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THOMAS COCHRAN, BANKER; EXPRES Partner in J. P. Morgan & Co. Dies in Sleep Early Today. BY the Assoclated Press. .NEW YORK, October 29.—Thomas Cochran, partner in the banking firm of J. P. Morgan & Co., died of a heart attack today at his home, in Bedford Village, N. Y. Cochran had been a partner in the Morgan firm since January, 1917. He was 65 years old. . A native of St. Paul, Minn., he came t¢ J. P. Morgan & Co., from the presi- dency of the Liberty National Bank. He was chairman of the Executive Committee of the Bankers' Trust Co., and a director and member of the Finance Committee of Kennecott Cop- per Corp. Cochran’s death followed ill health for several years. He died in his sleep early this morning. He had planned, however, to come to his office today. Cochran was an outstanding mem- ber of the group of Morgan financial leaders, and was closely associated with such partners as the late Dwight Morrow and H. P. Davison in many of the banking frm's big financial*oper- ations of the period during and after the World War. He was among the chief representa- tives of the Morgan interests in the copper industry and in banking. He was graduated from Yale in 1824, Spain (Continued From First Page.) tory,” a phrase generally lmerpreted' to mean the defenders of Madrid had obtained sufficient tanks, airplanes and other war material to meet insur- gent besiegers on even terms. Meager advices trickling in from the battle front south of the capital indi- cated a government offensive had be- gun at 6 am. at Sesena, that the town of Torrejon had been recaptured and that the important highway point of Illescas was being approached. A series of advances by government troops in the extreme northern and | eastern sectors also were claimed by | the Madrid authorities. Tumultuous waves of rejoicing swept | victory-starved Madrid today as the government announced Socialist | bombing planes had destroyed at| least 17 Fascist aircraft “blackbirds | of death.” i Taut-nerved women, with emotions | keyed near the breaking point by @aily raids over the capital, wept tears t “joyous vengeance” on reading the ews. The official bulletin- hailed the air | fuccesses as “the most marked tri- mph” since the bloody civil strife Eflgan more than 14 weeks ago—and or the moment, at least, the fact that $erce hordes of Moorish Legionnaires 4nd Fascist troops have reduced the | ¢apital to a virtual state of siege, poised within ten miles of the dity’s heart, was forgotten. X Washington Waysid Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. COINCIDENCE. COINCIDENCE which ranks with the famous one of the late Ring Lardner's, who was amazed that Col. Pike should have been the discoverer of Pike's Peak, is reported by an operative who makes good use of his bright eyes. He thought he was seeing double the other day when his eyes fell upon two automobiles, identical in every respect, both fairly old, and both bearing the same license num- ber, D-637. One was from North Carolina, the other local. Impressed by the coincidence, the drivers had stopped to chat, a couple of policemen drove up, and every one had a nice few minutes marveling at the way destiny shuffies men and motors in this best of all possible worlds. x ok ANGRY MAN. He was evidently a foreigner and he was gesticulating wildly as he paid the cashier in the cafeteria. “I do mnot like to pay my bill here,” he said, indicating the cash- ier's cage. I want to pay over there (indicating the food counter). I been mad about this for 25 year now.” But, he did seem to be a bit angry. * x ox % GUN. “HTH great dignity and courtesy, | as befits entrance up the quiet | purlieus of the Arts Club of Washing- & ton, a policeman dropped in 'I\mday1 afternoon. The police had been informed, he said, that a man had been seen en- tering the building with what ap- peared to be a sawed-off shot gun or an old-style long pistol over his “I am wondering what he was go- ing to do with the gun.” the officer’s explanation went on. He might have been going to commit suicide or shoot some one. He might have been de- mented. He appeared to be about 50 | years old. Do you know anything about it.” They did know about it at the club. They told him the weapon was one of the props in the play, “No More Frontiers.” The policeman hadn’t heard about that. He was happy to be informed. | He went away, still with great dig- nity. * %% x "« TRICK. 