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FOES OF PAY CUTS FORMING COALITION Formal Report on Economy Plan Going to House Late This Afternoon. (Continued From First Page.) as_possible throughout the entire bill When the bill is completed, this group will round up the greatest strength it can muster in an effort to defeat the entire bill as amended. Cochran to Offer Amendment. Representative Cochran as a member of the Special Economy Committee will offer the amendment for this group in substitution for both the McDuffie 11 per cent cut in Federal salaries and President Hoover's furlough plan, which is to be offered by Representative Ramseyer. This substitute, which many mem- bers of the House today expected to be accepted, is in brief to cut in half the President's compulsory furlough plan, reducing the President's proposal of one month without pay to two weeks without pay. This same group intends to support the amendment to increase the exemp- tion from $1,000, as provided in the McDuffie plan, to at least $2,000, as is urged by Chairman Byrns of the House Appropriations Committee. 4 The omnibus economy bill “will be all shot to pieces” before it gets through the battle which is to be waged against it in the House, according to the best Judgment of conservative members on both sides of the House. Says Majority Is on Trial. “The Democratic majority is on trial” sald a prominent Republican member of the Rules Committee, who expressed the opinion that the party leadership, when it finds the McDuffic program crumbling before a determined opposition from coalition forces, will turn to support the coalition proposals. It is predicted the proposal for con- solidation of the War and Navy De- partments will be promptly stricken from the bill when that section is Teached. It seems equally certain the salary exemption will be raised to $2,000, no matter which pay cut proposal is ac- cepted. The leadership of Representative Mead in the coalition group indicates none of the provisions of the bill which seriously affect any employes of the postal service will be approved. 5 Recall Sales Tax Fight. The coalition movement against the pay cut echoed the bitter sales tax fight in which the House revolt swamped the leadership. In that case no restrictirg rule was offered, so the revenue bill was open to all amendments and the mem- bership ran away with it. To avoid a repetition, Democratic and Republican leaders united behind a rule which would permit consideration of but four amendments under each of 10 titles in the economy bill—each cov- ers numberless items—and allow but 10 minutes’ debate on each proffered change. As members of the Sponsoring Committee have precedence in offering amendments on a bill, it would be sim- ple to let friends of the measure use up the permitted quotas on harmless topics and then compel a “yes” or “no” vote on the whole bill. So those in both parties who object to the 11 per cent salary slash pro- posed by Chairman McDuffie and to President Hoover's alternative for fur- Joughs without pay, sought rejection of the rule by the House. Opponents of reductions in veteran allowances and other items also engaged in the effort. ‘The measure will come up in the House tomorrow as an amendment to the legisiative appropriation bill. Un- less it goes through that way, McDuffie said he feared it might never receive consideration in the Senate, and the effort to bridge the difference between expenditures and the yield of the new billion dollar revenue bill,’ would fail Oppenents Mobilizing. Factional leaders plan to unite their | divergent forces for a big push against the proposal. Representative La Guar- dia of New York, Republican independ- ent, served notice in the House that both Republican and Democratic oppo- nents would join in “voting it down.” Representative = Blanton, Democrat, ‘Texas, and the influential Tammany delegation from New York exvect to Joint in the battle against the bill’s 11 per cent Federal wage cut proposition and the Hoover furlough without pay proposal to be offered as a substitute. ‘The fight for the virtually ircn-clad procedure will be led by Chairman Pou of the powerful Rules Committee. The North Carolinian, dean of the Demo- crats and party war horse of more than 33 years In the House, conceded the projected rule was the most “compli- cated and dangdest” he ever sponsored The Economy Committee displayed a wide division of opinion before the Rules | Committee on how best to submit the | bill for Hcuse consideration. At the urgent plea of Chairman McDuffie for some limitation and the demand of Rep- Tesentative Wood, Republican, Indiana, for an “iron-clad rule,” the strict pro. cedure was finally approved. The Alabama Democrat said that ‘without limitation the legislation might be imperiled in the House and asserted that “there are many ccntroversial items in the bill that contains both sugges- | | i THE EVENING Coast Guard Boat Blast Injures Seven STAR, WASHINGTO IGNITION OF GAS FUMES BELIEVED CAUSE. 