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The Washington times., 1934-03-01
AIR LINE LAUDS
F POLITICAL AID

Directors of Western Air Ex-
press felt that their success in Sc
curing a tranScontinental air mail
route was due to the political in
fluence of their friends, Harris M.
Hanshue, president of this COM
pany, testified today at the Sen
ate air mail inquiry.
Hanshue identified a memoran-
dunn of a directors meeting which
declared:
"The directors also feel that
It was through the friends of
w. A. E. who are influential in
politics that it was possible to
secure the award Of the T. A. T.
contract and its approval by
Government officials"
Hansue declared that his com
pany was forced to sign an un.
favorable contract with American
Airways in order to secure an
air mail route from Ell Paso, Tex,
to Albuquerque, N. M.
Senator Hugo Black D0 Of
Alabama asked:
"WhO told you that?"
'"They did,"
''WhO else?''
''The Postmaster General"
The Washington times., 1934-03-01

Declaring that genuine collec-
tive bargaining is the only way to
attain equality of bargaining
power" Senator Wagner CD of
New York, chairman of the Ma
tional Labor Board, today intro
duced a bill setting up a perma-
nent labor board with equal rep
resentation for employers and
workers, and with increased rep
resentation for the general public.
The bill definitely forbids any
employer to influence ANY or
ganization which deals with prob
lens that should be covered by a
genuine labor organization.
Senator Wagner said company
unions should be allowed to supple
ment trade unionism, but should
not be allowed to supplant or de-
stroy 1t.
Regional Boards
Under the measure, the board
would comprise two representa-
tives Of employers, two Of en-
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Permanent US. Labor Board
Provided in Wagner Bill

ployes and three Of the general
public, with provisions for the
establishment of regional or local
boards.
The national board would be
empowered to prevent violations
of labor provisions Of the NRA
through restraining orders, en-
forced through the courts in the
same manner as the orders of the
Federal Trade Commission. In
addition, it would be given power
of subpoena, enabling it to insti-
tute investigations to exercise its
functions.
.Leeway Cited
Senator Wagner pointed out
that Section IA Of the Recovery
Act-pertaining to labor organiza.
tion-"did not outlaw specific
practices by which some employ
ers set up insuperable obstacles
to genuine collective bargaining" :"
He added:
"The greatest obstacles to
Continued on Page 2, Col. -
The Washington times., 1934-03-01
WILL ROGERS
Says:

NEW YORK, March H.
Landed in Newark from Wash
ingtOn. The pilot put us in the
back end Of the plane, so It
would keep her tail down when
the wheels hit the deep snow.
Give you an idea how many
men are clearing the streets in
New York, they have misplaced
1000 and can't find 'em. Be-
low zero in Washington yester.
day, and snow a foot deep. Lob.
byiStS standing frozen to death
outside of COngresSmen'S homes.
A lobbyist has nothing to
keep him warm but his brief
case. The hotels Of Washing.
ton should erect a monument 70
General Hugh Johnson. They
been coming on pilgrimages By
the thousands since last July to
make . code, change q code, q
CuSS . code.
Copyright, 1894, by McNaugho
Syndfcate.) z
The Washington times., 1934-03-01
Acknowledging c
To JAIL ENGEL

Joseph w. Engel, president of
the Chattanooga Baseball Club
and scout for the Washington
team, must serve Is days in the
District Jail for failure to pay his
divorced wife, Mrs. Mary P. Engel,
$1,000 alimony, Justice Daniel w.
O'Donoghue ordered today at Dis
trict Supreme Court.
The order was so framed that
Mr.. Engel may not escape the jail
term by payment of the back ali
mony. He is reported to be in
Chattanooga. The order adjudged
him in contempt of court for
failing to make the payments.
Mrs. Engel obtained a limited
divorce from the baseball official
in November, 1880. The divorce
decree ordered Mr.. Engel to pay
her alimony of $500 a month.
The Washington times., 1934-03-01
IN D. c.
WOULD PAY
MILLIONS
Measure Would Require RFC
% Take Over Debts and Settle
Accounts at Once

