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Evening star., 1934-03-25
GOLD STAR MOTHERS
UNIT HOLDS SESSION
Grace Darling Seibold Chapter to
Take Part in Army Day
Festivities.

The monthly meeting of the Ameri-
can Gold Star Mothers, Grace Darling
Seibold Chapter, was held at Hotel
Hamilton Tuesday evening with the
president, Mrs. Eugene S. Bruce, in
the chair.
An invitation from Adjutant Edwin
S. Bethlehem on behalf of the Mill
tary Order of the World War, re-
quest:ng the Gold Star Mothers par
ticipation in the Army day parade on
April 6, was accepted. In response to
an invitation from the American Le-
gion and its auxiliary, the chapter
will be represented by the president
and other Gold Star Mothers at the
ball on April at the Mayf1ower Hotel.
Word was received from Mrs. j. Hun
ter Wells, president of the Portland
Chapter of American Gold Star
Mothers, that she will attend the
D. A. r. Forty-third Continental Con-
gress in Washington in April as a
delegate, sponsoring the candidacy of
Mrs. John yelling Richardson, Oregon
State regent, for the Office of vice
president general. Mrs. Richardson
has been awarded three medals for
World War service. Mrs. Wells will
be entertained by the Gold Star
Mothers during her visit in Wash
ington.
Mrs. Catherine Barrack, chairman
of the Mount Alto Hospital Visitation
Committee, reported a party with
gifts of candy and handkerchiefs
given to the veterans on March 81.
Mrs. Henry Leonard Hurley, hostess
of the benefit party given in her home
on st. Patrick's day, reported the sill
yer offering will provide some needed
new flags for the memorial trees on
Sixteenth street.
The Seth Parker Gold Star Club,
in cooperation with the Gold Star
Mothers Chapter, during the March
meeting in the home Of Mrs. Edna
Boardman, provided contributions for
a veterans family.
Announcement was made by the
president that from $50 to o'clock,
during the April IT evening meeting
at Hotel Hamilton, the mothers would
be entertained by the Joseph Daniel
Glee Club of the Mckinley High
School, under the direction Of Mrs.
Bella Brooks Thompson.
Evening star., 1934-03-25
New Army Promotions
Plan Under Consideration
Commissioned Personnel Affected by Scheme
Before Budget Bureau-Vast Difference
in Navy Methods.

missioned personnel of the Navy, and
which would extend promotion for
officers from the rank Of Lieutenant
(junior grade) and lieutenant by the
process of selection. is causing con-
siderable uneasiness among naval Off
GERS holding these grades. Present
law provides selection only to officers
in the grade of lieutenant commander
and above. and officers not selected
after specified length of service are
retired with retired pay of 2l2 per
cent for each year of service counted
for pay. There is no certainty con-
tanned in the new scheme that an Off
Ger who has completed his course at
the Naval Academy will be permitted
10 remain in the Navy beyond the
time he has completed six years serv-
ice as ensign and lieutenant Gunior
grade) to which grade he was pro-
NOTED without selection after three
years service as an ensign. It is the
concensus of opinion that this new
promotion scheme will not meet with
favor among naval officers. Many
officers of higher rank in the Navy
declare it is hardly possible to get ac-
quainted with the qualifications of an
officer in six years and his efficiency
reports during the period of his early
naval career are not sufficient to en-
able any officer. not personally ac-
quainted with him, to determine his
fitness for service In the higher grades.
In the case of lieutenants, similar
requirement exists since they must be
carried as additional officers, with no
chance of further promotion. if they
have failed to be selected for pro-
motion to lieutenant commander after
a service of IA years 1t is expected
that this provision will prevent the
promotion OF many officers who were
induced to accept an appointment as
lieutenant under the provisions of the
act of June 4, 1920, while serving as
warrant officers or commissioned war
rant officers. 1t will be recalled that
the only requirement for such ap-
pointment, under that law, was a
record of Is years service. A table
prepared in the Navy Department
shows that the number of these Off
GERS will increase from some 800 in
1885 to 800 or 900 in 1945
Evening star., 1934-03-25
RESERVE TRAINING
SET FOR JULY ia
428th and 429th Infantry
Will Serve at Fort
Washington.

