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Evening star., 1935-08-21
CONGRESS BLAMED
FOR J0DCRADb|NG.
Grazing Act Amendment
Takes Interior Staff From
Civil Service.

In a new effort at ob-grabbing.
Congress has moved to knock a newly
created division Of the Interior De-
partment out from under Civil Service,
putting large number of positions on
patronage basis and junking an ex-
animation held by the Civil Service
Commission at a cost Of several hun
dred dollars.
This became known today when the
attention Of the commission was
drawn to passage yesterday in the
House OF an amendment to the graz
ing act, which would put the entire
staff Of the Division of Grazing out
side Of Civil Service. The Senate still
must act on the amendment.
Created Last Year.
The division was created by act Of
June % last year in an effort to regu-
late the use of grazing land in public
domain of the West. The principle
was one which the Interior Department
had been advocating for years and
was hailed by conServationists as a
long step forward in the national
program of saving public resources.
AS director. Secretary Ickes named
Harrington r. Carpenter. Then the
trouble began.
First, the Civil Service Commission
held an examination for assistant
directors Of grazing and for graziers.
There were to be Ave appointees at
81, 900 annually for the assistant
directorships and group of graziers
sufficiently large to supervise about
10000 900 acres. Their pay was to
be $4,000. The commission set up two
requirements a high school
education, and, secondly. certain ex-
perience.
So many complaints came IN from
Congress about the high school train
ing prerequisites that the commission
anticipated a move to amend the Law
and held another examination. This
time mental test was substituted for
the high school factor. This exami-
nation Was held in May and the COM
mission has been preparing to estsb-
lish a register from which to make
the necessary appointments, the work
Of the division in the meantime being
carried on by regular department per-
sonnel
New Patronage Amendment.
However. some members Of Congre-s
again stepped into the picture ana
the new patronage amendment ac-
cepted by the Conference Committee
was the result.
This proposal, however, goes be-
yond the new positions to be created.
exempting from civil service all cler-
ical and stenographic workers and
other workers, despite the fact the
Interior Department, in common with
all old-line agencies, is a civil service
establishment.
The amendment also sets up a
residence requirement. confining ap-
pointees to the affected States
So far as could be determined at
the commission, the situation has no
parallel.
Evening star., 1935-08-21
OKLAHOMA PLANS RITES.
Reverent Crowd Greets Posts Body
on Arrival by Plane.

on Arrival by Plane.
OKLAHOMA CITY, August 81 up.
Oklahoma paid solemn, silent tribute
today to Wiley Post. whose homecom-
ing for the first time was not a joy
Gus one.
The body Of the dauntless little air
man was borne here late yesterday in
a giant airliner. ending the longest
funeral flight in history. A large crowd
lined municipal airport as the ship ar
rived and the body was transferred to
a hearse. There was no disorder, only
a great silence and a reverent un-
covering of heads. Relatives were not
at the field
In the ship, although not at the
controls, was Joe CroSson. modest
Alaskan f1ier who brought the bodies
of Will Rogers. Americas favorite hu-
morist. and her foremost stratosphere
adventurer from lonely Point Barrow
to Seattle. Pilot w. A. Winston few
the rest of the way.
From Posts battered cowhide suite
case a gray double breasted suit was
taken, to be hurriedly cleaned to
clothe the body for elaborate services
here and at his lome town of Mays
vile. so miles to the south. today and
tomorrow.
For two hours this morning the pub
lie was allowed to pass through the
mortuary before cortege was formed
to go to Maysville for afternoon serv-
ices in Little Landmark Missionary
Baptist Church.
Tomorrow the body will lie in State
in the Oklahoma Capitol; services will
be held in First Baptist Church. and
burial will follow in Fairlawn Gene
terry while planes overhead will drop
flowers.
NEW WORK. pJ ANS MrMnRJAT
Evening star., 1935-08-21
HOSIERY MILL WAGE
ARGUED AT HEARING
Workers Seek 20 Per Cent Raise
and Manufacturers Ask Cut
of Same Amount.
Nv tha AssnciAted Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. August 21.-Demands OF
the American Federation of Hosiery
Workers for a wage increase Of 20
cents per dozen pairs of hosiery, and
of the hosiery manufacturers for
wage decrease of the same amount
we're argued last night at an arbitra-
tion hearing.
Participants were hopeful Of con-
cluding the hearing today.
Emil Rieve of Philadelphia, presi-
dent of the hosiery workers union.
who asserted that the pay boost sought
by the federation would bring little
or no increase in the retail price OF
hosiery, argued that union shops were
generally more efficient"
Union officials said an issue of the
work week remained to be argued.
Evening star., 1935-08-21

