tion this afternocn it wlsnngakl {gla:‘l man who gave his name as “Sam Relss” deposited a check for $100 in a savings account at that institution en January 5. He then drew out $90 and placed it in a Christmas savings ac- count in the same bank. The check, drawn on the Eighth avenue branch of the Manufacturers’ Trust Co. of New York, bore the signature “Mary O. Marcus,” and was made payable to “Sam Relss.” When the check was sent to the New York bank it was returned marked “No good” and the Marcus signature designated as “unknown.” 8o far as the McLachlen Banking Corporation is concerned, its only loss was the savings account pass book and the $1.25 charge made for investigating the check. CURTAILED POWERS FACED BY ALFONSO IN NAMING PREMIER (Continued Prom First Page.) stitutionalist” group, which has cone tended that there should be no.return to parliamentarism until the constitu- tion of 1878 is rewritten and made more modern—that is to say, the powers of | the King so diminished that another dictatorship, such as that of Gen. Primo de Rivera. will never be possible. There are many in his group who are out- spoken and uncompromising repub- licans. Sanchez Guerra first visited Gen. Berenguer at the ministry of war, and then went to see Melquiades Alvarez, leader of the Reformist. groupt which believes that King Alfonzo “should take a vacation from the throne. “I am not sure that I shall succeed in !ormlng & government,” he said as he left the Reformist leader's office. “No one can say what will be the result of my efforts. And until I have completed them no one is en- titled to say what will be the program of my government. “The King asked me if I would not create a cabinet and attempt to bring peace to Spain in view of the present unrest. For this reason I accepted, and for Spain I shall see if I am able to ror‘rg the government which the country needs.” HELM REFUSED BY ALBA. I PARIS, February 16 (#)—Santiago Alba, in exile here from his native Spain, announced today through his secretary that he had refused King Al- fonso's request to come home and form a government to replace that of Premier Gen. Damaso Berenguer. He said that in a telephone conversa- tion with the royal palace at Madrid he had insisted that the King call upon Jose Antonlo Sanchez Guerra, former premier, and Melquiades Alvarez, lead- er of a constitutional reform group, for their aid in solving the crisis. Alba desires to remain aloof from the present crisis and does not intend to leave Paris. QUEEN LEAVES LONDON. LONDON, February 16 (#).—Queen Victoria of Spain left London today to return to Madrid, where a political crisis has led to unsettled conditions. King George and Queen Mary accom- panied her to Victoria station. Queen Victoria came here several days ago to the bedside of her mother, the Princess Beatrice, who is suffering from a broken arm and bronchitis. Es e Aap STORE AND WORKERS GIVE $1,518 FOR AID Sears-Roebuck Branch Here Sendsy Becond Check to Local C. of C. < The Washington branch of Sears- Roebuck has turned over to the Cham. ber of Commerce a check for $1,517.37, 5 representing equal contributions from the concern and from its employes for the benefit of the unemployed hers. Previously, a check for $1,750.04 had been given and a third donation still is to_be madi le. Ioves ' Throubote the. ooty Kane ployes ve . contributed & day’s pay for the needy in” their respective communities and the company has matched this gift.