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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1932-07-28

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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1932-07-28

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Evening star., 1932-07-17
NEW j. s. WORKERS
UNION CONSIDERED
Suspended Federation Men,
Der ContempIates Another
Employees Group.

John Arthur Shaw, who recently was
suspended, along with Is others, by the
Federation of Federal Employees. last
night indicated he is contemplating
forming new organization of Govern
ment workers. He said he had received
numerous requests that such a move be
undertaken.
At the same time, almost the entire
membership of the Tariff Commission
Branch of Local No. of the federation
submitted their resignation from the
organization as protest against the
suspension of the officials of the Joint
Conference on Affiliation with the
American Federation of Labor.
Text of Resignation.
Their joint resignation read, in part t.:
I'VE feel that the suspended members
were working to the best interests of
the Federal employees in their efforts to
maintain afhliation with the American
Federation of Labor. and that the ma
jority of members of the union
are in complete agreement with the
actions Of the joint conference"
Mr.. Shaw, who Is vice chairman of
the American Federation OF Labor, said
although no extensive attempt has
been made to foster a new union, $500
Federal employees have signed petitions
stating their desire that such a union
be Immediately organized, and many
personal letters have been received"
The suspended member, an official
in the Labor Departments Employment
Bureau. said he believed the suspension
order has convinced the Federal en-
ployes that 1T is impossible to fight
within the Federation for what one
deems right. if ones opinions do not
coincide with the views of the national
officers"
internal Reform Impossible.'
Shaw was suspended after activities
In an effort to close the breach between
the American Federation Of Labor and
the Federation Of Federal employees.
Evening star., 1932-07-17
CITYS PICNIC GROVES
DRAWING MORE OUTINGS
Many Church Groups Obtain Per-
mits at Parks Office for This
Week End

More organized outings are taking
advantage of picnic groves of the city's
parks, Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, Sd, di-
rector of Public Buildings and Public
Parks, announced yesterday. Over this
week end number of groups arranged
to celebrate.
This was the schedule for permits,
approved by Col. Grants office: Two
hundred families attending the annual
outing of the Fifteenth Street Chris
tian Church in Rock Greek Park, south
of Pierce Mill, yesterday; the primary
department of st. Matthew's Lutheran
Church for a picnic north of the mill
yesterday: the Vienna PRESBYTERIAN
Sunday School, at the Sixteenth Street
Reservoir grove; the Langdon M. E.
Sunday School. east of the Joaquin
Miller Cabin; the Metropolitan Baptist
Sunday School, west of the Miller
cabin; the Chevy Chase Presbyterian
Church and Capitol Court, No. 3. Junior
Macabees, in the groves on Beach drive,
and the lexington Presbyterian Sum
day School in the Rock Creek and Po-
tomac Parkway, near the Taft Bridge.
Today the outing of the District of
Columbia members of the Fleet Naval
Reserve group, 400 families strong, is
scheduled to be held in the grove east
of the Miller Cabin, in Rock Greek
Park. The University Park Church of
the Brethren Is to picnic today, using
the Pierce MIL grove.
Evening star., 1932-07-17
LEGION CONVENTION
Will OPEN JULY 26
Department Parade Will Be Held
on Streets of Northeast
Washington.

The annual department convention
Of the local American Legion will open
Tuesday, July 26, with a parade on
streets of Northeast Washington to the
Stuart Junior High School, Fifth and
E streets northeast, scene of the con-
vention.
The line of march for the parade
will be from the Union Market Place
Florida avenue and Fifth street, south
on Fifth street to K, east on K to Four
teenth street, thence on Florida avenue
to H street. west on this street to
Fourth, thence south to the Stuart
School.
The parade will begin at 6 o'clock
followed by the convention at g. The
Northeast Business Mems Association
is cooperating with the Legion de-
partment in planning the event. The
line of march will be decorated and re-
viewing stands erected.
Several cash prizes will be awarded
for outstanding entries in the process
sion, according to William H. McGrath
chairman of the departments con-
vention committee.
Evening star., 1932-07-17
BUS LINE WOULD
REMODEL TEMPLE
Plans Complete to Build Ter
minaI if Masonic Lodge
Accepts Bid.

