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The Washington times., 1933-05-10
REP. STEAGALL
! SEES MOVE AS
RELIEF AID
Dropping Requirements Held
Step Toward Lower Pay
Schedule by Shaw

Plans to eliminate employees of
the new Relief Administration,
and presumably other emergency
organizations, from the Civil Ser
vice will result in expense and
loss Of efficiency, so far as the
Government is concerned, accord
ing to persons familiar with Fed
eral affairs.
Representative Henry B. Stea-
gall Cd of Alabama. has been
quoted to the effect that if Civil
Service requirements are elimi-
mated, help can be obtained in
the localities where it is needed
mt lower cost than would be ne
cessary if those requirements were
fulfilled. This was interpreted in
some quarters as implying a prob
able lower wage scale in the
service.
Shaw Opposes 1t
Another member of Congress
was quoted as frankly favoring
elimination of Civil Service regu-
1ations in order to pave the way
for filling jobs through patron
age.
John Arthur Shaw, president of
the American Federation of Gov
eminent Employees, today ex-
pressed the opinion that such a
procedure would be highly un-
satisfactory. He said:
"Mr. SteagalI is in error
when he says that removal of
Civil Service protection would
save money for the Govern
ment. One has only to look
over the list of jobs in the Re.
construction Finance Corpora
tiOn, which is outside the Civil
Service, to see that higher sal
aries are paid in this organiza-
ton than in the Civil Service.
Question of Merit
"YOu will find all manner of
assistants on the list there who
get more money than the aSSis-
Gant secretaries of the executive
DEPARTMENTS. There would be
no savings to the Government.
Gas far as efficiency is con-
cerned, can't imagine anybody
getting more efficient people
through pressure from Congress
than through civil service rat
ings.
at might be possible in some
Of the smaller relief centers to
nay salaries to people so low
that they can't exist on them,
but you can't bring prosperity
back by paying people at the
top twice what they need in
these times and paying those at
the bottom half enough to live
on.
1.-THE majority of members of
Congress are not in favor of the
SpOils system, and some Of those
who advocate it, ! suspect, are
talking largely for home con-
SUMPTION
Big Reduction Seen
E. Claude Babcock, secretary of
the Civil Service Commission, said
that he considers civil service en-
ployes more efficient than those
not qualified under the civil SER
vice. He said:
"It is my opinion that eff
cheney in the Government SER
vice would be reduced at least
Is per cent by employing nom
civil service help instead of
those who meet the civil service
requirements"
The Washington times., 1933-05-10
Entrance of Whites
Into Community
Protested

Colored residents of Smith
vile, near Colesville, Md, are
protesting the entrance of white
persons into their community.
The Citizens Building and
Loan Association of Silver
Spring. holders of a mortgaged
property which was to be sold
to a white man, will discuss the
problem tomorrow evening at a
directors meeting.
The Washington times., 1933-05-10
Vacation Schools
Planned BY Council

Plans for vacation schools are
to be made at a meeting of the
East Montgomery County Council
of Religious Education May 80 in
the Ashton M. E. Church. Paul
Eddy, of New York, director of
vacation school work for the In
ternational Council of Religious
Education, will be in charge of
the meeting.
The Washington times., 1933-05-10
,Wne's Divorce Plea
Calls Mate 'CrHeL'

Charging cruelty, Evelyn G..
Reisinger. of Garrett Park, Md,
has filed suit in Circuit Court at
Rockville for a limited divorce
from Howard w. Reisinger. whom
she married April 26, 1880, in
Washington. They have a two
year-old child, whose custody the
plaintiff asks.
The Washington times., 1933-05-10
Schools in County
Name Closing Dates

The Montgomery County Board
of Education today announced
the dates for commandments in
the seven county high schools.
They are: June Is, Gathers
burg and Poolesville; June IA,
Rockville and Takoma-Silver
Spring, and June IS, Bethesda
Chevy Chase, Sherwood and Da-
maScuS.
The Washington times., 1933-05-10
ROCKVILLE LICENSE

A marriage license was issued at
Rockville to John Edward Walters,
20, and Margaret Carroll Wilson,
20, both of Washington.
The Washington times., 1933-05-10

ALMA HARRIS
APPEARING with the Estelle
Wentworth Opera Group in
s'pirates of Penzance," at the
roosevelt High School tonight.
Times Staff Photo.
The Washington times., 1933-12-28
MOUNT RAINIER
RUM FIGHT PUT
UP To STATE
Denial of License Appealed,
With Decision Due in
Next 30 Days

