Evening Star Newspaper, June 20, 1933, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair, continued warm tonight and to- morrow; gentle to moderate southwest winds. Temjgeratures—Highest, 82, at noon today; lowest, 68, at 5 a.m. today. Fuli report on Page A-9. Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages 13,14&15 Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. - SIX NATIONS BACK PITTMAN PLAN FOR The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news service. ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Star. ch WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, JUNE 20, 193 —THIRTY-TWO PAGES. [couo ostcuron ACAINST HOARDERS Yesterday’s Circulation, 116,961 = TWO CENTS. INTIATIVE PLAGED UPON INDUSTIRES No. 32,557. PEY UP) Means Associated Press. Maj. Brown Is Giving “Some Consideration” to Retiremen {Police Head Is Eligible to Quit August 26 at His SILVER RESERVES; - SUCCESS EXPECTED Conference Is Told That U. S. Will Not Return to Gold Un- til It Is Sure That Stand- ard Will Work. FRENCH BLOC ATTEMPTS TO FORCE STABILIZATION Americans Greatly Encouraged by General Acceptance of Monetary Own Option. Maj. Ernest W. Brown admitted today that he had been giving some consider- ation to retiring as superintendent of police, but said that he had not given it any “serious consideration.” His statement came in answer to rumors of his retirement. He did not, however, definitely confirm or deny the rumors. “These retirement rumors,” he said, “often spring up during a change in administrations.” Maj. Brown, who has 37 years of service on the force, will celebrate his | sixtieth birthday August 26 next. This will make him eligible for retirement at his own option if he should care to ex- crcise it. There is at present no com- the Police Department, the 64-year | limit having been suspended by the Commissioners. i He could be retired now for physical | disability, but declares that he is in fine health. Retirement would carry with it a pension of $4,000 per annum, besides relief from what is generally considered one of the most thankless Proposal—Germany, - Italy, In- dia, China, Mexico, Ireland Sup- port Suggestion. B the Associated Press. LONDON, June 20.—Senator XKey Pittman’s monetary resolu- tion, the main purpose of which is the rehabilitation of silver, was the dominant issue before the World Economic Conference to- day and received such support that both Secretary of State Cordell Hull and the Senator later declared they were very much en- couraged. In connection with the discus- sion of this important resolution, the American representatives made two vital points definitely clear: That the resolution not only has the approval of the American jobs in the local government.. Maj. Brown has not yet completed a pulsory retirement age for members of | MAJ. E. W. BROWN. APPEARS IMMINENT | 183 Persons Refuse to Give Up $1,148,945 Re- quested by U. S. CUMMINGS REVEALED PLAN SOME TIME AGO for Metal Known to Have Been Taken From Banks, year in office, having been appointed to succeed Gen. Pelham D. Glassford, resigned, on September 22, 1932. His career as head of the department, how- (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) AMERICA PRESSING ECONOMIC PLANS Seizes Psychological Mo- ment to Bring Its Propos- als Before Parley. By the Assoclated Press. The American Government has se]zed: upon the present as the psychological | moment to press its own proposals upon the World Economic Conference. | Today Raymond Moley, Auls!an!: Secretary of State and closest of Presi- dent Roosevelt's advisers, is en route to delegation, but “meets with the | approval of the President of the | United States.” | That the United States Govern- | ment will not return to the gold | standard until it is sure that| standard will work. i Warburg Given Floor. | The resolution was before the sub- | committee on permanent monetary af-| fairs. There was an interesting de- velopment when, through the interces- slon of Senator Pittman, James P. ‘Warburg, who is advising the Ameri- cans in technical matters, was granted the courtesy of speaking from the floor, although he is' not a member of the committee. It was Mr. Warburg who told the | ‘committee bluntly that America would | mot accept the gold standard again ' until certain that it was workable. Mr. Warburg's declaration presumably ‘was drawn out by the fact that France and other gold bloc nations had imme- | diately pounced on one clause of the | Pittman resolution as giving them a | chance to further their drive to force | America to revert to the gold standard and to stabilize exchange. This is clause two, which provides | “that gold should be re-established as | the international measure of exchange | wvalues.” | ‘Widely Approved. Viscount Hailsham of Great Britain =& government which takes an atti- tude similar to that of America re- garding the return to gold—intervened | and asked that this clause be amended 10 leave it to each