Evening Star Newspaper, July 13, 1933, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Porecast.) Fair and slightly warmer tonight and tomorrow; gentle east, shifting to south winds. Temperatures—Highest, 77, at 4 pm. yesterday; lowest, 59, Full report on page B-8. =" Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages 13,14&15 at 5 a.m. today. No. 32.580. post office Entered as second class matte Washington, D. C. ch WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, JULY (13, 1933—FORTY-EIGHT COX INDUCES CHIEFS AT LONDON PARLEY IBOOTLEGGING ON W ANE, NEW CRIMES FACE U. S. Liquor Gangs Find Kidnaping Another T0 CONTINUE WORK| Source of Easy Riches, Says Criminolo- gist—“Mobs” Preceded Prohibition. Clear Exposition of U. S. Difficulties Given in Fighting Speech. BANKING CO-OPERATION MAY COME UP AFTER ALL Move Made for Shorter Hours and More Pay—Substitute Silver Resolution Offered. By the Associated Press. LONDON, July 13—New life was Injected into the drowsy World Eco- nhomic Conference today by James M. Cox of Ohio, who convinced his col- lJeagues of the Steering Committee that the parley could usefully continue de- spite refusal of the Federal Reserve Board to consider co-operation of cen- | tral banks. In a fighting speech which one dele- gate said “curled the hair” of the lead- €rs of the conference, Mr. Cox gave & clear exposition of American difficulties and induced the committee to agree to keep working at the problems of silver and commercial indebtedness. Prominent gold-bloc delegates had taken the position that the Federal Reserve Board's veto on discussion of central bank’ co-operation had effec- tively put an end to all discussion of monetary matters. Taken Up With Washington. Indeed there was an expectation that central bank co-operation might after all be dealt with by eliminating fea- tures of the resolution which were ob- jectionable to the Federal Reserve au- thorities. A It was understood this possibility was being taken up with Washington. The Federal Reserve was reported yes- terday to consider such discussion pre- mature, but it developed today that the board really ccnsidered that agreement at this time on central bank co-opera- tion was premature. o Continuing their drive to rejuvenate the parley, the American delegation pre- sented a resolution to the Economic Commission calling for shorter hours of work and increases in wages in propor- tion to the rise in prices. McReynolds Submits Proposal. ‘This proposal, submitted by Sam D. McReynolds of Tennessee, asserted that unemployment is “one of the gravest problems the governments are confront- ed with at this time.” The meeting of the bureau, or Steering Committee, began frigidly, with Hendryk Colijn, Dutch premier, a con- sistent opponent of the American mone- tary policy, saying with an air of futil- ity “if we could only know what the American position is.” In informed conference circles it was reported that Mr. Cox then launched into an emphatic and plain but diplo- matic lecture upon the short sighted- ness of Europeans failing to compre- hend the importance of success of the American internal program to the en- tire world. As the meeting ended it was evident that the European delegates were im- pressed and it was announced that dis- cussions in the subcommission on permanent monetary measures would be resumed tomorrow. U. S. Problems Pictured. The veteran statesmen was described as saying in effect: “You gentlemen must realize the grave situation which faced the Presi- dent of the United States when he took office only four months ago. ~All banks of the country were closed. Fifteen million people in our country were un- employed—half the total ~unemploy- ent of the world. “The threat to the social structure f the civilized world in that critical tuation cannot be minimized. You centlemen must understand the prob- lems which have faced President Roose- velt since he took office and you must realize how vital it is to all of you that the American recovery program, affect- ing as it does the greatest industrial market in the world, succeeds.” Mr. Cox was reported to have asserted at the same medicine cannot be ad- inistered to all patients in a hospital | fin various states of illness and recovery, and no more can the same steps be applied to the various nations under he present distressed conditions. American circles expressed the view hat the circumstances in the drawing p of the resolution which the Federal | [Reserve failed to approve had been onsiderably misunderstood. This resolution was drawn up by Leon brraser, American head of the Bank for hinternational Settlements, in collabo- ation with various central bank heads, put after George Harrison of the New vork Federal Reserve Bank had left or home. For this reason James P. Warburg, echnical adviser of the American dele- pation, insisted that the resolution nust be submitted to the Federal Re- kerve Board before American adherence vas possible. Urging on his efforts to restore the world price of siiver, Senator Key Pitt- fman of Nevada submitted a substitute Fresolution