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Evening star., 1933-10-10
PUBLIC WORKS GROUP
Will AUGMENT STAFF
Legal Staff of Administration
Showed Under With Work.
Culls List of Applicants.

It's legal staff showed under with
work, the Public Works Administration
today began culling the list of appli-
cants for legal positions with a view
to augmenting the staff.
Just how many lawyers will be en-
ployed was not made public, but the
entire list of applicants is on the desk
OF E. K. Burlew, administrative as
slstant to Public Works Administrator
Ickes.
In other branches of the Public
Works Administration, it was also
stated, expansion is under way as a
result of speeding up public works
projects throughout the country No
estimate of the number Of additional
employees could be obtained, however,
officials explaining that people are
being taken on as the necessity for
them arises, with no definite employ
ment program contemplated.
The other sections in which expansion
is occurring are in accounting and en-
gineering. Also, it was made known,
stenographers are being taken on.
The Public Works personnel has ex-
panded from about 600 employees two
weeks ago to more than 800 Through
out the Public Works organization the
officials handling the hiring of person.
mel in the various divisions daily have
large numbers of applicants for posi-
t1ons in waiting rooms outside their
offices, applicants for the most part
drawn from the list of applications
made whose qualifications have been
checked and who have been notified to
appear for interviews
Evening star., 1933-10-10
Community CENTER
REOPENING IS ASKED
Park View Citizens Group Ap-
points Committee to Aid PIT. A.
Fight Against Order.

A move to seek reconsideration Of the
order closing the Park View Community
Center was begun last night by the Park
View Citizens Association at its first
Fall meeting.
Due to the center's closing, the asso-
citation met in the playground field
house on the school ground. 1t was
said Boy and Girl Scout Troops also
have been forced to abondon use of the
school building.
A committee composed Of j. S. Cole,
secretary Of the association. and Mrs.
F. S. Walker was appointed to Coop
crate with the schools Parent-Teacher
Association to seek reopening Of the
center. which was first opened when
the community center movement here
was started. The closing resulted from
a 28.4 per cent cut in community CEN
ter funds
B. ]. Kroger. vice president, presided
last night, since President F. v. Hale
had just returned to the city from a
three e-Week vacation.
Evening star., 1933-10-10
ROOSEVELT SPARES
CONVICTED SLAYER.
Layton, CoIored, Escapes
Electric Chair-TWo
Pals Must Die.

Because he was walking away from
the scene of the crime at the time 1t
was committed, Leonard Layton, 81,
colored member of the self-styled
Silent Four" who was convicted with
two comrades of numbering Mamie
Solomon. cab driver, in 1891, has been
spared by the President from the elec-
trio chair.
Layton will serve the remainder Of
his life In prison, while Edward Robin
son and william Washington. also COL
ored, who held up and shot Solomon
in his taxicab at Union and o streets
southwest, must go to their deaths
October 49, The President refused to
ington for clemency.
Two great-aunts Of Layton served as
Hundreds and cook at the White House
during the administrations of Lincoln
and Grant, but this fact played no part
in the decision to commute Layton'S
sentence, officials emphasized today.
Evidence Studied.
Attorney General Cummings recon-
mended Communication of Layton'S death
sentence after a careful study Of the
known facts in the case, 1t was pointed
out today at the Department Of Justice
GFAuCiiCC o1lOWcu tIldt Willie ftOUlIlSOIl
and washington were attempting to rob
Solomon at pistols point in his cab,
Layton, then 18 years old, was some
distance across the street headed away
from the scene when the fatal shot was
fired
Layton was convicted along with his
pals on evidence showing that the
Silent Four" had made futile effort
to rob grocery store only two hours
before the murder: that one of the
quartet then had left, leaving Layton,
Robinson and Washington in a pool
room to discuss plans for another
"Stick-up":: that the trio then hailed
Solomon's cab at Ninth street and New
York avenue and ordered him to drive
to the wharves to meet a boat: that
when the boat failed to arrive on sched-
ule they told Solomon to drive to Union
and o streets southwest, and that on
arrival there Layton got out and walked
away, while Robinson and Washington
held up the driver and shot him when
he started the cab up In q squirt to
escape.
Captured in Philadelphia.
Layton claimed that while he knew
Robinson and Washington were plan
ming to hold up some one, he did not
know the taxi driver was to be the vic
tim and that was why he got out and
walked away from the cab. Hearing a
shot. he ran away and several days
later was captured in Philadelphia on
information supplied by Robinson.
In the trial it was brought out that
the gun used in the Staying was owned
by Robinson. but that Layton had been
keeping 1t for him at his home and
went there for it just before the at
k@ ~ - ,-1I~
The Department of Justice and the
White House agreed that Layton was
guilty Of the crime. but felt the cir
cumstances Of the actual shooting war
ranted a life sentence rather than
death.
Evening star., 1933-10-10
DECLARES DISARMlNG
PLANS ARE DOOMED
Henri Barbusse, French Novelist,
Sees No Hope for League
of Nations.

