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SFRINGFI DAILY NEWS THEWEATHER: Fair not cold tonight Wednesday fair with ri-- ing temperature i ASSOCIATED PRESS AND UNITED PRESS LEASED WIRE NEWS SERVICES VOL LXX No 308 12 PAGES SPRINGFIELD OHIO TUESDAY FEBRUARY 27 1934 PRICE TWO CENTS fnlfUl uilnl JV AT Johnson To -Revise Existing NR A Codes LIST OF CASUALTIES JURY AWARDS FORMER School Teacher $80000 in Suit CHARGE BROWN LOBBIED FOR AIRMAIL BILL 0010(1100 Solicitor Makos Accusation In Testimony To Senate Committee ENGINEER FIREMAN ARE MISSING AFTER PITTSBURGH TRAGEDY Speeding Passenger Train Plunges From Elevated Tracks Cause of Disaster is Not Determined PITTSBURGH Feb A speeding Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train plunged from an elevated track on a downgrade here last night killing at least eight of ita passengers and injuring more than 40 others The train bound from Akron to Pittsburgh was less than a mile from Penn Station here when the locomotive left the rails and plunged into a street below One car rolled on top the locomotive The four remaining cars left the rails and stopped at freakish angles Lights were out and glass shattered but they remained upright 'The engineer and fireman of the train are missing Rail road officials also said that three passengers not yet fcccount-ed for were seen in a day coach With seven bodies removed from the wreckage workmen today started lifting the locomotive in a search for the missing engineer and fireman also believed dead Railroad officers say they do not know the cause of the wreck The engineer of the train was Shaw of New Castle Ta and Douthitt of Youngstown 0 was the fireman Early reports to officials were the men might have escaped Before the bodies eould be removed an associate Identified one that of Frank Dravo aged head of Tha Dravo Contracting Co-one of tha largest boat and river dam builders in the district Crewa of men worked feverishly through the night searching the tangled mass of steel iron and brick for tha additional bodies it wu feared were there The railroad said 40 of the 70 passengers reported having been hurt including the 28 who were in hospitals Tha condition of several wu said to be critical due to injuries shock and exposure in the near-aero weather The train wu speeding along ten minutea behind time when it Jumped the tracks at 8:33 o'clock teat night The engine and tender ploughed down a 30-foot embankment with the five steel ears piling up at the bottom wrecking a two-story signal tower and knocking down part of a three-story brick building Morgue officials said Identification of two iff the victims wu delayed by condition of tha bodies They found a woman handkerchief with the Initiate and a wedding ring containing the figures "10-1607" on one body1 A ring with tha data "Je 28 1907" wu on a finger of the other Railroad officiate discarded an earlier theory that a frozen switch wu responsible for the wreck "Tha cause is still a one of 10 executives who viewed the wreck mid while watching a crane pulling away at the tangled mass of ateel He pointed out that Engineer Shaw and Fireman Douthitt had disappeared "We couldn't find them In the FRANCE PLANS TO PITTSBURGH Feb Only a partial list of the victims of the wreck of the Pennsylvania's Akron-to-New York train wu available today The Identified dead: Frank Dravo Pittsburgh president Dravo Construction Co David A Ducharme 50 of Ansonla Conn and Akron a Clarence Mayer 43 of Ingram Pa Mrs Miller Wradrop of Pittsburgh Thomas Jeffries Negro Youngstown The injured (in hospital) i Mrs Helen Hoover Youngstown Mr and Mrs Paged Kent Ohio Nee Allianee Charles Stralle Freedom Pa 4 1 George Anderson 38 New Wilmington Pa Mrs Mary Connell Youngstown Walter Shanks conductor Flttaburgh Merle Brown New York dining ear employe William Brown Pittsburgh dining ear employe Homer Thornton 40 Rochester Pa a railroad conductor en route to work Harry Smith Negro dining ear employs Pittsburgh Leonard Miller 17 Negro dining car employe Pittsburgh Springer railroad employe New Brighton Pa Clarence Bra techie 34 New Caatte Pa Student at Western Theoloclcal Seminary Rock 48 of Beaver Falla Pa railroad employe 8 Thompson 40 Erie Xnd Russell Niemelr Pittsburgh John Williams New Brighton Pa Milton