Evening Star Newspaper, November 7, 1935, Page 4

RODSEVELT CLEAS BESK FOR RETURN Leaves Hyde Park Today for New York—Arrives Here ** Tomorrow Merning. - BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG, Staft Correspondent of The Star. HYDE PARK, N. Y., November 7.— Maintaining his silence regarding Tuesday’s elections, but apparently satisfled with the results, President Reosevelt today was busily engaged in’ clearing the little flat-topped desk 1in the cubby-hole officg at his mother’s home here preparatory to heading back to Washington. He will leave here about 3 p.m. for New York City in an open automobile. He yill remain there until about mid- night when he will go aboard a spe- cial ‘train which will put him- back in the Capital about breakfast time tomorrow morning. The President had an hour’s chab this morning with Elmer Van Wag- ner, .the first Democrat to be elected supervisor in Hyde Park township in the last 35 years. Mr. Roosevelt is known to have had in mind certain ideas incident to civic improvements in Hyde Park township and' took this occasion to make them known to the newly elected supervisor, which office corresponds to that of town mayor. Looking Forward to Trip. ‘The President said this morning he 1s looking forward to enjoying the 75- mile motor trip along the Hudson River to New York, a trip he has not made since just before his inaugura- tion. Mrs. Roosevelt, who has been with the President most of the time during his brief stay at his mother’s home at Hyde Park, went to New York yesterday and will have their town residence on Sixty-fifth street in readiness for the President when he arrives there late today. Mr, Roosevelt’s stay at his New York home will be just about long enough to permit him to put on his.evening clothes before going to the Masonic Temple. There he will have dinner with a group of about a dozen officers of the Grand Lodge of Masons, after which he will participate in the in- itiation of his sons, James and Frank- Uin, jr, into the Masonic Order. On this occasion the two Roosevelt sons will receive their third degree. Mr. Roosevelt today intimated he person- ally would take part in administering the degree to his boys. Speaking of his future plans, the President said he expects to remain in Washington until about November 20 or 21, when he will go to Warm Bprings, Ga., for a two-weeks’' stay over Thanksgiving day. He prides himself on not having missed Thanks- giving dinner with the infantile paral- ysis patients at the Warm Springs Foundation for a number of years. Returning to Washington from Warm Springs the President will ar- range his train schedule so as to go first to Chicago, where on December 9 he will address the annual meeting cf the American Farm Bureau Federa- tion. Has Three Tasks Here. Immediately upon his arrival tomor- row in ‘Washington, however, Mr. Roosevelt has three tasks in mind. First he will confer with Secretary of State Hull on the foreign situation. Then he has to prepare the Armistice day address he will deliver in person next Monday in the Arlington Amphi- theater. Finally, he still has the 1936-7 budget to handle. Despite his refusal to comment, Mr. Roosevelt was decidedly happy over the Democratic victory in Ken- tucky, the first definite news of which reached him last night. The first message came from Senator Logan of Kentucky, which read: “Early re- turns indicate smashing victory in Kentucky for your administration and the Democratic State ticket.” On behalf of the President, Secretary Early issued a statement in his own name, saying “The President expressed great gratification that Kentucky, the first State that required a referendum vote, is voting so overwhelmingly in favor of old-age pensions, which the President considers, in many ways, to be the greatest act of the last Congress.” Mr. Roosevelt’s satisfaction was sharpened a little further by a tele- gram received last night from Mayor Hague of Jersey City relating to the elections in New Jersey, Mayor Hague's message pointed out that the Democrats had run up a plurality of 138,000 in Hudson County, the largest in history, after accepting a Repub- lican challenge to make the political fight on the New Deal issue. Mayor Hague informed. the President he be- lieved that in 1936 an even greater plurality would be recorded than in ‘Tuesday’s election, & plurality which, he sald, would be so large that it could not be offset by Republican suc- :flu in other sections of New Jer- Y. LABOR UNIT REPORTS FOOD PRICE INCREASE By the Associated Press. A slight increase in retail food prices during the two weeks ended October 22 was reported today by the Labor Department. Prices advanced to 80.5 per cent of their! 