designed to prevent debase- ent of silver coinage or dumping of he white metal on the market. This new measure, which did not af- frect the gold provisions of the original [Pittman resolution, was laid before the «ubcommittee on silver, which adjourned until tomorrow without taking any ac- fon on it. Text of Resolution. The text of the substitute Pittmah esolution follow: “Be it resolved: “First, that all governments parties 0 this conference shall prevent further debasement of their silver coinage or bnelting of their silver coinage, except ror reissue. “Second. that all governments parties o this conference shall remonetize their foinage up to a fineness of at least B00/ 1000, as and when consistent with bheir respective national budget prob- ems “Third, that all governments parties o this conference shall substitute silver oins for low-value paper currency as bxpeditiously as the budgetary condi- jions of each country will permit. “Fourth, that in consonance with he declared aim of the conference to pliminate or reduce trade barriers, gov- ernments parties to this conference who now have import duties on silver hall consider under what conditions his obstacle to free importation of kilver can best be reduced or removed, nd that governments parties to this onference not now having import duty n silver shall as far as possible retain the present freedom from import duties Continued on Page 4, Column 6.), _ With the bootlegger on his way out as impending repeal cuts away his revenue from liquor, a mew crisis of crime threatemns the United States. What will the bootlegger, accustomed to easy riches, turn to now? Is the bootlegger of yesterday the kidnaper of today? BY CHARLES Author of “Me—Gangster,” “Swi Uncle Sam might very reasonably advertise “Bootleggers for sale.” Not CLASSIFICATION DlSPUTEs It is simply that the good Uncle has a great many of the breed of which he soon must make disposition. that they are salable. FRANCIS COE, “Hooch” and other books of gang life. The problem is not only real, it is acute. To understand it, and gather an idea about what must be done to solve it, we should analyze the bootlegger. > We should know whence he came, determine |Representatives of Employes Un- whither he goes. If he goes! He was, broadly speaking, a product of the pro- hibition era. That is, the “millionaire bootlegger” came with prohibition. Before that we always had the bootlegger. was nothing but a tin-horn tax evader. But he was a small timer. He It is not exaggerating to say that the advent of prohibition saw the passing of this art of tax evading from the hands of the original mountaineer and dry county bootlegger into the hands of others pre- sumably more respectable, But let the gangster. no one tell you that prohibition made America had gangsters just as vicious as present-day gangsters long before the dry era dawned as a national condition. What prohibition did was to finance the gang- ster through making the small-time business of bootleggin g a national industry. The notorious old “Hudson Dusters” of New York were a gang. Charles Francls Coe. They plundered and pillaged, they fought and | brawled. But they were constantly in trouble with the police. They served a goodly portion of their lives in the penitentiary for comparatively minor offenses. They were, in the language of the gay influence, they controlled no profitable lacked influence in the courts. nineties, “bums.” They had no political commercial activities, and they utterly Prohibition Brings Change. Prohibition changed that. With a Nation suddenly gone drink-minded a source of supply was necessary. The gangster, being a naturally inclined crim- inal, undertook to supply illicit booze. Suddenly he supplied it in immeasurable quantities for immeasureable profits, He lost none of his thruggery, none of his criminal propensities, none of his strong-arm methods of operation. He merely became rich, and riches are power. (Continued on Page 3, Column 5.) STOCKS GO HIGHER IN HUGE TURNOVER 7,500,000 Shares Change Hands, With Advances Rang- ing From $1 to $5. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 13. — Stocks smashed through to new highs today in | the largest turnover of the bull market. Extreme gains of $1 to more than $3 were general, but a number of special favorites outstripped that range. Group after group swept into leader- ship of the rise. Alcohol stocks, avia- tion shares, utilities, rails and indus- trials boiled up feverishly until the rally was very broad. Late profit-taking re- duced the advances. Sales approximated 7,500,000 shares. Stocks got little or no assistance from most leading commodities. Grains closed lower, while cotton was sluggish vir- tually all day, although silver quota- tions, on both futures and spot metal, made new highs since 1930. Sugar fu- tures reacted after making new peaks for_the season. i Neither did the market derive much aid from dollar fluctuations, which were narrowly irregular, with gold currencies largely off a bit. ‘However, speculative spirits ran high throughout the bustling five hours and the stock