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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-20
NET INCOME INCREASES
Commercial Credit Co. Reports
Earnings of S3,929,00O.

Earnings of S3,929,0OO.
BIZ Times Special
BALTIMORE. Nd. Feb. 20.-The
23rd annual report Of the Com
mercial Credit Co. including Its
subsidiaries for the year ending
Dec. 81. 1894. shows net income
applicable for dividends on common
stock Of 1929 $3.50. or SAIL a
share. compared 70 S1.52 a share IN
1888.
On Dec. 81. 1884. the company had
1927 employees. and with its suoSldi-
aries, was operating through IA
local offices throughout United
States and Canada.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-20
Field for Sales

1t is estimated that there are still
between 2 and million farmers in
the United States who do not own
automobiles.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-20
Leaks Stop Wiper

Failure of the windshield wiper
to function may be the result of
leaks in the tube between wiper
and intake manifold.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-20

miles and one 10 10
kilCmeterS.
SoftneSs Of the
beach cut az least
two miles an hour
from the new re-
cord. Sir Malcolm
stated, but the at
tempt could not be
delayed for more
favorable C on dI-
lions on account OF
preparations for his
world speed trials
in the Bluebird
B Q a C h conditions
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-20

will strengthen the retail Buick staff
materially, and give the Robinson
company one of the best rounded
stats in the city.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-20
Brake Adjustment

Before attempting TO adjust
brakes. the pressure in all tires
should be equal.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-20
Mother of Harry New
Passes at City Home

Fannie Minor and Mrs. Clyde Elliott,
and two brothers, James a. and Ed
Punchery, all of Decatur County.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-02-01
GARMENT WORKERS
Driven to Toll at Top Speed
For Miserable Pay

Ottawa (ILNS)- @Badgered and
driven +. told we had to make $3.50
per week at piece-work rates or be
fred Stop watches used to determine
the best time in which a dress could
be made -. ragged all the time j.
it was nerve wracking n. awful effect
on the nerves"
These are quotations from the evi-
dence given the Canadian royal COM
mission on business practices by for
mer female employees of the women's
garment factory at Toronto operated
by the 7. Eaton Co.'S departmental
store system. The women were locked
out when they protested against low
ering of the piece rates.
The Ontario law requires that so per
cent Of the female employees of such
factory receive a minimum of $3.50
per week full time, and corresponding
hourly rates for part time. An aud
TORS report on this factory showed
that the great majority of girls fail
ed to make the $3.50 at piece work
rates; but the company kept within
the law by paying a bonus to make up
the difference.
Middle-aged women workers testif-
ed that when according to their own
calculations they earned at piece
work rates more than the minimum
wage they only got $3.50 When they
complained they were told that they
were subject to deductions to balance
the bonuses allowed them when their
pieee-work earnings We're below
$3.50.
Commissioner Stevens, former min
lister Of commerce, said the auditors
report convinced him the Eaton fac
tory fixed piece-work rates at point
where only the smartest workers could
exceed the minimum wage. A few Of
the women did not make the mini
mum, and few exceeded $14 a week.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-02-01
Twenty Million Jobless

Geneva, Switzerland Twenty mil
lion workers were unemployed at the
end of 1884 in twenty coun-
tries, including most of the industrial
ones, according to figures compiled by
the International Labor Office here
Africa, Latin America, the Union of
Soviet Socialist Republics, and Asi-
attic countries excepting Japan were
the only countries for which stats
tics were not given. A year ago the
total unemployed in the countries in
cluded in the present figures reached
21,000,000. The jobless in the United
States number 1861 900, an increase
of 100000 during the year, the re
port said
The report pointed out that the fig
ures should not be regarded as alb
solutely accurate. The data came from
various countries, some of the totals
being mere approximations.
Spend your union earned money for
union label products.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-02-01
R. J. Reynolds Co., Led BY
S. Clay Williams, Heads
Battle to Crush Labor
Chief of Recovery Board Feared Foe of UnionsDe-
motions and Discharges Follow Union Membership In
Big Winston-Salem Plant.

