Evening Star Newspaper, December 5, 1935, Page 21

Wash ington News he Fn WITH SUNDAY MORNING POLITICAL PARTIES DECLARED AIDING - FASCISM IN U3, New Labor Group Suggested in Resolution Offered United Mine Workers. BOOST IN LIVING COSTS CITED IN WAGE DEMAND No Advance Indication Is Given on Action to'Be Taken on 300 Proposals. Charges that both the Democratic and Republican parties are fostering fascism in the United States were made today in a resolution adopted by the Tri-State Convention of the United Mine Workers of America at the Willard Hotel. The resolution was one of more than 300 on which the convention is ex- pected to take action before adjourn- ing Saturday. In laying the blame for the spread of fascism in the United States, the resolution charged both parties have “time and again, when | either party was in power, passed anti- labor legislation, serving instead the interests of finance and capital.” They charged “there is a growing danger of fascism in the United States | which is directly fostered by both | Democratic and Republican parties by | their use of new laws to gag labor.” Ask National Party. The delegates, in voting the reso- fution,” called on the international organization to convene a separate | national convention to organize a labor party 90 days before the 1936 primary elections, The resolution was adopted and referred to the United Mine Workers of America. Other resolutions scheduled to come before the convention declare “mone- tary inflation and destruction of crops and cattle” boosted the cost of living in this country and worked a hard- ship on anthracite coal miners. There are 16 resolutions on the sub- ject brought to the convention by delegates of various local unions in support of a demand for a 15 per cent wage increase. This demand will be | made at a wage conference to be held after the expiration of the five-year agreement March 31. They said, in practically identical language, that the increase was necessary because of “monetary inflation and destruction of | crops’ and cattle, making the mine | workers' salary insufficient for decent American standard of living. There was no advance indication | as to what action the convention will take. Relations Strained. The cordlal co-operation between | the Roosevelt administration and the national leadership of the United Mine Workers on such things as pas- sage of the Guffey bituminous coal control act was felt by many leaders in the convention to have been struck a severe blow in the tone of these resolutions. Considerable speculation as to the resolutions’ political portent was rife in the convention. The fact that many of Pennsylvania’s hard coal miners live—and vote—in normal- 1y strong Republican districts also came in for consideration. Most of the resolutions pending in the convention deal with wages and hours. However, the first motion put before the body this morning was a blow at the membership itself. By vote of 360 to 359, the delegates con- eurred in a resolution which will in- crease the dues from $1 to $1.25 a man throughout the organization. Heated discussion, during which a roll eall was demanded, preceded passage of the resolution. ALL IN SCHOOLS SIGN COMMUNISM DENIAL Report on November Statements Given School Board by Dr. Frank W. Ballou. Every teacher, officer and employe of the District public school system signed statements they neither taught nor advocated communism during the month of November, as required by the recent anti-communism ruling of Controller General McCarl. This fact was reported to the Board of Education yesterday by Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent, who also aid that blank forms have been sup- lied the employes of the system to cover the months of September and October. For the first time in-several weeks Dr. Ballou's statement was the only one made at the board meeting on the $ubject of teaching communism. A series of 24 telegrams and about half a dozen letters defending the Americanism of Prof. Carl Becker, uthor of “Modern History,” a high hool text book now under fire, were eferred to the special committee headed by Robert A, Maurer to con- gder in making its study of all ap- ed books. " The board voted to supply the Exec- litive Committee of the Federation of Citizens' Associations with a list of all jpmed periodicals circulated in the éMISS E. V. WHITE DIES ’ Miss Elizabeth V. White, 24, a Gov- ent employe, died yesterday in er apartment &t 