Evening Star Newspaper, August 16, 1931, Page 3

Bovernor’s Call Legislature Session Causes Rift. (Continued From First Page) | Tuesday, August 25, Gov. Roosevelt de- | clared h& felt the chief executive of | the State should in no way hamper the investigation which was authorized by & Republican-controlled Legislature. The nead for broadening tne powers ‘of the committee, if it is to continue to function as it has in the past, resulted from a ruling of the Court of Appeals last Monday that the committee did not have the power of granting generel immunity. At the same time it was decided that the inquiry board had the power to grant immunity to Dr. Willlam F. Doyle, former Fire Department veterinary, for his responee to a question as to whether he bribed any public official during | Iis lucrative ice before the city Board of Standards and Appeals. Again Denies Bribery. Dr. Doyle had been in prison serv- ing & 30-day sentence imposed When he was adjudged in contempt of court for refusing to answer. Friday he appeared before the committee and egain was asked: “Did you bribe any public official in connection with your pnctlce before ‘the Board of Standards and Appeals?” It was while he wss practicing be- fore this board that Dr. Doy)e allegedly collemd more than $2,000,000 in fees. In reply to the question he denied he had been gullty of brivdery. The committee voted he was still in con- tempt, Seabury declaring that “a man does not purge himself of contempt by eommmmc perjury.” Court justice, however, l’llllfl that Dr. Doyle had cleared him- self of the contempt charge and the jon's only recourse against him was to file a charge of perjury against hirn. Seabury filed notice he will ap- peal that decision and asked for a stay of the release of Dr. Doyle. It wis granted and then the horse doctor wis ordered released in $20,000 bail. Shortly before noon yesterday he re- uired was presented and Dr. le walked out of jail a free man for the first time in 20 days. As he Jeft the prison and reporters sought to question him, he turned to his bonds- dmen and said: “Tell 'em nothing. It's none of their His counsel, Samuel Palk, said he | « hoped the Legisiature would give the » Hofstadter ttee power to grant immunity. He refused to am- that statement, but it was taken to indicate that Dr. hlk mm freely before the he in nt immunity figu t';. :dmm questions that had been put to Seabury refused last night fo tell in what other ways the committee would use its power of immunity' if it is nmd the Legislature, but in his Governor he made it clear he l.houlh% it might lead to “construc- which will at least mate- the ibilities of corrup- in the tion of the gov- ernment, of New_York cfiy > ‘Witnesses Fear Incrimination. He said every honest man and woman | in New Ym'k mu nnud o hsow, self-incrimination can moved statute which -m afford immunity to| :Lu: 'nn'- give pertinent Two years ago, when Gov. Roosevelt ‘mentioned as & possible idential candidate, the Republicans | to_launch an investigation of affairs. Political ‘commentators ted out that such an ve driven a wedge be- tween the uonmor and Tamman) which controls the Democratic votes ol New York Oity. The Governor vetoed the resolution dertake the inquiry if it wished one. ‘This year the Legislature appointed the Hofstadter Committee, which named as special counsel Mr. Seabury, Who hld been making an investigation of magis: trates’ courts for the appellate dlv\s\nn of the Supreme Court. Later, when the Governor was called upon to consider charges against Mayor James J. Walker, he referred them to! the mayor for an answer and upon re- | celving Walker's reply, declared he could find no cause for an investigation the Legislature pushed through a | upon_him SPECIAL NOTICES. - Bt mnlru:“’ Y mhonr o;;l:sl than s ";fl Tth St. SE._ 18° SPONSIBLE POR ANY RES] {I‘,fl evn"llud by any one other than Il!’» A MORRIS. 1239 N st. nw. 17 ER— nlmnmm CAR R_AND BUILDI 1l *STae Turnished. ol YOVI uvn-c- OOM RU be destroyed rool them tor Yo Foroteot ion | collection is made FI BUREA 1 Eond Bide ALLIED VAN LINE suy. 4t ATLA ALBANY N ¥ 108 Yoo Bt N N ? PEACHES—PEACHES By i Chiscott Bros. Tel. TPEACHES ARE RIPE AT QUAM ACRES Leree low prices. Open daily trom ""mr.:éx on onl mo Pie Route sept® —al mn’ ence. We ein save Vieans u 1411 ' c. St N.W. Chair > Caneing 1235 10th St. N.W. 2062 for Extra. So far they have falled. An injunction by the District Supreme Court yesterday paved the way for the 101 Ranch Circus to go back to Okliahoma, that is if amateur roustabouts can induce five hungry elephants and some angry steers to board the train. In the upper photo police officials are officiating a% the formal surrender of the circus property. nmmr O. T. Davis, Capt. Michael Raedy, Fred Seymour, show superintendent and leader of the payless 400 showmen, and “Egypt” Thompson, hired to load the show for the owners. Below: The jobless 400 in audience seats listening to warning of police officials not to interfere with the loading. Left to right: In- ~St«u' Staff Photos. PAINTER PAY FIGHT 2 IN COURTS LOOMS ne|U. S. Building Contractors Refuse to Abide by Doak