Evening Star Newspaper, September 11, 1935, Page 2

LONG LEAVES 1336 SGENE UNCHANGED influence in Presidential Race Held Puny, With Big Issues Same. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. The political effect of the elimina- tion of the late Senator Long from the national arena can be appraised as only incidental so far as the oresi- dential race is concerned. Had he ived, he would not have been a pivotal gactor anyway. The Louisiana Senator might have been, of course, a trouble maker in gertain sections of the South in the primaries, but nobody who knows how presidential nominations are made has ever for a moment doubted that Mr. Roosevelt could bring about his own renomination without so much as the raising of a finger politically. As for the possibility that Senator Long might have set up & third party and thus threatened Mr. Roosevelt's re-election chances, it has never been taken seriously by competent observers of national politics in any party. The reason is that Huey Long’s strength in the South could not very well have altered the electoral vote of any State except his own. while in the North | his appeal would have been of doubt- ful value. His influence in national politics has always been exaggerated, due to his unique personality. Conservative Choice Vital. . The opportunity to defeat Mr. Roose- velt has not been and is not to be found in a splitting off of an extreme fadical wing. for the radicals certainly will not desert Mr. Roosevelt in order to make easier the election of a Re- publican standpatter. The 1936 cam- paign will probably be fought as a battle between radical and conserva- tive groups in American politics and the only question really to be de- termined is what wisdom and states- manship will be exhibited by the leaders of conservative thought in America in affording the people a medium through which all anti-New Deal votes can be transmitted. To this correspondent, it seems sbundantly clear that a mere cam- aign between the nominee of the Republican party, as hitherto consti- tuted, on the one hand, and Mr. Roosevelt on the other. cannot gesult in the triumph of the Presi- dent by a comfortable majority of electoral votes. The tusion or coali- tion of all conservative elements op- posed 1o Mr. Roosevelt's policies, if brought about either under a re- organized Republican party or| through the formation of a really lberal conservative party with a rame that would bring Republicans and Democrats into the fold, must eonstitute the only formidable threat to Mr. Roosevelt’s re-election that can be devised today. Such a com- bination could defeat Mr. Roose- yelt by a close margin. If 1t is inferred from the fore- going that the writer believes Mr. Roosevelt will be re-elected, it is be- | cause those who disagree as to the Pprobabilities of a fusion are not suf- ficiently- convinced of its necessity to join in it as a policy of practical politics, Issues Cut Deep. ‘The issues, to be sure, have cut deep but perhaps not deep enough to disturb smug Republicanism or to drive independent Democrats from their own party. But purely as a forecast made 14 months ahead of election, and discounting the possi- bility of the Republican leadership acquiring any new point of view in that period. the outlook is for the re-election of Mr. Roosevelt but with a greatly reduced majority in both Houses of Congress. Individual con- gressmen will find grievance groups, due to the New Deal, quite numerous. It was the late President Cooliage who said it was sometimes important .to lose a national election in order to vindicate a principle or lay the foundations for the reinvigoration of & political party. in 1856 saw the need of a reorganized party, but it was not until 1860 that his countrymen agreed with him. Quite a number of suggestions have ‘been made that the Conservative Re- | .publicans and Independent Democrats should merge, but, at the present writing, the Independent Democrats have no organization of their own nor do they command political strength as a group. Under such circumstances, the Republicans are tactfully welcom- ing Democrats irto their dwelling. but ‘this is not sufficient any more than are promises of coalition rule if the Republican nominee is triumphant. ‘What the Independent Democrats would prefer is the making of a new party in which they would play an *important, and not incidental, part. Nominee Must Attract. To support the nominee of such a ,merger would be a different thing from being asked to abandon the Pemocratic label and tradition for a lineal descendant of Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge or Herbert Hoover, whose Republicanism made no fervent appeal to the Byrds or the Gores or the men of the Carter Glass school of " politics, or that band of Wilsonian Democrats like Bainbridge Colby, New- ton Baker, John W. Davis and others who have long since condemned the Republican party to the fate of the old Whig party of a century ago. The Republican party has, to be sure, the largest number of conserv- atives gathered together in any one group, but this is all the more reason why it should make concessions in party label and platform to bring all the other conservatives in the country together into one party instrument if there is to Ue any chance of defeating the socialistic laws and proposals of the New Deal. What the American people are entitled to have in 1936 is & clear-cut cleavage between radicals | or Socialists, on the one hand, and | liberal conservatives on the other, so . @8 to be able to chart the future course of the Nation on the all-important issue of changing or preserving the present form of constitutional govern- ment in America. (Copyright. 