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The Washington times., 1932-12-05
SECRET SIX HIT
BY FUND LACK

CHICAGO, Dec. S GNS0.
Continuance of the Secret Six"
the business mems crime-fighting
organization, was debated today
at a meeting Of those who helped
found the group three years ago.
Alexander Jamie, chief investi.
gator, admitted the life of the
Secret Six" was threatened by
lack Of finances. Heretofore, he
said, there has always been
plenty of funds to carry on in,
vestigations.
Once regarded as the greatest
bulwark against crime of its
kind, the Secret Six" in recent
months has suffered several re.
verses.
Through its founder, Col. Rob.
ert I. Randolph, the organization
made many charges against
States Attorney John A Swan,
son when the latter unsuccess.
fully campaigned for reelection
Most of these charges failed to
be substantiated.
Last week a jury awarded $780,.
600 damages to William S. Kuhn,
a clerk, who was arrested as the
author of extortion notes follow
ing an investigation by the
Secret Six" Jamie and other
Secret Six" slueths were hit by
the judgment.
The Washington times., 1932-12-05
MEN
To MEET HERE

The twenty-fifth annual meet
ing of the American Institute of
Chemical Engineers will be held
at the Hotel Washington Wednes-
day to Friday, with many leaders
of the profession in attendance.
A technical meeting Wednes-
day morning will be followed by
a visit to the Patent Office in
the afternoon for a symposium
on patents and the ownership of
intellectual property. Thursday
morning will be devoted to eco
nomic problems of the industry.
A visit to the Department of
Agriculture will be made in the
afternoon, and the silver ami
versary dinner will be held in
the evening. New officers will
be elected Friday morning. Rus
sell S. Mcbride is chairman of
the local committee on arrange
ments.
The Washington times., 1932-12-05
CONCERT GIVEN
.. At CENTRAL

The first concert in the Ma
donal Symphony series for young
people was given Saturday morn
ing at Central High School, where
DR.. Hans Kinder explained the
suite and illustrated by the
musical status of the overture and
orchestra's playing of Weber's
"Oberon" overture, the "Meister-
singer" Vorspiel, two numbers
from the Gluck-Mottl ballet suite,
and suite from Carmen"
The orchestra played against a
forest background, and the ju-
venile audience expressed much
appreciation of the music and of
DR.. Kindler'S comments upon it.
The audience itself participated
in the program when it was asked
to sing "Three Blind Mice" as a
means of bringing out certain
points in musical theory.
Four concerts are to be given
In the series, all in the high
school auditorium, and in the
later events the more elaborate
musical forms, such as the SYM
phony, the concerto and the SYM
phonic poem will be described.
They constitute as a whole a
course in musical appreciation.
The Washington times., 1932-12-05
HOT DRY FIGHT,
CANNON VIEW

Continued battling along the
prohibition front is foreshadowed
in a statement issued today by
the Board of Temperance and So.
cial Service of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church, South, signed by
Bishop James Cannon, jr., and
Eugene L. Crawford, as president
and secretary, respectively.
The board intimates that it will
rely upon the Eighteenth Amend
ment in its plans to defeat The
return of beer. The statement
says that so long as the amend
ment remains unchanged, the
clamor for beer cannot be met,
for the amendment prohibits in.
toxicating beverages, and beer
which is Intoxicating to the aver.
age person" will be unconStitu,
tional,
Such revenue as the Federal
Government would gain from
beer. it was said, would be largely
at the expense of families OF
workingmen.
The Washington times., 1932-12-05
"MOIST THROAT"
AIDS COUGH RELIEF

Your throat and bronchial tubes are
lined with millions of pores like tiny
bottles continually supplying moisture
to thA delicate tissues until you
Catch cold"
Then these bottles" get plugged up,
phlegm accumulates, affording danger
GUS germs breeding place. Your throat
feels hot and dry. Tickling, irritation
and coughing set in.
Your cough will be cured only when
the flow of the natural fluid is increased,
loosening the phlegm so that it can
be expelled. Many cough remedies
contain numbing drugs which merely
deaden the nerves but don't get at
the root of the trouble.
PERTUssTN, a scientific remedy,
which doctors have prescribed for
many years. is the extract of famous
herb which opens the tiny glands,
stimulates the flow of the throat's
natural moisture and brings quick re-
lief. 1t helps nature heal that awful
cough from the inside out.
When you feel that warning dryness
take few spoons of PERTUssIN. It's alb
solutely safe. Soldatall drug stores, 6Ot.
The Washington times., 1932-12-05
ITURB| PLEASES
W|THPLAY|NG
Of MODERNS

