Evening Star Newspaper, July 2, 1933, Page 31

- » CONCLAV E OF ATES. MICHGAN FORGES STEADILY TOWARD BUSIESSREVIAL Bank Closings Were Blow, With Half Billion in Detroit Tied Up. BY PERCY C. POWELL. DETROIT. July 1.—Faced with an unpracedented depression and a grand Jury investigation touching men and in-titutions high in the Nation as well 2s in the State, Mich'gan is making & courageous effort to recover its financial equilibrium with some success. The task, however, is herculean and it will take a long period to recover the wealth lost in the depression period. There are two major industries in Michigan. One is the automobile and accessory manufacturing business center- ing around Detroit. The other is furni- ture manufacturing centering around Grand Rapids. This latter industry has suffered to some extent, but it is better organized than the automobile business, which outranks it in impor- tance a hundredfold. Several years 2go there was a slackening int the automobile Lusiness and manufacturing became confined largely to replacements. Closings Real Blow. It was last February when the real blow fell. A terse arnouncement came through the press and over the radio that Gov. William A. Comstock had | declared a bank holiday in Michigan. This announcement precipitated similar ection throughout the Nation. | When the holiday ended weeks later | hundreds of banks remained closed. | While a number have opened since, | the United States Treasury Department | reported last week that 48 national banks remain closed, while the State reports more than 100 State banks still closed In Detroit the First National Bank and the Guardian National Bank of | Commerce, the two largest institutions in the citv, with 800.000 depositors and | $500,000,000 in deposits, remain closed. | These banks contained easily 80 per | cent of the city’s depositors, and so | far only 40 per cent of the money has | been released. These failures, together with heavy | tax delinquencies, forced the city gov- | ernment to pay in script, despite the heavy trimming of pay rolls by Mayor | NEBRASKA PUTS, DROUGHT AND BUGS ENTERPRISES T [N [ONK'S * by Word: :Stirred | F A R M SURPI.USES That Loans Favor | OMAHA, Nebr., July I—Nebraskanfi‘oa's' Barley and Wheat Al Ready Projects. find it necessary to move quickly in| order to get in on the ground floor with Feel Effects of Heat and projects for approval under the in- dustrial recovery act. The speed with Dry Weather. which the measure became a law was . not matched by preparedness in the State. Word that ready planned enter- | prises will receive first consideration | however, has given impetus to soveral |groups who long have hoped for financial backing for power and flood | water control. | Drouth, such as has hit this sec- BY C. C. CLIFTON. DES MOINES, Iowa, July 1.—Drought and chinch bugs are playing their part | /in Towa to aid the administration’s | campaign against farm surpluses. Oats, | | tion, emphasises the benefit that wouid | barley and wheat in all sections of the | | come from water storage. With the : + | possibilittes that would be derived from | State have felt the disastrous heat and | large power plants, pioneers in meidry_ weather in shrivelling the small | movement think they see the fruition |8rain crop. | of years of dreams. The tame grasses have fared no worse | " Pive projects aiready have taken |than’wild and forage grasses. Dairy- | form. Lcans from Uncle Sam are to oz | men have turned to buying food for | sought for the following: | cows where pastures have been baked | "The Sutherland project to supply|dry. In some cases the oat flelds | supplemental water for irrigation pu:- have been converted into pastures. poses to the already irrigated territory | As yet. however, the drought has had | between North Platte and Kearney. | little or no ill effect on the corn crop. | "The tri-county plan. including the | But a July as dry and as hot as June | Sutherland project as its first develop- | has been will wreck great damage on | ment, but calling for construction of |Iowa's chief grain. e wier o ars: | T | territory i~ Central Nebraska, often | Southern lowa's corn flelds that | ot " This is in the locale of | billow like an ocean are having oil | Senator George W. Norris' home. Ne- | poured between their waves. The oil ratkans are looking fo him to be of | Will prove the death of millions of| | ot * | chinch bugs, hatched in the recent dry, | | Loup River Projects. | hot_weather. | bers of A | Chinch bugs poke a proboscis into Three proposed projects are on the | growing plants, suck out the life sap | and depart, leaving in their wake flat- tened and withered fields. At this time |of year they go afcot—though they | will” fiy later—and the oil will stop their progress. Stymied by the oil, | they are led aside into post holes, | where more oil is poured on them rand the chinch bugs @ie quietly of | | strangulation. Loup River, the one large stream in the State, outside the bordering Mis- | souri, that seems never to run dry These projects are located, one at Co- lumbus, on