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RED CROSS RALLY
r. “
First Such Event Since
War’s End to Be Held in
Navy Yard Sail Loft.
The first Red Cross rally in Wash
ington since the close of the World
War will Ire staged at 7 p.m. tomor
row in the Sail Loft of the Navy Yard
as a signal that
the twenty-first
annual roll call
of the District
Red Cross will
open the follow
ing day. The
Navy Band will
play, a number of
notables will be
on the speakers'
stand and 1,000
Red Cross work
ers are to join in
the ral’y.
Admiral Cary
T. Grayson, na
tional chairman
of the Red Crass; Commissioner Mel
vin C. Hazen. Miss Mabel Boardman,
national secretary of the Red Cross,
and Marry L. Sperry, chairman of
the roll call, are among those who
■will be on the speakers’ stand. With
them will be;
W. W. Wheeler, vice chairman of
the roll call; Brig. Gen. F. R. Keefer,
chairman of the District chapter of the
Red Cross; Gen. Fred W. Boschen,
chief finance officer of the Army, in
charge of governmental enrollment in
the roll call; Edgar Morris, chairman
of the general business group; David
A. Skinner, chairman of the utilities
group; Thomas J. Groom, chairman
of the financial group; E. Barrett
Prettyman. chairman of the profes
sional groufi; Charles H. Doing, treas
urer of the roll call, and Laurence
Rubel, chairman of publicity;
Doing, who is vice president of the
West End Branch of the Washington
Loan fz Trust Co., was appointed this
morning to the task of managing the
financial affairs of the roll call. At the
same time Chairman Sperry received
from Mrs. Cary T. Grayson her com
plete plans for the apartment house
roll call canvass, of which Mrs. Gray
son is in charge.
P. W. A. WORK HOURS
PUT AT 8 BILLION
$2,650,000,000 Spent in Program
Nearly Completed, Report
Reveals.
£v the Associated Press.
The Public Works Administration,
Its experiment in depression pump
priming nearly completed, reported
today It had provided 8.000.000,000
man hours of work, directly or In
directly.
Its files showed the spending of
81.000.000,000 on such Federal proj
ects as roads, post offices, naval ships,
Army posts and reclamation dams
and another $1,650,000,000 in assist
ing such non-Federal . projects as
schools, hospitals, sewage disposal
systems, power plants and State In
stitutions.
Most phases of the program are
nearing completion, but one-fifth of
P. W. A.'s propped power projects are
stalled by court injunptions. The
Supreme Court will signal “stop'’ or
“go” on these 59 projects this Wai
ter, and P. W. A. will be ready to fol
low the derision. Money for the proj
ects has been set aside.
Despite better economic conditions,
demands for Federal aid to local con
struction projects have continued.
A White House announcement that
allotment of funds for new projects
was at an end came this week at a
time when 4.060 applications for P.
W. A. loans ancKgrants to States and
cities still were awaiting action. Offi
cials said only about. 1.000 of these
would have been eligible for aid under
P. W, A. rules.
UNION CONTRACT
SIGNED BY SUN
Employes’ Organization Named
Bargaining Agent—Wage
Increases Granted.
Ft the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. September 24.—Cli
maxing five days of negotiations, the
Sun Printing & Publishing Assoeia- 1
tion, publisher of the New York Sun. !
signed a contract today with the Sun j
Editorial Employes’ Union.
The union is not affiliated with the 1
American Newspaper Guild.
The contract, effective immediately,
was signed by William T. Dewart. :
president and publisher, and Edmund
6. De Long, president of the union.
Among other things, the contract '
calls for recognition of the union as '
sole collective bargaining agent, a 5
day, 40-hour week, time off for over- j
time work, vacations of from one to *
three weeks with pay and establish
ment of a neutral arbiter to decide
grievances.
Salary increases were also granted,
ranging from 15 per cent for staff
members earning less .than $30 per
week to 5 per cent "for members earn
ing not more than $60 weekly.
TAYLOR WILL PROTEST
PENSION ACTS IN STATE;
By the Associated Press.
Representative Taylor, Republican,
of Tennessee, said yesterday he is
“very much dissatisfied” with the ad
ministration of the old-age pension
phase of the social security program
in his State.
Taylor, here to attend a meeting
of the Republican Executive Commit
tee, said he intends to confer with
Frank Bane, executive secretary of
the Social Security Board, in regard
to the Tennessee program before he
returns home.
“I don’t think the letter and spirit
of the Federal act have been carried
out," he said.
Jail Break “Orphan”
Charles Joseph Bird. 2 months old. cooed contentedly with
his bottle in Clevelanc today as Federal agents hunted his par
ents. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bird. The father and two others, ac
cused bank robbers, escaped in a jail break, after which authori
ties believed the mother joined the three.
