The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 10, 1933, Page 1

North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper ESTABLISHED 1873 Process Tax on Ho THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1933 Cuban Politicians Consider Peace Formula Johnson Is Seeking to Adjust Disputes NATION I$ PLACED UNDER MARTIAL LAW 10 PREVENT REVOLT Welles Is Acting As Mediator Between Machado Regime and Opponents ASKS PRESIDENT ‘TO Quit Differences Within Various Groups May Obliterate Old Party Lines Havana, Aug. 10.—(#)—The ques- tion whether President Machado shall resign his post to bring peace the menace of revolution, was placed "Thursday before the national execu- itive committee of General Machado’s Liberal party. The execytive committee met to consider the formula of peace pre- supporters and the opposition. The formula entails the withdrawal of Machado to make way for a presi- dent approved by all parties. Differences within the parties over the mediation program widened as the Liberal conference got under way, and it appeared possible that the old party lines would be completely ob- literated. Strike Is Unbroken the general In Santiago the military supervisor issued an edict ordering all stores to reopen within five days. Shopkeep- @rs disobeying, the edict said, would be considered as revolutionaries at the conclusion of the five-day period. Concern was expressed for the wel- Since the state of war became effec- tive at 6 o'clock Wednesday evening, the military has been in full control. Unrest has increased and the attitude of the United States is being watch- ed closely by Cubans wondering what action President Roosevelt may take. Roosevelt's desire, as expressed Wednesday at Hyde Park, New York, 4s that the political difficulties be solved “at the earliest possible mo- ment” so that economic welfare may be preserved. Hope for Compromise One hope for compromise was found in a conference arranged for Thurs- day morning between eight senators and eight members of Machado’s li- beral party. Another series of con- ferences called for exchange of views between Ambassador Welles, Secretary Ferrera, @ group of liberal congress- men and a mixed congressional com- mission, The house of representatives was Peake for session Thursday to hear The state of war was declared in ef- fect at 6 p, m. Wednesday and mili- tary units, withdrawn Monday after the disturbances, were recalled. Military commanders will be ap- Pointed to succeed civil authorities in all provinces. The interior depart- ment declared that groups or too high speeds of automo- biles are absolutely forbidden.” Ex- tra precautions were taken by police. Although the president had an- Nounced concessions had been grant- ed to workers, the strike continued Unabated with a crisis in the distri- bution of food in the offing. Gov- ernmental employes, taxi drivers, transportation workers, food dealers, and thousands of others are on strike. Hyde Park, N. ¥., Aug. 10—(P)}— President Roosevelt looked ‘Thursday for quick action in Cuba in response to his strong appeal to the island re- Public to stop political warfare and testore economic order. The president carefully withheld pen intervention in the interest of bringing about peace and happier times by the policy of mediation. In plain words to Senor Oscar Cin- tas, official ambassador of President Gerardo Machado, Roosevelt sent Word to Cuba that “the problems of Starvation and of depression are of Such immediate importance that ev- ety Political problem should be met in the most Patriotic spirit in order to improve conditions at the earliest Possible moment.” Roosevelt gave this final opportun- ity to the president of Cuba and his fovernment to restore conditions While the governments of foreign na- tions were protesting to the United States about injury to their nation- a eS damage to their property in It ts known, wnofffictally here, that Great Britain and Spain made these Protests, Roosevelt, however, does not Tegard armed force as the way to do things. He is seeking a new order by Peaceful methods. PRESS MEN TO MEET Lisbon, N. D,, Aug. 10.—(?)—A. M. ‘Yello, Lisbon attorney, will address ‘ditors of the sixth district when they conduct their annual meeting here Friday, Island Spurns Beauty’s Visit * Mallorca, Spanish isle where Americans recently got into trouble for fighting police and writing things the natives didn’t like, would be glad to have “Miss Europe,” above, visit there, But, says the mayor of Palma, Mallorcan capital, they won't pay her to come. So he rejected an offer of a visit by “Miss Europe” who is Tapiana Marloff of Russia. GOVERNMENT SEES FURTHER DECLINE IN LEADING CROPS Forecasts Smallest Corn Pro- duction Since 1901; Least Wheat in 35 Years ‘Washington, Aug. 10.