the Platte, a power dam: one on the Middle Loup, a power and irrigation proposal. and the third on the North Loup, with the same double purpose. A sixth proposal, yet in_ embryo, is known as the 66-county district and would combine all the proposals in one district, entailing an expenditure of $35,000,000. | Listing of all projects, which may be financed through the recovery act, was started at a State-wide meeting at Lin- coln_this week sponsored by the Ne- | braska Manufacturers’ Association. A call went out for complete descriptions | with estimated costs for submission by July 15. Attending this meeting were 300 business men, manufacturers, mem- county boards and chambers of commerce. A newly formed Asso-| ciated Industries of Nebraska is Lhe; parent organization. If the Federal rul | ling requires a !ocall THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., JULY 2, 1933—PART FOUR. ‘BUSINESS AND AGRI Secretary Wallace Visits Iowa Farm l Sgeretary of Agriculture Henty A. Wallace (right) visited his farm near Des Moines and discussed prospects for corn this year wi . P er (left) al . J. Newlin (center). Drought, which has damaged wheat and cats severely, | Tnive has caused little or no damage to the cofn crop on his farm, Wallace said. I foniitne R(ACUllyl COfne fitintversity fof A. P. Photo. QUICK RESULTS EXPECTED | working full time and, in some cases, Industry. On the other hand, Towa industries have been spurred by a rush of buying. | And, since industry contributes an | equal amount with agriculture to the | | State's income, things are looking up | in Towa for manufacturers of textiles, | washing machines, cereal products and machinery. Des Moines mills, which produce | hosiery and rough work clothing, are textile factories are working several shifts. BY WALTER D. ROOS. Formal Recovery. HARRISBURG, Pa, July 1—While Towa textile manufacturers are al-|Many manufacturers of the State are ready involved in working out a code | skeptical regarding the ultimate effect under the national recovery act, and | ypon their businesses, Pennsylvania ex- Frank Murphy, who now is ZOvernor bond issue as a pre-requisite to the general of the Philippines. Marked Upturn Feit. 1 In the last two months Detroit and | Michigan have enjoyed a marked re- vival in business. The records of the | United States Department of Commerce show that the manufacture of auto- mobiles in May, 1933, totals 184,632, and trucks 33,539, as against 157.756 | automobiles and 26,539 trucks in May, 1932, and 108,326 automobiles and 21,718 trucks in January, 1933 A further optimistic note is the June survey of the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce, which reports | that automobile and truck manufactur- ing in June will tetal 12 per cent more than in May. It is admitted there is some nervcusness manifested by manu- facturers, however, because of uncer- tainty at the London Economic Con- ference T The national recovery act is being hailed with delight from all sides. It js looked on as a determining factor in business revival throughout the State. Idahoans Beli(;ve Another Special Session Is Likely Last Meeting Hardly Over | Before Talk Centers on Revising Taxes. Specisl Dispatch to The Star. BOISE. Idaho, July 1.—Idaho’s spe-| cial session of the Legislature, which | Jegalized 3.2 beer and authorized sale| of endowment fund securities and re- investment in State warrants, had scarcely started its work before talk of | another session was being heard. Demands for a second special session to revise the entire tax structure of the State in an effort to secure additional | needed revenue were beaten down by administration forces. As the session adjourned late last week, it was freely predicted that a tax-revision session would be called by | January, 1934. Gov. C. Ben Ross is| hopeful that improved conditions by | that time will permit taxpayers to meet | their obligations to the State and make another session unnecessary. i Beer Goes Through. ! Little difficulty was_encountered in enactment of beer legislation. Petitions | | extent of 70 per cent of the cost of these undertakings, local sponsors be- lieve the public will overcome its an- tipathy to further funding operations enough to help the cause along. | Nebracka rivers send enough flood water into the Missouri to account for a large share of damage in the lower Mississippi at seasons when there is no need for it on the prairies. At com- paratively small expense, these might be impounded, according to John W. Towle, Omaha, chairman of the Nebraska Committee on Trade Re- covery. are being seconded by Iowa coal miners and operators. pects two quick-moving results from the | FROM INDUSTRY CONTROL Pennsylvania Sweatshops Likely to End Doing Away With Necessity for Special Assembly Call. | A dress factory worker was paid $1.30 {for 52 hours work; another received $4 | for a full month. In a grouo of plants in the clothing industry surveyed by Stat> investigators, one-fourth of all employes were less than 15 years old, one-half less than 18, and 41 per cent of all employes were paid less than $5 L. P. Love, K. G. Carney, John H.