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The Washington times., 1934-01-20
London Is Setting

London is the setting for the
latest RKO-Radio drama which
teams Irene Dunno and Olive
Brook. ''If Were Free is the
title, and the screen drama is
based on the successful play "Be-
hold, We Live" by John Van
Druten. Nils ASther, Henry
Stephenson and Laura Hope
Crews are in the cast. which was
directed by Elliott Nugent. It is
being shown at RKO-Keith'S.
The Washington times., 1934-01-20

all primed and
ready to offer
those diversion
seekers a + t e r
Sundown tn e
best liquors and
W inc S obtain
able.
Pete MaciaS,
ost of this
truly different
nigh t lu b,
spent two days
in New York
last week up
and down diStil-
lery row. He
also took occa-
The Washington times., 1934-01-20
Next Weeks Movie Program at the
Neishborhood Thedters

Coy in Hold the Press" Chapter 4,
Kit Carson" Matinee. ! D. m.
TAKOMA-Sunday and Monday: Marie
DreSslsr in christopher Bean" Tues
day and Wednesday: Ann Harding in
Right to Romance" and Charles
day and Friday: Walter WinchelIs 9
broadway Through q Ksyhole." Satur-
day. Robert Armstrong in Blind Ad-
venture. and Peggy shannon in THE
The Washington times., 1934-01-20
ConnalIv at Fox

Walter Connally, popular stage
and screen actor, appears with
Dorothy Wilson, Douglass Mont
gomery, Kay johnson and Betty
Gray, Washington girl, in the
picture Eight Girls in a Boat" at
LoeW'S Fox Theater.
The Washington times., 1934-01-20
AIISet
For Farewell
To Dry Era

Early death knell of prohibition
finds the Heigh-Ho Club, gay
Connecticut Avenue night spot,
The Washington times., 1934-01-20

AMBASsADOR-Sunday. Monday and
Tuesday: Claudetts Colbert and Herbert
Marshall in -Four Frightened People"
Wednesday and Thursday: Four Marx
Brothers in Duck Soup; Ben Blue
comedy. Friday: Paul NUM- in THE
World Cbanges"; comedy. Saturday:
Lewis Carrolps "Alice in Wonderland; !;
Tarzan, the Fearless" No. s: comedy
and cartoon.
The Washington times., 1934-01-20

BOOKER To-day and until Thurs
day: Little Women" with Katherine
Henhurn loan Bennett and Frances
Dee; usual added features. Friday;
Change of program.
The Washington times., 1934-01-20

XORK-Sunday and Monday: Kather-
inc Hepburn in Little Women" car
Rains and Gloria Stuart in 'SThe Invis-
ible Man." Laurel and Hardy comedy.
Thursday and Friday: Lillian Roth and
James Dunn in Take Chance" car
toon, sport reel. Saturday: James Gag
ney in Lady Killer" "Perils of Pauline"
No. 3, Charlie Chase comedy.
The Washington times., 1934-01-20

WashingtOn's Only Smart
Russian Restaurant
and Mite Club
Evening star., 1934-11-05

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9. Religious body in India.
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Is. Vassal.
II. Eastern.
ls. Edge.
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20. Dark.
81. Harsh call.
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25. Tree.
27. Corrodes.
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80. Lamp.
80. Pertaining to auks.
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35. Accomplish.
81. Agreement.
38. School of whales.
40. Before.
q. Radical.
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50. Savage.
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40. Ebb and flow.
so. Ex-ruler.
So. Old American race.
54. Chinese dynasty.
56. That things.
ST. Mimic.
58. Present.
so. Bother.
81. Revolving parts.
So. School term.
65. Concurrence.
Evening star., 1934-11-05
Village Gets Dictator.

