Evening Star Newspaper, April 26, 1932, Page 16

PRESENTS DEFENSE OF WORKING WIVES Miss Pidgeon Tells Women Inadequacy of Men’s Wages | Is Real Problem. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, April 26 —Every-day prob- | lems today hold the attention of dele- gates attending the biennial convention of the National League of Women Voters, but tonight they will hear an exposition of campaign issues which are paramount in this presidential year, Speakers representing _agricuiture, labor, business, the press and the woman voter will give their views on | “campaign issues challenging the po- litical parties” in tonight's meeting, | which will be one of the high lights of the convention A wide range of problems was cov- ered in sessions yesterday afternoon and last night. Miss Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon, chief of the research division of the Wom- | en’s Bureau, United States Department of Labor, came to the defense of em- ployd married woman with an asser- tior that their summary dismissal woud add to the burdens of chnrltame‘ agecies. The real problcm she szi esin the inadequacy of wages t,o Jen. Ns. Jean W. Wittich, State budget commissioner of Minnesota, urged offi- cmgublluuon of the names or mose a candidate for mos logical improvement m be. made in rimary laws. Under her proposal a canidate would file with his own name a mited number of voters' names, vhih would be published as indorsers e candidacy. Jmes G. McDonald of New York. chaman of the Foreign Policy Asso- ciabn, said that “if America is intelli- | gen enough to keep its body politic | soun, it has little to fear from radical- | ismor other forces from the ouside.” Outlines Debt Plan. H cited adequate dealing with the intesllied debt problem as the solution of fie depression, and recommended | thats_percentage of each debtor na- tion' trade with this country be al- lowe to decrease its obligations to the Unitd States, | Cartenay Dinwiddie, general secre- taryf the National Child Labor Com- | mitte, urged study of what is available | to_ctidren in place of employment Ths _afterncon the delegates visit Henr, Ford's Greenfield village. Tw railway trains were stopped near | Lowe: Heyford, England, recently, to perm; hounds to chase & fox over’ the | track’ |less unemployed, or at least some of THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON CHIAGD JOBLESS IN THEATRICAL HIT “Breadhne Frolics” Turns Misfortune Into Gold Mine for Unemployed. | By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, April 26.—Chicago’s home- | them, are frolicking their way to good times. They have turned their misfortune into a gold mine, with the “Breadline Frolics.” Renewing one of the oldest traditions of the American stage—the blackfaced | minstrel show—they came out of the | unemployment shelters last night to the | old Majestic Theater, where they made the customers like their production to the tune of $4,000. And there’s more money in sight Just Like the Opera. The house was packed. Society ned out in large numbers. A police- d at the door correctly de- man on e situation when he said: scribed “It's jus! like the opera, ain't it?” And it was. Mrs. Rockefeller Mc- Cormick was there with a host of others. | Junior Leaguers sold the programs. The’| theater was donated. Incidental ex- penses are being met by a committee that sponsored the show, so every nickel taken in is clear profit for the jobless. They're going to play as long as the money comes in, and then possibly take to the road. Negotiations for a tour to other cities are already under way. There was nothing amateurish about the show, for some of the players were experienced troupers and the others spent weeks in practicing, mostly to amuse themselves during the Winter months—long before the idea was born that they could turn their talent into real money. Full Course Minstrel. The unemployed are giving a full course minstrel, with an “olio” and an after-piece. In the “olio” there are | jugglers, Hawalian musicians and other stunts of the vaudeville type. The after-piece is a one-act play dealing with the matter of jobs, or lack of them, and is called “The Whistle| Blows." The subject of unemployment, how- ever, does not appear to be overdone It is referred to only now and then, with humorous intent. One of the | end men in the minstrel, for example. wishes he might have a nice, easy job, such as ‘“dressing Mahatma Ghandi.” And they sing about happy days, only it is in the form of a prediction. They altered the song to go like this: “Happy days will come again.” And they will if they keep packing them to the roof. ‘POLICY KINé’ CONVICTED Given Three Years and $15,000 Fine on Tax Charge. NEW YORK, April 26 (#).—A Federal jury last night convicted Henry Miro, “Harlem policy king,"” on all six counts of an income tax indictment. Judge Alfred C. Coxe, jr, passed sentences aggregating three years in Atlanta and a fine of $15,000. The fine was under three counts charging failure to file returns in 1928, 1929 and 1930, during which years the | Government_offered evidence to show | Miro banked $1.094.000. Three other counts charged he wilfully failed to file { mercy. EX-U. 5. CONSUL DIES ROME. Italy, April 26 (7). —Willlam | Holt Gale, 68 years old, of New York City, died here yesterday. He was for- | merly ~ American consul-general at | Budapest and had been residing here with his wife since retirement. The body will be taken to the United States for burial. the returns. One juror recommended | D. C., TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1932. PREFERS TERM IN JAIL TO RETURNING TO WIFE Man Held With Another Woman Elects to Serve Three Months When Given Alternative. By the Associated Press. SPRINGFIELD, Mass, April 26— Ellis Stevens, 27, who claims a connec- ton with British nobility, marched him- self off to jail yesterday rather than g0 back to the waiting arms of his wife, The prisoner, who despite his claims to nobility, has been working as a | janitor of a theater, was arrested a week DAYS! ago in & house with Mrs. Olga Runyon of Elkhart, Ind. A jail sentence was | imposed on the pair, but the appeals of Mrs. Runyon and her husband, a dentist, for a continuance, were granted. | THRIFT-T 7¢C . For details. Phone MEt. 0200 West End Laundry May 1st BUY NOW Tune in on the “Nite Court,” WOL at 8 P.M, Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays, W. H. Hessick & Son, . 14th and Water Sts. S.W. 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