Evening Star Newspaper, August 4, 1933, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Buresu Forecast.) Falr, continued cool tonight; tomorrow fair, slowly rising temperature; gentle to moderate north winds. ‘Tem| tures—Highest, 92, at 5:30 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 70, at 7:30 a.m. today. Full report on page A-T. “From Press to Home Within an Hour” The Star’s Carrier system covers every city block and the regular edition is delivered to city and suburban homes as fast as the papers are printed. he Foening Star Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 Yesterday’s Circulation, 112,652 No. 32,602, Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. WASHINGTON, D. C;, FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1933—_TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES. COAL PEACE TERMS O.K.D BY FRICK CO. AND UNION; CODE LAGGARDS SPARED 4+ Harmony Made Under Federal | Pressure. OTHER OWNERS’ 0. K. SOUGHT Johnson Seeking to| Make Agreement Rock-Ribbed. By the Assoctated Press. The H. C. Frick Coke Co., a United States Steel Corporation subsidiary, agreed today to terms for settlement of the Pennsylvania bituminous strike which started at its Fayette County mines. With it in line, the Recovery Administration today set to work: to align other Pennsylvania prc-i ducers whose mines have been af- | fected. | Hugh 8. Johnson, the adminis- trator, was giving main attention to the task—making it a point to report directly to President Roose- velt at Hyde Park, N. Y., and seek fresh counsel. Gov. Gifford Pin- chot of Pennsylvania and opera- tors and spokesmen for the union miners participated in lengthy conferences with Johnson last night and this morning. | Terms of the agreement remained to be disclosed pending further moves to make it rock-ribbed for effectiveness. Johnson Meets Operators. Johnson this afternoon met a group | of operators including Charles O'Neflli of the Central Pennsylvania Coal Pro- ducers Association, Ben Clark, President of the Buffalo, Rochester and Pitts- burgh Coal Co., John Morrow, president of the Pittsburgh Coal Co. Scott | Stewart, president of the W. C. Rainey Cosl Co., and John Jamison of the amison_Coal & Coke Co. i Gov. Pinchot, John L. Lewis, presi- dent of the United Mine Workers of America, Phillip Murray, vice president of the same organization and H. R. ‘Warrum, ‘counsel for the mine workers, also were there. It appeared certain from the trend of things at the Recovery Administra- tion, that the terms accepted by the Prick concern were acceptable to the United Mine Workers, but neither source would disclose the arrangement. Pressure Used by U. S. Administration wishes to end strike quickly were attested by severity of pressure brought, there being various reports of the means used. The strike was described by a high authority as a potential menace to the entire recovery program. The possibility of a general shut- down in the bituminous fields creating bad psychology throughout the coun- try and perhaps causing a shortage of industrial coal was one of the principal factors which motivated the entrance of the Government into the situation, and determined President Roosevelt upon a decisive course. Johnson had called Gov. Pinchot, coal operators and labor leaders to his office early to report what progress had been | made since yesterday's session ad- Journed | He also laid before the conference a | report on what part the President had taken in breaking the deadlock, which came shortly after ngmson called the opposing groups together. p??s was pretty mad yesterday,” Pin- chot said smilingly, “but I feel a whole Jot better this morning.” After Pinchot, John L. Lewis, presi- dent of the United Mine Workers; Philip Murray, its vice president; sev- eral anor advisers to the Administra- tion, and the operators left Johnson's (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) . MRS. MOODY HURT; WON'T PLAY TODAY Tnjured Back Keeps Net Star on Sidelines Until To- morTow. the the | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 4—Mrs. Helen | Wills Moody, captain of the United | States Wightman Cup team, decided to- day not to play in the cup matches against Great Britain this afternoon because of an injury to her back, and | Sarah Palfrey was named to play sin- | gles in her place. | Mrs. Moody will act as non-playing | captain for today’s matches and hopes to be able to swing back into action tomorrow, the decision to be made after & further examination by her physician. The injury to Mrs. Moody’s_back, diagnosed by Dr. Benjamin P. Farrell as a minor sprain, is an old one, aggra- vated by practice the last few days. The announcement of Mrs. Moody's elimination from the first day’s play was made by Julian S. Myrick, chair- man of the Cup Selection Committee, after Mrs. Moody had been examin this morning. Miss