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INFLATION WEIGHED AT JOINT SESSION .Ioserve Board and Advisory * Council in Conference on Economic Situation. B¥ the Associated Press. All phases of the economic situation ther with the administration’s in- | ation powers under the new law were examined in detail today at & joint ses- son of the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Advisory Council. The council, composed of one repre- gentative from each of the 12 Federal rve districts, opened its quarterly ression with the Reserve Board today mnd expected to complete its canvass before night. No intimation as to the trend of dis- ion was forthcoming. The coun- | ©il's function is to advise the Reserve | Board. Eugene Black of Atlanta pre- | ed for the first time in his new ca- ity of Reserve Board governor. The inflation program took its place #n the discussion directly because it authorizes the Reserve Board to engage | extensively in open market operations | for the purchase of Government bonds. | t permits the banks to buy up to| $3,000,000,000 of securities issued either by the Government or by Government- ed corporations. This is calculated throw immense amounts of cash into efrculation and to increase business all | along the line. The council also was expected to dis- cuss the President’s public works pro- gram and the suggested plan of addi- tional taxes to finance it. The insist- ence on such a tax was accepted in financial circles s extra assurance that the Government intended to keep its| budget balanced. At the meeting were Thomas M. ! Bteele, Boston: George W. Davison, New | York; Howard A. Loeb, Philadelphia; ! H. C. McEldowney, Cleveland; Howard | Bruce, Richmond; John K. Ottley, At- lanta; Melvin Traylor, vice president, Chicago; Walter W. Smith. St. Louis, president: Theodore Woll. Minneapolis; W. T. Kemper, Kansas City: Joseph H. Prost, Dallas, and Henry M. Robinson, PROBLEMS OF WORLD PROBED BY STUDENTS Fconomic Conference Is Held by 300 in Georgetown Foreigm Service School. A world economic conference con- ducted by more than 300 students of the School o Porelgn Service at Georgetown University will close lste today with a general assembly at which the student body will express their | views by formal vote on broad questions Jooking to economic recovery. Ten committees, representing the day | and evening courses at the achool, will merge their Teports covering five general | subjects_all of which are likely to come ference at Geneva, after which the Georgetown students’ conference Wwas patterned | These questions involve international debts, tariffs and trade barriers, cur- stabilization, including inflation | the merchant marine and | and national defense. points on the agenda were referred to separate committees With | authorities to report back rmlutions' to the geueral assembly. These resolu- | tions will either be rejected or agreed upon by the student body. The conference began last Friday, classes at the school having been sus- pended since then so that the entire student body might participate. Promi- nent speakers addressed the student assemblies on each of the topics in the agenda. Dr. Edmund A. Walsh, S. J., regent of the school, pronounced tne conference “an interesting experience in | pedagogy” and one which has f great value to the students in consider- ing world problems of this nature. BABY AMONG VICTIMS | OF TRAFFIC INJURIES Two Children, 7 and 8 Years 0ld,| Respectively, Treated at Hospitals. Three children were injured in traffic | murday, one of them a 21-month-old y. ‘Wilbur White, 7, colored, 1000 block | of Sixth street northeast, was struck by | an automoblle said to have been driven by David C. Lee, 21, of the 1100 block of C street southeast, in the 1100 block of H street northeast. He was treated at Casualty for a broken leg, broken finger and other injuries. Robert Brown, 3, of 1209 K street wag treated at Children's Hospital for in- Jjuries received when struck by a bus at ! ‘Twelfth and K streets. The bus was' operated by Lenley Cox, 21, Silver Spring, Md., police said. He may have received internal injuries, it was said. The baby, Dorls Ann Wright, daugh- ter of Dorsey Wright, Rockville, Md.. | was injured when she fell from the back seat of the family car to the floor near Thirteenth and Pennsylvania ave- nue, it was said. Her injuries were slight. ! S P | GEN. CALLES’ ILLNESS DENIED BY SECRETARY | | Former Mexican President Resting on Ranch Owned by Rodriguez. Br the Associated Press. ENSENADA, Mexico, May 16.