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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-12-13
COP WAS WITH SCRIVENER 10 MINUTES BEFORE MURDER
VIRGINIA PORTS
SEE BIC YEAR
AHEAD

dAMEION hOAO0i td's AsSSt
i3.-With less than month left
before the close of the current
year, indications point to a pros
porous year in so far as the de-
velopment of Hampton Roads is
concerned, according to q survey
made by the Virginia State Cham
Der Of Commerce.
Projects for 1880 on the Nor
folk side of Virginia's vast port
area call for the expenditure Of
approximately $6,0OO,000, while st
Newport News, where shipbuilding
and shipping also is the princi.
pal business, program of ship
construction Of huge pretentions
win be carried out. Considerable
activity also will be seen in the
Norfolk Navy Yard and in the
several other shipyards in )Haml).
ton Roads. Work has been begun
on the 100000 plant of the
Dodge Boat and Plane Corpora
ton at Newport News.
S5O,O0O.0OO Program
The shipbuilding program at
Newport News, the site Of the
largest Shipbuilding plant in
America, calls for an expenditure
of almost $4,000, 900, contracts
for that amount being in hand
at the present time, with the
Newport News Shipbuilding and
Dry Dock Company bidding for
the construction of the two 70S.
foot liners to be built by the
United States Lines. Their cost
will be about $4,000, 900 each, it
is estimated. Should the New.
port News concern prove the sue
cessful bidder it would mean a
characterization shipbuilding pro
gram.
A passenger and freight servicee
out Of HAMPTON Roads to Ham
burg and the German ports is
anticipated soon. The Roosevelt
Lines, with a Government mail
contract, will operate the ships.
The Hampton Roads Shipbuild-
ing Corporation, just chartered by
the State corporation commission,
has taken over the old shipbui1d-
ing plant Of Spear Engineers, Inc,
in Portsmouth, and has opened
for business there. The charter
names Edward e. Gam of Wash
ington, brotherin-law Of Vice
President Charles Curtis, as presi-
dent: H, B. Spear of Norfolk as
vice president, and Joseph Muir
daugh of 2 Norfolk as treasurer.
A maximum capital stock is au-
thorized at $500 shares of COM
mon without par value and
$250,000 preferred, bearing Z per
cent.
Airport In Prospect
A survey of sites for Norfolk's
proposed municipal airport has
been made by an expert and the
project is expected to be con-
structed next spring. The site,
it is expected, will cost about
100000, while improvements and
construction are expected to
bring the total cost of the air
port up to half a million dollars.
Two bridges will be constructed
by the city of Norfolk, the work
to get under way the first of the
year. The total cost of the two
spans will be approximately $780,
600. The bridges will be of con.
crete, replacing the present
wooden spans.
Plans for expansion of the
newly formed company of H. B.
Rogers, Inc. successors to the
Southgate Forwarding and Stor.
age Company, which represents
many large steamship companies
and has large storage warehouses,
in addition to operating the
Southgate terminals of Norfolk
and Portsmouth, are being made,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-12-13
Justice SiddOns Sets
Christmas Vacation

Justice frederick 1. Siddons,
presiding justice Of the District
Supreme Court has published tho
order setting the Christmas vaca-
ton for the six divisions Of the
court. The order was passed at
a recent general term.
All divisions Of the court viii
be in vacation from the close of
business December 20 to and in.
GLIDING January /, 1890. The
order affects only the court divi.
sions and does not apply to the
offices and departments at the
courthouse. where the vacation
schedules are prescribed by law.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-12-13
/. h. SMITH CO.
RECE|VERSH|P
Asked
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ASEstetseASe AFOtH age = y
Robertson Construction Company
while acting as attorney for the
Smith company for the alleged
purpose of inducing his clients
to award building contracts to
the construction company.
0wne $4,000 Bonds
Cauldwell informs the court
that he is the owner Of $4,000
Of Smith company bonds. most Of
which were purchased direct from
the company and likewise two Ger
tificates Of preferred stock, valued
at $1,000.
Grace Caldwell says she is the
owner Of $45 1000 worth Of bonds
and 500 worth of stock,
Mary HI. Farmer declares she
has stock certificates Of the
Smith company OF q face value Of
$4,000 and Eva p. Middleton says
she is the owner of q $500 bond
Of the Chatham Apartments.
Nineteen pages are included in
the bill of the plaintiffs, setting
out in greater detail than In the
recent Grand Jury report the
transactions through which it is
alleged the Smith company and
other defendants pyramided mort
cages and other incuInbencies on
their property far in excess of its
real value and issued investment
bonds for sale to the general pub
lie secured by the alleged pyra-
n1ided mortgages.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-12-13
$50, 100000 Oil Merger
Announced in Cleveland

