Evening Star Newspaper, May 13, 1933, Page 2

A—-2 »» JAPANESE NEARING GATES OF PEIPING Chinese Line Thrown Backl t to Miy'un, Only Forty Miles Away. By the Assotiated Press. TOKIO, May 13.—The Chinese de-} ferme line was reported thrown back to Miyun, only 40 miles north of Pelping. | todsy by & smashing Japanese attack. | Japanese reports said the town of Ghih-Hsiachen was captured by the eighth division under Lieut. Gen. Yosh- | fkaze Nashi. i Japanese forces were sald to have | completed the crossing of the Lwan ! River on the Eastern front and to be pressing on towapd Peiping from that | Wirection, It was reported these troops aimed to cut off the retreat of Marshal Chiang | Kai-Shek. A Rengo (Japanese) news agency dis- patch said the Nichi division lost 51 desad and 159 wounded in the six-hour battle preceding the capture of Shin- kailing. Chinese losses were said to be much larger® ‘The attack on Shih-Hsiachen fol- :Iow1=d th&h“ of shlnldl‘flz. San- u hting was reported around Enih-Astachen. i Troops advancing west of the Lwan | freight train. They were marching to ‘were the sixth division under Lieut.| made. Gen. Masayemon Sakamoto. PLANES STIR TIENTSIN. Arrival of Japanese Carrier Nearby With 40 Areuses Fears. TIENTSIN, China, May 13 UP.—A| Japanese airplane carrier arrived today off Tangku, 35 miles east of 'nenuin.' A half dozen of the 40 airplanes car- ried were reported making reconnais- ance fiights in this vicinity. Pears of an attack on Tientsin from that direction increased as it became more apparent the Japanese forces about 90 miles northeast of the city Were heaced for Peiping. Yuh Sueh-Chung, commander of the "Tientain defense garrison and provincial | Comforts of Home in BY THOMAS R. HENRY. Uncle Sam is host to the secon: L E. P 1t is the prerogative of an old soldier to grumble. When one finds a large gathering of contented veterans some- This contingent of war veterans arrived in Alexandris this morning via B. E. F. Finds Real Host Second Army to March on Washington Has All the Plenty of Good Meals. laying the bountiful | ; B. P. ,vnnwr, sald he was convinced the japanese in that area were headed for Peiping. He believed they will also occupy Tangshan, headquarters of the British Kailan mining interests, midway between Tientsin and the Lwan. “If the Japanese come here I will fight,” he declared. He charged they were instigating trouble within the city to “supfly an excuse for Japanese en- try in Tientsin.” Manchukuan t: appeared north- ‘west of Lwanchow on the railroad line between here and the coast, causing the Chinese to hurriedly rush up rein- forcements. The Manchukuans were reported to have withdrawn later. COMMUNISTS QUIT - AS B. E. F. LEADERS, HOPE TO END RIFT (Continued Prom First Page.) Pollard and Representative Howard Smith of Virginia over the location of the bonus camp in Representative Smith's district. Smith and Senator Carter Glass of Virginia called at the White House yesterday and were as- sured that, in spite of the withdrawal of troops from the vicinity, it would tely policed. Smith wrote Pollard that he was *amazed that my mild protest at dump- ing the bonus army on Virginia without rotection should have caused you to your dignity and your tem- per in s single outburst.” Smith said he was “entirely content” to be criticized since “some form of po- lice protection” was sssured after his int was made. “Your statement that you ‘decline to mssume beforehand that there will be lawlessness among these veterans.’” he continued, “impels me to call your at- tention to the fact that the press for days been carrying the statement that the organizaion at Fort Hunt is commanded by an admitted Communist and that the regular B. E. F. orgahiza- tion has repeatedly refused to be quar- tered at Fort Hunt on the grounds that they are unwilling to be affiliated with & communistic organization. Plan Parade Monday. “Under these circumstances. we, in this section of the State, are unable to understand_your complacency.” Gov. Pollard has announced his intention of making s personal tour :{ inspection of the encampment to- 8y, - The Port Hunt veterans are plan- ning s perade in Washington for Mon- day, the parade to move east on the ‘Avenue from Fifteenth street to Peace Monument. Bus service, on regular schedules, is Imnf“ furnished for the men between ‘Washington and Fort Hunt by the Vet- erans’ Bureau. men may come and &n they please. The only re- strictions at the camp is that nobody from the outside is allowed in unless he can show either an honorable dis- charge from the service or & pass from the Veterans’ Burean. RELATIVES IDENTIFY WOMAN FOUND SLAIN Estranged Husband Questioned After Body Is Removed From River. By the Associated Press. XENIA, Ohio, May 13.