Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-05
WOMEN WILL CALL
ONTREASURy HEAD
Professional Club Leaders
Seek Cut in Single Persons
Income Taxes.

Business woman leaders in the United
States are coming to Washington to
confer with Secretary of the Treasury
Mellon tomorrow morning on the Dill 10
increase the exemption for single per-
sons under the Federal income tax law
which the National Federation OF Busl-
ness an Professional Women's Clubs Is
sponsoring in Congress.
Two other matters besides tax legls-
lation will concern the business wom-
ans group during their stay IN the
Capital. One Is to look about LOT q
site for the permanent headquarters
which the Federation proposes to estab-
fish in Washington at cost OF approx
mately $3.50 900.
The other is to seek. through con-
The other is to seek, through CONFER
ence with President Hoover Inursosy
morning, the continued cooperation OF
the state and Commerce Departments
in arranging the goodwill tours OF the
organization. In the interest OF inter-
national good WILL, representatives OF
the federation have visited Is European
countries and trips to the Pan-Pac1nc
Conference ut Honolulu and to South
America are projected.
Miss McCIench Heads Group.
Miss Marian H. McCiench Of Ann
Arbor, Mich, president Of the fedora
alton, will head the delegation to con-
fer with Secretary Mellon. They Will
be accompanied by Representative Ruth
Hanna Mccormick and Miss Martha
Cannole of East st. Louis. ILL.,, national
legislative chairman. Twice previously,
Miss Connole has been at Capitol con-
ferences on an income tax measures.
With the sponsorship of Mrs. Nc
I'll - v.t41I h.
drive to secure passage Of the exemp-
ton bill by the present Congress. The
organization takes the attitude that
single persons suffer more than any
other group under the present law.
The increase in exemptions to mar
ried persons, they claim, is entirely
disproportionate and works to the great
disadvantage OF single persons, many
of whom, while not actually heads Of
families In the legal sense, contribute
largely, to the support OF others.
Schedule Of Engagements.
Miss McClench and Miss Emily r.
Kneubuhl of New York City, executive
secretary of the federation, who will ac-
company her to Washington, will be the
guests of Mrs. Alvin Dodd at $500 o
street, Georgetown, during their stay.
Their schedule Of engagements includes
a conference at the ONCE of Miss Mary
Anderson. head of the Womens Bureau
of the United States Department of
Labor, at $3.50 O'Clock tomorrow morn
ing, when officers and members Of the
Washington Business and Professional
Womens Club viii meet to discuss with
them both the income tax program and
the proposed site for clubhouse.
Present at this conference will be Mrs.
Sheppard Knapp Haynes, president of
the Washington Club: Miss Anderson
fifSt vice president; Miss Agnes Peter
son. Miss Anderson's assistant in the
Department Of Labor; Miss Marie Ober-
nauer, tax expert: Miss Connole and
Miss Margaret Lambie, who represent
the federation on the women's joint
congressional committee.
At IL O'Clock Miss McClench, Miss
Connole and Mrs. Mccormick will in
terview Secretary Mellon at the Treas
ury Building. wednesday afternoon
Mrs, Dodd is. to give tea in Miss Nc
Clench's honor at her home. in George
town, and at 1880 o'clock Thursday
morning Miss McClench, Miss Kneu-
buhl and Miss .Connole will talk with
President Hoover at the White House
regarding the goodwill tours of the
federation. the income tax bin and
other legislation in which the fedora
ton Is interested, including the educa-
ton bill and the bill for entrance Of the
United States into the World Court.