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Evening star., 1933-03-31
JOINT STUDY ASKED
IN CAR REROUT|NG.
Utilities Commission Writes
Companies Its Proposal
Under Merger Plan.

Joint consideration by the Public
Utilities Commission and the street rail-
way companies Of any proposals for
rerouting of car lines, which would be
possible under merger Of the trans
portation companies here, was asked
yesterday by the commission.
In letters to the presidents of the
Capital Traction Co. and the Washing
ton Railway & Electric Co. the commits
sion suggested that experts of the COM
panies advise Thomas r. Tate, valua-
tion expert of the commission, of any
proposed rerouting under the merger
plan.
Would Avoid Delays.
The purpose of the advance informa-
ton and consideration of reroutings,
Maj. Gen. Mason NJ Patrick, chairman
Of the commission, explained, would be
to avoid delays in such work after a
merger be effected, as provided in the
act OF the past Congress.
The letter, drafted for the commits
sion by James Martin, secretary, states:
In order that the carrying out of
any plans relating to rerouting and
physical changes after the merger of
the two street railway systems may not
be seriously delayed, it seems desirable
to make some arrangement whereby
Thomas r. Tate of this Office may keep
in touch with your technical experts
so that this commission may be ready
to take prompt action upon any plans
you may propose.
Information Desired.
ut Is evident that 1t will be advan-
tageous, from the commissions stand
point, to discuss in advance such
changes as may be suggested, and to
that end the commission directs you
be advised so that arrangements may
be made for our Mr.. Tate to be given
all possible information concerning
whatever plans of the nature referred
to above are in contemplation
Both street car companies now have
committees at work on financial plans
in connection with the proposed merger.
Progress is being reported. The COM
panies prior to July IA must submit
definite plan to their stockholders for
consideration. The merger must be
effected within two years from last jan
uary.
Evening star., 1933-03-31
ROOSEVELT POOL BIDS
SOON TO BE INVITED
Construction, by Private Contrac-
tors, to Take About Three
Weeks.

Bids for construction Of President
Roosevelt'S private swimming pool at
the White House probably will be
called for soon, 1t was said yesterday
at the Ofi1ce Of Public Buildings and
Public Parks.
The pool will be Of concrete, and ten
tative plans f1x its size as IS by Is
feet. 1t is to be AZ feet deep at the
shallow end, running to 6 feet in depth
at the other. Ofiicials estimate its
construction will take three weeks. It
is to be in the west terrace of the
White House establishment.
Private contractors viii do most of
the work. 1t Was indicated, after the
preparatory work Is completed by the
parks division.
The pool probably will occupy
room now utilized by social secretaries.
A steam water heater will maintain
uniform temperature In the pool, en-
gineers said today, and the water will
Be recirculated,- pumps forcing 1t
through filter and q purifier.
Funds for the pool were raised by
group Of New York newspapers and
their acceptance has been approved BY
Congress.
Evening star., 1933-03-31
ToDAY,s ADJUSTMENTS,

National - George M. Cohan IN
Pigeons and People" at $50 pm.
Gayety-"Dimple Darlings," !" burlesque,
at ais and 8:15 pm.
Columbia-"S Smoke Lightning" at
1880 am. lis, 8. 4:45, $50, s:15 and
10 pm.
PaIace-"Gabriel Over the White
House" at II am, 4, sos, sos, 7:lo
and 9:35 pm.
Rialto-''Cohens and Kellys in Trou-
ble." at IL am, 12:48. 1855, 4:24, 6:12,
8:ol and $50 pm.
Metropolitan-"Sign OF the Cross" at
l0:45 am, 1880, 8, $40, tbs and Gas
pm.
R-K-o Keith's"King Kong" at
11:17 am, LIT, 3:l7, SIT. TIT and
9:l7 pm.
Earlc-"Girl Missing" at 1l:25 am.
las, 4:25, 7:05 and $50 pm. Stage
shows at 1850, 1885, 6:15 and 8:55 pm.
Loew's Fox-"Men Must Fight" at
IL am, 1:30, AIS, 7:15 and 1905 pm.
Stage shows at 1890, 3:25, 6:15 and
9:05 pm.
Tivoli-"42nd Street." at 2, $50,
5:40. 1885 and $50 pm.
CentraI-"Mystery of the Wax Mu-
scum" from II am. to IL pm.
Ambassador--"Grand SIAM" at 6:15,
7:45 and 9:35 pm.
Evening star., 1933-03-31
SUBMARINE IN RIVER
The $40 to Visit Memphis During
Cotton Carnival.

