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SHAKE-UP IN LOCAL PROHIBITION BUREAU SAID TO BE IMPENDING
, OBJECT TO
U.SMNTS
Charge That Many Are Boot
legging and Several Are
"Stool Pigeons."
V shake-up in the Prohibition
Bureau is impending, it waa learned
here today. The actions of many of
the prohibition agents, it is said, is
casting discredit on the entire
bureau, and many of the Washing
ton police, who have been detailed to
run down bootleggers, have declared
they did not want to work with the
prohibition agents who are now de
tailed in Washington.
Information that some of the
prohibition agents were bootlegging
has come to the local police depart
ment. and the fact that some former
bootleggers are connected with the
* enforcement of prohibition is known.
In addition to this there are severa
former "stool pigeons" who now
have prohibition agents jobs.
This condition has reached such a
stage that for the first time in the
history of prohibition, agents of the
Prohibition Bureau are making raids
without the aid of the police.
Rumors of graft are rife in boot
legging circles in the city, and it is
?aid that the big bootleggers in the
city are paying for protection.
Revenge Is Suggested.
The condition was brought to
the attention of Col. L. O. Nutt,
In charge of the Federal prohibition
agents some time ago. but he said
that the men were doing good
work, and that he was inclined to
believe that the rumors were in
spired by bootleggers, who were
seeking revenge. He said that the
men were only on the Job tempor
arily.
Colonel Nutt said that the bu
leau always made an investiga
tion of the men before they were
employed, but admitted that the
police were well acquainted with
one of his men. He said that this
/ man was a temporary employe.
Several of Colonel Nutt's men
have been accused of getting drunk
while on duty, but they were never
disciplined as far as could be learn
ed At any rate they are still
working for the prohibition forces.
To Make Full Investigation
Following disclosures made by de
tectives Investigating the alcoholic
poisoning of Eckstein. Colonel Nutt,
of the Internal Revenue Bureau,
said this morning he will make the
fullest investigation. Until the in
vestigation is completed he refuses
to state whether or not drastic
steps will be taken against Ecksten.
At the hospital last night Ecksten
is said to have told Detective Ser
geants Kelly and Scrivener that he
went to a house in the southwest
section of the city and purchased
two drinks of corn whisky which
he drank. Later he bought a half
pint of the liquor and drank part
of it at Fifth and D streets in a
Imrber shop, which he frequents.
One of the detectives said he learned
on good authority that Ecksten arwl
another man had 1 been drinking
from a quart bottle containing a
well-known brand. It was also
learned, the detective said, that
Ecksten's friend seemed to be un
der the influence of liquor.
Doctors Used Stomach Pump.
At the hospital it was necessary
for the physicians to use the stom
ach pump on Ecksten. They had
not learned that there had been a
suspicion of poison and threw the
contents of the viscera away. It
had been hoped that an examination
of the contents would have revealed
whether or not poison had found
Its way into his stomach.
Ecksten became ill in the office
of United States Commissioner Hilt,
where he had gone to obtain a war
rant for the arrest of the man who
had sold him the two drinks and the
half-pint of liquor. As his condition
seemed to be aerious he was re
d at once to Emergency Hos
pital.
... the institution this afternoon it
was said that Ecksten's condition
was not improved. "He spent a
restless night, having suffered from
convulsions," a physician said. "He
is resting more quietly now."
KNICKERBOCKER VICTIM
IS BURIED IN WYOMING
Congressman Mondell of Wyom
ing today received word of the fun
eral of William B. Sammon, attache
of the Alien Property Custodian's
office, who was a victim of the
Knickerbocker Theater collapse.
Services were held Sunday at
Sammon's home in Kemmerer, Wyo.
Although the body was delayed at
Chicago, the train arrived at Kam
merer In time for the services as
originally planned.
The American Legion post, of
which Sammon was a member, at-1
tended the funeral. Sammon had
been In Washington about three
months. He lived at 2236 Cathedral
avenue.
