Evening Star Newspaper, November 25, 1934, Page 19

-~ 1LS: STUDIES PLAN 10 JOIN ACTIVITES: P. W. A, Work Relief and’ Other Federal Agencies May Be Centralized. By the Assoclated Press. A study aimed at knitting public works, emergency work relief and other widespread work giving acitivi- ties of the Government into a cohesive || unit was disclosed yesterday to have |; been ordered by the administration. Donald R. Richberg ordered the study first as_one of his efforts at co-ordination, but the matter also has been taken up by President Roose- velt's Committee on Economic Se- curity. There has arisen the possi- bility that when the committee’s full report poes to the President in De- cember a section may be devoted to recommendations on how to prune the tangle of work activities into one strong unit. Back of the order is a desire to get | into one agency the public works, the wide range of emergency work relief, the several other forms of separately | conducted emergency employment, and possibly the Civilian Conservation | Corps. Expert Directing Work. ‘The study is being conducted by an expert in the Emergency Relief Ad- ministration. He is directing it not only at the idea of mapping out the administrative set-up of an agency which would conduct such work, but with a view to determining which of the present agencies might best handle it. There has been some talk of broad- ening one of the divisions of the Labor Department, perhaps the em- ployment unit, to embrace these ac- tivities. Others have expressed the view that a separate public welfare department should be set up to handle not only emergency work units, but the long-range subjects covered by the proposed economic security plan. Under the latter plan, unemploy- ment insurance, old age pensions and the wide-scoped social benefits pro- gram would all be put into one de- partment. Some Conflicts Noted. ‘ ( Under the present system several | different emergency divisions are conducting Work programs, some of them conflicting. In the past there have been wide differences in wages and hours observed. Some of these have been smoothed out already. The criticism has been raised, how- ever, that the whole program should march forward as a unit instead of straggling unevenly. The Public Works Administration has several forms of work going ahead. ‘The Relief Administration has a wide assortment of work relief and emer- | gency employment. In spots there| is an overlapping which might be| eliminated if the plans emanated from a central source. The Civilian Conservation Corps comes under a slightly different cate- | gory and might be omitted from con- sideration in the final plans. This work is regarded as purely of a non- competitive character, with the Gov. ernment doing a job in a field which private industry does not enter. It might be retained as a separate unit, to be abandoned when the job is fin- ished. The public works and relief act ties, however, are regarded as fields which may be taken over into private domain later, although some form of such endeavor is believed by officials to be necessary for a considerable time to come. New Agency’s Duties Many. The new agency which may arise from the study would be charged also with the administration of the re- employment plans being charted by | the President’s Economic Security | Committee. This phase, which with the unemployment insurance program may be the only sections of the com- mittee’s work that see legislative light at the next session of Congress, will take into consideration not only pub- lic, but private, employment possibili- ties. The program through which the administration hopes to send the up- ward of 10 million unemployed marching back to jobs is being shaped along long-range lines. Although ing into bright prominence be- e of its own consequence, it also fits into the background of the un- employment insurance picture. The committee takes the view that before men may be entitled to unem- ployment insurance they must first be given work. To broaden the scope of the unemployment insurance %ro- gram so as to cover the bulk of Amer- | ican workmen job giving must be stimulated. It is a welding of job-giving activi- ties, public and private, that the study seeks. 216 GERMANS QUIT COLLEGE IN PRAHA Insignia of Old University De- fended in Battle With Czech Students. By the Associated Press PRAHA. Czechoslovakia, November 24.—A group of 216 German students abandoned the German University to- night two hours after they had an- nounced they would defend the old school's insignia against Czech stu- dents who earlier in the day stormed the buildings in an effort to seize it. Savage fighting followed the gov- ernment’s order that the insignia be handed over for use in Monday's in- auguration of the new president of the Czech University resulted in injuries & to 22 German students. Police were called out to disperse several angry anti-German demon- strations throughout the city and this evening feeling was still running high. A savage fight this afternoon be- tween Czech and German students, in which several persons were wounded, was followed tonight by the storming of the buildings of the German Peo- ple’s Cultural Institute and the break- ing of most of its windows. The German students, whose rector was with them, stood fast, determined to guard the scepter, shield and chain of office which is the insignia of the ancient university, founded in 1346 and the first in Europe. TAXICAB KILLS WOMAN Colored Victim of Accident at 16th and T Was 65 Years Old. Mrs. Rosa Lewis, 65, colored, 1617 Swann street, was fatally injured last night when struck by a taxicab near Sixteenth and T streets. She was pronounced dead upon arrival at Freedman’s