Evening Star Newspaper, June 25, 1933, Page 18

FORESTRY UNITS TEST ARMY S PLAN Theoretical Preparedness System Put to Trial in Recruiting. (Continued From First Page.) ones in the most convenient sections of | the country, notes the capacity of their | outputs and the rest is speedily accom- plished. Transportation Intrigues. Tt is the transportation problem, how- ever, that holds fascination for the lnyl mind. At a businesslike desk on the second | floor of the Munitions Building, Capt. | Robert E. Shannon, assistant to Brig. | @en. A. E. Williams, chief of the Trans- portation Division, sits within easy | reach of a telephone, most frequently | late into the night { At his beck and call are four repre- | sentatives of the American Railway As- | sociation. The important key man of | this group is W. C. Kendall, chairman | of the car service division of the asso- | clation. Serving directly under him and the transport division are W. P. Scruggs, manager of the troop move- | ment section, assisted by George G.. Roney and Charles W. Henry, assistant to the vice president of the Pullman Company. Mr. Kendall is the key man also for all freight movements. Each corps area has its own railroad | representative co-operating with corps area commander. Charles Schanze | of the Baltimore and Ohio is the key | man at the Baltimore headquarters of the Third Corps Area. All train move- | ments within corps areas are decen- | tralized in the management of the; commanding general. Movements from | one area to another, routing and equip- | ment orders are furnished by Capt. Shannon through the three passenger representatives or the freight repre-| sentative. In Capt. Shannon, the Army has on the job one of the most expe- rienced transportation men to be found | anywhere. A veteran of the World | War, he was the transportation officer at Hoboken, in charge of all troops and supplies sent overseas and returning from overseas. Millions in men and tonnage passed under his eye in the | greatest overseas movement the world has ever witnessed. In one day the record number of 53,000 men passed | through Hoboken for France. Supervised Other Projects. After that gruelling test, Capt. Shan- non supervised the return of 46,000 overseas dead and was originally in charge of the pilgrimages of American War Mothers to cemeteries in France. He combines tact with force, each equally needed in his present job. Capt. Shannon is just as enthusiastic over the successful co-operation of these 1933 transportation plans as he was over that record day at Hoboken. For the way the railroads have co- operated, not only in efficient service, | but in exceedingly low rates, he has only the highest praise. Capt. Shannon received his first movement order on May 7. A company of 207 forest recruits was to be con- veyed from Philadelphia to Fort Hoyle, Md. It was an easy job. From that day to the middle of last week, Capt. Shannon pulled the strings that sent 53,210 recruits in 176 special trains across the Continent from Eastern sec- tions to military posts and camps on 2\9 Pacific Coast, in Idaho and Mon- na. “There wasn’t the slightest confusion, mno interruption of orders, no miscar- riages of plans,” he said. “Everything went off like clock work.” Very rarely did the office have more than three days to make all the ar- rangements for these cross-country movements. Each train consisted of 15 cars— Pullman or tourist sleepers and baggage cars—with a cook car in the middle. All these forest recruits—Ilike the Doughboys of war time—carry their rolling kitchens with them whenever they entrain. Hot meals are served three times a day. ‘There is one eook car for every 500 men. Routings and time schedules call for passenger service. From Fort Meade, near Baltimore, to Pocatella, Idaho, the passage was made in two-and-a-half days. The traveling time for recuits from Fort Slocum, N, Y., to Fort Lewis, at Seattle, Wash., was an hour less than four days. Ready to Meet Emergency. As in troop movements in war time, the Quartermaster Corps has to be ready to meet any emergency situation. “One Sunday at 11 o'clock in the morning, I was working in the office,’ Capt. Shannon said in explanation, “when a telephone order came for five special trains to be moved from Camp Dix, N. J, to points Far West. They were to be moved the next day. The i {MALE GARB OF WOMEN Investors Still THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, in Poke, May Buy Pig But Under New Law Theyll Know