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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-10-04

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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-10-04
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The Washington times., 1937-04-03

and g. C. Beresford find htrnR
Or. finally, is he the man he
wished himself to be as revealed
through the stalwart characters
Of Captains Courageous" soon
to be seen here as an M.-G.1M- pic
ture?
The question is an intricate one,
but seemingly, the inner man re-
veals himself in Manuel, the
Portuguese fisherman, and in
Harvey, the spoiled boy who grows
into a fine youth through the
rigors of the sea and Self-diS-
cipline. All the things that human
beings admire the most are IN this
Kipling story: heroism, hulnor,
melody, fair play, spirituality and
persistence.
It would be pleasant, surely, to
take these qualities as inherent in
Kipling rather than the traits
attributed to him by contempt
raries.
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\ is the patron saint OF cadet corps
masters, an inexhaustive fount Of
sham manly sentiment, and one Of
the most potent forces in the
shriveling Of the, British political
imagination during the past third
Of a century,"
G. C. Beresford, another one
OF Kipling's contemporaries, seems
to see him more clearly. In his
recent book, "Schooldays With
Kipling," he describes the famous
writer definitely, emphasizing his
studiousness, his disinterest in
sports and his aptitude for writing.
In summarizing Kipling'S charac-
ter, he shows the characteristics
that are found again in Captains
Courageous" the morality Of
work, growth by elf-discipline,
great love for the sea and an ad-
miration for the English Tommy
Atkins.
Which then, is the resultant
The Washington times., 1937-04-03
Anne ShirIey-Owen Davis Jr.
Are Really on the Verge

HOLLYWOOD. April 3 GN.SJ. :
Bets are being made around the
film colony that Anne Shirley and
Owen Davis, jr., will wed soon,
despite the nonmarriage clause
in her RK-O contract.
If they do, there will be no
parental opposition. Mrs. Mimi
Shirley, mother of the star, made
this plain today.
At would never interfere with
Anne's choice Of husband any.
way" she declared, "but particu-
larly not in this case. Owen is
O fine boy. If I had picked one
out for Anne myself, I couldn t
have done q better job. AS far
as I am concerned, the marriage
can happen any time"
There was one hot rumor that
the youthful film pair were secret,
ly wed in a Mexican ceremony a
month ago. but this is denied by
al concerned.
Those close to the situation be-
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By BERNARD soBEL

In these days it is easy for great
people to live again. Either new
biographies refresh their life his
tories Or The movies bring them
back as personalities or by means
Of their novels and short stories.
Such, certainly, has been the
case with Rudyard Kipling. Some
thing of Myself" his recently pub
lished autobiography, makes him
a contemporary and discloses, at
the same time, the manner in
which he came to fame.
Kipling was born in India, and
at an early age grew accustomed
to Indian temples, oriental atmos-
phere and the odorS and charm of
the Far East.
Then, when he was q small boy,
his parents brought him to Eng
land and placed him In . house
operated by a woman who was a
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religious fanatic. But he. must have
found much in his soul to. brighten
the sad hours. He must have re-
created frequently the Indian sun,
the exotic temples, the flowers and
the life of which he Was deprived.
Certainly when, as q boy, he
turned to literature for solace and
recreation, he was quick to dupli-
cate the atmosphere Of his child
hood. He used India as local
color" giving this term its first
important literary significance.
Other autobiographies recently
published exhibit highly divergent
views of Kipling'S. Arnold Ben
nett remarks in his biography that
despite Kipling'S love for the sea
and his admiration for seamen, he
was not always kind, to them. At
timeS-and this is surprising-he
even reported them for ineffi-
cheney.
H. q. Wells, in his work, "Ex-
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Cable sLift'' to Mountain Top