The submarine S-1o will cruise up
the Mississippi River and be in Mem
phis during the Cotton Carnival in
May, the Navy Department announced
yesterday. The S-10 is to leave It's base
at Coco Solo, Canal Zone, on April 28.
Lieut. Comdr. H. L. Challenger is in
charge of the S-1o, which was built
in 1919. It will visit New Orleans,
Helena, Ark; Greenville, Vicksburg and
Natchez, Miss, and Baton Rouge, La.
Evening star., 1933-03-31

There are almost 1,100 theaters II
Australia wired for sound.
Evening star., 1933-06-04
EXERCISES ARE ARRANGED
AT GEORGETOWN PREP
Or. Edmund A. Walsh Will Make
Address to Graduates Next
Sunday Afternoon.

The program for commencement
week at the Georgetown Preparatory
School, Garrett Park, Md. which ends
with graduation exercises next Sunday,
was announced yesterday by Rev. Rob-
ert s. Lloyd, S. j., headmaster Of the
school
Very Rev. w. Coleman Nevis, s. j..
president of Georgetown University, will
deliver the sermon this morning at the
special senior service which will be held
In the newly dedicated Chapel Of Our
Lady Of Lourdes, at the school.
The senior banquet will be held at
khe Mayf1ower Hotel Thursday evening
and Friday night prizes for scholastic
honors In the lower classes will be
awarded.
DR.. Edmund A. Walsh, s. j., vice
president of Georgetown University and
regent Of its School of Foreign Service,
viii make the address to the graduates
at the commencement exercises next
Sunday at pm.
Evening star., 1933-06-04
THOMAS FLAHERTY
D|ESAT AGE OF s.
Officer of Postal Clerks Fed
GRAFTON and Base Ball En-
thusiast Expires.

Thomas F. Flaherty, secretary-treas-
urer Of the National Federation Of Post
Office Clerks and one of the Capitals
foremost base ball fans. died last night
at his apartment in the Shoreham. He
was in his f1fty-third year.
Mr.. Flaherty underwent an abdomi-
nal operation at Georgetown Hospital
March 20, and seemed to be recovering
slowly until about two weeks ago.
Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Eliza
beth Theresa Flaherty; his mother, Mrs.
Anne Flaherty of Napa, Calf; two
brothers, James and John, and six sis
ters, Mrs. Thomas Malloy, Mrs. Edward
Ingram and Miss Mary Flaherty, all of
whom also reside in Napa; Mrs. S. j.
Cook of Belmont, Calf. Mrs. Alvan
Macdonald, Oakland, and Mrs. Frank
j. Booth, San Francisco.
Burial in San Francisco.
The body will lie at the funeral chapel
OF Joseph Gawler Sons, 1854 Pennsyl-
vania avenue, until tomorrow evening,
when it will be taken to San Francisco.
Services will be held at Gawler's at
o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
Flaherty was born in Napa August
Is, 1880. He entered the Postal Service
at San Francisco and became active in
the organization Of the post Office clerks.
He came to Washington 20 years ago as
secretary-treasurer and legislative rep
resentative
In the Capital Mr.. Flaherty had many
interests, but the greatest Of these prob
ably was base ball. He was a close
friend OF Walter johnson, and his par
ties staged yearly before the Nationals
went to training camp were a recog-
nized part of the sports calendar. He
also was golf devotee.
Many Connections.
Mr.. Flaherty was a member and di-
rector Of the Congressional Club, a
member of the National Press Club,
Board Of Trade, Mid-City Citizens As
sociation. Knights of Columbus, fourth
degree; Moose and Native Sons of the
Golden West.
Flaherty participated in the forma-
ton OF the Union Labor Life Insurance
Co. and was a member of the board.
He had law degrees from Washington
! College. and in 1925 was admitted to
practice before the Supreme Court.
Evening star., 1933-06-04
NEWS WRITER'S DEATH
LAID TO SLEEP POTION
Overdose Blamed After Discovery
of Body in Hotel-Victim Was
Former Pastor.

