Evening Star Newspaper, July 2, 1933, Page 29

" National News Stage - Screen Part 4—10 Pages NEW STATE TRADE OUTLOOK BETTER IN ROCKY MOUNTAIN AREA Colorado Reports 15 Per Cent Increase in Retail Trade, With Industry Definitely on Upswing. BY M. F. ENVER, Colo., July 1.—Des] in the “new deal, D . DACEY. pite heated controversy over litical patronage, a hot scramble for jobs to be disu'ibug differences between Denver city officials and those in charge of the Ciyilian Conservation Corps in Denver mountain parks and charges of scandal in relief provided by the R. F. C., Colerado manages to keep cool, atmospherically, while the remainder of the country sizzles in near-record heat. The boast of comfortable temperatures in the high altitude of the Colorado Rockies has been well maintained this year, and a large influx of tourists from all sections of the country began pouring into the State late in June. Falling into step with the remainder of the country, Denver and Colorado has participated in the past two weeks in a marked im- provement in general business. Retail trade in the Denver area has increased upward of 15 per cent in that period. Unprecedentedly low prices for all classes of merchandise has kept stores well filled with purchasers. There has been some increase in food prices, but none of the asserted “prcfiteering” reported in some sections has been noted in this region. Most of the Rocky Mountain region, | with Denver leading the way, is join-| Activity in the sugar beet flelds has ing in the general upswing in trade |also afforded considerable work to un- and business conditions. A substan- |employed. Hundreds that had been on tial employment increase is reported in | relief in Denver during the Winter mining and_smelter centers, seasonal|and Spring months have been given activity in agricultural lines is noted.|employment in preparing the crop for and growing crops in the farming sec- | harvest. Some criticism has n tions of Eastern and Northern Colo- | bruited about because of wages being rado have not suffered from the blis- | paid workers, but the scale this year, tering heat that has blighted the grow- | ranging from $12 to $15 per acre for ing wheat and corn in the adjacent!hand labor, is slightly in excess of last States to the east. Sugar Beets. The sugar beet industry—Colorado’s real “cash crop"—shows every Lndi-‘ | year. “Wages for field workers are reg- | ulated by the growers themselves, how- | |ever, with the sugar company's only | involvement being in the price they pay for the beet production. This is CONCLAVE OF STATES he Sundwy Star. WASHINGTON, D. C, PROJECTS TURN TIDE OF 1 | SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 2, 1933. cation of being highly profitable this based on & sliding scale. There i 1o : vear, but company oOffi- year. not only to the Great Western | ja)s are optimistic that general world Sugar Co.. which dominates the terri-' conditions will make 1t peseibie to pay tory, but to the grower as well. AbUN- | considerably more to the growers this dant moisture is available, and the | ear than for the past teo or three sugar beets are rapidly and prolifically germinating in the rich soil of the Tegion. MARYLAND J0BS INCREASE BY 12,00 Employment Has Risen to 68.3 Per Cent of Normal in Three Months. — BY J. C. DEPONAL BALTIMORE, July I1.—Approxi- mately 12,000 persons, including 3,250 men in the Civilian Conservation Corps. have been put to work in Maryland during the past three months, accord- ing to a report just issued by Dr. J. Knox Insley, State commissioner of labor and statistics, Enmpolyment in Maryland has risen 3.9 points from 64.4 per cent of normal in March to 68.3 per cent at the end of | May, according to Dr. Insley, while pay rolls have risen 5.5 points from 41.4 to 46.9 per cent. In Baltimore employ- ment has risen 3.1 points from 60.5 to 63.6 per cent while pay rolls have risen 5.5 points from 414 to 46.9 per cent “Employment has risen faster in the ecounties, while wages have risen faster in Baltimore,” Dr. Insley said. “Both employment and pay rolls fell lower in Baltimore than in the rest of the State and pay rolls much lower than empoy- ment. “There have been further gains in June both in pay rolls and in employ- ment. Normally, there is a decided decrease in both items during April, | May and June in this State, the last | increase being in 1928—and the only | one in 10 years until this year. “Ary increase, accordingly, is en- couraging, as it shows a decided re- versal of seasonal as well as general trend. “Incidentally, the pay roll increase does not represent higher wages so much