'WO workmen who boarded a Ta- Air Victories Claimed. Twelve insurgent planes ‘were de- | stroyed at Talavera De La Reina in the southwest, the government re- | ported, and at least five others were | blown to bits in a Socialist sky raid on Seville, Still other Madrid government planes, the report s&id, “spread panic and wreckage with juggernaut effi- ciency” at Pascist airports in Granada and Caceres. The government squadrons, it was asserted, dropped a deadly rain of 250-pound bombs on Fascist hangars “where planes were being repaired and where those recently delivered from foreign countries were being assembled.” Heartened by these triumphs, how- ever distant, women ran alongside the newly mobilized column of 35,000 civilians as it marched through the streets (o the defense of the siege- ridden capital itself, exhorting them: Zero Hour Declared Near. . “Fight to the death! Victory is yours!” Premier Largo Caballero himself warned the capital that “the hour for decisive effort has arrived.” In a stirring appeal to both citi- | zens in Madrid and combatants on | the front, he declared: < “Enemy attacks will be overwhelmed by our will to conquer! Now is the | rhoment not only to come face to face | with the enemy but to hurl him back | ance and for all from the positions he is now holding—and free Madrid | from the Fascist claws which have reéached impotently toward the heart of our capital.” \ Warning Socialists “discipline and | réspect for prisoners who may fall | imto your hands will distinguish you ffom the barbarous hordes opposing you,” the premier exhorted: +“To the attack! Onward for the dpcisive victory of Madrid—supreme forces of the world’s fight against fdscism. I await reports of your Ylctory! o . ROME DENIES REPORTS. Gifficials Declare No Troops Had ¥+ Been Landed at Mallorca. 7'ROME, October 29 (#).—Official Bircles today denied reports an Italian farce had landed or was preparing to )fiad on the Spanish Island of Mallorca. «(Reports that a virtual Italian mili- t4ry dictatorship had been established o5 the island recently were published 4 Spanish newspapers.) . I:Sranch Receives {Gator Following O.K. for Airmail 20-Inch Specimen Sent ¢ by Sarasota, Fla., Grower. h * Acting Postmaster General Harl- mnnnch probably will weigh care- y any future additions proposed fof the list of commodities eligible for airmail transportation. Three days ago Branch put his ©.°K. on alligators. He got one yes- iday when L. D. Reagin, who raises in Sarasota, Fla., sent a 20- eh specimen that made his (or her) to the Post Office Department by= snapping viciously at everybody and everything in sight. koma Park car the other evening got by just once with a trick which | they must have regarded as tops| ameng their recent chicaneries. The -trick ‘involved pulling their| street car passes just half way out of | their billfolds, showing them to the conductor and passing on quickly into the car. The next evening the con-; ductor was ready for them. “Let me see the whole pass?” he | suggested. | The sheepish pair could not comply with the request. They had cut the | pass in half, divided it between their | two billfolds, and figured to ride two for the price of one. ' SWING. | IT'S probably against the law, but it looks like a lot of fun. e ! | Small boys playing in the vicinity | of Ninth street and Constitution ave- | nue have found that halyards dangling from a lofty flag pole in front of the Archives Building make a super, de luxe swing. The halyards are about 75 feet long, and when one boy, cling- ing to the ends of the halyards, is started swinging around the base of the pole by puffing, tugging playmates he gets a swing that is pretty breath- taking. Until we thought better of it, we nearly pulled over to the curb to park and try it ourselves, it looked like that much fun. * ok * % SHOCK. An operative who was particular- ly delighted with the sign, “un- called for,” which some one stuck on a display of this year's hats though he had found the peak in uncalledforness yesterday. As he walked past a department store window he was brought to a complete standstill by an object on the head of a hat model. It was @ dull gray color with dark blue flaps that hung down on either side like a bloodhound’s ears. But his mumblings-under-the- breath about “what will women wear next” came to @ sudden stop when the window trimmer picked up the object. It turned out to be the man’s vest. IR ) SERVICE. CONNICHCUT AVENUE “gets hot” for cabbles about 8:50 am. So Thomas E. Wright, taxi cab driver, tells a Wayside operator. In the interests of economy, em- ployed citleens are likely to hold out for street cars and busses until about that time, but ‘when it means late to the office they give up economy and start hailing cabs. Mr. Wright imagines it's the same all over Washington, but he person- ally always cruises Connecticut, and he takes pride in delivering anxious folk to their destinations on the dot. Connecticut is so lined with waving| folk seeking taxies at 10 minutes of| nine that a cabby who draws up to some special waver is rewarded with smiles of gratitude, he says. Heads Arizona College. PHOENIX, Ariz, October 29 (#).