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Evening star., 1934-04-30

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The Washington times., 1934-01-20
SPAN CONTRACT
SUITS BASIS

Suit for $4,000 against the
Frank Pecora Construction Com
pany of Baltimore and the Globe
Indemnity Company was filed in
the Federal Court at Alexandria
today as the result of the alleged
failure of the company to pay
a subcontractor for work in hoist
ing the huge slabs of granite
used in the construction of the
memorial entrance to Arlington
Cemetery.
B. F. Diamond, the subcon-
tractor, claims the bonding COM
pany, which guaranteed payment
of all claims against the job, Is
jointly liable with the Pecora
concern. Although Diamonds
claim is for only $2,240, the suit
is for the total amount of the
bond in conformity with the
law. Other suits of a similar
nature are expected to follow.
The Washington times., 1934-01-20
Sales Tax Law Inevitable,
Rep. Knutson Believes

"Many persons talk about
the sales tax as though it were
an innovation. AS a matter of
fact the gasoline tax is a sales
tax and so are taxes imposed
upon tobacco, cigars and cigar.
cites.
URGED AS SUBSTITUTES
81 feel that aside from the
tobacco taxes the sales tax
should be the prerOgative Of the
States and such a tax should re-
place existing taxes, more espe-
ciaIly real estate taxes.
cit is only by employing both
the sales and income tax that
we can secure a just distribu-
ton of the tax burden and
sooner or later we will have to
come to it if we are to avoid
property cOnfiScatiOn.'
Meantime more and more
of Congress admit favor
ing a general manufacturers sales
tax, and Mrs. Jenckes is speeding
up the original draft of her sales
tax measure.
The Washington times., 1934-01-20
A Fine Departure

When the Women's Organiza.
ton for National Prohibition Re
form finished it's work and pre-
pared to disband, a prohibition
ist of long standing wrote to
the officers suggesting that the
organization be kept intact,
''now that it might acquire some
goal worthy of ITSELF" (The
story is told in women and Re
peal" just published by Harpers,
a complete story of a great
fight.) The WONPR did not
see it that way. It had been
created to bring about certain
end, the end was accomplished,
and it was not going to turn it's
power to unauthorized uses.
Grand as the fight was, skill.
fully as Mrs. Sabin did a thou
sand things, nothing except vic
tory itself is so satisfying as the
refusal to use the power these
women had in any sort of po-
ltical pressure. United effort
can accomplish anything" was
one of the lessons learned. That
is one reason why united effort
should not try to accomplish
everything, but should have
limited objectives and a clear
cut program. On the other
side lies the united effort of
mohS,
The Washington times., 1934-01-20
NEEDY FAMILIES
OCCUPY STACKS

Deplorable living conditions
have been revealed in the Dis
trict by workers conducting a
survey of families being helped
by the Emergency Relief Division.
Forced to move to cheaper
quarters, hundreds of families
have taken smaller dwellings,
with the result that four, five,
or more persons occupy a single
room, DR.. Leroy A. Halbert, direc-
tor of local relief, said today.
Other families have sought
shelter in shacks, cellars and
Easements, without proper light
ing, heating and sanitary con-
veniences.
Twenty-Five persons are making
the survey.
The Washington times., 1934-01-20
WOMAN STATUS
SEEN RAISED

Changing conditions for women
workers, showing their transition
from a hopeless" prospect a year
ago to a much brighter outlook
for the new year, are shown in a
report made public today by the
Women's Bureau Of the Depart
ment of Labor.
In commenting on the situation,
Miss Mary Anderson, bureau di-
rector, declared:
"The closing days of 1892
were a dark time for wage-earn-
ing women. They seem now to
have been a case of the darkest
hour is just before the dawn
For no sooner had we embarked
upon the year 1888 than rays Of
encouragement for women
workers began to break on the
horizon"
The Washington times., 1934-01-20
S292,678 GIVEN
CWA WORKERS

