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The Washington times., 1938-01-24
Cummings Brands Crime
Here National Disgrace

crime situation. Cummings blamed
no single factor. "It is my belief
that the men in key position in
the District of Columbia are alive
to these problems and are work
ing valiantly toward their solu-
tion," he declared, "but we need
more policemen; we need more
prosecutors; we need more judges;
in fact our list Of needs is long
one"
There is much to be DONE"
he continued, but law enforce
ment will not thrive so long as
the District is starving for
funds"
He declared there is small
hope for improvement of crime
conditions in any community so
long as the great body of citizenry
remains indifferent, uninformeo
or hostile"
The Washington times., 1938-01-24
OIL FIRM WORK
COST II MILLION

PHILADELP HIA, Jan. "a
G.N.SO.-The Sun Oil Company
will spend $11, 100000 in plant ex.
pansion and development during
1898 on it's refineries at Marcus
Hook, Pa, and Toledo, Ohio, j.
Howard Pew, president, announced
today.
The new program will be di-
rected not only toward increasing
present plant capacities but adapt
ing htem to. new refining proc
esses, which permit larger recoy-
cries from crude oil and reduced
refining costs, Pew explained. Z Z
practically the entire expen-
diture will go into wages for
labor" Pew asserted. about
two million man-hours of labor
will be required in the erection
of plant and structures in addi-
tion to employment in producing
the materials" the official said.
The Washington times., 1938-01-24
Urges Business
To Find OWn Cure

OSTON, Jan. "a 0N.SO.
Big business" should volunteer
its own formula to end the re
cession, Joseph P. Kennedy, newly
appointed ambassador to Great
Britain, said here today.
President Roosevelt is anxious
to cooperate with business, Ken
nedy declared.
Business should be better at
finding the answer for itself
than Government" he said. "I
don't know any reason why any
one man in the Government,
from the President down, should
have all the facts that business
men have about their own in
dustrieS. It's up to them to
think of a plan and trot it out"
The Washington times., 1938-01-24
Trade Pact
SeenAidtO
Farmers

G.N.S0 The trade agreement
between the United States and
Great Britain, now under negotia.
tion, will greatly benefit farmers
in the United States and in the
British Empire, the Foreign Policy
Association. private agency, re.
ported today.
The association hailed Britain's
intention to enter into a reciprocal
trade compact with the United
States as marking mot only the
first large-scale revision of the OF
tawa system, but also a reversal
of the Britisl commercial policy"
Under the Ottawa trace system,
England and its far-flung posses.
sions were bound to confine all
purchases wherever possible to
countries within the empire.
State Department officials today
were preparing a formal announce.
ment O. this country's intention to
enter into a new trade agreement
with Canada. This compact will
expand that which was entered
into with Canada a year ago.
Lists of the commodities that will
be affected by the tariff changes
will be published shortly and pub
lie hearings set before the agree
ment is concluded.
The Washington times., 1938-01-24


that it was time to get up.
"All I could do" Biggers later
said, "was to take a shower,
dress and go to the office with
out having any sleep. How
ever, it's comforting to know
that I've something in common
with the author of The Battle
Hymn of the Republic, You
know, we both wrote by the
dawn's early light"
Secretary of the Interior
Ickes' former chief spy, Louis E.
CLAWS, teStifying before a Sen
ate committee last week, OBJ
jected to the pharse "wire-
tapping"-particularIy when it
was brought out White House
conversations may have been
listened in on.
"WelI," snapped sharp
tOngued Senator Pittman, What
would you like to call it-eaveS.
drOpping?"
Eyes, eavesdrOpping is bet.
ter" CLAWS answered.
A striking contrast in per-
sonalities: J. Edgar Hoover, who
always makes the front pages
with his Omen, and Frank Will
son, efficient chief of the Secret
Service for the past two years,
whose picture hasn't been in
the paper since he was DIP
pointed.
The Washington times., 1938-01-24
NightPGrtey
Planned on
Tax Bill

