Evening Star Newspaper, July 19, 1933, Page 2

TA—2 w» JULY 19, 1938 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, STUDIES PROGRESS ON BLANKET CODE Cemmon Ground Sought at! Parley Today, With Early Results Indicated. (Continued From First Pagen standard. At present he is in London with the American delegation to the world Economic Conference. New codes continue to arrive at John- son's already burdened office. one today being for a 40-hour week and $13 minimum weekly wage in the rayon and synthetic wool producing industry Hearing Set for July 27. Administrator Johnson set July 27 for start of hearings on the rayon agreement, said to represent 80 per cent of the industry. Previously & code was submitted by the rayon weavers. prohibits employment of persons under 16_years of age. In specifying the maximum hours, exception is made in cases of emer- gencies. Also apprentices are exempted from the minimum wage Lmitation The code would be effective 14 days after approval by the President Opposition wi the shipbuilding industry to the minimum wage rate provision of the code was expressed at the public hearing on the agreement Homer L. Ferguson, president of the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. of Newport News. Va. said he thought 30 cents would be & “fair minimum” for Southern yards If the 35-cent minimum is made to prevail in the South, he said. it would “tend to put out of work the weak Southesn yards.” adding the 35-cent rate would be almost double the present | Previously & prediction that the | scale Navy's building program would result in employment 15 per cent above the peak of the last 10 years in the ship- building industry was made by H. Ger- | rish Smith, president of the National Council of American Shipbuilders, Bulk Goes to Labor. He corroborated previous statements by naval officials and members of Con- gress that 85 per cent of shipbuilding costs went to labor, either directly or indirectly, and that nearly every State | benefited through supplying materials. | At the electrical hearing. J. A. Tritle, president of the National Electrical Manufacturers Association, said industry “realizes thoroughl ability of co-ordinated efforts between Government and industry in order that we mav have prosperity again in measure by she stabilization of indus- try. Collens declared the industry's vol- ume the first half of this vear was 25 per cent of the 1929 Tecord, but that employment had been spread so that about 50 per cent of the 1929 workers | were given employi “The June busin s about 40 per cent of the 19 Collens said “Since President Roosevell's tration the improvement of employment in our industry has been about 20 per cent “It is thought this cude will add 25.000 employes for the lighter branches of the industry,” Collens added. Overtime For Peak Period. “We estimate that & 50 per cent In- crease over the June business wouid equal 60 per cent of the 1929 level, but under this code would return the full 1929 employment.” He sald the division of the industry which produces the heavier products would have to depend upon an exten- sion in other industries to get more employes back to Work because it Dow was operating below a 36-hour level George W. Mason of Detroit, presi- dent of the Kelvinator testified & provision for 144 additional hours a year of cvertime work was in- | serted in the code to meet the seasonal and peak demands of businesses allied with the electrical industry. The electrical refrigeralor manufac- turers, he said, found their peak de- mand in April, May and June. OWing to the bulk of their product, he said they found it impossible to spread their | peak production over the rest of the vear because of lack of warehouse pace. An example of the temporary type of understanding sought by Gen. Johnson was supplied today by the National As- sociation of Hosiery Manufacturers They agreed with recovery officials on petition asking Mr. Rooscvelt for an ex- ecutive order putting iuto effect next Monday minimum wages and maximum working hours. The hosiery men have not completed their entire code, but they harmonized the proposed wages <ud working hours with those in effect in the textile in- dustry. asking a i0-hour work week, and 80-hour machine week, 8 $12 Southern and $13 Northern weekly minimum At a press conference late yesterday Johnson reiterated that his unit was working to get benefits of the recovery act for all groups of workers, the office and store employes as well as laborers. Asked about the code submitted by the steel industry, which carries a comi- pany union provision. he said flatly that if this weve foun to organize as it saw fit, the clause would not stay in. “No man,” he said, “can put in‘o a :ode anything that qualifies the statute.” COAST GUARDS WOUND TWO WITH GUNFIRE Open Fire With Machine Gun When Liguor-Laden Speed- boat Does Not Stop. By the Associated Press. WOODS HOLE. Mass., July 19.