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POSTAL WORKERS CUT §a1,000,000 Record of Hearing Discloses Economy Chilled Buy- ing Power. Economy cuts took $51,000,000 from postal employes in the six months ended December 31 last, Gilbert E. Hy- | att, legislative representative of the National Federation of Post Office Clerks, told the House subcommittee | handling the post office appropriation bill, it was disclosed today in the record of the hearings when the measure was reported out. Hyatt asked the committee to in-! clude in its budget @ sum sufficent to absorb the pay cut. | He said the average loss to each post office clerk for the fiscal year ending ' July 31 was .1627 per cent and for the first six months of the present fiscal year .2273 per cent. Citing an example of the retrench- ment to which workers had been forced to resort as the result of diminished in- come, Hyatt reported on a survey in the Minneapolis office, with 385 em-| ployes. Expenditures Curbed. “The survey,” he said, “disclosed that 136 of them had removed their tele- phones, that 227 were forced to bOrTow, that 183 were forced to discontinue | their checking accounts, that 59 cur- tailed the education of their children, that 283 were forced to reduce or dis- continue contributions to welfare or- ganizations and that 138 neglected med- ical care. If you will multiply that by the total number of postal employes in the Government service, and all others in the Government service, it in- dicates that the increase Jn buying power contemplated by thz naticnal recovery act has been very materially slowed down.” Furloughs Added. Hyatt pointed out that in addition to the salary cut, the workers had been subjected to a nine-day furlough, a 50 per cent cut in the night wc-k differ- ential and had continued {o be deprived of automatic promotions. Joseph C. O'Mahoney, at that time Acting Postmaster General, told the committee the total savings under the economy legislation for the fiscal year 1933 was $68,294,665. This was at the 813 per cent rate for nine months and 15 per cent for three months. Mr, O'Mahoney also advised the com- mittee that the 30-year retirement law had produced between 5,000 and 6,000 separations. —_— BOYS’ CLUB OPEN HOUSE TO BE HELD FRIDAY Directors’ Annual Meeting Fea- tured by Public Inspection and Exhibition. “Open House” will be held at the Boys’ Club of Washington, 230 C street, at 8 p.m. Friday, when there also will be the annual meeting of the Board of Directors. Every one inter- ested in boys’ work has been invited to attend. No program has been arranged, as club officials want visitors to see the regular routine at the club. An art| exhibit, woodworking exhibit and printing demonstration will be on dis- play, as well as a basket ball game between two club teams. Plans for the coming year will be discussed at the trustees’ meeting. Offi- cers and trustees of the club are: Frank R. Jelleff, president; Henry N. Brawner, jr., first vice president; Willlam E. Russell, second vice presi dent; Harold A. Brooks, treasurer; Roland Whitehurst, secretary; Charles M. Fyfe, managing director, and Joseph | A Burkart, Col. Wrisley Brown. Karl W. Corby, John Dolph, Ernest Daniel, Frank H. Eastman, Col. H. P. Erwin, Ciarence L. Harding, J. Philip Herr- mann, Robert M. Hicks, Albert F. E. Horn, Joseph D. Kaufman, Frank A. Kerr, Harry King, Judge R. E. Matting- ly, Clarence F. Norment, jr., Charles H. Pardoe, William L. Radcliffe, Foster M. Reeder, Horace L. Stevenson, Dr. Chester D. Swope, Sidney F. Taliaferro, 8. Percy Thompson, Charles H. Tomp- kins, Wash. B. Willlams, and Lloyd S. Wilson, members of the Board of Trustees, and William Clabough & Co., auditors. Fate Lurks in Old Yule Tree. CORRY, Pa. 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TREASURY-POSTAL BILL CUTG MILLION Fund of $820,693,270 Asked or Reduction of About 50 Per Cent Under 1934. (Continued From First Page.) of these studies and investigations lead to a sound conclusion, the position of | standing on the present rate of ex- penditure is adopted. even though it may be arbitrary in character.” The committee allotted $14,000,000 for domestic airmail, $1.000,000 less than for this year; $37,500,000 for for- eign air and ocean mail, or $800,000 less than for the current period. Of the latter, $7,000,000 is for foreign air- mail. Ocean Subsidy Defended. In explaining the continuation of the allotments