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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-01-18

Two such bills are before the sub
committee. One, Introduced by Rep
resentative Thomas L. Blanton, of
Texas, would provide flat increase
of $500 in all salaries. The other,
introduced by Representative Fred
erick N. Zihlman, of Maryland,
would provide increases ranging
from $500 to $1,000
The bills were discussed briefly
at u meeting of the full District
committee today. Representative
Blanton commended that the Zihlman
bill would cause more harm than
good. He declared that the Senate
would never pass the Zihlnan bill,
and its approval by the House would
therefore kill the CHARGES for any
increased pay at this session of
Congress.
A short discussion aS the meeting
today concerned another Zihlman
bill, relating to payment by hanks
of money held in The names OF two
or more persons. Representative
Charles T.. Underhill, of Massachu-
sets. called a hearing on this bill
before the insurance and banking
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-01-18
SCHOOL REPORT
To BE SENT IN

The Bureau Of Efficiency report on
the District public schools is ex-
pected to reach Senator Phipps,
chairman of the District appropria-
tions subcommittee tomorrow.
1t is not expected it will lead to
any change in the program for
school legislation at the present ses-
sion of Congress, but it may be made
the basis for a revised construction
progra m in the future.
None of the questions of school
policy, such as the platoon system,
the curriculum, etc. are covered in
the Bureau of Efficiency report,
which deals largely with the prob
lens of school congestion and the
means of curing them. While the
report has not been made public, it
is understood that many of the
recommendations of the bureau ex-
perts are likely to meet with the OPP
position of the Board of Education.
The District appropriations sub
committee probably will not give de-
tailed consideration to the Bureau or
Efficiency report until the District
appropria ton bill comes before it.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-01-18
SON IS
SUEOFO GIFT

Suit to rescind a father-in'law s
gift to his sonin-laW was begun to-
day in the District Supreme Court
by Arthur Morris, father of Virginia
Morris King, who married Sylvan
King on December 26, 1921. Morris
daughter and King were divorced In
Norfolk on November 81, last.
Through Attorneys Douglas, Obear
G. Douglas. he tells the court that
when his daughter decided TO marry
King that he agreed with Kings
father, Harry King, 10 buy the
young couple a home at 1910 Mill
tary Rd., which they did. The title
was taken in the husbands name,
and now that they are divorced the
father Of Mrs. King says that the
husband refuses to give his daughter
her half OF the property.
The daughter joins her father in
the suit against her former husband
and asks the court to declare a re-
sulting trust in her favor.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-01-18


During his attack Blanton limited
at irregularities in the Bureau or
Efficiency's recommendations TO"
the purchase Of machinery for the
Federal and District governments.
After inserting in the record
Browns report TO the Civil Service
Committee that he had received
1885 from the du Points, Of VIII
mington, Del, over n period Of 10
years. BlantOn cited certain ma
chinery, the purchase of which had
been recommended by Brown.
Easy To Help Him
"Oh, how easy it. is" he said,
when a man can draw up specifiCa-
tons for machinery furnished by
certain corporations and when he
is in q position to recommend its
purchase. for these corporations TO
come TO him and offer him employ
ment and pay him remuneratiVe
salary"
Blanton then revealed that Brown
had recommended the purchase of
a 100000 tabulating machine for
the NeteranA Bureau which had
been stored in the basement Of the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-01-18
PAYS FOR MEAL
WITH KICK

Finishing a belated supper in a
cafe at 1888 Fourteenth st. \. w.
early today, an unidentified man
kicked his way to freedom ana
from payment of the check, leaV-
ing Walter f. Lewis. 54 years old,
the cashier, lying injured on inc
floor.
After the affray had subsidized
Lewis was placed in an automobile
and taken 10 Emergency Hospital,
where his injuries were found to
be painful but not serious
According to Lewis, well dressed
man, about % years old, 5 feet 10
inches in height, weighing $50
pounds and having red hair. fin
ished his meal shortly before 3
o'clock this morning and started
to walk out.
Lewis suggested that the gentle
man" had probably forgotten" 10
pay his check. The lapse of m an
Dry appeared to continue, however,
so Lewis grabbed the customer. He
was Immediately fIOOred by q kick
in the abdomen and the assailant
made his escape.
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bureau ever since it was purchased
because it is useless.
when he Is drawing specinca-
tions," Blanton said, land when he
is making recommendations for the
purchase of valuable machinery and
when he can cause to be purchased
for one bureau like the Veterans
Bureau a tabulating machine that
cost the taxpayers 100000 and is
worthless, they can afford TO EN-.
pIoy him, can these du Points. and
pay him 1000 or $4,000 in fees.
Cites Tag Machinery
BIanton also cited Browns rec
ommendation for the purchase OF
the Districts tag manufacturing
machinery. A few days ago when
The Times printed n story that he
was working up n case against
Brown on the basis Of this recon-
menda ton BlantOn flatIy denied it
on the floor of the House, declaring
he did not know anything about il.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-01-18
PUT
ON D. c.
HEADS

