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JERSEY CITY FOILS C.1.0. ORGANIZERS Police Arrest 13 and Escort Twoscore More Over City Line. By the Associated Press. JERSE\ CITY, N. J, Nov. 28.— Thirteen union organizers and sym- pathizers were arrested and twoscore more were escorted from the city to- day as police temporarily disrupted the C. I. O.'s mass unionization drive among Hudson County workers. Those held by police were charged with violating a city ordinance pro- hibiting distribution of literature without a license. Sol D. Kapelsohn of Newark, an American Cuvil Liberties Union at- torney, said the union would sue police and Mayor Frank Hague for false ar- Test in the case of those taken into custody and for assault and battery in the case of those forced to leave the city. He declared larceny charges would be filed against police who con- fiscated union handbills without ar- resting the distributors, Police at Water Front. At least four persons were taken into custody when 40 C. I O. repre- sentatives came face to face with a score of police at a water front build- ing housing several industrial con- eerns. Committee for Industrial Organiza- tion officials identified them as Walter Barry. Samuel Macri, William Mec- Ginn and Morris Milgrim, the latter & member of the American Student League at Newark University. They were leaders in a contingent which marched from the union's meeting place to the Harborside Building and began distribution of handbills urging workers to “Be wise—organize, Join the C.I. 0.” Deputy Police Chief Charles Wil- gon headed the police squad. - All pamphlets were confiscated and the C. 1 O. squadron was ordered to disperse. The 30-odd men and 3 women returned to headquarters and voted to march to the police station. ‘Their plans went awry, however, as Chief Wilson and his men met the group as it emerged from the union building. Ten automobiles were lined up, a plainclothes man at each wheel. Ordering four union representatives in each car, Wilson directed they be driven to the city line. Announcing the organization cam- paign, William J. Carney, C. 1. O. State director, charged workers here have been “terrorized” and “intimi- dated” by the “police of Mayor (I-Am- the-Law) Hague. The “showdown” was planned, he said, because “Hague has gotten away with this too long.” For Mr. Macri and Mr. McGinn, their arrest was their second contact with police this morning. Earlier they had been escorted outside the city in their own car. They returned later end Mr. Macri was at the head of the delegation when it left union head- quarters. Says Workers “Terrorized.” Before the short-lived invasion, Mr. Carney charged that. “terrorized Hudson County workers are afraid of g§oing near C. I. O. offices or being eeen with union officials.” Union or- ganizers, he continued, “have been shadowed by Jersey City police detec- tives in radio-equipped cars and have even been watched while eating.” “We go to Jersey City to organize in a peaceful manner,” he said. “Whether this will be possible in the face of de- nials of eivil rights in that city, I am unable to say at this time.” Mr. Carney said a member of the Thnited States Senate Civil Liberties Committee would be present as an ob- server. “Workers in Hudson County have Peen denied the right to strike,” he said. “Police of Jersey City have tried to stop picketing without a court in- Junction, so easily obtained in Hud- son County. “When our organizers enter Jersey City they are stopped police, threatened and searched. * At our organization meetings police even threaten the workers who attend. Hague has gotten away with this too long.” “OUTLAW” STRIKES HIT. Martin Warns of Danger to Labor in Indianapolis Talk. INDIANAPOLIS, Nov, 29 (#).—A warning that ‘“outlaw strikes must ©0,” spoken by Homer Martin, presi- dent of the United Automobile Work- ers of America, went out to organized labor today. “No loca! Martin told Indiana locals of the U. A. W. A, an afliate of the Committee for Industrial Or- ganization, last night, “has the right to declare a strike in violation of an @greement with the international. “And I don't blame any employer not to want to deal with a union that isn't as good as its word.” He declared union members aiding unauthorized strikes would be “kicked out” and then charged “stool pigeons” started a five-day unauthorized sit- down strike ended last week at Pon- tiac, Mich. Plan Disciplinary Action. Shortly before arriving here by air- plane from Detroit, Mr. Martin placed the Pontiac local of the U, A. W. A. under control of the union's interna- tional board in a move reported as *“disciplinary.” Delayed five hours in his speaking engagement because of bad flying weather, Mr. Martin arrived after ofi- cers of Indiana U. A. W. A, locals condemned the labor record of Senator Van Nuys, Democrat, of Indiana, and urged that he be replaced by Alex Gordon, Indianapolis labor leader. Pepper of Florida. THE- EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, OLLOWING is the text of Presi- dent Roosevelt's message to Congress today on housing: To the Congress of the United States: In my message to the Congress upon the convening