Evening Star Newspaper, September 24, 1935, Page 2

LEGION TROOPERS THRILL ST. LOUIS Marchers Stage Parade While Leaders Jockey for Political Edge. By the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, September 24.—Some thirty thousand American Legion- naires dusted off their uniforms and polished up tin hats today for six hours of music and spectacle through the streets of St. Louls. Regular convention business was waived for the day in favor of the parade, the outstanding public dem- onstration of the seventeenth annual convention here. s Small groups knotted in committee rooms, however, plotted the order of business for tomorrow, the day that will see the Legion's ambitious 1935- 36 program, geared around a demand for cash payment of the bonus, set in motion. But to the thousands of delegates, alternates and visitors it was a day for marching. At least 125 musical organizations, including 100 drum and bugle corps, will participate, many of them already champions in their own right. Arizona Post Leads. To Arizona went the signal honor, No. 1 in the order of march. The order is based on increases in State membership during the year. Nevada is second. The two States ranked in that order last year. Missouri con- sented to march at the énd of the parade, a usual courtesy of the host State. Business in St. Louis was at 8 standstill. Legion officials estimated nearly 200,000 spectators jammed into the St. Louis Memorial Plaza to watch the parading veterans. Seats in #a impromptu grandstand were packed hours in advance. Pirst in the line of march was Ed- ward C. Hayes of Illinois, past na- tional commander. He was followed by Army troops from the Jefferson Barracks, then came the Legionnaires, marching by State departments, in the order of the record of member- #hip increases during the year. Overhead roared two huge Army blimps and a squadron of 60 Armv cruising planes from the 3d Attack Corps at Barksdale Field, Shreve- port, La. Belgrano in Stands. National Comdr. Frank N, Bel- grano Leaded a delegation of 21 digni- taries in the reviewing stand. With him was Mrs. A. C. Carlson, national president of the Legion’s Auxiliary. Commanding officers of the Army ‘units were in charge of the reviewing stand until the Legion host arrived. Then, with a flag ceremony, the viewing post was turned over to Bel- grano. The Cleveland delegation, hustling candidates for next year's annual convention, carried their campaign on above the parade. A large silver blimp circled over the heads of the mhérchers, trailing a banner with the legend, “Come to Cleveland in 1936.” Weather conditions were ideal for the spectators but Legion officials said the off-season heat probably re- duced the number of prospective marchers by about 30,000. At one time estimates were that 100,000 vet- erans would be in the line of march. Outside Groups in Line. Representatives of foreign nations end the Legion’s outside departments followed the national commander in the line of march., They were, in order: Philippine Islands, Italy, Guam, Hawaii, Panama, Alaska, France, Puerto Rico, Mexico and Canada. Back of the parade ran the steady ufdercurrent of convention politics, a8 cities and delegates jockeyed for ‘position in the business sessions of Wednesday and Thursday. The race for a successor to Frank N. Belgrano, jr., the national commander, appeared de open, with nine announced can- tes in the field, and four cities Phllyhooed their bids for the 1936 meeting. * “Cleveland took to the air in its campaign. Sky-writing airplanes wrote “Cleveland” in smoke, and a huge blimp circled overhead, trailing the Ohio city's slogan, “Cleveland for & perfect *36. Music, speeches and re- freshments went with the conven- tions offers of Denver, Atlantic City and Los Angeles. Future Sessions Requested. Chicago, meanwhile, slipped in an dnvitation for 1938. Oklahoma City and Minneapolis asked for 1939 and Kansas City for 1941, Montreal, Can- ada, and New York City are seeking the 1937 convention. Next year's convention became a matter for the entire convention when the Committee on Time and Place, unable to reach a decision, voted to toss the problem back to the delegates tomorrow, In the report of its Legislation Com- mittee, also tomorrow, the Legion was certain to renew its perennial demand for full payment of the bonus. Seven hundred departmental resolutions were in the convention hopper and 45 of them urged unqualified payment of the adjusted compensation certificates. Comdr. Belgrano sounded the open- ing note in the bonus anthem at yes- terday’s session. Considered on its own merits, he said, the bonus has “a fair chance of passage.” Saddled with an inflation clause, “a subject more controversial than the bonus itself, it 15 doomed from the very beginning.” The statement hinted that the in- flation-bonus bill of Representative Wright Patman of Texas, would be denied Legion support again this year. Rankin Applauded. ‘The convention shouted its approval during the introduction of distin- guished guests when Representative John W. Rankin of Mississippi, chair- man of the House World War