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■■ . WEATHER. (U 8 Weather Bureau Forecast.) The Only evening paper Katn tonight and tomorrow; warmer to- • . ®..f il night, much colder tomorrow afternoon m WaSningtOn Wltn tne and night; lowest temperature tonight - Associated PreSS NeWS about 54 degrees. Temperatures—Highest, 0_ j -tTr-ii o 56, at noon today; lowest, 46, at 1 a.m. ana WirephOtO Services, today. Pull report on page B-12. _Closing New York Markets, Page 22________ (Some returns not yet recelred!) ~ 85th YEAR. No. 33,861 WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1937-FIFTY-TWO PAGES. **** oe> M..n. A.aoci.t.d Pr..., TWO CENTS. GENERAL MOTORS MEETS STRIKERS AT PEACE PARLEY WITH GOV. MORPHY Officials Open Conference “Without Condition or Prejudice” to Seek End to Labor Trouble. MORE TROOPS ARE SENT TO KEEP ORDER AT FLINT Union Counsel Charges County Prosecutor Violated State Law by Participating in Injunction Case While Owning Shares of Corporation's Stock. By tht Anoclated Presi. Representatives of General Motors and United Automobile Workers con fer with Gov. Frank Murphy in strike peace parley at Lansing, Mich. Nine hundred additional National Guardsmen move toward Flint to join 3,400 already in strike zone. Michigan legislative committees consider proposals to investigate strike. General Motors employes out of work as a result of labor dispute esti mated at 114,000. Br the Associated Press. LANSING, Mich., January 14.— Officials of General Motors Corp. and ©f the United Automobile Workers, whose strikes have slashed deeply Into the company’s automotive pro duction, met for the first time today ©cross a conference table in the of fice of Gov. Frank Murphy. Gov. Murphy, who requested them to meet him “without condition or prejudice” to seek “an Immediate and peaceful termination” of the strikes Which have thrown 114,000 General Motors wage earners out of work, fapened the conference at 11:08 a.m., Eastern standard time. Before the meeting started, Larry Davidow, union counsel, charged that Joseph R. Joseph, Genesee County prosecutor, violated Michigan statutes by participating in a case in which an Injunction was sought against strikers in General Motors plans in Flint. Davidow, who did not parti cipate in the conference, said Joseph owned 61 shares of the corporation's stock. Even as the men sat down behind locked doors here to seek a solution in the tense strike deadlock, additional National Guard troops ordered out by the Governor reached the city of Flint —“hot spot” of the strike—to assist civil authorities in maintaining order. Leaders Are Silent. There was no fraternizing as the representatives of opposing sides in the dispute met outside the Governor’s office in the State capitol. The lead ers had "nothing to say" as they filed through the double doors and there was no intimation as to how long the conference might continue. The Governor hoped that in this face-to-face meeting the leaders of corporation and union could arrive at a basis for peace negotiations which hitherto have been blocked by opposing stipulations. General Mo tors declined to negotiate until “stay in” strikers vacated their positions inside the plants; the union asked written guarantees that the corpora tion would not attempt to remove equipment or resume operations. Unusual precautions were taken to assure privacy of the gathering. The entire executive suite was cleared of visitors on orders of Gov. Murphy. News men and camera men were sent into the halls, and even outer doors were closed. A delegation of Flint business men presented the Governor a petition bearing the names of 11,000 persons described as being employes of Gen eral Motors pleading for swift com < See STRIKE, Page /L57) EDWARD MAY VISIT HUNGARIAN FRIENDS Expected to Leave Enzesfeld Castle for Short Stay at Estate Near Budapest. B7 It* Associated Press. ENZESFELD, Austria, January 14.. —The Duke of Windsor, it was dis closed today, may leave Castle En eesfeld, his retreat since he abdi cated the British throne, to be the guest of Hungarian friends near Bud apest. Friends of the former King said it was understood he would be a guest at a castle near Budapest, at least for a short time, and then would return here. Baron Eugene de Rothschild, bis host, already has left for Paris, and -the baroness is planning to follow in a few days. Vienna newspapers re ported the duke is devoting his eve ning hours to practising Austrian waltzes on an accordion he received Jor a Christmas present. Despite a sore band, he spends many hours skiing in the Tyrolean Hills surrounding the Rothschild estate. EDISON MAKES PLANS .Will Start Duties at Navy De partment January 18. ORANGE, N. J., January 14 (JP).