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The Washington times., 1933-04-27
BLOSSOM f TE
PROGRAM OUT

WINCHESTER, Va, April 27.-
The official program for the
tenth annual Shenandoah Valley
apple blossom festival, to be held
at Winchester Wednesday and
Thursday, May and 4, was an
nounced by Director General Ar
thur today as follows:
May 3
Coronation of Queen Shen-
andoah x at Handley Stadium.
3::30-Pageant at dley
School stadium.
4:30-Aerial show at airport.
5:00-Band concerts.
7:00-Mummer's parade spon-
sored by the Winchester fire de-
partment.
9:0O-Reception of princesses
by Queen Shenandoah Tenth.
9:30-Apple blossom ball.
May 4
Hoop ageant at Handley
School stadium.
Reception and luncheon
to the Queen and her court.
2:00-The grand parade-The
Trail of the Pink Petals"
4:30-Aerial Show at Airport
9:3O-The queens ball.
9:30-Apple blossom ball.
The Washington times., 1933-04-27
BROCK RITUALS
MAY Be VOID

All persons married by H.
Priestley Brock may have to go
through the marriage ceremony
again.
Because Brock is believed to
have been ordained a minister
there is a fine point of canon
law involved. Also a point in
civil law.
It is said that Brooks author
ity to act as supply clergyman
in the little parish church at
Accokeek, Nd, a direct charge
from the Bishop of Washington,
had to be based first of all on
the assumption that he was an
ordained priest.
Clergymen say Brock is neither
a priest nor a justice-of-the-peace.
So, any marriage he performed
in the towns of Clinton, Acco-
keek and Pomonkie-where he
served at various times-must by
the very nature of the ceremony
come under canon law scrutiny.
It is believed the subject is being
investigated by canon lawyers.
Brock, first thought to have
gone to England, is now believed
to be in this country.
The Washington times., 1933-04-27
FOURHOODLUMS
FLEE PRISON.;
TWO L|FERS

PITTSBURGH, April 81 G.N.S0
Led by John Maug, notorious
chief of a gang of Pittsburgh
hoodlums, four long-term convicts
of Western Penitentiary escaped
over the wall of the prison today.
The others who followed Maug
up over a roof of a prison build
ing and then down over the high
stone wall we're:
Edward Turpak, one of Maug's
lieutenants in the infamous Maug
mob, serving life and so to l2O
years for murder and robbery.
Theodore Geisler, serving 70 to
20 years for robbery.
Fred Prince, serving Is to 80
years for robbery.
Maug was under sentence Of
life and so to 120 years for
murder and robbery.
All four men are known as gun
men. Prince, known as the "pock-
marked" bandit, halls from Cleve-
land. where he was convicted OF
manslaughter for the Staying Of a
policeman a number of years ago.
The Washington times., 1933-04-27
White House
Rooms Open
To Tourists

White House visitors are being
accorded unusual privileges these
days due to a suggestion of Mrs.
Roosevelt's.
Mrs. Roosevelt told IKE" Hoo
yer, White House usher, to per-
nit tourists to see as much OF
the mansion as possible. AS re-
suit many rooms heretofore
closed to them have been opened.
The departing tourists are
being escorted through the front
entrance. 1t was found that the
huge crowds daily thronging the
public floors made it difficult for
those leaving to depart by the
same door they entered.
Lucky ones have the additional
thrill of a word with Mrs. Roose-
velt herself. She has made it a
practice to stop and speak to
the visitors whenever she meets
them in the halls.
The Washington times., 1933-04-27
VDAYl No Phone or Mail Orders