but Williams would not yield. He re
peated his parrot-hke statement that
the company would comply with the
law" But he refused to let the union
send organizers into the plant, refused
to let any union literature be distrib-
uted in the plant; and all appeal to
the law which he had promised to
obey was futile. Workers who showed
signs of independence in this matter
were discharged. Accounts as to the
number who went under the indus
trial guillotine vary; but the dis
charges were numerous enough to fix
fear Of the overload firmly il the
minds Of the whole force
Union Makes Progress
This year, another attempt has been
made to unionize the workers who
| serve the Big Four. It has won splen-
did success in some places. Union
leaders say that more than 80 pei
cent of the workers in the Liggett &
Myers plant at Durham, N c., have
/ Joined the union, and the company at
least is considering" a conference
with the union on wages and hours.
But in the huge Reynolds plant
at Winston-Salem, the union
doesn't 60" Workers who attend
union meetings or are seen in con-
versation with union organizers
are transferred" from their
present jobs to others-of course,
less desirable ones. The trans
fer" is notice to the person
shifted that the company's spies
have marked him, and threat of
discharge if he does not give up
his hopes of union.
It is probable that Mr.. S. Clay Will
liams, chairman of the NIRB, in
Washington, is more daunting to the
tobacco workers than if he were or
tuS JOu III w lilSlOll-todlGiH. IlG MINI
was created to help carry out the
/ purpose Of the recovery act. One
of the chief aims of that act was
to give workers perfect freedom tc
organize. But Mr.. S. Clay Williams
who has smashed the Tobacco Work.
ers' International Union in his plant
once and is throttling it ther now, is
chairman of the board whose duty
under the law, is to protect the work
ers in their free choice Of associations
and representatives!
| Speaking about law enforcement
| THE TOBACCO WORKERS WHO
KNOW THE RECORD OF Mr.. S
| CLAY WILLIAMS ARE PUZZLED
AND ALARMED. If HE Is POW
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-02-01

ers in infamous Harlan county, KY,
declared that the most serious sort
of guerilla warfare might break out
in that district unless mine operators
were forced to disarm and discharge
the deputies who row control the mine
field by force of arms.
Reactionary Bosses Assailed
Holt Ross, Mississippi and Louis
lana representative of the American
Federation of Labor, brought the
house down with his slashing attack
on the Southeastern States Industrial
Conference, the latest anti-union err
terprise to be formed by John E.
Edgerton, whose headquarters are in
Nashville.
Daily papers here featured the at
tack made by Ross on Edgerton and
quoted Ross as describing w. D. An
derson, of the Bibb textile interests,
and Edgerton as the "polecats of
American industry
In his opening speech George
Googe stressed the point that the best
way to insure modernization of the
labor laws in Southern States was to
remove obstacles to the growth of
the organized labor movement. Googe
stated that the efforts of the move
ment had resulted in securing formal
endorsements for the ratification OF
the child labor amendment from three
Southern governors in their inaugural
addresses.
Sitting in with the officials of the
Bureau of Industrial Standards of the
u. S. Department of Labor ard the
various representative of the South
ern governors the labor representa-
tives assisted in framing comprehen-
sive uniform program for workman:
compensation, hours and safety legis.
lation in Southern States. Depart.
ments of Labor, it is expected, viii
be set up in Alabama and severa
other states here, which still are oper-
.. ating on the theory that the bosses
give all the protection needed.
Criticism Vigorously Voiced
The conference was characterized
by a remarkable feeling of vitality anc
determination on the part of the work
ers whose unions are still battling
against odds in order to halt discrimi
nations or to secure recognition. State
Federation of Labor officials criticized
the failure of their governors anc
legislators in plain terms seldom hearc
in this part of the country up to now
The organization drive here will de
velop new momentum in the Soutl
as quickly as congress takes action tc
put teeth into Section IA, was tn,
general concensus of opinion.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-02-01
PREDICTS 10 PER CENT
TEXTILE INCREASE

New York. Douglas G. Woolf, edi-
tor Of the Textile World predicts a
10 per cent increase in textile mill
activities during 1885 This is a con-
servative estimate" Woolf stated. If
lit proves reasonably correct, it will
mean that 1885 will be a normal year
based on the 1928 1925 average
The union label Is the trade marx
Of the American labor movement.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-02-01
How The Big Four
Wage War on Unions

ERFuL ENOUGH TO DOMINATE
THIS KEY BOARD OF RECOv-
ERY, THEY THINK, He MUST BE
POWERFUL ENOUGH TO WORK
DISASTER TO THEM; AND HIS
RECORD SHOWS THAT He is
PERFECTLY WILLING TO DO IT.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-02-01
By GEORGE L. KNAPP

