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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair, continued cool tonight; tomorrow partly cloudly, slowly rising temperature, possibly followed by showers at night. ‘Temperatures—Highest, 92, at 2:15 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 66, at 5 a.m. today. Full report on Page A-9. Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages 13,14&15 ch WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Star. “From Press to Home Within an Hour” The Star's Carrier system covers eve: city block and the regular edition delivered to city and suburban homes as fast as the papers are printed. = N Entered as sec 0. post office, W 32,560. nd class matter shington, D. C. WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, 23, JUNE 1933—FORTY-TWO PAGES. ek ok () Means Associated FRANCE FIGHTS U. 3. TARIFF- PROPOSALS . 3 PARLEY WONT i Paris Delegation Asks Truce on Quota System So That% Present Restrictions May| Be Retained. ITALY, BELGIUM BACK | AMERICAN RESOLUTION ‘Work of Conference in Future May Be Done Tentatively Pending Eventual Agreement on Stabili-| zation—Dollar Prices Watched Closely by Gold Nations. t By the Associated Press. LONDON, June 23.—France pro- ;;)ud a quota truce at the| World Economic Conference today | svhich would enable countries| msing quotas as weapons agains&‘ fmportations to keep them indefi- | nitely. | The resolution is considered a counter-proposal to the intensive | drive by the United States for| complete abolition of all em-| bargos, quotas and arbitrary re-| strictions. The French suggestion calls/| upon the nations to undertake | not to enact new prohibitions or quotas, but permits them to main- tain quotas presently in force for an indefinite period. Agricultural products, however, are excluded from the proposed truce. Await Higher Prices. The resolution was debated in a sub- ‘ommittee considering commercial poli- cies, where the French delegates ex- plained the exceptional fall in prices of agricultural products prevented France from renouncing her rights of recourse to quotas until, by means of inter- national organization of uction, a world price level is reached suring Teasonable lPmflt for farmers. conference wound up a hectic today and adjourned until A resolution presented to the same subcommittee yesterday by Secretary of State Hull, American delegation chair- man, asked the conference to abolish ail arbitrary restrictions as soon as possible. The French, who invented the quota system, explained they were favorable to eventual abolition of quotas, but, in view of the present world currency fluctuations, they were unable to con- sent to the American proposal. Switzerland, which uses quotas widely, | pe said through her delegate, Walter | Stucki, that she did not believe she could eliminate quotas until certain cus- toms barriers and exchange restrictions in other countries were wiped out. } Italy, Belgium Back U. S. | Ttaly and Belgium supported the | American view. The truce would apply | from the close of the Economic Con- | ference, when the American-fostered | tariff truce, now accepted by 50 nations, | expires. | Four sharp weapons are used to keep foreign products from entering France— | quotas, regular tariffs, import turnover | taxes and import license taxes. These | pay for one-tenth of the cost of run-| ning. the government. | Additionally, an exchange surtax has | been placed against goods coming from | countries having depreciated curren- | cies | About 270 articles are subjected to| the quota system among the 5.000 prod- | ucts appearing on regular tariff sched- |to Miss Evelyn Ames in Boston July 1. ules. _ The _gove limits _the | g 1 government : ~ (Continued on Page 5, Column 2) | 800 STRIKE AT MILL | 1,100 Textile Workers Now Idle at Rock Hill, 8. C. ROCK HILL, §. C.. June 23 () — The night shift of the Rock Hill Print- ing and Finishing Co. struck early to- day and a ‘ow hours later the day force failed to :eturn to work. With 800 operatives idle the mill machinery was stopped. ‘ The plant is Rock Hill's largest § dustry. Bleaching, coloring and dye- ing is done at the mill. The action brought the total number of textile strikers here to approximately 1,100, The Highland Park Textile Manufac- turing Co.’s workers have been idle since June 20. i NEW FEDERAL WORKERS TO ESCAPE WAGE SLASH McCarl’s Non-Civil Se Employes coming into new Govern- ment agencies without meeting the re- quirements of civil service may avoid the 15 per cent pay reduction under the economy act. ‘This was developed today in a ruling by Controller General McCarl, which applied specifically