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Evening star., 1934-01-04
BABCOCK CHARGES
LAW VIOLATIONS
Temporary Appointments
Evade Economy Act, Fed
GRAFTON Head Says.

The apportionment act, under which
States are allowed their proportion of
departmental employees according to
population. Is being widely violated by
throughout the Government, it is
charged in a letter to Representative
Hastings. Democrat, of Oklahoma. by E
Claude Babcock, president of the Amer
ican Federation Of Government En-
ployes.
Babcock's opposition to the law while
he was secretary to the Civil Service
Commission brought him into conflict
several months ago with Hastings. who
was seeking to make it operative in re-
ducing Government forces.
In his letter. made public today, he
says the law has its good points, and
adds that, irrespective OF personal
opinion, "It Is law, and since it is being
evaded in practice in hundreds of cases,
I thought I should call your attention
to it,
Babcock's argument is directed
against the economy act section which
vests in the President the making of
appointments or filling of vacancies, un-
less they are temporary, seasonal,
emergency or cooperative.
Since the status of a position is a
matter of administrative discretion, he
continues. officers are loath to go to
the President continually for authority
for appointments, and as a result, are
making them temporary.
consequently" he says, most OF the
appointments now being made are of
people from States in excess under the
apportionment, under the guiSe of tenn
porary appointments. while in fact the
positions might, in the absence of the
quoted provision ECONOMY acD, be
termed permanent positions"
Babcock urges Hastings to work for
elimination of the legislation permit
ting this condition.
Evening star., 1934-01-04
CIVITAN BOARD NAMES
TWO TO RETAIN POSTS
r. NJ. Wolfe and Charles G. Nor
gan to Continue as Treasurer
and Secretary of Club.

and Secretary of Club
Ralph NJ Wolfe and Charles G. Nor
gan were reelected treasurer and Sec
retary, respectively, of the Washington
Civitan Club at a meeting of the board
of directors last night. The president,
Thomas j. Crowell, presided.
Past President Shelton T. Cameron,
chairman of the Budget Committee. an
nounced that the program of the Civil
tan Boys Garden Club had been reap
proved for this year. The garden club
is an organization composed Of 80 un-
derprivileged boys from all sections Of
Washington. who are taught gardening
under the supervision of w. r. Beattie
senior horticulturist OF the Department
Of Agriculture.
This is the eighth year this activity
has been financed by the CLUB.
Evening star., 1934-01-04

With a check for mere matter OF
s43 200 900 of Uncle Sans new deal
funds in his pockets a couple OF weeks
ago, Lloyd H. Landau, solicitor OF the
Public Works Administration, arrived
in front of the Union League Club in
Chicago with a major problem Of 40
cents in cold. hard cash before him.
Although Uncle Sans huge check
nestled safely in his wallet, except for
that it was bare and there was taxi
cab driver waiting to be paid. Landau
managed to convince the driver that he
Evening star., 1934-01-04
ENFORCEMENT OF TAXICAB METER
ORDER BANNED UNDER BUDGET

The Public Utilities Commission
would be prevented for another year
from enforcing its order requiring the
use of meters on Washington taxicabs,
under terms of the 1885 budget as
placed before Congress by the Presi-
dent.
The new budget contains the same
prohibition as was inserted in the 1894
act:
mo part of the appropriations con-
tanned in this act shall be used for or
in connection with the preparation,
issuance, publication or enforcement
of any regulation or order of the Pub
lie Utilities Commission requiring the
installation of meters in taxicabs until
such regulation or order shall have
been approved by Congress"
Evening star., 1934-01-04

The question Of whether the COM
mission should be permitted to require
the installation Of meters, as substi-
tute for the zone-flat rate system, was
considered at length during the past
session.
The commission proposed metered
rates under which there would be a
charge of IS cents for the first two
miles or less and cents for each ad-
ditional third of a mile. This plan,
however, was banned by the legislative
rider to the budget act.
At the present time there are a half
dozen or more different systems of
taxicab fares, most of them being under
the zone-f1at rate system, over which
the utilities commission has no con-
troll.
Evening star., 1934-01-04
HARRISON RITES HELD
Former Resident of Capital Buried
in Bay State.

