Evening Star Newspaper, September 1, 1935, Page 10

A—10 = FEDERALWORKERS NEET TOHORRON Retirement and Merit Sys- tem Important Issues on Convention Agenda. BY J. A. FOX. With attention centering on pro- posals for strengthening and extend- ing the merit system in Government employment, the biennial convention of the National Federation of Fed- eral Employes opens tomorréw morn- ing in Old Faithful Inn, Yellowstone National Park. The sessions will run through Thursday or Friday. The federation has been one of the severest critics of the practice that has grown up under the Demo- cratic administration in creating new agencies outside of civil service, and undoubtedly will call for a change, pledging its members all over the country to work toward this end. Retirement to Be Aired. The retirement question also will be to the fore in the convention dis- cussions. The federation long has advocated optional retirement after 30 years, and again will include this in its legislative program. It also| is due to sponsor @ new departure in | retirement legislation for presemutmn‘ to the next Congress—the spreading of annuities to cover the life of a surviving dependent of the annuitant, as well as that of the annuitant. Extension of classification to the field, another long-standing objec- tive, also will come in for attention, and in this connection the federation will consider a proposal for creation | of a new schedule in the classification act which would set a minimum wage of $1,500 yearly for every adult ‘worker. Seeks Court of Appeals. Establishment of a civil service court of appeals, likewise an aim of the federation for a long time, is due to draw a reiterated support as a major item in its program. With ‘more than 500 locals now lined up, the convention attendance this year is expected to be the larg- est in the history of the federation. It will be its thirteenth assembly and the first to be held on a Federal res- ervation. National park employes, organized in Lodge 465, are hosts. Mitchell Will Speak. At the Tuesday or Wednesday ses- sion Harry B. Mitchell, president of the Civil Service Commission, will speak. The election of officers probably will take place Wednesday, and all the incumbents, headed by Luther C. Steward, president, and Miss Ger- trude McNally, secretary-treasurer, are expected to be returned. The main body of delegates seaching Yellowstone today. - ACTIVITY CHARGED TO HOWARD U. HEARD Letter by Dr. Miller Expresses | Danger of Institution Becom- ing “Red” Hotbed. President Mordecal Johnson of Howard University was charged yes- terday in an open letter addressed by Dr. Kelly Miller, dean emeritus, with committing the university to a policy of radicalism, “violently at variance with the will and purpose of the American people who support it.” At the instigation of Dr. Miller, dean emeritus, and Senator Tydings | is THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTO! Argo to Be Rigged for New Adventure| Ship Abandoned by Navy Will Be Sailed The S. S. S. Argo shown off the yacht club, where she is being overhauled. to South Seas Soon. “With over-weather’d ribs and ragged | sails, | Lean, rent and beggar'd by the ~—Shakespeare. BY GEORGE HURD. strumpet wind.” HERE is little of romance in| the roughened hull of her as| she lies listlessly on the murky | waters of the Washington | Channel off the Yacht Club. Her | wind and storm-yellowed sails are| furled and lashed tightly to her| creaky masts. She is weather-beaten and worn by countless tides and winds. Rats scamper and squeal in her hold. From the shore she looks like a dere- | lict resurrected Yrom the Sargasse of | Lost Ships. For 43 years the old sailing yawl has lived up to her name—the Argo —and her heyday was when she car- | ried the pride of the Navy on her fresh-scrubbed decks. Some of her | = val | 3 most famous of present-day maval| g "o s Sound as the day she | gerald’s son, was removed by Albrit- | fighting men trained aboard her be- tween 1905 and 1930. Built in 1892, l The old Argo was built in 1892 and presented to the United States Naval | Academy in 1905 by Dr. Charles G. Fitzgerald of Baltimore. For 25 years, she served as a training ship and pleasure boat for midshipmen and instructors. In 1930 the Argo's service to the | Navy ended, but again she sailed away into new seas of adventure. This time she was sold to the Boy Scouts of the District of Columbia and a younger generation of sea dreamers trod her decks and thrilled to her breeze-filled sails. But the Argo's search for the golden fieece has not yet ended. She sunk to the gunwhales in shame when she was sold to Zelner Albritton, a Georgetown antique dealer. Old seamen along the water front shook their heads. But again the Argo raised her battered prow above encroaching oblivion and suddenly found herself in the hands of a ship lover, Plans South Sea Trip. ~—Star Staff Photo. D. C, SEPTEMBER 1, ACCOUNT OF GIRLY DEATHS CHECKED Police Say Father’s Story Is at Variance With Evidence. By the Associated Press. : MIAMI, Fla., August 31.