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THE _EV COERCIONTHORN | What's What TOLABOR PEACE Meeting of Roosevelt and A. F. of L. Leaders Seen Wise Strategy. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. On the surface, President Roosevelt | has a meeting with William (:vrecni and the Executive Council of the| American Federation of Labor, 2 chj issues a statement expressing in care- fully guarded words and phrases a point of view that appears not unlike what has been said before, and all{ is supposed to be serene betweea the | White House and organized labor. | But what does it really mean, and what was back of the meeting? The White House took particular pains to point out that the meeting took place on the initiative of labor. The reason is that the Chief Execu- tive, having taken an action a week ago in renewing the auto code over the protest of the A. F. of L., did not wish to seem to be begging pardon Organizers Like Support. But the A. F. of L, on the other hand, didn't like the headlines which portrayed the union leaders and the President as at loggerheads. Such things are hurtful to the member- ship organizers, who, ever since the Eagle came into use. have been )¢ in their enthusiasm to tell | workmen that membership in a union is really desired by the Government. Some organizers have come dan- gerously near saying the Government wanted plants to unionize. But all such prestige would be broken down if a rift were developed between Mr. Roosevelt and the A. F. of L. The latter had more to gain than lose by seeking to patch things up with the President. It was wise strategy from & membership viewpoint then, at Mr. Roosevelt's ter the American Federa- leaders left him, it is many times he uses se.” which has 50| ng in the vocabu- I Statement Urged Co-operation. “To you of the Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor,” writes Mr. Roosevelt in his thought- fully worded announcement. prepared hours before the Executive Council made ca permit me very defi- nitely to assure you of my apprecia- tion and recognition of the Federation in the work of rehabilitating industry and in protection of our country itself. | No one can disregard the importance | of the American Federation of Labor | as one of the great and outstanding institutions of the country. It has| been my purpose to recognize this in | every practical and logical way and I have no intention of changing my pomnt of view It -matters little to organized labor that the rest of the Roosevelt state- ment made a very important point, namely that the “Federal Government cannot. of course und > to com- employers and en s to organ- 1ould be a voluntary organiza- For, what the American Fed- eration of Labor wanted, it got—an indorsement, a testimonial, a pat on the back which will be worth many hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue by way of membership dues from workers who will feel that Mr Roosevelt has put his stamp of ap- proval on the American Federation of Labor. Affiliation Divided. But the statistical records show that almost as many workers are members of independent plant unions, where, for the most part. they pay no d as are members of the A. F. of L. Hence the question of whether a man will or will not join will be dependent upon how much solicita- tion can be accomplished in working hours and, in some instances, how much intimidation is practiced by fel- low-workmen who have been stimu- lated by organizers. The present law makes collective | bargaining available to all workmen and they are not supposed to be in any way intimidated by employers, but it does not forbid intimidation or coercion by fellow employes or by representatives of labor unions who come in from the outside. It is this particular aspect of collective bar- gaining that is causing most of the industrial strife. Fairness Upheld Before. The fairness of having both em- ployes and employers forbidden to co- Behind News In Capital Two and Two Makes Six in Approval of Cigarette Code. BY PAUL MALLON. HE master’s touch was evident again in President Roosevelt's recent announcement about signing the long-lost cigarette code. The anncuncement National Industry Recovery Board had voted 4 to 2 in favor of the code. This made it appear that Mr. Roosevelt was merely taking the side of the ma- jority. Such action always has a wide appeal in a country where the !