Funeral services were to be held this
afternoon in Brookline. Mass, for
william Cuthbert Harrison. so. former
resident of this city and for 10 years
general manager in the freight division
of the Southern Railway in the New
England States. He died in Boston
Tuesday from a heart attack.
Surviving are his widow, the former
Mary Green of Washington; a son,
William Cuthbert Harrison. jr.. and
a daughter, Mrs. Ralph H. Bowles
Of Long Island N. Y.
Evening star., 1934-01-04
MOVE TO JOIN UNION

Workers in the District Emergency
Relief Department have obtained a
charter for a local branch of the Ma
tional Federation of Federal Employees,
it was announced today.
The temporary officers are Mrs.
Sonia K. Sasuly, president, and Arthur
o. Waller, sscretary-treayuTez.
Evening star., 1934-01-04
LEVIN P. HANDY CHOSEN
FOREMAN OF GRAND JURY
Real Estate Dealer Is Selected to
Head Body in District Su-
nreme Court.

Levin P. Handy, real estate dealer,
was chosen foreman of the new grand
Jury in District Supreme Court today.
He lives at 1901 Mckinley street.
Other members are George B. La Foe,
Mrs Rita H. Corwin. William H. NC
Kenney, Edward T. Finigan, Mrs. Sue
Hill Wallace, Mrs. Nell Lewis Stafford,
Robert K. Carpenter, John L. Hilleary.
Mrs Madeline Anna Zapf, Thomas B.
Jones, James w. McKeown, ST.; Robert
Grier, Mrs. Mamie Lou Wheeler,
Chandler C. Pates, Claude T. Beall,
Addison L. Sampson, Joseph E. Osborne,
Mrs. Jane Macdonald Grogan, William
Jennings Brown, James E. Rosenthal,
Francis P. Cannon and Howard B.
Homer,
Evening star., 1934-01-04
p. ". 4. OFFICIAL HAS $43,3OO,O 900
CHECK. BUT BORROWS TO PAY CAB

wasn't going to beat his fare while he
went into the club and borrowed 30
cents from the desk clerk.
Landau explained that it might have
been much worse and more embar-
RAISING.
"I had invited a couple of friends
to have a little refreshment and din
ner with me and came within an ace
of going to meet them before I went
to the club" he said. Imagine my
embarrassment if I'd had to plead that
all had was a S43, 3,000,0 600 check when
the bill for the drinks and dinner ar
rived"
Evening star., 1934-01-04
LOAN APPROVAL SOUGHT
Pennsy Applies to I. c. c. fol
S77,OOO,OOO Fund.

The Pennsylvania Railroad Co. to-
day applied to the Interstate Commerce
Commission for approval of a $77,000,-
900 loan. contracts for which were
signed last week by Secretary Ickes and
officials Of the railroad company.
The application said $45, 600, ,00o
would be spent to complete electrifica-
ton of lines from New York to Wash
ington; $4,000, 900 to pay for 101 cleo
tric locomotives, and $17,000,0O0 Tor
1000 freight cars.
Evening star., 1934-01-04
PHARMACY is LOOTED
OF NARCOTICS AND CASH
Burglars Force Vault After Enter
ing Wisconsin Avenue Drug
Store Through Skylioht.

Breaking into Pearson's Pharmacy,
2448 Wisconsin avenue, thieves last
night gained entrance to a vault, took
S210 in cash, $3.50 worth of narcotics,
and other articles making the loot
total 1887.
The store was entered through sky
light. The burglars opened the vault
by prying off a reinforced door, Some
of the money was taken from the vault
and the remainder from the cash
drawer. The safe in the vault, which
also contained money, was not opened.
Samuel Eisenberg, proprietor, reported
the theftS,
Evening star., 1934-01-04
THREE HURT IN FIGHT
Two Are Arrested and Third Sent
to Hospital.

