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B0ARD PROPLSED BLANTON RETURNS HERE TO CONCLUDE ACTIVITIES TO GOVERN FLYERS| Recommendation Follows | 2oe Pilots’ Complaint of Overtime Work. By the Associated Press. LS Karl A, Crowley, Post Office Depart- men! solicitor, 4 today that an avistion board be’created to adjust wages and :working hours for the avia- " Crowley. made his recommendation pliots of Northwest Airlines, Inc., to show they were being required to fly more than prescribed by . the . National ‘Labor Relations Board. up, or continued if there is one nOW, can adjust wages and work- hours to meet changing conditions the avistion industry.” (Bureau of Air Commerce officials In bringing their complaint to the Post Offiee Department, 24 pilots of Northwestern Airlines demanded that _ officials cancel their employer's air- mail contracts or force the concern to comply with a labor board decisicn establishing 85 hours a month as the maximum flying time for a pilot. Attorneys for the airlines replied that after the labor board set up this maximum, Congress gave certain pow- ers over the pilots’ flying time to the Becretary of Commerce. Under that authority 100 flying hours was set as the limit. . ‘The pilois’ attorney contended, how- ever, that the Commerce Secretary was empowered only to set maximum hours from a viewpoint of safety, and not from a viewpoint of working con- ditions. At the time, Crowley said there ap- peared to be a manifest conflict of suthority. ONLY FOUR INJURED - IN DAY’S TRAFFIC Toll Is Held Down in Spite of Rain and Slippery Streets. Despite the rain and slippery streets, Washington traffic casualties during the past 24 hours numbered only four, none of whom was seriously injuped. ‘Two were injured by drivers who did not stop: Ruby M. Brunner, 37, of 2413 Second street, who was knocked down but only. alightly hurt| at Seventh street and Néw York ave- nue, and John R. Bean, 32, colored, 720 L street southeast, who suffered a leg injury when struck by a car at Seventh and M streets southeast. Jack Burrows, 17, of 1417 Park road, was knocked from his bicycle in the 200 block of Seventh street southwest by a car driven by Winfleld M. Kelly, 21, of 15605 Rosedale street northeast. He escaped with bruises. Betty Thornton, 52, of 1029 First street, 8 pasgenger in a car driven by James D. Fisher, 27, of 1004 South Capitol street, was treated in Provis dence ‘Hospital for cuts and- bruises: Fisher’s car collided with one operated by Robert H. Kent, 25, of‘320° Elev- [~ enth street southwest at Second and K streets southwest. RAIN RECORD, BROKEN Chicago Has Wettest Month of _ 20th Century. ' CHICAGO, October 1. (#)—It fained records-in Chicago last month. Forecaster J. R. Lloyd said total rainfall of 8.87 inches (up to yester- day morning) made it the rainiest | September in local Weather Bureau history and the rainiest of any month this century. ‘The previous:September record was 8.28 inches in 1894. Normal Septem- ber rainfall is 3.14 inches. Only three other months in the records topped this one for wetness. August, 1885; 10.58 inches in June, 1892, and 9:56 inches in July, 1889. . Smartness 2 with Comfort 11.28 inches in | - as » meniber of Congress. Efforts to get from Blanton s state- ment as to his plans for the future were futile. “I am awiully busy,” be.declared. Blanton, however, promised to issue | . & statement Priday. After his defeat by Judge Garrett, Blanton wrote to newspapers here an- nouncing his intention of making ‘Washington his home and promising to take an ‘active part in the city’s civic life. On the basis of that state- ‘ment, several citizens’ associations sent him applications for membership. CHURCH GROUP FAVORS | VOLUNTARY PARENTHOOD Canadian General Council Also Advocates Voluntary Sterile ization of Unfit. BY the Associated Press. OTTAWA, October 1.—A report ap- proving_the principles of “voluntary parenthood” and voluntary steriliza- tion of the mentally unfit was re- ceived yesterday by the General Council of the United Church of Canada. The report was returned by the Sessional Committee on Evangelism and Social Service. It said the ex- pression “voluntary parenthood” de- scribed better the condition the church wished to see in effect than “birth control.” Regarding motion pictures, the com- mittee report called the attention of producers to “the remarkable num- ber of commendable films that are seriously marred by needless and ex- traneous drinking scenes.” He Finally Collected Fine. MINNEAPOLIS. (P).—Stolen auto license plates provide too effective a disguise, Eugene Gilbert, a warrant officer, has- concluded, not without embarrassment. 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