For instance, the biggest dispute
centered in the question Of controlling
credit imitation (open market opera
tions). Eccles wanted sole power
within the board under his own thumb.
Glass wanted control spread to COM
mittee of seven board members and
Ave Reserve bank presidents. Glass
won.
But the subtle catch in it is that
President Rooseuelt tUiH select the
seven board members. Further
more, through them, he uiH haze
a ueto po,cer ouer the selection OF
the fue Reserve bank presidents.
and. in fact. oil Reserpe bank pres
identS. II he cannot select hoard
he can control. it ,DiU certainly be
his oWn fault.
What Senator Glass appears to have
done is to make it annoying, but not
difficult for the President to do so.
Eccles to BE Chairman.
You can see the same point better
if you look behind the new provision
kicking Treasury Secretary Morgen-
thau off the board. The purpose of
this was to maintain an illusion that
the board Is not susceptible to Treas
ury influence.
As a matter of practical fact, the
board chairman is to be Mr.. Morgen-
thau's protege, Gov. Eccles. If Mr..
Morgenthau cannot work through
Mr.. Eccles and the President to in
fluence the board as much as he ever
did as an ex-ofiicio member. it will
be because there is something wrong
with Mr.. Morgenthau.
Open Market Provisions.
To make the delusion complete,
consider also the provision requiring
that all open market operations
hereafter be conducted in the open
market. This provision is supposed
to prevent the Treasury from debating
to the Federal Reserve banks as far
as buying Government bonds Is con-
cerned.
In practice every insider knows the
Treasury has always dictated to the
banks and always will The bankers
bread is buttered on the Treasury side.
and all the bankers know it. No law
can change that The new law, there
fore, may be expected to operate in
much the same sense as prohibition.
Politics will be prohibited. but no one
will know it. If any one is preparing
to cheer about the New Dealers being
blocked in trying to extend their con-
troll over banking under this bill he
should hold his breath until about
next February.
Evening star., 1935-08-21
", B. PASSES
OUT OF EXISTENCE
Last Car Makes Run to
Washington-40O En-
nIOves 0Se I0hs

The Washington, Baltimore & An
napolis Electric Railway was thing
of the past today. The last two-car
green train of the 28-year-old road
rumbled out of Washington Terminal,
Eleventh street and New York ave-
nue., for Baltimore this morning at
1904 o'clock.
The three men manning that train,
along with 400 other old employees OF
the interurban. were out of jobs today
and some commuters living in out
lying places in Prince Georges. Anne
Arundel and Howard Counties were
without means of rail transportation
"Old s." the oldest w, B. & A
car in service, was in the last train
Less than a dozen riders got aboard
at Washington and half Of these were
employees Of the road.
Charles Mattingly, conductor: Al
bert E. Braun, motorman, and Walter
Merkle, brakeman, were the crew.
The future of the stations and right
Of way of the railroad were in doubt
today. Settlement of financial affairs
and property rights will probably take
q year.
Short Line Continued.
The Baltimore d. Annapolis Rail-
road Co. successors to the w. B. g.
A..-auctioned of at a receivers sale
last July-will continue service on the
north shore route, or the old Annapo-
lis Short Line.
A petition Of the Anne Arundel
County commissioners to continue full
operation of the South Shore Branch
as public necessity was before the
Public Service Commission today.
Also before the commission is the
petition of the Red Star Bus Line for
permission to serve part Of the South
Shore division.
Fort Stranded.
Cessation last midnight of the bus
service from Fort George G. Meade to
Naval Academy Junction left residents
of the fort without public transporta-
ton.
Application of the Baltimore q
Ohio Railroad for permission to estab-
lish q bus line from Jessups Station to
Fort Meade was anticipated today
however.
The new Baltimore & Annapolis
Co. was formed by bondholders of the
old short line, with the backing Of the
Baltimore g. Ohio, it obtained $780,
900 for its operations.
Washington to Annapolis service
will be furnished by the Peninsula
Transit Corp. over Defense Highway
Evening star., 1935-08-21
FAMILY OF ROGERS.
UNITED ONCE MORE.
Widow and Children Due to
Reach Coast Today.
Body Awaits.
By the Associated Press.

