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The Washington times., 1929-12-04
CAPPER BILL BOOSTS
+. FIRE-P0LICE SALARIES
$1,000 A YEAR
WOULD BE
BASIC PAY

Extensive increases "all along
the line" in the salaries Of police
men and firemen are provided in
bill introduced in the Senate to-
day by Senator Arthur Capper Of
Kansas. chairman of the Senate
District Committee.
The bill, which has the united
support and civic and trade or
CARNATIONS. Is expected to be
pushed vigorously and it is hoped
by its sponsors that 1t will be en-
acted at the present session.
Senator Capper believes that
by saising the pay of officers and
men of the department the quality
of the men in the police depart.
ment will be improved and much
of the criticism now being made
of the force eliminated.
The bill would fix the salary
Of the major and superintendent
of police end the chief engineer
Of the fire department at salaries
of $500. From this figure the
salaries would graduate downward
with a basic salary for privateS
in both departments of 81 300 per
year. .
The Washington times., 1929-12-04
Body Opposes
School Board Election

Members of the Bancroft Par.
ent-Teachers' Association express.
ed themselves as practically un.
animously opposed to the Capper,
Zihlman bill for the election Of
members of the Board Of Educa-
lion at a meeting yesterday at
Bancroft school.
Approximately 100 members Of
the association we're present and
discussed the bill thoroughly.
When a vote was taken only one
member favored the legislation
Addresses were made by Miss
Katherine Watkins, kindergarten
supervisor, and Miss Grace Lind
principal of Bancroft.
The Washington times., 1929-12-04
PROFESSOR, 70. HIT BY CAR

Knocked down by an automo-
bile last night, John H. Grey
70-year-old professor at the Amer
lean University, received severe
bruises to his body and legs. He
was taken to Emergency Hospital
where, after treatment, he was
allowed to return to his home, in
the 1900 block Jackson st. N. e
The accident occurred at Penn
sylvania Ave. and Madison Pl
N. w,
The Washington times., 1929-12-04
SERVICE AT EVANSVILLE

Rev. B. P. Robertson, pastor of
the First Baptist Church of
Hyattsville, will conduct regular
services at the church on Sunday
at II o'clock a. m. The Sunday
school will mee3 at $50 a. m.
The Washington times., 1929-12-04
DIR. WaldrOn Resigns
Shiloh Church Post

The resignation Of the Rev. DR.
J. Milton Waldron, pastor of the
Shiloh Baptist Church. has been
placed in the hands of the Of
ficials Of the church, the pastor
announced yesterday.
He intimated that he was un.
decided whether he would insist
that his resignation be accepted
He has been pastor Of Shiloh
Church for % years.
The Washington times., 1929-12-04
|SL.ANTS Or
CAPITAL
PEOPLE

NELSON T. JOHNSON. Min
iSter-designate to China. will
not lack for diversion in his
new post at Peking unless his
playthings become lost or mis-
laid in transit to the Far East.
Johnson was we'll on the way
of becoming q miniature yachts
man when his shift from Wash
ington was ordered. Realizing
that he would have but little
opportunities for that hobby
at the seat of the Chinese gov
ernment, Johnson became in
tereSted in miniature airplanes.
The little planes of johnson
are of paper, weighted in the
nose and designed to appear
exactly like the real thing.
Tossed in almost any direction.
these frail air machines return
directly to the hand that re-
leased and threw them, describ-
ing a circle about 8 feet in
diameter. Several of these
midget planes will go with the
new Minister to China.
Now an Assistant Secretary
Of State, Johnson was recently
appointed by President Hoover
to succeed John Van Antwerp
Mac Murray.
Tin,id souls once upon a
time, White House photoora.
pliers, these days, are a bold,
daring, and domineering lot.
The gro1Oth OF the moUing- pic
tltre industry has made them
so. The American people 10Gnt
to see tDhGt is going on at the
White House, they tUGnt to see
the President and his UiSitorS
in the movies and tGlkies, and
the White House photographers
haze to get the goods, no mat
ter tOhGt happens.
STIEG Schultz, a Deternn
OF these photographers, has
specialized in White House pic
lures since the Mckinley Ad.
n1iniStrGtion and, in connection
Uith his brothers, George r.
and Frederick A., haze had
more international celebrities
to face their cameras than any
other picture maker. The King
OF Belgium and his queen: Mar.
shall JOttre and Premier POin-
care, OF France; the late
lGmented ClemenceGu, and all
the Presidents since Mckinley
readily obeyed Schuts'S request:
please look pleasant: please
shake hands; please turn
around please this, and please
that"
A change of administration
at the White House as a rule
means a change in it's person
mel but like all good rules it
haS its exceptions and one of
them is RUDOLPH FORSTER,
the executive clerk at the PreSi-
dental business offices, and the
othe' is IKE" HOOVER, the
majcr domo of the White
Houte. OF Hoover more anon.
Presidents may come and
Presidents may go, but Mr..
Forster has been at the Elk.
ecutive offices for nearly 30
years and has intimately known
every President within that
period, yes. and every Cabinet
officer and most every Senator
and representative, not men
t1onlng smaller political fry.
WheE the Coolidge wave of
economy struck the country,
Forster thought he might as
well begin at the White House
itself. He specialized in pencils.
He never threw away the stump
OF lead pencil, no matter how
short, nc matter how incon.
venient t. handle; he used it
down to is very last dot, as It
were, and he is still doing it to
this very day. Mr.. Forster
lives at the Wardman Park
Hotel and walks ko work.
The Washington times., 1929-12-04

