Evening Star Newspaper, June 18, 1933, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair today; tomorrow fair, with rising temperature; gentle to moderate north- west and north winds. Temperatures— Highest, 81, at 4 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 60, at 6:30 a.m. yesterday. Full report on page 7. e he Swndiy Star, WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION No. 1,474—No. 32,555. Entered as second class matte; post office, Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON, D. PARLEY SETBACK BY 0. REECTION | OF STABLZATION Roosevelt Stand Destroys Hope for Early Results in Monetary Matters. AMERICAN TARIFF PLAN GIVES ENCOURAGEMENT | French Plan to Continue Fight to| Fix Value of Dollar and | Pound. By the Assoctated Press. LONDON, June 17.—News that the | American Government is not prepared | to accept the currency stabilization plan drafted at London by experts at the World Economic Conference changed the whole aspect of the parley tonight, destroying the generally accepted view that the world monetary problem would be the first to yield concrete results. The American delegates heard the report from Washington unofficially as they returned from the royal garden party at Windsor. Early editions of London Sunday papers were already appearing with the headlines “Conference Makes Progress” and asserting an arangement for the stabilization of the pound and | the dollar was near at hand. Bankers to Reconvene. Central bank officials, it was said in eonference quarters where the news ‘was read, will have to resume their pri- vate conversations regarding currency | stabilization at the earliest possible moment and, while keeping in the| closest touch with official government | delegations, renew their effort to ham- | mer out an accord for fixing currency | values at a satisfactory figure. | ‘The French delegation, which has insisted from the beginning of the con- ference that stabilizdtion of American and British exchanges must be the first step taken at London, was hopeful before the news of President Roosevelt's opposition to the tentative agreement ‘was received that the first stage of sta- bilization might soon be achieved. The rejection of the currency scheme by the American Government brought gloom to the conference, which had closed its first week on a hopeful note in view of the general expectation that the dollar and the pound would soon be | subjected to control operations. | A proposal for a general all-around | 10 per cent reduction of tariff rates was presented to the economic com- mission today by the American delega- tion, increasing the feeling that the | conference had well begun and was on | the road to real achievements. | Lord Beaverbrook’s newspaper, the SBunday Express, in an edi regard- ing reports upon negotiations for st | bilizing the pound and the dollar at/ $4.05, said: “It was foolish to suppose that such | an agreement could be carried through. It would be tantamount to putting the | dollar back on the gold basis. That would mean that President Roosevelt has thrown away the right which the | Senate conferred on him to devaluate ' American currency. It could not be done.” Several American delegates privately disowned the 10 per cent tariff cut plan | which was published as a “suggested agenda for the economic commission in | the field of tariffs and commercial pol- fcy, submitted by the American dele- gation.” | The plan was drawn up by Henry Chalmers of the Bureau of Foreign and | Domestic Commerce, & member of the technical staff, and its submission to the conference came as a surprise to| most _of the Americans, who sald no vote had been taken on it. | Merely a Suggestion. After hurried inquiries were made, it | was said at American haedquarters that | the planned submission did not commit the delegation, and the idea was simply | a suggestion for consideration. One delegate said he believed it stood little chance for adoption, and pointed out the delegation has no authority to com- mit the United States to a 10 per cent tariff reduction as that power reposes in Congress. It was not discovered who authorized submission of the plan, which provides for “a 10 per cent horizontal reduction of import duties which were in effect in various countries on June 12 and would become operative on ratification " (Centinued on Page 5, Column 1.) RELEASE OF HAMM EXPECTED TODAY | | | Attorney Indicates Ransom Paid to Kidnapers of Rich St. Paul Brewer. By the Associated Press PAUL, June 17.—Hope of free- William Hamm, ir. millionaire d of the Theodore Hamm kidnapers for a threat of expressed to- attorney for under was J. Charles, tom: by H ed that a part or all om money. which probably e less than $100,000, had been the kidnapers. e have had at least two notes from the kidnapers,” Charles said, “and sev- eral telephone calls. There will be nothing more tonight. but we expect to have something tomorrow morning We hope that Mr. Hamm will be re- leased tomorrow morning Roosevelt Boards Yacht for Holiday Off New England Greeted by Big Crowds Along Route Despite Drenching Rain. By the Associated Press. MARION, Mass., June 17.