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The Washington times., 1934-09-04
|CKES HURR|ES
SEWER WORK

Acting to rush actual construc-
ton work on the Districts new
100000 sewage disposal system
for which PWA funds have been
"earmarked," Interior Secretary
Ickes, the PWA administrator, to.
day forwarded to the District
Commissioners the loan contract
agreement which will "clinch" the
program.
The contract provides a sched-
ule Of repayment on the loan,
stipulating that the PWA wage
scale be followed. 1t is expected
to be signed by the Commissioners
within few days, it was reported.
PWA officials declined to make
public details Of the contract
agreement in regard to the Dis
trict's repaymentS to the PWA,
but it is believed the payments
have been set at nearly $1,000, 900
per year. The contract also pro-
vides for a 4 per cent interest
rate.
The PWA wage scale calls for
$1.1O per hour for skilled and
$.45 an hour for unSkilled labor.
AS soon as the Commissioners
have signed and approved the
contract, it will be returned to
Secretary Ickes for his signature,
thus ending the lengthy dealing
between the District and the Fed.
eral Government over the sewage
program.
The Washington times., 1934-09-04
PAL
CONFESSES

CHICAGO, Sept. 4 G.N.SJ.
Federal authorities held secret
today the contents of q 21-page
statement signed by Theodore
Bentz, bank robbery suspect,
shedding further light, according
to police, on the operations Of
John Dillinger and his murderous
band.
Bentz was arrested in Portland,
Me-, and is being held in jail at
Grand Haven, Mich, in connec-
ton with bank robberies at South
Bend, Ind. ;Danville, Me-; Haver-
hill and Gardner, Mass.
According to United States At
torney Fleming at South Bend,
Bentz was with Dillinger, Homer
Van Meter and George cBaby
Face') Nelson when they raided
the Merchants National Bank at
South Bend June 30, killing one
policeman, wounding three others
and escaping with $4,000.
South Bend police said BentE
admitted being with Dillinger,
Nelson and Van Meter when they
escaped a Federal trap at the
Little Bohemia resort in North
ern Wisconsin April %, killing
Federal Agent w. Carter Baum.
Information obtained from the
prisoner was used to bring
charges here against Attorney
Louis Piquett, Dillinger'S lawyer,
and six others, including two
physicians, accused of harboring
the outlaw.
Further arrests were forecast
following the statement given by
Bentz.
The Washington times., 1934-09-04
GAS MEN TALK
To OIL BOARD

Led by Harry c. Weston, act
ing for the National Association
Of Filling Stations, representa-.
tives of Maryland and Virginia
independent gasoline dealers. to-
day conferred with officials of
the Petroleum Administration
Board with a view to seeking a
more equitable arrangement Of
the zones in which dealers are
given the benefit Of reduced
prices.
Mr.. Weston said there is no
assurance. that the petroleum
board has authority to act in this
connection, but added that it was
believed there is a possibility that
some aid could be obtained by
discussions with the board.
The petroleum board made no
comment on the presentation, Mir.
Weston said.
He said that negotiations have
been in progress with the whole
salers concerning the matter, out
that so far nothing definite has
been done,
The Washington times., 1934-09-04
Only so Per Cent of Workers
On Strike, Sloan Declares