For RESULTS Always The
Times and Herald Classified ads
Phone District 5260.
The Washington times., 1929-01-15
MAY
PAY POLICE

One year and eight months ago
the Bureau Of Efficiency recon-
mended to the District Commits
sioners plan whereby minor traffic
law violators would be allowed to
determine at a police precinct
whether they wish to go to court.
Yesterday, at a meeting, in the
board room, the commissioners con-
cluded they had given the plan
enough thought and decided to put
it into effect.
The recommendation OF the Bu-,
reau Of Efficiency was more of a
cafeteria plan" of Furnishing traf-
fic law violators. For instance,
after receiving a parking ticket, the
motorist will go to nearby police
precinct. A list of collaferals to be
posted for each offense will be,
shown him there. The motorist
will look over the list and decide
whether he wants to post the col
lateral designated for the offense
he committed or go to court. If he
posted collateral, no further. action
would be taken,
Under the present system, when
collateral is posted it is sent to
traffic court on a list the clerk of
the court must call before it can
be declared forfeited.
The Washington times., 1929-01-15
IMPROVED
BY ADDED
CHECKS

The merger subcommittee of
the Senate District Committee
is meeting this afternoon to
report out to the full commit
tee the new merger resolutions
drafted by its expert, DIR.
Milo r. Maltbie.
Senator Capper, chairman, plans
to call meeting Of the full COM
mittee for tomorrow morning to
report the resolution out to the
Senate. He hopes for a unanimous
report in the committee in order
that the resolution may be pre-
sented to the Senate at an early
date.
Terms Improved
Disclosure yesterday of additional
public safeguards in the merger
terms worked out by the Senate Dis
trict Committee brought a distinctly
favorable public reaction today.
Many observers who were still a
little lukewarm to the provisions
of the new plan worked out by the
merIer subcommittee are now
thoroughly sold on 1t and are
enthusiastically working for its
approval.
Check on Charges
The provision which has had
most to do with the reaction is
that which wln prevent the North
American Company, of New York.
from leyying on the merged com.
pany large super-service charges
which could not be regulated by
the Public Utilities Commission.
With this provision. the new
agreement is believed to be the
most favorable to the public that
can be accepted by the companies.
Senator vandenberg, of Michigan
who was instrumental in bringing
negotiations to close, believes
that the public's interests are
thoroughly protected.
The Washington times., 1929-01-15
TATE GIVES UP
TREASURY JOB

Withdrawal of the nomination Of
II. Theodore Tate to be Treasurer
Of the United States, post which
he has been occupying under a
recess appointment has been an
nounced by the Treasury Depart
ment.
The action, taken at the request
of Tate. followed a determined fight
against the Treasurer by Represen-
tative Will r. Wood of Indiana
who claimed that Tate should not
have been appointed to the post
originally, but that it should have
gone to Frank j. Thiel, assistant
treasurer. when the vacancy was
created last April by the resigna-
ton of Frank White.
No intimation of whose name will
be sent to the Senate for the post
could be obtained at the Treasury
or White House today. 1t was gem
orally understood that the post would
not be offered to Thiel
Wood claimed that Tate had OBJ
tanned the nomination by trickery.
His nomination was sent to the SEN
ate in April, but the session ended
before that body could act. He was
then given recess appointment,
and his nomination has been before
the Senate since the present session
convened.
Ogden L. Mills, Undersecretary OF
the Treasury, in announcing With
drawal of Tate's name, said the ac'
tion was taken at his request.
The Washington times., 1929-01-15


