Evening Star Newspaper, February 12, 1928, Page 46

D. C. Naval Reserve The U. S. Destroyer Allen, training snip of the United States Naval Re- serve Battalion of the District of Co- Jumbla, received her final inspection here last weck by the Naval Board of Inspection and Survey, headed by Rear Admiral L. A. Bostwick. The vessel is scheduled to leave her berth Tuesday at the Washington Navy Yard, where she will be placed out of commission, preparatory to putting in commission at Philadelphia the Destroyer A. P Upshur, which will be used by the local contingent for its annual training cruises with the fleet. It is expected & v vessel will return to her b e e Jatter. part of March Comdr. M. L. Hersey will command the Allen northbound and the Upshur homeward bound. a ed only by his executive officer, Licut. M. C. Hutch- inson. he local Reserve battalion, com- m:‘\l;xrlvd by Licut. Comdr. Finney Bas- com Smith, and composed u(»n head- quarters dcmrhm;llll m&(:h(hl"‘ jons. will go to Alexandria, Slon 25 for participation in the George Washington birthday ceremonies. They will go aboard the naval ferry Gram- pus from the ‘Washington Navy Yard, and there also will be aboard a b:!t- talion of Regular seamen, who also will participate in the parade. Officers and men of the local battalion must be at the armory in uniform and rt‘as.lg' for formation by 1 o'clock February 22. Owing to the fact that the examina- tion board of the local Reserve has not to make much h-adwa exeminations of _enli ndod for promotion under | m of having each man | appear mination, it has | been decided tha of thos2 now on | the 40 in number, will be examined | at a written test to be held February 20. | The results will b2 known and the pro- motions announced before the annual cruises. The aviation division of the local Re- serve is to have quarters for its train- ing assigned to it at the Naval Air Sta- tion at Anacostia. The commanding officer of that air station now is making reparations for the reception of the rom naval aviators, and as a result it is expected that with close contact with the Regular units during its dril periods it will show a rapid advance- ment. Planes will be 2 ed for the traming of the Reservists. several of whom now are assigned to make the daily flights for obtaining aerological data. The following members of the vol- unieer Reserve have been ordered dis- charged by reason of expiration of en- tment: Julius Stamm, seaman, second Lieut. Comdr. Alfred S. Wolfe, former commander of the destroyer Allen, and instructor of the local Reserves, has been ordered to the battleship Tennessee as first lieutenant, and now is motoring to his new assignment. When relieved of the command of the Allen, he was sent to the Naval Hospital here for .treatment, but has recovered. Joseph A. Fitzhugh, fireman, sccond | | class. attached to the 1st Fleet Division. | has been placed on permanent active | duty as shipkeeper aboard the de- | stroyer Allen. The following enlisted in the bat- talion during the week. and were as signed to the divisions noted after their | names: Francis B. Kelly, 2126 R street, seaman, second class, 3d Fleet Division; Junius T. Jarman, 2126 R street, sca- man second class, 3d Fleet Division; The Daily Cros (Conyrient Across. 1. Drink slowly. 4. Chart. 6. Employ. 9. Got up. 11. Brother of Moses. class: Earle Wright, mess attendant. third class: Francis R. Phillips, seaman, | second class, and Vernon Dorman, | chief storekeeper. the latter a membrs of the fleet Reserve attached to the | second division. Licut. George C. Miller, Aviation Volunteer Rescrve, residing at Ward- man Park Annex, has been ordered to | 13. Italian river. 14. Relates. 16. Printed notice. 17. Negative. 19. Part of the foot. 20. Form of address (ab.). 21. Persian ruler. 23. Cut. 26. Exists. 