D. C. YCjJUNGSTERS INVITED
TO BOY'S CLUB MEETING
All Washington boys between
twelve and seventeen years of age
are Invited to a meeting of The
Boys' Club at 7:S0 o'clock tonight at
230 C street northwest. Plans will
he made for the future work of the
club.
J. T. Dower, veteran Y. M. C. A.
worker and new director of the club,
will be In charge. Members nf the
cluh are entitled to full benefit of
the gymnasium at Trinity Com
munity House and teams will be
organized in alt lines of sp.irt.
? arpentry, printing, cobbling and
allied arts and crafts will be taught.
KISSES GETTING RCAKCK
AS COl'PON'S INCREASE.
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Dear Bill: Your old column
has made lots of troubles /or ux
"fellers." I wrote you that pipe
dream about a flapper who pre
sented me with a kiss coupon
when I wanted to kiss her. Now
it's being taken seriously. Since
that pipe dream of mine was
printed in H and S, kisses to me
have been awfully scarce; why,
even old-time friends insist on
presenting me with legal tender
?a coupon!
Now, Bill, it's been a Frank
j enstein?haunting me, coming
| home to roost. So please tell 'em
I that there is no truth in it, AND
THAT THE OLD WAY IS
BEST! MERCURY.
(Well, boy, wo'rt> doing as you
requested, but we fear that you've
started something. The girls have
had a real Idea put Into their
heads. From what they write to
us kisses are no longer going to
be cheap or had for the mere ask
ing. You've got to produce gen
uine service for a girl hereafter
before attaining so much bliss.)
The couple who start their
wedding trip in Washington
are all right unless they stop
in Alexandria to get rid of the
excess baggage.
FRED VETTER.
ANOTHER INVITATION.
"Mayor" Keefer, of Clarendon
town, <
A man of great local renown,
Has invited Rill Price, with prom
ises nice.
To bring his goat and settle down.
Dili if Rill will look over the site*.
And wants to rest well nt nights. |
He'll go farther west, Fall's Church, j
I suggest, I
And then I'm sure he'll he right, j
WKST FALLS CIH'KCH.
A NIFTY PUZZLE.
Below is a nifty line puzzle by j
r'red Oeilinger which will Interest j
everybody, and we will b?> glad to
Know how many trace A LI- tho
words In it:
nocturne:
She was squatting upon the bed, j
As the clock was striking one, I
And she was babbling away
At ninety words a minute,
When her husband bellowed out, |
"For heaven's sake shut up
And get in your own darn bed
And let me get some sleep."
J. J. SCHWAR.
HIS MASTER'S VOICE.
Little Girl?Jfy daddy writes
for Heard and Seen. What does
your's do?
Other Little (Jirl?Whatever
mamma tells him to do.
ROOR McNl'TT.
THE CHAP YOU IJKE BEST.
The man who eats a slice of
stesk and turns it into smiles
May not be cm the list of names
of men "Known for miles"
Rut his friends all like to meet
him, to watch Ills honest
grin?
They know the gladness of his
heart by the wrinkles round
his chin. SAM SIMPLE.
OFF ON HIS SPELLING.
SImi hm plutup and gay and pretty,
and be a would-be poet.
She kiiitied on him?and others
too, a thing not to hla taste.
Ilia love he felt was genuine, and
wishing her to know It,
He put his passion Into words,
amMhls la wtut lie said:
"It were a thousand r****??.
Beauteous Maid,
That all your youthful
charms should go to
waiat
Kre you some lover true due
wed!"
And lie never understood how with
sorh unseemly haste
That "Beauteous Maid" rejected
hbn and married Brown
instead.
U 8 V K.
He?Oh. yes, they say that If you
use a certain part of your anatomy
more tnan another it grows abnor
mally large.
She?How interesting. By the
way, don't you play the piano by
ear* HARRY R. NASH.
