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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-01-23
MASSES.

O'KEEFE-A months mind mass of requiem will be celebraed tomor- row morning at $500 o'clock, at St. Patrlck's Church, for the repose of the soul of the late Mrs. Mar garet OKeefe.
The Washington times., 1936-08-29
VOTE
40 PER CENT
AT POLL

Conservative elements Of the
American Federation of Govern
ment Employees today were blocked
in their efforts to rid the organ
ization's District department Of
alleged radicals
In a hectic meeting last night,
marked by numerous personal
clashes, the liberal minority fac.
tion produced a voting strength
Of approximately 40 per cent. This
surprisingly strong showing, un
jority which would have given the
latter unlimited power to GUST
liberal delegates and bar many of
their lodges from representation.
Defeats Measure
It also revealed that in Wash.
ington, at least, the alleged
radicals" within the A. F. G. E.
are increasing speedily. In previ-
Gus District department meetings
their strength has been negligible,
usually less than 80 per cent on
roll-call ballots.
One Of the amendments battled
over last night would have allowed
a majority vote to deny a seat to
a proposed delegate and would
have allowed a two-thirds vote to
indefinitely suspend or expel a
delegate who had been previously
seated. To pass it a two-thirds
vote of last nights meeting was
required by the constitution.
Realizing the motion was aimed
at them, the liberal faction inSti-
tuted a substitute amendment,
allowing an indicted member to
prepare a written defense and pre-
sent it at the next meeting
month later. With conservatives
opposed to this substitute, the two
factions fought it out by roll
call vote. On this, only a majority
was needed.
ugh the conservative
group won, 81 to So, it was
realized quickly they did not
have the necessary two-thirds
strength to put over their orig
inal motion, and during their
confusion a motion to table the
entire controversy was quickly
passed.
Immediately after a motion to
amend the constitution so that
lodges holding temporary Age.
charters could be barred, such
units being mostly IN New Deal
agencies, was also tabled. Mem
herS Of both factions said the
fight would be brought into the
national convention in Detroit
September IA.
Would Expel Radicals
While the convention will have
no power over actions of the Dis
trict department, it is known
that the "old-liners" will seek to
have the radical" lodges ex-
PEELED, so that in such case they
would no longer figure in activ-
ity of the local body.
A tense moment loomed when
conservative delegates booed and
Missed Arthur Bernstein, a lib
eral member from the General
Accounting Office Lodge, who at
tempted to gain the floor and
was disowned by his lodge presi-
dent, Jacob Mi1wit. on grounds
that although he had paid his
dues he had recently transferred
to the Social Security Board.
Bernstein left the floor accom-
panied by the pounding of De-
partment President James G.
Yaden's gavel after passing sharp
words with Yaden.
During the meeting members
of the suspended Department of
Justice Lodge, who are accused
of using "subversive" tactics
against J. Edgar Hoover and the
Federal Bureau Of Investigation,
passed out handbills advertising
their meeting Monday at the
Typographical Temple. On the
handbills were black headlines
charging "anti-unionism in the
F. B. L"
The Washington times., 1936-08-29

Even the United States Weather
Bureau prefers blondes!
This was revealed today when
w. r. Gregg, chief of the Weather
Bureau, disclosed plans for max
ing official records Of what goes
on in the center Of q hurricane.
The bureau has made arrange
ments to send up specially
equipped balloons from Maxwell
The Washington times., 1936-08-29
NAME TAVENER
IN2H0LDUPS

Still in a serious condition in
Gallinger Hospital. Lawrence
Tavener, %, alias William S. Friz.
zel, who was injured early yester-
day when his car crashed into an
other machine during an 80-mile-
an-hour chase in which he tried to
escape police, today was identi-
fled by two men as the man who
held them up.
Tavener was driving a stolen
car when it crashed into a ma
chine driven by Samuel Farrar.
colored, of Philadelphia, at Four
teenth street and New York Ave.
nue. Northwest, police said.
Farrar and Tavener were
treated at George Washington
University Hospital. Farrsr was
released and Tavener taken to
Gal1inger.
There Samuel Gouldman, taxi
cab driver, identified Tavener as
the one who robbed hm of $145.
Leo MARCEL, restaurant man, also
identified TaVener as the man
who robbed him of II cents,
overlooking 5000, during holdup.
al
The Washington times., 1936-08-29
ALLEN GIVEN
PRISON POST