More than 100000 persons
throughout the Nation would
be benefited by passage of the
Mcleod bank bill, it's author,
representative Clarence j. Nc
leod (R.) of Michigan, today
estimated.
His bill, now under conSidera-
tion of a House banking and
currency subcommittee, provides
for the Reconstruction Finance
Corporations taking over all
closed national banks and such
State banks as were members Of
The Federal Reserve system last
March 4. - -,
Would Pay. Depositors
The RFC w0U put.
light all frozen assets 81 these
ranks, reimburse depositorS for
sccountS now closed, and then
lquidate the assets over a 10-year
,eriod at 4 per cent interest.
In defense of his bill, Mr..
Mcleod said today:
without including amounts
gtiIl tied up in several hundred
national banks now in the hands
of cOnServatOrs, which are rap
idly Joining the number of banks
I'm active operation, there is
about 925 million dollars still
due depOsitOrS Of approximately
1,44S national banks now in the
hands Of receivers.
BILLION IN STATE BANKS
while exact figures are not
available, it is estimated be-
tween five and six thousand
State banks throughout the
country still have tied up
In frozen assets over a billion
dollars of depOsitOrS' funds.
eff my bill is amended as
proposed by Representative
Chester G. Bolton (R.) of Ohio,
to include State banking, an
aggregate amount of over two
bullion dollars would be dis
tributed among approximately
1O,O0O,OO depOsitOrS."
Further hearings are expected
on the bill to enable certain
Continued on Page 2, Col. p
The Washington times., 1934-03-01
CRITICS Of MIRA
TAKE RECESS
BY International News Service


The conference of criticism"
of the NRA went into this third
day today with hundreds of
critics, their ardor somewhat
diminished, taking the rostrums
in scattered meetings throughout
the city to offer suggestions, ad-
vice and criticism to Recovery
Administrator Hugh S. johnson.
Manufacturers, merchants, bust
ness men and consumers ap-
peared to be taking a breathing
spell after the hot cross-fire of
yesterday, featured by the declara-
ton of Cornelia Bryce Pinchot
wife of Pennsylvania's governor,
that the aims of the NRA were
logical and sound but that "chisel-
ing" by steel and automotive in
terests was wrecking it's admins
tration.
All late scheduled meetings for
today were postponed. Tomorrow
the five conferences will merge
into grand closing session when
General johnson is expected to
propose remedies for evident
faults.
S. Klein, of New York, operator
of a low-price dress store, called
upon the administration for the
immediate adoption of a maxi
mum five-day week for the retail
trade to reemploy jobless work
erS. He said that he operated
his establishment on the five-day
basis for four months last fall
and, irrespective Of any seasonal
demand, added 254 additional
employees to his pay roll.
The Washington times., 1934-03-01
HBR|NGS
DENAND DIOR
LIQUORS
Legal Whisky Welcomed Back
to District After Drought
of II Years

Lunch and the cocktail hour
served to bring in a rush Of
business for the more than
200 places in the District
which started serving legal
liquor today.
In many instances the lunch
hour was longer than usual as
business men fingered over the
tables which had high-power beer,
wines, highballs and other drinks
in plain sight for the first time
since 1917.
After getting off to a slow start,
the. serious business Of Sampling
legal liquor picked up, and at
the noon hour places selling
4iquor were packed.
= .;s.s Rush on In IcsEAeSt
Bartenders, and walters were
rushed as everyone seemed desir-
Gus of having a drink for the
first time. There was plenty Of
liquor on hand, however, and the
delay in being served was the
only halt.
Cocktail hour, coming after the
Government offices closed, was
expected to bring tremendous
crowds to downtown hotels and
other places which are planning
on restoring the old afternoon
drinking rite.
AS the on-sale places started at
9 o'clock a few thirsty individuals
went in for their first legal "snort"
of the day.
Starts After Midnight
Sale of liquor started here
shortly after midnight, and the
celebration was a quiet one. AS
the licenses were issued by police
men at midnight the trucks
started out from the wholesale
houses and a few minutes later
the first legal drinks since 1917
were served.
The control board issued 1913
licenses last night, and an addi-
tional Is had been issued up
until noon today. With no more
hearings on applications sched-
uled until Saturday, the board
is spending all it's time in issuing
licenses.
From midnight to a. m. the
police had arrested only seven
persons for drunkenness. The
first radio call to arrest a drunk
came at 1914 a. m. and it was
pointed out that he could not pos
sibly have been imbibing legal
liquor.
The National Press Club was
the first to receive a liquor license
(continued on Page 2, Col. 81
The Washington times., 1934-03-01
Of FOODS
HERE HIGH

