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Evening star., 1933-06-24
Order, Originally Effective To-
morrow. Postponed to In
definite Date.
300 CIVILIAN WORKERS
HERE TO WORK SATURDAY
Present Schedule of 51/a Days to
Continue Pending Opening
of Bids July 26.

Instead of going on a five-day week
starting tomorrow, the 3,70O civilian
workers at the Washington Navy Yard
will continue On the present five-and-a-
halliday week until further orders.
This developed today at the Navy De-
partment when Assistant Secretary
Roosevelt dispatched a message to the
entire naval service directing that the
present navy yard work-Week status be
continued The message said:
Pending the settlement general ques-
tion OF hours of work now being con-
sidered by several Government agencies.
including the Industrial Recovery
Board. instructions contained in de-
partments circular letter of l June,
1888. establishing five-day work week,
will be held in allegiance and navy yards
continue present work week until fur
ther orders"
An unofficial explanation at the de-
partment was that the Government is
waiting until 1t opens bids on July 26
for some of the warships under the
32-ship emergency relief program to
determine if private shipyards are will
ing to have their employees work on a
five-day week before the Government
itself launches on this program as fixed
policy. In submitting estimates for ship
construction, officials pointed out, it
would be obviously unfair to tie the
Government yards down to a five-day
week while permitting private ship
builders to work their employees for a
greater period and thus speed up con-
struction of vessel
Evening star., 1933-06-24
AGREED
ON GAS BILLS CUT
Company Tells Commission 81a
Per Cent Discount Is Burden, but
Litigation Is Undesired.

The Washington Gas Light Co. to-
day agreed to continue the temporary
81s per cent reduction on gas bills
based on meter readings taken up to
and including September 80.
The reduction under previous
order of the Public Utilities Commission
would have expired June 30 The COM
mission last week asked the company
to agree to a further three month
extension by which time the gas valua-
ton proceedings may be completed
The gas company told the commits
sion that while the operation of the
discount proved to be a severe burden
and has not been satisfactorily pro-
motional as was expected, it would
continue the reduction to avoid costly
litigation.
The company also declared it agreed
to the extension on condition that it
would not jeopardize the valuation
claim in the pending valuation case
or in any other proceeding, or be con-
sidered as a recognition on the part
of the company that its rates are at
present unreasonable.
Evening star., 1933-06-24

than any government could possibly be.
Uncle Sam has been just part-and
not altogether a significant part-of the
machinery Of scientific research His
job was to provide a minimum living
The bureau worker attended to his or
her job, and never questioned but that
Uncle Sam would attend to his.
Perhaps as nearly as any place on
earth the Bureau of Standards has fit
ted Kipling's picture OF heaven as a
place:
Where no one will work for money
and no one will wNrk for fame,
But each for the love of working and
each in his separate star
will paint the thing as he sees it, for
the God of things as they are"
The sole aim of nearly every Bureau
of Standards scientist has been "to
paint the thing as he sees it, 1t has
never occurred to him that this is not
the most significant work on earth
that there could be anywhere such
moral perverts as would distort the
painting of nature There has meyer
been any idea of utility orYprofit. The
bureau has had its life force in the
basic philosophy of science that the
only worthwhile objecfive is objectivity
and that researches conducted with a
utilitarian end in view invariably are
barren. Acting on this philosophy, the
workers at the bureau have contributed
some of the basic facts on which rests
the mechanical civilization Of the day.
They have enabled the deaf to hear and
the blind to see. They have brought to
the cancer sufferer the boon Of stand
ardized radium dosage. They have
contributed materially to the motor age
and to the age of the airplane and
radio They have saved the Govern
ment inestimable sums. Others in
variably have reaped the reward.
1t has been a community Of plain
living and high thinking. Salaries have
been low and the scientists have had
neither the time nor the energy for ac-
tivities which required much money.
Their minds have wandered in strange
worlds. The conversation of a group of
Bureau Of Standards people often is in
a language which is almost incompre-
hensible to others. They talk of pro-
Evening star., 1933-06-24
PERSONNEL BOARD
STUDIES ECONOMY
District DismissaIs to Be
Avoided Where Possible
With FurIoughs.

