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HEALTH ACTIVITIES OF U.S. RETAINED Essential Services Remain Despite Changgs to Meet Reduced Budget. Although it is entering the new fiscal year with drastically reduced appropri- ations, the Public Health Service has been able to weather the economy storm with most of its essential activi- ' ties intact, & check of the various di- visions revealed today. The problem of reducing personnel has been met almost entirely by retire- ments of commissioned officers and by 30-vear-service retirements and laying off married women whose husbands are yed by the Government. There has been a large reduction in the Marine Hospital and fleld station serv- jce, where it was necessary to lay off approximately 400 out of a total of 2,- 000. The rural health work, with an appropriation cut from $300,000 to $25,- 000, has been disgantinued altogether, but this has little efiect on the person- nel of the service itself. Each division of the serivce had to settle its problem in its own way, and some peculiar problems have arisen. ‘Thus while most of the divisions will have payless furloughs, the Marine Hos- pital division chose to reduce its per- sonnel except in the case of the Leper Hospital at Carville, La., where a two- week furlough has been put into effect. Most of the non-technical staff there are lepers who can't leave the hospital anyway. so they couldn't very well be discharged. 22 Officers Retired. Unlike the Army and Navy, the Public Health Service does Dot retire its commissioned officers for age but only for physical disability. There have been rigid physical examinations, how- ever, which have brought about the re- tirement of 22 officers, for the most part on three-fourths pay although a few in one of the lower divisions will re- ceive only 60 per cent pay. These re- tirements brought the commissioned corps almost within its pay allotment so that deaths and voluntary retire- ments during the next few months are expected to provide for the difference. If these do not materialize & short fur- lough may be necessary, but they are almost bound to come in the normal course of events. The commissioned corps includes | some of the foremost medical research workers in the United States, some of whom have passed the Z0-year-service line, but all the outstanding scientists have been retained except a few who have been retired under the disability provision. Among the clerical and other worker: in the administrative offices in \?v;‘sehf ington only a saving of $30,000 was found necessary and it is believed that | this can be met almost entirely by | separation from the service of persons Jobless Man Offers To Raise Funds to Salvage Schooner Capt. Asa Ketcham may get his thrice-sunken, twice-salvaged oyster schooner back after all, if there are many more “ samaritans” like F. S. Browne in the city. Browne, reading of Capt. Ketcham's ill fortune, called The Star today and said that, al- though out of a job, he would be glad to contribute $1 to aid the riverman in paying the $100 salvage fee which Government engineers are holding the boat for. “And I know & lot more who ‘would help Capt. Ketcham to get back his boat—his only means of livelthood,” Browne said. He lives at 1501 Farragut street and plans to start a campaign among ;fls friends to raise the salvage ee. I%WALTERREED FORCE T0 BE 0UT Few Civilian Workers Remain as Hospital Will Be Strictly Military. | ‘With the exception of a “mere hand- | ful,” it was disclosed today, all the 195 civillan employes remaining at Walter Reed General Hospital since re- trenchment began more than a month ago will have been dropped from the rolls by tomorrow, the end of the pres- ent fiscal year. In the future it will be operated strictly as an Army hos- pital. Only about 15 of the once-numerous civilian staff will be retained tempo- rarily. it waf said, to take care of the 52 World War veterans among the patients. who are in no condition to be discharged from treatment at this time. Added to this number are about 35 forestry recruits sent to the hospital from camps in nearby localities. Under the provisions of the inde- pendent offices appropriation act, all veterans in Army hospitals whose in- juries or ailments are classified as| “non-service connected” are being dis- charged as rapidly as possible. Of the more than 2,000 cases of this kind, turned over by the Veterans’ Admin- istration, only 471 were on the rolls of all Army hospitals on June 24. | Many Are Discharged. ‘Walter Reed Hospital, one of the THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1933. BUSINESS WARNED TO ACT COLLECTIVELY v Spokesmen for Gen. Johnson De- : clares Trade Leaders Given One : More Chance to Help Selves. / By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, June 29.—Business men of Chicago were told yesterday in be- half of Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, Federal administrator for industrial recovery, that they have “one more chance to attempt doing collectively what they failed to do individually.” The speaker, Prof. Paul Douglas of the University of Chicago, was com- missioned by Gen. Johnson to address the Chicago Association of Commerce in his behalf. “Since private business and finance had proved itself helpless to restore production, some force outside the profit system had to undertake it.” Douglas said. “That force could only be the Government.” Douglas reviewed the points of the Government program, including re- employment, lifting wage levels, in- creasing bank loans and elimination of ! harmful competition. He sald that if any industry failed to frame a code and fix adequate and minimum wages with maximum work- ing hours, then the Government had authority under the recovery act to step in and do so. HEADS CURLEY CLUB Miss Mary L. McGee, Organizer of Body in 1922, Is Honored. ‘The organizer of the Curley Club in 1922, Miss Mary L. McGee, was chosen president of the organization last mght. Luke F. O'Reilly. who is prominent in local amateur theatrical circles, was elected vice president; Miss Dorothy Barrett was re-elected treasurer; Miss Emily Hodges was picked at recording secretary; Miss Margaret Freedman, corresponding secretary; Joseph Diegel- mann, warden; William Exner, ser- geant at arms, and Ray McGarvey, advocate. For the seventh consecutive term, Rev. Francis X. Cavanagh, pastor of the Church of the Assumption., who was | appointed chaplain of the Curley Club in 1926, was re-elected to that post. FLYING ANTS (Termites) £10.000.000 Damage Annually wodwork in Homes and Buil GUARANTEED TREATMENT Vacating Unnecessary—Free Inspection Terminix Co. of Washington 1102 National Press Bldg. Phone National 3703 Friday Special "TH * Worthwhile Savings on Timely Needs—at W ashington’s Finest Men’s Wear Store Special Offering of RALEIGH “8” SPORT SHOES 485 Lucky! Plenty of W hites! HITES, tan-and-whites, black- and - whites, two -tones and Golf Shoes . . . 