Show WOMAN VOICES a r RELIEF NEEDS N EDS WASHINGTON April 5 UP UPI UPI- 4 A congressional group considering t relief estimates heard testimony Friday that many young girls displaced displaced dis dis- dis placed from employment by marrIed married married mar mar- ried women women and ignored by government government government gov gov- relief agencies become the property body and soul of the vice lords Miss Florence Birmingham of Boston president of the Massachusetts MassaI Massachusetts Massa Massa- I Women's Political club gave that testimony to the house I deficiency appropriations subcommIttee subcommittee in pleading that relief funds for the year starting July 1 be boosted from the I tentatively recommended by President President President dent Roosevelt to Subsidized d nI i The influx of subsidized wives Into the labor market Miss Birmingham Birmingham Bir Bir- mingham said has added to the I general confusion and pushed their jobless needy sisters out of the 1 picture entirely Asserting that it was estimated married women are worKing working working work worK- ing in this country the witness t added The worst offender in my judgment Is the federal gov gov- t Although she testified behind closed doors Miss Birmingham made public the text of her state state- ment y 4 Formerly a woman on the roada road a a fem female le hobo was hobo was front page news she said but now we have in this country at least i J hom homeless less women Suicide Statistics 1 Citing Citing suicide statistics at one f point paint the statement added fi i The young jobless girls too tao t eager for life to take suicide as the way out become the property body and soul of the vice lords Miss Birmingham contended that the relief act discriminated against single women and declared that congress must help helD these sin single le women women by giving a larger larger appio- appio appropriation a to ta continue the he work of r the W P A to broaden it so as to allow them their rightful place on it it |