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200 LAID OFF UNDER FURLOUGH PLAN
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WORKERS
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RULING
The first day of the furlough
Order at the Bureau of En
graving and Printing passed
More than 200 employes were laid
off as r. starter for the new pro
gram, and this average number
will be maintained throughout the
balance of the year, according to
Jesse E. Swigart, assistant director
Owt th ® bureau.
Swigart made a denial of reports
that th 3 furloughs were working
an unnecessary hardsip or injus
tice upon the workers and said the
p plan was far more acceptable to
the bulk of the Bureau employes
than a system of lay-off would be,
which was the alternative before
the administrative and personnel
S» v, »r Withheld
As soon as the workers under
stand the situstoin all talk of pro
tect or revolt amon/ them will die
out, according to the assistant di
rector. Figures as to the amount
of money that will be saved on the
, pay-roll by reason of the furloughs
, will not be divulged at the present
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Director Hall is expected to con
fer with Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury Bond within the next few
days as to the prospect of changing
the present departmental regula-
Htions limiting the number of an
nual leaves to 10 per cent of the
total bureau force in any given
» Per C«t Urged
The National Federation of Fed
eral Employes has made represen
tations to the effect that by in
creasing this percentage to 20 per
cent it will be possible to ameliorate
the present furlough ratio, which
requires plate printers to be laid
off one defy in every eight, and
■* other employes one day in every 14.
So fair the Bureau officials have
not made a study of this angle of
the situation.
"The present prospectus that we
will have to continue the furloughs
until the close of the year,” said
Mr. Swigart. "I do not believe we
are going to have any trouble.
"Naturally the salary loss to the
workers is causing dissatisfaction,
but I think that nearly everybody
ie accepting the matter in the right
I spirit. The system of rotating fur
’ loughs was devised with the ex
bp press purpose of making the burden
on individual employes as light as
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p The story of how a policeman
■ arrested a woman and took her to
" a police station leaving her small
| child, ill with measles, unattended
' at the women’s home is scheduled
I for a retelling before the police
trial board this week.
The officer in question Is 8. R.
McKee, of the Eleventh precinct,
wjio will face charges of assaulting
Jennie Dunayer, of 4518 Sheriff
Rd, N. E. McKee, according to
the charges, pushed the woman
against a wall, twisted the knuckles
of her right band and struck her
In the chest.
Later, it is charged. McKee car
ried the woman to the station leav
ing the child at home.
Because more than 20 eases are
l pending, the trial hoard will have
to sit two days this week—Thurs
day and Friday. Most of the cases
involve neglect of duty.
Trinidad Citizens Plan
| Trash Plant Inquiry
The Trinidad Citizens Association,
meeting last night In the Wheatley
V * School, appointed a committee to
I study conditions at the District
trash. disposal plant at Mouo* Olivet
L Road and* West Virginia Avenue
[ Northeast, where, it is charged
| there is gross inefficiency. It <s
I also charged that bootlegging is rife
I among the employes.
The association voted to oppose
the Washington Railway and Elec-
I trie Company plan to charge 2
cents for transfers from street
, to busses at Fifteenth and H Streets
Northeast. A two-hour parking
limit on H Street Northeast be
tween Second and Fifteenth Streets
k was recommended; also that
’ Eleventh and H Streets Northeast,
he made a car stop and that s
■»' traffic policeman he assigned there
dttrlng rush hours.
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; 7. BORING INTO THE WORLD’S LARGEST REFLECTOR *" ‘
( THE WORLD’S largest glass reflector will soon be placed in position for the
1 work of scanning the heavens at the Parkins Observatory at Ohio Wesleyan Uni
versity. A;* N*. Finn and A. H. Linder, left and right above, of the Bureau of Stan
dards, are shown boring a hole in the big glass. The glass, made at the bureau,
has been cooling there for months.
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i HOME TOWN PAGE
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IFAKED HOLD-UP,
: 15 CHARGE
His inability to provide treatment
for his wife, who has been ill for
i the past year, led Martin F. Lee,
I night manager of a gasoline sta
tion at Twentieth and K Streets
Northwest, to take >72 of the sta
tion’s receipts early today, police
say.