Preparations are being made for
conducting tie 1884 active duty train
ing Of District officer members Of the
428th and 429th Infantry. the train
ing of which will be held at Fort
Washington, Md, from July l to IA.
Maj William E. Brougher and Mai
Turner M Chambliss, both of whom
are on duty at Washington Reserve
Headquarters, have been assigned the
duty of preparing the exercises. and
they will be ordered to Fort Washing
ton the first part Of April for recon-
naissance in connection with the per-
formance Of this duty.
Washington Reserve Headquarters
will meet at local Reserve headquar-
tiers tomorrow evening Lieut. Col.
3. F. Miller will lecture on motor
transportation. The same evening
Mai. NJ. c. Cramer will conduct the
Judge Advocate General Department
conference in the Otis Building, $40
Eighteenth street. He will discuss the
= work Of the contracts and reservations
section in the Office Of the Judge Ad-
Vocate General of the Army.
Coast Artillery officers will meet at
headquarters Tuesday evening Maj.
E. B. Gray will take up orientation.
Maj. J. D. Arthur, jr., will conduct
the 343d Engineer conference at head
quarters Wednesday evening.
Signal officers will hold their con-
ference Thursday evening in the Sig
nal Corps projection room Munitions
Building. Maj. w. r. LanSford will
speak on training management for
Signal Corps C. M. T. c. students.
Second Lieut.. Charles A. Kengle
completed last week a period of IA
days active duty training at Fort
George G. Meade. Md Other assign
ments of District Reserve officers are
as follows: Capt. Albert G. Marsden,
relieved from assignment to both
Service Unit; Capt Everett E. Madi-
son. assigned to the 183d General
Hospital First Lieut.. Sheridan E.
Farm. relieved from assignment to
the 3l5th Field Artillery; Second Lieut.
Oliver S. Anderson, relieved from the
32oth Infantry: Second Lieut.. George
Roberto, relieved from 8Oth Division
and assigned to the 62d Cavalry Di-
vision: Second Lieut.. William G. Ross,
assigned to the 1st Chemical Field
Laboratory.
Second Lieut.. Myron A Cameron
has been assigned to active duty with
the Army Air Corps mail operations.
He has been assigned to duty at Boil
ing Field, D. C.
Evening star., 1934-03-25
Order of Eagles.
GRAND WORTHY PRESIDENT

GRAND WORTHY PRESIDENT
GEORGE NORDLIN Of st. Paul,
Mimi, addressed the Eagles at the
Aeria Hall, e23 Twelfth street, Monday
night on old-age pensions, national
recovery and economics. Other speak
ers were Past Grand Conductor Lester
H. L,oble, President Wiess and Presi-
dent Miller of Baltimore and Alexan-
dria Aeries. Seven candidates were
initiated while the chairs were occu-
pied by President r. v. Frankhouser
and Past Officers J. M. Rinehart,
Henry Melzer, Gus Backenheimer and
Luther 3. Hayes.
Evening star., 1934-03-25
Shepherds of Bethlehem.

At the last meeting of Loyalty
Lodge, Comdr. Duvall Seaton pre-,
sided. Arrangements have been COM
pleted for the class initiation March
26 in Northeast Masonic Temple. The
various lodges Of Virginia and the
District Of Columbia have been In
vited to have their candidates Inc
itiated in this class.
Loyalty Lodge will celebrate its sth
birthday anniversary In April.
Evening star., 1934-03-25

THERE is under consideration by
the Bureau of the Budget a
new promotion scheme af-
Il fecting the commissioned per-
sonnel of the Army. The
schemes of promotion for the Army
and Navy are vastly different. The
Army insists upon promotion by
seniority with limitation on the
number of officers in the field grades
not to exceed Is per cent of the total
number of officers in the Army for
designation in the rank of colonel
and lieutenant colonel and of 40 per
cent for officers in the field grades
from major to colonel; that officers
in the grade Of second lieutenant and
first lieutenant be promoted to the
next higher grade after a specified
service, and that the captains be pro-
NOTED when a vacancy occurs in the
grade of major which will not ex-
ceed the limitation of 40 per cent of
field officers.
The Navy desires to continue the
scheme of selection for promotion
and even to extend it down to and in
Guiding the rank of lieutenant
(junior grade) for promotion to lieu
tenant. Present law provides only
for the selection of officers in the
grade of lieutenant commander and
above for promotion to higher
grade. 1t appears that it is almost
impossible to provide a system of
promotion applicable to both services
which would be acceptable or salts
factory. The Navy has accepted Sc
lection as the proper method of pro-
motion and the Army insists that
seniority is the proper scheme. Army
commissioned personnel not qualified
for service are taken care of by the
application of the Class B provisions
Of the national defense act.
Maj. Gen. Harry G. Bishop, who
completed his four-year term of Of
flee as chief of Field Artillery on
March 9, will be placed upon the re-
tired list in the near future.
Navy.
A new proposal, designed to ac-
celerate promotion among the COM
Evening star., 1934-03-25
Special Music Class.

