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She questioned the women exten- sively on the amount they pay for rent, the length of time they have been residents of the District and how they manage to get along with- out funds. Told by Philip Bonosky, president | | of the District Workers’ Alliance, | which sent the delegation, that it has been proposed to take funds for | administration of the food stamp | appropriation for direct relief, Mrs. | | Roosevelt promised to find out why | the plans are to be handled in this way. To Appeal to Commissioners. She also promised to ask the | | Commissioners to lift the ban on | giving relief to employables, to write | Senator Overton, chairman of the | Senate subcommittee on District appropriations, informing him of the situation, and to bring the cause | of the able-bodied unemployed to | the attention of the public. When Mr. Bonosky started to| tell her the process by which the District gets its appropriations, she | stopped him with the remark: “I've been all through that run- | around with Blue Plains and Gal- | linger Hospital, so its very familiar | to me.” With the explanation that critics | | of relief said the number of relief applicants here was swelled by out- siders, Mrs. Roosevelt asked for a | show of hands on how many of the | the Fellowship of States, with seve THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, DRIVE FOR JOBS—Willlam T. Slattery (left), commander of the American Legion's District Department, is pictured receiving from Commissioner J. Russell Young (right) the proclamation of National Employment Week. Engineer Commissioner David McCoach, jr., holds the pllclrd —Star Staff Photo. Baptist Women End Session Here With Pageant Today Missionaries From Many Lands Join In Panel Discussion Capt. Whiting to Retire From Navy June 30 June 30, the Navy Department an- nounced yesterday. He will be suc- eeeded as general inspector of naval aircraft at the New York Navy Yard by Capt. Navy Yard. Capt. Whiting, a native of Stock- bridge. Mass., was taught to fly by Orville Wright, After service abroad § o | during the World War, he came to The third annual conference of Washington to assist in organising eral hundred Baptist women at- | Navy Department in 1921. tending, was to conclude at the NC;J}:tk Wenduuhr w;s:o:n ll‘l !"fl'loi i and has had two tours of Calvary Baptist Church today w“h‘dutv Here ‘In'the Biireatl of. AGros| a pageant showing the work of the | nayutics. In 1933, he was chief of | missionary stations. the Design Division. Mrs. Howard Wayne Smith, presi- dent of the District section of the ‘Woman's American Baptist Foreign | Missionary Society, and Miss Alice Brimson, executive secretary of the | group, which also included a few men, had been in the District 15| | years or more. 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Urging direct relief for the able- | bodied unemployved,'he declared (hnt i the “artificial distinction” between employables and unemployables *‘can have no meaning during a time V] there is no employment for any one.” Interviews Two at Length. Mrs. Roosevelt singled out two| women and interviewed them at length. One of them told the Presi- dent’s wife she was about to be| evicted because she was two months | behind in her rent and was worried | |most because her sick mother| couldn't be moved except in an ambulance. She said she had | “begged, borrowed and I owe every- | body.” Mrs. Roosevelt asked the second | | woman, mother of four children, i | there was any place outside of Wash- | ington where she had relatives. The | woman answered that she was born | here. | Roosevelf that her children had been | |1l because of the lack of sanitary | facilities and the trouble in provid- ing fuel for the coal fire which heat- ed her home. | Mrs. Roosevelt, appearing serious- ly troubled by the stories told- her, questioned the group for almost an | hour. She had wanted Commissioner J. Russell Young to attend the meet- | ing, but was unable to reach him. Detroit Free Press Sold | To John S. Knight | By the Associated Press. DETROIT, May 1.—Sale of the Detroit Free Press to John 8. Knight, publisher of the Akron (Ohio) Beacon Journal and the | Miami (Fla.) Herald, was an- nced in today's editions of the 4 newspaper. No mention of the salé price was | made, but the announcement said | the purchase carries with it all out- | standing stock in the corporation. | The Free Press. a morning paper, is 109 years old, the oldest daily in | Michigan. News of its sale was | made public by E. D. Stair, publisher and owner of the controling interest | | since 1906. Mr. Stair, who is 81, said that be- cause of his age he wished to be re- | lieved of the responsibility entailed in the publication of a metropolitan newspaper. He will remain, how- | ever, as chairman of the board of the Detroit Free Press, Inc., while Mr. Knight assumes the presidency. Mr. Knight said in a statement | that the Free Press would be politi- | cally independent in its editorial | | policy. 20U, S, Sailors Reponed Defained Affer Dispute By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO. May 1— Twenty American sailors from the steamer Ewa were detained in Port Said after the ship's master declined to sall with them, marine circles here heard today. Just what the dispute between the skipper and his crew was all about was not included in the meager in- formation reaching here, but the State Department in * Washington said the Ewa's captain took on a new crew at Port Said after turning the Americans over to British .authori- ties. Hugh Gallagher, operating man- ager for the Matson Novigation Co., which owns the Ewa, said he was in- formed 17 of the 20 later left aboard an Jtalian boat bound for New York. The Ewa, under charter to the Isthmian Steamship Co. has been plying the last year between the East .Coast and the Gulf of Persia. It is due in Penuwl;, Fila., Tuesday. im- | She went on to tell Mrs.| Women's American Baptist Home Missionary Society, were to lead a ! panel discussion this morning. | Missionaries from China, Alaska, | | Puerto Rico and the Belgian Congo, | as well as Baptist leaders in home mission work, were to participate in | the discussion. Mrs. George A. Ross. former presi- dent of the Woman's Missionary | Union in the District, was to con- | duct devotions. Mrs. John Cotton | Mather of New Jersey is president of the conference. | Opportunities Greater in China. Following luncheon at the church the delegates were to view the pag- eant entitled “Following the Sun- ‘rise" and carrying the audience in | fancy around the world in the path | of the sun tg wherever Baptist | | stations are found. The pageant was | | written by Mrs. Carleton M. Long | | and directed by Mrs. Arthur H. Fee- | lemeyer. | Dr. J. W. Decker, foreign sec- retary of the American Baptist Foreign Missionary Sociéty, told the delegates at a banquet last night that the greatest opportunity for mission work that has ever existed in China exists now. The Far Eastern war, he said, h-d largely disrupted the formal pro- | gram of the missions and travel is difficult. However, he said, the aid | church forces have given in relief | and medical services has brought increased co-operation between the denominations and intensified the fellowship between the , mis- sionaries and the Chinese. Progress in Africa Described. Mrs. W. S. Abernethy was toast- mistress at the banquet and Mrs. J. D. Hardesty was in charge of ban- | quet arrangements. At the opening session yesterday afternoon, Miss Ruth Dickey, who recently returned from the Belgian Congo after 10 years of work there, compared conditions in Africa today with those of 60 years ago. Missionaries have given the na- tives a writen language, have trans- | lated the Bible and other books. have provided schools, churches and hospitals, she said. Miss Alice Brimson, speaking on the. outlying home mission field, sajd that her tour of Cuba, Haiti and Puerto Rico had shown her how crowded and inadequate the churches on these islands were. 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