1035.) PHOTO IN ERROR Wrong Picture Published as That of Dr. Weiss’ Widow. ‘Through an error of identification, The Star yesterday published a pic- ture of Miss Helen Bell, stating she was the widow of Dr. C. A. Weiss, jr., assassin of Sepator Huey P. Long. Miss Bell, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Bell of New Orleans, has no connection with the case, direct or indirect. The photo of Miss Bell was taken during a visit to France in 1931 and the error in filing was made by the Associated Piess nhfiut time. 7 but | Abraham Lincoln | THE EVENING \Social Security Act Benefits To Extend to 16 Million Persons RGN A8 G Law Is Nation’s Longest Step in Direc- tion of a Socialistic Concern for Welfare of Less Privileged. given to the possibility of a re- insurance fund put in there as an additional prop to the State syst~m. Seasonal Employment. “Then there is the question of sea- sonal employment. What about the seasonal workers who travel all over the United States—and in addition, you have the part-time worker. You have several other problems in this connection. They are unsolved prob- lems in the fleld of unemployment insurance, and they must be solved before you get a working system. “There are still a lot of problems in connection with old-age depend- ency. Then, there is the problem of older workers in industry, of what has been done to the older worker under modern industrial technology. The older worker has about passed out, and is only in small handicraft operations. “Then there is the proposition of Federal-State relations. It is very important. We should get a working co-operative arrangement between the Federal and State governments.” (This is the first of & series of siz articles discussing the social se- curity program.) BY JOHN C. HENRY. Getting away to a poor start be- cause of the legislative fumble which allowed a single Senator to kill the third deficiency appropriation bill, the far-reaching social security program of the Federal Government still may rightly be considered an important element in the “rosy-fingered dawn” of a new day for millions of Amer- icans. Sharply criticized by some on po- litical or economic grounds, described }by others as a delusion which will lead many to bitter disappointment, the social security law stands as the Nation's longest step toward a so- cialistic concern for the welfare of its less-privileged citizens. As such an innovation, it quite probably may run into complications which will ne- cessitate changes in its structure and in its contemplated operation. EX-| pansion of its scope already has been | urged, and therefore made likely, by | one of its congressional sponsors, | Senator Robert F. Wagner of New York. Advocates of the legislation as it now stands referred in a loose way to the “millions who would benefit.” } Examination of the act and of figures | supplied by the Bureau of Labor Sta- | | tistics, the President’s Committee on | | Economic Security and other author- | | itative sources shows that six titles | of the act s now drawn would ex- tend beneficial effects to about 18,- 000,000 persons, old and young. Detail of Divisions. In detail, these divisions follow; State-Federal old-age assistance, 1.- | 000,000: Federal old-age insurance, | 6,000,000; unemployment compensa- | tion, 2,000,000; aid to dependent chil- | dren, 300.000: maternal and child welfare. 7.000.000; aid to blind, 100.- 000. The total for these six groups, each provided for in a separate sec- tion of the act. is 16,400,000. In addi- | tion, millions of persons, difficult to | estimate. will be affected by the pro- posed public health activities contem- plated under title 6 of the bill. De- | tailed consideration of these groups | will follow in later articles. First necessity, of course. for such a program was an administrative | set-up adapted to the unique require- | ments of the plan. To the attainment | of this end the act itself was specific. | By its title 7 it created the Social| | Security Board, vested it with the | power to build up its needed personnel | and gave it jurisdiction over five of | | the major divisions of the program. | Public health- activities, contained in | title 6, it placed under the Public Health Service of the Treasury De- partment. Title 5, containing pro- visions for maternal and child health. “ aid to crippled children and child | welfare work, it placed under the | Children’s Bureau of the Department of Education. * A section providing | for extension of vocational rehabilita- | tion of persons disabled in industry, | the act placed under the Office of | Education in the Department of In- terior. The taxation requirements of titles 8 and 9 it placed under the | Bureau of Internal Revenue, while | | other functions are directed to the | | Census Bureau and to the Federal| | Employment Service. | | With the Social Security Board | being the