Evening Star Newspaper, August 28, 1931, Page 11

FOUR DEATHS SPLR " FOREST FIRE FIGT Men. Perish as Woodland | Blaze Spreads in Idaho and Montana. By the Associsted Press. BOISE, Idaho, August 28.—The death “f four fire fighters in the Lewis and Clark National Forest caused volun- teers and National Guardsmen to re- double efforts today to check the flames which have swept thousands of mcres in the Northwest. The toll of lives this seafon moun! to 12 with the trapping of four of’a of fiye men by a circle of fire in Montana e. Th .t;u of y was | ject of the disabled American Veterans. | taken todsy to Choteau, Mont., 35 miles away, where definite identification is expected. ‘While wearied: workers - earried the across seven miles of rugged country to a road others threw up camps in front of flames advancing toward the Clark Fork Rive ‘This fire had swept into Montana from Idaho. Another dangerous sector was At Lost Creek, where the fire had burned to within six miles of the town of ‘Whitefish, Although California forestry officials reported conditions throughout that State as slightly better, thousands of ncres still smoldered and flared. Fore- casters said the weather would continue hot and dry, which will increase the fire menace. Fire fighters in Central Idaho were concentrating against flames which had advanced to within 10 miles of the town of Lowman. National Guardsmen were rushed to the scene yesterday. Plans were made to trench and clear away timber six miles ahead of the fire. Military officers patrolled the 25-mile | front, searching for men they believe have set new fires. John Posche, & transient, was arrest- ed on suspicion of having set a fire behind the main wall, and a dozen “undesirables” were ordered out of the I NAVY ORDERS I Tdeut. Eldred J. Richards, detached U. 8. S. Blakeley, to duty at the Naval unit Depot, Hawthorne, Nev. Lieut. Edward C. Wurster, relieved from all active duty about September 23, to home. Lieut. (Junior Grade) Andrew B.| Buttrey, relieved from all active duty, to home. Lieut. (Junior Grade) Jacob C. Schwab, to treatment, U. 8. Naval ital, Mare Island, Calif. Donald V. Daniels, orders May 20 lified; to further treatment, U. 8. ‘Naval Hospital, San Diego, Calif. Medical Corps. Lieut. (Junior Grade) Harold I Brown, detached U. S. 8. Henderson, to duty on U. 8. 8. Idaho. Lieut. (Junior Grade) Edward 8. Lowe, detached U. S. S. Idaho about July 26, to Lieut. U. 8. 8. Henderson. Comdr. Edward A. Hylan, de- tached U. S. 8. Dobbin, to Naval Train- ing Station, Hampton Roads, Va. Supply Corps. Lieut. Jacques H. E. Everett, detached duty, Naval Supply Depot, Brooklyn, about September 1, to treatment, U. 8. Naval Hospital, New York. Lieut. Palmer J. McCloskey, detached Naty Yard, Portsmouth, N. H., to_such as may be assigned, Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N. H. (Junior Grade) Norman A. (8. C.), detached U. 8. 8. Idaho about September 30, to Naval Supply Depot, Hampton Roads, Va. " Warrant Officers. Chief Boatswain Jerry C. Holmes, re- from all active duty about Oc- Gabagan, dmchedv :na Penn i': 5 . 8. 8. Pennsyl- vania, to U. 8. 8. Texas. Asiatie Dispatch Orders of August 24, 1931, (Junior. Grade) Williem E. Kaitner, detached U. 8. 8. Houston, to U. 8. 8. McCormick. Lieut. (Junior Grade) Alexander M Kowalzyk, detached U. 8. 8. McCor- mick, to U. 8. 8. Helena. Lieut. (Junior Grade) Paul F. John- son, detached U. 8. 8. Pope, to U. 8. 8. Palos. Ensign Samuel B. Prankel, to duty U. 8. 8. Houston. Capt. Jobn N. Jordan (S. C). or- odified, Lieut. ders m: to Navy Yard, Ports- mouth, N. H. — Slayer Electrocuted OSSINING, N. August 28 (). — m‘u::m 7. ‘was " eioctroruied last night for the fatal ©of s fellow prisone: stabbing r, Joseph R. Klune, with whom he quarrelied over the proceeds of s bank embezzle- their imprison: t. i et o Teltable: st remeds Get & || in your me at the e, STOPIT ne THE EVENING {HEAD OF DISABLED VETERANS LISTS JOBS AS PRIMARY NEED Proposal of Pauperism, or Need, Clause in Law Governing Compensation Is Scored by Comdr. Babcock. The coming session of Congress will be pressed by veterans’ organi- a2ations for mew legislation, or a re- vision of present legisiation, for the relief of veterans, especially those of the World War. In the article fol- lowing the national commander of ome of these organizations outlines what it wants of Congress. National ~Com T, Disabled American Veterans of the World War. Obtaining placement for partly dis- abled qualified World War men in gain- ful oocupations is the present prime ob- Since the armistice there has been split authority, so far as Federal in stitutions have been concerned, between the United States Department of Labor and the United States Veterans' admin- istration. To meet this situation, the