CLEVELAND, Dec. ia IN.S).
a $60,00O,0 900 merger Of the Ohio
OH Company and the Illinois
Pipe Line Company was an
nouneed here today.
Holders Of stock in the Ohio
Oil Company are to meet Deem
Der 90 to vote on a proposal to
issue 100000 shares of 6 per cent
cumulative preferred stock, with
which to acquire shares in the
Pipe Line Company. Z
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-12-13
Columbia Society Wins
Jury System Debate

The Columbia Debating Society
was awarded the decision in a
debate on abolition Of the Dis
trict's jury system, at Columbus
University, 1900 block MaSSachu-
sets Ave. Northwest, last night.
The winning team was COM
prised Of Mary j. Kane, and Al
fred A. MeGarraghy. This was
the first of a series Of inter-class
debates TO be held at the univer-
sitY.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-12-13
Three TRUSTEES Escape
From Prison in Detroit

DETROIT, Decg IS (I.N.S9.-
Police today were seeking three
State prisoners, all trustees, who
escaped from the Detroit House
Of Correction last night.
The escaped men, Kenneth
Meschack, %; Joseph Marion, 90,
and William Hall. 81, gained their
liberty through a window in a
rest room adjoining the mess hall.
A hack saw, pinch bar, and a
pair of tin ships. taken from the
prison workshops, We're found
near the window.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-12-13
MOnarchs
Make HOnts Leader

ASHTON HEIGHTS. Va. Dec.
ia, B. Honts was elected pres
ident of the Arlington County
Monarch Club at its annual
meeting last night at the Ashton
Heights WomanS Clubhouse.
other officers elected were c. w.
Fitch, first vice president; Dex-
ter s. Hussey, second vice preSi-
dent: Joseph C. Anderson, treas
urer; p. P. Woodbridge, secretary.
and William p. Ames, sergeantat-
arms
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-12-13
HOLSTERS SPREAD CHEER

Representative Harry G, Can
field, president of the Indiana
Society of Washington. has
chosen % HOLSTERS rsiding in
Washington as a hospitality
committee" \ to dispense cheer
among former Indianians and to
arouse interest in the State so
ciety. Major Robert e. O'Brien,
Of the War COLLEGE. is chairman
Of the committee.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-12-13
Filipino Club Stages
It's OratoricaI Contest

The Filipino Club. of Washing
ton, will hold its ninth oratorical
contest at the assembly hall at
the Y. M. C. A. next Sunday
night, Music, dancing, and six
orations will feature the evening
program.
Prizes will be awarded for the
best grafton. G. Elho Tobias will
preside.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-12-13
CHEERS FOLLOW
SMITH IN D. {.
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Contlnued From Page
ing and hand-clapping. He walked
through the station and climbed
into q taxi-cab.
"Als" lack Of familiarity with
Washington caused him to be
slightly tardy for his conference
with Secretary Ararns. He told
the taxi driver he wanted to 60
to the State, War and Navy
building, and the ohedient taxi
driver promptly deposited him
there just across the street from
the White House.
Then it developed that where
the ex-governor really wanted to
go was to the Navy Department.
the Navy having moved out OF
the State, War and Navy Build
ing some months ago. BY this
time, the taxicab had departed.
TraiIed Through Street
ooh, let's walk" said AL" after
getting directions. So trailed by
q small crowd, he hit q swift pace
down Seventeenth Street, past
Memorial Hall and the Pan-Amer'
lean Building to the new. home
Of the Navy.
So late was the. ex-governor for
his conference with Secretary
Adams that their talk necessarily
had to be brief. for Adams had to
hurry away for the usual 1890
meeting of the Cabinet at the
White House.
Sitting in the conference were
Smith, Adams, assistant Secre-
taries Jahncke and ingalls,, and
Rear Admiral William A. Moffett,
chief of naval aviation.
Secretary Adams designated Ad-
miral Moffett to confer with the
engineers and architects Of
Smiths building to determine the
feasibility of the nlooring mast
project and instructed the Nays
experts to give the builders the
benefit of their engineering knowl-
edge.
Poses for Taikies
There was a round Of camera
posing after the conference. Sec
rotary Adams, who used to be o
Democrat himself up Massachu-
sets way, was pictured with the
former Presidential candidate, and
later there were pictures with the
other naval officials.
For the talkies, Secretary Ad-
ans said, as he shook hands
with al" IT am honored by
your coming here"
After leaving the Navy Depart
ment the ex-governor went by
taxi to the Capitol to see Senator
Robert F. Wagner. his close per-
sonal friend and longtime aSso-
ciate. Wagner used to be Senate
leader at Albany when al" was
Democratic leader of the assem-
bly,.
There was a good deal of spec
ulation as to whether the former
governor would 60 to the White
House to pay his respects Ia
President Hoover.
The White House, not being
officially appraised that Smith
was in the city, Of course issued
no invitation, but it was stated
informally on behalf Of the PreSi-
dent that he would be glad to
see the ex-governor should he
call, Governor Smith paid such
call on his successful rival in
Florida last winter while The two
were at Miami Beach.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-12-13
ITALIAN TALKIES CENSORED

