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Evening star., 1928-11-22
FEDERAL EMP.LOyE
LAW CALLED CRUDE
Senator Dale Favors Revi-
sion by Congress of Certain
Provisions of Bill.

Characterizing the Government en-
ploye salary increase law as crude in It's
present form, Chairman Dale of the
Senate civil service committee came
out today in favor of having Congress
amend some of its provisions at the first
opportunity. The Senator said that the
chances of doing so at the short session
would depend upon how much more
important legislation Congress tries to
pass.
He believes, however, the actual op-
Grafton of the WEIGH law should be
studied as soon as possible
Senator Dale, who was one of the
leaders in charge of getting the measure
into final shape at the last session, said
the Interpretation placed upon the law
when the increases were put into effect
is not, in his opinion, in conformity
with what Congress intended to accom-
plish in increasing the salary level.
The Senator said those who interpret
ed the law may have been technically
right under the language of the bill as
passed in the rules that were worked
out for its administration, but, he
pointed out, members of Congress in
tended to bring about certain amounts
of increase and they depended on Off
cials in the Government departments
for detailed information on which the
wording of the law was based.
Not Given Enough Study.
Senator Dale expressed the belief that
because of the desire to get the bill
enacted at the last session, there was
not sufficient time to enable members
OF Congress to give details of salary
schedules the amount of study and
analysis necessary in working out so
complicated a measure.
Chairman Dale Is the second member
of the Senate committee to express in
recent weeks, the belief the Welch law
should be amended. The other member
Is Senator Brookhart Of Iowa. who also
was active In drafting the measure at
the last session.
The section of the law which has led
to most of the controversy is the one
in which 1t was set forth, in substance,
that employees should be given the same
relative position under the new salary
schedules that they held under the old
ScneduleS. Representatives OF the or
ganized employees have taken the posi-
tion that the rules adopted for the ad-
ministration of the WEIGH law have not
given certain classes of employees as
much OF an increase as was intended
by the trainers of the bill.
Evening star., 1928-11-22
SOFT. DRINK PARLOR
WRECKED BY BOMB
Chicago Police Regard Move as
Step to Block Sales
of Biquor.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
CHICAGO, November 22.-Two bombs
reverberated over the near South Side
early today. One demolished the auto
mobile of Harry M. Curran, son of
the late State Representative Thomas
A. Curran, who was killed week ago
In an automobile accident.
The second bomb blew out the front
OF Edward Franks soft drink parlor
a few blocks away.
Police believed that soft drink par
lor in front of which Curran's car
was parked was the intended target
of the first bomb. They questioned
Alex Mandich and John Winters. the
proprietOrS, in an effort to link the
explosion with the movement to stop
liquor sales to school children The
Throop Street School, branch of Har-
riSon Technical School, is located across
the street from the store.
Curran, who conducts a trucking
business. said he kenw no reason why
his car should have been bombed.
Damage to the automobile. Franks
store and neighboring buildings was
estimated at $4,000.
Evening star., 1928-11-22
SOFIA TERROR|zEO
. BY ATTACK THREAT
Of REVOLT LEADER
Ivan MichaiIoff Throws Bull
garian Capital Into Panic
by Uprising.
BODIES OF SLAIN RIVALS
LINE SIDES OF ROAD
Cabinet Meeting Called-Troops
and Officials May Back
Macedonian Rebel.
Ry the Associated presc

