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Montana labor news., 1934-02-08
II A GREAT
,.hn By Pain. M !

Here's a great idea for getting rid
of so-called surplus steers:
Send 'em down to Mexico for the
bull ring; Mexican bulls are not brave
enough, according to the mayor of
Juarez.
A bunch of well-fed steers (the u.
S. feeds unemployed livestock) should
give the Mexicans a big thrill.
John N. Garner, vice-president of
these United States has n job left
voting in a tie in the Senate land
nobody knows when therell be a tie.)
So-o-o-o, his wife gets 1925 a month
as his secretary.
##@
Monkeys possess many traits of
men, including intelligence. There
fore, they should be protected" reads
a proclamation in Canton, China, pro-
hibiting the butchering and eating of
monkeys, considered by some a rare
delicacy.
With as little intelligence as there
is in the world, we should protect it!
H##
Roosevelt has bet the country's
last dollar on a single card" writes
an Oklahoma City editor.
Don't get excited, brother. That
was only a 60c dollar.
sAs
Are the japanese getting stingy?
They gave their new crown prince
only a 21-gun salute.
Newborn Romanovs (Russian) used
to get 101 guns; newborn Windsors
(English) get Al.
##@
DR.. Goebbels Minister of Propa-
ganda & Public Enlightenment in
Germany, discovered that Pres. Roose-
welt and Chancellor Hitler are adj
vancing together against the crumbl-
ing fortress of Democracy.
#a#
Orchards who viewed with alarm
the recognition of the Soviet Union
by these United States should be COM
pletely outraged by the administra-
tons latest act. We refer to the ma
tionalization of gold."-The Reading
Labor Advocate.
aa@
While $SO,OOO,O 900 of economy in
the Post Office Dept. for 1933-34 was
at the expense of wages and jobs of
postal workers, subsidies to shipping
and airplane companies carrying mail
increased by $4,000 900 to a total of
SAT, 250,000.
That's Where Our Wages Goes,
sing postal employees.
A#&
1t is a belief that persists in South
America that the war between Bolivia
and Paraguay which has ragged on and
off for so years "is a struggle be-
tween the u. S. which has always
backed Bolivia and Great Britain
which has always helped Paraguay"
Montana labor news., 1934-02-08
$3.50 a Week for Most
Arizona CWA Workers

PHOENIX, Ariz-(FP) - Fifteen
hours a week at SOC an hour is what
the great majority of Arizona CWA
workers are now getting. Many are
being laid off. Free transportation
to the job, hitherto provided, has been
cut off. Some men have to walk long
distances for a chance to earn their
$3.50 weekly.
AT the same time the permit which
init. Labor Defense had for Saturday
night street meetings in Phoenix was
revoked. Armed police broke up the
regular meeting. The l. L. D. will
begin a free speech fight, it an
nounces.
Montana labor news., 1934-02-08
WINGS OVER
WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON-(FP)--Cod hear
ings have revealed shocking wages
and hours " says Gen. Johnson. Per-
haps some enterprising Upton Sin
clair of this era will comb through
those hearings to prepare a sober
book on The Jungle Today, illustrated
only by employers testimony, such as
that of the Georgia lumber boss who
said he knew of camps paying as low
as DC an hour for the 10 to 12-hour
day.
The shipping interests which dipped
into the u. S. treasury for $148, 000,-
900 in shipbuilding loans in 1928 have
repaid only s22, OOO,O 0O. Sec. of Com
merce Roper warns them that their
mail subsidies will be held up if they
don't begin repaying on those loans.
*&#
In Washington you hear it called
the Lone Home Owners Corp.
A$&
Two-thirds of this years $4,000
600 budget goes to property owners,
the Peoples Lobby estimates. RFC,
with $3,469, 100000 for railroads,
"It (%Roosevelt's budget reminds
you of Russia's 5-Year Plan" wrote
The London Daily Express.
Hear! Hear!
##s
Poor Sec. Morgenthaul
He's so poverty-stricken that if his
aides had not asked for a $4,000 ap-
preparation for an automobile for
him, he would have had to ride in a
$3.50 government machine.
Amt it sad?
#&a
A Taste of His Own Medicine.
Joseph Carat, mayor of Bayonne,
France, shivered and chartered in his
cell when he was arrested and thrown
into Jail in the Stavisky swindle.
One of his last acts as mayor was
to refuse pleas of freezing prisoners
that he install central heating in the
Jail.
#aA
Charlie Dawes jumped out of the
RFC so his Chicago bank could get a
$685. O0, 900 loan.
When one of Jesse Jones' mortgage
company's subsidiaries applied for a
$1,000, 900 loan, he was able to show
that he had severed connection with
the company before he joined the
RFC.
a*#
Hanging is a shameful death, say
the Nazis.
So they chop off the heads of their
victims and let them fall into saw
Justified baskets.
#a#
Signs of the Times.
Govt, the disease symbolic of a life
Of ease, has all but disappeared.
##A
IT'S A GREAT SYSTEM!
Montana labor news., 1934-02-08