The District Personnel Board today is
passing Judgment on what steps must
be taken to reduce expenses of each
District government department for
hire of employees, as result OF the
reduction in appropriations for the
fiscal year beginning July /.
One by one, heads of the various bu-
reaus and departments are appearing
before the board to state just what their
problems will be during the new year.
1t is expected the session will last late
into the afternoon.
Every effort is being made to prevent
dismissals of employees by adoption Of
the furlough system, abolition of po-
sitions now vacant so that appropria-
tions in such cases may be available
for employment purposes after July l
and other eXpedients possible under the
economy measures.
When the Personnel Board, which is
headed by Maj. Daniel J. Donovan,
auditor, has completed its analysis, it
will forward its report to the Com
missioners for action.
Dismissal of employees will be neces-
sary in the case OF several departments,
according to information released dur
ing the week.
Evening star., 1933-06-24
THREE HURT AT FIRE
CAUSED BY GASOLINE
Mrs. Sue Fleming Leaps From
Window After Aiding Neigh
Dor and Child.

Two women sustained bruises early
this afternoon in escaping from a fire
started by ignited gasoline at 227 Third
street, and a man a skinned elbow
when he fell down a flight of steps
while running to summon aid
Mrs. Sue Fleming, 33. received a
badly bruised arm when she jumped
from a window of first floor sleeping
porch, adjoining the room where the
fire started. Before going to the win
dow Mrs. Fleming helped Mrs. Edith
McNabb, 80, through the window, and
then handed her 4-year-old Daphne
Fleming Mrs McNabb received minor
bruises, it was said at the home.
Jimmie O'Donnell. "a, was hurt when
he fell down the steps.
Miss Mary Mulling, %, who was fill
ing a gasoline spray in the kitchen
when the fluid ignited, was uninjured.
Miss Mulling said the fumes ignited
from the stove, which, she said, she
did not know was lighted. The large
can of gasoline also ignited and fire.
men were summoned to extinguish the
blaze. But slight damage was done
to the room, although the force of the
explosisn shattered several panes Of
glass, it was said.
Evening star., 1933-06-24
MEN DENY BEATING AGENT
STRUCK BY AUTOMOBILE

Two men who are accused of knock
ing down a Justice Department agent
in an automobile and returning to beat
him were arraigned before Police Court
Judge John P Mcmahon today on a
charge Of assault.
Fred Hackett, 90, $500 block of
Eleventh street, and George Cokley, 25,
100 block Twenty first street, who
police say occupied the machine which
struck Joseph T. Cantwell, Justice agent,
as he was crossing the street near his
home, in the 1900 block Of New Hamp-
shire avenue, last night, pleaded not
guilty to the charge. They were held
under 5000 bond for jury trial.
Cantwen told Assistant United States
Attorney Milford Schwartz he was
knocked down by the machine, which
at first failed to stop. He shouted to
the driver as he lay on the pavement
Then, he said, the car was halted and
the two men came back and struck
him several times.
Evening star., 1933-06-24
MILK PRICE PROBE
SEEN NEXT MONTH
Data Being Compiled Now in
Preparation for Public
Hearings to Come.

