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June 2, 1894. He was retired october
81 of that year.
Gen. Hof had held many posts dur
ing his long career and had been
awarded the Distinguished Service
Medal
Born in Boscobel, Wise, Gen Hof
was graduated from West Point in
1894 and assigned as a second lieu
tenant in the 9Th Cavalry, serving
until 1897.
From August 20 Of the latter year
until June, 1898, he was instructor OF
law and history and then adjutant Of
the Military Academy.
Returned to West Point.
During the Spanish American War
he served at several posts in the States
and then returned to West Point to
resume duty as instructor Of law and
history. remaining until October. 1899.
Subsequently, after duty at Sandy
Hook Proving Ground in New Jersey,
he was transferred In 1902 for duty
in office Of the chief OF ordnance.
Gen Hot later served in the Ord
nance Department at several arsenals
in this country and in July, 1914, was
promoted to lieutenant colonel, Ord
nance Department. He was ordered to
the Philippines the following year and
became department ordnance oflcer,
Philippine Department.. and COM
manding officer, Manila Ordnance De-
pot. He returned to the United States
as commanding officer, Franhord Ar
senal in Pennsylvania in August, 1917.
In January, 1919, he was promoted to
colonel, and the same year ordered to
Washington as acting chairman Ord
nance Department Claims Board, set
ting contracts for ordnance Cancelled
because Of termination of hostilities.
He sailed for France in June, 1919
but in August of that year returned
here as acting chairman, Ordnance
Claims Board. In November Of the
same year he was made chief OF
Field Service, Ordnance Department.
In August, 1920, he was detailed to
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leagues voted, but added I'VE can and
we should pursue an application of the
Peoples Front program. We must i'm
pose 1t on employers and spectators.
Support Held Patriotic Duty.
The government hoped to put the
bonds on the market tomorrow while
leaders Of all the important parties
called upon their constituents to re-
gard support Of the loan Is q patriotic
duty. Terms Of the loan will be an
nounced tomorrow.
Nearly 100 deputies refrained from
voting last night after Blums personal
appeal to the chamber. He asked for
= large majority on the ground that
the interests Of the whole nation were
At stake-not Just those Of his govern
ment. Attendants quieted 4 disturb.
ance In the galleries where the pre-
mier's wife listened.
Communist deputies withheld ap-
plause for the premier.
The only Communist opposition pos
sible In the upper house would come
from the two senators ot that party,
Marcel Cachin and Jean Clamamus,
government leaders predicted, how
ever, that the senate would deliver a
big majority in favor Of the loan.
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the Chamber by 47o to 46 in q vote
that cracked party lines.
A Communist revolt, meanwhile,
brewed against Premier Blum's an
nounced breathing SPELL" proclaimed
to increase confidence in the gov
ernment and facilitate raising Of the
loan.
A protest by Maurice Thorez, a dep
uty and secretary general Of the
French Communist party, was the first
open evidence of discomfort in the ex-
treme Left segment Of Blum's fol-
lowing.
Committee Meets Friday.
The party's Executive Committee
called q meeting Friday to consider
means to meet what Communists con-
sidered threat to reform In the Blum
breathing spell"
In most political quarters 1t was
believed the Communists would not
bolt the Popular Front-a move that
would unseat the Blum government
but would renew pressure on the pre-
mier for resumed expansion of social
reforms.
Thorez, addressing q Communist
mass meeting last night, pointed out
that a national unemployment fund
old-age pensions and public works were
part OF the original program and In
sisting that they be carried out.
The economic situation ]ustifies nc
retre0tn he daclarAd ",Y-1oa Aoon.1,r
situation presents no character OF es.
sentlal gravity" He approved the
loan, for which he and his party col
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the Army War College here as a stu
dent officer and was graduated the
following June.
Chief Of Field Service.
In July, 1921, he was detailed in
the Office Of the chief Of Ordnance as
chief Of Artillery and Automotive Di-
vision and as acting chief Of the
Small Arms Division. On July l.,
1922, he WAS again made chief Of
Field Service and continued in that
duty until July l, 1925. He was then
detailed as student officer, Harvard
School of Business Administration,
from which he received the degree OF
master in business administration in
June, 1926.
