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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-20
Rifle Champion Dies.

BUTTE, Mont, December 20 R.-
Roy e. Tisdale, SO, nth ranking anna
teur trapshooter of the United States,
national small-bore rife champion and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-20
Wales Getting Better.

LONDON, December 20 (P.-The
Prince Of Wales, who has been Ill with
a chill, Is making satisfactory progress
toward complete recovery, a bulletin
from his residence, York House, today
said,
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eminent Printing ONCE Building has a
valuation of $4000,000 and $552,970 on
the land, Mr.. Richards said. The
United States Patent ONCE Building he
estimated at $3,50o,00O and $5.457, 900
for the land.
For the United States Weather Bureau
the land is valued at 100000 and the
buildings at 100000.
In addition to these, Mr.. Richards
explained, there were miscellaneous
pieces Of property, many purchased by
the Park and Planning Commission,
which include the assessed valuation of
$10,000,000 on the land and $4,000, 900
on improvements.
In response to questions by members
OF the committee, the assessor said his
testimony had included estimates of all
land whose title is invested in the United
States Government, the value of the
land and improvements, and details of
now the assessments were arrived at.
Testimony Is Finished.
Mr.. Richards completed his testi-
mony and was excused, although the
committee plans to requestion him later
10 the hearing after 1t has made care
ful study Of his testimony
The hearing was adjourned after Mr..
Richards was excused and will be re-
sumed again Monday morning at GAS
O'Clock in room 2o3 Of the House Office
Building instead OF In the District
Commiftee room, where tia. committee
has met this week. The. committee de-
cided that the small attendance at the
hearing did not warrant the use Of
room rs large as that assigned 20 the
District Committee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-06
FLETCHER DENIES
TARIFF INTERESTS
Hoover Appointee Tells Sem
ate Group He Sold Stocks
to Avoid Prejudice.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Senate Finance Committee to-
day began open hearings on the norni-
nations of the six tariff commissioners.
questioning Henry p. Fletcher Of PENN
sylvania, Republican chairman.
Fletcher, former diplomat, told
Senator Reed. Pennsylvania. he had
never engaged in tariff lobbying and
had not been active In Pennsylvania
politics recently.
Disposed Of Stocks.
He added he had not been connected
with any industry seeking tariff protec-
ton and had disposed Of some stocks
which he thought might be involved
In the tariff.
In response to questions, he said he
had made no study of the tariff until
his appointment to the commission.
Asked by Senator Harrison, Democrat,
Mississippi, II he was what you might
call the high protector" Fletcher re-
piled:
"Well, I don't think So"
Favors NOn-Partisan Group.
Fletcher said he had paid no atten-
ton to politics in selecting personnel.
He told Senator King, Democrat, Utah,
he believed the commission should be
non-partisan.
Every question so far decided by
the commission has been unanimous,
Fletcher said, adding: I'VE have been
O very happy family"
Chairman Smoot wanted the hear
ings closed, but the committee voted
TO to open them, Senator Couzens,
Michigan, and La Toilette, wisconsin,
Republican, voting with the Democrats.
Page, Democrat, Testifies.
Thomas w. Page Of Virginia, Demo-
cratic vice chairman Of the commission,
testified on his service with the Taft
and Wilson Tariff Commissions.
If an industry suffered from depres-
sion and foreign competition, he told
Senator Bingham, Republican, Con-
necticut, he would favor higher rate.
He added. however, he would not favor
increased duty to improve an industry
which 1t is not desirable for this coun-
try to have"
Page said he had not changed his
views In opposition to the flexible tariff.
Then how could you accept q posi-
ton on a commission whose principal
task Is to administer the flexible pro-
vision?" asked Bingham.
He replied he had been asked to as
sist In remedying inequalities and In
justices" in the 1880 act and not gem
eral readjustment of rates.
Replying to La Toilette, Page said
he believed the new flexible provision,
giving the commission power to recon-
mend rate changes and requiring the
President to adhere to its specific recon-
mendations in proclaiming any change.
was an improvement over the 1922 fiexi-
bic clause.
He said he had seen no evidence of
political pressure In choosing the COM
mission personnel.
Coulter Has Had Varied Career.
John Lee Coulter of North Dakota,
Republican member Of the commission
and its former chief economist, said
he had been farmer, lawyer, preacher
and economist.
He said President Hoover, in talking
over his appointment, asked him II he
was not technically a Republican"
He replied he had been listed for so
years as a progressive Republican.
He didn't ask you If you were q
Hoover Republican, did hep" asked
Senator Harrison. e
mo, he did not" Coulter replied.ro
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-06
BAND CONCERT.

