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SPECIAL NOTICES. NOTICE OF ANNUAL e snnual meeting of the MEETING. Th lot o of the Glenwood Cemetery will be held in the s of Washington Board of Trade. Eening Star Bullding, corner of 11th st. n.w. o ‘WILLIAM E. WISE. Secretary. W YOU NEED AN ELECTRICIAN CALL the Electric Shop on Wheels. Inc. A complet on on_wheels will be sent to your door. ones Wisconsin 4821, COlumbia_2400. SPECIAL RETURN-LOAD RATES ON FULL and part loads to all points within 1.000 ed service: lo- 1460. NAT. ave miles; padded vans, susrante al moving also. _Phone NA. e As86C". ‘e, 1517 N. Y. [UB SALE ON ELECTRIC REFRIGER- tors, $5.00.to oin: immediate delivers; obtained by joining no: CO.. 12th and G sts. i B-LB. CAN. BEST. 00c. ALL Call' LYNCO. WEst 0654, by 10 WATER _HEATER. _AUTOMATIC 1. economical to operate; special price: SH 1682-J all day Sunday. after BETWEEN e 18967 NEW gy NG-DISTANCE_MOVING ALL ste: ints. “Service ps MORRIS BLUMENFELD, Owner of the Watch Repair Shop, formerly Jocated at 739 13th n.w. now at 1734 Pa. ave n.w DR. CONRAD PRAETORIUS, OSTEOPATHIC physician. 'announces removal of 'his office to 710 14th st. n.w. Suites 304-306-308. ‘Telephone NAtional 6117. INVALID ROLLING CHAIRS. FOR RENT O sale: complete line of new and used chairs; all sizes, styles and adjustments: reduced prices. Also_folding chairs, wood or metal STATES STORAGE COL i et UNITED 418 10th 8t N.W. Treasury Department Comptroller of the Currency Ofce of the eshington. D. C. May 20, 1033 Notice is hereby given to all persons who may have claims against “The Commercisl National Bank of Washington.” District of Columbia, that the same must be presented o . Baldwin, with the al proof thereof within three months from this date or they may_ be disallowed. J. P T. OCH Comptroiler ‘of the Currency. Delivered. Washington or nearby: 500 cases or better: Old Heidelberg, Prairie Schooner and other brands, S1.82. Address Box 483-J._Btar_office . EXERCISES ARE ARRANGED AT GEORGETOWN PREP Dr. Edmund A. Walsh Will Make Address to Graduates Next Sunday Afternoon. The program for commencement week at the Georgetown Preparatory Bchool, Garrett Park, Md., which ends with graduation exercises next Sunday, was announced yesterday by Rev. Rob- ert 8. Lloyd, S. J., headmaster of the school. Very Rev. W. Coleman Nevils, 8. J., president of Georgetown University, will deliver the sermon this morning at the special senior service which will be held in the newly dedicated Chapel of Our Lady of Lourdes, at the school. ‘The senior banquet will be held at the Mayflower Hotel Thursday evening and Friday night prizes for scholastic honors in the lower classes will mwarded. + Dr. Edmund A. Walsh, 8. J., vice t of Georgetown University and R |in the House for the appointment of be |ing fiscal OFFICE BILL VETO S HELD UNLIKELY Senator Cutting Expresses View After Visit to White House. Senator Cutting, Republican, of New Mexico, told newspaper men yesterday after a visit to the White House that he did not expect President Roosevelt | to veto the independent offices bill be- | cause of the increase in appropriations to combat wounded veterans of the World and Spanish-American Wars. At the same time, the bill, with the Connally amendment tacked on call-| ing for an increase in appropriations ! for veterans' compensation of $170,000,- 000, was being prepared for resubmission conferees. Cutting, who was one of the leaders in the fight against the cuts of pen- sions of the combat wounded, said the purpose of his visit to the White House was to submit a report on the Senate’s action. President Sympathetic. He declared the President received his report “very sympathically.” The New Mexico Progressive estimat- ed that Priday's Senate vote limiting to 25 per cent the reductions in allowance { which may be made for service-con- nected disabilities would reduce the expected economies by about $150,000.- 000. Senator Byrnes, Democrat, South Carolina, in charge of the appropria- tion bill, had previously estimated the reduction would amount to $170,000,000. On Capitol Hill yesterday, the ad- ministration's course was a matter of conjecture, Speaker Rainey and Demo- cratic Leader Byrns having hazarded that the House was “in as much revolt as the Senate” against veterans' economies. While the administration may seek some modification of the Senate's action —and Rainey intimated word from Pres- ident Roosevelt was being looked for— there was no intimation from either of the House leaders that the President would seek complete elimination of the Senate action or veto the bill if it stands as it is now. Aides Express Concern. Nevertheless, the President's aides, who are responsible for the balancing of the budget and making ends meet, have indicated some concern over the upset in the economy program. By the Senate’s action the prcposed savings of $360,000,000 during the com- year on veterans' pensions, was reduced to $191,000,000. Inasmuch as President Roosevelt has announced he expected to save $1,000,000,000 in {president regent of its School of Foreign Service, will make the address to the graduates st the commencement exercises next Sunday at 3 p.m. TRADE TREATY SIGNED Argentina-Chile Agreement Ready for Congress Action. BUENOS AIRES, June 3 (#.