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d. c. Employable Relief Cut
Is Urge by Board of Trade
Officials of Organization Cite Findings
at Hearings Recommending Course
Requiring Return, to Jobs.

Asserting municipal finances are in
such perilous state that 1t Is Inn
possible to grant additional funds for
relief" Board Of Trade officials today
urged disapproval OF the request for
an additional 100000 for relief to
employables during the next fiscal
year.
Testifying at hearings yesterday on
the 1888 District supply bill, Robert
J. Cottrell, executive secretary Of the
board, and William H. Press, his as
sistant, told the Senate subcommit-
tee handling the measure that the
boards examination of employment
and wage statistics indicates the time
has come when movement toward
gradual elimination of relief to all
employables in favor Of a return to
normalcy' should be we'll under way.
Tell of Relief Findings.
In an exhaustive study Of the relief
situation in the District, the wit
nesses said, the board found:
l. Expenditures for aid to the
needy" have increased nine-fold In
10 years while population has in
creased only 80 per cent.
2. Expenditures by the Public We'll
fare Board for charities, corrections
and hospitals have expanded to such
an extent that other functions Of the
municipality ARE in serious danger
OF suffering abnormal curtailments
due to the larger proportion of budget
funds which are being used by it,
3. Washington has consistently ex-
pended a greater portion of It's funds
for welfare activities than have other
cities OF comparable size.
4. Slight reductions in expenditures
for relief during recent months have
not equaled the amount which could
be expected on the basis Of cases
cared for. It is apparent that re-
lief Standards Of living" are increas-
ing land that trend is, we believe,
undesirable"
Costs Greater in Recovery.
S. Expenditures for the needy dur
ing the prosperous years Of 1885,
1895 and 1887 were nearly three times
as large as they were in the depres-
sion years Of 1892. 1893 and 1884.
E. The number OF gainfully en-
ployed persons now compared with
the number in 1893 gives every evi-
dence of normal conditions and also
suggests that q much smaller case
load should be carried.
7. On the basis Of all statistics and
studies examined, there should not
be any necessity for increased relief
expenditures during the coming fiscal
year
The board made several recon-
mendations concerning the future
handling of relief In Washington.
AL persons eligible for social Sc
curity benefits should be promptly
Evening star., 1937-05-29
WASHINGTON GAS
EARNINGS JUMP
April Net Shows Increase Of
$51,221 Over Total for
1886 Month.
BY HAROLD ROGERS.

Net income Of the Washington Gas
Light Co. showed the substantial In
crease Of $5l, ,221 in April as compared
with the same month last year, ac-
cording to the monthly report Of the
company filed late yesterday with the
Public Utilities Commission
For the first four months OF this
year net income dropped of, however,
from $685. for the first four months
OF 1896 to $540,968 for the similar
period this year, q decrease Of So, ,567.
Operating revenues were $7l7,574
for the month Of April, compared with
$642, ,399 for the same month last year,
an increase Of $75,175 as q result of
is per cent more gas sold.
Operating expenses also increased
from $479,5l5 in April, 1885, to $502,-
664 in April this year, an increase OF
$23,l49 due to the larger volume OF
gas produced and the greater number
OF customers served. The net result
OF the months operation after all de-
ductions was net income OF $136,977
an increase Of $51,221 despite in
creased charges of S13,6l6 for taxes
and $l,60l for the retirement OF prop
erty. This favorable showing in April
brings the net income for the first
four months Of the current year up
to $540,968.
The company reports an increase of
IS per cent In gas sales from 1913
In -
1,030 million cubic feet in April this
year. The 145,270 meters In service
at the end Of the month also indi-
Gates healthy growth, this figure
representing an increase Of 7,477
meters since the end OF April last
year.
The Washington Stock Exchange
was closed today and will be closed
also Monday for the ofIicial Memorial
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SLAIN;
ROOMER ACCUSED
Rooming House Operators
Sister Wounded in FusiI-
Iade of Shots.
By the Associated Press.