for ocean mail, the com- mittee said: “Ocean mail contracts under the merchant marine act also are on definite subsidy basis, with compensation fixed by law for vessels of various classes, graded by speed and tonnage without reference to the amount of mail carried. “The definite purpose of this was the encouragement of the establishment of an adequate American merchant marine. The contracts are for terms of 10 vears, and 44 of them were en- tered into prior to March 4, 1933. They are fixed obligations of the Govern- ment.” Under Service was allotted $18.400.000: Inter- nal Revenue Service, $67.450.000; Coast Guard, $18,249,000, or $7,523,000 less than for the current year, due, the re- port said, to prohibition repeal: Bureau Putlic Health, $9,130,000; Public Works, $18,134,000. Salary Funds Allotted. Under the post office section, the First Assistant Postmaster General was allotted $398,046.000, of which virtually all is for salaries of postmasters, letter carriers and other employes; $214,937,~ 000 went to the office of the Second Assistant for subsidies to air, ocean mail and railroad mail service, while $31,396.000 was for post office building maintenance and repair under the Fourth Assistant. Regarding salaries provided by the bill, Representative Arnold explained: “In accordance with the recommenda- tion of the President in the budget, which has been approved by the House in the passage of the independent of- fices appropriations bill, all salary items in the bill reported today are on the appropriation basis of 90 per cent of the full rate. The appropriation in the bill, therefore, provides for a restora- tion on July 1 next of 5 per cent of the present 15 per cent pay cut. In the case of the Treasury Department, the 10 per cent cut amounts to $8.850,000, and in the case of the Post Office De- partment, $50,000,000. With disgruntled postal _employes from all over the country gathering in Washington today to protest against the salary cut and the plight in which substitutes under the Civil Service find themselves receiving less than starva- tion wages, Representative Arnold re- ported to the House as follows regard- ing the postal personnel: “Salaries and wages constitute about 70 per cent of the gross total of postal expenditures. Eliminating the shipping and aviation subsidies, the salarles and wages constitute approximately 74 per cent of the total cost of other postal operations.” Employes Brought in Line. While postal revenues and business has dropped sharply from the high point of the fiscal year 1930 to the low level of the fiscal year 1932, 1933 and 1934, the total number of postal em- ployes did not show commensurate de- the Treasury, 2 | crease until the latter part of the fiscal year 1933 and the early part of the fiscal year 1934. During the period of June 30, 1933, to November 30, 1933, there was a total reduction in all classes of regular postal employes from 242.671 to 235,573, a decrease of 7,098. This decrease has taken place _entirely through the non-filling of vacancies due to deaths, resignations and removals for cause, and by retirement on annuities. “By the provisions of the independ- ents offices act of 1934, a retirement annuity was provided for employes in- voluntarily separated from the service after more than 30 years of service, and the operation of this section has aided greatly in mitigating the hard- ships incident to a reduction in force. The hearings carry a table giving, by classes of employes and in the aggre- gate, the postal personnel as of June 30 of each fiscal year beginning in 1926 and including November 30, 1933. From the latter date to June 30, 1934, additional reduction will take place through attrition, and the surplus per- sonnel will be practically eliminated. Furlough Results Cited. “Administrative furlough in the postal service under existing law nas been in effect during the first three months of the present fiscal year at the rate of three days per month for each employe, or a total of nine days for the quarter vear. Since September 30 no administrative furlough has been necessary, due to the retirement on annuity and normal separation of & large portion of surplus employes. For the next fiscal year no administrative the Customs | Hamada Bey, Princess Nour Hamada Bey placing —Star Staff Photo. TREASURY SPURNS RUM TAX OFFERS | Morgenthau Tells of Requests of Moonshiners to Come In Under Law. By