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Montana labor news., 1933-03-02

MISS PERKINS AND TOBIN TO HEAD
LABOR DEPARTMENT

NEW YORK-(FP) - Indications
that President-elect Roosevelt would
name Frances Perkins, New York
State Industrial Commissioner, the
first woman member of a presidents
cabinet and secretary of labor, were
followed at once by the report that
Daniel j. Tobin, president of the
transfers union and candidate of the
American Federation of Labor for sec
rotary would be named as assistant
secretary.
While the members of the A. F. of L.
always insist that a member of that
organization should be selected for the
post of secretary of labor, from every
other standpoint they will be delighted
with the selection of Miss Perkins
and Tobin.
The new secretary of labor has a
record of loyalty to the principles Of
the A. F. of L. which has won her
enthusiastic support among the New
York unions. In the early months Of
the depression when the national adj
ministration was hiding the facts re-
garding unemployment and insisting
there was no serious change in the job
situation, it was the New York labor
department which repeatedly showed
the falsity of the Washington reports.
She is a trained, educated expert in
the field of industrial relations rather
than a trade unionist or a politician.
New York friends are confident that
she will reverse the deportation policy
of the department under James j.
Davis and William N. Doak, who were
both union men and politicians. She
Montana labor news., 1933-03-02

else got a still bigger slice, for Rent
schiller protested that he could not re-
member who received the heaviest
loan.
Sustaining Officers Morale"
He defended these loans on the
ground that they were necessary to
Sustain the morale" of the officials.
He admitted that not more than s per
cent-not more than a nickel out Of a
dollar-had been repaid. AS a final
touch of this beatific transaction, he
admitted that these uncollected and
probably uncollectable loans had been
transferred to the banks affiliate, the
National City Company
Rentschler also admitted that the
officials borrowed money to protect
their own margins, while they were
selling out other borrowers whose Sc
c~urities had dropped in value, and it
was he who told of the way employ
es Of the bank had been fleeced of a
part of their earnings each week for
three years, and still owed more money
on the banks stock than it is worth.
Law Was Violated.
One thing which Mr.. Rentschler
told-unwillingly-may be Of more
public Importance than I've the trag-
edy of the cheated employees. The
National banking law forbids a ma
tional bank to buy or sell its own
stock. But the National City Com
pany, owned by the same sharehold-
ers who own the bank, has been buy
ing and selling the banks stock In
huge quantities.
The stock, with a par value of $40
a share, was up to $575 a share just
before the slump in October, 1929.
Rentschler admitted under question
ing that it could not possibly earn re-
turns on such a sum. Asked why they
did not stop the sale Of shares at such
fantastic prices. Rentscler protested
ave were not selling the stock"
"You mean the bank was not sell
ing the stock" retorted Pecora. but
its affiliate, the City Company, was
selling. 1t had in its possession in Feb
ruary, 1929, 1900 shares, and dur
ing that year sold 1,355,OOO shares Of
the banks stock"
The question now agitating the
Senate is whether this obvious
breach of obligations will be ig-
nored by the Department of Justice.
It is obvious to every one that these
big financiers richly deserve to
spend the rest Of their lives behind
prison bars, but up to date nothing
has been done to bring them to JUS
tice.
Montana labor news., 1933-03-02
Timely and Untimely
O Observations -
ALTRUISM VERSUS ECONOMIC
DETERMINISM
By ADAM coALDIGGER

