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The Washington times., 1934-03-13
Shake-Up Hits Army Command
Low!yPork Tops
Food Cost
.Upswing

Prices of most foods in Wash
ington sky-rocketed during the
two-week period between Janu-
ary 80 and February 13, it was
disclosed today by the Con-
sumers' Counsel of the Agricul-
tural Adjustment AdminiStra'
ton.
Twenty-four grocery items cut
Of IS listed in the Consumers
Guide, rose sharply in price,
while only six decreased slightly.
Five revealed no change in price.
The greatest increase was
noted in pork chops, which went
up 80 per cent, from 20.7 to 26.8
cents a pound. Butter was
boosted from 27.9 to 1928 cents
q pound.
Drops in price were found in
wheat cereal, whole wheat bread,
eggs, oranges, cabbage and let
tuce, but with one exception the
decrease was not more than
two-tenthS of a cent, - vs.
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|NSULL SPURNS
CREEK POLICE

ATHENS, March 13 U.N.SO.
Samuel insult, fugitive Chicago
utilities magnate, turned a cold
shoulder today on officials Of the
Greek government, and refused
to see them.
When Gen. John Metaxas, the
minister of the interior. and an
official of the foreign office went
to insults apartment to deliver a
laissez-passer issued by the United
States Government to replace
Insults Greek travel permit, the
former Chicagoan refused to ad-
NIT them.
The Washington times., 1934-03-13
Sarajevo Doubts War
In Europe Can Be
Purely Local

For 20 years ago another cry
had echoed. It threw the city
into panic. It threw a world into
war.
''The Archduke is dead"
''The Archduke is murdered"
Today, the cry is the call of
the Muezzin to prayer. On the
balcony Of his minaret he stands
outlined against the sky, his head
thrown back, his hand cupped
beneath his mouth, and leaning
backward, his white robe flowing
in a light breeze. he intones the
chant that warns the faithful it
is time to pray.
A Thousand PigeOnc
In the Basch Charschita, the
market place. a thousand blue
NCOneaHsod "a Rass q Cot. -
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(Wur cannot be "locGlised, !"
Drites H. r. Knickerbocker from
SGrCjevo, Dhere the World War
started, in the ttDenty-Sirth article
of his series, "Wir War Conner"
That 1DGs the lesson OF SGrGjeDo,
and that factor mag play an i'm
portGnt part in preventing another
tDGr.)
BY HI, r. KNTCKERBOCKER
International News Service Staff
Correspondent.
Copyright. 1894. BY International News
Service. Reproduction in whole
or Part FOrbidden).
SARAJEVO, March 13 UN.S0.
A droning cry echoes down the
streets Of SarajeVo.
.-. SapaieEQ has EorsostSn what
itSAEaJeE0o means, t
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Weapons Discovered,
Jail Break ThWnrted

JACKSON, Miss, March 13.
G.N.S0.-A possible repetition Of
the sensational Dillinger prison
break was thwarted today when
Sheriff Warren Ferguson, search
ing death row." found dummy
pistol, two knives and a hackSaw
blade in the cells Of three Negroes
condemned to hang Friday for
aSsaulting a 17.year-old high
school girl, The pistol had been
Icrudsly fashioned from TOBACCO
The Washington times., 1934-03-13
" Fair Play" Sought
For Coal Industry
Nv international News Service

By InteFnatiOnaI 'NeWs SerV1ce
Asserting the bituminous coal
industry was more chiseled
against than chiseling," C. B.
HuntreSs, executive secretary Of
the National Coal Association, to-
day demanded fair play" for his
industry.
He suggested the following re-
forms: Imposition of an excise
tax on natural gas: the end Of al
legged discrimination against coal
in Government contracts for heat
end pcYar. snd CraHai0p Of O. Co
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Mother, 3 Children
Perish in Flames

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. March IS
dNSO-Trapped in their home
while asleep, a mother and three
of her children were burned to
death by fire Of undetermined
origin today.
The victims were Mrs. Edna
Finch, %; Carol June Finch, 9;
Frances Finch, z; Ernestine Finch,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-05
Your Health
by DR.. MORRIS FIsHBEIN-