Vet- erans’ Military Affairs Committee, told the delegates: “People sometimes talk of taxing the profits of the next war. I'm in- terested in taxing the profits of the last war. Then there wont be any pext war.” National vice presidents of the Aux- iliary were elected ‘last night in di- wisional caucuses. A new president Will be elected in open meeting Thurs: day. New vice presidents by divisions: Northwest—Mra. James E. Paulson, Bummit, 8. Dak.; Southern, Mrs. Frank H. Carpenter, Sourlake, Tex.; ‘Western, Mrs. John Wayne Chapman, Santa Fe, N. Mex.; Central, Mrs. J. B. Dunn, Bad Axe, Mich.; Eastern, Mrs. ‘Whit ¥. MacHugh, Afton, N. Y. James Whitelay, Miami, Fla., Post No. 29, was declared winner of a drum- What’s What Behind News In Capital Knox Candidacy Real, Not a Mask for Another. BY PAUL MALLON. HICAGO.—Do not let any one tell you that Col. Frank Knox is not a candidate, or that he is a stalking horse for Hoover or any one else. 2 The rough-riding associate of the original Teddy may now be carrying his campaign headquarters around under his hat. The invisible creeping network of support for him out in the country may yet be unofficial and un- authorized and based on some of the old Hoover supports. But when the time comes, shortly, you will hear a formal declaration of candidacy in his own name, for him- self and no one else. .That is, you will if everything goes along during the next few months as it has in the last few. The psychological moment shbuld be reached early in the Winter. Knoz is now playing lamplighter for the Republican party. He is carrying the constitutional torch to all sections. He will be particu= larly active in coming weeks. Engagements are piling up. His basic strategy for the present is to let the grdunswell swell. It started from a vox pop suggestion. One of those anonymous constant readers, who are always writing in to news. papers, originally suggested the move- ment after reading a Knox speech. Other unknowns and later some very well-knowns seized their pens and picked up the idea. came so heavy a few weeks back that Knox moved lis experienced ace polit- ical reporter out of the editorial room into & nearby office. Band Wagon Getting Load. ‘That is about all there is to Knox headquarters at present, except that a lot of outlying politicians heard the band wagon coming and started run- ning to get on. The Eastern politicians have all been whispering that Knox would not even get the Illinois delegation. Some inside fixing has been done about that. One of the interesting features of the situation 1s Col. McCormick, pub- lisher of the Chicago Tribune. Mc- Cormick gave & good hint of his inten- tions by agreeing to introduce Knox Knox returned the compliment by agreeing to introduce McCormick at a Republican round-table luncheon Sep- tember 30. Furthermore, there are reasons for believing ‘Hearst will be co-operative, if not friendly. ‘This does not mean Knox will get 2ll his home State delegation. No one ever had it, including Lincoln. But what he loses may not be as im- portant as Eastern bigwigs now expect. President Roosevelt has slipped considerably here. A Jair guess would be that 90 per cent of loop business men are against him. His “breathing spell” promise does not seem to have had much eflect on them. Republicans are active and are in- telligently trying to capitalize the busi- ness sentiment. A Republican citizens association has been created. It is not allied with any faction, issues or can- didacies, but is soliciting business men for funds to turn over to the National Committee. What is more remark- able, it is getting some money (mostly contributions of less than $100 each so far). A similar organization is starting in Ohio and one is being planned for Indiana. It may become a national ‘model. Loop May Be Straightened. But these developments do not give you the whole picture. You can find that in the prospect the loop is not_going to be a loop much longer. A Democratic city machine is going to straighten it out; that is, Machine Chauffeur Mayor Kelly is publicly thinking about abolishing the elevated track oval which gave America’s sec- ond city its essentially noisy character. He is talking about a straight lane on nearby Wells street. In that move you will find the fact that the machine can and is doing nearly anything it wants today in Chi- cago and Illinois. It is bigger and has fewer loose nuts and bolts than Big Bill Thompson’s machine ever had. It is founded on jobs. There are supposed to be 400 of Kelly’s boys on the pay roll in one single ward ‘The insiders say Kelly could decide today how much of a majority he wants for himself or for Roosevelt. It is largely a question of conscience. As long as Mr. Roosevelt is furnishing millions (Illinois expects to get $200,- 000,000 out of the Federal till before next election) for Kelly’s airports out in the lake, and what not, the Re- publicans will need all the contribu- tions they can get, and then some. The bent, tized figure occasion- ally seen on Michigan boulevard ih ez-Emperor Insull, the utilitist. He gave the first million dollars for the World’s