By the Associated Press
VIENNA, November 22.-Advices from
Sofia this morning said that Ivan Mi
chailoff. Macedonian revolutionary
leader, was reported to be threatening
to march on the Bulgarian capital or
short notice
The population was stated to be
panic stricken. Public buildings were
occupied by troops. Streets were de-
serted at 10 pm last night.
Along the approaches to Petrich
which is Michailoffs stronghold, bodies
of his murdered opponents were stated
to be hanging from trees on both sides
of the road. The initials of the Mace
donian organization were branded on
their chests.
Population Terror Stricken.
The revolutionary leaders men were
said to be requiSitioning everything they
wanted from the terror stricken popu-
lation, whose number was being deci-
mated by the comitajts, or irregulars.
Nobody dared to go on the streets after
6 O'Clock in the evening.
A meeting of the Bulgarian cabinet
was summoned for today. It was COM
mon knowledge, however, that the ma
jority of troops and officials were siding
with Michailoff.
Michailof has been the prime mover
OF the internal Macedonian revolution
ary organiZation-an illegal association
which Is tsriving to free Macedonia by
force of arms-ever since the assassin
alton in Vienna of Todor Alexandroff
four years ago.
Sentences Opponents to Die.
After the assassination in Sofia on
July of Gen. Alexander Protogueroff,
leader of a rival Macedonian group. a
bitter feud between the two organiza-
tions developed.
On October 13 Michailof pronounced
the death sentence" upon all support
ers of Gen. Protogueroff On November
II IL members of the rival organization
were shot to death near Petrich by
Michailoff supporters George Nandess,
one of Michailoff's chief lieutenants,
and Nandess' adjutant were killed re-
Gently by adherentS of Gen. Proto-
gueroff.
The Belgrade newspaper Vreme said
recently that Michailoff considered Bull
garian Macedonia an independent coun-
try absolutely under his control
Bulgaria is monarchy ruled by the
bachelor King Boris.
Evening star., 1928-11-22
Distributor in Dilemma as Demand
For Unlettered Auto Tags Exceeds Supply

Wade H. CoombS, superintendent Of
licenses of the District, whose duties
include the distribution of automobile
identification tags, today found himself
confronted with a perplexing problem
which mathematics or its higher
branches will not aid him in solving.
Coombs has 1000 pairs of 1929 tags
not preceded by letters of the alpha
bet, which are intended for the ma
chimes of Government officials and
diplomats. To date he said he has re-
ceived between 5000 and 5000 requests
for these distinctive tags, and strangely
only few of them have come from
Government authorities and members
of Congress.
The demand for the unlettered tags
Evening star., 1928-11-22
Maj. ThenauIt and Passenger
Uninjured When Motor
Goes Dead.
Former Commander of La
fayette EScadriIIe Drops
$50 Feet-Craft Ruined.

When his motor cut out, at an alti-
tude of $50 feet. while he was taking
off at Boiling Field shortly before noon,
Maj. Georges Thenault, French air at
tache and former commander of the
Lafayette Escadrille during the World
War, stalled and crashed to the ground
at the south end of the field. The plane
was demolished. but Maj. Thenault and
passenger, Air Mechanic Louis LES
perante of Boiling Field, escaped with
out injury.
Was French Machine.
The plane, a French machine, was
shipped to this country about five
weeks ago for Maj. Thenault's official
use. 1t had attracted considerable at
tention when flying over the Capital
and on short crosS-country trips, be-
cause of its unusual construction.
Maj. Thenault was in the air this
morning less than a minute before his
motor quit. His wife, sitting in an au-
tomobile at the edge of the field, wit
messed the crash.
The plane was near the south end
of the field when the motor cut out,
and Maj. Thenault attempted to turn
and land. A gust of wind threw the
plane out of control and it sideslipped,
CONTINUED on Page 6, Column ID
Evening star., 1928-11-22
SINKING STEAMER
RADIOS FOR HELP
Greek Vessels Position Is Given
as so Miles OFF Coast
of Portugal.

