Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent

              ALIENS IN MINES REPLACE IDLE CITIZENS
SUNDAY INDEPENDENT
LEASED WIRE TELEGRAPH REPORT TO 3 A. M. SUNDAY
THE WEATHER
Partly cloudy Sunday and Monday; not  much   change   in   temperature.
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Tlie   Only    Sunduy    Newspaper Covering   the   Wyoming   Volley
WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, AUGUST 27, 1933
Entered   at    Wilkes-Hiirre.   I'm., As   Second   Clnn   Mnii    Mutter
PRICE TEN CENTS
NION CLAUSE
SAYS SUCCESS
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District Attorney's Order Against Gift With Beer Is Ignored By Policemen
NO ARRESTS
Some Departments Insist They Received No Word From   Chief   Prosecutor
LAW  INTERPRETED
The uka.se, relative to halting the ¦ervins ot free lunches with 3.2 beer. Issued yesterday by District Attorney Thom<i3 M. Lewis, did not result In wholesale Investigation last night by police departments In this tectlon of the county. Free lunches continued as usual.
Oniy In one instance did the edict provol<e a special i)robe. It was con¬ ducted in West I'lttston. No viola¬ tions in that borough were reported.
Mr, Lewis declared In his state¬ ment to burgesses and chiefs ot police: "Furnishing free lunches with 3,2 beer Is unlawful," He urged them to have their police de¬ partments rigidly enforce the beer lawa. Jle also promised co-operation In the prosecution ot persons de¬ tected violating the law.
Chief of I'ollce Russel Taylor told The Sunday Independent he did not receive any notice from the district attorney, nor did he see the pub¬ lished report In the newspapers. Asked if u special probe had been conducted In Ihe city last nl^lit on the free lunch > rder. Chief Taylor stated no investigation was made.
Chief ot I'ollce Joseph Clieliutskl ot I'lains declared he received a letter frum the district attorney, text ot wiilch was similar to what he read in the newspapers. Che- hutski reported no special Investl- Itation Mas made in the township last ninlit,
Lte I'ark police reported t\o let¬ ter Irum -Mr, Lewis, Xo siicelal ef¬ tort uas made to check on free lum ll, one of the officers reported Irom police headquarters,
IiKiulrles made at Nanticoke, Kinyston, Edwardsville, I'lymouth and Larksvllle revealed no special anlviiy on the part of police in ccnniition witii the edict ot the distiict attorney.
Ill Ills circular letter to the chiefs, District Attorney Lewis quoted llic law. One of the iilKlillKlits of the •tutiiiient, other than the free lunch Issue, lias to do with the sale of beer after midniKht Saturday, In this connection Mr, Lewis said:
"It is unlawful to sell, trade or Harter In such beverafics between the liours ot 12 oclock midnight Sntmaiiy and six oclock In the fore¬ noon of tlie following Monday, It Is unlawrul to practice a subterfuge by KivinK beverages away with food on siicli days,"
In West I'lttston where the special probe was Instituted last night, six licenses to sell beer are held, two of wliiri, were taken out by clubs.
To Aid Families Of Ousted Alien
Washington, Aug, 2C — UP — Federal relief funds will bo made available to destitute families of aliens who have been deported from this country, Hellef Ad¬ ministrator Harry L. Hopkins annotinced today. In numerous Instances mothers and children without funds have been forced to remain behind when the father wus deported to a foreign country and as a result have Buffered many hardships. Here¬ after, Hojikins's agency, after making an investigation, will provide funds for transportation and   food.
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Third, Operation To Resume About A Month Later In The Pittston  District
COAL DEMAND GAINS
Two large mine operations tn the Pittston area will resume operations within three weeks. The Informa¬ tion came to The Sunday Independ¬ ent from a reliable source, although it lacks official confirmation. Pos¬ sibility ot a third colliery In the same section ot the county reopen¬ ing within five weeks appears quite certain. The operations are owned by The Pittston Company and have been dormant for nearly two years, with the exception ot one which has been idle for six months. Approxi¬ mately five thousand men will benefit with resumption of work at the three operations.
