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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-04-06
Civil Service Commission Held
Dominated by Departments
Geological Survey Enerovers
Lodge Complaint at Hearing

three engravers from the survey to
give any reason they might know OF
why they have not been given a SAL
airy stepup in approximately 10
years.
The first witness, Harry R. Nc
Cabe. testified that by pressing his
appeal to the Classification Board
in 1926 he finally obtained realloca-
ton to grade of the professional
service. and that since 1923 his SAL
airy has remained at $4,000 In re-
Spouse to Senator BLENDERS ques-
ton. he said he did not know unless
it was because those in charge of
promotions did not like me break
ing into that professional grade"
Mr. Sears insisted ne knew of no
prejudice against Mr.. McCabe for
obtaining reallocation of his posi-
ton. He contended the Geological
Survey thought the engravers were
properly allocated when they were
in subprofessional grade 8. under the
definitions of the classification rules
Senator Ellender then brought out
that several of the engravers have
been kept for 10 years at $4,000. the
bottom salary step in their present
grade. and that they could have been
given salary advances without re-
allocating them to another grade.
Lower Grades Given Raises.
Mr.. Sears replied that when funds
have been available for stepups with
in grades they have been given to
persons in lower grades than the
$4,000 level. He said that in most OF
the departments appropriations
there were not sufficient funds to
make all the promotions employees
were entitled to-
When Senator Ellender inquired
why. list of others in the Geological
Survey. mostly in supervisory posi-
tons, have had salary increases into
the higher brackets in recent years
Mr.. Sears testified that was because
they had been appointed to higher
duties with different responsibilities
placing them in higher grades.
Claude Birdseye. chief of the en-
craving section. contended none of
the funds used for the advancement
of those persons would have been
available to grant salary stepups to
the engravers.
Another Engraver Heard.
William E. Raab. another engraver
in the Survey, said he understood
it was hard to get the necessary
money in the Appropriation Act
when asked by Senator Ellender if
he knew why he had not been given
a salary stepup in recent years.
A third engraver. Hugo E. FRANKIE.
to whom the same question was put
by Senator Ellender. replied that he
always left those matters to the Of
ficials in the Office. He said it might
have been lack of funds and that he
took it for granted they would give
him the raise if they could.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-04-06

noted for giving low marks, par
ticularly to those who stood low
In their class. a condition in
wl..~.l scenic. exec. IL
ardent promoter of athletic and
a very decided football fan.
When by some fuke or other
wise I was credited with winning
some decisive play which aug
mented our score, he, for once,
seemed to forget all of his usual
dignifled reserve and enthusi-
astically joined in the applause.
But what was far more to The
point with me was that there
after my marks ran higher. and
managed to make the necessary
rs and get my diploma"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-04-06
So Scouts Will Get
EuqIe BADGES Toniqht

Thirty six District youths, men,
bers of various Boy Scout troops,
will stand before their local court
of honor to receive Scoutdom' s
highest award of merit-the Eagle
badge-symbol of pride and achieve
ment.
Awards of Star and Life badges
life-saving medals and perfect at
tendance pins will be made to 1923
other Scouts. with special scout
masters keys and awards being
presented to troop leaders. A total
of 165 badges will be presented on
the court of honor program. OPEN
ing at 8 o'clock at Mcfarland Junior
High School, 4400 block of Iowa
avenue NV. DR.. Paul Bartch,
Smithsonian curator and vice pres
ident of the Boy Scout Council,
will preside, over the court.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-04-06
Pine and Stuff Confer
On Pending Cases

United States Attorney David A.
Pine announced that he was setting
this afternoon aside for a staff
meeting of all his assistants and as
sociates, preparing to have every
case now on the books ready for
trial after the Easter recess and
definite trial date determined upon.
Mr.. Pine declared that a discus
sion of cases now pending in United
States Court of Appeals here is also
on the agenda Further. the group
will discuss plans for the confer
ence of United States attorneys
from all over the Nation, which will
be held April 10 to 81 at the De-
partment of Justice. The district
attorney here desires to get the
views of his associates on various
legal problems to be debated at the
Forthcoming conference.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-04-06
Rodmon Reports Bulldog Nays First Football Battle 10