Prices Of % out of "a foods are
higher in the District Of Colum'
bia than the average for the
country as a whole.
This was reported today by the
Consumers Counsel of the Agri-
cultural Adjustment Administra'
ton, which has long been scrutin"
izing food prices here and else
where in an effort to show up
profiteering.
An example of local retail prices
quoted by the Consumers Coun.
sci is the 27.3 cents a pound
Washington paid for hens on Janu'
ary 80. This is next to the high
est quotation in the United States.
The average for the country
was 22.8 cents a pound, while
hens were selling for as little as
16.5 cents in Little Rock, Ark
Baltimore paid 25.9, and Rich
mond 25.1 cents.
Foods which cost more here
than the average elsewhere in
clude milk, butter, flour, steak
pork c5eps, fresh vegetables, and
fresh fruits.
Throughout the quotations or
canned vegetables and fruits
however, Washington prices
ranged lower than the average
An example is the fact that or
January 80 canned corn. averaged
81 cents for a. No. 2 can here
while the general average else
where was Ill cents.
The Washington times., 1934-03-01
Escaping Gas Kills
Pair, OUerCOnleS 19

PHILADELPHIA, March /
G.N.S0.-lluminating gas fumes,
escaping from a broken main,
killed two persons in South
Philadelphia today, overcame 10
others, and affected nearly 100
residents of the district.
Matty Lampinen, 53-year-old
tailor, and his wife, Ellen, IS,
were suffocated as they slept in
bed. Both died in hospitals a
few minutes after being overcome.
Two others were declared to be
in grave condition.
The Washington times., 1934-03-01
MAY
GUT down. .
SENATE
RATES
Measure, Under Old Rule, ls
Sent to Original Committeei
Further Delay Certain
By ROGER HAWTHORNE

House majority leaders to-
day prepared to scale down
horizontally all Senate amend
ments to the independent Of
fices supply bill.
Chances Of immediate action
dwindled when the Speaker Or
dered the bill back to the House
Appropriations C mmitte Q for
further study shortly after the
House convened at noon.
This means, House leaders ads
NIT warily. that the pay cut res.
toration will undoubtedly be rec
duced from is to 10 per cent ana
Veteran benefits also scaled down.
- Old Rule Revived
Senc ing the bill to the Appro-
priatic rs Committee reviveS an
ancient rule which has not been
obs rved for many years. measures
u ally being sent under SiniIae
CT ;umstanceS to conference In
stt ad Of back to the originating
committee.
The move will delay action un u
n 1t week at least and, in the
olitnion Of Subcommittee Chair
man Clifton Woodrum D.). -
Virginia, perhaps longer.
Leaders generally admit thu
the House would have approve
return Of the entire pay cut na
not the Senat chosen to tack o :
huge benefit items for veteranA /.
These increased the appropriaa
t1L " 35I 41illio dollars, thereby
turn4.lE the measure into a politi-
cal football.
y. o. >. Ready to Vote
Charso~ tn bill is being ban
died about were made by Minority
Floor Lt> 4er Bertrand H. Smell,
(RO Of New York, when the
House convened at noon.
He asked If reports were true
the Democratic side of the House
intended to stall" for time and
then during the last few days Of
the session pass a resolution eX-
tending 1884 appropriations into
1895. i.r
Answered evasively by Mr..
Woodrum, he declared: p.
We'll, we on this side Of the
House (Republican) have been
abrogating our rights day By
day.
1--WE are willing to vote ON
Continued on Page 2, COL -
The Washington times., 1934-03-01
White House Lunch
Strictly Dry Affair

With liquor legal in the Capt.
tai today, nothing alcoholic was
served at the luncheon given at
the White House by the PreSi-
dent in honor Of Prince 1yesato
Tokugawa, distinguished japanese
statesman.
Some time ago it was stated
by Mrs. Roosevelt that wines and
beer would be served when they
became legal here. The luncheon
today, the first White House So
cial affair since legalization, was
dry, however.
The Washington times., 1934-03-01
MLeod Bill Aids 10, 600, 900 Depositors
Polish Corridor War
Scare Lessened by.
Pact With Nazis !

