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Evening star., 1934-06-14
GEORGIA ROAD PAY
PROTESTED TO N. R. A.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ATLANTA, Ga. June 14.-The
American Federation of Labor has
filed complaint with N. r. A. au-
thorities in Washington that con-
tractors on State and county projects
In Georgia are paying wages as low
as 1912 cents per hour instead OF the
N. r. A. code scale of 40 cents.
The complaint, said to have been
filed on information furnished by
George L. Googe, district representa-
tive of the federation, brought a reply
today from Gov. Talmadge, who dis
claimed any jurisdiction over the es-
tabhshment of wage scales by the
State Highway Department or county
agencies.
One of the charges in the COM
plant involved the Whitley Construc-
tion Co. of Lagrange. John Whitley
head Of the Governors staff and head
of the construction company, was re-
ported in the complaint to be paying
wages of 1917 cents per hour.
The Whitley Construction Co. in
recent months has not bid on Federal
aid projects. The N. r. A. scale is
required on Federal aid projects be-
fore Federal engineers will approve
them, but the Whitley company has
been low bidder on a number of the
large State aid projects, and COM
petitors are said to have charged that
the low wages paid by his company
enabled him to outbid them.
Evening star., 1934-06-14
MEETING EXPECTS
WHITE HOUSE WORD
Message May Be Sent to
Religion and Philanthropy
Session.

A personal message from President
Roosevelt was expected to be deliv-
cred by Secretary of Commerce DAN
lei c. Roper tonight to go leaders In
religion and philanthropy who are in
conference at the Mayflower Hotel in
an effort to bring about Nation
wide revival of spiritual and social
values.
In addition to Secretary Roper, an
other speaker before tonight's in
formal dinner meeting will be Father
M. S. Sheehy, president of Catholic
University.
More than so delegates we're oc-
cupied today with round-table dis
cussions of the best means of bringing
about the revival through the leader
ship Of educators and churchmen Of
all denominations. The one-day con-
ference will adjourn following to-
nights meeting.
Secretary Roper was expected to
confer at the White House this after
noon with President Roosevelt. He
will bring the Presidents greetings to
the conference and perhaps personal
message as we'll. The conference was
called by the National Committee for
Church and Welfare Recovery.
Plans will be perfected at the
meetings here for launching CO.
operative educationa. program in the
interest of all religious. philanthropic,
charity, cultural and character build
ing agencies Of the Nation.
The committee which called the
conference is composed of ITO leaders
Of the Protestant, Catholic and jew
ish faiths, and includes educators,
welfare leaders. churchmen, bankers,
lawyers and business men.
Local members of the committee in
clude Rev. W. S. Abernethy, pastor Of
Calvary Baptist Church: Bishop
James E. Freeman, Theodore Maynard
Of Georgetown University, Rev. Ra-
phael H. Miller, pastor OF the National
City Christian Church; Francis B.
Sayre, Assistant Secretary of State;
Rabbi Abram Simon of the Washing
ton Hebrew Temple and Rev. Charles
Wood. former pastor of the Church
of the Covenant.
Evening star., 1934-06-14
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Evening star., 1934-06-14
HOUSING MEASURE
PASSED BY HOUSE
Change Is Made Permitting
Formation of National
Mortgage Firms.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the ASSOCIATED Press.
The big housing bill has been
pushed through the House, but q
seemingly minor amendment has
created doubt whether it was exactly
what the administration wanted.
Before the final vote of l76 to 10
sent the measure to the Senate last
evening the House, over the protest
of its Banking Committee, wrote back
into the bill the controverted "title
2"-that permitting creation Of ma
tional mortgage associations.
we're a handspring in the Presidents s
housing program. Originally It was
planned by administration advisers
that these associations would make
direct loans on mortgages in compe-
tition with existing building and loan
associations
Direct Loans Eliminated.
But in the hubbub just before
passage Representative Reilly. Demo-
crat. of Wisconsin offered, and the
House adopted, an amendment elm
mating the direct loan feature.
Chairman Steagall of the Banking
Committee subsequently explained
would be simply rediscount institu-
tions. handling mortgages accepted by
other institutions.
The House accepted the Banking
Committees proposal to let the Home
Owners Loan Corporation have ST.
500 ,000, 900 more, of which $500, 900 900
may be advanced to building and
loan associations.
To minimize the possibilities Of un-
fair competition which many mem
bers said would ensue between the
national mortgage associations and
building and loan companies, the
House also accepted an amendment
making the securities and incomes
of the mortgage concerns subject TO
taxes.
Ask to Quote Roosevelt.
In final debate, there we're frequent
references to the administration
wishes. House leaders asked permis-
sion to quote President Roosevelt on
the floor as saying he favored Title
Two and was opposed to the Home
Owners Loan Corporation proposal
But that permission was denied
and Representative Luce, Republican
OF Massachusetts,, had this TO say:
THE administration means two or
three admirable young men called in
to advise the President who are not
fortunate enough to have the ex-
perience Of years. When our Com
mittee eliminated Title Two, these
young men resorted to the press.
The press blossomed out with
stories of the anger of the admins
tration, namely, the anger of these
two or three young zealots. enthusi-
astic but without experience"
To which Representative Byrns oi
Tennessee, Democratic floor leader
replied:
That is not only utterly untrue
but a rank discourtesy to the gen.
tleman In the White House. Men
who are close to the administration
and who speak for the administra-
ton, have come up here and said Title
Two was the very crux Of the bill.
Aim to Aid Home Owners.
This is not proposition for thu
benefit Of the building and loan asso.
Citations, as some men seem TO think
Evening star., 1934-06-14

