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TWO Want Ad Headquarters, Court 4900 TIIE PITTSBURGH PRESS Other Press Departments, Court 7t00 SATURDAY, FEB. 12. 1938 PLANS TO SLASH STATE FUNDS TO DEPENDENTS HIT Federation of Social Agencies Committee Protests Proposed Cuts POLICE CHECK MAN'S STORY OF BEATING HUNTER IN ROW OVER DOG A Clapper's Column Roosevelt Goes Mum At His Press Parleys President Launches Into Unannounced Breathing Spell as an Experiment By RAYMOND CLAPPER WASHINGTON President Roosevelt has gone with some determination into an unannounced breathing spell. General Johnson's Column Washington Ignorant Of Public's Temper Country Intensely Interested About What's Going: On in Capital, Johnson Says By HUGH S. JOHNSON ROCHESTER, N.Y.

The astonishing things to me in going up, down and around are; first, the intense interest in the country about what is going on in Washington and, to a lesser degree, in New York, and; second, the abysmal ignorance in both these burghs about the temper of the country. Take the gossip and tipster columns as an example. They are literally eaten up in the sticks. The Washington 'guesser columnists are just as jsc Tr 1 ii hi ii fruMMnmnjmnr niiiMriTTmiirtTmiiiiii'iiiii iiiiwgrara He laughed at the suggestion when it was put forward at a recent White House press conference. But that is just his way.

He is trying out this breathing spell, so the word goes, without benefit of ballyhoo. It is an experiment and one can never be too sure how long it will last because the President sometimes gets warmed up and says more than he intends. popular. Our American world I A vigorous protest against the proposed reduction of old age pensions and aid to dependent children to direct relief levels was voted yesterday by the Public Affairs Committee of the Federation of Social Agencies of Allegheny County. The members of the committee declared that if any readjustment was to be made, it should be an increase in direct relief grants, which "are below any decent standard of living." The, committee's action was to be transmitted to Gov.

George B. Earle. Members reported that other groups to which they belong, including the League of Women Voters and the College Club of Pittsburgh, had taken similar action. Protest to Earle Planned The semi-official Allegheny County Board of Assistance, meeting later, also resolved to protest to the Governor, the State Board of Assistance and the Secretary of Public Assistance. "It is the opinion of this Board that such action will work great hardship on the recipients of assist Moucheron was taken into custody for chasing the constable with a knife when the officer tried to arrest Mrs.

Moucheron on a bad check charge. Later Moucheron pointed a shotgun at Chief Costello. His story of the beaten hunter, whom he said he attacked because the hunter shot his dog, is being investigated. light know what is going on In the country. Most columnists know this and that is why their date lines change to all parts of the country.

If you don't go out and soak yourself in public opinion, you are apt to go haywire. After all, what happens in Washington at least reflects, with a time lag of from six months to a year, what is being thought in the sticks. Arrest of a Wall man on a charge of resisting an officer assumed greater importance today when officers said the prisoner told them he beat a hunter unconscious in the woods near Irwin last November and left him to die. The arrested man, Asher Moucheron, 52, of Valley Wall, is shown above in the center with Police Chief P. J.

Costello, luft. and Constable Daniel Ryan. Troubles 'Pirate' Days waits for anything the President says in a press conference as for the sun rise, and Mrs. Roosevelt's daily stint of nothing at all except the daily doings of a busy and prominen woman are equally the delight of Judy O'Grady and the Colonel's Gen. Johnson Lady.

That isn't so hard to understand. In this new and almost Nazi concentration of power in the national government what happens in Washington rules the roost in every Podunk and Okmulgee (don't laugh, that is my home town) in the country. All amusements and what you wear, how you dance or have your hair fixed, what you taste, touch or smell largely stem from New York by way of Hollywood sometimes but like it or not, the metropolis is the origin. We're Standardized As a nation, through newspapers, radio, autos, trailers and movies we are being so far standardized that a flapper or a flipper in Carrizozo, N. even if as Mexican as jumping beans or chile con carne.

looks just like one nf the same from Rochester, N. Y. and chews the same kind of gum. Twenty years ago nobody north of El Paso ever heard marijuana and now, via New York and throughout the country, it is Public Enemy No. 1.

That is why the nation knows more about what Is going on in Washington and New York than the inhabitants of both of these cities. The absence of similar influences may be why neither of these centers of sweetness and But he Is making the effort. At his last press conference, he seemed for a moment about to go into a discussion foreign policy. Then, as if catching himself, he closed up. Inquiries are either ducked or are answered with caution more typical of a Coolidge than of a Roosevelt.

