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The Washington times., 1937-07-15
; PLAT00N FIRE
SYSTEM HOPE
DIM HERE
Cost Seen Too High in
Present State of D.
6. Finances
By EARL GOODWIN

/ When it comes to predicting the
success of the District firefighterS'
crusade for an eight-hour working
day-or a three-platoon system,
as it is technically known-there
/ is no one at the District Building
who gives it much of a chance.
The reason is because just as
"time is money" a fireman'S pro-
posed time off" is more money
than the District budget can stand
under the present set of compiled
lions and financial drains and
strains.
Firemen now work 10 hours on
day shifts and IA hours on night
shifts. It has long been a dream
of the District firemen that some
day Congress will make them a
gift of enough extra money so
that the District can employ
enough firemen to make the SEIZED
ule for firefighterS eight hours on
duty and 16 hours off duty-three
shifts of eight hours each. In
fact, the District FirefighterS' AS
ISOLATION has this three-platoon
system as its chief goal.
But the men at the top don't
see much chance of q three.
platoon system. Chief Engineer
Charles E. Schrom, who has all
he can do to get enough fire-hose
from Congress and who fire.
quently calls attention to fire en-
gines of the vintage of 1912, thinks
the fireladdies may be on a three
platoon basis sometime 10 years or
so hence.
But Auditor Dan Donovan
who has never been known to
permit optimism to spoil the
effect Of cold calculations, looks
at a three-platoon system as
something that will cost the Dis.
trict of Columbia $1,500,000 a
year. With the financial diff
cultieS Of the current situation
more than the government of the
District is able to bear with
equanimity, it is difficult for Mr.
Donovan to see far enough ahead
to locate three-platoon system
for the Districts fire department.
He says:
"A three-platOOn system for
the District government means
that certain other departments
of District government would
have to be put on a 40 or A.
hour basis. Several hundred
employees would be affected
and it would cost plenty. 1t
would cost a great deal more
than the salaries Of the added
firemen, for it would eventually
Continued on Page ~, Col. 81
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us. UN|0NCASE
GOES TO NLRB

Social Security Board and the
C. I. O's new United Federal Work,
erS of America will clash before
the National Labor Relations
Board over a charge of union dis,
elimination.
The Social Security Board Union
of Baltimore, affiliated to the
U. F. w. A. has charged that
four Of its key officers were fired
by Baltimore board officials in an
attempt to break it up. Frank
Bane, Social Security Board execu.
tive director, has agreed to place
the case beore the Labor Rela-
tons Board for mediation.
Legal counsel for preparation of
its brief and presentation Of its
case has been promised by Jacob
Baker, U. F. w. A. president, the
Baltimore union announced.
Hearings between Social Secur-
ity officials and the Baltimore
union were held previously in the
dispute and resulted in two dis
missed union officers, Isadore Cor
don and Ralph Balm, being re-
inStated. Refusal by Social Secur-
ity to reinState four others, how
ever, caused the union to ask fur
ther trial before NLRB.
The NLRB has rendered favor
able decisions in two previous cases
based on discrimination charges.
In 1884 it directed reinstatement
of John Donovan to NRA and it
reinstated Robert Durand to the
Federal Power Commission early
this year.
The Washington times., 1937-07-15

IS, of Norfolk. at whose home the
Washington youth was visiting.
Testers body was recovered by
Coast Guardsmen after a brief
search, but Soils body was still
missing at an early hour today.
Other swimmers said the broth
ers were caught suddenly in an
undertow. Life guards made sew
eral attempts to rescue the pair.
Police said that at least six other
swimmers had to be brought to
safety by life guards due to the
swift undertow.
Lester had been employed in
Benjamin zedd's pawn shop at
1884 Seventh st. N. w. The boys
parents live in Norfolk.
The Washington times., 1937-07-15
Bel Air RiVa|Iing
E|kton's Figures
As Marriage Mari

BEL AIR, Md, July 15.-ThiS
community is rivaling Elkton for
honors as the Gretna Green Of
Maryland.
While some clergymen here have
voiced strenuous objections to turn
ing the community into a mar
rage mart" the Rev. G. A. Ogg,
pastor of Grace Methodist Protes-
tant Church, today defended his
performance of 46 of the last 81
marriages performed here.
He admitted that he had mar.
ried 1? Of the Is couples to whom
licenses were issued on Sunday,
July 4, but added:
81 don't seek the business.
These people come to me to be
married, and / see no reason
why 1 shouldn't marry them.
81 am very careful to see that
no one is drunk, and that they
have the proper license. I can't
see why there can be objections.
other clergymen pointed out
they believed the situation could
be remedied if county officials
would refuse to issue licenses on
Sunday.
Last sunday seven licenses were
issued.
The Washington times., 1937-07-15
G0BEL TO BUILD
ELSEWHERE

