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Washington News Che WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Foenir o Stap WASHINGTON, D. C, TU ESDAY, MARCH 16, 1937. or e MELLON ART GIFT FINAL ACCEPTANCE DUE IN FEW DAYS House and Senate Approve | Separate Resolutions on Proposal. REMAINING FORMALITIES | PRESENT NO DIFFICULTY | Hardest Hurdle Is Cleared With | Senate Approval—Amend- ments Stricken Out. BY J. A. O'LEARY. The final parliamentary steps necessary to complete the Govern- ment's acceptance of Andrew W. Mellon's art gift to the Nation prob- ably will be taken in Congress within | & few days | The House and Senate both ap- | proved the but | each acted on separate resolutions. | While further action is required to get | the stamp of both houses on the same measure before it can go to the Presi- | dent to be signed, no difficulty is expected in putting the measure | through the remaining formalities. | When the measure becomes law | Mellon has agreed to build a $10,000,= 000 National Gallery of Art on Con- | stitution avenue between Seventh and Fourth streets. He also will give the Government his collection of art works | valued at $50,000,000, and set up a $5,000.000 endowment fund to meet part of the expense of the gallery and to acquire additional maslf‘rpxeccs‘ proposal yesterday, from time to time. ‘The resolution of acceptance cleared | its hardest hurdle when the Senate passed it late yesterday, after four hours of controversy over some of the terms accompanying the offer, chiefly the manner of selecting the board of trustees to supervise the gallery. | Amendments Rejected. | While the Senate agreed to a few minor changes, it rejected all amend- ments which the leaders thought might endanger the Government’s | chances to obtain the $65,000,000 gift, which is destined to place the Na- tional Capital high among the art centers of the world | The House adopted its resolution early yesterday while the Senate was debating the question. The House papers did not arrive, however, in time to be substituted for the Senate resolution. For that reason, when the | Senate reconvenes tomorrow, Chair- | man Connally of the Public Buildings | and Grounds Committee probably will | move to take up the House measure, | strike out all after the enacting clause | and insert the Senate language. | ‘There are only a few differences in the two resolutions, and this will put | the proposal back before the House, which can complete congressional action by accepting the Senate pro-i Vvisions or ask for a conference. The measure calls for a board of hine trustees to supervise the gallery, four high Government officials and five general trustees appointed from private life by the regents of the Bmithsonian Institution. The original five would be chosen subject to ap- proval by the donor, and any vacancy among the general trustees would thereafter be filled by the remaining general trustees. Debate Centers on Trustees. Most of the long Senate debate re- volved around this method of naming the general trustees, a group of Sena- tors contending the Government should have a greater voice in ad- ministering the gallery after the gift is accepted. Senator La Follette, Progressive of Wisconsin, opened the fight with a motion to have President Roosevelt appoint the five general trustees. He was supported during the debate b; Senators Norris, Independent of Ne- braska; O'Mahoney, Democrat of | Wyoming, and Black, Democrat of Alabama Majority Leader Robinson of Ar- karsas, supported by Senators Con- nally of Texas, McAdoo of California and Green of Rhode Island, all Demo- crats, fought for preservation of the terms that had been agreed upon be- tween representatives of Mr. Mellon and the committee. Robinson and Connally expressed fear the carrying out of the offer would be endangered if the essential terms were altered At times the discussion was marked by sharp verbal jabs between opposing orators, but as the day drew to a close all except a few unobjectionable amendments were voted down by a chorus of committee supporters with- out record votes. Guards American Artists, In seeking to change the set-up of the governing board, La Follette de- clared he wanted to make sure the Na- ‘tional Gallery would be operated in such a way as to give encouragement to American artists in developing the art of today and the future. Senator Norris took the position that, while the donor had a perfect right to specify terms to govern the offer, members of Congress also had the right to decide whether they would accept it on those terms. Fears Self-Perpetuation. Senator