banks, etc, heads the list, followed by
S742, OO0, 900 for holders of U. S.
bonds, $514,0OO,O 900 for farm wners,
and S48S, 000, 1000 sinking fund to pay
off holders of U. S. bonds.
sss
But there's no more money for CWA
after May 1. The government how
ever through income taxation took
only S107, 100000 of the 81, 0O0, OOO,-
900 income of 3,142 persons who re-
ported net incomes of $1,000 or
more in 1881. That was only 10 per
cent of their total income and ID per
cent of their net.
*&*
In front of the children's bureau of
the U. S. department of labor is a
big recruiting sign reading: The
kids had better hurry up growing SO
they al tote guns.
AIS
NRA having failed to bolster up
purchasing power to any great ex-
tent, Gen. Johnson now says it's be-
cause Of the sluggish advance OF
credits" by the bankers. So he's got
A. D. Whiteside, his sidekick from
Dun & Bradstreet's. working on the
relaxation of bank credit" What's
next?
###
Negroes are not permitted in the
House restaurant in the Capitol. The
chairman of the congressional com
mittee in charge, a North Carolinian.
has said so. Oscar DePriest, Negro
Montana labor news., 1934-02-08

When the Atlas Steel Foundry in
Buffalo fired one of the union leaders,
the entire shop of 70 walked out. They
are demanding abolition of the COM
pany union as well as reinstatement
of their leader.
&&a
More than 500 %shoeworkers walked
out under the leadership of the United
Shoe & Leather Workers Union, the
new amalgamated independent union,
when a Lynn, Mass, shoe company
posted a 80 per cent wage cut.
Evening star., 1934-04-22

Don't imagine that the ornaments
which the natives wear in the South
Sea Islands are handmade by the
natives themselves. as used to be the
case some years ago; they are import
ed trinkets either from Austria or
from Birmingham, England. Those
odd carvings for which tourists LAY
good price are brought to the islands
from Europe. The natives have
something better to do-they are
making soap for export.
Evening star., 1934-04-22

NCOHIlHueC FTOn FlISI Fdge.D
proposed program to be asked for on
that basis.
AS drafted, the bill would have given
the Commissioners discretionary pow
er of allocating up to 100000 to
the National Capital Park and Plan
ming Commission for continuing park
and playground purchases under the
Capper- -Cramton act. The park COM
mission, however, met and decided to
recommend that the park program be
carried forward under the Capper-
Cramton law, separately from the Dis
trict public works measure Senator
King, who attended the park COM
mission meeting, is agreeable to
amending the public works bill in
such a way that it will not interfere
with the terms of the Capper-Cram-
ton law. This question is expected to
be considered when the bill Is taken
up Tuesday.
Among the projects which the pub
lie works bill is intended to cover
are: A tuberculosis hospital. a list
of new school buildings, essential i'm
provements at the Lorton Reforma-
tory, an additional building for Gal
linger Hospital. the first unit of the
municipal center and the sewage dis
posal plant.
Will Determine Procedure.
The course of procedure to be fol-
lowed by the House and Senate COM
mittees in acting on the bill prob
ably will be determined at the con-
clusion of the joint hearing Tuesday.
Senator King said last night that
he will have another meeting of the
Senate committee as early as pos
sible this week to seek action on sew
eral measures that have been studied
IN recent weeks by subcommittee, if
the subcommittee are ready to re-
port. He mentioned the following:
The bill amending the usury law, to
limit fees as well as interest on loans;
the old-age pension bills, on which
Senator Reynolds Of North Carolina
conducted subcommittee hearings last
week; the mortgage foreclosure bill,
on which Senator Capper of Kansas
is subcommittee chairman: financial
responsibility for taxicabs, which
Senator McCarran of Nevada has
been studying.
Evening star., 1934-04-22
CHEST STAFF NAMES
INTER OFFICE GROUPS
Office Conditions Committee to
Make Recommendations on
Lighting Housing Conditions.

