Evening Star Newspaper, April 8, 1937, Page 17

- SPEEDS CERTIFYING OFSO00TOW.P.A. Street Announces Change _.on Six-Month Staff for Certification. Certification of 3,000 unemployed employables to W. P. A. rolls will be accomplished as speedily as possible under the Commissioners’ new emer- gency relief program. Elwood Street, director of Public Welfare, announced today. Original plans to appoint a certifica- tion staff for six months with $25,000 diverted by the Commissioners from & transient relief fund have been dis- carded because of the emergency, Street said ‘The Civil Service Commission is be- Ing asked, Street said, to supply an emergency staff comprising eight “in- take” secretaries, four supervisors, 24 ease workers, 12 stenographer-typists and 12 registration clerks to work until July 1. May Ask Agreement Be Waived. Should the commission encounter any delay in finding eligibles it will be asked to waive its recent agreement with the District Government and allow appointment of qualified candi- dates outside the civil service register. Earlier in the day the Commis- sioners received assurances from the newly created “Citizens’ Committee for the Unemployed” that their emergency relief efforts will have the whole-hearted support of District cltizens. Canon Anson Phelps Stokes, of Washington Cathedral, was appointed | chairman of the committee, succeeding Coleman Jennings, temporary chair- man, who is leaving soon for Europe. The committee urged the Com- missioners to increase the amount of the $130,000 deficiency relief appro- priation which they have requested to $170,000. This amount, with the $30,000 made available from reserve welfare funds, represents the mini- mum necessary to aid unemployed ‘wage earners and their families during | | May and June, the committee pointed out, l;cllowlng the organization com-; . o \uncheons: 1*° id for brid tonch, 9P cocktail parti® axpected guests: 3PV on _moment 3nacks: b o ctter 3choot, Por of-the- the Kiddi live, CoV° spread: on hand 1y alwoys Keap 0 VPP Now only 15¢ -t:-"""" mittee meeting, Canon Stokes said the response of the Commissioners to reso- lutions adopted at the mass meeting is “most gratifying.” He added: “The Commissioners may. be as- sured of the public support of our committee in appealing to the Federal Bureau of the Budget and to Congress. The committee will also help in trying to better co-ordinate the work of public and private relief agencies. As I have before stated, we are not ask- ing for favors, but merely for the THE EVENING .‘STAR, WASHINGTON hazards before it is too late and while there is still a chance of rehabil- itating most of the sufferers and mak- ing them capable of self-support. Any further action would prove a bad in- vestment from the point of view of our future citizenship and of our future municipal bill for the care of the dependent. I am delighted that the Commissioners of the District seem to take this view.” First Trains Horse Drawn. power which Congress alone can give us to care as a municipality for our unemployed. cessity of some additional taxation, we xhculd not object. tion must be prevented now at all The first two railroads in the coun- try, the Quincy Railroad of Massa- chusetts and the Mauch Chunk Rail- road of Pennsylvania, both dating from the year 1827, used horse power and not locomotives. If this means the ne- “Hunger, suffering and demoraliza- BS the Assoctated Press. NEW YORK, April 8. —Clyde Beatty, who is pretty well knbwn for the stunts he does with animals, had a date in West Side Court today to answer a charge of “cruelty to lions and tigers.” E. H. “Doc” Partello, manager of the circus with which Beatty is appearing, said the trainer would plead guilty and pay whatever fine is required. Beatty was arrested yesterday by Jacob Jacobs, 62-year-old inspector for the Humane Bocilety of New York. D. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1937 Beatty Faces New York Charge Of Beating Lions and Tigers “I warned him six or eight times that he would have to stop beating those animals,” Jacobs said, “and that his sssistants would have to stop jahbing the lions and tigers with those long poles as they come down the chute into the cage.” Beatty made 10 comment except to say that in 14 years of animal train- ing, he had been arrested cnly once. ‘That was two years ago, in Pittsburgh. MORE PEACE TALKS URGED BY THOMAS Frequent International Confer- ences Proposed to Academy of Political Science. By the Assoctated Press. NEW YORK, April 8—Senator Elbert D. Thomas, Democrat, of Utah, last night urged more frequent inter- national conferences on world problems 88 & means of insuring peace. “We—all nations together,” he said, “would do well to require one another to speak frankly upon our armament needs, to tell others frankly that which We report among ourselves covertly, how many guns, ships, airplanes we need and for what purpose. “We Americans who have sometimes scoffed at mere international conver- sations, saying we are built for action and not for words, see our industrial- ists and our labor leaders talking across the table, liking it and getting some- where. “It is not possible that we have traveled toward peace on a wide, wide path, every time we have conversed with our neighbors, and that more and more frequent conversations will take us within sight of the broad highway?” Senator Thomas was one of a dozen Another BroadSALE of the Famous Cream Style SWEET CORN y % 25° cans No. 2 can Peas and AN NEW POTATOES Tender and mealy. 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