Black stressed the argu- ment that the bill sets up a govern- ing board, the majority of which would be a self-perpetuating body. He said he was not so disturbed over the method of choosing the first board as he was over the fact that the manner of filling vacancies makes it self- perpetuating. He also contended that, under decisions in other cases, Con- gress might find itself unable to amend | the terms later, even by a constitu- tional amendment, because it would be in the nature of a contract. Senator Robinson took the view Congress can always repeal a statute it enacts, but that a question of breach of good faith would arise if it should be repealed. Senator Borah, Republican, Iaaiwe, praised Mr. Mellon’s offer, but indicated he was concerned over the | possibility that Congress might find itself unable to amend the measure later. La Follette later proposed an amendment reserving the right to amend the measure, but this also was wted down. | visit of | Aretary, announced today. On the Banquet Bench Chief Justice Hughes Introduces Speaker at Brown Alumni Dinner. This unusual study of Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, rarely photographed recently, was taken at the Brown Univer- sity alumni banquet last night. £ EVER have we needed a greater attention to those N precious years before men are engulfed by the press- | ing affairs of life,” Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes told the Brown | University Club of Washington last | night during his introduction of Dr. | Henry M Wriston, recently inaugu rated president of the New England university. Chief Justice Hughes is a fellow of | Brown University, was a member of the class of 1881 and received his M. A. there in 1884. Dr. Wriston is a guest of the Chief Justice during his in the Capital, his first since taking over the presidency of the uni- versity. In his own address, dealing both with the problems of scholarship and administration, Dr. Wriston remarked: “If we (the university) ever balance the budget easily, I will consider it a bad sign, a sign that we are not show- ing sufficient imagination in our edu- ational planning.” Among those attending the dinner | meeting at the Mayflower Hotel were | Senator Theodore Francis Green, also a fellow of the university; former | | Gov. Norman S. Case, now a member | of the Communications Commission; James V. Bennett, director of Federal Prisons; William Adams Slade of the Library of Congress, and Joseph L. Wheeler, librarian of the Enoch Pratt Free Library of Baltimore, all of whom are graduates of Brown MMULLEN GETS AIRBUREAU POST Succeeds J. S. Wynne as Chief of Airport Marking and Mapping Section. Appointment of Maj. A. B. McMul- | len of Florida as chief of the airport | marking and mapping section of the Bureau of Air Commerce was an- nounced today by Assistant Secretary of Commerce Johnson. Maj. McMul- | len succeeds John S. Wynne, who an- nounced his resignation February 15 to enter the practice of aeronautical | law in Washington. Maj. McMullen has more than 11,000 hours of flying time to his credit as an Army pilot, Reserve officer and private fiyer. He'has been engaged in the aviation industry for 19 years, and is now assistant director of the Division of Airways and Airports of the Works Progress Administration. Maj. McMullen formerly was direc- tor of W. P. A. airport work in Florida and also was director of aviation for the State of Florida. The airport section since 1933 has co-operated in the handling of air- port relief projects at 950 different lo- cations, involving expenditure of about $60,000,000. Born in Forrest, Ill, February 22, 1896, Maj. McMullen entered the Army Air Service in 1917, serving as an instructor and engineer officer dur- ing the war. He formed his own air- craft operating company in Tampa, Fla., following the war. He holds a Commerce Department transport pilot’s license and aircraft and en- gine mechanic’s licenses. He holds a commission in the Air Corps Reserve. He formerly was vice president of | the National Association of State | Aviation Officials. 