Evening Star Newspaper, October 14, 1935, Page 3

AUTO DEATH TOLL REACHES NEW HIGH Only Four States Show Worse Record Than D. C., Census Figures Show. The Nation’s automobile death toll climbed 15 per cent in 1934 to reach a new all-time high, with only four States showing a worse record than the District, according to Census Bu- Teau figures. This showing was accompanied by an almost equally bad record in the per cent of increase in 1934 over 1933, ‘Washington standing sixth on the list in this respect. Records from the whole country show 33,980 persons killed in or by automobiles in 1934 for a national death rate of 269 per 100,000 of popu~ lation. In 1933 the rate was 233. In addition, 1,789 persons were killed in collisions between automobiles, rail- road trains and street cars in 1934. ‘Washington's rate per 100,000 in 193¢ was 38.63. The per cent of in- crease here over 1933 was 34.69. Death Rate Climbs. Later figures covering 86 major cities for the 52 weeks ended September 28 have indicated the death rate was con- tinuing upward in 1935. Coinciding with the Census Bureau figures was a statement from J. J. Pelley, president of the Association of American Railroads, which said *“not & single railroad passenger was killed in a train accident on steam railroads in the United States in the first six months of 1935.” Pelley said the passenger traffic volume in the half year was the larg- |__ est since 1931, aggregating 8,600,000~ 000 miles, and “was equivalent to transporting one passenger around the ‘world 344,000 times without fatal in- Jury.” Fatalities to railroad trainmen in the six months was put at 28, com- pared with 42 in 1934's corresponding Pperiod. The Census Bureau said Nevada’s 1934 death rate of 73.4 was the high- est among the States and compared with Rhode Island’s low of 14.6. ‘Wyoming was placed second high with 45.25, Arizona third with 44.85 and California next with 42.62. The bu- reau added: “An unusual situation is revealed which shows that the four States hav- | ing the highest death rates are in the West rather than the thickly settled Eastern States. This situation may be caused by deaths of transients, but no statistics exist at the present time to prove this point.” Only three States—Karsas, Dela- ware and New Hampshire—reduced their death rate from 1933 levels. Gains over 1933 in the remaining States ranged from Connecticut's 2.07 per cent to Montana's 74.13 per cent. With the exception of Vermont, the percentage of gain was greatest in the Midwest, Far West and South. New Mexico's 42.12 per cent gain | was the second largest in the Nation. Mississippi was third with a 41.02 per cent increase. Vermont gained 38.52 per cent in contrast to neighboring New Hamp- shire’s decrease of 23.14. Rates by States Death rates and the per cent of in- | crease over 1933 for individual States follow: Automobile Per cent of Death rate ncrease in State. 1934. 1934 u;er 1933. I Nevada .. Virgini Maryland Tilinois Connecticu New Jersey. Pennsylvani Minnesota Kentucky Oklahoma West Virginia. Wisconsin Massachuset ode Island_ Irish Moderator Dies. BELFAST, Ireland, October 14 (#). =—Rev. Robert W. Hamilton, a friend of Woodrow Wilson and moderator of the Irish Presbyterian Church, died Saturday at Lisburn, where he had been a minister for 50 years. He was a graduate of Priaceton University in the United States. Drowns in Homemade Boat. STERLING, Ill, October 14 (#).— Walter Murray, 42, was drowned in the Rock River yesterday when his homemade boat, which he was at- tempting to propel with an automobile engine, foundered. Witnesses said the bow dipped and the craft’ was swamped. 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Struggle to Place 3,500,- 000 Workers. By the Associated Press. The United States Employment | Service has doubled its staff as the Government struggles to get its jobs | program going smoothly. The service has been assigned the responsibility of assisting in the placement of the 3,500,000 relief re- | cipients whom the President is seek- (ing to transfer to the new works program. Frank W. Persons, director of the service, said today: “We have increased our personnel to 10,000, distributed in 2,200 offices, i"’ care for increased registrations as well as to reclassify our files to place ‘lmose eligible for work relief jobs in a separate category. “We will use our spare time to con- | tact private industry on opportuni- | ties for jobs.” Employables Registered. Under a regulation by Harry L.