Evening Star Newspaper, June 15, 1933, Page 2

T A2 xx THE _EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSD AY, M 4 M"_I_IUN . Virginia Honors BYRALIS GOA Federal Board Already at " Work, Although - Measure F Has Not Yet Been Signed. To have one-third of the country's 12,000,000 unemployed back at work by October is the aim of the Federal In- dustrial Control Board, Brig. Gen. Hugh 8. Johnson, the administrator of the newly created emergency agency, an- nounced today. Johnson's announcement followed & report by Secretary of Labor Perkins showing the month of May has brought remarkable increases in factory pay rolls and employment—the biggest single menth's jump since January, 1923, 10 years ago. Miss Perkins said ht: aepartment's statisticians reported pay rolls were up 115 per cent for the month and em- ployment 4.8 per cent, the difference showing increased wage rates or work- ing time for those employed. The industrial control administrator #aid figures collected by his staff showed industry, under the sweeping national recovery law he will adminster, should be able to employ 3,000,000 men by | Fall, Jobs for Another Million. 1In addition, he said the Government’s public works program is confidently ex- Pershing GOVERNOR POLLARD PRESENTS MEDAL TO GENERAL. —Underwood Photo. pected to produce jobs for another million. In the absence of official Government statistics, there being no facilities for the compiliation of unemployed figures throughout the service, the estimate of the American Federation of ~Labor is accepted in Government circles as the nearest representation ‘to. jobless- con-. ditions. The federation’s peak unem- ployment figures, reached in March, ‘were 12,300,000, . In an address last night before a meeting of State relief officials, John- son described - the business recovery measure as an advenfure, but asserted that with co-operatiofi on the part of owners of m?us!dml plants the ‘goal should be realized. The purpose of the control admin- istration will be to increase purchas- ing power by the raising of aggregate wages and aggregate profits. It is recognized that in this process there will soon follow the necessity for higher rices, and, while the hope will be to ?101\! these off as long as possible, they will be permitted -when the necessity becomes plain. Curves Are Parallel. In normal times the curves of pro- duction and buying power tnavel almost parallel, but when depression comes the buying power falls faster than produc- tion. The basic theory of the recovery measure is to bring the downward sweep of the purchasing curve back across the production curve. To accomplish this officials plan to insist that while increasing wages and shortening the work week the higher costs be left-untranslated for the present | repol into higher merchandising costs. In re- turn for the lessening of the Sherman anti-trust law-to t trade agree- ments industry” will be asked to carry for a time some of the load of increased costs until buying power is stimulated. ‘The industrial control board is still unoffictal, since President Roosevelt does not plan to sign the bill, it was said in official quarters, until adjourn- ment of Congress. However, the John- son outfit is now driving simultaneously toward early. s:’e agreements within mfin}r‘ ring T wages and heavy dis ents: ough its public ‘wagks section to stir purchasing power. Many Signs of Activity. Locally, there are many signs of ac- Srgenisation. Ancipating operstion of i g operation o the control.title, literally -hundreds of industries have: their representatives here seeking information or ready to submit trade agreements. Also the headquarters of the organization, lo- cated in the Commerce Department Building, are being beseiged by persons seeking jobs. With clerks from the department's Bureau of Foreijgn and Domestic Com- merce forming the personnel nucleus, the organization has provided work for & number of persons heretofore not con- nected with the Government service. But this is all voluntary, since no jobs have been officially created and all are 1ll:bcsflng in the hopes of employment ter. Johnson, with the aid: of & corps of economists, students of labor, and in- dustrialists, is devoting himself particu- larly to bringing industry together soon in the trade agreements. Col. George R, Spaulding, one of the Army Engineering Corps experts, who is slated to administer the public works section under Johnson, is now whipping to- gether tentative plans. Going to Interior Department. Col. Spaulding’s office is also located in the Commerce Department Building for the time being. However, offi- cials said this section would be trans- ferred to the Interior