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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-07-02
Tenor James Melton Is Invited to
Take Movie Test July 9 by
Warner Bros. Pictures
BY ANDREW R. KELLEY

When the u s. S. Houston weighed anchor at Annapolis
terday with President Roosevelt bound for Hawaiian vacation
the good ship carried Al feature motion pictures and 81 short
reels to supply entertainment for the nations No.
movie fan.
The President can he likes enjoy movie day while the
party away The Will Hays office checked 800 features and
4ho fo1Io1
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-07-02
Ship Alloy Jimmy

Jimmy Melton, sweet tenor OF
the radio and currently at the
Earle, was notified Saturday that
Warner Bros. think he is a screen
possibility and will give him a
test on July 8 at the F1atbuSh
studio.
Tenor Melton will do a scene
from ut Happened One Night"
playing a Clark Gable role for the
cameras and microphones. There
isn't any question about his sing
ing voice but Warner Bros. wants
to see how he looks pictorially and
whether he knows what this act
ing business is all about. The
contract is ready If he passes the
test.
Down in the Tidal Basin the
Melton cabin cruiser is anchored.
He sailed down leisurely from New
York for the Earle date, taking
four days to make the trip, and
anchored off the Corinthian
Yacht Club, and is the first vau-
daville act to make the Washing
ton Jump in his own boat.
The Chicago Opera Company
which the Mccormick family is
hoping to rejuvenate - wants
Tenor Melton next season to rival
the Metropolitan'S Lawrence lib
hett. Opera has to beg for the
test voices nowadays being less
.lluring economically than the In
aucementS which radio, vaudeville
and the screen can offer.
Mr.. Melton is a graduate OF
Roxy's Gang and won even
greater fame as the radio star OF
the RevelerS Quartet. He comes
from Moultrie, Ca, has a parch'
ment from Vanderbilt University
and is happily married. He loves
to tell stories and he loves to sing
songs. particularly those like
Hcc&Aaortnin' Bread"
Wesley Is Coming
Wesley Eddy will be the extra
ndded attraction at the Earle
T1'heater the week of July Is. He
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-07-02

PA1kASN SAAN ASAAN " 80
Likes Cartoons
.@The Last Gentleman" Bull.
dog DrummOnd Strikes Back"
''The Affairs Of Cellini," "The
Personality Kid" Doctor Mon
ica," Fog Over Frisco" Ere
turn Of the Terror" blouse on
Fifty-sixth Street." Baby, Take
q Bow" Handy Andy" "Spit-
fire." "Tarzan and His Mate"
twenty Million Sweethearts."
''Nana, Manhattan Love Song"
MELODY in Spring." "Speed-
wings" Half q Sinner" Little
Miss Marker" "The World
Moves On" Murder on the
Blackboard" "COckeyed Cava-
liers," "Crime Doctor" Scam
bling Lady" Mystery Of Mr..
K" "viva villa" Operator 49,"
"I'n Tell the World" Counsel
lOr at Law" Scarlet Empress,
''Most Precious Thing in Life"
twentieth Century," "The
Party's Over" Murder 1T the
Vanities," MANY Happy Re-
turns" Looking for Trouble"
''The Key" ''NOw I'll TELL"
"Sadie Mckee" and Thirty Day
Princess"
President Roosevelt has already
seen 10 Of these features, and
they were included for the benefit
Of the Houston's crew. Most Of
the, others are features which
have not yet been nationally re
leased. Ten Mickey MouseS and
Silly Symphonies are among the
shorts.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-07-02

Spot news: A gentleman at
MGM has a photograph showing
Maurice Chevalier in a many
days beard while he was being
held as a French prisoner by the
Germans and such woe and
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-07-02
Reducing Recipe

When Evelyn Venable wants to
lose poundage she does it-not
by dieting-but by worrying q
lot.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-07-02

Street house although he has a
record Of IS consecutive weeks
right across the street at Loew's
Palace.
Since his last appearance in
washington he. rang UP six
months at the original Roxy.
This seems an appropriate time
for the w. w. w. Club to stage
some sort Of a reunion.
Back Stage Notes
Gertrude Niessen, radio torch
Ginger at the Fox, is new to vaude'
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-07-02
Money! Went Far

Richard Arlen lived three
weeks on fourteen cents when
embarking on a motion picture
career.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-07-02
Italian At Seven