A SPECIAL master class in interpre-
"A tation will be held by Edwin
Hughes, pianist, Saturday evening at
the Washington College of Music.
While the classes are arranged for
the students and teachers of the col
lege, musicians from the city are in
vited to attend and take part.
Evening star., 1934-03-25
Order of De Mo1ay.
POBERT LIE BRUCE CHAPT!

II RoBERT LIE BRUCE CHAPTER
~ elected officers at its last meeting,
as follows: Grant L. Hagen, master
councillor; Louis Denis, senior coun-
cilor, and George Grade, junior coun-
cilor. Marx Kahn, chairman of the
Advisory Council, conducted a closed
installation of officers. Hugh PAUL, =
retiring master councillor, received his
jewel from Lamar Munroe, also a past
officer. Plans were announced for a
dance at the Mayiower Hotel May A.
by the De Molay Poster, the chapter
publication,
Evening star., 1934-03-25
The Maccabees.

MARTHA WASHINGTON HIVE met
- in Odd Fellows Temple, with
Comdr. Martha Purchase presiding,
and elected to membership Leila G..
Payne and Lillian Kramer.
In National Tent the Ways and
Means Committee, with Past Comdr.
knight Elmer Fletcher as chairman,
is making preparations for a card
party in the near future.
The Officers' Club of National Tent
will meet at the home Of District
Comdr. Ray F. Pifer, 2812 Fourteenth
street northeast, next Wednesday
evening.
Evening star., 1934-03-25
Woman's Benefit Associa-
ton.

RRIGHTWOOD REVIEW will meet
- in the MacFarland Junior High
School tomorrow evening.
Columbia Review meets In the club
room Tuesday evening.
The Oficers' Club will meet In the
club room Wednesday evening.
Evening star., 1934-03-25

SEASON. at llle SdlI IOlI MONDAY evening
at o'clock.
The weeks schedule Of the U. S.
Army Band, Capt William j. STAN
nard leader, Thomas F. Darcy asso-
ciate leader. will include the following
concerts:
Monday, March 20, concert in the
band auditorium at the Army War
College. 6 pm.
Wednesday. March %. concert in
the band auditorium at the Army War
College, ll:30 am.
Friday, March 80, concert in the
band auditorium at the Army War
College, AIS pm.
Sunday, April l, the band will par
ticipate in the Easter sunrise service
to be held in the formal garden of the
Walter Reed General Hospital, the
Army Medical Center, at 7:30 am.
The schedule of the U. S. Marine
Band and Orchestra for the coming
week will include the following:
Monday, March 26, at pm, band
concert.
Tuesday, March 27 at 1870 am.
band concert, Patriotic Shut-in
Hour"
Wednesday, March %, at 8 pm,
orchestral concert A special Holy
week program will be presented, in
Guiding March of the Holy Grail"
and prelude to "Parsifal," by Wagner;
the Allegro con Grazia" and "Adagio
Lamentoso." from the Symphony Pa
thetique." by Tschaikowsky. Musician
John P. White, trumpet soloist, will
play "Inflammatus," and Musician
Harold Bayes, trombone soloist, "Cujus
Amman" These two last numbers
are from "The Stabat Mater" by
Rossini.
Friday. March 80, at pm, band
concert.
Saturday, March 81, at pm, band
concert, Evening Dream Hour"
Saturday, March 81, at 10 pm, ma
tional parks concert. sponsored by the
Department of the Interior
Sunday, April l, at 7:30 am, the
band will participate in the Easter
sunrise service in the Amphitheater
at Arlington Cemetery, sponsored by
the Grand Commandery, knights
Temp:ar of the District of Columbia.
The concerts will be at the Ma
rine Barracks, under the direction of
Capt. Taylor BranSon, leader of the
U. S. Marine Band.
Evening star., 1934-03-25

Sergt. NJ. Pentecost has been desig-
mated a second-class gunner In Bat
terry E, 260th Coast Artillery.
Evening star., 1934-03-25
Service Band Concerts.

p IMSKY KORSAKOW'S overture,
Grand Russian Easter" based on
Russian church themes, will be played
by the U. S. Navy Band Orchestra,
Lieut.. Charles Benter conducting, at
the sail loft. Navy Yard, Monday eve
ming at 8 o'clock Other numbers on
this program will be Mendelssohn' S
italian Symphony and the March
of the knights of the Holy Grail"
from Wagner's "Parsifal"
The U. S. Navy Band Orchestra will
play the last indoor concert of the
season at the sail loft Monday evening
at o'clock.
Evening star., 1934-03-25

