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The Washington times., 1933-08-03
Code? We're Good Girls "-Chorus

OF recovery revelation. A cluster
OF blondes was selected to receive
the glad tidingS. We asked:
"What do you think Of the
NRA?"
The first answer was:
"WeH, really, never know
what to say when I'm asked for
q comment. And, I'm always be-
ing asked"
Another blonde said:
"Say yes. 1 find it's always
the best thing to say"
"Well, then, just say I said
yes about the-well, whatever
it was you asked me-"
At the Broadhurst where Joe
Cook will appear with a new fall
the NRA was just another
backstage mystery
There's Always Santa Claus
The stage manager, more &C.
customed to the chorus girls
slant on what's new in the news,
gave them an Illuminating talk on
what the clause in the code might
mean to them.
Remarked a languid beauty:
"The only clause I care about
is Santa Claus"
The Washington times., 1933-08-03

hearSing chorus girls, it's just a
great, big, old confusing question.
When word of the NRA leaked
out to them, surprise isn't the
word for the reception they ac-
corded the news that Washington
is struggling to get them higher
wages and shorter hours.
And this Johnson? He sounds
just too sweet. But, wherever has
he been keeping himself? They
thought they knew all the Broad
way angels.
Breaking the news of the NRA
to two sets of chorus girls in one
afternoon was to discover the last
thing they heard in the way OF
news was a report of two new
musical shows.
Lost in Shuffle-Off
Since then they've been so busy
with their heel-and-toe work that
the recovery act just got lost in
the shuttle, off to-Buffalo.
Backstage at the New Amster-
dam Theater the girls OF the plat1-
mum age on the minimum wage
were rehearsing for the September
opening Of Murder at the Vani-
ties"
Light was thrown on everything
but the subject Of the recovery
act. A piano repeated and re-
peated the same bar of elusive
rhythm.
And the girls, still believing all
codes pertain to morals, were 60
ing over and over the same diff
ficult step.
The rest interval when all the
girls were safely seated on the
floor was selected as the moment
The Washington times., 1933-08-03
3 PRISON ENPL DYES OUSTED FOR LIBERTIES GIVEN DRUGGA
Strike
TFOrce Code
AdOptiOn

MELCHER, Pa, Aug. 3 Il.
N.SO.-Three hundred mine
employees of the Consolidated
Coal Company's No. 2 mine
near here were on strike to-
day because the company's
office does not display the NRA
"blue eagle"
Invited to return to work to-
day by the company, a Rock
Island Railroad-owned mine,
the miners declined, insisting
they would not work until the
recovery emblem was displayed.
The miners walked out yester-
day.
John Hall, superintendent Of
the mine, asked the miners to
return to work, explaining
that it was impossible to dis
play the NRA emblem or for
him to sign the blanket code
until all mines operated by
the company have been brought
under a code.
The Washington times., 1933-08-03
Convict Found Slain
In SinQ SinQ Prison

SING SING PRISON, N. Y,
Aug. 3.-The second homicide
here within 10 days occurred here
when Miah Kotio, of New York, a
Mohammedan, serving two and a
half to five years for bigamy, was
killed by blow on the jaw admin
iStered by some sort of blunt in
Strument.
Kotio was found on the floor
beside the power sewing machine
he operated in the knit shop.
Although there were 100 other
men in the room at the time, no
one would admit seeing Kotio at
tackled.
The Washington times., 1933-08-03
SURVEYS
STATE LAWS IN
CRIME WAR
Prepares to Frame New U. S.
Legislation to Combat
RaCketeerS' Activities
BY International News Service