NARROWS, Va. May 29-James
Fillinger. 37-year-old electrician, was
in the Giles County Jail At Pearisburg
today, charged with the murder here
last night Of Mrs. Lula Corvin. 81. d.
vorcee, and malicious wounding Of her
sister. Miss Alma Carter.
Commonwealths Attorney J. L. Dill
low, who investigated the killing, said
today that Fillinger shot the two wom-
en- as they lay in bed together at
Mrs. Corvin's home Fillinger, who
roomed at the Corvin home, emptied
.38 caliber revolver at the women
several bullets striking Mrs. Corvin
and one wounding Miss Carter in the
left thigh. the commonwealth at
torney said
Mrs. Corvin was dead when DR.. E.
S. Carr, summoned by members OF her
family. arrived.
Dillow said he learned that Fillinger
had become enraged in an argument
over his supper. The accused slayer,
he said, came home near midnight
and entered the room in which Mrs.
Corvin. her two sisters. Misses Alma
and Marie Carter, and her daughter
Virginia, %, were sleeping. Fillinger
left the womans room, he said, and
went to his own, procured loaded
pistol and returned to the women S
sleeping quarters
The women begged Fillinger to
put away the pistol, the Common
wealth's attorney said, and urged him
to 60 to bed. Fillinger left the house
for few minutes, the prosecutor
said he was told. and then returned
to the women's room. Mrs. Corvin,
her daughter and her sister Alma
had gotten into the same bed, Dill
low said, while Miss Marie Carter had
left the room.
Fillinger. the Commemorative at
torney said, lit match in order to
locate Mrs. Corvin, and then started
firing. After the shooting, Dillow
said, he threatened the women with
the pistol and prevented their sum-
moning officers or medical assistance
for some time.
Evening star., 1937-05-29
Washington Produce

y suTTER-e2 score. 1-pound prints. IS:
P0Sna 7SS q, prints, 81; %.pound p prints. s5:
MEATs-choice beef. 1sa1e; calves. 1ba
56: veal: veal. l6: sp1ins lamb -: rail- lamb.
ham 23: smoked ham. 2b: sliced bacon. on
Ios5ai iand' i4h' fl.' bacon 2s; compound 1917:
OIL LIVE ,d sTocsK-Piss. s.sN: lisht hogs.
7'Ass: stass. 4ae: calves. 6;6Oae 80:
Prices paid shippers-net I. o. b. WASH
ington; BY the United States Bureau Of
EGGS-Market about steady at TN
CHANGED prices. Current receipts, IS to
Goysrnment sraded and dated white eggs.
tras. medium. 20 cents; U. S. standards,
large. 2O12 cents
9aiies tn nom,nal ina Fsovl.Solored heavy:
ROSTERS. TO- Chickens-crosses. II to ~:
KocHs 70 IS DesWaee . 70 a. few .t S4
tso pounds Is to 1S: less than two
16 to II; old toms. 13 to II.
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CHICAGO GRAIN
4y the Associated Press.

CHICAGO, May 29.-scattered rains
through the domestic grain belt, with
liberal moisture in some Spring wheat
areas where most needed, were ac-
companied by declines Of to almost
cents bushel in wheat prices today
Liquidation attributed to Eastern
sources and to long adjusting hold
ings for the double holiday dropped
July wheat early to 114A and Sep
tember to l.12s, from which point
only transient fractional rallies took
place.
Improved crop conditions and the
movement Of new domestic wheat to
market tended for the time being to
overshadow current and prospective
wheat needs at home and abroad
traders said. Demand for United
States wheat promises to be an i'm
portant market factor soon, they said,
considering the favorable relationship
OF prices here and at Liverpool. Can
ada and this country will be the chief
source Of supplies until next year and
domestic wheat for export will be
available weeks before Canadian har-
vest begins.
Germany was understood to have
purchased three or four cargoes Of
Canadian wheat overnight and Spain
also was . reported buyer. Canadian
export business was estimated at 50O,-
900 to 100000 bushels.
July corn fell more than 2 cents at
one stage, while deferred contracts lost
more than q cent. Unloading of for
eign corn here continued and cash
markets were weak. Rye dropped
about cents with wheat, but oats
showed only fractional decline.
Provisions were uneven.
Around midsession wheat was 1h-
~ lower, compared With yesterdays
finish, July, 1.14M; September, 1924,
and corn was H-1A of, July, 124h;
September, 1.11A.
Evening star., 1937-05-29
VOTE[ESS PLIGHT
ON TAXES CITED
Burroughs Citizens Oppose
Thrusting of Added
Burden on D. c.