BY the United States Soldiers Home
Band Orchestra, Stanley Hall, this eve
ming, beginning at $50 O'Clock; John
s. M. Zimmerman, bandmaster; Anton
Pointner, assistant
l. March, Garry On. ............ Lake
2. Overture, Flying Artillery"
Bergenholtz
8. Descriptive fantasia, Storm King.
Mountain" Curtis
4. Potpourri, Echoes From the
VOlga ...E............ .SOreQy
Selection of Russian melodies.)
5. Fox trot, Anything You Say"
Donaldson
6. Waltz song, Baron Trenck". .Albini
z. Finale, college Stunts" .Zamecink
The Star Spangled Banner"
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Plan.
INCREASES RELIEF
shmbIes of Revolt Dying in
View Of $50, 900, 600 Fund
Approved by Committee.

d the Associated Press.
qnterparty cooperation on emergency
xelief legislation today, at least, seemed
! strictly congressional affair, with the
Ehaite House left out.
Party leaders in the Senate showed
fhat cooperation meant to them by
getting together on increasing from
So, ooo, 600 to $So,e0e, eco the Presidents
tefommendation for relief to farmers of
De drought States. =
This, the. first measure of the enier-
ency program, goes before the Senate
1Tpnday. with the unanimous. approval
Of. the Agricultural Committee given to
t1e larger figure. Senator McNary,
Chairman OF the group and assistant
Republican leader, placed his name on
Ene measure. Democratic Leader Robin
son warned there would be floor fight
41less the $4,000 900 prevailed. Imme-
Sihte consideration and passage within
TIE week will be sought.
81 Fuller Test Ahead.
RumbleS Of revolt in party ranks be-
came less loud in view of these de-
vaopmentS, but fuller test of the CO.
liberation pledge given by Democratic
ahieftains appeared in prospect during
Ns debate on the bill.
I In the House Agriculture Committee
the parties did not get together that
FAy. Representative Aswel1, Democrat,
louisiana, was holding out for the $780,
600, 900, while the Republican leaders
we're confident of reporting the admins
trRtion figure.
] The second item on the Hoover relief
program, $150,0000 900 for public build
ing. also appeared in for some diff
eulties in the House Appropriation
Eemmittee. With the House joining the
Senate in week end recess, both these
f9nmitteeS were driving ahead today,
expectant Of q vote which would per-
nit them to report the bills on Monday.
81 Appointees Scrutinized.
New discomfort in the Senate appeared
ever the disapproval by Secretary Slim
On of the proposals to ban all quota
Emigration for two years or five. Sem
ebr Reed, Republican, Pennsylvania,
Sponsored one of these and had ex-
Dressed confidence it would receive adj
hSnistration approval. The Secretary
- State yesterday calculated that with
out such a law immigration would fade
Mext year to inconsiderable proportions,
&ft through continuance of the present
9dict Interpretation of entry rules.
{ Presidential appointments were in for
close study, beginning today with ex-
I animation of the new tariff commission
rs by the Senate Finance Committee.
kInne Interstate Commerce Committee
hext week viii go into the Power Com
g4ission appointments, probably ques-
fpning the five appointees closely on
tReir views regarding the water-power
bet. And their attitude toward Frank
p Bonner, the latter executive secre-
t3ry of the commission, has been UNI
der fire from several quarters, in and
opt OF Congress, as power trust"
Man. This committee also is to call
before it Chsrles d. Mahaffie for oues-
ftDning on objections brought to his
appointment on the Interstate COM
i11erce Commission.
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1899 UNEMPLOYED
LISTED IN DISTRICT
BY CENSUS TAKERS

