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The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-10-19
SHRINE DANCE
 DATES ARE SET

Formal announcement was made today of the dates for the dances to be given next month and in De- cember by the Southeast Alaska Shrine Club in the ballroom of the Scottish Rite Temple. The first dance of the season will be on November ?. The second dance will be November B and the De- cember dance on December 20. The affairs will be invitational, as usual.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-10-19
x Ss 9 ee HOSPITAL NOTES c {

Mrs. Dan Kirmse, who under went a major operation two weeks ago, plans to leave St. Ann's Hos pital for her home this evening.
 Mrs Emma White left the hes pital this morning following a minor operation.
 Hilda Greenwald underwent a lonsilectomy at the hospital this morning.
 Warren Wilson, who was severely bruised when he was hit by car ast week, left the hospital this morning,
 Mike Pusich left the hospital for ais home in Douglas after spend- ing the last week there recuperat- ing from a minor operation.
 James Calkins underwent m appendectomy this morning.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-10-19
CITY LEAGUE !. OF BASKETEERS
 IS ORGANIZED
A. B. Phillips to Handle Seasons s Circuit Five
 Teams Recognized

At the first meeting of the City Basketball League this year, held at the high school building last night, A. B. Phillips, superintend- ent of the City Schools, was unan- imously selected to handle the circuit for the 1934-35 season. Harold Regele was reelected as head referee.
 Five outfits were officially rec ognized as in the race at last nights session, including last years champions, George Brothers, and DeMolay Moose, Bremen, and a new team, Krauses Concreters. Two squads, the .Elks and Doug las Bremen, were mentioned, but not admitted at the meeting, pend ing the action of the two outfits this week.
 The opening game of the new year will be held about November 13, it was said. All squads will post a complete list of their play CTS not later than one week be- fore the opening date, with each team limited to eight players. This, it was ruled, will eliminate weaker teams, which have crippled gate receiuts in the past.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-10-19
SPECIAL--PERMANENTS

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Evening star., 1934-08-28
T WAS tops at the Pres

WAS tops at the EIeSlucut
press conference.
/ There must have been zoo
i writing men and women who
pushed politely into the oval
room at the White House TO hear
what Mr.. Roosevelt had to say before
leaving for Hyde Park, in his dearly
beloved but deeply Republican Dut-
chess County, N. Y.
They could hear what he had TO
say all right, but the crowd was so
great that it was dificult to catch q
glimpse Of him seated at the big table
in front of the windows, with q secret
service man standing at either side
of him, and the washington Monu-
ment standing in back Of him across
the park.
He's very tall, I'm no midget: but
the only time I saw anything Of him
was at the end Of the conference
when he called us back. Then he
punctuated his "wait minute" with
q wave Of his left hand, high in the
air. And I saw five long fingers
banded together with the black leather
strap of his wrist watch.
AS you stand there listening to this
President and looking at the Monu-
ment you agree that the wife Of his
predecessor was right when she said,
as she often did, that the Washington
Monument is the loveliest thing in
town.
Some of the boys smoke at pres
identidl conferences. Not many,
one or t,Uo cigarettes; one or ttDo
Evening star., 1934-08-28
Beck ground of the Textile Strike Threat;
Mills Adamant as Labor Demands Higher Pay
Opposing Views in Strike

Francis J. German, vice presi-
dent of the United Textile
Workers Of America and chair
man Of the Strike Committee:
while there was an increase
in employment Immediately
after adoption of the code, due
largely to desire TO rush pro-
duction for purposes Of unusual
profits, employment today Is
lower than it has been at any
time since adoption Of the
code.
"Of Sloan's figures: Unfortu-
nately Mr.. Sloan compared the
best month this year with the
worst month last year, which
destroys the value Of what he
had to say. Furthermore, he
talked in percentages, which
mean nothing. -" Average &C
tual weekly earnings per capita
in the cotton mill industry are
lower now than before N. r. A.,
according to evidence before US
in the form Of reports from Or
ganizers and local union off,
cials and in the form Of pay
envelopes, Of which we have a
collection covering q wide and
representative field. Added to
this, the average mill worker is
doing from s. per cent to 100
per cent more work than in
pre-code Days"
Evening star., 1934-08-28
WORKERS ACCEPT
LABOR BOARD BID
Textile Employers Silent,
However, on Farley
Thursday.
Continued From First Page.)