to the stafl to be chosen by the rail co-ordinator, but which it was thought might embrace all of the new emergency agencies. The controller general's opinion ap- peared to hinge on the point that the day the rail law was passed—June 16— empowering the co-ordinator to fix the pay of his aides there was no basis to use as a guide for applying deduc- tions, as the rate of pay was still something to be determined. Presum- ably this same would hold true in all of the emergency agencies Wwhere ap- Ruling on Staff of .Rail Co-| MACDONALD HOLDS| ~ Ordinator Reveals Avoidance by | | | rvice Group. ] | | pointment is without regard to civil | service or the classification act. | | At the same time, however, it was | thought that one element that might | have been taken into consideration was | | the fact that the co-ordinator’s staff |is paid, from a fund made up by the carriers. In other cases, though, where | outside agencies pay employes carried | on the Government rolls—in closed banks, for example—the controller gen- eral has held that the 15 per cent pay | cut applies, the paying agency getting |the benefit of the reduction. | The question was first raised by the | co-ordinator, Joseph B. Eastman, June | 18. who, in a letter to the controller, | sai | " “Section 2 of the emergency railroad | transportation act, approved June 16, | 1933, provides that the co-ordinator (Continued on Page 2. Column 6.) DAVIS BACK HOME 10 SEE PRESIDENT Ignores Rumors He Will Re- sign and Reveals Plan to Return. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 23.—Norman H. Davis, United States Ambassador at large, hinted on his return from Geneva today a belief that demands for security pacts—stumbling block to previous dis- armament agreements—are giving way to sentiment favoring international su- pervision of arms. Davis and Mrs. Davis were aboard the Bremen. He said the purposes of his trip home were to “rest, confer with the President. and see my son married.” He sald he would return to Geneva be- fore the end of the Disarmament Con- ference. Sitting in his suite aboard the ship and speaking very slowly, Davis answered many questions about the conference, but made no reference to rumors that he intended to resign. Sees Some Progress. He called peace “a cold-blooded prop- | osition” and said that the United States was approaching efforts toward it in no crusading. attitude.” “I think we are getting along al right” he saild. “It is a slow process, but we have made distinct progress. We have accepted as a basis for discussion | the British draft convention. “There is a growing realiztion in Eu- rope that we must reach an agreement —which would be a basis of real recov- | The effect of President Roosevelt's ace message to foreign nations was “excellent,” Davis said. Obligated to Confer. “Armaments are a product of fear, he said. “If we can get all to reduce their armaments we can get rid of fear. Europe now realizes that it is the only way. The idea is getting over and Roosevelt has done much to make the people of the world understand.” Tne Kellogg pact, Davis said, put upon the United States an inherent ob- ligation to confer. “We would be fools not to confer,” he said. “We have a large stake in peace as a matter of self-interest. We ought ot to play the sucker and put our head in the sand like an ostrich. Peace is now getting to be looked upon as one of the coldest-blooded proposi- ticns in the world.” Davis said he did not know when he would see the President. He planned to spend the week end at his country home. His son Paschall will be married |CZECHO-U. S. PARLEY SCHEDULED FOR JULY Other Being Tentative Schedule Debtor Nations Is Drawn Up. for By the Associ The last tively fixed ¢ was tenta- today as the date for negotiations between Czechoslovakia and the United States looking to a revision of that country’s war debt. Acting Secretary of State Phillips in- formed Minister Veverka that the United States would be glad to re- ceive his nation’s representations at that time A tentative schedule for other nations is being drawn up LABORITE PREFERS ROOSEVELT TO CHAMBERLAIN AS CHANCELLO Conservative Joins Attack a nd Praises U. S. President’s Policies to Raise Prices. By the Assoclated Press. LONDON, June 23.