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Evening star., 1937-03-07

gained its usual position at the top
of the list in the weeks production OF
automobiles.
In the Far West. ships again be-
came subject to Federal tie-up orders
if crew members failed to have dis
charge books" An Injunction at Los
Angeles was dissolved. The action
spurred interest Of those opposing the
law requiring sailors to carry employ
ment records.
Leaders Of a strike at the Remington
Rand Co. at Syracuse, N. Y, threat
ened TO send pickets to the White
House, the Labor Department and the
Capitol unless Federal mediation ef-
forts were begun.
Coal Parleys Delayed.
Resumption of negotiations in the
soft coal agreement parley was post
poned one day to Wednesday. The
present contract ends March 81.
The Steel Workers Organizing Com
mittee decided not to enter the Re-
public Steel Corps wage adjustment
conference until its negotiations with
the Cargenie- Illionis Steel Corp. were
finished.
The Postal Telegraph Co. announced
it had agreed to collective bargaining
with employe representatives in con-
ferences at Washington, Philadelphia
and Detroit.
About 100 blind workers held stead
fast in their ''sit-down" strike fol
higher pay at Pittsburgh in the
face Of discomfort and illness. Or.
gani0ed relief workers maintained ar
alternating "sit-down" in w. P. A
headquarters at Great Falls. Mont.
in support Of wage and other demands
Pickets took a holiday at th<
Lebanon, Pa. plant Of the Bethlehem
Steel Corp. The plant ordinarily /.
closed on Saturday.
But while 1t was quiet at thu
Lebanon plant, the strikers went te
Steelton, Pa. Is mile away, anc
urged employees Of the Bethlehem
firms plant there to join in the
strike. c. I. o. organizers said they
were lending moral support to thu
Evening star., 1937-03-07
|. y. A. INJUNCTION
HEARING DELAYED
Circuit Court Has Yet to
Pass on Appeal From
Temporary Decree.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PreSS.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, March GA
Federal court hearing on the injunc.
ton dispute between the Tennessee
Valley Authority and private utilities,
mentioned by President Roosevelt in
his speech Thursday night, will be
passed over Monday, when 1t was orig
inally scheduled.
The United States Circuit Court at
Cincinnati has not passed on the
T. v. AS appeal Of District Judge
John j. Cores temporary injunction
decree This will delay the District
Court hearing on the merits OF the
case.
How can we confidently complete
that Tennessee Valley Authority prof.
ect or extend the idea to the Ohio
and other valleys while the lowest
courts have not hesitated to paralyze
its operations by sweeping injunc-
tions?" President Roosevelt said In his
victory dinner" speech Thursday
night.
He later told a press conference he
referred to Judge Gore and the tenn
porary restraining order.
Under the order, the T. v. A. is
prohibited from extending its lines or
building additional substations, with
certain exceptions. In addition. 1t can
not seek new customers except in GER
tain specified areas.
Evening star., 1937-03-07

Lebanon strikers. Two other plants
of the company also were strike
bound.
To Protect Nom Strikers.
Donald w. Douglas. president of the
Douglas Aircraft Corp, announced
creation Of a $1,000 fun t protect
non-strikers at the plant.
Simultaneously. Mayor Edmond
Gillette of Santa Monica issued a
statement attributing the reported
hurting Of rocks through the windows
Of homes and automobiles of some Of
the workers to buns and chiselers. :"
He lauded the strikers for their
peaceful picketing."
Garbage collectors at Amsterdam. N.
Y, struck for l0-cent-an-hour raise.
They receive IS cents an hour now.
Housewives complained when rubbish
accumulated.
Several groups. including the Amer.
ican Civil Liberties Union. prepared
for meetings today at Waukegan, ILL.,,
to protest use Of force in ejecting sit
down strikers from the Fansteel Metal
lurgical Corp. plant February 26.
At Youngstown. Ohio, a bricklayers'
strike, begun a week ago, ended as the
General Contractors and Builders As
sociation signed an agreement boost
ing the wage scale from sl.25 to sl.50
an hour-or Sl2 for an eight-hour day.
Approximately 400 employees of the
National Pants Co. plant at New
Castle. Pa, most of them women, went
on q sit-down strike, demanding wage
increases of Is to Is per cent.
The plant gates we're closed at noon.
L. D. Pilsen. manager. said he would
seek to negotiate with the workers as
soon as company officials returned
from Washington.
Evening star., 1937-03-07
PLANT SHOW TODAY