| operation of the national industrial re- | a week. In some shops, 5 cents a week Ramsey and Sam Ballantyne, all of Des Moines, were in Chicago June 29 | covery act. | One is the snuffing out of sweat- was deducted from pay envelopes to bear th> cost of employes' ice water: | conferring with representatives of coal | shops through industrial codes “fiXing | in others there were deductiors to pay operators from 10 other States. They | maximum hours and minimum wages. | for hold-up insurance to safeguard pay were chcsen here after Iowa operators | approved the tentative national code|posed Summer special session of the | contributed 50 cents weekl in a two-day meeting Monday and | Tuesday. Druggists and oil men of Iowa also| met last week to discuss the recovery act and meetings of eight more groups | will be held in Des Moines in the next | few weeks. i:ARKANSAS CHIEF JUSTICE RACE 'FINDS OFF-YEAR POLITICS BOILING| The second 1s elimination of a pro- | Legislature to consider labor laws which | would have controlled the low-wage long-hour plants employing mostly chil- | dren 14 and 15 years old. ‘The sweatshop has become epidemic | in Pennsylvania only recently. and is | of the textile and clothing industry. State labor officials attribute the sud- rolls; in another, $3-a-week employes y to aid their employer in paying rent. In many other cases, fly-by-night garment manufacturers paid no wages. In one town, which contributed $2.500 to induce shirt factory to establish | confined largely to the needle branches | there to provide local employment, and | provided a building rent-free for the | first month, the employer fled the town NEW MAYOR TAKES > | CONCLAVE O F STATESY & ~3= CULTURAL OUTLOOK OPTIMISTIC VERMONT’SIDLE GIVEN PROMISE OF WORK SOON |Flood Control and Highway Projects Interest All. BURLINGTON, Vt., July 1.—Matters of the most transcefdent interest to Vermonters at the present time are highway work with the sum allocated by President Rocsevelt's pub > works board and the problem of flood contrcl, which also includes some appropriation from the Federal Government. According to the latest figures, Ver- mont will receive $1,867,573 of the $400,000,000 for highway construction to put hundreds of thousands of men back to work. If the recommenda- tions of Army officers are follcwed, Fort Ethan Allen, the Army post four miles frem this city, will get $78- 490 of th: proposed $135,000,000 con- struction program for work in a num- ber of Army posts scattered through- out the States and Territories. The State of Vermont has just re- ceived its first instaliment of Federal money for town and city relief for expenses of their pcor departments and in providing work for the un- employed, the sum of $121,657. This 2mount will be distributed to the 171 ent calendar year and will be issued on warrants of the State finance com- cissioner, Proctor H. Page of Hyde | Park, who has been appointed State | director of this relief. | Advice of Engineers. The services of qualified engineers Vermont Ccllege of Engineering will be exiended to the municipal ties of the State in an advisory capacity on plan- ning public works for which Federal essistance may be secured under the industrial recovery act. They will ask no compensation, their services being 2 contribution to the public good by the college. Flood control has been much dis- [ | wl[M'NGIUN Pfls‘l’ | cussed since the disaster of November, 11927 Of the estimated property |Gov. Buck of Delaware to “ Name Members of Judi- [ ciary Within Week. WILMINGTON, Del, July 1.—From sevcral angles July will stand out as one of the most important months in | the year as far as Delaware is con- cerned. Tocay Dr. William H. Speer | took office as mayor of Wilmington, the first Democrat to be elected to that office for 17 years. Although he will have a Republican city council, it is thought that because of factional dif- ferences the Democrats will be able to control that body on important ques- | tions. All the departments of city gov- ernment which are now controlled by the Republicans will be Democratic be- fore the term of the mayor expires. Among them are the departments of public safety, street ana sewers, water, | parks and health. | Ascutney | damage in the State at. that time, $13,- | | 000,000 was in the Winooski Valley jand 55 of the 88 lives lcst were also |in the valley. United States Senator |Warren R. Austin has put before Col. George R. Spaulding, who has been | named public works administrator, the | plans of Army engineers developed as |a result of the studies made following | the 1927 flocd, and it is hoped that | some financial assistance in carrying out these plans may be available under | the provisions of the industrial recovery act, Gov. Stanley C. Wilson has accepted !a gift of several hundred acres of land from L. A. and Henry Darling of East| Burke. The gift includes a large part of | Burke Mcuntain, which will be de- veloped as a State park. Another gift, which the Governor has also