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The Washington times., 1933-09-13
By DIXIE TIGHE

HAVANA, Sept. 13 QN.SO.
Rebellious ousted army officers
quartered in the National Hotel
found themselves in a ridiculous
plight today when they were
forced to relinquiSh their hold
on machine guns to pick up
brooms, mops and skillets.
All employees Of the hotel
walked out, leaving the officers
to take over their duties.
Amateur Cooks
The army men cracked eggs
with their revolvers, bugled the
mess call, but drilled with knives
and forks and paraded into the
dignified dining room with dish
mop banners.
The cooking was definitely
amateur.
Tension of the officers snapped
as they stood in the hotel lobby,
watching singing, aproned COM
radeS sweeping it out.
The hotel elevators, manned BY
fighting meA became a sort OF
The Washington times., 1933-09-13
MRS. J. BANKS KURTZ, Jr.
First of Cuba Army Officers
Deposed, Give In

sador Sumner Welles moved from
the National Hotel, the United
States battleship Mississippi
stood close by the Havana shore
line.
At the same time, the radio
station of the newspaper Dlarlo
De La Marina was closed for re-
fusing to broadcast publicity on
behalf Of the new government
The newspaper Ell Mundo ap-
peared on the streets carrying a
strong article mentioning the
sacrifice" of the ousted officers
The strikes throughout the re-
public were not believed con-
nected with the revolution. Those
on strike include 10000 beer
truck drivers, 5000 icemen, TO-
900 laundrymen. 1000 WoolWorth
employees. and 5000 workers IN
the Bacardi rum plants. The
tailors' strike ended, 5000 men
returning to work after receiving
a raise in pay. This strike was
not connected with politics or the
revolution. -,
The workers joined the so-called
Machado general strike to drive
him from office. getting no pay
increases when the strikes were
over. Now, however, they are de-
mandinG a share in the rewards.
Lack Of ice is causing some
hardship. especially at Sloppy
Joe's famous bar and at other
similar establishments whe e
tourists again are congregatlng'
The character of the men
chosen for the new cabinet won
universal praise from the Ha-
yana newspapers and business
men. Col. Fulgenci Batista, chief
of staff of the army, was praised
publicly by Luis Rodolfo Mi
randa, one of Cuba's wealthiest
citizens and former minister to
Belgium.
Miranda said Batista had spent
three years administering the
estates and properties of his
daughters, and has proved him
self a trustworthy, efficient ad-
ministrator. mot just an ordi-
nary soldier" 1t was pointed
out in this connection that men,
bers of the Cuban army are
permitted to hold outside jobs.
Former President Mario G..
Menocal broke his silence to
issue a statement declaring him.
self interested only in the saliva
ton of Cuba and dedicating his
time and energy to this task.
In declaration which was
interpreted as expressing his neu-
trality in the current political
set,up. he said:
1T is absolutely necessary to
maintain the integrity of our
threatened independence and
to rectify everything which
might provoke it, loss and
eclipse. .----,>,-
The Washington times., 1933-09-13
5 AREAS TO GET
REL|EFFUNDS
BY international News Service

BY International News Service
A $60,000,00O relief drive for
the benefit of the five major
areas of the nation which have
been affected by natural cataS-
trophies this year was announced
today by President Roosevelt.
The relief will come in the
form of extension of public works
by Director Ickes in the areas
designated: extension of direct
Federal relief; extension of Fed
eral credit, and from the States
themselves where it is possible
for the money to be raised locally.
The areas into which these
funds will be poured, outlined
today by the President, are the
Dakotas, where grasshoppers and
drought have made the land vir-
tually destitute; the Texas Pan
handle, where grain has been
blown out of the fields. the Rio
Grande Valley and Florida, where
hurricanes have wrought havoc.
The farm credit administration
will extend credit as literally as
possible for food, clothing, and
livestock feed, the President said.
buy in September and Buy American"
The Washington times., 1933-09-13
smoke THEFT IS
STIR POLICE

Police, incensed over chain store
robberies in which quantities OF
cigarettes are stolen, today visited
numerous retail tobacco shops to
learn, if possible, the identity OF
purchasers of the stolen smokes.
Irwin C. GosSorn. manager Of a
chain grocery in the 5000 block
Fourth st. N. w., reported to
police that someone had stolen
so cartons of cigarettes, valued
at $50.
Another store in the same
chain, located in the 1900 block
New Jersey Ave. N. w., was
broken into but nothing was
taken.
Miss Elsie Coxen, 1900 block
Queen st. N. E., manager Of a
laundry in the 17OO block New
Jersey Ave. N. w., reported to po-
lice the place had been broken
into last night and clothing stolen.
Safe crackers broke into the Of
flee Of the McGhan Scaffolding
Company. 1900 block Eleventh st.
N. w., moved a safe from ore
room to another, and tried to
open the safe with one Of the
company's drills. They were un'
successful. -
The Washington times., 1933-09-13
CUBAN TORTURE
TALES DENIED

