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The Washington times., 1937-01-15
LITTLE MAN
JAILS BIG ONE
"LittIe man. what now?"

Little man, what nOw?"
That's exactly what Daniel
Pfeil wanted to know as he walked
into Gallinger Hospital two days
ago, settled himself on a sofa in
the waiting room, and told his
story.
On December 9 last, Police
Court Judge Edward M. Curran
had sent Daniel to the District
Jail to serve 80 days on an in
toxication charge. With time off
for good behavior Daniel found
himself at liberty again shortly
after the New Year began and de-
cided to celebrate.
All went well, he told attendants,
until "a little man about two feet
high" started chasing him all over
the city. Up and down Pennsyl-
vania Avenue, in and out of alleys
and around and around went
Daniel with the "little man" right
behind him. Gallinger Hospital
loomed before him offering a
refuge. Daniel dashed madly in
the main entrance and slammed
the door in the little mans" face.
After two days of treatment,
Daniel told his story to Policeman
j. F. Bowers, of the Fifth Precinct,
who charged him with intoXica-
tion.
Yesterday, after listening to Po-
liceman Bowers testimony, Judge
Walter j. Casey sent Daniel back
to Jail again for another 80 days.
The Washington times., 1937-01-15
TRAFFIC STUDY
URGED BEFORE.
SITE IS PICKED
BY A. J. DRISCOLL
Citizens Association Editor


A detailed study of the traffic
situation in downtown Washing
ton should be made before the
site for the new War Depart
ment Building is chosen, mem
bers of the Northeast Confer
ence of Citizens Associations
recommended at a meeting held
in the Twelfth Police Precinct
last night.
The civic group adopted resolu.
tions requesting the National
Capitol Park and Planning Com
mission to make the traffic
studies before choosing the TRAN
gular section at the intersection
of New York Avenue. Constitution
CAvenue and Twentieth Street
as the site for the new Govern
ment structure.
Cites Triangular Congestion
A. F. E. Scheer, president of
the conference, who sponsored
the resolution, pointed out that
traffic congestion in the Federal
Triangle area made it difficult
for Government employees to
reach their offices.
The civic head urged that in
the future buildings be erected
at more scattered points to END
such congestion.
The association vigorously op.
posed the overcrowding of street
cars on the Rhode Island Avenue
line. and as a corrective measure
urged that only alternate stops be
made by cars No. 20 and %.
Times Referred To
After reference in The Wash
ington Times yesterday of a min
iature detailed reproduction OF
proposed development of the East
Capitol Street, Anacostia Park
area, to include a stadium, audi
torium, armory and parade
grounds, the group gave unanl-
nous Endorsement to the several
projects.
The District Health Officer was
asked for a more rigid enforce
ment of the health regulations
governing the handll1g OF all Smell
fish products at the waterfront.
Rate Reduction Asked
The association voted in favor
of reducing all SO assessments
remaining in arrears for sewers
and water, and the lower existing
rates. in order to enhance the
sale of property impounded for
unpaid taxes.
A resolution from the Bladens-
burg Road Citizens Association,
requesting support in obtaining
through bus service from Bladens-
bug to the downtown section, was
referred to the committee on
traffic.
The Federation of Citizens AS
sociations will meet tomorrow
night in Room F, United States
Chamber of Commerce Building.
Thomas E. Lodge, president, will
preside.
The Washington times., 1937-01-15
Girl Globe Filler
Will Address
Publishers

SAN JOSE, Cal, Jan. Is GNS0.
Miss Dorothy Kilgallen, the New
York Evening Journals globe
girdling reporter. will address the
annual convention of the Califor-
mia Newspaper Publishers Asso-
citation, opening here today.
Looking toward improved pre-
sentation of the news, the publish
ers' sessions will last for three
days. Governor Frank F. Merriam
and DR.. James Burch. State direc-
tor of research, are among other
prominent persons who will speak
before the convening publishers.
The Washington times., 1937-01-15
In the Bag

SEATTLE, Wash. G.N. s.,
Cotton, Mrs. j. N. Denton's two
monthS-old Angora kitten, avoids
the laundry bag nowadays. After
enjoying himself playing with
soiled clothes, he climbed into
the bag, and went to the laundry
Mrs. Denton missed him and
called Paul Gardner, the man
ager, who went to the building
and found the very distressed
little cat.
The Washington times., 1937-01-15
Biz Ohio Radio Chain
Seeks 4 New Stations

