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held even more important-was the
necessity for answering the great num-
Der of daily inquiries for authentic
technical information on every conceiv-
able subject within the bureaus field.
This Is a service, according to bureau
officials, which every citizen of the
country apparently believes he is en-
titled to receive from a Government
bureau. irrespective of curtailment OF
supporting appropriations.
Faced with these and other services
that had to be maintained, the burden
Of retrenchment fell still more heavily
upon other important bureau activities.
The fund for investigation of technical
problems of mutual interest to the
Government and to engineering socie-
ties and trade associations was cut to
IL per cent Of that for 1882. The
semi-factory scale work on levulose un-
dertaken to provide a basis for the
possible development of national
sugar industry through the cultivation
OF artichokes was discontinued. The
laboratory for the investigation of the
principles underlying the Sensitivity of
Photographic emulsions was closed.
The branch stations of the bureau
at Columbus, Ohio, and Auburn, Ala,
were also closed. The master scale
station near Chicago is being operated
only one month during each quarter,
instead of continuously, as heretofore.
The work OF the commercial standards
groups, including the divisions of build
ing and housing, simplified practice,
specifications and trade standards, was
reduced to a skeleton organization.
But these are only specific cases,
bureau officials pointed out The greater
part Of the reduction had to be met by
general curtail-1-nt of the scientific
and technical earch of the bureau
covering the development Of new stand
ards, the refinement Of methods of
measurement and the determination of
physical constants and the properties
of materials.
Commercial Work Curtailed.
1t was also pointed out that the
ability OF member of the bureaus staff
to speak with authority in his particu-
lar field comes in large part from his
intimate contact with his subject
through his laboratory work. Conse-
ouently, 1t was asserted, the opportunity
to contribute through laboratory re-
search to the advancement of knowl-
edge in its particular field must not bt
denied to the bureau if its prestige and
authority are to be maintained.
The work of the commercial stand
ardlzation group was curtailed dras-
tically by the Economy Advisory Com
rlittee with the belief that this line ot
work could be continued by outside anc
private standardiZing agencies. Many
trade associations concerned, however
did not look favorably upon this idea
and at a general conference held at the
Department Of Commerce last October
numerous urgent requests we're made
for the Government to continue its WORK
in this field. The department has made
it known that it favors a partial re.
stcration of the appropriation for thi
work. If this plan is looked upon favor.
ably, it will constitute the only prob
able increase in funds for next veal
the bureau will receive.
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Bureau of Standards Keeps
Prestige Despite Fund Cut
Ne,c Record Is Set in Testing Although
Personnel Is Reduced From 946
to 657 in 5 Months.

Operating on a budget less than half
that provided for the fiscal year of 1882,
the Bureau of Standards is continuing
its work in such fashion as to retain
its prestige and authority, and during
the past Summer set new record in
the volume of materials tested for the
Government for use in new conStruc-
ton.
This has been accomplished in spite
of considerable reduction in personnel
and sacrifice on the part Of employees
who have been retained.
The appropriation for the Bureau of
Standards for the fiscal year 1882 was
50. TAO $40. For the present fiscal year
Congress appropriated S2,056,045, but
Of this amount more than $720,000
was impounded in accordance with the
economy program, so funds available
for expenditure are limited to 1885,
900.
Operating costs were slashed to a
minimum, but the drastic curtailment
Of funds could be met only, in the final
analysis, by severe reduction in the
bureaus staff Consequently, nearly
one-third Of its employees were dis
charged or given indefinite furioughs
On last June 80 the regular staff num-
bered 946 employees, while on December
l the number was 657.
Total Cut 20 Per Cent.
The numerous lines of work which
the bureau is called upon to perform
require the services Of many men and
women who are specialists in their par
ticular fields. In order to retain those
st,0 heA fol al c
necessary to impose upon the members
OF the staff an additional departmental
furlough of Is days without pay, SO the
bureau personnel is at present operating
on a total salary reduction Of approx
mately 20 per cent below base pay.
While the heavy cuts in the bureaus
appropriation last July neceSSitated the
curtailment of every line of work, there
were Neertain activities which had to be
supported at the expense Of others, anc
the director adopted a policy to re.
tain the most essential and beneficial
lines of work For example. it was neces-
sary to continue the testing for othel
Government departments in order to
determine whether equipment and sup
plies purchased under Federal speciflca-
tions conformed to the standards re-
quired. 1t was in this work that a new
record was set In the total amount oi
cement applied to tests during the
Summer.
Most Of this material was purchased
for construction of Boulder Dam with
share used in the construction Of
Government buildings throughout the
country. The volume was reported BY
the bureau to be the greatest handled
in such period of time in the history
Of the agency.
1t also was found necessary for the
bureau to maintain a primary and es'
sential service of celebrating ther'
mometers, graduated glassware, gauges
weights and electrical, optical and me-
chanical measuring instruments II
terms of national standards when called
upon to do so by scientific and indus
trial laboratories.
Just as important-and sometime:
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THE WEATHER

