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Bk aa AGTION DELAYED ON LOGAN BILL Senate Civil Service Com- mittee Members Want Time to Study Bill. The Senate Civil Service Commit- tee today postponed actlon on the Logan bill which would require thou- sands of New Deal emergency em- ployes to acquire a civil service status by taking & non-competitive civil service examination. The committee debated the meas- ure for more than an hour in exec- utive session, but Chairman Bulow said it was felt that on a bill of such importance there should be a full attendance of the committee members before taking a vote. Some members also wanted time to give the subject more study. Senator Byrd, Democrat, of Vir- ginia, said he was not familiar with the bill prior to this meeting and wanted to go over the hearings before expressing his views. Senator Logan, Democrat, of Ken- tucky, introduced the bill to apply the civil service laws uniformly to the entire executive branch of the Government, excepting only officials appointed by the President and con- firmed by the Senate and such cases as the President might exempt by executive order. If the bill passed all incumbents who were appointed without regard to civil service would have to submit to the non-competitive examination. During the past two years the per- sonnel of most of the new govern- mental agencies created to combat the depression has been appointed without regard to civil service. At a recent hearing various organizations of Government employes and other groups supported the bill in order to strengthen the merit system through- out the Government service. HOMESTEAD PROJECT, PET OF FIRST LADY, HAS EMPTY COFFERS (Continued From First Page.) which financial agreements and con- struction contracts have already been signed. Secretary Ickes also revealed today that “not one cents” is available now for building the Chenandoah-Great Smoky Mountains Parkway, the scenic route in Virginia and North Carolina and Tennessee. ' The $6,000,000 “earmarked” for the | parkway, which eventuallv was to cost | from $16,000,000 to $20.000,000, he re- vealed, is part of the impounded money. The parkway was one of the “pet” projects of Mr. Ickes, who is noted as a conservationist and lover of na- ture. “The funds were earmarked for the project,” he said, “but now even the ear is gone.” There can be no hope now of carry- ing out the project, Mr. Ickes said, unless Congress passes some such measure as the $4,880,000,000 work re- lief bill or a special fund is provided for continuing public works. Secretary Ickes’ statement drew as- surances, however, from Senator Byrd of Virginia and from Representative Weaver of North Carolina that the parkway project is not dead. Senator Byrd said he felt confident “we will have the support of the Pres- ident and Secretary Ickes in carrying out this proposal.” He made public a memorandum signed by Ickes No- vember 18, 1933, telling of Mr. Roose- velt's approval of the project and the conditions which the States affected must meet. He said the States were meeting these conditions. PILOT COURSE FREE Classes at Interior Department Instead of Red Cross Building. Free classes in piloting to be given by the Potomac River Squadron, United States Power Squadrons, Inc., ‘which were to have been held in the auditorium of the American Red Cross Building, will be given in the Interior Department auditorium instead, it was announced today by J. H. Gal- liher, commander. The course will begin at 8 p.m. Monday and will continue on succes- sive Mdhday nights. The public is invited to attend. There is no charge. THIEF ROBS STORE Kodaks and Fountain Pens Taken From Reid S. Baker. Kodaks, fountain pens and other articles valued in all at $750 were stolen last night by a thief, who jim- mied the front door of the Reid S. Baker Co., 1428 H street. Ernest Dreisonstok, manager of the stationery and engraving company, re- ported the theft, discovered when he arrived to open shop this morning. More than 250 fountain pens were taken. 