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The Washington times., 1937-02-19
PWA
CONTINUANCE
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allocated funds left from a $780,.
100000 revolving fund provided
last year.
Strong advocates Of the PWA
in Congress are expected to make
an effort to increase the fund so
the volume of construction work
done through WPA will not have
to be curtailed.
Ends in June
PWA's authority expires under
the present act at the end Of the
fiscal year, June 30. Last year Con.
greSS authorized PWA to use $780,.
100000 of its revolving fund for
grants on non-Federal projects.
President Roosevelt placed a limi-
tation on use of the fund, requir-
ing that all projects started must
be completed during the fiscal year
and that all of the Federal funds
used must go to labor on the site.
Under these restrictions, PWA
was able to allot only $120, ,00o,9 900
Of its funds.
Several States had public build
ing programs planned, but their
projects could not be completed
within the specified time. Gov.
George H. Earle Of Pennsylvania
recently appealed for $65, 100000
for a State public building re-
Mobilization program, but was told
that PWA had no funds for works
which could not be completed by
the coming June.
urgent" Need
Last week, Governor Earle ap-
pealed to President Roosevelt. He
submitted a list calling for con.
struction Of $42,000,000 worth Of
State institutions, including tu'
bereulosis sanitariunn, and new
charitable and correctional insti-
tuition buildings, or additions to
buildings.
All told the Pennsylvania pro
gram called for $65, 100000 worth
of construction, but Earle sub
mitted the $42,00o,0oo list as "ur'
gent"
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DUE
TO TESTIFY
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is a professional prostitute she
still may have a basis for breach
of promise"
Halperin continued:
Did you ever discuss with
Van Dyke your inability to have
children because you were mar
ried at the age of Is to a much
older man."
II certainly did not"
Halperin also questioned her
again regarding one Armand Ro'
lando. She denied Rolando ever
called on her at her hotel room.
Rubinoff may take the stand to-
day to enter his denial of Peggy'S
charges
The 24-year-old former Virginia
girl, who was checking hats in a
Harlem night club when she met
Rubinoff, declared in her testl
mony that he backed out on
promise to marry her after prov
ing himself to be a most ardent
lover" and said he was "too busy
when she told him she was going
to have a child. Before the trial
was resumed today in Queens
court. Rubinoff said:
"The entire episode with all its
utterly false accusations has
made me literally sick.
"LIFE's FUNNY"
'Life is funny. When / was
a struggling musician, fighting
for recognition, i was told by
friends who had already ar
rived: 'Dave, it's not all taking
bows and feeling great when you
are apblauded. Success only
means intrigue, back-biting and
'sniplna.'
81 uss I'd to laugh it off, but 1
guess they were right. / sup
pose tn ht anyone who succeeds
in sur1nOunting all the hard
blows between success and fail.
ure has to bear the sort of tor.
ture being forced upon me
now"
Asked to comment upon Peggy
accusations, Rubinoff replied:
cat the proper time. will.
And that will be on the witness
stand when I'm under oath to
tell the truth and nothing but
the truth"
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in
Congress
SENATE

Meets at noon.
Considers bills on the calendar.
Finance Committee considers re-
ciprocal trade extension.
Public Buildings and Grounds
Committee holds hearing on Mel
lon art gallery gift.
La Toilette committee resumes
labor spy investigation.
HOUSE
Meets at noon.
Resumes consideration of Treas
ury-PoSt Office bill.
Appropriations sub C nmittee
considers Labor Department sup
ply bill.
Interstate Commerce Committee
considers amendments to Federal
trade act.
Foreign Affairs Committee con-
siders neutrality legislation.
Judiciary subcommittee con-
siders bankruptcy bills.
Ways and Means Committee
continues coal study.
Civil Service Committee con-
siders Civil Service extension.
Agriculture Committee considers
farm tenant bill.
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$4,000, 900
GOLD SHIPPED

NEW YORK, Feb. 10 G.N.s).
Over a secret route, $4,000, 900
in gold was being shipped by train
today from the United States
assay office here to the Govern
ment depository at Fort Knox, KY.
A similar amount was shipped
from New York on January IS.
The gold was packed in 480
boxes, and was conveyed to the
Pennsylvania station in 16 mail
trucks, guarded by soldiers, motor.
cycle police, detectives, Secret
Service agents and post office in:
spectors. -.
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WITNESS SAYS
6. NJ. STRIKERS
. WERE SHOT
Many CIubbed, Man.
gold Tells Senate
Group at Hearing
international News Service

