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Evening star., 1924-12-03
M'CARL CLARIFIES
CLASSIFYING ACT
Controller Answers Questions Pro-
pounded With Special Reference
to Average Provision.

Controller General McCarl has an
swered 90 questions submitted to him
by the Civil Service Commission con-
cerning the application of the clas-
sification act, with special reference
to the average provision"
Guy Moffett of the Civil Service
Commission, who also is a member
of the personnel classification board,
said Mr.. McCarl in answering the
30 questions had for the most part
clarified previous decisions, and fol-
lowed the precedent already estab-
lished in several questions. Copies
of the decis on are being struck off
and will be mailed to all branches of
the Government service. They are
expected to be valuable to Govern
ment chiefs in working out the clas-
sification act.
Mr.. McCarl adhered TO his former
position regarding the application of
the average provision" although
amplifying his answer this time as
to the intent of Congress. Under
this Interpretation employees when
promoted to the next higher grade
will have to take cut In salary.
and enter at the minimum salary
rate, provided the average provision
is violated in the higher grade.
Evening star., 1924-12-03
P. @. NOMINATIONS
SENT TO THE SENATE
Presidents List Embraces Heads of
Offices in Maryland and
West Virginia.

President Coolidge sent TO the SEN
ate today several hundred postmaster
nominations, among them being the
following from Maryland and West
Virginia:
Maryland - Glyndon. Lester S.
Wheeler: Midland, Richard ii. Will
liams; Bel Air, Wilmer l.. Barnes;
Union Bridge. George c. Eichel-
berger.
West Virginia-Libow. o. E. Gay:
Man, Joseph w. Thornbury: Mount
Glare, William W. Wo'fe; Pax, An
drew r. Canterbury: Peterstown,
Clifton NJ. Spangler: QuinQuad, j. w.
Bell; Seth, M. NJ. Mason: Sharplen.
John s. Walker; Slab Fork. James
II. Reid: Whitesv'le. Harry Vi. Slush
Branchland. Roscoe G. Cameron; Ed
wight, Henry f. Crews; Elberg. Al
bert A. Drinkard; Eskdale, James T..
Keeney; Grant Town, Harry F. Cum
ningham; kayford. Thomas o. Walsh;
Clay, Blanche p. Reed
The nominations also included those
of John G. Bass to be postmaster at
Birmingham, Ala, and William f.
Morton to be postmaster at Kansas
City. Mo.
Evening star., 1924-12-03
PRESIDENT SETS REAL EXAMPLE
OF ECONOMY HE HAS PREACHED
Coolidges Trip Chicago First in More Than Thirty
Years of ExecutiUe i'm Other Than
Priuate Car.

nothing for the Chief Executive to go
on, but he travelled, nevertheless, In
regal fashion. The reason for this
was that the railroads of the coun-
try furnished the transportation and
the equipment free. 1t was in the
good old days of passes, when every
body with an official position cut in
on the freedom of the rails. The
railway companies also furnished the
food and other refreshment for the
presidential party, and the President
was free to invite as many guests as
he chose.
Some of the presidential trips un-
der the old order cost the railroads
as high as 100000. Wines. liquors
and cigars were furnished with free
hand.
Presidents Mckinley and Roosevelt
were the last to travel under sys-
tenn that today would have been call
ed particularly vicious. Mr.. Roosevelt
realized this after he had been in
the White House for some time.
Then there came the Federal law
against the granting of passes. This
put 1t up to Congress to provide a
legitimate travel fund for the Presi-
dent. With the advent OF Mr.. Taft
this fund became available.
Taft Much Travelled.
Mr.. Taft travelled freely, but on no
occasion when he had a special train
was the cost charged entirely against I
the Government. The newspaper cor
respondents who accompanied him
shared pro rata in the entire expense.
This was true also during the Wilson
and Harding regimes. Mr. Taft al
ways used private car. Sometimes
it was attached to milk trains; occa-
sionally to a mixed freight.
The correspondents accompanying
him had many a hard night on the
benches of a day coach, so they at
least are accustomed to some of the
frugalities Of the new administration.
At one time the Taft correspondents
organized what they called Il pillow
and blanket club They would bor-
row the pillows and blankets from
the Presidents car.
There has been Il suggestion from
time to time that Congress should
provide IL private car for the
President, just as IL provides him
with a private yacht, the Mayfower.
1t always has been necessary to hire
a private Pullman. The cost Of such
car averages about SIS A day. The
Coolidge plan Of travel Will save the
Government cons siderabie in this way,
for each member OF his party now
will pay only space rates" on a
regular sleeper.
Mr.. Coolidge would oppose at this
time any move toward Il special pri-
vate car for White House use. just
as he put his foot down on the propo-
siton that the Government accept a
palatial residence to be used as a
home for the Vice President.
President Coolidge's one 'extrava-
gauce" perhaps is in the use of the
yacht Mayflower. He thoroughly en-
joys his week end sails down 10
Chesapeake Bay and seldom misses
one, even thus far in the cold wealth
er season.
Evening star., 1924-12-03
PUBLIC INSPECTION
OF TAXES UPHELD
Justice Hoehling Sustains
Law Without Deciding
. Newspaper Policy.

