Evening Star Newspaper, July 17, 1933, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair tonight and tomorrow; little change in temperature; gentle northwest winds, becoming variable. Temperatures —Highest, 87, at 4:45 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 68, at 5:30 a.m. today. Full report on Page A-9. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages11,12&13 ) No. 32,584, Entered as second class matt.. post office, Washington, D. C. ch WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, JULY 17, 1933—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. LITHUANIAN FLYERS DIE IN AIR CRASH IN GERMANY; POST IS OFF FOR SIBERIA BigPlaneFound Downin Woods of Pomerania. GUARD PLACED AT WRECK SCENE Crowd Waits in Vain | at Kaunas, Goal of Flight. Bv the Associated Press. SOLDIN, Pomerania, Germany, July 17.—The airplane Lithuanica, in which Stephen Darius and Stanley Girenas were attempting a non-stop flight from New York | to Lithuania, crashed early today at Kuhdamm and both flyers were killed. | Kuhdamm is five miles south of Soldin. The plane was discovered in & forest. The bodies of the airmen were under it. A local farmer heard the crash about 7 o'clock this morning, but the actual discovery of the ship was not made until a few hours later. A party of aviators and police officials left immediately from | Berlin for Soldin. Believe They Mistook Trees. Soldin is situated on a lake of the same name near the border line of the two Prussian provinces of Neumark and Pomerania. Police surmised that the aviators in attempting to land mistook treetops for a meadow. There was some doubt about the| exact time of the crash. Investigators | said the bodies indicated the men died | sometime between 3 and 5 a.m. | Women gathering berries said they heard a machine about 5 o'clock and the noise suddenly ceased. Later a cyclist discovered the plane, with the fivers buried beneath and the wings hanging from trees. { Bodies Left at Scene. A rural policeman found & route map, copies of Chicago newspapers and a pouch with letters on which were the names of Darius and Girenas and also of Victor Vesglaites of Wilkesbarre, Pa. (who served as the machanic for the aviators). A guard was placed at the scene by the police and, for the time being, the bodies were left there. The discovery of the tragedy followed | a stormy and dark night, during which | rumors of & plane being heard but not seen came from various points in East- ern Germany. Gasoline Tank Empty. The Lithuanica struck the same| patch of bad weather which forced Wiley Post, globe-circling American fiyer, to land at Koenigsberg, East Prus- sia, en route from Berlin to Moscow. Police found the gasoline tank of the Lithuanica empty. Hence they be- lieved that the pilot came down inten- tionally, but, because of the fog, was unable to see the treetops. The bodies were badly mangled. Sev- eral trees snapped under the weight of (Contin! on ge 4, Column 3.) PHILIPPINE LIBERTY OPINION IS DIVIDED Resolutions Urging Acceptance, Rejection and Alteration Offered Legislature. By the Associated Press. MANILA, July 17.—Resolutions urging acceptance, rejection and alteration of the Philippine independence act passed by Congress were filed as the third and final session of the insular Legislature met briefly today. Legislators convened for their 100- day meeting only long enough to hear Governor General Frank Murphy's first | message to them, introduce & handful of bills and recess until Thursday. Meantime leaders plan to decide the eourse to be followed in & series of caucuses of the dominant Nacionalista party. Murphy’s message urging the decision on independence be made “in accord- ance with the best and highest inter- ests and aspirations of the Filipino peo- ple” drew praise from leaders of both factions and was approved in a resolu- tion of congratulation passed by the | Legislature. | The new governor general's statement | that a just and enduring settlement | must be “a faithful expression of the | ideal and conviction of the people” was | cited by some as an indication he fa-| vored a plebiscite which is being urged | by advocates of acceptance. FINN FLYER REACHES HERE BEFORE NOON| Capt. Vaino Bremer Completing Around-the-World Trip by Plane and Steamship. Capt. Vaino Bremer, former Finnish Rir force pilot, who now is completing a trip around the world by airplane and | steamship, arrived in Washington | shortly before noon today from | Montreal, Canada. Capt. Bremer left Helsinki, Finland, | on May 11 and flew through Central | Europe, the Balkans, Turkey, India, | Siam, Indo-China, China and Japan and then crossed by boat from Tokio #o San Francisco. He Is now complet- ing the crossing of the United States én his airplane, a low-wing German | monoplane with an 80-horsepower engine. Capt. Bremer was welcomed at 2shington-Hoover Airport by Federal | viation officials and representatives of | he Finnish legation. A reception in honor will be given by the Pinnish ch: d'affaires. Eino Walikangas, at the iyflower Ho'el from 5 to 7 pm. tomorrow, NAMED LABO.R SECRETARY | Miss Charlotte Carr Is Given Post | insisted on calling his father, who hur- Die in Crash STEPHEN DARIUS. STANLEY GIRENAS. BALBO WILL VISIT NATIONAL CAPITAL * | Accepts Roosevelt’s Invita- tion—Return Flight to Be by Way of Azores. