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" WEATHER. (U. S. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Generally fair today; tomorrow, occasional showers; little change in temperatuce; gentle to moderate southerly winds. Temperatures—Highest, 85, at 3 p.m. yester- day: lowest, 68, at 4 am, Full report on page 7. (P) Means Assoc yesterday. iated Press. = No. HURRICANE: DEATHS SOAR T0 63 IN NEW . CAGUALTY SURVEY Rescuers Invading Isolated Areas Find Evidence of Far Greater Losses. 1,485—No. 32,632, 80 REPORTED MISSING ON FOUR SUGAR BOATS 30 Killed at Cardenas—Medical Supplies Run Short—New Storm Course Checked. By the Associated Press. The death toll from the tropical storm which swept parts of Cuba Fri- day mounted rapidly last night as the West Indies kept a sharp watch on an- other disturbance advancing from the Caribbean. ‘The number of dead in Cuba jumped from nine to at least 63 as communi- cations were restored and Tescuers fought their way into communities pre- viously isolated. Cardenas, in the heart of the Cuban sugar belt, apparently was the hardest hit. More than 30 were killed there, and 60 to 80 men were reported missing. The latter comprised the crews of four sugar-laden boats which were believed Jost Twenty Clara area. dead, Sauga La Grande Havana one. Medical Supplies Short. Medical supplies were running short at Cardenas. The city was without lights or water. The hurricane were killed Matanzas reported four eight and which lashed Cuba in the Santa| Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. Balloonists Soar Into Dark, Stormy Sky in Cup Contest Bad Weather of Take-Off Prefaced by Dramatic Death of Plane Pilot- By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, September 2—The 1933 International James Gordon Bennett Balloon Race, classic marathon for lighter-than-air craft, got under way tonight with a brisk wind blowing a threat of thunderstorms against the field, reduced to six by withdrawal of one German entry. The first balloon to take off was the Goodyear IX, piloted by Ward T. Van Orman, veteran of 15 years of free ballooning. It left the field at 5:04 p.m. (Central standard time) and floated away to the northeast. Hundreds of spectators at the inter- national air races cheered as Van Or- man and his assistant, Frank A. Trot- ter, swung up toward a sky flecked with white clouds. Shower Danger Obvious. In every other direction were banks of dark clouds. In them, contest offi- cials said, lay the danger of showers and thunderstorms. Earlier a buffeting wind _brought " (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) IGKES WILL DELAY 0L PRICE FIANG |Awaits Effect of Balancing i Supply and Demand Un- der Blue Eagle. | | | By the Associated Press | A thorough test of the effect on prices A he AWAIT RODSEVELT'S DECISION ON LOANS TONR A FIRMS Aides Draft Plan to Free Millions for Merchant Groups. COAL ACCORD DELAYED; JOHNSON AGAIN IN FRAY Ford Still Silent—President Re- ported Ready to Wield Li- censing Club. By the Associated Press. Awaiting the approval of President Roosevelt, a tentative plan for pouring out some of the Reconstruction Cor- poration’s millions to aid willing but financially disabled employers who are trying to operate under the N. R. A. last night was near completion. The rugged outlines, as disclosed yes- terday, embrace mortgage corporations formed by business men in various com- munities to receive funds from the R. F. C. and in turn lend them to business firms to supply money for the increased pay rolls incidental to the Tecovery program. This plan took shape at the direction of President Roosevelt as Hugh S. Johnson, the recovery chief, ended his projected week end of relaxation and threw himself into an apparently un- successful effort to end the disagree- ment within the bituminous coal in- dustry. After hours of arguing, the intention of having a coal code ready for the President upon his return to the Capital went overboard and Johnson adjourned the conferences until Tuesday. Too Sleepy to Negotiate. He said two of the conferees fell {asleep during his talk with them and |all were so tired after the weeks of centered Saturday in the Gulf of Mex- | of bringing America’s ofl production in | night discussions that it was useless to €o north of Cape San Antonio, s the | ;ecorq with market needs was called for | try to get an accord from the non- new disturbance, approximately 100 miles northwest of Turks Island, moved at the rate of 17 miles per hour. The Weather Bureau at Washington and Miami would not predict the course of the new storm more than 24 hours in advance, although officials in the former city said there was no danger to the United States coastline during that period. The Miami forecaster expected its center to be south of Nassau by Sunday morning. The observatcry at Santiago, Cuba, however, predicted the latest blow would whip over Camaguey Province of that island, between 2 and 4 am. Sunday. Belated advices from Nassau report- ed seven deaths in the Long Island. Long Cay. Acklins and Crooked Island groups from hurricane which later visited Cuba. (Copyrizht, 1933, by the Associated Press.) CARDENAS, Cuba, September 2.