'ST. PATRICK'S DAY ' CELEBRATION GROWS | Women of Moose to Hold Supper. Reptile House Interview Arranged. To the list of functions arranged | for the celebration of St. Patrick’s day tomorrow has been added an oyster dinner to be served at Moose Hall, 1414 I street, by the Alumni Com- ‘mlttee of Columbia Chapter, No. 368, | Women of the Moose. The dinner will be served from 5 pm. to 8 pm. for the benefit of ac- tivities undertaken by the committee. Columbia Lodge is sponsoring a St. Patrick’s day dance at the hall to follow the dinner. Station WMAL has arranged with Rev. Timothy J. MacCarthy, chaplain of the District branch of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, for a radio in- terview tomorrow at 3:45 p.m. in the reptile house of the National Zoologi- cal Park on the legend of St. Patrick driving the snakes from Ireland. Father MacCarthy will be questioned by Jim McGrath, who will describe the activities of the Zoo's snakes on the feast day of their enemy. Ambrose O'Connell, executive as- sistant to Postmaster General Farley, will be the principal speaker at the St. Patrick’s day luncheon meeting of the Georegtown Law School Alumni Club at 12:15 p.m. tomorrow at the Raleigh Hotel, Joseph F. Gaghan, sec- | the newly formed League for Progress | | in Architecture served notice the me- | south of the axis of the White House. 7 ' history’s start. MEMORIAL PLANS BEFORE ARTS BODY To Be Discussed Saturday. Group to Oppose Project in Congress. The Fine Arts Commission expects to devote most of its meeting Satur- day to a discussion of plans for the Thomas Jefferson Memorial, to be erected at the south side of the Tidal Basin in West Potomac Park, it was | indicated today. A joint meeting with the National Capital Park and Plan- | POInG In the way of sympathy from ning Commission will be held during the day. Meanwhile, as plans for the Satur- | day sessions were being completed, morial project will be opposed in Con- gress. Asserting that “several hun- dred protests from all over the coun- try” against the memorial are in hand, the league contended that traffic tie- ups will result from the road arrange- ments of the memorial at Highway Bridge, and that the Japanese cherry trees will be jeopardized At the same time, a defense of the selection of the site and the work of the Memorial Commission set up by | Congress was made in a statement by H. P. Caemmerer, executive sec- retary of the Fine Arts Commission. Congress already has authorized $3,- 000,000 for erection of the memorial, but the money has not yet been ap- propriated. Called “Housing Study” Group. The League for Progress in Architec- ture, which consists of about 30 men, including architects in the Resettle- ment Administration and other Gov- ernment offices; private architects, statisticians and others, is primarily “a housing study group,” according to its secretary, Richard Churchill, a Re- settlement landscape architect. League spokesmen characterized the design of John Russell Pope, archi- tect for the memorial, as “completely inappropriate” and “completely with- out imagination or vitality,” and con- tended that an open competition should | be held, instead of choosing Pope to execute the design. In a statement, the league asserted: “The proposed design could equally serve, by a simple change in the in- scription, as a memorial to Theodore Roosevelt, Edgar Allan Poe or the Supreme Court.” The National Park Service has been designated as the agent of the Memor- ial Commission to build the memorial. Drillers of the United States Engineer Office have been at work determining the character of the foundations of the site. Caemmerer emphasized that the lo- cation selected is the fourth great cardinal point in the Central Com- position of the Plan of Washington, Caemmerer’s Comment. “The Thomas Jefferson Memorial Commission appointed John Russell Pope of New York City, an architect of national reputation, to design the memorial and he has designed a memorial that resembles the Pan- theon, of which Jefferson was an ardent admirer,” Caemmerer said. ‘The memorial differs from the Pan- theon in that it is an open colonnade. In design it conforms to the design of 1901. It will be 2,600 feet, or one- half mile, south of the Washington Monument.” History Starts in 4326 B.C. The civil calendar of Egypt was STUDIED BY HAZEN | Navy Medical Corps, NEW PARKING BAN FOR SNOW SEASON Commissioner Points Need as Latest Fall Thaws Out. CITY HAS AUTHORITY TO ACT, HE BELIEVES to Prohibition on “Flow” Side of Arterial Highways Possible if Present Rule Is Invalid. A new snow-removal parking ban plan was under consideration today as the District faced a gradual thaw of the remnants of its 5-inch snow=- fall. Prohibition of parking 24 hours a day on the “flow” side of 50 or more arterial highways will be considered should the District lose its appeal on the snow-removal parking ban, ac- cording to Commissioner Melvin C. Hazen. This is the latest development in the long series of efforts by the Commis- sioners to keep the main traffic arteries free of parked cars during Winter months, when snowstorms may serve to