parts, the Hopkins team was lib
orally decorated with bandages
and -a',"~:''e plaster 'ro''-d or
about their Waistlinec.
incidentally, it might be men,
toned that the Hopkins team,
man for man, was much older,
more mature, and would average
fully 20 pounds heavier than the
midshipmen.
80 far as am aware this WIS
the first time that the academy
ever engaged in football compe-
tition with any outsiders. can
not recall the score, but the
academy won.
There is another reason why
I have good cause to remember
this game. One Of my instruc-
tors who was rather taciturn and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-04-06
D. c. Youth at V.M.I., Hit
BY Jove|in, Critically Ill

A 20-year-old Virginia Military
Institute cadet. William Edward
Doolan of Washington, remained in
serious condition today following
an operation performed after his
large intestine was punctured by
javelin thrown by fellow student,
according to an Associated Press dis
patch from Lexington, Va.
Jackson Hospital attendants said
the youth, a fourth classman. stood
we'll an operation performed Tues
day night by Dr. Frank M. Leech,
assisted by Maj. Brooke E. Mallory.
post surgeon.
Cadet Doolan, whose parents, Mr..
and Mrs. William J. Doolan. live at
400 Ingraham street NV. and Elliott
Ray Taylor of Ashland, Va, were
exercising by tossing javelin back
and forth while standing short
distance apart
The sun shining in his eyes pre-.
vented him from seeing the spear
as it came toward him, Doolan said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-04-06

ual play, and catch as catch can
when it came to tackling.
III It's most .sioved FL! It
was customary in tackling to.get
a fist full of your opponents meat
round or about his short ribs,
hang on like a bulldog and down
him by any means that promised
the greatest success. AS for pro-
lection against this, the midship-
men wore close-f1tting canvas
jackets, snugly laced, so that it
was extremely difficult to get a
grip on our bodies. while our OPP
ponents wore wooden jerseys.
After the game. when we
stripped in the dressing room, our
preparedness gave ample evidence
Of its worth, for while we showed
some scars Of battle In these
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-04-06

Domination of the Civil Service
Commission by Government de-
partments was charged by Stuart
Maxwell of the National Association
of Federal Mechanics, testifying be-
fore the special Senate Committee
Investigating Personnel Problems
late yesterday.
Before recessing the hearings un-
til the latter part of next week
Chairman Ellender. Democrat. of
Louisiana, also made inquiry to de
termine why group of engravers
in the Geological Survey has not
been promoted or given salary step
ups for 10 years.
Chairman Ellender also questioned
G. H. McEWen. business manager
of the new Wage-Hour Division.
about reports that some effort is
being made to blanket some en-
ployes of that agency into civil serv-
ice, but was told nothing definite
has been done in that direction.
The Senator said other commit
tee work will make it necessary to
postpone further hearings for a
week
Asked to Explain.
Asked by Senator Ellender to
elaborate on his belief the commits
sion is dominated by the various
Government agencies, Mr.. Maxwell
said he meant the departments
usually get what they ask for
The witness said one of the aims
OF his group is to get equal COM
pensation for equal work, after tes-
tifying that there are differences in
pay for the same kind of work by
mechanics in different agencies.
He said the Bureau OF Engraving
and Printing pays some OF its work
ers S2745, while mechanics in other
departments receive S1,68O. The
variations are due partly TO exemp-
ton of some groups from the CLASH
flcation Act by law. he stated.
Another complaint made by Mr..
Maxwell was that supervisors in
the Government service impose on
mechanics. In this connection. he
testified that in the Quartermaster
Corps privates in the Army are
dressed in civilian clothes and re-
quired by superiors to do mechanical
work.
Senator Ellender asked the wit
ness what chance an employee has of
getting his position reallocated with
out the o. K. of his bureau chief.
and Mr.. Maxwell replied the chance
is very slight.
In taking up Geological Survey
personnel problems, Senator Ellen
der examined Julian D. Sears. ad-
ministrative assistant as to why a
group of engravers have been held
to their 1928 pay level. while dozen
or more persons in high positions
have had salary raises in the mean
time.
The committee chairman called on
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-04-06