— The tropical hurricane which swept this sugar center Friday killed at least 30 perscns, injured more than 100 and wrcught unprecedented damage to property. The extent of the damage was learned tonight when an Associated Press representative made his way into Carcenas over debris-strewn highways. Scenes of misery were on every hand tonight as residents worked to clear away the tangle of trees, posts, tim- bers and refuse scattered helter-skelter by_the storm. Four sugar-laden sailboats from this port with crews of from 15 to 20 each were missing and another was aground on a nearby sandbar. 10-Foot Wave Reported. Residents said a tidal wave 10 feet high swept in from the sea at the height ‘ of the storm and houses three blocks from the harbor were stained with mud ‘ € feet from the ground. Cardenas’ famous museum, contain- ing almcst priceless relics of Cuba's early history, suffered major damage when the roof collapsed. The Pro- gresiva School, operated en’s Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church, was damaged and Dr. R. L. Wharton, its superintendent, estimated a loss of $10,000. Dr. Wharton said that as far as he could learn all American residents of Cardenas and Varadero Beach escaped injuries. The Arechaval Sugar Refinery, one of the city's most modern buildings, was destroyed, as was the police station. Police were housed temporarily in the fire station. Residents, apparently be- lieving the full force of the storm would " (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) —_— MACHADO AIDE SLAIN BY MOB IN HAVANA Former Sergeant Believed Last of ; Ex-President’s Strong-Arm Squad. By the Associated Press. HAVANA, September 2.—Fifteen bul- Jets from a submachine gun today ended the careerBof Jose Penate, believed to be the last of former President Gerardo Machado’s strong-arm squad. Penate. who was a sergeant in the old secret police organization, died as he fought his way out of a house in which he had been hiding. Authorities said executioners of the A B C Revolu- tionary Society were the slayers. After he fell, a rope was placed around Penate's neck and the body dragged into an automobile. Then, to the accompaniment of automobile si- rens, the body was driven through the streets at the head of a parade of motor cars. At Santiago, leaders of colored socie- ties publicly protested “unfounded” ru- mors that race trouble loomed in Ori- ente Province. The reports apparently arose from the speeca of an agitator in Havana Tecently in which he urged colored citi- zens to demand “absolute equality with whites.” Meanwhile, “Aprista Social Labor party” organizers from Havana were busy at Santiago trying to secure ad- herents to their organization. General News. Editorials .... Financial News. Society . < Classified Amusements Sports. ... Magazine ..Part 7 y the Wom- | ! vesterday by Secretary Ickes as the first move in Federal supervision of the pe- | troleum industry under its N. R. A. trade code. For the time being, Ickes vetoed the appeals of a wide section of the $12.- 000,000,000 business and suggestions Co-ordination Committee that the Gov- ernment embark upon full price regula- tion promptly. This decision made. the Interior Secretary, who also is oil administrator, set the national daily production at 2,409,700 barrels. prohibiting net with- | drawals from storage except with his | consent, and limiting imports to about | 80,000 barrels daily. With these steps, the code became formally effective, but numerous re- visions still were pending on Ickes’ desk for final determination. The code af- fects an estimated 1.200,000 workers and | leaders have said these would be in- creased by 250,000 in the next few weeks. i Ickes to Await Developments. | _Soon after Ickes made known his decision to the Oil Committee he an- | nounced to newspapermen that on | price regulation “I see no occasion to exercise a power which I don't have | to exercise.” adding: | “The prices were not fixed with the | code’s becoming efTective because I don't | know that will be necessary. I want to see the effect of balancing supply | and demand.” | " If the rigid control over production does not take care of prices, Ickes said, he will consider “raising prices” by fiat. | explaining “no door is closed” by his present decision. Informed of recent price hikes by major oil companies and others, in ad- vance of the code