—(?)—The crop. reporting board of the depart- the second smallest corn crop since 1901, and the lowest production of wheat and oats in 35 years. It said that crop prospects, very un- Promising a month ago, declined sharply since July 1 due to drought and other adverse weather factors. The forecast for corn was reduced 111,000,000 bushels from July 1 to Aug- ust 1. The prediction was based on observations on the latter date indi- cating 2,273,000,000 bushels. The wheat crop, winter and spring combined was placed at 499,671,000 bushels. A month ago the indicated corn crop was 2,384,032,000 bushels, ‘The combined wheat crop a month ago was forecast at 495,681,000 bush- els. While last year’s production was 126,831,000 bushels. The preliminary estimate of winter wheat production this year is 340,355,- 000 bushels, compared with 335,767,000 bushels a month ago and 461,679,000 bushels last year. The forecast of all spring wheat is 159,316,000 bushels, compared with 159,914,000 bushels indicated a month ago, and 264,604,000 bushels produced last year. Durum wheat production indication is 17,532,000 bushels, compared with 17,576,000 bushels a month ago and 39,868,000 bushels produced last year. Oats Dropped Also All. other spring wheat production is indicated as 141,784,000 bushels, compared with 142,338,000 bushels a}. month ago, and 224,736,000 bushels last year. ‘The indicated production of oats is 666,745,000 bushels, compared with 698,941,000 bushels a month ago and 1,238,231,000 bushels produced last year. Indicated production of other crops, with the forecast for a month ago and last year’s production, follows: Barley, 158,000,000; 170,000,000 and 300,000,000; rye 23,100,000; 25,300,000 and 40,400,000; flaxseed 7,800,000; 9,- 200,000 and -11,800,000; hay (tame) 64,900,000; tons; 66,000,000 and 69,- 800,000; potatoes 293,000,000 bushels; 306,000,000 and 358,000,000; sugar beets 9,960,000 tons; 9,690,000 and 9,- 070,000. The condition on Aug. 1 of various crops was: Corn 65.5 per cent of normal; dur- um wheat 37.6; other spring wheat 45.7; all spring wheat 44.6; oats 45.7; barley 45.5; buckwheat 65.4; flaxseed 41.1; rice 81.5; grain sorghums 51.8, hay (tame) 67.6; pasture 55.6; beans 13.2; soybeans 61.7; peanuts, 170.9; cowpeas 67.8; apples 53.9; peaches 51.1; pears 57.6; grapes 60; potatoes 62.5; sweet potatoes 71.1; tobacco 68.9; sugar beets 81.0; hops, 91.4. Barley remaining on farms Aug. 1 is estimated at 5.3 per cent of the 1932 crop, or about 15,897,000 bushels, com- pared with 5,960,000 bushels a year ago, and the previous five-year aver- age of 9,420,000 bushels. Minnesota Leads in Federal Farm Loans St. Paul, Aug. 10.—(?)—Minzsote, led the four states in the seventh land bank district in the amount of farm loans granted in July. Figures announced at district head- quarters here Wednesday show that 113 loans totaling $518,000 were grant- ed in Minnesota during the month. Figures for other states are: Wis. consin, 85 loans, $328,000; North Da- kota, 47 loans, $159,000; Michigan 31 loans, $75,000. REPAIRING WORK ON STATE-OWNED FARM BUILDINGS HALTED C. W. Lewis of Bank of North Dakota Issues‘New Order Thursday LABOR GROUPS OBJECTED Had Been Employing Relief Workers on Jobs With Federal Money Employment of relief workers to paint and repair buildings on farms owned by the state of North Dakota will halt immediately, it was an- nounced Thursday by C. W. Lewis of the Bank of North Dakota, in charge of state-owned farms, 3 The fact that labor and unemploy- ment organizations have objected to the plan of employing relief workers ir the painting and repairing program was given as the reason for halt- ing it, ; The state convention of unem- Ployed councils Tuesday adopted a resolution attacking the program, declaring that relief workers are “forced to work for 30 cents an hour and 35 hours per week, doing skilled tradesmen’s work for $10.50 per week, and will be paid with grocery slips paid for by the federal government, in. addition to-which they must fur- nish their own tools, pay their own room, meals, lodging and transpor- tation.” Lewis’ full statement follows: No Appropriation