Evening Star Newspaper, December 13, 1931, Page 2

PEACE MOVE SEEN INRAILWAGECUTS Willard Commends for Offer of Joint Con- ference. By the Associsted Press. OHICAGO, December 12 —Rail and Sabor lesders tonight expressed confi- Unions THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., DECEMBER 13/ 1931—PART O {Possibility of Separating Physical Entity | After Use of Special Method Opens Way to New Study of Mystery of Life. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. The mysterious “gene” fundamental unit of the qualities of living things from amoebas to men, may &t last have " that e adjustments and the |POURced yesterday at the Oarnegie In- allied problem of unemployment wou be amiecably settled through compro- mise. Replying to the propesal of the unior heads for further negotiations betwe the two groups, Daniel Willard, pres dent of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in & letter to D. B. Robertson, chair- man of the Railway Labor Executives Association, termed the labor action “the very finest type of industrial statesmanship stitution of Washington. At least Dr. J, Belling of the Carnegie laboratory of plant biology, using & | special optical method, has been able to resolve the chromomere of a ch some, hitherto' the smallest visible part of & living cell, into still smaller units— just about at the extreme limit of hu- man visibility with present instruments. He has seen either the gene itself or the ultimate container of the gene. Up to the present biologists have been | mo- Me sdded that he had mo doubt ‘ certain of the existence of the gene just but that the rallroads would select a committee to negotiate with labor along the lines laid down by the 1,500 union chairmen here Jast night Northwestern Case Looms. Robertson, who has said he was posi- tive full authority for mittee would members of the line." expressed the belief the conference would be held early January, if the roads consent the Labor Com- g fr be hcom m various unions as physicists have been certain of the existence of the atom, although nobody | ! ever has seen either of them. Both mre But as Eastern presidents prepared | for a meeting at the Bankers' Club New York Monday and Western presi- dents for one in Chicago Tuesday, storm clouds gathered over the prop- erty of the Chicago & Northwestern d, which recently announced Wwhat labor termed & 15 per cent cut for maintenance of way men. Fred H. Fljosdal of Detroit, president of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes, announced tonight the bretherhood was mustering its forces to wain the support of all rallway labor unlons and warned of “a strike of ma- Jor caliber” unless the railroad sub- mitted the matter to arbitration, Union officials said returns of & mall yote on the strike proposal received so far were preponderantly in its favor. Major Strike Threatened The maintenance of way men were given a pledge of support by all unions of the Northwestern property, and pos- sibllity of a strike was mentioned last night by Robertson. The railroad, in 10 hodies necessary to explain what happens. The fundamental unit of every living body, plant animal, is the cell Growth, and for that matter life itself s a process of cell increase and division cell consists of two visibie parts, a s and a surrounding area of fluid- like substance, cytop! Under or the sm. the microscope the nucleus itself can be en to consist of several tiny, elongated known as chromosomes. At certain stages in the life of the cell & chromosome itself is found to consist of a string of globular clusters, some- what like a string of beads Now the characteristics of any liv- | ing thing which are transmitted by heredity Gepend on some units that are contained within these_globular clus- | ters, the chromomeres. These units are | the physical containers of the unit| characters—red hair, blue eyes, long noses, feebl indedness, thick fur, the color and shape of blossoms, fatness in pigs, milk production in cows. The list is endless of the characters that are de- termined by these tiny hypothetical bodies within the chromomers. It in- cludes everything in life which is not strictly determined by environment. Special Relationships. Every cell in the body has all the chromosomes and, supposedly, all the genes. The particular gene which de- termines the color of a man's eyes is been seen by the human eye, it was an- | | occurs later the announcing new wage schedules, de- |present in his big toe. A special rela- clared it was merely “leveling,” but not | tionship to the other cells of the body | cutting, pay rates. The 1,500 general chairmen of the Nation's railway unions, their work here over after five days of deliberation, started for home today to seek authori- | mation from their respective member- |15 necessary before a particular gene comes into action. The eye color gene | doesn’t have| this special relationship anywhere elsé but in an eye. Change in a single gene at the beginning of the process of cell division which consti- tutes life may profoundly aflect the ships for the expected negotiations with the carriers. They had voted for further parley whole make-up of the individual, Every cell in every living body, the geneticists MYSTERIOUS ‘GENE™ BELIEVED SEEN FIRST TIME BY SCIENTIST gene, one of the major lines of biologlea Tesearch in the effort to find the com- | plicated laws of heredity and