District Of Columbia-Rain with
little change in temperature tonight
and tomorrow, lowest tonight about AZ
degrees; colder tomorrow night and
Monday; gentle easterly winds tonight,
increasing tomorrow and shifting to
northwest tomorrow night.
Maryland-Rain with little change
in temperature tonight and tomorrow;
colder tomorrow night and Monday.
Virginia-Rain with little change In
temperature tonight and tomorrow;
colder tomorrow night and Monday.
West Virginia-Rain tonight and to-
morrow; colder tomorrow afternoon;
much colder tomorrow night.
Outlook for January s to January 13.
North and Middle Atlantic States
Rain Sunday night and in North At
lantic States Monday morning. Other
wise generally fair, except for rain
over south and rain or snaw over north
portion Thursday or Friday. Much
colder Monday and Monday night. ris-
ing temperature Wednesday and Thurs
day and colder Saturday.
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EX-CHAMPION TYPIST
WELL AFTER ILLNESS
Miss Elkouri, N. r. A. Secretary,
Is Rushed to Hospital for
Treatment of Vertigo.

Miss Olga Elkouri, former world
champion typist and now secretary to
L. D. Tompk1ns, head of the trade prac-
tices section of N. R. A., was fully re-
covered today from an attack Of vertigo
which last night caused her to be
rushed to Causalty Hospital for treat
ment.
Miss Elkouri, who lives at 1901 Six
teenth street, was stricken in the corri-
dor Just outside her Office shortly after
reporting for work on the night shift.
After treatment at Casualty, she was
ready to return to work.
Miss Elkouri for three years held the
world championship for stenographic-
typing ability. She was formerly en-
ployed in the immigration Bureau.
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c. ". A. DISCHARGE
OF PAIR DEFENDED
Workers Dismissed for lust
Cause, Not Union Advocacy,
Report Says.

Sam Brown and Robert Powell were
discharged as civil works employees be-
cause of refusal to work ard insubordi-
nation, according to a report submitted
by William c. Cleary. secretary Of the
c. w. A. Work Planning Committee
The report. which followed an lnvesti-
cation of the matter, was made public
today at the Office of Commissioner
George E. Allen.
The two workmen complained yester-
day to Commissioner Melvin c. Hazen
that they had been discharged because
they had distributed hand bills adver-
tising a meeting Thursday night, called
for the organization of a union of civil
works employees. At hearing granted
yesterday by Hazen, in the absence OF
Commissioner Allen. the men denied
that they had distributed the bills dur
ing working hours.
Hopkins Defends Workers.
The hearing was granted after Harry
L. Hopkins, Federal emergency relief
administrator, declared civil works
employees had right to organize. and
that he would be more inclined to dis
miss an official who fired a workman
for distributing the hand bills
Earlier in the day Commissioner
Allen had said the men had a right to
organize and that he did not approve
Of the dismissal of an employe for en-
gaging in union activities.
The report to Allen by Secretary
Cleary states that on January 4 w. F.
Zirkle, a foreman on a highway i'm
provement project on which Brown
was employed discharged the man "be-
cause Of continued refusal to work and
his mSiStence on carrying on long con-
versations with other men in the gang
thereby keeping them from working
Holds Foreman Defied.
The Cleary report continued:
Brown told the foreman that he
could not discharge him. even though
he was loafing, and when the super
visor of the project (E. D. Williams)
came to the job, he was informed by
Brown that he could not be discharged,
and that if he was, he knew where to
go to start trouble. The supervisor i'm
mediately discharged him.
ut may be of interest to know that
Brown was transferred from another
highway project under Foreman Thomas
H. Candy, because of refusal to work
ineficiency and insubordination. This
transfer was made SO that Brown could
be given every opportunity to make
good
A delegation of the c. w. A Workers
Protective League was to call on Com
missioner Allen today to demand again
that the two workmen be restored tC
their jobs, but as Commissioner Allen
was again at the Capitol attending
hearings on the liquor bill it was ex-
pected the hearing would be put over
until Monday.
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SOUTHWEST CITIZENS
PROGRAM COMPLETED
Many Subjects Listed for Action at
Mass Meeting Called by Asso-
citation for Tonight.