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, July 17—Gen. Italo Balbo accepted today an invitation to visit President Roosevelt at the White House late this week. Postmaster General James A. Farley prezented the President's invitation while the Italian air minister was pay- ing an official call at the City Hall. ‘The Capital City, however, probably will not have a visit from the fleet of 24 Italian seaplanes which completed the first mass flight from Europe to, America, when it dropped down on Lake Michigan at Chicago’s front door Satur- day. Gen. Balbo said the return trip would start Wednesday morning, the armada flying directly to New York. ‘The Italian visitors will remain in New York for several days, leaving the ships at anchor while the commander makes & special trip to Washington, probably by automobile or train, or in an American plane. After the visit to the Capital, Gen. Balbo will rejoin his flight comrades in New York and pre- pare for the crossing of the Southern Atlantic to the Azores and Italy. At the city hall in a brief reception ceremony Gen. Balbo was presented a gold key to the City of Chicago by Mayor Edward J. Kelly. The Postmaster General, on his way to Milwaukee to attend a convention of the Order of the called at the (Continued on P: Column 7.) in Pennsylvania. HARRISBURG, Pa. July 17 (®— Gov. Pinchot today named Miss Char- lotte E. Carr as secretary of labor and industry to succeed Dr. A. M. Northrup who charged in his resignation last week that Miss Carr had been foment- ing strikes in a period of widespread industriel difficulties. Miss Carr was chief of inspection in the department. '50 hours and 10 minutes on his arrival Soars on Way Across Russia After Rest. WEATHER GOOD ON LONG FLIGHT Ahead of Schedfilel of Former Trip at Moscow. By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, July 17.—Wiley Post, American round-the-world solo fiyer, landed here from Koenigs- berg, Germany, this afternoon and a few hours later soared east- ward on the 1,818-mile journey to Novosibirsk in Siberia. The most perfect possible weather conditions prevailed from Moscow as far as the Ural Moun- tains. Local weather officials, who gave the airman full meteorologi- cal information before he left, said it was probable that the pres- ent cloudiness between the Urals and Novosibirsk would clear up before he reached that area. Refuses Chance to Sleep. Post refused a chance to snatch a few minutes’ sleep at the Moscow . airport that he might speed up mechanicians working on his plane. It was 5:12 p. m. (9:12am, E. 8. T.) when the American fiier started the Novosibirsk leg of his journey. He had been in Moscow 2 hours and 52 min- utes. When he sped away from the Soviet capital, a more than 48-hour growth of beard had disappeared from his face, as he spent 15 minutes of his short stay here in the airport barber op. Ahead of Former Time. Post and Gatty had an elepsed time of 54 hours and 34 minutes when they reached Moscow. g Post made the trip from Koenigsberg to Moscow in 5 hours and 35 minutes, and had thercfore an elapsed time of in the Soviet capital. He was behind the schedule he had arranged for him- self, but was 4 hours and 24 minutes| ahead of the flight he made with Gatty. | The Oaklahoman lost time in Berlin} because of delays in refueling and later in_Koenigsberg because of rain. His monoplane swooped down sud- denly out of the west, circled October ! field and then made a perfect landing The airman took by surprise airport officials and the corps of foreign cor- respondents, who had not expected him to halt in Moscow, particularly be- cause he spent the night at Koenigs- berg a comparatively short distance away. Evidently Exhausted. Post climbed out stiffiy. as his plane taxied to a halt. He swayed from ex- haustion after his feet touched the ground. “I need some work on the ship and also some gas and oil,” he said. Airport officials hustled him into a private room at Airdrome headquarters and a doctor examined him. The airman ghve orders to remove " (Continued on Page 4, Column 1) QUAKE CAUSES TERROR India Shocks Send Inhabitants Running From Homes. POONA, India, July 17 (#).