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The Washington times., 1932-06-25
j. s. BALL TEAM
PROMISING

The baseball team. members
of the Civil Service Commission,
youthful as seasons go but vet
eranS when it comes to perform
anee, plan now to join the De.
partmental Baseball League next
year, if successes scored thus far
this year are continued as the
summer advances.
The team has made a good
record thus far, and the five
games played this spring, while
considered only practice games.
have developed stellar diamond
material.
A few days ago, the team held
down the Palisades nine to a
10-1 score, with Ben Waple, on
the mound, striking out 20 oppon-
ents. Waverly Mccoy, David j.
Williams and David S. Lyon
earned laurelS with the willow,
polling out some eye.bulging hits.
The other team members in.
clude Samuel H. PemStein, cap
tain; Elden Miller, Edmund S.
Burrows, John I. Pittman, Hamil-
TIN Bell, Harlin w. Crandall,
John j. Buckingham, Kenneth p.
Mahony, Julius Friedenson, John
o. Hardesty. James H. Ballard,
Jack Goldberg, Solomon Spiel.
berg. James S. Crawford and
Frank White.
The Washington times., 1932-06-25
GAMING PATRON
MADE To TALK
Staff Photo

For the first time a patron Of
an alleged gambling establish
ment was called as a witness in
a preliminary hearing in Police
Court today when Judge John P.
Mcmahon held four men for the
Grand Jury under $4,000 bond
each on a charge of setting UP a
gaming table.
The men, held were Charles
Frilegh, Raymond w. O'Neill,
Jack E. Cohen and Edward
Marks, all arrested in a raid
yesterday at 729 Ninth st. N. w.
Police seized so persons in the
raid, holding them as witnesses.
The witnesses.
The witness Assistant U. S.
Attorney Frank Adams called to-
day was William Baggett. He
appeared reluctant to testify
until warned by Judge Mcmahon
that his refusal would constitute
contempt of court, then told OF
placing a racing bet at the place.
One other witness, Harry c.
Walker, failed to answer in court
and Judge Mcmahon ordered him
locked up on an attachment.
The Washington times., 1932-06-25
(Continued from Page -

While we were cruising zig
zaggedly in the Arctic Ocean on
our trip from England an cpl
demic of influenza broke out on
our transports. Medical supplies
were exhausted. The soldiers were
without overcoats. There was in
sufficient bedding and covering.
Many died and others were so
stricken that they were months
recovering.
Dead Piled Like Wood
Our dead were piled on the
dock at Archangel like cord-wood.
There were other allied troops
besides the Americans. There was
a brigade of British troops. These
were mostly what were called
Category BIZ men, that is, men
unqualified for arduous military
duty in the fighting areas, yet
fit for light garrison duty.
There were some 900 French
troops comprising the Twenty
first Colonial Infantry, two
French machine sections and two
sections of 75S.
There were also on hand few
Polish soldiers, few Laplanders,
a. few Firms, a few Chinese,
few Let's. These combined with
Americans, Canadians, Austria
lians, White Russians, French
serbs Italians and English COM
pleted truly international pic
ture. Twelve nationals!
The command of General Poole
numbered just short OF 1O'OOo'
Our plan of campaign was
outlined by our chief. He pro
posed to initiate an aggressive
warfare, to drive the BolsheVlkl
before US. We were to have two
before us.
Napoleon in his palmy days
didn't figure to capture Russia
as did our Strategists. And we
were going to do it with less than
10000 troops, 5000 of them Cate
cory B-2 men" and unfit Tor
arduous military duty.
NOW, LOT CIle ulOlle4lC, 1cG uo
forsake the plan of campaign OF
the North European Russian ex-
pedition and delve into the Rus
sian situation as a whole. 1t is
interesting, and proves that what
ever else we invaders lacked we
certainly possessed imagination.
Over on the Vladivostok side
of Russia there was an allied
Eastern expedition. This outfit
contained Americans, English,
White Russians, Japs and other
nationals.
The Czecho-Slovaks had been
divided in Russia into two sec
tionS.
They had formed a brigade,
The Washington times., 1932-06-25
CUT THREATENS
100000 POSTAL
EMPLOYEES
Brown Contends Reduction in
Finances Spells Discharge
For Thousands of Workers