Civil Works checks tota1ing
1922, ,678.15, the largest weekly
pay roll for local CWA workers
since the inception of the CWA.
were paid out to 17,849 persons
today, according to William c.
Cleary, secretary to the Work
Planning Committee of the local
administration.
In addition to the CWA checks,
1926 Civil Works Civil Service
employees received checks totaling
$12,828.49. These employees are
engaged in teaching, nursing, sew.
ing and other works not in
cluded under regular CWA pro.
gram.
Direct relief totaling $5.136.55
was paid out to 769 persons.
The CWA pay rolls will show .
decrease next week, due to the
reduction in the number of hours
which CWA workers may put in
and the corresponding cut in
their pay. It is anticipated that
this may be reflected in a rising
relief outlay.
The Washington times., 1934-01-20
Civil Service Group
Asks Pau Restored

Restoration in full of United
States pay and repeal Of the
economy act was asked in a petit
tion sent to the Senate by the
Civil Service Reinstatement
League yesterday.
The petition also struck at fail
ure of the heads of Government
emergency agencies to employ
Federal workers who were fur
loughed or dismissed as a result
of the economy program.
Patronage has been employed
in the emergency organizations,
without regarding merit, it was
charged.
The Washington times., 1934-01-20
FARLEY To QUIT
COMMITTEE
POST, TOO
Office as Democratic Boss
Believed Not in Best Inter-
est of Administration

AS numerous party leaders
pointed to the general house,
cleaning in the Democratic ma
tional committee as aimed direct
ly at John F. Costello, District
committeeman, special signifi-
canoe was attached today to the
naming of two members of the
Senate District Committee to
consider the Vandenberg resolu,
ton.
Senators William H. King Cd.
Of Utah, District Committee chair
man, and Pat McCarran (DO. Of
Nevada, also on the District Com.
mittee. were named with Senator
George w. Norris (R0, of Ne
braska, as a subcommittee of the
Senate Judiciary Committee to
consider the resolution which
would bar members of national
political committees from practic-
ing law before Government de.
partments in Washington.
President Backs Law
With authoritative reports that
President Roosevelt is behind the
congressional legislation. the
movement against Costello gained
ground.
Administration officials and
party leaders continued to main
tain a complete silence about Cos
tello's case. but it was thought
by some Members of Congress
that the fact that two out of the
three members of the subcommit-
tee are members of the commit.
tee which is familiar with Dis.
trict matters is Of special signifi.
canoe.
Farley to Step Out
At the same time it was said
that big Jim" Farley will retire
from the craftsmanship of the
Democratic National Committee as
soon as President Roosevelt can
find a satisfactory successor. The
genial Postmaster. General, how.
ever, will continue to be the politi.
cal generalissirno Of the Admins.
tration and Mr.. Roosevelt's politi.
cal man Friday.
The only reason for Farley'S re-
tirement, it was emphasized in
the highest quarters, is that both
the President and Farley believe it
incompatible for an executive Of
the Government to hold party Of
flee at the same time.
Reports here also were that
Richard Mitchell, Democratic na-
tional committeeman from Iowa,
is considering reSigning from the
committee.
Mitchell is on the bench of the
Iowa Supreme Court and, because
of his judicial position, many Of
his friends have urged him to re-
sign from the committee.
The Washington times., 1934-01-20
COSTELLO POST.
SCORES DEBT
DEFAULTERS
Legion Organization Plans to
Adopt Resolutions Backing
"Buy American" Drive

A District Of Columbia Amer
ican Legion post that set an ex-
ample for others throughout the
country in indorsing the BUY
American" movement when it was
instituted more than a year ago,
today has taken action looking to-
ward support of the Don't Buy
From Defaulters" phase of the
movement.
This latest campaign of the
Hearst newspaper organization,
designed to educate the American
public to the need for patronizing
home industries and boycotting,
insofar as is possible, the products
of those nations which have
WEIGHED" on war debt payments,
was discussed at recent meeting
Of the Vincent B. Costello Post,
No. IS.
Resolution Drafted
Following the discussion, Comdr.
Albert P. Tatspaugh referred the
subject to the resolutions com.
mittee with instructions to pre-
sent an appropriate resolution for
Endorsement at the next meeting,
February 6.
It was on January 4, 1888, that
members of the post, in full uni
form, were led to the steps of the
Capitol by Frederick A, Thuee, de-
partmental judge advocate, to
take part in a big demonstration
sponsoring the BUY American"
movement. Their action set an
example for posts all over the
country, which were urged by
Thuee to publicly and actually
get behind the Buy American
drive and save Jobs for legion
naires and American citizens"
Carson Backs Slogan
In reference to the latest phase
of the appeal, Byron G. Carson,
recording adjutant for the post,
issued the following statement:
Personally I wish you and
your paper success in this un-
dertaking to create demand
for our own good products
which will revive our home in
dustries. It is timely and
think it will prove a valuable
aid to the efforts of our Gov
ernment."
Washington Police Post No. 20
is another Of the q Legion Or
ganizations in the District of Co.
lumbia to take early action in sup
port of the campaign. A hearty
backer Of the original Buy Ameri-
can" campaign, the post will pre-
sent the proposed Endorsement for
favorable action at it's next meet
ing.
The Washington times., 1934-01-20
CAPPER To PUSH
PENSION BILL