The Commissioner of Internal Rev
enue may not be enjoined from MAX
ing available to public inspection the
name and post Office address of an
income taxpayer as we'll as the
amount of the tax paid, Justice
Adolph A. Hoehling of the District
Supreme Court held today, when he
granted the motion of David X. Blair
Internal Revenue commissioner, to
dismiss the suit for injunction
brought against him by Gorham Hub
bard of Boston, Mass, TO prevent the
publication of the amount of tax paid
by the petitioner.
Justice Hoehling after a lengthy
review of the publicity features of
tax legislation dating back to the act
of June 30, 1864, concludes that par
agraphs A and 3 of section 257 of
the revenue act of 1924 are valid and
enforceab Bile. 1t results, he says, that
Income tax returns, when the tax
thereunder has been determined, con-
stitute public records and that, to the
extent Of name. address and amount
OF tax, 1t is made the duty of the
Commiss ;oncr of Internal Revenue to
make available for public inspection
such information.
Newspapers Not Involved.
Whether public inspection" carries
the right of publication in newspapers
or otherwise, the court says, is an
interesting question but is not in
volYed in this proceeding. Should II
come to pass. Justice Hoehllng sug-
gests. that section 1857 Il. 5. I. s,
forbiddinp publication, be upheld as
valid and enforceable, then the pub
lication Of Hubbards tax would en-
title kim to appropriate redress there
under
The court bases its decision on the
opinion of the United States Supreme
Court in the case of Flint vs.. Stone
Tracy Co, 220 L. s, 107. which in
volvcd the constitutiouality of the
corporation tax law of 1909. as amend
ed by the act of 1910. In that case
the validity of the Legislation was
STACKED on various grounds, includ-
ing the claim that the provision for
inspection of the returns filed 10y
corporations was violative of the
fourth amendment.
The Supreme Court rejected that
claim. saying Congress may have
deemed the pubic inspection of such
returns Il means of more properly
securing the fullness and accuracy y
thereof. We cannot say that this
feature Of the law does violence to
the constitutional protection of the
furu amendment, and this is equally
true of the fifth amendment protect
ing persons against compulsory self
incriminatng testimony"
Issue Arose Years Ago.
While this decision related to a cor
poration lax law, Justice HoehliuG
declares, its language is certainly
broad enough to involve the present
case and is controlling on this court.
1t is a matter Of history. the court
points out, that income tax lists were
printed and published during, at least
part of the period between 1864 and
1871, when the civil War tax was
operative and that such publication.
a now, provoked Il controversy.
whether the matter ever proceeded
beyond public discussion the court is
not advised and has not been able to
find any adjudicated case involving
the quest at taht time.
Evening star., 1924-12-03
Arkansas U. Alumni Meets.

The alumni of the University of
Arkansas met last night in the City
Club for dinner and organized a
Washington chapter of the Arkansas
Alumni Association.
All graduates and former students
in the District of Columbia have been
requested to join the new organiza-
tion. The officers are: II. B. Miser,
president; A. 3. Mustain, vice presi-
dent: N. d. Mitchell, secretary and
treasurer.
Evening star., 1924-12-03
ROWLAND TO HEAD
REFUGEE RELIEF
New York Lawyer Succeeds Nor
genthau in League Post to
Aid Greeks.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
GENEVA, December 3.-Charles P.
Rowland, a New York lawyer, TODAY
was appointed by the League of Ma
tions Council as chairman Of the
Greek Refugee Settlement Commits
sion to succeed Henry Morgenthau,
resigned.
1t was simultaneously announced
that the Greek refugee loan of $780,
10000 probably will be launched to-
morrow at London, New York and
other points. League officials said
they thought American banks might
take up s15,000,000 of this loan.
An official statement says the total
securities for the loan represent five
times the amount necessary for serv-
ice on the issue, and that the land
provided by the Greek government
affords an additional security.
Mr.. Rowland, in 1917-18 represent
ed the American Red Cross and State
Department in England and France,
arranging for food and other supplies
to American prisoners of war and
similar services for the Serbian pris-
oners of war in Austria.
About 100000 refugees are under
the care of the settlement commits
sion.
Evening star., 1924-12-03
BY ROBERT r. SMALL.

