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Taxpayers' Group
Opposes Five-Day
Week for Firemen
»
Among Highest Paid
District Employes,
Association Says
The Washington Taxpayers’ As
sociation came out last night against
a flve-day week for firemen be
cause, the association declared,
they are "among the best paid, best
pensioned and best cared for em
ployes of the District.”
The short week proposed for the
firemen in a bill now on the House
calendar, the association said, would
add around $450,000 to the District's
already unbalanced budget. “It
would be unfair to both taxpayers
and other employes to add this
expense,” the association said.
Its position was based on an
analysis of pay. pensions, hours of
work, vacations and sick leave of
firemen in the District in compari
son with conditions for firemen in
41 cities of over 200,000 population,
which, the association said, "shows
clearly our local men are among
the best treated in the United
States.”
This comparison of conditions in
these other 40 cities shows, how
ever, that only seven pay higher
salaries. New York and Jersey City
pays $3,000 compared to Washing
ton's $2,400. The Other five cities
$20 to $120 more annually.
No city has a five-day week as
proposed for Washington firemen
and only eight have a six-day week
as here.
Washington firemen were said to
get the longest vacations with pay,
26 days, and only eight cities pay
a larger pension than 50 per cent
of pay at time of retiring, which
local firemen receive.
Sixteen cities, however, pay more
to widows of deceased firemen than
the $720 annually paid here.
The bill for a five-day week is
scheduled to be called up on the
floor of the House at the next Dis
trict day, March 13.
Annexation Program
Held Hindering Reich
By the Associated Press.
The Agriculture Department for
eign service reported yesterday that
annexation of Austria and Sudeten
land seemed likely to hamper Ger
many's effort to attain self-suf
ficiency in production of food sup
plies for the enlarged Reich.
A report from the service's Berlin
office said Germany had an adequate
supply of grains, potatoes and sugar
for the current season, but that
supplies of fats. meat. eggs, fruits
and vegetables were below require
ments. It added that food ration
ing in Germany had been intensified
in recent weeks.
The service said the general vol
ume of agricultural production had
Increased about 7 per cent since
1933, and that a further increase
was expected this summer.
“It appears, however, that increas
ing consumptive requirements are
keeping pace with production," the
Berlin report stated. "The annex
ation of Austria and Sudetenland,
both being areas more deficient
agriculturally than is Germany
proper, added to the German sup
ply problem and even seems likely
to reduce the nation's ability to
meet agricultural requirements with
in the new boundaries.”
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Keyserling to Discuss
Low-Rent Housing Laws
Public laws promoting low rent
housing projects will be discussed by
Leon H. Keyserling. deputy admin
istrator and general counsel of the
United States Housing Authority, at
a meeting at 8:15 p.m. tomorrow at
the Mayflower.
The meeting is sponsored by the
Committee on Comparative Laws of
Housing of the American Bar Asso
ciation. Dr. H. Milton Colvin, chair
man, said the meeting will be open
to the public.
President to Open New
Camp Fire Girls' Home
Jane Brandt, a Camp Fire Girl,
will become the first youngster to
press the presidential gold telegraph
key when she assists President
Roosevelt tomorrow morning at cere
monies opening the new national
headquarters of the Camp Fire Girls.
The key will light a lamp made in
the shape of the crossed logs and
flame insignia of the Camp Fire Girls
in their new headquarters in New
York. The White House celebration
will be part of the organization's
birthday observance.
Alpha Chi Rho Dinner
The Washington Alpha Chi Rho
Club will hold a dinner Thursday
at 2029 Connecticut avenue N.W.
to complete arrangement for at
tendance at the first annual regional
convocation of the fraternity in
Baltimore March 18. Guernsey T.
Cross will preside.
Favored for its midtown location
overlooking Central Park, the
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of charge, the nightly concerts
and refreshments,the modern ap
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Travelers' Aid Society
To See Play Thursday
Washington as seen through the
eyes of a Community Chest agency
will be featured in "Your Town,” a
play to be presented at the annual
meeting of the Travelers’ Aid So
ciety from 12:15 to 2 p.m. Thursday
at the Y. W. C. A., Seventeenth and
K streets N.W.
Written and produced with the co
operation of Mrs. David Kushner
of the Washington Civic Theater,
the play will include the following
Civic Theater players as cast mem
bers: Evelyn Freyman. Doris Cooper,
Pat Davis, Leona Trock, Richard
Kreuzburg and John Latimer. Mrs.
Elsie Palmieri, a Travelers’ Aid staff
member, is co-author of the script.
The technique of producing "Your
Town" will be borrowed from that
of the nationally known play, "Our
Town.” No scenery or "props” will
be used and the play will depend on
lighting, dialogue pantomime and
sound effects.
Mrs. Owen J. Roberts is in charge
of luncheon arrangements for the
meeting and Col. Robert H. Fletcher
is chairman of the program com
mittee.
Other cast members will include
James Saum, Jean Allen, George
Pappas and Betty Bennett, all West
ern High School students, and Alice
Elizabeth Jones, Anne Rogers Dun
lop, Mrs. Palmieri and Mary Ella
Henderson of the Travelers’ Aid
Society staff.
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PREPARING SATIRICAL SHOW—Shown at the piano is Jean
Billington, Chevy Chase Junior College student, who wrote the
score lor “Just Listen to This,” school’s musical show, to be pre
sented Friday night at Chevy Chase Women’s Club. Above
(left to right) are Doris Smith (Chamberlain), Roberta Schlegel
(Mussolini), Betsy Hollingsworth (Hitler) and Constance Barth
(Daladier). Proceeds from the performance, which will utilize
a cast of 50 girls representing 13 States, are to go to the relief
fund for Chinese orphans. —Star Staff Photos.