tape was behind nearly all day. United States Steel common, Am- erican Telephone and General Motors Were among the leaders reaching new high prices. Many large blocks, running from 1,000 to 10,000 shares, changed hands during the afternocn, especially in utility stocks. The last quarter hour saw heavy realizing. WEATHER IS HOLDING LINDBERGHS AGROUND Cold and Foggy Conditions Prevent Flyer and Wife From Taking Off. By the Associated Press. ST. JOHN'S, Newfoundland, July 13. —Unfavorable flying weather along the Newfoundland Coast prevented Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh from leav- ing here for Cartwright, Labrador, to- day on their aerial mapping expedition. It was cold, wet and foggy when the colonel arose and he said he would not take off until the weather cleared. The famous flying couple had looked forward to meeting the Italian air fleet at Cartwright, but Gen. Italo Balbo led his 24 seaplanes southward from that port today for Shediac, New Brunswick. The Lindberghs arrived here yester- day evening after a flight of 5% hours from Halifax. FACTOR RANSOMED WITH §50,000 CASH [ Tells of “Unbelievable Tor- tures” Suffered at Hands of Kidnapers. By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, July 13—John Factor | disclosed today that $50,000 was paid in $5 and $10 bills to his kidnapers as the price of his freedom. me to describe or for you to believe.” Awakening from a 12-hour sleep, evidence of his captivity. Factor asserted there must have been 20 men in the gang that seized him the morning of July 1, as he motored | home from a night club. He said he | was struck in the face, bound, threat- | éned with machine guns and driven near hysteria by the brutality and threats of his captors. “There were so many men in the | gang, and because my eyes were taped tightly from the start,” Factor said, “that I would not be able to identify the kidnapers.” “Their voices were those of intelligent men. All I could see was a section of a hardwood floor. “I was held on the second floor of a farm house, which I believe was about one and one-half miles from La- Grange.” (LaGrange is the suburb where Factor was released early today.) “A ring which I sent to my family and friends with a piece of paper bear- ing my signature was the only com- munication I sent out while I was held. “The ransom was arranged in nego- tiations between friends of my family and friends of the kidnapers. It was paid in broad daylight outside of Chi- cago in five and ten dollar bills.” It was reported the $50,000 was a down payment, and that a smaller amount would be paid later. Ransom Sealed Down. Factor told the story of the kidnaping to a reporter selected by others to go to Factor's room. He greeted the re- porter while lying in bed, dressed in lavender-striped pajamas, and appear- ing worn from his experience. His son Jerome, also a victim of kid- after 12 days a prisoner of a kidnaping | band, he refreshed himself and shaved lished by administrative offices in off the long growth of beard that gave several agencies. napers two months ago, was in the room as was a younger son, Alvin. (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) — U. S. OFFICERS HONORED Ecuador Decorates Seven Army and Navy Men for Services. QUITO, Ecuador, July 13 (#).—For service to the country the government has awarded the star of the Order of Abdon Calderon to seven United States Army and Navy officers now_stationed in the Canal Zone. They are Gens. Preston Brown and Thomas Darrah, Col. Russell Teeder, Maj. Enrique Benitez, Admirals Noble Irwin and Clark Woodward and Capt. Matthias Manly. POLICE CALLED AS CROWDS JAM HOME OWNERS LOAN OFFICES ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Star, PAGES. OUSTED WORKERS LOOK TO REGOVERY CHIEFS FOR JOBS Rehiring Under Preferential System Is Promised by President. TO BE HEARD BY BOARD derstand Further Dismissals Will Be Limited. Government workers already thrown into idleness by ‘the retrenchment pro- gram, and those who face a like fate, today awaited action by adminis- tration officials in charge of the recovery program that would furnish the jobs under the preferential status for re-em- ployment promised them by President Roosevelt. ‘The President’s statement yesterday that those workers who had won their civil service status by competitive test, as opposed to the class “blanketed in” by executive order, would go on a “pre- ferred list” for employment in the new emergency agencies was followed late in the afternoon by a conference with Wil- liam Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, and officials of the American Federation of Government Employes, an affillate, who laid before Mr. Roosevelt the cause of the ousted workers, approximating 4,000 here. Green said afterward that he and his associates were advised that it is intended that the rank and file of the workers in the new agencies must be chosen from the “preferred list.” Further Dismissals Limited. ‘The visitors also gained the impres- sion, it was said, that there will be a limitation on further dismissals, and that in