Department Building as soon as possible. It is understood that the plan of this office is to start work on 1,000 or more proj- ects by the latter part of next month. The space allotted to the recovery group has been in & state of noisy bustle for the last few days. The ad- ministrator forecast order would be brought soon. Upon his orders and as the result of the organization being a semi-official bureau, members of the staff firmly decline to &nswer ques- tions of the most simple type. Delegation after delegation from vari- ous sections troop through the offices proposing construction projects, only to be told the board is not yet function- ing officially. Publicity also has been barred until the organization is placed upon en official status. Recovery from Bank Holiday. Secretary Perkins, in making public the employment figures, said they should not be interpreted as meaning the course out of the industrial crisis of the past years was clear. “A portion of the advance in May should, as was the case in April, be regarded as recovery from the pre- cipitate decline in employment pay- rolls following the bank holiday in early March “Purchasing power is still consid- erably below that needed to take care of cumulative increase in production and therefore points to the essence of the problem which has characterized the whole course of the depression. “It is signficant that the increase in wages paid exceeded substantially the increase in the number of persons em- ployed. This means that the rise in the volume of business experienced duricg the month of May, 1933, has yesulted in an increase in earnings of those workers already on the pay- yolls of manufactories.” FACTORIES ARE BOOMING Lynchburg Plants Employing More Than in Best Years. LYNCHBURG, Va., June 15 () —At Jeast four Lynchburg industrial plants are employing more workers now than ever before in their history—even in so-called boom years, the Lynchburg Advance learned today. The concerns are the Craddock- Terry Co. which now has approxi- mately 4,000 workers, compared with a littie over 3,000 in other years: the ARMS SMUGGLING 10 CUBA EXPOSED Evidence Fourid in Arrest of Two as Counterfeiters by U. S. Operatives. ‘B the Associated Press. The smuggling of arms and ammuni- tion to Cuba by airplane from Miami, Fla., was divulged in evidence seized by Secret Service operatives when they arrested Angel Roderiquez and his wife, Sadie, at Augusta, Ga., on charges of passing counterfeit money. W. H. Moran, chief of the Becret Service, announced today that “suf- ficlent evidence indicating conclusively this man has been engaged in smug- gling arms and ammunition from Miami to Cubs Izy‘ ll:rphna"l was found in possession of the couple. Roderiquez and his wife were known in New York as Ralph Rena and Sadie Rena. . She also was known as Sadle ‘Waxman. “ The couple were arrested after they are alleged to have passed counterfeit money &t Aiken, S. C. Moran said ris he had received said the couple had in their fon counterfeit $1 silver certificates and counterfeit $10 Federal Reserve notes. He sald they also had a large quantity of morphine m their possession. secret service chief declined to say how great the smuggling activities had been, but said the evidence against the couple found in correspondence was “conclusive.” ‘While the secret service will hold the couple on charges of counterfeiting it has notified the Narcotic Bureau that the couple had narcotics in their n and also has notified the ent of Justice regarding the activities. The latter department is expected to investigate the smuggling evidence at once. ROOSEVELT DENIES KIDNAPING THREAT James Quickly Scotches Rumor Following Blaze in Home at Rye Beach. By the Associated Press. RYE BEACH, N. H., June 15—The family of James Roosevelt, son of the President, was staying at the home of relatives today as the result of a fire which forced them to move from their Summer place. Flames which started yesterday in an upper story gained headway before firemen from Portsmouth, Rye Beach and North Hampton could bring them under control. Although part of the furniture was carried from the 15-room house by firemen and servants, dam- age from flames and water was esti- mated at $5,000. Mrs. Roosevelt and her 14-month-old daughter, Sara Delano Roosevelt, were not endangered. Roosevelt hurried here from Boston, where he is in the in- surance business, and it was said they would go to the Summer home of Dr. and Mrs, Harvey Cushing of Boston. Mrs. Roosexelt is their daughter. After the fire there was & report— quickly denied from the White House— that threats had been made to kidnap the child, that s secret service agent had been assigned as a