—Two members of the crew of the speedboat Whatzis were wounded. one seriously, early today as Coast Guardsmen sent a burst of machine gunfire at the boat when, the Guardsmen said, she refused to stop upon orders. The wounded men were Ernest Hahn, 45, of New Bedford. and Joseph Russell, 30, of Providence, R. 1. Hahn was in a serious condition with bullet wounds in his hip and shoulder. Russell was shot in the lag. Four other members of the crew, who refused to give their names, were held The Cosst Guard patrol boat 9251 | came upon the Whatzis shortly after midnight. James Pelan, chief boat- swain’s mate. in charge of the patrol boat, said the Whatzis was running without lights. and when she refused to stop & warning shot was fired across the bow. When. he said. the Whatzis continued to gather speed the machine gun was brought into play. Phelan said the Whatzls carried a load of contraband liquor. INJURES SKULL AND JAW Dr. Wn!torrl.AG,u.y”s;id to Have Been Hit by Tr k. Dr. Walter B. Guy, 64, of St. Augus- tine, Pla., was in Georgetown Hospital today with fractures of the skull and jaw, received yesterday in the 1500 block of Wisconsin avenue. when he is sald to have stepped from the curb into the path of an automobile truck. truck was driven by James B. Gilbert, 1300 block of Wisconsin avenue, police sald. Dr. Guy had come here several days 8go 10 200 & sick friend. He has heen visitihg et the bome of Mus. E. W. £pink, Takoma Park, Md, 9 his | the | the advis- | fuil | adminis- | Corporation. | to nullify or alter the | recovery law’s guarantee of labor’s right | The | What’s What Behind News in Capital. The Sleeping Republican Elephant Is Doing a Little Waking. BY PAUL MALLON. ORMER_President Hoover is not the only one who is doing a lit- tle sly rTesuscitation work over the sleeping Republican ele- phant. Some of the men who were left out ! of Mi . uietly getting together t };‘uu Wateh the door of Charles D. Hilles’ Uffice in New York you will soon find out who they are. One is most cer- tainly Senate Minority Leader McNary. He und Mr. Hilles are supposed to have & pow-wow within the next few days Their conference may prove to be far more important than Mr. Hoover’s. There are no two smarter men in the party. Very soon they may have what might be called an ant.-Hoover group. They will mot call it that, but their purpose is clear. Their plan will be shown when the ! Republican National Committee meets al Chicago September 16. Hoover Supporteis Drift. Mr. Hoover's strategists will be sur- prised to find out then how far this thing has gone. They may learn Mr Hoover's influence is not what it used Some of his right-hand men have | shown private inclinations of being left-handed here lately. They have| | their own personal careers to think of. | Some of those personal letters Mr. | Hoover sent to Washington were ad- | dressed to Charles Curtis, the former | Vice President. You could not get a squint at these letters 1f you offered your right eye But if you did arrange for a look you would find Mr. Hoover was not pleased some weeks back at the way his party leutenants in Congress were handling themselves. — He hought they were laying down and letting Presudent Roosevelt walk over them. He wanted some fight shown. The indications are strong that he has changed his mind since. Unless he has, there will be & warm tussle at Chicago. The wise old heads in the party are convinced this is not the time for | fighting. They say it would not be sportsmanlike or patriotic. What they mean 1s it would not be good common sense. They want are for the present favor retention of Everett Sanders us vational chairman. He is out on the | road now mending his personal politi- cal fences. He may succeed in avoid- | ing entirely the question of electing & | successor at Chicago. to coast along as they That means they Some Favor New Yorker. | | Some of the wise ones figure they should start now building up a New | | York man to run sgalnst President | Roosevelt in '36 They believe good | politics demards that they pick & can- | didate from the President’s own State They have plenty of timber there but somehow it does not saw well | Local bickering has kept the State | lenders from working smoothiy. ! | | If they can get together. the logical man to center on is Congressman