Washington, D. G. (ILNS)- The
Big Four companies which dominate
the tobacco industry, led by the R. J.
Reynolds Company, are waging a war
of determination against labor unions
in general and the Tobacco Workers
International Union in particular.
AS the Reynols Company leads the
corporation attack, 50, apparently, s..
Clay Williams leads the Reynolds
Company, though absent in Washing
ton as chairman of the National In
dustrial Recovery Board, which ad
ministers the national industrial re-
covery act.
/ have just come back from Win
ston-Salem and other cities in the
North Carolina tobacco manufactur-
ing district, where the Big Four op-
crate and dominate. The spectacle
of this domination is ghastly and it
will be disclosed week by week until
the story is told
Anti-labor ard anti-union policies
are an old story with the Reynolds,
especially under the S. Clay Williams
leadership. Tobacco workers in Win
ston-SaIem, the North Carolina town
where the biggest Reynolds plant is
located, still tell Of the way Williams
crushed the attempt to unionize that
plant in 1923. The lowest estimate
they give is that more than 1000
workers at the plant were fired.
Everyone who took any part in union
propaganda had to go.
Strikers BIacklisted
They were not merely fired; they
were blacklisted, at least so far as
that cmopany was concerned. To
bacco workers are agreed that Viii
liams refused to rehire anyone who
had been dismissed for union actiyi-
ties. The obvious attempt was TO rub
the fear of the Reynolds Tobacco
Company into the whole tobacco dis
trict; and to a high degree, that
effort succeeded.
When the recovery act was passed
union officers in the district called
Williams attention to Section IA,
which gives workers the right to or
ganize as they please, without inter
ference, influence or coercion" by the
employer.
eve shall comply with the
law" said Mr.. S. Clay Williams,
Then we may send organizers
into your plant?" persisted the
union officers.
"No."
The union officers argued the case:
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-02-01
Obey Labor Section IA or Face
Strikes, Southern Employers Told

Nashville Labor Conference Warns Recacitrant Bosses
Emergency Meeting Representing Ia States Plans Mill
tant Action to Win Labors Rights and Puts Workers
Support Solidly Behind Security Legislation Program.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-02-01

Spend your union-earned money fol
union label products.
Evening star., 1935-05-02
TRIBUTE IS PAID
ROOSEVELT AIMS
Msgr. Peter GuiIday Sounds
K. of C. Views at Annual
Banquet.

Msgr. Peter Guilday. professor at
Catholic University and chaplain of
the washington Council of the
knights of Columbus, paid tribute to
President Roosevelt at the annual BAN
ouet of the order in the Mayflower
Hotel last night. introduced by DR..
John Bowen, secretary to the presi-
dent of Georgetown University, Msgr.
Guilday said:
Il am not in politics. 1t is not
my place as a priest to enter politics.
But I want to say while I am here
and I want those who represent our
Government here to take back this
message:
I'VE are here to uphold as high
as we can the aims of Franklin
Delano Roosevelt"
Preceding the address of Msgr. Gull
day. the executive assistant to the
Postmaster General. Ambrose O'Con-
nell, had announced that while I'VE
have seen these quackS of politics
and economics with their clamor about
redistribution of wealth, hard, COM
mon sense will prevail and the Pres
ident's popularity will not be dimin-
ished"
Progress of the council since its
founding by 43 men on April. q, 1897,
was described by DR.. Henry Crosson,
a charter member, Harold Jones,
grand knight of the council, presided.
Short talks were made by William
Joseph Rowan. jr., a Georgetown Law
School graduate of 1882. just initiated
into the council, and by D. J. Gala
han. supreme treasurer, who called
for an intensified membership drive.
Evening star., 1935-05-02
Pilgrimage Marks
37th Anniversary
OfDe,cey's Victory
Children Place FIO,Uers
at Tomb of Hero of
Manila Bay.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A pilgrimage to the tomb of the
hero of Manila Bay, Admiral George
Dewey, marked the thirty-seventh an
niversary yesterday in one Of the most
famous battles in American naval
history.
Children of friends of the admiral
by annual custom visited the National
Cathedral here, placed flowers and
joined in a service of commemoration.
The anniversary also revived in the
minds of older naval officers and
citizens the suspense which prevailed
in that first week of May. 1898
Admiral (then Commodore) Dewey,
with his squadron of eight vessels,
entered Manila Bay early on the
morning of Sunday, May l. On his
flagship, the cruiser Olympia, now at
Philadelphia, he led his little squadron
into the bay and calmly, at the proper
moment, turned to the captain of the
Olympia and ordered: You may fire
when ready. Gridley."
The battle began at $40 am. and
lasted until about 1890 pm, with an
intermission from 7:30 am. until
about 1890 am.
Evening star., 1935-05-02
Indians Sport Diamonds.

