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ATTERN CRAWLS 7 DAYS T0 LIVE Flyer in Own Thrilling Story | Tells of Rescue by Eskimos. (Gontinued From First Page) | ¥ got that smashed ankle and a nice | oollection of burns. Well, there I was, the Lord knew how | far from anywhere. Lost, good and plenty. Bunged up, not any too cheer- | ful. But I was alive. I had a little chocolate and a few biscuits. And the Soviet flyers at Kharbarovsk had given | me a rifle. I had fishing tackle, too.! Things looked pretty grim, but I knew | I must get through some way. H I had come down in_a hilly spot | which I knew couldn’t be a long way from the Anadir River. I was about 60| miles from the village of Anadir, as I: figured it. There wasn't any sign of a human being or a human habitation. And wasn't it cold! I knew that if people ever did travel that way they would have to use the river. That was | the tbest place for me to pitch camp if I was to be seen and gotten out of that mess. | So, pretty painfully, T dragged along | n the direction where I knew the river ley. It was mighty tough country and mighty tough going. Finally, after plugging along for ever and ever I reached the river. After three days my little supply of food had given out. | Pitched Camp on Island. T built myself a hut for protection against the freezing cold. Then I thought that if I could get out on an isiand in the middle of the river I would be seen more easily by any boat | that happened along, if one ever did | happen along. So I built myself a raft, | somehow, and drifted out to the island, where I pitched camp. directly opposite my first stamping ground. On June 28 two rowboats ful.of Eskimos came down the river, headed for the Anadir market with Winter furs. And they stopped at the very place where I had made my first camp. 1 was frantic to get their attention. I set almost the whole darn island on fire to make them see me. And at last they did. When they got to me, with my busted pnkle and my burns, I must have been 8 mean sight. I guess my ribs stuck out. I had been 14 days with scarcely any food to speak of. I had been lying on the cold ground. I had been wet for two weeks. I certainly was a swell case of starvation and exposure. | Eskimos Good Guys. | These Eskimos were good guys. They | put me in a boat and rowed me %0 8 camp of theirs, a little tent camp. It took two days to get there. They made me a funny sort of bed, comfortable though. The bed was & dogsled with caribou hide and bear skins for covers. And they doctored me for 8 week. They | fed me dried fish until I was strong | enough to be dumped aboard & rowboat | for a two-day trip to Anadir. | Here I got the best of care and I be- | gan to pick up. I had a slight attack of grip, but nothing serious, and my ankle began to round into shape. { Of course, the first thing I thought | about when I was able to think at all | ‘was how I was to get into the air again. I began to pull wires to have & plane flown out from Alaska for me, s0 I could take it and resume my flight. The Soviet crowd are doing their utmost to help me. Seaplanes are coming from Petropaviovsk. If I could get a sea- plane up here from Nome I could fulfill my wish and complete my trip. This region is impossible for & safe landing with & land plane. My poor old Lockheed is a wreck. However, we've saved the motor. That Eskimo rescue boat was the only one to get near the scene of my crash. I'll be home some way, soon. And I'm a fortunate fellow to be alive. It seems as if all Russia 15 as glad about that as I am. (Copyright. 1933, by North American News- paper Alliance, Inc. World rights reserved.) WILL LAND MATTERN IN NOME. MOSCOW, July 12 () —Pilot Levan- ovsky of the northern sea route expects to reach Anadir, Siberia, Friday eve- ning, and to land in Nome, Alaska, with Jimmie Mattern 24 hours later. This information was contained in advices from Khabarovsk, Siberia, whence the American aviator took .off June 14 for Nome on his projected world flight. After being missing for 16 days, Mattern reached Anadir. Levanovsky's departure from Khab- arovsk was not mentioned in the re- ports, but he is under orders to pick ‘!llp Mattern at Anadir and take him to ome. ‘WILL SEND PLANES TO MATTERN. 1 CHICAGO, July 12 (#.—A plan to send two rescue planes to Siberia so James Mattern could complete solo his flight around the world was announced today by backers of his venture. S. J. Sackett, one of the sponsors, sald he had been informed a Pan- American Airways plane was ready at Fairbanks, Alaska, to take off for Ana- dyr, Siberia, where Mattern is stranded. Another speedy ship also was waiting in Alaska. It was part of the rescue expedition sent from New York and headed by William Alexander. Sackett said that if both ships were sent, Mat- tern would fly one of them alone to| xA{luka and then continue on to New ork. Word to send the two planes on their way was being withheld because of un- certainty over whether a Soviet plane would be supplied Mattern. If nego- tiations in that direction were com- pleted, it was believed only one of the American planes would be sent. H. B. Jameson, another of the backers, lanned to leave today by air from New ork City to keep in touch with rescue plans from there. MATTERN HOP ARRANGED. By the Associated