The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 24, 1933, Page 1

North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Weather Report Unsettled tonight se ates, hee! much change in temperature. ESTABLISHED 1878 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 1933 PRICE FIVE CENTS Business Scores Record Gains North Dakota Gets APPORTIONMENT OF GOVERNMENT AlD 10: STATES COMPLETED Funds Will Be Available July 1 And Work Will Be Started At Once PICK, SHOVEL FAVORED Requirement Is That Hand Labor Will Replace Much Modern Machinery Washington, June 24.—(®)—Road building on a huge scale will get un- der way early next month, to become the first big expenditure in Presi- dent Roosevelt’s campaign for re-em- ployment and economic recovery. Allocation to states of the $400,- 000,000 highway fund has been com- pleted by the public works board. Promulgated Saturday were rules for) spending it: 30 hours’ work a week with fixed minimum pay will govern all contracts; no convict labor will be permitted; machinery must: give way to pick and shovel; the actual Projects must be widely scattered. The road inoney will be available on July 1, when President Roosevelt, returns. He expects to be able to approve immediately thereafter ap- pointment of ‘state public works ad- ministrators who will direct expen- diture of more than $1,000,000,000 un- der the entire $3,300,000,000 public works program. Meanwhile, pressing close behind the roads plan for an immediate start, the army has drafted a $135,- 000,000 housing and construction Plan, now being scrutinized by a works board committee for report next week. ‘The navy department, anced a it have the 30-hour work week spelied to all its shipyard contracts. R. F. C. Issues Report With the works program and in- dustrial and farm price-! push- ing forward as fast as possible, the “Reconstruction Corporation Friday gave congress a report for May showing @ peak in that month for its relief allocations. They totaled around $500,000,000, including $300,- 000,000 to the new federal farm credit agency for refinancing farm mortgages, while $5,050,000 went to increase federal subscriptions to the capital stock of the federal home loan bank. Besides linking up existing federal- aid highways, extending them and running them through municipali- ties, the new funds are to be em- ployed for landscaping roadways, for eliminating safety hazards, for. par- alleling existing railroad branch- lines which may be marked for aban- donment in the railroad reorganiza- tion plan. State highway departments will] Tre! have general supervision of the work, subject to federal approval. Biggest) Pponent amounts allotted. were: Texas, $24,- 244,000; New York, $22,330,000; Penn- sylvania, $18,891,000. Other amounts allocated inchaded: Towa, $10,055, 439,748; ‘North, Dakota, $5,80: South Dakota, $6,011,479; itn, $9,724,881. Area, population and road mileage ‘of each state governed the division. The $135,000,000 army construction program, taken ander advisement, includes: Minnesota—$107,633 for Fort Snell- South Dakota — $12,300 Fort Meade. for The day'of the big sailing ship is almost past, but A Century of Progress at Chicago has brought the first square rigger from Europe into the Great Lakes. The picturesque craft, the Sorlandet, Norwegian naval training ship sent to the World Fair as Norway's exhibit, is shown here as she slipped along under full sail into Chicago's harbor ATTRACTIVE RAGE PROGRAM PROMISED HERE JULY FOURTH Entries Already Have Been Re- ceived from Three States, Officials Say Montane for herness and running events. Among entrants is Japonica, a bay mare owned by Fred Woolsey of Miles. City, Mont.. This horse won eight races last season. Other entries come from the Square Rigger Sails From Norway to Fair Oe | Hitler Enraged by Pamphlet Barrage Berlin, June 24.