Evening Star Newspaper, July 8, 1933, Page 2

A-2 *» ROOSEVELT CABLES NEW INSTRUCTIONS Britain Joins U. S. as French . Admit Defeat in Effort to Limit Agenda. (Continued From First Page) £0 as to exclude monetary and tariff | topics. | High quarters said they were well aware the 25-to-15 vote of the Mone-| tary Commission subcommittee to con- tinue work on all phases of the con- ference agenda would be confirmed b the bureau, or Steering Commit| Monday. At the same time, they look for a reversal by the bureau of an 8-to-7 ballot by which the Committee on Comi- mercial Policy voted down a proposal | to coutinue discussion of tarifis and quotas. | Will Continue Fight. i 1-dgment of defeat, however that the French intended fight against any mcie id currencies Ackno did not to relax of a nature On the cor N O merely meant ence would be plunged from nto another. nnot_do anything member of the French deleg; an important currency like fluctu | “France is not hostile to the confer- | ence. On the contrary, she wishes n} success. But what can you do with money | jumping about? = You can —make| speeches, but you cannot make de-| cisions.” The French let it be known the sider the 15 votes they must their cause vesterdav afternoon formed a 'very imposing majority, representing all Europe except Scandinavia, Portugal and Russia, and they believe it sufficient for their ends. Join to Lift Prices. sald » n, “w the doila ng th the prediction ted States, Great and g on varied, but similar in an effort to lift On the other h: was heard that th: Britain, Canada Zealand, wor lines, would join U a possibility was called a con- t European non- against continuing | yram, as outlined by rence Preparatory Com icn. it step: old s to rai bloc B. Ber amberlain, chancellor of i Prime Minister of G t Britain, did not ¥ 1 the Domin- rency from - was credited with Eritain away from the exchequ Rams: that if price-ra goid bloc symp So far as the c were concerned the: over the week end, leaders were busy Wwor for the coming week Pittman Continues Fight. i The American delegation, beside deal-| ing with the President’s latest messa rther consideration to thel for world-wide action hours of bor, increasing raising_agricultural prices sals will be placed before ce scon Senator Key Pituman of Neva tinued his efforts through priv sations to obtain azcceptance of his 1 for rehabilitation of silver to insure that India and China will not _try to profit by dump the market great quantities of white metal if prices are raised. n_ has becn in frequent ) the Indian and Chi- nese delegates, whose countries are the chief holders of silver. Scveral new proposals have been sub- mitted to the conference commissions. The Polish delegation offered a draft convention for the organization of the international market for bread-making cereals. The Poles also introduced a resolution for the establishment of an international dairy council to regulate butter-making. The French, who long have been in- terested in public works, advanced a proposal for the creation of a subcom- mission to study this subject and other meesures capable of diminishing unem- ployment. STALKER AND WIFE ACCUSED OF FRAUD rence headquarte as little acti many of tb ing on plans New York Representative Sued for Wrongly Acquiring Stock in Corporation. | Representative Gale H. Stalker, of New York, who'lives in Washington at | 2737 Cathedral avenue, s accused of fraudulently acquiring stock in the Tri-State Gas and Electric Corporation in a suit filed yesterday in the District Supreme Court. The suit, filed by the corpcration, al- | leges that r formerly served as its presic ile serving in this capacity, it was allef audulently acquired 2500 shares of st of $10 par value and was a party to the frau- dulent issue of 7.500 additional shares to directors of the corp.ration. It also was charged that when he resigned as president on March 7, 1933, he took with him a typewriter worth $102 which belonged to the corpcration. The court is asked to require him to account for “undisclosed profits and | benefits " | His wife, Mrs. Helen B. Stalker, is also named as a defendant upon the | allegaticn that he transferred some of the stock to her. The corporatic, | which has offices in the Earle Buildirg, | was represented by Attorneys Williagy Cogger, Charles Philip Biggins and Ja GIRL, 14, DISAPPEARS Believed }I;ch-}{ik;;; 'to Former Home in Missouri. Police have been asked to help find ! Jessie Moore, 14. missing from her heme at 1511 Franklin street, north- yesterday and believed to to her former home at Chillicothe, Mo. She had been living here with her | mother, Mrs. Florence Moore, at the Franklin street address since Christ- | mas. Recently, it was stated, she was overheard teiling a friend she was going back to her old home at Chilli- cothe where her father resides. ! PLANE TIME CUT HOUR ir Transport Speeded Up Between Capital and Pacific Coast. Air transport plane time between the National Capital aud San Francisco reduced un hour today, when United Air Lines inaugurated direct service into San Francisco