the Associated Press. The Treasury was disclosed today to | be determined that moonshiners shall not be stamped as legal merely by com- ing in and paying & tax, but in the words of Secretary Morgenthau it some- times “makes me shed crocodile tears.” ‘The Treasury Secretary, testifying be- fore the House Appropriations Commit- tee on the Treasury-Post Office supply bill, reported today, explained: “Every day we are being approached by people who are manufacturing lquor illicitly and they want to come in un- der the law, but we will not have any- thing to do with them * * * Moral Question Involved. “It makes me shed crocodile tears to turn down a proposition like that one | that we had the other day, where a | man had 2,000,000 gallons of illicit alco- | hol that he would like to pay taxes on. “But I figure. as you say, that there |1s a moral question involved, and I do not want to accept it. He does not ap- proach me directly, but through a third party. I just feel. as a sworn officer of the Government, that I cannot do busi- ness with a man like that.” It was estimated that 2,000,000 gal- lons of alcohol of 200 proof would bring in $8,000,000 in revenue at $2 a 100 proof gallon. D. S. Bliss, commissioner of indus- trial alcohol, later told an appropria- tions _ subcommittee that bootleggers still have large stores of liquors they are trying to sell. “What class of people are applying for permits as rectifiers?” asked Chair- man Arnold, Democrat of Illinois. Great Stores Held By Bootleggers. “That is what we are afraid of” Bliss replied, “because an unscrupulous person could draw tax paid whisky, and by falsifying his records could draw on the moonshine liquor and on the illicitly made alcohol and use that in rectification. “It is my understanding that there are great stores of liquor now that have been held by bootleggers for aging and seasoning purposes that they are going 1o use as & base, and that they will add illegal alcohol, coloring matter, a little flavoring and then add water to cut it down to the proof that they want, 90 or 100 proof.” “What do you anticipate in the way of the opening of more distilleries?” Arnold asked earlier. “As a conservative estimafe, there are at this time about 50 additional dis- tilleries and 40 additional breweries in the course of construction,” replied Bliss. “We have at present operating 73 dis- tilleries of all kinds and 70 industrial alcohol plants, with 99 rectifiers of spirits, 349 bonded wineries, 552 brew- eries and 553 wholesalers. We have to check the wholesalers' returns. That makes a total of 1,696 units that have to be supervised. “In addition to the 50 distilleries and 40 breweries, there are pending at this time at least 1,000 applications for per- mits to operate as rectifiers.” furlough is contemplated and the Ap- propriation Committee is of the opinion that none will be needed, as the over- manned condition of the department will have been corrected. While the administrative furlough works some hardships on some employes, it was in the interests of the employes in that it made it unnecessary for any one to be discharged and, its purpose having been accomplished, it nolonger is necessary.” In the item for clerks and employes et first and second class post offices the committee found the estimate for 1935 based upon & decrease of 2,500 employes during the present fiscal year. From July 1 to November 30 last the reduction had totaled 2,730, or 330 more than the number estimated for the entire year. The committee has allowed for an estimated decrease of 3,000 during the present year, which would mean the non-filling of 270 va- cancies during the seven months from December 1 to June 30. Figures Not Disturbed. In the case of city letter carriers, the Appropriations Committee has not dis- turbed the figures based upon an esti- mated decrease of 2449 during the present fiscal year, but has based its reduction in money on a computation of salaries on the full-year basis, in- stead of on a five-sixths basis, as the estimate provided. In the case of rail- way mail employes, the estimates for 1935 were based upon a reduction dur- ing the present fiscal year of 825, of which number 521 had already ‘taken place in the first six months. The re- duction made by the committee con- templates the same rate of normal de- creasz during the last six months as took place in the first. g off train service and substitution