} majority is supposed to rule. But if you dig into it, you will find that up until the time that the President made his cigarette announcement, there were only five members of the N. I. R. A. Board. A 4 to 2 majority on a five-man board became even less under- standable when the anmouncement also said that one board member (Clay Williams) did not vote be- cause he was a tobacco manuface turer. What seems to have happened is that Mr. Roosevelt added two asso- ciate (non-voting) members to the board, for the purpose of the cigar- ette code announcement. Actually the board divided, 2 to 2, on the code, with Williams not voting. Otherwise the question would never have come be- fore the President in the form it did He functions as umpire only when the board cannot agree. The Other Voters, ‘The two non-voting associates are Blackwell Smith and Leon Hender- son. They never voted on anything previously, and probably will not | again All of which indicates that a major- ity may be a matter of viewpoint, and not necessarily a matter of votes. The presidential flea has bitten Huey Long hard. It has made a dif- ferent man of him. You can see the obvious effects of political malaria in | his new walk and talk. Gone is his swagger, his Kingfish stride. He forgets himself and shouts in debate once in a while, but other- wise is as dignified as George Wash- ington himself. His radio style is new also. Instead of customary colloquial affectations of speech, he communes publicly with Aristotle and Plato. This studious dignity is much duller than the old Huey, but the Democratic leaders are finding it makes him casier to handle. For instance, his presentation of the resolution to investigate Chairman General Farley was not strong enough to make even Floor Leader Robinson angry (incidentally, Huey did not have much on the chair- man general in the resolution, and it will never be adopted by the Sen- ate). The onl other day was an unexplained red mark on his forehead and two body- guards. Labor Fight Goes On, The labor crowd is certainly getting even with Mr. Roosevelt for all the headaches he caused them on the auto and cigarette codes. This current conflict over Govern- ment relief wages is being carried on publicly as an argument between the White House and the Senate, but every one knows the Senate opposi- tion is being inspired by the A. F. of L. leaders. The Senate is one place where the Labor lobby holds the upper hand. This is because most of the strongest Senators are pro-labor (Norris, Borah, Wagner). The situ- ation is different in the House. For that reason Mr. Roosevelt will win out in the end, no matter what the Senate does. The House will stand by him and force the erce either before or during or after elections any workmen who wish to choose their representatives has been recognized once before by statute. It was in the 1926 railway labor act. Will the A. F. of L. support an amendment to section 7-a to permit this?> Here- tofore the union leaders have fought such a clause. They succeeded in keeping it out of the national indus- trial recovery act when the bill was before congressional committees. The language of the 1926 law, ap- plying only, however, to railroad labor said that representatives of workmen ghould be designated “without inter- ference, influence or coercion exer- cised by either party over the self- organization or decignaticu of rep- Tesentatives of the other.” The A. F. of L. wanis the Wagner bill on trade disputes enacted. It has never contained the prohibition against coercion on hoth sides and that's why little progress has been made in defining collective bargain- ing. Ninety per cent of the issues which have caused difficulty in the labor field would be removed if the A. F. of L. would consent to such an amendment of the present collec- tive bargaining law. (Copyright. 1935.) Your Income Exemption Allowed State Employes. ‘The compensation of officers and employes of a State or any political subdivision thereof, if the services of such officers or employes are ren- dered in connection with activities which constitute the discharge of an essential governmental function, as distinguished from a proprietary func- tion, is exempt from Federal income tax. The compensation of such offi- cers and employes is subject to Fed- eral income tax if their services were rendered in connection with the exer- cise of a proprietary function. For example, the compensation of the Gov- ernor of a State, the mayor of a city, councilmen, Board of Aldermen, pub- lic school teachers, firemen and police- men is not subject to Federal income tax. Compensation received by employes of a municipally owned waterworks or street railway or electric light plant is subject to Federal income tax, as such