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regulars, full fashioned. Chit
fOn with picOt tops. Wanted
shades. Sizes 81a to 9Qc
1O .............. ....
WOMEN'S RAYON TAFFETA
SLIPS-Embroidered trim and
lace trim. Bias cut; full cut.
Flesh, tea rose, white; S0c
81 to AZ .............. wv
WOMEN'S PORTO RICAN
GOWNS-Belted and tucked.
Flesh or white. Regu- 9QC
lar sizes .,.....,..... OON
WOMENS BLACK KID OK.
FORDS-Arch support types.
Cuban heels. Sizes S7M
MISSES and CHILDREN'S l.
STRAPS-In patent with Ieath.
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BOYS and GIRLS TENNIS
SHOES-Rubber sOles, canvas
uppers, ankle patches, double
seams. Brown, sun tan, black.
sE sizei 70 Il 1 to p 2 Prs. 81
BOYS Soc WASH SUITS
BrOadclOths. linenes, jeans.
Flapper models, mostly 9QO
with belts. Sizes 3 to 10 O"N
BOYS WOOL GOLF KNICK.
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Prints and sheers.
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The Washington times., 1933-04-27
Inn Selected
For Fete PrinceSSeS

WINCHESTER, Va, April 81.
The Southern Inn. a beautiful
Colonial home built in 1910, has
been selected as the official head
quarters for the 80 princesses who
who will attend Queen Shenan-
doah during the tenth annual
apple blossom festival to be held
here May and 4.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-01-27
LABOR THE WORLD
over
By DR.. ALICE S. CHEYNEY
Labor Office, Washing
ton, d. c.
A Word For the Building Trades
From England

Arguments for stimulating the
building trades have just been issued
by British conference representing
workers, employers, manufacturers,
architects, and surveyors, living by
the building trades. These arguments
contend that about 80 per cent of the
money spent on any building opera
tion goes into wages either of those
engaged in building itself or of those
manufacturing building materials and
therefore represents purchasing
power for the products of farms and
of the industries. They point out that
both the money spent on building and
the things produced remain in the
country for its enrichment. 1t quotes
a letter signed by 40 economists ad-
vocating stimulation of building.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-01-27
''OLD SALT"
Advocates Better Ration
ing" of Ownership of
Wealth

Montreal (ILNS)-Advocates of
share work, and also share-the-
wage, have been saying that this cor
responds to the 'rationing" of the
means of subsistence practiced among
sailors. This has annoy
ed an "Old Sailor" who writes that
it is slander upon the common sense
of shipwrecked seamen, even though
non-shipwrecked sailors may be as
stupid as other people.
ITO make the comparison ft," he
says, work should be shared accord
ing to ability, and at the same time
the means of subsistence should be
shared equally, or according to needs.
SIS it not case of whom the gods
would destroy, when these people are
too dumb to see that in putting over
the idea that the capitalist ship is
wrecked they are helping the propa-
ganda of comunism? Better begin
by making q better 'rationing of the
ownership of wealth and the means
of existence; then with opportunity
guaranteed it needn't be question of
sharing the work, but of nobody shar-
ing in the means of life unless they
worked"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-01-27
DEMAND
For Cuts in U. S. Payroll
Hit as Unreasonable"

Washington, d. C. (ILNS)-That
any reduction in the salaries of gov
ernment employees shows a disregard
of the value of their services and
their patriotic performance of duty
in times when workers in private in
dustry were more commensurately
compensated, was emphasized in the
following statement made by the resi-
dent national officers of the American
Federation of Government Employees:
"Those who have taken advantage
of the present economic conditions to
reduce the living standards of the
American people have resorted to
many unwarranted, unpatriotic and
reasonable methods. None has been
more despicable than the false i'm
pressions that have been spread about
employees of the federal government.
No act of treason in war times could
be more harmful to the country as a
whole than the demands that the sal
aries of civil service employees be cut
and further cut.
Federal workers have shown they
are surpassed by no class of workers
in the trades or professions. This is
proved by the fact they are required
to pass competitive examinations
against the best qualified citizens of
the country. They proved their loyalty
to the government by remaining in
the service during the boom years
when the majority could have receiv-
ed much better wages in private en-
ployment.
"The American Federation of Gov
ernment Employees stands firmly
against any additional reduction of
the salaries of federal workers We
contend it is unnecessary, unwar-
ranted, and totally unwise at time
when the government should be lead
ing the way toward economic re-
covery.
Though we are fighting the battle
of the federal worker, we are at the
same time fighting to maintain the
position of every wage Garner. IL the
present congress not only retains a
pay cut but DEGREES that an additional
one shall be levied on government sal
aries, it will do an irreparable harm
to America. AS patriotic citizens we
shall continue to fight to prevent that
harm being DONE"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-01-27
PUSHING OLD AGE
PENSION BILL

