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Evening star., 1932-04-05
FEDERAL PAY CUTS
DECLARED MENACE.
Spokesman of Employees
Says Taxpayers Should Give
Deep Consideration to Issue.

Declaring the Government establish
ment would be menaced either through
ill-considered and unscientific schemes
OF wholesale consolidation or ellmlna-
ton, or by unjust and nequltaple
SlasheS in wages" Luther G. Steward,
president of the National Federation OF
Federal Employees, in statement given
out for publication today, said taxpayers
should give deep consideration" to this
situation
The National Federation of Federal
Employees does not oppose mtelllgent
consolidation" Mr.. Steward SAID. Sci
entific and studied unification inevitably
will prove boon to all concerned.
But the American taxpayer errs IL ne
allows hysteria to work havoc with the
efficient service machine built up by tne
Government over long period OF years
by ruthless chopping process to aaect
departments and bureaus as well as IN
dividual salaries.
ITO cut without consideration OF the
many essential factors which must be
considered in a question of this klrd IS
the simplest of tasks. 1t requires little
thought to root out projects ana
services; but such action generally IS
far more hurtful in actual dollars ana
cents than the savings effected"
He cited such Government agencies
sS the Public Health Service, Bureau
of Foreign and Domestic Commerce and
Bureau of Mines. as examples OF func-
tions which should not be interferred
with, adding:
Careful consideration will make it
plain that these services and many
others are being rendered by the Gov
ernment in direct response to strong
and apparent public necessity, They
cannot be emasculated without severe
loss to the country as a whole.
ITO cut Federal salaries, already be-
low standard, and so proved by official
statistics of the Bureau Of the Budget,
would be a backward step not only
from the standpoint of justice and fair
dealing, but also in tending to drive
from the Federal service many highly
trained and experienced men and
women who are performing their duties
to the public so efficiently and so ex-
pertly," Mr.. Steward concluded.
Evening star., 1932-04-05

year-old crusader, Frank J. Loesch, to
lead the grand jury inquiry, but Loesch
has not yet decided whether TO accept.
Police on Guard in Cicero.
Two hundred and fifty Chicago city
policemen were detailed to maintain
order in suburban Cicero, where a bit
ter campaign between Republicans and
Democrats closed with a municipal cleo
tion today. They were admonished by
Detective Chief Shoemaker mot to let
any one steal the polls from under your
nose"
1t was the first time Chicago police
ground that chapter 1876 of the acts
guarded the suburb since 1924, when a
squad Of city officers killed Frank Ca
pone, brother Of Al, in running gun
fight,
Evening star., 1932-04-05
BETHESDA-CHEVY CHASE
PIT. A. MEETS TOMORROW
DR.. Paul B. Dunbar to Conduct
Discussion of Student
Matters.
By stan Correspondent of The Star.

BY STAFF Correspondent of The Star.
BETHESDA, Md, April 5.-The Par
ent-Teacher Association of the Bethes-
da Chevy Chase High School will meet
at the school tomorrow night under the
leadership Of DR.. Paul B. Dunbar, presi-
dent
What privileges shall senior high
school students have?" and What social
activities shall our junior high school
students have?" will be some of the sub
jects discussed. The amount of home
work that students should do also will
be considered.
The Nominating Committee, Mrs
George Pariseau, chairman; Mrs. Earl
F. Kelley and Miss Helen Price, will re-
port, and the election of officers for the
new year will be held.
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WILSON PIT. A. TO MEET
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
FORT MYER HEIGHTS, Va, April
5.-The Parent-Teacher Association of
the Woodrow Wilson School will be
held tomorrow night in the school at 8
o'clock. Following the business session
a special program will be presented by
the Entertainment Committee. the fea-
ture of which will be a sketch entitled
George Washingtons First Defeat" !"
Parents are to have the leading roles.
Evening star., 1932-04-05
TWO ARE UN0PPOSED
IN TOWNS ELECTION
Seat Pleasant Mayor and Treasurer
Only Ones Filed-Nine Run
for Council.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
SEAT PLEASANT, Md, April s.
Mayor Harmon o. Acuff and Treasurer
Irwin 1. Main of the municipality of
Seat Pleasant will be unopposed in the
coming town election, while nine men
filed last night before the nominating
officers for the five councilmanic
Offices.
Among those who filed were Council
men George " Armstrong, Arthur S.
Jones, Edwin M. Fisher, Van Moreland
and Fabian L. Augustine and Town
Bailiff John w. Hampton, Carol c.
Carrick, George Embry and c. A. Pen
kert.
Evening star., 1932-04-05
THE WEATHER