The Naval Academy's first
.ootha.,, =, p,a"ed in the days
when the most approved tackling
form was TO get a fist full Of
your opponents meat round or
about his short ribs. hang on like
a bulldog and down him by any
means that promised the greatest
success" is wildly recalled by
Admiral Hugh Rodman, U. S. NJ,
retired, in a brief discussion" in
the august United States Naval
Institute Proceedings for April.
Admiral Rodman, whose last
major tour of duty was as COM
mander in chief of the Pacific
Fleet, and who represented the
Navy officially last year at the
coronation of King George vi
and Queen Elizabeth of England,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-04-06

the quadrangle. near the center,
but a little to one side. was an
old mulberry tree, cevera! -eet in
diameter, which was a we'll
known landmark, and possibly
used as such for local naviga-
tional purposes. But of this am
quite certain, that its rough bark
took it's full toll of skin and hair
from some of the players who
collided with it, and added its
share to the bruises and sprains
suffered by others.
so far as the rules governing
the eame are concerned, I can re-
call only one-there was to be no
sluqging. Nor were there any
signals, strategic maneuvers or
prearrariged team play: 1t was
every one for himself in individ-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-04-06

now is a resident of Washington.
Admiral Rodman was a first
class.nan at the aca1emy, 1919
30, when the academy played a
team from Johns Hopkins some
time in the fall of 70, the admiral
recalls.
Il was a member of the team
and think that Parke and Leiper
OF my class were also members, as
we'll as Higgins of 80 and OLeary
OF '83; cannot recall any others,
the admiral explained.
las l recall the game, it was
played on rectilinear field,
without yardage grids or goal
posts, located about where Dahl
gren Hall stands today. 1t was
used for drills and parades and,
incidentally, to pasture the ad-
miral's COW.
standing conspicuously within
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-04-06
BY FRED H. MORHART, Jr.

BY FRED H. MORHART, Jr.
The annual battle of home prod
ucts on Capitol Hill starts in ear
nest tonight when Representative
Fred Bradley. Republican. of Michi-
gan not only puts on an "all-Michi-
gan dinner but stages side show
as we'll. Regularly at this season
of the year Senators and Rep
resentatives pack in favorite foods
from their home States to gain
publicity for them.
Besides putting on a meal built
around 1000 pounds of smelt. Rep
resentative Bradley will have the
Queen of Smeltania" here for the
event. The young queen is Miss
Barbara Banks of Escanaba. Mich.
who is currently doing radio work
in Chicago.
A rivalry in the Michigan smelt
festival developed today when a
delegation from Beulah. headed by
the Mayor, selected Senator Thomas,
DtlIlOIi Ol lIlCll
king. Meanwhile, Representative
Bradley's followers crowned him as
the official king of Smeltania.
Admittedly a boost for the fifth
annual Escanaba smelt festival.
held in Mr.. Bradley's district, the
feast here will be one of the most
pretentious ever given in the Capt.
toll,
A special certificate will be pre-
sented to the champion who eats
the most of the half ton of silvery
fish. The National Capitol smelt-
eating champion will have the auto
graph of Miss Banks on the docu-
ment attesting to his abilities.
% Types of Food.
In years past most Senator'S and
Representative indulging in this
form of publicizing home products
have limited themselves to only one
or two items, but not Mr.. Bradley.
He will serve % types of food. from
vegetarian soup from the House of
David to michigan apple juice"
Even the drinking water will be
brought from the home State.
The complete meal for an ex-
pected $50 guests includes also
baked beans. French fried potatoes,
apples. golden bantam corn, cherry
pie, red raspberry pie, spiced
peaches. cheese. buttered beets, cat
sup. butter. beat sugar, postum, salt,
sparkling water, grape juice, wax
rutabagas, green peas, bread and
milk.
The climax in last springs battle
of the gourmets was reached when
Senator Duffy, Democrat, of Wis
consin staged nationally broad
cast cheese fight with the late
Senator Copeland. Democrat, of
New York. Both Senator'S claimed
their home State produced the bet
ter and more popular cheese prod
ucts and called on fellow members
of Congress to find out by actual
test. Hundreds of pounds of cheeses
of all varieties from both States
went down the willing Threats of
the samplers. However. there was
no official verdict given on the
winning State.
Flood of Citrus Fruit.
Next came q flood of oranges,
grapefruit and tangerines as Sena-
tor Ellender, Democrat. of Louisi-
ana called on his home producers
to really show Congress what comes
from the South" At once several
carloads of citrus fruit arrived at
the Capitol, and Congress went on
it's second free food ride. Not to be
outdone by the Louisiana boys, u
Senator Connally. Democrat, of
Texas showed up shortly after with
crate after crate of Texas pink
grapefruit.
Just as good as Louisiana ones,
Senator Connally said. This raised
the ire of another delegation, and
into the fray they went with Sena-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-04-06
Dorsey Nominated
Navy Medical Director