Mt. Rainier's leading wet, Louis
Lebowitz, today filed with the
Prince Georges Board of License
Commissioners the first appeal on
a decision of the board. The ap-
peal asks that he be granted an
"off sale" license, and is directed
to the State license board which
must act within 80 days.
The county board reaffirmed its
decision not to issue any licenses
in Hyattsville when it suggested
that Walter Green, on behalf of
his client, petition the town coun-
Gil to o. K. the application. The
town of Edmonston was added to
the list of dry towns by action of
its town council Tuesday. the
board was notified in letter
The board authorized its coun.
sci, A. GWynn Bowie, to defend
its issuance of two licenses in
Brentwood, on receipt of a letter
from the town council opposing
liquor licenses in the town. Two
licenses already had been issued
for the town before the objec-
tions were filed with the board.
The Washington times., 1933-12-28
[ORT0N To GET
NEW BUILDINGS

Construction of six new build
ings to provide additional quar-.
ters at Lorton Reformatory as
a Civil Works project is expected
to begin within a few days, it
was announced today by local
CWA officials.
A request for workmen has
been sent to the Virginia CWA
authorities at Richmond and its
approval is expected within a
short time. Federal CWA heads
already have given their approval.
The plan calls for four build
ings for dormitories for prison
ers, each housing 100 men. and
two for guards, each to house
30 men Total cost of the work
is estimated at $160,O0O, includ-
ing wages and materials.
Workmen for the job are ex-
pected to be drawn from Fairfax
county by the Virginia authorities.
It is expected that the build
ings will be of wooden construc.
ton. The District has a mum.
Der of bricks on hand at Lorton,
but this cannot be used, as the
law forbids the use of prison,
made materials on CWA or PWA
jobs. The bricks were made by
prisoners at the reformatory.
The Washington times., 1933-12-28
DRIVE LOOMS
FOR WOMAN
PATRONAGE
Bosses to Heed Increasing
Demands for PIums
In Government

AS a feeling Of discontentment
continued to grow among Demo-
cratic women for failure Of the
Administration to reward ode
serving Democrats" an effort on
the part of leaders in the pa IN
age field to promote jobs for
women in the Northern States was
seen today.
Complaints from women in the
North have been ringing loudly
recently, on the ground very few
appointments for women of their
section have been Forthcoming.
Two Get Big Jobs
Two notable examples of ap-
pointmentS of Northern women
are the selection of Frances Per-
k1ns, of New York, as Secretary of
Labor, and Mary w. Dewson, also
Of New York, as director of the
woman'S division of the Demo
cratic national committee.
The women are complaining,
hOWever, that with the exception
Of these two appointments and a
few minor ones, they have been
neglected.
South Favored
Their complaint is that the
solid South" always Demo
cratic, is getting the cream of the
patronage and that numerous
good positions are going to women
from doubtful" States. It is also
alleged that the Administration
has been appointing Republicans
where deserving Democrats"
were available for the positions.
An effort is being made to find
positions for women from the
North in the emergency units of
the Government service.
The Washington times., 1933-12-28
PR|MATE' s BODY.
UNDER GUARD

NEW YORK, Dec. % G.N.SO.
Apprehensive that members of
the flock of Archbishop Leon
Tourian, primate in the Western
Hemisphere of the Armenian
Apostolic Church, might seek re-
prisals on members of the Tash-
nag, Armenian revolutionary So
ciety, police today prepared to
guard closely the body of the
slain cleric when it is taken to
lie in state tomorrow.
Archbishop Tourian was knitted
to death last Sunday in the
Church of the Holy Cross as he
was about to celebrate pre-
Christmas services. Five men, all
members of the Tashnag, are
being held without bail on homi-
eide charges.
A sixth member Of the Tash-
nag was held in $4,000 bail as
material witness. He is Nigal
Odabashian, dealer in knives.
Preparations for an elaborate
funeral for the slain prelate have
been made. The body will lie in
state tomorrow and Saturday and
New Year morning funeral ser
vices will be held at the Cathe-
dral of st. John the Divine.
The Washington times., 1933-12-28
SCHOOLS GIVEN
FEW WORKERS
BY CWA
Road, Sewer and Park Prof.
eCts All Get More Men
in County