—An earthquake caused a five-hour reign of terror here last night, when inhabitants fled from their homes into open places in panic. First reports said there was no damage. . Enters Name in Berlin Book. BERLIN, July 17 (#)—Mayor James Curley of Boston, entered his name today in the golden book of the eity of Berlin. Subzero Weather in Parana. RIO DE JANEIRO, July 12 (#)—Tem- peratures 10 and 12 degrees below zero were registered in Parana today, the lowest on record. EMERGENCY OPERATION MAY SAVE ARM OF D. C. GIRL, HURT IN CRASH {Dr. H. N. Kerr Answers Son’s Call When Elkton Physi- cians Feared Amputation Necessary. An emergency operation, performed by a Washington surgeon, after physicians at the Elkton, Md., hospital, had feared an amputation necessary, is expected to save the left arm of Miss Marjorie Small, 20 years old, 2125 Le Roy place, | injured in an automobile accident near Newcastle, Del.,, early today. Miss Small, secretary to a radio con- sultant, had her left arm mangled when a truck side-swiped the car she was driving. Three other young Wu}hy ingtonians who were passengers in the car were uninjured. They are Miss Ellen Wilson Howe, aho lives with Miss Small; Miss Katherine C. Hillyer, 2151 California street, and Peter Kerr, son of Dr. Harry N. Kerr, well-known sur- geon. Miss Small's arm, resting on the front window of the automobile, was smashed. She was taken to the Elk- ton Hospital, where it is said doctors, after examination, annoi an oper- ation would be necessary. Young Kerr ried to the North Maryland town. He operated, and acc to word re- cetved by Mrs. Eloise Robin<~n, an aunt with whom Miss Small is spering the Summer, the patient was “doing nicely” afterward. ‘The four young people were returning from a week end in New York whon the accident occurred. They left the Metropolis about 8 o'clock and it was shortly after midnight when the truck smashed into them. The driver of the other vehicle was detained by police. Miss Small is the daughter of the late Robert Small, former Washington news- Ppaper man. Similarly injured in a hit-and-run smash-up near Paramus, N. J., Alex- ander McKinnon, former Metropolitan policeman, lost his left arm through amputation. An Associated Press dis- patch from the New Jersey town sald the driver sped away after the accident. of Bexge J zinski, 26, B , N. J., they sald was the driver of the truck. He was accused of reckless and leaving the scene after an accident. McKinnon was dismissed from e the force February 28, 1931. He had served on the force six years and at the time was stationed as clerk at the De- ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WHILE ON OUR VicE-PRESIDE| VACATIONS WE HAD %‘mfi""‘ AND EAT OURSELVES NEARLY. To DEATH' A\ ¢ Foening Star. {CHRISTMAS - THEN | (HE DISAPPEARED) | ! W WHEAT PRICES SOAR 3 CENTS IN FLURRY $1.27 Mark Set.at Chicago. Cotton and Securities Also Advance. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO. July 17—Wheat seemed | so scarce to Board of Trade brokers to- day that it shot up 5 cents a bushel in | two hours today. Th's rise on top of many others put some options at $1.27 a bushel, triple the quotations six months ago when wheat reached a low record for the last | 30 years. Flour rose to a new flve-year record in Minneapolis, gaining 30 cents a bar- rel to & top of $895, including $1.38 Federal processing tax assessed to pay | farmers to grow less wheat. Flax seed shot up 16 cents a bushel to $2.34. The oily seeds opened 8 cents higher and scon rose as much more at Minneapolis, Barley gained attention on the Chi- cago Board of Trade as wheat drove through $1.27, the brewing grain sky- rocketing 12 cents a bushel to nearly 84 cents. Notable steadiness of offerings of | barley made prices for that grain ad-| vance at times doubly faster even than wheat. When wheat jumped above 1 $1.27, barley showed a gain of 12 cents a bushel today to 833 for December contracts. STOCKS RALLY SHARPLY. Gains of $1 to $8 Spread Through List, Cotton Jumps $2 a Bale. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 17.