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The Washington times., 1933-12-06
.FR|ZZELL RAPS
D. {. BROKERS

Launching a vigorous attack
against selfish financiers and
mortgage brokers'" Paul j. Friz-
zell, director of the local branch of
the Home Owners Loan Corpora
ton, charged yesterday that
Washington is facing breakdown
in property values because Of the
mistaken attitude" of these
groups.
His charges followed a declara-
ton by John H. Fahey, chairman
of the board of directors of the
national corporation to the effect
that his organization is virtually
blocked from relieving distressed
property owners here because of a
few selfish rings. Frizzell said:
Even a casual examination
of the real estate situation here
will lead to the conclusion that
unless foreclosures and the
bringing into an already over.
supplied market of additional
distress properties are halted,
there can be no basis of re-
cOvery in home values in the
District"
The Washington times., 1933-12-06
New Deal Tough
On Squirrels
At ENipse

Life is getting tougher than
ever for the squirrels around
the Ellipse.
After storing up huge sup
plies of nuts for the winter,
they have been holding fren.
zied conferences of late while
CWA workers have been tearing
up the sod, and incidentally
the nuts, preparatory to reseed-
ing the grass plot just across
Fifteenth Street from the Com
merce Department.
AS things now stand,-it looks
like a hard winter for the squir-
rels. The only remedy sug-
gested to date is that after the
CWA people have completed the
sodding job, more CWA en-
ployes be assigned to feed nuts
to the squirrels.
The Washington times., 1933-12-06
WORKERS
NEAR END Of
CAMPAIGN
PWA Sets Record for Federal
EmpIoye Gifts; Pershing
Speaks at Luncheon

On the eve of their last day of
battle for the Districts needy, the
army of volunteer workers of the
Community Chest are fighting
hard to cut to minimum the
deficit of more than half a million
dollars.
The campaign ends tomorrow
with a luncheon meeting in the
Willard Hotel. While officials
have expressed the belief that
this years quota of $1,945, 900
cannot possibly be reached in
view of the huge deficit, every ef-
fort is being made to bring the
drive to a glorious finish.
Sets a Record
A record for Federal employe
contributions to the Chest fund
has been set by employees of the
Public Works Administration, it
was announced today. Despite
the fact that 95 per cent of the
PWA workers are newcomers to
Washington, the organization has
reported 1874 per cent of it's quota
and is anticipating final returns
to show this figure to be greatly
increased.
Alvin Brown. executive officer
of the NRA urged a group of en-
ployes of that division to give
freely to the Chest drive.
LagS Way Behind
Governmental unit of the Com
munity Chest has reached only
40 per cent of its quota. Urged
by Gen. John j. PerShing to make
a better showing workers of this
unit are striving to reach rs per
cent of their quota by tomorrow
noon.
Elwood Street, director of the
Community Chest, today asked
those Washingtonians who wish
to give to get in touch with the
headquarters of the Chest in the
Willard Hotel. The director stated
that unless much more money is
forthcoming many persons in the
District will suffer this winter.
More than so agencies depend
for help on the Community Chest.
These include homes for the aged,
hospitals and orphan aSylums.
The Washington times., 1933-12-06
HOP PK|NS SEEKS
CWAPAY DATA

Detailed information on wage
scales paid skilled CWA workers
was today asked in a telegram
from Harry l.. Hopkins, Federal
Civil Works Administrator, to
District Civil Works officials.
This action followed on the
heels of the decision of the local
CWA not to pay union scales to
skilled workers employed on CWA
projects.
Capt. Howard F. Clark, head
of the work-planning committee
of the local CWA, said today
local officials have no intention
of following instructions con-
tained in a telegram from Jacob
Baker, assistant to Hopkins,
directing that where prevailing
hourly wage is higher than the
minimum set for CWA projects
the wage shall be paid.
The Washington times., 1933-12-06
Gas COMPANY'S :
EXPERT HEAD

