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LAVE OF STATES GOVERNOR URGES WISCONSIN TO WAR < | | | | COMSTOCK RECALL ? ¢ CALIFORMIA T0 ASK FEDERAL AID FOR STRIKES CLOSE LUMBER CAMPS IN WASHINGTON DRIVE IS OPPOSED ON KD TS Heeding Roosevelt Appeal, Schmedeman Proclaims “Recovery Week.” 4 BY WILLIAM T. EVJUE. Epecial Dispatch to The Star. MADISON. Wis., July 29.—Heeding the Rooseveltian battle cry against the depression, Wisconsin this week virtual- 1y declared war on hard times and by executive proclamation ordered mobili- | zation of the State's wide resources to | carry the fight to a finish | Gov. A. G. Schmedeman, the first| Democrat to sit in the Governor’s chair | in 40 vears, issued a proclamation set- | ting asid next week isconsin in- dustrial recovery week” and organiza- tion plans similar to those advanced | during the late war were adopted. Leo | . former Madison banker ana | er of the Governor, has been | _ named ‘“commanding general” of the Miss Stella Aiken, Savannah, Ga. recovery forces, the chief objective of |society leader, who has been appointed | which will be to insure Wisconsin busi- | special assistant to the Attorney Gen- | ness 2nd®industry coming under the |eral of the United States and assigned | codes issued by President Roosevelt un- | to duty in the Court of Claims Division, | der the national recovery act. | where she is the only woman attorney. 100,000 Jobs Seen. | —Underwood & Underwood Photo. With heads of State departments co- | operating with Crowley and plans for | extensive public works being pushed, the administration hopes that 100.000 | jobs will be provided. Estimates from | vari sources have placed the number | of unemployed in the State at a little less than twice that number. | The State administration” will not | only seek to enforce the Roosevelt code, but under a law signed at midweek by | the Governor, the administration has now sweeping powers over industry and business in its own right. A State board of 11 members is being named to draft codes for State industries and | line up industrial and business co-op- | eration. Local committees will be | formed throughout the State to further | the State recovery program, just as| many such committees have already | been formed to advance the Roosevelt plans | From the attitude thai has already been revealed of business and civic or- gzanizations and leaders in assuring President Roosevelt of their enthusiastic dosire to co-operate. it is probable that little actual compuision will be neces- sary. Chambers of commerce, Rotary, Kiwanis_and women's ciubs, clearing house officials, merchants’ associations, | Teal cstate boards and even ministerial ssscciations have responded warmly to the Roosevelt plans and assured the national administration of their ac- ceptanc~ of the vast national recovery progr: Telegraph wires have been ' kept warm by individual business and industrial leaders assuring Mr. Roose- velt thai they are adopting the provi- sions of the codes issued under the nat; 1 recovery a: Labor Friendly to Program. Labor organizations. too, are friendly to the national program and at the State Federation of Labor Convention, held Jast week at Green Bay. labor lead- ers determined to work for the universal ! adoption of the codes. Organized labor, 100, is supporting the recovery program as an opportunity of a century to en- list working men under the banner of | tnionism. Company unions were bit- terly condemned by the laborites at their Green Bay meeting and commit- tees were named to police the State against the use of this device by em- ployers. Ul‘eg;);;Projects, Costing Millions, | On 1933 Program Site for $45,000,000 Dam at Bonneville Is Approved. BY RALPH WATSON. EBpecial Dispatch to The Star. i PORTLAND, Oreg., July 29.—Oregon alrcady has a capital investment of | $150,000.000 in primary State high- | ways, wide, fast year-round rcads ex-| clusive of secondary or market roads, | which represent approximately half | the investment put into the Drimll‘y; Nor does it include the $35.- in round figures invested in| and post roads by the Federal | ment. This approximates what | n spent jointly by the Federal, | State and local governments within | the State in the past few years to give | easy transportation. Oregon’s major share of this investment has made “without cost to the taxpayer.”| Just ahead, already allocated by the Government, lies an additicnal cur- rent expenditure of Federal funds for Federal roads and trails, for national | park improvement at Crater Lake, | amounting to approximately $6,365.000. This is in addition to current State expenditures on its road system. which | now represents more miles cf finishe highways and more investment i them per capita of population than | any other State in the Union. This| is one phase of the State's 1933 pro- grem for public improvement and ex- tension work. In Eastern Oregon, where little rain falls_and the sun shines continually, the Federal Government has just allo- cated $5.000,000 toward completion of | the Owyhee and $1.000,000 for the| Vale irrigation projects, both well| under construction. | COLORADO TO HAVE SPECIL SESSION Legislature to Take Up Relief, Prohibition and State Liquor Laws. BY MAX HILL. Special Dispatch to The Star. DENVER. Colo., July 29.