only new agency thus con- | | templated. principal interest has cen- tered around the make-up of this unit. Favored Set-up. The set-up now favored is as follows: At the top will be the three-man board, composed of John G. Winant, Arthur J. Altmeyer and Vincent Mor- gan Miles. Headed by Winant, this trio will shape the policies of the pro- gram in so far as it comes under the board. Directly below them will be an executive director, the front man | to see that the pronouncements of the board are carried out. Salaries of the board members are placed at $10,000 each, that of the executive director at $9.500. | For the actual operation .of the board’s part of the program will be four main divisions, one to deal with old-age and blind assistance, as in titles 1 and 10; a second to handle | unemployment compensation adminis- tration, as in title 3; a third to ad- minister aid to dependent children, as in title 4, and the fourth to a minister the Federal old-age insur- ance plan of title 2. Each of these divisions will be headed by a director drawing about $£,000 per year. Operating under these main divi- sions with their headquarters .n Washington will be regional units, the plan now being to establish nine of these fleld offices. 1In each of these local centers will be representa- tives of each of the four line divi- sions, the purpose being to have men in the field where they may consult with State administrations and per- form other localized duties mo: easily than from Washington. The iocation of these field offices has not been definitely determined. Technical Sections Here. Back in Washington, on a compar- able level with the four policy divi- sions, will be technical sections among them a legal division, a re- search and planning division and an administrative division, Moat far-reaching of the duties planned for any of these groups wil! be those contemplated for the re- search and planning division. Some of these are outlined by Mr. Altmeyer: “One of the first questions is to make preliminary studies to determine whether there should be a national unemployment system, along the lines of the Federal old-age insurance system, or whether there should be a State system. “There are two main systems: Oune is the straight Federal unemployment insurance system, like the old-age in- surance system, where the Govern- ment at Washington undertakes to run the whole thing from Washington. You can have that, or you can have the Federal-State system, where the several States enact unemployment compensation laws that come up to the minimum standards prescribed by Congress. Congress has elected to follow the recommendations of the committee that made the preliminary astudies, which was to the effect that this Federal-State system should be inaugurated. “There are many industrialists and many experts who believe tha¥ you cannot run an unemployment insur- ance system except on a straight national basis, because they claim that no one State system would be actuarily sound and because you would have the migration of workers from one State to another. Therefore, it is claimed, | | | | | | Among these technical sections will | be a host of clerks, stenographers, messengers, & group of trained ac- countants and auditors and numerous other divisions of workers to such a number that the personnel is expect- ed to reach 10,000 by the time the program is in full operation some vears hence. An idea of how ex- tensive must be this clerical staff eventually may be gained from the fact that the board intends to start in 1937 a personal account of every employe in the United States, estab- lishing his age and keeping his wage and contribution record for purposes of payment of the Federal cld-age insurance benefits after 1942. 372 Needed in Washington. For the first year it was estimated | that an organization of 372 in Wash- ington and 139 in the field would be needed, these fgures to increase steadily. Throughout the Federal" organl: tion, it was declared by Altmeyer, all except lawyers and experts will be drawn through civil service procedure. Salaries will range from $10.000 down, with the majority, of course, being around the $1,800 or $2.000 mark An idea of the adminmistrative costs of these divisions as now foreseen may be gained from the budget esti- mates, on which hearings of the House Appropriations Committee were held. They follow, for a nine-month period only: Office of the board, $115200; un- employment compensation division, $95,900; Federal old-age insurance di- | State-Federal old- | vision, $163.860; age and blind assistance division, $99 - 100; aid to dependent children. $97.- 600: legal division, $61460: research and planning division, $377.990: audit- ing division. $140,300; administrative division, $366,270. (Analysis of the separale titles of the act, the tasks they face and State eflorts in each direction will start in an article tomorrow.) BANDITS WOUND GIRL Bank Robbers Spray Bullets Over Street in Flight. MARS HILL. N. C., September 11 (#).