1841 Columbia road, here she had lived with her mother, . Cordelia White. She had been since Saturday with pneumonia. # Funeral services will be held at 5:30 .m. tomorrow at the S. H. Hines Co. funeral home, 2901 Fourteenth street. §PonTEn ON PROBATION Joseph Nelson, 22-year-old colored at Union Station, was placed probation today when arraigned Police Court on a concealed weapon arge that was brought after he ap- at the first precinct last night th a revolver and told police to their guns on the table, BY JOHN JAY DALY. After years of hard work among the poor and needy many relief case work- ers now are confronted themselves with the possibility of going on the relief rolls. ‘With this problem before them near- ly 100 case workers were jammed into a little room at the Community Build- ing last night wondering what the fu- ture holds—not only for them, but for the unfortunates they have rubbed shoulders with during the depression. In this setting the bewildered and dazed case workers overflow camp- meeting chairs and listened to leaders calling for action. Word had gone forth that relief rolls and case workers’ salaries would be cut 25 per cent. In plain language it was explained that this means that every $10 hand- ed out to a man and wife and two children on relief—to keep them go- ing for a week—must now be stretched over a period of 10 days. It means that with the coming of Winter there will not be enough case workers to care for the needy. ington, 50 will fall by the wayside. | When this happens, aceording to Miss Edna Kury, chairman of the meeting, many of the case workers will go on relief. “Some of our colleagues will become our clients,” she added bitterly. Seldom has Washington seen such a sight. Case workers, hardened to the marts of misery, sitting with their chins in their hands, pondering their own fate. Boondoggling Blamed. Old Joe McGillicuddy, a veteran case worker, couldn't stand the smoke- | l]aden atmosphere in the little room. | He beckoned | paper man: “Come on our in the hall |and I'll give you an ear full.” It seems McGillicuddy had his Irish up. All he wanted to do was meet “boondoggling.” “That word ‘boondoggling’ is re- sponsible for this situation,” he said. “Since they began calling relief ‘boon- doggling,’ everybody’s against it. Consequently, the higher-ups, who sit like generals behind the lines, decide to call off the campaign. They are going to cut down on relief, when there “Ill admit there has been some ‘grafting’ and some not more than 4 per cent. also tell you this: It's gonna be hell this Winter in some quarters.” He recited some of the cases he nad personally investigated: A widowed mother with three children. All suf- fering from tuberculosis. Every week just emough to pay rent, buy food, and & bit of clothing. “Hell! .I could make you cry, hard- boiled as you are,” McGillicuddy said, “but let it go at that. What about these relief workers, these case work- ers we're about to throw on the re- lief rolls? Remember this. Every one o 'em had to have at least two years’ college work. They are trained. And they know their business—but their only business is investigating the needs of the needy. That was Of the 200 relief workers in Wash- | to an old-line news- | the man who invented the term | is more need for relief now than ever. | ‘chiseling’—but | But I'l| WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1935. Aid Workers Face Possibility " Of Becoming Applicants Slash of 25 Per Cent in Salaries Blow to Small Army of Those Who Have Given Their Best for Needy. their life work. Now look at 'em!” Mac stepped to the door of the stuffy little room and pointed to the array of humanity. Almost 100 pairs of eyes looked searchingly in the eyes of the speaker, the chairman pleading for a protest to be sent to President Roosevelt, the District Com- missioners, Harry Hopkins, head of Federal relief, and Elwood Street, Dis- trict welfare director. Eyes That See: Things. “Look at thosé eyes?” Mac said. “They've seen things—sights that would break your heart!” There were eyes of young girls, just out of college; white girls and colored girls. Eyes of elderly men and mid- dle-aged women. Eyes of strapping young men, hard, cold, clear eyes— eyes of frail young fellows who looked as if they wanted to go home to their | mothers. “But fear of losing their jobs is not | their only fear,” Mac explained. “They | are afraid, too, of breaking the sad news to families on