—President | Roosevelt was out in the harbor to- night aboard the little, white, two- masted schooner Amberjack 2, poised for a cruise up the Atlantic coast to begin at 7 a.m. tomorrow. Arriving here shortly after 6 o'clock from & motor trip that led from Boston through Groton to Vvisit his mother and two sons, the President embarked lI-' most immediately on the waiting yacht. | A moment later he had shoved off, and, with his crew of three men, he soon was away from all cares and back again on the sea, which he loves. The (Continued on Page 3, Column 6.) JISTEE ACENTS ORDEREDTDHUNT SLAVRS OF FE Battle Results From Effort to Kill or Free Nash, Ok- lahoma Desperado. By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, June 17.—All the forces of the Federal Department of Justice, as well as the State of Mis- souri, were concentrated tonight on finding the killers of four officers and a desperado in a gun battle in the Union Station Plaza here today. The crime, resulting from the am- bushing of seven officers and a ‘prisoner, turned the plaza into a scene of horror. Five were killed outright and two others wounded in the brief but deadly burst of fire. At Washington Attorney General Cummings issued an order setting the entire Justice Department on the trail of the killers and specifically assigned & detall from points near Kansas City to the case. Names and Prints Checked. He also set men checking through the names, data, fingerprints and pho- tographs in the files of the Leavenworth Penitentiary. “It is my hope” Cummings said, “that in the field of law enforcement and in the detection and prosecution of crime, I may be able to bring about a better co-ordination of State and Federal activities.” ‘The wholesale killings resulted from an effort by gangsters to release or slay Frank Nash, notorious Oklahoma train robbers and killer, being returned to the Federal prison at Leavenworth, where he cscaped three years ago. ‘When the murderous rattle of ma- chine gun slugs ceased, Nash, the Okla- homa desperado, was crumpled dead in an automobile he had entered the mo- ment of the attack. Lifeless about him | were: Raymond J. Caffrey, special agent of the United States Bureau of Investi- gation. Otto Reed, chief of police at Mc- Alester, Okla. Frank Hermanson, Kansas City de- tective. W. J. Grooms, Kansas City detective. F. J. Lackey Wounded. ‘The wounded were F. J. Lackey, spe- cial agent at Oklahoma City of the United States Bureau of Investigation, whose condition is considered critical, and R. E. Vetterli, agent in charge of the Kansas City Bureau of Investiga- tion, who returned the fire of his as- sailants as they drove away. Lackey was shot three times in the back. Vetterli suffered a slight wound in_the left arm. Nash, a member of the Al Spencer gang which terrorized Northeast Okla- | homa 10 years ago, was_arrested by agents, of the Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice, at Hot Springs, | Atk yesterday after a long and re- lentless search. “I don't believe they intended to kill " (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) ICE JAMS HALT FLIGHT OF ITALIANS TO U. S. Seaplanes Not Off for Chicago Before Middle of Week. By the Associated Press ORBETELLO, Italy, June 17.—Avi- ation Minister General Italo Balbo an- nounced tonight that ice jams off Lab- rador will prevent the departure until at least the middle of next week of the Italian seaplane squadron he will lead on a flight by stages to Chicago. He said the supply ship Alice which | left St. John's, Newfoundland, June 5, | for Cartwright, Labrador, where the squadron s to alight after a flight from Iceland, has been trying fruitlessly for nine days to cross Belle Isle Straits which is choked with ice. An icebreaker was sent this morning from St. John's to clear the way, but cannot reach the Alice before Tuesday. Gen. Balbo denied reports from America that the Alice was damaged in a collision with an iceberg. fiG DROPPED FROM AIRPLANE AFTER CHANGE INTO SAUSAGE Church Benefit Staged at Fair Despite S. P. C. A. Protest, Thanks to Smart Pilot From Maryland. By the Associated Press. | BALTIMORE, June 17—The sched- uled leap of a pig from an airplane st a fair staged for the benefit of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd was not held tod: In its place, link sausage attached tosa ?lrlch\nc was dropped. The Soci- ety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals had protested the proposed parachute jump of the pig. In a note attached to the sausage, Edward R. Fenimore, of Chestertown, Md., plane pilot and owner of the pig, said “In order to obviate the objections of the 5. P. C A. and vet satisfy the air-minded, 1 found it necessary to convert little Julius into the inani- mate form in which you now