—Four bandits sprayed the streets of Mars Hill, little college community, with machine gun fire and shot down a 16-year-old girl yesterday as they fled after holding up the Citizens’ Bank of Marshall's Branch here. Dorris Sanderlin of New Bern, fresh- man at Mars Hill College, rushed to the door of a drug store some 20 paces down the street from the bank when a fire alarm was turned in, and was struck in the abdomen by a bullet as the bandit car roared past. She was reported to be in a critical condition Marks of more than 50 bullets were | counted on the sidewalks and build- | things of beauty and a silky. smooth ings of the uptown section, but Miss Sanderlin was the only person wounded. 5 . SALLY BLANE TO WED Says She'll Marry Norman Foster, Probably Next Week. LOS ANGELES, September 11 (&), —Sally Blane, screen actress, sald yes- terday she and Norman Foster, actor and former husband of Claudette Col- bert, would file notice of intention to wed “probably next week.” Irvin S. Cobb Says: Three Reforms Needed Before World Gets a Nude Deal. SANTA MONICA, Calif.. Septembe: 11.—ghat nudist conference in New Jersey—you know, advocates of the nude deal—finally quit after deplor- ing a world so narrow minded that it still hangs on to its pants. As I see it, th trouble is that most of the beau- tiful naked things are very young; for instance, a new baby and a fresh oyster, and, even so, I'd juct as lief they served both of ‘em on tbe half shell, Past 30, the average man is either a trellis for his varicose veins to climb on, or else his side view makes you think he inadvertently swallowed an umbrella, and, after it got down inside him, it blew open. Also, he de- velops fur-bearing shanks and what the poetess, Gertrude Stein, probably meant when she names her book “Tender Buttons"—but most of us still call them soft corns. I feel I'm speaking for & host when T declare that, before I start pranking around raw in the wildwood there’l have to be three reforms accom- plished, namely: First—Do something about the cli- mate Second—Do something about my figure, % Third—Provide better poison-ivy control. there must be nm‘ consideration (Couyright. 1935. ‘by_the North American Newspaper " Tne.S STAR, WASHI GTON, TWO FAVORITES » INGOLF PLAYLOSE Somerville and Campbell Out of Championship. Peacock Wins. BULLETIN. CLEVELAND, September 11 (#). —Champion W. Lawson Little, jr., continued his relentless march toward a fourth national golf championship today by trouncing Knox Young, jr., Pittsburgh in- surance salesman, 6 and 5, in the third round of the United States amateur title tournament. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, September 11.—Two of the outstanding favorites in the upper half, Ross (Sandy) Somerville of Canada and Albert (Scotty) Camp- bell of tle, were knocked out of the Uni States amateur golf cham- plonship today in third-round upsets. Somerville fell before Walter Emery, Oklahoma City, in a 10-hole duel, while Eddie Held, Jamesburg, N. J., whipped Campbell, 1 up, with a sub- par blast. Somerville, who tried desperately to overcome wildness with his woods and irons by superb putting on the home stretch, bowed to Emery's birdie on the first extra hole. The former in- tercollegiate champion ran down a 30- foot putt on the nineteenth to decide the issue. Sinks 100-Yard Niblick. Held shot a 70. two under par, to Campbell's 71 and emerged on top in | a spectacular match. After Held sank | a chip shot for a birdie to become 2 | | up on the fifteenth, Scotty came back to sink a 100-yard niblick for #n eagle on the sixteenth and squared the | match on the seventeenth. Campbell trapped his approach, however, and Jost the home hole and the match. The third and fourth rounds were to be completed today, reducing the | field of 64 players, including three | Canadians, to 16 for tomorrow’s pro- | ceedings. . Other Scores. Results of other matches follow: ‘Willlam Chambers, Chicago, de- feated Claude Harmon, Orlando, Fla., |3 and 2. | Pat Sawyer, Minneapolis, defeated | Jack Hoerner, Hastings. Nebr., 3 and 2. John B. Nash, London, Canada, de- feated Burl Bolesta, Tampa, Fla, 5/ |and 4. | _ Oliver Transue, Cleveland, defeated | Don Schumacher, Dallas, 2 and 1. | Charles Yates. Atlanta. defeated | Ernest Pieper, jr, San Jose, Calif, '3 and 1. | Joseph Lynch. Boston. ! Chick Boywid. Chicago. 1 up. defeated defeated Donald McPhail, Baltimore, 3 and 2. PEACOCK ADVANCES. Goes Into Fourth Round in Defeating Eddie Hogan. BY W. R. MacCALLUM. Staff Correspondent of The Star. CLEVELAND, Ohio, September 11. —Roger S. Peacock of Indian Spring advanced into the fourth round of the national amateur golf championship today, beating plump young Eddie Hogan of Oregon by 3 and 1 in the third round. He was to meet Eddie Held of New York in & fourth-round match this afternoon. Playing much the same kind of golf | he showed yesterday in the second round. Peacock was level par for the |17 holes of his match against Hogan, even: though his early driving was erratic. Out in 38, he turned 1 up. retrieving an early disadvantage. | Roger played the last nine holes of the match in 2 better than par, win- ’ning the ninth, eleventh and seven- | teenth holes. Eddie Held, his oppo- nent this afternoon, is a former | Canadian champ and winner of the | national public links title in 1922. | Hogan started as if he would make a runaway match of it against Pea- | cock. But Roger’s trap shots were putting touch soon came back. Hogan won the third. fourth and fifth to go | 2 up, but Roger squared with regula- tion par 4s on the sixth and seventh, halving the eighth and winning the ninth with a birdie 2 to go 1 up. After halving the tenth in par 4s, Inoger again bagged a birdie deuce on the 164-yard eleventh to go 2 up. |They halved the next four holes in | par, with Roger sinking a curling 25- | footer on the short fourteenth and Roger won the match on the seven- | teenth with a birdie 3. He didn't need it, for Hogan hit two trees and | finally picked up his ball. If Roger keeps on against Held with that par golf he will reach the fifth round, further than than any Washington contestant has gone in eight years. 