Burton Pidea, a small village in
England, has a dictator because it
refuses to pay debt. Owing to liti-
cation last year it is $3.50 in debt and
refuses to touch its NEST egg" of
$l,340. There is no council because
none of the 800 inhabitants Is anxious
to serve. Therefore the county
council has appointed a dictator and
has imposed a special tax rate to
cover the debt.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-01-26
Nazi Labor Code Denounced
By Green AS Enslavement
COndemnng Hitlers Decree A. F. of L. Head Declares 1t
Fully Justfes American Labors Boycott of German
Goods

Washington, D. C. (ILNS)-Ger-
many's new Nazi labor code. under
which trade unions are abolished and
strikes and collective bargaining out
lawed, was declared the finishing
touch" in reducing German labor to
servitude, in statement by Presi-
dent William Green, of the American
Federation of Labor He denounced
the code as meaning "enslavement
and automatic control" for the Ger
man workers.
"The new Decree" said Mr.. Green,
"abolishing all the rights and priv
ileges upon which the organized la
Dor movement of Germany rested. 1t
completely annihilates labor unions,
prohibits strikes, does away with col
lective bargaining and the right to
organize. This is the finishing touch
applied to the general position of
Chancellor Hitler in reducing those
who belonged to trade unions to a
condition of servitude and in the COM
plete destruction of the German trade
union movement as initiated when the
officers of the German trade unions
were arrested and imprisoned, the
funds confiscated and the Offices
raided.
"The new labor setup for the Ger
man workers provides for a system
of shop councils which will function
under the supervision of government
al labor trustees, but which within
minimum provisions will permit the
employer to fix wages and working
conditions himself although the work
ers may appeal to the state. 1t fur
ther provides that the employer shall
serve as chairman of the shop coun-
ell, which shall be composed of select
ed nationally reliable employees more
than twenty-five years old" 1t fur
ther provides that the trustees may
impose fines and prison terms and the
court may beyond that also depose
a leader and discharge a follower.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-01-26
|. I. u. Head Sees N. R. A. of No Help
10 Skilled Men in Printing Trade
CONSUMERS
Charge ExtOrtionate Prices
While Buying Power Lags

Washington, D. C. (ILNS)-Fred-
erick R. Hoisington, Jr., chairman
Meyer Parodneck, treasurer, and J
Charles Laue, executive chairman OF
the Emergency Conference of Con-
sumner Organizations, 315 Fourth tve-
nue., New York city, charged extor-
tionate prices for milk, coal, copper
and other consumer commodities at a
price hearing of consumer protests
before A. D. Whiteside, NRA divi-
sion administrator.
The Emergency Conference of Con-
sumner Organizations declared that
prices have increased extortionately
in proportion to purchasing power.
The organization made public brief
showing price increases exacted from
the ultimate consumer ranging from
II per cent for coal to $50 per cent
for copper hot water boilers.
An analysis of the position of the
consumer issued by the organization
indicated in general a continuation of
the decline in real income and spend
ig of the individual employed co.
sumer. According to the analysis, the
less than z per cent net gain in money
wages of New York factory workers
since the first quarter of 1888 has
been insufficient to offset the larger
increase in living costs.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-01-26
SETTLEMENT
OF Taxi Strike in Philadel-
phia Ratified

Washington, D. C. (ILNS)-Rati-
fication of the agreement settling the
Philadelphia taxi strike, has been re-
ported to the National Labor Board
by the Philadelphia Regional Board.
"The National Labor Board is graf
flied by the agreement of the cab
companies and the Taxi Drivers Un-
ion settling the STRIKE" Senator Wag-
ner, chairman of the National Labor
Board, said. "That agreement begins
The cab companies and the repre-
sentatives of the union earnestly de-
sire to cooperate fifth the National
Labor Board The substance of the
agreement is largely that recommend
ed by the Philadelphia Regional La
Dor Board on December and by the
National Labor Board on December
18.
"This outcome is worth pondering
by those who have hastily assailed
the National Labor Board system
whenever recommendation or rul-
ing was not accepted instantly.
Friendly critics have shouted for us
to be beligerant and hostile critics
have dared us to be. That was not
the policy of the board. Why Be-
cause the board knows that voluntary
agreements are always preferable and
that lasting agreements generally
grow out of second thoughts rather
than controversial first thoughts. In
the Philadelphia taxi case the Ma
tional Labor Boards decision sup
ported the recommendation of the
Philadelphia Board, and when accept
ance was not immediate, we remained
patient but persistent. This persist
ence had it's reward, first in a con-
ference l had last week with ex-
Senator Pepper and next in confer
ence at my request between Mr.. Pep
per and the labro leaders, which
evolved the agreement substantially
along the lines of our boards deci.
sion."
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-01-26
FUND
OF $4,000 Offered by Union
To Boom Cigars