Contraction Of an abattoir in
Benning appeared unlikely today
despite the failure of Congress to
pass legislation prohibiting "nui-
Sance industries"
Action Of the House District
Committee in tabling the anti
nuisance bill, which precludes the
possibility of congressional action
on the much-discussed abattoir
measure, now makes it possible for
the Adolph Gobel Company to go
ahead with its previously an
nounced plans for construction of
a slaughter house.
The Gobel Company, however,
has indicated it will abandon these
plans because of the "damnable
publicity" attendant on the nui-
sance bill and will seek 100000
damages for alleged loss of revenue
during the negotiations.
Through its counsel, Timothy
T. AnSberry, the Gobel company
announced its plans to go else
where to build its abattoir-to a
community where it will be swell
come" In his statement to the
District Committee yesterday, Mr..
AnSberry declared the company
would go to a community mot
ruled by bureaucrats, to COM
munity where the shadow of a
Cabinet officer would not dim the
mental vision Of its officers and
citizens"
The Cabinet officer referred to
is Secretary of the Interior Har-
old L. IckeS, who sponsored the
anti-nuisance bill because of his
low-cost PWA project in Benning.
The Senate District Committee,
which held extensive hearings on
the bill. has failed to take action
on it.
The Washington times., 1937-07-15
WAGE RECORD
IS ORDERED

All businesses and organizations
employing women or minors today
were ordered by the Minimum
Wage Board to keep a complete
record of such employees fol- pur.
poses of inspection by the board.
The records of the employers
must include, under the order. the
full name of each woman en-
ploye and male and female en-
ploye under Is years old, the ad-
dress, occupation, date Of birth,
total hours worked each week and
the amount of wages paid each
day period.
Under the order. the records
must be kept on file for at least
three years after the entry Of the
record.
Employers were given a 3O-day
period in which to comply with
the order.
Violations Of the order carry a
fine of between $25 and 500, or
imprisonment of between 10 days
and three months, or both.
The Washington times., 1937-07-15
OVERS T0V0TE
NEXT WEEK
ON UNION
Owners and Employees
Reach Accord on
Consent Ballot

The Districts first industrial
consent election" - comparable
to the steelmen'S caucus which
gave c. I. o. the right to repre-
sent them in collective bargaining
with employers-was in the pro-
cess of crystallization today as
counsel for the city's cleaning and
dyeing establishments worked on
plans for a poll of trade workers
early next week.
When the plans have been per-
fected, they will be submitted to
the National Labor Relations
Board for approval and the men
will then be asked to determine
for themselves if they wish Local
No. 1877, of the Laundry Workers,
Cleaners and Dyers Union to rep
resent them before employers COM
mittees yet to be selected.
Union recognition and the right
to bargain collectively are the
chief points at issue in the sltua.
ton which for a month has had
the industry in turmoil. More
Gk1au 1,UVV 0ACA WALL NOVS Ava
against the union in a manner
which has as yet not been deter
mined.
The Washington League Of
Women Shoppers, through its ex,
ecutive secretary, Mrs. Charles
Wood Collier, daughter-in-law OF
the Commissioner on Indian Al
fairs, announced today the agree
ment of both owners and employees
to the holding of a consent cleo
ton" =,
Union men who early last month
strike-bound 8 large portion OF
the industry, went back to their
Jobs Tuesday in a kind Of "tem
porary truce" with ultimate set
Element of their difficulties de
pendent on the election, Mrs. Col
lier said.
The women's organization
played a prominent part in the
strike, with members prominent
in Washington social circles serv.
ing food to picketing members OF
the union in many sections Of the
city. It was largely through the
offices of her group, Mrs. Collier
said, that mediation between the
warning factions was finally
brought about through the Ma
tional Labor Relations Board.
The Washington times., 1937-07-15
3 Permits Revoked:
9 Are Suspended

