davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-12-23

4-ROOM house with bath. Bargain. Phone 135 Douglas, morning or evening.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-12-23

FUR coats and other furs for sale Room 438, Gastineau Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-12-23

FOR SALES pl. KS Kenner Bird
 plane, oversize semi-air wheels,
The Washington times., 1937-07-08

The chief struggle Congress center in nterreaed
group measures all of which have thing
common That thing increased power for the President
layers steps in the proposed scheme Some
bills merely aim to take powers away from local units and
States and give them to the Federal Government This might
mean power Congress- But the other make
clear that such not the intent for they propose to concen
trate all power in the hands of the Executive.
In reality the whole scheme is closely knit do not know
whether there has any mind back of it, not but
the results would be much the same
At the top of the scheme is the bill to pack the Supreme
Court By breaking down the independence of the judges that
would much Of the constitutional restraint the
Presidents actions 1t would insure the validity of the laws he
Next to the court bill is the Government reorganization bill
This is designed the Presidents power all
of the Government but especially the independent
administrative Commissions" and boards These commits
sions e. g. Interstate Commerce CommSSon) combine
executive and judicial functions subject to legislation passed
by the Congress-
The foregoing measures passed. would make any President
dictator insofar Congress and courts concerned
Here where the other in They to
centraize great at Washington where the
President use it.
First comes the new wages and hours bill" Under the
guse of O eliminating child labor (2 setting flat mini
wage required for bare decent living This bill would
authorize complete executive control all wages and hours
That would mean complete control over industry.
Next the agricultural BILL which has just been revived
presidential support It would give the President control
farming operations ostensb for the purpose Of maintain
ing "ever normal granary"
Then there the proposal to establish flock of Twas
throughout the country thus putting the Government (under
the Presldent) in control of all power!
Fortunately things stand does not that of
these unless greatly moderated And this
think, is why business sentiment shows improvement
The bill has developed into attempt to put something
through that will take the sting out of the Presidents defeat
(The woudge packing is obviously either Just as bad in prn-
cpe six judges, fue The submttal of amend
limit the and of judges the logical
The Government reorganization bill is practically dead
This being the why pass the bills to establish MIRA
and AAA? Surely Congress does not want to the
Nations busness
(And remember this: Farmers don't want any NRA, and
laborers don't want any AAA)
The chances for democracy both political and economic look
better.
The Washington times., 1937-07-08
GROOM NAMES
COMMITTEES

Thomas j. Groom, president Of
the District of Columbia Bankers
Association, has announced ap-
pointment of the following COM
mitteeS:
Commercial trade activities
William B. Willard, chairman;
Aubrey o. Dooley. vice chairman;
John Alden, M. F. Calnan and
Frederick P. F. Siddons.
Government relations-W. T.
Vandoren, chairman; w. l..
Koontz, vice chairman, Fred Nc
Kee and Frank j. Stryker.
insurance. hn A. Reilly,
chairman; Nelson B. O'Neal,, vice
chairman; James C. Dulin, jr.,
Ralph Endicott. Frank P. Har"
The Washington times., 1937-07-08
LABOR EVENTS
IN CAPITAL
CONTINUED from Page 16)
vice president, and Timothy Nor
ley, secretary.treasurer.
Schedule of Local
Union Meetings