by tHC hSoOClhtCu FTGco.
LOS ANGELES, August 21.-The
Rogers family will be together again
here today-with a vast, sad difference.
Mrs. Will Rogers and the children,
VIII. jr, Mary and Jim, were hurrying
by train from the East. due to arrive
about noon Pacific Time).
They were speeding to q funeral
instead of happy reunion after gay
aerial adventures. The body Of the
famous comedian, who joked with the
great and the near-great and made
them like 1t, awaited them in a simple
bronze casket in Forest Lawn Chapel.
Thousands of others waited also to
pay final tribute to the actor -philoSo-
pher who crashed to his death with
Wiley Post in Alaskan wilds.
Tomorrow q guard Of honor COM
posed of two score Army fliers will
attend the casket as the doors of the
chapel are opened to the public.
Gov. Frank F. Merriam announced
he will proclaim State wide moment
of mourning during the funeral hour.
At that time-2 p.m-every movie
studio will close and special services
for the public will be held in Holly
wood Bowl. with Conrad Nagel, actor,
and Rupert Hughes, author. in charge.
Cherokee Indians here-Rogers was
q member of their tribe-have asked
permission to hold a tribal ceremony.
Mrs. Rogers will decide.
After the public observances are
ended the family and l25 close friends
will attend private services in the Wee
Kirk o. the Heather.
OKLAHOMA PLANS RITES.
Evening star., 1935-08-21
DR.. C.. F. MARbUT
ILL IN MANCHUKUO
Chief of Soil Survey Stricken
by Double Pneumonia
in Harbin.

DR.. Curtis F. Marbut. ~. of WASH
ington, chief of the soil survey in the
Department of Agriculture, is critically
i'll in Harbin. Manchukuo, according
to an Associated Press dispatch re-
ceived today.
DR.. MarbutS illness was described
as double pneumonia in word received
by relatives here. In q previous letter
written from London and received here
by his son, Fred Marbut, Dr. Marbut
stated he was leaving for China. and
indicated he was in good health.
On Leave Of Absence.
On a six-month leave of absence.
DR.. Marbut sailed from Baltimore July
II. having accepted an invitation from
the Chinese government to make soil
survey there. He had attended q
scientific conference at Oxford, Eng
land, before continuing TO China by
way of Moscow on the trans Siberian
Railway.
DR.. Marbut, whose home is at 1847
Mintwood place, had lived in Wash
ington since his appointment as head
OF the Soils Survey Bureau in 1910.
Since reaching the regular retirement
age. his period of service has been
twice extended.
Headed Amazon Survey.
In 1923 DR. Marbut headed q Gov
ernment survey to report on rubber
production possibilities In the Amazon
River Valley in South America.
In 1929 he was awarded the Collum
Medal by the American Geographical
Society for his work in soil research
in Africa.
A graduate of Missouri University.
DR.. Marbut was for a time head of
the geology department there. taking
graduate work at Harvard University.
He had received honorary degrees from
both the University Of Missouri and
Rutgers College.
He is widower and the father of
five sons. one of whom, Frederick. Is
employed by the Associated Press here.
Evening star., 1935-08-21
Laval Protest Fizzles.