Homer M. Griffin. 761 Gresham
Place N. w., IS.
Robert H. Cook, 1922 Livingston
Street N. w., IS.
George L. Bottiger, Sill Ingra-
ham Street N. W., SIS.
Catherine R. Conway, 1000 Ca.
thedral Avenue N. w., IS.
Edgar M. Wilkerson, $50 Eighth
Street Southeast, S..
Harry A. Hegarty, 1853 Newton
Street N. w., $40.
Henry Forster, Maryland, IS.
Robert N. Buringer, 1880
Douglas st. N. w., IS.
Mendol J. Kelly. 1919 N st.
N. w., IS.
Robert B. Kuhn, 81 seaton Pl.
N. E., S..
MALARIA Giuseppe, 1922 Mime
sofa Ave. S. E., IS.
Roy L. Williams, 1913 South Caro-.
lima Avenue Southeast, SIS.
Continued on Page 22, Col. A.
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Ken MURRAY
Says:

It must be great for a second
lieutenant in the Soviet army,
They are knocking off the gen.
erals so fast the young officers
are liable to be promoted before
they raise their first bicycle
muStache.
According to Moscow an
nOuncements, selling out the
country by the generals must be
RuSSia'S leading wholesale in
duStry. They've caught so many
traitors red-handed that Stain
has had to borrow JOshua's old
recipe for commanding the sun
to stand stiH so he can have
them shot at sunrise.
If RusSia'S army officers are
so busy embarrassing the
Soviet Republic I'm wondering
who has time to drill the
recruits. And right now the No.
l Russian lullaby is the old
song hit, 81 Didn't Raise My
Boy to be q Target"
The Soviet high command is
gently calling the wholesale
slaughter a purge. But so far
as an officers concerned, he
never knows when he's going to
be the next number on the pro-
gram.
(CopyrlEht, 1887. by McNaughk
- Syndicate, Incl i.s.s.
The Washington times., 1937-07-15
; YOUTHS ROB
M0T0R|ST

Three colored youths snatched
her purse containing about S.,
Miss Edith Jantz, 1910 Kenyon
st. N. E., reported to police last
night.
Miss Jantz had stopped her car
for a traffic light at Sixth Street
and Rhode Island Avenue North
east, when the youths jumped on
the running board, grabbed the
purse, and fled.
Spencer F. Murray, 1921 Thir-
tenth st. N. W.. was held up at
the point Of a pistol by a colored
man at Mt. Pleasant and Irving
Streets Northwest last night and
robbed of So.
The Washington times., 1937-07-15
Sanitary Grocery Firm
Holds Picnic at Park

More than 500 employees of the
Sanitary Grocery Company at
tended the company's annual pic
mic yesterday at Glen Echo Park,
despite inclement weather.
From afternoon until late night,
the group enjoyed the amusement
facilities at the park. Some swan
in the Crystal Pool, others danced
in the Spanish Garden Ballroom.
During the supper hour the Elks
Band played while the picnickers
emptied their lunch baskets. Next
Wednesday another group of the
Sanitary Grocery Company en-
ployes will hold a picnic at Glen
Echo,
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Driving permits Of five Wash.
ington motorists, previously con
victed of traffic law attractions.
have been revoked and permits Of
five others have been suspended
for an indefinite period, the Board
Of Revelations and Suspensions
announced today. Permits of foul
persons were suspended for 81
days.
Those whose licenses were re-
voked and the offenses were:
James A. DAILY, 1928 N st. N. w.,
speeding 10 m.p.h.
William E. Bean, 629 Alabama
Ave. S. E., reckless driving.
Ezra ]. Craven, 312 G st. S. E.,
reckless driving.
William S. Miller, 1909 New Jer.
Sey Ave. N. W., reckless driving.
Joseph Bahen, 1707 Columbia
Rd. N. W., leaving after colliding
Indefinite suspensions announced
were:
John A. Croghan, 1410 M st.
N. W., speeding so m.p.h.
William C. Ferguson, 1885 Park
Rd. N. w., unreasonable speeding
Second offense).
Edward S. Coffey, 305 Rock
Creek Church Rd. N. w., reckless
driving.
Joseph E. johnson, 1917 K st.
s. E., reckless driving.
John w. McGaha, 2021 Fourth
st. N. E., reckless driving.
Those whose permits were sus-
pended for 80 days were:
Clifton H. Atkins, 1909 Kane ST..
N. E., speeding 38 m.p.h. Second
offense).
Robert K. Condit, 815 Emerson
st. N. w., speeding IS m.p.h. (sec-
ond offense).
Francis M. Durance, jr., 4OO7
Connecticut Ave. N. W., speeding
so m.p.h.
Salvatore F. Giarratano, 1925
Cr1ttenden st. N. w., speeding SO
m.p.h. Second offense).
Convictions yesterday in Traffic
Court were:
Second Offense Speeding
Alfred Urceolo. TOO Quincy
st. N. W., S..
First Offense Speeding
James E. Mayton, 1142 Neal
Street Northeast, $40.
William r. Adams, 218 Third
Street Southeast, S..
Livingston Hill, 1924 Twelfth
Street Southeast, S..
Richard H. Sinclair, 5000 Dent
Place N. W., IS.
Arthur D. Sickles, 3O39 Newcomb
Street N. w., $40.
James j. Donoghue, 2607
Twelfth Street Southeast, IS.
The Washington times., 1937-07-15
D. T.. LOAN BILL
ISPUSHED IN
HOUSE
Rep. Kennedy will Ask
Unanimous Consent
For EARLY Vote