THE WORM TURNS.
In a double-leaded editorial ap
peal to Philadelphlans to resent a
nation-wide tendency of Joke
smiths to poke fun at that city,
the Philadelphia Lredger waxes
wroth.
It says there is so little pride in
that town that Philadelphlans will
sit In a theater and listen to RAY
MOND HITCHCOCK and the
cheapest grade of comedians make
cracks at the town and laugh their
heads off.
The smart actor man, laments
the ledger, "cannot make a by
word of the home town In front
of the homefolks anywhere ex
cept in Philadelphia," and It Is
costing that town "prestige,
power, place, dollars, and cents.
When in Washington the Joke
smiths make their cracks at
(Georgetown, Anarostia, Alexan
dria, and Raltlmore, and other
suburbs of this great city. 1'p at
Keith's recently a brother of AL
J0L80N asked a colleague of his
who rose from the audience,
"Where you from, anyhow?"
"I come clean from Baltimore,"
said the assistant.
"You must be mistaken," de
clared the comedian, "for 1 never
knew anybody yet to come CLEAN
from Baltimore."
The Joke wouldn't have gone be
fore a Baltimore audience, because
the folks over there wouldn't liave
stood for it. And yet a Philadel
phia audience allows a Jokesinlth to
pull any old Joke about that town
and laugh about it.
The universal presumption of
the stage Jokesmlth Is that New
York is the only real spry town In
the world, and that all the others
are asleep. Nearly all folks from
New York look upon the balance
of the United States an Just an ap
pendix to that town.
So, after all, It is Just a matter
of toleration by- audiences. We
suppose that, following the editor
ial, Philadelphlans will rise In
their might and smite the funny
men on the stage who Joke about
them and their town to their facea.
But won't these sinartles rub it in
elsewhere?
THAT PROF, IS WRONG.
We note that Prof. Frederick
Starr, of the University of Chi
cago, says "there are no beautiful
women in the United States." I
guess he would change his mind
If he could see some of our Con
gress Heights girls, especially
MAROARKT. "TOOTIE" and
CAROLINE
DAPPBR DAN. 2ND.
What's Doing Today
and Tomorrow
TODAY.
lecture?L. O. Armstrong, at the T.
I M. C. A., on the ?ubject. "Highway to
| the Arctic," 8 p. m. ?
Open Forum?College Women's Club.
I 1822 I street northwest. 8 p. m.
Meeting?The Hptnlah-Amtrlcan Ath
eneum. Thomson School. Tweffth end L
street* northwest. 8 pm. Address by
the Rev. laansl and Dr William H.
Manning
Meeting?Anthony LeaK&f. 2007 Col
umbia roH<l norlhweat. 3 to 6 p. m.
Meeting?The Women's Overaeas Serv
ice League. at the Y. W. C A., 1333 F
atreet northweat, 8 p. m.
Dance-?The Potomac Council. Knlghta
of Columhua. K of C. hall, 918 Tenth
atreet, 9 p in.
Address?C. Karpodlch on "Ruaalan
Drama." before the International Aa
socfation of Arta and Lettera. at 1711 I
street. Oueata will be admitted at 9 p.
m. and membera at 8 p. m.
Meeting?Day Nursery Association.
Rbbttt Hotel, 10:30 a. m.
, Meeting- French Section. Twentieth
Century Club, at home of Mra. John
I Van Sihalck. Jr., 141t Maaanchueetts
I avenue northweat MO p. m.
Meeting Capitol Hill History Club.
J 1411 NeWton street
Dinner?Buslneaa and professional
women'* section, Women'* City Club,
6:30 p m.
Lecture?Mr. Hugo Ormo, Illustrated
by Ilela Ormo, Women's City Club, I
p. m.