electric light in Warsaw had been
quenched to blind the enemy, the
Polish foreign office had received
from Berlin the most important
message ever to come from Ger
many to warsaw since the war.
Behind drawn curtains, with
windows sealed by strips of nluci-
laged paper, the Polish foreign
office read that Ambassador Jo-
Sef Lipsky in Berlin had talked
with Adolf Hitler and that Hitler
and Lipsky had agreed that Ger
many and Poland renounce any
use Of force in their mutual rela-
tionS."
A Great Sensation
The drawn curtains were to
keep the candlelight from show
ing Warsaw to enemy fliers, the
paper strips glued on the windows
were to keep out enemy gas, the
presumptive enemy was Germany.
But the message they read said
that Germany and Poland had
promised not to fight.
Every living German has
sworn at one time or another
that he would life Q
recover the cord ff05tds
land. Every living Fole has sworn
he would give his life to keep the
corridor from Germany. The
German-Polish war was the one
war Of the future called ''in-
evitable."
Now, suddenly, they both de-
clare they will not fight over
d ...N
The Washington times., 1934-03-01
Biloxi Turns Out
To Welcome CrOnin

BILOXI, Miss, March The
washington baseball clubs spring
training for 1884 started officially
today, with two important hap
peningS.
Manager Joe Cronin arrived to
take charge of the team, and
Alvin Crowder, pitcher, donned a
uniform and commenced getting
into condition. Cronin was met at
the depot by president Clark Grif-
fifth and officials Of the Chamber
Of Commerce.
The Washington times., 1934-03-01
France Again Fails
To PrOUide for Debt

PARIS, March 1 Q.N.S).-The
Chautemps governments 1884
budget program, providing for a
deficit Of 1881 100000 francs
(about 1922 ,265 ,00O was approved
by the Chamber Of Deputies to-
day. The budget approved after
an allnight session Of the cham
Der makes no provision for pay.
ment of the American debt.
The Washington times., 1934-03-01
Mrs. Won StrOhein1's
RPnHtu Mnrred. Sues

LOS ANGELES, March / QN.
S0-Veiling her face Mrs. Valerie
von Stroheim, wife of Eric Won
Stroheim, film director and actor,
was in court today to press her
suit for $275,0OO damages against
Q Beauty parlor. She asserted that
her beautiful features were marred
by scars when fluid being used in
o treatment exploded, enveloping
her in flames.
The Washington times., 1934-03-01
Radio TO Carry
Presidents
NRA Talk
By International News Service

ny ANC"S SSAVASO
President Roosevelt will go
on the air at II a. m. Monday
to address the code conference
of the NRA.
Mr.. Roosevelt's speech prob
ably will deal entirely with the
NRA. He is expected to outline
a number of changes which
Recovery Administrator Hugh
S. johnson has indicated will
be made in the giant recovery
set-up.
The NRA conferees will
gather in the Continental Me
mortal Hall here to listen to
Mr.. Roosevelt's speech.
The Washington times., 1934-03-01
Black Would ALLOW
Loans to Industry
Bv InternationaI News Service

BY International News Service
Governor Eugene Black, of the
Federal Reserve Board, today dis
closed that he has recommended
to Congress a liberalization of the
law to permit expansion of loans
to private industry.
He also told the House Banking
Committee that the creation of
chain Of Federal intermediate
credit banks is necessary to pro-
vide funds for both big and small
business.
The Washington times., 1934-03-01
President Will Get
American y. Denree

BY International News Service
President Roosevelt will attend
the Inauguration of DR.. Joseph
M. M. Gray as chancellor, Of
American University in wash
ington Saturday in Memorial
Continental Hall, 1t was made
known at the White House today.
Honorary LID. degrees will
be conferred upon the President,
and on Bishop Mcdowell, and
DR.. DoddS, of Princeton, by the
university. 1t was believed PreSi-
dent Roosevelt may speak briefly.
The Washington times., 1934-03-01
BY H. r. KNICKERBOCKER
International News Service Staff
COPFeSDOndent

Copyright, 1884, by International News
Service. Reproduction in whole
or part forbidden.)
WARSAW, March LIN all
Warsaw only one light burned. It
was blue. Its flame leaped above
the gray granite slab that marks
the grave of the Unknown Soldier.
Out Of the darkness of the great
square of Marshal PilSudSH came
footsteps. The flame from the
grave flickered high and shed blue
light on a man in a gas mask. He
stood for a moment. The metal on
the mask shone spectral, and the
shadow Of the mask fen In the
shape of a monStrous S11out on
the portico of the tomb.
Word From Berlin
The man was an official Of the
Polish foreign office. He was go
ing home from duty.
That night Warsaw was prac-
ticing defense against an air
attack.
And that night, when every
The Washington times., 1934-03-01