becoming effectiv Ickes said no “gouging of the consume :\iould be tolerated by the administra- on. “We are going to watch very carefully | the retail price of gasoline,” he said. “I hope it won't get out of a fair and proper relationship to the price of | erude oil.” | If and when it should be held neces- | sary to fix prices, he indicated, every, | precaution would be taken to protect | the motorist. The costs, however. will rise some through the necessity of the industry to meet increased labor costs under wage-raising and hour-shortening provisions of the code. Revisions Predicted. Pending the working out of the pro- | duction_control sections, a prcvision in the code to permit holding the price of crude oil in the ratio of 185 to gaso- (Continued on Page 4, Column 2.) FINANCIER DROWNED Allen W. T. Bottomley Falls From Yacht Near Honolulu. HONOLULU, Septemhgr 2 (#).—Re- turning to Honolulu aboard his yacht after bidding “aloha” to his wife, who sailed for the mainland aboard the liner Lurline, Allen W. T. Bottomley, one of Hawaii’s leading financiers, fell overboard and drowned in rough seas today, 10 miles off shore. Bottomley, president of the Bishop First National Bank of Honolulu and American Factors, Ltd., was 60. from members of its own planing and | | union operators and John L. Lewis, | president of the United Mine Workers | of America. ‘The operators were understood to have | insisted upon inclusion in the contracts | of a clause which would permit recog- nition of labor groups other than the | United Mine Workers for purposes of | collective bargaining—if such groups | asked recognition J. V. Norman of Louisville, Ky.. one |of the attorneys for the Smokeless Appalachian Coal Association, said a | contract without such a provision would | violate the recovery act. The operators and miners also were reported to have disagreed upon in- |clusion of the check-off. The usual mine union contract calls for the check-off, or deduction of union dues from miners’ pay. | Many coal men felt the open shop question had simmered down to & difference as to whether minorities of | labor should be recognized or majorities | should rule under the recovery act. Negotiators Non-Committal. After the morning conference, miners land operators were equally non-com- | mittal on its proceedings and results. | Operators were represented by Charles ONeill, vice president of Peale, Pea- cock & Kerr; John D. A. Morrow, | president of the Pittsburgh Coal Co.; R. E. Taggart of the General Coal Co. and Duncan Kennedy of Charleston, W. Va. Those representing the miners were John L. Lewis, president of the Mine Workers: Philip Murray, vice president; Percy Tetlow, Ohio district president; Patrick Fagan, Pittsburgh district president, and Van Bitner, West Virginia district president. So hedged about has Johnson become with labor problems involving the col- lective bargaining section of the re- covery act that he said he was consider- ing seeking from Attorney General Cummings an interpretation. The administrator still was without recent word from Henry Ford as to his attitude on the automobile code for the industry, but the Detroit manufacturer has until Tuesday—the day the code becomes effective—to affiliate himself with it. __Should he not do so, it was under- (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) ‘COUNTERFEI'I.'ER, “[30NE," i ASKS PRISON SHELTER | Former Chiet Clerk of Missouri Penitentiary, Sought Since 1931, Surrenders. | By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, Scptember 2.—A tall man entered the office of William H. Davenport, head of the Federal Secret Service here, tossed scveral counterfeit $5 bills on Davenport's desk today and said: “I'm hungry, ready to go to prison for the Winter or even longer.” He said he was Carl P. Freeman, form:r assistant chief clerk of the Missouri Penitentiary, and had been sought on a fugitive warrant since April, 1931, by Federal agents in Los Angeles, who arrested his companion in counter- feiting. He waved preliminary hearing on a counterfeiting charge and bond was fixed at $3,000. “I'm-through,” he said, as he was sent to jail. By the Associated Press. MADRID, September 2.—Persons close to the former ruling family of Spain predicted today that Juan Carlos, youngest son and heir of former King Al- fonso, will soon be married in an elab- orate ceremony to Princess Maria of Italy. ‘The Pope, these sources said, is to officiate at the wedding, with Premier Mussolini acting as official sponsor. The 20-year-old Juan Carlos became heir pretender when his elder brother, the Prince of the Asturias, married a commoner, Edelmira Sampedro of Cuba, last June. The predicted match with Princess Maria, who is 19, is to be asso- ciated with all the pomp and ceremony carried by the rank of the pretender- s! hip. 