Jones of Chicago Samuel Oklln Pittsburgh Alexander Ray Cleveland Stiver Clyde 8 ThorndeH Alliance Mrs Mary Bhugert Ocean City Mrs Geiger Youngstown Lottie Moyer Chicago Moors Harry Mick New Castle Pa railroad employe George Dockett of Philadelphia Pullman porter Stephen 37 Kansas City a Siler Freedom Pa Lottie Moyer Youngstown Mrs Elisabeth McBride of Sewlekley Pa Among the persona treated for minor injuries by physicians and able to resume the Journey east were Mrs Florence AngeU of Akron Bernle Hutner New York Fulton Akron and Philip Dixon New York 0 BUILD UP FORCES $55000000 FOR VETERANS ADDED 29000 Restored To Rolls By Amendment To Bill WASHINGTON Feb 37-iFt-Wlth administration foreea appar? ently submitting the Benate today added another estimated annual $55000000 tor World War veteran Roosevelt Will Veto Bonus Bill WASHINGTON Feb Roosevelt today cleared up misunderstandings to hia attitude on the soldiers' bonus bill by informing Speaker of the House Henry Rainey bluntly that he would veto any such legislation at this time Rainey today made public the following letter from the President clearing up hte stand: Dear Henry: "Mae (Secretary Marvin McIntyre) hu shown me your letter of February twenty-first Naturally when I suggested to you that I eould not approve the blU tor the payment of the' bonus certificates I did not mean that I might let It become law without my signature I do things that way What I meant wu that I would veto the MU and I care who you ten title to "Let1 me know your thought on the next step to the Independent offices supply MIL Without opposition or a record vote it adopted the Btelwer-McCar-(CeaUnued an Faga I Cohum I) 12-POKfT PLAN IS ANNOUNCED BY EXECUTIVE Administrator Beats Assam bled Critics To Cun Before Opening Of Sessions COMPLAINANTS TO BE HEARD AT WASHINGTON Uniform Equitable Rule Of Price Stabilization Listed Among Corrections (By Associated fni) WASHINGTON Yfeb TIHugh' 8 Johnaon beat NRA assembled erltlci to the sun today by radden-ly unfolding a twelve-point program for revising exlatlng codes Before the hundreds invited to complain could voice a single criticism the NBA administrator announced a wide code revision would be effected if possible by sweeping presidential mandate Individual industries Johnson told the opening session of his field day for criticism'' will be allowed modifications only if Justification can be shown in public hearings Code revision hs added will be followed by a bigger and better Blue Eagle compliance it what you will" he said-to make the emblem indispenalUe to all business "Wo are going on as we have begun" he said in a paragraph aimed at KBAIs enemies "These meetings are the first move in a closing up of our ranks for a new forward movement by NRA "Chance or circumstance may stop it but you are not going to stop it or even make it Thus with a bang the bluff and hard-talking administrator threw open sessions which will run in five simultaneous performances day and night until everybody who wanta to present objections to the currant urogram or complain of the codes as bad at tout 13 minutes to do it in' ms talk was aimed not only at the immediate audience but over their heads to the country itself Into a microphone he challenged enemies denied that BRA had fallen short of ita promises and spoke a confident claim that the industrial program will march on The twelve corrections which he said already gathered data has shown to be necessary were: A more uniform and equitable rule of price atahUlsatinn where necessary to prevent throat-cut competition with further insurance against prices outstripping 1 purchasing power A mote effective rule to pre- vent sales below costs of production Uniformity in wages and hours in industries which are competitive classification of areas for the prevailing southern wage differential a-FUrther reduction In work hours and further increase in hour ly wages 8 Protection' against monopoly oppression of small enterprise and inclusion in codes of buying regula tlona to protect the small fellows An improved method to secure compliance method for financing code administration without racketeering Elimination of inconsistent or conflicting provisions in codes Adequate labor and consumer representation on the authorities