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job, able to work and looking for a
job" totaling 8,999, 6.4l8 Of these were
males and 1881 were females. More than
48 per cent Of this group, or 4,218 have
been out of a job for more than eight
weeks and 6,640, or nearly n per cent
has been idle for more than four
weeks.
Degrees Of IdIeness.
OF the 1870 persons laid OF with
out pay, 903, or so per cent, had been
idle for less than two weeks; 30, or IA
per cent, three or four weeks, and 457,
or 20 per cent, more than four weeks.
OF the total in the jobless class,
2,807, or 81 per cent, were returned as
heads of families; STAB, or AZ per cent,
as related members of families, and
2,444, or ~ per cent, without known
family ties. In the class Of persons
having jobs, but on lay-off without pay,
701 out OF q total of 1875 were heads
OF families, sos were related members
OF families and $40 were without known
family connections.
The Census Bureau classified these
groups by age, pointing out that $500,
or Al per cent of the jobless, were under
30 years of age; 1853, or % per cent,
were between 80 and 40; 1851, or Is
per cent, between 30 and SO; and Ito,
or 10 per cent, so years old or over.
OF the total population Of 4S6,6so IN
Bureau asserted that 23l 1913 were male.
while 254,986 were female.
Or the 243,859 total of gainful work.
ers, the Census Bureau asserted that
154, 882 were males, and 88.977 were fe-
males.
ID. C. Job Agency Ready.
To the employers Of the Capital,
Frederic A. Delano. chairman of the
District Of Columbia Committee on En-
ployment, today offered the complete
services OF the enlarged and ef1iciently
organized employment agency.
In his statement, Mr. Delano said. in
part: "t'-N' ~
Men and women require work.
thousands more than ever before IN
washington. We have classified them
carefully according to their capabilities:
we nave greatly enlarged the District of
columbia Employment Agency at AGO
louisiana avenue. Already large and
Wen managed, we have given 1t addi-
tlonaI equipment, trained assistants and
mace IL the ofncial clearing house for
applicants for jobs. We have done
TINS because we know you would not
care to be flooded with applicants from
numerous agencies, neither would Won
De pleased If jacks of all trades were
sent to NIL your positions requiring
specific training.
Wants Requests Now.
II am explaining all the above be-
Tore making my request so that Won
may be reasonably assured that intel
lgent attention will be given the calls
I am asking of you.
What is needed now Is Jobs. The
putting to work of these idle hands
IS OF such vital Importance that I have
no hesitancy in extending my most
cordial and earnest Invitation to list
YIN US any work you can. May I count
upon hearing from YOU as often ana
Is regularly as ppssiblep Please car
National S30S, being as specific Is Won
IAN In stating your requirements. Then
cave the rest to u.s."
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Tense Counsel Frank G. Raichle for
cross examination.
In his earlier testimony the account
ant had dealt with one item in the
Dill OF particulars, wherein the Govern
ment charged Pitts with embezzling
$Sl Jas on May 10, 1928. by cashing
several Smith company checks and
pocketing the proceeds. One of these
checks was for $5l190.
Taxing up this check, Raichle turned
to Malone and asked:
II we show that customer of the
Smith Co. gave bad check for this
amount, and that Pitts then sent his
own check to the Commercial National
Bank TO cover the bad check, would YOU
money!"
IF those facts were true, I should
think not, insofar as that particular
item Is concerned" Malone answered.
Another item In the bill dealt in part
with the alleged embezzlement by Pitts
OF $500 from the Smith Co. on June
rs, 1928.
Malone Explains Interpretation.
Malone said that with regard TO this
item, all he knew was that check of
the Smith company in that sum had
been cashed, and that on the same day
like amount had been deposited to
Pitts personal account. Not having the
cash disbursement journal of the COM
pany, he said, he could trace the trans
action no further.
Raichle then introduced documentary
evidence to show that on the date in
question a check for $500 had been
executed by the company to Thomas L.
Hume in payment for some stock, He
also produced the Cancelled check with
Humes Endorsement on the back.
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had been returned here. Mckay, the
other two say, helped plot the robbery
attempt and got the gun for CARMEL.
He did not accompany them to the
scene.
Carnell said their selection Of Bush
as a victim was the merest chance. He
said they were cruising near the Plaza
Hotel, which Mr.. Bush owned; on the
night Of the robbery, when Mahoney
suggested they stick up the bus line
owner.
Mahoney, Carnell said, had worked
for Bush, and knew he carried consid-
cradle sums Of money on his person.
Mahoney and CARMEL noticed Bush's
car parked in front Of the hotel. They
drove to an alley near his home, and
CARMEL went to the Bush garage to wait
for the victim.
Recalls Only Two Shots.
Although police found i've exploded
shells from an automatic in the alley
near the garage, CARMEL said he could
recall only two shots. He received q
deep soap wound in the encounter, a
circumstance which awakened the
suspicious Of a woman described as
Carnell's stepmother.
The woman later was able to give
police information which led to the
first arrests. Carnell was picked up by
Pittsburgh police several days ago on
charges OF passing spurious checks.
Carnen had not obtained legal advice
at late hour today. The Government's
case probably will be represented by
Assistant United States Attorney VII
liam Collins.
Carnel was questioned with regard
70 previous robberies here, but denied
all knowledge of them. He has beer
arrested several times in the past, police
say. in connection with robberies and
hold-ups.
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Mded, however, that In no case shall
the compensation of any employe be
increased unless Congress has appro-
pTtated money from which the increase
may be lawfully paid, nor shall the rate
for any employe be increased beyond
the maximum rate for the grade to
which his position is allocated."
"This section" he continues, "was
further restricted by the so-called
average provision which first appeared
IN appropriation bills in 1925, prevent
receiving more than the average salary
rate of a grade. Such restriction
clearly implies an obligation on the
part Of Congress to increase the COM
pensation of employees who maintain
q satisfactory standard of performance,
at least to the average rate in the re-
spective grades. Because of pressure
exerted by former President Coolidge
practically no increases on account Of
continued satisfactory service, were al
lowed, and evidently because the de-
layed obligation to the employee was
recognized by President Hoover, the
estimates submitted to Congress through
the Bureau of the Budget at the
tanned amounts approXimating 80 per
cent Of the sum to bring employees
below the average of the grade nearer
to that figure.
at Is not conceivable that those who
hold the purse strings of the United
States Treasury have such debased
ethical concept of clearly implied
contractural obligation that hiding be-
hind the specious argument of tempo
rary business depression 1t Is proposed
to invoke reputation.
"As adding insult to injury Mr..
Wood couples his Reputation proposal
with sweeping slurs upon the whole
mass of civilian Federal workers
directed at their industry, application
and loyalty to the Government. The
baselessness of such wholesale SANDER
will be Immediately recognized by the
general public.
"The National Federation Of Federal
Employees, as the authorized spokesman
of Federal workers throughout the
world, does not accept the action taken
in the House as final and will present
the issue to the United States Senate
with the firm belief that the final out
come will be reflected in verdict for
fair dealing and not arbitrary abuse Of
t0wer -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-06
10000 AFFECTED BY BAN PUT
ON FEDERAL PAY INCREASES
Presidents Three-Year Standardization
Plan Delayed, but Not Repudiated,
House Group Clerk Explains.