454 434 45336 456 534 452—38 545 435 553—39 435 434 544—36—72 425 434 53—wins, 3 and 1. Hogan ..._435 434 56— 'SEATS FOR 10,000 AT NIGHT PAGEANT | Business and Civiec Groups In- dorse Constitution Day Plans. Seating arrangements for 10,000 persons have been made for the night pageant on the Monument Grounds, a feature of the Constitution day parade and &elebration next Tuesdsy. The seats, which will afford a view of a 25-minute fireworks display and an eleborate program of dances, will | be placed on sale at a nominal price. Justin Miller, special assistant to the Attorney General and chairman of the President’s Crime | will be the principal speaker at the | Wiliiam E. Holt. jr. Syracuse. N. Y., | §141,000 SWINDLE BARED BY WOMAN Witness Against Renb Gam- blers Tells of Lost Wallet Ruse. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 11.— White-haired Mrs. Mary E. Callahan, & motherly-looking woman, testified in Federal Court today that she and her husband were swindled out of $141,000 at Reno, Nev. A Government witness in the mail fraud and conspiracy trial of James C. McKay and William J. Graham, Reno gamblers, Mrs. Callahan of Rochester, N. Y., said that even after she had been fleeced she was loath to believe the “con” men had inten- tionally duped her. “I told my husband, ‘Let’s give them the benefit of the doubt’,” she testi- fied. Lost Wallet Trick. Mrs. Callahan, now & widow, said that Jack Corbett, the “steerer,” met her and Mr. Callahan in Los Angeles, Calif,, in the Fall of 1930. Then en- tered the “spieler,” Mr. Leahy, by means of the lost wallet trick. “We were eating in & restaurant,” the witness said. “My husband, Mr. Corbett, Mr. Leahy and me. Mr. Leahy apologized to my husband for stepping on his foot. It wasn't any one's foot. It was & wallet.” Describe what was in the wallet,” prompted J. Howard Carter, assistant United States district attorney. Mrs. Callahan sald it contained a | bond for $100,000 and a newspaper clipping about a man who was making considerable money betting on horse races. “Turf Exchange” Member. “Mr. Leahy represented himself as a member of the Turf Exchange,” sald the witness. Then she told the familiar story of how Leahy sald he was making great profits playing the races, and how he offered to “let them in on it.” She and Mr. Callahan took advan- tage of the offer and directly won $300,000 “on paper.” said Mrs. Calla- | han. Then all of them went to Reno, where she was told she must show to | betting officials substantial evidence of financial responsibility before col- lecting her winnings. The “con” men asked the Callahans | to produce $140,000, the witness said, !adding that she asked Roy Frisch, | missing cashier of the Riverside Bank |in Reno, to arrange for the sale of | securities to that amount. Receiving Cut Charged. The Government accuses McKay |and Graham of facilitating such | transactions at the bank, and of re- ! ceiving & “cut” thereby from the swindlers. “We asked Mr. Frisch to inquire at our bank in Rochester about transfer and sale of the securities,” Mrs. Cal- lahan said. “He said it wouldn't be ethical, that we would have to go back and get them ourselves.” Mrs, Callahan went East and ob- | tained them, depositing them in the Riverside Bank. Through the bank, | she sald, the securities were quicuyl ;rnnverud into $141,000. Corbett took the money and in- formed the Callahans he had placed | it on the wrong horse. Whereupon, a well-planned drama was enacted for | the benefit of her and her husband, the witness said. “Mr. Leahy said he'd shoot Mr. Corbett,” she related. “Mr. Corbett cried, then said he'd make it all up.” A wizened old man, Agard Joseph- son of Spokane, Wash., testified that | he was directed to Reno by & Mr. Evans, * | “spieler.’ He was approached in Los Angeles, | Calif, in May, 1932, and promised | great wealth if he allowed ““Mr. Male™ | to use his funds in playing the stock market, Josephson said. He was fleeced out of $13,000, the witness said. Reinhold Hermel of New York testi- | field he was muicted out of $24,900 by the “lost wallet-race track” | artifice. The defendants sat stolidly at the | counsel table. So far they have ap- | parently been only mildly interested in the proceedings. YEAR'S FOOD SALES $100,000,000 HERE | Fall Series of Meetings of Rep- resentatives Reveals Record by Housewives. According to a report made public yesterday by executives‘of the Wash- ington Sales Representatives' Associa- tion, housewives of this city in the last year purchased more than $100,- 000,000 in foodstuffs. The Fall series of meetings of the association was opened with a lunch- eon at the La Fayette Hotel. A busi- ness meeting preceding the luncheon was presided over by George