Imposition of any additional taxes
on the 'voteless and unrepresented
citizens of the District Of Columbia"
was opposed last night by the Bur-
roughs Citizens Association.
Adopting a resolution introduced
by Kenneth P. Armstrong, the citi-
zens requested that Congress either
obey its own law requiring the pay
ment by the Federal Government of
20 per cent Of the District budget or
to return the government to its
citizens so they may levy their own
taxes and make their own DISPOSE
ton Of the receipts from the tax
levies"
If the substantive law requiring the
Federal Government to pay 40 per
cent OF the local taxes were carried
out, the resolution declared, there
would be surplus of funds and no
new taxes would be necessary.
Anti-American Principle Charged.
The levying of taxes by a body in
which the taxpayers are unrepresented
Is contrary to the fundamental prin-
Ciples of the American Government"
Armstrong cited.
The association tabled resolution
approved by its Executive Committee
relative to the recent report of the
Washington Criminal Justice Asso-
citation and adopted instead report
submitted by Paul Jameson chairman
of the groups Law and Legislation
Committee.
Jamieson's report said there was no
serious gang problem here, that GRIM
inal cases were brough to trial prompt
ly, and that in relation to other cities
political pressure in the National
Capital was small. Jameson assert
ed that "all in all. we have a clean
police department" adding he had
more up to date than ever"
The Executive Committees resolu-
ton expressed the opinion the justice
associations purpose was 'meritori-
Gus" but believed its purpose futile"
until such time as the citizens of
the District have control "of such
affairs"
The citizens directed a letter be
sent Traffic Director William A. Van
Duzer asserting the association docs
not object" to the routing of trucks
over Rhode Island avenue northeast
and on Eastern aveue northeast be-
tween Queen Chapel and Bladens-
burg roads.
Opposition to abolition of the Dis
trict Receiving Home was expressed
IN resolution adopted, which asked
that Congress appropriate funds for
improvement of the institution.
The transfer of controlling funds
from the Playground Department Of
the Community Center Department
was opposed in another resolution.
Louis F. Kreek, vice president, and
Warren Wilmer, secretary, offlciated
at the meeting in Burroughs School
during the absence of President Rob-
ert NJ Flnnss.
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certified and placed in that cate
CORY" the subcommittee was told.
Limitations causing exclusion Of
employables from benefits Of local
Public Assistance Division relief
should be removed from the appro-
priation bill giving the Public Assist
ance Division authority to make
grants where the need is greatest.
Closer Cooperation Suggested.
Much closer cooperation between
the Public Assistance Division. the
Works Progress Administration and
the Public Employment Service
should be developed The employ
ment service has demonstrated its
ability to place the unemployed in
jobs. The w. P. A. has funds and
the proper outlook to provide tenn
porary work for employables. The
Public Assistance Division should GER
tify only usable employables to w. P.
A. II the Public Employment Cen
ter will concentrate on placing re-
lief workers and persons who have
been in Washington . year or more
the effect would be . elimination of
the relief load and disbursement to
immigration.
Emphasis should be placed on
keeping new cases OF relief and get
ting relief cases in private employ
ment. Some small hardship may re-
suit from such action. but temporary
measures can be provided 1t Is only
through such action that the ma
Jority Of those now on relief will be
Jared loose and again placed in use
ful employment. With this action
will come a compensating increased
activity in private work now being
done by relief labor and private labor
will enjoy an increase.
Advises Free Hand in Cutting,
I'VE recommend the removal or en-
largement of the specified percent
age OF District of Columbia relief ap-
preparation available for personnel.
We favor giving the Public Assistance
Division as much latitude as possible
with specific instructions to use ap-
propriated funds In any way they see
fit so long as = much-needed reduc-
ton IN the relief load is brought
about.
I'VE recommend that the Public
Assistance Division be given a free
hand and instructions to place re-
lief on saner basis and report prog
ress to Congress after the opening Of
the new session In January. If eco
nomic conditions at that time are
such that more money is legitimately
needed, We shall be happy to back
their request. II. on the other hand,
reasonable progress toward the proper
solution Of relief conditions In Wash
ington has not been made, the Board
Of Trade will endeavor to have steps
taken to accomplish that objective"
Evening star., 1937-05-29
Japan Backs Mine.