ROCKVILLE, Md, Aug. 90
Wilton T. Allen, recently appoint
ed Commissioner of Parks for
Montgomery county, was selected
today to represent the county on
the newly organized advisory COM
mittee of the Maryland CommiS-
sion on Prison Labor.
The Prison Labor Commission,
to be composed of one delegate
from each of the % counties of the
State and Baltimore city, was ap-
pointed by Gov. Harry w. Nice
after enactment of the Hawes-
Cooper Act.
This bill, which controls the
transportation of prison-made
goods in interstate commerce, left
approximately 1900 of the 5000
inmates of Maryland's penal In
stitutions idle, it was said.
The appointment of MIR. Allen
was made by Eldridge Hood
Young, of Baltimore, committee
chairman, who has called a meet
ing of his group for next Thurs
day at Baltimore, where an outline
of the committees duties will be
made public.
Robert E. Vining is head Of the
commission, while w. Raymond
Moody is chairman of the COM
mittee on investigation.
The Washington times., 1936-08-29
". {. 7. i. HEAD
TO RETIRE

BALTIMORE, Aug. 2S.-Mem-
bers Of the Women's Christian
Temperance Union of Maryland,
preparing to meet in convention
at Rising Sun in October, were
stunned yesterday by the an
nouncement Of Mrs. Mary R. Has
lup, their 80-year-old president,
that she will not permit her name
to be advanced for reelection.
Mrs. HaSlup, who has beaded
the Maryland W. C. T. U. for AZ
years, feels that her advanced age
will not permit her to engage in
the activity which the post re-
quireS.
In reviewing her long 1ife's
work for temperance reform, she
said:
Perhaps we erred in working
for a prohibition law without
the will of the vast majority Of
the people of America back Of
it. But we did not err in work
ing for abolition of the liquor
traffic. We are committed to
that end, and win always be
committed to it, but our method
now is along educational lines.
"We must convince the vast
majority of the American people
Of the evil Of the liquor traffic,
and once convinced, they will
want its abolition, call it pho
hibitiOn or whatever else you
will"
The Washington times., 1936-08-29
POLICE HUNT !
INGEM THEFTS

Federal agents and police in
tenSified their two-fold search
today for an attractive young
woman and her fugitive husband
who were indicted yesterday on
charges of transporting stolen
ieWelry across State lines.
The two had in their possession
iewelry valued at more than
100000 when police made the
seizure last October. Police are
investigating to determine if they
are members Of a nationwide
jewel theft ring that operated
mostly on the Atlantic Seaboard.
James A. Bennett, the husband,
is still at large and today Depart
ment of Justice bulletins went
across the country, carrying his
description and asking for his ap-
prehension. Mrs. Eula Mae Ben
nett. the wife, is under a $4,000
bond.
Since only small portion of
the jewelry has been Identified
by it's owners, police here are also
searching for other owners Of the
cache, and have advised police OF
other cities to search their files
for records of unsolved jewel
theftS,
The Washington times., 1936-08-29
GANG MURDERS
ION STREET

NEW YORK, Aug. 29 G.N.S0.
Guns of unidentified assailantS
roared on the lower East Side to-
day, "erasing" two men who ap-
parently had besought m e y
from their aSsassinS.
There was no mercy. The men
died. The killers escaped.
Police, unable to supply a mo-
tive for the execution, went to
work on the clues at hand-the
killers automobile, abandoned at
the scene, several empty shells
and a po1isher's union placard
found in the car.
The victims, Jacob Avnet, rs,
and Morris "Mush" Fried, Is,
were forced to the curb in their
automobile by another machine.
Although there were no wit
nesses to the killings, powder
stains on clothing of the slain
men indicated the fuslllade had
been fired at close range Bodies
OF Avnet and Fried were found in
the street, not far from their
automobile, leading to belief the
victims had left their car IN a
vain effort to "talk it over" with
their purSuerS.
The Washington times., 1936-08-29
; MORE BACK
MISS PICKFORD