'lqhe Prince of Wales, it was said, will be among the highest ranking repre- sentatives of the nations attending the ceremony, which would be one of the most elaborate royal weddings in re- cent times, in accordance with Q! rigid Spanish-Italian protocol. Juan Carlos is serving as a_courtesy cadet in the British Navy and he met the daughter of the Italiyn King mot f POPE MAY PRESIDE AT WEDDING OF SPANISH-ITALIAN ROYALTY long ago when on leave. Alfonso re- cently visited the Pope and the Italian royal family. Alfonso’s second son, Jaime, is a deaf mute, and for this reason the preten- dership passed directly to Juan Carlos when the first son was <dropped from the succession. POSSIBLE ALLIANCE REPORTED. Group of Spanish Nobility Make Visit to Rome. ROME, September 2 (#).—Reports ot a possible alliance between the royal houses of Spain and Italy have been circulated as a result of the presence in Rome of a group of members of the Spanish nobility. The visitors are headed by Don Car- los of Bourbon and Donna Luisa of Orleans. The Pope today received Don Carlos and his family. In the royal household, however, re- ports of a match between the Infante Juan Carlos, heir pretender to the Spanish throne, and Princess Maria, 19-year-old daughter of King Victor Emmanuel, were met with the reply that nothing had been heard of it. Princess Maria is spending the Sum- mer with her parents at Sant Anns Valdieri in North Italy. Sy Shae WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION Investors Urged Note—The author of this story is a _writer on finance and business, who has spent several months study- ing the land problem at Muscle shoals. Twilight is settling over the latest of incipient land booms at Muscle Shoals. In many Northern and Eastern cities, particularly Washingten, New York, Chicago and Detroit, promoters and subdivision owners are making a final attempt to unload. Meanwhile the Gov- ernment has indicated that real estate speculation at Muscle Shoals is more than normally hazardous. Both Presi- dent Roosevelt and Arthur E. Morgan, chairman of the Tennessee Valley Au- thority, say people buying real estate in that area at present prices may lose three-fourths of their money. But why, one may ask, should the Government take this attitude toward Muscle Shoals? Has it not invested approximately $160,000.000 there and does it not intend to spend $60,000,000 more in the Tennessee Valley to com- plete its projects? 1Is not the Tennes- | see Valley the promised land of the 'WE DO OUR PaART WASHINGTON, D. C., SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER*& 1933—SEVENTY-FOUR PAGES. = to Use Caution As Muscle Shoals Land Booms Sharp Deflation of Values Forecast Under New Deal, Despite Promoters’ Efforts to Unload Property. | new deal. and Muscle Shoals the heart | of the valley? | For the answer one must go back | 110 or 12 years to the start of the great | Ford boom, trace the section’s history | from then’ to the present. and con- | sider the area in the light of what | the new deal has in store. Edison Was Impressed. Shortly after the World War, when | the report spread that Army engineers were thinking of dynamiting the in- completed Wilson Dam because it was a menace to river navigation, J. W. Worthington, Sheffield, Ala., interested Henry Ford in taking over the Gov- |ernment’s projects and completing them. g | Ford took Thomas A. Edison to Mus- | cle Shoals with him, and after his in- spection he remarked to Mr. Edison: “If the Government will let me take | this over I will build a city here 75 | miles long." Mr. Edison was equally impressed. “The completed Muscle Shoals will be worth more than all the gold currency in the world,” h2 said. | These statements focused the coun- | try’s attention upon this huge, partly- | developed project the Government seemed about to abandon. Here was “(Continued on Page 3, Column 3.) AMERICAN STUDENT BEATEN BY NAZIS Samuel Bossard, Chester, Pa., Reports Attack to Consulate at Berlin. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, September 2 —Samuel Bos- sard of Chester, Pa, a student, in- formed the American consulate today that he had been attacked by Nazi storm troopers while standing in front of the hotel where he is staying. In an affidavit, Bossard said the police did not interfere. The attack, he declared, took place as he was watching a parade. American authorities protested most strongly. saying that this and similar cases were having a cumulative effect abroad. Bossard refused to comment. WAS STUDYING ART. American Attacked in Berlin Graduated at Princeton This Year. PHILADELPHIA, September 2 (#).