as lenger hours. Most industrial plants had been on a severely curtailed production basis. The hours of work are now much nearer to normal, and | seasons. | Silver is still a magic word in Colo~ | rado, and greatly increased activity prevails in all mining centers. The cry for remonitization rings from Den- ver to Durango and from Leadville on through the gulches that produced fabulous wealth in the past in white metal. The smelter plant of the American Smelting & Refining Co., at Leadville, has reopened, putting more |than 200 men back to work on a full- time basis. While it is generally con- ceded that silver cannot be profitably mined at its present price of approxi- mately 35 cents per ounce, the fact that other ores and by-products are increasing in demand has resulted in much re-employment—some in mines abandoned for many years. Gold Mining. ‘The search for the precious yellow metal—gold—has sent hundreds into the hills this Summer with pans. Scores of unemployed men in Denver spent several weeks in a school, spon- sored by the city, “learning” how to | pan gold, and innumerable hillsides in the shadows of the towering Rockies are the Summer homes of newly made prospectors looking for the elusive yel- low metal. Statistics at the mint in Denver in. dicate that many are successful ceipts of gold, and silver, too, mint have increased many fold. All modes of transportation report | optimistically on actual increase in | travel and an ever-increasing inquiry. | Railroad workers in Denver shops have been re-employed in some small num- bers, and surrounding functional points |report a marked increase in employ- Iment. A particularly bright spot in |the upward swing in transcontinental travel is Cheyenne, Wyo., only 100 miles to the north, and the increase there is reflected in more aerial passenger | travel in and out of Denver. On sev- | eral successive days recently airplanes on three daily schedules, east and west bound from Cheyenne, added second and third sections—huge planes—in | order to accommodate transcontinental air passengers. Live stock and wool circles tell of the recovery in lines that bring large money returns to Denver and Colorado. Wool growers in Northwestern and Scuthwest- ern Colorado have received the best price for their clip this year than for many seasons. At Craig, Colo, large fleeces were sold to the Boston market at prices ranging up to 21 cents, com- pared with 8 and 10 cents a year le | Live stock prices have been gradually creeping up, and hog prices have aver- iaged better in recent weeks with every | indication that the produce-. of porkers t the ‘Wilmette. O 1 FEELNG IPTURNIN TRADE Gov. White Is Having Trou- bles With Balky Legislature. BY J. H. GALBRAITH. COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 1.—Ohio has probably had no more serious gov- ernmental problems thrust upon it by the depression than other States, but Gov. White, it seems, has been singu- larly unfortunate in dealing with them through the Legislature. Though there is a reliable majority of his party mem- bers in each branch, the Legislature direction. He urged the sales tax as the method of securing the bulk of the increased revenues needed. The Legislature re- jected it. The majority proposed to take one of the 4 cents per gallon levied on gasoline sales for road maintenance and use it for schocls. has just told the Legislature that he would disapprove that. Adjournment with nothing done to- ward securing additional revenues seems certain now. Gov. White suggests that he will call the Legislature in special session in the Fall to take up the subject SALES TAX FOUGHT "IN NORTH CAROLINA Merchants Threaten Court Action Follow- ing Failure in chislative Halls. Levy to pro_vide $16.000,000. BY ROBERT E. WILLIAMS. |t mandatory that the tax should be both prohibition and anti-prohibition | forces have erected organizations and | l]aunched their campaigns for the elec. i tion on November 7 on the question of repeal of the eighteenth am2ndment, the | people of the State are for the moment more concerned with immediate prob- | lems. Illinois, where the statute was held in- valid by the courts and has ceased to | be_operative. RALEIGH, N. C., July l.