The good souls who still believe
that this best of worlds is ramrodded
by altruism would do well to study our
noble experiment with the Philippine
Islands. Back in the mauve nineties,
we had a war with Spain. I've for
gotten exactly what it was about. But
it seems there was a beautiful Span
ish donna whom a beast by the name
of Weyler Il think the Hearst news
papers called him the butcher Of
Cuba") had thrown in a dark, dank
and damp dungeon. And now this don
ma was tearing her raven tresses and
weeping her soulful black eyes out
crying for succor, or sucker, OF some
thing, to rescue her from this villain
Weyler. Anyhow, we got all het up
about this beautiful donna and before
long Admiral Dewey sailed into Man
lila harbor, which was some seventeen
thousand miles from the spot where
the donna was l%anglishing and took
possession of the Philippine Islands
in the name of civilization and hui
manity.
In the pursuit of this ~altruistic adj
venture, our Marines shot, stabbed,
and otherwise mutilated quite a num-
Der of the brown brethren for their
own good. That done, American cap
~italists set the survivors to work max
ing saw-logs out of their ancestral
forests. When the forests were gons,
sugar plantations rose between their
stumps and as by that time the Is
lands were part Of the U. S. A., the
resultant sugar passed duty free into
Gods country.
All this was very profitable to the
leading altruists who had started out
to rescue the beautiful donna in the
dark, dank, and damp dungeon in
Cuba. However, in the course of time
sugar became a drug on the American
market, and there arose a great hue
and cry in the native Sugar Belt
against the sweets made in the sweat
of the brow of the brown brethren.
And so the other day, altruism boiled
over again in the hearts of Congress
and the brown brethren were granted
their independence attached to a num-
Der of strings. One of said strings Is
that from hence on, Philippine sugar
will pay a duty entering the land OF
their liberation. This will be a BIT
CONTINUED on Page FourJ
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5000 per share.
Public Stands Loss.


Half the S50,000,0 900 received in this
way was held by the National City
Bank and half was turned over to the
National City Company. Then the
company Immediately bought the
sugar securities and notes belonging
to the bank, paying $685. 900 in
cash, and giving notes for 1000, 900.
Two million dollars of these notes
were paid by the company to the bank
before the company wrote off the ac-
count.
"In other words" asked Mr.. Pecora,
"the National City Company has writ
ten down to 81 this investment of
2 100000 made in 1927 in the stock
of these sugar companies ?"
Eyes, sir" said Mitchell.
Bailing Out the Bank.
"But the banks loans were paid
through the process of raising $685.
900, 900 for the National City Com
pany by selling 25O,OOO additional
shares of the stock of the bank?"
"That is one way to put it," said
Mr.. Mitchell.
"Is that what is known in the ver-
~nacular as 'bailing out the bank'?"
asked Pecora. Mitchell lodged and
wriggled.
1t was made very clearly rigid
questioning-that the stockholders
who subscribed to these additional
100000 shares never were given the
remotest idea of what vas to be done
with the money.
In fact, during the three years of
1927, 1928 and 1929, no report of
earnings was made to the stockholders
of the National City Bank.
Took Huge Bonuses.
During Il Je same three years, the
officers of the National City Bank and
it's affiliates assigned and paid them
selves more than 100000 of bon
uses. Mitchell's share in these three
years was $3,4S1, 1872. These bonuses
were paid out of a so-called manage
ment fund.-" which was one-fifth Of
the profits remaining alter setting
aside 8 per cent on capital and SUI
plus.
While taking a percentage of prof
its, Mr.. Mitchell did not shoulder a
percentage of losses. In 1929, he got
5000, 1868 from the bank, and 100000
from the company. All profits of the
company for the year were wiped out
in the market crash of October-but
Mr.. Mitchell's bonus, drawn in July,
was not returned.
In some ways, the climax of Nit
chell's testimony was his story of
lodging income taxes.
Sale to Evade Tax.
81 sold 1890 shares (of stock 10
a friend in 1929 for tax purposes" he
said calmly, and not seeming to real
ize the revelation he vas making Of
the ethics of "the Street," "but ]
bought the shares back later at the
same price | sold them"
"That was a sale to evade the tax"
said Senator Brookhart.
"You may call it that" said Nit
chell.
"How much was the loss on this
stock ?" asked Mr.. Pecora.
"About 81, 800, 900 to $780, 00," re-
piled Mitchell, as though a mere trifle
of 100000 were too small to keep in
mind.
"Was it not nearer to 5 $1,000, 900 ?"
asked Pecora.
Mr.. Mitchell figured for a moment
on a piece of paper, and then said
the Gloss was $2,70O,0O0.
Government Defrauded.
"That loss enabled you to evade
paying any income tax for that year,
asked Pecora.
eyes, sir"
Many other matters were brought
out which would be important in ar
Montana labor news., 1933-03-02
The Washington