The death of Edward Taber, news
paper man and former clergyman, who
was found dead Friday in his room at
the Burlington Hotel was caused by an
overdose of sleep-inducing drug Act
ing Coroner Christopher j. Murphy
said last night.
After an autopsy Dr. Murphy de-
cided not to issue death certificate
until he had made further investiga-
ton.
Mr.. Taber's body was found by hotel
, officials after a maid had noticed a
do not disturb" sign on the door Of
his room for several days in succession.
In the room was a letter addressed to
his mother, Mrs. Anne Hummel, Tilden
Gardens. saying he was going to take
rest" He registered at the hotel
last Wednesday.
Mr.. Taber once was pastor Of the
Hampden Baptist Church, Baltimore,
but relinquished his pulpit to enter
newspaper work. He wrote for both
the washington Herald and the Wash
tngton Daily News.
Evening star., 1933-06-04
BANK BILL FAILURE
THIS SESSION SEEN
Little Hope Held as Congress
Pushes for Quick Ad-
i0urnment.
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tive houses. He said that only two or
three matters remain still in dispute.
1t is understood, however, that these
two or three matters are the most con-
troversial differences between the two
houses. Senator Glass was unwilling to
predict that the conference report
would be accepted, once it was filed,
by the Senate or the House. Senator
Bulkely of Ohio, another member of
the Conference Committee, however, ex-
pressed his conviction that the confer
ence report would be adopted and that
the bill would become law.
AS the bill stood last night, there
was danger that the controversy be-
tween the two houses over what part
the State banks should pay in the pro-
posed insurance of deposits feature OF
the bill would wreck the measure.
President Opposes Amendment.
That was not the only danger. Presi-
dent Roosevelt, it was reported, has
taken a strong stand against the So
called Vandenberg amendment, adopted
by the Senate, which would provide an
immediate guarantee of bank deposits
I'D to $2,500 in national banks and in
clared to be solvent. The President Is
Senator Glass, chairman of the Con-
ference Committee, declaring that he
would not stand for an immediate guar
antee Of bank deposits.
In the bank reform bill Is provision
for setting up a corporation to insure
bank deposits q year after the bill be-
comes law. The President Is under
stood not to favor any kind of bank
deposit insurance, but the point he has
made now is against the immediate
guaranty of bank deposits as proposed
by Senator Vandenberg.
Amendment May Be Dropped.
The expectation Is that in the con-
ference report on the bank bill the
Vandenberg amendment will be dropped
That is the view taken by the Michi-
gan Senator himself. However, If the
Vandenberg amendment is dropped, it
will lead to hot fight in the Senate
when the conference report Is submitted
to that body.
Senator Vandenberg said last night
that he felt the House should be given
an opportunity to vote on his amend
ment independent of other provisions
Of the banking BILL.
There should be record vote in the
House on my amendment" he said.
THE conference is with the House Of
Representatives, not with the President,
on this legislation, and the House
should have free and full opportunity
to express ITSELF"
While the conferees on the. Glass
Steagall bill were going ahead with
their consideration of that measure, the
report grew stronger that the admins
tration, and particularly Secretary Of
the Treasury Woodin, would shed no
tears If the bill fails to become a law.
Opposed by Bankers.
Strong and influential banking in
terests in New York are reported to be
violently opposed to the enactment Of
this legislation. Failure of the bill at
this session would be playing into their
hands.
From the political angle, the failure
Of the bank bill, with its insurance Of
bank deposits feature. might prove a
Evening star., 1933-06-04

