Evening Star Newspaper, August 2, 1935, Page 12

WORKER PLEASED BY REGULAR 10B | Commissioner Allen Inspects | 56 Projects Now Under Way Here. “Let us start from scratch, boss, and then watch us scratch! We likes a job | of work better than we likes a hand- out!” The giant colored laborer was sweat- | ing, but grinning from ear to ear, | happy to be one of the 1,420 men who 8ot new jobs yesterday under the District’s Works Progress program. He Iganed on his shovel near the | Harvard street entrance to the Zoo, | where 186 laborers were grading, sub- soiling and planting an 80-foot bank whose annual washouts have been a thorn in the side of highway engineers for 10 years. . “It’s like this, boss,” continued the giant, mopping his brow with a brawny forearm. “—When I was workin’ for | the relief, I swung a pick alongside a | man who was makin’ $17 ever time I drew $7. Wants Equal Pay. “That man had more children than I has, but he couldn't swing a pick no faster. Let us start from scratch, boss, I say. Pay us fair and equal wages for a equal job of work.” Most of the others nodded approval, but the giant’s opinica was not en- tirely unanimous. Under the F. E. R. A. budget system, the head of a big family, no matter how inefficient a workman, received as high as $90 a month, while a better man beside him might be making only a fraction of that. | The 1,420 laborers went cu regular, | year-round jobs yesterday in what District officials believe was the coun- try's first big work day under the new system. Perhaps the officials hacked through & little “red tape,” undoubtedly they made a few omissions in filling out the 63 official forms relating to the shift, but on the whole they were | elated at getting the jump on the rest of the country by throwing such a large force into the field. Commissioner George E. Allen, in | charge of the program, was particu- larly optimistic as he made an inspec- tion of the 56 highway jobs launched under the Works Progress Administra- tion. Approval of Plans. “We could put 3,000 more able- bodied men to work tomorrow on use- | ful, permanent and necessary im- | provements if we could get our plans | approved,” Commissioner Allen said. Next to the soil erosion job at the Zoo entrance. the biggest project | under the new program is the ex- | tenson of Forty-fourth street from | Fulton street half a mile through un- | improved country to W street. | Commissioner Allen found time yes- | terday during his inspection tour | with Capt. H. C. Whitehurst, chief of | the District Highway Department, to climb to the seat of a 10-ton roller and try out the machine on the sur- | face being laid on Forty-fourth street. “It works fine, boys,” said the Com- | missioner after a round trip at the throttle; “wish I had time to.run that thing all day!” Contrary to popular supposition, to work yesterday are not going from the “dole” to regular jobs, but every man has been working for his money under the F. E. R. A. Thus they went to the new jobs with muscles hardened and with previous experience at man- | ual labor | Pay Assured for Year. | The basic pay is $45 a month for some twenty 7-hour days. Pay days will come regularly twice a month for the next year at least. “The projects are not ‘made work’ in any sense,” Commissioner Allen continued. “Rather they are much needed improvements which the Com- | missioners would authorize from regu- lar tax funds if they had the funds. “And the men are not on relief. | ‘They are Federal employes with regu- lar jobs, and they will be expected to measure up to them. If they do not, the foremen have authority to fire the misfits. I'm sure that this will work @ big improvement in morale and in the amount of work turned out.” District authorities have been work- ing out detailed plans for the projects since Congress appropriated funds for | the Nation-wide program. Washington has been divided into | seven districts, each under an ex-| perienced supervisor. About 10 work crews are assigned to each district under individual foremen who are promoted from the ranks. The pay under the program ranges from $45 to $79 a month, and de- pends entirely on ability and skill. Commissioner Allen said, the men put‘ | 800 BOTTLED SPIDERS OFFERED FOR ADOPTION| Garageman’'s “Black Widow” | Family Discovered Where He Had Placed Cocoon. By the Associated Press. EDWARDSVILLE, IIl, August 2— Charles Smith, a garage owner, is looking for some one to adopt his | family of poisonous black widow spiders—estimated at 800. | Smith found a spider and cocoon | in his garage last week. He pitched both into a bottle and all but forgot his prisoners. Yesterday, he said, he | looked in the bottle and discovered | there hundreds of small spiders. The garage man said today ke would try to dispose of his pets to persons whc might want them for experimental purposes. If that fails Rustlers in Autos Find Officers, Too, Use Modern Ways Fingerprints and Plaster Molds Utilized to Curb Cattle Thefts. By the Associated Press. PHOENIX, Ariz, August 2.