Washington, D. C. (ILNS)-On
condition that employers abandon
opposition to unionization Of their
plants, the Cigar Makers Interna-
tional Union has offered fund of
$50, 900 to the cigar industry for use
in advertising the cigar. The offer
was made in a letter signed by Presi-
dent I. M. Ornburn and sent to 125
employers representing 90 per cent of
the production.
Should it's proposal be accepted, the
union pledges itself to make an initial
contribution of $4,000 when 5000
new members are enrolled. For each
additional 5000 members an addi-
tional $4,000 per year will be con-
tributed, until total annual contri-
button of $4,000 is made when 25,-
900 new members are enrolled.
In addition, the union offers to ar
bitrate disputes and promises to ac-
cept the findings.
President Ornburn expressed the
hope that the offer would be accepted
by the industry at once in order that
a great cooperative effort toward re-
vival of the industry might be got
under way without delay.
Pointing out the need for ro-opera-
tive action, President Ornburn said:
"The cigar industry has declined
severely during the past several
years, with grave injury to both labor
and capital All who have a genuine
interest in the welfare of the indus
try are bound by motives of self
interest and regard for the legitimate
interests of others, to seek the most
effective means of rehabilitating this
industry.
"The cigar industry can recapture
it's lost ground if it will fight vigor-
ously enough. 1t cannot expect to
halt the downward trend if it depends
upon others to restore it to former
levels. Too many forces have been
working against the cigar. To
counteract their effect the cigar in
dustry must learn to pull together
instead of weakening itself by in
ternal conflict and strife, and making
of itself an easy mark for it's COM
petitors."
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-01-26

"a mere reference to these dicta-
torial provisions is shocking to the
sense of justice and comprehension
of the enjoyment of democratic rights
and privileges held by American
workers.
"The cruel treatment accorded the
German workers as set forth in the
code justifies the position taken by
the American Federation Of Labor
when it declared in favor of a boy
colt of German manufactured goods
and Germ an service until the German
government recognizes the right OF
the working people of Germany te
organize into bona fide, independent
trade unions of their own choosing
and until Germany ceases it's repress-
i've policy of persecution of Jewish
people.
'In addition to this definite action
taken the American Federation OF
Labor voices it's solemn protest
against the inhuman treatment
which has been imposed upon the
working people of Germany"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-01-26
Gotham Printers Ask
Strike Vote Sanction

New York City (ILNS)-Typo-
graphical Union No. 6, biggest local
of the International Typographical
Union, has petitioned international
headquarters at Indianapolis to sane
tion referendum strike vote.
Leon H. Rouse, president of No. 6,
said the printers requested 6a-
hour working day or 39-hour week
and restoration of 1929 wage scales.
Rouse said he did not know when
the international executive council
would take action on the petition.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-01-26
Business Plans Strike
To Kill Compensation

Havana, Cuba. = Cuban industrial
and commercial concerns, largely
owned and controlled by American
capitalists, threatened nationwide
strike by closing the doors of their
establishments unless the government
modified the recently enacted work
mems compensation law which makes
employees liable not only for acci-
dents to workers but also for illness
of any kind suffered by them.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-01-26
Louisiana Trappers Receive
Better Prices Under Code

New Orleans (ILNS)-The trap
pers' code now in effect is giving sat
isfaction, both to the land owners and
the men who spend two months in
the Louisiana marshes to make an
existence for the remaining 1C
months.
Last season and for many previous
for that matter, trappers were COM
PEELED to take the price offered by the
land owners, which in many cases
ranged from Z to 13 cents for tons
and rounds. The scale now in effect
gives the men So cents for tops laic
down in front of the buyer.
Subscribe for the Press.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-01-26
Workers Must Rely Upon Organization, as Here
tofore, President Howard Says--His Blast
Gives Point to Chicago Story Of How Two
Colonels Captured One General.