2 PLANS FOLGER RECITAL Dr. Joseph Quincy Adams, director of the Folger Shakespeare Library, to- day announced a Shakespeare recital would be given by Miss Florence Locke of California in the library auditorium next Wednesday, at 4 p.m. The program will include a presen- tation of Dame Ellen Terry’s cele- brated lecture on the women of Shake- speare’s plays. Miss Locke will use Dame Terry’'s own manuscript and will portray the different roles in cos- tume. Admission is by invitation. ———— Michigan Dance March 9. ‘The Michigan State Association will present its first formal dance at the La Fayette Hotel Saturday, March 9, at 9:30 p.m., it was announced to- day. Iler J. Fairchild is chairman of the Dance Committee. Tickets may be obtained at the office of Represent- ative Wolcott or at the dance. Check Coughs! Here’s How | Promptly, pleasantly, Hall’s Expectorant soothes and heals irritated membranes of the throat. Coughs, due to colds, are checked amazingly quick. Users say “Nothing better for coughs when one has a cold.” Right they are! Hall’s Expectorant has been relieving cold coughs more than 25 years and is in great demand. Remember the name. Ask any druggist for Hall’s Expectorant. Halliexsecrorant AT ALL DRUG STORES 38¢, 60¢ ond $1. { | roe streets northeast, 8:30 p.m. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, MARCH 1, -1935. lVirgin Islands Administration Inquiry by Congress Proposed Pearson’s Regime Would Be Subjected to Scrutiny. Result of Ickes’ Fight With Yates and Wilson. By the Associated Press. Congress may look into the back- ground of & recent flareup within the New Deal over affairs in the Virgin Islands, The recent episode ended with Sec- retary Ickes sending an apology to Postmaster General Farley, Attorney General Cummings and Senator Har- rison, Democrat, of Mississippi. The possibility that this affair might be reopened and its background aired arose when an investigation of conditions in the islands was recom- mended to the Senate yesterday by its Territories Committee. * The proposed investigation would involve the administration of Paul M. Pearson, Pennsylvania Republican, appointed Governor of the islands by former President Hoover and retained by the New Deal. Ickes Backs Pearson. Ickes has indorsed Pearson's ad- ministration. He has predicted that | rum distilleries being revived in the | islands with P. W. A. funds will end | most of their economic ills. | Pearson, who was an educator and a Chautauqua leader before he be- | came Governor of the island group east of Cuba, has been in conflict with Judge T. Weber Wilson, Virgin Islands justice appointed by Attorney General Cummings. About a month ago the Interior Iie- partment reprinted, and then hur- riedly withdrew, a magazine article supporting Pearson and criticizing Judge Wilson. The article asserted | Wilson had acted as judge, jury and | prosecuting attorney in convicting a P. W. A. employe on a charge of mis- appropriating Government property. After the reprint was withdrawn Ickes apologized to Cummings, Farley and Senator Harrison for the fact that it had been issued. The article had attributed Wilson’s appointment to Farley, Harrison and Cummings. Accusations made against the Gov- ernor of the islands by Paul C. Yates, | his former executive secretary, were behind the Senate committee's rec- ommendation for the investigation yesterday. Fought With Ickes. Yates left the islands government last Fall, exchanging verbal blows with Ickes. The Interior chief said | Yates had been suspended and or- | dered him to return to Washington (Upper), PAUL M. PEARSON. (Lower), PAUL C. YATES. of disloyalty, in- Yates to face charges subordination and inefficiency. replied that he had resigned, that | he had lost confidence in Ickes, that Pearson was a “Hoover-appointed re- actionary Republican” and that he had “a feeling Congress will want to investigate the entire disgraceful m-‘ uation.” Since then Yates sent a 48-page communication to the Senate Terri- torles Committee. In it he said Sec- retary Ickes was “drunk with political power,” that the islands were the abode of “an oppressed people under the American flag” and their present administration was “wasteful, ex- | travagant, inefficient and tainted with | corruption.” Informed yesterday at St. Thomas, | Virgin Islands, of the proposed in- vestigation, Pearson said it would be welcomed. “It's perfectly all right with m(',"} Ickes asserted. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Banquet, St. David's Welsh Society, Mayflower Hotel, 6:30 p.m. Pre-Lenten_dance, Holy Name So- ciety of Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Kenwood Golf Club. Inter-fraternity dance, George | Washington University, Willard Hotel, 10 pm. Bingo and card party, benefit St. Anthony’s Church, Twelfth and Mon- Card party and dance, Brookland Chapter, O. E. S., Willard Hotel, 9 p.m. Dance, Life Begins at Forty Club, La Fayette Hotel, 9 p.m. Dance, Washington Post, No. 2364, | Veterans of Foreign Wars, 1326 Mas- | sachusetts avenue, 8 p.m. Banquet, Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity, | celebrating Founders' day, 1640 Rhode Island avenue, 7:20 p.m. Card party and entertainment, benefit Sodality of Holy Trinity Church, auditorium of school, 8 p.m. Card party, benefit Holy Name So- ciety of Holy Comforter Church, au- ditorium of school, Fifteenth and East Capitol streets, 8 p.m. Dinner meeting, General Electric Co., Ambassador Hotel, 4 p.m. Anniversary dance, Glover Park Cit- izens' Association, La Fayette Hotel, 9 pm. Dance, Wilson Teachers’ College, Wardman Park Hotel, 10 p.m. Dance, Interfraternity Cotillion Club, Raleigh Hotel, 9 pm. Dance, Holy Trinity Alumnae, Ward- man Park Hotel, 10 p.m. Dance and card party, Electa Chap- ter, O. E. S., Kennedy-Warren Apart- ments, 8:30 p.m. Installation of officers, Ben Hur Life Association, Thomas Circle Club, 8 pm. “Bingo party, Justice Lodge, No. 6, Order of Shepherds of Bethlehem, 935 G place, 9 p.m. Pre-Lenten card party, benefit St. Francis de Sales Church, auditorium, Twentieth street and Rhode® Island avenue northeast, 8:30 p.m. Bingo party, benefit Pride of Wash- ington Council, No. 26, D. of A, 9 Q street northeast, 8:30 p.m. TOMORROW. Dance and card party, Gavel Chap- ter, No. 29, O. E. S., Kennedy-War- ren Apartinents, 9 p.m. Dance and card party, Duke Uni- versity Alumni Association of Wash- ington, Shoreham Hotel, 9 p.m. Card party, Business and Profes- gloml Women’s Club, Dodge Hotel, pm. Concert, Chadwick Orchestra, Rup- Give the kiddies plenty of nourish- ing Colonial Ice Cream. It's one health food that children naturally love. Made by COLONIAL ICE CREAM CO. Aiso makers of WADREX Locally Owned and Oporated. For Nearest Dealer, Call AT, | pert Home for the Aged, 2100 Good Hope road southeast, 7:45 p.m. Meeting, Washington Story Tellers’ League, 1781 I street, 8 p.m. Annual alumni dinner and ladies’ night, Washington Society of Massa- chusetts Institute of Technology, | Congressional Country Club, 7:30 p.m. Address by Maj. Calvin I. Kephart on “Racial Origins in the United States” before National Genealogical Society, Y. W. C. A, Seventeenth and | K streets, 8:15 pm. Dance, Phi Chi Fraternity, Shore- ham Hotel, 9 p.m. Dinner dance, Order of Alhambra, Willard Hotel, 7:30 p.m. Dinner dance, Willard Hotel. Card party and dance, benefit | Mount Pleasant Chapter, O. E. S, Bethesda Women's Club, Georgetown and Sonoma roads, 9 p.m. Dance, Dominican Club, St. Dom- inic’s auditorium, Sixth and F streets southwest. Bingo party, benefit Washington | Council, No. 3, Sons and Daughters of Liberty, 655 Columbia road, 8:30 p.m. Reception and dance, Texas State Society, Mayflower Hotel, 9 p.m. Reception, Camp Fire Girls, May- flower Hotel, 3 p.m. Card party and dance, Federal Chapter, No. 38, O. E. S, Hamilton | Hotel, 9 p.m. RECORD ATTENDANCE AT FESTIVAL FORESEEN Cherry Blossom Inquiries Indicate Good Crowds, Automobile Club Reports. A flood of early inquiries received from prospective visitors by the Key- stone Automobile Club Touring Bureau indicates a record attendance at the Cherry Blossom Festival this year. Inquirers are being informed it is impossible to forecast now just when the trees will bloom this year, but they will be notified as soon as a definite forecast can be made. The trees bloomed on April 15 last year. Make Metal Toys. More than 500 concerns in Germany are now making metal toys. TRADE to be sold at within our galleries 715 13th Street Washington, D. C. Tuesday, Wednesday, March 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th, 1935 at 2 p. m. each day rial Spanish Rug, large collection of y well known Artists, Orental Rugs in taft and other China, Chinese Objects of Art and Embracin, Paintings Lamps, Lowes Curios, Antiqgue and Modern Brasses, etc. from the in part large Imj General Theodore A. Bingham Security Storage Co. and other sources ON EXHIBITION Saturday and Monday, March 2nd and 4th Terms Cash C. G. Sloan Co., Swedish Society, | Sloan’s A:; Galleries [ T} 715 Thirteenth Street Estate Sale (by Catalogue) Valuable Household Adornments SECURTY DELY | BY LR A FEIRED Both Inquiries Before Sen- ate Finance Committee With Long Task Ahead. By the Assoclated Press. Some of the warmest supporters of the administration’s social security program expressed fear today that it | would be seriously delayed by the N. R. A. investigation. | 'The inquiry into the recovery agency was referred by the Senate to the | Finance