Shortly after midnight Lee re
; ported to police that the station was
held up by two white men, riding
in a large coupe. The station is a
block from the Third precinct.
Suspicions Aroused
The suspicions of officers Investi
gating the case were aroused, they
i said, when Lee told them that one
> man held a pistol on him and at
I the same time took money from a
I table and swept it into a basket
I with another hand, presumably his
• third.
Later Policeman Spotteswood F.
. Gravely, of the Third precinct, dis
t covered the money, wrapped in an
: Initialed handkerchief and concealed
r behind an air compressor in the
, washroom. Two dollars was miss
i Ing, police say.
1- Admits Theft, Claim
Le< at first denied the theft, but
later admitted it to* Station Clerk
* Samuel M. Anglin* it is alleged.
Lee’s wife has been under medical
treatment and was recently in a hos
‘ pital, according to police. They live
’ in the 800 block of Eighth St. N. W.
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t Offers of adoption for the 10-
b weeks-old baby in the Washington
j Foundlings Home, found abandoned
B at midnight Saturday, are flowing
e in at such a rate authorities there
predicted that a permanent home
e for him would soon be found.
Scores of persons, some of them
2 well to do, have offered to adopt
o "Baby." It is said.
s The baby has golden hair and
5 blue eyes and displays the tremen
>. dous appetite for milk which shows
s perfect health, according to nurses
t at the home. He was found ~bv
t,. Policemen Ford and White, of the
a Thirteenth precinct, nn the porch
e of a home on Ninth Street N. W..
where he was steeping peacefully
in a basket.
® He was at first called "Ford
w White” but is now just known as
"Babg.”
Movie Unionists Asks Pay Raise
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1528
Hoover’s Double Here
Stirs Curiosity
At Hotel
Herbert Hoover’* double and
cousin, John E. Hoover, of Find*
lay, Ohio, a cloak manufacturer,
is the object of friendly curi
osity today at the New Willard
Hotel, where he is registered as
a guest.
The Ohio Hoover bears a really
close resemblance to his famous
namesake and pages in the hotel
had difficulty in convincing the
hotel'habitues that the Presiden
tial nominee had not returned to
Washington from California.
John E. Hoover has not seen
his famous cousin for three years,
and as he comes from another
branch of the family, has at no
time in his life been a close
friend of “Herbert? 1 Needless to
say, he is an enthusiastic Hoover
boomer and says he is in politics
for the first time in his life.
COALHATEPLEA
IS STUDIED
Commissioners Johnston B. Camp
bell, Frank McManamy and Ezra
Brainerd, jr.. Interstate Commerce
Commissioners specializing in sus
pensions, are studying the petition
of local interests asking that the
rate of 13.13 per ton on coal from
West Virginia coal fields be sus
pended and that further . hearings
be held by the commission.
The petition sets forth that the
Pennsylvania fields enjoy a rate of
12.71 per ton. while the coal pro
( ducers of West Virginia, commonly
known as the New River fMd. have
i had the rates raised on their pro
ducts to $3.13 per ton. The peti
; tionera ask that hearings be held
and that Washington be declared a
metropolitan railroad city with the
1 same rates prevailing for delivery
of coal to any spur track in the
city.
* It is claimed by the New River
’ producers that the increased rates
i will drive them out of the competi
i tive Washington field. The Penn
. sylvania operators are fighting the
’ suspension of the rates.
I Terms were ae»er better for the home
, seeker. Bead the home offers lieted in
’ the real estate eelnmns of today's
I Times and Herald classified -tds.
Et SECOND SECTION]
| LOCAL NEWS |
LEEIOI PUNT
TOOffllHT
Northeast’s biggest parade will
mark the opening of the annual
convention of the District depart
ment of the American Legion.
AUgust 21.
• Tire two-day convention will be
the first the legion has held in the
Northeast section of the city and
plans to celebrate the gathering as
a boost for the section are being
worked out by a joint committee
of officers of the legion and the
Northeast Business Men’s Associa
tion.
Opening of the convention will
be preceded by a parade of legion
naires with their hands and drum
corps and decorated automobiles of
residents. The parade will march
down Second Street to H, up Mary
land Avenue to Eighth Street, and
down Eighth to the Northeast
Masonic Temple, where the conven
tion will be held. The Army Band
will lead the parade.