The report to the Senate
this week of the committee
relative to the Treasury-Post
Office Department appropria-
tion bill, brought to the fore
front the contention of POST
master General Walter F.
Brown that even a 10 per cent
reduction in his department s
finances will mean dismissal
of 10000 to $4,000 regular
employees, to say nothing OF
maritime workers and other
economies.
The Senate committees final
figures showed savings Of $4,000
600 in its vote for $l,O54,963, 900
for 1893 alone, as compared to
the House figure of $sO5, 100000.
The Senate changed the House
figures in several ways.
Postmaster General Brown de-
clared:
Il can think Of no juStifica-
ton for increasing postage
rates and at the same time
curtailing service to the public.
Substantial reductions cannot
be accomplished without dis
charging from 10000 to 10000
employees. The responsibility
for demOralizing .he postal
service and doing an irrepara.
BILE injury to thousands Of
faithful postal employees must
rest upon some, one other
than me.
TN my judgment, the rank
and file Of postal workers will
much prefer the Presidents
plan of 30 days furIOugh with
out pay, which preserves the
basic wage scale, to the plan
proposed by members Of the
House Economy Committee
which involves substantially a
10 per cent reduction in basic
pay, or the Senate's proposal
which involves the discharge
of $4,000 to 10000 of their fel-
low employees"
The Washington times., 1932-06-25
Printing Conference
VIII Open MOnday

The eleventh annual Conference
on Printing Education will open
Monday morning in Harding Hall,
Government Printing Office, and
will continue through Wednesday
George H. Carter, Public
Printer; Alvin W. Hall, director.
Bureau of Engraving and Print
ing, and DR.. j. C. Wright, direc-
tor Bureau for Vocational Educa-
tion, will extend greetings to
delegates.
The Washington times., 1932-06-25
DrereL Graduates
-Four Local Students
COLEMAN

Four students of Washington
and its environs were among the
graduates of the Drexel Institute,
of Philadelphia.
They are Edward E. Howe, Seat
Pleasant, Md; Dorothea R. Belz,
East Falls Church, Va; Mary B.
Curran, LOG Fifth st. N. E., and
Margaret G. Mowbray, 1015 Jack,
son st. N. E.
The Washington times., 1932-06-25
15 SUSPENDED
BY FEDERAL
JOB BODY
Steward Order AssaiIS 0uSted
Group for Pro-A. F. Of L.
Activities and Suit

Because of their activities
in trying to heal the breach
between the National Fedora
ton of Federal Employees and
the American Federation of
Labor, the National Fedora
tion has suspended from men,
bership IS members, according
to a letter received today by
Federal Employe Unions from
national headquarters.
Thirteen of the suspended
members were the ones who filed
the suit in District Supreme
Court seeking to prevent with
drawal of the National Fedora
ton from the A. F. of L. The
other two were John Shaw and
C. w. Browning, leaders in the
reaffiliation move.
In their letter announcing suS-
pension Of the Is, President
Luther C. Steward and Secretary
Gertrude McNally scored the
A. F. of L. for encouraging those
members of Federal Employe
Unions seeking reaffiliation, re-
minding them that a cardinal
principle of the A. F. of L. has
been voluntary association" and
indicating that disasSociation
should be equally voluntary.
The suit to prevent separation
Of the two groups was instigated
by the A. F. of L., and financed
by it, and handled by its attor-
neys, Steward and Miss McNally
indicate.
They believe the A. r. Of L. is
responsible for activities Of the
Joint Conference for Affiliation
with the American Federation OF
Labor, Of which Shaw and
Browning, ousted members, have
been motivating leaders.
The other 13 suspended are
D. R. Glass, George Kearney.
Sophie j. Bergner, William s.
Douglas, Willis E. Hurd. John r.
Newman, Alvin T. Griffith, Frank
A. McNicol, George L. Jeffrey.
James P. McKeon. Elmer H.
Bailey, Sophie Weber, Ada L,
Simmons.
The Washington times., 1932-06-25
PERSONNEL GUT
INEVITABLE,
SAY CHIEFS
$4,000 to 100000 Reduction
Predicted at Start of
New Fiscal Year