1923-1925 average from 79.9 per eent . the previous two weeks. They still were considerably below the cor- res] weeks of 1930, when the Index was 97.8. Mepts were among the few items Which dropped during the two weeks en October 22, their index declin- ing ffom 101.3 to 100.6. SNOW--You can buy we ELLING O FASTEST THROUGH Actually Cuts Your Heating Costs NO MONEY DOWN YEARS T0 PAY up 10 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1935. ‘Aid Chest Drive Chest (Continued From First Page.) generally prosperous community, Dick- inson said. That kind of community is impossible, he added, “unless the elementary human needs are taken care of.” “All the indexes of prosperily are turning upward,” especially in Wash- ington with the restoration of Gov- ernment pay cuts, Dickinson said, pointing out this should make for more generous gifts to the Community Chest. Jesse H. Jones, chairman of the Reconstruction Finance Corp., said he wished “we did not have any Federal relief. “I wish private charities would take care of all persons in need,” he de- clared. “I believe that we could do it it we really undertook the task.” Jones safd the Government cannot continue taking care of all people in need and should not be expected to perform this service. He said that regardless of whether the relief comes from the Government or from private end. Maj. Gen. Merritte W, Ireland, U. S, A, retired, chairman of the unit, pre- sided at the meeting. 115,000 Federal Workers. “We have 115,000 governmental workers in Washington,” he said “This is more Government employes than are to be found in any other city in the United States, if not in the world. That makes this Community Chest a governmental drive—help make it a success.” Clarence Phelps Dodge, president of the Chest, thanked the Government workers on behalf of those in need for the work they did last year. He urged an even more intense effort this year. Herbert L. Willett, jr., director of the Chest, told of the need for addi- tional funds to prevent hunger and lack of shelter. Frank A. Birgfeld, chief clerk of the Treasury Department, brought greet- ings from Miss Josephine Roche, As- sistant Secretary of the Treasury, who was unable to be present. At a meeting yesterday of the Spe- cial Assignment Unit President Dodge urged workers to make increased ef- forts to obtain not only & 20 per cent increase on last year’s gifts, but suffi- cient increase to make up Chairman William McClellan’s “120 per cent goal.” He declared there was an acute need for the additional money neces- sary to make this increased goal. Several increases of 20 per cent were announced in gifts received yesterday. ‘The reports for the include: Melvin Behrends, H Berliner, $3,600; Mr. B. Burling, $1,200; bur J. Carr, $1,000; liam McKee Dunn, 139 12th Se. N.E C. Eustis, $4,000; Mr. and 8. Flannery, $1,000; Mrs. Robert Hitt, $3,000; William F. Hitt, $500. Hub Furniture Co., $1,200; Marshall Langhorne, $500; Mrs. Hannah SMITH’S TRANSFER AND STORAGE CO. 313 You St N.W. North 3343 Washington’s IL BURNER PLAN Juid heal= No need now to go through another unpleasant winter of tending fires. We will install a Famous Fluid Heat burner immediately and pay one penny down. Remember the burner leading all Washington in sales and is backed by L. P. Steuart’s 31-year-old reputation. L.P. STEUART & BROS. need not e Lincoln 4300 (3 Complete Heating S Jesse Jones, chairman of the R. F. C. (left), and John W. Dickinson, Assistant Attorney General (right), speaking before a meeting of Com= munity Chest workers in the Interstate Commerce Commission auditorium. means the: people pay the bill in the a 8, 2 —Star Staff Photos. ‘burgh, $500; Mr. and Mrs. William Montgomery, $1,200; National Bank of ‘Washington, $1,770; Mr. and Mrs. James C. Peacock, $500: Riggs Na- tional Bank, $7.500: Mr. and Mrs. William M. Ritter, $500. Dr. and Mrs. William C. Rives, | $8,000; St. Patrick’s Church, $2,000; Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Sanders, $500; Mr, and Mrs. Paul E. Shorb, $600; Edward Russell True, Jr., $500; Mr. and Mrs. Donald Woodward, $2500; Peoples Drug Stores, Inc., $5,000. Anonymous gifts of $10,000, $750 and $600 were also reported. ‘The Chest’s Metropolitan Unit will | meet in tHe Willard Hotel ball room | at 7 p.m. topight to lay final plans | for its drive.; Principal speaker will be Rev. Oliver Hart, pastor of St.| Johns Episcopal Church. AUTOMOBILE efinishing $17.50up FATIS HFEST, [FADERS DECLARE Barney Oldfield Believes Cars Have Reached Peak of Perfection. The new 1936 automobiles on dis- play at the twin shows at the Calvert Exhibition Hall and the Mayflower Hotel, are declared by leaders in the industry to be the safest cars ever manufactured. Barney Oldfield, vet- eran race driver, who has been close to death many times in brushes on the track, is appearing at the show on Calvert street. He says the new cars have reached the peak of engineering perfection in brakes, steel bodies, headlight illumination and other fac- tors which go to make for highway safety. Many of the cars which now use hydraulic brakes back up the hy- draulic system with the added