—()—Police re- ports of an serial “pamphlet at- tack” on the German government by “unidentified foreign air- Planes” gave rise Saturday to re- newed Nazi objections to the Ver- sailles treaty, which denied Ger- many an air force. “A number of unidentified for- office is located) and the workers district, dropped handbills insult- ing to the ae the police report said. “As the air police do not pos- sess aircraft or sporting they were unable to reach the fast-flying foreign planes, which escaped unidentified.” Chancellor Hitler's “Voelkischer Beobachter” sounded the keynote ge newspapers’ denunciation of Versailles post-war treaty with the black headline: “Down with the unbearable chains of the Versailles treaty.” Fred Feldner stables, the High Treasure} AUSTRIANS ARREST farm at Selby, of Dr. Teich at Velva. Mrs. C. K. Bryan of Bismarck will drive Regret in the 2:22 pace. This, mare is a sister to the world’s cham- pion, Braden Heir, .1:59%, and raced successfully in the east last year. Regret has defeated some of the best. horses in Michigan and Ohio. At present she is being prepared to race at the world’s fair in August. Ohio Rose Will Run Mrs. Bryan’s Ohio Rose, 2:07%, ts in the free-for-all event. This horse he me ie — Lets hee 2:08, a tnpcted 10 be Onio Rowe's strong A wee of $25 is otrared out ths winner of th leigh county-owned berees., No ae fee will be charged. ‘The program will be staged at! Bryan’s fair grounds, southeast of the city. The program follows: 1:30 p/m.—Parade. 2p.m— c- OHHDE race, first heat in . m.—Tumbling act . m.—Becond eat in 2:22 3:20—Second heat in free-for-all. entations 3:30—Novelty automobile race. 8. D., and the stables| NAZI NEAR BORDER Vienna, June 24.— (#)—The Austrian government answered the defiance of the Nazi party Saturday by arresting Alfred Frauenfeld, leader of the party, at Villach in Carinthia where, it was alleged, he planned to cross the border into Italy. Leaflets denouncing Chancel- lor Dollfuss’ regime and assert- ing aggressive Nazi actions will soon start were dropped over Linz Friday by an airplane hav- ing no distinguishing marks. WALLACE URGED 10 JOIN IN MISSOURI DIVERSION SCHEME m.—First heat in free-for-| agricultural ural Secretary Confers With North Dakotans at Minneapoli Minneapolis, June 24.—(7)—Repres- regarding the tremendous AMERICANS WORRY ABOUT AUSTRALIA'S POSITION ON WHEAT Mystery Surrounds Communica- tion from Home to London Representative London, June 24.—(}—Considerable uneasiness existed Saturday at head- quarters of the Aemrican delegation to the world economic conference as to whether fresh instructions which Stanley M. Bruce, Australian minister to London, received from Canberra Friday night mean his government will join other great wheat-producing countries in the American scheme for the restriction of production. Mystery surrounded the nature of the communications to Bruce, who de- clined to discuss the matter with newspapermen. Americans were continuing their drive over the week-end to obtain Australian adherence. Australia is the only nation lacking among the major producers, including Canada, Argentina and Russia, which already have given the stamp of general ap- proval to the plan. Despite the delay in achieving com- plete agreement, the American dele- gation indicated they believe Australia | will come in. If she does, {t will be an occasion for a celebration, since American rep- resentatives feel the adoption of this wheat proposal will be one of the most important achievements of the world economic conference. There still would remain some smaller wheat producers to be drawn | into the scheme, but the Americans | | feel they would follow the lead of the; big five—America, Argentina, Canada, | Australia and Russia. Tone Is Optimistic The week-end found a decidedly | more optimistic atmosphere surround- ing the conference than existed a few advantages to be derived in the north- west from early development of the water resources in the Missouri river in North Dakota, were made to Sec- retary of Agriculture Henry A. Wal- 3:40—Final heat in 2:22 pace. :50—Burleigh county running race. p. m.—Final heat in free-for- Threaten Removal of Stark Commissioners A delegation of 20 Stark county farmers conferred with Governor Langer Friday about a proposal to in- stitute removal proceedings against the three Stark county commission- Charges of incooapetaney and “fall, ure to act for the best interests of county ” are made by the group. The men did not file a formal laint, but indicated they sogn id submit one. aa group seeking the commission- Bea came from the vicinity be brought before the governor this year. Removal of three Burleigh ‘ governor and the decision in the cases of the other two are pending. Briefs were filed Friday in the re- moval action against Max