This is a deliberate effort to avoid repe- Mr. Clapper tition of the disturbing reactions which followed his confusing discussion of holding companies recently. It is more than that. It is a reflection of President Roosevelt's desire to sit tight in the present situation and to do nothing that would further increase the anxieties of the business community. He has pushed the trust-busting question back on the shelf.

The message on the subject which some weeks ago was promised hasn't even been started. It may not come for weeks if at all. If it does come, it is more likely to be confined merely to a suggestion that the whole subject be studied. There is no disposition to take action in the near future. The two men who were most active In forcing this question into public discussion, Secretary Ickes and Robert H.

Jackson, are not exactly in the doghouse but they have caught the boss looking toward it and for the moment both are on good behavior. The reaction to their attacks was so hostile that the President became convinced it was better to let the matter fade out. He has found the conciliatory activities which Donald R. Richberg has been conducting on his behalf much more practical in the present situation than the constant churning up of resentment and fear. No More Rabbits So far as diligent inquiry discloses, there are no jnore white IW.

rabbits in the hat. There seems to be nothing up the sleeve. When President Roosevelt first came to Washington he undoubtedly believed that if only the right laws could be devised, our system could be made to work. It didnt mat ter a great deal whether the private businessman liked it or not. Co-operation could be con scripted.

That was the NRA era of the crackdown. But after trying every club In the bag, the thing still wasn't working as it should. Lacking was the co-operation of the businessman, who under a system of private capitalism naturally occupies an operating position of great importance. Mr. Roosevelt discovered, as he confessed in his last annual message, that co-operation couldn't be conscripted.

So he is now trying to win it. Frightened by Noise This effort was obscured under the confusion attending the provocative remarks made by the President in off-hand discussions at his press conferences. What Mr. Roosevelt said at these conferences assumed more importance in the minds of businessmen than what he was doing. The noise frightened them and the conciliatory efforts of the Administration were nullified.

Some critics demanded an end to the free and informal discussion at press conferences. It was suggested that he go back to the written question method. Of course that wouldn't make any difference because the complaint 4-arose not out of the questions but from the answers. The holding-company discussion occurred after Mr. Roosevelt had given notice a week in advance, so that he undertook it fully prepared.

Yet he 'let himself talk too loosely. He has now undertaken to restrain himself, and for several conferences there has hardly been enough news to write on one cuff. But the correspondents still pack his office at the conference hour, because nobody knows how long he can hold his breath. (Copyright. 1038.

Inr Pittsburgh Press Company) (Copyright. for Pittsburgh Press Company) Witness For NLRB Misses Sleep 3 Days To Testify Didn't Click This column predicted accurately what the little business men would do which came as a complete shock not only to Uncle Danny Roper but to the whole Administration. That was no magic. All that was necessary was to stalk them in their native lairs. This trip has confirmed to me what I already suspected that many farmers despise the farm bill and that, if General Robert (Trust-Buster) Jackson expects to be the heir, actual as well as apparent, to the great white throne, it won't be by reason of anything (like being governor) that is being hoped for in his native stamping grounds the vicinity of Rochester or anywhere in northern New York.

"Gineral" Jackson came up here and made a speech right after he had slammed all business as a bunch of bums. He said here that Rochester is an exception notwithstanding its beneficent camera film monopoly because he claimed it financed its own public utilities. But the come-on "didn't click. Also, I get a different story about the local utility financing here. Banking interests saw a chance to get rid of some utility stock that was plaguing the public but they didn't and couldn't do what Mr.

Jackson suggested. The State Farm Federation threatened to secede when the national organization indorsed Mr. Wallace's ever ga-ga granary bill. Mr. Jackson's ideas are so strange to Rochester that he might be elected dog catcher here, but I doubt it.

him if he belonged to the Steel Workers Organizing Committee. "I told him I wasn't a member, although I was," Mr. Eureich said. "You lied, then, to get your job back." Attorney Jackson shouted. "Yes," said Eureich.

"And," continued Mr. Jackson, "you would also lie now to get it back, wouldn't you?" Attorneys Object NLRB Attorney Francis Paone and SWOC Attorney Benjamin Sigal objected as Mr. Eureich i eplied with a crisp "No, sir." One of the key Labor Board witnesses was scheduled to go on the stand yesterday but he was unable to appear, according to SWOC officials. The union officials reported that the witness, Henry Keppen, a discharged worker, was waylaid in the backyard of his home in East-vale Thursday night by a man who threw iodine into his face. Mr.