country to determine “time and parity” in connection with going back to gold. Six countries—Germany, Italy, India, China, Mexico and the Irish Free State —tendered full adherence to the Pitt- man resolution, while numerous others, including Britain, Brazil, Czechoslo- vakia, Portugal and Uruguay, agreed on the broad principles. France, through Jean V. Parmentier, expressed entire accord with the part of the resolution calling for stability in the international monetary field and with the clause providing for re-estab- lishment of gold. France also was ready to study the silver question but considered other | parts of the resolution so “novel” that (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) | SEl ROSE PASTOR STOKES | DIES IN GERMANY Meart Disease Fatal to American | Leader of the Radical Party. | voluntarily in the March crisis. | gold backing at 40 per cent. London and Bernard M. Baruch takes | over unofficial but real supervision of | ‘Washington policy. He has no Federal | appointment or salary, but from a State | Department office is acting as contact | man between the vacationing President, | the American delegation at London | and the key departmental officials in the Capital. These significant shifts were timed with yesterday's introduction at the Londcn Conference of an American | currency plan, involving a bimetallic | standard by which paper money would have a 20 per cent gold backing and 5 per cent optionally in gold or silver. Officials here said the proffer of this program not only attested to United States willingness to obtain general re- sumption of a fixed money standard, but also was a signal for the confer-| ence to get to work earnestly after the | near-crisis of the past several days. | pound, followed by a denial. PARLEY MISTAKES LAIDTO AMERICANS “Divine Gift of Ineptitude” Blamed for Errors of Delegation. BY WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE. By Radlo to The Star. LONDON, June 20 (N.AN.A.).—The American delegation to the World Eco- nomic and Monetary Conference since it left hcme has been innccently en- gaged in starting landslides. Accidental pebbles of events casually loosened in their pathway have piled trouble upon trouble. The slip which Secretary Hull made when he referred three times to the Irish Republic in greeting the lord mayor of Cork at Cobb was innocent enough, but unfortunate. The fact that the dollar began to jiggle and dance the day after the | Americans arrived in this city was of course an unhappy coincidence, another accident. Then came the announcement that the dollar had been stabilized with the The un- fortunate delay in Secretary Hull's speech the day after the conference opened gave rise to unpleasant rumors. And now comes the incident of the horizontal tariff cut to add confusion to the turmoil of the conference. Nothing Is Insignificant. ‘The situation here is so acute that but | little events cast tremendous shadows. Ngthing is insignificant. The explana- t of the premature release of the memorandum, signed by Secretary Hull, Rush Act Experienced. Up to now, the conference has ex-| perienced what Washington regards as a rush act by the gold standard coun- tries, France at the helm, to get the United States nailed down quickly to a fixed currency basis. This Washington vetoed flatly. The United States has other objectives at London which might get pigeonholed if the first action were to surrender the unstabilized currency position which this Government took | The bimetallic-base plan, put before the conference by Senator Pittman of Nevada, was drafted here in Washing- ton under President Roosevelt's eye. It is a marked departure from the old gold standard, which not only did not admit silver as currency cover, but fixed the In actual practice in recent years, the American currency was backed by as high as 70 per cent gold or more. Other gold standard currencies have been in pro- portion. Extended Negotiating Expected. A proposal so far away from France's | aim was considered sure to bring very extended negotiating before an actual agreement could be clinched, thus fit- ting smoothly into President Roosevelt’s refusal to peg the American dollar until " (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) CLARA ZETKIN, NOTED COMMUNIST, IS DEAD| Feminist Leader Succums at Sana- torium Near Moscow, Dying in Sleep. | By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, June 20.