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U. $. CIVIL SERVICE SYSTEM DEALT DAMAGING BLOW BY PREFERENCE FOR VETERANS Ex-Service Men With Low Grades in Tests Given Jobs Requiring* Expert Technical Knowledge. EFFICIENCY LOWERED BY RULING Applicants With High Marks in Examinations Often Shoved Down List for Appointments. BY TALCOTT POWELL Preference for veterans has been sapping at the civil service system since the World war until the merit system of appointment has been riddled. In some cases, veterans who fail in competitive examinations are placed in jobs vital to public health above technicians who turn in nearly perfect test papers. Policemen and firemen are able to get promotions over better candidates with higher grades because the government classifies them as “disabled veterans.” This despite the fact that the municipality for which they work find them in sound physical condition.

Congress has made it possible for a veteran who has an arrested case of tuberculosis to be preferred for a civil service job over one who has not—this despite the fact that the first man may get 60 per cent on his competitive examination and the second 95 per cent. Civil service was established after a long battle back in the eighties. The idea was to remove party politics from the appointment of the rank and file charged with carrying on the government's business. There is general agreement that it has heightened efficiency. Under the system of competitive examinations, the person receiving a civil service appointment is supposed to be well qualified for his job. Given Civil Service Preference In 1919 when the army was disbanded, there were many complaints from ex-soldiers that their jobs had been filled by stay-at-homes. There was considerable justice in the complaint, and congress passed a law giving civil service preference for federal jobs to veterans. It left it up to the President how this law was to be enforced. President Harding ordered the civil service commission to add five points to the marks of all veterans on competitive examinations for jobs, and if the veteran were disabled he was to receive 10 points. This not only had the effect of giving the men a higher rating than their knowledge warranted, but it also qualified many veterans who would have failed to pass their tests at all. Passing mark is 70 per cent, but a disabled veteran passed at 60 and an ex-soldier suffering no disability at 65. Order Is Criticised There was much criticism of Harding's order and its results. Many ex-soldiers joined in the protest. General John F. O’Ryan, who commanded the Twenty-seventh division in France, said: “The state should secure the very best capacity obtainable for public service, all qualified according to the necessary standards. Public sentiment supports the proposal that among those so qualified some form of preference should be given the men who served the country with honor and efficiency during the war. “Obviously, the fair thing would seem to provide for degrees of preference.” In 1928 congress enacted a law giving absolute preference to all veterans for civil service positions. President Coolidge vetoed it, but modified the former Harding order by directing that disabled veterans be put at the top of civil service lists. The disability could have come from a German bullet or from sinus trouble contracted in a cantonment. No distinctions were drawn. The result was appalling to defenders of civil service integrity. The merit system of appointment went overboard every time a disabled veteran appeared on a list of candidates for office. Net Qualified, But Tops Lists In 1930 the National Civic Service League reported: That out of sixty lists of persons eligible for civil service appoint- j ments, 870, disabled veterans pre-1 ceded applicants whe had qualified at higher marks. That of these, 269 disabled vet- ; erans had failed to earn the nor- j mal passing grade on their examinations, yet they had been placed on the civil service lists ahead of 18.000 better qualified applicants. That to receive preference a veteran need not have been actually disabled in military service. Congress had passed a law which al- j lowed a veteran disabled in civil 1 life to go on the pension rolls along 1 with the man hurt in battle. That veterans at any time disabled. although cured, may secure the disabled veteran civil service preference. That qualified candidates with no : military record were being discour- ! aged from even trying to enter fed- j eral employ with consequent demoralization of the whole service. System at Fault Examples of the inequalities this practice has worked are legion. Take the job of a postoffice clerk in Washington. There were twentyseven disabled veterans on the list. The best rating obtained by such a disabled veteran who tried for this position was 258th on the eligible list. Six of them did not even receive a passing grade, yet all got the right to the appointment. For instance, one of the veterans who earned a rating of 65 per cent —five below passing—was entitled to appointment before a non-service man who got 98 per cent. Another important teclrn cal ext inination was for the j' i ci junior i