Hearings on the price Ct milk and
other dairy products in the District will
start sometime next month, it was in
dicated following another executive
conference today between members of
the Senate subcommittee and officials
assigned to aid them in conducting the
inquiry.
Senator King, Democrat of Utah, who
presided, said the conference was de-
voted to going over the information be-
ing collected by Assistant Corporation
Counsel Elwood H. Seal and W. B. Wat
son Snyder, special assistant to the At
torney General.
Indications were that for the next
week or two this process Of assembling
data would continue, before public
hearings are held to obtain testimony
of producers and distributors. Senator
King was accompanied at the confer
ence by Senator McCarran, Democrat,
of Nevada.
A suggestion that the inquiry should
include study of the cream content
of ice cream was advanced today by
Senator McCarran.
Just before he and Senator King
went into executive session to map
out a plan of procedure for the in
vestigation, Senator McCarron said he
had received preliminary information
to the effect that ice cream here
lis a mix, sort of conglomerate. "
Senator McCarran said ice cream has
become a food, rather than a luxury,
and that "if it is not cream, it ought
not to be called ice cream"
The subcommittee, presided over by
Senator King is in conference with As
sistant Corporation Counsel Elwood H.
Seal and w. B. Watson Snyder, special
assistant to the Attorney General. These
officials are outlining to the subcom-
mittee suggested plan Of procedure to
! be followed in carrying on the inquiry.
Entirely aside from this local dairy
product inquiry. Senator King an
nounced today that he intends to con-
fer with Attorney General Cummings
regarding what he termed "unwar-
ranted increases" in scme commodity
prices recently This did not have ref
erence to milk and dairy prices, nor to
conditions locally, but to prices of some
commodities throughout the country.
Senator King conferred in this con-
nection today with Gen Hugh S. john
son, administrator of the national re-
| covery act. and said he would commu-
nicate later with the Attorney General.
| He said automobile tires and rubber
! goods had gene up, and also mentioned
! bread prices in some cities.
Evening star., 1933-06-24
RAILROADS ALLOWED
TO POOL EARNINGS
Four Lines in Wisconsin Given Au-
thority to Avoid Service
Duplication.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Four railroads operating in Wiscon-
sin, Minnesota and Illinois today were
authorized by the Interstate Commerce
Commission to pool passenger traffic
and earnings between Duluth, MINI,
Superior, Wis, and Lake region points
On one hand and Chicago and Mil
waukee on the other.
The pooling arrangement was made
to avoid duplication of service between
the Chicago g. Northwestern and the
Minneapolis, st. Paul & Sault Ste.
Marie.
Due to the fact trains over the lines
of other companies, the Northwestern
and the 500 line were joined in the
application by the Wisconsin Central
Railway Co. and the Chicago. St Paul,
Minneapolis & Omaha Railway Co.
The agreement will not result in any
reduction Of passenger train facilities
in operation at present but the COM
mission said it will do away with the
necessity Of establishing at least one
other daily train by the Northwestern
to meet possible competition by the
500 line.
Under the arrangement, passenger
ticket offices will be consolidated and
tickets of the two roads will be inter
changeable. 1t was estimated that saw
ings Of more than 100000 year will
be made without reducing competition
O. train service.
Evening star., 1933-06-24
Youth Killed and Girl, 10, Is
Injured When Parked
Truck Is Struck.
CHILDREN WERE BUYING
"SN0WBALLS" WHEN HIT
Rider on Tail-Gate Hurt as Car
Crashes Into Vehicle and
Strikes His Legs.

A crash that resulted in the death Of
l0-year-old boy and injuries to a
girl of the same age as they stood be-
side SNOWFALL" truck parked at
Maine avenue and Third street south
west was under investigation today By
a coroners jury.
The victims Of the accident were
Joseph Borsallino, who was crushed to
death when District National Guard
truck hit the ice cream vehicle, and
Marcella GoSch, who escaped with
bruises about the legs and body.
The children, together with several
other youngsters were purchasing SNOW
balls from the parked truck late yes
terday when the crash occurred.
Bumpers Entangled.
The National Guard truck, with an
other in tow, was making left turn
into Maine avenue from Third street.
according to witnesses. AS the vehicles
swung around the corner, it was said.
their bumpers became entangled, and
the driver of the lead truck was un-
able to complete the turn.
Both children were taken to Provi-
dence Hospital. where the boy, VINO
lived at 525 Virginia avenue southeast,
was pronounced dead about half an
hour later. The girl. who is said to
make her home in a tourist truck, was
to be X-rayed today to determine
whether her foot was fractured.
The lead truck, according to fourth
precinct police, was operated by Sidney
r. Dulin, %. of the 1900 block of
Massachusetts, avenue southeast, while
William Wells, 300 block of Anacostia
road southeast, was at the wheel of the
towed vehicle
Legs Are Injured.
Another unusual accident late yes
terday resulted in injuries to Pepe
Balinovic, 81, Of the 200 block of F
street.
Balinovic, who works for the District
Committee On Employment, was riding
on the tail-gate of truck when an au-
tomobile crashed into the rear, injur-
ing his legs. He was treated at Emer-
gency Hospital.
The driver Of the car that hit the
truck failed to stop, police reported.
Evening star., 1933-06-24
ELECT CAMPBELL
DEPARTMENT HEAD
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Choose Walter Reed Post
Man Commander.