activities are proprietary rather than governmental in character. Fees for special services to a State are taxable, as, for example, compen- sation paid architects and builders for planning and erecting a State capitol or other State or municipal building. An officer or an employe of a State, for the purpose of the income tax law, 1s one whose services are continuous and not occasional or temporary. [ Senate into line. ‘There are two good sides to the prevailing wage argument. No one disputes the White House contention that relief jobs should be made less attractive than private jobs. The trouble comes over testimony given by Admiral Peoples privately in the Glass committee. Senators under- stood him to say that the Government plans to pay no more than $50 a month to any one. The New Dealers now say that is not true. But if you take the relief money total and divide it among the 3,500,000 workers over & year, it would work out at about that figure (allowing a reasonable amount for materials). Hence the Senators remain unconvinced. A safe compromise would be to write the $50 or some similar limitation into the relief bill and also authorize pay- ment of the prevailing wage. This would force the Government to stag- ger employment. No one wants to do that for political reasons. Working on Glass. The White House has been doing some soft missionary work on the un- reconstructed rebel, Senator Glass. It did not get out at the time, but Senmator Glass held a two-hour conference at the White House two weeks ago with Senators Byrnes and Hayden present. Also Mr. Roosevelt called Senator Glass on the telephone at his hotel here last week. Such unusual contacts were ad- visable, but not exactly necessary, in view of the relief dispute in the Glass ecommittee. However, they do not seem to have much effect. New Deal strategisis have been mulling over what would happen if Mr. Roosevelt pulled what is now known as “a Father Coughlin” in the labor dispute. They wonder what would happen to the Senate if he took to the radio some Sunday evening, de- livering his argument and saying to the people: “Wire your Senators.” Some believe he could thus destroy Senate prestige for months to come and take all the fight out of it. (Copyright. 1935.) ——— 4,000 Actresses in London. Nearly 4,000 actresses are living in London at present. % said_that the! color Huey had left the | §17a000 OUTLAY HERE PROPOSED IR::\dio Receiving Station in Vinson Plan for Naval Improvements. Included in the projected $38,000.- 000 program for improvement of naval shore stations, proposed by Chairman Vinson of the House Naval Commit- tee, is $175,000 to be spent in the vicinity of the District for a radio receiving station, including buildings and purchase of land. Quarters for | officers at the Marine Barracks, | Quantico, Va.,, would cost $1.050,000, | while those for non-commissioned officers would cost $891,000. At the Naval Proving Ground. Dahl- | gren, Va. the measure plans $22,000 for the purchase of land for safety zones and $100,000 for officers’ quar- ters. Barracks and mess hall for enlisted men at the Naval Air Station at Nor- |folk. Va, would cost $500,000. List of Major Items. Major items under the program in- clude $3,500,000 for a Graving dry dock, services and auxiliary construc- tion at the Navy Yard, Mare Island, Calif.; Graving dry dock, services and auxiliary construction at Puget Sound, Wash., Navy Yard, $4,500,000; floating dry dock, including mooring facilities and accessories, at the Navy Yard, Pearl Harbor, T. H., $10,000,000; in- | dustrial shop buildings and accessories | at Pearl Harbor $1,400,000; Naval | ammunition depots, Balboa and Coco | Solo, Canal Zone, for ammunition | storage facilities, including buildings and accessories, $2,000,000; Submarine Base, Coco Solo, Canal Zone, replace- ment of buildings and accessories, including barracks and mess hall for enlisted men, shop buildings, store- hou-es, dispensary, boiler plant, quar- ters for officers, quarters for chief petty officers, administration building, laundry. garage and public works shop, | $2.534.500; Naval Air Station, Pensa- | cola, Fla., replacement of buildings and accessories, including barracks and mess hall for enlisted men, shop buildings. quarters for officers, store- | houses and hangars. $3,000,000, Other items under the measure, which would authorize the Secretary of the Navy to construct public works projects Navy vard, Boston. Mass—Marine barracks, South Boston, $22,000. Navy Yard, Mare Island, Calif.