Keppen, suffering burns and shock, was taken to Beaver Valley General Hospital at New Brighton. Attorney Paone said he hoped to call Mr. Keppen next week. The hearing will be resumed Monday and will continue here until the end of the Labor Board's case when it will be transferred to Beaver, where many of the company witnesses live. Attends College Fete Miss Anne Louise Rice, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. John M. Rice of Baywood and a student at Mt. (Mercy College, is attending the junior week festival at Cornell University. By Beck C.

OF C. FINDS SLUMP ENDING Upturn Seen Nearer' Than 'Generally Recognized' By The United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 The U. S. Chamber of Commerce, in a discussion of the business situation, said today that "conditions may be more nearly ready for the turn than is sometimes recognized." "During the first six weeks of 1938 there have been evidences that declines in production were flattening out and some advances were under way," the chamber said.

"Whether such advances will hold and grow remains to be seen. "There is reason to believe that if business conditions could be free from domestic influences outside business itself, developments would be favorable." The chamber said that "Washington, at the moment, appears to be grving more attention to the immediate business situation than to long-range reform measures." "Stimulation of private home builing continues as the Government's No. 1 aid to recovery," the chamber said. "While no housing boom is in immediate prospect, the Government is pushing its low cost housing drive with greater vigor under the newly-liberalized mortgage insurance plan. Material building prices have fallen some what in recent weeks.

Labor costs and taxes, two other major factors, have shown no material change." The chamber said that "pressure is increasing on Congress to speed its tax revision legislation as a definite aid to recovery," and pointed out that the American Federation of Labor last week "threw in its lot with business in urging prompt repeal or modification of the un divided profits and capital gains taxes." THREE MEN CONFESS $2800 CAFE HOLDUP Three men, members of a holdup gang which looted an East Carnegie cafe of $2800 Nov. 19, were held for court today by Magistrate Albert D. Brandon. They were Lawrence Kahn, 20, of 2943 Prevard Vincent Lawrence, 25, of 227 Smith Way, and Joseph Vetrullo, 28, of 85 Wyoming St. They admitted holding up a cafe at 932 Idlewood East Carnegie, and taking $2800 from the safe after binding and gagging Jacob Wert-heimer, the proprietor; his wife, Katherine, and a visitor.

Confessions were made after they had repudiated a previous one, according to Inspector Walter Mon-aghan. The men said most of their loot was spent to "go into business." Their confession implicated a fourth man, Edward Callahan, 20, of Mt. Washington, who now is facing trial on a Federal charge. COLONEL ROOSEVELT SCORES HIS COUSIN TRAVERSE CITY, Feb. 12 Colonel Theodore Roosevelt last night charged that his fifth cousin, President Roosevelt, is systematically seeking to undermine democracy by striving to usurp powers assigned to other branches of the government.

He said Congress now merely is a tool of the President. Some 2000 Republicans, the larg est political crowd to gather here in 40 years, heard Colonel Roosevelt warn against encroachments upon the democratic form of government. The Washington Merry -Go-Round By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN WASHINGTON Gutzon Borglum, who is carving the faces of Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson and Roosevelt I into Mt. Rushmore, S.

is meeting with favorable Congressional response to his plea for additional money to build an auditorium at some distance from the monument, from which people can look at it. President Roosevelt stopped in the Black Hills one summer to see the work, sat and viewed it for 40 minutes Erie's Modern Nothing to "No definite plans for the reorganization of the Erie have been formulated as yet, but the Chesapeage Ohio Railway owner of 55.68 per cent of the stock, is expected to offer to advance a substantial amount of new money to speed up revamping of the capital structure." FINANCIAL ITEM. Special to The Pittsburgh Press Things were done differently In the days of the buccaneers. Fabulous Jim Fisk sanctimonious Daniel Drew and saturnine Jay Gould never dreamed of Section 77b of the Federal Bnkruptcy Act. Their "reorganization" of the Erie, 70 years ago, is something that Wall Street still talks about.