Wishek, McIntosh county state’s attorney, in which oral arguments have been made before the governor. Stark county commissioners ae Alex Wolf, Dickinson, chairman; Boltz, Belfield, and Adam Mischel Richardton. No Discrimination | Shown by Firemen Chicago, June 24—(7)—To the world’s a fire and nothing else. ‘When the actors in a wild west show depicting an Indian attack on a cov- ered wagon set fire to the top of the sabicle, Sie CASRN PEO Sit a fair grounds firemen a fire is| the lace here Saturday by a delegation of North Dakotans. chairman of committee, The group included Fred McLean, the state Democratic Grand Forks; 8. W. ‘Thompson, Devils Lake, secretary of the Missouri River Diversion associa- | easy. tion, and M. O. Ryan, Fargo, secre- tary, Greater North Dakota associa- tion. Among program features will be Carl Stengel, “The Wonder Bie Be who sleeps on a bed of broken bottles. Pilot and Passengers state Are Hurt in Mishap Arthur, N. D., June 24.—(P)—A pi- lot and two of his passengers suf- fered slight injuries here Friday when an airplane crashed while landing before a throng assembled for the annual Arthur community ie Schroeder of Erie, the pilot, suffered an injury to his nose and was shaken. Nels Ford, a farm hand, and Walter Kuehn, a graduate in the 1933 Arthur aigh ashe class, the passengers, were seriously injured. Kuehn’s neck was hurt slightly. * ‘The ship apparently hit a hole in d landing field, tipping over on its propellor. KILLED AT CROSSING Secretaries Wallace and Ickes, of navigation, recrea- ion if ever desired in than by army eningeers who would give first emphasis to other angles. ‘He agreed to bring this t6 the at- Fergus Falls, Minn., June 24.—(#)—| power develspment and flood control Je Northness, 60, was struck by a|bureaus i Washington, seeking to} barn was demolished by a high wind Sant Northern pessenger train Fri-| have ee ae made My Sarocntet | One ct day at a crossing here and was killed. | by the the| work, and Saturday issued a draft ‘Missouri | which embodies the broad Principles | | sentenced to three months in jail and Gays ago, when the stabilization bat- tle was at its height and some gold standard countries, including France, apparently were prepared to walk out of the parley if America should not stabilize immediately. ‘With that question at least tempor- arily solved through a Franco-Amer- ican rapproachment largely through the diplomacy of fomer Governor, James M. Cox of Ohio, vice chairman | of the American group, the confer-| ence was looking forward to construc- tive work next week. ‘With business suspended at confer-| ence headquarters Saturday most of the delegations were taking things The Americans probably were the most active workers because of their desire to get action on the wheat pro- gram. Most of them, including Sec- retary of State Cordel Hull, remained at their hotel. Many other heads of leading delegations left London for a brief holiday. ‘The sub-committee of the economic ‘commission, which has been drafting a scheme for the coordination of pro- duction and marketing, finished its of what they consider a workable plan. | It laid down the necessity of raising wholesale prices of primary products to a reasonable level and the desir- ability of adopting plans for produc- (Continued on Page Five) GETS JAIL SENTENCE Valley City, N, D., June 24.—(?)}— Art Stern, Valley City, convicted in! district court here of charges of e gaging in the liquor traffic for pos- session of 110 cases of 3.2 beer, was $400 fine by Judge P. G. Swenson here Fridi | WIND DESTROYS BARN Jamestown, N. D., June 24.—@)— Five persons milking in a large barn on the J, Harry Wilson farm abovt escaped injury Thursday when the $5,804,448 WOMAN TELLS HOW TRIO DIED BRAVELY ATER PLANE CRASH Is Only One Rescued After Craft Was Forced Down on Lake Michigan WAS IN WATER 37 HOURS Small Cushion and Gasoline Can Constituted Raft Which Saved Her Frankfort, Mich, June 24—(P)}— Mrs. Charles Rennie, Jr. 27, who! clung for 34 hours to the wreckage of an airplane that crashed into Lake Michigan Thursday and watched her husband and two other men slip to their deaths, was brought to Frank- fort Saturday, weak from . exposure and on the verge of hysteria. She had been picked up at 8 p. m. —_———___ | Friday by the Ann Arbor Car Ferry No. 7, which sighted