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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair, continued cool tonight; tomor- row partly cloudy; gentle north and northeast winds. ‘Temperatures—Highest, 88, at 4 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 72, n’ 6 a.m. today. Fuli report on pag Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages11,12&13 Entered as secol 0. 32,607, nd class matter post office, Washington, D. C. he Foening Star WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1933—THIRTY-FOUR PAGES. | ——— ROOSEVELT ACTION IN CUBAN CRISIS 1S NEAR AS MAGHADO WEIGHS QUITTING No. Hint Given as to What President Plans to Do as Special Report on Situation Reaches Him by Airplane. EXECUTIVE OF ISLAND MEETS WITH LEADERS Weighs Proposal to Leave Post as Proposed by Welles in Confer- ence With Chiefs of His Coun- try—U. S. Envoy Still Active Trying to Settle Turmoil. By the Associated Press. HYDE PARK, N. Y., August 9.— Imminent action by President Roosevelt in the Cuban crisis ap- peared in prospect today with the arrival of a special report carried here by plane from Washington. Complete mystery surrounded the airplane message. It was taken to the Summer White House by secret service men and immedi- ately given to the President. Watching Cuban Situation. Mr. Roosevelt is giving closest attention to the critical Cuban situation and is most obwiously determined upon bringing geace and order to the island republic. The President has been dealing through Ambassador Welles in mediat- ing the Cuban trouble. It was under- stood that the special report brought Lere came from Welles. It has been made plain here that Mr. Roosevelt does not want to interiere with the internal affairs of Cuba, but it also has been quite clear that ne doecs want a well ordered government there. ‘While quick action is apparently in prospect, there is no hint of ewhat it may be. WEIGHS QUITTING POST. Machado Meets With Leaders of Island | Government on Crisis. HAVANA, August 9 (P).—The prin- cipal government leaders held an im- portant conference with President | Machado at the presidential palace to-| day, apparently to decide whether the!| Chief Executive should relinquish his post to put an end to Cuba’s political turmoil and bloodshed. | One of the outstanding participants | in the conference was Orestes Ferrara, the secretary of state, who arrived in Havana this morning by airplane from the United States. While the conference was in session hundreds of persons lined the Havana | sea wall expecting the'arrival of two| United States ships, which, according | to reports that were not confirmed, were | off the capital last night. Still President, He Says. “I am and I continue being President of Cuba in the plentitude of all my ccnstitutional prerogatives,” said Ma- chado in reply to a formula presented to him by United States Ambassador Sumner Welles, acting for a commission seeking to settle political differences. But Mr. Welles said mediation was not ended, even though the President was reported as having told his Liberal party leaders that he would not ask Congress for a leave of absence, deemed necessary by the mediators for re- establishing peace. In the face of a chaotic condition in- duced by a general strike and the re- sulting food shortage, furthermore, the House of Representatives was scheduled to met at 6 p.m. to consider a resolu- tion by Salvador Garcia Ramos, a Lib- eral, condemning Welles’ consultations about peace with government and op- position representatives as prejudical to Cuban autonomy and asking Latin American nations to support Cuba’s ideal of independence. May Invite Intervention. Many Liberal leaders were frank in saying Machado’s rejection of the peace plan might invite American interven- tion. Meanwhile, the government an- nounced it had granted labor’s demands and the backbone of the widespread strike which for days has tied up trans- pertation and many other industries would be broken today. It was learned on reliable authority, however, that the General Strike Com- mittee was informed by delegates from various unions they would not consent to return to work while constitutional guarantees of freedom remained sus- pended. Patrols of policemen and guards were continued today, after the withdrawal (Continued on Page 3, Column 1.) COMMUNIST. BEHEADED HAMBURG, Germany, August 9 (®). —An executioner's ax today beheaded Wilhelm Volck, a Communist who killed a police officer during a riot on Feb- Tuary 28. Volck, sentenced to death for murder, led a raid on a Nazi gathering place in the course of which the policeman was