— Dr. Paul 8. Burgess, dean of the col- lege of agriculture, was named presi- Larger quarters were provided now- éver, and “it” was in more amiable fridne of mind at Branch’s office to- itimately, the Zoo likely will get "gator. L] dent of the University of Arizona yes- resignation of Dr. Shantz, who lett the office to become director of wild life for the United States Biological Survey. | existing contracts with the Boy, 12, Rescues Mani Tied Up : Unsigned Security Law Notice During Filling Station Hold-Up COAST STRIKE OFF 4 Wilbur Story, 12, 321 Eleventh street southwest, left, and Curtis Marston, 1708 T street southeast, and money beit. southwest, delivered a morning | WELVE-YEAR-OLD Wilbur Story, 321 Eleventh nreel} —Star Staff Photo. uncomfortable standing with his wrists tied to the soap dispenser. ‘ Two colored men, one of them | FOR “24 HOURS™ Unions’ Committee Delays Call Affecting 37,000 Pending New Efforts. BY the Assoclated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, October 29.— Threat of a coastwise maritime strike involving 37,000 men was averted early today for at least “24 hours” by last minute negotiations to reach new working agreements between shipping companies and seagoing unions. The delay in calling & walkout was decided upon by the joint Negotiating Committee of seven West Coast unions, which had been empowered to call & strike last midnight if agreement on vital issues was not reached by then. ‘The extension presumably will con- tinue operations until midnight to- night, although the notice sent to other coast ports by F. M. Kelley, secretary of the Maritime Federation of the Pacific, said only the call was delayed for “24 hours.” Men were instructed to continue working until & strike call is issued. Encouraged by last minute negotia- tions between unions and one of three shipping groups involved, Federal Con- ciliator E. H. Fitzgerald predicted: “Probably there will not be any strike.” The delay came as the tense situa- tlon threatened to involve maritime workers on the East Coast, already harried by a short-lived walk-out of longshoremen against one shipping company. A thousand left wing sea- men meeting in New York last night voted to join Pacific union workers it they walked out. The negotiating committee’s an- nouncement followed apparent, though unannounced, agreement between the | Shipowners’ Asssociation of the Pa-| cific and the Marine Cooks and Stew- | ards’ Union on & new working agree- | ment, Brings Arrest of Employer code. Previously, the Sailors Union of the paper to a filling station at armed with a small caliber Tevolver, Pacific and the marine firemen an- Thirteenth and L streets early today | had entered the office about 5 a.m. | nounced tentative agreements on new and walked right into the final chap- ter of a hold-up. | Not finding Curtis Marston, 1708 T | with the gun, the other took about $29 | resenting 32 companies. They operate street southeast, at the door to get| while he was sweeping up, Marston told police. While one covered him | from his pocket and trussed him to year-long contracts had been reached with the Shipowners’ Association, rep- | coastwise freighters, the so-called | the paper, as he usually did, Wilbur | the wash-stand. They left hurriedly | steam schooner trade. went inside to leave it and found Marston tied fast with his own money | belt to the wash-stand | Marston had been trying for an| hour to attract the attention of each passerby he saw out of a crack in the door. but several had gone by without | hearing before Wilbur appeared on | without searching for the safe, which | contained a considerable amount of money, Marston said. “He looked pretty uncomfortable, was Wilbur's comment. “It's a good thing I wasn't late delivering my route this morning.” | The station is operated by C. John | the scene. Marston was getting rather | Berry. Milk { (Continued From First Page.) July 23. That case concerned a similar order by the Secretary of Ag- | riculture regulating the handling of milk in the greater Boston area. *“Finally, I conclude that it is not possible to wrest from the outlawed statute (A. A. A) separable provisions which can stand as a legislative en- actment authorizing the orders in- Yolved in this suit,” Judge Luhring continued. The suit in District Court was brought by 12 independent Maryland and Virginia milk producers, who claimed that the milk marketing | agreement would give them less for their milk than they receive by the Model Farms and Highland Farms Dairies. They maintained that the agreement was unconstitutional as a violation of | the due process clause and because it did not give them equal protection un- der the laws. By terms of the milk-marketing order al milk received by handlers or distributors was classified and mini- | mum prices were fixed to be paid to| producers. A tax on the distributors | also was imposed to finance adminis- tration of the agreement. | Contracts Abrogated by Order. | “These plaintiffs have contracted for the sale of their milk for a certain definite price,” Justice Luhring said.