BY the Associated Press
LONDON, November %. - Lloyd's
LANDS End wireless station intercepted
a message this morning saying that the
Greek steamer Virginia was sinking.
The message. sent from the Cape
Finisterre wireless station at 7:48 am,
said:
IS o Greek steamer Virginia lati-
tude 81 :05 north, longitude 1926 west
sinking
The position given would place the
vessel about so miles off Oporto, Por-
tugal.>
A Lloyds dispatch from Horta, in
the Azores, reported the arrival today
of the Greek steamer Alexandra in
the Fayal Channel The vessel, which
was in distress off the Azores several
days ago after losing her rudder, was
towed in by the American steamship
McKeesport.
Evening star., 1928-11-22

of requests for those with low numbers.
CoombS revealed. There seems to be
some unfounded belief prevalent IN
Washington that tags without letters
as well as those having low numbers
are guarantee of immunity from ar
rest for minor infractions of the traf-
fic code, shence the demand.
CoombS pointed out that 275 of the
1000 pairs of unlettered tags already
have been consigned to the diplomatic
corps, and by the time he completes the
usual ALLEGATIONS to the Government
departments, there likely will be none
left for the 5000.
The tags will be placed on sale in
Coombs' Office in the District Building,
December /. The Commissioners, how
ever, have decreea t,,ct they cannet be
used before December u,
Evening star., 1928-11-22
LITTLE HOPE is HELD
FOR s LOST ON LAKE
Five on Ice Cake and Would-Be
Rescuer Are Believed
Drowned.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
WINNIPEG, November 22-Five fish,
ermen, who were swept out into Lake
Manitoba on a cake of ice during a
northwest gale Tuesday afternoon, and
a sixth man who went to their assist
ance in a small boat today were believed
to have drowned.
Search, hampered until today by the
violence Of the storm, was ordered on
the possibility that they might have
found safety on small island four miles
off shore. Several persons along the
shore said they saw a light on the island
Tuesday night
The fishermen were working along the
edge of the ice Tuesday afternoon when
it broke away and was swept out into
the lake.
Joe Lopston, in small boat nearby
who went to their assistance, also was
lost to sight in the storm.
The five fishermen are: Swan Fred
bjorson, his son, Victor, Arthur Ashan
Fred Cooper and man named Elke.
Evening star., 1928-11-22
WHITNEY ESTATE
SET AT S1%,328,514
Appraisal Shows Financier
Gave $45, 200, 900 to Edu-
cation and Charity.
Rv the Associated Press


NEW YORK, November 22-The
worlds financial center, used to glib
talk about millions, gasped today when
it learned that the late Payne Whitney
had left a gross estate of $194, ,328,514
with a net valuation of $178,893, ,655
This was the largest estate in the his
tory of the Transfer Tax Bureau.
Filing of the estates appraisal re-
vealed that the financier and sports
man had bequeathed more than $45,-
900, 1000 to educational and charitable
institutions, including Yale University
his alma mater-the New York Hos
pital, Cornell University Medical School
the New York Public Library and
others.
A residuary trust fund of nearly $685.
100000 was set aside for giving aid tc
charitable, educational, scientific and
literary organizations, at the discretion
of the trustees.
Widow Gets Biggest Share.
Mr.. Whitney's widow, Mrs. Helen Hay
Whitney, daughter of John Hay, q
largest single Share of the estate, a life
income from $54 4,202 ,694 She also re-
ceived valuable real estate in New York
City and Nassau County, furniture Jew
elry and race horses, worth in all nearly
three and quarter millions.
To the New York Hospital, which i.
cooperating with the Cornell Medica
School in plans for huge medica
center here, Mr.. Whitney left $I8,632,.
176. This was divided into permanent
endowment of $12,421, ,45l and specia
endowment for "the development anc
maintenance of neurological and psy
chiatric work in New York City"
The Medical College itself was lef
$2,823, ,057.
To the president and fellows Of Yal
University Mr.. Whitney bequeathet
$2,823, ,057, a sum overshadoWed b,
donations the millionaire had made t.
the university during his lifetime TO
various purposes.
The bequest to the New York Publ,
Library was $6,210,725. Mr.. Whitne,
had long been generous contribute
to that institution.
The financiers preparatory school
Groton, at Groton, MaSs-,| was be-
queathed 81 1892
Other personal bequeSts included tn
establishment of temporary life estate
| in $27, ,101 ,S47 to Joan Whitney Paysol
and John Hay Whitney, children o
Mr.. Whitney. They will have the in
Continued on Page 6, Column A.
Evening star., 1928-11-22
LOS ANGELES FORMS
MAJOR DISASTER STAFF
Retired Army Officer Heads Body
to Act Immediately in Case
of Emergency.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, November 21.-
Initial steps in the organization of a
major disaster staff as a plan of pre-
parednesS in case of disaster or major
emergencies were taken today by VIII
liam j. Traeger, sheriff of Los Angeles
County.
Col. Robert E. Firth. retired Army
officer and police executive, who func-
toned nthe staff at the San Francisco
earthquake and fire of 1906, was desig-
mated as chief of staff.
Representatives OF various county
departments were designated as mem
berS of the staff. designed to prepare
for instant service on law enforcement
and emergency relief in event of an
emergency.
Evening star., 1928-11-22
Slayer Of Daughter Found
Guilty by Jury After Brief
DeIiberation.
ARGUMENT IS CLOSED
SHORTLY AFTER NOON
Prosecution Scores Insanity Plea
Made in Defense of Former
Night Watchman.