Three men were hurt last night in a
fight at 1922 Seventeenth street. which
resulted in the arrest of two of them
and landed the third in hospital.
Police said Miles E. Ford, 38, and
Taylor Fisher. %. suffered slight stab
wounds in tussle with Vasile Christy.
40. who was hit over the head. Ford
and Fisher were treated at Emergency
Hospital and later held for investigation.
Christy was admitted to the hospital.
All three men reside at the Seventeenth
street address
Evening star., 1934-01-04
Can't ContrOl Prices.
HELD FOR WEST COAST

Man Held on Basis of Justice De-
partment Fingerprints.
Through fingerprint Identification at
the Department of Justice. Cecil Car-
son. q. of the 900 block Of H street who
vas arrested and convicted on drunk
charge here some davs ago. Is being
held for police in Los Angeles. where he
is wanted in an investigation of burglary
and larceny.
Carson used the name Roy Denton as
an alias, police said
Evening star., 1934-01-04
BODY TO BE Returned
Msgr. Paul A. Kelly Expired at
Providence Yesterday.

3lONloCaSV @SoeSAAeJ
The body of Msgr. Paul A. Kelly. a.
who died here at Providence Hospital
yesterday, will be returned to his late
home in Scranton, Pa, today. Msgr:
Kelly was well known in ecclesiastical
circles in Pennsylvania, where ne was
pastor of the st. Peters Catholic Church
of Scranton and vicar general OF the
Scranton Diocese.
He came here December %. Sur
viving is q sister, Mrs. Frank Doyle OF
Carhondale. Pa,
Evening star., 1934-01-04
VALUE Of STOVES
|. ADDED TO GAS COST
Utilities Commission Admits
S1,O49,O0O Figure in
Valuation Hearing.

The Public Utilities Commission, after
: long legal wrangle, today admitted
evidence from the Washington o.
Georgetown Gas Light Companies as
to the value of the gas stoves and other
annliances held in stock and claimed
by the companies to total s1.o48,ooo-
This the companies are seeking to have
included as part Of their valuation III
the hearing before the commission
Although the evidence was let IN,
Acting Chairman Riley E. Elgen nol-
Gated the commission had not made up
its mind whether it would allow TINS
sum in the final value figures.
I'VE like to have evidence on contro-
versial matters before U.S." he said, pc
fore we come to any conclusion.
Opposed by Roberts.
william A. Roberts. IL commissions
counsel had contended strenuously for
the exclusion of the testimony. offereo
bv the company expert on working cap
ital. Steuart F. Rosters.
We are called on to value the prop
erty of the company used and useful IN
the public service he said. This prop
erty is held by the company, not to be
used in the public service, but TO De
sold to other parties. Through the In
sistence of this commission, the Poto-
mac Electric Power Co. has been COM
PEELED to set up subsidiary corporation,
the Potomac Electric Appliance Cor
poration, to handle all of its appliance
business, and these gas companies are
required to account for their appliance
business on a separate basis from their
gas business.
Can't Control Prices.
"This commission has no control over
the prices at which the gas companies
sell their stoves. They might give them
away, or sell them at twice what they
are worth, as they see fit.
ITO say that this property, which Is
to be sold to gas users, should be IN
cluded in the base on which those users
are late going to pay gas rates, seems
to me to be incredible
In reply. Stoddard M. Stevens, jr,
comnany counsel, said:
1--WE propose to introduce evidence
later showing that the merchandising
of appliances Is an integral part OF tne
business of selling gas end highly
beneficial to the companies"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-29
Communist Candidates
Carry on Work in
Fall Elections
By C. H. Sharp
District Organizer, So. Oak. District.