Meeting*?Wllaon NormOl School, Elev
enth anil Harvard street* northwest, to
night: Women'* Gymnasium Club; *hort
atory claaa; Lonesome club, Interior
decorating claaa; New York State
Society
t'laaaes?J oh neon-Powell Com in unity
Center, Social dancing for children:
special group rhythm rehearsal, Thom
son Center, Women* drill tcum;E*per
anto class, Adult Dramatic club; YVaeh
Ington Reportolre club, etc.
TOMORROW.
Claaaea?.lohnaon-Towell Center, Dra
matlca. .1 p. m. Rhythm for glrla over
twelve yeara. rhythm for boy* and glrla
under twelve year*.
Card party?Naval I.odge Hall, Fourth
and Pennsylvania avenue southeast
lecture?Dr John O'Orady, on "So
cial Service," at St. John* College, t
a. m.
Meeting?Chemical Soclaty af Waah
l?g?r?>. Coamoa Club. I p m.
i
Washington! Will You Aid
400,000 Starving Orphans?
The Washington American Jewish Relief Committee
is working with the National European Jewish Relief
Committee in raising $14,000,000 to help alleviate the
utter destitution which is visiting some 400,000 or
phaned Jewish and non-JewiBh children in the Ukraine.
Washington's quota in this wonderful humanitarian
work is $100,000. To raise this sum requires the co
operation and financial assistance of peoples of all
faiths and creeds. The work is very well conducted
and the administration of the relief in the hands of
Americans is conducted at the very small coat of
only three dollars out of every hundred. Ninety-seven
dollars out of every hundred goes to the purchase of
foods, clothing and other measures of relief.
If you will assist in this noble work, send this notice,
pinned to your check, to Geron Nordlinger, treas
urer, at 706 Evans building.
SIMON LYON, Chairman.
By JOS. D. KAUFMAN,
Chairman Publicity Committee.
"Dolly" Bates, Chevy Chase
Girl, Sent to National
Training School.
Hoy E. Arnold. elopement part
ner of "Dolly" Oaten, sixteen year-|
old Chevy Chase School girl. whose :
mysterious disappearance January
4 ended with her arrest three weeks
later In Chattanooga. Tenn., was In
dicted by the grand Jury today.
Arnold, thirty-five years old, who
had been living with his wife and
parents at 3642 Eleventh street
northwest. Is charged with viola
tion of the Mann White Slave Act.
With "Dolly" Bates now confined
to the National Training School for
Qlrls. on order of the Juvei^le
Court, Arnold was brought to Wash
ington from Chattanooga the day of
the recent record-breaking snow
storm. With police escorts they
wt-re held fon eight hours In the
railroad yards between Washington
and Alexandria.
Others Indicted today include
Charles F. Haner and Kaymond W.
Maxwell, robbery; Samuel Leroy
Saylor, David William Upperman
and Everett Jewell, housebreak.ng
and larceny; James Cooper, assault
with a dangerous weapon; Daniel
Dyson, grand larceny; James Busey.
assault with a dangerous weapon.
The grand jury ignored charges
against Harry J. Festus, accused of
housebreaking and larceny; Gust
Tokas, receiving stolen goods and
Hodger Glenn, assault with Intent
to kill.
GIRLF08ND1N
ICE IDENTIFIED
BY HER MOTHER
Mrs. Lillian Hullings Jones, of
Alexandria, Says Body
Is Daughter's.
Weeping bitterly, Mrs. Lillian
Hullings Jones, 230 North Payne
street. Alexandria, Va., Identified the
body of the woman which was
hauled from the river Monday morn
ing as that of her daughter Alma.
As the assistant morgue keeper
pulled out the wooden slide that
bore the body the mother broke
down and sobbed: "Yes. that Is my
daughter."
Mystery surrounds the circum
stances by which she met dealh.
About ten days ago she Uft home
to visit friends in Cherrydale, but
she did not arrive there, nor had
she heen seen since until yesterday
evening when her l>rother partly
Identified her.
