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W. P. A. ALONE LEFT
IN SPENDING GROUP
Emergency Agencies Cut by
Ending Allocations to
P.W.A.—C.C.C. to Stay.
Ay the Associated Press.
Of- the emergency agencies created
early in the New Deal, the Works
Progress Administration was the only
one which was still going strong to
day after President Roosevelt's sus
pension of allocations under the Pub
lic Works Administration.
The Civilian Conservation Corps, al
though technically still on an emer
gency basis, is regarded by the admin
istration as permanent. The other big
lending and spending agencies virtu
mlly have suspended the outward flow
of funds and are chiefly concerned
with administering and collecting past
loans.
The future of P. W. A. still is un
certain. The President’s decision fore
shadowed an effort in the next session
of Congress to extend the work ad
ministration by mandatory legislation.
In the last two years it twice has been
extended by such moves on Capitol
Hill.
Should a further extension fail, Con
gress would be called on to consider
the proposal by Secretary Ickes, public
i works administrator, that a skeleton
organization be maintained perma
nently to be ready to start the flow of
construction work again whenever an
economic depression threatened the
Nation.
lake an Idlirtg Motor.
P. W. A. authorities compared the
idea to an idling motor in an automo
bile. ready to be accelerated at any
moment.
Regardless of further congressional
Action, P. W. A. has two more years
to live. It wras extended in the last
Congress until 1939. Should It get no
new funds, its chief activity will be
completing projects already under con
struction, amounting to about $1,000,
000,000. *
Together with the Relief Adminis
tration. the Agricultural Adjustment
Administration, N. R. A. and various
i lending agencies, the Public Works Ad
. ministration was one of the major
emergency units set up by the Roose
velt administration in 1933 to fight the
depression.
Over them all was set up a National
Emergency Council, which is to end
December 31 by order of the President.
Spends $1,SOO.OOO.OOO Yearly.
The relief agency, now called the
Works Progress Administration, still
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ened to break their lashings. Capt.
Rowe slowed his engines, brought the
freighter into the wind to lessen the
vessel's roll and he labored for hours
with his crew to save the valuable
and fragile creatures. The captain
also rigged high-voltage lamps in the
crates to warm the tropical animals
in northern latitudes.
The Silverash arrives in New York
via Boston some time Saturday or
Sunday. The wild cargo will be dis
charged at New York for transporta
tion to the Zoo by train.
Another pet aboard the vessel is
Harry, a Malay tiger, which Mrs.
Mann nursed through an ailing in
fancy. Harry has grown so large now
that his petting must be bestowed with
caution. He shows every promise of
developing into a fine, ferocious speci
men. Another shipboard favorite is
Wrestler, the young husband-to-be of
Susie, the Zoo's orang-utan widow,
bereaved by pneumonia several years
ago. Wrestler is a friendly ape with
a weakness for shaking hands, if he
can find a courageous hand-shaker.
Wrestler shares attention with six
gibbons and thrives on competition.
700 Birds in “First Class.”
Among the ship's first-class passen
gers are 700 birds, 1 wild dog, 6 leop
ards, 2 golden cats, 2 tigers, 1 clouded
leopard, 23 monkeys, 2 lutangs, 5 por
cupines, 2 hedgehogs, 5 jerboas, 1 otter,
2 bears, 2 kangaroos, 2 orang-utans,
0 nycioceous, i nog badgers, 2 martins,
9 musangs, 5 binturongs. 18 squirrels
and miscellaneous giant pythons, blood
pythons, cobras and vipers.
The second-class passengers, or be
hoofed stock, must go to quarantine
for two weeks in New Jersey. The
four giraffes, unfortunately, fall into
this category, along with 2 African
Buffalo, 2 gaur, 1 serow, 2 blue sheep,
3 mouse deer, 1 barking deer, 2 anoas,
1 wild pig, 3 tapirs and 1 Sambar deer,
The Agriculture Department will
enforce the quarantine on these ar
1 rivals to insure against a possible im
portation of hoof and mouth disease.
At least a score of the animals en
route to Washington have never be
fore been exhibited in America, and
twice that many are new to the Na
tional Zoological Park. The returning
members of the expedition, which has
been collecting since March from a
base camp in Sumatra, include Dr. and
Mrs. Mann, Roy Jennier, chief keeper
of the Zoo’s reptile house; Malcolm
Davis, the Zoo's bird expert, and Ly
ang Gaddi, a native of Borneo, hunter,
guide and keeper, who was brought to
America because he knew enough
about jungle creatures to preserve as
well as destroy their lives.
Dr. Williams in East Indies.
Dr. Maynard Owen Williams, staff
representative of the National Geo
j graphic Society, which financed the
| expedition, in co-operation with the
Smithsonian Institution, remained in
the East Indies to make more photo
is spending at the rate of $1,500,000,000
a year. P. W. A. waa the next biggest
spender.
Next in line was the R. F. C.,
created in the Hoover administration.