receive him before making this, his final DB"-T chute jump.” ‘The newspapers had dubbed the pig “Julius.” Fair officials said a society l&ent | was on the fleld with warrants for their | arrest if the pig was dropped. [ Expected to Take| AMERICA IGNORES APPEAL OF FRENCH FORDEBTS REVIEW U. S. Note Forcefully Reminds Paris of Unpaid In- stallments. [ITALIAN OBLIGATIONS OPEN TO DISCUSSION |Poland and Belgium, Defaulted Nations, Also Informed of Washington Attitude. { | | By the Assoctated Press. In a formal note the United States yesterday ignored France's appeal for a review of its war debt and forcefully reminded the Paris government of its two unpaid debt installments totaling $60,000,000. At the same time a note was handed to Italian Ambassador Rosso saying while his government’s payment of $1,- 000,000 on & total installment due of more than $14,000,000 might be con- sidered by Congress and the American people as “unsubstantial,” Mr. Roose- velt was willing to enter upon a dis- cussion of the Italian debt. Further Representations Open. Meanwhile, it was made clear, in- formally, that while President Roose- velt would not brusquely wave aside further French representations on the debt question, that nation must place itself on the same footing with others that have met or partially met their obligations before the debt question could be reopened. Notes identical to the one to France were dispatched to Poland and Belgium, which like France, have now defaulted on two installments. The notes were in reply to communications from those governments saying they were not able to meet the payments which fell due Thursday and repeating their urgent request for revision. Note to French. signed by Acting Secretary of State Phillips, after a consultation with President Roosevelt, said: “The Government of the United| States acknowledges receipt of the note of the French government setting forth its attitude concerning the debt obliga- tion due on June 15 to this Govern- iment. It notes that the French gov- debt agreement between the French i government and the Government of the United States. “The Government of the United States must, in all frankness, call at- | tention to the problems raised by the meet the payment due on December 15, 1932. which have not yet been solved or nations.” | | Note to Italy. | To Italy went the following message: “In reply to your excellency’s note of June 14, the President directs me to say that the Government of the United | States notes that the payment of one million dollars has been made on ac- count and as an acknowledgment by your government of the debt due the United States. “This Government also notes the re- quest of the Italian government for an opportunity to present representations concerning the entire debt question and in reply desires to inform you that it ; (Continued on Page 4. Column 1.) TODAY'S STAR PART ONE—28 PAGES. News—Local, National | | General Foreign. Serial Story, “Valiant Dust”—Page C-1. | Community Centers—Page C-1. Organized Reserves—Page C-1. Italian War Veterans—Page C-1. The Home Gardener—Page C-2. Conquering Contract—Page C-2. American Legion—Page C-2. | Fraternities—Page C-3. Parent-Teacher Activities—Page C-4. District National Guard—Page C-4. Veterans of Foreign Wars—Page C-4 Spanish War Veterans—Page C-4. Stamps—Page C-6, Disabled American Veterans—Page C-6. D. A. R. Activities—Page C-7 | News of the Clubs—Page C-T. Y. W. C. A. News—Page C-T. | B | PART TWO—6 PAGES. | Editorials and Editorial Features. PART THREE—8 PAGES. | Society Section. PART FOUR—8 PAGES. Amusement Section—Stage, Screen and Music | Community Chest News—Page 3. { In the Motor World—Page 4. | Aviation—Page 4 | W. C. T. U. Notes—Page 4. | Marine Corps News—Page 4. | Yachting—Page 6. Radio—Page 7 PART FIVE—4 PAGES. Sports Section. PAGES. | Pinancial News and Classified Adver- tising. Public Library—Page 12 Naval Reserves—Page 12. PART SEVEN—16 PAGES. Magazine Section. Reviews of New Books—Page 11. Notes of Art and Artists—Page 12. Crossword Puzzie—Page 13. Boys' and Girls' Page—Page 14. Highlights of History—Page 15. ! Those Were the Happy Days—Page 16. GRAPHIC SECTION—6 PAGES. | World Events in Pictures. COLORED SECTION—$ PAGES. | Holly of Hollywood; Keeping Up With the Joneses; Mr. and Mrs.; Tarzan; Little Orphan Annie; Moon Mullins; The Timid Soul; 'Smatter Pop, C., SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 18, 1933 —NINETY-SIX PAGES. BY GoLLy, | KNOW JUST * Subscriber or Newsstand Copy Not for Sale by Newsboys (#) Means Associated Press. FIVE CENTS | TEN CE IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS ELSEWHERE TS tiates Historic yesterday outpaced and outgame: thon championship, sponsored by Dave Komonen, transplanted FINN SETS NEW RECORD TO WIN STAR MARATHON Dave Komonen of Toronto Club Nego- in 2:53:43. A gliding ghost from Finland—home of great distance runners— 26-Mile Course d the greatest field of marathen | runners ever gathered