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Shell Crabs on Toast, charges. 50c & 75¢ HOSE whose spouses have Gov | z Government jobs, | largest ard finest in the country, has | g., Food Plate, Soft 50c | e | | State Aid Discontinued. The appropriation for the 2 i hospitals and about 20 field mfd.]:fi“rgf lief stations was reduced from $5,600,000 to $4420,000. It was decided not to Tesort to the furlough system, but to reduce the staffs, except in the case of Carville. So far as possible, the sepa- have been of persons not di- engaged in caring for the sick, oximately 100 nurses and about cians have been stricken from About 40 per cent of the re- duction was met by operation econo- mies. The rural health unit of the Domes- tic Quarantine Division has been giving financial aid to county health units in 28 States. A few of these units will be maintained by the counties and States themselves, but, for the most part, it is believed, they will be discontinued. The poverty of ‘the counties will prevent employment of full-time personnel out of local funds alone. $25.000 left out of the $300,000 appropriation will be used in completing some research projects in connection with the work. The Domestic Quarantine Division suffered a 50 per cent reduction in its| appropriation for trachoma investiga- ! tion and prevention work which it was carrying on in co-operation with Ten- nessee, Kentucky, Missouri and Georgia. ‘Trachoma is a widespread eye disease responsible for many cases of blindness in these States. It is not believed that the States themselves will be able to keep up the full burden of the work. Plague Staff Reduced. There was also a 50 per cent reduc- tion in the bubonic plague control work carried on in co-operation with Cali- fornia. In several counties adjacent to| San Francisco the bubonic plague in- fection is known to be carried by ground squirrels and there is an occa- sional human case of this dreaded dis- ease, which is the same as the terrible black death of the Middle Ages. A relentless campaign has been carried on against these infected squirrels. Al- though it is primarily a problem for California, the Federal Government has recognized the danger to other States along the Pacific Coast and to the Na- tion's_Pacific commerce, which would be affected seriously by a quarantine of such a port as San Francisco. There has been a reguction of 20 in the per- sonnel for the trachoma and plague e Division of Scientific Research, which operates the National Institute of Health here, besides conducting re- search projccts at other stations, suf- fered a 50 per cent reduction, which has been taken up in operation econ- omics, in a one-month payless fur- lough for all the personnel, pay re- ductions in the higher brackets and dismissal of 28, a few of whom are married women whose husbands are in the Government service. All the es- sential research projects have been con- tinued, although they may be somewhat slowed up by the personnel reduction. The appropriation for the maritime quarantine division was cut 50 per cent and this has been met in part by a pay- less furlough of two days a month. Or- dinatily this service more than pays for itself in fees from fumigated shins. Re- | duced shipping, however, has brought | about approxima‘ely a 10 per cent de- clin® in demand fo: the ices. ‘The Division of Mental Hygiene, which | provides medical service in Federal | penal and correctional institutions. will be able to come within its reduced ap- propriation by delaying for one menth the opening of services in new institu- tions to be started at Detroit, Soring- fleld. Mo.. and in Oklahoina and by the curtailment of certain research projects which have been under way. Sets Economy Record. A record for economical house build- ing is said to have been made by Rev. H. J. Stahl of Elkhart, Ind.. who erected a six-room home 2t a total cost of less than $1.000. CLOVERDALE LITH-A-LIMES If you serve ginger ale at your parties, next time serve a drink far better— Lith - A - Limes. It has a new, delicious flavor that # blends wonderfully with anything. And, like fine champagne, it sparkles for hours after it's poured. -~ Pt. Bottle, 12Y¢ War veterans. They have been dis- | Grilled Lamb Chop.... charged as soon as their physical con- dition permitted. At the Army Medical Corps it was said the remaining 52 veterans, Who represent extreme cases, will be sent to hospitals under the con- trol of the Veterans’ Administration or discharged as socn as they are cured. After July 1 Walter Reed will be| conducted on strictly an Army basis. Its normal bed capacity of 1131 is| only partially filled now. Whole wards | have been depleted. From now on all | the work force and hospital orderlies | will be Army men. Sometimes the hospital has about 500 Army patients. These Army patients will constitute in | the future, unless the law is repealed the only cases to be admitted to the | hospital. | For years Walter Reed Hospital has | been famous for its occupational ther- apy aids, supported from funds of the Veterans’ Bureau. Patients have been trained for many kinds of useful trades in its many shops. All these are now closed and, compared with the| usual bustle, the big establishment is taking on a deserted air. sl Fitzsimons General Hospital at Den- | ver, Colo., another of the fine Army | hospitals where hundreds of veterans | were once given treatment. was origi- nally scheduled to be closed under economy plans. Due to pressure brought to bear on the War Depart- ment, this hospital will be continued in operation. There are only 267 vet- | erans left of the 670 that were formerly patients at Fitzsimons Hospital. It is| one of the best locations for tubercu- | losis treatment and most of the Army | tubercular patients, and some from the | Navy, are sent to the Denver institu- | tion. Sum May Be Held Up. | The present situation at Walter Reed Hospital, it was believed, will | have the effect of holding up indefi- | nitely the proposed expenditure of | $663,058 on improvements at the Army Medical Center in Washingicn. 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