The body was found encased in
ice in the river by Captain Davis, of
the tug Selecman. about half way
between the plant of the Washing
ton Steel and Ordnapce Company
and Alexandria. It was floating
about fifteen or twenty feet from
the shore.
Detective Sergeants Livingston
and O'Brien relinquished their In
vestigation following the autopsy
which showed that she had met
death by drowning. Police at Alex
andria said "we know nothing about
the matter."
If the young woman committed
suicide, as the police believe she did,
relatives can assign no motive for
her act.
High School Books
far the aeranit aemeater
Pearlman's Book Shop
O. D. rearlman, Trap.
933 G St. Only
Washington Contributing Lib
erally to $100,000 Quota
To Succor Starving.
Appealing to Washington Jews
and Gentiles to contribute to the
American Jewish relief committee's
drive, the District Commissioners
lalst night issued a proclamation set
ting aside the last three days of this
week as Jewish relief days.
"The generous liberalities of our
Jewish and gentile fellow citizens in
impending to appeals for aid in the
furtherance of national aims is well
known to all and at this time the
Commissioners feel that all citizens,
of whatever creed, i*ce or color,
should assist the American Jewish re
lief committee in its efforts to ob
tain funds to alleviate the sad dis
tress in Kurope, which has been
make known to us all through the
public press.'' the proclamation says
in part.
$73.<X?0 Subscribed.
Compilation of figures for ^he first
two days of the drive shows that to
date approximately $73,000 has been
raised toward'* Washington's quota
of *100,000.
The following contributions of $25
or over were received at the com
mittee's headquarters, 706 Evans
building, yesterday.
Contributors of $500 or more:
Congregation of Eighth street tem
ple, $700: Y. M. H. A., $#00: Miss
Sadie Orosner, $500: Leon Tobrlner,
$600; and J. Buchblnder. $500.
Maritz Maver, $250: anonvmous,
$250; Sidney W. Straus, $250: Emil
Berliner, $200; Simon. Koenlgsber
A Young, $200: Maurice D. Rosen
berg. $150: S. H. Reixensteln, $150;
Swiss Club, through I?uls Abra
hams, $200; ArtTiur D. Marks, $100;
Henry J. Goodman, $100; Max
Fischer, $100; 8. P. Spitz, $100; E.
F. Droop A Sons Co.. $100, and
Isadorc Rosendorf, $100.
Contributors of miscellaneous
amounts: Herse Club, Y. M. H. A.,
$75; Joseph Luchs, $50: Dr. Edwin
B. Behrend, $50; Henry Frank &
Son, $60: Ben K. Leon, $50; David
H. Solomon, $50: Round Table,
through Max Fischer, M. Blumen
feld, $60: A. M Flshel, $50; em
ployes of D. J. Kaufman, $45$
Nathan Weill, $50; Samuel Cloft,
$50; Maurice Kafka. $50; A C.
Bobys, $50; Salvador S. Richard,
$50; D. Denoff party, $36; and Al
bert Kassan. $30.
Contributors of $25: H. Abramson,
Phil Bobys, Henry Segaloff. Sol
Love, Myer Zupnlk, Edgar C. Kauf
man, C. C. Archibald, Sol Louis,
Gerald Grosner, Eugene Schwab,
Bieber-Kaufman A Co., Gus J.
Karger, Daniel Schiller, Columbia
Commandery No. 2, Jacob Kohner,
Samuel Lldoff, Samuel Benslnger,
Henry Smith, Fannie Greenapple,
Abe Cohen, and Dr. Adolph Beh
rtnd.
Delaware Alumni to Meet.
Senator H. L. Ball, of Delaware,
and twenty other alumni of the
University of Delaware, formerly
Delaware College, will hold a din
ner meeting at the City Club Mon
day evening, February IS, to or
ganize a local qlumni chapter. A
joint meeting of the Washington
chapter and that in Baltimore will
be held at a later date.