BOSTON, Aug. 29 0.N.SO.-A
churchman, an iceman and a
landlord, through dispositions be-
fore acting United States Commits
Sioner Francis B. Burns, today
had joined the forces of Mary
Pickford who is defendant in a
million-doIlar SANDER suit filed by
J. Raymond Cornell, of Wellesley.
After the three had concluded
the testimony of defense witnesses.
Burns adjourned the hearing.
Edmund R. Dewing, attorney for
Cornell, plans to present witnes-
ses for his client next month.
Trial of the suits in which Cornell
claims he was slandered in a
story concerning a kidnap threat
to Miss Pickford will be held
later in New York.
Gilbert C. Carpenter. trustee Of
the First Church of Christ, Scien-
tiSt, Providence. R. l., told of pay
ing Cornell $3.50 for three pur-
ported religious manuscripts.
After payment. Carpenter said.
Cornell filed suit, claiming the
agreed price was $4,000. Cornell
lost the suit.
The iceman, James r. Smith,
Quincy. testified Cornell refused
to pay a 1886 ice bill and SworO
out an assault and battery war
rant for the arrest of Smith. The
iceman said Cornell claimed he
was attacked with an ice pick.
knife and fists.
The landlord. John H. Taylor,
Quincy school committeeman. tes.
titled Cornell did not pay his rent
and. to top it off. sued Taylor for
$500.
The Washington times., 1936-08-29
Blondes Prove a Help
Measuring Gales

Field, near Montgomery, Ala:
Jackson, Miss, and Augusta, Ca,
during the coming hurricane
season.
Included in the 100 or more spe-
cial instruments which will be
attached to each balloon will be- a
pen-point attached to a strand Of
human hair-preferably blonde.
The blond hair, Gregg explained,
responds more rapidly to mois-
ture than does brunette or red
hair. AS the air becomes damper
or drier, it becoms longer or
shorter, thus making the pen to
which the hair is attached record
the moisture of the air in the
hurricane center.
Other instruments will record
the air pressure, wind velocity,
and other atmospheric conditions.
The Washington times., 1936-08-29
.L0R|NER QUITS
J0B0N POST

HILADEL P HIA, Aug. 90
GNSD.-George Horace Lorimer,
since 1899 editor of the Saturday
Evening Post and for two years
chairman of the board Of direc-
tors of the Curtis Publishing
Company, today had resigned ef-
fective next January /.
Lorimer's letter Of resignation
read:
"I want a little more leisure,
a little more time to attend to
my personal affairs and a
chance to do some other work,
including some long deferred
writing"
Announcement was made that
Wesley Winans Stout, now asso-
ciate editor of the magazine, will
become editor of the Post. No
new chairman of the board was
elected. Lorimer will remain as
a member of the board.
Lorimer joined the Saturday
Evening Post the year it was pur-
chased by the late Cyrus H. X.
Curtis. One year later he was
given the editors chair and con-
tinued as its guiding genius since
that date. AS he leaves office,
the circulation of the Post is at
a new peak, directors announced.
He was elected first vice presi-
dent of the publishing company
in 1927 and made president in
1882. In 1884 he resigned the
presidency to become chairman of
the board. Stout has been con-
nected with the Post since 1921.
The Washington times., 1936-08-29
{. W. Toms, Tobacco
Company Head, Dies

NEW YORK, Aug. 90 G.N.SO.
C. w. Toms, ST, who guided poll
cies of the Lggett & Meyers To-
bacco Company, as it's president
for nearly 10 years, died here to-
day after lengthy illness.
Entering the employ of the
American Tobacco Company as a
youth, Toms remained with it until
it dissolved and Liggett & Meyers
was organized. At that time he
was made vice president and gen.
eraI manager of the latter COM
pany. In 1927 Toms succeeded
C. c. Dula, who resigned as presi-
dent to become chairman of the
board.
The Washington times., 1936-08-29
OCEAN AIR LINE
WAY OPENED

Terms laid down by the United
States for use of American air
terminals in the projected trans
atlantic plane service were &C
cepted by British officials in a
cablegram to the State Depart
ment last night.
The message cleared the way, ex-
cept for a few minor details, to
formal signing of the agreement
which will inaugurate the first
heavier r-than-air aviation system
between this country and Europe.
The United States, it was
learned, required that Great Bri-
tain must accord identical landing
privileges on British soil if and
when such an American line began
operations, and that British planes
will be subject to U. S. regulations
while within American boundaries.
VOTE AMERICAN-
The Washington times., 1936-08-29
TO SET
'NRA' RULES