The collieries involved are No, 9 nt Hughestown, Idle since last March; Butler, located In Pittston Township: and No, 14, situated In Jenkins Township, Butler colliery has been down nearly two years, wltli exception of the breaker which has been operated quite regularly cleaning coal for other holdings of the company. No. 14 has been down for nearly two years.
Reports have been current tho past three months that Xo. 9 would re-open. However, nothing detinite Was est.'.blished until yesterday, A conference with officials of the company convinced a committee nt commercial lnterest.s that resump¬ tion of work is a certainty for at least two collieries. It was also learned that official announcement will not come tor at least two weeks.
The I'lttslon Company does not maintain stnVago yards and lt.>; daily output is on the rail for ship¬ ping within a few hours after the product Is cleaned, A shortage, therefore. Is anticipated for the Fiili demand, but with re-opening of the aforesaid cilleries the hazard ot running short  will  he eliminated.
The company officials, like other operators, are anxiously awaiting agreement on the coal code, at pres¬ ent before the National Recovery Administration Reports       from
Washington last night over The Sund.iy Independent's telegraph service indicated settlement of all differences on the i>art of operators and mine workers Is <iulte near. With adoption ot the code, which will require. It is reported, a forty- hour week and a minimum wage of not less than $4 a day, resumption of wnrk at various collieries Is ex¬ pected.
LOSE AID IN TESTS
Demand On Naturalization Would Open Thousands Of   Jobs   In   Anthracite
Texas Repeals
The Dry Laws
Dallas, Texas, Aug, 26—UP— Texas Election Bureau's total for the Repeal and Beer election today listed 185,242 votes as fol¬ lows; For Repeal 119,836; against 65,406. For Beer 11,270; against 58,419. Tabulations Included 116 ot the 254 counties. Three State amendments appeared to be leading by the same margin as the Beer and Repeal issues, one calling for Issuance of $20,000,- 000 ot State bonds to used for State-wide  relief projects.
FIGURES STUDIED
Many Of Present Workers Save Only For Return To  Lands Across  Seas
SERIOUS PROBLEM
Adoption of one rule, requiring that every applicant tor position, or holder ot a Job, In and around the anthracite operations must be an enfranchised citizen of the United States, would result In immediate re-employment of every Idle miner with voting rights under the Con¬ stitution,
This deduction Is reached by a study of available statistics which Indicate jvery clearly that the num¬ ber of mine workers unemployed is almost exactly the same as the number employed who owe their allegiance to the dictators and kings of the various nations ot Europe,
Attention Is focused upon this point more now than ever before. Casting aside all former Inclina¬ tions toward entangling alliances and meddlesome tactics with the troubles abroad, the United States is trying to solve its troubles al home. This line of attack has been decided upon by those in this coun- try entitled by right of the ballot to express their opinion as to how their country Is to be governed.
Some companies already have an¬ nounced their Intention of replacing the aliens in their employ with nat¬ uralized and American-born citi¬ zens. With one class It is an In¬ herent right and, with the others, a right that has come as they took upon tiiemselves the duties and obligations ot tiUegiance to the United States, But, even with those companies which have announced themselves In favor of this plan, the real action has been exceedingly
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Declares Six Million Jobs Can Be Made Available To The Idle In America
STARTS FINAL EFFORT
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PROWLERS GET OUT WHEN POLICE CALL
Two prowlers, trapped for a short Mnie by the night watchman at the Armour Meat Company plant on Bouil, Pennsylvania evenue, escap- M "ver the roof and down a flre Ise.ipo before police arrived last "'^^"1 at  10 oclock.
..^.l'*'' ^"^''''t- nlslit watchman »t the meat house, stepped off the Pi-«nt elevator on the third floor to nnud hlmeeU confronted   bj-   two
young men. Barclak slammed tho elevator door and dropped to the ground floor from where he called police headquarters.
Detectives Walter Kolls and Jos¬ eph Olds went to tho packing house and, after searching the building, found the Intruders had made their esca|)e by climbing onto the root and then descending the fire escape. Barclak was unable to tell detectives whether the men were armed.