In the belief a bill for old-age
pensions in the District can win
congressional support during the
present session, Senator Arthur
Capper (RD of Kansas said today
he will ask the Senate District
Committee to begin hearings on
the measure soon.
Senator Capper pointed out that
two bills for this purpose are now
before the Senate group, one
sponsored by himself and the
other by Senator Royal S. Cope
land (DO of New York. Both
Senators are members of the COM
mi tee. Senator Capper said:
II will ask the committee to
hold hearings on the matter
soon. I think pension legisla-
tiOn Of this type is in a strong
position for favorable action by
this Congress"
The main points of difference
between his and Senator Cope
lands proposals, the Kansan ex-
planned, are that under the Cap
per bill a person would have to
have reached the age of go in
order to receive the pension, while
under the Copeland proposal the
age would be 68. Another differ
ence is that under the Capper
measure the District Commits
sionerS would have charge of the
pension system, while the Cope
land bill would place the control
in the hands Of the Board of Pub
lie Welfare.
The Washington times., 1934-01-20

Passage of a sales tax is inevi-
table, in the opinion of Repre-
sentative Harold Knutson (RD
of Minnesota.
Such an opinion might be ex,
pected from a New England, New
York or Pennsylvania Represent
ative, for they represent indus
trial centers and those areas
where the income tax reaps it's
greatest harvest.
But coming from a Middle
West Representative that point
Of view is even more significant
and weghty.
Cites Other Sales Taxes
Knutson's views also are sig
nificant because he is a member
of the highly important House
Ways and Means Committee. It
is that committee to which the
sales tax bill of Representative
Virginia E. Jenckes CD of Indi-
ana will be referred following its
introduction.
Explaining his stand today,
KnutSon said:
The Washington times., 1934-01-20
DANCERS lose
WRAPS, HATS

Merrymakers at a dance of the
Bethesda Women's Club last
night on the Georgetown Road
had a good time until they
started to go home.
At that time, it developed that
while they were dancing, numer-
GUS overcoats and hats were
taken from the check room.
Among the ten coats that were
stolen was an expensive woman's
wrap, it was reported to Bethesda
police today.
Police were also informed by
Benjamin H. Vernon, who op-
crates a radio store in the 67OO
block of Wisconsin Avenue, that
his store was entered during the
night and an automobile radio
valued at $55 taken.
Thomas E. Hampton, a real
estate man of Bethesda, reported
that his office had been entered
during the night. He could not
estimate the amount of the loot.
The Washington times., 1934-01-20
Fire Regulations
Mau Be Relaxed

Three-Story apartment houses
containing only three apartments
no longer will be required to have
fire escapes if a bill drafted by the
Commissioners is passed by Con-
greSS.
The bill was sent to Represent
ative Mary T. Norton CD of New
Jersey, chairman of the House
District Committee, from the Dis
trict Building today. Other build
ings to be excepted include apart
ment houses where no more than
nine persons live above the first
floor, and three-story apartment
houses equipped with fire-proof
stairwayS. Fire hoses, formerly
required by law, no longer are
demanded.
The Washington times., 1934-01-20
SUSPECT WATTS;
POLICE LATE

Mystery surrounding the cir
cumstances of a typewriter stolen
last year from Roosevelt High
School was almost cleared up
yesterday-except that police
were three minutes late.
A few days ago the machine
was pawned in Rosslyn, Va, and
a Third precinct policeman put
a. "stop" ticket on it. Yesterday
the man who pawned it went to
redeem it but the clerk informed
him police wanted to talk with
him.
The man told the clerk he
would wait for the police in his
car, which he actually did for
half an hour. Police arrived
three minutes too late to talk
to him.
The Washington times., 1934-01-20
INDEPENDENTS
OPEN.WAR ON
STANDARDO|L.
Third Grade Gasoline Cut
From 14.1 to 1876 Cents a
Gallon BY Small Owners