| Hopkins, works progress administra- tor, all the employables on relief have | registered with the service. With the | exception of P. W. A. and houslns‘ | projects, virtually all those benefitting | from the work-relief program will be‘ taken from relief rolls. All members of the Civilian Conservation Corps also are to be taken from relief families. Persons said that in the last 26 months the Employment Service had | filled 2,720,168 jobs in private indus- | try, besides those selected for the P. W. A. and other Federal relief em- | ployment. | “We have enlisted our forces,” he said, “in a program to get out of re- lief and to get the unemployed into a status of self-sustaining employment, | not temporary, but as a settled policy | of this program of recovery.” He said that when private jobs! are available, the best qualified men on the rolls will be selected and re- ferred to the private employers. It these men happen to be on works progress jobs they will be transferred to private employment. Schools Get Large Share. P. W. A. reported to Secretary Ickes meanwhile that school construc- tion comprised more than half the | 3,965 projects in its part of the work- relief program. The 2,133 new school buildings, which will receive $130,696,188 of the $330,000,000 new P. W. A. program, recalled the New Deal’s unprecedented subsidization of education, literature and the arts from relief funds. Half a million high school and col- lege students will get part-time jobs this year from the National Youth Administration’s $27,000,000 allotment, zlokalch may be increased to $50,000.- Last year 40,000 unemployed teach- ers were given jobs conducting classes in adult education attended by 2,000,- 000 both from relief rolls and the gen- eral public. Similar activities are planned this year by the Works Prog- ress Administration. Dwarfing the Federal Government’s previous activities in ccaducting the Military Academy at West Point, the Naval Academy at Annapolis, the Coast Guard Academy at New Lon- don, Conn, and Indian schools with an enrollment of 81,000, the Civilian Conservation Corps expects to provide vocational education for practically all of its 500,000 members. . Instruction Manuals Issued. Robert Fechner, corps director, to- day issued the first two of 15 instruc- tion manuals for the 2,200 camp edu- cational advisers, with 78 district di- rectors, who will carry out the pro- gram. These, dealing with agriculture and automobile repairing, will be fol- lowed by others on automotive elec- tricity, carpentry, concrete construc- tion, cooking, conservation of natural resources, forestry, house wiring, ele- mentary mascary and bricklaying, me- chanical drawing, photography, radio servicing, soil conservation, plane sur- veying. They were prepared by the office of education which drafted the National Youth Administration program. There also is a $27,000,000 allot- ment, part of a $300,000,000 white- collar program, which provide jobs for 26,000 writers, actors, painters ‘The $130,000,000 P. W. A. school rogram includes 2,038 secondary school buildings, 71 of colleges and WHERE TO DINE. TOBY TAVERN | government. | ter in Pan-American Cartography,” universities, 11 of other educational institutions and 13 public libraries. In addition, at least an equal number of | smaller buildings are to be constructed by the Works Progress Administra- tion. 500 Schools Already Built. More than 500 schools already had been built under the old P. W. A, while Hopkins' F. E. R. A work program, reported that it had re- paired 30,188 secondary school build- ings and 417 college buildings, built 1,856 school buildings and 36 college buildings. Other main classifications of the new P. W. A. program are: Streets and highways, $15,889.743; sewer projects, $54,899,058; water systems, $30,098,535; electric power (excluding water generated), $8073,355;, mu-| nicipal buildings, $8,817,714. The $330,000,000 allotment repre- sented 45 per cent donations, the re- mainder being furnished by tke local The $182,095,581 re- mainder loaned by P. W. A. came from the old P. W. A. appropriation. Institute (Continued From First Page.) Dr. Isaiah Bowman, “A New Chap- and one by Dr. Rayo R. Platt on “The Millionth Map of Hispanic America.” Sessions of the institute will be held all this week, the closing meeting being held Saturday morning, When the delegates will be addressed by Sumner Welles, Assistant Secretary