District Organizer, So. Oak. District,
The 18th Anniversary of the c. P
.. S. A. witnesses the beginning of
the consolidation of the influence
of the Party in South Dakota on
the road to the leadership of the
workers and toiling farmers of the
Dakota p-airies.
Every disease, every infantile
sickness, occurring in the growth and
development of the American Party
las reviewed in Comrade Bittle-
mans "15 Years of the Communist
Party" Comrade Browder's and
Comrade Bedacht's articles in the
September Communist found their
reflection in the development Of the
revolutionary movement in tn e
countryside.
From the workshops of Sweden,
Norway, Germany, Hungary, Fin
land, from the American workshops,
many Of the homesteaders and
settlers of Dakota brought with
them the seed Of scientific social
ism. However as Comrade Bedacht
writes in his article in the Septem-
Der Communist, "the first bearers
of the seed of scientific socialism
did not succeed in presenting Marx
ism as guide to action"
No Escape from Exploitation
The settlers on the western prai-
rieS soon discovered that the escape
from the factory did not free them
from the exploitation of the CAPT.
talist class. Through the medium
of usuriouS interest rates, through
exorbitant freight rates, through
manipulated prices on the farmers
products, through monopoly prices
on what the farmer had to buy the
settlers found themselves robbed
and plundered.
Revolt against this robbery found
expression in the Farmers Alliance,
the Non-Partisan League and the
old Socialist Party with its petty
bourgeois radicalism. The farm
wage worker working for the
richer farmers and for the middle
farmers (who were anxious to shift
the burden of exploitation to some
one else) sought protection in the
ranks of the syndicalist I. w. w.
However, none of these groups
possessed the advantage of a Boil
shevik understanding of their prob
lens, nor the ability and knowledge
to apply Bolshevik tactics to the
solution of these problems.
Many G. p. Candidates
Through the work Of language
groups and left-wing socialists who
followed the history of the devel-
opment of the Communist Party
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-29
GAINS IN DAKOTA
TRACED ON 18TH
C.. Z. BIRTHDAY

the advantage of the experiences
of the American working class and
the world proletarian movement is
being brought to these toilerS
searching for a way out. More
and more the left wing elements
of the old Socialist Party and the
Non-Partisan League, the rem
nants of the old I. w. w. are
being armed with the weapons OF
Leninism. Armed with this STRAIT
egg and tactic the toiIing farmers
have organized in many places in
defense of their homes and liveli-
hood. The unemployed have wrung
concessions from the capitalist
government, the employed workers
are modelling their forces for
strike action, new hundreds are.
being won for the struggle againf
war and fascism and hundreds ff
the revolutionary way out Of tn
crisis.
For the coming election CAM.
paign, SO county candidates and
3 state candidates have been NOM
mated and support the class strug-
gle program Of the Communist
Party.
Defeat Farmer Labor Heads
The attempt of the misleading
Farmer Labor leadership to estab-
lish a state ticket on the ballot
was defeated this summer through
the fact that the supporters
they had hoped to rally had been
won for the Bolshevik line of the
Communist Party
Much remains to be done in the
way of placing the rich experiences
of Is years Of struggle for the
Bolshevik line contained in the
history of the American Commu-
nistS into the hands and conscious
ness of the toilers of the country
side. Only a beginning has been
made in bringing the invaluable
experiences of the Russian Boil
Shevik Party and of the Com1nu-
mist International to these work.
ers. But enough has been done
to arouse a consciousness of the
necessity of carrying out this task.
Armed with these clarifying
weapons the toilers of the country
side will be able to fulfill their
destiny as the loyal allies of the
American proletariat and the
world proletariat in their struggle
for the emancipation of the toilers
from the capitalist hell of hunger,
war and fasciSm.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-29
Anti-F ascist Congress
May Plan Coast Tour
For Nine. Sun Vat Sen

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 27.-Dele-
gates from this city will propose to
the Second United States Congress
Against War and Fascism the ar
rangement of a coast-wise speaking
tour for Madame Sun Vat Sen, who
is expected to visit the United States
soon. The tour would eliminate in
an anti-war conference in Seattle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-29

A group of workers in C. C. G.
camp send S7-a sailor on a U. S,
battleship sends S1-a worker in
Duluth sends a quarter! All cry
that the 100000 campaign must
succeed! 1t will succeed if every
reader does his part. Make collec-
tions, hold affairs, discuss the Daily
Worker!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-29
Foster Urges A. F. L. Farley Delegates
To Wage Battle for Trade Union Unity

andEn of OF
Employers Working
t uppO o Osse by L.
F-Denouncs TiJp FL ader and
Nogales international., 1934-09-22
THE ERAILROADS ASK FORAFAIR DEAL

