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Evening star., 1934-05-08

make an investigation of the District
relief rolls. on allegations that there
were many persons on the rolls who
were not actually in need. Although
this action of itself did not officially
terminate the Districts chances of
getting the $4,000 1t is understood
that the project will be held up until
after the investigation has been
completed.
The construction Of the four dormi-
tories was decided upon originally to
meet overcrowded conditions at the
reformatory, which are always re-
garded as potential source of trouble
at penal institutions. Two Of the
dormitories were for inmates and two
for guards and other employees of the
institution. The latter are now housed
in ancient wooden buildings regarded
as fire traps. The inmates are crowd
ed into the existing dormitories and
some of them are even housed in the
hospital building and rooms projected
for class rooms.
There has been no c. w. A. work
in progress for more than a month at
the institution, during negotiations
for the $4,000. Meanwhile, prison
labor has been employed In compile
tion of one Of the dormitories, which
is expected to be in shape for oc-
cupancy in a few weeks.
Work on the wall, which is even-
tually to inclose a portion of the in
stitution in which will be housed pris-
oners not amenable to the honor"
system prevailing, has slowed down
haustion of the regular District ap-
preparation. This is one Of the prof.
ects. 1t is understood. which will be
undertaken out of P. w. A. money if
the bill to permit the District to bor-
row 100000 Of P. w. A. funds be-
comes law.
Evening star., 1934-05-08
DiIIinger Aids Law.


The Dillinger case is what put the
new Federal crime bills through the
House The administration used that
case to win over reluctant Southern
Democrats opposed to the bills on
State rights grounds.
Until that pressure Dds ererted
the SouthernerS Uere determined to
kill the bills.
The same thing happened phen
the Federal kidnaping ldw was
pushed through Congress after the
Lindbergh case.
These measures are directed toward
Capitalization of major crime detec-
ton in the hands of Federal agents,
who are more efficient than local po-
lice.
A lot Of States rights have passed
over the dam since the vets used to
complain the main thing wrong with
prohibition was that it put policing
powers in the hands of the Federal
Government.
tCopyright. 1934N
Evening star., 1934-05-08
THREE WOUNDED
IN MINE DISORDER
Extensive Property Damage
Results From Blasts
in Alabama.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. May g.
Three persons were shot and extern
sive property damage caused by dyna-
miting early today and last night in
wave Of terrorism and intimidation
sweeping Walker and Jefferson Coun-
ty mine fields.
Henry Whip, employed at the Raj
mund mine Of the Republic Steel
Corporation, was wounded seriously,
and Rich Foster, Tennessee Coal,
Iron & Railroad Co. worker, was less
seriously hurt in a dispute over dis
arming a union man at the Raj
mund mine.
Three Blasts Set Of.
James Austin. 32-year-old colored
miner. was wounded seriously last
night from ambush as he was en-
route home after spending a week in
the East Thomas plant of the Re-
public corporation.
Three explosions and sporadic gun
fire swept the Walker County area,
near Coal Valley, last night. and in
Jefferson County a charge of dyna-
mite was set off on a rail line used
to haul iron ore.
Meanwhile. there has been no
progress made in settling strike of
5000 iron ore workers who stopped
work Friday. demanding union recog-
milton, a Seven-hour day and pay
raises of from 81 90 to S2.84 per day.
One blast wrecked high-tension
line OF the Alabama Power Co.,
plunging five towns into darkness.
Another explosion was reported to
have wrecked a railroad trestle.
Spend Night at Mine.
Sheriff A. N. Barrantine of Walker
County and deputies spent the night
at the Coal Valley mine of the De-
bardleben Coal Corporation. where
smaller explosions and rifle fire kept
up throughout the night.
The sheriff appealed to National
Guard headquarters for troops, but
was referred to Gov. Miller.
The Debardeleben Coal Corporation
is one of the two major companies
of the district that has not signed an
agreement with the United Mine
Workers of America. The section in
which the corporations mines are To-
Gated has been the scene of frequent
disturbances. The properties were
given National Guard protection dur
ing the general coal strike in April,
and since have been guarded by spe-
cial deputies.
Evening star., 1934-05-08
What's What
BehindNews
In Capital
New Dealers Facing
More Trouble in
Bootleg Oil.
BY PAUL MALLON.