—State At- torney G. A. Worley tonight said the death by fire of two of the three daughters of H. G. Denmark, 36, “coptains elements that require fur- ther explanation.” “The appearance of the house it- self—the flames plainly confined to the girls' bed room—is at variance with Denmark’s account,” said Worley, after he returned from the home of the bakery salesman. Denmark, who said that through a “horrible mistake” he threw gasoline instead of water on bed room flames that yesterday killed Dorothy, 13, and Prances, 11, remained in custody to- day as the inquiry continued. ‘The c.ondmun of the third girl, Jewel, 9, was serious. Poison, gas and fire figured into what Worley called “suspicious cir- cumstances,” but Denmark, twice nfarried and divorced only a month ago, had what one investigator said were “reasonable” explanations.. Denmark said he was away the day the children found poison in punch prepared for a party, and he | explained he believed the tablet had been knocked into the bowl from a shelf. [ As for the escaping gas about which Dorothy purportedly wrote in | her diary, the salesman said a pot of | heating clothes had boiled over, ex- | tinguishing the flame, on Wednesday | night. | Before they died, Dorothy and | Frances told investigators their father | was “the best daddy in the world.” | aboard the romantic old yawl, he | listened to all the wiseacres of the water front and his mind was un- | changed. His mother, Mrs. Nina Al- britton, scoffs at the idea of her son }gomg to the South Seas, but Zelner is going ahead with his preparations. | Soon he will take her to Solomons | Island, where she will be put in dry dock to be made ready for the long | cruise. | The Argo, according to stories along the water front, was given to the Naval | gerald after his son had lost his life |at ses while aboard. In the same | storm the Argo was lost for years. | britton bought her. In searching the | Academy ai Annapolis by Dr. FIKZ-‘ This became known only when Al-| SANTA CLAUS AIDE MOURNED BY SCORES ‘Chicagn Postal Official Who‘ Opened Christmas Mail Hon- ‘ ored at Funeral. By the Associated Press. | CHICAGO, August 31.—The Chi- | cago representative of Santa Claus | was “uried today, whilg hundreds of children crowded around the church where his funeral was held. | On goller skates, skooters, bicycles Her new owner went over every records, he found that in all her|and afoot, they assembled near St. plank and upright in her. He in- Vears of service she had been an un- Jgnatius parish as the final rites were | spected the tall masts and prowled | registered ship. It seems that when | administered for John T. McGrath, | through her musty hull from stem to | she was finally located and towed in0 | postal official, who during the many | stern. and seamen along the water front. Opinions differed. Some of them said | memorating the death of Dr. Fits- | to Kris Kringle. | was built. Others wagged their heads knowingly and decreed she would go to Davey Jones’ locker on her first con- tact with a running sea. ings in veins, announced that would sail away to the South Seas in | A copper plate in the Argo, com- ton and presented to the father. And now, as soon as her sails have been patched, her hull repaired and | painted and her masts set more solidly, Seas and adventure— trim, his new prize. Stanch in his deter- | Sails fill'd and streamers waving.” ' mination to sail away to adventure' —Milton. ‘Agriculture Is Keeping Pace With Business in Recovery 300 LUTHER LEAGUE DELEGATES ARRIVE Rev. John L. Deaton of Balti- He talked with old river men | POrt, her recovery was mot reported.