Evening Star Newspaper, October 16, 1931, Page 16

A—16 GREDIT GROUPS NEARLY COMPLETE Committee Announces $500,- 000,000 Should Be Avail- able Next Week. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, October 16.—An amount | in excess of the $500,000,000 fund for the National Credit Corporation shnuldf be available early next week, the Or-| ganization Committee announced last night. | “Clearing houses. throughout the | country have already indicated their | support of the plan,” said a statement by the committee. “It is expected, trerefore, that the subscriptions by the | =k to the notes of the Credit Cor- | tion, amounting to 2 per cent of | their net demand and time deposits, | will be 1eadily forthcoming.” | If all banks should subscribe, the | amount would be well beyond the $500,- | 000,000 suggested by President Hoover, | it was explained i Provide Cash for Banks. “Following the organization meeting of the directors Saturday,” the state- ment continued, “it is expected that the various loan associations will be Iprepared te function next week. That Swill make it possible for banks with | und, but slow assets to obtain cash | hen needed | E Mortimer N. Buckner, chairman of Organization Committee, 487 clearing houses in the United telegr s asking them to request eir communities to file scriptions promptly ew York City's banks already nave ed their quota of $150,000.000 to- the total fund, the committee unced Form Seven Districts. has been arranged.” the state- said, “that the members of the ork Clearing House will function | New York City Association. It cided today to utilize the sub- n of the State, as established by New York State Banking Associa- | , Into seven districts (not including | b York City) as the basis for the Brmation of the other local associa- jons in this State ; “The State.of Ni v will be di- vided into t There will also be an ern end of C i These 12_associations will function under Mr. Buekner as director for the second Federal Reserve district. Sim- ilar progress was reported in the other reserve districts in organizing loan as- eociations. ST. LOUIS UNIT FORMED. 200 Tjankers from Eighth Federal Re- serve District at Meeting. ST. LOUIS, Octcber 16 (#.—The St. ! Touis Association of the National Cred- Corporation, $500,000,000 agency res Iy proposed President Hoover, | ized at a meeting here yes- | ittended by approximately 200 from various parts of the| Federal Reserve district. includ- sisville, Memphis and _Little | The bankers unanimously in- | he plan and pledged their share of the capital r associations will be organized erve branch cities of Mem- e Rock and Louisville. U. S. BURIAL PLANNED FOR ALASKAN PRIEST Bods of Father George Woodley, Xilled While Hunting, Probably to Rest in Boston Cemetery. av Associated Press. NCHORAGE, Alaska, October 16— of Father George Woodley, a fall down a 20-foot embank- the Chickaloon district, north- ere, while he was returning to ng camp with the carcass of a sheep, was brought here yes- | “atholic priest’s head was crushed ; struck the bottom of the ravine. He had been missing since Tues- | y. day Father Woodley recently returned to Alaska in his own plane to engage in mission work along the Lower Yukon River. The body probably will be taken to Boston to be buried beside that of his mother. COLORED MASONS OPEN Bessions to Be Held Three Days. 83d Degree to Be Conferred Monday Afternoon. } . The colored Scottish Rite Masons of i the Southern Jurisdiction will convene n the opening session of a three-day Meeting, with a religious service in the #¥ Colored Masonic Temple, Tenth streets, Sunday evening at 8 © for the opening meeting will be by the choir of Mount Zion | ch, James T. Beason, direc: . opening business session will nday morning at 10 o'clock, afternoon the honorary degree will be conferred o atures of the session will be service conducted by officers than Davis Consistory Mon- t 8 o'clock, and a banquet in ic Temple Tuesday night at Willard W. Allen of Baltimore “n grand commander of the Rite body of the South- | 9 o'cloc: is soverr ction. ice Give Pay Raise to Idle. MINEOLA, N. Y. (#).—Police of Nas- sau County have asked that funds in- tended for an increase in their salaries be devoted to unemployment relife. ABDOMINAL SEURPHPIGHRT T5S B T m— ids The Home of Cntohtced to the home of 3 b fene RACKS! ese disease: Meionoum | Sarrying pests. v ROACH DEATH CPACK-SHO THE EVENING Roosevelt Speaks in Georgia NEW YORK GOVERNOR HONOR GUEST AT BARBECUE. briefly at G OV. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT of New York, shown as he spoke barbecue given in his honor Tuesday. October 13, at Warm tically Springs, Ga. There was no mention of presidential campaigns and the | the unemployment insurance or “dole New York executive sald he had asked that the sheriff “be stationed on the stand with a gun in either hand, ready to pink anybody who mentloned politics.” —A. P. Photo, ARKANSAS TO CALL PARLEY ON COTTON Legislature Empowers Gov. Parnell to Invite Producing States to Form United Program. Br the Associated Press. LITTLE ROCK, Ark, October 16— Gov. Parnell yesterday signed a con- current resolution proposirg a South- wide conference to seek a uniform cotton law while the Legislature was going on record as favoring acreage reduction or a cotton holiday next year The Governor said he would send telegrams to the Governors of the prin- cipal cotton-producing States asking CoME v ToDAY! See this sensational new 1931 General Electric Cleaner. Our price is $27.50 (the nationally advertised price) and you can buy on exceptionally easy terms... 