—The Argentina-Chilean trade treaty, which was initialed May 29, was signed today by the Argentine foreign minister and chief of the Chilean commercial dele- The' nt, which provides mu- tually mmus tariff concessions, will be referred for ratification to the + Congresses of the two countries. THE WEATHER District of Columbia—Fair, continued ‘warm today and tomorrow. Maryland—Fair today and tomorrow; not much change in temperature. Virginia—Fair today and tomorrow; not much change in temperature. West Virginia—Fair today and tomor- row; not much change in temperature. River Report. Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers muddy yesterday evening. Record for Last 24 Hours. Midnight 2 am. . ¢ am. 6 am. 8 am. 10 am. Record Until 10 P.M. Saturday. Highest, 91, at 5 p.m. yesterday. Year g0, 84. Lowest, 54, at 4 am. yesterday. Year 280, 62 Record Temperatures This Year. Highest, 91, on May 24. Lowest, 14, on February 9. Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States Coast and | Geodetic Survey.) ‘oday. . 4:l4am. . 1104 am. 4:35 pm. . 10:53 pm. The Sun and Moon. Rises. Sun, today .. 4:43 Sun, tomorrow 4:43 Moon, today.. 3:36 p.m. Automobile lights must be turned on | one-half hour after sunset. Precipitation. Monthly precipitation in inches in the Capital (current month to date): . | fices. 8. ‘01 ~Temperature.~ Precipi- Max Min. _ tation,8 Sat- Pri. Sat.pm.to urday. night. 8 p.m. 8. Asheville, N. C..... 84 52 76 Atlanta, Ge. Atlantic City. N. Baltimore, Md. ... Birmingham. Als Bismarck, N. Dak. Mass. ¥ ol Ohifo 5 7 | Administration was reducing combat 84 | per cent were revealed. Another caucus ! members to call at the White House ‘| Priday on the Connally amendment, : |as follows: " | committee is to go around the country ;ple are asking for toda: INEWS WRITER’ Government expenses during the coming year, the administration must look else- where with its pruning knife to regain the amount the Senate appropriated for the combat disabled. This was believed one of the reasons why Mr. Roosevelt invited Senator Robinson of Arkansas, Democratic leader, and Budget Director Lewis to cruise with him today down the Poto- mac River. Shortly after these invitations were issued, the White House took cognizance of reports in circulation here that the President would make a direct appeal to the people to stave off any change in proposed savings under the economy act. The President’s aides denied em- phluugg that such was the intention of the Chief Executive. Amendment Acceptable. Members of the House who have been leaders in the fight to restore the cuts ordered for the combat wounded, said y the Connally amendment would be acceptable to them. They pointed out that it was in direct line with their caucus committee’s recom- mendations to President Roosevelt last Monday. While the revolt in the Senate over veteran economies only came to the surface four days ago, the House is known to have been in revolt for some time. At a caucus held shortly after the passage of the National Economy act, giving the President sweeping pow- ers to cut veteran pensions, Democratic leaders experienced difficulty keeping members in line. The revolt flared anew 10 days ago when reports showing the Veterans' wounded pensions by approximately 50 was held, resulting in the appointment of a committee of seven Democratic and request a revision in the economy regulations. ‘While President Roosevelt was re- ported at that time to be sympathetic, he, according to committee members, gave the group no encouragement. The Chief Executive later announced he ‘would appoint a committee to make a study into the cases. Hits Committee Plan. Senator Cutting, during the debate called attention to this announcement, “When we come here and say that a investigating individual cases, are we not getting back to the Hoover policy which members on the other side of aisle so repeatedly ridiculed? “Whenever anything had to be done the former President appointed a com- mission to go out and investigate, and when the commission reported its con- clusions, the report in several volumes would be placed in a pigeon hole some- where in the files of the executive of- “This is not what the American peo- S DEATH LAID TO SLEEP POTION Overdose Blamed After Discovery of Body in Hotel—Victim Was Former Pastor. ‘The death of Edward Taber, news- paper man and former clergyman, who was found dead Friday in his room at the Burlington Hotel, was caused by an overdose of a sleep-inducing drug, Act- ing Coroner Christopher J. Murphy said last night. After an autopsy Dr. Murphy de- cided not to issue a death certificate | uxntfl he had made a further investiga- | tion. | Mr. Taber’s body was found by hotel | officials after a maid had noticed a| “do not disturb” sign on the door of his room for several days in succession. | In the room was a letter addressed to| his mother, Mrs. Anne Hummel, Tilden | Gardens, saying he was going to take: a “rest.” He registered at the hotel last Wednesday. Mr. Taber once was pastor of the Ham] Baptist Church, Baltimore, but relinquished his pulpit to enter newspaper work. He wrote for both the Washington Herald and the Wash- ington Daily News. . ' Polick, Dorothy Best, Vincent Briguglio, 3 James Hutch Hermann Schmid Senior Play Thursday. SEAT PLEASANT, Md., June 3 (Spe- cial) —“Laugh Clown,” a three act comedy, will be presentcd Thursday night at 8:15 o'clock in the Maryland Park High School by the senior class. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, Apportionmenf of Offices Law The following articles are reprinted from The Star of July 25 and 26, 1921. Editorial Correspondence of The Star. THEODORE W. NOYES. 5 The apportionment of offices law, which distributes the classified service offices like bandit spoils among the States in proportion to their population strength, has during fhe war and re- construction periods demonstrated dou- bly fits viciousness; first when the human-service machinery was being clency in order that we might surely and quickly bring victery in the world struggle; and now, when the vastly ex- panded war-service force is being re- duced to the peace basis. Law a Failure in War-Time. Heavy additional war-time labors at civilian Americans to do this essential work. What was the natural labor source of supply to meet this increased demand? First, of course, the local source, the Americans nearest at hand, the Americans already locally housed and acquainted with local conditions and facilities, which enabled them to live here more cheaply. So far as addi- tional war workers in the classified service were concerned, in what condi- tion did Uncle Sam as an employer find himself? Under a strict construction and rigid enforcement of the apportion- ment of offices law the use of the local source of classified labor supply was prohibited, since the District’s quota of the office spoils has long ago been ex- hausted. Under these circumstances the Gov- ernment invited a multitude of un- trained workers from all over the United States to come to Washington to do this work. They came in un- necessarily large numbers, so that there were not sufficient dwellings or suitable rooms to house the multitude. Law Necessarily Suspended. But Uncle Sam, finding himsels| crippled by this unwise, hurtful, un- businesslike law in the campaign for efficiency in war preparedness, in effect suspended the law in the war industries during the war emergency. Now, when the time has come to reduce the classified service force to the peace basis, attention is called to the fact that the District and the nearby States have more than their quota of the official “spoils,” and de- mend is made that the law which crippled the Government in bullding| up its war force and had to be dis- regarded to secure efficiency should now be applied by the Government with a like crippling effect in reduc- ing the war force to the point of minimum numbers and maximum efi- ciency. But the law is as vicious in principle and hurtful in practice in peace time as in war. If the District had not sent its sons to war like the States, but had kept them safely at home to monopolize the Government’s civilian empioy- ments, there would be basis for the suggestion that the cutting-down process should begin with it and should continue until only its quota remained. But the District sent more soldiers to camp and to Europe than seven States, and in percentage of the total force who were volunteers it sur- passed forty-three of the States. The District has more than its “quota” of the classified service be- cause in meeting the Government's need for Americans to do this neces- sary work its men and women have been more available and by experience more efficient. Law Vicious in Both War and Peace. As in building up the war force the law had to be disregarded in order that the Government might be effi- ciently served and the war won, so in shaping the permanent peace forces, if efficiency is to be the aim, the law must be similarly disregarded. As in the war, the most eficlent and the most available, irrespective of the State from which they hailed, had to be appointed in order that the Govern- ment might be best served, so in the discharges of peace time, the least efficlent should be first dropped, irre- spective of the section or State which claims them. This law is more honored in the breach- than in the observance. It should either be construed out of existence or it should be repealed outright. National offices should, in the inter- est of efficiency, under & genuine merit system, be