District of Columbia-Partly cloudy,
slightly warmer tonight; minimum tenn
perature about 81 degrees tomorrow
partly cloudy; moderate southwest and
west winds.
Maryland and Virginia - Partly
cloudy, slightly warmer tonight; tomor-
row partly cloudy.
West Virginia-Partly cloudy, Slightly
cooler in northwest portion tonight;
tomorrow partly cloudy.
Evening star., 1932-04-05
UNITE IN BICENTENNIAL
TREE PLANTING FRIDAY
Junior United American Mechanics
and D. of A. to Hold Rites
in Maryland Park.
Special Dispatch to The Star,

Special Dispatch to The Star.
MARYLAND PARK, Md, April S.
A joint Bicentennial tree planting will
be held Friday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock
on the grounds of the Maryland Park
High School, under the auspices of Cen
tral Council, No. 64, Junior Order of
United American Mechanics, and Cen
trail Council, No. 108. Daughters of
America. Two elm trees will be planted.
An appropriate program has been ar
ranged by Principal William D. Hines,
who will make the welcoming address,
and Freeman z. Ballard, chairman of
the committee for the Junior Order.
The Bicentennial song will be sung by
the freshman class of the high school.
Evening star., 1932-04-05
VIENNA PRESBYTERIAN
REFLECTS TREASURER
Walter S. Leeds Gets His 18th
Consecutive Term at Annual
Congregational Meeting.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
VIENNA, Va, April Sat the an
nual congregational meeting Of the
Vienna Presbyterian Church, Walter s.
Leeds was reelected treasurer for the
twelfth consecutive term. Joseph Berry
was reelected to the board of trustees.
as was Leon L. Freeman, who took the
place of Charles B. Davis, who resigned:
Arthur B. Barringer was REFLECTED
church organist. The report of Arthur
w. Harkness, clerk of the session,
showed a membership of ia with
gain of II members during the past
year. The congregation adopted the
same budget as called for last year.
Evening star., 1932-04-05
NEW YORK NAMES
DELEGATES TODAY
Primary to Be Perfunctory,
With Contests in Only
Three Districts.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ALBANY, N. Y, April 5.-Selection
of New York's district delegates to the
Republican and Democratic National
Conventions today was a perfunctory
proceeding in all but of the 43 con-
gressional districts.
There was cne contest in the Demo-
cratic primary and two in the Repub-
lican. In the forty-frst district. which
is in Buffalo, slate of two delegates
favorable to former Gov. Smith is op-
posed to two men who are regarded as
votes for Gov. Roosevelt for the Demo-
cratic presidential nomination.
The Republicans have contests in
the seventh district of Kings County
(Brooklyn) and in the twentieth, where
Secretary Of the Treasury Ogden Mills
is q candidate Mr.. Mills, although
running in the twentieth, is a resident
OF the seventeenth district. His name
was transferred to that district because
the slate was complete in his home
district.
Delegates Not Bound.
The New York primaries do not bind
utlGSdIeS 70 support any dSpldnI
the presidential nomination. All of the
Republicans, however, are favorable to
President Hoover. There are both
Smith and Roosevelt men in the Dem
ocratic list
1t is considered highly probable that
the Democratic delegation will split its
vote on the first ballot Reason for
this belief is found in the silence of
Tammany Hall with its big block of
votes and affiliated votes There is ex-
pected to be sentiment for both Smith
and Roosevelt in the ranks Of the Tiger.
The "a votes that New York Demo-
Gratis will cast at the Chicago conven-
tion will not be circumscribed by the
unit rule as the Empire State Demo-
Gratis have not applied it for more than
o decade. In 1920 Roosevelt carried
his opposition to a unit rule to the
floor of the San Francisco convention
and won his contention that each dis
trict delegate should be free to express
the sentiment of his constituency.
81 Votes for G. O..
The Republicans will have 81 votes
In the convention, the larger number
being due to the plurality Hoover had
over Smith four years ago. Eleven Re
publican votes will be cast by IL dele
gates at large, named at a committee
meeting month ago.
The Democrats will not name their
eight delegates at large until about
April IS. There is a likelihood that
both Roosevelt and Smith will be men,
bers of the delegation.
Evening star., 1932-04-05

famous VICTORY was
wen ] a S t week
when the richest
count try in the
world theoretically
balanced its budget
for the time be-
ing. You may not
like the tax bill
that balanced it.
but if you don't it's
going to be pretty
hard to distribute
the blame.
In fact" said
Mr.. Gloom, "if you
want to find the
author of the tax
bill of 1892 I would
say that it's neither
Cricr1 nor Omar
Evening star., 1932-04-05

the country. I'm
starting hack home
this evening, but 1t
certainly has teen
a relief to spend a
few days in the Cne
prosperous city in
the United States.
"Washington's the
one city that's still
enjoying a build
ing boom, even If
it's confined to
D u b ii C buildings;
the only city I've
heard Of where
they raised a fund
to relieve the un-
employed and then
couldn't find any
bor,v IN relieve with
Evening star., 1932-04-05
140 March Out at Fire.