—Re- rts that former President Plutarco ias Calles was ill were denied by his secretary last night. { Reports he was seriously ill have been circulated persistently since he retired to a ranch owned by President Abelardo Rodriguez in March “for a rest.” Each, ihas been denled. Word from Mexico City that Dr. Gaston Melo, who spent meveral weeks with Calles in Lower California, had been recalled to En- senada, started the latest rumor. Erem—. SURRENDERS TO POLICE SAN FRANCISCO, May 16 (B)— tanley B. Keys, 27, who told police e was wanted in Albany. N. Y.. on an embezzlement charge, surrendered here yesterday. Police said Keyes declared he was a former treasurer of the New York Central Athletic Association of Bowling Rnd left Albany with $700 collected as membership dues. “I spent the money—lock me up,” police quoted him as saying. He was booked “en route to Albany,” mflu word from New York author- Famine of Cabaret Artists. London has a famine of cabaret Wrtists and leading restaurateurs are at their wits’ end to find talent compe- tent to attract diners and dancers. One enterprising restaurant proprietor went to New York in search of performers, but on his return rej he found pothing. Paris and lin also have nothing to offer. Business Booms ‘Wage Increases and Employ- ment Gains Reported in Many Sections. By the Assoclated Press. SOUTHBRIDGE, Mass, May 16.—A 5 per cent wage increase effective May 22 was announced at the Hamilton ‘Woolen Co. last night by R. G. Walker, treasurer. About 1,000 employes will benefit. This is the first increase toward restoration of a scale which had been cut 20 per cent. SAN FRANCISCO, May 16 (#).—The noise of construction machinery jangled louder during the last six weeks in the far West, as more than $22,500,000 was added to the value of engineering con- tracts awarded in the 11 States. Impressed by the volume of this year's contracts, the staff of the Western Con- struction News and Highways Builder gathered data showing jobs launched in the first four months of 1933 totaled $176,668,383. Figures covered all jobs amounting to more than $10,000. ‘While comparative data on the like 1932 period were not available, it was estimated this year's work was running at about four times the rate of a year ago. This was due partly to active work in bridge and tunnel building—notably the Golden Gate and 8an Prancisco Bay Bridges, and the tunnels on the Colo- rado River Aqueduct. ALEXANDRIA, La., May 16 (P .— After a lengthy period of idleness, one Alexandria lumber mill yesterday re- sumed operations and two others an- nounced they would start during the coming week. Putting between 50 and 60 men to work, the Rockwell-Powers Co. started an announced two-month schedule. The Ferd Brenner Co. laid plans to resume operations within the next few days. Officials for Roy O. Martin Co. an- nounced “a run of at least three months” on a 50-hour-a-week basis, to start May 22, STEELTON, Pa. May 16 (#).—Sey- ernl hundred workmen, idle for months, returned to their jobs in the Bethlehem Steel plant yesterday. Frank A. Robbins, jr., general man- ager, declined to say how many men went into the mills. Three open-hearth furnaces were charged Sunday and within & day or so the 44 and 28 inch mills will resume operation. WINSTON-SALEM. N. C., May 16 P).—The R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Com- pany began the operation of a night shift in its cigarette plant last night, adding 600 workers to its payroll. Officlals said an increased demand for thelr product necessitated an expansion of operations, and it was decided to put on night shift to give work to ad- ditional men and women rather than increase the 5';-day schedule of day work, which ‘has been followed for some time. TAYLORVILLE, Ill, May 16 (¥).— The Peabody Coal Co. sald yesterday the signing of two new contracts will permit employment of 200 additional men in mines here during the Summer. NEW _YORK. May 16 () —The United Restaurant Owners’ Association adopted a resolution yesterday agreeing to raise wages 10 to 20 per cent imme- | diately. Calvin W. Kiein, secretary, said approximately 15,000 restaurant workers are employed by the 5,000 members of the association. 