—The Colo- rado General Assembly will convene ‘Wednesday, August 2. in extraordinary session to consider mainly unemployv- ment relief, prohibition repeal, a State liquor code and amendment of the State corporation laws so that they wiil not conflict with the national recovery ac.. Gov. for the session shortly after he re- turned here from Washington, D. C.. vhere he and Attorney General Paul . Prosser conferred with Federal offi- cials on recovery plans. He made the trip by airplane, stopping while en route back to Denver to visit the Colo- rado exhibit at the World's Fair. The Legislature in its consideration | of unemployment relief will have be- fore it a proposal made by Gov. John- son for a 2 per cent sales tax, to yield about $5,000,000 a year. Opposition Caucus Called. Gov. Johnson has begun work on a legislative program, aided by members of the House of Representatives and the Senate and State officials. One of his chief proposals will be a public works program which may run as-high as $50,000.000 during the next twd years, through which he hopes to elim- inate to a great extent direct relief, substituting instead work relief. The Democratic majority in both houses, it is believed, will support Gov. E. C. Johnson issued the call | Johnson's public works program. but | the attitude of the Republican minority | in both houses is doubtful. The Re- publicans will hold a caucus prior to the special sessions. Republicans and Democrats alike are united in their support of an election to consider repeal of the eighteenth amendment. _The election probably will (Continued on Seventh Page. iEffort to Oust Michigan Gov- ernor Not Expected to Succeed. BY PERCY C. POWELL. Special Dispatch to The Star. DETROIT, July 29.—Politics, centered around the circulation of recall peti- tions against Gov. William A. Comstock, Democrat, occupied the center of the stage in Michigan this weex. ‘The petitions first appeared in Jack- son, disputed birthplace of the Repub- lican party, and are being circulated throughout the State. Every effort is being made bv the Democratic leaders to discourag> the recall movement, and even a number of Republicans are opposed to the at- tempt to put Comstock out of office in this manner, and it is doubtful if the movement, will prove successful. The petitions followed adjournment of the Legislature and a report by an investigating committee censuring the Governor for his close friendship with Isaiah Leebove, a New York criminal| attorney. who admitted he contributed to the Governor's campaign fund, and later made an official survey of the Michigan prisons. During this survey, is charged. Leebove attempted to force the former warden at Marquette prison to grant him an interview with three notorious members of Detroit's Purple gang who are serving life sentences for lining three members of a rival gang up| against a wall in a Detroit apartment | house and killing them. At the same time the committee took cognizance of charges made by two members of the Legislature they had been offered bribes by a Chicago man to vote against a bill cutting the legal limit for small loans from 3!, per cent per month to 134 per cent per month. An_investigation of these charges is under way. This bill passed and was vetoed by the Governor. The Legisla- ture failed to override the veto. { With the Democratic State adminis- | tration in serious trouble, the Demo- | crats are depending on the popularity | of the Roosevelt administration in Wash- ington to save the ticket next year. The Roosevelt policies continue to be popular, and the President’s appeal for support on the recovery act was well received. Chain Store Tax Passed. | The last act of the Legislature, which adjourned this week, was to override the Governor's veto of a chain-store tax. which is expected to raise from $2.000.000 to $3.000.000 in revenue. The Legislature also authorized the State Board of Tax Administration to iron out troubles arising from application of the new sales tax. It seems certain there will be a special session of the Legislature in January. John F. Hamilton, State manager of the Home Loan Corporation, appealed | to the Circuit Court this week to soft pedal foreclosures, complaining that | owners of mortgages and land con- tracts were foreclosing in an effort to obtain loans from the corporation. The court took prompt action in assuring Hamilton of co-operation. | A