| “This price is fixed and determined by the parties. The contracts are abm-J gated by the order. Furthermore, the | prices fixed by the order are not the same as those agreed upon. It is to be noted also that the power and au- | thority to fix a minimum price for class 2 milk is delegated to the Mary- land-Virginia Milk Producers’ Asso- ciation. A standing offer of this agency for class 2 milk regulates the price of this milk.” From this situation Justice Luhring concluded that the order of Secretary of Agriculture Wallace promulgating the agreement compels the plaintiffs “to accept the terms of the order if they would dispose of their milk in the District of Columbia area, and thus deprives them o fthe right to freely contract for the sale of their product.” The contention ef the Government that the producers were Wwithout standing to maintain the suit was dis- posed of by Justice Luhring by quota- tions from several authorities leading to the conclusion that even though the act did not require them to re- fraln from doing anything, or subject them to any penalty, they still had a real interest under it. “It also is urged that the plaintiffs | cannot suffer any injury, since the order fixes only a minimum price which the handler must pay to the producer, and that the plaintiffs have the right to demand and receive a higher price,” said the judge. “This contention overlooks the fact that the purpose of the order is to establish uniform prices to be paid for the milk in this area and ignores the findings of the Secretary of Agriculture ‘that the determination of uniform prices to producers and the payment of such prices through a market-wide equali- zation founded on a base-rating plan is a fair and reasonable method of dis- tributing to producers the proceeds of | sales to handlers’.” | The order authorized by Justice Lubring’s decision is a preliminary | injunction, but since it has the effect of declaring unconstitutional the whole | regulatory plan, a hearing on the mat- | ter of a permanent injunction would | be more or less perfunctory, it was said by attorneys. Counsel for the produc- | ers were Sefton Darr, Louis 1. Obergh, Frederick Stohlman and George I Cassidy. 2 The prospeet of & 1-cent-a-quart increase in the retail price of milk | had given rise to a proposal for estab- lishment of a consumers co-operative to compete with private distributors. Leroy A. Halbert, former director of | emergency relief in the District, said | the Washington Consumers’ Club, of | which he is an officer, might undertake such a program “if sure of public in- | terest and support.” “Investigations in the past have shown that milk dealers’ profits in this area have been enormous.” Halbert said. “The milk price situation in | Washington is unsatisfactory both to Jhe farmers who supply the District and to the public for whom the milk is produced.” Major distributors, with the excep- tion of the Highland Farms Dairy, had announced they would be unable to | absorb the 1-cent-a-quart increase in farm price granted to producers Tues- day by the A. A. A, and would have to pass it on to the public in the form of a corresponding increase in retaid price. Halbert cited four examples of suc- cessful operation of consumer co- operatives. “The Co-operative Trading Co. of Waukegan, Ill,” he amplified, “oper- ates a bottling plant and delivers milk to its members. Farmers who supply the milk are also members of the co- operative and share in the savings returned to the members as patronage dividends. Thus the farmers share in any reduction in the cost of distribu~ tion. “The Waukegan co-operative was started in 1910, when the retail price of milk was increased from 6 to 8 cents per quart. Housewives in the South Side of the city combined to purchase a few cans of milk at wholesale. The organization now Las 20 trucks and wagons and distributes to 3,000 members. The co-operative organization has been able to pay higher prices to the dairymen