Wadsworth. He has ridden the repeal | wave back to glory and has & good i conservative record. But will former Secretary of the Treasurer Mills and Representative Snell, two other New | York white hopes, give up their | “hauces? The wise ones would like to know The Democratic Langers-on thought | it very good strategy for Postmaster General Farley to go campaigning for “epeal down South Their reports indicated the States he visited were certain of going for repeal anyway. They point out that he did not run much chance of be- ing repudiated. If all the States come through, he can claim the credit. Farley is no novice in politics. It is supposed to be an secret, but Mr. Hoover personally pays the salary of & certain worker at Republican National Committee headquarters. The | committee did not have money enuogh 4o keep the man. Mr. Hoover wanted | the work done. It costs him around 14100 & week or more | No one Is considering Mr. Hoover a | candidate in '36, probably mnot even | | Mr. Hoover He received a good | | hand from movie audiences here this | week when his picture was shown in | the news reels starting work on the | New San Francisco Bay bridge. All the National Committee is doing now is sending out newspaper editorials in the regular clip sheet. No one ob- fects to that. The labor crowd is murmuring against the union provision to the steel code They plan a spectacular fight egainst it in the open hearings. They insist it must be changed and are ~ounting on Mr. Roosevelt to do it. A banking trade paper recently quoted Prof. Berle as being opposed to guaranteeing bank deposits. That may give you 2 hint on what the admin- istration will do. (Copyright, 1933.) 'HELD IN $5,000 BOND ON ROBBERY CHARGE | congressional work, e devoted most of ! son of Norwegian parents who came to GILBERT N. HAUGEN | IS HEART VIGTIM Held Record for Serving 34 Years Continuously in House. By the Associated Press. NORTHWOOQD, Iowa, July 19—Gil- bert N. Haugen, 74, veteran Iowa Bepre- sentative who spent 34 -years in the National House of Representatives as a champion of agriculture, is dead. ‘The holder of the record for longest continuous membership in the National House succumbed to heart disease and complications late yesterday. He was in a semi-conscious condition for the last dozen hours of his life. At his bedside were his daughters, Mrs. Joe Johnson, and his son, L. G. Haugen of New York, vice president of the National City Bank, the only surviving relatives. Best known of his laborious endeavors for farm reliet is his co-authorship of the McNary-Haugen measure in which he collaborated with Senator Charles L. McNary of Oregon. Huugen was oue of many Republican leadess who went down to defeat in the Democratic landslide last Fall, Funeral services and burial are to be held at Northwood Friday afternoon. Interested in Agriculture. During his long service in the House of Representatives from the fourth Iowa district, although indefatigable in his his attention to agricultural legisiation. In the latter part of the administra- tion of President Coolidge farm relief became one of the paramount issues be- fore Congress, and while it was regard- ed as u necessity by sll factions the form which the proposed relief should take became the controversial point. Several bills were introduced during the second session of the Sixty-ninth Congress in 19 and after extended hearings the measure sponsored by Sen- ator Charles L. McNary of Oregon and Representative Haugen was reported Passed by both houses of Congress, it was vetoed by President Coolidge Feb- ruary 25. Thought Unworkable. The President objected to the bill be- csuse he deemed it unworkable. price- fixing. sectionally discriminating and on the ground that it would be costly to the Guvernment through its equali- zation fee provision. A further reasen for his action was an opinion of the At- torney General holding the bill uncon- stitutional The bill, amended in some respects but still retaining the equalization fee provision, was spunsored again by Sena- | tor McNary snd Representative Haugen | in the first session of the Seventieth Congress and was passed ggain, ouly to be vetoed for the second time by Presi- dent Coolidge. Mr. Haugen was born on & farm in | Rock County, Wis. April 21, 1859, the | | | this country in 1846. At the age of 9 he went to work for his brother, who paid Lim as many dollars & month as | the boy was vears oid. This rate of pay | continued until he was 14. when his family removed to Towa and the future Representative began the task of sup- porting himself. Up to that time he| had had little