Capt Walter S. Welsh, headquar-
ters and Service Company. l2lst En-
gineers, was ordered to temporary ac-
tive duty last week in connection with
the annual inspection Of ordnance
property Of his command.
Evening star., 1934-03-25

Pvts. James z. Lawson and James
Wright have been ordered transferred
from the active to the Reserve list Of
Company A, 372d Infantry, on ac-
count of business interference with the
performance Of military duty.
Evening star., 1934-03-25

The following changes in personnel
ratings in Company E, 121st Engi-
recommendation of the company
commander: Corpl Oscar T. Neal
was ordered reduced to the grade Of
private and Pvt. Gilbert L. johnson
was ordered promoted to corporal to
fill the vacancy.
Evening star., 1934-03-25
Excellent Rating Given q
Coast Artillery Battery 7
Local Guard Unit Commended by U. S. Army. +
and Local Militia
Officials.

Glass; Edward T. Carr, Carson M.
Howell and Leo j. McGahey and
Pryts. Leroy T. Corridor and Joseph
A. Mosely to be corporals.
The same order directs the reduce
ton, without prejudice, Of First Sergt.
Walter E. Klein and Staff Sergt.
Charles P. Reichel to be privates.
Evening star., 1934-03-25

Corpl. Narcise Frigillana has been
ordered promoted to the rank Of
sergeant in Company A, 121st Engi-
neerS.
Evening star., 1934-03-25

Pvts. Edwin w. Cowherd, Martin A.
Gleason, John L. B. Hall and John w.
Smith have been ordered transferred
from the active to the Reserve list of
Company E, 121st Engineers, on ac-
count of temporary removal from the
city.
Evening star., 1934-03-25

Pvt. Robert L. Freear, Battery A,
260th Coast Artillery, has been or
dered honorably discharged to enable
him to enlist in the United States
Army.
Pvt. Wilson A. Brown, Company F,
l2lSt Engineers, has been ordered
honorably discharged to permit him
to enlist in the United States Navy.
Evening star., 1934-03-25

The choir of men and boys of Christ
Church. Georgetown. under the direc-
ton Of Richard Bell. organist and
choirmaster. will present Stainer's
"Crucifixion" Good Friday night at 8
o'clock at the church, Thirty-frst and
o streets.
Evening star., 1934-03-25

First Lieut.. Joseph F. Fitzgerald,
Headquarters and Service Company,
l2lst Engineers, has been detailed as
assistant to the officer in charge of
the mess management school, for the
current training year. Capt. Claude
Burlingame is in charge Of the school.
Evening star., 1934-03-25

Second Lieut.. Lesion r. Fate,
Headquarters Detachment and Com
bat Train. 260th Coast Artillery, has
been granted leave of absence for a
period of three months, with permis-
sion to leave the city.
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plan, it will be easier to put over
a sell-out agreement.
Now, what should be our objec-
tive in this coming election? We
see to what calibre men is en-
trusted the destiny of our organiza-
ton. We see that so long as we
allow this vicious system of gang
rule, of cliques and self-seekers to
be perpetuated in our union, our
organization will be driven further
and further to complete ruin and
chaos, become nothing but a tool
of the bosses, wiping out every right
Of the members. The immediate
objective of the painters must
therefore be: strengthened and
continuous fight to establish a new
leadership in the locals and in D.
G. 9. We need a rank and file
administration, responsible to the
membership and bound to carry
out its wishes. We need men in
the leadership of our union who
have the capacity, honesty and
courage to wipe out the policies of
belly crawling" before the bosses,
and the reign of gangsterism, ex-
tortions, secret dealings, frame-ups
and clique favoritism.
The membership must mobilize
all its forces at this time to elect
those men to leadership who have
proven in their every day actions
that they are fighters for the well
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individual Set-up or organization
and formed what is known as the
Federation of Hotel and Restaurant
Guild and for a pound of flesh, sold
out the workers for job control.
This poisonous reptile whose fang
reached out to Washington, did its
deadly work and for that the
restaurant and hotel workers of the
United States have much to grieve
over" (My emphasis.-W. A..
These are the words of President
Flore. What was his action? Two
weeks ago in New York City con-
ference took place between Flore
and Kearney for the A. F. L. and
the leaders of the Company Union
organizations. 1t was decided that
these organizations should take out
charters from the A. F. L. as
separate local unions on the basis
of paying a per capita tax of rs
cents a month per member, and
SIPS for each initiation fee to the
International. The officials agreed
to this because Both organizations
are opposed to strikes!" The
poisonous reptile" the Judas
Iscariot," the Company Union
which sold out the workers" now
becomes an angel in disguise be-
cause there lis gold in them thar
hills" and especially because the
Company Union has been exposed
in the eyes of the workers. The
bosses hope that by placing an A..
F. l.. mask on the face Of this or
ganization, the workers will again
be fooled into submission.
Running a Racket
The same deal was pulled in
Chicago in connection with the
Worlds Fair. There it was agreed
with the bosses also-that no
cook or waiter of the A. F. of L..
can work with a chef or head
waiter unless the latter is a mem
Der of one of the fraternal soci-
cites affiliated with the Company
Union. At the same time, these
societies take out charters in the
A. F. L., and only A. F. L. men,
bers will be allowed to work at the
fair. But in order to become a
member, one will have to pay $25
initiation and from 81 to 81 month
dues, not counting the special as
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fare of the membership at large.
With an honest, capable and mill
tant administration we can dictate
terms to the bosses. We can secure
an agreement that will benefit the
broad membership. We can throw
ourselves into real organizing
campaign, enrolling the member
ship and bring into our union the
unorganized shops. We can secure
wages and hours and human con-
ditions for our men at work, with
out favoritiSm and discrimination
We can secure more employment
and gain some security in time of
unemployment, through the force
of our union. We can establish trade
union democracy and a healthy
brotherly cooperation of all the
membership for the welfare of the
union. That Is what a rank and
file administration can do. In this
election, mobilize all your forces to
elect such an administration.
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Will Present Demands
at National COnfab
in Minneapolis
BY WILLIAM ALBERTsoN