her clinging to a raft fashioned from a cushion of tae plane and a one gallon gasoline “Mrs. Rennie told how first the me- chanic of the plane, Peter Keller, 24, loosed his hold qn the raft, then its pilot, James Gillette, 28, and finally her husband, Charles Rennie, Jr., 29, vice-president of the Rennie Oil com- pany of Traverse City, slipped to their deaths. The light raft was too frag- fle to hold all four and the men clung to its sides after lifting Mrs. Rennie to a perch on the cushion. ‘The party, enroute from Frankfurt to Milwaukee on a combined business and pleasure trip, became lost in a fog at 10 a. m. Thursday, about 10 minutes after they had teken off. “We struck the water suddenly,” said Mrs. Rennie. “The plane was damaged and sank almost immediate- ly after we had struggled out. We could find only a cushion from the cabin and an empty gasoline tank. The men fashioned these into ® raft and made me sit on this while they clung to its sides.” ‘It Was Horrible’ Thompson State Educational Chief Con- demns Five-Per-Cent Levy On N. D. Employes SAYS IT IS BAD POLICY Other State Departments In- dicate They Are Not Coer- cing Workers Ringing declaration that he is op- Posed to the campaign for obtaining 5 per cent of state employes’ salaries for promotion of a political newspaper was issued Saturday by Arthur E. ‘Thompson, superintendent of public instruction and member of the state board of administration. Thompson said he believed the scheme is against sound public policy and contrary to the best interests of the state. His full statement: “LT have been and still am op- posed to the 5 per cent assessment in the department of public in- struction or any state institution for the alleged purpose of financ- ing a newspaper to serve as a propaganda sheet for any political faction. I believe it is against seund public policy and contrary to the best interests of the state. It tends to disturb these institu- tions and to create a loss of con- fidence and morale on the part of the employes,” Thompson said solicitors for the newspaper came to his office three times but were denied admission. The department has a standing rule against solicitors. Thompson is an ex-officio member of the state board of administration, which controls North Dakota's institutions. ‘Tribune Makes Survey A survey made by The Tribune Sat- urday revealed that one other state department has definitely refused to allow solicitation of its employes for 5 per cent of their salaries for the “North Dakota Leader,” political newspaper sponsored by Governor ‘William Langer. A third department has been soli- Keller, the mechanic, she said, let go his hold and sank about 4 o'clock Thursday afternoon. “We couldn't do anything to help him,” she said. “It was horrible.” During the night, she said, Gillette lost his hold. “We did not know it un- til he had sunk,” she went on. “My husband stayed with me through oe night but early in the morning hi told me he could not hang on much longer. He handed me his watch and some papers that were in his pocket. I was not able to hold him up and he sank.” Mrs. Rennie said he could not have held her place.on the raft much long- er when the car ferry hove in sight. “I was losing consciousness,” she said. “Then I saw the boat. I was screaming as loudly as I could when they sent a small boat to me and took me aboard.” Mrs. Rennie was met here by rela- tives and friends who took her im- mediately to Traverse City, her home. Off the Port of Frankfort, coast guard from the Frankfort and Man- istee stations were cruising in search of the bodies of the three victims. The raft on which Mrs. Rennie was found was brought here by the car ferry. The cushion which had saved her life was 38 by 41 inches and four and one-half inches thick. Disabled Veterans Will Ignore Bonus Cincinnati, O., June 23.—(#)—Feel- ing the federal government is not now in a position to pay the soldiers’ bonus, the disabled American veterans of the World War may make no re- quest for a cash payment at their 1933 |convention, National Adjutant Vivian D. Corbly of Cincinnati ssid Satur- |day. If they fail to advocate cash {payment of the bonus this year, it will be the first time in the organ- ization’s history the annual conven- Corbly 5 ver, vet- erans would oppose the administra- tion’s economy program insofar as it affects reductions in appropriations for veterans disebled in connection with gervice. The veterans feel now, as always, he said. that service-con- nected disability cases should be cared for first. The ennual convention of the Ohio cepartment today was # preliminary to the opening of business sessions for the national organization on Monday. Scott Wins British Amateur Golf Crown Hoylake, Eng. June 24.