The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 26, 1933, Page 1

f ’ y North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper ESTABLISHED 1873 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 26, 1933 The Weather Fair tonight and Sunday; slightly warmer Sunday. PRICE FIVE CENTS | Act to Halt Boost in Prices |. To Ask 15-Per-Cent Cut in Wheat Acreage -INAL DECISION TO AWAIT FULL REPORT ON NEW AGREEMENT’ Official Reaction to World Pact! Reserved Until It-Is Fully Analyzed ADMINISTRATORS PLEASED Wallace and Peek Make No! Secret of Pleasure at Out- | ‘come of Conference Washington, Aug. 26.—(?)—A 15 per cent reduction in wheat plantings by farmers joining in the national wheat Plan was decided on tentatively Fri- day night by the agricultural adjust- ment administration. Its formal, announcement is sched- | uled for late Saturday with the de- cision remaining on a tentative basis until administrators receive an official copy of the international wheat agree- ment signed at London Friday night by representatives of 21 of 31 nations taking part. Official reactions to the interna- tional pact were also reserved until the agreement has been analyzed and a report made by F. E. Murphy, Min- neapolis publisher, the United States Celegate. Wallace Is Happy But there was no lack of informal reactions. Secretary Wallace and George N. Peek, chief administrator, were happy over the outcome and the former was reported to have informed callers that he regarded it as “an outstanding event in agricultural | Because of this year’s short crop of wheat in the United States — with) prospects that the harvest will be the lightest since 1893 — administrators concluded some time ago-that an acreage reduction of 20 per cent would not be necessary. This is the maximum they can re- quire under contracts being signed by farmers agreeing to curtail their plantings for harvest next year. Up te 136 million dollars will be’ avail- able in benefits to the farmers. In event that efforts to obtain an international agreement had been) unsuccessful, administrators consider- ed requiring only a 10 per cent cut of farmers joining in the voluntary do- mestic allotment plan for the grain. Some Factors Obscure Just how much this country’s acre- age would be reduced if administra- tors go through with the plan for a 15 per cent cut depends on several factors. The first is on the propor- | tion of wheat farmers joining the al- lotment plan. The campaign to have farmers sign contracts to reduce their seedings is under way with the most confident farm officials expecting a 98 per cent sign-up, With the more skeptical in- tiined to forecast 80 per cent. Another factor making the aggre- Bate reduction difficult of estimating is that in some cases the reduction by farmers will be 15 per cent below, their plantings in the three years,| 1930, 1931, and 1932, with others based cn plantings for five years, 1928 to 1932, inclusive, either method being open to certain counties. The nation’s plantings of wheat during the five-year period has aver- aged between 55 million and 60 mil- Non acres. Abandonment of planted acres before harvest has been heavy in geome years, but heaviest this year due to bad weather conditions. Some estimates indicate that a 15 per cent cut would reduce the planted | wheat area of the nation about seven | million to eight million acres. Say River Project Will Stand Alone Washington, Aug. 26.—(7)—Army engineers Saturday emphasized that allotment. of $14,000,000 for completion of the Missouri river 6-foot channel $-foot project to Yankton, 8. D., and the Fort Peck; Mont., reservotr. Officials denied the final report on the 9-foot program had been com- Pleted by the board of engineers. The board advocates a 9-foot chan- rel, however, and expressed satisfac- tion over Thursday's grant. Comple- tion of the 6-foot channel, they ex- plain, in reality is a step toward a $-foot channel... Once that project is finished, a comparatively small addi- tional amount of channel work will be necessary to provide the 9-foot river if the Fort Peck reservoir is) bullt, they ‘say. Report Texas Giving Repeal Huge Margin Dallas, Tex., Aug. 26.