—Josiah C. Wedge- ‘wood, a Labor member, stirred the House of Commons today by telling Neville Chamberlain to his face that “the people of Britain would rather have Franklin Roosevelt as chancellor of the exchequer than Neville Cham- berlain.” Cries of “No! No! No!" from the government benches answered the Labor member’s statement. Later Robert Boothby. a conserva- tive, joined in the criticism of Mr Chamberlain. “When Mr. Roosevelt said he was ing to raise prices the world believed §2 wouid do it,” Mr. Boothby said. “but when Mr. Chamberlain said he hoped to raise prices nobody would belleve he would do so by his policy.” The attack on Mr. Chamberlain oc- curred during the final stages of the budget debate. Mr Boothby declared that unless Britain took definite steps to raise commodity prices the present budget could not be balanced He urged that the chancellor advocate “ruthless cuts in interest charges and wages and cut the government’s ex- vemg £100,000,000 ($420,000,000) an- nually.” | Declaring that Britain should adopt a policy of controlled inflation, Mr. Boothby said “In this respect Mr seen the light the City of London. The British gov- ernment doubtless would be shocked t hope it will be continuously shocl by Mr. Roosevelt in the coming months | because if a policy of controlled inflation succeeds in the United States it will spread and prove to be the salvation | of Britain.” | Col. Wedgewood told the House that “Mr. Roosevelt did something and did not_merely tal | “Every year,” he continued, “Mr Chamberlain got up and said prices must be restored, but no action was | taken. While we have been talking and talking and doing contradictory things, | America has acted and the dollar is now rising in terms of the pound.” The Labor member declared that de- preciation of the dollar in relation to the pound was being done intentionally by the United States in order to re- cover export trade. | At the conclusion of the debate the| House adopted the finance bill, 290 to 42, thus putting the budget provisions ! into effect. Roosevelt has though he has shocked by American public works bill, but T {| BRONX CHILDREN INDOORS ked HOUSE DEMOCRATS AN 450 1085 Farley to Confer With Civil Service on Revoking G.0.P. “Cover-in” Orders. { = | { | BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. | Postmaster General James A. Farley | was appealed to today by a group of | Democratic members of the House to recommend to President Roosevelt revo- cation of executive orders issued dur- ing the last 12 years by Republican Presidents covering into the civil serv- | ice approximately 4,600 offices and in- cumbent Republican appointees. In the delegation which called upon the Postmaster General, recognized as| the President’s chief adviser on politi- cal appointments and patronage, were Representative Joseph W. Byrns of Tennessee, majority leader of the House; | Representative James V. McClintic of Oklahoma, Representative H. P. Fulmer of South Carolina, Representative C. V. Parsons of Illinois, Representative M. J. Hart of Michigan and Representative Sandlin of Louisiana and a number of others. The Postmaster General listened | carefully to the recommendations of | the members of the Hguse and promised |to lay them before President for +his consideration when the Chief Ex- | ecutive returns to Washington. | Views to Be Sought. Mr. Farley said, too, that he would {in the meantime take up with the Civil | Service Commission these recommenda- | tions to get the views of the commis- | sion as to what effect on the civil| service and the merit system a whole- |sale revocation of these orders cover- ing jobs and the incumbent emplayes into the civil service would have. He | did not indicate what his own recom- mendation to the President regarding ! |the proposal to rescind the executive |orders of the last three Republican | Presidents would be. Generally speaking, however, it is not | considered likely that all the demands of the Congressmen with reference to the civil service will be approved, though some of them in modified form | may be accepted. The Democratic Congressmen are demanding a clean sweep of Repub- | lican appointees. They insist that the | | Democrats should be given a chance to fill offices to which many of the Re- | publicans, if not all, were appointed | without passing examinations. In a general way, they propose to make vacant all these positions and then | to permit the appointment of Demo- crats, or at least to give Democrats a |chance to pass examinations for the jobs and be appointed. They propose also an allotment of the jobs to the | States and to congressional - districts, | with the Congressmen presumably hav- ing something to say about who will be appointed to fill the jobs. Swamped by Applications. Members of Congress, Senators and Representatives alike, of the Democratic persuasion are literally swamped with | applications for Federal office of one {kind or another, running from chauf- | fer and messenger, to Ambassador rep- resen the United States in foreign