accepted, is that of several hundred acres of land on Ascutney Mountain in Windsor, and which will also be developed as a State forcst park. The donors are Frank L. Cone, Judge F. G. Bicknell and the Mountain Association of Windser. and E. L. York of Dover, N. H. Companies of the Civilian Con- servation Corps are already at work building roads. den appearance of shops in this stntei to recent enactment of more stringent | labor laws by its neighbors. Ohio al- | as “learners” for cne week without pay, lows a maximum of 40 hours a week and dischaged them at the end of the work by children, and New York 44. week. There were instances in wkich In Pennsylvania children, upon com- |time clocks were reset before employes pleting the sixth grade of public |punched their cards, to hide evidence school, may begin work at age of 14 of working schedules three hours a day and work 51 hours a week. Women |longer than the law allowed: and may work 54 hours. There is no maxi- | wages then were paid only on the hours LJudges Wood and Johnson Seek Vacancy of | Hart—Ragon's Successor in Congress to Be Elect BY THOMAS J. BRANSFORD. LITTLE ROCK, Ark. July 1.— Arkansas again is in the throes of poli-| ties. Although an off year, the open-| ing speech in the race for a chief justice of the State Supreme Court was made by Judge Carroll O. Wood at| Russellville Monday night. There are two candidates seeking to| fill the unexpired term of the late Chief Justice Jesse C. Hart. The other 15‘ Judge C. E. Johnson, who is serving | under a temporary appointment by Gov. J Marion Futrell. Judge Johnson indi- | cated that he would not make an active campaign. | The election will be held July 18 in| conjunction with the election of a rep- resentative from the fifth district and | the voting on the repeal of the eight- eenth amendment. The representative will fill the place | left when Heartsill Ragon was appointed | Federal judge. Those who have an- nounced are Sam Rorex, attorney; State Representative Kenneth Coffelt of Faulkner County and D. D. Terry, Lit- tle Rock attorney. Brooks Hays, Demo- | cratic _national committeeman, and | State Senator Robert Bailey of Russell- | ville are reported as likely candidates. | Cotton Plans Backed. | Arkansas is heartily in sympathy | with the cotton acreage reduction pro- | gram. The State organization is func- | tioning smoothly and practically every | Rock banks have offered to buy several ed July 18. ‘The last company of Arkansas Civilian Conservation Corps recruits, the 768th, left Camp Pike Tuesday after | going through the conditioning Period. The first of the State's quota of 375 World War veterans to be recruited for | forest service arrived at Camp Pike Tuesday. As soon as the veterans are conditioned the camp will be occupied by the Arkansas National Guard and this encampment will be followed by the C. M. T. C. A total of 2.800 C. C. C. youths were conditioned at the camp. Arkansas set some kind of a record between June 16 and June 22 when | four banks were robbed of more than $16,000. Here’s the score sheet: June 16, | First National Bank of Black Rock, $6,221: June 19. Bank of Havana, $l.- | 000; June 21, Citizens Bank and ‘Trust | Co.'at Camden, $6.000; June 22, Com- | mercial Bank of Alma, $3,600. Some of the money has been re- covered, but most of it has been marked off the books and the insurance com- panies notified. As a result the Little machine guns and donate them to the Little Rock Pclice Department. At the annual meeting of the Arkansas Rice Growers' Co-operative Association at Stuttgart Monday it was reported that the associaion had ended the fiscal vear free of debt and had paid members more for their rice than was generally received on the open market. Annual visiting day was held at the mum-hours law for men. and no mini- | mum-wage law for men, women or children here. Move Plants Into State. In the first five months of this year, | prosecutions for violating the maxi- | mum-hours law were brought by the | State Department of Labor and Indus- | try against 233 employers—as many as in the entire year of 1929. Many of the prosecuted employers were shown to have moved their plants into Pennsylvania only a few weeks earlier, after laws more drastic than here had been enacted in States in which they formerly did business. Complaints against sweatshops be- gan in large numbers in the Spring and attention was centered on them | by a “baby strike” of boys and girls | employed in Lehigh Valley mills in | April. The Legislature, before adjourn- | ing at the beginning of May, author- | ized a joint committee to investigate. | To_this committee Gov. Gifford Pin- | chot named his wife, Mrs. Cornelia Bryce Pinchot, who had joined the “baby strikers’ " picket lines. The commitee has unearthed many | startling stories. Some employes work- | ing more than the legal maximum of hours, were paid less than $1 a week. permitted by law. From these disclosures arose a de- mand from labor organizations and social workers for an immediate special session of the Legislature, to enact minimum