of the extraordi- nary session on November 15, I said that I would address you further in regard to proposals to encourage the private construction and financing of housing on a large scale. The pro- posals which I am presenting for your consideration now are an im- portant part of the program for in- creasing general business activity and employment during the coming year. From the point of view of wide- spread and sustained economjc re- covery, housing conatitutes the largest and most promising single field for private enterprise. Housing construction has not kept pace with either the needs or growth of our population. From 1930 to 1937, inclusive, the average annual number of new dwelling units con- structed in the United States was 180,000, as contrasted with an an- nual average of 800.000 in the seven years prior to 1930. In addition, much of our existing housing has | seriously deteriorated, or has been demolished. It is estimated that an average of 600,000 to 800,000 dwelling units ought to be built annually over the next five years to overcome the accumulated shortage and to meet the normal growth in number of families. In other words. we could build over the next five years 3,000,000 or 4,000,000 housing units, which at & moderate estimate of $4,000 per unit would mean spendipg from $12,000,000,000 to $16,000,000,000, with- out creating a surplus of housing accommodations, and consequently without impairing the value of exist- ing housing that is fit for decent human occupancy. The long-continued lag in building is a drag on all industry and trade. This presents an urgent problem which is the common concern of in- dustry, labor and government. All business needs the infusion of orders and the diffusion of purchasing power that come when building is thriving. Great numbers of people look di- rectly or indirectly to the construc- tion industry for employment. This industry, to a greater extent than any er, can put idle funds to work and thus speed up the cir- culation of the Nation's money sup- ply. This, in turn, woul® increase national income, reduce unemploy- ment and as a result contribute toward a balancing of the budget. Cost Must Be Cut To Help Housing. Since 1933 we have had a great recovery movement in which hous- ing construction has played only a minor part. That it should play a major part has been clearly recog- nized by this administration from the outset. But, though much has been done to encourage construction activity, the results have not yet been salisfactory. Instead of a seasonal rise in housing construction through the past spring and summer, there was an early downturn. This was one of the principal reasons why gen- eral business failed to forge ahead during the latter part of the year. We must recognize clearly that housing will not be built if costs are too high in relation to the consumer’s income. The fact that housing costs rose sharply—far too sharply—be- tween September of 1936 and March of 1937 was primarily responsible for the downturn in housing and thus in Tecovery generally this year. Revivai of housing construction must be based on reduction of the costs of building and the payment for bulldings rather than on a resump- tion of the rising costs that stopped progress in this essential field last 1/8)/8\1(8\i/8) s /@1 /@11 @1 /0. Counter in the Star. By mail—inclose 46¢c Evening Star. Name.... 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The Commodity Exchange Commis- sion will hold hearings at Chicago tomorrow and Wednesday on its own proposals that new restrictions be placed on speculation in grain futures —an activity that involved $25,000,- 000,000 Iast year. One proposal would place a limit on the speculative transactions of any in- dividual. Agriculture Secretary Wallace, a member of the commission, declared that “excessive speculative operations, particularly by one or a few in- dividuals, are a grave danger in any market and may force prices far out of line.” The administration is not alone in its eriticism of speculation at Chicago. Senator Capper, Republican, of Kansas went on the radio last night to de- clare that the Government has not “gone nearly far enough in clamping down on the gambling in necessities of life on the Chicago Board of Trade and other commodity exchanges.” Mr. Roosevelt Offers Six-Point Program Private Construction. spring and summer. Housing must be produced at prices, rates and rents that the mass of our people can af- ford to pay. The Government has made pro- vision, through assistance to munici- pal housing, for many of the most needy. But private enterprise and private capital must bear the burden of providing the great bulk of new housing. The measures I now sug- gest are to encourage private build- ing to meet the needs of families of moderate means. These proposals cannot be effective, however. unless all elements concerned in the con- struction industry—builders, contrzc- tors, manufacturers of materials and equipment, labor and finance—co- operate in producing housing that is within reach of the incomes of the vast majority of our citizens If the building industry is to play the vital part that it ought to have in