Municipal Afrport instead of landing on the Oakland side of San Francisco Bay. Under the 221, hour elapsed time schedule now in effect passengers leaving Washington at 11:30 am. on Pennsylvania Airlines connect at Cleveland with the United Air Lines plane leaving there at 3:22 p.m. and are put in San Iancisco in time for break- ‘irt the next morning - ~ | profits. rticipate S What’s What Behind News in Capital. U. S. Speaks Politely, but Holds “Big Stick” for Industry’s Rule. BY PAUL MALLON. LL is not what it seems in the‘ industrial control set-up. A touchy underlying situa- on is being concealed behind the fine ballyhoo of the Gov- ernment publicity agents. ‘The truth is that a few industries seem to be running out on the pro- gram. They are finding various lame excuses for not stepping up to the counter with minimum wage proposals and codes. The situation became so threat- ening several Uays ago Commerce Secretary Roper wanted to take strong action. He advocated in the confidential inner councils that the President proclaim his own code for all industries. That would stir them into action. The men at the top thought Roper’s plan was too strong. They have been working for days on a more moderate way of prodding the laggards. The reason for this backstage situa- tion Is not hard to find. Business has improved measurably since Congress passed the industrial control act. Production and prices are going up. Cheap labor makes good Some manufacturers see a chance of crawling out of the slough without fixing minimum wagss. They would like to see what the next 30 days bring in a business way before they get into the Government harness. Back further in the picture is the feeling that the Government set-up means unionization of such open-shop industries as coal and steel. Opposition of Industrialists. Those captains of industry who have heads larger than pins do not take h a narrow-minded view. They know nt progress can be maintained jugh re-employment and proper les. Unemployed men have no husing power. Cheap labor only a cheap purchasing power. he trouble is that some industrialists cannot see this national picture. They ly conditions in their own in- One sidled around to Gen. Johnson not long ago with a prize idea. He wanted to make a bargain with the Government. He would increase wages 10 per cent immediately if the Government would not try to make him adopt @ minimum wage and a code. They laughed at him. All this maneuvering is only picayune by-play. Uncle Sam Keeps Temper. For the presen kecping its temper. That see Gen. Johnson issuing pointed state- ments that there would be more speed if the gentlemen would come in and consult him. He naively attributes de- lays to that cause. Some of his assoclates are buzzing that the set-up will not be working be- fore December unless they hurry up. 1t will not take that long If the delays are continued you will see the Government speaking more rshly. It has the power. To hear m tell it off the record there will be no hesitation about using it. On the inside labor is strong for the cotton textile code. It has been approved privately by the labor attorney, Donald Richberg who Is sitting with Gen. Johnson. Also by the labor leader, Leo Wollman. Ofosition Not Deep Rooted. The opposition. led by President Green of the American Federation of Labor, seem not to have a deep root Green has stirred up his followers out through the country. They have started telegrams of protest rolling into Joht son. They all ask for a 30-hour week, which is impossible. The general run of the labor group is keeping quiet because they do not want to ruin Green’s show. The Green opposition is probably based on the idea that you should ask for more than you expect to get. He may be look.ng ahead at prospects of organizing the cotton textile industry on a stronger A. F. of L. basis. It will make a hit with the workers that he stood out for a 30-hour week, even if he did not expect to get it. Other smart labor leaders are worry- ing about the dearth of good men among the professional organizers They fear that with the men they ha now they may not be able to take fu advantage of the opportunity the Gov ernment is giving them. You may expect to see new blood in action before the unionization pre- gram has gone very far. ‘The way the cotton labor leaders squeezed the bosses out of a few more dollars on the minimum wage would indicate they are no so dumb. In confidential conference before the public hearings they agreed on $10 and $11 a week. Labor Leader McMahon rightly reasoned that was a fairly good figure. He accepted it. Later other leaders, like Wollman, came running in with an idea they could get more. They found McMahon had put nothing in writing. So they started holding out for $12 and $15. They got it. Those who are running the railroads are as surprised as you are that car- loadings are holding up. Their latest figures show the Western roads came up from & deficit to fair earnings dur- ing the past five months. They are holding off on new equipment until they | sec how long this lasts. The