schovling. and resumed | his studies st an academy at Decorah Towa. finishing & course at an institute at Janesville, Wis Bought Farm At 19. Meanwhile he contitued to work and before he was 19 purchased a farm in | Worth County. Towa. His frugal habits | enablea him to accumulate s surplus | of $50, which he lcaned out at interest This transaction and others similar to| it impressed Mr. Haugen with the possi- bilities of 8 banking business and in 1890 he became one of the organize:s of the Northwood Banking Co. operating banks st Northwocd and Kensett, Towa He had siuce been president of the company. Before entering the lower house of Congress he served two terms as treas- urer of Worth County and two terms | in the Towa House of Representatives. | Entering the race in 1898 for the Re- publican nomination for Congress from | the fourth Iowa district he had the! hardest fight to win the designation ever experienced by an Iowa Repre- sentative. After his first term he con- tinued to be re-elected to each succeed- ing Cengress until he had made & record that exceeded the continuous service of any Represeutative from his State, | Took 365 Ballots. The fourth district Republican con- vention of 1898 took 365 ballots before the deadlock was broken and Mr Haugen nominated. The result brought t0 & close the political career of Thomas | Updegraff, who had represented the district for four terms. Eventually becoming chairman of the Agriculture Committee, Representa- tive Haugen sponsored much important legislation Telating to the farming in- dustry, including. besides the farm ‘re- lief measure, the packer control and stockyards act. In October, 1885, Mr. Haugen married Bertha Elise Eversen of Winneshiek County, Jowa. They had two children. Mrs, Haugen died in 1892 GRAIN EXPORTS DROP TWO-THIRDS IN WEEK | Commerce Department Figures Reveal Large Decrease From Previous Record. | By the Associated Press. Grain exports last week from the United States amounted to 258,000 bushels against 972,000 the previous week and 928,000 the corresponding week last year. Commerce Department figures today gave the following comparisons be- | tween last week's exports and the week | before: Wheat, 6.000 bushels against 3.000; barley. 67.000 against 179,000; corn. 175,000 against 780,000; oats. 9000 against 10,000; rye, 1.000 against none. Canadian_grain exported last week from United States ports totaled 302 000 bushels against 316000 last week, while exports of North American wheat flour were 32,000 barrels against 45,000 barrels. ICE CREAM VENDORS i ——— !John D. Lawrence, 22, Detained for Grand Jury Action in Glendore Inn Case. John D. Lawrence, 22, was held un- der $5,000 bond for action of the | grand jury following & hearing yester- | day before United States Commission- | er Needham C. Turnage on a charge | of robbing Robert P. White. owner of | the Glendore Inn, Twelfth and M | streets, of $1,000 on July 10. | Lawrence was arrested in Boone, IN. C. through information gathered | by Detective Sergts. Carlton Talley and | Tom Sweeney. The two detectives re- turned recently with Lawrence from Boone. The detectives reported they had re- | covered more than $400 in cash and a | new sutomobile which Lawrence is sup: posed to have secured with the alleged- ly stolen money. Mr. White was struck’/ with & pair of brass knuckles and robbed of the money when he went to show the robber an apartment after the man had inquired about the rental of one. CHALLENGE REGULATION The validity of & regulation issued by | the District Commissioners prohibiting | vendors from selling on Sunday was| challenged yesterday in Police Court by the Good Humor Ice Cream Co. Martin O'Donoghue, attorney for the ice cream company, appearing for six ‘Good Humor truck drivers arrested for | violating the regulation, told Judge Ralph Given he thought the order discriminatory. All six of the drivers were licensed as vendors and Attorney O’'Donoghue admitted all facts of the case. A brief, | setting forth the ice cream company's contentions, will be submitted Mon- day, when firal disposition of the cases will be made. @irl Killed in Crash. BETHLEHEM, Pa. July 19 (’lf—‘ Thais Pelsl, 13, of Chicago was killed yesterday after her uncle's car upset while rounding & curve In Bethlehem. The girl was on her way to New York | with her uncle, John D. White, and_her 0000 GET J0BS | Legislator Dies GILBERT N. HAUGEN. IN MONTH OF JUNE Secretary Perkins Points Out, However, That Figures for Period Are Incomplete. More than 500.000 persons found em- | ployment in the United States during | June, it is estimated by Secretary of Labor