together to win the national A. A. U. mara- The Star. Finn, now living in Toronto, Can- In the case of France, the reply. | ada, whose untiring strides propelled his muscular body over the classic marathon distance of 26 miles 385 yards to a new record for the course, wore down last year’s champion and forced him to quit, along with several other favored entrants in The Star marathon. Komonen's time was 2 hours 53 minutes 43 seconds. Sweeping across the finish line withe the same untiring stride that had car- ried him shoulder to shoulder with Paul De Bruyn, famed German runner, ARMY WILL EFFECT OB |Economy Will Be Made With-! out Reduction in Officers or Men. Without the necessity of reducing the officer and enlisted strength of either the Army or the National Guard, the War Department has worked out a plan for saving $50,000,000 in the com- ing fiscal year by imposing severe cur- tailments of civilian personnel, training activities and equipment. ‘The $50,000,000 saving proposed is ac- tually $4,000,000 under the figure orig- inally determined by the Budget Bureau. Exclusive of rivers and harbors im- for 15 miles, until De Bruyn was forced | provements, the plan calls for a limit | of $225,000,000 on departmental and WALLAGE HOLDS UP out by the elling pace, du{:f wiry Fin, who speaks hardly a word of Eng- ernment has failed to meet in whole or in part the installment due on existing | failure of the French government to! even discussed between the two | and | lish, shattered the previous record by 4 minutes and 35 seconds. The winner is 8 member of the famous Monarch | Athletic Club of Torormto end has been in Canada about four years. He is a shoemaker by trade, but is at present out of work. Champlon Drops Out. Clyde D. Martak of Baltimore, winner of the marathon last year, relinquished | his national title down in East Potomac Park, dropping out of the race after about 15 miles. Martak was not alone among the casualties, however. Besides | De Briyn, Leslie Pawson, world record | holder, who started with a broken metatarsal bone in one foot, also was forced to quit. Fifteen thousand persons gathered at the finish line near the Zero milestone, | saw the Finnish ghost, his legs moving | | with the same machine-like Tegularity | with which he topped the first hill after | the start at Mount Vernon, drift across | the tape to the new record, 400 yards |in front of Mel Porter, rugged star from the Irish-American A. C. of Newark, | N Porter finished in 2 hours, 55 minutes, 3 seconds. In third place was Fred Ward, lanky runner from the Mill- rose A. C. of New York, who picked up | where De Bruyn, Martak and Pawson | left off and trailed the victor by nearly 4 minutes to the finish. Ward ran the | distance in 2 hours, 57 minutes, 15 sec- | onds. Another Finn who lacked the | elusive ghost like quality of those un- | tiring piston-like legs of Komonen, fin- | | ished fourth. This was Hugo Kaupj- | | sinen, running under the colors of the | Finnish-American A. C. of New York, | who covered the distance in 3 hours, {25 seconds. i Wyer Finishes Fifth. Sparrow-chested little Percy Wyer, a 98-pound wisp of a man, running with a | | cabbage leaf stuck under the handker- | | chief which covered his head, “to keep | out the sun,” finished fifth. Wyer ran | second to Martak last year. | Frank Hupal of Portchester, N. Y., was sixth, and Dick Wilding of Toronto was seventh. In eighth place Was an amazing youngster from Chicago. Au- | gust Sloboda, who kept pace with the | | leaders for most of the distance, but | | fell behind as Komonen, Porter and Ward, far more experienced in the mar- athon game. put on their last mile burst | of speed. The national team champion- ship went, as it did last year. to the Monarch A. C. of Toronto, which pro- duced the winner. Komonen, the new national champion | was born in a little town in Finland with an unpronounceable name. Even Wyer, who answered questions for Ko- | monen, couldn’t spell the name of the | town where the new title holder first | saw the light of day. Komonen, ~ (Continued on First Sports Page). ST HITLER SEEN OPPOSED TO NEW REICHSBISHOP Defeated Nazi's Letter Implies Re- gret of Chancellor at “Impasse’” in Church Efforts. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, June 17—Opposition by | Chancellor Hitler to Rev. Heinrich von Bodelschwingh as Protestant Reichs- bishop of Germany was implied today in a letter to pastors by Rev. Hermann Mueller, defeated Nazi candidate for the post. It credited the chancellor with re- gretting the impasse reached in efforts to_“rebuild the church” Dr. Mueller said that Hitler refused to receive the new Reichsbishop and that President von Hindenburg at pres- ent was undecided on whether to give | him a reception (a recent dispatch from Neubeck_sald the President informed Dr. von Bodelschwingh he would receive him when he returned to Berlin ‘mm! his vacation). Dr. Mueller closed his statement by claiming the Reichsbishop's office has not yet been created pending rewriting of the church constitution despite the action of the 29 Protestant church bodies in Germany in electing Dr. von Bodelschwingh, a non-political candi- date, to the post. {out a tax the acreage COTTONTAK ORDER Persuaded to Delay An-| nouncement, but Stands Firm on His Program. By the Associated Press. A final drive to dissuade Secretary| of Agriculture Wallace from applying maximum processing taxes on cotton was credited yesterday with postponing briefly announcement of his cotton acreage reduction program, but failed to shake his determination to carry out his original plans. | He arranged early in the day to an- nounce his program before noon, but partly as a result of a protest presented by Senator Smith, Democrat, of South Carolina, he postponed this. Late yes- terday he announced he would make the program public tomerrow at 11 am, this time having been selected to make the information available at markets in this country befors those abroad. Smith's protest was made at a meet- ing which lasted until midnight Friday, where Wallace was represented by Dr. R. G. Tugwell, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture; Charles J. Brand, co- administrator, and Oscar Johnston, finance administrator. Smith Objects Vigorously. It was attended by a group of South- ern Senators and Smith wigorously ob- jected to a tax this year on the ground that it would depress cotton prices this Fall when farmers are carrying the staple to market. He expressed the opinion that with- eduction fea- d tend to in- tures of the program wo | crease cotton prices up to 15 cents a pound. One detail of the plan also slowed up his announcement. This was de- termination of the base period on which the tax should be reckoned. A max- imum tax represents the difference be- tween the current average farm price | for cotton and the parity price based on pre-war average farm prices. The difference during May made a tax of 4 cents a pound possible, and a max- imum tax based on present prices | would be about the same amount. Plans to Apply Tax August 1. A rise in cotton prices following an- nouncement of the acreage reduction | program would have a tendency to close the margin and reduce the amount of the tax and thus cut the proceeds avail- able for making payments to farmers. Wallace plans to put the cotton tax into effect on August 1, at the begin- ning of the marketing year. Meanwhile, with the wheat program providing maximum processing taxes already outlined, administrators turned to another big problem of application of the adjustment act—corn and hogs. Guy C. Shepard, chief of meat | processing, announced that representa- | tives of the packing industry were pre- | paring trade agreements aimed to pro- vide higher hog prices. These agree- | ments will be submitted to Secretary ‘Wallace. Medium Weight Encouraged. The agreements in their tentative | form call for payment of premium | prices on medium - weight swine to | discourage the production of heavy swine and thus decrease the aggregate tonnage marketed. Plans in this direction have signifi- | cance with relationship to corn, as the | | latter is grown principally as feed for | hogs. Dr. A. G. Black, acting corn-hog | | production chief, is working with | Bheglrd in_drafting plans. Chester Davis, who is director of production, responsible to George N. (Continued on Page 3, Column 7.) |RAILMEN T mmuri expenditures in the 1934 fiscal year which begins July 1. The outlay this year is estimated at $275,000,000. Announcing the cuts yesterday, the War Department said every effort had been made to absorb them in such a way as would minimize any consequent impairment of the national defense. With the elimination by Congress of the executive power proposed for Presi- dent Roosevelt whereby he would be authorized to furlough, in his discretion, at least 2,000 commissioned officers and drop about 15,000 enlisted men of the Army, the Army was given a freer hand in working out its own economies. Cuts Explained. A War Department explanation of the cuts proposed said: “The detailed analysis of reductions discloses that the retrenchments relate primarily to living expenses, mainte- nance and operation costs, material and new equipment, with some curtailment of training activities and overhead civilian personnel. All components of the Army of the United States will have less funds. However, each is re- tained without reduction in its fight- ing personnel. “The Regular Army will omit its normal field training activities, includ- ing target practice, will reduce its fly- ing training, suspend many of its sup- ply, arsenal and depot activities, its re- search and development studies, its re- equipment, including aircraft, and its armament activities as well as certain curtailments in its motor and animal programs. “It will also have to reduce expendi- tures for its employes and clerks—field employes at arsenals, depots