relief. Imagine | walking into a hovel and telling five | starving people that you are cutting down on their allowance.” He went into another room and pointed to a map of the District. “See that map on the wall>” he said. “There you have the Nation's | Capital. And though you wouldn’t believe it, there are 10,000 relief cases here. Four to a case, that means 40,- 000 persons just one jump ahead of | the sheriff. “Now, take a pencil and block out | a nice little portion of the city within | sight of the Capitol dome. Draw a line up North Capitol street. Turn loft on W street. Draw it down Twelfth street to Pennsylvania ave- | nue. Go right over to the Capitol. In that area you have 60 pe: cent of the cases on relief. A pretty picture? “I wish I could loan you my eyes and let them show you what they've seen. Or any of these case workers. Get their slant on it. They're only human.” “What is their slant?” he was asked. Workers and Their Woes. “That'’s a fair question,” he re- twned. “Relief workers—case work- ers you call 'em—are a funny lot. They get paid $1,320 amaually. Some of the senior case workers get $1,800— and the juniors get $1,620. But the actual investigators, who loock on the | pot when it's empty—they get $1,320. They have gone through primary grades, prep school and at least two years of college to get their jobs. This is the Civil Service requirements. They | start out as humanitarians. They are | going to study humaa nature in the raw.” Mac fears he is going on the relief rolls himself. He has a wife and two childsen to support on $1,320 a year, and rents, food and clothing are pretty high these days. “What's the use?” Mac flung over his shoulder and emptied the ashes | from his old dudeen, kuocking the | pipe against the iron fence that sur- | rounds the Community House. He pulled his coat collar around his ears and walked away whistling under the stars that gleamed so cold and far away. SLIDING GAS RATE - RESULTS CHARTED Effect Is Calculated for Util- ities Body Before Rul- ing Is Given. What the practical results of adop- tion of the proposed sliding scale plan for annual correction of gas rates would be were being calculated today at the direction of the Public Utilities Commission as a preliminary to its de- cision in the case. Experts of the Washington and Georgetown Gas Light companies, at the request of the commission, are casting up estimates of what will be the effects a year from now if the slid- ing scale is approved and what results may be expected to flow from the prof- fered ipmediate rate cut. Commission members today de- clined to commit themselves on whether they would approve the plan as it now stands. There have been in- dications the commission would be ready to approve a sliding scale if a plan meeting commission require- ments was submitted. The company may be asked to make some changes in details and terms. Byars M. Bachman, chief account- ant of the commission, is preparing a detailed analysis of the new rate schedule which would replace the present 8.5 per cent discount on all bills and effect a further cut of $305.- 000. The discount, effective since 1932, is figured to produce now an annual rate cut totaling $546,000. Commission to Get Findings, Findings in these studies are expect- ed to be laid before the commission Monday, when the public hearing will be resumed. The commission late yes- terday recessed the hearing until Mon- day after major items in the plan had been reviewed. ‘Important new developments which marked the close of yesterday's hear- ing included these points: 1. Calculations showing that the companies will need increased business to produce a basic net return of 6.5 per cent on-an ‘agreed rate base of $21,750,000, as allowed under the pro- posed new plan. 2. Company lawyers stated they would be willing to have the commis- Potomac which the public was handed the “hot end of the poker.” 