our economic system, it must do it in the characteristic American way. It must develop, as other great in- dustries have developed, the American genius for efficient and economical large-scale production. The lower unit costs resulting from large-scale pro- duction will make for greater annual returns for the entire building in- dustry, including all workers engaged in that industry, and for a higher standard of living for the country as a whole. Government Unable To Do It All The problem of reducing costs to a point where employment and higher annual earn- ings are possible is one that must be solved in major part by the building industry itself. The Government, however, can take the initiative by bringing about a reduction of financ- ing costs, by making it easier for families of moderate means to buy or rent new houses, and by providing mechanisms to make it practicable for private enterprises to engage in large- scale housing operations for the mass market. In order, therefore, that Govern- ment may give the fullest encourage- ment to & broad revival of building, I recommend that the Congress adopt at this time measures to facilitate the financing of every type of housing construction, whether for sale or for rent, and ranging from the small house to entire residential communi- ties and large low-rent apartment buildings. In addition to measures to stimulate new construction, I recom- mend that provision be made for an extensive program of repairs and modernization. As a practicable means of encour- aging and facilitating = more effective operation of private enterprise and private capital in the housing field, I am suggesting enlargement of the framework of the National Housing Act in the light of actual experience. This legisiation, enacted by the Con- gress in 1934, provided a new financial mechanism applicable to all types of lending institutions that make loans for housing purposes. Enabling legis- lation giving effect to this new mech- anism was subsequently enacted by all the States. Within the limits of the types of housing to which it applies, it has proved to be both popular and practical. Under the National Housing Act the Congress established the Federal Hous- ing Administration, which insures mortgages on certain types of housing, but itself makes no loans. The agency is designed to become self-sustaining through the operation of & mortgage insurance fund, into which premiums are paid by borrowers who obtain loans under the provisions of the act from private lending institutions. An ulti- mate guaranty of loans that may de- fault is given by the Federal Govern- ment, but this guaranty becomes oper- ative only in the event that recoveries from the sale of defaulted properties, together with all the monies in the insurance fund, should be insuficient to pay the insured claims. Hence, even if any cost should result to the Government hecause of this guaranty, it would be negligible when measured by the volume of construction and employment induced by the fact that the guaranty is there should it ever have to be availed of. The benefits of financing under the National Housing Act apply to two main classes of transactions—namely, those in which a single house be- comes security for a loan and those in which a limited-dividend company obtains a loan in order to develop a rental housing project. The amend- ments which I am suggesting are of three kinds: (1) to effect further reductions in financing costs: (2) to extend the insurance of mortgages to types of housing operations not now adequately provided for in the act; (3) to make the funds of institutional and individusl investors more easily available for the finaneing of large- scale operations. larger volume, longer ! | at present, Text of President’s Message on Housing in Effort to Spur the cost of financing is in the long run one of the largest items in housing costs. In the case of rental housing it is a determining factor, first in whether construction shall be under- taken at all, and second in arriving at the scale of rentals to be charged. Institutions making loans to be insured by the Federal Housing Ad- ministration are now permitted by regulation to make an interest charge up to 5 per cent and a service charge of one-half of 1 per cent, or a total of 5'3 per cent per annum. It is proposed to reduce this to 5 per cent net by amending the adminis- trative regulations. As a means of further reducing the cost to the borrower, however, I would ask the Congress to authorize the Federal Housing administrator to fix the mortgage insurance pre- mium as low as one-half of 1 per cent on the diminishing balance of An insured mortgage, instead of on the original face amount as now re- quired by the act. Further, as a means of giving special encourage- ment to the construction of small, moderately priced houses, I would ask the Congress to authorize the Federal Housing administrator to fix the mortgage insurance premium as low as one-fourth of 1 per cent on the diminishing balance of an in- sured mortgage in cases where the estimated value of the property to be built does not exceed $6,000 and where the mortgage is insured prior to July 1, 1939, Another