Indianapolis, Ind. (ILNS)-Organ-
lied labor in Indiana is putting up a
strong fight in the interest of old age
pension legislation. A bill has been
introduced into the lower house of
the assembly by Representative w. j.
Black and has a good chance for
passage and approval by the gov
enor, inasmuch as he is in favor of
pension legislation as against the
poorhouse method of caring for aged
dependents. The bill is in line with
the democratic platform on the sub
ject.
The act, under the bill, would not
become operative until January 1,
1884. Expenses of the system would
be covered by a special tax on cigar
cites and tobacco. The administration
of the act would be placed in the
hands of county commissions. Pen
sions would be restricted to persons
more than 65 years old, and in no case
would they receive more than $25 a
month, or more than $500 year
A tax of l cent on each pack of ten
cigarettes or fraction, and 1 cent for
each 10-cent selling price of tobacco,
would raise the revenue.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-01-27
THIRTY-HOUR
Week Is Near, WOll Tells
Photo -Engravers

New York City (ILNS)-Address-
ing the annual meeting of New York
Photo o-Engravers' Union No. /, Mat
thew Woll, vice president of the
American Federation of Labor, re-
ported that there is a distinct trend
toward the 30-hour week in industry.
He declared that more and more in
dustrial leaders are realizing that the
only hope for industry's survival lies
in the six-hour day, five-day week.
"That progress is being made
toward a shorter week, even in this
period of travail, is an encouraging
thing" Woll said cit is becoming
more and more evident that new eco
nomic thinking must come into the
world"
Edward J. Volz, president of the In
ternational Photo-Engravers' Union
of North America, reported that 6,429
of the membership of 8,640, or IA per
cent, were either unemployed or
working on a part-time basis, accord
ing to a recent survey. Employment
in the photo-engraving industry, he
added, had increased slightly during
the latter part of 1882.
A bylaw of the New York union
providing that no member should
work more than six hours overtime
was amended by the membership to
read that no member be permitted to
work more than two hours overtime
without sanction from the union. The
amendment affects agreements with
commercial houses only. The new
amendment is expected to provide en-
ployment for members now jobless.
Edward White, president of the
New York union, announced it had
spent 81 ,0e8, ,651.59 in 1882 for the re-
lief of unemployed members.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-01-27
Green Urges Senators
To Vote Down Pay Cuts
Calling Senate to Oppose Further Federal Pay Sashes
Labor Head Declares Reductions Will Add to Present
Widespread Misery and Will Not Help Government

Washington, D. G. (LNS)-De-
claring that it is false economy which
is calling for the lowering of the liv-
ing standards of government en-
ployes, President William Green, of
the American Federation of Labor,
strongly urged opposition to further
federal salary cuts, in letter to
every member of the senate. In his
letter, Mr.. Green said:
"The wage reduction imposed upon
government employees through the en-
actment of the economy bill at the
last session of congress, caused labor
to smart under a keen sense of in
justice. This feeling is intensified as
a result of the recommendation of the
economy committee of the senate that
further reduction of one and two
thirds per cent be imposed upon gov
ernment employees. Because | wish
very much that you may know the
opinion of labor, its feelings and its
objection to the recommendation of
the senate economy committee, | am
taking the liberty of writing you.
II earnestly ask you, as friend of
labor or as one who is sympathetic
toward labor's aims and purposes, to
vote against the recommendation of
the economy committee of the United
States senate. The government will
not be helped, but thousands of work
ers will be injured through the i'm
position of further wage reductions.
It is a false economy which calls for
lowering of the living standars of
government workers at period when
widespread human distress and in
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-01-27
Arizona Now Dripping Wet