GN.S0. In an effort to speed
Q new tax bill, the House Ways
and Means Committee planned to
hold hearings tonight if necessary
to bring them to a conclusion.
Chairman Doughton CD of
North Carolina, of the committee,
anxious to begin secret sessions
to frame the final form of the bill,
insisted upon the program.
VOTE LIKELY NEXT WEEK
Unless the experts drafting
recommendations of the Ways and
Means Tax Subcommittee into bill
form are delayed, it is probable
final action on the new bill will
be taken next week.
AS the hearings neared an end
"a bitter fight was faced by the
: committee over the lib" section
; placing penalty taxes upon closely
I held or family corporations earn.
! ing over $4,000 a year and dis
: tributing less than 80 per cent of
. profits.
Fresh protests against this pro
: gram, as a direct penalty upon
; "middle-class" business, were to be
! made before hearings ended.
Under the plan, these corpora,
: tions would be subjected to a 20
+: per cent penalty tax upon the por-
/. ton of profits not paid out in
, dividends, as fixed by the provi.
:: Sions.
: BLOW AT MIDDLE CLASS"
: The proposal has been chal.
lenged as one to force the middle
: class" corporations to pay so pei
cent more tax than corporations
: widely held. Witnesses have indi
: Gated that textile mills, lumber
: companies, newspapers, and inde
: pendent radio companies would
especially be hit.
The Washington times., 1938-01-24
tiOns to build up sentiment for
the proposed measure.

George Fort Milton, tn e
rotund Chattanooga publisher
who came here to help his fel-
loW-TenneSSean educate" the
public about the Hull trade
agreements, has very winning
argument:
1T is seldom that you can get
God and mammon on the same
side" insisted Milton. But in
this Hull program of economic
appeaSement, heart, conscience
and pocketbook are all bene-
fitted"
Ur5dne Counselor Anthony de
BdlaSy OF the Hungarian legd-
ton, is temporarily retiring
from Capital society until his
uproariouS friends forget his
encounter 1Oith an udmTtng
Washington mGtron.
Counselor de BGlnSy bol1ed
oUer ladies' hands and generally
made himself charming to the
guests at a recent afternoon
cocktail party. The admitting.
mGtron matched him, then re.
marked Soultully and GudibEy:
isn't he wonderful? He has
the manners of an old 1Dorld
courteS1n."
John w. Biggers, head of the
unemployment census and one
The Washington times., 1938-01-24
Hitler Prisoners
Must Pay: Board

NEW YORK, Jan. "a GNS)
When jailed in Nazi Germany, one
must pay for ''foo dand lodging" "
Fred ZomzeIy, 31-year-old German,
said here today.
Zomzely asserted he was ar.
rested in Berlin for taking snap
shots of a railroad station and
sentenced to four days in prison.
At the end of each day, he said,
he was presented with q small bill
for his keep.
The Washington times., 1938-01-24

Postmaster General Jim Far
ley took his own recession
squawk to the White House last
week: Post Office receipts were
IL per cent off last month in
the IL largest cities. 1t is the
first time that has happened
since the New Deal got under
way.
Senator Borah receiUed a fan
letter on his dntilynching bill
eech from a 78-yedr-old
Georgian 1Uho Wrote:
81 read your speech to my
old lady and she said, thank
God there's one dam Yankee
that understands the SouthP"
incidentally, the cost of the
ontilynching tilibuSter to date
on items OF salary OF the Sen.
GtorS and printing the Congress
SionGl Record is $159,416.6O.
Add incidental expenses such
as heat, light, ETC., and Dirie'S
little mGneuUer is costing the
taxpayers about $4,000 per day.
OF course, that's less than the
CiUH War cost.
However, one Southern New
Dealer is managing to retain her
equilibrium despite Senate bit
The Washington times., 1938-01-24
By JOHN o'poNNEIL AND poRIs FLEEsoN

It's bad for Judge Florence Allen, who has just
handed down the paatabe decision that the New Deals
IVA constitutional but President Roosevelt has confded
to friends that his next Supreme Court apponee will posi-
lively from the Far West This is necessary, he
court.
Another Roosevelt plan is to leave the Capital and the
dawdng Congress shortly after the social closes
February % and spend three weeks in the South Warm
Springs, Ga, first and then a fishing trip.
The Washington times., 1938-01-24
REED UP TOMORROW

Expectations were the Senate
would, on Thursday, unanimously
confirm Solicitor General Stanley
F. Reed to be an associate justice
Of the Supreme Court. That the
full Senate Judiciary Committee
would unanimously recommend
Reeds confirmation at its meeting
today was considered certain.
The Washington times., 1938-01-24
DR.. WESLEY SPEAKS

