Evening Star Newspaper, April 21, 1929, Page 14

ARSI WAGECOEREC /Union Representatives to i Meet Branch of A. F. L. ! in Peace Efforts. i T For the purpose of trying to bring ebouz a settlement of the demands of a umber of building trades unions for | increases in wages, which Iocal con- | tractors have declared they will not |Brant, officers of the building trades de- |'partment of the American Federation f Labor will arrange a conference with eaders of the building trades unions. | This assurance was given by William Green, president of the federation, in |® letter received yesterday by Rufus S. |%Lusk, secretary of the Washington |Operative Builders' Association. Mr. | Green's letter was in answer to a peti- tion from the association and the Builders and Manufacturers’ Exchange, E:klng him to use his influence to bring bout arbitration of the demands of e unions for higher pay. | May Delay Work Here. The petition for arbitration stf¥ed that insistence by the building trades unions on higher wages, ranging from 30 to 20 per cent over present scales, might result in delays in the Federal, ‘District and private building programs, with harm both to the union workers &nd the contractors. President Green in his letter to the kontractors and builders stated: “1 assure you that I am deeply in- terested in the subject matter dealt with in your communication. I wish very much that a satisfactory settlg- iment of the differences which you ex- lain have arisen over wages and work- g conditions, between the building trades employers’ section of the Build- ers’ and Manufacturers’ Exchange and ,the building trade workers, may be ‘prought about through understanding ‘®nd negotiations. “I will be glad to do anything I can to aid in the furtherance of such a praiseworthy purpose. However, it might be helpful to you to explain Ilhal the president of the American | Federation of Labor lacks authority {to interfere in local wage negotia- lgions. From a labor point of view all questions of this kind come under the jputhority and control of the respective mational and international unions hav- ing jurisdiction over the group of men involved. This authority is guaranteed by the American Federation of Labor to these organizations when they be- ‘come affiliated with the American Fed- fration of Labor. Action Is Promised. “I called the attention of the offi- icers of the building trades department to your letter, and they have assured me that they will arrange a confer- ence with the officers of the building trade workers’ union for the purpose |of trying to bring about an under- standing and a settlement. I express the hope that the officers of the build- ing trades department may meet with success and that a peaceful settlement of the wage dispute between the build- ing trades employers’ organizations and the workers may be finally reached.” o Labor Treaty Ratified. GENEVA (P).—France has ratified the international labor agreement pro- viding that seamen landed during the term of their employment be given free | transportation to home ports. Belgium, Cuba, Estonia and Luxemburg also rati- {\ed the convention, which was framed n 1926. Established 33 Years Far or Near Complete With Shell or Metal Frame First and best quality. to see near and far). made. Sold regularly $15. sections already sold. olorado Bldg. Wife of Labor Secre(ary| Youthful and One of ; Best Dressed. Five- Winsome Children Brighten Home of Unusual Attractiveness. BY MARGARET HART. Mrs. James.J. Davis, wife of the Secretary of Labor, is starting her ninth year as a cabinet hostess. She is the mother of five children, three of them born in Washington. They look alike, and all have names beginning with J—james, Jane, Jean, Joan and Jewel. Mrs. Davis looks like a girl as she strolls along in her neat tailored suit with her sturdy son James, the eldest of the children. He is 14. Mrs. Davis has