Helen Mack at the age Of
seven in her first stage part
learned to speak an Italian role
In "a hours. .........
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-07-02
Knows Medicine

Sylvia Sidney studied to be q
physician and reads medical
books for q pastime.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-07-02
Barrymore Play

Margaret Sullivan on q Holly.
wood holiday opens tonight at
the Westchester Playhouse in Co
quette." The Michael who will
make love to her in the play is
Henry Fonda, her divorced hus-
band Ethel Barrymore, next
week will try out Laura Garnett,"
a drama by Leslie and Sewell
Stokes founded on the life Of 1sa-
dora Duncan. Her son, John Drew
Colt and her daughter Ethel will
have small parts in the play. If
the Dobbs Ferry try-out indicates
a hit Miss Barrymore will do the
play on Broadway for the new
producing firm which includes
Noel Coward, Lynn Fontanne and
Alfred Lunt.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-07-02
Wesley Is Coming

Wesley Eddy will be the extra
ndded attraction at the Earle
TTaeater the week Of July -. He
has never played the Thirteenth
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-07-02

vile. She paid no attention to
the dressing room buzzer and so
when the time arrived for her to
go on first show Friday she was
among the missing. VIII Ma
honey was ready and went on No.
3, did 81 minutes while the warbler
was getting ready.
Miss Niessen also had no en-
core prepared when she took seven
bows Friday night. Now she
gives, Smoke Gets In Your Eyes"
having learned audiences expect an
encore.
Comedian Mahoney, vaude.
ville's most prodigious worker,
keeps a bottle of lager in the
wings while he is entertaining. A
swig vets his whistle and he Is
ready for another song. This
comic knows vaudeville back
wards, forward and in the middle.
He is the NRA member Of the
grievance board representing the
actors.
Evening star., 1934-09-02
Embargo Modified.

Ecuador has modified its embargo
against many foreign articles.
Evening star., 1934-09-02
Summary of Strike Facts
1000 Employed and 100000 already Jobless
Involved in Order affecting 2,7S1 Mills
Operators Cite Higher Costs of Production.

labor costs under N. r. A., a 100 per
cent Jump in cost of raw material,
AS cents a pound processing tax, and
a slump in demand for cotton goods
make a further increase in overhead
impossible.
The scene:
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont,
Massachusetts,, Rhode Island, Con-
necticut, New York, New Jersey, Penn
sylvania, Maryland, Virginia, North
and South Carolina, Tennessee. Ken
lucky, Alabama, Georgia, and all other
States in which may be located cotton
mills.
States likely to be most affected be-
cause of the following distribution Of
cotton textile workers:
Alabama, $4,000; Connecticut, 20,-
600; Georgia, $4,000; Massachusetts,,
II 900; New Hampshire, $4,000; New
Jersey, 5000; New York, $500; North
Carolina, $4,000; South Carolina,
10000; Pennsylvania, 5000; Rhode
Island, 10000; Tennessee, 5000;
Texas, $500; Virginia, 7,700.
Evening star., 1934-09-02
GRIEF BLUE EAGLE
FIGHT IS SETTLED
CIothiers Drop Suit and Get
Right to Use N. R. A. Label.
Wages Were Issue.