who supply 1t. During the 1929 milk strike in Chicago, the goal of the strikers was to get the same price as was being paid producers by the ‘Waukegan co-operative.” Halbert also mentioned milk co- operatives in Maynard, Mass.; Minne- apolis and Madison, Wis. The May- nard group was able to pay farmers prices 29 per cent higher than were paid by other local distributors and at the same time to sell milk,retail at less than the prevailing dealers’ price, he said. The Washington Consumers’ Club already is partially equipped to start & dairy co-operative. It buys coal and some other products wholesale and in block amounts for its 329 members to avoid payment of ‘“middleman” charges. Halbert formerly was director of public welfare for Kansas City, Mo., and later for the State of Rhode Is- land. Night Final Delivered by Carrier Anywhere in the City ® Full Sports Race Results, Complete Market News of the Day, Latest News Flashes from Around the World. Whatever it is, you'll find it in The Night Final Sports Edition. THE NIGHT FINAL SPORTS and SUNDAY STAR—delivered by carrier—T0c a month. Call National 5000 and service will_start at once. Immediate Parley Asked. Negotiating committees of the fire- men and sailors then asked Assistant | Labor Secretary Edward F. McGrady to arrange an “immediate” conference with the Coast Committee for ship- owners, a group largely of off-shore operators This latter group, headed by T. G. | Plant, last night informed individual | marine unions that further negotia tions would be “useless.” Plant retired early today after tell ing newspaper men he considered i impossible to get the scattered coast | committee of shipowners together be- fore usual business hours. Unofficlal observers believed any action by the Joint Union Committee | toward a strike call probably would be delayed until Plant's committee met again with union negotiators. Operators of Eastern and foreign lines, third employer group in the picture, have offered to accept pro- posals of the International Long- shoremen’s Association. But the I. L. A. declined, explaining it was bound | by a union “solid front” stand which prevented separate peace terms until all other groups had been satisfied. NEW YORK STRIKE DELAYED, Left Wing Seamen Follow Lead of Pacific Coast. NEW YORK, October 29 P.— Left Wing seamen of the Port of New York followed the lead of Pacific Coast maritime unions today in sus- pending for 24 hours a strike called in support of the Western dispute over a new working agreement. The strike was voted last night at a mass meeting attended by about 1,000 seamen and the men prepared to quit work at 3 am. (Eastern standard time). Word of the West Coast truce cleared the ways, however, for an an- nouncement by Joseph Curran, chair- man of the seamen’s Defense Com- mittee, that the men would continue on the job pending conclusion of the negotiations at San Francisco. Earnings (Continued From First Page.) they pointed out, may have a bearing on future earnings. Among the rail- roads predicted higher maintenance and operating costs may cut the rate | of improvement. Railroad freight sur- charges, accounting for about 4 per cent of gross rallroad operating in- come, expire December 31. Another factor emphsized was that many plants, to take care of increased business or to overcome depression- time deterioration, must make heavy expenditures for expansion and im- provements. Automobile manufacturers expect to increase production by 10 per cent in their 1937 lines. Assembly is already sharply advanced. Domestic cotton consumption in September totaled 630,000 bales, a new September record. In the cotton tex- tile mills operations were in the neigh- borhood of 22 per cent ahead of last year, the Association of Cotton Textile Merchants said. ‘The Tanners’ Council of America reported that boot and shoe produc- tion this year will be somewhere near 400,000,000 pairs, alsc a record, and finished leather production thus far is 4 per cent ahead of the similar period in the banner year of 1929. Domestic production and consump- tion of the non-ferrous basic indus- trial metals, copper, zinc and lead, has gone far beyond that of 1935, and domestic and export prices stand today at new five-year high levels. Building contracts for October were estimated by Standard Statistics Co. to number 27 per cent more than for October last year. Chemical pro- duction was estimated at 40 per cent higher. One flaw in the picture was an un- seasonal dip in electric power pro- duction in the week ended October 24. For the week the Associated Press adjusted index figure was 116.1, compared with 117.1 the previous week, using 1929-30 output as 100. ‘The recession, unusual in the Autumn, when power requirements generally reach their peak, was believed duq to reduced operations in the heavy di- vision of the steel indusiry. A year 2go af the same time the outputl index was 102.3. - - ALBERT PENN, Des Moines manufacturer, charged with violating Iowa elections —A. P. Wirephoto. Victor Finch (left), a Michigan State Highway Department joreman, and Fred Bingham, a Michigan district superintendent, stood mute at their arraignment on charges of dismissing three road workers for refusal to support Democratic candidates. BY the Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa, October 29.