21. Tooth of a wheel. THE SUNDAY Earl G. Yates, fireman, third class, 467 Maryland avenue southwest; 1st Fleet Division. : The local battalion headquarters has received the records of Francisco - rigrez, officer's steward, first class, & 16-year-service man, from the recelv- ing station here: Ernest A. Willlams, jr. radioman, second class, from the recelving station at San Francisco, and Joseph John_Pacific, gunner’s mate, first class, & 20-year-service man from the receiving station here. The following transfers were made: Charles Morgan, chief machinist’s mate, now living_at Phoebus, Va., to the 5th Naval District. and George H. Teabo, chief boatswain's mate, now living at Rockville, Con: to the 3d Naval District The District of Columbia Chapter, Marine Corps Reserve Officers’ Asso- clation, will hold a meeting Tuesday night at the Army and Navy Club. Maj. Wilbur Thing. director of the Marine Corps Correspondence Schools at Quantico, Va, will address the members. s-Word Puzzle 19280 Juice of a tree. Sarcasm. Italian river. Encounters. ‘Whitens. Chaldean cify. Flics aloft. Finish. . Street (ab.). Like. Behold . Constellation. . Kind of a tree. 1. 2. 3. 4 5. 6. % 8. 0, A great republic (ab.) STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, FEBRUARY 12, 19%8—PART 2. Spanish War Veterans Department Comdr. Albert Michaud, in general orders issued yesterday, an- nounces that the usual memorial serv- ices in honor of the men who lost their lives with the sinking of the battleship Maine in the harbor. of Havana Feb- ruary 15, 1898, will be held at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday in the riding hall at Fort Myer, Va. This will be the thirtieth anniversary of that memorable cvent. A short service will be held by the women connected with the organization at the Maine mast just prior to the services in the riding hall. WRC will broadeast the exercises. ‘The orders also announce the District of Columbia Federation for Patriotic Cbservances, of which the Spanish War Veterans are a part, will celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of George Washington February 22 in the New National Theater. Senator Simeon D. Fess will deliver the principal address and the music will be furnished by the United States Marine Band. The press will announce thé time and program of the services later. The camps of the department are re- quested to observe annual muster day at the meeting falling on or at the nearest to April 21. The announcement is also made the District department will give a banquet in honor of Commander-in-Chief Joha J. Garrity. The good and welfare com- mittee has authority to proceed with arrangements and notice of time and place will be announced through the camps. Comdr. Michaud and staff will make official visitations to the various camps as follows: February 20, Col. John Jacob Astor Camp; March 1, Richard J. Harden Camp: March 5, Gen. W Lawton Camp: March 13, Col. James S Pettit Camp; March 23. Gen. Nelson A Miles Camp: April 13. Admiral George Dewey Naval Camp: April 18, Gen. M. Emmet Urell Camp. ‘The council of administration m:t February 3 at 921 Pennsylvania avenue southeast, with Department Comdr. Michaud presiding. Department Adjt. William I. Jenkins announced he had a number of replies to letters from department heads and inr'spendent establishments requesting that veterans of all wars be excused to attend the Maine memorial services at Fort Myer, Va., February 15. The partment of Commerce, Interstate Com- merce Commission and Veterans' Bureau stated veteran$ would be excused, but all others replied the matter would be brought to the attention of the veteraas and such leave taken would be charged to annual leave. The Treasury Depart- ment has issued an order excusing the veterans of all wars for the services without loss of pay or leave, providing a certificate of attendance is secured by Answer to Yesterday's Puzzle. each veteran. The order includes the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. A communication from Col. John Mc- Elroy of the G. A. R. was read, asking for the appointment of three members of the Spanish War Veterans to act with the Grand Army committee in the cele- bration of Lincoln's birthday. The commander appointed Past Department Camdr. Clarence A. Belknap, Past Comdr. James E. Smith of Col. James S. Pettit Camp and Scnior Vice Camp Comdr, Edward C. Barstow of the Pettit Camp. A letter was received from Adjt. Gen. 0. H. Oldroyd of the G. A. R. announc- ing a banquet in honor of Commander- in-Chief Elbridge L. Hawk, Grand Army of the Republic, February 15 at the Raleigh Hotel and inviting the atten- dance of the Spanish War Veterans. The