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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-12-29
hi PROBE
b LOBBYING
Ise testimony and Lnek
Eicisncy Are Chs
Against FOulOA sssIs
IN HIGH UNNAMED
|OFFICERS INV0ENED

,SHINCTON, Dec. %. (UP).
ina! report of the house
H. affairs committee bristl-
ritb broad charges against
Eving activities on the part of
rsct negotiators.
F.ese involved two high I'M
"a army officers, and charged
Major General Benjamin
lbs. chief of the air corps,
Inefficient and mad testified
vas said the condition OF
rs Of money for advance In
rarOn was deplorable.'
,1eral District Attorney Les
arnett said he will present
0nm!tree's evidence to the
b jury.
sretary of War George Dern
ordered a full inquiry into
conduct of several high rank
army officers. two of whom
suspected of having accepted
Is or gifts from lobbyists, the
ke military affairs committee
osed.
ke committee, which last June
landed the removal of Major
teral Benjamin D. FouloiS,
b Of the army air corps. after
pleting the first stage of an
estigatiOn of war department.
chasing methods, said Foulois'
had been turned over to the
IS Inspector general.
his the committee said in its
report last night, ''is the
b step preliminary to placing
a matter before a military
hal
aiOis wsS not one of cat
two of the ranking army
ssrs mentioned in the report
being under suspicion of &C
ing brides or gifts from lob
IS Interested in war depart
contracts.
be suspected officers were not
tOned by name. But through
lengthy report there ran a
-ed description of lobbying
ntes which the committee
tended to bring the "com-
government procurement
en into disreputes."
Fernment business, the re-
asserted, has too often been
st on Gin hotel rooms, lob
and private homes of gov
fs1t officers and lobbyists"
ssplng recommendations for
Aaon TO prevent favoritism
L department. contract meth
we're recommended in the in
OF national defense.
charge was made that one
ranking officer deliberately
N a secret document after
ing It to a dealer interested
war department contract.
1er unnamed officer was ac-
Of comforting with a fugi-
Nom justice in an alleged eff
% prevent details of a six
rs note for $500 from be-
nyealed.
the "ineffieiency" case of
committee against Foulois.
committee repeated its charg-
Eade in a preliminary report
nonthS ago. The findings of
.Smmlttee at that time were
foulOis testified falsely" be-
me investigating group, and
Fully and deliberately violat-
4stlng law in the purchase
appliances and aircraft ma
m had refused to act in the
rvs matter until December
"nen ne conferred secretly
| the committee. General
gas Macarthur, chief OF staff
ASSISTANT Secretarv of War
Woodring were present.
same day the committee
Uern Issued an order to the
c'or general of the army to
re promptly a searching and
Aete investigation into the
concerning Major General
us and to make to the secre-
: tu.l report at the earliest
aeabIe date"
committee said that in its
S~gauon into motor vehicle
surplus property matters il
uncovered a "deplorable con.
\. prejudicial to national de.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-12-29
ELSA SITTELL
IS SPIRITED TO
SECRET PRISON
Palatinate Police Vague in
Reasons Say Remarks on
Hitler Insulting"
LEFT PARIS TO FIND
PARENTS in GERMANY

WALDMOHR, Germany, Dec.
29.-(UP).-Elsa Sittell, Of New
York, was in solitary imprison-
ment here today, charged with
slandering Adolf Hitler.
1t seemed improbable that she
could be released to await trial
next Wednesday.
1t is understood that c. A. Ma
kinson, American consul general,
is trying to see her. She has had
no visitors since her arrest Mon
day.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-12-29

WORKED FOR FRENCH
LAWYER WHILE IN PARIS
Since her arrival in France re-
Gently, Miss Sittell had worked for
the French lawyer, Count Rene de
CONTINUED on page thrsel. !.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-12-29
WEATHER

p-,Lsble showers tonight and
J,y: little change intempera-
lure.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-12-29
GOOD AFTERNOON

