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The Washington times., 1929-03-27
HIS
PAY LAW
RULINGS

An extensive survey Of the
effects of Comptroller Cen
eral McCarl's Interpretation
of the Wclch pay act in the
Federal departments has been
begun by Senator Smith w.
Brookbart, Of Iowa, chairman
Of the Senate Civil Service
Committee, it was learned to-
day.
Brookhart has asked all Govern
ment employees above the first three
salary grades to furnish him with
information as to the operation Of
the Welch act, as interpreted by
McCarl. in their cases.
His purpose, it was learned, is to
determine whether McCarl is guilty
of invading the rights and duties Of
the Personnel Classification Board
as charged at the last session of
Congress by Chairman Frederick r.
Lehlbach, of the House Civil Ser
vice Committee; members of the
classification board, and officials of
the Bureau of Efficiency.
May Join Lehlbach
If he is satisfied that McCarl ex.
ceeded his rights and distorted the
Welch act to suit his own interpre-
tation. there is every indication that
Brookhart will join Lehlbach in an
offensive against McCarl at the next
regular session.
1t is no secret that Lehlbach, Nc.
Carl's bitterest foe upon Capitol
Hill intends to make an attempt to
curtail the sweeping powers Of the
Comptroller General. Whether
Brookhart will go this far is prob
lematical. but is believed that he
will urge that the powers of the
classification board be restored to
it, in line with Lehlbach's wishes.
Work Hampered. Claim
Officials of the board have re-
peatedly stated that their work is
seriously hampered by the restric.
tons placed around it by Mccall
His decision yesterday, in a State
Department case, in which he held
that the board was, without power
to reallocate an emplOye whose
salary grade had been set by he
administrative head of the depart
nent. was in line with his general
rclicy, the board stated today.
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TO Be
SHAKE:UP
ALONG
LINE

The police force went about
Its duties today with one eye
cooked at the District Com
lnissioners and with ears care
fully attuned to catch the
slightest rumblings of a shake
up.
Only two days remain before the
Commissioners will name a new
chief. He is expected to be mem.
Der Of the force. in which case
there will be reassignments and
promotions all down the line.
An indication Of this came yes.
Gerday when the city heads re.
tired Capt. Guy E. Burlingame, OF
the Second precinct and promoted
five men.
Major Edwin B. Hesse, chief OF
police, was also ordered retired, to
take effect Sunday night
Although speculation as to who
will succeed Hesse and what
changes will be made is rife, no one
seems to know with the slightest
degree of certainty what is going
to happen.
The name of Inspector Henry G..
Pratt, chief Of the detective bureau.
has been heard most frequently.
Many declare Pratt is so certain
to- be given the job that the ap"
pointment of the new chief by the
Commissioners will be more or less
of q formality.
Fear Storm at Capitol
The Commissioners insist that
their minds are still open. When
Hesse applied for retirement,
Pratt's name was the first men,
toned as his successor. The Com
fnissioners moved to learn if their
would be any objection to him. 1t
is understood that criticism and
opposition were voiced at the Capt.
toll
This is worrying the Commits
sioners because they do not want
to appoint a man who will run
into the same storm of Congress
eional criticism that clouded Major
Hesse's administration.
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To Be
TRIED HERE

Efforts of Virginia and New
Jersey authorities to obtain the
custody of Frederick A. Schneck.
a former Washington policeman,
for questioning in connection with
recent robberies. will prove futile
until he has been tried here, police
announced today.
Schenck is wanted in Richmond
and Clarendon, Va, as well as in
Newark, N. j. He has denied
committing any robberies in Vir-
ginia. Detectives have quoted him,
however, as confessing that he held
up a filling station manager in
Newark and shot a policeman in
escaping.
The former policeman Is alleged
to have confessed that he perpe-
trated two robberies here for which
he is to be tried. The complainant
in one of these cases Is Kenny c.
Van Meter, manager of a Standard
Oil Company filling station at Four
teenth ana D Streets Northwest.
Van Meter identified Schenck as
the man who held him up at the
point of a pistol last month and
took $40 away from him.
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U.s. PaySho1un as Too
Lou forD G. Homes
staff Photo

1t Federal workers than $2 800 year support
their families cities the size of Washington according
statistics compiled by the bureau of labor statistics of the
Department of Labor
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Life-Saving Classes
Begun by Red Cross