Press. Arrangements were made today by the Government for a Soviet airplane to bring Jimmie Mattern, Texas aviator, from Siberia to Nome, Alaska. Representatives of a New York brew- ery acted as intermediaries between the Moscow government and the State De- partment. The State Department turned the re- quest over to the Interior Department which communicated it to the Governor of Alaska from whom no reply has been recelved, although it was considered a foregone conclusion that he would give the necessary permission, ‘The brewery is acting as the sponsor of a rescue expedition, the members of which are now at Nome. Through Boris E. Skvirsky, head of Soviet !n~" formation Bureau here, the brewery communicated with the foreign office at Moscow and obtained its approval of plans for a Soviet plane to fly Mat- tern to Nome. It then sent the following telegram to the State Department: “Request permission for Soviet plane piloted by Levanetsky and crew to land at Nome, Alaska, to deliver James Mat- tern, United States citizen, to friends who are at Nome awaiting his arrival. “The following cablegram was re- - ceived this date: “ ‘Foreign office, Moscow, “‘In accordance with your cable transmitting the request of the organi- zation interested in the rescue of Mat- tern to bring him to Alaska, the admin- istration of the northern route- has given permission to the Soviet aviator, Levanetsky, departing due to metero- 1 conditions ly toda What’s What Behind News in Capital. Substitute Banking Plan Sought—Roosevelt , Sticks by Aides. BY PAUL MALLON. O one is su but the inistration is al- ready working on & new bank bill to replace the Glass law. That is why Brain Trustee Berle has been rummaging so secretely through the Treasury Department lately. When he gets through the administration probal l{n will offer its own permanent banking reorganiza- tion legiflation. At least, that is the objective of Prof. Berle's present search for data. If plans work out satisfactorily President Roosevelt will submit his bill to Congress in January. That also happens to be the time when the Glass law goes into effect. The reason for the secrecy is simple. ‘The search for new leglslation is vir- tually a confession that the present law is not sacrosanct administration It would have been good news to the larger bankers who gathered here re- | cently without benefit of publicity. They were talking over methods of meeting the Glass law. They consider its de- posit guarantee section inimical to their interests. They will never rest easy until they have forced repeal of that section. Their hopes are higher than you might suspect. The law goes into effect January 1. That gives them more than five months to work out a scheme for blocking it. Prof. Berle to Decide. What the administration will do about the guarantee probably will be decided by Prof Berle. The recommen- dation is apparently up to him. As he is a confirmed liberal, you might expect | that he would favor guaranteeing de- Pposits. President Roosevelt signed the law, but is not sold on the guar- antee idea. His Treasury Secretary Woodin strongly opposes it. How- ever, there is a grave question how much influence Woodin will wield hereafter in Treasury mattery. He has been playing his guitar in New York since Congress adjourned. ‘The way President Roosevelt has dis- regarded criticlsm of some of his friends to stand silently by them, has marked him among politicians here as | one who plays the game according to the unwritten rules. | They point to his utter disregard of | the criticism against Senator Huey Long, Internal Revenue Commissioner | Guy Helvering, Labor Secretary Per- kins and now Norman Davis. Strong editorial attacks also have been directed against Treasury Secretary Woodin and State Becretary Hull. The White House has taken no notice of the attacks— in no instance yet has & man been dropped overboard under fire. Garment Maker Sad. A New York garment manufacturer has been walking around Washington with a sad look on his face. He explains it was caused by an un- fortunate encounter with Mr. Roose- velt's industrial control setup. He came here to find out about the code for his industry. As soon as he arrived tele- grams started pouring in from his New York managers saying the garment workers' union was trying to organize & strike in his plant. He ran to the office of Gen. Johnson. They would not hear him, but referred him to a_man on the Perkins Labor Advisory Board. It was Sidney Hillman, president of the Garment Workers’ Union. For days the manufacturer wan- dered around trying to get another official shoulder to cry on. Few would see him. Those who did, re- ferred him back to Hillman. Finally he went to see the union president. Hillman would not even glve him a spare handkerchief to| weep in. A sugar marketing agreement has been in the final stages for severai days. It will be announced shortly. Market to Be Split. The 6,200.000-ton American market is to be split up between domestic and fareign producers. The language has been accepted. The figures caused last- minute haggling. ‘The parties are not happy about what they are getting, but the Government is making them lke it. Commerce Secretary Roper has been trying to chisel $10,000,000 out of the g;xbllc works program without success. e