— | Storehouse and accessories, $800,000: time signal station building and ac- cessories, $35,000. Puget Sound Project. Navy Yard, Puget Sound. Washing- ton—Land for foundry extension, $10,- 000. Navy Yard, Pearl Harbor. Hawaii— Floating dry dock, type “D.” $750,000: power plant building, $500,000; cold storage plant, $595,000; barracks and mess hall for enlisted men, $225.000: quarters for officers, $72,500; buildings, $16.500 Naval Station, Balboa, Canal Zone— Quarters for officers, $176,500; store= house and administration buildings, $200,000. Naval Station, Tutuila, Samoa— Quarters for chief petty officers, $48,- 000 Naval Torpedo Station, Newport, R. L. Carpenter shop building, $80,- 000. Naval Ammunition Depot. Puget Sound. Wash.: Industrial building. $100,000. Naval Training Station, San Diego, Calif.: Trade school and auditorfum buildings. $475,000; fleet school build- ing. $120,000. Submarine Base, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii: Quarters for officers, $95.500 Naval Air Station. San Diego, Calif.: Aviation facilities and rifle range and buildings, San Nicholas and San Clemente Islands, $247.000. | Naval Air Station. San Diego. Calif.: Galley and mess hall for enlisted men, $300000; barracks for enlisted men, $300,000: hangers, $360,000: gen- eral storehouse, $300,000; aircraft storehouse, $140,000; quarters for bachelor officers, $200,000; central storehouse building, West Beach, $50.- | 000: garage, West Beach, $20,000; | equipment storehouse, $30,000; maga- | zines, $5.000: boat repair building, | $25.000; quarters for officers, $87,000. Fleet Air Base, Pearl Harbor.| Hawaii—Barracks and mess hall for enlisted men, $587,000; quarters for officers. $216.000: quarters for chief petty officers, $180,000; paint and oil store house building, $30.000: garage and fire station buildings, $22.000; boat house building, $25,000. Fleet Air Base, Coco Solo, Canal Zone—Hangar, $195,000; administra- tion building and dispensary, $145,000; quarters for chief petty officers, | $180,000. Naval Radio and Direction Finder | Stations—Sandy Hook, N. J., radio| buildings and facilities, $50.000; Oahu, | Hawalil, radio receiving station, includ- | ing buildings, $165.000; Balboa, Canal | Zone, quarters for operators, $90,000; Cape Mala, Panama, barracks. quar- ters and compass house, $50.000; | Canal Zone, radio receiving station, including buildings, $105,000. FRIEND OF STAVISKY .DIES BY OWN HAND| Mlle. La Marre, Her Diamonds Gone, Shoots Self—To Be Buried Today. By the Associated Press. PARIS, February 13.—The suicide | of the once beautiful Vivianne La | Marre, friend and benefactress of the | late Serge Stavisky, was revealed yes- terday. She will be buried today. | Mile. La Marre reputedly was one | of the first loves of the principal character in the Bayonne pawn shop swindle. She was known as the “dia- mond queen.” Penniless and about to be evicted from her apartment after the last of her fabulous jewels had vanished, she shot and killed herself Pebruary 7, po- lice said. | NING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1935. Train Plunges Through Drawbridge More than 20 persons were injured as the engine of the Florida Special, crack tourist train, plunged through an open drawbridge into Loxahatchee River, jumped from the plunging eng and firem Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. miles north of Palm Beach, | | Fla, yesterday. Both the engineer 700 7(1; Bifilt Conlr;l Dinner Hear Pleas for Legislation oy naen £1p 1S Mrs. Pearl Buck; Mrs. Margaret ! nngr’r and Other Prominent Speakers Urge Need in Face of Conditions. BY GRACE HENDRICK EUSTIS. | An increase in population and relief roll totals was cited by distinguished | speakers last night in a plea for Fed- eral sanction of birth control before 700 guests assembled in the Mayflower Hotel for the “Birth Control Comes of Age"” banquet held on the 21st anni- versary of the movement The eloquence and enthusiasm of Mrs. Pearl Buck. noted author, made a deep impression on an audience al- ready familiar with her power as a writer of serious fiction. Another ef- fective address was made by the gloomy but fiery Mrs. Margaret Sanger, ploneer crusader and chair- man of the National Committee on Fedsial Legislation for Birth Control Other speakers included Mrs. Har- riet Stanton Blatch, suffrage and wel- fare worker, who declared the action of the House Judiciary Committee in voting down a birth control bill was only a minor soek on the chin. “It acted as a splendid tonic,” Mrs. Blatch said, “bringing us right up from our | rocking chairs!” Mrs. Lucretia M Blankenburg, distinguished