— Arrested on a charge of violating Jowa election laws by distributing in pay envelopes unsigned notices “tend- | ing to create sentiment against Presi- | dent Roosevelt,” Albert Penn, Des Moines manufacturer, struck back to- day at the complainant. | The Penn Electric Switch Co. presi- | dent issued a statement declaring “as I understand it I was not arrested be- cause I did not tell the truth but because my prosecutor decided” that the notices, criticizing the social se- curity law, had damaged “Mr. Roose- velt's political chances.” Labor Leader Complainant. President J. C. Lewis of the Iowa | Federation of Labor signed the com- | plaint which led to Penn’s arrest. Penn was charged formally with “causing the distribution of circulars tending to create sentiment against President Roosevelt and influencing readers of such circulars to vote against President Roosevelt without or the name of the organization so distributing the circulars.” The Iowa election law involved provides that such political notices must be signed. Penn said he denied Deductions from Beginning January I, August 14, 1935, creases until it reach The combined taxes whole payroll lations are publi¢hed subscribing or having affixed his name | —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. Ihis guilt on the grounds the pay envelopes contained checks signed with_ the company’s name. | Municipal Judge Charles Cooter | fixed November 12 as the date for the manufacturer’s hearing, | Copy of Notice. An exhibit attached to the com- | plaint was a photostatic copy of a Penn Co. pay envelope bearing this | statement: | “Pay reduction—eflective January, | 1937, we are compelled by a Roose- | velt ‘New Deal' law to make a 1 per cent reduction from your wages and turn it over to the Government. Finally this may go as high as 3 per | cent. “You might get this money back in future years—but only if Congress de- cided to make an appropriation for | that purpose. There is no guarantee. Decide before November 3—election day—whether you wish to take these chances.”” Said Lewis: “For Mr. Penn's efforts to go unnoticed and not prosecuted would be for those of his frame of mind to be encouraged to indplge in misrepresentations and coercion in this and future cam- paigns * * * I am seeking to uphold the election laws of Iowa.” Poster Is Storm Center NOTICE Pay Start Jan. 1 1937, your employer will be compelled by law to deduct a cer- tain amount from your wages every pay- day. This is in compliance with the terms of the Social Security President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Act signed by The deduction begins with 1%, and in- e 3% To the amount taken from your wages, your employer is required to pay, in addi- tion, either an equal or double amount. may total 9% of the This is NOT a voluntary plan. Your em. ployer MUST make this deduction. Regu- by SOCIAL SECURITY BOARD WASHINGTON, D. C. . A.copy of the poster which today had drawn complaints ‘from the Social Security Board that its name is being misused. SECURIFY FRAUD CHARGES HURLED Enemies and Defenders of Program Exchange Accusations. BY the Assoctated Press. “Fraud” charges made by oppo- nents and defenders of the Governe ment's social security act marked a growing campaign argument over this 1935 act today. While William Hard, Republican radio commentator, called the old-age pension part of the plan “a deliberate coercive fraud upon youth,” the Jus- tice Department studied charges of the Social Security Board that its name had been “fraudulently used” in the form of a signature on posters concerning the act. Labor's Non-partisan League, in a statement. said that “this entire mis- leading campaign against an act cre- ated solely for workers of the Nation is typical of past efforts against labor’s rights by the National Manufacturers’ Association, Liberty Leaguers, Mr. Landon and others of the same ilk.” Declaring its name was being mis= used in California, Illinois, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and other States, the