an attractive little house, all flowers
and vines outside, and inside a
living room that IS high as the house
and which faces court and more
flowers. Over the fireplace is
map of the State of California. The
book shelves are filled with histories
and biographies and few novels.
The paper mark on Anthony Ad-
verse" indicating that the Farrells
never got through that, either.
Hollywood at Tea.
Then Hollywood begins in earnest.
Miss Davis serves high tea, an artist
comes in with a new pastel he has
just finished of her. Harmon Nelson.
jr.. sits down at the piano and plays
Love Thy Neighbor." q man comes
in with a perfume advertising con-
tract for Miss Davis to sign. the
telephone rings A times. Bette tells
US that she has finished "Of Human
Bondage" with Leslie Howard-that
Donald Woods is swell gent-that
Maxine Doyle tried to get down to
the station-which, of course, We
don't believe-but that she is knee
deep in work at the M G. M.
studios in Student Tour
We quaff our high tea contented-
ly, looking out of doors into Vir-
ginia Valli flower bed. and remem-
bering back to when she seemed to
us to be perhaps cinema's one and
only.
Then 1t is time TO 20 and the
Hollywood tear begins-down Holly
wood Boulevard into the teeth of
town. where George Arliss, House
of Rothschild." has been playing for
two months at Grauman's Chinese
Theater, and which will play, we
are told, three days a week from now
on during the entire Summer. We
catch a fieeting glimpse of the War
ner studios and a set which Buzz
Berkeley has constructed for a giant
fan dance to be used in Danes. I"
We run into Lyle Talbot, who asks
after Freddie Sherman-Lyle now
gets next to the top in Warner fan
mail and is wider. browner and wears
the inevitable brown checked coat
with trousers that are any color at
all. We almost knock down little
Joan Wheeler, who is one of the
new Warner starlets. and we meet
Mr.. Seller, who asks what Johnny
Payette and Frank La Falce and
other Washington Warner boys are
up to-which We, alas, cannot say.
To See Joe E. Brown.
We hear that Lillian Harvey has
at that very moment bid adieux to the
Fox Co. and has gone back to Ger
maryland that We will see Joe E..
Evening star., 1934-06-14

Brown shortly, he having just come
back from q tour of the Orient (inci-
dentally, they called Elmer the
Great" How to Play Base Ball" in
China-fgure that ouD.
BY that time cool Hollywood eve
ming is upon us and the Warner out
fit, always anxious to please. send
Maestro Hussey and myself to see
viii Rogers in Eugene O'Neills "Ah
Wilderness" which has been playing
here for over six weeks-a record run
at the Ell Captain Theater. The fun
Of the play comes after the play,
which Is Mr.. Rogers impromptu
speech.
In the play Rogers is Will Rogers,
which we have to admit we don't
care for as much as George M. Cohan
IN the same role. But when the final
curtain comes down, out walks Will,
or rather out he shambles, with his
right hand all over his right cheek
(His grin as sprightly as ever) He
stands just back of the lowered foot
lights and says, "Well-folks-why
don't you go home. This is late for
Hollywood, you know" He also says
he wishes he could have played the
Hairy Ape" and been one of those
besides Under the Elms" And, after
he has suggested the only thing the
Republicans have against the Demo-
Gratis Is that the Democrats are spend
ing all the Republicans money-be-
cause the Democrats never had any,"
his hands fly out to the audience. and
/ he SaUS-"T'Va batter inkoz-hrff
I'm too tired-now 60 home,' and he
goes home, and so does the audience.
In the Hollywood cast Of "Ah! VIII
derness" is William Janney. who does
as fine a Job as the young lad as
you'll hope to see. Charlotte Henry,
also in the cast, Is also almost as
bad as she was in Alice in Wonder
/ land"
Much later the telephone rings. 1t
is Donald Woods, one timed famed
/ National player. He roars, Hey,
how's Washington" over the phone
He also says he has worked that day
from 6 in the morning to way past
midnight. So screen actors don't
work, eh? He sends his best with this
So does Maxine Doyle. who has
screamed an unprintable greeting over
the phone. So does Bebe Daniels and
Ben Lyon. who have called to say
welcome" Not bad fun arriving in
! Hollywood.
Tomorrow Lynn Farnol asks us II
We don't want to see Anna Sten and
Freddie March work together. Who
wouldn't? So. If we wake in time,
that should make Maxine Doyle, Dom
ME Woods, Freddie March and Anna
Stem all in one day.
Miss Sten and Mr.. March won't
just be playing around in any old
Evening star., 1934-06-14
100000
IN Cash
PRIZES

