Evening Star Newspaper, June 20, 1928, Page 7

THE FEVENING STAR. 2 {HINGTON, D.. €., 7 TVAS \\' EDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1928 CROUP WILL SEEK JOBS FOR DISABLED President’s Committee Opens Prohe to Find More Places in U. S. Service. President Coolidge’s special advisory committee, headed by Representative Hamilton Fish, Republican, of New York, today launched an extergive in- quiry into the problem of finding more jobs for disabled veterans in the Gov- ernment service. Mr. Fish scored the “red tape” which arged stood be- tween such veterans and Government positions. Acting under authority of an execu- | tive order of the President, the commit- tee met at the Veterans' Bureau today outlined & program of procedure, agreed to call upon the departments for much information bearing on the question and announced open hearings to start tomorrow morning. Will Gather Statistics. Other members of the committee, in addition to the chairman, at the initial meeting were Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines, director of the United States ans’ Bureau: Willlam G. Deming ident of the Civil Service Commis- and John Thomas Taylor. legis! ive representative of the American 1t(mn The committee agreed to ask all Gov- ernment departments and establish- ments to report to it statistics which may give somie bearing on the oppor- tunities for disabled veterans Departments will be asked to furnish information to the comm rumber of married couples where both man and wife are working for the Gov- ernment and drawing salaries, and the number of former Army men who are drawing retirement pay in addition to their regular Government salary. There was some discussion also. Chairman Fish announced after the meeting, as to the possibility of giving lgdlflonll preference to the badly dis- able Three persons have been invited to| festify at the hearings tomorrow: Lieut Col. U. S. Grant, 3d. director of the office of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital: Paul J. McGhan, national committeeman of the American Legion, and Harlan Wood, ®sttorney. of this city. For the next day, Mr. Fish said the eommittee will invite Gen. Pershing. William Green, president of the Ameri- can Pederation of Labor, and a_repre- sentative of the Post Office Depart- ment, PLANES FROM ANACOSTIA { TO AID IN CELEBRATIONS — 8ix Listed for Ex-rtisu in Dedi- eation of Airports at Lowell and Shamokin. Four Marine Corps and two Na planes from Quantico and the Na pate in exercises at Shamokin, Pa., Sat- urday in connection with the cpening of a new airport there, which has been named “Richardson Field” in honor of | Shamokin's distinguished naval aviator, | Capt. Hoiden C. Richardson, transatiantic pilot and of the de- NC-3. sign and material section of the Bureau | of Aeronautics, Navy Department. Capt. Richardson likewise is one of the old pilots in naval aviation from the stand- point of continuous fiving service. The six planes left the Naval Air Sta- tlon- here shortly after noon today for Lowell, Mass., where they will take part n an air meet scheduled in connection | with the dedication tomorrow of Lo ell's new airport. They will leave Priday | afterncon for Shamokin and return to Washington and Quantico Saturday. * | The pilots are Lieut. Lawson H.| Banderson and Master Technical Sergt. | Benjamin F. Beicher of Brown Field, | Quantico: Capt. Ford O. (Tex) Rogers. | aide to the chief of Marine Corps Avia- | tion: Capt. Harold C. Major, U. S. M. C., of the Bureau of Aeronautics, and | Lieuts. R. L. Johnson and V. P. Grant, | both of the Navy and attached to lhc‘ bureau. Pighters, observation and am- | phibian planes will be represented lni the milit; contingent leaving here. /$100,000 TRIAL DATE SET Historian’s Suit in Bnok Contro- versy Scheduled for October 16. CHICAGO, June 20 (#).—Judge James H. Wilkerson of Federal District Court | today set October 16 as the date for hearing & $100,000 damage suit brought against John J. Gorman, former Repre- sentative, by Dawd Saville Muzzey, his- torian. Muzzey charged Gorman misrepre- | sented him and his histories in testify- g during the trial of William Me- Andrew, former superintendent of | schools. McAndrew's patriotism was attacked and Gorman was employed by Mayor Willlsm Hale ‘Thompson to in- vestigate school histories. He subse- quently declared that McAndrew intro- duced Muzzey's histories. which, he said belittled Revolutionary War patriots and ! excused the actions of the British King ! willlam Russell, who as FOUR FOREIGNERS GET YALE DEGREES Claudel, Rnssell. Kam»erl and Yen Honored at University Finals. | By the Associated Press. NEW HAVEN, Conn., June 20.—Yale University today conferred honorary de- arees upon four forcigners well known in the United States. 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Other honorary degrees conferred in- cluded: Master of science--Evarts Ambrose St. Louis, Mo., professor surgery at Washington University, co- editor of Archives of Surgery. Doctor of laws—James G. Harbord New York City, major general. U. S A, retired, and president of the Radio Cor- | poration of Amnnn EX- LAWMAKER IS DEAD AT HOME IN NEBRASKA M. 0. McLaughlin, Believed Victim Candidate for House Seat. of Heart Attack. Word wa: ceived h today of the | death of former Representative M. O. McLaughlin of the fourth Nebraska dis- trict Monday night at his home at York, Nebr. Mr. McLaughlin. who was a candidate for election again on the Republican_ticket. had been romping | with his children during the evening He complained of feeling ill, laid down on & divan and died within a few min- utes, apparently of heart disease. 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