—Clara Zetkin, noted German feminist and Communist, died unexpectedly last night at a sana- torium at Archangelskoye, near Mos- cow. In another month she would have | By the Associated Press. FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAIN, Ger- been 76 years old. Frau Zetkin had been living at | Archangelskoye since June, 1932, with| Maru, seeking a water | the exception of a brief trip to Berlin suggesting a 10 per cent horizontal cut, which has caused such an uproar, is simple enough, but is so typical of the methods and procedure in vogue among the American delegates that it will bear rather an elaborate explanation. Here, then, is what happened: In Washington Secretary Hull's advisers, and the Secretary himself, were seri ously interested in a proposal to ad- vocate a 10 per cent horizontal tariff cut. When they left Ametica, many members of the delegation presumed | President Roosevelt would ask Con- gress for authorization to make certain reciprocal tariff changes in accordance with the recommendations at the com- ing conference. While at sea, at the press confer- ences held by Henry Chalmers, the tariff expert of the delegation, this 10 per cent tariff cut was explained at length and commented upon favorably. Those taking part in the discussion presumed President Roosevelt would ask Congress for authority to make this cut. In (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) | TOKIO INSTRUCTS ENVOY TO PROTEST KILLINGS Ambassador Ota Likely to Ask Apology for Deaths of Fish- ermen in Russia. By the Associated Press. TOKIO, June 20—The Japanese foreign office instructed Ambassador Ota in Moscow today to protest vig- orously the killing of three Japanese fishermen in Russian waters June 14 The Japanese envoy was told in the telegraphic message to reserve “all rights in future action,” which a | foreign office spokesman_explained in- | cluded probable demands for an of- | ficial apology, indemnity and punish- | ment for the slayers, who Japanese of- ficlals said they believe may be mem- | bers of the Soviet secret police. The deaths occurred in South | Kronotski Bay, near the Kamchatka Peninsula, when the fishing boat Fumi supply, ap- coast and | proached the Kamchatka many, June 20.—Rose Pastor Stokes, | last year to preside as the eldest mem- | sent three men in a rowboat toward /American leader or the Radical party, | ber over the opening of the Relchstag. | the shore. died today at the municipal hospital. M heart ailment was given as the im- Mmediate cause of death. She recently was operated on for cancer The body will be cremated and the Bshes sent to New York. Rose Pastor Stokes was throughout ber life a champlon of radical causes. 8he was often in conflict with the Jaw and once she was sentenced to serve 10 years in Leavenworth Peniten- tiary for obstructing the draft ‘Wilson £he was born in Augustova, Suwalk. Russia, in 1879. Her family ‘America, went first to Ohio, but later settled in New York. At the age of 10 she was rolling tobacco in a New York cigar factory. " ‘She soon became known as the “Rose of the Ghetto.” James Graham Phelps Stokes, millionaire socalist, met her shortly after he had turned from bank- ing to social betterment work She was married to him in 1905 and divorced in 1925. Throughout the 20 years they were together he stoutly de- fended her whenever she collided with the law, through her numerous arrests on charges ranging from disorderly con- ‘duct to violation of the wartime espion- age act. One of their first activities together was_in the Intercollegiate Socialist Study Society. They lectured at many universities and Mrs. Stokes took active part in strike agitations and birth con- 10l meetinge, moving to The | sentence was commuted by President | | |~ Death was peaceful, occurring as she | was asieep. Age was understood to be | the cause. Announcement of the fu- neral plans is expected tomorrow. | Soviet authorities here explained that | disorders had recently occurred in the | Kronotsk{ region and that Russian of- fcials possibly were not responsible. 'HEAT DEATH TOLL CONTINUES ( | Temperatures Approach 1 By the Associated Press. Another day of scorching tempera- tures was in prospect for parched Te- glons of the Middle West generally today, but the weather man promised relief for some sections with cooling showers. General relief was predicted for Wednesday. Meanwhile the number of deaths at- tributed efther directly or indirectly to the heat wave ccntinued to mount, while other reports told of crops that wilted under the blazing sun as the mercury soared to the near-100 degree mark from Ohio to Nebraska. Sections promised relief today were upper Michigan, Northern Wisconsin, Northwestern lowa, Eastern South Dakota and Eastern Nebraska. Indiana with eight dnrx. seven by TO RISE AS MIDWEST SWELTERS 00 Mark in Many States; Some Relief in Sight. | drowning. topped the list in the number | of casualties. Other States reported as follows: Michigan, six, four by drown- | ing; Wisconsin, four, three by drowning | and one due to a broken neck when |a_ youth dived into shallow water; Tllinois, two, and Ohio, two, one in Cincinnati when a colored man rolled off a roof while asleep and was killed. World's Falr visitors at Chicago both saw and felt the temperature go to 96 ! and were warned to prepare for similar weather today. At Milwaukee it was 95 and Detroit recorded the same reading. At 96 St. Louis saw no prospects for relief today and expressed concern over | dying vegetation which