curly light chestnut hair. Al her children have inherited it, together with her winsome features. James, however, takes very strenuous methods to keep his curls plastered straight. It would be impossible to write about Mrs. Davis without writing a good deal about her children and her home. It is very seldom that visitors to the Davis house are not conducted through the spacious rooms to see the birds on the sun porch, or invited upstairs to see the nursery, the children’s own |/ domain, roomy and sunny, with fasci- nating fairy tales and nursery rhymes, | pictures and songs on the walls. Girls Like to Be Hostesses. ‘The little “J’s,” the girls, feel that they are hostesses, too. But Jimmie likes to keep out of sight, if he can. They are well behaved children, and never appear unless they are called. But a visitor with a sharp eye may :le’e"emua heads bobbng out here and || At most afternoon receptions the girls, all dressed alike in handkerchief linen frocks with hand smocking, are in evidence, sitting in a demure row on a divan or sofa, and never speaking until they are spoken to. Jane always looks a little pleased, and runs eagerly upstairs if some one asks to’see the latest copy of her school paper, of which she is editor. Jean and Joan are re- porters on this paper, and baby Jewel is a constant “reader,” and knows that she will get a place on the paper also, when she goes to school. Mrs. Davis does not believe the horizon of a wife and mother is lim- ited by her own threshold. She takes an active interest in the affairs of the world, and does her social duties in and out of the home with grace, thoughtfulness and tact. During the last campaign_ the youthful wife of the Secretary of Labor worked early and late at Republican || National headquarters. She was so eager that she won many converts, and she always managed to get a hearing from those to whom she wisehed to ex- plain the issues and the virtues of the || candidates. One of Best Dressed. Mrs. Davis likes clothes, and is known as one of the best-dressed women in the official circles. She has a pen- chant for the “robe de style,” very be- coming to her for evening wear. She | wears severely plain sport or tailored | clothes, or simple crepe de chine or satin dresses, for daytime events. ‘The wife of the Secretary of Labor || and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge are close || KAHN on 7th St. Specials Monday and Tuesday Genuine Toric Glasses Complete Outfit, With Case and Cleaner Included Genuine Toric KRYPTOK Invisible Bifecal Lenses Kryptok' Bifocal Lenses—(one pair Best lenses price Monday and Tuesday..... KAHN OPTICAL CO. 617 Seventh St. N.W. Between F and G Streets A New Drive! Enjoy Spring at Its Best! Make Your Next Drive Up the Potomac Valley to Carderock (in Maryland) Here you will see an unsurpassed variety of wild flowers and dogwood in great profusion. Revel in the magnificent scenery ACTUALLY BORDERING the POTOMAC—accessible now by paved road and new bridge over the picturesque old canal—right to the river. The opportunity to secure ground here at almost wholesale cost is worth investigating—several fine DIRECTIONS On the main road to Great Falls, west on Penn. Ave. and Conduit road or west on River road, south via Wilson road and west on Conduit road to Carderock signs—just five miles from D. C. line. Hopkins- Armstrong, Inc. . friends. Their friendship dates back || to the first weeks of the Harding|| Established 33 Years $3.50 Toric Special §7.50 Main 2303 administration, when the new Secre- tary of Labor and the new Vice Presi- dent and their families were strangers, _PHE SUNDAY. STAR,” WASHINGTON,” D.” €. NINE YEARS AS CABINET HOSTESS REST LIGHTLY ON MRS. DAVIS MRS. JAMES J. DAVIS. to s great extent, in the National Capital. Mrs. Coolidge always had the Davis children as her special guests at the White House ‘at egg rolling time, and when the