the conditions which that represent
ative convention laid down and we
would not If We could.
But we shall accept Chairman
Garrison's invitation, partly out Of
the very real respect which we have
for him and partly because We shall
never refuse to meet any sincere per-
son for q discussion Of our problems.
Relief Is Expected.
German expressed confidence that
the Labor Department would regard
the strike as warranted.
"There is every reason to believe
relief will be extended when and
where strikers need relief" he said.
The decision, however, is not ours to
make"
German was commenting upon
Hopkins statement yesterday that the
administration was underwriting no
strikes, but that persons unemployed
through strikes could be fed on q
basis of individual need If the Labor
Department or the National Labor Re-
lations Board says the strike is jusu-
fed.
German listed the demands Of the
union in a letter to Garrison today.
I'm the light of past experience with
employers and with the present
boards" German wrote, "it Is the
opinion of the Special Strike Commit
tee that adjustment must be made
along the following lines:
al. Establishment of a 30-hour
maximum work week consisting OF six
hours per day, five days per week, with
the same earning power that the work.
ers received under the 40-hour week.
Definitions and classifications Of oc-
cupations must be made and grad
uated minimum wage scales set up
according to skill of the worker.
Wages in different sections of the in
dustry must be made more uniform,
to stabilize competitive as well as labor
conditions.
Maximum Work Load.
"2. Establishment Of q maximum
work load for operations in various
divisions of the textile industry.
"3. Reinstatement Of all workers
victimized for union membership, in
violation Of section IA of the national
industrial recovery act.
"a. Recognition of the United Tex.
tile Workers of America as the bar
gaining agency of the workers in the
textile industry, and the signing Of an
agreement between the international
office of the United Textile Workers
of America and the various divisions
of the textile industry governing the
labor relationship between both
groups.
"5. The establishment Of an arbi-
tration tribunal mutually agreeable to
both parties to settle all disputes that
the parties are unable to adjust them
selves. The decision Of such arbitra-
ton board to be final and binding
upon both parties"
In addition to summoning 100000
cotton mill workers from their ma
chimes, the workers are seeking to
extend the walkout to 100000 silk,
rayon and wooden workers. The final
decision on this will be made Thurs
day by the unions executive council.
Evening star., 1934-08-28

George A. Sloan, president Of
the Cotton Textile Institute
and chairman Of the Cotton
Textile Code Authority:
"The strike would be a Ca
lamity to workers and public
There has been q pro-
nounced improvement in en-
ployment' under the code.
Work week reduced to o
maximum of 40 hours from an
average Of 81, with the result
that employment Is at its high
est peak since 1927.
Hourly wages up 10 per cent.
Industry has higher aver
age employment than any Of
large industries, Department Of
Labor estimating it at 99.5 per
cent of 1925 level.
PEAKS and valleys Of en-
ployment leveled, thus eliminate
ing extensive lay-offs.
This has meant q subStan-
tial increase in manufacturing
costs and Research and Plan
ming Division of N. r. A. found
after a comprehensive investi-
CATION last June that under ex-
isting conditions there is no
factual or statistical basis for
any increase in the cotton tex
tile wage rates"
Evening star., 1934-08-28
'iEW RIOTS FEARED
IN NIAGARA FALLS
1000 Join in Free-for-All After
Attack on Labor Defense
Meeting.
liy the Associated Press.