There are financiers who say investors would have saved countless mililnna if thp Tffrii Vin1 npver mmo into existence. Since 1832, when the first train of the New York Erie rumbled from Jersey City to Buffalo, the Erie has-been the pawn of a succession of sharpers, gamblers, speculators and dreamers of dreams of vast railroad empire. It has grown into a 2300-mile double-track system, reaching to Chicago, but it never in 106 years has paid a dividend on its common stock. Dan -Was First -Uncle Daniel Drew was the first of the famous gamblers to see a gold- mine in Erie. In 1859 he yanked the railroad out of receivership, manipulated its shares through a historic panic and emerged with a nice profit for Daniel Drew.

After that Cornelius Vanderbilt jumped in and got his, and after Vanderbilt came Drew again and Jim Fisk and Gould, all flaming figures in the era of the Wall Street buccaneers. The speculators and gamblers rose and fell while the Erie plodded on through the decades, through bankruptcies, forced sales and reorganizations, through an era in which Erie jokes were as common as the Model-T jokes of another time. Finally the Van Sweringen brothers saw in the Erie an im portant link in their dream of a railroad empire to end all empires. They, too, lost virtually everything and the C. O.

today is holding the bag for some 40 billion dollars. The Best Yarn But of all the yarns about the Erie the most unperishable one is about the time that Jubilee Jim Fisk, Daniel Drew and Jay Gould ran off with the assets. It was the afternoon of March 10. 1868, and the triumvirate constituted the Erie's executive committee. They had rooked Commodore Corneel Vanderbilt, rooked him royally, and he was out to get his money back.

So they packed seven million dollars in cash and negotiable securi ties into a carpetbag, tossed it into a hack and crossed the Hudson on the Erie ferry. From the sanctuary of Taylor's Hotel in Jersey City they defied Corneel Vanderbilt and New York's courts to do something about it. These Wall Street gamblers didn't care whether trains ran on the Erie or not. Vanderbilt, master of the New York Central, was trying to corner the Erie shares. He knew there weren't many shares In cir culation but he reckoned without the fact that Drew had a block of convertible bonds which he converted swiftly enough when Vanderbilt was buying.

Illegal, but It Worked By this trick the Drew-Gould-Fisk combine tossed a million shares of Erie at Vanderbilt. The issuance was illegal, for Vanderbilt had anticipated that move and obtained an injunction. But the stock was delivered and there was nothing for hue has only a short time to live. He could not say definitely but estimated a few months. "IVs too late for me," Mrs.

Dono hue said, "but I would like to hear a favorable decision. Maybe it will help some of the others." From her sick bed yesterday sne described how she and the other women lifted brushes laden with radium salts to their lips in order in trot. hPttr nnint- for drawing of delicate lines. One of the other stricken women, Mrs. Marie Rossitor, 32, testified that the assistant manager of the plant, Rufus Reed, told them there was no danger in the compositions they used to paint the watches.

"He said it was good for us and would give us pink cheeks," she said. ance in the old age and dependent children categories," its resolution stated. The County Board is composed of local civic, business and labor leaders. Sees Results Lost Dr. Maurice Taylor of the Fed eration of Jewish Philanthropies told the Public Affairs Committee meeting that the proposed cut would "void all the work that has been done to put Pennsylvania on a decent standard of relief." Commenting on the direct relief standards, he said: "No wonder we have so much If a child of a relief family earns a dollar, you can't blame him for not reporting it and having it taken from the family's pitifully small relief grant." He suggested asking the Attor ney General for a ruling on the health and decency clause in the state's relief laws, maintaining that present relief grants could not possibly keep a family in health and decency.

Figures presented by Dr. Ralph C. Fletcher of the Bureau of Social Research refuted the statement of Arthur Howe, new Secretary of Public Assistance, that the change wotui increase the aid given moth ers with dependent children (formerly Mothers' Assistance Fund). A study of local families getting such aid shows that those getting only the grants from the state wlil benefit a little, but four-fifths of them have some supplementary income which w-ill not be allowed under the relief set-up, the figures howed. At least, the supple mentary Income will be deducted from the relief grant.

A mother and three children, for instance, could get a maximum of $9.69 a week under the present assistance set-up, and would get a maximum of $12.90 a week under relief standards. But 2083 of 2647 families studied have part-time work or other support that increases their total incomes to far more than the relief level. Up to a certain point, regarded as a decent living, those getting aid for dependent children are allowed to supplement their state grants through their own efforts. or by donations from relatives or private charity. For a family of four, this is figured at $22.56 a week.