Audience ardor lifted a dis
tinguished pianist to the plane
Of the gods when Jose Iturbi,
the eminent Spainard, ended his
recital Saturday night at Con
stitution Hall, his second Wash
ington appearance under the
banner of Mrs. wilson Greene
For a moment it seemed that the
encores would constitute a Sec
ond concert. Two Debussy
arabesques. the popular Fire
Ritual" of De Falla and still
more to come. A sensational
evening for Senor Iturbi and
his listeners.
A superb artist. with a deX.
ferrous and amazing left-hand,
1turbi opened with Bach's Ca
price, for the departure Of his
beloved brother" followed with
Beethoven'S Sonata in E Major, "
then launched into five Chopin
numbers. After that came Schu'
bert's "Impromptu in A Flat" a
Brahms treatment of an old
Paganini theme and two mag
nificent excerpts from Granados'
"Goyescas."
AS an interpreter of moderns
1turbi is at his best. The Bach
and Beethoven numbers though
flawlesSly produced were less
brilliant than the Chopin items,
and these in turn fled the men,
ory and emotions when De Falla,
Debussy and Granados came
dancing from his piano.
The "Goyescas" themes are
drenched with color, harmonic
shifts, surprising orchestral pas.
sages. And Iturbi made them
dancing pictures, perfectly exc
cuted.
He has a cunning art that
often suggests tones and har-
monies never actually played; he
mutes and wells tones for the
sake of contrast, achieving as
founding effects. He should play
while Martha Graham dances.
This concert will probably re-
main unsurpassed for the sea-
son. Those who missed Jose
1turbi missed a conSumate artist
playing the numbers he loves
best in the manner born TO them.
FRANK L. BAER.
The Washington times., 1932-12-05
ST ORES CURB
SHOPL|FTERS

Although a quiet survey of the
holiday shopping crowds indi-
Gates that professional shoplifters
are, avoiding Washington this
year, local merchants will not re-
lax their watchfulness, according
to an announcement by Edward
D. Shaw, secretary of the Mer-
chant and Manufacturers Asso-
citation.
No accurate check-up can be
made until after the post-holiday
inventories are completed, Shaw
said, but the indications are that
the number of thefts will be
materially cut down.
The Washington times., 1932-12-05

"If at first you don't succeed. try,
trv again" An age-OId saying. but ever
true, II yOu haven't been able to To-
cate the apartment you want. read the
timely selection offered daily In the
WANT AID SECTION OF this newspaper.
The Washington times., 1932-12-05
Firemen Find Clubs
Tricky; It's Hard
To TwirL 'Em

TITS all right to be a police
man, but what are we going to
do with these nightStickS?"
That appears to be the plant
of the firemen detailed to police
duty during the hunger march.
Many of them attempting to
swing the stick at the end of a
strap like pavement Founders"
find that it is the work of an
expert to do so without having
the stick swing back into their
faces. Not a few of them have
been bruised this way.
The Washington times., 1932-12-05
League Will Protest
Women Bureau Cuts

The National League of Women
Voters announced yesterday it's
principal legislative concern for
the short session was to protect
women's bureaus of the Govern
ment from the economic knife. &.
The Children's and Women's
bureaus in the Labor Department
and the Bureau of Home Eco
nomics receive less than a dollar
out of every $4,000 expended by
the Government, Miss Marguerite
M. Wells, legislative chairman,
asserted.
The Washington times., 1932-12-05
Minister'S Group
Holds Services

The Ministers Convocation Of
the District of Columbia and
vicinity and the women's auxil-
iary held special services at the
Florida Avenue Baptist Church
yesterday. The Rev. John H.
Robinson, secretary of the Or
ganization, presided.
The Washington times., 1932-12-05
ChirOprGctOrs Plan
Memorial Tablet

A memorial tablet will be placed
on the grave of DR.. Winfield S.
Whitman, in Cedar Hill Cemetery,
according to a vote yesterday at
the meeting Of the District of Co
lumbia Chiropractic Society at
the Thomas Circle Club. A COM
mittee was appointed to deter
mine what form the memorial
should take.
The Washington times., 1932-12-05