Regulations forcing all indus
tries doing business with the Gov
ernment to place employees under
minimum wages and a 40-hour
work week will be promulgated
September 10 by Secretary OF
Labor Perkins.
While the regulations will go
into effect September % under
the Walsh-Healy act creating the
so-called Little NRA," all will not
be fully enforceable for some
months.
The Labor Department in a
statement said:
"The regulations to be issued
will provide uniform procedure
so that there will be no delay
in the normal procurement ac-
tivitieS of other departments,
but will enable both the con-
tracing officers and prOspec-
tive contractors to know in ad-
vance their respective Obliga-
tiOnS under the act"
Prevailing wages will be re-
quired in the regulations on all
Government contracts in excess
of $4,000, but, the statement
added:
"The prevailing wages pro-
vision will not produce delay
since no wage stipulation is re-
quired until the applicable
minimum wages have been as
certafned by the Secretary Of
Labor for a given industry or
group of industries"
The Washington times., 1936-08-29
4WARTED IN EFFORT TO BAR RADICAL ELEMENT
STRIKE
LEADERS MAP
AGREEMENT

CUMBERLAND, Md, Aug. 90.
Continuing negotiations with Of
ficers of the Kelly-Springfield
Rubber Company, leaders of the
1900 strikers who walked out a
week ago, today reported prog
ress toward settlement.
Although no statement was IS
sued, it was learned an agree
ment is expected within three or
four days. Meanwhile. strike lead
erS planned to hold a mass meet
ing in the Cumberland ArTnory
tomorrow afternoon to be attended
by members of all unions affili-
ated with the American Fedora
ton of Labor.
Big Meeting Expected
Plans for this meeting, spon-
sored by the international repre-
sentatives of the United Rubber
Workers Union, were in the
hands of Isaac Bradburn, local
labor leader. Bradburn expressed
the belief that more than 1000
union workers would attend.
Senator Robert Kimball West
ern Maryland labor leader, who
has actively participated in the
strike here, was in Baltimore yes
terday but said he would return
today.
Before leaving, the senator de-
clared that because of slow
progress being made toward set
tlement, the pickets would prob
ably be called back to the plant
late sometime today.
Agreement to Stand
W. j. Carney, international rep
resentative of the Rubber Work.
ers Union, declared, however,
that he had no intention Of vio-
lating the "gentlemen's" agree
ment decided upon two days ago,
whereby the city police were to
withdraw their men if the strik-
ers removed their pickets.
Major Enoch B. Carey, superin-
tendent of the Maryland State
Police, who came here to person
ally take charge of his men before
they were ordered withdrawn
from the strike zone by Gov.
Harry W. Nice, upon learning of
State Senator Kimballs s statement
declared he would order his men
to stand by. Major Carey inti-
mated that more trouble between
strikers and employees willing to
work WAS brewing,
Governor Nice, who came here
two days ago to attempt to arrange
a peaceable settlement between
both sides, returned to Baltimore
yesterday.
The Washington times., 1936-08-29
ARMS BANNED
BY Y3NATI0NS

LONDON, Aug. 20 G.N.S0.-Bel-
gium, Denmark and Turkey have
agreed to embargo arms to Spain
and have replied favorably to
overtures concerning adherence to
the non-intervention pact, the
British government announced to-
day.
Government officials denie d
there is any intention of attempt
ing to bring Spanish insurgents
and loyalists together at Hendaye
in an effort to bring about human
ization of the conflict.
The humanization appeals, 1t
was said, will be confined to diplo-
matte approaches to Madrid and
insurgent headquarters.
The Washington times., 1936-08-29
NEW DEAL FOE
OF POOR, SAYS
HURLEY