Pensioners to Suffer Even those receiving only the state grant will get less under the relief standard if there are more than five in the family, statistics revealed. Practically all persons getting old age pensions will suffer by the reduction. Under relief standards a man over 70 living in a furnished room could get a maximum of $4.35 a week. The old age pension maxi mum is $6.95 a week. A minimum budget for such an individual, pre pared by the Federation of Social Agencies, calls for $9.22 a week.

The present relief standards, at tacked so vigorously at the meeting, allocates a single person $2 a week for food, 40 cents a week for cloth ing and shoes, 60 cents a week for fuel, light and ice, and $1.35 a week for rent total $4.35. That is the maximum, granted only if all of the items must be provided by the state. The Weather Woatprn "Ppnnavlr.lTlla TlOllriv. TlrnbablT with occasional light rain in ana light rain or snow in rat portions toniehl or Sunday. Slowly rising- temperature.

riliio iirohahlv with occasional lislit rain tonight ami Snmlajr. Slowly riainr trmneraiiire tonirlit and in east an.l smith iMii-tiim Sliminv West Viricinia Cloudy, probably with occasional HKht rain tonight and Ml nil ay Slowly rising temperature. Weather Condition Prnr conl inueft hiirh over the At lantic Coast Rtaten. but with considerably diminished pressure, while the Western low oimmished considerably in pressure and spread over into the Central Valleys. The center is located over central Wyomirtir this morning, lowest pressure reported '2H4fl inches at Lander.

The low is pro- diu-inr cloudy weather over most ol the West, with rain in the south and snow over the northern states, eastward to the Central Plains. Licht rains were eeneral over the Ohio Valley states during the last 24 hours, and over the mountains ot West Vireinia moderately heavy amounts occurred. It is warmer than yesterday over practically the entire country except the and west of the Kocfcy Moun tains, but the temperature is not much below normal in the Dakota and Montana. fressnre is lniph over the ukon section, and the weather cold. At Dawson the barometric pressure is 30.

Hi inches, and the temperature 38 decrees below zero. River Conditions The Allerhenv ana the Ohio rivers are Tallin-, but there is a rise in the upper Monuucabrla and its tributaries due to rain over that portion of the basin. The stages at 7 a. ui. Unlay were as follows: Franklin.

10 1 feet: Parkers Landing. Johnstown. J-ook No. 7. Wonongahela.

ltj.e: West Newton. 3.: Pittsburgh. 1M.M: Dashields Dam. 15.4: Dam No. 7.

2W.5: No. H. 1H.T. and No. 1 The upper Ohio River will rise slightly.

lesterUays highs and low: Atlanta Tit 44il.itil Uuclr 84 S4 Atlantic 24 lxs Angeles 5K iiiAUiarcK Holse 51 3tt l'ibburg ...38 34 Boston 28 1 Memphis 58 lirowusville ..78 Gti Miami .74 Buffalo 28 Montgomery ..78 54 Chattanooga ..74 5o Na-hvilk; ....74 68 Chicago .....38 New 70 WO incinnatt ...44 421New York Cleveland Oklahoma City 74 Columbus 38 3rt Dallas 7 H'M'arkersburg .44 38 lieuver 38. Parry Sound. lO Des 30 34 28 Detroit 3t rlii Phoenix 74 4 iniluth 3 2 Pittsburgh SO Kikins 44 42 St. I-ouis 2 54 El Paso ....78 I-ake City. 58 38 Evansville ...70 54 an 76 4 Harrisburg- ...28 24 Francisco.

5rt 42 Helena 34 -8 Seattle 4t Huron 42 32iTampa ......78 68 Indianapolis ..34 aSiWashtnrton ..84 30 lackeonville oOiWinnipe 4 Kansas 42 Yellowsloo Knoxville ....72 Mi Park 40 20 Vanderbilt to do but take it and pay. It was done this way. Horatio N. Otis, secretary of the Erie, in the presence of Drew and Gould, signed certificates of stock which were to replace the convertible bonds. He called a clerk and asked him to deliver the bonds and stock to the stock transfer office in Pine St.

The clerk was on his way when he was stopped by a stranger who took away his package and told him to run along. "He was a big fellow with a yellow mustache and a lot of shirtfront," the boy reported. "Might almost be Jim Fisk," observed Jay Gould. Then They Decamped No one, of course, could prove that it was Jim Fisk who seized the certificates and put them into circulation. When Vanderbilt realized that he had been rooked, he appealed to Justice George G.

