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Evening star., 1932-10-23

William H. Benhoff. jr. seaman, sec
ond class. and John D. Briscoe, seaman.
first class. both members of the First
Fleet Division. have extended their en-
listments for periods Of four years each.
Evening star., 1932-10-23

Members of the local Naval Reserve
commune ation division have been in
formed that they should keep their
amateur stations in working order so
that when emergc ncies arise they VII
be in position to act It was pointed
out to them in a notice from 112J;. G.
A Briggs, commander of the local con-
munication division, that when no d.
hurricane earthquake or other oisast-r
occurs at a remote point in the wol Id
the object of the operator Of an anna
teur station is to make contact and Sc
cure aid at the earliest possible moment.
He added that when repairs, alterations,
etc, to the transmitter are contemplated
they should be planned carefully before
the station is taken off the air, end
the changes should b. made promptly
and the trans nitter placed in working
order as soon as possible.
All members Of the reserve with anna
teur stations were pres mt last week to
receive instructions for use in an emer-
gency drill which is to be conducted b.
the national network today.
The competition for appointment to
the United States Naval Academy from:
the Naval Reserve is likely to be more
keen this year than ever before. The re-
serve has authority to select 25 enlisted
men each year for appointment to tie
academy. but the quota has never been
filed since the authority was given in
tn, act of 1925.
Those men who have made applica-
tions are studying hard for the exami-
nations. and to the personnel of the
local reserve has been added several men
who have been transferred here from
other naval districts, for the purpose. it
was said. of attending preparatory
schools in Washington. In order that
they may maintain the drill require
ment, essential to appointment. they
have been assigned TO divisions of the
local reserve and will drill each Monday
night until they complete their courses
and take the examination.
Robert B. Erly. seaman. second class.
has been tIansierred here from the
Fourth Naval District and has been as
signed to the Third Fleet Division. Eu-
gene S. Thorpe, fireman, third class,
from the Third Naval District, has been
assigned to the Third Division, aid Gill
bert E. CaStree, seaman, second class.
from the Fourth Naval District. also has
been assigned to the Third Division.
In addition to these, number of ac-
tive members of the local reserve are
preparing to take the examination in an
effort to win one of the coveted ap-
pointments.
Ensign Melvin T. Young has been rec
commended for transfer from the Volun-
Evening star., 1932-10-23

Ensign Melvin T. Young has been rec
commended for transfer from the Volun-
teer to the Fleet Naval Reserve to fill
a vacancy in the Second Fleet Division
Evening star., 1932-10-23

Donald C. MCPHERSON, machinist
Evening star., 1932-05-03
ECONOMY |MPER|LS
COAST GUARD WORK
Life-Saving Stations Will
Have to Be Curtailed,
Says Billiard.

Life-saving agencies of the Govern
ment in custody Of the United States
Coast Guard will have to be curtailed
if the 10 per cent slash ordered in
Treasury Department 1888 appropria-
tions by the Senate is finally carried
into effect
This was learned today from Rear
Admiral F. c. Billiard, commandant OF
the Coast Guard who is endeavoring
to lay down a tentative schedule for
reduction in case the cut is made
mandatory.
Where these lfe-saving stations will
have to be curtailed in service, or per-
haps abandoned, has not yet been de-
ternined in detail, although survey
is under way
The number Of lives saved from
perils of the sea is dependent largely
on the number of boats and men avail
able and Admiral Billiard said he
would have to lay up many boats, as
well as discharge from 1880 to 1,40O
men, if the cut goes through.
Last year the number OF assistance
cases taken care of by the Coast Guard
totaled more than 10000, the largest in
the history Of the organization since its
beginning, in 1790.
The cut would cause not only a cur
tailment in this primary purpose OF the
Coast Guard, the saving Of life and
property from the perilS of the sea, but
also in the work of the Coast Guard In
prevention of smuggling.
The Treasury Department appropr1a-
ton bill is now before the Senate Sub
committee on Appropriations.
Evening star., 1932-05-03
MARINES CONTEST
ECONOMY SLASHES
Propose to Fight Reductions
in Enlisted and Officer
Personnel.