Real disarmament" proposals laid
before the League Of Nations are
doomed to utter failure, Henri Barbusse,
French novelist and peace advocate. de-
clared following his lecture at the Belas-
CO Theater last night.
ANY real disarmament proposal laid
before the hypocrites Of Geneva" Mr..
Barbusse declared, will meet and could
meet with but one attitude-that with
which Soviet Russia's real proposal was
met at the last so-called Disarmament
Conference. Then the delegates were
astounded that q country had the
temerity to propose disarmament at Q
Disarmament Conference"
Continuing his attack on the League
Of Nations, Mr. Barbusse pointed out
that the League had prevented moth
ing" but that 27 armed conflicts had
taken place since its Inauguration.
France, he said, has kept up and is
building further an enormous military
establishment, which, in itself, IS q
promise Of war"
"The League Of Nations" he said, rs
body which talks solemnly of peace
while its members busily prepare for
war"
Evening star., 1933-10-10
Inflation-Induced Prosperity
Quickly Sho'os Spurious Base
Confusion of Money With Purchasing
Gives E1pansionists Fine Sounding,
But False Argument.

ment Of your modern currency tinkerer
Is more tnStdious and dangerous one,
because it has much logic behind it.
The modern currency tinkerer, as we
have seen, admits that we have enough
money. but that 1t Is not being turned
over fast enough-its velocity Is too
slow. In this he Is quite correct; but
his method Of increasing velocity Is one
that Is fraught with grave danger.
Whereas advocates of sound money
would build up the patient-business-
st1mulants. They would turn to in
flation to compel people to flee from
money into commodities and other
forms Of tangible property.
Theoretically, this sounds reasonable
Moreover, 1t appears reasonable when
first put into operation, for like any
stimulant 1t produces the outward ef-
fects Of recovery. Many writer's who
visited Germany during the early ex-
perience Of that country with imitation
sent out glowing accounts Of the pros
perity' prevailing there. What they
did not see was that under that out
ward activity the German price system
was crumbling, creditors were being
despoiled, labor was being exploited,
and the solid German middle class was
slowly being exterminated. The flight
from the mark" did promote prosperity,
viewed at close range, but we know
now that 1t was spurious prosperity
a hectic, socially diseased prosperity
against whose return every living Ger
man is bitterly and irrevocably COM
mitted
Real prosperity implies more than
simply industrial activity. 1t implies
an active utilization Of all the agencies
Of production in a well rounded and
balanced program Of wealth creation.
It calls for firm but properly co-ordi-
mated prices, steady marketing without
serious price fluctuations, and a rela-
lively equitable distribution Of the pro-
ceecs as among profits, interest and
wages.
And history shows that this in turn
implies, above all. currency in which
people have faith and confidence.
Evening star., 1933-10-10
KENNEDY Staying
REVIEW REFUSED
U. S. Supreme Court Orders
Hearing in Wardman
Properties Case.