Palfrey will play Peggy Scriven, No. 2 of the English team, in the sec- ond singles matches today after Helen Jacobs and Dorothy Round have com- leted the opening contest. She and gfi\ss Jacobs then will pair against Miss Round and Mary Heeley in the doubles and final match of the day. le Mrs. Moody, even if unable to play singles against Miss Round tomorrow, will be in condition for doubles, where, paired with Alice Marble, she is scheduled to meet Betty Nuthall and Freda James in the sev- enth and final match of the series. —_———— . COMPLETES FLIGHT Hawks Makes Non-Stop Hop From Regina to Bridgeport. BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Auj —Completing & non S10%" ot Bridgepors " Alrport at. 11 " 8 o i (Eastern standard time) today. 4 @) ht N. R. A. Kills Code For Laundry Trade Dueto 14-CentWage By the Associated Press. The Recovery Administration today withdrew its approval, granted only yesterday, to im- mediate application of labor terms of a code proposed by the laundry industry upon discovering that the agreement actually provided for wages as low as 14 cents an hour. By some as yet unexplained oversight, not only the deputy administrators, who had handled the code, but Dr. Leo. Wolman, chairman of the Recovery Ad- ministration’s Labor Advisory Board, approved the agreement without discovering how low a wage rate actually was called for. The laundry men will be ex- pected to offer either a radical revision upward immediately or to come in under the blanket presidential agreement if they wish to display the distinctive Blue Eagle insignia of N. R. A. ‘The proposal, which was pro- mulgated yesterday, was repre- sented as restoring employment to thousands of women and girls and adding millions of dollars to pay rolls. STEEL STANDS PAT ONHOURS AND PAY Lamont Says Industry Can Go No Further on Either Matter. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, August 4.—Robert P. & Steel Institute, of the national industrial recovery act in which he announced the steel indus- try could go no further in the matter of maximum hours of labor and mini- mum rates of pay. “We call attention to the fact,” said Mr. Lamont, “that in accomplishing the great purpose of the national re- covery act, the members of the code have already gone beyond anything that can be justified by present conditions. They can justify themselves to their stockholders only by the realization of the hopes aroused by the efforts of the national administration. They cannot go further.” Practical Questions Involved. Concerning hours of labor and rates of pay, Mr. Lamont said: “We deem it unnecessary to reply to what was said on this subject or to add to the facts stated and the statistical data fur- nished by Mr. Lamont. We do desire to emphasize that practical, not theo- retical, questions are involved and that they cannot be solved merely by math- ematical computation, since there is probably no industry in the country invoiving so many variable factors as the steel industry.” In providing in the code that the published prices for steel should be prices at various basing points, it was stated that “the industry did not un- dertake anything that is new.” “It is‘the general understanding,” the communication stated, “that the na- tional industrial recovery act was not intended to upset the normal and cus- tomary course of operations of indus- tries in the country, especially where to do so would disrupt the course of business in the industry and require extensive readjustments, with resulting losses and increase in unemployment during the period of readjustment. Price Establishing. “In the preparation of the code long and careful consideration was given to the subject of basing points and to the question of what basing points should be included as basing points for the respective products coming under the code. - It was the accepted view of members of the code that the practice of establishing prices for products in the industry upon basing points was a sound economic practice and should be continued without substantial change.” In the matter of protection which the steel codes affords to consumer interests, Mr. Lamont said: “It is believed that the steel code is the first code which has been sub- mitted vo the President under the na- tional industry recovery act that con- tains definite and ‘detailed provisions designed to remove from the industry to which it relates unfair and destruc- tive competitive practices which have prevailed in the past by regulating the manver in which members of the in- dustry shall establish the prices for, and sell their products. which tend to demoralize industry and are injurious to the public interest. The very definiteness of the provisions of the code in this regard, and the man- ner in which they are made to operate under the . steel code, constitute the greatest safeguards