The Washington monument
sways as much As two inches in
hiehwind. And that's when Con-
gress isn't in session, also.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1934-08-03
Cattle Slaughter Is First u. S. Move in Montana
Toward Industrializiing State; Stock to Aid Needy

| isfactorv to all concerned according tt
NJ Walton. At first it was believed
that if would be necessary to bring
in MANY expert butchers and packing
house men from the East in order tc
s,,neryise the work Of h FERA
n~ovices. It has 0 been determined
hat this will not be necessary. The
sunervision is being done by regular
pmn,oycs of the Hansen plant who have
/ been loaned to the government Tor the
purpose. Approximately 81 OF tne han
| sen company's regular employes are
supervising the work OF the FEHA en-
ployes.
Some idea Of the tremendous opera
tion which is taking place at the Ian
sen plant under government supervision
NAV be gained from the fact hat al
ready 25O,OO 0 head Of cattle have been
hooked by stockncn in the drouth areas
of eastern Montana for sale to the gov
eminent. In normal years TINS state
ships to market between 3oO'ooo ana
400 1000 head of beef cattle.
The cattle are brought by the Agri-
cultural Adjustment Administration
from the farmers and then are turned
over to the Surplus Commodities divi-
sion of the FERA and shipped to the
governments bureau Of animal industry
inspection located at the Hansen plant.
All animals purchased by the govern
ment are given a most rigid lnSpectlon
before they are accepted at the plant.
Cattle which do not pass the inspection
are killed and otherwise disposed OF.
The inspection is even more rigid than
the government las been accustomed
to make Of the operations i II commercial
plants. The force of inspectors at the
Hansen plant has been tripled.
Authorization of the plan was receiv-
ed from Washington on Saturday night,
July 7. On Monday morning the work
was fully organized and 500 head Of
cattle had been put through the plant.
During the week shipment Of supplies
to every relief agency In Montana was
begun. When these agencies all are
supplied, canned and packed meats,
soups, ETC., as well as fresh meats, will
be shipped to relief agencies in adjoin-
ing states.
The whole plans Of the government
for Montana and the operations in
Butte We're summoned up by MI. Wal
ton as follows:
In the first place the Federal Sur
plus Relief corporation went into op-
to guarantee adequate food
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1934-08-03

The first step in a mammoth and
fundamental effort to industrialize
Montana and other western raw
product" states has been taken by the
federal government in the livestock
industry. That step which may
mean an entirely new place in the
economic scheme for this state is
evidenced by a contract just signed
by the Montana Relief commission
with authority from the Federal Sur
plus Relief corporation on behalf OF
the government and Walter Hansen
representing the Hansen Packing
company of Butte.
The slaughter at Butte of vast num-
bers of cattle from the drought area to
the east and the packing OF the meat
has a three-fOld significance:
l. 1t will provide adequate funda-
mental meat food supplies for the great
number of people who are depend
ent upon government relief or may be
so dependent next winter.
2. It is a quick, adequate and sub
stantial form of assistance for the live
stock industry that has been struck a
blow by the drouth, because all
animals being slaughtered under the
government contracts are bought from
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1934-08-03

farmers in the drouth stricken area
where water is scarce and feed is i'm
possible to get.
3. It is the first development of a
broad government plan to industrial
ize" the western states so that they
may process, manufacture finish
their own raw commodities. 1t IS eH-
pected this program ultimately WILL de-
velop to embrace all or nearly all OF
the raw commodities which this region
produces and which it ships to the east
where professors and manufacturers
derive the principal profits.
With this three-fold purpose in view
John M. Carmody, chief engineer OF
the Federal Surplus Relief corporation
has entered into contract with the Han
sen packing company for the use OF Its
plant for the preparation and pack
ing Of the meat that is to be distributed
in Montana and adjoining states among
the recipients Of federal relief.
F. H. Walton, internationally known
as a packing house engineer n indus
trial inspector for the Federal Surplus
Relief corporation, came to Butte as
assistant to Mr.. Carmody to put the
governments plan of packing distress
beef from the drought areas into effect.
A large part of the credit for the
excellent results which already are ap-
parent is given to Walter Hansen who
is said by the federal men to have been
guided by philanthropic ideals as well
as business acumen and has left no
stone unturned to make this initial en-
deavor of having FERA workers pack
the meat that is to be distributed as
part of relief.
Only relief workers are engaged in
this great government undertaking.
Recently 721 FERA men and women
were on the daily work rolls at the Han
sen plant. Every n of them is from
Silver Bow county. 1t is expected that
at the peak Of this work the number
of employees may reach 1000. They
work five hours per day, six days a
week. The minimum wage is 60 cents
per hour, but already many of the
young men who had no knowledge of
the butchering and packing business
have shown such intelligence and were
so quick to get the knack of the work
they have been advanced to ap-
butchers pay Of 72E cents an
hour.
The governments packing operation
has been in effect for over two weeks
and labor conditions are eminently sat-
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1934-08-03
ACREAGE IS
:. DOWN II Pic
IL PRINCIPAL CROPS COVERING
5,676,000 ACRES, SAYS FEDERAL
REPORT