uniform government repre-(CoaUneed on Bage Column taALPH CAPONE READY TO PAY DEBT TO IfcMEOi ISLAND FEDERAL PRISON Wash Feb ST-un-Ralpfa Capone Chicago gangster waa ready to pay hia debt to the United States government today and receive ita permission to leave this penitentiary Uncle Bam eon-vieted Ralph the elder brother of Scarf ice Alphonse Capone of in' oome tax evasion and charged him two years and five months and $10000 Ralph was sentenced on Juno 16 1830 to servo three years but he became a "model and waa given time off for good behavior Prison officials were adviaed hie fine would be paid today and Ralph made preparation! to leave secretly with friends Will Rogers NEW YORK Feb XL-Hurry up planee and start leaving here 1 cant walk in these enow shoes Waa run over by two sleighs yesterday taxicabs an being pulled by dog teams and the weather man aayi then will be a blbaard And to add to the gloom of the city la the death of John Me-Onw New York owes much to him He waa responsible for bringing mors people to New York to see hie Olanta In world aeriea and league games than any man New York ever had typified the spirit of hia day and time and was a sweet character and fine friend NEARLY SCORE LOSE LIVES IN ARCTIC BLAST Eight Perish In Now York From Storm That Has Ravaged Eastern COLD WAVE EXTENDS AS FAR SOUTH AS GEORGIA Schools Closed In Connecticut Yransportation Sys-' term Ara Disrupted (By United Press) NEW YORK Feb Upwards of a aeon of persona were dead today a result of storms which have ravaged the eastern United States during the past 31 hours Eight lost their Uvea in New York City alone In accidents directly attributed to the Arctic weather Arctic blasts followed one of the moat severe snow atoms visited upon the eastern seaboard In many yearn A cold wave extended far south tf Georgia intensifying auf faring and Impeding efforts to clear highways of snow drifts that isolated many small communities In New York City 48000 men and 4000 trucks fought the anow A biting wind which at times at' tabled a velocity of 35 mites an hour piled anow in drifts in outlying sections fast ploys cleared it away Suburban transportation systems disrupted by the tom at the height of the evening rush hour yesterday expected to provide nearly normal service today Special crew worked furiously throughout the night clearing tracks' Thousands of commuters either unable to get home teat night or tired of waiting for trains spent the night in hotels In Connecticut which bore the brunt of last week's crippling atom schools were closed Bus and trot ley service throughout the state wu disrupted Several (mail communities In Connecticut eastern Massachusetts northern New York Long Island and New Jersey were cut off by drifts Many of the snowbound villages were reported to running short of fuel food and milk supplies One of the most serious problems confronting New Yorkers wu a threatening eoal ahortage Snow and ice-choked streets halted deliveries yesterday and lee-filled riven Impeded movement of eoal bargee Some anthracite mines hi the Pennsylvania eoal fields were forced to shut down by the cold and anow AIRMAN DIES IN CRASH ON ICE OF LAKE ERIE LORAIN 0 Feb A Minding anow squall along tha Lake Brio shore hu taken tha life of Lieut Albert Harmon of the 107th Observation Bquadron Michigan National Guard Twenty minutea after he left Cleveland Airport for Detroit on an unofficial flight late yesterday a heavy anow itorm closed in on him He attempted to ball out from a low altitude (truck the foot-thick taka ice about 800 feet from shore and wu injured fatally when hia parachute failed to function Hia plane struck the ice near him and wu destroyed by fire Lieut Harmon wu on hia way back to Detroit after taking Clark a Detroit school teacher and a colonel in the infantry reserve to Cleveland for the National Education Association convention Hannon wu not carrying airmail and had no connection with the army airmail service NEW MEN TO REPLACE STRIKERS AT TOLEDO TOLEDO fth UW-Flanta affected by a strike of 4000 automotive workers here announced today that they would begin immediately to hire new men apparently resigning hope of effecting a settlement with employes who walked off their Jobs Strikers meanwhile cheered the action of Thomu Ramaey