Evening Star Newspaper, April 11, 1937, Page 9

BIG SECURITY TASK AHEAD, SAYS GREEN Nation Has Gone Far, He Says, but Much Remains—Urges Uniform U. S. System. BY the Assoctated Press. NEW YORK, April 10.—William Green, president of the American Fed- eration of Labor, said today “the larger portion of the task still lies ahead of us” in obtaining a “sound” system of unemployment insurance and old-age security. “The Nation has gone far,” he told the National Conference of the Amer- ican Association for Social Security, “in providing the machinery to per- form this gigantic task and by bring- ing within reach of the people at least the first and most essential benefits of a national program. But the Nation has yet far to go before the goal is reached.” | He said the old-age insurance plan | should be broadened to apply to such groups as agricultural workers and | seamen, that the present rate of annu- ! ities should be revised upward, and O that employe contributions should be eliminated and the program be financed by direct taxation. The ideal plan for unemployment insurance, he said, would be & uniform national system administered by the Federal Government. Because of the present plan of having the States administer the law, he added, the sys- tems “not only lack uniformity but aiso often fall short of the promise to provide unemployment insurance.” - South Africa has started a census on the nation's resources in case of ‘war. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON HUSBAND SLAYER'S TERM IS COMMUTED 10-Year Sentence Cut to 2-to-10 Years in Reduction of De- gree of Offense. bY the Associated Press. NASHVILLE, Tenn. April 10—A commutation by Gov. Jordon Brown- ing today made Mrs. Daisy Alexander Root, convicted of killing her husband in a jealous rage over a night club D. C., APRIL 11, “cigarette girl,” eligible for parole in 14 months. The degree of offense was reduced from second-degree murder to volun- tary manslaughter and the sentence from 10 years to 2-to-10 years. She has served about three months. The State Supreme Court recently upheld Mrs. Root's conviction of the slaying of her gay young husband, Brenton, son of a Chicago clergyman, but recommended a commutation. The Governor said it was his duty to follow that suggestion. Root, 32, was shot to death at his country home near Memphis the night of November 3, 1935, as the 1937—PART ONE. aftermath of a night club party where | | his wife sald he called pretty Lucile | | Underwood, red-headed ‘“cigarette | girl,” by “sweet names,” though the party had been arranged to celebrate the Roots’ reconciliation. They had been estranged, she de- clared, because of Root's affairs with other women and abuses to her. She told of going to her husband's home after the dance, awakening him, calling him “honey” and then shoot- ing him when he “reached for his gun.” - —— L Three new air routes are to be inaugurated in Argentina this year. A9 SCHOLARSHIPS AWARDED | Almsren is aboard the U. S, S. Trever with the Pacific Fleet at San Diego, Calif. 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