Tropical plants will be featured at
the Botanic Garden at 2:30 pm. today
when William A. Frederick Of the
Office Of David Lynn, architect Of the
Capitol and acting director of the
Garden, conducts the public in groups
through the establishment.
The Botanic Garden, located across
the street from the southwest corner
of the Capitol grounds, has the main
entrance at Maryland avenue, between
First and Second streets southwest.
The outing is being given under the
auspices of c. Marshall Finnan
superintendent of the National Capital
parks, and Is the eighth in series OF
Indoor nature outings"
Evening star., 1937-03-07
23STATES TO J0|N
PARLEY0NFL0ODS
Conference Called Friday to
Map Plan to Curb
Rivers.
Rv %hs Assoriafed Press

~ the Associated Press.
ST. LOUIS, March 6.-Twenty-
three States in the Nations flood
bowr'-the midcontinental basin
will be represented at a conference
here Friday to formulate a compre-
hensive plan for curbing the rampages
Of the Mississippi, Ohio and Missouri
Rivers and the tributaries.
Advanced reports from delegates
who will represent the various water
sheds indicate that several contro-
versial phases of flood control will
come up for debate. Lachlan Macleay,
executive vice president OF the Missis-
sippi Valley Association, said today.
One proposal is that the Federal
Government assume the full cost Of
lands, easements and rights-of-way
and full responsibility for damages,
maintenance and operation after COM
pletion of flood control works. where
downstream benefits of an interstate
nature occur.
Creation of Authority Opposed.
Other delegates. Macleay said, have
indicated they favor flood control
program which will include provision
for benefits to navigation, river chan
mel sterilization and natural defense.
Many delegates are understood to
be opposed to the creation Of a new
Federal authority to take over flood
control construction from the United
States Army Engineers, Macleay re-
ported. Mai. Gen. Edward M. Mark
ham, chief of the Army Engineers,
will be one of the speakers at the con-
ference.
Other speakers WI include United
States Senator Bennett Champ Clark
Of Missouri, Representatives Will M.
Wilmington Of Mississippi, Orville
Zimmerman of Missouri. Wesley E.
Disney of Oklahoma, and w. j. Driver
of Arkansas, and Mayor William H.
Dress of Evansville, Ind.
Weaver to Preside.
Former Gov. Arthur J. Weaver Of
Nebraska, president of the valley as
sociation. which called the conference,
will preside. He has designated the
associations Committee on Water Re-
sources, headed by Wade o. Martin.
chairman of the Louisiana Flood Con-
troll Commission, as the Resolutions
Committee.
Gov. Lloyd c. Stark of Missouri has
invited Governors of States in the
Hood area to meet here at the time
Of the conference. Governors who
will attend or will send personal repre-
sentatives include A. B. Chandler OF
Kentucky, Henry Horner of Illinois,
Homer A. Holt of West Virginia, M.
Clifford Townsend of Indiana, George
E. Earle of Pennsylvania, Carl E.
Bailey of Arkansas, Martin L. Davey
of Ohio and Gordon Browning OF
Tennessee.
Evening star., 1937-03-07
CATHOLICS INITIATE
PASSIVE RESISTANCE
Mexicans Seek to Enforce De.
mands for Reopening Of Long.
Closed Churches.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ORIzABA, Vera Cruz, March g.
Catholics seeking return of their long
closed churches today sought to re-
inforce their demands through q
campaign Of passive resistance"
Leaflets distributed throughout the
city instructed the faithful to follow
three general lines of procedure:
/. To withdraw their children from
public schools. 49,
2. To attend no theaters or other
public spectacles. -
3. To buy only the most urgent ne
cessities.
The last two measures, it was said.
were designed to decrease tax rev.
enues.
Leaders said new steps would be
taken If the three passive resistance
rules proved unavailing within fort
night. The nature of these potential
steps was not disclosed.
Evening star., 1937-03-07
Customer Offers
Empty Bottles to
Hold.Up's Loot
Leaves Hurriedly When
He Finds Girl Clerk
Menaced by Gun.

An unidentified customer contrib
uted several empty bottles to colored
hold-up mans loot last night when
he entered a grocery store at 1889
Fifth street to find the girl clerk COW
cred by the bandits revolver, police
said.
Told to "give me the money in the
cash register" by an armed colored
man, who had asked for cigarettes,
Miss Jeanette Lemmer. %. who clerks
in her fathers store, told him to get
1t yourself"
While the bandit was looting the
till customer entered and put some
bottles on the counter. Seeing the
hold-up man, he abandoned his
empties in hasty retreat, finging over
his shoulder, You can take these,
too."
The robber escaped with about 81
in bills. ignoring the gift of the bottles.
Guatemala has a nationwide grow
ore-bananas movement.
Evening star., 1937-03-07
By the Associated Press.