countries. The demand today far exceeds the earlier demands. This is partly due to the fact that the administration failed to fill many offices during the session of Congress just closed, busied as it was with huge problems of legislation, and also with the problem of getting the legislation successtully through Congress. A patronage club is an ef- fective weapon when wielded firmly. The increased demand is due also to the passage of the administration’s | program of legislation and the pres- | ent ne~d of setting up new organiza- | tions to administer the laws. But so | great is the demand for jobs that the Democratic members of the House are now engaged in a gearch for all the additional places under the civil serv- ice they can find and obtain by dis- lodging Republicans. Totals of Three Presidents. | Figures obtained at the Civil Service | Commission showed that last Winter the | | total number of Government employes | covered into the civil service by Presi-| dent Hoover was 2,717. A small number of persons in addition were covered into (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) BIG RATTLESNAKE KEEPS | Killed, Away, Three “Rattlers” but Fourth Wriggles Scaring Neighborhood. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 23.—Householders in the Kings Bridge section of the Bronx kept their children indoors today after they learned a seven-foot rattle- snake was at large in the neighborhood. | Four of the deadly reptiles were dis- covered sunning themselves in a back- | yard yesterday afternoon. Whence they came no one knew. Three were killed | by two men who heaved paving blocks | on them, but the fourth wriggled' away. Fred Taggart of the Bronx Zoo iden- tified the dead snakes and said their bite would have proved fata] within 15 minutes. He sald they apparently had not eaten in some time. a0 10 LOE JOBS N COMNERCE AND GPODEPARTHENTS Married Workers Will Be First to Go Under Retrench- ment Program. GENERAL ACCOUNTING REDUCTIONS FORECAST State and War Departments Are Only Ones Which Have Not Announced Policy. The scythe of retrenchment swinging vigorously through the old- established Federal agencies today. cutting down additional workers in its sweep. In order to stay within a $10.000,000 slash in operating expenses for the coming year, Commerce Department officials announced today that approxi- mately 500 married workers in Wash- ington would be dismissed from the service, and that the entire depart- ment personnel would have to take a 15-day administrative furlough, effective June 30. The administrative furlough would bring an additional 4 per cent cut ia salaries of approximately 15,000 em- ployes in the department, officials said. Each worker’s salary is now cut 15 per cent under the economy act, and 3!z per cent additional is deducted from the base pay for the retirement fund. In addition, officials declared that effective July 15 several hundred more workers would be separated from the service because of low civil service effi- clency ratings. The exact number of these workers has not yet been determined because departmental appeal boards were re- ported still in session. Effort to Salvage Jobs. An effort is being made to save the jobs of a large number of clerks now attached to the department’s Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce by having them transferred to the non- civil service status national recovery administration. Secretary of Commerce Roper said | he has recommended that the recovery administration take over the functions of some of this bureau's commodity di- visions, and that Brig. Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, industrial control administra- tor, has the matter under advisement., The Burcau of Standards, according, to Malcolm Kerlin, executive assistant to Secretary Roper, will be drastically | cut. Three divisions, including one devoted to housing conditions set up by President Hoover, are slated to be reduced, he said, from $150,000 to $35,- 000 annually in operating expenses. erlin he was not in a position to give the exact number of employes to be dismissed by the department. ‘There are, he said, 600 married workers affected, and approximately 500 of these will be dismissed. The other 100 are in so-called key positions, and would not feel the economy act, he explained. Other separations from the service, he said, would not take place until July 15, because all of the administra- tive officials engaged in reorganizing the | department have found the task too difficult to_perform prior to this date. At the Government Printing Office, George H. Carter, the public printer, made known that between 300 and 400 