Perkins. She admitted, however, that these figures were not complete since they cover only an estimate of the manu- | facturing industries and 16 of the non- | manufacturing industries and do not take into consideration agriculture, rail- roads and other lines of business | Her statement was made in connec- | tion with the monthly report of the Bureau of Labor statistics, which showed the largest increase in’ employ- ment during June in‘more than & year. The June figures showed & 7 per cent gain in employment as compared with May and an 11 per cént gam in pav rolls s compared with May The Secretary pointed out that there has been an upward swing in employ- ment for the last three months. but cautioned that this-should not be taken at this time to indicate that the upward swing will continue. She did point out. however, that June usually is a slack month in the manufacturing industries There was an increase of six-tenths of one per cent in industrial employ- ment in the District At the same time these figures showed that there was an increase of one &nd one-tenth per cent in the in- dustrial pay roll here for the same | period These figures are based on 629 re- porting establishments PRIVATE FIRM GETS STANDARDS WORK UNDER ECONOMY ACT (Continued From First Page) employes dismissed at the Bureau of Mines may go to the National Industrial Recovery Administration i The American Standards Association, now taking over the Bureau of Stand- ards work, was described by Roper as s sort of quasi-governmental agency. It was organized in 1918 by the five major engineer societies of the country. and various industrial groups have been added since, until at present there are 40 The work is both engineering and clerical in nature, and was somewhat outside the ordinary program of act ties of the Bureau of Standards, though the association was valuable be- cause of the bureau’s facilities for test- ing materials ‘The procedure by which the work is to be taken over remains somewhat un- certain, and will go on graduslly as the Standards Association is able to set up organization. Only skelelon organiza- tions in toe five groups have been left at the Bureau of Standards as a Te- sult of dismissals. Those remaining consisting for the most part of chiefs of divisions and their secretaries, were retained so that orderly transfer of { work might be facilitated In connection with the change. Sec- retary Roper today made public corre- spondence with Howard Coonley, presi- dent of the American Standards Asso- ciation. in which Roper said it was felt that the function being transferred “should be in the hands of industry and consumer groups.” In response, he was advised by Coon- ley that preparation for the shift would be begun without delay. The latter added: “Our most pressing immediate task if we are to continue the new work effectively is to obtain a substantial in- crease in our financial support. I can assure you that every effort will be made to accomplish this en The as- sociation is financed by its supporting units. In its past activities the association has had the co-operation of a number of Federal departments. These depart- ments included Agriculture, Commerce. Interior, Labar, Navy. War and the Government Printing Office. COVE CREEK WORK STARTS JANUARY T Tentative Plans for Starting Construction Announced by Valley Authority. By the Assoclated Press. Tentative plans for beginning con- | struction of the $35,000.000 Cove Creek Dam near Knoxville January 1 were | announced today by the Tennessec Valley Auttority. A preliminary draft of plans begun by Army engineers before enactment of the Muscle Shoals law is expected to be | completed .tomorrow. ‘They are being | prepared in the St. Louis office of the War Department under Col. George R. Spalding. Will Go to Denver. | The preliminary draft will be trans- | mitted to the chief engineering office of the Reclamation Bureau in Denver, | which has had wide experience in the | design und_construction of dams. John L. Suvage, chief designer of the Boulder and Madden Dams, has been | loaned to the Tennessee Valiey Author- ity to aid in designing the Cove Creek project and the Valley Authority is rep resented in the final preparations by Sherman M. Woodward, professor of hydraulic engineering at lowa State University and for many years engi- neering consultant As a preliminary to actual construc- tion” of Cove Creek Dam, & force of about 300 men is now at work at the site, on the Clinch River, surveying land, estimating the cost of rail and road connections, investigating caves and looking into prices of land. Will Acquire