— Samuel Brennan Bossard, who informed ithe American consulate in Berlin that he had been attacked by Nazi trocpers, was graduated from Princeton Univer- sity this year with high honors. Robert L. rd, his father, said today he would file & protest with the State Department at Washington. The father said his son had been advised by a Princeton professor to visit Germany, and he left July 16 to obtain data to write a thesis on the influence of German art on English art. He was traveling alone. He in- tends to take a post-graduate course in Columbia University this Winter in ancient and modern languages. Before going to Princeton he attended Franklin and Marshall Academy at Lancaster, Pa. AUSTRIAN NAZI KILLED. Youthful Fugitive Falls From Precipice in Bavaria, BERCHTESGADEN, Bavaria, Sep- tember 2 (#).—Karl Thomas, a 21-year- old Austrian Nazi fleeing from Austrian police, was killed today in a fall from a precipice on Bavarian soil. The incident occurred on Untersberg L‘{ounmn on the Austro-German fron- tier. TWO KILLED AT DANCE 100 Shots Are Exchanged After Political Argument. VIGO, Spain, September 2 (#).—Two persons were killed and three wounded ;hen looulhotil were excth;nled (olln:‘- tical argumen! ere tonight. f:n':up:um were called to quell the disturbance, which occurred at & sl T o dance | eration of Labor as an EMPLOYES MAP FIGHT FOR RIGHTS Militant Convention Program Seeks Reforms of Adverse Job Conditions. BY J. A. FOX, Staff Correspondent of The Star. KANSAS CITY, Mo., September 2.— With a militant program aimed princi- pally at effecting reforms of adverse employment conditions that have crept into the Government personnel struc- ture since the passage of the first economy act in July, 1932, the National Federation of Federal Employes open their twelfth biennial convention here Monday morning at 10 o'clock. Termed by Luther C. Steward of ‘Washington, national president, as “the most important meeting in the history of the organization,” the convention will bring together representatives of come 500 local unions. who will decide on the principles to be fought for to better the working conditions of those constituting the vast machinery of government. Seven Main Issues. Seven main issues loom as the rally- ing points of the workers: Preservation and extension of the merit system. Eliminaticn of pay cuts and furloughs. Standardized sick and annual leave, and an equitable adjustment of the entire leave question. Removal of inequities in the Federal charges for quarters, subsistence and laundry. Extension of classification that will take in the field service. Establishment of a civil service “court of appeals.” Optional voluntary retirement after 30 years of service. 276 Resolutions In Hand. Along with these will be considered dozens of related issues, 276 resolutions aiready ' being in hand for committee action, with others in prospect when the convention gets started. Under customary procedure, those resolution of like tenor.will be lumped, with the views of different locals united on any certain issue consolidated in the one proposal, in order that the conven- tion will have a say on any idea ad- vanced. This policy forestalls “steam-roller” tactics for choking off controversial is- sues and, in the ordinary course events, will pave the way for bringing to light any interfederation grievances, one of which—relations with the Amer- ican Federation of Labor—seems due for a test. This is the first gathering of the Fed- eral Employes since the split with the American Federation of Labor in De- cember, 1931, in a row over a classifica- tion, and two resentatives of the e Employes, ich was set up by - ition_unit, (Continted on Page 2, Column 32 of | 20 S0 BUDGET REQUEST IS SEE Preliminary Figures May Ex- ceed Present Operating Sum by $10,000,000. | Corzmittee prepared to begip a series | of conferences this week on the prepa- | ration of the local budget for 1934-35, it was reliably reported last night that | fiscal year, as submitted to the commit- | tee by department heads, exceed by | well over $10,000.000 the appropriation total for the present year of approxi- mately $33,000.000. | Another important development yes- terday was receipt by the Commission- ers of a letter from the Budget Bu- reau, believed to contain instructions to guide them in drawing up the local budget and arriving at the total amount to be sought. District officials were not ready yesterday to make the communi- cation public or to discuss its contents. It was learned at the Budget Bureau, however, that it is the intention of that office this year to give all Government agencies an approximate total figure to guide them in making up their esti- mates. Donovan Prepares Figures. District Auditor Daniel J. Donovan | is expected to submit to the Commis- sicners within a few days a compre- hensive statement on District finances, consisting of a complete report