The Marine Corps, it was learned
today, proposes to put up vigorous
fight to prevent a reduction in the
number of enlisted men by another 900
and to forestall the elimination of SO
officers and the provision that no fur
ther commissions be granted before
June /, 1888. 1t will attempt to add
nearly half a million dollars to its
items contained in the naval supply bill
now pending in the Senate Appropria-
tions Committee.
The Marines will seek to alter the
S3602,27 item for pay and allowances
of officers on the active list and boost
it to $3,766,211. They want the sub
sistence allowance changed from $493,-
116 to S516,731 and rental allowance
shifted from S648,063 to $678,319 IN
der the category of pay for officers on
the active list, they want the total
written up from $4,743, ,456 to $4,961,-
26l.
The Marines anticipate that if the
present senior class at the Naval Acad-
emy is to be graduated and commits
stoned, as contemplated by pending
legislation, there will be at least 80
of these midshipmen commissioned in
the Marine Corps. Whether they are
commissioned in the Navy or Marine
Corps, they say, there will be no diff
ference in expense totheTreasury.
There is a slash in the enlisted per-
sonnel of the Marine Corps in prospect
bringing the figure down to 14,743. The
Marines want the enlisted strength fo1
the coming fiscal year to be 15,343 and
an officer strength Of 1,030 to be main
tanned.
Evening star., 1932-05-03
j. s. CHANGES PLAN
FOR FILLING Jobs
Those Already Employed to
Get First Chance at
Higher Positions.

The Civil Service Commission has
just promulgated, upon the recommen-
dation of the Council of Personnel Ad-
ministration, regulations whereby those
already employed by the Government
will be given the first chance at higher
positions in all occupations in the classi-
fed service.
One of the purposes of the Council
of Personnel Administration, created
by an executive order of April 25, is
the filling of the higher positions by
trR:lsfer rather than by original ap-
pointment, thus extending the career
possibilities in the Federal service.
Fits Economy Scheme.
The procedure under the regulations
Just adopted will fit into the present
economy scheme which will restrict the
filling of vacancies, and thereby Will
be the means of saving the jobs OF
many employees who might be dropped
because of reduction of force, as well
as benefitting the Government by keep
ing in it's ranks trained and valuable
employees.
The new regulations provide that i'm
mediately upon receipt by the Civil
Service Commission of requisition for
eIigibles to fill a vacancy in the profess
sional or the subprofesSional service,
whether field or departmental, If an
employe suitable for transfer is not
located through information already
available announcements of the va
cancy will be sent to the department
representatives of the Council OF Per-
sonnel Administration, setting forth
Ior p
uuirements of the position to be filled,
with the request that each council rep
resentative bring the opportunity to
the attention of all classified employees
in his department or Office.
Plan Limited to d. C.
For the present this plan will be
operated in the District of Columbia
only, but plans are being developed
whereby vacant positions in field
branches will be circularized in the To-
cality of the vacancy.
Federal employees will thus be given
an opportunity to qualify for the vacant
position, and it will not be given public
announcement unless the place cannot
be filled by transfer Of some one en-
ployed in the service.
1t is further provided that the So
called transfer pool, which lists persons
who may be dropped because Of reduc-
ton of force unless other places can
be found for them, and also persons
who have been dropped because of re-
duction of force and who are eligible
for reinstatement to permanent status,
shall be considered before public an
nouncement of the vacancy is made.
In the clerical, administrative and
fiscal service the first step will be an
effort to fill the higher position through
an employe in the department in which
the vacancy exists. If no suitable per-
son can be found in that department
transfers from other departments will
be made where practicable.
Evening star., 1932-05-03
HOUSE APPROVES
"PEGG|NG" DOLLAR
GoIdSborough Bill Passed to
Stabilize Value and
Raise Prices.