has received no rainfall this month. But in the Southwest it was hotter still and they liked it for it came as a | boon to wheat harvesters. Salina, Kans., reported a maximum temperature of 101 degrees. By the Associated Press. Prosecution of gold hoarders ap- peared imminent today after an- nouncement by the Department of Jus- tice that 183 persons had refused Gov- ernment requests to surrender $1,148,- 945 of gold and gold certificates. Agents of the Department of Justice have withdrawn gold just before the | banks were closed and all gold was called in. A great number were found to have turned in their hoards and many more did so when the drive began. | Attorney General Cummings some | time ago predicted there would have to be some prosecution to settle the issue, but has withheld announcing any specific plan. Various persons, includ- ing Senator Borah of Idaho, have chal- lenged the Government's authority to require surrender of the metal, claiming this is infringement of constitutional private property rights. Since the President began his drive last March to force all of the gold of the country into the Treasury, where it could serve as a base for 2, times as much currency, a total of $850,- 000,000 in gold has been returned. On last Wednesday the Federal Reserve banks of the Nation held $3,532,790,000. ‘While exact figures were not avail- eble today as to how much gold actual- supply was figured at $4,318,000,000. In all the Treasury knows the where- abouts of approximately $3,775,000,000 in gold, leaving approximately $543.- 000,000 unaccounted for. Some of this, officials say, has been taken out of the country and the Department of Justice agents are busy tracing the remainder of it. GRAND JURY AT BOSTON BEGINS GANGLAND PROBE Inquiry Started Shortly After Six Men Were Freed in Slaying Cases. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, June 20.—Boston's gang- land, its rackets and its crimes, was presented to a grand jury today for its consideration. The grand jury is seek- ing the “why” for the continued exist- ence of crime and rackets in Boston. Within the past few days a jury ac- quitted three alleged gangsters of slay- ing Charles “King” Solomon, a rack- eteer, and three other men were freed because of lack of evidence to link them with the slaying of Thomas “Red” Cur- ran. These incidents, linked with Suf- folk County’s record of 16 murders with but one conviction, led to consid- erable speculation as to what was be- hind the calling of the jury. Witnesses today included John M. Anderson deputy superintendent of po- Stephen J. Gillis, known to be closely associated with Police Commissioner Eugene C. Hultman, and Sergt. James V. Crowley, reputed to be the man most feared by the city's gangsters. STATES ASKED TO PICK FARM ADMINISTRATORS President O'Neal of American Bu- reau Suggests Meetings of Leaders for Purpose. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, June 20—Edward A. O'Neal, president of the American Farm Bureau, today urged State Farm Bureau leaders to recommend administrators for the new agricultural adjustment act, He sugges the bureau boards of directors meet with State extension serv ices for this purpose, and urged them to demand that the act be administere non-politically. Farm Bureau leaders sound out farmers as to whether they wanted the act to apply this year. State and county Farm Bureaus, he told bureau officers in a letter, must see that the act is administered effectively. “This is the most potent tool ever cre- ated for reorganizing agriculture on & sound basis,” he declared. EXPULSION OF WOI;AN BY SWISS IS PROTESTED Police Refuse Residence Extension to Secretary of League for Peace and Freedom. By the Associated Press. GENEVA, June 20.—The women’s International League for Peace and Freedom announced today that Ameri- cans and members of other national sections have made representations to the Swiss government against the re- fusal of the Geneva police to renew the residence permit for Mme. Camille Drevet, a Prenchwoman and interna- tional secretary of the organization. The reason assigned to the refusal to renew the permit was that Mme. Brevet's political activities rendered her presence in Switzerland undesir- able. A statement said the French- woman, who lectured in the United States in 1928, has been combating | manufacture of armaments and wrote | a pamphlet in which she declared “let | us first disarm the war profiteer.” Five Blind Persons Killed. FREUNDENSTADT, Germany, June 30 (#).—Four blind men and one blind girl were killed and several blind pass- engers were injured today when a truck carrying 41 blind inmates of the Heil- bronn Convent céupulted down an embankment. Federal Agents Continue Search | have been interviewing hundreds of persons reported to the Treasury to ly was held in this country, the total | lice and head of the detectives; Lieut. | | that threatened the dreaded fog and | O'Neal also recommended that the | companying secret service men and BY CONTROL BOARD Johnson Announces Federal Hands-Off Policy in Out- lining Plans. U. S. NOT TO ATTEMPT RODSEVELT POINTS BOAT 10 CAPECOD Out Early Today With Little Vacaticn Scheoner, With Much Better Weather. By the Assoclated Press AT SEA OFF CHATHAM, Mass, June 20.