shot and several storm troopers ‘wounded. Act. as will all other employes departments. most departments. The Star Accepts Newspaper Code The Star will put into effect on Monday, August 14th, provisions of the newspaper code filed yester- day by the American Newspaper Publishers’ Associa- tion and affiliated organizations in furtherance of the President’s program under the National Recovery Reporters and editorial employes subject to as- signment are to be included in the forty-hour week, outside of the mechanical The Star has made a study of its organization during the past two weeks and the immediate effect will be shortening of working hours, increase of pay in many cases, and the addition of new employes in LEHMAN ORDERS COUNTIES TO QUELL MILK STRIKE RIOTS Tells Sheriffs to Appoint Un- limited Number of Dep- uties in Crisis. By the Associated Press. ALBANY, N. Y, August 9.—Gov. Herbert H. Lehman today ordered the summoning of special grand juries and the appointment of unlimited numbers of deputy sheriffs to quell milk strike rioting in New York State. The order for the convening of the special grand juries, if necessary, was contained in a telegram sent to the district attorneys of all counties, sup- plementing the Governor’s order of yesterday calling upon the prosecutors |to bring about arrests for strike violence. The appointment of an unlimited number of deputy sheriffs was directed by the Governor in a message to the New York Legislature. The Governor asked the law makers to amend what- ever statutes prohibit the appointment of extra deputies. After the Governor ordered the sheriffs several days ago to appoint as many deputies as they needed to meet the situaticn, some of the sheriffs re- plied they had no legal right to extra deputies, The Governor the Legislature to give them that asked right. i Urges Machine Guns. Machine s will protect milk trucks against smfl‘:g dairymen if authorities approve the recommendation made by Capt. Stephen McGrath of Troop D, | State Police. Hero cf the Auburn Prison riots, Capt. McGrath called upon Maj. John A. Warner, superintendent of State police, to authorize the use of the ma- chine gun after reports had been re- ceived that troopers convoying & | “train” of tank trucks had been fired upon from ambush near Little Falls last night. %\ dozen shots came from the bushes, puncturing milk trucks and barely miss- ing two State troopers when one bullet went through the rear of their car. Troopers were said to have fired 300 rounds into the underbrush, but no one was hit. Both the strikers and non-strikers held mass meetings in various parts of the State, the former protesting the “brutality” of the troopers and the lat- ter calling for more protection. The strikers are demanding a blanket price of 41 cents a quart for all milk instead of the classified prices they now receive. Non-Strikers Resist. The first strenuous resistance oc- curred at Chittenango Station, where non-strikers battled with their fists against another group which had dumped milk on more than a dozen trucks and automobiles. The non-strikers were beaten off, but only affer they had succeeded in run- ning a gauntlet of picketers who had prevented milk from reaching the Dairymen’s League plant. The dis- turbance began early in the day, about 200 pickets breaking into the plant and (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) - BALTIMOREAN IS SHOT ATTEMPTING TO ESCAPE Tries to Break Away From Brook- lyn Police Station and Is Critically Wounded. By the Assoclated Press. BROOKLYN, N. Y., August 9—A man who described himself as Frank Everett, 25, of Baltimore, Md., was shot and critically wounded today by police when he attempted to escape from Brooklyn police head . Arrested on a charge of attempting to steal an automobile, Everett was in the fingerprint room when he leaped from an window, in an Police fired at him and one bullet struck him in the abdomen as he was about to climb over a fence. Everett was taken to the Ki County Hospi at headquarte s he said his home was Bay, N. Y. but later, police said, he told ‘week ago. WALL STREET LITTLE EXCITED BY TALK OF MOVING EXCHANGE By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 9.