result of the threats and that the fire might have been intended as & screen for kidnapers. Stephen T. Early, presidential sec- retary, sald at the ite House that James Roosevelt had called his father and declared there was “absolutely no truth in the report.” ‘The President's son uleghuned 8 denial to New York, saying, “Reports of any kidnaping threats are stmply crazy and without the slightest foundation.' “It is true,” he sald, “that a secret service man was sent to the house, but it was purely a coincidence. I was making ready to join my father on his cruise up the coast and the agent was assigned to the house because of my impending absence.” FARLEY SAYS D. C. HEADS WILL BE CAPITALITES Patronize Dispenser, Speaking of Future Commissioners, Answers “Carpet-bagger” Charge. Only bona fide District residents will be considered for the two vacant Com- missidner posts, Postmaster General Farley told newspaper men today. The patronage dispenser for President made yesterday by Senator Vandenberg, Republican of Michigan, who said “carpet-baggers” were o be put on the Board of Commissioners. until a week or so after adjournment of Congress, Mr. Farley said. Pressure of business with Congress will keep the President too tied up with national af- fairs to give his attention to the Dis- trict appointments, it was indicated. . WITNESS FACES CHARGE Detective Says Youth Will Be Ac- cused of Murder. FLINT, Mich., June 15. (#).—J. Earl Blue Buckle Overall Co., with 500 op- eratives; the N. & W. Overall Co., with 500, and the Virginia Art Go’g‘is e Poultney, Flint detective, said today that a murder warrant will be asked for Willlam Terwilliger, 16, now held as & material witness in the case of Balfe MacDonald, 17, charged slaying his mother here May 2% . _ | Roosevelt sald this in answer to charges | Appointment of the two civilian Com- | missioners probably will not be made | who 15 considered with | conditions in the TRADE PROMOTION AGENTS RECALLED Roper Orders Closing of 21 Offices June 20—Staffs of Others to Be Cut. ‘This country’s foreign ,trade having receded to near the 1915 level, the Commerce Department has decided to retrench in its trade promotion work and today notifications were being cabled to its attaches in 21 foreign offices to cease functioning on June 30 and return to this country. Secretary of Commerce Roper said he planned to recall 100 of his commercial attaches, trade commissioners and their assistants in the “less important coun- tries from an exporting standpoint” and separate them from the Government service, effective July 31. ‘The following offices are to be closed: Europe—Belgrade, Berne, Bucharest, Budapest, Helsingfors, Lisbon, Oslo and Riga. Latin America—Caracas, Guatemala, Montevideo, San Juan and San Paulo. Far East—Bangkok, Hongkong, Muk- den and Wellington. Canada—Montreal, Toronto and Van- couver. Africa—Accra. London Office to Be Reduced. Roper explained the territories served by the attaches slated for recall will be taken over by the nearest Department of Commerce office located at an im- portant capital. He said the retrench- ment program also ‘invades the offices to remain open. The London office, it is understood, is being reduced from 11 to 2 men. The Berlin office of 25 men will be cut in half. “The separstion of these officials from the service,” the cabihet officer said, “in no way reflects on their abilities or the character of the serv- ices which they have rendered. It is hoped it may be possible to find em- ployment for many of the men being recalled. “Under the policy of broad and im- partial service to American trade and industry special efforts will be made to maintain at every high standard the quality and effectiveness of the department’s facilities for the extension of American foreign trade.” Replies From Survey Received. Roper made public the results of the questionnaire sent to a large number of business firms throughout the coun- try showing they made considerable use of the department’s facilities abroad as well as in this country. However, only 43 per cent of the replies answered “yes” to the ques- tion: “Does your export business re- quire continuance of the Department of Commerce service?” He said 64 per cent said they were willing to pay an amount commensu- rate with the cost of this service. A majority of these replies said Com- merce Department attaches abroad were more helpful and efficient than consular officials or offices in foreign countries. WILEY POST TO TRY WORLD SOLO FLIGHT Will Use Plane Which Set Globe- Girdling Record 1931. in By the Assoclated Press. DAYTON, Ohio, June 15.