DR.. Charles H. Wesley, head of
the history department and acting
dean of the graduate school, was
speaker at the all-university re-
ligious service in Rankin Chapel
at Howard University yesterday
Music was provided by the uni
versity choir under the direction
of Miss Lulu v. Childers, dean of
the school of music.
The Washington times., 1938-01-24
A Kansas newspaper called
up Republican National Chair.
man John Hamilton, recently

divorced, to
ask him if
t h e report
were tru e
that he is 60
ing to marry
Pre- S / d e mt
7 h e o d Or
X 90 S evelt'S
d a u G h t er,
Alice Long
worth.
my God.
no." yelled
the red-head.
ed KanSan.
81 h a v en't
seen Alice for
a year."
The Washington times., 1938-01-24

terneSS a n d
rampant per-
S o n a Ii t i es
a b ou t t h e
color line.
Mrs. Ellen
w o o d W ard,
WPA assist
ant admins
traitor, born
and bred in
t he de e p
South (MiSSi-
Sippi), drop
ped in at a
party at the
h o m e o I
Henry Ais
The Washington times., 1938-01-24

berg, radical head of the WPA
writer's project. and found her
self being introduced to several
colored guests
Other guests held their breathS
and fearfully watched the red
headed Hopkins aide. But
nothing happened that book
on etiquette could complain
about.
Cautious Senator Capper will
not push his uniform divorce
and marriage amendment to the
Constitution at this session Of
Congress. He is waiting, he ex-
plains, FOR wOmen'S OrganiZa-
The Washington times., 1938-01-24
PANAY FILM BANNED

WARSAW, Poland, Jan. 24.-The
Polish censor has banned films OF
the Japanese airplane attack on
the United States gunboat Panay
on the ground that they might
arouse unfriendly nti m ent
against a friendly nation.
The Washington times., 1938-01-24
Mrs. Hausmeister
Is Victim of Fall

Mrs. Ida Hausmeister, SO, of
3348 Sixteenth st. N. W., died to-
day at Gallinger Hospital as the
result of a fall on the steps Of
her home January 6. She is sur
vived by her husband and a
daughter.
The Washington times., 1938-01-24


of the high
e S t S alaried
men in the
country, was
so busy writ
ing a supple
mentary re-
port in his
hotel tie
the OF h Ell
night that he
worked right
through until
t h e switch
board opera
tor calle d
him at 7 a.
m onOin o.
The Washington times., 1938-01-24
.ClamOr for Action
On Other Bills Pulls
Lynch Fight to Head
Crucial Test Nears as Leaders Battle
To Smash I5-Day Dixie Filibuster
By ARTHUR HACHTEN

QNS) Driving to smash Dixies filibuster against the
anynchng bill and open the for action the Admins
tratons legislative program, Democratic chefain planned
to run todays Senate session far into the night.
The Washington times., 1938-01-24

RdJI6Ieu uuIlLlS d yCdl IOAAS III
vestigation of the movie industry
has been placed before Attorney
General Cummings and Robert H
Jackson, chief of the antitrust
division and spearhead in the Ad
ministration's drive against mo
'nopolies.
ACTION IN THREE MONTHS
Some time will be required by
Cummings and Jackson to study
the data assembled by Federal
agents. The official predicted
however, that I'VE may be in the
courts on this matter within three
months"
In its suit. the Government will
accuse the film firms of discrimi'
mating against independent ex-
hibitors in the distribution of
motion pictures.
The Government will attempt to
prove that through financial con-
troll of theaters and exclusive
agreements with other theater
operators in many areas, the mo-
ton picture producing units are
able to freeze out" independents.
In areas where such arrange
ments and theater control exist,
independent theater operators
have no chance of leasing a so
called "first.run" picture.
MUST WAIT
According to the official, some
of the independents have been
forced to wait as long as a year
before obtaining certain features
released by the companies.
The Government further will
seek to show that in some cases
the prices charged independents
for exhibiting films is higher than
the rental exacted from theaters
favored" by the producers.
Whether the suit will touch on
the controversial block booking
method of distributing motion pic
lures could not be learned. BY
this method, the motion picture
producing units require exhibitors
to purchase the entire film output
of a studio.
For many years the Justice De
partment has received complaints
from the independent exhibitors
over alleged unfair trade practices
by the top-flight movie firms.
EXHAUSTIVE PROBE MADE
A year ago agents were sent into
the field, to Hollywood, and to
New York business offices of the
motion picture organizations. Elk
haustive inspection has been made
of the books and records of the
companies.
Since the complaints have
emanated from virtually every
large-sized community, the depart.
ment is prepared to institute anti.
trust proceedings in virtually any
judicial jurisdiction. 1t is eX
Ipected that the suit will be filed
in one of the larger cities, pos,
sibly Los Angeles, Chicago or New
York.
BY its action, the Government
will be proceeding against one O:
the largest industries in the coun
try. According to the Commerce
Department the movies are rated
among the first 10 single com
modify industries, having a capl
tai investment of $4,000, 100000.
Hollywood supplies approx
mately 10 per cent of all the mo
ton pictures shown in theater.
throughout the world.
The Washington times., 1938-01-24
u. S. to Begin Suits
! Against Film Firms
AS Being Trusts
Action Likely Within Three Months, After
Year of Federal Probing
Bv ERIC FRIEDHEIM