Tremendous development Of the
Japanese iron and steel industry and
the urgent need Of oversee sources of
supply have caused the Nippon Min
ing Co. of Toxic to back an Australian
operating company at Yampi Sound,
Western Australia. The Japanese cor
poration will take the entire output,
1t Is stated at Sydney.
Evening star., 1937-05-29
FOREIGN EXCHANGES.

NEW YORK. May 20 R.-Foreien
exchange easy: Great Britain in dollars.
others IN cents.
Great Britain demand. 493h: cables
4.93ss: .6O-day bills 492b; France, de-
mand nand 4a6h: cables. 4;49A: Italy, de-
eDe pemands Sds' seiaSm ea6lss e.Ss Il. Germany
iree r. 4013: registered. 1000: travel
Ss4;o5: Hollsnd. 54.a7;. Norway. 24s0:
z; 10: Switzerland. 22.s1: spain unauoted;
PORTUGAL 4:49h; Greece 81: Poland
] 5s;s!; ss; .Czechosloyakia. 3;49: Jugoslayia
Rumsnia. 10: Argentina. 32 aOn Brazil
H;sOAn: Toxic. 2S.7s: Shanghai. 1893:
Hongkong. 30.5S: Mexico City 27.S5:
York IN Montreas, 99.83A.
n-Nominal.
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THE WEATHER

District OF Columbia-Fair tonight
and tomorrow; slightly warmer to-
morrow; Monday mostly cloudy; show
ers Monday afternoon or night; gentle
northeast and east winds, becoming
southerly tomorrow.
Maryland and Virginia-Fair tonight
and tomorrow; slightly warmer in the
interior tomorrow; Monday mostly
cloudy; showers Monday afternoon or
night.
West Virginia-Fair tonight and to-
morrow; warmer tomorrow; Monday
showers.
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers
clear today.
Evening star., 1937-05-29
U. S. TREASURY POSITION.
BY the Associated Prexs-

The position Of the Treasury on Nav
27: Receipts. Sl4706. 6.706.I7:s exncndi,
tyres, SIS .90s. .336 .O6; balance. S1.S5a.-
4s4 ;s59,l4; customs receipts for the
Receipts for ths he fiscal year ts,nc.
July -. S4.4O1 .9S6.395 25: expenditures
$8 770. .42l .265. 80: including So .567 2O1.-
OF expenditures. So. ass. .434.sSo.Si; eross
debt, S35. 206. .622. .l4S.25. 4 decrease Of
$23. .570.74 under the previous day; gold
S747.113.520.35 Of inactive gold.
Evening star., 1937-05-29
REVIEW SHOWS
UPTURN IN TRADE
Dun & Bradstreet Pictures
Broadening Demand in
Leading Cities.
Ey the Associated Press.