AMSTERDAM, N. Y, March g.
Garbage accumulated on doorsteps,
slippery streets went unsanded, house,
wives complained, but go municipal
ash and garbage collectors merely sat
today.
At FIRST they undertook q genuine
sit-down strike on their trucks in
the Department Of Public Works store
house when their request for 10
cents an hour pay increase was not
granted. But four persuasive po-
licemen broke that up. at least tenn
porarily. Detective Thomas c. Hum
Ter said the strikers climbed of the
trucks and left the building willingly
enough, but they still refused to
work.
There the matter rests until Mon
day morning, when Mayor Arthur
Carter said he and members Of the
City Council would meet deputation
at City Hall. The Mayor said the
Evening star., 1937-03-07
SEES VAST TAX RETURN
Helvering Expects Income Levy
to Hit "a. 800, 900 900.

MIAMI BEACH. Fla. March 6 (P).
Guy T. Helvering. commissioner of
internal revenue, said tonight income
tax collections this year might reach
$4,000 900, 900.
Helvering said returns from the
fiscal year ending in June. 1888. when
ne took ONCE. totaled sl.600. 900. 900.
Last year, the collections were. about
$4,000 100000. He attributed much OF
the increase to improving business
conditions.
Here for the past two weeks on
vacation. Helvering returns to Wash.
ington tomorrow.
Evening star., 1937-03-07
Cuba Reports Earth Tremor

SANTIAGO, Cuba, March P).-A
strong earth tremor, perceptible for
four seconds. was felt here at 9:20
o'clock tonight, Eastern standard time.
First reports made no mention Of
damage or casualties.
Evening star., 1937-03-07

February "a, applied to Circuit Judge
Allan Campbell for an injunction
against U. A. w. A. officials and the
strikers, and a show cause" order
returnable next Thursday was OBJ
tanned.
Auto Parleys Continue.
Executives of two ma jor automobile
producers-General Motors and Chrys-
ler-weighed union proposals pending
the resumption Of bargaining confer
ences with U. A. w. A. officials Mon
day.
At General Motors. whose plants
were paralyzed by strikes until a peace
agreement was reached February IL.
the question was national hourly
minimum wage-the only issue re-
naming after more than two weeks
of conferences. Tentative agreements
on all other differences have been
reached, and on Monday Homer Mar
tin, union president, and William S.
vice president, will join the conferees
in drive toward final settlement.
The issue at Chrysler, where con-
ferences started this week, is recog-
milton of the union as sole bargaining
agency for $1,000 workers. U. A..
w. A. leaders are insisting on quick
settlement of this question before any
discussion of other demands.
Chicago was almost completely with
out taxi service. A strike that began
Unexpectedly Friday spread quickly.
A score or more were arrested in out
bursts of violence. Formation of a
| union got under way and demands
for higher pay and other concessions
were formulated
Wages were raised in scattered in
dustries. Five iron mining firms an
nounced increases for about 10000
wage earners in Minnesota, Northern
Wisconsin and Northern Michigan.
which we're expected to add from
$3,00OO00 to 100000 annually to
their income.
Raises Are Ordered.
The United States Metals Refining
Co. at Carteret, N. j., ordered 10-cent-
an-hour raises for hourly workers and
per cent boosts for salaried employees,
affecting a total of about 1900 wage
earners.
AS per cent pay hike was given
workers in the Mohawk Carpet Mills,
Inc, at Amsterdam, N. Y, while Of
ficials Of the Bigelow-Sanford Carpet
Co. there agreed to meet a C.. I. O.
group next week on wage demands.
The Seeger Refrigerator Co. in St
Paul announced a 10 per cent wage
boost for 1000 employees. aggregatins
about $500, 900 annually Tailoring em-
ployes were given rs per cent in
crease at Youngstown, Ohio.
General Motors Corp, recovered
from strike that paralyzed its pro-
duction for more than 40 days, re-
Evening star., 1937-03-07

You will sense the difference 50 plainly evident in
the furniture produced by the Sloane Company OF
desiqned # original, with inspired genius. If q
copy, q faithful following Of each detail. If an
adaptation genius catches the thought in the orig
inoI and expresses it in terms of the present.
Every member Of our stoff of designers and our
corps of artisans is past master in his particular
sphere. To them all tools are but instruments that
in their skilled hands fashion the genuine cabinet
woods-the only woods they ore permitted to work
wth-effectWeN
Always the work of the Old Masters is their in
centNe. Continually the striving is to higher plane
of fochievement-truyo occompIishobIe through mod
ern organization and modern facilities.
These are the features that raise the Sloane
Company Of Mostercroftsmen Furniture far above
the overoge-to standard justly accorded recogni-
ton as the "Fnest Furniture in America" We hold
no patent rights to superiority. But we do set that
goal as our aim and never deviote from it.
Evening star., 1937-03-07
Raid