| years of his service at the Chicago | post office opened the mail addressed Public officials and civic leaders | joined the children in paying homage to the man whose efforts brought Christmas happiness to many chil- dren wb . otherwise would never have But Albritton, a husky young fel- | she soon may sail again. Off to South | known Christmas Most of his own low of 26, and with the blood of vik- he | “With all her bravery on and tackle requests made by poor children in funds, they recalled, went to answer their letters to Santa Claus. AR D. C. SUMMER PLAY CENTERS CLOSED Pools and Playgrounds Have Ret- ord Season—Cool Weather Fixes Date. | six years. 1935—PART ON Faithful Old Timepiece Post Office Clock Accurate After 38 Years of Service. R. E. Roberts shown winding Building. I and visitors within the gates have looked up with confidence to the broad, honest face of the old Post Office clock . and almost always its hands have pointed to the correct time. The old timepiece, in the tower of the old Post Office Building. is in just as good condition as it wes the day it was installed in 1897 when the building was constructed. Only once each week does it require at- tention. That is when R. E. Roberts, mechanic of the Internal Revenue Department, goes to the high tower to turn the giant key to wind it up. The key is a crank 2 feet long, like the handle of a hoisting crane. Pendulum Weighs 50 Pounds. 1t is all done with wires and wheels, it is explained by Roberts, who has been tending the old clock for the past There is nothing intri- about the “in- There are only OR 38 years—13.870 days, 332,- 880 hours — Washingtonians cate or complicated nards of Old Se a few wheels, pendulum that weighs 50 pounds, a weight that| scales around 300 pounds and the erank, .or those who are interested in statistics, the face of the clock is 24 feet broad end its longest hand (the minute hand) is 11 feet long from stem to tip. The timepiece is faithful to the minute, almost, when it is wound on time. Roberts must be prompt in e | :Industrialisls Deny Labor’s Interests the clock on the old Post Office —Star Staff Phcto. getting there on Friday, he says, be- cause the clock will stop promptly at 1 o'clock on Saturday if it is not wound on time. Praises Accuracy. “There have been very few times that the clock has been wrong since 1 have been taking care of it,” Rob- erts said in defense of his charge. “Sometimes it will vary as much as two or three minutes, but I have not set it at all in the past six months.” Setting the clock means that, if it is fast. it must be stopped until time catches up with its hands. If it is slow, then it has a trigger that when touched moves the hands up 10 seconds at a time. Roterts just keeps on touching the trigger until| the hands catch up with time. | Only a few times in its nearly half | century of marking time has the old clock stopped and that was only when the elements stepped into the picture and coated its long hands with ice. Roberts explained that when the hands become too heavy with ice to be moved by the “works” all he can do is just sit by and wait for the ice to thaw. But he is always on hand to put the hands right when the ice is gone. Slipped Off to Wind Clock. Before Roberts took charge of the old clock, it “was just anybody's' job” to wind it, he says. In his 10 vears as engineer of the Post Office, however, he admits he used to slip| off to the tower of a Friday to turn the crank. | The old Post Office Building is now | under the Internal Revenue Depart-! ment since the new building was erected across the street. It is super- | [215T ENGINEERS END ENCAMPNENT Coi. John W, Oehmann De- scribes Camp Simms’ Tour a Success. Leaving behind more than lflo.emer- gency relief workers to continue the work of making Camp Simms a perma- nent training site for the District Na- tional Guard, the 121st Engineer Regi- ment, 28th Military Police Company and attached troops of the local Guard, yesterday broke camp after two weeks under canvas. The 530 officers and men set some- thing of a record for themselves in clearing out of the camp site which they hacked out of the wilderness two. weeks ago. Within an hour after Col. John W. Oehmann, camp commander and commander of the Engineer Regi- ment, had given the order to break camp yesterday morning, all the tents, cots and other equipment had been stowed in waterproof bags and trans- ferred by truck for storage in the new brick and concrete warehouse at the post. Successful Encampment. “This has been the most successful encampment I can remember,” Col Oehmann said. By next Summer, Col. Oehmann said, he expects to have Camp Simm: in shape to