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The Washington times., 1933-08-11
BR|CKLAYERS
MUST Be PAID
BY AUG. 25
CataIano Company Ordered to
Settle Claims by District
Commissioners

The District Commissioners to-
day served notice on Dominic
Catalano, of Baltimore, that claims
of bricklayerS for back pay on con-
struction of the Phelps Vocational
School must be settled by August
25.
The bricklayers claim the Cata,
lano Construction Company owes
them more than $500, represent
ing the difference between the
amount they were paid and the
prevailing wage, which they should
have received under the Bacon
Davis act.
Sub-cOntractor Snag
Following a public hearing the
firm was given 10 days In which
to settle claims of the workmen.
Wednesday they reported they
had paid all but bricklayers and
laborers. Payment to the brick.
layers was held up on account of
difficulty with a subcontractor.
Yesterday, Michael Beccio, the
sub-contractor, filed an affidavit
to the effect that he was not
working on a contract, but was
merely bricklayer foreman at the
same time a committee of brick
layers stated Catalano had refused
to pay them.
Payment to the laborers was
held up by an appeal by Catalano
from a ruling of the Commits
sioners fixing the wage for
laborers at IS cents per hour.
To Pay Under Protest
This appeal was overruled by
the Commissioners today, and
David Wiener, counsel for Cata.
lano, announced that payment to
the laborers would be made only
under protest.
Wiener added that the claims
of the bricklayers would be
settled as soon as it can be COM
puted "how much, if anything.
is coming to them" He said
the men had been paid on the
basis of the number of bricks
laid and that Catalano is en-
countering difficulty in comput-
ing the time each man worked.
When asked if he would settle
with the bricklayers, Catalano is
said to have told the Commits
Sioners he would "do the best
he could" Adding that his
means "were not unlimited" He
reiterated that the subcontractor
is responsible for paying the
bricklayers.
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Robinson DisQUOWs
Recount of Ballots

]. Harvey Robinson, defeated
for the city Democratic committee
in the Alexandria city elections
last week, has issued statement
denying that he asked a recount
on the votes in the second ward.
He said the recount was de-
manded by E. F.. Hoffman on be-
half of Powell D. Roberts, the
other defeated candidate. Robin.
son stated he had no reason to
question the count of the election
officials and accepted his defeat
as a good Democrat.
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Neck Broken In DiUe,
SLDinlnler Succun1bS

A broken neck he received
when he dived into shallow water
yesterday at Herald Harbor, Nd,
caused the death of Robert
Messer, 80, of the 1900 block
Eleventh st. N. w., in George
Washington University Hospital
early today.
Messer went to the resort with
a party of friends. Following his
injury he was rushed to the hos
pital here in an ambulance from
Annapolis.
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Rental Agency Does Rushing Business as Local
Lads and Lassies Return to Date
Customs Of Crandmothers

The inexpensive date problem is
practically solved. Also Grandma
gets the thrill of the good old
days before automobiles came into
vogue.
The latest thing is a spin about
the park on a bicycle.
Thus Washington falls into line
with the wheel" craze which is
sweeping the county from Cali
fornia to Central Park, in New
York city.
A Washington business woman
has started a bicycle agency and
rents brightly colored wheels" at
Is cents an hour-35 cents after
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dark, because flashlights are
needed.
She says washington has fallen
hook, line and sinker for the
bicycling fad.
Not only do girls and young
men use them for dates, but yes
terday three old ladies with white
hair mounted the wheels, remem-
bering the good old days of their
youth when they, too, used this
means of travel on a date.
Besides that, she has ordered
a tandem-the old-fashioned obi
cycle built for two"-for which
she expects a rushing business,
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SPARE
NETS 81 DAYS

Automobile accessory thieves
were given a solemn warning in
Police Court as Judge Ralph
Given meted out a three-month
sentence on an offender today.
The sentence was imposed on
Earl Thornton, colored, of the
2400 block Ontario Rd. N. W.,
who was charged with stealing a
spare tire and rim from the rear
Of an automobile belonging to
William zegowitz, of the 500
block Fourth St. N. w.
In melting out the sentence,
Judge Given said that in the
future, offenders need expect no
leniency.
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Rich Check PGsser
GiUen Mental Test

