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Evening star., 1933-10-01
BY GEORGE HOYT sNnTE
Special Dispatch to The Star.


JACKSONVILLE. Fla, September
30-Jacksonville has amended It's
application for Federal funds
~ and now hopes to get $2,422,-
e94.64 from the Federal Public
Works Administration. the loans being
asked for various projects that are In
dicated as most desirable. They are
in line with improvements that would
be made, even If the possibility was
not deemed likely Of getting Federal
loans.
The request for loans first made
were for various municipal projects
all of which will be undertaken, at no
late day, whether the money asked
is available from the United States
public works funds or not. But 1t will
be a great thing If the things projected
are begun and carried forward at
once-and the city can well undertake
to pay interest and amortiZe the loans
And a very large number Of men will
be regularly employed for q year OF
two, If the loan Is made.
Industry to Open Jobs.
Prospects this Fall are good for much
made possible through Federal loans IL
various places in Florida suggests many
thousands taken from the unemploy-
ment lists. In Pensacola construction
Of hangers at the naval landing field
will be started in October, the cost es-
timated at 1925, 900, and employment
Of many men in common labor at 4C
cents an hour and skilled labor at 81
Other work contemplated and au-
thorized at the landing field will rep.
resent total outlay Of $1,100,0 900. Con.
siderable paving work has been au.
thorized in Pensacola by Federal anc
State authority. Dredging In Pensa-
cola Harbor will cost $177,o00, the
money already allotted. For extension
Of sewerage and water works project.
loan has been asked Of the Fedora
Board, the total being In the neigh.
borhood Of $2.500,00
Announcement from washington 4
to the effect that the Senate Naval AT.
fairs Committee has located public
funds amounting to $363,750 fol
improvements of Coast Guard stations
in Florida Among the items is 6
SIC, 1000 radio traffic station to be sci
up at Jacksonville, where the station
will be moved from Fort Lauderdale.
New Air Base Planned.
A new air base Is to be established
at st. Petersburg. Two amphibiaI
planes are to be bought for the lattel
station, each to cost about $4,000, ant
have q crew Of five men. The plane.
Will be used for scouting, being abl.
to cover considerable more area thar
Evening star., 1933-10-01
Kansas Governor
May Push Sales
Tax to Aid Poor
SIO,OOO,OOO Sun, Need
ed for Relief in Vest
err, State.
BY CLIFF STRATTON.

Special Dispatch to The Star :.
TOPEKA. Kans September 30.-A
State sales tax to raise $40 O,O0o,OUo or SO
for poor relief may be proposed 10 the
special session of the Kansas Leglsla-
tire next month by Gov. Landon. Kan
sas has fought shy Of the sales tax 1ot
wears. although it has been regularly
proposed every time State income TAX
proposal came up for consideration.
The income tax proponents won out
in the 1891 Legislature, and last ran
the income tax amendment was Voteo
into the constitution at general eiec-
ton. The 1888 Legislature LEVIED an
income tax Of 2 per cent on corpora.
tions and graduated personal INCOME
tax.
But the income tax, as revenue
measure. is going to be failure this
wear, it generally is admitted. There
are no incomes to speak OF.
New Levy Urged.
Counties and cities of the State, faced
with raising an additional $10,000,OOO
this Winter, are urging some new form
of taxation to raise the money.
The Governor proposed an excise tax
on utilities, but the Associated Indus
tries advise against that. Now the
Governor Is considering the sales tax as
a remedy.
When the bond scandal took beer and
the eighteenth amendment of the front
pages in Kansas six weeks ago 1t ap-
parently also put fanatical drys and
hysterical vets out of the legislative
picture for the coming special session.
The vets who want vote on the
eighteenth amendment in Kansas are
not going to get it. Sentiment now
seems to be general there is no use
spending money on . special election
to vote on repeal when repeal will be
effective before the elections could be
held"
Evening star., 1933-10-01
REPEAL HOPES WANE
IN LOUISIANA MOVE
Gov. O. K. Allen Delays Calling Special
Session of Legislature to Permit Decision
on Eighteenth Amendment and Taxes.