Designed to stimulate business re-
covery by restoration and sterilization
of commodity prices at the 1921 1929
average, the 94-word Goldsborough bill,
second of the Democratic policy meas
ures to pass the House of Representa-
tiveS. was rushed through under sus-
pension of the rules yesterday by a
vote of 289 to go.
The purpose of the measure, termed
"infiationary' by its opponents and OBJ
iected to by the Treasury and members
of the Federal Reserve Board and di-
rectors of Reserve banks, is to direct
the board, in what virtually amounts
to a mandate, to use its facilities in
easy money operations to revive prices
by stabilizatiOn Of the value of the
American dollar.
Debate Was Short.
Called up by Speaker Garner on the
motion of Representative Steagau,
Democrat, of Alabama, chairman of the
Banking Committee, the House debated
the measure hardly more than an hour
and a half The large majority showed
newly acquired faith in the policy to
revive business by continued expansion
of Federal Reserve Board purchases of
Government securities, which can be
made collateral for the issuance of
Federal Reserve notes under the pro-
visions of the GlaSS-Steagal act. Pro-
ponentS of the measure had little pa
tience with the reminder that the plan
was now being carried out by the Fed
eral Reserve Board under its "open
market policy, with the purchase of
Government bonds by Reserve banks
effected at the rate of approximately
500, 00C,0 900 a week.
IF that pOOd OO1ipv fha 11rorO
nents of the Goldsborough bill said,
and they thought it was, they saw no
objection to imposing a congressional
mandate to that effect on the Reserve
Board. 1t represented, they argued, no
actual change in law or in the powers
of the board. That argument was en-
phasized in answer to the statement
that the bill amounted to downright
imitation.
The opposition expressed by Secre-
tary of the Treasury Mills, George L.
Harrison, governor of the Federal Re-
serve Bank of New York, and Eugene
Meyer, governor of the Federal Reserve
Board, was rejected with arguments
that carried the implication that the
Democrats thought the board should
be told to go ahead without hesitation
and use its vast power to expand credit
and thus increase prices.
Amends Reserve Act.
The bill Is an amendment TO the
Federal Reserve act which adds new
section as follows:
Section 81. 1t is hereby declared to
be the policy of the United States that
the average purchasing power of the
dollar as ascertained by the Depart
ment of Labor in the wholesale COM
modify markets for the period cover
ing the years 1921 to 1929, inclusive.
shall be restored and maintained by
the control of the volume of credit and
currency" It then says:
1.-THE Federal Reserve Board, the
Federal Reserve banks and the Secre-
tary Of the Treasury are hereby
charged with the duty Of making effec-
tive this policy"
Despite the persistency Of the argu-
ments that the plan was not ''inf1a-
Evening star., 1932-05-03
DENIES POSTAL CUT
MEANS D|SM|SSALS
Mcclellan Claims Economies
Could Be Effected by
Contract SIasheS."

Vigorously denying that the 10 per
cent cut in the Post Office Department
would have to be made by dismissing
thousands of employees, Senator Nc
Kellar, Democrat, of Tennessee, author
Of the 10 per cent reduction plan,
argued in the Senate yesterday after
noon the proposed amount could be
taken from the payments for ocean
mail, air mail and other items apart
from personnel.
Senator Oddie, Republican, of Neva-
da, in charge of the Treasury-Post Of
flee bill stood by his assertions. how
ever, that the cutting of 10 per cent
from this measure would affect large
number of employees.
The Nevadan, who is opposed to the
10 per cent reduction policy, took is
sue with McKellarS contention that the
cut could be made in mail carrying
contracts.
Il, for one" said Senator Oddie,
will continue to preach optimism and
to decry Federal cuts in pay and the
discharge of Federal employees. 1 think
the example of such action will be
damaging and wrong, and l hope-and
feel confldent-that we can get through
without it."
Taking notice of announcements
made by Oddie and Postmaster General
Brown, showing the number of en-
ployes who would have to be dropped,
the Tennesseean launched an attack on
the amounts paid by the Post Office
Department under ocean mail con-
tracts. and added: Substantially the
entire 10 per cent reduction can be ef-
fected by reducing three items"
Several Senators, including Copeland
of New York, Long of Louisiana,
Fletcher of Florida and White of Maine,
defended legislation Congress has en-
acted in the past to encourage mer-
chant marine.
Senator Borah, Republican, Of Idaho.
said he did not see how the 10 per cent
could be taken from the subsidy con-
tracts because they are contracts"
Senator McKellar argued that the
contracts "are void" to which Borah
replied somebody has to declare them
void"
Senator Glass, Democrat, Of Virginia.
agreed it was the Senate's intention to
apply the 10 per cent cut so as to drop
a large number of employees.
Evening star., 1932-05-03
GEN. 10 LANE STERN
Is DEAD AT RICHMOND
Confederate Veteran, Former Ad-
jutant General of Virginia,
Expires at 80.
Ry the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, May 3.-Gen. Jo
Lane Stern, 83, Confederate veteran,
lawyer and former adjutant general of
Virginia died early today at his home
here. He had been seriously Ill four
weeks.
Gen. Stern, who entered the Southern
army in his early teens, was first a
telegrapher and then attached to the
headquarters of Gen. Robert E. Lee
He studied law at Washington and Lee
University (then Washington College,
under Gen. Lees presidency and was
one of the few students allowed to ride
Traveller, Lees favorite mount.
Evening star., 1932-05-03