Committee, which also has before it the social security legisla- tion. The full Finance Committee was ordered to sit on the Blue Eagle investigation instead of sending it tc a subcommittee. Some members of the committee said today that both the investiga- tion and the framing of the security legislation were jobs which would re- quire the committee’s full time for a | long period. They expressed concern | over the situation. I | With N. R. A. critics pressing the | committee for a full inquiry into charges of monopoly and oppression, Senators friendly to the social security plan feared it would be pushed aside for an indefinite period. Others Apprehensive. On the other hand, some of those interested in the N. R. A. inquiry were apprehensive lest the social security legislation interfere with a “full and free” inquiry into the Recovery Ad- ministration. However, Chairman Har- rison promised “full, open and com- plete” hearings. A meeting of the committee was set for next Tuesday. | Senator La Follette, Progressive, of | Wisconsin, one of those fearful that | a jam would result from the situation, tried recently to get the Finance Com- | mittee to work on the social security program in order to get it out of the | way before the N. R. A. inquiry started. The committee decided, however, | that it was impracticable to start work | until the House Ways and Means Committee had finished rewriting the | security measure. The Finance Committee is sharply | divided over the administration's pro- posals for old-age pensions and un- employment insurance, with Senator | Byrd, Democrat, of Virginia, and a | group of conservatives at one end openly critical of some of the pro- | visions, and at the other end such legislators as La Follette anxious to expand the program. Weeks of work are ahead, some Sen- ators believed, before differences can be compromised. Some veteran legis- lators say the bill includes more major issues than any legislative proposal | ever submitted to Congress. 2 Near End of Task. The House Ways and Means Com- ! mittee was nearing the end of its| task of considering the social security bill. It has made a numbe: of changes | | which discard recommendations of- | | fered by the President’'s Committee on | Economic Security. | For one thing, it reduced the con- | trol the Federal Government would | have over State old-age pensions and | unemployment insurance. Before tak-{ ing it to the House floor Mext week the committee is expected to talk it over with President Roosevelt. | In the matter of the investigation into N. R. A, Chairman Harrison | promised it would be a “very thorough | inquiry.” “We will try to get the real facts” he said, pointing out that Senator | King, Democrat, of Utah and other | N. R. A. critics were on his commit- | tee. | Harrison said Donald Richberg. for- | mer general counsel of N. R. A. and now heau of the National Emergency | Council, would be called, together with S. Clay Williams, chairman of the N. | R. A, Administrative Board. Whether Hugh S. Johnson, former administra- tor, would be called Harrison said was up to the committee. Adniinistration leaders did not reply directly to King's threat of a separate investigation if the Senate Committee did not provide a “broad, knock-down investigation,” but one of them chal- lenged the parliamentary status of King's resolution for a separate in- quiry. He said the resolution had never been approved by the Judiciary Committee. Senator Nye, Republican, of North Dakota also voiced the same view as King. He said that within the past week or two he alone has received thousand or more charges of com- plaints under N. R. A. codes.” | Concert Is Postponed. The musical program scheduled for this evening at the Washington Col- lege of Music by pupils of Robert Ruckman has been changed to tomor- row at 8:45 pm. Students who will appear on the program are Allen Spalding, Miss Florence M. McCann, Miss Elsa Stong and Miss Elizabeth Thompson. Phone NOrth 3609 J. EDW. CHAPMAN 37 N St. N.W. public auction Thursday and Friday, sizes, Decorative Mahogany Furniture, Fireplace Estate of Inc., Auctioneers. 