Union workers were driven from
Flint (Mich0 Chevrolet plants by
company officials and q band OF
men armed with guns, gas and
clubs at the beginning of the Gen.
eral Motors strike, 1t was testified
before the Senate Civil GloerCleS
committee today.
The labor disorders which oc-
Cured at the Flint plants prior 70
and at the beginning Of the strike
were described by James H. Man
gold, member Of the U. A. w. coun-
Gil at Flint.
Mangold said the first major
labor disorders at Flint occurred
February Is at Chevrolet plant
No. 8, which resulted in some
swollen throats. cracked skulls
and a couple Of shootings."
Called to Plant
Mangold said that on the morn
ing Of February / he got q call
that they were throwing union
men out of plant No. g." He said
he ran down to the plant and en-
tered the back gate.
Senator La Toilette (P) Of Wis
consin, chairman of the commit
tee. was told by Mangold:
II saw Superintendent LcnE
come into the back gate with q
gang of men. One had a gun,
and the others had gas bombs
and clubs.
"As they entered the plant the
gates to the plant were closed
and LenZ and the men began
throwing gas and hitting men
with clubs.
II saw some man whom l
didn't know running around and
shooting right into the crowd"
Asked La Toilette:
"Was any one hit?"
Mangold replied:
eyes, several men, but ! don't
think they were hurt much"
The committee will continue a
chapter that. is unique in the
heretofore untold story. It will be
continued by Lawrence Barker.
formerly a Pinkerton undercover
man, engaged to spy on the
unions.
His story dates back to October
1885, when he was hired by
Robert Mason, vice president Of
Pinkerton, to spy in the Lansing,
Mich, plant Of the Fisher Body
Company.
Converted by Union
He was given q Job in the plant.
lie worked hard, turned in lots
Of reports, and made friends with
his fellow workers. He was In.
structed to join the United Auto.
mobile Workers Union, and he did.
He became vice president in a few
months. But through association
with his working mates, he said he
became Converted"
Then. he told the committee, he
"had an idea" He confessed to
other union officers that he was
a Pinkerton agent. They accepted
his confession in good faith and
he retook the oath Of allegiance.
But he rejoined the union with
the understanding" that he
would turn about and inform the
U. "A. w. of his employers espion'
age activities.
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BATTLE
OVER MADRID
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planes and one junker tri-motored
bomber, according to a govern
ment communique, while rebel dis
patches asserted II loyalist craft
were shot down. The rebels also
announced five loyalist planes
were grounded on the Aragon
front.
Both loyalists and insurgents
claimed victory.
Hitler to Ban Nazis
Fighting in Spain
Copy right, 1887. BY International News
Service)
BERLIN, Feb 19.-Chancellor
Adolf Hitler has decided to for
bid Germans to volunteer for
fighting in Spain, International
News Service learned today.
This sensational step apparent.
ly was finally decided upon yes
te1day, and IS expected to be
made effective as of midnight to.
night.
The ban on reich volunteers is
contained in a special decree
dated yesterday. Text of the new
law was expected to appear in the
official gazette tomorrow under
the signature Of Foreign Minister
Constantin Won Neurath.
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Women in "Sit" Strikes
As spouses Keep House