change that I would ask the Congress to make in the existing legislation is to raise the insurable limit from 80 per cent of the ap- praised value of the property, as to 90 per cent in the case of loans to owner-occupants, where the appraised value of the property does not exceed $6,000. This proposal is of great importance. It recognizes the fact that most persons who desire to own homes of their own cannot make a first payment as large as 20 per cent of the purchase price. This is particularly true after the severe depression of recent years, in whish the savings of millions of prudent and thrifty families were depleted. Majority in Urban Areas Don’t Own Homes. The fact is not generally recognized that the majority of our urban fami- lies are not home owners. In the larger cities the proportion of rented dwellings runs from 60 to nearly 80 per cent of the total. Accordingly, I am suggesting for your consideration measures designed especially to fa- cilitate the construction and financ- ing, under the economies of a blanket mortgage, of groups of houses for rent, or for rent with an option to pur- chase. Such operations would afford economies in construction as well as in financing, and would therefore, I believe, lead to the formation of sub- stantial companies to avail themselves of the opportunities in this particular field. These same measures are also designed to encourage the construc- tion of apartment buildings to be op- erated on a moderate scale of rentals, with the mortgage in any case not to exceed $1,000 per room. This is & type of apartment property particu- larly adapted to the requirements of our smaller cities. In the construction of large-scale rental properties, a small but creditable beginning has already been made under the’ existing provisions of the National Housing Act applicable to limited-dividend companies. Those provisions, however, need to be clari- fled and simplified in order to en- courage & more extensive development of large rental projects in the larger communities where they are needed. Among the most important of the measures to which I would invite your consideration are those designed to facilitate the financing of these large projects. Here there is a great gap in our financial mechanisms. The large projects thus far constructed under the provisions of the National Housing Act have been closely regu- lated as to rents, charges, capital structure, rate of return, etc., and the excesses and abuses which widely characterized the financing of apart- ment properties in the 1920's have thereby been avoided. The very size of the loans in the case of these large projects, however, makes it difficult to finance them by means of a single mortgage. I would therefore urge the Con- gress to liberalize the provisions of the act under which the chartering of national mortgage associations is authorized, and, among other things, to give these associations explicit au- thority to make loans on large-scale properties that are subject to special regulation by the Federal - housing administrator. The effect of the change here “propossd would be to enable these properties to be financed sociations may be promptly organ- ized, I shall ask the Reconstruction Finance Corp. to make available, out | of the funds already allocated to the| R. F. C. Mortgage Co., $50.000,000 for capital purposes. Under the amend- ments proposed, this would provide the basis for $1,000.000,000 of private funds obtainable through the sale of national mortgage association deben- tures. <~Another of the suggested amend- ments that I regard as of special im- portance would make the limitation of $2,000,000,000 on the amount of mortgages insurable under the Na- tional Housing Act apply to the amount of insurance to be outstand- ing at any time and would remove the limitation of July 1, 1939, now applicable to the ultimate guaranty of the Federal Government. These changes would measurably encourage private financing under the act with- out increasing the amount of the con- tingent guaranty provided in the ex- isting legislation. In connection with these changes, I would suggest that the Congress eventually limit the in- surance of mortgages to housing on which the application for mortgage insurance is approved prior to the be- ginning of construction. Finally, I am suggesting that in- surance be provided for repair and modernization loans in a manper sim- ilar to that which was formerly pro- vided under Title I of the National Housing Act. This former provision expired by limitation on April 1 of the present year. Considered in relation to existing provisions of the National Housing Act, the Federal Reserve Act, the Federal Home Loan Bank Act, and extensive enabling legislation that has been en- acted for the several States, the adop- tion of these measures would for the first time provide all the financial . mechanisms essential to a widespread and sustained revival of housing con- | struction. The terms of financing would be the most favorable ever made generally available in this country for housing purposes—half, or less than half, the cost of loans of comparable proportions under the system of first, second