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The Washington times., 1934-12-11
JAM
FIVE SCHOOLS

Most downtown schools in the
District have been crowded by
the last two years of the depres-
sion, a school survey revealed
today.
Nine schools in particular have
felt the pressure of the large in
fiux into the cheaper residential
property in the downtown area,
school officials stated.
Exceptionally Crowded
The schools which have been
exceptionally overcroWded in the
past two years are the Thomson,
Twelfth and L SITS. N. w.; Seatoa,
Third and I SITS. N. w.: Adams,
Nineteenth st. and Columbia Rd.
N. w.; Force, Eighteenth st. and
Massachusetts, Ave. N W.; Cranch,
Twelfth and G SITS. S. E.; Taylor,
Eleventh and G SITS. S. E.; Wal
ZACH, Seventh st. and Pennsyl-
vania Ave. S. E.; Brent, Third
and D SITS. S. E., and Dent, Sec
ond and E SITS. S. E.
The elementary school popula-
ton throughout the entire school
system has increased by approx
mately 5000 within the tWo-year
period. Most of this increase has
centered in the downtown area.
The Washington times., 1934-12-11
$4,000 In Stolen Goods
SOldatPOliCe Auction

And that's the way it went
throughout the day at the annual
police auction. Stolen goods and
unclaimed property, ranging from
hairpins to piccolos, we're knocked
down to the highest bidder, and
in most cases that wasn't very
high. The whole lot was valued
at something like $4,000, but the
bidders knew nothing of that.
One man bought 500 pocket
knives for $4.25: another got two
adding machines for $14.50. A pic
colo and string of beads went for
81, as did a woman's fur coat and
two guitars. One man got cor
net for SO to give his grandson
for Christmas.
A goodly crowd circulated
throughout the day, but a half
dozen secondhand dealers did the
heavy bidding,
The Washington times., 1934-12-11
MILK CONT 7 ROL
PLAN STUDIED

Drafting of bill to make the
local milk industry a public
utility, for presentation to Con-
gress during the coming session, is
being seriously considered by the
District Commissioners, it was
learned today.
Commissioner George E. Allen
used the threat of such a measure
several months ago when he forced
the price of milk for relief fam
lilies from the prevailing rate of 13
cents a quart to the present 8
cents a quart to relief recipients.
Officials of the Maryland-Vir-
ginia Milk Producers Association
recently have advocated an in
crease in the price of milk to IA
cents a quart. The producers
stated that the high health stand
ards required of local milk entailed
additional expense of production.
ElWood Seal, Assistant Corpora
ton Counsel who acted as coun-
sci to the Senate investigating
Committee which probed the local
milk situation, has been making
an extensive study of the commits
sion form of control practiced in
New York.
The Washington times., 1934-12-11
8 SCHOOLS NEAR
COMPLETION

With the three remainin g
schools in Fairfax county's school
building program rapidly nearing
completion, the Board of Educa-
ton announced it will advertise
for bids on furnishing the in
teriors within the next day or
two.
Some 300 lockers, a number of
typewriters and library tables,
chairs, primary tables, and labora-
tory equipment will be purchased.
The buildings are a portion of
the $150,000 building program
undertaken by the board last
year, and it is expected they will
be completed in the latter part
of January. Two projects have
already been completed, the ad-
dition to the elementary school
at Franconia and alterations to
the combined high and ele-
mentary school at Clifton.
The Washington times., 1934-12-11
PROPOSAL
To USE PART
Of PARK
Secretary Doubts Wisdom of
killing Pleasure Area;
Will Study Project

Secretary of the Interior Har.
old L. Ickes may "take a hand"
in the controversy now centered
at the White House over the con-
version of a part of East Poto-
mac Park into a municipal air
port.
The Secretary, advised today of
the plan laid before President
Roosevelt by Clark Howell, chair
man of the Federal Aviation
Commission. said he questioned
the advisability of taking devel-
oped park areas out of existence
for use as an airport"
Ickes Park Enthusiast
Mr.. Ickes, an ardent supporter
of parks and recreational de-
velopments, added:
II guess I'll have to take a
look into this"
He declared that there is an
ample supply of property that
could be used as an airport with
out killing" a park area.
See Golf Course Doomed
Also coming out in vigorous
protest against the proposal was
c. Marshall Finnan, superintend-
ent of National Capital Parks,
who declared such a move would
remove from public use a val
liable recreation area, greatly de-
valuate the waterfront and neces-
state removal of the East Po-
tomac Park golf course and many
of Washington's famous japanese
cherry trees.
The Presidents Cup Regatta
Association also is expected to
fight the airport plan on the
ground that it would jeopardize
that section of the Potomac River
where the annual Presidents Cup
Regatta is staged.
The Washington times., 1934-12-11
Ickes' Publicity Chief
Gay But Canny