chemist. The holder of such a position is a guardian of the public health. A disabled veteran got a mark of 69.04. If he had had no service record he would have failed. Under the present ruling he went to the top of the list. His application was preferred above that of a man who made 97.5 in the competitive examination. Shoved Ahead to Appointments Here are some typical examples of the workings of the civil service preferment theory. They are culled from the records of the Civil Service Reform Association and names of the individuals involved are used only because they already have become matters of public record. Benjamin Metzger, who said he had received a fracture of the jaw in the service, passed the rigid test for firemen in New York City. In 1928 he passed another physical examination for promotion to lieutenant. In June, 1930, following enactment of a state preference law similar to the federal one, he applied for promotion to lieutenant. Asa disabled veteran, he was promoted to the job over 350 ahead of him. Despite his disability, he is still an active officer of the fire department. Daniel J. Prendergast fell off a truck while doing military police duty in the army. In 1920 he passed the New York City physical examination for police sergeant. In 1928 he passed another examination for police captain. Unfit, Yet Fit The city of New York found him physically fit for his duties. In April, 1930, he got a disability rating from the veterans’ administration granting him $25 a month. He then was promoted to police captain, although he was 144th on the eligible list. These two cases are cited not because the men did anything unusual or illegal, but because they are typical. Under the present law and administrative rulings they were entirely within their rights. ' Nine states, including New York, Colorado, New Jersey, Ohio and Michigan, have followed the example of the national government and granted civil service preference to disabled veterans. In addition, 400 cities give such preference. (To Be Continued) URGES COMMUNITIES TO FIGHT DEPRESSION C. of C. Head Tells Civic Clubs U. S. Relief Measures Work Slowly. Every community “must shift for itself’ to improve business conditions, Louis J. Borinstein, president of the Chamber of Commerce, declared Friday, adressing representatives of fourteen luncheon and civic clubs meeting at the Columbia Club. Borinstein pointed out that federal relief measures are slow in having effect. The state program, he stated is such that individual cities will have to adopt their own plans for better business. Borinstein outlined plans of the chamber’s business building program. The program, which will open Tuesday, is supported by the clubs. SHOWERS PREDICTED Cloudy Skies to Prevail Over WeekEnd, Is Forecast. Showers and cloudy skies will prevail here and in the state for the week-end. J. H. Armington, weather man, forecast today. Temperatures will be normal, with mercury hovering around 50, 12 degrees above readings Friday, Armington predicted. No heavy rains are expected, Armington said. G. E. SELECTS BLOCKS Department Store Chosen Agents for New Frigidaires. William H. Block Company has been selected by General Motors as exclusive department store agent for the new Frigidaire, it was announced today. A large section of the fifth floor will be devoted to display of new models, with a staff of twenty-two salesmen in charge. JEWISH PASSOVER NEAR Observance Will Open in Synagogues of City Wednesday. Observance of Passover, celebrating the deliverance of Jews from bondage in Egypt, will be held by Indianapolis Jews starting with sen-ices in the synagogues Wednesday afternoon. The celebration will continue a week. Patrolman Kills Self TERRE HAUTE, Ind., April 16. William E. Huffman, SL, police patrolman, committed suicide at his home today by shooting. Illness was blamed.

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Mrs. Ella Carlisle at her scales and table dispensing the food of foods—giblets.

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By Uni led Brea* SAN FRANCISCO. April 16. —A hotel patronized by sensitive folk is no place for a mimicking fiend like a minah, James McCabe, hotel man confessed today. Some well meaning friend gave him a minah bird—a sort of sport model blackbird—that promptly got McCabe into deep water at the costly caravansary he manages. He named it Amos. "Amos copied my voice exactly,” said McCabe. “Everything I said he would repeat, and then add a sound slightly suggestive of a horse laugh.” Then others took to tutoring Amos. He got into the habit of greeting wealthy guests who entered the manager’s office, “what are you doing here, you bum?” And- one day, in McCabe’s voice, he shouted at a passing dowager: “Hey, there! Havp you paid your bill, you mug?” So Amos has gone away from there.