The Greyhound Lines bus company
is ready to remodel the east half of the
Masonic Temple at Thirteenth street
and New York avenue for Washing
ton terminal. if the Grand Lodge OF
Masons accepts its proposal.
This announcement was made yes
terday by l.. c. Major, regional man
ager of the bus line. Bids on work in
volved have already been taken from
numerous contractors.
At the same time, it developed that
the Greyhound Lines filed with the
Public Utilities Commission request
for a O-day extension of the time In
which the large bussess must be gotten
off the streets of the National Capital,
while taking on and discharging pas
sengers at terminals. The present time
limit is scheduled to expire August /.
Mr.. Major and his associates say
that if the 90-0ay extension is granted
and the Grand Lodge acts faVoraply;
the GREYHOUND Lines will be housed
in their new terminal here by Novem-
Der l. A..
Under plans as now mapped out, the
east half of the Masonic Temple Woulo
be used for the bus terminal, equipped
with a large waiting room on the hrst
floor and all modern convenlenceS 1oI
Messengers. Two lanes of busses would
enter the building. the entrances belng
either on New York avenue or H street,
with exits at the opposite side OF tne
building. :. ex-
perienced at present, Greyhound Lines
authorities explained, as the ousSes ts
now load and unload on New 4ork @
aven,le. near Fourteenth street, on the
north side of the street. 1t is neces-
sarv M for embarking and disembarklng
na ssengers to walk across the NE"
Ynrk svenue-a heavily travelled THOR
oughfare-as the company's waltlns
room is on the south side.
Evening star., 1932-07-17
CARNIVAL FEE CUT
DOWN TO ST PER DAY
District Commissioners Invoke
New License Act in Case Of y
Church Function.

The District Commissioners yesterday
for the first time made use Of the wide
powers given them under the new
license act by reducing the license fees
for carnivals, set in the act at $50 per
day, to 81 per day where the carnival
is held by a church for its own pront
or for charity. The action was taken
in the case of the Church of the AS
sumption, 34O5 Nichols avenue south
east, which had asked for a reduction
in the fee.
The powers given the Commission
ers under this act are considered at the
District building to be the most sweep
ing to be found in any recent leglsla-
ton. Not only may they move up or
down the scale of fees set by the act,
but they may include businesses under
the license requirements not included
in the act. and also may exempt any
of those specifically listed.
There is some doubt as to whether
this power will be sustained If the
Commissioners should seek to impose
the requirement of license on busi-
ness not mentioned in the act or If
they should try to increase the license
fee for any business above that men
toned in the act.
Evening star., 1932-07-17
POST OFFICE DAY
RITES ARE JULY 26
Nation to Celebrate 18th
Anniversary of Beginning
of Colonial System.

In tribute to George Washington
champion Of intercommunication in
America, the Nation will celebrate Post
Office day, July 26, as part Of the
countrywide observance Of the bicen-
tennial Of the First Presidents birth.
The date is the 157th anniversary OF
the adoption by the Continental Con-
gress Of a resolution establishing the
continental post, and naming Benjamin
Franklin as the first Postmaster Gen
eral of the United Colonies.
Participation Is Urged.
Through the National Bicentennial
Commission, groups throughout the
country are being urged to take part
with patriotic and civic bodies in the
celebration Of the birth Of the Postal
Service.
In the Capital the day will GO prac-
tically unmarked, except perhaps for q
display of flags from public buildings
This. according to DR.. George c. Haven
ner, executive head of the District BIZ
centennial Commission, is in accord
ance with the wish of Postmaster Gen
eral Brown, who desires to have an
appropriate postal celebration here in
September in connection with the lay
ing of the corner stone for the new Post
Office Building.
Parade to Be Feature.
1t Is expected, DR.. Havenner said
that this event will be featured by a
huge parade depicting the history OF
the Postal Service from the days of the
pony express down to the most modern
methods of mail transportation.
Throughout the rest of the country,
however, July 26 will be marked by
public meetings, including speeches out
lining the history, growth and import
ance of the Postal Service and stressing
the point that the Postal Service SYM
bolizeS the great life ambition OF
George Washington-the fostering OF
mutual understanding through better
communication.
Evening star., 1932-07-17
ARREST OF .HUCKSTERS
TO START TOMORROW
Action Ordered as Court Refuses to
Grant Injunction Pending
Appeal.

