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SHOWN IN FIGURES Bureau of Labor Statistics Says 1,400,000 Added to Rolls in Year. Statistics recording a gain of 1,400~ 000 in the number of persons employed n the last 12 months in non-agricul- tural industries, bringing the total of employment in those callings up to 31,680,000 in September, were made public yesterday by Secretary of Labor Perkins. ‘The figures, assembled by the Bu- reau of Labor Statistics, reflected a continuous gain in employment since last Spring, she said. Presenting another measure of the progress of recovery, William L. Aus- tin, director of the Commerce De- partment’s Census Bureau, announced returns from the biennial census of manufactures, which showed substan- tial increases in manufscturing ac- tivities in the 19 States for which the 1935 records have been compiled, as compared with the 1933 figures. In making public her department’s figures carrying the picture of recov- ery into the current year, Secretary Perkins said the gain in employment THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTO! D, 0, NOVEMBER I BYSECURITY BODY Board Denies Act Would Ne- cessitate “Prying” for Needed Data. 1936—PART ' ON. New Trustee BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU FILLS VACANCY. TEACHERS TO SEEK ‘RED RIDER’ REPEAL Systematic Campaign to Be Laid Out by D. C. Legislative Unit of N. E. A. A aystematic campaign for the re- .| peal of the “red rider” which requires C. B. DULCAN, Vice president and merchan- dise manager of the Hecht Co., who was elected to the board of trustees of the Better Business Burequ last week. He succeeds the late Harold H. Levi, sr., who was also an s semi-monthly oath from teachers that they have not taught or advo- cated communism and support of the Harrison-Fletcher bill for Federal aid to schools will compose the program of the District of Columbia Legislative Commission of the National Education Association, it was anounced yesterday by Miss Edith Louise Grosvenor, re- cently sppointed chairman. Miss Grosvenor, a teacher at Central High School, wal named head of the commission by Orville C. Pratt of Spokane, Wash., new president of the N.E A - Miss Grosvenor served for eight years as secretary of the N. E. A's Resolutions Committee and , seven years as s of the tion Jese » flmta“ organiza AMERICAN RADIATOR CO. Hot-Water HEA’I‘ C. W. CAMP, AUTHOR, SUCCUMBS IN FLORIDA Writer as Newspaper Man, Then Became Magazine Editor 4 and Playwright. BY the Associated Press. JACKSONVILLE, Fla., October 31— Charles Wadsworth Camp, 57, author and playwright, died here today. A native of Philadelphia, Camp was successively newspaper man, magazine editor and writer of novels and plays. He started his career on the. New York Evening News, then joined the editorial staff of McClure's Magazine. In 1906 he bbcame managing editor of Metropolitan Magazine and aften three years went to Europe to repre~ sent Colliers. Among the novels Camp wrote were: “Sinister Island,” “The House of Fear,” “The Hidden Rodd,” “The Barbarian” and “The Forbidden Years.” W. A. Brady produced his play, “Evil Tongues,” in New York in 1915 and another play, a dramatization of the “House of Fear” was produced in New York and London in 1922-24. ‘285 No Money Down UP TO 5 YEARS TO PAY F. H. A. Rates—First Payment Ja: :;e nlzx;agflc‘:ng;nmu:;fles :ng official of the same company. March, 1933, now totaled more than 6,000,000. The estimates cover all per- Although the place is Washington, the votes are 100 per cent & Left: Mildred Brown votes the straight Democratic ticket for Delaware at the Democrat Absentee Voters’ Bureau, 1410 G street, while two blocks away, at 1413 H street, (right) Mrs. Martha Edwards is marking trade journals throughout the country ry arst sons at work—employers, self-em- ployed and employes—in all types of regular non-agricultural employment, she explained, but do not include em- ployment in agriculture or on Federal emergency work. “The increases in employment since last May have been much greater than the normal seasonal movement in several important industry groups, notably in manufacturing and con- struction,” Miss Perkins said. “The expansion in employment in all non- agricultural industries from May to September, 1936, was larger than in the comparable period in 1935 and nearly equal to the increase in employ- ment that occurred between May and September, 1929, when total non-ag- ricultural employment reached the pre-depression peak. “The increase in total manufactur- ing employment at the rate of over 100,000 per month since last May is particularly striking. It reflects the fact that & large group of manufactur- ing industries are operating at a level at least as high as in 1929.” (Copyright, 1936, N. Y. Herald-Tribune.) BAHAMAS OFFICIAL DIES 8ir George Johnson, Leading Colo- nial Figure, Was 64. NASSAU, N. P, Bahamas, October 81 (#).