WOMAN'S RECORD SALARY

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 27 July 1929, Page 9

WOMAN'S RECORD SALARY

Mrs „\k- pel Walker Willebrandt, the hr- y.’oiiV-u Assistant- Attorney-General i,f a United Stales, has been appoint- ; ..ounst for the Aviation' Corporation of the United States at Washington, ... ofi a, salary of £10.009 a. year. She ■vU! there ore resign her post as Assistr. Attorney-General in charge of protion e i force!’. I .ent-. .he Av atioi: .orporai ion was started :.i March with an authorised capital of £40,000,0(0 and Mrs Wiitebrandi’i; salary is suited to ho a rxorg• for woman

Mrs W-ikbrandt v;j; pom in Kansas end her i ither and mother wsro school teachers hading a wandering existence from rowi. to town in (he Middle West m the ear y nineties. During her term in office the eyes of Broadway—if not the entire country—were turned toward Washington when in September of last year Federal prohibition agents swept down on the _ night clubs of New York and secured indictments against .a- number of society hostesses. and night club patrons, many of whom were called before a grand jury to bo questioned. The raids and investigations were made at ha* instigation. Working in extraordinarily difficult circumstances she achieved in jhis office remarkable success, her record nevsr having been bettered by any of her male predecessors. President Hoover has attributed her achievements to "legal ability and moral courage.” Hpr new task will be to make a comprehensive survey of national and §tatie laws as affecting tho aviation industry. Mrs Willebrandt shares in the universal opinion prevailing in New York that America, is on the threshold of a tepid expansion of air traffic and adds .that, i m order to promote every phaso of aeronautical advance, while safeguarding individual enterprises and investors, it is necessary to secure uniformity and stability in the law and its procedure.