Rockne Sales Corporation, will
address the dealers at the Wash
ington convention. L. A. Cham
made, executive engineer of
Studebaker, will discuss Stude-
baker plans and accomplishments,
and H. L. Shorter, of Rockne
Motors Corporation, will explain
in detail the 1888 Improvements.
The Rockne plans and cars
were scheduled to be presented
at the morning meeting, and
after luncheon the balance of the
day will be devoted to Studebaker.
C. H. Monohan, Washington
branch manager, announced that
the safety film will be displayed
later to the Washington public
in connection with the display of
new models.
The Washington times., 1932-12-05

ADVERTIsEME EMIT
The Washington times., 1932-12-05
Victim of Assault
Found in CitU DUMP

William Neizeith, colored, of
Hopkins, N. c., was found un-
conscious on the Alexandria
dump early this morning. He
had been struck on the head
with a hammer. Police are look
ing for a colored man known
as "Slow Kid" who is charged
with the assault,
The Washington times., 1932-12-05
UppernlGnS Mark
25th AnniUerSaru

Mr.. and Mrs. A. w. Upperman,
628 Farragut st. N. w., we're
being congratulated yesterday on
celebration Of the twenty-fifth an
niversary of their wedding. Up
perman has been a member Of the
District Fire Department % years.
The Washington times., 1932-12-05
Woman Falls DOlUn
Stairs: Near Death

Mrs. Mary z. Sparks, so, was
taken to Emergency Hospital in
a dying condition early today
after she had slipped and fallen
down a flight of stairs in her
home, 1857 Irving st. N. w. She
suffered a fractured skull.
The Washington times., 1932-12-05
DEALERS VIE v
NEWMODELS
Two hundred and fifty Stude-
baker and Rockne automobile
dealers and their retail sales

StaffS fro m
f ur nearby
States and the
District are as
Sembled today
at the Shore
ham Hotel for
a preShowing
Of 1888 models
and an explain
alton of mer-
C h a n d i S / n g
plans for 10 the
coming year.
Louis K. Man
ley, manager of
S t u d e b a k er-
Pi ere e-ArrOw.
Montana labor news., 1932-08-11
JUDGE DECLARES CANADIAN
COMPENSATION ACT INVALID
By Federated Press

MONTREAL, Canada-(FP) An
extraordinary situation has arisen as
the result of a judgment of Justice de
Lormier declaring the Workmen's
Compensation Act of Quebec invalid
o n the ground that it authorizes COM
missioners who are not judges to hear
and decide matters involving civil
rights. Curiously, a lower court judge
in Ontario has also rendered a judg-
ment which similarly raises a ques-
ton of the validity of the Workmen's
Compensation Act of that province.
Both the Quebec and the Ontario cases
will be taken to the supreme court.
Justice de Lormier ruled that the
Workmen's Compensation Act COM
missioners usurp the functions Of
judges of the superior courts and he
scored the provincial Legislature for
ttacking the conscience and indie
pendence of the judges by appointing
such commissioners who, since they
are not required to be lawyers, may
have no qualifications whatsoever"
Montana labor news., 1932-08-11
TACOMA UNEMPLOYED RUN
THEIR OWN RELIEF SYSTEM

TACOMA - (FP) - The Tacoma
branch Of the United Producers
league, formerly called the Unem-
ployed Citizens league, is disbursing
through local commissaries relief food
supplies provided by funds secured
from the county for that purpose.
Food and other supplies are bought by
a central buyer and placed in a cen
trail depot, neither buyer nor depot
having any connection with the league.
From this central headquarters the
goods are placed in the commissaries
Of the various locals.
Wood gathering goes on, and fruit,
given free in considerable quantities
by farmers who find no market for
their produce, is being preserved for
the winter. Reports from the Grays
Harbor section show that State Or
ganizer Hyde has been active in Aber-
deem and Hoquiam, where a strong To-
cal has been established.
Montana labor news., 1932-08-11