Local unions meeting between
today and next Thursday are as
follows: Baggage and Mail Han
dlers No. 1905, tomorrow; Beer
and Soda Water Drivers No. 81.
Tuesday; Boilermakers No. $50.
Wednesday; Bookbinders No. 4,
Wednesday; Bricklayers No. !,
Wednesday; Bridge and Iron
Workers No. 5, tonight; Buffers
and Polishers No. $50, Wednesday:
Building Trades Council, Tuesday;
Carpenters and Joiners No. 1890,
Tuesday; Carpenters and JoinerS
No. 1894, tonight; Electrical
Workers No. 26, tomorrow.
Elevator Constructors No. 10, to-
night; Engineers No. SO, Tuesday:
Engineers No. 1902, Sunday; Engi-
neers No. 724, Wednesday; Fire
men and oilers No. SO, Tuesday;
Fur Workers No. u, tonight; Gar
ment Workers No. IL, Monday:
Ice Cream Wagon Drivers No. Ill,
tonight; Ink Workers No. 5, to.
night; MachiniStS No. 1893, to-
night; Meta. Trades Alliance, to-
night; Milk Drivers No. 246, Satur-
day: Projectionists No. 224, Satur-
day; Painters No. 1858, tomorrow;
Paperhangers No. 400 tomorrow;
PlaStererS and Cement FinisherS
No. SO, tonight; Post Office Clerks
No. 140, tomorrow; Railway Clerks
No. 923, Monday; Railway Clerks
No. 3037, tonight: Railway Clerks
No. 2118, Monday; Railroad Teleg-
raphers No. 60, tomorrow; Stone
Cutters - washington branch),
Wednesday; Stone and Marble
Masons No. 2, tonight; Technical
En- gin GERS No. As, Tuesday;
Roofers No. 80, tomorrow; Up
holSterers No. So, Tuesday:
Women Upholstery Workers No.
So, Tuesday: Lathers No. 8, Mon
day.
The Washington times., 1937-07-08
Washington Produce

Eggs-Market full steady at I'M
changed prices. Current receipts. 20 to
81 cents: hennery whites, % to 20 cents.
Government graded and dated white
eggs; U. S. extras, large. % cents: U. S.
extras, medium. 2412 cents; U. S. stand
ards large, 24h cents.
Live POultry-Market about steady.
Prices unchanged. Fowl-Colored heavy
16 to II cents, a few at IS cents: No.
rs. 10 cents; leghorns IL to II cents;
No. rs, 10 cents; ROSTERS, 10 cents.
Chickens-Crosses, 20 to 81 cents. Rocks:
Virginia, 20 to 81 cents; leghorns, lbs,
IS cents; less than lbs. 16 cents Tur-
keys: Old hens. 16 to II cents; old toms,
IS TO II cents.
Daily Market Report on Fruits and
Vegetables
CantalOups-One Arizona, 4 California
arrived; broken and unbroken cars
on track. Supplies moderate; demand
light; market weak. California. Salmon
meats, jumbos 81, $2.75@S; 36s, s3.25
@3.5O; ASS, $3.5O@3.75; South Carolina,
Salmon meats, standards all sizes, fair
uanty, 25c@sl; North Carolina, bushel
hampers, packed locally, 75c.
HOneyballs No carlot arrivals:
broken car on track. Supplies very
light; demand slow; market steady. CAL
ifornia, jumbos SOS and ASS, 81.
The Washington times., 1937-07-08
MARKET RISES
SEVEN DAYS
STRAIGHT

NEW YORK. July 8 G.N.S),
. The stock market registered its
seventh consecutive rise today
although several issues were held
behind minus signs by light real
iZing.
Rails were the nominal market
leaders, chalking up gains running
to a point in New York Central
and Union Pacific.
Also in fairly active demand
were steels, utilities and oil shares
Rubbers and coppers were quiet
and mixed, while aviationS and
motors were inclined to lower
levels.
Chrysler lost over point. Gen
eral Motors dropped small frac-
ton. Du Pont in chemicals and
Western Union in communications
were among the few to drop a
point or more.
Wheat spurted cents at Chi
cago and 4 cents at Winnipeg.
Cotton eased somewhat. Minor
staples improved. Bonds were quiet
and mixed,
The Washington times., 1937-07-08
Chicago Livestock

CHICAGO, July UN.S) Hogs
1000; steady to weak. Holdovers 5000.
Top, S13.75; bulk. S1O.65@12.7o; heavy.
$11.7O@12.7O; medium, $12.25@12.75;
d12.5O; packing sows, $9@11.?5; pigs,
$9012.25.
Cattle-5,5OO; strong to Csc higher.
Calves, 1900; steady. Beef steers-GOod
choice, $13@17; common and medium,
$7@11; yearlings, $65O@1s. Butcher
cattle-Heifers, $5.95@1475; cows, $3.50
@10.6O; bulls. $5.5O@S.50: calves, $40
steers, $6@9.5O; stocker cows and heif-
ers, $5.5O@S.50.
Sleeps, 900; steady. Lambs, $11 @12;
common, $S@10.5O; yearlings. $7@9.S0;
feeders, $S.50@950; ewes, $2@4.50.
The Washington times., 1937-07-08
Local Stocks