4 ‘The announcement of the increase did not say whether it was a reinstate- ment of any recent wage reductions. HUNTSVILLE, Ala. May 16 (P— ‘Two cotton mills speeded up production last night, giving employment to 145 operatives. Officials of the Fletcher Mill, pro- ducers of yarn, announced & night shift would be put to work employing 105 { workers and the Dallas Mills announced 40 additional workers will be taken on at the same time. CHICAGO, May 16 (#).—Barlow & Beelig, manufacturers of _household washing machines, yesterday reported sales during the first quarter of 1933 ‘greatly increased” over those of the corresponding periods of the previous two years. WHEELING, W. Va.. May 16 (#).— The Wheeling Steel Corporation an- nounced its Benwood Steel Mill, since the first of the year, resumed 100 per cent operation vesterday, with re- call of about 600 employes NEW YORK. May 16 (#).—The New York Cotton Exchange Service yester- day announced domestic cotton mill activity is now at the highest rate in several years, having showed marked advances the past few weeks. Domestic mills operated at about 100 during the first part of May, an index rate based on the average daily operations from 1922 to 1927. This compares with an index of 92 in April, 61 in May, last, and 86 two years ago. PHILADELPHIA, May 16 () —Fac- tory employment in Pennsylvania in- creased 1 per cent and wage payments 5 per cent from the middle of March to the middle of April, the Federal Re- serve Bank of Philadelphia reported yesterday. MRS. KERANS ELECTED BY EDUCATIONAL GROUP: Director of Woman'’s City Club Is Chosen President of Demo- cratic Council. Mrs. Grattan E. Kerans, director of the Woman's City Club and active as Dnks. a D. A. R. member, was elected presi- dent of the Women's Democratic Edu- | cational Council last night at & meet- ing at the Mayflower. She lives at 1305 Kennedy street. Other officers chosen for the year are: Mrs. Lester J. Pollock, vice presi- dent; Miss Lyda Mae Francis, record- ing secretary. and Mrs. Mary J. Heffer- nan, corresponding secretary. Clinton E. Eilenberger, Third Assist- ant Postmaster General, addressed the session, praising the accomplishments | of the Roosevelt administration. Plan Mirsirel at Clinton. CLINTON, Md., May 16 (Special).— ' The Cavanaugh Players of Washington will present a minstrel show in the local school Friday night for the benefit of the Ladies of Charity, St. John's Church, here. THE LINDBERGH LINE Ty () Shortest Route Coast to Coast NEW YORK, NEWARK, PHILADEL. PHIA, HARRISBURG, PITTSBURGH, COLUMBUS, FORT WAYNE, CHI- CAGO, INDIANAPOLIS, ST. LOUIS, SPRINGFIELD, KANSAS CITY, Wi CHITA, TULSA, OKLAHOMA CITY, AMARILLO, ALBUQUERQUE, WINS- LOW, LOS ANGELES, BAKERS- FIELD, FRESNO, OAKLAND, SAN FRANCISCQ. USE AIR MAIL For Conhections. Throush Rates. and other Pennsylvania _Airlines. ohone NAticnal 7070. TRANSCONTINENTAL ARD WISTIRN AIR, lne idle | THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, THO MORE BANKS MAY JOIN MERGER Chevy Chase Savings Also Is Being Considered as Member. __(Continued From First Page) _ bank has been most enthusiastic. “It will not only strengthen the banking situation,” he said, “by making avail- able many millions of dollars the day the new bank opens, but also restore public confidence, and in turn be & great factor in the stimuation of busi- ness throughout the District of Ce- lumbfa and vicm::{v," Graham declined to estimate exactly when the new bank will open, although it is known that some predictions un- officlally have pointed toward the first of June, or shortly thereafter. Much work remains to be done before the bank can be opened. Graham also announced that the new bank is to have the services of a repre- sentative of the controller of the cur- rency, who is to be loaned to the new bank to assist in working out many offi- cial details of organization, charter and preparation of articles of association and by-laws. The name of this official may be made public soon when he is ap- pointed by Walter J. Gummings, execu- tive assistant to- the Secretary of the Treasury. “It is most fortunate,” sald Graham in this connection, “that in Washington these banks can have immediate con- tact with and co-operation of the de- partment which is ready to expedite the complete organization