short wheat crop will cut down their loading prospects. Danubian Agreement. The London cheering about a world | wheat agreement is conditional upon acceptance by the Danubian states. There would be some real hurrays if that French-controlled crowd gave in, | but there is little hope that they will. As the men upstairs here see it. no plan satisfactory to the Danube producers can be workéd out without concessions that will ruin the agree- ment. Every one around Johnson is proud of the job he is doing . . . He has the right personality for his task. Most Government officials fawn when a - rich man walks into their office. Johnson treats them just like so many potatoes. If they get any more consideration that any one else, it is not apparent. These storles that Baruch might take Treasury Secretary Woodin's job are pure speculation. Baruch has shied away from public office since he turned down Woodrow Wilson's invitation to go into the cabinet. He can’ really be more influential in governmental affairs when not tied down to an cffice and that is what he likes. (Copyright, 1933.5 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO Organization Planned to M bilize Workers Where They Are Needed. ___ (Continued From First Page.) employment line. They remained close i together during the decline. | _Production has gone ahead of em- ! ployment, however, in the last two months. Farm Gains Lead. The President is determined that em- ! ployment shall keep up. The way to | bring that about, he feels, is through elimination of long hours and the hir- ing of new help. The price charts show the greatest relative increase in the last two months in farm products. The President likes that, but he wants to bring them up to the comparative level for manufactured goods. | | Government charts show that from 11920 to 1928 farm and manufactured price levels were about the same. Farm | prices went higher in 1928 and in 1929, but since then their line has dropped so low it has almost gone off the sheet. | 'The Chief Executive yesterday went {over the public works program with Senator Wagner (Democrat) of New . York and the latter said afterward that a quick start was probable on projects which may dent unemployment by 1,000.000 men before Autumn is over. Meantime, Johnson said assertions that it was the purpese of the industrial act to unionize labor were incorrect. “Circulars and other literature,” John- son declared, “purported to come from i labor union agents have intimated or openly stated that it is & purpose of the national recovery act and admini- straticn to unionize labor or that the only way labor can secure benefits under that aet is to join this or that union. “Stmilar statements purporting to come from industrial concerns have intimated that this or that newly- formed company union is the only or- | ganization through which labor can get | a fair deal under this act. Both Statements Incorrect. “Both statements are incorrect, and such erroneous statements of the act | and its administration tend to foment | misunderstanding and discord. “It is the duty of this administration to see that all labor—organized as well as unorganized—gets a square deal, and the administration is organized to do and will do that duty. The improved labor conditions proposed in the textile industry, which is largely unorganized, are an example of this. It is not the duty of the administration to act as an | agent to unionize labor in any industry and, as has repeatedly been stated. it | will not so act. It is the duty of this administration to require the inclusion in codes ¢f the mandatory conditions of section T and to see that these conditions are complied with, and it will perform that duty. “The policy of the National Recovery Administration respecting the rights and obligations of both orgenized and un- organized labor is based on the declara- tion of policy in section 1 of the act itself. which clearly stated the objectives of this legislation, in part, as follows: “To induce and maintain united action of labor and management under ade-| quate government sanction and super- vision.” “Manifestly the purpose of the act is| to create and preserve harmonious rela- tionships and to prevent industrial strife and class conflicts. STATE JOBAGENTS [MATTERN'S PLANE | CALLEDTO PARLEY| THOUGHT ‘CRUSHED Flyer Is Declared Unhurt With Meager Reports Uncertain. (Continued From First Page) British Columbia, 100 miles from Prince Rupert. The origin of the Mattern wireless indicates the flyer was within 700 miles of American soil when he disappeared. Anadirsk is 650 miles due west of the tip of Alaska. It is 1,800 miles north- east of Khabarovsk, whence he set out June 14—a matter of 16 hours’ flying. It is believed he was forced to land some distance from Anadirsk and that three weeks were required to send his message, perhaps by peasant, to the wireless station. REPORTED TO HAVE CRASHED. Message Received in San Francisco De- a clares Flyer Unhurt. SAN FRANCISCO, July. 8 (®)— Jimmie Mattern, round-the-world flyer, crashed 80 miles west of Anadyr on his