Call for Reciprocity on Basis
of Gas Taxation for
Roads' Upkeep.
Full automobile reciprocity be
tween the District of Columbia and
Maryland is provided for in one of
two gasoline tax bills Introduced to
day in the Maryland general assem
bly.
The bill empowers the governor to
"grant to residents of the District
of Columbia the privilege of using
the roads of this State in return for
the similar privilege granted resi
dents of this State by the District
of Columbia."
This authorization, however,
would not become available before
January 1, 1924.
The gasoline bills were introduced
simultaneously In the Senate and
House, according to the plans made
by the majority leaders in both
branches of (he legislature.
One of the bills provide for a tax
of 1 cent a gullon on all gasoline
purchased for use In motor ve
hicles, the tax becoming effective
June 1 next and to continue until
the long-standing deficit of $1,179,
555 in the maintenance account of
the roads commission is made up,
provided that the tax does not run
beyond January 1, 1924.
Charge for Registration.
The other provides for a tax of
2 cents a gallon, the tax beginning
January 1, 1924, and the proceeds
going for maintenance and recon
i structlon of the road system of the
State
If such proceeds exceed the net re
ceipts from registration of motor
vehicles for the same period, the
registration fee? will be discontinued
after January 1, 1924. as far as pneu
matlc-tlr?l vehicles are concerned,
though a flat charge of $1 is to be
made for registration.
The text of the reciprocity clause
follows:
"That the governor of the State
is hereby authorized and empowered
to confer and advise with the proper
officials of the District of Columbia,
and enter into reciprocal agreement,
effective on and after January 1,
1924, under which the registration of
, motor vehicle? owned by the resi
dents of the State will be recognized
by the District of Columbia, and ho
j is further authorized and empow
! ered to grant from time to time
j after January 1, 1924. to residents
I of the District of Columbia the prlvl
' lege of using the roads of the State
j in return for the similar privilege
I granted residents of this State by
the District of Columbia."
FOUR ART EXHIBITIONS
AT CORCORAN GALLERY
Four special exhibitions are being
j held this month at the Corcorar
| (Jallery of Art.
I A striking series of flag pictures
by Childe Hassa/i opened yesterday
and will be on view until Febru
ary 28.
A group of twenty-five water col
ors by Wilfred G. De Olehen ar?
being shown from February 4 t?
February 28.
A collection of thirty-six pastels by
Charles S. Kaelln, opening Monday
will be shown until February 28.
The twenty?lxth annual exhlbitior
of the Washington Water Color Out
will be held from February 13 t?
March 5 inclusive.
MUSIC WEEK
CAMPAIGN
East Washington Community Centsr
Eaatern High School
Community Concert.
Tonight. 8:16 O'clock.
America. Salute to the Flag. Oath
of Allegiance to the Flag.
Instrumental number?
a. "Bomince" D Flat... .Sibelius
b. "Scotch Poem" McDowell
(Ethel Hegner, pianlat, pupil of
Mlaa Weller.)
Recreational singing Everybody
Songa ...Dr. W. A. Boyd
(Accompanied by William Pleraon.)
Recreational singing Everybody
Announcement*
Recreational ainglng Everybody
Vocal aolo?
a. "Winds In the South ...Scott
b. "Mammy Song" Ware
(Mary Allaband. lyric soprano,
pupil of Mra. Gurle L. Corey.)
Study aong?
"America the Beautiful". Everybody
Special musical feature?
Hawaiian aelectlona on steel
guitars.
Raymond Acton and Jeanle Payne.
(By the courteay of the Holt
Studloa.)
"Good Night I^adlca" Everybody
'Star-Spangled Banner"..Everybody
Recreational Ringing directed by
Robert Lawrence.
Accompanist for recreational aing
lng, Helen Burkart. Admission
will be free.
"THE VALUE OF SANITATION"
Of all the treat advancea In aclenca nana have
h?'cn more valuable than eanltatlon.