One of the most brilliant features
of the Silver Jubilee in London will be
the diamonds brought by wives of
titled Indians. The Maharanee OF
Kashmir has a dress of silver-shot silk
embroidered with scores of tiny dia-
monds in bird and tree design. also
a cloth-of-gold creation covered with
rubies The Crown Princess of Hyder-
abad wears heirloom gems which be-
longed to Abdul the Damned. They
include collar of over 100 turquoises
and diamond star earrings each five
inches in circumference. Their value
can hardly be estimated.
Evening star., 1935-05-02

M. Wright and Ben H. Thompson.
chief and assistant chief Of the
wild life division Of the National
Park Service, will discuss wild life
conservation activities.
The series, which will close the
latter part Of June, will feature .
number of prominent speakers, in
Guiding Arno B. Cammerer, di-
rector Of the National Park Service;
Assistant Commissioner William Zim-
norman, jr., of the Bureau Of Indian
Affairs, and Associate Director A. z.
Demeray of the Park Service.
DR.. Mann and Supt. Finnan will
discuss the National Geological Park
and the local park system for the
benefit of the Nationwide radio
audience.
Evening star., 1935-05-02
MANN AND FINNAN
ON RADIO HOOK.UP
Zoo Director and Parks Superin'
tendent Will Speak on Park
Service Program.

DR.. William Mann, director of the
National Geological Park, and c..
Marshall Finnan. superintendent Of
the National Capital parks. will speak
June % on a Nationwide hook-up
of the National Broadcasting Co., as
feature of O. new series of addresses.
announced yesterday by the National
Park Service.
On Saturday. June %, from 3:15
to 3:45 pm. Jay N. Darling. chief
of the Biological Survey, and George
Evening star., 1935-05-02
Defense Projects Help.

Increased appropriations for defense
purposes in British Malaga are boost
ing property values and rentals.
Evening star., 1935-05-02

Bus Service for Chinese.
Through motor bus service Ia to be
started between Canton and Hankow,
China.
Evening star., 1935-05-02
Oriental
Rugs

as HIkp - /|/O'
1 Chinese, 8x10; was
$165 $40
l Semi-antique Mahal,
9x7'6"; was $145. $40
1 Semi-antique Sarouk, 4x7;
was 1926 .......... .A5
1 Semizantique India, 17x5;
was $125 .$45
/ Chinese (gold), 8x10; was
SITS .-............ .$65
1 Semi-antique Fereghan,
9x12; was $165 .$65
1 Semi-antique Ispahan,
10'7"x7'; was $215. .$e5
I Semi-antique Serapie,
15x10; was 1915 .$16S
Approximate sfses.
MoSEs-THIRD FLOOR
Evening star., 1935-07-07
Outdoor Amusements.

A PPROACHING the peak OF the out
door amusement season, Glen
Echo Park, with its trained personnel
of more than 200. remains the ideal
playground for Washingtonians.
Prominent among favorite features
providing genuine recreation are Crys-
tai Pool, with accommodations for
5000 swimmers: the Spanish Garden
ball room, where $500 couples dance
on week nights to the lifting strains OF
David McWilliams' 12-piece orchestra;
the coaster dips, offering thrilling
three minute ride amid the treetops;
the pretzel. Glen Echo's new twisty,
spooky ride; the Old Mill, with dozen
major surprises; the airplane swings
that vie with speedy transcontinental
planes; the carrousel, where young and
old enjoy exhilarating thrills; the
whip, which lives up to its reputation
Of previous seasons, and the dodgem,
those gliding, sliding cars that offer
fun galore. All are brought handily
together at Glen Echo and operate
with the maximum amount of eff
cheney.
The new Massachusetts, avenue ex-
tension, opened for travel last We'd
nesday. leads directly into Conduit
road at Glen Echo Park.
Evening star., 1935-07-07
Ginger s Plan.