liy the Associated Press.
NIAGARA FALLS, N Y, August
:B.-Fear Of a new outbreak between
whites and Negroes kept police on
guard today after q night Of rioting.
More than 5000 joined In q free
1or-all battle last night, resulting in
serious injury to three persons and
minor hurts to many others. Intense
feeling after the fighting had been
ielbdued led to intermittent clashes
curing the night.
The trouble started when m at
Tempt was made to break UP meet
ing of the international Labor De-
tense, called to rally workers to the
defense Of Alphonso Davis, colored,
who had been arrested on charge Of
attacking o white girl. Several shots
we're fired, none taking effect, police
gaid.
Windows in stores and homes in
the district were smashed as the angry
crowd battled back and forth. Knives
flashed, clubs were brandished, stones
rocketed through the air.
The authorities said there has been
considerable bitter feeling between
whites and Negroes recently because
the latter were moving into the sec
ton around East Falls and Twenty
fourth street, largely populated by
PoliSh-Americans.
Walter Korpolinski,, IS, was in
Memorial Hospital in q critical con-
dition as O result Of knife wound in
the abdomen.
William Fisher, 20, colored, his al
legged asSailant, also was in the hos
pital with cuts and possible skull
fracture.
Joseph Buckford, 45, was in the
the brain.
Evening star., 1934-08-28
R|CHBERG REPORT
FLAYED BY Go. P.
While Farm Summary Be-
gins Fletcher Says Indus.
trial Picture Untrue.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Donald Richberg worked today on
o report Of the new deaFs dement's
to farmers, while the Republican camp
took pot shots at his summary Of the
industrial picture.
Attacking the first Richberg report
Of tremendous progress" under the
Roosevelt administration, Chairman
Henry r. Fletcher Of the Republican
National Committee said last night
that business actually lost ground un-
der the N. r. A. and the A. A. A.
Richberg, head Of the Presidents
Executive Council, reported to Mr..
Roosevelt Sunday night that 4,120, 900
workers were re-employed since Mr..
Roosevelt took Office and that indus
trial pay rolls increased from $685.
000, 900 to 1882, 100000.
Comparison Held Faulty.
Richberg compared with present con-
ditions with those Of the Spring and
early Summer of 1888, when the N.
r. A. and the A. A. A. were not eff
fective.
Comparing figures of today and Of
the time when the two agencies started
work, he said, shows that industrial
production has declined in all classi-
fications listed by the Department Of
Commerce except automobiles, This
includes coal, electric power, lumber,
petroleum and steel"
"The purchasing power of the farm
er's dollar in July, 1885," he said, was
represented by the index II, as against
only Sc in July, 1894.
JobIess Held Greater.
According to the American FEEDERS.
ton Of Labor's statistical department,
unemployment today is 3o0, 900 greater
than it was in October last year and
the total number of unemployed in
dustrial workers is In the neighbor-
hood of 100000"
He said rapid recovery slowed up
when the "deadening effect of the
so-called recovery measures began to
take effect" last August. Strike fig
ures, he asserted, were "conspicuously
absent" from Richberg'S report.
Richberg plans a series OF reports
to the President on various activities.
His summary Of the effect Of the new
deal on the farms is expected to be
completed tomorrow.
Evening star., 1934-08-28

England, who was sweeping in New
England mill for $4Sa week when he
was a boy Of 13, smiles wryly and
shrugs his shoulders expressively.
"where are you going to get money!"
he asks in reply. "If you gave these
people 81 a week, that would mean
$4,000 000." Then, well, we've al
ways taken care of our people"
Some help in this direction might
come from the Federal Government,
II the Department of Labor finds the
strike justified. Then, too, the Amer
lean Federation Of Labor has pledged
its support.
Sloan says the strike threat is Gin
tolerable" and calls for the Govern
ment to stand behind the code, de-
claring in this issue, mot only the
fate of N. r. A, but ultimate recovery
itself" Is involved.
Evening star., 1934-08-28

clothes, appropriate, doubtless, to his
mission in life.
Ancestral Aleran ndrid, jnst
across the riuer from Washington,
tUas In high excitement the other
day. The real estate run1or-the
Elliott Rooserelts trere to come out,
shopping for house. More i'm
portayt. Elliotts mother sUds -
come along, to help the Presidents
son find d,Dellino. Scouts scuTry-
ING through the streets looked for
the famous blue roadster. In vdin.
At the moment, Mrs. Roosevelt wa:
in q motor boat, stalled, on q New
York lake. And her car isn't blue
She's traded that in. She now drives
q beige colored car.
(copyright. 1894 by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, 1ncD
Evening star., 1934-08-28

cigars. That's something the tUise
reporter doesn't do at a Borah
conference. The senior Senator
from Idaho doesn't object to the
smoking, but to the smoke. 1t
makes him choke. Not that he'd
euer ask a smoker to stop.
Sometimes at q Senate committee
hearing, where you can usually cut
the blue haze with q knife. q col
league, eager to get in the good
graces of the man from Boise, will
tip of the smokers that Senator
Borah doesn't like It," Which doesn't
please Borah too much. Senator Wal
lace White Of Maine did it a lot last
session.
Formality Stuffed Of.
With the President established at
his Summer home, the officials Of the
Nation will find their way there. They
might as we'll travel light. One does
not dress for dinner at Hyde Park.
One hot day last Summer, Secretary
of State Hull, Just of the boat from
the London conference, journeyed to
Hyde Park to report to the boss,
Found the boss seated on the sloping
grass by the edge Of the pool over at
"the cottage" a mile or two from the
"big house"
The President nodded greetings;
waved his Secretary of State to q seat
on an adjacent slope. Dignifled
Judge" Hull looked dubious; acted
docile; lowered his long legs to the
grass; began his conversation.
Dressing for Fish.
The sickest man in town is that
dapper youth who wanted job;
Evening star., 1934-08-28
M.I.T. SCHOLARSHIP WON
BY WESTERN GRADUATE
Joseph II. Klaber Gets Annual
Award and Will Enter Col
1ege Next Year.