The end of the fiscal year
1892 only four days hence finds
appropriations for practically
none of the Federal offices
settled, and unless emergency
funds are made available by
the Treasury before July l,
the entire governmental ma
chinery must cease to function.
Such emergency funds are
likely and expected, but in
theory at least the Government
Departments face the new fiscal
year 1888 without a dime in sight,
and in theory have nothing
ahead but to shut up shop July l.
The Interior Department is the
only one to have its appropria-
tion completely pasSed-the In
terror officials are trying now to
change that.
Conferences Interfere
Most of the departmental ap-
preparations have passed the
Senate after passing the House,
but because of different sums
approved by the houses, confer
ence COMMITTEES must agree before
funds are appropriated.
With sweeping reductions the
rule for the departments and in
dependent offices, chief clerks and
other high officers admitted to
The Washington Times this week
that wholesale dismiSsals Of en-
ployes are expected in every de-
partment, just as soon as final
appropriation figures are known.
Except for such offices as the
Treasury. where much Of the ap-
preparations go for public build
1ngs, and the Veterans Admins
tration, where much goes to vet
Grams themselves, it was stated
that generally reductions in per-
Sonnel would be in direct proper
tion to reductions in appropria-
ton.
Hence, if the Department Of
Labor gets a 10 per cent Of its
employees.
All Face Cuts
From the Department Of Labor,
the, smallest, which said this
week at least 400 employees will
be dismissed right away, to the
postal service which Postmaster
General Brown says must cut
10000 from the payroll, every
Federal office faces a substantial
personnel cut as soon as the new
supply bills are announced.
Including TOO temporary Cen
Sus Bureau employees who lose
their jobs next week, the number
of Federal employees over the
country slated for dismissal with
in a fortnight or two has been
estimated as high as 100000,
while $4,000 is more conservative.
The Washington times., 1932-06-25
r. J. Hyland Again
Heads CurLey Club

Roland Joseph Hyland was
unanimously reelected president
of the Curley Club at meeting
last night. Other officers named
are John L. Donnelly, vice presi-
dent; Miss Dorothy Barrett, treas
urer; Miss Emily Hodges, record
ing secretary; Joseph Diegel-
mann, warden; Hugh McGarvey,
advocate, and James O'Connell,
Sergeant-at-armS,
The Washington times., 1932-06-25
Fireman Run OUer
By Reel, Badly Hurt

LURAY, Va, June 25.-Prob-
ably fatally injured as the result
falling in a reel race, Thomas
Osborne, of the Luray Fire De-
partment, is in Harrisonburg
Hospital. Several ribs were broken
but other injuries have not been
determined. The reel ran over
Osborne when the company was
practicing for a carnival to be
held in New Market July 4.
The Washington times., 1932-06-25
BAN ON NP0[|T|CS
NOT OPPOSED

The order of the Civil Ser.
vice Commission ordering ]. Ed
ward Shinn, resident of Alex
andria, who is employed at the
Navy Yard, here, to withdraw
his candidacy for the Alexandria
town council, has elected no
outspoken protest.
Shinn has withdrawn in order
to keep his job. What further
action will be taken by Represen-
tative Howard 8. Smith, of Vir-
ginia, who has pleaded in Shinn's
behalf, was not made evident.
At the Civil Service Commis-
sion, it was pointed out that
the time-honored civil service
rules forbid any Federal employe
from taking active part in any
partisan election contest, or solic-
iting or holding any partisan
civic office.
A recent executive order Of
President Hoover gave express
permission to residents Of Airing
ton county, employed by the Gov
ernment, to solicit and hold local
offices on a nonpartisan basis.
The understanding was that the
county election was purely local.
without party lines being drawn
or party platforms being enunci-
ated.
Only recently, the Civil Ser
vice Commission was constrained
to notify one elected member
of the county board, and one
candidate who was defeated, both
Federal employees, that their cam
paignS were found to be parti-
san, and that in future partisan
elections it would be a choice
between elected office and a Fed
eral Job.
The Washington times., 1932-06-25
Feature Dance To Be
On TUeSd1u NiQht

