Evening star. [volume], February 18, 1937, Page A-3, Image 3

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DUST IS DECLARED
Oklahoma Health Commis
sioner, However, Warns
Against Breathing Sand.
BJ the Associated Press.
OKLAHOMA CITY, February 18 —
Don't worry about duststorms affect
ing your health—just keep calm, relax
and stay inside, Oklahoma’s health
commissioner advised today.
"We’ve analyzed dust,” declared
Dr. C. M. Pearce. “There isn’t any
thing in it that would hurt you. Why,
there Isn’t even enough silica to cause
•ilicosis.”
But breathing sand is different.
That, he said, is dangerous.
"Harsh sand particles irritate the
tissue,” he asserted, "producing ’me
chanical pneumonia,’ commonly called
‘dust pneumonia.’ ”
Only in areas subjected to extreme
"black blizzards,” said Dr. Pearce,
ere the blowing sand particles of suffi
cient size to induce intense enough
tissue friction to cause "mechanical
pneumonia.” Dust would be unlikely
to cause it, he added, unless an ex
tremely large quantity was taken into
the lungs.
Danger Is Minimized.
“The danger is not as great as many
people think,” he declared.
He recommended dust masks for
persons living in areas heavily ridden
by dusters. Dampened hankerchiefs
would aid in keeping more comfort
able persons living where the swirling
dust is not so severe.
For children, especially those living
where dense clouds of blowing soil
strike. Dr. Pearce advised tightly
closed rooms. He explained their
tissues are more sensitive, and use
of dust masks was not adaptable to
them.
His parting advice:
"Stay at home. Don’t run around
In the dust. There's nothing to worry
about.”
Dust 70 Miles in Gulf.
Dallas and Fort Worth were lightly
dusted. Blown dirt out over the
Gulf of Mexico 70 miles from shore
yesterday was reported by Capt.
George H. Bahm, commander of the
destroyer U. S. S. Schenck.
"It was very strange.” he said after
docking in Houston. "The gulf looked
like the Sahara Desert.”
Federal Weather Forecaster Harry
Wahlgren in Oklahoma City foresaw
no signs of an early rain, but winds
over the Southwest may subside some
what today.
The dust lifted for a time last night,
giving Guymon its first "perfect eve
ning" in four days. Shortly after
midnight the choking clouds returned.
Snow fell yesterday at Goodland
and St. Francis, Kans., in the north
western part of the State. Hays and
Horton, Kans., received showers.
"With a good ram or snow in the
next few days, the wheat crop expec
tations would be above normal,”
County Agent C. B. Martin of Hale
County, Tex., declared.
Prison
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ter department are used principally
for maintenance.
Prescott said there are many roads
throughout Maryland that would never
be touched because of the dearth of
funds to execute an adequate program
under that set-up.
It was asserted by Prescott that he
Intends in no way to bring about the
establishment of chain gangs or prison
camps as in many States that use
convict labor on roads.
Only I’se "Trusties."
He said his idea is to use only those
prisoners picked by penal authorities
.ns 'trusties’' Between 600 and 800
such men are immediately available,
Prescott added.
The Senator declared he has learned
upon investigation that between 200
and 300 “trusties” work each day on
the State penal farm without any
guards whatever and only 5 men have
escaped during the institution’s history.
The need for adoption of such a plan I
was clearly illustrated, according to
Prescott, in the recent report of the
commission appointed by Gov. Harry
W. Nice to study labor conditions in
Maryland prisons.
It was set forth in the commission's
findings that thousands of inmates,
“idle hands,’’ the investigators called i
them, are unemployed and are anxious ;
for something to do.
Senator Prescott said there is a great .
deal of sentiment for his proposal in I
the Senate and that there seems to be !
a like feeling among the members of |
the House.
Coal
(Continued From First Page.)
hnw the demands would affect them
individually.
Their brief cases bulging with sta
tistics. th« miners and operators went
into their conference room prepared
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Shoppers Fight Through “Black Blizzard”
With visibility reduced to less than a block as a result of the billows of dust sweeping through
the Oklahoma panhandle, these two shoppers in Boise City. Okla , make their way icith difficulty
through the fog-like curtain. Their handkerchiefs are used as improvised masks to aid them in
breathing. ' —Wide World Photo.
to argue for a few hours and then
turn over the negotiations to a sub
committee.