Immediate action on the "bor-
rowing" resolution to keep the Dis
trict out of the red" will be sought
by District congressional leaders
today.
Representatives Ambrose j. Ken
nedy 3D., of Maryland, author
of the tax bill which is now, dead
locked in the Senate, and Vincent
L. PalmiSano CD, of Maryland,
chairman of the House District
Committee, will ask House leaders
to permit the resolution to come
up in the House under unanimous
consent some time this week.
Approved BY Committee
The resolution, which gives the
District government authority to
borrow money from the Federal
Treasury at 3 per cent until the
pending tax bill goes into effect,
was approved yesterday by the
House District Committee.
An amendment was proposed
today by Kennedy to leave the
rate to be charged the District on
money borrowed from the Federal
Government to the discretion OF
the Secretary of the Treasury,
up to 3 per cent interest"
In the meantime, consideration
of the tax bill in the Senate within
short time appeared more likely
today following the death of Sena-
tor Joseph T. Robinson, which
may have the effect of breaking
the Senate deadlock.
With early adjournment in
sight, some members Of Congress
predicted that the tax bill may
come up in the Senate within two
weeks, thereby making it unneces-
sary to pass the borrowing reSolu'
ton.
Taking No Chances
House leaders, however, are not
banking on this possibility and
will press forward with their ef-
forts for early consideration of
the resolution authorizing the
loan.
Over the protests of District
officials the per cent interest
clause was tackled on to the bor-
rowing resolution on the motion
of Representative Kennedy, in an
effort to insure its passage in the
House. A borrowing clause was
included in the tax bill as reported
by the House District Committee,
but was stricken out by the House.
The Washington times., 1937-07-15
Driver Test Considered

A proving ground to test Dis
trict auto drivers was being con-
sidered today by Traffic Director
William A. Van Duzer. This test
ing ground would be complete with
stop signs, one-way streets. rail.
road crossings, hills and curves.
The plan, which was submitted by
w. H. Owens, New York architect,
has as its fundamental principle
the education OF autoists to avoid
common errors leading to acct.
dents.
The Washington times., 1937-07-15
Navy Yard Begins
Gun Construction

Work on the construction Of 16-
inch rifles for Uncle Sans newest
dreadnaughts, the North Carolina
and Washington, is to begin i'm.
mediately at the Navy Yard here,
it was announced by Rear Admiral
Harold r. Stark yesterday. Each
ship will carry nine 16-inch guns
all of which will be built in the
Gun Factory at the Navy Yard.
The Washington times., 1937-07-15
River Cruise ToniQht
To Aid Cup REGATTA

A moonlight cruise down the
Potomac River on the steamer Pc
tomac will be held tonight by the
Corinthian Yacht Club for the
benefit of its "open house." held
in connection with the Presidents
Cup Regatta, to be held here this
summer, bringing scores Of noted
motorboat racers to the Capital
as well as thousands to witness the
races.
The steamer will leave the Sew
enth and Water Street wharf at
8:45 o'clock.
The Washington times., 1937-07-15
State May Close ''Racket'' Case Today
Brothers
Drown At
Beach

Two brothers, one of whom
lived in Washington, were drowned
at Virginia Beach yesterday when
caught in a heavy undertow while
swimming.
They were Lester zedd, 81, who
lived with his brother, Benjamin,
at ITO N st. N. w., and Sol zedd,
The Washington times., 1937-07-15
| LEGISLATOR
TO BE CALLED
BY DEFENSE
Bondsnan Is Accused
In Testimony BY
D. c. EmpIoye

