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Evening star., 1935-03-17
FOREST FIRE IN CITY
BATTLED TWO HOURS
Two Vacant Houses in Northeast
Saved by Nos. 26 and II
Engine Companies.

A miniature forest fire ragged for
more than two hours in Northeast
Washington last night before firemen
brought it under control.
The blaze, which was confined to
o vacant tract near Seventeenth and
Adams streets, was noticed shortly
after 6 o'clock. Police said the fire
presumably resulted from sparks from
an engine passing on the Baltimore
& Ohio tracks nearby.
Nos. rs and II Engine Companies
laid about $500 feet of hose and
poured water on the woods until
after o'clock before the flames
subsided.
Two unoccupied frame houses at
the fringe of the woods were endan-
gered for a while but were saved when
firemen soaked them with water.
Evening star., 1935-03-17
PARENTS OF II AIR ROW

A father and mother who have IA
children living and three dead, faced
each other in Police Court yesterday
when the mother charged that the
father had threatened her life. The
defendant, Charles I. Beck, was sent
to Gallinger Hospital for mental OBJ
servation at the request of Mrs. Beck.
The couple lives in the 1900 block
of Wisconsin avenue. Judge Isaac
r. Hit expressed amazement that
couple could have been married for
so many years and have so many chill
dren and then appear in court to
air family difficulties. He continued
the case until March %.
Evening star., 1935-03-17
PLAY MARKS FESTIVAL
Ohev Sholom Congregation to
Celebrate Today.

Ohev Sholom Congregation will
mark the Purim Festival today at
$50 pm, when a play entitled "a
Sick Purin" is presented by Sunday
school members in the Congregation
Temple, Fifth and I streets.
The performance will be given
under the direction of Miss Shirley
D. Voronoff, principal Of the Sunday
school. The public is invited to at
tend.
Next Sunday at pm, a Seeyom
Seyfer Torah celebration will take
place at the Congregation.
Evening star., 1935-03-17
Man Burns, Wife Away.

HANFORD, Calf, March 16 (P.-
Firemen, searching the ruins of a
house burned early today, found the
charred body of Sherman H. Myers.
80, State work relief wood chopper and
former clerk. His wife, Lee, had spent
the night with friends.
Evening star., 1935-03-17
TEACHES SINGING
special Dispatch to The Star.

SpecIaI DlSpdCCn 70 the oIhE.
LEONARDTOWN, Md. March l6.
Miss Anne Mae Boyd of this village
has been appointed by the F. e. r. A:
Committee here to teach singing. and
she is now instructing the members
of the rural women's clubs. They will
present a program at the tri-county
meet on May 8 at st. Marys City.
Evening star., 1935-03-17

This is the first Of series of att
cies on urgent building requirements
Of District schools The Board Of Edu-
cation has submitted a list Of these
projects TO the District Commissioners
in the hope that they may be included
in the neU public tUorkS program.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-11-01
PWA Contractor Guilty
OF Falsifying Payroll

Boston (ILNS) Nicholas J. Civil
taresse, Of Boston, recently pleaded
guilty in the federal district court
here to making false payrolls on a
PWA project in Medford, Mass. Ciyi-
taresse was charged with working his
employees 48 hours a week instead Of
the stipulated 30 hours, and thus
avoided the engaging of additional
workers. He accomplished this by
falsifying the payrolls, according to
counsel for the federal authorities.
Cicitaresse is head of the Hyde
Park Construction Company, which
was awarded drainage contract at
Medford for $30,737 last winter under
the PWA. Several months ago, in
vestigators for the PWA had the con-
tractor indicted by the federal
grand jury. He was placed on proba-
ton for one year by Judge George G.
Sweeney, after the guilty plea had
been entered, the original plea having
been not guilty.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-11-01
Wagner Act Violation
Charged to Ship Line