50c down and 30c a week. And this CleanercarriestheGen- eral Electric guarantee. | that each name a legislative committee to attend a conference on cotton legis- lation, adopt whatever law was agreed upon by a majority of the conferees. With an acreage Teducticn measure already adopted and signed by the Gov- ernor, the Senate yesterday passed a bill embodying the Louisiana no-cetton plan_similar to one already passed by the lower house. Later, however, the Senate recalled its bill from the House and its' opponents sald they would try to defeat it. Louisiana, where Gov. Huey P. Long originated the no-cotton idea, and South Carolina have adopted that plan, while Texas, Mississippi and Arkansas have adopted the acreage reduction plan. ‘When 7-year-old James Ashcroft fell on the live rail of an electric line at Aintree, England, two men tore wooden palings from a fence, pushed them under the boy and threw him to safety. LOOK FOR THE Under the resolution the Legis- | latures would be “morally obligated” to STAR, WASHINGTON, LABOR GIVES U. 5. RELIEF PROGRAM Also Reaffirms Stand for 2.75 Per Cent Beer in Closing Session of Convention. By the Assoclated Press. M VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Oc- tober 16.—The American Federation of Labor has handed an officially approved unemployment relief program to Amer- ica and ended its fifty-first annual con- vention here. In a seven-point program to deal with the business depression the convention yesterday reaffirmed its stand for modi- fication of the Volstead act to permit ! the sale of 2.75 per cent beer. Resolu- tions advocating repeal of the eighteenth amendment and the Volstead act were | sidetracked. | Willlam Green, re-elected president of the Federation by acclamation, is pledged to “go to Congress and demand appropriations to relieve every hungry man, woman and child in the country™ if the Nation fails to reduce unemploy- ment in other ways. Chief Points of Program. Here are the chief points in labor's | program: | 1. Maintenance of the United States | wage standard to keep up purchasing | power. on the | 772, Shorter working hours, | ground that industry should share the benefits of the machine age with labor. 3. Prohibition of child labor. 4. National planning to balance pro- duction and consumption. 5. Employers to take on more work- ers, the idea being that industrial lead- ers should “care for their men as a father cares for his children.” | 6. Creation of work through public | building and construction, on the theory | { that the Nation is obligated to look io | the welfare of all its citizens, although the convention voted down emphatically system. 7. Strengthening of employment agencies, equitable distribution of all work, more even distribution of wealth | through taxation in the higher brackets and stimulation of industry by re- sumption of brewing of mild beer. | Detailed System of Relief, Besides these salient points, the fed- eration approved a detailed system for relief, divided into temporary and permanent aid. Relief through public appropriations and private funds was the outstanding suggestion for im- mediate aid offering the program, labor denounced capital and industry ailing to offer a®single idea for unemployment relief and depression— | except wage cutting.” Green termed the convention's work | constructive and said the attitude of LIQUID OR TABLETS Relieves a Headache or Neuralgia In 30 minutes, checks a Cold the first day and checks Malaria in three days. ! 666 Salve for Baby’s Cold | SCHWARTZ GOLD CLOCK ON SEVENTH ST. 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The group is to visit the Holy Family Day Nursery, 515 Fourth street; the Children’s Country Home, Eighteenth street and Bunker Hill road northeast, and Friendship House, 526 Virginia ave- nue southeast. Members of the boards of the organi- zations visited will be on hand with the executives to welcome the clubwomen. The object of the trip, to be followed by similar ones, is to acquaint the peo- ple of Washington with the manner in which the Community Chest organiza- tions are operated and to show them how their contributions are being spent. e the delegates convinced him that the federation “will go forward along the course charted by its founders." All federation officers were re-elected and Cincinnati was selected for the 1932 convention. from George's during Eve, Rich velour and moha various color combinations. Graceful styling. |PASTOR TO OPEN Y. M. C. A | PERSONALITY COURSE Rev. 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