Evening Star Newspaper, July 25, 1933, Page 5

ICKES ANNOUNCES | NEW PUBLIC WORKS Allotment of $19,851,648 In- + cludes 14 Post Offices in Nine States. A new allotment of $19.851,648 of public works funds, announced yester- day by Secretary of the Interior Ickes, will result in the saving of 7,122 jobs in Army establishments throughout the country, the undertaking of 14 public building projects in nine States and the employment of a large force of workers in soil erosion projects. ‘The allotment includes $6,971,648 for the 14 Federal building projects, all of which are post offices; $6,000,000 for 23 War Department ordnance establish- ments; $5,000,000 for soil erosion work under the Department of Agriculture, to be alloted to States in proportion to their cultivated areas as shown by the 1930 census; $1,555.000 to complete flood control dams on the Winooska River in Vermont; $325,000 for the Panama Canal Zone. Yesterday's action brought total allot- ments from the $3,300,000,000 public works appropriation to $773.802.836 since the law was enacted a little more than a month ago. All Projects Approved. Ickes, announcing the alloceMons just after a meeting of the cabinet board on public works, said: “All the buildings in this list have been approved by the Post Office De~ partment, the Treasury Department and designated by the director of the bud- get as needed now, ard approved by the special board of public works with the sanction of the President. Proposed additional public buildings are being carefully considered by the administration to determine whether they are needed now'to save the Gov- ernment money and whether they meet the other qualifications required for projects feceiving allotments of public works money.” Ickes announced also two resolutions of general policy adopted by the cabinet board, and said the regional public works administrators probably would be named today. “The board adopted a resolution,” the Secretary said, “that it was the sense of the board that in local projects local labor be used as far as ble, and that as far as possible building material, stone and so forth, of that State and area be used “The board also resolved that mno projects approved by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation can come before this board until the R. F. C. has fo iy to Floyd Bennett Field. N. Y. 1., WILL PREVENT 700 HIGH PRICES Secretary Wallace Sounds | Warning to American In- stitute of Co-operation. Capt. and Mrs. J. A. Mollison leaving their Bridgeport, Conn., hospital in wheel chairs for the airport, where they board ed an amphibian late yesterday —Wide World Photo. MOLLISONS SEEK G0OD, LONG REST Fear They Cannot Get Plane to Continue Flight to Bagdad. EARNINGS REVEAL INDUSTRIAL GAINS U. S. Steel Report Focuses Attention on Marked Improvement. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 25.—Publica- tion of the second-quarter earnings statement of the United Btates Steel Corporation late this afternoon will focus attention upon the trend of cor- porate earnings generslly during those months. Although Wall Street understood, in advance of the actual figures, that operations of “big steel” probably, fell somewhat short of covering charges, it assumed that the improvement over the first three months was substantial. ‘The buoyant stepping-up of produc- tion schedules from April through June —with no current signs of a lag—has enabled many companies to swing into the second half of 1933 with some black ink’ behind them instead of the dis- couraging red of previous comparative periods. Losses Cut or Reversed. Of 61 concerns which have already reported for the initial half of 1933, there were 36 which bettered their position over the first six months last year, either by reducing or reversing deficits registered in 1932 or by in- creasing their net income. Statisti- cians assert that the significance of | these results lies in the fact that during the first three months business was very nearly at a standstill. Among the companies which scored better earnings in the first half of 1933— together with the percentage advance over the first half of 1932—were: Chesa- peske & Ohio, 18 per cent; Congoleum Nairn, 175 per cent: Corn Products Re- fining, 25 per cent; Dome Mines, Ltd,, 31 per cent; Kroger Grocery, 68 per cent; National