Plans were complete today for the
mass meeting called by the Southwest
Washington Citizens Association at 8
o'clock tonight in Neighborhood House
to organize residents and property own
ers in a drive for sweeping civic i'm
proVementS.
Among proposals to be brought up
will be a civil works low-cost housing
project a recommendation for new
Jefferson Junior High School, another
for enlargement of facilities at Hoover
Playground, for a change in the name
of Four-and-a-half street, for the estab-
nshment of community center and for
the replacement of the old brick side
walks of the neighborhood.
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PHI ALPHA TO MEET HERE
Capital Picked by Fraternity for
1884 Convention.

Washington will be the convention
city of Phi Alpha Fraternity for the
1884 convention in December, 1t was
announced today by the Greater Ma
tional Capital Committee.
Bernard Fagelson, undergraduate
manager of athletics at George Wash
ington University, where the fraternity
was founded in 1914, received the
fraternitys annual award at the 1888
convention held in Atlantic City. N. j.
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FOREIGN
FORMER ENVOY TO TALK
culbertson Addresses League of
Republican Women Monday.

William S. Culbertson, former AM
bassador to Chile, will be the speaker
at the January meeting Of the League
of Republican Women of the District,
In the Chinese room Of the Maydower
Hotel at 8 pm Monday His subject
will be Political and Economic Ten
denotes in the Americas"
Half an hour before the session. re-
ception will beNheld for the former Am
bassador's wife, who will be introduced
by Mrs. George c. Thorpe.
Mrs. Frank w. Mondell, president Of
the organization, will INTRODUCES Mr..
Culbertson.
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HELD IN ROBBERY
Colored Man Taken in Alleged At

tempt to Loot Grocery.
James Miller. colored, %, of the 2o0C
block of Columbia terrace. was arrested
early today while allegedly robbing the
Potomac Park Market, 2100 New York
avenue, of a quantity of groceries, &C.
cording to police.
The arrest was made about am
by Pvts. A. T. Davis and j. c. Conway
of No. 8 precinct, who responded to q
police radio broadcast. A quantity Of
groceries had been lined up on the
counter ready to be taken out, police
said.
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BUS LINE STUDY ASKED
Roberts Makes Request to Public
Utilities Commission.

The Public Utilities Commission has
been requested by William A. Roberts,
special assistant corporation counsel of
the District, acting as a private indi-
vidual, to make special study of bus
service in the Wesley Heights and
American University communities, as
provided by the Capital Transit Co.
Roberts, who Is a resident Of Wesley
Heights, submitted to the Utilities Com
mission a suggestion for changes in the
routes followed by the Wesley Heights
busses, which he believes wodld be in
the interests Of better service.
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INQUEST ANNOUNCED
Coroner to Act Today in Traffic
Mishap Fatality.

An inquest will be held at the
morgue today in the death Of Jefferson
Anderson, IA, of Hyattsville, Md, who
died at Casualty Hospital yesterday as
the result of injuries received Decem-
ber 81 when he was struck by an auto
mobile at Eleventh street and South
Carolina avenue southeast.
Vernon Zirkle of 713 K street north
east was the driver of the car, police
said.
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DEMOCRATIC "WHIP" ILL
Representative Greenwood Confined
to Home With Influenza.

Representative Arthur H. Greenwood
of Indiana, Democratic whip in the
House, is confined to bed at his home,
2719 Trirty-sixth place, with influenza.
His secretary said his condition is
not serious and the Representative
probably will be tacs at work by Tues
Gav.
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County Nurse Assistant Named.

LEESBURG, Va, January Especially
Miss Jennie Jones of Richmond has
been appointed assistant to the Loudoun
County nurse, Miss Helen Pittmau,
under the Civil Works Administration.
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$4,000 DAMAGES ASKED
Chevy Chase Man Files Suit Against
Warren 7. Glover.

Suit for $54,462 damages from
Warren I. Glover, 900 block Of FIJI
teenth street, was filed in District
Supreme Court yesterday by George
L. Lansdale. $500 block of Chevy
Chase parkway.
Lansdale says he was seriously in
jured when his automobile was struck
January 5, 1888, near Fifteenth and L
streets by machine driven by Glover's
chauffeur. The suit was filed through
Attorney William Wendell.
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Report for Last "a Hours.

Record for Last "a Hours.
(From noon yesterday to noon today0
Highest, A, at noon today. Year
ago, SO.
Lowest, 3S, at 7:3O am. today. Year
ago, %.
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Copeland Predicts Passage.