Franklin Ellsworth Smith, confessed
slayer OF his l9-year-old daughter,
Bessie L. Smith. September 26 at his
apartment, 115l New Jersey avenue,
was found guilty of first degree murder
by a jury in District Supreme Court,
Criminal Division No. /, this afternoon.
The jury deliberated only two hours.
The verdict means that Smith. who
harrapgued the jury for two hours in
an effort to convince them that he
was insane, will have to pay for his
crime in the electric chair.
Smith Stands Unmoyed.
Smith stood unmoved as the Jury
pronounced his fate, and walked quiet
ly from the courtroom with his guard
after the poll had been taken of the
jurors His attitude toward the YER
dict was the same as he has main
tained throughout the four days of his
trial
Pleading insanity as the reason for his
clients crime. E. Russell Kelly, defense
attorney in his closing argument de-
clared, Its shame that this defend
ant ever had to be born
III AAAo OlOoillS dISulllcIlt 10 Tile jury,
William H. Collins, assistant district
attorney, prosecuting Smith, character
lied the crime as "one of the most re-
pulsive criminal acts conceiyable-so re-
pulSlve that 1t is really nauseating."
Insanity Defense Attacked.
Collins attacked the insanity defense
of Smith sham
Both Kelly and Collins asked the Jury
to throw out the testimony of alienists
heard In the case during the past two
days and put the question of Smith S
soundneSs of mind directly up to the
Judgment of the jury. Both said that
plain common sense is the only factor in
the determination of insanity of a man
who has committed the crime of which
they both admitted Smith was guilty.
instructions to the jury threw out
the plea of emotional insanity and i'm
morality on the part of the defendant
as factors which would lead the jury 10
decide upon an insanity verdict.
Defendant Sits MOtiOnIess.
Smith for the past four days has
been on trial for the Staying of his
daughter In his confession presented
to the jury and by his own testimony
he admitted the Staying. Except for
the two hours he was on the stand,
Smith has sat practically motionIess,
looking straight before him at the
lawyers table, and has shown absolute
ly no emotion as the tide of the trial
shifted back and forth Most of the
time his head has been slumped for
ward on his chest. emphasizing the
stoop of his shoulders.
Evening star., 1928-11-22
HUNTINGTON TAX PAID.
California and Federal Levies Total
Almost Sc. .ooO. 900.

