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The Washington times., 1932-04-27
HO Tells SHIFT
ACTIVITY

The Hotel Mems Association
here win discontinue operation Of
its convention bureau and merge
that activity with the Greater Ma
t'-nal Capital Committee. Funds
usually appropriated for this work
by the hotel men will be made
available to the convention de-
partment Of the Greater National
Committee.
Th> merger provides for aSso-
ciation with the larger committee
Of Augustus Gumpert, formerly in
charge Of the hotels convention
activities.
The Washington times., 1932-04-27
Georgetown Citizens
Seek Library Branch

A representative group of resi-
dents of Georgetown is expected
to attend a mass meeting to-
night at St. Johns Parish Hall
in the interest of securing
branch library for that section.
Senator Gerald P. Nye R) OF
North Dakota will be the prin-
cipal speaker. Members of the
Senate subcommittee on District
appropriations have been invited
to attend.
The Washington times., 1932-04-27
WALKER IS HAY
ON CAMPAIGN
AID SOURCE

NEW YORK, April q QNS0 q,
Samuel Seabury's onslaughts on
city hall were temporarily inter
rupted today by the Jewish holi-
days, which caused postponement
of the Hofstadter legislative COM
mittee sessions until Friday.
Mayor James J. Walker said
today he could not recall that,
as testified yesterday. the back
ers of the Equitable Coach Com
pany were asked for and appar-
entity made contribution to
Walkers campaign.
Evidence was that State Sena-
tor John A. Hastings demanded
such contribution from the
Fageol Motor Company Of Kent,
Ohio, which was interested in
having the Equitable Company
obtain franchise.
Inside Track"
It was also brought out that
Hastings was on the payroll OF
the Equitable interests at 1000
o month for some time, as 1t was
believed he was the political con
tact man" through whom favor
able action on the franchise could
be obtained.
C. B. Rose. in 1925 vice presi-
dent of the bus building Fageol
interests and now president OF
the American La France Foamite
Company, declared Hastings at
that time was believed to have
the inside track" to Mayor
Walker.
TeIegramS Cited
he also said Hastings was to
receive interests in two new
Queens county bus lines, but re-
fused to accept them.
kilograms concerning the cam
paign contributions demanded
from the Fageol concern and
indicating the matter would be
settled ''to Hastings satisfaction"
were exchanged between COM
pany representatives and Hast
ings on the eve of Walkers cleo
ton and in succeeding days, it
was brought out.
The Washington times., 1932-04-27
Ira 'DugGE,' NeeL
Is Sought by Wife

An appeal to aid in locating Ira
''Dugan" Neel, 81, of "a New York
Ave. N. E., was made to police and
newspapers today by the missing
mans wife, Mrs. Deffie Dotson
Neel, mother of three small chill
dren. The family is left desti-
tute by the husbands absence,
which, Mrs. Neel fears, is the re-
suit Of q nervous breakdown.
Neel was employed at the Alex
andria warehouse of the Berkeley
Club Ginger Ale Company. He is
5 feet 10 inches tall, has brown
hair, blue eyes and a small scar
under the left eye.
The Washington times., 1932-04-27
L. J. BOrbreSt Heads
BARRIERS Association

Louis j. Bonbrest was elected
president of the Master BARRIERS
Protective Association at an or
ganization meeting held last night
in Musicians Hall, zoos E ST.,
N. w. Other officers are o.
Micello, vice president; P. S.
Adams, financial secretary;
Angelo De Benedetto, recorder;
George Bancroft, treasurer; S.
Ldotte, sergeant at arms and
r. Falcony, member of the ex-
ecutive committee. Sixty-four
members were admitted.
The Washington times., 1932-04-27
N. Y. Barber Strike
To Hit BrOOkLHE1. Too

NEW YORK, April q Q.NSO. t.
The barber strike, involving $500
men in New York today and clos
ing many shops, will spread to
Brooklyn May /, John Torttnelli,
union head, predicted. The walk
out followed refusal of demands
for higher wages and improved
working conditions.
The Washington times., 1932-04-27
IS Seek One Seat
In Paris Chamber

PARIS, April 81 GNSD With
IS candidates for a single seat
in the Chamber of Deputies, the
district of st. Gironde has set
a new record. In all there are
3,617 aspirants for the chambers
615 seats.
The Washington times., 1932-04-27
MEET IN SANDY SPRING