NEW YORK, Sept. 4 d.N.S).
Approximately half the workers
in the textile industry have thus
far declined to join the general
strike proclaimed by the United
Textile Workers. George A. Sloan,
chairman Of the cotton textile
code authority and president OF
the Cotton Textile Institute, de-
clared today in response to union
leaders claims that the strike was
O tremendous success"
Mr.. Sloan estimated the total
number of workers in the industry
at 100000.
OF these, he said, 100000 are
not striking. Two hundred and
thirty thousand employees, he
said, have Joined the strike or
are "unreported" in advices reach
ing the Textile Institute here.
Following are other figures
given by Mr.. Sloan:
Nau n K aug Manufacturing
Company, Salem. N. H., 1000,
operating full. B. B. and r.
Knight Company, Providence,
r. l., 5000, operating full. Man.
vile jerks Corporation, Woon-
socket, r. l., 1900, operating
full. GroSvenor Dale Cotton
Company, 100, operating full.
Pacific Mills, Dover, N. H. and
Lawrence, Mass, operating full.
Goddard Mills. Providence,
operating full. Goats Thread
Company. Pawtucket, operating
full.
The Washington times., 1934-09-04
SINCLAIR SEES
PRESIDENT
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a week now since he has reported
on the progress his organization
is making in its task of whipping
the stock exchange into line
under regulations designed to
prevent skyrocketing speculation
at the expense Of the public.
Other Visitors
Mr.. Sinclair was expected at
the Roosevelt home during the
afternoon. His conference with
the President was scheduled for
about 5 p. m. eastern Daylight
Time), the Californian it was
understood here, would return to
his native State and the duties
involved in getting his election
campaign under way, after his
meeting with Mr.. Roosevelt here
today.
Three official visitors who spent
several days on the Roosevelt
estate Relief Administrator
Harry Hopkins, Assistant Secre"
tary Of Agriculture Rexford Tug
well, and Foreign Trade Advisor
George Peek-were gone today.
NEW YORK, Sept. 4 G.N.SO.
Upton Sinclair, author and Demo
cratic nominee for Governor OF
California, passed through New
York on his way to meet Presi-
dent Roosevelt at Hyde Park TO-
day, and he tarried long enough
to tell interviewers something Of
his California "epic" plan.
He denied emphatically that
there was anything communistic
or Socialistic in his program and
decried the use of "such long, for
eign words" He said:
"What we're talking about is
. system Of production for use.
Industry as q public service
rather than as . private privi-
lege is what I call it. That's
what our plan means. Epic
means end poverty in California
and we shall"
He described his winning cam
paign in California as a political
miracle" He said he had spoken
at $50 meetings in a year; dis
tributed five million copies of his
epic News" and received contri-
buttons from 1000 Epic Club"
in every town in the State. He
also told how Epic candidates had
carried the Democratic primaries
in q out of the 80 assembly dis
tricts in Los Angeles county and
in a majority of the assembly dis
tricts in the whole State.
The author smiled when the
possibility that he might not win
the California election was men
toned and made direct allusion
to the fact that professional
gamblers are betting on him to
win.
The Washington times., 1934-09-04

S11 q week. I never could quite
make ends meet.
"During the war I drew a.
high as $50 a week. Since then
/ have known what 1t means to
draw less than $40 q week many
a time.
CAN'T BE WORSE
That's not enough to live on
decently, so decided to cast my
lot with the strike. sure can't
be much worse off and / might
better myself so my family can
live decently."
In his early thirties, Mr.. Robert
son is just young enough to have
missed the World War. He live!
in a five-room frame house, owneC
by the mill, typical of counties
hundreds marching in preciS(
rows over the Carolina Hills.
This house has running watel
only to the kitchen sink. There
is a bathroom off the back porch
accessible only by crossing thu
open porch. The house is heatet
by stoves and open fireplaces
There Is a little yard for the chi
dren, but the mill provides a com
munity playground.
The Washington times., 1934-09-04
Strike Spreads to LOray
Mills at GaStonia

CHARLOTTE, N. c., Sept. 1
0N.SJ.-Striking North Carolina
textile workers directed the spear
head Of their attack against three
crucial points today, the great
milling chains of KannapoliS,
Kings Mountain and GaStonia.
Early today the fight spread to
the Loray Mills at GaStonia,
where a heavy picket force pre-
vented $50 workers from reporting
for duty. The factory, which Is
the largest tire fabric plant in
the world, was Immediately closed.
One wing Of the strikers phalanN
concentrated it's efforts upon the
Cannon Towel Mills in the Kan
napolis area, where $4,000 en-
ployeS remained at work. Numer-
Gus delegations from other mills
invaded their ranks in attempting
to persuade them to strike. There
is no local Of the United Textile
Workers Union in the area al
fected.
The King Mountain Mills have
already felt the force Of the Strik
ing workers. Operatives at the
Shelby Mills closed their owr
plants yesterday, then dashed tt
the Kings Mountain area, where
they ordered the management tc
close shops within 30 minutes.
TWhAg1 M anSwAP wAS received
to this ultimatum, the power wal
forcibIy cut off, and seven Of thu
II plants were shut down. ThG
strikers said:
'WeH close 10 other plants
today"
The Washington times., 1934-09-04
AutO-Bus Crash
Kills |, Hurts IL

REHOBOTH, Mass, Sept. 4
G.N.S).-A crash between a
Brockton-to-P Providence bus and a
coupe-type automobile today re-
suited in the death of Miss Dor
othy White, 10, Of Attleboro, and
probably fatally injured her girl
companion, and caused injury to
II other persons, the majority
from New York.
Miss Marion Torrey, 18, of
Attleboro, suffered a fractured
skull and internal injuries.
Joseph F. O'Malley, bus driver,
was arrested on a charge of man
slaughter.
The Washington times., 1934-09-04
KEAT|NG'S ak
ST|RS LABOR