The urge to modernize and i'm
prove rundown properties has cap
tured Washington! Homes paint
thirsty for years are going to receive
rejuvenating coats of surface pro-
lection. Those improvements, al
terations, additions and essential re-
pairs, so long postponed, are going
to receive attention this year as
this swiftly progressing movement
spreads into every community of
metropolitan Washington.
Climb aboard the band wagon!
Call in your architect or contractor
and get in on prices that are still be-
low normal levels. Improve your
home, help business, aid employment
and better the beauty of the Capital
City.
And don't forget to enter your
project in The Stars $1,000 Better
Homes Contest. Look over the list
of prizes to be given for outstand-
ing home Improvements.
Evening star., 1934-06-14
Reject JAPANESE OFFER

LONG BEACH. Calf, June IA QP).
The offer of japanese packers to
set the yearly quota Of imported tuna
at 325, 900 cases of canned tuna and
$500 tons Of frozen tuna was rejected
yesterday by the California Tuna
Packers Association.
The japanese previously had re-
fused counter proposal Of the pack
ers that the quota of japanese i'm
portations be set at 250,000 cases of
canned tuna and 2,500 tons of frozen
tuna.
The failure Of the packers to agree
on definite quota will mean further
negotiations to limit Japanese tuna
in the United States probably will be
left to the governments of the two
nations.
Evening star., 1934-06-14
BY E. de S. MELCHER,
Dramatic Critic OF The Star.

Y " OLLYWOOD, June 14.-First
day of our Hollywood diary.
Another dayl Another day!
i i But the same old Hollywood
which means a blond at
every step and Carlo always just
around the corner.
AS our rapid transcontinental steam
engine, which had broken down con-
veniently in the middle of the desert,
leaving us high and dry with no
cooling system and the thermometer
bouncing around at 1l0. roars into
Los Angeles so minutes late we gaze
reverently into the mist and the SUM-
shine and hope for rare and immortal
glimpses of such heated Hollywood
anna as La Belle Harlow. Dietrich,
Colbert, Francis, Crawford and one
of Washington's chief delights, Little
Cupid Durante
Again they are not at the station,
rumor having reached us that when
Garbo heard the train was so minutes
late she uttered a profound. i tank
go home" and, believe it or not, she
went!
But there is that same handsome
Warner Bros. welcoming commit
tee, including Bette Davis, Bob Hus-
sey and that splendid Mrs. Bridget
Price, who last season saved La Davis
and Melcher from trip to Davies
locker as our bark spun perilously on
its left ear towards the Island Of
Catalina.
Bette Passes Up Shorts.
Bette this year is not in shorts,
no. She claims that her last seasons
welcoming garb was misconstrued by
Artist Sudduth, and that she never
wore shorts that were as short as
that. So this year she stands all In
lily white at the platform with a
large white hat. and those smoked
glasses which she thinks keeps the
public from knowing who she Is.
Around her stand some 40 breathless
people muttering, That's Bette
Davis, isn't 1t? Isn't she cute?" or
Isn't she thin2" or Isn't she some
thing?" which Miss Davis pretends
she doesn't hear We are welcomed
with not too great Warmth not
OC1AlS VIC (ucCOAlI AOA oIACC obdIc W
twiddle their thumbs in station
for so minutes anticipating a gen.
tleman who last season did the
waitee foul by having her shorts
drawn short
However, after few initial curses,
everything is smiles, we have bid
adieu to that splendid little lady
who has come all the way from
Nuremburgh, Germany. without a
syllable Of English, to see ner grown
son who is now a director with Uni
versal Pictures. and who Is greeted
with tears, flowers and q fat box
of candy, and We push of in Bette's
barouche-a sleek. dark car which
roars us off through hot streets of
Los Angeles and out to the less tepid
hills of Hollywood. Rushing by our
hotel, we are twirled into the resi-
Dental district, not far from Brent
wood, and deposited at the Charlie
Farrell Virginia Valli homestead,
which Miss Davis has rented while
the Farrells are in England. It is
Evening star., 1934-06-14