—With wheat and cotton making new highs, stocks rallied smartly today, accumulating gains of §1 to $8 in active trading. Several specialties made larger ad- vances. “Repeal” shares, metals, aircrafts and rubber issues were featured on the Stock Exchange, but the whole list ad- vanced. Cotton here gained about $2 a bale. Cotton's rise was attended by heavy buying through trade and com- mission houses and speculative interest. Crude rubber futures were strong, up half a cent or more per pound. Alcohol stocks behaved buoyantly. National Distillers Products climbed $8 | to above $123, American Commercial Alcohol .nearly $8 to $84 and United States Industrial Alcohol $5 to $93. Commercial Solvents, in heavy trading, soared more than $6 to $51.50. ' In the rubber group, United States| Rubber and Goodyear were up $3 to $4. Other strong issues included United States Smelting, Case, Firestone, Amer- ican Can, Johns-Manville and United Aircraft, which improved $2 to $4. United States Steel preferred rose to a new high at $104.75, up $2.62, while the common firmed nearly $2 to $66. Amer- ican Telephone’s extreme gain was around $1.50. GRANDFATHEF&’S CLOCK SUBJECT OF COURT CASE Owner Under Will Contests Right of Undertakers to Hold Timepiece Pending Settlement. The District Supreme Court today was asked to determine the owner of a grandfather’s clock gvhich the late Eugene C. Moxley purchased 30 years ago so that it may be sold to pay his funeral expenses. Moxley, who died April 1, lived in the 1700 block of I street. The clock, which cost $1,200, was left in his will to Marie Dent Carlon of Upper Darby, Pa. In a petition filed today, Miss Carlon sald the W. W. Chambers Co, agieed to handle Mr. Moxley's funeral for $77. The clock, she said, was to be held by her counsel pending a sewlement of the funeral expenses. Notwithstanding this agreement, her petition says, representatives of the Chambers Co. went to ihe dead man’s apartment at 1 a.m. on the day of his funeral and removed the clock. She sald they have kept it since that time. Through Attorney Frank Van Sant, she asks that collectors be appointed and that they be given custody of the clock until it can be sold for settlement of the funeral expenses. EE———— FIRE ABOARD SHIP Vessel Expects to Anchor Safely Off Norfolk. NEW YORK, July 17 (#).—The crew of the steamship El Occidente was fight- a fire in her No. 1 hold off Nor- Mother Succulhbs_ To Burns Trying To Kill Children Three Youngsters Escape After Parent Attempts to Slay Them and Self. By the Associated Press. WINDSOR, Ontario, July 17.—Mrs. Annie Brookbanks, 43, set fires under the beds of her three sleeping children | early today, Windsor authorities said, | and then soaked her clothing in kero- She was burned to sene and ignited it. | death. | The children were uninjured. They | are Hilda, 13, and Billle and Duncan, 10-year-old twins. were awakened by the smell of smoke. They declared the mother shut herself in the kitchen and there set fire to her | clothes. Then she ran screaming from the house. Neighbors found her badly burned and rushed her to & hospital, where she {ik& The unhurt children were on the awn. Richard Brookbanks, father of the children, a railway employe, could not explain the incident. “My wife was all right when I left to go to work,” he said. “She kissed me goodby and the next I knew of this terrible thing was called from work. D.C. EMPLOYMENT Civil Service Commission An- nounces Jobs for 60 Over Week End. ‘The local employment situation today continued to show the improvement re- there that requests had been received over the week end for between 60 and emergency agencies and in the regular establishments of the Government. Personnel for these divisions is being | taken from the re-employment register of the commission when eligibles are available, and, if not, from the regular Tegisters established by competition, or through interservice transfers. Increase Concurrent. At the commission it was said that the increase in requests had come con- currently with the expressed intention of President Roosevelt to give workers dropped or about to be dropped in the current retrenchment program erence over outside applicants. It is realized that the number of re- employments is only a small percentage of the separations since July 1, but the upward trend is viewed encouragingly. The commission is planning to issue (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) KING URGES CHANGE IN PARK UPKEEP Senator Would Transfer Mainte- nance, Including Police, to D. C. Government. e the pref- Transfer of park maintenance, in- cluding the park police, to the District government instead of to the Interior Department was advocated by Senator King, chairman of the District Com- mittee, in a letter to Director Douglas of the budget, this afterneon. The general reorganization order of the President’s sent to Congress just before adjournment provided for trans- fer of these activities from the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks to Interior. Although Senator King has not made public his letter to Doug- las, it is understood he urged that the previous reorganization order be recon- sidered and that study be given to the advisability of consolidating these park functions with similar activitles in the municipal government. Before sending the letter, Benator conferred ith King wit Commissioner Reichelderfer to acquaint him with the Investigators asserted the children when I was| SITUATION BETTER ported Saturdsy by the Civil Service | Commission, when it was announced | Tells Neighbors to Disregard Post- 70 persons to fill jobs both in the new | | | LUERTOLDBY CANG TAKEN BY MISTAKE, Says Kidnapers Informed Him| They Meant to Seize Relative. By the Associated Press. ALTON, Il July 17.—The release of August Luer, 77-year-old Alton banker,; was preceded by receipt of a series of | notes demanding ransom from a kid- nap gang whose members told the pris- oner he had been seized by mistake. | ‘These developments came to light to- | day as the wealthy banker rested in| the home to which he was returned yesterday, and Federal, State and coun- ty officers joined in a widespread | search for the abductors’ den. At a conference with Department of | Justice men, active in the investigation | despite the announced withdrawal of | all police officials from the case at the | request of the victim's family, Luer | said he was told by the gang that they had meant to take Herman Luer. It was not clear whether the reference was to the banker's son Herman, or his brcther by the same name. Denies Ransom Payment. Although the first note from the | abductors, received Wednesday, de- manded $100,000, Carl Luer, the kid- naped man's son, asserted again today that no money had been pawi. Well advised believed $10,000 was | given the gang before the banker was | released, near a resort on a highway | near Collinsville, Il Carl Luer declined to say how much money had been raised for use of rep-| resentatives of the family who nego- tiated with the kidnapers. A series of note exchanges was start- | ed with receipt by Carl Luer, Wednes- | day morning, of a letter mailed in SL‘ Louis. It read: | “Carl Luer: Get $100,000 dollars for your father’s release—instru tions will follow—act immediately, as! medicine is low—when money is ready, | insert in earliest edition of St. Louis | newspapers personal columns the fol- | lowing words—'John, come home— mother is {l.’ Act now.” The following_was_inserted in_the ~ (Continued on Page 6, Column 1.) YORK HITS FARLEY TALK master General's Repeal Advice. PALL MALL, Tenn, July 17 (®)— Sergt. Alvin C. York, World War hero, told his neighbors at a dry rally here| yesterday to disregard the repeal advice given by Postmaster General James A. Farley, in an address at Memphis Sat- urday night. “We don’t need these Eastern guys to come down here and tell us how to vote,” sald York, in urging support of the eighteenth endment in Thurs- day’s balloting. Renews Rumanian Treaty. ROME, July 17 (#)—Italy today re- newed for a period of six months her treaty of friendship with Rumania. Many circles had concluded the treaty would not be renewed in view of recent developments in Balkan politics. “From Press to Home Within an Hour” ‘The Star’s Carrier system covers every city block and the regular edition is delivered to city and suburban homes as fast as the papers are printed. ¥H% s Associated Saturday’s Circulation, 110,680 Sunday’s Circulation, 121,815 TWO CENTS. Press. Germans Suspend Paper That Called Gen. Balbo Jewish By the Associated Press. BERLIN, July 17.—The news- Deutsche Zeitung was suspe for three months for alleging that Gen. Italo Balbo, Italian air minister, ‘r'now in Chicago, is & baptized ew. Hermann Goering, Nazi min- ister without portfolio, personally ordered the suspension and im- mediate imprisonment of the responsible editor in & concen- tration camp. “This slanderous allegation Italian friendship.” nnn’t:uncmmc said. siling “Newspapers printing an! likely to disturb Germany’s foreign relations will be ruth- lessly deait with,” the announce- ment added. RESURVEY ORDERED FOR §750,000,000 Cabinet Directs Budget Bu- reau to Recheck Public Works Proposal. ‘The cabinet board in charge of the Federal public works program ordered a resurvey by the Budget Bureau today of recommendations from the Treasury for spending about $750,000,000 on public buildings. At the same time the board under- took a reconsideration of the $90,000,- 000 river and harbor and flood control program it submitted last week to President Roosevelt. ‘The board asked the Budget Bureau to submit a new list of Federal building