many cases, those who would have been dropped will be, instead, merely transferred to the new emer- gency establishments. At the conference also it was brought out that the President proposes to grapple with one sore spot that has arisen in connection with the separa- tions, by setting up a board of appeals to hear controversies on efficiency ratings. The charge has been made freely that when the annual efficiency marks were ven in the various agencies on May 5, reduced ratings were applied in- discriminately to facilitate removals. ‘The President’s plan, it is understood, would call for a board to be composed of a member of the Civil Service Com- mission, a representative of the em- I suffered unbelievable tortures” | flov S 8 FERICT Factor sald, ~which it 15 impossible 10T | Dacy o the Taorits ot thest Siapnoes. ‘Will Consider 30-Hour Week. These efficiency marks are estab- the The visitors also understood that the President would give favorable con- sideration to their argument in behalf of the 30-hour week for Government workers. Green was accompanied by John Arthur Shaw, pational president of the Federation of Government Employes, and John P. Simpson, president of the Interstate Commerce Commission Lodge of the Federation, who also is chair- man of the newly-formed Civil Service Reinstatement League, promoted by the federation to aid the workers who are losing out. While Green and his associates ex- pressed satisfaction over the outlook, Luther C. Steward, president of the National Federation of Federal Em- ployes. the rival employe group, om- mented today that the efficacy of the “preferred list” would only be de- termined by the way it works out. New Reductions Loom. Any general rehiring of dismissed employes would be a marked departure from past practice, as only in the Agri- cultural Adjustment Administration and the Transportation Co-ordinator’s office has there been a definite program of using civil service workers, despite the fact that this is not required by law, these, with other new agencies, having been exempt from classified civil service requirements. The bulk of the separations, started on July 1, will be concluded Saturday, when the first half of the month ends, although it has been forecast in two de- partments—Agriculture and Interior— that the separation program will be in progress for some time. Further, new reductions loom the middle of next month when the several consolidations proposed by the Presi- dent go into effect, but the extent of these will not be known until the ab- sorking agencies decide on the number of workers to be retained. Still”I:ow I;rices. The when it is necessary to replace most of the present stock in the stores, higher prices will merchants say that prevail. Purchases that have been postponed for so leng can now be made at present low prices. Yesterday’s Advertising. Local Display The Evening Star . . . Many Applicants, Hoping to Save Foreclosures, Told to| 2d Newspaper Go Home and By the Associated Press. DETROIT, July 13.—Several women fainted and police reserves were called to clear jammed corridors and stair- ways this morning at the opening of the Detroit office of the Michigan Home Owners’ Loan Corporation. Police said nearly 2,000 persons were jammed on four floors of the Barlum Tower, where the offices are located. The first applicants, seeking loans which they said would save their homes from foreclosure, were on hand as early as 3 am., and by 8 am, when the offices opened, police sald nearly 1,000 2 Mail Requests. were waiting. ‘Before noon the throl was so dense that John F. Hamilton, Michigan manager of the corporation, made his way through the corridors u the crowds to return to their | homes and mail their applications for loans to the office. ‘The corporation offices, on the six- teenth floor of the building, was cut off from approach by police at 10 am., but hallways, corridors and stairways from the eleventh to the seventeenth floors were packed so tightly that the crowds could scarcely move. Three women fainted in the crowd, and police encountered great difficulty lin remc.ing them from the building. 3d Newspaper. 4th Newspaper. . . .. 5th Newspaper (Four other Total qimaers 21,567 The reason the merchants use The Star is because it reaches most of the homes of all classes of people who have money to spend. In thousands of these homes in the city and suburbs, no other paper, morn- ing or evening, is read regu larly. v A | By the Associated Press. i loted to them for road construction. The only evening paper in Washington with the An?ciuted Press news service. UP) Means Associated HE MEANS 1T, FELLERS! 