Testimony in support Of the
contention of the Washington
and Georgetown Gas Light COM
panieS that the original cost of
the two firms was $40, 1865, ,594 was
offered yesterday before the Pub
lie Utilities Commission.
S. F. Rosters, company witness,
began a detailed account of his
estimates, which are some $3,0OO,-
900 higher than those of Com
mission experts. The difference
is due to the fact that Rosters
included in his figures on actual
expenditures estimates for in
terest during construction and
superintendent charges.
The Washington times., 1933-12-06
CRAFT CHARGED
IN D. c. ROAD
PROJECT
Ex-Foreman of Piney Branch
Underpass Alleges Payroll
Was Padded

Grave charges of payroll pad
ding and Implications of graft
in the Engineers Office of the
District Government in connec-
ito with District project are
contained in a petition and affi-
davit presented to the District
Commissioners today by former
general foreman on the Piney
Branch underpass project.
Edward c. link, the former
employe of the general contractor
on the job, says that from March
to November, 1882, he was gen.
eral foreman on the Piney
Branch project and that many
instances of padding took place
within his sight during the pc
riod of his enjoyment.
Inspector Named
Naming the inspector on the
job representing the District En-
gineer's Office, link, through his
attorney, Richard A. Harman,
relates an instance when he was
told by the contractor to place
the name of a dummy" on the
pay roll.
He demurred to the proposal
Zinc says, and was told by his en-
ployer that if he did not wish to
do what was asked of him, the
employer would find someone
who would" Mindful of holding
his job, link says that he then
asked what name should be placed
on the payroll and the inspector
from the District Engineers office
suggested the name of Tony Mar
cino.
Many times thereafter, link
says, the mythical Tony Marcino
was issued payroll checks for
which the District paid and the
checks were cashed in some in
stances by the inspector and in
others by the contractor.
Expense" Items Cited.
The inspector also was placed
on the expense account of the con.
tractor to the tune of 145 gallons
of gasoline and / quart of oil dur.
ing this period. All these items
are still a matter of record in his
books, link says.
link further charges that many
times he was paid more by the
contractor for material he had
purchased out of his own funds
than he had actually advanced,
but the contractor collected the
difference in each case or had his
secretary, a Baltimore woman, to
do so.
links complaint is based on a
suit filed in District Supreme
Court in which he obtained a
judgment for disability under the
workmen's compensation act. At
this time the compensation COM
missioner had instructed the Dis
trict to take from the contrac-
or's bond an amount sufficient to
pay the claim, but the bonding
company, in a separate suit, had
sought to administer the fund for
other purposes which were item
lied in the bill.
It is alleged that many Of the
items listed by the bonding com
pany are spurious and that links
claim is not listed at all.
The District Commissioners are
asked to use to the fullest extent
their inyestigative powers to de-
termine the validity of each item
set out by the bonding company
to protect links interest.
The Washington times., 1933-12-06
A Book, Today

This is good week to read Stanley Walkers book on
the Night Club Era the text of the play, broadway" the
reports of the AnSaoon League from 1920 on Pessure
Politics. which showed how prohibition came the recent
Rockefeller report repeal and control and any
ha-dozen books on how to wine and why. Do not
read comic books cocktas-although the recipes are
good enough. You do not need recipes for wines and
whskes and brandy The book should like most to read
today will be published in about ten years-on the first
decade of repeal
The Washington times., 1933-12-06
Man Leaps To Death
From Home WindOlv

Wrestling himself free from his
daughter-in-law, Fred O'Brien, a.,
of the 200 block East Capitol ST.,
last night jumped from the second
story window at his home and
received injuries which resulted
in his death in Gallinger Hos
pital today. According to police,
O'Brien had been i'll and despond-
ent and had threatened suicide.
When he jumped from the
window, his son was looking for
a physician for him.
The Washington times., 1933-12-06
Roosevelt Backs
NeIU Florida Canal