Failure Of the District CommiS-
sioners to accept recommendation
of the Bureau of Efficiency is be-
ing held as a club over their heads
in their fight before the House APP
propriations Committee for a re
vision Of the fiscal relations be
tween the Federal and District gov
eminent.
Herbert d. Brown, chief of the
bureau, has reported to the com
mittee that recommendation by his
bureau, which would save the Dis
trict 100000, have not been adopted
by the Commissioners.
During hearings on the appropria-
tions for the Bureau of EFFICIENCY
Brown was asked to submit the
recommendation which the Com
missioners have failed to adopt, to
be used against them when they ask
for a resumption of the 60-4Q plan
OF fiscal relations.
During these hearings, proceed
ings of which have just been made
public, Representative William r..
Wood, OF Indiana, asked Mr.. Brown
not only for these recommendation
but other practices Of the District
Commissioners with reference to
purchasing and doing things in such
a way that they are resulting IN
greater cost than necessary"
Representative Wood said that
the appropriations committee wants
these facts because ''the District OF
Columbia is making all sorts OF de-
mands for increased appropriations
to cover the expenses incident to
the conduct of the business Of the
District"
Representative Robert q. Sim
mons. OF Nebraska, chairman Of the
District subcommittee of the APP
preparation committee. who is a
bitter enemy Of the 60-40 plan, has
also asked Brown for the same
information
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-01-18
Camp Meade May Be
Renamed in Honor
of Gen. Wood

Camp Meade, Md, where thou
sands Of Washington boys got
their first taste Of Army service,
may be known IN the future As
Fort Leonard Wood, il was
learned today.
The War Department is con.
sidering the change of name to
comply with regulations which
prescribe that permanent military
stations be designated as "forts,''
while those OF temporary status
may retain the tile of camp"
Inasmuch as there is a Fort
Meade in South Dakota, The War
Depa rtment is planning 10 name
the Maryla nd ca MP In honor of
the late Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-01-18
Extra Pay Sought For
Military Aides at
White House

The condition Of aides from
the Army on duty at the White
House is such that legislation il
pending in Congress to provide
extra pay for thems there being
no provision Of law at this time
to do so, it was learned today
at the War Department.
These officers have to provide
their special uniforms and equip
ment, which probably cost $500.
and are on duty at the White
House for four years or less. The
proposed legislation will give them
the same extra pay that is given
to aides for general officers Of
the regular Army.
In the service it is considered
an honor to be selected as a mill
tary aide to the White House, but
so many demands are made upon
those detailed to this duty that
only those possessing private In
comes can accept. The officers
selected can hardly refuse to
serve the President Of the United
States, the Commander-in-Ch Chief
of the Army and Navy.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-01-18
Georgia Woman Loses
$4,000 in JeWelry

The police were today ma king a.
search OF wnshOps in nearby Viz
ginia and places in this city where
jeweIry might be sold for four'
rings, tOtaling $4,000 in value,
which were stolen from Mrs. Mary
Jane Stoddard. of Atlanta, Ga.
Mrs. StOddard. the wife Of a
delegate to the annual convention
Of the National Association OF
Overs and Cleaners, reported TO
police that she left a banquet OF
the association in the Washington
hotel and went 10 the wash room.
When she returned TO the banquet
hall the rings were gone.
Two OF the rings were valued at
$4,000 each. another At $4,000 and
a wedding ring at 5000.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-01-18
SECOND SECTION
LOCAL NEWS
WOMEN DEBATE
WAR CURE