President Roosevelt today sent to
the Senate the nomina ton of Med
ical Director Benjamin H. Dorsey,
U. S. N, to be medical director of
the Navy with the rank of rear adj
miral.
At the same time the President
nominated the following to be dis
trict commanders in the Coast
Guard with rank of lieutenant
commander: S. B. johnson. Erwin
B. Steele, Frank E. Allison, Ward w.
Bennett. Martinus P. Jensen.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-04-06
Heads Phi Rho Pi

Mrs. Sylvia D. Mariner, COL Nine
tenth street NV. was elected
secretary treasurer of Phi Rho Pi at
the organizations convention in
Virginia. Mimi, the Associated Press
reported today. Mrs. Mariner is a
w. P. A. analyst, now working in
the field service.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-04-06
Freight Cars DeroiIed

EAGLE ROCK, Va, April II P.-
Thirty EIGHT cars of Chesapeake &
Ohio freight were derailed this
morning near Gala. Botetourt
County Village.
Reports received here said the
locomotive did not leave the track
and no one was injured.
Evening star., 1939-10-26
The War in Europe-Doy by Day
Noz U-Boot Campaign Against British Merchant Shipping
Seen Representing Greatest Threot to Allies

war aren't complete, but about 80
allied and neutral merchant steam.
ers appear to have been sent to the
bottom.
The British the other day esti-
mated that they had destroyed from
quarter to third of the entire
German submarine fleet. They flg-
ured this fleet last April at 43, with
% more building.
Bound to Bring Hunger.
With land fighting at stalemate,
each side has been concentrating on
trying to cut the other fellow of
from necessary supplies. Bitter ac-
cusations of attempts to starve chill
dren and other helpless civilians
have been banded about and Wig
orously denied.
That charge has cropped up again
in the Russian note replying to the
British notification of contraband
lists. This note in effect accuses
England of subjecting children,
women and aged people and invalids
to every hardship and to starvation
by proclaiming goods of popular con-
sumption as war contraband."
The Russian note might have
added that the German submarine
campaign is piece off the same
CLOTH so far as regards hardships on
civilians.
Obviously, however high may be
the morals of the combatants and
whatever may be the exact purpose
OF their operations against shipping
those operations are bound to bring
hunger to women and children if
successful and carried out to a final
ity. The fact that hunger is pro-
duced indirectly would seem to be
beside the point.
Evening star., 1939-10-26
Lothian Says Britain
Won Conduct j. :.
Propaganda Drive
Envoy Tells Pilgrims
Society England Wants
Aid on Peace Terms
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Oct. 26.-Great
Britain has decided against conduct
Ing propaganda campaign in the
United States, says the Marques of
Lothian, British Ambassador to the
United States.
But, he told the Pilgrims Society
last night, Great Britain feels that
1t has the right ito explain to YOU
and all other democracies what we
are doing and why we are doing it:
the judgment is your inalienable
right"
He said he felt his country was
entitled" to seek the counsel of the
United States on the peace terms
which would follow the European
war.
Real Issue Defined.
The real issue in this war" Lord
Lothian contended, 'is whether
there is going to be power behind
the kind of world in which France
and the British Commonwealth and
the democracies of Scandinavia be-
lieve, or far more relentless power
behind the world in which national
Socialism and Communism believe.
THAT is the real conflict-not the
conflict between rival imperialisms." :"
He told the gathering, too, that
I'VE understand your attitude of
non-intervention better perhaps
than you think, because for many
long years splendid isolation was our
own attitude to the constant wars
and struggles of Europe"
1t was 'inconceivable" to him, the
Ambassador said in his prepared
address, that "the United States
which has already done such i'm
measurable things for the freedom
Of mankind - should not have its
own contribution to make to the
solution of the greatest problem that
has ever presented itself to the
genius of man."
Peace Desires Told.
The British, he declared, are fight
ing for the preservation OF
values which the democracies de-
clared during the last war" and
feel that there can be no basis for
a lasting peace which does not give
to all the nations of Europe their
right to autonomous freedom and
until the Gestapo is cleared out from
among them.
II am sure there is no desire in
my country to impose another die
tated peace on a PROSTATE Germany,
or to take from her any lawful
rights. On the contrary, I think
there is clear conviction that only
through a peace negotiated with
government they can trust can Ger
many, and all other nations also,
obtain that legitimate place in Eu-
rope and the world which is the only
possible basis for a lasting peace"
Evening star., 1939-10-26
lithuonion Troops
Still Not in WiIno
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
KAUNAS, Lithuania, Oct. 49,
Lithuanian troops still had not en-
tered the historic Lithuanian capi-
tai of Wilno (Vilna) today, is days
after the pact with Soviet Russia
ceded it to Lithuania.
Entry of the army has been post
poned daily.
Meanwhile, Soviet military
mission made a tour of various
towns designed to receive Red Army
garrisons and sites for Soviet air
force fields.
Evening star., 1939-10-26
Polish Vote Upho|ds
Soviet Ties, Pravda Saws
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, Oct. 26.-Pravda, Com
munist party newspaper, today
termed the results of the plebiscite
In the Russian-occupied parts of
Poland an expression of their
solidarity with the Soviet govern
ment" and desire to "join the Soviet
union"
Ofi1cial results gave government
designated candidates in White
Russia and the Polish Ukraine more
than 80 per cent of the votes, al
though in II districts new elections
must be held because the candidates
did not receive majority.
There was only one set of cam
didates on the ballots and the only
way voters could express their op-
position was to cross out the names
Of the government nominees.
In explaining why about 10 per
Evening star., 1939-10-26

