Evening Star Newspaper, April 1, 1930, Page 6

'HEARINGS RESUMED O UNENPLOYMENT President Green Says 3,- ' 700,000 Were Out of Work ‘ During February. i fated Press. B o ifiarn Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, esti- ated today before a Senate commit- tee that 3,700,000 wage earners were out of work in February, losing over $400,000,000 in pay envelopes. Green was the first witness as the commerce committee returned to con- sideration of the unemployment ques- Ltion. £ He said in the first three months of ¥this year “those out of work lost well ‘nigh ~ $1,000,000,000.” He explained “that this estimate on losses was based on the theory that the men standicg idle might have created more than $1,000,000,000 worth of wealth. Could Turn Business Tide. “The country as a whole, as well as the men themselves, is that much rer because these wage earners were not employed in productive work,” QGreen asserted. Y This much wealth, he said. “would undoubtedly be more than sufficient to turn the tide of business from recession advance.” h"A billion dollars added to the in- comes of wage earners in three months means an approximate increase of 5 cent in the total national income ?;f that period of time” he declared. Green was tfii‘(l(ymg in {lvorcgin:l;; er proposal to set up ma m&me planning of public works. The Wagner plan would create a commission to study public work con- struction, This commission would be given a $150,000,000 appropriation. Two Other Witnesses. Further, provision would be made for the wllect?on of unemployment in- formation and for the creatior. of a Federal employment agency. | Two other witnesses were called for today's session. One, Miss Helen Hall delphia, wnnfi;d b:he‘c‘fiz@ié;e: jcture woul a 3 %:lzo:arecpc‘lon with her duties with the National Federation of Settlements, she has made a Nation-wide investi- gation of the effect of unemployment on the family, she said, distinguishing between the result of the breadwinners losing & Jjob permanently and tem y. fhe. information 1 have, and the e s T have drawn. Miss Hall oon said, “are based on unemployment con- ditions in the so-called prosperity period ©of 1928, rather than on those of the present emergency and it is depressing unh Charles Marquis Merrill, who writes under the name Clinch Cal- kins, was the other witness. She now in writing & book on the ma- Miss Hall nt'mud in studies in more than 300 American cities. Both women ingorsed the Wagner ition. Turning to the history of unemploy- ment, President Green said it had been a recurring problu; since the beginning system. d‘l!mh' flx:lim gx‘ey:—-chlrlw—wu inade°- quate to meet workers' needs, he asserted, “and left us quite unprepared %o meet the next mounting wave of unemployment.” 9 Per Cent Unemployed. “This eed a grave problem,” organization’s figures F.Gufln( the past 27 months unemploy- ment among its membership “did not fall below 9 per u;,m for :llg-,uu and Tose as r cent. anl:nhg?led Rt significant” his that average unemployment did not fall below 9 cent during the months of 1929, which peace time uction reached new high rec- ords in 24 industrial centers. The federation’s unemployment pro- THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 1930. TWO WOMEN WIN VAIL MEDALS FOR DISTINGUISHED SERVICE Miss Marian Boyd, Washing- ton, Rescued Girl From Drowning. Mrs, McMillan of Winchester, Va., Foiled Safe Blower by Quick Thinking. Miss Marian Boyd of Washington and Mrs. Vera C. McMillan of Winchester, | Va., both employes of the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co.. have been {awarded Vail medals for distinguished service to the public. Miss Boyd saved | a young woman from drowning and | Mrs. McMillian’s quick thinking on one | occasion led to apprehension of A | burglar. | While swimming at_South River Beach, Md. on June 30, 1929, Miss |Boyd, a clerk in the commercial de- | partment of the company, went to the aid of two drowning girls. She rescued one and swam until exhausted in an ef- fort to locate the other. Mrs. McMillan, night chief telephone operator at Winchester, summoned the police at about 2 a.m. the night of January 20, 1929, when she sound suggesting hammer blows over a telephone located in the office of a creamery. Policemen rushed to the creamery and found a burglar trying | to open a