ROME, Dec. Is QNS0 -
American film interests in Italy
received q staggering blow today
with the announcement from the
censor that he has received orders
not to pass any talking pictures
IN which there is singing or dia-
logue in other than the Italian
language.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1929-11-29
maritime NEWS
Mrs. jane. E. Underwood. Reporter

Surprise Mr.. and. Mrs. Barber
Thursday being Mr.. and Mrs
Jas Rarbers' forty FIRST wedding
anniversary, Friday evening Mes
srs and Mesdames 8 D Lackey
and J.sE. Underwood and families
sprung. a complete surprise Oh
them. After a"mock" wedding 1--WE
dare not tell who the bride and
groom or the justice oi the prac+
were". but we can't refrain from
telling that Mr.. and Mrs. Barber
did not recognize the groom. Ths
evening waa spent playing pro.
gres-ive pinochIe with high bon.
ors being won BY Mrs. Barber and
consolation by Mrs. Lackey. Il;
About midnisht d.tic'qus lunch
was served BY the guests. Mr.. enq
Barber were presented with love-
ly percolator and wedding cake.
In the wee smell hours Of the
morning the guests departed for
their homes Wishing ,nis splendid
couple many more happy annivsr'
sariee.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1929-11-29
Missionary Guild

The Prssby terrain Missionary
Guild met at the home OF Mre. A.
A Beyersdori Wednesday after
noon" India" was the subject nm.
der discussion. A very interesting
article was read on my Discom-
tort Box. The neat meeting will
be held Wednesday. December l3,
at the home OF Mrs. Underwood.
Mr.. Jno. Jones is visiting in
Spokane.
The school received q car Of coal
Saturday.
Don Thurston spent Sunday at
the Frank Woscba home.
Mrs. Raymond Jensen ia enjoy.
ing a visit with her brother.
VIM. Jones has gone to Spokane
where be has a position in hard.
ware store.
Mr.. and MRS. Verde Helton and
daughter, Norma, moved to town
last week., IT'S
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1929-11-29

Mr.. e. Olen Osborn and vile
motored to Spokane Wednesday.
returning Sunday.
Mr.. Norman Pease, wife and
family, we're Spokane visitors Sat.
urday and Sunday.
Haatline was we'll represented
at the Coinage w. 8. G. football
game in Spokane Saturday.
Mr.. Frank Wosoba and wife It.
tended the funeral eervices for Mr.
s,svena at Coulee Wednesday.
Little Bobby Osborn is spend.
ing the week with HE grand par.
snts, Mr.. and Mrs. J. NJ, Osborn.
Friends Of Champ Cox, . former
resident Of Hartline, will be sorry
to learn he is i'll with heart trouble.
Frank Reinhart expects to leavs
Wednesday for Seattle, where he
will remain the rest Of the winter.
The Blind Syringe and Highland
Oranges each held dancea Friday
night. TIE Blind sprioss drans-
also hAd q bazaar the same eve.
ing.
Mr.. Roy Carey and vile had ae
their dinner guests Sunday, Mr..
and Mrs. Earl Kirkland. Mr.. W.
La. Roberts and two sons, and job
Edwards.
Rev. Rollene Of Coulee held ser-
vices at the Presbyterian church
sunday morning and conducted
prayer service at the home Of A..
=. Beyersdorf Thursday night.
Uncle Toms Cabin motion pic.
lure show was largely attended at
he High echGol auditorium Friday
and Saturday nights. The 81. g..
orchestrs furnished the mueic.
We understsnd that II. II. Hig..
gina purchased bsidvare supplies
Of q Wilson Greek 6rm last Week
the same to be moved here into
.be building formerly occupied by
Jaaper Carolus.
Mr. George Stappish and wife,
and Mrs. Winirsy Of Chswelah vis-
led here the latter part Of the
week Mrs. Gage and Miss More
UT who have been visiting there
returned with them.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elam Rice had az
dinner guests Friday, MIR. stappish
and wife, and Mrs. Winfrey OF
Chewelah, Mrs. Chas. Gaze, Miss
Nora UT, Mrs. Jas. Harris aud
daughter Ethel, and Mr. Norman
Pease and wife. Il. vs
School Paper A
Thursdays Spokesman Review.
carried the following write.up
about Hartline's school paper: :
The newest arrival in the field
Of school journalism in eastern
Washington, is number one q
Volume One Of q publication yet
to be named, published by the
Hartline high school. The FIRST
issue OF fifteen multieraphed pages
is crsditably written, edited and
printed by an exclusive staff OF
students, aided by two faculty
directors. 1t carries advertise.
ments of maritime business houses
and il decorated by the students
in attractive fashion. School news
is covered by regular reporters. sp.
pointed for each class and. tho
grade school news is haudled by
a special staff of grade school re-
ipor,ers The new Publication has
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1929-11-29