NEW YORK. May 29.-Tabloid re-
view Of business, reported by Dun &
Bradstreet, Inc, In the four divisions
Of wholesale and jobbing, retail trade,
manufacturing and industry, and COL
lections. This week compared with
the corresponding period last year.
Active (a) fair 90 means equal to
good (g); above, quiet 60 slow (s)
below last year.
Evening star., 1937-05-29
CHEESE QUOTATIONS..
pY.vM0YTTu

PLYMOUTH. Wis, May % R.-Cheese
quotations for the week: Wisconsin Cheese
AZ cents. Farmers call board. cheddars,
14l2 cents: horns. 1914 cents: no twins.
Evening star., 1937-05-29
MOST U. S. MARKETS
CLOSED FOR HOLIDAY
Nv the Associated PreSs

BY the ASt0clHttd Pfe6S.
NEW YORK, May 2s.-Most Of the
leading security markets of the country
were closed today and an even greater
number will be idle Monday in OBJ
servance Of Memorial day. Commodity
markets, in most cases, were open as
usual today. but planned to darken
their house,. Oh Monday.
Evening star., 1937-05-29
LARGE INCREASE SEEN
IN EXCESS RESERVES
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. May 29.-"Excess" re-
serves of Federal Reserve member
banks were $3o,Ooo,0o0 higher In the
week ended May 26. the Reserve
Boards credit statement indicated.
The upturn was attributed in finan-
cial circles to the drop in Treasury
deposits.
Reserves above the legal minimum
Of members compared as follows:
Week ended May 26. $4,000, 900;
previous week, $4,000, 900: same Pc
riod last year, $2,9Ol, 100000.
Evening star., 1937-05-29
v. C. CHEMICAL VOTES
PREFERRED DIVIDEND
Ey the Associated Press

Ey the AbsocIated Press,
NEW YORK, May 2s.-Directors of
virginia Carolina Chemical Corp. yes
terday declared dividend of 81. so on
8 per cent participating preferred
stock. The dividend is to be applied
to arrears, which amount, after this
payment, to $3.50 a share.
Evening star., 1937-05-29
MONTREAL. SILVER

MONTREAL. May 20 0R.-silver fu-
lures closed steady ana unchanged. No
sales. July. 44.70b; September. <4.o0b:
December, 44.60b. Bid.
Evening star., 1937-05-29
NEW ORLEANS COTTON.
NEW ORLEANS, May % R.-Cotton
futures closed steady. unchanged to points


prime summer yellow. ee5b- Id. O5a. Prime
9.3eb: October. e.3eb: December. p.2sb:
January. 9.29b. Bid. asked.
Evening star., 1937-05-29
Resettlenlent

Continued from First Page.)
Evening star., 1937-05-29
PrsciDitAtjon,

Monthly precipitation in inches in Il
Capital Current month to date):
Montana labor news., 1937-03-25
COOP ON WHEELS
EVOLVES INTO A
COOPERATIVE STORE
Emporia Cooperative Booms Aft
err Food Dealers Attack.
Cocoon LEAGUE News Service)

Coop League News Service)
EMPORIA, Kansas.-Kansas first
coop on wheels rolled up enough
business in nine months to launch
a full-fledged cooperative store in
Emporia.
Launched a year and d half ago
when members of the Emporia Com
munity Forum organized a coopera-
tive buying club to do something
about the present situation, the En-
poria Cooperative Association
equipped a special truck with a COM
plete line of groceries in May, 1886.
Emblazoned with the motto Help
Keep Emporia Money in Emporia,"
the coop rolled through the streets
of the city serving its 80 members.
Today the truck is used only for de-
livery and the coop has moved into
its own store. The cooperative is
doing more than $1,000 a month
business with membership and vol
ume growing daily.
Four months ago the Kansas Food
Dealers Association made an indi-
rect attack upon the Emporia CO.
operative, of which several teachers
and college professors are members,
condemning their activities in the
cooperative and demanding that they
trade at private profit stores. The
attack increased interest in the CO.
operative and is credited by some
as partially responsible for its rapid
growth.
The Emporia cooperative united
both city and country consumers in
a common project through the par
ticipation of members of the Lyon
County Cooperative Oil Assn. and
the Lyon County Farm Bureau as
well as city consumers in Emporia.
The grocery coop is affiliated with
and part owner of the Consumers
Cooperative Association in North
Kansas City, Mo.
Montana labor news., 1937-03-25
NATIONWIDE CONTRACT
AND $50, 900, 900 WAGE IN
CREASE WON BY A.C.W.A.