Hospital. Police said the cab was driven by Wiiliam J. Lindsay, 21, colored, 1509 Vermont avenue. r- (4 l Capital Tom Clayton and some of the boys of his Adenturers' Club crawled through the underground powder magazine of Fort Stanton in Anacostia, one of the old Civil War defenses. THE SUGNDAY STAR, WASHINGTO Boys Become Amateur Explorers HUNTS FOR TREASURE PART OF LIFE IN ADVENTURERS’ CLUB. & Dunnigan, Bob Cole and Dillard Spratt HREE AND A HALF years ago a physical instructor, now at 1e Devitt Preparatory School, reached back into his boy- hood’s long dreams of chests and pirates, wars and rescues, hunts and exploration, and from the relics of that limbo fashioned for i boys the living adventures he had visioned. From his plan grew the “Adven- turers Club,” which has on its rolls about 300 bo; ranging in age from 7 to 13 years. Headquarters of the club are at Devitt, where its origina- tor, Tom Clayton, is headmaster of the lower school. Any boy there is eligible, but membership is not con- fined to the school. Every Saturday Clayton takes a group of boys adventuring. Perhaps it will be a search for pirates’ gold, a war, the capture of a gang of bandits, the exploration of an old fort, or any of the manifold delights of the boyish mind Expeditions Toned Down. At first he staged the expeditions | so realistically the boys were deceived | and thought they truly were doing the things of which they had read and dreamed, but parental objections finally caused him to tone down and modify his expeditions. The present purpose of the club, said Clayton, is “to give a boy a chance to get out into the open and | do something different from what he does on weck days.” When the club was first begun, however, his purpose was a bit more pretentious “I remembered how I longed to run away to sea,” he explained, “to dig for treasure like Jim Hawkins, or live on a desert isle, to explore caves as Tom Sawyer did. There were times this longing amounted almost to a physical sensation of pain. Now, I said to myself, suppose I could give to these boys. who probably feel as strongly as I did, a real adventure, a | treasure | | ‘Treasure Islzand’ twentief ‘With thu. search f brought mind. he planned a buried treasure. Displayed Old Map. ’ “It did not occur to me that there could be anything wrong in making | them believe I had been left an old | map by a friend who had died years ago in Tennessee,” he said. “My | brother, who is an artist, prepared the | map so it would have an antique ap- pearance. | darkened it to the appearance of age. | Inside we placed gilded bars of lead.” | With the map as a guide, Clayton | and his boys sought the treasure un- der a dead oak on a section of the | Rock Crevk Valley which is over- run with honeysuckle and grapevines. | They dug, but found nothing. Noon came and a fire was built for prepara- | tion of lunch. Apparently quite by | accident, Clayton held the map near | the flames. ~Writing became visible between the lines, telling that the treasure had been moved. They followed the directions and | began digging at a new spot. A shovel | struck metal, and half a dozen boys went down on their knees, frantic with excitement. They dragged forth a chest heavy as lead—or as gold! It seemed a very old chest with brass | Al hinges and handles at each end. hasp was held in place with @& golden nail. Chest Is Stolen. Before the boys could discover that the bars inside were only lead, the chest was s On succeeding Sat- urdays they traced it to its new hiding places. So exciting was the first adventure ne of the boys could not sleep that night. Although they were mysteriously robbed of the chest, the boys did not go home empty-handed. Turtles, tad- poles. “gold ore.” moss, and almost a complete skeleton of a “dinosaur,” which strangely resembled a horse, accompanied them on the return trip. The boy with the “dinosaur” bones 4 Bullets, 7 Slashes And Jump Fail to| |Take Lives of Pair Husband and Wife Still Alive Despite Former’s Mad Moment. Samuel Waring, 40, colored, of 768 Hobart place, yesterday afternoon— Shot his wife Flora in the arm. Shot her in the chest. Shot her in the abdomen. Stabbed her with scissors. Stabbed himself five times. Slashed his neck. Shot himself. Jumped two floors out the window. Late last night both were still alive in Freedmen's Hospital, . Hospital Visit Planned. COLESVILLE, November 24 (Spe- cial).—The Colesville Women's Chris- tian Temperance Union members will take cookies and jelly to the boys &t Walter Reed Hospital on Tuesd INEBRASKA TEACHER WEDS BOK TODAY Marriage License Is Falls City—Ceremony to Be Simple. By the Associated Press FALLS CITY, br., —A marriage license was issued here today to Miss Nellie Lee Holt of Falls City and Curtis Bok of the prominent Philadelphia family, who first met at a college reception in Columbia, Mo., last February. Miss Holt, who was religious in- structor at Stephens College in Colum- bia, gave her age as 33 and Bok was listed as 37 years old A simple ceremony will mark the wedding at 4 p.m. tomorrow at the bride’s home here. The Philadelphian, an attorney, attended the reception last February at the invitation of James M. Wood, president of the women's college, who was a close friend of Bok's father, | the late Edward W. Bok. Carpet Brings $900. * An Indo-Persian carpet of the seven- | teenth century was sold recently in London for $900. | FOREST FIRE ACTION LAMP Beautiful scene in colors. Cylinder in- side revolves. The fire seems to really burn when the lamp is turned on. Flames and smoke seem to rise through the trees—reflect on lake. 