evolution, has been like probing in the dark. No- body has had the slightest concept of what a gene looked like. Now, it was explained, the way may be open to isolate it as a physical entity, to watch the effects of different forces upon it, and to penetrate deeper than ever before into the mystery of living matter Much progress has been made by the | Carnegie geneticists during the year, it | was reported, in the study of properties | of genes in terms of the inheritance of adult characteristics dependent on them They are described as “tremendo powerful reagents,” slight changes the quality or position of a sln,lz gene vitally affecting the body of which it is a part. Genes, the Carnegle researchers show, are extremely stable. Throughout na- | ture it is safe to predict that the great majority of offspring will be very simi- lar to their parents, from whom they get the “genes” which determine their development. The offspring of white parents will be white. The calves of Jersey cattle will develop into Jersey cattle. The seeds of morning glories will produce morning glories. There will be & good many diff=rences be- tween individuals, but the general characters of racg and species will be handed down fronf generation to gener- ation. This extreme stability, together with its invisibility, make the nature of those rare gene changes responsible for new varieties of living things extremely hard to study. Without these changes evolution could not progress. The de- viations from type produced by most of | them are injurious and the new races created rapidly become exinct. Due to Gene Changes. But some gene changes have been observed, which are not necessarily in- jurious and which afford good sub- jects for study. There is, for example, the familiar red ear of field corn. At the old-fashioned husking bees when a boy found one of these he wa: entitled | to kiss all the girls. The color of corn is due to one of its genes. If this re- mains stable the corn is white. 1f it changes at the very beginning of de- velopment the ear is red. If the change eay will be spotted with red kernels, the number and dis- tribution corresponding to the stage of development reached when the gene changed Another living thing in which the Carnegle geneticists have been able to study gene changes is the larkspur The seed cf this flower carries a gene which, if it remains stable, produces a rose-colored flower. But some times, it is shown in the Carnegie exhibit, & | purple flower will come from rose-col- ored parents. This means that the gene has been changed at the beginning cf the flower's development. Some times the flower will be rose spotted with purple. From the nature of these spots { n | Preder { mortgages on his home, which he wa: with the express provision that if the railroads turned down their offer they would unite to fight to the last ditch any reduction in pay. Many expressed satisfaction as Willard accepted their invitation to a compromise conference. Whether the joint meeting of the committees could be arranged before the end of the year appeared prob- lematical as Robertson has said it would require about two weeks for the Jabor executives to obtain the authori- ration from the membership. The unions contended that the com- mittee of rallway executives which had asked them to take the 10 per cent cut voluntarily to help the weakened finances of the rallroads had no au- ‘thority to act~-and that the labor rep- Tesentatives were fully authorized. CLING TO PEACE HOPES. Bastern Railway Heads Still Compromise Is Possible. NEW YORK, December 12 (&) — Bastern railway officlals were preparing today for important decisions on wage reductions and were marking time while awaiting further news from the brotherhood chiefs. One way or the other, it was said matters will be settied next week and it will be known whether there is to be & battie on pay roll cuts or whether some sort of compromise will be effected to achieve the results considered neces- sary for the recovery of the carriers A meeting of the Eastern presidents’ eonference has been called for next Monday at which Daniel Willard, presi- dent of the Baltimore & Ohio and ehairman of the conference, will report on the status of negotiations which he has been privately conducting with union leaders Hope Keep Hopes of Solution Although no action on voluntary wage reductions was taken at the meeting union chairmen in Chicago, some of the rall executives still feel there is hope for a settlement of this question in an amicable manner. At the sai time, heads of the various railroads ssid to have already prepared notices sbrogating their labor contracts and these notices will be posted immediately when it is decided there is no other way out of the controversy According to the transportation act railway labor contracts may be celled upon the posting of a 30- notfce. Although ready to take action, railroad officials ar disposed to walt 1 been made to reach an agres the unions If the roads finally decide wage re- ductions are to be forced, it may requir eight months or a year before a legal finding can be obtained. Rall officia sy the unions can drag the case ou interminably if they are so inclined and n the meantime executives of the c riers feel their lines would be going from bad to worse can- this to b November Circulation Daily... 