PARIS, August 81 .CP)-A Commu-
mist meeting called to protest Premier
Laval's emergency decree laws on his
daughters wedding day fizzied out
under the watchful eyes yesterday Of
hundreds of police.
Twelve thousand Leftists sang the
Internationale and shouted hang
Laval" but a threatened clash with
authorities failed to materialize.
Evening star., 1935-08-21
What's What
Behind News
In Capital
Glass May Be Misled
in Believing Bank Bill
Victory. Is His.
BY PAUL MALLON.
ID hOh NAS'
%HE headlines are shouting that
/ Senator Glass has again played

THE headlines are shouting that
Senator Glass has again played
Horatius at the Federal Re-
L serve Board bridge. They say
he has repelled the New Deal army,
intent on increasing Federal domina-
ton over banking.
The stout-hearted Virginian him.
self encouraged that deduction when
he looked up from the final draft OF
the new bank bill with q grin as big
as q length-wise slice Of cantaloupe,
calculating: Am I pleased"
No one noticed that his aduer-
sory. House Chairman Stedguu,
who Dds standing around to see
that Glass did not claim too much,
said nothing Nor Uds any purtic-
ular attention gtuen to the fact
that the general OF the routed
army Chairman Ecctes OF Federal
Reserpe) also expressed his pleas
ure.
Suspicious souls, however, will agree
that, If both Eccles and Glass are
pleased, one OF them Is being misled
If you look into it. you will CLEAN more
than a suspicion that it probably Is
Glass.
Evening star., 1935-08-21
22 STILL MISSING
IN SUBWAY CAVE-lN
Little Hope Held for Workers
Unaccounted for in Collapse
of Berlin Tunnel.
By the Associated Press.

by tne hSSOClateu FIeSS.
BERLIN, August 2l.-Sman hope
was felt today that any of the % men
unaccounted for in the collapse of a
partly built subway were still alive.
Rescue workers. guided by search
lights, toiled through second might
digging for the bodies in a scene that
looked like an earthquake scar of
twisted rails and planking.
DR.. Joseph Goebbels ordered roll
call of the workers today as rescue
crews composed of police, troops and
firemen kept on digging.
1t was impossible to determine how
many men we're working at the scene
at the time of the accident. Survivors
placed the number Of missing at %.
The accident is believed to have been
caused by neglect of saftey precautions
in an attempt to hurry the project.
Weary from long fight on a fire
at the radio fair the night before,
firemen had to be relieved by Reichs-
wahr pioneer detachmentS.
Evening star., 1935-08-21
NEW YORK PLANS MEMORIAL.
Forty-Six Planes to Take on at Hour
OF Post Funeral.

NEW YORK, August 81 (P.-An
aviation memorial for Wiley Post will
begin at pm. tomorrow at Floyd
Bennett Field it was announced today
Forty-six planes will cruise over the
metropolitan area. taking of at the
hour funeral services begin at Okla
homa City. All ships will fly mourning
streamers of black crepe from both
wings.
Three Navy planes flying in for
nation headed by Capt. G. R. Allison.
commander of naval operations at
Floyd Bennett Field, will head the
procession.
They will be followed by six Army
planes from Mitchell Field. one plane
each from the Coast Guard and police
department, and IS civilian planes.
Evening star., 1935-08-21
CORRECTION
typographical Error Appeared In
Headline Over Article on
Colonial Minister.

Through a typographical error, The
Sunday Star referred to Rev. John
THOMPSON in q headline as a "Cul--
peper Colored Minister" AS was ap-
parent in the article which followed,
the headline should have read "Cul-
peper Colonial Minister" The Star
regrets the error.
Rev. Thompson was honored in a
memorial tablet dedicated in the Lit
tie Fork" Episcopal Church at Oak
Shade. Va, Sunday. "7'
He served as Colonial minister of
st. Marks Parish from l740 to 1772
and has been described In q history
Of the parish as the best-loved min
lister of st. Marks" His home, Sa-
lubria. which he built after his mar
riage to Lady Spotswood, widow of
Gov. Alexander Spotswood. is still
standing. 1t Is one of the Oldest brick
houses in the county, having been
built in l742. It was the birthplace
and boyhood home of Admiral Cary
T. Grayson. ---
Evening star., 1935-08-21