What la It worth to you to know that every
inatrument uaed by your dentlat haa been atert
llaed? For nineteen yeara Dr. Wright haa atood
pre-eminent In tha field of aanltatlon.
Bvery Dental nurteon of hla ataff muat ba for
ever vigilant na to hla peraon. The handa muat
be waahed with a powerful antlaeptlc after each
?nd every patient.
X-Ray, Violet Ray, Neuro Induction
(laa adminlatered when dealrart
K* pert \-Rai Kianilnallon. KeJIahle Dental
Work at Moderate" l'rlree. Terma of I'Mment to
Halt. Ktamlnatlon Free. I *dy and Maid In
Attendance. I'lione Main JtU, Filling*?Gold,
?l; Silver, 80r: Aim., ?<V; ?-K < ROWNN AND
ItHllMiK*. $*. M and M.
437-441
7th St.
N. W.
Fiiwrt It t?rt\ Oh* Smitayt ft
A M t? 4 P. M 0ttl4 *??*. ? A. M t? | p. M.
TftflimonUla ?? Caution? RiMinktr tf?? naa*
?M
McEvoy is Assigned to
Supervise Reporters'
Gallery
l
WILLIAM J. McEVOY.
Of 933 N street northwest, who
ha* been named ass:stant super
intendent of the House Press
GalWry.
HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS
NOW CALL McEVOY "SUPE"
No longer is William J. McEvoy,
of the House Press Gallery, hailed
i as "Mac." His new nickname Is
"Supe," for McEvoy has just ac
quired the title of Assistant Super
intendent of the House Press Gal
lery.
For more than three years Mc.
1 Evoy, who lives at the Henrietta
Apartments, 933 X street north
west, has been the aid of the 217
correspondents who have adm:s
, a on to the press gallery of the
lower branch of Congress.
It is McEvoy's duty to watch all
legislation on the floor of the
! House and to keep in touch with
every committee of Congress. In
keeping in touch with what goes
on on the floor, McEvoy likewise
keeps in touch with the correspond
ents. If you happen to be a cor
respondent from a small or large
town in the Un.ted States and your
| city or State ,s mentioned on the
I Qpor McEvoy sends out a -hurry
I call.
McEvoy is the son of the late
! William J. McEvoy, superintendent
I of work in the Government Print
ing Off.ce. He is a Washington.an
and attended the Seaton and Mc
Kinley schools here.
TIMES NEWSIES TO SEE
TARZAN PICTURES FREE
Because of the demand on the
part of newsboys for tickets to
"Adventures of Tarzan." to be pre
sented at the Leader and Trux
ton theaters, arrangements were
made with Sidney Lust to supply
free admission to all of the vend
ers of The Washington Times on
the streets of the National Capital.
It was originally intended to give
theater parties to The Washington
Times carriers, but members of the
sales force were so insistent in
their demand that they be allowed
to see this jungle picture that Or
I culation Director Max Fenske had
I to yield to them.
? This will be the first time that
"Adventures of Tarzan" has been
shown In Washington, and the
newsies are eager to see the first
run of what is said to be one ol
? the most thrilling pictures filmed in
recent years. Specimens of prac
I tically every animal that Noah took
into the Ark with htm appear In
this picture, and Elmo Lincoln,
who portrays the role of Tarzan. ia
shown making severtil hairbreadth
escapes from wild animals.
THREE WILLS DISPOSE
OF VARIOUS PROPERTIES
Catherine H. Hums, widow of
Theodore Burns, in her will filed to
day, directs distribution of several
life insurance policies among her
sons and daughters. The rest of
the estate, including property at
1346 O street southeast, Is to go to
a daughter, Harriet Burns, who
is also named executrix.
The will of James M. Perry leaves
to his wife, Elizabeth V. Perry,
i premises at 715 Sixth street south
I west and $900 in cash. IM raet of
| the estate is to be divid< ^ la ?Qual
. parts among other heirs.