silent on Statewide demands for an
extra session for the immediate consid-
Grafton Of legislation providing tax and
school relief.
May Force Session.
In view Of the Governors attitude on
tax and school relief, some members
have instituted a movement through
which they hope to muster sufncient
strength to have the Legislature itself
call special session. Approval OF two
thirds Of the membership Of both the
House Of Representatives and the Sen
ate would be required to put over this
move
Speaker Allen ]. Euender Of the
House, leader in the administration
for many years, has announced his op-
position to an extra session at this time,
either to set up machinery for ratiflca-
ton Of repeal Of the prohibition law OF
to consider tax relief measures.
Mr.. Ellender said that he Is opposed
to holding a Statewide election for the
selection of delegates to constitutional
convention because, he said, the eight
eenth amendment will be repealed as q
result of elections set for November T.
regardless of whether Louisiana ever
votes on the question.
He takes the position that 1t Is need.
less to put the State to the expense OF
a long special session to attempt tax re-
form because no complete program lol
revision Of the States tax system mas
vet been recommended.
Contrary to the views Of Speaker FL
lender. other legislators in all parts OF
the state have within the past two
weeks expressed themselves as 1eeuns
that action should be taken without @ de
Law to give property owners some 1eHsl
from their tax burden and to proVloe
financial relief for public schools. 49,,
returning early this week from Ch-
cago where he was elected president
of the National Conference OF Mayors,
Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley OF New
Orleans Immediately took steps to speeo
,Ip the unemployment program In tniS
city. .,.
THE commission council this week
odonted a resolution, which was sub
mitted by the mayor. urging the Fed
eral Government to begin Immediately
the construction Of new Federal
building in New Orleans, for which
an appropriation already has oeen
made.
The mayor said. in offering the reso-
luton. that construction Of the FED
eral Buj ng at this time would pro-
vide wot.z for hundreds OF New Or.
leanians who are unemployed ano
would be a big boost to business.
Plans for number Of other pubic
works projects In New Orleans ano
vicinity are scheduled to be laid before
Secretary Of the Interior Harold l.
Ickes at an early date.
Evening star., 1933-10-01
CAROLINA TOBACCO TILT ENDS
Tar Heel Markets Oper,
After Three-We eek
Holiday.
BY ROBERT E. WILLIAMS.
special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
RALEIGH, N. c., September 30
Tobacco markets opened this week after
a three weeks holiday with prices
above those paid before, but with the
increase considerably less than had
been anticipated.
However, further increases are antici-
pated as much Of the tobacco offered
at the reopening had been damaged
during the holiday, due to the failure
and inability of farmers to preserve
their tobacco during the three weeks
period when there were no sales.
With the tobacco markets more or
less successfully reopened. considerable
interest is now being given to reopen.
ing of closed banks. For a period OF
munities in the State, including Green's
boro, the third largest city. were with
out any commercial banking facilities
whatever That situation has largely
been cured, but there still remain
many closed banks.
It has become apparent that North
Carolina cities, as q whole, VIII not
call upon the Public Works Admins
tration for any great portion Of the
So, 300, ,000, 900 public works fund, the
chief reason for the hesitation being
the already burdensome debts of the
municipalities, many of which are in
default on their obligations with nc
immediate prospects Of paying out.
The State has secured grants for
improvement of the Army post at Fort
Bragg, the Cape Fear River channel
and the Great Smoky Mountains Ma
tional Park. These expenditures total
well over s5,000,000 and some s400, ,00C
more is expected for the harbor al
Morehead City, proposal which has
been vigorously fought by the rival port
Of Wilmington, which since time i'm
port. Added to these will be numerous
public buildings and municipal prof.
ects, but not enough to total the
$80,000,000 which has been estimated
to be this States share Of the total
fund
Evening star., 1933-10-01
CONNECTICUT TOWNS
Will VOTE MONDAY
149 Out of 1859 Communities Elect.
Republicans Expected
to Triumph.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