—Mthou'hi | passed on to the consumer. This provi- bill, but a supplementary act was | passed directing Commissioner of Rev- | enue A. J. Maxwell to promulgate rules and regulations under which the tax | should be passed on and giving to such | regulations the force and effect of a | statute, with violations punishable by a Today there became effective in |fine or imprisonment. North Carolina a State tax of 3 per| | cent on all retail sales of merchandise, |tions at a meeting of the State Mer- | the largest sales tax ever enacted by chants’ Association this week and the has stubbornly refused to follow his|any of the States with the exception of | body very promptly expressed its dis- Mr. Maxwell announced his regula- ‘uUsllcuon with the regulations. Later on a merchant, who was also a member |of the Legislature, Representative Joe sion was eliminated from the revenue| The Governor | Imposition of this tax, which was|Garibaldi of Charlotte, charged that for the dual purpose of eliminating the | members of the Legislature had sold out | State’s deficjt and enabling the Stateto the merchants for jobs at the hands | to take over the entire operation of all [ of Goyv. J. C. B. Ehringhaus, who was | public schools for a period of eight | elected on a personal platform pledging opposition to any form of a sales tax except as a last resort. When another merchant-legislator, Representative W. T. Culpepper, o} the Governor's home tcwn of Elizabeth City, took the floor to | " Failing in their efforts to defeat the |defend his fellow townsman, he was | tax, the merchants made a fight in the | booed from the floor and not allowed to | Legislature to secure a provision making | proceed. | months each year, was bitterly fought by the merchants of the State and the merchants are now threatening court | action, with the final decision on that | point yet to be made. again. In connection he intimated that | the schools might not open in Septem- | ber, but he would have them open by | the employes naturally are earning |and feeder cattle will secure continued more money at the same wage scale.” Will He Be ¢ higher returns as recovery goes on. Re-Elected? MAYOR JOHN P. O'BRIEN on the Te-election of Mayor O'Brien, who announced his candidacy Thursday, 3 a storm of protest from school people all over the State. Renewed Activity. Industrial Ohio feels the thrill of re- newed activity, with the Mahoning Valley iron plants at more than 50 per cent capacity operation, the Akron rub- ber plants at nearly full capacity and the automobile and automobile acces- sory plants getting under way. The Ohio farmer is greatly benefited and encouraged even before the Federal legislation in his interest gets into oper- ation. The Ohio wheat crop is good— better than average, and it is coming from the thresher to meet dollar wheat at the market door. But cold, wet |wuther early in the Summer delayed corn planting nearly a month and greatly reduced this crop acreage and that of oats. A short corn crop is in- ld.itc:ud unless frost should be unusually There is severe criticism, not all from the Republican side, of the attempt of the Democrats to make the Home Loan administration in this State party spoils. State Chairman Henry Brunner is a candidate for chief administrator, and it is said that the 400 positions under that Federal law in this State will be given to Democrats. GEORGIA IN MIDST OF TURBULENT TIMES Gov. Talmadge Stands Fast With Martial Law While Court Action Impends. ATLANTA, Ga. July 1.—Dispassion- ate observers call the past fortnight the most turbulent period the government of Georgia has experienced since the climax of Federal reconstruction. For the first time since 1893, when William J. Northen, a rigid churchman, ordered out trops to prevent a purposed commercial fisticuff on Georgia soil be- tween Champion James J. Corbett and Charley Mitchell from England, & Gov- ernor of the State has invoked martial law to execute his intention. | But, whereas Northen employed the | injunction of tre bayonet to forestall | a violation of a State law, Gov. Eugene | Talmadge resorted to the mandamus of the machine gun to oust political oppo- nents, and has maintained military | force since then to prevent those foes :from cesking redress in the courts of the State. Talmadge and his lieutenants say mariial law was justified in the refusal of two of the three members of the State Highway Commission to yield to his program for the elimination of ex- travagance and expenditure of millions of nuallye ‘Thanksgiving day—and that has aroused | U. S. ECONOMY LEAVES FIELD TO SPEAKEASIES 'Reduction in New York Prohibition BY THOMAS COMPERE. NEW YORK, July 1.