survey conducted by a Detroit newspaper revealed that food prices had increased 29 per cent on 34 household | necessities since February 28. This is in addition to the imposition of the 3 per_cent sales tax. The automobile and accessory manu- facturers concluded the preparation of | a code to present to national recovery | officials. The automobile manufacturers | proposed, in their code, the continu- | ftion of the open shop in much the| same verbage as the steel manufacturers | did in their code. The steel code will | be up for approval in Washington in a | short time and the action taken on the | steel men's attempt to continue the open shop undoubtedly will write the fate of the open shop in the automobile | it | industry. | TEXTILE TRADE IS KEY TO NEW HAMPSHIRE Increased Wages and Shorter Hours Expected to Add Much to General Situation. Special Dispatch to The Star. MANCHESTER, N. H. July Mechanical and cotton division oper- atives at the Amoskeag Mills here will receive increased wages amounting to $1,140,000 a year, providing the plans | of President Roosevelt for a general | reduction in hours and higher wages increases purchasing power sufficiently | to guarantee production. "The worsted and woolen divisions will also benefit | by shorter hours and more wages, to total about $250,000,000 more. With all this extra money and more time to | pend it, shore and mountain resorts in the State expect a boom in busi- n ‘With horse-race betting legalized by the State Legislature, some of the money will go for pari-mutuel tickets. In the running race meet which ended a week ago a total of $5244472 was wagered during the 28 days of the | meeting. The Grand Circuit _is now olding forth at Rockingham Park, 22 miles from Manchester, and within a 50-mile radius of Boston and all the big cities just outside of Boston. The mutuel handle for the trotters and pacers, while not expected to be as large, will be good from present indi- cations. On September 2 the runners return to Rockingham, and another big mutuel handle for that month is looked for. With work for everybody, New Hampshire expects & return to better times within a short time. MAINE DRYS ARE MOST ACTIVE IN PROHIBITION REPEAL SET-UP But Sentiment Is That State Will Lean Toward Wet Side When Balloting Is Ended. BY SAM E. CONNER. ESpecial Dispatch to The S AUGUSTA, Me., March 29.—Maine is getting set for the final act in its part of the national prohibition repeal pro- gram. So far the dry leaders have been the most active. They have been selected candidates for the constitu- tional convention. which will determine this State’s attitude, and are now pre- paring to start a drive for their elec- tion. Wets have done little along this | RS . | Under the provisions of the law | passed by the last Legislature providing | for this convention there will be no | designation of candidates on the official | bailot. There will be nothing to show whether a candidate is for or against the eighteenth amendment. Except there be a preliminary campaign and | the attitude ot each candidate carefully | dinned into the voters, they must go it | blind when they cast their ballot. It is to guard against any believer in Federal prohibition voting for a wet candidate that prohibition leaders are p'anning their campaign. Wet leaders Coope: : pparently take the position that with Project of utilizing the tide waters of | tac drys going ahead on this line there | isn't much need of their doing any- thing: that the other side will do their campaigning for them. Believe Maine Will Go Wet. At this time the prevailing opinion is that the constitutional convention will have & majority ot repealists and that Maine will vote wet. At the same tim= it is held that if the vote was on the repeal of Maine’s constitutional prohi- bition provision, the vote would be dry; that the amendment to the State con- stitution would be retained. The repeal of national prohibition will not change the situation in this State in the least. It will still have constitutional prohi- bition, with a batch of enforcement laws | on the statutes sufficent to make Maine | so dry that the proverbial herring bone would be wet in comparison. That vould be true if all were thoroughly enforced. There you have the rub. Many attempts have been made to do this, but none have been successful as a State-wide proposition. Down east they are having a revivs of hope for the great Dexter (Continued on Seventh Page.) - P2 20— | | | | | | | down payment will have the oppor- SOUTH DAKOTA GIVES LAND MORE IMPETUS 1,500,000 Acres Placed on Market | at Terms Which Appeal to Poorer Class. Special Dispatch to The Star. SIOUX FALLS, S. Dak., July 29— The back-to-the-land movement, which has been given impetus by the recent | order of President Roosevelt authoriz- | ing Secretary Ickes to expend $25,000,- | 000 made available for relieving conges- | tion in industrial centers under the na- | tional recovery act, is considered of im- | portance in_agricultural States of the | Northwest. The back-to-the-land move- | ment already is being given a sub- | stantial tryout in South Dakota by the placing upon the market of ap- proximately 1,500,000 acres of land which has come into possession of | the Rural Credit Bureau of the State.