The third annual meeting of the
Montgomery County Horse Show
Association will be held tonight
at the Sandy Spring fire house
The Washington times., 1932-04-27

and few dollars week viii buy new DeSoto2
Give you demonstration? You bet we will.
Well show you Floating Power and let you test
Hydraulic Brakes. You can drive with DeSoto's
Automatic Clutch and Free-Wheeling.
And after that we'll make you an offer that
you just can't turn down: Remember : {: nOvs
the time to buy while prices are down!
The Washington times., 1932-04-27

GO AHEAD :: feel proud. Nobody blames
you. Eyes turn :: people stare e. the minute
DeSoto rolls down the street.
That's the thrill Sheer JOY of ownership. Real
pride of possession. And there's an even bigger
thrill when you see the price tag
You can afford to buy one. The question is
U:: can you afford not to, when your old car
The Washington times., 1932-04-27

Travel economically in one Of the
good used cars advertised for sale to-
Tay In the Classified Section.
Milford chronicle., 1932-12-16

Reward offered for return of l6-
foot Middletown Speed Boat which
disappeared from Oak Orchard.
Please notify Edward P. Short,
S. Dover, Del. Ai d2-3tp
Milford chronicle., 1932-12-16

Clean away all rubbish about the
home this month. bsras
Montana labor news., 1932-11-10
Employment in Montana
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work afforded employment for many
laborers. Several residences were in
ours of erection, employing a num-
Der of craftsmen. A surplus of all
classes Of labor prevailed.
HELENA-Gold and silver mining
activities we're practically suspended,
and the smelters and reduction
plants also remained inactive. The
harvesting of hay and potatoes, the
canning of vegetables, and other ag-
ricultural work engaged many peo-
pie. A federal building, a school
gymnasium, and several residences
in course of erection provided en-
ployment for many building trades
men. Telephone cable-extension work
and other improvements continued to
employ a number of workers. The
available supply of all classes of
labor was in excess of requirements.
Montana labor news., 1932-11-10
Big Navy Crowd to
Capture Roosevelt?


WASHINGTON - (FP) Declare
ton by Rear Admiral Coontz, retired
chief of naval operations, that Roose-
welt is the hope of the Navy, is I'M
derstood in Washington to be the sig
nal for a rush to the Democratic
bandwagon by the big-navy lobby,
which has become convinced that Hoo
yer cannot be reelected. The big-navy
element was satisfied with Hoover so
long as Secretary Adams were to re-
main at the head of the Navy De-
partment. Now the admirals propose
to capture the incoming administra-
ton if possible.
Montana labor news., 1932-11-10
BANKERS HEAD
FOR BREAD N
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Continued from page one)
Federal Reserve discount rate is only
2h per cent in the New York district
and is not higher than 3A per cent
in any of the other Federal Reserve
districts. Moreover, the purchasing
rate for bankers acceptances in the
New York Reserve district on matur-
tiles running up to 80 days is only l
per cent, and, as we have seen, the
United States Treasury is selling
Treasury bills ON a discount basis of
less than one-fifth of one per cent
per annum. Such rates will not take
care even of the overhead. How many
banks ever in the large cities can exc
out an existence at such abnormally
low rates of return, and how many
banks elsewhere will by degrees be
forced out of business because of the
inability to obtain the means of sub
s~istence." The editor concludes his
argument by calling attention to the
fact that the various measures de-
signed to provide additional currency
and credit are only making matters
worse, since "the country is already
so flooded with currency issues and
banking credit that it is no longer pos
sible for the banks to obtain remun-
erative rates of interest"
The editor cites another instance,
that Of United States Treasury GER
t~ificates of Indebtedness, which are
selling at so great a premium that
they yield no interest whatever to the
buyer. "In the constant and relent-
less pressure of idle funds on the
market, for which no employment
can be found, we were bound in the
end to reach the point where the rate
would become inconsequential but that
the desire to acquire such short-term
obligations should become so keen
that buyers can be found to take them
without the possibility of deriving any
net income constitutes a new mark in
the vanishing process of which due
note should be taken"
Bank loans being made for next
to nothing!" Government obliga-
tons selling at a mo yield" pricel
What does it signify? A few more
bank failures? Perhaps, but that is
incidental in an economic crisis when
banks have failed by thousands. The
important fact to note is that the cap
italist system in the U. S. A. has
reached a point of heaped-up surplus
at which the short-term profit rate
has fallen practically to zero.
Karl Marx predicted such a result
in his Capital, the first volume of
which was published in 1867. A time
must come, he wrote, when the ac-
cumulating SURPRISES of capital would
force h profit rate below the point
where investment could take place.
We are now at that point in New
York, Amsterdam, Paris and other
centers. Accommodating SURPRISES
have reduced the capitalist system to
the absurd-to the point where the
banks, the basic institutions of cap
italist society, car nc longer make
their overhead expenses through the
lending of idle funds.
At this point the possibilities of
capitalism have been exhausted. The
system can not be Saved" Instead,
it must go the way of all previous
outworn social systems, yielding place
to a new social order based on the CO.
operative labor of all producers.
Montana labor news., 1932-11-10
PENSIONS EASE TAX
ON REAL ESTATE