HENRYVILLE, Ind, April 4 R.-
One hundred and forty children and
adult members of the Henryville Metho-
dist Episcopal Sunday school here
marched to safety yesterday morning
when fire was discovered in the church
belfry. The fire destroyed the church.
Loss was estimated at SO, 400.
Evening star., 1932-04-05
CONTAGIOUS DISEASES
REPORTED UNATTENDED
Prince Georges Health officer
Finds Cases of Whooping Cough,
Mumps and Chickenpox, He Says.
7 Correspondent of The Star.

BY STAFF Correspondent Of The Star.
UPPER MARLBORO. Md, April s.
Several cases of whooping cough,
mumps and chickenpox in Prince
Georges County were found unattended
by physicians during the past month,
the March report of DR.. A. B. Hooton,
county health officer, reveals.
A large number Of cases Of influenza,
generally of a rather mild type, oc-
Cured in the northern section of the
county, the report says.
There were 62 births and only 43
deaths in the county during the month,
according to the report.
Evening star., 1932-04-05
Riverdale Church to Elect.

RIVERDALE, Md, April (SpeciaD
The annual congregational meeting Of
the Presbyterian Church will be held
Thursday evening at the church, when
election Of officers will take place.
Evening star., 1932-04-05
Miller Services Tomorrow.

OAKTON, Va, April S (SpeciaD -
Funeral services for Robert Joseph Miller
of Oakton, who died Sunday night, will
be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock
at the Oakton Church OF the Brethren.
terry,
Evening star., 1932-04-05
BY ELMER DAVIS.

~ ODFREY G. GLOOM, the vet
eran Hoosier Democrat, was
Y discovered by a reported ex-
~ amining the imposing exterior
of the additions to the Con-
gressional ONCE Building.
Just wanted to feast my eyes on the
sight of buildings under construction"
he explained. that being a spectacle
you seldom see nowadays in the rest Of
Evening star., 1932-04-05

own interests and
not for the well
fare of the coun-
try, and for the
great majority OF
them that's true.
But what co they
hear fr )m back
home? Do their
constituents t e IL
EN- to stand up for
the welfare of the
country even if it
means some in
convenience for the
district? They do
not. Most of them
tell their Repre-
sentative to get
what Re can for
the district or for
Evening star., 1932-04-05
Licensed to Wed.

LEONARDTOWN, Md, April (Spe-
cial) A marriage license was issued
here to William Wilbert Holt. 29, and
Mary Alice Butler, 49,, both OF Me-
eann6csville, Nd
Evening star., 1932-04-05
Godfrey G. Gloom Comments
Says It's Sad Testimonial When House That Wanted
to Soak the Rich Had to Define One as
a $6,OOO-aYear Man.

back home" Mr.. Gloom went on, 'it's
wonder Congress ever gets any decent
legislation enacted at all. People say
these fellows are all lookin' out for their
Evening star., 1932-04-05

Furnished by United States Coast and
GeOdetic Suryey)
Evening star., 1932-04-05
Report for Last "a Hours.
Tide Tables.

Highest, ST, noon today. Year ago, 81.
Lowest, 38, 600 am. today. Year
ago a.
Evening star., 1932-04-05
The Sun and Moon.
Rainfall.

Automobile lights must be turned on
one-half hour after sunset.
Evening star., 1932-04-05

Monthly rainfall in inches in the
Capital (current month to date:
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it: a one-industry town. where that one
Industry hasn't laid anybody of and
isn't going to reduce wages
Evening star., 1932-04-05
FOREIGN.

Ga.m.. Greenwich time, today)
Evening star., 1932-06-19
Two Important Events.

