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Sumners Vote /
Plan Cited by
Senator King
Proposal Has Merit,
He Says, in Talk ^
To Trade Board
Senator King of Utah, chalrmai
of the Senate District Cdmmlttee
told the Washington Board of Trade
last night that the District of Co
lumbia is the best governed city ir
the United States.
Addressing several hundred mem
bers of the board at its meeting ii
the Mayflower Hotel, the Senatoi
conceded there is a natural desire
for suffrage in the District but thai
he feared granting of “statehood’
or municipal suffrage to the Nation’i
Capital would lead to serious clashes
of authority between the Federa
and local governments.
He said he had recently beei
handed a copy of the propose*
amendment to the Constitution in
troduced by Representative Sum
ners of Texas. He had found muci
merit in the proposal and stated, “I
we are to change the system here si
that the people may vote for Presi
dent and Vice President and for om
or two Senators and Representative
according to their population, Judgi
Sumners’ proposal deserves mos
careful consideration.”
Relates Own Experience.
To illustrate his practical sym
pathy for the voteless and unrepre
sented plight of the District peopli
he related his own experience anc
emotions as a citizen of the Terri
tory of Utah, before its admission tc
' the Union. He said he could ap
preciate the feelings of the people
here in having no representation ir
their National Government anc
having “carpet baggers” appointee
to the territorial offices.
The Sumners joint resolution, tc
which the Senator referred, woulc
empower Congress to provide for the
people of the District representatior
in Congress and among the elector!
of President and Vice President nc
greater than that of the people ol
the States. It would also empowei
Congress to delegate to such loca
government as it may establish ir
the District all or any of its powei
over the District. The proposal
would also give District residents the
same access to the courts of the
United States as possessed by the
citizens of a State. All legislatior
under the amendment is subject tc
amendment or repeal except that nc
such amendments or repeal shall
afreet the office of a Senator oi
Representative during the time foi
mUl/ih Vi a tun r a1 nntArl
Defends Commissioners.
In answer to criticism of District
government aimed at the members
of the Board of Commissioners,
Senator King said: “The Commis
sioners are doing a splendid job. No
word of criticism can be leveled
against either their character or
their work.”
Senator King defended the gov
erning policies of Congress with re
gard to the District, saying “the
House and the Senate have giver
the District of Columbia the highesi
form of municipal government ir
the United States.” He said thli
resulted largely from the “non
partisan” co-operation in congres
sional committees dealing with the
District.
Of members of House and SenaU
committees with whom he had
served, Senator King said: “They
have devoted themselves faithfully
and to the best of their ability to
the interests of District of Columbia
residents." He praised the work oi
Senator Capper, Republican, oi
Kansas, one of seven members oi
Congress who were guests at the
meeting.
“There never was a man in this
city who was not given the oppor
tunity to present his views anc
ideas to Congress, nor has there
ever been a bill which was not al
lowed consideration,” he said ir
contending that the present systerr
is democratic in form.
Sees Appropriateness of Meeting.
Lawrence C. Williams, presidenl
of the Board of Trade, who intro
duced Mr. King, delivered a pre
vious address in which he remarked
on the appropriateness of devoting
the meeting to relations between
the District of Columbia and Con
gress at a time when Congress wAt
initiating work on District legisla
tion and budget bills.
Mr. Williams, speaking on local
government reorganization, likened
the District to a patient and the
Congress to his doctor. He thanked
“Dr. Congress” for having protected
the “patient’* from an operation de
signed to ciu e him but which mighi
well have left him dismembered
This, he said, was the "Jacobs oper
ation.” '
Continuing in the same vein, Mr
Williams said:
"Right now we are being carefully
examined by two other groups ol
specialists. One group, composed ol
some estimable gentlemen, also from
Chicago, has outlined one course ol
treatment. Another group, composed
of equally estimable gentlemen, whc
live over in the District Building, has
prescribed another course of treat
ment.