5. TOGIVE WORKS LIGT TOMORROW Allocation of $66,000,000 of | Huge Fund Will Be Made Public. With about $66,000,000 already defi- nitely allocated to Federal construction out of the $3,300,000,000 public works fund, the Cabinet Board in charge of the program turned today to considera- | tion of War Department estimates of more than a half billion dollars for Army construction and river and harbor improvements. | Allocation of the $66,000,000 which was approved yesterday by President Roosevelt will be relcased for publica- tion tomorrow afternoon, but the de- | tailed projects will not be announce ! because they are subject to revision by | the departments concerned. $40,000,000 for Projects. More than $40,000,000 of the $66,- 000,000 is for Boulder Dam and other reclamation projects. Most of the bal- ance is for Agriculture Department 1m-J provements. { ‘The announcement tomorrow also will include a list of projects for which | about $1,000,000 is to be advanced to | municipalities for water works and| sewer improvements. The allocation of | $50,000,000 in road funds between na- | tional parks, national forests and Indian | reservations also will be given. | Offictals of the Public Works Admin- | istration said the projects authorized cover every State and Territory. | “ The cabinet board also sought today to speed up organization of regicnal | administrators and advisers to handle | advances to States and local govern- | mental units for non-Federal public | ‘works. Map National Regions. Col. H. M. Waite, assistant public works administrator, was directed to draw up a plan for diviiing the Na- tion into 10 or 12 regions, for each of which a regional administrator will be | appointed by President Rooscvelt. Each State will have an advisory board of three members to recommend projects to_the regional administrator. ‘The bulk of local projects, expected to be financed out of the public works fund, must await uvrgamzation of this regional system. The municipal proj- ects approved by the board yesterday were not required to wait upon this organization because they already had been approved by the Reconstruction Pinance Corporation. Before approving the first group of projects, President Roosevelt gave close scrutiny to the list at a luncheon con- ference yesterday with Secretary Ickes, his public works administrator, and cut down a good many of the board’s rec- ommendations. Officials of the Public ‘Works Administration predicted addi- tional projects would be approved daily for submission to the President. Ickes Won't Talk. Ickes announced after his confer- ence with the President that the list involved almost every section of the country, but he refused to disclose the total or the nature of the items. Nor would he speak after the meeting of the cabinet board later of the nature or size of municipal projects approved. Assoclates said, however, they were of a minor nature, chiefly water works and sewer improvements, which had been approved by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation before that or- ganization turned the task over to the public works administration. Ickes announced the board had tenta- tively approved a map submitted by New York State showing how it ex- pects to spend $22,330,101 road allot- ment. This approval, he said, cleared the way for the State to advertise for bids and get the construction work under way. Other States must submit similar map plans, the public works - tration said, before spending funds al- FEDERAL PRISONER FLEES Escapes in Crowded Greenwich’ Village as Officers Search. NEW YORK, July 13 (#).—A Federal prisoner awaiting trial on a charge of ccunterfeiting escaped from the Federal House of Detention today and, although police squad cars roared through the district a few minutes later, he dis- :&peued in crowded Greenwich Vil- e. The prisoner, William Clune, 35, slipped through an unscreened second- floor window of the detention house, at Eleventh and West streets, lowered him- self to a ledge 5 feet below, hung to this by his hands for & moment, police | let: said, and then dropped 15 feet to the sidewalk. K.K.K. Tells Cotton| Planters to Reduce North CarolinaCrop | “Sign Up or We Will Pull Up” Is Edict Sent to Three Growers. By the Associated Press. SHELBY, N. C, July 13.—Now it's the “Cotton Ku Klux Klan.” ‘Three prominent Cleveland County cotton growers received notes printed | with pen and ink on white paper read- ing: “For your own good, you had better | sign up or we wili pull up. We mean business. Just a help.—C. K. K. K.” as a draw- ing of a skull and cross-bones and each note was wrapped around several stalks of cotton. The recipients—A. B. McNeely. on the C. B. Lattimore place; Hickman Turner and M. E. McNeely—seaid they had signed up to reduce their cotton acreage immediately afier being given the opportunity some tin:c ago. ITALIAN FLYERS HOP FOR SHEDIC Gen. Balbo’s Armada Sighted on Newfoundland Side of Strait of Belle Isle. BELLE ISLE, Newfoundland, July 13 (#).