By TODD

WASHINGTON-(FP)-Rep Ham
ilton Fish's desperate attempts to I'M
do the run on the Hibernia bank in
New Orleans which followed his de-
mand for an investigation of loans
made to that and an allied institution
by the Reconstruction Finance Cor
poration, again call attention to the
singular fate which has overtaken
members of his special house commit
tee which toured the country in 1880,
gathering testimony and documents
to prove that a Communist peril ex-
listed in this country.
Instead of making himself the Re-
publican vice-presidential candidate
in 1882, Fish managed to connect his
name with a bank run, at n of the
most dangerous loments in the his
tory Of American banking. Where
his farcical search for Soviet propa-
ganda in a Baltimore warehouse, re-
suited in the capture of four crates
of lettuce by himself, CASTOR B.
Means, 80 policemen and a big post
office truck, his attack on a New Or
leans banker had no humorous con
sequence. A public holiday was de-
clared in order to save the bank.
Fish will be explaining his folly for
years to come.
*@s
Meanwhile the Maine voters have
defeated one of his Republican asso-
ciates-John Nelson-and the West
Virginians have sent the other G. 0.
P. anti-Red inquisitor-Carl G. Bach
mann-back to what law business he
may retain. Death has taken Eslick
of Tennessee, while Hall of Mississip-
pi, who made himself the champion of
the anti-union lumber mills of the
Gulf region has been retired in favor
of a new man-W. S. Colmer.
Thus three have been beaten and
one has died, and Fish is too busy
with his defensive campaign to be
valuable to the anti-Soviet drive
which the Daughters Of Colonial
Danes and the Sons of the American
Revolution, the d. A. r. right wing
and the National Civic Federation are
directing at President-elect Roosevelt.
44H
The strange ill-fortune which has
met the Fish Committee membership
comes naturally to mind when the
more sinister public figures of Moses,
Smoot, Watson, Glenn, Bingham are
passing from the national scene, some
what obscured by the dust raised over
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The American standard of
living must be maintained
in order that American
stitutions may not be . Us
ject to perils of discomfort.
The Washington times., 1933-11-07
Ethel Barrymore Colts Broadway Debut Fails Stir Critics;
Marx Boys Debate With Mayor

Marxmen Immediately went into
executive session to evolve a reply.
It reads:
'Mr! Thomas B. Hickey, Mayor,
'FredOnia, N. Y.
"YOur Excellency:
1--WE are in receipt of your letter
concerning our picture, Duck
Soup
"Our advice is % change the
name of your town. It's hurting
our picture. Anyway, what makes
you think you are mayor of
FredOnia? Do you wear a black
mOustache? Do you play harp?
Do you speak with an Italian dia-
lect? Do you chase girls? No, of
course you don't. We do. You're
not mayor of FredOnia. We are.
anyway, there a good chance
that your election wasn't honest.
Our picture got less votes in the
Motion Picture Academy than you
did as mayor. And look what
happened to the Motion Picture
Academy.
There are IL other towns
named FredOnia. And probably
IL other mayors. They haven't
done any protesting, so where do
you get off? We get off at
Fourth and Main.
"When we go back to New
York we'll drop off and pay you
a visit. We want to find out If
there really is a town in that
State called FredOnia. We'd hate
to get off the train and find out
there wasn't any such place. On
second thought, we would like to
get off the train and not find
FredOnia.
"(Signed)
'"THE FOUR MARX BROTHERS.
sop. S. always remember-yOu
may be the mayor of FredOnia,
but don't forget, the old grey
mayor amt what he used to be"
The Washington times., 1933-11-07
When The Feature Is
Shown On The Screen