of State and sometime Ambassador to | Cuba. Social Events in Offing. Several visits and social mnctions} have been planned for the delegates, including & reception by Secretary | and Mrs. Hull on Friday and a ban- quet by the Organizing Committee of | the union on Friday evening. The delegates also will be guests of Mr. Welles at a luncheon. Visits to Mount Vernon, the National Archives and the National Academy of Sciences bave been arranged. ! Tomorrow the delegates will hear three prominent speakers at the morning session. They will be Dr. Luis Sanchez Ponton, who will speak on “The Importance of Geography in International Relations”; Dr. Inrique Finot, whose subject will be “Belivar, | Man of Peace,” and Maj. James Doo- little, who will speak on “The Con- quest of Distance.” Representatives of the republics of Latin America who are here in connection with the ob- servance of Air Navigation week have been invited to attend the meeting tomorrow morning. Reviews (Continued From First Page.) meet its obligations under a bond issue due 1950. Refused to reopen the gold contro- versy by turning down request of Fred W. Keithley of Los Angeles to pass on his contention a note con- taining a clause for payment in gold could not be paid off in any other currency. Agreed to pass on a lower court ruling that the Federal tax on liquor manufacturers and dealers could not | be imposed in dry States since the prohibition law was repealed. Refused to reconsider its action last Spring in dismissing the appeal of Angelo Herndon, colored Communist, convicted at Atlanta of inciting insur- rection and sentenced tq serve from 18 | to 20 years. The court agreed to review a deci- sion of the Ohio Supreme Court, which | had the effect of sustaining the Hawes-Cooper act of Congress empow- ering States to control or prohibit the | sale within their borders of prison- | made goods moving in interstate com- | merce. | The Federal law was challenged by Asa H. Whitfield, convicted in Cleve- land and fined $25 for violating the Ohio law prohibiting the sale of pris- on-made goods. Another attack on the A. A. A processing tax was filed today by the Washburn Crosby Co. of Minneapolis, appealing from a decision of the Fed- eral District Court at Kansas City. Judge Merrill E. Otis ruled the com- pany was entitled to recover process- ing taxes due before the A. A. A act was amended by Congress last August 24. LAWYERS' BRIEFS RUSH PRINTING lY RON 8. ADAMS 1509 H St. N.W. Next to Shoreham Building Luncheon . __ Every Night Dinners__ & $1 Sunday De Luxe__$1. 00, $1.25 Dinner, 5 to 8:30 11 MILLION IDLE, SAYSA.F.L.REPORT |Fall Business Pick-up Seen Based on Faulty Foundation. By the Associated Press. ‘The American Federation of Labor says “industrial unemployment still exceeds 11,000,000 and is above last year.” This statement was made by the federation in its monthly business sur- vey, in which it forecast continued | business improvement. It added, how- ever: “This Fall's business pick-up indi- cates a reversion to the pre-depression type of business expansion, when busi- ness men increased production because they saw a chance for good profits, without considering whether a firm foundation of workers’ buying power had been built to sustain it. “Such expansion, when it greatly | | exceeds buying power, can only end | in collapse, even if the downfall is postponed for several years.” The federation said “unless we have | some such catastrophe as a general war in Europe, business forecasters | are expecting business \mprovememi with a gradual upward trend during the next six months. poration profits are expected.” The National Economy League made public a study by John C. Gebhart, research director, yesterday, in which it was said that relief and public works costs “if not greatly curtailed | will soon undermine our national credit and make it difficult ever to return to the State and local govern- ments the responsibility which is rightfully theirs of caring for their own unemployed.” ted “considerable busi- * but, in contrast to the federation’s assertion that “American industry has not succeeded in putting the unemployed to work,” said there was a “marked reduction in unem- ployment.” Living standards were viewed by the ! federation as having been “set back 30 years” during the depression. In 1933, the survey said, “55 per cent of American families were living below the minimum needed to maintain health; 15 per cent had enough for health, but not for comfort; only 25 per cent had an income sufficient to | provide any degree of comfort.” DRIVER HAS SPEEDY IDEA KANSAS CITY, October 14 (#).