of the interests of the consumers of the products of the industry.” Lamont, president of the American Iron | today addressed a | communication to the administrators | “The trade practice provisions of the steel code are designed solely to eliminate these unfair trade practices Johnson Urges Public to Be Patient. PROMISES TO USE PRESSURE LATER Study of Benefits of Law Started by Leaders. By the Associated Press. Two week’s leeway was decreed today by Hugh S. Johnson, recov- ery administrator, before sanc- tioning pressure on business and industry to comply with Presi- dent Roosevelt’s blanket wage and employment agreement. In conference with newspaper men, the administrator said a pe- riod of time was necessary for business houses to adjust their personnel to new wage and hour levels, and until this transitional period is ended, “the public must be reasonable.” At the same time Johnson warned that no “recalcitrant mi- nority” would be permitted to hold up the recovery program. Asked if there was a likelihood of the “teeth” of the recovery act being utilized if small groups did not go along on the program within their industries after a specific code has been adopted, Johnson said: “It’s not a likelihood, it's a dead cer- | tainty.” Compulsion Undesirable. Her added, however, that the whole aim of the act was to avoid the use of compulsion. No police organization in Washington to prevent violations of the President’s agreement by business which have in- dicated compliance and obtained the Blue Eag'es is contemplated. Johnson said this would be left to public opinion in each community and he added “that will be enough.” Asked if 5-and-10-cent chain stores would be given a separation from the already existent retailers’ code so they | could operate on a different hour and wage basis, the administrator said “no!” He said the important steel code upon which hearings were held last week was now -going through a period of analysis of the enormous mass of data, and that it would be a week or 10 days before a proposed final code could be submitted to employers and en for labor. The “teeth” in the industrial act comprise the power the President has to, license industries. If some concerns refuse to abide by & code adopted to cover their field, Mr. Roosevelt could refuse to license them to do business. Success Beats Expectation. The six-week-old industrial control | movement already has spread so far over the American map that ommu‘ directing it admit it has outrun their expectations. They are planning soon & stock-tak- ing to measure in terms of new jobs made and wages increased for those now at work the actual results ob- tained. Only a handful of binding, - nent codes of fair competition have been put in force by the Recovery Ad- ministration. The spread of the pro- gram has come partly through the voluntary presidential re-employment agreements now being signed by indi- vidual employers, through putting into effect, pending hearings, the labor terms of many codes advanced by busi- ness and industrial groups. The latter process has spread the new experiment in industrial relations over employers of so many millions of wage earners that officials estimate that something like one-half the business ana industrial workers of the country— and possibly even more—either are under its benefits or within immediate reach of them. Pending appraisal, no one would hazard today definite estimate of work- ers affected, or of new pay roll values (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) e STEEL PLANTS TO TAKE 400 ADDITIONAL MEN California Operations on Full Ca- pacity Will Be First Since November, 1929. LOS ANGELES, August 4 (#).—Four hundred more men will be put to work Monday at the Orrange plants of the Columbia Steel Corpofation, subsidiary of the United States Steel Corporation, officials have announced. The plants will be operated at full capacity on a 24-hour-day basis for the first time since November, 1929, the announcement said, swelling the pay roll to approximately 1,200 men. The 400 additional men will be recruited from former employes. ‘The increased production was neces- sary to meet orders growing out of the dam construction. Gen. Hugh S. Johnson has joined the Eskimo colony in Washington. Commerce Department mechanics to- day completed installing a small-sized refrigerating plant in the private office of the Industrial Control administrator to keep the general cool at all times. The plant was the gift of his deputy administrators. It is of the smaller type and was re- ported not so costly as the one recently installed in the private office of Henry M. Morganthau, jr, Farm Credit ad- ministrator, and in the rooms occupied by members of the board of the Recon- struction Finance tion. rectly under the elaborate walnut panel suite of Secretary of Commerce Roper, where the temperature is n}.