—()—Unof- ficial returns from scattered city| precincts in Saturday's state-wide) election gave margins ranging from 3 to I to 20 to 1 for: repeal of the 18th amendment and legalization of 3.2 beer in Texas. Vice President John N. Garner was one of the early voters at Uvalde, his home. He cast his ballot for repeal and beer. Ideal weather prevailed in most! parts of the stete end a heevy vote ‘was expected 48 the day progressed. |homa | Were arraigned before U. 8. Commis- The pic.ure avove shows wreckage of a south-bound fast passenger train which plunged through a weak- ened trestle over the Eastern Branch of the Potomac river, killing the engineer and fireman and injur- ing 13 others. The engine and tender were buried in the mud along banks of the {lood-swollen stream. Njne of the forward cars of the train left the track, three of them plunging into the stream. GOVERNMENT SPEEDS PLANS FOR TRIAL IN URSCHEL KIDNAPING Prisoners Held Behind Triple Lines of Guards in Okla- homa City Jail Okishoma’ City, Aug. 26.—(AP)— Within .two..weeks_.the~government’s Prosecutors hopé to line up the ac- cused kidnapers of Charles F. Urschel in a federal courtroom and try them for the oll millionaire’s $200,000 ab- duction. Saturday, with the first consign- ment of prisoners to reach here guarded behind triple lines of sen- tries in the specially fortified county | Jail, District Attorney Herbert Hyde said nine others will join them “with- in a few days,” clearing the way for a speedy trial on conspiracy charges under the new federal law that pro- vides a maximum penalty of life im- prisonment. The three Shannons—M. G. (Boss) Shannon; his wife and his son, Armon —were flown here from a Fort Worth, Tex., removal hearing Friday under the guns of federal operatives. It was at their Paradise, Tex., farm that Ur- schel was kept captive for nine days. The elder Shannon says he was forced to guard Urschel, against his will, by Albert Bates, now in a Denver jail, and George (Machine Gun) Kelly, | still hunted for the crime, Harvey Bailey, alleged key figure in| | the abduction, remained in a cell at| Dallas, Tex. Bates Friday waived ex-} tradition at Denver and Federal Judge J. Foster Symes directed his removal to Oklahoma. Seven men were ar- | raigned: under conspiracy charges Fri- day at St. Paul. They were arrested as a result of circulation by them of the ransom money. TWIN CITIES MEN PLACED UNDER BOND St, Paul, Minn. Aug. 26—(P— Charged with conspiracy in the Charles F. Urschel kidnaping at Okla- City, seven Twin Cities men sioner W.-‘T. Goddard late Friday. Bond for each of the seven, five of whom surrendered. voluntarily Friday was fixed at $50,000. Two of them waived a-removal hearing, but the other five askéd for a hearing, which will be held next Thursday. Unable to supply the bail, the sev- en were lodged in the Ramsey county Jail i tolowine the arraignment. Sam Kozberg of St. Paul and Sam J. Kronick of Minneapolis were the two who waived the removal hearing. The others sre Isadore Blumefeld, alias Kid Cann; Charles R. Wolk,! Barney Berman,. Peter Hackett and Clift: Skelly, all of Mi lis. They were indicted at Oklahoma City after $5,000 of the $200,000 ran- som paid for Urschel’s release was discovered in Minneapolis. Tear Gas Is Used in Holdup of Bank Car Denver, Aug. 26.—)}—Two robbers, using tear gas, held up a bank car| on a busy downtown street corner Saturday and escaped with $36,000 in currency. Three bank employes in the auto- tmobile and nearby pedestrians were| sprayed with the tear gas. Police said the men fled in a sédan, bearing a Nebraska license, which was believed to be a stolen car. John Cornin, assistant manager of | the Federal Reserve bank, from which the money was being taken to the U. 8. National bank, said the cur- rency was in one money sack and was in denominations ranging from $1 to $100, Richard Bowden, driver of the: bank's automobile, and D. E. Brown and Vern Walker, who were acting as guards, said the holdup took place after their car was forced to stop be- Where Two Were Killed in Train Accident —____________-e Robot Paymaster ' Blamed for Delay eS NORCO ad Washington, Aug. 26.