SALES
Washington Gas SIS, 1860, 5000
115h.
Capital Transit Company, SO
10A.
Washington Gas Light Com
pany, 10@7812; 1o@7SA; 100
70.
Washington Railway and Elec-
trio preferred, l0@110l2.
AFTER CALL
Lanston Monotype, 10@91.
Mergenthaler Linotype, $50
43l2. - 0ta
The Washington times., 1937-07-08

man, jr., c. D. Radcliffe and
Frances E. Robey.
ProtectiVe-Robert H. Lacey,
chairman; Barnum L. Cotton, vice
chairman; Earle M. Amick, w. B..
Forster, E. L. Hillyer, and c. H.
Pope.
credit Bureaus. William Nit
chell, chairman; C. D. Radcliffe,
vice chairman; Hubert T. Sisson,
F. H. Cox, o. B. Exline, S. s..
Ogilvie, and William E. Schooley.
The Washington times., 1937-07-08

has been easy enough to get bad bills intro
duced and apparently we'll started. But by the
time the committee hearings are through, diff
culties begin to mount. The opposition mounts
and publicity develops Finally, the bill is
killed.
| make this point because it seems to me
that our legislative machinery is getting back
to more normal functioning and that this is
one of the most reassuring conditions concern
ing the economic policies of the Government.
I believe that it is going to be very hard to put
through most of the bad bills now pending.
The Washington times., 1937-07-08
HANEY 5 s:;:' F. s:: g: : s;
By LEWIS HANEY
Professor of Economics New York University

who the past have had anything to do with trying
put bills through Congress will agree with in one thing
usually hard to get bad bill passed 1t
Evening star., 1937-05-31
VETERAN INSURANCE
DEADL|NE NEARING
Temporary Policies Must Be Con.
verted Into Permanent Form
by Tomorrow.

BY the associated Press.
World War veterans holding tempo
rary Government .war-risk insurance
have until tomorrow to convert their
policies into other forms of insurance.
Officials of the Veterans Admins
tratlon explained today that policy
holders may convert into permanent
government insurance (straight life)
by submitting to physical examination
and paying an increased premium.
The premium for permanent insur-
ance, they said, is higher than that
OF the temporary or five-year term in
surance.
President Roosevelt Friday vetoed
bill which would have extended for five
years the time in which veterans might
convert their term policies. Holders of
such policies had been given three
previous periods of grace for CONVEX
sion, and Mr.. Roosevelt said 1t was
time they made permanent provisions
for the future.
Chairman Rankin of the House Vet
erans' Committee asked that the veto
message be tabled until tomorrow, in
dlcating he would ask Congress to
override the veto.
Evening star., 1937-05-31

Of Wisconsin for the tax job Eco
nomic royalists are Mr.. Groves IA
vorite clay targets.
Secretary Morgenthau insisted on
bringing in Prof. Magill, as an author
ity on Federal taxation, and as man
who ought to be able to uncover hide
outs and getaways in the income
tax maze. The Magill report on tax
evasion spurs drive for a general
overhauling and tightening Of the In
come tax law President Roosevelt,
in his last press conference, made it
clear that the swing on big-income
tax dodgers was entirely premeditated
and that congressional investiga-
tlon would follow. This writer saith.
cred, at the conference, that action
would be immediate and overt, possibly
starting with the Presidents return
from Hyde Park.
Ammunition Acquired.
Hold-outs on the Magill appoint
ment are cheering the Columbia pro-
fessor today. There Is no indication
that he pulled his punch in his fact
finding inquiry and the President
seemed to think he had enough am
munition to sink one or all of those
100000 yachts, allegedly used for tax
write-offs.
Prof. Magill might be one Of those
SIX men with passion for anonym-
lty'' for which the President yearned
when he was telling about the Brown
low report. Naturally, tax expert
isn't garlanded or spotlighted like the
top-bracket politicians here. and that
is all right with Prof. Magill, who
has been buster than a gopher bur-
rowing through the Treasury tax un-
oerground the last few months. He
is surprisingly human for one of
his profession, with nothing desiccated
or actuarial about him. and has made
pleasant field day out Of his tax
evasion study.
Prof. Magill is AZ years old, a native
OF Auburn. III. He was graduated
from Dartmouth and from the Uni
versity Of Chicago, as doctor of
Jurisprudence He was a captain in
the World War and began the practice
OF law in Chicago in 1920. He was
on the University of Chicago faculty
from 1921 to 1923 and has been with
Columbia since 1924. He was adviser
to the Tax Commission Of Puerto
Rico in 1928 and is the author OF
several impressive. and to the layman
quite beWildering, books on Federal
taxation.
(Copyrisht. 1872
Evening star., 1937-05-31