"Judge, l have $1,2OO,OOO IN
that bank and President
Roosevelt o. KS my checks.
That is what Charles Cobble,
600 block Fourth st. N. w., told
Judge Ralph Given in Police
Court yesterday. Cobble is charged
with passing worthless checks
amounting to $23 on the Form
erS National Bank of Des Moines,
Iowa. Judge Given sent him to
Gallinger Hospital for mental
observation.
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Arkansas swept into line the cry for
payment was loud and long; and if
any mean dry State refuses to vote
(or to vote wet) the clamor for pay
ing us money will proportionately
die down..
In a word, the French think, with
a great deal of justification, that if
we repeal we will want wine, and if
we want wine they have some of the
best wines in the world (nearly all
of them, in fact), which they would
be only too glad to sell to us. Cham
pagne Ito be drunk ''like medi-
cine, you know") is already flowing
into the country and out over the
counters of druggists on prescrip-
tion only.
It paws a little more than 81 a
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AIDES CHOSEN
BY CANPA PA|GN
DIRECTORS
Purposes of Recovery Act Told
at Conference of Workers;
More Get Eagles"
Business is getting better"

Business is getting better"
That was the optimistic mes
sage General" Thomas P. Little
page, head of the Washington
volunteer committee, gave civic
and trade leaders today when
they met in the Board of Trade
offices to perfect a local organi-
zation.
At the meeting aides to the
lieutenant generap'-Miss Eta l..
Taggart-and the three "col-
onels"-Claude w. Owen, James
G. Yaden and James E. Colli-
floWer-were named.
List of Aides
Miss Taggart named the follow
ing:
Mrs. Merritt o. Chance, Mrs.
Helen Hayes Riley, Mrs. William
P. Corbin, Mrs. Leonard Schloss,
Mrs. Elizabeth T. Sullivan, Mrs.
E. J. Brennan, Mrs. Leon Arnold,
Mrs. Ellen T. Hart, Mrs. George
Kicker, Mrs. Conway Cooke, Mrs.
Henry Grattan Doyle, Miss Flea.
nor Connally, Mrs. Charles Gold
smith, Mrs. Harry Parkinson,
Mrs. C. S. Schemmerham, Mrs.
Marion D. Butler, Mrs. Beatrice
S. Woodlaw, Mrs. Elizabeth j.
McLaurin and Mrs. Mildren Cole
man.
Colonel" Owen named the fol-
lowing:
Julian Brylawski, in charge Of
amusements; Robert j. Cottrell,
head of newspaper publicity; J.
D. Kaufman, radio; Robert Du-
yam, posters, and Maj. Gen. Amos
A. Fries. U. S., retired, director
of the parade August %. marking
the end of the local drive.
Yaden Names HELPERS
Colonel" Yaden announced his
aides as follows: Richard A.
Dickson, Of the Central Labor
Union; George Beasley, head of
the Federation of Civic Associa-
tions; Arthur C. Smith, chairman
of the Business Mems Associa-
tions, and Charles j. Stengall,
ex-member of Congress and head
Of the District Public School
Association.
Colonel" Colliflower's aides
are:
Ford E. Young, Harold B. May
bee, who will have charge of the
speakers bureau" Dewey Zirkin,
who will head the information
division, and Raymond j. Walter,
his assistant.
Frank r. Wilson, chief of the
public relations division of the
organization bureau of the NRA,
appeared at the meeting and ex-
planned to those assembled the
purposes of the national indus
trial recovery act.
Wilson stated that already
5000 communities have organized
and that most Of them had an
nounced that employers were 100
per cent for recovery.
He stressed the fact that the
drive will put between 100000
and 100000 of the country's 12,-
100000 unemployed back to work,
and that the District recovery
board named yesterday by the
NRA would handle disputes, COM
plants and adjustments.
Price Rise to Result
Wilson urged that the local
drive be ended by Labor Day
and asserted that it is "the one
last hope to change the trend of
prices"
While this meeting was in prog
ress, just across the street at the
Postoffice Department Building,
(Continued on Page IS, Col. ~
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Engineer Named
OiL-Gas Unit Chief