Naturally, none ot the companies Is broadcasting the exact figures. Whether they really have these Hgures also can be doubted. How¬ ever, several avenues are open throuKii which very accurate per¬ centages can be reached and these indicate clearly that fully flfteen percent of the men employed in tlie mines of District No, 1 of the United Mine Workers are without franclilse.
Taking the flgure 90,000 for the normal number employed. It be¬ comes apparent that the number of aliens In this group totals about 13,500, Ot these, about 11,000 still are   holding   their  Jobs.
On the other hand, 12,000 mine workers are out of work at the I)resent time, and of this number about 10,000 arc American citizens. The result of a decision to em¬ ploy only American citlzeiiB is ob¬ vious. Should the rule be made, no mine workers who are citizens ot the United States would be orut of a  Job,
Non-cltlzens mny be divided Into two groups. In the Hrst are the older men. In this country for yeara, but who have made no effort to Join tbe ranks of tbe citizens. In tlie other are the new arrivals. Saving For Return The latter group contains many who huve not been here lung enough to become Interested In citi¬ zenship, and In several sections ot the coal flelds the manner In which these newcomers have been able ||6 walk Into Jobs, while older residents stood Idly by and were retused, caused much trouble.
Several reasons exist for laxity of the older residents. Some yiars ago many had no Interest in this country other thun making money. Though making more money than ever was available for them in (Continued on page 4, Section 1).
By HUGH 8. JOHNSON National Recovery Administrator Washington, Aug. 26.—UP—The President's emergency re-employ¬ ment campaign Is one ot the activ¬ ities which has been devised in or¬ der to give effect to the National Industrial Recovery Act passed by the  last session ot Congress.
It Is supplementary to the plan of code adoption hy various Indus¬ trial and trade groups which has tor Its purpose the elimination-of unfair competition, the establish¬ ment ot more equable rewards for labor, the spread of employment and the control of production. This plan tor speeding business recovery Is rapidly being mnde effective and the Blue Eagle campaign does not mean that there will be the sllgrht- est let-up In the drive to make gen¬ eral the adoption ot codes by In¬ dustries and trade groups.
The President's emergency re¬ employment plan Is intended to bridge time and to bring the nation out ot the depression more rapidly than It the code adoption plan were depended upon exclusively. The President's agreement also covers many business groups that would not be amenable to any of the code arrangements.
Beginning tomorrow an Intensive drive will be carried on throughout the country to speed up the Blue Eagle campaign and make Its benefits immediately effective Some 1,500,000 volunteer workers are making a block-to-block can¬ vass in an effort to get every em¬ ployer in America under the Blue Eagle and a consumers' Insignia in every homo.
Add Six Million Job* The President's emergency re¬ employment campaign may be de¬ scribed briefly as a plan to add from 5,000,000 to 6,000,000 per^^ia to the nation's payrolls Immediately through iigreements made with the President of the United States by some 5,000,000 concerns or Individ¬ uals, employing two or more per¬ sons each.
In order that this number ot Jobs may be made available, It will be necessary, of course, for employers In many cases to shorten working hours. The plan also provides for certain minimum wage scales which also In muny cases will mean added lalnn- costs for the employer.
The President's agreement, how¬ ever. Includes a jiiedge of co¬ operation from the consuming pub¬ lic and It is anticipated that the empolyer, while undertaking a larger expense as the direct result of his agreement with the President, will gain added patronage, as the Just reward ot his public-spirited attitude.
The fact also Is to be borne In mind that where all employers act together to put people back on thelt payrolls, or to raise wages, no em¬ ployer, as the President hlniseit has pointed out, "will suffer; because, the relative level ot competitive cost will advance by the same amount for all,"
Priceless Patriotism And what is still more important perhaps, the President's emergency reemployment campaign carries certain psychological values thai are as priceless as patriotism Itselt at this Juncture ot our economic liistory. The I'resldent liiiiiseK made this quite clear In his recent radio address to the nation when lie said; "On the basis of this (Continued on pace 8, Section 1)
SUFFER
Week - End Accident Toll In The Valley District Affect  Unusual   Number
CHILD DROWNS
Roof Falls Fatal To And Boy's Life Is
Two Lost
Under Wheels Of Truck
MANY AUTO CRASHES
Pour deaths occurred yesterday In Wyoming Valley through acci¬ dents. One of the victims, a 13- year-old girl, was drowned, her body being recovered one hour later by her uncle. Seven hospitals re¬ ported more than a score of other accidents, two of which might re¬ sult  In death.