Labor leaders here today are
paying attention, it is reported,
to the speech Of Edward Keating,
editor of Labor, who declared in
a Labor Day address at the close
Of yesterdays parade that labor
does not want to go back to the
old deal, nor is it completely salts.
fled with the New Deal"
Mr.. Heating praised President
Roosevelt but said that some of
the Presidents associates are try
ing to wreck the New Deal.
Mr.. Keating said that NRA re-
suits. which at first were crafty
ing to labor, have been disap-
pointing since business began to
dominate the NRA."
The effect of such a change in
the program, he said, was to slow
up the recovery program.
The Washington times., 1934-09-04
PROBE REVEALS
BONDHOLDERS
NJ ULC 7 { D
Rep. SABBATH Secures Evidence
Protective Committees
Graft Millions
Copyright, 1894, By International
News Service)

Members of the House commit
tee named to investigate real
estate bondholders' protective com.
mittees believe they have un'
covered q nationwide racket" by
which holders are being fleeced
Of hundreds Of millions Of dollars.
Operations Of the committees
under suspicion, 1t was reported
today, reached into every city and
almost every hamlet in the ma
tion.
Much Evidenced Gathered
A corps of investigators working
under the direction Of Representa-
tive SABBATH CD of Illinois, chair.
man, and Representative O'Connor
ID Of New York, in charge OF
the Eastern inquiry, have gath
cred voIuminous evidence to be
presented at the public hearings.
Many committees formed to
protect holders Of bonds under
real estate mortgages are honest
and have prevented huge losses to
bondholderS, the Investigators
said, but those under investiga'
tion are alleged to have used the
plight Of distressed investors to
make huge profits.
The committee has learned
that one bondholders' protective
committee is active in represent
ing holders of bonds on 800 real
estate properties, amounting to
more than 16 million dollars.
Many of the protective commit
tees represent more than 100 prop
critics in default.
How Game Is Worked
The racket" which, one mem.
ber of the investigating commit
tee asserted, will make Teapot
Dome look childish" was described
to the investigators to operate as
follows:
1. With more than 5000 mil.
lions Of real estate bonds in de-
fault protective committees have
been formed, some of them by
persons who originally sold the
bonds.
2. Bondholders deposit their
bonds with the committees, thus
becoming obligated for fees
charged by the committees and
giving the committees voting
powers.
3. In many instances, it is
charged, there is collision be-
tween the protective committees
and interests seeking to reor-
ganize properties, under which
the small bondholder is virtually
frozen out.
The committee has found that
some protective companies have a
half-dozen intervening companies,
all getting fees in reorganization
or sale of real estate properties
The Washington times., 1934-09-04
VICTORY CLAIM
Of GORMAN
DISPUTED
Textile Institute Chairman
Says WaIkout Effective
Only in Spots .
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New England section found the
majority of workers at their jobs.
In New Bedford the strike was
characterized as 100 per cent ef.
fective, with 10000 operatives and
2e mills idle. The mammoth mill
Of the Amoskeag Manufacturing
Company at MancheSted was
closed as 1000 workers stayed
home.
Less than 5000 Of the $1,000
in the big mill centers Of Rhode
Island answered the strike call,
but labor leaders said they were
looking to the loom-fixers to swing
the tide to the strike. No mill
can operate without loom'fixers.
1000 Walk Out
At FAN River, Mass, 1000 out
Of $4,000 workers walked out.
The strike was reported heavily
effective in Eastern Pennsylvania.
An estimated 10000 workers in
wooden, worsted and cotton indus
tries were reported to have walked
out and the workers were forming
picket lines about SO plants IN the
Allentown district.
Pickets were guarding 90 plants
in Philadelphia where the city's
entire police force was ordered on
emergency duty. An estimated
% nm 1ueTe IN strike
More than $4,000 workers were
out in Connecticut'S 800 mills,
with predictions by labor leaders
the number would mount to
$4,000.
The Globe and Augusta Mills
were closed in Augusta, Ga"
where the strike was reported to
be 50 per cent effective. About
$500 workers were out.
Focal points Of the strike In
North Carolina were the great
milling chains Of Kannapolis,
Kings Mountain and Gastonia,
Workers forcibly cut off the power
in II plants Of the Kings Noun
tain area and threatened to stop
others. More than $4,000 re-
NAMED at work in KannapoliS.
Paterson (N.J0 silk and dye
workers, numbering about $4,000,
remained on the job under terms
Of q contract with q Paterson ar.
bitration unit not to strike until
40 per cent Of the workers in the
entire industry had walked out.
The Washington times., 1934-09-04
Women Launch
Peace Campaign

