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Show JOB HUNTERS' SIECwE UNAVAILING Washington March lg. Humorous Incidents attend the siege of Washington Wash-ington b) office seekers. While Sec-retary Sec-retary McAdoo was telegraphing to Boston and New York to discover a man whom h? ir. serionslv eoiislderinu' for assistant secretary of the treasury treas-ury to succeed James L 'urtls. In charge of custom, half a hundred supporters of as many applicants waited in his office, although they hH were i old that ihe selection was prac- ffH tic-ally determined. HH The same thing occurred In con- tiH nection with the appointment of a JH United Stat. treasurer. While the H1B secretary was sending a dozen lele- grams broadcast in search or John jfl Burke, former governor of North Da- 19 kota. who was ultimately appointed, 'Jlfl a hundred applicants were virtually IgH beating on the walls of the treasury 'l(H for admission. Burke was finally lo- rilfl cated at Minneapolis, the announce- itH ment of his selection made and the lid armj of forlorn applicants turned ilH away. flU |