Aside from the Swiss village Set our most interesting
location here at the summit of Dollar Mountain the
less snowcovered slope where most of the skiing DONE
There's ski lift that takes you up 2400 feet from the bot
tom, and whole troupe-incudng and sound
equipments taken to work in the lift.
The lift consists of endless CABLE electrically driven
which is suspended tall poles equipped with rollers
Chairs attached to the cable at intervals of about IS
feet and you make the 2400foo ride in about eight
minutes It's strange sight to watch company arriv
ing for work atop Dollar Mountain First in make
up leaps off and begins putting skis The next chair
has big box strapped to it, containing Of the
Next may be another player may be the portable
soundrecording equipment And at they send up
huge heatretaning containers full of food along with
dishes and siverware
When get back to Hollywood in few weeks, we
probably won't believe all these things ourselves AS said
in the beginning does slightly crazy, doesn't iti
Cordially yours,
The Washington times., 1937-04-03
Herbert Marshall In
'Fiqht For Your Lady'

Herbert Marshall will return to
the screen soon in q romantic
comedy, Fight for Your Lady" by
Jean Negulescu and Isabel Leigh
ton, which has just been pur-
chase, by S. ]. 3riskin, vice preSi.
dent in charge OF production at
RkO Radio.
Fight for Your Lady" will see
Marshall cast as Americas No. /
bachelor, with a miximum of gay
adve ,ures to enact.
Marshall only Gently returned
to Hollywood from a lengthy va.
cation in England.
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Who's Who?

Jack Oakie was on his knees
feeding greens to three white rab-
bits, while cameras recorded a
scene of THE Toast of New York."
in which Edward Arnold is star
ring for R-K-O Radio. Suddenly
one Of the rabbits went on a sit
down hunger strike.
When Dixie tried to tempt him
with celery leaf, the rabbit res
ponded by wrinkling his nose and
Tapping his ears.
wait a minute" said Jack,
who's playing the comic in this
scene, you or me?"
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George O'Brien Back
For HirIiman Third

George O'Brien has returned to
Hollywood from New York where
he attended the Broadway pre-
miere Of the new John Golden
play, "And Now Goodbye" in
which his wife, Marguerite
Churchill, has one of the stellar
roles. He will start preparations
Immediately for the filming Of his
third George A. Hirliman produc-
ton for RKO Radio release, an
untitled original by Dan Jarrett
and Ewing Scott.
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wouldn't believe it either UNEMPLOYED territory lies within
few miles of the wooded valley where Paramount
pany has built Swiss resort village which will appear
my comedy romance u Met Him in Paris" There is
almost every night, but have five snowplows to
break the 12me trail between headquarters and the
You'd have laughed, 1 did, the other night when
we were coming home. Wesley Ruggles our producer
director, riding in station wagon when it slipped
icy stretch in the road and into snowbank
They couldn't get the machine out with snowplow
Rugges and the others rode back to the hotel in the
pow itself We heard roaring motor in the distance and
putting toward It stopped in front of the hotel just
like taxcab and Ruggles jumped out. All in the days
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Still An Amateur Or Skis

I suppose should tell you that by now expert
skater and skier, but I'm not In fact thankful the
picture expressly requires that Mevyn Douglas Robert
Young and should appear in the winter sports
just are-rank amateurs spent quite while prac
tcing skating so can do few simple antics But the
skis something else.
I've been watching the Austrian skiers who teach in the
Sun Valley ski school here They booming down the
mountains at terrifying speed, and must say looks
absurdly smple-untl you try it. Their favorte phrase
far I'm concerned to be, "You semming
agan-always stemming" Semming is the easiest thing
about skiing It's the most natural thing in the world to
have skis turn in pgeonoe fashion The only trouble
is that when it happens you usually fall down.
It's lots of fun, though to watch somebody else do
Chrsty turn gelunde spring jump turn. AS Bert
Williams used to say somebody ese-not The Austrians
tell the latest called the tempo turn which
consists of making turn with skis closed together but
slightly ahead Of the other Somebody else do that
As for I'm sticking to what they call the nursery slope
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zero. 1t still
seems slight
ly crazy, but
that is ex-
actly W h a t
I'm doing.
l have the
d a ly evil
dence Of the
thermometer
that our To-
cation in Sun
Valley, Ida
no, while COW
e re d wit
CT les and
six feet Of
S n o W still
h a S summer
W e a t her in
the daytime.
o t herwise I
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,question, is the real Kipling, and,
the one which posterity would like
to preserve? Is he the man that
he discloseS himself to be in his
own biography? Is he the man
that Arnold Bennett, H. G. Wells
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'lieve that the wedding will not
be delayed longer than the fall.
Anne's option at R-K-O comes up
in August and it would not sur.
prise Hollywood to see her go to
the altar Immediately afterwards.
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pertinent in Autobiography" con-
IfeSses that he cannot understand
Kipling, saying: HE has an i'm
mense vogue in the British mid
dle-clasS and upper-class home; he
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In a Swiss Resort Village
They Enact the Story Of
"She Met Him in Poris"
Dear Mr.. Kelly:


