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The Washington times., 1934-07-28
Alexandria Firm Faces
"Kickback" Inquiry

A subcommittee of the Senate
Committee on Education and La
Dor today was examining the pay
roll of the Alexandria Iron Works
as the result of testimony that the
company was involved in "kick-
back" practices and underpayment
of employees at st. ElizabethS Hos
pital last year.
The charges were made before
the committee yesterday at the
conclusion of a tWo-day hearing,
which will be resumed in week
or so, according to Senator David
I. Walsh CD of Massachusetts,,
subcommittee chairman.
Count Is Accused
Charges that Count Macmillan
Won Pagenhardt, Interior Depart
ment supervising engineer and in
spector in charge of the st. Eliza
beth's Hospital job, influenced the
subletting of contract to the
Alexandria Iron Works were laid
before the committee.
It was charged that Count Won
Pagenhardt influenced H. Her
furth, jr., general contractor for
construction of the hospitals
power plant, to let the subcontract,
informing the contractor that it
would be advisable" to use non
union labor. This was against
Mr.. Herfurth's principles, he testi-
fled, in view of the fact that he
had previously used only union
labor.
It was further charged by iron
workers employed by the Alex
andria Iron Works that they were
paid so to go cents an hour, when
The Washington times., 1934-07-28

Determined to stop what they
term an attempt to freeze them
out, independent gasoline dealers
Of Montgomery county are organ
izing for what they say will be a
fight to the finish with the big oil
corporations.
Through their spokesman, Edgar
Reed, of Reed Brothers Garage,
of Rockville, the dealers say they
will continue to sell gasoline at
District prices regardless of the
new zones recently established by
the major producers, zones which
they contend are grossly unfair to
them.
Municipal Station Seen
Mr.. Reed added that in the
event the large corporations con-
tinue their attempt to enforce
these new prices they will petition
the mayor and town council OF
Rockville to establish a municipal
gasoline station whereby, by pur-
chasing motor fuel in tankload
lots, they will be able to compete
with, and perhaps to undersell,
the filling stations operated by
the oil companies.
He also indicated that there
was every reason to believe that
if such a move becomes necessary,
the petition to the town will be
favorably received.
The new zones, established
about a month ago, fix the same
price as prevails in the District in
Bethesda, Takoma Park, Silver
Spring, and adjacent territories
The Washington times., 1934-07-28

the prevailing wage was $165,
and that at one time they were
forced to pay back part of their
wages when the company paid
them the prevailing rate.
These charges were flatly de.
MED by T. C. Steuke, general
manager of the Alexandria Iron
Works, who asserted he never in
voked the "kickback," and said
he paid the men $1.10 an hour
for skilled work and so cents an
hour for laborers' work.
This wage, he said, was the
prevailing wage according to the
PWA, although it had been pre-.
viously testified that the Depart
ment of Labor had stipulated the
$1.65 wage.
Navy Contracts Hit
At the same time, the COM
mittee was asked yesterday to
intercede with the Navy Depart
ment to prevent letting of con-
tracts on the Navy's $50,000,0O0
construction program on the
grounds that the shipbuilding
code does not provide adequate
protection to wage earners.
The request for holding up the
Navy work was made by labor
leaders, who said the shipbuild-
ing code must be revised or the
industry will be faced with
serious labor disturbances.
j. V. Weaver, deputy admins
traitor for the shipbuilding in.
dustry, informed the committee
that action would probably be
taken by the NRA to have the
code revised.
The Washington times., 1934-07-28
Peace Justice
Fined $25 for
Auto Crash

A. L. Wilson, justice Of
peace Of Takoma Park, Md,
was fined $25 and court costs
today on charges of wreckless
driving placed against him
Wednesday following an auto
mobile accident at the Coles
vile and Columbia pike inter.
section.
Judge Donald A. De Lash
mutt, Rockville police court,
dismissed charges against Wal
ter c. Mullinix, Maryland Uni
versity student, who was driv-
ing the car which colloded
with Mr.. wilson's automobile.
The Washington times., 1934-07-28
Bob" CottreN
Gets White
Elephants