and ven- erable Philadelphia leader, also held the strict attention of the gathering Cake Has 21 Candles. In honor of the anniversary celebra- tion a huge birthday cake bearing 21 candles was placed before Mrs. San- ger. The room was darkened and waiters passed fancy ice cream molds lit from inside and fashioned in such shapes as the American eagle, tablets bearing inscriptions and a Chinese pagoda. The latter was in honor of Mrs. Buck, who recently returned from the Orient. At this time a curtain was drawn back from a stage at one end of the | banquet hall, revealing a life-sized photograph of a chuckling baby. The picture was framed in dark velvet draperies and lit by a spotlight. The dinner went through the usual routine of such formal occasions. | with Dr. Ira S. Wile, pediatrician. of New York City. acting as toastmaster. The wheel horses of the movement | were there in full force, including Mrs. Katherine Houghton Hepburn of Hartford, Conn., famous in her own | | right as a fighter of woman's causes | and also as the mother of Actress Katherine Hepburn; Representative | Walter M. Pierce, Democrat, of Ore-| on and Mrs. Pierce, the former an old | warrior in this battle, and others who ! work year in and year out to establish birth control permanently in this country. | “Right and Reason.” In her address, Mrs. Buck said: “And in the future to come people will be astonished that the things for which Margaret Sanger fights | should ever have been opposed or wondered at, or taken for anything else than a matter of inevitable human right and reason.” | In direct contrast to the intel- lectual approach to the problem, offered by Mrs. Buck, Mrs. Sanger, | looking very voung and frail, with | her red hair brushed back from her | face, gave the audience a fight talk. She begged for a million signers to | petitions, asking passage of the new | Pierce birth-control bill. Repre- sentative Pierce promised to reintro- duce the bill in the House, despite the vote of the Judiciary Committee. Mrs. Sanger suggested that the | present administration organize a Federal population bureau “as an im- | mediate and imperative necessity to survey our home resources.” | “If it is true,” she stated, “that our | population has increased from 122,- 000,000 in 1930 to 144,000,000 at the end of 1934, then certainly we have a right to ask of our Government, in ' fact to demand to know from what The Euvening Star Offers Its Readers The American Government Today BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN —a new book which explains the permanent departments of the Federal Government of the New Deal. and the Alphabet Bureaus Authoritative—entertaining—stimu- lating. Every American should read and own this book. On sale at the Business Office of The Star, or by mail, postage prepaid. Price $1. ORDER FORM. L7 B A A S i S e l strata of our population this increas- ing_horde is coming.’ The dinner meeting adopted a res- olution urging the President to advo- cate passage of pending birth control legislation as part of the ‘compre- hensive program of social and eco- nomic security The resolution which wil to the Pr asked cr National tion Bt ned to form a Federal ion policy primary n ns of health and human conservation.” VALLEE IS VICTOR N SUI BY WIF Fay Webb Denied More Generous Maintenance Than $100 Weekly. d populat By the Associated Press NEW YORK. February 13.—Fay Webb Vallee today lost her attempt in Supreme Court to obtain a more gen- erous slice of the income of her estranged husband, Rudy Vallee, the crooner. Justice Calvatore Cotillo ended the action by granting a motion to dismiss the case, which had been made by counsel for Vallee The justice ruled that Mrs. Vallee had not proved her allegations that | the separation agreement with her | | husband had been made through co- | ercion and under duress The financial clause of the agree- ment gives Mrs. Vallee $100 a week maintenance mon In a statement commenting on his victory Vallee called attention to his wife's failure to testify. “To say that I am glad I won i hardly correct.” the statement said. “Iam glad justice has been done. That | is the only result I was asking and that I was entitled to bring about. | “Mrs. Vallee has instituted all these unpleasant litigations, which, in turn, compelled me to call attention to the real circumstances in connection with the signing of the separation agree- ment she sought to set aside. “What more can I say except to call attention to the fact that Mrs. Vallee traveled all the way from California | to the counsel table in the court in | New York and then for reasons that | are clear to every one she did not dare to walk the short distance from the | counsel table to the witness stand.” | Harvard Post Given Westerner. CAMBRIDGE, Mass, February 13 (#).