—(#)—The blame for the delay in the issu- ance of checks to southern farm- ers who have plowed under some of their cotton was placed Satur- day by the farm administration on a robot paymaster. Early this week farm officials said 7,000 checks were to be dis- tributed Wednesday. But they reckoned without the device which makes the issuance of the drafts a mechanical process, even to their signing. . The robot balked early Wednes- day when it.was given a workout, Under complusion, it turned out about 200 checks but apparently had its own ideas about what the farmers should receive for co- operating in the crop reducing lan. The officials hurriedly put mechanics to work on the re- calcitrant paymaster. It was tuned up most of Thursday and Friday and officials say it is now func- tioning on a maximum basis. That is around 1,500 checks an hour. BUTCHER KNIFE IS | | - WIELDED BY SLAYER}: Woman theitin a House- keeper, Wounds Friend in | California Home San Diego, Calif, Aug. 26—(7)—A butcher knife wielded by a woman who police said was crazed, Friday {brought death to Miss Ann Kiffe, 50- year-old housekeeper in the home of Dr. Anita Muhl, 40, and serious in- juries to the doctor. The alleged assailant, captured by | Police Friday night a half mile from jthe Muhl home in an exclusive resi- dential neighborhood, was identified by them as Dr. Virginia Wilson, 36, a graduate of Washington university, 8t. Louis, and, until a recent nervous breakdown, a teacher in the summer school of the California college of medicine at Berkeley. Dr. Muhl had brought Dr. Wilson home from the psychopathic ward of the county hospital only a few hours before. The woman had been placed there under observation after she al- legedly had caused a disturbance at another. hospital. Police said Dr. Wilson, a specialist in psychiatry and hygiene, was clad only in a blanket when captured and; still carried the knife. She came west | to teach from Rome, N. Y. | DEAD WOMAN FORMERLY | | LIVED IN MINNESOTA Mankato, Minn., Aug. 26.—()—Miss Ann Kiffe, slain Friday night in San| Diego, Calif., left Mankato 20 years ago. She leaves six brothers and sis- ters: George, Jr, Mankato; Henry, Minneapolis; Louis, Ray, N. D.; John, Minneapolis; Mrs. Lizzie Deglmann, Mankato, and Sister M. Acguina, Mil- | waukee. | pleaded guilty in McHenry county last | concluston that price-fixing provisions Makoti Man’s Body Is Taken From Lake, NRA OBSERVANCE IN BISMARCK WILL BE CHECKED ON MONDAY Committees Appointed to Visit Every Business Establish- ment for Checkup Bismarck will participate in the nation-wide checkup Monday on NRA observance. A committee headed by Mayor A. P. Lenhart will make a com- plete check of business houses in the city and they hope to find every busi- ness establishment a signer of the recovery agreement. The city has been divided into dis- tricts and sub-committees, consisting of two men to a squad, will check the town. The questionaire to be used will be simple but will have all the information desired. It will be given to each business institution to fill out | and sign, according to H. P. Goddard, | secretary of the Bismarck Chamber of Commerce. The questionaire will show whether the institution has signed the NRA agreement and is complying with the code adopted for is particular business. The general committee will meet in the offices of the Chamber of Com- merce at 10 o'clock Monday morning and the squads will then be assigned to their districts. Clemency for Three Slayers Considered Consideration of the cases of :Wil- liam Gummer and William Jesson, serving life terms for murder, and/ Arthur Zimmerman, serving 20 years for robbery, was resumed by the} state pardon board Saturday. Pleas in behalf of the prisoners had been presented at pardon board meet- ings-late in July and action on their applications for clemency deferred un- til Saturday. Zimmerman, a Minot man, was con- victed of the “torture” robbery of @ father and son in McHenry county. Harold R. Hazen, alias Terry Jerome, confessed to the crime and claims Zimmerman is innocent. Hazen was sentenced to 2 to 12 years after he. July. His confession led to an in- vestigation of Zimmerman’s case. Gummer was sentenced in 1922 to life following his conviction of the murder of a young gir] in a Fargo hotel where he was employed as clerk. Jesson has been serving a life sen- tence for murder in McLean county since 1923. Oil Price-Fixing Is Declared a Blunder Washington, Aug. 26. — (#) — The of the NRA code for the oil industry {constitute “a serious economic blun- der” has been presented to Hugh 8. Johnson, the recovery administrator, by economic advisers. The memorandum was signed by Dr. Alexander Sachs, chief of the RA research and planning division, and. Joseph E. Pogue, economic ad- Minot, N. D., Aug. 26.