Assistant Secretary Of State
Raymond Moley was due back at
his desk in the State Department
today to commence preparations
for the launching Of what prom.
ises to be the greatest nation
wide Federal crusade against
crime in the history Of this
country.
By order Of the President, the
mental faculties Of the reputed
master-mind Of Mr.. Roosevelt's
so-called "brain-trust" are to be
utilized in an intensive study Of
methods by which the Govern
ment can wipe out the kidnapping
and crime racket.
To Survey Existing Laws
The first definite step in this
study will be to prepare a syn
opsis Of all Federal, State and
municipal laws dealing with kid
naping and other forms of rack
eteering.
From these statutes, Moley
hopes to frame legislation which
will enable the strong arm Of a
Federal police organization to
stretch throughout the nation
and wage relentless war against
the gangster without meeting in
reference from State laws.
He also will study the coordina-
tion of all Federal investigating
agents under one bureau. There
now are about Is separate inves-
tigating bodies attached to the
various Government departments.
Crime work is not new to Moley.
He has devoted years to crime
investigation work.
He was research director Of the
New York State Crime Commits
sion and also worked with Judge
Samuel Seabury IN the New York
investigation which resulted in the
resignation of former Mayor
James j. Walker.
He believes economic conditions
have lot to do with racketeering
and that if business was better
organized there would be less
crime. In an expression Of his
views on racketeering back in
1880, he said:
"The racket is a crude, i'm.
prOvised type of economic ad-
juStment that can exist only in
the twilight before the coming
Of law and order.
"There need be little doubt
that in a reasonably short time
the cruder manifestations of
the racket will be eliminated. 1t
is largely a matter of working
out what may be called a form
uIa of adjustment among the
economic interests involved.
The cruder aspects of cut
throat competition among in
dustrial enterprises and rail-
roads were largely eliminated by
the process of craftsmanship,
beginning with the Sherman
Act.
$50 it is through what we may
call political and economic
craftsmanship that the lesser
forms Of disorder, that we call
the racket, may be abated."
The Washington times., 1933-08-03
Trains in Collision,
I En0ineer Injured

MARION, III, Aug. 3 QN.SD.
A northbound C. & E. I. passenger
train and a southbound Illinois
Central freight collided at the
crossing here today. The engineer
of the freight train was reported
to have been seriously injured.
Both locomotives were derailed,
but none Of the other cars left
the tracks,
The Washington times., 1933-08-03
Woman Hits LGlUyer
hU. s. StrOus Case

NEW YORK, Aug. 3.-Oscar S.
Rosner, attorney for S. w. Straus
& Co., Inc, was attacked yester-
day by a woman about tWo-thirds
his height in courtroom on the
second floor of the Federal Build
ing Immediately after a hearing
before Judge Coke on motions
concerning bankruptcy proceed
ings against the corporation.
The woman, whose identity was
not revealed, said later that she
had lost $35, her life's savings,
because a salesman had induced
her to buy Straus bonds.
The Washington times., 1933-08-03
Officials Arraigned
In Fatal Explosion

HACKENsACK, N. j., Aug. 8.
Mayor Daniel P. Rentschler and
six councilmen of North Arling-
ton were arraigned before Judge
j. Wallace Leyden here today
on indictments charging Grim
inal negligence in connection
with the fatal blast in the
Atlantic Pyroxylin Waste Com.
pany's plant on June 8, when
10 persons were killed and rs
injured. The seven men pleaded
not guilty.
The Washington times., 1933-08-03
300 Strikers Back,
Pau ReUisiOns Near

AKRON, Ohio, Aug. 3 U.NSO.
Three hundred employees of the
Falls Rubber Company at Cuya-
hoga Falls, near here, who
walked out on strike yesterday
protesting wages under the NRA
blanket code, returned to their
jobs today after company Off
Gals promised adjustments would
be made.
The Washington times., 1933-08-03
Germans Quiz u. S.
Youth Held as Red

BERLIN, Aug. 3 G.N.SO.-Wal-
ter Orloff, of Brooklyn, N. Y. a
student at Greifswald University,
who has been detained at Greifs-
valid since July l on charges Of
Communist activity, left there to-
day for Berlin. where he will be,
given hearing.
The Washington times., 1933-08-03
SEA PILOT KILLS SELF

MOBILE, Ala, Aug. 3.-A vet
eran sea pilot brought his ship,
the Katrina Luckenbach, to port,
then retired to his quarters and
killed himself. He was Bror
Gael Borjesson, 81, coast pilot
for the Luckenbach Lines and
former officers in the Swedish
navy. all, ,anunHiR
The Washington times., 1933-08-03

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By DIXIE TIGHE

NEW YORK, Aug. 3 G.N.SO.
The NRA may be the answer to
the country's employment prob
lem, but to Manhattan's re-
The Washington times., 1933-08-03
WILL ROGERS Saus:

SANTA BARBARA,
CAL, Aug. 3.-If it's as
hot back East as the Cali
fornia papers say it is,
there is no use in my
writing you.
I should just send
flowers to the funerals.
Excuse me while I put
some wood on this fire
place here in the room.
Looks like we will never
have any summer.
week in Santa Barbara,
Il event in California, the
The Washington times., 1933-09-19
Boys POULTRY
TEAMS To VIE