— Charles Edison announced today he would start his duties as Assistant Sec retary of the Navy January 18 and withdraw from active participation in Thomas A. Edison, Inc., and affiliated enterprises. The son of the late Inventor, Thomas Edison, has been granted a leave of absence from the companies during his tenure of<the office to which President Roosevelt appointed him. The appoint ment is before the Senate. ^ Partial Reorganizing Report Given Senate by Brookings Committee Announces Public Hearings Will Be Held for Officials of Lending Agencies Concerned in Data. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. The Senate Special Committee on Reorganization of the Administrative Branch of the Government today received in executive session a partial report with recommendations from the Brookings Institution, which was employed Jointly by the President’s Senate and House Reorganization Committee to make a comprehensive study of the Government organization. The Senate committee announced that public hearings will be held for any officials of the lending agencies regarding which recommendations are made in this partial report during the sveek of January 25.’ The House leaders expect late to day to pass the two resolutions ap proved by the House Rules Commit tee sponsored by Chairman Buchanan of the Special House Committee on Reorganization, which provide for setting up of a new special House committee of seven members with J authority to bring in privileged legis lation and which would join with a similar Senate committee with in quisitorial powers on Government or ganization. The lending agencies covered In the recommendations of the Brookings In stitutions presented orally as well as in a printed report to the Senate com mittee today, include Farm Credit Ad ministration, Federal land banks, Fed eral farm mortgage corporations, in termediate credit banks, production credit corporations, production credit associations, banks for co-operatives, regional agricultural credit corpora tions (in liquidation), emergency crop and feed loan section, joint stock land banks (in liquidation), credit unions, commodity credit corporations. Federal Housing Adminstraton, Federal Home Loan Bank Board, home loan banks, Home Owners Loan Corporation, Fed eral savings and loan associations, (See-REORGANIZATION’Page-A-3) FRANCE IS READY Decides to Negotiate With Reich Without Demanding Political Guarantees. BACKGROUND— Main factor in European rela tions for many years has been con flict between Germany and France. After Franco-Prussian War. feeling smouldered over Alsace-Lorraine and other issues until new war was inevitable. It came in 1914. Al though World War has been over 20 years, repercussions are still felt. Germany felt crushed by the Ver sailles treaty and in recent years has begun ignoring it, causing new French complications. Outbreak of Spanish war, in which French and German sympathies were, as usual, on opposite sides, increased an tagonism between powers. Es tUe Associated Press. PARIS, January 14.—France agreed today to meet Germany half way on the question of an economic agree ment. Informed persons said the Socialist government had agreed to open economic negotiations with the Natl third Reich without demanding, first, a series of German political pledges. That decision hurdled the main stumbling block to the proposed trade accord by which France hopes to re turn Germany to Western European collaboration. Tne Germans nave msiswo uiai economic negotiations come first; a political settlement later. Premier Leon Blum has determined to meet Germany half way and will announce a modified plan January 24 before a People's Front meeting at Lyon. The French press, in part, considered the changed position so outstanding as to make it “unnecessary to emphasize the importance of this event in world politics.” Other portions of the press gloomily observed that, when a conditional ad* vantage was granted Germany, the condition usually was lost in the end. Trade Treaty Objective. A Franco-German economic treaty providing a new and simplified clear ing system was reported to the be the first objective of the negotiations to stimulate commercial exchange. (A Berlin communique yesterday stated officially experts already were negotiating for an economic accord.) France was considered generally to be seeking every means of holding a friendly Germany from isolation by easing the Reich’s economic stress. (See France! Page a-4.) Wrestler Injured in Crash. ALLENTOWN, Pa., January 14 UP). —An automobile collided with a bus 3 miles west of Allentown, injuring Eddie Malone of Columbus, Ohio. Malone said he was driving to New York to wrestle in a featured