"The poor patient, not sure ol
what is wrong with him but mighty
certain that it is very serious and
Is going to hurt, doesn’t know quite
what to do. One thing may do is
to let the two groups fight it out
among themselves <and then gc
around, as usual, to faithful Dr
Congress and ask for a dose ol
plain, old-fashioned pills to get rid
of the tummyache.”
Seea Benefit In Representation.
Mr. Williams said the Board ol
Trade felt that both the people ol
the District and Congress would
benefit by representation in Con
gress for the people of the District
and that the board would like to see
local people given the right to vote
for President and Vice President, al
though the body has never approved
“what has loosely been described ai
local suffrage.’”
He added, however, that it was up
to Congress to sift the proposals at
hand and to reject or adopt them
accordingly.
Other members of Congress at the
meeting were Senator Burke, Demo
crat, of Nebraska; Representative
Poage, Democrat, of Texas; Repre
sentative Bates, Republican, of Mas
sachusetts; Representative Sandager,
Republican, of Rhode Island; Repre
sentative Stefan, Republican, of Ne
braska, and Representative Houston,
Democrat, of Kansas. Col. David
McCoach, Jr., Engineer Commis
sioner, was another guest
A
AT TRADE BODY MEETING—From left to right In the picture are Senator King of Utah, Law
| rence Williams, board president, and Senator Capper of Kansas, shown last night at the Wash
ington Board of Trade’s meeting in the Mayflower Hotel. —Star Staff Photo.
i Probe of Source
: Of Road League's
Funds Requested
Virginia Organization
Backed 1938 Move to ~
Ban Diversion
By ALEXANDER R. PRESTON,
Star Stall Correspondent.
RICHMOND, Va„ Jan. 20.—A
resolution by Delegate Francis
Pickerls Miller of Fairfax to author
ize an investigation of sources ol
revenue of the Citizens’ Road
League of Virginia was before the
General Assembly today.
The league supported a proposed
constitutional amendment in the
1938 Assembly to probe the diver
sion of road funds, but the proposal
failed to carry. Mr. Miller’s reso
lution was referred to the Roads
Committee, which will convene
Monday.
In reply to a question, Mr. Miller
denied “that there is anything be
hind the4 resolution.”
Observers recalled, nevertheless,
that on Thursday the Senate’s ses
sion was enlivened by debate pn
two anti-roads funds diversion reso
lutions, one seeking segregation by
a constitutional amendment and the
other endeavoring to declare anti
diversion to be the sense and policy
of the 1940 General Assembly. Sen
ator William A. Wright of Tappa
hannock sought the policy pro
cedure, while Senator Aubrey G
Weaver of Frafnt Royal countered
with the constitution measure. Both
have been referred to committees.
Four More Lobbyists Register.
Mr. Miller obtained concurrence
of both houses in a second joint
resolution yesterday. It calls on
the secretary of the Commonwealth
to furnish a weekly list to the clerks
: of both legislative branches showing
I the names, addresses and sponsors
of persons who have registered un
[ der the State’s new lobbyist law.
In the office of Secretary Ray
mond L. Jackson it was announced
that four more lobbyists registered
yesterday, bringing to 42 the num
ber of those who have been listed
since the opening of the 1940 session
last week.
On the Senate side, legislators
debated a resolution involving a
House bill of Interest in Northern
Virginia communities. A voice vote
defeated the resolution, sponsored
by Senator Robert O. Norris, jr.,
of Lancaster, seeking reconsidera
tion of a previous joint resolution
offered by Senator G. E. Heller of
Bedford, requiring State agencies
issuing rules and regulations, hav
ing the force and effect of law, to
supply a list of all such rules.
Bazile Sponsors Bill.
The bill was introduced in the
House Tuesday by Delegate Leon
Bazile of Hanover. It would repeal
all rules of administrative agencies
which now have the force and ef
fect of law and would also prohibit
the agencies from issuing such rules
in the future. The House bill is co
sponsored by Mr. Miller and Dele
gate Maurice D. Rosenberg of Alex*
andria. Among the agencies that
would be affected are the Milk Com
mission, Alcoholic Beveral Control
Board and the Highway Commis
sion.