projects stripped down to the most worthy proposals, subjecting each item to the same tests that have been ap- plied to other estimates for Federal construction. _The Treasury originally submitted & gigantic Federal building program run- ning vp to three-quarters of a billion dollars, composed of two lists. One included 900 projects at a cost of about $89,000,000, while the other included 2,500 or more proposals cost- ing well over half a billion. Asks Specific Reports. “We spent a lot of time discussing what kind of a public building pro- gram, if any to recommend to the President,” Secretary Ickes, chairman and public works administrator told newspaper men after the meeting of the board. “We asked the Budget Bureau for a report on specific projects that could be justified on the same basis as the other programs.” Each public building proposal is to be subjected to a test of social neces- sity, the possibility of recurring cost to the Government and other require- ments which the Federal estimates have been called up to meet. Ickes said the river and harbor pro- gram_submitted last week would be “carefully reconsidered to make sure the money is wisely spent.” “This is not a grab bag,” he added, asserting the purpose was not to cur- tail the program but to be sure that each project was necessary. Ickes said the board wanted to co- ordinate the river and harbor and flood control program to include the best projects. Pinchot Request Denied. He sald several proposals for im- provements on the Mississippi River and its tributaries were under considera- tion, mentioning the 9-foot channel project on the upper river and the de- velopment of the Arkansas River. The board turned down a Tequest from Gov. Pinchot of Pennsylvania for a grant of an extra $12,000.000 for roads in addition to the State's allot- ment. “We didn’t see how we could do it under the law,” Ickes said. “I will take it up with Gov. Pinchot and see if we can arrange a loan.” Ickes said Pinclwt wanted the money in order to carry out his program for unemployment relief. A change in the plan for administer- ing advances to States and local gov- ernmental units also was formulated. Regional administrators will be set up, together with State aavisory boards of three members, but recommendations of the State grcups now can be sent directly to Washington without having to go through or be apprcved by the regional administrators, as provided heretofore. Their purpcse will be to co-ordinate the activities of the various State.. Ickes said the War Department had withdrawn its big program for Army housing together with recommendations for spending many millioa dollars on motorizing the Army. PLANS ARMS TALK. BERLIN, July 17 (#)—Arthur Hen- derson, president of the Geneva Dis- armament Conference, arrived here to- dsy and visited Foreign Minister von Neurath and Rudolf Nadolny for dis- cussions on the arms problem. Mr. Nadolny has been Germany's represent- ative at the Geneva parley. — IDEBISIUN ON PLE IT0 RAISE WAGES PENDING COMPACTS IS BELIEVED NEAR Intensive Study Continued by Johnson, Taking Proposal to Meeting of Recovery Ad- visory Board. NEARLY MILLION AIDED BY INCREASES IN PAY Hope Held That as Many More Will Get Boosts Soon—Another Cloth- ing Group Files Code—Announce- ment of More Hearing Dates Expeocted Shortly. By the Associated Press. Hugh 8. Johnson, the national recovery administrator, today continued intensive study of the plans for a general call to indus- try and business to join in the wage-raising and work-sharing drive without waiting for formal action by the Government on agreements submitted by the va- rious industrial lines. Indications were a final decision might come shortly. The question, discussed at length yesterday with President Roosevelt aboard the yacht Sequoia on Chesapeake Bay, was taken up today by the adminis- trator with his legal advisers and deputy administrators. __Late, Tohnson took it to a meet- ing of the Recovery Advisory Board composed of cabinet mem- bers headed by Secretary Roper. Results Not Disclosed. No word as to conclusions pene- trated from the meeting. It had been decided, however, that the enterprise, if undertaken, would have to be on a volunteer basis since the law provides no author- ity for a general blanket compul- * sion of business to increase the purchasing power of its workers. Also expected shortly was announce- ment by Johnson cf hearing dates for more codes of fair competition. the agreements by which business under the industrial control law obtains self- regulation in exchange for benefits for labor. Several of these have been sub- mitted to the recovery organization