Cook, newly elected president. The association adopted a resolu- tion, in co-operation with the Asso- ciated Grocery Manufacturers of America, approving discontinuance of buying advertising in dinner programs and kindred non-professional media. ——— DICTATION CHARGED BUFFALO, N. Y., September 11 (#). —Free, representative government does not exist in New York State, Repub- lican Assembly Leader Irving M. Ives declared at a Republican rally last night. “Dictatorship, with remote control from Washington is in the saddle at Albany,” Ives continued. “The Dem- ocratic members of the Legislature are but puppets in the hands of the Roosevelt - Farley - Lehman triumvi- rate.” ‘steerer,” and & Mr. Male, —_— pageant. Business and civic groups today con- tinued to pledge their support to the celebration. At a meeting yestérday the Federation of Business Men's Asso- ciations adopted a resolution indorsing the plans and urging its members to participate in the activities. Addressing the federation, Maj. Gen. Amos A. Fries, head of the Constitu- tion Day Committee, said: “This is & movement which should have been started long ago. Every man, woman and child revering the Constitution should be proud to take part in celebration of Constitution day. Business men of Washington, I am sure, will welcome the opportunity to be a part of this movement.” Committee chairmen will meet in executive session tomorrow at 4:45 p.m. at the District Building to consider further w the celebration. RED INK SALES DROP ALBANY, N. Y, September 11 (#)—Red ink—the “mercury” of the business thermometer—is not being purchased in the quantities it was a year ago, George H. Green, stationer, declared yesterday. Commenting on the sale of the ink that's used on the loss side of the ledger, Green said: “Sales of red ink have fallen off about 25 per cent in the last six months.” Widow Leaves $1,000,000. ROCHESTER, N. Y., September 11 (#).—An estate estimated at $1,000,- 000 was left by Mrs. Lillle M. Durand, 72, widow of a Rochester attorney, probate ex*t will showed yesterday. D. C, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1935. Inaugurates Slum Program gram. At her signal a truck, with cal by lot, yanking away the props fro prepared for demolition. WINANT ARRIVES 10 ASSUME POST Chairman of Security Board Confers Immediately With Altmeyer. John G. Winant, chairman of the new Social Security Board. arrived in Washington today to assume his new sultation with Arthur J. Altmeyer, only member of the board who has been in this city since the appoint- ments were announced. Vincent M. Miles, third member of | the new administrative unit, is ex- | pected to reach Washinglon some time today. Winant declared this morning that | he had no comment to make on the | tasks facing the board until he has time to confer with his associates and made. A press conference will be held, he said, as soon as some definite ideas are formulated. Director Choice Problem. One of the first problems facing the | new board is that of selecting an ex- ecutive director. Because of scarcity of quarters and | temporary lack of funds, the board and the skeleton per- | sonnel thus far gathered are occupy- | ing temporary space in the Labor De- | partment Building. Eventually the board may be permanently located in i the quarters of the old National Labor the Labor Building. with a new labor relations unit being moved elsewhere. Meanwhile, Winant is sharing Alt- | meyer's office, where the latter served | a8 Second Assistant Secretary of Labor. An immense volume of mail, much of chairman on his arrival today. Temporarily Without Funds. ‘With formulation of policy for the national social security program thus imminent, officials of the District Un- | clared that they would watch closely | for guidance in setting up the local organization. Like the national body, they are temporarily without administrative | funds as & result of the death of the deficiency appropriation bill in the closing days of Congress. John A. Marshall, executive di- rector of the local board, said this morning he expects to spend the im- mediate future in conferring with representatives of labor and business in the District for suggestions as to procedure. On the basis of these, the requirements of the local act and the | advice of national officials he said he would discuss policy of the District board with board members next Tues- day. fective method of tax collection for the District system. The board is empowered to levy and collect the | employer taxes, starting at 1 per cent next year and increasing to 3 per cent in the third year. 3 A comparable problem will be that of registering all employes in the Dis- trict and keeping & record of -their length of employment and their wages. Until administrative funds are available Marshall will continue to use quarters of the District Insurance Commissioner in the Motor Vehicle Building. With the necessary organi- zation likely to reach as many as 100 persons, larger quarters will be neces- sary. WOMEN COMMANDEER PURCHASES OF MEAT Truck Load of Provisiohs Is| Thrown Into Creek by “Strike” Squad. By the Associated Press. SHAMOKIN, Pa., September 11.