wage and lower maximum hour laws to drive the sweatshops out of Pennsylvania in the same way laws in nearby States drove them here. Mrs. Pinchot, stirred by the sweatshop in- vestigation in which she is participat- ing, also became an advocate of the Summer session for more drastic labor laws, and Gov. Pinchot last month said | he was considering calling one. The prospect that codes regulating the needle industries may soon be | effective under the recovery act ap- pears also to hold the prospect of abol- ishing the sweatshops and making a session to control them unnecessary at once. Discussions in Washington this week, indicating the code may call for less than 40 hours a week and more than $11 as the minimum weekly wage, seem to indi- cate the standards to be set in the new codes automatically will correct the low pay and long hours which have featured the sweatshops here, if |the rules are enforced against the migratory employers. Up From the Doldrums had been pouring in from all parts of | cotton growing county is conducting a the State for months, demanding that | campaign to sign up planters and farm- | the Governor call a special session for | ers for its percentage to be plowed | legalization of beer. Idaho, surrounded | under. | by beer States, felt the loss of business.| One problem that is not quite clear When the session convened on June 19, | to many farmers is whether they will | a bill legalizing 3.2 beer was rushed | be allowed to plow up fields that were Arkansas fruit and truck branch experi- ment station at Hope yesterday. Sev- eral thousand visiters inspected the sta- tion and witnessed special demonstra- tions. Several well known agriculturists and horticulturists digcussed prob- lems facing the farmers and fruit through both houses with scarcely any opposition. After some disagreement, a revenue measure was drafted and passed, the Governor signing it two days later. It provides an annual State brewer’s license of $300, a wholesaler's license of $100 and a retailer’s license of $1. Counties and municipalities are limited to a $12.50 annual license fee for re- tailers. A State tax of 5 cents per gallon was authorized. Before adjournment, a tax of 5 cents per pound was placed on malt to discourage making of home brew. Endowment Bill Fight. The big fight of the session centered about the endowment bill. Straitened financial condition of the State neces- sitated the immediate finding of funds with which to meet operating costs of <he State. This, the Governor said, was the major reason for issuing the call for a special session. Sale of securities held by the State school endowment fund would secure funds which could be reinvested in State warrants to be met later by reve- nue collections of the State. Strong opposition developed among school of- ficials, members of the State Board of Education and leaders of both major political parties. Strength of the Governor was indi- cated in the fact that he succeeded in smashing opposition and forcing pas- sage of the program as outlined in the call. It was intimated that if this plan was not enacted, another session might be called to revise the entire State budget for the biennium. Fear of dras- tic slashing may or may not have had something to do with final agreement on and passage of the endowment measure. Idaho is one of the Western States in which the C. C. C. reforestation program is most active. Idahoans, after a brief feeling of resentment, welcomed the foresters to the Gem State and : 31»" nerally pleased with results H L% —emii b planted to cotton but which did not| germinate because of continued dry weather. Because of continued rains in the Spring many farmers were delayed in their planting. As soon as fields were dry enough they immediately set to work, but since planting there have been no rains and the land dried out | so fast the seed has not sprouted. Much of the corn throughout the| | State is damaged badly, and it is feared | the State's feed crops will be ruined. Those sections that have received rain gl uany consequence also have received ail. | Beer Sold Openly. | Speaking of drouths, beer is veing| sold openly in Little Rock and officers are doing nothing about it. Several arrests were made when the sale first started, but Municipal Judge Harper Harb refused to have anything to do with the cases. It is reported that the next grand jury will investigate the sale of beer. In the meantime, the sale of beer goes on and the State and city are losing much revenue. Arkansas will vote on whether the State will be wet or dry on July 18, but under the present statutes the sale of any bev- erage containing any amount of alco- hol is against the law. One of the largest R. F. C. projects in Arkansas has been completed near Boneville. It is the 375-foot dam that| will impound 45,000,000 gallons. The | water will cover 12 acres. The water- shed of the dam covers 1,000 acres. It will furnish water for the State Tuber- | culosis Sanatorium at Booneville, third | largest of its kind in the United States. Arkansas is preparing for more Fourth of July celebrations than at any time in its history and judging from announcements from the various | towns and communities practically ali State officials will speak at all of them. Every promoter or committee in charg> of arrangements has invited all ths State officials and candidates for Rep- resentative from the trict of o u‘v’! growers. NEW CONNECTICUT LAWS FACING TESTS Minimum Wage for Women and| Minors and Milk Price Control Hold Court Interest. HARTFORD, Conn., July 1.