Until short time ago. I'd have said that anyone
crazy who told would be working in snow picture
with the temperature lowering around So degrees above
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-23

An instance of the voluntary MAolitlofl of industrial home work Ht an organization of manufacturers which became convinced of the so- eial lfndersirahility of this labor practice, has recently come to the AEtention of the Women's Bureau With headquarters in New York city, hdopted unanimously 6 recomrnen- dalton to abolish home work in the Industry as promptly as possible From the practical point of view 1t npepArs that this will be accom- piished within the next few months.
 The step just taken Is final one in a program of gradual elimina- tion of home work within the tag in- dustry. According to a report of the Tag Manufacturers Institute, at one time the industry had at least 1se0O home workers employed, but within a Swear periot about 90 per cent of the homework evil was re- moved.
 Disadvantages
 Some of the disadvantages of in- nsistrial home work to women in the tag industry were made clear by a study of such work, conducted by the Women's Bureau in the sum slaer of 1886, at the request or the manufacturers organization. Though the Tag Institute, after scientifically timing different tag stringing operations, set up @ scale of rates for each operation arnied to yield workers at least 33 cents an hour, the survey revealed that due to factors beyond the control of employers these rates had failed 10 materialize for hom workers. or 100 workers in lo5 households sur veyed by the Women's Bureau, none had earned as much as 8 cents An hour on all tag-stringing opera tions they had done in the week ot the investigators visit. Only l2
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-23
FAIR TRADE ACT
 NOW CONSIDERED
Druggists, Sponsor of Measure, Organize Dili-
 gent Committee

With William J. Dunphy, of Wa terbury, president of the Connecti- cut Pharmaceutical Association, presiding, druggists of the state and representatives of candy, liquor, to- bacco, perfume and department store operators met at the House of Representatives, Hartford, yester- day to consider effectuation of the fair trade act.
 The druggists of the state were sponsors of the measure in the Gen. eral Assembly and they have organ ized a fair trade committee, func- tioning of which was outlined by Mir. Dunphy. Despite fact that the law has been in effect since July l, Mir. Dunphy said, only one contract has been signed. This was with the maker of a popular brand of cigar cites.
 It was expected, he said, that about 300 similar contracts will be signed within the next few weeks. To speed this procedure, headquart- CTS have been established ct the state capitol with William Meyers of Hartford, secretary executive of the committee, in charge.
 Hugh P. Beirne of New, Haven, secretary of the state pharmacy commission, told the delegates that favorable action by Congress on the Tydings-N Miller bill would enable owners of trade-marked goods to make fair trade contracts across state lines.
 Waterbury men at the meeting in- cluded Isador Stoll, Paul J. Kunkel and Clark II. W. Newton.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-23
actory Home Work
 Found Undesirable
Large Organization of Industrialists Voluntarily
 Abandon PraCtise-C COnnecticuts Legislation Cited

had earned 2S cents an hour or more on all operations.
 Thtis stand by one industry on the question of industrial home work reflects an awakening to the disadvantages of this type of pro- duction on the part of vraious Sec- tions of the American public, acc cording to the women's bureau. The last year has brought marked prog ress in the enactment and enforce ment of legislation to prohibit or control industrial home work. New legislation in this field, modelled on 6 standard bill, has been adopted in Massachusetts; Pennsylvania and Illinois have passed new laws dealing with homework regula- tions: Connecticut has amended its homework law; and Texas has en- acted such legislation for the first time.
 Seventeen states now have some type of homework legislation on their statute books. Most of these laws prohibit home work on cer- tain processes, and for other types of work they require the employer to secure annually from the state labor department a license per- mitting the employment of home workers. For this license fee is paid. In addition, most laws re- quire that home workers be given certificates before engaging in such employment.
 Connecticut Laws
 The effectiveness of such legisla- ton was recently attested to by Connecticut law administrators, who reported that in 1883 when the statelaw went into effect there were 1000 home workers in the state, of whom 600 were children at work on bead bags. All sorts of processes were performed at home, such as sewing infants dresses, garter mak-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-23