—The Chicago-bound Italian air armada of 24 seaplanes entered the Stralt of Belle Isle at 10 am. (Eastern standard time) today and was in direct communication with the Canadian government wireless station here. Seven minutes later the wireless station at Point Amour, Labrador, reported: “Planes now passing near Newfoundland side of strait. Four sighted.” By the Acsociated Press. CARTWRIGHT, Labrador, July 13. —Italy's colorful air armada took off from Cartwright Harbor this morning and roared down the Labrador coast on its 800-mile flight to Shediac, New Brunswick, its next halting place on the journey from Orbetello to Chicago. The seaplane piloted by Gen. Italo Balbo, youthful, bearded leader of the expedition, was one of the first group to rise from the water at 8:20 am., Eastern standard time. Other groups followed in perfect for- mation until at 8:55 am. the entire fleet of 24 ships was in the air. Gen. Balbo expected to reach Shediac in about five hours. How long the armada would remain (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) U. S. Canadian Envoy Returns. NEW YORK, July 13 (#).—Warren D. Robbins, American Minister to Canada, who was an expert at the World Economic Conference in London, re- turned today on the liner Manhattan. Robbins said he would go to his Cana- dian post next week, first reporting to ‘Washington. He was accompanied OPPOSITION RISES 10 POSTAL PLAN McKellar Predicts Defeat of President’s Proposal Cut- ting Congress’ Patronage. President Roosevelt's move to place all postmasters under civil service fell with a thud today on Democrats in Congress who realized suddenly that about 15,000 jobs thus would be taken out of the political patronage category. Senator McKellar of Tennessee, chairman of the Post Office Committee, and ranking Democrat on the Civil Service Committee, predicted Congress | would reject a bill such as the Presi- dent recommended to require that all first, second and third class postmasters be under civil service. ‘These appointments are now and have been for years appointed by the President on recommendation of Sena- tors and Representatives. Only fourth- class postmasters are at present re- quired to stand civil service examina- tions, Letter to Fariey. The President’s intention was made known yesterday in a letter to Post- master General Farley which accom- panied an executive order revising the conditions under which the so-called “presidential postmasters” are to be chosen. ‘The move surprised House Democrats, but many of those in the city, refused | to comment pending study of the order. It is the members of the House who control the postmaster patronage, Sena- tors reserving the right to recommend appointments only in their home cities. Senator McKellar said he was “in- clined to the view that the larger post- | masterships should not be under civil service.” McKellar Sees Opposition. “This step has been proposed several times in the past,” he added. “In view of the past attitude by Congress, I would be inclined to_ believe it would pose passage of a bill placing these under civil service.” Tennesseean said there were arguments for and against such a move, but he believed the opposition had the upper hand. One Democratic Senator, who refused to allow his name to be used, thought possibly there was “a nigger in the wood pile” in the action, but was not prepared to say what it was. The postmasters are nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate. The principal changes in the requirements raise the age limit for appointees from 65 to 66 years, and cuts the necessary period of residence in the office area from two years to (Continued on Page 2, Column 5) TURKISH TOWN SHAKEN Quake at Changiri Leaves No House in Place Undamaged. ISTANBUL, Turkey, July 13 (®.— An earthquake at Changiri, near An- kara, yesterday, left no house in the town undamaged and threw the in- ;mmmm into & panic, but nobody was urt. The dome of the celebrated Ulu Mosque was damaged considerably. Ankara, the capital of Turkey, felt the property Mrs. Robbins and their daughter Helen. by | shock, but there were no losses. WORDS TO “OLD V IRGINNY” GIVEN GERMAN SEAMAN BY U. S. NAVY Hydrographic Office Gets Strange Request From Tanker Officer, but Complies With It Nevertheless. By the Associated Press. Supplying a German ship officer with the words to “My Old Kentucky Home" ami “Carry Me Back to Old Virginny” is an unusual service just done by the Navy's hydrographic office which charts the seas of the world. Rear Admiral W. R. Gherardi, chief of the hydrographic office, explained today that the Navy is assisted in assembling maritime information by officers of merchant vessels of many nationalities, who send in reports of current and other phenomena. Along with a report recently re- ceived from Alexandria, Egypt, by an officer of & German tanker, was this ter: “Beside delivery of current report which is handed over to you I have a favor to ask ef you. beforehand that I am the strangeness my desire, may put to my credit my in American life. “There is a record in my possession which plays the following two songs: ‘My Old Kentucky Home' and ‘Carry Me Back to Old Virginny’ Unfor- tunately now it is impossible for me to understand the words. This is often regretted, the melody being very nice. I will thank you for providing me with the words of both of these songs I am sorry to say my other American acquaintances out here could not as- sist me.” Admiral Gherardi remarked: Dot e lgnorca “sha " the hylrogranpic ored and the office has added one more item to its long list of mariners.” I of cre Yesterday’s Circulation, 114,341 TWO CENTS. JOHNSON EXPECTS STEEL INDUSTRY'S - CODE LATE TODAY Pinchot Reports 4 Per Cent Unemployment Decline Since Trend Shifted. Press. PRODUCTION CONTROL GIVEN CONSIDERATION Agreement of Retailers in Sight. Silk, Lace and Clothing Makers Discussing Problems. By the Associated Press. Preparations for harboring more in- dustries and businesses under the in- dustrial recovery law had Washington humming today, while President Roose- velt kept tab on production and em- ployment developments. Gov. Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania took a personal report to the White House on unemployment having de- creased 4 per cent in Pennsylvanis since the shift of trend. Between numerous conferences, Hugh 8. Johnson, the industrial administra- tor, sald the “fair competition” code to govern the steel industry definitely would be submitted by nightfall. Like the many others being or to be formu- lated, it will propose minimum wages and maximum hours for the indust:y— the alm being to spread work and in- crease purchasing power to help the country all around. Meanwhile, fearful lest increased pro- duction get out of the bounds of the ability of people to buy and constitute a threat to business progress, the ad- ministration is considering what, if any- thing, can be done on that problem. Action of Retailers Near. Johnson stepped in on a group rep- resenting the National Retail Council, central organization of most retail or- ganizations, and on coming out, in re- ply to questions, said it looked as though this group would submit a definite code shortly. In other conference rooms at the Commerce Department, silk manufac- turers discussed problems of - their trade, but indicated they were not pre- senting a specific code at this time. i Lace manufacturers also consulted with the administrators. Meanwhile, a group of clothing manu- facturers set up headquarters in a hotel and began the task of determining minimum wages and maximum working hours for their industry. The National Textile Committee, rep- resenting cotton textile manufacturers, is to meet with administrators of the recovery act tomorrow for an explana- tion and interpretation of revisions made by President Roosevelt in the cotton textile code. ‘The committee of the National Lum- ber Manufacturers’ Association which several days ago submitted a code to Johnson, conferred with him today to seek an adjustment of terms in the agreement which he had pronounced unacceptable. Sweat Shop Conditions Cited. ‘The code calls for working hours run- ning as high as 48 a week, with mini- mum wages as low as 223 cents an hour. ‘Wilson Compton, managsr of the association, told newspaper men it might prove difficult to bring some branches of the industry to better labor terms because their present offering al- ready represented a tremendous im- provement over prevailing wage and hour levels. In many lumber mills and camps, he said, a sweat shop condition has existed. The manufacturers would not be dis- posed to raise their costs much higher until there was assurance that manu- facturers of competitive products also increased their production costs, he added. Indiana limestone manufacturers, consulting with the administration over a code, are expected to alter their terms before the agreement is sub- mitted formally. They proposed a 40-hour week with a $14 minimum wage. Indications in trade circles were that the wages would be increased somewhat and the hours of work reduced before the code was set_for hearing. Possibility that the Federal Govern- ment will throw its influence behind the move in Massachusetts for suspen= sion of the State’s law prohibiting em- ployment of women in cotton mills at night was disclosed by Nelson Slater, an assistant to Johnson, Cotton Industry Improves. As a result of the increase in mini- mum wages and the reduction in work- ing hours in the cotton industry, as provided by the cotton code effective Monday, many textile mills have found a second shift necessary. Massachusetts labor leaders, Gov. Ely " (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) ‘SOME TYPHU.S' REPORTED BY MOSCOW OFFICIALS Denials Made, Howewer, to Earlier Rumors That Disease Was Epidemic in Soviet City. By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, July 13.—The presence of “some” typhus in Moscow and vicini was acknowledged toddy by A. Zall N member of the Collegium of the Com- missariat of Health, who denied, how- ever, that the disease was epidemic. (A Hague dispatch of July 11 said that reports from Moscow told of a typhus epidemic there of alarming pro- portions, with hospitals crowded with victims of the disease.) Mr. Zaluski cited official figures show- ing 68 cases of typhus in Moscow prov- ince and 15 in Moscow proper in the month of May, as compared to 92 in the province and 15 in the city for April. He added that figures for the same two months of last year were unavaila- ble, but estimated that they were about the same. The June figures for this year have not yet been assembled. ‘The official added that local health suthorities had the disease under control.