Made “No appropriation was made by the legislature to.repair and paint build- ings on farms owned by the state of North Dakota, “In view of the fact that labor and unemployment’ organizations have seen fit to object to the plan of re- pairing and painting state-owned buildings located on state-owned farms, all work will stop immedi- at tely, “The only time Governor Langer was consulted in connection with this project was during the spring when Negotiations. ‘under way. with the work relief section of the Recon- struction Finance Corporation for an advance with which to pay for labor in connection with these repairs. “Under date of May 20, 1933, I fur- nished a complete statement to the federal government and quote para- graph regarding labor recommenda- tions: “The average wage paid throughout the state of North Dakota covering labor of this kind is from 40c-to 80c per hour. This covers common labor, paint- ers, carpenters, and masons for concrete work on foundations. This, of course, includes an al- lowance for board and transpor- tation. We feel that the average wage paid on labor of this kind will be 60c an hour. It will re- quire on an average 500 man- hours at 60e per hour or a total of $300.00 for labor for each farm.’ “We were unable to secure the ad- vance with which to carry out this work in harmony with our recom- mendations of May 20, 1933. “The net result of our work was to secure the ,approval of funds to be expended according to Rule 4 of the federal emergency relief admin- istration, which is as follows: “‘No. 4, Rules governing con- ditions of employment on work relief projects: “‘T. On and after Aug. 1, 1933, state and local relief administra- tions may. not employ any per- Hero Nurse’ Here With French Vets Three times.a. recipient of the Croix de Guer: ote hero- nurse, Mile. Fannie-Le Laidier, is shown above as she: errived in New York with 289 French vet- erans to roturn a’ visit made by the American Legion in 1927. She is the only womas in the group. TWO ARE ARRESTED AS KANSANS PROBE BIG BOND SCANDAL Three State Banks Closed as $658,000 in Fake Secur- ities Are Discovered Topeka, Kas, Aug. 10—(?}—Two arrests have been made in municipal bond scandal, at least $658)- in bonds have heen « Binet Es id three state banks hai been closed. Leland Caldwell, an employe in ti office of Ronald Finney, broker, w: taken into custody Wednesday night on charges of having uttered $3,000 in forged bonds to the National Bank of Topeka. Finney, previously ar- raigned on a similar charge, is al- leged specifically to have uttered $20,- 000 in spurious securities to the same bank. Investigations into the many angles of the case continued. D. A. N. Chase, budget director, A. R. Jones, state auditor, and their assistants were en- gaged in checking bonds and records in the office of state treasurer Tom Boyd. State officials have revealed eight issues of municipal bonds total- ling $329,000 going to the state treas- ury as security for state deposits and the other set being in the hands of Chicago brokers. While these officials were working, the vault was guarded by armed na- tional guard officers, who were posted to see that no bonds or records were removed ‘without authority. Officials of the state banking de- partment were checking the records of the three state banks which were closed following Finney’s arrest. All three institutions—the Fidelity State Bank of Emporia, the Eureka Bank and the Farmers State Bank of Neosho Falls—are controlled by Fin- ney’s relatives, sons under 16 years of age on work relief projects. - Hef act of 1933. can be used in paying work relief wages only at or above thirty cents (30c) an hour. The local prevailing rate of pay for the type of work per- formed should be paid if it is in excess of 30c per hour. Limit Is 35 Hours “IT, On and after Aug. 1, 1933, no one employed on a work relief project shall be allowed to work more than eight (8) hours in any one day, nor more than thirty-five (35) hours in any one week (or one hundred. and fifty hours (150) in any one month) if the work involved is physical labor. If the work relief project is in an office (involving the use of clerical employes, et cetera) no one shall be allowed to work more than forty (40) hours in any one week. The number of hours of work-relief given per week or per month should be only enough to provide for the budget- ary needs of the family. Bincerely yours, HARRY L. HOPKINS, Administrator.’ “The state relief committee ap- proved the plan of permitting a man to work more hours per week than enough to provide for the budgetary needs of his family. “When R. A. Kinzer, executive sec- retary of the state relief committee, and C, W. Lewis of the Bank of North Dakota met with the work relief com- mittee of the county of McLean at Washburn, it was suggested by the McLean county committee that the wage scale be set at $2.00 per day, the same amount that they had al- lowed for work done in connection with several dams which they built as work relief projects. C. W. Lewis immediately objected to this low wage scale and suggested that it should be at least thirty-five (35) cents per hour for common labor.” BROKER ACCUSED OF FRAUD IN COLORADO Denver, Aug. 10—(#)—Ronald Fin- ney, Kansas bond broker who is un- der arrest at Topeka, Kas., in con- nection with the alleged forgery of bonds, was scheduled to appear next Monday in district court at Lake City, Colo., in a fraud hearing involving $110,000 in Hinsdale county bonds, Spencer Isn’t Sure If Bell Is ‘Fired’ Grand Forks, N. D., Aug. 10.—(?)— Whether C. A. Bell still is manager of the state elevator here was a question stirring several interested persons Thursday. A Bismarck report yesterday was that Bell had told A. J. Gronna, state attorney general and John Husby, commissioner of agriculture and labor, that he had been dismissed by O. L. Spencer, general manager of the mill and elevator. Gronna, Husby and Governor Wil- liam Langer are members of the state industrial commission and it is with the commission that final disposition rests, Spencer said Wednesday night. “I have done everything I could to effect Bell's dismissal on grounds of inefficiency,” Spencer said, “but I have been unable to have my action ap- proved by the industrial commission so far. The commission, of course, has the last ‘word in the matter.” Red-Headed Woman Is Held in Murder Chicago, Aug, 10.—(?)—A four day's search for a blonde gun woman was over today with the arrest of a red head and her male companion from whom police said they obtained a confession that he shot and killed Gustave Hoeh, 71, during a holdup. Mrs. Eleanor Jarman, 29, mother of two children, and George Kennedy, 28, were seized last night Merchant Fleet corporation put under Voracious Crickets | Ravaging Montana Red Lodge, Mont., Aug. 10.—(#) —Crickets, large and carnivor- | ous, are swarming in increasing hordes in the Pryor region of Southeastern Montana. Dave Good, a ranch foreman, told Thursday of crickets de- Scending on the carcasses of two head of cattle and devouring all » but the hides and bones. _ _ Others relate they have wit- nessed attacks by the large, snap- ping insects on live rattlesnakes, . the latter having been killed and eaten piecemeal. 900 SEEK JOBS AS RESULT OF CHANGES INFEDERAL BUREAUS Prohibition Enforcement and Labor Departments Af- fected By Shakeup ‘Washington, Aug. 10—#}—The President's modified reorganization Plan went into effect Thursday, in- volving around 10,000 employes of whom about 900 have to look for other Jobs. ‘The prohibition bureau with 1,800 workers, was transferred into the jus- tice department's new division of in- vestigation. Six hundred employes, 200 in Washington, 400 in the field, were stricken from the payrolls, the Test re-employed in the new agency, ‘The merger of the bureaus of in- vestigation and naturalization in the’ labor department, saw all 3,907 em- Ployes in these, save 275, reappoigted temporarily for four months. 8 275 were. 19 notice, of retirement.or” i ‘Tue third big transfer found the rd and the the commerce department. Secre- [tary Roper reappointed all the 924 in these two agencies. Until September 30, all the 2,800 employes of the abolished office of public buildings and public parks of the national capital will be retained temporarily. Officials estimate the changes will eventually cut expenditures about $5,- 000,000. Additional reorganization is scheduled for December 31. Dry, Men Retained Despite the shake-up, prohibition administrators throughout the coun- try were sent word by telegraph Wednesday night to continue to function under the old prohibition bureau set-up until notice of a new line-up. Although the old prohibition bu- reau expired last midnight under the reorganization order, justice depart- ment officials were unable Thursday to say what changes would be made. William Stanley, first assistant at torney general, conferred