wants the money to build light- houses and other things he thinks he needs in his department. His departmental budget was from $36,000,000 to $29,000,000. If he should get the $10,000,000 his budget would be $3,000,000 more than last year. He was turned down once. He prob- ably will be again. The team of Douglas and Acheson has been running the Treasury in Woodin's absence. Woodin was slightly 11l at first, but has now recovered. Mr. Hoover’s close friend, Hugh Gib- son, was treated more or less like a Republican during his visit here. He is going to Brazil as Ambassador (a comparatively minor post) because the administration did not care to drop him in view of his reputation as a diplomat. He was’one of the key men in the Hoover European regime. If the Republicans ever win a national elec- tion again, he may rate a Secretaryship of State. The Washington base ball team has apparently reached the 1924-1925 level before the administration. Mr. Roosevelt is taking nearly all the old Wilson internationalists with him in his new nationalism. He is get- ting ardent support from Bainbridge Colby, Mr. Wilson's last Secretary of State; James M. Cox and Bernard Baruch. (Copyright, 1933.) HEARING OF HARRIMAN ON SANITY IS RESUMED By the Associated Press. NEW YORK. July 12—At the re- sumption today of the sanity hearing in the case of Joseph W. Harriman, in- dicted former bank president who is charged with falsifying books and mis- applying funds, defense counsel an- nounced that Mrs. Harriman collapsed last night and it was necessary for her to remain in bed today. She expected to return to the hearing tomorrow. The hearing is to determine whether Harriman, who was formerly president cut from | of the bank bearing his name, is men- tally competent to stand trial on the charges growing out of & Federal indiet- ment., posed to know it,| : announced fixed price, U 5. BANKS BLOCK. /OUSTED WORKERS | TALKS AT PARLEY Federal Reserve Board Holds Resolution Now Is Premature. __(Continued From Pirst Page) delegates took lunch tgeflwr today and afterward the Americans said the situation was tranquil and they belleved consideration of other questions could proceed without difficulties. ‘The document which the Federal Re- serve authorities declined to discuss laid down ‘“certain general principles of monetary policy of central banks.” It was sald to have been compiled by Leon Praser, American president of the Bank for International Settlements at Basel, from material resulting from studies which had been in progress among cen- tral banks for a year. Among the principles specified in this resolution was the following: “While gold should be allowed freely to flow out of and into countries con- cerned, central banks should always be prepared to buy gold at a publicly an- nounced fixed price, cxpressed in their currency, and to sell gold at a publicly expressed in their currency, the latter at least when exchange rates reach the gold points.” Aim of Banks Cited. Another point was that central banks “aim should be to co-ordinate the policy pursued in various centers in order to contribute toward the satisfactory work- ing of the internaticnal gold standard system.” Ancther specification was that “cen- tral bunks will have done what is in their power to reduce fluctuations in business activity and therefore also undue fluctuations in the purchasing power of gold.” Only two subcommittees of the Eco- nomic Commission were scheduled to meet today. One, on the co-ordination of production and marketing, is con- tinuing its talks on wine, and the other is the Drafting Committee on e: bonuses, marks of origin and the like. The question of adjournment was in abeyance, although it was agreed in some quarters the present slate could be finished in two or three weeks. Mexico’s Proposal. As & member of the Conference Steer- ing Committee, Mexico made a definite proposal relating to s conference re- 'cess and to carrying on the work in the interim. The two-point suggestion was made public today. Its first item was a propo- sition that the work of the conference in the present session be confined to studying questions recommended by the Monetary Drafting Committee yester- day and adopted by the bureau. The second provides “that a per- manent commission be created in order to prepare a study of questions now de- ferred, as well as to convene in due course the future sessions of the con- ference.” It was understood that Prime Min- | ister Ramsay MacDonald, as president of the Steering Committee, commented that the second proposal was a “bit premature.” ] History Of New Row. Here is the history of the fresh row as given by & high authority. The Central Bank document was drawn up and approved a fortnight ago, although James P. Warburg in giving approval of the United States did so subject to Washington's consent. The text was cabled to Washington for concurrence in Warburg's approval. Nothing was heard from the Federal Reserve System and the American dele- gation assumed that this meant ap- proval. Yesterday evening it was said that the delegation proposed this as first question to be considered by $he sub- committee today. However, just to masake sure Warburg cabled Washington and received word that the Federal Re- serve System considered discussion now | would be