city departments of public welfare,
respectively. In jefferson county
also there is a great economy Of
pensions over poorhouse costs, ac-
cording to A. E. Cole, deputy COM
missioner of public welfare. More
over, eff the law should be repealed"
he warned, land the care of the aged
poor pushed back to the old system,
a new poorhouse would have to be
built at once at a cost of half a mil
lion dollars to the county"
The survey also disclosed that pen
sion costs are being reduced through
improved administration and careful
check-up. The pension OUTLAWS ac-
tually decreased by $4,000 in the
six months preceding September, al
though the number of pensioners
rose in the same period by 5000
persons.
"The official consensus of opinion
was that pensions throughout the
state are decidedly cheaper than poor
house maintenance; that this system
has resulted in a decreased burden
of real estate taxation; that the adj
ministration of the act is constantly
being perfected; and that no weaken
ing or emasculation of the present
provisions can be tolerated." the Her
aid declares.
So economical has the old-age pen
sion proved that the cost in a typi-
cal rural county to a taxpayer own
ing a home assessed at $4,000 is 'the
incredibly small sum Of one cent a
year per pensioner."
Confirming the economical success
Of old-age pensions, Senator Sea
bury C. Mastick, sponsor of the Act
and chairman of the senate commit
tee on finance and re%trenchment
was quoted as follows: "How can any
one charge that old-age security is
expensive when the support of an
old man or woman costs less than
we are paying today to maintain a
criminal in our prisons? To repeal
or curtail a law in these times takes
care of over $4,000 helpless old PEG
pie at a per capita cost which is less
than the care of criminals in the
state prisons and the inmates ii
state hospitals, would be an over.
whelming shame to the state of New
York. | see no reason why an ole
respectable poor person should b.
treated worse than a mar or a won
an who committed a felony"
The law is remarkably free Of
abuse, the officials agreed. David G
Adie, state commissioner Of public
welfare, declared that he had moi
found "a single case on appeal where
a really improper grant had beer
made or substantial injustice done
Secretary Epstein, of the American
Association for Old-Age Security, de.
clared that constant inquiry anC
study by the association and its af.
filiated Permanent Conference has
disclosed mot a single instance Of
maladministration in the more thar
$4,000 grants made in New Yorl
City."
Montana labor news., 1932-11-10
SOVIETS
18TH ANNIVERSARY