Joseph H. Klaber of 3414 Porter
street, 90 graduate Of Western High
School, has been awarded the District
of Columbia regional scholarship of
the Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology, it was announced today by
the institute.
The scholarship, which is awarded
annually by Washington alumni Of the
school to q local outstanding student,
provides q years tuition at the in
stitute. Klaber will enter the school
next month.
Proctor L. Dougherty Is chairman
of the committee Of alumni which
made the award.
Evening star., 1934-08-28
N. r. 4. Seeks Ban
On Fireworks of
Damaging Po,cer
Asks Elimination Of Ger.
tain Elements, Noise
Not Barred.

BY the Associated Press.
N. r. A. sought today to eliminate
dangerous. firecrackers in a proposed
agreement with manufacturers in
which the sale of fireworks contain
ing magnesium or aluminium will be
barred. Serious misfortunes and cas-
ualties have attended patriotic dem
onstrations in the past, it Is revealed.
There will be plenty Of sound in
the American hrecrackers hereafter"
the N. r. A. says, but the likelihood
of serious consequences from Its use
will be largely eliminated"
Evening star., 1934-08-28

between skilled and unskilled workers,
but this was stricken out. Labor also
sought representation on the code au-
thority, but this was denied, accord
ing to the union chief, who amplifles
that the nearest approach to obtain
ing this was in the appointment OF
Abraham Binns of the Textile Union
as an adviser to Gen. johnson.
Then there was the "stretch-out." "
20 called, or work load required Of an
individual worker. The Cotton Tex
tile National Industrial Relations
Board, headed by Robert w. Bruere,
was created, with labor representa-
ton, to deal with this issue, but the
labor member-C. M. Fox-only re-
Gently has been appointed. and
nothing has been done.
German says that "scientinc stud
les" are available to the board on this
matter; that the work piled on the
men and women in the mills Is max
ing physical and mental wrecks OF
them. and that cit is an attempt on
the part of the employers to even up
their costs" Labor's solution, op-
viously, is that workers now walking
the streets should be employed.
To this, Sloan responds: The task
load. or so-called 'stretchout Is no
more than in the average industry,
and much less than in many mechan-
ized industries" There have peen I'M
provementS in machine devices ana
technique, he adds, which enable an
employe to handle an increased num-
ber of operations or machines with no
greater demand for physical and ner-
vous effort, and in many instances,
less
Actually. he contends, the tech
nological improvements would permit
employment Of fewer workers.
Confidence Lacking.
This is o sore spot that ranks, In
the opinion Of labor, along with wages
and hours, and when the Industrial
Relations Board offered to step into
the strike negotiations, German blunt
" wrote Bruere that -uur experience
in cooperation Of the board thus
far gives us no confidence in its ability
to adjust the issues now at stake In
fairness to labor"
Union membership, Of course, also
enters.
I'VE have thousands Of cases ir
which our people have been discrimi.
mated against because of union mem
bership," German says. -
The textile industry has without
reservation" accepted the collective
bargaining clause of the recovery act
as fundamental" Sloan responds.
That's the way it goes through
out, charges, denials; claims, counter
claims.
Silent on Financing.
what about financing the striker
German is asked.
The 44-year-old Irishman, born II
Evening star., 1934-08-28
HOPKINS DENIES
STRIKE AID PLEDGE
Labor Officials Ruling Walk.
out Is Uniustified Would
Stop Help.
nv thu Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
Harry L. Hopkins, relief admins
traitor, yesterday expressed resent
naent" at what he termed an "implica-
ton" that he had agreed to take care
Of anyone who walks out in the threat
ened textile strike.
Relief oficials, he said, have stand
ing orders to take care of strikers like
anyon, else, on the basis of need, un-
less the Labor Department or the
Labor Relations Board decides their
strike is unjustified
Hop Iins added, however, that no
strike in the past had been so classi-
fed.
TITS surprising thing to me we
haven;'s had a damned sight more
strikes than we have" he commented.
Mattress Controversy.
Rep ,rters summoned to his ONCE
for tie first press conference since
Hopki is came back from Europe
touchtd d off the blast with this ques-
ton:
What do you think about Gov.
White Of Ohio blocking the plan to
have relief workers make mattresses
for the unemployed"
Hor hins said he didn't give q
damn whether Gov. White made
mattr Uses or not.
The Government recently bought
enoug cotton and cloth to keep 35.-
900 women in relief workshops busy
makir g. mattresses for the needy job
less. The program was stopped in
Ohio after protests from mattress
manu- acturers.
Others to Cooperate.
Many other States were eager to
cooperate, Hopkins continued.
"W1aat does Gov. White know about
making mattresses?" he grinned.
''Notodys going to make him sit up
nigh,G making mattresses II he doesn't
want to-"
He asked casually:
Didn't he run for something?"
Gov. White was beaten recently for
the Democratic senatorial nomination
In Ohio.
Hopkins said the mattress making
In relief workshops would take away
TO business now enjoyed by regular
me nlfacturers. The relief products
are TO be distributed in addition to
ordinary aid, he explained.
Work Increase Seen.
lie said he expected q steady In
crea ase in work relief in various States,
but did not believe 1t would reach the
prt portions attained by civil works
las Winter.
The relief administrator fixed the
number Of persons now on relief rolls
at approximately $4,000, 600, which he
agreed was about the same number
being helped this time last year.
What we're up against" he as
serted, "is the phenomenon of more
people being back at work, but the
relief rolls remaining high. This
isn't due rs much to the drought
as 1t Is to the fact that the longer
the depression lasts the more femi-
lies 20 on relief because of exhausted
resources"
lie said European countries which
lie visited appeared to be recovering
TO faster than the United States.
Evening star., 1934-08-28
Griffith Night at Carnival.