Decision. ___(Continued From Pirst Page) are paying less than the $11-a-day scale set for painters in the Labor Depart- | ment ruling, stand to sustain some loss in profit from what they calculated when they submitted bids on the proj- ects, figuring wages of painters at & lower level than the union scale. It it should develop that the Secre. mx' other classes of building mechanics. mould hold that the union scale to be | the “prevailing wage.” non-union con tractors engaged in Government pr ects here would face a much larger loss | f profit. ' Saly contracts let by the Government | BY | since April 3, this year, when the Bacon- Davis law became effective, would be subject to its operation. Cite Federal Wages. not abide by the decision rendered by Becretary of Labor Doak, contended that their concern now is paying the “pre- valling scale of wages” for painters. They cited the wages paid by the Go ernment and those paid in non-union contracting organizations. ‘They said they would continue to 'urk their men under their present scale, | which they said ranged from $8 to $12 & day, and would fight the case through the courts as soon as the official action of the Secretary of Labor was placed be- fore them. They said they would consul; the firm's attorney as to whether o seek a court review of the ruling of Sec- retary Doak or to ignore it and wait until the Government acted to enforce | iis_ruling. ‘The Bacon-Davis law, the authority for the action by the Secretary of Labor, does not_contain a penalty clause as & means of enforcing the rulings of the Secretary of Labor, Treasu; Department, _Government agent in its construction program, has | anticipated no difficulty in this regard. For one thing. it has been explained. | the Treasury might withhold payments to contractors for work being done in case the wage ruling were not obeyed. Also, it is said, the contract itse'f might be declared nuliified since the G ment contracts state the' the contrac ess than the * \Mhn; must not pay seaje” vages ‘While the Alliance Co. heads claimed they were paying their painters from $8 | t0 $12 a day, it was reporied in author- e sources that ths investigation he Labor De- partment showed that only & handtul of e paid as mu as $10 and great majority were " o7 and 85, which i the open-chop scale. Government Pays 38 s ceslarad understa ‘ay that his con- [ wh t»'l for an 8- States Government ing its owa painters direct o about $8 A day. clared ther. that the | had some of its own painter i the al Reveaue Bu wages of $720 a day “Is the law made for e Gov nt's own contractors? self was empioy- at_wages me and not for he on labor officiais fold The Star they were not concernsd o : \y;nvd scale of wages pal | Government to its own pat | indicated they planned to take no ac- in such a matter. Chatles E ung, secretary of the Washington | Building Trades Council, pointed out |that Government emploies erjoy an | annual vacation, sick leave | snd can | year arounc | private emp! em) ment Phe Alliance Construction Co, in addition o the wage question, wos charged with working #ts men jovger than elght hours per day. Genetal Bupi. Humt of the W. P. Rose Co. declered his company would make a fight “to the last ditch” if any effort is made to enforce such & ruling as handed down by Secretary Hunt satd e did ot think 1t wou! q, stand and that certainly Controller | General McCarl would be asked for an has recently been y werks when he can find Both Mr. Goodman and Mr. Morris, | iin deehflnk yesterday that they would but heretofore, the | ridge School to cost $72,000. Work on | the Intéer 15 under way. and it is pro- to break ground for the St. | Bitmabetn Job this week. Two Other Projects. ‘The concern has a nurses’ home lt Gallinger about 80 per cent complete, and an addition st Stuart Junior High | at about the same stage of completion, | but both of these contracts were unde: | taken prior to the passage of the new wage Jaw. { Hunt would not say exactly what | scale his concern is paying any of the buil tradesmen, but declared it was “just about” the wage that the District Government pays at its repair shop for the same classes of work. He explains | this by saying that in some cases the scale runs above the District rate and in others below. He understands, he said, that the Government pays its own tradesmen— such, for instance, as men who do work | around here for the War Deplflmenb-- |on a par with District em: He admits that his workers get less Says he thinks the Government “would do well to stay out of this.” A “prevailing scale” clause is written | into the St. Elizabeth's job contract. W. B. Acker, chief clerk of the Depart- ment of the Interior, which has supe: vision over this work, says that the de- partment does not attempt to say what the “prevailing scale” should be. There | the attitude is that this question is be- |tween employer and employe and, | should dhp!uu oceur, is up to the Labor n | Department. ; ‘The Interior Department is embark- ing on a $2,000.000 building program at St. Elizabetnn’s, but only the tuberculosis bullding contract has been let. FRUIT INDUSTRIES T0 GET $1,000,000 | FARM BOARD LOAN ___(Continued Prom First Page.) was shown. He said it was difficult to prove that grape concentrate concerns made their product with any intent to violate the prohibition statutes. Previous loans made to Fruit Indus- tries by the board totaled $2,555,000. $4,000,000 To Raisin Growers. | The Parm Board announced August 8 | that it was extending financial mssist- |ance to Sun-Maid Raisin Growers of | California and the California Raisin | Pool in handling the 1931 raisin d’Op‘ | The assistance to those two organiza- | tions will amount to spproximately $4,000,000. At that time, the fact no mention was made of Fruit Indus- tries, Ltd. gave rise to reports the board had turned it down and would not_sdvance further funds an account of the protests of drys The Department of Agriculture some | weeks g0 made a preliminary estimate that the California grape crop would be 1,500,000 tons or 600,000 tons below the crop of last year. It remains to be seen whether the results of the pending survey will approximate this estimate. Increased attention has lately been called to the success of Fruit Industries, Ltd., in getting Pederal assistance, not | alone by the attacks of drys on fruit- Ju manufacturers. but by the rece raid of prohibition officials in New York on the thop of a concern selling & so- called wine brick Announcement Opening August 25, 1931 The “Villa Roma” Will Be Known as “The Chateau Lido” offering a new policy of exclusive ente rtainment under the direction of Mischa Guterson, nation- ally known producer and director. PHILCO RADIO Nene Better— Few as Good Sold on Easy Terms GIBSON’S 915.19 G St. N. | today dropped pressing work on the | steamer Duchess of York at Southamp- NONTAGU NORMAN SALS FOR CANADA Bank of England Governor| Says Trip Is for “Rest” and Recuperation. By the Associated Press. LONDON, August 15.—Montagu Nor- man, Great Britain's “man of mystery” and governor of the Bank of England problem of solving Great Britain's economic difficulties and boarded the ton for Canada. A formal statement issued later by the Bank of England said its governor was acting on medical advice and would have to have a period of complete quiet | and freedom from work to ensble him to Tesume his full duties at the bank. Mr. Norman, on leaving the docks at Southampton, said he hoped “to get a bit of rest.” “I feel the need of it,” he said, “for | I have had & very hard time lately and | 1o be. Although there have been repo he had been ill, the bank head's de- parture caused considerable surprise in view of the critical British economic situation and the important discussions between financiers lnd cabinet mem- bers which are impendi “The governor of the land has been indisposed,” ment issued by the band said, “as a re- sult of the exceptional strain to which he has been subjected during recent months.” “Acting on medical advice, he has abandoned all work for the present and has gone abroad for rest d change He has been assured that a period of complete quiet and entire freedom from work should be sufficient to enable {I}l):l to ]\;ene\\ his full normal duties at ris Home of Smith Smart Shoes Final Reductions All $30 Woolen Suits Use the popular Kaufman Budget Plan—', cash, balance 10 weekly or 5 semi-monthly | would be impossible. 1931—PART ONE. ATTEMPT T0 MOV CIRCUS 1S FAILURE .= 101 Ranch Troupers Watch. Benefit Show Raises $800 Fund. ___(Continued From First Page.) { stage by Municipal Court Judge Robert | ‘Trammel, 25, I Mattingly. Clark W. and Grace Osage, 18, both of Long Dale, Okia., were the couple. Other members of the tribe staged a war dance, and actors in the troupe went throu; ing numbe; Wrestling Bouts Held. Three wrestling bouts were put on, | involving Doc Wilson and Prank Speare, George Zaharis and Jim McNamars Lou Plummer and Dutch Greene, Benny Bortnick acted as referee for the matches and Jimmy Lake as master of ceremonies for the show. All of those named donated their services. Mr. Tur- ner donated the Auditorium. In addi- tion to the $800 reported, there will be a further sum representing sales of uc:z’u by members of the American n. Agents of the Washington Humane Society have been on the lot ever since the show went stranded seeing to it that | the elephants, steers, horses and buffa- loes did not go hungry. The show hands | have been on slender rations, two meals a day, and the animals have been on a similarly reduced diet. idle as when they are working in the | rodeos. The elephants, by the way, are prov- ing quite & problem. They have been | on half rations for 11 days, and resent | the fact. Inspector Davis said he would not allow them to be moved through the | streets without competent persons in charge. One of them, “Little Joe,” won't move exaept for his trainer, Jack St. Clair, Mr. St. Clair sald: Trainer Demands Wages. “I won't stir a hand until they pay me the $210 they owe me.” So there they are. At Jeast one more meal will be served to the troupers, breakfast today. Mitt Carrol. in charge of the mess tent, said that 200 pounds of meat had been purchased for this meal. The hands have been living recently