council appropriated $10 for the Federation of Patriotic Observances in connection with the Washington's birth- day services. Senfor Vice Department Comdr. James G. Yaden read a resolution fa- voring a bill (H.R. 6857) introduced in Congress which provides for armory facilities and a meeting place for all veteran organizations in the District, which was adopted. Past Department Comdr. Gustave E. Rausch, who has been in San Fran- cisco for the past two years, spoke on the vetcran situation in California. George W. Kingsbury spoke on the pro- posed plan of chartering a boat to make the trip to the thirtieth national en- campment of the order at Havana, Cuba, next October. Samuel Hubacher, commander of the Col. James S. Pettit Camp, an- nounces he has completed the organiza- tion of the camp committees as follows: Sick and relief: Willlam T. Ryan chairman; Allen M. Russell, Joel J Yowell, Robert C. Thompson, Arthur C. Ward, Frank O. Cole, Samuel G. Mawson. Recruiting: Charles Frank R. Smith, chairman: Charles S. Barnes, James M. Dean, F. A. Keelan, Harry A. Pixton. Charles A. Strobel, Willlam A. E. Mc- Shea, Erwin W. Lake. Employment: William L. Peak. chair- man; Orville L. Ganbin, Madison L. Hill. Samuel G. Mawson, John A Burkholder, Samuel W. Hawkins. Entertainment: Lemuel D. Jones, chairman; Frederick A. Deck. Edward G. Halpin, Harry A. Pixton, Charles A. Strobel, Harry G. Myers, Willam B. Bauman. Comradeship: Charles A. Strobel chairman; John D. Norton, Marvin Wesley. Erwin W. Lake. . Auditing: Louis E. Felton, chairman: James M. Dean, Charles Frank Smith. Memorial: Samuel Hubacher, chair- man; Willlam T. Ryan, Charles A. Stro- bel, John D. Norton, Harry A. Pixton. Lemuel D. Jones, Frederick A. Deck, James E. Smith, Madison L. Hill. Wil- liam P. Irving. Ailen M. Russell, Samuel G. Mzwson, Edwin J. Robb, Samuel W. Hawkins, James M. Dean, Edward G Halpin. hs Publicity: Madison L. Hill, chairman; Samuel W. Hawkins. A dance will be given by the depart- donation: of $5 for its service to the pubilc. Willlam O. Ohm, chairman of the sick and rellef committee, reported Robert M. Cheshire and Ernest Christo- pher improving at their homes, Louls Lindner discharged from the hosplital, Willlam A. Thompson on the sick report and H. B. Tyler admitted to Walter Reed Hospital. . A motion by P. H. Skinner that the commander appoint a committee to in- vestigate the question of the desirability of all soldiers’ homes being placed un- der the jurisdiction of the United States Veterans' Bureau was ado”.e:a. Junjor Vice Department Comdr. Lorin C. Nelson and Comdr. George V. Mc- Alear of Gen, Nelson A. Miles Camp made addresses. Margaret Manion of Milwaukee, pres- ident general of Ladles' Auxiliary, made her official visit to the local auxiliaries February 4, and was tendered a recep- tion In Pythian Temyle, with Depart- ment, President Margaret Burns presid- ing. President Manion was accompanieé | by National Judge Advocate Minnie Len- hart of Philadelphia and Past President General Wilhelmina Borgmeier of Chi- cago Among the speakers and guests were Commander-in-Chief John J. Gar- rity, Past Commander-in-Chief Rice W. Means and Mrs. Means, @ M. Gen.| James J. Murphy. Deparimént Comdr. | Albert Michaud and Mrs. Michaud, Past | Secretary General Cora M. Campbell. | Past Chaplain-in-Chief Nora Alb-rs and Past Department Comdr. William L. Mattocks and Mrs. Mattocks. ‘The Lineal Society will hold a special meeting and social tomorrow night at the residence of Mrs. Charles Willlams, 1343 Clifton street. The meetings of the camps and auxil- larfes for the week are: Col. James 8. Pettit Camp, Tuesday night, 921 Penn- sylvania avenue southeast; Gen. M. Em- met Urell Camp, Wednesday night, BAR SEEKS A LABOR POLICY (Continued from_First Page) | tend In some manner these principles to industry as a whole. How thix is to be done, no one % willing to forecast. In the first piace, while the proposed national industrial council would be maintained by the Federal Government, how far could the Federal Government g0 in even attempting to lay dowr a labor policy for industry as a whole? It was possible to do this, to some extent, with the rallroads. But the railroads | are engaged in interstate commerce and | their