with At- torney General Cummings at Hyde Park Wednesday and was expected to return Thursday with approval of the new line-up. At the justice department it was said A, V. Dalrymple was definitely out as prohibition director. John 8. Hurley, who will head the to prohibition administrators over the name of Dalrymple, telling the ad- ministrators the bureau would con- tinue to function as at present until further notice. The department ex- plained this was done because Hur- been approved by Cummings. C. Meidan, About 70, C. Meidan, Bismarck man who col- lapsed on a business street Thursday forenoon about 10 o'clock, died short- ly after he was taken to a local hos- pital, Death of the 70-year-old man.ap- parently was caused by a heart ail- ment, according to W. E. Perry, Bur- leigh county coroner who was called to investigate the death. Meidan, who lived at 1218 Broadway avenue, complained of being ill Wed- nesday and had purchased some med- icine but refused to call a doctor, the ‘| coroner said, No funeral arrangements have been made pending word from the man’s brother, George Meidan, Antigo, Wis., Perry said. Five Navy Men Are Killed in Air Crash Honolulu, Aug. 10.—(?)—Navy salv- age equipment grappled in 50 feet of water Thursday for wreckage of the twin-motored navy seaplane which Wednesday carried five navy men to their deaths in an offshore crash and which still held the bodies of three in its splintered cabin. While naval officials planned an in- vestigation, N. A. Tuft, aviation ma- chinist’s mate, second class, the only survivor, was recovering from bruises and slight injuries and shock of plunging into the ocean with the doomed plane. Those killed were Lieutenants Charles P. Hill, pilot, and Ted C. Marshall, pilot under instruction; and C. C, Stewart, V. C. Hove and L. B. | Pitt, enlisted men, new prohibition unit, sent telegrams ley did not know what changes had Succumbs Suddenly Two More Quarrels From Key- stone State Considered By Administration PLAN ADDITIONAL ACTION Shirt and Hosiery Workers and Employers Are Asked to State Arguments Weshington, Aug. 10—(?)—Har- mony in industry through the settle- ment of labor disputes was sought Thursday by the national recovery administration, From apparent success in settling a coal strike discord at Grandstone, Pennsylvania, President Roosevelt's national labor board turned to two more Pennsylvania arguments be- tween employers and workers, The arbitration officials called be- fore them Thursday employers and HERE'S CODE STATUS Washington, Aug. 10.—(#)—The status Thursday of major codes of fair competition now before the ‘Temporarily in effect—Oil, food dealers, retailers and 33 others. Being heard Thursday—Coal, hosiery, theatrical, underwear, knitting machines, Hearings over— Lumber, steel, shoes, Awaiting hearings—Drug stores, newspapers, laundries, More than 1,000 others, some covering two groups of the same industry, have been presented. employes in the Reading, Pennsyl- vania, hosiery strike. Dr. Leo Wol- man, acting chairman of the labor board, also intended to bring his or- ganization into action on another front, the Pottsville, Pennsylvania, shirt mill controversy. The rest of the industrial rehabili- tation army under Hugh S. Johnson toiled on meanwhile to bring still more industries within the scope of the “fair competition” code of the ad- ministration. Within the last twenty-four hours approximately a half-dozen more in- dustries have come in under the blue eagle through the approval of pro- cpsals by Johnson. The latest addi- tions include such industries as evap- crated milk, batting and padding goods, retail jewelry and oil. On still another front Thursday the recovery directors dealt with the em- ployer-employe angle—the hearing on the bituminous coal industry code. The government, through Joseph B, Eastman, federal trasportation to- ordinator, also had spoken a word of warning in labor's behalf. He cau- tioned the railroads Wednesday against plans for “economy at the expense of labor.” ‘The postal system was preseed into service for publicity on the NRA cam- paign. The bureau of printing and engraving was on the first run of an eventual four hundred million issue of three-cent stamps, with the motiff the recovery program. The stamps, purple in color, bear the pictures of a farmer, business man, industrial worker and a woman and the letters WARNS STOCKMEN 10 BEWARE OF POISON Brandenburg Says Plants Hit By Frost and Drouth