within the last few days. Another clothing group filed a code today calling for a 40-hour week and a 20 per cent wage increase. ‘The agreement was submitied by the “Industrial Recovery Association of Clothing Manufacturers.” made up mostly of independents. The first code was submitted by the “Clothing Manu- én'::ureu Association of the United es.” Nearly Million Get Raise. For nearly a million working men and women the depression is as good as ended, their wages suddenly, lifted back to the purchasing level of better days by voluntary co-operation of industry with Government. For hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions more the day holds forth hope of similar good luck in the immediate future. Textile workers—not only cotton, but rayon, silk and allied products—all over the North and South, went back to their mills this morning on a 40-hour work-week schedule, at rates of pay intended to give them the purchasing power of 1929. Steel Pay Up 15 Per Cent. In steel mills labor today is earning 15 per cent more than last week—in some cases even better—a boost back to the level of 1932. In countless other industries which have submitted or soon will present their so-called codes of fair competition, the compacts by which the Government allows them to regulate themselves in exchange for giving labor "~ (Continued on Page 3, 5,000 ARE ON STRIKE AT HIGH POINT, N. C. Minor Disorder Marks Walkout of Hosiery and Furniture Work- ers Asking Raise. LAST GREAT ADVENTURE STARTS FOR ELLSWORTH IN POLE FLIGHT Leaves West Coast for Base From Which to Soar 2,900 Miles Over Frozen Antarctic Continent. Special Dispatch to The Btar. BAN FRANCISCO, July 17 (NANA). —From the shores of California, object for 200 years of the world’s explorers, 2 smiling American sailed today on what may be the last exploration of lands still unseen by human eyes. For Lincoln Ellsworth his flight over unexplored regions of the wild and life- less Antarctic continent is the “last great adventure,” as it may be the clos- ing chapter in the age-long history of man's conquest of the earth's surface. But for the veteran of three con- quests of the Arctic, the departure from San Prancisco Bay was an occasion for thoughts on_many subjects besides his stupendous flight. A longing for the “glamorous” days of the old’ West and the life of a cowl or & two-g:.md sheriff and phmhlflm 1 reflect! upon the 'fl:th‘h where the flight will commence, is named.” With Elilsworth on the Matson liner Lurline were his bride of two months, Mrs. Mary Louise Ellsworth, and her mother, Mrs. J. L. Ulmer of Pottsville, Pa. Théd two will stay in New Zealand, from which Ellsworth will proceed in the Wyatt Earp with Bernt Balchen, noted fiyer, who will pilot the plane, Sir Hubert Wilkins and mechanics and radio men. From Ross Sea the powerful, speedy monoplane will take off, carrying only Ellsworth and Balchen on the 2,900- mile round trip, non-stop flight across a continent bigger than Europe. Ellsworth will navigate and phot ph the un- seen land. Balchen, fellow adventurer toward the pole on the Norge in 1926, will bandle the radio and pilot. ‘Three months’ rations, a hand sled and three flags, that is the equipment. The flags are an American flag, made by Ellsworth’s niece, Clare Prontice, daughter of captain of the American e peEctnGidogranhie Society. in e e ic y guhmmb and the New York Athletic ub. “We will carry no guns.” Ellsworth sald. “What use? There is no life 3 miles in from shore.” Mrs. Ellsworth will keep in daily touch with her husband through the radio. (Copyright. 1077, b= No-th American News- paper Allizace. Inc.) By the Associated Press. HIGH POINT, N. C, July 17—A strike affecting approximately 5,000 hosiery and furniture plant operatives went into effect here today when mill officials did not meet a demand for s 25 per cent wage increase. Only one minor disorde: was re- ported and no extra police were on hand. ‘Twenty-two seamless hosiery plants, employing approximately 4,000 workers, and 25 furniture factories employing approximately 1,000 operatives were closed. Several window panes were broken when employes attempted to return to work at one hosiery mill but this dis- turbance was quieted and the plant closed. Meanwhile, a large part of the city’s industries continued operation with 'cotwn and silk mills, full-fashioned hosiery plants and a few furniture fac- tories operating on regular schedules. Many were thrown out of work by action of fellow workers who put into effect the strike announced over a week ago when the wage increase and an eight-hour day shift was demanded. GUIDE FOR READERS Amusements . Comics .....