By travelling to Chicago today in
the drawing room of an Ordinary
sleeping car President Coolidge has
set another example of that Jeffer-
sonian simplicity which is to mark
the next four years in the White
House. Not for thirty years-possibly
many more than that-has a Presi-
dent of the United States made an
overnight trip away from Washing
ton in anything but private car,
often In special train.
The President is travelling in n
sleeper without dining equipment,
having planned to take his dinner and
breakfast in the regular dining car
ers, high and low
1t must not be supposed, however,
that the general public is being ac-
commodated in the same Pullman with
the President. 1t so happens that his
travelling companions are all personal
acquaintances or attaches of the
White House There was no room in
the Presidents car even for the news
paper men regularly attached TO the
White House. They had to find ac-
commodations elsewhere on the train,
along with the general public.
shows Practical Economy.
Preaching severe economy in his
annual message to Congress, 1resl-
dent Coolidge took an early occasion
to show how very much in earnest he
is on the subject. Like charity. he
believes that economy begins at home,
and he is going to set an example to
the Nation in keeping with the
frugal life he always has led. The
President has a travel allowance from
Congress of S25, 900 a year. This sum
is more than sufficient to provide him
with q private car and crew when
ever he cares to use it. 1t has al
ways proved sufficient in the past for
Presidents with far more of travel
prediction than Mr.. Coolidge pos
sesses. But the President feels that
the more of this sum that he can
turn back into the Treasury at the
end of the fiscal year the better for
the Government and for the taxpay-
ers. 1t was enormously reported
some time ago that this travel sum
was a part of the Presidents personal
compensation and any saving from 1t
went to him. That never has been
the case. 1t is n public fund.
Railroad men said today that while
Mr. Coolidge's new mode of travel
viii save the Government something
the amount Will not be so large as
would appear on the surface. A pri-
vate car would cost 25 single railroad
fares to Chicago. With Is or II per-
sons in the presidential party, includ-
ing secret service operatives, the saw
ing in railroad fares to the Govern
ment amounts TO about $500. OF
course the secret service has a travel
fund of it's own and the expenses of
the guards will not be charged
against the White House appropria-
ton.
The present trip OF the President
is in sharp contrast to the mode of
presidential travel of two deco -
ago. Then the Congress proviueu
Evening star., 1924-12-03
SPEEDER PAYS HEAVILY.
Forfeits $50 Collateral, But Is As
sessed $25 More.

FORGETTING collateral on a second Of
fense speed charge gave John Alex
ander, colored, of 1878 Prospect
avenue little satisfaction, for Edward
w. Thomas, assistant corporation
counsel, learning Of the forfeiture.
got permission of the court to is
sue an attachment, which brought
the defendant to trial today before
Judge Schuldt.
Seventy five dollars was the de-
cree of the court when the defendant
plead guilty. increasing the amount
he had forfeited (S50), so per cent.
Mr.. Thomas, in cooperation with
the Police Court judges has taken q
definite stand in the effort to break
up speeding in the National Capital
He is directing special attention at
present to the persistent violators
of the speed laws
Evening star., 1924-12-03
SPEEDING VETERAN
AID, HINES ASSERTS
Decentralization Also Has In
creased Service to Men,
Director Reports.

The policy of the Veterans Bureau
In taking the bureau to the man
through decentralization of its activI-
ties has resulted in greatly increas-
ing service in behalf OF World War
veterans, Director Frank r. Hines de-
clared in his annual report today to
Congress.
Cooperation with the public. the
former service man and veterans or
ganizations, and short cuts in admin
istrative procedure have all work ed
to exte nd benefits Of pitalizatiou,
rehabilitation and compensati tion to
veterans with greater speed than in
the past. the report said.
Disbursements Are Cut.
During the fiscal year ended June
80 disbursements for all veterans
activities totaled $4l5.13S,39S, Il de-
crease of nearly $4,000, 600 from the
previous years total, due principally
TO fewer men requiring vocational
training and TO administrative
economies. Compensation disburse-
ments also decreased.
The decentralization plan of the
bureau by which the original Ii
district offices have been supplanted
by 81 regional offices. the report said
has removed the ground Of veterans
complaints under the old organiza-
tion by which bureau physicians
were forced to decide the degree OF
disability of veterans without cxamina-
ton.
Soldier patients under the care OF
the bureau at the close of the yeal
totaled 22,610, of which 10 per cent
were in Government hospitals.
material increase in the mum ger has
been reported in recent months as q
result of the passage Of the World
War Veterans act of 1924, which
liberalizes disqualification. Hospital
facilities for 25,ol0 bed patients were
provided through use of hospitals Of
other Government agencies as vel
as those of the bureau.
OF the more than 100000 serv'
fee men who carried war risk in
surance, only 43s,J62 had converted
their policies into a permanent form
the insurance amounting to Sl601,-
71S,1S0.
A total Of 27,o35 employees were
carried on the bureaus roll at tht
close of the year, a reduction of q
039 during the year, and the aggre-
gate annual salaries amounted tt
s42, 2,476378, reduction of $2,650,7 ,790.
Evening star., 1924-12-03
Promoted to Majority.