—The body of 8 well-dressed woman found in the Little Miami River, near here last night, ‘was identified today as that of Mrs. Nora Coffey, 24, of Springfield. The identification was made by Mrs. Coffey’s mother, Mrs. Mull. and her estranged husband, Merrell Ccffey. Mrs. Mull said the last time she saw hher daughter, who had been shot over the left eye and thrown into the river ' y night. ' !)fltern immediately began to ques- from a bridge, was last Wednesda tion Coffey as to his whereabouts thing out of the ordinary has happened. ample of a man biting & dog. Yet this scems to be the situation with the scarred vanguard of the new bonus army at Fott Hunt, on the Vir- (miles from Washington. It is a com- fortable old Army post with about all the conveniences of home into which officers of the Veterans’ Administra- tion. They find long streets of spacious tents, army cots and blankets, running water and sanitary conveniences. Mess call sounds and their shining new tin plates are piled with big chunks of roast beef, potatoes, other vegetables and bread. There are second and third helpings. After such a meal—some- times stuffed into a long empty stomach —about all a fellow can do is to lay down in the sun and go to sleep. Many in this new bonus army have had a hard life for the last few years —shunted from one back door to an- other, sleeping in the rain, riding freights and dodging policemen. They are taken comp'etely off their guard by such a reception when they expected— many of them—to have the dogs set on th So even the most skiliful grumb- trouble as yet finding to grumble about. They rd enough. Has To Leave “Home.” “Fve been shot and I've got T B. bronchitis. asthma, heart trouble and my stomach’s gone back on me.” walled one fellow who came in as a “delegate” from the men in one of the national soldiers’ homes last night. “And I want to tell you. this aint no fit climate for a man that's got asthma. to get out of the home because they say I aint 75 per cent disabled. That's funny. Every time a doctor examines me he finds something new wrong with me.” But even his comrades don't take this seriously. They realize that it would be asking a little too much to demand that the Veterans' Administra- tion establish a special camp for bonus marchers with asthma. At that there is ap efficient fleld hospital at Fort aid krm o y post white collar boys of the R. O. T. who train there every Summer and the veterans are getting the benefit of them. ‘Then, of course, there have been showers the last two days, and it gets cold and damp toward morning. Some of the men were inclined to biame President Roosevelt for the rain yester- day, but their arguments were almost 28 illogical as some of the more radical ones advanced for immediate payment of the bonus. What a man thinks depends & deal on what he eats. Whoever made arrangements for the encampment at Fort Hunt seems to have realized this. The food is of high quality, excellently cooked and sbundant. “Why. they've got & dietician in the kitchen to see everybody gets the right vitamins,” as one of the men expressed it. Men Remarkably Mild. ‘This probably explains the rather re- markable mildness of these battered men, compared to their predecessors-a year ago. Their opinions and reactions are much the same in quality, but ap- parently much less violent, Cracked wheat and cold water made me think and talk revolution. saving the country from the treasonable bank- ers, hanging the President from = sour apple tree, etc. Tender roast beef and hot coffee makes some of the men think and talk almost like plutocrats them- selves. This bonus army has been wide- ly heralded as made up of “reds” in contrast to the patriotic crowd of last Summer. But without considering what opinions are hidden in the debths of their minds and the detalls of their in- ner organization, from their overt con- ‘Thursday night and all day yeeterday. PUBLIC UTILITY BILL VETOED IN MISSOURI Gov. Park Rejects Measure for Uniting Regulation and Inspec- 1 | i tion Offices and Other Changes. By the Associated Press. