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The times-news., 1937-07-30
RACKETEERING UNIONS PLAY A
SMOOTH GAME
(By BRUCE CATION


No matter how the individual citizen
stands on the organizational rights of en-
ployes or employers, he will find it advan-
tageous to- be aware of the practices and
principles-or lack of them-which distin-
guish racketeering from legitimate activity.
New York City has been going through
a stiff course in these fundamentals with
Thomas E. Dewey, special prosecutor of
rackets, as teacher And often the revela-
tions have been startling.
The recent trial of group of men for
conspiracy to put out of business such
bakeries as failed to abide by certain rules
and prices established by an association"
provides some good examples of complica-
tions that may arise.
One witness testified that when price
cutting baker was to be classified, the or
ganization put "black wagon" on his
route. The "black wagon" bearing no firm
name, was to follow the route trucks of the
price-cutter and undersell him.
A Bronx baker who suspected, but could
not prove that union officials and officers
of bakers association were conspiring to
drive him out of business, told how his
shop was picketed and one of his trucks
burned. Other witnesses testified to pay
mentS they had made to assure continual
tion of protection" and to enforce the or
ganization's rules.
Now price-cutting war in itself is not
necessarily evidence of racketeering Nor
is the formation of a union of workers, or
an association of business men. It is only
when these legal forms are borrowed" to
shield illegal activities that the trouble be-
gins
A typical feature of the rackets is that
their promoters are adept at picking out
the right spot and the right time to begin
without attracting attention. Usually, the
best openings come when the public is
enormously occupied with some other
problem.
Right now, then, when scores of new, le-
gally sanctioned unions are being formed,
and uncertainty over industrial readjust-
ment is diverting the attention of nerv-
Gus public, the field is perfectly smoke
screened for all shades and varieties of
Illegitimate organization projects.
The racketeeer has been chased down
and prosecuted, sporadically, in many COM
munities. But he always comes back, and
he always exacts the same toll from the
common man, who usually already has
had as much expense as his pocketbook
will bear. "
Therein lies an object lesson which may
be painfully administered to any person
unless he is forewarned and forearmed.
There must be wedding of the bad from
the good, and all the good sense and dis
cernment of everyone will be needed to do
it properly.
In fact, besides those who are victimized
by the chisehng imitators, many another
honest person is likely to wake up some
day and find himself actually affiliated
with such bunch of outlaws That's Just
how smoothly the game is played. ">
The times-news., 1937-07-30
KILLS Ais BILLS

SACRAMENTO, Cal. (UP).-
Governor Frank F. Merriam dur-
ing the recent legislative session
won a position as the states third
greatest bill-killer. He either
pocketed or vetoed 4l6 bills.
During the past 80 years, hCw-
ever, he has been outdone by
Governor Friend w. Richardson,
who killed 5l9 Legislative me;s-
ures, and Governor Hiram W.
Johnson, who vetoed 433.
The times-news., 1937-07-30
TUXEDO NOTE

TUXEDO. July 30 II
Mrs. r. F. Pace and famiIr (
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Jorn,oS !
luda Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Billie n.,4
Detroit, Mich. aro spcr5.,,
eral days with the la,,ay'
ents, Mr.. and Mr.. Y. e.
gan.
Mr.. and Mr.. Alex Ts,-
of Greenvillc, s. G.. Wen /,
end guests OF Ms. Gcorg,
lard.
Miss Augcnia Ng'lray /,
tient at Patton Ncmoril
pital. She has been IN for,,
ber Of weeks.
The times-news., 1937-07-30
A LITTLE CHILD, ETC.

1t is asserted that the Fourth
of July just passed shows no fire
works fatalities and that this ex-
cellent record was largely due to
the commcndable action of the
$4,000 Boy Scouts who commit
ted themselves to a sane Fourth.
Now if the relatives of those
Boy Scouts would form them
selves into a Sane Drivers Club
and pledge themselves to promote
The times-news., 1937-07-30
Tax Dodging VS.. Tax Spending
By WICKES WAMBOLDT

aged and perverted. We can eX-
pcct that sort Of thing as long as
we let men get into office whose
minds work that way and as long
as we tolerate their prostitution
of Miss Columbia.
The times-news., 1937-07-30