—Sir George Johnson, presi- dent of the Bahamas Legislative Coun- cil, chairman of the Nassau Develop- ment Board and one of this British colony’s outstanding figures, died to- day. He was 64. Sir George on several occasions toured the United States and Canada. Gov. Sir Bede Clifford and officials will attend the funeral services to- INOrrow. Lady Johnson is critically fll. Sir George was stricken yesterday, THE WEATHER District of Columbia—Mostly cloudy and warmer, probably light showers today; tomorrow rain and colder; fresh southwest winds today. Maryland—Scattered showers and warmer today; rain and colder to- morrow. Virginis—Cloudy and warmer, prob- ably light showers in west and central portions today; rain and colder to- morrow. ‘West Virginia—Showers today, fol- Jowed by colder tonight; probably rain and oolder tomorrow, River Report. Potomac River slightly cloudy and Shenandoah slightly muddy late yes- terday afternoon. Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States Coast and ‘Geodstic Burvey.) Todsy. Tomorrow. 9 am. 10:12 The Sun and Moon, Rises. Sun, today _____ G35 Sun, tomorrow _. 6: Moon, todsy Automobile lights must be turned on enc-hall hour after sunse hulllllu.n Monthly precipitation ln lnchel in the Capital (current month to 1936, Aurm Record. 3B23IVI=N o oI LT INSO R Sbhaison B swowanmc o 8825 » 5 33. 7 a.m. vesterdsy. ‘emperatures This Year. fsnest. 105, on July 10, west. 0. on January 23. ‘Weather in Various Citles. Precipi- ~Temperature~ tation. Max. Min, 8p.m. Bat- ®ri’ Sat. _to urday.night. §p.m. 8p.m. 232 IRRILTB 22 PG EEE S A S I e 233332 APB3RILRIRSIRTIIRIIT B2 B24: 22303379 ER3RSIUTBBRLARBTRTTLZTTIN AARSTLRL her X to add to the Illinois total for Landon-Knoz. Voters Bureau is Mrs. Edward’s counselor, BRIDGE TOURNEY SETFORNOV. 1213 Sixth Annual Event to Be Held at Shoreham Hotel. The sixth annual tournament for the bridge-playing championship of the District will be held at the Shore- ham Hotel November 12-15, accord- ing to an announcement by the Wash- ington Bridge League, sponsors. All bridge players, without restric- tion as to residence or age, are eligible. Experts may not enter the inter- mediate classes, however. The schedule of events is as fol- lows: November 12—Women's pairs, 2:30 pm.; mixed pairs, 8:30 p.m.; inter- mediates, 8:30 p.m. November 13—Final, women'’s pairs, 2:30 pm.; final, mixed pairs, 8:30 pam.; American Bridge League Cup game, 8:30 p.m. November 14—Open pair champion- ship, 2:30 pm. and 8:30 pm.; final intermediate event, 8:30 p.m. November 15—Team-of-four cham- pionship, 11:30 am.; final, team-of- four championship, 5 p.m.; American Bridge League Cup game, 5 pm. Baldwin in Charge. The tournament will be conducted by Russell J. Baldwin of the Amer- ican Bridge League, and the laws of duplicate contract bridge, effective December 2, 1935, as adopted by the American Bridge League, American Chest League and the United States Bridge Association, will govern play. ‘The scoring of all events will be on the match point basis—each deal a match. The committee in charge of the tournament is composed of Lewis R. Watson, jr., chairman; Mrs. M. R. West J. H. Lemon, V. A. Clarke, Mrs. . Swanson, Roy Astleford and J D. Granger. Community Center Classes. Classes in contract bridge under the supervision of the Community Center Department will be held each Monday at 1 pm. in the Burroughs School, Eighteenth and Monroe streets northeast, and in the Paul Junior High School, Eighth and Oglethorpe streets, each Priday at 8 pm. Maxwell L. Johnston, contract bridge authority, will open a new class at Central High School Tues- day at 8 pm., under the auspices of the Community Center Depart- ment. Mimeographed copies of the lessons will be given to those en- rolled. Sgll .|BRYANT TO SPEAK ON NATIONAL PARKS 2 | Illustrated Lecture Wednesday to Include Discussions of High and Low Points of U. S. Dr. Harold C. Bryant, of the Na- tional Park Service, will deliver an 1llustrated lecture on outstanding fea- tures of the national parks Wednes- day at 8 pm. in the Government audi- torilum. The public is invited to at- United States, lo- cated in Sequoia National Park, California, and , below sea level and the Dr. Brysat. tional Monument, almost within sight of Mt. Whitney. Dr. Bryant, an assistant director of - | the National Park Service, is chief of its branch of research and education, and is intimately acquainted with the ‘wonders of the national parks, Hen Sets Record, Drops 361st Egg Since Nov. 1, 1935 Voting ‘(Continued From Page B-1) pleces of campaign literature from our headquarters at 1413 H street, cover- ing nearby counties in Maryland and Virginis, and what is probably much more vital in s national campaign, we have raised more money for campaign purposes than heretofore,” Wilkes said. “We will provide automobiles to take voters to the polls on election day to nearby