/. sport department., 40 editorial
mage, q boy scoutf page, an occa
a,onal local news item, jokes and
other ieaturas, and presents in
general way what, i going on in
thssommunity. The asws depart.
tnents are breezy and rsports.
school activities ii The class room
and. in the auditorium The
Har.line High School Publication
sets q high standard for other
schoola to follow.
Boy Scouts #
scoutmastsr. Raymond Jensen.
Asst. scoutmsster. Mr., Birrell.
Scout advisors, Sponsor commit.
tee. H. F. Nye, r.. 8. Jones, A. A.
Bsysradorl.
Stanley Jones went to Creston
Thursday, and Friday took his lit.
tie con Bobby TO okane 40 have
his tonsils rsnovS9.
School will close Wednesday
night and reopen Monday for
Thanksgiving vacation. Some Of
the teachers will take advantage Of
this vacation and visit at their
homes.
The Methodist Ladies Aid held
an all day meeting in the church
basement Thursday. The ladies'
are busy getting ready tor their
annual bazaar which will he hsld
in the near future.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1929-11-29
THE COULEE CITY DISPATCH
GLENN .. ARNOLD Publisher
Published Every Friday at
Coulee City. Washington

Entered at the postoffice at Coulee
City, Washington, as sscond-class mat
ter. under the Act of March 3rd. 1879.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1929-11-29

$3.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-09
HEAT IN ENGINE
ROOMS OF BOATS
MAKES men FAINT
Slave Overtime Or You
Are Fired
(By a Worker Correspondent

by a Worker Correspondent
CHESTER, Pa. (By MaiD.-I am
a worker in the Sun Shipyard. The
conditions here are going from bad
to worse. We work anywhere from
eight to "a hours at stretch and
we are forced to work these long
hours or else get fired. They get
a ship in and the shipyard workers
are sent to slave on it.
The bosses, when they want you
to work overtime, don't ask you if
you feel like working overtime, but
you are told you must work over
time whether you want to or not.
These are the rules in the Sun Ship
yard.
The wages are rotten. Machinists
helpers are paid 46 cents an hour.
Handymen get 50 cents an hour.
Second class machinists get 60 cents
per hour and first class machinists
GO cents an hour.
When you come into the yard you
are hired as helper, and you have
to slave several years as helper
before you even have a chance to
get raise. They want you to go
with the tools and work with the
tools for at least three or four
months before they even think of
giving you 81 cents an hour. You
have to work with the tools at 46
cents an hour and meanwhile you
are doing first class machinists
work.
They think no more of a man
than they do of a horse or a dog
here. There are very few horses
that 1 see working after quitting
time. They at least are taken to
the barn and are fed, and rest for
the next day. The men in the yard
work all day till II or IL o'clock at
night, sometimes all week it's that
way.
And let me tell you, some of the
ships that come in are regular hell
holes. The two or three boilers that
there are in the ship are going full
blast and it's so hot in the engine
room that you hardly can stand it.
A few days ago ship came in on
which it was so hot in the engine
room that five men had to be carried
out of the engine room because the
heat got the best of them. In order
to make $35-S40 week you have to
live in the shipyard where you slave
day and night to make that miser-
able wage.
-SHIPYARD WORKER,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-09
Soviet Government
Sends an Expedition
to Wrangel Island