Washington, D. c. (ILNs)-A COM
plant of the National Labor Relations
Board against the United Fruit Com
pany has been issued in New York
city by the regional director for the
second district. The company is
charged with violation Of the Wagner
act by discharging three banana han
dlers who joined the International
Longshoremen's Association.
The complaint charged the COM
pany with unfair labor practices
within the meaning of Section B of
the labor relations act.
The complaint was the second is
sued by the board since its creation.
The first charged the Pennsylvania
Greyhound Bus lines with the dismis-
sal of employees in vioaltion Of the act.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-11-01
Memphis Cosmetic Work
ers' Union Wins Higher
Pay, Shorter Hours
Right of Collective Bargaining Also Recognized in
Agreement Ending Strike of Plough lnc, Girl
Employees

Memphis, Tenn. (ILNS)-An annie
able settlement of the strike of girl
workers at the Memphis plant of
Plough, Inc, has been reached.
An agreement ending the Today
strike has been signed by representa-
tives of the company and the Cosmetic
Workers Union No. 20047, affiliated
with the American Federation of
Labor.
Operations in the plant have been
resumed.
Settlement of the strike auto
matically removes Plough products
from organized labor's eve Don't
Patronize List Trade unionists
everywhere are advised that Plough
products are now manufactured in a
plant where union labor is employed.
Labor Heads Statement
A statement issued by R. S. Nc
Cam, president of the Memphis
Trades and Labor Council and the
Tennessee Federation of Labor, and
Miss Helen Murray, president Of the
Cosmetic Workers Union, follows
Members of the Cosmetic Workers
Union No. 20047 will return to their
jobs at Plough, Inc, under working
conditions equal to those of any other
high class manufacturing plant IN the
country. In negotiations, all objec-
tionable features which led to the
walkout have been eliminated. The
agreement comedies to the union the
right of collective bargaining, and
grants a satisfactory increase IN
wages and a material shortening Of
hours.
"In recognition of fair union work
ing conditions provided for in the con-
tract the boycott against Plough prod
ucts has been withdrawn.
'1rhe union takes this opportunity
to express its appreciation Of the
spirit of fairness evidenced by repre-
sentatives of Plough, Inc, during the
negotiations, and to pledge its en-
tire membership to the promotion OF
the company's future success and
prosperity, to the common good OF
all.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-11-01
ARBITRATION
Ends Big Tannery Strike

Atlantic City, N. j. ILNS)-The
strike Of 1000 workers at the Wood
River, H., tannery plant Of the In
ternational Shoe Company has been
settled, William e. Bryan, president
Of the United Leather Workers In
ternational Union, announced here,
where he was attending the Amer
ican Federation Of Labor convention.
The strike began four months ago
because Of the company's descrimina-
tion against union members. On Octo-
Der IA Gov Horner intervened and
the following day the company aban-
doned its position of refusal to dis
cuss the union grievances, agreeing
to enter at once into arbitration pro-
ceedings. Col. Robert w. Davis, Of
Carbondale, of the Illinois National
Guard, was accepted as mediator BY
both sides.
The Woods River plant is the In
ternational Shoe Company's largest
tannery.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-11-01
GREEN
Is Reelected A. F. of l..
President

By A. f. of l.. News Service.
The delegates to The Atlantic City
convention of the American Fedora
ton unanimously reelected William
Green to the office of president Of the
federation. Frank Morrison was also
named secretary treasurer without
opposition. Thirteen out of fifteen
vice presidents We're reelected with
out contest.
Matthew Woll, third vice president,
was opposed by Emil Costello, of the
Bed Workers Union No. 1886, Ke-
nosha, Wis, but won by a vote of
Is, ,522 to 264.
To fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of Major George L. Berry,
president of the international Print
ing Pressmen and Assistants Union
of North America, who was chosen
eleventh vice president by the 1884
convention but resigned because of his
duties as co-ordinator for industrial
cooperation. W. D. Mahon, president
Of the Amalgamated Association Of
Street and Electric Railway Employees
of America, received 1870 votes
against II ,692 for Charles T How
ard, president of the international
Typographical Union.
The following constitute the new
executive council:
President, William Green; secre-
tary-treasurer, Frank Morrison; first
vice president, Frank Duffy; second
vice president, T. A. Rickert; third
vice president, Matthew Woll; fourth
vice president, John Coefield; fifth vice
president, Arthur O. Wharton; sixth
vice president, Joseph N. Weber; sew
enth vice president, G. NJ. Bugniazet;
eighth vice president, Geo. NJ. Harri-
son; ninth vicepresident, Daniel j
Tobin; tenth vice president, William
L. Hutcheson; eleventh vice president
w. D. Mahon; twelfth vice president
John L. Lewis; thirteenth vice presi-
dent, Davir Dubinsky; fourteenth
vice president, Harry G. Bates; fif-
teenth vice president, Edward J
Gainor.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-11-01
TEXTILE WORKERS
Deprived of Chance to Earn
Living