D. Melville Carr, Red Cross field
representative, started a four'dav
life.saving class for men and women
at the Y. W. C. A. E Street brancn,
under direction of the local chapter.
Monday night. Sessions are at s
p.. m.
Carr is credited with more than
200 rescues of drowning persons
ind the resuscitation of II by use
of the prone pressure method.
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Lingerie and Hats
Stolen From Shops

Silk Easter lingerie valued at
5000 was stolen early today from
the Norma Hosiery Shop, 1900 block
G. St. n. w.
The robbery was discovered when
Eugene Sander, 1400 block Chapn
st n. W., opened the store. Three
cash registers containing more than
$25 were left untouched.
Twelve women's hats We're taken
from the Maison Maurice Company
shop next door. They were valued
at $72.
Arthur T. FINELY. headquarters
detective. discovered the thieves had
gained entrance to the stores
through "A cellar bulkhead.
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Rifle Practice Scored
For School Girls

Rifle practice for girls in the old Wild West days might
have been all right but r. j. Jones believes that sits
waste of taxpayers money! teach high school girls the
use of the rifle in this day and age.
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DevOnshire Gardens
Makes Clarke President

J. o. Clarke was elected president
of the Citizens Association Of Dew.
Onshire Gardens. Va, at an or2ani.
zation meeting in the local Brum-
back Company office, last night.
Other officers chosen were c. o.
Peacock, vice president: Mrs. V. NJ.
Hunt. secretary, and Mrs. c. o.
Peacock. treasurer. Announcement
was made that a lot in the sub
division has been donated by X. A.
Brumhack for community purposes.
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salary In Washington is only S2,O17
and less than that outside of Wash
ington.
Investigators for the bureau found
that in most cases members of
families augmented the family in.
come by outside work. Even then
in most cases the income was no:
sufficient to meet the family ex-
penses.
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Five days left to file your
Personal Tax Return. If you have
not received a blank call Main
GOOO, Branch 1876, or call at Room
1O3. District Building.
The Washington times., 1929-03-27

Five days left to file your
Personal Tax Return. II you have
not received a blank call Main
5000. Branch 1856, or call at Room
103, District Building.
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I'm bet that none Of these girls
can cook a meal and about the only
good rifle practice can do them is
to teach them how to shoot their
husbands" he declared.
Births. Engagements, Marrl n 8,
Deaths and In MemOriam appear daily
on the last inside page. last two columns.
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Public Schools Close
Tomorrow for Easter

Public schools will close tomorrow
afternoon for the Easter holidays,
it was announced at the Franklin
School yesterday. They will reopen
April s.
Plans are under way for exer-
cises in many of the schools today
and tomorrow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-18

Robinson of Arkansas. the Democratic
leader in the Senate.
Methods of finding foreign valuations
have been one source Of disagreement
among the commissioners In the
past, although in more recent years, II
there have been internal disturbances,
they have been kept within the con-
fines of the commission headquarters.
Chairman Marvin and other mem
beers Of the commission long have con-
tended that the delays In making rec
concentrations to the President Oh rate
changes have been due to the require
mentS laid down by Congress as to how
the differences in the cost OF produce
ton at home and abroad shall be de-
termined
This situation was recognized BY
President Hoover in his message, In
which he stated that "the formula upon
which the commission must now act
often requires that years be consumed
in reaching conclusions where 1t should
require only months"
Efforts of the tariff body to obtain
foreign costs of production by exanli-
nation of the books of foreign manu-
facturers have led to considerable fric-
ton abroad, as in the case Of investiga-
tions into Argentine corn and many
products of France, Switzerland and
other European countries.
The Chief Executive made no specific
recommendation for new formula, but
one favored by some members OF the
commission is that Of invoice values, to-
gether with other easily determined
quantities entering into the making OF
a rate eoualizing production costs.
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be legislation abolishing the present
commission and setting up q new one
under a wholly different plan Of OPP
Grafton than that laid down In the
tariff act of 1922.
TiIson Gives Opinion.
Representative Tilson Of Connecticut,
Republican leader In the House, said
he; was confident Mr. Hoover wanted
to have commission composed of men
of tire broadest attainnents who would
arrive at reasonably speedy conclusions
on tariff rate changes and whose rec
concentrations to the Chief Executive
would command the confidence Of the
country.
Chairman Smoot of the Senate
finance committee suggested that the
present act might be amended to in
crease salaries which would attract the
highest class of men for service on the
commission. However, he was uncer-
tain as to just what the President had
in mind.
Terms of the present members of the
commission under their 12-year APP
pointments expire one by one during
each of the alternate years between
1880 and 1910, SO that normally re-
organization of the personnel of the
body could not be effected during the
present term of President Hoover.
Friction Has Arisen.
Ever since the flexible provision of
the 1922 act came into force there has
been intermittent friction within the
commission, and this finally led to a
Senate Investigation some, three years
ago by a committee headed by Senator
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PRESIDENT TARIFF
|. VIEWS PUZZLE HILL
- = =
Congress Leaders Plunged
Into Quandary by Sugges.
tons for Changes.
BY JAMES L. WEST,
Associated Press Staff Writer,