Chase company official welcomes
 Traffic club to new Country club soon for Worcester to become agent there for his companq.
 James B. Grimm, president of the club and trafflc manager of the Scovill Mfg, Co.,, presided and pre- sented Fred A. Jackie, general man. ager of the Chase Brass and Copper company, who welcomed the club members to the club, recently ac- quired by his company's foremen, The property formerly was the Mat tatuck Country club.
 Following an afternoon of golf and sports the dinner was held and among speakers from various trans portation agencies of the state was F. w. Brown, traffic manager of the Chase Brass and Copper com pany.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-23
.S6O2 COLLECTED
 IN LOCAL DRIVE
Money to Benefit Children of Spanish Descent i'm
 War Zones

Spanish children in the war scnes will benefit exclusively from the $eo2.5o which has been collected to date by the Waterbury branch of the Spanish Child-Teeding Mis- sion of the American Friends (cuakers).
 A report with that information was given at 6 luncheon meeting at 6l Church street yesterday. Miss Elizabeth Wade White, chairman of the committee, came from Cape Cod to attend the meeting which was also attended by Stuart E.. Judd, treasurer, and Mrs. Goodrich Smith, Miss Marjorie Farley, Mrs. Roger s. Sperry and Chase Kimball.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-23

ing, carding snaps and hooks and eyes, knitting children's garments, and wrapping wire for kid curriers'. At the present time only l37 women in the state hold certificates allow ing them to do home work.
 A recent effort by New York and New Jersey departments of labor to curb hy-by-night manufacturers using home workers has resulted in an agreement whereby New York contractors can not send nor give out work to home workers in New Jersey.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-23
BEAUTY CONTEST
 OUTING FEATURE

Alfred R. Drescher is general chairman of the outing of the Wa terbury Swiss Society which will be held at Lake Quassapaug on Sunday. Officials of national, state, county and city units are expected to attend.
 Among the entertainment features will be an exhibition drill by the Waterbury Gymnastic Society, and 8 bathing beauty contest, in addi- ton to various sporting events with prizes in the offing. Music will be furnished by two orchestras.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-23
CROCUT IGNORED
 BY TRAFFIC CLUB
Local Member Leaving for New Position Presented
 With Bag

Members of the Naugatuck Valley Traffic club honored J. A. Grocut, vice-president of the organization, yesterday at c dinner of the club held at Chase Foremen's Country club, presenting him Q travelling bag. MT. Grocut, local agent of the Railway Express company, leaves
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-23
COW BARN AIR. CONDITIONED

Fremont, Neb., (UP)-They're air conditioning the COW barns in Me- braska, where 10o-degree heat is common in summer. At least one farmer, Dan v. Stephens, has adopt- ed that practice. He has installed a four-ton mechanical unit in his dairy barn at The Cottonwoods, his country home.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-23

Less than i2,500 automobiles are being produced in France each month.
Evening star., 1937-03-24
SETTLEMENT DISPUTED.
five-and-Ten Stores Deny They Are
Bound by Agreement.

PROVIDENCE, R. l., March "a OP.
Providence retail stores, reopened
yesterday after a city-wide. one -day
strike by the Committee for Industrial
Organization. were literally swamped
by thousands of Easter shoppers that
thronged the downtown district
throughout the day.
Several hundred of the shop girls
in department and other stores who
were actually enrolled with the
c. I. o. when the city-wide strike
was called Sunday afternoon. con-
sloered the one-day strike a lark.
albeit q profitable one. with wage in
creases assured and no time docked
for the day off.
Meanwhile, as the union took stock
OF the gains made by the one-day
strike that actually brought closing
OF IS downtown stores in addition to
IL closed voluntarily on Saturday
managers OF some OF the stores af-
fected by the strike said they had not
been represented in the negotiations
which brought settlement of c. 10
oculdlQS.
Managers of the stores of the F. w
Woolworth Co., S. S. Kresge Co., the
J. J. Newberry Co.. w. T. Grant Co.
and F. and w. Grand Co.. said the,
did not consider themselves bound bJ
the terms of the agreement. They
further said they had already granted
wage increases to employees, which ir
some instances bettered the increase
obtained by the union.
Principal department stores ane
scores of smaller specially shop.
agreed to an increase Of 10 per cen
for employees receiving SIS or less, u,
per cent for those receiving SIS to $40
and per cent for those receiving s2(
to $50.
Pawtucket, r. l., merchants, at ,
meeting yesterday, voted to increase
wages commensurate with the new
rates to be put into effect in Provi.
dence. The increases will affect 2OO(
workers.
Evening star., 1937-03-24
II TAKEN FROM SHIP.