flight irom Khabarovsk to Nome, a radio message relayed here from the Siberian city said today. The plane was demolished, the mes- sage said, but Mattern escaped unhurl. The message was picked up by th United States Coast Guard cutter Northland, now in the Bering Sea, and relayed Nhere in Russian. As translated by the Examiner, the message read: “Flyer Mattern on 14th of June had accident 80 miles west of Anadir. Plane crushed to pieces. Mattern unhyrt. On 5th of July Mattern was found and brought to Anadir, where he is now staying.” The wireless, as picked up by the Northland, was not signed. One of the translators, Alexander Mattison, dean of the Russian Trinity Church of San Francisco, said the Rus- sian phrase, which he interpreted as “brought to Anadir.” implied the fiyer was in a state of exhaustion when found. FLIGHT MAY BE CONTINUED. New Engine Will Be Supplied Mattern, Reports Declare. MOSCOW, July 8 (# —Fragmentary details received by Tass (Russian news agency) today said Jimmie Mattern had been torced down 497 miles from Anadir, Siberia, by emgine trouble after leaving Khabarovsk, Siberia, June 14, on a projected flight to Nome. The reports, received from Khaba- rovsk, said the American aviator had been given immediate assistance by Soviet frontier guards. He will be supplied with a new motor, and will continue the round-the-world tlight he started from New York on June 3, Tass was informed. The report about the engine was taken to indicate that the engine was so badly damaged that it was impos- sible to make repairs with the limited facilities available at Anadir. Undoubtedly the Soviet government dispatched expert assistance to the flyer by airplane, but detalled steps to res- cue Mattern so far have not been dis- closed. The Tass dispatch did not give the date on nor was it explained how such a long time was required to receive word that he was safe. Organization Permitted. | | “Labor in any industry has the right | to organize and bargain collectively: the law also recognizes the right of mdi- | vidual worvers to bargain for their own conditions of employment. But in the exccution of this new social policy to which the Government stands com- mitted. it is the obligation of the Na-| tional Recovery Administration to re-; quire the payment of living wages by | industry as a condition of continued ex- | istence and to prevent excessive and un- | reasonable disparities, in the interest | both of social justice and a balanced | economy. “Coll: ctive bargaining under adequate ! Government sanction and supervision | should hold no fears for the fair-minded | industrialist; on the other hamd, the | National ~ Recovery Administration | pledges itself threugh its labor advisory | board to obfain a fair deal for labor in | any industry presenting a code, whether | the employes are organized or not. It |is not the function or the purpose of the administrator to organize either in- | dustry or labor.” Earlier, Johnson told bituminous| coal operators and miners that any North-South wage differential in a code for the industry was “a question of | facts.” Faced with a question from a group of | operators, mostly from union flelds in | the Central and Midwest regions, as to the possibility of a spread between | miners' pay in the North and South. Jchnson said regional differences in | | living costs would be considered, as in | the framing of the textile code. Hours Up to Operators. ! “The size of the differential won't | be determined on the sayso of either | side,” Johnson ccntinued. “It's a qués- | tion’ of facts, and there will be an ex- | haustive survey thereon.” | ""As for maximum hours, the adminis- | trator said the whole idea was to put | the same number of miners to work as | worked in normal times. Exact hcurs. he said, would have to be worked out by the operators. “The wetXly wage” Johnson con- tinued, “must be large enough for a de- cent living. It doesn't make any dif- | ference whether labor is union or, nor~ union. Labor is to get a square deal, | union or non-union. The miners are to | be free to join any union they want to. There’s to be no coercion to make a man join any union. That must be in the code.” . Johnson addressed the operators and { miners after they had gone to work on a code. Preliminary discussions had been started by a committee of oper- 2tors and union labor officials. John L. Lewis, president of the mine union. | claimed the committee represented 14 States. | <" Johnson said it might be feasible for | “two or three” large regions to pre- | | sent codes which could be reframed | into a single code with “reasonable dis- criminations™ as to regional differences. | DRUNKENNESS LEADS MONTH’S PARK ARRESTS Doyle 0. Hickey Reports 167 Intoxication Cases " During June. | capt. Drunkenness, with 16% arrests, led the list of violations last month in the city’s parks, gauged by activities of the United States Park Pclice, reflected in the report made teday by Capt. P. J. Carroll to the superintendent, Capt. Doyle O. Hickey. Second came 136 ar- rests for violaticn of traffic