Its intake long has been greater than
its outgo, and although it was ex
tended by the last Congress, its duties
may be transferred to the Treasury
or elsewhere.
N. R. A. was wiped out by the
Supreme Court. A. A. A. suffered a
similar fate, but the agency was re
tained to administer the soil conserva
tion program, and as such has a per
manent status.
The farm and home loan agencies
set up in the early Roosevelt days are j
going concerns, bpt their funds and !
authority have been curtailed. Al-'
though the Farm Credit Administra
tion has a permanent status, the
Home Owners' Loan Corp. is con
| cemed chiefly with liquidating its
emergency loans.
graphs of the natural habitat of the
animals collected.
Among those who met the expedition
here were McFall Kerbey, special rep
resentative of the Geographic, and
Joseph Roberts, a staff photographer of
the Geographic. Mrs. Davis was here
to greet her husband, whom she had
not seen since the expedition left last
Winter. An Informal Reception Com
mittee met the Silverash at the mouth
of the harbor some 15 miles from port
yesterday afternoon. Its members
voyaged out in a motor boat and hoped
Capt. Rowe might see fit to take the
committee aboard when he slowed
down to pick up the pilot.
Appeal Sent for Bananas.
This hope was strengthened by the
fact that T'r. Mann had wirelessed
ahead, asking that 600 bananas be put
aboard with the pilot if possible, as
monkeys and birds were dangerously
short of fresh fruit and a few hours
| might save \aluable lives. The com
; mittee got the bananas for more
I than one reason. It suspected that
I freighter captains battling to keep
| schedule are sometimes loath to pick
up a Reception Committee at sea.
The Silverash came in from the
Atlantic and slowed down only a little
to pick up the pilot, w’hose oarsmen
caught a line and held on while he
scaled a rope ladder.
The Reception Committee was prac
tically abandoned until a reporter
waved a bunch of bananas. That
proved too much for Dr. Mann. He
begged the captain to have lines
thrown over the side for the bananas,
if not the committee, but the com
mittee demanded a rope ladder in
exchange for the fresh fruit. Their
motor boat had come against the hull
of the steamer while she moved on
her way, and their small crew clung
to the lines. At length a ladder was
lowered and the visitors had a swell
time for an hour or so, looking over
the wdld cargo while the ship moved
into port.
After the Silverash docked, the
reporters told the captain, "Well, we'll
see you when you come into Boston.”
"I have something to look forward to,
then,” said the Englishman.
Miss Lawrence
Suffering From
Lack of Sleep
Suffering from inflamed eye-lids
and sleeplessness after the sudden
death of her leading man early Tues
day, Miss Gertrude Lawrence, star of
the comedy-drama “'Susan and God,”
was ordered by her physicians not to
appear for the matinee performance
of the play at the National Theater
yesterday and the matinee was can
celed.
The show went on as usual last
night, however, after Miss Lawrence
responded to treatments during the
afternoon. The management said it
will continue for the remainder of
the scheduled run, barring further
unforeseen developments which have
plagued the show since its opening
here Monday night.
Miss Lawrence was said to have
been deeply shocked by the death of
Osgood Perkins, her leading man.
He was stricken a few hours after the
opening performance Monday night
and died in his hotel room. She had
gone for 66 hours without sleep until
.yesterday.
The theatrical makeup which it is
necessary for Miss Lawrence to wear
in the role of ‘“Susan” was said by
her physicians to aggravate the in
flamed condition of her eye-lids. She
wore a lighter makeup than usual
for last night's performance.
BIRD NEST FIRE
FREMONT, Nebr. 0P)\—A bird with
a taste for tobacco caused the Are
department several busy moments.
Firemen hurried to Earl Grant’s
home, ready to battle a blaze. Instead
they found a burning bird’s nest 35
feet up in a tree.
Fireman Willis Lind climbed the
tree and doused the flaming nest.
He reported the bird apparently car
ried a lighted cigarette butt to its
nest
Virginia Octogenarian Says
He Shot in Self-Defense.
Case Nears Close.
By the Associated Press.
JONESVILLE, Va., September 23.—
Rebuttal testimony, Instructions and
closing arguments remained today
as the case of Oreen Allen Brooks,
bearded octogenarian, moved toward
the Lee County jury which will decide
whether he is guilty of the State's
charge he murdered Deputy Sheriff
Arch Redmond in July, 1935.
The defendant, described as a former
Sunday school teacher and trial jus
tice, took the stand yesterday to tell
in detail that he shot Redmond and
another officer, Deputy Sheriff Bob
Bailey, in self-defense. Brooks was
acquitted last May of a charge of kill
ing Bailey.
Brooks said that after he killed tne
two oflicers wfith his rifle he took his
wife's advice and went “into the Ken
tucky hills, traveling by the stars and
seeing others before they saw me.” He
was arrested in Texas two years later,
he said.
He warned Redmond three times,
Brooks said, saying "Arch, don’t do
that,” when he said the officer "came
around the house with his hand on
his pistol in its holster, looking at me
like a lion."
The defendant said he then “fired
on him at close range.”