Los ANGELES. November % [P).-
California and Federal inheritance tax
departments were nearly $4,000, 900
richer today as the result of huge checks
for balances due having been paid by
executors of the Henry l.. Huntington
estate.
The largest check ever paid to the
California Inheritance Tax Department.
totaling $3.537, ,071, was given to the Los
Angeles County treasurer Another
check for $2,319,682 was paid to the
United States Internal Revenue Office.
An estate, valued at more than $42,-
100000. was left by the Los Angeles
traction magnate The payment was
arranged by obtaining a loan of more
than $9,000,000 on the estate.
Evening star., 1928-11-22
Dinner Table Conversations Reveal
Hoover Family as Very Human Circle

electoral vote of much more than 300.
Mr. HooVcr'S fishing yesterday was
carefully planned. He knows some
thing about the habits of fish and had
studied it all out on map. He figured
that the fish would go past Cape San
Lucas on their way from the Gulf of
California into the ocean. He ex-
planned. this to Capt. Kimberly and
asked him to anchor at a specific
point.
Mrs. Hoover, the conversation about
the dinner table revealed, is greatly in
terested in Washington. She thinks
the Arlington Amphitheater is an inter-
esting example of Greek architecture,
but she dislikes the setback roof of the
Lincoln Memorial She likes Spanish
type homes and modelled herself the
pueblo abode structure at Palo Alto.
Evening star., 1928-11-22
SUZANNE LENGLEN ENDS
TENNIS COMPETITIONS

BY Gable to The Star and Chicago Daily
News. Copyright. 1923.
PARIS, November 22.-Suzanne
Lenglen has retired from all net COM
petitions and the former tennis queen
will never play again before a public
audience according to her father,
Charles Lenglen
The possibility of revenge battle be-
tween the great Suzanne and Helen
Wills, her American successor in the
tennis sovereignty, was still rumored
among the net fans, but hope of such
thrilling match now is completely de-
stroyed.
The rules of the French Federation
Of Lawn Tennis require from an ex-
amateur turned professional and asking
| for republication an amateur status
for five years. Mile. Lenglen, not hav-
ing played as a pro for two years, could
become entitled to amateur rating again
in 1882. She is now 20 and it would
| not be wise to resume her career at 80
by competing against younger players.
Radio PrO6ramS-Pa6e Sc
Evening star., 1928-11-22
BY REX COLLIER,
STAFF Correspondent OF The Star.

ABOARD U. s. S. MARYLAND. No
Vember pa closeup of President
elect Hoover and his family around the
dinner table on board the battleship
which is taking him on his good will
tour of South America discloses an
intensely human circle.
Mr.. Hoover enjoys talking about
chat about politics and politicians and
relate anecdotes Of the last campaign
He also talks with greater frankness
on such topics as diplomacy and for
eign relations
The break of the solid South, he dis
closes, came as somewhat of a sur
prise He admits he didn't expect an
Evening star., 1928-11-22
Wife's Ghost Lover
To Win Divorce for
Man, Court Hints
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, November ga ghost
has become correspondent in
divorce case, and Judge Gemmill has
indicated he will sign the decree.
MY wife," said Paul Boheim in
petitioning for divorce, started two
years ago in quest of a dream lover
I stand ready to defend my home
against any human being, but the
dream lover is something else again"
This is the first time" Judge
Gemmill said, II have ever heard
of a ghost being named a CORE
spondent, but I guess you deserve a
divorce"
Evening star., 1928-11-22
GREAT SMOKY BOND
ISSUE is HELD VALID
North Carolina Supreme Court De-
clares State Plan to Aid Ma
tional Park Legal.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
RALEIGH. N. c., November 22.-All
doubt over the constitutionality of the
States providing the issue of 1000, ,O0O
in bonds by North Carolina for the
Great Smoky Mountain National Park
had been cleared away today with the
handing down of an opinion by the
State Supreme Court holding the act
valid.
The decision was rendered in the case
of w. H. Marlborough against the State
Park Commission, instituted as a test
case. Justice W. j. Adams wrote the
opinion. which was concurred In by all
other members of the court, and which
dismissed all objections raised to the
legality of the act
Evening star., 1928-11-22
By the Associated Press.