Senator Copeland of New York, spon-
sor of another bill in the Senate, joined
in the prediction. He said he favored
a bill on national scale, so that any
one, no matter where he spent his de-
chning years, would be sure of being
supported by the community. He wanted
the pension based not on the question
of Indulgence, but on the fact that any
person by a life of activity earns the
right to spend his CID age in comfort.
Senator Dill of F1'ashington, another
proponent Of pensions on national
scale, said he supported Federal con-
tributions to States providing pension
systems Of their own.
Bishop James E. Freeman of the
Washington diocese of the Protestant
Episcopal Church, said support Of old
age, was one issue on which men Of all
faiths might meet on common ground.
Leifur Magnusson, chairman of the
District Committee on Old Age Security,
presided at the meeting and introduced
Mrs. Roosevelt. Others who spoke
briefly were Leroy A. Halbert, for the
Monday Evening Club, and Mrs. Harry
S. Bernton of the Washington Council
Of Social Agencies.
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Tide Tables.

FURNISHED by United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey)
Evening star., 1934-01-06

Humidity for Last "a Hours.
(From noon yesterday to noon today)
Highest, 90 per cent, at 10 am TO-DAY.
Lowest, 80 per cent, at pm. yes
terday.
Evening star., 1934-01-06

Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, 81, on January /.
Lowest, 20, OH January 3.
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The Sun and Moon.
Precipita ton.

Automobile lights must be turned on
one-half hour after sunset.
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Jacob |. Hills
Rites Tuesday
Victim of Accident Deacon
at Mt. Moriah 10 Years

EDNEYVILLE, Sept. 2S.-Fu-
neral services were conducted on
Tuesday afternoon at o'clock
from Mt. Moriah Baptist church
for Jacob L. Hill, who died early
Monday morning in an accident at
the Southern railway crossing at
the depot in Hendersonville.
Burial followed in the Mt. Moriah
cemetery.
The services were in charge of
Rev. BrOadus +. Jones, pastor Of
the First Baptist church of Hen
Jacksonville, assisted by Revs. Mr..
Walker Of Boiling Springs, n. A.
Melton of Fruitland, and II. NJ.
Drye, pastor of the deceased, also
of Fruitland. Music was furnished
by the Baptist quartet Of Hender-
Sonville. and J. c.. Coston, with
Mrs. Coston at the organ.
Nieces Of the deceased were
flower girls. They were: Misses
Lucille Alton, Evelyn Edney, Nan
ME Barnwell and Pauline Dalton;
also Miss Hamrick Of Boiling
Springs.
PallbearerS were brothers-in-
law: Wake Hamrick. Dean Alton,
H. L. F. Drake. Il. T. Dalton,
Clarence n. Laughter. j. II. Barn
we'll and J. P Maxwell.
Honorary pallbearers were: 7.
A. Cathey, r. H. Station, M. N.
Orr. c. NJ. Pace. King Lanning,
r. G. AnderS, w. A. Garren, J. +.
Shipman, /. c. Arledge, Il. G.. By
ers, J. II. Ballenger. G. w. Justice,
J. X. Crye, J. J. Pace, O. Roy
Keith, r. L. Durham and Noah
Hollowell.
Mr.. Hill, who was in his 43rd
year, was born in Edneyville
township, this county, and had
spent all his life in and around
Edneyville. Nineteen years ago,
he married Miss Maude Maxwell,
daughter of the late W. f. Max
well and Mrs. Maxwell, of the
Liberty section. He was a faith
ful and conSecrated member of
Mt. Moriah Baptist church, where
he had been serving as deacon for
the last 10 years. He was chair
man of the board of trustees of
the Edneyville school for twelve
years and at the time of his death
was employed by the state high
way commission, where he had
served the public faithfully for l 5
years.
People of this community bow
their heads in sorrow because they
have lost one Of their most valued
citizens. His nobleneSs of charac-
ter. his kind and gentle DISPOSE
ton had won for him a place in
the hearts of many thai cannot
be filled, but the memory Of him
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GIANTS LEAD
BY half Game
For First Time in History
Plans Are Laid for Pos
sible Play-off
By JACK CUDDY