handicap snow removal and in- crease congestion as cars become snow= bound. Hazen insisted again today he be- lieves the District has the authority to ban parking of automobiles, whether such regulations are tied to snow- removal work or not. “We plan to prosecute this appeal from the ruling of Judge Edward M. Curran,” Hazen said. “Should we lose that appeal, however, I will advocate | general parking ban on cars on the | main arterial highways, at least on the flow side. I believe that can be done under out existing statutes, but if legal opinion indicates the need of addi- tional legislation, I propose that we 80 to Congress for the necessary au- thority.” To Ask for Seal Opinion. Hazen said no move would be made in that direction until the appeal was decided and then he would ask Corpo- ration Counsel Elwood H. Seal for an opinion as to whether additional leg- islation was needed. The forecast for this afternoon was “fair and continued cold,” with a minimum of about 28 degrees tonight. Tomorrow also is expected to be clear | with slowly rising temperature and | diminishing northwest winds. Despite the ice-sheathed streets, traflic accidents during the last 24 | hours were few, only three casualties, all slight, being reported. Automatic sanders were in opera- | tion to make bus routes and heavily | traveled thoroughfares less hazardous | and about 200 men were put to work by the Refuse Department to keep gutters clear and open sewer basins. While official figures were not avail- | | able, police indicated “quite a few” tickets were being passed out to mo- torists who disregarded signs in re- stricted 8 to 9:30 a.m. zones. No attempt is being made, however, | to enforce the snow-removal parking | ban, twice thrown out of court and | now being considered for revision. Motorists who leave their cars in restricted zones and plead they were | | “hemmed in” by the snow can expect “The snow is not that bad,” said | Inspector B. A. Lamb. “If they really | want to move their cars they can do it.” The mercury dropped to 28 at 7 o'clock this morning, the same as yes- terday’s minimum. The “high” dur- ing the afternoon yesterday was 35 at 2:15 o'clock. ESTATE OF DU BOSE VALUED AT $148,200 Retired Commodore in Navy Med- ical Corps Leaves Most of Money to Widow. Disposing of an estate valued at $148,200, the will of William R. Du Bose, a retired commodore in the was filed for probate in District Court today. Commodore Du Bose was one of the last surviving holders of that rank. He died here FeBruary 16. After making several specific be- quests, Commodore Du Bose left the bulk of his estate in trust for his widow, Mrs. Katie B. Du Bose, 1850 Kalorama road, for her life. At her death the trust fund will be divided among William G. Du Bose, 2122 California street, a son; Mrs. Kate Du Bose Flather, 4339 Garfield street, a daughter, and two grandchildren, William Du Bose Sheldon, Cambridge, Mass., and Helen Sheldon, Hawaii. Twenty-five shares of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. stock were left to a brother, George B. Du Bose, while $250 was bequeathed to the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church and $100 to the American Bible Society of New York City. William G. Du Bose and Mrs. Flather's husband, Alfred C. Flather, were named executors and trustees. ‘They were represented before the court by Attorney B. L. Colton. CITIZENS HOLD PARLEY Lincoln Park Group Braves Snow to Attend Meeting. Nineteen members of the Lincoln Park Citizens’ Association braved the snow last night to attend the or- ganization’s meeting in Bryan School. Most of the hour-and-a-half meet- ing was devoted to an “off the rec- ord” discussion of the controversy be- tween the Lincoln Park group and some members of the Southeast Coun- cil over Eleventh street being a one- way thoroughfare. o Montana Society to Meet. Harry B. Mitchell, chairman of the United States Civil Service Commis- sion, a member of the Montana State Society, will be toastmaster at the society’s annual dinner dance at the introduced in 4326 B.C. and is called A National Press Club at 7:30 p.m. to- mOrTow. L Two D. C. Babies and “Three-Legs;” a Terrie PAGE B—1 r Among 11 Local Winners of $500 in “Sweeps” “Baby Helen” Hudgins flashes an Irish sweepstakes winner’s smile as she waves the ticket representing $500 in which she holds a half share with Miss Janice Tuchfeld. An envious friend looks on Tenth street, displays her lucky T BEGINS to look as though the stork got mixed up with the Irish Hospital Sweepstakes draw in Dublin today, two young ladies | who only recently made their bow