Tea, 270 per cent: Penick & mg‘ 154 per cent; United Pruit, 36 per cent, Gap Still Remains. That there has been a lag between | production and consumption is freely | admitted in both business and govern- | mental quarters. According to the index table of the Department of Labor, pro- duction by factories during April and May this yvear—latest available statistics | —rose 18 point, while employment rose only 3.2 points. Since that time. how- ever, employment has enjoyed a substan- tial advance. The administration’s broad drive to secure employers’ acceptance of the blanket code covering minimum wages REV. CHARLES LE BLOND MADE CATHOLIC BISHOP Rev. Charles Hubert Le Blond, Cath- olic priest of Oleveland, has been appointed Bishop of St. Joseph, Mo., it was announced here today by the National Catholic Welfare Conference. He 1s now director of Catholic chari- ties and hospitals in - the diocese of Cleveland, and will succeed the Most Rev. Prancis Giifillan, who died last January. Bishop-elect Le Blond was one of the delegates sent by the United States to the hn-mmll‘n Conference on child also represented Welfare Conference at the international conferences of social work held in Paris in 1926 and Prankfort, Germany, in 1928. FLETEHER DENIES STOCK PROBE TALK Says He Sees. No Necessity for;€alling Earlier Inquiry * Into Market Situation. By the Associated Press. 8T. LOUIS, July 25.—Senator Dun- can U. Fletcher, chairman of the Sen- ate Committee, late yesterdsy denied reports that an early resumption m‘m recent sweeping pr: move- men! Informed of a New York dispatch «quoting Perdinand Pecora, counsel for m Senate Subcommittee ln°: hnkrm( , &8 Announc! & confer- .ne.""m, with Stock oachfi Fletcher said “Mr. Pecors keep in touch to me recently and I see no necessity for call an earlier meeting,” the Senator explained. The hflflnz gs are scheduled to resume Senator Fletcher is on vacation here at the home of a daughter, Mrs. T. J. Kep, and working on recommendations intended to better control activities of the New York Btock Exchange. CONFERS WITH WHITNEY. NEW YORK, July 35 (#).—Ferdinand Pecora, counsel to the Senate Banking Committee, conferred yesterday with into New York Stock Ex- | Richard Whit Tresult near future, preliminary to presenta- tion of evidence before the Senate com- mittee when public bearings are re- sumed. “No definite conclusions or decisions can be based upon the conference of today,” said an announcement from Pecora’s office. Accompanying Pecora to the confer- ence were Julius Silver, associate coun- sel, and Frank J. Meehan, chief statis- tician of his staff. QUEZON AIDE ELECTED MANILA, P. I, July 25 (#).—Quintin Paredes, outspoken critic of the Philip- pine independence act, was elected | Speaker of the Insular House of Repre- sentatives yesterday, succeeding Manuel Roxas, champion of the rescinded its approval, and then the| projects must be submitted to the State | boards.” and maximum hours is designed to close the gap between production and the cohn;lumtn' power of the country as a whole. By the Associated Press. litisstheinamctatoaPrass: RALEIGH, N. C.. July 25.—Warning | [ that the administration will seek to | u::w Y‘fif’ .::lybr:i; - “0:";?::\ prevent extreme high prices as well as | ons v i | z extreme low prices for agricultural Wales in their own plane only to reach Price to Be Factor. Regarding the use of local labor and materials, Ickes said clauses probably would be written into contracts stating this to be the Government's policy, but that the price factor would enter into its application. “We would not be justified in paying too much,” he explained ‘The board directed that the $5,000,- 000 soil erosion program be completed by Nevember 1, 1934, “The soil conservation plan,” the board said, “provides for the practice of terracing which agricultural engin- eers have found to be the most effective means of controlling erosion. The Gov- ernment_will supply the technical di- | rection and terracing equipment and the land owners the power and labor. “In addition to the $5,000,000 spent by the Government, it is estimated that more than twice that amount will be spent by land_ owners on labor and pover in carrying out the work. Ac- tually it appears that more than $15,- 000.000 will be put to work. “Agricultural engineers believe that the one-year program will provide for the terracing of approximately 4.752.