3 Injured, five seriously. UINS of the Coast Guard patrol boat, which blew up at a New London, Conn., wharf yesterday. R An explosion in the engine room, belleved to have been caused by the ignition of accumu- lated gas fumes, demolished the center of the boat. The crew had just finished taking on a supply of gasoline. —A. P. Photo. Seven men were Duffie salary-cut proposal to raise_the exemption from $1,000 to $2.000. This would reduce the savings from $67,000,~ 000 to about $18,000,000 off of an an- nual Federal pay roll of $1,350,000,000, McDuffie said. | La Guardia Charges “Gag Rule.” La Guardia charged in the House | | that the rule propused for considering | the economy bill was “a gag rule. | “This economy plan seeks to make | employes of the Federal Government pay the cost of the foreign debt mora- torium,” La Guardia said. “The :}gmg:; the foreign governments Wwoul conespon«gir; almost exactly with the amount they waut m] mkelouet of the salaries of the Federal employes. “It is part of an effort to inflate the currency, increase prices and deflate wages, to make the ]n"gr._k\ng people pay to restore great wealth. ‘Waving a copy of the bill, Representa- tive Schafer (Republican, Wisconsin) on the floor of the House referred to the provision to consolidate the Army and Navy. “Why the Expenditures Committee had extensive hearings on that pro- posal and even Admiral Byrns and Gen. McDuffie (of the Economy Committee) couldn't convince us the bill should be approved,” Schafer shouted. “It was voted down in the Expenditures Com- mittee about two to one.” Shortly before introducing the bill formally before the House yesterday several important additions were made by the committee. It inserted a pro-| vision to set up a Joint Congressional | Committee of three Senators and three | Representatives to study the entire| structure of veterans' relief laws with a view to revision in the December ses- sion of Congress. It also proposed to cut the salary of Brig. Gen. Frank T.| Hines, veterans' administrator, from | $12,000 to $10.000 annually. Green Attacks Action. Other changes included insertion of | a provision to transfer the radio di- vision of the Commerce Department to the Radio Commission and one to in- crease the number of Federal postal em- ployes by requiring substitutes to be hired among those who have not worked a full week. Veterans who were in,the zone of fire during the World War are to te- | ceive the full benefits of all relief acts | regardless of their incomes, under an- other provision inserted. Representative Douglas, Democrat, | Arizona. said the committee reached | the estimate of $217,000,000 in the bill by reducing that from the proposed | consolidation of the Army and Navy from $50,000,000 to $25,000,000. | The Rules Committee's action was termed in a statement issued last night by President Willlam Green of the | American Federation of Labor as rep- | Trecenting “a form of legislative trickery which will arouse the resentment of | labor and all its friends throughout the Naticn.” Protesting that handling of the “com- prehensive” bill will not permit proper consideration of its various parts, the labor head said “labor will resent such treatment if the special rule is adopted i and this bill, which affects the income, | the living standards, the happiness and welfare of millions of people, is forced through Congress in such a high- handed arbitrary way.” LEAGUE HEAD DEPLORES | | PAY LOSS OF WORKERS | | | Mrs. Margaret Hopkins Worrell Suggests Optional Retirement Plan for Retrenchment. ‘ The fact that Government workers who received only small salaries when |pay on the outside was high should | {now lose the $120 increase provided under the Welch and Brookhart bills, | 1by reason of the retrenchment move, | | was deplored today in a statement by | Many Changes Made By House Group in Economy Measure Changes in the omnibus egon- omy bill made in executive ses- sion of the McDuffie committee late yesterday were: All veterans “in the zone of fire” during the World War made eligible for allowances and free hospitalization. Joint committee of three Representatives and three Senators proposed to Te- view existing veterans' legisla- tion. Mileage allowance for Senators and Representatives cut 25 per cent. Philippine government relieved of $5,000,000 cost of the Philip- pine Scouts. after protest by res- ident commissioner to Rules Comurittee against saddling this expense on the local