Barnard, a creature of Boss Tweed, and got a contempt court. But the conspirators learned about it in time and decamped across the Hudson. The three raiders moved the rail road's headquarters to Jersey City. In "Taylor's fort" they surrounded themselves with railroad detectives and hired toughs while Vanderbilt dickered with Manhattan plug- uglies to seize them and bring them back. It was Vanderbilt who finally sur rendered after two months of siege.

His funds tied up in seven million dollars of Erie paper, fresh from the printing press, he invited Uncle Daniel Drew to confer. The upshot was that Corneel Vanderbilt emerged with about four million dollars in cash and bonds and the Drew-Fisk-Gould combine got the Erie back. The Erie Paid and Paid Vanderbilt, richest man in America, had set out to corner Erie and had been whipped by a printing press. And historians of the reckless post-war period agree it was the Erie, the poor old Erie, that paid all the bills. For the payments that went to Vanderbilt when the game ended came out of the attenu ated treasury of the Erie.

According to the late Robert H. Fuller, who left an intimate biography of his friend, "Jubilee Jim" Fisk, Daniel Drew lost everything he made and was bankrupt when he died at 80 in 1879. Jay Gould, leaving 70 millions, according to this historian, while the Commodore left a fortune of more than 100 millions when he died at 80 in 1877. Jim Fisk, if this sympathetic version may be accepted, was honestly doing his best to rehabilitate the Erie when his colorful life was ended violently in 1872. Bullets End Life In addition to his activities as a financier and railroad builder, Fisk had found time for more frivolous things.

He developed his Grand Opera House, for instance, and he tried to make a great actress of the handsome Josie Mansfield. It was Edward S. Stokes, a rival for the love of the dynamic Josie, who put two bullets through Jubilee Jim as he ascended the great staircase of the then fashionable Grand Central Hotel. Cartoonist Nast summed up the situation with a characteristic sketch in Harper's Weekly. The drawing showed Fisk's tombstone and the classical figure of Justice, with several "mourners," including Gould.

The underlines: Jay Gould "All the sins of Erie lie buried here." Justice "I am not quite so BABY DERBY MOTHER DOUBTED ON CLAIM By The United Press TORONTO, Feb. 12 Justice W. E. Middleton, presiding at an Ontario Supreme Court hearing designed to determine the winner of the Millar Baby Derby, today questioned the authenticity of birth certificates of two of the nine children Mrs. Matthew Kenny claimed were born to her in the 10-year race.

Justice Middleton said two of the certificates were for still-born, unnamed children. He said still-born children were not legally considered children, and intimated he might rule out the questioned births. It appeared that only six mothers could be considered as serious entrants. Each claimed nine registered births. Tremor Rocks Lake Area CHICAGO, Feb.

12 A freak rum- bling, believed to have been an earth tremor, shook the area along the southern edge of Lake Michigan toaay ana raLiiea winaows and dishes. No serious damage was re ported. John Lewis 58 Today WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 John L. Lewis, chairman of the Committee for Industrial Organization, observed his 58th birthday today.

A week-end recess in a National Labor Relations Board hearing gave a former employe of the Molt-rup Steel Co. the opportunity for his first sleep in 72 hours today. Through long hours of direct and cross examination, Matthew Eureich sat on the witness stand Thursday and Friday while Labor Board and company attorneys bombarded him with questions about his dismissal from the steel concern, allegedly because of his membership in the Committee for Industrial Organization. He is one of six men whose dismissals in August, 1936, led to filing of discrimination charges against the company and the Labor Board hearing. No one at the hearing knew until late yesterday that Mr.

Eureich had gone without sleep nearly three days, testifying for the Labor Board in daytime and working in an Ell-wood City steel plant at night. Goes Back to Job He was excused from the stand late yesterday and went to his job in Ellwood City. Not until this morning did he have a chance to sleep. Cross examination of Mr. Eureich by Company Attorney Kenneth Jackson dealt largely with his duties in the Moltrup Steel plant's bar department, Beaver Falls, with only brief reference to the reason for his dismissal.

Mr. Eureich told Examiner William H. Griffin that following his dismissal. President J. Frank Moltrup of the steel company asked ALL IN A LIFETIME before he spoke.