Word has gone around that
Robert ]. Cottrell, secretary of
the Board of Trade, is partial
to white elephants.
At any rate more than a
dozen miniature pachyderms Of
all sizes have been given him in
the last several months. Added
to the menagerie have been
models of hounds, horses, rab-
bits and one giraffe.
Most priced in the collection
are two microscopic white rats.
The collection is perched up on
a library shelf in the office of
the trade body, but soon more
spacious quarters will have to
be provided for it's increasing
numbers.
The Washington times., 1934-07-28
Montgomery Gas Dealers
To Defy Oil Companies

with a one-cent-per-gallon rise for
the communities farther up the
county. This increase prevails as
far west as the western boun'
daries of Rockville, where it is
then stepped up another eight
tenths of a cent per gallon.
Unfairness Cited
One Of the most flagrant eX-
amples of the unfair advantage
this takes of dealers was cited by
Mr.. Reed when he pointed out
that filling station just at the
edge of Rockville, operated by
one of the major companies,
could sell gasoline at one price
while not more than four hun
dred yards away, a station oper-
ated by an independent was sup
posed to sell at different figure,
namely eight-tenthS of a cent per
gallon more.
The manager of the independ-
ent station referred to by Mr..
Reed, when interviewed yester-
day, said:
"This is the first time I've
ever dropped my prices but I
intend to do so rather than let
the big boys freeze me out"
Meanwhile, pending the out
come, nearly all the independents
are carrying huge display ads in
the county papers advertising the
fact that they will not raise their
prices, and, as Mr.. Reed points
out:
"The consumer whose inter
est we are protecting has been
ralIying to our support most
admirably"
The Washington times., 1934-07-28

In case you are IN doubt about the IN
FAINT perfection, just drive out to His Lord
ships Kindness and interview Assistant
Secretary of War and Mrs. Woodring about
Marcus Coolidge Woodring Mrs. Woodring,
the former Helen Coolidge, daughter of the
Senator from Massachusetts, and Mrs. Cool
idge, is thinking of adding ''Portrait of
Perfect Child' to her selection of senatorial
canvasSeS.
The Washington times., 1934-07-28
Air Stamps
On Sale Here Sept. I

Uncle Sans new 16-cent air.
mail special delivery postage
stamp will go on general sale Sep
tember /, Post Office Department
officials have announced.
A special first-day sale will be
held at Chicago August 80, it was
announced. Secondary sales will
be held at the Washington Post
Office and Philatelic agency.
The Washington times., 1934-07-28
Early and HOIUe Off
To Meet President

Louis McHenry Howe and
Stephen T. Early, White House
secretaries, were on their way to
California today to meet the
President when he arrives from
Hawaii. They entrained for
Seattle, Wash, last night. The
President is scheduled to arrive
on the West coast August !.
The Washington times., 1934-07-28
Boys Take Car, Flee
Tr0iH1inQ School

Taking an automobile belong
ing to an employe Of the institu-
ton, three colored boys today eS.
capped from the National Training
School. The boys are Charles
Ball, II, of the 1000 block Twenty
second Street N. W.; Alfred Wal
ker, II, of the 100 block First
Street N. w. and Melvin Johnson,
IT, of the 2400 block Ontario
Road N, w,
The Washington times., 1934-07-28
BIDS TO BE OPENED

DANVILLE, Va, July 28.-Bids
will be opened Acre August 6 on
materials for Danville's electric
line and water main extensions.
This is a PWA project and will
cost $103,O0O.
The Washington times., 1934-07-28
Secret 100" Gets Results;
Traffic Accidents Drop

} Supplementing those of the Of
ficial observers were reports from
Self-appointed members Of the
citizenary. One unofficial observer
reported 40 violatorS, three Of
this number street car opera
tors.
The Washington times., 1934-07-28
DOCTOR TO SPEAK

DR.. E. c. Terry, of Howard
University Medical School faculty,
will address the Mems Brother
hood Club at Lincoln Temple
Congregational Church tomorrow
at 1O:30 a. m. on Preventative
Medicine"
The Washington times., 1934-07-28

It's refreshing to find thing this New Deal about
which there is no controversy Not Republican Voice has
been raised in denunciaon of the first New Deal Baby
The Washington times., 1934-07-28


There are Tragedies and Tragedies Here is true story
wiring the heart of Eugene ONeil told to by Rose
Ewel At Rehoboth she is regarded the wttest
under beach umbrella
Recently Agnes Knopf cousin, visiting her.
Agnes, generally called Niffie by her friends loved
Rehoboth But like most Of the madens the Shore she
wished Greek God young Lochinvar would arise
the oceans foam The she met at the resort
pretty aged-a of 35and generally married She thought
she would like little change
When NLffe departed for New England the other day.
her father professor Yale Unversty-she said to
friends she leaving behind
"Life will be very gay at my next stopping place. my
darlings George George is her brother will produce
young men by the dozens"
WE'LL it's enough to- make weep. "Mffie' arrived in
Watch Hill. At the end of week she wrote back to Rose
Ewell:
Life defeats The only have met since
have arrived is Prof. Einsten.
"And, my dear his pictures flatter him.
E --
It isn't surprising that General johnson recently dashed
off rapidly in the opposite direction Not mentioning the
job of teaching big manufacturers love the Code It must
have required strength and imagination to line up such
industries these recently Codfed onesPrecous ewery
River and Harbor improvements Fur Dressing Performed
Plastic Yeast IceCream Cones Water Power Equipment
Warm Air Register Prison Equipment, Cocoa, Food Dish
and Paper Plate, Card Clothing and Cut Tacks.
The Washington times., 1934-07-28
Even Republicans Admit
First New Deal Baby
Is Infant Perfection
Rv HELEN ESSARY
By HELEN ESSARY