employes would be dropped by July 15; | the General Accounting Office also forecast dismissals. These developments followed hard on the heels of announce- ment yesterday of impending personnel slashes in two of the executive depart- ments—Justice and Interior. Elsewhere in the Government, administrative offi- cers were whipping into final shape the | program to be followed in the new fiscal year, starting a week from tomorrow, on the basis of drastic reductions in funds. Next to the Commerce Department slash, the cut at the Government Print- ing office will be among the largest in any of the local agencies, and is to be di- rected at two classes—those employes whose tusbands or wives also are in Federal service, and those to be retired after 30 years or more service. In the former group there are 207, in the latter 368. Married Workers Advised. Notices were sent out yesterday to the first named, advising them of the requirement in the economy act for dropping a husband or wife, where nec- essary, and giving them the option of choosing who would stay and who would g0. This same principle was followed last year by Mr. Carter, who at that time, however, required resignations only where both husband and wife were in the Printing Office. The reductions will reach into every " (Continued on Page 2. Column 2. DISMISSED DRAFTSMEN REGAIN POSTS WITH U. S. Let Out by Navy Are Re-employed in Bureau of Yards and Docks. The public works program is already having a beneficial effect upon the Navy rtment. Fourteen draftsmen and engineers have been re-employed in the of Yards and Docks to prepare for work under the national industrial recovery act. Eleven of these have re- ported for duty today, and the rest will soon be on their way to Washington. These men were previously employed at the Navy Department in conjunc- tion with the emergency work program of last year. Officials asserted that no further hir- ing of workers is anticipated at the Navy Department at present. They de- nied a rumor that some 75 of the 200 workers laid off last month would be taken back on the pay rolls because of the stimulation in public work Assistant Secretary of the Navy Henry L. Roosevelt announced that the allot- ments of public funds under the public works program for work at naval shore stations are not expected until Presi- dent Roosevelt returns from his vaca- tion. The Bureau of Construction and Repair and other agencies are busy making plans for the construction of naval vessels, both at Government yards and in private plants. GUIDE FOR READERS I Amusements Comics Features . Finance Fourteen il 1 7 o BoElao Serial Fiction . i LR G acn » was | |in May as compared with April, and Breckinridge, legal adviser to Col. Lind- | of $45210,301, with bergh, issued the following statement: | had by the end of May jumped 60 per The Governor of Kentucky is Regretting That the Cost of a Colonel's Commission—Twenty- five Cents—Somehow Got Broadcast! [AXYIELD REVEALS BUSINES PP Collections for 11 Months Increase Over Similar Period of Last Year. By the Associated Press. Business has shown a definite pick- up, according to Federal tax collections for May, as announced by the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Collections for 11 months of the present fiscal year amounted to $1,368,- 238,226, as compared with $1,350,734.- 652 in the same period of the past fiscal | year. Collections for May aggregated $114,- 754,133, as compared with $89,062,187 in April and $60,013,131 in May, 1932. ‘Taxes on tobacco. b«g stock sales an issues, gasoline, lubricating oils, checks and numerous minor articles showed business in those lines was increasing. Tobacco Tax Yield Rises, Tobacco taxes increased $15217,615 returned a total cigarettes providing most of the in- crease. Cigarettes brought in $39,044,- 861, as compared with $24,538,929 the previous month. Both cigars and manu- factured tobacco showed small in- creases. The increased stock market activity was reflected in greater collections from bond and stock issues and con- veyances and transfers of capital stock. ‘The former returned $1,345,701, as com- pared with $1,075961 in April. Stock transfer collections rose from $1,155,237 in_April to $3,359,279 in May. Beer taxes brought the Government $11,172,233 in May, as compared with $8,269,052 in April, while t! lice. » fees returned $363,704, as com- pared with $869,811 the previous month. Tax on fermented fruit juice 3.2 bever- age brought in $40,874, as compared with $824 in April. _Distilled _ DOLLAR DECLINES TO NEW LOW LEVEL Closes at $4.23 5-8 at London and at 20.35 Francs in Pari: By the Associated Press. LONDON, June 23—The