Albert Smith. 3IIt Fourteeuta
street, has been promoted by the War
Department to the grade Of major
in the Medical Corps, officers Reserce
Corps of the Army, and CARLYLE Y. r
Fuuke, 1916 Fourth street, has been
appointed a second lieutenant o.
Field Artillery, officers Reserve
Corps.
Evening star., 1924-12-03
DAWES TO BECOME HEAD
OF PURE OIL COMPANY
Controller Quitting Post to Be
President of $2OO,OOo,ooo
Concern.
BY the Associated Press.

| COLI CMBCS, Ohio December 8
Henry NJ. Dawes. whose resignation
Hs controller of the currency was
announced i'll Washington yesterday.
will become president of the Pure Oil
Co, succeeding Beman. G. Dawes. il
was announced today at the oil com
pany offices here.
Beman Dawes is to fill a newly
created position with the company.
/ Henry Dawes has been identified
with the oil business for more than
20 years.
Pure oil properties are valued in
excess of $200,000000.
Evening star., 1924-12-03
ACTION ON FLEET
TRANSFER ASSURED
Jones to Prepare Measure
Based on Recommendation
of President.

Senator Jones of Washington,
chairman of the Senate commerce
committee, which has charge of mer-
chant marine legislation, said today
after hearing the Presidents mes
sage that he would undertake the
preparation of legislation transfer
ring to the Emergency Fleet Corpora
tion the entire responsibility of oper-
alton of the fleet. as recommended by
the President.
Senator Jones said that he would
discuss the matter with President
Coolidge as soon as he was able to
see him following the Presidents re-
turn to Washington from Chicago.
The operation of the fleet now
owned by the Government should be
in the hands of the Fleet Corpora
tion and separated from the Shipping
Board" said Senator Jones. "It seems
that legislation is necessary to bring
this about, although we had hoped
the arrangement attempted last Win
ter would work satisfactorily and
legislation would not be required. I
am in favor of going ahead and Civ
ing the President what he requires
with regard to the handling of mer-
chant marine"
Urged New Method.
Senator Jones year ago advised
the President that the operation of
the fleet should be turned over to the
Fleet Corporation, and the Shipping
Board should give it's entire atten
ton to the regulatory and judicial
functions, for which 1t was originally
created. The Senator from Wash
u; "A III IN,
bringing about the agreement be-
tween the Shipping Board and the
president of the Fleet Corporation,
Admiral Leigh c. Palmer, under
which the management of the feet
had been conducted
1t is proposed that the Fleet Cor
poration should continue largely in
the character of a. private corpora
tion. This is much preferable. it is
said, to a bureaucratic form.
One Man Control Seen.
It is expected that legislation will
provide for one-man control, but with
such supervision as would insure a
proper accounting to the President
and Congress both in relation to the
activities and finances of the corpora
ton. 1t Is further expected that
the legislation will provide for the
appointment by the President of the
United states of the president of the
Fleet Corporation. The board of
trustees may be provided for COM
posed of the president and other Of
ficers of the corporation. and that an
advisory counsel, composed of the
heads of the three departments par
ticularly interested in shipping, of the
Treasury, Navy and Department of
Commerce, would be set up.
Evening star., 1924-12-03
Speaks on Child Welfare.

c. c. Carstairs OF the Child Wei
fare League of America, in New York
City, addressed a meeting Of those
interested in child welfare this aft
ernoon at the Womens City ClLk
Evening star., 1924-12-03
PRISONERS ESCAPE
AROUSES OFFICIALS.
Man Facing Trial Is Third to
Gain Liberty From Gal
Iinger Hospital.