Caught under a fall ot rock at Woodward colliery yesterday, George Strusko, 42, of 76 Belles street, Kingston, was crushed to death. He leaves a widow and tho following children: George, Anna and Michael, A brother and sister in Europe also survive. The fun¬ eral will be held Tuesday at nine oclock. Services will be conducted in   St.   Mary's   Greek   church.
Edgar S, Fuller, employed at No. 4 slope, Susquehanna Collieric.'i Company, was killed yesterday un¬ der a fall of roof. He lived at 174 East Church street, Nanticoke. The victim was 32 years old. Several other workers escaped injury In tho same fail.
Injuries received when run down by a truck resulted yesterday after¬ noon In the death of Raymond Wal¬ ton, 6, ot 137 Bowman street, Tlic end came at General hospital. The accident occurred on Kidder street, Beaufort N. Overby, 22, ot York, was driving the truck. He posted ball at police headquarters for a hearing. The youth's head waa crushed. He was n. son ot Mr. and Mrs, Raymond Walton, The funeral will be held Monday afternoon at 2 oclock. Interment will be in St. Mary's cemetery at Hanover,
Mai:y I'hlllips, 13, of Simpson street, Dupont, drowned yesterday In Bear Creek, near Suscon in Pittston Township, Her body was recovered one hour later. The girl had been visiting at the home o( her uncle, Paul I'hiUips. She was playing with companions on tlio bank ot the creek when slie fell In, The water Is about seven feet deep The victim's playmates notified her uncle. He leaped into the water fully clothed and brought out the body.
Artificial respiration was resorted to by Mr, Phillips and James Ameen, a-sslstant scoutmaster of the Dupont Boy Scout troop, but after an hour's futile labor Dr. E. L, Dougherty declared that life was extinct. The child leaves her par¬ ents, Mr. and Mrs, John Phillips, a brother and a sister.
Motor Crashes Harry Helfrlch, 53 Park avenue, was treated at Nanticoke hospital last night nt 8:30 tor Injuries re¬ ceived when his automobile went over an embankment on the Lake Sllkworth road, Helfrlch received a laceration ot the right arm and a laceration on the forehead above the right eye. After treatment he waa  discharged.
Two women were injured shortly betore 8 oclock last night In a col¬ lision at North and North River streets, Tho Injured, who were given treatment at (ieneral hospital for lacerations, bruises and shocks, are Mrs, Katherlne Meyerwltz, 50, of 76 New Alenander street, and Mrs. J. M. Ravltz, »8, of the sume address. They were occupants ol an automobile driven by David Meyerwltz, SO, son of one of the In¬ jured women,
Meyerwltz was driving north on North River street when bis lar collided with a machine movir.g west over North street, driven by Grant Welch. 27, ot 39 Pringle atreet, Kingston, After the injured (Continued on page 8, Seclion U
Scores Trapped In Violent Gale
Chamonlx, France, Aug. 26— UP—Scores of climbers on the treacherous sides ot Mont Blanc were trapped tonight In a vio¬ lent 80-mlle gale and blizzard sweeping the Alps, Nine were feared dead. Guides In Chamonlx reported seeing two Italian guides recover the bodies of two on the Italian slope, near Cour- mayeur. An alrplano went up, seeking to trace a group of French students nearly on top when the storm broke, but failed to  sight them.
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BY ROCKEFELLER
Any Cost Or Sacrifice Is Well Merited By Goals Within   Reach   He  Says
NO FALTERING NOW
Seal Harbor, Me., Aug, 26—UF— The goals of the National Recovery Act — reduction of unemployment and Increase of purchasing power —are worth reaching "at almost any cost or sacrifice," nnd to falter Is "unthinkable," John D, Rocke¬ feller Jr, said tonight. In an ap¬ peal for support of President Roosevelt, Rockefeller said halfway measures will not bring success at a time like the present.
