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FEDERAL WORKERS
MEET MOW
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 tomorrow 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 a new departure in
retirement legislation for presentation
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
•peak.
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 is
teaching Yellowstone today.
ACTIVITY CHARGED
TO HOWARD U. HEARD
letter by Dr. Miller Expresses
Danger of Institution Becom
ing “Bed'’ Hotbed.
President Mordecai 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
of Maryland, the Interior Department
is investigating alleged communistic
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
justify, 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
a 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
In Eyeball in Return
By the Associated 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 decided to use
it as a target.
His shot hit the cartridge. The
cartridge exploded and pierced
his right eyeball.
He was taken to a Wlnsted
hospital.
1
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Argo to Be Rigged for New Adventure
Ship Abandoned by Navy Will Be Sailed
to South Seas Soon.
The S. S. S. Argo shown off the yacht club, where she is being overhauled. —Star Staff Photo.
“With over-weather’d ribs and ragged]
sails,
Lean, rent and beggar'd by the
strumpet wind.”
—Shakespeare.
BY GEORGE HERD.
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 J
creaky masts. She is weather-beaten j
and worn by countless tides and winds.
Rats scamper and squeal in her hold.
From the shore she looks like a dere
lict resurrected from 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- J
ried the pride of the Navy on her
fresh-scrubbed decks. Some of her
most famous of present - day naval
fighting men trained aboard her be
tween 1905 and 1930.
Built in 1893.
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 1
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
fleece 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.
Her newr owner went over every
plank and upright in her. He in
spected the tall masts and prowled
through her musty hull from stem to
stern. He talked with old river men
ahd seamen along the water front.
Opinions differed. Some of them said
she was just as sound as the day she
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.
But Albritton, a husky young fel
low of 26, and with the blood of vik
ings in veins, announced that he
would sail away to the South Seas in
his new prize. Stanch in his deter
mination to sail away to adventure
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. scofls at the idea of her son
going 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
Academy at Annapolis by Dr. Fitz
gerald after his son had lost his life
at sea while aboard. In the same
storm the Argo was lost for years.
This became known only when Al
britton bought her. In searching the
records, he found that in all her
years of service she had been an un
registered ship. It seems that when
she was finally located and towed into
port, her recovery was not reported.
A copper plate in the Argo, com
memorating the death of Dr. Fitz
gerald's son, was removed by Albrit
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,
she soon may sail again. OS to South
Seas and adventure
“With all her bravery on and tackle
trim.
Sails fill'd and streamers waving
—Milton.
Agriculture Is Keeping Pace
With Business in Recovery
Income of American Farmer for 1934
Grossed $7,300,000,000, According
to Federal Figures,
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 ngan, it was revealed to
day. His income for 1934 grossed
$7,300,000,000. almost one billion
more than in the preceding year.
"The farm comeback last year
brought the farmer $3,468,000,000 net
income, $894,000,000 more than the
year before,” according to the De
partment of Commerce. "After allow
ing himself and his family the equiv
alent of hired hands' wages for their
own labor, his operating net was
$882,000,000. This worltad out to a
4.4 per cent return on his investment.
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,
and dairy products were up one
point.”
However, the other side of the pic
ture shows grain prices are down 1.0
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.
has brought benefit payments and
higher prices for products through
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 com. 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
cf prices paid by fanners for com
%
, modities bought, taxes paid and inter- 1
| est payments showed no change from
j a year ago.” the crop reporters of the
j Department of Agriculture find.
Prices Cover Fixed Charges.
* ‘‘This is the index of prices paid by
farmers broadened tft include fixed
1 charges, which has been designated j
in the amended agricultural adjust- j
j ment act as a basis for the determi- j
| nation of parity prices of all basic j
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
j 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 it seems reasonable that if ;
' recovery in the pasture continues at
| its present rate he will be better off
j than ever before. This would be es
1 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
66 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 35.
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
agriculturist, the index of farm income ,
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300 LUTHER LEAGUE
DELEGATES ARRIVE
Rev. John L. Deaton of Balti
more Will Address Session
Today.
Approximately 300 delegates are in
Washington, attending the fourteenth
annual convention of the Luther
League of the synod, with members
of the Washington District League of
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.
Speakers at today's sessions will
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."
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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 «jf unions
of vast population, is quiet insignifi
cant as a national remedy for hered
itary degeneracy,” added the speaker,
to whom tl* audience, mostly Ger
man, listened attentively.