Fair, but he lives now, an exiled recluse, in a secluded hotel. ‘There was a public assembly of fair directors not long ago. Insull had a seat on the platform, but he came and went without being spoken to. A former minor employe, whom he could not have known, once greeted Insull on the street, and the old man nearly wept in gratitude. Insull had & seat on the platform, but he came and went without being spoken to. A former minor employe, whom he could not have known, once greeted Insull on the street, and the old man nearly wept in gratitude. Thompson Sidetracked. Ancther famous recluse is Big Bill ‘Thompson, the builder. He sticks to his Michigan boulevard hotel room, living in memories of the days when King George was not too big for him. Some politicians who are obligated for past favors still remember him, but no one else does. b There are supposed to be some ex- cellent sectarian reasons why the Kelly machine would not let Father Coughlin use the city stadium for a ] The mail bag be- | at a Constitution day celebration. | HOYT SUGCEEDS CHOATEINF.A.A. Administrator Plans Return to His Law Practice in New York. By the Associated Press. Joseph H. Choate, jr., today handed the reins of Federal alcohol control to his friend, Franklin Chase Hoyt, and prepared to return to his New York law practice. Hoyt, recently appointed adminis- trator by President Roosevel,, took charge of the new Federal Alcohol Administration set up by Congress to replace the one that died when the N. R. A. codes were scrapped by the Supreme Court. Several leaders of beer, wine and liquor industries here applauded Choate’s post-repeal rule and hailed the new alcohol administrator as “Choate’s Baby.” To Enforce State Laws. Besides regulating liquor and wine, the F. A. C. A, will have power to enforce beer-control laws imposed by any State into which beer is shipped. Already all but seven of the States have laws enforcing parts of the old Federal Alcohol Control Administra- tion’s brewers’ code, according to the American Brewers’ Association, and some have announced they will seek to adopt the full F. A. C. A. rules soon. Hoyt immediately announced the appointment of Harris B. Willingham, Choate’s right-hand man, as associate administrator of F. A. C. A, and John F. Moore, former general counsel of the old alcohol control agency, as act- ing general counsel in the new set-up. Moore succeeds Frederic Lee, who will ington. In a short statement made on as- suming office, Hoyt said: “Arrangements have already been made to carry on with the old person- nel of the F. A. C. A, and, therefore, there will be no vacancies to fill at this time.” Transfers All Details. Choate transferred his entire organ- ization to Hoyt Monday. “I'm going to miss the work here” Choate said. “It was great fun. But no one ever had a harder job than we had here during the early months after repeal.” Hoyt declined to discuss his admin- istration until he has become .ac- | quainted with the set-up. Hoyt, a | grandson of Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase, who presided over the Supreme Court from 1864 to 1872, is a close | friend of the retiring administrator, and of President Roosevelt. HOEY DE ATH PROBE Prosecutor Indicates He Is Con- sidering Asking Court to Order Inquiry. By the Associated Press, WEST CHESTER, Pa., September 24 —William E. Parke, Chester County district attorney, indicated today he is considering a request to the County Court for a grand jury investigation of the death of Evelyn Hoey and the unusual turn events have taken since a coroner’s jury inquest of the shoot- ing got under way. that's going on around here, getting the jury drunk and so forth,” said Parke. He denied shortly before scheduled resumption of the inquest at noon today that he had petitioned the court for the investigation. Further testimony regarding circum- stances of the show girl's death in the home of Henry Huddleston Rogers, jr., at Indian Run Farm on September 11 was scheduled to be heard last night. Deputy Coroner Harvey Cox suddenly announced a postponement until noon today, saying one of tne six jurors is “ill.” The first official recognition of con- ditions came from .Parke when he spoke of jurors getting “drunk.” Presi- dent Judge W. Butler Windle at noon said he had no request for a grand jury summons. LEWIS’ CONDITION IS LITTLE CHANGED U. S. Doctor in Moscow Reports Senator Not Yet Out of Danger. By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, September 24 —Doctors said the condition of Senator J. Ham- ilton Lewis of Illinois, ill with pneu- monia, showed a slight improvement today over yesterday, but that he could not be considered out of danger. Dr. A. Rumreich, physician to the United States Embassy, said after his noon visit that the Senator’s heart ac- tion had maintained the gain noted last night, when it was more regular than in the previous day or two. ‘The infected area was confined to the right lung and had not spread. The patient passed what Dr. Rum- reich described as a fairly good night and took nourishment this moyn- ing. Mrs. Lewis said the Senator was reading newspapers. . An English-speaking nurse arrived from Berlin this evening by airplane. The embassy's secretary, Harold Schantz, in charge during the absence of Ambassador Willlam C. Bullitt, has been a regular visitor to the bedside. ps SR i ST Stream Heats Europe. 