D. A. V. the first week in July, in an- ticipation of the continuance of the economic depression during the coming Winter, worked out a plan of co-ordi- nation of all Federal, State, county, city and civil employment encies, which was approved by both the De. partment of Jabor and the Veterans' Administration. Under this plan the Veterans' Ad- ministration sent to every compensable man in America—about 300,000—a estionnaire on his employment status. were made returnable to the De- |partment of Labor and lists are being forwarded from there directors of employment. Rehabilitation Sought. ‘The Federal employment directors in the varfous States have been requested to mobilize all employment agencies in order to give preference to this program to the State of placing the unemployed disabled men | | in ‘jobs which they can efficiently fll without further adding to their physical handicaps resulting from the war, Tens of thousands of replies have al. ready been recelved and the work Is well under way. In addition to the employed who needed no assistance, and the unem- needing immediate placement assistance, there developed & third class —the unemployables—men whose con- dition is such that they are not able 10, | work. “Each one in the third class is | being referred to the Veterans' Admin- istration for review, looking toward an | equitable adjustment of compensation. | "It is the view of the D. A. V. that | there are three definite factors in any | reasonable rehabilitation program. The | first is the medical treatment to restore | |the veteran to health. The second is | r compensation to pay for loss employability. The third and vitally important factor is proper placement in employment. Al for Widows Needed. | The Government is doing its best to Ibring about the physical and mental | recovery of the veterans, and Congress | has been generous in its co-operation | for financial benefits, but we have felt | that the proper degree of importance has not been placed in the third factor, | and it is upon this that we are now con- centrating, on the ground that these dis- bled men are just as anxious to be- come producing members of soclety as they were determined, w%m the uni- form, to win the war. D. A V. employment m is besed on the proposition t the Federal Govern- ment should assume the responsibility | for_proper piacement. | Proper medical treatment is impera- ‘uve before employment may be con- | Crape Myrtle, $1.00 | | 1-Ft. Blue Spruce, $1.00 || MARYLAND NURSERY ! Edmonston (East Hyatisvitle) =OPEN UNTIL 9:30 P.M. SATURDAY Just A 100°: PURFE PENNSYLVANIA thirty-five cents a quart for o Sears way of selling | direct from the refinery | cuts the usual price i High-Starting Capacity BATTERIES Guaranteed by Sears for 18 Months Other Sizes Proportionately Low Priced Low Prices on Seat Covers There have been bargains in slip covers elsewhere, but nothing | to approach the value that we are offering in these UNIVERSAL It will pay you to come early as the quantities 3 Sizes Fit all Cars SLIP COVERS. are limited. Anothex; 4 Carload = MOTOR — 6-Volt 13-Plate Two-Piece Woven Rice Straw Seat Covers rrived! STAR, WASHINGTON and we feel that we should influence to obtain proper Aside from the pitiful pleas for jobs, one of the most calls upon the D. A. V. comes from widows and orphans of veterans. We propose to urge Congress to provide reasonable pensions for widows and orphans. After deliberate consideration, our re- cent national convention at Wilkes-Barre, Pa., went on record as favoring the pa; ment in full of the remainder of the ad- Justed seryice certificates. In the midst of the depression last Winter the D. A. V. pleaded with Congress for cash on these certificates and we were abl to increage the loan values to cent, although Congress placed loans an interest charge of 41 per cent, while much of the money was borrowed lby the Government at 2 per cent and less. We feel that this interest should be materially reduced, and in these days, when there is active agitation for a so- called “dole” or financial allowance for the unemplged. we certainly feel that the veteran has a greater right to have advanced the time of maturity of these certificates, which has already held for | more than 5 years, for, after all, it would merely mean an early payment on & confessed obligation. | Our survey of the country on the dis- | position of the money obtained by loans through the increased loan law has con- | $5385 g, ...$1.96 ...$1.96 69c D. vinced us that, in spite of the unsup- ported allegations as to how this money was wasted, the overwhelming majority . of these dollars went to legitimate uses, such as m , buying fur- In the conservaf of the rights of the disabled, the D. A. V.