Illustrated charts were shown in
an explanation of sterilization laws
and practices in the United States un
til January 1, 1935.
at the end of 1934 was slightly
over 100.
Thirteen major indices show:
Farm income. 105.
Farm production. 110.
Department store sales (adjust
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.
Freight car loadings, 62.
Retail sales of new automobiles, 90.
Construction contracts awarded, 30.
Commercial loans by Federal re
serve member banks, 62.
A
DMSJECKED
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,
“contains 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
Frances, IX, remained in custody "to
day as the inquiry continued.
The condition 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. 9
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."
SANTA CLAUS AIDE
MOURNED BY SCORES
Chicago 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 joller skates, skooters, bicycles
and afoot, they assembled near St.
Ignatius parish as the final rites were
administered for John T. McGrath,
postal official, w'ho during the many
years of his service at the Chicago
post office opened the mail addressed
to Kris Kringle.
Public officials and civic leaders
joined the children in paying homage
to the man whose efforts brought
Christmas happiness to many chil
dren wh otherwise would never have
known Christmas Most of his own
funds, they recalled, went to answer
requests made by poor children in
I their letters to Santa Claus.
D. C. SUMMER PLAY
CENTERS CLOSED
Pools and Playgrounds Have Rec
ord Season—Cool Weather
Fixes Date.
The Summer playgrounds, special
play centers and four swimming pools,
under direction of the District Play
ground Department, were,closed yes
terday, after a record season. Miss
Sibyl Baker, playground supervisor,
announced last night.
The pools, closed early because of
the cool weather which affected at
tendance, W’ere the Monument, George
town, Rosedale and Howard grounds.
More than 61,000 persons were ad
mitted to the monument pool dur
ing the past season. A total of 5,077
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 Hollow7. 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 maintained for the benefit
of patients of Children's Hospital.
STAR ENDS STRIKE
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Myrna Eoy En Route to Studio
After Dispute.
HOLLYWOOD, August 31
Myrna Loy called off her "one-star
strike” with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Studios today.
Louis B. Mayer, production chief,
announced the red-haired actress,
whose salary had been stopped since
May 15 in her dispute for an increase,
had left New York for Hollywood to
play in a new M-G-M picture.
Details of how the actress’ demands
for a boost in salary from $1,500 to
$3,000 a week had been settled were
not disclosed.
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Faithful Old Timepiece
Post Office Clock Accurate After 38 Years
of Service.
R. E. Roberts shown winding the clock on the old Post Office
Building. —Star Staff Photo.
OR 38 years—13 870 days. 332,
880 hours — Washingtonians
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 was 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.
It is all done with wires and wheels,
it is explained by Roberts, who has
been tending the old clock for the past
six years. There is nothing intri
cate or complicated about the “in
nards of Old Seth. There are only
a few wheels, a pendulum that
weighs 50 pounds, a weight that
scales around 300 pounds and the
eranlj.
_ 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
Industrialists Deny
Labor's Interests
Conflict With Oivn
'
Conference Turns
Thumbs Doun on
Marxian Theory,
Lauds Worker.
By the Associated Press.
SILVER BAY, N. Y„ August 31 —
The Eighteenth Annual Conference
on Industrial Relations, closing today,
turned thumbs down on Marxian
theory that there exists a conflict of
i interests between the worker and his
employer.
The consensus among industrial
ists attending the conference was
that the time has come to place em
phasis on the mutual interests of the
two classes.
Terming the American worker a
j “splendid fellow who refuses to ad
i here to the cry of agitators even in
times of distress,’’ Whiting Williams
of Cleveland, Ohio., writer, lecturer,
and indu^rial relations counselor,
urged manufacturers and business
men in general to do their part in
I support of social security. His was
the closing address.
Terming social security one of the
principal problems in the country to
day, Williams said little consideration
is given for the presentation of an
opportunity for a worker to advance.
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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 wTong since
I 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. Rolerts 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
years as engineer of the Post Office,
however, he admits he used to slip
off to the tower of a Friday to turn
the crank.
I 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
vised by E. J. Little, who has charge
of more than 3.000.000 square feet
of floor space in four Government
; buildings in triangle group No. 2.
12IST ENGINEERS
Coi. John W. Oehmann De
scribes Camp Simms*
Tour a Success.
Leaving behind more than 100*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, 29th 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 twcv
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 Simmo
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 a 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 rifle
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.
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