of star routes has been a large factor in the decrease of nfl'gd mail mremmul. Representative Arnold pointed out. A \ D. C, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY. 2 In Custody G WA RELIEFSEEN ENDED BY SCANDAL Administration May Under- take Rebuilding Private In« dustries, Observer Says. *: BY DAVID LAWRENCE. ‘The Roosevelt Administration has run head-on into the first scandal of graft and corruption. From all parts of the country complaints are coming in of improprieties in disbursing funds under the Civil Works Administration and of political manipulation in giving out jobs. The President has determined that the C. W. A, shall come to an end. The pressure to continue it has mountedtojthe propartions of Nation- wide propaganda. Mr. Roosevelt has a bear by the tail, so to speak. If he stops the C. W. A, there will be more clamor and doubtless hardship for those left unemployed again. If he continues the C. W. A. there will be more scandals and possibly a bigger reaction to the administration than members of Con- gress could overcome in the elections next Autumn. For a distinction has to be drawn be- tween Mr. Roosevelt's personal popu- larity, which is as high as it ever has been, and the popularity of the Demo- cratic party, which label has to undergo all sorts of local attacks. Scandals would not enhance the reputation of the Democratic party even though Mr. Roosevelt himselfl is blameless. Emergency Measure. The President, with the best inten- tions in the world, started the C. W. A. as an emergency relief measure when industry took a drop last November after the N. R. A. excitement failed to bring an increase in the volume of business. Since then the Federal Government has been pumping $75,000.000 a week into the country and giving employ- ment to 4,000.000 people. The machin- ery was hastily devised. Little chance was afforded to check the operation The budget director here had nothing to say about expenditures and Wash- ington depended on the homesty and integrity of local administrators to take care of the efforts at graft. But, unfortunately, the politicians began getting their hands into the operation. In some instances they in- sisted on preference to those who were Democratic voters, and, in the award- ing of contracts or orders for supplies, the same old pull and influence that has been attempted here was dupli- cated in various sections of the coun- try. Official announcement has not been made of the number of places in which investigations are under way, but the Department of Justice is busy on it There will be no favorites played as the prosecution is put under way. The C. W. A. has been a big burden from the start. It raised cain with local wage scales by paying men hourly rates that were higher than prevailing scales, all of which led to unsettlement and complaints. Confusion on Projects. But while the C. W. A. has been & thorn in the side of the Government and has been the subject of complaint by the N. R. A. because of interference with the orderly operation of codes, the real perplexity is over the number of people on the Federal pay roll and the confusion that arises in trying to find sound projects for them to work on. ‘The C. W. A. is not to be confused with _the Public Works Administration, which is under Secretary Ickes and which has $3,300,000,000 to spend. Of the latter sum, not more than $250,000,- 000 has been spent. though allotments or authorizations many times that sum have been made. Mr. Ickes has put his foot down on political influence wher- ever he finds it. Whether he will be able to stamp out local graft remains to be seen. As it is, very little money has been disbursed. Some better system of watching expenditures will have to be devised than the C. W. A. had. Indeed, the haste of emergency is the adminis- tration’s excuse. Opposed to ‘a continuation of the C. W. A. are many groups who see an endless expenditure for the Federal Government and a disturbing effect on Government finance. But the Govern- ment has provided no substitute. It re- fuses to amend the securities act to permit a resumption of financing. It has not yet stabilized or finally re- valued the dollar so that long-term investment can be encouraged. And in dustry cannot borrow from the Gov ernment as can banks and insurance companies. The result is that private companies greatly in need of refinanc- ing are stalemated and businesses which