HARTFORD, Conn, September So
Monday is town meeting day" In
Connecticut, when in 149 Of the l69
towns of the State the electors go to
the polls to decide who will be select
men. town clerks, tax collectors library
| trustees and other local officials In
most places there will be town meet
| ings, where minor local issues will be
decided.
This ancient form of government,
however, does not ignore the new deal,
for voters are warned in advertisements
that they are to decide whether they
will apply for Federal aid for road con-
struction under the Public Works Ad-
ministration.
The small towns are traditionally
Republican, and that party will emerge
Monday night with control of heavy
majority of the towns. The Democrats.
however have been using the new deal
as their chief campaign argument,
claiming the towns will get no benefits
from the Federal Government unless
the applications are made through
Democratic town officials. The Demo-
Gratis are expected to make some gains
on this and on the general public
support Of Roosevelt, which as yet has
| shown no appreciable ebb here.
Evening star., 1933-10-01
Neighboring Buyers
Agree to WGt Open
ing in Next State.
BY FITZ HUGH McMASTER
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star
COLUMBIA, s. c., September 80
What was more than an academic dis.
agreement between the Governor OF
North Carolina and the Governor OF
South Carolina was settled amicably
when tobacco buyers agreed to wait a
week until the time for opening set
by Gov Ehringhaus Of North Caro-
lima. Both Gov. Ehringhaus and Gov.
Blackwood Of South Carolina declared
q tobacco selling holiday, beginning
August 81.
The purpose was to raise the price
of tobacco to a parity with last year,
based upon the general price OF COM
modities The price OF tobacco last
year was 1873 cents a pound, and on
the basis of advanced commodity
price ia would be the price 1t should
bring this year. 1t had been bringing
several cents less than this at the time
OF and before the declaration OF the
holiday.
Gov. Blackwood ordered the holiday
to end September 10, but Gov. Ehring-
hAus wanted the holiday to continue
for one week Neither Governor re-
treated, but the buyers agreed to wait
until the 26th, the date set by Gov.
Ehrtnghaus
The depression has not had any
effect on school attendance nor on cir
Gus attendance in South Carolina. All
of the schools and colleges are open
ing with good average numbers OF
scholars, and almost for the first time
in the recollection of man one circus
in Columbia. the capital of the State,
had to refuse to sell more tickets, as
| all seats and standing room had been
taken. It is not thought that any re-
lief money went into the circus, but
cotton picking and tobacco money did
So far as the schools are concerned,
however. while the attendance Is good,
the pay Of the teachers has been much
reduced, and many teachers do not
know whether they will get any money
this year, as has sometimes happened
In the past two years, save in long
time school notes. which are discounted
10 and IS per cent.
Evening star., 1933-10-01
BY EDWIN CAMP.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ATLANTA, Ca, September S0.-A
terse sentence, written into the con-
stitution of Georgia by Robert Toombs
to prevent repetition Of the wild ex-
travagance of reconstruction In the
sos, has proved monkey wrench in
the machinery of industrial recon-
struction in '33.
It Is a provision which limits debt
contracting by the State or any civil
subdivision thereof to per cent Of the
property value as assessed for taxation.
It has seemingly wrecked the plan
for the obtaining Of much Of the Fed
eral funds under the recovery act foS
projects involving . total Of 970,496,-
282. Some Of the most eminent lawyers
Evening star., 1933-10-01
OLD GEORGIA Law LIMITS DEBTS
AND PROVES RECOVERY PROBLEM

in the State have been studying and
preparing briefs seeking q means to
between State constitution and the pro-
visions Of the Federal recovery act,
and the matter may even 60 to the
President for his decision. Whatever
the outcome may be, at present busi-
ness and political leaders Of the State
are up in the air without parachute.
They see no strictly legal way Of
utilizing q large part Of the Federal
funds to which the State would be
entitled, and they feel that for
Georgia to fail to receive its Just quota
would impose heavy strain on the
economic fabric. The State would be
taxed its share to pay the eventual
cost, yet would have xsceaved little OF
the benefits.
Evening star., 1933-10-01
TO ASK
FOR FUND OF $2,422,994
Loan for Municipal Projects Will Aid
Jobless-Naval Projects Provide
Work In Florida.

patrol boats have done, and will give
assistance to disabled ships, even to
the extent Of rescuing crews from YES
sells in distress.
AS the time approaches for the elec-
ton Of delegates to the convention
called to vote on the ratification or re-
lection Of the twenty-flrst amendment
to the National Constitution things liven
forces, having qualified 81 delegates,
and made plans for the election on
October 10, found that such was the
lack Of interest on the part of the
"drys" that only eight pledged candi-
dates could be qualified to vote against
ratification.
Evening star., 1933-10-01
BY FRANK C. ALLEN.

n YEW ORLEANS, September 80
N Hopes that Louisiana will be
recorded officially in the column
l Of wet States when the eight
eenth amendment is repealed
waned this week as Gov. o. Z. Allen
delayed call for an extra session Of
the Legislature.
Although he announced three weeks
ago that he would issue call for a
special session in time to permit the
people Of the State to vote on prohibi-
ton repeal by October IS. the Governor
now declines to comment upon the
matter.
The Governor, likewise, has remained
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-30
Furniture Strikers
Rebuff COnciliatOr
Of NRA, Mr.. Woods
Mayor Takes Hand in
Effort to Force
End of Strike