It for new issues of securities, phrey and Ewin L. Davis. By the Assoclated Press. g N spite of the Federal securities act, the gullible investors still may buy postholes but the Government is going to let him find out be. forehand it's just a posthole he's buying. That, in brief, is the way Chairman Charles March of the Federal Trade Compmission describes the manner in which the sweeping new law govern- the | ing securities sales will seek to protect | inally liable. the average citizen with & few hard- | earned dollars to invest “There will still be wildeat stocks but the investor will have full op- portunity to know they're wildcat,” March explained. Two Ways to Find Out. There will be two ways for the huy?rl to find what he's buying under regula- tions now being completed by com- mission experts. | First of all, an exhaustive compila. tion of financial facts will be filed with | the commission by every issuer of new securities. Secondly, a condensation of the same —A. P. Photo. | information must be printed cc spicuously on prospectuses used to : | securities. the prospective purchaser and they will | | contain “what facts the commission | shall prescribe for inclusion. The| | buyer’s_ assurance that he is getting| | all needed financial information is the seller’s knowledge that if he omits a “material fact” he is civilly and crim- This is where the old adage “let the | buyer beware” becomes reversed under | President Roosevelt’s recommendation to “let the seller beware.” Can’t Heip Poor Judgment. | “Of course,” March said, “if we put | the facts in the investor's hands so he'll know all about what he's buying, | the Government can't help it if he| makes a poor investment anyhow.” | If the facts in a prospectus don’t satisfy an investor’s curiosity about a security, he may write the commission. If he pays the cost, the commission will supply a photostatic copy of the com- | plete registration statement for the ATTACKED BY SPEAKER| Seventh-Day Adventists Hear Prof. Crager Call Practice ‘Dis- gusting.” Wearing of masculine attire by women was condemned as “disgusting and out of keeping with sober-minded, sensible | church-goers,” by Prof. C. P. Crager, speaking yesterday at the Takoma Park camp meeting of the Potomac Confer- ence of Seventh-Day Adventists. Prof. Crager also decried “individual friendships between boys and girls of academic and early college grades,” de- claring- that “sentimentality does not contribute to the stabilization of char- acter among such young people.” The eamp meeting began June 15 and will end tonight, with Rev. Francis D. Nichol, editor of the Review and Herald, a religicus publication, delivering the closing address. Other speakers on to- day’s program include Rev. F. C. Gil- bert, Rev. C. L. Bond, Rev. W. 8. Mead, W. P. Eillott, president of the confe: ence: Dr. A. W. Truman, medical di- rector of Washington Sanitorium, and Mrs. C. P. Sorenson. FACES COURT-MARTIAL FLORENCE, Col., June 24 (). —Court- martial proceedings will be instituted | against Lieut. John Colonna, Wwho pleaded guilty today in a Florence Jus- tice of the Peace Court to making an attack on Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Gilbert, hotel proprietors. Lieut. Colonna was fined $199 and costs by Justice Robert M. Belt after he pleaded guilty to the assault. An- other fine of $25 was imposed by Jus- tice Belt for disorderly conduct. the C. C. C. in this way are flowing back into the streams of commerce. Omitting details, it is only necessary to cite some of the largest items of pur- chases to get a glimpse of the whole picture. Entirely accurate figures are unobtainable at this time. There is the one item of tent pins. Something over 1.800,000 large tent pins and over 1. 600,000 smaller ones had to be pur- chased and supplied quickly. To clad the feet of the foresters considerably over 2,000,000 wool socks were neces- sary. Socks wear oup quickly in the woods. Over 400,000 Bath towels and a " | Verdict for $2,000 in Favor of half million huck towels were just as| essential. men were ready and waiting. Through the co-operation of all concerned, the five trains, sure enough, moved prompt- 1y _on scheduled time.” From now until July 1, there can be no let up in the swift movement of passenger and freight trains to the forests of New England, the South and the mountain camps in the Rockies or along the Pacific slope. Some of these camps are located at places never heard of before in Army circles. They