Lewis R. Andersen today be-
came acting chief of the oil and
gas section of the valuation di-
vision of the income tax unit in
the Bureau of Internal Revenue.
Andersen, who was formerly an
engineer in the section, succeeds
Lloyd C. Gibson, resigned.
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Conner Assumes Job
As Insurance Chief

Charles E. Conner, "a, today
assumed his duties as deputy
superintendent of insurance, to
which position he was appointed
yesterday by the District Commits
SionerS.
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NRA to Slash, Not Expand,
Staff, Says johnson

corporation has raised the point
that it is an interstate organiza-
ton and not subject to the code.
The general said he had visited
Baltimore yesterday and had told
them:
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True to Type
France May Pay If We Vote Wet
BY GILBERT SELDES

A LTHOUGH we hear very little of it, there is strong
"A movement in France in favor of resuming debt pay
ments to the United States and the movement gains in
strength with every vote prohibition gather from
not too accurate that when Alabama Oregon and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-12
TO AMEND?
TT to be legal"

TT is smart to be legal"
An inspiring slogan, but there's room
for some doubt as to its being catching" with
the jority of drinkers such will be the post
repeal conditions.
Very much depends upon the difference
between the prices of legalized drinks and
those of the illicit traffic and the greater that
difference the greater the profits in smuggling
and bootlegging.
In times of depression, it is natural of the
drinker with limited means to be partial to
the lower priced drinks, and it has been pretty
thoroughly demonstrated, during the last thir-
teen years, that such drinker is not con-
science snnitten in the presence of the cheaper
drinks, be the same illegal or otherwise.
In other words, while it undoubtedly may
be smart to be legal, there are millions of
drinkers who will feel that they can not afford
to be smart.
No sort of doubt as to the supply. An
armada of foreign ships is lying off our At
lantic coast ready to deliver millions of gallons
of beverages to our eastern ports California
has under consideration between $4,000 and
100000 applications for license to disburse
drinks, and similar conditions exist in several
other states.
Nor is there any question but with a num-
Der Of the states dry, or with drastic restric-
tons against transportation and sale, the fields
Of smuggling and bootlegging will be multi
piled and suppression of illicit traffic a bigger
and fiercer job than enforcement of the noble
experiment" with which Uncle Sam has been
monkeying since 1920.
However, the status has one redeeming fea-
ture. Some go per cent, say of the higher
priced, but legal drinks will be made by their
manufacturers under government supervision
and contain little, if any, poisonous ingredi-
ents while the fellow who drinks bootleg risks,
besides his standing for smartnesS. eyesight,
paralysis, insanity and death.
Indeed, it might be we'll to amend the slo-
gan to read:
ut is smart and safer to be legal"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-12
PEEK AND THE SURPLUS