match tonight at the Hippodrome. He re ceived *a deep laceration on the fore head and possibly fractured ribs. Leaders in Advertising For the FIFTH consecutive yeor The Star has printed a greater volume of advertising than any other newspaper in the United States. (All figures from Media Records, Inc.), The Year 1936 LINES The Washington Star..22,975,043 The New York Times..21,755,814 The Detroit News_20,763,125 The Chicago Tribune..20,444,045 The New York News...19,838,944 Washington Newspapers THE STAR_22,975,043 (Evening and Sunday) 2d Newspaper-11,519,865 (Morning and Sunday) 3d Newspaper__11,347,932 (Evening Only) 4th Newspaper_10,159,785 (Morning and Sunday) 5th Newspaper_6,515,453 r; (Evening Only) K PORTER CONFESSES Suspect Reported to Have Signed Admission After 24-Hour Quiz. (Picture on Page A-5.) By the Associat'd Press. NEW YORK. January 14 —Break ing down after refusing for 24 hours to admit any guilt in the bathtub slaying of Mrs. Mary Robinson Case, ! Major Greene, stocky colored porter,! signed a full confession of the crime early today. District Attorney Charles P. Sullivan announced. The district attorney said Greene signed the confession at 5:25 o'clock, and three minutes later he was charged with the slaying. He said the porter, who was em ployed in the Jackson Heights apart ment building where the attractive 25 year-old housewife was strangled and beaten with a hammer before her life less body was dumped into a bathtub Monday, would be arraigned today in Queens Felony Court. "Theft was the motive.’’ Sullivan 3aid in a terse statement. "He was let into the apartment by her (Mrs. Case) on the pretext he was going to wash the windows. That was before 2 p.m., just how long I can’t say.’’ Blood-smeared fingerprints on the apartment woodwork and a blood stained pair of trousers found in an incinerator chute were the clues that led to the arrest of Greene at his Har lem home 36 hours after the killing. A blood-stained hammer, also taken from the incinerator, was established by police as the instrument with which Mrs. Case’s skull was crushed. The Negro told police his mother lived in Bartow, Fla., and his father in Edton Park. Fla. Frank Case, 30-year-old Cornell Uni versity graduate, now employed by a hotel supply company, found his wife's lifeless body in the tub, which was covered by a sheet, when he returned from his office Monday night. -• GIRLS IN HOSPITAL Found 111, Starving and Unclad in Cold Alberta Hovel. RIMBLEY, Alberta. January 14.— (Canadian Press).—Three little girls, members of a family of nine found starving and all but unclothed in the bitter cold of Alberta’s brush country, were brought today to a hospital. The sisters, Lillian, 3; Herta, 7, and Alvina, 11, daughters of Gustav Zins, were in a serious condition. Lillian had pneumonia; the others, intestinal influenza. With four other children, they were found by a doctor and a Royal Cana dian Mounted policeman in a hovel 20 miles west of here, with only ragged feather ticks to protect them from the cold. The father had delayed calling the doctor because he had no money. Roosevelt Gets Bid to Attend Own Inaugural Writes His Regrets, Reconsiders—IV s All in Fun. Amused at receiving an engraved in vitation to attend his own inaugura tion, President Roosevelt today in structed his social secretary to send his “regrets" with an explanation that he would be “too busy." When the secretary, catching the spirit of the situation, placed on the President's desk a proposed declination of the invitation, worded in proper social form, the President pondered a moment and then Jotted in ink across the bottom: “I have rearranged my engagements and I think I may be able to go. Will know definitely January IS. (Signed) F. D. R.” The President underscored the word “think" in the first sentence. A similar invitation to Mrs. James Roosevelt, mother of the President, prompted her to reply: “Mrs. James Roosevelt accepts with pleasure the invitation to attend the inauguration of her son, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.” Stephen Early, Presidential secre tary, explained that Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson sent the handsomely engraved invitations in the belief the President and his mother would like to have them for souvenirs. Picking up the invitation as he pe rused his mail last night, the President (Sea INVITATION, AUTO MAY OFFER CLUE IN HUNT FOR Bloodstains Expected to Show Car Was Used by Kidnaper. ‘SUSPECTS’ ROUNDED UP AS SEARCH IS EXTENDED Police, Following New “Leads,” Also Look for Knife Wielded in Stabbing Boy.” By the Associated Press. Federal agents examine blood stained automobile as possible kidnap car. Officers hunt knife used