115,034 Sunday, 123,541 Dig: s FLEMING NEWBOLD. Business of THE EVENING AND SUNDAY doer solemnly swear that the actual n ©of copies of the paper named sold tributed during the month of November 31, was as fo of Colun o R. o snsl » th 1y net paid ejrculation ge number of coples for ce. elc Datly averare met circulation... SUNDAY. ‘opies. Days. 125.508 Less sdjustments . ‘otal Bundsy met circulation rarae Rer pald aluiay” o verage number of coples e, ste. oo Aversge Sunday net eirculation.... T imots Mnagir Da this ‘that the work on the center section | have determined, must contain one gene for every hereditary character. There are innumerable such hereditary char- acters in such a complex oganism as a can be determined when the vital change in the character-carrying unit took place. cuiation 122,900 o1 serv- 123,541 | - | all Government construction. o | that, | human being. Obviously then, the chromomeres of the chromosomes can- not be identical with the genes, for there are not enough of them. But no- body ever has been able to detect physi- cally anything gmaller in the cell nu- cleus, ‘What Dr. Belling with his special op- tical system saw inside the chromomere, it was explained at the Carnegie Insti- tution, wes a difference in the inten- sity of coler, which indicated the pres- ence of small bodles. They either are the gemes themselves or still another subdiyision of )iving matter within ‘'Which the génes exist as separate enti- ties, somewhat as do electrons within 4n atom. He has, it was stated, ‘“re- solved the chromomere into smaller units” The units were described as about the size of large protein mole- cules. Purther work along the same line, it was explained, is necessary to determine just what Dr. Belling has discovered. Hitherto experimental work with the Unit of Heredity. These studies, it was expiained, tend WOLFENDEN FREED OF MURDER CHARGE {Manassas Jury Returns Ac- quittal Verdict Shortly Before Midnight. Special Dispatch to The Btar. MANASSAS, Va., December 12—A verdict of net guilty was.returned just before midnight tonight in the murder trial of Walter Wolfenden, Prince Wil- liam County farmer, who had been charged with the slaying of Goodwin Miller, his wife, Virginia Miller, and | their infant son. The ctarred remains of the three had been found in_their home near Kopp on September 25 The jury required less than 45 min- utes’ deliberation, receiving the case at 11:15 o'clock tonight and reporting the verdict of acquittal at 11:53 | The Commonwealth rested its case at noon today, following two days of taking testimony before large crowds in | the oourt house here. Trial Judge Wal- ter T. McCarthy overruled a motion for a directed verdict, of fnot guilty” made by defense attorneys Frederick L. Lynn of Alexandria and T. E. Didlake of Manassas. Sister Says Suspect Was Home. Bertha Wolfenden, sister of the ac- | cused, who made her hgme with him, required the assistance of an interpre- | ter to help her hear and answer ques- tions because of deafness and a pro- | nounced impediment of speech Through her sister, Mrs Luck, the woman denled that her brother had been aw from home | longer than 15 minutes on the night | preceding the fire. At that time, she | sald, he went to the yard to drive some horses back into the pasture from a turnip patch and returned to bed im- Elizabeth | mediately. Previously Joe Wolfenden, a nephew of the defendant, had said that hi uncle at breakfast had explained to t! woman when asked where he was last night that he had gone out to drive the horses away. Bertha Wolfenden denied that she had asked her brother any such question. Defendant Tells of Insurance. The defendant took the stand in his own behalf and explained he went to ksburg following the fire to ob- | taln $750 insurance money on the life of Goodwin Miller. He declared he de- posited the sum in the name of his flancee, Miss Mary Carter, because there were several judgements out- standing agamnst him' and he feared | the money might be tied up in litiga tion. He had expected to use the money, he saild, to discharge ()Wrduri‘ s about to lose through foreclosure, The defendant said he spent several days, following the fire, and in Middlesex County. He declared his first knowledge of the fire was ob- tained from newspapers. Several character witnesses were in- troduced in behalf of the defense, and others verified the defendant’s version of his movements prior to the fire, Vjctim Drunk, Witnesses Say, Othér witnesses testified that Miller had been drunk on the night preceding his death and had engaged in several quarrels, The three bodies were found on the bed springs, which had dropped to the floor when the bed frame burned. in Manassas | to establish the fact that the gene is the ultimate unit <f heredity and that | the changes which occur are of a| chemical nature. The gene is pictured | either as & single large organic mole- | cule or as & small group of molecules. | “The central dynamic force repre- sented by the changes that occur in genes,” says the report on these experi- ments, “is as great a mystery as ever Such chariges may belong to the cate- gory of the essential properties of life in which change is the rule .and sta. bility, even when judged by geology's measuring rod, an illusion like unto the identity of successive frames of a slow mction picture film " The annual Carnegie scientific ex- hibit, of which the gene material is & part, was opened to the publie yester- day