The Ohio Broadcasting Com
pany yesterday applied to tn e
Federal Communication Commis.
sion for authority to construct
new broadcasting stations in Steu-
bensville, Marion, East Liverpool
and Salem, Ohio. Each station,
if the permits are granted, will
be on daytime operation.
The Washington times., 1937-01-15
CIVIL SERVICE PROBE

terested in knowing whether
civil service has been given a
fair consideration in those
branches where it is prescribed
either specifically or indirectly.
MANY reports have reached
me that the Social Security
Board has followed neither a
civil service procedure nor a
patronage system. firmly be-
lieve that Congress never in
tended that a hybrid system
be instituted.
The Washington times., 1937-01-15
Alien Census Ban
Sought by Cdpper

Asserting that Gin New York
State alone, there are 100000
foreign born persons who are not
citizens" Senator Arthur Capper
CR), of Kansas, yesterday intro
duced a resolution for a constitu-
tional amendment providing that
aliens be omitted in the census
compilations for congressional ap-
portionment.
The Washington times., 1937-01-15

Seeking basis Of reports that
the Social Security Board has
ignored civil service in the ap-
pointment of employees, Repre-
sentative William I. SiroVich CD
of New York, yesterday introduced
a resolution calling for a House
investigation of the matter.
Mr. Sirovich, who is a men,
ber of the House Civil Service
Committee, said in introducing
the resolution: ..
"Our committee is deeply in
The Washington times., 1937-01-15
Homework Of Boxer
Pals on Judith Allen

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. is dN.SJ.
Beautiful Judith Allen, of the
films, admitted today that she
had consulted a lawyer with a
view to divorcing Jack Doyle, the
Irish boxer-tenor. She said:
."Im swearing off of men who
make their living fighting and
carry their work home with
them"
The Washington times., 1937-01-15

The Federation of Citizens AS
sociations will meet tomorrow
night in Room F, United States
Chamber of Commerce Building.
Thomas E. Lodge, president, will
preside,
Montana labor news., 1937-12-30
Dispute Between c. |. O. and A. I. OF L..
MAY Obscure Results of National
Labor Relations Act

The conflict between the two major labor
organizations may tend to obscure the funda-
mental results of the operations of the Ma
tional Labor Relations Act. Naturally the
boards decisions as to what constitutes the
proper unit for collective bargaining cannot
completely satisfy both the American FEEDER
alton of Labor and the Committee for Indus
trial Organization as long as the c~raft-indus-
trial union issue continues to divide the ranks
of organized labor. In making decisions as
to the bargaining unit the board acts in a
judicial capacity, and has entertained
the hope that it could satisfy both htigants
while they are engaged in what is to them a
bitter and decisive struggle.
The essential purpose of the National Labor
Relations Act is to protect all workers in their
right to organize into unions of their W
choice. The energies of the board are chiefly
devoted to the protection of this right against
interference by employers. That this right
is now being widely and freely exercised is
demonstrated by the figures made public at
the current conventions of the A. F. OF l.. and
C. ]. o. These figures show that in the past
year, during only half of which labor has had
the benefit of the Supreme Court decisions
sustaining the act, about four million addi-
tional workers have joined the ranks OF the
two organizations.
Montana labor news., 1937-12-30
The Peoples Victory in the Elk Hills
Oil Field Case