open to the most meri- torious American applicants, irre- spective of their residence in a particular State or Territory or the District of Columbia. Hurtful Both to Capital and Nation, Uncle Sam, while wisely suspending the law in war for his own (the national) benefit, has doubtless learned from his war observation and ex- perience how wickedly discriminat- ing, inequitable and injurious it is at all times to the unrepresented and helpless people of the Capital com- munity. ‘The consistent policy of Congress, as State and city legislature for the Capital, has been to discourage local factories and industrial plants apd, in effect, to prohibit all manufactur- ing industries except those of the Gov- ernment, like the Government Printing Office, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and all the great Government departments which correspond to the industrial plants of other American cities. Having thus monopolized the most important of the District’s na- tional-local industries, the Government, under the apportionment of offices law, in effect prohibits the employment in these industries of Washingtonians. Must Go Abroad to Get Work at Home. It compels a showing of residence outside the District to get this em- | The cast includes Amelia Burgdorf, Marjorie Dove, Clayton Payne, Marion : t, Zoe Miller, Elise Gromen, Miro Ptacek, Albert Schmidt and Gilbert Donn. ployment in the District. It requires the Washingtonian to exile himself and secure residence abroad in order to get this kind of work at home. In three wags this unjust law blocks enlarged and developed to high effi-| the Capital called for more and more | This Relic of the Spoils System Is Unsound in Principle, Vicious in Practice, Hurtful to Nation and Capital in War and Peace—Helpful to Nobody. | development of the Capital community from a camp of transients into a homo- | geneous American community, with clvic loyalty and civic pride. First, it deprives the youth of the city of local means of self-support. It punishes legal permanent residence here by this discriminating deprivation. Violates the Merit System. 8econd, by violating the spirit and basic principle of the merit system as distinguished from the spoils system, it strikes at the main factor in the de- velopment of a home-owning, perma- nent population of the District. The spolls system treated the Capital as a camp of translents where office spoils were enjoyed by the victors in political war until they were themselves defeated and driven out. The merit system took and, by substituting stable tenure of office for the meritorious and efficient, made it possible for Government work- ers to build or buy and enjoy their own homes at the Capital, in the knowledge that, broadly speaking, they would not be expelled from office except for some | fault of their own. The apportionment law is an illogi- cal and huriful compromise between the merit system and the spoils sys- tem, carrying over onme of the most offensive features of the spoils sys- tem into the merit system. If it wrs necessary to make this vicious com- promise in order to establish the merit system in the beginning, it can hardly be necessary to retain it now when the merit system has been vindicated by its results and is firmly established in pop- ular favor. Obstacle to D. C. Representation. Third, the law obstruets national representation, that is, voting repte- sentation in Congress and the electoral college, for the people of the District. By compelling claim of residence in a State by those who are, in fact, perma- nent residents of the District in order to work here in the classified service it reduces apparently the voting strength | of the Capital constituency in its appeal for national representation as a distinct political entity. It tends to foster the curse of alien non-permanent popula- tion upon the District. It substitutes the expensive, troublesome and precari- ous representation of a diminishing fraction of the community for the direct representation of the whole community. Unless compelled by fear of losing employment under the operation of the apportionment law, few Washingtonians now claiming residence in a State by compulsion would retain this fictitious dual residence, if the opportunity were given them through constitutional amendment to vote directly as District residents, for voting representation in Congress and the electoral college. IrL Employment in local industries of lo- cal people is based on the soundest principles of efficlency. For example, consider the New England industrial towns, where whole families zre em- ployed in the same mill. Suppose the United States should na- tionalize the mills of Lynn, and put its employes engaged in these mills in the classified service. Under the appor- tionment of offices law, it would dis- charge the men and women of Lynn, until only Lynn's fraction of the Massachusetts quota remained, and wouid distribute the remainder