- 000 actes of land and will supply 4.- 197.600 days of labor. “They say that approximately 5,300 days' labor will result from the e penditure of each $6.000 by the Govern- ment. The first year program calls for | terracing operations in 792 units of | 6,000 acres each.” { The Agriculture Department informed the board that soil erosion cost farmers $200.000000 a year and that its pre- vention would tend to maintain the value of land held as security for long- | term loans, made directly or indirectly with Government funds. List of Projects. The post offices to be constructed un- der the terms of the latest allocations and the cost of each are as follows: San Pedro, Calif., $517,500; Vin- cennes, Ind. $115,075: Binghampton, N. Y., $480,000: New York City, Eighth averue and West Thirty-third street, $4.828,000: Alhambra, Calif., $165.000; Meriden, Conn., $63,000; Clinton, Towa, $76,500: Malone, N. Y., $138.172; Lew- iston, Me., $180.000; Beverly, Mass., $40.500; Chillicothe, Ohio, $31.500; Greensburg, Pa., $72,000; Schenectady, N. Y. $192,401, and West Chester, Pa $72.000. The 23 Army establishments which will be kept in operation, with the re- tention of 7.122 employes who othe wise would have been discharged, located in 15 States. These arsenals have been on a four-day week basis since July 1. The arsenals affected and the number of employes in each case who will be retained are as follows: Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., 371; Augusta Arsenal, Augusta, Ga., 52; Benicia Arsenal. Benicia, Calif,, 88; Charleston Ordnance Depot, Charleston, S. C.. 121; Columbus General Depot, Columbus, Ohio, 13; Curtis Bay Ord- nance Depct, South Baltimore, Md., 284 Delaware Ordnance Depot, Pedrick- town, N. 269; Erie Ordnance Depot, La Carne, Ohio, 64; Frankford Arsenal, Philadelphia, Pa. 1691; Nansemond Ordnance Depot, Portsmouth, Va. 119; New Cumberland General Depot, New Cumberland, Pa., 7; New Orleans Qual termaster Depot, New Orleans, La., Ogden Ordnance Depot. Ogden, Utah. 4 Picatinny Arsenal, Dover, N. J.. 1,661; Raritan Arsenal, Metuchen, N 360; Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, I, 749: San Antcnio Arsenal, San Antonio, ‘Tex., 112; Savanna Ordnance Depot, Savanna, Ill, 204: Schenectady General Depot. Schenectady, N. Y., 10; Spring- field Armory, Springfield, Mass., 466; Watertown Arsenal. Watertown, Mass., 2 Watervliet Arsenal, Watervliet, 2 Y., 164, and Wingate Ordnance Depot, Fort’ Wingate, N. Mex., 20. HUGE MOUNTAIN LAKE WILL HAVE NEW DRESS Army of Workers Put to Work Cleaning Up 1,340 Acres in Wyoming. MORAN, Wyo—The hi Jackson Lake in Northwestern Wyoming is going to have a new dress. A crew of 400 E. C. W. lads from New York and New Jersey are going to be the tailors and a score of Wyoming men will do the designing under the critical eye of Sam T. Woodring, superintendent of Grand Teton National Park, who is acting as chief stylist in the process of dressing up_this mammoth mountain lake. Three E. C. W. camps were delegated to the Jackson Hole area by the Fed- eral Goverrment. Two of these are as- signed to this one stupendous task, clearing driftwood from nearly 100 miles of shoreline in Jackson Lake. A total of 1340 acres of solid clean-up face this army of workers. ber in this area was killed when Jackson Lake impounding of waters when the Jackson Dam, known as the Minnedoka project, was com- pleted in 1911. The area to be beau- ed lies in the Teton National Forest *1a the recll;n'n':xn project. "!."h: ¥o directed National Service. e products was sounded here last night by Secretary Wallace In an address to the American Institute of Co-opera- tion. | Referring to the British operations of a few years ago, whereby the price of crude rubber was stimulated fromf 14 cents to more than $1 a pound, only to slump later under increased production inspired by the high price, | the cabinet member said: ‘ “What was true of rubber can also be true of fruit, of tobacco, of cotton or most anything else. Production con- trol, yes; but prices must not be stimu- | lated to go so high as to unbalance the | supply and demand situation.” | Under the farm adjustment act. he explained, it is mandatory that prices | be sought for agricultural products that | will