Evening Star Newspaper, February 12, 1931, Page 12

A—12 THE EVENING oo STAR, WASnlNGTON, D. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1981, PARLEY DISCUSSES FLOATERS' IN CITY “Breadline Racket” Explain- ed to Reichelderfer and Others at Meeting. the local New developments in including unemployment _ situation, activities of so-called “panhandling profiteers,” were the subject of a special conference this afternoon between Dis- trict Commissioner Luther H. Reichel- derfer, members of the District of Co- lumbia Committee on Unemployment and Y. M. C. A. officials. The conference is to have re- sulted from announced discovery by | Y. M. C. A. officials of an apparent “breadline racket” participated in by unworthy “floaters” who were using the Y. M. C. A. lobby as a base of operations. The first step in the drive to meet this problem was taken last week, when the Y. M. C. A, with the co-operation of Frederic A. Delano's employment group, placed an experienced ‘“‘contact man” in_the lobby to question per- sistent loiterers. This representat George B. Landis of Ohio, has discov- ered numerous examples of unworthi- ness among unemployed and at the same time he has been able to assist deserving men in dire need of work. Evidences of panhandling “racketeer- ing” also have come to the attention of the Police Department, and Maj. Pratt has instructed his men to enforce rig- idly the municipal vagrancy regula- tions. Care is taken to except all cases of “unavoidable idlen however. ‘The conference th ernoon Was held behind closed doors at Y. M. C. A, headquarters, 1736 G strect northwest Among those taking part, in addition lumbia Committee on Employment, George Adams, secretary to the com- mittee; Leonard W. Degast, general sec- retary of the Y. M. C. A.; E. A, Drumm, employment secretary of the Y. M. C. A.; Miss Agatha Dick, director of the pub- lic employment office; Elwood Street, director of the Community Chest; Mel- vin C. Sharpe, also of the Community (,;;\e;t. and C. T. Kingsbury, who pre- sided. The attitude of the conferees, it was pointed out, is one of sympathy for the worthy, coupled with a determination to protect the interests of persons sin- cerely in want of work from the machi- nations of work shirkers and “bums.” LAVAL WILL PRESENT | New China Medal I FARM HOME DEATHS BLAMED UPON POISON Tenant in Drought Area and Two Children Victims of Last Food in House. By the Associated Press. BROWNWOOD, Tex., February 12.— An inquest into the death of three members of a drought-stricken tenant farm family who fell ill Monday after eating the last food in their home AUGUSTA FARMERS TAKE DROUGHT RELIEF LOANS About 40 Residents of Virginia County Apply for Part of $45,000,000 Fund. Special Dispatch to The Star. STAUNTON, Va., February 12.— Augusta County farmers are having re- course to the $45,000,000 drought re- llef appropriation which was recently passed by Congress and signed by the President. Already about 40 residents of this county have applied to the Augusta Farm LBosrd Loan c%;nn':o for amounts varying from $600, about 20 of these having been acted ilp‘o; favorably and forwarded to Wash- ington. The local Farm Board Loan Commit- tee, composed of Willlam H. East, W. Stuart Moffett and Michael Kivlighan, m:fiu every Saturday to pass on appli- cations. RETIRED OFFICER DIES DENVER, Colo, February 12 (#)- Lieut. Comdr. Edward W. McIntyre, 54, U. 8. N, retired, who was in charge of construction work at Mare Island, Calif., during the World War, died at Pitzsim- CAPTURED RUM BOAT to receive the boat’s cargo also god away. Time Fuse Believed to Have Started Fire on Three-Motored Vessel Beized Off New Jersey. By the Associated Press. — Boston_ was STOPS GAS BLOATING ‘Tu ink FIGURES ON JOBLESS French Socialist Deputies Ask $4,- 000,000 for Re- lief. By the Associated Press. PARIS, February 12.—Premier Laval's government will be called upon to pro- duce in the Chamber of Deputies to- day the exact figures on the extent of unemployment in France and meas- ures envisaged for combating it. The eccasion will be an interpellation by the Socialist leader Leon Blum. ‘There has been a general feeling that the government’s figures of roughly 30,000 unemployed receiving official aid is below the real number of those out of work who are not drawing subsidies. Neither does the figure take into ac- count those working only part time. The Soclalists have asked the equiv- E]Ernt of $4,000,000 for unemployed re- ef. —_— BEGGAR USES AUTO MINNEAPOLIS, February 12 (#).— The modern beggar doesn’t waste time plodding from house to house on foot. | He uses his automobile. Such a knight of the road was Wil- liam Burkholder, police said. He called on the housewives along his route in to Commissioner Reichelderfer, were Chairman Delano of the District of Co- a motor car. A judge sent him to jail for 90 days. This Yangtze campaign medal, ap- proved by the Fine Arts Commission and the Navy Department, soon will be issued by and Marine Corps per- sonnel that served in 1926-27 in the Valley of the Yangize River in China. This approved design represents the Temple of the Dragon at Shanghai, China, and was made by John R. Sin- nock of Philadelphia. The men that will_get this medal were engaged in guarding American lives and property in China during the troubled times. WILL SPEAK ON SCHOOLS Three Addresses to Be Heard by University Women Here. Carl Jessen of the Department of the Interior, Dr. M. Margaret Stroh and Miss Bertie Backus, Capital educators, will speak on the program to be given | in conection with a dinner of the Washington Branch of the American | Association of University Women, at 11634 I street Friday night at 7 o'clock. | The dinner and program are to be “in the interests of the public schools of | the District of Columbia,” according to | | the announcement. | . s | Economic conditions in Colombia are | reported to be better than a year ago. awaited the outcome of the illness of four survivors today. Dr. C. W. Gray, county health offi- cer, said poison in homemade bread was responsible for the death of H. A. Jones, 40; Hilary, 8, and E. C. Jones, 6, who succumbed after a scanty break- fast Monday. ‘The widow and her three children lay ill in a hospital here as funerals were planned for the dead yesterday. Physi- clans held little hope for the recovery of Hubert, 15. 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