Land. Acquisition of the land probably will begin in the Fall under the authority’s program to acquire everything within 3 miles of the dam site. Contracts probably will be awarded soon for railway and highway work and preliminary dam construction and re- forestation work is scheduled to begin in the Fall. Dr. Harcourt A. Morgan, director of the Valley Authority, is establishing of- fices in Knoxville as a base of opera- tions for supervising work on the Cove Creek project. Headquarters for the entire valley development will be estab- lished in the vicinity of Muscle Shoals, as required by law, as soon s possible SOLDIER FACES TRIAL ON ESPIONAGE CHARGE Corporal, Alleged to Have Held Up Secret Documents, Now Before Court-Martial. By the Assoclated Press. BALBOA, C. 7. July 19—Corpl Ralph Osman. a native of Brooklyn, who is stationed at Fort Sherman with Headquarters Battery of the Ist Coast Artillery, today faced a general court- martial for alleged violation of the espionage act passed by Congress in 1917 While exact details were not made public, it was understood Osman inter- cepted secret documents forwarded from Washington and refused to turn them to his superior officer. Gen. Preston Brown, military commander of the Panama Canal Zone, said Osman’s alleged offense was com- niitted several months ago. but was not unounced because of & sweeping inves- tigation, carried on with the co-opera- n of civil authorities in the Canal ne and Panama and completed July 1C, when the court-martial was ordered The court fs scheduled to convene in two weeks at Fort Sherman. Brig. Gen Harold B. Fiske will preside over the ceurt of 13 officers. Capt. Roderick N. Ott of the Air Corps will be judge ad- vocate and Capt. S. F. Griswold of the 14th Infantry will be defense counsel. RESIGNATION REJECTED BY NATIONALIST PARTY Manuel Offer Refused Leaving Senate President Quezon's 0 Dominant Position. By the Associated Press. MANILA, July 19— The tendered res- ignation of Manuel Quezon as president ol the powerful Nationalist party was unanimously rejected today by the party’s Executive Commitiee, leaving the Senate President, who is opposed to the Hawes-Cutting independence meas- | ure, in & dominant position. Quezon, who has been one of the most outspoken foes of the measure, tendered his resignation as an issue of centidence, saying he was in ill health The independence measure is before the Philippine Legislature for ratification. Legislative leaders were of the opinion ar agreement would be reached on a plebiscite or & decision reached for ac- tiol by some other means than a legis- letive vote. Soviet Recognition Reported. MADRID, July 19 (#).—Reports were current today that the Spanish govern- ment has approved a document recog- I nizing Soviet Russia. Above is Albert H. Smith, 26, pres! ident of the local chapter of Sigma Cht Fraternity, who was arrested and charged today with arson in connection with the $8,000 blaze in the chapter house on July 10. member (inset) also is held on the same count. Edward J. Parlton. 22, another The picture of Smith was taken as he stood beside a charred piano in the house the day after the fire. O'CONNELL RETUR LIKELY TOMORROW Family of Kidnaped Man Cheerful but Big “If” Shades Situation. By ALBANY, N. gripped the c Johnny O'Cor was expected hcme by nightfall tomorrew after being held prisoner by pers since July 7. Swift uni f rumor churned in street and speakeasy conversations centering on the vanished youth's re- turn, Reports were hung on the family's sudden shift from a troubled uneasi- ness to open optimism. The carefree manner of one of O'Connell's politi- cally-powerful uncles, Dan O'Connell, for the past 36 hours. provided basis for speculation that a substantial part of the $230.000 ransom demanded had been paid. May Be Home Tonight. A big “IF,” in capital letters, shaded the Ascociated Press Y., July 19.—Tenseness has hapened to the ne- gotiations, ycung O'Connell may be home before nighifall,” one superior authe said Completion of the private = betwee. yesterday with the printing i a New York newspaper of a note sent by one of the go-betweens to anoth John J. (Solly) O'Connell, father of the Leir to the O'Connell al domain. has dropped ays, working recover his son. Not since last week when he made a mys- terious trip to a hotel in Catskill, have his movements been known. Cheerful Voices Heard. Laughter and cheerful voices have been heard outside the 24-year-old Na- Guard officer's home. His mother lly recovered from illness brought 11y over her son’s abduction. t Attorney John T. Delaney re- statement he has made he tcok charge of the case, There are no developments.” Delaney was expected to decide today on his proposed plan to enlist the aid of the Coast Guard to search the New Eng- land coast for any suspicious craft on which young O'Connell may be held. Acting at the request of Delaney. Schenectady police raided a vacant myl in that city on the strength of an un- identified man’s information _that O'Connell was being detained there. The raid was unproductive. daily sinc Towboat Franklin D. Roosevelt Launched MRS. DERN CHRISTENS SHIP AMED FOR PRESIDENT. J ¢ Star Staff Photos. INCREASED SILVER * USEAGREED UPON Economic Parley Subcommit- tee Adopts Part of Pitt- man’s’ Resolution. July 19.