BUCKHANNON, w. Va, Aug
20 QN.S0.-PreSident Roosevelt
was rebuked for his attack upor
economic royalists," in an address
delivered here today by Patrick j
Hurley, Secretary of War under
Hoover. Hurley declared:
1--WE are q little perplexed to
understand what he means by
economic rOyaIists.' We think
he means those who inherit
wealth.
eff that is the definition, there
are more economic rOyalists,
that is men and women who live
by the sweat Of an ancestors
brow, in the New Deal Admins
tratiOn, than in any other Ameri-
can administration.
"If, by economic POyaliStS,
President Roosevelt means the
heads of great corporations, out
standing leaders Of industry, We
can find a rather complete List
of them in the advertisers who
contributed to the convention
book Of the Democratic national
convention held at Philadelphia
this year.
The New Deal does not in
jure entrenched wealth, but de-
StrOys those who are in debt.
'The New Deal system Of tax
alton centraIizes wealth i'm the
hands of the lenders, whom the
New Dealers call money chang
erS' and economic rOyaGSts.'
'In the face of all the pledges
1t made to the contrary, the
New Deal, while protesting to
be the friend Of those who work,
has SaddIed upon the backs Of
the workers the most extensive
bureaucracy and greatest debt
in the history of the Nation"
The Washington times., 1936-08-29
RiChman and Merrill
Start Hop Tomorrow

NEW YORK, Aug. 20 GNS).
Baked yesterday by unfavorable
winds, Harry Richman, stage star,
and Dick Merrill, transport pilot,
announced today they would take
off tomorrow on their projected
New York-London round-trip flight.
The an-metal low-winged mono
plane, in which the hop will be
undertaken, is called the Lady
Peace"
The Washington times., 1936-12-12
Gone With Wind BallyhOO Seems NlisIeadi1
Amateurs
Are Moved
To Dream
By ANDREW R. KELLEY

H/ITH the great god,
" Ballyhoo, this cor
ner of the world has
no quarrel. 1t is so close to
being part and parcel of
Hollywood's carefu lily
planned and scientifically
distributed sales propaganda,
only a thin line could mark
the barrier.
The Washington times., 1936-12-12

only a thin line could mark
the barrier.
Youths Tested
I swallow a lot of bunk, if
It's readable, onl.- object
when it strikes me that press
agentry oversteps the mark
and treads on ground that
seems to me almost mislead-
ing.
Specifically, I speak of the
touring emissary from the
land of the movies who gives
young men and women the
impression that they are to
play important roles in the
movie version of Margaret
Mitchell's best-seller, "Gone
With the Wind. "
Here is the official COM
munique from the United
Artists press department. I
might add that I don't be-
lieve one word about an ac-
tress without previous screen
experience playing Scarlet
O'Hara:
"The search for a Southern
girl, with or without previ-
Gus screen experience, to play
the leading role of Scarlett
0'Hara in the Selznick inter-
national filmization of Mar
garet Mitchell's Gone With
the Wind is now centering
around Atlanta, Ca, the
authors home city and the
actual locale Of the story.
1t Costs Money
miss Mitchell expressed
the wish to see a Southern
girl in the role, and the studio
was quick to agree. Accord
ingly, David o. Selznick's
agents will march from At
lanta to the sea- conduct
ing interviews and screen
tests among Southern beau
ties en- route.
Katharine Brown, Sell
nick's Eastern talent scout,
is already on the scene, paw
ing the way for the extensive
talent hunt"
It happens that this sensa-
tionally popular novel has
been acquired by Selznick-
International for the screen.
It is also a fact that, having
paid a very substantial sum
for the rights, this company
is not, I believe, going to take
any risks as to it's probable
success by casting beginners
in important roles.
Hollywood names of emil
nence will be assigned to the
featured roles in this story.
Names that will be readily
recognized when they are
spelled out in the bright
lights of the flashing signs of
first-run theaters.
Amateur Dream
So I rise to voice a grave
doubt when I am asked to be-
lieve that amateur actors and
actresses are being given
"screen tests" for good roles
in "Gone With the Wind"
Call them "atmosphere" roles,
if YOU will. Which means
nothing more or less than
the opportunity for the for
tunate (?) selections to be
other than "extras.
A real screen test involves
more than a cursory scan
ming by a Hollywood agent
of boys and girls who have
picture possibilities. 1t means
more II an an addition. 1t
means considerably more
than an interview.
For instance, NJ a kin e
Doyle, after more than two
wears on the Earle Theater
stage as an Emcee, required
some influence before she
eventually secured a screen
test from Warner Bros.
A real screen test requires
the presence of sound equip
ment experts, it involves the
presence of a camera crew,
it generally calls upon the
candidate to speak lines and