y
|HE new deal is running into
more trouble every day
First, the milk situation
i boiled over on the A. A. A.
cooks and curdled. Now. oil
is boiling threateningly. The chefs
of the Petroleum Administration
Board secretly fear it is going to
explode
The milk experience made such a
mess that it was stricken from the
new-deal menu What will be done
about oil remains to be seen. If the
oil wells start spouting all over the
new deal now that the cows have
walked out on it, the new-deal kitchen
may undergo a major renovation.
Refiners Frightened.
Informative pipe lines from the
West already bring tidings that an
excess of bootleg oil has begun to
come on the market at the rate of
100000 barrels a day. RefinerS are
becoming frightened.
That much extra production means
around 400 excess tank cars of gaso-
line a day.
Three months ago so ertra tank
cars day ,pas enough to break the
Chicago market.
The fear of broken market some
time soon is not at all unreasonable.
Evening star., 1934-05-08
MILLS REOPENED.
Hundreds of Workers Still Stay Away
However.

MANCHESTER, N H., May OP).-
The mills of the Amoskeag Manufac-
turing Co. were reopened this morning
at the request of union officials after
brief strike. but hundreds Of work
ers remained away. The management
planned to close down certain units
unless others were enabled to reopen
during the day.
officials Of the Textile Workers of
America pleaded with operatives at
mass meetings last night to abide by
the constitution Of the organization
and refrain from engaging in an un-
authorized strike.
The strike, walkout of the cotton
division of the big mills, came sud-
denly yesterday, after all the troubles
of the Amoskeag had seemingly been
settled by a decision of the Federal
Board of Arbitration at Washington
last week.
While that decision adjusted numer-
Gus wage scales. operatives in certain
other classes claimed they had been
Disseminated against in the agree
ment.
The closure of the plant yesterday
caused approximately 10000 workers
to be thrown temporarily out of en-
ployment.
Evening star., 1934-05-08
NEW STRIKES THREATEN.
Situation More Tense in Greater
Seminole Area.

Seminole Area
SEMINOLE. Okla. May 8 (P.-
Strikes and rumors Of more walkouts
gripped the greater Seminole oil area
today.
Starting with the walkout Of more
than $50 Sinclair employees last
Thursday. the shutdown has extended
to the Skelly Oil properties and today
was the deadline on a threatened
Continental Oil Co. walkout.
In Kansas, too, there were tidings
of discomfort. The El Dorado, Kans
Union of Oil Field Workers tele-
graphed the Seminole union: I'VE
are ready to go out if SO advised" by
the international union headquarters
The strikers demand union recogni-
ton, rehiring of discharged union men
and restoration of the 1929 wage scale
w. G. Skelly, president of the
Skelly company, charged that armed
men forced his employees to walk out
at gun point. The assertion was denied
by Jack Grisso, chairman OF the
Skelly Strike Committee.
Evening star., 1934-05-08
Control Bill Held Up.

They are praying for enactment OF
Senator Thomas new oil control bill.
but they have little hope because it
is caught in the closing Congress jam
1t may be good for the consumer
temporarily, but not for the oil
business, il everything goes back TO
year ago. Then oil Wds selling
for 10 cents a barrel The oil men
Uere acting like the peddler Uho
lost money on every sale, but tried
to make it up on uolume. They
tried to pump all the oil out OF the
ground as fast as possible. Troops
uere called out and pitched battles
pdged Nobody made any money
or euen had q good time.
Refiners were giving away gasoline
free in some places. just to keep their
retail outlets. At least one company
went even further; it practically paid
gas stations to take its gas, offering
the proprietors checks with which to
pay part of the tax on the gas.
Production Reduced.
Today oil is 81. instead of 10 cents.
Production has been brought down to
1900 900 legal barrels a day. "a year
ago the East Texas oil field alone was
spouting a million barrels dailyD Not
only that. but the code authorities
here are convinced there is begin
ming of cooperation among refiners
and that the retailers are better of
For these reasons, Mr. Ickes Petro-
leum administration Board has been
patting itself on the back. That is.
it did until it found out about the
new influx of bootleg oil and the fact
it cannot get a decision on code vio-
lations until Fall, If then.
Uncle Sam insults Nurse.
The State Department became very
solicitous last week about Samuel In
sull's heart.
Newsmen who wanted to go aboard
the State Department cutter to greet
Mr.. insult were told they could not
do so because 1t might affect Mr.. In
sull's heart.
The ne1rsmen trent to the White
House and asked hoW it came about
that the State Department was
playing nurse as well as jQiler to
Mr.. insult.
The White House telephoned the
State Department Immediately, where
upon the State Department issued
cordial invitations to the newsmen to
come aboard the cutter, Mr.. Insults
heart to the contrary notwithstanding
Woodin Widely Liked.
Tributes to former Secretary Of the
Treasury Woodin were not just the
customary compliments to man after
he is dead.
Mr.. Woodin gave several years Of his
life as token of loyalty to President
Roosevelt. The President had to send
him home to bed on more than one
occasion during last years banking
crisis.
The frail business man who liked
music did not stay here long enough
to find out what the Treasury job was
all about. but every one who really
knew him here was his friend.
Evening star., 1934-05-08
Mother Robin Respected