of the new bank, and thus more quickly make avail- able to many thousands of depositors funds amounting to $10,000,000.” Confers at Treasury. Graham was In conference for long periods yesterday with Treasury officials and declared today that much progress has been made in the selection of & name for the bank, the official staff, the personnel of the board of direc- tors, as well as the advisory boards of !institution will have, and many other very important matters concerning the organization. A joint meeting of the directors of all banks participating in the merger has been called for 1 o'clock Wednes- day in the small ball room of the Willard Hotel, when Graham will out- line plans in detail. The Organizing Committee—composed of Graham, John Poole, president and conservator, and Willlam John Eynon, both of the Federal-American National Bank & Trust Co.: Joshua Evans, jr., president and conservator, and Capt. Chester Wells. chairman of the Re- organization Committee of the District National Bank—is pushing matters for- ward rapidly. Committee Is Formed. For the purpose of forming the bank’s campaign on subscriptions. a committee has been formed consisting of Capt. Wells, Mr. Eynon, George W. ) Offutt, president and conservator of the Potomac Savings Bank, and Thomas E. Jarrell of the Washington Savings Bank. This group was said to be pre- to stockholders and depositors of all participating _ institutions. Develop- ments tcday thus were pointing toward a big combine which eventually ma: include nine institutions. In addition to the four already officially in the pic- ture, the two others expected today, which are the Northeast and Woodridge Banks, the other three understood to be considering the proposal are the United States Savings, Seventh Street Savings and Chevy Chase While details of the program to be submitted to all stockholders and de- positors have yet to be made public, it was learned today that under the plan the general principle of liability to stockholders for 100 per cent of their investment in bank stock has not been eliminated. As a matter of fact, it was learned in reliable quarters to- day the stockholders’ liability began officially with the date of March 14, tional and 10 savings banks, failed to receive licenses to open for business in the District. The stockholders. how- ever, are being approached in the first place to subscribe for stock in the new bank. National Bank, which apparently is still | endeavoring to reopen on its own plan as an individual bank. Depositors To Buy Stock. With the participation of depositors in the new capital structure of the bank. many depositors will become stockholders in the new institution un- der plans under way and this will build up the new capital structure, by which, it was emphasized in official circles to- day, all depositors may be assured that the original stockholders in any of the 13 banks which failed to get their licenses have not been relieved of their liability for & 100 per cent assessment. This does not mean, however, that the assessment will be necessary. It hangs over the situation as an assurance of an added force of additional funds if necessary. The new merger plans to make avail- able 50 per cent of all depasits, or & total of about $10,000,000, as soon as the bank opens, with the general thought in view that the 50 cents on the dollar figure will be general for all banks participating. How much more the depositors will get depends upon Tealization of sssets from their own Opposed to Merger. Col. Wade H. Cooper, president of the United States Savings Bank and owner 1of a majority of the stock in the bank, ated today that he can see no reason for the bank merging with any other bank. He said the United States Sav- ings Bank had for years earned from 40 to 60 per cent and paid a dividend of 30, per cent. Col. Cooper added that he has submitted a plan to the Treasury Department by which he hopes to pay 100 cents on the dollar to depositors. ‘This is one of the banks which the advocates of the new central bank mer- ger plan have invited to join the move. | The United States Savings directors have 1 held several conferences on acceptance of the proposal, but have as yet reached ‘go decision. The conservator is W. H. €] Columbia Permanent Building Association PAYS 5% compounded semi-annually Under U. S. Gov't