are just names and may mean a 40-mile ride by truck from the nearest rail head. Sup- plying the trucks to do what the rail- roads can't do is just another part of the day's job. As indication of the pick-up in the transportation movement, 40 special trains carrying 13,762 men were sent out of New York and New Jersey alone, last Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. ‘These trains required 342 sleeping cars and 127 baggage cars. In nearly every corps area, this train movement was being duplicated on a much smaller scale ‘The apparent ease and speed with which this transportation mobilization is being done disguises the 100 and 1 details connected with each movement While Capt. Shannon was being in- terviewed, his telephone rang. He jotted | down on a stray sheet of paper, orders for moving from Camp Humphreys, Va., /a., 2,152 bonus vet- days to do it in.” Order Prepared Quickly. He pressed a b clerks took the D “Just m: said. Wit order was returned to him “That goes to the railway representa- tives who e routings and all_the ot " he said Just like that. No hurry, no fuss. But it tells the story of a highly eff- | cient organiz | and night th ntr the precision of a perfected machine. | The Army had on hand, outside its| national defense reserve, a large stock | of World War goods. With some help from the Navy, these stores were util- | ized, as far as they went, in supplying | the forest forces. . The orly supplies purchased by the | Conservation Corps officials were the! now celebrated toilet outfits to augment | the original Army kits supplied by the Quartermaster Corps. Huge supplies of clothing and ma-| teriel, of course, had to be supplied from the factories of the Nation. All major contracts have been awarded after competitive bidding. Corps area @uthorities, however, have authority to gpurchase urgently needed supplies in a special emergency without regard to bidding. When this is necessary red tape is slashed, the best equipped fac- tories are notified and the order turned % _as in wartime. & «-#dany millions of dollars ¥xpended on | day | , with | Then, also, there was & mat- ter of something over 270,000 black cravats and 350,000 pillow cases. That the C. C. C. has been a boon to the shoe factories is seen by the need of over 500,000 pairs. There was to be no distinctive uni- form for the forest recruits, so in sup- plying blouses, many of them taken from left over war stocks, Gen. De Witt was compelled to resort to altering them into civilian coats. He obtained from his lists the clothing shops which could turn out this tailoring job in the quickest time and at the lowest price. Thousands of Army regulation blouses and trousers were put under the scis- sors. Lapels were provided and civillan side pockets. Coats were taken in and let out as the sizes demanded. Something more than 2,500,000 yards | of denim have been supplied: over 850,- 000 denim jumpers, half a million denim trousers; some 800,000 flannel shirts; 350,000 pillow cases; canvas cots by the car loads and bed sheets by other huge allotments. Actual needs and re- serve needs had to be met. In the matter of trucks alone, 3,000 trucks of 1!, tons each have actually been transported to date; 300 ambu- lances and 300 light passenger cars. All these were shipped direct from fac- tories. Health Record Set. Safeguarding the health of the forest recruits is only another of the many phases of the Army's activities It has established a health record that challenges comparison anywhere er like cor s ust ended, only five deaths were reported among the 240,000 half the population of men_in camps Of these deaths, three Washington were due st Tecruits were not se- d physical examination as enlistments, They came to camps, many of them, suffering badly from lack of food. If they were able to work, they were taken in. Flat feet meant nothing to the C. C. C. Army has given to the utmost in m; ; a success of mobilizing, condi- tioning and equipping this huge peace- time force. From its experience it has gained much in return. “Such an opportunity has never be- fore been offered to the Army on such a wide peace scale,” said Assistant Sec- retary Woodring. From a military point of view, it has demonstrated the adequacy and clency of the Army’s preparedness for a udden crisis. It has given to the young officers who missed the experi- ences of the World War, an invaluable, practical training in leadership. There was grumbling at first in some quarters when