—Pestilence, fire and growing pains have caused various spasms in the New York Stock Exchange since its original members haggled over prices beneath Wall Street’s famous buttonwood tree. Nevertheless, the suggestion recently cessive taxation will drive the securities business out of the State.” Since the 24 “fathers” of the Na-' tion's first securities market founded the institution at 68 Wall street, the g:eoganlwr of the present exchange has n continually a New York institu-| Often it has moved about the IS _advanced by Delaware and other States second- that it seek a new home to escape bur- densome taxation is not being taken too serfously. While the moving overtures have eroused considerable interest in Wall Street, brokers have not been greatly concerned, even though the Stock Ex- change, fearing further taxation, has warned the State Legislature that “ex- \pers. Orly once, however, has it stra hrrrltymme-cmentmbm. ltm appoint | at 2955 East Fifth street, Sheepaheldl them he came from Baltimore nl ARBITRATORS MAKE COAL TRADE RULES 10 END GRIEVANCES Roosevelt Board Issues Reg- ulations Designed to Settle Strikes. By the Associated Press. | The Arbitration Board of the Na- | tional Recovery Administration today issued rules designed to settle the grievance between operators and em- ployes of the H. C. Prick Coke Co. at Grindstone, Pa. The controversy arose over the | charge by employes that the company refused to accept their checkweighman. |after a hearing today, issued the fol- lowing rules for the election of check weighers at the mines of the H. C. Frick Coke Co. and the National Min- | “Notice shall be posted at the mines | giving at least two days’ notice of the | election of a checkweighman. | “The meeting is to be held at the | mine entrance at the close of the dz;y's| | shift. Shall Eleci Chairman. “The meeting shall elect a chairman. “Any person who pays to maintain | the check-weighman shall be entitled |to_vote. , “Any person may be nominated as & |‘candidate for check-weighman. | “Voting may be by secret ballot, or |show of hands, or aye and no, as the majority of the meeting determines. | The voting shall continue until some one person has received a majority of all eligible votes at the meeting. “All candidates receiving less than one-fifth of the vote cast cn each ballot shall be eliminated. | “These rules shall be posted on -the bulletin bcard at the mines at least ;;w;vd days before the election is to be Answers Direct Appeal. The ruling was given in_answer to a direct appeal to the .N. R. A. by a miners’ committee representing several hundred men. In a message sent to Edward F. McGrady, labor representa- tive of President Roosevelt, the miners asserted the company officials refused to accept their designations for check- weighmen or to recognize a miners’ committee. Appearing before the board at an executive hearing today was Thomas Moses, president of the Frick company. Also at the board meeting was John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine ‘Workers, and William Feeney, United Mine Worker president for the district |in which Grindstone is located. The |details of the presentation of the op- erators’ and miners’ cases to the board were not made public. The arbitration board’s ruling was signed by the chairman, Swope, and George L. Berry and Louis E. Kirstein. As the board sat down for its first meeting on the controversy, which had threatened a bituminous coal shortage, Gerald Swope, chairman, expressed con- fidence all difficulties would be ironed out soon. Louis E Kirstein, another member of the Industrial Advisory Board of the Recovery Administration, and George L. Berry, president of the Pressmen’'s Union and a member of the Labor Advisory Board, are the other members of the Conciliation Board. Moses entered the conference with a number of papers and immediately be- gan presenting his side. First Felt Strike. It was the Frick Company’s mines which first felt the effects of the strike, and reports today from Pennsylvania showed the con’m:ltu still on betwee: :’1‘:: management of company an miners despite the agreement signed last week under pressure from Hugh S. Johnson, recovery administrator. Meanwhile the N. R. A. found itself | plunged at once into the union versus | non-union controversy of the coal fields at the opening of hearings on the 27 gmpoaed codes for governing the in- | dus try. Confronting the room crowded to the doors with coal men and curious spec- tators, Charles O'Neill of New York, lent of Peale, Central Pennsyl | non-union proposal, | over half the Nation’s tonnage. It was submitted by the No Coal Association and the from Pennsylvania to Tennessee. Reads Statement. O'Neill slowly read a statement show- ing where the mines represented by the | code were located and where they sent e Srequently referred to the multi He frequently re! multi- colored maps which covered the wall arcund the stage of the large Com- merce Department Auditorium. O'Nelll said the membership of the | "(Continued on Page 2, Column 3. GUIDE