Supervision Organized Jan. 1, 1903 Loans Made on Owner- Occupied Homes NO COMMISSION 733 12th St. N.W. Pres. Member Building Associstion the several branches which the new! paring an outline of the plan to be sent | when the 13 banks. including three na- | This applies not only to the ' big merger. but also to the Franklin | BEST TINE 10 BIJY} HOME, SAYS MILLER Realtor President Advises Investing in Advance of Inflation. Attention of financiers and investors has been forcibly focused on real estate as the most stable of all forms of in- vestment during the period of economic depression, Willlam C. Miller, president of the National Asscciation of Real Estate Boards, said in a radio address last night. % Mr. Miller, a member of the real estate firm of W. C. & A. N. Miller, spoke during the weekly radio forum of the Washington Chamber of Commerce. Investing Is Advised, into effect, the advance in prices will be sharply accentuated, Mr. Miller said “the individual. if he wants to con- serve the present-day value of the dol- lar he now has, must not hold them as dollars. | “He must convert them into some- i thing which will hold its present worth for go higher in proportion to other articles of use and commerce,” he said. “For the average man this means real estate, and for the average family it means buying a home.” H High Taxes Assailed. | Criticizing the high taxes on real j estate, the speaker said this should not ) discourage the buying of homes. “Noth- Ing is surer than that taxes will be reduced.” he sald, “and a renter does not escape the tax gatherer even though he thinks he does. For every rent dol- lar paid by tenants in apartments, 12!2 cents goes into the tax till.” One of the most discouraging tend- rencies of today, Mr. Miller believes, is the curtail evil, which has risen in the efforts of certain investors toward liquidity, he said. “Where a man has bought a home, subject to & first trust or mortgage, and is paying for it on the installment plan, he should be aliowed to amortize his equity above the first trust before | being forced to amortize the first trust.” | —e |U. 5. PROTESTS TODAY AGAINST FRENCH TAX/ Import Turnover Levy Is Subject of Davis-Bonnet Con- ference. By the Assoclated Pres: PARIS, May 16 —Norman H. Davls, American ambassador-at-large, today | lald a polite reinforcing background to an American protest against alleged | tariff discrimination in imposition of the import turnover tax by a visit to| Georges Bonnet, minister of finance. The American Embassy yesterday re- | ceived instructions from Washington to | protest against alleged discriminatory | treatment of the United States in the operations of the tax. time, it was said, indicated that the | United States was watchirg the situa- | tion closely. | He asked M. Bonnet exactly what was | contemplated ‘under the third reserva- {tion in the tariff truce in connection | | with the World Economic Conference | | exempting perding laws. | The minister was reported to have assured him that it was meant merely | | in_application to present legislation. Importers, however, feared undue ap- | plication of these tariff measures to| | give France added bargaining power in | London. Legion to Hear Senator Means. Pormer Senator Rice W. Means of | Colorado will speak at a meeting to- | night of Vincent B. Costello Post, No. 15. American Legion, at the District Building. The speaker will discuss the economy act and “What Happened at Indianapolis | Italy’s new highway for the exclusive use of heavy motor trucks between Genoa and Milan soon will be opened. EISEMAN’S Seventh & F Sts. N.W. Light-Weight All-Wool SUITS Ml NOTHING DOWN Just Pay $6 IN JUNE $6 IN JULY $6 IN AUGUST Here are suits you can wear year-round. Made of supremely fine all-wool, long-wearing fabrics in rich greys, light tans, brown and blues. Open An Account Now | Fred A. . Jume. Merser ||| EISEMAN'S, 7th & F STS. Council of the District of Cplumbdis .Polnting out that if inflation is put | g; The protest will be presented this | | afternoon, but Mr. Davis in the mean- | § D. C. TUESDAY, Carolina Remains “Tar Heel” State; “Tomtit” Rejected Legislature Repeals Reso- lution Officially Adopt- ing the Chickadee. By the Associated Press. RALEIGH, May 16.