1t is estimated that the Gulf stream in the Atlantic gives off enough heat to warm the air all over Northern Europe. speech, It seems that Chicago is in another diocese. A Republican faction leader (Lune deen) is circulsting card pledges from hoyse to hcuse, getting promises to vote against Roosevelt. He had 130, 000 signatures recently and expects that many more. national affairs. Its only agent, Sena- tor J. Ham Lewis, will be renominated and probably re-elected. His yellow gloves never offended any one out here. Col. Knox started in politics as & precinet committeeman in Michigan. He was chairman of the State Cen- tral Committee in 1912. Do not look surprised if the Demo- cratic machine soon drops an im- portant spare part. Nearly all the inside crowd believes a graceful way will be found of easing Demoeratic Gov. Horner upstairs to & judgeship. resume private law practice in Wash- | BY JURY RUMORED Flowery knighthood will not die in | ONTIONS BOARD | * DEFINES TERMS Speeds List of Arms to Ap- ply to Regulations of Neutrality. ‘The newly-created National Muni- tions Control Board today prepared | for President Roosevelt a list defining arms, munitions and implements of | war to be licensed under recent neu- trality legislation. . Called by Secretary of State Hull for its initial meeting at the Staty Department the board deliberated less than half an hour over a tentative | list of war materials submitted by the new Office of Arms and Munitions Control of the State Department. Secretary Hull met reporters afte: the meeting with an announcement that the board had organized and tackled its duty of formulating a list | of arms and munitions to be subjected to peacetime regulation by the Gov- ernment. Proclamation Due Soon. Hull said the list would be sent to the White House shortly so the President may issue a proclamation | defining materiels within the scope “I'm not satisfied with the stuff| of control by the board. This procla~ mation, it was poinfed out at the State Department, will involve in no way embargo provisions provided in Section I of the neutrality act in the event of an outbreak of war. All manufacturers, importers and exporters of arms, Secretary Hull said, must register with the State Depart- | but for a decrease of $81,000,000 in | be more work for those now employed ment when the President issues his proclamation. After November 29 the listed articles of war may not be ex- ported from or imported into the United States without a license issued by the State Department to cover each shipment. Attending the meeting in addition to Secretary Hull were Maj. Gen. George 8. Simonds, assistant chief of staff, representing Secretary of War | Dern; Rear Admiral J. K. Taussig, assistant chief of naval operations, representing Secretary of the Navy Swanson; Daniel C. Roper, Secretary of Commerce, and T. Jefferson Cool- idge, Undersecretary of the Treasury, representing Secretary Morgenthau. Green Heads New Division. Coincident with the first meeting of the board created under recent “neutrality” legislation was the crea- tion of a new office in the State De- partment, to be known as the Office of Arms and Munitions Control. Jo- seph C. Green has assumed charge of this division, with Charles W. Yost as assistant chief. One of the early iasks nf the group is the registration before November 30 of all American manufacturers, dealers and exporters of arms, muni- tions and other necessities of warfare. Just as the Justicz Department al- ready has taken control in the realm of gangland-type guns and ammuni- tion, the State Department will re- quire licenses of all firms planning to export arms to foreign nations, even in time of peace. Secretary Hull has issued a depart- mental order placing the new muni- tions control office under Assistant Secretary of State R. Walton Moore. In addition to working with the board in drafting new regulations, the office will have supervision of inter- national traffic in arms, ammunition and implements of war falling within the jurisdiction of Secretary Hull under established treaties and statutes. . Seamen (Continued From First Page.) On was one of the dead. He died in the pitching lifeboat during the night, and his body was washed overboard as the little cralt was capsized by the combers. ‘The Hurry On left Halifax Sunday with a cargo of corn bound for Mon- treal. A mortheaster repeatedly heeled her over on her beam. , the cargo shifted and the ship turned turtle. Just before she turned over, the 12 men piled into the lifeboat. The life- boat itself capsized. Two or three men were lost. The lifeboat cap- sized twice more before daylight. ‘The Unus Shipping Co., owner of the 334-ton Hurry On, issued the fol- lowing lift of the dead: Capt. A. H. Gardner, Batley, York- shire, England. Mate Alex Mackenzie, North Syd- ney, Cape Breton. Third Engineer J. F. ‘Macaulay, River Dennys, Cape Breton. Donkeyman _Alex' Walt, Victoria, (FALLACY 1S SEEN Cadet Frank Wicks (upper left), accidentally killed by posse hunt« ing for bandits who killed State ‘Trooper W. R. Thompson (upper right) in an attempted hold-up of the bank at Fork Union, Va. Be- low: John Dougherty of Charlottes=- ville, Va, who is said to have confessed the shooting of Thomp- son, pictured after his capture. —A. P. Photos. (Story on Page A-1.) DEFICIT ESTIMATE FURTHER REDUGED Roosevelt Prediction Held | High on Basis of Gain in Collections. By the Associated Press. The deficit for the fiscal year 1936 now is expected to be under the $4.