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., May 13.— Gov. Guy B. Park late yesterday vetoed the controversial Buford public utility bill, which would have abolished the Public Bervice Commission, the Oil In- spection Department and the Grain and ‘Warehouse Department and created a Commerce Commission to take over their functions. ““There is, and can be, no such re- fationship between the Public Service Commission and these Inspection De- partments as to make it proper or ex- Pedi=nt that they should be united,” he In addition to eliminating the three departments and merging them into one new department, the bill would Thve, rewritten .much . of. . Missourl’s gublic utility law, H 1t is comparable to the well known ex- | 1 ginia side of the Potomac about 10/ the arriving bonus seekers are ushered | I've got | All the arrangements at this/ have been made for the | C. | “cheat” them out of half their bonus. E Evu Camp Hunt when this photograph was —S8tar Staff Photo, Quarters at Fort Hunt. | versation and appearance one would judge them rather Jless ‘red” than their predecessors. the first piace, their demands NiNG In somewhat milder. Many declared the& would be satisfied with payment of the bonus due them, especially if this| was -ceomg:nkd by & job. NM{M:'" | accusing tl Government of .duplicity. | If they were “red.” hearty meals have made them strangely “pink.” The freedom of the camp took some of the men by surprise. They go and come as they please. The only authority | seems to be that of their “safety corps,” appointed by themselves, who ! patrol the company streets. “What does the 8. C. on your arm, stand for?” one of these fellows was asked. “It means that Im a trusty” he, answered proudly. en, hastily real- izing, he continued: *“No, thai’s not what it means. It means that I'm a| guard.” | Information by Women. | “When my outfit was coming into| Washington,” said another, “we were, stopped by a woman who told us not| to let the Gevernment put us here. She said they had a place all, surrounded with machine guns and thousands of troops all around it. So we kicked about coming here. | “But on my word of honor, you can get out of this place any time you want to and walk for miles and miles without seeing a machine gun. or a soldier. That woman was all wet. I/ think she must have been a red. and L’n‘pwummm ought to put her in| ‘There are the same old arguments for the payment of the bonus. Some say the Government has ‘“billions and billions” hidden away. Others are here not because they themselves want the bonus especially but from a sense of patriotic duty to force the Government to pay in order to get money into cir-| culation in order to create jobs for| | everybody. 8till others have a milder | position ~ which apparently will be | stressed at the convention next week | |and probably will gain a good deal of | public support—they want remittance | of the interest on the money they have | borrowed. Most of these men already | have collected half the bonus due them—that is, borrowed the money from the Veterans' Administration at interest which will eat up the other half by the time it falls due. In ef- fect, they feel, the Government has seized upon the economic emergency to As for President Roosevelt’s proposal to put needy veterans in the forestry army, sentiment is divided. The men | haven't been following the newspapers very closely and don't understand just what the plan entails. At the bonus army he-&unuu there was general | opposition. Only “seabs” would join up, they said. “It was an insult to offer a veteran a dollar a day.” But down in the company streets many of the men said that they would be glad of the opportunity and would go to 4 camp as soon as arrangements were made. Sentiment still is in the process of formation but when the showdown comes, it seems likely, many of the men will ‘n into the forests and many others will indignantly refuse. The hearty meals are having a strong effect on the formation of sentiment in this respect. Contrast to Hovels. This clean, well-ordered camp offers a yery