Two jurors. two defendants and
an important witness in one trial,
and two defense lawyers were on
the sick list, and Judge Ralph
Given, now presiding over that
branch Of court. made no progress
with his assignments other than to
hear a few pleas.
The trial of Morris Odell, the
1400 block OF Sixteenth st. n. w,
charged with sale and possession
of liquor and alleged by police to
have a Society clientele, yester-
day met with further postpone
ment when a physicians certifi-
cate of the illness Of Mrs. Odell, a
witness, was presented. She is
suffering from acute influenza, her
physician stated. The Odell trial.
in which prosecutors say several
temperance organizations are In.
terested. has been pending several
months.
Attorneys Bertrand Emerson, Jr.,
and George E. McNeill, representing
other defendants UP for jury trials,
also were granted postponements of
their cases because Of their own
illness.
George Mangum, a defendant.
has been seriously i'll three weeks,
Attorney Denny Hughes told the
court.
Two jurors, developing high fever
during the day, were ordered home
by the court, although both said
they expected to return to jury
duty today.
The Washington times., 1929-01-15
BtG FIRE BRINGS
PROTESTS

While two citizens associations
last night were protesting because
the city's entire fire-fighting force
was called out to battle the tire IN
the Dulin and Martin store Satur-
day, firemen were having one OF
the busiest nights of the year. In
the 12-hour period ending last mid
night, 33 alarms of fire were
sounded.
The Congress Heights Citizens
Association, at it's meeting in the
Congress Heights Baptist Church,
voted to ask the Federation of Citt-
zens Associations to determine why
the rest of the city was left with
out fire protection while all fire
fighting apparatus was dispatched
to battle the downtown blaze.
The stanton Park Citizens Associa-
ton authorized its president, A. II.
Gregory, to appoint committee to
investigate the same question.
After the Dulin & Martin store
fire had been placed under control
early Saturday morning, Fire Chief
George S. Watson revealed that when
he sounded the general alarm he had
felt sure that the flames, whippr by
a 30-mile-an-hour breeze, would
sweep through an entire block in the
heart Of washington business sec
ton. The blaze caused damage esti-
mated at more than 100000.
All Of the 33 alarms turned in yes
terday were comparatively small.
Chimneys, overheated furnaces and
automobiles were the principal
source Of trouble, firemen said.
The Washington times., 1929-01-15
HUSBAND HELD
FOR THREATS

After he had testified that flames
shot from his mouth because his
wife fed him poisoned food. Phillip
Turner, defendant in threats case,
was sent to Gallinger Hospital for
mental observation today. following
his appearance before Judge Gus
A. Schuldt in Police Court.
Mrs. Gussfe Turner, the wife,
testified her husband threatened to
kin her for attempting to poison
him and she had him arrested on
a threats warrant.
Turner insisted he made no
threats but claimed Mrs. Turner
fed him a little bit of. everything"
in an effort to poison him.
Hence the flames poured from his
mouth, being especially visible at
night. he said. 1t was revealed that
the defendant had been seriously
injured in fall some time ago,
and the court ordered an exan1fna.
tion, Of his condition to be made. :
The Washington times., 1929-01-15
WOMAN SUICIDE
BY GAS

Despondent over her poverty.
Mrs. F. A. Hager, 66, of the 800
block sixth st. N. W., turned on
several gas jets in her bed room to.
day and committed suicide. The
fire rescue squad was unsuccessful
in an effort to revive her.
DR.. /. Rutkoslzi, of the Emerg.
ency Hospital. pronounced Mrs.
Hager dead after the firemen had
worked over her for is minutes.
Mrs. Hager left $t04 in cash in
her rooms to be used in defraying
her funeral expenses. She also
left a three page letter dealing with
the disposition Of her body and sew
eral notes addressed to 1ieces.
DR.. J.. Ramsay Nevitt, District
Coroner, issued a certificate of
suicide.
The woman was found uncon.
scious by other residents Of the
house. All the windows and doors
of her room were closed.
The Washington times., 1929-01-15
Mary E. Byfne Will
Aids Many Charities

The will of Mary E. Byrne, VINO
died January IL, was filed for pro.
bate yesterday. The value of tne
estate was not disclosed.
John C. Weldon and Chauncey T..
Hackett are named executors and
are directed to give $500 each to
Fannie Lafian, Travers McCristal,
Pearl DeIaplane, Katherine Hutch.
inson, Fannie Mahan, John G.
Weedon and Simon Rube. Be-
quests of $500 are made to Ella
Butler, Samuel l.. Howard, Luther
w. Thompson and Bernard j.
Kober. Richard and Katherine
Hutchinson are given $3.50 each.
The residue is divided into 20
shares to be divided as follows
Five to st. Johns Orphanage; thrao
to Episcopal Eye, Ear and Throat
Hospital; three to House of Mercy:
three to Henry and Anne Hurt
Home; three to Home for Incur
ables, and three to Bishop James
z. Freeman, to be used for the 70,
lief of aged and INDECENT colored
people in the District.
The Washington times., 1929-01-15