In ,his efforts to defeat Senator
Heller’s adopted joint resolution.
Senator Norris said the lists would
be of no use in deliberations on the
bill. The information would “swamp"
the Senate with rules and regula
tions, at needless expense, he said.
Mr. Bazlle’s bill is pending before
the House Courts and Justice Com
mittee which postponed action this
week until Its meeting next Wed
nesday.
John W. Davis Elected
LEXINGTON, Va„ Jan. 20 04*).—
John W. Davis, alumnus, yesterday
was elected rector of the Board of
Trustees of Washington and Lee
University. The New York attorney,
Democratic nominee for President
In 1924, has been a member of the
board since 1921.
Dimes of the Roosevelts Join
In $3,500 Toward Mile Goal
President's Wife Braves Chill Wind
To Contribute With Others Personally
The N. B. C.-Star Mile o’ Dimes
ended the first week of its campaign
today with approximately $3,500 in
dimes laid on the red-painted track.
Among, the silver discs streaming
along the track is the President’s
own dime, brought to the Mile o’
Dimes stand yesterday by Mrs.
Roosevelt.
Braving the wind that swept across
the comer of Fourteenth street and
Ntfw York avenue N.W., where the
stand is located, Mrs. Roosevelt pre
sented to the campaign two dimes
—one for herself and one for the
President.
Attired in a gray squirrel cape
and small black hat, the President’s
wife arrived a full five minutes
ahead of time and remained to chat
over the radio with Postmaster Gen
eral James> Farley, who brought the
Post Office Department’s contribu
tion to the Mile o’ Dimes.
Braves Cold for Pictures.
Despite the cold, Mrs. Roosevelt
posed several minutes for photog
raphers and newsreel cameramen
whose work was slowed by fingers
numbed with chill.
“I think it's wonderful what people
are doing for the Mile o’ Dimes,” Mrs.
are realizing that some day they will
are realizing that someday they will
wipe out the scourge of infantile
paralysis.”
She expressed pleasure at being
; able to contribute to the campaign
and asked several questions about
its progress. Before she left, a
member of the Boy Scout honor
guard presented her with the Mile
o’ Dimes emblem.
As Postmaster General Farley
presented a box loaded with dimes,
$190.20 worjh in all he said: "This
isn’t all the Post Office Department
is going to contribute. I’m sure that
all the Government departments and
all the citizens of Washington will
help in this work.”
Jackson Relays Contribution.
Yesterday was officially Justice
Department day and Attorney Gen
eral Robert Jackson was expected to
appear for his department. The
duties of his newly assumed post,
however, kept him from coming and
he was represented by Edward G.
Kemp, assistant to the Attorney
General, who presented $54 to the
Mile o’ Dimes from the Justice De
partment.
A number of other Government
departments were also represented
at the stand yesterday. Chairman
Marriner S. Eccles of the Federal
Reserve Board brought $30.10 from
the board and added that he was
glad to note that a portion of the
funds from the Mile o' Dimes would
remain in the District to go toward
the help of the stricken of this
city.
Chairman J. Warren Madden of
the National Labor Relations Board
also visited the stand with dimes
from his agency.
Pointing out that it is not ex
traordinary for an entire family to
devote themselves to helping a
stricken relative, Mr. Madden said:
“It is something else again when
an entire nation catches that spirit.
Relatively few of us have had the
misfortune to see one of our family
stricken with infantile paralysis.
Yet here today we see all Americans
setting aside their personal affairs to
come to the help of those stricken
with this puzzling and terrible
disease.
Appreciates Facilities for Gift.
“I think we can all take just pride
in this evidence of the American
family spirit. And I think, too, that
we should be grateful to such help
ful agencies as The Star and the
National Broadcasting Co., who have
generously lent themselves as a
means through which we can all
extend our help.”