The ban placed on salary increases
to Government employees, within grades,
during the next fiscal year, in the
House late yesterday affects approx
mately 10000 persons-l00 900 in the
field service and $4,000 in the depart
mental service In the District Of Co
lumbia, according to an estimate by
William H. McReynolds Of the Bureau
Of Efficiency. .
It is intended to cover all groups of
Government employees except those
where increases are mandatory under
existing law-postal employees being q
specific example of those who are not
affected.
It should not be construed as q re-
pudiation of the Presidents three-year
program to bring all underaverage SAL
aries up to a uniform level throughout
the entire Federal service, those who
supported this legislation say, but dis
tinctly as emergency legislation. They
argue that the Government should con-
serve its resources as much as possible
so as to devote all it can to an unem-
ployment relief program.
The intimation is given that the ac-
ton by the Committee on Appropria-
tions and by the House carries the
Presidents approval.
Wording Of Bill Made Exact.
Extreme care was taken, Chairman
Wood of the Appropriation Committee
emphasizes, and the wording of the bill
approved by the House last night was
made exact so that there might not be
any breaking down of the classification
principle or that this emergency"
measure might not work against the
operation of the classification act
Chairman Wood also points out that
a safeguard against Just such an
emergency was made In the classical
ton act of 1928 by the proviso "that
in no case shall the compensation of
any ernploye be increased unless Con-
gress has appropriated money from
which the increase may lawfully be
paid"
Just what the recommendations Of
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Film stars Grandfather Diving.