NEW YORK, Sept. 2S.-tUP).
frankie FriSch'S fighting band of
St. Louis Cardinals chopped down
the New York Giants National
league lead to paltry half game
yesterday as officials Of the cir
cult. for the first time in baseball
history, completed plans for a pos
Sible pennant play-otf.
While the Giants were idle, the
Cardinals beat Cincinnati'S tail
end Reds. 8 to ;. in the opening
contest of their final four-game
series. The nth victory in their
last - games left the Cards just
three percentage points behind
New York. Their standing follows:
W. l.. Pet.
New York ......... % IS SIG
st Louis .... - 80 .613
Now. the Cards can deadlock
the Giants for the pennant if they
win their three remaining games,
while the Giants can take their re-
naming two with Brooklyn. The
final standing then would be:
W. l.. Pct.
New York ......... - 81 .62l
st. Louis ..... % IS Cpl
Yesterdays II. Louis victory
came shortly after Jno. \. iICyd-
Ter. president of the National
league, announced plans for the
possible play-olr of three games
after the regular season closes
SUNDAY, lie said the first contest
would be staged in st. Louis on
Tuesday, the second at New York,
Wednesday, and if third and de-
Gliding game is needed. that also
will be played at the home of the
Giants. the Polo Grounds.
If three games are needed, the
world series opening Detroit. now
scheduled for Wednesday. Oct. 3,
will be delayed until Saturday.
Oct. 6.
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BREVARD COLLEGE HAS
THREE CLAYTONS, GRID
PLAYERS, ENROLLED

BREVARD, Sept. %. Especially .
Three Claytons are registered at
Brevard college out Of the 376
students, all three being grad
yates of Brevard high school and
all three being members Of the
first string football squad.
Harry, graduate of the class of
81, is playing fullback, and is
regarded as one Of the stellar
players on the college squad ;
Walter, graduate of the class of
"a, has the right half place
sewed up apparently; while Ed
ward, also graduate of the class
of "a, is making good on right
end, and in addition to his get
away ability is regarded as one
of the best punters in Western
Carolina.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-09-28
To Open Breyard
Griidiron Season
Will Meet W.C.T.U. Junior
Varsity Saturday

BREEARD. Sept. IS. CSpcciaD
Faced with the loss of Prentice,
star backfeld man who is the only
man to play on a regular college
team last year. Coach Ralph James
has been running shifted lineup
the first few days Of this week at
Brevard college in anticipation of
the first game of the season here
Saturday when the W. c. T. {.
junior varsity will be foe of the
local eleven.
Prentice was injured last Sat
urday. and the college physician
ordered him to bed Monday with
orders to remain quiet for at least
two weeks. Griffin, who saw some
action on the Weaver squad last
year IS running at quarterback.
Tentative lineup for Saturday 5
game will be CASTOR, right end;
Smoak. right tackle; WahOmck,
right guard; Protfitt. center; Grey,
left guard; Harris, left tackle; f.
Clayton. left end; W. Clayton,
halfbac6; ShufOrd, halfback; II.
Clayton, fullback, and Prentice,
quarter.
A fence is being built around
the college field on North Broad
street, the grid itself already be-
ing regarded as one of the best
playing fields in this part OF the
state.
At the opening game Saturday
afternoon will be the Brevard mu-
nicipal band of Is pieces, aug
mented by 10 to Is musicians
from the college student body. Ad,
vance sale of tickets indicate tbs
opener to be one Of the biggest
athletic events ever to be staged
in Brcvard.
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Meaning of "Serendipity"

'Screndipity" means faculty
for finding valuable things uneN'
pectedly. The word was coined by
Horace Walpole from the title of
the fairy story, The Three Princes
of Serendip," because the princes
were always making discoveries, by
accident and sagacity, of things
they were not in quest OF.
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rick Of Boiling SPRINGS =
number of other CLOSE ,,.'
and friends mourn bjs Io ,S'
The entire community w. t..
its deepest sympathy IA i, ~
reaved family. ~ '';
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-09-28
Glacier Bay

Glacier bay is H. southeastern
Alaska. 1t was created national
monument in 1890. 1t contains | ,S20
square miles of glaciers and ice-cov-
cred peaks of the first rank.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-09-28
German Requirement

German couples planning mar
riagc must satisfy authorities there
is no racial impurity in their fam
lilies back To their l6 grcat-great-
grandparents.
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Most Powerful Explosive

Blasting gelatin is the most pow
erful 1t is male by diSsolving nj
trO-COttOn ami nitroglycerin. There
are about 100 different commercial
explosives in common use.
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tber and a friend to all alike.
He is survived by the following:
His wife and five children. Foy, II,
William, IA, Guy, II, J. L., Jr., 8,
and jamie Lou, 2 1-2; his father
and mother, Mr.. and Mrs. q. b.