— Henry L. Dilllagham, United States | marshal, tells of a friend “who seemed | to think the highway markers desig- nated the speed limit—on No. 40, he drove 40 miles an hour; when we reached No. 71, he speeded up to 71 miles an hour, and when we reached No. 169, I told him to let me out!” Installation Service and Fuel Oil SERVICE Increasing farm | income and further increases in cor- | A.F.L.VOTES FIGHT FOR 3XHOUR WEEK Proposal to Outlaw Injunc- tions in Strikes Studied by Labor. By the Associated Press. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., October 14—The American Federation of Labor Convention voted unanimously today to fight for a 30-hour work week through American business and industry. “We're going out of here and fight for this as we have never fought before,” shouted Willlam Green, fed- eration president, just before the con- vention approved the Shorter Work Week Committee’s report that the federation should use both its eco- nomic strength and its influence in Congress to reduce working hours. “If there’s any one who opposes this, let him get out of the way, be- cause the American Federation of Labor will not tolerate a slacker.” This last remark followed a ques- tion from the floor by W. R. Trotter, delegate from International Typo- graphical Union, as to whether the advocates of the 30-hour-week could depend on “at least neutrality from those members of the Executive Coun- cil who do not support this.” Edward J. Gainor, chairman of the Shorter Work Week Committee and a member of the council, said he didn’t know of any opposing council members. Trotter, interviewed by re- porters, declined to enlarge upon his remark. “Nothing will stop us from securing the 30-hour week,” Green shouted. “We will get it either through the exercise of our economic strength or through legislation. While many of us would rather get it through eco- nomic strength, I am sure we are not particularly concerned about the method, as long as we get it. “We cannot resign ourselves to a fate of caring permanently for 10 or 11 million persons on relief rolls. It is a menace to our democratic in- stitutions. “Labor, too, wants an opportunity | to enjoy leisure, to develop the spir- itual things in life. There is nothing that so destroys morale as continued unemployment.” ‘The committee reported that the Executive Council should be directed to bend every effort toward securing enactment of the Black-Connery 30- hour week bill. The center of the unemployment problem, it said. was the recent in- crease in workers’ productive capacity and, with N. R. A’s collapse, a wide- spread lengthening of working hours. “The sole remedy for our presen dilemma is a substantial shortening of the work week,” it concluded. The average work week last year, it pointed out, was 37!3 hours; this year, 38 hours. No effort should be spared, the com- mittee said, to shorten working hours. It recommended that this move be made the “paramount objective” of the convention. Meantime, George Harrison, presi- dent of the railway clerks and Green's | mediator in the factional scrap in the building trades department, told reporters he hoped he could announce a peace agreement before nightfall. A resolution condemning Gov. Paul V. McNutt of Indiana for calling out National Guardsmen in the strike at Terre Haute was referred to the fed- eration officers, with instructions to seek settlement of the labor dispute. A Labor party committee, organized | with William F. Kelley of the United Textile Workers at its head, an- nounced determination “to go to the floor of the convention with a plan | of concerted action.” Support has been given the resolu- | tion for creation of a labor party | introduced by Francis J. Gorman, vice president of the textile workers. Among supporting groups were the automo- bile workers, the ladies’ garment workers, the hatters, brewery workers, mine, mill and smelter workers, dyers and the fur workers. Meanwhile, delegates studied a pro- posal to outlaw injunctions in strikes. A resolution from the Illinois State Federation urging the abolition of in- junctions as “a treacherous weapon in the hands of employers” was be- fore the Legislation Committee, which was virtually ready to report to the convention. 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