"No mere marking of time, of holding our own, will suffce," he said, "Only as this nation goes on through the lines ot adversity Into the clearer air and freedom of soundly conceived and permanently established national welfare will the end sought have been attained.
"Let each do his full part unsel¬ fishly and wholeheartedly to hold up our leader's hands and to bring to a speedy antl successful issue this great and liromising adventure in reconstruction, the National Re¬ covery Act,
Rockefeller praised the open- mlndedness ot General Hugh S. Johnson, Recovery Administrator, and other officials, in admitting that the act is experimental in na¬ ture and subject to revision. This fact, he said, "should Inspire pub¬ lic  confidence,"
He recounted several ot the col¬ lateral advantages of the Recovery program, in additional to its du.al goal.
Sees Uibor Safeguarded "One is the making possible ot co-operation among the \'ariou8 units In each Industry looking toward desirable and proper econ¬ omies, the elimination of waste, and the conservation of our Nationa resources,
"Another is the prevention ot un¬ fair competition bas^d upon the exploitation ut labor. In making unfair competition no longer pos¬ sible by establislilng minimum rates and maximum hours, the rlgiits or the worker are being safeguarded.
" A further and fundamentally Important advantage Is the hasten¬ ing of the day when labor shall have proper and adequate represen¬ tation in industry,"
Rockerfeller outlined the trade- union and company-union forms of collective bargaining, and added that "the National Recovery Act is all the stronger in that It refrains from specifying the adoption of any particular form ot collective bar¬ gaining,"
ADEQUATE WAGES MUST BE FORCED HE TELLS NATION
President Points To The Common Law To Show Liberty Is Served Along With Justice When Fair Deal Is Considered In Light Of Man's Duty To All His Neighbors
GETS AUTOMOBILE CODE
Poughkeepsie, N. T„ Aug, 26.— UP—The nation Is headed toward recovery, President Roosevelt tod.ay told neighbors nnd friends who thronged the campus of 'Vassar Col¬ lege to give him and Mrs. Roose¬ velt a formal home-coming welcom¬ ing. The Chlet Executive drew cheers from his audience as In simple language lie outlined the pur¬ poses of the NRA to Increase wages, employment and purchasing power. Then he added:
"It Is true that we are definitely succeeding In this purpose and that the downhill drift has definitely turned and become an upward surge. There is a unanimity In this country that you and I haven't seen since April 1917. All of the people are getting behind the NRA, the NRA that Is going to bring this country back to better times,
"It Is the first time In our history that the nation as a wliole and re¬ gardless of party has approveil drastic changes In the methods anil forms of the functions ot govern¬ ment without destroying tho basic principles," he continued, "We have extended to uor national life tho oid prinlcple ot home community, that no individual, no family, has a right to do things which hurt the neighbors.
'"rhe extension ot the Idea of nol hurting the neighbors," he said, 'is recognized today as no infringemenl on the guarantee of personal liberty to the Individual because, for ex¬ ample, It Is no more a restriction to tell a man that 4ie must pay adequate wages that It Is to tell a man that he cannot hire child labor or that he cannot maintain a nuis¬ ance.
"It is with this understanding ot the deeper purposes of the Nation,il Recovery Act that the nation Is ac- cejitlng its provisions and ils agree¬ ments with such whole-hearted ap¬ proval,"
formation   of   codes   for   other  ln« dustries.
Make Way for Coal
The announcement that th« battleground has been shitted to the Summer White House at Hyd« Park came after a day of protest by the Advisory Board and effort* by Administrator Hugh S, Johnson to reach a satisfactory agreement so that approval ot the code could be announced tonight.
It was just a week ago, almost to the hour, that the President ap¬ proved the code for steel and oil. ."VHA officials wanted to add auto¬ mobiles to the list of major Indus¬ tries coming under codes so that they could pre.ss on to concentrated work on the troublesome bitu- " minous coal situation.
The labor provisions of the auto¬ mobile code were the last remain¬ ing points of controversy for tliat industry. An average 35-hour week for factory employees and minimum wages from 40 to 43 cents an hour wero agreed upon earlier In the negotiations.