on funds donated by the American Legion. Today's breakfast will be the twelfth since the show went on strike. The order forbidding the show work- ers to interfere with the transporta- tion of the circus was signed by Justice Joseph W. Cox. That jurist had a rare legal puszle before him. The troupers had asked him to throw the circus into receivership so that they |could get the back wages owing to them, amounting now to some $28,000. Justice Cox held that this would not be to the best interests of all gon. cerned. In receivership the would be under the control of the court, and a District court could not| very well follow the circus on its rounds through the country. So he granted the injunction asked for by W. E. Rice, successor trustee under a mortgage of the sho assets, the ap- plication of which had thrown the troubles of the show into court. Justice Cox labored earnestly with counsel for both sides in an effort to get them to make an out-of-court settle- ment, but both informed him this Finally he signed the injunction, remarking that since the owners had agreed to transport the workers back to Oklahoma, the tter could adjust their legal grievances there. He pointed out that another legal difficulty in his way was'that the unpaid troupers had not reduced their It 1s said that | they do not need as much food when | property | | PORTRAITS SIDE BY SIDE 7 R s Position in State Department Re- a-u- Webster-Ashburton Treaty. portraits, one of an American | statesman and one of & f | man, who er made _his e ‘oday” atier ‘eing seper men y separaf ‘mure than 80 years. They are -those of Daniel Webster, | ited while he was Secretary of State, and Lord Ashburton, made in 1843, while he was special emissary of the British government to the United States. The two statesmen were suthors of the famous Webster-Ashburton treaty, which settied three important disputes l!:etr:tn Great Britain and the United | States. ‘The portrait of Lord Ashburton h the only one of a foreigner hanging in the State Department. 'LONE WOMAN ABOARD | ICE-BOUND FVIR SHIP, = roping, dancing and sing- | Boat Held Fast in Pack 7~ Route to Million-Dollar Cargo. By the Associated Press. SEATTLE, August 15.—With & mii- | ion dollars in furs on Herschel Island as her objective, the motorship Patter- son from San Francisco, with a crew of 21 men and a lone woman aboard, was held fast today in the Arctic sea ice pack off Wainwright on the northern | coast of Alaska. From reports reaching here it seemed possible the Northern Whaling & Trad- ing Co. ship might be marooned until late next Spring, when the ice breaks | up again. | Mrs. C. T. Pedersen, wife of the ves- sel's master, who accompanies him on | all voyages, is the woman aboard. | trained nurse, she gives medical aid to crew members and natives who trade | with the ship's master. [ Not alone in her plight, the Patterson | has as company in the Arctic ice packs | the sailing schooner C. S. Holmes, the | Coast Guard cutter Northland, both of | Seattle, and the Canadian_steamship B-ycmmo, from Vancouver, British Co- lumbia. | ST A | w. B Gruber Il Dead. WALTERBORO, 8. C., August 15 (#). —W. B. Gruber, 69, twice candidate for associate justice of the Buj e Court, died here today after an fliness of three weeks, ever. Most of them have no money and will be turned adrift on the streets of Washington by movement of- the show, Show Dector Is Broke. Not all the performers or so-called bosses will have means to travel, how- ever, when the show moves. Dr. W. Davis, camp physician, was an example of a major employe dead broke. “Here's all the money I have,” he said, holding penny in the paim of his hand and then flinging it away. “Captain” Fred Seymour, show super- intendent, left this afternoon after turning the property and stock over to Thompson. He sald he has an en- gagement with a minstrel show in Tlli- nois. The troupers, who highly esteem him, crowded about to shake his hand and there were tears in the eyes of the veteran circus boss when he de- parted from the lot. The last of the $560 fund donated to feed the men by the American Legion was spent yesterday for ration: which will provide two meals toda: Edward Kelly of the Legion said the food would be left with the men whether or not the show moved. claims against the management to | udgment. Employes Plan Future. ‘The employes of the show were plan- ning for the future last night. The majority of the performers either had sufficient funds to tide them over or had arranged for other engagements During the last few days the show lot at Camp Meigs has been visited by booking agents for several rodeos and circuses. “Candy” Hammond, owner of a rodeo, made a blanket offer to the cowboys |1 have not been so well as I should ke | 0d, COVELrls to board them for three weeks until his show opens in Trenton, (Salary, $1,900) Letter Writing, Mental Tests, Grammar, Spelling, Law of Arrest. Monday, Wednesday, Friday evenings, 7-9, $10. Printed lesson to study. BOYD SCHOOL 1333 F St. Nat. 2338 } N. J., and then give them jobs. A num- ber accepted the offer. 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