ETROIT, Feb. 10 GN.s0
With nearly 1000 militant women
workers now in the ranks Of sit
down strikers, the epidemic Of
strikes here grew in number today
with eight in progress.
New strikes cropped up as
quickly as old ones were settled.
Altogether a dozen strikes, most Of
them involving women, have been
called in the past 43 hours. Five
were quickly settled.
Sitdowns by the women created
many problems for their families,
husbands. children and the police,
who hitherto had thought sit
downing was a mans job. Police
woman Elenore Hutzel wanted to
know, she said, whether it was
decorous for the women strikers to
remain in plants overnight when
men strikers also were there.
Meantime, since many Of the
women strikers were married, their
families went motherless for the
time being. Husbands had to cook
their own meals, wash or stack the
dishes and put their children to
bed.
Women Enjoy Selves
Most Of the women involved
looked on their strikes as q pinic.
Most Of the strikes were of q
spontaneous nature, not called by
unions. However, organizers OF
John L. Lewis CLIO. quickly
moved to the scenes. Auto workers
paraded and established picket
lines in support of the strikers.
Extra squads Of police were
called today when 500 union work
kers from an automobile plant
paraded in front Of the L. A. Young
Spring and Wire Company, where
200 women and 500 men were
sitting down.
The collective bargaining con-
ference between General Motors
Corporation and the United Auto
Workers Union resumed on an
optimistic note today.
AS c. E. Wilson, General Mot
ors vice president, and Wyndham
Mortimer, union vice president,
entered the fourth-day sessions,
both said they were Optimistic"
and indicated nothing would be
allowed to disrupt the confer.
ence.
Sources close to the company
said the SEtack on a General
Motor anti.union employe at
Saginaw earlier today would not
be considered.
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BABC0CK ASKS
'BLANKETING'
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in without any form Of examina.
ton. This group was comprised
Of 10000 workers in the Soil Con-
servation Bureau, he said.
Pointing out that workers in
the emergency agencies have ac-
quired their jobs because Of some
type OF influence, Mr.. Babcock
asked the committee to provide a
guarantee for Civil Service work.
ers that, in the event Of person
mel reductions, those who have a
classified status will be permitted
to retain their positions under a
rule Of seniority.
Aided by Influence"
In this connection Mr.. Babcock
said;
without mincing words may
I say that whether the present
employees in these noncivil service
Jobs were originally appointed
because Of political, friendly,
fraternal, religious, blood relation
ships, or other similar reasons, 1t
might be acknowledged that they
as individuals stand in a better
situation than the average civil
service emplOye to obtain in
creased consideration in any re-
duction of force. After obtain
ing status, these nOnciVil service
employees will transfer into these
agencies.
although the civil service EN-.
ploye welcomes the extension Of
the merit system, they do feel
that the extension procedure
should contain some guarantee
that the influence" which re-
suited In the employment Of the
nOncivil service group will not
adversely affect civil service eIn.
pIoyes who enter through com.
petitive procedure, when any re.
duction Of force becomes the or.
der of the day"
Mr.. Babcock declared that when
promotion or reductions IN service
are made efficiency ratings as ad'
ministered by the Civil Service
Commission are absolutely worth
less"
Plea for Messengers
The forgotten men" of the Gov
ernment service are the special de-
livery messengers, John S. Mid.
dendorf. legislative representative
of the National Association of Spe-
cial Delivery Messengers. told the
committee. He asked for some
type of remedial legislation, point
ing out that special delivery mes
sengers work seven days a week,
sometimes 10 hours a week and re-
ceive no stipulated salary.
Leo George, president Of the Ma
tional Federation Of Post Office
Clerks. recommended that the non.
Civil Service workers be brought
into the Civil Service by specific
legislation rather than by Execu-
tive order, as provided in the
RamSpeck bill.
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The Washington times., 1937-02-19

THE TWO PHOTOGRAPHS at the top are among the many
being displayed by Harris and Ewing in observance Of their
thrty-second anniversary The ladies Billie Burke
eft she appeared in 1906 and Taulah Bankhead IA
daughter Of Speaker Bankhead girl in 1914 Be.
low Cleft to rightly Miss Burke in Of her recent pic
ture and Miss Bankhed she photographed here dur
ing the recent run Of Reflected Glory"
The Washington times., 1937-02-19
5ritons Forced 10 Fight
For Reds, Say Insurgents

TALAVERA DE LA REINA,
Spain, Feb. 10 GNSD.-Insurg-
ents captured 35 Britons in fight
ing on the Jarama front, south
of Madrid during the last few
days, the insurgent command an
nounced today.
The prisoners revealed, accord.
ing to the insurgents, that they
had gone to Spain to work as
agricultural laborerS, and that
they had been forced" to take
up arms in the loyalist forces.
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COURT DEMAND
THEY APPEAR
RESISTED
Windows Are Broken
In Chicago Plants
To Improve Air
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o. his fellows had been seriously
hurt