board exhibited a sample poster which informed work- ers that their employers would be compelled to deduct certain amounts from their wages under the social security act. Sliding Scale Cited. The deduction begins with 1 per cent next year and increases until it reaches 3 per cent, the poster said, and the employer, in addition, is re- quired to pay either an equal or double amount. The poster then concluded: “This is not a voluntary plan. Your employer must make this deduction. | Regulations are published by “Social Security Board, Washington, D. C.” | The board’s name and address were | printed in display type at the bottom of the poster. | . Declaring it had issued no regula- tions and authorized no posters, the board said it felt a duty “to bring | these posters to the attention of the | Department of Justice for investiga- tion as to authorship and responsi- bility for circulation.” Joining with John Hamilton, Re- publican national chairman, in at- tacking the social security act, Hard told radio listeners that young peopie had been led to believe they would | get pensions “as an act of justice to you and from the taxpayers miost able to pay.” Higher Prices for Goods. “The truth is you yourself will sz most of the money,” he , declared, both in deductions from wages and | in higher prices for goods when employers pass on their share of the old-age pension tax to consumers William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, said, however, the law would “enable work- | ers to face old age witi: a feeling of security.” Broadcasting under auspices of the Democratic National Committee. he argued the fund collected from work- ers and employes starting January 1, 1937, “will be carefully administered and supervised by the Federal Cov- emnment. No greater security than | that could be provided for suca a fund." Hamilten, in an open letter to President Roosevelt, contended the money could be used for paying oft the national debt or “more likely for boondoggling, pork - barreling” and | “Tammanyization” of the Nation. Labor's Non-Partisan League said | that Republican attacks on the act | “neglect to state that for every dollar | contributed by the worker for old age security the employer likewise con- tributes a dollar, and that all the | benefits of this combined fund accrue | exclusively to the worker.” | “None of the posters or inclosures | (in pay envelopes),” the league added, “explain that the workers make no contributions whatsoever for unem- | ployment compensation under the jact.®® * T “Certain unscrupulous, selfish em- ployers want the social security act | abolished because it will cost them | something out of their profits.” Popuiation (Continued Prom First Page) metropolitan area. Virginia rose from 2,421,851 in 1930 to 2,671,000 in 1936, and Maryland from 1,631,526 to 1,- 674,000. Many Not Taxpayers. ‘This extraordinary temporary in- crease includes thousands of persons who never figure as direct taxpayers to the District, retaining their legal resi= dence elsewhere. Past emergency population swellers, such as the war, have been followed by a marked and sudden decrease as the workers return to their home States. As long as the duration of their jobs is undetermined, the emergency em- ployes retain their legal address in the place from which they came. The bureau’s estimates today show that the Capital has a larger popula= tion than any one of 10 States— Nevada, Wyoming, Arizona, New Mexico, Idaho, Utah, Montana, New Hampshire, Vermont and Deleware. A national increase of 908.000 over July 1, 1935, also was noted, and Sec- retary Roper said this resulted mainly from an excess of births over deaths. Net immigration for the year ending last July 1 was only 8,000. Increased population estimates were given for all States except Rhode Island, Wisconsin, South Dakota, Ne- braska, Mississippi, Montana, New Mexico and Arizona, for which no change was listed. ‘The new figure for the Capital puts it ahead of the populations for Buffalo, N. Y, and Milwaukee, Wis., as com- puted in 1930, and brings it close to San Francisco, Calif. PICKETED BARBER SHOP WINDOW IS SMASHED Report of Breakage by Hurled Brick Is Under Investiga- tion by Police. Police today were investigating a report from the barber shop of George A. Robinson, 1400 block of New York avenue, that a brick had been thrown through a plate glass window by some one in a crowd outside the shop last evening. One of the barbers was cut slightly by flying glass, e Librarians to Meet. ‘WESTMINSTER, Md., October 29 (#).—The Maryland Library Associ- ation will hold its Fall meeting here Saturday, with Mary G. Walsh, the president, presiding. >