BY the Associated Press.
A tooth and nail battle that was
waged in and out of court ended yes
terday when N. R. A. and L. Grief &
Bro, Inc, of Baltimore, second largest
clothing manufacturer in the country,
came to terms.
The company, accused of failing to
pay wages above the clothing codes
minimum, and the recovery admins
tration agreed upon a piece-rate sys-
tenn under which employees will receive
higher wages.
When the controversy first broke in
July, N. r. A. ordered the Grief firm
to pay about 100000 in back wages
or lose its Blue Eagle. The announce
ment of the settlement made no men
ton of wage restitution and it was
understood that none would be made.
Both N. R. A. and the clothing code
authority evidently had agreed to
waive restitution in favor of higher
wages under the piece-rate system.
Firm Got Injunction.
Soon after the recovery adminiStra-
ton directed the company on July 6
to return the back wages, the Grief
MANAGEMENT went into Federal Court
at Baltimore and obtained an order
restraining Hugh S. johnson, recovery
administrator, and other N. r. A. off,
cials from attempting to force it to do
so or to remove its Blue Eagle.
Under the settlement the company
will discontinue its suit to enjoin en-
forcement of the clothing code and
N. R. A. will withdraw its order pro-
hibiting the code authority from issu
ing NJ r. A. labels to the concern.
Peace terms were agreed upon after
a week of negotiations which time and
again threatened to collapse and thrust
the case squarely before a court for a
test of constitutionality.
Announcement of the settlement
was made in a joint statement signed
by Leon Henderson, chief Of N. r. AS
research and planning division, George
L. Bell, executive director of the mems
clothing code, and Leonard Weinberg,
counsel for the Grief company.
Wages Caused Trouble.
The wage controversy was precipi-
tated by the firms alleged refusal to
maintain at their old levels wages
paid to employees between the $14.40
and the $50 a week classification as
required by the code.
Negotiations for a settlement were
started several weeks ago by the JUS
tice Department. 1t asked Henderson
to investigate independently the COM
parative labor cost of Sthe Grief COM
, pany, which operates 10 plants in
Pennsylvania and Virginia, as well as
Baltimore, and a number Of its COM
petitorS.
Henderson approved the piece-rate
system proposed by the firm to take
the place of its old bonus system un-
der which the alleged short wages
were paid and to which the code
! authority objected.
Yesterdays announcement said Hen
derson had found that the piece-rate
system would reward employees ac-
cording to their skill and efficiency,
stating that, in his opinion, the sys-
TEN would carry out the purposes of
the code"
Evening star., 1934-09-02
Permanent Labor Reforms
Sought by Secretary Perkins

all the recommendations made in
March, 1888, are in effect.
Asks Permanent Reforms.
Many of them, however, are on a
temporary emergency basis. Con-
scientious reconsideration of each of
them leads me to the conclusion that
most of these reforms are of basic
importance in our national. industrial
and economic life, and must be made
permanent in some way compatible
with Democratic procedure and our
Federal State system.
I expect to see the following made
permanent:
l. Shorter hours throughout indus
try and trade.
2. Higher standards of wages, and
particularly, a machinery for regu-
lating the minimum levels of wages.
3. The permanent abolition of child
labor.
4. The use of Government purchas-
ing power for supplies and equipment
to maintain industrial standards.
S. Boards for hearing locally and
investigating, making findings and re-
adjusting complaints of industrial
practices.
6. The general recognition of the
desirability of competent wage earners'
representation, selected through Or
ganization, in all matters affecting in
dustry, labor conditions and civic de-
velopment.
We should also develop something
better than the provisions we have
made thus far for caring for the
victims Of the hazards and vicisSitudes
Of life. An excellent method lies in
the modified application of. the prin-
ciples Of insurance.
Government Insurance.
In the heydey of the 2Os and
even in the first years of the depres-
sion 1t was popular to scoff at unem-
ployment insurance as a dole" but
the significant fact now stands out
that in no country which has expert
mented with unemployment insur-
ance has the system broken down.
even in the present world depression
and in no country has the public
treasury been called upon for amounts
to relieve the distress even approx
mating our expenditure for relief.
In this country, while we lag be-
hind Europe, social insurance is not
entirely unknown, but it is apparent
we do not begin to meet the needs Of
the situation. The most serious haz-
ards are almost unprovided for.
regard our duty now to survey the
entire field and outline what can and
should be done to give real and COM
plete economic security whether each
section Of the entire program b i'm
mediately feasible or not.
If such program as have out
Evening star., 1934-09-02
BY FRANCES PERKINS,
Secretary of Labor.