government. Abolishing Saturday half-holi- days for all Post Office employes except railway mail clerks, as had previously been done for all other Government workers. Transferring radio div'sion of Commerce Department to Fed- eral Radio Commission. Cutting salary of veterans' ad- ministrator, Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines, from $12,000 to $10,000, and salary of proposed admin trator of public works also re- duced to $10,000. Increasing the number of Fed- eral postal employes by requir- ing appointment of substitutes for all overtime work where the regular employe has already worked a full week. Army and Navy transportation costs, resulting from proposed abolition of transport system, restricted to 25 per cent of con- ference rate. SAILORS IDENTIFY MAN IN KIDNAPING Photographs of Kansas City Fugi- tive Recognized as Those of De- serter Held in South Africa. By the Arsociated Press. NEW YORK, April 26—James R Page of Kansas City, Jackson County prosecutor, today obtained affidavits from members of the crew of the freighter City of New York, who yes- terday identified photographs of Mar- tin Depew, wanted in Kansas City on a kidnaping charge, as likenesses of “John M. Long,” who deserted the ship | in South Africa March 27 The man, an engine wiper on the boat, was arrested last FPriday at Johannesburg, at the request of the attorney general of Missourl. Missouri authorities are convinced he 1s Marshall Deputy, also known as Marshall Denew. | who is wanted in connection with’ the | kidnaping of Mrs. Nell Donnelly, wealthy garment manufacturer Page plans to go to Washington this afternoon to confer with Federal offi-| cials regarding the extradition of the man from South Africa. He said today he had received word from Kansas City that the trial of four persons un- | der arrest for the kidnaping had been | nostporned from next Monday until May 23. FRANCE BARS LEATHER American Q-;nn Exhausted Until June 30. PARIS, April 26 (#)—The American tions of President Hoover and of the' Mrs Margaret Hopkins Worrell, presi- | quota on worked and tanned cowhides committee.” McDuffie Wants Action. “We want action rather than dela; McDuffie contmmued. “Tae only way can get acticn by the Senate this ses- sion on the eccnomy bill is by attaching it to the legis'ative appropriation bill.” He addea if it did not go to the Benate as a rider on the supply bill, which carries funds for salaries of Con- gress members, consideration. “I wish to impress on the Rules Com- mmittee that every item in this economy bill is controversial,” Representative ‘Wood said. “While the country is de- manding economy in Government the mme people calling for reductions in taxation are opposing the items in the economy bill.” ‘The Indianan declared procedure that would force “an up or down vote” should be invoked, adding. “that is the only thing that will satisfy the people of the United States.” it might not receive | | dent of the League of the American | | Civil service. i |~ she favored optional retirement for |all employes in service more than 30 ©'years as a means of coping with the situation. “LILY WHITES’ CONVENE ‘ IN SOUTH CAROLINA| Charles H. Small Is Keynote| | Speaker at Republican Fac- ’ tional Convention. By tne Associated Press. COLUMBIA, S. C. April 26—The Hambright “lily white” Republicans of South Carolina, having defied ::Tieless Joe” Tolbert, for years Republican boss | of the State, gathered here today for | their State convention with Charles H. | | \ and calfskins is exhausted until June 30 and no more may be imported until then, the official journal announced to- day. Goods already on the way will be al- lowed to enter, however. The quota on industrial leather goods from countries other than Great Brit- ain, Germany and Luxembourg also is exhausted until June 30, as well as in- candescent lamps from countries other than Germany and Holland. The quota on German radios is ex- hausted until June 30. Discusses Foreign Exchange. Foreign exchange mechanism was dis- cussed by Norman E. Towson of the Washington Loan & Trust Co. in a talk | today before the students of money and banking of the Georgetown School of Foreign Service. McDuffie delayed until late yesterday | Small, special assistant to the United |3 metropolitan bank. introduction of the measure in order that several minor changes might be made. He expects to file a formal re- rt on it before midnight tenight. Meanwhile Speaker Garner told newspaper men he thought it unneces- sary to reply to the last letter received from Secretary Wilbur objecting to the 10 per cent Senate cut in the Interior Department’s $45,000,000 supply bill for | next year, which the House accepted ‘without question. Three Sections Face Fight. The Texas