Daniel E. Campbell, past commander
of Equality Walter Reed Post, No. 1884,
Veterans of Foreign Wars, was elected
department commander of the District
of Columbia Department Of the organi-
zation at the closing session Of the
fourteenth annual encampment Of the
department last night in the Stuart
Junior High School.
Mr.. Campbell, an attorney, lives at
$500 Benton avenue. He succeeds
Oscar w. Hollingsworth as department
head. Campbell was opposed by
Wallace A. McCathran of Columbia
Post, No. 833, but was elected by a
vote of 165 to "a.
Other officers elected are Nathan D.
Golden, Clarence r. Edwards Post,
senior vice commander; Herbert Bor-
chardt, Advance Post. junior vice COM
mander; j. L. Fowler, Defense Post,
Judge advocate: DR.. Don S. Knowlton
Equality Walter Reed Post, department
surgeon Walter P. Boehm, Front Line
Post, department quartermaster, and
Rev. v. o. Anderson, Federal Post, de-
partment chaplain.
In a Snarp departure from past
policies of the Veterans of Foreign
Wars, delegates to the department con-
vention last night adopted resolution
calling upon the national organization
at it's annual encampment in Milwaukee
next August to strike from the organi-
zation's constitution the ban on par
ticipation of the body in political
activities.
The delegates also adopted resolu-
ton recommending that Maj. Harvey
l.. Miller, editor of the United States
Coast Guard magazine, be made editor
of Foreign Service, the official publ-
cation of the Veterans of Foreign Wars
Maj. Miller is a member of Front Line
Post of this city.
report submitted by H. c. Davis.
senior deputy vice commander of the
department. showed that in the last
buddy poppy" sale, approximately
1000 poppies were sold, with revenue
of $3,32946.
Evening star., 1933-06-24
LONG ILLNESS FATAL
TO JAMES F. PARKER
91-Year-0ld Retired Employe of
Treasury Was Fifty Years
in Service.

James F. Parker, 81, Civil War vet
eran, and retired employe of the
Treasury Department, died early today
at his home, 2110 Pennsylvania avenue,
after long Illness He served about
so years in the Treasury Department.
Born in Litchfield, N. H., on March
4, 1912, Mr.. Parker was the son of
George S. and Eliza A. Parker. He en-
listed in Company E, 18th New Hamp-
shire Volunteers, and became a first
lieutenant before the close of the war.
After the war, he came to Washing
ten to bring sick comrade back to his
home and obtaining a position in the
Government, remained here He had
resided here since, retiring from service
about 20 years ago.
He was a member of Burnside Post,
G. A. r. He is survived by a son,
Percy S. Parker of this city.
Funeral services will be held Tuesday
at 2:15 pm. at Gawler's funeral home,
1854 Pennsylvania avenue. Burial with
military honors will be in Arlington Ma
tional Cemetery at pm.
Evening star., 1933-06-24

"WO descendants of the snake
which Cleopatra Is reputed to
have used to end her life were
L among group of IL new
"boarders" at the Zoo today.
The asps, more commonly known as
horned vipers, arrived at the Zoo yes
terday, along with four splitting cobras,
two Egyptian cobras, two mastlgure
lizards and two puff adders.
The splitting cobraS attracted cons1d-
cradle attention when they were placed
on exhibition. Their tempers appar-
emily had got little out of bounds as
a result of their journey from New
York in a small wooden box, for they
slithered around the glass-fronted ex-
hibition cubicle in angry fashion, lash
ing their tails at nothing in particular
and darting their tongues at the crowd
of spectators outside.
Frantic Efforts to Escape.
DR.. william H. Mann, director of the
Zoo. seemed a little concerned lest the
new additions to his collection of rep
tiles injure themselves in their frantic
efforts to escape Two of them in par
ticular appeared in danger of giving
themselves severe headaches, at least,
by jamming their heads against the
plate-glass fronts.
1t was recalled that several years
ago three attendants at the Zoo were
injured by splitting cobras, which have
the knack of squirting poison into the
ewes of all who come too close to them.
The employees were blinded only tempo
rari!y, although large shots" from
cobras have been known to cause per-
manent blindness, and Zoo attendants
now wear goggles whenever they ap-
Evening star., 1933-06-24