80 btbi
capacity. 1t means that the country
is freed from the need of importing
vast quantities of capital goods and
that from now ON it can turn its at
tention to the output of consumers
goods, food in greater variety and
qrs nifty, clothing, articles of per-
sonal consumption.
Nobody in the Soviet Union will
argue that the task has been easy.
In fact no other country in the
world could have achieved the job of
industrialization in so short a time.
No people in the world would have
sacrificed SO much of personal COM
fort, would voluntarily have worked
so hard in building factories, power
stations, railroads. The people of
the Soviet Union did it because they
were building, not for some employ
err, but for themselves. The great
power station just finished on the
Dneiper river, the largest in the
world, will never grind out a penny
of profit for a Russian insult. There
are no insults in Russia, there is no
question about who viii W Dneiper
power station-the workers and
peasants own it.
The first Five-Year Plan-the job
Of industrializing the country in five
short years-placed a terrific drain
on the Soviet economic structure.
The railroads are forced to carry
five times as much coal, iron, steel
equipment as in Tsarist days. Where
only the empty steppe had existed,
new cities of 100000, 100000, 300,-
900 people sprang up. They had to
be fed in a countryside that support
ed only a handful of peasants. Food
had to be imported hundreds of miles.
This dislocated the entire Soviet food
distribution industry. Millions of
persons who as peasants had pro-
duced their own food were suddenly
turned into factory and construction
workers. The Soviet Union had to
ration its food supplies.
The result is that there is a short
age of certain types of food-partic-
ularly fats, dairy products and fruit.
But no one goes hungry. The work
er has his main meal at his factory
restaurant and through his co-opera-
tive can buy food for other meals
at prices fixed by the government.
There are also shortages of
clothing, of shoes, Of articles of per-
sonal convenience. That is because
the money which might have gone
into textile mills and shoe factories
has been put into steel mills, alumni
nun works, hyd~ro-electric stations.
The workers who might have been
producing clothing and shoes are
constructing the mighty giants of
Soviet industry.
Nevertheless the Soviet population
does not lack either clothing or shoes.
Instead Of several suits of clothing,
a worker has only one; instead of a
wardrobe of dresses, the Soviet
housewife contents herself with two
or three. AS winter approaches, the
Muscovite heaps on more and more
garments-there is no shortage of
clothes, but there could be more and
better wooden overcoats, and better
leather in the boots.
"That will come" says the Soviet
worker. 1t is true. The second
Five-Year Plan, now being worked
out by the economic authorities, pro-
vides that the emphasis in the next
five years will be shifted from So
called heavy industry to light indus
try. Billions of rubles will go into
clothing factories, silk mills, the pro.
duction of wool, the cultivation OF
food crops.
Montana labor news., 1932-11-10

dustry. Meanwhile, they will try the
Roosevelt magic, which promises
them jobs and security under the COM
petitive system.
In Washington you can hear that
Business will advise Hoover to re-
sign, and Curtis and the cabinet to
resign, after the election, in order
that Roosevelt may at once
the job that the people have entrust-
ed to him.
But you need not believe that the
ill-tempered Hoover will listen to
such advice. Not even if he be Of
fered a bank presidency.
Montana labor news., 1932-11-10
The Washington Scene
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rail and insurance company presidents
are taking counsel together as to how
they shall take charge of Roosevelt
and the new Congress. Some of the
biggest of them have gone to Albany
to see the next President. Their
agents in Washington are seeing the
Bourbon Democrats in the capital. A
great deal of political and financial
t~unneling must be done, if the coun-
try is to be Saved from chaos" for
Big Business.
What the financial powers have in
mind is, after all, very simple. They
want assurances, and tangible proof,
that the new administration will en-
ter upon no experiments in safeguard
ing the right of the poor to live, if
those experiments are to add to
the income and inheritance taxes of
the well-to-do. They demand that
capitalist competition, always to be
subsidized by the Federal government
when it is in trouble, shall be pro-
tected against the burden of social in
surance or large emergency relief ap-
preparations for the starving unem-
ployed. In short, they want Roose-
welt and the Bourbon Democrats to
continue the Hoover policies.
What the bankers and insurance
magnates do not yet understand is
that the coming political smashup is
a mass movement of disconnected
men and women, who are now tearing
loose from lifelong political mornings,
and who will not soon be anchored
firmly again. They are staging a
dress-rehearsal of some vast demon
stration of greater discomfort which
may come in four or eight or twelve
years. The experiment of 1882 car
ries them to the Democratic standard
except that holder group which
marches with the parties of socializa-
ton, the Socialists and Communists.
Four more years of hard times may
drive the bulk of Roosevelt voters of
1882 to a direct attack on the cap
italist system, through demands that
the right to a decent living for all
the people be first guaranteed before
any private profits are taken from in
Montana labor news., 1932-11-10

Think of the intense mental suffer-
ing General Dawes underwent when,
as Chicago newspapers relate, he
was absolutely forced" to take a
loan of 80 millions to save his crash
ing bank. He must have suffered
more than all the jobless in the
country put together-or anyway, he
got more dough from Uncle Sam
than they all did.
Montana labor news., 1932-11-10
UNFAIR LIST OF
THE CENTRAL
COUNCIL