Embattled independent filling
station owners here have fired
the first shot in an impending
gasoline price war with the pow
erful Standard Oil Company by
reducing third-grade gasoline
from 14.1 to 1875 cents a gallon.
The drastic action came when
the independents were released
from their agreement with the
U. S. Petroleum Board to main
tain a fixed price on the fuel.
Resembling of the agreement
followed refusal of the Standard
Oil Company, through it's vice
president, Col. Robert Stewart,
to charge 14.6 cents gallon, a
price set by the petroleum board,
at the same time the individual
filling station owners were al
lowed to ask 14.1 cents.
Leo Plunkett, one of the 80 in
dependents joining in the battle,
declared his business had de-
creased almost one-half since the
petroleum board set the 14.1 cent
price. He said:
1--WE independents, although
little fellows. can fight Standard,
but we can't fight them and the
Government, too"
Refusal of the Standard Oil
Company to charge half a cent
more a gallon than the indie
pendentS will be referred to Sec
retary of the Interior Ickes, it was
announced by DR.. John Frey,
member of the netroleum hoard.
The Washington times., 1934-01-20
PTOMA|NE LAID
To CARRIER

Cherry ice cream eaten by pa
tients and staff of the Tubercu-
losis Hospital probably was the
cause of the ptomaine poisoning
which attacked 1853 of them.
This was the essence of a re-
port submitted today to hospital
authorities by Health Officer Will
liam C. Fowler following a study
by John E. Noble, District bacteri-
ologist.
Noble discovered an organism in
a sample of the ice cream which
is believed to have been RESPONSE
BILE for the poisoning. Someone
in the hospital is a carrier of
the organism, it is believed. The
entire kitchen staff will be ex-
ahmed to determine if any men,
ber is a carrier.
The Washington times., 1934-01-20
Engineer Injured
In Fall From Ladder

In a fourth-floor fall from a
ladder on which he was working
at the Army and Navy CLUB,
where he is an engineer, William
Howard Smith, 43, of the $500
block Connecticut Ave. N. W., re-
ceived a possible broken back.
He is in Emergency Hospital.
The Washington times., 1934-01-20
Fight TO Displace Costello Gains Momentum
True
To OType
leeves and Author Get
Thanks Again
BY GILBERT SELDES

II see what you mean. Operat-
ing under the Stoker banner he
win be free to come and go. He
can take a letter from you to ner
and then one from her to you
and then one from you to her
and then one from her to you
and then one from you to her
and then one" At this point
the mental processes of BERTHE
Wooster are interrupted by a
friend less enthusiastic about
him than I am, because I could
60 on reading that sort Of thing
forever. It seems to me, in fact,
that I have for at least fifteen
years, and 1 certainly hope 70
continue.
The particular passage quoted
Is from page 80 of the current
issue of the Cosmopolitan, a bit
from the serial, THANK You,
Jeeves," by P. G. Wodehouse.
The particular involvement in
this case is that BERTHE has left
Jeeves, more than vice versa,
Jeeves having an objection to
certain musical instruments, and
BERTHE having the pride of the
Woosters which forbids him 10
take orders from a gentleman'S
gentleman, even if that gents
gent be as wise and all-informed
and full of devices and ruSeS as
the immortal Jeeves.
Never Enough
There is "Jeeves Omnibus"
and another collection called
Nothing but Wodehouse" and
there are dozens of books. Ex-
Cept for those too closely asSo-
ciated with golf, a game which
I neither understand nor intend
to, T like them all. I have never
yet had enough Jeeves or Wode-
house, let alone too much. I still
deplore Mr.. Wodehouse's de-
parture from the scene of musi-
cal shows, for which he wrote
some Of the most charming
lyrics. I wish he would write
play, or at least adapt one, for
the one he did, "The Plays the
Thing" had all his quality. He
is writing at top form now, in
dicatinp much iOV.
"Poison-Beware"
I am charmed by the sugges-
ton of the Anti-Saloon League
that hereafter, all bottles Of
liquor shall bear the label: This
beverage contains - per cent OF
alcohol, a dangerous, habit-form-
ing drug" Like all suggestions
of this nature, it does not go
far enough. The labelling, lit
tie more drastice than that sug-
gested in the Tugwell bill, ought
to go farther. For habit-fornl-
ing is, as we know, disgusting,
and there is no habit more
solidly in command of the Amer
lean people than brushing their
teeth. So toothpastes and
brushes and powders ought to
have a label also.
And why only the bottle? Why
not the cocktail glass itself,
which should bear. in addition
to the single statement above.
another saying, for instance,
"and one-half ounce of orange
Juice, a fine-tasting, vitamin-
bearing food?" Or the highball
glass, with a testimonial to the
charged water and it's qualities?
And why not a tag attached to
q pork chop in a restaurant?
The league thinks that brewers
and diStillerS ought to be COM
PEELED to pay compensation for
the damage done by liquor.
Again the proposal falls short.
Can the consumers who have
benefited be compelled to pay
bonuses to the brewers and dis
tillers-or is there no justice in
this world?
The Washington times., 1934-01-20
Baby Crib Sought
BH War Veteran