valuable issue to the Republicans in
the coming congressional campaign.
| Some Of the Republican Senators said
they would welcome such an issue.
The people of the Middle West States
have become greatly aroused over the
banking situation, and 1t is In that
section Of the country that the de-
mand for some kind of insurance of
bank deposits has been particularly
strong.
Supporters of the insurance Of de-
poSits, among them Senator Vanden-
berg. insist that the passage of such
legislation, strengthening the position
Of the banks and restoring complete
confidence in them Is prerequisite
of business recovery in this country.
Such action, they assert, would set free
| a flow of capital into industry again.
| The fate of the bank reform bill has
been bound up to some extent with the
| investigation Of the Senate Banking
Committee into the house Of Morgan.
Revelations in that inquiry regarding
the operations of private banks have
| given impetus to the demand for bank
| ing legislation similar to that carried
in the Glass bill.
Strikes ut Private Bankers.
Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi,
chairman Of the Finance Committee,
| has undertaken to strike at private
bankers, like the Morgan company, and
| to prevent their writing OF security
losses in their individual income tax
returns. He has proposed amendments
to the tax features Of the pending pub
lie works and industrial bill, which
would deny to private banks the privi-
lege Of writing of security losses and
would deny to individual partners the
right to write of firm losses in their
individual income tax returns. These
amendments are likely to be embodied
in the bill when the Finance Commit
tee resumes consideration Of the public
works and industries bill tomorrow.
But this attack on the law which has
made 1t possible for the Morgan part
ners, by writing off security losses, to
pay no income taxes in 1881 and 1892
does not reach other reforms, related
entirely to the banking business, which
are carried in the Glass bank reform
bill. The failure of the Glass bill would
leave the banking operations Of the
country under exactly the same laws
which prevailed during the last five
years and which did not prevent the
bank crash of last March and under
which literally thousands of bank fall
ures were recorded during those years.
It is true that the so-called emer-
gency banking law has been placed on
the statute books, giving the President
authority to close the banks, but a
huge number of the banks which were
so closed have not yet been reopened.
Evening star., 1933-06-04
CITED FOR BRAVERY
Sailor Is Recommended for Media.
for Saving Civilian.

A sailor. who saved a civilian, al
legedly attempting to commit suicide in
San Pedro, Calf, Harbor last Decem-
ber, from drowning, yesterday was
recommended by Secretary of the Navy
Swanson to Secretary of the Treasury
Woodin for silver life-saving medal.
In making the announcement, the
Navy Department said the sailor Is Paul
Parsons, seaman second class, of Cleve-
land, attached to the battleship Penn
sylyania. Secretary Swanson has writ
ten him letter of commendation. say
ing: THE department takes pleasure
in commencing you for your prompt and
efficient action, which undoubtedly saved
the life of this man. Such conduct Is
in keeping with the best traditions of
the naval service"
Evening star., 1933-06-04
Senior Play Thursday.