and third mortgage financing that was widely prevalent in the 1920's. Carge and continuous activity and em- ployment in housing construction, which is not feasible under our present limited methods of financing, would be put decisively on a practicable basis. Co-operation Vital To Success of The success of such a program as this, however, cannot be assured by governmental action alone. It will depend mainly on the willingness of industry and labor to co-operate in pro- ducing housing at costs that are with- in the reach of the mass of our peo- ple. The goal at which both industry and labor should aim is sustained large-scale production at lower costs to the consumer. This will mean a larger annual wage for labor because of the larger amount of employment than is possible at high hourly rates with long periods of unemployment. It will mean a larger annual income for industry because of the larger vol- ume of production than is possible at high-unit prices with greatly restricted output. Because this was not the goal of in- dustry and labor during the past con- struction year, the result soon proved injurious not only to the building in- dustry and its workers, but to business and employment generally. The sharp rise of wage rates and prices in this industry, just before the last building season, reduced by 100,000 to 150.000 the number of new dwelling units that competent authorities had estimated were in prospect for 1937. It is now clear that we cannot have & strong revival of housing construc- tion on the terms that were exacted by industry and labor lsst spring. The rise in hourly wage rates and in material prices was too rapid and too great for the consumer to bear. A similar rise in costs likewise checked production and buying in other in- dustries as well. In emphasizing these facts, I am not seeking to apportion blame, for manifestly no industrial or labor groups would deliberately adopt a policy that would react to their own disadvantage. I am simply pointing out what did occur and what the consequences were. In the budget of the great mass of our families, the point is quickly reached where increased costs mean reduced consumption. Reduced con- sumption, in turn, means a decline in some one’s business and some one’s employment. The essential problem of the construction industry and its workers, then, is to find a reasonable way, through continuity of production and employment, to adjust the costs of housing to the consumer's means. To help attain this end, it is my intention to initiate a series of con- ferences with reprasentatives of in- dustry, labor and finance, with a view to giving housing construction & fresh start in the coming building year and averting a recurrence of NOVEMBER 2 Combat Anti-Semitism Two of the religious leaders who addressed the American Jewish Congress here yesterday as it laid plans to fight anti- Semitism. They are (left) Dr. Stephen S. Wise, president of the congress, and Dr. Henry A. Atkinson of the American Committee on Religious Rights and Minorities. + i —Harris & Ewing Photo. VIOLENCE FLARES INGREYHOUND ROW Non-Striking Driver Seized and Then Freed—Peace Parley Continues. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, Nov. 29.--Violence grew today in the Greyhound bus strike with abduction of a driver and shots fired at or near a bus on the highway, while a Federal conciliator's joint conference with both sides con- tinued here. Police questioned the abducted and returned driver and nearly a score of other men at Pittsburgh early today. Wilbur Glassbrenner, 26, a non- striking driver, reported o police that four men picked him up last night as he was about to enter his bus at a North Pittsburgh station. They took him to a house and urged him to sign up to join the strike. He declined and walked out without interference, he said. Police raided the house and took 20 men into custody. Glassbrenner said he could not identify any of them. None Strikes Bus. Ohio highway police reported that shots were fired at or near s Grev- hound bus en route between Youngs- town and Warren. Police expressed belief the shots were fired at the bus tires. None atruck the bus, however. There were 31 passengers aboard on the run from Pittsburgh to Oleveland. % Federal Labor Conciliator John L. Conner met with Ivan Bowen, attor- ney for the Greyhound ecompanies, and T. J. McGrath, attorney for the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, for nearly 10 hours yesterday and then continued the joint session today. Mr. Conner said “progress has been made” and expressed hope for an early settlement. The brotherhood, which has been declared sole bargaining agent for the drivers, has demanded a closed shop and wage increases. Union lead- ers continued to claim the strike “nearly 100 per cent” effective among 1,300 drivers. Buses Are Stoned. Officials of nine Greyhound bus companies from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast continued to maintain that operations were not greatly hampered. They said service was suspended only in Boston and Philadelphia. At Syracuse buses were stoned as they departed from the terminal, while & crowd estimated by police at 500 