but for the thousands Of distressed
home owners"
In the form In which the bill was
sent to the Senate. it does this:
/. Establishes home credit insur-
ance corporation with n original cap
ital of s200,000,000. This corporation
may guarantee up to 20 per cent of
mortgages for repair or modernization
of real estate It also may pledge ST.
900. .o00, 600 to guarantee up to 100 per
cent mortgages against existing homes
and buildings occupied as O dwelling
by the owner and an additional ST.
000, 900. 900 to guarantee up to 100
per cent Of mortgages against owner
occupied dwellings built hereafter.
$4,000, 900 Limit Is Set.
This guarantee may cover mort
cages on low-cost housing projects
costing not more than $4,000, 900. The
home mortgages could not be guaran-
teed II they were for more than
$40, 900.
2. Increases the Home Owners
Loan Corporations available funds
from $4,000, 900 900 to $500, ,000, 900,
Of which $500, 100000 could be ex-
pended through building and loan
associations.
3. Authorizes the organization OF
private s5,e0O,00o national mortgage
associations which are to deal in
mortgages and which may function
all over the Nation. The money for
these is expected to come from East
ern financial centers.
4. Sets up q Federal savings and
loan insurance corporation to insure
deposits of up to s2,500 in building
and loan associations. Membership in
this corporation and deposit insurance
would be granted only to associations
which meet tests as to soundness and
they would be subject. for time, to
an assessment equal to one-half Of l
per cent Of their accounts.
Evening star., 1934-06-14
of of the
f in ndomsC Capital

story. They'll be playing In "Resur-
rection," which has been changed. be-
lieve 1t or not, to I'VE Live Again"
Evening star., 1934-06-14
WAHERED VALUES
PROBED BYP. WA
Resignation by Kohn Bares
Inquiry-Ickes Checks
on Fee Initiation.
81 the Associated Press.

81 the Associated Press.
Secretary Ickes conducted search
ing examination today to determine
II land values for housing projects
aided by the Government had been
"watered.''
The inquiry in the Public Works
Administration Housing Division be-
came known yesterday after Robert
D. Kohn of Ossining. N Y. former
president Of the American Institute
of Architects, submitted his resigna-
ton as director of the division. No
action will be taken on the resignation
until the inquiry is complete.
High officials said no question Of
honesty or integrity is involved. Ickes
was said to have thought there was
tendency to accept, without a careful
check, the land valuations named by
borrowers of Government money. He
also wants to learn whether fees were
inflated.
Would Raise Rents.
The inquiry is covering all allot-
ments made to II limited dividend
corporations for low-coSt housing
projects "Watered value" an Official
said, would lead to higher rents unless
squeezed out"
P w. A. officials said they expected
reappraiSement of the land value in
Boulevarde Gardens, Queens, N. Y,
project allotted S3,450,OOO.
The Public Works Administration
lends money to private companies to
build low-rent apartments. The Gov
ernment is to be repaid from the in
come. Several projects already are
under construction.
Three Housing Division officials we're
to be questioned this afternoon in
Ickes' office.
Probe Weeks Old.
The Secretary began the inquiry
several weeks ago after he had be-
come dissatisfied with operations of
the division.
Other projects that have received
limited dividend allotments are:
Neptune Gardens, Boston, $780,
600. not yet under contract; Juniata
~NAHAAo' vA'OooiVVU, ulluCl CUll-
struction; Neighborhood Association,
st. Louis, $640,000, under contract;
Euclid Housing Corporation, Euclid
Ohio, S1,o00,000, under construction;
Hillside project, Bronx, N. Y, $5,06O,.
O00, under construction; Hallet Cove
Gardens, Astoria, Long Island, S2,975,-
600, not yet under contract; Hillcreek
Homes Corporation, Philadelphia,
Sl,29O,00o, not yet under contract;
Boylan project, Raleigh, N. c., S198,-
600, under construction; Sunshine
Apartment Corporation, Richmond,
S663.0o0, not yet under contract: Alta
Vista, Va. s84.0 900, under construction.
Construction has not been stopped
on a. , project because of the inves-
tigation.
The general investigation was said
to have been brought on by challenges
of land values by insiders and out
siders."
Evening star., 1934-06-14
MOB MENACES FARMER

Protests Sale of Tomatoes at 10
Cents a Bushel.
FRANKSTON. Tex. June IA Up.
"A farmer who sold a carload of
tomatoes for 10 cents a bushel here
yesterday was escorted from town by
police after a crowd threatened him
in protest against the sale.
Hundreds of farmers were in town
with trucks and wagons loaded with
tomatoes and with no buyers at any
price. The situation was tense despite
an agreement reached between Texas
and Mississippi growers for a fixed
tomato price.
Evening star., 1934-06-14

This is not a proposition for the
beneft Of the building and loan asso-
Citations, as some men seem TO think,
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