The Washington herald., 1920-06-06
Commerce Department


Raymond Booker, elevator boy. In
the Bureau of Standards. has re.
signed.
G. z. Herring. Bureau of Foreign
ana Domestic Commerce. who has
oeen serving for some time as q
trade commissioner In Belgium, has
returned to the bureau to take up
MS new duties as second assistant
director.
Victor c. Swicker has been ap-
pointed q laboratory assistant IN
the Bureau of Standards.
Miss Mary F. Carpenter, library
has been called to her home in Iron
Mountain, Mich, on account of the
death Of her mother.
Julian z. Gillespie has been ap.
bpointed as a trade commissioner in
, the Bureau of Foreign and Domes-
| tic Commerce, and will leave short
ly for his post at constantinople.
Miss Clairene Adams has been
appointed a clerk in the accounts
division, Bureau Of Foreign and Do
mestic Commerce.
Miss Gertrude z. Clemens ha.
been temporarily appointed a stats
tical craftsman In the Bureau oi
Standards.
Francis L. Baer has been appoint
ed clerk in the editorial division
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic
J Commerce.
( Kenneth A. Gather, messenge
boy in the chief clerks ONCE of tn,
department, has returned after sew
eral days leave.
Edmund Becker and Charlie
Bruckheiser. watchmen, were oi
leave during the past week.
Miss Wilma Valentine. stenog
rapher In the chief clerks office o.
the department. found 1t necessar!
to take leave during the week o,
account of the unexpected arriva
from France of a long lost friend.
Miss Anna N. Hook. in charge o.
the telephone room. has returned
after very enjoyable vacation.
Gustave w. May has been tenn
porarily appointed a laboratory ap
prentice in the Bureau of Stand
ards.
| Lloyd Myles has been given
clerical position in the Commercia
Intelligence Section of the Bureau
of Foreign and Domestic Com
merce.
Cornelius Stribling. Bureau o
Foreign and Domestic Comperce
is absent from the office on accoun
Of the recent death of his brother
DR.. c. z. Walker. state registra
of New Mexico. and DR.. Wilmer F
Bait state registrar Of Pennsylva
mia, were callers at the division o
Vital Statistics, Bureau of the Cen
sus. last week.
Richard c. Lappin. for many year
connected with the vital statistic
division. Bureau of the Census. ha
just returned from Hawaii. where h
was detailed as supervisor of tn
census of Hawaii.
Among the anglers during tn
week was Mrs. Alice r. s. Brook.
division of vital statistics, Censu
Bureau. who reported a catch o
twenty-six hardheads on the ba
shore.
Messrs. Green, Stewart. Tumelt
and Beavers. vital statistics division
Census Bureau, are becoming expert
in Potomac Park farming.
DR.. William H. Davis. chief stat
istician for vital statistics, Censu
Bureau, is to meet Connie Doyle 4
tennis singles.
Morris w. Witherspoon, of tn
Census Bureau. who for the pas
two months has been detailed ol
field duty in Tennessee. where h
was engaged in instructing loca
agents appointed to take the censu
of manufactures, mines and quar-
ries. has resigned.
Marion T. Tolson, of the Censu
Bureau, who was recently detaile,
to North Carolina, where he ha
been engaged in instructing the 10
cal agents who are to take the cen
sus OF manufactures, mines an
quarries in that State, complete
his field assignment on May 25 an
has returned to Washington.
| Hilten L. Cummings, of the Cen
sus Bureau. who since February l
has been detailed in Cleveland a
chief special agent in charge of tn
census of manufactures, mines an
quarries in that city. has tendere
his resignation. effective June l.
and will enter commercial life.
J. Frank Ray. jr.. a special agen
tof the Census Bureau. has been de
tailed to Knoxville, Tenn, in con
nection with the census of manufac
lures. mines end quar-ies.
a. ]. Doeing, who has been absen
eight weeks on account of Hines:
has returned to the office.
Fern Brown, Dody Rollock, Vest
Vail and Sylvia woodkye went I
-uray, Va, Sunday.
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