NEW CASTLE, Pa.-Seats were
scarce at the Spring foot ball game
between Ben Franklin High School
and Erie Academy-but whole sec
ton went unoccupied.
A sign on the empty section told
the story: Mother Robin had built
her nest there; she preferred seclu-
sion; there were bright blue eggs in
the nest
So the fans stood. 4. ,t.,
Evening star., 1934-05-08
Time Limit Extended.

The Doughton resolution extending
for two years the time within which
American claimants may make appli-
cation for payment of awards under
the Mixed Claims Commission and
the Tripartite Claims Commission was
adopted yesterday by the House. 1t
now goes to the Senate.
Evening star., 1934-05-08
TRIAL CRUISE STARTS
Aircraft Carrier Ranger to Be
Run at Full Speed.

Run at Full Speed.
NEWPORT NEWS, Va, May CP).-
Commanded by Capt. Roger Williams,
vice president of the Newport News
Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co.. the
Nays new aircraft carrier Ranger.
left at S o'clock this morning on her
trial cruise
Already successfully past the build
ers' trial run, the giant craft faces
four hours of running at full speed
on the Governments official deep
water testing course off Rockland,
Me. as well as tests of intermediate
speeds and check-up of oil consump-
ton on her trip up the coast.
Rear Admiral George c. Day heads
the Governments Trial Board on the
ship
Evening star., 1934-05-08
JOHNSON WATCHES
CODE AUTHORITIES
Seeks to Prevent "Graft
and Scandal" in Collection
of Assessments.

A threat to take away the codes
from industries in which graft and
scandal" develop in the collection OF
code assessments and their admins
tration by code authorities, was made
today by Hugh S. Johnson. N. R. A
head
Gen. johnson said he was watching
the situation closely in view of the
possibilities of code authorities abus-
ing their rights and creating lucrative,
but unnecessary jobs for themselves.
Demands Budgets.
AS a precaution against such posi-
bilities, the administrator has ordered
all code authorities to submit their
budgets, setting forth the salaries OF
all employees and all other expenses.
He said no collections of assessments
would be permitted until he has ap-
proved all the proposed expenditures.
Complaints against assessments for
administrative purposes have come
from many industries.
In Washington affected business
houses already have been called upon
W pay IIlclI lcNlcS. 1llC lCLdA SOdC
authority here has called upon every
retail house to pay ST per employe per
year. A number. it was reported sew
eral days ago. have declined to pay
and the local authority has threatened
to refer them to N. R. A. headquar-
tiers.
Watches Authorities.
Today's announcement by Gen
Johnson reverses the process and in
stead of cracking down" on the de-
linquent business man who hasn't paic
his assessment, he is watching the
code authorities.
Asked directly as to what power he
has to limit the salaries of code ad-
niniStrative bodies, he answered that
he could withdraw the codes entirely
Gen. johnson also must approve the
personnel of code authorities
II am watching the aSsesSme nj
angle closely" he said. because to
my mind it offers the worst threat
of graft and scandal yet to arise in
N r. A.
If it does develop into graft, then
all I can do is simply take away the
CODE
Evening star., 1934-05-08
50-Cent Pieces Authorized.

The Senate bill authorizing the
minting of 100000 silver 50-cent
pieces to commemorate the Tooth an
niversary of the admission of Arkansas
to the Union was passed yesterday by
the House. 1t now goes to the
President.
Evening star., 1934-05-08
581 Traffic Violators Fined

NEW YORK H).-Metropolitan mo-
torists are beginning to realize that
Police Commissioner Organ meant
his threat against traffic law viola
tions. Five hundred and eighty-one
of tltcm were fined in a single day.
Evening star., 1934-05-08

The inside boys here feel like the
fellow who tried to stop an oil gusher
by putting his finger in the pipe.
They have felt that way since the
Supreme Court put of until Fall a
decision in the case brought by the
Government against five independent
Texas oil men for code violations.
Evening star., 1934-05-08
Other Routes Flown.