Members of the staff Of the Com
munity Chest yesterday elected two
committees to represent the staff in
interOfice affairs. The Office Condi-
tionS Committee will study conditions
among the workers and make recon-
mendations for changes in lighting
housing conditions and other matters
affecting the staff The Program
Committee will obtain speakers for
the weekly meeting of the staff and
also arrange for staff parties or other
forms of entertainment
F. P. Rawlings is chairman of the
once Conditions Committee. with
Miss Elsie Saunders as secretary
Other members are Herbert L. Willett,
jr.; Mrs. Winifred Shepler and Miss
Helen Kiefer. Harry Hites is chair
man Of the Program Committee, with
Miss Winifred Rankin secretary and
Stanly Marmaduke treasurer. Other
members are Miss Lillian Banker and
John Gilbert
The committees will hold weekly
meetings.
Evening star., 1934-04-22

The Irish flyer Col Fitzmaurice
who is coming to the United States to
buy. if possible, an airplane for the
London Melbourne race, was at one
time the head of the Irish military
aviation.
At the head OF entire air feet
three airplaneSJ he greeted, IN
1927. the Secretary OF State, Frank
B. Kellogg, 1rho aboard the cruiser
Detroit Went to uiSit ireland on his
lcdy back to the United States NTH
the Kellogg BRAND pact in his
Uaiise
Fftzmaurice is a daring flyer. He
sWooped down so slow over the De-
troit when he led the salute to the
Secretary of State, that Mr.. Kellogg
ducked for fear that the airplane
might hit him.
i & =
The retiring Spanish Ambassador
Cardenas, was so popular with the
diplomatic corps of the Latin Ameri-
can countries in Washington, that
they intend to present him with a
specially engraved memorandum bear
ing all their signatures, before he
leaves the United States.
This is an unique way of honoring
an Ambassador, but Cardenas de
serves the honor. Not only did he do
his utmost to strengthen the ties be-
tween Spain and Latin America, but
he was also extremely attentive to
tho renrecent otiyec of tho smallest
Latin American states. And they are
not used to attention from European
Ambassadors. The latter have so
little interest in the representatives OF
the minor Central and South Ameri-
can states that their relations are
just an exchange of visiting cards.
and sometimes net even that.
The city of Hamburg may have the
honor of being the first town in the
Reich to offer shelter to the ex-
Kaiser Wilhelm. since it is one of the
few where the former monarch is al
lowed to reside.
Since Hitler has put an embargo
on the export OF capital from Ger
many and the English pound has
deprecated, life at Doom has not
been Uery rosy; the Kaiser and his
retinue haze felt the pinch OF the
depression The situation has be-
come so bad lately that the former
imperial family is thinking Seri-
ouSlg about returning to the
Fdtherland.
Evening star., 1934-04-22
TWO IMPORTANT
BILLS COMING Up
D. C. 0Id-Age Pension and
SIums Measures Before
House This Week.

Two important District measures
are to be considered in the House
during the coming week. They are
the old-age pension bill, which will
be brought before the House tomor-
row, and the long-delayed measure
providing for Government acquisition
and improvement of alley slums,
which will receive preferred consid-
Grafton from the House District Com
mittee Wednesday.
Chairman Norton of the District
Committee is sponsor of the old-age
pension bill. As reported. it provides
s35 month for persons 65 years old
or over who have lived in the District
for at least 10 years.
The slum clearance bill Is one Of the
principal measures sponsored by the
National Capital Park and Planning
Commission. The Senate passed it last
June, but action was delayed in the
House by failure of the budget direc-
TOR TO approve the proposal to finance
this improvement through an unex-
pended balance Of S50O00O appropri-
ated for the old U. S. Housing Corpo-
ration as a revolving fund for this
work.
However, during the last week Bud
get Director Douglas has withdrawn
his objection on condition that the
S50O000 be transferred from the
housing fund to the Public Works Ad-
mlnistration. This change was ap-
proved promptly by the National
Capital Park and Planning Commits
sion. 1t virtually assures passage Of
the bill as soon as it is reported to
the House
Also scheduled to be reported to the
full District Committee without rec
ommendation from the Judiciary SUBJ
committee are the bills to turn over
the powers, duties and obligations off
the Public Welfare Board to the Dis
trlct Commissioners.
Evening star., 1934-04-22
GAS HEARING DELAYED

Quiz to Be Resumed NAV In.
stead of Next Wednesday.
Public hearings on the valuation
OF the Washington and Georgetown
Gas Light Companies will be resumed
May instead of next Wednesday. it
was announced yesterday by the Pub
hc Utilities Commission. The post
ponement was caused by the illness Of
Wilton j. Lambert of Gas Company
counsel, it was explained.
Formal hearings on the value OF
the companies property began last
October and have been adjourned
several times. They were started fol-
lowing completion of engineering and
accounting studies of the value Of the
properties.
Evening star., 1934-04-22