—Wiley Post announced last night he has dzcld!d definitely to hop off July 1 from Floyd Bennett Field, New York, on a projected solo flight around the world. He flew here yesterday from Oklahoma City. Post came here for installation of radio receiving equipment in his plane, the rebuilt Winnie Mae, in which he and Harold Gatty set their globe-circling record of 8 days 15 hours and 51 min- utes in 1931. He plans to use a me- chanical pilot on his second world fiight. He was undecided today whether to have part of his radio equipment in- stalled here, fly to New York for in- stallation of the mechanical pilot and return later. The radio set was de- signed by .an officer at Wright Fleld. NOME EXPECTING MATTERN TODAY; WEATHER BETTER _(Continued From First Page) | Kamchatkan Peninsula and then strik- |ing northeast over the water to Nome, but no word was heard from Post and Gatty either, until their arrival, WINGS FROM RUSSIA. MOSCOW, June 15.—Jimmie Matters was on his way to American soil today. battling with elements that once before | had caused him to turn back from the | Siberia-to-Nome leg of his world flight ‘This time he had the assurance that better weather conditions lay ahead on the 2,500-mile jaunt from Khabarovsk, Siberia, to Nome, Alaska, and expert advice on the best route. He left Khabarovsk at 10:30 pm. Moscow time Wednesday (2:30 pm. Wednesday, Eastern standard time), and absence of reports about him was taken by friends here as indicating things were going better than on Tues- day, when bad weather forced him to return to Khabarovsk eight hours after starting the transpacific lap. Before he left he talked things over with Boris Lukht, a Russian aviator, uthority on flying Mattern FAVORCONFERENCE ON VETERAN S5 House Democrats for Roose- velt Program Plus Spanish War Amendment. (Continued From First Page) the budget director, estimated a $100,- 000,000 increase, but at heart was the question of keeping on benefit rolis veterans whose present ailments have no connection whatever with their mili- tary service. Roll Call on Substitute. The roll call vote on the Steiwer- Cutting proposal follows: For the substitute: Republicans: Austin, Barbour, Borah, Capper, Carey, Cutting, Dale, Davis, Dickinson, Fess, Frazier, Goldsborough, Hale, Hastings, Hatfleld, Hebert, John- son, Kean, La Follette, McNary, Met- calf, Norris, Nye, Reed, Robinson of Indiana, Schall, Steiwer, Townsend, Vandenberg, Walcott and White—31. Democrats: Black, Bone, Brown, Bulkley, Caraway, Copeland, Costigan, Hayden, Lonergan, Long, McAdoo, Mc- Carran, Neely, Overton, Reynolds, Thomas of Oklahoma, Trammell, Walsh and Wheeler—19. Farmer-Labor; Ship- OV. JOHN G. POLLARD of Virginia shown conferring the Distinguished | jroaq Service Medal of Virginia on Gen. John J. Pershing yesterday in the office of the general in the War Department. Grand total for: 51. Democrats against: Adams, Ashurst, Bachman, Bailey, Bankhead, Barkley, Bratton, Bulow, Byrd, Byrnes, Clark, Connally, Dieterich, Dill, Duffy, Erick- son, Filetcher, George, Glass, Gore, Harrison, Kendrick, King, Lewis, Logan, McGill, McKellar, Murphy, Pope, Rob- inson of Arkansas, Russell, Sheppard, Smith, Stephens, Thomas of Utah, Thompson, Tydings, Van Nuys and ‘Wagner—39. Before the vote a direct warning had been given the Senate to take the compromise offered by the adminis- tration or prepare itself for a veto. Floor Leader Robinson informed the Senate he spoke with the authority of President Roosevelt in warning that a veto awaited the independent offices bill if it went to the White House with a more liberal veterans’ provision. Through other sources word of such an impending action had been brought to Senators before, but this was the first definite and authoritative an- nouncement that had been made on the floor during the long debate. Appeals for Compromise. Robinson added that the two-thirds vote to pass the measure over the President’s disapproval could mnot be mustered and appealed to Senators to be “pratical” and accept the admin- istration’s compromise. Otherwise, he sald, Congress might go around in circles and after a month be back where it started. Previously Senator Connally, Demo- crat, of Texas, who was the author of the original liberalizing amendment that caused all the trouble, had said that he would vote against the Stelwer- Cutting substitute. ~Connally said it would be better to accept the presi- dential compromise than to have the substitute vetoed and leave the vet- erans in the same situation they were in_originally. Senator Reed, Republican, Pennsyl- vania, soon after Robinson concluded, our convictions because the White House whip has cracked,” adding “We weren't sent here to vote that way. “We can add this amendment to a continuing resolution and they’ve got