Other Government groups who
sent representatives to the stand
yesterday included the Securities
and Exchange Commission, Melville
C. Holloway, $105.44; the Smithso
nian Institution, Chester Mussehl,
$25.90; United States Marshal’s
office. Deputy Marshal Howard
Hughes, 100 per cent representation
in dimes. Attendants from the Cap
ital Garage also contributed 10C
per cent, sending in $9.20.
A 17-year-old Western High
School student visited the stand tc
contribute several dimes and present
a poem he had written and dedi
cated to the Mile O’ Dimes, which he
read during one of the many broad
casts from the stand. The youth,
John P. Shansey of 4424 Greenwich
parkway N.W., described “a battle,
not of the warring kind, but equally
destructive and attacks from be
hind.” Terming infantile paralysis
“an Invisible army of horror and
strife,” he urged the public to "con
tribute a dime, see the kiddies
through.”
Little Congress Contribution.
A delegation from the Little Con
gress brought $40 in dimes to the
stand last night. Represented by
Lawrence J. Bach, former sergeant
at arms of the Little Congress, the
delegation also included pages of
the House of Representatives and
the Senate.
“We hope that between now and
the President’s birthday anniver
sary.” said Mr. Bach, “we can
make another contribution to the
Mile o’ Dimes.”
Ear-muffed boys, the pages, filed
past the stand and told the States
they hailed from. Represented
were Kentucky, New Jersey, South
Carolina, Illinois, Indiana, Georgia
and Pennsylvania.
500 Coin Containers
Distributed for
Prince Georges Dimes
Part of Funds to Go
To County League for
Physically Handicapped
Five hundred coin containers
have been placed in shops, churches,
schools, clubs and public buildings
as part of the Mile o’ Dimes cam
paign in Prince Georges County,
Md., it was announced today.
Mrs. Ralph J. Sheffer of Hyatts
ville, county chairman, revealed that
part of the fund will go to support
the County League for the Physically
Handicapped, on whose files are 44
infantile paralysis cases.
Local leaders in the drive to obtain
money to fight infantile paralysis,
as a part of President Roosevelt’s
birthday celebration, include the
following:
Mrs. George Merrick, Charles
Marbury and Lansdale G. Claggett,
Marlboro district; Mrs. J. Enos Ray
and Robert Sherwood, Chillum dis
trict; Mrs. W. P. Starr, Rlverdale
district; Aaron Horwitz and Steel
McGrew, Bowie district; Mrs.
Stephan Rigoli, Glen Dale; Miss
Bessie Phelps, Oxon Hill district;
Mrs. Harry Mercer, Kent district;
Mrs. N. G. Tayman and Mrs. Robert
son, Bladensburg district; Capt.
Thomas Murphy and Airs. J. Bryan
Hobbs, Laurel district; W. Curtis
Hopkins, Queen Anne district; Mrs.
Frank Forbs, Aquasco district^
Joseph Blandford, Brandywine dis
trict; B. K. Miller, Clinton district;
Mrs. Elon Turner, Nottingham dis
trict; Leonard Dyer, Accokeek dis
trict; W. F. Mulligan and Mrs.
George Freeman, Berwyn and Vans
ville districts; E. F. Zalesak. College
Park district; Mrs. Ellen Miller, Seat
Pleasant district; Mrs. Norman
Collins, Spauldings district; Mrs.
Ellmer Mayberry, Mellwood district,
and E. W. Fuller and Joseph
Mathias in charge of publicity.
Mrs. Sheffer also announced that
Senator and Mrs. Millard E. Tydings
will visit the “wishing well” set up
in the new Hyattsville Theater as
part of the campaign, between 1
and 1:15 p.m. tomorrow, to deposit
their dimes.
Traffic Deaths Decline
In 9 Maryland Counties
By tbe Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Jan.' 20.—Nine of
Maryland’s 23 counties showed re
ductions of from 17.6 to 75 per cent
in traffic fatalities in 1930 as com
pared with the previous year, the
State Police Accident Prevention
Bureau reported yesterday.