Mission fo Benefit
From Program
Lowell Thomas will speak Tuesday
at 8:15 p.m. at Constitution Hall on
a program being given for the bene
fit of the Central Union Mission.
Also appearing on the program
will be members of the Rainbow
Quartette, the Glee Club from the
Marjorie Webster School, Homer
Rodeheaver, the evangelist, and his
sister, Mrs. Ruth Rodeheaver
Thomas. Representative Bruce Bar
ton of New York is scheduled to
introduce Mr. Thomas.
The program was originally sched
uled February 2, but was canceled
when Mr. Thomas was taken ill.
He is to talk about his experiences
in foreign countries.
Teams of the John S. Bennett
Memorial campaign organization
are conducting a ticket-selling drive
in connection with the program,
E. H. De Groot, jr., president of
the Board of Directors of the mis
sion. announced. The women's
teams, under captaincy of Mrs. Jean
Bennett, superintendent of the mis
sion. are also participating in the
ticket selling.
Botanists to Meet
The first meeting of South Amer
ican botanists last October will be
described to the Botanical Society
of Washington at a meeting at 8
p.m. Tuesday at the Cosmos Club
by C. O. Erianson. Other speakers
will be Dorothy Blaisdell, F. L. Well
man and Ernest J. Schreiner of the
North Eastern Forest Experiment
Station, New Haven, Conn.
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Berle Will Lecture
Tomorrow Night
On Lima Parley
1,000 Tickets Available
For Constitution
Hall Speech
Approximately 1,000 tickets will
be available at Constitution Hall
tomorrow night for a lecture by
Adolph A. Berle, United States dele
gate to the pan-American confer
ence at Lima and to the special
peace conference in Buenos Aires,
who will discuss “Democracy and
the Lima Conference” in the Bran
son Cutting lecture series. All tick
ets are complimentary.
neservauons nave Deen maae oy
21 embassies and legations and 1,000
requests for tickets have been re
ceived from members of Congress,
Government officials, service officers
and university students and teach
ers. Tickets can be had by calling
at room 17, 726 Jackson place N.W.,
tomorrow, or at the box office at
the hall an hour before the lec
ture, it was announced.
Dr. Ernest Gruening, adviser to
the United States delegation at
the Montevideo conference in 1933,
will be chairman.
Senator Robert La Follette is chair
man of the Executive Committee in
charge of the lectures, which were
established by Mrs. W. Bayard Cut
ting of New York as a memorial
to her son, the late Senator Cutting
of New Mexico.
The final lecture of the season
will be given March 27 by Dr. Gun
nar Myrdal of Sweden on the sub
ject of “Maintaining Swedish De
mocracy Under the Shadow of the
Totalitarian States.’*
Travelers' Aid Program
Dramatic - skits illustrating the
work of the Travelers’ Aid Society
will feature a luncheon meeting
of the organization at 12:15 pm.
Thursday at the Y. W. C. A., Seven
teenth and K streets N.W.
Sigma Nu Phis Plan
Dance March 18
The Oliver Wendell Holmes
f Theta) Chapter, Sigma Nu Phi, in
ternational legal fraternity, will en
tertain rushees at a dance March 18
at the Washington College of Law.
This is one of a series of events for
rushees. A smoker was held Friday
night at the national house, 1755 Q
street N.W., when a number of fra
ternity members on the faculty
spoke. Chancellor Willis E. Nowell
presided.
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MCE NEWS OF 1939!.
See This New Dodge Luxury Liner!
Then "Take a Look" at the Price Tag!
EN you’re checking the big motor
ir news of 1939, save Dodge a
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not just one outstanding achievement,
but two, have made this new Dodge one of
the most talked about new cars in years!
First, Dodge engineers “went to town” ]
with more new ideas than were ever
built into any new Dodge model!
Secondly, with all its wonderful new
advances, Dodge came through with the
“hottest” price news of 1939! Not only a
host of extra values at no extra price...
but a host of extra values at a price many
dollars lower than last year!
If you haven’t carefully inspected this
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a look at every part of it. Above all, don’t
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proven money-saving features that have
won for Dodge a nation-wide reputation
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Fred Motor Company
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Kaplan A Crawford
3339 Champlain Street N.W.
Rickard A Daria
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Schlerel A Golden
333 Carroll St., Takoma Park
Torrey Motor Company
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MARYLAND
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Bowie, Monroe Baldwin
Hyattsvllle, Lepper Motor Sales
1a Plata, Mitchell Motor Company
Laurel, Laurel Motor Company
Leonard town
North End Filling Station
Prince Frederick
Luaby Motor Co., Ine.
Queen’s Chapel
Queen’s Chapel Service Station
Riverdale, Sellers Sales & Service
Rockville, Reed Brothers
Silver Spring, Eddie Adams Motors
Waldorf, Maryland Motor Company
VIRGINIA
Alexandria
Cooper-Phillips Motor Company
Arlington, Kirby Sales dr Service
Falls Church, Falls Church Motors
Leesburg, Frye Motor Company, Inc.
Mananas, Peoples Oarage
Quantise, Moncure Motor Company
Round HUI, Beatty’s Oarage
The Plains, C. K. Moffett & Co.
Warren ton, Lee Street Oarage

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