—(#)—The Hon. Michael Scott, 55-year-old in- ternationalist and member of a prom- inent Scottish family, Saturday cap- tured the British amateur golf championship, defeating Thomas A. Bourn, 4 and 3, in the 36-hole final match. lap, Jr., of New York, in the semi- ifinals. He has been the winner of golf championships in Australia andj France over a period of 30 years but the nearest he had previously come to tention of conservation, Fegoeene ie, four miles pei of here narrowly capturing the national title was in 1920, when he was a semi-finalist. St a0 cont ese been ee M- and several injured | Scott succeeds John De Forest, 1932 titleholder, who was eliminated in his first match Scott was the conquerer of the last | American challenger, George T. Dun- | cited but no pledges were signed. Eight departments have not been solicited and have given no instruc- tions to their employes as to what they should do if the solicitation is made. Two department chiefs declined to comment. Heads of 14 departments were out lof the city and could not be reached. Dr. T. O. Brandenburg, executive of- ficer of the state livestock sanitary board, said: “We have not been soli- cited, have always been out of politics and refuse to donate to slush funds or anything of that sort.” Some Not Solicited Departments in which officials said no solicitations have been made and no instructions given are those of ag- riculture and labor, auditor, all divis- fons of the insurance department, state railroad board, secretary of state, supreme court, state mine inspection, health department and the board of administration. Unofficial advices, however, were that some employes in the latter de- partment have been solicited and that some of them have signed up. R. M. Rishworth, member of the board of administration and chair- man of the state capitol commis- sion, said: “Our employes are free, white and 21 years of age and we do not intend to tell them how to spend their money. We have given no instructions one way or another.” Rishworth said he has not signed a pledge card himself. John Husby, commissioner of ag- riculture and labor, said he has given his employes no instructions to sign or not to sign. He said his workers know that, if they care to sign, “such action will not be held against them.” Husby also is an ex-officio mem- ber of the state board of adminis- tration. It has been rumored that he will offer a resolution in that body pledging it not to discharge (Continued on Page Five) Hoppers Menacing Bankers Are Told Valley City, ND, D., June 24—(P)}— North Dakota bankers, assembled here Priday at their 31st annual con- vention, were told by two speakers that the grasshopper menace in this state has again become serious. The speakers were B. E. Groom of the Greater North Dakota associa- tion and F. E. Butcher of Washing- ton, specialist with the department of agriculture, who has just con- cluded a long study of the grasshop- per situation in North Dakota. The ‘hoppers now seem to be out of control, Groom said, and a serious loss this year seems certain. He said the losses will be sustained, in his opinion, as a direct result of the general indifference to the situation which has caused a shortage of funds. The whole problem now is one of finance, he said, and unless some system is set up insuring ample funds, a continuance of the pest seems certain. The main program opens Saturday with several addresses and election | of officers scheduled. Recent changes in the federal farm loan act were outlined Saturday by John Thorpe, St. Paul, of the federal land bank. Thorpe substituted for F. H. Klawon, president. Also on Sat- Federal Aid Leading | Fight on ‘Squeeze’ GEORGIA GOVERNOR OPENS NEW FIGHT TO WIDEN POWERS Attacks Public Service Commis- sion; State Militiamen Still on Job Atlanta, June 24.—(?)