The large railroads OF the country recently pre-
sented petition to the Interstate Commerce Com
mission, in which they asked authorization to raise
freight rates. If the petition is allowed, the nations
transportation bill will be increased by about $170
100000 year. Increases on specific commodities
un up to ten percent.
1t is inevitable that great many thoughtless
people will promptly protest. But that should not
blind the thinking public to the facts which have
prompted the railroads to present their petition.
The lines to restore the 10 percent pay cut
made in 1882, adding $100,000000 to their operating
,osts this year, and $165OO0000 next year Material
:osts expected to add S137 100000 year to their
operating expense And if the railroad pension law,
low in htgation is declared constitutional, another
6OOOO,O0O year must be tackled to railroad
BUDGETS.
It is a strange anomoly that manufacturing in
1usries, which have made price increases during the
'ast year. among the first to protest similar in
eases IN the cost Of service Of such industries as the
airoads In every phase of operation, the railroads
must pay more now than at any time since depression
Let n-they have effected every possible economy
Without being abe to make both ends meet If the
abroad petition is allowed, the additional money
hey earn will flow into the channels of trade
trough wages and purchases and the lines will do
better work al essential industry Their request
eminent-y reasonabe-it asks for nothing save
air deal.
Nogales international., 1934-09-22
WHERE DO THE STATES GET OFF?

We son, 2tlmes wonder, with lot of concern
whether the present tendency toward the centraza-
ion of ali government activities i'm WASHINGTON is
all for the best.
This is pretty big country. It has more d.
7ersy Of interests, activities and climate than any
)ther nation we know anything about Government
ta methods and plans which may fit one part of the
latlon may not fit another part And we are not at
III sure that any Government at WASHINGTON, how
ever wise and intelligent, legslate down to the
last detail for every county and town in the nation
and get away with it.
Lord Bryce, that wise English commentator ON
pubic affairs, once wrote that the strength of the
United States lay in the fact that it has 48 separate
.aoolatorles each working out its own experiments
III government. 1t is we'll understood that much of
What is being projected from Washington is purely
experimental but why not leave some of the experi
nents to the states?
we think OF Prohibition as an experiment which
worked pretty WE'LL the whole in the states that
trled 1t, or most OF them, but which failed utterly
Mlen II became national experiment. Until the
states found they could lay the burden of unemplov-
nent relief On the Federal government. thew were
handling that situation with what we must regard
rs much greater economy and efficiency that It is
being handled today and we heard of nobody being
allowed to starve .-7
There is not only the tradition of state RIGHTS TO
be consdered there is the distinct difference in the
outlook and the point of view of the people of differ
ent sections. Each has it's own spec cal interests and
problems
We concede that many matters REQUIRE national
regulation and supervision We are merely TRYING
to sound warning against carrying the idea of GEN.
tralized control too far.
Nogales international., 1934-09-22
OEJ1R-MADDOCK BATTLE THIS FALL

The state Republican committee IS mahllg paa,' a1
10 name Thomas Maddox as their candloate iol so'
oYnor at their convention in Phoenix tomgkt;;
Maddox former state engineer during tll1 iull ~
Comnhpll administration, and former MEMBER Oh tile
Co1orado River commission, is strong pohtlcally III
o,,o arte Of the state but we do not beheVe ne Is
t,.ong enough TO defeat Gov. B. B. Moeul, the Demo
cratic nominee c nr,. nol]ed
"A 27O votes and his opponents-Hunt, Stamford all1
M;notto-a total of 6O,595 Many persons VINO voteo
fo, the Democratic nominee at the primary register
al ae Democrats but at heart are RepuDnca1s anu
Win vote the Republican ticket In November. II -
en- old trick of the Republicans to NIX nto the De'io
cratic primaries. e.,,o en- 5o5 who
The question now is how many OF the ooo9o VINO ~
,ro+nd against Moeur week ago last Tuesday VIII
vote for Maddock Hunt poled 2I,o0z votes' oTai1
ford 28735. and Minotto 4478, at the primary Mao
dock will draw votes from the ranks Ql tlao9e
who supported Hunt for in years gone oy MaouocA'
although Republican, close to Hunt ah0 T., too'
Maddox is associated closely politically Wlth GeVe
Van DYKE and others who control one OF the M1alll
papers rabid anti-Moeur paper, that was Tor mum
in the primary, and has continued bomDardng Moeui
even after the primary. D.
AS we have said before we do not think the re
pubGcans have chance to elect governor thls Ian
hut we must admit that Of all those mentioned a.
the Republican nominee Maddox would De the
strongest
If the Democrats stand by their guns, and vote
as Democrats should the entire Democratic tlcKe,
from governor down to and including constable VIII
be elected in November.