counties in Maryland and Virginia, if said voters will indicate by telephone to District 7500 where to call for them, “The Republican party in the Dis- trict of Columbia is in this campaign to show to the Nation what the vote- less City of Washington can do in conforming to the election laws of the several States recognizing absentee voting. In this connection, I desire to call attention of young Republicans of the District that a meeting of the Young Republican organization of the District, acting under auspices of the Republican State Committee in and for the District of Columbia, will be held at Republican headquarters, 1413 H street, Tuesday at 8 p.m. Secured Second Ballot. ‘Workers in the Republican bureau told of a pair of brothers from North Carolina who presented an unusual problem. One of the brothers intended to vote the straight Republican ticket. The other, an ardent Democrat, de- stroyed the ballot. The Republican brother sought the advice of the Absentee Voters' Bureau and was told to write home explaining the circum- stances and requesting a new. ballot. This he did and received the second ballot. The Democratic brother in the meantime paid s visit to Tugwelltown and, on returning advised his Repub- lican brother that because of the waste and extravagance he saw there, he could not support the administration and announced that he, too, would Mrs. tary” for the Democratic Bureau, has traveled more than 300 miles in the last two days to notarize the mail votes of absentee voters who were unable to go in person to the G street headquarters. She traveled 20 miles 1305 Kennedy sf Forty-fifth place southeast and return. She notarized ballots for persons ill with influenza and the mumps. A mother with a new baby and another mother with eight children, each of whom voted the Democratic ticket in Iowa, were on her list. In a local hospital she attested the vote of an 82-year-old West Virginian with s broken hip. She then went across the hall to the sickbed of a young man who cast his first ballot. aged woman who had been in a wheel chalr for years were among the voters who called upon her for assistance. Votes “by Mouth.” Mrs. Asbury said she received o telephone call from & man who asked if she could not mail a ballot to him at a local address. She replied that it was preferred that voters should come to the bureau if possible. He replied that he could not do so very well; that he was going to have to “vote by mouth.” It developed that he had lost both arms and both legs but that he was able to hold & pencil or pen in his teeth and write. One of the prominent voters Republican bureau hu been Mrs. William Howard Taft, widow of the former President and Chiet who received her ballot from New Haven, Conn., and utilized the notary .| service at the H street bureau. She said she had voted for Landon. trains to carry voters to the polls in nearby States on Tuesday. Special Mexico’s tobacco trade is off at threat of government control. Diller Groff of the Repubucan Absentee —Star Staff Photos. FALL RAINS GAUSE FARM PRICE DROP Agriculture Department Re- ports Decline in All But Eggs and Chickens. BY the Assoclated Press. Fall rains which ended drought damage and aided late crops were said by the Agriculture Department yesterday to have caused a decline of 3 points in the average price of farm products in a month. ‘The department sald farmers re- ceived an average price for all pmd ucts on October 15 of 121 per cent of the pre-war level compared with 124 per cent on September 15. All groups of farm products ex- cept eggs and chickens declined un- der September averages, sithough the October average was still 12 points above last year, it was said. Declines for the month included 1 per cent for fruits, 2 for all grains and cotton, 3 for meat animals and dairy products and 32 for truck crops. Dairy products usually rise at this season. BOYS STAB WOMAN WHO SCOLDED THEM Mrs. Margaret Tucker Injured by Youths When She Remonstrates as They Hit Car. Mrs. Margaret Tucker, 25, of 3547 Eleventh street, was stabbed in the neck shortly before last midnight by one of & group of colored youths with whom she remonstrated for beating on the windows of the car in which she was sitting. She was taken to Garfleld Hospital, where her condi- tion was termed not serious. Mrs. Tucker was seated in & car Want Ad Romance Fails. IOWA CITY, Iows, October 31 (#).— George Brown, 20, University of Iowa freshman, received 10 “serious” re- sponses to his want ad for a dance , but the finzl result was & Monday and Tuesday, Nov. 2 and 3 ull-—fin demonstrations 'Will conclude—for this of eur “COM- RUPTUBE—Herma Sl-ull”-u'c——lun'-n-hhndv-r‘l.'-l. help and comparative to many thousands ef men, CHANCE 12 pleased erder today, pay next week or next menth Wm. H. Baker, Parkside Hotel Eye St. ot 14th, Washington, D. 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