FOR READERS Page {To settle this, the Arbitration Boerd,| ™3 ‘WITH SUNDAY MORN! MANY SPARED 10BS IN REORGANIZING MOVE TOMORROW Three Major Shifts Include Dropping of 600 in Pro- hibition Bureau. ROPER MAY GIVE VIEW ON SHIPPING BOARD . Power Commission Expected to In- crease Force for Extensive ‘Waterpower Survey. With prospective dismissals curtailed considerably as the result of modifica- tions in the last 10 days, President | Roosevelt’s reorganization order be- comes effective tomorrow morning. But three shifts of major proportions involving known and potential curtail- ment of personnel are going through at once—abolition of the Prohibition Bu- reau, which is to be split up in the Department of Justice; consolidation of the Bureau of Immigration and Na- turalization of the Labor Department into the immigration and naturalization service, and absorption of the Shipping Board by the Commerce Department. In the Prohibition Bureau, where ex- tensive cuts were made on July 1, about 600 workers, including approximately 30 in Washington, are to be dropped. In immigration and naturalization, it has been previously announced that but | few employes would be hit, and definite ! figures were expected later today. Roper to Be Heard From. Some announcement concerning the Shipping Board also was looked for this afternoon from Secretary of Commerce per. Meanwhile, the employment situation continued to look better. Planning to embark cn an extensive waterpower survey as the result of a | $400,000 grant from the recovery fund, | the Federal Power Commission is due to increase its force sometime in the fu- | ture, although there is nothing in pros- pect and will not be until a plan of or- | ganization is decided upon. Practically !'all of the employes to be taken will be technically trained and no legal assist- ance will be added. Civil service regis- ters are expected to be used as far as | pas‘silble for building up the commission staff. { The Public Works Administration, | under Secretary of the Interjor Ickes, | is also in line for expansion, the Sec- | retary making known yesterday after- | noon that the present local fi& of 200 | will be built to some 2,000 and that here ialso civil service status personnel will | get_the call. |~ The Prohibition Bureau shake-up will be the biggest, with dry agents com- | posing the bulk of those slated to go The move already has been productive of a fight, with political influence being | brought to bear in behalf of some of ose scheduled for removal. Approx- imately 1,200 employes are being re- | tained For the most part the bureau's oper- ations, of investigative character, are going into the new Division of Investi- ! gation, headed by J. Edgar Hoover, | chief of the present Bureau of Investi- | gation,* which is being brought into the | merger. Other activities will be spread through the Department of Justice as Attorney General Cummings deems ad- | visable. . 483 Automatically Dropped, The Shipping Board, made up of | both civil service and non-civil service employes, had a total of 483 employes on July 31, about 350 of whom were stationed here. All are automatically drop) under the reorganization order at the close of work today, and this morning figures were not yet available | s to the number to be brought back. Three officials—Elmer E. Crowley, president of the Merchant Fleet Corpor- ation; F. E. Ferris, in charge of opera- tions of the corporation, and Samuel Goodacre, secretary of the corporation and the Shipping Board, leave the serv- ice tonight; the three commissioners of the board, however, headed by Rear Admiral H. I Cone, retired, presum- [ably will carry over. All are appointees | of President Roosevelt. ‘The new Immigration and Naturali- zation Service is to be headed by Col. D. W. McCormack, now commissioner general of immigration. One high offi- ! cial, the commissioner of immigration (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) HELEN JACOBS FACES AMATEUR INQUIRY Star to Autograph Copies of Book at New York Department Store. | By the Associated Press. | NEW YORK, August 9—The Ama- teur Rule Committee of the United States Lawn Tennis Association today had its attention called to advertise- ments appearing in local papers con- cerning the personal appearance at a in | gepartment store tomorrow of Helen Jacobs, woman’s national champion, to autograph copies of her book on tennis. . The committee yesterday began an investigation of rumors of professional offers to Ellsworth Vines. jr., the men’s national title holder. not_the spirit. “I may have something more to say ject later in the day,” he ING EDITION NAVY YARD ORDER HELD TEMPORARY Roosevelt Says Wage and Hour Scale Will Be Settled Definitely Later. BY J, RUSSELL YOUNG, Staft Correspondent of The Star. HYDE PARK, N. Y. August 9.