Worcester topped the list with a
75 per cent reduction. Other coun
ties and their reductions were:
St. Mary's 60 per cent; Oarrett,
50; Washington, 40; Carroll, 38.4;
Baltimore, 32.2; Wicomico, 30; Dor
chester, 25 and Allegany, 17.6.
Calvert, Cecil and Kent Counties
showed no change and the others
had a greater number of deaths
than in 1938.
Salisbury had a SO per cent re
duction from the previous year, and
Hagerstown’s death dropped 33.3
per eeqt They were the only cities
reporting the entire year..
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Your D. C. Income Tax
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-No. 7—More About Credits
Under the District’s income tax law, as in the Federal law,
neither relationship nor residence is a factor in the allowance of
the $400 credit for a dependent. For Instance, as an example:
Suppose you live in Washington and have two children under
18 years of age. In addition, you have another dependent in another
city, not necessarily a cousin or a nephew, to whom you furnish
half or more of their financial support. Then you are entitled to a
total of $1,200 credit for dependents—$400 for each.
The only requirements are that the dependency must be
financial, not merely legal; that you furnished half or more of the
dependent’s financial support and that the dependent is under 18,
or is incapable of self-support because of mental or physical ail
ments. *
However, in the event your status changed during the taxable
year, insofar as it affects the personal exemption or credit for de
pendents, these must be apportioned in accordance with the number
of months before and after the change.
In other words, if you assumed financial support of a de
pendent after six months of 1939 had gone by, you will be allowed
a credit of only $200—or half the credit allowed for support of a
dependent for the entire year.
In connection with the exemption of $2,500 allowed the head of ,
a family, you do not have to be married to claim this exemption.
Under what conditions me Is the head of a family will be discussed
tomorrow.
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More Efficient
Library Plan
Given Approval
Commissions' Actions
Also May Save
About $1,000#000
By RUDOLPH KAUFFMANN II.
It appeared today that general
agreement has been reached on
plans for the new District Free
Public Library building.
Latest plans for the extensible
building which some day is to
house central library facilities, as
well as offices of the Board of Edu
cation, have been approved in the
last two days by the National
Capital Park and Planning Com
mission and the National Commis
sion of Fine Arts. In addition,
plans are in accord with the latest
ideas of Dr. George F. Bowerman,
librarian.
A special meeting of the Public
Library Board with Municipal
Architect Nathan C. Wyeth and
members of his stall working on the
plans is scheduled for Tuesday at
which further details of the plans
will be considered.
With the general scheme for the
new building approved, more de
tailed plans can now be prepared,
until working plans drawn up
and the $1,118,000 which the Dis
trict has on hand spent on con
traction of the first unit.
On Economical Lines.
The latest plan, which differs
materially from that contemplated
a few months ago, is the outgrowth
of suggestions received by Dr.
Bowerman recently at a conclave of
librarians from other cities. It
provides for a building simplified in
every respect in the interests of
lowered construction costs and lower
costs for maintenance and adminis
tration.
Plans previously submitted and
approved by the Arts and Planning
Commissions were for a building
occupying the entire block between
John Marshall place and Sixth
street N.W. and facing Pennsylvania
avenue. Part of this building was
to house offices of the Board of Edu
cation, with a central pavillion and
doorway serving the entire building.
It looked like an enlarged edition of
the Federal Reserve Building and it
was estimated that it would cost
eventually in the neighborhood of
$7,000,000.
However, when Dr. Bowerman
came to the conclusion that the first
plan would not provide quite as
efficient a library building as an
other type, and when it became ap
parent that the Ford Building and
old District National Guard Armory
could not be dispensed with for the
presenj, the first design did not
apply.
Entrance Shifted.
Now the library is to be built to
five stories and occupy about two
thirds of the block, while the pro
posed Board of Education section of
the building is to be added later at
four stories with its own entrance.
The entrance to the library proper,
now much simplified, will not be in
the middle of the block, but in the
middle of the library itself, thereby
lining up with the west unit of the
proposed municipal center, the east
unit of which is now being con
structed.
The Board of Education addition
will be constructed so that at some
future date it can be thrown into a
library extension if things become
too crowded and new and separate
offices built for the School Board.