on the Capita! scene sharing with 11 other local ticket holders in the award of $500 consolation prizes. Another winning ticket was held in the name of a ear-old miss, one by a “repeat” sweepstakes winner and still another in the name of *“Three Legs,” which, it develops, is a fox terrier whose master is unemployed. As the Mansion House drum spun today for the last time before the Grand National is run, at Aintree Friday, with the sweeps millions de- pending on the outcome, Helen Hudg- ins, day after tomorrow, and Barbara Ann Steiner, a November arrival, drew the | Consequently, | smiles of Lady Luck. the Hudgins and Steiner parents were pretty well pleased, for it takes quite a few dollars to start a family off as a going concern. Miss Hudgins, whose father, Ward Hudgins, is on the staff of Senator McKellar, Democrat, of Tennessee, won on a ticket made out to “Baby Helen” and shares her prize with Miss Janice Tuchfeld, also of McKellar's staff. Mrs. Hudgins is employed at the Federal Alcohol Control Administra- tion. They live at 142 Carroll street southeast. Identified as “Pumpkin.” Miss Steiner, who was identified only as “Pumpkin” in the announcement of | winners, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul F. Steiner of 2137 Thirtieth | street northeast. Steiner is employed at the Farm Credit Administration The 7-year-old is Peggy Jean Han- ley of 1412 A street southeast, a pupil of Holy Comforter School and daugh- ter of I. G. Hanley, Interior Depart- ment pritner, and Mrs. Hanley. The repeater is J. T. Helfer, who says he won on another sweeps, but doesn’t care to talk about it. He made the mistake on that occasion, Helfer explains, of saying he proposed to give away the money, and if seems that he had several callers. He played again, he says, to prove to friends that “lightning does strike twice in the same place.” “Three Legs"—who was born with just that many—is the property of H. W. Pickles, a steamfitter, of 711 Longfellow street. The other $500 winners were Mrs. Carrie Huddleston, 56 V street; Mrs. Beulah Thomas, 1124 Tenth street; F. F. Schondau, 1523 Spring place; Lawrence H. Freedman, 3720 Ninth | street, and B. W. Scala of 914 Mary- land avenue northeast, shared a ticket with a friend. The identity of one of the winners was concealed as “Some Dyna,” 2101 Con- necticut avenue. News Reaches Office. There was at least $500 worth of ex- | eitement wherever the prizes landed. Word of the Hudgins windfall reached Senator McKellar's office early, and wiling friends immediately got in touch with everybody concerned. It was practically no 4rouble at all to get the pride and joy of the Hudgins household to pose, but she didn’t have much to say. The Steiners always knew that Pumpkin was lucky, and perhaps were & bit surprised that she didn’t win one of the big prizes. Steiner has been home ill for several days, but agreed that $500 was a pretty fair sort of tonic. Pickles, as spokesman for Three Legs, said he didn’t know which was the rarer, a three-legged dog or a sweeps winner, “but when you've got both, that is something.” Both of the women ing are em- who will be 6 months old come | who also | while Mrs. Beulah Thomas, 112- “sweeps” ticket. ployed—Mrs. Huddleston at the Ches- apeake & Potomac Telephone Co. and Mrs. Thomas at Hecht's, where she is a buyer. Mrs. Huddleston thought she would “go to lunch” with her $500: Mrs Thomas wished she had won $150.000. Freedman, & machinist and an old hand at buying tickets, figures this one will “just about let me break even” for former ventures. Schondau is in charge of the Georg | Washington Masonic Memorial in | Alexandria. This was not his first ticket, but it was the first “good” one he has owned. The Associated Press these winners of $31,000 Pete McCarty, Borger, Tex.. “Four Friends.” Philadelphia, Pa.; Cecelia McL. Gildie, Augusta, Me chesain, Hollywood, Fla Unluck Four,” New York: Mrs. W. M. Ruple, East Cleveland, Ohio, and “Ain't It Awful Bert,” Long Branch, N. J. Five Draw Horses. ‘When the drawing for the major prizes was completed yesterday five ‘Washingtonians had a chance to cut in, according to the last announced list of eligibles for the Grand National, although the final line-up may show some scratches from the present entry list of 33. Some lucky individual, identified only as “Union Castle Rock,” held a ticket on Don Bradman: the “team” of Marshall Wrenn, jr., 3221 Connecti~ cut avenue, and R. M. Jefferson, Oak- crest, Arlington County, and James Montgomery, address unknown, had | Drim, and Dr. Herbert C. Smathers, a | dentist, of 638 I street drew Sugar Loaf. Ticket