Tha ONLY REALLY INDEPENDENT WEEKLY in Mecklenburg County. For * Weekly, Its Readers Represent the LARGEST BUYING POWER tw Charlufa Official Organ Central U* tbe A. F. of L. far i the five-day week in Federal of fices. Mills Withdraw Exemption For Learners In The Wage-Hour Act WASHINGTON, Dec. 18—The Wage and Hour Division announced yesterday that three textile organiza tions had withdrawn applications for exemption of learners from the Labor Standards Act because a current study of wages by a committee had made the applications “untimely.” The withdrawals were made with out prejudice to reopening the matter at a later date. Administrator Elmer F. Andrews said the three were the Cotton Textile Institute, the National Rayon Weav ers Association and the National Federation of Textiles, Inc. He said this was the first “indus try-wide request for learner’s exemp tion” received by the division. He added that the withdrawal of applica tions represented the “major branches” of the industry. The chen ille and candlewick bedspread organ izations, silk throwsters the narrow fabric manufacturers have not with drawn their applications, Andrews said. THIRTY MILLION “SHEAR” IN SIGHT FROM WPA—HOUSING PROJECTS IN SPRING AND EARLY SUMMER WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.—Senator Barkley, Democrat, Ken* tucky, said yesterday that the Administration expected to reduce relief spending about $30,000,000 monthly in the Spring and early Summer. He said Congress would be asked to appropriate not more than $600,000,000 for the WPA for March 1 to July 1—the closing four months of this fiscal year. The Senate majority leader said he believed a reduction in the current rate of relief expenditures would be possible because of improving business conditions and because PWA and housing spending will be at its peak in March and April. The last Congress appropriated $1,425,000,000 for the WPA for the eight months ending next March. If this rate of expendi ture were continued, an appropriation of about $712,000,000 would be required to carry the program to July. START 1939 CHRISTMAS SAVINGS NOW AT CITIZENS SAVINGS AND LOAN CO. 114 E. 4TH ST. PITTSBURGH PLATE GLASS CO. 201 E. 6TH ST. CHARLOTTE, N. C. yandk. - (tfaaihahA. " FUNERAL HOME Amhihnee Stnio •M Wk Tryo. CHARLOTTE. N. C Pkon. 4227 LOW-COST HOUSING GROUP NAMED BY MAYOR DOUGLAS—SELECTION IS SATISFACTORY CHARLOTTE CITIZENS [Dick Young, Charlotte News Staff Writer, in Sunday’s issue.] The most comprehensive social pro gram ever attempted by Charlotte’s City Government was started yes terday when Mayor Douglas formally appointed the five members of a local housing authority to sponsor a proj ect to raise the living standards of many families and to erase from the city’s map so-called “blighted areas.” The members of the authority as announced late yesterday by the mayor are as follows: Edwin L. Jones, general con tractor, named for the five-year term and appointed chairman. Frank Dowd, cast iron pipe manufacturer, vice chairman, named for three years. Earle Gluck, radio executive, temporary secretary, four-year term. L. R. McEliece. electrician and representative of labor, two-year term. James A. Stokes, banker, one year term. > The appointees gathered in Mayor Douglas’ office at the City Hall at 5 P. M. yesterday when they were for mally §worn in by the mayor, after which they signed the certificates of appointment. Then a brief and in formal session was held when Mayor Douglas and Basil M. Boyd, City At torney, discussed some of the prelim inaries incident to completion of or ganization. It was announced afterwards that the first step will be the incorporation of the body under the state laws of incorporation and the new chairman said that the papers will be completed and signed, probably tomorrow. They will be immediately dispatched to the Secretary of State at Raleigh. The authority will not formally be gin to function until the incorporation has been completed and the papers have been returned by the Secretary of State. However, one of the very first steps will be the initiation of a real property survey to determine just what is required. It is expected that the authority as one of its first acts will petition the City Council to request the WPA real real property survey, which was dis cussed some weeks ago and which was held in abeyance until decision was reached regarding the approval of the appointment of a housing authority. This survey, which will be perform ed under a WPA project through the co-operation of the North Carolina Planning Commission, can be done without much expense to the local government. It will include the col lection of detailed data on the land use of every block in the City and will provide much valuable information, it was explained, aside from the housing problem. When the authority begins to func tion, it will be necessary to employ an executive secretary, who will be in charge of its actual work. Under the law, the authority is em powered to study the housing needs and to proceed with plans for con struction of new units to replace dwellings that are condemned as un fit for habitation. Wider authority in promotion of social standards and liv ing conditions is also provided in the law, but it is expected that the first consideration will be given to a pro gram of low-renting housing. And this carries with it the authority un der the law to condemn property. In new construction, the authority must provide a family unit for each unit condemned and removed. $150,000 Project Low-Cost Homes In the Offing Plans for a low-cost housing: proj ect—the first of its kind in Charlotte —contining 60 single-family dwellings worth an estimated total of $160,000, were revealed last week by Henry Da vidson, of the Converse Land Co. The tract of land upon which the unique subdivision will be built is sit uated in Wilmore, adjoining the Mu nicipal Golf Course. It fronts on Barringer Drive and contains Bethel Road, Cartier Way, Skyland Avenue and Osmond street. The sale-price range of the houses to be built in the large development is from $2,900 to $3,500, Mr. David son said. OPEN SEASON FOR “LABOR” AD TAKERS We have approached the open season for the shakedown of business concerns big and small. There will be fake funds for the unemployed or injured workers and other so-called charitable causes, where the money collected will never reach those it was collected for. Organized labor does not authorize any person to seek donations for the purpose above mentioned. The members of these unions themselves frequently donate to those disabled or who are unemployed. However, no local union seeks funds for this purpose. In greater Charlotte and Mecklenburg county organized labor is served by the Charlotte Labor Journal, officially en dorsed by Charlotte Central Labor Union and the State Fed eration of Labor. Any other calls for advertising in a labor publication are fakes and should be reported to the proper authorities. L & P. Tea Co. Lance Pkg. Co. Charlotte News Will Give Party Approximate]v 1,800 tickets will be distributed in the course of the next several days to deserving children of Charlotte who will be guests at a special Christmas show and entertain ment at 9:30 A. M., Dec. 24, at the Carolina Theater. The entertainment is an annual event which is given under the co operating sponsorship of The Char lotte News, the Lance Packing Co., the A & P Food Stores and the Carolina Theater. Children of the Thompson Orphan age and of the Alexander Home will be special guests, as they have been each of the number of Christmas sea sons this event has been given.— News. ORDERS FOR LUMBER SHOWS 42 PCT. INCREASE WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.—The Na tional Lumber Manufacturers’ asso ciation said last night new orders in the wek ended December 1 last were 42 per cent above those booked in the corresponding week last year. Pro duction was 29 per cent above and shipments 24 per cent above the 1937 figures. PATRONIZE THOSE WHO ADVERTISE IN THE JOURNAL BUY THE Carolina Broom At Grocery Stores It Is Union Made Distributed in N. C. and S. C. by the C. D. Kenny Co. SOUTHERN DAIRIES, Inc. ICE N CREAM 600 West Fifth Street CHARLOTTE, N. G. Telephone 3-1164