country people
with the gloomy that everywhere
feeling
that they
will
pivates when there actual illness
Whether the
chair talks diplomats
to the the street."
The British department
the Australian military
honor which would them the eeo
the front Of
M the Of
Windsor Warfd will be
the
The day laboer
he himself started life
fortune and married
of American volunteers fight
his
The Chateau de 1hich purchased from
Spanish nobman Drake del Castillo
OF rest betEeen to India Australia
Friends the
disappointed He
Evening star., 1937-05-31
Everybody Surprised.

SCOTTSBLUFF. Nebr. (P,.-George
Priggie was perplexed when he saw
crowd gathered about ditch in which
he had been working.
The crowd was perplexed, too, when
it saw Priggie.
But the men in the ditch were the
most perplexed Of all They were
digging for Priggies body. Priggie, q
plumber, had walked away to get some
cement just before the ditch caved in
Since nobody saw him leave, fellow
workers feverishly began to remove
several tons Of dirt in search Of his
BODY.
Evening star., 1937-05-31
ROOSEVELT FARM
CROPS TO BE GOOD
Spring Planting Is Successful at
Pine Mountain
Estate.

By the Associated Press.
WARM SPRINGS, Ga, May 81
Farmer Franklin Delano Roosevelt
may look forward to good harvest"
after a successful Spring planting at
Pine Mountain.
Otis Moore, tall, red-faced superin-
tendent of the Presidents 2,250-acre
estate, made the forecast here, basing
it upon years of contact with Georgia's
soil and weather.
I'VE have fine prospects for prac-
tically everything" he said
'The oats and corn are good and,
from the looks of the vineyard, therell
be plenty of grapes this Fall"
The weather, Moore said, has been
conducive to good crops-with neither
too much nor too little rain.
While the Presidents farm sprawls
over 3l2 square miles Of Pine Noun
tain, only about $50 acres are in
cultivation.
Pastures and forests cover the rest,
to the delight of work stock and the
Hereford herds, which are the pride of
Supt. Moore. Most of the crops are
foodstuffs for the cattle
Cotton. the Southern staple, is not
grown. The fruit of the half dozen
peach trees is for home use only.
Evening star., 1937-05-31

1t all with "subeco that
of the Aduant Generals office like machine
dated May H. the the President back from his fishing
and Daddy Fechner, the
The walop
to push most OF them right from under the
and the hnock into the cold cold wordjobess For the
Office recommendation training section Of the
fine No officer than
be on
But they won't If that be the officers willing
smhereens humming the
hneand Wiepullers Washington eapng their
"Thems orders says the Army. And the fight
present to
The Amys business Eighteen months
c. c. for officer fine far
Too long choperonng
Shauetan hoW to handle and make
too tender for gunpoWder.
differently business is handling 800 600
Feeding clothing and
which the Armys turnover plan would interfere with
Our staWa soldier boys aren't the only who have
pick with the Government
The W. P AS Federal theaer getting lot
For when the girls the
apply"
And why? The w P provide parts
five Broadway productions which
major for of supporting
characters, had woman's all
The weekend repeal rubber-stamp
act have revealed offensive.
warfare anc offensive the odline
Observers stationed at strategic
House bloc house evidence OF backf Harry
Hopkins artillery but there hare
1t that reefers their
relief provided in less scientific doses They
does.
But Mr. Hopkins practically social
worker he has specialized
There's the friction if the combustion
M Farley members
work but
siderles the
toners don't like this modern foldero
cash and let the meabosm
facts friends? They lately
perhaps that gave the Congress voters little false
Evening star., 1937-05-31
eoHT