to stab little victim, hoping for finger prints. '•John Doe” warrant Issued to make kldnap-killer officially an outlaw. Clues and ••suspects” reported In widespread areas, but official comment stifled. California ex-convict ordered apprehended for questioning; fin gerprints checked. By the Associated Press. TACOMA, Wash.. January 14 — Federal Bureau of Investigation agents studied a blood-stained tire chain to day as the latest clue in their search for the kidnaper and slayer of Charles Mattson. The bloody chain was taken from a stolen automobile recovered at Everett. Wash., near where the beaten body of the 10-year-old Tacoma kidnap vic tim was found Monday. A Federal agent said tests had shown the substance staining the chain was human blood, but refused to say whether it had been proved to be Charles’ blood. State Patrol Chief William Cole said other stains in the car were also human blood. The automobile, stolen last Friday from Verne Williams of Everett and left parked on another Everett street sometime Sunday night, remained in the Everett police garage, where it was taken early yesterday. Detailed Check-up. Federal agents and State patrol men checked every stain and mark on the machine to determine whether it was used to transport Charles' body to the snowy hiding place where It was discovered. The householder who reported the machine to police said what appeared to be a bloody handkerchief was lying on the fender, and a pile of clothes, stained with something that looked like blood, was in the tonneau. One tire chain was with the pile of clothes and another beside the driver's seat, he added. me same source aemea any wom en's underclothing had been found in the machine, as had been rumored. State patrolmen in the Everett dis trict extended their search for clues to the Lake Serene district, some di stance from where Charles' body was found. Chief Cole did not explain the concentration of officers there. G-Men Silent. In Washington, D. C., meanwhile, 3. Edgar Hoover, chief of the Bureau of Investigation, in a brief Interview said: "The same policy prevails. We won’t discuss the case until we catch him.” Then he added quickly: “I don’t mean him—I mean him or them.” While officers also sought a knife and studied clues reported almost hourly from widespread areas, Fed eral officials took quick steps to prose cute the killer. A "John Doe” warrant, issued by a United States commissioner late yes terday, officially made an outlaw of the abductor who seized Charles, De cember 27, passed up offars of the demanded $28,000 ransom and left his battered body where it was foVBd by a hunter last Monday. Several persons were detained for (See KIDNAPING, Page A-3.) Summary of Today’s Star Page. Amusements A-18 Army, Navy.A-15 Comics -C-7 Editorial A-12 Financial ...A-21 Lost*Found A-3 Obituary ...A-14 Page. Puzzles_C-7 Radio _C-4 Short Story.A-13 Society_B-3 Sports _C-l-3 Woman’s Pg.. C-5 FOREIGN. France changes policy toward trade parley with Reich. Page A-l Efforts to release 21 Americans from Sianfu fail. Page A-l French troops reported rushed to Madrid. Page A-4 NATIONAL. Porter confesses bathtub slaying of New York woman. Page A-l Byrd committee studies Brookings data on reorganization. Page A-l General Motors peace parley opens at Governor’s office. Page A-l Senator Wheeler hits Van Swerlngens’ use of funds. Page A-S Old law may halt Spanish war en listing in U. S. Page A-4 WASHINGTON AND VICINITY. P. W. A. loan interest in D. C. fiscal proposal is cited. Page A-l Stadium-armory model to be displayed at Capitol. Page A-2 Cummings’ proposal for $750,000 Jail here is studied. Page A-2 P. 8. C. told Bay Ridge act bars new ferry franchise. Page A-S President presents Schlff Trophy to Comdr. McFall. Page A-7 Peery gets 500 letters protesting Edith Maxwell conviction. Page A-2 Mrs. Norton to present District racing bill today. Page B-l Taxi strike dropped temporarily; sym pathizers sought. kPage B-l ( COULD IT BE / THAT Jim Farley / WILL BE THE l texr? *Z3K2& Tennessee U. S. Steel Sub sidiary Holds Data De manded Private. BY JOHN C. HENRY. Counsel for the Tennessee Coal. Iron and Railroad Co., a subsidiary of , the United States Steel Corp., today refused to produce employment rec ords of the company for the Senate Committee investigating labor espion age. headed by Senator La Pollette, Progressive, of Wisconsin. Claiming the records have Yto bear ing on collective bargaining rights and the scope of the committee in quiry, Attorney Borden Burr said the information therein contained is "essentially private." Records of some "typical cases" of employment data are being submitted. Burr continued, along with much other material requested by the com