Continued From First Page.)
Evening star., 1937-03-07

Guatemala has a nationwide grow
more bananas movement.
Evening star., 1937-03-07

WHERE I;TIt furniture re
in terms of mass
pr oduc ii on real
quality cannot en-
ter into the speci-
ficotions. In such
furniture it is q
race with time; the
building down to q
price, rather than
building up to q
STANDARD.
The Washington times., 1937-01-27

biggest banks, sat on Is or 20
corporation directorates and
served on most of the civic COM
mittees which looked after Pitts
burgh's little-known idealistic in
terests.
When Mr.. Buhl died Mr.. Braun
found himself named as one of
the managers of the Buhl Foun-
dation. He chose his former 'edi-
torial aide as director of the
Foundation. It was these two
who, more than anyone else, con-
ceived and carried out the Chat
ham Village project-not as a
charity, but as a demonstration
of what can be done in the de-
velopment of a gard n commun-
ity on business principles, with
excessive profits eliminated. Dl-
rector Lewis devoted three years
study of the best housing in Eu-
rope and the United States and
Of Pittsburgh's housing problem,
before a brick was laid.
AS result Chatham Village,
starting out as a $1,000, 900 demon
stration development, and contain
ing homes for 129 families, saw
100000 spent in 1896 for 68 new
units, bringing the total to 1877.
The new project was thrown open
to public inspection on four sue
cessive Sundays a year ago. An
average of 1000 persons inspected
the new houses each day. The new
houses have all been rented since.
The occupancy record for the en-
tire project from the beginning;
1882, 97.5 per cent; 1888, 99.1 per
The Washington times., 1937-01-27
u s. RUSHES TRANLOAD Of FOOD TO HO(

CAIRO, ILL.,, Jan. 81 Q.N.SO.
An army of 1000 men toiled un-
ceasingly today to save Cairo, a
city of $4,000 persons wedged be-
tween the confluence of the Ohio
and Mississippi River.
AS the men constructed three
foot bulkhead atop the 6O-foot
levee surrounding the city,
engineers continued dynamitlng
great gaps in the Birds Point
New Madrid floodway, south OF
here. spilling vast sea OF yellow
water across the wide flood plain.
Plans for complete evacuation
of the city have been made should
the rise of the rivers, at least
temporarily halted by the opening
of the floodway, begin anew when
the great bowl is filled.
Five Reported Lost
Although complete evacuation of
the flood basin was ordered, five
persons are known to have lost
their lives, a number are missing
and Red Cross officials declared
today that between 100 and 200
are believed trapped in the 131 900.
acre floodway, now great inland
sea.
Below here along the Missouri
side Of the Mississippi River
The Washington times., 1937-01-27
POLICE ANSWER
FL00DCALL

More than 200 Washington po-
licemen volunteered today to go
to Louisville for duty, in response
to a radio plea made last night.
But with 300 soldiers now on
duty there it appeared likely there
would be no need for the local
police.
Mayor Neville Miller, of Louis
vile, made the plea over the radio,
stating that the Louisville police
had been working 100 hours with
out sleep and were exhausted. He
asked police from all parts of the
country be rushed there by plane.
Local authorities had made ar
rangements for a transport plane
to take a detail when it was
learned the Army men will assist
the Louisville police in guarding
the city.
The Washington times., 1937-01-27
Tax EXEMPT