Have you a baby crib or bed
and a carriage for which you
have no use? The family of an
ex-service man needs these arti-
cles badly, according to an appeal
sent out by the District Chapter
of the Red Cross. Any one able
to furnish these articles is asked
to send them to the Red Cross
House, Walter Reed Hospital, or
telephone National 1910, branch
244, and they will be called for.
The Washington times., 1934-01-20
JOB CENSUS TESTS

The Department of Labor yes
terday selected Bridgeport, Conn;
Lancaster, Pa, and Springfield,
Ohio, for trial unemployment sur
veys as part of. the CWA pro-
gram. A different method will be
used in each city in order that a
basis for a national unemploy-
nent census may be adopted.
Milford chronicle., 1934-02-23
BOYHOOD DREAMS
COME TRUE

Most Of US have cherished gIamOr-
GUS bOyhoOd ambitions which, as we
grew older and wiser. faded away.
II is heariening news therefore TO
hear of at least one grown up boy
who is making his dream come true.
As child somewhere in Maine.
Phillips Lord, who was to become
widely known through his radio
characterizatiOns as Seth Parker and
the Country Doctor. used to sit on
the wharfs and dream of the time
when he could set sail i'm his own
ship for faraway lands and the
strange places of story books. Now.
at the height of a successful radio
career and while still a very young
man. Lord has Outfitted a sturdy
fOur-masted schooner and organized
an expedition which will take him
across the seas to the places he has
always lOnged to visit.
In contrast with the old sailing
schooner days. when vessel was
unhcard from until il touched port
or was sighted by another shin
Lords schooner will maintain con
tinual contact with home and the
world at large. Taking advantage
of recent development by engi-
nccrs Of the RCA Victor Company.
Phillips Lord has equipped the YES
sci throughout with "gl0be-trotting"
all-wave and selective short-waye
receivers. so named because in adj
ultiOn 10 bringing in domestic en-
tertaInment programs they are cap
able OF picking up programs origi-
mating in foreign lands. from sbiDs
al sea and In the air. amateur radio
signals. police calls and whatever
else the heavily freighted air waves
have To offer. Lords folks I'm Maine
and his family at Bayside. l.. l., will |
nave similar receiving instruments !
10 pick up the frequent short-waye |
DrUadcasts that will emanate from !
The ships transmitter each week.
Milford chronicle., 1934-02-23
Depression Moving On

The old depression bus is passing
You have ridden her enough;
You took advantage of the times.
And you pulled a winning bluff
Franklin d. has CREASED her.
And he's put it up to you
To get out and get behind her
And help to push her through.
You've sung the hard time story
Until it's old and stale;
You've talked the blue from out the
sky
Until it's gray and pale.
You've killed the inspiration
That they who feed you had
But since Franklin d. is driving
1t doesn't look so bad.
The time to ride is passing;
You must get out and lift;
For years you rode an easy seat.
But the time has come to shift.
You now must work il you would
eat;
Forget that hard time talk,
For Franklin D. is driving
And he won't let her balk
j. W. Kint