Evening Star Newspaper, April 29, 1933, Page 4

£ 24 NAVY COMMAND CHANGES ORDERED Vice Admiral W. H. Standley Will Succeed Pratt as Chief of Naval Operations. ©hanges in 24 of the Navy's highest pommands afloat and ashore were or- dered yesterday by Secretary of the Yavy Swanson, supplementing assign- ments announced earlier, which in- etuded designation of Vice Admiral Willam H. Standley to succeed Ad- ral William V. Pratt as chief of na- operations. Admiral Richard H. Leigh, com- mander in chief of the U. S. Fleet, Is eoming to Washington to serve on the | Qeneral Board of the Navy. He will| gevert to the rank of rear admiral Admiral Luke McNamee, commander f the battle force of the U. S. Fleet, eboard the U. S. 8. California, who well known here for his recent vy Department scervice, will become #he new president of the Naval War College in Newport, R. I He, too. Il resume the rank of rear admiral. | miral McNamee will succeed Rear | Admiral Harris Lenning, who is or-, dered to command the cruisers of the Seouting Force. Vice Admiral Frank H. Clark, com- mander of the Scouting Force. will eame to Washington as a member of the General Board. reverting to his permanent rank of rear admiral. ‘Wil Head Base Force. Rear Admiral Thomas J. Senn, c mandant of the 11th Naval District Maval Operating Base, San Diego, Calif..! will become commander of the base | force, U. S. Fleet, succeeding Rear Ad- miral H. H. Hough, who is ordered to duty as commandant of the Boston @Mass) Navy Yard Rear Admiral Ridley McLean, budg- officer of the Navy Department, will as commander of Battleship Divis- 3, Battle Force, succeeding Rear Admiral Walter R. Crosley, who will rome commandant of the San Diego val District. Rear Admiral Walton R. Sexton, as- ,Mistant chief of naval operations, will g0 to command Battleship Division 1, selieving Rear Admiral F. H. Brum- by, who will become the new com- mander of the Scouting Force. Ad- miral Sexton will be given command of battleships of the Battle Force at the time Vice Admiral Wililam H. Standley becomes the new chief of | naval operations, succeeding Admiral William V. Pratt. Rear Admiral John Halligan, com- mander of aircraft, Base Force, will go ®s commander of aircraft of the Battle Force, flagship the alrplane carrier V. 8.'S. Saratoga, succeeding Rear Ad- miral Harry E. Yarnell who will be commandant of the l4th Naval Dis- gm and Navy Yard, Pearl Harbor,| . H. Rear Admiral Yates Stirling, jr., who| achieved prominence during the famous Massey case and is now commandant | of the 14th Naval District, Honolulu, | will be transferred to duty as com-| mandant of the 3rd Naval District and | Navy Yard, New York, relieving Rear, Admiral Willlam W. Phelps, who will, be retired on July 1. ! Will Command Scout Force. Reer Admiral Henry E. Lackey, senlor | 'mber of the Board of Inspection and rvey, Pacific Coast Section, will go! as commander of Cruiser Division 4./ Scouting Force, relieving Rear Admiral | William T. Tarrant, who becomes com- | mandant of the 15th Naval District, | Canal Zone. Rear Admiral Adolphus E. Watson, | member of the General Board, will com- | mand destroyers of the Scouting Force, succeeding Rear Admiral William D.| Leahy, whose future duty has not been announced. Unofficial indications are, however, that Admiral Leahy will be- . come the new chief of the Bureau of | Navigation at the Navy Department, succeeding Rear Admiral Frank B. Up- | ham, who will go as commander-in- | ehief of the U. S. Asiatic Fleet. | Rear Admiral Frederick J. Horne,| chief of staff &t Pearl Harbor, will| g0 as commander, Train Squadron 1,! Base Force, succeeding Rear Admiral | Albert W. Marshall, ordered to duty | a8 senior member of the Board of In-| spection and Survey, Pacific Coast Sec- | tion, San Francisco, relieving Rear Ad- | miral Lackey. H Rear Admiral Alfred W. Johnson, as- | sistant chief of the Bureau of Naviga- | tion, will become commander of air-| craft of the Base Force, succeeding ! Admiral Halligan. | Capt. Sinclair Gannon, commanding | the 8an Diego Naval Training Station, ! will be commander of the Special Serv- | fee Squadron operating in Central | American waters, succeeding Rear Ad- | miral Clark H. Woodward, who be-} :ma & member of the General Board | re, { ‘Will Head Yangtze Patrol. i Capt. John D. Wainwright, under in- | struction at the Army War College | here, will become commander of the | Yangtze Patrol, U. S. Asiatic Fleet,; succeeding Rear Admiral Yancey Wil-| Mams, who becomes commandant of the | Nevy Yard at Mare Island. Calif. Capt. Charles R. Train, under in-| struction at the Naval War College, be- comes commander of Cruiser Division 3, | Battle Force, succeeding Rear Admiral | Claude C. Bloch—former commandant of the Washington