This unexpected move of the
Japanese will have as an immediate
effect the fastening of the Franco
British Entente Cordiale." In ordinary
everyday language this expression
means an offensive and defensive
military alliance. In the light of
recent Developments, it appears that
Great Britain needs it as much as
France.
The British hare been uorried
since the outbreak OF the Man
churiGn crisis in lChtch Japan as
serted ltS erpdnSioniSt intentions
about tchdt she may hare to do,
should the ,UOrld be faced stimuli
tdneouSly l0ith crisis in Europe
as treU as in the Far East. Britain
has as much at stake in Asia as
she has in Europe.
In such an eventuality, if Britain
kept aloof of political and military
alliances, she would be faced with the
problem of maintaining the lines of
communications with her dominions
and colonies open. and in the mean
time she would have to defend her
possessions in the Far East The
British navy is not powerful enough
for both tasks.
By reaching a military and political
understanding with France. the British
dilemma will be solved. The Mediter-
ranean feet Will be free to 60 wherever
its presence is necessary, since the
French fleet with its 7 modern cruisers,
its 96 submarines and its so destroyers
could replace it in a case of emergency
and keep the communications between
the British Isles and the colonies free
= x \
AS matter of fact reliable reports
state that The British admiralty has
already given orders to the Mediter-
ranean fleet to get ready for a flag
showing cruise which may take 1t as
far as Singapore. If one considers the
fact that at the present moment there
is an important British squadron -four
battleShipS, three cruisers and num-
Der Of deStroyers) doing tactical eXer-
clSeS in the West Indies for the first
time in many years, there is every
probability that a formidable British
force will be concentrated this Sum-
mer in the turbulent Asiatic waters.
Evening star., 1934-04-22
AIR LAWS CHANGED
International Convention Revi-
sions Decided by U. S. Body.

Changes in international aeronauti-
cal conventions relating to damage
liability, rescue of persons aboard air
craft in distress and indemnities for
aircraft salvaging have been decided
upon by the United States members
of the International Committee of Air
Law Experts as a result of a meeting
just concluded at the Department of
Commerce, it was announced yes
terday.
The only Washington man on the
international committee is Richard S.
Paulett, chief of the enforcement sec
tion of the Aeronautics Branch, De-
partment of Commerce.
Evening star., 1934-04-22
MAN HANGS HIMSELF
Janitor Ties Rope to Rafter and
Swings Over Eurnace Pit.

Albert T. Roberts, 30, colored, was
found dead late yesterday hanging
over the furnace pit in an apartment
building, 400 block M street, where he
is janitor. The rope had been tied to
rafter
His body was found by his wife. Mrs
Elsie Roberts, who summoned police
to gain entrance to the basement when
she found all doors fastened. The body
was sent to the morgue and the
coroner notified.
Evening star., 1934-04-22

islation Committee deplored the re-
duction of the appropriation for the
staff of the Public Utilities Commits
sion from S86,823 as recommended by
the Bureau of the Budget to S50,0O0
as passed by the House, and still an
other from the same committee urged
limitation of drug stores to class E
prescription liquor licenses in future.
The federation adopted a resolution
of regret on the death Of ex-senator
John j. Blaine of Wisconsin, q true
friend" Of the District.
Evening star., 1934-04-22
FASCIST BUILDINGS
IN GENEVA STONED
Several Hundred Reds Clash With
Police and Is Are Arrested.
Mussolini Notified.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
GENEVA, April 21.-Several hun
dred Communists stoned the new
buildings of the local Italian Fascist
organization here tonight and injured
its secretary.
Clashes between police and the
Communists followed. Fifteen of the
attackers were arrested.
Count Spechel, the Italian consul,
reported the occurrance to Premier
Mussolini. A heavy guard was placed
about the buildings.
Evening star., 1934-04-22
OFFERS TOMATO
PLANTS TONEEDY
BranChviIIe Man Willing to
Give 10000 to Aid Re-
lief Division.