President Roosevelt is anxious
to have a ship canal built cross
the northern neck of Florida. He
revealed his keen interest today
when he was asked the status of
the proposed 35-foot transflorida
canal. With regard to the latter
project, Army engineers sometime
ago reported to Mr.. Roosevelt that
it would not be self-Sustaining.
Then Mr.. Roosevelt asked the en-
gineerS for a cost estimate on a
3O.foot canal.
The Washington times., 1933-12-06

liquor and he had made friends with
stewards on boats touching Bermuda
within three weeks after the fatal
amendment was in force. From him
l got Scotch of the first quality, but
l had to pay him in advance and one
day he had sailed for the source of
pure liquor, taking with him a little
of my money.
Since that time I have had credit
with bootleggers, but have never
made up my account against the sys-
TEN. 1t is outlawed by now. Nor
have ever had so intellectual a
bootlegger, although I have had more
intelligent ones, some of them smart
enough not to try to persuade me
that their liquor was good. All
thronnh the first half of the 1905. I
The Washington times., 1933-12-06
Prizes for
Newstips

Do you want to make some
money for being alert? If so,
The Washington Times pre-.
sents the opportunity to you.
Every week six. cash
prizes are being given for
newstips telephOned in to
the Newstip Editor at DIS
trict $3.50. Phone them
any time between $50 q.
m. and 6 p. m.
And what is a newstip? It's
the information that something
of interest to Washingtonians
has taken place or will take
place. An accident, a rescue,
a deed of heroism. an ap.
pointment to public office. a
bank merger. crime, scien
tific discovery. an unusual
new invention, an unusual &C.
currence-each is a example
of a good newstip.
RememberA-six cash prizes,
each and every week.
The Washington times., 1933-12-06
AMTER TO SPEAK

I. Amter, National Secretary of
the Unemployed Councils of
U. S. A: and one of the leaders of
the hunger march to Washington
last December, will speak at a
mass meeting at Pythian Temple,
1900 block U st. N. w., this
evening
The Washington times., 1933-12-06
Alexandria Shriners
To Attend Ceren1Onu

Fifty members of the Alexandria
Shrine Club will leave at 4 o'clock
this evening to attend the cere-
monial at Acca Temple Mosque
tonight. Five Alexandrians will
tread the burning sands with the
class of Is members from Rich
mond.
The Alexandria delegation will
be headed by Joseph Kretchner,
president of the Shrine Club.
The Washington times., 1933-12-06
Gordon High Pupils
To GiUe -Four PLdus

-Four one-act plays will be pre-
sented by the students of the Cor.
don Junior High School, Friday
evening at 8 o'clock. Music will
be furnished by the school orches-
ira.
Titles of the plays are Buried
Treasure" "A Pair of Lunatics," j"
Mimi Lights the Candle" and
Slippers of Cinderella"
The Washington times., 1933-12-06
CITY HAS ONE DRUNK

The quietude of Alexandria's
repeal celebration was best evi-
denced by the session of police
court this morning which lasted
40 seconds while Judge Snow fined
Edgar Miller, the only defendant,
SO for being drunk on the street.
The Washington times., 1933-12-06
RETAINS THE BYLAWS

Reading Of the bylaws of the
Massachusetts, Society Of Wash
ington was held last night by the
society at the Shoreham Hotel.
The members voted to retain the
bylaws.
The Washington times., 1933-12-06
True to Type
Farewell, Farewell, Long Farewell
to Booze
to Booze
BY GILBERT SELDES-

My first bootlegger was in effect bootegger at all
de was young intellectual of those who hated the
imposition of law affecting daily habits of life
and who happened the time, like drinking He
was nearly broke and but he had for good
The Washington times., 1933-12-06

Time Is valuable! Save It when shop
ping for apartments by FIRST consult
ing the Rental Columns of the WANT
AID SECTION of this newspaper.
The Washington times., 1933-12-06
$40 a Case-of Bulbs

pick up the liquor trail again in 1925 so but all
can remember that the young and dark, and
and not poisonous The price $40 One day
called the number and got confusion the wre the
day when called told that the service had been
discontinued. A long lapse follows in my mind. Could
have stopped drinking? More probably, I abroad
Hank now appears on the horizon, dealer in Italian
wines, brought to the house in gallon jugs little sour
little wine for the somachs sake For years dealt with
Hank and day, finding myself his place. and in
need stepped in. 1t argsh shop selling electric
light bubsno other electrical equipment only bulbs And
perhaps not selling them
The Washington times., 1933-12-06

must have been most nrequent patron for neither
nor faces in my memory, and if had kept my
checkbooks the boogger would be represented only by
The Washington times., 1933-12-06
Special Gases