United States dollar developed further weak- ness today after comparative steadiness in early trading and its closing rate was $4.23% to the pound, a new low Jevel since America left the gold stand- ard. normal character. The rate hovered around $4.221%, but speculative offerings later caused depreciation. Yesterday's closing rate was $4.23%. “There is practically no support for the | dollar and the market expects an un- certain tendency pending developments in currency stabilization. The gold ex- changes held steadily. PARIS, June 23 (#)—The downward movement of the United States dollar continued today, the closing bourse quo- tation being 20.35 francs, a decrease of 13 centimes. - == BLIND MAY SELL WARES IN FEDERAL BUILDINGS Appeal to President Brings Revi- sion of Rules—Societies Will Limit Number of Privileged. Bs the Associated Press. ‘The rigid rule against selling articles in Federal buildings has been amended just enough to permit blind persons to dispose of pencils and newspapers. ‘This was the result of an appeal to President Roosevelt by societies inter- ested in assisting the blind. They suc- cessfully pleaded that a blind person | selling papers outside the Post Office or other Federal building should be al- lowed to find shelter Inside and do business through the corridors. ‘The amended order does not mean, however, that blind persons are given a rent-free newsstand in the Federal building corridor. ‘Treasury Department officials, who have charge of Federal buildings, said today the blind person’s wares can be only what he can carry in his hands, | such as papers and pencils, and that if he brings a stool to sit on, he must carry it away with him at night. Furthermore, the permission_does not extend to all blind persons. Local so- cieties of the blind have the respon- sibility of selecting a limited number of such salesmen. dealers’ | | Business in the forenoon was of & 'Lindbergh Home To Become Center For Child Welfare urland Mountain Place Turned Over to Group for Project. | By the Associated Press. | HOPEWELL, N. J., June 23—The Sourland Mountain home which Col. Charles A. Lindbergh built for his bride, the former Anne Morrow, and frem which their first son, Charles | Augustus Lindbergh. jr., was kidnaped is to become a center for children's welfare work. ‘The 500-acre estate, with its lovely white-stone house, built in the style of French farm houses, and lying in a mountainous region, steeped in legends, ;will be operated by a corporation, pa- | Bach, Hudson County clerk, in Jersey | City today. The property will be known | as High Fleld. o Statement Issued. Details of the transfer could not be |learned. The office of Col. Henry L. | _“The property of Col. and Charles A. Lindbergh in Hunherléln:l County, N. J, will be used in agxecuan with welfare work for chil- “The project has not devel sufficient definiteness to dlbquds:r{:l‘: an announcement of the specific plans.” Whether Col. and Mrs. Lindbergh have made the property a gift or are receiving a price for the property was :’:llue!rklesr_r;ed ’IJ\e ;iunc"don County said no transfer of | been filed in his office. R Listed as Agent. In the incorporation papers filed in Hudson County, James M. Phelan is listed as statutory agent. Col. and Mrs. Lindbergh and Dr. Abraham Flexner, educator; Col. Breck- inridge and Owen R. Lovejoy are listed as trustees. The papers state High Fleld has been incorporated “to provide for the welfare of children, including their education, training, hospitalization or other allied purposes, without discrim- ination in regard to race or creed.” The house was built two years ago, and the Lindbergh's began spending week ends there late in 1931. On many miles on its mountain slope, be- came the focus of international interest when kidnapers took the Lindbergh baby. Little more than 10 weeks after the child's body was found about 5 miles away at a spot from which the | house could be seen. | Has Private Lane, A private lane, running up from the | Hopewell-Wertsville road leads to the house, simple in taste, gabled and :;xfi,ly surrounded by a waist-high stone | wall Within there is a library, dinin | room, kitchen and study ox‘x’y the flrs% |floor, and bed rooms, including a | nursery, on the second. The garage is in a wing of the house. After the kidnaping the Lindberghs ;spem week ends there with increasing | infrequency, apparently preferring to | remain at the home of Mrs. Lindbergh's mother, Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow, in Englewood. |[FORMER ILLINOIS CHIEF OF FINANCE SHOOTS SELF Man in Whose Accounts Shortage Had Been Alleged Reported in Serious Condition. By the Associated Press. PEORIA, Ill, June 23.