The annual poultry judging
contest of the Boys All clubs Of
Maryland will be held at the Air.
lawn Farms in Bethesda, October
21, according to an announcement
made yesterday by Albert Ady, as
sistant county farm agent for
Montgomery county. .
The teams will be the guests OF
John C. Let's, owner Of ArlaWn
Farms, not only for the contest
but for a luncheon.
Ady is anticipating entries from
more than q dozen counties
throughout the State, including
Kent, washington, Frederick, Car
roll, Howard, Queen Anne, Tai
bot, Hartford, st. Mary'S, Prince
Georges, Caroline, Allegheny and
Montgomery, the host.
The Washington times., 1933-09-19
COTTON BOOST
DEMANDED BY
PRODUCERS
International News Service


Cotton producers of the South
laid their troubles before the
Agricultural Adjustment Admin
1stration today and demanded i'm.
mediate action to boost the price
Of cotton.
Earlier in the day a. group of
them called at the White House
but because of slight illness. the
President was unable to see them.
New Currency Wanted
The President had under con-
Nderation a series of resolutions
adopted at a conference of cotton
producers and legislators urging
him to issue and place in circula-
ton $40O, 100000 in new currency
in order to bring about an imme-
diate increase in commodity
prices.
The resolutions pointed out that
the nation, in an emergency in
the sixties, authorized, issued and
placed in circulation some $400,-
100000 in United States notes.
Such notes, although not based
on interest bearing bonds, were
in fact based upon all the prop
erty and taxing powers of the
Government and that of the
$400, 100000 worth of those notes
the sum Of $346, 900, 900 is still in
active circulation.
2O-Cent Cotton Needed
Unless initiation is forthcom-
ing, unless 20 cent cotton is es-
tabliShed by fiat, and unless next
years crop is limited to 9,0O0,-
900 bales, the resolution made the
following threat:
"Our only recourse will be to
call upon and our governors to
close the gins and cotton seed
oil pl:snts as a matter of self
preservation"
Before the resolutions were
adopted, Senator Smith of South
Carolina, chairman of the Sem
ate Agricultural Committee. de-
manded abolition of the process
sing tax because 1--WE believe it is
being paid by the farmer and is
depressing the price of cotton"
The Washington times., 1933-09-19
CHAPTER XIX


Durant looked about. It was
exactly like Gertie's apartment
on the floor below in its plan.
In it's furnishings 1t was COM
pletely different. Crude pictures,
bawdy, were on the. walls, the
rug fought with the curtains,
and every color of the rainbow
was to be found in the uphol-
stery and cushions. Cigarette
and cigar stubs Uttered the
tables, and some of them had
fallen unheeded to the floor.
Circles showed where glasses
had rested on the arms Of
chairs. Articles of clothing were
scattered on the floor.
Durant'S nose Wrinkled in
faint disgust as he made his
way into the bedroom. The lit
ter here was as unattractive as
that in the living-room. And for
a moment he stood in the center
of the room, the esthetic side OF
him buster than the material.
Then the wrinkle disappeared
from his nose and the contempt
from his eyes. He went to work
with a swift sureneSs that never
seemed quite suited to his ap-
pearance.
He began with the bathroom.
Throwing open the medicine
cabinet, he took in its contents
at a glance. His lips pursed as he
saw hypodermic needle and a
tiny bottle of pellets which he
guessed to be morphine. In an
other moment he was in the
bedroom again, opening bureau
drawers, closing them, search
ing in the closet, looking even
behind the bawdy pictures on
the wall. What he looked for,
he didn't know; he hoped to find
something that would stimulate
his mind to thought. What that
thing might be he couldn't even
have guessed, any more than he
could have told Gazotti the ma
ture of the things that Gertie
Waxted didn't know she knew.
But he found nothing in the
bedroom.
The Search
But in the living room in the
drawer Of a table he found a
gun, a thirty eight. He picked
it up, broke it and saw that
The Washington times., 1933-09-19
Wins O. Nickel Bet
But Loses Thumb

CHELSEA. Mass, Sept. 19.
Charles Holland, Is, won nickel
bet, but lost his right thumb. He
said:
"I'II bet this nickel that you
can't hit it at distance Of 10
feet"
Leo Casparjian, 18, who had
boasted Of being a sharpshooter,
said sure he could, it was easy,
"just hold still" He levelled his
revolver and fired.
Besides the thumb, Holland
NAV lose an index finger.
The Washington times., 1933-09-19
Penthouse
.By Arthur Somers Roche

all the chambers we're loaded.
He squinted down the barrel.
but it was clean. He nodded
grimly and placed the weapon
back in the drawer. Swiftly,
with minute care. he combed
the room and found nothing.
Then he walked to the window
and stared down at Crelliman's
penthouse. He pointed his hand
at the roof, shrugged his
shoulders slightly, and sat down
in a chair by the window.
Continued on End. Comic Page
The Washington times., 1933-09-19