E- Clarence Paston is chairman of'
the business men’s committee.
Other members include Hubert New
som, Abe Felser, Dr. R. W. McCul
laugh, and, James F. Farmer.
$475,000 Apartment
Building Is Planned
A 65-famlly apartment building
to cost >475,000 will be erected by
» the Ell and Kay Building.and In-
• vestment Company at the corner
. of Connecticut Avenue and Legation
, Street, Louis T. Rouleau, architect,
announced yesterday.
‘ The building, which will occupy
i the site of the former home of
. Wiliam F. Santlemann, former
, leader of the Marine Band, will have
a garage in the basement..
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Edgar Morris Sales Co.
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Washington motion picture
exhibitors are facing the big
gest labor battle of their ca
reers, it was learned today.
The Moving Picture Operators
Union has demanded a- >ls Increase
over the present weekly scale of
W tor the downtown picture
houses, and has made other de
mands, making a drastic upward
revision in existing pay and work
ing conditions. . -.u
One of the principal demands calls
for the employment of a minimum
of six men in the projection booths,
instead of the present five, a rule
now followed in theaters equipped
tor "sound” pictures. ,
Fund Heine Raised ‘
One of the reasons for the oper
ators’ demand, it was skid. Is re
taliation against the exhibitors tor
installing talking picture devices,
which will eventually throw large
numbers of union orchestra men
out of work. >
The local musicians* union is pot
commenting on the situation, but a
national fund is being raised to as
sist the musicians in event of
wholesale reductions in theater
aksszsta•
The projectionists, however, al
ready have sent their demands to
the theater men and have given
them until August >1 to meet the
terms. ‘
Others Get Off
The 115 increase applies only to
the downtown theaters, all of which
have been or are being equipped
to show "talkies.” The neighbor
hood theaters also will be asked
to increase the scale, but this type
of demand is to be an entirely dif
ferent one, and not nearly no
draxlic.
The operators* union maintains
that employment of additional men
will he necessary to handle the
projection of pictures where one or
more sound devices are used.
It is also pointed out that, with
the advent of talking pictures on a
general scale in Washington, or
chestras will not be necessary dur
ing the progress of a movie. The
music would drown out th© voices
of the players, it is shown.
Many Seek Trade Board’s
Architectural Prizes
The Washington Board of Trade’s
annual competition for awards for
meritorious designs in all types of
architecture closed today with
snores of entries on hand, Robert
Cottrell, executive secretary, said.
Among the subjects submitted for
consideration are buildings, signs,
setting of homes and stores and
other features of construction. A
jury of out of town architects will
make the selections Subjects in
nearby Maryland and Virginia are
included in this year’s competition.
FILES FOR BANKRUPTCY
Ralph H. Barnard, described as a
plumber, of the 1900 block Seven
teenth St. s. E„ has filed a petition
in voluntary bankruptcy. Through
Attorney William A. Lee, he lists
his debts at $9,668.44, and his assets
, at >1,320.
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i The Fresbyterian Church of the
Covenant, Eighteenth .and N Streets
1 Northwest, was organized in 1883 in
1 the home of Justice-Strong. One of
the organizers was James G. Blaine,
’ United States Senator from Maine,
who was Grover Cleveland’s opponent
for the Presidency. ' „ ..
On October IX. 1885. the handsome
’ church was dedicated. The congre
gation had a membership of 53.
Among the organizers were William
Ballantine. M. W. Galt and other
Wife Charges Cruelty
In Maintenance Suit
Albert A. Corley, of the 1300
block of F St. N. W.. was sued for
sparate maintenance by his wife,
Mrs. Virginia Corley, of the 1000
block of Twentieth St. N. W., in
Equity Court yesterday.
The couple were marlred Decem
ber 23, 1923 and have no children.
Through Attorney James A. Mc-
Donnell, the wife tella the court
• her husband does not adequately
, provide for her and is so brutal
that on-three occasions she has had
to appeal to police for protection.
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prominent local business men of that
day.
The church building is one of the
largest in the city. It has a., cam
panile 20 feet square, rising 140 feet
from the ground. Its windows are
cathedral glass. ; '** ' -/'■ .-v:
The stained glass designs repre
sent scenes in the life of Christ—the
annunciation to the. shepherds and
the appearance after the crucifixion.