—(#)—The viser to Johnson on the oil industry. body of ‘William Shuler, 17, of Makoti,!It said price-fixing would threaten missing since Thursday when he dis-|the existence of small refiners and | HELEN WILLS LOSES TO ANCIENT FOE IN TENNIS TTLE TILT} Quits Final Match at Forest) Hills When Her Legs Fail In Third Set YOUNGER HELEN IS WINNER Miss Jacobs Scores First De- feat of Famous Rival in Years Of Competition Forest Hills, N. Y., Aug. 26—(?)— Helen Jacobs of Berkeley, Calif. won the women’s national tennis cham- pionship for the second straight time Saturday when Mrs. Helen Wills Moody, seven times champion, de- faulted to her after three games of the third and deciding set of their final match. The scores were 8-6, 3-6, 3-0. After winning only five points in the first three games of the final set, Mrs. Moody went to the judges’ stand and announced her legs had given out and she would be unable to con- tinue. She passed immediately through the officials’ stand and to the dressing room without saying more. They stood all square at the end of two sets. Miss Jacobs captured the first set, 8-6, but Mrs, Moody came back to take the second 6-3, as the crowd of 7,000 thrilled to the spec- tacular battle between the old rivals from California. Was Dramatic end It was a dramatic and disappoint- ing conclusion to one of the most spectacular matches in the history of the women’s championships. Seven times previously they had met on the courts, with Mrs. Moody always victorious. She never before had lost even a set to Miss Jacobs and the crowd was wildly excited as the Berkeley girl crashed through in the initial tussle. When Miss Jacobs returned to the court to receive the championship trophy she was given an ovation by the crowd, which had pulled for her throughout the match. Mrs. Moody did not appear for the ceremony. “This is the happiest moment of my life,” said Miss Jacobs. Later, accompanied by Louis J. Car- ruthers, former president of the Unit- ed States Lawn Tennis association, Mrs. Moody returned to the club-/ house. She explained: No Use Going On My right leg kept bothering me and I simply could not get to the ball.” There was no use of my con- tinuing under the circumstances, al- though I disliked very much to retire. Miss Jacobs was playing beautiful | tennis and deserved to win.” Mrs. Moody was wearing a brace, as the result of her spinal injury which caused her to withdraw from the Wightman Cup matches several weeks ago. Her right leg, however, she sald, bothered her more than her back. This was Mrs. Moody's first defeat in singles competition since 1926 when she lost to Mrs. Molla Mallory in the eastern championships at Rye, N. Y. At the time the Californian was recovering from an illness and she subsequently withdrew from the| national tournament. The default, coming at a moment when Miss Jacobs was rapidly rush- ing toward victory in the third set, was the most dramatic since Suzan- ne Lenglen, the great French player, retired in a match with Mrs. Mallory here in 1921. Baldy Hays Will Coach St. Mary’s| George L. (Baldy) Hayes, who has/| coached Bismarck high school basket- ball teams for several years, has been engaged as athletic coach for St. Mary’s high school for the coming year, according to an announcement made Saturday by Rev. Father Rob- ert A. Feehan. - Hayes’ employment as coach was made possible by a donation by the Knights of Columbus of a sum of money to St. Mary’s to be used for athletic purposes. He will coach both the football and basketball teams. During his connection with the Bis- marck high school Hays has coached one state championship team and one team that was @ runner-up. Government to Keep Eye on Foreigners Washington, Aug. 26—()—The gov- ernment is stepping in to supervise any transactions its 12 federal reserve banks have with foreigners. It is taking: full advantage of the right given its federal reserve board in: the Glass-Steagall banking act to watch and approve or disapprove “all transactions of dny kind entered into Nation Is Startled By New Kidnapings | Cousin of Former President Taft Liberated in San Francisco After Gun Fight in Which Policeman and Alleged Abductor Die; Victim Tells Strange Story |DENVER DEPARTMENT STORE MAN Indications Are Hé Was Taken in Mistaken Belief That He | Belonged to Wealthy Family; Police Find Feminine i Voice Was Used as Decoy by Gang San Francisco, Aug. 26.—()—Freed| Denver, Aug. 26.