to come back to us,” Reed said. “In the long run in this contest, Congress will Win.” Citing Tuesday night 43-to-31 test vote against the administration’s forces, Reed said a change of five of the 31 to the other side would override a veto. Senator Johnson, Republican, Cali- fornia, cbjected to the threat of a veto, contending “no man on earth can say to me. I must do something I think is wrong.” “Yet,” he continued, “I yield to no man in respect and affection for the President and.I threw political career to the winds last year to support him for election.” Senator Glass of Virginia, former Democratic Secretary of the Treasury, then took the floor against the substi- tute. “I resent the suggestion of the Sen- ator from Pennsylvania that those Sen- ators who may exercise their right to vote against the Steiwer-Cutting propo- sition are under a lash” Glass said, shaking his finger at Reed, toward m he turned 've seen the lash wielded here and it’s covered the back of the Senator from Pennsylvania,” he went on. “Can the Senator name one time?” interrupted Reed, rising. “Oh, yes, I can name several,” shot back Glass. “I'm going to vote my convictions and courage,” Glass went on, “and I as- sume other Senators here are going to.” Scores “Raids on Treasury.” He said he felt no man who wouldn't fight for his country was worth being in it, and continued: “When a man comes out of the war without wounds, he shouldn’t be en- titled to a raid on the Treasury.” Turnifig again to Reed, he remarked: “The first speech of the Senator from Pennsylvania I heard in this body was against the bonus.” Voice choking, Glass went on: “I had two boys in the front line trenches and one of them was nearly killed. I had a nephew badly gassed. I had a sister in the hospitals in France and two daughters in hospitals here. “I wouldn’t want ever to speak to one of them if they joined in the raid on the Federal Treasury by those who've never suffered any disability. “It is commercializing patriotism which we roll under our tongue.” Shortly before a vote on the main point at issue, the Senate adopted an amendment to the House veterans' compromise, limiting to 25 per cent re- ductions in benefits to Spanish-Ameri- can veterans of more than 62 years, The amendment, offered by Senator Dill, Democrat of Washington, was ap- proved without a record vote. asserted “We are expected to vote against | in the expedition. Maj. Enea above are being used. JUNE 15, 1933. Chicago Is Goal of Italian Flyers 24 PLANES AND 9 MEN IN EXPEDITION TO FLY TO WORLD'S FAIR A squadron of 24 seaplanes under command of Gen. Italo Balbo (left), aviation minister, is waiting to take of Orbetello, Italy, on a flight by easy stages over route shown on map to the World's Fair at Chicago. Silvio Recagno (below) is one of the leaders in the flight. Seaplanes of £ A.R. COMMANDER FOUND DEAD IN BED National Head in Pittsburgh to Attend Encampment. Was 88 Years Old. By the Assoclated Press. PITTSBURGH, June 15.—Capt. Wil- liam P. Wright of Chicago, national commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, was found dead in bed in & hotel today. He was 88 years old. In Pittsburgh to attend the annual encampment of the Pennsylvania de- partment of the G. A. R., Capt. ‘Wright addressed a gathering of veterans and auxiliary organizations last night. He also rode in the G. A. R.s Flag day parade yesterday, and comrades said he seemed to be in good health when he retired last night. He is a past commander of the Illi- nois department of the Grand Army. Died Peacefullyy Capt. Wright came to Pittsburgh alone from Chicago yesterday to ad- dress the encampment and to witness the installation of officers today. He apparently died peacefully in his sleep. On the bed were scattered a few pleces of stationery. His blue Grand Army uniform, with his G. A. R. decorations, was neatly draped on a chair. The commander’s death threw a hush over the encampment, which comes to a close today. WAS YOUNG SOLDIER. Just Boy in Teens When He Came to Command of Company. CHICAGO, June 15 (#).—Capt. Wil- liam P. Wright, national commander of the G. A. R., who died today in Pitts- burgh, was a boy in his teens when he came to the command of D Company, 156th Illinois Infantry. Seventy years later, camping with his comrades of the Union Army at the tomb of Abraham Lincoln in Spring- | field, IIL, last September, he was elected | to command the Grand Army of the | Republic. Previously he had served as commander of its Illinois department | and chairman of the National Council ‘ of administration. | Born Near Chicagog | _Wright was born at Naperville, IIl, a Chicago suburb, in 1845. He came here just before the great Chicago fire, in | 1871. A year later he was married and last October Capt. and Mrs. Wright celebrated their 60th wedding anni- versary. Their only son died several years ago. For the last 30 years Wright had conducted a real estate business on the | South Side. The senior vice commander of the | G. A. R. is Col. Russell C. Martin of Los dAngele!, who succeeds to the com- mand. ADVERTIS;NG AIDED Ten Weeks’' Campaign Credited to Increase in Business. ‘ BIRMINGHAM, Ala., June 15 (#).