safe. The man was killed as | he attempted to escape. | The medals are awarded by the com- | pany through its Vail Memorial com- | mittee in recognition of distinguished service contributed by employes. TYDINGS ATTACKS PROFIBITION LAW Asserts Arrests for Drunken-; ness Among Young People Have Increased Here. Asserting that arrests for drunken- ness among young people in Washing- ton have increased under prohibition, Senator Tydings, Demoerat, of Mary- land attacked the dry laws in a speech in the Senate this afternoon. He cited statistics to support his claim that pro- hibition has been a failure. The Maryland Senator said police reports show that arrests for intoxica- tion between the ages of 17 and 21 have mounted in the District of Co- lumbia since national prohibition went into effect in 1920. . Presents Tabie of Arrests. | The table he presented set forth | that in 1919 there were 132 arrests| for intoxication here between the ages of 17 and 21. In 1920, the beginning of mational prohibition, the humber dropped to 73. In 1931, he said, it went up to 182, and he gave the total for last year as 368. Following is the table Senator Tydings presented by fis- cal years: 1912, 20; 1913, 27; 1914, 65; 1915, 29; 1916, 31; 1917, 31; 1918, 68; 1919, 132: 1920, 73; 1921, 182; 1922, 166; 1923, 220;"1924, 2690 1923, 339; 1926, 332; 1027, 414; 1928, 390, and 1929, 368. Increase Since 1923. The Senator used another table of arrests for intoxication under the age of 17, which showed that while the number under this heading went up from 1 in 1920, to 13 in 1923, there has been a steady decrease since then, and juring the past two years tlere were no arrests below that age limit. gram Green outlined under three sep- arate hnd?nn: fact finding, industrial measures and remedial measures. ey Cangress. . connec- sus authorized . e “tl jcture o o :‘mvxe between t-time vvrkt' and jobblessness. He measure of unemployment. inds ‘Among measures. Green proposed stabilization, pointing out in- stances in which it had been accom- plished with co-operation between work- ers and industries. For Employment Service. ‘He also urged recognition by industries | of what he called the vital partnership which wage earners bring to & produc- tion undertaking. Green indorsed Federal employment service “to connect w;g{:;rs wanting jobs with work opportun! i ‘Workers out of jobs, he said, have no money to pay fees of private agencies. Workers displaced by _technological changes need special employment coun- sel and vocational training opportuni- ties, he added, and there should be job analysis agencies to establish job re- «quirements in order to find work which older men can do. Urging “deferred programs for con- struction of public works, ready to be initiated when needed,” Green said that “although such a program has been much discussed for yurslnnd generally approved, the depression last year came ‘upon us without provisions for initiatin a constructive program together wit the machinery for putting it into operation.” “Labor is fully persuaded,” he asserted, “that unemployment can be eliminated as a social and economic problem. We have organizations necessary to con- tribute to its solution and are ready w co-operate in working out constructive methods. “Unemployment is the most serious drain on industrial progress and a serious social waste,” he said. ‘This Year Serious. Green asserted that “approximately one worker in every four was “out of work” during February and that unem- ployment this yea rwas “the most seri- ous we have experienced in the three Winters we have collected figures.” During the past year unemployment has been “steadily mounting over the revious year,” Green said. “Since Oc- gober it has increased from 11 to 22 per cent, due to a business depression. This huge unemployment has, in turn, re- tarded recovery from the industrial re- cession of last Fall.” ‘The total volume of wage payments to workers in manufacturing industry, Green said, has dropped 14 per cent since the stock crash and payments to railroad employes have fallen 12 per | cities, excluding Chicago: The figures he gave were as follows: 1912, none; 1913, 1; 1914, 5; 1915, 6; 1016, 5; 1917, 5; 1918, 5; 1919, 8; 1920, 1; 1921, 3; 1922, 1923, 13; 1924, 7; 1925, 8; 1926, 6; 1927, 6; 1928, none, and 1929, none. Presents Figures