Conflicting phases of the creation
of national peace program gave
rise to a general debate by the
members of the nine national
women's organizations attending the
third Conference on the Cause and
Cure of War, which opened the
fourth day of it's national meeting
at the Hotel Washington today.
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, gen.
eral chairman of the national COM
mittee on the cause and cure of
war, turned over the chair to Mrs.
Robert E. Speer, president, national
board of the Young Women's Chris
tian Association, who conducted a
general discussion on three major
issues.
"How May Public Opinion BE
Educated to Understand the Prin-
ciples Involved in the Controversy
Arbitration VS.. War;" was argued
from affirmative and negative view
points by members OF the Fedora
ton Of the Women's Board of
Foreign Missions, and Margaret
Buttenheim, of the General Fedora
ton of WOmen's Clubs.
Other issues were discussed under
the leadership Of Elizabeth !. Hau-
ser, OF the National League of
Women Voters; Mrs. nellie G. Bur-
ger, National Woman's Christian
Temperance Union; Mrs. Arthur
Brin, National Council of Jewish
Women, and Mrs. Harrie Cham
berlin, National Board of the Young
WOmen's Christian Association.
TOnipht'S address at Bis o'clock
by Prof. Nicholas Spykman, Yale
University, will treat of 1.-The EVo-
luton of the System Of international
Relations" He will be followed on
the program by II. N. BrailsfOrd,
editor and labor leader of London,
England, in 45.minute talk.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-01-18
WINDER BUILDING

The United States Bureau Of
Efficiency, thorn in the flesh OF
many heads and chiefs OF depart
ments Of the government here, is
the outstanding occupant OF the his
toric old Winder Building, located
at the southwest corner OF Seven
teenth and F. Streets Northwest,
and directly opposite the State, Wa
and Navy Building.
Winder's building was erected in
1913 by w. n. Winder and pur-
chased by the government in 1864.
1t has been used in various capac-
tiles by bra inches of The War De
partment.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-01-18

subcommittee. Saturday morning.
There was some agitation on the
part of the Democratic members Of
the committee to get quicker action
on the pending Of the District bills,
particularly those before the judi
ciary subcommittee, which has
many of the most important Dis
trict measures before it.
Representatives Blanton and Gill
bert criticized Representative Clar-
ence J. Mcleod, of Michigna, chair
man of this subcommittee, for his
failure to call meeting of the
group. They expressed the fear that
if a meeting is nor called soon,
many important District bills will
fail 10 get thorough consideration
at this session of Congress.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-01-18

DopOm IN Arizona husbands
and aIiUes do not use sash
heights to put each other out
of the Way. At Winston,
Mr.. and Mrs. John TiIlmGn
shot it out auth each other.
Both aOere killed. This sys-
tenn sGUes erpensipe and SEN
sationdL court trials.
DAKOTA DAN.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-01-18
TEACHER OF SONG

Where miners kneeI all day in damp,
And picks ring clear and long,
Where each dim head is circled by
lamp,
7 went, to teach them song.
Deep in the dark underground.
Where great black shadows lie,
I went to teach them song and found
They knew more songs than i.
kelvin OGILNIE.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-01-18

An English court has ruled
that dog has the same
right as q pedestrian IN
crossing q road or street.
Thot may please the dogs,
but pedestrians haze long
knoWm that they haze about
the same rights as dogs
crossing roads and streets.
JAY WALKER.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-01-18
l. A WI E S s N f S s


40 laws" said Grandma, as she
wiped her specs.
- wonder what the Legislators will
~ doing next?
The trouble with law making is
there's too many by far.
Until folks in these days don't know
where they are.
zone million nine hundred thou
sand laws on the statute bOnks.
Ind yet the country increases every
day in desperate crooks.
Ninety-three Thousand laws introduced
last year, it's said.
Although only few passed can he
enforced, and most Of them dead.
''I.OOks like something's wrong that's
not clearly Understood,
when 1T takes all these laws try
ing to make people good.
~ the Golden Rule and common sense
were observed by folks
People would stop treating most of
the laws AS jokes
OLD SOCKS.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-01-18
KNIGHT TEMPLARs MEET

Speakers of local and national
prominence will address the Column
bia Comandery, No. 2, Knights
Templars at II celebration comem-
Grating its sixty-fifth anniversary
Friday night at 8 o'clock in the
Masonic Temple. Entertainment
and music will follow.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-01-18
He ARD
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hvRIII ppIce
bybIIPRIcE
RE Us.pEr OFFICE