—Garrett de F. Kinney, former State treasurer and director of finance, shot himself through the temple today a few hours after he | had been served with a subpoena in connection with an alleged shortage in his accounts with the State. The wound was described at the Methodist Hospital as serious. The weakened by loss of blood and shock. Kinney arose early this morning and went to the Culter & Proctor Stove Co., of which he formerly was president. A few moments later the watchman heard two shots and he found Kinney's fore- head bleading from a pistol wound. An investigation of State finances while Kinney was director of finance has been under way for several weeks, under the guidance of State Auditor Edward Barrett. Barrett announced yesterday he had found a shortage of $174,190 in Kinney's accounts in addition to shortages to- taling $352,803 resulting from the de- posit of State funds by Kinney in banks since closed. In recent weeks he had been living in seclusion. A | pers for which were filed with Gustav | March 1, 1932, the house, visible for A bullet plerced the skull and he Was | Jnforeation caberar T omrIlE current COMMODITY PRICES I‘Six Basic Industries Spurt, | Outstripping Decline of the Dollar. | By the Associated Press. | American commodity prices have out- | stripped the fall of the doliar and are | pointing for President Roosevelt’s goal | i of a level high enough to bring the | country some prosperity. | For the first time since the stock | markets and the commodity indexes | started their climb, an official analysis { has now indicated the spread between H‘I:;mlmm rise and the dollar's T as a consequence of gold | standard _sbandonment. The Federal | Reserve Board’s monthly review is out today with the statement that by the end of May, just before the latest de- cline began, the dollar was down 15 per cent in terms of French francs, the leading gold standard currency. The British pound had lost 2 per cent in the same time. Six Commodities Spurt. Six basic commodities, said the board, cent since February. One-half of the rise corresponded to a general world rise and the remaining 30 per cent rep- | resented dollar depreciation plus actual gomesuc Tise. ttom hrcgm:;odluu dis- ussed were cottcn, , silver, copper, tin Tand n‘lubber_n ere still a long way to to | reach the 1926 average wl}:ich 1:0 Te- garded as the Roosevelt goal, and pend- ing which the dollar stabilization plans are being held off. The Department of Labor placed the June 17 index for all commodities at 64.5 against 100 for 1926. The course was charted steadily upward through the past several weeks; May 20 it was 63.0 and the succeeding | weeks 63.3, 63.8, 64.0 and now 64.5. | Tax Collections Rise. | _With this clear-cut evidence of a | mounting tide went also the better busi- ness pointer of growing tax collections. Beer led the parade in May, st expectations to turn in more than $11,- 500,000, plus several hundred thousand | in special associated levies. At that | rate it may yield $280,000,000 a year in- | stead of the calculated $150,000,000. | Stock market activity spurted the ‘ykeld from security transfer taxes to ‘u.zfia,noo, more than double that for P! May receipts in all classes for the first | time were sufficient to bring collections for the fiscal year past the receipts of the previous year. The 11 months of fiscal 1933 yielded $1,368,238,226 against $1,350,734,652 for 1932's 11 months. Von Hindenburg Illness Denied. | _BERLIN, June 23 (#).—Reports that | President von Hindenburg is in il health were denied yesterday by persons in his closest entourage, who said that he was “enjoying the best of health.” N CENERAL e Yesterday’s Circulation, 115,908 TWO CENTS. INDUSTRIES SPEED WORK OF DRAFTING CODES FOR JOHNSON Recovery Administrator Would Avoid Licensing Feature of Act. Press. TEXTILES AND SOIL PIPES PRESENT AGREEMENTS Consumers’ Board to Be Set Up. Coal Operators Win Praise for Co-operation. Brig. Gen. Hugh §. Johnson, head of the National Recovery Administration, said today the work of bringing indus- try into trade agreements was moving faster than he had expected. While only two industries—cotton textiles and soil pipe—have actually presented formal codes for approval, others are rapidly taking shape. Before next Tuesday, when the first formal hearing is begun on the textile code, a consumers’ board will be set up along with the boards representing | labor and industry. Efforts will be | made to discourage price fixing. “In these codes it will be proper for industry to say that it will not sell be- low cost of production,” Johnson said. “If they use the code to fix extor- tionate prices, I should/have to step int |m:n"ed-tely in conformance with the The stringent licensing feature of the | bill, under which President Roosevelt could compel every industry to obtain permission to operate, will not be pressed unless deemed necessary. “I don’t want to use the licensnig feature, for it is repugnant to every American idea,” Johnson said.