HAVANA, Sept. 13 G.N.S).-
Wild rumors that politicians and
army officers were being arrested
and tortured In the Cabanas
fortress under the Cuban revolu-
tionary regime were spiked today
by q personal inspection of the
ancient prison by this cores
pondent. -
Ninety poIltical and military
prisoners incarcerated In the fort
ress by the regime of former
President De Cespedes are being
we'll treated. None was arrested
under the junta that preceded
President Grau San Martin. None
was executed within the fortress
walls during the revolt Of the
enlisted men.
This visit Of the International
News Service Correspondent was
the first time within memory
that an American or Cuban news
paperman has been permitted to
inspect the fortress and interview
the prisoners freely without mill
tary surveillance.
This correspondent interviewed
Octavio Zubizarreta, secretary Of
the interior in the Machado
cabinet. and Carlos Machado,
brother of the deposed president.
who are among 80 political prison
ers held in thefortre SIS. These
and a dozen others denied there
had been any cruelties.
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Cristo, but the embassy denied
they had to rescue" any Amer
leans.
This information was confirmed
by the Santiago correspondent OF
International News Service, who
said American lives were not en-
dangered either at Cristo or
Daiquiri, where the mines have
been closed because OF workers
demands.
Ten Americans at Cape Rente,
a summer resort across the bay
from Santiago, have not been dis
turbed, the correspondent added.
Lieut.. Cesar Lorrie, who was
leader of the first revolution,
which caused former President
Gerardo Machado's downfall.
and who is now one Of the
ouSted officials. told Interna-
tional News Service the men
could come and go at will.
He repeated his prediction Of
an early downfall of President
Grau San Martins government,
comparing it to a rooster with
its head cut off, able to go a
few steps, but certain to drop"
1t was announced that COM
mercial houses in Havana nave
contributed $4,000 to supply nd
feed the officers in the hotel.
Meanwhile, plainly visible. and
apparently maneuverin to be
able to protect the Presidente Ho-
tel, where United States Ambas-
The Washington times., 1933-09-13
NRA PREPARES
BUYING DRIVE
Of 3 MONTHS
Quota Plan Would Classify
10000 Communities as
Units for Campaign
international News Service


The NRA turned with increaS-
ing confidence today to the latent
buying power of the public to
keep business on the upward
grade.
With a new spirit of concilia-
ton enveloping all NRA delibera-
tions, Hugh S. johnson, ad-
ministrator, and his aides were
completing plans for the most ex-
tensive buying campaign ever in
augurated by a governmental
agency.
Workers have been notified to
prepare to start three months
drive beginning September 20 to
induce consumers to buy now"
empty store shelves Of goods, and
keep factories busy supplying new
wants.
"Quota" Plan Studied
While proposals to set quotas
for the 10000 classified commu-
mites of the nation were being
considered, it was expected that
a general appeal with deluge
of information designed to show
the advantage of immediate buy
ing will be the policy Of the CAM
paign.
The action of the Recovery Ad-
miniStration in extending tn e
olive branch to bituminous coal
operators and the announced re-
fusal Of johnson to start into a
campaign of force to protect the
Blue Eagle were added evidence
of a new intention to make the
basis of the recovery movement
a patriotic appeal.
The most serious threat to the
NRA, in the opinion of officials,
was the growing split between
industry and labor.
Richberg Ruling Asked
The labor struggle also came to
the fore in the boot and shoe
hearing and in the proposed silk
textile code.
A formal ruling from Donald
r. Richberg, general counsel Of
the NRA, on the closed shop issue
was asked by Deputy AdminiStra-
tor c. c. Williams, in charge Of
the code.
Spokesman for labor union ri
walls of the American Federation
of Labor affiliate in Brockton,
Mass, raised the issue in object
ing to provision in the boot and
shoe code declaring that labor
contracts in existence June Is
shall continue.
Demand Merit" Clause
Nonunion shoe manufacturers
announced they would demand
inclusion of the merit clause" Of
the automobile code. which john
son barred in future codes.
The merit clause" was stricken
today from the proposed code Of
the American Paper and Pulp AS
sociation. The NRA will consider
the code tomorrow. The board of
governors of the association de-
cided to eliminate the clause.
which permits employers to hire
and fire employees on individual
merit without regard to their
union membership.
The Washington times., 1933-09-13
Labor Groups ROW;;
1000 Jobs in Peril