— Schuylkill County’'s meat buyers’ strike overflowed into Northumber- land County yesterday in 'a burst of | violence that destroyed a truckload | of provisions. . A score of women attacked a truck of the Shamokin Packing Co., and heaved its entire contents into Shamokin Creek. The driver stood by helplessly. Then another . squad of Women, picketing butcher shops, stopped customers, tore open their packages, and tossed meat purchases into the gutter. The proprietors of the shops called for police aid but the trouble subsided as quickly as it broke out. Grant's Aide Dies.: BATAVIA, N. Y, September 11 (). —Ma). Isaac R. Barton, 94, who served on Gen. Grant's staff fluring Mrs. Roosevelt shown as she dropped her handkerchief as a signal for workmen to start work on the $6,000,000 Detroit slum clearance pro- post, and immediately went into con- | to consider plans already tentatively | administrative | | Relations Board on the sixth floor of | it from job seekers, was awaiting the | employment Compensation Board de- | Principal problems, he said, would | be establishment of a simple and ef- | CITY HEADS WEIGH LIBRARY'S PLEAS Growing Demands of Users Told as Session on Budget Goes On. Proposals for extension of the Free Public Library system to enable it to keep better pace with growing de- mands of the incréased population were being considered today by the Commissioners as they proceeded with hearings on the tentative 1937 budget. Estimates submitted by the Board of Library Trustees call for construc- tion of a Petworth branch library dur- ing the next fiscal year and for pur- chase of a site and drafting of plans for an Anacostia branch. Additional personnel is scked to enable various branches to keep open a full schedule of hours. Sums are desired also for repairs and maintenance of units 6f the exist- ing system. Appropriations totaling 729,670 are asked. The current ap- propriation amounts to $470 495 To illustrate the need for library expansion, the Board of Library Trust- ees has submitted statements with the estimates showing that since 1930 the increase in the number of registered borrowers has been 61.5 per cent, the increase in volumes circulated 62 per | cent, against an increase in the staff over that period of but 13 per cent. The needs of the public library sys- tem were to be outlined to the Com- | missioners by Mrs. L. B. Swormstedt | &nd Dr. George C. Havenner for the Board of Library Trustees and Miss ble attached, pulled out from & near- m under a bullding that had been —Wide World Photo. NOSESHITSHPA PLE | Condemns Johnson Regime for “Dumping Bums” on Park System. By the Associated Press NEW YORK. September 11.—In & new flery outburst Parks Commis- sloner Robert Moses vesterday charged Gen. Hugh 8. Johnson's Federal Works Progress Administration with “stupid, arbitrary and arrogant ac- tion” in dumping 11.000 unsupervised ‘W. P. A. workers on park department projects. “As a result” Moses said. “hun- dreds of men have been lying around | in the parks doing absolutely nothing except jeering at workers, shooting craps, drinking and generally creat- ing a nuisance.” ‘The flare-up of the smoldering relief controversy between Moses and John- son only high lighted the troubles ex- | perienced by the W. P. A. administra- tor in his shift of 50,000 men from home relief to Federal jobs Workers Ask Back Pay. Late today 400 relief workers de- scended upon Johnson's office de- manding pay which they claimed was due them as far back as July. Ignoring talk of walkouts Gen Johnson said the pay roll machinery was functioning satisfactorily and that there was no delay in distribution of W. P. A. checks. The general also retorted to Moses’ earlier threat to fire outright 1.000 Bowery bums” and police court char- acters which he said had been sent him for park work. “Federal money makes no distin- tion as to class.” he snapped. “We don't call them riff-raff. We call them unemployed.” Supervisors Held Few. Instead of the necessary 700 work supervisors, Moses said, only 12 had been provided “In spite of the refusal of the park department to take more men, hun- dreds of additional men were sent to the parks without any notification to the park department,” he declared “When these men were rejected by park executives the pay roll clerks and other employes of the W. P. A. staff, over whom the park department nas no control, ordered the men to stay in the parks and told them they would be paid even though they did not work."” Moses reiterated his assertion that “vagrants” and “bums” had been sent him as workers. | . 'SECOND DIVISION PRAISED ON RADIO | Suffered Most Battle Casualties, Says Brig. Gen. Holcomb. Monument Planned. The deeds of the 2d Division, | A. E. F., to which a monument is to | be erected here, were recalled by Brig. Gen. Thomas Holcomb in a ‘ndlo address last night over Sta- tion WMAL. | “The 2d Division suffered more | battle casualties thean any other formation in the American Expedi- tionary Forces,” the speaker declared. “It lost—in killed, wounded, gassed and missing—23,216 officers and men. “It led the A. E. F. in the number of decorations received, both Ameri- can and foreign. The names of its battles are brilliant on the pages of our military history and it passed to worthy of the highest traditions of our race.” Ground for the monument, which will be erected on Constitution avenue between Sixteenth and Seventeentt streets, will be broken Saturday. The first earth will be turned by Maj. Gen. James G. Harbord, who commanded | the Marine Brigade of the 2d Divi- | sion. An address will be delivered by | Maj. Gen. Hanson E. Ely, who led the division's 3d Brigade in three major engagements. ety SERIES TO BE DISCUSSED Landis Invites Team Agents to September 17 Conference. CHICAGO, September 11 (®).