—His many- sided battle with ousted members of the highway board at a standstill for the time being, Governor Eugene Talmadge prepared Saturday to wade into another departmental activity Monday. The members of the publio service commission will go before him to show cause why they should not be removed from office. The governor's order against the public service commissioners, who have charge of the regulation of rail- toad, trolley motor carrier, electric and other utility rates, was brought after the executive committee of the Georgia Federation of Labor charged the commission with neglect of duty. Meanwhile, the governor still held the fort with state troopers at the capitol, in his budget row with ousted members of the highway board, but accepted service of papers in a federal suit seeking to end the military rule. In a speech before the American Le- gion here Friday Governor Talmadge referred to members of the Civilian Conservation Corps as “these loafers and bums.” “They have cut the compensation of disabled veterans and yet they have appropriated millions to let a lot of young fellows run around in’ the words,” the governor told the Legion. “They're paying United States soldiers in charge of the camps just half of what they are paying these loafers and bums.” Acoepts Notice of Suit ‘The governor still held the fort with state troopers at the capitol in his budget dispute with the highway board but accepted service of papers in a federal suit to dissolve the mar- tial rule. The governor, his adjutant general and the commissioner he placed in charge of the highway department after ousting two others for opposing him, were named in a federal in- junction sought by the ousted pair to restore their jobs and end the military control. The matter will June 30. Meanwhile, however, the governor made it plain he would stand for no other interference. At a luncheon Friday he ripped up papers two depu- tles tried to serve in a Fulton county supertor court suit, hurled the pieces after them and ordered their arrest. ‘The papers were issued in a $25,000 {damage suit brought against the governor and Adjutant General Lindley W. Camp by Deputy Sheriff 8. C. Wooten, who charged he had been illegally detained in attempting to serve papers in a state court in- junction case. ‘The two deputies arrested Friday were held under military guard four hours and were finally released when Chief Deputy Sheriff W. M. Mayo conferred with the governor and “apologized.” BANK AT WILLISTON WILL REOPEN SOON New Capital of $40,000 to Be Provided by Otto Bremer And Alex Stern Williston, N. D., June 24.—(#)—De- positors in the First National Bank unanimously approved the plan for re-opening of the bank at a meeting attended by more than a hundred de- Positors. W. H. Westergaard, chair- man of the depositors’ committee, presented the plan. The plan, as agreed to by the de- Positors’ committee and the stock- holders of the bank, calls for the re- organization of the institution as a state bank with a capital of $40,000 and a surplus fund of $10,000, all of which is to be new money. Otto Bre- mer of St. Paul is to hold about three- fourths of the capital stock and Alex ‘Stern of Fargo approximately one- fourth. Depositors agree to take a cut of 50 per cent, one-third of the adjusted sum to be available at once, one-third in 90 days and one-third in 180 days or sooner if conditions warrant. For the other 50 per cent they are to re- ceive trust certificates and these are to be redeemed from sums that may be realized on assets not admitted in- to the new bank. Public funds are to be paid in full but payments spread over a period of four years. Church, lodge and estate funds are to be made available at once. All assets removed from the pres- ent bank are to be placed in a trust fund for the redemption of the trust certificates. SOO DEFICIT SHRINKS Minneapolis, June 24—(#)—A May deficit of $552,495, compared with one urday’s program was J. J. Weeks. Ris- marek, state tax commissioner, Soo Line railway. 