May Contain Acid Dr. T. O, Brandenburg, executive officer of the state livestock sanitary board and state veterinarian, Thurs- day warned North Dakota stockmen to guard their animals from feeding on certain plants to avoid prussic acid poisoning in livestock. “It has come to the notice of this department,” he said, “that during drouth seasons and in the fall follow- ing early frosts, losses in livestock, particularly cattle, occur from eating cane, sorghums, millets and flax that have died prematurely from drouth or early frosts. “These plants often contain a small amount of prussic acid when sub- jected to frosts or extreme dry weather and stockmen should guard their animals from feeding on these plants unless they are sure they are safe. “Prussic acid is a deadly poison and @ very small amount of it produces death. It is usually impossible to save any of the animals that have eaten a sufficient amount of this poison on account of their sudden death. “Losses have also been reported from eating partially dried corn that is dying from drouth—although this is likely due to other causes than prussic acid. “The greatest losses from prussic acid in flax have been reported fol- lowing early frosts and was found in flax that was immature at the time the frosts occurred.” Sits Tight in Cuba | > OP GERARDO MACHADO Although the influence of the Unit- ed States has been directed toward getting him to resign, President Ma- chado has refused to relinquish his office as president of Cuba and has called out the military to preserve Peace in the island. OBJECT RESEMBLING BODY SEEN IN RIVER SOUTH OF BISMARCK Efforts to Locate Remains of Three Drowned Girls Renewed Thursday Efforts to locate the bodies of two girls and a young woman who drown- ed in the Missouri River at Sanish last month were renewed Thursday following a report that an object re- sembling a body was seen floating in the Big Muddy south of Bismarck ‘Wednesday afternoon. The floating object was seen by S. O. LeBarron of 810 Rosser avenue, Bismarck, who was fishing in the river about 12 miles south of the Cap- ital City. LeBarron followed the object for about half a mile, walking along the river's edge, and said he came close to it on occasions. He said he thinks it could have been the body of an ani- mal or of a human being. Recalling that the trio had drowned at Sanish and their bodies had not been recovered, LeBarron notified O. W. Roberts, federal meteorologist here, of the floating object. Roberts immediately notified persons south of here to be on the lookout. The body would move downstream five.or six miles and hour, Roberts estimated. He said there are ferries at both Fort Rice and Fort Yates but doubted that the floating object was seen there in the absence of re- ports. The object would have reach- ed Fort Yates Wednesday evening. Alfred Berndtson of Elbowoods, who hhas been searching the river for the bodies between Sanish and Bismarck, was planning a trip further down- stream from here Thursday morning. The three girls drowned July 19 while swimming. They were Delores Lockrem, 14; Florence Royal, 15, and Ruth Breslin, 20, all of Sanish. The young woman died in an attempt to save the lives of the girls, who sank in 16 feet of water when they stepped from a sand bar. Joint funeral services for the three are planned at Sanish Sunday. OO |Young Steele Woman) | Struck by Lightning Pa a a ° ‘Though severely burned about 6 o'clock Wednesday evening when struck by a bolt of light- ning, Miss Mildred Mead, 21- year-old woman living near Steele, had good prospects for re- covery at a local hospital Thurs- day, her doctor said. Miss Mead was driving a hay rake in a field when the bolt struck her. Her father, Guy C. Mead, and another man found her uncon- scious on the field after noticing her team of horses running across the field with the driverless hay rake. The bolt struck Miss Mead on the head, burning the hair from the rear part of her scalp, and traveled down her back, inflict- ing severe flesh burns. She was knocked unconscious by the bolt and had not regained consciousness when she was brought here about 9:15 o'clock ‘Wednesday night. She suffered severe shock in the mishap but probably will recover, her doctor said. WRONG TIME GIVEN Due to a typographical error it was stated in The Tribune Wednes- day evening that Bismarck grocers would close at 6 p. m, under the Plan agreed upon to carry out the N. R. A. agreement. This was incor- rect, The