The present agreement does not ex
pire until midnight March 31. If
precedent in drafting previous agree
ments is followed, the subcommittee
will recess for a few weeks before
give-and-take negotiations are started
in earnest.
Only the commercial mines of the
Appalachian production area—reach
ing along the Appalachian Mountains
from Central Pennsylvania to Tennes
see—are affected directly by the agree
ment to be drafted by the joint con
ference here These mines turn out
about two-thirds of the country's an
nual soft coal production.
Appalachian Scale Basis.
All other soft coal miners’ wages
and hours, however, are based on the
Appalachian scale.
Most miners are paid by the ton. but
the entire soft coal wage structure is
based on the pay of the mine mule
driver, now $5.50 in Western Pennsyl
vania and $5.10 in Southern West Vir
ginia. The present agreement calls
for a 35-hour week.
The union now asks to increase the
mule driver's daily pay to $6 in West
ern Pennsylvania and $5.60 in the
South. The miners also ask an in
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bined cutting and loading rate for
those men who work by the ton, a 20
per cent increase for deadwork (slate
picking and the like) and a 25-cents
a-ton raise for pick mining.
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mand for a 40-hour week with a 15
per cent decrease in the hourly rate
(the same pay each day for an extra
hour's work) and no change in the
tonnage rates.
The workers and producers turned
over their wage and hour negotiations
today to a joint committee. The full
Appalachian Joint Conference then
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ton. W. Va. He probably will not
bring together the full conference until
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report an agreement or finds an agree
ment impossible.
The operators named the following
as members of their committee: J. D.
Morrow, L. E. Woods. L. T. Putnam,
D. A. Reed, P. C. Thomas, Ezra Van
Horn, M. L. Oravey and Charles P.
O'Neill.
The miners appointed on their com
mittee John L. Lewis, president of the
union; Philip Murray, vice president;
Thomas Kennedy, secretary-treasurer,
and 12 district presidents.
Before recessing the full conference
rejected the miners' motion to admit
Indiana. Illinois and Iowa operators
and invited the Harlan County. Ky.,
Coal Producers’ Association to attend.
POLITICAL AIMS
DENIED BY Mill
New High Commissioner
Going to Philippines Soon
“to Fill His Job.”
bJ the />8*ociated Press.
Paul V. McNutt, new high com
missioner to the Philippines, said
today he was going to the island
post with no definite plans for his
political future.
His comment was in reply to
queries about mention he has received
as a possible candidate for the Demo
cratic presidential nomination in
1940.
‘ I’m going to do my Job in the
Philippines and how long I stay there
depends upon the President,” he said.
He is expected, however, to remain
in Manila only a year or so and then
return to the United States to take
an active part in politics.
McNutt's nomination was sent to
the Senate yesterday for confirma
tion. Chairman Tydings, Democrat,
of Maryland, of the Senate Terri
tories Committee, said he expected
quick approval.
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rmrement to give new leadership to
the Democratic party in Indiana. He
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made 15,000 speeches since 1928 in
every State and several foreign
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ARRAIGN SUSPECTS
IN AUTO ROBBERIES
Representatives Martin and Case
Appear Against Two
Youths and Man.
Representatives Martin of Colo
rado and Case of South Dakota ap
peared as witnesses in Police Court
today against two members of an
alleged automobile "theft and strip”
gang and their alleged "fence."
Those arraigned before Judge Wal
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block of Sixth street southeast, and
Henry A. Glascoe, 1300 block of K
street southeast, both charged syith
theft of automobiles, and Joseph Purr,
1300 block of Eleventh street, charged
with receiving stolen property. Moca
bee and Purr were held under a $1,000
bond each for action of the grand
Jury and Olascoe under a $500 bond
for a like action.
According to Detective Sergt. Henry
Jett, Mocabee and Olascoe, each 17
years of age, and three other boys who
were taken to Juvenile Court today,
had been stealing automobiles, strip
ping them of radios, heaters and
other equipment and then abandoning
the cars.
Representative Martin appeared
against Glascoe, who was alleged to
have stolen the legislator’s automobile.
Representative Case appeared against
Furr, in whose possession, it was al
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was found. Mocabee was charged with
the theft of an automobile from Mary
Fields.
One of the Juveniles testified he had
sold two radios which he and others
had taken from automobiles to Furr.
Jett said that all of the boys were
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