| This acreage represents farms which the Rural Credit Department had to | foreclose upcn because the former owners defaulted on interest and prin- cipal payments on the loans they ob- tnl.n:d from the Rural Credit Depart- ment. - No more loans are being made by the Rural Credit Department, and the affairs of the department are being liquidated as speedily as possible by the sale on easy terms and at low prices of the farms which had to be taken over. To promote the sale of the depart- ment’s land 40,000 folders were printed for distribution at South Dakota’s exhibit at the Century of Progress Ex- position at Chicago. They pointed out that South Dakota offers land “for as little as $1 an acre and 20 years to pay.” The terms are so liberal and the prices so low that the poorer classes of people are offered opportunities to obtain farms of their own, and thus add to the State's production and at| the same time improve their own per- sonal fortunes. A 15 per cent down payment is re- quired, with five years allowed for | payment of the next 25 per cent. Until 40 per cent has been paid the purchaser will be charged 4. per cent | interest. After paying the first 40 per cent the buyer wil be gven a deed to the farm, and the Rural Credit Board will take a 20-year mortgage at 3 per cent interest for the balance. e rural credit lands are scattered all over the State, so the purchasers have their choice as to what part of South | Dakota they shall live in. People who | are too poor to pay the 15 per cent tunity of obtaining the money from the $25,000.000 fund at ths disposal of Secretary Ickes. LIGHT RATES CUT Hamilton, Ohio, Has Fifth Power Reduction in Four Years. HAMILTON, Ohio (#).—Customers of the Hamilton city-owned light plant are becoming accustomed to regular re- ductions in their electric bills since the | city adcpted the city manager form of government in 1929. When a reduction of from 21 to 50 per cent went into effect in July this year it was the fifth cut:in four years. | ! - BY PARTY LEADERS CLEVELAND, Ohio.—More than $53.000.000 is being paid out to thousands of Clevelanders who had deposits | tied up in the Union Trust and Guardian Trust Banks, the city’s two largest banking institutions which failed to reopen |after the “hcliday” last March. Leaders in Cleveland commerce believe that the pay-off will prove an immediate stimu- lation in every walk of the city’s economic life, rendering the phrase “new deal” | the crowds in the Union Bank lobby, the largest in the world. full of hopeful m‘lning. Photo shows Handicap of of 12 Special Dispatch to The Star. ENO, Nev., July 29.—There is evi- dence of an improvement in business in Nevada, particularly in the western part of the State, accordirg to both wholesale and retail dealers. This despite the fact that the Wingfield chain of 12 banks, as well as several smaller banks are still closed. Hearings on the suits brought for the purpose of permitting 11 of the Wingfield banks to reorganize began in the State District Court Tuesday and will continue for several days. In the case of three banks of the chain, con- tests are anticipated, but attorneys f: miliar with the new bank statute per- mitting the reorganization of insoivent | banks into a branch bank system, de- clare that the reorganiaztion cannot now be stopped. The principal difficulty that presents itself is whether two members of the chain which were national banks will become a part of the new bank. Depositors will have to take a loss in all of the banks, ranging from as low as 3 or 4 per cent in cne of them to as high as 75 or 80 per cent. The -tockholders are wiped out, unless there is a recovery of 100 per cent or more, and in the two national banks they have an additional assessm=nt of $100 per share to pay on stock owned. Efforts to prevent the reorganization | have been made from the minute of closing. but the consensus now seems to favor reorganization—the opening of BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT REPORTED FROM NEVADA \Better Conglitions Felt in State, Despite Closed Chain Banks. | the banks in some manner or other |so that at least a million dollars or more can be immediately released. It is argued that this will mean the im- mediate extension of credit to Nevada merchants, who have had practically none for cight months. Cattle. sheep and wool are selling for higher prices and the market appears better ail around. Agriculture is