Oklahoma mountain girls are reported
bleaching their hair with broomweed flow
ers, elder bark, egg yolks and saffron, a
trend that falls into the jurisdiction of
conservation officials.
The times-news., 1937-07-30

would place equal
reprobation on
dishonesty in tax
spending.
There should
be honesty and
patriotism in tax
p a y in &, and
there undoubtly
would be more
of it if there
were more hon
esty and patriot
ism in tax spend
ing.
1t is a great
temptation To the
The times-news., 1937-07-30

A Stanford professor intinates pupils
should not have to ask permission to
sharpen pencils. This assumes, of course,
that the pupils will find some other way
Of passing notes.
The times-news., 1937-07-30

There is much lofty talk ema-
mating from Washington just now
about dishonesty in tax paying. 1t
would be well if the same source
The times-news., 1937-07-30

Before long hundreds of conscientious football
hnemen win face that great problem OF whether
to hit low or be accused of passing the buck.
The times-news., 1937-07-30

the prudent handling of motor
vehicles, they would save more
lives and limbs in one year TIM
hive been lost or injured by fire
works since the Fourth of July
becme a national holiday.
The times-news., 1937-07-30

1t seems that a good inventor is one who
develops something which isn't patent to
the rest of the world. =.
The times-news., 1937-07-30

stickler for form thinks the drug law ought
to be invoked against prize-hghters who carry
sleep-produeers in each hand. g..g .,r, a..
The times-news., 1937-07-30

OF iamp-p0St tropba5,
sold 100000 copies, ''OuN
Evening star., 1937-10-27

reproductions offered by The Star"
The famous paintings and art ap-
probation lessons are now part of
the art course in Mount Vernon
School at Alexandria, according to
Mrs. Raymond A. Feathers, art direc-
tor.
The children are very enthusiastic
about the pictures" she commented,
land I was surprised at the interest
they created among those in the lower
grades. 1t has created an interest
in art that they have not had before
and is teaching them to appreciate
better pictures. We are using the
prints regularly"
One of the recent orders for pic
lures came from Dorothy Ford, treas
urer of the Parent Teacher Associ-
alton at Fairfax, Va, who said she
was buying them for use in the Fair
fax Elementary School.
Another was from Mrs. w. E.
Martin, wife of the president of Sullins
College at Bristol, Va.
Evening star., 1937-10-27

Most of them have been engaged
for the last three weeks with the
shaping of refiectors of 6-inch dame
ter. Soon, however, a 12-inch mirror
will be attempted, and if this is sue
cessful all hands will pool resources
and elbow grease in the making Of
20-inch supertelescope for amateurs
The mirrors are made from the
same low-expansion. very hard pyrex
glass out of which was fashioned the
200-inch mirror to be mounted in the
worlds greatest telescope at the Cali
fornia Institute of Technology. The
glass has been carefully annealed or
cooled for several months in ovens
which gradually lower the tempera-
ture to insure against flaws
Enough of it for a 6-inch mirror
can be bought, however. for less than
$40, and the whole cost of the COM
pleted telescope should not be more
than $40. Mr. Macy said.
Finishing Own Mirrors.
The amateurs are finishing their
own mirrors, silyering them and shap-
ing the glass prisms which defract
the reflected light through the eye or
magnifying glass.
This latter lens is usually bought
ready made. although some amateurs.
are planning to fashion their own.
Evening star., 1937-10-27
miss ROCHE QUITS
AS TREASURY AIDE
Assistant Secretary to Be
Head of Coal Mining Firm
in Colorado.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Treasury said today that Miss
Josephine Roche had submitted her
resignation as Assistant Secretary OF
the Treasury. The resignation will be
effective next Monday.
Miss Roche, officials said, will re-
turn to her home in Denver to take
over the presidency of the Rocky
Mountain Fuel Co., coal mining con-
Germ with which she long has beer
associated.
Miss Roche's resignation was sub
mitted through Secretary Morgenthau
to President Roosevelt on September
IA. Treasury authorities said that, al
though the President had not yet ac-
cepted it formally, Miss Roche would
leave Monday.
Secretary Morgenthau will not fl
her position, it was said, in the hopt
that she may be able to arrange hel
private affairs in Denver and return
later.
AS assistant secretary. Miss Roche
widely known in social and welfare
circles, has been in charge of Public
Health Service and allied activities
She also has served as chairman oi
an interdepartmental committee fol-
the coordination of health and vel
fare activities
Treasury officials said it was pos
sible she might retain the committee
chairmanship, serving largely in an
advisory capacity.
Evening star., 1937-10-27
NEW AIR SERVICE
TO BUFFALOBEGUN
Variety of Adverse Weather
Fails to Halt Two Ships
on Inaugural Flight.