II, more, they are
going to like it.
Mr. Roosevelt didn't call
September 1888
Iowa accent
Hopkins in
little relief
Mr. Hopkins
problems the scrambled
pretty much according to his
host
official family
leading sociological journal that
who turned local committee
Association
Now what he might do
with national
Copyright American Newspaper Alliance Inc,
Evening star., 1937-05-31

contributing factors, for the sharp
drop in prices.
c. B. Rogers. president of the State
Board OF Administration, vigorously
denied any prison dumping" Our
shipments to date" said Rogers,
amount to less than ! per cent Of
the States total production. The
dumping charge is popycock."
Faced with prices of 70 cents a
hundred pounds for No. grade and
20 cents for No. Is. the growers ap-
pealed to the Federal Government
for aid, and the Surplus Commodity
Corp. plans to start buying spuds the
first Of the week for relief purposes.
Evening star., 1937-05-31
POTATO PRICE DROP
SUSPENDS DIGGING
Holiday Spreads in Alabama
Fields-Convict Crop Dump.
ing Is Charged.
By the Associated Press.


ATMORE, Ala, May 3l.-A dig
ging holiday spread over a large
acreage Of South Alabama's potato
growing area, and charge was
voiced-and quickly challenged-that
dumping of convict-grown potatoes
had contributed to a drop in prices.
There was a virtual shutdown of
digging in the Atmore section Of Es-
Gambia County, where hundreds of
farmers annually harvest thousands Of
acres of potatoes.
A charge came from Loxley, Ala,
produce firm that dumping" of pota-
toes from the Atmore State prison
farm was to blame, with other major
Evening star., 1937-05-31
Man Defes All Germs,

Suti Chi of Canton, China, applied
at the Central Field Health Station
in Marking to demonstrate by tests
that he is immune to smallpox, in
fluenza, cholera, tuberculosis, dysentery
and bubonic plague. He is ready to
eat a mouthful of any of the germs
or a mixture Of all He draws the
line, however, at their injection into
his blood stream. That would be
risky, he comedies.
Evening star., 1937-05-31

In the meanwhile the basic criticisms
of this organization have been made
known through numerous statements
One of our outstanding experts on
social insurance, the executive secre-
tary OF the American Association for
Social Security, Mr.. Abraham Ep-
stein, has just presented an admir-
able monograph criticizing the pres
ent system and proposing amend
ments, which is published by the
League for Industrial Democracy.
The two reports, that Of the Twen-
teth Century Fund and of Mr. Ep-
stein, are in complete agreement at
many points. Thus, Congress has at
its disposal. if it cares to use it,
large amount of expert opinion.
Furthermore, there is no need for
pioneering in this field and for re-
peating mistakes which have been
made in the past Although social
insurance on national scale is a
new thing in this country, 1t is not
a new thing elsewhere. Germany
has had social insurance since Bis
marck introduced it in the 188Os;
the principle of contributory pay
ments for unemployment insurance
which Bismarck introduced in an
era of young capitalism, when un-
employment was largely transitional
and temporary, was afterward kept
by the German Republic and broke
down completely in 1882, whereas the
British system. which was based only
partially on contributions from wage
earners and employers and largely
supported by direct taxation, has
worked, on the whole, admirably, after
a great many adjustments. But there
is nothing in our act to indicate that
its trainers were familiar with the
German and British experience. At
any rate, they took over the worst
features of the German laws and
ignored the successful British expert
ence.
obstructive" Criticism.
Nor has all of the criticism of the
present legislation been constructive.
One hears often the statement that
old-age and unemployment insurance
ought to be put on sound actuarial
basis" Although from an actuarial
standpoint the present legislation can
certainly be criticized-higher paid
young workers, for instance, entering
the system when the per cent rate
goes into effect, will actually pay
much higher premiums than would be
charged by private insurance COM
pany for the same annuities-it is a
great social mistake. I think, to re-
gard assurances primarily from an &C
tuarial standpoint.
You cannot make social security
laws on the actuarial principles of pri-
vate insurance. The purpose Of such
laws is what needs to be borne in
mind, and the purpose is not to enforce
thrift upon the poor, whose incomes
are inadequate, anyhow. to the main
tenance of a decent living standard
for the family. The purpose of social
assurances is to stabilize the economic
order, maintain purchasing power in
times OF depression and so halt the
downward slump, prevent the accumu-
latlon Of vast masses of charity cases,
to be taken care Of by made work pro-
Evening star., 1937-05-31