Adequate protection of the public domain
against the increase of what is frequently
termed corporate greed" was again empha-
sized in the recent victory Of the government
Of the United States in a suit against the
Standard Oil Company affecting the rich Elk
Hills petroleum field in California, a tract
with an area of only $40 acres, but containing
one Of the most valuable petroleum deposits
in the United States.
The decision handed down by Judge Leon
R. Yankwich in Fresno, California, upheld
the Federal governments title to the petro-
leum field as against the claim Of the Stand
ard Oil Company, awarding the government
not only the title to the $40, 1000, 1000 tract, but
also S 1864, 102 as damages due to drilling
operations carried on over a long period.
In addition to the damage verdict the court
ruled that the company and Clara F. Ranney
and Frank J. Carman of Ell Paso, Texas, are
Jointly responsible for 81, 1896, 819 in royalties
on oil taken from one parcel in the section
to which the Texans claimed title.
The victory Of the government is regarded
as all-embracing with respect to title to the
land.
The Elk Hills area was originally a part
Of the Federal domain, but the state Of Cali
fornia sold it as part Of school lands to settlers
who in turn, beginning in 1909, sold it in
small parcels to the Standard Oil Company,
whose officials evidently realized the immense
value of the oil deposits.
According to the decision Of Judge Yank-
witch, the land when it was survey on Janu-
airy 26, 1903, was known as mineral in
character, that because of this knowledge it
had never passed from the public domain,
and therefore was never a part OF CALIFORNIA;
school lands. Consequently the persons who
bought the land from California were de-
clared to have been trespassers.
With only a rumbling echo of the notorious
Teapot Dome scandal, the decision in the
Elk Hills case clearly defines important fac
tors in the property right Of the Federal gov
eminent to the public domain well calculated
to discourage similar incursions by corpora
tons in the future. The one distressing fea-
ture about the case is that although the
Standard Oil Company began the acquisition
of the Elk Hills oil field as far back as 1909, it
required nearly thirty years to get a definite
decision by a Federal District Court under
whose Jurisdiction the case properly came.
Montana labor news., 1937-12-30
FAMOUS AUTHOR WILL
w RITE SERIES Of
ARTICLES ON LAB OR

The New Leader, a Labor and So
cial Democratic weekly published at
z East Is Street, New York City, has
begun publication of a series of
articles IN the dispute over indus
trial organization in the American
labor movement. The author is
James Oneal, one-time steel worker,
and author of several books on
American labor history.
MI. Oneal approaches the problem
with the conviction that feeling and
rancor do not contribute to an I'M
d~erstanding of the issues raised by
the dispute, that the dispute itself
has arisen out of slow changes in
industry over three decades for
which nc Individual or individuals
are responsible, and that the forces
that have brought the problem to its
present stage largely lie in the de-
preston of the past eight years.
The author is not concerned with
personalities, accusations and coun-
ter-accusations. His primary motive
is to define the problem and to pre-
sent it in its various aspects, to fos-
ter cool, rational and objective judg-
ments in the hope of contributing
something to unbiased thinking on
the subject.
Mr.. Oneal hopes to reach mem
bers Of both A. T. of L. and c. /. 0.
unions with this important series,
All who are interested in them are
urged to send for a sample copy OF
The New Leader at the address
above. A special rate is also made
Of rs cents for a three months sub
scription which will carry the entire
series of articles.
Montana labor news., 1937-12-30

think they can do Is to pass a resolution re-
q~uesting President Roosevelt to urge the gov
ernor of California to grant a full pardon to
Mooney. The late President Wilson inter
vened after the Mooney conviction on false
testimony and had his sentence commuted
from death to life Imprisonment. The scound-
reilly crew that brought about Moneys con-
viction were willing to grant this request of
Wilson, as it would enable them to keep Moo
ney in Jail as a symbol Of their power in
crushing any champion of the workers who
dared to fight them. All other requests, now
ever, for the freeing Of Mooney in the long,
long years which have elapsed have met with
a stony refusal on the part of California
authorities.
It is not only the California authorities who
are to blame for this constant refusal to make
at least some reparation for this judicial
crime. The press Of the country could have
aroused public opinion to a point where even
the California crew Of industrial and financial
pirates would have been compelled to yield
up their victim. But for nearly a generation
the press as a whole has done nothing to help
free Mooney.
There are some noble exceptions to this,
most notable of which, outside Of labor pa
pers, has been the Baltimore Sun which, since
1919 when it was convinced of MONEYS in
nocence, has at every opportunity brought
this outrage to the attention Of the American
people. All Of the Scripps-Howard papers
in the country have also constantly worked
for the freeing of Mooney.
The late Fremont Older, in the San Fran
cisco Bulletin which had been against Mooney
during the trial, one year later exposed the
whole nefarious plot when, after a most
searching investigation, he was convinced
that Mooney had been convicted On perjured
testimony. So powerful, however, were the
financial and industrial interests on the Pa
cifc Coast that this exposure in the Bulletin
got hardly any publicity outside of California,
even the great press bureaus sending hardly
any Of it out.
The injustice to Mooney can never be I'M
done. He has been dead in life for over 20
years. The question now resolves itself
down to this: Can the constituted authorities
Of a state commit a crime against a citizen
of this Republic and not be held responsible
for it by the national government and is it
not within the power of this same national
government to set free the victim? It is now
the nation against California injustice. Which
will prevail?
Montana labor news., 1937-12-30
OPEN FORUM
IN The
WAY OF MUNICIPAL
OWNERSHIP HERR