SEAT PLEASANT, Md, June 3 (Spe-
ciaD Laugh Clown" a three act
comedy, will be presented Thursday
night at 8:15 o'clock in the Maryland
Park High School by the senior class.
The cast includes Amelia Burgdorf,
Marjorie Dove, Clayton Payne, Marion
Pollok, Dorothy Best, Vincent Briguglio,
James Hutchinson, Hermann Schmidt,
Zoe Miller, Elise Gromen, Miro Ptacek,
Albert Schmidt and Gilbert Dom.
Evening star., 1933-06-04
Jobs Multiply
Mills Call Back Long Idle
Workers-Some Grant
Pay Increases.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
WHEELING, w. Va, June Six
hundred bread winners will heed the
call Of mill whistles Monday.
Five hundred men will return to work
in the Wheeling Steel Corporations
Laughlin Sheet Mill at Martins Ferry,
Ohio. They have been idle four months
The Wheeling Structural Steel Co.
will call back 100 men to fabricate steel
for the Columbus, Ohio, Federal
building.
LAFAYETTE, Ga, June R).-Em-
ployes of the Walker County Hosiery
Mills and the Lafayette Cotton Mills
have been given 10 per cent wage in
crease.
Meanwhile, the hosiery mill, which
normally employees about $50 people,
has added 100 to the pay roll.
The announcements did not say
whether wages had been reduced during
slack business.
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, June P.-
An order for a 42-inch four-high roll
driven cold mill to be used by Youngs-
Town SNceC cE IuDe 70. III IilpldtC Pio
duction at its Indiana Harbor, Ill, plant
has been awarded to the United En-
cheering & Foundry Co., President
Frank Purnell of Sheet & Tube an
nounced today. The mill will be built
at the United plant at Youngstown.
ST. PAUL, MINI, June (P.-Two
Northwest railroads, the Great North
ern and Milwaukee, showed substan-
tial increases in carloadings during May
over the previous month and May, 1882.
Loadings on the Great Northern to-
tailed Al 1868 in May, compared with
37,o4s in April and 37,253 in May
year ago.
The Milwaukee road had loadings OF
10o,225 in May, compared with 87,364
in April and 1911 in May, 1882.
HAZLEroN, Pa, June Re-The
management Of the Duplan Silk Mills
today announced a per cent increase
in wages to its 1000 employees effective
June 1. The Duplan workers suffered
a series OF reductions during the past
two years.
Evening star., 1933-06-04
Agree to End Unfair Business.

CHICAGO, June 8 P).-An agree
ment between the Laundry Workers
National Association and the American
Washing Machine Manufacturers As
sociation to eliminate unfair business
was announced today. The agreement
was signed by w. H. Lawrence, Mime
apolis. and Edward N. Hurley, jr., Chi
cago, respective presidents.
Evening star., 1933-06-04
TRADE TREATY SIGNED
Argentina-Chile Agreement Ready
for Congress Action.

BUENOS AIRES, June CP.-The
Argentina Chilean trade treaty, which
was initiated May 20, was signed today
by the Argentine foreign minister and
chief of the Chilean commercial dele
cation.
The agreement, which provides mu-
tually advantageous tariff concessions,
will be referred for ratification to the
Congresses of the two countries.
Evening star., 1933-06-04
AppOrtiOnment of Offices Law
This Relic of the Spoas System Is Unsonnd in
Principle, Vicious in Practice, HnrtfM to Nation and
Capital in War and Peace-HelpfA to Nobody.

development Of the Capital community
from a camp of transients into homo
geneous American community, with
civic loyalty and civic pride.
First 1t deprives the youth Of the
city Of local means of self support.
1t Furnishes legal permanent residence
here by this discriminating deprivation.
Violates the Merit System.
Second. by violating the spirit and
basic principle Of the merit system as
distinguished from the spoils system, it
strikes at the main factor in the de-
velopment Of homecoming, perma-
nent population of the District. The
spoils system treated the Capital as a
camp OF transients where office spoils
were enjoyed by the vctors in political
war until they were themselves defeated
and driven out. The merit system took
the Offices from the category Of spoils
and, by substituting stable tenure Of
Office for the meritorious and efficient,
made 1t possible for Government work.
ers to build or buy and enjoy their own
homes at the Capital, In the knowledge
that, broadly speaking, they would not
be expelled from office except for some
fault of their own.
The apportionment law Is an ill0gi-
cal and hurtful compromise between
the merit system and the spoils sys-
tenn, carrying over one Of the most
offensive features Of the spoils sys-
tenn into the merit system. If 1t WIS
necessary to make this vicious COM
promise in order to establish the merit
system in the beginning, it can hardly
be necessary to retain 1t now when the
merit system has been indicated by its
results and Is firmly established in pop
ular favor.
Obstacle to d. c. Representation.
Third, the law obstructs national
representation, that is, voting repre-
sentation in Congress and the electoral
college, for the people Of the District.
BY compelling claim Of residence in a
State by those who are, in fact, perma-
nent residents of the District IN order
to work here in the classified service it
reduces apparently the voting strength
of the Capital constituency in its appeal
for national representation as distinct
political entity. 1t tends to foster the
curse Of alien non n-permanent popula-
ton upon the District. 1t substitutes
the expensive, troublesome and precari-
Gus representation Of a diminishing
fraction Of the community for the direct
representation of the whole community.
Unless compelled by fear OF losing
employment under the operation Of the
apportionment law, few Washingtonians
now claiming residence in State by
compulsion would retain this fictitious
dual residence, If the opportunity were
given them through constitutional
amendment to vote directly as District
residents, for voting representation in
Congress and the electoral college.
Evening star., 1933-06-04
II.