e.
"'rhe program to be issued by
this committee will be a souvenir
of washington and of the inaugural
event." Charles r. Crane, chairman.
of the committee on printing and
engraving, declared
"The booklet will contain no dis
pIay advertising. but win be a
distinct departure from the usual
publication of this kind. Descrip-
tive text matter and an abundance
of photographs of both public and
private buildings, together with all
data concerning the observance.
only will be>in the printed pro.
gram. Certain pages of text and
pictures will be endowed by hush
ness firms and these firms will he
given a credit line at the bottom Of
their respective pages.
Be Sure You're Right
Those engaged by the committee
to obtain these page endowments
win be furnished with official letters
from the committee. Soliciting by
others than those armed with these
credentials is unauthorized by us
and we feel it obligatory on this
committee to so tell the public. Our
plans for coverage with this pro-
gram are so complete as to discour-
age competing booklets as mediums.
Our agents have not yet begun to
operate
Gen, Anton Stephan. of the parade
committee, said yesterday that the
shortness of time precluded written
invitations to the zoo military
schools OF the country who are
asked to contribute units to the pa
rade.
Miss Martha Mcclure, national
committeeWonlan from Iowa, was
yesterday advised that the governor
of that State had, in addition to his
own escort, named delegation of
% representative citizens to attend
officially. Hundreds are expected
from that State alone.
The Washington times., 1929-01-15
THIEVES ROB 5
IN OFFICES

Smooth working robbers who
used duplicate keys to gain en-.
trance to three lawyers offices in
the Southern Building and obtained
more than $500, yesterday were
the object of widespread search
by police today.
Bates Warren was the heaviest
loser. Two checks for total Of
$3.50 were taken from his office,
after his desk had been broken into.
The checks later were cashed at
local banks by an unidentified man
who presented City Club member.
ship card bearing Warrens name
to identify himself. The card had
been stolen with the checks. Both
the checks and card were taken
from unopened letters.
Two checks the amounts of which
were not revealed. were stolen from
the desk of William F. Norman,
after his office had been entered
in the same matter. The loot from
his office included q pair of Army
field glasses valued at $50.
The third office entered was that
of Howard Fitzpatrick, it Is be.
lieyed the robbers obtained nothing
but cash there. 1885 being mis-
sing from his desk.
All the offices ransacked were
located on the seventh floor. They
were entered between and 8
O'Clock yesterday morning. The
checks were cashed soon otter the
robberies. The thieves left no clue
as to their identity. nor were they
seen by other occupants of the
building. None of the employees in
the Nnrman Fitzpatrick. or Warren
offices had reported for duty until
after the robber had completed
their work
The Washington times., 1929-01-15
Inquest Under Way
In Death of Woman

witnesses gathered at the Morglle
today to testify at coroner's In
quest into the death last night of
Miss Ada Foss, rs, Of Ocean Park.
Me-, from injuries suffered when
she was struck by an automobile
at Third and f Streets Northwest.
Among the witnesses was Hiram
Williams, 81, colored, 100 block
Twenty-third st. N. W., arrested
by. sixth Precinct police after re-
porting that the woman stepped in
front of his machine. Miss Foss
died of a fractured skull two hours
after being taken to the hospital
by Williams.
Miss Foss had been visiting two
weeks at the. home of the Rev
Herbert Kline, 500 block Third
st. N. w
The Washington times., 1929-01-15
OlInsted Made Head
OF Restaurant Division

Bert Olmstead was elected chair
man of the restaurant section Of
the Merchants and Manufacturers
Association at the meeting yester.
Gay. Olmstead win act as the rep
resentative of the section TO the
board Of governors of the associa.
ton.
The fuel oil division and the paper
and stationers division will meet
this afternoon to elect their chair
men. :.
The Washington times., 1929-01-15
7 QUIZ.
IS HELD
Up