going to get another setback this year, how- ever, becaus2 of ight in the western part of the State. This is about the seventh year of lack of moisture. Along the Truckee River, where irriga- tion is controlled by priority of water rights, some ranches are receiving only sufficient water for stock watering. while pricrities later than the ye: 1862 are receiving no irtigation water. The hay crop will be affected consider- ably because of the lack of water. Nevada has entered into the spirit of the eppeal of President Roosevelt for shorter work hours, more pay and placing mcre men to work, but this State has little industry beyond live stcck and ranching. bed state, due to the low price of silvi but encouragement has been received in the word from London of a silver pact among the principal silver countries. There are actually hundreds of experi- enced prospectors in the hills and no one would be surprised if another rich gold camp wculd result. It may not develop overnight, but there are big mining companies with good treasuries willing to back a gocd-looking gold prospect. Boulder Dam Takes Shape Nearing completion, the Nevada spillway of Boulder Dam is shown with much of its distance concrete lined. As it burrows along the side of Black Can- yon’s thousand-foot walls, the huge proportions of its surroundings disguise the real size of the spillway. It is 150 feet wide, 120 feet deep and 650 feet long. Iowa Farmers Cheered by Higher Prices And Promise of Reduced Freight Rates Special Dispatch to The Star. BOISE, Idaho, July 29 —Steadily ad- vancing prices for farm produc: and promises of reduced freight rates have brought smiles to Idaho farmers. Low prices and absence of demand for potatoes caused many growers a year ago to leave their crops in the ground. Prices offered in many in- stances would not_equal the cost of labor for digging. New Eastern buyers are contracting for Idaho potatoes at prices ranging from $1.75 to $2.25 per 100. Idaho's 1933 acreage is only 4 per cent under that of last year and totals 95,000 acres. Present indications point to & crop of 17.100,000 bushels, com- rared to 19,800,000 busheis a year agu. Advancing prices for late Spring po- L tatoes and replanting of abandoned sugar beet acreage led some farmers to increase their March planting inten- tions. Prospects are bright for the Idaho onion crop, which follows the upward trend of potatoes. Heavy losses were suffered by growers last season. ‘Wheat prices are now quoted at $1.20 to $1.35 per 100. Total wheat produc- tion in Idaho this season will be about two-thirds that of last year, according to estimates of Federal crop statisti- cians. 2 ‘Winter wheat Is predicted at 8,560,000 bushels, compared with 14,996,000 in 1932. Spring wheat will total about last yeer. - Mining is in a | 12,771,006, compared with 15,860,000 ' 'Drys in Missouri | Divided on Course In Repeal Election ;Chief of Saloon League Tells Followers Not to Participate. i BY GEORGE K. WALLIS. | Special Dispatch to The Star. | KANSAS CITY. Mo.. July 29.—Dif- ferences have arisen in the ranks of Missouri’s drys as to what course should be pursued in the State’s repeal con- test August 19, Scme want to ignore the election entirely, while others of arid convictions desire to stand up and be counted. Following a recent meeting of the United Dry Ceuncil of Missouri in St Louis, P. A. Tate, superintendent of the State Anti-Saloon League, declined to suggest judges and clerks of eclection on the part of the prohibitionists in that city. At the same time a state- ment was issued from Tate's office directing followers cf the dry cause not to participate in what was termed an _unconstitutional effort to destroy the law.” Several of the leading prohibitionists in Kansas City and elsewhere in the State are not in sympathy with that suggested course. They believe the drys should fight and make every showing possible in the election, regardless of the | outccme. As a result several conferences among the drys have been held. with ica- tions of additional meetings y=t to come. i In the meantime the prohibitionists | have participated in the preliminary steps such as the selection of precinct | and senatorial district delegates, activi- ties leading to the final showdown. Gov. Guy D. Park recently forecast Missouri would favor repeal 3 to 1. While many are concerning them- | selves about prohibition, others ~are | watching the economic trend and re- | construction activities in the State. | Heads of the Missouri highway today | announced that projects totaling be- | tween $5.000,000 and $6.000.000 will be under contract within the next 30 days, which will furnish wide employment. The State has been allocated $12.000.- 000 out of the Federal public works fund as its share for road construction. 