regulations. Altogether there were 439 arrested dur- ing the month, 151 being fined $2,037, while 146 preferred to forfeit $513. ‘There were 61 personal bends taken and three cases nolle prossed, but the jail sentences ranged all- the way from 10 days to 180 days. There were 43 automobile accidents repcrted and 34 sick or irjured were sent home or to hospitals. On the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway, for which a separate report is made, automobile speeders, with 19 arrests, led the list cf 34 arrests. Six- teen were fined $260, while 13 forfeited $125. ’ % A £ | tlement of Anadyr and BELIEVED NEAR NOME. Mattern Thought to Have Landed Just Across Bering Sea. SEATTLE, July 8 (). —Possibilty that | | Jimmie Mattern may have come down | at Cape Chukotski. just across Bering | Sea from Nome, Alaska, was seen here today in the round-the-world flyer's message reporting his safety. Mattern's message. “Safe, Anadyr, Chukotka, Siberia,” came via Moscow, | but whether it came from a land sta- tion at the trading post of Anadyr, at the mouth of the river of that name, {or from some Soviet vessel, was not in- dicated. Persons familiar with the right after the Fourth of July. While the vi has a white population of 40 or 50 peo- ple in addition to natives, is off th course chartered by Mattern for his flight from Khabarvosk, Siberia, to Nome, Cape Chukotski on the northern shore of the Gulf of Anadyr, is almost directly in line. A powerful Soviet wireless station believed to be in operation at the set- had Mattern landed his plane near there June 14, the day he took off from Khabarovsk, observers here believed he would have been Teported before this. If. on the other hand he came down at Cape Chukotski, of Chukotka, as it is spelled in Mattern's message, he would have had to wait until a steamer with wireless camé along or until he could make his way to Anadyr. Three or four Soviet steamers a year visit this remote region with supplies for the trading post. sian icebreaker cruises along the coast. Heavy fogs and unbroken clouds along the Alaskan coast the day Mattern left Khabarovsk may have prevented him from crossing Bering Strait. He may have landed on some sandy beach on! the Siberian side out of fael or may have damaged his plane and been un able to get off again. Meanwhile Alaska wireless stations tried to get igto communication with stations in Siteria to obtain details of Mattern’s plight. No regular sched- ules are maintained with the stations, but the American and Russian stations often communicate informally. ITHREE CONCERTS LISTED in Bands Will Give Programs Parks Next Week. Three coneerts will be given in the city’s parks next week, Capt. Ellis E. Haring, assistant director of Public Buildings and Public Parks, today an- nounced. The Army Band will play Monday evening in the District of Columbia ‘World War Memorial in West Potomac Park On Tuesday evening, also in the World War Memorial, the Navy Band will be heard. On Friday evening, in Franklin Park, Fourteenth and I streets, the Community Civic Band will play. Concert hours will be from 7:30 to 9 pm. CUMMINGS AIDE SWORN IN Colored Attorney of Pennsylvania Becomes Special Assistant. Robert Lee Vann, colored attorney and newspaper publisher of Pittsburgh, Pa., was sworn in yesterday as.a spe- cial assistant to Attorney General Homer S. Cummings. Vann, through his newspaper, was credited with lining up a large number of colored votes for the Democratic ticket in the last election. His ap- pointment is regarded as official recog- nition of support given the party by colored voters. . — Cuban Prisoners Ordered Freed. HAVANA, July 8 (#).—Gen. Alberto Herrera, secrel of war, yesterda ordered t:::mllb:ufim’ of 19 politic prisoners at Principe Prison. They were charged with sedition. Their re- lease was due to lack-of evidence, which the American landed | country | said that the ice pack usually recedes | Sufficiently to permit the first vessel of | the season to enter the Gulf of Anadyr liage of Anadyr, which | Occasionally a Rus-, D. -C., SATURDAY. LORTON 1S QUIET GUARDS REDUCED INight Peaceful Except for Antics of 108 Rebels in Solitary. __ (Continued Prom First Page) | | | | | could be heard in the dormitories where the other prison inmates grinned in amusement. Then as the “incorrigibles” tired of their sport, the noise died down to an occasional toot of a wind instrument or a boom of the drum. ‘When the authorities were ready to move the prisoners the noise had ceased, but it was not until the last man had been taken from the barrack that the act was discovered. Floor Smeared With Oil. Pieces of the instruments were scat- tered about the floor at one end of the building. What the convicts could not smash they took apart and filled with ofl and glue. They also smeared the floor and walls with oil ‘The prisoners were taken out in groups of 25 to be marched to their new quarters and as they emerged, faced with a wall of policemen, there was no hint of the wild spirit of defiance which | caused them to destroy the instruments and later manifested itself