The Washington times., 1935-08-17
BUREAU HEADS
CONCERT
GUESTS
BY J. EARLE MOSER

cert by the National symphony
Orchestra, to be held at the
Watergate with three distin-
guished guest conductors, will
have as guests of honor more
than a score Of high officials Of
both the Treasury and Commerce
Departments.
Beginning the sixth and final
week of programs at the Water
gate, the concert management
has invited Secretary Of Com.
merce Roper and Secretary Of
the Treasury Morgenthau to at
tend, together with most Of their
bureau chiefs and administrative
officials.
From Treasury will be Lawrence
w. Robert and Stephen B. Glib
bons, assistant secretaries; Viii
liam Alexander Julian. treasurer;
J. F. T.. O'Connor, comptroller;
Hugh S. Cummings, surgeon gen.
eral; Rear Admiral Harry G..
Hamlet, Rear Admiral Christian
j. Peoples, Brig. Gen. Frank T..
Hines, and William S. Brough-
ton, James H. Hoyle and Guy T.
Helvering, commissioners.
Those invited from Commerce
include the following directors:
Eugene L. Vidal, Air Commerce;
William L. Austin, Census: Claud-
dius T. Murchison. Foreign and
Domestic Commerce; Lyman j.
Briggs, Standards; Frank T. Bell,
Fisheries: George R. Putnam,
Lighthouses; r. S. Patton, Coast
and Geodetic Survey; Joseph B.
Weaver, Navigation; Conway Coe.
Patent Office; j. c., Peacock.
Shipping Board, and D. H. Saw
yer, Employment Sterilization.
Emanuel Balaban, of Rochester,
N. Y: Gustave Strube, of Balti.
more, and Richard Horner Bales,
of Alexandria, will conduct vari
Gus numbers of the program.
Signed by the Senate yesterday,
the Meade 40-hour bill is now law,
much to the qualification of all
postal workers, custorial employees
and the mail equipment shops.
James Edward Smith, junior ad'
ministrative assistant of the Pat
ent section of AAA, a native of
Cumberland, Md, today was to
wed Miss Dorothy Eleanor Walsh.
of Washington State, the cere'
mony being scheduled for the
Washington Cathedral.
Mr.. Smith, who formerly was
present is pursuing the study Of
with the Census Bureau and at
law at National University, was
rendered a bachelor dinner Thurs.
day by colleagues at the Admiral,
Seventeenth Street and Rhode
Island Ave. N. w. Among AAA
officials present were C. A.
Camp, assistant director; E. A.
Miller and C. H. Alvord, assist
ants to the director; C. o.
Pratt, senior administrative as
sistant; R. F. Groom, chief Of
the Compliance Section; E. L.
Deal, chief of the Tax Certificate
section: T. L. CASTOR, principal
agricultural economist: Ralph
Mercham, chief statistical expert;
George Bishop, regional consult
ant, and Roy Sheriff, contract ad-
justment section.
Members of the following NFFE
units have been scheduled for
next week.
Civil Service branch Of Local
No 2, IL noon, at Civil Service
Commission, Tues day. District
Federation of Federal Employees,
8 p. M, ITO Fourteenth st. N. W.,
Wednesday. Mechanics branch of
Local No. 2, 8 p. M, ITO Four
teenth st. N. w., Thursday. EX-
ecutive council, Local No. 2, ITO
Fourteenth st. N. W., Friday.
One Year Ago in Federaldom-
Through William S. Kinney, Of
War, the D. C. Federation Of Fed.
eral Employees demanded abolition
of checks in paying employees and
asked that proposed stagger pay
days be forgotten. Civil Service
announced that workers living in
Takoma, D. c., must stay clear Of
the current local option fight on
liquor, though they might ballot
in the coming referendum vote.
Senator Rush Holt said he'd have
voted against the economy act.
Col. Charles w. WadSworth, Vet
erans Administration, retired after
81 years Of service, getting ban
quet from fellow officials at the
University Club. MIRA announced
fete for it's baseball team, to
take place August 81.
Fred A. Hutchinson, Census Bu-
reau, has been made a Fellow Of
the Royal Photographic Society Of
Great Britain, it was learned to-
day. A World War veteran, Mr..
Hutchinson was turned down from
accompanying the Roy Chapman
Andrews expedition to Mongolia
because it was feared his war
wounds had rendered him phySi-
cally unable to stand the strain Of
the desert, but he has continued
his artistic camera work. He is q
member Of Lodge No. 9, AFGE.
Civil Service has announced
two new tests. BY August 19 ap-
plications must be filed for opera