ORIENT CRISIS UP AT GENEVA New Disarmament Scheme Proposed by Stimson. By United Pres s GENEVA, April 16.—Distinguished statesmen from every part of the world gathered in Geneva again today ot undertake decisive action on two vital international issues—disarmament and the far eastern conflict. Outstanding was the first United States secretary of state to visit the League of Nations home —Henry L. Stimson. His cordial conference in Paris Friday with Premier Andre Tardieu and other French government leaders was considered a great encouragement toward closer collaboration. Stimson will not supercede Hugh S. Gibson as head of the American delegation. The United States has no direct part in the league committee of nineteen which was summoned to meet again this afternoon to consider the Chinese-Japanese controversy. But the American secretary, nevertheless, was the center of greatest speculation. It was understood that Stimson proposed anew disarmament scheme to Tardieu at Paris, providing for application of different plans for arms reduction in different zones of the world. This scheme, known as hemispheric disarmament, was a compromise between the opposing French and American theses. 77 LAWMAKERS FAVOR CAUCUS ON TAX RELIEF Only Two Oppose Suggestion of Newcastle Representative. Seventy-seven answers received by Representative H. H. Evans of Newcastle to the question of holding a rump session or join caucus of the general assembly to discuss a tax program favored the proposal, he said today. Two legislators objected. Those opposed to such a conference are Senator John L. Niblack, Republican, of Indianapolis, and Representative Frank Finney of Martinsville. DRAFT PARADE PLANS Veterans to Mark Revolutionary Battles Next Tuesday. Final arrangements were being made today for the Patriots’ parade to be held Tuesday in commemoration of the anniversary of the battles of Lexington and Concord. The celebration is under auspices of Veterans of Foreign Wars, Dis- j abled World War Veterans, Span- j ish-American War Veterans and j several posts of the American' Legion. BAN ON LOAN COMPANY Permanent Injunction Placed on Capitol Trading Firm. Permanent injunction against an alleged loan shark concern was issued Friday by Judge Edgar A. Rice of Crawfordsville, sitting as a special judge in Hendricks circuit court. The injunction was handed down against the Capitol Trading Company of Indianapolis, operated by Amos G. Haines and J. F. Hansen. Naturalist Is Dead By United Pres* PASADENA. Cal., April 16.—Dr. Donald R. Dickey, 45, naturalist of the California Institute of Technology, died Friday. He owned the largest collection of mammals and birds in tha world.

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TENEMENT FIRE COSTS 6 LIVES Arrest Painter Who Stored Supplies Under Stair. By United Press NEW YORK, April 16.—Six persons were killed in a mysterious fire in a Bronx tenement today and after a preliminary investigation police ordered a painter held on a technical charge of homicide. The dead included four members of one family, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Dobromil and their twin sons, Jacob and Joseph. The other two to succumb were Edith Weinstein, 7, and Philip Weinstein, 10-year-old son of a former boxer, Benjamin Weinstein. Police discovered a large amount of paints, benzine and other inflammable materials in a locker under the stairway and arrested Benjamin Siegel, who admitted to ownership. The case will be presented to a grand jury. Bury Six Blaze Victims By United Press NEW YORK, April 16—A mother and her five children, burned to death in a tenement blaze, were buried Friday while Socialist speakers called their death, “murder,” and the victims “unknown soldiers of an- eco’monic warfare.” There was “no religion, no rabbi” at the funeral for Mrs. Sarah Sanders and her brood, exactly as requested by the bookbinder father, “sixteen years employed by the same firm, and then let go for no reason.” Five thousand Socialists attended the public funeral on the crowded east side. They heard the father’s bitter comments. “Only children of the poor can meet such a death. They are the unknown soldiers of economic warfare,” a speaker said.