premature. Committee Confused. In the subcommittee this morning after Senator Pittman had announced | the Federal Reserve veto, he was re- ported to have said that this meant the Americans would be unable to discuss any proposals having to do with Federal bank reserves. A Japanese delegate, remembering that Senator Pittman’s own gold and silver resolution mentioned Central Bank reserves, promptly arose and asked: “You mean metallic reserves?” Had the Senator returned an affirma- tive answer it would have meant the Americans could not discuss his reso- lution, which they so ardently desire adopted. Senator Pittman, however, indicated that his remarks were directed to the document relating to Central Bank co- operation, The committee finally adjourned much confused as to what they could and could not discuss. LAUDS ROOSEVELT STAND. Senator Connally Says President Was Right in Conference Policy. By the Associated Press. President Roosevelt was right in re- fusing efforts of, the gold bloc at the ndon conference to stabilize cur- rénoy before settling other issues be- fore the conference, Senator Connally of Texas sald in & formal statement yesterday. The domestic emergency ‘am would have been “seriously hampered” had America ylelded to the demands of the “gold nations” for immediate n:gfllutlm of the dollar, Connally said. “President Roosevelt, by his aggres- sive action, blocked their program,” he added. “Our domestic situation is of more importance just now than what may happen in London. “The gold content of the dollar has already been reduced. Its beneficial re- sults are reflected in rising prices, in restored confidence, in quickened busi- ness and industry, and in a general improvement in all lines throughout the United States.” Declaring_the American dollar was now below 70 cents, measured in gold, Connally said ultimately the dollar would be stabilized on a gold basis but when that happens it will be with a reduced gold content or a smaller num-- gen{ hnl grains than the former standard T, Connally credited the inflationary legislation and policies of the Rooseveit administration as being “ re- sponsible for the rise in commodity HAS NO INSTRUCTIONS. Steinhardt Reaches Europe, but Denies He Has Roosevelt Message. PLYMOUTH, England, July 12 (#). —Lawrence A. Steinhardt, United States Minister to Sweden, arrived on the liner Ile de France today and described as inaccurate statements that he was carrying new instructions from President Roosevelt to the American delegation at the World Economic Con- ference. “I was not given any instructions for our delegation,” he said. “1 ghall meet the members of our delegation,” he added, “but my visit is not at all of the character news- papers 1imply. “I think it is grossly unfair and in- accurate to say President Roosevelt wrecked the conference. “It has been lost™sight of that the conference agenda contains many im- portant subjects besides stabilization and to say the success or failure of the ONPREFERRED LIST Choice Presumably Optional Under White House Edict Ogt Today. (Continued From First Page.) the service during the retrenchment program was discussed at the first meet- ing yesterday of the newly created pres- idential council in the President's office, The ident pointed out that this meeting of the council afforded s good opportunity for such & discussion. The discussion included ideas expressed by the various members of the council re- garding the best way of appointing the Tespective office personnel of the new agencles and the matter of a preferred list of “honest-to-goodness civil service employes” by the Clvil Service Commis- slon was decided upon. Plan Optional. In‘revealing the new plan, the Presi- dent did not establish the fact tha re-employment of these “honest-to- goodness” civil service em) ‘would be compulsory. The indicat ‘was that they would mnr-lg be on a preferred list and that wl or not they would be re-employed could be optional on the part of those who do the hlrlxac ‘While, the President did not indicate that he would insist upon the re-em- ploying of those on the preferred list, the impression was gathered, from his personal interest in this class of em- ployes he referred to as ‘“honest-to- goodness” civil service people and the fact that a policy was discussed and adopted at the initial meeting of the so-called supercabinet council that there is every reason for the civil service em- ployes, who are included on this pre- ferred list, to feel hopeful of re-em- ployment very shortly. At the same time the President made it very ;¥puenv. that there is little or 1o hope for those dropped employes to obtain their civil service status through Eiide alsg 15 uterpretod s, todiosting al as 2 that the President may go quite & long way in blanketing oyt of the civil serv- ice those who have received civil serv- ice status through presidential execu- tive orders during the past 12 years uj to March 4 last. Just how far he will €0 in this blanketing out of those who received favors from the Republican administrations since 1921, nothing definite is known. It is felt, however, that he will not comply with the de- mand on the part of certain of Democratic congressional leader: he make a wholesale raid on this cl of civil service employes. At the same time it is