proach the cubicle in which this par
ticuiar type of snake is kept.
The Egyptian cobras lack the expec-
torating talents of their brethren, but
the asps are considered highly danger
ous Shakespeare had it that Cleo
patra, before finally deciding on the
horned viper as a means of self-de-
struction, experimental with various
kinds of snakes. letting them bite her
attendants. When the asp proved his
ability to deal death more quickly than
the other reptiles, the Bard of Avon
said, the enchantress of the Nile per-
mitted him to bite her.
Have Wiggiing Crawl.
The asps, both of which are still
Cling motion, like that of the side
winder," or American rattlesnake,
which also has horns. They were
placed in a cubicle occupied by legless
lizard, commonly known as the Joint,
or glass snake. The larger of the
two Immediately proceeded to bury
himself in the sand, leaving only his
head above the surface.
The lizards, called al dab" by the
Arabs, were put into q cubicle con-
tanning an ameiva-like otenosaur liz
ard, an Inague Island curl-tail lizard
and a San Diegan alligator izard-all
of which scurried for cover when they
saw the larger reptiles coming.
The lizards and snakes. turned over
to Dr. Mann by George Bistany of San
Francisco, a professional collector OF
such things, give the Zoo the most
complete reptilian collection in the
world. All were captured in Northern
Africa
Evening star., 1933-06-24
DEMOCRATIC PLUMS
FOUND HARD TO REACH
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Representative Darden of Norfolk
not only has been unable to get any
Jobs for his constituents under the ad-
ministration patronage set-up, but
democratic national headquarters has
ignored his requests for information, he
said yesterday.
Obviously irked. Darden said he has
spent the more than a week since ad-
journment endeavoring to get q few
small jobs for persons in the District,
without one bit of success"
Il couldn't even find out whether
several applications in which I was
interested we're on file" Darden said. He
said he had called at the office Of Rich
ard F. Roper. executive secretary to
National Chairman Farley, in person
and by telephone and was unable tc
reach him.
Evening star., 1933-06-24
MARINE CORPS ORDERS
RECRUITING RESUMED
Holiday Recently Enforced Be-
cause of Economy Restric-
tions Ended.

The Marine Corps today resumed re-
cruiting after its recent enforced holi-
day, because of economy restrictions.
Maj. Gen. Ben H. Fuller, COM
mandant of the Marine Corps, today
ordered resumption of recruiting as
step toward unemployment relief. Under
today's program $50 recruits will come
from the West Coast and $50 will be
from the Eastern section of the country
Marine Corps headquarters an
nounced that former Marines with
creditable records are to be accepted
for re-enlistment The minimum age
will be 18 years and the minimum height
62 inches. Officials said high school
graduates are preferred
The strength of the Marine Corps has
been set at 15,343, and the recruiting of
300 new Marines is made necessary, Of
ficials explained, by the deaths, retire.
ments and other losses to the service.
Evening star., 1933-06-24
FAIRFAX BIBLE SCHOOL
WILL OPEN TOMORROW
Three Churches Unite in Project
Conducted Under Direction
of Rev. S. Y. Craig.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
FAIRFAX, Va, June 24.-Plans are
in readiness for opening ot the Fairfax
Daily Vacation Bible School in the
Methodist Church here tomorrow morn
ing at $50. according to Rev. S. Y.
Craig, who is directing the project. The
school is being conducted by the three
churches in town, and the local minis
ters will alternate in handling the wor-
ship period each day.
Work in Bible study will be stressed,
with a period each day devoted to hand
work and music. Rev. r. A. Rice and
Miss Roma Cupp will handle the boys
and girls handwork, respectively. Su-
perintendents of the various depart
ments include: Primary, Mrs. L. NJ
Coyner; juniors. Mrs. S. Y. Craig, and
intermediate, Miss Warwick Rust In the
primary department Mrs. Coyner will
be assisted by Misses Coda Kincheloe
and Evelyn Coyner. Mrs. r. A. Rice
Will have charge Of music.