employes are well organized. | What other great industries are so or- | ganized? There is the bullding industry and coal mining. The former is or-| ganized on the basis of craftsmansiip, the latter on an industrial basis. Stecl, oil, automobiles, lumber — employes in these Industries are, as a whole, ul’l-‘l organized. Other industries in which | emoloyes are organized would be dif-| ficult to reach under a Federal sm-’ ute. There might be more opportunity of reaching them under the Htate gov- ernments. The procedure as to lcgls: lation contemplated by the Americai Bar Association is rather hazy, so far as any exposition of the solution of this problem is concerned. | The railroad labor act has been re- garded as one of the most eonstructive, as well as carefully drawn, pieces of | labor legislation ever enacted. It did| not originate with the American Fed- | eration of Labor, as the federation dofl’ not include the railroad crafts and brotherhoods. But when hearings on the measure were in progress the Amer- ican Federation of Labor supported it as being representative of the type of legis- | lation that it was hoped, ultimately. | would be extended to other industries. P | Pythian Temple; Richard J. Harden Camp. Thursday night, Pythian Tem- ip'e: Gen. M. Emmet Urell Auxiliary, Wedncsday nizht, Pythian Temnle: Col John Ja~ob Astor Auxiliary. Thursd~y | night, 921 Pennsylvania avenue south- east, 2 Rice W. Means, past commander-in- | chief, U. 8. W. V., will speak at the | Metropolitan A. M. E. Church. M street | between Fifteenth and Sixteenth streets, | Sunday night, February 19, the occa- | sion being the annual Maine memorial services of the Department of the Po- tomac, United Spanish War Veterans. TOURIST TAX PAYS COST OF SEWERS IN FRANCE Correspondence of the Assoctated Press. PARIS.—Bullding sewers and paving | streets with lourist taxes collected to beautify resorts has aroused national | criticism of the “taxe de sejour” | charged on hotel bills in 160 towns of | France. | Enghien-les-Bains, a suburban town north of Paris, where the casino is closed, used its tourist taxes for a sewer. Other towns have diverted their | beautification funds into all sorts of normal funds so as to lighten local | taxation. | A national tourist association that | | labor act is voluntary agreement. | tween employer and employes. | effort is unsuccessful, there is the al- = The prineiple underlying the railroad | Fl;:;l there must be the effort to agree be-| - It this | tempt by the board of mediation to bring the two parties into agreement. And if this mediation fails, there is the | voluntary resort to arbitration. One of | the greatest obstacles to arbitration-— | the selection of the third arbiter—is | ovescome in the labor act by pulting his trial council would fulfill some of the duties of tne board of mediation for the ratlifoads, or whether separate boards of mediation would be created where needed—all such questions re- main unanswered until afier the hear- ings this week have determined the at- tituée of labor and emnloyer on the “labor policy” as outlined. * 5 x o In one respect, from the viewpoint of labor, the aim of the railroad labor act has been frustrated. ‘T'ie success of the act is based on what labor lead- ers term “fair and free reprosentation.” ‘Written into the act are the piovisions: “All disputes between a carrier and its employes shall be conside-es snd, it possible, decided with all edition. in conference between repre atives des- ignated and authorized so to confer. re- spectively, by the carriers and by the employes thereof interested in tne dis- oute. “Representatives, for the purpose of this act, shall be designated by the re- spective parties in such manncr as may e provided in their corporate organiza- jon or unincorporated association. or by ather means of collective action. ~ithout interference, influence or coercion ex- ercised by either party over the self- organization or designation of recice sentatives by the other.” itng up ‘company unions.” as apposed to the national unions er roth- erhoods, some of the railroads have sought to evade the labor act. Th2 Board of Mediation is flooded with com- plaints of this practice, and labor gen- erally is up in arms