maintain a “fair exchange basis | | Held Most Important. | “This last point, it seems to me, is| of the utmost importance,” he con- | tinued. “If the machinery of the farm | act can prevent them, the dangers of | extreme prices in either direction will | be avoided. There ought not to be any- | thing comparable to rubber at a dollar & pound.” Secretary Wallace discussed past &f- forts of co-operative agricultural or- ganizations to increase prices for their members by reducing the spread be- tween prices at the farm and to the consumer, and by limiting supplies. In spite of failures e by these non-governmental efforts, he declared that “the necessity for controlling pro- duction became increasingly obvious. * ¢ ¢ Other methods of raising prices, in so far as they succeeded, stimulated production and helped to amass our present surpluses.” As leaders in the co-operative move- ment, the Secretary told his hearers that they have a “right to feel tre- mendously encouraged” by the probable effect of the agricultural adjustment act upon the future of co-operatives. . After mentioning some of the diffi- culties encountered by the co-opera- tives because of diversified interests among farmers, he asserted: Close Co-operation Urged. “Now that farmers have in effect | been given the centralizing power of | the Government, it would seem to be the part of wisdom for co-operative leaders to co-operate as closely as pos. sible with the agricultural adjustmen administration to educate their pre- ducer-members day by day. week by week, year by year, as to the funda- mental economic laws which must be observed if spectacular collapses, like that of the Stevenson (rubber) plan, are to be avoided.” In another part of his address, he said: “It will be genuine progress if we can drive home the concept of prices that enable fair exchange. Cer- tainly the people of this country long, above all, for an economic machine that will keep on even keel, and I believe they would quickly relinquish their hopes of spasmodic speculative profits in return for some assurance of mod- | erate, but well maintained, incomes.” | WILL REQUEST NO WAGE | CUT IF HOURS LESSENED| Officials Expect Weekly Rate of Pay to Stand, Despite Change in Working Time. By the Associated Press. Industral recovery officials said today | it was the intention under the general wage and hour agreement that industry is to be asked to sign that there should be no reduction in the weekly wages now received by employes, regardless of whether their working hours were short- ened They construed section 7 of the agree- ment as referring to the weekly total and not the hourly rate of pay for me- chanical and factory classes. Therefore, 'a man now working 40 hours a week at 40 cents an hour, mak- ing 516, would be reduced to 35 sours a week, but his rate of pay would be increased at least enough to give him the same $16 he now receives. WILL LIST C(.)-OPERATORS Employers’ Honor Roll to Be Post- ed in Post Offices. Every person interested in seeing bet- ter times will have a reminder, when he goes to the Post Office, of the em- ployers in his home town who are co- operating in President Roosevelt's re; employment campaign. ‘The President said: “It is my purpose to keep posted in the post offige of every town a roll of honor of all #hose.who . Join with me.” ‘ | in_pain. New York in a flving ambulance, set: | tled down today for “a good long rest” | and said little about iheir plans for the future. Capt. Jim and the former Amy John- son, stars of British aviation, arrived last night from Bridgeport, where their plane, Seafarer, was wrecked Sunday nl[k:(! within sight of the lights of New York. Lie Wearily in Hospital. They came as passengers—in a roomy cabin plane converted into a sky ambv- lance for the trip. They lay wearily back on white hospital pillows. A nurse and two physicians sat beside them. A four-plane escort of honor, led by Comdr. Frank Hawks, accompanied them. ‘When the planes swept down at Floyd Bennett Ficld a crowd set up a shout. It quickly diminished to a sympathetic silence as policemen lifted the two young fiyers into an automobile. Mrs. Mollison, clad in bright yellow, her light hair newly dressed. grimaced Her right hand and her legs were bandaged. Capt. Mollison wore a bandage on his head, where 30 stitches