1933, was $580,554. come before a federal court here; GRAIN PRICES SOAR T0 HIGHEST LEVELS OF PRESENT SEASON Statistics Indicate a New Higt For Business During Last Week PRODUCE PRICES BOOSTED Hardwood Business Picks Up, Families in South Leave Relief Lists Soaring grain prices and favorable business reports, in addition to other recovery news from various parts of the nation, Saturday struck a new note of optimism. Grain prices swept upward to the highest price levels or the season at Chicago and Minneapolis. The week's business statistics in- dicated a new high in business ac- tivity. Prices of eggs and butter on the Chicago market reached new high levels for the year. Forty thousand West Virginia fam- ilies have been removed from relief rolls since April 1. The greatest activity in the hard- wood industry since 1930 was re- ported Saturday by J. H. Townsend, secretary of the Hardwood Manufac- turers’ Institute at Memphis, Tenn. Grains Soar High Grains again swept upward to the highest price levels of the season at Chicago following reports from the west and northwest by experienced observers which said that crops were - more severely damaged than had been believed. Wheat, corn, oats and rye were all affected with December wheat touching 88% cents a bushel. Huge waves of buying were followed by large profit-taking sales, but these were without effect and the market closed near the day’s highest prices. At the close, prices were a little under the highest reached, but wheat was then as much as 2% cents a bushel over Friday's finish with Sep- tember at 85 and December 88. Corn ranged from 1 to 1% cents higher with December at 575, only % cent beneath the high. Oats were 2% cents up with the December over the 4C cents line for the first time in sev- eral years. The close was 40%. Trade was active all during the sese sion and only at the close were profit« takers able to cause even slight re= cessions, but these were generally! fractional. 5 Ne 80-Cent Wheat Realized At Minneapolis, the goal of 80-cent’ wheat was exceeded when the futures market showed a new burst of strength on reports of more extensive heat and drought damage and of a new heat wave on its way. July wheat closed Friday at 785%, opened strong and continued an up- ward swing, closing at 82%c, September wheat opened unchanged to a fourth-cent higher at 80-79% cents and after two substantial jumps closed at 82% cents. December open- ed fractionally higher at 81%4-%%c, rosa to 83s early and gained a cent and a half in later trade to finish at 84% cents. Coarse grains kept abreast of wheat, all closing strong. July oats finished 275 cents higher and Septem- ber 4 cents higher. July flax was four cents up, while the deferred flax fu- tures were more than three cents up. Rye and barley were better than two cents higher. Heavy buying swept all future de- liveries of eggs and butter to the high- est prices of the year on the mercan- tile exchange at Chicago. Gains ranged from % to % cent a pound in butter and from % to one cent a doz- en in eggs. June butter closed at 23c pound, up % cent. November was at 24%. June eggs closed at 14, up a full cent with October at 18%, up % cent. Statistical news in both commod- ities were favorable for high prices, but sharply higher quotations in grains and stocks were also bullish to the market. Profit-taking sales were heavy but failed to check the up- turns. Statistics Are Cheerful Statistics appearing during the last week indicated a new high in busi- ness activity, according to Moody’s index figures for freight car loadings, electric power production, and steel ingot output. These index figures are adjusted for seasonal variation—that is, if the change from the previous week should coincide with thg normal seasonal change, the index figure would be un- changed. Car- Elec- Com- loadings tric Steel bined Latest week .. 58.2 103.7 57.0 73.0 Prev. week . 55.7 102.7 51.5 70.0 Month ago . 52.6 966 39.7 63.1 Year ago . 94.8 22.3 56.1 1933 high .7 57.0 73.0 1933 low . 15.5 50.5 ~ 45. (1928 Weekly Average—100). Copyright, 1933, by Moody's. Grasshopper Plague Hits Canada’s Crop Winnipeg, June 24.—(4)—Western Canada’s growing crops are menaced by another foe. Farmers, encouraged temporarily by refreshing moisture, watched their fields being almost visibly destroyed as a plague of grasshoppers, said to be the worst in years, swept over two of the prairie provinces, wreaking havoc among the six-inch shoots. An extensive fight against the hoppers was being waged in southern of $835,856 in the same month last| Saskatchewan, but the supply of mu- year, was announced Saturday by the] nitions The lces in April,| Manitoba is meeting success in its was completely exhausted.