—To somewhat futile efforts of the Federal authorities to curb the operation of speakeasies and the sale of liquor in the few night clubs that have weathered the depres- sion here ended unofficially today, when the Government’s economy scythe fell heavily among the prohibition forces in this State. Andrew McCampbell, the square-jawed, stocky administrator, who administrator here three years ago that he did not “expect to perform any miracles,” and 290 of the men and women who have been working under him in the losing fight to dry up wet New Yt')’rltb weem on “indefinite fur- loughs out pay” today. Among those who lost their jobs were nearly 200 agents, leaving only 140 of them on the pay roll. With this skele- ton staff, the agents will have no time for such small fry as speakeasies. Mar- tin O. Hanson, who now is acting ad- ministrator, said his men would con- centrate on manufacturers and big dis- tributors of liquor. Taking Beer Law Seriously. This leaves the fleld virtually open i for the sale of all kinds of liquor here, the only worry of the speakeasy owner being the possibility of violat the State beer law and thereby losing his license. Curiously enough, the men who have sneered openly at the law for thirteen years are taking the beer law seriously. They beiieve it will be enforced rigidly and fairly under Edward P. Mulrooney, former police commissioner and now head of the State Alcoholic Beverage Control Board. With approximately 80 legitimate theaters vacant in the Broadway area, the theater here will reach a new low next week, when there will be cnly four igl s two revivals admitted when he became prohibition | Force Ends Losing Fight to Dry Up City—Eighty Theaters Closed. the theater. However, president of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, is cptimistic despite the reluctance of the customers to pay money for theater tickets. He says it is hard on the | pocketbook, but good for the soul, and that the sad state of affairs “will get rid of & lot of people and practices in the show business that don't belong there.” Church Issue to the Front. ‘The old issue between the low and | high church divisions of the Episcopal Church was brought to the front here this week, when Right Rev. James De Wolf Perry, presiding bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church, an- nounced that he would préach at the “pontifical mass” of the Catholic Con- gress in Philadelphia in October. His announcement was in reply to Judge Frank Cooper of the United States District Court in Albany, who, as sec- retary of the Protestant Episcopal Lay- men's Association of the Diocese of Albany, had mailed tke bishop a copy of a resolution protesting the ‘“celebra- tion of any kind of mass by the pre- siding bishop.” Bishop Perry said it was his purpose. to “act as the presiding bishop of the whole church, including representatives membership.” The Rev. Dr. Alexander G. Cummins, rector of Christ Church, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and editor of the Chronicle, official organ of the Protest- ant Episcopal Church League and the Evangelical Knowledge Society, two leading liberal groups of the chi , said that “It is most unfortunste it the presiding bishop should it him- self to be utilized by the “Anglo-Cath- olics as a part of their propaganda.” Mayor O'Brien announced late ‘Thursday that Ke would be a candidate for re-election. It is understood that the mayor's statement meets with the approval of John F. Curry, Tammany leader, and John H. McCooey, Demo- cratic chieftain of Brooklyn. It had been rumored that Tammany would side-track Mayor O'Brien and put forth another candidate. George V. McLaugh- Gene Buck, | of every school of thought within her | Chicago’s historic spot, Michigan Link Bridge, was the scene of a dream of two-and-a-half centuries come true wnen tne new inland waterway trade route connecting the Great Lakes and the Gulf of Mexico was recently opened to barge commerce. The first barge is shown passing the official ship U. 8. 8. —A. P. Photo. WYOMING VACATION Many Are Flocking to Moun- tains and Streams of State. BY R. E. EVANS. | CASPER, Wyo. July 1—Vacation time has come to Wyoming's mountains and streams, and with it a rising tide of Summer visitors whose care and ac- commodation during coming months will stimulate such improvement as has already been recorded this year. Tourists and dude ranch guests are important emissaries of this particular | brand of good cheer in normal years— | they leave millions of dollars along the +highways and byways of the State. This season the volume may be curtailed | again, but real optimism radiates from | the recreational centers of the Big Horns and the Cody, Dubois and Jack- sole Hole regions. Reservations will stand without a repetition of the can- | cellations that occurred last year, it is believed. Mining Districts Benefited. | Mining districts of the State, hardest hit by unemployment, will be