—North Carolina is still tar heelia and not the “Tomtit State.” The Legislature saw to that. Several weeks ago, at the request of the North Carolina Federation of Women'’s Clubs, the Legislature passed a resolution namjng the chickadee as the official bird. At that time no legis- lator knew what & chickadee looked like, in fact the Senate sent: to the State Museum for a stuffed chickadee to find out what it really was doing. “Anyway,” sald several Senators, “that sounds pretty good, the chickades tate.” Then somebody found out that the chickadee was nothing more or less than a common garden variety of the field sparrow and that it was more com- monly known in North Carolins as the tomtit. All the Senators knew what a tomtit was, but none of them recog- nized it as the chickadee. “We can't let our State be known as the tomtit State,” said Senator Clement of Rowan, and a bill was introduced which took from the chickadee its offi- clal rank along with the State seal. And the State deficit. Both houses rushed thi the repealer and North Carolina is still tar heell: The tomtit’s sojourn among the 400 was not lengthy. The Federation cf ‘Women's Clxllgl. however, still recognizes it as the official bird, that action having been taken at the 1932 meeting. SPECIALISTS TO SPEAK AT TRAINING CLASS will ‘Addren Parent-Teacher As- sociation’s Seminar on Ado- lescent Child. More than a dozen well known spe- cialists will address the Federation of Parent-Teacher Assoclations’ training class for discussion group leaders as it closes its program with a seminar on the adolescent child next Saturday from 10 am. until 3 pm. at the Mor- gen Demonstration School, V street near Eighteenth, The following specialists will be heard: Dr. Paul J. Ewerhardt, direc- tor of the Child Guidance Clinic; Miss Ellen Gerdner and Dr. Ella Oppen- heimer of the Children's Bureau; Mr. Ray H. Everett, executive secretary of the District of Columbia Hygiene So- clety: Miss Sybil Baker, District of Columbia playground director: Mrs. E. K. Peeples and Mrs. G. Pelham of the Community Center Department; Mr. H. H. Long, in charge of research divi- sions 10-13: Miss M. Kirkland, super- vising principal, division 10; Mr. G Smith Wormley, principal Randall Junior High School, and the following members of the Board of Education: Dr. J. Hayden Johnson, Mrs. William C. McNeill and Rev. 1. A Bennett ¢ s 2 And where to find the finest selection of of course . ® WASHINGTON'S FINEST MEN'S WEAR STORE e ! RALEIGH HABERDASHER 1310 F Street SHIRTS —at ‘Washington’s Finest Men’s Wear Store, of course! AlLMuthhimm.oad, MAY -16, 1933. INTERFEDERATIN SEEKS BANK DATA Committee Will Ask Treasury Why 13 Institutions Have Not Reopened. The Treasury Department will be called upon by a committee from the | Inter-Federation Conference to explain the banking situation in the District of Columbia, and the reasons why the 13 banks closed during the President’s holiday have not reopened. The committee, authorized at a meeting of the conference last might, will be headed by Stephen James, and will include presidents of the three associated federations in the District of Columbia, Montgomery and Arling- ton Countles, who were designated as 2 special committee to call upon of- ficials of the Treasury Department in an effort to ascertain which banks here are in a solvent condition and which are insolvent. Seek Reopening Requirements. In addition, the committee was in- structed to urge ry Department heads to reveal exactly what require- ments banks must meet in order to reopen. ‘The resolution authorizing the in- |quiry .was introduced by Hugh M. Pramton of Montgomery County, who declared that the conference and its as- | sociated organizations undoubtedly have more depositors in the Washington |banks among their memberships than |any other ~ organization in this area and should be acquainted with the true facts in the banking situation. James' aides in the inquiry will be Frederic P. Lee, president of the Mont- |gomery County Civic Federation; Ed- win S. Hege, vice president of the con- ference, acting for James G. Yaden, president of the District of Columbia Federation of Citizens’ Associations, and | Robert N. Anderson, president of the Arlington County Civic Federation. A special meeting of the conference will be called, it was anounced, as soon as the committee obtains the facts it \Aee:‘; and prepares a report of its gs. | Urge Uniform Zoning. | The conference voted