the Army learned that it had to bear the brunt of this unex- pected burden. With the realization of the opportunity it gave the Army to show what it can do in a real emer- gency, the few grumblers soon became enthusiasts. Yes, it may truthfully be sald the Army is enlisted whole-heartedly in this job and to a man is determined to see 1t put through on schedule by July 1. DEFINITE UPSWING, STEADY, SUSTAINED, (Continued Prom First Page.) | tion gains. Foreign trade returns for May were also slightly higher. ‘Wholesale Prices Rise. “Wholesale prices continued to ad- vance during the week of the 17th, with both agricultural and non-agricultural prices showing increases. The grain market was unsettled, with prices easier. | Metal prices were firm. | “Bank debits, outside New York City, | decreased and were below a year ago. | Stock prices broke sharply, but the decline in the ‘averages’ was not large. Bond prices also declined, particularly the more speculative issues. Money in | circulation dropped, and Reserve bank | credit outstanding was slightly lower. | The Reserve banks added an additional $20,000,000 to their United States Gov- | ernment security holdings, which have increased $95,000,000 in the past four weeks. The loans of the reporting member banks have increased only slightly since the bank moratorium, and ‘all other’ loans show no material ex- pansion in commercial accommodations. Last week's statement revealed an in- crease of $48,000,000 in loans by the member banks, but there was a reduc- tion of $8,000,000 in the ‘all other’ loans. Demand deposits again inereased | sharply. The statistics on commercial | fallures show a small drop in insol- | vencies for the week, a continuation of the recent favorable showing.” DAMAGES ARE AWA_RDED FOR CHAIR ACCIDENT Woman Who Broke Wrist When Furniture Collapsed. | A verdict for $2,000 in favor of Mrs. Bella M. Hoefer, 3121 Sixteenth street, | who fractured her wrist in the dining | room at the Kennedy-Warren Apart- | ments, was returned by a jury in Dis- trict Supreme Court yesterday. Mrs. Hoefer received her injury when a chair in the dining room collapsed while she was sitting in it. Modern | Restaurants, Inc., which operates the dining room, claimed there was a hidden defect in the chair which they could not have discovered by the exer- recurity. Or he may ask for specific _igures in the statement But under no circumstances will the security. “The investor will find himself in the D. C, JUNE .2 IABOREECLISES * OIS SESSN 1 W. E. Fields of Indianapolis New President With Elec- } tion of Slate. ’ . | Delegates to the sixteenth annual con- | vention of Optimist International, in | | session here since Wednesday, are leav- | |ing the Capital today for their homes | |in all sections of the United States and | | Canada following a closing jamboree at | the Mayflower Hotel last night. | The final business session, which ad- | journed yesterday afternoon, was marksd |by the election by acclamation of the |club Nominating Committee's slate headed by V. Ernest Fields of Indian- apolis as president. Other officers Members of the Federal Trade Commission who will administer the securities act which directs stringent regulation chosen included four vice presidents, From left to right: Garland S. Ferguson, Charles H. March, chairman; Willlam E. Hum- | QGeorge Dane of Toronto, Willlam Wag- | ner, Louisville; James Booth, St. Peters- burg, Fla, and Theodore Plerce, Los geles. Immediately after the tellers an- nounced the vote, David W. Onan of Minneapolls, retiring president, sum- ‘These prospectuses will be shown i0 commission offer any advice about the moned the new officers to the rostrum. | He handed the gavel to Mr. Fields and | wished his administration success. The PART ONE. STUDY-PERSONNEL - ECONOMIES HERE Board to Make Recommen- dations to Commissioners Tuesday on Situation. Recommendations for various means of curtailment of personnel expenses of each Jocal government department, re- quired to meet reduced appropriations, ! will be laid before the District Commis- sioners Tuesday. The District Personnel Board held an extended session yesterday, rewmewmg conditions {n one department at & time, ::; w-_lsl unable to complete the work will res g ume sessions again lmd_‘< | _Employes throughout the Distri | service are anxiously awaiting news ;: | the recommendations, since it is known numerous departments must curtail personnel expenses beginning July {. Msj. Daniel J. Donovan, auditor