about t. The As- sociated Press last week reported the action of a Southern Federal judge who has held in comtempt of court the of- | ficials of a railroad who dealt with the representatives of the “company nmion * to the exclusion of the “fre= and fairly elected” representatives of the national | unions, their action being held in de- fiance of the raflroad labor a-t ‘This weak point in the raiiroad labor act will come in for discusstn at the hearings in New York. Labor will stick up for the principle of “fair and free representation” in any law giving en- forceability to voluntary arbitratien awardas. And this is only one of many controversial points which loom ahead. selection in the hands of the board of mediation. The board of arbitration's award is flled with the clerk of the| district court designated in the agree- | nt to arbitrate, and it thus attains the force of a decree of the court. After it becomes the decree of the court, the | award may be impeached only on one | or-more of three grounds—(1) that it does not conform to the law, as laid | | down in the railroad labor act, (2) that it does not confine itself to the stipula- | tions of the agreement to arbitrate, or | (3) that a member of the board of aroi- | tration is found guilty of fraud or cor- ruption, or fraud and corruption was | practiced which affected the award. If question arises as to the interprefation | of the award. the board which made it | must reconvene and make the 1aterpre- | tation. | ‘These are the principles. the lack of which has handicapped voluntary crbi- tration in other industries, and which. it is believed, would be extended by | the American Bar Association. [hey | ment and auxiliaries jointly March 24 at | put over the tourist tax idea now is gyercome the difficulty of selecting the the L'Aiglon, from 9 to 1 o'clock. Robert J. Service of the 49th Regi- ment, Towa Volunteer Infantry; Willlam | J. Stevens, 6th United States Cavalry, criticizing it. It mentions that 17.000.- | 000 francs are collected from tourists. | but that there is little to show for the money in the way of improvements | third arbiter. they give to an agree- | ment or arbitral award the force and enforceability of a court decree, and they strictly limit the grounds upon which ORAGE CO. FIRE PROOF BUILDING CRATING, PACKING, SHIPPING ONG DISTANCEMVERS WANTED-LOADS TO AND FROM PHII.ADE.HI!AT l:‘EWMK RICHMOND AND. :%m"rsmn CALL NORTH 3542 5543 DANDRUER Y e, ees 1 wad LUCKY T the Naval Air Station at Anacostia for |27 Toward the top. 15 days of training, Upon completion | 28, Proctional coln. of this duty he will proceed to report | 31 Looks coquettishly. board the airplane carrier Lexington, 33 J {“. A now ftting out. and to remain with 34 India ( hf . that vessol until she joins with the | 36. Wing of a house. carrier Saratoga, now on the West |37 Four (Roman). Coast, and remain with the latter 38 g;;':u:’c’sséempmm it b | 40 vessel on training duty until June 30. {5 girioeazainst authority. Ensign Gerardus D. Clark, 1483 44. Lariat Plorida avenue, has also been ordered | 46. Before. to Anacostia for 15 days of flying|47. Distress sign: 48, calculated to encourage tourists. |1t may be attacked. Their effect is to The richest cities, also, seem to get | head away from, instead of toward. lit- the most money, Nice heading the list. igation in the courts, and they have There wes an effort in Parliament | worked very well. Whether the Amer- recently to repeal the tax because many | jcan Bar Association wouid have th- thought it so annoyed foreign tourists |law set up machinery for each of th> as to make them prefer other countries | major industries concern:d, similar to where there were not so many unex- that provided in the railroad labor act: pected extras charged on the hotel bills. | whether the proposed and Harry P. Simonds, 1st Texas Vol- unteer Infantry, were mustered into membership of the Richard J. Harden | Camp. Members are invited to attend the “massing of colors” today at St. Thomas" Episcopal Church. Travelers' Ald Society was given a . Carry. Possesses. Stream. 30. Cash boxes. . Smells. . The cream. 5. Negative. . Anger. . Goddess of earth. . Myself. . Father, . 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