Prince Georges county public
schools have been allotted the
smallest number of CWA workers
of the four major divisions of
work in the county, report on
the 1000 CWA workers in the
county reveals.
Only 100 workers were allotted
the school program, while more
than 300 were placed on county
roads, 200 at digging sewers for
the Suburban Sanitary CommiS-
sion, and 200 at clearing parks
near the District line. The largest
number have been placed on the
Federal project at the Beltsville
experimental farms.
Hardly 100 on Job
Queried this morning, Nicholas
Orem, county superintendent of
schools, declared that the CWA
county board had generously
given them men but doubted
that a hundred were actually
working on school repairs.
Olle ul1l1CulGy is G4ldC Clle CWA
board will not sanction the con-
struction of small additions to
schools, which are needed as
much as are sanitary facilities,
he admitted.
PWA on School Work
The Board of Education IS
pushing a large school con-
struction program under the
PWA, while the board has heard
numerous complaints from delega-
tions about details that could be
included in a CWA program.
Mr.. Orem said that the board
was mapping out larger civil
works program for submission to
the works board for their con-
Sideration,
The Washington times., 1933-12-28
SURVEY 7 AKERS
GET ORDERS

Final instructions to some 400
workers, who are to make the
real estate survey of the District
under the plan of the Bureau of
the Census to make real estate
inventory of the entire country,
will be delivered today in the
Board Room of the District Build.
ing.
The workers will be addressed
by Gerald Ryan, assigned by the
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic
Commerce to the Census Bureau,
and by James Ring, rent research
survey assistant to the Public
Utilities Commission.
Ring will direct the local work
ers, who also will gather data
for his rent survey. or which he
is to report to the Senate next
month.
For the purpose of the survey
the District has been divided into
approximately 400 districts. Each
worker will oe assigned to one of
these districts and will visit every
house in his territory. Informa
ton as to the number in each
family, whether the home is
rented or owned family income
and general living conditions will
be obtained by the workers.
The Washington times., 1933-12-28
COAST GUARD SEEKS BAY HUNTERS LOST SINCE TUESDA
Tipsy Motorist
Picks Sheriff
To Insult

LURAY, Va, Dec. 28.-Two
men from Washington on their
way to Harrisonburg have
learned to be careful how to an
swer strangers questions when
they themselves are not above
suspicion.
The two men, whose names
were not revealed by Sheriff
Lucas except that one gave his
name as Kelly, were travelling
up Main Street in Luray, when
their car stopped on a hill in
the midst of traffic, The sheriff
asked:
Cant you get it started?"
One of the men snapped:
What in h is that to yOu?"
Their car failing to start, a
closer inspection revealed that
Kelly was intoxicated and
search showed several bottles
of liquor. Kelly was arrested
and gave bond.
The Washington times., 1933-12-28
NAVY To APPEAL
FOR 102 SHIPS

Half billion dollars will be
sought by the Navy Department
from the incoming Congress for
construction of 102 ships and re-
placement of obsolescent craft.
The construction program would
extend over five years and would
be in addition to the $238, ,000, 900
public works program with which
80 ships are now being constructed.
The Navy Department says this
new program is necessary to bring
up the force to treaty strength.
President Roosevelt is ex-
pected to support the five-year
program when it is recommended
to Congress. High ranking naval
officials asserted they were con-
fident of the support of the
President.
Coincidental plans for large in
creases of the British and Japa-
nese navies have just become
known. The Japanese Diet has
been asked to appropriate $281,-
100000 for land and sea arma-
ments, the largest military budget
in the empires history, and the
British are also formulating a
large program, including five or six
cruisers and a number of destroy
erS.
One motive assigned for the
naval race now obviously in pros
pect is that the powers want good
bargaining positions when the 1885
Naval Conference opens.
The Washington times., 1933-12-28

torney convicted on a charge of
income tax evasion, will come be-
fore the United States District
Court in Baltimore today.
Wampler, at liberty on bond of
The Washington times., 1933-12-28
CITIZENS SEEK
Rum CURB
CONTINUED from Page l6)
t vehicles and traffic, told the as

(continued from Page 1S)
Of vehicles and traffic, told the as
sociation.
It was voted to take no action
on the letter from Representative
Virginia E. Jenckes, outlining
charges against George S. Watson,
chief engineer of the Fire Depart
ment.
The no action recommendation
was made because the charges
were not specific and because the
members believed the question one
for the District Commissioners to
investigate.
Boys Club Urged
A large force of men are en-
ployed in cleaning up Langdon
Park, the association was informed
by the Civil Works Administra-
tion.
Capt. Hugh H. Groves, COM
manding the Fifth police precinct,
urged formation of boys clubs in
the station houses and pledged
his support.
The meeting also was addressed
by the editor of this column and
he explained its purpose and aims.
The Washington times., 1933-12-28
FROZEN GREEKS
ARE HANDICAP
To SEARCH
Friend of Baltimore NimrodS
Believe Party May Be
Stranded on Land