A labor dispute on the new De
partment of Labor and Interstate
Commerce Building will put 1000
workers out of jobs Friday unless
carpenters and ironworkers come
to terms.
The trouble is one of those
iurisdictional battles so common
in the building trades. The queS-
ton arose as to which group
should place metal radiator guards
in the buildings. Both say they
have the right to do so. The De-
partment of Labor has been try
ing, without success thus far, to
bring the groups to terms.
The Washington times., 1933-09-13
C0L0RAD0,M|NN
ALSO DISCARD
PROHIBITION
VoIstead's Home State Due
To Roll Up 2-to-1 Majority
For Change
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=: sense of satisfaction / at last
take advantage of the OppOr-
tunity for which I have been
waiting and working so long"
The governor had voiced last
minute appeal to Free State
voters to cast a deciding vote, and
while the number of ballots cast
was light, the majority was much
greater than the last time the
State halloted on the wet and dry
iSsue-in 1916-when the question
of State prohibition came up. At
that t i'm Baltimore turned it
down, 3 to l.
Rain and storm kept many
persons from the polls. In Balti-
more the vote was slightly mo1e
than one-third of the registration.
Nine precincts in Baltimore
failed to cast a single vote for
the dry candidates. The city
ratio of 10 to l for repeal places
1t second only to st. Louis among
the major cities of the nation
which have voted for repeal.
:. Convention October 1S
Under the act passed at the
last session of the Legislature,
the constitutional convention Will
be called at the State House at
Annapolis October 18.
The ballot will be cast there,
sent to the secretary of state for
ratification, and then to Washing
ton to the national Secretary of
State.
- Now that Maryland is enrolled
in the repeal States, Governor
'Ritchie will start at once working
ON plans for liquor control sys'
tem.
: A liquor commission will be
formed and a special session OF
Sthe legislature called to enact the
new legislation. it was indicated.
The Washington times., 1933-09-13
TWO GIRLS FREE
IN BEER CASE

Two Riverdale. Md, girls were
dismissed in HyattsVille police
court today on charges Of being
in "beer parlor" without proper
care or guardianship when Judge
]. Chew Sheriff was informed by
the officer who arrested them
that their parents were with
them at the time.
This is the first case to come
before Prince Georges county
authorities under the new beer
law. The girls, Alice Duvall, II,
and Margaret White, 13. were
charged with violating the law
several weeks ago on the COM
plant Of Agnes Duvall, Of the
county welfare board, who is no
relation to Alice Duvall.
Constable Jack Wilson testified
that he saw the girls in a beer
parlor on the Edmonston Road
about a. M, but admitted their
parents were with them.
The Washington times., 1933-09-13
HART To STAND.
CHICAGO TRIAL

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Sept. 13.-Jack
Hart, notorious Baltimore gun
man, life termer for his part in
holdup Staying about 10 years ago,
and to whom the walls of the
Maryland penitentiary seemed
mere hurdles, will be tried, con-
victed and sentenced here, Gov.
Henry Horner indicated yesterday.
This followed a plea from j. B:
Wells, deputy States attorney. OF
Baltimore, who asked that Hart
be returned to Maryland to finish
his term. Hart escaped from that
institution several years ago. II
was his second successful escape
and his third try at freedom.
Hart was arrested about week
ago in Cicero. a small town Just
outside of Chicago, after he had
shot and seriously wounded three
men in a drunken braWl.
Mr.. Wells had sought to have
the escaped convict tried in the
Illinois courts and sentence Sus-
pended, so that the man could DO
returned to Maryland.
The Washington times., 1933-09-13
FEARS RISE
IN j. 8. OVER
CUBAN CHAOS
Roosevelt and Caffery VigiIant
As Doubt of New Regimes
Stability Grows
international News Service