President Roosevelt has approved codes for the men's clothing indus¬ try, hosiery industry and rayon manufacturing-synthetic yarn in¬ dustry, the NRA announced tonight. The automobile code was sent to Hyde Park so that there would be no delay in announcing its approval, once its terms had been agreed upon. While not mentioning the "open shop," the code carried pro¬ visions to permit employers to hire and discharge workers on a basis of merit without regard for any union connection or lack ot it. Submit To Johnson William Green, president ot American Federation ot Labor and labor adviser for the automobile code, carried the protest to John¬ son but said afterward the labor advisory board would abide by Joiinson's   ^ecislon.
LARKSVILLE STABBING SENDS ONE TO  JAIL
Stanley and Waiier Pelak, broth¬ ers, of Railroad street, Larksville, were arraigned last night before Justice of the I'eace Peter Beretskl on (barges of larceny, felonious as- .sauit and battery, Tlie defendants It was charged, altempleil lo steal produce from the Larksvllle com¬ munity gardens eariy yesterday morning, and when frustrated hy Thomas Lloyd of Howard street, Larksville, a watchman, a fight en¬ sued with the result that Lloyd wus st;il>bed witii a kn!fc in the left hand.
Squire Beretakl discharged Walter Pelak. The latter's brother, Stan¬ ley, was committed to the county prison In default of ball.
Auto   Code   Complete
WashiiiKtoii, .Vug, :;«,—L'P—The controversy over labor provisions In the automobile code of fair prac¬ tice was placed before I'resldent Roosevelt tonight with indications that a code tor the industry will be ajiproved tomorrow.
The .N'RA L:ibor Advisory Board protested vigorously against terms of the code, which labor leaders be¬ lieved threatened tho entire labor movement It permitted lo set a precedent by Inclusion In het code
Mr, Roosevelt's decision on ac- ceptaiue of the automobile code will bear parlicularly on llie clause specifying that hiring and discliarg- Ing shall be on the basis ot merit, rather th.in membership In any particular union.
The Labor Advisory Board, los¬ ing its fight to have this section stricken from the code, urged that tbe I'resldent include In the com¬ pleted code an amendment stalini; that these lal)or provisions could not  be accepted  as  a  precedent  In
The labor board, whose chairman. Dr. Leo Wolman, was absent from the lily, told Johnson that since the automobile industry was Insist¬ ing ou Its labor provisions most of the new codes arriving trom other intlvisuies carried similar provi¬ sions.
Green and his associates argued that the language was symtomallc of a desire by the employers to keep out ot negotiations \<^itli unions and lo retain the lust wofd In passing on  an  employee's ability.
The conferences between non¬ union coal operators and labor leaders were entering tho more controversial fields and protracted discussions over the week-end were in prospect. President Roosevelt wants results from these confer¬ ences by next Tuesday morning.
The coal conrci:ences ha :e reached discussions of the maximum work week, John L, Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers ot Amer¬ ica, Is advocating a 30-nour week, but informed labor sources Indicate he would compromise on a 35-hour (Continued on page 4,  Section 1)
GETS A REAL CATCH ON POINT OF ANCHOR
Biielle, N, J., Aug, 2C.—UP—A. L Kahn, New York silk label manu¬ facturer, took a party of friends out to sea today to fish. .Several miles out ;lio Pensacola II, Kahn's cabin cruiser, dropped anchor. While the guests were fishing, Skip¬ per Milton Fleming noticed somc- thln-; sr cnied to be bumping llie Ihi,'I, bul paiii liltiv .1 ttoiitiull. l;;:t, when the anchor was pulled in, it was found a large flsh of unde¬ termined species had been tranB- tixed ou one point.
The yacht proceeded lo Manas- quau inlet, towing the monster, which put up a considerable tight until coast guardsmen arrived and fired 20 pistol shots Into It, Kahn turned tho fish over to the Brlelli flre department. Amateur natural¬ ists among the firemen debated whether the huge creature—It was fo'j.id to v. e::;b L'.C I p)u;:d J—was a :iuii:;bli, devil fi.'.i, v: fc;'.t ti^li. Finally they boarded it up and cliarged the populace 10 cents ta look at It
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