striking contrast, indeed, to ti wretched, filthy hovel city on the Ana- costia Flats last Summer with its hordes of hungry, ragged men and women. There are many new faces, but there also are many veterans of the “battle of Anacostia,” who display their mem- bership cards in the old B. E. F. as if they were honorable discharges, and & prevalent topic of conversation is that dark, hot Midsummer night when they were driven out by the Army. They ex- somewhat the same reception this time and the contrast seems like a dream. They rub their eyes to make sure they are awake. It is, in fact, a dream-like interlude. In a week, according to present plans, ARRY B. MITCHELL of Montana takes oath as mlmn‘m Mrs. Benton of the Civil Service Commiseion here yesterday. Left to right; Commissioner George R. Wales (holdover member). Mre, McMillin apd Mitchell, with E. C. Babcock, commission secretary administering the oath.—A. P. Photos. STAR, WASHINGTOQ FARM STRIKE OF N, D. C, SATURDAY, MAY 13, 1933. PENDING U, 5. HELP Gov. Oison Urges Milo Reno to Delay Action to Give U. S. Plan Chance. By the Associated Press. ‘The farm strike is off —temporarily at least—except for milk strikes in Wis- consin and Northern Illinois. Reassured by President Roosevelt’s statement urging lemiency in farm morigage foreclosures and in other financial claims against the farmers, leaders of the Farmers' Holiday Asso- clation, sponsors of the movement, de- cided to abandon the profect before it began. ‘The decision to postpone any general attempt to withhold foodstuff from the American dinner table for the time being in an effort to win assurance of production costs for the farmer was an- nounced Jast night from St. Paul. Olsen Urged Delay. The time set for the strike to start "as 12:01 a.m. today, but the holiday leaders decided instead to give the Roosevelt administration an “oppor- tunity to fulfill pre-election pledges to the farmer.” Gov. Floyd B. Olson of Minnesota, on a ital bed following ké‘:uon loxh::pendmmtmn lio president of the y . to defer action until the num'- farm plans show resuits. Reno said officers and directors of the Holliday Association would meet in Des Moines soon to discuss President Roosevelt's statement and farm pro- gram. | _ Despite the decision. announced by Reno, dairy farmers in Wisconsin and in Northern Illinols decided they would go through with their strike plan anyway. Six-year-old Bernice Bchelinder of Foxboro, Wis., suffered a fractured skull when struck by a truck whose driver was hurrying to Superior to dispose of @ load of milk before the strike began. Act to Protect Publie. Authorities in both Wisconsin and Il- linois moved to prevent any inconven- ience to the Imyug public, however. In Illinois, L. D. McLaughlin, State director of agriculture, ordered sheriffs in 10 Northern Illinois counties to keep outside influences from interference with the delivery of milk to Chicage. The strike decision of the ll.l’nma farmers was reached late last night at a meeting at Woodstock attended by approximately Wisconsin _and Illinois. E. L. Bost of H ., who presided, said there ‘would be no violence. but that the strik- ers would attempt “friendly persuasion” on farmers who had not joined the ovement. At Chicago the Pure Milk Association, whose 18,000 members :u;?fly the city with whole milk, said it had made plans to bring in the usual amount and that any shortage, due to the Wisconsin or Northern Illinois strikes would be made down | up from other sections. POLICE JOIN SEARCH FOR MISSING CHILD Five-Year-Old Francis Reese Be- came Lost From His Mother Yesterday. Police joined today in a search for §- year-old Prancis Reese, 93¢ O street touthwest. who became lost from his mother, Mrs. Loretta Reese, near the court house yesterday. Mrs. Reese asked police to aid in find- ing him a short time after the boy had | become lost, but no trace of the boy had been found today. The boy, said to be large for his age, has brown eyes and light brown hair. He was wearing a blue shirt, brown pants, brown shoes, yellow socks, a gray cap and gray coat. Trading Seats’ Price Soars. CHICAGO, May 13 (#).