and will remain open today and | tomorrow, with afternoon and evening lectures by the specialists of each de- partment. LABOR RULES COST | U. S. $200,000 RENT IN BUILDING DELAY (Continued From First Page.) merce, with thousands of officials and | clerks at work. To operate the center wing the maintenance staff was neces- sary Union Laber Attitude. During 4931, considerably after the January 1 date at which the Depart- ment had hoped to be in possession of the premises, it learned to its astonish- ment principally what was holding up matters. The contractors announced that they were firmly of the opinion that the labor unions would not permit the Goternment to occupy and operate the center sections with non-union men while work was being performed on the orth and south wings by union labor, The contractors' views were acquiesced in by the representatives of the Super- vising Architect's Office in the Treas- ury Department, which has charge of The con- informed Secretary Lamont after consultation with certem union officials, they believed the depart- ment could be permitted to cperate the central section of the new building pro- vided the department appointed union men for maintenance work, especially in the supervisory positions. It was then estimated that the additional cost on account of the use of union em- ployes would be between 550,000 and $55,000. As the Office of Public Buildings end Public Parks would have had to Lear the additional expense, Col. U. 8. Grant, 3d, director of the office, was not in favor of having the department move when it might have done so. About the same time the Supervising Architect’s Office came along with the tractors on the new building were getting low. It was said that it would be aeccssary to omit certain items which appeared quite essential, in the eveny thut the Department of Commerce moved cpto | its great plot of land prior to the com- pletion of the entire building Cramped Offices Retained. In view of all these Secretary Lamont and leagues “decided to remain in their cramped and inadequate quarters in the present departmental building at Nineteenth street and Pennsylvania avenue. Also the department during 1931 continued to camp out in leased offices in a dozen different parts of Washington &t & monthly rental of omething llke $16,500. Secretary La- mont protested vigorously against the decision of the grchitects and contrac- tors not to speed up construction ac- cording to the original time scale. After the building contract was let, it was arranged to begin work on the center section first, then the south section and finally the north wing nderstancing was reached that huge pile would be completed in the same order, and that the department ! would be enabled to oecupy the center section about January, 1931; the south in July, 1931, and the north !'section in Januery, 1932. The progress charts prepared by the construction company clearly indicate that this plan was followed in estimating the work to be accomplished by months, circumstances, his official col- About August, 1930, the department approached the architects and contrac- | tors on the subject, as it did not appear claim that funds for construction work | A definitc | the ing by January, 1931. To the depart- ment’s surprise, it learned for the first time that without consultation with Secretary Lamont the architects anc contractors had some months pre- viously given up the idea of letting Commerce have its building on time When the department represented that this would prevent an actual monetary saving to the Treasury of $200,000, the Wolfenden, who is somewhat deaf, explained that he heard the horses tramping about in the turnip patch before getting up to drive them back to the pasture. He appeared to have little difficulty, however, in understand- ing_the questions directed at him Following the judge's charge to the jury, the State and defense were ai- lowed one hour each to argue the case CHICAGO FAVORED FOR G. 0. P. CHOICE Party Com;nit;tecrr;n‘ Arrive to Select Cermak Due Today. Convention City. By the Associated Press. The predominant opinion among early arrivals for the Republican Na- tional Committee meeting on Tuesday is that Chicago is out in front in the five- city campaign for the 1932 convention ‘There is, however, no possibility of the Windy City secuting the meeting retort was that the sum would be prac- tically offset by extra costs at the new | building. These were set down as $186,649. They included, according tc| the itemized statement submitted by | the architects and contractors, such | items as $24,000 for “overhead and lost | motion,” $6,084 for “temporary wal ways,” $300 for a “temporary fence $2,500 for “mqving sheds and plan $2,000 for “temporary wiring change: $2,382 for ' “temporary _partitions.” | $12,610 for “temporary wiring and| main.” and $45,000 for “maintenance of | center section.” The Department of Commerce was | convinced that many of these items | were excessive, but obtained no sup- port for its contentions at the Treasury Department. Then came the disclosure of the position taken by the building trades unions regarding employment of non-union labor on the Commerce job. Secretary Lamont and his associates now resigned to their fate, threw up the sponge and arranged to worry along in_their old quarters till the end of 1931, while the first and grandest unit in the Government's colossal new build- ing plan shimmered in the Summer and Autumn sun, an empty house ready for the tenant who couldn't move in (Copyright. 