Coolidges went to the circus one day one of the Davis children viewed the antics of the clowns from Mrs, s knee. thinks it great sport-to coast with his mother. Now that the history of the Coolidge administration is bel {;mper to reveal the sécret that many imes the wife.of the President joined the “Jays” in their fun. One of the|' little girls said, most gravely, that the ?' for Grace sometimes sounds like ‘When the snow came to Washington last Winter the entire family of Davises drove to the White House in_sleighs, with prancing end jingling bells, to take Mrs, Coolidge for a ride. (Copyright, 1929.) ing written it is|, FURTHER PLANNING TOBECONSDERD 522 nis| Thursday and Friday Meet- ings Arranged for Ngtional : Commission. : velopment of Washington will be,con- sidered Thursday and Friday at meet- ings of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission. The commission’s park committee will be in session Wednesday to .whip into shape recommendations to be laid before the commission respecting land acquisitions for the coming year. The commission: will have before it . pro- posed changes in the highway plan, submitted last Wednesday at a public hearing before the District Commis- sioners, Maj. Carey H. Brown, the Com~ mission’s engineer, said yesterday. Librarian to Be Heard. Dr. George F. Bowerman, the li- brarian, will appear before the com- mission and explain his program for Various aspects.of the further de- : 'APRIT 21, 1920=PART T tain of - the institute, Maj. asserted. : ‘The commission is much interested in the g'elenut.bn of a gold medal to Milton Medary, jr., of Philadelphia, a member, on y eve: at tiae Corcoran Art Maj.. said, adding that Mr. Medary has been a thember of the Na- tional Capital Park and Planning - mission. its organization in.1926, it ppointed escident Hoover recently rea) six years. Invited to See Plans. Commission members have been in- vited to attend a meeting for the ex- hibition of plans for the public build- ings program and the developing of the central area of Washington, to be ven by Secretary Andrew W. Mellon on_Thursday evening. On Friday evening the commission, with members of the Zoning Commis- sion, have been invited to a dinner meeting to be given at the University Club by the Operative Builders’ Asso- ciation for a discussion of zoning prob- lems of the city. e AT S The irrigable area in 1927 of the proj- ects built by the Government was 1,- 956,010 acres, an increase of 112,360 over that of 1920. 2 RAILROAD RATE CUT ON GRAIN 15 URGED ‘Tuesdaj Gallery, | Report of Commerce Com- mission Investigators Urges Revision West of Mississippi. By the Associated Press. in territory west of the examiners, of the grain-producing territ trict trans) producing areas.” A report suggesting revision of rail- road rates on grain and grain products Mississippi River was made public yesterday by the Interstate Commerce Commission and the commission set May 27 as a date on which to hear arguments in Washington on the pi posal from carriers and representati: tory. The findings declared that the * eral level of rates on grain and n | products throughout the western dis- is not unreasonable,” but that tion charges “should be re- distributed more equitably as between To that end the report suggested adoption of a mileage scale by which charges on wheat flour 100 “The sugges! increases in rates from North Arthur R. Mackley and declared. “It would consi Oklahoy Western destinations.” 1100 pounds for* 0 miles, 18 cents for dis- ahd 544 ceonts miles. 