—Sale of a Chicago Board of Trade membership yesterday netted $9,800, the highest since 1931 and twice the price of 10 days ago. the banquet-like meals and the com- fortable quarters will be a thing of the past. And this taste of comparative luxury doubtless will be a strong in- ducement for many of the men to enter the forestry army rather than trust their aching bones once more to the vicissitudes of the road. The real show-down will come when the veter- ans are asked to give up such comfort- able billets. But there is no talk of “staying until 1945,” the war-cry of the old B. E. F. Instead, the men talk of coming again and again until they. accomplish some- thing. Strange to say, the veterans are better dressed and less unkempt than last Summer. Many of them have been wandering all Winter. Others fell into luck after their evacuation. * “Por myself, I've had & grand Winter,” said one. “I've lived in a shack on Riverside Drive, right up with the big he ' bugs, with one of the big chain stores bringing us a load of food every day. I su] they’ll stop it now that the President has offered us jobs in the forests. That ain't so good.” Among some there is lon. They think there must be somet) such hotfiiumy. “They’ll get us into the woods and work us until we've earned enough money to pay our fares home, then they'll pay our wages to the railroads for our transportation,” said one “wise "flut on the whole the attitude seems to be rather mild and pacific. ‘There is little indication that these bonus marchers are looking for trouble. New Civil Service Heads Assume Offices HMARRY B. MITCHELL TAKES OATH AS .CHAIRMAN. McMillin of Tennessee as member I dent are: In the Representatives Doxey, Mississippi; Pulmer, South Carolina; George nt enterprise; Rcpresentative Jones, Texas; Louls J. Taber, head of the National Grange; Senator Smith, South 'y of Agriculture Wallace. arolina; Henry Morgenthau, jr., the farm credit director, and Se WIDOW 15 FOUND N DOUBLE SLAYING Claims Lee Weinstein’s! Share of Estate Left by Fears for Gandhi Grow as Fast Cuts His Weight to 93 By the Associated Press. POONA, India, May 13.—The Mahatma Gandhi's weight was down to 93 pourlds today as he continued the three weeks' fast he began last Monday noon. Concern arose because he was presence of the men who will administer it and those who helped draft it, President Roosevelt signed the farm bill, with its enormous powers to lift farm prices and inflate the currency. Left to right behind the Presi- 1900 producers from | fighting Edward Ridley. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK. May 13—A widow in weeds steppec into the Ridley mystery today, with an apparent Intention of to share in the estate of the | aged Edward Albert Ridiey. eccentric' real estate millicnaire slain in his sub- cellar office last Wednesday She was the widow of Lee Weinstein. Ridley's secretary, who was shot to death in the bank office. evidently by :‘e same killer or killers who slew Rid- Y. Thought te Be Bacheler. Until yesterday, Weinstein's relatives believed him & bachelor. Police found, however, that for two years he and his | blond wife had lived as Mr. and Mrs. John L. Lee, at a midtown hotel. Mrs. | Lee engaged a lawyer yesterday. | Ridley's will left $200,000 to Wein- | stein, provided he survived his em- ployer. They were found dead together, and the question who died first may be | taken to court for decision. The ques- tion has an important bearing, law- yers said, on whether Weinstein's widow | will receive any of the money. | Married Eight Years Ago. ‘ She sald she was married to Wein- stein eight years ago in Norfolk, Vi but the marrisge was kept secret be- cause of religious differences to which they feared his mother and sister would | object. | Both here and in Fanwood, N. J. where Ridley lodged, a widespread police investigation failed to solve the double | \ kil | i | CROSS-TOWN ROAD'S | | | tiements as trustee for the bonds, there gomery, Ala, branch of the Alabama ‘Washingtonians Urge Officials to! Proceed With By-Pass Boulevard. Declaring the cross-town boulevard | from Key Bridge in Georgetown m;mm” Where the bonds shall respec- | Riggs road and College Park, Md., on | which work has been started in all’ but a few stretches, should be pushed to completion, the Washingtonians at | their meting Thursdsy night called on | officials to go forward with the con- | struction. | The route of the cross-town by-pass | boulevard is from Key