Navy Yard—whe succeeds Admiral McLean as budget afficer of the Navy Department. i The changes will take place during! the course of this year, not all im-| mediately. Captains named in the| ehanges already have been selected for ! promotion to rear admirals | PHILLIPS EXETER ALUMNI| RE-ELECTS HOWE TOTTEN| Southern Association Chooses Offi- | cers at Annual Meeting and | | Banquet Last Night. i i Howe Totten was re-elected president | ®f the Southern Alumni Association of | the Phillips Exeter Academy at the| annual meeting and dinner Thursday | pight at the Army and Navy Club. | Other officers included Henry P. Blair, | : Ross Perry. jr. J. Curtls Wi erbert A. Smith and J. J. Roberts, vice | esidents; James A. De Force, treas- er, and G. Adams Howard, secretary. Prancis J. Loftus, W. D. Brookings Biair Nolles, W. R. Lloyd and Warrent Forster were elected members of the executive committee. Principal speakers last night were James A. Tufts, professor emeritus; of. Frank W. Cushwa, and ex-Senator rge Moses of New Hampshire. Mr. Tufts was honored by the alumni and given a birthday cake. commemor- | sting his seventy-fifth birthday and $5 years' connection with the New Hampshire preparatory school. J. Curtis Walker was chairman of $he banquet committee. FARM LOANS DECLINE 944,600,000 Crop Production Total From $90,000.000 Fund. ‘The Agriculture Department said yes- ay $44,600,000 had been disbursed to rmers this year in crop production loans from the $90,000,000 fund set aside by Congress. ‘The number of applications has fallen n recent weeks and Dr. C. W. Warbur- ton, in charge of loans, estimated that total disbursements may not exceed 960,000,000. The average loan this year is $86, eompared with $120 last year, when 964,000.000 was disbursed, of ‘which i still qutstanding, | between will | Monument and Fourteenth street. Office of Mellon Overlooks Treasury He Once Directed By the Associated Press. Andrew W. Mellon has an office at his disposal here now where he can overlook the Treasury he directed for a decade. It's just across Pennsylvania avenue from the columned Gov- ernment structure, but more than twice as high as the three-storied ‘Treasury. ‘The office is not rented by Mel- lon himself. It is in the name of Finley & Sheppard, the Finley being David Finley, who was as- sistant to Melion both when he was Secretary of the Treasury and Ambassador to London. But it was understood Mellon personally approved the office suite before it was taken and approved it chiefly because It afforded the same view of the Washington Monument and the Potomac he enjoyed so many years in the Treasury. NEW SIGNALS TURNED ON Traffic Lights Will Be-Installed on Pennsylvania Avenue. New traffic light signals were turned on yesterday on Twenty-second street Massachusetts and Pennsyl- vania avenue. William A. Van Duger, director of traffic, and Assistant Directors M. O. Eldridge and W. H. Harland officiated. The lights today are the beginning of a serles of installations. Pennsylvania avenue will have its share some time this Summer, when signals of this kind be installed between the Peace BALL ANNUAL EVENT Hairdressers to Dine and Dance at Indian Spring Country Club. The annual banquet and ball of the Washington Hairdressers’ Association wili be held May 2 at Indian Spring Country Club. An attractive entertain- ment program has been arranged. Officers will be elected. It was announced that the associa- tion will send a petition to Secretary of Labor Perkins indorsing the passsage of & minimum wage law for women employes in the District of Columbia. * WooDWARD O™ U™F a0 O COMMISSION TS | ACTION OF CITZENS \Utilities Group Declares 'Facts Were Ignored in Adop- tion of Resolutions. The Public Utilittes Commission, it | was disclosed ycsterday, has censured the Citizens’ Association of Takoma Park, D. C, for adopting two resolutions on utilities questions allegedly without ascertaining the facts. | The disclosure was made in coples of letters sent to the assoclation, submit- ted to Chairman Norton of the House District Committee by Maj. Gen. Ma- son M. Patrick, chairman of the com- mission. One of the commission's letters to the association concerned s resolution relating to a commission order provid- ing for a reduction in telephone rates, which was appealed to the courts. The commission charged that this resolu- tion was adopted apparently without an investigation to ascertain the facts. The letter read in part: “‘Our counsel communicated with Mr. George Sullivan, chairman of the Pub- lic Utilities Committee, and made sev- eral appointments for him for the pur- | pose of informing him of the exact| status of the case. However, Mr. Sul- livan did not see fit to keep these ap- | pointments, gnd therefore it has