Evening star., 1934-03-28
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

There's amused discussion in the
diplomatic corps and the naval set
over the circumstance that the Soviet
Unions attaches become the ranking
naval officers in Washington. with the
single exception of Admiral William
H. Standley, U. S. ~. chief of oper-
ations. The attache is Vice Admiral
Paol Yurevitch Oras and the assistant
attache. Rear Admiral Alexander Mix
hailovitch Yakimichev. They not only
rank all American naval officers in
Washington, but all foreign attaches,
who generally are mere captains.
Just how the Soviet admirals got that
way is not clear, as under the Soviet
system it was supposed that they are
merely comrades" without rank dis
tinction. With State Department ap-
proval. they will receive full recogni-
tion for all precedence purposes on
the punctilious Potomac.
OF timely interest is Careers for
Women edited by Mrs. Jouett
Shouse of Washington, a symposium
on occupations by 159 women now
outstanding in as many different oc-
cupations throughout the country
ranging from sea-diving to a post in
the Presidents cabinet. Among con-
tributorS to the volume are Secretary
of Labor Perkins, Representative Mary
Norton of New Jersey, Judge Florence
E. Allen of the Federal Circuit Court,
Emily Newell Blair of N. r. A., Mrs.
Alvin T. Hert of the Republican Ma
tional Committee and Phoebe Omlie
of the Aviation Division of the De-
partment of Commerce. Mrs. Shouse,
formerly Katharine Filene of Boston,
is one of the few women who hold
a masters degree from Harvard. She
is chairman of the board of the In
stitute of Women's Professional Rela-
tionS, national occupational research
association for women of college level
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Flowers in profusion relieved the
drabness of a Federal Reserve Board
Office the other day when DR.. E. A.
Goldenweiser, chief economist, round
ed out his fifteenth year in the serv-
ice. Associates in headquarters here
and at the IL Federal Reserve banks
throughout the country joined in the
commemorative tribute. DR.. Golden
weiser is one of the Governments sta
tistical wizards, especially in the realm
of gold. He achieved eminence long
before brain trust was ever heard Of
Representatives Robert Luce and
Allen T. Treadway, both MasSachu-
sets Republicans and House veterans,
have difficulty in avoiding being mis-
taken for each other. The other night
at White House dinner Senator
Millard E. Tydings, Democrat, of
Maryland, who happened to walk in
with Representative Luce, whispered
to the naval aide who was announc-
ing the guests that the scholarly
gentleman with him was Representa-
tive Treadway, and Luce was so in
troduced. When Luce told the story
to Treadway, the latter disclosed that
his Bible" the Springfield Republi-
can, had just mistakenly published
that 1t was Luce, instead of Treadway,
who moved to recommit the Roose-
velt tariff program.
No member of Congress has
keener personal interest in the carry
ing of the airmail than Senator Alben
w. Barkley, Democrat, of Kentucky,
whose son, Lieut.. David M. Barkley,
is a pilot in the Army Air Corps.
Lieut.. Barkley. was graduated at
Kelly Field in 1893. He has just
been ordered to report at Chicago
for airmail duty.
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