THE BLANTON-BROWN FIGHT
Bill: There haze so far been
no knock0uts IN the Congress
sionoL fight betsOeem Congress-
man Tom BIantom and Herbert
BfoeON, of the Bureau of Eff
cheney, but 1T seems to me that
careful provisions should be
made for q proper count, If
there should be one. We don't
aOamt any fifteen-secomd counts,
and BInmtom and Brown should
be qOorned By the referee as to
the number of seconds bGttlcr
may be doUn before he IS legally
out.
This affair promises to be
one of unlimited rounds, such
as the country is growing for,
and zoe don't qUGnt any techni-
calities that 4OiI spoil the mill.
BATTLING BIMBO.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-01-18

When the lawyers get
through kidding KidweU IN
the District courts the Job
of n Juror IN the trials of
rich men WilL not be so
eagerly sought after.
BINGO BEN.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-01-18
JOHNSON AND Mcbride

Many years together,
Playing side by side,
Was a pair Of faithfuIs,
johnson and Mcbride.
Once more they will be united,
In Newark they will dwell,
And carry on their little signals,
Which they understood so well.
When Barney shoots them over,
And cuts the plate in two,
Old "Cap," he will be laughing
A. Barney they said was through.
So good luck, you pair of aces,
The fans will watch you both.
A. we want to zee that peDnaDt
In Newark Ball Park float.
J. A. CANNON.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-01-18
Poice-Fire Pay Jump
In y. c. to Come Up
MISS SMART

pay of policemen and firemen will be
submitted at public hearing morning before the
police and firemen subcommittee of the House District
Committee, it was announced today.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-01-18
BLdnt0n-Br01Un Feud
Flares Up Again

The feud between Representative Thomas H. Banton OF
Texas and Herbert d. Brown chief Of the Bureau OF
Efficiency which was believed ended yesterday when
shook hands has taken lease on lhe today
LIZ Hama fou1hn
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-01-18
SACRIFICE

have seen the lightning, with it's
scorchinH fire,
Caress the lofty pines and crush
them with its mad desire,
As tfmbers on q funeral pyre.
4 have watched the green of summer
turn
To Autumn's red and gold.
/ saw the cOIOrs change and burn
Within the depths Of natures urn
changing pattern iD the cOsmic
mold.
Jaw my life change in a night,
From a hermit to dancing sybarite.
gave my heart away, entire,
An! this is Loves requisite,
THIS is the price of my desire
NV heart upon the altar fire.
JOHN c. ROGERS.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-01-18
CO.'S AND EXPOSED KNEES

The right of policeman to
request qOomam to coVeT her
knees, If they are attracting
too much attention, IS undeT
discussion by cops everywhere.
The opinion seems to be that
no cop should interrupt such
scene until he has gotten an
eyefuI himself. After that the
thing for him to do Is to go on
0bout his business, after look
ing once more to determine
Whether the knees UeTe really
Worth looking at.
ARIZONA IKE.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-01-18

The first floor formerly was
occupied by the chief engineer OF
the Army; one room formerly was
the Battle Record room and the
judge advocate general and ordnance
department once were housed there.
One floor was formerly used AS
an ordnance museum. Among the
objects of interest held there were
United States Army uniforms, JEFF
Davis rifle, shells picked up on the
battlefieIds. accoutrements used III
the army from earliest dates, guns
OF every kind, batteries, project'les,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-01-18

A good IOcksmith can he IOca ted
through the who's Who" services
see next to the last page of tOday'S
Times and herald,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-01-18
YES. FELLOW CITIZENS"

With politics getting under way,
And politicians seeking glory,
Many a. candidate will start off:
And that reminds me Of a story"
ARIZONA IKE.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-25
Pair Also Is Quizzed in Con-
neCtion With HoIdupS of
Filling Stations.