In my desperate and ultimately unsuccessful efforts to
avoid gin, had sherry bootlegger specialist as
they in Wall Street It domestic wne quite like
sherry TASTE and took the place of cocktails before lunch
buying two bottles of Scotch they good as the
domestic type Once went to which supplied
bottled goods and found myself the midst of raid It
was about exciting tiddle-dy-winks.
Ny greatest pleasure was in John Cucumber who began
to sell men through the agency Of satisfied customers
recommendation, in 1926 and has just stopped today
John Cucumber always had three telephone numbers in
with the return address rubbersamped the back The
stamp read Store and street address. saw the
store. Cucumbers gin remarkably pure and remark
ably gnny, which did not recommend it to me- but my
friends had to take it.
Smaller Quarts
At the beginning Cucumber sold quarts of gin for $14
Later the price went to twelve And then, after
had been away for half year. called and told
gin was $9 ordered two It just we'll For
the crafty Cucumber had sliced the bottles until they were
virtually pints and eased with his perpetuay lower
ing prices few weeks ago Cucumber begged take
five at Sc each but ddn dare face the possibility
that they glls thimbes of GIN And Yesterday
threatening with legal gin 49, Cucumber insisted that
take what he had left at five held out against
lit.
Hawthornstein specialized in Scotch and was valuable
because he would take back bad liquor with the most pain
full groans and dubious shakngs his head because the
stuff had been guaranteed to him. From him got White
Horse tins supremey fine the first time and lust bootleg
the second He the only bootegger who made me feel
that he member of of the great sinister svnd
Gates" and [ always worried little about him. His place
taken by Rex, the bootleggers boy whose shrewd
comments the world have appeared from time to
time Rex is bracketed with the intellectual of the early
192os-my first and my last bootleggrs Through these
two, salute them all.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-04
Bear Mt. Workers
Call First Strike
ON Civil Works Job

NEW YORK.-When 1900 civil
works employees assemble at Wee
hawken Ferry at w. 42nd st. at $50
this morning for their trip to Bear
Mountain, where they work, they
will declare a strike and attempt to
call out a second contingent of Bear
Mountain G. w. A. workers which is
scheduled to follow them in 20 min
utes.
The strikers will march TO Com
missioner Taylor's office and demand
that the work be scheduled SO that
they receive SIS per day for three
day week; pay for rainy days; guar
antee of SIS per week; no discrim-
nation against strikers and aboli-
ton Of the present charge of 80 cents
for transportation.
The workers were told Saturday
that they would receive less under
the Civil Works Administration for
the hours worked than they had been
receiving under the Temporary
Emergency Work Relief. The strike
is a result of a meeting which the
workers held on the train returning
from work Saturday.
Under the system which had been
in force since Nov. 81, 1882,
the men had been receiving 81 a
day; days week; 2 weeks work
a month. Under the proposed Civil
Works program the men will receive
SIS for a 30-hour week, less trans
portation charges Of so cents a day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-04
Johnson Approves
Is Per Cent Cut in
Cotton Operations
Mass Unemployment
Forecast This Month
in Code Ruling

WASHINGTC-{, D. C., Dec. 3. -
General johnson yesterday approved
the reconr-. erdation Of the Cotton
Textile Institute, composed of textile
employers who run the cotton code,
that machine hours of operation be
cut IS per cent under hours now al
lowed, during the month of Deem
Der. This means part-time work for
the workers of the textile industry
this month, as well as mass unem-
ploynlent.
johnson IN hehalf of the MA.
"hailed" the recommendation, which
means further starvation for the tex
tile workers, as IAN indication OF the
possibility OF self-government by in
dustry under codes of fair COMPETE
tion."
The ruling OF the MIRA. further
concurs in the recommendation that
for ninety days shortening Of the ma
chine hours worked in any branch OF
industry may be put into effect.
The reason. given by the Code
Authority" the Cotton Institute, for
the cut, was ito meet emergency con-
ditions now prevailing in the in
dustry," caused by ga seasonal slump
in sales" The textile industry, the
first to go under the N. R. A., has a
minimum wage Of only $13 week
and the code governs not only cot
ton, but silk and rayon as we'll Mass
unemployment this month is forecast
in the textile industry.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-04