The United States Supreme Court, at
the second session of the Fall term
yesterday, declined to intervene in the
case OF three colored men condemned
to death for the murder OF Park Po-
liceman Milo j. Kennedy in Logan
Circle in August, 1882. Nine men were
indicted for this murder. Three escaped
arrest, and the other three were acqutt-
ted Those condemned are Joseph j.
Jackson, Irwin Murray and Ralph E.
Holmes
The high court cited Justice Joseph
Dickinson Let's of the District Supreme
Court to show cause why mandamus
proceedings should not be instituted
against him in the Wardman Real Es-
tate Properties case. This proceeding,
brought in the upper court by w. Bis
sell Thomas and other Wardman cred
itors, seeks to compel Justice Let's to
certify to the District Court of Appeals
certain evidence taken before him In
the hearing on ratification Of the fore
closure sale of the Wardman properties.
He previously declined to certify the
evidence because attorneys did not file
with him, within the period allowed by
law, objections to his rulings allowing
the foreclosure. He has until November
6 to file his reply in the high court
Norman (the Fox Whitaker, now
under 18 months sentence for conspir-
ing with CASTOR B. Means to get $35 900
from Mrs. Evalyn Walsh Mclean, was
denied review of the case in which
he was given a tWo-year sentence for
transporting a stolen automobile in in
terstate commerce.
The Supreme Court declined to re-
view three cases involving the interpre-
tation of wills. all arising in the Dis
trict Of Columbia. In the Thacher case
the Library Of Congress to retain the
John Boyd Thacher collection, which
had been claimed by the executors of
the estate of Emma Treadweu Thacher
Of Albany.
Another decision sustains a bequest
OF $500 by Stephen ]. McArdle to
patients OF Walter Reed Hospital. A
third denied Harriet S. Shoemaker and
others shares they claimed in the estate
OF Pierce Shoemaker, who died in 1891
including several tracts of undeve!oped
land in the vicinity of Rock Creek Park.
Other local cases in which the Su-
preme Court declined to intervene were
those in which Cornelius Paxson was
held liable for injuries suffered by
Willie A. Davis and James B. Davis
while they were riding in his automobile
In Maryland; another in which the
Washington Railway g. Electric Co. was
held not liable for injuries to Isaac
Chapman in collision between a truck
he was driving and street car at Four
and-a-half street aind Maine avenue,
and another in which McUltrie Hit
and others were held not liable in the
suit of Halsey McGovern against them
for a 100000 fee in the railway mail
case brought in behalf of the American
Short Line Railroad Association.
Evening star., 1933-10-10
SPECIAL NOTICES.

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THIS IS TO GIVE. NOTICE THAT LEO A.
Walsne: executor of the estate Of Louise B.
Charles Schneider Baking Company for a
Of certificate No; l24 for. one IL share Of
was sold to the late Carl Hoffman. Deem
Der 3, 1921 ~ and which has been lost or
Certificate unless cause is S Shown oSsn' to the the
CONTRARY and. therefore all persons con-
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visions Of the statutes Of the United States.
ts IF be- .
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Evening star., 1933-10-10
After Repeal What?
Rockefeller Study Holds Bone-Dry State Prohibition
Method of Liquor Control Not Favored and Urges
Stringent Regulation to Prevent Private Profit.

This is the tenth article of q series
appearing in The Star under the
title, "Atter RepedlAWhdt?"
This article summarizes sections of
a study OF the problem OF liquor con-
troll soon to be published under spon-
sorshtp OF John D. Rockefeller. Jr.
The study iUGs conducted BY Ray
nond B. Fosdick and Albert B. Scott
Reference to this study and some OF
its findings hare previously been
contained in newspaper dispatches
from Nep York, but the article be-
lop attempts to 90 into more detail
than the daily dispatches. Other
conclusions from this study ,Dill ap-
pear later in The Star.
Evening star., 1933-10-10
VOTELESS TO ORGANIZE
District Branch of Association Ex
pect to Ask Franchise.

A District Of Columbia branch of the
Independent Voteless Association will
be organized tonight at the Willard
Hotel, it was announced today by Frank
A. Reilly, chairman Of the Organization
Committee.
The new organization is expected to
sponsor, as one of its principal planks,
granting the franchise to residents of
the National Capital.
Evening star., 1933-10-10

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Evening star., 1933-10-10
Cured-But He Dies.

CHARLOTTE, N. c. R.-David
Caruthers, aged colored man, hobbled
to healing" service In the hope Of
being cured Of lameness.
At the preachers command, he tot
tered to the altar then stood straight
for moment. Told he had been cured,
he dropped dead.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-25
MedaIie Too Busy
tOSee MarkShahian
Asks Matthews Wit
ness to Appear Today