the first | to benefit from the Federal relief funds | just made available. Gov. Leslie A. | Miller and his committee have just set aside $14,000 for use in Hot Springs, Sweetwater, Lincoln, Weston and Platte counties. Advances in wool, a major Wyoming product, constitute one of the bright | spots with growers who held their clips now realizing double last year’s prices. Mrs. Patrick Sullivan of Casper, wife of the Republican National Committee- man for Wyoming, who is also a former United States Senator, sold her clip for 26 cents a pound to top the market for the season in this county. ‘Wyoming accordingly is hopeful and optimistic as a whole, despite relatively slow mine and railroad operations on an improved plane. Oil stable at about last year's level. Gold Strike Made. Some gold excitement prevails in the Lander region, where the E. T. Fisher Company reports a recovery of $2,000 worth of gold in a few hours from a rich pocket struck in dredging opera- tions in low-grade gravel on Rock Creek, in the old South Pass district. Summer work also has been resumed on lode properties with improved equip- ment. Among constructive developments listed as prospective, in which lively interest is centered, is the fate of the Casper - Alcova Reclamation project, which Senators John B. Kendrick and Robert D. Carey have recommended for inclusion in the public works program. 'NEVADA INTEREST | KEEN IN ROOSEVELT Divorce Action Expected to Be Filed Through Elliott or Wife. Attorneys Republican. RENO, Nev., July 1.—The presence in Nevada, on the eastern’ shore of Lake Tahoe of Elliott Roosevelt, son of the ‘Presldent of the United States, has given this Stdte more than an ordinary interest iri Washington affairs of late, particularly Reno, where Elliott visits occasionally. While his home is at pres- ent in another county, in Douglas, it is likely that the contemplated divorce suit will be filed here. It apparently has not yet been de- cided whether young Roosevelt will file for divorce or whether his wife, the former Elizabeth Browning Donner will file the action, based on the residence of her husband. | SEASON IS BOOMING ¢ practically | Was investigating alleged frauds in the Music - Radio Autos - Aviation NDUSTRY 10pening‘ of the Great Lakes-to-Gulf Inland WaterwayTBARGE LINE BRINGS TRADE . Affects Twenty-Two States in the Mississippi Valley TO LOUISIANA HARBORS Waterway, Rate Case Victory, Cotton . Py Acreage Reduction and Politics Occupy . . . Major Attention at Opening of July. N ioreme Court in the long-fought “Galveston Rate Case,” development of the Federal plan for cotton acreage reduc- tion and politics, always a live subject in Southern conversation, are occupying major attention of Louisiana’s residents. The State’s recent double victory, in the rate case and in comple- tion of a commercial waterway from New Orleans to Chicago, is cause for rejoicing among Louisianians interested in transportation and in general business. State and city officials returned home Saturday and Sunday from Chicago, where they attended the celebrafion marking arrival of the first commercial tow over the completed Lakes-to-Gulf waterway, with predictions that the new artery soon will carry heavy commerce. Decision by the United States Supreme Court, after a legal battle lasting almost a dozen years, ordering the Interstate Commerce Commission to establish rates which will permit shippers in Okla- homa, Texas and other Western States to ship their produce to New Orleans as cheaply as to Texas ports is regarded by Louisiana traffic BY GEORGE HEALY, Jr. EW ORLEANS, La., July 1—Opening of the Lakes-to-Gulf aterway, victory for New Orleans in the United States experts as a signal accomplishment for this State. ‘The commission formerly fixed rates which favored the Texas ports in ship- ments from Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and other States nearer to Houston and Galvesten than to New Orlea Mandate of the Supreme Court orde: ing the commission to establish new rates giving no advantage to the Texds ports has been deferred pending cor- | sideration by the Supreme Court in| October of a petiticn of the Texas in- terests for rehearing of the “Galveston Rate Case.” Because a majority of Louisiana’s residents follow agricultural pursnits, constituticnal amendment election in Orleans Parish, held November 8, 1932. Investigation of charges of fraud in the vote has not been completed. Lovers of the spectacular in New Orleans are discussing two recent fires, neither of which resulted in loss cf life. On succeeding days the Munson liner Munplace, carrying one passenger