- | 500,000,000 estimate made by Presi- dent Roosevelt in January. This was disclosed last night by ‘Treasury officials as a new fiscal statement for the 12 months was completed at the Budget Bureau and taken to the President, who had ordered it. Details of the statement were guarded carefully pending presiden- tial approval. But with income and other internal revenue collections run- | ning 18 to 29 per cent greater than a year ago, some officials concluded that notwithstanding big appropria- tions, the deficit probably would look smaller than it did in January, when the last estimates were made. Speed of Relief in Doubt. Much depended, they said, on the | rapidity with which the new work re- lief program could be swung into full action. There have been numerous predictions that the full $4,000,000,000 appropriated for this purpose could not be spent within the year. This, of | course, would operate to reduce the | deficit for the current fiscal year. ‘With business indices trending up- ward, officials saw in them a double- action weapon for the reduction of the deficit, since improved business means both increased tax collections and a lighter relief burden. | In January President Roosevelt pre- dicted receipts of $3,991.000,000 for | the 1936 fiscal year, expenditures of $8,581,000,000 and a resulting deficit | of $4,528,000,000. Revenues Are Greater. Less than a quarter of the year has | elapsed, but revenues are $47,000,000 | greater than in the same period of last year. This is a net figure, and | processing tax collections would be | equivalently greater. Income tax collections have risen from $203.000,000 to $263,000,000, | | miscellaneous internal revenue re- | ceipts from $423,000.000 to $487.000,- 000 and customs from $66,000,000 to $86,000,000, PATRON SUES THEATER AFTER BEING ACQUITTED Charging he was arrested unjusti- fiably on complaint of a Fox Theater employe while he was attending a per- formance, Thomas M. Knight, 3028 Porter street, filed suit for $20,000 against the theater in .District Su- preme Court late yesterday. According to the suit the woman seated next to Knight suddenly and without cause demanded in a loud voice that Knight change his seat. She summoned an usher, who is said to have taken Knight to the theater office, where he was arrested. Ar- raigned in Police Court on a dis- orderly conduct charge, he was ac- quitted. The plaintiff was represented by the law firm of Welch, Daily and Welch and Louis Horowite. Irvin S. Cobb Says: Souvenir and Auto- graph Collectors Over- run Hollywood. CULVER CITY, Calif. September 24—TI've reached the maiure age where, when they say a lady is outside who wants to meet ‘me, I involun- tarily use the appropriate Line, “Wheel her ir But it's as much as a reigning he- actor’s life is worth to walk down the streets here without a guard ot the United States Marines. Auto- graph seekers pursue him like ravening wolves, And at first nights souvenir collectors undress him bit by bit until he may go home wearing a barrel. Bob Montgomery has had to live up & tree so long he can talk squirrel talk. And John Boles wears false whiskers, hoping to pass for 2 bosky dell. John Barrymore takes train trips, as you may have noticed by to- day’s dispatches. I look for the day soon when, to relieve the pressure, Hollywood will install a new racing sport—pages oI yelping debutantes chasing a me- chanical Clark Gable. Declared Danger as Pay {| official in the State Department. (Copyright. 1085. by the North American Inc.) o IN SHORTER HOURS Rates for Labor Near 1922 Levels. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Accurate Information as to what is happening to the pay envelope of the working people of America is im- to an understanding of progress is being made toward = recovery of purchasing power. The National Industrial Conference Board, the best equipped of the na- tionally known statistical agencies, has just revealed that the rates per hour for labor of all kinds are vir- tually back to the 1929 levels. But the working man can’t pay his food bills or the rising cost of living with a certificate saying his “rates per hour” are higher than they have been and are back to so-called pros- perity levels. What he has to have is a pay envelope which totals up in dollars and cents somewhere near 1928 or 1929. ‘The board’s figures show that, un- fortunately, labor today is getting only | 76 per cent of the 1929 pay envelope. Fewer Days Worked, So