Despite just about all the different
types of weather which can arise TO
plague a pilot, Pennsylvania Central
Airlines last night completed in
auguration of airmail, passenger and
express service between Washington
and Buffalo.
Arrangements now are being worked
out between postal officials of the
United States and Canada to extend
the route TO connect the capitals OF
the two countries. Daily round trips
are to be flown over the route for
the present, with departures from
Washington at am. and from Buff
falo at 2:30 pm. The trip requires
2 hours, As minutes. including stops
at Baltimore, Harrisburg and Will
Transport, Pa.
Two twin-engined transports were
which included Second Assistant
Postmaster General Harllee Branch,
Chairman Mead of the House Post
Office Committee and Representative
Swope of Pennsylvania, Stephen A.
Cisler, superintendent of railway and
air mail; President C. Bedell Monro
of the airline and aeronautical, State
and city officials.
One of the two airliners was delayed
at Baltimore few minutes when Rep
resentative Mead, Democrat, of New
York, who boarded it there, missed his
wallet. In response to telephone
CALL railroad officials found it in a
Pullman car in which Mr.. Mead had
travelled from Buffalo and sent it to
him.
Evening star., 1937-10-27
FULL RETURN SEEN
FOR BANK PATRONS
Official Report of U. S. Savings
Bank Receiver Shows Funds
- - Likely to Be Available.

Depositors of the closed United
States Savings Bank may look forward
tosreceiving 100 cents on the dollar of
their accounts. according to figures in
the latest official report of the receiver,
F. J. Young, for the quarter ending
September 30.
Depositors already have received
dividends amounting to go per cent.
The recivership still has assets of a
book value of s727, 7,46775, including a
stock assessment. These have an
estimated" value of SAP, 1885, %, ac-
cording to Young's report.
Judging from these figures, there
will be adequate funds eventually to
pay depositors the remainder of their
capital at least.
There is no indication, however, as
toshow much the recivership could pay
atpresent, nor when the next dividend
would be available.
Suits are pending to collect the 100
per cent assessment from stockholders.
Evening star., 1937-10-27


little Spanish prince, by the great
Spanish master, Goya.
Mrs, Briggs, it was revealed. took
"The Little Prince" into nearby Mary
land to deliver lectures before art
groups at Berwyn. Mount Rainier,
Riverdale, Marlboro, Cheverly and
other places.
Everywhere I go and in every
talk I give 1 am urging every one 20
take advantage of your generous
offer" said the artist Il have ap-
preciated SO thoroughly what you are
doing, by putting in the hands and
homes of our people, these marvellous
reproductions of the worlds best in
pictures"
Famous Paintings Available.
The Star, in collaboration with the
National Committee for Art Appreci-
alton, is making available to the pub
lie group of 48 famous paintings by
old and modern masters in the form of
color reproductions released in sets of
four each week. Each set is accom-
panied by lesson in art appreciation
by DR.. Bernard Myers of New York
University.
The third group of prints is now on
sale. 1t includes Durer's View of
Trent" Massys Banker and His
Wife" Holbein's Anne of Cleves" and
Breughel's Peasant Wedding" all
classics of the early 10th century in
Northern Europe.
Mrs. Briggs left yesterday for New
York, where several of her etchings
will be on exhibit at Rockefeller
Center during November under aus
pices of the Society of American
Etchers. Prom there they will be sent
to Europe. Some of her pictures will
be displayed during Art Appreciation
Week, November IT, at Laurel, Md,
where the works of Maryland artists
will be featured. Her studio here is at
2115 Huidekoper place
Arts Live Forever.
The only things that live forever
are the arts, whether they are ex-
pressed in music, poetry or pictures, 4"
Mrs. Briggs said. ''Mendelssonn,
Michelangelo and others are remem-
bered although the kings of their
times are one and all forgotten. I am
looking forward to owning all the 48
Evening star., 1937-10-27
TWO ARE SEIZED
IN GIRL ATTACKS
High School Student, II,
and U. S. Clerk, AZ, Are
Held by Police.