LOS ANGELES, December LAp
Estelle Taylor, film actress and the wife
OF jack Dempsey, left yesterday for the
bedside OF her dying grandfather ia
The aged man, Charles Barrett, who
reared the actress. was reported to have
but a few hours to live. The former
heavyweight champion did not accom-
pany his wife.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-06
Pantages' Son to Marry.

LOS ANGELES, December g CR.-
Rodney Pantages, son OF Alexander
Marriages, naulH-millionaire tlaeater
.lnagnate, said Miss Berry, Sweeney, Los
married +in the near future -
Young Pantages, who with hts broth
- Lloyd manages q Hollywood theater,
sid Miss Sweeney and he announced
41eir engagement 10 group Of friends
SEVERAL weeks ago.
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the House Committee, which were ap-
proved by the House, contemplate are
explained by Marcellus G. SHIELD, clerk
to the House Committee, as follows:
Although contained in the Treasury
Post Office appropriation bill, 1t is in
tended to apply generally throughout
the entire Federal service and be a
limitation on salary appropriation for
other departments and independent
offices.
It contemplates no increases in SAL
airy except by change in position
through promotion or reallocation by
the Personnel Classification Board.
Promotion Not Stopped.
Promotion of an employe from one
grade to another is not stopped.
If there Is vacancy in q higher
grade, promotion to that vacancy is not
stopped.
If there is new position in a higher
grade, promotion to that new position
is not prevented.
Any place in which there is change
in duty is not included within the pro-
hibition.
It means simply any increase within
the grade.
It does not knock out increases pro-
vided under the WEIGH act or the
Brookhart act. They have already been
granted and the new rates are in effect.
It knocks out-temporarily, or rather
postpones for one year-the Presidents
three-year program for bringing all SAL
aries up to an average for the same
character Of work throughout the entire
Federal service.
It goes further than this by prevent
ing any leeway under lump sum appro-
priatiOnS by specifically providing that
they shall not be used for granting any
increases.
It does not reduce anybody's pay.
It does not change anybody's grade.
It does not prevent promotions from
one grade to another.
e All it does for the next fiscal year Is
to hold stationary those positions with
IN grades at the same salary rate at
which they viii be found July next.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-06
HENRY RETAINS FEES.
Court Allows Sum to Former Head Of
Smith Company.

Chief Justice Wheat of the District
Supreme Court, who recently removed
Samuel j. Henry, former president of
the F. H. Smith Co., from the position
of trustee under mortgages on four
apartment houses, yesterday rendered an
opinion allowing Henry to retain q total
OF $889.57 which he had been paid in
the case of three of the apartments,
but declined to allow any compensation
for his services in connection with the
Al-Roy Apartment, of which he had
never been in possession.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-06
FOG ALONE GIVEN
BLAME FOR DEATHS
Official Probe Shows No
Deadly Gas or Caustic
Chemical in Mist.
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-NN0u1LLIu0u EIOm FIrSG Pa8e.)
yelled like the women Of Moslem coua-
tries, their mouths and noses protected
by handkerchiefs and improvised masks.
The sight was one that might have
peen staged Tor a f1lm showing scenes
in a chemical war.
However, the hypothesis of poison
GUS fumes having come from deteriorat-
ing poison gas bombs of wartime ap-
parently could not hold water, since the
affected district Is 100 miles from the
Flanders battlefields where poison gas
first appeared in 1916.
FOG IS BROKEN BY SUN.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-06
DOUBT POISON GAS THEORY.

Army Experts Cite Necessity Of Ire
mendous Amount for Wide Area.
Chemical war experts of the Army
expressed serious doubt" today that
the deaths in Belgium were caused by
stores of poison gas.
The opinion was based on the con-
tention that tremendous amount of
gas would be necessary to spread over
SO large an area. It was remarked,
however, that only q few facts were
available upon which to base an opin-
ion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-06
3R0WD OF $25, 900
| EXPECTED TO WATCH
/ BENEFIT GRID GAME

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CARNELL ARRAIGNED
IN DEATH OF BUSH;
PLEADS NOT GUILTY

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$500, 600, 900 VALUE
OF U. S. PROPERTY
TAX-EXEMPT HERE

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SMITH CO. DEFENSE
OBTAINS ADMISSION
OF POSSIBLE ERROR

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