—Appointments to the faculty of Harvard University, announced last night, included: Rudolph E. Langer. now a professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin, to be lecturer on mathematics. Congress in Brief By the Associated Press. TODAY. Senate. In recess. % Appropriations Committee considers contemplated amendments to relief bill. Judiciary Subcommittee nears end of 30-hour week study. Munitions Committee examines Newport News ship men. House. In recess. Economic security proposals occupy Ways and Means Committee and Labor Subcommittee. Military Committee considers new alr bases. YESTERDAY. Senate. Referred Senator Long's Farley in- vestigation resolution to Post Office Committee. Appropriations Committee heard William Green, American Federation of Labor president, on “prevailing wage” amendment to relief bill. Munitions Committee began investi- gation of Newport News Shipbuild- ing & Dry Dock Co. House. Passed several minor bills. Ways and Means Committee voted down proposal to split economic se- curity bill. Military Committee heard witnesses on aviation base measure. 1 SIDENTS OF CITY |by Traffic Director William A. Van VAN DUZER BACKS | D. . SAFETY BILL Burleith Citizens Hear Traf- fic Director—Weir Plan Is Given Support. A personal plea for support of his attempt to secure passage by Con- gress of a safety responsibility bill | for the District was made last night | to the Burleith Citizens’ Association | Duzer. The association also went on record | as favoring the fourth plan submit- ted in the Weir report for control of | recreation and as opposing both the income tax for the District and the TOWNSEND PLAN SECURITY TARGET Report to House to Brand $200-a-Month Program as “Impossible.” By the Assoclated Press Two blows at Dr. F. E. Townsendi's proposal for $200- 1th pensions to the aged were planned today by the men charged with steering the admin- istration’s social program secur | through Congress. Chairman Doughton predicted the House Ways and Means Committee would attack the principles of the Townsend plan as unfeasible, imprac- placing of the Board of Education under the District Commissioners In his address Van Duzer declared that of the 250,000 cars on the streets | in the downtown section daily, 80,600 are from the nearby States and 25 per cent of the accidents involve out- of-town cars. Most of the traffic fatalities, he declared, have occurred in the outlying sections of the city. where there is less control over trai- fic. Accidents have dropped 0 per | cent at the controlled intersections, | he said. Taxicabs Held Numerous. | Asserting there are far too many | taxicabs on the streets of the b there being one to every 125 pers: as against one to 200 persons in Bal- timore and one to 750 people in New York City, the traffic director said many of the taxicabs would be elim- inated through operation of a safety responsibility law. He advocated the adoption here of | a law similar to one in Michi under which the driver of an automo- an | ticable and “impossible of administra- tion” in its formal report to the House within a week or 10 days. The committee report is expected to contrast the administration security program, especially its pr the unemployed, the ag and children, with the bill by Repre- sentative McGroarty, Democrat, of California, to carry out the Townsend idea. ons for d, mothers Townsend to Testify. The elderly author of the $200- month pension plan has be o ised an opp on the security pr eaders said, howe follow him on the stand his proposition In to den: oppo 1 sted to the bile involved in a fatal accident may |y be convicted of involuntary homicide, with a penalty not exceeding five vears in prison or a fine not exceed- ing $2,500. Convictions here are rare because both coron‘r’s and criminal juries balk at the .nanslaughter law Despite the increase last year in | fatalities, he said, there has been an | annual reduction in the number of | accidents of from 8,700 in 1931 to Citizens Say Out-of-Town Workers Should Be Eliminated. 