The total acreage of IL principal
crops in Montana remaining for har-
vest on July l was estimated at S.
$4,000 acres, or 17.6 percent below
that Of a year ago.. This was dis
closed In a crop report released by
J. G.. Diamond, federal agricultural
statistician.
Drouth losses in eastern Montana
and reluctance on the part of farmers
IN other areas to plant full acreages in
the face of dry weather and threaten
ed grasshcpper damage were largely
responsible for the decrease, the report
said.
A line drawn from Glasgow to Bill
ings would roughly define the drouth-
section as that portion east Of
the line. In that section further rain
fall, the report said, could be of little
benefit except to increase water sup
plies.
Dry weather in the first two weeks
of July, Diamond found, added to the
distress of livestock and the loss of
crops in eastern Montana. The general
outlook west of the Glasgow-Billings
line is fair to good.
The spring grain crops, together with
flaxseed, were reported the poorest, av-
eraging less than so percent of normal.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1934-08-03

A fossil of a reptile having a third
periscopic eye several inches above its
head was found recently in the Orange
Free State.
Montana labor news., 1934-04-19
VICTIMS OF USURY

Startling revelations of the %victimizing Of poor
people by small loan companies came to the sur
face in the hearing held by the District Of Column
bia Committee Of the United States Senate in
Washington on the usury bill sponsored by Sen
ator King of Utah.
William A. Roberts, corporation counsel for
the District, advocated fixing the legal rate OF in
terest at eight per cent per annum with authori-
cation for additional charges, strictly limited by
law, for investigation, commissions and other
things, the borrower being further protected by
the provision that even these charges must be
reasonable with the burden of proof on the lend
er. Agents of the small loan companies demanded
a much higher rate than that approved by the
Districts counsel.
In the course Of the hearing an attorney rep
resenting certain victims of usurious lenders gave
a number of cases of borrowers who were penal
lied by monstrous charges when compelled by
circumstances to default.
He cited a case Of a railroad fireman who had
borrowed SIS, signing a note for 80, OF which
SIS was due in five days and SIS due in 20
days. Immediately he defaulted he was sued
in the name of a woman to whom his note was
said to have been sold and he ultimately had to
pay $3.50. A loan of SIS cost another borrower
500, he said. A newspaper employee borrowed
500 on his automobile for eight months, but
missed a payment. His car was "snatched' and
he had to pay $154 a month after he had Dor
rowed.
Another witness testified that a wall Street
combination owns most of the small loan COM
panies, and that the banks are financing these
companies in the drive for higher interest rates.
1t is a fundamental criticism of our money
loaning system that the poor, who are least able
to pay usurious rates for loans to tide them over
periods OF necessity, are the very ones who are
mulcted by the highest charges. In this age Of
subsidies for air mail contractors and ocean mail
contractors and banks and railroads il might not
be bad plan to consider the advisability of sub
sidizing interest rates charged the poor.
Montana labor news., 1934-04-19

to secure prosperity for the masses OF the peo-
pie, is the underlying purpose of the New Deal.
1t is the underlying purpose OF the National In
dustrial Recovery Act. Moreover, it is in thor
ough accord with the Constitution OF the United
States, which confers upon Congress the power
ito promote the general welfare"
OF course using the Constitution and the power
of Congress to promote the interests of the mass
es of the people arouses the opposition Of those
subversive groups who have hitherto used the
Government to advance the interests of the prof
iteers. 1t is quite natural that they should see in
economic planning for the public interest a direct
assault on the form OF Government as they and
their courts have shaped it. But real economic
planning for the. welfare of the people, instead of
oyerthrowing the form of Government outlined
in the Constitution, will make it the servant of
the people, and that is what it should be.
Montana labor news., 1934-04-19
Sues Daily Worker Writer
Over Labor Spy Charge