The place is Minneapolis, Min
nesota. The time is Aug. 10, 1894.
The occasion is the 9th Conven-
ton of the Hotel and Restaurant
Employees and Beverage Dispensers
International Alliance of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor. The
principle actors are Edward Flore,
International President; John j.
Kearney, Sixth International Vice
President who is out for Flores job;
Paul Coulcher, secretary of Local
is of New York, who is out for
William Lehman's job as Third In
ternational President; and
Charles E. Sands, the International
Representatives to the N. R. A. in
Washington, D. c., who also aspires
to be one of the eight Interna-
tional Vice-Presidents.
At this Convention there will be
speeches about wages and condi-
tons. Oh, yes! These miSleaders
of labor must say something about
the rank and file workers, they
must give the impression that they
have the interests of the workers
at heart. But they have made
speeches before. And when it came
to action-that's a different story.
Paul Coulcher is always in favor
of better conditions, but during the
New York General strike he took
out an Injunction against the
Amalgamated Hotel and Restaurant
Workers Union. Flore is "also for
better conditions" But last year
he signed an agreement with the
Willow and Stewart Cafeteria chain
systems in which he agreed that
no strike would take place and
gave the bosses the right to hire
and fire. Charles Sands, the IN
ternational representative to the
N. r. A, last month pulled a strike
Of walters in one of the Washing
ton hotels. At the same time he
officially allowed the hotel manage
ment ito borrow" walters from an
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Hotel Restaurant Rank and File Offer Fighting Program

other hotel to work in the struck
establishment.
Rank and File On Hand
But there will be some delegates
rank and file cooks and walters
where the local memberships have
succeeded in defeating the corrupt
machine, who will raise some very
important questions which will be
embarrassing to the officials. Among
these questions will be:
In the Catering Industry EN-
plOyee" of March, 1884, official
organ of the A. F. of l.. Hotel and
Restaurant Employees and Bever-
age Dispensers International ALI
ance, the editor states: There is
one thing sure that you will hear
more of and through President
Flore, that is The Judas Iscariot'
action of dual organization that
we have always been very con-
siderate of, who apparently sold
their souls and conscience for a
mere small mess of temporary pres
tige.' (My emphasis.-W. Al Presi-
dent Fiore will expose their miser-
able position at an early date. We
do not have any reference here to
the Amalgamated Food Workers.
with whom we have no quarrel"
Except that the officials of A. F. of
L. Local Is took out an injunction
against them.
Hypocrisy Of Leaders
In the same issue on a different
page we find another reference to
the same organization, written by
Flore himself: This historical re-
view Gestaurant code) would be in
complete if we failed to make note
of an incident that happened in
New York City during the course
of our negotiations in Washington,
that all but kicked the props from
under us and which in a large way
is responsible for the establishment
of the low standard of wage fixed
in the code and the 54-hour week.
While we were battling for the
shorter work week 90 and the
higher standard of wage CD in
Washington, group of sinister Or
CARNATIONS of hotel and restaurant
workers-sometimes called social or
fraternal organizations of workers,
threw smoke-screen around their