Evening Star Newspaper, April 7, 1929, Page 13

" LOAN RESTRITIONS * HITBY WFADDEN House Committee Chairman Criticizes - Policy of Reserve Board. By the Associated Press. . PHILADELPHIA, April 6—The ef- forts of the Federal Reserve Board to Testrain. speculative loans were criti~ cized. tonight by Chairman McFadden of the House banking committee in an address in which he declared the re- serve board “should not concern itself about the condition of the stock mar- ket or the Security loan market.” Speaking before the Five O'clock Club here, Representative McFadden sald that the Federal Reserve manage- ment by such action could easily * duce a business slump without really intending to do so.” He added that “the public had best be informed that the management of the credit system are determined to restrict credits for [kh:. purpose of deflating the stock mar- e Effect of Restrictions. “If the present restrictions that are belng applied,” he said, “are continued, | the hlg‘h mftkl'est rates 'Tuy make it too expensive for corporations to finance themselves. There is also grave danger of loss of confidence on the part of the public, who may become afraid to buy stock issues, The Federal Reserve man- agement eannot prevent a corporation or the public from loaning money on call or buying or selling stocks. “I do not think that it has been shown that any positive harm through increase of brokers’ loans is being done to business and industry or employ- ment.” Duti~s Seen Limited. Chairman McFadden said he viewed the duties and responsibilities of the ral Reserve Board “to be super- vision of the total volume of credit and protection of the gold reserve.” °He declared that he did not consider the Tecent increase in the Reserve Banks' loans to stockbrokers endangered the gold reserve nor was there any indica- tion of a general rise in commodity price levels “which is the main indica- tion of inflation of credit.” BOOTH DAY OBSERVED BY SALVATION ARMY Centenary of Birth of Founder ‘to Be Central Feature of All Activities Today. All activities of the Salvation Army today will center around ‘the observ- ance of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Gen. William Booth, founder of the organization. Every official and member of the Salvation Army in ‘Washington has been called upon to participate in the observance. This morning at_10 o'clock, Maj. James Asher, head of the army in the District, will preside over an open-air meeting at the corner of Seventh street and Pennsylvania avenue. There will be music by the army's headquarters band, followed by brief sermons in which the life of Gen. Booth will be portrayed. Immediately following, another meet- ing ‘will be held at 11 o'clock in the Salvation Army Temple, 606 E street. At the same hour, a third meeting will be held in the Army Social Service Center, 102 B street. Adjt. ‘Willlam Gearing will preside. Tonight at 8 o'clock, six meetings are scheduled. Each of the six branches of the Army, including Alexandria, will meet in their own headquarters. The subject for sermons will be “The Founder.” Today's activities are preliminary to meetings to be held Wednesday, the anniversary day. On that day the program opens with an open: meet-| lng. -?t night, three big meetings are scheduled for 8 o'clock. A united meet- ing will be held at the E Street Tem- Fh' another meeting at the Ew: ine Residence on L street and the thi meeting at the Colored Army Center, Seventh and P streets. Similar meetings are being held throughout the United States by various divisions of the army. FAMINE RAKES SLAVE RACE IN EAST AFRICA Drought and Inefficient Cul- tivation Result in Heavy Toll. By the Associated Press. KAMPALA, Uganda, British East Africa, April 6—The teeming popula- tioh of the Bahuti, a slave race in the Belgian Congo, is in a desperate plight from famine brought about by drought and inefficient eultivation of land. ‘Thousands already have perished from hux;ler and disease which follows in its ‘wake. Under a long-standing feudal system the Babutis are subjects of the Batusi, or ruling people. The dominant Batusis, ‘who own herds of cows, care little for the welfare of their slaves. ‘The Bahutis now are virtually with- out food either purchasable or grown. ‘The situation had steadily grown “worse since the drought of August, 1927, and there has been little rain since. Unable to Fill Needs. Belgian food distribut centers at Rukira, Gatsibu and Kigali and three " other places have been unable to cope with the relief problem on account of difficulties in transportation by porter- age and the lack of roads. Emaciatéd and’hungry, the serfs since November have been growing more and more desperate, Forced to. choose be- tween a long trek in search of food or a slow death they began migrating into the Uganda territory, which is under British control. 