Summer Fiction Number
Our Glorious Civzation-Dnger, the Press, the Pohce
and the Great American Government
The Washington times., 1934-07-28


nws woopRrSG twice stopped last week by traffic
officers and called account for speeding The first time
he was stopped he startled The second time he was
chastened. -
During this entire week Of the Vgianes, Mr.. Sleman
and his pretty daughter Mary have been driving down.
town in the morning in well within the approval
of the law.
And the result, Paul Sleman says-hs was the only
car on Connecticut Avenue that considered driving
within the % mile an hour limit His naturally blocked
the traffic Policemen streets roared at hmStep
on it there buddy Motorists behind and beside HIM footed
their horns in rage and dersOn he trunded along.
And that isn't ALL In addition to being cursed at he ar
rived at his office 20 minutes later than his dsobedient
neghbors who had left home at thu same time he did.
Representative William NJ. Colmer, of Mississippi, has
passion for neckes The gayer and coorfu they
the greater passion He has hundreds of necke Most
of them are expensive neckties for Missssppans
Neckware is the only extravaganza Mr.. Colmer allows
himself.
The other day he at the five-andtencent store,
making few economical purchases when his fell upon
an array necktes He struggled to retreat The lure
strong So he yielded and bought handful for
exactly 10 cents apiece
Adjoining himself with of his ties, he went to
the Capitol the next day. At every turn Of corridor,
somebody stopped him to remark upon his beautiful tie
Congressman Colmer although pleased confused by
this attention Dozens of his $50 ties had gone unnoced
His $3.50 and $5 ties had gone neglected but when he
appeared with 10 cent neckpece he the sensation OF
the day.
The Washington times., 1934-07-28
canVaSSeS

Paul Sleman, prominent Washington
attorney who lives in Chevy Chase, Md,
Evening star., 1934-02-09

review said. Putting the unemployed
to work in industry where they will
create wealth to sustain their buying
power Is basic.
"A portion of industry's increased
earnings should unquestionably be
used to shorten work hours and raise
hourly wages"
Industry, the federation said, Is
entering a test period under code con-
troll and the lack of labor representa-
tion on code authorities is a danger
in the N. r. A. administrative ma
chinery that must be quickly
remedied"
Turning to the controversial COM
pany union problem, the survey said
these unions by no means fill the need
Of workers to organize to carry out
their part In code control. 1t added:
Already certain groups of en-
ployers are making determined drive
Evening star., 1934-02-09
bU[L|TT TO LEAVE
FORRUSS|ANPOST
Progress of Rebuilding Re-
Iations Will Permit De-
parture Thursday.
Sy the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
The work of rebuilding diplomatic
And commercial relations with Russia,
otter a suspension of IS years. has
Qroceeded so smoothly that Ambas-
Sakior William c. Bullitt will be ready
to sail from New York for his Moscow
post next Thursday.
Bullitt made quick trip to present
his credentials to President Mihkail
Kalinin Immediately after his ap-
pointment, but has been in Wash
ington for more than a month organ
izing his staff and arranging in
Vulnerable details for the smooth
working of the machinery necessary
for normal relations between the two
nations
In rapid sequence since recognition
was accorded, these developments
have taken place:
Ambassador Alexander Troyanovsky
and several members of his staff have
arrived and are functioning in Wash
ington.
An export bank and trading cor
poration to expand American busi-
ness in Russia. through granting Of
credit to American exporters and
manufacturers. is being organized
An agreement has been negotiated
under which port charges in both
countries have been greatly reduced.
An agreement is near under which
passport visa charges will be reduced.
(1he Russian charge on United States
passports will be lowered from $22
to So.
Negotiations on debts and claims
Involving approximately s4O0,00000
are rapidly approaching settlement.
Preliminary ground work has been
laid for the negotiation Of CONNER
cial treaty.
The United States Treasury has
removed its ban on the importation Of
Russian gold, pulpwood and matches.
Russia has established its first con-
sulate in Washington and has an
nounced that consulates soon will be
opened in New York and San Fran
cisco. American consulates are sched-
uled to be opened in the near future
in four or five Russian commercial
centers.
Evening star., 1934-02-09
BOSTON TELEPHONE FIRM URGES
CALL HERE IN KIDNAPINCS|