—The challenge of modern cattle rustlers, who have substituted automobiles for horses in their swift raids, have been | effectively answered by Arizona offi- cers through the use of modern crime detection methods. Alarmed at the great increase in THE EVENING cattle thefts from Central Arizona ranges, Sheriff J. R. McFadden of Maricopa County brought fingerprint- ing faclilties and plaster of paris molds into the fight. The present-day rustler speeds to the range in a motor truck, throws up a makeshift corral, cuts half a dozen head off from the herd, butchers them in the corral, and rushes their car- casses to some comparatively distani market. Sheriff McFadden told how his men used modern methods to capture three rustlers. Officers took fingerprmnts from the makeshift corral and imprints of tirs tracks. From these they identified three suspected rustlers. In Northern Arizona, Yavapai County officers broke up a cattle-stealing gang by tracking the rustlers down with bloodhounds. STAR, WASHINGTON, “SPIRIT OF 76” PAINTING REPRODUCTION GRANTED Board of Selectmen of Marble- head Permits Boston Firm to Make Copies. By the Associated Press. MARBLEHEAD, Mass., August 2.— The Board of Selectmen of Marble- head has just passed upon about as momentous & question as ever comes before that body and through its de- cision reproductions of the famous painting, “The Spirit of '76,” may soon be flooding the country. The selectmen have granted permis- sion to a Boston lithographic com- pany to reproduce the painting. It is the property of the town, presented by Gen. John Devereux. Many years ago Marblehead resi- D...C, dents were incensed when reproduc~ tions were used commercially on labels, and a town meeting adopted a regulation against its reproduction. This remained in force until 30 years ago, when the painting was again reproduced. Such a furor was raised that ¢he Board of Selectmen who per- mitted the “outrage” were denied re- election. Girl Spurns Lucky Miner. Declaring him to be “too sirong &, man,” Miss Yaeko Yamaguggi, ag! 17, has broken off her engagement to Naosumi Ono of Tokio, Japan, who re- cently discovered a gold mine which he sold for $150,000. The wedding was to have taken place at Tokio this Summer. The disappointed ex-flance 1s still searching for more gold mines in the Hokkaido Mountains, carrying a spear presented to him by the girl. FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1935. COLBY IS LEGION CHOICE Keynoter at Convention May Op- pose Roosevelt. ST. LOUIS, August 2 (#)—Bain- bridge Colby, New Deal critic and former Secretary of State during Woodrow Wilson's administration, yesterday was named chief speaker at the opening of the seventeenth annual national convention of the American Legion here next month. Selection of Colby was announced by Jules R. Field, executive secretary of the convention, after receipt of a telegram from Frank N. Belgrano, national commander. Naming of Colby, now a practicing New York lawyer, as keynote speaker, led to conjecture that the opening session would have an anti-adminis- Smith, John W. Davis and other prominent Democrats opposed to the trend of the Roosevelt administra- ton. NEW UNION TO ORGANIZE DETROIT, August 2 (#).—Francis J. Dillon, American Federation of Labor organizer in the automotive in- | dustry, said yesterday 400 delegates from 170 A. P. L. automobile unions would meet here late this month to form a new international union. The new union will be affiliated with the A. F, L, Dillon said, but unlike present A. P. L. auto unions, it will be autonomous. He predicted the new organization would pursue an anti-strike policy. Willlem Green, A. P. L. president, will attend the organization meetings, Dil- tration tinge. 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