ATOW that Mr.. Peek has failed as head Of
the agricultural adjustment administra-
ton he is to be given a new Job as super
salesman to barter farm products abroad.
Probably it would not be fair to PREJUDICE his
fitness for the new post.
But it is accurate to say that he did much
more harm than good at the AAA. He was
insubordinate to a very able chief, Agricul-
ture Secretary Wallace. BY pulling IN the
wrong direction he made teamwork impossible.
There also was the matter Of personnel.
Unwilling to work with capable officials such
as Assistant Secretary Tugwen and General
Counsel Frank, Mr.. Peek resorted to the ques-
tionable tactics of setting up a kind Of or
ganization Of his own which neither was
efficient nor altogether i'll sympathy with the
purposes of the administration.
Deeper even than these organizational diff
fculties was the split on policy. When it came
to codes and agreements, Mr.. Peek and some
Of his coterie seemed to be better friends of
the milk ring and the packers than of the
farmers or the consumers MI. Peek appeared
much more sympathetic with the development
of business combines than with their necessary
corolary, government regulation.
The foundation of the administrators
farm policy is crop control Though nominal
ly going along with this program, at times
there was the suspicion that Mr. Peek actually
was trying to delay it.
However they may disagree on other
panaceas, virtually all economists are of the
opinion that closer adjustment of farm sup-
plies to consumer demand, or rather consun-
ers' capacity to buy, is basic to q solution of
the farm problem The surplus must be cut
at the source. That was and is the Roosevelt
Wallace approach to the problem, and by
standing in the way Mr. Peek was in some
degree responsible for the recovery sag.
Now that the farmers are getting somewhat
better prices for their products and therefore
are tempted again to overprcduce, it is essen
tial that all Washington officials forming and
administering farm policy everlastingly shall
harp on crop control.
AS President Roosevelt said yesterday in
his message to the annual convention of the
American Farm Bureau Federation:
I'm a few short months the whole COM
pleXion Of the agricultural outlook has been
changed. Money is getting into the hands of
the people who need it; it is coming from
higher prices for the things farmers have to
sell; it is coming in the form of government
checks for those cooperating producers who
are willing to swap a hazardous present for
immediate improvement and stable future
But, in all candor, think a brief moment
of qualification is enough; we seem to be on
our way, but we are not yet out of the woods,
and it is of the utmost Importance that we
guard against letting rise in farm income
tempt us to forget the realities of supply and
demand"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-12

best cr0cheted rugs. Two people who loved
each other in another country, and we're will
ing to take their vows across a separating
stains on the best damask Marriage will mean
more than that to them
Maybe the Clasons did get ahead Of the law.
But they did it legally and in good order.
Teen age boys and girls, 16 and II and 10,
are slipping across the borders Of states with
worthy marriage laws to those that issue Ii
censes to anybody, every hour Of the day and
night. They are seeking a thrill. They want
marriage merely because it is something they
haven't had. It's something new. And their
chances that they will establish homes and
hearths are as slim as yesterdays fashion
slhouettes.
But when two people are so sure that they
belong together that they will spend SAT tele-
phoning to make the connection legal they
should be given an international blessing and
the bands should play the "Star-Spanged
Banner" and the Swedish national anthem
Yes. love finds a way. Close all the roads
Of all the world, and it will detour. Or take
an airplane. Or do a deep sea dive and come
out in China. Or telephone.
True, Romeo and Juliet didn't live long
enough to learn how they would have managed
had they set up housekeeping and Leander
persisted in the river on that stormy night.
But there wasn't anything the matter with
the telephone connection. The Clasons are
married The bride should be welcomed to
her husbands land She didn't marry him to
become a citizen. She became a citizen be-
cause it was the only way she could marry
him. And love. as anybody knows, is consid-
erably more important in a woman's life, than
citizenship any day
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-12
PROFESSIONAL FEES

/. A READER of this paper asks why, if price
L \ fixing of store keepers goods fills the BILL
should not fee-hxing for professionals also
help to relieve the depression, and he offers
this peculiar instance:
]. j. Harpell publisher of the Montreal
Journal of Commerce, served three months in
Jail for making defamatory remarks about
life insurance company president and when he
came to pay his lawyer, Superior Court Judge
Fortier cut the latters bill from $4,000 to
$4,000
Fee-fiXing in Canada by judicial order IN
fortunately, Judge Fortiers reasons for fee
fixing are not at hand. Perhaps, the judge
considered that $4,000 bill as plain extortion,
in view of the fact that the lawyers client had
to put the three months in Jail, which would
suggest the policy of fixing lawyers fees in
all instances of losing the case. And, if law
yers' fees are to be fixed by courts, why not
those of doctors, dentists and other profess
SIGNALS?
Perhaps, Canada looked over into our ter
ritory, saw us cutting the salaries of big cor
poration managers and decided that the scheme
would work when applied to fees At any rate,
Publisher Harpen is to be congratulated on
not having to pay $1,000 for a three months
Jail sentence.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-12