4. Counsel for the company and commission and People’s Counsel Rob- erts all declined to describe how they figured in their conferences the pro- posed $305,000 rate cut. 5. Company spokesmen that would diminish company returns. Roberts Backs Siiding Scale. Roberts again strongly championed the cause of the sliding scale plan and saw possibilities of benefit to the com- pany as well as to the public. He told the commission the sales of gas have been rising for some time, even with- out the proposed new rate cut and revi- sion of rate schedules. He voiced belief the operating expenses of the com- panies would be reduced under the new plan and otherwise saw possible benefits flowing from an end to the several years of investigation of the rate base and charges. The people’s counsel again declared the proposed rate schedules would be highly “promotional” even if the com- mission ordered some changes in the proposed promotion rate schedules. Utilities Commissioners Riley E. El- gen and Richmond B. Keech tried a number of times to get lawyers wio prepared the sliding-seale plan to out- line calculations employed in figuring the proposed additional rate cut of $305,000. Each time they declined. Roberts in- sisted the figure was “arbitrary.” Hin- man. D. Folsom, special assistant cor- poration counsel then declared- it was not arbitrary in the sense it was “pulled out of thin air.” He and Rob- erts agreed various calculations had been made. The commission finally gave up pursuit of the question. It was unwillingly that the com- pany’s chief counsel, Stoddard M. Stevens, jr., finally agreed that the comrany would prepare a projection of the effects of the sliding-scale plan through the coming' year. TIRE FIRM GRANTED $35,000 IN SEIZURE Verdict Against Fisk Co. Result of 1934 Controversy Involving $10,000 Order. The firm of Ehlis & Douad, tire explained proposed District tax boos!.sl te | associations to meet with him at 8 WOMAN, &, DES AS CARS COLLDE TTHD..DEATH Laurel Woman Is Killed in Auto of Son by Crash at Corner Here. THREE OTHERS HURT IN TRAFFIC CRASHES Inquests Being Held in Two, Fa- talities—Albert C. Moxin Ex- onerated in Hit-Run Case. Traffic took another life last night, the 106th since January 1, when a 46-year-old mother was killed in an automobile driven by her son. The victim, Mrs. Elizabeth G. Swartz of Laurel, Md., suffered a fractured skull and other injuries when the car collided with another machine at Eighteenth and Hamlin | streets northeast. | Joseph G. Swartz, 26, of 917 East Capitol street, who had driven his| mother to Washington from Laurel, | and Benjamin H. Nolt, 20, of 3508 | Eighteenth street, operator of the other car, were released pending an inquest. Mrs. Swartz was dead on arrival at | | Sibley Hospital, where she was taken | by police. Three Others Hurt. Three other persons were injured | in accidents late yesterday and today. | Harry Butler, 35, colqred, of 637 U street, was taken to Freedmen's Hos- | pital with undetermined injuries after he was struck by a Post Office truck ‘a the 2200 block of Georgia | |avenue. The truck allegedly was | driven by Hugh H. Foster, 20, of 1436 | Eighteenth place southeast. Adena Crowe, 25, colored, received a severe head injury and possibly a | | skull fracture when an automobile | driven by her husband collided with | another car at Tenth and M streets. | She was taken to Emergency Hospital. Willlam Crowe, 35, of 1822 Vernon | street, the woman’s husband, was cut | on the scalp and forehead. C. H.| Gould, 411 Franklin street northeast, | | the other driver, was unhurt, police | said. Driver Exonerated. Louis T. Ruehl, 23, Sanitary Grocery clerk,» was exonerated by a coroner's jury today of blame in the death of Henry W. Andrews, 68, vice president | of the J. B, Kendall Co., who was killed | instantly Monday when struck by Ruehl's car. The accident occurred on | Eckington place near Q street north- east. | Ruehl, it was testified, was driving | | at moderate speed when Andrews ap- | parently rushed in front of his auto- mobile while crossing the street. Ruehl lives at 708 Irving street northeast. Andrews, who lived at 3603 New Hampshire avenue, was pronounced dead on arrival at Casualty Hospital. Death was due to a fractured skull and crushed chest. Another inquest was being held to- day in the death of Thomas Albert Walmsley, 66, who was killed Sunday at Pifteenth and L streets. A coroner’s jury yesterday decided Joseph Coleman, 20, colored, who was fatally injured Thanksgiving day when struck by a hit-and-run car, was killed by an unknown driver. Albert C.| Moxin, 25, of 520 Benning road south- east, who was suspected of being the driver, was exonerated. Coleman, who lived at 629 W street, died Saturday in | Casualty Hospital. e |EASTERN AVENUE COST ESTIMATED | $75,000 Is Seen Probable Figure for Widening and Paving. TAKOMA PARK, Md., December 5.