The pulpit and communion table
are made of wood imported in the
log from the Holy land. The chan
delier in the Sunday school room is
a copy of that in the Mosque at St.
Sophia* in Constantinople.
Until Peck Memorial Chapel be
came a separate entity the Church
of the Covenant supported and de
vleoped Peck as a mission.
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Official Program. of Theater Membore of the
Motion Picture Theater Owner, of District of Columbia
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’’THE WRECK 6F THS HESPERUS."
Suggested by Longfellow s poem of
th* «tm. title. .
SENNETT Comedy—"SMlTH S FONT"
Stanley-Crandall’s MA M Street
APOLLO
EMIL JANNINGS In "THE STREET
OF SIN." CHARLES CHASE
COMEDY— "LIMOUSINE LOVE"
Stanley-Crandall’s SAS Pa. Are.
AVEHUE GRABS
WALLACE BEERY and RAYMOND
HATTON in "PARTNERS IN CRIME”
TECHNICOLOR REEL—
> "IaADY OF VICTORIES’*
Stanley-Crandall’s Ninth St. Ret.
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NORMA SHEARER
in "THE ACTRESS"
CAMEO COMEDY—"CROWN ME"
Stanley-Craadnll’s Cana. Are. and
CHEVY CHASE a ' ~ c
ELEANOR BOARDMAN
In "DIAMOND HANDCUFFS"
CAMEO COMEDY—"HARD WORK"
Stanley-Crandall's Georgia Are. and
COLONY "
BARBARA KENT la "BTQF THAT
MAN.” HAL ROACHSTAR COM
EDY—“BATTLE OF THE CENTURY’’
Stanley-Crandall’s 13th St.. Belew ]
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Stanley-Crandall’s ’ Oil H Street J
EMPIRE
ALICE WHITE« and MALCOLM • Me- ;
» GREGOR in "LINGERIE.” <
BEN HALL COMEDY—
"HER HAUNTED HERITAGE" ,
Stanley-Crandall’s UM C Street
HOME ’ ’
SUE CAROL In "WALKING BACK."
SNOOKUMS COMEDY—
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Mfht Menfham, whom she like*
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Dmrlo Hoskbn* captain of the ff®y*
ball team, and native of ReonilL,
—uL— jjimJb baa rejected. Tom
introduce* Im to Profemor Prtae,
considered eccentric by the student
Van Horne, a queer conceited
outli witli she ba* a few
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mat to her friends. Tom knocks
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!if JreThe student c<mmmS by Mrs.
Stoner.
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stops him ani knock* him down
Bn d than leaves the party« watti*
inr into town. The next motw
in< she reads in the pap®*' tmw
“Pete” was murdered at tho
| She was straining for
breath, keeping her wide
eyes glued to his
don’t know anything; about
it!” she cried, and her voice
rose almost to a scream. “He
tried to kiss me and I slapped
him and ran.”
He lurched forward. ,r So
you DID strike him! ’ Well,
well, I never thought to hear
you say so. It doesn’t take
a gin bottle to kill a man.
Mi»y a fellow has died from
a blow of someone’s fist, yon
know.”
He stood looking at her
livid face. After a moment
he came and bent over het.
“Linda, don’t look like thatr-
I didn’t mean to squeal on
you, of course. Only, why
can’t we be friendsjind stick
together! You keep my
secrets and I’ll keep yours.
I tell you, if the family heard
that I was connected with
this in any way, they’d
: chuck me right out—even
though I am their angel
child. Dad can stand any
thing I do so long as I dohl .
bring him and his deacon
hood into public scandal. I
spoke like that because I’ve
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ALEC FRANCIS in ’THE LION AND
THE MOUSE.’’ A VITAPHONE
TALKING PICTURE
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KVA NOVAK In ’’OVTI’t REWARD”
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MAKE THE WOMAN." KEEPING
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MA RY ASTOR and LLOYD HUG HRS
in THREE RING MARRIAGE."
HAL ROACH STAR COMEDY—
“SAILORS. BEWARE.”
Stanley-Crandall’s Geergta Are. and
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