ton" In the true sense of the term, tts
advocates made no secret Of their be-
lief that IL would serve to put more
Reserve notes in circulation. Chair
man Steagal made this clear in his
report when he said:
The Federal Reserve system under
the leadership Of the late Benjamin
Strong, former governor of the Federal
Reserve Bank OF New York, measur-
ably stabilized for several years the
price level by open market operations,
and by adjustment of the rediscount
rates Of the Federal Reserve banks.
The Federal Reserve system has been
accommodating gold at the average rate
OF 5000, 100000 a year for about six
years, and is now in a much stronger
position than 1t was at the time of the
open market operations Just re-
ferred to.
HuddIeston Opposes Bill.
''It Is in a position to put into the
market $4,000, 900. 900 In Federal Re-
serve notes, and still maintain its 40
per cent reserve requirements. BY util-
iZing its power to lower reserve re-
quirements of the Federal Reserve
banks the system could put into the
market nearly $4,000. 10000 Of Federal
Reserve notes. Either sum, If the coun-
try knew that because of a Congress
sional mandate the Federal Reserve
system was going to raise the price
level to the point indicated, would be
much more than sufficient TO raise it,
because as soon as the country un-
dertood what the policy Of the Fed
eral Reserve system, as provided by
law, was, confidence among banks and
business men would be restored, bank
loans would expand, the retailer would
buy from the wholesaler, the wholesaler
would buy from the manufacturer, the
manufacturer from the producer of raw
materials, and the masses of the people
would find employment"
The House paused in amazement to
listen to Representative Huddleston,
Democrat, of Alabama, denounce the
measure. This was further evidence,
members said, that he has been fully
sold on a conservative" policy, recall
ing his support of the sales tax pro-
vision in the revenue bill
1T is a bill which carries the COM
mand to do something that cannot be
done" he said. 1T denies every fun
damental of economic law"
Representative La Guardia, Repalb-
lican, of New York, said: IF you pass
this bill today there will be no necessity
for coming back here and approving
pay cut tomorrow. So want all Of
you to remember and vote against that
pay cut tomorrow"
Evening star., 1932-05-03
CITIZENS PARLEY PLANS
FOR GARDEN ACTIVITIES

Plans to stimulate garden activities
throughout the Cleveland Park and
Cathedral Heights districts were formu-
lated last night at the last meeting of
the Cathedral Heights Cleveland Park
Citizens Association until next October.
The association, meeting in the John
Eaton School at Thirty fourth and
Lowell streets, also indorsed the bill now
before Congress which would regulate
the sale of firearms in the District.
President John w. Townsend pre-
sided
Evening star., 1932-05-03

Crows nests stopped up a chimney
in the home Of Mrs. Mary Davies,
Meath, Wales and caused carbon
monoxide fumes from a stove to kill
Mrs. Davies and her grandson.
Evening star., 1932-05-03