The annual dance recital of
Lou Langlotz will be staged at
the Willard Hotel Tuesday at
8:15 p. m. Three elaborate group
dances will feature the program
of the terpsichorean instructor
whose studios are at 1885 Six
teenth st. N. w.
Pupils taking part in the
dances range from the age Of 2
TO mature persons.
Evening star., 1932-06-29
FUTURE MAJORITY
CONTROL is URGED
Committee Asks End of Two
Thirds System in Next
Convention.
Rv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, June 29-Bare majority
versus two-thirds rule in the selection
of the presidential candidate became
today a definite issue in the future of
the Democratic party.
The Roosevelt forces dominating the
present national convention dropped
utterly yesterday the intended reversal
of a century's tradition, but they wrote
into the gatherings rules a recon-
mendation that the next convention
consider substituting nomination by a
bare majority for the old requirement
of two-thirds and no less.
Answers Opposition.
There was attached also declaration
that precedent does not and shall not
in the future govern the rules of the
convention. The recommendation rati-
fed automatically and without particu-
lar notice by the party assembly itself
was actually the work OF the Roosevelt
favoring majority in the Rules Com
mittee. Nevertheless it made certain
that the question shall be actively con-
sidered in the selection of delegates from
now on. This will answer the chief ar
gument of those anti-Roosevelt delega-
tions which so bitterly oppose abandon
ment of the old rule this time.
They claimed the proposal was sprung
treacherously late, when the rank and
file of the party had no chance to reg
lister its opinion. 1t will give an op-
portunity to such States as cling to the
near-veto power afforded them by the
stringent old requirement, to organize
a fight
Text Of Declaration.
The language of the declaration was:
I'VE recommend to the next national
convention of the party that 1t shall
consider the question of changing the
two-thirds rule now required for the
nominations of the President and Vice
President of the United States so as to
make the nomination by a majority
vote of the delegates to the convention.
with the further declaration that that
convention is to be the sole judge of
its own rules"
But for this time regular order"
prevails, and two-thirds of the dele
gates. who assembled today to hear an
endless stream of nominating speeches,
will have to get together on one man
before the task was done.
Evening star., 1932-06-29