not | been possible to make known the facts | to him. We feel that your assoclation leading information of such vital im- | portance to the public, and it is diffi- | cult, if not impossible, to correct in the minds of many uninformed parties such statements, when once issued. It ‘would seem to be only fair to ask that unusual care be taken to ascertain the facts before such resolutions are acted upon.” In the other letter, which dealt with & resolution relating to & proposed amendment to the public utilities act, the commission declared “common fair- ness” should have prompted the fram- ers of the resolution to ascertain the facts. Chairman Patrick said he sent coples of the letters to Mrs. Norton because her committee had been informed of & LoTtHROP Priona Distmcy 8300 Simple Little WHITE FROCKS and WHITE SUITS For the children to wear for First Communion, Confirmation and May Procession Sister may wear the lovely little net frock sketched, $3.95—organdie, point d’esprit, mousseline de soie, dotted Swiss, georgette or silk crepe. Some hand- smocked, some with charming bertha collars— with long or short detachable sleeves, making them wearable for all Summer long. $|.95 to $|0.75 Brother chooses either the tailored white linen suit, with white broadcloth blouse—or separate knickers or shorts of white gabardine, and separate broadcloth blouse. White Linen Suits....$8 White Gabardine Knickers, $2; Shorts, $1 ‘White Broadcloth Blouses ... $1 White Ties, 50c and 7S¢ CHILDREN’S FLOOR, THE FOURTH. As for Socks and . Stockings Girls will wesr long white ribbed silk hose, sizes 7 to 9%, 50c pair. Boys choose knee-length white ribbed of %4 i OnrLoren’s HOsTRY, Fmst As for Shoes White calf pumps with center buckle snd low leather heel es 31y to 6, 35; sizes 12!} t0'3, . Boys’ black calf oxfords with straight tip, sizes 1to 6, $4. Ontioaen’s Smoes, Fourt FLoom. |have shown highest | Doswel ‘The meet was originally scheduled ' the obligation to provide employment or | jects of the tests were taken from those scourge these false proj Best Workers Win Civic Praise for Refuse Collection Prizes of $30 Distributed to Two Men With Highest Ratings. In keeping with long established cus- tom, the District Government, in co- operation with the Twentleth Century Club, yesterday honored members of the city's refuse collection departments who ency in the last year. In a formal session in the board room of the District Bullding, eight workmen were called before Maj. John C. Got- wals, Engineer Commissioner, to commended for their efforts. Prizes totaling $30 were distributed to the two men b"‘"fl, the highest ratings in the garbage, ashes, trash and street cleaning de) ts. Maj. Gotwals said that while reduced appropriations for these departments would make it difficult to keep up stand- ards, that would be done by local work and co-operation. Mrs. E. G. Nourse, chairman of the civic section of the Twentieth Century Club, who presided, praised the men for their efforts to make Washington a cleaner city. Arthur Jackson and Robert Wilkerson received first and second prizes for the garbage cojlection division; Roy Moore and Alfred Getes, for the ashes division; Willlam Hargroove and Gordon Judd, trash division, and James Getes and Jasper Davis for the “white wings.” e Field Day Set for Tuesday. UPPER MARLBORO, Md., April 29 (8pecial) —May 2 has been selected as | would not knowingly disseminate mis- | the date for the annual field day of | and 'l.eld.ll{'l the colored schools of Count; Prince Georges . it was announced yesterday by I Brooks, supervisor. for April 19, but postponed because of rain. N ANY people long imagined that automatic refrigeration, such a vast improvement over old- fashioned refrigeration, must of necessity be complicated in work- ing principle. el RAIL BILL OPPOSED BY LABOR GROUP Fears Legislation Would Put Thousands of Workers in Bread Lines. By the Associated Press. A statement opposing the railroad legislation that has been drafted for transmission to Congress by President Roosevelt was issued yesterday by the Rallway Labor Executives’ Association. “We see no justification for drastic reductions of essential transportation | service in order that unearned interest | may be paid on idle capital,” the state- ment said. It added that thousands of rallway workers would be placed in bread lines by such action. “If we have reached the end of railroad competition, we have arrived &t the necessity for immediate, com- plete and direct public control,” was declared. “Communities, shippers and employes threatened with irreparable ¥ should be able to prevent the passage of such & law as now . “But at least the or rallway employes will do all within their power to have written into any new law adequate