(FoNr years ago, Poland IDGS
hen1nled in bet10een tho enc
mics, Germany and Russia,
H. r. KnicEerboceer tDrites in
the Sixteenth article of his
series, "WiH War Conner" To-
day, he continues, Poland has
nonGggreSSion pGctS tDith both
countries, and tDhere t0Gr once
seemed imminent the outlook
no1D is for peGceJ
St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1934-11-07
A d d r e S S
BEFORE ST. CROIX LABOR UNION
BY GOVERNOR PEARSON

The past few years have been filed
with hard and bitter experiences for the
people of St. Crox. the results of
serious economic predicament. FROM
the very first nay whole-heafted SYM
pathy has gone out to you in your strug-
giles through what might fittingly be
termed the seven lean years.. Happily
the future seems bright with hope. and
it looks as though the Biblical story will
be reversed and that the seven lean
years" just passed will be followed by
years of plenty. cherish fondly the
hope that we are ow at the threshold
of period of happiness and prosper
ity for the people of ST. Croix, that
shall last not My for seven years, but
for generations to come.
Today we have managed to pull
through these trying years, and to solve
somehow the immediate problems that
faced US. But we have done somet thing
more than merely solve the daily pro-
blems. pressing though they were. We
have been working hard and long and
consistently 10 order TO lay foundation
on which we might rear our seven
years. and more, of plenty Of pros
perity and conteptment and fair chance
for ali in our island home.
Employers anG Employees
In the efforts to lay a substantial
foundation for prosperity, there are GER
Tain consideration we need to keep well
in mind. We will not go forward by
talking. or by shouting. or by denuneia-
ton. We will go forward only by work.
We cannot go forward by intrigue, but
by mutual confidence and mutual eff
fort. No individual, no group, no class
can go forward alone. Unless we all
prosper, il will not be possible for any
considerable number to prosper. Parti.
St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1934-11-07

eulArly is this true OF employers and
employees. 1t seems commonplace.
yet it is necessary sometimes to remind
ourselves that it employers do not pros
per. employees cannot prosper. 1t must
always be to the interest Of all men who
work for wages, that their employers
make good in business. When employ
ers fail, employees lose the opportunity
to earn their living. The man who would
sell his labor for increased prices. must
produce what will justify his employer
in raying him these increased wages.
NO employer can continue to pay an
employee for more than he produces.
We must not try to compare our wa
ges with wages anywhere else. Wages
come from labor sold in an open mar.
ket. We might say that wages in the
United States are higher than in the
Virgin Islands. But it could just as
we'll be said that wages in Puerto Rice
are lower than in the Virgin Islands.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. in an art:-
appearing in the Woman's Home Com.
panion for October. says that women's
work in Puerto Rico is very poorly paid.
For example, for women'e nightgowns.
scalloped on the neck and sleeves with
hand embroidered design and hand
sewed seams, woman receives 81.
dozen. and she is able to do the work
on dozen in two weeks.
Or we might remember that recently
the Hungarian miners. 1900 of them.
shut themselves up in their mines on
hunger strike, as protest, insisting
that they should have as much as $2.00
a week.
We will not compare ourselves with
others. but 6 must remember that la
Dor is a commodity. the price Of which
is based on two things on what it
will produce and on what its produce
will bring.
ST. Croix does not owe any man
living. Every man owes il to st. Croix
that he make living for himself. aad
in so doing help other people to make
living. But the community of st.
Croix must in justice give fair field
and no favor. so that every man has an
equal chance to make good.
St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1934-11-07
T0 be Continued.
T0 be Continued.
PROCEEDINGS
OF PHE
COLONIAL COUNCIL
FOR 81. CROfX

Continued from Tribune November 9th
Bird Member for Christiansted Country
District (Arnsstgong): Mr. Chairman.
This list of reallotme mt is paper concern
because no hound posts have been pat up.
The reallotment was done in the Public
Works Office. and ifany man refuses to
nay he is going to have the DEVILS own
St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1934-11-07

Motor boat 'Vigiant" arrived from
ST Thomas at 80 p. m. yesterday with
mai and passeDgers:INan t1rigg and son,
Idaia Parson, Fermin Espinosa. Ruth
Jashna, Susan Setorie. Maria Dufrene.
Il sailed for ST. Thomas at $50 IN.
yesterday with mail and passengers
Ross L. Page. Cau Jacobs. Joseph Pc
tersen, Rufus Norman, Ariel Melchior.
Maria Clarke. Lucin Harrigan, Joseph
E. Schnn, Alvin Charles.