felt that he will let out quite 8 large number of this class of em- ployes by individual plucking rather than a blanket order. Green Arranges Parley. President Green arranged for the conference at the White House at the instance of the American Federation of Governmen!, Employes, an aflliate of the A. F. of L. Associated with Green are John Ar- thur Shaw, national president of the Federation of Government Employes, and John P. Simpson, an employe of the Interstate Commerce Commission, who heads the newly formed Civil Service Reinstatement League, launched last Saturday under the auspices of the fed- eration to push the cause of workers who have been and will be dropped un- der the Federal retrenchment program. Simpson, who 1is president of the I C. C. lodge of the Federation of Gov- ernment Employes, said four principal proposals have been lald down by the workers for presentation to the Presi- dent, and that if they received Green's sanction at a conference prior to the session at the White House, they would be offered for the consideration of the Chief Executive. Four Proposals. are: employes already dropped W ratings are satisfactory should be gllced immediately in the newly- established agencies ving vacancies for which they are fitted. 2. Similar action should be taken with regard to those workers who will be_dropped Jullf' 15. . An appellate agency should be established to review the ratings of those workers which were satisfactory up untll the new efficiency ratings were made on May 15, this year. 4. Employes to be dismissed on August 10, when the consolidation goes into effect, should be given preference for employment in the successor agencies; it not so placed, they should be assigned to recovery program work. Green Has Final Say. Simpson sald this would more than likely constitute the-platform of the ‘White House delegation, but that Pres- ident Green would have the final say. ‘The section dealing with ratings is de- signed to meet the complaint of some workers that their efficiency ratings ‘were juggled when the annual compila- tion was made, to facilitate removal. The Reinstatement League issued & statement last night in which it was said that “the outlook for the re-em- ployment of ousted Government em- ployes continues to be far from en- couraging.” Work Is Diversified. Disqussing a published account of re- ported dissatisfaction by Bureau of Standards workers because indefinite, instead of staggered furloughs will be used there. Dr. Lyman J. Briggs, the director, said today that because of the diversified work at the Bureau, it had been necessary to adopt the former plan to cope with the heavy slash in appro- lations. The funds allotted would ve meant that everyone at the Bureau be idle four months, which would have created an impossible situation, the di- rector said. Consequently, certain ac- tivities were eliminated altogether. Approximately 370 Standards workers g0 out Saturday, but an effort has been made to restore this employment in eat measure by seeking recovery act ds to carry on materials testing. MISS PERKINS URGES INSURANCE CONTROL Labor Secretary Advocates Plan for Various Industrial States. By the Associated Press. ' UNIVERSITY, Va., July 12.—Secre- tary Frances Perkins suggested today that “in order to get a sound and work- able plan of unemployment insurance” a group of industrial States “might set up an insurance suthority along the lines of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.” ’ In & speech to be read at the In- stitute of Public Affairs, the Secretary of Labor said: “Such a group, vested with the power to underwrite insurance in the States ting, could administer ome und with savings in overhead.” There are indications that such bodies can function free from politics en sound business lines, she said. She | dustry suggested that New York, New J g Massachusetts, Connecticut, Pennsyl- vanis and Ohio might find it advan- tageous “to. initiate an insurance su- thority for an experimental period st conference depends on stabilization is | least. hardly justified. “The raising of price Jevels is, for instance, a very important considera- tion in the world today, and how can you have stabilisation until-you- have s permanent price level?” " = ! , canpuhuryor‘anflu ordi- nary hasards unemploy- mmmmmmu— In Miss Perkins’ abeencs her spesch was to be read for her, ‘ ' - Lindberghs Survey' Northern Air Route SHORT OPEN WATER STRETCHES EXPCCTED TO MAKE ROUTE PRACTICABLE. AP showin; (nu.t‘::-.:‘)' H_RouTE Lwosse 36 3 proposed northern air route between Burope and America which will be surveyed in part by Col. Charles A. Lindbergh on his present flight in which Mrs. Lindbergh is accompanying him as na The route is traced on the map as planned at one uime by Transamerican Airways, which later ga tor. all rights to the route to Pan-American Atlrways, for which Col. Lindbergh is mal the survey. Also is shown the course of Col. Lindbergh's epochal trail-bl :ing flight from New York to 3 —Wide World Photo. HOURS AND WAGES MAY BE FIXED NOW President Considers Order to Be Effective Pending Codes. _Pirst Page) for soon enough 80 that agreement, too, can be put into the hearing within a few days. Coal men are split regionally, but with Johnson's aid many groups are “on the verge” of presenting