was kro n as q
conservative, and
he is a son OF the
d ! S t n g uLshed
H u g h Stewart
Magill Of Chi
cago, who, as
president of the
American Feder-
alton Of In yest-
ors, is bracketed
more with the
haves than the
have-rots. The
treat EN- rough
crowd here want
ed Harold Groves
nf tha TTri,,orei+,,
Evening star., 1937-05-31

continues 70 THINK That she Is the
finest woman in the world. But he
does not know what to do with
his many idle hours. The Duke of
Windsor was brought up to be the
ruler Of 50o,ooooOO people. From
his childhood on he was busy. In
his youth he had to go through
thorough naval and military train
ing. Later he was Great Britain's
salesman. He had to make an eff
fort to find time for plav and that
Evening star., 1937-05-31

OF an uu JuSl lllltu
inference.
Now, however,
the President has
embarrassed his
o W n defenders
somewhat by a
frank acknowl-
edgment that one
of his chief pur-
poses of his bill
to add new JUS
tices is to assure
favOra BILE deci-
SlOnS on other
parts of the ad-
miniSt,ratiOn DrO-
gram q OF vet
Evening star., 1937-05-31

SLuQenLS OF So
cial insurance, of
no outstanding
expert, who be-
lieve t h a t t h e
present legisla-
ton is adequate.
T h e Twentieth
c e n t ury Fund
h as Spe n t Is
months in hav-
ing a thorough
analysis made Of
the existing laws
and will shortly,
I understand, re-
lease a compre-
Evening star., 1937-05-31

THE opinions OF the rers page are their o,u not
necessarily The Stars Such opinions presented in
the Stars effort to glve all sides questions interest its
readers although such opinions may contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars. ~
Evening star., 1937-05-31

1IIe IuIhuS uIuH keep the
President from holidaying at
Hyde Park. Mr.. Hopkins was out
OF town. True, he got on the
microphone with agility, but that's
part of the technique. Meanwhile,
somebody spent his Memorial day
week end telling the bloc-heads,
as some eXasperated New Dealers
privately call the leaders of this
movement, that they are going to
get practically what they deserve
Evening star., 1937-05-31
Folk
and What
They Do
Magill Report on Tax
Envasion Spurs Drive
for Tighter Law.

IN HE more fervid New Dealers
took it pretty hard when Prof.
Roswell Foster Magill became
4 special assistant to the Secre-
tary of the Treasury, to explore tax.
lodging and point out the dodgers. He
Evening star., 1937-05-31
This Changing World
"Man on the Street, in Europe Differs With Dipo.
mats on Theory War Is Not Near.
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.

BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.
ME Spanish Loyalst
the present foreign invasion and treat such.
Franco satisfied with the Of civil
aviators direct
and foreign wh there probability
ordinary regarding Europe
Evening star., 1937-05-31

diplomats in the United States and
American diplomats stationed in
Europe profess to believe that there
Is no imminent danger of war. So
say leading citizens who are i'm
portant enough to be interviewed by
ship reporters as liners from Europe
arrive in New York.
But ordinary Americans, those
who are not important enough to
make headline, think differently.