BOSTON, Mass, Aug. 29.-Twenty
shops striking under the leadership
Of the Furniture Workers Industrial
Union voted last week to exclude con-
ciliator Woods.
1 A conference was called yesterday
Rby Mayor Curley at the instigation
of the New England Upholstered
Furniture Manufacturers and resulted
in the proposal by the mayor of an
IS cent minimum with arbitration.
Il will give you any Judge you want"
he said. He had copy of Woods
report calling the Furniture Workers
Industrial Union bunch of boil
sheviks.
The union is demanding a dollar
minimum, no arbitration, 40 hour
week. The mayor urged a quick set
tlement on the basis that there are
no real differences, and that he was
afraid the shops would move else
where.
The union leaders we're served with
subpoenas of an injunction at the
end of the conference.
The strikers are fighting the previ-
GUS injunction of the Paramount
Bedding Co. with mass picketing.
Twenty-one were arrested yesterday.
A rank and file defense committee
was elected to participate with the
international Labor Defense.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-30

rode the freiShtS. They travelled
nights crampsd up in buses. Are they
downheartsd? If you could only
listen to their cheers in the audi
torium when workers tell of victories
won under militant Leadership; to
their cheers when leaders call for
the complete unity OF all workers for
the fight to destroy capitalism and
to put the workers into power.
The Conference tlrobs with emo
tional upsurge. The workers are Bit
ter about Roosevelt, bitter about the
NESA, more bitter sill against the
Green's, Lewisss, T5illmans. And in
their words, in t1e.r brief speeches
on the platform, in their in.ense e:s-
Preston. as tllsy lcsen 10 the 5pca,,-
e-s, and in their c,lesrs wni3il s3t;;l,,
Ike hungry battls-cr.cs, c1e heaz5
the ruTihling grown o; revolutionary
nicr, silSum 6Sssinsd to swing csr.sl-
ism into oblivion.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-30
Movie TechnicianS'
Strike Broken By
ALL and Blue Eagle
Jobs of Strikers Now
Held BY Company
Scabs

HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Aug. 29.-The
Blue Eagle with the able assistance
OF the A. F. Of L. leadership has
broken the strike of the movie tech
nicians and sound engineers which
started some 6 weeks ago. The MIRA
decision handed down from Wash
ington this week amounts not only
to virtual lockout Of union men,
bers but to a considerable wage cut.
Most Of the strikers have not been
reemployed, their jobs being held by
scabs; and the company has made
use Of the old A. r. Of L. union to
break the strike. This union, which
is virtually company union, has
supplied strikebreakers for the studios.
AS a result Of this sell out of the
strike the mood Of the workers is re-
ported as growing more militant.
Groups Of them are still picketing the
companies that have settled
Jack Warner, head Of the Warner
Brothers Pictures and State Chair
man Of the MIRA control committee,
has revealed his patriotism by firing
all his stenographic help and rehiring
them at tho new low wage Of the
code
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-30
N. Y. Seamen Picket
Diamond Cement
To Remove Scabs
Better Conditions On
Ship Won Thru Strike

NEW YORK CITY-A Gordon Of
police were thrown about the dock
when the Diamond Cement manned
by a scab crew, arrived in New York
A number Of detectives circulated on
the dock and 5 Holmes detectives
guarded the ship
Despite this police protection IT,
ship and her scab crew learned TIL
the seamen of New York were read
to carry on the strike which bega
in Baltimore. AS the ship was sailin.
from Erie Basin the crew Of an.
other ship in Erie Basin manned the
rail, denounced the scab crew and
showered the decks with rivet heads.
AS the ship passed through the en-
trance to the basin a large number
of seamen who had been picketing
the ship gave her another barTage
Of stones that drove the scab crew of
the deck and into safe shelter.
A committee of pickets, including
Kelly, the chairman of the strike
committee, managed TO get aboard
and reported the following: /. The
present. crew are ulCOTElBlDAe SCdDo
that should be treated as such by
the seamen and longshoremen in
every port. Q. AS a result Of the
strike, wages have been increased ais
which is IS more than the original
demand. 2. Both foc'sles and the
mess room have been painted and liy-
ing quarters generally improved since
the strike. 8. Some improvement in
the food IS to be noted. Thus the
main demands put forward have been
won through strike action and now
the struggle must go forward for
the removal Of the scab crew. Fur
ther action will be carried through by
the MW1U in every port the ship
touches.
At one of the largest meetings held
in New York the unemployed seamen
and members of WA us ships in port
pledged to continue the struggle OF
the Diamond Cement. In support
of the strike the largest collection
ever taken on the New York water
front was made.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-30
Landlord Kills One,
Wounds z Others in
An Eviction Effort
We're Celebrating Re
turn of Father from
Hospital