Inside the library, according to
the latest plan, books to be lent to
the general public are to be housed
entirely on the first floor, an im
possibility in the earlier plan; ref
erence books are to be housed on
the second floor, children's and
schoolbooks on the third floor,
offices on the fourth floor and
mechanical equipment and store
rooms on the fifth floor.
may save *1,000,000.
The latest plan is said reliably
to contemplate a construction cost
of nearly $1,000,000 less than the
earlier plan and yet provide a more
efficient library.
Set back from the curb 40 feet,
instead of 26 feet as planned before,
there is a possibility that under
ground parking facilities may be
installed under this border strip.
Another advantage of the latest
plan is that- the first unit, which
must be sandwiched between the
Ford Building and the armory, will
have its doorway approximately in
the center of the Pennsylvania
facade. In the earlier plan, the
doorway and central pavillion would
have been at one end of the first
unit and would have created a lop
sided appearance until the entire
building was built with later ap
propriations.
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'Mrs. Typical Consumer' Adds
White House Memories on Visit
Mrs. Roy Fleming of
Arkansas Has Tea
With Mrs. Roosevelt
“Mrs. Typical Consumer of 1M0”
was to return to her Hot Springs
(Ark.) home today after a brief visit
to the Capital during which she was
guest of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt
at tea in the White House.
Providing photographers with a
bright smile without coaxing, Mrs.
Roy Fleming arrived in the city yes
terday by train. She was met by
representatives of the Arkansas
State Society and escorted to the
offices of Senator Miller to be re
ceived by the legislator before the
tea.
If this representative purchaser is
typical in appearance and demeanor
as well as in viewpoint, members of
the National Retail Dry Goods As
sociation must be very pleased with
the buying public. Tall, trim Mrs.
Fleming was awarded the title by
the retailers’ organization in a Na
tion-wide contest.
She was brought to New York City
by plane to be guest of the group
at its annual convention and was to
return via the air route.
The storemen’s choice as typical
woman buyer is in her early 30s and
has a 7-year-old daughter.
The selection was made on the
basis of letters submitted in the
association’s contest by women all
over the country. The judges
thought Mrs. Fleming expressed the
viewpoints of the majority of con
sumers as to shopping methods,
goods and store services and worded
them most effectively.
MRS. ROY FLEMING.
—Star Statf Photo.
D. C. Delays Action
On 5-Cenl Milk for
Needy; Plan Studied
Financial and Operating
Details of Marketing
Agreement Scanned
The District Commissioners today
withheld official action on the Fed
erally sponsored milk marketing
agreement that would make milk
available at 5 cents a quart for the
needy in Washington, pending study
of operating details of the plan.
Directors of the Maryland and
Virginia Milk Producers' Association,
representing 80 per cent of the
dairymen in this area, late yester
day voted unanimous approval of
the agreement. B. B. Derrick, asso
ciation secretary-treasurer, said the
Agriculture Department’s proposal
“would have a stabilizing effect on
the local market, and make it pos
sible for the producers in this area
to continue to produce the world’s
highest quality milk.”
Study Already Begum
Mr. Derrick added that the asso
ciation appreciated the time and
trouble that Secretary of Agriculture
Wallace had gone to in perfecting
the agreement.
Commissioners Allen and McCoach
have expressed their sympathy with
the program, but made it clear that
no official action will be taken until
a technical study has been made of
financial and operating problems.
Such a detailed study has been
begun, they said, by Robert E.
Bondy, director of the Board of
Public Welfare.
Approval Expected In PoIL
While the Agriculture Department
will poll all farmers and dairymen
whose cows produce milk for the
Washington area market, the 75 per
cent approval necessary is regarded
as certain since the ballot by the
Maryland and Virginia Milk Pro
ducers’ Association directors repre
sented sentiment of 80 per cent of
the producers.