Arrests of gasoline hucksters for vio-
latlng the police regulation forbidding
the sale of gasoline on the streets will
start tomorrow, Acting Corporation
Counsel Vernon L. West warned yes
terday.
Enforcement Of this regulation has
been withheld pending a test of the
validity of the enactment in the courts.
When the hucksters failed yesterday in
their effort to secure a temporary in
junction in the District Supreme Court
forbidding endorsements pending an ap-
peal, however, it was decided that the
regulation should be enforced. as it Is
expected to be several months before
the appeal is perfected and the case de-
cided by the highest court.
Evening star., 1932-07-17
Applications Reported De-
Iayed Because of Increase
From SO to $25 a Year.
CHARACTER PERMITS
REQUIRE SIS EXTRA
One of Big Companies With Fleet
of 700 Cabs Said to Be
Totally Delinquent.

Although the new District license
code prescribing a s25 license fee for
taxicab operators went into effect july
]. only 1856 cab drivers had procured a
new license at the close of business yes
terday, according to a tabulation Of
Wade H. Coombs, superintendent Of
licenses.
The deadline on the use of the old
licenses, originally fixed for July is. has
been extended until July 20 by the
commissioners, which leaves but three
Gays this week for the remaining 1000
TAXI drivers to procure a new license.
AS result a last-minute rush for
licenses is inevitable.
The taxi drivers, it was said, purpose
~ are delaying applying for the new
Incense because of the materially in
creased fee. which the license code
raised from SO to S25 year Some Of
the independent operators, it is believed.
are having difficulty in raising the fee,
to which SIS must be added for a char
acter license.
Cab Companies Delay.
The large taxicab companies also
have put off applying for the licenses.
one company, operating feet OF 300
cabs, has procured about 100 licenses.
Another concern. with feet of nearly
400 cabs, has taken out but eight
licenses. Acting on the advice Of this
company'5 counsel, who promised to
produce check last week for $4,000.
the License Bureau prepared the
licenses for all Of the company's cabs.
third company. with about 700 or
more cabs in operation, has not ap-
piled for one license
In addition to issuing the new taxi
cab licenses, the License Bureau last
week found it necessary to call in IS
licenses given out July l, few hours
before President Hoover signed the new
license code. These licenses were is
sued for the old fee Of SO, and the 45
drivers who procured them were noti-
ned to call at the License Bureau and
put up an additional SIG. Thus far Is
OF the drivers have complied
Few Regulars May Quit.
There is considerable speculation
among officials of the Public Utilities
Commission and traffic authorities as
to how many taxi drivers will 60 out
OF business because of the higher
license fee. The consensus is that very
few Of the regular operators will quit,
since taxi driving IS their only means
OF livelihood. The officials, however,
believe a number Of the part-time op-
orators will go out of business rather
than pay the S25 necessary for the new
license, plus SIS for character license.
These part-time drivers are employed
during the day in Government depart
ments or private establishments and
operate taxicabs at night to augment
their income.
Evening star., 1932-07-17
.F|REMEN Of NATION
INVITED TO PARADE
Board of Trade Sends Bids
for Labor Day Event Here
to 1000 Groups.
Approximately 1000 firemen's organi-

Approximately 1000 firemen's organi-
cations throughout the country have
been invited to participate in the tenth
annual national parade, to take place
in the Capital on Labor day, Septem-
Der 5, it was announced by the Wash
ington Board of Trade, sponsors Of the
event, yesterday.
With more than 10000 marchers ex-
pected to take part in the procession.
the trade body anticipates a throng OF
100000 to come to Washington to vieE'
it. An innovation this year Will be the
participation in the event by police
men. Heretofore, only firemen have
taken part.
S2,500 Prizes TO Be Given.
The Board of Trade announced that
$4,000 worth Of prizes will be awarded
to outstanding units in the parade and
to winners in the band and drum corps
contests to follow. Groups expected to
take part in these events will come from
cities as far south as South Carolina
and as distant as Ohio. Many of them
will bring units of fire-hghting equip
ment to exhibit in the parade.
The creation of a National Firemen's
day, with Washington as the center for
the celebration, was the objective of
a movement started last year by the
National Retirement Club for Firemen
and Policemen. 1t is understood that
efforts will be continued this year to
have a bill introduced in the Senate
providing for creation Of such a day
Trade Board Committee.
Members of the Board of Trade Com
mittee in charge of arrangements for
the Labor day celebration are Odell S.
Smith, general chairman, and Sergt
A. ]. Bargagni, marshal. Members of
the Executive Committee are Joseph
A. Burkart, chairman; Battalion Chief
E. R. Pierce. secretary; Harry Dean
assistant secretary; Harry Almond as
sistant secretary. and John Bardroff
A. c. Case, Charles Clagett, E. F. Col
laday. Robert J. Cottrell Isaac Cans,
Dr. Frank E. Gibson, E. c. Graham,
Harry H r. Helwig, Levay Louis. Lowe
Louis, DR.. A. Magruder Macdonald
Edward J. Murphy, Charles w. Morris,
Theodore P. Moves, George w. Offutt,
George Pitt, Wallace r. Robinson, Fred
A. Smith, John Lewis Smith, c. j.
Waters. Chief George W. Watson, Ben
T. Webster, Fred G. White. Lloyd B.
Wilson, DR.. George c. Havenner, Mrs.
John Allan Dougherty, Inspector Ogden
T. Davis and Gen. Pelham D. Glassford.
Evening star., 1932-07-17