—The cost of widening and per- manently paving Eastern avenue be- tween Laurel and New Hampshire av- enues would be approximately $75,000, members of the Takoma Park Boun- dary Citizens' Association were ad- vised by L. R. Grabill at a meeting last night. In accordance with the District highway plan, Eastern avenue is scheduled to be 90 feet wide, with pro- vision for a 36-foot roadway, pave- ments and parking. The speaker ex- plained the dedication and condemna- tion proceedings necessary and the process of improvements. The cost of land needed for widening this thoroughfare would approximate $30,- 000. In the event of widening Eastern avenue, two residences now extending beyond the street line would have to be removed. By reason of the very difficult situation on the Maryland side of this thoroughfare, Grabill ad- vised concentration of efforts on im- proving the District side first, with a temporary plan. for the Maryland sections. Grabill said that it would be neces- sary to co-operate with the Maryland authorities at the time the District was establishing grades to prevent any, changes later. President H. F. Main announced a number of property owners had re- sponded to the questionnaire sent out a few days ago relative to their will- ingness to dedicate the necessary land for widening Eastern avenue between Laurel and New Hampshire avenues. 'ROBERTS URGES CITIZENS TO TRANSIT MEETING Evidence on Service to Be Planned for Presentation to Public Utilities Commission. - People’s Counsel William A. Roberts ‘today urged spokesmen for -citizens’ pm. December 14 at the District Building. Evidence will be planned for offering at the public hearing De- cember 16 ‘before the Public Utilities Commission on service rendered by the Capital Transit Co. Roberts has sent to citizens’ asso- DEADLINENEARING, RESISTANCE. FACED IN PARK EVIGTIONS “They Might Get Shot,” Mountain Woman Warns of Officers. DEPUTIES RELUCTANT TO ENFORCE ORDERS Many Virginia Families Have No Place to Go or Transporta- tion Means. Threats of resistance were heard to- day as the deadline for eviction of remaining families in the Shenandoah National Park area neared. Sheriffs charged with executing the eviction writs by 11 o'clock tomorrow appeared somewhat at a loss them- selves as they faced the alternative of moving families without new homes from their dwellings or risking punish- ment for failing to carry out the court orders. Meanwhile. plans were pushed to begin work immediately on the Shen- andoah-Great. Smoky Parkway, Na- tional Park Service officials and rep- resentatives of the State of Virginia having ironed out technical difficulties which have delayed the project. Center of Interest. Interest in the eviction centers in Dark Hollow, a Madison County mountain community, where nine families are clinging to their Homes, hoping something will happen to pre- vent Sherifl L. H. Lillard from ousting them. Typical of the attitude of the Hol- low people was the answer of one mother who, when asked where they were going, said: “We ain't going nowhere, and if they try to make us, they might get themselves shot.” It was reported one mountaineer had warned the officers not to come to his place and others grimly as- serted: “They won't set our little children out.” Rev. Gird Cave, a leader of the community who accepted the Govern- ment’s offer of a homestead, said he feared there would be resistance. See Their Mistakes. “The people have nowhere to go,” he explained. “I have told them they can’'t fight the Government and now when it is too late they see their mls- take in failing to sign for home- steads.” Some are living in the Dark Hollow | Church, while one family, confident the Government will let them remain, built a new home. All are determined | to stay as long as possible in the only home most of them have ever known. More sympathetic with the moun- taineers’ plight than with the Govern- ment’s determination to gain full pos- session of the park land, Madison County officials are said to be carrying out the eviction proceeding with the utmost reluctance. Have Food Stored. In Page County, it was stated, some of the mountain families have buried apples, potatoes and other foodstuffs in the ground for the Winter, and will have no way to carry them to thei new home. Automobiles are an un. known luxury among them. Altogether, 20 families in four counties are involved in the eviction cases, inaugurated on November 22. W. C. Armstrong, attorney for the State Conservation Commission, said he had not received a report as to how many of the fami- lies had been removed. e - LORING QUIZ TURNS TO LETTER WRITER Bride-to-Be's Financial Affairs Are Still Being In- vestigated. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md., Decem- ber 5.—Search for a new lead in the Corinna Loring murder mystery was moved today to a Baliimore suburb where investigators are to question a woman who wrote a letter to Lieut. Joseph H. Itzel, ace Baltimore detec- tive in charge of the investigation, purporting to throw some light on the motive behind the brutal slaying of the Mount Rainier bride-elect a month 2go. The information contained in the message was not disclosed. Efforts also are to be made to trace the owner- ship of a pair of women’s kid gloves and one man’s glave which police say they found in the car of Victor Red- | mond, who tonight will be given a | hearing before Judge Hughes on a charge of attempted assault on a 9- year-old Mount Rainier girl 10 days 880, 2 Itzel and State's Attorney Alan Bowie are still concentrating their ef- forts on obtaining a true picture of the murdered girl's financial affairs. It was learned that they are far from satisfied with the information in hand. The Baltimore detective visited Mrs. George A. Loring, mother of the slain girl, late yesterday to seek what addi- ticnal knowledge she might have had about her daughter’s savirgs, which at one time were reported at $1,000. truckman whose machine crashed into a car in which the detective was a senger. \d ‘The accident occurred about .mile from Upper‘Marlboro, The ik d Development | ening Star % Calves Lost on Way to Butcher | COUPLE of sight-seeing calves not only “took in” the Wash- ington Monument last night. but got themselves taken for | a ride in a taxicab besides. | | The two were among 10 yearlings which took a sudden notion to do a bit of “rubbernecking” around the Capi- | tal—possibly as a sort of “last fling” | before the inevitable transformation into delectable veal cutlets and chops. | Along with 30 similar animals the | | two were en route to the slaughter- | house of a Southwest meat whole- saler when their opportunity to see the town presented itself. The tail | gate of the truck in which the calves | were being hauled’ fell off and 10 of | them, inciuding our two friends, fol- | lowed suit. | | For a while the vicinity of Captol Hill looked as if it was badly in need | | of a few first-class cow hands, what | with calves trotting all over the place, ! and mooing or braying., or whatever | it is that such critters do. \ Take in Sights of Capital e Charles Hudgins, attendant at the Animal Rescue League, wakes up Gertie and Gwendolyn for the photographer. —Star Staff Photo. Anyway, two of the sightseers wound up on the Monument Grounds, where they were picked up by a soft- | hearted cab driver. He not only gave | them their first taxi ride, but had them corraled at the Animal Rescue League, where they were fed and lodged. This morning, however, they were turned over to the mea: dealer to whom they were originally con- signed. While the two cab riders were hav. ing a look at the Monument the others were rounded up by the truck driver, Earl Bailey of Colesville, Md., and his helper, Arthur Prazier, 1819 Central avenue northeast, with the assistance of a couple of policemen and a hand- ful of volunteers—including a boy with a homemade lariat. One of the animsls got as far as Thirteenth and | N streets—a good 2 miles from the scene of the “stampede”—before be- ing caught, DRYS CONTINUE WEEK'S CAMPAIGN | Speakers Defend “Search- and-Seizure” Provisions of Guyer Bill. Continuing their week’s anti-liquor | | campaign threughout the city, speak- ers for the United Dry Forces last night stoutly defended the “search- and-seizure” provisions of the Guyer ill, which would return prohibition to the District. Five more rallies will | be held tonight. At Union Methodist Episcopal | | Church Rev, J. E. Fort will preside | and Miss Laura Lindley of the Anti- | Saloon League will speak. | Dr. W. S. Abernethy, pastor, will | preside at Calvary Baptist Church, where the speaker will be Deets Pick- ett of the Methodist Board of Tem- perance, Prohibition and = Public Morals. | At Zion Baptist Church Rev. J. M. | Ellison will preside and speakers will be E..M. Bruan and John B. Ham- ‘mond. Mount Rainier - Christian Church, Mount Rainier, Md., will have for its chairman Rev. F. L. Miller, and J. Raymond Schmidt will speak. At Hamline Methodist Episcopal Church, Rev. H. W. Burgan, the pastor, will speak. Rallies