Catherine Lauxmann, a >w,
| directs that her household fu > tur?
| and personal effects go to the son,
! Leon J. Lauxmann, and her daugh
I ter, Elizabeth McGuirk.
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SENATEREPORT
SHOWS U. S. PAY
LESS THAN 1913
Sterling Bill Would Raise Sala
ries to an Average of
$1,500.
Under the Sterllng-Lehlbach -ta
classification bill, salai-ies A Fed
eral employes will be increased by
22 per cent, ox compared with 1913.
In 'the same period the c ost of
living in Washington lias advanced
74 per cent, according a .<*porl
to the Senate today bv Senator
Sterling, chuirman of the Senate
Civil Service Committee.
"The average salary under the
L,ehll>ach bill would be appro*!
mately * 1.500," says the report, ' as
compared with the average salary
|df 11,134 in 110 3. The salary levels
! passed by the House obviously fall
far short of restoring to the salary
I of the Government employe the
kpurchasing power it possessed prior
to the war, and must be retfirdec
I as anticipating a rapid fall in the
! cost of llviiuf or an early reconsld
1 eration of salaries with the return
1 of prosperity."
Senator Sterling declares thai
"the Senate Civil Service Commit
tee In general has refraln'-d fro?o
l amending the rates reported by the
1 House, because under existing ?co
nomlc conditions and the p res on
' state of the national finances It f
! perhaps best to inaugurate a nett
; system of salary standardization w
i rates approximating those now oc
j ing made with the expectation that
readjustments will be made as con
ditions become more stable." .
The report in general reviews the
i work of reclassification from it"
I inception in Congress several year.
| ago and contains an extended an
| alvsis of the Wood Smoot bill a
well as the Sterling-I^ehlbach bilL
| The latter measure, contains salary
stipulations for all grades of the
1 Federal service, including the prp
fesskmal and field services, and thf
! salary features of the measure arf
' to be considered by the Senate Ap
proprlations Committee before tb*
i Senate acts upon the measure.
| It is understood that reclassif ca
j tlon is upon the legislative pio
' gram of the Republican leaders n'
j the Senate at the present sess on
' The supporters of the measure are
1 confident that the bill will pai?
1 before the next fiscal year opens
The Sterling report declares th;
I the salary levels of the Governmeu
(workers should be chiSiged fron
time to time, according to the rise
or fall of the cost of living in the
District of Columbia.
L*ft at Old Rate.
, "It 1s not practicable nor desir
, able to fix a level of salaries to
i [continue unchanged over a long pe
,1 riod of years." says the report. One
I of the principal causes of the ex
' listing unsatisfactory conditions re
garding salaries is that the ten
II dency has been to fix th? salary of
| a position at the time the positlor
| is created, and then to leave It a
1 1 that rate, regardless of the change"
! that take place in the cost of liv *
'{ing and in the rate that competing
employers pay for similar work As
a consequence similar positions in
the Government service created at
different times carry very different
j 1 salaries. If the cost of living goes
' up the employes In the older divi
sions become dissatisfied because
? of the economic pressure they :m
1 under, the more lndependen* and
1 j resourceful resign. If the cost of
1 living falls It brings the position
! created before the advance in the
1 i cost of living back to a salary rea
' i sonably in keeping i with that lr>
' [ private employment, but it leaves
I the position created during very
! high prices above the new level.
Under the Sterling-Lehlbach bill
the Budget Bureau is authorized
to make a survey of the coat of
living in Washington from time to
time and to make suggestions t6
the Civil Service Commission as to
salary readjustments In connection
therewith.
Capt. Howell on Sick List.
Capt. James F. Howell, who has
been taking a course of Instruction
at the Army War College, has been
ordered to proceed to Walter Reed
Hospital for observation and' treat
ment.
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