From 385 Cities. ‘The Senator quoted the following fig- ures of arrests for drunkenness in 385 | In 1914, | 465,753; in 1920, 201,339, and in 1927, 466,806, ‘Another table dealt with death from alcoholism in registration areas of the United States, as follows: 2,611, in 1910; 660. in 1920, and 3,185, in 1928. The number of arrests for prohibition violations for the fiscal year 1920 to 1928, inclusive, was placed in another table at 483474 with 291,859 convic- tions. In 1920, the table said, the number was 10,548 with 4,315 convic- tions, while in 1928, 75.307 were arrest ed and 58,813 convicted. ‘The total population of Federal pris- ons and reformatories increased from 2,075 for the fiscal year 1910 to 10,068 | in 1929, another table said. NOTICE TO NURSES Examination of Applicants for Po- sitions Due in May. Examination for registration of nurses will be held May 1 and 2 from 9 o'clock until 4 o'clock at PFranklin School, Thirteenth and I~ streets, by the nurses’ examining board of the District of Columbia. All applications must be in the office of the executive secretary, Bertha E. McAfee, before April 15, Drug Agent’s Car ga)]en. Samuel Rakusin, Federal narcotic agent, last night reported to police the theft ‘of his automobile from the 1400 block of Park road. The machine con- tained valuable papers and Government requests for railroad _transportation, Rakusin, who lives at the Clifton Ter- race Apartments, told police. College Players Coming. ‘Washington is included in a long road trip to be made by the forty-second an- nual show of the Mask and Wig Club of the University of Pennsylvania. The roduction, “John Faust, Ph. " will presented here April 11. Among the participants in the play are Joe Eaton, a former Central High School student, and Ward French of Catonsville, Md. Pickpocket Gets $70. A pocketbook containing $70 in cur- rency was stolen by a pickpocket from Charles H. Welsh of Parkersburg, W. Va. in an F street theater last night. cent. In building trades, 43 per cent, or ap- proximately one out of every two, were unemployed in February, the witness Ifld asserting that because of this serious curtailment of buying power re- tail trade has failed to make its usual very. buyers and jobbers have Miss Hall's Statement. ll!. Hall, in a prepared statement, studying the :&UH&I:M mn’k;; come Wi stopp! income we found the families Weish is the eighth victim of theater pickpockets in the past five days. moves to poorer neighborhoods and, what means most in ragement to the family, the loss of the house partly paid for. “The last report of the Community Detroit, published in ‘Pride wholly justifiable, heard | | | 1 Above: Below: EMPLOYES IN PROTEST OF “UNFAIR PRACTICES” Meeting Tonight to Discuss Wage Cuts and Age Limit Policies of Employers, Methods of combating “unfair prac- tices” on the part of a considerable number of employers of office help in the District will be discussed tonight at a meeting of the Stenographers, Typewriters, Bookkeepers and Assist- ant Bookkeepers' Association at the Pythian Temple. Miss Ethel M. Smith, former member of the District's Mini- mum Wage Board, will make the prin- cipal address. Officers of the association feel that unemployment in Washington has served as an excuse for no few large employers to cut wages to a “ridicu- lously small” figure, and to change their })&l}lfiles ‘aunf‘:hn;ly" Wlllh regard to age and other employment. m- ments. e i g Miss Smith, it was pointed out, is well informed to discuss the -subject through a wide contact with office work- MISS MARIAN BOYD. I MRS. VERA C. McMILLAN. !lhrlv!ng business among all classes of ers in the District over a long period of years. 5 —_— SUES TO SEE SISTER Woman Also Asks $3,000, Saying She Was Denied Entrance. Eva J. Agee, 2016 Sixteenth street, today invoked both the equity and law branches of the District Supreme Court in an effort to visit her sister and brother-in-law, who reside on premises 1406 Newton street, which is owned by Maud C. and William Barber. She obtained from Justice Alfred A. Wheat, a rule against the Barbers to show cause Friday why she should not have permission to enter their home to visit her sick sister. On the law.side, she filed suit to recover $3,000 damage from the Barbers, whom she accused of call- ing her vile names and forcibly ejecting her when she tried to call on her sister, March 10. Attorneys Welch, Daily & Wftl‘;:h appear for the plaintiff in both suits, PLEA CHAR(;ES THREATS Mrs. Mary Louise Tolzman, 624 F street northeast, in a suit for a limited divorce from August Tolzman, super- intendent of the Riggs-Tompkins Build- ing, charges that he threatened their three children. They were married July 7, 1910 and the wife charges cruelty and inadequate support. Attorneys Hy- man M. Goldstein and Charles E. Quigley appear for the wife. No Fooling! 