The shooting occurred when the
officers went to the Brooks home to
serve a Kentucky warrant on Brooks’
son-in-law, Luther Poore.
Brooks said the officers came to
the house and both drew pistols and
fired at Poore, who was near the
barn. He did not understand their
actions, knowing nothing of the war
rant for Poore, the defendant testified.
HOLIDAY PAY ASSURED
Duce’s Visit Not to Coat Reich Em
ployes Their Wages.
BERLIN, September 23 (JP).—Ger
man employes will not lose mony be
cause of the impending visit of Pre
mier Benito Mussolini of Italy to con
fer with Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler.
Although September 25 and 28 ave
been set aside as official holidays in
II Duce's honor, the government yes
terday ordered all employers to pay
wages for those days.
At the same time the government
decreed that the German swastika and
Italian tricolor flags be flown by gov
ernment buildings throughout the
Reich from September 25 to Septem
ber 29, the duration of the Italian
premier's stay.
Promoted
POLICE SERGEANT AT WHITE
HOUSE ADVANCED.
ALPHEUS WALTER,
Senior sergeant of the White
House police, and a veteran of
20 years’ service there, who
yesterday was elevated to a
lieutenancy. Walter, who lives
at 510 Third street southeast,
joas assigned to the White
House from the Metropolitan
force in 1917.
—Star Staff Photo.
§
Carry Guns Up Cliff.
During recent maneuvers 60 Italian
gunners carried and hauled their
mountain battery up to the peak of
Pala Bianca, 12,420 feet high, which
is climbed only by expert moun
taineers, and to cross a glacier the
soldiers placed their dismantled wea
pons on sledges.
President Approves Details.
31,000,000 Cards to Be
Mailed Immediately.
By the Associated Press.
HYDE PARK. N. Y„ September 23.
—Plans for a *5,000,000 postal registra
tion of the Jobless and part-time em
ployed before December 1 were ap
proved yesterday by President Roose
velt and announced by John D. Big
gers, who will direct the count.
Biggers, In a formal statement, said
the President signed an executive order
giving him “adequate authority” and
approving an expenditure up to *5,
000.000.
“We intend to keep well within that
figure without slighting thoroughness,”
said the Toledo glass manufacturer
who agreed to take charge of what he
called a “very big” Job for *1.
The registration must be completed
by December 1, he explained, to beat
the Christmas postal rush and the
heavy seasonal employment after that
date, especially in farm areas.
“We want to get ahead of that time
to get a fair picture, not a seasonal
one,” he said.
31,000,000 Cards to Be Mailed.
The Post Office Department, he con
tinued, would handle the distribution,
collection and preliminary check of
registration cards to be mailed to 31,
000,000 families bearing a brief, simple
message over the President's signature
and containing a minimum of simple
questions. The President will explain
the project in a radio address on a
date yet to be selected.
There will be no compulsion or ad
ministering of oaths. Blggers said it
would be "a real challenge to our sys
tem of government if we can get people
to do something voluntarily.”
He said to be valuable the regis
tration must be "honest, and as nearly
complete and accurate as is humanly
possible.”
"We will do our best, but final re
sults depend iargely upon the genuine
co-operation of the unemployed them
selves," he added.
He said the Post Office Department
had been chosen to do the job be
cause it would be the “simplest and
easiest way for the unemployed,” and
because it had a "fine, trained person
nel. largely under civil service,” which
could perform the task better and at
less cost than any other organization.
Only Need to Mall Cards. ,
The jobless would not have to stand
in lines waiting to register, he said,
but merely fill in the cards mailed to
them and drop them in a mall box.
Families with no jobless or partially
employed members need not bum in
cards.
Illiterate and foreign - language
groups will be aided by census assist
ants and cards printed in foreign
tongues.
Biggers said the technical staffs of
the Commerce and Labor Depart
ments, the Works Progress Administra
tion. Census Bureau and Social Se
curity and Central Statistical Boards,
on which he would rely heavily, had
co-operated with him in fine spirit.
“They are a splendid group of men,”
he Mid. "well-lnfonned and asixlguito
make this census a valuable, aVI in
solving the problem of unemployment
and re-employment.”
. * *
Gives Up $7,000 Job to Praacfc
LEWISTOWN, Mo., September 23
W*j.—A municipal official who gave up
a S7,000-a-year post to preach for
$700 a year was accepted today by the
Methodist Episcopal Church.
Rev. A. W. Kirby was superintend
ent of the Marshall, Mo., water and
light department but took over his
parish when offered the opportunity,
Presiding Elder W. L. Myers com
mented in announcing that Kirby had
been given preaching privileges.
Held in Child- Slaying '
Mrs. Ruth Corwin, 17, bride of less than a month, who is
charged with fatally shooting William Lahn, jr., 7, lohen he
and his playmates threw apples at her brother, Raymond, 8,
Tuesday. She signed a statement in the presence of State Police
Sergt. Jack Spencer (left) and Sheriff Royal Gengrich at Reed
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