called in separately the leaders Of the
various favorite son and anti-RooSevlet
delegations last night and early today
and told them that if they would stick
through the third ballot he would then
release his delegates to go to any of
them; that he himself had no ambitions
and no preferences as TO candidates
Can the Roosevelt forces make
enough gains on the first three bal
lots to start bandwagon and push
their candidate over? Many observers
here think they can, for the simple rea-
son that the anti-Roosevelt forces ere
not cohesive But this has been a con-
vention Of surprise moves. The two
thirds vote controversy is a case in
point A management that can make
that mistake might make others. The
platform fight may open cleavages.
The differences Of opinion that have
developed between the extreme repeal
lists and those who want modifica ton
of the Volstead act, so as to get beer
now instead of WAITING for the lengthy
processes Of repeating the eighteenth
amendment. do not as yet reveal
Roosevelt and anti-Roosevelt battle line,
as did the three other issues on which
tests were taken Tuesday.
Roosevelt Outlook Brighter.
Senator Carter Glass CT Virginia, and
McAdoo have always been closer to the
dry rather than the wet side They
will not wish to see the party members
in Congress committed either to repeal
or retention. They would like to see
the eighteenth amendment submitted
and they would not like to see the pro-
hibition plank in the Democratic plat
form cluttered up with the Volstead act
complication. 1t looks as if the Roose-
welt forces will have to divide on this
question so that the final result will not
disclose anything as to the new strength
of the Roosevelt army.
The outlook for the Roosevelt nomi-
nation has frightened considerably
since the three test votes. If 626 is
taken as the Roosevelt maximum be-
cause of the intensity CT the fight, in
which Jouett Shouse was defeated for
the permanent chairmanship and on
the supposition that the opposition
mustered all that it could, the assum-
ton today is that the Roosevelt man
agement IS after IA more votes to
make the necessary two-thirds, but is
trying nard to get Immediately so to
90, to show material increase on the
first three ballots.
If there Is no gain beyond the 626
figure, or the $50 Roosevelt total. which
was polled on the Minnesota credentials
contest, the opposition will be encour-
aged and the Roosevelt delegations may
begin to break away to other candi-
Evening star., 1932-06-29
OPTIMISM GROWS
IN RITCHIE CAMP
Pleased by Roosevelt's Inability
to Get Two-Thirds Major
ity Yesterday.
Rx the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, June ga feeling of
optimism had spread over the Maryland
camp at the Democratic national con-
vention today as the time for nominal
tion of the States candidate for Presi-
dent, Gov. Albert G. Ritchie, drew near.
Supporters Of the Governor were
elated after yesterdays votes in the
Louisiana and Minnesota delegation
arguments and in the election of
permanent chairman.
The ballots we're regarded by Mary
land delegates as test vote, and In no
instance was the Roosevelt-backed
group able to muster a two-thirds
majority. The Maryland Governor is
generally credited with being an out
standing second choice" candidate
Mayor Howard Jackson of Baltimore
said he believed Ritchie had votes in as
many as i9 States. Delegates in a
number of them are pledged for the first
few ballots, but may feel free to shift
if no nomination is secured early In the
voting
The Ritchie forces continued to work
valiantly yesterday.
Evening star., 1932-06-29
STRONG FARM PLEA
MADE BY LEADERS
Five Points Stressed Before
G. O. P. Convention Again
Championed.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, June 2e.-Three practiced
advocates of the cause of farm relief
swapped ideas outside the room of the
Democratic Resolutions Committee last
night, then, notwithstanding divergent
viewpoints, made a concerted appeal
for a strong agricultural plank in the
party platform.
They were Edward A. O'Neal, presi-
dent of the American Farm Bureau
Federation; Louis j. Taber, master of
the National Grange, and John A. Simp-
son. president of the Farmers Union.
They were given only 10 minutes
each and appeared before the commit
tee in executive session. They combined
forces in order to cover their subject
fully. skipping lightly over controversial
issues.
Appeal on Five Points.
After the session O'Neal said he had
championed again the five points on
which his organization appealed to the
Republicans: Effective protection Of
the American market through stabil-
lied home price and control of surpluses,
revision of tariff schedules to give true
parity to agriculture, a sound dollar,
easily available agricultural credits
through development of the farm loan
system and Government economy.
Agriculture must be restored before
national prosperity can be returned, y
he told the platform makers. mo fun
damental things have been done to solve
the economic problem of our Nation.
Agriculture is PROSTATE. Unless it Is
brought back, this will destroy the Ma
ton"
In connection with credits he said he
thought that If the Federal farm loan
system did not work, another should be
provided. He reminded his hearers the
Democratic party in 1924 and 1923
pledged equality for agriculture and
asked:
Have your elected representatives
carried out those platforms or have they
been but scraps of paper?"
Price Fixing Asked.
Simpson urged the party to pledge
itself to regulate marketing to fix the
price of farm products at or above the
cost of production.
He advocated the allotment plan for
handling of exportable surpluses and
farm relief plank Sufficiently broad to
pledge the party to use of the necessary
machinery to bring equality to agri-
culture"
What we are asking" he said blunt
ly, 'is something more important than
Democratic success, the success of agri-
culture"
Evening star., 1932-06-29
VOTE NEGOTIATIONS
REPORTED BEGUN
Feelers Declared Sent Key
States, With Second-PIace
Nomination Offered.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

CHICAGO. June 29.-The trading is
on. How many votes in exchange for
a vice presidency? How much is bid?
Something like an auction is in prog
reSs here. The Roosevelt management
needs about 140 votes to make the
necessary two-thirds to obtain the
Democratic presidential nomination So
they have. through their numerous
representatives. sent messages direct
or indirect feeling out the various dele
cations that hold the balance of power
in this convention.
If California and Texas would
switch from Garner to Roosevelt, it
would mean gain of go votes, which
is a sizable start toward a band
wagon. Such break would cause de-
fections in the anti-Roosevc:t camp
So, II Speaker Garner would like to
take the vice presidency and If Texas
wants the honor of second place on the
ticket, the Roosevelt forces are willing
to make it possible. provided they get
the 80 votes. William G.. McAdoo con-
trolls California's A votes out of that
80 so he is naturally the man to whom
the Roosevelt forces look for aid. They
point out that he is in an unnatural
alliance when he trails along with his
foe of Madison Square Garden days, Al
fred E. Smith They declare that he be-
longs with the Roosevelt side Of the
fight.
Reward Held Out to White.
Somewhat the same argument is be-
ing made to the Ohio delegation where
the vice presidency is being held out
as a reward to Gov. George White, If
he can swing the Buckeye States So
votes
Sensing the maneuvers of the Roose-
velt managers, former Gov. Smith