Tense with apprehensive ex'
pectancy over the situation in
Cuba, Assistant Secretary of State
Jefferson Caffery and his Latin.
American aides are putting in
hours a day at the State Depart
ment awaiting developments.
Meanwhile, 30 American war
ships with 800 Bluejackets and
Marines aboard. continue to ride
at anchor IN or ne Cuban
waters, prepared to act on mo-
ment's notice if the lives Of
United States nationals are en-.
dams
The third day of President Grau
San Martins new government,
born Of the so-called revolt Of
the sergeants." found officials
,lere more doubtful than ever over
the prospects of the new regime
becoming stable.
Support Seen Lacking
With the passing of three days
since the revolutionary junta
took over the reins of government,
there still was no evidence that
this group had the support OF the
people or the rank and file of the
army in the interior of the island.
The adament opposition of the
ousted army officers in Havana.
and the reported opposition of the
powerful ABC political organlza-
ton increased the apprehension.
1t is this uncertainty which
has prompted President Roose-
welt to maintain naval force
near the scene and which keeps
Caffery and his aides at their
desks until late at night, ready
to act swiftly for the protection
of American nationals if Ambas-
sador Sumner Welles calls for
aid.
Treasury Report Due
Meanwhile, John G. Laylln,
the Treasury expert sent to Ha-
vana to study the financial sit
uation. returned with prelim-
mary report. 1t was intimated
Laylin's investigation revealed
the necessity for drastic read
justment Of the entire Cuban
debt.
Indicating the Administration
intends to adopt a hostile atti-
tude toward the flotation Of large
foreign bond issues in this coun-
try in the future. one high State
Department official, when. asked
whether Laylin reported the flo
tation of a Cuban bond issue
here at present would be unWise,
said:
1--WE don't need anyone 70
tell US that"
The Washington times., 1933-09-13
MARYLAND 5TO-1 FOR REPEAL, 9TH STATE TO JOIN
Lets Call 1t Day." Say J. Banks Kurtzes,
After Six Months of Matrimony
Representatives Son
and Ethel Taylor
to Cut Ties

After less than six months of
matrimony, Mr.. and Mrs. J. Banks
Kutrz, jr., the latter formerly Miss
Ethel Mae Taylor, have decided
to call it quits, and Mrs. Kurtz
will leave tomorrow for Reno.
The youthful couple elopted to
Rockville in May. Their wedding
had been originally set for June
6, but they decided to avoid the
fuss and feathers of formal
ceremony and slipped away to
the Maryland Gretna Green.
Following their marriage they
went to Altoona, Pa, to make
their home. About two weeks
ago Mrs. Kurtz returned here
to visit her mother, Mrs. Arthur
C. McElroy.
Kurtz is a son of Representa-
tive J. Banks Kurtz Of Penn
Sylvania.
The Washington times., 1933-09-13
Repeal Vote Frees
4 on Personal Bonds

Four men held on charges Of
liquor violations and awaiting a
Federal hearing were released OH
their personal bonds from the Up
per Marlboro Jail yesterday, on
orders from Baltimore headquar-
terS.
The move is part of the genera!
lessening Of restrictions in han
ding prohibition cases. now that
the State has voted for repeal.
The prisoners were Theodore
Stringer, Bryans Road; Johnny
Chestnut, Marlboro; Walter Dixon,
Meadows, and James Newman,
BryanS Road.
The Washington times., 1933-09-13

change OF government?
Well, the other day l told you
Tor were you listening?) that
revolutions run in packs, like
hounds-or bananas.
One revolution is just like one
cocktail-it just gets you or
ganized to get ready for the
next.
Now they are having more
fun down in Cuba than they
have had in years.
If old "Mother Superior"
America just wasn't trying to
horn in on all of it. It's their
country; it's their sugar. Take
The Washington times., 1933-09-13
Ocean City Inlet
To Get Fund, Report

Reports persisted today that
the Public Works Administration
will provide funds for the con-
struction of an inlet into Sine
puxent Bay at Ocean City, Md.
The project to obtain Federal
money for the purpose has been
fought for more than two years.
Official confirmation Of the ru-
mors will not be forthcoming
until an application for the funds
has been approved by President
Roosevelt.
The Washington times., 1933-09-13
Illinois Dry Leader
Comedies Defeat

CHICAGO, Sept. 13 0.N.SD.
Commenting on the repeal votes
cast by Maine, Maryland,
< Colorado and Minnesota, DR..
George B. Stafford, Illinois super
intendent of the Anti,Saloon
T. League. today conceded that the
9 Eighteenth Amendment will be
killed before the year is out"
DR.. Stafford said the dry forces,
however. have begun laying plans
for a campaign to restore pro
hibition, which he said will come
to pass in four years.
The Washington times., 1933-09-13
YADEN TO SPEAK

Col. Henry r. Yaden, president
of the Federation of Citizens AS
sociations, will speak at a meeting
of the Reciprocity Club at the
Mayflower Hotel tonight. He will
speak on the NRA.
The Washington times., 1933-09-13
How Nearby Counties
Voted By Districts