BALTIMORE, Dec. 28.-Coast
Guardsmen were searching Chesa-
peake Bay today for four men
missing since Tuesday. when they
put out in a 30-foot launch. pre-
Sumably on a hunting trip.
One of the missing men is Will
Ham Mates. we'll known here in
sporting circles and the owner of
Sues Island, from which the
party left Tuesday. Willis M.
King of this city also was in the
party. The names of the other
two could not be learned.
Due Home Tuesday Night
The boat was last seen at
anchor off Spyre Island, near the
mouth of Middle River, about
40 p. m. Tuesday, three hours
after it had left Sue Island.
Mates had told his wife that he
would be home Tuesday night.
About 9 p. m. last night the
Coast Guard patrol boat C-G128
put out from Curtis Bay, and
about midnight sent a message
that a boat was seen at Spyre
Island about 4::30 Tuesday and
was due at Sue Island last night
and that the C-G128 would con-
tinue through the night in the
search. The message also said:
"C-G128 now proceeding
through ice to Spyre Island"
:: Samuel w. House, a close
friend of Mates, put forth the
suggestion that the party might
have gone ashore and the wind
might have taken their vessel out
into the open waters.
Hampers Search
He suggested that had the
party been stranded on Spyre
Island, they probably would have
sent up a smoke signal. House
said he had intended taking a
number of small craft and join
the Coast Guard search, but
that Sue Creek and the adjacent
waters where the boats were
anchored were so frozen that he
could not move the vessels.
Mates launch, House said, is
q copper-bottom craft capable
of withstanding the ice, and it
also carries a coal stove. He
suggested that unless the Mates
boat was disabled or lost there
would be little fear of the party
freezing.
The Washington times., 1933-12-28

MISS MARGARET COTTER
AMONG the entrants in
the annual Junior Horse
Show of the Riding and
Hunt Club Friday after
noon is Miss Margaret
Cotter, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Joseph J. Cotter.
The Washington times., 1933-12-28

$4,000, will argue through Attor-
ney Isaac Lobe Straus that the
verdict was against the evidence.
The Washington times., 1933-12-28
President Weighs
job Insurance Plan

Indicating the Administrations
determination to end the evils
Of widespread unemployment,
President Roosevelt gave two
hours yesterday to consideration
of a definite plan for nation
wide job insurance.
The plan, which would be &C.
companied by an emergency is.
sue of credit to expand purchas-
ing power Immediately, was pre-
sented by its sponsor, A. L. Deane
of New York, president of the
General Motors Holding Corpora
ton.
The Washington times., 1933-12-28
Cupid Hangs Up NeW
Record for Lurdy

LURAY, Va, Dec. ga mar
riage for every day this month
is the record of the marriage IL
cense bureau here.
December has always been
Page county's month of mar
riages, rather than June, but
during the business slump the
number has diminished. The rec
ord already reached for this
month exceeds any month in
years.
The Washington times., 1933-12-28
Wdn1pLer RetriGL
Motion Up TOdQyI

Motion for a new trial for T.
Morris Wampler, Washington at
The Washington times., 1933-12-28
Cincinnati Closes
Foundry Contract

U. S. Pipe and Foundry Com
Euny has obtained an additional
contract for 1000 tons of 24-inch
cast iron pipe from Cincinnati,
making 5000 tons taken by the
company from that municipality
in 10 days. An order for 400 tons
of 16-inch material for Lawrence,
Mass, went to the Donaldson
Iron Works.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-17
WOODIN SHOWS
HIGH COURAGE
IN BANK CRISIS
Kindly, Courteous and Gra-
CiouS Throughout Try
ing Days.