codes. Once they do, all will be called on to thresh out their problems, over which the industry has warred for years. Each of these big industries presents special difficulties which are expected to exceed the problems encountered and overcome in the one and only wage raising code so far heard and promul- gated for the cotton textile industry. Minorities Are Problem. coal flelds, in many of which bloody wars have been fought in recent issues over labor. Even graver difficulty is the competitive situation between Northern and Southern flelds, which for years have been battling over freight rates. The advantage now is chiefly with the South, where unions are banned and wages are low. Northern men want the gap narrowed if not abolished. Southern operators see no reason for conceding hard won gains. ‘The oil industry has long been in turmoll with many independent pro- ducers aligned against e big com- panies, some other independents ap- parently playing both les, and with terrific overproduction constantly in- creasing the squeeze of hard times. The fighting points cannot be settled outside ; the emergency administration hearing | rooms. Even after the troubles are thrashed out and settled in hearings, the ad- ministration may run into difficulties bringing defeated minorities into line. How they will be managed remains to Dbe seen, even in the case of cotton tex- tiles where a rough 23 per cent of the industry has not agreed to the code. Johnson was emphatic in asserting that the National Lumber Manufac- turers’ Association’s 48-hour maximum week and 22%;-cent minimum wage were not acceptable and would have to be revised, but he set the code for hn{lgf July 20 and said he hoped ac- :hep le terms would be worked out en. Asked about a general call for codes, Johnson said, “I think I'm going to set a day.” He explained this date. & rea- sonable time distant, would be followed by orders for hearings at dates set by him for such industries as did not come forward within the specified time, He would not discuss extensively the question of calling on industry to es- tablish general minimum wages and maximum hours at set levels, such as were 8! ted in his advisory com- mittees for labor, industry and consum- ers. The committee had been de- agreement on 35 hours a week minimum for un- skilled labor and 40 hours with $15 minimum for all white collar workers, but Johnson said this was one of many plans, all in a “half-baked” stage. He pointed out that under the re- covery law neither he nor the Presi- dent had authority to promulgate such limits wholesale but must first call in each industry for hearing, and there- fore the whole affair would become voluntary with business. Also, he con- tended, if industries were bringing in agreements fast enough to keep his organization busdv examining them, it would not be desirable to anticipate their efforts. | |side information and Propaganda Spread. Johnson said there had been much things. l-ll’n--!d he had lee'l'ld lhtlmflun!: “amounting to propaganda” emana! from business quarters urging indus- tries not to submit codes. Johnson was terse lbflut disapproving wnr ing as 421% cents an hour. But a preponderant slice of the industry was put on the unacceptable 48 and 221 basis. As for prescribing general minimum wages, Johnson said he was more in- clined to &te‘tfl e%ttn‘ deb l.whl:t was expected of it. ere e sald, economists of the administration would suggest wages and hours which would take a particular industry back to its employe-purchasing power of a olSuews sppeared. proper. In:some whichever ap| proper. cases, terms would have to evolved, he have been too hard hit by depressio expect of them.” ‘The lJumbermen divided their industry into numerous divisions according to products adjusting wage and hour levels | prevail. | over each half year, with 48 2 said, because the industries to_conditions in each. Some were further subdivided. The terms pre- acribed in each: hours, 33% ecents an hour, or $10.80 week. s Northern hemplock—48 hours, 25 cents Soviet Cooks to Die For Throwing Nails And Glass in Food By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, July 12.—Pive cooks in three different workers' res- taurants in Moscow were today sentenced to death as enemies of the Soviet state for throwing nails, glass and wire into food they pre- pared, serving spoiled food and arbitrarily reducing fixed por- tions. 8ix other cooks were sentenced to prison terms of various lengths and one was acquitted. The trial lasted five days. PRESIDENT RUSHES NEW PUBLI WORKS {lckes Completes- List of Unionization is an acute issue in the | First Projects for Approval. get the job-providing public works program into operation were: Appointment of Col. H. M. Waite, former city manager of Dayton, as deputy administrator of public works, directly under Secretary Ickes, the ad- ministrator. No “Inside Track.” An sssertion by Ickes that there is no “inside track” to public works con- tracts, but that they will be awarded to “those able to do the best job for the least money in an honest way.” The Federal public works program Wwas approved by the cabinet board at a three-hour session in which the recom- mendations of & subcommittee for projects totaling about $400,000,000 were scrutinized and pared down. Secretary