approximately 10000 tomato plants
have been offered for use in the sub
sistence gardens program of the emer-
gency relief division by Branch
vile, Md. man, who declared him
self anxious to aid the needy of
Washington
The offer was made by Oliver c.
PrOSSer IN a letter to Mrs. Frederick
H. Brooke, chairman of the Advisory
Committee of representatives of the
emergency relief division, the District
Work Planning Committee and the
Council of Social Agencies.
Program Mighty Fine
ProSser, who described himself as
"a great admirer of President Roose-
Welt" and a believer in his recovery
program, incloSed clipping from
The Star, outlining the gardens
project. Terming the program "a
mighty fine thing" he wrote:
II have up 10000, more or less, to-
mato plants. which are coming along
fine, and l think that when they are
ready to set out they will be a very
nice size. l would like to give these
plants to your organization for the
needy of Washington, who are willing
to try the soil to better their con-
Gition'
The project was Endorsed at re-
cent meeting of the Georgetown Sub
sistence Garden Committee, in the
home of Mrs. Anne Archbold. Mrs.
Brooke, who presided, expressed ap-
probation for gifts of plants, fertilizer
and tools.
Outlines General Plan.
The session was addressed by R. l..
King who is handling the program
for lie Roy A. Halbert, director of the
Emergency Relief Division. He out
lined the general plan for the project
General discussion of the program
brought out that approximately 100
acres in various sections of the city
will be used. and that the products to
be raised will include potatoes. cab
bage. squash. beans, onions, carrots.
beets and corn.
Those eligible for participation in
tie project. it was explained will be
persons known to the Emergency Re-
lief Division and other agencies. and
those cases where the man is re-
ceiving only two or three days work
a week and not under the care of
anv agency"
The Star has contributed 5000 to
the committee. to be divided among
the producers of the first. second and
third best gardens on the half-dozen
tracts being used in the program.
Evening star., 1934-04-22
BANK PAY-OFF BILL
TEST IS EXPECTED
Gauge of Sentiment Tomor.
row Is Held Virtually
Assured.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
New parliamentary maneuvers
brought the bank depositors' payof
bill to a position yesterday where its
advocates said test vote in the House
tomorrow was virtually assured.
Those demanding action of the
measure by Representative Mcleod,
Republican. of Michigan, planned to
insist upon immediate consideration
on the contention the petition to
force action has the right-of-way.
They planned to ask Speaker Rainey
for a ruling that the action of the
Banking Committee in reporting the
bill favorably came too late to kill the
petition.
Would Test Sentiment.
Should this view be upheld by the
Speaker, the House would be called
upon to vote on immediate considera-
ton. In the event of an adverse rul-
ing. they planned to appeal and they
considered that this vote would. in
effect, test the sentiment of the House
on the legislation.
Acting almost as Unexpectedly as it
did last week, the Banking Committee
met yesterday and went through the
formality of again reporting favor
ably a bill bearing McLeod's name,
but containing provisions entirely diff
ferent from those he introduced.
Rev. Charles E. Coughlin of De-
troit was in the Capitol and sought
to testify, but found that the COM
mittee session was executive and that
no witnesses would be heard A.
Mitchell Palmer, former Attorney
General and an avowed supporter of
the bill, also was refused permission
10 appear.
Warns Members.
Father Coughlin said in a state
ment, however, that if Congress
fails to remove the cancer of our
financial bondage it will discover that
it is hotter than 'Hades' in their own
congressional districts"
He said people had been "duped
into depositing their money into cess
pools of Justification" because there
is incontrovertible evidence that the
bank examiners were instructed by
their Federal superiors to turn in
false reports as to the solvency of the
American banks"
The bill reported by the committee
yesterday would limit the payments
TO depositors to s2,500, and provide
that loans on the remainder of the
claim be advanced by the Reconstruc-
ton Finance Corporation to the ex-
tent of 85 per cent of the present
value of the remaining assets.
Back OF the committees apparent
repetition of action was the dis
covery that the committee had met
while the House was in session and
without its permission.
Evening star., 1934-04-22
This
Changing
World
Japan's New Policy in
China Perturbs Great
Britain.
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN

The attempt OF the Japanese gov
eminent to grab the rest of China, by
assuming the role of self-appointed
protector of that huge country agains:
the greed of the white nations, is
worrying all the nations interested in
the Far East, but probably Great
Britain more than any other country.
Evening star., 1934-04-22
Students Bestow
POsthumOusH Honor
Upon d. C. Athlete
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
HANOVER, N. H, April 21.-
David T. Hedges of Cedar Rap
ids, Iowa, varsity foot ball player,
will be the active head of the
Dartmouth senior class, election
returns today disclosed. Hedges
was chosen vice president in the
election in which the presidency
was bestowed posthumously upon
Robert H. Michelet of Washing
ton, D. c., popular scholar-ath-
lete, who died recently. M. c.
Collins of Omaha, Nebr., was
chosen treasurer.
The freshman president cho-
sen was Henry c. Whitaker,
Madison, Wis.