MARYLAND adjacent to ton Uoed BY heGUy
majority repeal the final tally completed early today
reUelled
the of the NOhtest cast there
sentiment the people, Prince Georges Doed
Dtle Montgomery county, long regarded OF
spots OF State uoted repeal BY to L.
FOLLOWING the Uote by districts
The Washington times., 1933-09-13
Dry Foes Roll Up 3-to-l
Victory in Colorado

DENVER, Colo, Sept, 13
UN.SD.-A repeal victory of
nearly 3 to was being tabulated
today from the returns of Col
orado's referendum on prohibition.
Almost complete returns from
1861 precincts of the States
i,547 gave 112,525 for repeal;
1880 against.
The Washington times., 1933-09-13

the sugar out Of Cuba and we would no more be
interested in her troubles than we would be in a
luton among the Zulus.
Copyright 1854 By MeNauEht syndcats)
The Washington times., 1933-09-13
WILL ROGERS Savs:

BEVERLY HILLS, CAL, Sept. 13:-Dd you see
in the papers that Cuba is likely to have another
The Washington times., 1933-09-13
CLEARINGS

"Spend Dollar and Make a Job"
The Washington times., 1933-09-13

buy in September and Buy American"
Evening star., 1933-06-28

for participation in general culture is
an essential. Such demands as these
are a challenge to industry to find a
way to prevent unemployment. 1t is
the duty of those who have prof1ted
by industrial progress and ingenuity
to assist those who are thinking of
social justice in providing method
whereby We may prevent another col
lapse in the future. And so We re-
quire our great industries to find reme-
dies Scientific principles, which have
been tested out, should be applied gen.
orally.
Problem Solved by Some.
There are some industrialists in this
country who have solved the special
problem Of unemployment. Why can
not that be made general? There is
certain company which has been on
a guaranteed work year of 48 weeks
for 10 years. It divides general pro-
duction by IL and produced one
twelfth each month instead of produc-
ing great quantity and putting it in
a warehouse. There Is a food-pro-
ducing organization which has also
solved the problem. This concern be-
gan packing pork products, but un-
fortunately there were only two crops
of pigs a year, which necessitated
closing the plant for q large part of
each year. So 1t took on other prod
Evening star., 1933-06-28

out the country. All will have like
standards and like objectives. Through
this network the supply of labor can
fiow and the demands of employers be
| circulated. Thus, from the depressed
areas to those which can best absorb
workers, machinery will be at hand
and in operation to promptly transfer
them.
Federal funds to match State funds
will be granted to those States whose
employment Offices comply with the
standards prescribed. The establish
ment by the United States Employ
ment Service Of standards of operation
for the State services is the all-impor-
tant point Of departure in cooperating
with them. According to the law. the
United States Employment Service may
establish and maintain ofices for a
prescribed period in States in which
there Is no system of public employ
ment offices, as we'll as in those States
where there are Offices, but where the
State Legislature has not formally &C
cepted the provisions of this act.
Also the law provides that the serv-
ice maintain veterans employment
service, q farm labor service and
placement Office in the District of Co.
lumbia. Additional responsibilities of
the Federal Service will be the clear
ance of labor among the States, and
the collection Of reliable and compare
BILE information with respect to the
demand for and the supply of labor,
as well as the conduct Of researches
related to the work. In order most
effectively to administer its assistance
to the States, and to perform its in
terstate functions, the United States
Employment Service will probably soon
establish several regional clearing
houses with field supervision.
We have the machinery with which
to mobilize workers in the system have
just been telling you about. Very likely
demands will soon be made upon 1t in
cooperation with the Public Works
Program. We are looking to construc-
ton work Of this sort-and think you
can do likewise, as an immediate aid
in the emergency program which is
now under way under the supervision of
Gen. Johnson. We must, at the same
time. lay q foundation of a system of
real planning Of public work for the
future. If we fall of the high structure
of production again We ought not
to drop so far and we should use public
work to correct the situation early in
depression rather than at the end
and by the wise use of public works to
supplement private employment at the
beginning Of hard times instead of at
the end.
Good Things Anticipated.
I truly believe that out of all our
recent difficulties will come many good
things in the years ahead for all of US.
For instance, we are moving forward to
abolish as far as possible the labor of
little children, because when they work
they take that work away from some
adult and handicap themselves SO often
in the future. This should be brought
about by common consent, by ethical
principles, as we'll as by law. I think
that over all the United States today
you will get hearty assent to the idea
that it is the head of the family who
should have the job and that young