International News service)
The Federal Government shortly will file suit against the
major picture companies and present charges that they
have violated the antitrust laws
The Washington times., 1938-01-24
MARINE LABOR
DISPUTES PERIL
U. S.-KEN NEDY
New Envoy to Britain
Files Frank" Report

G.N.S) In his first and his
last report to Congress as chair
man of the United States Mari
time Commission, Joseph P. Ken
nedy, newly-appointed Ambassa
dor to Great Britain, repeated his
claim today that labor disputes are
throttling growth of our merchant
marine.
Kennedy and the maritime
unions have differed on labor
matters eye-to-eye ever since be
cabled the captain of the Govern
ment-owned vessel Algic to return
his crew in irons if they con
tinued a sit-down strike.
When the ship docked at Balti
more the Maritime Commission
initiated a Federal grand jury
investigation, which resulted in
the conviction of IA seamen on
charges of conspiring to take con.
troll of the ship.
For some time Kennedy and
Secretary of the Navy Claude A.
Swanson have been warning the
Administration of the deplorable
state of the merchant marine,
pointing out it must be in top,
notch condition to be of service
in time of war.
Kennedy blamed hesitancy Of
shipbuilders to take advantage
of the subsidy clause of the mer-
chant marine act to the general
labor unrest.
Labor conditions Signalized
by demands of the crews. sit.
downs and quickie strikes and
slipshod performance of duty
are characteristic of the indus
try" his report said. although
the commission has recon-
mended remedial legislation, no
lasting cure will be effected un-
til the jurisdictional strife now
prevalent in maritime labor is
terminated"
IL NEW TANKERS
Kennedy believes the commits
sion has struck a satisfactory
working basis for a long-range
program that will replace ships
over age, improve service and
strengthen national defense If
there are no unforeseen develop
ments.
Eight companies have entered
into long-term subsidy contracts
with the commission to build 81
ships within the next five years
at a cost of $11O,OOO,OOO. The
Standard Oil Company of New
Jersey intends to build IL high
speed oil tankerS.
The Washington times., 1938-01-24
BRIDGES ATTACK
ON iva DRAWS
M'KELLAR FIR E
TenneSSean Points to
New Hampshire Rates

0.N.S0. Sweeping charges by
Senator Bridges (R) of New
Hampshire, that the Tennessee
Valley Authority has betrayed
public trust" we're branded as
ridiculous and false" by Senator
McKellar CD of Tennessee in
the Senate today.
Defending the IVA, the Ten
nesseean said victories for the
giant power-flood control projects
in the courts mean its revenue
this year will approximate
$5,000,000 and later $4,000, 900
will be repeated.
The Washington times., 1938-01-24
CLAMOR FOR ACTION

Facing crucial test, proponents
of the measure went into a series
of huddles to think up parliamen-
tary weapons for the fray. Mean
while, a clamor arose for action
on other measures.
Since the house has approved
the Senate House conference re-
port on the far-flung housing bill,
there was pressure for the Senate
to take up that measure and speed
it to President Roosevelt.
A fight to restore the Lodge
prevailing wage" amendment was
assured. With organized labor
battling for the prevailing wage"
in all work done pursuant to the
bill, there was a political flavor to
the Senate warfare over that issue.
It was originally adopted by the
Senate, SLIT.
The Washington times., 1938-01-24

With all legislation in the Sen
ate stalled as the filibuster went
into it's fifteenth day, the Demo
cratic high command really began
turning on the heat in an effort
to wear out the minority fight
ing the bill.
But the filibusterers showed no
sign of weakening. They were
prepared, they said, to talk the
bill to death. Their strategy had
been laid for every member of
the opposition camp to take a
turn in holding the floor against
a vote.
The Washington times., 1938-01-24
ANSWERS BRIDGES

Claims by Bridges that con
tracts made by IVA with large
industrial users of power have
robbed" the people of power that
should go to them, were described
as "unfounded" by Mcclellan
who said iva had plenty of power
for all purposes; that electricity
rates were being hammered down
by its operations and the South
was benefitting greatly.
IVA contracts aSsailed by
Bridges in a recent Senate speech,
but defended by McKellar, were
those made with the Monsanto
Chemical Company, Aluminium
Company of America, Electric
Metallurgical Company, Victor
Chemical Works, and the Arkansas
Power and Light Company.
RAPS NEW ATTACK
And now." he said, "just as
soon as we have gotten rid OF
all the other propagandists,
just as soon as we have gotten
rid of law suits, just as soon as
we have gotten rid of the in.
functions. Just as we have got
ten rid of so much other op-
position, here the IVA is as
Saulted from another angle.
"The assault comes from a
Senator whose State has prob
ably the highest power rates in
the country, save one. 1t comes
from a Senator who has been a
utilities commissioner for five
years. 1t does not come like a
bolt of lightning from a clear
sky, but it comes like a ghost
from the departed"
The Washington times., 1938-01-24