of the positions among the States of the Union, according to their population, so many to Oregon, so many to Florida, so many to Texas. Such a course would be idiotic on the part of & pri- vate employer. Would it be any less idiotic because the employer is Uncle Sam? alization of which has been urged as a practical matter. If they were na- tionalized would Uncle Sam escape qualifying for the insane asylum if he should say: “I cannot under the ap- portionment of offices law choose as my railroad employes the most effi- clent Americans available irrespective of their State allegiance. I must di- vide my engineers and my conductors and my porters and my railroad oper- atives in general among the various States according to their populations, Americans who wish the work and to draft for this employment compara- tively unfit Americans because they happen to live in California or Wyo- ming or New Mexico or Florida. Uncle Sam as a Crasy Employer. ‘Would it not be as logical to divide offices among Americans according to the color of their hair, as red-headed, black-haired or tow-headed, or ac- cording to the shape of their noses, as aquiline or pug, or according to their church affiliations, as Baptist, Meth- odist or Presbyterian? Is there any difference in principle between railroading or cotton mill work and work in the Government workshops at Washington that makes a principle and method of employ- ment criminally absurd in the one case and wise and statesmanlike in the other? Summary of Law’s Evils. ‘The apportionment of offices law (1) hampers and injures the Government as employer, assuring impairment of efficiency, violating every business prin- ciple; (2) It violates the basic principles of the merit system (as distinguished from the spoils system) of employing workers in the Nation’s public service. It makes residence in a particular State s condition of employment by Uncle Sam and bars him from employing to do his work the most meritorious and most efficient of Americans, irrespective of whether they hail from North, South, East or West. Pretending to overthrow the shop you kn that you pay traveling time? The economical way is to call “The ectric 8hop On Wheels, Inc.” We ve two complete Electric Shops On Wheels which eliminate that waste. by competent 5t are T T, Thios Dain’e PR Colmia® 4821 2400 D. C, JUNE 4, 1933—PART ONE. !STATE QUOTA ACT the spoils system and to substitute merit as the sole test of national employment, by a miserable compromise this law carries over into the merit system a relic of the spoils system, apportioning appointments not solely on the basis of merit and efficiency, but, like spoils of war, among the States in accordance with their population strength; (3) It confers no benefit on the congressional | representatives of the States, who super- vise the division of patronage spoil. Patronage is not an element of strength, but of weakness. It has been aptly said that the appointing power in selecting or indorsing one official out of a dozen —_— | candidates makes eleven enemies and | Tme House Civil Service Committee, | one ingrate; (4) It is not on the whole | Chairman Jeflers announced yesterday, a blessing to appointees from remote | Will meet early this week to map out States, whom it demands, when better | PIADS for an exhaustive investigation of | the Civil Service Commission. American workers from nearby States| The inquiry will be made in obedi- are available. These States, remote ; ence to_a resolution adopted by the from the Capital, whose quotas are un- AIElu\xxseseFridny which instructed the | Civil Service Committee to determine filled, are in the sections of great|the extent of violations of the civil opportunities, high wages, inspiring |service State quota act governing the prospects, It is no benefit or kindness | fell[l;ge of positions in the Government to the young man of such a State t0| " The ‘actual investigation, it was in- remove him from the activities and dicated, probably will not begin until 1 is | opportunities at home to vegetate at a | ggcr;%a&; g:ugulren;ud’rg WOl e::- 1 e] a subcommit- desk in Washington. Thus the appor- | focChyc) Wil hold hearings throughout tionment law benefits neither Uncle | the Summer and Fall to gather evi- Sam nor the congressional patronage | dence for a report to the House when it PROBE LAUNCHED :House Civil Service Commit-| | tee Will Meet Early in Week to Draft Program. the offices from the category of spoils | Or take the railroads, the nation- ! even if the result is to bar efficient dispenser mor the recipient of office CONVENes In regular session in January. spoils from the remote State with its unfilled quota. This method of ap- portioning offices is doubly cursed. It blesseth neither him who gives nor him who takes; (5) It is cruelly unjust to the Capital community, to whose youth it denies local means of self-support in employments which in other cities go naturally to the extent