The beginning and end of this period
are marked by Two important events in
the life Of the metropolis. The Sum-
mer of 1923 witnessed the reawakening
Evening star., 1932-06-19
Bars on Liners Suffer Huge Slump
Because of Economic Conditions

just ahead, the steamship companies
are puzzled regarding the amount of
stuff" which should be assembled I'm
advance. With the home consumption
of whisky lower than it has been for
years, and the export trade in the same
commodity suffering from a blight, the
hard iikker" interests will have add
tional cause for perturbation if the
tourist season doesn't result in brisk
business on the North Atlantic high
way.
Beer Brewers Less Worried.
The purveyors of beer are not so
anxious. because there has been good
demand for it aboard ship.
But not even the most confirmed
optimist believes the average liners bar
will do so per cent of the trade it did
three years ago. In that year it was
estimated that the ships of three COM
panies plying between Southampton
and New York carried in the four Sum-
mer months approximately 100000
bottles of beer and stout, 10000 gal
Ions of draft beer, 2,430000 bottles of
mineral water, 124,000 bottles of whisky,
$4,000 bottles of gin. $4,000 bottles of
vermouth, 14100 bottles Of rum. 14.100
bottles of lioueurs, 15,600 bottles of
brandy, 174,000 bottles OF champagne
and 10000 bottles of other wines.
(Copyright. 1922
Evening star., 1932-06-19

LONDON.-The worlds principal
ocean highways threaten to become
'dryWayS' through the decline in pas
senger traffic and the reduced consump-
tion of alcoholic beverages By many who
do travel for reasons of pleasure or
business. This is a development of seri-
GUS consideration for shipping companies
as we'll as liquor interests.
At the height of the tourist season
on the most important ocean highway,
the North Atlantic, the receipts two or
three years ago from liquor sold during
a rOunc-trip voyage of some of the big
less palatial circumstances the receipts
from tie same source frequently ex-
cended 10000 in a round trip.
As the tendency Is now to encourage
/ aveling by class of the public unable
to indulge in high rolling" it is as
sumed by some traffic experts that the
chief reliance of shipping in the i'm
mediate future will be this type, which,
even if it is endowed with a considerable
thirst, must vigorously circumscribe
consumption of alcoholic beverages to
make ends meet.
Matter of Economics.
There are drys in this part of the
world, and probably in the United
States, too, who would welcome the
decline in liquor consumption on the
high seas, but those who have had to
make a study of the requirements of
passengers travelling between the United
States and Europe, England and South
America and England and the East in
sist that it is simply matter of eco
nomics.
While hoping for big volume OF
american tourist traffic in the weeks
Evening star., 1932-06-19
New York's Grating Hosts
in

Of the city's bootleggers to the posi-
bilities latent in the breWeries. Although
good draught beer was obtainable in
Chicago, Buffalo and other cities almost
since the beginning Of prohibition, the
average glass of beer sold in New York
City prior to July, 1923, was near-beer,
to which the bartender had added either
alcohol or ether. And until then, the
city'S police force did not know cor
introduction of barreled beer, police
men on beat began collecting 81 on each
half barrel of the 100000 delivered
annually to the speakeasies. Even If
he is not present when the delivery is
made, he is sure Of being paid, for his
capacity for making trouble is great.
What he collects is never shared.
The end of this period, March, 1881,
witnessed the Legislature of New York
State preparing for its investigation of
conditions in the metropolis with COM
mittee Of its own creation. The munic-
ipal government was in the hands Of
Democrats, and their nominal State
leader, Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt, had
saved them a year earlier from being
forced to tell strange tales about magic
tin boxes and their other mysterious
sources of wealth. In 1880 he vetoed
a bill empowering him to appoint a
committee of his own choosing. In
1881 the Legislature took the matter
into its own hands and adopted reso-
luticn which did not require the Gov.
ernor's signature.
1t is easy, if the mind Is brought
down to the level of local politics, to
understand the Governors position. He
was seeking his party's nomination for
President and did not want to ALLEVIATE
Tammany, whose loyalty to him made
him Governor and whose treachery to
Alfred E. Smith, Democratic nominee
for President, lost him the State in
1928. BY the end Of March the Repub-
lican majority had agreed on the per-
sonnel Of the committee, which selected
as its counsel Samuel Seabury, who was
knitted by Tammany in 1916, when he
was the Democratic nominee for Gov
ernor.
Most Of the graft gathered by the in
spectcrs' men and the captains men
went to politicians. Some held city
Offices and were amenable to SUBJ
poena from the Seabury committee, and
because OF this these collections sud-
denly ceased.
Groups Worked Independently.
These two groups of graft gatherers
worked Independently, levying SIS to
sl0O week on the ordinary speakeasies,
and as much as the traffic would bear
on the night clubs and cabarets. Some
captains. and a greater proportion of
inspectors, refused to touch the boot
Logging graft and remained clean. And
save in a rare instance or two in the
past, this has been true of the officials
at headquarters. In many instances,
grating members Of the department
availed themselves of the integrity of
their superiors and collected in their
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is not ascertainable. And dependable
data do not exist on which to approx
mate the profits CT graft involved in
the remaining 100000 half barrels
drunk in New York City yearly, sold
in bottles and as wort for home brew
But our ruling class collects tax on
most Of it.
On the basis Of Grover Whalen's esti-
mate Of $4,000 speakeasies in New
York City, made when he was police
commissioner these places have paid
about s50,c00,000 annually in graft. in
lieu of taxes, since 1920. This levy
was collected by the police, Feds" as
the prohibition agents are known to the
bootlcggers, and "chowder boys" those
persistent hawkers of tickets for the So
cial adventures of ward politicians.
From the Summer of 1928 until
March. 1881. the speakeasy graft i'll
the metropolis may be computed, con-
servatively, at $50, $40 900 annually This
represents an annual levy OF $1,000, no.
Evening star., 1932-06-19
BY DENIS TILDEN LYNCH.