Democrat reiterated that it President Hcover had ordered cabinet officers last Fall to cut Government expenditures 17 per cent, $400,000,000 could have been saved in 1933 Important sections of the retrench- ment bill over which the big struggles are expected are McDuffie’s 11 ver cent ‘wage-cut, plan. exempting $1.000 to save $88,000,000; the corso'idotion of the War sna Navv Denertments. to cut ‘costs $50,000,000. and the scaling down of benefits to World War veterans, to met another $50.000.000. Chairman Pou explained that under the procedure contemplaled President Hoover's five-day work week and fur- Jough without pay plan for Federal em- ployes could be offered by a Republican member of the Economy Committee as a substitute for the McDuffie plan, Representative Ramseyer. Republican, Iowa, is expected .0 submit it. In addition, an agreement was reached by the Rules Committee that one could be offered to the Mc- | States Attorney General, as keynote | speaker. | | “Led by J. C. Hambright of Rock Hill, | | the faction, which gathers today has excluded colored persons from member- | ship, claims it has administration sanc- | ! tion and that its delegates will be the | ones seated at Chicago, when the na- tional convention gets under way. | ‘The other faction, headed by Joseph | | W. Tolbert, national ccmmitteeman, | | draws no racial distinctions and like- | |l1ae claims seating of its delegates is a certainty. | APPRENTICES WANTED Navy Yard Seeks Boys to Learn Mechanical Trades. Aporentices in the mechanical trades ‘are wanicd at the Washington Navy | Yard. This announcement was made itoday by the Civil Service Commission, which said examinations would be held | here for apprentice blacksmiths, boller- | makers, buffers and polishers, electro- platers, coppersmiths, electricians, join- | ers, machinists, wood model makers, | molders, optical glass plate and gauge makers and pattern makers. Age limits are from 16 to 22, but do | not apply to thase granted preference | for military service or former civilian employes of the Government. Full in- formation may be obtained from the Navy Yard or the Civil Service Com- mission. r Retrenchment Plan to Prevent Naming of New U. S. Appointees ‘The proposed Government re- trenchment measures virtually will ‘act as a flat prohibition against any new appointments to Federal posts under civil service after July 1. Thomas E. Camp- bell, president of the Civil Serv- ice Commission, said today. Where vacancies that must be filled arise, this will be accom- plisned by transfers within the service, wherever possible, in order to afford maximum protec- tion to personnel already em- ployed who face loss of jobs, rather than bringing in new workers. The effect of this will be that thousands of applicants for Civil Service places who took exami- nations during the past year and were placed on eligibility regis- ters will not be called upon. Among these are, roughly, 15,000 stenographers and typists who qualified in a recent exami- nation undertaken by some 58,500 men and women and about 4,000 draftsmen from a list of 12,000 who took a recent test. He explained the | operation of the foreign department of | J0BS SACRIFIGED TOUSELESS ROADS [ Interior Slash to Accompany | Preparation for Park ‘ Routes Not Needed | (Continued From First Page) included $2,000,000 for the roadway projects. Instead of accepting this rec- ommendation, only $500,000 was cut from the item by the House, and other appropriations essential to the safe conduct of the Government were elim- inated. For the amount to be paid for the roadway work, it is pointed out, the salaries of the 4.093 employes slated | for the job-cutting ax could be paid | and a sufficlent sum would be left over | to allow geologists to continue on with | their research in the prospective potash | fields of New Mexico. These fields, they | believe, will assure this country a latent | supply of potash for fertilizer that would be sufficient to carry this Nation through another emergency such as the ‘World War. = This “example of economy” has | caused, according to officials of the de- | partment, a ‘“general demoralization’ | among the personnel, as each ‘worker | feels the job ax hanging over his or her head. “This favored action,” as Mr. Wilbur expressed himself in his letter to Mr. Garner, “seemed to me to indicate a desire to fill up the local pork barrel | | rather than to facilitate good govern- n Officials have mapped out a prelimi- nary plan to be followed, effective July |1, in the general dismissal of employes. | The plan, of course, is dependent on tke omnibus bill amendments calling for furloughing employes and to allow | an interchange of appropriations within a department or agency up to 