As the right to appoint superior court
Judges does not belong to the prov
inee but to the governor-general OF
the dominion, the appointments OF
commissioners to usurp the functions
of such judges stakes from the COVER
nor.general an exclusive power given
him by confederation compact of the
Canadian provinces"
From the point Of view of labor
there is a certain irony about the
Judges contentious, for when labor
asked the dominion government to
make good its signature to the cele-
brated Labor Charter" Of the Yer
sailles treaty, the reply was that the
s-hour day, minimum wages and SIM
liar matters are issues of civil rights,
and jurisdiction in cases involving
civil rights rests exclusively with the
provinces.
Montana labor news., 1932-08-11

HELENA, Aug. 9.-With the ex-
ception of a few scattered localities,
last week was much cooler with light.
showers reported from 10 of the 20
counties reporting to the state-federai
crop reporting service for the week.
ending July 80.
Despite the prospects for a bumper
hay crop every bit of available feed
is being harvested and stored for flu
ture use. In many cases where the
prospects for a grain crop are poor,
the fields are being cut for hay For
the first time in many years binders
are being used with the idea of hold
ing the grain for threshing until such
time as prices improve. Winter wheat
Yields range from nothing to 40
bushels per acre and the few tests
made show a protein content of Ii to
16 per cent. The financing OF harvest
operations is proving a problem IN
manv counties. Pondera was the only
county reporting hail last week, about
1000 acres being damaged.
Wheat and other grains are matur-
ing rapidly and harvest should be In
Montana labor news., 1932-08-11
PUBLIC OWNERSHIP
PAYS BIG IN KANSAS
By Federated Press

TOPEKA, Kans. - (FP) - Several
Kansas cities owning light and water
plants are answering in their own way
the charges of private power interests
that they are not paying taxes. They
are making these plants pay all or part
of the cost Of city governments out Of
profits. These cities, which range in
population from 1000 to 10000, are
supplying electric power to consumers
at rates comparable to or lower than
those charged in neighboring cities by
private utilities, and taxpayers are
reaping the benefit of reduced levies.
Citizens of Colby, a city of 1000
population, have had to worry only
about state, county, township and
school taxes for several years, for
their municipal water and light plant
has paid the cost of city government.
Residents of Chanute, which produces
its own electric power and water and
distributes gas purchased at whole
sale, have been able to do the same
for two years. Next year residents
# Augustus, a city of 1000, and Be-
lott, $500, expect to do the same.
For the past few years Ottawa,
with $500 inhabitants, and Winfield,
with 5000, have paid a considerable
portion of municipal operating ex-
penses out of water and light profits,
and last year Belleville, 1000 decided
20 conform to state law in paying for
principal and interest due on its in
debtedness by tax levy, but paid the
remainder of city government costs
out of profits of its municipal plants.
Montana labor news., 1932-08-11
Machinery and Progress

When members of organized labor
and other forward-looking people pro-
test against machinery in production
being used by those who own and
control industry to enrich themselves
at the expense Of the workers,
tionaries often exclaim: "What! Are
you opposed to progress?"
The r~eactionaries imply that labor
d~isplacing machinery contributes to
progress regardless of the inequitable
distribution of the economic benefits
resulting from its application.
This point is considered by Thomas
E. Dunwody, editor of the American
FRESHMAN, the official organ of the
international Printing Freshmen and
Assistants Union of America, in the
following editorial on High Speed
Short Hours:
High speed machines, new
methods and types of machines
are coming fast even under pres
ent conditions.
"They cannot be stopped, and
as long as they represent prog
ress, as long as they serve man.
kind, no one wants to stop them.
But man was not made to serve
the machine. On the contrary, the
machine is the creation of mana
vehicle to serve mankind, and it
cannot be allowed to become any
thing else.
''The machine can only serve
Montana labor news., 1932-08-11
CALL MEETING ON FARMERS
STRIKE; SAYS RUIN is NEAR

ST. PAUL, Minn.-(FP)-Declaring
that all farmers face actual bank
ruptcy, Vice President John H. Bosch
of the National Farmers Holiday as
ISOLATION has issued a call for a mass
meeting of farmers to decide or a hol-
iday on selling farm produce at pres
ent prices.
"The prices now received by far
mers for all Of their products are far
below the cost of production" said
Bosch in issuing the call. "Legisla-
tive justice has again been denied.
Has not the time arrived when there
must be organized refusal to deliver
the products of the farm at less than
the cost of production?"
Montana labor news., 1932-08-11
EXPOSE EXORB|TANT
CANADIAN PROFITS