Gone thing is absolutely certain
and that is that the law adopted an
ticipates complete organization of in
dustry, and that the law encourages
and expects all labor to organize and
bargain collectively. We have been
doing this for over a hundred years
without leaning on the government
for assistance, and will continue to
do So"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-01-26

indianapolis, Ind. (ILNS)-In a
sizzling criticism of the national re-
covery act administration policy to-
ward skilled trades, President Charles
P. Howard, of the international Typo
graphical Union, declares that events
in Washington compel the conclusion
that "the force Of organization of
skilled tradesmen is to be in the fu-
ture, as it has been in the past, their
only protection"
'It is plain" President Howard con-
tinues, that the theory of the ma
tional industrial recovery act, which
was to reduce the hours of work and
increase the rate of wages so as to
maintain purchasing power and
spread employment, is not to be ap-
piled to the printing industry.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-01-26
BY JOSEPH A. WISE

Chicago (ILNS)-Appropos of the
blast given to General Hugh S. John.
son by Charles P. Howard, president
of the international Typographical
Union, in the January issue of the
Typographical Journal, is story
going the rounds in high political
circles in Chicago.
Mr.. Howard severely censures Gen
eral Johnson for procrastination and
failure to provide adequate codes for
the daily newspapers and the job
printing industry. Mr.. Howard
charges that the daily newspaper pub
fishers have General Johnson bluffed
and advises the members of the In
ternational Typographical Union that
they will have to rely on their organ
ization for results, just as they have
done for the last 100 years.
The story going the rounds here
tells how two colonels captured one
general. 1t has reference to the time
General Johnson made his famous
dead cats" speech in Chicago a few
weeks ago.
1t is alleged that Colonel Robert
R. Mccormick, publisher of the Chi
cago Daily Tribune, and Colonel
Frank Knox, publisher of the Chi
cago Daily News, captured General
Johnson while he was in Chicago and
talked turkey" to him in a room at
the Drake Hotel.
This is given as an explanation of
the "cease firing" order from the pro-
ponents of the freedom of the press
campaign. 1t is alleged that the two
colonies are now smiling like the cat
that ate the canary.
Frank Knox was touted for the
craftsmanship of the republican ma
tional committee a few weeks ago
The latest story is to the effect that
he aspires to be the republican nomi
nee for president of the United States
in 1886.
Evening star., 1934-12-25
White Christmas Denied Capital
While Chicago Has Heouy Sno'0

Late returns indicate that both
Washington, D. c., and Fairbanks,
Alaska, are to have snowless Christ
mas days.
Santa Claus was sleeping late this
morning and it could not be learned
what means of transportation he used
in localities where weather conditions
prevented customary sleighing activi-
ties. 1t was reported that he useo a
rubbed-tired buggy in Fairbanks,
where the snowless condition was the
first ever recorded there on the Christ
mas holiday.
For Washington the Weather Bureau
insisted this morning that 1t not only
was cloudy then, but it probably would
remain cloudy all day. If anything
else happens here, it will be light ram
fall or snow flurries late this after
noon or evening, it was said. The
temperature was around "a this morn
ing, twilight zone," which might
turn rain into snow, or vice versa.
Chicago reported the snowjest
Christmas, recent fall there keeping
everything me$s or less white and
Evening star., 1934-12-25
NUMBERS EVIL HIT
BYHOWARDU.DEAN
Charles H. Houston of Law
School Says Game Takes
Away Food.