Observation-Disclosures Gag.
ney in "Footlight Parade" at 10
a. M, IL. 1:55, $50, 5:45. 1888
and $50 p. m.
-. COLUMBIA-Wallace Berry in
''The Bowery," at II a. m. 1908.
$40, $50, 7:25 and 9:35 p m,
EARLE-Maurice Chevalier in
"The Way To Love-" at II a. M.
las, 4:3O, ITO and 10 p. m
Stage shows at 12:45, $3.50, 6;15
and 8 p. m.
. FOX-Constance Cummings in
broadway Through a Keyhole, "
at 10:45 a. M. 1885. 4:25, 7:15
and 1905 p. m. Stage shows at
1890. 1920, $40 and 9 p. m.
RKO-REITH'S- Charles Laugh
ton in King Henry the Eighth"
at 11:43 a. m. LA 3:45. 5:46,
tat and 9:48 p m
RIALTO-Eve lyn Laye in
"Waltz Time" at 11.43 a. M,
1873, 3.43, 5.38. TAB and 9.38 p. m.
PALACE Mae West in I'm No
Angel" at 1885 a. m. 1:40. 3:45,
$3.50, 7:55 and 10 p. II.
The Washington times., 1933-11-07
Keith Announces
Coming FiIL,s

RKO Keith'S is announcing an
imposing list of attractions for
the month of November these in
Guiding. from present indications,
three world premiere showings.
Following the current engage
ment of Charles Laughton in THE
Private Life of Henry VIII" end
ing today, will present "Midship-
man Jack" with Bruce Cabot.
Then will follow Constance Ben
nett's new film, after Tonight"
originally titled without Glory"
after Tonight" will be followed
by the new Frank Borzage pro-
duction for Columbia Pictures, "a
Mans Castle" from the stage
success by Lawrence Hazard. Its
principal players are Spencer
Tracy and Loretta Young while
others in the cast include Walter
Connolly, Glenda Farrell, Marjorie
Rambeau and Dickie Moore.
Next in order will be the return
of Ann Harding in her newest pic
ture, "The Right to Romance"
Here, too, is another change from
the original title of Beautiful"
From the story by Myles Connolly,
the new Harding picture brings
back to the screen the romantic
leading man Nils Aster. Also in
the cast are Robert Young and
Sara Martha.
With these attractions listed,
Thanksgiving week will bring
Katharine Hepburn in Little
Women"
The Washington times., 1933-11-07
NEWS OF THEATER CIRCLES
Trip to Pressburs
With Mes on
November 10

Following the fortnight's success
of the picture Dinner at Eight"
at the National Theater, a star OF
the screen will be seen there in
person for one week beginning
November 10. Pola Negri. glamor,
GUS luminary of the films, has
selected "a Trip to PresSburg"
as the vehicle in which to make
her debut on the American legit-
innate stage and will be presented
by Lee Shubert.
This is the continental success
which was tried out last spring
most profitably, but which it was
decided needed a distinctive per-
sonality for the leading role. AS
Max Rinehardt had desired Miss
Negri for this very role when he
revived the play in Berlin four
years ago, it seemed advisable to
present her in the part.
George Abbott and Philip Dun
ming who sprang into fame as the
authors of Broadway" and who
last season added new laurels to
their crown as producers of the
delightful Twentieth Century
are engaged respectfully in the
direction and adaptation of the
play, the latter in collaboration
with Harold Johnsrud.
Richard Whorf, young Ameri-
can actor who has sprung into
prominence, is the featured player
and others in the cast of so
are Eduardo Cianelli, Clarence
Derwent, Florence Edney, Percy
AmeS,
The Washington times., 1933-11-07


maudlin way it became increasing
ly clear that this particular night
was not made for the 'hailers.'
Miss Colt was not only too young
and inexperienced for the part
she was playing, but her smile,
her clothes, her gestures, her
voice and her walk were not what
one might have wished them"
But whether she will ever grow
into a glamorous leading lady
and carry on the tradition Of the
DreWs and the BarrymoreS-Well,
that's an entirely different ques-
ton, and one to which am
afraid the answer for the present
is rather emphatic mo"
Turning to John Drew's me-
moirs I find that on September
IA, 1896, her mother, Ethel Bar
rymore, made her real Broadway
debut in Rosemary" playing the
part of maid in the John Drew
company. Her uncle mentions. 1t
thus:
"She had dress and shoes
which might have made another
young girls seem grotesque. How
ever, in spite of this most unbe-
coming attire, her beauty made
a great impression. Priscilla, the
maid. was really her first ap-
pearance in New York, though
she had substituted in my COM
pany in THE Bauble Shop" One
night when Elsie De Wolfe was
The Washington times., 1933-11-07