Tonight will be Griffith night at the
carnival sponsored by the Holy Name
Church, Eleventh and K streets
northeast. Several members Of the
Washington base ball club are ex-
pected to be present at tonight's en-
tertainment to Judge the pie-eating
contest. The carnival opens at 2 pm.
and the pie-eating contest will be held
at 10 pm. ..e-+ -a-.
Evening star., 1934-08-28
Trade Executives to Meet

Members Of the American Trade
Association Executives will hold their
convention at the Shoreham Hotel
here September 20 through %, the
Greater National Capital Committee
Of the Washington Board Of Trade
has announced. About 200 are ex-
pected to attend. The meeting pre-
viously was scheduled for Werners-
Vile. Pa.
Evening star., 1934-08-28
ASSAULTS FIANCEE
Man Gets go Days for Backing
Girls Eve.

Robert Mundt, %, of the 1900 block
G street was sentenced to so days in
jail by Police Judge Gus A. Schuldt
today on q charge Of assaulting Miss
Mildred Lunsford, %, of the 400 block
Ninth street southwest, whom Mundt
described as his fiancee.
Mundt told the Judge that, In a
drunken frenzy because she refused
to see him, he had broken down the
door to her room. The girl received a
black eye In the encounter.
Evening star., 1934-08-28
In Capital Letters
President Easy to Hear, Hard to See at
Last Press Conference-Few
Reporters Smoke.

finally got one over at the Bureau Of
Fisheries. Then they told him his
duties. To care for the sick fish.
When last seen, he said no fish had
been sick. But you never can be quite
sure. Saddest feature Of the job is
that they make him dress In old
Evening star., 1934-08-28
STEAL MARKED MONEY
Burglars Rob Store of Samuel
Kaufman.

Burglars who robbed the store OF
Samuel Kaufman, 1887 Fourth street
northeast, Of between $50 and $40
over the week end stole some marked
money, but the marking is so obvi-
Gus police believe it will not aid in
catching them.
A 81 bill in the loot, police said,
has "E. Kaufman, November Is,
1881" written across it. The bill Is
q souvenir Of the first sale made in
the store.
Evening star., 1934-08-28

Flood Virtually Wipes Out Town.
PANAMA, August 81 (P).--The town
of Miramar, in Chiriqui Province, was
virtually wiped out by the flooded
Rabo Puerco River and high tides
this week end. No loss Of life was
reported. % e9i