BIZ Soripps-HoioGrf Newspaper Alliance
WASHINGTON, March i7-?resi-
dent Roosevelt refers to Secretary
William II. Woodin as "one of the
epics of Washington" for his work in
the banking crisis, but treasury cCr-
respondents speak of him even more
effusiyely-and they have had to
deal with many kinds Of financiers
from the DAYS Of Carter Glass and
William c. McAdoo to those of An
drew w. Mellon and ogden L. Mills,
Many people wonder whether
Woodin has what is commonly
known as the stuff"
His mystic and artistic side does
not seem to comport with the attri-
butes one expects in an industrial
ist and treasury secretary.
What kind of man is he, the
people are asking?
He has great courage. He has
been under terrific political pres
sure with respect to bank openings,
but he has Withstood it-kindly
courteously and graciously in con-
ferences with angry senators.
He has high ideals of public serv-
ice. He has had to quit his music,
coin collecting and other avocations
to take charge Of the department
And he has been working from 7:30
each morning until the next
morning.
He always is smiling.
During a historic White House
conference, he entered the room
filled with statesmen, including the
President, SHE'D his soft hat at
table, and vas happy as a young
ster because it happened to land on
the target.
Woodin speaks with expert knOwl-
edge of banking and business prob
lens. AS a director of a score of
corporations, he views banks from
the standpoint of the industrialist,
whereas, Mellon and other predeces-
sors approached the question with
the prejudices and predictions of
banker.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-17
MARCH II. 10

A new food made Of milk
cornmeal, developed by Cor
university, is said to have val
possibilities.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-17
GRUN0W DEALERS
IN MEETING HERE
New Line of RefrigeratOrS
Shown at Session.

More than 100 Indiana dealers
attended the initial showing of the
new line Of Grunow super-safe cleo
trio refrigerators at a luncheon in
the Travertine room of the Lincoln
hotel Thursday. The event was
staged by the Griffith Victor Dis
tributing Corporation, exclusive dis
tributors for the Grunow product in
this territory.
Important radical changes in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-17
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

by ten-year liens on the proper
ties improved, if President Roosevelt
decides the program should be
adopted.
The frozen labor relief" program
as outlined by Mr.. Kaufman would
involve advances to states, munich
palities, industrial concerns and in
dividuals for construction of needed
Improvements. Recipients of the
loans would repay the government
with reasonable interest.
Kaufman estimated that the ex-
penditure Of S2,0O00 100000 all exist
ing unemployment in the United
States could be ended.
1T is my confident belief that
S2O0,000,00O ought to take care of
all the unemployed men in Pennsyl-
vania under such a self liquidating
program, the interest to be guaran-
teed by the state" Kaufman said.
The coral lilies, which wear
the Christmas red color, can be
forced for Christmas bloom, gov
eminent experiments show.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-17
BUILDING LOANS
BY u. S. URGED
TO MAKE JOBS
Pittsburgh Merchants Plan
to End Unemployment
Before Roosevelt.

BIZ Scripps-Ho'oard Newspaper Alliance
WASHINGTON, March 17.-Ad-
visers of President Franklin D.
Roosevelt are considering a compre-
hensive plan for putting millions
of unemployed back to work i'm
mediately, submitted at the White
House by Edgar J. Kaufman,
Pittsburgh merchant.
The plan proposes the utilization
of funds already voted by congress
for the Reconstruction Finance Cor
poration in carrying out of nation
wide rehabilitation through work
performed by frozen labor" on pri-
vate and corporate properties.
Advances made by the govern
ment loan agency are to be secured
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-17
PRETTY CHINESE GIRL
BECOMES AIR PILOT
Elevator Operator Going Back to
China to Teach Flying.

BIZ CHtcd Press
PORTLAND, Ore, March IT.
For the last four years, Miss Hazel
Wing Lee, 20, pretty American born
Chinese girl, has operated an eleva-
tor in a woman's store here. At the
same time she was learning to fly
an airplane, with a definite purpose
in mind
Miss Lee planned to sail for
China, where she will seek to inter-
est Chinese women in aviation. Miss
Lee is the first Chinese girl in Ore
gon to receive department of
commerce pilots license.
Miss Lee is already a confirmed
Sumter Aerial acrobaticS thrill
and fascinate her. She has had in
struction in loops, rolls, spins, wing
overs, vertical reversements and
other aerial flip-flops.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-17

modern electrical refrigerators were
explained by H. c. Bonfig, sales
manager for the Grunow corpora
ton. Bonfig stated that after two
and one-half years of research I'M
der the direction of corporation
president William c. Grunow, car
rene has been developed success
fully to operate in the small cleo
trio refrigerator unit.
Other important details in the
Grunow refrigerator were explained
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-17

by James vulter, factory engineer.
James DAWN, sales promotion man
ager, told of expensive national and
local advertising campaigns ready
for release.
Evening star., 1933-12-27
NEW YORK BANK STOCKS
Quotations as Of . o'clockD

NEW YORK. December 81 0P.-Over-th the
counter market.