in the District on the Potomac River:
Establish new plumbing and gas ut
ting regulations with increased fees Tor
licensing of master plumbers and au-
thority to the Commissioners to revoke
licenses for cause.
Amend the charter Of the Acacia IN
surance CO. so as to permit it to enter
the general insurance field.
Allow the Firemens Insurance Co. OF
Washington and Georgetown to increase
its capitalization so as to also enter
the general insurance business.
Amend the insurance code to require
companies incorporated under the laws
of the District to maintain their prin-
cipal office and records in the District
of Columbia.
Grant broader power to the police
trial board to compel the attendance OF
accusers and witnesses.
Straighten the building line on a
short portion of Georgia avenue.
Two bills were enacted granting per-
mits for oil pipe lines for the Griffith
Consumers Co., and for the Gulf Re
fining Co.
Another law increases the limit Of
income for benevolent societies.
Evening star., 1932-07-17
WORkMEN HALTED
REPAIRING BRIDGE
Highway Director Orders Planks
Replaced on Calvert Street
Span.

a Capital Traction Co. work gang
repairing joints on the Calvert Street
Bridge on Connecticut avenue so weak
ened some of the planks supporting the
floor of the bridge that the highway
department ordered the work stopped,
Highway Director H. c. Whitehurst
said yesterday. Commenting on a re-
port that some of the planks had
fallen to the roadway $50 feet below,
endangering traffic on the road, he said
this might have happened but that it
had not been reported to him.
He said that the company's road
gang had "beveled off" some Of the
planks necessary to support the floor
of the bridge. and that when a high
way department inspector found this
out the work was ordered out All
planks that had been disturbed were
ordered removed and replaced with new
planks.
The Calvert Street Bridge will be the
next major bridge to be replaced.
Working drawings for the new struc-
ture will be completed this year under
an appropriation made available in the
1888 bill, and actual construction work
will start next year, assuming that
Congress appropriates the money in
the 1884 bill. Preliminary plans for
the new structure have already been
approved by the National Capital Park
and Planning Commission.
Evening star., 1932-07-17
MCARL BLOCKS CLERKS LOSS
OF Is DAYS EXCESS LEAVE
Problem Submitted by Stimson for Fur
Tough Act Interpretation Brings Out
Question of light to Time With Pay.