— | A 10-week newspaper advertising cam- | paign was credited today with an in- | crease in business, which officials of | a dry cleaning plant said made possible | salary raises for 130 employes. | "'The pay increases range from 10 | to ;20 per “cent. With adjournment of Congress still indefinite, due o the veterans’ compen- i sation controversy, President Roosevelt has made some changes in the plans he had made for a brief vacation, away from the White House. Unless Congress adjourns this after- !noon, the chances of which are remote, | | the President will cancel the arrange- | ments he had made to go to Groton, | Mass., tomorrow for the graduation of his son, Franklin, jr. He has no in-| tention, however, of abandoning his | | plans for a cruise up the New England Coast to his mother’s Summer home at Campobello Island, less than a mile beyond the Canadian border. Mr. Roosevelt intends to remain there a day or so before returning to Wash- ington aboard the new cruiser Indi- anapolis, but his departure on this ocean trip will be postponed until | something definite is known about when Congress will get away. It was said at the White House today that as matters stand now, the Presi- dent would be unable to leave Wash- ington tonight to attend his son's grad- | will wmation at_Groton, and that he would | the White House Bot leave Washington for his crulse un: ROOSEVELT’S VACATION ISEPENDS UPON ADJOURNMENT OF CONGRESS May Cancel Visit to Groton, Mass., Tomorrow, but Will Take Sailing Trip to Mother’s Estate. til about 24 hours after Congress finally adjourns. | M Roosevelt has been looking for- ward with enthusiasm to this brief va- cation, and while he is disappointed that his plans may be set back some- what, he has no intention of giving up the trip. The schedule, aside from the abandonment of the Groton visit, will remain the same as originally an- nounced, except the dates will be changed. When the President finally leaves Washington for his two weeks of sail- ing, he will go by special train to Ma- rion, Mass., where he will visit briefly with Dr. MacDonald, an old personal friend, and wijll then go aboard the 41- foot schooner-yacht Amberjack II, an- chored in the harbor of Marion, and head for the ocean. ‘The President will be his own skipper. The crew of the schooner on this leg of the trip has not yet been definitely selected, although James Roasevelt, the | President’s eldest son, will serve as first mate. ‘The President had originally in- tended to be back in Washington by July 1. The unexpected delay in his de- ‘Antique’ Bridge Bought to Exhibit At Fair in Indiana By the Assoclated Press. HAMMOND, Ind., June 15.—For $20, Lake County has an “antique” bridge 80 feet long, and the price includes a 200-mile covered structure, recently aban- doned when a State W8] 'y route was at Rushville, trans- will be assembled over a small creek. County officials claim there are but three of this particlular type of bridge remaining in the United States. RAILS ANNOUNGE NEW WAGE SLASH Notify Union Employes of Re- duction Totaling 221/ Per- Cent Below Scale. By the Assoclated Press. OCHICAGO, June 15.—America’s rail- roads today notified their union em- ployes an additional cut of 12}, per cent in wages would be made, effective next November 1. The announcement, made through the Railway Executives Assoclation, said in effect that a previous “temporary deduction of 10 per cent” would be made permanent and that an additional 12}2 per cent cut would be imposed. The total slice in pay, under the announce- ment, would be 2213 per cent from the basic wage scale. Officials of the Railway Labor Ex- ecutives Association have announced flatly the union workers would not ac- cept such a cut. Ask for Conference. ‘The railroads asked that represent- atives of the unions meet them in Chi- cago July 12, as provided by the national railway labor act, to discuss the proposed cuts. Although not touching upon their own financial conditions, the railroads said the proposed adjustment would bring the wage rates of railway workers “more nearly in line with living costs and with rates paid in other industries.” The an- nouncement pointed out that, although ‘wages have been “reduced” 10 per