while the rate per hour has | gotten back to 1929 and in some in- | stances has risen to 1.5 per cent above the 1929 average, the number | of hours or days actually worked is too few to enable the working man to | feel he is as well off as he was in 1929. Thus the average earnings of skilled | and semi-skilled workers dropped | from $32.59 per week in 1929 to $19.50 in 1932 and had risen to $24.58 in July, 1935. = The big question is: When will the | working man get back to a $32.59 | weekly pay envelope? Business can- not pay him a higher rate per hour than he is getting today—that 1s, speaking of averages and not particu- lar industries. For to do so sends | the cost of production sky high and this makes the prices of the articles sold too high and in the end cuts down the public use of such articles. | What, then, is the answer? More work. Not only are the working men in need of more hours, but more days of work in the week. But many labor leaders are agitat- ing for s 30-hour ,week.. And some unions are insisting on a limited work- week. Where such a schedule inter- feres with health or overworks the employe, there is no doubt that short- er work weeks are essential as a humanitarian measure. But there are work schedules which do not inter- fere at all with individual capacity. Not Declared Practical. The average workman, therefore, has to make up his mind as tc_how much money he is going to limit him- | self in his pay envelope. If he relies on the statements of labor leaders | that they are going to force up still higher the rate per hour so he can get a total pay envelope equal to 1929, the employe may choose to rely on that prospect; but from an economic and practical standpoint, that's an| unlikely development. The consuming | public is likely to want lower and not higher prices and it is no answer to say this can all be taken out of profit, for invested capital has a way of de- | serting businesses and industries that | do not earn at least interest or & fair | return on equities invested. It's & simple matter of arithmetic for the working man to decide whether he is going to rely on the wage per | hour being increased or whether he is | §0ing to depend on getting more hours | of work. So far as the employers are concerned, they are today looking for | more orders. If they get them, there'll | | | and for some of the unemployed. But | the spread-the-work idea in 1932 was bitterly fought by union leaders, just as today they are relying on the agi- tation for higher rates per hour to in- crease the total pay envelope. Must Recognize Fallacy. It is not improbable that the econ- omists in the labor ranks will recog- nize in due time the fallacy of con- tinued emphasis on shorter hours when the real need is to aid industry in getting a more steble situation on which they can predicate longer hours. In many businesses where two and three days a week have been the total available work, the question of a 30- hour or a 40-hour week has been largely academic. When, however, business improves, the question will become concrete. In the meantime the figures by the National Industrial Conference Board are illuminating, though in many industries it has been well known for several months that the working men have become dis- satisfied because they are not able to | get pay envelopes big enough to meet living costs, notwithstanding the fact that their rates per hour are now as high as they were in the “horse-and- buggy” days of 1928 and 1929, (Copyright 1935.) RITES. WILL BE TODAY FOR MRS. M. A. WORSTER Lifelong Resident of District Is Survived by Her Husband and Two Daughters. Funeral services for Mrs. Margaret Anne Worster, 319 Garland avenue, Takoma Park, who died Sunday, were to be held at 2:30 p.m. today from the S. H. Hines funeral home, 2901 Fourteenth street. Burial will be in Glenwood Cemetery. Mrs. Worster, a lifelong resident of the District, was the wife of Willis Worster, retired Washington commis- sion merchant, and the daughter of the late James H. Collins, one-time Surviving are her husband and two daughters, Mrs. Louise W. Burroughs and Mrs. M. W. Rogers. Heads Relief ROOSEVELT TALKS - WITH NAVY HEADS President Will Check Up on Building Program at Canference. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. President Roosevelt sat down today for a conference with a group of naval heads to check up on the naval building program. Because of the President’s éxperle ence as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, he takes a genuine pleasure in conferring on anything pertaining to the Navy. With him at the conference today were Col. Henry Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy; Admiral Wil- liam H. Standley, chief of naval opera« Charity (Continued Prom Pirst Page.) Chubb, The Oranges, N. J., treasurer; Percival Dodge, Detroit, secretary. The organization also elected 24 di- rectors for a year's term, including C. Phelps Dodge of Washington. ‘The new president is commissioner of the Metropolitan District Commis- sion of Hartford, trustee of the Amer- ican School for the Deaf, a former park commissioner