The Washington times., 1937-06-04

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EVENTS TO-DAY:
Meeting, Lodge No. los, A. F.
G. E., Mail Equipment Shop, 1918
Tenth st. N. W., 8 p. m.
Meeting, executive council, Lo-
cal No. 2, N. F. F. E., ITO Four
teenth St. N W., p. m.
Meeting, Local No. II (colored,
N. F. F. E.. ITO Fourteenth st.
N. w.
Officials and active members Of
the Michigan-Washington Demo
cratic Club will convene Monday
at 8 D. m. in Room 1899, New
House office Building, to draw
final plans for the moonlight ex-
cursion to be staged the evening
of June II.
1t has already been decided,
however, that the trip will be
made aboard the Steamer City OF
Washington, leaving Sevent h
Street Wharf at $3.50 p. m, re-
turning at 11:45 p. M, with an
intervening stop Of one hour at
Marshall Hall.
Entertainment is being arranged
by committee under the dtrec-
ton of Mrs. Philip r. Vernier,
and tickets are available at Mon
days meeting place, which is serv-
ing as headquarters for the club.
A full slate of delegates and al
ternateS has been chosen by war
Department Employees Union No.
261, N. F. F.. E., to the convention
to be held during September In
Springfield, Ill.
Gertrude E. Coyle, Of the Fl
nance Office; William s. Kinney,
of the Quartermaster Corps; B. r.
Kleinwachter, of the Signal Corps,
and Charles Bonneville, Of In
sular Affairs, are elected dee
gates. Alternates are Walter E.
NARROW and j. S. M. Zimmerman,
of Soldiers Home, and Pearle
Cooper and w. E. HoffheinS, Fl.
nance office.
Favorable action was taken on
a number of convention resolu-
tions, including one intended to re-
lieve conditions among War De-
partment employees transferred to
foreign service, by providing trans
portation for their families and
effects and by the paying Of a diff.
ferential to offset the increased
cost of living at foreign posts.
During their recent meeting the
War workers were given an in.
teresting talk by Ann Singleton,
Air Corps, on her experience as a
Government worker in numerous
foreign countries.
HIKERS ATTENTION-sun-
day holds a real opportunity 1or
those addicted to the weekly
tramps of the Wanderhird Club,
for the group is to journey to and
through White Oak Canyon, de-
scribed as one of the most beauti-
full sections Of the Blue Ridge
Mountains.
The mixers will travel via bus to
near Skyland, on the Skyline
Drive. then descend the mountain
side to White Oak Run, where
lunch will be enjoyed in the open
and followed by a plunge into an
enticing, cool pool. Then will
come an easy, downhill trail
through the canyon, passing nu-
merous waterfalls and pretty
scenery. The group will enjoy
a chicken dinner at SperryVlile.
The club will meet Sunday at
1416 F st. N. W.. at 7:30 a. m.
The public is invited and should
call MAJ. 1075 before S p. m. to-
morrow to make reservations. The
cost Is about $3.50.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. has
abolished the practice of fixing"
traffic tickets, and according to
reports motorists actually like 1t.
Maybe. Acting Comptroller Gen
eral Elliott points out that his rul-
ing on temporaries' annual leave
really isn't severe, affects only
week-endS, and an employe who
takes leave from Monday through
Friday would lose nothing. =.
leave, however, is most wanted
over week-ends, not in the middle
of the week the D. c. has "a
schools participating in WPA's
Student Aid program. 1,043 boys
and 623 girls receiving assistance
:. Helena McLachlen, Washing
ton socialite, rendered several
vocal selections for the ASsocia-
ton of Non-Classified Federal EN-.
ployes last night at its Willard
meeting the group is getting
the "go-bye" from local citizens
and many reporters, however, for
its backing of the Ramspeck bill,
which would oust thousands Of
meritorious workers from jobs un-
der the Government because they
have the bad luck to have been
born in the District, Maryland and
Virginia one year ago: AAA
workers were planning an unpre-
cedented moonlight trip down the