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One such group is said to have trans- acted $50,000 worth of business in less than six months by the clever scheme that is worked. Although trading principally in sport- ing circles, the firm thought to have introduced the business in this city oc- cupies a luxurious suite of offices in a downtown building and carries on a pecple. One group of manipulators are said to operate in this manner: Self-styled experts in diamonds, they pick up the stones at bargain prices in Washington and elsewhere and then pawn them across the Potomac in Virginia. Be- cause of their expert knowledge of dia- monds, it is claimed, they are able to obtain loans o1 the stones equal to the price they pay for them. Then, with the visible record on the pawn ticket of an extremely conserva- tive valuation of the stone by the pawn broker, they have visible proof of the bargain they are offering persons among whom they solicit business. Since the investment in the diamond is equaled by the broker's loan, the price they ob- tain for the pawn ticket is the margin of profit. There is nothing secret about the pawn ticket selling. On_several oc- casions ads have been published in a newspaper that pawn tickets and jewel- ry of all kinds could be bought or sold at the given address. POSTHUMOUS HONORS FOR TWO U. S. SOLDIERS | Distinguished Service Cross Award- ed Men Who Died Together in Midnight Attack. By the Associated Press. Posthumous awards of the Distin- guished Service Cross to two American soldiers who died together November 10, 1918, when they swam the Meuse River in a midnight attack, were announced today by the War Department. The slain men were Sergt. Victor C. Lee, whose mother is Mrs. Anna Mc- Gregor of Denver, Colo., and Pvt. Ole Alendal, whose father is Knut Alendal of Viborg, S. Dak. Both awards were for “extraordinary heroism in action.” They had volun- teered as members of a patrol which tried to swim the Meuse under artillery fire, machine guns and hand grenades. Alendal was killed as he swam, but Lee mhed the German bank before he lied. TERMS: CASH SUITE IS LEASED Woman Commissioners Will Occupy Washington Build- ing Space Tomorrow. Plans for the George Washington bi- centennial celebration in 1932 will be advanced .a step tomorrow when a por- tion of the National Bicentennial Com- mission will take possession of official headquarters space in the Washington Building here, negotiatings for which have been closed, according to an an- nouncement made today by Weaver Bros., agents for the building. A suite of six rooms on the fifth floor of the office building, on Fifteenth street, New York avenue and G street, has been leased for the use of the woman members of the National Bi- centennial Commission, it was announc- ed. Mrs. John D. Sherman, one of the woman commissioners, will establish an office force in this space in these quar- ters tomorrow, which later also will be used for the headquarters of Mrs. An- thony Wayne Cooke, a former president of the Daughters of the American Rev- olution, who is one of the woman com- missioners. The taking of this space, however, it is understood, is but preliminary to provision for much larger space in the | building to be emplayed as headquarters | for the full bicentennial commission. Negotiations for the larger space on | another floor of the building are un- derstood to be in progress. Arrange- ments are being made by the agents of the building owners with W. L. Dun- lop, administrative assistant to Repre- sentative Sol Bloom of New York, and Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, director of public buildings and public parks, who are associate directors of the bicen- tennial commission. ASKS ABSOLUTE DIVORCE Joseph I. 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