—(#)—Department |from & kidnaper who fell dying in a/ Of Justice agents and police directing | plaze of gun fire after fatally wound- [* search through Colorado and Wy- ing an officer in a crowded public/CmIé, for Bernard Bitterman, 28- | | | | JOHNSON CONSIDERS WAY OF PROTECTING CONSUMER INTEREST Aim Will Be to Keep Prices on Reasonable Basis from Fac- tory to Buyer ‘EXPECT NEW AUTO CODE 1S MISSING) cin21 Accord Is Believed Near; Coal Men Still Lost in Fog Of Agreement Washington, Aug. 26.—()—Action to keep prices reasonable all the way from the factory tothe buyer emerged Saturday as a necessary and major Job for the recovery administration. It may get under way sight after en hind a truck. appeared from a picnic party, was re- covered Friday in Carlson lake, south- | west of here. It is believed Shuler suffered a stroke while bathing in the lake. St. Louis to Delay Opening of School 8t. Louis, Aug. 26.—()—Children in suburban districts of this city may not be able to return to school on! schedule this fall because of the se- ricus epidemic of eping sickness” which has taken 31 lives in this vi-; rinity in less than a month. distributors, by any federal reserve bank with any | foreign bank or banker, or with any group of foreign banks or bankers.” Hear Man Confesses Murder of Salesman St. Paul, Aug. 26—e)—The state’ Is Slain in Chicago crime bureau announced Saturday it) |had been advised that Dewey Bryant,! Chicago, Aug. _ 26,—(}—Caught in ‘a Negro held at Danville, Iil., had | a pistol duel between a robber and a confessed the slaying of Robert Ack-|restaurant proprietor, Miss Florence land at Kenyon, Minn., in March. {Quinn, 22, was shot to death Saturday Ackland, a Minneapolis salesman, | 7hile eating breakfast in a cafe near | was found dead in the feed tank of the loop. Albert Pappas, restaurateur. | a railroad poultry car on a siding at; was wounded in the hand. He be- Kenyon. His head had been battered ved he wounded the robber who! Innocent Bystander | With a stove poker. year-old department store executive, market, William F. Wood, 45, a cousin of the late William Howard Taft, was) under care of physicians Saturday. | ‘Wood, who said he had been held) captive four days, tortured and forced | vo walk the streets in silence while} arranging for his own ransom, was/ reported near collapse. Bank books, securities and cash ag- gregating $10,000, which Wood assert- ed he had been forced to turn over to his abductor, were found in the lat-| ter’s pockets. Wood's release came with dramatic suddenness Friday in the market, where his kidnapers had taken him | “to buy some walnuts.” The sight of @ policeman nerved Wood to cry for | celp. | Responding to the cry, Patrolman| Michael McDonald, 54, received three bullets in his body from the kidnapers’ pistol and fell mortally wounded. He died several hours later. The kidnaper, identified as How-/ ard Stafford Meek, 30, alias Henry | Jennings, a former ferryboat ticket | taker, was shot down by other officers «8 he fled along a street outside the! market. ‘Wood, a retired business man, took refuge in a grocery department of the market as the shooting started. He was at first taken into custody as a! suspected confederate of the slain man but quickly explained his iden-| tity. | believe he was kidnaped by a person ‘who thought him a member of the family of David May, founder of the May company stores. Bitterman disappeared Thursday night after a feminine voice informed him over the telephone his brother, Robert, had been injured and taken to the hospital. A similar voice al- | Teady had telephoned his mother that the young man would be working late. He has not been seen by friends or relatives since. Alfred Triefus, manager of the store and close friend of the Bitter- man family, Friday received a note mailed from Cheyenne, Wyo. “Your nephew is OK.,” said the ote. You'll hear from us later.” It was signed NRA. Triefus immediately called Val Zimmer, department of justice agent, and William J.. Armstrong, detective jcaptain of the Denver police force. Bitterman had been acquainted with Triefus since boyhood and fre- guently referred to him as “Uncle Alfred.” Armstrong’s theory was that someone overheard Bitterman refer to Triefus as “Uncle” and conceived the kidnaping plot on the assumption shat Bitterman was related to May. Triefus is a nephew of May. Armstrong predicted sudden death | or quick release may be Bitterman’s fate after it is learned he is a man of moderate means, ROAD DEPARTMENT AWARDS CONTRACTS . AT FRIDAY MEETING | | Bids for Painting Missouri River | | Bridge Rejected; Will