charging him with contempt.
BY the Associated Press
JERSEY CITY, N. j., November 22.-
The sergeant-at-arms of the State SEN
ate was arrested by city police last night
for entering Mayor Frank Hague's home
to arrest him. Hague ordered the police
to release the sergeant-at-arms and
promised to appear at the Office Of his
lawyer to be arrested.
Hague's assurance was conveyed by
Corporation Counsel Thomas j. Brogan
to Russell E. Watson, counsel for tbs
Case legislative committee, before which
Hague failed to appear in answer to a
subpoena, thereby subjecting himself tc
charges of contempt.
The mayor is leader of New Jerseys
Democracy and Eastern vice chairman
of the Democratic national committee
The Case committee has been investi-
eating alleged irregularities in Hudson
County politics. The subpoena Hague
honored was issued after announcement
that the committee would investigate
the source of his wealth.
Released at Station.
with Garrison when he went to
Mayor Hague's apartment were Emil
Schumann. and Thomas B. Davidson,
assistant counsel to the Case commit
tee. Schumann and Garrison were
taken to the seventh precinct police
station and there released, no charges
having been made against them. David
son, meanwhile, had telephoned to his
chief, Watson, who motored to the
mayors residence from his home in
New Brunswick"
I'VE want to search every room" Gar
rison is said to have told the mayors
wife.
Called Outrage.
"The mayor is not at home" Mrs
Hague answered. They brushed past
her and the executives mother to search
the rooms. While they were searching
Mrs. Hague called police.
"The raid was an outrage" Hague
declared later IF had been wanted
for murder they could not have treated
me with less courtesy"
He said that the visit of the two men
caused his 90-year-old mother to col
lapse and neceSsitated the calling OF a
physician.
Evening star., 1928-11-22
Steamer Sinks in River.

GALLIPOLIS. Ohio, November 90
The steamer Charles r. Wilson sank
in the Ohio River near here last night
when 1t was caught in a heavy wind
Capt. Loyal Wright, Chief Engineer
John Huber and IL other members of
Of the crew reached shore safely in a
boat.
Evening star., 1928-11-22
ONION SHORTAGE SEEN.

Growers Have But 1O,24O Cars
Still to Be Shipped.
CHICAGO, November % 22~lP).-Gour-
NETS with craving for onions are con-
fronting official announcement that only
10,240 cars are left to be shipped of the
seasons domestic supply.
This amount is hardly half as much
as a year ago, according to a report to-
day from the Government Bureau Of
Agricultural Economics. Onion growers
in some States have disposed Of their
entire crop.
Evening star., 1928-11-22
Coolidge Accepts Invitation.

President Coolidge today tentatively
accepted an invitation to attend the
ceremonies incident to the dedication
of the George Rogers Clark memorial
in Vincennes. Ind, February o.
Former Gov. Goodrich of Indiana, who
rendered the invitation, told the Presi-
dent that the ceremonies are to be Of
a more or less national nature.
Evening star., 1928-11-22
Crew Taken Off Burning Ship.

NANTUCKET, Mass, November %
P).-The crew of the schooner Mildred
Foley. afire miles off shore, was taken
off last night by Coast Guard patrol
boat 282. The schooner was a total
loss. Residents of Nantucket heard a
sound resembling an explosion. The
patrol boat went to the schooner in
answer to distress signals.
Evening star., 1928-11-22
PAINTING is STOLEN.

From University of California.
LOS ANGELES. November % CP.-
Theft of a painting valued at $4OO from
the gallery of the University of Cali
fornia at Los Angeles was discovered
yesterday. A Rembrandt valued at $40
600 which hung next to the picture
was untouched
The stolen painting was "Tne Christ
Arisen" done on copper by Johann Rot
tenhammer early in the seventeenth
century. 1t was one of the 81 MASTER
pieces loaned the university by the
Bishop OF Chur of the Diocese of Swift
zerland.