15 per cent. If these amendments fail, the | following plan for curtailing the per- sonnel in each bureau is likely to be carried out: | " The discharge of approximately 723 | permanent Civil Service employes—185 in Washington and 538 in the field. ‘The discharge of approximately 3,225 temporary employes and employes Work- ing for contractors during the cowing | field season. Of this number 1,600 are now employed. Many Here Would Go. Of this total 12 employes in the Secretary's office here will be dismissed. The General Land Office will dismiss | 12 in Washington and 56 permanent employes in the field. An additional 150 temporary employes in the field will also be put out of work. A total of 720 employes in the Indian | Bureau will lose out, 41 of whom are | located in Washington, 254 are perma- | nent field employes and 425 temporary fleld workers. In the Office of Education here 34 are slated for dismissal. 2 The Bureau of Reclamation will lose 1,839 permanent and temporary wr;rk-l ers, 4 of them being stationed here, and 45 other permanent workers in the field. The rest are temporary employes now working under contract in the field. Three hundred and ten permanent and temporary employes will be let out of the service in the Geological Survey, 82 being located in Washington and the rest in the field. ‘The National Park Service will lose 5 permanent employes and 700 tem- porary workers in the field. The Alaskan Railroad will have to do without the service of 10 permanent embloyes. Thirty-two permanent and 113 tem- porary employes in the Bureau of Reclamation will be placed on part- time basis. Department employes are almost | unanimous in asserting their bureaus have been used as political “foot balls” in an effort by individual members of Cengress “to make a showing back home.” The climax was reached, in their opinion, when, after the House ap- proved the Senate’s straight 10 per cent | cut of the supply bill without consulta- tion with officials, Speaker Garner, speaking to newspaper men off the floor, accused Secretary Wilbur of fail- ing to co-operate in the general scheme of economy, Fullest Co-operation Given. To this statement the Secretary re- plied that he had co-operated to the fullest extent, pointing to his letter to Chairman Smoot of the Senate Finance Committee, making specific fund re- duction recommendations amounting fo $5.043,143, and requestirfg a hearing if any substitutions in these items were to be made. Mr. Wilbur said the com-' mitee gave no consideration to this. | He reminded Mr. Garner that the| committee’s plan was unnecessarily damaging to the work of the depart- ment. “Nevertheless,” he added, “it Wwas promptly accepted by the Commit- tee on Appropriations and later by the Senate and the House. It emphasized Xl?csl desires instead of good administra- on. “It made $2,000,000 for park roads and trails more important than the welfare of hundreds of well trained men and women doing needed Government service. Certainly it seems reasonable to wait for the improvement of a few miles of open road rather than to turn men and women into the streets. “The abrogation of the House of its | established right to conference for the careful study and adjustment of de- partment needs seems indefensible to me. We favor well placed economy We proposed a plan for bringing econ- omy about. “Our objection is to methods which emphasized pork-barrel filling at the expense of orderly budget m&m and good and effective government. The precedures of budget making built up through years of difficulty should not be destroyed in the name of economy. It is a question of sane, orderly and' considerate budget making at those re- duced levels required by national emer- gency.” % | | D. C., TUESDAY, APRIL [BALANCING BUDGET BY SUASHNG FERL Cut $700,000,000 Already, Congress Members Answer Business Letter Writers. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Many corperations and business institutions have asked their stock- holders and members to write to Congress demanding that the budget £hould be blanced entirely by cuts in expenses and thus avoid any increased taxes. Members of Congress are busily engaged in answering such letters and telling why it cannot be done except by crippling some of the essential activities of the Goernment. The letter writters are asked specifically to point out whether they favor weaken- ing the Army and Navy and whether they want the Government to re- pudiate its commitments to war veterans. Usually the replies avoid a definite proposal of what specific economies will be approved. Circularization Is Begun. The circularization of stockholders has begun on a large scale by several of the large corporations. The argument made is that the budget