protection for approximately 2,000,000 workers dependent for & liveli- hood upon the railroads and allied transportation services. “We shall insist that unemployed workers be given more tender consid- eration than unemployed capital. We shall insist that ti intolerable de- flation of labor by cutting down jobs ' and wages, deepening the depression degrading the standards of American life, must stop. “Those who assume responsibility for | taking away employment must accept support for the men they force into ! idleness.” P L / it | House. | Minute Mysteries Solution to CLASS DAY. he’ up! WE MU, JUDGE OF A FORM OF GOVERNMENT BY ITS GENERAL TENDENCY, NOT BY HAPPY ACCIDENTS. —Macaulay. SENATE VOTES DEGREE FOR ANNAPOLIS CADETS Those Not Commissioned in Navy Hereafter Would Be Made Bachelors of Science. By the Associated Press. Legisiation to confer the degree of | Bachelor of science upon ail graduates | of the Naval Academy was passed yes- terday by the Benate and sent to the | Tt was introduced by Chairman Tram- | mell of the Naval Committee and was approved by the Senate last session, but failed of enactment in the House. | Its advocates contended such a degree | would aid gradustes who may not be commissioned ensigns in the Navy at the expiration of their course. Becretary of the Navy Swanson, in | approving the measure, estimated one- half of graduating class next June | will not be commissioned on account of & surplus of officers. At present no degree is granted by Annapolis. Regular doses of cod liver ofl given to workers has demonstrated the value | of the tonic in that only half as much | time was lost from work by the ‘“ofl takers” as the non-takers. The sub- ! engaged in three types of work, heavy machine, light machine and clerical. | DR. WALSH SCORES SVITH ON RUSSIA Again Criticizes Former Gov- ernor’s Recognition Sup- port in Lecture. Dr. Edmund A. Walsh, 8. J, vice| president of Georgetown University and regent of the School of Foreign Service, in bringing to s ,close last night & series of 10 public lectures dealing with Communism, Teviewed arguments in- volved in the question of the recogni- tion of the Soviet Union. He again criticised former Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New York for the latter's advocacy of recognition of Rusala for trade reasons. Referring to the farm mortgage revolt, he declared the attack on a judge by s mob of Towa farmers served not only as “s warping to the Government itself,” but also to selfish trade interests “who would bring relief to & hostile Soviet government by bar- tering public welfare for private gain.” Speaks of Farmers’ Plight. ak| of the plight of Western flmrsml‘n contrast with efforts of | “money changers” to gain trade with | Russia through recognition, the educa- tor and priest said: “Let the farmers of Towa be cast into the ditch, let their tender babes and exhausted wives_fiid whatever shelter the open prairies may afford. Let American workmen be further penal- ized by unfair competition if only those sacred profits be assured to the money changers. “May we not devoutly pray that be- | fore it be too late public opinion may | hets from the temple. even as a lentre Christ drove the money-mad hypocrites of His day’ out of His Pather's house which they had tumed into a dpn of thieves.” former Gov. Smith to task, 8s he had done previously at s mass meeting protesting against recognition of Russis, Father Walsh said: “Recognition of the Soviet Union is not & question of repudiated debts or oonfiscated property or Communists on ;e-p boxes ln"llJ;II:n Square, as that Iflufihfid e of the peopl Al E. Bmith, visualizes.” = “Mr. Smith exercises a well-merited influence in this country and his opin- jon on domestic policies commands the confidence of &_very wide constituency of Catholics, Protestants and Jews. But I feel obligated to assure you that his Russian views are not shared by that great majority of Americans of his own faith who see eye to eye with in most other respects.” Dr. Walsh contended only three courses are open to the American Gov- ernment with respect to Russia. The first, he said, is “honorable recognition,” by which he meant reciprocal relations “after proof of Moscoy's willingness to duhm tmftvm‘ - the une:‘ gi.ll, the {llegal 3 erly unacceptable hostility to non-Communist states.” 4 The second course, he said, is “dis- honorable recognition” on Russia’s own terms, with no conditions or reser- vations except the guarantee of a sub- stantial loan. “The third course” he closed, “would be simply continued non- reeognman as Adm":a" nswer to the continuance, under Soviet auspices and direction, of the Third Internationale.” Annual Supper Arranged. 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