needed to the youth of the local community. Repeal in District's Interest. Repeal, in the interest of the Dis trict, the apportionment of offices law so that the youth of Washington, if the most meritorious of all applicants, may have ready access to the Govern- ! ment departments and workshops, of iron mills in Pittsburgh and the cotton, woolen and shoe factories of many New England cities. Congress by its policy of discouraging com- merce and manufactures at the Cap- ital excludes all other great factories and workshops than its own, and then by the apportionment of offices law (a relic of the old spoils system) shuts out the growing youth of the city from the classified service and from access to the only local means of self-support of this kind which it permits to exist In the Natlon's City national work- shops are local. Washington is the only community in the world where employment of the local youth in the local workshops, instead of being en- couraged, is prohibited; where the young man must go abroad in order to become eligible for employment at home. Repeal in Nation’s Interest. The national interest demands the repeal of the apportionment of offices law. During the World War, as we have seen, this law was exposed in all its unbusinesslike, hurtful ineffi- ciency. In order that the Government might function quickly and effectively yto meet the require- ments of the business of war-making the hampering apportionment of offices law was in effect suspended. Under a true merit system the Government should be able to use, in order to do the Nation's work, whether in war or peace, the best fitted of American applicants, irrespective of the State or Territory or section from which they hail. As an integral part of the sys- tem of business efficiency to which the new administration is sincerely com- mitted the apportionment of offices law should be repealed as unsound in prin- ciple and hurtful in practice. Jobs Multiply Mills Call Back Long Idle Workers—Some Grant Pay In creases. By the Associated Press. WHEELING, W. Va, June 3.—Six hundred bread winners will heed the call of mill whistles Monday. Five hundred men will return to work in the Wheeling Steel Corporation’s Laughlin Sheet Mill at Martins Ferry, Ohio. They have been idle four months. The Wheeling Structural Steel Co. will call back 100 men to fabricate steel for the Columbus, Ohio, Federal building. LAFAYETTE, Ga., June 3 (£ —Em- ployes of the Walker County Hosiery Mills and the Lafayette Cotton Mills 1 have been given a 10 per cent wage in- crease. Meanwhile, the hosiery mill, which | normally employes about 350 people, | has added 100 to the pay roll. ‘The announcements did not say whether wages had been reduced during slack business. ‘YOUNGSTOWN, Ohilo, June 3 (#).— town Sheet & Tube Co. in tinplate pro- duction at its Indiana Harbor, II1, plant has been awarded to the United En- gineering & Foundry Co., President Praik Purnell of Sheet & Tube an- nouriced today. The mill will be built at the United plant at Youngstown. ST. PAUL, Minn, June 3 (#)—Two Northwest _railroads, the Great North- ern and Milwaukee, showed substan- tial increases in carloadings during May over the previous month and May, 1932. Loadings on the Great Northern to- taled 41963 in May, compared with 37,048 in April and 37,253 in May & year ago. ‘The Milwaukee road had lcadings of 100,225 in May, compared with 87,364 in April and 88,188 in May, 1932. HAZLETON, Pa, June 3 (P.—The management of the Duplan Silk Mills today announced a 5 per cent increase in wages to its 1,600 employes effective June 1. The Duplan workers suffered a series of reductions during the past two years. WATCH REPAIRING Any e : fl" =1} PHILIP FRANKS One Flight Up . . 812 F St. N.W. ‘Reservations at The Mayfio which for Washington take the place | National | Hastings to Be Called. Representative Hastings, Democrat, of | Oklanoma, author of the resolution di- i recting the inquiry, probably will be lone of the first witnesses called. He (said the people of the entire country | are interested in the investigation and |will not be satisfied until each State has its “fair quota” of Federal employes in the District. “The Civil Service Committee of the House,” he declared, “is one of the out- standing committees, and I am sure that Chairman Jeffers will call before it the members of the Civil Service Commission and its subordinate offi- cials and not be satisfied until the facts lare disclosed. The committee alsc is authorized to call before it the heads of the various departments and bureaus to ascertain whether lists of eligibles who are residents of States which have not received their full quotas of Federal employes have been regularly furnished by the commission from which ap- pointments could be made. Has Confidence in Committee, great confidence in the Civil Service Committee and confidently expects that all facts will be developed and that a report will be made to the