of 1927 could now be used and that the budget for the year ending next July is more than a billion dollars higher, and that by going back to 1927 enough money might be saved to balance the budget without increased taxes. The fallacy in the case is, that the 1933 budget now under consideration reveals a cut of nearly $700.000,000 from the 1932 figures and yet there is a prospective deficit of $1,200,000,000 which has to be made up by increased borrowing of taxation. The difficulty about those who are writing letters to Congress is that they do not realize what a shrinkage of income the Federal Government has suffered due to business conditions. The deficit for the current fiscal year will Tun in excess of two and a half billions of dollars. This means the income was something slightly more than two billions. ‘The interest on the public debt costs $640,000.000 and the Army and Navy another $650,000,000. The ex- penses of the Veterans -Bureau alone is a billion. Thus these three items alone total more than $2.290,000,000. Even if nearly $200,000,000 was cut out of the veterans' expenses and an- other $100,000,000 out of the Army and Navy, the present rate of income from taxes and other sources would | not be enough to meet the veterans' expenses, Army and Navy and interest on public debt, to say nothing of the $500,000,000 item on sinking fund or the $500,000.000 needed to carry on the civil establishment of the Govern- ment or the $363,000,000 for public works and roads. Letters Are Welcomed. Members of *Congress say they do not object to getting letters advocat- ing economy, and they think it is a fine thing the citizenship is beccming | aroused, but they feel it is only fair that those who recommend economy should not indulge in generalities, but should specifically say what items they wish cut out. Thus if the Army and Navy or the veterans' expenses or any particular departments are to be cut, the pecple here would like to know exactly what services are to be dispensed with. A private business corporation can termi- nate commitments and even liquidate. But the Federal Government cannot do any such thing. It has to keep faith cn its contracts and the Congress- men who refuse to keep commitments they have made, find themselves replaced In the next elections by Congressmen who will, In otr-r words any drastic revision of the veierans’ expenses would cost many a gressman his position and would lead to the election of other Congressmen who would obey the mandate of the veterans. This is the plain truth as expressed by many a legislator. Even the revision proposed by the Veterans' Bureau itself which would save $80,000,000 is having hard sled- ding and may not pass in its entirety | The letters directed to Congress if sent to the groups back home would relieve the pressure here. Many letters from business groups are coming in demand- ing increased expenditure as for instance for postoffices and rivers and harbor work. The contention is made that it helps unemployment to have the PFederal Government spend money. The Congress would like to cut further, but before this can be done the consent of the groups back home will have to obtained or a public opinion stronger than the minority groups developed in the constituencies to support the Congressmen who are willing to wield the axe. RUSSIANS IN CONCERT Kedroff Quartet Gives Program at the National Friday. The Kedroff Quartet, ensemble of Russian singers, will be presented by the Community Institute cf Washington in a public congert at the National Theater at 4:45 pm. Priday. Nicholas N. Kedroff, director and bass of the group, was a former mem- ber of the Imperial Conservatory of Petrograd. C. N. Kedroff, brother of the director and baritone, is formerly of the School of Musical Technique. I K. Denissoff and T. F. Kasakoff, both of the old Imperial Opera of Petrograd, ccmplete the quartet. ‘The quartet was organized in May, 1897, and since that time its personnel has remained virtually unchanged. It will tour European capitals during the Summer. CLUBS ASK $600,000 FUND Federation of Women Support Sum | for Jobless Relief. The Senate Appropriations Commit- tee's Subcommittee on the District of C:lumbia was urged yesterday by the Federation of Women's Clubs of the District to restore to the District appro- priation bill the $600,000 supplemental estimate made by the Budget Bureau for local unemployment relief. At a meeting held in the Roosevelt Hotel the Tederation also indorsed the bill providing for an elective Board of Education and the bill to amend the District Code relating to descent and distribution of property. Slightly Used Kranich & Bach Grand $395 Terms to Suit Several good used pianos at $29, $65, $85 Terms as low as $1 per week Chas. M. Stieff Inc. 1340 G St. N. W. 26, 1932 EBLE FEARS CUTS | IN CUSTOMS FORCE Sees Aid for Rum Violators in Reducing Pay Roll by 1,100. A 10 per cent cut in funds for the Custcms Bureau not only would necessi- tate the dropping of ome-ninth of the personnel, but would also “give relief to bootleggers, rum runners, racketeers and every other class of law breakers,” Com- missioner F. X. A. Eble today informed Congress. Eble's views, contained in a letter to Chairman Oddie, Republican, Nevada, of the Appropriations Subcommittee charged with slashing one-tenth from the $1,059,000,000 Treasury Post Office supply bill, were put into the Senate record by Oddie. Favors Furlough Plan. The curtailed funds, Eble said, would bring the appropriation 15 per cenf | below those for the current fiscal year and wculd, “in my opinion, create a; very dangerous situation.” He said ap- proximately 1,100 employes would have to be dismissed out of 9,272. Eble voiced agreement with the fur- lough plan suggested by President Hoover, but said “many difficulties would be encountered even with this plan.” He added: “The prevention of the smuggling of liqucr, narcotics and other contraband has added tremendously to the work of the organization, with the consequent necessity of assigning almost one-fifth of the entire force to this work alone. Foresees Grave Danger. “Notwithstanding this fact, the pro- posed reduction will compel us to reduce our organization to the extent of 140 employes below 1911, * * * “If this general cut of 10 per cent is | made, it will most certainly give relief to bootleggers, rum runners, racketeers and every class of law breakers, and the doors will be open wide for all sorts of illicit traffic.” FREE TELLS CITIZENS 'OF IMMIGRATION WORK Urges Stricter Laws to Aid Nation of Undesirables in Talk to Georgetown Group. Strict immigration laws to prevent the influx of undesirable aliens and a | strong deportation law to eliminate all {who favor overthrow of the Gover ment are needed now in the United States, Representative Arthur M. Free of California told the Georgetown Citizens' Association, as guest speaker, | last night. Tracing the history of immigration legislation in this country since 1882, Representative Free showed that strin- gent restrictions have been placed on immigration only within the last quar- | ter of a century or less. Two or, three million foreigners are in the| United States unlawfully at present, he D:sllmnttd. rsey Hyde, jr., of the Washington Chamber of Commerce reported, as chairman of the association Library Committee, that strenuous efforts are being made to reinstate the $75,000 appropriation for a Georgetown branch library. The recommendation recently was stricken from the House appro- priation bill. The association also re- ceived regular reports of its other com- mittees, including a list of recom- | mendations from the legislative group. President B. Agee Bowles presided. ECONOMY MAY AFFECT POST OFFICE BUILDING Steel May Be Substituted Bronze Owing to Difference in Cost. Although bronze window frames have been specified by the architects for the new Post Office Department Building, at Twelfth street and Penn- sylvania avenue, to cost considerably more than steel or wood frames, it was iexplained today by Maj. Ferry K. Heath, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, that, because of the Federal economy program, some change may be made. Maj. Heath explained the architects, Denalo & Aldrich of New York, claim the bronze would cost $150,000 to $200,- 000 more than steel, but over a period of time would save that additional cost by not having to be painted. It is a policy of the Treasury not to specify bronze in specifications without an alternate, Maj. Heath said, so bids are being asked on steel frames. Maj. Heath -indicated in the final analysis bronze may be thrown out altogether, and steel used instead. “Y” LECTURE SCHEDULED ‘Will C. Barnes, World Traveler, to Speak Tomorrow. Will C. Barnes, world traveler, will lecture on the Orient tomorrow night, at 8:20 o'clock, in the lobby of the Central Y. M. C. A. Building, 1736 G street. This will be the sequel to a lecture which Mr. Barnes delivered here sev- eral weeks ago. The topic will be “From Peking to Ceylon.” Slides will| be used to illustrate the talk. The public is invited. There will be no + admission charge. POST IMPALES AUTO Left Front Wheel of Car Locks Around Pole. | An unusual accident occurred near the Tidal Basin in Potomac Park yes- terday when the left front wheel of an automobile locked around a lamp post, which impaled the windshield, without injuring any one. Mrs. Anna S. Sirola was driving ;around Hains Point when her machine skidded and struck the lamp