Charles H. Houston, dean of the
Howard University Law School and a
member of the Board of Education,
believes the numbers game as it is now
operated constitutes an evil that
should be driven from the city.
Information has come to Houston to
the effect that families are sometimes
left on the brink of destitution by in
roads of the numbers game, racketeers
Turing away money that should go for
foodstuffs and rent.
THE numbers game" Houston said
today, lis a creeping evil which has
insinuated itself into all corners of
commodity life. School children play
the numbers instead of buying lunch.
Their parents play the numbers IN
stead of buying food and paying rent.
"The numbers runners are every
where, seeking new recruits. The
game has become a social menace and
should be wiped out.
THE newspapers of Washington are
doing good work" Houston said, "in
suppressing the totaled numbers from
the race track" These totals, from
which the winning number is derived,
are of no use except when added in an
authoritative manner. Then, the
published winning number becomes
the very heart and core of the num-
bers game.
Absolutely necessary to the rack
eteers in promoting the numbers game,
the winning number must be sane
toned by some medium of authority,
such as a newspaper or radio sta
ton. Otherwise. persons playing the
numbers would have no faith in their
bets. That is one reason The Star
refuses to aid and abet the racketeer
Evening star., 1934-12-25
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BETHLEHEM, December 25-Jubi-
liant bells of Bethlehem and halle
lujahs" of thousands of worshippers
hailed the advent of another Christ
mas day early this morning in the
traditional celebration of Christ's
birth at the famous Church of the
Nativity.
Built on the most sacred spot in
Christendom. where the Christ child
is believed to have breathed his first,
more than i9 centuries ago, the
church was the scene of an imposing
pageant around the midnight hour.
1t was the climax to day and
night of rites in both Bethlehem and
Jerusalem, 8 miles away, in which
American travellers and residents of
Palestine had their part. The num-
bers of overseas pilgrims, however,
were considerably less than in former
years.
Rainy weather disappointed the
hopes of many who commonly asso-
ciate the Holy City at Yuletide with
clear, crisp weather, recalling the con-
ditions traditionally linked with the
miracle that Christendom celebrates
today.
Sharply at midnight Is pm, De-
cember "a, Eastern standard time) an
electric Star of Bethlehem burst into
light above the altar in the church OF
Evening star., 1934-12-25
Thousands Kneel at Nativity
Scene in Bethlehem Church
Pilgrims Kiss Holy Spot Where Manger
Rested-Young Men and Women
Watch in Shepherds Field.>

the convent and the drawing of a
curtain in the Church of the Nativity
revealed a superb efhgy Of the Holy
Babe
Earlier in the evening the acting
Latin patriarch had gone to the
church of the convent for vespers,
during which was held the picturesque
ceremony of the robing and disrobing
with garments of priceless value.
Close upon midnight, after a long
mass had been celebrated in the
Church of the Nativity, a slow process
sion Of priests led by the acting
patriarch moved slowly with swinging
censers to the transept. There, be-
fore a curtained chamber. they took
up their stand. Just at midnight, the
acting patriarch drew back the cur
tain and revealed the figure of the
Holy Child reclining upon rich cloths
of the Near East.
The great congregation broke out
in loud "hallelujahs" as the patriarch
lifted the Babe and conveyed it rever-
emily to the manger preserved in a
grotto beneath the transept, whep, it
is believed, Christ was born.
Winking candles inside the narrow
grotto lit up a scene of intense re-
ligious devotion. One by one wor-
shippers approached the manger and
knelt TO kiss the holy spot. Only about
Continued on Page 3, Column 81
Evening star., 1934-12-25
Lupescu Is Reported Facing
Exile Following Regal Snub
Former Premiers Press
Money Settlement to
Preserve Carol. y

BY the Associated Press.
VIENNA, December 25.-King Carol
Of Rumania, sdvices to foreign lega-
tions said mere today. Is prepared to
settle a large sum on Magda Lupescu,
titian-haired "uncrowned queen" II
she will leave the country.
High Rumanjan officials were re-
ported to be behind the move.
Detectives are guarding Nine. Lu-
pescu constantly from Rumanian pa
triots, who believe the country is suf-
fering because of her.
Carols former wife. the dignified
Princess Helen. is living in England.
Many observers believe she would be
willing to return to Carol should he
renounce Magda.
Carol, it was said, has been on the
point OF breaking with Nine. Lupescu
several times, but felt that to do SO
would be an admission that he had
given in to his political foes.
Two former premiers, Julius MANU-
and Vaida Voevod, were reported to
be more anxious than ever to have
the Kings friend leave following his
recent ''snub" by King George OF
England. Carol was not invited to
the wedding Of the Duke Of Kent and
Princess Marina.
The two ex-premiers are repre-
sented 10 be anxious for Carol either