persons threatened at times to crush lines of police guards. Windows were broken in one bus. No one was hurt. Three buses had been stoned here previously. A Greyhound driver reported that his bus was crowded off the highway near Clarence, N. Y., by “a passenger bus of another line operating out of Buffalo.” Regioral Manager Paul 8. McLean said the report was made to him. Sugar was found in the oil of anothér vehicle, he said. Two other Greyhound buses were stoned in Pennsylvania and a passen- ger, Anna Kitosh of Irvington, N. J., suffered skull lacerations. The police detail guarding Grey- hound terminals in Baltimore was de- creased to three today as no pickets showed up. Yesterday four pickets from striking bus drivers paraded before the build- ing. There was no disorder. North-bound passengers arriving from Southern points were taken to trains again today, as has been done since the strike began last week. SLAYINGS CONFESSED BILLINGS, Mont.,, Nov. 29 (#).— County Attorney P. R. Heily said to- day Frank Robideau, 55, had confessed slaying Mr. and Mrs. Mike Kuntz, whose bodies were found Saturday after 5-year-old Larry Kuntz told neighbors “they shot mama and papa.” Heily said Robideau, a rancher, related in a signed confession that he and Kuntz, 38, had agreed to settle a quarrel over some Wwh by driving to » secluded spot and “shooting it out.” Larry said hitch-hikers killed his parents, that tuberculoesis is responsible for the deaths . of about 4,000 children under 1S years of age in Congress in Brief TODAY. Farm—Senate resumes and House begins debate on crop control. Housing—President Roosevelt sends message recommending legislation to stimulate building. Taxes—House subcommittee studies inheritance levies. TOMORROW, Senate: Continues discussicn of farm bill. Post Office and Post Roads Commit- tee scheduled to meet on question of civil service status on postmasters, House: Continues general debate on farm bill. Ways and Means Committee re- sumes consideration of tax revision program, 10:30 a.m. Subcommittee on Appropriations continues hearings on Treasury-Post Office supply bill, 10:30 a.m. JACKSON IS NAMED T0 APPEALS BENCH Appointed Associate Jurist to Succeed Judge Garnett—Fair- banks Also Picked. President Roosevelt today sent to the Senate the nomination of Joseph R. Jackson of New York to be asso- ciate judge of the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals to succeed Judge Finis J. Garrett, who was recently named to the place of the Jate William J. Graham as presid- ing judge. The President at the same time nominated Miles H. Fairbanks of Maryland to be assistant administra- tor of the Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration. Mr. Jackson is at present an as- sistant attorney general in charge of customs cases in the Department of Justice, having been appointed in 1934. He was born in Albany, N. Y. 57 years ago. He was educated at Man- hattan College and studied law in Montana, where he was admitted to the bar in 1907. He later served as eounty attorney, district judge in Sil- ver Bowl County. Mont., and com- missioner for the State Supreme Court, Blast Shatters Window. An explosion in a traffic control box resulting, police believe, from an ac- cumulation of gas ignited by an elec- tric spark, yesterday shattered the window of a drug store at Seventh and E streets N.W., badly damaging & window display. Engineers at work on the foot-square box last night said the gas may have gathered as the result of a blown-out fuse. Japanese Emotional People. ‘The Japanese are a highly emo- tional people, despite the famed smile worn under all circumstances. JEWS PLAN‘ERONT ON ANTI-SEMITIS Convention Decides to Call New Congress in 1938, “Menace” Assailed. Plans for & ‘“united democratic front” in this country against anti- Semitism everywhere were set in mo- tion today after a Nation-wide conven- tion of the American Jewish Congress which concluded a two-day session at the Willard Hotel yesterday The convention decided to summon not later than June, 1938, a Jew; congress to be composed of 600 de gates, 400 to be electes dividual ballot of Jews to be named by organizatio; with the American Jewish Congress. Every Jew above the age of 18 will be allowed to vote for the delegates to be chosen by election, The convention declared that “the defense of the political, economic and civil status of the Jews wherever their rights may be threatened or denied is the most urgent task confronting the Jews living in democratic coun- tries.” Nation-wide Election. The unusual step of authorizing a Nation-wide election of delegates to & congress in the spring was taken after Louis Lipsky, vice president of the organization, spoke of the “dis- organized, ununited, competitive de- fense now prevailing, in the face of a situation where the anti-Semitic poison is spreading throughout the world.” He added: . “No group of people was ever cone fronted with such a menace as we face and prepared with a de: se in such an unpardonable manner. Dr. Stephen S§. Wise, president of the American Jewish Congress, eme phasizes the necessity of transiati the ideals of democracy into the ganization of Jewish