Bridge. up| Thirty-fourth or Thirty-fifth _street, | passing on the south side of Observa- | | tory Circle to Twenty-ninth street and | Klingle road, following Piney Branch under Sixteenth street to Arkansas ave- | nue to Gallatin street, New Hampshire avenue to Concord avenue and Riggs | r | oad. Copies of the resolution were sent Herbert L. Adams of the nrllnlnumbuy: Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d; Budget Di- rector Douglas, the District Commis- sioners, and the District Committees of both House and Senate. GLASS-STEAGALL BILL WON'T GET PREFERENCE Byms Says Measure Will Get, Floor Csnsideration if It Is Reported Out. | By the Assoclated Press. i Representative Byrns, the Democratic | leader, told newspaper men today that | if the House Banking Committee ap- proves the Glass-Steagall bank reform measure, there will be “no disposition” to prevent floor eonsideration. ‘The bill is not part of the administra- tion program and before it is brought up “we are going to complete the special cmelgency bills ready for action,” Byrns added. DR. J. R. $1200 TO TALK ON “THAT | MAY SEE” New York Avenue Presbyterian Pastor to Conduct Service for Mother’s Day. At the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church tomorrow morning Dr. J on 3 Midweek prayer service will be con- ducted Thursday evening by Dr. Sisoo. France to Meet Gold Clause. PARIS, May 13 (P)—France ordered today that the May 14 interest on the City 1936 loan be guk.ltlt tl showing distaste for the steady diet of water and it was feared he was not drinking enough. The Mahatma is s0 weak has to be carried. GERMANY REFUSES PAYMENTS IN GOL Financiers Say Reich Has Followed U. S. Example With Young Bonds. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 13.—Germany, Wall Street bankers, has taken a leaf out of the American book. They express the belief that America’s recent an- nouncement that princtpal ard interest {on Government issues would be pay- able in dollars and not gold, as called for in the comtract, is the basis for Germany's action in refusing to ry the June 1 interest on the Young 5's per cent bonds in gold. If carried out, American holders of these bonds would receive paper dol- lars and be penalized about 16 per cent, the present depreciation of the dollar in terms of gold standard currencies. The Young loan, technically known as the “German government internal 51; per cent loan.” totaled $300.600.000. of which America's share was $98,250 000 It was floated here in June, 1930. ‘With the Bank for International Set- is one underlying indenture plus sepa- rate indentures drawn up by the syn- dicate in each country, where the loan was floated. The blanket indenture is unique in that it has the following gold cla use: “The principal and interest of each bond shall be payable, at such bank or banks or other financial institution or institutions as shall from time to time be named by the bank situated in the tively be issued, in the currency of the country in which it is issued, the unit of such currency being defined for the of these presents in all circum- stances by the weight of fine gold de- termined by law as at present in force. “The bondholder is entitled to re- ceive the equivalent at the due date of the same gold value in currency of the place of payment, but not less than the nominal amount of the prin- cipal and interest specified in each hen England went off the gold standard British holders of Young bonds received a premium in sterling amounting to the depreciation of the pound when the next interest date came around. has apparently de- cided not to continue this course. An attempt may be made to arbitrate the German situation, it is believed in some circles here. 2 legal problem which is worrying the bel'}ubrlml in international legal uarters. NATIONS INTENSIFY IWAR ONDEPRESSION Hitler Pronouncement Await- ed in Hope It Will Open Way to Solution. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 13.