1931.) BRIDGE AS MEMORIAL TO MADISON PROPOSED | entative Bmith of Alexan- | Repr dria Urges Rappahannock Span in Bill. A bridge across the Rappahannock River at Port Conway as a memorial | to President James Madison would be | provided in a bill introduced by Repre- of Alexandria participation would total $50,000, contingent on an equal appro- priation by Virginia. The project, which has_the approval of Chairman Henry G. Shirley of the State Highway Com- mission, will be sponsored in the Gen- cral Assembly by Delegate George P. Lycn, Representative from Caroline and King George, the two counties which would be joffied by the span. President Madison was born at Port Conway. Nearby, & hundred years later, the assassin of President Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth, was shot to death by Federal troops. In_contiguous terri- tory, Washington, Lee and Monroe were born. At Port Conway, the Rappahannock is 500 yards wide. WARNS OF BLUE LAWS D. C. Citizens Told to Be on Guard Against Ban, A new warning to citizens of the District to be on their guard against any effort to ban Sunday amusements | the committee | the | pense fund, without a fight from the others—At- Jantic City, Philadelphia, Detroit ar Cleveland. Indications today were that President Hoover has not let his wishes be known as to the place or time of mesting Chicago, in addition to extending a formal invitation, has guaranteed a fund of $150,000 for convention ex- penses. Mayor Cermak is expected in Washington today to direct the Chicago campaign. Party leaders are unanimous in their belief that the bothersome question of the chairmanship will not come before Senator Fess, who tox office only temporarily when Claudius Huston resigned, has indicated he will continue in office until conven- tion time. An effort at Tuesday's meeting to get Postmaster General Brown to take over the reins failed. He is still regarded as the mostly likely choice for directing the Hoover campaign, but probably will not take charge of the office until after the convention In addition to guaranteeing an ex- Edward N. Hur chair- man of the Chicago Citizens' Commit- tee, brought assurance that there would be no hotel price boost. as well as other Chicago supporters were entirely conrident today that the convention would go there There is a possibility that Tuesday's meeting will be asked to consider a financial plan for the 1932 campalgn The Republican war chest is embarrass- Ingly empty. The Executive Committee, which meets tomorrow, will consider a number of proposals on that subject. Always a Thriller at Army Navy Game MIDDIES PARADE BEFORE ANNUAL CLASH IN NEW YORK. Scene Just before the Army-Navy game in Yankee Stadium, New York, yesterday, when the midshipmen staged their customary parade, drawing the cheer: s of thousands. HITS AT MENACES 10 CONSTITUTION Dean Roscoe Pound Speaks to G. 0. P. Group—*Reds” Demonstrate Outside. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 12—While a Communist group demonstrated in the street outside, Dean Roscoe Pound of Harvard Law School and others, at a luncheon in the National Republican Club, expounded today their views against “forces menacing the Consti- tution.” The demonstration against Gov. Albert C. Ritchie of Mary- directed —A. P. Photo. STECKER IS HERO ‘Paves Way for 17-7 Defeat of Navy by Brilliant Work. (Continued From First Page.) | by about $375,000. The total for charity | 1 expected to be $325,000 after deduc- tion of expenses. | Just as last year, when Stecker broke loose on a solo flight that whipped the Midshipmen by a single touchdown, it was the blonde youngster from Hazle- | ton, Pa., riding high for the last time in the gold and | N ARMY VICTORY blue of Army, who con- land, protesting a recent lynching in that State, but the Governor had can- celed his scheduled appearance due to State matters which kept him in Mary- land. Sees Constitution Safe. Dean Pound said he thought the Con- stitution was safe “so long as the Anglo- Saxon mental attitude toward liberty was maintained.” “I have évery confidence” he said, “that the frame of mind will be as effective in maintaining the Constitu- tion in the future as it has been under political, social and econemic revolu- tion in the past.” Gen. James G. Harbord, chaltman of the board of the Radio Corporation of America, expressed the opinion that “in the solution of the problems that lle before us this Winter will come the test of popular governmeht. It is in- cumbent upon us to demonstrate that our generation Has the courage, the wisdom and the enterprise to meet this challenge to our institutions without deviating from the ideals of personal liberty, individual init'ative and social progress which those institutions have fostered." Assistant United States Attorney Gen- eral Seth W. Riehardson reclared “Com- munist party earrjed on a Street meet- and added that not war, agitators or other forms of government offered the chief menace to the Constitution, the tendency of the people themselves to nullify the document.” Amendment Right Sacred. “If your business, social life or vices he said, “are affected by the Constitu- thn, all you have to do is to get to- gether and modify it. The right of amendment is sacred, but there is no right of