dragged from their beds, held in the
military stockade until Saturday, and
then deported to Navajo, in the Ari-
IONA desert, and left destitute.
This is continuation Of Gen.
Woods attempt, with the support Of
Major Moore of the N. r. A. board,
to drive the leaders of the N. M. u.
out of the state.
The militia, with approval of the
N. r. A.. have thus again violated the
agreement which settled the strike Of
the Gallup miners. Under this strike
settlement, all strike leaders were to
have been released Internationally.
Protsts Urged
The deportation Of these leaders of
the National Miners Union is an at
tempt of the military and the COM
panies to smash the National Miners
Union, and Dust the organization
from the field. The N. M. u, as a
result of the favorable settlement of
the strike, is in an entrenched posi-
ton in the New Mexico field, and the
(Continued on Page q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-04
5000 Sausage Men
Strike in 90 Plants
for Minimum Wage
Chicago Meat Workers
Also Demand the
I9-Hour Week

CHICAGO, Ill, Dec. 3. - Three
thousand sausage workers at sc
plants have gone on strike for the
40-hour week and minimum wage
scale for skilled workers of s28, $S4
and $40 a week. The strike, involves
members of the unions of the A. F.
Of L., such as sausage workers. meat
cutters, meat wagon drivers and meat
peddlers unions. all affiliated to the
Analgamated Meat Cutters and But
cllers Of North America.
Affects Small Shops
This strike formulated demands
only for the most skilled workers.
For the unskilled workers who are on
strike no demands were formulated.
Sandwich pickets are stationed at the
Establishments where the workers are
on Strika his s+~t-e is rot affect
; any big packers. 1t affects only
small shops.
The union burocrats of the Live
stock Handlers Union are having a
conference with the general manager
of the Union Stockyards and Transit
Co, in an attempt to adjust the de-
mands raised by the workers in the
recent strike. The Livestock Handlers
must be on the lookout for any new
sell-out that the burocrats might at
tempt to put over.
Industrial Union Active
The Packing House Workers Indus
9ial Union intensif1es its organiza-
tional drive among the packing house
workers and fully supports the work.
ers on strike, working towards
strengthening the strike, and warns
the workers against any betrayals of
the union burocrats, urging mass
picketing and calls upon the morgan
lied and unskilled workers who are
on strike to formulate demands. The
P. H. w. I. U. also calls upon the
skilled workers, organized into the
unions OF the A. F. of L. not to be-
tray the unorganized and unskilled
workers, but to fight together TO i'm
rove conditions Of all the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-04

CHICAGO workers are taking real
v action to help save our Daily
Worker. They have accepted Phila-
delphia's challenge, and to show
that they mean real business rushed
$15396 yesterday.
The challenge was accepted at a
functionaries' meeting of the Com
munist Party, District 8, Chicago and
the following resolution adopted;
"Whereas the Philadelphia Dis
trict of the Communist Party to-
gether with the close sympathizers
Of the revolutionary movement has
challenged Chicago to fulfill It's
quota in the Daily Worker drive
and at the same time increasing It's
own quota from $4,000 TO $500.
BE it resolved that we the func-
tionaries Of the Communist Party
of Chicago full endorse the deci-
sion of the District secretariat, Dis
trict 8, to fulfill our quota of $1,000,
and also
BE it resolved that we accept
the challenge made by Philadelphia
and pledge ourselves to fulfill our
quota before Philadelphia raises Its
increased quota Of $500
CHICAGO is one Of the first dis
y tricts to send tag day receipts.
With $153.96 already raised, Chicago
pledges at least another 500 from
tag day collections shortly. The