cratic leadership facilitated the bills
passage.
The measure is opposed by the ad-
ministration, and in its original form
was estimated by Brig. Gen. Frank T.
Hines, veterans administrator. to cost
SIS, 100000 the first year and $l61 1884,
900 within five years.
1t was brought up under strict rules
Of procedure. Speaker Garner recog-
niZed Chairman Rankin of the World
War Veterans Committee for motion
to suspend the House rules and pass
the bill It required two-thirds vote
for approval, but the opposition was IN
significant.
Representative Royal c. johnson OF
South Dakota, ranking Republican on
the Veterans Committee, opposed the
measure, declaring the Democratic lead
ership presented the bill for passage In
lieu Of the Gasque bill to equalize pen
Sions to all dependents OF World war
veterans.
This bill is going to pass; know 1t, :"
johnson, himself World War veteran,
said This House does not have the
apparatus to defeat a bill like this.
Rankin said: I'VE are only doing for
the World War veterans widows ana
orphans what this country has done
for the dependents Of veterans OF otner
wars"
The measure provides a pension OF
$40 a month for widow whose IN
come, excluding her earnings from oally
labor, does not exceed more than SOU
a year; a pension OF $26 month for
a widow with one child whose income,
exclusive OF her own earnings. does not
exceed S4O0, with Sc additional for each
child.
Called Gen. Hines.
The widow must have been married
to the veteran for five years, or before
January /, 1925, and must show need.
President Hoover exhibited immedi-
ate interest when informed the bill had
been approved. He called Gen. Hines.
Hines said he had merely answered
a couple of questions about the bill"
Secretary Mills conferred with the
President about the same time as Hines
but had no comment to make upon MS
visit TO the White House.
Just before that, the House enacted
also one of its own economic ideas,
passing the Goldsborough bill ordering
the Treasury and Reserve Board to fix
the dollars purchasing power at its
average value between 1921 and 1929.
| This also was objected TO by the ad-
ministration, but its sponsors insisted
1t was the one way to restore prosper
| ity, and through it went, 289 to go.
Controlling the volume of currency and
the market for Government securities,
plus adjusting discount rates, were adj
vanced as the means TO peg the dollars
value.
Evening star., 1932-05-03
YOUNG MOTORIST HELD
FOR DRIVING ON WALK
"New idea" in New York Traffic
Leads Policeman to Take
Driver in Custody.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 3.-The problem
of every motorist, viz, how to ad-
vance down a thoroughfare already
jammed with vehicles, was solved to-
day by young William Grossman.
It is very simple-an one does !:
to drive right down the sidewalk
There is no vehicular traffic there, and
whosoever is careless enough to bt
blame.
Of course, the idea is still compare
lively new. The public is not educated
to it yet. That explains why police
man arrested him for reckless driving
Evening star., 1932-05-03
Pension Bill Passed.
isposition Of the Hous

The disposition Of the House on vet
erans' matters was well attested yes
terday afternoon in its passage, 316 to
1e, of a pension bill for widows and
orphans Of World War soldiers, meas
ure that within five years is expected to
be costing the Nation q round $780,
10000 annually. The House did ex-
clude a clause which would have given
pensions also to aged dependent
mothers and fathers Of veterans whose
deaths were not attributable to the
war, but no such limit was placed on
the widows and orphans
To the opposition of the administra-
ton, supporters Of the bill answered
that the act merely did for relicts Of
thas, World War what the Nation al
re&dS has done for dependerjs OF vet
aEzAds Of other conflicts. Tha Demo
Evening star., 1932-05-03
Man Held for Still
Is Freed on l-Cent
Bond by Magistrate
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BLYTHEVILLE, Ark, May g.
A magistrates sympathy for
motherless little folk set Jim
Montgomery at liberty today
under bond of l cent furnished
by his three children.
Officers found liquor distillery
on his farm There was no one
left to care for the children, the
Oldest of whom is seven, SO the
magistrate told them to deposit
a penny with him and keep their
father at home pending q hearing.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-03-05
5 PASSENGERS
 COME HERE ON
 NORTHWESTERN
Vessel Is Delayed One Hour in Arrival by Heavy
 Snow Storm

With a heavy cargo and 130 passengers out of Seattle, the steamship Northwestern, Capt. c. A, Glasscock and Purser Joseph L. Large, had voyage north that was uneventful except for an al most binding snow storm between Petersburg and Juneau. She arrived here at o'clock last evening, one hour late as a result of having been compelled to proceed with caution in the thick weather. She depart ed. by way of Lynn Canal ports, at T o'clock this morning for Seward
 On reaching this city, the North western moored at the City Wharf where she discharged general freight and disembarked 35 pas sengers. She then shifted to the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Com pany's dock where she unlcaded equipment for the Mining Com pany. She finally moved to the bunkers of the Pacific Coast Coal Company where she put off coal. She pulled out from there for the Westward.
 Cannery Workers For Taku
 } On coming to Juneau, the ves- sel called at Taku to disembark workers for the Libby, McNeill and Libby cannery there.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-03-05

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