any man to nullify it.” Gov. Ritchie, against whose appear- ance bout 100 members of the Com- munist Party carried on a street meet- ing for about 20 minutes, guarded by 60 police, sent & telegram in which he said Nothing could so chill our national spirit or retard our returning prosper- ity or the solution of our political problems as to have the leaders of our people, or the growing youth of our land, lose faith in American institutions and in the American governmental sys- tem, or fail to realize that the revolu- tionary ideas preyalent in some coun- tries abroad and fdvocated to an extent here are wholly foreign to the genius of the American people.” LAKE NAVIGA'TION CLOSES | Grain Leave Duluth This Winter. DULUTH, Minn., December 12 (&) — Cargo Inter-navigation at the Duluth-Superior | Harbor closed here late today, when the steamer Shaughnessy cleared with a Joad of grain for Buffalo. ‘The boat left_here at 3:50 p.m. and is due at Euffalo Friday. The Shaughnessy is traveling with- out the aid of navigation lights, which season. The boat brought a cargo of corn here from Chicago yesterday. Undernourished of In Times of Econol The Good We Do 1. Free Clinic for tuberculou 5. Industrial Health Service 6. Educational Publicity and 8. Research work for death Our Work 1 was given last night by Willam R. | Bullion, president of the National As- | sociation Opposing Blue Laws, speaking | &t & meeting of the Washington Open | Porum in the Willard Hotel. A resolution condemning sll efforts Bunday Voluntary Purchase Children Easy Victims Tuberculosis mic Stress Depends on You Program for 1932: s children. 2. Home care and instruction by trained workers. 3. Summer Camp for tuberculous children. . 4. Occupational Therapy in adult Tuberculosis Hospital. for adult workers, information for all. 7. Legislation for Standardized Health Services. rate control. s Financed by the of Christmas Seals Price One Cent Each Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis 1822 11¢th St. N.W, Telephone DVM an or Buffalo Last to HERBERT A. BIRCH, Foreman in the Post C e Department, who was killed last night and-run autompbile at nue and Emerson street. HIT-RUN CAR KILLS POSTAL FOREMAN (Continued From_First Page.) dress_in search of the two men who had been riding In the car. Pclice were told by the couple that the owner of the car had came home only a few minutes before the detec- tives arrived, parked his car in front of the house and then walked hurriedly away. The left frcnt fender and head- light of the machine were badly dam- aged, Murphy and Truscott said. Attendants at a gasoline station at Thirteenth and K streets told officers investigating the case that the owner of the car had stopped at their place and told them he had t killed a man in an accident on Georgia avenue. He then left. Birch was foreman of the Mail Clerks’ Service in the District and had been an employe of th: Post Office Department about 12 years. He enlisted in the Navy at the outbreak of the World War and served as a chief petty officer at the Washington Navy Yard until after the armistice Only Friday Birch had celebrated his 65th birth t an informal party given by relatives at his home. He was born December 11, 1871, at Falls Church, Va. Ha is survived by his widow, Mrs. Jean McFarlan Birch a son, Herbert Birch, jr. a patent at- torney with the firm of Watson E. Cole- man in the Victor Building; two broth- ers, Walter Birch of this city and Al- bert Birch of Chevy Chase, Md., and three sisters.. Mrs. Frederick Stitt of this city, Mrs. Richard Newbold of Wayne, Pa., and Mrs. Alfred C. Bryan of Brooklyn, N. Y. REPARATION GROUP Returns to Private Conferences Afier Stroll—Policy Seen Within Few Days. By the Associated Press, BASEL witzerland, December 12. After a week of hard work the Young plan Advisory Committee members took | have been discontinued for the Winter | thelr first breathing spell this after- | Doon, utilizing the beautiful weather by | strolling along the Rhine {, But soon they returned to their { hotels where private conferences were | held for discussion of evidence brought out at the 4-hour morning session. With the German summary of the situaticn ebout concluded, questions of policy probably will be reached within & few day: Germaay held the floor the entire | week with her presentation of evidence | to support the claim that she no long- | er s able to meet reparation require- | ments. The subcommittee dealing with the German hcldings abroad is understood to have encountered difficulties in ar- riving at an approximate total. It was officially explained that this total is necessary in arriving at the nation's net foreign debt. The local press reported that the Swiss, Dutch and Swedish members of the committee have been opposing the attempt to obtain this information. Considerable German money 1s alleged to have “flown” into their countries. In this connecticn local bankers say more German capital was lodged in the United States during the flight pe- riod than in Switzerland and Holland. monthly meeting of the Bank for International Settlements has been postponed to January 11, 1932, when the bank officinls hope to have before them the Advisory Committee's rec- ommendations in regard to reparations payments, Seattle Bank Closes. SEATTLE, December 12 (#).