5 ted scale would result in Dakota to Minneapolis and Duluth, from Kansas to Kansas City, and from Iowa to f mary market.,” the report, prepared by J. Hall,* assigned to investigate the schedules, duce the rates Trom Kansas o’ Ferss Ansas 'exas Gulf ports. It would reduce rates from ma to Texas ports and to Kan- sas City, and from much of the inter- mountain territory to both Eastern and Bargains in Occasional Chairs $18.50 $28.75 e s e SO $17.75 $19.65 $34.50 Jacquard Velour Overstuffed Club Chair..... . $50.75 Jacquard Velour Overstuffed Club Chair...... $39.75 Mohair Club Chair. Reduced to ... $39.75 Button-back Mohair Chair. Now .. Odd Pieces 44 at $2475 Mahogany - finished Gate-Leg Table $7.95 Ivory-finished Tilt-top Table $7.50 Priscilla Sewing Cab- inets, in various decorations... $2.25 Folding Card Tables $10.50 Decorated End Table Smokers s $6.75 Decorated Cabinet Smokers ... $1075 Mahogan Dccasional Table..... SR Sweeping Reductions $14.75 Ditiing S $3.99 $3.98 Room Suite $4.98 $3.98 Suite tes for Less Complete Your Dining Room Ensemble at Low Cost D'S{95 ]lg—piecc Walnut-Veneer inin Snes ror $108.50 $198 10-piece Wainut-Veneer Dining Room 2 Suite . > Dinette Suites £ $109.00 DG-p ie ca $149 French Oak Dinette Suite, léufie:, Tal:lle, ‘Chinra Ches 274 Lo2r $75.00 $98.65 $195 6-piece Green Decorated Dinette Suite $219 10-piece’ Walnut-Veneer Dining Room 5150'00 Suite $398 10-piece Walnut-Veneer Dining Room Suite .....oneieee o Breakfast Suites $2750 5-piece Green Breakfast g:?:a‘ed SI4075 $39.75 5-piece Gray $21.50 Decorated Breakfast jece ' Gray and Blue Suite . $43.75 5- Decorated %rukiast 324.75 Suite . Budget It is the medern, of owning good furniture and paying by easy stages. Plan convenient way $195 Jacquard Velour 3-piece Frame Living Room Big Reductions on Li $169 Jacquard Suite ... $97.50 $219 Frieze 3-piece Living Room Suite Bed < Da\'enpoxj.t ‘log.m $249 Mohair 3- piece Living Room Velour Pullman piece Li Suite .. man 513850 $12875 Odd Dining Room Pieces At Prices Irresistibly Low $39.50 Walnut-, Veneer Buffet. duced to $4250 Walnut- . Veneer Buffet. duced to . $4900 Walnut- Veneer Buffet. Re- duced to ... z $59.00 Wa Veneer Buffet. duced to $28.50 \'esr?egésl'oM‘a‘r:'asll;l;{)esl7-50 Veseeratans o 920 90 $49.75 Veneer Vanity k- §19.75 Odd Bedroom :Pieces \\'alnut.-' s24.50 ; $2475 Walnut- Veneer China 511.95 Closet ........... Walnut- Jome o Chine §23.50 $2050 Walnut- Veneer Chins $16.75 Closet .. $4275 Walnut- SZI. 65 Veneer Varity .i, Save on Boudoir Chairs $17.50 Cretonne Bou- doir Chair ....c...... $6.80 ade Chaiomne 2 §9.95 $1695 C " Wing Chair ... 1415 H —Just a few of many of the wonderful opportunities to save on these handsome and comfortable chairs. KAUFMANNS Street N.W. Monday Marks the Climax of Kaufmann’s Great Underprice Disposal of Character Furniture ving Room Suites $269 ‘Mohair 3- $169:50 518750 $295 Mohair Pull- Bed - Daven- port Suite .eeeeees Chest lined Refrigerators Reduced $32.50 3-Door Refrigerator, white enamel lined $39.75 Apartment frigerator $45.50 Apartment S irigerator $129 All-White Porcelain 3-Door Re- irigerator, . Nickel trimmed. 589 75 75 pounds capacity Many Other Refrigerator Bargains Gas Ranges At Lowest Prices $25.75 $52.20 $49.50 4-Hole Gas Cooker $109 Alcazar White En- ameled Cabinet Gas Range, Cedar Chests At Wonderful Sale Prices $17.50 Natural $12.50 $21.75 $46.50 $24.50 Walnut Chest, cedar lined $39.50 Natural Red Cedar Chest $69.50 Walnut Chest, cedar $229 4-Piece Walnut-Veneer Bedroom Suite $189 Suite, Bed, Dress- er and Vanity.... $269 4-Piece Walnut - Veneer Bedroom Suite... Walnut-Veneer $119.50 $156.75 349 4-Piece Walnut - Veneer Bedroom Suite. .. 198.00 $450° 6-Piece Walnut-Veneer Bedroom Suite, szgs.w including Chai and Bench... ‘Bedroom Pieces $49.50 Walnut-Ve- e~ $52.50 Dressef, reduced O cee.iecnaiii.ae $95 Antique Maple Dresser, reduc to .. (Separate Mirror) $36.50 Walnut-Ve- neer Dresser, re- duced to ....... $19.75 Walnut neer Bow-end Bed. Walnut-Veneered $32.00 <! $59.75 neer Dresser duced to $29.75 Walnut neer Bow-end Bed.. $44.50 Walnut-Ve- neer Bow-end Bed $34.50 Walnut-Ve- neer Bow-end Bed.. $36.50 Walnut-Ve- neer Bow-end Bed.. $21.75 $14.95 $21.75 $15.50 $16.75 Never Such Low Prices on Qur | ‘_Charac_te_r Furnitum