Republished from the COsInO-
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shown as a Cosmopolitan prOduc.
ton Metro Mayer .Golwyn-Mayer
production.
The Washington times., 1933-09-19
FIREMEN TO MEET

The Arlington Fairfax Volun-
teer Firemen's Association will
meet tonight in the Cherrydale
enginehouse. 1t is the regular
monthly meeting of the fire fight.
ers' association.
The Washington times., 1933-09-19

Want to buy q business Of your
Own? Follow the many unusual Busl-
ness Opportunities advertised daily in
the WANT AID SECTION of this news
paper.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-10-13
Pay and Employment
Gain in Pennsylvania

Springfield, Mo. (ILNS)-Shopmen
of the st. Louis-San Francisco rail
way have voted to oppose continua-
tion of the present pay schedules after
October 81.
H. E. Burgess, general chairman of
the Frisco Association of Metal Craft
and Car Department Employees, said
the shopmen's system board voted
unanimously against extending an
agreement which permits 10 per cent
deductions from basic rates of pay up
to October 81.
Rising prices have increased the
cost of living and made necessary
return to basic wages fixed in five
year contract signed by the men and
officials of the road this spring, Bur-
CESS said.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-10-13
VICTORY
For Workers in Underwear
Strike

New York City (ILNS)-Twenty-
five thousand white goods workers
have won a strike settlement that
gives them higher wages, union rec
ognition and other gains. The strike,
which laster three weeks, was set
tied through intervention of the labor
committee of the local
MIRA organization.
The terms of the agreement in
cluded the 371a hour week, week work
scales of $21 for operators, SIT for
pressers and SIT for examiners; a
piece-work scale of 65 cents an hour
for an average minimum worker; an
automatic increase of approximately
10 per cent for all workers receiving
these scales; registration of all out
side contracts with the union, and un-
equivocal recognition of the workers
organization. The agreement estab-
lished the closed shop by obligating
the employers to employ only mem
bers of the union.
Samuel Shore, strike leader, said
the settlement terms represent wage
increase averaging from 25 to 35 per
cent for week workers and implies
reduction of 25 per cent in working
hours. He said the industry was now
virtually 100 per cent unionized,
whereas it was only 25 per cent or
ganized before the strike.
The New York agreement will be
used as basis in promulgating a
nationwide code for the entire under
wear industry.
The strikers were members of the
White Goods Workers Union, affil-
lated to the International Ladies' Gar
ment Workers Union.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-10-13
Guiding Blind Ships

More than half a million ships are
guided up and down the Thames every
year by the pilots attached to the
great Port Of London, says the Mont
real Herald Pilots are taken on
board vessels to steer them through
dangerous reaches and channels, or
to take ships in and out of harbor,
and while on board they take COM
mand. Occasionally pilot Is COM
PEELED to take long voyages because
the weather makes 1t impossible for
him to board the pilot boat Some
time ago pilot taking the liner out
Of Queenstown had to go to New York
because he was unable to leave the
ship In heavy weather.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-10-13
COAL OPERATORS
And Union Sign Pact Cow
ering 100000 Miners

Bituminous coal operators and Of
fcials of the United Mine Workers
of America have signed contract
covering wages and working condi-
tions for $4,000 miners in non-union
fields, from Pennsylvania to the Ala
bama line.
The agreement was signed by Pres
ident Roosevelt and Gen. Hugh S.
johnson, recovery administrator
Code provisions on tonnage and
basic day rates were carried out in the
agreement, which fixes the basic wage
scales for nearly every mine in the
nation, and is declared to be one of the
most comprehensive labor agreements
ever signed in the United States.
Only Alabama and Western Kentucky
are ommitted from the agreement,
which was signed by at least one op-
orator who had sworn he would never
again have dealings with the United
Mine Workers.
lie dgIScIleut lS dIl dItGTllldJu Ol
the active organization campaign car
ried on in the non-union fields by the
United Mine Workers as soon as the
recovery act became law on June 16.
With its provisions for wage in
creases of between 20 and 800 per
cent and it's clauses safeguarding the
pay of the men and insuring them the
right to check -weighmen on the tip
Piles and check k-measuring men to in
spect loaded coal cars, the agreement
is regarded by the miners as
magma charta," which will play an
important part in the stabilization of
the industry.
Dovetailed into the wage and work
ing agreement is the soft coal code
which, in the opinion of the operators,
will be equally effective in leading to
a rational solution of the outstanding
problems of their industry.
The operators fought against the
unionization of their mines for many
weeks, but resigned themselves to
signing a union wage agreement when
they were convinced that their mines
had really been unionized.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-10-13