bualnesa agent of the United Automotive Workers' Federal Labor Union who refused a counter wage proposal offered by plant officiate The proposal suggested that the men return to work at a alight pay increase until April I pending final settlement Strike leaden Interpreted the propanol meaning an Increase of 1H to I eenta an hour They redlculed it an answer to their demands for a substantial wage increase and recognition of their own unions SCHOOL AID STUDIED CLEVELAND Feb AV-Fedenl aid for schools administered by the tales and a broadening of the tax Mua for school aupport today cams under consideration of tha nation school superintendents The National Education Association department of superlnten dene received from nine sub-corn mltteei a summarised report ds daring federal aid wu "necessary and inevitable" FORMER ADMINISTRATION CRITICIZED BY OFFICIAL Antagonism Toward Ex-Cabinet Member la Admitted By Witness a WASHINGTON Feb! 27-Charge that former Postmaster General Walter Brown and a group of airline operators combined to "lobby the McNary-Watru airmail act through Congress" wen made to the Senate airmail committee today by Carl Crowley postoffice department solicitor Under questioning by Senator Warren Austin (Rep) Vermont Crowley said the evidence on which Postmuter General Farley based the recent order cancelling all domestic mall contracts showed that these contmeton and Mr Brown worked together In lobbying the MU through Congress" administration of airmail matters he said wu "not In the public -Referring to the famous conference between Brown and airline operators in 1130 Crowley told the committee "Our evidence shows that there wu definite positive agreement between the postmuter general and the operators that they would secure contracts without competitive "You're not very friendly toward this past administration am you?" Austin asked "I am forced to admit air that I am not" Crowley replied While the solicitor testified Brown conferred with hia two former assistant postmasters general Arch Coleman and Irving Glover A White House announcement disclosed establishment of three banks to aid in expanding American foreign trade aU thru to be headed by George Peek former farm administrator In addition to the import-export bank announced two weeks ago to stimulate trade with Russia two other banks will be organised for expansion of trade and credit with Cuba and other countries Funds win be provided by the Co The administration bill to create federal communications commission of seven members to regulate foreign and Interstate telegraph telephone cable and radio services wu Introduced in Congress today Quickly responding to a request received only yesterday from President Roosevelt Senator Dill (Dem) Washington and Rep Rayburn (Dem) Texas chairmen respectively of the Senate and House committees on Interstate commerce offered the legislation Stealings' are to start soon as (Con tin ned en Page I Celamn I) 50 MODELS ON DISPLAY AT AUTOMOBILE SHOW Opening of the 30th annual Automobile Show Monday at Memorial Hall found hundreds of persons from Springfield and vicinity visiting the hall to view the display of the latest Innovations in the automobile industry The show will continue through Sunday with the doore open dally from 10 a to 10 and special programs being presented each day While the display wu not entirely complete Monday the exhibits were an in place and ready for the opening of the hall Tuesday The show la offering about 50 models of 14 different makes of can weU the latest In automobile accessories Special entertainment la being furnished nightly by Roy Brownlee's Original Hickvllle Rube Band In addition to presenting Instrumental music this group of entertainers works through the crowd with laugh-provoking antics DR WYNEK00P EXPECTED MONEY WITNESSES SAY CHICAGO Feb Xlr-WJO-A few weeks before Utlan-halred Rheta Wynekoop nearly mute body wu found on the operating table In her mother-in-law's private office Dr Alloa Lindsay WJmekoop had told her bankers she would soon receive a large sum of money to meat her pressing obligations it wu testified today With the introduction of this testimony the atata moved into ground not covered in the first trial which wu halted because of the elderly frail health