NEW YORK-(FP)-Charges of
criminal libel have been filed against
Harry Raymond, staff writer for the
New York Daily Worker, by George
Williams, described by the daily in a
signed news story on the taxi strike as
being a lieutenant of the Sherwood
Detective Agency and as supplying
strikebreakers to the Parmelee Co.
Summoned to court, Raymond obtain
ed a weeks postponement.
He is being defended by the init.
Labor Defense, which declares it will
s~ubstantiate all details in Raymond's
story, which charged among other
things that Williams Supplied forg-
ed documents to the Hearst papers
with which Hearst tried several years
ago to prove that the Communist
Party was linked with the Gales adj
ministration in Mexico in a vague
and ridiculous plot to overthrow the
U. S. government"
Montana labor news., 1934-04-19
ECONOMIC
LESSON FOR
CUT RATERS

(By W. L. SNYDER, of Butte Bar
bers' Union. Chairman, Montana
Joint Legislative Committee.)
In~disposed as we have been to view
the matter in serious light, it is not
now possible, in the face of frequent
reports transmitted to us, to comfort
ourselves any longer with the hope
that conditions in the cut-rate barber
shops of u city and all others are
not fully as grave as they have been
represented. 1t would be hardly prop
er or seemly to attempt to misinter-
pref the motives of the BARRIERS or
ganization in demanding cleanliness
and complete sanitary precautions in
all barber shops. The BARRIERS Sc
cured the enactment of the laws, and
they are measures that will serve the
public health and benefit. If the law
should operate to close some shops
that do not comply with its terms,
that would be a real public service
above everything else.
A committee composed of out-of-
town residents has recently been ac-
lively engaged in gathering data re-
lating to the sanitary conditions and
practices actually carried on in some
of u cutrate barber shops here in
Butte. For obvious reasons the names
of these committeeman were not
made known to any Of US. We are
not positive who is responsible for
this committee, or to whom they are
responsible. The opinion Of close OBJ
servers seems to be that the State
Board of Barber Examiners, acting
in conjunction with the State Board
of Health, has placed this committee
in the field. So far as we know, this
is purely a matter of conjecture. A
partial report of their findings was
rendered US by mail. After careful
consideration and deliberation it oc-
CURED to us that a brief recital of
their findings might be of general in
terest. Space will not permit repro
duction Of the entire report, there
fore we have chosen the most inter-
esting and outstanding case (this is
only one Of many for example.
What One Shop Disclosed.
The report states:
"We stepped into a barber shop and
Montana labor news., 1934-04-19
DR.. WIRT'S BRAINSTORM

DR.. William A. Writ, Gary, Ind, educator, got
into the limelight of publicity by claiming that
he had discovered a plot on the part Of certain
government officials and others to overthrow the
form of government or social order OF the United
States. In his statement before the special nm
mittee of the House OF Representatives appointed
to investigate the charge, DR.. Writ revealed that
the plot consisted OF the advocacy of national
economic planning, and that the main "plotter"
was Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Tugwell,
who for some time has sponsored economic plan
ming as a means to restore prosperity to the farm
ers in particular and to the people generally.
Economic planning in itself is not new. The
new element is the purpose of economic planning.
In the past, and to a large extent in the present,
economic planning" has been the monopoly of
capitalists, bankers and large investors with un-
limited profits for those who own and control in
dustry as its sole object. The logical result of
this planning was the depression which began
in 1929 and which produced an unemployed army
running from $4,000 in January, 1880, to 49,
$4,000 in March, 1888, and now standing at about
100000. In addition, the old planning" ruin
ed thousands of banks, millions of farmers, and
threw our entire economic and social order to the
verge Of chaos.
The new economic planning is designed to use
our immense capacities for the production of
wealth for the real benefit Of the people, who do
most OF the useful work in both production and
distribution.
The Executive Council of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor has properly visioned this idea.
In a report to the annual convention of the Fed
Grafton, after stating that the Fundamental diff
ficulty" with our economic system is the lack OF
equal sharing in those things which make up the
welfare of our people, the Council said:
with co-ordinated planning we may en-
deavor to make the things people want, as
sure distribution by planning for adequate
consuming power, thereby making it pos
sihle for all to enjoy the benefits of social
progress"
Economic planning, national in scope, designed
Montana labor news., 1934-04-19
MINERS co ON
D DAY