need to replace obsolete equipment and develop foreign markets are forced to mark time. May Enlarge R. F. C. ‘The crisis in the C. W. A. may com- pel a further definition of monetary policy and an enlargement of the func- tions of the R. F. C. to take care of the capital needs of business. For there are believed to be 9,500,000 persons out of work as a direct consequence of the collapse of the capital goods industries, for which there has been no serious effort at relief except through Govern- ment spending for public works—a pro- gram that is very slow in getting going because the projects are not quickly brought to consummation. Private business has been seeking credit and is willing to give the Gov- ernment first liens on its earnings, but no machinery has yet been provided. Billions of private refinancing and bil- lions of Government refinancing must come in the next several months. Sta- bilization of currency and a return of pubiic confidence are prerequisites to the revival of capital markets today. { Scandals in the C. W. A. may open the administration’s eyes to the aiterna- tives, namely a rebuilding of private in- dustrial projects and a revival of private financing. (Copyright. 1934.) o MORGENTHAU COUNTS UPON BETTER TIMES Secretary’s Testimony Reveals He Expects Revenue for Year of $3,248,000,000. By the Associated Press. Secretary Morgenthau has informed the House Appporiations Committee his department was “counting on better times.” Appearing to testify on the Treasury- Post Office supply bill, he disclosed among other pertinent facts: Revenue for the current fiscal year should total $3,248,000,000, including $403,000,000 in processing taxes. Revenue for the fiscal year 1935 should total $3,974,000,000, including $548,000,000 in processing taxes. President Roosevelt has transferred to the State Department the job of col- lecting the foreign debt payments. The Treasury thus far has had no difficulty in refinancing obligations. Former Secretary Woodin believed in the Treasury carrying a large balance “to meet any ble extraordinary emergency expenditures that might have to be made.” LAWYERS' BRIEFS RUSH PRINTING BYRON §. ADAMS I . Upper: Thomas E. Archer, C. W. A. supervisor, Who is being held in $1.500 bond on charges of “larceny by trick” in connection with complaints of & C. W. A. fee collection racket. Lower: Joe George McAlwee, another C. W. A supervisor being held on simi- lar charges in connection with the same case. PROBE OF GRAFT IN C. W. A BRINGS | ARRESTS OF TWO (Continued From First Page.) learned, was to pay Archer $5. The money was paid in marked bills while police waited outside. When arrested, the marked money was in Archer's possession, police announced. Money Demands Denied. Mansfield said McAlwee delivered “pep talks” to the C. W. A. employes in a Connecticut avenue apartment, in which he urged high efficiency upon the workers. Mansfield said McAlwee admitted he had given the talks in his official line of business, but that he had denied emphatically that any money demands were made of any employe. The first man arrested was charged with “larceny by trick” against three rent survey employes. According to police, Archer demanded money from the enumerators on the pretext that he would boost their ratings so they would not lose their jobs. The complainants were Countryman, Thomas A. Donnel- ly, 4415 Seventeenth street, and Jack | fore the same committee that he does | gling_because there was no incentive | LIQUOR SMUGGLING INGREASE 15 SEEN Morgenthau Reveals Opposi- tion to Transferring Coast Guard to Navy. By the Associated Press, Asserting that no country has ever “succeeded in repealing organized smuggling simultaneously with prohibi- tion,” Admiral Harry G. Hamlet, com- mandant of the Coast Guard, told Congress his organization’s ~ anti- smuggling activities must continue with more-than-ordinary zeal. In a statement before the Appropria- tions Committee, which today submitted to the House a bill allocating money to the Coast Guard next year, he said: “I really think there will be an in- crease in smuggling of liquor, Reduction at Present. “Just for the present there is con- siderable reduction; but no man can say what the reduction will be 10 days from now, because the smugglers may be. and probably are, just lying back, ready to make another attack. Whether they make another attack or not will be governed by the factors of