NEW YORK, March "a (F).-Seven-
teen men who lined the rails of the
Norwegian steamer Bjerkli for more
than 20 hours while water Seeped into
the vessels hull were on their way to
Boston today safe in q sturdy Coast
Guard cutter.
They didn't even get their feet wet.
A half dozen vessels searched
through bufIeting waves in a north
west gale in the graveyard OF the
North Atlantic" for the pin point which
was the freighter Bjerkli before the
cutter Chelan spotted the l,1o0-odd-
ton boat
The unpracticed hand of an anna
teur radio operator aboard the Bjerkn,
who dispatched distress call Monday
evening, made locating the vessel diff
ficult. A heavy sea was running and
the Bjerkli was down by her head,
ready to give up the ghost, when res
cue was effected some 400 miles south
of Sable Island, due east OF Cape Cod.
Seven of the Bjerkli's seamen missed
out on the anxious wait for help They
started q sit-down strike for higher
wages and shorter hours shortly before
the vessel touched at Norfolk last
week and were left ashore at the Vir-
ginia city.
Evening star., 1937-03-24
STORE WALK0UT
/. FEARED IN BOSTON
Police on Special Duty as
"Sit-D0Wn" Threats
Are Heard.
~ the Associated Press.

BOSTON, March 24-Police made
mobilization plans today in what Police
Supt. Edward w. Fallon described as
a move to guard against serious labor
trouble" in the downtown shopping
area
Fallon said he had learned "indi-
rectly" that q Shutdown" strike might
be called in department stores and that
cleansers and dyers might strike at the
same time. He declined to reveal the
source Of his information.
He Cancelled all officers days of
starting today and ordered day men
who ordinarily 60 of duty at 5:45 pm.
to remain on duty tonight.
Meanwhile New England officials OF
the Committee for Industrial Organ
ization announced plans for enrolling
250000 textile workers in this area.
Hyman Blumberg, chairman OF the
| organizations Textile Workers Com
mittee in New England. said he hoped,
within six or eight weeks, to have
sufficient numerical strength to enable
his group to confer with employers ito
adjust any differences"
William Hutchinson, president of
the Boston local, Retail Store Employees
union, last night said strike would
be considered only in the event current
negotiations failed.
He said the union sought a 20 per
cent wage increase and a 4O-hour,
flve-day work week
New Bedford led yesterdays success
sion of increases, the New Bedford
Cotton Manufacturers Association an
bouncing the scale adjustments for
10000 workers. The new scale, ef1ec-
tive April II, and the second In five
months, calls for \ weekly pay roll
increase Of 100000
This boost was announced after 4
meeting with representatives OF the
New Bedford Textile Council, which
indicated an intention of submitting
the new scale to the C. I. O. with a
request that 1t be recognized rs the
minimum for this industry North and
South"
Upward OF $500 Woonsocket, R. l.,
mill employees, $50 Medway operatives
and 900 North Andover textile ma
chinery workers likewise received
boosts.
Ten per cent increases were an
nounced for 1000 workers in II Woon-
socket textile mills as Mayor Joseph
Pratt moved to effect an arbitration
conference to end strikes of from two
to nve weeks duration in six other
| mills.
In Medway, $50 operatives received
similar raises. while 600 employees of a
North Andover textile machinery COM
pany were granted equal boosts
In Pittsfield 300 workers of the
Berkshire Woolen Co. and 300 of the
Wyandotte Manufacturing Co. were
given varied raises.