Mighty and wise is Michael,
Mike" StrauS, director of infor-
nation for the Public Works Ad-
miniStration.
If you don't believe it. just drop
into his office in the Interior
Building, as a hundred or more
newspapermen do daily, and try
to make him discuss something
you should not know.
Mike" Che doesn't answer to
anything else) was born in Chi
cago "in machine gun district No.
g." in 1897. The World War
smashed his collegiate career at
the University of Wisconsin and
1918 found him on the high seas
with Uncle Sans Navy.
But the Armistice ended all
that, so Mike turned to newspa-
per work. Starting as cub re-
porter on a Madison, Wis, daily,
he progressed rapidly, making
friends and influential contacts
all up the line.
The New York Evening Post
called him next and then William
Randolph Hearst'S organization
sent him to Washington to write
for Universal Service.
Shortly after the Public Works
Administration was born and Har-
old L. IckeS was named its big
boss, a "scout" came around and
whispered in Mixes ear that Sec
retary Ickes would like to see him.
AS a result Universal Service
loaned" him to the Government
indefinitely, so indefinitely, in
The Washington times., 1934-12-11

A giant of a colored man, with
feet bulging from his shoes, stood
in the crowd in a warehouse, 400
block Indiana Ave. N. w., this
morning and yelled:
"SiZe!"
The auctioneer, slightly hard of
hearing, called out:
give! I'm offered five!
Who'll make it five and a quar-
ter?"
The prospective customer called
"Size!" again and the auctioneer
came back:
"SOId for five! The gentle
man gets nice new pair of
shoes for five bucks"
Well, the colored customer didn't
have five bucks and the shoes
didn't fit him, anyway. He was
just trying to find out what size
they were. So a man who bid
The Washington times., 1934-12-11
Ken Murray
Says:

And you're complaining about
expenses! Why, the Treasury
reports that it costs more than
5000 million dollars to run the
Government for five months. .
Paving that road to prosperity
with gold, eh?
When Washington threw the
dollar across the Potomac, it
was considered quite stunt. .
Today we throw billions across
the whole U. S. A., and think
nothing Of it.
The States may believe that
the Government is playing with
anagrams. but no matter how
they fool around with CWA
and AAA, it always seems to
come out lou.
so REMEMBER:
America is the land of the
free. and easy payments.
The Washington times., 1934-12-11
Suicide Identified
AS Civil Engineer

The body of an elderly man
found on the historic George
Washington estate in Stafford
County, Va, yesterday was identi-
fled as that of William C. Bull, a
civil engineer and one of the
pioneers in the perfection of shat
ter proof glass.
David P. Walhaupter, local pa
tent attorney who has handled
Mr.. Bulls patent work made the
Identification. The inventor, who
was about IS years old, was found
on the Washington farm, bullet
wound through his head. A GER
tificate of SuiSide was issued.
The Washington times., 1934-12-11

Traffic Fatalities In
D. c. Rise To 122
so MORE HURT

Automobiles, skidding .over an
inch-and-a-half crust of snow, have
injured nearly so persons during
the last "a hours, police reports
showed today. At the same time
the traffic death roster mounted
to 122, one below the 1882 record
of 1913.
Miss Pheola Matthews, colored,
of the 3700 block Quebec st.
N. W., died in Georgetown Uni
versity Hospital of injuries suf-
fered December 3 when she was
struck by an automobile at Wis
conSin Avenue and Porter ST.
N. w.
Weather Bureau forecasters
predicted today that the snow
would probably remain until to-
morrow when it will turn to
"Slush."
Only few of those injured re-
mained in hospitals today. The
others returned to their homes
after treatment.
In addition to those suffering
u t m o b lie accident injuries,
nearly a score q! persons were
treated for injuries suffered when
they fell on the icy pavements.
One of the fall victims, Mrs.
Rebecca Dawson, 10, of the 5000
block Wisconsin Ave. N. w., suf-
fered a probable fracture of her
left hip when she fell on the side
walk near her home. She is being
treated at the Georgetown Uni
versity Hospital.
A crew of 900 Workmen and 200
trucks are expected to go to work
today clearing snow from main
thoroughfareS.
The Washington times., 1934-12-11
A. Distributes
Hot School Food