John w. Biggers, head of the
unemployment census and one
The Washington times., 1938-01-24

ALL NAIL SUBSCRIPTIONS PAYABIll
IN ADVANCE
The Washington times., 1938-01-24

RATES ny CARRIER IN WASHINGTON. q.
AND SUBURBS
The Washington times., 1938-01-24

RATES BY MAIL FOR VIRGINIA. MARYLAND
WEST VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAROLINA
AHsIl. anA
The Washington times., 1938-01-24

A high Justice Department off
cial disclosed today that evidence
gathered during year-long in.
vestigation of the movie industry
has been placed before Attorney
General Cummings and Robert H.
Jackson, chief of the antitrust
division and spearhead in the Ad.
ministration's drive against mo-
nopolieS.
aCTTONr TNy TIIpEE MONTHS
The Nome nugget., 1938-07-25
Three Kentucky Women Missing:
 Search Started

GRANTS PASS. New Mexico, July "A, (Pl-Posses of the State police, sherltfs and deputies be- gan a search at dawn for three Kentucky women, tourists, miss ing since Tuesday, near the stran ge perpetual ice caves of Western New Mexico's desert.
 Those missing are Irene Pieda- lue, aged 45; Laura Piedalue, 47; and Marie Antoinette DeLaForr- est instructor of French at the University of Kentucky.
 Governor Clyde T.ngley came here personally to direct the search after the women's parked car was found near The entrance to the remote and inaccessible caves. 1. is feared that they may be lost or injured in the labyrinth.
The Nome nugget., 1938-07-25
Plane Nose-Dived Into Crandstand
 5O Killed

BOGOTA, Colombia, July "A, tPl-At least fifty persons, includ ing the pilot, were killed and more than one hundred and fifty were injured when a Colombian Army plane nose-dived into the grandStand, packed with forty thousand spectators who were watching an aerial review, which is considered one of the worst aviation disasters in the history of the Western Hemisphere.
 The plane which was piloted by Commander Cesar Abadia, was leading the masSed aerial re- view. caught on fire as it plung- ed into the grandstand. As the flames spread turnout the grand stand wild panic gripped women and children.
 President Don Alfonso Lopez and a group of Foreign diplomats were seated in a nearby review ing box and narrowly escaped death.
 Many of the injured persons are expected to die.
The Nome nugget., 1938-07-25
Game Regulations Are Extended by
 Commission

JUNEAU, July "A, tP)-The Biological Survey extended AL aska's fall waterfowl shooting season an extra two weeks, be- cause of the increase number of birds. The following dates were announced:
 Southeastern Alaska from Octo Der lst to November l4th.
 North of the Alaska range in- cluding the Kuskokwim, Bristol Bay from September 1st to Octo- Der 18th.
 South of the Alaska range to Canadian Boundary from Septem Der 18th to October Both.
 South and west of the Naknek River to the top of the Alaska Peninsula from November first to December 18th.
 The bag limit will remain the same.
The Nome nugget., 1938-07-25
g of Japs
 On Soviet Island
 Causes Trouble

MOSCOW, July 24, (P)-Re- ports of a clash between Japan ese and Soviet troops after a landing of Japanese on the Russ ian Island of Fainfov, renewed the Far Eastern tension.
 Dispatches from Khabarovsk, Russia, said that two Japanese motor boats He'd with soldiers, landed on Faingov Island in the Jssuri river, near where the Korea -Manchoukuo Siberian bor- ders meet.
 Dispatches said that a Russian gunboat was fired on by by Japanese detachment, and the gunboat returned the fire, wound ing two Japanese.
The Nome nugget., 1938-07-25
Texas Picks New Man Governor
 Old Defeated

DALLAS. Texas, July 25, (P' Texas apparently picked w. Lee ODaniel, never before can didate for public office, as gover- nor O'DanielS spectacular cam paign With a lilly Billy Band, enthraued the voters with rural rhythm
 Representative Maury Mayer ick, an ardent new dealer and another congressman who was praised by President Roosevelt, were apparently defeated. May erick was downed by Irishman Paul Kilday.
 O'Danlels platform was the ten commandre 2 Its Which defeated eleven foes and he got nearly a half million votes compared to a little more than one hundred and fifty thousand votes for his near est rival
 O'Daniel has been a successful flour-miller.