Tomorrow Night. There will be two more rallies to- | morrow night. None is scheduled for | Saturday night, but Sunday morning many churches will take up the subject from their pulpits. The drive will close with a mass meeting at 3 p.m. Sunday at National City Christian Church. Search and seizure provisions of the Guyer bill were defended by John B. Hammond, former chief of police of Des Moines, Iowa, at the rally in John Wesley A. M. E. Church last night. “The greatest problem an officer has is in procuring evidence admissible in court,” said Hammond. “The most practical way so far discovered is by searches and seizures. It being the most competent form of evidence and the haraest for defending lawyers to fight it, naturally, concentrates their attacks on the legitimacy of the pro- ceeding and hence their ‘battle cry’ is ‘unconstitutional.’ “Representations are made by the wet interests, that the search and seizure provisions of the Guyer bill are in violation of the fourth amendment, but the great Chief Justice Taft, writ- ing an opinion on that subject, held that the fourth amendment only con- demned ‘unreasonable searches, not all searches.” That should have ended the controversy, but it does not. The liquor interests never obey the mandate of the | Constitution ner respect the court.” General Secretary Speais. Harry S. Warner, general secretary | RELIEF OFFICIALY HELD POWERLESS Cite Inability to Do Anything About Lack of Funds for Rents. Distriet relief officials declared to- day they were helpless to do anything about lack of funds for payment of rent of relief clients as a result of | the 25 per cent slash ordered this month in relief payments due to short- age of District funds. ‘The - possibility relief families may be evicted from rented quarters has been considered, but neither Commis- sioner George E. Allen nor Welfare Director Elwood Street see anything the District can do. Relief families now, as in the past, | are given cash budget allowances and make their own arrangements for housing. Some guidance has been given in the past in planning housing. but the arrangements for renting have been left between the families and the landlords. Case Workers Protest. ‘There are some 4.500 to 5,000 un- | employables included in the 8,000 to 10,000 persons still on the District re- | Hef list. All are taking a 25 per cent cub in disbursements which Allen | J found 1t was necessary to effect after the Federal dole was ended last month, While this situation was being con- sidered by officials they had before them reports of protests against the 25 per cent cut, voiced last night by 75 case workers in the District relief administration, who held a meeting at the Community Center Building, 1101 M street. The order will leave many families on the verge of starvation, speakers declared. The relief payment cut also would mean failures in the payment of rent, shifting & burden on the landlords, the gathering was told. Suffering to relief families would re- sult, it was said, from a heavy de- crease to be ordered in the staff of case workers, The principal speakers were Miss Edna Kury, a case worker, and Ross Pollock, president of the Federation of Social Workers, a District Welfare | Department employe. Allen Receives Telegram. Commissioner Allen today received a telegram from the group carrying a protest against the relief cut and the slash in the size of the relief stafl. “T agree 100 per cent with what this says, but I don’t know what I could do about it,” said Allen. The telegram read; “We, the undersigned, in mass meet- ing protest measures taken by District of Columbia Commissicners to reduce both relief budget and staff 25 per cent. Such drastic reduction in already meager budgets will create an undue amount of suffering among the needy. of the Intercollegiate Association for Study of the Alcohol Problem, speak- ing at Eldbrook Methodist Episcopal PAGE B—1 VOCATION SCHOOL SYSTEM URGED AS CRIME DETERRENT Program of 12 Objectives Given School Board by E. J. Murphy. PROPONENTS HOPING - ! FOR APPROPRIATION Committee of District Education Association Offers Plan. Needs Outlined. A definite plan for the establish- ment of a system of public vocational and occupational schools to train un- skilled workers for skilled trades and at the same time combat both un- | employment and criminal or juvenile | delinquency was proposed to the Board of Education yesterday by a | committee representing the