—The luck of the weather finally broke for President Roosevelt today and an easterly breeze shot his schooner along over smooth seas around the bend of Cape Cod toward Province- town on the tip. Pulling out from Nantucket at 6 o'clock, daylight time, “Skipper” Roose- velt smiled broadly as the moderat> wind filled his sails and the sun ca out to warm the air. Yesterday’s threatened nor’easter had vanished and he was quickly along on his rolling 85- mile course far out to sea. Using All Sail. At last only the Ellis was trailing the diminutive presidential schooner on the 1 high seas. together with the yacht Cu- | yahoga of the Navy carrying the secret service men. In contrast to yesterday's fight with the storm, Mr. Roosevelt today was using all sail, whereas then he scooted along only under the foresail. The huge ship City of Birmingham ran close by the Amberjack II shortly before 9 o'clock this morning and gave a salute of whistles. The course of the morning lay east and northeast, rounding the bend of | Cape Cod near Chatham. The schooner | turned north Before reaching Prov- | incetown tonight it will have traveled | west and south. | Provincetown by tonight was almost necessary if Mr. Roosevelt is going to reach his destination of Campobello Island off the coast of Maine by June 28. Today's run is 85 miles and that is a long stretch for a sailing vessel, but the southwest wind, if it keeps up, should help. President Gets Workout. The elements have combined to give the President a real workout on the most unusual of presidential vacations, | but the weather is all a part of it and | he is taking it grinning. Rain, wind and rough seas have pre- | vailed through most of the two pre- | vious days. The Amberjack II has gl::hed and rolled in the waves, but she | proven plenty seaworthy. Today's run around Cape Cod is one of the toughest parts of the northern journey, with all four points of the compass to be negotiated in reaching Provincetown. Refreshed by a good rest yesterday afternoon and night in Nantucket Har- hu}:—e, ]Mr, mll.s velthwi:s again at the Wheel as sails were hoisted befc Tiere toey. ore dawn | Catches Convoy Off Guard. The President caught his trailing flo- tilla of destroyers and newspaper power boats off guard yesterday when he veer- ed suddenly at Handkerchief Shoals and turned his course down to Nantucket in the face of a rising northeast wind | gales. But the trailing armada was soon hlgh:,ln on his course and close behind Reaching _the protection of Nan- | tucket, the President remained on deck | at the wheel for a long while to ex- change greetings with the local town- People who hurried aboard various craft to circle the little schooner. During the afternoon he slept and he was in the tiny bunk on the port side aft soon after nightfall, preparing for today's early start. The afternoon and night gave some of the Roosevelt crew of friends opportunity to get ashore for the first time and do some | trading. James Roosevelt, eldest son, | was prevailed upon for a brief speech | on the corner in Nantucket as he left the telephone station there. Some Casualties in Escort. The rest also was welcomed by ac- | newspaper men who make no profession of knowing or liking the open sea. The rough weather has brought some cas- ualties but all were on land last night proclaiming to be as good as ever. Wireless aboard the destroyers keep Mr. Roosevelt informed of urgent busi- ness but apparently there has been little of this. GENERAL ELECTRIC GIVES 50,000 WORKERS RAISE Five Per Cent Increase Effective 1 Announced at Schenectady Office. By the Assoclated Press. SCHENECTADY, N. Y., June 20— The 50,000 employes of the General Elec- | July tric Co. in its plants in various parts| sary expenses were paid. In addition to Other of the country will receive a 5 per cent increase in wages, effective July 1. | Announcement of the increase was| month, only $14,000,000 less than in the | 258 on June 17, having made at the offices of the company here today. | | Line Up Gangsters And Shoot Them, Judge Advocates By the Associated Press. ‘WASHINGTON, Pa., June 20.