and member of the Housing Committee of Hartford. A dramatization of social work was presented in the Mayflower ball room following the breakfast meeting. So- cial workers, assisted by members of the Washington Community Players and friends of distressed families who received attention, gave a series of six sketches based on actual cases they have handled. The planners of this program sazid it would demonstrate a widespread misunderstanding about social workers and their activities. ‘They hope to duplicate it throughout the country in the belief it will dissi- pate that misunderstanding. Part of the program was broadcast. WESTBROOK. including Mrs. Roosevelt, Gerard Swope, chairman of the mobilization; Harry L. Hopkins, Federal relief ad- ministrator, end Miss Katherine Lenroot, chief of the Children’s Bu- reau, cross-questioned the social work- ers to bring out how they solved the problems demonstrated by the dra- matic sketches. Friends of the fami- lies who were helped gave testimony corroborating” the social workers’ statements. Emergency Passing. Lippmann, in a vigorous exhortation to private charity last night, told the delegates tions must get ready at once to take upon themselves once more the re- sponsibility for the relief of human needs.” “The emergency which compelled the Federal Government to assume this responsibility is passing and the Federal Government, I confidently be- leve, must and will from now on set about putting the responsibility back upon the States, upon the localities and upon private agencies,” he said. Declaring “we have come to some- thing much more definite than a breathing spell.” Lippman said the Federal relief arrangements of the past two and a half years were “abnormal and temporary.” “The central government in Wash- ington cannot and must not reach into the cities and villages in order to man- age such intimate affairs” as care of the young, the dependent, the dis- abled and the handicapped, Lippman said. Sees Waste in Method. Lippman warned it would not be “easy to persuade local taxpayers and private contributors everywhere that they must begin to forego the receipt of easy money from Washington and settle down to paying the bills directly out of their own pockets.” He reiter- ated his conviction, however, that the Federal Government has to retire from direct relief, a system which he said was “ip its very nature demoral- izing, wasteful and repugnant to the sentiments of this country.” Hitting at the idea that the pay- ment of taxes meets the responsibili- | ties of “good citizenship,” Edward D. | Duffield of Newark, president of the Prudential Life Insurance Co., told last night's meeting “the good neigh- bor does not figure sut how little he must pay but how much he can give.” The conclusion that “voluntary philanthropy can be abandoned and the work now done through this me- dium imposed upon the Government” is erroneous, Duffield stated. “It will be a sad day for America,” he said, “if it is ever considered that the payment of taxes is a full dis- charge of the obligations we owe our neighbors. At a time when our Gov- ernment is required by present eco- nomic conditions to make vast ex- penditures, it is not wise to place ad- ditional burdens on it and require it to meet vast additional obligations.” The conference closed with a lunch- eon meeting today at which Mr. Baker and Miss Dorothy C. Kahn, director of county relief, Philadelphia, and president of the American Associa- tion of Social Workers, were the prin- tipal speakers. WOMAN DIES AT 85 Mrs. Jennie R. Cusick, 85, died to- day at her home, 708 F street north- east, where she had been confined since shortly after she was struck July 30 by an automobile backing from the curb at Eighth and H streets northeast. Mrs. Cusick was treated at Casualty Hospital for severe bruises after being struck, later returning to her home. An autopsy will be performed to de- termine the exact cause of death, it is said. George Vanderbilt Inherits $20,000,000 Tax-Free Fortune By the Associated Press. As far as the Government is con- cerued, George Vanderbilt can keep the $20,000,000 which he inherited todsy on his 21gt birthday anniver- sary. Treasury officials said the United States had no estfte tax laws until September 9, 1916, or more than & year after young Vanderbilt's father, who left the estate, perished on the Lusitania. There is no Federal tax in this couantry on the recipient of an estate, officials said, as they recalled that President Roosevelt recommended an NEW YORK, September 24 (P).