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The Chamber of Commerce of the United States last night renewed its appeal for effective co-operation be- tween business men and the Govern- ment in the interest of hastening eco- nomic recovery. In a statement by its president, Henry 1. Harriman, it said at the same time that responsibility rests not only upon business but “is shared alike by business, finance, agriculture, labor, Government and other component ele- ments of the national economic struc- ture.” Business conditions are on the mend at the moment, the chamber re- iterated. And again this was borne out by new statistics from the agencies of the Government which keep tab| on developing conditions. The Commerce Department reported a general gain for the week which| ended November 17, including fig-| tics showing an improvement in wholesale prices, and higher quota- tions on farm prices with a simul- taneous decline in the cost of food. “Business is looking realistically at | the practical aspects of recovery,” Harriman said. “Indications from many sources point to a realization that a concert | of effort on the part of all groups is| essential in implementing and putting into operation wise policies for the| regeneration of trade end industry and the resumption of normal employ- ment, and it is apparent that at- tention has shifted from the planning to the executing phase of recovery.” This statement served to cmpha.sm' the reasons underlying the chamber's initiation a week ago of a move In | which business organizations and the | administration would be united in a co-operative recovery effort. Apparently believing that the Roose- velt administration, whose policies the chamber had generally and vigorously opposed, probably was to be in office for six years more, the chamber’s board of directors adopted resolutions calling | upon all busines organizations and business men to lend their co-opera- | tion, rather than their opposition, to the Roosevelt administration. | At the same time it was made plain that this did not include indorsement | | of such Roosevelt proposals as an ex- | tension of the T. V. A. and its public along the lobby. Since then, the club members have explored caves, visited ruins, includ- ing those on Analostan Island, Civil War forts, sought the three golden | apples in the garden of Hesperides, rescued Chinese missionaries captured by Mongolian bandits, rescued a cap- Foreign Legion from the Bedouins, trailed Peg-Leg Smith, the bandit, to his lair, built secret forts, lookout towers and caves, fitted out a gigantic hollow tree as a meeting place and done many other things. ownership of power producing and dis- | | tributing plants nor Mr. Roosevelt's | | proposal for unemployment insurance | unless this were extensively modified. | The chamber has its own unemploy- ment insurance plan. | A number of business organizations, such as the National Association of | Manufacturers, the National Industrial | Conference Board and the Durable Goods Committee under the code for those industries, responded with en- | thusiasm to the chamber's original suggestion. 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By and large, the taxpayer got the better of it in the recent voting on constitutional amendments in 12 States. Returns compiled by the Associated press show a large majority of the States either ratified rrductions and repeals of various current levies or defeated proposed new taxes or in- creases. The tendency. toward® double tax- ation—that which duplicates Federal levies in the States—also was checked in three of the ive States that bal- loted on income taxes. - Through the voting, Louisiana and Montana joined the 17 States that had individual income taxes similar to the Federal levy. But Michigan, Washington and Texas rejected such taxes. Montana already had an income tax by legislative decree and the vote there merely rendered constitutional what the taxpayers had already been called upon to do. Auto Tags Hal'ed. As a sort of offset in Louisiana, where Senator Long won approval of | 14 changes in the State charter, the poll tax as a voting requirement was eliminated and the minimum auto- mobile license tax was reduced from $15 to $7.50. The income tax amend- | ment provides for a levy of from 2 to 6 per cent on individuals and 4 per cent on corporations. Federal levies on corporations are now duplicated in about 20 States. Aside from the States already men- tioned, an indication of the frame of mind of the voters on taxes may be obtained from the following re- sults on the balloting: | Akansas—Approved a proposal to | restrict the Legislature to biennial | appropriations of $2.500,000, except | for debt service; Confederate pen- | sions and highways, and forbidding | tax increases except by three-fourths majority of the Legislature in case of an emergency. | Delinquency Penalty Cut. ! Approved a reduction from 10 to 3 per cent in the penaity for non- payment of taxes, and gave delin- uents four years in which to re-| deem without penalty. | Florida: Approved a proposal to | exempt homesteads with an assessed valuation up to $5.000 from taxation other than special assessment for POULTRY AND EGGS. State B.W.D. » IM CROWING /07 ('v? Rowi? Wiaw | BECKS Queit, v Immed. del. Br. & Wh, Les- horns: Bar. Wh. & Buft| Silver Laced Cross Breeds, $10—100: W! Buff Orpingtons. Brahmas, $1 nish Game Ducklings. Day-Old —100. BECK'S HATCHERY. M benefits. The State Supreme Court has ruled that exemptions cannot apply to taxes for payment of bonds already issued. Also ratified an amendment to ex- empt plants in which motion pictures are made from taxation for 15 years. Michigan: Voted down the pro- 1 to fix a mandatory top limit for automobile licenses and a gasoline levy of not more than 2 cents a gal- lon. 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