—The American Exchange Bank of Seattle closed today and was taken over by the State supervisor a3 imed" »¢' $300.000, surpius, % by a hit- Georgia ave- ON EMERSON STREET TAKES BRIEF REST : quered the Sailors again today. |, Ed Herb, bulky substitute fullback ffrom Milwaukee, Wis., made | Army’s touchdowns on short plungss, | and Travis Brown, an Alabama young- ster playing his first year in the Cadet backfleld, kicked the 15-yard goal that ‘sL;ned the scoring, but 1t was Steckes Who paved the way by keeping the Cadet attack in motion. g Navy Defense Superb. Army surpassed the Midshipmen in all except, the defense offered to win its third straight victory in the interrupted series, Navy last won 1n 1921, and seven times sinee | then, with two ' ties, Army has con- quered. |, Except for one amazing pass midway | through "the third quarter, the occa- sional charges of “Builet” Lou Kim and sporadic tossing outbursts that could not be put together for more points | Navy was outclassed by ‘the powerful Cadets in all departments of the game. Kirn, a heroic figure, along with Me- Gruder Tuttle, captain and center of a Navy squad that has been unimpressive all Fall, passed for the Sailors ‘touch- |down in a play as gaudy as any an Eastern gridiron has seen this Fall. Dropping back almost to his own 35- yard line after his long passes had been intercepted twice earlier in the period, Kirn heaved far and wide to “Joe” Tschirgi, 50 yards away and racing madly down the side lines for the Army goal. Kilday Too Late. The ball seemed to travel almost as far and as high a3 a punt and Tom Kil- cay, big Army fullback, tried desperate- ly to reach Tschirgl’s sid2. But he got there just a split second after the fleet ba stest man on the Navy eleven, leaped high into the air and just man- eged to grab the ball on Army's 15- vard line. Without losing a stride Tschirgi tore for the goal, Kilday at his b but Tom lunged too late and his tackle carried the Navy speedster across the goal for a touchdown. “Lily” Becht, quarterback substitute for Sam Moncure, booted the extra point But this one wild outburst was not enough to equalithe spectacular play of tecker, best Army back since the famed “Red” Cagle, hero of the Cadets sur- | prising conquest of Notre Dame only two weeks ago, In the second period, when Army needed any kind of a scoré, and the line, from end to end, was hold- own with the highly touted wall of the Cadets, Stecker i k as Cagle used to do, almost midfield, and hurled a long pass into Brown's arms on Navy's ine. Brown struggled 10 more before the Middie storm assalled him. When the Navy line stoppad Stecker's plunges and passes there, Brown dropped back |to the 15-yard line and booted a clean placement. Fields Replaces Stecker, Ken Fields, formerly of Illinois, sub- «d long enough for Stecker before ame perfod ended to lead Herb to the first Army touchdown. Fields climaxed a march which started with hort run back of a punt from mid- field by passing 15 yards to Pete Kops- cak on Navy's 20-yard line and the big end, like Brown, a newcomer to Army foot ball, ran all the way to the Navy vard line before he was downed. Herb lunged across for the touchdown and kicked the goal ‘o give the Army a 10-to-0 lead at the hailf. Army’ dily rising might kept the v bogged in a combination of fierce ve play and wild passing all ugh the second half, except for assic Kirn and Tschirgl produced the third quarter. In the burst to Army’s final touch- own in the fourth quarter, starting | rom the Sailors’ 40-yard line after Kirn had punted pocrly, Stecker gained | | 3¢ of the 40 yards to the Navy goal Five of the other six came to the Cadets through Navy’s offside play and Herb accounted for the final yard, Navy Makes Valiant Stand. In that march Stecker made his longest run of the day from scrimmage, a 15-yard dash around end, and he | went “seven and then eight in two other charges. But when he made it | first down for Army on Navy's 1-yard line, he set the scere for the finest of all of the Midshipmen’s valiant defen- sive stands. From the 1-yard line Herb twice| smashed into the Navy f.rward wall| and twice bounced bacx without gain- ing more than a few inches. Then Stecker tried and got & few more | inches.. Fourth down, goal to go, and | Herb tcok it the last time, barely wig- | gling through the massed blue jérsies both of dcggedness a superb Navy | -yard | COMMISSON ASKS * BROADER POWERS [Civil Service Body Seeks Means to Combat Polit- ical Activity. (Continued From First Page.) | mission, that too much leniency is beng | shown. | The report made 14 recommendations changes in civil service procedure, 1g of which included of personnel agencies. eralization vice throughout the al government here. stablishment of a “Court of Ap- | pea¥s” for employes reduced, suspended | or dismissed. Extension Of Merit System. Extending ~the merit system o col~ lectors of customs and internal revenue; first, second and third class postmasters; attorney positions, deputy collectors of internal revenue and office deputy marshals and the United States Em- ployment Service. In recommending that agencies which have to do with person- el in the civil service b> eombined. in one administrative body, it is explained Commission, ment_worl Admin and the compilation of effi- ings which now is a function of the Bureau of Efficiency. It is not recommended that this work be consolidated in the Civil Service Commission. Irrespective, however, of any such merger, it is urged