1 Evening Star, who in turn yielded the Would Consolidate Inquiries BILL SEEKS EXTRA Efforts to force a consolidation of two pending proposals for investiga- tion of the N. R. A. into one inquiry was made in the Senate yesterday by Senators Gerald P. Nye and Pat McCa investigations. Photo shows Senators McCarren (left) and Nye talking over the plan at the Capitol. CHEST BIRTHDAY 1S OBSERVED HERE Capital Organization Helps Mark 22d Anniversary of Parent Body. ‘Washington's Community Chest to- day joined with similar organizations in 413 other cities to observe the 22d | birthday of the Community Chest movement. It is the seventh year for the local Chest. The Community Chest plan had its inception in Cleveland in 1913, when the Clevcland Federation for Charity and Philanthropy, now known as the | Cleveland Community Fund, originated the central financing of social work agencies through a single annual campaign. “Since that time Chests have spread rapidly over the United States becuuse of the increased efficiency and se'vice which their community planning for social work has promoted,” Frederic R. Kellogg, president of Community Chests and Councils, said in an anni- versary message received here at Chest headquarters. 101 Chests in U. S. Today there are 401 Chests in the | United States proper, 1 in Hawai, 9 in Canada, 2 in South Africa and 1 in | Cuba. With the introduction of the Com- munity Chest plan here in 1928, under the sponsorship of leading citizens of all affiliations and creeds, it rapidly became a ieading civic movement of | the Capital, it was explained by local Chest officials. A notable group of men have headed the Chest as president, the first being Frederic A. Delano, chairman of the Fine Arts Commission. The next president was John Poole, banker, who was followed by Edwin C. Graham, now president of the Hamilton Naticnal Bank. Mr. Graham was succeeded by Newbold Noyes, associate editor of The office to Clarence Fhelps Dodge, the | incumbent. 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The annual campaign enlists the aid of and the earnest work of these people has| reduced the cost of financing social welfare work from an average of from 15 to 30 per cent under separate campaigns to 6 per cent under Chest methods of one campaign a year. “Practically every city of importance in the country now finances a portion, or substantially all of its voluntary welfare services, through a plan of federated finance, except New York City, where emergency appeals of a Jjoint nature have been conducted for the past three years,” President Kel- logg says. *“Councils of social agencies services and more effective planning of community welfare programs are Miss found today in most of the important “Chest campaigns for 1929 were the | last ones unaffected by the depres- | sion. The total raised for that year | was $72,744,000. The all-time peak | for Community Chests was the amount | raised for 1932—$101,182,000. This | figure included a substantial sum for | relief work, which was afterward | taken over by public agencies. De- | spite the depression, the amount raised | in 1934 was $70,639,844; and the re- | sults of the campaigns so far held for | 1935 indicate that the total for 1935 | will be substantially the same as it | was for 1934. Five-sixths of the cam- paigns for 1935 were held in the Fall of 1934, the-yemainder being sched- uled for the Winter and Spring| months of 1935. “The depression caused: 88 eities in the United States to follow the Chest plan of financing social work. The largest of these cities to adopt the Chest plan since 1929 is Chicago.” CHARGED WITH FORGERY Two Men Arrested by Secret Serv- ice on Check Charge. Timothy Daly, alias Harry Casey, 37, and George Shoemaker, 55, both of the 300 block of H street, were | arrested yesterday and were to be | charged by the Secret Service with | forgery. Only one check is involved, it was understood. ‘The two were to be arraigned before United States Commissioner Needham | C. Turnage this afternoon. It is wot meces- sary to have had an account at this Bank in order to ! borrow. Loans are passed within a day or two after filing application—with few exceptions. MORRIS PLAN notes are usually made for 1 year. though they may be givem for amy period of from 3 to 12 emonmths. $100 $500 Venetian Blinds —will give your home that smart modern touch that interior decorators have all taken up with such enthusiasm. VENETIAN BLINDS are not only dec- orative but exceedingly practical. Place your order with us and be assured of perfect fit for your win- dows plus complete satis- faction. Prices are sur- prisingly low. 830 13th St. N.W. Dlstrict 3324.3325 * W. STOKES SAMMONS POLIGE SERGEANTS Shoemaker Offers Measure to Add Two on Montgomery Force. By a Staff Correspondent of Thc Star. ARMS QUIZ DELAYS SHEARER HEARING Senator Clark, Hurt in Fall, Unable to