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| HOUSNG 0BREADY FORCORNER SONE Work on Walls Starts at Largest Slum Clearance Project in U. S. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, October 14.—The cor- nerstone was to be laid today for the Nation's largest low-rent slum clear- ance project fnanced by the Govern- ment—18 buildings to house 5,000 people, being erected on 25 acres of what was slum area in the Williams- burg section of Brooklyn. The walls have begun to rise at the *city within a city,” fof which the P. W. A, furnished $12,783,000, sup- planting ramshackle “old law” tene- . ments which the Government leveled ' jn the largest slum demolition job in the country. Some 1,463 families are to occupy the area, but because of better plan- ning 77 per cent of the ground will be in parks and playgrounds. 3 Each of the buildings will be four stories high. ‘The project bricks, enough to build a 10-foot wall from’ the Battery to Ninety-sixth street; 50 miles of steam pipes and 10 boilers, 50 miles of pipe for plumbing, 300 miles of electric wire, going to 24,000 outlets, including 1,400 electric | ranges, 8000 steel window frames, | 18,000 steel door frames, 4,000 tons of | steel reinforcing bars for supports, 7 acres of glass. PINEY BRANCH GROUP| PRAISES ROBERTS Resignation of People's Counsel| Is Recorded as Loss to Citizens in Resolution. The resignation of People’s Counsel | W. A. Roberts was recorded as a great loss to the citizens of the District in a resolution adopted by the Piney[ Branch Citizens' Association Monday night at Roosevelt High Schoel. : .The resolution as sent to the Com- Missioners reads: “Whereas, there has been the most cordial feeling between this associa- tion. and People’s Counsel W. A. Roberts during his term of office, be it resolved that the Piney Branch Citizens’ Association regrets exceed- ingly to learn of the resignation of Mr. Roberts as people’s ccunsel. His will use 7,500,000 courteous reception of all suggesncms5 from citizens' associations and his courageous presentation of people's causes before the Commissioners has won the highest respect of all. association feels the passing of Mr. Roberts as people’s counsel to be a great loss to the citizens of the Dis- trict.” A letter, calling attention to the switching off of street lights before daylight in the Piney Branch area, was addressed to the Commissioners. ‘This practice was cited as endanger- ing the, life of early morning com- muters. A committee was formed to draft & letter of condolence to the family of Edgar B. Henderson, a former president of the association, who recently died. This | Giants’ Rooter, 15, Vanishes, Fearing Taunts pf Friends BY the Assoctated Press. NEW ' YORK, October 14— Disappointment over the defeat of the Giants in the world series was mentioned by his Yamily as the possible reason for the dis- appedrance of & 15-year-old Bronx newsboy 10 days ago. Police sent out an eight-State alarm yesierday for the boy, ‘Warren Semon, after his parents, Mr. and Mrs. YWarren Semon, told officers they thought he did not come home after the Giants’ third defeat because of fear of taunts of his friends. CLERGS LETER WNSG.0.P PREE Attributes Insincerity to President in Contest Con- ducted by Hard. By the Assoclated Press. A letter attributing insincerity to President Roosevelt has won $500 from the Republican National Com- mittee for Rev. Albert H. Eggleston, Presbyterian pastor of Kansas City, Mo. Dr. Earl H. DeLong.of Northwest- ern University adjudged his entry the best of those submitted in the con- test conducted by William Hard for the Republicans on the toplc, “Why I have changed from Roosevelt to Landon.” The $300 second prize went to Jack Murray of Fort Wayne, Ind.; two were tied for the $200 third prize, and Mrs. L. 8. Robison, Turley, Okla., and Mrs. Otto Hasek, St. Louis, will each receive that amount. Rev. Eggleston wrote: “In 1933 1 was for Roosevelt be- | cause it seemed that at last we were to have effective action toward al-| | leviating the terrible distress caused | by the depression, “I have changed to Landon because 1 have ceased to believe in the sin- cerity of Roosevelt, because Roosevelt | cannot escape responsibility for the | acts of Farley, Hopkins, Tugwell and | others. | “Because millions of unemployables | | have been created by the bungling, | wasteful methods of the W. P. A. “Because of the wreckage of the| principle of the civil service and the | | political exploitation of the hunger | | of millions of needy people. “Because of the increasing cost of living and the increasing burden on all | types of business caused by ever-| mountaing taxation. “Because I believe that the power |and functions of the Supreme Court | must be safeguarded. | “Because I believe that the cen- tralization of power is becoming a real menace to our institutions. “Because I abominate the persecu- tion of people who are opposed to the New Deal. “Because I belftve Landon to be sincere, courageous, sagacious and fundamentally sound on social, eco- nomic ard moral issues.” ING STAR, WASHINGTO. BYRD SAYS LANDON POLICIES COSTLY Replies to Critics of Own Criticism of New Deal Policies. By the Associated Press. RICHMOND, Va., October 14— Senator Harry F. Byrd, Democrat, of Virginia, predicted in an address last night that if Gov. Alf M. Landon is elected President and hig pledges are redeemed “‘an increase in public spend- ing will be necessary.” “Taxpayers should take note that Gov. Landon, if elected, proposes to finance not only the cost of social security and old-age pensions, but the new farm bounty as well, by direct and visible taxes,” Senator Byrd said. The Virginia Senator, making his first address of the campaigns said the Republican presidential nominee de- clared the New Deal destructive of the American system of Government, and then “proceeds to embrace all the par- ticular measures that identify and characterize the so-called New Deal.” “So far as relief expenditures are D concerned,” Senator Byrd continued, “Gov. Landon offers no constructive substitute for the present system of re- lief and offers no program of reduction of expenditures except such as may be possible by the improvement of gen- eral business conditions, which would equally benefit a Democratic adminis- tration.” ‘The Senator took cognizance of use by the Republicans of his own eriti- cisms of certain measures of the New Deal, asserted he had no apologies for his record and called attention to his support of other administration meas- “Thg steps taken in the early part of the Roosevelt administration won the unqualified approval and praise of men and women of all parties,” he asserted. “His prompt, decisive and courageous leadership drew, not only from the people of America, but from foreign lands, expressions of admira- tion and affection such as few men have.ever received. “We may differ as to some later policies of the administration, but it is not too much to say that in the period immediately following his inauguration measures were adopted to meet conditions which challenge the admiration of all the world.” he said. —_— Smelting stone in an open-hearth naptha furnace, a factory at Mos- cow is producing a rustproof material that resembles and rings like iron. 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