accommodate a full regi- ment. He said there is no doubt the local Guard will return to Simms next Summer unless Maj. Gen. Milton A Record, commander of the local Na- tional Guard division, should order divisional or brigade concentrations for training. In any event, Col. Oehmann said, work will begin on the rifle range at Simms next April, and this and other forms of training will continue there through the coming year. Workers to Be Kept on Job. More than 100 relief workers will be kept on the job at Simms at least until Winter sets in, Col. Oehmann believes. They will be employed in building & mile and a half of new roads, in addition to the two and one- half miles of roads built or improved this Summer. They also will com- plete the grading and drainage of the new parade grounds, clearing of ground for 13 new targets on the rifie range, providing a total of 34 targets and clearing a new camp site. The regiment next year is to pitch tents on a site south of that cleared for this year. The new site, now cov- ered with a jungle of brush and weeds is to be cleared and graded during the next few months. Company streets will be laid out and tent sites prepared. BRAKES RELINED 4 Wheels Complete FREE ADJUSTMENTS FORD, 28 t0 '35 or CHEVROLET (30 to ’32) Other Cars Proportionately Low more Will Address Session Income of American Farmer for 1934 . ay. of Maryland, the Interior Department | is investigating alleged communistic Conflict With Own The Summer playgrounds, special play centers and four swimming pools, vised by E. J. Little, who has charge of more than 3,000,000 square feet; E“Em Bmi SEWICE of floor space In four Government buildings in triangle group No. 2. | 903" NW DE.54 teachings and propaganda at the col- ored university supported in large measure by Federal funds. “If the trustees of Howard Uni- versity and the authorities of the Government permit you to go on after the matter which you proclaim and Jjustify, the institution would soon de- generate into a hot bed of radicals and Communists,” Miller said in his letter. He had specific reference to a re- cent newspaper report quoting Dr. Johnson as justifying an invitation to Communists to address the student body, so as to give them ‘“objective information.” Dr. Miller declared in his letter, “It is doubly dangerous to let radi- cal imposters loose upon the easily excited emotions of the Negro youth ‘whose minds are already sensitized by & keen sense of injustice and wrong.” He added: “It would be suicidal for the race to go back on the Constitu- tion and the flag which signalize all they have or can reasonably hope to be.” Howard University was founded by Gen. O. O. Howard, philanthropist, statesman and patriot, he said, for the purpose of affording colored youth higher educational opportunity under the inspiration of the American flag and all that it stands for. MAN QUIZZED HERE IN BROOKLYN KILLING New York Detective Talks to Man Arrested by Local Police. John E. McMannis, 23, arrested here Friday, was questioned last night by a Brooklyn detective in connection with the murder in New York last May of Albert Bonjornia. The youth was arrested for investi- gation on information obtained by ‘Washington detectives. The murdered man was found mutilated on a road near Brooklyn, apparently having been cut with a hatchet and stabbed. In his hand he clutched a handful of hair which police believe may prove an important link in the solution of the murder. A micro-analysis is to be made of the. hair, police said. Boy Hits Cartridge With BB and Is Shot InEyeball in Return By the Assoclated Press. NEW HARTFORD, Conn, August 31.—George Kucza, 13, accidentally wounded himself be- cause he was too good a marks- man. The boy found a .22-caliber cartridge, but couldn’t use it in his BB rifle. He deeided to use it as a target. His shot hit the cartridge. The cartridge exploded and pierced his right eyeball. He was taken to a Winsted hospital. BY BLAIR BOLLES. | The American farmer, whose plight brings tears at every election to the eyes of politicians, is experiencing re- | covery with a speed equal to that of the business man, it was revealed to- day. $7.300,000,000, almost one billion more than in the preceding year. | “The farm comeback brought the farmer $3,468,000,000 net income, $894,000,000 more than lg\:e year before,” according to the - partment of Commerce. “After allow- ing himself and his family the equiv- alent of hired hands' wages