— ! President Roosevelt said today that the [vay Department’s recent order re- , ducing the working week and lowering the pay of Washington Navy Yard workers is only a temporary arrange- | ment and that this question will be iie!mefl definitely, probably in Sepbem-: ! ber. 2 » | While the President made no predic- | tions as to what hours and pay would | | finally be agreed upon, he did give the llmpression he felt there was no occa- | sion for the navy yard workers to be greatly worried. Order Held “Step Gap.” According to the Executive, the pres- ent departmental order under which the navy yard is operating is only a “stop gap” and after further study has been made everything will be worked | out satisfactorily. It was pointed out that the present schedule of 40 work hours a week with a 162-3 pay reduction is expected to| operate only until the Navy's new con- struction program for its navy yards can get under way. Then a definite scale of hours and pay will be agreed upon. Just how long this will take, the President was unable to say definitely. He ventured a guess that it might be some time late in September or prob- ably a month or so later. He sald that much depended upon the time it| takes to deliver construction materials to the yards. He said he has been advised that these deliveries may take. one, two or probably as long as four months. In expressing himself regarding the aroused navy yard workers, the Presi- | dent said he had not yet received any petition or resolutions adopted at a mass meeting of the navy yard employes sev- eral nights ago. He did indicate, how- ever, that, while he has not read a petition or resolutions of protest, he is familiar with the case. The President gave the impression that he has not been “misled or mis- informed,” as was charged during the addresses of protest at the workers’ mass meeting. Also that the Secretary of the Navy in signing the present work week schedule and pay reduction scale was not acting in violation of the na- tional recovery act. Should Hearten Workers. Assoclates of the President here to- day felt that the President’s declaration today that the present order is only temporary and that matters will be ad- Justed later on should greatly hearten the navy yard men and should entirely remove their worry and concern. As voiced by spokesmen for the work- and according to the resolution adopted at the recent mass meeting is, a 39-] week at the naval gun fac- tory with pay for the former 44-hour week. It has been explained that this ! can be accomplished legally by working seven hours a day for five days and four hours on Saturday pending the convening of Congress, when legislation may be passed to reduce the work week of Federal employes without loss of pay in weekly earnings. BAR SOME CENTRISTS + FROM REICHSTAG, DIET Women and Priests Will Not Be Allowed to Sit as Guests of Nazi Delegates. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, August 9.—Women and who are members of the Cen- (Catholic) party will not be per- mitted to sit as guests or “hospitants” the Reichstag or the decided toda; “GENERAL” COXEY LOSES MAYORALTY NOMINATION | Schulte, ef. | Combs, cf.... be | play, Lazzer] taking third. * “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. koK @ M s Associated Yesterday’s Circulation, 111,926 TWO CENTS. Press. T 1|I0HNSON FORBIDS Box Score WASHINGTON. AB. o Myer, 2b.... Cronin, ss O RN - Kubhel, 1b.. Bluege, 3b. Sewell, c. Weaver, e W W®W e e ccoomOoNmp IQON-:—Q;—-—F | oon olo-uoeonea? eloeeoeeeoe!‘ [ - %l 9990@30—0@0@_‘3 » ccooemkmmmmem® o Sewell 3b... Ruth, rf..... Gehrig, 1b... Chapman, If. Lazzeri, 2b... Dickey, ¢.... CooONaAORARKEND q'cowaeon—aen‘.e? u‘eee—eeoeaeec!fl Walker batted for Gomez in eishth. Byrd ran for Ruth in ninth. SCORE BY INNINGS. 12348678 %R Washington 0000120 10~ 4 New York..0 10000000~ 1 SUMMARY. Runs batted in—Dickey, Bluege, Kuhel (2), roni! New York, Base on balls—Off Gomez. Struck out—By Weaver, 3: by Gomez, 6. Hits—Off Gomez, 7 in 8 innings. Losing pitcher—Gomez. Umpires—Messrs. Ormsby, McGowan. Summers and NATS TRIM YANKS, 41; SPLIT SERIES Weaver Bests Gomez in Mound Battle—Griffs Hit Timely. BY JOHN B. KELLER. NEW YORK, August 9.