- “I want to avold inquisitorial powers and police e ref expectation that in- dustry would police itself by reporting violations. Pleased With Coal Group. ‘Terming the coal industry “the - of this situation,” Jnhmonw::;d ot owing that it is co- operating toward national recovery will be very unpopular with the people.” At the outset of today’s schedule | Col. Donald H. Sawyer, administrator | for the public works section of the | recovery act, was handed the cabinet's | advisory board’s policies of pushing the gigantic construction fund in various sections of the country to spread work and bring buying power out of its p. slum] Priority Sought, In order to stimulate immediate revival of employment and industrial activity priority was asked for projects on which work can be started at once and completed with reasonable speed (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) STATES GET RELIEF Georgia, Louisiana and Virginia Are Granted Funds. Grants of emergency relief funds were announced today by Harry L. Hopkins, emergency relief administra- tor, as follows: Georgia, $79,392; Louisiana, $485,113; Virginia, $391,049. The grants bring the total allotted on the basis of $1 for each $3 expended by the States to $46,477,643. 'BILBO IN NEW U. Theodore G. Bilbo— phrenologist, farmer, lawyer, former news “butcher” whose secondary interests is politics— was at his brand-new desk on his brand- new job in a brand-new division of the Department of Agriculture today, although his exact status appears to be clouded with uncertainty. An official news release from the in- formation cffice of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, dated June 20, reads as follows: “The appointment of Theodore G. Bilbo, former Governor of Mississippi, to assist in the werk of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration of the United States Department of Agricul- ture, was announced today. Gov. Bilbo information records for the Adjustment Administration from news, magazine and cther published sources.” The appointment office of the Agri- cultural Adjustmént Administration, however, denied that Mr. Bilbo's ap- pointment had been completed. Byt Alfred Stedman, head of the in- formation service of the Agricultural Adjustment Adminstration and under whose supervision Mr. Bilbo now fis working, says the announcement was correct to all intents and purposes, al- though all the minute technicalities at- tendant on an official appointment may not have been complied with to date. It is customary to make such announce- ments once the essential fact has been ascertained. Mr. Bilbo actually has not - clally assigned mw.mm and former Governor of Mississippl, | gith S. JOB HERE, BUT STATUS IS UNCERTAIN Former Governor of Mississippi to Assemble Information Records for Farm Adjustment Administration. working under his direction. The in- formation office is a newly established unit with six employes—newspapermen special backgrounds in various phases of agricultural economics. But only two of these places—three counting Mr. Bilbo—have been filled from the outside, Mr. Stedman says. rest have been filled by transfers within the service of men who would have lost out therwise. o - For the present, at least, Mr. Sted- man is Mr. Bilbo’s boss. His duties, the chief says, are as described in the news release. They will not consist, however, merely of indiscriminate clipping, but involve an intelligent sizing up of the state of the public mind on agricultural adjustment matters, as reflected in the national journalism. Mr. Bilbo is ex- pected to sort and evaluate what the papers have to say. Mr. Bilbo's official duties, it was learned, do not include the practice of phrenology—judging character by the shape of the head—although he assured newspaper men yesterday that he counted upon his skill in this art to aid him in his new work. He said that he had acquired exceptional gifts in phrenology and that they had con- tributed greatly In carrying him for- ward from a farm boy to Governor of his State. But the newly created agricultural adjustment administration sees no im- mediate need for the services of an ex- pert in this line. . Mr. Bilbo refused to pose for raphers with paste pot and scissors ‘T don't clip,” he sald emphatically. , Bl -