that retirement fiscal affairs be transferred to the commiss sion from the Veterans' Administration, which took it over from the commis~ sioner of pensions last year. This meve is urged in the interest of economy and efficiency. Retirement Changes Urged. Two retirement provisions would be changed if the commission's recom- mendations are:accepted, The first would permit optional re- tirement after a specified term of serv ice at an age lower than that allowed by the present law, and th® second to permit relief to a person retired be- cause of disability where the disability disappears and the person is unable to obtain reinstatement On the subject of civil service for District employes, the report recalls that under an executive order of No=- vember, 1930, posts in the District Govs ernment—with certain exceptions—may be filled under civil service when it can be done without additional expense, | that is, when eligibles may be certified from registers already established by the commission for Federal service. The commission, however, cannpt hold competitive examinations for any positions except those in the Pclice and Fire Departments, and it proposés that tif€ law be changed to allow er application of the competitive. examina tion system “with necessary res-rias tions to protect the apportionment of | Federal positions in the departmental service.” Ask Broader Scope. To apply civil ser of customs and internal | first, secon dani third ¢lass.p: | now presidential appoint pense_with. confirmation b; and the four-year term, of. pointed out, leaving .t the P however, “te power, tp make such jalas and exceptions as he. may deem ad- visable.” Deputy collectors of .internal revenue and office deputy marshals formerly were under Civil ice, being removed in 1913, a move which the commission views as having been a “partial relurn to the spoils system.” It has previously urged that these positions be restored to the Civil Service, With regard to applying Civil Service to attorney positions, the report points out that of 2,933 positions in the legal group of the Executive Civil Service, the competitive system applies but 924, Other recommendations are: To authorize the President, through the Bureau of the Budget, to exchange | allocattons of funds of the several de~ |partments and independent establish- | ments to permit concentration of per~ | sonnel in those activities where work |1s temporarily increased, and away from activities where decreases in work take place within the budgetary period. Establishments of a central file of | fingerprints to avold duplications, and | Increase efficiency. | . To change the laws relating to resis dence and domicile to provide that resi= dence, for eligibility for the appor- tioned departmental - service, shall be established in accordance with voting privilege. In addition to | | | its several recom- mendations for improving the ~Ofvil Service system, the commission out- lines its work for the year and dise cusses the advances made. s The creation of the Council of Per- sonnel administration, designed to make Federal employment more attractive as a career by increasing the chances for promotion and to co-ordinate more suc~ cessfully personnel - activities, is de- scribed as the most important action for improving the Civil Service in the 48 years it has been operative, Improvements in the veteran pref- erence rules are regarded as another notable acecmplishment, The commission reiterates its Views as to the beneficial results obtained from character examinations and fin- gerprinting to keep undesirables out of service, and proposes that these char- acter tests be required for all positions of trust, instead of being limited to law enforcement agencies. The report shows that there were 616,837 employes in the entire executive civil service June 30 last, as compared with 608,915 the previous June. It |also brought out that there are now | 468,050 positions subject to competitive | examination under the civil service act, | & gain of 5,967 for the year. ' HURT IN FALL ON STAGE | Dr. J. LeRoy Elliott Is Injured in | | | Shrine Ceremonial. Dr. J. LeRoy Elliott, 49, of the Al- ban Towers Apartments, suffered in- jurles to bis hip when he slipped and fell on the stage of the Washington Auditorim during a Shriner ceremonial held there last night. Dr. Elliott was removed to Emergency Hospital in an ambulance and remained for an X-ray examination, Almas Temple of the Shrine organi- zation sponsored a ceremonial meeting here last night, attended by members of the Sembo Temple of Harrisburg, Pa. and representatives from boringbranches. —_— other neigti- season, was surprisingly strong. Tuttle was all over the fleld, tackling viciously, knocking down passes, and the work of Lou Bryan and Buck James in the tackles, " Butch Underwood and Red Rezdy in the guards was econsistently good. Capt. Jack Price, Army tackle, and Mili Summerfeli, a great guard, stcod out in the Cadet line. Army, winding up a season that found defeat only in Pittsburgh and Harvard, scored 15 first downs to to cross the marker. Herb's accurate lace kick for the extra point ended ‘scoring Until it tired the Navy line that had been pjerced , Notre Dame, Southern and Ohio State this i Navy's 8 and gained 213 yards rush- ing to 65 for the Midshipmen. Navy E:mpk!ud 'l‘ l“'l“du!p.“ ‘n 1) es for gains of ds, while Army completed 7 out J"xl for o4