—The Griffs defeated the Yanks here this afternoon to split the four-game series and regain their three-game lead. The score was 4 to 1. FIRST INNING. WASHINGTON—Myer hit the first itch and fouled to Crosetti. Manush E(wd to Combs. Cronin flied to Ruth. No runs. NEW YORK—Cronin got Combs’ pop Sicgie hesinss” the Heni-neld_ stands le e 1 st . Harris came in for Ruth’s high one. Myer threw out Gehrig. No runs. SECOND INNING. - WASHINGTON—Harris flied to Ruth. Schulte singled to left and tried to stretch it, but was out, Chapman to Crosettl. Kuhel fanned. No runs. NEW YORK—Chapman singled to left. On the hit-and-run play Lazzeri beat out a grounder to Cronin and Chapman made third on the hit, slid- ing in just ahead of Kuhel's relay to Bluege. Dickey singled to left, scoring Chapman and sending Lazzeri to sec- ond. Cronin took Crosetti’s grounder, stepped on second, forcing Dickey, and then threw to Kuhel for a double- Myer threw out Gomez. One run. THIRD INNING. ‘WASHINGTON—BIluege beat out a hit to Crosetti. Luke Sewell flied to Weaver fanned. Lazzeri threw out Myer. No runs. NEW_YORK—Combs hoisted to Ma- nush. Kuhel got Joe Sewell's grounder and beat him to the bag. Ruth took & third strike. No runs. FOURTH INNING. ‘WASHINGTON — Gehrig. WASHINGTON—Schulte Kuhel , Sewell DISTRICT NOTIFIES 110 OF FURLOUGH Delay of Budget Director’s Ruling on Gas Tax Sur- plus Blamed. Principally because Budget Director Douglas has failed to date to approve use of the District’s surplus gasoline tax fund of $1,500,000 for employment- giving road work, 110 employes of the District Highway Department were notified today they will be furloughed indefinitely, beginning next Tuesday. The decision to reduce the working force of the department had been post- | poned about six weeks in the hope the surplus gasoline tax money would be released in time. In all, 250 positions are contingent upon the decision, and unless the approval is given in the near future between 50 and 60 of the more highly-trained workmen must be let out. On the other hand' it was revealed today that the Bureau of Public Roads has notified the District government it has approved the second group of three Federal road projects here under the roads section of the national recovery act. This brings to six the total of the specific projects approved by the bureau under the District's allotment of $1,918,400 out of the national fund of $400,000,000. Big Paving Job Included. ‘These three new projects, which will provide work for a considerable num- ber of workmen here, principally those now unemployed, are: | The paving of Constitution avenue from Fourteenth street east to the in- tersection with Pennsylvania avenue approximately at John Marshall place, | has an authorized cost of $250,- . | This 1000. The old granite block pavement is to be replaced with a new asphaltic | surface. It is part of the project to section. The laying of a new concrete pave- ment on Good Hope road southeast from Nichols avenue to Naylor road. the authorized cost being $110,000. " The laying of a new asphalt covering | on Wisconsin avenue between Mussa- chusetts avenue and River road at an authorized cost of $40,000. The three new projects, having total authorized cost of $400,000, will be advertised in the near future, but not immediately, when the working programs can be planned. The first three projects approved were the building of a new P Street Bridge over Rock Creek, at a cost of $290,000; the repaving and other im- provement of Sixteenth street from Co- lumbia road to Tiger Bridge, just north of Spring road, costing $100,000, and (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) CRASH IN “TEST” UPSETS PLANS OF OCEAN FLIGHT Adamowicz Brothers’ Plane Badly Damaged in Landing at Harbor Grace. By the Associated Press. HARBOR GRACE, Newfoundland, August 9.—The transatlantic flight plans of Benjamin and Joseph Adamo- wicz were uncertain today as a result of damage suffered by their plane when it landed here yesterday after a “test” flight from New York. The two brothers and their assistant pilot, Emil Birgen, were shaken up, but received no serious injuries. able damage was done to carriage of the plane. It had been the plan of the Adamo- wicz brothers, who are from N. Y, to fiy home. Their ship, formerly known as the “Liberty,” wag used by Otto Hillig Hoirlis in a flight to Den- 2go. lp came down here with the wind and suddenly swerved while trav- eling on the ground at a good rate of :reed. It halted with a crash in a lump of bushes. Both lan ‘Wheels were ripped off and the was damaged. | widen and pave the avenue from North | Capitol street to the Lincoln Memorial | - STORES 10 EVADE BLUE EAGLE RULES Must Not Attempt to Frus- trate Spirit of Code, He Declares. BANS STAGGERED HOURS OR FORCED REST PERIODS Halts Shortening of Hours of Op- eration to Avoid Increas- ing Pay Rolls. By the Associated Press. Citing that the intent of the recovery act was to increase employment, Ad- ministrator Hugh €. Johnson said to- day that no retailer could stagger em- ploye hours, enforce rest periods or shorten the hours of store operation without defeating the purpose of the codes. His emphatic assertion immediately took place among the most significant yet to come from the N. R. A, in view of constant reports as to recourses for getting around the codes and yet dis- playing the Blue Eagle. Inquiries on this point have increased of late, while the officials have plugged ahead at other aspects of making the law effective. Labor and Capital Struggle. 