House at an early date which will disclose why the civil service act of January 16, 1883, has not been compiled with, and if ad- ditional legislation is necessary for the enforcement of that act, that recom- mendations for such legisiation be em- E:d.ied in the report of the commit- o Representative Boileau, Republican, of Wisconsin, yesterday defended Dis- trict residents who are employed 1| excess of quota provisions against an | attack by Representative Blanton, Democrat, of Texas. Representative Boileau said it is only natural and just that the large pro- | portion of Government employes tak- | Ing up the excess of positions wheie State quotas have not been filled should be from the District of Columbia, Mary- land and Virginia. Minority Leader | Snell brought out that the conditions today in this regard are no different from what they havé been for the last 30 or 40 years. Hastings Offers Figures. Several days ago Representative | Hastings put into the Record figures | showing the allocation of Government jobs by States on a basis of popula- tion, emphasizing that while under such quota the District of Columbia is en- titled to only 132 jobs, there are real- ly 10,728 positions filled by District residents. Virginia, with a quota of 659, has 2273 jobs, and d, with a quota of 444, has 2,112 jobs. At that time, Representative Bofleau was unable to secure recognition. question was brought up again yes- terday and Representative Bofleau re- sponded vigorously that it is entirely wrong to cay that men and women who came years ago from one State or another, and who have served the Gov- ernment faithfully, establishing their homes here and educating their fami- lies, should be now told they cannot hold their jobs, and in order to get work with tke Government, must go back to their home States. : Fears Wholesale Discharges. Representative Boileau pointed out that employment in the United States Government is the only one large source of employment in the District of Co- lumbia, and that, if civil service jobs are to be given out :ictly on the quota basis of population it will mean wholesale discharges in forcing more than 10.000 families to move out of the National Capital. Representative Boileau declared it is his intention to oppose any insistence upon a quota for State distribution of Federal jobs unless a provision is con- tained which will aliow the present system of appointing District, Mary- land and Virginia residents to the surplus_positions which the respective States have not filled. CITED FOR BRAVERY Sailor Is Recommended for Medal for Saving Civilian. A sailor, who saved a civilian, al- legedly attempting to commit suicide in San Pedro, Calif., Harbor last Decem. ber, from drowning, yesterday was recommended by Secretary of the Navy Swanson to Secretary of the Treasury ‘Woodin for a silver life-saving medal. In making the announcement, the Navy Department sald the sailor is Paul land, attached to the battleship Pe: sylvania. Secretary Swanson has writ- ten him a letter of commendation, say- ing: “The department takes pleasure in commending you for your prompt and efficient action, which undoubtedly saved the life of this man. Such conduct is in keeping with the best traditions of the naval service.” | ! Agree to End Unfair Business. CHICAGO, June 3 (#).—An agree- ment between the Laundry Workers' National Association and the American Washing Machine Manufacturers’ As- sociation to eliminate unfair business was announced today. The agreement was signed by W. H. Lawrence, Minne. apolis, and Edward N. Hurley, jr.,, Chi. cago, respective presidents. 'Schneider’s Sunday Dinner 75¢ Rl Fresh Aspa) 3 Beans, Potatoes a or hem&m‘h‘ Russe, Cream; Coffee or Real Beer. ter, with Mayol Served with Brolled id Brolled Lobst s, $1.00. MEALS for 47 Years. cmmn's ¢ CAFE ° Since 1886 “The membership of the House has | by THOMAS F. FLAHERTY. BANK BILL FAILURE THIS SESSION SEEN Little Hope Held as Congress Pushes for Quick Ad- journment. (Continued From First Page.) tive houses. He said that only two or three matters remain still in dispute. It is understood, however, that these two or three matters are the most con- troversial differences between the two houses. Senator Glass was unwilling to predict that the conference report would be accepted, once it was filed, the Senate or the House. Sena Bulkely of Ohio, another member of the Conference Committee, however, ex- pressed his conviction that the confer- ence report would be adopted and that the bill would become law. As the bill stood last night, there was danger that the controversy be- tween the two houses over what part the State banks should pay in the pro- posed insurance of deposits feature of the bill would wreck the measure. President Opposes Amendment. ‘That was not the only danger. Presi- dent Roosevelt, it was reported, has taken a strong stand against the so- called Vandenberg amendment, adopted by the Senate, which would