—Governments of the leading nations, vexed by internal burdens and harrassed by international disagreements upon major problems, sought today for the “quick and far- reaching solutions” which President Roosevelt himself declares are necessary “to save the economic life of the world.” At London, the President's repre- sentative, Norman H. Davis, worked with spokesmen of other powers to put into operation the general tariff truce agreed to yesterday as a constructive preparation for the opening of the World Economic Conference June 12. Warned by the growth of anti-Ger- man feeling in France and Great Eritain, Chancellor Hitler and his cabi- et prepared a declaration of policy on the disarmament question upon which the conference at Geneva is now dead- Hitler's pronouncement, to be made to a special session of the Reichstag next Wednesday, is being awaited by other governments as s document of great timp%r:mce fimm may open the way to -t “ and far-re i yesterday : solutions.” b e Response to Statement. The Berlin announcement of the spe- A. P. Photo. | cial Reichstag session appeared to m':e = — {as a direct response to a joint statement issued by President Roosevelt and Hjalmar Schacht, German emissary, at the end of their Washington discussions. “Quick and far-reaching solutions are necessary ve the economic life of the world,” sald the Roosevelt-Schacht statement, in part. “This aim cannot be achieved uniess along with economic disarmament there is military disarmament. “International co-operation is needed above all else to restore economic life and to insure peace.” This appeal and the call for the Reichstag meeting, came at a moment when Germany’s position in the world community was becoming more and more the target for sharp criticism. Paul Boncour Warns Reich. - In Paris, lt‘);euoem-m were warned By the Associated Press y inister Paul Boncour that o 3 |the strict terms of the Versailles treaty, Business men and wage earners alike | ipo1uqing penalties in case of violation, looked back today upon a week that | were still applicable if the Hitler govern- saw the beginning of what they hoped mt nlused‘ ? Wn‘ “u in a general vould % rmament treaty and attempted to would be a turn in the tide toward | oarm “A similar suggestion was thrown properity and better times. out in London on behalf of the British That their hopes were shared by |government. others was indicated by the Dun & _k::;‘l-gcfler m;m‘ . in l:lhn&- i ame particularly acute wif | Bradstreet report from New York. de- | tho“ooeration of anti-Jewish measures |claring that the upswing in business|in the Reich. burst into the open both was continuing even though the normal |in and out of the House of Commons. season of expansion had passed. where Labor members sharply assailed And today additional announcements jthe government for permitting the visit of wage increases in manufacturing es- | of Dr. Alfred Rosenberg, Hitler’s special tablishments tended to indicate it was. | envoy. Officials of Gloriana Procks, Inc., at| Home Secretary Sir John Gilmour |8t Paul said their plant was working |assured the Commons that Rosenberg overtime and that business had in-|would be “given his marching orders™ creased materially within the past 30|1f he did anything contrary to the in- days. To make the picture ghter | terests of Great Britain. Sir Johm Peek of Illinois, whe will administer the BUSINESS HOPEFUL *AFTER GOOD WEEK Dun & Bradstreet Report ; Bears Out Upswing Noted | Over Country. ‘The case presents | g say | they announced a wage increase vary-|Simon, |ing from 10 to 20 per cent. | "$rom Williamsburg, Ohio, came an announcement from the P. Sullivan | Shoe Co. that a 10 per cent wage cut | would be restored to the 500 striking employes of its plants there and at | Georgetown. The Willlamsburg work- ers accepted the raise, but the George- | town staff was still to act upon it. And s0 on through the index of busi- | ness from textile mills and rubber com- panies to department stores the story | was the same—additional business with resuiting fatter pay envelopes. |, C. H. Eisman, secretary of Oregon | Breweries and Hop Farms, Inc., at Port- |1and, Oreg., announced that wages would be increased from 10 to 30 per cent for {the company's 35 hop yard employes, | effective Monday. Eisman said the firm expects soon to increase the num- ber of its employes to 50. | ~G. B. Garner, manager of the Mont- | Packing Co.. has been notified that ef- |fective Monday all employes in the Montgomery and Birmingham plants | will receive a 5 per cent increase in sal- | th ary. The company employs about 150 | persons. I ILLINOIS BUILDING GAINS. Prejects Increase 93.4 Per Cent in April ' Over Previous Month. i | CHICAGO, May 13 (#).