The state hod contended that Ufa Insurance on Rheta wu taken out by the elderly womap doctor shortly before the young woman wu BURNS PROVE FATAL QALLIPOLIS Oh Feb CTV-Dorothy Fuller five-year-old daughter of Mr and Mrs Howard Fuller died today firom bums received when her clothing caught fire from an open grate Fuller is a civilian conservation corps camp worker boa MISS EVELYN HAZEN COVINGTON Ky Feb A Jury hen awarded Miss Evelyn kasen former Knoxville TYnn school teacher $80000 In her $100000 suit against Ralph Beharringhaus for alleged' breach of promise and alleged betrayal into Intimate relations EDUCATOR AT OBERLIN DIES Dr Henry Churchill King Ex-President Of College Sue cumbo At Home OBERLIN ftb 37-GlC-br Henry Churchill King nationally known educator and president of Oberlhi College for 34 years died at hia home hen this morning Dr King retired as president of Oberlin in 1827 He waa the author of numerous religious and social works and was active in mleelnoary work During the World War he was director of religious work for the A in France He waa named president emerl tus when his falling health forced him to retire Author of 18 hooks Dr King continued his studies in retirement Dr King hM Ideea of hia own regarding education and as head of the institution he endeavored to apply them as effectively as possible He believed In the development of the entire physical intellectual aesthetic moral and religious He stood for a spirit of rational democracy in education and rated personnel above equipment Above an ha believed hi the Integration of education with life and with the great aspirations of the race He was bom at Hillsdale Mich Sept 18 1806 the son of Henry James and Sarah Lee King1 HU father at that time was secretary and treasurer of Hillsdale College King received hte Bachelor of Arts degre from Oberlin in 1878 and the Bachelor of Divinity degree from the Oberlin Theological Seminary in 1882 Later he took graduate work at Harvard and in Berlin and held honorary doctorates from Oberlin Western Reserve University Yale the University of Chicago Harvard the University of IlllnoU Miami University Columbia Unlver slty and Colgate He waa married July 7 1883 to Julia Coatee of Breckavllle and to them were bom-four children Harold Lee who died In 1830 Philip Coatee president of Washburn Uni versity Topeka Kaa Donald 8 tons a physician in Boston Mass and Edgar Weld librarian at Miami University' Oxford a Dr King wu Msoclsted with Oberlin for 48 yean tutor i dated professor registrar dean and for 34 yean as president He retired from that office In 1927 when hia health began to fall He probably wu best known the author of aeveral hooka In' eluding "Reconstruction in Theol ogy" "Theology and the Social Con "Rational Living" and Laws of Friendship Human and Divine" Peihapa hia outstand ing contributions to the religious and ethical thought of hia day wen hia conception of the reverence due personality and hU idea of the relation between God and man a friendship During hU tenure hud of Oberlin the endowment of the college Increased from around $2000 000 to nearly ten timea that amount (Cautlned sa Faga datum 8) REWARD IS COLUMBUS Feb Sheriff Jackson of luka Miss has offend a reward of $20 for the arrest of Nul Bowman fugitive from the Lima Hospital for the Criminal Insane Bowman charged in Mississippi with highway robbery with firearms a crime pun bliable by death BUS DRIVERS WARNED COLUMBUS Feb 27-Ml Actlns on complaints that some school buses an not atoppini at railroad crossings Glen Dally registrar of motor vehicles warned that this la required by kw The penalty for violation ti a u0 flat GRIP ON CRY IS LOOSENED Prospects Art For Fair And Warmer Weather Winter aero grip on Springfield and vicinity began loosening Tuesday leaving this section itlU burled under six inches of snow but with prospects iff fair and wanner weather ahead- -Aa residents of this vicinity dug out from a mow blanket which wu aid to be the heaviest in about 15 yearn the mercury dropped to be-'low aero Transportation paralysed In the air and impeded on highways and rails returned to practically normal Snow drift along the curbs of streets which had hampered the parking of automoMlea Monday were being removed by city workmen Local workmen of