n YEW YORK.-The beer racket Is
N more menacing to law and
order than all other rackets
/ combined. 1t has made
systematic grafters Of many
policemen in the communities where
it fourishes. On this, all are agreed
The traffic in wine and spirits corrupts
only prohibition agents, the Coast Guard
and those in high places.
VETS and drys of all degrees also
meet on common ground i'll estimating
the quantity of beer made In this coun-
try. StatisticianS of the prohlbition
unit of the Federal Government and
the Association Against the Prohibition
Amendment varied but little in their
estimates for the fiscal year ended June
80, 1880. The Government estimate was
%, ,O33290 barrels; other experts put 1t
at 25,480,387 barrels. In the brewing
industry here a barrel always measured
81 gallons.
About half of the beer sold is de-
livered in barrels. Because of its bulk.
draught beer cannot be transported
without the knowledge of the policeman
on beat And the policeman-there are
few xceptions-collects his share of
the graft in the beer racket on delivery
or within the next "a hours.
When the beer industry was revived
without benefit of Congress, the gang
ster-brewers speeded up delivery by
using half barrels. This change was
necessary because the deliveries must
be made between 2 and O'Clock In the
morning, while the rest Of the COM
munity is sleeping; and 1t was easier
to handle 15ls gallons than 81.
In pre-prohibition days, when the
oT t@
100000 barrels New York City con-
sumed an average of 1o,5Oo,oo0 barrels
annually The lowest estimate of the
annual amount of beer sold in the
metropolis since 1926, when the in
dustrv reached its present high degree
Of efficiency, is 5,250000 barrels. OF
this amount, 100000 barrels, or 4800.-
0C0 half barrels. are delivered in bulk.
The balance. 2,850000 barrels. is bot
tied at the breWer.es and delivered by
the case. or made in the speakeasies
and in homes.
Divided in Three Parts.
In New York City the beer racket IS
divided into three parts-the manu-
facturc, distribution, and retailing of
the product. Each is an entity in it
self This division spared the city
tie wholesale assassinations which fea-
tured the racket In Chicago, where the
same gangsters brewed and distributed.
In the metropolis the brewers sell out
right to the distributors, who are the
only contacts the retailers have with
the industry.
The estimated annual profit to the
brewers and distributors on these
4,S00,000 half barrels is s70,800 900.
What proportion of this sum Is shared
with their political partners and paid to
law-enforcement officers for immunity
Evening star., 1932-06-19
September Selections.

From the Boston Evening Transcript.
Ex-Gov. Smith of New York thinks
that presidential nominations should be
made in September. But the objection
to change is that most candidates are
afraid that the people won't love them
in September as they de- in June.
Evening star., 1932-06-19
BY FRANK II. SIMONDS.

.CMORROW, as the date falls,
Will be the anniversary Of the
Hoover moratorium. The fact
i that it will also see the Lausanne
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Spurns Other Suggestion.

But the second Interpretation is a
is meant to convey the second meaning
of which it is capable, I must say at
once that in my view at least the con-
dition is quite unacceptable. This sug-
gestion was put forward by the German
Evening star., 1932-06-19

very much more than was paid by each
first-class saloon in New Yor. when
the State license was $500 and the
Federal retail license was S25.
During this period the speakeasies
were Systematically preyed upon by five
groups Of collectors Feds" chowder
boys patrolmen, captains men and in
spectors' men. The approximate annual
collections Of these private tax gatherers