YAKIMA, Wash.--In attempting to
eyict the Alva Gunkle family from
their ranch near here, Jim Parker,
the landlord, killed their young son,
wounded the mother and child and
was himself shot in the leg.
The family was celebrating the re-
turn of Mr.. Gunkle from the hos
pital where he had been confined af-
ter a logging accident, when the land
lord was seen approaching the house
with shot gun.
She started running with the baby
to warn the others as Parker fired.
wounding both of them. Then just
as their son Louis, 10, approached the
door, Parker, who was near the house
opened fire again, catching the boy
in the forehead. He died soon after
ward.
His brother Clarence following him
to the door grabbed up the family
rifle shooting Parker in the leg so
that it will probably have to be am
putated above the knee He is go
years old
While Parker was supporting him.
self on the fence and Louis lay dy-
ing on the front porch, the wounded
mother was frantically running
around looking for help. Clarence
phoned for an ambulance and the
sheriff.
The family was planning to move
to Yakima in day or two accord
ing to a letter received by friend.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-30
Lumber Bosses Fail
To ROut Industrial
Union Organizers
Lumberjacks Give Aid
Against Boss Threats

COEUR DALENE. Idaho, Aug. 80.
Lumber jacks Of Camp "a of the
Panhandle Lumber Co., IA miles out
CT Spirit Lake here, came to the sup
port Of two organizers Of the National
Lumber Workers Union. G. P. john
son and Joe Willis, last week wher
the foreman Of the camp attempted
to drive them out with an axe. The
union delegates have been organizing
in this locality and drove into Camp
A late in the afternoon. The lum-
berjacks gathered In their bunlihouse
Immediately after supper to hear the
report on the code hearings in Wash
ington at which Alex Moral of the
Union presented the lumber workers
own demands.
The foreman who was present at
the meeting ordered the union de-
legates to leave. When the delegates
cited Section of the NRA as sup
posedly granting the right to organ
ize. the foreman went for an axe
But the delegates continued their
mseting and the foreman finally
Withdrew realizing that he would be
ou5numbersd. After tie r1seting
when the delegates were asked to pay
for their supper, a lumber Jack came
forward to pay for the meals while
the men expressed their support OF
the National Lumber Workers Union
program.
In this camp the men earn about
81 day, work from dawn to sunset
and are forced to file their own saws
and take care o. the compsnys hor5e1
On their ON time. The rsl e&pec
to go en- the soupiine all Summer
as the camp has a large supply of
logs which are not moving out of
the pond.
The National Lumber Workers I'm
ion is organizing the workers in this
region and expects to win the lumber
jacks to struggle against the present
miserable conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-30
cist Union
Wins Strike; Makes
Demands At Hearing

NEW YORK.-Mr. Levitan, pro-
prietor of the LeNtan Pharmacy came
to terms with the Pharmacists Union
last Friday after short but spirited
strike and reinstated the union phar-
macist whose discharge was the
cause of the strike. In addition, he
increased the pharmacists wages by
81 week, signed up as a union shop
and withdrew the charges against
several pickets.
The union was represented at the
hearings on the drug code and pre-
scented demands for s45 a week for a
20 hour week for registered pharna-
cists and $50 week for junior phsf-
macists.
A national organization Of en-
ployes pharmacists has been formed
with national headquarters at the
office of the New York Union, 612
Third Avenue
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-30
AFL BetrayS Strike
of Girl Toilers in San
Antonio Cigar Shop
Forces Mediation By
Mayor and City
Council

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Aug. 3D.
The American Federation Of Labor
PLAYED its usual game Of settling out
c5ril-es. when it induced the giri
strilsers CT the Fincke Cigar Co. to
accept the mediation of Mayor G. K.
Quinn and the City Council.
The city authorities had previously
attempted to break the strike by sup
plying police protection to scabs, but
we're unsuccessful in the face OF
strong picket opposition.
The bosses Of the cigar company
have already signed up with MIRA.