Employment in local industries OF 10
cal people is based on the soundest
principles Of efficiency. For example,
consider the New England industrial
towns, where whole families ere en-
ployed in the same mill
Suppose the United States should ma
tionalize the mills of Lynn, and put
its employees engaged in these mills In
the classified service. Under the appor-
tionment Of offices law, 1t would dis
charge the men and women Of Lynn,
until only Lynn's fraction Of the
Massachusetts quota remained, and
would distribute the remainder OF the
positions among the States Of the
Union, according to their population,
so many to Oregon, so many to Florida,
so many to Texas. Such a course
would be idiotic on the part of a pri-
vate employer. Would 1t be any less
idiotic because the employer is Uncle
Sam?
Or take the railroads, the nation
alization of which has been urged as
a practical matter. If they were ma
tionalized would Uncle Sam escape
qualifying for the insane asylum if he
should say: II cannot under the ap-
portionment of offices law choose as
my railroad employees the most eff
cient Americans available irrespective
Of their State allegiance. I must di-
vide my engineers and my conductors
and my porters and my railroad oper-
atives in general among the various
States according to their populations,
even II the result Is to bar efficient
Americans who wish the work and to
draft for this employment compare
lively unfit Americans because they
happen to live In California or Wyo-
ming or New Mexico or Florida.
Uncle Sam As a Crazy Employer.
Would It not be as logical to divide
Offices among Americans according to
the color of their hair, as red-headed,
black-haired or tow-headed, or &C
cording to the shape Of their noses. as
aquiline or pug, or according to their
church afhliations, as Baptist, Meth
odist or Presbyterian?
Il there any difference in principle
between railroading or cotton mill
work and work In the Government
workshops at Washington that makes
principle and method Of employ
ment criminally absurd in the one
case and wise and statesmanlike in
the other?
Summary Of Laws Evils.
The apportionment of Offices law "a
hampers and Injuries the Government
rs employer, assuring impairment Of
efficiency, violating every business prin-
ciple: (2) 1t violates the basic principles
Of the merit system Gas distinguished
from the spoils system) Of employing
workers in the Nations public service.
It makes residence in particular State
q condition Of employment by Uncle
Sam and bars him from employing to
do his work the most meritorious and
most efficient of Americans. irrespective
Evening star., 1933-06-04
REER

Delivered Washington or nearby; 800 cases
or better: Old Heidelberg, Prairie Schooner
and other brands, S1.S2. Address Box
4S3-J. Star office.
Evening star., 1933-06-04
Treasury Department

Once Of the Comptroller Of the Currency
Washington. D. c.
May 20. 1888
Notice is hereby given to all persons who
may have claims against THE Commercial
National Bank OF WASHINGTON" District Of
Columbia. that the same must be presented
to Robert C. Baldwin, Receiver, with the
legal proof thereof within three months from
this date or they may be disallowed.
j. F.. T. .OCONNOR.
Conptroller OF the Currency.