LIQUOR PRICE COUGHING

IF Indiana wants to get rid Of bOotlegging
and racketeering the price Of liquor must
be reduced. Costs Of legal drinking are 50 high
that the illicit whisky salesman has a tremen-
dous advantage. one of the worst features of
prohibition was that the rich could drink as
much good liquor as they pleased, while the
poor had to do without or consume poison.
This injustice still exists in Indiana.
Whisky costs from 81 95 to 81 pint. Wines
run from s1.85 for a fairly good domestic
product up to ST a short quart for imported
champagne. Retail druggists are not RESPONSE
BILE Their markups are moderate. 1t is the
wholesalers and distillers who are doing the
gouging.
There is no legitimate explanation for such
a situation The prohteering is best illustrated
by gin This drink requires no aging, and, as
every one knows is merely mixture Of dis
titled water grain alcohol, juniper essence and
glycerin. It is potable five minutes after
manufacture. Yet Indiana consumers are be-
ing charged $3.50 a pint Grain alcohol is
being held at the same price level for no rea-
son at all.
Indianas plight becomes even more absurd
when liquor prices in other states are con-
sdered. In Chicago gin is selling for from SO
to 95 cents a pint. In Buffalo it is priced at
IS cents. In San Francisco it may be bought
for SO cents The proportionate difference in
whisky prices is the same.
Wines are far lower in other states than
they are here. Thoughtful people hoped that
repeal would bring back greater use of mild
wine and corresponding reduction in con-
sumption of hard liquor This actually is TAX
ing place in other states, but it can not happen
in Indiana until the price of wine is such to
make 1t generally available.
On the face Of it there seems to be some
sort of scheme in operation to hold liquor
prices at artifcially high prices. If this state
of affairs continues our state is likely to have
an influx of booze runners, racketeers, trigger
men and "musclers in" from New York and
Chicago They naturally will seek commune
ties where business conditions are favorable
for bootlegging.
The Governors liquor commission would do
well to make a thorough investigation of
prices. The authorities should make it posi-
bic for persons in moderate circumstances to
buy their beverages through legitimate chan
nels. 1t is smart to be legal.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-12
THE THIRD DEGREE

. EPORTS that the United States depart
ner.t of justice has rejected the use of
the third degree in its war on crime indicate
that detection becomes more intelligent as it
becomes more effective. Recently, also, the
American Civil Liberties Union announced
nationwide campaign to abolish this practice
through better police regulations and state
laws. New school penologists will see in these
two assaults on an ancient evil another VIC
tory in their long fight for just, humane and
efficient law enforcement.
The third degree harks back to the days of
the inquisition. AS a means of getting at the
truth, the torture of suspected criminals is
the same as the old ordeals of fire and water.
1t is the device of policemen too stupid or lazy
to get the real facts of crime And, denials
to the contrary even in this day of scientific
research the third degree is being practiced
widely throughout America
In his report to the Wickersham commits
sion, Investigator Ernest Jerome Hopkins re-
ported proofs of siXty-seven cases of forced
1920 and 1880. In the last twenty years there
is not a single record of such practice in Eng
land.
To defend the third degree is to advocate
lawlessness," the Wickersham commission
found. The practice of coercing confessions
is violation of constitutional rights. Many
forms of the practice are crimes"
Government can not stamp out crime by
turning criminal.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-12
TRIUMPH OF SANITY

LANES JoYCE's famous novel, ulysses"
at last can be imported legally into the
United States. Federal Judge John M Wool
sey rules that. while the book is uncommonIy
frank here and there. it does not anywhere
contain "the leer of a senSualist" and hence
is not obscene.
The ruling ends ban which has existed
ever since Ulysses" was published; and it is
a ruling which all people interested either in
literature or in freedom of expression are
bound to applaud.
In any book it is the spirit and not the
letter that counts. The wording of Ulysses"
easily may be shocking to sensitive person.
But no one can fan to see that in spirit the
book is serious, dignifed and completely
sincere.
Its moral tone is infinitely higher than that
Of dozen cheap sex thrillers that you can
find on any drug store book counter. That it
is at last to get by the censors can be regard
ed only as a triumph for common sense.