‘ allowed Corporat Gen. Johnson’s office is located di-|stalled in =|GEN. JOHNSON JOINS “ESKIMOS” AS AIDES DONATE COOLING PLANT to get above 75 degrees. During the recent hot wave the temperature in Johnson's office reached 95 degrees and it was then that the administrator made application to join the colony. Two other secticns of the big Com- merce Department Building are air cooled—the aquarium and the press room of the Geodetic Survey, both located in the basement. The trout tanks in the aquarium are kept at 50 degrees at all times and real Alaska weather is pumped by huge ice ma- chines into a tank occupied by a dozen black fish. Pish experts say these fish are happy only when they are frczen solid in ice. MOLEY WILL START CRIME WORK TODAY Begins Drive on Rackets With Warning Wonders Are Out of Question. By the Associated Pres Raymond Moley, Assistant Secretary of State, returned today to tackle the special assignment of heading the Gov- ernment’s drive against crime, but warned against expecting wonders to be worked immediately. Moley outlined his plans for carrying the President of heading the govern- mental campaign against the gangster, the kidnaper and the racketeer, but smilingly asserted he is not going to be a pursuer of criminals. One of the first questions asked was whether he intended to resign his State Department post. There have been re- ports of differences between him and Secretary Hull. “No,” was his flat reply. Sees Month for Job. He said the President, with whom he conferred at Hyde Park, had asked him to assist Attorney General Cum- mings and the officers of the Depart- ment of Justice in formulating plans for a more effective administration of criminal justice and that he will give a month or probably more to this work. The Assistant Secretary said he will | retain his office at the State Depart- ment, but that most of his work in connection with criminal justice will be done at the Justice Department. He is likely to do some traveling in connec- tion with this work. Moley made it clear his work has nothing to do with specific cases. He said he will not be pursuing criminals, but will be dealing with people who are dealing with crime control. Moley said his task will not be any- thing in the nature of that done by the | ‘Wickersham Commission and that there | will be no big report on the investi- gations carried out. He will deal with practical problems in connection with the administration of criminal justice. Pleased With Assignment. Moley expressed himself as highly pleased with the special task. He said it is directly in line with work he has done ever since his student days. Co-ordination of Federal and State authorities in action against crime was (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) GANDHI SENTENCED TO YEAR IN PRISON Brief Moment of Liberty Ends When He Refuses to Stay in Poona. By the Assoclated Press. POONA, India, August 4.—After a brief moment of liberty, the Mahatma Gandhi was re-arrested today and was immediately sentenced to one year in jail because he declined to remain in Poona and refused to cease his political activities. The magistrate explained that, be- cause of the mahatma’s age and phys- ical condition, the sentence was only one year of simple imprisonment. Gandhi asked to be placed among the lowest-grade prisoners. The Nationalist leader informed the court it was no pleasure for him to break the laws of the state. He was offering all the resistance a peaceful man could, he said, to an unjust sys- tem of government. The mahatma was brought to Yeroda Jail Wedn-:iay from Ahmedabad, where he was arrested with his wife and 33 devotees as they were about ?& l::gm an “individual” disobedience P POST TAKES OFF AGAIN AFTER STOP AT DAYTON Globe-Girdler Returns Compass to Engineers and Resumes Okla- homa City Flight. By the Associated Press. DAYTON, Ohio, August 4.—After less than an hour’s stay at Wright Fleld, during which he returned to Air Corps compass loaned him for his world girdling solo fiight, Wiley Post took off shortly after Eastern standard time for Okla- noon t | homa . m%mma.vnumumm the operation of the directional compass to Army officers, é ''D JUST LOVE To PIN ONE ON YoU U. S. Linkswoman First of Her Sex To Defeat Wales Beatrice Gottlieb Gains Box of Golf Balls, Loses Club. By the Associated Press. LONDON, August 4.—Miss Beatrice Gottlieb of Tuckahoe, N. Y., has earned the proud distinction of being the first woman of any nationality to beat the Prince of Wales at golf. She will take back to America in & few days a box of golf balls given her by the prince. home minus one of the clubs from her out the assignment just given him by | caddie bag. The club now is in the | possession of the prince, a gift from Miss Gottlieb. A one-handicap golfer, Miss Gott- lieb, 28, and blond, is a member of the Mount Vernon Country Club. “I was invited to play with the prince and we had a round at Sun- ingdale,” she said. “We finished all square after a little bit of indifferent golf here and there. “Afterward we went to Coombe Hill. Archie Compston (British pro) joined our match and he went the round in (Contirued on Page 2, Column 5.) REPUBLIGANS JOIN LA GUARDIA FUSION Gives Almost Solid Support of Anti-Tammanyites in Mayoralty Fight. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 4—Tae Repub- | lican Mayoralty Committee unanimous- ly indorsed former Representative Fio- rello H. La Guardia tcday as the fusion candidate for the mayoralty of New York. Approval by the committee gives La | Guardia assurance of almost unanimous | [DISTRICT COOLS OFF support of all anti-Tammany factions in the Fall campaign. The resolution favoring La‘ Guardia was presented by Charles H. Tuttle and adopted by a large majority. It was later made unanimous despite a state- ment made before the meeting by for- mer Gov. Charles S. Whitman, who said he would not support the independent Republican. ‘Whitman, presiding, took no part in the discussion. Several opponents of La Guardia indicated their willingness to submerge their personal feelings in the interest of a united front against Tammany. William R. Dorman, a La Guardia opponent, presented the mo- tion to make the designation unani- mous. The Republican action followed closely the selection of La Guardia by a fusion meeting which lasted until the early hours today. The fusionists had previously named Maj. Gen. John F. O'Ryan, but he withdrew in the in- *Ta Glarey st uardia still must be a candidate in the Republican aries, and will there be opposed by John F. Hylan, former Democratic mayor, who has designated himself to.run. The for- n::l; ok hon' !;oweverin:m prob- ably a] r also under an independent banner on the ballot. e COUNTY WITHOUT DRY IN REPEAL REFERENDUM Fear of “Getting Licked” Blamed for Refusals to Run, Says South Carolinian. By the Associated Press. COLUMBIA, S. C., August 4—In all of Hampton County. Senator W. H. Lightsey says he has not yet found any one to run on the dry ticket in the November 7 repeal referendum. Here on a business trip, Senator Lightsey said he had asked several, but all declined. He is wondering, he said, “what to do sbou:bfi." since the State Gibson Arrives in Brazil. RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, August (). —The D AT At Gibson, the former envoy arrived today with Mrs. Also, she will return | SETTLE T0 START ASCENT TONIGHT Weather Conditions Good, He Will Take Stratosphere Balloon Aloft. By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, August 4.—Lieut. Comdr. T. G. W. Settle, youthful naval officer, decided today to begin his journey into the stratosphere 10 miles above the clouds in quest of scientific knowledge at 11 o'clock (€. D. T.) tonight. ‘Weather observers completed a survey of the Western Hemisphere and decided atmospheric conditions were good. Settle has waited weeks for the right weather. A ground crew of 100 men was called to await near the huge balloon—con- structed from an acre of fabric—that will earry Settle swinging away toward the August moon in a sealed gondola built of metal alloy 25 per cent lighter than aluminum. Be Up 20 to 30 Hoars. For a period of 20 to 30 hours Settle will ride high above the earth. Instru- ments with him in the round gondols, 7 feet in diameter, will set down, scientists hope, valuable facts about the cosmic ray—the exact nature of which no man knows. For the first few hours, Settle plan- ncd to “idle” his huge craft a few thousand feet above the earth, and al- low it to drift westward, perhaps as far as over Omaha, Nebr. Then, as the warmth of the rising sun makes conditions more favorable, he will begin the dash into the upper regions, perhaps farther than any man has gone before and from where the curve of the earth—which few men have ever seen—is visible. Expects Eastward Drift A drift to the eastward in the strato- sphere is expected by Settle to carry him toward the Atlantic. He hopes the craft will settle to earth between Chi- cago and Cleveland, but admits the | 1anding place can be estimated no closer than 500 miles. Of one thing he is fair] 1y certain, | atmospheric conditions for 30 hours starting at about midnight will prevent (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) AFTER 3 HEAT DEATHS Prostration of Score Recorded Yesterday Before Rain Breaks Wave. The Capital was enjoying more tem- perate weather today following spotty thundershowers last night, which broke & severe heat wave that killed three persons and prostrated a score of others yesterday. $¥P (P Means Associated MARTIAL LAW NEAR IN CUBA AS STRIKE THREATENS FOODS Machado Ready to Declare State of War to End Transport Paralysis. MANY OTHER WORKERS JOIN GENERAL WALKOUT Havana Facing Desperate Plight as Line After Line of Trades Takes Up Movement. By the Associated Press. HAVANA, August 4.