the Ohio Department of Highways were spreading sand on the highways at curves hiUa and other hazardous places Members of the Springfield outpost of the State Highway Patrol aid their work la being hampered by the severe cold but they are prepared to answer distress calls of motorists and truckers who expert enee any difficulty There wu a derth of traffic acd dents drivers operated their vehicles with the utmost caution over slippery pavements A truck and trailer were reported to have crashed into a residence at New Mocrefleld Monday night when it failed to negotiate a curve In the road Little damage wu and no one wu injured' Reports iff varying tempera turea were made Tuesday to public offices (Centimed eu Page Column I) AND BOBEBT I ALLEN- vate income a Harvard accent The other la tha President himself Moat of tha career crowd wu in Washington when Roosevelt wu Aaaiatent Secretary of the Navy they all played around together Bo no matter what Hull resolutions he hu the President to contend with i On one man however Roosevelt and Hull au eye-to-eye He to Hugh 8 Gibson ambasudor to Brazil Neither is strong for him Gibson hu spent 34 yean in the diplomatic service performed note' ble joba But he hu one Mg handicap plus a smaller one Hia chief handicap Is Herbert Hoover Gibson first knew him when Hoover wu Belgian relief administrator They became fast friends When Hoover became President Gibson visited him regulariy in the White House With Hoover exit Roosevelt transferred Gibson from Belgium to (Continued an Faga I Celamn 3) he said "Of course they might be burled beneath the engine have heard also that they got out all right -Disconnected from their pilot after it plunged down the embank ment the can were shoved put by the momentum of their speed estimated by some passengers to be between 35 and 40 miles an hour The comMnatlon express-smoker dived off an embankment BOO feet put the engine resting ita front down on the ground and ita rear on tha trackbed Tha diner remained upright The day coach knocked down the signal tower It to here the bodies are feared burled Two steepen turned over one above the engine and tender the other against a three-story building knocking down large pllea of bricks Dased by the tragedy the survivors of the Ill-fated "No 1638" told their stories of the plunging ateel giants from hospital cots Men paled by the nearness of death and women hysterically holding nondescript pieces of cloth' Ing to bleeding wounds trudged through knee -deep anow drifts to belter after the wreck' they1 said Only three minutea and it have happened The New York bound train would have com' pleiad ita run into the union station about 8:35 Mrs Mary Connell of Youngstown buyer for a department store told how a man calm voice quieted the passengers after tha terrific impact that threw people aU the way from the rear to the front of their eoach Die porter wu making up the (Centluaed an Page I Celamn 7) TWO MEMBERS NAMED ON COUNTY ELECTION BOARD Appointment of two new mem' here of the Clark County Board of Elections to succeed John Beg' gerson Democrat and Lemuel Mitch Republican whose terms ex plre March wu announced Mon' day at Columbus by Secretary of Stats George Myers The new members of the board are Barlow Democrat living on the Middle Urbans pk north of Springfield and Clark Crsblll Republican Springfield Route 5 Barlow and Crsblll wen recom mended to the state official by the local political organisations They will taka office Thursday following which' tha hoard ia ex pected to be reorganteed The terms are for four years each Tha other members are Richard Murrey Republican and Michael Powers Democrat Hugh Hagan ia eterk and Ray Byerman is deputy clerk APPROVAL TO BE SOUGHT NEW PHILADELPHIA 0 Feb With the possibility of a general assessment against aU counties In tha district eliminated tha Muskingum watershed eonser-vsney court again wlU be asked to approve tha $34580000 flood control project of the district Robert WUUkln attorney for the district Mid WAITRESSES MAY STRIKE CLEVELAND Feb TL-Ut-Op-posing the $1250 a week minimum wage provided in a reataurant coda union waitresses will go on a strike if it ia paid Mid MIm Kitty Donnelly business agent of the union Bha aald they want $13 after dir duction of mute