taxes, and whether or not they can make a profit on it.” * Secretary Morgenthau disclosed be- not want the Coast Guard to be trans- ferred to the Navy. despite considerable talk around the White House about it. “Merely as a ‘horseback’ opinion, I will say that I would rather see the Coast Guard stay in the Treasury. It| is a police job in a sense, and I think that the Coast Guard can do that bet- ter than the Navy can. It is for the protection of the revenue.” Hamlet said that before prohibition there was no organized liquor smug- | and “they did not have the enormous plants for effecting it; they did not | have the radio stations, trucks. legal | talent and the set-up necessary to evade the law.” Alrplanes Used. “They have such now,” he continued, “it having been built up during the ex- istence of the eighteenth amendment; | {and it is that organization which we feel sure is not going to drop out for patriotic considerations™ | Hamlet testified “there are approxi-| mately 60 airplanes engaged exclusive- ly in smuggling traffic between Bimini | and West End in the Bahama Islands | and the coasts of Florida and adjacent | States. Concrete evidence was received a few | days after repeal of the eighteenth | amendment that the smuggling traffic | from Belize to the States on the Gulf | of Mexico would not only continue but wauld increase. A corporation of Van- couver, British Columbia. which con- trols the largest part of the smuggling from Belize to the Gulf States, made arrangements to put back into the | smuggling trade immediately three no- torious rum-running vessels, which had not been active since May, 1933. EMPLOYES DEPLORE “BLOT” ON AVIATION | Petition Presented to Mail Probers Asks All Irregularities Be Uncovered. Deploring the fact the present air- mail investigation by the special Sen- | tion industry as & whole for the mis- | J. Roche, 2116 P street. The Govern- ment also will subpoena as witnesses Malcolm Zahn, 1761 Park road, and Norman H. Smith, 1218 Ingraham street. | There are 400 enumerators on the C. W. A. rolls here. They are making | a house-to-house rent and realty census. | They are divided into groups of about 20. each under the direction of a super- visor assigned to specific territory. ‘While Assistant Attorney General Keenan directs a justice inquiry.into| “several complaints” regarding local ad- | ministration of C. W. A. projects, Secretary Ickes is building up a strong inspection force of his own, to stand | guard over pay rolls and contracts. The inspectors already have uncovered several instances of use by contractors | of the “kick-back” system of carrying workers on the pay roll at a higher wage | than they actually receive in their pay | envelopes. Give Up Part of Pay. takes of individuals, a petition signed | employes of three major afrline | | systems was presented yesterday to Senator Black of Alabama, committee chairman. The petition was presented by W. S. Dawson, Eastern Air Transport pilot, who was accompanied by a delegation | of air transport employ The signers | of the petition included employes from | all departments of the airlnes—pilots, mechanics, hostesses, traffic men, radio men, meteorologists and office employes. Pointing out that the employes had nothing to do with the granting of airmail contracts, the petitioners said the investigation should go on until any and all irregularities in granting of airmail contracts had been un- covered. Costly experimentation is necessary for progress in aviation, the petition: ers said. and the opening of contracts | to the lowest bidder, regardless of qual- | ifications, “will almost inevitably bring in a conglomeration of irresponsible Auto park attendants in Yarmouth. England, have given up $1.25 a week ' each so that one need not lose his job. Increase to 24-Hour Week g Saves Arlington C. W. A. Jobs : County Workers Placed on Par With City| Forces After Braden and Admin- istrator Davis Push Complaint. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ROSSLYN, Va., January 24 —Arling- ton County’s major C. W. A. projects were sayed today by an order from headquarters which places county work- ers on the 24-hour week allowed in municipalities. Prank Davis, county administrator, was notified by wire from R. C. Hop- kins, district deputy administrator for the C. W. A, stationed in Fredericks- burg, that urban communities that are well built up may use the 24-hour week and that this county is placed in that category. The county was placed on the 15-hour week last week by an order from Washington. Immediately county officials voiced disapproval of the move and said it would be impossible to complete most of the 22 projects by the February 15 deadline set for expenditure of C. W. A. funds. Davis and County Manager Roy S. Braden set to work in the success- ful attempt to get a city rating. With the increased working time, Davis said it will be possible to com- operators who will give little or no thought toward experimentation in the future.” ever, a number of others, which would | have been finished with the old 30- hour week in use, are still doomed. The | projects which Davis believes it will be | impossible to finish, even with the in- creased number of hours, include water | projects at Glen Carlyn and Bon Alr, storm sewer jobs at Lyon Park and| South Clarendon avenue and several school projects. RESORTS GEORGIA. Forest Hills Hotel Augusta’s Newest. Finest Fireproof Hotel IDEAL GOLF—18 HOLES at Hotel Door Grass Greens and Tees. Green Fairwars All Outdoor Sports Superlative Indoor Comforts Rates in keeping with the times CARTER L. GARDNER Manager plete the more important jobs. How- If in Doubt —as to the best coal in town, try a load of Marlow’s super-cleaned Pennsylvania hard coal, the Famous Reading Anthracite that has kept so many Washington homes warm for generations. Your first load will show famous. you why Marlow’s coal 7_5 Years of Good Coal Service Marlow CoaTI— Co. 811 E St. N.W, Call NA. 0311 NOW. NAtional 0311 | tificates of limited Brokers on Strike Because Minister Calls Them Bandits By the Associated Press. MmNDRl:‘ Egypt, ary 24.—The mii reference to them as “bl sucking bandits” so riled local brokers that they went on a strike today. They closed the Bourse and declared it would remain that way until the minister makes a formal apology. Minister Hassan Sabry Bey, speaking before Parliament, re- ferred to the brokers asa “bunch of bandits whose activities con- sist in sucking the blood of the Egyptian farmers.” The Bourse commission named three delegates to go to Calro, demand an apology from the minister and ask the premier to do something about it. TREASURY HOPEFUL IN BILLION-DOLLAR FINANCING PLAN (Continued From First Page.) Janu- small discounts. Well over a billion in this r is outstanding. The first step in its financing pro- gram was announced by the Treasury as the Federal deficit for the fiscal year to date stood at $1727,617.000. By June 30 President Roosevelt expects | this to grow to $7.309,000.000 and in- | crease the public debt to $29.847.000,000 ‘The notes and certificate issues an- | nounced yesterday will pay interest on a semi-annual basis. As usual the Fed- | eral Reserve Banks were designated. together with the Treasury, to receive subscriptions which are now open. “The Treasury notes and the Treas- ury certificates of indebtedness will be | exempt,” Morgenthau said. “both as to principal and to interest. from ail tax- | ation (except estate or inheritance taxes) now or hereafter imposed by the United States, any State or any of the possessions of the United States or by any local taxing authority. Banks to Accept Applications. “Applications will be received at the Federal reserve banks and branches and at the Treasury Department. Washing- ton. Banking institutions generally will handle applications for subscribers. but only the Federal reserve banks and the Treasury Department are authorized to act as official agencles [ “Applications. unless made by an in- corporated bank or trust company or by responsiole and recognized dealer | in Government securities, must be ac- companied by payment in full or by payment of 10 per cent of the amount of notes or certificates applied for * * * subscriptions for amounts up to and including $10.000 will be allotted in full; all other subscriptions will be allotted on an equal percentage basis.” The Treasury notes will be issued n bearer form and denominations of | $100. $500, $1,000, $5000, $10,000 and $100,000. Tax on Cat Tails’ Urged. To save the famous tailless cats of the Isle of Man, it is proposed to put & tax on all tabbies with tails. LEGAL NOTICES, CO\I\GTO).AH‘lRIJ\G & RUBLEE. o t Notice is hereby g: residing at Rye West of New York: Henry E Bu residing at Monmouth County. New Jersey X ng st Chestnut vania: J. Pord John W. Hanes. | State