Investigation Of graft
charges said to involve cap
tain Of police was held up
temporarily today when Rep
resentative Ernest w. Gibson
of Vermont and Assistant
United States Attorney Will
liam H. Collins failed to get
together to coordinate the in
quiries being made by the
House District Committee and
the District Attorneys office.
1t developed that the District At
torney's investigation is to be made
on a pea of Major Edwin B. Hesse'
Superintendent of Police. Hesse
conferred yesterday with Represen'
tative Gibson, who launched the orr
ginal investigation, and after the
conference wrote TO United States
Attorney Leo A. Rover asking that
his office conduct an investigation
independent of that being made by
the Gibson group.
Groups to Cooperate
Reasons for Hesse's action were
not stated. but the Police Chief has
been under such heavy fire at the
Capitol for the last year that 1t is
believed he wished to have the latest
charges sifted by an outside agency.
The investigation to be made by
Collins, who was assigned to the
task by Rover, with the full ap-
proTal of Representative Gibson
and his committee. Gibson viii CO.
operate with Collins to the extent
Of furnishing him with all infor.na-
ton in the hands of the committee.
This, however, is not generally re-
garded as being enough to warrant
any action against the suspected
captain unless it can be further
substantiated.
Accused by Palnlist
The evidence consists entirely of a
statement made to- Gibson by Mrs.
Helen Blaylock. a palrnist, with an
establishment on Seventh Street, to
the effect that a certain police cap
tain has S14.000 hidden away in a
safe deposit box; that he gave her
ring which he said he seized in a
raid: that he defrauded her in a real
estate transaction, and that, al.
though married. he wrote her un.
signed love letters.
Gibson's absence from the Capitol
was the reason for his failure to
meet Collins. as the assistant district
attorney tried vainly throughout the
morning to communicate with him,
Even after Collins and Gibson
confer, probably late today, the
investigation by the District A..
torney win be hampered for several
days because of the fact that Mrs
Blaylock, virtually the only witness,
is out of the city, having gone to
Texas to place her evidence before
representative Blanton.
Capt. Guy T. Burlingame, hare
hitting captain of the Second
precinct, has been mentioned in
connection with the investigation
! but he denied that he has had any
connection with Mrs. BlayloeE
Which would warrant the charges
she made. Mrs. Blaylock's palm,
istry parlor is in Captain Buriin
/ games precinct.
The Washington times., 1929-01-15
MEET

5 The Wallach-Towers Paren t.
Teachers Association will hold q
card party tomorrow night at the
WalIach School, Eighth and Penn
sylvania Avenue Southeast.
The Washington times., 1929-01-15
Police Court, Hit By
Flu, Almost Quits

Heavy casualties from nfluenza participants jury
Police Court yesterday forced practical suspension
of activities in that branch of court.
The Washington times., 1929-01-15
BRO|]KHART
SUPPORT
SENT IN
Il I TER.

Comptroller General McCarl
came out today in support Of
the Brookhart bill to amend
the Welch salary act and
flatly opposed that part of the
Lehlbach bill which would ex-
tend the authority of the per.
sonnel classification board and
result in salary reduction for
more than a thousand Govern
ment employees in Washington.
McCarl's attitude twoard the two
bills was made public in a letter
to Senator Smith w. Brookhart of
Iowa, author OF the Brookhart bill.
The Senator had written to Nc
Carl asking him whether his inter
probation of the Welch Act had
curtailed the jurisdiction of the
board and whether there was a
need for extending the powers of
the board as proposed in the Lehl-
bach bill.
Two Problems.
In his reply today McCarl an
swered the first question in the
negative, declaring that the person,
mel board had never had the au-
thority to review it's own decisions
unless requested to do so by De-
Yartmental heads
In regard to the second question
McCarl vigorously opposed the
Lehlbach bill and denied that there
is any need, for extending the
powers of Il D board. @
He said If the board is given
complete and unlimited jurisdiction
over ALLEGATIONS, promotions, and
demotions, ''the responsible head of
an office would Immediately lose
effective control over his subordf.
mates. Their Interests would there
after be with the board and not
with the head of the office in
which employed"
In reference to the Lehlbach
bill, MeCarl said:
IF it should be seriously contem-
plated to enlarge the powers of the
u
the enactment of any of the proyis-
ions suggested by section one of the
bill, as the responsible head of an of.
flee comprising nearly 1000 compe-
tent and faithful employees, would
wish to file for the consideration of
the Senate Committee on Civil Serv-
tee the views of this office thereon,
and to such end careful study of
the bill, and the probable effects of
its provisions, if enacted, is being un-
dertaken.
Hopes for Success
To care for inequalities In salary
adjustment of employees of the lower
grades, due to the insufffciency of
the Welch act, it seems to me the
plan proposed by, your bill is pre-.
ferable, and the Congress feeling the
Treasury can. so respond. / am in
hopes the measure may have early
favorable consideration. There has
been nothing to indicate that the
Congress considered the Welch act
as .affording complete relief, and, OF
course, no proper Interpretation OF
of its provisions could provide the re
suits hoped for by some of its spon.
sors.s