i'll, Ethel Barrymore appeared as
Kate Fennell although she was
not announced on the program. :"
About the apple custom. John
Drew explains how that pretty
first night gesture began as fol-
lows: when my niece, Ethel
Barrymore. appeared for the first
time at the Garrick Theater in
New York city in Clyde Fitch's
play. Captain links" I gave her
a large red apple. That was the
start of a custom that I have
since observed on the first nights
of the plays in which not only my
niece, but my two nephews, Lionel
and John Barrymore, appear. And
in recent years my niece and
nepheWs have sent me a large
red apple on the first nights of
the plays in which I have ap-
peared,"
The Washington times., 1933-11-07
Good and Bad

Depression note: The new Jer-
ONE Kern musical, Gowns by Ro-
berta" with one of his most tune
full scores did less than $4,000 in
Philadelphia last week. Which
makes producer Max Gordon
think something is the matter
with Philadelphia or more is the
matter with his opera.
Prosperity note: Corinne Grit
fifth in Design for Living" opened
in Boston last night to a complete
sell-out. The outlook is fine for a
smash week at the Plymouth
Theater. Steve Cochran made a
last trip from Washington oe pres
ent at the Hub premiere in case
the censor got rough with the
Noel Coward play.
The Washington times., 1933-11-07

treatment at the studio hospital
he was able to return to the set.
For laugh, Mack Gray,
George Rats shadow. told a
group in the Paramount commits
Sary:
"WelI, George had head
ache this morning but took
a pill and in two hours he was
all right"
"WhO is that guy?" demanded
Ginger Rogers as Mack walked
away.
That's George Rats body
guard" she was told.
"BOdyguard!" snapped Ginger
"yOu mean his stage mother"
Reading a newspaper account
Of a football game, comedians
Wheeler and Woolsey discovered
that Colgate has a left halfback
named Woolsey Wheeler. Inves-
tigation discloses that the young
man is % years old, is a senior
and that he got his name be-
cause a Miss Woolsey married a
Mr.. Wheeler.
Anyway, the film comics have
adopted their namesake. On the
eve of the Colgate-Tulane game,
they wired: 1T takes two Of us
The Washington times., 1933-11-07

tress was called to the telephone
on the set at the studio where
she is playing opposite Will Rog-
ers in Mr.. Stitch" Very i'm
portant," the operator was told.
The voice on the other end Of
the line professed to be speaking
for zaSu's agent, and several ques-
tions were asked which she an
sWered politely.
At the end of the conversation
the unseen caller calmly con.
feSsed that she was really a radio
player and had wanted to refresh
her memory regarding ZaSu's
voice before going before the
microphone in one of those i'm
presentations which have become
zaSu'S pet aversion.
1t was several minutes before
the eI1faged zaSu could collect
herself and proceed with her next
scene with Rogers.
The Washington times., 1933-11-07

How come? Mayor Thomas B
Hickey wrote:
with due respect to your
choice of the name of our vii
lage.
"The name of FredOnia, N. Y,
has been fair and without blot
since 1917. 1 feel it my duty, as
mayor of this village, and in
behalf of its 1914 inhabitants,
to question your intentions in
connection with the use of the
name"
Upon receipt of the letter the
The Washington times., 1933-11-07