closing time agreed upon by downtown grocers was 6:30 p. m. Weather Report Fair tonight and Fridays alightly warmer Friday. PRICE FIVE CENTS gs Planned EARLY SLAUGHTER OF 0,000,000 PORKERS IS SCHEME'S BASIS Major Farm Organizations Adopt Proposal Made By Special Committee FEED SHORTAGE IS ACUTE Aim Is to Improve Prices and Remove Surplus Now Burdening Market Washington, Aug. 10—(P)—A prow gram calling Yor the early slaughter of five million hogs, including four million young pigs, to be financed by @ processing tax on all hogs weighing more than 235 pounds was presented. to farm administrators Thursday by the corn and hog belt committee of 25 and immediately endorsed by most of the major farm organizations. The program was presented at a conference of corn and hog producers called by administrators to devise an emergency program to reduce the na- tion’s hog population as a result of an acute feed shortage in most of the corn belt. Early C. Smith, Chicago, chairman of the committee, said the program would remove from the domestic market a substantial amount of the potential hog tonnage and would im- Prove. hog prices now depressed be- cause of the heavy marketings of hogs by farmers who are short of feed. Proceeds of the processing tax, which would be levied for one year, would be used to buy up four million young hogs weighing between 25 and ne Pounds from August 15 to Octo- ri. For these, the committee recom- mended ‘the following schedule of prices: For pigs weighing from 25 to 40 pounds, $9 a hundred weight; 41 to 50 pounds, $8.50; 51 to 60 pounds, $8; 61 to 70 pounds $7.50; 71 to 80 pounds, $7; 81 to 90 pounds, $6.50, and 91 to 100 pounds, $6. In addition the groups proposed that administrators acquire one mil- lion sows, soon to farrow, weighing 275 pounds and upwards, by paying a bonus of $4 a head in addition to whatever sums they would bring in the markets. 5 The group proposed that the result~ ing meat be sold on a moderate basig to relief agencies. The committee made no definite recommendation as to the rate of @ Processing tax. It is estimated that from $40,000,000 to $60,000,000 would be required to carry out the emer- gency program. PROGRESS MADE IN ANTE-IDNAP DRIVE Federal Official Renews Pledge to Attack Organized Crime Unceasingly Washington, Aug. 10. ~ ernment officials Thursday looked over the records and concluded the month-old federal war against the kidnaper, the gang6ter and the rack- eteer is making satisfactory progress. They promised anew, in the words of Joseph B. Keenan, assistant at- torney general, that “the inhabitants of this country are not to be left to the mercy of attacks of organized criminals.” Just a little more than a month ago, Keenan was designated by his chief, Attorney General Cummings, to lead the justice department's anti- crime drive. In a report on kidnapings, Keenan made this summation of cases in the last month: Charles F. Urschel, kidnaped at Oklahema City on July 23. One man identified and a fugitive, another held. “J. J. O'Connell, Jr., was kidnaped on the seventh of last month at Al- bany. He is now released and the federal government is attempting to do its full part in apprehending and bringing to justice his kidnapers.” Of August Luer, taken from his Alton, Illinois, home July 10 and held for ransom, Keenan said: “Through the efforts of the depart- ment of justice, through the agents of the bureau of investigation, Mr. Luer was released from captivity and returned unharmed to his home with- out the payment of any ransom.” Keenan said that in 12 recent kid- napings, 19 persons had been con- victed while 14 other suspects are held and six persons, whose identi- ties are known, are being sought. Montanan to Direct Back-to-Land Scheme Washington, Aug. 10.—(P)—M. L. Wilson, wheat production chief of the farm administration, was appointed by President Roosevelt Wednesday to ad- minister the federal government's “back to the land” program for tak- ing care of unemployed. A fund of $25,000,000 was set aside by congress from the public works ap~ propriation for the creation of sub- sistence homesteads near industrial communities where urban unemployed would have an opportunity to grow their own food. Wilson, former head of the agri+ cultural economics department of the Montana State College of will carry on his present position in conjunction with the new one until) October 1. He is changing positions at the request of President Roosevelb