—Two ex. | periments embarked upon by the bien- | nial session of .the Legislature which ended early last month, a minimum wage law for women and minors in sweatshop industries and a minimum price for milk, apparently are slated for court tests. The milk price law, the major “farm relief” act of the Legis- lature, places control of the minimum prices for the various grades of milk in the different markets in the State with a board of three members. The act became effective last Saturday, June | 24, and already various groups of small and independent dealers have formed organizations and promise to take the {r_lelsure to court on constitutional ques- ions. The minimum wage law becomes ef-; fective today, and the State Federation ! of Labor has indicated that it will not wait iong to file complaints. One of a ceries of amendments t the State labor laws put through as a result of months of agitation against sweatshops, the act is made applicable only to women and minors with the hope that through that limitation it will escape the constitu. tional hazards of a general minimum wage law. It provides for the establish- ment of & minimum wage for any in- ustry complained against by a board d l JAN-FEBMAR APR- MAY -JUNE- JULY - AUG- SEPT-0C 1232 ‘Wheat's course from January, 1932, 45 DEC-JAN - FEB-MAR -APR- MAY-JUNE 1933 , until its recent lively rise toward the dollar mark is here reflected in & chart for No. 2 red Winter wheat, cash Chicago prices. The photo shows a monster wheat combine, harvesting, threshing and sacking, its crop and in the distance a fleld in shock. Gigantic Crop Losses From Weather Bring Dollar Wheat Back to Nation By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, July 1.—“Dollar wheat” may sound like big news in the head- lines, but it means a combination of tragedy and good fortune for the Na- tion’s farmers this year. ‘When those $1 prices returned re-! cently to glitter in Chicago's wheat pit the:;n w&r‘e ;oé::': w(ly (rm'nr being money of every farmer. ‘The damaging heat which brought a possibility of a national crop short. age into the picture ‘is held largely e R For the lucky farmer, skyrocketing of wheat quotations to the highest point since September, 1930, naturally means greater profits than for many a year. But for countless thousands whose crops have been mostly or totally destroyed by prolonged heat and drought the irony of dollar wheat will only accentuate the misfortune of crop This vear's wheat a weather extiusively , is decidedly | Patch s SRS cotton textile | Without License, BY L. M. THAYER. | HELENA, Mont, July 1.—Montana's so-called chain-store tax became effec- |tive today. Enacted by the Legislature last Winter, it affects about 8,000 estab- lishments through the State. The State Board of Equalization, during the past week, has been mailing data on the act to retailers and wholesalers who come under the law. After today it is unlawful for any chain to operate without a license, either in retail or wholesale trade, and | severe fines are provided for violation of the act. While aimed primarily at chain | stores, the law applies to all retailers |and wholesalers and all must procure | licenses. Single units are affected with | | chains operating many places of business. | Licenses expire December 30 ench‘ | year and for 1933 half-year licenses are being issued. The tax is expected to yield about $40,000 annually. It provides on the present half-year basis, $1.75 for one or two stores; $5 where there are three or four; $10 where there are five or six; $13 where there are seven or eight and $15 for ten or more. Seeks Industrial Loan. Helena High School trustees are thinking of applying for a loan under the industrial recovery act for erec- tion of a new school, which the district long has needed. No decision has been reached, but E. M. Hall, chairman of the board of trustees, said the board is looking into the matter. This State may be far inland, but it may have the first beer boat, it is claimed, in the Northwest. Parties de- siring to operate such a craft on the HORSE RACING DRAWS LARGE CROWDS DAILY Legalizing of Pari-Mutuels Proves Popular in New Hamp- shire. Special Dispatch to The Star. , N. H, Juy 1— Rockingham Park at Salem, N. H, where the running horses are in full swing, with legalized pari-mutuel bet- ting, is drawing the crowds daily. With the best of the second division horses and a big play at the mutuel windows, Rockingham bids fair to be in major show soon. The handle Wed- nesday was over $129,000, while last Saturday $134,000 was handled. Lou Smith, well known