UPPER MARLBORO, Md,
July 15.-The State may rest its
case against seven county police
men, a former justice Of the
peace and a bonds man, all
charged with conspiracy in an
alleged traffic arrest racket" in
Prince Georges county, today.
Walter Matthews, colored en-
ploye of the District of Columbia
refuse department, was called as
a State witness today. He testi-
fled he had been arrested last
August 2, and charged with driv-
ing while drunk and reckless
driving.
The next morning, he testified,
he was released and told "get
some money"
Borrowed 500
He borrowed $500 from fl
nance company, he said, and gave
$50 of this to Elmer Humphrey,
the bondsman named in the case.
Later, he said, he gave Humphrey
sos more, and was told that his
name would be scratched off the
books and another name Substi-
tuted.
william Fraser, Baltimore au.
ditor, was recalled to the stand,
and testified that Matthews name
was not on the police blotter or
the police court records, although
it was found on the justice Of the
peace books.
To Call Legislator
When the defense opens It is
expected John w. White, Hyatts-
vile attorney and member of the
State legislature. will be called as
a defense witness.
White. whose name was first in
troduced in the trial yesterday
with the introduction of a receipt,
said he would take the witness
stand to deny testimony given by
State witnesses in connection with
the disposition of funds the prose-
cution charges were fraudulently
taker from a Washington motor
ist. Woodrow BriSe, colored, Of 804
C st. N. w.
The receipt was introduced by
the defense to prove that the bulk
of $40 Brise charges he gave
to magistrate as collateral in
a speeding case and which was
never turned over to the court,
was in reality a fee paid to White
for representing him in court.
Arrested in July
BriSe told the court he had been
arrested last July by Warren Peake
and Frank Bell, two Of the in
dicted policemen. on a charge of
exceeding so miles an hour on the
Baltimore Boulevard. He was re-
leased from Jail after posting a
total Of $151.70 with Herbert Moi
fat, the indicted magistrate.
Brise said that when he went to
HyattSVille for trial, Peake had
told him he needed a lawyer and
recommended and introduced him
to John S. White. Brise contends,
however. that he never retained
White as his attorney and that the
case never came up for trial.
According to records introduced
by Ogle Marbury. special prose
cutor, BriSe was charged with ex-
ceeding so on Herbert Moffat's
records and released on the post.
ing Of $151.70.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-07-19
WEATHER CONDITIONS

Pressure is still moderately high
from the central Gulf OF Mexico
and adjoining coastal distriets
eastward over the Atlantic Ocean.
IN area Of .high pressure has
moved in over the north Pacific
States, and pressure is also mod.
erately high in the Lake region
while low pressure area is cen
tered off the north Atlantic coast,
and narrow trough of low pres
sure extends from the Carolinas
westward to the southern Plains
States, where it joins 3 low pres
sure area central over the far
Southwest. Showers and thun-
derstorms, generally light to mod
crate, have occurred during the
last "a hours from Colorado east
ward to the middle Mississippi
Valley and thence southeastward
to the east Gulf coast and north
ern Florida. Light scattered
showers have also occurred on the
coast Of the Carolinas, in the
upper Ohio Valley, and in Mon
tana.1 Temperature changes have
been unimpertant. with readings
near or somewhat below normal
throughout the country.
G. S. KENNEDY.
Official in Charge
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-07-19

anced state is once attained, 1t Is
likely to be upset because of the de-
mand of each group for increased
purchasing power.
The theory behind the AAA was
that the lack Of balance lay princi-
cipally in the isproportionately low
purchasing power of the farmer. and
accordingly the endeavor was made.
by reduced agricultural production,
to raise the price of agricultural
products. This was the wrong APP
preach. for general well-being is not
promoted by scarcity policies.
The theory behind the NRA, on the
other hand, was that thesway to re-
store prosperity was to increase the
purchasing power of the laborer, and
to that end wage increases were ia
vored. But this policy ran head-on
into the AAA policy, for the wage
increases led to price increases. and
these reduced the purchasing power
of the farmers, whose inadequate pur-
chasing power was believed to be the
principal source Of the difficulty.
The NRA came to a well-deserved
end, but crop curtailment schemes
continued. despite the fact that the
earlier measures were found to be
without constitutional basis. The crop
curtailment program plus the drought
succeeded in restoring agricultural
prices to the desired parity. for ac-
eording to the Department OF Agri-
culture farm prices are now above
1910-l9l4 prices by substantially the
same percentage as so-called -city~
prices are. But will they stay there in
the face of the widespread increase
in wages resulting from a wave Of
strikes. and in face of the rise in the
prices of manufactured products that
is to follow7 And can permanent
alliance between farmers and labor
ers be expected. in view. of this diver
sity of interest?
Let anyone who is in doubt recall
the pitched battle at the Hershey
Chocolate plant. in which the farm
ers. confronted with the loss Of their
market for milk. forcibly elected the
sit-down strikers. thereby giving a
valuable pointer to administrative
officials in high executive POSITIONS
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