District of Columbia Vocational Education As- sociation. E. J. Murphy, president, presented |a program with 12 objectives and asked that the board consider it | prior to the next session of Congress, ; with the hope that funds may be | provided to place the plan in opera- | tion., Murphy was accompanied by Miss Louise McGuire, director of welfare work for the Juvenile Court; Miss | Patricia Morss of the Board of Public | Welfare, Jchn Locher of the Central Labor Union and Mrs. Harvey W. Wiley, former president of the D. C. Federation of Women's Clubs. Need Outlined by Two. Miss McGuire and Miss Morss out- lined the need for vocational and occupational schools as an aid to the work they are compelled to do. Mis. McGuire pointed out that some 700 charges of the court, past 16 years of age, are kept at home while on probation, with little Qpportunity to learn useful trades unless they are placed in industrial homes or reform | schools. | Miss Morss said some 1,800 chil- dren, most of them past 13, who are either delinquent or neglected by their parents, are under the supervision of the Board of Public Welfare, with- out adequate opportunity to prepare | themselves for earning a livelihood. Both women and Mrs. Wiley pleaded for an opportunity for these young- sters to remain at home and at the | same time be given courses of train- |ing that will assure their employa- bility. Committee Creation Asked. Murphy asked the board to set up |a committee on vocational education to study the problem and to secure the interest and help of employers, labor and the public. Among the points he outlined are a greater variety of vooational edu- cation, to be determined ‘upon the actual needs for training and outlets into employment; establishment of separate céntral vocational schools for boys and girls, separate pre- vocational or occupational schools from the vocational group, limiting enrollment to those actually interested and with the ability to learn a useful | trade, extension of the training course to both day and night classes and special regional schools for problem | or mentally backward children. | The committee asked that an en- tirely separate system of such schools be maintained, with appropriations for both day and night divisions, to be administered as a unit comparable | to the high school system at present. Three-Year Courses Planned. Instructors would be drawn directiy from the skilled trades and their appointment would be determined upon their ability actually to in- struct in the line of training sought by the pupils. Three-year courses would be offered, with a diploma to be given at the end of that time. “This program is essential,” Murphy said, “in order that the District might be equipped and prepared to take advantage of Federal funds appro- | priated specifically for vocational edus cation as provided under pending legislation.” The board deferred action until its | members can study the report and recommendation. Murphy was as- sured, however, he and his assoclates will be called upon to help the School Board when the appropriation bill | hearings are held by congressional | committees. Greater Teacher Discipline Power Asked by Marshal | Instructors Injured by Unruly Pupils, He Tells Board. A plea for more disciplinary power for teachers was made to the Board of Education yesterday by Dr. C, Herbert Marshal, colored physician and civie leader, who asserted that since the J. Q. Adams case at Armstrong High School, pupils are wantonly taking ad« vantage of their instructors. The Adams case resulted in the teacner's suspension for more than two months for an altercation with & student. The student, however, was | reinstated after a few weeks when | the board intervened in his behalf. Dr. Marshal was joined in his plea by Dr. J. Hayden Johnson, veteran board member, who said existing rules should be changed so that teachers and principals could use more dis- cretion in dealing with unruly pupils. Dr. Marshal said he knew of two cases in which teachers were sever ly injured by pupils; one is in Fr .de men's Hospital suffering from a bitten hand and may lose her arm, the other may have to undergo an operation as a result of being struck in the abdo men. “Since the Adams case,” Dr. John- son said, “there has been an epidemic of such cases. Our teachers must be given more power if they are to mech the situation.” Dr. Prank W. Ballpu, superintende ent, said the cases are under investi= gation now.