'MONTANA INCOME TAX | LAW IS HELD VALID State Supreme Court Upholds 1933 Act in Test Case Brought at Helena. | Spectal Dispatch to The star. A. Mont., July 29.—Montana in 193¢ will pay on an income tax levied on earnings of 1933. The de- cision of the State Supreme Court, holding the act passed by the Legisla- ture in 1933 to be valid, removes the | last barrier to the law. | _ The decision came on a test suit by | Brian D. O'Connell of Helena to deter- ! mine the validity of the act. Under the law, single or married per- sons not supporting a husband. wife or family. are exempted for $1,000; married persons for $2.000, with $300 for each dependant, a dependant being a child under 18 or a person older but incapacitated. After these exemptions, the first $2,000 net will pay 1 per cent. the sec- ond $2,000, 2 per cent, and the third, 3 per cent. All in excess of $6,000 will pay 4 per cent. A meeting of the merchants of Mon- tana, on call of the Helena Retail Mer- chants’ Association, is to be held here Monday to discuss the national indus- trial recovery act. It is expected that out of the conference will grow a code to govern the merchants of the State. ~ The collector of internal revenue in Montana, Lewis Penwell, announces that cotton products held on hand by retailers and wholesalers on August 1 visions of the agricultural adjustment tax act. Cotton processing tax returns | are being mailed out to all merchants in the State. Wheat processing tax blanks have been mailed. They must | show all floor stocks of pre wheat and products on hand at midnight of July 8 last. Business pick-up in the State is indi- cated by consumption of gasoline dur- ing the first 15 days of July, according to Phil Greenan, chief clerk of the State Board of Equalization, in charge of gasoline tax collectipns. During the period, the refineries of Montana paid a tax of only $12,104 less than during the entire month of July in 1932, when the total was $355,311.90. Another sign of prosperity is payment by whclesalers of the State’s tax of 50 cents & barrel on beer. John J. Jewell, license clerk of the State Board of Equalization, reports that this tax con- stantly is increasing as more and more beer dispensaries open. For April, the i first month under the act, the collec- | tions totaled $2,400. For June, they were $3,600, with reports not complete. { CHANNEL ROl.JTE PLANNED New Orleans-to-Gulf Short Cut ‘Would Cost $3,000,000. NEW ORLEANS (#).—Shortening the Mississippi River distance between New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico by diverting the river course westward through construction of a short-cut channe! has been proposed. The cost of the project has been estimated at $3,000,000. \Political Feud Over Woman Mayor Raises Stir. BY JAMES DE K. BROWN. Special Dispatch to The Star. SEATTLE, July 29.—Strikes at Aber- deen forcing a partial industrial tie-up and closing down both lumber camps and mills; increases in the price of bread in Seattle resulting in strikes in bakeries which refused to adopt such retail price increases, and a political squabble over the woman mayor of Issaquah, featured the week in this State. The situation at Grays Harbor, com- ing as it did at a time the communities in that section were enjoying their first taste of pay-roll money in almost 30 months, is causing worry among the re- lief commissions, as it means an in- crease in unemployment in communi- ties which can't provide further aid. Logging Work Halted. Logging production has b2en either completely halted or seriously curtailed. The trouble is spreading. It has al- ready reached into Oregon, and is now | movin= to other mill towns. The c,:crators assert they are mysti fied by the strike, the men having pro. claimed themselves satisfied with wages, hours and camp conditions. The | strikers, on the other hand, declare they are not backed by any union or jorganization. but are asking 50 cents | per _hour minimum wage and a_six- $117.333450 WORKS Projects in Los Angeles and San Francisco Sections to Be Recommended. BY WALLACE C. BLAKEY. | Special Dispatch to The Star. LOS ANGELES, July 20.—Proposed improvement projects in the Los Angeles and San Francisco areas, calling for estimated expenditure of $117,933450, | will be recommended to the Federal Government for consideration under the national industrial recovery act when California machinery is set up to dis- tribute funds for such purposes. The largest list has been compiled by | officials of Los Angeles City, proposing expenditures totaling $48,421,450. The major portion of this, of $32,500,000, is | suggested for a public utilities program, comprising new rapid transit lines, sub- ways, tunnel extensions and eliminating of grade crossings. A $50,000,000 harbor improvement program is outlined. | . Los Angeles County officials have a | list calling for $44,997,000 worth of | work, estimated to furnish 3,020,600 | man-days