Evening star., 1935-02-18

Gen. Robert E. Woods appointment
as chairman of President Roosevelt S
Business Advisory Committee on work
relief expenditure is regarded in some
quarters as the latest New Deal gesture
to the conservative right" The
selection Of the Sears Roebuck presi-
dent is looked upon in particular as
an assurance to the business world that
the S4,880 100000 work relief fund is
going to be administered on lines in
volving minimum of interference
with private enterprise. AS head OF
one of the country's big mail order
houses, Gen. Woods name is familiar
to folks in every nook and corner OF
the land-a circumstance which leads
New Dealers to believe that his aSso-
citation with the colossal work relief
project will give it no little additional
prestige. AS one Of Gen. GoethalS
right-hand men during construction
of the Panama Canal, Wood was a
member of that select group Of engi-
neers and executives who received the
Panama Canal Medal, along with
special recognition by Congress, on
their retirement from that monu-
mental project. Wood embarks upon
the work relief job at the end of ex-
actly 20 years in the commercial and
industrial field. He was assistant to
the president of the General Asphalt
Co. before entering the mail order
trade.
There's lively interest in pan-Ameri-
can circles in news of Japan's diplo-
matte activities in Central America.
Following recent appointment of a
Minister to Honduras, Toxic now
plans to station a minister in Guate-
mala. In special compliment to El
Salvador, which was one Of the first
countries and remains one Of the very
few to recognize Manchoukuo, Toxic
is dispatching a special envoy to the
Inauguration of President Martinez.
The understanding is that the envoy
will remain at San Salvador as min
lister.
Out at the Bureau of Standards, the
only woman chief of a section is Miss
Johanna Busse, who has the additional
distinction Of being an accomplished
aviatrix. She is a physicist by profess
sion and native of Iowa. Miss Busse,
who Is president of the Washington
Quota Club, business and professional
Women's organization, has flown her
own monoplane as licensed pilot for
several years. One of these days she
intends to hop into the clouds in
quest of the altitude record for woman
flyers, which now stands at 1880
feet and is held by French woman.
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One of the leading Government de-
partments recently received a letter
signed Maria Robert Joseph So-and-
So. The desired information was
promptly supplied, but a few days
later Secretary heard from his
correspondent in these punctiliously
polite but positive terms: "Honorec
Sir: There must be something wrong
You address me as Miss Please be
informed that I am the father Of Il
been amended and Maria Robert
Joseph So-and-So is in no more
danger of having violence done to his
indubitable status as a paterfamilias
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In his address to the Young Demo-
cratic Clubs of Florida at Tampa the
other day Postmaster General Farley
disclosed that President Roosevelt and
Senator Wagner of New York, lead
ing figures in the pending Federal
economic security program, first col
Tolerated on such matters when they
were colleagues in the New York
State Senate 25 years ago. Having
been named on committee to take
up the subject Of social legislation
they enlisted as their aide a young
woman who had already made con.
siderable reputation in that field. Hel