One can imagine the king "by di-
vine right
Flouting the idea that his subjects
could ever govern his kingdom.
He would shout with laughter at
merchants writing laws;
At guild-members sitting in the
courts of law;
And of journeymen mechanics
choosing the high-sheriff!
And his yes-men, the nobility,
also
Would chuckle and snort in glee
and scorn,
Contemplating the struggle of these
ignoramuses--
In their endeavor to arrange the
Kingdoms foreign affairs.
Something of truth in all of that:
For one of the first things the new
lawmakers do is to make new laws.
They wipe out the old lines defining
royalty and nobility
Having scant concern about their
meanings now
Their leaders, coming to sit in judi
cial seats,
Know very well what is the mean
ing of the law
In view of the facts which they
understand better than any noble ever
did.
Their conception of foreign
affairs" is far removed from that of
the king.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-10-13
Lanterns Des Morts

Or Lanterns Of the Dead" as they
are called, sounds quite mysterious.
About half way on the road from An
gers to Poitiers, in France, there is
the old town Of Fontevault, famous
for an ancient abbey where English
kings have wished they could be
buried and for fine example of
those lanterns" The purpose Of these
tall stone Itinerary lanterns, built like
inland lighthouses, was not known
until q few years ago, when 1t was
referred to In the writings Of Peter,
the Venerable. Twelfth century alb
bot Of Cluny, that they were Lit in
homage to the dead Christians. Most
Of them date from the Eleventh GEN.
tury.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-10-13
Public Backs Hosiery
Strikers Demand For
Union Recognition

Hornell, N. Y.-Public sentiment
strongly backed striking workers of
the Merrill Hosiery Company in their
demand for union recognition and
union rates and conditions. A mass
meeting in support of the workers
was attended by 1000 persons and
sympathy for them was manifested
in other ways. Wages in recent years
went to very low levels. The whole
town suffered from the lack of pur-
chasing power the low wage condi-
tion created, and is now roofing for
a successful conclusion to the strik-
ers' fight.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-10-13
COURT FIGHT
Planned Against Negro
Teachers Unequal Pay

New York City ILNS)-The un-
equal salary scale for Negro teach
ers set up in North Carolina by which
the maximum for colored instructors
is fixed at $3.50 a year, will be at
tackled in the courts by attorneys for
the Natinoal Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People, Walter
White, N. A. A. C. P. secretary, an
nounced here.
White teachers, with eight years
experience will receive a maximum
salary of s720 year or 500 month;
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-10-13

He was concerned with "alliances"-
Which meant family inter-mar-
riages-
To bolster up the nter-connecting
claims of the nobilities.
These new diplomats are concerned
more with trade,
With the functions of coins and of
textiles and taxes on the same.
Government" today - m a ms
something very different from for
merly.
In the days of the Crusades a gov
ernment was hazily conceived,
And it could pass as the result of
one battle down by the beach.
King Arthur's court did not mean
the same as that of Queen Elizabeth.
The King George of today does not
rank at all with the one of 1776.
The present one would have been
regarded then as visionary ideal"
Ideals are just inventions.
Inventions arise out of the atmos-
phere of current mechanics and
science.
Some inventions never get into
common use.
Some ideals are held only in small
groups.
But the ideals which are widely
grounded on human facts,
Whose beginnings go back to the
roots of the lives Of men,
The issues of which took toward
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-10-13

Q.--What was the greatest men,
bership of the American Federation
of Labor, and in what year was it
reached?
100000 in 1920.
Q.-HOw many union labels are
there?
A.-There are So labels and 10
cards issued by organizations endors-
ed by the American Federation of
Labor. -Four crafts are using the
American Federation of Labor label.
Q.-Was anything said in the
American Federation of Labor exec
utiye councils report on racial per-
secutiOn in Germany?
A.-The report, in calling for
boycott of German goods by Ameri-
can labor, said: 'We abhor racial per-
secution and we protest vigorously
against the persecution of the Jewish
people of Germany"