—the only of disabled ever ized by mind- cal this movement would abled man from obtal tion for his war wounds, if he could not prove himself to be a pauper. Such a pian is not only t hly un-American, but calculated to encour- le |age rather than discourage virtual perism among our veterans. It is pau; to the whole spirit entirely et:mhdim.or‘y1 f the present act, which rewards, rather than punishes, individuals successful in overcoming the handicaps of the war. It is ne to say that the D. A. V. will exhaust it full strength to prevent placing wounded men on a charity basis. In summary, this year the most im- portant problem before the D. A. V. is finding & solution for the 65,000 un- egl‘rloyzd employable men with dis- abilities resulting from their service dur- ing the World War. We will insist that a solution be found which will permit Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) them to live respectable lives without submitting their wounds to the indignity of charitable help. (Coprright, 1981 by the North American jswspaper Allisnce. Ine.) | | (¢, FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 1931 l ACCUSED OF PERJURY F e | Virginian Surrenders on Charge of | U. S. AID PLEDGED IN DROUGHT LOANS . { \ Falsifying Bride's Age. | of perjuring himself in ob- | Accused Hyde Says Western Farmers to Get {aining a Yoense to marry wl}y‘m-om‘[ 1. . o' - jpencer o esex Help in Purchasing Feed caun:y, f\;;m vz.ood‘;;-wmvtvltuon Abbott, | 2 21, also the rg! county, was for Live Stock. held for the grand jury by Judge Rol ert E. Mattington in Police Court yes- terday. Due to the fact the young man vol- Bacref | untarily came to the city and gave him tary of Agriculture Hyde said | 0%0 Y SoCr 1oorning he was wanted, By the Associated Press. yesterday that drought loans for the pur- | Assistant United States Attorney Wil- chase of lvestock feed would be mlde'bekr: ey TR S | tal man’s personal recognizance In eight western States next Fall and | 3%, bear in the higher court Winter. |~ Police accuse Abbott of representing States in which they will be available | Miss Spencer's age as 18 when he ob- are Montans, Wyoming, North- and |tained the license, July 8. South Dakota, Utah, Idaho, Washington | z b and Nebraska. The loans wit be 1im-| KILL UNRULY ELEPHANT ited to $1,000 and will mature Octobe: | 1, 1932, » No funds will be given farmers this | peiiacrnt dive o’ cve ) oI aerS Fall to fight a grasshopper infestation | “Tme four-and-one-half ton, 30-year- in several of those States, Hyde sald.| oiq elephant, largest of any owned by He added, however, he would recom- | three circuses with Winter headquarters mend to Congress an appropriation for | here, was shot to death because he Federal co-operation in a control cam- | could no longer be handled with safety. paign next Spring in the more seriously | Snyder started on the warpath after infested areas. | being brought back to his Winter quar- The Secretary also said it would be | ters, following & road trip. He threat- impossible to finance sowing of Fall| ened to break loose from heavy chains crops, but the department would sup-|and none of his guards had ventured port legislation suthorizing loans for | within striking distance of him for the Spring planting. last month. Back to Pre-War Prices $ 1 .50 Baltt:;rtorc and Return T-day Bmit Saturdays and Sundays Good rlllrll:,:nlllll Sunday W, B. & A. 12th st. and New York ave. n. [ m older than you think I am . . . “BUT I remember some of the things Qx,it.lq-n&m-nmh that I heard when I was younger. “I was told to watch out for one of those so- called friends who is so mighty glad to see you today—almost going to hug you; and the next time you see her, is holding her head high up in the air and won’t even speak to you. ““I was thinking about this while I was enjoy- ing a CHESTERFIELD cigarette. You know, I have been smoking CHESTERFIELDS quite a long time, and they are not like some of our friends—one thing today and another thing tomorrow. They are a/ways the same—always mild—always so pleasing in taste. They just satisfy all the time. “By the way, that reminds me of something, 1 was playing bridge recently with a girl friend of mine and two men, and after we finished the game they began lambasting a whole lot of things and folks. Some of the talk was right funny, you couldn’t help laughing; but, really, they pulled down a whole lot of things, and didn’t build up anything. “And that reminded me of a salesman who called to see me the other day to tell me some- thing about CHESTERFIELD. The thing that pleased me more than anything else was that he didn’t lambast-and cuss out any-other cigarette; but, of course, he thought that CHESTER- FIELD was the best ... And I rather agree with him. They do satisfy.” GOOD... they’ve got to be good!