Gainesville, Ga. ILNS)-The Chi
copee Cotton Mill closed here last
week. and all its 75O operatives and
officials were discharged without no.
tice. There was a strike at this mill
in August, which was settled; but
disturbances in the labor field were
renewed; and n. L. Smith, president
Of the Chicopee Manufacturing Corp,
declared:
Eve just do not care to operate
under the conditions existing here
An order posted at the mill reads
as follows:
This mill is hereby closed. En-
ployment arrangements with all off
cials and operatives terminate today
The community store will remain
open for 30 days, during which pc
riod limited credit will be extended
to assist you while seeking employ
ment.
The general belief in this region
is that credit will be extremely
limited"
Chicopee has been described by
friends of the companies as the
model mill city" It is one unit of
the Johnson and johnson surgical
dressings plant.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-11-01
II. Y. CONSTRUCTION DROPS

Albany, N. Y. GLNs)- Employ
ment in the construction industry in
New York state dropped IL per cent
from August to September, Industrial
Commissioner Elmer F. Andrews re-
ports. Man-hours dropped 81 per
cent, while payrolls showed no change
from August to September. These
statements are based on the reports
Of approximately 1900 contractors
reporting each month.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-11-01
Complete Business Recovery
Held Depends on Fair Wage

Anderson, Ind (ILNs) - Citing
figures to show that the nation "is
definitely making a business recoy-
cry" Secretary of Labor Frances Per-
kins said complete recovery depends
on the return Of fair wage to work
ers and a fair income to farmers"
Praising the social security act and
old age pensions, Miss Perkins said
they were steps to increase content
ment in the future.
She also expressed hope that the
child labor amendment to the federal
constitution would be ratified by the
II states necessary to make it part
of the constitution
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-11-01
Starvation Pay Charge Denied

Starvation Pay Charge Denied
Plough, Inc, issued statement de-
nying the charge that it had been
guilty of paying starvation" wages
and disclaiming any intention to fight
organized labor.
eve have entered into this agree
ment,' the statement said, with a
sincere desire to cooperate and the
hope that our dealings with an organ
lied group will prove beneficial to
employees and the business alike"
The statement also said the agree
ment was satisfactory to both sides.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-11-01
EuiI of Industrial Home Work
Revealed in All It's Ugliness

Mexico City (ILNs) W orkers
demonstrated on October 19 against
Italian aggression in Ethiopia by tie
ing up transportation and shutting
down factories. Different hours were
set for specific industries to cease.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-11-01
Stitch! Stitch! Stitch for Almost Nothing At All
Is Story Told By Women's Bureau Investgat-
ors in Inquiry Covering Country.

Washington, D. G. (ILNS)-A Phil
adelphia woman knitting fancy
sweaters with pockets and long
sleeves kept track of her takings. In
little over three year, from Sep
tember, 1881, to October, 1884, she
earned the magnificent sum Of $500
Her piece rates were reduced several
times in this period, and in the last
year she almost never reached her
goal of SIS a week.
This is one of a score Of instances
given by the Woman's Bureau in its
devasting report on THE CONNER
cializaton of the Home Through In
dustrial Home Work"
Study Covered Nation
The bureaus Investigators studied
home work from Maine to California,
and from the lakes to the gulf. Home
work chiseling is commoner in some
sections than in others; but in no
large part of the country is it absent
altogether. Making beauty and bar
Der pads, the bureau finds, is going
on in poverty-stricken homes all over
the country.
In states ranging from Rhode Is
land to Tennessee, cheap baseballs are
stuffed and stitched in homes by hand;
artificial flowers are made in all large
cities, New England does most of the
work of sewing sails by hand, but the
Great Lakes region takes hand;
youngsters of the Kentucky hills cane
chairs, and those of Connecticut and
North Carolina sew bone buttons on
cards. Philadelphia has almost mo-
nopoly of cutting mill remnants into
STRIPS to make rag rugs.
Piece Work Pay the Rule
All home workers are paid by the
piece. All the rates are very low and
some are in the very sub-cellar Of
compensation. Lace pulling on cheap
laces brings an average of 312 cents
an hour; on better laces, the average
for good workers runs up to % cents
an hour. All are subject to consider
able fluctuations of employment; and
most of them are mulcted of some
part of their pitiful earnings by
fines" for spoiled work.
In one tenement in New York,
the investigators found Portu
guese family Of three, father,
mother and daughter, who was
high school graduate, pulling
threads in lace Part Of the time,
they had the help Of the son and
his wife. In about 20 hours, the
| five adults earned $6.70. But the
contractor charged them 10 per
cent for delivering and collecting
the work.
A Sicilian family in Philadelphia,
cutting rags for carpets, figured that
they made about 81 week. But they
still refused to go to Welfare, say
ing: "We can't"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-11-01