— George Vanderbilt became 21 years old today and he also became a mil- lionaire 20 times over. The young explorer and big game hunter, who was married September 6 to the formger Lucille Parsons of West Orange, N. J., now possesses one-half of his inheritance. At 35 he'll inherit the other half of his share of the millions left by his father, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, who perished on the Lusitania. The couple will sail soon on a round-the-world wedding cruise, stop- ping in Africa and. Indo-China for hunting trips. “State and local govern-| ments and private welfare organiza- | tions, and Rear Admiral Emory 8. Land, chief of the Bureau of Construce tion and Repairs. The policy being followed in the 1930 building program has been to take out of commission one old ship for each new one placed into commission. It is understood the ships to be de- commissioned to make way for the ones nearing completion form the principal part of today's discussion. Discussion on Roads. This conference was to be followed immediately by another one in the | President’s office dealing with the ad- ministration’s national road-building | program. It was called for the pur- pose of threshing out controversial subjects which have arisen incident | to the general road-building program. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, un- der whom the Bureau of Highways | comes, and Harry L. Hopkins, works | progress administrator, whose admin- | istration is co-operating in the gene® | eral road program, were called. | Mr. Roosevelt, for the first time in & number of weeks, will meet this | afternoon with members of his cabe inet at a regular session. | Hopes to Leave Thursday. | ‘The President hoped to dispose of his multiplicity of problems and tasks 50 as to get away Thursday night on his transcontinental trip. There is a | possibility the pressure of business | A hearing board, headed by Baker and | M3y detain him here a day or so longer, but in the meantime all ar- | rangements have been made for a | Thursday night get-away. | " So far as the President's present | schedule is concerned he will nov make any major stops or a major ad« dress until he reaches Boulder Dam, where he will make the principal address at ceremonies incident to the | formal dedication of this project. No date has been set for his arrival back in Washington, but the President figures that he will be away from ‘Washington on this journey about 28 ays. G. 0. P. EXECUTIVES ARRIVING IN CITY National Committee to Meet at 10 A M. Tomorrow—Some to See Fight. ‘The members of the Executive Com- mittee of the Republican National Committee, called to meet here to- morrow at 10 am, began arriving in Washington today. « Among the first-comers were Hare |rison E. Spangler of Iowa and Col. R. B. Creager of Texas. Both left here soon after noon, however, with Chairman Henry P. Fletcher and John | Hamilton of Kansas, general counsel | of the committee, for New York. where | they will see the Baer-Lecuis fight to= night. The meeting of the Executive Com- mittee is to be held in the Republican | National Committee's headquarters in | the Barr Building. Chairman Fletche | er will lay before the committee a se« | ries of recommendations for increased | activity throughout the country. This | is the first meeting of either the Exece utive Committee or the national com= | mittee since June of last year, when | the whole committee gathered in Chi= . cago to pick a chairman to succeed Everett Sanders of Indiena. WEST G. 0. P. DRIVE ASKED. | CHICAGO, September 24 () —De- | mands for launching a vigorous Re- publican campaign in the West’at the earliest possible time were carried to the party’s chieftains yesterday by Harrison E. Spangler, one of the prin- cipal impresarios of the recent grass | roots rally, He expressed confidence that the | leaders would indorse a proposal to open an office here as the first major move in their drive to regain domina- tion in next year's presidential and | congressional electons. The project embraces establishment of headquarters, from which the work of the party faithful in the huge ex- panse of territory between the Ap- palachians and the Pacific Ocean | would be directed and co-ordinated. '$3.15 ERRAND BOY FINDS LOST BONDS Negotiable Paper Worth $150,000 Returned by Honest Messenger. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 24.—A 22- year-old messenger who makes $3.15 s week running errands for a coffee shop yesterday found and returned a | 1ost packet of $150,000 worth of nego= | tiable bonds. » The securities, ten $15,000 Federal Farm Mortgage isues described as “al- most as negotiable as cash,” had been lost on a street in the financial sec« tion by a messenger for C. F. Childs | & Co., No. 1 Wall Street. As noonday throngs scuffed the insignificant-looking packet under- foot and into the gutter, Albert Cor- reri, 22, passed by vn an errand for the coffee shop. He picked up the envelope bound with a rubber band and looked inside. He kept right on, completed the er- rand on which he had been sent, and then took the bonds back to his em- ployer, Allyn Doyle, who notified Childs & Co. Correri, whose family is on home relief, wonders whether he will re- ceive any reward. He was congratu- lated by many persons, but had re- ceived no definite offer of a job with a higher wage. He hastened to say that he returned the bonds only be- cause he is honest and with no im- mediate thought of possible reward. The bonds had neen lost by John O'Brien, 50, a messenger, and Wil- liam Rice, 60, a guard, who carried them from the Childs office to deliver them at the New York Trust & gage Co, & block and a half away. 3 n