life. He called on Jews to support democratic move= ments wherever they may reside. “To say that democracy is the safe- guard of the Jew is only half the truth,” Dr. Wise said. *“Democracy alone may be trusted to safeguard the rights of Jews and of all elements of the population, because democracy alone makes impossible such ruthlessly brutal exercises of power by majorities as have shocked and dismayed civile ization 1n recent years Human Hopes Annulled. “In a Fascist-crazed, war-ridden world, there is no hope for the Jew, nor would any Jew choose to live in a world which has annulled every human value and every human hope. In two ways We may requite what America has done for us. We may highly resolve, and we do, to give all, even life, in order that the American democracy shall not perish from the | earth. Turning our eyes and our hearts beyond the seas, we may bear witness to our faith in America by giving our brother Jews something of the strength, the hope and the courage with which beloved, blessed America has endowed us.” Addressing the meeting, Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas said “It would be blindness not to see that the attack upon the Jew everywnere is the beginning of the attack upon democratic liberties; that if today dis- crimination against the Jewish or other groups is allowed, tomorrow that dis- | crimination mayv be extended to all other groups. What has happened in Germany is a tragic example of how whole peoples may be enslaved. Tha anti-democratic forces are united. The | democratic forces must unite. We dare | not wait.” The delegates asked that, pending | the meeting in 1938, the World Jewish Congress “take the appropriate steps | to present to the League of Nations the record of the violations of minor- ities’ rights treaties under the guar- antee of the League now current in many lands, and to demand League action to bring about the restoration of Jewish rights and protection against future violations.” The union of Christian and other democratic forces in the work of combating anti-Semitism will be sought Dr. Henry A. Atkinson of the Amer- ican Committee on Religious Rights and Minorities, told the convention that “anti-Semitism is a stab in the heart of every nation.” He pledged the co-operation of his organization in fighting such persecu- tion. Dr. 8amuel McCree Cavert, general secretary of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, pre- vented by illness from attending the meeting, sent a message expressing his sympathy with the aims of the Jewish Congress. THE WEATHER REPORT District of Columbia—Mostly cl oolder tonight with lowest temperature Maryland and Virgini oudy tonight and tomorrow; slightly about 32 degrees; light variable winds. Mostly cloudy tonight and tomorrow; probably light snow in extreme west portion; colder in east and central portion tonight. ‘West Virginia—Mostly cloudy and continued cold tonight and tomorrow; probably light snow tonight. The disturbance that was central ov Indiana and Michigan Sunday morning has moved north-northeastward to James By and Eastern Hudson Bay with greatly in- creased intensity. Port 29.02 inches and a_trough extends thence southwestward to Maine and from there south-southwestward to the ~Bahamas. Pressure remains low over Western and Central Alaska, Kodiak, 20.52 inches and it is relatively low from Southern Iilinois southweatward to Western Texas. Abilene, Tex.. $0.00 inches, and St. Louis. Mo.. High pressure prevalis over all other sections with centers Kamloops. British Columbia. 30.80 inches: Belle Isle, Nova inches: Omaha. Nebr. 26 inches. and Nashville, Tenn.. 30.24 inches. Precipita- tion has occurred aimost generally east of the Mississippi River and from the North Pacific Coast eastward to Montana and the western portions of South Dakota and Nebraska. Heavy rain fell in portions of the Middle Atlantic and North Atlantic States. Atlantic City. N. J. greatest amount. 3.10 inches. The tem- perature. has Tisen in Maine. the Missouri and middle Mississippi Valleys. Arkansas but it has fallen decidedly from New York southward to the tic and East Gulf Coasts. River Report. Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clear at Harpers Ferry, slightly muddy at Great Falls today. Revort for, Last 48 MW Saturday— 4 p.m. Scotia. 30.4% Recerd f st 24 Mours. BB, W L . Sevieraar: Year 39, at 7 am. todsy. Toemperatures 7, on Ausul Lowest, 9. on Pebruary 28. Year . 37 per cent. at moon today. Tide Tables, (Purnished by mfl"‘ .'MQ, Coast and Harrison. Quebec, | reporting the | The Sua and Moon. Rises. 447 44 Sun. today _ ____ Sun. tomorrow Moon, today Automobile ligh one-haif hour afte Precipitation. Mon{hly precipitation ir Capital (current month to Month, January inches in the 3 SI2LET2BEVR November _ December Sma eSS SN, 3 i 2 D e R Weather in Various Cities. Temp. Rain- Stations. o Abilene, Tex Albeny. N. Atianta. Ga 3 Atlantic City ~ 30.02 Baitimore. Md 30.08 Birmingham flaio. N. ¥ Charleston. 8.C 31 Chicago. 1l 3 Cincinnati Clevel: Columbia Denver, Colo Detroit. Mich El Pasa Tex 3 Galveston. Tex_ Helena, Mont 8. D E3EE Raleigh. C. 3 alt Lake City Antonio T 19ORRCII B L 132 SARSEEIRNEIRREER,