mittee. Karl L. Landgrebe, vice president, and Ernest L. Le May, assistant to the president, took the stand after Burr’s formal statement to the com mittee. Both denied company use of private detective agencies or espionage methods of any kind. Le May recalled solicitations by of ficers of the Pinkerton Detective Agency on the matter of espionage, but insisted their proposals had been rejected. Communist Employe Called. John Barton, paid employe of the Communist party, was called next. Recently released from a tuberculosis hospital. Barton told of three arrests in Alabama. Although the Communist party is legal in Alabama. Barton said he was held in each Instance for his political activities. On his second arrest, in January, 1936, Barton said a private detective, named “McDufT,” came to his home with Birmingham police. Entering without a search warrant and booking them for investigation .the officers arrested Barton, his wife and a friend. On one occasion when Barton was under arrest, he testified, he was ques tioned by a city alderman about Com munist leaders in the country. The alderman asked, he said, if Mrs. Roose velt. Heywood Broun and other "well known liberals” were Communists. Resulting from one of his arrests, Barton said he served 180 days for possession of communistic literature. Part of this time was spent in the city jail of Bessemer, where as many as 14 prisoners were kept in a single cell 10 by 7 feet. No bathing facilities were “ (See LA POLLETTE, Page A-6.) House D. C. Committee may begin fiscal study Monday. Page B-l Bills would have commission revise D. C. law code. Page B-l District racing bill presented in Congress. Page B-l Justice Department reopens Henry murder probe. Page B-l EDITORIAL AND COMMENT. This and 'Hiat. PageA-12 Answers to Questions. PageA-12 Political Mill. Page A-12 David Lawrence. PageA-13 Paul Mallon. PageA-13 Mark Sullivan. PageA-13 Headline Polk. PageA-13 SPORTS. Virginia to "chop off some heads” in revising sports staff. Page C-l Increase in track stars is foreseen by A. A. U. official. Page C-l Start declared of greatest importance in horse racing. Page C-2 Golf engineer convinced so many sand traps are unnecessary. Page C-2 Congressional to add nine holes with watering system. Page C-3 MISCELLANY. Washington Wayside. Page A-2 City News in Brief. Page A-22 Young Washington. Page C-12 Vital Statistics. Page A-» Nature’s Children. Page C-6 Traffic Convictions. Page C-S Betsy Caswell. Page C-5 Dorothy Dlx. Page C-5 Bedtime Story. Page C-6 After Dark. Page B-8 FINANCIAL. Cotton consumption soars. Page A-2* Low-yield bonds ease (table). Page A-21 Building continues rise. Page A-21 Auto stocks rally (table). Page A-22 Curb list mixed (table). PageA-23 Bank clearings drop. ' Page A-2J Mrs. Roosevelt on Inspection Holds Jail Community Peril Administration Efficient, But Institution Overcrowded and Physically Imperfect, She Says. After spending an hour going through the District Jail today. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt said she con sidered conditions at the institution a source of ‘'danger" to the community. She added, however, that she ‘‘took her hat off” to the administrative offi cials of the jail. ‘ Because of the physical conditions here,” she declared, "the jail could be a perfectly terrible place were it not tor excellent administration." Mrs. Roosevelt, accompanied by Police Court Judge Edward M. Curran, was taken through the Jail by Supt. T. M. Rives. <91 Prisoners Crowded. With accommodations for about S00, the jail now houses 691 prisoners and this number has been higher. Mrs. Roosevelt said she considered the jail a source of danger to the community because there are not adequate facilities for examining and segregating prisoners with contagious diseases and first offenders. Over crowding. she added, is one of the serious shortcomings. Mrs. Roosevelt did not see the elec tric chair because a group of prison ers was eating in the mess hall when she made her tour. She expressed the belief, however, that tho neces sity of using the dining room for a death chamber is a highly undesir able feature. Women’s Section Better. “The women s section.” she said, "is the better part of the jail, with more light and air than the men's branch.” She said she saw food being pre pared in the kitchen and that it ap peared "remarkably good.” Mrs. Roosevelt added she does not expect to make any recommendations as a result of her inspection. TRAPPED IN CHINA Embassy Reports Failure to Rescue Group Cut Off in Sianfu. By the Associated Press. NANKING, January 14.