Ask | | New Offers j | | Contracts for 142 miles of road im- provement work were let by the state highway commission Friday at a cost of $131,602.25. Among 14 contracts awarded was Jone for 29.573 miles of regraveling jnorth and south, of Fargo in Cass} county. J. L. McCormick, Fargo, was low bidder with $24,902.24. | Bids .for painting the Bismarck- Mandan bridge over the Missouri river | were rejected and the work will be! re-advertised for September 29. The contracts awarded are: Griggs- Barnes counties — 25.569 miles regravel and stock pile, north and south of Hannaford and north and south of Dazey, Advance Con- struction Co., Fargo, $10,981.92. Sargent—15.632 miles regravel and stock pile, north, south and east of | Forman, W. E. Dada, Forman, $7,- 458.05. Richland—8.973 miles regravel and stock pile, west of Farmington, Au- gust Vogts, Wyndmere, $4,398.80. Ward—20.682 miles regravel and stock pile, east and west of Des Lacs, and northwest and southeast of Car- pio, McGarry Bros. Spiritwood, $4,- 727.10. Morton—11.645 miles scoria surface and stockpile, north of Glen Ulin, Megarry Bros., Spiritwood, $12,691.76. Ward—9.5 miles gravel surfacing, south of Minot, Megarry Bros., $10,- 207.57. Renville—5.015 grading and inci- dentals, east and west of Glenburn, Studer and Manion, Bismarck, $13,- 212.94. Renville—Structural work, Rue Bro- thers, Bismarck, $6,462.21; corrugated metal pipe culvert, H. V. Johnston Culvert Co., $1,262.68; concrete pipe culvert, North Dakota Concrete Pro- ducts Co., Bismarck, $1,917.68, Morton—9.538 miles gravel surfac- ing and stock pile, north of New Sa- lem, Megarry Bros., Spiritwood, $13,- 553. Cass—017 structural and incident- als north of Amenia, J. A. Jardine, Fargo, $4,457.74. Report Sharp Boost In Railroad Earnings New York, Aug. 26.—()—Net ope- rating income of the first 25 railroads to report for July represents an in- ; crease of 677 per cent over a year ago. The total for these carriers was $21,091,000 against $2,714,000 in the same month of 1932. For June the roads had net operating income of $21,192,000. Their gross revenues aggregated: $103,172,000, or 21 per cent larger than [FARMERS LOANS ARE OVER $45,000,000 FOR SEED AND FEED $36,500,000 Is Still Owing Fed- eral Government for Aid Advanced Since 1921 Minneapolis, Aug. 25.—()—The fed- eral government has loaned more than $45,000,000 to 260,000 northwest farm- ers since 1921 and has $36,500,000 com- ing from them, local crop production loan office records showed Friday. Of the 260,000 borrowers, nearly 25,- 1000 have made payments. In 1921 seed loans were made in North Dakota to 5,200 farmers ; amounting to $716,000. About 4,000 have paid back $544,000. The follow- ing year 4,800 loans were made amounting to $647,000. About 4,000 have paid back $545,000. Not until 1930 were any more loans made in this or contiguous territory, but that year 4,977 northwest farm- ers borrowed from Uncle Sam $649,- 082. Of this number, 1,924 have paid $294,123. In 1931, when drought hit the northwest severely, loans mounted rapidly. There were 19,124 crop pro- duction loans made for a total of $4,- 575,946 and 50,399 feed loans for $8,- 098,499. On the crop production loans, 1,383 have paid back $488,728 and on hs feed loans 2,490 have paid $2,490,- anes year the need for money rose still higher and crop production loans ‘were miade to 118,000 farmers, amount- ing to $24,250,000. Of these borrow- ers 11,000 have paid back $4,500.000. ae year loans dropped appreci- ably. The total loans for this year amount to $6,606,100, of which $150,000 has been paid back. These figures cover not only the) northwest states of Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana, but Washington, Nebraska, Iowa, and Wisconsin, because in the consolida- tion of fafmer loan offices the Min- neapolis headquarters has inherited business which was begun in other places. On the 1932 loans the Minnesota farmers had paid back 37 per cent, this is about a half more than they would have had to pay because last October the government allowed a re- payment of 25 per cent of the loans because of low price conditions. Washington has the highest per- centage of repayment, 56 per cent, but in this state greater diversification of farm products was possible. Iowa paid back 32 pe cent, Nebraska and Wis- consin 25 per cent, South Dakota 21 per cent, and North Dakota and Mon- tana 12 per cent. With the crops in South