on re- ceipts and expenditures for the fiscal vised estimate of receipts and expendi- summary of what has developed thus far regarding the estimates to be sub- mitted for the fiscal year 1935. Pending submission of this statement to the Commissioners, Maj. Donovan would not discuss the subject of how much the 1935 estimates of department heads amount to in the aggregate, nor would he indicate what recommenda- tions the statement may contain re- garding the new estimates. $43,000,000 Total Seen. It is believed, however, that the needs as outlined by the department heads throughout the municipal service, count- ing trust and special funds, will be $43,000,000, with some indications that it may be even slightly above that sum. ‘While this figure will represent what the department chiefs believe is essen- tial to meet the city’s necessary re- quirements for next year, the Bureau of the Budget has the determining voice in fixing the total sum the District will be allowed to present to Congress. What figure the Budget Bureau has in mind as a limit beyond which the District's new estimates may not go remains unknown. And until that figure is revealed it will not be possible to tell how much chenging and trimming the Commissioners will have to do in (Continued on Page 4, Column 5.) ZION SESSIONS END, IN LEADERS_HIP SPLIT Factlons Fail to Reach Understand- ing on Execitive Body to Be Elected. PRAHA, September 2 (Jewish Tele- graph Agency) —The eighteenth World Zionist Congress entered its final ses- sions tonight with a complete lack of agreement among its factions on lead- ership of the organization for the next two years. Negotiations among the various fac- tions during the past week resulted in failure to reach an understanding as to the composition of the executive body to be elected. It seemed definite, however, that Nahum Sokolow, 72-year- old president of the organization, would be re-elected, in view of the refusal of lg Chaim Weizmann to accept the office. By the Associated Press. SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y. Sep- tember_2.—Two women were killed and persons were injured, several be- lieved seriously. when an Albany-Sara- toga Springs bus with 29 passengers aboard crashed head-on with an auto- mobile, left the highway, rolled down near Round Lake, south of here, to- night. The dead, sole occupants of the auto- mobile, were Mrs. Mary L. Southard and Mrs. Hattie Clark, both of Baliston, Spa. Saratoga County. i _Roy Guile of Mechanicville, driver of the bus, told State police the automobile apparently 39G out of control. $ As the District government’s Economy | the estimated needs of the city for that | i year which ended June 30 last. a re- | tures for the current fiscal year and a ' found to reach a total of at least| BUS ROLLS DOWN 10-FOOT BANK; TWO WOMEN DIE, 20 PERSONS HURT a 10-foot embankment and turned over | doors. FIVE CENTS IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS TEN CENTS ELSEWHERE U. 3. WORKERS HERE AGAIN NEAR TOTAL BEFORE CUTS BEGAN 65,991 in Civil Service July 31—O0thers Bring Number to June, 1932, Figure. NEW AGENCIES OFFSET ALL DRASTIC SLASHES Congressional Record Supplement | Necessary for First Time to In- clude All Officials. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. The “new deal” has brought almost in the twinkling of an eye a great BToup of new Government agencies in Washington. So large, so important are these ad- ditions to the Government that for the first time in history a “supplement” to the Congressional Directory 1s within a week or two to be issued on order of the Joint Committee on Printing, of | which Senator Duncan U. Fletcher of Florida is chairman. Of tremendous importance to the Natior:al Capital is the development of | this new group of Government agencies. i It means that already in the Federal | service in Washington approximately as | |many persons are employed today as | there were on June 30, 1932. This is true notwithstanding the fact | tiat immediately after this date the economy act of the Hoover adminis- | tration began to function and that the | |cuts in the Government service since | | President Roosevelt came into office have been more and more drastic. Upturn of 554 in July. Records of the Civil Service Com- mission show that even in the number of civil service employes in the District | |there has been upturn in July of 554. In the new government agencies hun- dreds and probably thousands of the | employes have no civil service status. | They have been appointed from civil | life without going through the mill of the civil service examinations, etc. | The total number of civil service em- | ployes in Washington on July 31 was 65991. It is probably considerably | higher today, since efforts have been | made to