TAX COST IS GIVEN
FOR D. C. MOTORIST
Typical Driver Must Work One
to Two Weeks to Pay Levy,
Session Told.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, September 24—The
tvniool fVetrlpF Af pAlmvs Win mninviri
must work from one to two weeks to
pay the taxes on his annual automo
bile travel, Mrs. M. C. Mallon, secre
tary of the District of Columbia Pe
troleum Association, report :d yester
day at a conference on automotive
taxation being held here under aus
pices of the American Petroleum In
dustries Committee.
More than half of the District
automobile owners earn less than *30
a week, Mrs. Mallon said studies
indicate. Most of them have never
owned a new car, and the typical
motorist owns a car four or five years
old, whose value is less than *200,
she added. They ride an average '
40 eight-hour days a year, much of
that time being spent in going to
and from work.
Increasing gasoline consumption in
dicates that District motorists will
pay *400.000 more in gasoline taxes
this year than they did in 1935, Mrs. j
Mallon reported.
Delegates representing committees
of petroleum refiners, distributors and
service station operators in the District
of Columbia. Maryland. New Jersey,
North Carolina, Ohio. Pennsylvania,
Virginia and W<\st Virginia are attend
ing the conference.
Billion Is Million Million.
In England a billion is a million
million instead of a thousand million
as in the United States and France.
—^upyuyru, a. r. w irepnoio.
Cuba Votes Bill on Foreigners.
HAVANA. September 24 (/P).—
Foreigners opening business in Cuba
will be required to Invest at least
$10,000 per person under the terms
of a House bill approved last night
by the Cuban Senate.
The measure will not apply to those
with investments already made. Na
tives may invest any amount with
foreign partners, who must put up at
least the $10,000 minimum.
DAVEY DEFENDS I;
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Says Calling of Troops May j
Cost Third Term, but
Order Must Prevail. j
By (he Associated Press.
AKRON, Ohio, September 24.—Gov.
Martin L. Davey thought his use of '
State troops in the C. I. O. steel
strike "was the end of me politically,"
but "would rather live in a country
of law and order than be Governor a
third term.”
He said that last night to members
and guests of five Akron service clubs
who invited him to present his side
of the Ohio strike dispute.
John L. Lewis "has decreed that I
cannot be Governor of Ohio again.”
the Kent tree surgeon declared, "but
I would say to him that, in spite of
everything except accident, I will be
Governor until January, 1939, and in
that intervening time law and order
Will prevail in Ohio.”
Davey’s second term ends then.
Describes Happenings.
Describing the scene surrounding
his order last June 24 that troops at
strike centers should protect "the
right to work and the right to strike,"
Gov. Davey told of a conference with
his advisers on strikers’ alleged viola
tions of National Guard orders and a
Trumbull County (Warren) injunc
tion.
"Seated around the dining table
that night, the telephone ringing
every little while, we were discussing
this fast moving drama. Finally a
call came from Mr. (Charles P.) Taft
of the Mediation Board, saying that
their negotiations had ended, and un
fortunately in failure. He was about
to report to the Secretary of Labor.
So Just as soon as we were very sure
that it was all over, I started to.dial
the phone to call the adjutant general.
"At that moment the butler came
in and said ‘the Secretary of Labor
is calling from Washington.’
"I said, ‘hold the call for a moment.’
an& I continued to dial the adjutant ■
general. I said, ‘Gen. Marx, this is the 1
i Governor. You may release the orders
ind proceed accordingly.’ He replied,
yes, Governor.’ And then I took the
all from the Secretary of Labor, who
aid something very close to this. I
hink I can repeat almost the exafct
anguage.
Ought to Use Power,
“ ‘We must not let our labor friends
hink we have let them down. I have
lad a study made of your statutes. I
Ind that you personally do not have
he power of subpoena, but that power
loes lie in the industrial commission.
think you ought to use that power
ind subpoena Mr. Girdler and Mr.
’urnell to Columbus and keep them
here until they sign a contract.’
“Apparently this was a little too
hot for the Secretary of Labor to
admit in full, so she personally denied
it, but admitted most of the substance
of it. * * •
“I think the conversation was one
of the most outlandish things that
ever happened in the public life of
America."
At the same time Davey was speak
ing, Earl Browder, general secretary
of the Communist party, addressed
another Akron audience.
Repeatedly Browder declared that
President Roosevelt leaves much to be
desired but advocates much that the
party strives for. Until the Commu
nists can persuade the majority of
American citizens to Join them in a
more advanced liberalism and "make
good working citizens out of th« eco
nomic royalists,” Browder said, the
party must be content to support the
mo$t progressive leadership avilable.
Rescuers Make Record.
In the first eight months of this !
year 365 lives were saved by life boat
crews from shipwrecks along the coasts
of Great Britain and Ireland. This is
the high record for the period in the
last 19 years. In August 24 persons
were rescued from vessels in distress.
GERMAN POPULAR
German, which almost disappeared
from the curriculum of American high
schools during the World War, is stag
ing a gradual comeback.
The office of education said today
that of four principal foreign lan
guages taught, German was the only
one to gain popularity between 1923
and 1934, although it still lagged In
number of pupils enrolled.
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BARNABY WOODS
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straight to Barnaby Woods sign.
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