had been taken. He appeared utterly tired. A woman in the crowd waved her hand and cried: “Scotland, forever, Jimmie!” Waves for Scotland. Mollison. the Scot, raised his hané weakly and waved back. “All we want to do is go to bed for a good long rest.” said Amy. hugging a bouquet that the city’s official greeter handed her. They were put to bed in a hotel suite. The official reception will await their recovery Meanwhile, they have expressed fear they cannot get a plane to continue their flight, which was to have taken them to Bagdad and then back to England. FIND WOOL NO LONGER POPULAR WITH FAIR SEX Manufacturers Declare Women Use Only About Third as Much as Ten Years Ago. By the Associated Press. Whether the Winters are warmer or the fashions have changed. the wool goods manufacturers have found that feminity uses only about one-third as much material for suits and dresses as was bought 10 years ago. Then a woman required 7 yards, Lewis A. Hird of the National Associa- tion of Wool Manufacturers, testified at an_ industrial hearing. Today she takes but 21, yards. Further, the per capita consumption back in 1909 was 5.08 square yards, he sald, compared with only .58 of a square yard in 1929. And this, he added, has contributed not a little to a declining demand for his industry’s products. FIGHTS DIPHTHERIA Special Dispatch to The Star. ‘WINCHESTER, Va., July 25.—A bat- tle against diphtheria has been started by the Junior Auxiliarv of Memorial Hospital here, with the direct aim of having every child in Winchester im- munized against the malady. All children are to be registered and parents who are able will be requested to have the toxin-anti-toxin adminis- tered to their boys and girls. Those parents unable to have the immuniza- tion work done can have their children treated free by the Hospital Auxiliary in co-operation with the District Nurses’ Association and Winchester Medical Association. Hop Capital Beerless. Salem, Oreg., hop capital of the United States, has no beer. A dry ma- jority of the City Council refused to legalize the brew. EISEMAN’S SEVENTH AND F SALE! $15, $16.50, $18 Summer Suits Charge i No . . is necessary 11 | BALLANTYNE MADE HEAD OF NEW DETROIT BANK ! Institution Organized by Edsel! Ford to Get Charter as Soon as Organizing Is Complete. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, July 25.—Directors of Detroit's new Manufacturers’ National Bank, organized by Edsel B. Ford and a group of associates, today named as its president, John Ballantyne, formerly | chairman of the Pirst National Bank, | Detroit, and president of the Detroit Bankers’ Company, its holding com- pany. ‘The directors, themselves chosen earlier in the day, named Henry H. 3anger, former president of the National Bank of Commerce, vice president and cashier, Edsel B. Ford, president of the Ford Motor Co.: Alex Dow, president of the Detroit Edison Co.; Wesson Seyburn. Murray W. Sales, George R. Fink and Clifford B. Longley complete the board of directors. Federal officials have definitely a: sured them, members of the director- ate said, that a charter will be forth- coming as soon as the bank's organi- zation is complete. The capital of | $5,250.000 already has been subscribed. | and tentative plans call for opening the bank next week. AUTO SHINéR IS JAILED Los Angeles Punishes Daring ‘Worker for Congesting Traffic. LOS ANGELES, Calif., July 25 (#).— | One of the many young men in Lot Angeles who dart out to motor cars halted by trafic signals and industri- ously wipe off windshields, headlights and whatnot in expectation of pay, was sentenced yesterday to 25 days in jail on a charge of obstructing traffic. Police said the 26-year-old prisoner, Frank J. Chapell, transient, had $266.33 cash in his pockets. He boasted his “take” for the past few months had averaged $9 daily and more on Sunday. . Special for WEDNESDAY DINNER i Se: 'ood Plate | 5t0 8 PM. d Bluefish 50 ‘ | Crown Roast of Lamb c | o Other Dinners 53¢, 65¢, i5¢ AIR-COOLED DINING ROOM 18th & Col. Rd. 1521 K Bt. N.W. Complete Those Patch Jobs About the House NOW.! Sand | Cement Gravel ® Sold in Small Quantities Lowest prices in years. . .we'll deliver promptly any amount. LUMBER PRICES ARE DOWN « - Ropair at Today's Low Cost! Ask Us First! J. 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