Tucson, Ariz. (ILNS)-The state of
Arizona and the city of Tucson is
now dripping wet, since the Old Pu-
eblo city repealed its city liquor or
dinance, the state having repealed its
wet laws by initiative measure at the
November election. The action of the
city council in repeating the liquor
ordinance was brought about by the
vote of the electorate of the state, and
of Pima county, which went wet very
definitely in the election.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-01-27
Business Men Ask
Fair Wage Scale

New Orleans (ILNS)--The Allied
Business Mems Association, compris-
ing group of New Orleans retailers
and wholesalers, has adopted a resolu-
tion protesting against the % cents
an hour wage for unskilled labor on
the Public Belt bridge
The resolution termed the proposed
wage scale as unfair, unjust and un-
reasonable" and appealed to the "au-
thorities in charge of said project to
draft wage scale, which will at
least afford the employed living
wage, which in turn will be necessar-
lily of benefit to the whole commu-
nifty"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-01-27
Work Seekers More Than
Double at State Bureaus

Harrisburg, Pa. (ILNS)-Unem-
ployed applicants for jobs at the Is
district state employment offices of
the department of labor and industry
more than doubled in number during
1892 over 1881. During 1882 there
were 302,835 applicants registered
at the district offices. During the
same same period in 1881 there were
1908. Despite the general down.
ward trend of industrial and CONNER
cial employment in 1882, the State
Employment Bureau placed more
workers in various jobs during 1882
than during 1881. Placements in 1882
were 41,054 as compared to 3O,993.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-01-27
MELLON-SOVIET
Oil Deal Fails as Refiner
Quits
BY c. MCKAY

Ottawa (ILNS)-It seems the
scheme proposed by western man to
trade Canadian cattle for Russian oil
and coal involved the idea that the
Dominion government could be per-
suaded to put up the money neces-
sary to finance the project; and they
failed to appeal to the government
which has placed specific ban on
Russian coal and could not lift it
without violating the spirit of it's re-
cent concessions to British hard coal.
The scheme to exchange the products
of the Mellon Aluminium Company in
Quebec for Russian oil fizzled out; the
Mccall, Frontenac Company, which
proposed to buy and refine the oil,
only accepted couple of ship loads,
because, it said, there were too many
protests against going on with the
scheme.
The fact that Col. Mackie, the Rus
sian trade agent in Canada, had not
been apprised of the latest scheme has
led to suggestions that it possibly had
political origin with intent to en-
barass the government by giving the
opposition an opportunity to claim
that advantage had not been taken of
chance to realize an alleged market
for s7,000,000 worth of cattle.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-01-27
LABOR BANK MAKES
QUARTERLY PROFIT

New York City (ILNS)-Express-
ing the opinion that the period OF
depression "has fairly spent itself"
Jeremiah D. Mcguire, president of the
Federation Bank and Trust Company,
reported at the annual meeting of the
stockholders that the bank had made
q profit of 7A per cent on the out
standing capital for the last three
months of 1882.
The bank, of which the late Peter
j. Brady was president, was closed on
October 80, 1881, and reorganized and
reopened on October 8, 1882. 1t is the
largest labor bank in the United
States.
Directors, including several leading
labor executives, were elected, as fol-
lows: Edward Canavan, Louis G..
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-01-27
Hours Regulation Held
Only Hope For Industry
Unless Congress Acts Quickly to Shorten Work Periods
Entire Economic Structure Faces Bankruptcy and
Ruin, Hosiery Workers Tell Senate Committee Con
sidering Black Bill.