New Orleans (ILNs)- Biloxi WPA
laborers, numbering 100, have struck
against what they term starvation
wages of $22 for 1913 hours month.
They demend $22 for common labor for
60 hours, and $48 for skilled labor
for SO hours.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-11-01

Again and again the Investigators
found this horror Of charity among
the home workers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-03
News Survey of Indiana
By United Press
Robert Cahill

BV HUtdP fSS
WARSAW, Sept. 3-Reddents of this northern Indiana city can walk
w the streets now without fear of seeing double" after conclusion OF
the fourth annual convention of the National Twins Association.
Warren and Arren Penny, Convoy. o, who are 86, we're the oldest.
Two tiny babies from Mishawaka, Willard and Wilma Samuels, just three
weeks old, were the youngest.
William and Benjamin Whtemore, Fl. Wayne, stroked their heavy,
gray -streaked mustaches in unison, pulled at black cigars and won the
award for the most identical men twins. They were runners-up last year,
missing first place because they wore ties that didn't match.
Most of the prizes went to Indiana entrants. When Harry E Harness,
Andrews. and Mrs Carrie Miller, Kokomo, appeared and said they were
twins, the judges refused to believe they were from the same family until
friends provided identification. They won the prize for the twins who
looked the least alike.
Harvey Clark, farmer living near Markie, loaded his four sets OF twin
into his car and went home with the prize for the most twins in n fam
lily. They are Margayetta and Mildred, 5; James and Joseph, 10; Donald
and Dale, IL, and Robert and Ross. IS.
A pair OF pretty blond girls, Helen and Merlen Newcomer, l6, Water
loo. dropped into third place in the identical class because Helen would
not take of a gold wrist band through which her boy friend" Identifies
nor
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-03
S1.1566 LEVY is
APPROVED BY
CITY COUNCIL
Track Elevation Provision
Included, but Other
Cuts Are Made.

With its status still clouded by
legal technicalities, the 1886 civil
city budget, which was passed last
night and which provides for track
elevation and a tax levy Of S1.1566.
will be attacked by taxpayers or
CARNATIONS, CITY Council members
admitted today.
In providing for the $50, 900 track
elevation fund the councilmen last
night cut an aggregate of S128, 1908
from the requests of other depart
ments. an estimated $4,000 in mis-
cellaneous revenue was placed in
the general fund and $4,000 was
shifted from the park board sinking
fund.
The council raised the levy for the
city general fund from S0.6265 to
SO.6383. This action was declared
illegal by Virgil Sheppard, govern
mental research bureau director of
the Indianapolis Chamber of Com
merce.
Vote on Party Lines
James E. Deery, city corporation
counsel, took issue with Mr.. Shep-
pard and advised councllmen their
action is lawful.
Nevertheless, this technicality and
the balances and revenue estimates
in the new budget will be targets for
the attack, Harry Miesse, Indiana
Taxpayers Association secretary,
indicated.
The 6-to-3 council vote was di-
vided along party lines. Councilmen
John A. Schumacher, William A.
Oren and Edward r. Healing, all
Republicans, declared themselves in
favor of the track elevation project
but insisted the money should be
raised by a bond issue.
Pass Park Resolution
The Democratic members declared
if the city hoped to get $2,500,00O
Federal funds for grade crossing
elimination, they would have to
raise the city's share of 5000, 900 i'm
mediately.
Twenty-Five persons attended the
meeting and watched the budget
come to a vote. John F. White,
South Side civic leader, praised the
council for its part in advancing the
track elevation plan.
A resolution requesting the park
department to issue bonds for $685.
900 for the purchase of land for a
West Side park was passed unani-
mously under a suspension of the
rules.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-03