written for the Associated Press)
AS a Nation, on this Labor day, we
are recognizing that programs long
thought of as merely labor welfare
are really essential factors for recov-
cry and for the technique of industrial
management in mass-production
age.
The test of adjusting our industrial
life to the patterns of democracy and
the needs of new mechanical period
mark both a gain in the standards of
life and work for wage earnerS as
we'll as a new responsibility for con-
structive leadership on the part of
labor.
Program of Department.
In March, 1888. the Department of
Labor, in cooperation with leaders Of
organized labor, civic organizations
and others, formulated and launched
a program. 1t provided:
l. Unemployment relief should be
provided in some way by the Federal
Government.
2. 1t issued the warning that relief
should not be used to supplement
sweatshop wages so as to subsidize
sweatshops.
8. 1t recommended that a large
public works program be undertaken
and that it include projects to stimu-
late the building industry.
T. It pointed out that the abolition
of child labor was an immediate ne
ceSsity for the country.
5. 1t suggested that public and
semi-pubnc buildings he use das edu-
cational and other centers for people
out of work.
6. 1t recommended a drastic limi-
tation of hours of labor both now and
in the future.
Z. 1t urged better wages and some
machinery for fixing minimum wages
at level which should be at least a
living wage.
8. 1t suggested the Establishment
of boards, either regional or indus
trial, which might hear evidence and
testimony and make findings regard
ing these and other matters often in
dispute between employer and en-
ploye.
9. 1t urged that the standards of
purchase by the Government be such
as to require fair hours and wages by
firms from which purchase is made
and to raise the level of the working
conditions of the people Of the United
States.
10. And lastly, the recommendation
was made that underlying all these
proposals there should be an agree
ment upon the necessity of recog-
nizing universally the right Of work.
ers to organize and select representa-
tives Of their own choosing.
On Labor day Of 1884 practically
Evening star., 1934-09-02
Personalities
German, Sloan and Garrison,
Chief Strike Figures,
Are Varied Types.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Here is the trio of personalities at
the core of the strike dispute:
Francis ]. German, chairman Of
the Strike Committee short. His
gestures are quick, nervous. A mass
of details falls on his shoulders and
his eyes have grown red-rimmed from
sleeplessness But he stays affable.
His hair is black and Slicked back.
Likes white suits in Summer, but they
get musSed in the crush of general
strike call.
George A. Sloan, chairman of the
cotton textile code authority and
head of the Cotton Textile Institute
With his hat on he looks like a youth.
When he takes it of, you note that
his hair is gray. Tall, slender, ruddy-
faced, he's impeccable in manners as
in attire. His pride is the cotton
textile code, which he helped to make,
the first to 60 into effect under N.
r. A.
Lloyd Garrison, chairman of the
National Labor Relations Board
Lean, youthful, scholarly. His eyes,
veiled behind spectacles when he's
reading, prove to be dark and very
piercing when he takes the glasses
of to talk to warning factions. De-
scendant of William Lloyd Garrison,
famous abolitionist. No bullyragger,
but he's known as a bare knuckle"
man who can speak the language of
anybody, from potentate to day
laborer.
Evening star., 1934-09-02
STRIKE MAY CAUSE
PRICE BOOST HERE
Result of Textile Walkout
Still Is Entirely Problem
aticaI, However.

Unless the textile strike continues
two or three weeks or more, the no.
ticeable effect upon the local consumer
will be approximately nil.
Capital merchandise experts yester-
day agreed that it is still too early to
forecast any effect on the strike.
They said, however, that If it con-
tinues for only a short time, the con-
sumer here and in other cities will
have no cause for alarm.
Virtually all buying for the local
Fall and Winter season has been COM
pleted, and contracts signed, it was
pointed out.
However, if the mill employees sue
ceed in their demands, prices may
rise.
Evening star., 1934-09-02

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Evening star., 1934-09-02
Rv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Here is the textile strike picture at
glance:
Industries affected-Cotton textile,
woolen and worsted, and silk manu-
featuring.
Workers affected-407, 900 in cotton
textile; 1884, in woolen and worsted.
and 10000 in silk industries; total
actually employed, $50, 900. Textile
workers already unemployed, approx
mately 100000.
Mills in each industry-Cotton tex
tile, 1921; wooden and worsted, 500;
silk, 1000; total, 2,781.
The iSSues-Labor'S demands for
30-hour week with no reduction in
wages; graduated wage scales based
upon skill required in various oper-
ations; uniform limitation of machine
load, recognition of United Textile
Workers as collective bargaining
agency for textile employees, and Gre
alton of arbitration board with power
to return binding decisions.
Industry's contention that increased
Evening star., 1934-09-02

Concord and Niagara
Grapes, Apples at Quaint
Acres.
silver Spring -Coiesville pike CRoute 2e),
only mileG from the District.
Evening star., 1934-09-02