VOU probably are acquainted with the seven Won
ders of the ancient world, or at least some OF
them Or you might have your opinion as to what
these seven world wonders should be.
Well here's chance for you to agree or dis
agree on the choice of the wonder OF medical
science One of the medical specialists OF the United
States sets up the following as his choice
Immunity of resistance to disease; anesthesia or
anagesia giving relief from pain; antisepsis, pre-
venting wound infection and blood poisoning; in
formation on vtamins and food values light and ven
tlation the use of extracts of glands to prevent and
to treat various gandular deficiency diseases, and
periodic health examination to prevent the effects OF
certain diseases.
MEDICINE however, can hardly be limited TO
WI seven wonders The marvels of medical science
during the last fifty years have outstrpped all other
contributions to the happiness of mankind.
Our knowledge Of immunity or resistance to
disease has given us dphtheria antitoxin, tetanus
antitoxin and scarlet fever antitoxin 1t has given
to us means for diagnosing many diseases.
1t has caused the abolition of yellow fever from
most Of the civilized world and has cut the death
rates from typhoid fever to nf1nitesimal number
THE relieving Of pain for human beings during
Il surgical operations and the development Of
bacterioogc cleanliness under such conditions have
permitted modern surgeons to invade every portion
Of the human body.
Medicines contribution to the use of glandular
substances for the prevention of certain types Of de-
fornity and disease really is in stage of infancy.
The discoveries already made merely foretaste
of the tremendous accomplishments to follow.
However. there important additional
trend Of modern medicine above all others that has
been omitted from this list. 1t is medicines recogin-
ton of the importance of the mind in relationship
to the condition of the body generally.
Developments OF modern psychology. psychlatry
and psycholanalysis as well as modern methods OF
handling the feeble minded and the insane are con-
tributions which may well accompany those that
have been mentioned.
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Questions and Answers

Q-who PLAYED the role of Gregory in the
motion picture Catherine the Create"
A-Chford Jones.
Q-What does the name Elaine mean?
Alt is nom the Greek and means bright.
O-what is an electrical transcription?
"A program record for broadcasting. either on
a disc or film. They are designed only for broad
casting and made in recording studios and sent
70 the broadcast stations.
Q-Ou what continent rhinoceroSeS native?
A-Afrca and Asia.
O-what proportion Of the population of WASH
ington d. c. employed in the federal and NUM-
opal governments?
A-Out OF approximately 10000 inhabitants.
about $4,000 are employed by the two governments
Of whom $1,000 are in the executive civil service
Q-what is the value OF United States large
copper cent dated 1882
A-They are oatalogued at to 20 cents.
Q-was King Gustav Of Sweden of German
descent?
A-The late Queen Sophia of Sweden. mother of
King Gustav. was German princess. the youngest
daughter Of Duke William Of Nassau
O-what does the name Yugoslayia mean7
A-Country Of the south Slavs. Yugo means
south
C-What is Chngman's Dome2
At is peak in the Great Smoky mountains in
North Carolina. on the Tennessee boundary. 6.642
feet high.
Q-where is the estate of Simon Cameron of
Civil war fame2
Ais farm estate is at Donegal Springs, Pa.
Q-Do the words drought and drouth have the
same meaning and pronunciation?
A-They are synonymous. but drought is pro-
nCunced drout and drouth is pronounced drouth.
Q-what is the address Of Walter winchel2
4 A-Lincoln hotel. New York City.
Q-How many horses were farms in the
United States in 1882
A-The estimated number 12163 900.
Q-What is the greatest altitude attained by an
airpane2
A-s3976 feet.
Q-What the height requirements for can
didates for the United States Naval academy
A-They shall be not less than five feet two
inches. a. the age Of Is. with an increase OF one
inch for each additional year fraction Of year
over one-half.
o-Wnl common salt. thrown on coal fire. pro-
duce quicker combustion?
A-Common salt does not aid combustion but it
Is sometimes used as SCOT remover. Thrown
hot fire il win ignite SCOT which has been deposited
the inside surface OF the furnace, fue chimney
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full speeches of the last session.
1t swept away all opposition. The
resolution was passed overwhelm-
ingly.
TINE army's eastern problem"
Il in New Jersey, in which the
United States is being invaded by
a BLACK army" is the first time
on record that any nation fought
war and gave out news state
ments Monday of the results of
battles to be fought the following
Friday. The navy is develop
ing two new planes. one Of which
attains top diving speed OF more
than 400 miles an hour. The sec
ond is uper-amphibian for use
with cruisers of the fleet, object
being that it can be landed on
water, land, or the deck of an air.
craft carrier. TorpedoeS used
by submarines cost $4,000 each,
and are so accurate that they can
score about 95 per cent hits at
5000 yards. Their greatest value
is that they do their damage
around the water line. The aver
age shell usually damages only
the above-water structure of a
fighting ship.
Copyright 1884 by United Featur
Syndicate. Inc
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60 the postmaster-general and
~ Democratic chairman has a
right to be gloomy. He went all
the way out to California to try
to straighten out Democratic
dilemma.
He found things in bad way.
Two Democrats were in the race,
alongside the novelist-George
Creel, chief of the wartime
censorship bureau, and Justus S.
Warden, both administration sup
porters. He tried to yank Mr..
Wardell, but Mr.. Wardell wouldn't
yank. He found out that Sinclair
was virtually 'in" then and came
back to Washington few weeks
ago resigned to another setback.
Mr.. Farley's batting average has
been pretty bad, especially after
the record he hung up in round
ing up a mess of delegates to put
over Mr.. Roosevelts nomination
at Chicago.
THE first blow at his prestige
l. came when he tried to de-
feat liberal Fiorello La Guardia in
New York City by showing his
own candidate, Joseph v. Mckee,
into the race at the last moment.
Mr.. La Guardia won handily over
both Mckee and the Tammany
candidate, Mayor John P O'Brien.
In West Virginia, Jim got be-
hind Glen Shaver, chairman Of
the Democratic national commit
tee when John w. Davis ran such
a poor race for the Presidency,
to find the voters rallying to the
banners of youngster. The 29-
year-old Rush D. Holt won the
Democratic senatorial nomination.
Vic Donahey, former Governor
of Ohio, upset the postmaster
generals plans in that state by
capturing the senatorial nominal
ton from Representative Charles
West and Governor George White.
Here Mr.. Farley supported West,
aggressively a New Dealer but
comparatively inexperienced in
state politics.
Nor was Mr.. Farley pleased
with the result in Missouri, where
the Pendergast political machine
beat two congressman with whom
he was friendly, John Cochran
and Jacob L. Milligan, for the
senatorial nomination.
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II Sounds Very Bad