Members of the Vienna Parent
Teachers Association today began
serving hot lunches to the pupils
of the elementary school.
To those who can afford to pay
for their lunch, a small charge
will be made, while underweight
and undernouriShed children will
be fed without charge.
The Washington times., 1934-12-11
Hold
Week of Prayer

Special daily services in obser.
vation of "The Annual Week of
Prayer" are being conducted in
Seventh Day Adventist Churches
and institutions throughout the
world this week, it was announced
at the world conference head.
quarters in Takoma Park today.
Special scripture articles. writ
ten by denominational leaders in
all parts of the world, are read by
the pastors of the various
churches during each days serv.
ice.
The Washington times., 1934-12-11
Card Party to Aid
Needy of Parish

A card and bingo party to help
the needy of the parish will be
given by the Holy Comforter
Sodality Friday night in the
church auditorium, Fifteenth and
East Capitol Streets. Those in
charge are Miss R. O'Donneu.
Miss Nellie Mccormick, Miss Mar
garet Nolan, Mrs. Rose Dillon,
Mrs. A. Donnelly, Mrs. M. Dean
and j. Montgomery.
The Washington times., 1934-12-11
Catholics Report
On Aid to Needy

Food, fuel, clothing and other
necessities costing $4,000 we're
distributed to the needy in %
Washington parishes by the st.
Vincent de Paul Society, it was
announced at the society'S annual
meeting in Scholl's Cafe yester-
day.
The Washington times., 1934-12-11
Bank Stock Rule
Upheld in Appeal

First decision of the District
Court of Appeals in a suit over
assessments levied against stock
holders of the Commercial Ma
tional Bank was handed down
yesterday sustaining action Of
Robert c. Baldwin, receiver for
the bank.
The decision upheld a judgment
Of $4,027.77 against Martin Roth,
a Stockholder.
The Washington times., 1934-12-11
"RENTER" IS THIEF

Mrs. Amelia Turley, 1900 block
N st. N. w., told police today
that two wall drapes, valued at
$50, had been stolen from her
home. Mrs. Turley said she be-
lieved a man who came to rent
a room" had stolen the drapes.
The Washington times., 1934-12-11

Whenever you wish to know the
correct time of day or hight tele.
phone District 1000, the office of
THE WASHINGTON TIMES.
The Washington times., 1934-12-11

fact, that Mike is no little worried
about whether his old employers
will recognize him when he goes
back,
The Washington times., 1934-12-11
Woman Is Held
In Crash Death

A coroner'S jury yesterday held
Miss Catherine E. Linquist, %, of
the 5000 block Thirteenth st. s..
E., for the Grand Jury following
an inquest into the death of Miss
Eve Lloyd, "a, of Hyattsville.
Md, who was killed in an auto
mobile accident November II.
CHIROPRACTORS MEET
The monthly meeting of the
District of Columbia Chiropractic
Society will be held at 8 p. m.
today in the Thomas Circle Club.
The Washington times., 1934-12-11

Seasonal note on the More
Abundant Life as prescribed by
DR.. Roosevelt:
A Baltimore costumer has his
sewing machine girls working
at 1000 new Santa Claus suits
to supply his happy holiday Gus
toners.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-07
"a NOTED NEGROES
PROTEST SCHUYLER
ATTACKONHERNDON
Hold the Pittsburgh Courier Equally Guilty o.
SANDERS Against Struggles of the Negro
People-Demand Columnist Be Fired

NEW YORK.-Twenty- -four outstanding Negro il
lectuals and professionals Joined Negro and white
last week in indignant protests to the Pittsburgh Coz
and its coumnis George Schuyler against the attacks
pearng regularly in that paper on the Scottsboro and
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lieve that the masses should XII
Of your treachery, should real
where you stand"
A similar protest sent to the
Pittsburgh Courier holds that paper
jointly responsible with Schuyler
for all the disruptiye and slanderous
attacks which have appeared in his
column. upon the militant struggles
of the Negro workers." and also de-
clares:
I'VE demand the immediate dis
missal of George Schuyler from the
staff of the Courier. We demand an
end to the provocations against the
ScottSboro- Herndon defense and
other militant struggles.
I'VE likewise demand that this
protest be published in the columns
of your paper
Those who have signed the pro-
test so far are Charming Tobias,
Y. M. c. A. Senior Secretary to
Colored Men and Boys; Peyton F.
Anderson, M. D.; Harold Jackman,
Albert H Armstrong, j. j. Jones,
M. D.; Augusta Savage, Dorothy K.
Funn, L. Rebecca Baker, Mrs. Eva
Sharp, Ruth B. Price, Owen H.
Price, A. Hudson Sealy, M. D.; M.
A. Savage, Gwendolyn Bennett,
Louise Thompson, Aaron Douglas,
Benjamin ]. Davis, Jr.; Langston
Hughes, Alta Douglas, Evangeline
st. Claire, Hugh A. Glover, William
c. Chase, William Toney and Eu-
gene Gordon.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-07
1.2N0 Ont in Boston