4 ‘The militant Johnson took times off from the opening hearing on 27 codes proposed for the coal industry to stress his point as to retailers. At that crowded session in the huge Commerce Department auditorium, the struggle between union and non-union forces was flushing to a full height. Putting that quarrel off for future determination, Johnson insisted that, while the agreements signed by retail stores and groceries provided that no store open less than 52 hours a week before July 1 could reduce the store hours at all, the intent was that hours of operation should not be curtailed in any way. In other words, while 52 is a set minimum, it was explained that if a store had been operating 60 or more, it should not curtail its time of being open, but rather should employ more people to do the work. Says Purpose Is Explicit. “That agreement is a solemn cove- nant and its purpose is explicit,” John-~ son said, “The owners of the stores and the customers who buy from those stores should have but one single pur- pose, which is to carry out this specie fic provision, which has to do with ree employment through reducing the nums« ber of hours each employe works and by keeping the stores open as long as possible.” ‘The statement proceeded.: “The insigria of the Blue Eagle must be withdrawn from those stores which either collectively or individually fla« grantly attempt to frustrate the pur< pose of the presidential re-employment agreement.” Johnson said that “when employers sign this agreement with their Presi- dent after reading section 8, no one could conceivably set about staggering employe hours, enforcing rest periods, and increasing the time gnr lunch with- out pay, or either directly or indirectly conspire to defeat the very purpose of | the agreement by materially shortening the number of hours which the stores ' had customarily stayed open.” Quotes N. R. A. Agreement. | In wamning the retailers against | shortening store hours, the adminis~ trator quoted the agreement which was provided for them temporarily, pend- ing a hearing ®n a permanent ccde of fair competition. Section 8 reads: “Not to use any subterfuge to frus- trate the spirit and intent of this agreement which is, among other a|things, to increase employment by a universal covenant, to remove obstruc- tions to commerce, and to shorten hours (employe work hours, not store hours) and to raise wages for the shorter (employe work) week to a living basis.” Officially, the administration is withe holding fire against violators until some date a couple of (Continued on BAD MOTOR HALTS RECORD ATTEMPT Ruth Nichols Forced to Return After Trying to Lower West-East Time. By the Assoclated Press. AIRPORT, BURBANK, Calif., August 9.—Ruth Nichols, aviatrix, returned here at 3:30 a.m. today to re- pair an ailing motor after being gone approximately two and a half hours on an attempt to lower the woman's West- East transcontinental record held by r | Amelia Earhart. Miss Nichols circled the field several times before landing, evidently because it was ticklish business to drop her i | heavily-laden machine on to the run- way. She had more than 300 gailons of gasoline in the tanks of her low- wing, speedy ship when s returned. Her landing was perfect. Having satisfied herself the plane was in good condition except for the motor, Miss Nichols left the field to go to bed. While definite plans were not an- nwdnee& a_l;ewwu understood to be ready et away again some time after midnight tonight. HEN GIVEN COD LIVER OIL LAYS EGGS OUNCE HEAVIER TO DOZEN feeding tests while director of the Nae tional Institute of Poultry Research, England. The hens in that experiment m white Leghorns and white Wyan= There are two important methods, S bree'&‘x':& bt by )y . ant e other the xight kinds of chicken feeds. Hens of different nationalities seem to have different tastes in feed. In England, Dr. Parkhurst said, low pro- rations gave eggs just as 13? . But_in Marylan a by feeding 3