II you have a firm grip upon the hand rail Of the
Il car. let's 60.
1t is put squarelv UP to the voter whether the
ideals upon which this nation and its people have
built their faith their traditions and their race life
% bc perpetuated or scuttled. some dark unknown
chaos ~ destruction A maggot-lke horde OF red
battle funds from Moscow. they rally uncleanly
% every sore spot. poison in every bruise ter
mites secretly and darky eating into the foundation
and the roof beams Of everything the American heart
has held dear and sacred. Industrial Hessians..
they are eating of The haiards that hold up the
and stripes in many directions filthy whispers
.- dangerous and foul cOnspiraces the wolves are
here their agent may BE- your cook your trusted
friend or the movie star whom YOU admire the
screen. Stain and his cohorts already scuttling
like unclean bugs out OF the mess they have made
by twist OF fate IL is for the people OF Califor
mia % decide Tor America"
Accordingly. 10 looks as though Upton Sinclair
would be- elected His campaign hardly can be
feeble effort n DO inspires a supposedly sober news
paper % unCiean bugs. HeSsians wolves and ter
mites an in the same editorial And surely safe and
sound Republicans have reached a stage bordering
darkly hints that all the cooks who serve the de-
Tenders of the faith probably agents in the pay
OF Moscow
Whether the suggestion be poison or propaganda
or both can not quite grasp only have one slight
tag to add 70 the advice of the Los Angeles Times.
Until Sinclair is squelched and the red menace" has
been Oblteaed I'm California let bowl of alphabet
soup stand upon the table of any American patriot.
How would YOU like it If your young daughter gazed
inter her plate and suddenly the regimented
noodles. under Moscow orders. suddenly spell out
arise 70 prisoners Of starvation" And If your
cook voted for George Cree the corrupting agent
might be your best friend the Los Angeles Times
has pointed out II your cook and your best friend
happen TO b. and the same person then you GER
talnly are out of luck.
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DUT the famous Danbury Hat
ID ters' case, which dragged
through the courts from 1902 to
1915. followed shortly after.
This Connecticut hat company
was likewise the victim Of a
nationwide boycott. 1t won an in
junction and a supreme court de-
cision to sustain it. that the
Sherman antitrust law forbade
interstate boycotts.
The Danbury company won and
collected judgments of more than
100000.
But the public resentment
which followed when foreclosure
on union members homes began,
led to the passage of the Clayton
act in 1914, which made labor
unions exempt from operation of
the antitrust laws.
The high hopes raised by the
Clayton act and its ringing dec
laration were not quite realized in
practice, and many loopholes were
found. Not until 1882 was a sat-
isfactory act finally passed cover
ing injunctionS in labor disputes.
This was the Norris-La Guardia
act, which outlawed the yellow
dog" contract and infinitely out
lined the conditions under which
federal court injunctions might
be sought in labor disputes.
1t provides that no injunction
may issue against labor to inter-
fere with its right to strike or to
carry on a strike by all ordinary
means short of fraud or violence.
MO injunctions are to be grant,
~ ed to any one who has failed
to carry out all his legal obliga-
tons or failed to attempt settle
ment by use of Cancellation ma
chinery. There still is confusion
on the injunction issue on account
of the attitude of some state and
local courts.
The promise of the early years
of the Wilson administration was
in large part borne out by the
World war. III 1913, a secretary
of labor took his place at the cab
met table as one of the Presi-
dents advisers.
Nearly all organized labor, ex-
cept that dominated by Socialist
and I. w. w. organizations, sup
ported the war splendidly, partly
from patriotism, partly from a
feeling that in this way labor
could best be saved from the losses
it suffered in most countries dur
ing the war.
And it was right, for many of
the policies set up by the war
labor board were the forerunners
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S27,925 IN REPAIR
WORK IS PLEDGED
102 Promise to Remodel,
C.. of C. Announces.