mail moved once more in commercial
ships were between Seattle and San
Diego, Salt Lake City and Seattle and
Salt Lake City and San Diego.
A United Air Line plane left Salt
Lake City for Seattle at 257 am. IN
S. IT, with a cargo of mail and five
passengers. and five minutes later an
other ship left the Utah city for San
Diego.
Resumption of airmail service out
of Chicago by commercial lines met
an unexpected impasse early this
morning when post Office aides at the
airport received the unelaborated or
der mot to give out mail to CONNER
cial flyers until further orders"
Consequently. Jack Knight, pio-
neer pilot for the United Air Lines
abandoned plans for his $3.50 am
flight with 900 pounds of mail for the
West Coast
Post Office aides expressed the opin-
ion the hitch was only temporary.
Transcontinental Flight.
AS parting gesture in completing
its mail flying, the Army Air Corps
carried out a 2,732-mile flight from
Oakland to Newark yesterday in what
it claimed was record time for the
Northern transcontinental route. The
flight was made in IA hours minutes
A similar fight was made by
Transcontinental and Western Air
Inc, over the Southern route from
Los Angeles to Newark just before the
mail-carrying job was taken from
private lines This flight was made
in 13 hours minutes. However, the
route flown by the Army was 279
miles longer.
Evening star., 1934-05-08
|. C. C. ADVOCATES
BODY TO REGULATE
WIRES AND RADIO

Continued From First Page.)
Evening star., 1934-05-08
PRIVATE A|RMA|L
FLY|NGRESUMED
Chicago Officials, However
Give Orders to Hold Up
Contracts.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Flying of the 'airmail was resumed
today by commercial planes
Over four routes private airlines re-
lieved the Army of the mail carrying
and postal officials said that other
routes would be surrendered to COM
mercial ships within the next few
days under the contracts awarded last
week
A United Air Line plane left New
ark at lis am. eastern standard
time) for Oakland. Calf. with the
first bags of airmail touched by pri-
vate line since Postmaster General
Farleys order canceling contracts be-
came effective February 10. The
plane carried l, 200 pounds of mail and
six passengers
Evening star., 1934-05-08
PROBE OF JOBLESS
RELIEF HOLDS UP
WORK AT LORT0N

(Continued From First Page.)
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1934-08-10

great Improvement has taken place
in motor fuels since those times" says
Mr.. Robert Weir, Jr., the Sun Oil
Company's local branch manager.
I'm those days., he went on, gas
oline was just gasoline. But today it
is far different. Petroleum engineers
have found ways and means Of taking
apart the molecular construction of
gasoline and rebuilding it into more
powerful motor fuel with as much ac-
curacy as other engineers follow a
blue print in erecting large build
ing.
This means that today it is pos
sible to make a motor fuel to meet
the requirements of modern motors
That's exactly what Blue Sunoco Mo-
tor Fuel does.
Research work by the large auto
mobile companies proves that motor
lists want their cars to give high speed
knockless power with quick getaways
from standing starts and bursts of re-
serve speed on the highway.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1934-08-10
BODY LOST A YEAR
WASHES ASHORE IN VA.

The terror laden winds and tide
of the storm of August % and %,
1888, that took their toll in life as
we'll as property, cast up a grim re-
minder this week when the body of
Joseph West, a waterman, of Oyster,
was recovered.
Less than one year ago an item ap-
peared in "The Onancock News" read
ing, "Oyster-10 men occupying hous-
es on marshes are known to be mis-
ing and little hope for their recovery
is ascertained. They are: George Cobb,
Joseph West, George Marshall, Lar
ry Hammond, William Lafferty,
James Hammel, Powell Lafferty, Roll
and VIE, Grover Lafferty and Albert
Lafferty." Later it was reported that
all were accounted for except George
Cobb and Joseph West.
Mr.. Vests body was found this
week and funeral services were held
at the cemetery at Cape Charles
Tuesday, July 81, conducted by the
Rev. DR.. John Bomar. Interment was
in the Cape Charles cemetery.
Mr.. West, who was IA years of age
was respected citizen.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1934-08-10
FROM OUR
EXCHANGES
PRISONER WILL BE GIVEN
LASHES FOR BURGLARY