"Tax exemption had been,
since 1920, New YOrk's answer
to the problem of subsidy and
cOrrespOndingly of rent reStric.
ton. This exemption was to
the amount of $4,000 on a single
family house, $4,000 on a g.
family house, and $1,000 per
room with a maximum of $4,000
per family unit on an apart
ment house. Tax exemption as
applied with no requirements
as to standard, rent levels, or
selling price, became thus in
general a subsidy to building
industry rather than to health
and welfare. A gradual soar
ing of rents followed until the
New York State Housing Law
of 1926, strongly backed by Gov
ernOr Smith, was passed.
"This law constituted the first
definite piece of local housing
legislation in America and
formed the basis for many sub
Sequent State laws elsewhere.
1t created a State board of houS-
ing empowered among other
things to grant tax exemption
for 20 years on the value of the
building to approved limited
dividend housing companies and
permitting cities to exempt such
companies from local taxes.
THE city of New York passed
an Ordinance of 1927 granting
20 years tax exemption on build
ings constructed by limited
dividend companies approved
by the State Housing Board.
Thus the 1920, 1O-year tax-ex-
emptiOn policy, while creating
increased building activity did
not produce decent quarters at
reasonable rentals until 1926.
In general postwar housing in
New York has been as heavily
subsidized by the taxpayers as
postwar housing in London or
Liverpool, the difference being
that the builder and not the con-
sumner reaped the greatest bene-
fit.
"In its best light, New York
housing under the 1927 law has
The Washington times., 1937-01-27
HOUSING!

\ RE you following The Washington Times housing
n series? If not you missing something 1t presents
for the first time in any publication, comprehensive pic
housing developments in the United States and E
rope and tells you what is coming America follows in
the footsteps of England Germany and other European
countries in providing great owrenal housing projects
and building satellite and garden cities for its workers.
So many inquiries being received and much interest
has been shown the SERIES that these facts here
Sened for the information of The Times readers:
l. The housing series started on January II.
9 InStallments have appeared each weekday since.
g. Others will appear daily all this week and next.
f. The series is authoritative being based On personal in
with housing authorities and administrators and
survey of the activities only of Federal but of State,
local and private agencies.
s. Nowhere else you get the complete story of
Americas adventure in this field and of Europes
perence with housing from it's earliest experiments down
to the building of than six million dwellings since
the World War; chiefly with governmental assistance.
The Washington times., 1937-01-27

Fred A. Lavanburg Foundation.
Known as Lavanburg Homes, the
occupancy record is almost per-
feet. Vacated apartments are
snapped up as soon as they be-
come available. This project is
said to be the only product of a
housing foundation in the United
States.
One Of the best known and,
among housing authorities, most
highly regarded of all pre-NeW
Deal garden community develop
ments- one which, like
other quasi-philanthropic projects
have proved economically sound
is to be found in Pittsburgh.
Christened Chatham Village, it is
built on a hillside site on Mount
Washington, hardly a mile by
air line from PittSburgh's Golden
Triangle, which it overlooks. It's
record is unique in several re-
spects. Its story is this:
Henry Buhl, jr., was a Pitts
burgh merchant-an outstanding,
old-school conservative, ariSto-
cratic in appearance, Victorian in
attitude, reserved in manner and
of cultured bearing. BY pursu-
ing cautious, sound business poll
cies he accumulated a siZeable
fortune. When he died in 1927
he left the bulk of it, $4,000, 900,
to the community. The result is
the Buhl Foundation. And it was
the Buhl Foundation which built
Chatham Village.
The Washington times., 1937-01-27
Insurance Enters

Under the guidance of Andrew
J. Thomas. another New York
architect, the Metropolitan Life
Insurance Company in the two
years from 1922 to 1924 con-
structed 2,125 family apartments
in the New York area.
Five years later, following the
amendment of the New Jersey
laws to permit it, the Prudential
Life Insurance Company went in
for Slum rehabilitation on an in
veStment basis, building two prof.
ectS in NeWark-one for whites
and one for Negroes,
Members of New York's houS-
ing board personally subscribed
to projects of this character, or
organized companies to under
take them.
John D. Rockefeller became IN
creaSingly interested in housing
following the enactment of the
New York State law in 1925 and
the New York City housing ordi-
nance in 1927. His architectural
advice also came from Mr..
Thomas, who had set the style
in ground plan and floor layout
for the State Board of Housing
and Chicago garden developments
such as the Marshall Field Garden
Apartment Homes for whites, and
the Michigan Boulevard Garden
Apartments for Negroes. The first
Rockefeller project was built in
Bayonne, N. j., where four-story
apartment buildings we're provided
with SO per cent ground cover
age. This was designed primarily
for Standard Oil workers with
moderate incomes. The Rockefeller
Institute next built a project for
its own workers, followed by the
Thomas Garden Apartments, de-
signed for members of the Inter
national Ladies Garment Work
erS Union.
Finally Mr.. Rockefeller built
the Paul Lawrence Dunbal
Apartments for Negro families in
Harlem, clearing out a congested
and dilapidated district to do so.
Although these projects are
eligible for tax exemption. Mr..
Rockefeller has refrained from
seeking this subsidy. The result
ing rentals, while lower than in
some other projects, are conse-
quently too high to meet the
needs of the lowest income groups.