the strike outlook, with factory oper-
atorS declaring their plants will be
open as usual Monday or Tuesday and
labor leaders insisting response to the
order would be 100 per cent
New England manufacturers said
only the silk and rayon workers were
well organized, but admitted their ad-
dition to the strike scene added greatly
to its potentiality. Mills throughout
Massachusetts, prepared to open after
the Labor day holiday. At Fall River,
Mass, two unions affiliated with the
American Federation of Textile Oper-
atives voted against the strike.
The claim by manufacturers that
lack of organization would block an
effective strike was countered from
strike headquarters at Pawtucket,
R. l., with the assertion that all
workers were in accord with aims of
the walkout and would quit work in
sympathy.
Ready for Violence.
Law enforcement agencies in many
mill towns prepared to handle any
situation which might arise.
Further south, in the Pennsylvania
New Jersey-Delaware area, a spokes-
man for the Philadelphia strike head
quarters declared 100000 workers in
the wooden, worsted, cotton textile and
silk industries would obey the strike
order.
The spokesman said that 10000 in
the Philadelphia area would go on
strike, and asserted non-union en-
ployes were expected to follow
From Charlotte, N. c., w. M. Nc
Laurine, secretary of the American
Cotton Manufacturers Association,
said reports to him indicated at least
100000 textile operatives in the two
Carolinas and Georgia have voted in
opposition to the strike.
Militia on Watch.
Scores of individual manufacturers
in the Southern zone also reported
their employees were voting against the
walkout, but their claims met union
charges of dureSs. Labor leaders, fol-
lowing meetings throughout the day,
said operatives were solidly behind the
strike.
In South Carolina plans were laid
for the immediate calling of the Ma
tional Guard should violence break
out. Troops are already on guard at
Seneca.
AS in New England, many mills ex-
pected to open for business after the
holiday, including 240 plants in
CASTOR County, N. C.
Far removed from the major
strike activity, Texas textile workers
watched preparations, but apparently
had no plans to join the walkout. A
survey of the mills indicated workers
were not organized and were not in
volved in controversy with their
employers.
Evening star., 1934-09-02
OPERATORS DENY
CLAIMS OF UNION
Owners Estimate Only Frac.
tion of Employees Will Fol-
low Strike Order.
Continued From First Page.)

Continued From First Page)
violent procedure of a strike against a
Government code. We contend that
the New Deal meant to offer a guar
antee of economic liberty to employees
"a real freedom of choice in their re-
lationship to their employers" Sloan
also is chairman of the Textile Code
Authority.
The American State cannot permit
majority of American men and
women to be coerced into an organi-
cation to whose leadership they have
not given their allegiance and to
whose financial support they do not
desire to contribute" he continued.
The Code Authority said his indus
try was the first to accept the much
controverted section Ia.
Declaring his industry ''has demon
strated its faith in the N. R. A, -
Sloan reiterated that it had raised
the hourly rates of pay 10 per cent;
we have reduced working hours from
an average of 81 to maximum Of 40
hours a week. We added 140, 900 peo-
pie to the pay roll between March and
August, 1888. We have gone above
1929 in persons employed. We are
paying higher average hourly rate
than in 1929"
Criticizes Labor Bluntness.
els all this" Sloan asked, "an indi-
cation of our failure to do our full
part toward national recovery?"
He said the strike leaders "bluntly
rejected" reports Of the Government
economists in research department
of the N. r. A. which, he added,
bring out that until general business
makes an advance. and the general
income is greater, it is not yet posi-
BILE to increase the wage provisions as
contained in the cotton textile code. u
Sloan said that due to increased
costs under the N. r. A., the greatly
increased price of raw cotton and the
processing tax, the price of tmany
classes of cotton fabrics has been
more than doubled.
There Is a limit" he added, "to the
price the public will pay for cotton
cloth. In the past few months, the
consumer has bought less and less,
until the mills were faced with the
necessity for reducing production. If
the cost of manufacturing cloth is now
increased, the public will buy less. the
mills will run less hours and fewer
workers will be employed"
Meantime, Associated Press reports
out Of mill towns from Maine to
Georgia gave confusing picture Of
Evening star., 1934-09-02
Dividends Increased.
SPECIAL NOTICES.

Many large industrial concerns in
Japan are increasing their dividends.
Evening star., 1934-09-02
Two Hurt When Car Skids.

HOLDREGE, Nebr., September !
R.-Victor Junus of Milwaukee suf-
fered a skull fracture and Audrey
Kinsey of South Bend, Ind, was in
jured, but much less seriously, today
when the automobile in which they
were riding skidded near Atlanta,
Nebr., and went into the roadside
ditch.
Evening star., 1934-09-02
Kidnaper Gets Ten Years.

BILLINGS, Mont, September / Up.
George Francis Julian, 81, of Boston,
was sentenced to 10 years in the
Montana Penitentiary yesterday for
the sbduction-robbery here week ago
Of D. Watson Robb, Great Falls in
surance man. He pleaded guilty.