BOSTON, Mass, Sept. 6.-About
1900 textile workers came out on
strike here yesterday with about
400 still at work. These remaining
few hundred will be out soon. The
United Textile Workers, which has
q small nucleus of about so mem
bers, at a mass meeting held on
Labor Day with about $50 to 200
present voted to strike Tuesday
morning. However, no attempt was
made Tuesday morning to form a
picket line when about 100 stayed
out.
Only when National Textil e
Workers Union followers got in
among these textile workers was a
picket line successfully established
by members of both unions on
Tuesday at noon. The followers of
the National Textile Workers Union
have been in the forefront of strug-
|gle and have actually been the
driving force in making the picket
line a success. Tuesday noon about
zoo responded to the strike call as
IA result OF this joint activity of
followers of both unions. The ranks
Of the strikers we're swelled to 1900
by Wednesday. BY today every tex
tile worker is expected to be on
strike, with militant picket lines be-
ing formed.
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Arbitration and Bullets
AN DIT RIAL
Continued from Page y

outset rejecting all the tricky dangerous
maneuvers.
Arbitration raging
against the textile strikers spaterng blood front
tile mills Arbitration just demands just
pcke for the crime fighting live
living conditions
inspiration to
whole American working strikers! Keep your
firm! Pull out MILL Shut the textile industry
Reject arbitration. picketing
squadrOns Push until complete
Textile workers Seventeen your help
you win this strike and hundreds Of thousands battling bravy
to win the demands for which strike
Arbitration kebreaking
be defeated by rank and file action.
Take the strike into hands ecing
committees in local. organize
regional strike conferences
Jersey and Pennsylvania representing
every mill in the region should be these
gional conferences fighting against arbitration modifying
cent wakou pckeng should elect delegates
represent the
These delegates from the regional
ona meeting and act the only genuinely elected
them to meet and negotiate with the
strike will lead to a victory for the workers.
This is the way blocking arbitration strike
breaking maneuvers Do not let through General
Council which to abrate hours the out
of strike what
That should be put the strikers themselves
1t the workers who of the mills
bayones and machine of the bosses who
the struggle is the file have
the how this strike should conditions
shall be negotiated settled
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-07
Silk Workers Out
In Allentown, Pa.
Continued from Page y

leaders throughout the area con-
tinually talk peaceful picketing and
keep the leadership in the hands of
a picked committee of officials, the
workers are demanding rank and
file control and militant action to
close down every mill.
The Communist Party yesterday
issued a leaflet warning the workers
against arbitration and demanding
broad democraticaliy elected com
mittees as against the policy of the
U. T. w. leaders. The workers
eagerly accepted the leaflets, and
when U.TW. official attacked the
comrade distributing them the
workers came to his defense.
A mass meeting is being called
by the U. T. w. Friday at Center
Square, with John Phillips, presi-
dent of the Pennsylvania State Fed
Grafton Of Labor as Nnain speaker.
The Communist Party is issuing a
leaflet calling upon all silk workers
to attend the meeting to prevent
any maneuvers to place the strike
in the hands of the Roosevelt me-
diation board, and to demand the
election of broad rank and file
strike committee, against individual
settlements and for the strengthen
ing of the strike until all the de-
mands of the national convention
are met.
A mass meeting is being called by
the Communist Party on Tuesday
to explain in detail the Communist
proposals to win this strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-07
COnverters Join in shamOkin
Especial to the Daily Worker)