The premiere of the Ethiopian War
will be staged on or about Septembe.
Is. according to confidential diplo-
matte advices here. The cast is as
sembled and the shooting will begin
promptly as soon as the rain stops
Some State Department authorities
are go sure of it that they are taking
their vacations now. They want to be
back in time for the gruesome opening
chorus.
Suggestions to White House.
The Democratic leaders hare
been ererting strong inner pressure
on Mr.. Rooseuelt to make him
change his mind about the death
sentence" provision in the holding
company bill One sent him, the
other day, copy OF the House roll
cou shouting hotD many good DEM
ocrats had poted against him.
Some OF the names were under
scored. They were those of his
most loyal followers.
The same delicate suggestion Uas
advanced at the Sunday night con-
ference at the White House. You
may hare noticed that only the
nominal congressional leaders
conservatives au) were called to
that gathering.
Experts in Ma ajority.
There were so many tax experts al
the first meeting of the House and
Senate conferees that the conference
had to be adjourned to a larger room
In fact, there were more experts pres.
ent than congressman. Apparently
the legislators feel that the pill needs
expert attention.
(copyright 1880
Evening star., 1935-08-21
TWO DIE IN CLOUDBURST
Man and Small Boy Found in
Silt-Covered Car.

SANTA FE, N. Mex, August 81 (P.
An unidentified man and o boy
about years old were listed today
as the victims of q cloudburst which
fell near here last night.
The bodies were found in q silt
covered motor car which had plunged
into a deep highway washout.
Communications service was Grip
pied by the cloudburst and torrential
rain in the central part Of the State.
Evening star., 1935-08-21
WEATHER DELAYS PLAY
Romeo and Juliet" at Sylvan
Theater, Postponed.

Because of inclement weather, the
presentation Of Shakespeare's Romeo
and Juliet" scheduled for tonight at
the National Sylvan Theater, has been
postponed indefinitely. Presenta-
tion will be under auspices Of the
National Capital Parks Once and the
Community Center Department.
The program scheduled for tomor-
row at 8 pm. at the outdoor theater
will be a grand opera festival pre-
sented by the United States Marine
Band and guests artists.
Evening star., 1935-08-21
IL Die in italian Floods.

ROME, August 81 @-Eleven per-
sons were killed last night in the
towns Of Gragnano and Castellamare,
near Salerno. when . violent rain
storm sent mountain streams out Of
their banks.
Evening star., 1935-08-21
Congress Rin Brief
TODAY.

Senate:
Moves to consider Guffy coal bill
and neutrality legislation.
Lobby Committee calls Cities Service
Co. representative and Howard G.
Hopson, utilities man.
House:
Votes on T. v. A. conference report.
TOMORROW.
Houses
Program uncertain; probably con-
slider unanimous consent requests.
Evening star., 1935-08-21
Lion Defended as Sissy.

LOS ANGELES @-"Rusty" Is
just a sissy. At least Edward Wal
dron convinced the Police Commission
his lion was not menace In any
way, shape or fashion, and might be
kept in the back yard in perfect safety
to the neighborhood.
Evening star., 1935-08-21
H0NEYMOONERS CRASH
But Wreck Fails to Stop Couple
En- Route to Niagara.

DETROIT, August 81 CP.-Theron
M. Hall, So, of Alhambra, Calf, made
up his mind Al years ago to give his
bride q Niagara Falls honeymoon. He
isn't going to be stopped by such a
little matter as demolished auto
mobile.
The bridegroom decided yesterday to
give the bride new automobile They
drove q few blocks and collided with
another car. The new machine was
wrecked.
The bridegroom said, Come on, well
catch that night boat for Buffalo.
Wen have that honeymoon, anyway"
Evening star., 1935-08-21
Reich Birth Rate Rises.

Nazis claim that Germany's birth
rate is rising as . result Of their cam
paign encouraging family life.
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