post. ‘S-A-V.E $40 on this American Radiator Co. Hot-Water Heat Regular Price, $325 s 1285 Complete for 6-Room House To encourage Spring installations, we've reduced the price of this guaran- teed hot-water plant from $325 to $285. Complete for 6-room house — 17-in. boiler, 6 radiators, 300 ft. radiation. Fully Installed and Guaranteed Pay the bill in 3 years Take as long as 3 years to pay the bill. As little as 35¢ to 50c a day does the trick. Phone or write for representative | AMERICAN HEATING ENGINEERING CO. %07 N. Y. A'? NAT. 8421 for Capt. Directs Pageant LEWIS OFFICIAL OF EAST- ERN STAR GROUP. THEODORE C. LEWIS, Vice chairman of the Bicentennial Committee of the Order of the Eastern Star. which will sponsor a pageant, “Washington's Vision of a Triumphant Nation,” in the Washington Auditorium May 13. More than 600 people are re- hearsing weekly for the pageant, which will be an entertainment f re of Masonic week, opening here May 9. NEW YORK DETECTIVE TELLS OF KIDNAP CASE J. Members of Washington Police Department Here. The kidnaping of Charles Rosenthal in New York last Summer, for which four men were convicted after nearly all of the $50,000 ransom money had been recovered, was recounted by Capt. James J. Coy, famous New York de- tective, in an address before several hundred detectives and uniformed members of the Metropolitan Police Department, at the Interior Department auditorfum last night. Capt. Coy related in minute detail the successful investigation that led to the solution of what had appeared at the outset to be a hopeless puzzle. The talk was one of a series in which noted police officials and detectives will be brought here to talk before members of the local department. The lectures James are being arranged by Brig. Gen. Pel- | ham D. Glassford, superintendent of police. Coy Addresses | U S. SALARY CUTS HIT BY CITIZENS North Capitol Association Sees Film on “Life of Washington.” The North Capitol Citizens' Associa- tion went on record last night in formal resolution as opposed to any plan of Government salary cutting, at its regu- lar monthly meeting in McKinley High School, Second and T streets n:rylhsfl:t. The, members of this association iso approved a resolution to be presented by Its delegates to the Federation of Citlzens’ Associations calling for prefer- ential consideration to be given to Dis- trict contractors on all public works gg‘l'\:rlct.s wdbe"‘;nld for from District nues any t resident labor be’rltlll.redA i e association also, by rising vote, indorsed its past president, Henr; Gilli- gan, for reappointment to the Board of Education. Mrs. Elizabeth K. Peeples, director of community center activitiés, was in- vited to address the next meeting of the association on May 23 cutlining & plan for co-ordinating eommunity en- tertainments, band concerts, carnivals |and recreational activities in the North Capitol area during the coming Sum- mer to demonstrate what could be done in other communities throughout the District. The association went on record as greatly pleased with the con- duct of community center work under Mrs. Peeples’ direction and pledged her their earnest support. The official Bicentennial film, “The Life and Times of George Washington,” was shown. The film was projected by Harry E. Smith and Will P. Kennedy of The Star staff, Mrs. Ada Mills Payne, vice president | of the association and chairman of the Committee on Parks, reported improve- ments that have been made in the Truxton Circle, as a result of an appeal to Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, in charge of public buildings and public parks. ROBBER DISDAINS SILVER Refuses to Take $35 in Coins From Filling Station. . OKLAHOMA CITY, April 26 (P.— The robber who entered C. S. Ratliff's filling station at Putnam City last night was particular about the kind of money he wanted—so Ratliff saved $35. The robber refused the money be- cause it was in silver. ESTABLISHED 1906 Rinaldi Says: Buy COAL Now—Prices Advance May 1 Rinaldi’s Screened” gain Prices! Rina di “Silo-Stored and Re- Reading Anthracite is now offered at the LOWEST PRICES in YEARS. Order next Winter’s supply now at Real Bar- Phone North 1600 Coal Company Inc “SILO STORED and RE-SCREENED" 649 Rhode Island Ave. N.E. Today —we put a new punch into Bond Ten Payment at purchase (instead of *10) Our greatly lowered retail prices now call for equally lowered budget plan payments. And readjusted incomes demand it. Starting today, simply pay $5 at pur- chase (instead of $10) when you buy your Spring suit at Bond's. You continue to get the known savings of our regular CASH prices — $20, $25, $30 — two trousers included with every suit. I¥s smart and thrifty to buy Fine Clothes out of income at 1335 F N.W.