Especial to the Daily Worker)
SHAMOKIN, Pa, Sept. 5. The
strike in the Eagle Silk Mill here
is 100 per cent solid, with 800 con-
verting workers striking together
with the weavers and tIlrowers. The
Eagle company is one of the biggest
plants in the country, employing
more than 5000 workers.
At the strike meeting in Red
Mems Hall today, all hands we're
raised in enthusiastic response to
a motion for mass picketing of the
mills Of the Susquehanna silk Com
pany in Sunbury, Pa, II miles
away. Preliminary reports indicate
that the strike is taking hold in
Sunbury. Shamokin strikers are
optimistic over possibility of organ
izing Sunbury workers today and
pulling them out on strike. Twen-
ty-five cheering carloads of strik-
ers Travelled to Sunbury for picket
ing.
Many workers of U. T. w. local
1879 feel that Walter Fortune, pres
1dent Of the local, is more SYM
pathetic to the company than to
the strikers. Fortune complained
that the Eagle Company is being
"crucifled" and will lose money be-
cause of the strike, but brushed over
the unbearable conditions Of the
workers in the mills, trying to make
them feel good by telling them that
their wages are mo worse than over
the rest of the country" Workers
are forced to operate four double
looms at an average of sl3 for a
40-hour week.
Fortune called the strike of con-
yerting workers a "misunderstand-
ing" and said that unless the Pat
erson, N. j. Converting Works came
out within "a hours, he would 90
to Washington to try to convince
U.T.W. officials that the strike of
Eagle Converting Department was
mistake"
At the meeting today, John Dean.
communist Party organizer, was
ordered out of the hall when he
rose to inform the strikers of 100
per cent support from the Daily
Worker and the Unemployment
Council Of shamokin, which will
help the strikers fight for relief.
The strikers did not have a
chance to say anything but many
seized copies of the Daily Worker
and read it. The greatest danger in
the present strike for the workers
in local 1889 is the absence of
a Economically elected, broad rank
and file strike committee. The pres
ent strike committee was appointed
by Fortune.
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recognition Of the UT.W, the 30
hour week of five days "of not more
than six hours per day." the offer,
in point five, states:
"All grievances arising in the shop
shall be adjusted by the union and
the employer. In the first instance,
such grievances shall be submitted
to the shop committee and the mill
foreman or mill superintendent rep
resenting the employer, and, in the
event they cannot adjust such
grievances, the matter shall then be
submitted to the officials of the
union and the employer. In the
event the union and the employer
cannot agree, the matter shall be
submitted to a board of arbitration,
consisting Of three perons-one
member chosen by the employer,
one by the union, and one member
chosen by the two members pre-
viously selected, whose decision
shall be final and binding on both
parties
U. T, w. point states: There
shall be no strikes or lockouts dur
ing the life Of this agreement"
Garrison's letter to Roosevelt, de-
claring that 1T is desirable that we
be as far removed as possible from
direct participation in controver-
sizes over some aspects of which we
may, at later date, be asked to sit
in judgment" foreshadowS the
probability that the Winant board
will concoct some plan of channel
izing the workers protests into the
time-consuming deliberations Of the
National Labor Relations Board
body which tacitly approved of
the employer violence during the
Pacific Coast strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-07
Judge Denies
Release to "a
In McKeespOrt

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Sept. 8. =
Release of the twenty-four Nc
Keesport prisoners, held on charges
Of "inciting to riot" in connection
with the International Youth Day
demonstration last Saturday, on a
writ of hsbeas corpus was denied
yesterday by Judge Ambrose B.
Reid, in Common Pleas Court.
The hearing was marked by
Reds vicious attacks on Commu-
niSts, other workers and lawyers
who defend working class prisoners.
The writ was filed by Attorneys
Arthur Rack and Sylvia Schlessin-
ger, charging that the prisoners
were imprisoned unlawfully, many
of them arrested miles from the
scene of the International Youth
Day demonstration, were held in
communicate and denied counsel,
and had been held for trial without
proper hearing.
Attorney Racks statement gave
the lie to the case record fled by
Police Magistrate Trich, which
stated that the prisoners were
bound over over at a night court
session.
Reid remanded the prisoners to
jail but reduced bail in each case
from $4,000 to $1,000.
Meanwhile the workers of Nc
Keesport, undaunted by Mayor
Lysle's fascist attack, will hold a
protest meeting tonight in Unem-
ployment Council headquarters. The
leaf1et issued for the meeting
charges Lysle and the City Council
with leading the steel trust and
munition makers program of fas-
cisrn and war"
A mass delegation will meet at
U. c. headquarters tomorrow at 8
am, and carry a protest to Lysle's
Office.