holders on known non- starters are Mrs. W. E. Connell, 110 Fourth street southeast, Phaldarill; Anthony Rodler, 1230 Quincy street northeast, Cranford Standrew, and Thelma Landy, 1254 New Jersey ave- nue, Davy Jones. $150,000 Is Top Prize. announced Sugar Loaf, all outsiders, finish in front, the tickets would be good for $150,000. Second money is $75,000 and third, $50,000. An also-ran and a non-starter are worth the same— approximately $3,000. of Engraving and Printing, got his ticket under the “nom de sweepstakes” of “About Time,” believing it, was just about time that he won something or other. The money is going in a home. Thelma Landy is a colored maid who works by the day, and she did not | discover until this morning that she | was about to come into $3,000. “Isn’t it nice, I'm all upset,” she said, jubilantly. These two draws were made late yes- terday, as was that of “Union Castle Rock.” The others emerged from the spinning drum earlier. After the first day of the draw, Americans held tickets entitling them to at least $1,476,670 of a total prize fund of $8,311,165, which was a new high. holders in this country, and these in- cluded 37 on the five horses now es- tablished as favorities for the classic. These are Golden Miller, Royal Mail, Delachance, Didoric and Ego. BAND CONCERTS. By the Soidiers’ Home Band in Stanley Hall at 5:30 p.m. today. John S. M. Zimmerman, bandmaster; An- ton Pointner, assistant. | By the Navy Band Symphony Or- chestra in the Sail Loft at the Navy Yard at 8 p.m. tonight, Lieut. Charles Benter, conductor; Alexander Mor- ris, assistant. J. Mar-< Should Drim, Don Bradman or | Rodler, vault keeper at the Bureau | |GETS MOTHER'S ESTATE| Of 960 tickets drawn, 481 went to Harry W. Pickles, jr., and his 6-month-old fox terrier, whose name, Three Paws, signed to his owner’s ticket, apparently was @ charm. Pickles, sr., is an unemployed steamfitter. “Pumpkin,” formally known as Barbara Ann, 31, months old, shown with her mother, Mrs. Paul F. Steiner, 2137 Thirtieth street nortieast, also brought a winner. —Star Staff Photos. Miss Janice Tuchfeld pon- ders the possibilities offered by $250, what with the Easter style parade practically in the offing. —Star Staff Photos. 0. POLICE TAKE FREED CONIT Man Released in Maryland | Brought Here to Face Robbery Charge. For the first time in almost five | years the gates of the Maryland Penitentiary swung open today for Hyman Kronick, 34, allowing him to | pass outside and into the custody of | Washington police, who want him for robbery. Kronick, who has three aliases, will | be brought here in connection with a series of 25 housebreakings in 1932, for which Inspector Bernard W. Thomp- son said he is under indictment. With time off for good behavior, | Kronick finished a five-year term in the Maryland prison, which he served | after being convicted of a string of 10 housebreakings in Baltimore. As he left, he was met by Detective Sergts. Thomas J. Suflivan and Robert Bryant, who were to escort him to the | Capital. When he arrives here Kronick, known to Washington police as Ken- neth Hundred and said by Baltimore authorities to have used the names James Rawlings and Kenneth Meyers, also will be questioned about a num- | ber of additional housebreakings and | mail-box robberies. Police say Kronick also is wanted by Georgia and Kentucky authorities for escapes from their penal or reform institutions. He allegedly escaped in 1930 from the Kentucky Reformatory, at Frankfort, where he was serving a burglary sentence, and later from a prison camp at Hinesville, Ga., where he also was sentenced for burglary. Mrs. Ellen H. Silsbee’s Son Is Be- queathed Approximate $250,000. Mrs. Ellen H. Silsbee, who died here March 3, left an estate valued at $250,000, it was revealed late yester- day, when her will was filed for pro- bate in District ' ourt. Her son, Fran- cis V. Silshee of 2620 Quebec street, was the principal beneficiary. Five thousand dollars was left to the trustees of the Utica Normal and Industrial Institute, Utica, Miss., and the remainder of the estate was be- queathed to the son, who was rep- resented by Attorneys Frederick Stohlman and Ggprge A. Cassidy, jr. | industry BUSINESS HEARS RESPONSIBILITY OF LABOR DEMANDED Industrial Council Session Speaker Injects & Issue. PERSONS OVER 70 INCREASING IN U. S. Population Steadily Growing Older, Census Bureau Offi- cial Reports. Protests against organized labor cropped out today among a group of business leaders from all over the country, meeting here in secret ses- sions as the American Industrial De- velopment Council The 48 