hurt
Truce Called
It was shortly after this that A.
j. Anselm, plant superintendent,
called the deputies together as
they prepared for another assault
on the doors, and said:
Lets wait until the tear gas
clears out. Then we'll have .
talk with the men. Maybe they
will come out"
Meyer Andelman, a member Of
the John L. Lewis Committee for
Industrial Organization, also on
the scene. added a plea for peace.
Sheriff L. A. Coolittle and his
men were under orders from Cir
cult Judge Ralph Dady to evict
the men.
Several shots rang out, it was
reported, but it could not be de-
termined Immediately by whom
they had been fired.
Sheriff Doolittle was armed
with a court order naming 81
strikers and directing him to bring
them into court, to show cause why
they should not be cited for con-
tempt in their refusal to obey the
evacuation order.
Many Windows Broken
The officers were husky depu.
tized farmers and uniformed po-
lice. The man injured by the
premature explosion was deputy
Harold Scheskie.
The strikers are members of the
Amalgamated Association Of Iron,
Steel and Tin Workers. The plants
which they are holding are Nos. 3
and 5.
A crowd gathered as the sounds
Of. fighting were heard. Those
who rushed to the scene saw
strikers gasping for air through
broken windows.
When the tear gas fumes spread
through the plant, the strikers
broke large number of windows
to improve ventilation. The pene.
trating fumes, however, forced
some to hang out the windows,
wiping tears from their eyes.
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Two Prisoners FACE
Murder CHARGES

CLEVELAND. Feb. 10 GNS).
Manacled to two members Of .
party Of eight Pennsylvania Of.
ficers. Sam Traci, SO. d Paul
Perconti. 80, today werL removed
by automobile to New Castle, Pa.
where they face murder charges
growing out of the fatal beat
ing Of Patrolman Robert H. Duke,
FehruarY 8.
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W|NANT QUITS
SECURITY POST
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be a short period Of time, he could
count on Winant's return to ma
tional public service.
An exchange Of letters between
Winant and the President, made
public at the White House dis
clsoed that the retiring chairman
had been asked for advice on
1.-The problems Of integrating the
Social Security Boards activities
with those of the other Govern,
ment agencies" Winant wrote:
MAY 1 suggest that the use.
fulness Of a board, that does
not exercise judicial functions,
Is largely limited to the de.
velopment Of policies in its ad.
ministrative functioning. This
may be helpful during the early
period Of initiating a large CO.
operative enterprise of this
character, but the time is not
far off when the incisiveness
Of individual direction and line
administration will be found as
necessary in administering the
major sections of the Social
Security Act as in the function.
ing of any other important
legislative program entrusted to
the responsible direction of in
dividual department or bureau
heads"
ORGANIZATION OVER
Winant, who had agreed to re-
turn as Security Board chairman
only until around the first of the
year, reported that the board now
is through its early difficulties or
organization.
Necessary technical and sub.
stantive amendments have been
prepared for submission to Con
gress and a great majority Of the
States are already cooperating
with the Government, he added
Altmeyer, the new chairman, is
46 years old, was born in Wiscon
sin and educated in that States
university. He first became con
tive capacity In NRA. In 1884 he
nected with the New Deal in eXecu
as made Second Assistant Secre
ary Of Labor, and a year later ap
pointed to a four.year term on the
Social Security Board.
Latimer. a native Of Mississippi
is 36 years old and was educated
at Harvard and Columbia. Aftel
private practice as an industria
relations counselor he became
chairman of the Railroad Retire
ment Board in 1888. In addition
to that post, since January, 1886
he has been director of the Fedora
Bureau Of Old Age Benefits Of thE
Social Security Board.
Evening star., 1937-10-21

Eyes, madam, its the grease paint
and spirit gum. I'm allergic to both." !"
He turned and turned back. IF !
may say SOL would like to con-
gratulate you on your wisdom in re-
moving this menace from your life"
HE isn't a menacei He's just
irresponsible!"
"on the contrary, madam. He is
q dangerous criminal"
Margit stared. "A what?"
"a felon. Wanted in Vienne and
Budapest and elsewhere. A robber.
A confidence man. A murderer. no
doubt
Margit shook her head family AID
in bewilderment. "Keough, you must
be mad"
He drew himself up with consider
able dignity. From his pocket he pulled
q cablegram. 1t was the one which
Roger Weed had sent to him at the
Prince James Hotel.
Margit read it.
With every word, her eyes popped
wider.
II would have had him arrested"
Keough went on, after she had fin
ished and looked up daZedly, "but
for the Romanoff emerslds and the
gold. 1 wanted to ascertain their hid
ing places before closed in on him."
"This-can't be-" Margit whiS-
pered.
Irene took the message from her
and read it. She gasped.
Keough talked. perhaps the most
accomplished and dangerous man in
the world" he said with simple awe.
"It is true. The emeralds were In his
possession at the Prince James. Hid
den in the wall He had scooped out
a place for them behind the paper
and stuck it back. I have been trained
t. notice such things. But he is
clever-ah-clever. cleverl" Keough
was slipping into somewhat the
atrical tone. Nevertheless, his audi
ence of two thunderstruck sisters was
Evening star., 1937-10-21