to make a team. but we hear
that you are one all by yourself"
Big Boy Williams made a trip
to Nevada several days ago, but
he denies he and Barbara Weeks
were married at that time. {. the
reason Paramount rushed Fred.
eric March into Death Takes a
Holiday" was because his contract
is up November IL. If player
starts a picture. however, he is
legally bound to finish it.
You'll see an entirely different
Gail Patrick and all because of a
red. bobbed wig. Cecil B. De
Mile looked at it, observed: THAT
adds electricity to virtue. To
bacco-heiresS Doris Duke visited
Paramount yesterday and spent
most of her luncheon with her
hand before her face to avoid
candid cameras. Divorce or no,
Rita La Roy goes everywhere
with her husband. Ben Hersch-
The Washington times., 1933-11-07

l l t l u. 1 II t y
d n e regularly
t o g e tn er at
Eaton's ch o p
house. wonder
how Sari Mar
TIA got h e r
p a S S por t ex-
tended for the
fourth time?..
Dick Arlen lost
20 p gu n d S in
three weeks at
P a m Springs.
T e n n is, golf
and the desert
sun did it,.
The Washington times., 1933-11-07

OU1IoUd11OC DC1I-
nett and Gilbert Roland have been
familiar figures recently at the
Dessert Inn tennis courts. =.
They're using a 125-piece orchestra
at Metro Goldwin-Mayer to record
We'll Make Hay While the Sun
Shines" It's a Nacio Herb
BroWn-Arthur Freed number which
Marion Davies and Bling Crosby
sing in Going Hollywood"
The Washington times., 1933-11-07
DOI May
Wheeler and V'ooIsey Discover
Nsmesske on College Grid Team;
Lion Attac..:s els. .uIIer
By HARRISON CARROLL

HOLLYWOOD, Nov. Ever since Charlotte Henry was
chosen play Ace in Wonderland" Hollywood wseacres
have heads and said Eyes, but what after
that"
answer yesterday when Norman Mcleod director
Of the Lewis Carroll fantasy went to the front office of
Paramount and put strong plea for the studio to dust
off NrS Wigs of the Cabbage Patch and to let him do
it with Charlotte as IIovey Mary.
Does it surprise you know that this young actress
slated for the role when Paramount considered the picture
q couple of ago. She the Sweeaced yOungster
who played Junior Durkns Girl in lluckleberry Finn and
who made bit stand sharply that almost every critic
in the country searched down the program to find out her
That time sudden decline of interest in chidrens films
left Charlotte knocking the door Now she
The Washington times., 1933-11-07

nuisance a n d
ZaSu tn in K S
there ought to
be a law agin
it,"
Fully six local
radio stations
in and around
Los Angeles are
featuring COM
edienneS W h o
initiate ZaSu's
voice and inflec-
ton.
The browning
indignity came
the other day
Hx,hor tho az.
The Washington times., 1933-11-07

Broadway d e
but in a legiti'
mate play last
week, an aspir'
ing member OF
the fifth gen
Grafton of the
famous acting
family. T h e
critic were
OF kin d t O
Under Glass
nor to M i S S
Colt.
John Mason
Br Wn said:
A S u n d e r
The Washington times., 1933-11-07
Telling thu Mayor

There are a dozen Fredonias in
the Postal Guide and that is the
name of the mythical republic in
which the Four Marx Brothers cut
up their didoes in Duck Soup"
However, the Marx boys are smart.
They spell their Freedonia with
two "e'S" and so they were not
disturbed last week when the
mayor of Fredonia, N. Y, asked
The Washington times., 1933-11-07

pimples. In a
scene for Tar
IAN And His
M a t e" yester-
day, an irrita-
BILE lionesS went
for him. The
animals train
er, Bert Nelson,
leaped to the
I e sc ue and
m a n a G e d to
S u b ue his
charge, but not
before he was
clawed a b u t
the head and
The Washington times., 1933-11-07

picture, queen
Christina, and
the other on
the "Ships at
S E a" column.
The new los.
foot Gloucester
schooner h a t
he re ce n t ly
bought on the
eastern CO asst
is sailing for
the Pacific and,
if the picture
finishes accord
ing to SEIZED
ule, Lew in
tends to meet
The Washington times., 1933-11-07
BY ANDREW r. KELLEY

Ethel Barrymore Colt received
the traditional red apple from
her mother when she made her