Democratic processes require COM
munity activities for their stability.
One of our chief difficulties is that
we have given up these democratic
processes within our municipalities
and have therefore deprived our
selves of valuable training ground
for citizenship.
Municipal ownership of light and
power is a valuable training for
democracy wherever it is feasible.
In considering the problems of mu-
nlcipal ownership, we must come
down to the actual problems of our
communities. AT present, it seems
that municipal ownership of light
and power in Butte is not feasible.
In the first place, the resident
rates in Butte are already below the
national average for municipal and
private plants. The average over
the country is slightly above 7 cents
which is higher than the average for
residential rate in Butte. To at
tempt to meet the present rate
standard with a municipal plant
without recognizing the competition
between the proposed municipal and
the Montana Power, this company
could cut its top residential rates
down to around 5 cents and drive
out the municipal plant because the
new plant couldn't start at that low
rate with any hope of success.
The second place where the in
trenched private plant has tremen-
dous sales of power such as it has
here to the mines, it would give it
a stability of income that would
enable the Montana Power to under
cut a municipal plant. A municipal
plant in order to meet that COMPETE
ton would have to have tremendous
sales Of power to manufacturing
establishments to get that COMPETE
ton, and the situation in Butte
seems to be that a municipal plant
could not get those bulk sales of
power to allow it to have COMPETE
tive rates with Montana Power.
Since the present plans for mu-
nicipal ownership are based on
utilizing power from the Fort Peck
project, the cost of light and power
in Butte would be high. The reason
for that is that army engineers have
estimated that $50 miles is about
the limit for economic transmission
of power. The cost for transmission
for $50 miles runs slightly over l
cent for kilowatt hour, beyond that
distance it increases at a rapid rate.
Since there are no other dams with
in the limit set by the army engi-
neers, the basic cost of laying power
into Butte would be too high to al
low competition with Montana
Power. Before municipal owner
ship could become a fact here there
would have to be dams within this
AaAA0o 4AOllA WAllGll bllG municipal
plant in Butte could draw its power.
1t is no use trying to start a mu-
nicipal plant unless the probabili-
ties are likely for its success. Should
a municipal plant fail, it would be
more difficult in the future to start
again with municipal ownership and
to plan for municipal ownership
without taking into consideration the
actual facts. The probabilities for
success or failure is not good bust
ness sense.
1t seems to me that the obstacles
are so great that municipal owner
ship could come to Butte only with
the expiration of the present fran
chise with the private company or
the development of new power sites
owned or controlled by the state.
EMERSON HARRIS.
Montana labor news., 1937-12-30

The senators of the committee investigating
the case, after announcing their belief in
MONEYS innocence, tell us that all they
Montana labor news., 1937-12-30
Mooney and States Rights
Bv Charles w. Erwin

1I AfAA ~ 49,
Twentv-one years ago Tom Mooney was
sent to Jail for life on periured testimony by
a district attorney who was a tool of the big
business crowd in San Francisco. Ont OF
the witnesses against Mooney acknowledged
he had given perjured testimony and there
is overwhelming evidence that other wit
nesses periured themselves. The judge who
tried the case has stated his belief that in
view of the exposures which have taken place
since Mooney was tried, that he was convict
ed on false testimony.
The investigator sent by President Wilson
to make a thorough review of the case, re-
ported that the evidence, in his judgment,
showed that Mooney was a victim OF a frame
up. This atrocious and infamous crime
against an innocent man has perhaps been
more thoroughly exposed than any other mis-
carriage of justice in this country. And yet
Tom Mooney is still in Jail; kept there by the
control Of all the powers Of government and
of the courts Of the state of California, by one
of the most corrupt and cruel crews of finan-
cial and industrial pirates in this country.
Against overwhelming evidence that Moo
ney is innocent this crew has been able to
influence governors and judges and to defeat
every attempt to open the doors of the prison
to this innocent man.
Now comes a committee of the United
States Senate which has been investigating
the Mooney case and tells us that while the
members want to do something to help free
Mooney, they doubt their legal authority to
call Mooney here for hearings. For instance,
CL-.4-. no4 NTaGouuox, cox,o +1o+ t+boro &c a
question Of how we could get Mooney here
if the state of California refuses to deliver
him. And Senator Neeley, backing up this
view on the part of his fellow senator, says
that the Mooney case =" is a disgrace and is
one of the most outrageous things in the his
tory of the world, with the exception of the
Dreyfus case"
The fact is that it is infinitely worse than
the Dreyfus case. Dreyfus was also convict
ed on periured testimony, but when such
testimony was exposed the case was reopened
and Dreyfus was set free. But for over 18
years the fact has been known that perjured
testimony was used to put Tom Mooney in
Jail because he had dared to stand up for
his fellow workers in an industrial struggle.
And he is still there. The courts Of Cali
lorna Willie IlldJ upSy Cdu w AoIliiiS w
undo a cruel injustice, the preparation of
which they do not deny. The hands of vari-
Gus governors, palsied with fear of the ruling
class of California, have refused to sign a
pardon, though every governor since Mooney
was immured in his dungeon knows that the
man is g~uiltless.
The senators of the committee investigating
the case, after announcing their belief in
MONEYS innocence, tell us that all they
Montana labor news., 1937-12-30