to get inklings. A robberl A muir
dererl And she had let herself come
pretty close to something like falling
in love with him. Ten minutes ago
she had been almost ready to tell
the emancipated Irene that she wasn't
going to throw Charlie out into the
cold world-but that, instead. she was
Cling to try (for = little while, at
least) to reform him. Now-he
turned out to be . monster. Still
she had seen him paint. And there
were the pictures sold to galleries.
She asked about 1t.
Keough smiled. Naturally, Mr..
Jones-or whatever his name really
is-wouldn't pose as & painter II he
had no talent in painting whatever.
He can doubtless daub creditably.
But he is assuredly not the Charles
Jones whose work Is so popular. He
is using Mr.. Jones name-that's all.
If had had the time, am sure that
I would have found the true Mr..
Jones is cruising somewhere In the
Pacific-or exploring China. Our
criminal, naturally, knew that--and
made use of it."
IT suppose so," Margit answered
She was growing more frenzied with
every passing instant. "A criminal!
The cheap, dramatic sortl Stealing
jewels!"
believed political assassin, y
Keough continued.
and that's what his wife
meant, too, when she said that
Charlie was the sort Of person about
whom the Paris prefecture OF police
was always calling up!"
"A rather grim sense OF humor--
for q woman" Keough commented.
Evening star., 1937-10-21

with him. He could have said vr-
tually anything about Charlie in those
moments-and they would have be-
lieved him. Before I could recover
the stones he had moved them"
"What about his wife?" Irene asked
sharply.
Probably" said Keough, "his true
wife. Possibly not. Certainly an ac-
complice. have had no time to In
vestigate her"
Margit was nodding. That's what
she meant when she said Charlie
would be "a great man to rob bank
with No doubt she had robbed plen-
ty with him. No doubt she was sit
ting there laughing at me-"
mo doubt" Keough agreed.
IT think I'll call Mrs. Bly," Margit
said suddenly.
Keough shook his head. I'VE bet
ter tel no one. Remember-he Is not
yet my prisoner"
Maybe you're right. But-can you
handle him?"
Keough only smiled. "He was alb
sent for week. I thought I'd lost
him then. But now"
Margit shook her head. "You can't
let people like that run around loose,
Keough. You can't! Why-I was
going to sneak of and have lunch
with him this very afternoonl My!
He even told me the Ogpu and the
Japanese police had trailed him!
Lunch!l"
Keough nodded. IT know"
"You know"
IT now have the phone trapped.
Naturally"
Margit didn't know what her mood
was precisely-but she was beginning
Evening star., 1937-10-21
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BY PHILIP wYuE AL
ILLUSTRATED By Wl
R.E SGHAREz/7Z "
PHILIP WIlIE

"At M orders?"
"Yes-and no. You told me to
20 home when I brushed past you
after you had dinner. Thought bet
ter of It,"
What were Mr.. Jones and / do
ing?"
"In the phaeton. madam"
"In that buggy"
Keough gazed classify at her and
then at Irene. Don't you know,
MADAME"
"Of course, I know! want you to
tell Irene"
Keough seemed unsteady. He wet
his lips. "Well-" he finally said
"a bit of billing and cooing."
Irene looked wonderingly at Mar
git. Gosh" she whispered, you're
bright"
Margit held herself together. "And
day before yesterday, Keough? On
the beach?"
1.-The same thing, madam"
Margit turned to her sister. so
you see? You don't have to waste
another thought on Charlie Jones.
We-can-all-cross him-out OF our
lives-for good!"
That was as far as her self-restraint
could conduct her. She began to cry
Irene leaped in to comfort her
Keogh looked on composedly. He also
seemed relieved. Irene said things
like, II know it must have been q
dreadful strain, Margit"-and-"You'll
never understand how glad am tc
have him out of my life. He was SC
embarrassing !"-and the simple COM
forter-"Don't cry!"
Margit didn't say anything. She
was crying because she wasn't going
to be taken on beaches and into parks
any more. 1t would never do to say
| that.
Keough coughed.
Margit snuff1ed. She Strengthened
up. THAT will be all, Keough. Anc
you might try to do something fol
that rash on your face. 1t looks aw-
| full"