Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-01
OWEN YOUNG HEADS
RELIEF COMMITTEE
Named Chairman of Co.ordi.
nation Group Under Gift
ford Program.

Appointment Of Owen D. Young Of
New York, as chairman Of the COM
mittee to coordinate local unemploy-
ment relief efforts was announced to-
day by Walter s. Clifford, national re-
lief director.
Clifford said Young, chairman Of the
General Electric Co., had agreed to
serve.
The committees job will be to CO.
| ordinate efforts to State authorities
and welfare organizations in raising
unemployment relief funds.
Young, who has been mentioned as
| a possible Democratic presidential
nominee, already Is a member OF the
! National Advisory Committee set up
by President Hoover to assist Gl1ord.
Headquarters Moved.
with his full staff nearing compile
ton and soon to be brought to WASH
ington from all sections Of the coun-
| try. Clifford today was preparing to move
| the headquarters of the Presidents Or
panizatior on Unemployment Relief
| from the Commerce Department Build
| ing to the WIalker-Johnson Building,
Eighteenth street and New YORK ave.
nue.. The organization Will occupy one
| floor and a section of another.
Mr.. Chords stan will be made up
of volunteer advisers, experts on relef
] and welfare work drafted from various
agencies and by employees assigned 10
the organization by various govern
mental departments.
II is understood the full stan will be
! functioning in the new quarters within
two weeks.
The director again stressed that the
organization lis not inStituting cam
paign for a national fund, but plans
Nationwide support OF local Appeals
| for local funds"
The relief organization has recon-
mended all relief fund campaigns be
conducted between October 10 ana NO
In so far as all local campaigns are
| scheduled within this period" Mr.. Gil
| ford said. "the Presidents organization
hopes TO render the maximum assist.
ance and cooperation by mobilizing al
national agencies for stimulation OF
interest in local efforts"
$1,000 Veterans Jobless.
More than 81 900 disabled American
| veterans of the World War were re,
| ported today by E. c. Babcock, national
commander of the Disabled American
! Veterans, to be out Of jobs.
Comdr Babcock's announcement was
based on a QUESTIONABLE sent by the
Veterans Administration to nearly 3Oo,-
I 600 men on its compensation rolls. re
| turns from nearly half Of them showed
46, 424 employed, 81 $3.50 out OF work ana
| 1l,278 unemployable.
| The veterans organization made ar
rangements In July for cooperation
between the Veterans Administration
and the Federal Employment Service TO
find jobs for the partially disabled
| qualified former service men.
| The QUESTIONABLE was sent out by the
Veterans Administration returnable to
the Labor Department, which is at
tempting to find jobs for the men
through the employment service.
Frank Bane Confirmed.
The Presidents organization on I'M
| EMPLOYMENT relief in statement made
| public today confirmed the appointment
| of Frank Bane, who will direct the
campaign to be conducted by the Amer
lean Association of Public Welfare On
Gals in conjunction with the efforts OF
the Presidents organization. Mr. Bane's
appointment was published exclusively
in The Star last Saturday.
The Welfare Association has been
cooperating closely with the Presi-
dents organization and has been
charged with promoting the organiza-
ton of public resources for relief. Mr.
Bane will make his headquarters here
and will make a special effort to pro-
mote organization of public relief
sources In smaller communities.
Probes Coal Region.
Fred C. Croxton, assistant director OF
the clifford organization, was back al
his desk today after touring the coal
regions of West Virginia and Kentucky
He said that. although he found
more unemployment than last year ir
those sections, general conditions were
much different because Of "bountiful
crops" Thousands Of vegetable gardens
have produced surplus Of foods which
are being conserved to relieve distress
he said.
Mr.. Croxton reported that, although
the coal fields are one of the bad
spots" In the general situation, local
authorities are making every effort tc
take care Of relief needs. If they fail
he added. help will have to be found
somewhere else"