A 17-year-old high school student
and 47-year-old Government clerk
were being held by police today as
suspects in recent attempted assaults
on young girls.
The high school youth was arrested
last night by Detective Sergt. G. E.
Thornton on information he previous
ly had been involved in an attempted
assault. He was questioned at the
twelfth precinct station in connection
with the attack Monday night on
Nancy Lee Summers, 18-year-old
business college student.
Park Policeman Richard Livingston
arrested the older suspect in Meridian
Hill Park last night after he allegedly
molested two girls, one II and the
other Is years old, as they walked
around the park.
Identifying himself as clerk in a
Government department, the prisoner
was held at the second precinct sta
ton for questioning in connection
two weeks ago on 19-year-old Ruth
Mcmillan, George Washington Uni
verSity coed.
One suspect was released yesterday
after he established an aibi for Mon
day night, when Miss Summers beat
off a masked assailant who seized her
as she was crossing vacant lot
between Michigan avenue and Tenth
street NE. on her way from a street
Car to her home at 5000 Seventh
street NE.
Inspector Bernard w. Thompson,
chief of detectives, said attempts to
identify the youth arrested last night
would determine whether formal
charges would be placed against him
Livingston reported he saw the
middle-aged man approach the two
young girls in Meridian Hill Park last
night. They walked away and told
him, Livingston said, that the man
had tried to talk with them. Twenty
minutes later he saw the same man
following the two girls. A sailor, who
told Livingston the man had asked
him to seize one of the girls while he
seized the other, held him until Liv-
ingston took him into custody.
While questioning the two men,
police continued lookoutS for other
suspects in the attacks on Miss Sum-
merS and Miss Mcmillan. Hospitals
were being checked for young white
man or possibly a light-skinned col
ored man seeking treatment for bite
and scratch wounds, which Miss
Summers believed she had inflicted
on her asSailant.
Evening star., 1937-10-27
NAVY GIVES STATE
CUSTODY OF MARINE
Suspect In Davidson Death Held
Incommunicado in Alex
andria Jail.

Walter L. Ross, 18, marine at
tached to the air force at Quantico,
Va, was being held incommunicado
in an Alexandria jail today while au-
thorities checked his reported confess
sion in the Staying of Elmer J. David
son. So. Washington attorney.
The young suspect was booked un-
der the name Warren Clark" and
lodged in a special detention room at
Alexandria while Sergt E. j. Nc
Dermott of the Virginia State police
assured newspaper men that Ross was
still in custody of military author
tiles at Quantico.
Ross was turned over to Virginia
authorities Friday by authorization
of Secretary of the Navy Swanson.
Commonwealth Attorney G. B. Wal
lace of Stafford County is collecting
evidence in the case for presentation
to the county grand jury when it con-
venes November 8.
Davidson was stabbed and shot to
death beside lttle-used road in STAFF
ford County on the might of October
3. and his body was found the follow
ing morning.
Evening star., 1937-10-27

The telescope mounting can be SIM
pie or complex, entailing in the latter
case a clockwork mechanism for
offsetting the earth's rotation TO keep
the telescope fixed on the stars within
its view. The homemade instruments
open up a wide field for the beginner.
Such telescopes, Macy said, bring
into view the great ring of Saturn,
which resembles nothing so much as
a hat with a wide, fiat brim and
round crown; the crater -pocked sur
face of the moon, the markings on
Jupiter, the vagaries of Mars and
untold other phenomena of the plane
tary system.
Even the stars, although the near
est are four and a half light years
distant and therefore scarcely TO be
magnifed, present new aspects of
color and shape variation, Macy said.
He has set up telescope of his own
manufacture at his home, l04 C
street NE, and plans to view the
Leonids meteors, due about the middle
of next month.
BY that time, Macy hopes, num-
Der of additional Washington anna
teurs will have completed their in
struments for viewing the celestial
show-the greatest show on earth to
an amateur astronomer, anyhow.
Evening star., 1937-10-27
YOUNG MAN JUMPS
FROM SKYSCRAPER
He Crashes 1000 Feet From EN-
pire State Building Onto
Marquee.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Oct 27.-A young
man who laughed and joked going up
on the elevator leaped to his death
few minutes later yesterday from
the eighty-sixth floor observatory of
the Empire State Building as 200
startled sightseers looked on.
The fifth victim of plunges from the
worlds tallest building was identified,
through an overcoat he had borrowed
from a friend. as Albert Megginson,
26-year-old unemployed laborer.
Megginson brushed aside another
tower visitor with the request that he
be allowed to peer through a coin-in-
the-slot telescope
After one last look at the skyline,
he quickly vaulted the 4-foot con-
crete parapet, hurtled past two set
backs and smashed into a glass and
steel marquee more than 1000 feet
below
Traffic was halted in Fifth avenue
and Thirty-fourth street while police
removed the body.
Evening star., 1937-10-27