Ten lashes on the bare back are to
be given Sherman Phippin, who con-
fessed to breaking into fourteen Sal
isbury homes in five months. The
whipping will be given in the New
Castle County Workhouse, Del, on
Saturday.
He has already been given ten lash
es and is serving term Of ten years
and one day for robbery of three
Dover, Del, homes.
He has confessed to robbery of
homes in Delaware and in Maryland,
and signed a full confession of his
robberies here when questioned In
Dover by Delaware officers and Chief
of Police Holland.
In all of the robberies gold was his
principal loot. Anything made of gold
was taken and sold as old gold.
Loose cash was taken and spent and
several suits, stolen here, were sold
in nearby towns.
He narrowly missed capture while
trying the door of the home of Geo.
Sharpley, being surprised while at
tempting to open the door. He was
inside the door at the time and said
that he had just knocked to see if
anyone was home.
In attempting to rob the home of
Miss Nancy Gordy, Walnut street, he
broke a window but did not gain en-
trance. He ate supper there, however,
raiding the ice-box on the back porch.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1934-08-10

Part Of this can be achieved in
engine design, but the greater respon-
sibility lies upon the fuel used in the
motor. To meet this demand Sun Oil
Company engineers have designed
Blue Sunoco to give a flashing accel-
GRAFTON, high knockless power, and
long mileage.
"Of course, we couldn't just say
let's do it and it was done. Instead it
took days and months of painstaking
research; Of building and rebuilding
our refineries before Blue Sunoco was
ready for motorists. That was more
than seven years ago and ever since
then we have never ceased our en-
deavors to make Blue Sunoco better
and still better by improving refinery
equipment. Blue Sunocos quality has
been advanced to keep we'll ahead of
motor design and construction. Today
as always we believe its quality is
best evidenced by its performance in
your own car and by it's widespread
wherever it is sold"
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1934-08-10
ARMY OF SEA NETTLES
IN CHESAPEAKE BAY

An army Of sea nettles is moving
northward in Chesapeake Bay. This
summer these pests are to be par
ticularly plentiful, according to Sweep
son Earle, State Conservation Com
missioner, who sees in the dry spell
(and consequent salt water where usu-
ally the water is almost fresh) an
invitation to the nettles to move far
into the mouths of the inlets.
The experiments, conducted by the
Conservation Department and the ZOO
logical laboratory of the Johns Hop
kins University, disclosed much of
scientific interest, but little of prac-
tical value to bathers and fishermen.
But Mr.. Earle and the scientists of
the Hopkins are much pleased with
their findings. For the first time in
history-as far as they know-they
have brought to light the biological
secrets of the singing jellyfish; they
have segregated the male and female;
they have raised nettle FROM an egg
to maturity; they have made success
full dietetic experiments, and they
have revealed the cause and effect
of the sting.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1934-08-10
NATIONAL GUARDSMEN
IN AUTO ACCIDENT

Two members of Company H. West
minister, National Guards of Mary
land, who are on their annual two
weeks encampment trip at Camp Rit-
chic, are in the Walter Reed Hospital,
Washington, D. c., as the result of
injuries suffered early Monday morn
ing in an automobile accident as they
were returning to camp from a visit
here. They are Irving Mos, Pennsyl-
vania avenue, and Stewart Bucking-
ham, Carroll street. The two young
men had motored to Westminster Sun
day in Mr.. Buckingham car. Mr.. Moss
visited his wife and Mr.. Buckingham
visited friends.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1934-08-10
WOUNDED NEGRO FOUND
ON RAILROAD TRACKS

Light Inspector Shaw, of the Penn
sylvania Railroad, as he approached
the switch at Kings Greek, last week
discovered colored man laying I'M
conscious beside the track. A rail-
road physician was summoned who,
with the assistance of nearby work.
men, loaded the man in a truck and
had him sent to the Salisbury hospit-
al.
The negro, who had been badly
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1934-08-10

headquarters for the past few weeks
when crabs appeared to be more plen-
tiful in the river than in the bay.
But crabs are scarce everywhere the
crabbers say. They blame it on the
dredging method which takes place in
the Virginia waters of the bay during
the winter. Many of the female crabs,
they believe, were caught out Of the
mud by this method.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1934-08-10

beaten, regained consciousness long
enough to state that, with a party
of negroes riding freight from the
Virginia potato fields back to their
homes in Delaware, he had been gam
bling on the train and after he had
won most of the money in the party,
he was beaten, robbed and thrown
from the moving train and left to die
by the roadside.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1934-08-10
IMPROVEMENT
In MOTOR FUELS
TAKEN PLACE

eff you can remember the time
when early motorists bought their
gasoline in gallon cans at the corner
grocery store and were forced to
strain it through chamois to get out
the water, then you must realize what