in racing circles, is head of the park. One of worst Summer storms struck Woodsville Wednesday night, causing considerable damage to grow- ing crops, blowing down trees, while highways were blocked by landslides. The rest of the State continued to swelter in the heat. S. O. Huckins, well known Ossipee citizen, has presented the State De- | partment _of Fisheries and Game 1,000 near the shore of Ossipee Lake and embracing Black Brook, one of the | finest streams in the State. The area will be used to develop rearing sta- tions for fish. Miss Eunice Patch of Francestown has been named as director of public Gov. John G. Winant. Miss have of all public re- itutions and will directors 10 aasist hen,” | Bl |ac e ena't e moni, owng s0000 MONTANA'S “"CHAIN STORE™ TAX ~ HAS NOW BECOME EFFECTIVE {Unlawful for Any Branch to Operate| Either in Retail or Wholesale Trade. Missouri River have applied for a beer selling license to the State Board of Equalization. The boat will operate on the McCone County line, if the license is granted. W. M. Daly, manager of mines for the Anaconda Copper Co., announces that preparations are being made to cpen the Emma mine here, a zinc property, under lease from the Butte | | Copper & Zinc Co. employ a number of men and will also give employment to additional men at | the Anaconda smelters in Anaconda | and Great Falls. The civilian conservation camps of Montana, including Yellowstone Na- tional Park, now house mere than 6.000 men, These have all been sent out from Fort Missoula here and most of them are working in the forests. All the camps, as planned, have now received their quotas and work is in {full swing. The vast majority of these boys are “tenderfeet,” who are expe- riencing the hardships and novelties of the West for the first time. Doubt- less many of them will find the life hard but most will return home bet- tered physically and psychologically. Thus far the recruits have conducted themselves in exemplary fashion. There has been no complaint of “their be- havior. They are under severe disci- pline and there is almost no oppor- tunity for dissipation. The camps as & rule are far from any town. Experienced Army officers are in command and veteran woodsmen, hired locally, are instructing the boys in their tasks. Unless all prophecies fail, the work done in the forests will be of immeasurable benefit to vast national resources and repay the ex- Pense many times. Takes Over Revenue Office. Lewis Penwell of Helena, a Demo- crat, has assumed charge of the reve- nue office in the Helena district, suc- ceeding C. H. ussen, who had held the place for three successive Republican administrations. Mr. Pen- well, who was a partner of the late United States Senator T. J. Walsh in the sheep-raising business, is a pio- neer resident of Helena. Mr. Rasmussen was a publisher be- fore assuming the office and had long prominent in the Republican party. He has not announced his plans. The 163d United States Infantry, Montana National Guard, has just concluded annual maneuvers at Camp Cooney, a suburb of Helena. The Guard, under command of Col. Erastus H. Williams, adjutant general, is rated the highest in the United States for and prmndnes for war. to the I man allowed in peacetime and great enthusiasm is manifest among individual companies, in cgrfll mdfiou;lr routine. mpany H, Billings, won the for the best appearance in the nngzruiile review, held at Camp Cooney during the maneuvers. The Western Montana National Bank is exhibiting a gold nugget valued at $90 and found recently on Elk Creek, a tributary of the Blackfoot River, by a prospector. This nugget, with several smaller ones, valued at $40, was found in a Hundreds of prospectors are in the hills this Summer, but this is the only notable find reported. Amateur pros- pectors are lucky to make a bare living and mothing could be more unjust than to disseminate the impression that for- tunes ’::“A‘n the picking. The work is very and considersble walnas, — i e . ittt et - ittt i { acres of land in the town of Freedom | pocket. towns which have filed their accounts for the first three months of the pres- | The mine will | from many parts of America. | ARIZONA POLITICS 1 REACHING BOLNG PONT N SESSIONS |Impeachment of State Cc.- ‘t poration Commissioners and Election Pending. BY T. W. B. ANDERSON. PHOENIX, Ariz, July 1.