+ IF one Of your family or friends
Is kidnapped, make no talk about 1t
until the wheels Of justice are set
In motion.
Local police should be able to tell
you where to turn and what to do,
but If you have doubt or difficulty, a
call to Washington, D. c., National
7ll7,' will bring advice and assist
ance."
Evening star., 1934-02-09
GIRL RETURNS HOME
Niece Of Army Captain Says She
Was in Seattle.

TACOMA. Wash. February 8 (R.-
Eleanor Durnell, l5-year-old niece Of
Capt. and Mrs. Charles Perfect, miss
ing from their home at Fort Lewis
night, Maj. Victor L. Taylor, ad-
jutant at Fort Lewis, announced early
today.
The 1000 officers and men Of the
fort spent yesterday in an intensive
search of the 70.00O-acre Army post
in the belief the girl had been kid
naped, while State and Federal Off
GERS hunted for her in Tacoma and
Seattle. She said
Il went to Seattle and walked the
streets all the time I was away"
Evening star., 1934-02-09
BY the Associated Press.

by Vfie hSSUCEdtcU FIcSSs
BOSTON, February 9.-The new
England Telephone & Telegraph Co.,
In a word Of advice to subscribers is
sued yesterday, tells how to reach in
the quickest possible time the De-
partment of Justice bureau at WASH
ington whose duty 1t is to track alb
ductors.
Under the caption, National 7117."
the companys monthly bulletin to
telephone users says:
This is the Washington telephone
number Of Department of Justice
bureau set up to deal with major
crime-especially kidnapping cov-
cred "a hours a day.
Evening star., 1934-02-09
A. F. OF |. PLANS
HIGHER PAY DRIVE
Campaign for Shorter Hours Also
May Be Undertaken
in Spring.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A drive in the Spring for higher
wages and shorter hours may be un-
dertaken by the American Federation
OF Labor, 1t is indicated In its month
ly survey, which points to q brighter
outlook In business.
I'VE must plan now to sustain the
Spring rise In business activity" the
Evening star., 1934-02-09

to establish company unions through
out industry and it Is estimated that
membership In company unions has
doubled In the past year"
Evening star., 1934-02-09
Court Aids Father.

80 that the father Of q 12-year-old
boy should not lose his new job, three
magistrates of the Juvenile Court In
Kingston. England, held . special ses-
sion at night.
Evening star., 1934-02-09
T. A. TULLY CONVICTED
Novelist's Son Charged With At

tempting to Attack Girl.
LOS ANGELES, February 8 (R.-
Thomas Alton Tully. son of Jim Tully,
novelist. was convicted by Superior
Court jury yesterday of attempting
tc attack Mrs. Violet Robey, Month
bello. Calf, housewife.
Penalty for the offense Is one to five
years Imprisonment. Mrs. Robey said
Tully tried to attack her last Decem-
ber after inviting her into his motor
car to take her to her home.
Evening star., 1934-02-09
Mort Safes Found.

Mort safes, used years ago to prevent
the desecration of graves. have been
unearthed in Linlithgow, Scotland.
Evening star., 1934-02-09
NEW FIRE HOUSE URGED

Marlboro Volunteers Seek 5O-Foot
Lot Beside Court House.
Dy Staff Correspondent of The Star
UPPER MARLBORO, Md, Febru-
AIRY 9.-Petitions asking the county
commissioners to donate so foot
frontage on the parking lot beside
the court house here for a fire house
were circulated yesterday by men,
bers of the Marlboro Volunteer Fire
Department.
The petitions are 20 be presented
to the commissioners next Tuesday.
Evening star., 1934-02-09

Triplets' Mother Paid.
Mrs. Margaret Bennie Of Troon,
Scotland, who gave birth to husky
boy triplets, has received the Kings
bounty of SIS,
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-15
Relief AuthOriHes
Aid Mine BarOns
HtPrOr; Win