NEW YORK.-U. S. District Attor-
ney Harold z. Medalie was Saturday
too busy with conferences" to see
Mark Shahian, eyewitness to the
murder on Welfare Island Of James
Matthews, young North Carolina Ne
gro, after Medalie's office, through
Jacob j. Rosenblum, had asked Sha-
HAN to appear.
Medalie said, however, that he
would question Shahian tomorrow at
3 o'clock in the afternoon on what
the latter knows regarding the ac-
tivities of dope ring on Welfare
Island.
Shahian in his affidavit exposing
the Matthews mrder-published
originally in the Daily Worker three
weeks ago-told OF this narcotic
traffic and of its operation with the
sanction of high officials on We'll
fare Island.
After Clarence Hathaway, Editor
of the Daily Worker, had forwarded
these charges to Medalie's office, the
latter, through Rosenblum, asked
that Shahian appear on Saturday.
Shahian was accompanied to Media
lies office by Edward Kuntz, attor-
ney for the International Labor De-
feuSe
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-25

strikers were seeking to terrorize the
workers within the plant and thereby
granted the motion of the companys
counsel.
On June g. 1926, Justice Cropsey,
sitting in the Appellate Court, wrote
an opinion in favor of the City
against Frederick Schaefer of Forest
Hills, Queens Schaefer, caulker,
had sued the city for $722.75, as back
pay from July l, 1882, to February
10, 1924. The caulker contended that
the city had paid him at the rate of
81 a day while the prevailing wage
in that trade was SO. Justice Cropsey
in ruling against the worker saved
the Tammany administration a to-
tai of s25o,000 sought in back wages
by other workers in the trade. This
was the admission of Assistant Cor
poration Counsel George W. Bard
On December 20, 1926, Justice
Cropsey cited in contempt nine work
ers of Local 81, Bakery and Confec-
tionery Union, for violating an in
junction against picketing of Browns
Vile stores On March II, 1926. Su-
preme Court justice LsEiis had en-
Joined this union from picking gro
ceries and bal-er.3s on the grounds
that there was no strike Of the en-
ploye3s.
Early in 1890. IS copyists Of the
Brcohlsn 7 sJl' 5 office ssp1>l7d
to Justice Cror~T' for an order to
compel the city to increase their pay
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-25
5000 SILK STRIKERS CHEER
AS BROWDER SCORES BOSSES

that the Communists are in the fore
front OF the daily struggle for bread
workers. Browder also took up other
issues of the strike, as the present
struggle for the workers for the right
to strike of which the Roosevelt gov
eminent and the MIRA is trying to rob
them.
Ann Burlak, National Secretary of
the National Textile Workers Union
said, This great demonstration and
Monday mornings picket line will
help the bosses change their mind
about the attempt to open the mills
and their refusal so far to meet with
representatives of the dye workers,
the National TEXTILE Workers Union
and the dye workers strike committee.
The five-weks' truce has been re-
jected everywhere in the national silk
strike"
Herman Smell, a striker from the
Weidemann dye house, and chairman
of the General Strike Committee of
the dyers said, 1.-The strike is won
with such spirit and with such a
big picket line"
Morris Powers. representing the
Allentown Silk Workers Union, said
that the silk strike is solid in Allen
town and Easton and the workers will
remain out until victory is Won" He
pointed out that the U. T. W. must
have a united front for an effective
national strike since in Allentown and
Easton the U. T. w. does not control
the strike.
Morris Brown, chairman of the
demonstration and Paterson organizer
of the N. T. w. U. revealed that Eli
Keller and S. Schweitzer of the U.
T. w. had rejected the proposal of
the Arrangements Committee for a
united front and had refused to send
a speaker to take part in the demon
stration.
The U. T. w. organizer, flouting
the demand of the rank and file for
unity, also rejected the proposal for
a united front on the picket line
Monday morning.
A meeting of the. National Strike
Committee was held Saturday, and
the following decisions made: y To
call the committee the United Ma
tional Strike Committee, representing
over 10000 strikers. q Elected a re-
lations committee, representing all
districts, elected strike committee Of
ficials. 3)Decided to send Ann Burlak
and two others to New England
offering cooperation with the U. T. w
to spread strike; if they refuse to
issue a strike call in New England in
the name of the United National
Strike Committee. Her tour starts in
Salem, Mass. a Decided to hold a
demonstration at Sandy Mill Park,
Paterson, Wednesday. with speakers
from all over the strike area. 81 To
start relief activities.
The strike committee has issued a
call to action calling on the strikers
to remain solid.
Monday there will be conference
of the Manufacturers, NRA Concilia-
tor Moffitt, and representative of the
A. F. of L. Dyers Union. Senator
Wagner engineered the meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-25