and posts will be seriously affected. To Retain Personnel. “The National Guard will retain its | existing personnel and be able to con- duct all fleld and partial armory train- ing. While the National Guard will have to suspend some of its activities, it is estimated that the funds available will permit two weeks’ fleld training and at least 12, and probably 20, armory training _drills. “The Reserve Officers’ Training Corps will be maintained, but with curtail ment in supplies, uniforms and equip- ment, and also with about one-third reduction in its Summer training camps activity. “The Organized Reserve is now asso- ciated with the Regular Army in the Civilian Conservation Corps work in so far as there is a shortage of Regular Army officers for this work. As most of the reserve officers associated with the corps are of junior grades, some funds have been reserved which will permit the training of a few of the key fleld officers of the Reserve Corps, TO RENEW WAGE PARLEY HERE Chicago Session Adjourns After Af- firming Stand Against In- creased Cut. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, June 17.—Railway labor leaders of the Nation tonight adjourned their conference here, reaffirming their intentions to refuse acceptance of the railroads’ demand that a 22!, per cent wage slice replace the present 10 per cent temporary reduction. ‘The union chiefs, members of the Railway Labor Association, announced they would reconvene at 10 a.m. next Tuesday in the Hamilton Hotel at ‘Washington, D. C., with all 21 mem- bers of the association present. Only 15 members attended the meeting here. “We adjourned because we want a full representation present when we de- cide officially what we are going to do on this matter,” said Alexander F. Whitney, chairman of the association. ‘Whitney announced the unions would co-operate fully with the new railroad co-ordinator, J. B. Eastman, under the National rallway act. -~ PRCGAPERITY REVIVAL - AGREEMENTS RUSHED ' BY MAJOR INDUSTRIES Half Dozen Nearly Ready to Sub- mit Wage, Working Time and Sales Code Proposals. SPALDING SEEN AS PERMANENT PUBLIC WORKS ADMINISTRATOR Economists Call Trade Report Most Cheerful One Issued by U. S. Agency Since Late in 1929. ¥ Agreements among more than half a dozen major industries to raise wages, stabilize hours of work and ban sales below cost of pro- duction were understood last night to be nearing completion for sub- mission to Hugh S. Johnson, administrator of the national recovery act. Out of weeks of conferences came authoritative reports that announcements would be ready soon which would affect millions of workers and set in motion definitely the machinery upon which President Roosevelt rests much of his expectation of ending the depression. Representatives of textiles, iron and steel, automobile, coal, cloth- ing, electrical supplies and other key industries have been in touch directly with Johnson and his staff of co-ordinators in the last few days. Over the country, other meetings are going ahead. Tangible Results Seen Soon. And out of them, officials forecast, will come soon tangible results toward curbing unemployment and increasing purchasing power. President Roosevelt expressed the hope before his departure from Washington that “the 10 major industries which control the bulk of industrial employment can submit their simple basis codes at once and that the country can look forward to the month of July as the beginning of our great national movement back to work.” Meanwhile, there were reports that the public works section of the legislation would be administered over the long-time period by Col. George R. Spalding of the Army Engineering Corps. Sawyer Temporary Administrator. Surprsing most of these familiar with the organization before the bill was actually signed, President Roosevelt named Col. Donald H. Sawyer, chairman of the Federal Employment Stabilization Board, as temporary administrator of 'public works. It was indicated that in a few weeks Spalding, who has been handling the exploratory work and has built up the engineering or- ganization, would be named permanent administrator. —T Within the next few days & list of Producer: of O"l State administrators of the construc- tion program will be submitted to the Vote Price Fixing in Recovery Plan By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, June 17.