for their $882,000,000. This worked out to a It just about put Farmer & Sons on an earning parity with Business, Inc.” This has been accomplished in the face of a decline in the agricultural export market to 54 per cent of the pre-war volume, the record low since 1876-1877, when the average was 50 per cent of the volume in 1910-1914. The percentage for 1933-1934 was 83. Advance Unprecedented. The advance in farm income thus far this year over 1934 has been un- precedented. The Bureau of Agri- cultural Economics remarks on the farm price index, which rose four points to 106 during the month end- ing August 15: “Compared with cne year ago, meat animal prices were 61 points higher in mid-August this year; prices of chickens and eggs were up 25 points, point.” However, the other side of the pic- ture shows grain prices are down 10 points, cotton and cottonseed down 10 points, fruit down 14 points, truck crops down 16 points and miscel- laneous items down 23 points. The New Deal has aided the farmer to a greater extent than any adminis- tration since the days of homestead- ing, when the United States was still an agricultural Nation. The A. A. A. curtailed production. The Farm Credit Administration has supplied credit against future marketings of growing crops. The Commodity Credit Corp. has made and is still making loans to guarantee a market price for cotton and corn. The Sur- plus Relief Corp. paid the drought- stricken farmer of crops and meat animals which would have burned and starved and brought the farmer no return. New Frazier-Lemke Law. Now a new Frazier-Lemke mort- gage moratorium act, supposedly kept within the constitutional, limits de- fined by the Supreme Court when it found the first Frazier-Lemke act in- valid, has become law, and a load is lifted from the brow of the farmer fearful of losing his farm and his home to the mortgagor. While the farm income goes up, of course prices go up, but the real in- come of the farmer, measured in pur- chasing power, is secure and steady. “The combined mid-August index of prices paid by farmers for com- % . His income for- 1934 grossed | last year | own labor, his operating net was | 4.4 per cent return on his investment. | and dairy products were up one| has brought benefit payments and | higher prices for products through | Grossed $7,300,000,000, According to Federal Figures. | modities bought, taxes paid and inter- | est payments showed no change from | a year ago,” the crop reporters of the | Department of Agriculture find. Prices Cover Fixed Charges. |® .“This is the index of prices paid by farmers broadened tQ include fixed |in the amended agricultural adjust- ment act as a basis for the determi- nation of parity prices of all basic farm commodities, except where post- war price averages are utilized in the computations. This index has stood at 129 per cent of pre-war parity since July 15 this year. The general level of prices paid, interest and taxes also was 129 per cent of pre-war from August 15, 1934, through January, 1935.” The farmer was suffering acute economic distress long before October, | 1929, and 1t seems reasonable that if recovery in the pasture continues at its present rate he will be better off than ever before. This would be es- pecially true if the export market opens up, an evenuality which might well come with an European war. Exports Hit New Low. ‘While the New Deal gold policy was keeping dollar value of exports at a fairly high level in 1934, the Depart- ment of Commerce reports in its World Economic Review of 1934, vol- ume ‘of agriculture exports dropped to the lowest level since 1887-1888. “This decline was occasioned prin- cipally by the sharp drop in our ex- ports of cotton, as the index of ex- ports, excluding cotton, receded only 62 per cent from the 1910-1914 aver- age in 1933 to 59 per cent in 1934. Including cotton shipments, the index shows a decline from 85 in 1933 to | 86 in 1934,” the Review states. De- spite this, the Review comments: “The relative share of agriculture in the national income, which had de- clined by about one-third from 1929 to 1932, has increased to a point where it is now only moderately be- | low the 1929 figure.” For the fiscal year ending July 1, 1935, the Department of Agriculture reveals these figures concerning the farm export market (in the index used, 1913 equals 100): The index for cotton exports in 1934-35 was 60, the lowest since 1922- 23, when it was 59. In 