—President Ma- chado signed an edict today describing the transportation strike, which now threatens the city’s regular sources of food supplies, as a “seditious” move- ment. He threatened to suspend con- | stitutional guarantees again and to de- clare martial war and a state of wa: unless the strike is brought to a quick end. The President’s edict asserted that reports from police and other officials indicated “the perpetration of deeds really seditious by striking workers,” and declared that the purpose of the movement was “to produce general paralyzation of the nation’s mercantile and ordinary life.” Would Issue Two Warnings. * All persons were informed that if seditious acts were continued the gov- ernment or its agents would issue two warnings to the participants and then would “use the public forces” to dis- solve them. If these means are not sufficient, the edict continued, the government will direct “that the military authority proceed to adopt means necessary for public peace after a declaration of a state of war.” Workers in Marianao last night lugged bricks from a construction job and built a 3-foot barricade across the main street. Soldiers demolished the barricade this morning. Many small stores in the suburb of Vedado, which had been closed, were forced by the police to reopen. Uptown stores gen- erally were open, but without cus- tomers. Employes of the Luyano slaughter house, the principal enterprise of the kind in Havana, announced they would walk out this afterncon. This decision was reached despite efforts by police of- ficials to induce the workers to stay on the job. Meanwhile, the foodstuff market an- nounced it was closing at noon. Truck- men distributing bread, milk, beer and foodstuffs said they were quitting work at the same time. Laundry workers have organized and are considering walking out. From the protest 10 days ago of & few omnibus employes against what they called exorbitant fees for operating permits, the movement has increased so swiftly that many transportation ar- teries as far east as Camaguey Prov- ince were blocked, a definite movement was under way to enlist railroad men and other tradesmen talked of striking for various reasons. 20,000 on Strike. It was estimated that 20,000 strikers in various walks did not go to work today. Dr. Octavio Zubizarreta, secretary of interior, declared “the government in- tends to remain neutral, but its first duty is the well being of the citizens.” He added “the motives of the strike have disappeared, and the government will not permit complete stoppage of rtation facilities.” Civil au- thorities, he said, were empowered to ask military aid if necessary. His state- ment was issued after a conference at- tended by army, police and municipal officials. Two hundred and fifty employes of the United Railways broke with the National Railway Brotherhood, which had made no move to support the strike, formed their own provisional brother- hood, elected officers, declared for the strike in principle, and prepared to spread that movement to fellow workers throughout the island. ‘Will Follow General Move. Dispatches from Camaguey Province, the easternmost province save one, said employes of the Consolidated Railways ‘would follow any general move by rail- way workers here. This would mean the of all rail traffic in Cuba. Hope for an early settlement of the crisis died, and the belief was freely expressed that it would develop into an island-wide movement, as directors of At 8 o'clock this morning the ther- | the mometer was down to 70, while at noon a rise of only 4 degrees had been recorded. Today and tonight will con- tinue cool, according to the Weather Bureau, while Saturday will be fair " he thice. heat deattis ea al reported yes- terday were Ambrose Hill, 60, 315 8 street southeast, at Emergency fl‘;,l!lh‘: Milton Pazler, 24, colored, 131 Florida avertue, 's Hospital, and James Gillam, 45, 602 Second street, at Casual- ty Hospital. out would settle the other strikes. ‘The movement, meanwhile, went be- yond the bounds of the transportation oy 1 wuId e abic o g0t brcad, mcer, able to gef meat, 1:3{, and other necessities. ‘The syn¢ typesetting machines, announced its members would strike (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) NITROGLYCERIN WHITE ELEPHANT ON HANDS OF FEDERAL AGENTS By the Associated Press. He CHICAGO, August 4—Two United States secret service agents learned to- day that it's one problem to seise a gallon of nitroglycerin and another, and a more difficult one, to get rid of it. ‘They breezed into the office of Lieut. John Treacy at the detective bureau yesterday loosely carrying three glass jars containing a gallon of a clear, golorless liquid resembling water. But Lieut. Treacy took but one glance before shouting: “Put that stuff down and do it quick- that's _enough Gt VS From there they wandered over to the Northwestern University crime laboratory and in to shown the door again, were warned that one of the jars was to teriorate: and Press. TWO CENTS. - RITEAR GAS BOMBS SUSPEND TRADING ON STOCK MARKET Lower Floors of New York Exchange Are Flooded by Fumes. BADLY IRRITATED EYES ARE ONLY CASUALTIES Police Reserves Rushed to Scene of Explosion to Hold Back Milling Thousands. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 4—Fumes from what officials decided was a cylinder of tear gas swept through the New | York Stock Exchange early this afters |noon, compelling a suspension of trade ing and giving the financial district its most exciting incident since the bomb explosion outside the J. P. More gan offices many years ago. ‘The fumes were at first believed to have come from a leaky ammonia pipe {in the exchange's air cooling system, | but after a hasty examination exchange | officials said gas cylinders had been | tossed into the ventilating apparatus. | The New York police immediately | began an investigation. A hasty check-up of traders and clerks who had been on the floor, as well as of persons in offices on upper floors of the building, disclosed that no one had been seriously injured, al- though many persons were suffering from badly irritated eyes. Four Floors Evacuated. ‘The fumes billowed up through the first four floors which were ordered !evacuated and also swept into the streets at a time when the stock ex- change district was thronged with the noon day crowd. Trading on the exchange was ime | mediately suspended for the balance |of the day. Police reserves and emergency squads | were rushed into the district and held | back the milling thousands while the affected floors of the exchange struce mr]:l '!bere c]etnre;l. embers of the exchange's own lice force donned gas mmske as mm- |as the fumes were felt, about 12:15 | o'clock, and groped their way thro the lower part of the building ing for the supposed leak in the air- cooling system. A quick investigation | revealed that two tear gas bombs had | been thrown into an open ventilating pipe. ! Thousands Throng District. ‘The financial district had not had such a flurry of excitement in years and business affairs were fargotten thrcugh- out the downtown section as thousends of office workers swarmed toward the corner of Broad and Wall streets. The Stock Exchange, an hour after | the incident, announced that a state- ment would be issued s soon as the inquiry had proceeded further. Trady | ing <in the Curb Exchange continued as usual. | Allen L. Lindley, vice président of the Stock Exchange, announced shortly after 1 o'clock that %investigation had disclcsed that unknéwn persons had placed a cylinder containing tear ga{ bombs at one of the intakes” of the ventilating system. bon;e )‘Il::]{s%rk Police DepartmentY mb sq1 was making an investi, ga‘t)lgn. e cupants of several upper floors oy the big Stock Exchange structure were also forced to leave their offices. Gas Fumes Dense. The fumes were so dense that a block away from the bufldmm feel them. It was about an hour before the exchange structure itself had been fairly well cleared of the gas. Lindley, acting president of the ex- change in the absence of Richard ‘Whitney, who is on vacation, played the role of the captain on the burning ship. He was probably the last to va- cate the exchange floor and as he left he humorously rang the gong which signals the opening and closing of the " exch prices exchange ruled that market at the time of the forced suspension would be considered the day's closing quotations. It was also decided not to list “bid and asked” prices which are gathered from specialists at the close of each session. e RELENTLESS ATTACKS ON NAZI FOES ORDERED Police Instructed td Brook No Re- sistance From Members of Leftist Groups. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, August 4—A sharp frontal attack against leftist groups was ace companied today by orders issued to the G. P. A. (secret political police) to brook no resistance and to use firearms relentlessly. ‘The orders were issued after hand- bills attacking the government were s«;l;etly distributed in various sections. burg _concen camps will be held responsible in the future for actions of their comrades who are at liberty. “For every case of a pamphlet dis- tributed or an attack on Nazi organisa- tions where no arrests follow, 10 Com- munist leaders in the camps will be arrest,” the com- $3,500 Seized in Hold-up. BROOKLYN, N. Y., August ¢ (#).— Fiftcen minutes before an armored truck was due to carry receipts to the bank, two men with sawed-off shot- guns held up the cashier of the Gol Sea! Laundry today and escaped with. $2,500 in cash. Four hundred employes were at work in the plant at the time. | GUIDE FOR READERS I