many Judge Johnson on May 2S,
of the same year also went to Sol
onion.
For his Services" Solomon re-
ceived a fee of SIPS merely for put
ting his signature to a few papers.
Subsequently, Solomon got several
additional appointments as referee
from Tammany and Republican
judges.
Though the friendship of johnson
and Cropsey with Solomon may at
first seem strange to sincere Social
ist workers. an inspection of their
injunction records shows they are not
strange bedfellows."
Judge James G. Cropsey has the
reputation, and justly SO, of being one
of the most notorious anti-labor
judges in the country. 1t was de-
cisi0n by Cropsey granting an in
junction against the Shoe Workers
Industrial Union in June, 1882, that
was used as the very precedent, SEN
TENDER 6 last, for arr,sting Robert
Minor, Communist candidate for
Mayor. Minor had dared to picket
against an injunction taken out BY
the MIRA. firm, the Progressive Ia
BILE Co. in Brooklyn against the Fur
niture Workers Industrial Union. The
Communist candidate stands trial
September rs on a decision handed
down by Solomons friend, Judge
Cropsey.
The sweeping INTUITION against
the striking bakery workers in
Brooklyn and the in;unc3s ems is
sued against tie Shoe and Leather
Workers Industrial Union, were
also granted with Cropsey's deci-
stems as the precedent! The. Social
ist Party, through Norman Thomas,
"bemncns" the in;unctions launched
against the workers with the as
sis:snce os Whalen and the N.R.A.
The value of Thomas's words
against injunctions is viv;dly por-
trayed by his Endorsement of the
graft-receiving injunction lawyer,
Solomon.
On December 81, 1924, Cropsey is
sued an injunction against the Full
Fashioned Hosiery Workers of Amer
lea. Local 80, restraining the men,
bers from interfering with the bus
iitess and employees" of julius Kay
SCI and Co., of DeKalb Ave, Brook
Ign.
Justice Cropssy maintained that
The company conducted an open shop
and that the union called strike
when one Of its msobers was dis
charged. The court held that the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-25
Charles Solomon Got Share OF Tanmany Republican Graft

o, ~
from po'oov W @o''oo pei ailiiliiiii lile
WORKERS cialiiieu Gnat eins increase
Commissioner of Records Frank j.
Taylor (now head of the Department
Oh FuDhc wenaIel. Inc COMMISSION ~
tar 20 Pagister lanes a Mcouade
Justice Cropsey ruled against the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-25
Win All Demands II,
Metal StrikeVictory
Win More Pay Despite
NRA Threats

NEW YORK. a strike last
ing three and half weeks the work
ers of the Majestic Specialties, Inc,
200 Varick St., won all their de-
mands under the able leadership of
the Metal Workers Industrial Union.
The victory which has inspired the
metal workers still on strike to con-
tinue their struggle, will result in
wage increases for all the workers
ranging from 81 to Sc, reduction of
hours from 48 to 40 week, time and
half for overtime, recognition of the
Steel and Metal Workers Industrial
Union, and division of work during
the slow period. In addition the
agreement calls for no discrimination
against the strikers.
The strike victory comes after the
NRA through it's official. Sinninger,
an A. F. of l.. man, tried to convince
the workers delegation to repudiate
the Metal Workers Union and go
back to work on the basis of 48-hour
week. He threatened to mobilize DO
lice and federal soldiers to help the
owner break the strike. The strik-
ers chose to stick by the union and
their demands.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-25
Continued from Page y

statement Of Earl Browder that the
Communist Party boldly faces the
necessity of completely recognizing
the whole social system as the only
way out of the present crisis, as the
only way to end starvation Of the
workers and that the working class
will have to place a workers govern
ment in the seat of power in order
to end the misery brought about by
the capitalist system. No other party
can lay claim he said, Ito the best
of the American traditions, the tradi-
ton of revolution, and the Commu-
mist Party, the revolutionary party of
the workers, is the only Party which
boldly faces the necessity of getting
rid of this incompetent system"
Browder cited the fact that Morris
Brown, leader of the dye strike, is
Communist candidate for Mayor of
and butter as well as taking the lead
in solving the bigger problem Of the
Paterson as one example of the fact