SLASH OPERA PRICES . Metropolitan Also Reduces Season to 16 Weeks. By United Press NEW YORK, April 16.—The Metropolitan Opera Company has announced a reduction in ticket prices and length of the session, to insure continuance of the opera in the face of a deficit. Orchestra seats will be $1 less next season. The season will be curtailed from twenty weeks to sixteen. By United Press LOS ANGELES, April 16.—World famous “symphonies under the stars” at the Hollywood bowl may be discontinued unless Las Angeles citizens raise an additional $25,000 I to meet a possible deficit. RETURN CRASH SUSPECT Auioist Accused in Collision Which Caused Four Deaths. Bn United Press ANDERSON., Ind., April 16. Guyon Hartzell, 33, was back in Anderson today to answer to a charge of manslaughter, as the result of an auto accident last August in which four persons were killed. Hartzell w T aived extradition and was brought from Des Moines. He is charged with having driven a machine which struck the one driven by Noble Johnson, and drove it into the path of a railroad train. CITY BUILDING GAINS Ranks 18th Among 25 Reporting Largest Permit Volume. Indianapolis ranks eighteenth among twenty-five cities reporting largest volume of building permits during March, according to the national building survey. Permits in the city for the month totaled $376,513, as compared to $806,503 for the same month in 1931. In February this year, $106,495 were issued. COPS~PROBE S2OO FIRE Firemen Blame Incendiary for Walnut Street Blaze. Following statements by firemen that fire in two double houses in the 400 block West Walnut street Friday night was of incendiary origin, police are making an investigation today. All the houses are vacant. Damage is estimated at S2OO. The houses are at 401-403 and 405-407 West Walnut street. King Carol’s Castle Barns By United Press BUCHAREST, April 16.—Universal’s Sinaia correspondent today said that King Carol’s favorite summer castle at Pelischor had burned to the ground, due to a short circuit.

BY ARCH STEINEL “Whatcha got tor supper? Giblets and gravy! Um-um-ummm-umph, well, if those lips of mine don’t smack.” And those of the city who’ll agree that giblets, just fixed any way, are the feast for a King George may read on to hear about the lady who sells the city its chicken giblets. Limousines of the north side and juggle-buggies beat a path to her sales table and cars each Monday and sometimes on Wednesday of each week, too, to get the delicacy of epicureans. For ten years. Mrs. Ella Carlisle. 1617 Sharon avenue, has presided over the giblet sales days at the Columbia Conserve Company, 1735 Churchman avenue. She has umpired the division of the hearts, gizzards and livers of chickens on their way to be cans of soup with the impartiality of a world series arbiter, and she's still an admitted fancier of the dish,” giblets and noodles,” when the day's work is done. n n WT> like to have more gizzards than livers,” is the plaint of one be-diamonded matron with a lap-dog- under an arm. “Sorry, Missus, but giblets is giblets. But I’ll do my best for you. They’re 10 cents a pound as is—yes, as it,” Mrs. Carlisle may retort kindly. Three hundred pounds of the savory meat go before one could say Arthur Robinson or even Jim Watson. In fact, there are Mondays when the giblets of live chickens are mortgaged or have a heavy lien on them before they’ve been killed for the soup kettle by the canning company. nun “'Y7'OU see, giblets are not used X in making soup and that's the reason they’re for sale,” Mrs. Carlisle explains. “If sales are heavy, it’s necessary for customers to wait until the chickens are killed. Sometimes I’ve got a line waiting and fretting for their orders to be filled.” Between sales days, Mrs. Carlisle acts as matron of the canning company and sells groceries to employes. And when she goes home at night, it's an even bet that she’ll be carrying three or four pounds of the goods she sells to make her dish of dishes, “giblets and noodles.”

TROOPS AT MINES <V Tense Calm Settles Over Ohio Coal Fields. By United Press CADIZ, 0., April 16— A tense calm settled over the Harrison county coal fields today as 300 national guardsmen grimly set about enforcing a county proclamation, prohibiting strikes from congregating within a mile of the county’s six mines. More troops were expected to be mobilized to enforce the order which was issued by Sheriff Maurice Wooster after two men had died' and more than a score injured in a series of clashes between strikers and workers. Observers feared more violence if the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company mine at Adena, center of the disorders, reopens next week. The mine was closed after one striker had been killed and more than a score injured in a pitched battle of hundreds of men two days ago.