cent, effective until next November 1, there been no permanent reduction in the basic rates. ‘The announcement sent to heads of the 24 unions comprising the Railway Labor Executives’ Association follows: “We hereby give notice, in accordance with the provisions of the rallway labor act and the existing agreement with the employes represented by your organiza- tion (the Labor Executives’' Association), of an intention to reduce all basic rates of p=y on and after November 1, 1933, in the following respects, to wit: “(a) By reducing the basic rates 8o as to incorporate therein the present deduction of 10 per cent, and; “(b) By further reducing the basic rates so as to include an additional lié;per cent of the now existing basic rates. Provides for Mediation. “In accordance with the provision of the agreement of December 21, 1932 (providing the 10 per cent deduction and which has been extended to next November 1). We have authorized the Conference Committee of Managers to represent this company (the Railway Executives’ Association) in proceedings, and it is our desire that the initial conference shall be held in the Palmer House, Chicago, on July 12, 1933, at 10 am.” Under the agreement providing for the 10 per cent deduction, either the employes or employers were entitled to give notice any time between today and November 1 of & change in wages. The raflway labor act provides that conferences first be held and that if no agreement is reached, the matter be placed before a United States Govern- ment mediator. HUNT SLAYERS OF TWO Planes, Boat and Troops Search for Three Men in Missouri. COLUMBIA, Mo., June 15 (). —Afr- planes, Government boats on the Mis- sourl River, National Guard machine gunners and Artillerymen today had oined the search for three men who illed Sheriff Roger Wilson of Boon: County and Sergt. Ben Booth of the State Patrol in the outskirts of Colum- DARROW PREPARES BLUE LAW FIGHT Will Seek to Reopen Case of Three Men Fined for Moving at Somerset. Clarence Darrow, chief counsel for the National Association Opposed to Blue Laws, will attempt to get the case of three District men, fined in Mont- gomery County for moving furniture on Sunday, back into the Maryland courts in an effort to aid in battering down Maryland's blue laws, he said this morning. If he succeeds he bably will de- he added. mungl ‘Th back into the courts lies the fact that the fines imposed—$5 re both the maximum and the minimum for the offense under the statute, are net more than $10, and therefore it cannot be appealed. ‘The three—M. D. Shear, G. P. Minor and H. C. Kearns, all of this elt!; the case they 3 day, April 30, the furniture of Samuel Horne, Washington attorney, from his former home in Washington to a house in Somerset. ‘They were fined in Police Court in Rockville by Judge Donald A. De Lashmutt. to get back into the will be en ‘The action courts probabl within a few a conference in Willard Hotel with other officials of the anti-blue law group. The attorney said he did not know at this time the exact procedure he and his associate counsel would take, but intimated a writ of certiorari might be obtained. Participating in the conference wer: Attorney John W. Cleaton of Chevy Chase, who defended the trio; Linn A. E. Gale, secretary-treasurer of the Anti-Blue Law Association; one of its directors. Another conference with Darrow was scheduled for STABILIZATION SEEN UNDER WAY NO Price Expected to Remain Close to $4.05 to the Pound for Duration of Parley. By the Associated Press. LONDON, June 15.—British financial quarters were inclined to the opinion that stabilization of the dollar and pound for the duration of the World Economic Conference virtually was ac- complished today as the dollar stead! close to a quotation of $4.05 to the pound. The $4.05 quotation was widely rumored as the point on which it was agreed to start stabilization. ‘The pound had been substantially higher earlier in the day. ‘The steps to be taken to accomplish de facto stabilization have been the sub- ject of much speculation, both in bank- +ing quarters and the World Economic Conference, but it was understood that experts are working out a formula which will include virtual cessation of foreign exchange speculation, ACCORD ON CROATIAN AL SMITH CALLED 10 AID MITCHELL One of Character Witnesses, Including Former Gov. Whitman and Brisbane. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, June 15.