give civil service employes who | | were thrown out of work in the Presi- dent’s reorganization and economy drive opportunity to obtain work in the | new agencies. ‘The civil service employes, plus the army of employes outside of the civil, service proper, will soon equal, if meyl‘ do not already equal, the number of | | Federal employes in the District of Co- | | lumbia before the pruning knife was | employed by the Budget Bureau, rein- | | forced by the President and the Con- | gress. | Big Loss In Field Service. | _The swing back to Government em- | | ployment outside the District has not | yet begun to assume anything like the | | preportions it has in the District. But that it will come is the belief here. | | The field service, which is the service | in the States outside the District. suf- | fered ‘a loss of 11,005 employes during | the last month. This loss was due| | largely to retrenchment at Army and | Navy posts, in the field offices of some | of the old departments and elsewhere in the Government service. When the | detailed figures for the August 10| shake-up in the prohibition unit are | available, the loss will be still greater. About 800 employes in the field offices of the abolished Prohibition Bureau lost their jobs. The total number of | civil service employes of the Govern- | ment in the entire country at the close | of July was 554981, a reduction of | | 10,451 during that month. But, just as 1in’the case in Washington, many per- | sons have been employed outside the civil service proper, in the States dur- ing the last few weeks. i | The increase in Civil Service em- | ployes in Washington during July was | | attributed entirely to employment af-| forded by the new Government | agencies, particularly the Agricultural | Adjustment Administration. | The N. R. A. is proving itself a | fertile field of employment as it labors |to bring employment to millions | through the adoption of the codes of | | fair practice. Already, it is reported, | | the number of employes of the Re-| covery Administration in Washington | alone has pased the 1,000 mark. Agencies Doing Their Part. ‘The business of the Federal Gov- ernment for years has been the big| | industry of "“the National Capital. Without a return of men and women to work for the Government in Wash- ington, there seemed a little chance for early industrial recovery in this city. The N. R. A, the Public Works Administration, the Farm Credit Ad- ministration, the Home Loan Bank Board, plus the Home Owners' Loan Corporation, the Federal Relief Ad- ministration, the Tennessee Valley Au- thority, the Federal Transportation Board and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation—a holdover from the last administration—are all doing their part toward greater employment in the Dis- trict of Columbia. As time passes, un- doubtedly they will be responsible for more and more employment by the Government itself, as well as by private industry, throughout the country. Who can name offhand the heads of half of these new agencies and their principal lieutenants? The great. mush- room-like growth of Government agen- cies in the last few months has made it imperative, according to Senator Fletcher for the publication without further delay of a supplement to the Congressional Directory, a “new deal”’ supplement. This publication is really (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) Aware that a crash was unavoidable, Guile steered the heavy bus to the roadbed to the right. This failed to hold, however, and the bus rolled down the embankment and turned over om its side. Guile was cut and bruised. The panic-stricken passengers scram- bled through the broken windows and Hundreds of cars, conveying race fans homeward from the final card of the annual meeting here, volunteered to rush the injured to hospitals in this city, Albany and z Fourteen of the injured were Albany residents. Most of them were released from hospitals after receiving treat- ment for minor cuts and bruises. DISTRICT PUSHING FIGHT T0 BUILD FIRST CENTER UNIT $4,600,000 Grant by Works Administration Would Give 2,000 Work. HOUSING FOR MANY AGENCIES IS NEEDED Police, Municipal and Juvenile Courts, Police Department and Recorder’s Office Need Space. The urgent need of the District gov- ernment for more modern and adequate accommodations for some of its scattered and wretchedly housed agencies has led the Commissioners to continue their efforts with renewed vigor before the Public Works Administration for a grant of $4,600,000 to construct the first unit of the proposed municipal center. ‘The initial unit, which has been ap- proved by Congress, but never built, would house the Police. Municipal and Juvenile Courts, the Police Department, and the Office of the Recorder of Deeds. Most