COUZENS’ TAX PLAN BANS EXCISE LEVIES New Program Will Be Presented to Congress Soon. By Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, April 16.—A progressive tax program, to balance the budget by high income and inheritance taxes without use of special excise taxes, will be offered soon by Senator James Couzens (Rep., Mich.), millionaire and fiscale expert, he said today. A hint of Couzens’ plan was given to the senate finance committee by Treasury Secretary Ogden Mills during his testimony advocating either the general sales tax or the treasury’s original program as a substitute for the house bill. Couzens said his plan, to be outlined to the senate in a few days, probably would raise enough money to do away with most of the house excises, which range from imports on candy to jewelry to levies on autos and yachts. His plan would balance the budget a year later than contemplated by the house bill. He declined to estimate the total yield. MADE-WORK INCREASES Home Improvement Campaigns Under Way in 92 Cities. By United Press WASHINGTON, April 16.—Home improvement and modernizing campaigns are in progress in ninety-two cities and contemplated in 142 others. The commerce department estimates that by the end of June the total expenditures for labor and materials resulting from these campaigns will be about $25,000,000.

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SOVIET PAPER ' SAYS JAPAN IS INCITING WAR Charges Nippon Militarists Plan to Push Activity Beyond Manchuria. By United Press MOSCOW, April 16. Soviet Russia's alarm over the possibility of serious disturbances in Manchuria was reflected today in newspaper headlines while editorial comment accused Japanese militarists of seeking a pretext for war with the Soviets. An editorial in Pravda said “Japanese imperialists are preparing for further war activity outside Manchuria. If they need a pretext, it -will not be difficult to create provocations. The imperialists’ policy follows a definite purpose—to transform occupied territory into a hotbed of further adventures.” Pravda concluded that if “the peaceful spirit of the Soviet Union is interpreted by Japanese imperialists as proof of our weakness and our inability to defend the frontier, it is so much the worse for them.” Headlines on Manchurian news throughout the nation denounced alleged anti-Soviet plots at Harbin in which White Russians were accused as serving as the tool of Japanese war makers. The report that the American Atlantic fleet might remain in the Pacific was regarded as an indication of conflict between the United States and Japan. Japanese May Withdraw By United Press TOKIO, April 16.—The Japanese army is ready to abandon operations near the Manchurian-Siberian border to relieve tension between Japan and Soviet Russia, a government spokesman said today. The spokesman said no military significance should be attached to the fact that Japanese warships escort fishing vessels to leased fishing grounds off Kamchatka. The naval escort is provided annually, the spokesman said.

CALL HALT TO LOAN SCHEME Police Charge Swindle to Peru 'lnsurance Agent.’ Suspected of perpetrating a fake insurance proposition in which he promised large amounts of money on policies held by victims, Robert F. Erwin, 46, of Peru, today faces a charge of obtaining money under false pretense. Detectives arrested Erwin late Friday, claiming they seized a large amount of printed matter, receipt books, “membership acknowledgments” and brochures, which Erwin admitted having printed ip Cincinnati, they said. Erwin admitted, detectives claimed, that lie is an agent for the “Policy Loan Association of New York City, Inc., a fictitious organization. Erwin’s alleged victims, including nearly 100 railroad workers here and in Peru, most of them unemployed, were told that they could obtain loans equal the total amount of the policy. The arrest was made after a “prospect” became suspicious and reported to police. Posing as a railroad man in need of funds, two detectives called on Erwin and listened to his “proposition.” HOLD KREUGER AIDS Accuse Three of helping Match King Falsify Books. By United Press STOCKHOLM, Sweden, April 16. —Three directors of the Kreuger & Toll Company, with w'orld-wide interests, were under arrest today charged with helping the late Ivar Kreuger, Swedish match king, to falsify books of the company, thereby fraudulently misleading stockholders. , Acting on a Kreuger Toll Company report and also on the resport of special auditors, police arrested Carl Lange, Sven Holdt and Victor Holm, to climax developments which have followed the suicide of Kreuger. Lange is understood to be a private inspector for Kreuger’s concerns, including banking interests at Paris and Amsterdam; Holdt is a director of a Kreuger bank, and Holm represents Kreuger subsidiaries. T. w. purselTlsTdies Fractured Hip Brings Death to Altenheim Home Inmate. Theodore W. Pursel, 86, retired dry goods firm employe, died Friday in the Altenheim home, 2007 North Capitol avenue. A fractured hip, suffered when he fell several weeks ago, caused death. Born in Pennsylvania, Mr. Pursel lived most of his life in Indianapolis. He was connected with the Havens & Geddcs Company, wholesale dry goods firm. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 Tuesday in the William E. Krieger funeral home, 1402 North Illinois street. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery.