Is of its rs seats. Redistribution
had reduced the total number of
seats in the Assembly by four.
OF the three remaining seats, one
was won by an independent candi-
date and one by a Nationalist. The
voting in one constituency Charl-
vois-Saguenay-was deferred until
November 16.
The third party, Action Liberale
Rationale. led by Paul Gouin, never
was in the running. Mr.. Gouin
himself was defeated in the Mon
treal Mercier constituency.
Seven of Mr.. Duplessis' provincial
cabinet met defeat-William Trem-
blay, minister of labor; Henry
Anger, colonization; Bona Dussault,
agriculture; Joseph Bilodeau, mu-
nicipal affairs; Anatole Carignan,
roads; Onesime Gagnon, mines and
fisheries, and T. J. Coonan, minister
without portfolio.
Evening star., 1939-10-26
By DEWITT MACKENZIE.


Associated Press Foreign Affairs Writer.
The greatest danger to the Anglo
French allies thus far developed
lies In the Nazi assault on mer-
chant ships carrying war supplies
and foods.
The extent of this menace has
been emphasized by the increase in
the number of sinkings of allied
tonnage Chiefly British) in the past
few days and the continued use of
the drag net to catch neutrals al
legedly carrying contraband, as, for
instance. capture of the American
steamer City of Flint.
In this connection, only this
morning a German official spokes-
man intimated that the full cost
to British shipping hasn't yet been
told.
To get the entire picture one
mustn't overlook the renewed threat
from Berlin of wholesale bombing
OF England. This presumably would
be calculated to include massed at
tacks on shipping tied up in ports
All this is. of course, the Nazi
answer to the allied blockade, which
also is aimed at squeezing Germany
into submission-a weapon which
was one of the major factors in the
defeat of the Germans in the World
War.
5,408 Ships Sunk in Last War.
The terrible capabilities of the
submarine were fully demonstrated
In the last upheaval. During that
conflict German U-boats sank a
total Of 5,408 allied and neutral
ships 0l,1S9,000 gross tons) and in
the process lost 2O3 underwater