Milk handlers In Washington are
to vote on the agreement, too, but
Secretary Wallace and President
Roosevelt can issue the agreement
—fixing milk prices to be paid to
farmers by distributors—whether
the handlers approve or not. Hie
proposed agreement would have pro
ducers accept $1,995 a hundred
weight for milk destined to be dis
tributed at low retail cost to persons
on relief and W. P. A. rolls.
Woman, 105, Dies
BURNSVILLE, W, Va., Jan. 20
C4>).—Mrs. Rebecca Jane Armstrong,
105, who was born in the Braxton
County section long before West
Virginia was founded, died yester
day.
Friends said she enjoyed good
health and was active until about a
y4ar ago.
Relief Calls Beyond
Jurisdiction Flood
Social Service League
Prince Georges Unit
Seeks Solution in
Jobless Situation
The Prince Georges County (Md.)
Social Service League is receiving a
“flood” of applications for unem
ployment relief, the handling of
which is not a functon of the league
and with which it cannot continue
to deal, it was revealed today by
Miss Mildred Alexander, league di
rector.
Declaring the problem has already
reached “emergency” proportions,
Miss Alexander said that since Jan
uary 1 she had received 65 applica
tions for assistance and service, 32
of which were cases of employables
seeking relief due to lack of work.
Solution Sought.
Meanwhile, Miss Alexander and
George W. Chesbro, executive secre
tary of the county's Public Welfare
Board, are exploring the entire
problem in search of a solution.
Miss Alexander said she is obtain
ing statistics from each applicant
in order to determine the magni
tude of the problem.
"So far we have had to handle
the problem because there is no
other county agency to deal with
it,” Miss Alexander said. “We are
not equipped to meet the need,
which is not really our Job. We
have neither sufficient funds nor
staff. It is a problem that must be
handled by a public agency.”
The problem cannot be handled
by the welfare board under its
present policy, according to Mr.
Chesbro, who said that general pub
lic assistance is limited to unem
ployables and families ineligible for
any other type of assistance such
as old age or aid to dependent
children.
Serves in Temporary Crises.
Prom the league's angle, Miss
Alexander explained that her or
ganization is primarily a service
agency designed to aid wage earners
who through such temporary exi
gencies as illness are unable to meet
immediate financial responsibilities.
At the same time she said the league
also functions as a referral service.
Miss Alexander said that 21 of
the 32 applicants had received re
lief from the league in the form of
food orders or cash for food.
“They were simply emergency
cases that had to be met,” she de
clared.
Red Cross Boll Raises $2,000
BOYCE, Va., Jan. 20 {JP).—A check
for $2,000 for Finnish-Polish relief
purposes has been mailed to Norman
Davis, chairman of the American
Red Cross, by the Clarke County
Chapter. The money was raised at
the recent Red Cross ball held at
Scaleby, the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Kenneth N. Gilpin.
GIVE MILE O’ DIMES IMPETUS—Mrs. Roosevelt and Postmaster Genera^arle^showi^ester
day while being Interviewed by Charles Barry (left) In the dimes' program,—Star BUS Photo.
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Tax Survey Plan
To Be Studied
At Richmond
Resolution Calls
For Adjustment
Commission I
By the Associated Preae.
RICHMOND, Va., Jan. 20.-Th#
Virginia General Assembly next
week will consider a joint resolution
for creation of a tax adjustment
commission to 6tudy the tax needs
of localities. The subject Is one
which has been debated by many
previous meetings of the Legisla
ture.
The resolution was offered by
Senator Hudson Cary of Henrico.
It would provide for a body com
posed of two Senators, three Dele
gates and one, two or four additional
members appointed by the Gov
ernor.
Introduction of the resolution re
called a statement in the Virginia
County Government Commission s
recent report to the effect that the
constitutional provision forbidding
State levies of taxes on real estate
or tangible property might prove
the greatest single factor in check
ing a trend to centralization of
county governmental functions In
the State government.
Under Senator Cary’s resolution,
the commission would serve witnout
pay. It would be authorized to in
vestigate the revenues now received
from subjects segregated to locali
ties, as well as the present tax struc
ture of Virginia in this regard. The
resolution was referred to the Senate
Finance Committee.