in curses, shouts and invectives from their cells. Flanked on either side by policemen armed with rifles, tear gas, guns and clubs, the incorrigibles marched meekly to solitary confinement. Arriving in front of the building, one of the new group around which a wall will be built, they were sent in, one at a time. It | was learned later that each man’s outer | clothes were stripped from him before he was locked in a cell. When the entire 108 was behind bars, the catcalls, jeers and cursing, which continued at intervals throughout the evening, began. Every time the telephone in the building would ring. the prisoners would begin to yell so as to prevent the guard answering it from hearing what was being said. The guards and policemen, standing ready with guns and tear gas, were powerless to control them and made little effort to do so. 10,000,000 READY TOREDUCE COTTON Fund Will Pay for Land to Be Rented After Crops Are Plowed Under. 1 | By the Assoclated Press. | Around $100.000.000 of farm relief money Wwill pour into the 16 cotton States within the next six weeks. | The money will be distributed under the plan by which cotton growers agree | to plow under 25 to 50 per cent of their present crop and then rent the land to the Government. Confident that the plan is going to succeed, Secretary Wallace today is ex- fending the time in which growers may voluntarily agree to reduce production. ‘That period was to have ended tonight, | but the Secretary found that unex- pected delays, such as the difficulty of presenting printed applications to the 2,000,000 cotton tarmers, necessitated an extension. ‘The Secretary also is going to an- nounce the number of acres of cotton | that farmers have agreed to destroy. | It was reliably reported that a prelim- inary study of the tabulations had con- | vinced President Roosevelt, the Secre- | tary, and farm act administrators that | there was no doubt about final promul- | gation of the program. | The $100.000,000 to be paid to the | farmers will be obtained by a tax levied | on brocessors. This will go into effect | about August 1 and the amount to| around 4 cents a pound. EVELT IS KEPT IROOSEVE | FROM BALL GAME Business Pressure Prevents At-| tendance, but Sequoia Trip Is Planned. Pressure of business will prevent | President Roosevelt from attending the ball game at Gfiffith Stadium this aft- | ernoon, but later in the day the Presi- dent hopes to get away aboard the yacht Sequoia and spend the week end on the lower Potomac. Mr. Roosevelt is ocqwpied. principally today by conferences with his assist- ants identified with the formation of plans for putting in mdtion the na- tional recovery and public works pro- gram. He also is scheduled to confer with Director of the Budget Douglas | and Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines, ad- ministrator of veterans’ affairs, and others. ‘The time of the President’s departure for his week end cruise depends upon when he can conclude these confer- ences probably soon after 4 pm. He plans to return to Washington tomor- row in time to press a button in a dedicating ceremony ineident to the breaking of ground for the building of & bridge across San Fraucisco Bay con- necting S8an Francisco with Oakland. Mr. Roosevelt will be accompanied by a small party of friends on his Sequoia cruise. Among those invited are At- torney General and Mrs. Cummings, Col. M. Howe, one of his secre- taries, and Miss Marguerite Hand, Mr. Roosevelt's private ‘secretary. ‘ ULY" 8, 1933. Lorton Prisoners Marching Into “Solitary” Recalcitrant priconers at Lorton Reformatory are shown above as they were being marched into a dormitory Below: Calvin E. Wade (right) and William Deav reformatory. appointed as the result of food was being improperly prepared. Representative Appeals to Minnesotan, Who Served Prison Term, Urges Men to Submit to Rule: OATLESS, hatiess, with perspi- ration pouring from his face, Representa Shoemaker of Minn once served a prison himself. mounted a table in the Loricn Reformator. hall yesterday and there to. forszke their mut mit to the regulations of the prise “You may have Shoemaker told them, righting them i ing trouble will do you no good an: will only embarrass me and others who are trying to heip you™ When he concluded with an appeal for a show hands by all “those of you who will support me.” practicallv every hand in the hall. both white and black, shot into the air with cheers. The speech was made only to those whom prison authorities had deemed not requiring the solitary confinement meted out to the ringleaders and “bad actors™ who are said to have fomented the food rebellion. These malcontents, 108 in number. already had been locked securely behind bars in a distant build- ing. Knew Their Language. Accompanied by Capt. M. M. Barnard, he entered the huge dining ha!l when the prigoners were half through their meal. Mounting a table he began his speech. telling them he was one of them—a former convict who knew their lan- ! guage and problems and had their in- terests at heart. He told of own convicticn sentence to