— Kenesaw M. Landis, base ball commis- sioner, announced today that the an- nual meeting to discuss world series | plans will be held in his office Tues- day, September 17. Representatives have been invited | to attend from the Detroit and New | and the St. Louis, Chicago, New York the siege of Vicksburg, died here to- day fromge heart attack. and Pittsburgh teams of the National cllsllt. YAS“STUPID" us a heritage of courage and devotion | | Clara W. Herbert, assistant librarian, acting for Dr. George F. Bowerman, | public librartan | Other estimates to be considered | today by the Commissioners were those of the Highway Department, | headed by Capt. H. C. Whitehurst: Eewer Department, John Blake Gor- don; register of wills, Thomas Cogs- well; recorder of deeds, William J. Tompkins; city refuse, Thomas L. Costigan; playgrounds, Miss Sibyl Baker, and Electrical Department, Walter L. Kern. The Commissioners yesterday aft- ernoon heard arguments for esti- mates for the coroner's office, chief clerk’s office of the Engineer Depart- ment; office of weights, measures and | markets, municipal architect: Insur- ance Department, surveyor and De- partment of Vehicles. BUILDING OFFICER ASKS MORE MEN Operations Show Big Jump. Pil- ing Up Work, He Tells D. C. Heads. Building operations here increased more than $8.500.000 in the fiscal year ended June 30, flooding the office of the District building inspector with more work than it could possibly per- form with its limited staff, the Com- missicners are informed by Col. Johr. W. Oehmann. building inspector. Addition of 10 members to his in- spection staff was requested by Col Oehmann, who said in his annual re- port to Engineer Commissioner Dan 1. Sultan that his present staff could not | now make all inspections necessary to insure compliance with regulations The total cost of all construction work here in the 1935 fiscal year was | 819,273 468, exclusive of Federal build- ing operations. The figure includes work done by private builders and the District government During the preceding year the cor- responding total was $10.743.268. The 1935 figure was the highest since 1931 The problem of keeping pace with work. he explained, has been accentu- ated by the slashes in the size of his | staff, ordered by Congress in the two | preceding vears He said the result has been a four- fold difficulty. Inspectors have been | unable to keep up with inspections deemed neceasary to insure that build- ings are constructed in accordance with approved plans. it has becoms increasingly difficult to keep plan ex- smination current with work, the force of four fire-escape inspectors is inadequate and the force assigned to elevator inspection is too small to keep pace with its responsibilities, he said. f Work (Continued Prom Pirst Page) 2,000 P. W. A. projects already re- jected by Harry L. Hopkins, work progress administrator. In making public his long-stand- ing differences with Hopkins, Ictkes said yesterday the President tele- | phoned him on Monday night and <asked him to come to Hyde Park. | Charles West, Undersecretary of the | Interior and a trusted adviser of the | President. had visited the President on Monday, following a week end visit by Hopkins. Ickes has succeeded in salvaging the $250,000,000 low-cost housing pro- gram and $100,000,000 for reclama- tion projects from Hopkins' insistence |on small, flexible and inexpensive projects. In addition he appealed to the President to oppose and finally force | an acceptable compromise on an amendment to the work-relief pro- | gram, which he contended would have ruled out many P. W. A. projects. | No sign of ylelding in the present controversy, however, came from Hop- | kins yesterday. He did say he had | “too much work to do” to quarrel | with Ickes—adding that he planned | to go to Hyde Park after the Interior | secretary’s visit. Ickes is concerned with removing two related dangers to his projects: One, the series of deadlines fixed for the | immediate start of the $4,000,000,000 | program; two, Hopkins' insistence that the cost of materials be held down, and thgt projects be such as to pro- vide fof the people on relief and no others, in a particular locality. The latter was the cause for re- | | jection of the 2,000 projects, while the final meeting of the Work-Relief Allotment Committee, scheduled for September 17, left little chance for States and communities to revise their applications. Jckes' housing division also will have trouble acquiring sites. Coincidentally with his departure, Ickes made public a report on his housing program showing the Govern- ment owned 22 sites and had 50 others under option. He added that options are being taken on 21 other tracts. Killed in Graveyard. In the cemetery at Rimpar. North | York clubs of the American League Bavaria, Eva Baumeister, 9 years oid, while playing on a wall, fell, struck her head against her mother's tomb- 'qtone and was killed. &