of work. Outstanding was a | propesal to include numerous new build- hour day for the whole of the Grays |ings for the city-county civic center, in- will be‘subject to tax under the pro- | Harbor district. Bread prices increased 2 cents for one-pound loaves in Seattle last Mon- day. Two bakeries refused to agres to the increase. Because of this, their | union workers walked out. The buying | public made no complaint. The bakers announced the increase was due to shortening hours of workers, curtailed |days of work and providing new em- ployment for many more men. On Thursday the milk distributors in Seattle increased prices on all grades 1 cent a quart farmers were informed they would be given $1.88 per 100 pounds as against the $1.65 formerly paid. The increase puts the price of standard grades at 10 | cents a quart. Cream went up 2 cents |a pint. Drivers of milk wagons went {on a five-day basis with a correspond- |ing decrease in pay. but an increase in the number employed. Outsid~ of Spokane. where there has been a protest against increases in the . price of bread. there has been viriually no strong opposition against either the bread or milk increase in Seattle. Codes Perfected. Bakers and milk distributors perfected their industrial codes. O:her industries are being urged to do like- wise. In Seattle. President Cassius Gates of the Seattle Chamber of Com- merce is heading this work of educa- tion, promotion and organization. se-k- ing to bring every business and industry under the national recovery act pro- gram. Other cities are following suit, ard stress is being laid upon the necessity for doing this because of the fact that on August 1 there will be no funds available for maintaining the dolc |through public commissaries. King County officials announce the county cannot carry on without further aid However, reports from th2 welfare com- missions show that more men are daily | returning to work, and if the Stato c get its highway program under way. a still greater relief of the situation cai be looked for. | Repeal Drive Starts. The campaign for the repeal of the | eighteenth amendment is now under | way. The election will be held early | next month. The repealists are und the leadership of Maj. Gen. Roberi | Alexander. U. S. A., retired, who is also |a candidate for a delegateship to the repeal convention in September. | The “wets” did not get their cam- paign organized until after the “drys” | were well started. There is little doub® but that the State will vote for repeal. but the vote will be closc. the larger cities rolling up huge majorities against the drys in the country sections. CO-OPERATION BENEFIT SHOWN IN VERMONT | Bills Embodying Governors's Rec- ommendation Speedily Passed by | Legislature. Special Dispatch to The Star. BURLINGTON, Vt, July 29.—The | 12-hour special session of the Vermont | Leglislature furnished an outstanding example of what may be accomplished | by hearty co-operation. When the ses- | sion had been called to order, a messa from Gov. Wilson was read. The mes- sage had definite recommendations. and | bills which embodied these recom- mendations were at once introduced | and speedily passed. The principal legislation in the, administration pro- | gram, adopted by the Legislature. | covered three purposes: (1) to provide | co-operation between the State and the | Federal Government in the construction | of public works; (2) to control the inter- | state distribution and sale of milk. and (3) to enable State banks to qualify as stock holders of the Federal Depos:t Insurance Corporation for Federal guarantee of bank deposits, in accord- ance with the provision of the Glass- Steagall act. Since one of the chief difficulties which has arisen in con- nection with securing aid from the Federal Government has been the lack of any agency in the State to act witn authority, the new legislation creates a State Board of Public Works, made up of the members of the State Highwa Board, and clothes the board with such authority. At the same time the | have | | cluding a $12,003,000 court house, and | millions for new flocd control, storm drain and sever expansions of innumer- | able kinds { Mayor Rossi's N. I. R. A. Advisory | Committce of 79 in San Francisco 1s S | still compiling a list of proposed proj- | ects, the present list totaling $24,515.900. | Their plans include raising O'Shaugh- | nessy Dam, new schools, new sewers and | extension of the city's high pressure | fire system. { Recovery Machigery Assembled. Th2 Los Angeles National Recovery Committee, organi: from civic. social and commercial groups. will complete its organizaticn plans Monday and a ccneerted Southern California drive to | creat> new jobs at fair wages will be | formally lzunched a* a meeting at th> Biltmore next Wednesday. Henry I. | Harriman, president of the United States Chamber