engineers and chamber of commerce promoters considered a re- mark made to them at their confer- | ence in the United es Chamber of Commerce Building by Mark S. James, manager of the Pittsburgh, Pa., Com- mission for Industrial Expansion “This is the proper time to pass a | resolution to make labor responsible for its part of the employer-employe contracts.” James departed from the subject under discussion, industrial activities of the New England council, to turn his guns on labor yesterday. Lives Growing Longer. A steady increase from census pe- riod to census period of the number | of persons 70 years old, an age popu- | lar jn current political discussion, was reported this morning to the business men by Dr. Vergil D. Reed, assistant director of the Census Bureau, who related the increase to its effect on merchandising | "As a single example,” he said | “consider what the changing age of | our population and its more conserva- | tive preferences may do in the fleld of fashion, “After all, changes of fashion mean the discarding of machines, the scrapping of the waxing or waning of demands for certain raw materials and fabricated goods, and even the restraining of employes to | conform to consumer preferences and | changed tastes.” | In 1900, Dr. number tools, Reed said, of persons in this country jover 70 was 1,777,572. In 1935 esti- | mates showed 4.349,000 over 70. The figures represent respectively 2.4 and | 3.4 per cent of the total population “In 1900,” Dr. Reed continued, “children under 10 accounted for 23.7 per cent of our population, while in 1935, it is estimated, only 175 per cent were under 10 years. “There are fewer children in pro- portion to adults. The school popula- tion has begun to shr This will affect the number in kindergarten, elementary schools, high schools and colleges. A continuing increase in both the number and proportions of the population entitled to old-age benefits shouid be expected.” Legislation Outlined. Pending legislation of interest to was outlined by Chester Leasure, manager of the resolutions and referenda department of the United States Chamber of Commerce. The council completes its meeting the total this afternoon with a discussion of such topics as “The Effect of Flood on Plant Location” and “Water Supply | for Industrial Purposes.” All the meetings are held behind closed doors. In its previous 12 an- nual sessions the council managed to avoid publicity altogether. The president of the council is C. P. Wood of Lockv.ood Greene Engineers, Inc, New York. Louis A. Dumond, Association of Commerce, Chicago, I, and H. B. Keenleyside of the Toronto Industrial Commission, To- ronto, Canada, are vice chairmen. Among the seven directors is Arthur D. Smith, jr, who is connected with the United States Chamber of Com- merce. |DISTRICT CALENDAR DEFERRED IN HOUSE House leaders made arrangements today to postpone the scheduled “Dis- trict day” Monday, which will auto- matically force a delay in considera- tion on the race track gambling bill. Speaker Bankhead announced that under a tentative schedule the House will begin debate Monday on the ap- propriation bill for the State, Justice, Commerce and Labor Departments and that consideration of the District calendar would be deferred until March 29. The racing bill has a preferred status on the House calendar and will be the first measure called up on the next District day Simultaneous with Bankhead's an- nouncement, Chairman Norton of the District Committee received a formal report from the Commissioners oppos- ing the racing bill. SR WILLETT TO MAKE PLEA FOR JOBS FOR 3,000 Herbert L. Willett, jr., director of the Community Chest, will discuss “Washington Welfare Woes” on Radio Joe's program over WMAL at 7:30 o'clock tonight. Willett will answer questions propounded by Radio Joe. Tonight’s program is donated by Kaufman to help arouse Washington to the plight of 3,000 employable people who are unable to obtain relief or to get jobs. These 3,000 have ap- proximately 7,000 dependents, most of them children, making a total of 10,000 persons who are facing a des- perate situation. The Council of Social Agencies, the churches of the city and other civic-minded organizations and indi- viduals are making every effort to induce Congress to supply the Board of Public Welfare with funds to take care of these people. Other cities give relief whether or not there is an employable person in the family. The mext in the series of “help wanted” programs broadcast by Sta- tion WJSV in co-operation with the Community Chest and the Publie Welfare Board will be presented at 7:15 pm. qunow.