A survey made by the Indianapolis
Chamber of Commerce on behalf of
the local housing program revealed
that one third of the home and
property owners interviewed were
actively interested in some phase Of
repairing or remodeling, it was an
nounced today.
Of $50 persons interviewed, 102
persons pledged work amounting to
$27,925. Approximately half of the
persons interviewed asked for fur
er details of the housing program.
officials at the housing booth in
the Recovery building at the Indiana
state fair answered inquiries on re-
pairs and remodelings which would
amount to almost $4,000 in labor
and materials during the first two
days.
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The government led the way
out. In 1910, President Martin
Van Buren, established the ten
hour day in the government serv-
ice.
Real agitation for the eight
hour day did not begin until
after the Civil war. In 1868 the
government again led the way
with an eight-hour day for gov
eminent work, a plan which, how
ever. was not fully enforced until
much later. and then only after
persistent agitation.
Most Of this was on the part
Of the A. F. of L.. whose railying-
cry was "the eight-hour day." just
as now it is the Six-hour day
and the f1ve-day week"
The eight-hour day fight was
brought to crisis in the depres-
sion Of IS93-94, when 100000
workers we're idle. The World
war brought it to full fruition,
and the steel industry, always
backward in labor progress, did
not come to it until well after
the war.
CHILD labor, for years blot on
~ the American labor scene,
first drew determined opposition
in 1881, when it was shown that
children of and 7 years were
stripping tobacco from dawn until
late at night.
II was Samuel Gompers' fight
against tenement cigar-making in
this era which helped bring him
out as a national leader, and
which started the fight on child la
Dor which was not to succeed I'M
til the MIRA in 1888 abolished it
temporarily, at least.
The child labor amendment has
yet to pass the states in final form
and become a part of the Con-
stitution.
The legal status of labor and
labor organizations again is a
story of a long, uphill struggle, but
a struggle that has won greater
and greater rights all the time.
This history is written in a series
of famous cases.
First of these is the Buck Stove
case. This st. Louis firm had la
Dor trouble and was made the vic
tim of a national boycott by the
A. F. of L. The company, near
ing ruin, secured an injunction to
prevent the labor organization
from circulating its unfair list. "
On an alleged violation of this
Injunction. Frank Morrison, John
Mitchell and Samuel Gompers, all
A. F. of L. officials, we're sem
fenced to jail. A technicality saved
them from serving sentence.
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ent has a deadline to meet.
But you may take it for
granted that the old Utopian
finally will corner his Excel
lency in some bosky dell or
leafy bower Of the old family
plantation on the banks of the
American Rhine just north of
Poughkeepsie, and utter a few
remarks into the same's always
receptive ear and receive some
Of the same'S famous, CHEEKY
answers.
In the meantime it probably
will be of interest to the citi-
zens that the famous baseball
game between the Washington
brain trust and the so-called
team of saints and sinners
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That Russian Gold