to urge the de- | TEXTILE WORKERS STRIKE velopment of a co-ordinated and uni- form system of zoning for the Washing- ton metropolitan ares on the motion of Robert E. Plymale of Allington County, and s meeting of all zoning agencies and officials in the District of Columbia and nearby counties will be called shortly to discuss the plan. Framton, William D. Medley of Ar- lington County and Lodge were ap- pointed members of & special committee to arrange for the meeting of the soning experts. The conference adopted s resolution presented by Thomas C. Lodge of Wash- ington urging elimination of guota units in filling vacancies in the Tal es- tablishments. To support action of the Senate subcommittee which removed the | quota provision from the independent | offices appropriation bill yesterday, the resolution will be sent to President Roosevelt, to Senator Glass of Virgini: Senator Tydings of Maryland, and the chairman of the Appropriations Committees of the House and Senate. A T ke « « From the plain 20 STATES CONFER ON CANADA TREATY Chicago Meeting Seeks Rati- fication of St. Lawrence Waterways Pact. Quit XKnoxville Mills After De- mend for Pay Increase. KNOXVILLE, Tenn., May 16 (#).— Approximotely 240 weayers .and loom fixers yesterday walked out of the Cherckee Spinning Mills after s de- mand for increased wages. Their move threw more than 600 other workers t and By the Associated Press. -| CHICAGO, May 16.—Representatives of 20 Midwest States met in executive lélliotn uwkd.yfit'“i.h‘ officials of the reat es-St. iwrence Tidewater Assoclation. ‘Their purpose reportedly was to de- vise ways of obtaining ratification of the treaty with Canada for construc- tion ‘gf the ksL }Awunce Seaway, which ‘woul make it possible for ocean- - going ships to enter the Great Lakes. since ’ | The treaty was signed by Herbert | Hoover during the last year of his term | as President, but has not been ratified by Congress. Leading the opposition to the treaty E‘I‘ | were States interested in the Illinois Farley and Labor Secretary waterway from Lake Michigan to the Gulf of Mexico, to be dedicated May 27 Deny Dispute Over Ap- pointment. had ing. Hal B. Mebane, president of the mills, said the workers had tsken a 40 cent cut last June, but had been given two 20 per cent increases Illinois particularly has opposed the St. Lawrence treaty, on the grounds it would place such restrictions on diver- sion of water from Lake Michigan as to make the lilinois waterway useless. C. P. Craig, secretary of the Tidewater Association, was chairman of the meet- ing and was expected to make the main plea in behalf of ratification of the treaty. ‘The association is convinced,” he sl:lhd’ ‘that t;w :en;t’us resulting to the west and the Nation as a whole B A | from completion of the St Tence Becretary of Labor Frances Perkins Seaway should be of first consideration. sald today that no appointment of an!| “Chicago and Illinois would derive Assistant Secretary of Labor had been reat b;r;emsd!rcm facilities for ship- ping products direct to the sea. We are decided upon yet, although a number | conyinced that aid to agricuiture and of names are under consideration. | industry would overshadow any harm to Among these is Edward F. McGrady, | the Illinois waterway and we also be- legisiative representative of the Ameri- | lieve the treaty makes ample provision can Pederation of Labor. Along with | for operation of the lakes-to-the-gulf hundred of other appointments which | channel.” are being held up in the various de- | Sponsors of the meeting surrounded partments, it was said it might be sev- | it with secrecy. refusing even to make eral weeks before the labor assistant | public the names of Governors and is chosen. ‘ other representatives attending. gmdnm General Farley, who in m—m S pul reports was quoted as recom- | 3 @ Iending to Miss Perkins the appoint- | . _—ne ment of McGrady, said he had not talked to the Secretary about the matter § specifically and Miss Perkins said she had no specific recommendations from the Postmaster General, who handles patronage matters. It was said flatly by both that there was no truth to the report that the Postmaster General was urging the ap- pointment of McGrady and that Miss Perkins had replied that she was run- ning her own department. 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