and a cargo of sisal from Progreso, | Mexico, to New Orleans, caught fire in | the river 36 miles south of the city and /1,000,000 galicns of stored alcohol burned in a tank at the United States development cf the Federal farm plan | Industrial Alcohol Co.s plant on the | bench which was made vacant by the is of major importance to this State. County agents throughcut Loujsiana have been busy their duties in connection with the cot- ton reduction plan, which has been favorably received by Louisiana farmers and which they predict will greatly | benefit the State. | Investigation of New Orleans banks which are in liquidation has been started by District Attorney Eugene | Stanley cf Orleans Parish. The Canal Bank & Trust Co., the Morris Plan Bank of New Orleans, the Hibernia Bank & Trust Co. and the Continental Bank & Trust Co. are in liquidation, and the Interstate Trust & Banking| Co. still is operating on. a restricted | s. Officers of the National Bank of Com- | merce and the Hibernia 'Naticnal Bank. | successors, respectively, to the Canal | and Hibernia State banks, report that | development of the new institutions is proceeding satisfactorily. Two Civilian Conservation Corps Camps are in operation in Louisiana, and 70,121 acres of cut-over lands were added during the past 10 days to the Federal forest acreage in the State. Political develcpments in advance of the city primary scheduled in February, 1934, have been rapid. Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley declined to seek a place on the New Orleans Civil Court death of Judge Mark M. Boatner and announced geveral days ago that he will seek re-election as mayor, with the support of the combined Choctaw Club and Huey P. Long organizations. Prancis Williams, member of *the Louisiana Public Service Commission, and Dr. George F. Roeling, Orleans Parish coroner, also have announced their candidacies for mayor, Priction within the Choctaw Club or- ganization came to the surface fol- recently performing | west bank of the Mississippi River op- | posite New Orleans, Firemen held damage by both fires | to a minimum, but battles by the fire | fighters in both cases bordered the sensational. DEMOCRATIC RULE FULL IN'ILLINOIS Republicans Divided and Lack Strong Leadership—Sales Tax Unpopular. BY RUTHWELL DUNCAN. CHICAGO, July 1.—Politically Illinci: for the time is a Democratic State. A Democrat is Governor, and all State offices are filled by members of that party. The General Assembly, now at the end of its long session, was eon- | trolled by Democrats in both houses. “ Chicago and Cook County, representing jmore than half the population of the | State, are in the hands of the Demo- |crats. That is what resulted from | State and local Republicanism run to seed, and from the national upheaval of last November. lowing Mayor Walmsley’s return to| Republic immed % New Orleans from Chicago when e | oot for o chunes to thir oot oo criticized as “wrong in principle” a let- | Sen Lo e 1y ter written by two of his organization's | 8re divided and without strong leader- :\:rtd( gude% ggllrying dmy employes | ship. A grand jury is considering in- at_they w assessed 113 per cent == of their salaries until after the city | f:f"“"“ ottt Biutafeases funder primary election to pay costs of the | the last Republican regime, when Em- mlg;lcir'ul cla‘cmplign. ,merson was Governor. In Chicago nator Leng’s return to Louisiana | scandalous conditions have been re- was marked by a demonstration at the railroad _station in which heads of YeAled in the administration of the State departments took prominent | West Parks district under the board named by Emmerson, and of which one parts, serving as parade marshals and directors. | of his most intimate friends was chair- The expulsion of Attorney General | Gaston L. Porterie on June 24 from the Louisiana State Bar Association | after he tendered his resignation as a member of the association on June 24 claimed interest thrcughout the State. The Grievances Committee of the association recommended Attorney Gen- | eral Porterie’s expulsion after it inves- | tigated charges he was guilty of mls-I conduct in superseding District Attor- ney Stanley while the district uuomey[ Tells of Wall man. ‘The behavior of the Democratic State Legislature has been disappointing in many respects, but not more so than that of most State Legislatures or as much as some. Several good measures can be credited to it, many more dubious and a few wholly bad—such as the bill legalizing dog track racing as a gam- bling institution. There is hope that the Governor may veto it. Street “Plot”