of Commerce, will ad- dress the gathering. | _Seeking to balance the State budget, | th> two Houses of the Legislature com- | promised cn rates Wednesday and adopted a retzil sales tax bill calling for 2, per cent, which will drop au- tomatically to 2 psr cent on July 1, 11935. The Senate then plurged into a heated battle over the Clodwsley State income tax bill. which. by th> Assemb! trusts and esta Federal income tax act levy. Anothe: necm> increasing m-asure. passed bv the Senate. increases the tax on bzer from 62 cents to $1 a barrel. Initiating a probable $25,000.000 pro- gram to rebuild Los Angeles schools damaged in the March 10 earthquake, the board of education has ordered im- mediate zction on four major schools badly damaged, Manual Arts High, George Washi i High. Every efort also will be made > complete minor rebuilding needs at other schools in time for Seotemter openin?. The b>a-d has $2.000.0°0 cash and $7.000.000 in unsold bonds to start ,carryine out this work. Effe-tive Tursday. rontals on all un- cccuried rnished apartments repre- cented in the Tos Angeles apartment- incom> prope-ties asscciation will ad- vance 10 per cent. Occuzied apart- ments will b> exempted as the opera- tors cite increased cperating expense and prospect of increase in employes’ wages. /Neb i Falls in Line on Prosperity Code Larger Cities Set Up Agencies to Advance Re-Employment. BY GEORGE F. FISHER. Special Dispatch to The Star. OMAHA, July 29.—Frank Murphy of ‘Wheaton. Minn.. was appointed regional public works advisor for the fourth dis- trict comprising six States, of which Nebraska is the center, this week, while the entire State was seething with activity to meet with President Roose- velt's request to comply with the blane ket code on wages and empioyment. | . Agencies already have been set up in | the larger cities to advance the work of re-employment. Newspapers had just | published the call to shorten hours and | employ more men when the local Cham- ber of Commerce named a Supervisory | Committee of 50. Associated Retailers here and firms elsewhere in the State | signified willingness to do their part. Institutions cailed on to take on from | 50 to 75 men in mercantile lines readily | agreed. Local packers were awaiting | word from the American Institute of lMent Packers meeting in Chicago to hire the added workers. President Roosevelt's certificates of agreement ar- rived during the week and the scores of business men who had wired the White House their intention to carry sut his wish quickly followed their wires with the signed documents. Various allied organizations are hold- ing separate meetings on their own codes, but preliminary to this agree- ment are sending in the emergency ratification. |MASSACHUSETTS BY W. E. MULLINS. Special Dispatch to The Star. BOSTON, July 29.—A State-wide in- vestigation of crime conditions which threatens to reach into the functions of the district courts will be in progress | in Massachusetts shortly, when Gov. | Joseph B. Ely appoints the three mem- | bers to a commission for which au- thority and funds have been granted by the Legislature. The freedom with which gangsters have been killing each other, the ease with which they have been evading arrest, the failure to convict the few who have been apprehen and the open manner in which palatial speak- easies are operating in defiance of the law aroused the Governor to the neces- sity for action. At Mr. Ely's suggestion the Boston police commissioner has - established .a new post in his department which gives the Commonwealth the equivalent of a prosecutor -in_the lower courts for the first time. The crime commission will be asked to break open the entire situation. It hds been equipped with GETS READY FOR WIDESPREAD CRIME PROBE {Gov. Ely Will Name Three Commissions to Carry on Exhaustive Study. authority to summon witnesses and force lhedrmduflwn of books, papers and records. The creation of this commission was one of the farewell gestures of the Legislature before it prorogued last week after one of the longest sessions |on record. If local business has been | apprehensive about the legislative ses- sion because of the fear of the im- position of a sales tax, the merchants and bankers were given some mental relief by the visit here of Walter J. | Cummings, Assistant Secretary of the | United States Treasury. | At a luncheon given in his honor by Senater Walsh, Mr. Cummings assured his audience that nothing of a radical nature in the matter of Federal finances | will be attempted during the tenure of Secretary Woodin. Mayor Curley returned to Boston last week after an extended tour of Europe, during which he had audiences with Pope Pius and Premier Mussolinl. One of his first proposals is to go to Wash-. visit to the White iny to fll Hmmmn yvmt. it is believed here, (Continued on Seventh Page.) 4