Dakota al-; most a total loss and with losses in| parts of the North Dakota, Montana, and Minnesota, the prospect for col-| lection is not good, an official said. However, some of the districts where the pending big codes of fair practice —for the automobile, coal and retail trades—are out of the way. Barring only unexpected opposition from the NRA’s labor advisory board, a final accord on the automobile code was expected Saturday, so the agree- ment could be taken to Hyde Park for President Roosevelt's signature. Whether bituminous coal code con- ferences between non-union Appala- chian field mine operators and union labor leaders would end before night was less certain. After that, it will be necessary to obtain the approval of coal men from other areas for the terms outlined. Presidential approval of the com- pact for retail stores in time to make it effective right after Labor Day was the objective. The separate code for cruggists was due for similar fast treatment. The drug hearing was on again Saturday with a completely re- vamped agreement substituted for one brought in Friday, which the NRA refused to take. Once these groups are under bind- ing codes a definite hump will have been passed by NRA and the long- range job of policing the compacts will come to the fore. The part that price control will play in this was accentuated by Hugh 8. Johnson, the administrator, with a statement that he intended to set up a complete organization to watch what the code signing industries-are doing so they may be warned if prices get too high. He is concerned already, he said, with some future price quotations which have come te his attention. The “big stick” which the govern- ment may wield to keep prices in line is the presidential power to lift the recovery law's grant of immunity from anti-trust law prosecution, With the NRA, the department of justice is keeping an eye to the situation, ready to step in if necessary, Insull Is Detained | By Police in Athens Athens, Aug. 26.—(4)—Samuel In- sull, under indictment in the United States in connection with the col- lapse of his utility interests, was de- tained by authorities here Saturday. The former Chicago utilities opera- tor was lodged temporarily in the office of the head of the Athens po- lice force. His lawyers were taking steps to arrange his transfer to a nursing home becau-s of his age and health. After a brief hearing concluded on Dec. 27, 1932, Greece refused to ex- tradite the former Chicago utilities operator. Subsequently he announced plans to remain in Greece and was reported to be seeking citizenship ‘shere. On Feb. 27, 1933, he, his brother, Martin, and 16 others were indicted for mail fraud in stock sales. Since June the United States has studied plans for seeking his txtra- dition once more. Forest Harness, who arrived in Athens from Washington, would not discuss the reports, but said he was connected with the attorney gener- al’s office and that Insull was the object of his visit. Margin Traders to Put Up Less Money Chicago, Aug. 26—(7)—The Board of Trade clearing corporation Satur- day announced that margin require- ments on grain trades on the Chicago Board of Trade will be reduced, effec- tive Monday, to the following figures: Wheat, 4 cents a bushel; corn, 3 cents; oats, 2 cents; rye, 4 cents; bar- ley, 4 cents. On wheat, corn and oats, the an- nouncement stated, these rates will ap- Ply on lines up to 6,000,000 bushels and on rye and barley on lines up to 3,000,000 bushels. Above those limits, the rate will increase by 1% cents a bushel for each additional 2,500,000 bushels of net open interest on part thereof. The change affects brokerage houses dealing through the clearing corporation. Margin requiremtns to individuals trading in grains are much higher. TRANSIENT IS KILLED Lucca, N. D., Aug. 26.—(?)—An un- identified transient was killed here Friday when he fell under a moving freight train he was trying to board. The man was about 24 years old, and five feet 10 inches tall. He wore white corduroy trousers and a biue shirt. RIXEY OUT FOR YEAR Cincinnati, Aug. 26—(P)—Eppa |Rixey, 42-year-old mainstay of the | Cincinnati Reds’ pitching staff, was |serlously ill Saturday due to intes- tinal influenza. Hospital euthorities @ vear ego and 26 per cent above | crop losses were the greatest were not|said it was unlikely he would return jaune, 1933 { heavy borrowers this year. | to the game this year.