the recent labor problems involved
in putting Neal Deal legislation into
practice in New York and else
where.
William L. Ransom of New York
City. newly elected president of the
American Bar Association, also will
attend.
Two Department of Justice agents
will talk about and demonstrate
equipment and methods of crime
detection and law enforcement.
Every aspect of modern law, IA
tional. state and local. comprise the
program to be covered at the meet
ing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-03
indianapolis
Tomorrow

Indiana State Fair, Indiana State
Playground, all day.
indianapolis League for the Hard
Of Hearing, meeting, 318 Board OF
Trade Building, 1870 p. m.
Kiwanis Club, luncheon, Columbia
Club, noon.
Lions Club, luncheon, Hotel Wash
ington, noon.
Purdue Alumni Association, lunch
con, Hotel SEVERN, noon.
Twelfth District, American Legion,
luncheon, 1862 N. Delaware-st,
noon.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-03
Steals From Blind Man

bN IWtS NVtCIuI
LAFAYETTE, Sept. "a heart
less thief is sought by police here.
For the second time within a few
months, Charles Smith, blind news
dealer, has reported looting of his
corner stand.
While able later to check the loss
of newspapers and magazines, he is
helpless to detect the thief.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-03
PoStoffice Abolished

By Times Special
COLUMBUS, Sept. 3.-The post
office at Rugby, near here, was
closed today, closed after so years
service. Officials in Washington
ordered the suspension after learn
ing the office was used by only 20
patrons.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-03
Few Buildings Good
By Times Special

By Times Special
MARION, Sept. 3.-Only 1 per
cent of the 6466 business and resi-
Dental structures here are in good
condition, a survey completed by
the Junior Chamber of Commerce
reveals.
Major repairs, the report states.
are needed on more than so per cent
of the buildings. and minor re-
pairs desirable on 34.5 per cent
Only So structures are classified as
icing in perfect condition.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-03

I.,e CONVENTION viii continue
through Saturday. and many prom
inent lawyers are scheduled to ad-
dress the asSemblage. Several hun
dred members and prominent pub
.ic officials already have made res
ervations.
The former NRA administrator
will interpret many of the vital
problems of the law and its relation
TO recent New Deal developments.
The general is expected to discuss
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-03
LOOT TWO AUTOMOBILES
Thieves Take Clothing, Travelling
Bags From Parked Cars.

Thieves looted two automobiles
early today. James Cooney, 1925
Guilford-av, parked his automobile
on Shelby-st near Prospect-st, and
a travelling bag containing clothing
valued at S85, and a coat valued at
$40, was stolen.
Walter S. Mcleod, Terre Haute.
parked his automobile near the
Marott, and a brown travelling bag
containing clothing valued at $50
was taaken, he told police.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-03
Zoo Gets Cow
By Times Special

MICHIGAN CITY, Sept. B.
Washington Park ZOO is taking a
short cut to keep stride with the
better-known Bronx menagerie in
New York.
Latest addition to it's expanding
population is Melancholy Matilda, a
Jersey COW, whose age is problemat-
ical.
Matilda was accepted as the down
payment on an automobile, repur-
chased for $40 and donated to the
ZOO.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-03
O. F. s. session Scheduled.

Arrangements for the winter
MEETINGS of Broad Ripple Chapter
3l5. Order of the Eastern Star, will
be made at the meeting at 8 tomor-
row night in the Broad Ripple Ma
sonic Temple.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-03
Auto Toll Rises
Ry Times Special

VINCENNES, Sept. 3.-August
traffic accidents here, amounting to
IA. set a high record for 1885, police
officials report. The number brought
the years total to Alb with II per-
sons injured and one killed.