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It was the father of Mile. Jacqueline Michau, above, who endowed one of France's largest hospitals for disabled soldiers. Now she has carried on the spirit of his work by employing thirty crippled veterans as servants in her chateau at Alpes Martimes.

REFERENDUM ON DRY LAW URGED Van Nuys Says People Are Entitled to Be Heard. By Times Special. FRANKFORT, Ind., April 16. Referendum on prohibition and abolition of unnecesary federal boards were advocated by Fredericck Van Nuys, candidate for the Democratic nomination for senator at a rally here Friday night. Pointing out there has been widespread criticism of enforcement of the Volstead law, Van Nuys said: “In keeping with the principles of the Democratic party, in my opinion, the subject has reached that stage where the people are entitled to express themselves directly at the polls. “Therefore, I can see no reason why congress should not make provision for ascertaining, by referendum or otherwise, the w ill of the people upon this subject.” Van Nuys asserted departure from the theory that the American people have the right and the ability to govern themselves has been responsible for the ills from which the country is suffering. Soldier’s Heart on Right Side By United Press MEXICO CITY, April 16.—Physicians at the military hospital here who examined private Pedro Cervantes Malagon, who died from pneumonia, found that his heart was on the right side of his body and his liver on the extreme left.

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DRY CONVENTION OPENS MONDAY ATM.EJHURCH Sergeant Alvin York of World War Fame to Be Speaker. State-wide temperance convention under auspices of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League will be held Monday and Tuesday at the Roberts Park M. E. church. Representatives of the league will speak at forty-five Indianapolis churches Sunday preceding the convention. Sessions will open at 11 Monday with invocation by Dr. A. H. Kenna, pastor of the church. A noon luncheon will be served with Mrs. Brandt C. Downey presiding. L. E. York, superintendent of the league, will preside and Dr. F. Scott Mcßride, head of the national anti-saloon league, will be the speaker, at a session Monday night. A drama will be presented by S. P. McNaught and Will J. Foster. Mrs. Elizabeth T. Stanley, state president of the Indiana W. C. T. U., will speak Tuesday morning at a session at which Dr. B. D. Beck, pastor of the Temple M. E. church, will preside. Dr. J. M. Doran. United States commissioner of industrial alcohol, will be the principal speaker Tuesday afternoon at 2. Sergeant Alvin C. York, World war hero, will speak at 7:45 Tuesday night. ECONOMY SEEN ONLY TAX REDUCTION HOPE State Survey Committee Call* for Paring of Local Budgets. Immediate, drastic reduction of public expenditures is the only major method by which the tax bur-' den in Indiana can be lightened, according to a statement issued Friday by the Indiana tax conference survey committee preliminary to a final report. The committee, created by an ark of the 1929 legislature, points out that an economic depression existed* during the three years in which it made its study of conditions in the state. Opinion is expressed that “public expenditures in Indiana can be reduced materially.” It is recommended in the statement that “public-spirited citizens organize in each and every community to study spending by their local governments, to devise ways and means of eliminating a portion of their present expenditures.” , TOOLMAKER SUCCUMBS William Gaines, 52, Die* After Year’s Illness; Rites Monday. William Gaines, 52, a toolmaker, died Friday in his home. 2838 Washington boulevard. He had been ill about a year. Born in New York City, Mr. Gaines came to Indianapolis twen-ty-two years ago. He was a member of Fountain Street M. E. church and Ancient Landmarks lodge No. 319, F. & A. M. Funeral services will be held 2 Monday in Fountain street church!