Inauguration Of a national cam.
paign to impress Congressional
candidates in the coming pri-
maries with the increasing peace
sentiment throughout the country
was announced yesterday by Mrs.
Hannah Clothier Hull. national
chairman OF the Women's Inter
national League for Peace and
Freedom.
Mrs. Hull stated that a flying
squadron of league organizers
will visit principal cities to urge
voters to make known their prefer
ence for peace and disarmament.
The Washington times., 1934-09-04
ESUCCESS
SAYS GORNAN
BY FRANCIS J. GORMAN

Ny FRANCIS J. GORMAN
Chairman Special Strike Com.
mittee, United Textile Workers,
(WPItten especially for International
News SeTvice)
Every prediction we have made
has been fulfilled-and more.
The strike is ahead of schedule
Remember, we predicted a SO
per cent tie up the first day, with
IS per cent before the end Of the
week.
Our estimates were far under
the actual development.
Our membership has responded
fully. Discipline has been mag
nificent.
We now move into the un.
organized field.
Five hundred convention dele.
gates and all local union officers
have been appointed special Of
ficers to organize the unorgan-
lied.
These are moving into the
localities where mills are, op-
Grated, with orders to report to
Washington any interference with
the right to organize.
We are gritified by reports Of
ex.service men standing shoulder
to7Shoulder- with their fellow
unionists; we are gratified like
wise by the orderly procedure Of
the strike thus far, and we point
to this as an indication of the
high degree of union discipline.
The strike is an avalanche Of
protest against intolerable mill
conditions.
It will not end until the con.
dition has been rectified.
The Washington times., 1934-09-04
SWITZERLAND

BERNE. Switzerland. Sept. 4
Q.N.S0 S0.-Determined attempts of
leading European powers to bring
Soviet Russia into the League Of
Nations struck a snag today. The
Swiss Federal Council, governing
body Of the nation which has been
host to the league since its in
ception, unanimously decided to
vote against Russian entry when
the league council meets to dis
cuss the project later this week.
The Washington times., 1934-09-04
.2Trips to Hospital
Needed After Fight

It took two trips to the hospital
to repair the damage suffered by
Joshua Porter, colored, As, 600
block L st. N. w., in fight late
last night. He was taken to Freed
mems Hospital for treatment of
lacerationS, and discharged as be
ing in a good condition.
Early today he complained OF
pains in the back and was taken
to Emergency Hospital, where 1t
was found he was suffering from
serious stab wounds in the back
also.
The Washington times., 1934-09-04
Is Cases of Beer
Reported Stolen

Thirsty thieves carried away Is
cases Of beer and one case Of liquor
from a warehouse in the first
block of O st. N. w., it was re-
ported to police.
Reuben Edlavitch, proprietor Of
the warehouse, told police the in.
truders entered the establishment
by breaking a lock on one Of the
doors.
The Washington times., 1934-09-04
Canadians Probe
Smuggling Plot

NEWARK, N. j., Sept. 4 CU.S)
Representatives Of the Canadian
government returned over the
weekend from this city, where
testimony was taken in the in
vestigation o. an alleged con
Spiracy to defraud Canada Of ST.
100000 in illegal alcohol shipments
to Dorval, Quebec. Testimony was
that the headquarters of snug
glerS was in Newark.
The Washington times., 1934-09-04
Blowout Causes
Three-Car Crash

EVANSVILLE, Md, Sept. 4
(SpeciaD james S. Thomas, Of
Washington, D. c., received head
injuries in q three-car collision on
the Keyser Ridge National High"
way, five miles west of here yes,
terday. Mr.. Thomas car collided
with those Of James B. Martin,
Cranton, Ohio, and George w. Nc
Cray, of Fairmont, w. Va, when
tire on Mr.. Martins car blew
out.
The Washington times., 1934-09-04
Father Feeds Rat
Poison to 2 Sons

PITTSBURGH, Sept. 4 G.N.S),
Asserting he wanted to get rid of
the children and himself" Stan
ley Grabowski, 35, Lawrenceville,
confessed to detectives he placed
rat poison in pie eaten by his sons,
police announced today. His son,
Raymond, 8, died yesterday. A
brother, Stanley, 9, also believed
to be suffering from poisoning, is
in q serious condition.
The Washington times., 1934-09-04
ICELAND

REYKJAVIK, Iceland, Sept. 3
G.N.SO.-After taking off earlier
in. the day for the Orkney
Islands, DR.. John U. Light, Amer
lean aviator, radioed this after
noon that he was returning here
because of bad weather. DR..
Light is making a transatlantic
flight via the Arctic regions.
The Washington times., 1934-09-04
Utility Employees
Threaten a Strike