a year's imprisonm Leavenworth Federal Penitentiar “I come to ycu as a man who has wcrn a number on his back,” he as- serted. “I am no snitcher or stocl pigecn. T came here on my own hook to help you. No one asked me to c-me.” Spasmodic cheers punctuated his peech, the loudest coming when he shouted: “We don't want these cops here. I know what coppers are and you krow what they are and we both want to get rid of them. Give me a lift and send these cops home.” “I know you have ycur troubles.” he continued. = “Some of them may imaginary, but many of them are prob- ably real. We can iron these out, but it can't be done by raising hell. Fights for Them in Congress. “If you want changes made here, write to me and I can promise you your lett:rs will get proper considera- tion and be answered. And you can and nt in | send your letters to me uncensored.” | | he added, turning to Capt. Barnard, who stood beside him, for confirma- tion. Capt. Barnard nodded his head in assent. Shoemaker told the convicts he was “fighting for you all the time in Con- gress.” “I know our prison system is far from perfect,” he said. “It makes as many criminals as it cures. But I am trying to get Congress to do away with some of the injustices of our penal code and penal system. “The real trouble is the economic conditions and the capitalist system what keeps people from having equal opportunity and causes conditions such as this. What I am fighting against is this system where a few have every- | thing and most of us have nothing. | “If every one had an equal opportu- | nity there not only would be no places | of this kind, but there would be no use for such places.” | As he passed out of the dining hall | at the conclusion of his address, a pho- | tographer asked Shoemaker to pose for a picture. Barnard Objects to Picture. “Sure,” replied the Minnesotan, “you | can make & shot with me standing on | the table and w:e fellows all around e | But Capt. Barnard interposed with | the objection he never allows photo- | graphs inside the buildings and Shoe- maker did not protest. i Outside the mess hall, Shoemaker ex- | plained at length to reporters his views on reforms in the gennl system. He | urged adoption of the British system, under which, he said, no fingerprints or pictures of criminals are kept on file| for colitery confinement yesterday. new stewards at the complaints from the convicts that the —Star Staff Photos. Shoemaker Lorton Inmates REPRESENTATIVE SHOEMAKER. —Star Staff Photo. after the man has completed his prison sentence. This, he said, makes it impossible for a man to be imprisoned merely because he has a criminal reccrd, as so often happens in the United States. . TEMPERANCE CHIEF ASKS DRYS TO FIGHT Rev. I. H. Evans Urges Foes of Liguor Not to Give Up in Repeal Battle. Rev. I. H. Evans, vice president of the World's General Conference of Seventh- cay Adventists and chairman of the American Temperance Society, issued a Nation-wide appeal to the dry forces today to resist efforts of the wets to bring about repeal of the eighteenth cmendment. “Many prohibitionists seem cowed by the ascertions in the public press that the large majority of the population of the country favor legalizing the sale cf beer and other alcoholic beverages,” said the clergyman “If all the world should favor intem- perance, it would be but the normal sta- tus of a lost world going down to per- dition. Are we to throw up our hands | when wrong is supported by law? Alcohol is an evil of the first mag- nitude, against which every Christian should w-ggperpemn warfare.” CURTIS IN MEXICO. Rodriguez to Receive Ex-Vice Pres- ident Next Wednesday. MEXICO, D. F., July 8 (#) —Presi- dent Rodriguez arranged yesterday to receive former Vice President Curtis of the United States next Wednesday afternoon. Mr. Curtis s here for the North American Radio Conference, opening next Tuesday, 25 legal representative for certain interests. SLE OF ARPOR SEFORLY 17 Capital May Find Itself With- out Transport Terminal After Auction. ‘The holdings of Washington Air- | port, Inc, in Washington-Hoover Air- port, the National Capital's only air | transport terminal and one of the | world's most active air fields, will ba | sold at public auction Monday. July 17. ‘The sale will include the portion cf lthe landing field now used for all | scheduled air transport operations. thy | terminal building and offices, two hang- | ars, the airport restaurant and airport | swimming pool. The sale does not af- | fect the Hoover Field holdings, which include the portion of the field between Military road and the Potomac River, a small brick terminal building and two hangars. Should the property be purchased for other than airport purposes, the Na- tional Capital may find itself without any air transport terminal, since there is no other flying fleld in the vicinity | of the Capital suitable for air pas- | senger. mail and express service of the type now carried on at Washington- Hoover Airport. ‘There are understood to be several aviation concerns interested in the property, however, and it is