In August OF the latter year he was
transferred to the I'd Corps Area,
Governors Island, N. Y, as corps area
ordnance officer, where he remained
until transferred to Washington as
assistant chief Of ordnance
Surviving Gen. Hof are his widow,
Mrs Alice NJ Hof. OF the Nineteenth
street address; daughter, Mrs. L. r..
Blinks, OF Pala Alto, Calf; two BROTH
ers and four sisters, all living in the
Middle West
Funeral services will be held at 2 80
pm. Friday in the Walter Reed Hos
pital Chapel. The body will be Gre
mated and the ashes taken to West
Point, N. Y.
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ROBERTS WELCOME"
AT TRANSIT HEARING

The Public Utilities Commission will
welcome the participation Of William
A. Roberts, former peoples counsel, or
any other spokesman or attorney for
business or civic interests, at the COM
ing hearings on the valuation Of the
Capital Transit Co., of11cials of the
body said today.
The commissions case will be han
died by Hinman D. Folsom, special as
sistant corporation counsel, who is the
commissions counsel. officials said
Roberts would not be hired as assistant
attorney and that, under the law,
volunteer services could not be en-
gagged
The question arose yesterday when
Roberts, in an informal call at the
commissions Offices, rendered his aid.
At the last hearing dealing with the
transit company, Roberts appeared as
counsel for an association Of Ninth
street business men.
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ROOSEVELT TEAM
Wins MAP TESTS
Lieut.. Col. G. A. Christy, in
Charge of Cadet Unit,
Gets Medal.

The 5th Regiment stafY team from
Roosevelt High School. under Cadet
Lieut.. Col. George A. Christy. took
top honors yesterday In the map
problem tests at Franklin School,
under the direction Of Colx Wallace
M. Craigie, professor OF military
science and tactics in Divisions 10.
Christy was awarded a gold medal
as captain of the winning team and
the team received the Col. Craigie
Silver Cup award. The victors in the
problem, which was worked out on
the Gettysburg -Hunterstown map,
made percentage Of 94.5. The tests
were the final competition of the
winning teams among the various
companies OF the different high schools
In which competition has been going
on since December.
Other Percentages.
Percentages Of the other schools
were Central High, Company D, $40;
Western High, Company H, 910; Nc
Kinley High, Company D, COS; East
ern High, Company G, $40, and
Woodrow Wilson High, Company B,
86.5.
Each team consisted CT five men
and a captain on a problem involving
company outpost for a battalion.
Col. Craigie was assisted by Lieut..
Paul L. Doerr, a member Of the
faculty at Central High.
On March Is there will be a band
and battalion competition for Divi-
sions l9 at Central, starting at
AIS pm. The bands will be judged
comparatively as they play for their
respective battalions. Judges of the
musical organizations will be Alex
ander Morris, william F. Santelmann
and Carl Hubner, second leaders,
respectively, Of the Navy, Marine and
Army Bands. The battalion ma
neuvers will be judged by Capt. James
Regan and First Lieut.. Forrest
Caraway, both of the Army. The
drills will be held over to March 10 in
case OF inclement weather.
March Again March 22.
On March % the cadets and bands
will march again at Central. beginning
at $3.50 pm. in the regimental con-
test to be judged by the same two
Army officers, at the conclusion OF
which Dr. Harvey A. Smith, assistant
superintendent of schools, will make
awards to the winner. Medal awards
will also be made at this time by
Bunker Hill Post, No. 81, to the drum
major of the winning band, as decided
in the March Is contest, and to the
first sergeant Of the winning company
in that contest.
The final cadet activity for the year
will be the competition at Griffith
Stadium May 1l-l2.
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TEACHERS HONOR
JAPAN At MEETING
Saito Is Guest at Program
In Preparation for Toxic
Convention.

East met West yesterday on the
dower-bedecked platform OF the Cen
tral High School Auditorium as the
four District teacher organizations
affiliated with the World Federation
Of Education Associations sponsored
4 japanese program including well
coming speech by HiroSi Saito, jap
anese Ambassador, and an address
on Japan's cultural heritage by DR..
Shio Sakanashi, curator in the jap
anese section of the Library of Con-
gress.