Seattle-E'or the first time in the
University OF Washington's long
history, students requests for n
change In instruction methods have
been recognized-at least In one de
partment.
Directing that Professor Kristen,
Of AeronautiCal Engineering, was
usinR most of the departments APP
preparations for the perfecting OF
his own commercial inventions, the
"AEO club" comprising 20 of the
SO acronautiCal engineering stud
ents, has had a new instructor add
ed to the stan and Kristen con-
fined to doing research.
Tho "AEO Club" presented It's
request-we'n call 1t demand
TO tho administration and stuck by
its guns until action was got. des-
pite being called reds" trouble
makers, etc, by certain faculty
members.
The new instructor has had real
flying experience and Kirsten's in
ventions will have to be paid for
by the commercial company that
plans to profit by them-all be-
cause 20 students were organized
and made militant efforts to i'm
prove their instruction.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-15
SINGLEMEN REFUSED WOOD; WELFARE
VULTURESS URGES THEM TO STEAL

tions and answers from both sides
Mrs. Paige informed the committee
that mo" was her answer and so
1t would remain regardless of what
action was taken by the indignant
workers.
Should Hold Demonstration
Workers, we must smash this
petty discrimination against one of
our members. 1t may seem a small
matter, but is it? If the relief adj
ministrators and their Calloused
flunkeys force one discriminating
act over on us they will gain cour-
age to continue deeper discrimin-
atoms which will lead into deeper
cuts into our already below sub
sistence relief.
We must meet this refusal by
sending q still larger committee and
if necessary TO stage a demonstTa-
ton of every available person in
the local at this relief station, to
force thru the allotment of wood to
all in need regardless of whether
they are married or single.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-15
Patterson Talks
To Cuban lid

New York-William L. Patterson,
national secretary of the Interna-
tional Labor Defense, returned here
last week from Havana, Cuba,
where he attended the convention
of the Defense Obrera Internacion-
al QLD).
In a speech to the convention,
which was held secretly because of
the extreme terror against working
lass organizations, by the Mendi-
eta government, Paterson pledged
the support of the LID of the U. S.
A., and of the militant workers and
intellectuals in America, to the fight
of the Cuban masses against Amer
Than imperialism in Cuba.
Resolutions demanding the free
dom or the Scottsboro boys, Tom
Mooney. Angelo Herndon, and other
class-war prisoners in the U. s,
were passed at the convention.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-15

matter, the resolution as signed by
the chairman of the local was read
to Mrs. Paige.
Advocates Thievery
The answer of Mrs. Paige to the
resolution was that any able bodied
single man could rustic his own
wood since he had plenty of time
and other single men were doing
So She cited the case of one man
who gladly wheeled a wheelbarrOw
a mile and a half to the beach
where he picked up wood and
wheeled it home. She admitted that
some single men obtained wood
but it was altogether a matter of
personal within with her as to who
was to be so favored and who was
not.
1t was called to her attention that
she was advocating trespassing and
stealing since how can a man liv-
ing in the heart of the city obtain
wood without willfully stealing 1t
from the property of someone. AZ
ter a heated criss-cross Of ques-
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-15
FaSciStS Influence
Stoves New Magazine

SEATTLE, June County Com
missioner John G. shuttle Off to
Buffalo" Stevenson is starting a
new magazine. Recently John held
radio contest, in which his great
unseen audience submitted titles for
this new journal of wide visianed
political and economic sagacity."
The titles selected for the maya
Zines nameplate afforded close OBJ
servers of political trends consid-
cradle material for speculation.
They wondered if Mr.. Stevenson
knew when he singled out "The
New America" from a list of 5000
Dthers that this was the name of
; rampantly Fascist organization in
the East.
They wondered If it was a coin
cident that Mr.. Stevenson's second
prize award went to gentleman
who submitted The Crusader" In
the East there is a magazine of that
title whose function is the disem-
alton of vile Nazi propaganda.
There is something singular about
the psychological makeup of Fascist
leaders that makes such names as
the above appealing to them. Stew
enson, the demagogue, will bear
watching when the Fascist band
wagon drives by.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-15
Prices Soar; Incomes
Remain At StandStill

Seattle, Wn. June Accompanying
the list OF groceries on the food
voucher OF March 20, 1888 with the
May 81, 1884, It was found that
prices on 10 items has increased
37.7 per cent.
In as much as there has been no
increase in vouchers, the Unem-
ployed Citizens League is circula-
ting petitions asking for an in
crease to at least S210 per person
per week with other adjustments
from time to time to meet the in
crease in prices.
Such staple commodities as
Apples and Onions have increased
100 per cent. Bread 60 per cent,
flour, rs per cent, bacon, AZ per
cent, fish so per cent, rice, 20 per
cent, beans IS per cent and prunes
80 per cent.
Anyone desiring petitions to sign
or circulate can get them at the
Unemployed Citizens League, Ia
Howard Bldg, according to Chuck