—Representatives of more than 40 crude oil-producing companies that supply 95 per cent of the Nation’s oil today adopted a pro- posal allowing the President of the United States to fix maximum and minimum prices. ‘The proposal comprises a section of & code being drafted by independent and large ofl producers as demanded by the | Federal Government in the national industry recovery .ct to set up “fair practices regulations” for all industries. Many Fought Plan. Adoption of the price-fixing section came after heated debate, during which the proposal was condemned by J. Ed- gar Pew, president of the Sun Oil Co.; R. G. A. Van Derwoude, president of the Shell Petroleum Corporation; C. B. Ames, chairman of the board oI the Texas Oil Co.; Ralph B. Lloyd, mil- lionaire California oil producer; C. C. Herndon, vice president of Skelly Oil, and others. “We'd be delighted today td have dollar oil,” Ames told the operators, “but if we allow this scheme to be foisted upon us, we will have dollar oil for the next two or three years when we won’t want it.” Van Derwoude likewise warned that a minimum price now would “mean a maximum price for the future.” Utilitles Cited. Wirt Franklin, president of the In- | dependent Ofl Producers’ Association, | of the price-fixing section. Others were | Amos L. Beaty, a director of the Amer- ican Petroleum Institute, and L. P. St. Clair, president of Union Oil of Cali- | fornia. “The utilities have their prices fixed now, and that's the only class of in- dustry that has made profits during the depression,” St. Clair said. Beaty declared price fixing should (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) OIL OFFICIAL DIES | Secretary of Mid-Continental Com- pany Found Dead in Hotel. CHICAGO, June 17 (#).—Harry H. Smith, Tulsa, Okla., secretary of the Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Associa- tion, was found dead in his hotel room this evening, apparently of a heart at- tack. ck. He had been here two days attend- the Oil Producers Convention. When word of his death reached the convention the entire body stood silent for two minutes in tribute to him. | Was a leader in the battle for adoption | Cabinet Advisory Committee, headed by Secretary of the Interior Ickes. With their appointment, the bulk of the 1 State, Cointy s mgntcipat Projects created. Johnson returned to his desk late yesterday after an attempt to fly to Chicago Friday to address the coal ;rer- ators. Getting only as far as Pitts- burgh, he transmitted his message from there and returned to the Capital. With his coming, employes who have worked with him for weeks were hop- ing they would soon obtain an officiab | status which would place them on the pay roll. Dozens of workers wert taken on a voluntary basis with the hope they would have jobs later, buf thus far Johnson has given-no officia: appointments. Mark Time Order Issued. A “mark-time” work order was is- sued at the administrative offices of the new control organization during the short working day, and, despite the fact industrial representatives were | clamoring for hearings, only minor rou- | tine matters were considered. However, behind lot:ledB u?m in the Commerce Department execu- tives-designate were reported to have made a careful survey of the tentative plans for administration. They ex- themselves as being confident the nosy confuson that prevaled at headquarters last week would subsde, with _the organization operating as smooth as possible before the end of '.hmme o this k the bli week the public organi- zation, which is to be operated entirel: separate from Gen. Johnson’s office, Wi leave its tem ry quarters in the Commerce Bullding and move to the Navy Department, where ample room | for an indefinite stay has been allotted. Government economists viewed trade statistics issued yesterday by the Com- merce Department as being the most ‘cheerful” issued by a Government or- | ganization since the closing days of | 1929. The report was based on the | weekly indices compiled both Gov- ernment and private statisticlans and (Continued on Page 2, Column 8. GENEVA TRIO.IN PLANE Will Visit Area of Dispute Between Colombia and Peru. PUERTO BOY, Colombia, June 17 (#)—A big tri-motored airplane landed here this evening carrying three mem- bers of the League of Nations commis- sion en route to the area of dispute be- tween Colombia and Peru on the upper Amazon. The negotiators, Col. Arthur W. Brown of the United States, Senor Iglesias of Spain and Armando Mencia of Cuba, will continue their trip to- morrow. The Army Air Corps has been so crippled by assignment of officer-pilots to Civilian Conservation Corps duties in the Nation’s forests that one entire pursuit group of three combat squad- rons has been laid up on the Pacific Coast and other squadrons at various fields are being put out of commission in part or in their entirety, it was learned last night. Scores of combat airplanes in vari- ous parts of the country have been put ARMY AIR CORPS IS CRIPPLED BY DRAFT OF FORESTRY SERVICE Squadrons Being Put Out of Commission by Assignment of Officer Pilots to Civilian Conservation Duties. out of commission temporarily for lack of personnel te fly them and many of the new airplanes now being delivered from the factories under final contracts in the five-year Air Corps program have been assigned to squadrons re- duced to skeleton basis because of the forestry work. ‘The most serious blow to the Air Corfi:;emlnnl from assignments to the civil camps came during the height of the combat maneuvers which have « on Page 3, *