—Building operations in Illinois neared the $1,000,- |000 mark during April and represented increases of 93.4 per cent in the num- | ber of projects and 19.1 per cent in the estimated cost for the previous month, officials of the State Department of Labor announced today. The total value of the 1.143 building projects reported amounted to $900,018 in 65 cities and was the second consecu- tive month for which gains were an- nounced. However, when compared to | IAprfl. 1932, the total expenditure this | year represented a loss of 37.9 per cent. Emergency Power Voted. BRUSSELS, May 13 (P)—After 29 hours of continuous depate, the Belgian Chamber, by a vote of 96 to 82, yes- terday passed s bill granting emer- ency powers to the government to bal- et and deal with the ance the budg There were three financial situation. abstentions. Advertising Group’s Officers NEW LEADERS CHOSEN BY ASSOCIATION IN CONVENTION HERE. the American ended a two-day convention here W. C. D'Arcy, 8t. Solssons rate of 25.52 francs to the 3 complies with the goid clause of bonds. 3 yesterday, Louls, chal York, president. Back row, left o secretary, and, Prederic R, Gamble, the foreign secretary, to have given Dr. Rosenberg some confidential but frank advice about the attitude of Britons toward the present regime in Berlin. Antagonism Demonstrated. ‘The popular antagonism to Hitler was demonstrated in London by the act of a British war veteran in carrying off and pitching into the Thames a wreath laid by Dr. Rosenberg upon the British war memorial in Whitehall. At Geneva. the Disarmament Con=- ference nursed its wounds and con- tinued to search for the “formula™ which would bring Germany to support the British proposals. and to accept & conscript army in place of the existing Reichswehr with its voluntary service for a term of 12 years. In Paris, the French government waited for some expression from Presi- dent Roosevelt which could be inter- preted as willingness to grant a war debt moratorium for the period of the Economic Conference, and thus help the Daladier government to persuade e of Deputies to agree to pay the debt installment due last De- cember. FRANCE AND BRITAIN UNITED. Indicate Readiness to Send Their Armies Back Into Rhineland. PARIS, May 13 (#) —France and Great Britain were united today to face a disquieting situation created by the armament aspirations of Chancellor Hitler of Germany. Indications that these countries were ready to send their armies back inte the Rhineland if Germany seeks greater armaments than permitted under the Versailles treaty raised the question of whether the United States would be willing to resume its military posts on the Rhine River. Foreign Minister Paul-Boncour saw in the speech of Lord Hailsham. British secretary for war, a vindication of the policy France has been pursuing pa- tiently for months. Lord Hailsham sald any rearmament by Germany would bring the treaty sanctions into operation. “You must know how to wait and hold firmly to plans, regardless alike of impatience and attacks,” said Paul- Boncour. He pointed to the decision of the Disarmament Conference, in which the French viewpoint that German militant organizations be counted as soldiers was victorious. < UNITED BRETHREN PLAN * REDUCTION OF BOARD Propose Cutting Administration Body From 31 to 10 or 15 Members for Economy. By the Associated Press. w AKRON, Ohjo, May 13—A drastie’ reduction in the size of the beard of ¢ administration was considered at the 31st Quadrennial -Conference of the! Church of the United Brethren #a, Christ yesterday, but & decision was postponed until today. » The board now has 31 members & there has been discussion of cutting §’ to 10 or 15 in the interests of .ecc: o> Most of yesterday’s session was spent- in consideration of minor changes m" discipline. however, and the ques ot reducing the board was put over. - Dr. A. W. Drury of gxyton Ohlo, . and Dr. R. A. Powell of Bowling Green; Ohio, were re-elected publish " trustees. New publishing house chosen were Dr. F. L. Dennis of Day: ton and J. R. Engle of Anvill, Pa., suc- the 8. C. Enck of Harris- burg, Pa.. and J. M. Cogan of Lebenog, ’ (}mo. Editors of publications were ree: MADE MEMBER OF TRIBE _