President Hoover seems to have put
Congressional leaders in a quandary
by some of his recommendations for
administrative changes in the tariff act
affecting the Tariff Commission.
They are frankly at loss to under
stand precisely what he had in mind
when he wrote in his first message that
the commission should be reorganized.
They will seek application and also
will inquire whether it is his desire to
have these recommendations written
into the bill being drafted by the House
ways and means committee.
Interpreting the language of the
Chief Executive in its most literal sense,
some leaders said there would have to
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THE NEW
Sdi1lt:>SnulQI
RX1lIWe austin epas1szAaunnn&

doors opened: Dramatic Editor:
Sports Editor: Sunday Editor;
society Editor: "Woman's Page
Editor And. finally. at the end of
the corridor. Managing Editor"
Crystal found Horton to be a
thin, short man with 2 big head
spsrsely covered with wiry gray
hair.
Gray eyes enormously magnifed
By thick-lenSed glasses; a thin
Tipped. tight mouth which looked as
if it had never smiled. Which was
the more incongruous. since he was
reading a colored comic paper.
Morning Blaine What do YOU
think Of Olsen'S new strip? Think
its worth play on the market
page?'
It's pulling pretty good. chief
Harry answered. This is Miss
Hathaway. Mr. Horton-to take on
the Christmas feature. you know -"
The magnified gray eyes studied her
Coldly. critically.
Then. You understand the Jobs
only temporary. Miss Hathaway?
And biz of advice: Forget
you're good looking. and that you're
a helpless female This is a news
paper Office. not matrimonial
agency
TO Be Continued
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SOW GO On WIN TBE STORY
CHAPTER XIX Continued

Would I think it cheeky?" Nor
gan interrupted Good Lord, Nan,
I'd think it angelic Of you. and you
know it, Curtis will be tickled TO
death, TOO. You're the only human
Deing that can do anything with
bisa."
'sTr- next day the Lois Downs case
went to the jury Just before noon,
and within FIVE minutes a verdict of
Not guilty vas returned. John
Curtis Morgan. with another sensa-
tioual court victory 10 his credit.
boarded train at two O'Clock TO the
visit the governor Of the state and
A. halfpast FIVE Nan Carroll walked
mp the steps OF the home which Iris
Morgan had abandoned. A small
figure hurtled out Of the door and
INTO her arms.
Hello. Mana I wanted 10 see YOU
Mana Estelle's an awful liar. She
says my mother amt coming back.
If she amt. are you gonna stay.
Nana2"
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Hello CrvStall Have A seat,
Harry Blame geeted her with curt
ceruiaiitv. Sorry If you've be1I
waiting long. This dumps a MAJ
house till the leg men get their as
signmCYts. Well. how are YOU?
You're looking SWELL" Bit he
hardly looked a her as he said il.
His restless hands we're paving
through clippings and typed half
sheets OF paper with which his
desk was covered. The rapidity
with which he went through the
mass. making notations with a
loaded pencil. tanning some
of the copy down upon an already
bufdened spindle. amazed the girl.
Her difidenoe became painful. She
had never felt so in the way
I'm eager to go 10 work. Har-
~" she answered him timidly. But
If you're too busy 70 bother with
me now
"Oh. I'm not rushed now" he
assured her. still working at what
looked TO the girl like white heat.
Half q minute. and I'll take you
in to see the boss Managing edi-
tor. Names Horton. Good guy, but
hates girl reporters.
The half a minute stretched TO
five. which seemed like an hour 10
Crystal. but at last Harry Blaine
showed back his chair. one hand full
of copy ready for the composing
room.
wait till I give this first-edition
stuff 10 Bill, then III take YOU in TO
Horton" he told her. and strobe
down the long room toward a ma
chine-clamorous place of mystery
in the rear.
CRYSTAL looked about her. fas-
cinated but a little disappointed. In
the big room were only three men.
One. old and grouchy-looking. sat
st a typewriter beside steadily
clicking telegraph instrument.
His fingers tapped lazily. steadily,
transcribing the leased wire report.
Another sat with his legs straddling
his machine. a pipe in his mouth,
his eyes froWning upon spindle full
If newspaper clippings.
At a table a niddle-aged. I'M
happy looking man was writing with
e thick pencil. occasionally pausing
10 count letters. Crystal guessed
that he was heading up the Sto-
Ties that came in over the wire.
Ready. Crys? Don't let him get
your goat" Harry Blaine said, as he
tame back to her.
He led her forward, across the
city room and into narrow corri-
dor, from which thrillingly- manned
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THIS HAS HAPPENED