safety of auxiliary mechanical brakes, even though breakage in the feed lines of hydraulic-braked cars has been al- most non-existant. All the new cars feature the turret top of steel, one of the major moves toward automobile safety in recent years. Deeper and heavier frame members, steel top sup- ports and improved steering all have made notable contributions to safety in the new cars. The twin shows will remain open each day through Saturday. The sepa- rate General Motors exhibit at the Mayflower is open from 9 am. to 11 pm., while the general show staged by the Washington Automotive Trade Association at 2701 Calvert street is open from 11 am. to 11 pm. Dick Murphy, in charge of the Calvert street show, predicts a high attendance of around 50,000 for the trade associa- tion show, while Floyd Akers, chair- man of the committee in charge of the Mayflower exhibit, is even more optimistic, predicting that 60,000 per- sons will have viewed the cars by clos- ing time Saturday night. A feature of the General Motors show is a fash- ion show to be put on by Lansburgh & Bros. at 8:30 tonight and tomorrow night. Sales of cars at both shows are said to top the sales records of recent shows by good margins. General Motors 8:30 MUSIC Central Auto Works 451 Eye St. N.W. DI. 6161 Debutantes Visit Auto Show $472,000 RECOVERED IN H. 0. L. C. FRAUDS 25 Convicted, 86 Indicted, 1,000 Cases Being Studied—Wanton Destruction Is Problem. Ev the Associated Press. Striking at a variety of frauds in connection with Home Owners’ Loan | Corp. transactions, the corporation’s | eriminal investigation section reported FREE ADMISSION Fashion Show Dealers’ Exhibit MAYFLOWER HOTEL Tonight and Tomorrow Night P.M. Show Staged by Lansburgh & Bro. ENTERTAINME SEE THE NEW 1936 MODELS RCA VICTOR PRESENTS THE RADIO WITH THE NEW As when RCA introduced the first dynamic speaker — the first AC set = the first Superheterodyne, RCA now opens another era in radio, You will hear the be interested to see and new Magic Brain instry- ments—delighted to learn you can own one at a surprisingly low price. ~ NO MONEY DOWN JORDAN'S BUDGET PLAN 515011 Metal Tubes These debutantes posed with new model cars on exhibit at the Mayflower Hotel in the General Motors auto show. Left to right: Miss Jean Gilbert, seated on door of car; Miss Mannevillette Sullivan, peering over the cowl; Miss Frances Glover at the wheel and Miss Katherine McKane standing beside driver. Rear row: Miss Alice Clark, Miss Polly Wirgman and Miss Peggy McN eale. today it had recovered $472,000 for H. O. L. C. borrowers snd applicants for loans. The funds were recovered after de- tection of such frauds as solicitation or collection of unauthorized fees from applicants, unauthorized charges to borrowers by former mottgage holders, impersonation of H. O. L. C. employes and forgery. Twenty-five persons have been con- victed, 86 indictments have been pro- cured, 214 cases are pending before Federal grand juries ard more than 1,000 reported frauds are being studied. Since the H. O. L. C. began fore- Look for the Gold ~—Star Staff Photos. closure operations the investigation section has been faced with the new problem of “wanton destruction” of homes by persons who are forced to move out. “The owner knows that we are go- ing to foreclose,” remarked one offi- cial, “and before we come in he may tear down the light fixtures, take out | stoves and do other damage.” | INDUSTRY “AWAITS NRA.PARLEY DATA Co-ordinator Berry Insists® No Plan Has Been Made for December 9. By the Associated Press, The Administration’s Co-ordinator of Industrial Recovery was still’ juggling a fair sample of “dynamite” today as both industry and labor awaited further word about the pro- posed business conference here Decem-" ber 9. But while both factions waited cau- tiously and some New Deal politicians, shook their heads over the wisdom of setting the stage for a free-for-all, uprising, N. R. A. Co-ordinator George L. Berry held his ground, declining even to admit he had worked out & plan for submission to the conference. “I have decided to make this cone ference as self-determining as is hu- manly possible,” he said. “I don't. want it to be said that we are trying. to push anything down anybody's throat.” * Meanwhile, only one spokesman for either industry or labor made com- ment on the proposal. It came from the Machinery and Allied Products Institute in Chicago, which declared: “If such conferences are held, the manufacturers of the machinery in- dustry will be represented in vigore' ous opposition to legislation, extension of legislation or substitute legislation eNmk;')dilx.z’g the basic principles of The Chamber of Commerce of the’ United States, the National Associa= | tion of Manufacturers and the Ameri« |can Federation of Labor made no | comment. Hotel Continental Features Tonight Special 7-Course Source of Names. 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