7,500 in 1934. Drunken driving ar- rests increased during the same period from 149 to 256. Would Examine Permits. Another piece of legislation advo- | cated by the traffic director is an an- nual examination for operators’ | | permits. Representatives of 8 number of citi- zens’ associations joined with the Ca- thedral Heights-Cleveland Park Citi- zens' Association last night in advo- cating District residents for District government jobs. Speakers at the meeting pointed to the large number of District jobs now eld by out-of-town persons, while our own people” are out of work delegate to the Fed- eration of Citizens' Associations from Stanton Park, announced his indorse- ment of the plan and complimented President Clara Rice Smith of the Cathedral Heights-Cleveland Park group for her work along this line. Mrs. Smith. in defining a “District resident,” said it was the association’s opinion a bona fide resident was one | who did not have a vote elsewhere. An increase in Washington's | amount of policemen also was fi vored by the association. Members ' contended that more policemen should be appointed from among the resi- | dents of the city, asserting a large | percentage of the present force were from out of the city. Superintendent of Police Ernest W. | Brown, guest speaker at the meeting, | told the association more police were | needed here and that very few men | had been appointed to the force dur- | ing recent years. Maj. Brown said 21 policemen had been assigned to guard at the Transient Bureau since the spinal meningitis quarantine. It is special work such as this that largely cuts short the number of pre- cinct men, he said. CHAVEZ EN ROUTE EAST | ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., February 13 (®#)—Former Representative Cha- | vez is on his way to Washington to | press for action on his contest of the seat of Senator Bronson Cutting, Re- publican, of New Mexico. Chavez, a Democrat, was defeated by Cutting in the November election. Grounds for his contest have not been | disclosed. but he sought unsuccessfully | in the State courts to invalidate the | vote in one county where he alleged irregularities occurred. Elimination of this county’s vote would have given Chavez a majority. THIS 4 Acting upon the recommendation of | s special committee headed by | Granger G. Sutton, the association | adopted a resolution favoring the placing of the recreational facilities of the city under the fourth plan sug- gested by Lebert H. Weir—jointly | under the National Capital Park and Planning Commission and the Com- | munity Center Department of the Board of Education. In opposing an income tax. the as- sociation expressed the opinion that the Federal Government is not con- tributing its fair amount to the rev- enues of the District because of the large amount of land removed from taxation A resolution was adopted thanking the Capital Transit Co. for the “ex- cellent” bus service rendered during the recent snow. WORK-RELIEF TO PAY | LESS THAN INDUSTRY Ickes Says Wage Under Big Ap-| propriation Will Not “Com- pete With Business.” By the Associated Press DENVER. February 13 —Secretary of the Interior Ickes said here yester- day wages paid under the proposed | $4,880.000,000 public works bill will be ' lower than those paid in private in- dustry. The rate of pay, however, will be higher than the amount a person on relief rolls would get, he said, in a speech before the Denver Chamber of Commerce. “We want to encourage private busi- ness,” Ickes said. “For that reason we do not want to compete with pri- vate business for labor, and if we pay a lesser scale it will mean that the car- penter or laborer who is working on a P. W. A. project will be glad to ac- cept employment on a privatel financed project when the opportunity offers itself.” | Secretary Ickes came here to ad-| dress delegates to a grazing confer- ence. ?/ /A/A /// 7 STt s couldn't month fo take | to all of them Chairm: the ed would reduce by to pensions scheme. ‘The formal repo committee Is to be debate in wh mittee plan to views. BAND CONCERT. y the United Symphony Orch Susan 7B. ‘_Vinlrhon‘\' Scrap Books to Be Exhibited Friday Library Display to Mark Anniversary Date of Suffrage Leader. A series of scrapbooks kept by Susan B. Anthony. famed suffrage leader will go on exhibition ir division of the Congressional Library on Friday—the h anniversary Miss Anthony’s b; It is said t 50 years gathe scrapbooks. Th newspaper article for suffra On Friday, in the Senate and House of Represent the memory her followers as to Washington In the Sern Copeland of the Anthony U. S Guver House A wreath from the White House will be placed at the foot of the marble group in the crypt of the Capitol, a group of three suffrage leaders in which Susan B. Anthony is depicted the rare book ony spent material for her se hailed by ipator equal or York will de Repres ¢ tribute i %