The Washington times., 1937-04-26

! temporary WOIhSI compensation
for the first three named holidays,
but awarded him a days pay for
INAUGURATION Day, January 20,
because the public resolution SET
ting it up as day of leisure was
applicable to all in the District
regardless of basis of employ
ment, and including those en-
ployed by the day and paid only
when actually employed"
Francis H. Styles, Falls Church,
Va. has been confirmed by the
State Department as secretary
in the diplomatic service and is to
serve at Ottawa, Canada, as second
secretary of legation and American
consul.
Two prominent Government Of
ficials have been assigned to rep
resent the United States at the
Fifth international Technical and
Chemical Congress Of Agricultural
Industries, which will hold sway
at Schevenigen, Holland, July IL
to II.
Henry G. Knight, chief Of the
Agriculture Bureau Of Chemistry
and Soils is to be chairman OF the
American delegation, and Charles
C. Concannon, chief of the Bureau
OF Foreign and Domestic Com
merce's chemical division is like
wise on the committee.
Two Washington business men,
Charles J. Brand, executive secre-
tary and treasurer of the National
Fertilizer Association, and j. NJ.
Doran, executive director OF Dis.
titled Spirits Institute, Inc, will
likewise make the trip.
Some of the best ball playing
talent in Washington is trying out
for the 1887 General Accounting
Office baseball nine, which is to
be managed by Johnnie Jones, for
mer professional star.
Mike Potter, Kelly Payne, Don
Crowley, James Reardon, Al Cor
man and Rex Vilines are expected
to provide pitching feats galore,
while Frank Blackstone and Chad
Hall are leading candidates to d.
rect them from behind the bat.
Other candidates showing up
we'll are Bob Thompson and
George Grin, first baseman, Austin
Bricker, second base; Max Coe,
shortstop; Eddie Robinson and
Thomas KaShel. third haSemen,
and Ed Brown and Sam Harvey,
outfieIders. Both Harvey and
ThompSon-the latter actually
employed by Agriculture at Belts
vile, are renowned in Federal dia-
mond circles for their hitting abil.
ity.
Among recent gifts to the Lin.
coin Museum, housed in the old
Ford Theater Building on Tenth
Street, is Currier and Ives 18th.
ograph bearing the title, "Abra-
ham Lincoln, the Nations Mar.
tyr" Interior Department an.
nounces an average of 1000 Wis
itors per month to the museum.
Interior Department experts, D.
j. Parker, G. w. Jones, H. B. Hill
and Gustav Wade, all field men,
have reached final conclusions on
reasons for the New London school
blast which killed ass in March.
They are
/. Immediate cause Of the blast
was an explosion of a gaS-air mix.
ture resulting from an accumula.
ton of natural gas in an unven-
tilated space beneath the first
floor of the main building.
2. Manipulation of an electric
switch near a door leading into
the unventilated region ignited
the gas.
8. The gas was present because
of leakage from gas lines and
their fittings suspended beneath
the floor.
4. The gas did not seep through
the soil.
S. The violence of the blast was
due. probably, to the fact that the
ignited gas was in confined space
with little opportunity for expan.
sion at low pressure.
The quartet of experts issued 10
recommendations for voiding
future tragedy of such a nature.
Mack Myers, popular employee
at Interstate Commerce Commits
sion, has been unanimously in
dorSed by the Bunker Hill Post
of the American Legion for COM
mander of the District of Column
bia Department of the legion,
1878 term.
Myers. a veteran of several
years with Interstate, at present
is chief clerk of the Bureau of
Service. A lawyer and a Mason, he
makes hobbies of both golf and
bowling, at which he is more than
adept.
He is also on the committee
recently named to conduct golf
tournaments during the 1887 sea-
son for the 1n-Com-Co Club, serv-
ing with Ernest J. Kendrick,
director of athletics; Robert R.
SpriggS, chairman: E. j. Doyle,
R. N. TreziSe, C. P. Morris and
j. E. Snider.
Louis Brownlow, chief member
Of the Presidents Committee on
Administrative Management, is to
address the general council meet
ing of the National League of