— Judge Erwin Cummins says he thinks all convicted gangsters | should be lined up against a wall and shot. Judge Cummins, who, as dis- trict attorney several years ago, sent two men to the electric chair for “black hand” terrorism, ad- vocates martial law along with military punishment to curb gangster crime. He says gangsters “set the ex- ample themselves in the St. Val- entine’s day murders in Chicago.” " WAYPAYOT DELAY SURGESTE Eastman Confers With Man- agement Committee on 22Y/,% Proposal. By the Assoclated Press. Railroad management today received a suggestion from administration sources that proposed wage reductions be post- poned. Joseph B. Eastman, co-ordinator of | transportation, conferred in an unoffi- cial capacity this morning with the Management Committee of the carriers which is handling a proposal for a per- manent reduction of 22!. per cent in railroad wages. At the close of the conference, East- man indicated he had suggested to the railroad managers that the issue be postponed. “The course of events,” he said, “will depend on subsequent developments. “We had a most satisfactory confer- ence, and there probably will be more meetings. “The wage situation was discussed from the management viewpoint. One of the questions considered was whether there should be a postponement of the issue. At this time no information is possible as to what will occur.” Eastman, who became co-ordinator of transportation on Saturday, is under- stood to be representing President Roosevelt in the negotiations. W. F. Thiehofl, general manager of the Burlington Railroad and chairman of the Management Committee, said after the meeting the committee will re- main in W “until released by Mr. Eastman.” Eastman meets with the Railway Labor Executives Association this after- noon to discuss the situation from labor's viewpoint. REPRESENTATIVE ALMON CRITICALLY ILL AT INN S | Alabaman, Who Pought for Muscle Shoals Measure, Suffers Heart Attack. By the Associated Press. Edward B. Almon, 73-year-old Demo- cratic Representative from Alabama, suffered a severe heart attack today and his condition was described as critical. Almon has been confined to his room at the George Washington Inn for several days. Attendants said his | physician had advised them that his| recovery was ‘“problematical.” Almon represents the district in| which Wilson Dam is located. He has been active in the 12-year fight for Government operation of Muscle Shoals. The Representative was elected DRYS PLACE HOPE INIOWA ELECTION Result in Doubt With Wets Predicting 400,000 Votes Will Be Cast. By the Assoclated Press. Towa, New Hampshire and Connecti- cut voted today on repeal of the prohi- | bition amendment. Prohibitionists conceded defeat in Connecticut, a State which never gave its approval to the eighteenth amend- | ment. New Hampshire and Iowa, how- ever, were expected to show a more evenly divided sentiment. Thus far, 11 States have voted on re- |peal. All have favored it. The ap- proval of 36 States is necessary before the prohibition amendment can be Michigan, Wisconsin, New York, Nevada, New , Massa- chusetts, Wyoming, Rhode and Delaware. BOTH SIDES OPTIMISTIC. | Outcome in New Hampshire Declared Uncertain. CONCORD, N. H, June 20 (A).— Leaders of both New Hampshire's dry and wet factions forecast victories today. The wet faction believed the over- whelming repeal vote in neighboring | Massachusetts last week would influence the Granite State in their favor. | The State liquor law was in 1917 and two years later the prohibi- tion amendment was ratified by a vote of 19 to 4 in the Senate and 222 to 131 in the House. The liquor law was amended recently to permit the sale of 3.2 per cent beer and wine. The 3.2 bill went through the House by a 288- t0-88 vote and the 24 Senators approved it unanimously. The Legislature also passed a law permitting sale of 6 per cent beer and wine in event of the re- peal of the eighteenth amendment. The 6 per cent bill was still awaiting Gov. ‘Winant’s signature. | Polls were to be open from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m., Eastern standard time. TOWA RESULT IN DOUBT. | Both Sides Predict Victory in Repeal i Fight. | By the Assocated Press. | DES MOINES, Iowa, June 20.—Pro- | hibitionists looked hopefully toward Iowa today to stem the tide of States voting to repeal the eighteenth amend- ment. And while they professed to see vic- tory, the repealists were equally as con- fident, predicting a total of more than 400,000 votes would be cast today with a victory for the “wets.” One of the last-minute moves of the (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) ITALIAN ACE ARRIVES Lieut. Falconi, on Way to Fair, Has Stunt Flying Laurels. NEW YORK, June 20 (#).—Lieut. Tito Falconi of the Royal Aviation Corps of Italy, chosen after an elim- ination contest among the seven best bombers of the Italian air forces to represent Italy in the National Air Races at Los Angeles, arrived today on the liner Rex. He is a stunt flyer and holds the record of flying upside down for one hour. He brought with him a plane which has a top speed of 130 miles an hour and which, he said, can be flown upside down for three-quarters of an hour. The plane is crated and will be shipped west by rail. Lieut. to the Sixty-fourth Congress and has served continuously since. Falconi’s present plans also provide for his trip to the West Coast by rail. 