—Assistant Military Attache David Barrett in formed the United States Embassy to day from Loyang of the failure of efforts to release the 21 Americans trapped in the revolt-stricken city of Sianfu. Barrett was ordered to Loyang. cap ital of Honan Province, to direct the evacuation efforts as soon as the situa tion in the walled stronghold of Marshal Chang Hsueh-liangs Com munist-inspired armies became acute. Reports filtering through the rigid censorship at Sianfu indicated both the rebels and the central govern ment's puntive expedition were pre paring for hostilities. Embassy officials, although they re ported no progress in evacuation at tempts anywhere in the widespread northwestern territory which the gov ernment admits has come under Com munist influence, still held out hope. They said they were exploring every possible avenue of escape for the Americans, particularly those believed held in Sianfu as "hostages” to pre vent bombardment of the Shensi cap ital. Official routine, they Indicated, would be discarded If such action in creased the* possibility of getting the virtually imprisoned Americans to safety. Wang Returns to Shanghai. SHANGHAI, January 14 (JP).—Wang Ching Wei, former premier of China, returned here today after almost a year’s vacation in Europe. He was recalled from Geneva by Central government officials during the Sianfu crisis of last month, when Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was held prisoner by Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang. 0. C. LOAN INTEREST Jacobs Plan Would Force Payment and Harsher Terms. Under a provision of the fiscal re lations formula in the recent Jacobs report, the District would be forced to pay the National Government 4 per cent interest on P. W. A. loans, al though the original statute authorizing such loans waived the interest and sub stituted harsher terms of repayment than required for other municipalities. The District, in other words, would be forced to meet the harsher terms imposed hecause the interest was waived, and then, if the report’s recom cendations were carried out, would have to pay the interest, too. Interest Exemption. In listing “Services rendered by the Federal for the District government,” the report contained this paragraph on the interest feature of local P. W. A. loans: "The funds advanced by the Public Works Administration to the District government for W. P. A. construction projects carry no interest charges for the first three years. Similar advances to the States and municipalities bear interest at the rate of 4 per cent per annum. It is recommended that the waiving of interest be withdrawn through statutory amendment of public act No. 51, May 6, 1935.” A citizen of one of the States, read ing that part of the report, would be justified in reaching the conclusion that the one difference between non Federal P. W. A. allotments here and elsewhere is that the District is re lieved of interest for three years. That, however, is only a small part of the story. The rest of it is that, while the District pays no interest during the first three years, it is re quired by special act of Congress to repay the principal at the rate of $1,000,000 a year, whereas other cities throughout the county are permitted (See REPORT," Page A-2.) Pneumonia Drug Successful In Tests Made With Mice BY THOMAS R. HENRY. An effective treatment for pneu monia in mice was reported today from the laboratories of the Na tional Institute of Health. While still far from the stage where it can be used in the treat ment of human beings, the effects on the animals are so pronounced that the findings promise to constitute one of the outstanding medical de velopments of the year. The treatment, developed by Dr. Sanford M. Rosenthal, consists of in jections into the mice of a synthetic drug whose molecule is essentially the molecule of prontosil—which has come into much prominence in the last few months in the treatment of streptococcie infections in humans— split in half. It& chemical name is para-aminobenmij sulphonamide. i Pneumonia is caused by a group of organisms known as pneumococci— related to the streptococci, yet react ing in quite different ways. Approxi mately 34 groups of these pneumo cocci now are known. The first three groups are responsible for the great majority of pneumonia cases. When mice are infected with human pneu mococci strains they invariably die in two or three days. They have no in herent resistance. In fact, the in fection spreads so rapidly that there is no time* for the localization in the lungs, characteristic of human cases, before the animal dies. Thus, it was explained at the National Institute of Health today, the term “mouse pneu monia" is somewhat misleading as a parallel to human pneumonia. Experiments ^have demonstrated, (See PNEmj|>NIA. Page A^T) M’CARRAN OFFERS BILL