"HE manufacture of telescope
mirrors is tough grind for
the beginner, but it has a
l. great future-in fact, the sky
is the limit!
The little group Of devotees who
assemble in the physics laboratory at
Central High School each Tuesday
night to scrub unyielding glass with
carborendum and iron oxide are toll
ing. figuratively speaking, with their
eyes on the stars.
Lawyers. science instructors, Gov
ernment experts in several lines, sec
retaries and business men, about a
score in all, are working to perfect
their own telescopes for surveying the
craters Of the moon. the belts of
Jupiter, the polar snow on Mars.
Stephen Macy, president of the Ma
tional Capital Amateur Astronomers
Association, is the instructor, and an
other leading enthusiast is U. Sher-
man Lyons, vice president of the
group and associate astronomer at
the Naval Observatory, which boasts
one of the largest telescopes in the
East.
The amateur telescope makers, who
have obtained use of the high school
laboratory through the Community
Center Department, have ambitious
plans for the future.
Evening star., 1937-10-27
CHILD LABOR FOES
RENEW ACT DRIVE
Conference Adopts Report Claim.
ing Alarming Increase" in
Minors Employment.

By the Associated Press.
The Fourth Annual Conference on
State Labor Legislation called for re-
newed efforts today in behalf of State
and Federal child labor legislation.
The conference adopted a committee
report which declared there was an
alarming" increase in child labor,
and urged that any Federal wage
hour bill passed by Congress include
provision regulating working condi-
tions of minors.
During a discussion of State legisla-
ton fixing maximum hours for work.
ers in intra State industry, A. A.
Couch, president of the Iowa State
Federation of Labor, warned against
passage of any State legislation which
might undermine existing labor con-
tracts.
Before the meeting closes today the
eonferees are expected to debate a
resolution indorsing the administration
wage-hour bill.
Labor delegates at the conference
indicated they were opposed to any
legislation establishing minimum
wages for industrial workers on the
theory that minimum wages tend to
become maximum wages.
Evening star., 1937-10-27

that he was born between 1923 and
1880 IN the neighborhood of Breda
in a village of the Flemish campine
called Breughel. France was gov
erned at this time by Francis the
First, and England by the merry mon
arch, Henry the Eighth. 1t was the
time of Rabelais, of Holbein,. of Eras-
mus. Luther was preaching the Refor-
nation in Germany and in Breughel's
own homeland The unbearable tyr
annies of Charles the Fifth, inheritor
of the Low Countries, we're already
causing the rumblings of revolt.
Professions, brawls, dances, crowds
these we're the stuff of daily life in
Antwerp. And Breughel used it mag
nificently. Upon Breughels canvass
these human materials were trans
ferred. Today, after four centuries of
near-neglect, they stand forth bril-
liantly glowing with color, refreshing,
vigorous and lively, to show us the
truly bourgeois city Antwerp was.
Peasant Bond Unbeatable.
But Breughel was not only painter
Of city scenes. Between his life and
that of the peasants existed an un-
breakable bond. He saw with their
eyes and warmly shared their emo
tionS. With consummate skill he
wrought peasant scenes that are brim-
ming with genius. For he lived with
peasants, took part in their games and
festivities and witnessed love and
death in their cottages. All these he
recorded faithfully.
His storytelling in pictures, ironic
as it most often is, is characterized,
too, by gusto and by healthy enjoy
ment. And when it is not tragic it is
unmistakably comic. Observing the
crowds of picnickers in the Carrying
of the Cross" with their baskets to
look at the free entertainment offered
by the ministers Of justice" Aldous
Huxley says, Gin these days we should
see them with camp stools and ther-
mos TASKS six hours ahead of time"
1t shows us, is it has shown Huxley,
that "Breughel resolutely remains a
human onlooker."
Effaced Former Loves.
A contemporary described him as