'TREASURY ACCUMULATES CASH TO START RECOVERY PROGRAM | Government Now Has $1, Use in Its General Fund. By the Assoclated Press. Gathering cash to start President Roosevelt's recovery program, the Treas- ury on June 17 had amassed $1,008,- 099,817 in its general fund. | The huge total reminiscent of war times, was made possible through the sale on June 15 of $1,083,000,000 of Treasury ‘securities from which a bal- | ance of nearly $600,000,000 was left | after maturing debts and other neces- the money derived from the sale, income taxes had returned $104,281,178 for the onth a year same mq ago, Mi internal revenue, in- g 008,099,817 Available for TO PRESCRIBE CODES Textile Industry Presents Trade Agr:cment to Boost Wages and Shorten Hours. ‘The basic principles which will guide the Federal Industrial Control Admin- istration in consideration of codes of fair competition were announced today by the administrator, Gen. Hugh 8. Johnson, a short time after he had re- ceived the first trade agreement drawn up by the cotton textile industry, in which it seeks to check its long-standing internal war by boosting wages and shortening the work week in mills throughout the country. A bulletin outlining the principles emphasized the fact that the initiative in the recovery program rests upon in- dustry itself, and that “it is not the function of the national recovery ad- ministration to prescribe what shall be the codes . . . or to compel the organi- zation of either industry or labor. Subject to Approval. “Basic codes containing provisions respecting maximum hours of labor, minimum rates of pay and conditions of employment, which are in themselves satisfactory, will be subject to approval, although such conditions may not have been arrived at by collective bar- gaining.” In the bulletin, Gen. Johnson invited the immediate submission of simple basic codes by 10 of the largest indus- tries—coal, ofl, lumber, textiles, iron and steel, leather, chemicals and drugs, automobiles, meat packing and rub- ber. The codes are to cover “only such agreements” as meet at once the three objectives of the national recovery act, namely, “maximum hours of labor, min- imum rates of wages, and such means s each industry may find necessary to protect its constructive and co-opera: Hve majority from the wasteful and unfair competition of minorities or re- calcitrants. up national recovery act and Gen. John- son immediately set June 27 as the date for a public hearing of all phases of the proposed code. Hard hit in the past few years by failure of its members to agree on time operations of their mills, the industry informed the industrial administrator that it was now willing to operate on a 40-hour week with a minimum wage scale of $10 a week in the South and $11 in the East. Work Schedule Reduced. It was outlined in the code that the 40-hour week would be a reduction of 20 per cent from the present schedule, and the fixing of the minimum wage scales at $10 and $11 brings about an increase of 30 per cent in pay roll arnings. e The code was presented by a commit- tee composed of George A. Sloan, T. M. Marchant and Ernest N. Hood. The group in a letter to the industrial ad- ministrator said the code was accept- able to cotton textile mills owning more than two-thirds of the spindles and looms in the country. Staft Named. Meantime he made public today the list of national known economists and outstanding business and labor leaders officially named to occupy key positions in the organization. Those named are are follows: Assistant for industry—Dudley Cates of Chicago, vice president of Marsh & McLennan, insurance; attended Univer~ sity of California and engaged in bank- ing in San Francisco until 1917. Dur- (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) KAISER NEAR DEATH AT GRADE CROSSING Automobile Caught Between Bars at Holland Intersection and Car Is Damaged. By the Associated Press. AMSTERDAM, June 20—The for- mer German Kaiser had a narrow es- cape from death while motoring re- cently in Holland, it was revealed today. His automobile was crossing railroad tracks between Amsterdam and Haar- lem when the bars were let down automatically at the moment when Wilhelm'’s motor car was on the tracks. One of the heavy bars hit the ma- chine, damaging it considerably. The chauffeur was able to move the car from the tracks only a few seconds cluding the new levies in the billion- ' dollar-tax bill and the beer revenues. had brought in $71,483928 for the month, as compared with $26,644,986 in the same period of June a year ago. | Income taxes for the year, however, | were far off the total of a year ago, having breught in since last July 1, | $703,886,077, as compared with $1,013,- | 988,221 in the same period of the pre- vious year. Treasury operations made up the huge balance, but despite it the Government had a deficit of $1,699,008,- collected from all sources $1,990,046,696 in the year and having spent $3,689,054,955, before a train hurtled past. The former Kaiser, unhurt, continued the drive. GUIDE FOR READERS Amusements ... e ....B-12 ..B-10-11 .A-14-15