2 Z In December the Uganda government, drea. ‘Thus the foodl2ss natives are shut in the trap of starvation with little hope of salvation. The ravenous tion 'm;y” An t;u Uganda from the Above is a view of the steel frame- work of the h Internal Revenue Building, now under construction, En- gineers expect to have the metal skele- ton completed by July 1. To the right is a view of one of the riveting gangs, whose air hammers are adding to the din of downtown Washington. —=Star Staff Photos. WORKERS IENORE. | MAURER WARNING | Provide for Election of Offi- cers by Convention De- spite Protest. Over vigorous objection of its getiring | president, the Workers’ Education Bu= reau of ‘America, in convention here, yesterday provided for the election of its executive committee by conventions of the organization instead of by cau- cuses of various labor organizations. ‘Warned by James H. Maurer of Read- ing, Pa., retiring president, that the change would have the effect of taking control of education work among or- ganized labor from the bureau and put- ting it in the international union, the convention nevertheless adopted a re- port of the constitutional committee as brought in by Matthew Woll, a vice president of the American Federation of Labor, and chairman of the bu- reau’s executive committee. = The bureau’s constitution thus was changed- to stipulate that 11 members be elected to the executive committee, eight by the conventions of the organi- | zation and three by the American Fed- | eration of Labor. aurer, asserting the change would do emedial injury” to the educa- tional cause, announced that its adop- tion would force him to relinquish his p in the work, He had stated that he would not be a candi- date to succeed himself and later the convention elected Thomas E. Burke of Chicago, its treasurer, as president, Delogates Are Named. The convention met at dinner last evening in the Hamilton Hotel and heard addresses by Edward Keating, editor of Labor; Dr. Prank Mann, presi- dent of the American Council of Educa- tion; Dr. L. P. Jacks, principal of Man- chester College, Oxford, England, and Judge Theodore G. Risley, solicitor of the Labor Department. ‘The foll delegates were named to the executive committee: Fannia Cohn of New York, H. E. Russell of Springfield, Mass; Thomas Kennedy of Hazelton, Pa.; Paul Fuller of Passaic, N, J, and J. W. Kerchen of San Fran- cf Spencer Miller, jr., of New York was re-elected secretary, ; $100,000 DAMAGES ASKED FOR INJURIES Chevy Chase Woman Claims She ‘Was Permanently Injured by Capital Traction Car. leadershil formally Special Dispateh to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Mdi, April 6—Damages in the amount of $100,000 for allged personal injuries are claimed by Miss Buel Gillette of 11 West Woodbine t, Chevy Chase, in a suit the Capital Traction Co. filed in the Circuit Court here yesterday afternoon. The action is based on a collision be- beiween an automobile operated by the plaintiff and a car of the defendant company, which accurred at Connecticut averue and Woodbine street, Chevy Chase, November 6 last. A Miss Gillette represents in her dec- laration that one of her hands was so badly as” to necessitate - tation of a large portion of it, her jeft arm’ broken and that she sustained other serious injuries, . She charges the collision was due to negligent operation. of the electric ‘car. Miss Gillette is represented by At- torneys Kenneth Lyddane of Rockville and J. Wilson Ryon and William O'Con- nell of Washington. | ___FARM AND GARDEN. ° STAR ROSES are trade-marked. lity plants, nationally bk:m 'uq“&a w.:h:l ‘money can buy. They repay you boun- tifully with enchanting | from Juneuntil frost. gardenatour 90000 PSS CPIITES TAMMANY REGARDS SMITH AS DIGTATOR Former. Governor, Returning Today From Vacation, Faces Docile Group. - | Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, April 6.—Former Gov. Alfred E. Smith will return to New York tomorrow evening from a fort- night's vacation at Absecon, N. J. De- spite the vehement protests of Tam- many Hall- district leaders that they would brook no dictation from the former governor in the naming of & suc- cessor to George W. Olvany as head of the hall Mr. Smith returns virtually as_dictator of the new leader. District leaders, unable to ree among themselves on a man from their , are ed. It is doubtful if any man of influence in Tammany ever faced # more docile ag tion of belligerents than Smith have to deal with. at the hall is more puzzled than ever over the problem of finding a new chief. It is not expected that Mr. Smith will name the Olvany successor single- handed. So limited is the available material that it was believed he would FARM_AND GARDEN. Won By These Beautiful ROSES We offer_these Prize-Winni . BIOOmiNE ROSes. R OUF Fet-acubiniel CREF. ol 'm yoars g o "r%'&m?'flf.'