—Former Gov. Alfred E. Smith was among & group of character witnesses for Charles E. Mitchell, former chairman of the Na- tional City Bank, as his trial on charges of income tax evasion neared its close in PFederal Court. Smith took a seat near the counsel table. Seated across the room were former Gov. Charles S. Whitman, for- mer Supreme Court Justice Morgan J. O'Brien and Arthur Brisbane, col= umnist. O'Brien was the first witness. He said he had known Mitchell for 15 years and his reputation for truth, veracity, and integrity were very good. Former Gov. Whitman was called next. Whitman describing himself as “twice the Governor of this State,” said he had known Mitchell for 30 years. “What is his reputation for truth and honesty and intergrity?” Max D. stelller.hde(lame attorney, asked. “I should say it was very good,” ‘Whitman _replied. it F. E. Bedford, president of a food distributing company, said he had gone to college with Mitchell and his reputa- tion always had been excellent. Bris- bane said he had known the defendant 11 years, and he, too, said Mitchell had a good reputation. George Whitney, partner in the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co., testified earlier that, not until more than a year after Mitcheil had sold to his wife 18,300 shares of stock held by the Morgans as collateral, was he told about it. It was through Whitney that Mitchell in October, 1929, arranged a loan * to $12,000,000,” putting up his Naf c“yuf‘l.:‘tkg A:ock as collateral. Two mont T, to record a loss as a result of which he paid no income tax for 1929, Mitchell sold 18,300 shares of the stock to his wife, without, he has testified, notifying the Morgans. “When did you first learn Mr. Ml had sold the 18,300 shares to his wife?” Max D. Steuer, defense counsel, asked ‘Whitney. I came back from trip to Europe in January, 1932, two & our partners told me they'd heard of the sale,” Whitney said, “but I'd heard about it before then. three mortgages as lateral.” Whitney was on the stand less than wlefi“.’:‘«fiufi:m was not cross-ex- amined, originally he was have been called as a (Jove:mmy ent vu-w appearance, he stopped, shook hands with Mitchell. 25 —_— BOND INTEREST PAID National Press Building Receiver to Pay $177,802. 1 $250,000,000 SEEN UNDER TAX ON WHEAT AND COTTON CROPS (Continued From First drop ‘before collection of the begins i uhmldbebwlud.‘:m prices rose as a result of the i The tax is to be collected ton and wheat at the processing, but is processed co 3 & ¥ Esgi Es % g s 28 i i the estimated plantings of 000,000 acres. Rentals will be growers at rates varying aroun acre, depending on costs date, and in addition growers offered options on 2,500,000 bales Government-owned cotton at a belflw t!:em “cumrrent market. o crop is reduced to 1 000,000 bales, as hoped by some ldm&. istrators, a 4-cent tax would yleld $200,~ 000,000 gross, of which about one-half would be refunded, as normally that portion is exported. This leave a fund of $100,000,000 for financing acreage reduction in addition to any sum drawn from appropriations 3200,300.000 authorized by Congress for il %8ks i Private Cables Report Agent of France Has Arrived to Win Over Yugoslavia. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, June 15.—Private cable messages Teceived here today said Prince Sixtus of Parma had arrived at Belgrade, Yugoslavia, as the con- fidential agent of the French govern- ment to win over King Alexander to a solution of the Croatian question in such a manner as to make possible the restoration of the Austro-Hungarian dual monarchy. The source of this information is close to Archduke Otto of Hapsburg, claimant to the thrones of both Austria e | ing bia late yesterday, 45 minutes after a bank robbery at Mexico, Me. Meanwhile doubt was expressed at Mexico that the pobbers who took $1,628.44 from the and Mer- chants Bank were same men who parture may prevent his returning to Ul s day or s0 ‘Wilson and the best means of preventing any plan | amen: ublic works hich aside 2 800,000 for i e by Chancellor Hitler of German; y Ior a union of Austria and . Booth. officers were alain when they sought to.question ! that She-Becll Inghe QUESTION IS SOUGHT : Planting of Winter wheat, which begin in August, will be the first affected. £ s when the agresmEns i ey is bonus when agreement is dra with the remainder to be pald ter verification that the farmer has fulfilled his agreements. . In both cases a county administra- tion is being devised cailing for the es~ tablishment of committee of farmers to put K:oucm‘ of the plan on a basis of_self-interest as far as possible, Even as the plans were drawn agri- cultural commissioners of ‘Southern States forwarded to the President & proposal that at least 10,000,006 scres, or better still, 12,500,000 acres, be taken ‘3:1‘. of pr?x%ucum fndthe cotton year. They opposed, however, . ing of the tax. Sy Earlier in the it was decided to announcement of* the plans unn dment to