After Vsorking three resTs as private
-ecrefsrv 20 JOHN CURTIS MORGAN.
stt0ruev. NAN CARROLL discovers she
Us i1 love attn him and determines 20
resign. She postpones her resignation
hon she learns Morgan IS stalking his
professional integrity OF the innocence
% bis friend. BERT CRAWFORD in
dicted for embezzlement
Nan dlstrustc Crawford and IRIS
MORGAN. beautiful wife OF the LAWYER.
on the last dav OF the trial. little
CURTIS. 6-vesr-Old son of the Nor
Eans. lnnocently places IN Mans hands
note which he apparently took from
his mothers handbag The note is
from Crawford and reveals his guilt
and his plan 20 elope nth Iris when
Morgan has non for Crawford his
freedom.
Nan is relieved when she reaches the
courtroom ana finds not guilty"
rerdict is returned and she does not
have 70 SHOW Morgan the proof of his
Tifc's and hi5 friend < faithlessness
era 1foro immediately leaves town A
few DAYS later Iris departs for 4 sup
posed pleasure trip to SeT YORK. Later
letter comes from Iris saying she does
uot love Morgan and that she Kill not
re-urn. She makes no mention Of
Crawford and heRs Morgan not TO
search for her.
Morgan is crushed Later 7hen Nor
gan tn desperation is about 70 place
bis child In boarding school Nan dis
suades him. she promises 70 sta Ti'h
tne child ThIie Morgan goes % the
capital on business
now GO on WITH THE STORY
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mate from the humid lowlands Of
the jungle to the mountains Of
Chiriqui, which have an altitude Of
more than 5000 feet. From the
earliest times Panama has been a
fruitful field for the orchid collector
The first professional collector Of
whom there is any record was Luis
Nee. a French botanist, who visited
Panama in 1874 and 1889.
Who wrote the song, Weary
River?"
The words. we're written by Grant
Clark and the music by Louis Sill
yerS.
What are chasubles and mon
strances?
A chasuble is the principal vest
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CHATTER X

L STEELE, the maid, opened the
- door before Nan could reply to
Curtis'S embarrassing question. The
tignt-lipped maid. who obviously re
eenteG Mans intrusion. LED the way
silently, after curt greeting, up the
broad staircase to the second floor,
but The Childs voluble chatter more
than made up for any conversational
shortage on Estelle's part.
"Nana's my own special cOmp'ny.
Esteile-ain't you. Mana? Mana
work for my father in his Office.
and she's going to be lawyer. too,
WHEN she's grown up-just like me,
amt YOU. Nana?"
I'm already grown up, Curtis. -
Ma laughed. But m going to be
2 lawyer. Maybe you and yOur
father and ] will al be partners to-
Fetner some day"
"Uh huh" Curtis agreed. charg-
ing on ahead to open the door Of
the guest room that had been as
signed to Nan Listen. Mana.
got a police puppy. and guess what
named him? Copl He digs tun-
nels in the SNOW and he can pretty
nearly jump through a hoop I'm
teaching him tricks. Here's your
room. Mana. It's got twin beds in
case you're man and wife. are you.
Mana? Does man mean husband.
Nsna7"
Yes. and I haven't 4 husband
Curtis. 50 III need only one Of those
pretty beds" Nan assured him. rs
she looked about the large. beauti-
ful guest chamber with dazzled eyes.
You're not listening. Nana!'
Curtis stormed with sudden petu-
lance. Il said-if you amt man
snd-wife. could I sleep in here with
you in the other twin bed? Clara's
cone" hp explained proudly L
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Questions and AnS7Ue1cS

Fla. in 1906. The first parochial
school was st. Mary's, at Philadel-
phia, founded in 1854.
Who is the pretender to the
throne of France?
Ferdinand, duke of Montpensier.
What is the address of Rudyard
Kipling?
Batemans BurWash, Sussex, Eng
land.
Why Is Grover Cleveland called
Man of Destiny"
In reference to his rapid Fise from