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Troops terminate Immediately upon re.
ceipt OF this letter by you"

Troops terminate Immediately upon re-
ceipt Of this letter by you"
More DismissaIs Are Made.
Al S p. ~. = policeman from City
Hall appeared In the Hall of Records
with similar notices Diminishing Miss
A. ". OBrien, secretary Of the commit
toe on soldiers and sailors relatives;
Miss Ruth Manning. clerk OF the
pageant committee two stenographers.
an errand boy and telephone girl
Fred T. Newell. executive secretary;
Capt. L. @, Castor, secretary OF the
naval committee, and tho publicity direc-
tod were let out on February 3. With
the seven who received the blue en-
velope yesterday this makes a stan of
ten dispensed with thus far. II Mr..
Cochems can be counted as one.
Following the new policy of having
the office run by employees on the city
pay roll. John Glennon, chief clerk Of
the Mayors ONCE, has taken over the
executive secretaryship of tho welcom-
Ing committee and Alfred l.. Meehan.
secretary to the Street Cleaning Com
missioner, seems" according to Mr..
Cochems, ito be acting In the same
capacity"
George w. Loft 10 In Cuba. Mr.,
Cochems says that Mr.. Loft not only In
sisted on paying his salary but. before
the candy manufacturer went away. In
structed Mr.. Cochems to represent him
and Gen. George r. Dyer. vlce-president
Of the pageant committee. in all meet
ings OF tho executive committee. This.
the dismissed secretary says. was
known to Mr.. Whalen. yet no notice OF
yesterdays meeting was sent to Mr..
Cochems, So, according to Mr.. CO.
chems. who is a lawyer. the whole pro-
ceedings are null and void. But whether
he gives up the executive secretaryship
or not. he says, that nobody short of Mr..
Loft can dlslodge him from the pageant
committee. and nothing short of the
United States Government from another
role, that of representative OF the Fed
eral Employment Bureau, which has q
branch which he has supervised at the
office OF the Mayors committee.
Mr.. Cochems made public letter he
wrote to Mr. Whalen on February 20.
when the action taken yesterday was
simmerming chars ing MIR. Whalen with
acting without authority In notifying
him on February 10 that Mcssrs. Glen
non and Meehan would take charge at
headquarters and Mr.. Cochems would
develop the employment department
Mr., Cochems added:
Whatever the action may DO OF your
self or the executive committee will
continue to act as executive secretary
and as secretary OF the pageant COM
mittee until such time as the executive
committee acts upon the matter, and,
more than that, until such time as Mr..
George w. Loft chairman OF the pag-
cant committee, authorizes me to con-
tinue or discontinue the work as secre-
tary Of the pageant committee.
'If this matter cannot be done In q
non-partisan way, as 1t has always been
done under the Mayors Committee on
National Defence for the last two years
then l want to be appraised OF that
change OF front and will hereby submit
to you my resignation as executive sec
rotary but not as secretary OF the pag-
cant committee.
"If this matter is to be settled from
City Hall without the knowledge and
consent Of the men whom his Honor
Mayor Hylan. has selected to carry on
these public functions and to make them
| successful and an honor to the city
wish to have no part therein"
Mr.. Cochems was formerly secretary
OF the speakers bureau OF the Progress
sive National Committee. He worked
with the Mayors Committee on National
Defence from the time OF its forma ton
by Mayor Mitchell with Cornelius VAN
derbilt as chairman, In his letter ne
| recites a long list of achievements which
he says proves his efficiency.