—The increased ¢ coinage was the World Economic te eon Silver to- t of Senator Key Conference Supcor day in adoptir Pittman’s resolution. Other important features American silver gram we: for future action. A prop » regulate put of the m will await for:s by a conference of producers of the held over of e use of sil- banks' metal to prod important pian. regar °r as a part of cer coverage. also failed d t ress he was quite satisfie g of silver coi: cept India and they limit_th int they will sell t back to where silver was before the World War. “We hope 1! conditions ex Cni restoring normal ltes in India ica will be sta- certainly means somcthing sub- inl when' we find all unanimo ceing to a thing like this prople to do business with us." The resolution of the Silver Subcom- n foltows First, that an agreement be sought between the chuef producing countries and those countries which are the largest hc users of silver with a view to mitigating fluctuations in the price of silver, and that other nations not p: to’ such agreements should refrain from measures which could appreciably effect the silver market. i mi: Further Debasement Prevented. Second, that the governments shall refrain from new legi e measures which would involve further debase- ment of their silver coinage below a fineness of 800-1,000. “Third, that they shall substitute sil- ver coins for low-value paper currency insofar as the budgetary and local con- | ditions of each country will permit “Fourth, that all provisions of this resolution are subject to the following exceptions and limitations: The re- quirements of such provisions shall lapse April 1, 1934, if the agreement ! recommended in paragraph 1 does not come into force by that date, and in no case shall extend bevond January 1. 1938. Governments may take any action relative to their silver coinage they may deem necessary to prevent the flight or destruction of their silver | coinage by reason of a rise in the bul- lion price of the silver content of their coin above nominal or parity value of such silver coin.” FURNITURE TRADE CODE IS BEING CONSIDERED Committee of 30 Gathers in New York te Discuss Tentative Doc- . ument for Industry. { By the Associated Press. NEW YORK. Julv 19 —A committee of 30, representing the National Asso- ciation of Furniture Manufacturers, met | here today to consider a code of fair competision for the industry. Officials said the meeting would last only one day and that a tentative code drawn by the committee would be dis- cussed. | ‘The committee was drawn from rep- resentatives of the industry in the South, West and East. i LINDBERGH BACKER DEAD Harry F. Knight of St. Louis Suc- | cumbs in Denver. | DENVER, July 19 (#).—Harry F.| | Kuight, St. Louis. Mo.. one of the finan- | With all naval ceremony, the Federal towboat Franklin D. Roosevelt was launched Monday by Mrs. George H. | cial backers of Col. Charles Lindbergh | aunt, Mrs, Camilla Leppla, both of New Dern, wife of the Secretary of War, Pboto shows the ship immediately after Jaunching on the Ohlo River. York. L —Wide World Photo. on his fi ht from New York to Paris, | died here t night with a heart attack. " DALADIERHTLER TALK IS PROPOED ;Henderson Strives to Bring About Meeting in Behalf of Disarmament. BY EDGAR ANSEL MOWRER. By Radio to The Star. BERLIN, Germany, July 19.