and personnel officer, said the recommenda- tions could not be made known untu after the Commissioners act on them. It i1s understood rather general adop- tion of furloughs, coupled with savings | through abolishing of vacan rofl would lessen the number ol’t tlm:.ls::lsl future, as he has in the past, buying | change of administration was hailed by securities which turn out to be ot Just | applause and expressions of apprecia- what he expected,” March said. | tion to the retiring officers. | Which otherwise would be necessary. In connection with the work of the Following the election by acclamation of the Nominating Committee’s slate® Personnel Board it was revealed that ‘Won't Pass on Stocks. “I desire to make it clear that the Federal Trade Commission is8 in no sense authorized to pass upon the value of soundness of a securiy “This body’s only function is to see that complete and accurate information cncerning a security is made available to the public, that no fraud is practiced in connection with the sale of the se- curity and that the security is trutl fully presented to prospective cus- tomers.” ‘The commission may issue stop orders against the sale of securities if it finds | the registration statement contains any | The fact that no| untrue statement. such stop order has been issued will not mean the commission has found the statement true and accurate, nor that | " Following a banquet last night, the | delegates staged a darce celebration un- der the title, “A Night in Monte Carlo.” Gayly costumed Optimists presided in businesslike and realistic fashion at the various attractions. At the close of the party last night, | the delegates adjourned to meet next | year in Toronto, the city chosen at the | closing session for the seventeenth con- | vention. | SHOT BY PLAYMATES Boy Wounded by Stones Shot From | Gun With Blanks. Wounded in an unusual accident, | Juliuvs Fortwengler, 10, of 1514 Isher- at the closing business session of the Optimist International’s convention at the | Francis H. Stephens, assistant Mayflo the pi r Hotel yesterday, V. Ernest Fields of Indianapolis (left) was handed | tion counsel, who formerl idential gavel, which he will wield for the coming year, by David W. Onan of Minneapolis, the retiring president. —Star Staff Photo. COURSE IN WEAPONS TO END AT QUANTICO Officers and Non-Commissioned Men Under Instruction to Be Detached to Inactive Duty. ‘The special course in infantry weap- ons, which has been under way at Quantico, will terminate Wednesday when the officers and non-commissioned | guns, sutomatic rifles, trench mortars, rifie grenades, hand grenades and pisto's. Nesrly 50 officers and men from the . District of Columbia took the course | ”.Dfln of the 6th rine Reserve de- tal | CHILD IS HIT BY TAXICAB | Mary Caw, 3, of 163 Uhland terrace northeast, was cut and bruised yester- day when struck by a taxicab while playing in front of her home. James of the law department, w bes to retirement within six reaching the age of 70. The District also soon may lose & number of other veteran employes, some of them holding key executive positions, | through involuntary retirement for em- | ployes having had 30 years of service, | where such ceparations are needed to | bring expenses within appropriations. _ | DRAG CANAL f FOR BODY Police were dragging the Chesa) Ohio Canal near Chain P!)lkzm | night for the body cf a colo: man, believed to be PFrank Brown, 30, of 1200 block Quackenbos street, who was IS UNDERWAY IN U. S. | the prospectus is correct. But again, | if it isn't, directors of the issuing cor- | wood street northeast, was treated at| men under instruction will be detached poration, the underwriters and account- | Casualty Hospital yesterday for an in- | (o inactive duty status, permitting them | ant_may be sued | jury to the right arm. | ‘The chairman said the commission | Police said he was shot by playmates | t0 T€turn to varlous reserve units, where | would begin to receive on July G the |who were firing blank cartridges from |they will act as instructors. first registration statements on security {a revolver with stones jammed in the | The course included detailed instruc- Spart, 32, first block of Eighth street, | reported to have drowned there yester- was driver of the cab, police said. | day afternoon. - Mrs. Ida E. Lindemyer, 51, of Sta-! Brown is said to have suddenly dis- pleton, N. Y., received a sprained necl ppeared under the water while swim- | yesterday afternoon