and laundry bills The Daily Washington Merry-Go-Round Air! Sea And Land Reergani- zation la Proposed PARIS Feb An air sea and tend fores reorganisation plan to strengthen France in troubled Europe will be presented soon at a pedal cabinet sesaion It wu learned today Premier Gaston Doumergue tentatively hu approved the program It would bo part of a vast military and economic rehabilitation schema The huge ram necessary to finance the plan would be raised through a loan A strong professional "shock troops" army the idea of Marshal Henri Petaln minister of war la aid to have been approved part of a move toward strengthening the army The project also la understood to contemplate modernising of military equipment and accumulating of ammunition stocks Further the navy would speed authorised construction of ships and strategic roads probably In the Alpa would be built part of a genual plan to relieve unemployment The whole program ta envisioned aiding the economic situation white strengthening the country In the face of Chancellor Hitler German rearmament demands and general unrest' 1 Louis Bsrthou minister of foreign affairs discussed the general Europun situation before a cabinet meeting today Prim three-year aviation program to a vital part of the plan French aviation experts consider that tha country hu only 50 thoroughly modern crafts 1 Under this program Franca ia to spend one billion franca (approximately 585000000) annually BILL FOUND DEFECTIVE COLUMBUS 0H Feb 37-UPS-Purther legislative action will bo necessary before teachen of atata aid school districts can be paid back ularlea 1 Tha Gurnet school MU recently enacted appropriated $3000000 to pay back salaries up to Jan 1 and to finance the remainder of the school year However Atty-Oen Ricker yesterday found to ha defective the Lloyd Mil which provided that school boards could Issue notes In anticipation of these funds The legislature now will have to correct the MU when It reconvenes March 8 Brisker said BUFFET AND DINING TABLE SOLD 1ST DAY- Xt coat Mrs A Leonard 730 CsuiUy Just 48c to eeU her buffet and dining room table She Mid that It wu add tha tint day tha ad appeared and that she had at least ether nils Why not profit from Mrs Leonard experience and turn some of those seldom used articles you hare around tha house Into cash A amaU inexpensive classified sd win do It for you BUFTKT and dining room table 720 Very rewonsbU Main 1021 i CaaaUlr- There are many ways to profit by tbs frequent use of tha etaari-fled CaU Main 3900 ask for an Ad-writer -By DREW PEARSON Balks Hull's Plan To Clean Out Career Boys Both Men Agree On Hoover's Friend Hugh Gibson Bullitt Capital Laundryman To Be Kentucky Colonels Candor Responsible For Veteran Bonus Effort WASHINGTON Feb 27-When Cordell Hun travelled through South America en route to the Pan-American Conference he made one fervid resolution When he came back ha wu going to clean out some iff the career boys cluttering up hte department for years Mr Hull hu now been back more than a month But hia resolution will not be fulfilled Not merely to there to be no housecteanlng but the same old career clique which kept in ita cocoon during the Hoover days la now emerging full-grown and beautiful butterfly In fact the same gentlemen who caused such a scandal in Frank Kellogg's days by promoting themselves to cushy Jobs are now at it gain and reaping a harvest Back in 1827 Hugh Wilson ion and of the Chicago shirt family wu chairman of tha State Department personnel committee which ruled on promotions Ha got himself made Minister to Switzerland But now tiring of that Job he' to having himself promoted to a new post one of the moat Important in Europe Back hi 1827 also Butler Wright wu In charge of meeting dignitaries at tha United Station wu also a member of the personnel board He had himself appointed Minister to Hungsry Hoover irked at tha career crowd demoted him to the legation in Uruguay but now Butler hu had himself sent back to the more glamorous environs of Czechoslovakia Tha secret of tha career boys' success to twofold One to suave Billy Phillips under secretary of state and a devout disciple of the creeq that diplomatic berth should go only to those boastlngX a pri.

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