LENINGRAD (By MaiD THE
polar explorer Krassinsky has left
for Wrangel Island at the head of
an aerial expedition.
The object of the expedition is to
bring food and medicines to the
colony of Soviet citizens at present
residing on the island. An attempt
made last year to fly to the Wrangel
Island with similar mission failed
owing to the unusually difficult
weather conditions then prevailing
in the Arctic Ocean.
In addition to relieving the
colony on the island tire expedition
will also carry out various scientific
Investigations and ascertain the
possibilities of transporting fur
from the Arctic by air.
From Vladivostok to the Cape of
Dejnev the expedition will 60 by
sea. The Cape of Pejnev will serve
as the main base of the expedition
which will start from the Cape in a
hydroplane, piloted by the airman
Kalvitz, for the Wrangel Island,
whence the plane will proceed to
Yakutak with a load of valuable
furs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-09
COMP ANY union
ON new HAVEN
RAIL WAY SHOPS
Officials Get Graft;
Live on Workers
(Bq a Worker Coryespondent)

by Worker Correspondent
BOSTON, Mass. (By MaiD THE
shopcraft workers on the New York
New Haven and Hartford Railroad
are forced to join a company union
The Federated Shopcrafts of the A
+. Of L. are pretending to make 6
big drive to get them away from
the company union, but it seems
only pretense.
The New Haven R. R. company
union was started by a notorious
detective and stoolpigeon agency
and the operators of the agency
placed in such positions that they
could run the union" as they
wanted and maneuver it as they
pleased.
The road paid the agency $3.50, 900
year to run the company agency
union and thus keep the shopmer
in position where every demand
for better wages and conditions was
sabotaged. The militant shopmer
who grumbled were fired.
The New Haven a while ago de,
cided to form its own secret ser.
vice and put it's own men in the key
positions in the company union. The
railroad found out that the agency
was grating to the limit, it is said
In some shops the shopmen are
forced to "buy" baseball pool tickets
from a company union official OF
get meaner work or get fired. sThe
foremen get big splits out of this.
The shopmen have been forced tc
pay one officer of the company
union salary of $415 month. The
company recently sent this official
ON a vacation trip to California
and the men had to pay.
The New Haven shopmen have to
listen to long talks by the leading
company union officials, denouncine
real unions, calling for more pro-
duction, etc.
With the A. F. of L. not seeming
to care much of a damn for the
shopmen, the only way out is for q
real industrial railway union to
amalgamate all the railway crafts
-SHOPMAN.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-09
Big Increase in
Export of Fur Skins
From Soviet Union

MOSCOW, (By MaiD. The
"lzvestia" publishes the data con-
corning the export of furs for the
last few years.
Last year the export of furs
amounted to 120 million roubles,
which forms 1914 per cent of the
whole of the export of USSR abroad
and is seven times greater than the
export of furs in 1913. The export
OF furs is rapidly overtaking the
greatest items of Soviet export.
AT the present time there are G
farms in the USSR, where most
valuable fur animals are bred, such
as the silver fox, the mink, the
skunk, the raccoon and the arctic
fox.
Apart from the export of valuable
furs, Gostorg since last year started
to export cheap furs dressed at the
Soviet factories.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-09
Getting Ready to Blo1V the Bosses Up.

CONNECTCUT of of largest
~ plans in the United States the plants that will be
full blast making the stuff with which the bosses hope blow the
the workers pieces.
The workers in the plants slave unaduerated murder mills
Twelve They been able anything
about it for long while, being completely unorganzed
But they waking Shop nuclei of the Communist Party
have been formed in three of the biggest plants in Connectu the
Remington Arms Bridgeport the Colt Repeating Arms in Hartford
and the Winchester Arms in New Haven.
In each the shop nucleus putting fighting
which what leading The fighting three the Win
chester Worker The Workers Gun Gin Co and the Workers Shot,
in Winchesers.
These three shop have started off with bang hs
posed to be The Winchee Colt Remington
feel like after the Winchester Worker
the Workers Shot and the Workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-09
Silesian Communists
Clash with the Police

BERLIN (By MaiD A great
demonstration took place in connec-
ton with the second Silesian Red
Women's Rally at Breslau. A num-
Der OF workmen were arrested for
wearing the uniform of the Red
Front Fighters League, though they
wore no badge of the prohibited
league. Later the police pressed
into the demonstration and struck
women and children with their rub
Der cudgels. There was third COL
lision in the evening, when the police
Iraided small meeting Of the demon
strators and arrested ten persons.