&'xu?‘gf i Double White A varieties. 52.18 for . tor Fak 3 ana 'S pessh B AReriean not want to undertake the responsil A Priends here expected that he would confer either tomorrow night or Mon- day with Surrogate James A. Foley, Mayor Walker and Senator Robert P. Wagner. That conference, it was anticipated, would- settle the uestion of the immediate future of the ‘ammany leadership, FLOOD FUND ‘841 5,611.75. Contributions received by the Réd Cross for the Southeast flood relief fund yesterday totaled $415,611.75. Several days ago the organization esti- mated that between $500,000 and $600,- 000 would be required to rehabilitate the flood sufferers of Alabama, Georgia, * SWIMMING TEST -~ RULING 15 Receive Buttons From Red| Cross-at Conclusion. of s be gi ponuhnlkv to try for the e URGE INDESTRIAL AL FOR CHLDREN Trade Schools for Youths of Both Races. The industrial u;feunea of colored hoards of education there are no trade schools, to establish vocational guidance for children of both | The conference moved further to call on these boards of education to furnish ored chidren ioaid hem o Anding a their place in industrial life. v the Labor t, and Mrs, Hettie Sims, a delegate to the conference from Annapolis, on colored women in business from the viewpoint of her experience as head of taxi in the Maryland | % | . Evelyn Reynolds, of Philadel- phia, and Mrs. Henry Lincoln Johnson, ";f o!he‘r spet;keen. i ¢ ans for 0] of an in- dustrial center in wpm .lon ed by the were outlined by Mrs. Mossell Griffin, | national chairman of the association. The conference will be concluded morrow with a meeting of the ecutive board. ——e Hoover Bust to Be_lldo. NEW YORK, A 6 (#).—Anthony Janik, Warsaw scul ’, has been com- missioned to model a bust of President Hoover for exhibition in Poznan, Po- land, the American Polish Chamber of announced . Polish e permanent exhibit Polish settlements outside of Mr. Janik now is on his way to Amer- ica to begin work on the bust, —_—————— % ‘Three surfaces of tessellated Roman pavement which formed the floor of a | house or store at least 1,800 ago, were recently discovered in London. During a recent auction in Glasgo Florida, Mississippi, Tennessee and Kentuck: FARM AND GARDEN. W, Scotiand, 30 people fell 12 feet'to the basement when the floor collapsed and the hospital. 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The Robin Hood Players will offer ‘The Road Back,” a comedy drama in three acts by Joseph Cariton, at St Paul's Hall, April 24 and 25. Paul Messink will direct the piece. Peggy Schneider and Robert Dillon carry the leads. Helen Scheckells, Leona Schoyers, Joseph Marcellino, James Perrare, Stella Nicro, Barbara Hesse, Paul Messink, Prank Mannarino and Gino John Simi complete the cast. The staff are Paul Messink, director; Leon - Michealvitz, electrical director, :lnd Gino John Simi, press representa- ve. 3 . During a service at St. Paul's Church, | London, recently, & playlet, “The Gar~ “BOYS OF WARD 33” GIVE WATCH 70 MAJ. WELLS Medical Corps: Officer Is Trans- . 'ferred From Walter Reed to Philippines. : ““Prom the Boys of Ward 33" is th !nlcn’ iption on a gold watch presented this past week to Maj. W. 8. Wells, Medical Corps, United States Army, stationed at Walter Reed Hospital, by the patients of that ward. ‘The gift was presented in apprecia- tion of not only Maj. Wells' services as a ph};u‘lmn in this ward, which is for vascular mumu‘.“ but for the personal “attention he given thos> | patients during the three and & half | y‘c'nrls he has been stationed at the hos- al. s Maj. Wells recently was ordered by the War- Department to proceed to the Philippine Islands for duty. Upon Ie of his transfer, the patients ;| decided he should not go without some *| remerbrance from them. 5 officer, who resides at 6721 The . Plerce Mill road, served with the 60th | Infantry A. E. P, and later was as- signed to a post at San Prancisco, Calif. He remained there until three and a half years ago, when he was transfered to Walter Reed Hospital. Maj. Wells is regarded as one of the best heart experts in the Medical Corps of the Army. He wil sall from New York with his family on May 3 for his new post. COURT TO OPEN. 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