Aroused by the discovery today that
Harry Austin, colored, %, who was to
face the Criminal Court yesterday on
an Indictment for housebreaking, had
escaped from Gallinger Hospital by
crawling through a transom, police
and detective bureau officials today
came out wholeheartedly for the
placement of cell doors on at least
three of the rooms for prisoners at
Cfallinger Hospital, to prevent re-
currence of such an escape in the fu-
ture.
Austin is the third police prisoner
who, in recent months. escaped GRIM
inal proceedings by breaking away
from Gallinger Hospital. Maj. Pat
terson, superintendent of the hospital,
said that his room was in the south
building, housing psychopathic cases.
His room faced d corridor, the exit
to which consists in a door with a
tranSom. The door was locked. The
prisoner awaited an opportunity last
night, and when the attendant was
about other duties walked to the end
of the corridor and climbed over the
tranS0m.
Evening star., 1924-12-03

The easy mark doesn't know how
easy he In until some salesman Of
worthless stock or bonds has his
money.
Evening star., 1924-12-03
NAVY MECHANICS
PAY RAISE ASKED
Local Yard Scale Must Be Higher
to Keep Men, N. P
Alifas Says.

The plea OF tho machInlsts Of tn4
Washington navy yard for Il higher
wage, commensurate with the create:
skill required of them than under
ordinary machine shop work. was laid
before the Naval General Wage
Board of Review In session at the
Navy Department today by y. +. Alt
fas of the International Association
of Machinists.
Mr. Atlas pointed to the mounting
cost of living as an argument i'm favor
of raising the wages of the local
men, ,and indicated that the men
must have a higher wage if the Gov
ernment expects to retain the skilled
mechanics for its work on naval
guns. He specifically asked for an
increase from the present wage Of SO
cents an hour to 90 cents an hour for
first class mechanics.
Higher skill Needed.
Difficulty of obtaining acCurat, ti4--
ureS from civilian machine shops was
pointed out. as il was indicated that tn.
wages paid there do not call for me
chanics of such skill as Is required
of those who perform duty in the
naval gun factory here. The request
for figures for wages paid marhinlsts,
without specifying. the class Of work
should not be taken as u fair basis
for fixing the wages of the men in
the gun factory, it was pointed out
]. II, Cooley speaking for the yard
eneinemen, asked for higher wages
also.
The board hopes to complete the
hearings late this afternoon. when it
will 60 into executive session TO con
slider the data submitted 81 the hear
ings Admiral G. e. Bloch. chief o.
the bureau of naval ordnance. and
chairman of the general wage boaru
hopes to have the decision Of tn.
board ready for approval bE Secre-
tary Wilbur by December II. that
new wage scale may be put into effect
on January 1 next
Evening star., 1924-12-03
Senator Complainant.

Detectives King and Cox arrested
Austin, October IL, on charge of
housebreaking in which Senator Ma
than B. Dial was complainant. Later,
at the fifth precinct, Austin swallowed
glass and was removed to Gallinger
Hospital for treatment.
He recovered and was sent back to
the Jail. Yesterday he was scheduled
to be brought into court to answer
the indictment. He became sick"
and was transferred to the hospital.
Then followed the escape.
Charles Williams, three weeks ago,
escaped similarly from the hospital
where he was being treated as a po-
lice prisoner against whom there was
also a charge of houSebreaking.
David Massey, also arrested for house
breaking by police of the tenth pre-
cinct, some time previous to Williams
escape. left the hospital by similar
method.
whats the use of US arresting
prisoners" Inspector G. l. Grant
asked today, "if, when they are i'll,
there is no place provided with sufh-
cient safeguards against their escape.
There should be some steps taken TO
provide cell doors to rooms or wards
in which prisoners are located during
treatment. so that the attendants may
be relieved of the responsibility OF
being jailers as we'll as hospital at
tendants The furthest thing from
my mind is to east aspersion on the
management of Gallinger' Hospital,
which / consider highly efficient. but
| do believe authorities here should
provide equipment at the hospital,
which win make prisoners as safe
when in the hospital as they are in
Jail"
Others Hold Same View.
Similar sentim ents were expressed
by other officials Of the Police De-
rartment. 1t is regarded as probable
that the District authorities will seek
some remedy for the situation exist
ing with respect to prisoners being
detained at the hospital. This may
embrace the installation OF an entire
detention ward at the hospital for
the care of police prisoners.
Evening star., 1924-12-03
TWO AUTO DEATHS
ADDED TO D. C.. LIST
OF STREET FATALITIES

(Continued from First Page.)
Evening star., 1924-12-03
FOREIGN.
ARGENTINA. A

For the week ending December 1, 1924
Mean Depart. Avg. Depart,
tempera- from pre- frou
ture. normal. clip. norm
Corn and northern
wheat area .... 6s . OIL -o.e
Southern wheat area. 81 - OIL --0.5