SPRINGFIELD, Hl.-(FP) - In
stead Of 8 hours works in the mine,
Illinois coal diggers, with some siz-
able exceptions, will have z hours
plus the time it takes to get down,
reach the coal face, and come up again.
This was agreed to by the big Operat-
ors and most of the small ones after
the national coal code had been al
tered by Washington but the question
will be reopened there next week.
Illinois miners under the 8-hour day
made an average wage Of $19.63 a
week during February. Payrolls were
down to 50 per cent of the 1925-27
monthly average, though employment
vas up to 80.7, according to the state
department of labor.
Montana labor news., 1934-04-19

found one man working on the second
chair. We inquired for the proprietor
of the shop, and the barber told us
the proprietor was sick. We pro-
ceeded with our work of inspecting
the shop, and picked up a hair brush
that was positively filthy. The
brush was matted and gummed to the
very end of the bristles, with the
scurf, grease and loose hair from
hundreds of dirty scalps. 1t was
positively a travesty on the ideals of
cleanliness and sanitation that have
been developed in recent years by the
barber profession. We stepped back
to the rear room of the shop, with the
intention of tossing the hair brush in
the trash can, and we discovered a
long line strewn with used face towels
and steamers. After cross-examining
the nan at the chair we succeeded in
getting him to admit that these tow
els were dried in this n each
day, and used over and over again
without being relaundered.
Further questioning revealed to us
that he was altogether ignorant of
the fact that the use of a steam towel
on more than one patron without be-
ing sterilized was extremely danger
Gus in the spreading of contagious
and dread diseases. Realizing that
he had little or no training relative to
sterilization or sanitation, it was ex-
planned to him that the application of
a hot towel to more than one face
without sterilization was jeopardizing
the health of each succeeding patron,
by reason of the fact that the same
portion of that towel envelopes the
mouth and nostrils of all patrons who
happen to be victims of this filthy
practice. 1t was made clear to him
that the hazard of more than one
person breathing or sneezing through
the towel could not be over-empha-
sized.
The Reasons for Lack of Patronage.
HE complained to us Of lack of pat
ronage, after which we promptly in
formed him that the conditions under
which he operated his establishment
were such as to cause the average
person to avoid it rather than con
slider a return visit, even though his
prices were a few cents below those
charged by progressive BARRIERS.
The committee further alleges in its
report that he bitterly assailed it's pro-
gram On sanitation, and became in
censed when reprimanded for his ne
glect in not installing sterilizers equip
ped with antiseptic solutions, etc. The
Montana labor news., 1934-04-19

NEW YORK-(FP)-The boycott
of German goods is complete among
New York City's large department
stores. Mays and Wanamaker's,
two of the last to act, have decided
not to buy German goods.
lost heavily. One cannot run counter
to decency and honor and survive for
a great period of time.
Montana labor news., 1934-04-19
CAMDEN HIT BY
THREE STRIKES

CAMDEN, N. J.-(FP)-Camden,
industrial center in central New Jer-
sey, is the scene of three major
strikes. despite Sec. Perkins state
ment that there isn't a first class
strike in the country" Three of her
biggest industries seem hopelessly
deadlocked in the worst strike in the
city's history.
The New York Shipbuilding Corp,
holding S43,OO0,0OO worth of var
ship contracts, is completely tied up
by the strike of the Industrial union
of Marine & Shipbuilding Workers,
Camden Local No. 1. The union has
most of the 1920 workers in its ranks.
Buoyed by the election of Gene Tun-
ney, ex-champ, to its board, the COM
pany fights on. Strikers flatly re-
fused a 6 per cent pay boost when the
company barred union recognition;
they demand a 35 per cent pay in
crease.
Strikers at the Campbell Soup Co.
are fighting with local courts for the
right to picket. Company officials, in
a 50-page affidavit, demanded that the
workers be restrained and said that
if they weren't it would be necessary
ito maintain the factory in a condition
of armed defense" They are securing
gun permits for strikebreakers. Five
men have been jailed, charged with
beating a s~trikebreaker so badly he
may die. A temporary injunction has
been refused.
The third Camden strike is among
600 employees of the Radio Condenser
Co., who are demanding a wage in
crease from BE to SOC an hour.