Ickes sald the specific projects approved bv the board would not be announced until approved by the White House. He said he hoped that ‘would be immediately. Ickes declined to give any indication of the nature of the jects approved or the exact amount involved. In annuouncing there was no “inside ::ck" to public works contracts, he “Since enactment of the public works law there has sprung up in Washing- ton a rapidly increasing corps of self- styled ‘experts’ ‘agents’ and ‘sdvisers,’ who are attempting to get money from contractors in exc] for alleged in- luence. “Some persons are even proclaiming they can ‘deliver’ profitable contracts in return for advance payments. They can do no such thing. Ickes advised contracters not to waste money on these ge::ple, but to give the Government the efit of low bids and advised them they would ly be disappointed if they money on these so-called advisers. LR O e R WILSON RITES HELD Maj. Brown and Other Officials At- tend Detectives Funeral. Maj. Ernest W. Brown, superintendent | ™ of police, and other police officials at- tended the funeral this afternoon of Detective Sergt. Harry K. Wilson, chief of the homicide squad, who died Sunday at George Wi University Hos- pital from complications which set in after an operation. Following the services, held at Cham- bers’ funeral parlor, 517 Eleventh street southeast, burial was in Rock Creek Ceme! of whicl bearers. he was chief acting as pall- in lumber manufacture; 32% cents in pine—48 hours, 32% cents in lumber, 25 cents logging. Northeast softwood—40 hours; 2214 camps, 25 cents in mills. hours in manufacturing : 40 hours in logging cents in 1 —48 for where 22% Western red cedar shingle—Same as West Coast logging, with 40 cents for stained shingle subdivision. Woodwork industry—40 hours average ‘hours indi- vidual weekly minimum; wages same as saw mill of various re- glons, with 25 cents as absoluf mum and no more than 25 per cent of wood—48 hours; 323 cents, with 25 mflnllllluflm Central and North- =T EX-SENATOR URGES WATERWAYS FUNDS 5 Ransdell Asks 364 Millions From U. S. Aid for River Projects. Speedy approval of the proposal to allocate $364,000,000 out of the public works fund for the development of rivers and harbors and flood control projects was urged today by former Senator Joseph E. Ransdell of Louisi- ana, former president of the National Rivers and Harbors Congress. Ransdell pointed out that the $3,300.- 000,000 fund set up by Congress was primarily provided for the purpose of glving jobs to the unemployed. He said statistics compiled by the Army En- gineers and the Federal Employment | Stabilization Board “show that more money spent on rivers and harbors and flood control projects goes directly and indirectly into the hands of labor than {1’“ any other type of public construc- on.” “Therefore,” he continued, “to carry out the plain intent of Congress the Public Works Board and the President should approve without hesitation the request of the chief of the Army En- gineers, Maj. Gen. Lytle Brown, for $364,000,000, all of which is to be spent on projects which already have been authorized by Congrgss or recommended by the Engineers. “Money and material now are cheap and there are millions of unemployed. No more auspicious time could be chosen to develop our waterway systems, which already have been approved by Congress and which ultimately are to be constructed. “Completion of the waterways is es- sential to our national defense and is Jjustified on this ground alone. Also, development of inland waterways is closely related to the conservation of the Nation's natural resources, of which President Roosevelt has long been ardent advocate.” COAL MEN WORK ON PAY SCHEDULES \ CULBERTON QUIS AS ENVOY TO CHLE Will Resume _Law Practice and Teaching at G. U. on Return Here. By the Associated Press. SANTIAGO, Chile, July 12—Wil- liam 8. Culbertson resigned yester~ day as United States Ambassador after & decade in the diplomatic service. While he had not been reappointed, he had been requested to remain here indefinitely, but preferrde to announce his retirement to private life at this time because of the strenuous five years he spent here during a critical period in Chilean history. Culbertson, a native of Kansas, was transferred to the Santiago post from the legation at Bucharest in July, 1928, during negotiations concerning the Tacna-Arica dispute between Chile and Peru. Approximately one year after his arrival a final settlement was reached and a treaty signed. He fig- ;x‘:&‘ prominently in the final negotia- He plans to leave here in mid-August for Juhln‘m, D. C., where heu':fl! Tesume the practice of law and a pro- fessorship in Georgetown University. WILL RESUME TEACHING. G. U. Officials Delighted at Prospect of Culbertson Returning. | President Coleman Nevils, 5. J., of | Georgetown University, sald today he had received several days ago a per- sonal letter from Dr. William S. Cul- bertson announcing he was soon to re- sign as Ambassador to Chile and return to Washington to resume after eight years’ active duty on the faculty of the Gg?rnewwn School of Foreign Service. It is hardly necessary for me to say that university officials are delighted over tl'ne“'i gx;aapect 1@1 hlvln"u Dr. Cul- us again nexf 3 - dent Nevils said. it ~From the very beginning of the School of Foreign Service in 1919 until his first appointnient to the diplomatic service in 1925 as Minister to Rumania, Dr. Culbertson had been a valued mem- ber of the faculty. He was professor of tariffs and treaties as well as a member of the executive faculty of the school. When he left Washington, Dr. Culbertson said he did not wish to re- sign from the executive faculty, and in the intervening years he had retained this position and in many ways demon- strated his interest in the university and co-operation in its affairs.” Honored by University. In 1931 Georgetown University con- ferred the degree of doctor of laws upon Ambassador Culbertson. Dr. Culbertson retired from active law practice in 1915 to represent the Federal Trade Commission in extensive tariff studles in South America for two years. President Wilson appointed him 3 member of the Tariff Commission in 1917, and he was made vice chairman of the commission by President Harding. TRIO SENT TO PRISON IN $588,000 PLOT Convicted of Fraud in Connection With Publishers’ Stock Owned by Woman. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 12.—Three mcn convicted of conspiracy to defraud Mrs. Ella de Bevoise Patterson of Red Bank, N. J, out of $588,000 in stock of the Curtis Publishing Co. were sentenced today to indeterminate terms, not to exceed three years, in the penitentiary. The men sentenced by Judge Charles C. Nott, jr, were Ernest Suffern, 53, of Montclair, N. J.; Bonowftz X. Daw- son, 59, of Angels Camp, Calif, and David Dyche, 31, of Sewaco, N. J. Judge Nott granted a motion for & certificate of reasonable doubt, so that the convicted men may take an appeal. The men were alleged to have in- duced Mrs. Patterson to turn over to them the stock. which they disposed of for $480.000, through the General In- dustrial Foundation Corporation, which it was charged they had formed for the Hope to Present Bituminous Code | Purpose. to Johnson During This Week. By the Associated Press. A group of bituminous coal operators and mine union leaders, agreed on a $5-a-day basic minimum wage to la- borers underground, went to work today on their differences over various pay schedules for men doing different classes of work. 0 They hoped to present their code of Sl Admicistration, thus peemitting on, the industry to operating soon under a voluntary ment to increase purchasing ofiwn h higher pay and more jobs. Spokesmen for both miners and ducers termed the differential problem, with its many comg.lexum the second most difficult they have struck in fram- the agreement, have been unable to get to- Zether at all on maximum hours. The union held out for a 30-hour week. The operators want an 8-hour fl’l“; he union suggests & 6-hour day. The oper- ators say during the six months when demand for coal is greatest miners smnd"wknved.nnddunnxm our. seasons : George Harrington, president of the Olinois , with members of the squad | L. Lewis, um hours. they send the code to Hugh 8. John- son, industrial administrator, as soan as it was completed in all other respects. Only one-third of the bituminous miners work on an basis, eren- WINS FIGHT AGAINST TAKOMA BEER FEE Delicatessen Owner to Get Re- " straining Order on $1,000 License Charge. .EE sl L g Judge Nott postponed until November 24 the sentencing of Philip J. Barnes, head salesman for the Foundation concern. Barnes, who is at liberty un- der bail, pleaded guilty before the trial and ’mufled agairfst his three former {DIPLOMATIC P?JST; IN GREAT DEMAND BY HONOR SEEKERS (Continued From Pirst Page entitle them to be calied “Your Excel- lency” in a foreign country. President Roosevelt, however, is go- ing slow on diplomatic appointments and the changes in the heads of the foreign service missions will not be completed before another | . Three or four appointments will be made this month. The others will begin to be made later in the Fall. The career diplomats will get a “break” in the Roosevelt administra- tion. They are not goig to be fired, no matter who appointed themy, They may get transferred, but this is con- sidered fair, because they, like the offi- cers in the Army and the Navy, are accustomed to moving from one place to another even if the new post is less desirable than the old one. Furthermore, there are a number of political appointees who are holding positions in foreign countries where there are certain negotiations begun These chiefs of missions will be main- tained in their jobs, for a few months mt:;:a until these negotiations are en For certain less desirable posts in Asia and South America, the President has in mind to continue the promotion system provided in the Rogers bill, and appoint men who are diplomatic officers in class one and have a good record, making their appointment as ministers desirable. The Sl cans or not will have no consequence ‘whatsoever in the promotion of & man counsellor of embassy, or consul general to the rank of minister. BEER PRICE WAR ENDS Chicago Council Raises Tax on All Types of Dispensaries. CHICAGO, July 12 ) —' Chicago beer price war, started restaurants began sale of 5 cent with meals too offset free lunch beer parlors, ‘The City Council last taxes on types Gold Arrives in France. PARIS, July 13 (#.—One Mmifidm.wn“ 310,000, sent by the New