er |ate committee is discrediting the avia- | betl siding_at ‘Mount Holly. Bui New Jersey. Alan L. Corey. Head. Nassau_County, Lon York: George Willing. ir nut Hill. Philadelphia having formed and h r cer- ted “partnership in_other States and having filed a certificate of lim- ted partnership in the office of the Supreme Court of the Di lumbia on March 24 gership b rlct of Cq partner sirous that the eaid limited constituted from and after January may do bi heres ha a_certificate of limited partnership in the | office of the Clerk of the Supreme Court of | he District of Columbi: hich said cer- tificat as been duly acknowledeed by the | parties thereto and recorded by the said Clerk at lazge tn & book kept for that pur: | 3 B limited partnership and amendments thereto fled in the State of New York and other states: that the name or firm under which this _partnership to_ be conducted is les D. Barn, 3 3 &rain and other commodities for its own account or for the account of ustomers. and to organize. participate in | underwritings and | other financial operations: that the said John W. Hanes, Henry E. Butler. Phi Dickinson. J.* Ford Johnson. ir n A | Fish, Jav' Cooke. Charles B. Harding. John | W. Castles, Frederick E. Koechleln. William J. Woods. W. Edwin_Williams, Joseph P, McCormac, Ivan C. Flitcraft are general | pariners: that the sald John P. ward H. Levis Alan L. Corey ‘an Willing, ir_ are special partners said ial partners contributed ‘as capital to the common stock of said partnership the foilowing d h July July July on January 2. 1934 that the term of said partnership commenced on the Ist day of July. 1830. and shall continue subject to smendment until and includini the 3ist day of December. 1835. and the | partnership shall be constituted as set forth in this notice from and after the 2nd day of January. 1934. and shall continue until and including the 31st day of December 1935 but the partnership may be earlier | terminated at the election of a majority in | interest of the weneral partmership. such | election to be made by a notice in writi from said mafority in interest of the eral partners to all the other general pi ners ‘and to the special partners at least sixty days prior o the date fixed in such notice as the date upon which the termi- nation shall take effect; that an afdavit of one of the general partners of limited artnership has been filed in the office of ourt of the Dis- h said _certificate of limited partnership stating that the sums specified herein to have been contributed by each of the special partners to the com- mon stock were act; and in wood faith on the dates named herein. 438.10.12.15.17.19.22.24.26.29.31-fe3 1709 De Sales St. N.W, OPPOSITE MAYFLOWER American and Italian Food LUNCH, 50c up DINNERS, 7 Dancing Dail, Dancing Sundays, 9 to 2 AM. Phone MEtropolitan 8160 Maurice Harmon's Orchestra NO COVER CHARGE MinG Toy NN ‘A _Refined Atmosphere” 3319 CONN. AVE. Full Course Chinese or American DINNER, 75c and 65¢ Daily. 4:10 P.M. to 10 P.M. Sundav. 11 AM to 10 P. M. SH VEGETABLES. ¥ XURIOUS DINING Thursday. 5 to 8 PM. | 4-COURSE 1 Roast Guinea | or Broiled AN fI' Sirloin Steak DINNER, 75¢ Ivy Terrace 1634 Conn. Ave. Appetizing Luncheons—12 to 2 35¢ and up 55¢ GATE DAILY DINNER INN Thursday Special, 5 to 8 P.M. Complete four-course dinner — Roast Loin of Pork or Minute Steak our fa- mous ‘Butter Scotch Rolls. Dessert s0c Per Person Bridoe Luncheons 1734 N St. N.W. 3 Block Fast of Conn. Ave. on N Bt. '[’.,-‘ e - ‘ DINNER § ’ C Thursday 2 Cocktail or soup Broiied Mackerel Prime Ribs Beef au jus [t Cal Liver and Bacon i 2 Vegel les. Salad or Dessert. 1 Home made Roli. Hot Biscuit. Beverage Tenderloin Steak Dinner, 65¢ 3 Waltress Serviee—No Tipping LIy, 4510 to 8 ‘ SREYNOLD'S ' - Her i d € F %09 18th St. NW, 2938 14th St. N.W. Full-Course Chinese or American | DINNER, 55¢ eried 4 30-10 P.M All Fresh Vegetables Fried Chicken. or Steak. & Other Dinners, 65¢ Sunday Dinner . C .\l:’TOll.—\\' Bouillabaisse $1.00 A Portion SPECIAL DINNERS g 7 $1.00 HERZOG’S 11th and Potomac River s/ Tenderloin STEAK Dinner Thursday Special Regular $150 Dinner 8]- 00 Served 5 to 9 P.M. L4 Dinner Show at 8 PM. LEON BRUSILOFF'S ORCHESTRA Dancing from 7 to 2 AM. RESTAURANT MADRILLON WASHINGTON BLDG. Seepgye- Genuine Hard Coal still comes from Penn- sylvania’s Anthracite There’s no “just as good.” Look up “Colonial Coal” in Yellow Section of your Phone Book