81 know of no more fitting tribute to the
constitution than a struggle to regain and
maintain in these United States the rights of
free speech, free assembly and civil liberties
for workers Pres. Emil Rieve, American
Federation of Hosiery Workers.
The Washington times., 1937-07-07

Scout encampment near the
side Of the Highway Bridge. It
seems the Scouts from Region 10
can't say enough about Bert and
his Cafe Riviera penthousers,
who play such ripping melodies,
the kids say, they are worth half
the Jamboree trip.
Recent front page screamers,
announcing to q startled world the
resumption Of hostilities between
Russia and Japan on the Amur
River front, stimulated some rous-
ing stories from the lips Of George
Gallo, new head waiter at the Club
Volga Boatman, and lad who won
his spurs during the Russian revo-
luton.
George was a member Of the
White army and received the St.
George Cross for bravery during
the BolShevik ShenaniganS. At
the time Of the outbreak Of civil
war strife in 1917, George was
studying in Hardin (then China)
for service In the Cars diplomatic
corps. He gave this I'D to Join the
Whites and incidentally, to &C.
quire swell. set Of hair raising
narratives. p.
= = y
Air cooled and adjusted to fit
every palate. That's the motto
at Cafe Mayfair where business
and professional men can gather
The Washington times., 1937-07-07
ALLSTAR FEMININE REVUE ON CARD AT LOTUS THIS WEEKN

Three Ms, to take you to the
Swiss Mountains on the wings of
his melodious "Sleep, Baby,
Sleep" yodeling speciality num-
Der. He is known as the baritone
with the two-and-a-half octave
range, and he can strike q D,
above a high C, at the same time.
Not bad, Ell, Herr Professor?
y
Plenty Of snappy music that
sends thrills tipping from your
shoulders to the tips of your
toes! That's the bill O. fare &C.
quired by the Nightingale
Night Clubs management for
its hosts of dancing friends.
Beginning tonight, Watson
Powell and his 10 Moods in Blue
take over the swingtime chores
at the Richmond Highway spot,
and the way the boys auditiOned
yestereve, they're . cinch to
please the rOllicking crowds Of
Washingt0nians who like their
dancing sweet and low, hot and
fast, or just-middle- Of.the-rOad
fOx-trOtty. Wen be lOOkin' for
you tonight when the boys strike
up their opening chord.
X \ 4
And, speaking of swing mas.
tiers, we've been told that Bert
Merrill is the toast Of the Boy
The Washington times., 1937-07-07

expression Of gratitude for the
dandy turnout during last week
ends first anniversary ,celebra-
ton at the Virginia roadhouse:
"The anniversary was a great
success. Now, won't you please
come out and sample our deli
ci0uS dinners, tinkIing floor
shows and swell dance pro-
grams every Friday, Saturday
and Sunday"
The grand opening Of the Casa
Grande's outdoor cafe and board
walk opened. as announced in
this column, last Saturday. We
stopped off on our way through
the Washington suburbs and
found the Berwyn hotspot 100
per cent improved by the addi-
ton. Really, it's quite q thrill,
folks, and we advise you to visit
there mighty soon.
When next you visit the Hi.Hat
Lounge at the Ambassador, ask
Rudy Ferris, a member of the