NEW YORK, Sept. 4 G.N.sO'
Two local unions of the Brother
hood of Utility Employees, claim
ing $4,000 members among EN-
ployes of the Brooklyn Edison
Company, the New York Edison
Company, the United Electric
Light and Power Company ano
affiliated concerns, continued
strike threats today.
The Washington times., 1934-09-04
Customer SCares
Off Shop Robbers

Three would-be colored holdup
men were frightened from a
grocery store early today by a
customer.
George Ade, proprietor Of the
store in the 900 block s st. N. W.,
told police the men entered with
the order to "Stick 'em up," but
before they could rifle the cash
drawer, were frightened by an
early morning customer and eS-
capped ira q car parked nearby
The Washington times., 1934-09-04
SINCLAIR GAG
|. To Be OFF ON
CAPITAL TRIP
California Candidate to Talk
Freely at Press Club, Is
Expectation Here
BY EARL GOODWIN

Today Upton Sinclair is at Hyde
Park with more or less Of gag
on him when he talks to Presi:
dent Roosevelt; but tomorrow he
is to be at the National Press
Club for lunch and there will be
no censorship, it Is assumed.
In the week since Mr.. Sinclair
received the Democratic nomi.
nation for Governor in Cali.
fornia he has become the most
interesting political figure in the
United States. He aptly illus
trates the old adage that zone
mans meat is another mans
poison" because Upton Sinclair
is looked on as both the salvation
and the ruination of the Demo
cratic party-d epen ding on
whether the person interested is
a conservative or a progressive.
Favors Sef-Help Plan
Mr.. Sinclair's visit here has
peculiar local interest because he
has been broadcaSting the state
ment that this EPIC end Pow.
erty in California; plan is moth
ing more or less than the coopera-
tive Self.help scheme which al
ready is under way as a part Of
Elwood Streets emergency relief
and rehabilitation plan.
But, as some observers have
said, if Mr.. Sinclair is coming
here to see how Director Of Pub
lie Welfare Elwood Streets coop.
erative associations have ended
poverty in the National Capital.
he will be disappointed.
Hardly a nickel's worth OF CO.
operative work has been done here
so far; and the plan which was
widely publicized has amounted
up to this time to next to moth
ing except a few meetings and
the drawing up of legal papers
which witness the incorporation
of the self-help organization.
Plan is COP. Target
The local self-help plans, in
which are included Commissioner
Aliens cryptic housing plan, at
tracted the thunderous attack OF
several oldtime Republican sena-
tors when they were announced
at the District Building.
The criticism was made that
these plans indicated an encroach'
ment upon the preserves Of private
industry and, inasmuch as they
are presumably to be financed by
the FERA, the old.line conserVa-
tiVeS looked on this as proof posi-
tive that the Administration is go
ing to use the National Capital as
a laboratory for socialistic expert
mentS.
So when Upton Sinclair stepped
over from the Socialists and was
nominated on a District of Colum.
bia self-help plan, the Old Guard
and the G. o. P. and the Liberty
Leaguers, du Points, RaSkobS,
Shouses, and all, Immediately be.
gan to sound the tom-toms and
beat the bushes in an effort to
arouse voting interest-not against
Sinclair but against the New Deal.
It is to be assumed that when
Mr.. Sinclair speaks here after
lunch at the Press Club tomorrow
he will be speaking right into the
faces Of scores of his political
enemies who will be taking ring
side seats to get closeup Of this
new overnight sensation.
There will be considerable pro.
pagandizink within the few hours
following Mr.. Sinclair's talk. The
effort will be made by the Repub-
licans to show what a wild-1ndian
sort Of outfit the New Dealers
are; and the New Dealers will pos
sibly have the opportunity to
quiet the nerves Of their followers.
TIDE CYIDV CTATEAAEN
The Washington times., 1934-09-04
TREASURY STATEMENT

BY International News Service
Treasury balance as of August
Fl, $2,136,676,859.1S; internal reve.
nue., Sc, las, ,237 40; custom receipts,
$22,952,077.11.
The Washington times., 1934-09-04
World News
CUBA

HAVANA, Sept. 4 Q.N.S0.-Four
persons were injured early today
in series of 80 bomb explosions
which accompanied student
strike against plans to honor
Commander Fulgencio Batista by
the anniversary of his up
rising a national holiday.
The injured included a movie
patron who was hurt when a
nearby explosion started a panic.
The Washington times., 1934-09-04
GERMANY

NUREMBERG, Sept. 4.-Wlth
enthusiasm for Chancellor Hitler
being pushed to a new high level,
the first Of 525 special trains be-
gan pouring brown shirted troop
ers into this flag-bedecked medi"
eval city last night in preparation
for opening of the fourth annual
Nazi party congress.