regarded as probable the operawon of the airport may be continued under new owner- ship. Auction to Satisfy Mortgages. ‘The present owners, Washington Air- port, Inc., acquired possession of the property on June 25, 1929, from a sin- | dicate headed by H. Rozier Dulaney jr., and former Representative R. W ton Moore of Virginia. The trusters who are putting the property up for | auction to satu mortgage holders are | Dulaney and C. S. Taylor Burke, Alex- andria banker. Efforts to save the airport to the Natjonal Capital have been made dur- llng past sessions of Congress, two dif- ferent proposals, one calling for pur ‘L‘h g and the other for leasing of the property by the Government, hav- ‘mg failed of enactment during the past | year. | Part of the responsibility for the | financial failure of the airport is laid | at the door of the Federal Government | which has laid claim to part of the Washington Airport landing area. The claim involves a determination of the location of t. high-water mark of 11873 and has been pending the courts and the Department of Justice for several years. $35,000 Deficit Reported. Because of the Government hecessary improvements of the airport. regarded as necessary to make ‘the en- terprise a financial success. could not be made. rstood that du: the past vear the airport was operated at a deficit, sald to amount to $35.000 or more. Although jurisdiction over the prop- ertv. a large of w 8 ground, has been a matter of conflict oetween the Federal Government and Arlington County, Va. for a number of the deed‘is recorded in the Ar- ty Court House and taxes paid regularly to Vir e The Federal Government recognizes ‘Washington-Hoo! Airport as the air terminal for Washington and has es- tablished there a Government airways weather bureau station and a Depa! ment of Ccmmerce remote control radio range beacon and broadcasting station. It has not been determined what effect the sale of the property have on the Federal operation of its aids to airmen traveling the airways to and from the National Capital. The mat- ter of operating concessions to airlines using the airport also is in question. TREASURY REFUSES T0 AID BANK PROBE Declines Request of Judge Keiden to Submit Detroit Docu- ments. | claim, By the Associated Press. The Treasury has declined to ac- cede to the request of Judge Harry B. Keidan that it submit Treasury docu- ments to him in his investigation of the Deiroit banking situation. | The judge had asked that Secretarv of the Treasury Woodin, Jesse Jones | of the Reconstruction Finance Cor- | poration, Ogden L. Mills, former Secre- | tary of ‘the Treasury: Arthur Ballan- tine, former Undersecretary, and John K. McKee and C. A. Miller be required | to testify before him | Acting Secretary Acheson told Keidan | that Secretary Woodin was iil and that | other persons named in his order wera | not employes of the Treasury and could | not be directed by it to appear. | He declined to submit Treasury docu- ments to the court because to do s¢ would interfere seriously with the propet | Performence of Treasury duties. He told the judge the Treasury was | deeply concerned in helping alleviate | the banking difficulties of Detroit as well as the Stat> of Michigan. but added that in addition to the Michigan situa- tion, there were some 2000 national | banks in the hands of conservators and receivers, and to permit the personnel of the department to answer summons to testify would dissipate the personnel | and the activities of the Treasury. | The acting Secretary added that the Dopartment of Justice was making & | thorough investigation of the Detroit banking situation, and at the proper tim> would make a full report of it to the grand jury if that was warranted. PAY BOOSTS ANNOUNCED BY INDUSTRIAL CONCERNS Tethlehem, Pa.; Dayton, Ohio, and Portland, Oreg., Companies In- crease Wages 10 Per Cent. BETHLEHEM. Pa.. July 8 (# per cent pay increase was an: yesterday by the Lehigh Valley Sili Mills for its plants in Bethlehem and Foun- tain Hill. It is the second raise of this amount in two months. No additional irformation was s'ven by company oficials. DAYTON, Ohio, July 8 (#) —A 10 per cent increase in salaries and wages | tor the 5,000 employes of the National | Cash Register Co., effective July 10, was | announced yesterday. Company offi- | cials did not say whether the raise re- stored, in whole or part, former re- ductions. i PORTLAND, Oreg.. July 8 (A —Em- ploves of the Sperry Flour Co. here were advised yesterday the company not only has canceled the order of last Febru- ary for a 10 per cent reduction in sal- | ery, but that this 10 per cent reduction will be restored in full. E. A. Parker, vice president, said the retroactive elimingtion of the pay re- duction would be elfective in all Pacific Ccast plants. “Business has improved so much,” he sald, “that we thought it was the only fair thing to do.” Graf on Way Home. RECIFE, Brazil, July 8 (#).—The dirigible Graf Zeppelin arrived here late yesterday-from Rio de Janeiro en Germany its. third route back to on trip of the season to South