WITH six weeks rest, her first real
w vacation in more than two years,
to follow Top Hat" the RKO Radio
musicale which she has just finished
with Fred Astaire. Ginger Rogers to-
day is uncertain whether she will go
to Europe or spend the holiday on
Southern California beaches.
If Miss Rogers makes the European
trip, a distinct possibility if her screen
actor husband, Lew Ayres, finishes his
current role at another studio in time,
it will be her first journey abroad.
When the star returns to the RKO
Radio Studio she will appear in a
screen version of the Samuel Hopkins
Adams story, In Person." which Pan
dro S. Bermon is to produce, with
William Setter directing. She will
next co-star with Astaire in Follow
the Fleet" musicale for which Irving
Berlin will write the music and lyrics
and which Mark Sandrich will direct,
with Berman producing. thus reunit-
ing the combination responsible for
Top Hat"
In the past year Miss Rogers ap-
peared in THE Gay Divorce" "Ro-
nance In Manhattan Roberta "
Star of Midnight and Top Hat
without vacation between pictures.
Evening star., 1935-07-07
Yes and No of "Rushes'

CAN'T stand them; they drive
me crazy"
Il couldn't do without
L them"
Hollywood divided itself into two
camps on the subject of screen
"rushes'-those realistic chronicles Of
yesterdays "shooting"-to judge by
canvass made of the stars Of Metro
Goldwyn-Mayer.
First on the "No-rushes-for-m side
is Robert Montgomery. who voices the
general feeling of his contingent.
They make me nervous" he says.
I'm too critical. Sitting there, an
alyzing my own work, lose all per-
spective on the story, the relationship
of myself to other players, and the
pattern into which the particular
scenes are finally to fit. I usually
come out of the projection room a
bowling maniac, convinced I'm suited
only for life career of digging bitches.
So ask you-is that the right mood
for a new days work?"
William Powell also reacts violently
to his own "rushes," with the result
that he's Q wreck for hours after
ward.
Greta Garbo is another member of
this group. Not only does she refuse
to see all "rushes," but she avoids
the preview of her picture as well.
Only when her picture has played at
the large theaters and come to sub
Evening star., 1935-07-07
Public Hears One-Tenth.

MARY ELLIS. one-time Metropoh-
AA tan Grand Opera star and dra-
matte actress, who soon will be seen
in Paris in Spring" the Paramount
picture in which she is co-starred
with Tullio Carminati, has found that
less than one-tenth of her singing is
heard publicly.
Each morning Miss Ellis devotes
half an hour to singing and has
engaged in this exercise for years ex-
cept when suffering from cold.
Only members of her small household
on her farm in Sussex, England. or in
her temporary Hollywood home hear
her morning singing.
The public never Is admitted to
stage rehearsals at which she sings
many songs over and over again with
only stage hands, musicians and an
occasional charwoman as audience.
In picture work Miss Ellis sings at
least 10 or IL minutes to get one
minute of singing on the screen. In
the Paramount studio while making
Paris in Spring" Miss Ellis would
hear her voice echoed back by
sound apparatus within 20 seconds
after she had finished song.
Evening star., 1935-07-07

urban communities does she slip in
and observe her work.
Mady Christians and Louise Rainer
view with alarm the American Gus
tom of seeing work before it's COM
pletely finished. In spite OF nat
ural curiosity over her first picture.
Miss Rainer has refused even to see
the scene-by-scene still pictures made
by the studio photographer.
Wallace Beery doesn't like to see
himself on the screen. in "rushes" or
otherwise. IT only like to see hand
some people" he said. "and I never
quite made the grade"
On the other side of the field are
Joan Crawford and Norma Shearer.
To them 1t is a basis for constant i'm
provement.
No matter how tired she may be
in the evening, after day on the
set, Miss Crawford invariably stays
from 80 minutes to an hour with the
projectionist, seeing not only the
work of the day before, but the pic
ture assembled as far as shooting"
has progressed. Likely as not. she
will see a full-length feature in her
private theater that night.
General opinion of this second
group is that a study of day to day
enables the star to make whatever
changes are indicated in makeup,
Characterization, costuming, ETC., be-
fore 1t Is too late.