when the auto- ming. mobile in which she was riding collided | with Te) who issues. They must be on fille 20 d:ylihlrrel. nge admin- before sgles may begin. hospital the boy returned home. After receiving attention at the | tions in rarge firing and | with a street car plow pit in the 300 persons in the vicinity, police, istration for machine guns, submachire | block of T street northeast. A MESSAGE TO ALL FORD WORKERS You and I together are oredited We use it to make more t! tion." people have more and be wages with has been visibly elevated. Industry never harms 2 country: ha Industry bears the brunt of it. less strain—not less work. with having created "mass produo= hings in less time at lower cost. By it the tter goods at cheaper prices. Workmen earn higher The level of American fapily comfort rm oomes from elsewhere. But After the slump came, we inoreased our $6 which continued for 22 months. TYoday our vage rate pinimun wage to $7 a day, to accidents and only two | | cise of reasonable care. The jury, how- | ever, agreed with the plaintiff’s conten- | tion that the defect should have been discovered. Mrs. Hoefer was represented by At- torneys Alvin Newmyer and Walter M. | Bastian. GIRL TAKES PO@N | IN TELEPHONE BOOTH :Drug Btore Employes See Her Fall and Administer Emetic in Time. | After purchasing a poisonous anti- septic in a drug store near Seventh and E streets last night, Miss Dorothy Swaind, 22, went into a telephone booth and drained the bottle. A few minutes later employes of the store saw her crumple and fall. They carried her to the prescription labora- tory, where an emetic was administered by the pharmacist in charge. She then was transferred to Emer- gency Hospital, and physicians there sald they did not consider her condition serious. She was ordered detained at the institution, however, pending an investigation by police. FOUR CONCERTS PI:ANNED Service and Community Civic Bands to Be Heard This Week. _ Four band concerts will be held from 30 109 pm. this week In the city’s 5 Col. James A. Woodruff, director of public buildings and public parks, yes- terday announced the Army Band will play tomorrow evening at the Taft Recreation Center, Twentieth and Otis streets northeast. 'On Tuesday evening, in the District of Columbia World War Memorial in West Potomac Park, the Navy Band will be heard. On Thurs- day evenirg, also in the War Memorial, the Marine Band will play. The Com- munity Civic Band will play on Friday evening at United States Reservation No. 170, at Tenth and U streets. FACTORY V\iAGE RAISED CINCINNATI, Ohio, June 24 (#).—A wage increase of 10 per cent, which offi- als said would bring employes’ earn- ings back to the levels of 1928 and 1929, was announced today by the Stearns & Foster Co., manufacturers of mattresses and cotton products. | Evans Stearns, vice president, said | several hundred workers would be af- fected. He added that the number of employes of the company had been in- creased 10 per cent since May, and that the increase in wages was & step in preparation for the establishment of | shorter working ho under the na- ) tional recovery act. 4s the highest in our line. Between making and using things, nt the maker from making not ocause. stepped in to preve We pioneered the 8-hour day., always exceeded the mark : tood on a just and human basis. have always S progress, and possess theories have never think is right. or compulsion, but by asreements" We have no fears of under any just system. orowded industrial centers, in village and country. The benefits of economic change. the evils of massed industria are able to take this next You and I met the test of a pay-roll. And we achieved th —free to do what we saw was But Industry still suffers for something she did something outside Industry has and the user from using. the 5-day week, a minimum wage that has Relations between employees and the Company We are as interested in social y reformer whose et rate. itive a social conscience as an We pay for doing what we by regulation as sens ese industrial decencies not ing free of financial control.and ngentlemen's right and necessary. We can make good motor oars Big factories, be: what is ahead. I think industry will spread out. Instead we shall have workshops will dissolve. vent the worst shocks of Nearness to the land will pre "mass production" can be retained without That is the next step. 1 crowding. step because of what we learned in taking the present one. June 23, 1933 Fok