Question Witness. By the Associated Press. ANNAPOLIS, March which would provide two additional sergeants for the Montgomery Ccunty police force was introduced in the House of Delegates today by Miss Ruth E. Shoemaker. The measure has in the Lower House. The Montgomery fqrce will have | seven sergeants if the bill is enacted. Miss Shoemaker said there had been a popular demand to place a sergeant in command of each of the county’s three police stations and that the number of ranking officers, with an additional sergeant to serve in a re- lief capacity. In addiiion to Miss Shoemaker, the bill has the support of Delegates T. Yellott Canby and R. Shirley Hays, her associates in the Democratic wing of the county delegation, and Fusion Delegates Joseph A. Cantrel and Wal- ter M. Magruder. Delegates Magruder and Cantrel in- | troduced a bill which would abolish one of the two deputy sheriff positions | in Montgomery County. The salary for the office which they propose to eliminate is $2,100 annually, with an additional allowance of $600 for ex- | penses. ‘The bill is one of the features of Cantrel’s economy program. KIWANIS CLUB FETES GRIDIRON MEMBERS Luncheon Given Officers Yester- day Commemorating Group's Fiftieth Birthday. Officers and several members of the Gridiron Club were guests of honor yesterday at the luncheon of the Kiwanis Club in the Mayflower Hotel in recognition of the fiftieth anniversary of the Gridiron Club. Ulric Bell, president; J. Fred Essary. | treasurer, and J. Harry Cunningham. secretary, were the Gridiron officers present. Fred East and Willlam F. Raymond, members of both clubs, |sang several songs, accompanied by Clyde B. Melville. Mrs. Mary Collins Vories, vice chairman of the Washington Talking Book Committee, and Miss Delphine Desio demonstrated at the luncheon one of the “talking books” which are “read” on phonographs to the blind. The Kiwanis Club voted to purchase a book to add to the 35 now in use here. Harold N. Marsh, president of the Kiwanis Club, presided at the luncheon. Scout Film to Be Shown. The Hungarian Boy Scout jamboree will be shown in motion pictures to | troop 16 and cub pack 404 and other local Boy Scouts at 7:30 p.m. tomor- row in St. David’s Church. Dr. Harry G. Knapp, who also will show a ski- ing picture, is in charge of the affair and he has invited all Scout clubs 1—A bill| A fall down stairs by Senator Clark, Democrat, of Missouri, caused post- | ponement today of the plans of the | Senate Munitions Committee to hear W lliam B. Shearer answer previous | testimony that he had threatened i the support of the entire delegatiop 1 death and scandal to officials of ship- | building companies in a disagreement over pay for big Navy propaganda. |~ Clark, a member of the committee, | planned to question Shearer and had | studied the case in advance. His | office reported he was not seriously | injured, but would not come to the | measure would provide the required | office. | It was explained that a new pair | of slippers he was wearing tripped him on stairs in his home and he fell, }receivlng a severe shaking up. ; To Be Called Soon. Shearer, who previously had termed the story of the threats a “frame-up,” has waited two weeks for an oppor=- tunity to reply. He was assured he would be called sometime next week. Meantime, the committee planned to remain recess at least for the early part of next week working on its program of legislation aimed at taking the profit out of war. Yesterday the committee ended its investigation of the Bethlehem Ship- building Corp, punctuated by the | declaration of a corporation official that the committee’s evidence of con- tract collusion was a “third-handed | hearsay story.” description of the testimony came from S. W. ‘Wakeman, vice president of the cor- poration. Grace Gifts Shown, The committee closed the hearing for Bethlehem at the end of four | days, although two weeks had origi- | nally been allotted to it. i One of the last phases was intro- | duction of a report showing Eugene G. Grace, president of Bethlehem, had contributed about $20,000 to Re- publican campaigns in the past 14 years. GERLACH IS SPEAKER Will Address Crime Forum To- night on Juvenile Delinquency. Edgar M. Gerlach of the Depart- ment of Justice will address the American University Crime Forum, 1901 F street, tonight on the subject of *“Juvenile Delinquency.” Mr. Gerlach is suparvisor of social service in the Federal Bureau of Pris- ons. 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