TO READJUST FEDERAL SALARIES Raise for All Under $3,600 Provides Minimum Wage of $1,500. CLASSIFICATION ACT EXTENSION INCLUDED System of Periodical Increases Is Also Proposed—Rating Method Repeal Is Urged. BY J. A. OLEARY. Pay increases for all Government employes receiving less than $3,600 per year, a new method of handling effi ciency ratings, and extension of the classification act to the field service and the new agencies are the high lights of a comprehensive salary ad justment bill introduced today by Sen ator McCarran, Democrat, of Nevada. In addition to fixing a $1,500 mini mum wage for all full-time adult em ployes, it provides for a system of periodical increases within the salary ranges of the classification act by ad vancing the employe once each year until the maximum rate for the grade is reached. The salary steps in each of the classification grades up to $3,600 are revised in detail in the bill. While there Is no uniform percentage of in crease, it is estimated the average would be about $150 a year. Repeals Rating Method. The measure repeals the present method of handling efficiency ratings of employes, which McCarran called •'unfair.” In its place the bill author izes the classifying agency to ascer tain in consultation with the depart ment heads to what extent it is prac ticable to determine efficiency rating, and may authorize the use of such ratings subject to the approval of the President. Any ratings so used, how ever, would hate to be open to in spection by the employe. In support of early action on the bill, McCarran declared that the Fed ; eral Government, as the largest em 1 ployer in the country, should en j courage private industry to establish | better wage levels by bringing its own full-time workers up to a basis of ‘‘equity and decency, where the Amer ican standard of living can be main tained.” McCarran also asserted that the cost ' of living has been turning upward j during the past three years. He said he is not unmindful of those in the salary level above $3,600. but that necessity and humanity makes a raise in the lower brackets imperative. McCarran Explains Bill. In explaining his bill, Senator Mc Carran said: “Section 1 of the bill which I am introducing provides that the provi sions of the classification act of 1923 as amended shall be extended to in clude field services, with such excep tions as are noted elsewhere in the bill. “Section 2 makes certain that this bill shall not apply to those offices or positions already excluded from the classification act of the District of Columbia, such as apprentices, help ers or journeymen in the recognized trades and crafts and foreign service officers who are already classified by the Rogers act. "Section 3 provides that where positions are found in the field ser vices that are not fairly like positions under the present act within the Dis trict of Columbia, that the classifica tion agency is empowered to set up additional services and grades to fit the new type of position. This section, however, must have presidential ap proval and shall be reported to Con gress as soon as practicable. "Section 4 gives the classification agency authority to exclude certain positions from the classification act, such as work jointly financed by the United States and another govern mental unit, local or State: positions filled by inmates of institutions, such as soldiers' homes; positions without the continental limits of the United (SeelPAY, Page A-Z) MAN IS FOUND DEAD WITH STOVE JETS ON Coal Company Employe Leaves Note Blaming Act on “Physical and Mental" Illness. Resigning his job by telegram in one of his last acts, James M. Finney, jr„ 35-year-old employe of the Dis trict Coal Co., ended his life by asphyxiation late yesterday in his apartment at 230 Rhode Island ave nue northeast. A note, which police said was ad dressed to Finney’s wife, Mrs. Ethel Finney, attributed the action to “physical and mental” illness. Mrs. Finney found her husband dead on the kitchen floor with gas flowing from open stove jets. The Are rescue squad made a futile at tempt at resuscitation. A certificate of suicide was issued by Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald. COLDER WEATHER IS DUE FOR CAPITAL TOMORROW Bain and Warmer Expected To night, However, Says Weather man—Average Yesterday 43. Much colder weather is in store for Washington tomorrow afternoon and night, ^according to the Weather Bureau. Meantime, however, the District can expect rain and warmer tem peratures tonight. The mercury probably will not fall below the 54 degree mark, the forecaster said. The "average” temperature yester day was 43 degrees. The ‘‘htgh’* and "low" for the day were, respectively, 47 and 46. |