DUT your best friendi I'll admit that has me
ID just little worried. I remember curious in
cident yesterday afternoon Of which thought Moth
ing the time. Quent and I were sitting in Fifty
second street drinking and when the waiter brought
tho check Queut showed 1t over to me. There was
nothing very unusual about that. II was the ex-
PLANTATION he gave.
You won last night and I'm broke" he said.
OF course it's subtle but still insidious He meant
that thrift should be penazed. He insinuating
the world owes him a living even If he does raise
on a pair Of Jacks before the draw. Very distinctly
now I can see the leer his face he said, You
won and I'm broke" It a suggestion of there
being something little snide and dishonest in the
effort Of any good American to lay one chip against
another and avoid the temptation TO after an in
size straight apd three Pushes.
But forewarned is forearmed. I can leer myself
ana when next this false friend of mine attempts to
eat of the halhards that hold up the Stars and
Stripes or dig into the roof beams of everything the
American heart holds dear. will will lean forward
and say in a cold and patriotic voice, Why don't
YOU pay for a drink yourself Quentovitch with some
Of that Russian gold in your pocket?"
And that Will shake him though hardly enough,
1 suppose. to make him buy a drink.
Copyright The Timesl
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by the war labor board set the
pace for what became later reg
ular labor organizations.
On the whole, labor gained from
the war, and the biggest gain was
in the first really united attempt
by the government to set down
definite labor policies and def
mite national labor program.
All this machinery fell apart
almost Immediately after the war,
and the pendulum swung back
ward, again. A wave of terrific
strikes swept the country and took
off the job even more men than
have walked out during the last
year.
The company union movement
got it's start at this time, and the
open shop drive was begun. Dur
ing the twenties, however, consid-
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BY WILLIS THORNTON
NFA Service stan Correspondent

WASHINGTON Sept gradual climb Of labor of the
w inspiring phases history 1t like mighty
moving steadily forward
descending through valleys higher
the preevouonary workman buckkn breeches
heavy shoes with leather apron.
hings fell debt
wages. prison loomed.
industry brought
valley traversed In
worked fifteen
hours a day to a stitching shirts
working from sum-" and only
few attained the ten-hour day.
report textile mills Lowell Mass, showed that
and from dawn to dusk
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cradle progress was made, espe-
cially in states, in legislation for
workmen's compensation and va
rious forms of social insurance.
When the boom came to its top
in 1928, labor was sharing in the
return of industry as never before;
it may not have gotten a fair
share, but it was certainly getting
bigger share than ever before.
With the crash came another
low tide, and now once again,
under the stimulus of the NRA
and other new labor legislation,
labor surges forward.
NEXT-The A. F. of L., Amer
ica's greatest labor organization.
What it is, how it functions, and
what it stands for. The Railway
BrOtherhOOdS.
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of the present NRA setup.
In many ways, labor reached its
highest point under the war labor
board. Organization and collec-
tive bargaining rights were guar
anteed. Strikes were discouraged,
but there was no penalty against
them.
The basic eight-hour day was
reaffirmed, with extra pay for
overtime, and the principle of
living wage" was established.
n n
THE board made total of 400
l. awards, in all of which it in
sisted on reinstatement of workers
discharged for union activity. 1t
forbade blacklisting. Arbitration
and temporary shop committees
in many organized plants set up
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NOMINATION. Will C1leSlo'
Mr.. Farley's defeats here and
there have come with sufficient
force to indicate that the voters
in some places are yelling, flgura-
lively, for the New Deal to g.
further. They are restive-in
such scattered states as California,
West Virginia and New York
and looking around for new blood
and new ideas.