OTTAWA, Canada = (FP) = The
tale of financial manipulation in Can
ada since the World war is an amaz-
ing story of exorbitant profits. Some
examples recently come to light are:
An Investment of 1888 in the I'M
perial Oil company, a subsidiary OF
Standard Oil, in 1924, became $49,280
in 1929. On six occasions the stock
was issued as a bonus and split up tc
hide enormous profits, the Montreal
Financial Times admits.
An original share of the common
stock of the Ogilvie Flour Mills com
pany, with a par value of 100, attained
a market value of $1,000 in 1928, ac-
cording to the Toronto Financial Post
In 1920 the capital investment Of
the Price Bros. Lumber and Paper
company was $4,000, 900. To Absorb
huge wartime profits, the capital was
increased to S42 100000 on paper
Large dividends have been paid on the
watered stock of this company, which
has acquired an empire of land OF
which its river drivers get S2.75 for 8
12-hour day and laborers So to S2.75
says the Government Labor Gazette
A merger engineered by Lord Bea.
verbrook, British newspaper and fl
nancial magnate, in 1909, added S12,
900, 900 IN water to Canada Cement
company stock. At a reorganization
in 1929, in intrinsic valuation Of S14,
OOO, 900 became $685. 900 in stocks
figures of the Dominion tariff boarC
show.
A total cash investment of s63,50(
in the Ford company Of Canada il
1904 became, by blowing in profits
S35, 10000 in 1928. Meanwhile big
dividends were paid.
An actual investment of S9,000,00
in the Dominion Textile company at
tanned a market value Of S29, 900, 00(
in 1928. In one year this compan!
earned 20 per cent profits, while thu
average wage for mill hands in 1925
was $3.50 a week and for girls SIS
week.
Montana labor news., 1932-08-11
Crop Conditions of State
Reviewed for Past Week

full swing by the middle Of the
month. In most sections alfalfa seed
prospects are poor, the blossoms hav-
ing been damaged by the invasion of
webworms, although Sanders county
reports that alfalfa and clover seed
prospects are very good.
Cascade county has 10000 to $4,000
acres of commercial mustard IN ex-
cellent condition and ripening fast.
Peas in Flathead county are run
ming 10 to % bushels per acre with
an average of II bushels. In Gala
tin county the canning pea harvest is
in full swing and early seed peas are
being cut. AS a whole, the corn crop
is good and indications are that the
sugar beets will have a heavy ton
mage.
Livestock continues in good condi-
ton although bothered more than
usual with flies. The movement to
market is very slow and due to the
abundance of feed stockmen will be
a no hurry to dispose of their hold
ings. A surplus of labor is reported
in all sections.
Montana labor news., 1932-08-11
ZEUCH TO INACCURATE
ADULT CAMP COLLEGE

RICH MOUNTAIN, Ark.-(FP)-I
DR.. William Edward Zeuch, a founder
of Commonwealth college and its di-
rector from 1928 to 1881, and for the
past year travelling fellow of the Gug-
genheim foundation studying workers
education. ct will be primarily an
Inauguration of a new educational
project, the American Peoples col
lege, which is to open for its first ses-
sion the first week in April, 1888.
The American Peoples college will
embody in plan and methods the re-
suits of DR.. Zeuch's long experience
with and wide researches in workers
education. at will be primarily an
adult college for workers rather than
a labor college in the narrow sense of
that term" he says. 1t will be a camp
college offering an intensive six
months course. The camp feature is
to avoid the necessity for an expensive
plant. The limitation of the regular
course to six months grows out of the
inability of workers to finance long
courses and the undesirability of sep
aration of workers for longer periods
from their regular work.
The location of the first Of the camp
adult colleges will be the top of Rich
Mountain, 5000 feet above sea level,
which enjoys an enviable b~racing out
door climate from April to September,
the duration Of the six months term.
This will be the summer camp college.
DR.. Zeuch plans later to stablish a
second winter camp college, October
to March, somewhere along the gulf.
Rich Mountain is in sight of Common
wealth college.
"The American Peoples college,"
says DR.. Zeuch, twill be definitely a
response to the needs of adult Amer
lean wokers, both farmers and indus
trial laborers. After a year in Europe
in which | have visited every resident
adult workers college l have come to
the conclusion that Europe has very
little to offer us. The American resi-
dent adult workers. college must grow
out of American conditions and be the
product Of the American scene."