—Stub- | bornly determinec to save his Disarm- ament Conference, Arthur Henderson, | its British chairman, and Europe’s latest “traveling salesman in polities,” has announced in talks with newspaper men here that he is endeavoring to | bring German Chancellor Adolf Hitler and French Premier Edouard Daladier together for an important private talk. t first this idea makes one laugh— Hitler, the tator, who in his book. “My Struggle.” proclaimed the humilia- tion of the “beniggared” French as th | chief German aim, talking with the dauby French democrat, Daladier! Yet politics makes strange bedfellows. Henderson's Idea. | Germans of the new regime, who fear | French military intervention more than | famine or plague, admit that the idea | of a private conversation between Dala- {dier and Hitler is agreeable to them. Naturally they would like to have the meeting somewhere within Germany. The French apparently counter that |it is preposterous to imagine the free citizen, Daladier, visiting Hitlerland. In fact, it would be very difficult for Dala- dier to see Hitler any wav, they say | since the German idea of negotiations lis to ask a lot and give nothing, and the French see no reason to make any presents. Yet if Daladier, the French sav should consent to see Hitler, then the place could only be Geneva, within the familiar atmosphere of the League of Nations. Hitler does not think any too well of the League and would prefer some other place for the meeting. In fact, the Nazis admit that. ai- though they have always wanted a little private talk with the Prench, the idra of a direct meeting between the two prime ministers emerged from Hender- son’s fertile brain and from there alone. Only Way to Save It. Henderson is in Prague todav. He will see Foreign Minister Eduard Benr. tomorrow and goes to Munich to submit |his idea of a direct Franco-German | talk to Hitler. Students of politics here admit that Henderson has hit the nail on the head when he stated that Franco-Ger- man understanding is the chief political problem of Europe. They admit. if the Disarmament Conference is to be saves a Daladier-Hitler talk may be the only way to save it Mostly, however, they do not believe the Disarmament ference can be saved. At least until such time as the Germans can hit on something to offer Great Britain as weil as France in Ex- change for the right to increase Ger- man armaments, the situation seems hopeless | This would mean concretely waiting until the Germans make up their minds to accept the principle of international | supervision and militia system It is a question whether these things will not continue to seem too great a facrifice to nationalistic heads of the new German regime. «Copyrizht, 1831.) STATUES’ RETURN SEEN of Portraits Kniser May Now Adorn Prussian Buildings. BERLIN. July 18 (# —Portraits and ues of the former Kaiser and other members of r as monar- the Repub- ced cn Prussian sd- ic responsible instructions ministry of so des] yesterday unde: issued by the state. The instructions said the restorations can e made providing no costs are incurred. Most of the relics now repese in government atics FUNDS FOR PRISON WORKS APPROVED FOR TWELVE STATES (Continued From First Page.) uld be curtailed, in view of the in- al gains this Summer. but Ickes ged going ahead. President Roose- 1€it let it become known last week that the Government would spend all the fund in the effort to provide jobs for_the unemployed The public works administration made no new allocations vesterday and there were strong indications that diffi- cuity was being experienced in cutting down the estimates for public buildings, rivers and harbors and flood control projects Approval of plans submitted by nine States for spending $40.000.000 on roads was unced. but this will come out o the $400.000.000 already allocated to kighway construction and represents no addition to the total distributed. Nine States’ Plans. The nine States whicih received ap- proval of their tentative plans yester- day were Idaho, North Dakota. Maine, West Viarginia, Delaware, Louisiana, Fiorida. New Hampshire and Montana. Ickes told newspaper men the rivers and harbors and fiood control program included development of the Arkansas River. dam and 9-foot channel con- truction on the upper Mississippi. con- struction of the All-Am a Canal be- tween Boulder Dam and Los Angeles, Columbia River improvements and devel- opment of the Little Missouri in Wyo- ming. All of the prison construction pro- gram will be done by a contract. and prison labor will not be employed. The law setting up the public works fund specifically provided that no con- vict labor could be employed on any projects financed by it. Safe Driving Hint ST, S ng Inter- sections Do not approach an inter- section at hign speed and depend upon your brakes for a sudden stop. This is not only hard on your tires and brakes, but is also very cften the cause of a rear- end collision with the driver be- hind you Unless you can see perfectly in all directions, approach inter- sections slowly. When you are sure the way is clear. and not until then, accelerate your speed. This practice will insure your having control over your car when you need it most. National Safety ComncH.