1933-34 the cotton index stood at 97. The export index for manufactured tobacco is 95, the smallest since 1917- 18, when it stood at 74. The 1933-34 index was 120. For fruit, the index stands at 197, the lowest since 1924-25, when it was 184. ‘Wheat Figure Is 25. ‘The 1934-35 export index for wheat, | including flour, is 21, the lowest since 1867-68, when it stood at 24. In 1933- 34 it was 35. The index for exports in cured pork | in 1934-35 stands at 22, the smallest since 1870-71, while the lard index is at 48, the lowest since 1882-83. However, even without these mar- kets beyond the seas, many of which have been lost through efforts to im= prove the domestic situation of the sagriculturist, the index of farm income " charges, which has been designated | Approximately 300 delegates are in | 1 Washington, attending the fourteenth | annual convention of the Luther| League of the synod, with members | the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Maryland acting as hosts. The con- vention began yesterday and will be in session through tomorrow. Convention headquarters are in the | Dodge Hotel, where the three-day | meeting was officially opened last | night with a fellowship supper. | be Rev. John L. Deaton of Baltimore, who will speak on “The Light in Fam- | ily Place,” and Rev. Oscar Fisher Blackwelder, pastor of the Church of the Reformation, on “The Light in| | Pleasure Circle.” This afternoon a | religious drama will be presented un- | der the direction of Mrs. Paul Quay. | | The annual banquet tomorrow night | will be the closing feature of the con- vention. Rev. Joseph B. Baker will speak on “The Light of the Future.” 'U. S. STERILIZED 20,000, 'SCIENTIST TELLS BERLIN By the Associated Press. BERLIN, August 31.—An address | prepared by Prof. Harry Hamilton | Laughlin of New York, and delivered yesterday by Prof. Clarence Gordon Campbell of New York, before the Congress of the International Union for Scientific Investigation of Popula- tion Problems, stated that 20,000 per- sons have been sterilized in the United States in the past 30 years. “But this number, in view of unions of vast population, is quiet insignifi- | cant as a national remedy for hered- | itary degeneracy,” added the speaker, to whom tke audience, mostly Ger- man, listened attentively. Tlustrated charts were shown in an explanation of sterilization laws and practices in the United States un- til January 1, 1935. at the end of 193¢ was slightly over 100. ‘Thirteen major indices show: Farm income, 105. Farm' production, 110. Department store sales ed), 80. ‘Wholesale prices, all commodities, 75. Retail pay rolls, 60. Industrial production, 85. Bank debits, outside New York City, 85. Retail prices, 80. Cost of living, 78. Preight car loadings, 62. Retail sales of new automobiles, 90. Construction contracts awarded, 30. Commercial loans by Federal re- serve member banks, 62. (adjust- (VES TRoyg e BAYERSON OIL_ WORKS COLUMBIA 522 | town, Rosedale and Howard grounds. under direction of the District Play- ground Department, were closed yes- terday, after a record season, Miss of the Washington District League of Sibyl Baker, playground supervisor, | announced last night. | The pools, closed early because of | the cool weather which affected at- Conference Turns Thumbs Down on Marxian Theory, Lauds Worker. tendance, were the Monument, George- More than 61,000 persons were ad- mitted to the monument pool dur- ing the past season. A total of 5,077 Speakers at today's sessions will children and adults were given swim- | ming instructions there. There are 33 municipal playgrounds which will remain open throughout the year. These are the Blooming- dale, Burroughs, Chevy Chase, Gal- linger, Garfield, Georgetown, Hamil- ton, Happy Hollow, Hoover, Kenil- worth Recreation Center, Mitchell Park, Montrose, New York Avenue, Park View, Phillips, Potomac, Ray- mond, Rosedale, Sherwood, Takoma Park, Thomson, Twin Oaks, Virginia Avenue, Banneker Recreation Center, Barry Farms, Cardozo, Howard, Lin- coln, Logan, Monroe, Payne, Rose Park and Willow Tree Playgrounds. The Ida May_ Gales Memorial Play Station is maifltained for the benefit of patients of Children's Hospital. STAR ENDS STRIKE Myrna Loy En Route to Studio After Dispute. HOLLYWOOD, August 31 (#). | Myrna Loy called off her “one-star strike” with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios ‘oday. Louis B. 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