provide an immediate guarantee of bank deposits up to $2,500 in national banks and in State banks which State authorities de- clared to be solvent. understood to have written a letter to Senator Glass, chairman of the Con- ference Committee, declaring that he would not stand for an immediate guar- antee of bank deposits. In the bank reform bill is a provision for setting up a corporation to insure bank deposits a year after the bill be- comes a law. The President is under- stood mot to favor any kind of bank deposit insurance, but the point he has made nowt is lndh:st :he immediate guaranty of bank deposits as proposed by Senator Vandenberg. Amendment May Be Dropped. ‘The expectation is that in the con- ference report on the bank bill the ‘Vandenberg amendment will be dropped. That is the view taken by the Michi- gan Senator himself. However, if the Vandenberg amendment is dropped, it will lead to a hot fight in the Senate when the conference report is submitted to that body. Senator Vandenberg said last ‘night that he felt the House should be given an opportunity to vote on his amend- ment independent of other provisions of the banking bill. “There should be a record vote in the House on my amendment,” he said. THOMAS FLAHERTY DIES AT AGE OF 53 Officer of Postal Clerk’s Fed- eration and Base Ball En- thusiast Expires. Thomas F. Flaherty, secretary-ireas- urer of the National Federation of Post Office Clerks and one of the Capital’s foremost base ball fans, died last night at his apartment in the Shoreham. He was in_his fifty-third year. Mr. Flaherty underwent an abdomi- nal operation at Georgetown Hospital March 20, and seemed to be recovering slowly until about two weeks ago. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Eliza- beth Theresa Flaherty; his mother, Mrs. Anne Flaherty of Napa, Qalif.; two brothers, James and John, and six sis- ters, Mrs. Thomas Malloy, Mrs. Edward Ingram and Miss Mary Flaherty, all of whom also reside in Napa; Mrs. S. J. Cook of Belmont, Calif, Mrs. Alvan MacDonald, Oakland, and Mrs. Frank J. Booth, San Prancisco. Burial in San Francisco. The body will lie at the funeral chapel of Joseph Gawler Sons, 1754 Pennsyl- vania avenue, until tomorrow evening, when it will be taken to San Francisco. Services will be held at Gawler's at 1 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Flaherty was born in Napa August 15, 1880. He entered the Postal Service at San Francisco and became active in the organization of the post office clerks. He came to Washington 20 years ago as secretary-treasurer and legislative rep- Tesentative. In the Capital Mr. Flaherty had many interests, but the greatest of these prob- ably was base ball. He was a close friend of Walter Johnson, and his par- 2:: c“ta“? i;TXI;I‘y before the Nationals nt to tral camp were a recog- nized part of the sports cuend.lrfm}‘ie also was a golf devotee. Many Connections. Mr. Flaherty was a member and di- rector of the essional Club, a member of the National Press Clul Board of Trade, Mid-City Citizens’ As. sociation, Knights of Columbus, fourth tor | degree; Moose and Native Sons of the Golden West. Flaherty participated in the forma- | tion of the Union Labor Life Insurance Co. and was a member of the board. He had law degrees from Washington College, and in 1925 was admitted to | practice before the Supreme Court. valuable issue to the Republicans in the congressional campaign. Some of the Republican Senators said they would welcome such an issue. ‘The people of the Middle West States have become greatly aroused over the situation, and it is in that section of the country that the de- mand for some kind of insurance of The President, 15 | Poor of the banks and restoring complete confidence in them. is a prerequisite of business recovery’ in this country. Such action, they assert, would set a flow of capital into industry The fate of the reform Revelations in that inquiry regarding the operations of private banks have given us to the demand for bank- ing legisiation similar to that carried in the Glass bill. Strikes at Private Bankers. “The conference is with the House of | tee Repr;euntll%:; ‘x‘xoot wlmdm President, on n, and the House should have a free and full opportunif to_express Lhi:ul!." - g While conferees on the' Glass- Steagall bill were going ahead with their consideration of that measure, the report grew stronger that the adminis- tration, and particularly Secretary the Treasury Woodin, tears if the bill fails to become a law. Opposed by Bankers. of would shed no | lea Strong and influential banking in- |bank crash terests in New York are reported to be violently opposed to the enactment of this legislation. Failure of the bill at %d:esmm would be playing into their From the political angle, the failure of the bank bill, with its insurance of bank deposits feature, might prove a of so closed have not yet been reopened. 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