the welfare of the department and OF
the Government will be greatly bene-
flied thereby In that feeling Will be
created among all employees that they
have been treated fairly and that no
discrimination or favoritism has been
shown"
McCarl said that "employes OF the
Department Of State may not be
granted or receive any leave Of alb
sence with pay during the fiscal year
1888, Notwithstanding that they may
not have taken the full amount OF
leave with pay which could have been
granted them during the period Janu-
ary to June 80, 1882"
Expression of McCari.
But taking up the unusual question
raised by Secretary Stimson to cut
down the number of furlough days
actually off duty this year, despite the
fact that the employe is to have his
salary reduced to pay for this payless
furlough, McCarl went into the matter,
in part, as follows:
with respect to employees who were
granted and have taken more than Is
days leave with pay between January
and July l. 1882, 1t may be presumed
that such leave was duly granted In &C
cordance with laws and regulations IN
force and effect at that time In some
Of the Departments or services the
granting of more than Is days leave
prior to July l Of any calendar year
was made contingent upon the emp!oye
remaining in the service the remainder
of the calendar year, there being a
regulation, or condition in the ap-
proved application for such leave with
pay, to the effect that II the entire
amount of leave so granted should not
be earned by the employe continuing in
service thereafter a sufficient time so
that the aggregate Of the leave taken
would not exceed two and one-haf days
per month for the period Of service dur
ing the leave year, the excess would be
regarded as leave without pay and col
lected from the employe accordingly.
Furthermore, 1t IS to be noted that the
inhibition In section l03 Of the &.
economy act) Is against the re-
ceiving, not the earning of leave during
the fiscal year 1888.
Il am constrained to hold, therefore,
that the fact that an employe prior to
July /, 1882. had taken annual leave
with pay in excess of the amount that
had accrued at the rate of two and one
half days per month, but not in excess
of the amount to which he would have
been entitled during the calendar year
ending December 81, 1882, but for the
passage Of the act of June 80, 1882, does
not require that the amount Of such
excess be regarded as leave without pay,
or be charged against the furlough time
to which the employe is entitled as d
result of the operation of the provisions
of section 1O1 of the said act"
Evening star., 1932-07-17
VICTIM PEEVED WHEN GANG
ROBS HIM FOR THIRD TIME
George Grimes Tells Woes to Police After Quartet
Repeats Process of Emptying His Pockets.

A taxicab driver drove Grimes to CaSu-
atty Hospital. Police of the ninth pre-
cinct were called, and Grimes was taken
to the fourth precinct, where he lodged
complaint against his attackers.
Grimes described three of his assail-
ants as Reds" Joe" and Tony" He
said the same gang had robbed him on
two previous Saturday nights-Grimes'
pay day. Two months ago, he told
police, they took s75 from him and cut
his scalp. A short time before that,
he said, they took $57 and gave him a
cut over the eye in return. On each of
those times he was treated at Casualty
Hospital.
Grimes, who Is Of slight build, said
he was married, had three children and
Is employed by an Ice cream manufac-
turing company.
Evening star., 1932-07-17

They robbed George Grimes again
last night, but he got off lightly-com-
paratively speaking.
1t was the third time that he was
beaten by the same gang of four, and
it was the third time that he found his
way to Casualty Hospital to be
patched up.
According to the story Grimes told
police, he was seized at Seventh street
and Pennsylvania avenue southeast by
a gang of four men early last night
and thrust into a sedan. After a
speedy dash through Southeast Wash
ington, Grimes said, he found himself
at a Maryland roadhouse, where he
was beaten by the quartet and relieved
of SGT. He then was brought back to
the same c6fner from which he was
abducted and was put out on the street.
Evening star., 1932-07-17
NAVY WILL OPEN
OBSERVATORY BIDS
Novel Designs for Two New
DomeS to Aid Star Pho
tography.

Novel installations will be adopted In
construction of the two telescope domes
and new astrogaphic laboratory that
will be built shortly to modernize the
Naval Observatory here and expand
naval activity in star photography.
Bids for this work will be opened on
August 3, the Navy Department said
yesterday.
Big Lense Costs $4,000.
One Of the structures will house the
40-inch Ritchey-Ctretien aplanatic
photogra phic telescope. which is now
being built by Prof. George w. Ritchey.
maker of the 100-inch Mount Wilson
telescope and other famous glasses with
which to search the heavens, at a cost
Of $4,000. This dome will be 80 feet
in diameter. the base and rotating dome
being Of welded steel, with outer and
inner steel plate shells, to insure com
plete ventilation and cooling of of the
structure with rapidity. The telescope
will be equipped with an insulating
hood, the air inside being cooled to
prevent minute expansion and con-
traction of the telescope, giving errors
in photographs.
A special mechanism will rotate the
dome, the speed being regulated auto
matically. A cc,lapsible tube will be
used, in addition to the usual slot, tc
prevent Jogging of Photographic plate.
from adjacent lights.
Smaller Dome Planned.
The smaller dome will house a IS.
inch wide angle Photographic telescope
for which contract has not yet beer
awarded. The astrographic laboratory
buildings will include space for photo
graphic developing rooms and labora-
tories for examining star photographs
and for astronomical research, the Navy
Department asserted.
With the new Ritchey telescope, Capt
]. F. Hellweg, superintendent of the
Naval Observatory, expects that the
scientists will be able to view approxi-
mately 100000 stars.
1t might be possible, with thi.
greater seeing ability, to bring something
new into view" he asserted.