of these activities are now located in cramped, antiquated quarters, on either rented or municipally owned property. The so-called Courts Building in the municipal center area was authorized at a cost of $5.400,000 in tne 1932 ap- propriation act. Only about $500,000 was made available for beginning con- struction, but the District’s financial situation was such that it was found inadvisable to go ahead with the build- ing with District funds. The District already has spent an enormous sum on the project in acquir- ing the four-square site, and preparing plans fc. the Courts Building. Alto- gether 1> investment taus far has totaled abcut $6.600,000, of which $100,- 000 was spent on the plans. and the remainder for the property. Except for two lots, now in condemnation, the entire site has been acquired. Space Pressingly Needed. ‘The pressing need for suitable ac- commodations for the courts and the Police Department is the primary cause of the activity of the Commissioners in seeking Federal funds for the project. Another reason is that its construction at this time will provide work for about 2,000 Washington men a year, in addi- tion to aiding the various fabricating plants in various parts of the country. Aside from these vital factors, it is pointed out that the building would ma- terially improve the appearance of low- er Pennsylvania avenue, where the Fed- eral Government is now pushing its de- velopment program. In its present col dition, the municipal center site is no* only unsightly, but the city losses money every day that this expensive property. r;o]w withdrawn from taxation, remains idle. New accommodations for the Policz Court is one of the most serious needs. Conditions at the court due to over- crowding have been criticized for years. In fact, Congress passed legislation at one time providing for a new Police Court Building. but construction was held in abeyance waiting on develop- ment of the municipal center scheme. The case of the office of the record- er of deeds was similar. Congress also authorized the construction of a build- ing for the recorder of deeds, but this project also was held up on account of the proposed municipal center devel- opment. Now on Fifth Street. ‘The office of the rccorder is now located in the Century Building on Fifth street. on which the District pays a rental of $10000 a year. In this building all of the valuable land records of the District are kept. The Municipal and Juvenile Courts, the Police Department and the Traffic Department. are all located in buildings owned by the District in the municipal center area. The only agency in this greup which has adsquate and modern quarters is the Traffic Bureau. which is housed in the Ford Buildjns at John Marshall place and Pennsylvania ave- nue. The Police Department. in particular, is suffering from the lack of space in an old red-brick building at 462 indiana avenue. The building which houses the Municipal Court in the 300 block of C street, not only is too small for its normal functions. but it is in bad need of repair. The recent tropical storm showed its weakness to abnormal weather conditions. The Juvenile Court. on Louisiana ave- nue near the Police Department head- quarters, likewise needs additional space and more up-to-date accommo- dations. With construction of the proposed Courts Building. the housing problems of all these activities would be auto- matically solved. In urging Federal funds for the project, the Commissioners take the (Continued on Page 2, Column 3) DEER GIVEN 3-DAY RESPITE IN RESCUE Park Autherities Say Animal on Ledge Is in No Danger of Falling. Special Dispatch to The Star. WATKINS GLEN, N. Y., September 2.—Efforts to rescue “Old Trouper.” the deer trapped on a ledge in Watkins Glen Park, were abandoned today until after Labor day. Park authorities said there was no apparent danger that the buck would slip from the ledge—on which he was trapped after a landslide—and plunge into the rocky creek below. The buck, used to the.crowds watch- ing the attempts to entice him across a rickety bridge over the gorge, has been serene of late, appears. content on his rations of sweet corn lowered to the ledge from the hilltop and no immedi- ate concern is felt by park officials for his safety. Frank E. Edminster, animal expert of the Conservation Department, left his Cornell University laboratory and arrived here today to meet Gardner Bump of Albany, State superintendent of game. After viewing a crowd of 3,000 per- sons, all that could possibly crowd the narrow trail cut from the rocky walls of the chasm, the experts announced they thought the deer in fine condition and said they would make no at at a rescue until Tuesday, when glen vould be clear of the record in- | lux of tourists. : 3 saes Ll i > v