—Arizona's | political pot is reaching the boiling point as result of two special sessions of the Legislature, impeachment of two State corporation commissioners and the pending special congressional elec- | Adding to the already complicated | situation which has broken the usual political quietness of an Arizona Sum- mer in off election years are reports of plans to recall Gov. B. B. Moeur and the “wet” and “dry” issue to be settled |at an election October 3. Starting with the resignation of Rep- | resentative Lewis W. Douglas to become President Roosevelt's Federal budget director, the ball has been rolling fast, ,Kkt:nx with it everything that came in ght. Governor Steps In. | Hardly had Mrs. Isabella Greenway, | Arizona Democratic national committee woman, and Harlow Akers, Phoenix at- | torney, announced their candidacies for { Douglas’ post in Congress than Gov. | Moeur stepped into the picture witn a call for a special session of the Legis- | lature. | " The chief executive asked. and re- | ceived from the Legislature, four reve- | nue-raising measures—income, intangi- | bles, sales and luxury taxes—to balance | the ‘State’s budget and alleviate a dis. | tressed financial condition. The Gov- | ernor estimated the amount of revenue from operation of the bills would reach | more than $3.000.000. Clearing the revenue-raising program | from_the calendar, the House of the | Legislature proceeded to impeach Amos A. Betts, chairman, and Charles R. Howe, member of the State Corporation Commission. Before the articles of im- | peachments were filed with the Sen- ate Betts resigned. Howe will go to | trial July 18 before the Senate. ‘The men were charged with “felonies, | high crimes, misdemeanors and mal- feasance” in office. Both are veteran | State officials. Betts is known na- | tionally. It was the first time in Ari- zona's history that a public official had | been impeached. Second Session Necessary. It was necessary to call a second spe- cial session cf the Legislature to set up | machinery for the impeachment trial. | "During the first special session the | legislators set up machinery to allow | Arizonans to vote on repeal of the eighteenth amendment October 3, at | the same time Douglas’ successor is | named. i The congressional campaign activity was increased with the announcement {of Kirby Vidrine, former Louisiana | politician and friend of Senator Huey P. Long, that he would be a candidate. | His announcement brought forth rumors that Long was planning to sweep into Arizona in somewhat the same manner he aided Senator Hattie Caraway in Arkansas. Politicians who have had time to take their attention off the State affairs and the Legislature appear to be divided in their opinion on the congressional race. ‘The primary will be held August 8. Mrs. Greenway and Akers appear to be the strongest candidates. Akers op- posed Senator Carl Hayden in the 1932 primary. Mrs. Greenway has a great deal of support in various sections of the State because of her close relation- ship with the President and his family. Washington State Lumber Industry Hastens Recovery Public Works Program Gets Under Way to Employ Thousands. Special Dispatch to The Star. SEATTLE. July 1.—With men re- turning to the mills and camps by the hundreds weekly, Washington's basic industry, lumber, is apparently on the upgrade after 30 months’ virtual shut- down, and as a result this State is slowly but surely shaking off the spirit of depression. The timber pay roll has been the State’s most important. It has slowly dropped off since 1929 until during the Spring of this year it was but 34 per cent of normal. Naturally everything else slid off. The revival of the industry is re- flected all down the line. A more nealthful feeling is being evinced. Business generally is picking up. On top of this the Supreme Court has placed its approval upon a $10,000,000 bond 1ssue to stimulate employment through public works. This approval was made on the the- ory that the State faced “insurrection and revolution” unless some relief was afforded. The money is now available. The program of necessary work to be done is virtually ready. On top of this the State has been allotted more than $6,000,000 out of the Federal public works measure, and the State Highway Department has another $6,000,000 available, providing direct and indirect employment to around 50,000 to 60,000 persons immediately. This has apparently turned the tide. ‘While the State authorities have been engaged in working out these programs, however, another element has entered the picture. In King County, Superior Court Judge John A. Frater has asked police protection because of “a deliberate campaign of annoyance” on the part of the radicals and unemployed di- rected against him. He has been one of the jurists who has been compelled to issue eviction notices against per- sons who refuse to pay rent bills. He has been subjected to disturb- ances at his home, and in some in- stances to threats. Seattle is apparently a hot bed of radicalism. During a recent trial here of 15 persons charged with rioting and resisting the King County sheriff in carrying out an eviction order, one of the "defendants calmly informed the court that a “Nation-wide revolution” This Nati ler ship of the proletariat,” following a “bloodless revolution” in which some “capitalists who might resist will prob- ably be hurt.” ‘The State is also right now eng: n a nlherE- lfl‘tnluz wen‘ and 5 campaign. rly ugust_a speci election will be held, at which time each legislative district will elect a delegate to a convention in September cast on the question of repeal. The candidate heading the list of those on his side of the question will be de- clared elected if his faction draws the majority vote. CONCLAVE OF STATES CONTINUED ON PAGE 6.