Mines Bills Offered.
Two bills dealing with the de
partment of mines are before the
House and one is before the Senate.
Duplicate bills have been intro
duced proposing establishment of
a separate department of mineg>
at V. P. I., while the other bill,
offered by Delegate Charles M.
Hunter of Tazewell, would continue
the division of mines under the
labor department.
Under the terms of a bill intro
duced by Delegates W. N. Neff of
Abingdon and A. E. S. Stephens
of Isle of Wight, the entire act of
1938 creating a State board of
photographic examiners would be
repealed.
A bill has been introduced by
Delegates Benjamin E. Chapman
of Salem and W. H. Scott and
E. A. Fitzpatrick of Roanoke to
change the hours of voting to 6 a.m.
to 6 p.m. At present the polling
places are open from sunup to sun
down.
Other significant legislation be
fore the House includes a bill which
would put co-operative marketing
associations for farm products job
the same footing with other busi
ness concerns for taxation. It would
also forbid State agencies from ex
tending any assistance to such or
ganizations as is not extended to
other businesses.
Tobacco Embargo Fought.
Joint resolutions were passed by*
both houses yesterday asking- the
Virginia congressional delegation to
seek removal of the British ban on
shipment to England of American *
tobacco.
A bill was introduced in the Sen
ate to authorize the State Highway
Commission to lend or rent equip
ment to cities and towns. The bill
had as sponsors Senators Charles
T. Moses of Appomattox, Robert C.
Vaden of Gretna and I. Paul Wailes
of Amherst.
The Senate received two bills to
amend the motor vehicle code. One
of the measures would set up min
imum standards for official motor
vehicle inspection stations and pro
vide a charge of 50 cents for each
inspection. The other called for li
cense taxes for persons selling motor
vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers,
the tax to be measured by gross
sales. Both bills were offered by
Sehator Vivian L. Page of Norfolk.
Both houses adjourned yesterday
in respect to the memory of Robert
E. Lee, to meet again at noon Mon
day.
Woodrum fo Speak
At M. U. Celebration '
Special Dlapateh to The Star. !
BALTIMORE. Jan. 30.—Repre- *
sentative C. A. Woodrum, Democrat,
of Virginia will be the principal
speaker at the annual charter day
celebration of the University of
Maryland at the Lord Baltimore
Hotel tonight. jj
Gov. O’Conor will be guest of
honor and also will speak. Former !
Gov. Nice will act as toastmaster. ,
Both O’Conor and Mr. Nice are
graduates of the university’s law
school. Dr. H. C. Byrd, president j
of the university will act as official I
host. i
At the same time the centennial j
of the founding of the university’s
dental school will also be observed
with the presentation of a history
of the school by its dean. Dr. J. Ben !
Robinson.
Other program features Include
music by Mme. Lavlna Orllcz
Dreszer, .soprano, and widow of the j
former head of the Polish air force, ,
and Harlan Randall, baritone and
University musical director. i
Dr. Daniel F. Lynch of Washing- j
ton, a graduate of the dental school <
is general chairman of the event.
The university is 133 years old.
Social Service League *
Of Alexandria Elects
Elliott Hoffman, J. Prank Myers,
Mrs. Sinclair D. Shelton and Mrs.
Vernon D. Tate have been elected
as directors of the Alexandria (Va.)
Social Service League, it was an*
nounced today by Miss Adelaide C.
Barker, executive secretary.
Other directors re-elected to serve
three-year terms were John W.
Ayres, Mrs. Frederick A. Ballard,
Judge James R. Duncan, William
Illch, Judge Harry F. Kennedy and
Miss Nancy Lee Tackett. Chairman
of the board will be named at a
directors’ meeting February 19.
Photography Course
LEXINGTON, Va., Jan. 30 UP).—
Washington and Lee University will
offer, beginning with the spring t
term, a course In elementary pho- J
tography and pictorial Journalism,
O. W. Rlegel, director of the Lee
Journalism Foundation at W. and 1^
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