Washington D. C. ULNS)-"Un-
less congress quickly adopts some
measure designed to regulate and
control industry the government will
be faced with the problem of actually
operating bankrupt industrial sys-
tenn itself"
This statement was made by Emil
Rieve president of the American Fed
Grafton Of Full Fashioned Hosiery
Workers, testifying. before the senate
judiciary committee in favor of the
Black 30-hour work week bill.
eve can testify from practical ex-
perience (and we would be glad to
supply our information privately to
any member of congress) that indus
try in this country is tottering on the
edge of insolvence. The most impor-
tant single factor in creating this
condition is the lack of proper hours
regulations" said President Rieve.
Previously the secretary of the un-
ionized full fashioned hosiery manu-
facturers' association had testified in
favor of the Black bill but asked for
an amendment which would permit
two shifts of six hours each to be
worked within the II hours of day.
light and five days in week. The
union representative indorsed this re-
quest and explained that the present
mechanical set-up of the industry
would require some such method of
operation.
u. S. Regulation Imperative
John w. Edelman, editor of the Hc-
siery Worker, testifying on this occa-
sion on behalf of the Pennsylvania
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-01-27
CHARGES MACHAD0
RULE OF TERROR

Washington, D. C. (ILNS)-Ham
ilton Fish, New York republican con-
gressman who headed last years
communist inquiry, has introduced
in the house resolution putting Die
tator Gerardo Machdo of Cuba on the
spot-and a hot spot at that.
Fish, member Of the house foreign
affairs committee, charges Machado
with suppression Of freedom, with
tyrannical control and with failure to
protect life and property.
The resolution comes on the heels
of fresh assassinations in Cuba, which
for six years has languished under
Machado oppression, until the nation
is sunk in the direst poverty. The
rule of Machado has forced great
numbers to flee for their lives and
colonies of refugees exist in Miami,
Tampa, Key West, Washington and
New York.
While the Fish resolution calls
upon the president of the United
States to use his good offices to bring
Cuban factions into accord, there is
no likelihood of any such amity, in the
opinion of those who know conditions
in Cuba where hundreds of wage
earners have perished, where union
ism has been all but annihilated and
where political opposition is the
highest known crime.
Fish charges in his resolution that
"the liberties of the Cuban people,
guaranteed by the United States
through the Plat amendment, have
been suppressed and all but destroyed
and large part of Cuba has been
under martial law for various lengths
of time and the University of Havana
padlocked and schools closed.
Freedom of speech, freedom of the
press and of assembly, and the right
of habeas corpus have been sup
pressed or have virtually ceased to
exist" it added.
"The United States," it declares,
''has the unquestioned right to inter-
yene in order to maintain a govern
ment in Cuba adequate for the pro-
lection of life, property and indi-
vidual liberty in accordance with the
treaty of independence containing the
Platt amendment"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-01-27
Labor to Publish Names of
Concerns "Buying Foreign"

America. The time has gone by for
giving mere lip service. American
prosperity can only be restored by
action, and we appeal to every man
and woman when purchasing to buy
only American-made products. We
are justified in making this request
because, at the present time, practi-
cally all the other nations of the
world are doing their best to shut out
the products of the United States"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-01-27

tense misery prevails throughout the
nation.
The need of the hour is to enlarge
buying power; to increase commodity
prices, to create a demand as we'll as
to enlarge the market for manufac-
tured goods and agricultural prod
ucts. Obviously, normal conditions
cannot be restored unless this purpose
is realized and this result is accom-
plished.
Three years of wage cutting
have brought the country to the
present point of human degrada-
ton and economic distress. 1t is
inconceivable that we would add
to this m s cradle situation
through reduction in buying
power imposed upon government
employees followed, as it newt
ably will be, by further reduc-
ton in the wages paid those en-
gagged in private employment.
II appeal to you to stand firmly
against the additional wage cut pro-
posed. Instead of forcing lower levels
let US fight to restore buying power,
to build up the consuming market, to
bring about return of normal con-
ditions through an increase in mass
buying power
81 shall watch with very great in
terest the vote in the senate upon the
proposal to further reduce the sal
aries and wages of government en-
ployes. | most earnestly hope that
your vote will be cast in opposition
to such proposal"