NEW YORK. = (FP) = Declaring
that demands had been presented
ION the theory that the workers in
the industry are entitled to a larger
share of the fruits of their industry"
Pres. Sidney Hillman of the Amalga-
mated Clothing Workers of America
announced that $30,000,000 will be
added to the payrolls of the industry
as a result of negotiations between
the union and a committee of manu-
facturers.
Hillman asserted such an agree
ment would have been impossible
if the workers in the trade had been
divided into many craft unions. 1t
was, he said, a victory for the type
of organization for which the Com
mittee for Industrial Organization
stands. Hillman is n of the lead
ers of the c. 1. O., to which the
A. C. w. A. is affiliated.
Hillman estimated that real wages
under the new contract would be in
creased by 7 per cent Or 8 per cent.
He emphasized that the increase was
not the restoration of depression
cuts, nor were demands based upon
a rise in the cost of living. The UNI
ion demanded a share of the profits
of industry that would enable the
workers Ito live on a higher stand
ard of life"
Montana labor news., 1937-03-25
MOBILIZATION
FOR WAR

Plans for national mobilization in
war time have been perfected in the
United States and Germany, and the
plan is beginning to take form in
Great Britain. The preparations for
another war are being put in order,
and all that remains is the spark.
If. as in the case of Nazi Germany,
the government is anxious to change
the mar of Europe, there won't be
a lack Of such sparks.
The American League Against War
and Fascism has issued a statement
on the industrial Mobilization Plan
prepared by the War Department in
which the League puts itself on rec
ord as opposed to the plan because
it would bring into operation in the
United States a military-industrial
dictatorship. The League statement
declares that the Industrial Mobiliza-
ton Plan is contrary to the Ameri-
can form of democratic government
because it is an implement for the
Fastening of war; for the establish
ment of a universal draft upon the
man, woman and child-power Of the
nation, involving the principle of
work or fight or starve," which
constitutes a labor draft; for the
operation of a military control that
will reach out into every home and
affect every person in the land; for
the scrapping of all social legislation
governing the labor of men, women
and children; for the creation OF
laws and regulations under which
employees "would suffer unequally as
against owners and management
and for an effective press and radio
control even more systematic than
that imposed during the last war.
The American League calls upor
the Congress of the United States tC
reject any and all bills which would
make operative the whole Oh any
part of the Industrial Mobilization
Plan.
The direction in which Great Bri-
tain is going is indicated in a state
ment by the British Secretary Of
State for War, Mr.. Duff Cooper, M
P, "that CONSUMPTION is bound tc
come if Britain is to keep pace with
her arming neighbors." This would
mean compulsory CONSUMPTION Of
British citizens in peace time, anc
the day-to-day activity of the Brit
ish Civil Service leaves little room
for doubt that the British War Of
flee has Jagged behind other nation;
in formulating a complete plan fol
the RECOMMENDATION of the nation il
and when war breaks out.
Germany has been most direct ii
planning for war. Mobilization in.
structions already have been sem
to every able-bodied man in Ger
many, even to the details regarding
the kind of clothing and equipment
which they must bring with then
without further orders if wal is de.
clared.
Montana labor news., 1937-03-25

The plight Of many labor prisoners
facing deportation might be made
still more uncomfortable by an ex-
tended period of Imprisonment while
their status is being decided upon
by immigration officials and the
courts were it not for the splendid
aid rendered by organizations such
as the Political and Labor Bail
Fund, which cooperates in the Sc
curing of bail for the deportees' re-
lease when no other means are avail
able. For additional information re-
garding the work of this organiza-
ton write to Adelaide Schulkind,
Executive Secretary, 1O4 Fifth Ave
nue., New York City.
Montana labor news., 1937-03-25

We wonder what cabinet members
know.
Sec. of State Hull, who sailed for
South America eight hours late on
a ship manned by strikebreakers,
said he didn't know the vessel was
affected.