Finally he said: "I never believed that a big thing could be so beautiful." Herman Oliphant, hard-boiled Treasury Department counsel, spent a week in the Black Hills. After sitting around for two days, he remarked to Borglum: "I've been watching these people in silks and rags view this monument, and I never before realized that an unnecessary thing could be so important." Secret Advice Around the Commerce Department, where echoes of the disastrous Little Men's conference still are reverberating, they are wishing they had taken the private advice of Democratic politicos to have the Governor of each State select the Little Men delegates. Instead, delegates were selected on the basis of those who had written letters to the White House suggesting economic panaceas, and this type of letter-writer always is inclined to be more temperamental than practical. NOTE Thirty-nine of the 48 State Governors are Democrats, and could have been trusted to select less "temperamental" delegates. Hard Coal Problem After he left the White House recently.

Governor Earle of Pennsylvania gave the Impression that the President was very much interested in his plan for Federal purchase and control of the anthracite coal fields. Actually, just the opposite was the case. What FDR really told Earle was that Federal acquisition might be the last resort, but only after the State had exhausted every other plan of regulation. The President's view is that anthracite is a Pennsylvania monopoly, therefore other States would oppose Federal purchase: (1) because they have no anthracite; (2) because many of them produce oil and gas, which are direct competitors of anthracite. Also, purchase of the mines would cost the Government about In effect Roosevelt told Earle to go back and tackle the anthracite job himself.

The First Lady thinks something should be done about child marriages, but believes the first step should be a comprehensive study of the whole problem of marriage laws. i Replying to Judge Camille Kelley of the Juvenile Court of (Copyright. 193S. for Memphis, who wrote her about the advisability of a nationwide educational campaign for the purpose of curbing child marriage, Mrs. Roosevelt said: "There seems to be little question that it would be wise for women to be interested in studying the question of possible uni- form marriage laws.

We are not as vet fully cognizant of the differences that exist between the States under our present laws, so it would seem a study of these would be the first thing' that should be undertaken by women. Afterwards they could begin to formulate what they think would be appropriate Federal legislation." Free Lunch The next time Representatives Pat Boland and Harold Flannery of Pennsylvania invite delegates to a United Mine Workers convention to lunch, they will do a little nose-counting in advance. During the reecnt UMW powwow the two Congressmen decided it would be a good political stroke to play host to the miner visitors from their home districts. They figured there would be between 20 to 25 guests and agreed to split the expenses. The luncheon was held at one of Washington's swankiest hotels and was a great success.

But Boland and Flannery aren't feeling so chipper about it. Instead of the expected 20 to 25 delegates, 101 showed up for the free feed. Merry -Go-Round Most efficient group at the Little Men's Conference was that interested in auto instalment-buying. Its members reported that half a million more new cars were produced in 36 and 37 than were needed and that instalment buying terms were so easy people bought more new cars in preference to old. Thus the used car market became glutted High-pressure tactics, they reported, had loaded the lowest Income groups with debts they could not pay Social security, as a rule, was favored.

The wage-hour bill was not Their biggest need, according to the Little Merf, was easier credit. They complained that the banks would not lend them money without high collateral Clarence Reilly of Chicago urged a "West Point" for inventors. The work of these inventors would then be owned by the Government and used for the benefit of the public Pittsburgh Fret Ccinpany) Woman, Doomed by Radium Poison, Hopes to Win Case Victim, Slowly Dying, Wants Compensation Verdict for Others Stricken With Her Death Process Re-enacted Vd HOT JpC fjfl -S RIVIERA r'Un tfi mSa SSAAS A GROUP OF WOPKMEN ON YOUR WAY TO THE TRAIN FOR A srtf4ftf MD-WJNTSJ? VACATJON By The United Press OTTAWA, HU Feb. J2 Mrs. Catherine Donohue, 35.

dying slowly from radium poisoning allegedly contracted while painting watch dials, hopes she may live to hear the State Industrial Commission's decision on her petition for compensation. Physicians said she will be next to die of the poisoning which she and 13 other women claim entered their bodies while employed by the Radium Watch Dial Co. Radio-active substances are eating away her bones. Emaciated and broken, she weighs but 70 pounds. George B.

Marvel, commission arbitrator, completed his hearing yesterday at Mrs. Donohue's beside after she had collapsed In a La-Salle County Courthouse. His decision may not be reached for three months. He believed the case will be taken to the circuit court and eventually reach the Supreme Court. Dr.

Walter Dalitsch. University of Illinois surgeon, testified Mrs. Dono That uncomfortable feeling. FLIGHT FROM YESTERDAY," popular novel by Barbara Webb, will appear complete tomorrow in The Press..