Swift, Armour and Morrell Companies
Products.
Those who haul and deliver Swift, Armour
or Morrell Unfair Products.
Grand Central Market, III East Park st.
New York Bargain Store, 119 Il. Park st.
Yellowstone Garage.
All Allen-A Products.
The Eaton Metal Products Co, Of Billings
BY the Cascade Trades and Labor AS
sembly.
7. c. Nevenburg, 1131 Utah Avenue.
Remington Engineering Co., of Omaha,
Neb.
Majestic Radio and Household Appliances.
Rex Flour and products of Royal Milling
Co., by Great Falls Central Council.
Beauty Shop-Mrs. r. r. Barrett, 1873
Beauty shop-Mrs. chas. ]. Duffy, 1865
Garrison Avenue.
Lewis Beauty School.
McCarroll Beauty School.
Mabel Macdonald and Beauty Shop, 206
West Second st.
Edison Beauty Shop.
Eclipse Stores.
Whitehouse Market, 1874 West Park st.
Mr.. Burr, handyman.
Crystal Cleaners, 233 East Park st.
Elite Cleaners, 423 s. Main st.
Chas. ~Jarvela, 402 East Broadway.
Mrs. Bowman, 315 s. Washington.
Nordberg- Rowe Engineering Co., 1908 s.
Montana st.
Mrs. Sophie Doyle, 6 West Mercury.
UNFAIR BARBER SHOPS
ia ID. Galena. 3O1 5. Arizona. 3 S. Arizona.
337h S. Main. 343 S. Arizona. l19 S. Arizona.
58 L. Galena. 425 10. Park. SOL s. Arizona.
101 s.. Arizona. sos e. Park.
204 II. Park Barber College).
M. G. Widelcheff, 621 S. Arizona.
Montana labor news., 1932-11-10

More British Freedom-The British
Empire can still teach the U. S. a
few things about imperialism. Now
that Great Britain controls most of
the Mosul oil through ably drawn
contracts she has proclaimed Irak
an independent kingdom"
Montana labor news., 1932-11-10

The two English books found in
the late Ivar Kreuger's library were
washington Merry-G o-Round" and
"The Strange Career of Mr.. Hoover"
Wise selection!
Montana labor news., 1932-11-10
NOTARY PUBLIC
Charles F. Juttner, lis N. Main St.

New York is really a marvellous
spot. The Chicago Tribune might
have put this sign on its delivery
wagons, or the Denver Post or the
Los Angeles Times-but no., it is
only in New York that one would
see a wagon with big type: WHOLE
SALE Triple.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-12-29
:. SPORT ..SlzANTS
 CAALM ee!aS

The two clubs to beat in the major league pennant races next season as a result of two out standing player swaps, appear to be Washington and Pittsburgh world series rivals seven years ago but since then able to show only one championship between them
 Pittsburgh, in the view of most baseball men, came off with the main prize of the three -cornered deal with the Giants and Phillies by obtaining Freddie Lindstrom The Chicago boy, who had his first big baptism of fire in the 1924 worlds series with the Giants, replacing Heinie Groh will team with the Waner boys in giving Pittsburgh the greatest outfield in the National League if not in base ball.
 We will be mighty tough to stop if our young fellows who came through so handsomely last sea- son, including Vaughn at short, Piet at second and Grace behind the bat, continue to develop" ad- mitted George Gibson, pilot of the Buccaneers. 'Lindstrom will give us that extra punch"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-12-29
GRIFFITH "FOxEDn ,EM

On all sides the old Fox
 Clark Griffith is credited with pulling another smart deal by ac-
 quiring Walter Stewart. Goose Goslin and Fred Schulte from 1 the Browns in exchange for Lloyd Brown, Max West and Carl Rey- holds.
 So far as the Browns were con- cerned dissatisfaction with the temperament and attitude of the players they traded had consid- erable to do with clinching the deal. Stewart has frequently been a holdout but he also is one of the greatest southpaws in baseball.
 He goes well against the tough
 clubs and will be welcomed by the
 Washington players who found him
 as difficult to beat as Lefty Grove.
 Goslin, always popular favorite in Washington, will bring back a big punch that the Senators have missed. The Goose was traded to the Browns during Walter John sons regime as manager, due part ly to some differences with Big Barney but Johnson's departure removes any possible source of irritation in this respect No doubt all will be forgotten and forgiven IS soon as Goslin starts pumping home runs out of Griffith Stad- ium again.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-12-29

NEW YORK Dec. 29.-National League directors didn't even know John Heydler's term as President expired this year until he told them
 They were in the midst of some spirited discussion of baseball's problems at their annual meeting here when Heydler who has been ram-rodding the league since 1918, strolled into the room.
 What are you fellows going to do about me?" he interrupted.
 What do you mean, John, What are we going to do about you?'"
 Well. my term expires this sea- son, and I'd like to know If I'm going to be reelected. I've got a right"
 %. K. John" broke in an own