Evening Star Newspaper, August 20, 1931, Page 20

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ¢, THURSDAY, AUGUST 1931. |PRESIDENT’S CHAUFFEURS 20, B—4 wxx feurs’ headquarters, built for a commer- cial garage, will be more modern, but |Worn Dancer Dies == CHICAGO CITY HALL MAY BE CLOSED Mayor Cermak Tells Delega- |* tion Municipality Must Have | Aid of Legislature. By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, August 20 —Mayor Anton | J. Cermak expressed fear yesterday tha Chicago's city hall might have to close, due to the city’s lack of money. “Unless the Legislature finds a way to come to the aid of Chicego and Cook | County,” he said, “we will have to close the city hall. But we must find | #ays to maintain the police and fire | departments and the teachers The mayor's fears were expressed to a | delegation of men and women who called, seeking his aid In behalf of the | unemployed and poverty-stricken resi- | dents of Chicago ! Favors Income Tax. “Conditions are very serious, indeed.” | the mayor said. “People who are abie | to give for the f of suffering do | not seem to realize true situation. \ He added that he favored a State in- come tax as a means of relieving the State, county and mental problems, and re L. L. Emmerson’s Empl mission was planning to appeal to Pres- ident Hoover to a special session of Congress to seek ways of meeting the unemployment situation. The Natlon is facing & calamity, the mayor said, adding the time had passed for putting the “soft pedal” on conditions throughout the country. “A s m has arisen that did not exist last Vinter owners’ difficulties,” he said | finding it difficult to meet their building dues and taxes. A State law prohibits a homeowner from receiving charity from charitable organizations and most those organizations have s We can't talk too much abo tion. People who are able to gi give in order to keep wr This is the situation not only in Chi- cago, but throughout the country.” “Payless Pay Day Twenty thousand cit Controller Szymezak sa continued “payless pay days” after Sep- | tember 1. “The monthly payroll is $3,000,000," he said. “We have no money | o' meet September salaries and there will be no more pay days unless t bankers can see their way City would meet | employes, pations planned to begin a co-ope campaign to obtain $8,800000 to relieve | the needy in the ng October | 1. Samuel Insull direct the | drive. { HOLD AIR MANEUVERS | e | Italian Military Stage | Mimic Warfare and Attack, K Rome. By Cable to The Star, ROME, August 20—Summer air maneuvers by Italian military planes | are now in full swing in the vicinity of | Rome. By August 26 the mimic war- | fare will become general all along the | Apennines, when Piza. Leghorn and Spezia will be “destroyed,” along with Rome. In the first Planes attacks on Rome, three bridges of the Tiber and two-thirds of the Quirinal Palace were destroyed by imaginary bombs and 30,000 Romans were theoretically killed. 'Most of the attacks sre being made at night (Copyr HE ECHT F St. at Seventh Men’s $6 Sport -and Dress Shoes $4.45 2-tone Sport Stvles 3lack Dress Shoes I'an year-round wear. Men's Shoe Shop-—Second Floer. | ished, Mr | Friedrich | connected by a new Trying to Rescue Youtl'l From Waves larathon Entrant Sinks; | Wife and Friend Are Saved. By the Associated Press. WILDWOOD, N. J. August 20.— Fatigued by his two weeks' participa tion in a marathon dance contest, John | Birch, 28, Columbus, Ohio, drowned | yesterday, and his wife and a companion | arrowly escaped a similar fate when hey went to the rescue of a boy being swepy out to sen *;. Helen Birch, 24, and John Passo, of Chicago were pulled unconscious | |into a life boat by beach cleaners and escusicated at the beach hospital Birch, however, disappeared in the | sea. His body was recovered two hours | ater on the beach, Albert. Fatell, 15, of Philadelphia, the | boy the trio attempted to save, was | rescued by I Bacrach of St. Paul, an- | other marathon dancer. | Unaware, when she regained con- | sciousness, that her husband had per- Birch asked hospital at- tendants to allow her to return to the mw\;’rhnn lease let me go.” she said, “John and I need that $600 prize money to buy a home and start housekeeping. He will be disappointed if I drop out now.” Birch, police learned, had been a member of a champlon amateur base ball team near Chicago. The accidens occurred before guards went cn duty at the beach. lite GERMAN ENVOY RETURNS | Prittwitz in New York ver for Moratorium NEW YORK. August 20 (#).—Dr. Wilhelm von Prittwitz- Gaffron, the German ambassador, on his return here yesterday from a vaca- n in his home country, said Ger- ny was grateful for President Hoover's moratorium proposals “President Hoover's proposed holiday on war debts, agreed upon by creditor and debtor nations, will be used by the German people to veadjust their financial problems,” he said. “Germany wants peace and does not Lauds Hoo- Proposal. | want conflict and war. London and China have just been | irmail Free Auto Parking for Customers, E St. Between 6th and Tth THE HECHT CO. F Street at Seventh Men’s $1.95 to $2.50 Shirts Mens $3 95 and $4.95 Robes «fim wl Men s $1.95 Pa]amas—3 styles surg 75c and $1 Shirts and Shorts white, ribbed and rayon shirts shorts in knit, Roomy 28 to 42. end madras, COTTON CROWERS TOGET U.5.FUNDS Advance of 1 Cent a Pound Less Than Market Price Arranged. By the Assoclated Press. The Farm Board has solved one of its_cotton problems. It has decided that farmer mem- bers of cotton co-operatives, which have board approval, will receive advances on_cotton, co-operatively marketed, of | 1 cent less than the prevailing price at | the point of delivery. The arrangement was arrived at yes- terday after conferences between direc- tors of the American Cotton Co-opera- | tive Assoclation and Farm Board | members, If the price of cotton should be 6 cents a pound growers will receive an edvance of 5 cents. If that staple falls or rises the ratio will be pre- served. Advances made last year were about 90 per cent of the market price, and the A. C. C. A. still holds most of the | 2,100,000 bales which it handled for | its_members. | Primary financing for loans this year will be through commercial and inter- | mediate credit banks. The board will | insure second loans Carl Willlams of Oklahoma, board member for cotton, sald no accurate estimate of the funds needed to finance the advances could be made. 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