Addressing the meeting, which was
preparatory to the biennial convention
OF the World Federation in Toxic
August At. Ambassador Saito as
sured the teachers warm welcome
from the Mayor of Toxic and urged
as many of them as possible to attend
the convention.
DR.. Sakanashi said she was glad
the West was Becoming increasingly
conscious OF the East and urged the
group to better the acquaintance.
Cultural History of Japan.
oINIllS q pllSl SuICul Oh AAASVO1y "a
Japan, she said Japan was not slum-
bering people awakened when Admiral
Perry arrived there in 1852, but
rather was melting pot of cultures
even including Greek, and was sus-
ceptible to European trends many
years before.
Other speakers included Dr. James
W. Crabtree, office manager OF the
World Federation, who explained the
goodwill objective of the meeting
and commented on the educational
attainment of Japan, who has, he
said, the lowest per cent of illiteracy
in the world. Willard E. Givens, sec
retary OF the National Education As
sociation, told of his experiences with
students of japanese ancestry in the
Hawaiian schools and had high praise
for their character and efficiency.
DR.. Monroe Absent.
DR.. Paul Monroe, president Of the
federation, who had been scheduled
to make an address, was unable to
be present and telegraphed his re-
grets.
Also on the platform with the speak
ers, who were introduced by Miss
Selma Borchardt, a member of the
federation Board of Directors, were
officials from Franklin School, includ-
ing Dr. Frank w. Ballou, school su-
perintendent, and Drs. R. L. Hay
cock and Harvey A. Smith, assistant
superlntendents; Nine Saito, DR.. w.
S. Small of the University. Of Mary
land and representatives Of the Dis
trict Education Association, High
School Teachers Association, the
Junior High Schools Teachers Asso-
citation and the Washington Teachers
Union, the groups sponsoring the
meeting.
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nounce the truce last night was L.
Gardner Moore, president of the Hotel
Association of Washington. 1r. Moore
issued statement after reporters re-
ceived typed handout from Mr.. Som
erville which said:
Il am pleased to announce that
the strike at the Willard has been
called of by the union.
Il appreciate the patience and con-
sideration shown to the management
Of the Willard, not alone by its regu-
lar guests, but by the public in gen.
eral in this most trying situation.
The strike was called of on the
following conditions:
81. Strike to be called of imme-
diately.
20, Everybody returns to their old
positions at once
"3. There will be no discrimination
or penalties against any Yorker
4. The union agrees not to press
for closed shop.
IS. The management will meet with
the union at pm. Thursday, March
IL, 1887, and it holds itself ready to
discuss any problem concerning their
employment, including wages, hours
of labor and arbitration, with the duly
constituted representatives Of the
union.
IS. The management will not press
any court cases until after the first
conference has been held, with the
understanding that il an agreement
is reached all court cases will be
dropped"
McGrady Is Thanked.
In Mr.. Somerville's statement was
typed insert which stated: TO Mr.
McGrady. Assistant Secretary of
Labor, we are doubly appreciative for
his cooperation"
Mr.. Moore's statement follows:
TT is a matter Of qualification to
the members of the Hotel Association
Of Washington that the strike at the
Willard has been called of by the
union, with terms of settlement salts
factory not only to the Willard but to
the other hotels in Washington.
The hotels are deeply appreciative
Of the understanding and interest
manifested by the public during the
strike in the stand by the Willard and
association hotels for an open shop.
We are glad that the union has agreed
with the hotels on this point"
Guests Amused, Angered.
Guests at the exclusive hotel we're
amused, angered or astonished. ac-
cording to their lights, as they sur
veyed the sit-downers yesterday in
the lobby, the main dining room and
the cocktail lounges.
'1f Landon had been elected" ex-
claimed one dowager draped in mink,
such an outrage would never have
occurred"
The lady was standing near divan
in the center of the main lobby on
which sat five disgruntled but deter
mined bellhops.
''Shssssh," hissed the lady's escort,
small, looking citizen.
you may hurt their feelings, dear"
But the lady went on talking never
tneleSS.
The bellhops did not look up from
the newspapers and magazines they
were reading. They told newspaper
men they had been there since they
reported for work on the day shift and
were informed they had been fred.
Approximately so sit-downers occu-
pied places in the hotel yesterday, in
cluding 6 bell hops, ~ cooks and
helpers, 20 walters and pastry shop
employees, 6 employees of cocktail
rooms and S coffee shop mattresses.