Chicken thefts, resulting in loss
of hundreds of dollars to Marion
and Morgan County farmers, are
said to have been confessed to po-
lice today by two men arrested Fri
day night by Deputy Sheriffs
Charles Bell and Bale Brown.
The men arrested and charged
with robbery and grand larceny are
William Basey, 80, of 6565 Pendle-
ton Pike, and Walter Gastetter, As,
Of 3145 N. Illinois st. The stealing
is said to have been done with
BaSey's Auburn sedan used for
transporting the birds.
GriIled in OIdups
The detectives are questioning
Basey regarding several filling sta
ton holdupS in which they declare
an open war. similar to one recent.
ly disposed of by the allegedly con.
fesSed chicken thief, was used.
Both men are held under 5000
bonds.
Gastetter has a long record and
has served time in stretches up ta
six months at the Indiana State
Farm and county Jail. He is known
as "the man who will steal anything
with feathers on" having been ar
rested at vicious times for stealing
chickens, pigeons and canary birds
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-25

The council of administration Of
the Veterans of Foreign Wars con-
vened today at the Claypool to out
line national and convention poll
cies of the V. F, w. in reparation for
the opening of the twenty-ninth
annual national encampment of the
organization Monday.
The council is the governing body
of the v. F. w. between conven-
tionS and meets three times a year,
once before the convention and
twice at Kansas City. Kan. ma
tional headquarters of the organi
cation.
Frank T. Strayer. nationl COM
mnder. presides over council.
Political action at both the
council meeting and sessions of
delegates during the convention
will be taboo. said Strayer. Only
v. F. w. matters will be handled.
The conventio nwill open off,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-25
'SLEUTH' JAILED
IN LIQUOR PLOT
Accuse SeIf-StyIed DeteC-
tive of Framing MotoriSt.

Herman Hill. 40, who represented
himself as a horse thief detective,
faces blind tiger charges today as
the result of an alleged attempt
Friday night to frame" Edward
Wise, 81. of GIL E. Merrill St., on
a bootleg charge.
Hill failed to produce his horse
thief detective credentials.
He called police to New York and
Adelaide SITS. and said that Wise,
sitting in his automobile at the
corner, had liquor in the car. Police
found a package containing a bot
tie of liquor.
Wise, according to Sergt lie Roy
Bartlett, declared the liquor was
left in the machine by two women
for whom he was waiting. BY this
time Hill had disappeared, accord
ing to Bartlett.
Wise charged that Hill was a
bootlegger. Two Indianapolis SAL
wage corps members told police that
they had seen Hill talking to two
women before police arrived.
Police found Hill driving on the
Pendleton Pike with one of the
women Wise said had been in his
car.
Hill took them to his residence,
in the 5400 block E. Thirty-First St,
where they found three dozen bot
ties of beer. according to police.
When slated on a blind tiger charge
Hill gave his address as PIT Ia
coma Ave.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-25
PUSH FLIERS' HUNT
Three Nations Aid Search
on Greenland Coast.
Rn Tnited PreaS

By United Press
COPENHAGEN, Aug. 24.-Three
nations continued their search
along the Greenland coast today for
traces of the airplane Great Rock
ford, in which Bert Hassell and Par
ker D. Cramer started from Coch-
rane, Ontario, to Mt. Evans, Green
land.
Belief was expressed that the avi-
ators had landed some place in
Greenland after reports reached
here saying that citizens Of Liech-
tenfels and FiSkenaesset hal seen a
plane passing owe rthe two towns
Sunday morning.
Advices here from the governor for
Greenland and the sheriff of the
ice cap island said that the plane
circled over the two towns, the avi-
atorS were seen peering over the side
of the cabin with binoculars. and
that later the plane was seen flying
eastward.
The two towns are we'll off the
course for the flight from Cochrane
to Greenland.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-25
BYRD'S SHIP TO SAIL TODAY
FROM NEW YORK ON POLE TRIP

the port of southern New Zealand
where it will be rejoined by the sec
ond ship of the expedition, the
Chelsea, which will carry the tri-
motored Ford plane, the Fokker,
and The specially constructed Fair
child plane, now being tested.
Books, candies, cookies and other
marks of esteem were being carried
aboard the City of New York early
today to cheer the crew on the long
voyage South and West.
Commander Byrd will not see the
City of New York again until he
reaches Dunedin. He, Bernt Balchen,
Dean Smith. Harold l. June and the
scientists who are to go on the
antartic adventure will sail at a
later date aboard the Chelsea. Byrd
himself may not leave, until later
than that, from a Pacific port,
aboard the Larsen.