Evening star. [volume], March 29, 1936, Page A-14, Image 14

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BURKE TO BE HONOR
GUEST AT BANQUET
Dinner Dance Tuesday for New
Postmaster Given by Federal
Employe Council.
Vincent C. Burke, who becomes
postmaster here Wednesday, succeed
ing William M. Mooney, will be the
guest of honor of the National Legis
lative CouncU of Federal Employe
Organizations at a dinner dance at
the Hotel Washington Tuesday night.
The council is composed of the Na
tional Federation of Federal Employes,
National Rural Letter Carriers' Asso
ciation, United National Association
of Post Office Clerks, National Asso
ciation of Postal Supervisors and Na
tional Association of Post Office and
Railway Mail Service Laborers.
Burke, a career man, is relinquishing
the post of Deputy First Assistant
Postmaster General to take over the
postmastership, and Postmaster Gen
eral James A. Farley and other rank
ing postal officials are expected to at
tend the fete in his honor.
The dinner will start at 6 o’clock.
Layer Cake Effect.
MARSHALL, Minn. (/P).—The hard
iyinter here ended In a flash of
whimsy. First came 2 inches of con
ventional, or white, snow. Then the
wind shifted into the South, mixed
in some particles from a duststorm
and deposited a chocolate-hued upper
surface of 3 inches with a layer cake
effect.
GEORGETOWN STUDENTS
VISIT NORFOLK PORT
Foreign Service Group Inspects
Newport News Also—Goes
to Williamsburg.
To make a personal inspection of
shipping and port facilities, a delega
tion of about 60 Georgetown foreign
service students are spending the week
end at Norfolk and Newport News, Va.
Accompanied by several professors,
the students left Washington Friday
night by boat. As guests of the Nor
folk port authorities, they will Inspect
the harbor, and make a study of load
ing and unloading cargoes. They were
luncheon guests yesterday of the New
port News Ship Building Co., and last
night were entertained at the College
of William and Mary, at historic Wil
liamsburg. Today will be spent at
Virginia Bgarh.
The students are members of the in
tercollegiate Propeller Club. Most of
them are specializing in shipping and
foreign trade courses.
FIVE EXPERTS TO AID
REORGANIZING STUDY
Senate Committee to Meet Thii
Week—Questionnaire to Be
Sent Bureaus.
The special Senate Committee on
Reorganization of Government De
partments may meet this week with
five expert advisers who will assist in
analyzing the functions of all Federal
agencies, to determine where consol
idations could be effected.
Senator Byrd, Democrat of Virginia,
chairman, said yesterday the Brook
ings Institution is at work on prepara
tion of the questionnaire the commit
tee will send to all Government bu
reaus, asking for data on increases in
personnel in recent years and the gen
eral scope of the work performed by
each bureau.
The five advisers called in by the
commitee are Louis Brownlow, former
District Commissioner; Luther Gulick,
director o£ the Institute of Public Ad
ministration; William Tudor Gar
diner, former Governor of Maine; H.
W. Dodds, president of Princeton Uni
versity, and John D. Clark, professor
of economics at the University of Ne
braska.
Lecture on Cancer Cells.
An illustrated lecture on the be
havior of canoer cells will be given
at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Carnegie
Institution assembly room by Dr. War
ren H. Lewis of the institution's de
partment of embryology, it was an
nounced yesterday.
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