Among pickets who stopped patrol
ling the hotel late yesterday was Ma
bel Norman, coffee shop waitress,
who said she had been discharged
last Sunday because of union activities.
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spontaneous sit-down of their own
The maids were not we'll organized
but won the point within half an
hour after presenting demands.
Girl sit-downers were locked out of
the National Pants Co. plants at SIG
Eighth street southeast and 408 First
street southeast. Benjamin Pilzer, op-
orator Of the plants, ordered the girls
barred from the premises after they
left at the lunch hour and failed to re-
turn on time.
The strike here was called in SYM
pathy for another in the firms plants
at Newcastle, Pa. Organizers came
here from Pennsylvania and New York
and claimed they signed up IS girls
as members of the Amalgamated Cloth
ing Workers Of America, an affiliate
of the Committee for Industrial Or
ganization.
It was said that 40 girls yesterday
went to a meeting called by organizers
in Naval Lodge Hall.
O1TlS ALCcnO MceLlNS.
In their absence the employe card
system was changed and those without
the new cards we're refused entry to
either plant this morning.
Pilzer said he took back only one
girl who attended the organization
meeting, when she convinced him she
went without knowing what it was all
about, but he was positive he would
never re-employ any leaders OF the
movement.
Union Men Complain.
Union officials complained to Police
Supt. Ernest w. Brown today that
District policemen we're interfering
with peaceful strike settlement" by
escorting non-strikers at the National
Pants factory through the picket lines
of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers
Of America.
Maj Brown declared "I am not in
terested in the contentious of either
side and intend to see both are given
their just rights
About 100 strikers, all but a few
being women, paraded in front Of the
entrance of the National Pants fac
tory singing MY Country IT'S of
Thee" and America" during today's
lunch period. Union officials COM
planned also that police had threat
ened to arrest the strikers for singing
At least a score Of sidewalk pickets
were called off last night when the
Willard's sit-downers got word of the
truce. The agreement was announced
by McGrady after series of con-
ferences yesterday between manage
ment and workers.
McGrady was assisted in his get
together" efforts by Hugh L. Kerwin,
director OF the Cancellation Service,
Labor Department., and Howard Col
vim, conciliation commissioner in
charge OF the local district.
Among hose who helped to an
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MISSING MAN SOUGHT

Police were searching today for Ben
jamin Tubman, 70, of 1888 E street
northeast, missing from his home
since 10 o'clock last night.
At the request of his wife, Mrs.
Mary Tubman, harbor police dragged
Kingman Lake, on the Eastern
Branch, this morning, but found no
trace Of the missing man. Tubman
has been worried over a head injury
received recently, she said.
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BIG GFRENCHL0AN :.
NEARS APPROVAL
Finance Minister Agrees to
Fix Defense Sum at
&79,850,O 900.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PARIS, March 1O.-Socialist Pre-
miei Leon Blum's plan to float q huge
loan for national defense in 1887
moved toward flnal parliamentary ap-
proval today as Finance Minister VIM
cent Auriol agreed to fix the loan at
0.500,000,000 francs (about $479,-
50,000).
The Senate Finance Committee ap-
proved the measure for governmental
borrowing passed by the Chamber of
Deputies last night.
Has Right Of Way in Senate.
The Senate, after refusing TO rush
the loan bill through In last nights
session, gave 1t the right of way in
today's meeting, scheduled to start at
I pm. Ql am, Eastern standard
time).
1t won overwhelming approval in
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tributed to heart
disease.
Gen. Hof, who
lived at 1881
Nineteenth street,
had been a resi-
dent here since
1927, when he was
made assistant
chief or ordnance
with the rank Of
brigadier general.
On April 2. 1880,
n e " ~ m q d q
chief Of ordnance
with the grade Of
major general,
Serv ing until
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GEN. SAMUEL H0F
DIES IN HOSPITAL
Heart Disease Is Fatal to
Former Army Chief of
Ordnance,

Maj. Gen Samuel Hof, 66, U. s. A.,
retired, Army chief Of ordnance until
June, 1884, died today in Walter Reed
Hospital, where he underwent an oper-
alton last Thursday. Death was at
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